We made up a game called camera tag.Basically hide and seek but It would have to be in the dark, and you have to have a camera. If you spot someone, you have to take a picture of them with the flash on. If they're in the picture they get caught and they're out
Hey bud... We had one hour photos at Furr's. And to kill an hour we had the kids video membership in which you'd browse a whole bunch of crap movies for that gem in the .99 section.
Back in my day, after the film was exposed, it was sent by stagecoach back to the city where the photos were then developed.
Then the pictures were gone through one by one and a telegraph was sent back to us that we could only pick up once a month when we went into the Western Union office in town.
pdwHu · 33 points · Posted at 20:54:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pssshhh! That's nothing! Back in my day, if we wanted to play this, we had to paint a portrait because there were no cameras! And, and, we had to while walking up hill. Both ways!
pdwHu · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sigh ...unzips
ertcha · 5 points · Posted at 23:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"You think I have money to burn? No we're not getting your silly film developed. You know how much that costs? Now put that camera down before you break it and come over here in your orange and brown outfit and flared trousers and have some artificial sweeteners".
Be an expensive game in my early childhood, we had one time use flash cubes, until the built in flashes were common a few years later. And of course every thing was on film.
Camera shy was the best mini game, in grade 8 my group of friends and our class went on a trip that took like 10 hours and we played Mario party ds the entire time that shit was the best and we always played camera shy
Edit: once my friend got really lucky on a 35 turn game and somehow managed to steal a ton of our stars and he ended up with 43 stars
Knowee · 29 points · Posted at 20:06:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
4 player Mario party ds with my sibs and cousins is one of my best childhood memories. We loved the mini game where you had to climb the grandfather clock. I bought it for the switch but it just ain’t the same, they should’ve kept the large map design they had in the ds.
I do agree! I’ve loved Mario party due to the DS version and have so many memories playing it with family and friends. It only went downhill from there with all the extra items and events they added into it later :/
Highschool reunion. Close group of buddies play this at an after-party at a friend's old house, just like old times. Find spooky apparitions on the photos. Go back to old film photos, to find the same ghostly faces.
It sounds like a game for people who don't want to have to run and actually tag the person. We played "release" at night with teams and you actually had to tag the person. Though when I was playing there weren't smartphones with flash cameras
not really? polaroid was still making film in the 90s and it wasnt $100 a pack. - it was like $10-20 a pack in the 80s... i was giving a modern comparison to what it costs because im pretty confident it was cheaper in the past when instant film was more mainstream
I mean, it wasn't $100 in the 90s for Polaroid style film either, but Polaroid themselves did stop producing it in the early 90s. Fuji continued to make compatible film. The plants that made Polaroid style/Fuji instant film slowly started to die out after digital cameras became prevalent. In 2016, the last plant selling this film closed. Up until that point, I was buying it on Amazon for roughly 90 cents a shot for my 1970s era Polaroid Land Camera 420. It was somewhere around $1-1.50 a picture in the 90s.
You're also comparing a product that was almost identical in build from when it was first produced to when the plants shutdown sixty years later to computer hardware that has gone through exponential growth in both design and manufacturing processes.
fans developing photo while everyone stands around looking bored
GCP_17 · 85 points · Posted at 16:38:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My guess is that OP used a digital camera, and they're not old like you and I ;)
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 19:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was just about to say that if I played this game, it would take a few days before we knew who got caught. Lol. Although Polaroid woulda worked I guess...
I saw some guys who played something like this where they were at a convention and would try to "snipe" pictures of each other. If a picture of you was uploaded in their group chat you were out.
We played flashlight tag when I was a kid. You had to shine the player to find out who it was, then shout their name. It was much harder in the early 90s because flashlights weren't as bright as they are today.
We used to do this at scouts but we'd use a maglite. That thing cos light up a person 200m away easy. Only way you'd be able to hide was to not be in sight. (like laying under a pile of leaves)
Lol we didn’t have digital cameras when I was a kid so all I’m imagining is taking a picture then running to the pharmacy to get it developed then running home a couple of hours later to then realize I didn’t get Joe in the picture
Jesus christ this thread is bringing back so many memories! We used to do this all the time, so much fun. Also hide-n-seak in the dark by itself was fucking great! I always hid on top of the cat tower😂
We used to do something similar called spotlight, my friend had a giant flashlight that could flash for as long as you held the button and we would try to sneak up to them up on a deck without being spotted. Honestly your version sounds way better because we always argued whether we were actually visible
My and my friends did an iteration of this where you had to get from one end of the street to the other before getting caught by a camera. Sometimes we would do it in teams and we would walkie-talkie information to our teammates. Me and my brother even made a playbook that covered the most efficient way to get out of every situation. We would just lay in the neighbors bushes for 45 minutes at a time looking for the best time to make the next move. Good times
Holy crap this was us. We used some cheap plastic cameras with no film in it. We didn't need a photo for proof, the fact that you just temporarily blinded them was enough. And we played in the PITCH dark ... like rooms with no windows, so even when people thought they knew where you were you just tried to be as silent as you could, forcing them to feel around (or one time kick a radiator so hard that I nearly peed myself laughing) before they chose to waste their 1 charge they were allowed.
You must be younger than me. When I was a kid, my friends and I, during sleepovers, would turn off the lights and take (innocent) flash pictures of each other with disposable cameras. No idea what we'd taken pictures of until our parents picked up the developed pictures. They were generally hilarious to us, though the wait time was a real buzzkill.
I played the same game until I took a photograph of a ghost beside my friend. The friend died soon after from a illness. I followed after a few months. Now I'm a angry ghost stalking creepy reddit posts.
Played near the same thing!
Dark basement and one goes upstairs while the others hide. Then their only way of getting light was the camera flash (only looking at the screen). Then look at the picture to see if you can see limbs. A lot of funny pictures came of it!
This reminds me of flashlight tags where we would have to keep someone lit up with the flashlight for 3 seconds to tag them. Good for people that aren’t fans of running so much.
We played this at camp in 5th grade. Got to the point where we figured out that if you spin up the winding wheel on the disposable cameras and hit it really hard the flash would go off even without film.
ja_cko · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is such a great idea! I used to play a variant of this when I was a kid. We called it "to play monsters". It was hide and seek in a dark room but before hiding, we would let someone in to hide somewhere as a "monster". Then that person would try to find someone and who ever was first found would be the monster on the next round. I was always very scared of this. I think the camera version would be so much more fun! Not to mention, the amount of great pictures it would yield!
Ah I used to play that game too!!! I actually found the album that had the photos of one of our games recently, was cracking up as we’d always pull some crazy face once we knew we were caught.
I had a similar one where we’d hide a camera in a room and have someone search for it while it records. Then afterwards, we’d watch the footage and laugh when someone looked right at the camera and didn’t see it.
That sounds like a fantastic addition to sniper.
One person stands with a camera in the dark, everyone has to try and tag them, but if the sniper sees them and gets a photo of them the snapped person is out.
My cousin and I did something similar. You have to get a house as dark as possible then you have a hider and a finder. Hider covers their face, hands, and as much skin as possible then gets 30 seconds to hide. Finder counts out those 30 seconds in the bathroom with the lights on. Then they can come out and try looking for the hider but the catch it they only have a laser light to look for them with and they only have one gueas, similar to yours. We would just say bang though. Have never had a house empty enough and dark enough to actually play it again but man was that fun. Also we were like 18 when we played this and I'd still play it again.
We played a very similar game called "the dark game". Pitch black basement where the person who is "it" has a pen flashlight and has to shine it on someone to get them out. The other players hid and each had three stuffed animals to throw at the player with the flashlight. It was quite honor system based and worked really well with how my cousins basement was set up stairs and furniture wise
We just did it with flashlights. This must have been done since phones have become ubiquitous, I couldn't imagine even having a camera as a kid, let alone running around with one.
Had a similar game to this. I had a film camera and I would take out the film so I could just use the flash.
My siblings and I would lock ourselves in the bathroom and kill the lights and then just like run around and flail our arms.
At random intervals I would use the flash to momentarily light up the room, allowing everyone a brief glimpse of the stupid things everyone else was doing before we went back into total darkness.
The fun came in that others could be doing anything: one foot in the toilet, or standing an inch from your face, or anything else.
It sounds dumb but I remember it being so much fun.
We would take dad's snuff can full of rocks and tape it shut. Then we all face the same way as a designated person threw the can way out in the open pasture at night. All players set out to find it and if you picked it up and made it back to the "finish line" it was a point. The rocks were audible if shaken. If you were able to tackle the runner before he crossed the line.... no point and re-throw. First to 5 wins or first to break a bone loses.
I am reminded of a time when I worked in a very rural area as a park ranger. I came across a group of the local kids who played on the park and they were battered, bruised, and bleeding. Obviously concerned, I asked them if they were alright and what happened.
I lived in a neighborhood with a median that was planted with chestnut trees. When they're ripening, chestnut pods are spiny af. We would be in the midian for HOURS (with cars driving by on either side, but not a ton of them or super fast) chucking these spiny things at each other working hard to leave as many gruesome marks as possible. Once my brother's friend got one stuck in his skin. We "oooooooh!" 'd for a full ten seconds that time.
We'd also play the switch game, where you find a switch (springy, long stick) and hit each other until one person was so covered in welts they had to tap out.
Or we'd pile on a bike and take off down a steep ass hill and work together to NOT die.
We played the same game as kids, I had a hell of a good time until I caught one that was extra sharp in the face. My mom wasn’t real happy either when she saw my lips, eyebrows and forehead covered in small cuts. I will give the kid credit though, he hit me dead center in the face. Nice shot.
A bunch of the kids in the co-op I lived in used to ffa or pick teams to play Pinecone Wars. That's literally what we called it. It was so much fun, collecting huge stashes to pelt unsuspecting enemies, climbing trees for good ambush spots, ducking through the forest to lose persuers, That game died the day my sister was sent to bring me inside and somebody blaaasted her in the face with particularly solid cone. She wasn't gonna let that one slide, no matter how much I begged her silence lol
Reminds me of the time in middle school where my neighbor and I would play “ninja” and whack each other to hell with some nerd swords. We even had a “ceremonial faceoff” and would do the whole walk-away-from-each-other duel-style thing.
ODB2 · 2 points · Posted at 03:21:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game as kids but it was called Rock Wars... We'd have two teams and start on opposite sides of the woods, set up ambushes and stuff... Guerilla warfare style.
Me and my friends would play this in the basement with Jenga blocks. Except my little brother always tagged along, and every time he got hit in the head he'd cry and we would have to stop playing.
We always played two hand touch (because all our yards were small and we played in the road), I played some "organized flag football" and such... I was a tall skinny kid, I was afraid to get tackled. Then a group of people all bigger than me decided to play tackle and I got landed on by about 6 people (loose ball I was on first) and I survived. I was surprised.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 18:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
That's the kind of healthy developmental shit you probably don't see so much with urban/suburban kids these days. Just competitive boys will be boys shit with some imagination thrown in.
It's if anyone breaks any bone, the person who broke the bone loses. So regardless of if it was theirs, they would lose in the case of causing a severe injury.
I mean they're chasing a can full of rocks and tackling each other in a field, *in the dark*. Maybe I've got unusual insight, but I kind of know the story without being told...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:16:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well he broke both arms so...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "That Game." Tackle football free for all. 4 or 5 younger kids (7-9 y. o.) vs 1 or 2 bigger kids (11-12 y. o.) I was one of the little kids. No real rules except to keep the football. Young kids gang tackled the big kid and tried to strip the ball or big kid would deck the little kids and take the ball. We all loved it but it abruptly ended when my buddy ran face first into a tree and split his face open. Parents were not having it when we told them what we were playing.
RIP That Game
st1tchy · 123 points · Posted at 16:06:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eventually a couple of the bigger kids want to mess up everyone else while letting the cool or different younger kid "win" a round. I've been an older cousin before.
We called this Rumble Fumble growing up. Didn’t realize it was ever called Smear the Queer until my Dad referred to it as that.
merkon · 3 points · Posted at 04:05:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah we had that, didn't realize the name was inappropriate at all until one of my friends moms asked what we were playing and was horrified by the name. It was called "Smear the guy with the football" after that.
We called that Last One Standing and as a girl who wasn’t allowed to play football at recess, lemme tell ya I tackled the holy living shit out of my bigger male cousins. SUCK IT BOYS I’LL FUCK YOU UP.
We played keepaway at recess in grades 5-8. Grades 5 and 6 had recess together, ditto 7 and 8. Usually two or sometimes three of the biggest kids against everybody else (boys only). The winner was the one who gave the ball back to the recess teacher.
Seems very unfair to stop you playing the game when the incident was unrelated to the nature of the game. Your friend could have run into a tree playing any game.
We used to play a game where someone would stand on the hill and rip one of those nerf “whistle” footballs into the dark night sky. The people at the bottom of the hill were blinded by the floodlights coming from the house and couldn’t see the ball until it was about to hit you. Used to stand still and hold our crotches and brace for that terrifying sound of the faint whistle off in the distance that would get extremely loud once the ball was 20ft from your face. Good times.
OP grew up without a snuff dipping dad, possibly didn't grow up with a snuff dipping anyone to look up to. We shouldn't judge, rather, we should instruct that the one who hast the rattle jangle thing in their arms must be smote unto the earth.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 16:26:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Definitely played a variation of this in an old horse pasture. We called the game, "the Horn Game", where an object of choice the Horn is thrown into and away from the end zone which was the fence by the Horn-Master.
We had to start in near twilight to help everyone feel adjusted to the environment while it was getting darker each round.
The interesting parts?
The usual Horn was a rubber black boot, the end zone was an active electric fence, and tackling was fair game.
Same as you suggested: you get tagged you gotta whip that horn behind you blindly. Horn Master can't join the game until the Horn has been successfully found.
Yeah, we played that too, all the time. We'd play in the playground while a football or some other outdoor event was going on, we could get 20+ kids together.
It was an all-ages, all-sexes (although mostly boys of course) affair, didn't matter if you were 8 or 18. Sometimes people really got smeared pretty hard, but we were country kids so we just brushed ourselves off and did it again.
We would go in the garage and everyone would grab a few empty soda cans from the recycle bin. We would then turn off the lights and it was pitch dark. We would then throw cans at whatever noise we heard.
This is much better than what my husband and his brothers played in the pasture. They'd throw cow patties at each other and you better hope to God they didn't throw a "wet on top" one at you.
Similar game. I lived on a chunk of land in way west Texas, like right on the border so naturally there weren’t any green lawns out there lol but we did have a rock garden for a “backyard.” In the summer my brother and I would gather rocks from the garden, dip one in a bucket of water and throw it over our shoulder back into the garden. The goal was to find the rock you threw before the sun dried it. Sounds riveting, I know. Then one day while I was looking for my rock, my brother tossed one over his shoulder and it hit me. Cracked my head open and I actually still have a scar/small bald spot from it! After that my mom officially banned that game
Fuck. This just reminded me of something stupid we would do in a dark field at night. A friend of mine found and bow and around 8 or 9 arrows in his grandpas garage. We used to take it out to the farmers field at night and blindly shoot it straight into the air, straight up. Whoever found the arrow got to take the next shot.
We played a game called "Smear the Queer" when I was in grade school that was similar to this but played with a football. Grade school me, never thought about what the name meant nor did I know what a queer was, as far as I knew, a queer was a person running with a football. I remember coming home from school one day and my mom asked me what I did as recess. My answer? "Smear the queer". She busted my butt and screamed at me about how we dont do that to people. I wasn't sure what I had done wrong, so a few days later I asked her why the game was so bad. She then realized that it was a game we were playing and explained that the name of the game didn't sound nice but I could keep playing with my friends. It wasn't for 3 or 4 more years until I learned what queer meant.
True but ppl dont really inhale Tabacco nowadays (idk maybe down south). Dip/copenhagen are the closest things, but ppl dont know what that is either. So chewing tabacco is a relevant colloquialism i guess...?
Youre right. I was just trying to generally explain in modern terms. That was probably a mistake.
5 or 6 of us would be at the top of a hill with crazy carpets (sheet of plastic with handles) and someone would throw a pop can. We'd all take off and whoever stopped (got to the bottom) while holding the can and being on a carpet (could be someone else's) got a point. Full contact was encouraged.
This reminds me of that one time my cousins and I thought it was a good idea to play tag, but by throwing heavy rocks. I ran hard up the hill to avoid being "tagged" by a heavy rock. The slower cousin had a trip to the ER from splitting his head open.
I’m a camp counselor and we play a game called “Screaming Toes” with our kids. We get in a circle and pick someone in the group’s toes to stare at. Someone counts to three and on three you look at the person whose toes you were staring at. If that person was looking at your toes too you both scream and you’re both out. The kids love it.
This took me too long. Each kid independently decides whose toes they will stare at.
At first, I thought "we get in a circle and pick someone in the group’s toes to stare at" meant everyone would stare at one kid's toes, which would mean nobody ever screamed and someone got to feeling reaaallly awkward.
i thought the same thing... i was quite confused... so i guess eeryone stares at someones toes but if that person is also staring at your toes you scream??? Although with kids i guarantee it would be alot of cheating kids that say i was looking at the kid next to you or if they see you looking near them just continue to turn to the next person lol.
Asmor · 2001 points · Posted at 15:36:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I bet alumni of your camp are disproportionately likely to have a foot fetish.
Well fetishes are usually caused by a curiosity about something that is taboo (in this case, feet are taboo cause they're seen as dirty), and this game is actually somewhat normalizing the idea of looking at toes/feet. Thus, I think that this actually lowers the chance of the kids developing a foot fetish.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:42:05 on March 12, 2019 · (Permalink)
People have fetishes for balloons and balloons are pretty normalised
I’m firmly against kink shaming and think it’s totally wrong to judge others on their sexual preferences. But foot fetish people are the fucking worst. I’m not into feet and don’t understand how people are into them sexually, I think feet are pretty gross. It’s not for that reason that I can’t stand foot fetish people.
I hate them because it’s the only fetish I know of that the people won’t shut the hell up about and want everyone else in the god damn world to know they have a foot fetish. If you go on any “adult site” comment section you are guaranteed to see multiple comments like “We see beautiful feet plz?, SHOW FEAT, must show sexy feet now” etc. Sometimes dozens of comments demanding feet. Don’t believe me? Go check a popular GoneWild post and you are certain to see a few of those degenerates.
Lots of people make fun of furries and it does seem strange to me but at least those people aren’t in every porn comment section demanding the girl immediately put on a Llama costume.
Adult site? Look at any semi popular girls instagram and twitter pictures that show a hint of foot and the comment are filled with people talking about all the things they’d do to their feet and toes, ew.
I think it’s kinda like the fallacy with vegans and homosexuals being showy with it. People who like feet probably almost never talk about it, but you only hear from the ones that do, so it seems like ALL of them do.
In reality, I think like one in ten people has a foot fetish and it’s just that you don’t ever learn about people who are lowkey with it because they are
That sounds fun! Decent strategy too as you have to figure out who won’t stare at you while also figuring out who will think you won’t look at them and will therefore look at you.
My current college professor does this game on our camping trips but instead instead of choosing one to look at, you're looking around the circle of feet in whatever direction. Adds more randomness.
I’ve played a version of that in Improv class just called “screamers” where you look down at the ground, then up on three to look at someone else’s face. Eye contact means screaming.
This is actually a variation of one of the games i teach in a team building class! We call it "look down, look up, AH!" and participants who lock eyes have to scream for as long as they can. Whoever runs out of breath or stops screaming first is then out.
80Eight · 18 points · Posted at 17:41:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
That sounds like *something Dan Schneider would pitch for Jamie Lynn Spears to do with her friends on a new episode of Zoey 101
I'm also a camp counselor for a day camp with kids 7-12 years of age. This entire thread is giving me amazing game ideas for my kids to play during their field or arena time.
We had this at my camp! But we called it "look down, look up." One summer I was sent to help at our sister camp and I wanted to drive their counselors crazy. I invented the variant of "look down, look up" known only as "looky yelly," a never-ending full time game where if you make eye contact with someone you must start screaming. Apparently teenaged Lutherans are very into this and it caught on like wildfire, and had my intended effect.
I also created "burny stabby" the same week. But that one was for counselors. Basically a fight to the death where one person had a lighter and the other a pocket knife. Burny didn't win too often unless there was fuel or aerosol cans around.
Our never-ending game was the What Game. If someone called your name and you answered with "what," the person who called you got to name an animal you'd have to mimic. Kids got into it. And kids name some pretty excellently specific things, like "constipated camel," and "bird made of steel so he can't fly." Since it was camp, it was totally normal to do these things any time, any place, even during staff meetings. Camp is the freaking best.
We played a similar game but if you end up looking at someone you both start screaming and whoever stops first is out. It’s usually over pretty quickly as it’s surprisingly difficult to keep screaming while making direct eye contact with someone. It usually ended when one person starts laughing uncontrollably, but there’s always that one person who’s terrifyingly good at it.
I’m in a college class now where we had to learn how facilitate icebreakers and camp games lol this is one of the ones we learned and was my favorite!! I’m a grown adult and screaming toes was the highlight of me week
We used to play this on my old Rugby team fooling around after practice, but we called it “Mexican Standoff.” when you got knocked out you had to go run a lap before the next game
a-ohhh · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this for ice breakers for random jobs/clubs/camps I was at, but you start by looking at your own toes. I hated it because I was shy and having to yell was so embarrassing!
yepmek · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I’m gonna play this with my kindergarteners this week
_jato · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
see we play a similar game just with less feet. You all stand in a circle and put your heads down, someone calls "heads up", and if you end up making eye contact with the person you picked (ie if they picked you too) you both have to shout "Oh No" and you're out.
I just taught that game two weeks ago at an event for fellow PhD students, including my adviser. The results were positive. Slight difference in that you stare at your own toes, then look at a person on the count of 3. If you make eye contact (you looked at the person who looked at you), you scream. First to scream stays in (and pure volume can sometimes influence the judge if you were a split second too late...)
Former counselor as well. This game is solid, and I highly recommend it for all the times you need to scream as loud as you can directly in someone's face.
Dude, I love that game! At my camp, we don't have an official name for it, so it usually ends up being something like, "the one where you make eye contact with someone and hope they don't make eye contact with you".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game now lives as a spirit game played between teams after games of ultimate frisbee. We don't do the screaming, but you're encouraged to act out a dramatic death. Also called "heads down, heads up".
I’ve played something similar! We call it elephant (who knows why) and instead of looking at someone’s toes, everyone looks at another person’s face, and if you make eye contact with a person then you die a horrible fake death. We made a lot of people concerned with the level of screaming, choking, crying etc.
Similar game played in theater groups I've been a part of. Everyone stands in a circle looking down. The leader counts to three, and everyone looks at someone in the circle. If you meet eyes with someone you have to act out a dramatic death, cause theater kids. We call it the death game.
Oh I've played a game like this too, but we just looked straight up at the person's eyes rather than their toes. We called it the "staring game" and it was pretty fun.
Fissio · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We do this sometimes in a group of friends, it's called "Finns at a bus stop"
How can you tell who's staring at your toes if you're staring at someone's toes? We do this game, but with eye contact. Easier to tell who is instantly "out."
Me and my sister would play ‘color copy’ where one of us would draw a picture and the other would follow along on their paper. They’d inevitably both be shitty, but surprisingly close! It’s almost akin to those wine and painting things where 13 women down a few bottles of wine and all paint the same tree.
I did one of those wine and paint things once except it was byob, and my friend was in charge of bringing the drinks. She brought hard alcohol and some mixers and massive wine tumblers. She mixed the drinks, I only had 2, and I was so wasted... worst hangover ever!! 10/10 would do again.
I was gonna ask if this was me, but I only brought stuff for rum and coke and a metric fuck ton of snacks that I ended up sharing with the entire class. I made our drinks really strong and spent about half of the class trying to sober back up.
zangor · 128 points · Posted at 14:53:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
those wine and painting things where 13 women down a few bottles of wine and all paint the same tree.
There needs to be a mens version of this where there is just a projector connected to a laptop and speakers and like a fridge with like 350 beers. Spirits in the freezer. Everybody gets a turn to play a video thats like 10 minutes or less.
Me and my mates do the same thing with smash bros on N64 and a bunch of brews. It’s my favorite day of the month, and awesome to be able to get 4 guys in their 30’s together at all
zangor · 53 points · Posted at 16:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
to be able to get 4 guys in their 30’s together at all
The hell? Damn, that's the dream. The hanging out with my friends dropped off so hard after college. Sad isn't even the word to describe it. It's bleak and depressing. Just can never hang out and just have a good time like the good ol days. Once in a while I'll organize all my friends for a really good metal show. Those days are sick. Eight dollar tall boys? Fuck it. Give it to me. This is the only day I get to do this all year.
The key is making the time and setting aside as a priority. There are 2 software engineers and a financial analyst who all have predictable 8-5 hours, and I block off my schedule for that time in Outlook so nobody will schedule conference calls. If you wanna make it happen, just make it happen! Im also lucky that we all live in different parts of the same city.
zangor · 16 points · Posted at 16:34:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me its just friends that are near me that can hang out. Hard to get multiple people together. So mostly, the friend that can hang out that weekend and I will drink beer or tea and watch documentaries.
Sometimes we play EDH (Magic the Gathering). (I'm extremely into all aspects of MTG)
There's two different images floating around of similar scenarios where both men didn't want to be involved, but only one was shitty about it.
That is, one image has a bunch of women holding their version of the whatever and the man in the group has pretty much just painted the word NO on the canvas and that's about all he did. What a dick.
The better version of the guy who still didn't want to play along has all the women holding their version of the thing which was like flowers or something... and the dude painted a bunch of skyscrapers at the Batsignal. Sure, he didn't paint the thing but he at least got the point - no one gives a shit, you're there to paint and have a good time.
My cousin wanted this for her birthday, but no matter what search terms we used we could NOT find one in our area. So her brother kidnapped me (he just showed up and promised me waffle house if I would come to the craft stores with him, I'm a craft nerd and have all the apps, memberships and a ton of coupons. Plus he had no idea what he needed anyway.) and we got a ton of paints, canvases and booze.
The night of the party we realized we had NO clue what to have as the "model". All the drinks were made (wine, margaritas and jello shots) chairs and easels had been obtained for all participants (there were three of those fisher price kid easels...) and yet... what the hell were we gonna paint? Oh and the birthday girl was thirty minutes away.
It ended up being a "still life" involving a taxidermied fox, some gundam statues and a vase of dead sunflowers. (How the hell did we forget to get some damn flowers? Also do you know how hard it is to find fresh flowers at 8pm in a small farm town?)
Several of the paintings included the feral cat that lives in her brother's house, because it laid on the table and hissed at us everytime we tried to move it.
My painting was abysmal (I'm a crafter, not a painter) but some of them came out surprisingly well. One was a picture of a nude woman... my great aunt painted that one, apparently from memory because she didn't have a model or anything.
The birthday girl was happy though. 10/10, would be kidnapped and assemble a shitty still life again.
Saw many of these at a brewpub I worked at. For the 15th time everyone was painting an anchor. Except for one woman in the bachelorette party. She just did her own thing and painted a massive dick. Obviously she had just as much fun and was a little more creative.
There is a men's version of this it's called Warhammer 40k. Everyone builds and paints miniatures and then they fight with them. Beer and liquer is often involved.
aww, I actually used to do a similar thing with a childhood friend of mine, except we'd draw something with our finger on the other person's back, and then they either had to try to draw it too, or guess what it was. it was always hilarious
My kids came up with a version of this where they wrote down random adjectives and nouns on slips of paper. Someone draws a word, you add/edit whatever it is to your drawing.
At the end of the round (x number of draws), everyone shares their ridiculous work of art.
Zebebe · 8 points · Posted at 22:03:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I'm out drinking with my group of architect friends we play a game where someone draws a shape on a piece of paper and passes it to the right. The person on the right adds a few more shapes and passes it on again. We've gotten a lot of weird abstract drawings out of it. It's loads of fun and could probably be done with any group of people even if they aren't artistic.
The wine and paint thing is a bit more difficult to have turn out badly, though. The instructors typically trace out a rough draft of the picture you are painting and go step by step, color by color.
This was painting with a twist specifically, and I know they have more "advanced" classes, so there are probably plenty of classes without the lines pre-drawn.
eachfire · 23877 points · Posted at 15:02:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sister and I created The Slug Wars. Basically, two combatants got backwards into a sleeping bag so their feet were hanging out of the head hole. Then ... you blindly battled to the death. Great times.
EDIT: it's nice to meet so many people who also served in the Slug Wars. Thank you for your service.
The name of your game just reminded me that in ~2nd grade a friend and I would spend recess with the ends of our t-shirts pulled over our knees, hopping around on our hands and feet and occasionally rolling down the grassy hill. The creatures we transformed into were dubbed "slugs" for some reason I do not know. We were strange..
Edit: Apparently this game was not as rare as I thought! You all definitely had more reasonable names for it though lol
I helped start a cult following of about a dozen kids in 5th grade by doing this. We were called Munchkins. The Munchkins were at war with the Mini-men, 4 kids who would squat instead of putting their knees in their shirt. While we outnumbered them, they had an "exo-suit" (the ability to stand up), so neither group had a clear advantage. We put together lore and everything, 'twas lit.
Incredible. Our "Googlie" city was perhaps less in-depth, but nevertheless structured. There was the mayor (a position held by me, the eldest among us), a police officer, and various other "jobs" where products and services could be sold using scraps of paper currency (the Coin Minter was one of the professions). Our bedroom had two bunk beds, making it ideal for constructing elaborate maze-like forts with blankets, wooden sticks fit into blocks with holes in them, and these nylon playhouses made for miniature ball-pits.
On certain "days" (the Mayor would decide when night and day occurred), the whole town would gather for the Olympics, a set of athletic challenges (or marksmanship, when Nerf guns were involved). Of course, things like running and jumping are substantially more difficult when constrained to a perpetual Gopnik squat. First, second, and third place would receive medals—aluminum can lids (from some unique product that made them dull and thus safe to play with) marked up with Sharpie.
We even had a specific art style and method of drawing Googlies, by which the Artist of the city would make his/her profits. Kirby-esque figures of famous people (Elvis, Abraham Lincoln, etc.) would be drawn and sold in the market. The more famous the subject, the higher price they would attract.
This just gave me such a flash-back. We did something similar but each team had to squat in a different way, one with legs to the side and one with legs out front. The former had better balance but the latter could move around quicker by hopping. I can't remember the names of the teams but this was such a thing one year at school!
We called this game 'Midgets'. Before long a small horde of jumper-kneed ten year olds were fighting week long turf wars for iconic landmarks such as Midget Hill. After a couple of months it all subsided and I was the sole Midget left. Midget Hill was mine. But it was a hollow victory.
We called it Scrufflets, the trend was started by my brother and the turf wars got so vicious our school actually banned "Scrufflets", teachers would get furious if they saw anyone do it.
Haha I definitely did the same thing in third grade with my shirt pulled over my knees. Walked around like a dweeb with my friends and thought it was so funny
Dude at my elementary school we started this big thing called minimode which was basically the same thing. We would all hobble around with out shirts tucked over our knees and hop around, have “sumo” style wrestling matches, and roll around all over the place. The yard duties would always nag us about it for some reason
We played the same thing! We called it Mole Tackle.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 01:59:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it green bug and once we got bored with the tackle part of it we turned it into indoor tag. The green bug was "it". We had to make a rule that you could take the bag off to cool but you had to spin around 10 times before you could tag anybody.
The sleeping bags were green.
jagoob · 3 points · Posted at 20:02:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm Warriors for us. We didn't do it blind though, we had them on the right way then cinch the sleeping bag up to our necks so we couldn't use our arms. The goal was to knock the other person over.
This was fun until my friends little brother who always had to do what we did got hurt and our parents made us stop.
That’s like Mad Tree, my brother would search blindly for me upside down walking around in a sleeping bag hide and seek style then if found tackle and eat you by putting my in the sleeping bag . Pretending to be an angry old tree in the night disturbed from a long slumber.
Oh my god we did that at “bible camp” in the cabins before we went to bed, except we called it “Worm Wars.” It was absolute chaos and still continued after I cracked my head open on a bed. Good times
It was a five day overnight camp where we had chapel for about an hour in the morning and then talk about what we learned that morning just before we went to sleep. Like 95% percent of the day we were doing stuff like riding horses or zip lining, and to me that doesn’t seem like an actual bible camp but I didn’t know what else to call it
We did this at the summer camp I worked at the last few years. We would have upwards of 15 kids in their sleeping bags battling to the death in the common room. It’s been ‘banned’ (looked down upon) for years due to multiple serious injuries but it’s still kicking around. Funny enough we called it slug wars. Summer camp rocks.
I used to do this at slumber parties. But I was the only one being a weirdo. I even knew people thought I was weird when I did it, yet every party I slipped that sleeping bag over my head and slugged around the floor.
My friends and I would play “sleeping bag tag” where only the person it was in the sleeping bag and had to tag someone. Like a land version of Marco Polo except for that one time when I thought I was perpendicular to the bed and confidently lunged across. I was actually next to the bed and I still remember what it feels like to literally land on your face because being blind with outstretched arms is hard to correct before impact.
We used to do a similiar stuff, but instead of fighting you put as many pillows inside the sleeping bags as possible and then were thrown out of the window on the 2nd floor.
LOL We threw ourselves down flights of stairs in sleeping bags.
Also jumped out of moving vehicle into snow banks, bumper sledding (attach sleds to back of jeep and drive down snowy roads), sled off the roof, rode abandoned shopping carts down huge hills (yikes)
my sister and i would kick each other down the stairs, no joke. it was honestly one of our favorite games. we called it pop tart. kids are fucking weird.
This is making me laugh so hard and reminds me of the time my sibling and I tried to grow wings by wrapping ourselves in sleeping bags and vowing to stay in there for 2 weeks. We both got 2 bananas and got bored after like 5 minutes and watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory instead.
We also played as caterpillars sometimes, getting in sleeping bags and playing songs through YouTube to signify what was happening, I.E. Had A Bad Day when I fell off the leaf, or Happy Happy Joy Joy when I found my way back onto the leaf. Child imagination is limitless.
we both got 2 bananas and got bored after like 5 minutes
This reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes strip where they set out for the Yukon with two sandwiches apiece and Hobbes concludes their first Captain's Log with "Supplies low."
Oh man, I ADORED Calvin and Hobbes as a kid! My mom bought me all the books and I even got away with doing a book report on the Sunday Strips edition once! I think I still have the books at my grandma's house :)
I don't understand how when we're kids we have such high pain tolerances. We would wrestle and rough-house all the time.
One game we played all the time we called "swing-o-bonkers", where we'd swing in opposite directions (on a swing set), then stick our legs straight out and turn to face each other and knock each other off. Like jeeze, how did we not break ourselves.
The night I fell in love with my now-girlfriend, we were at a music festival, afterpartying at the campsite. She was as far from sober as you get, and was lying in the dirt wearing a sleeping bag like a cloak. She would periodically yell "I'M A GLOW WORM!" and open the sleeping bag wings to reveal a collection of glowsticks she had inside before closing it and giggling.
sixbux · 7 points · Posted at 19:36:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to do that on the trampoline, basically the Passchendaele of the Slug Wars.
I remember my first tour. Was at a camp out with my scout patrol, and I was there leader. They told me they needed my aid in an upcoming battle. I was 15 at the time. I was too tall, so they wrapped me in three sleeping bags, so I was Slug Commando Alpha. That day I had to slay 6 of my own men.
We did something similar to this. We would roll ourselves up in blankets like burritos and race each other across the room. It got surprisingly competitive. I think we called it “The Burrito Game” or something to that effect.
My brother and I played a similar game- we wrapped in blankets with our arms pinned down and had to inch our way around and battle. We called it inchworm.
Pooleh · 5 points · Posted at 18:53:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got trapped in a sleeping bag playing like that when I was a kid. I was ok for a sec but as soon as I realized I couldn't get out I was screaming for Mom and Dad like there was a fire lol. I'm not claustrophobic really but something about that freaked me the fuck out.
This happened to me once, my brother just got on top of me. He was cheating and not in his bag. I was freaking out because I couldn’t move. For me it was more of the suffocation from limited fresh air than the claustrophobia.
Used to do this with cousins, have a terrible nightmare of a time I got in head first and everyone else tried to fit in the other way and I almost suffocated stuck like a sardine the wrong way round in a writhing sleeping bag. Never again. Can remember lots of times I probably should have died as a kid up at my grandparents. Probably made us more hardy kids. I guess if I have children it would just be angry birds and minecraft parties, coupled with antivax sleeper cells I think the next generation will have a high mortality rate.
It's funny how many different people played this and how many different names they came up with. We called it Amoeba Wars and occasionally had someone not in a sleeping bag trying to hunt all the amoebas. But usually it was just throwing our bodies into each other. Being a kid was fun.
My sister and I used to do something similar to this. We’d get in our sleeping bags and scoot all around the house like caterpillars. Sometimes we’d stand up and try to knock each other over.
TPberg · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was a favourite at many scout camps I went to. We called it caterpillar fights. I fell onto my thumbs and damaged my tendons. Still get trouble 20 years later.
Kiwi57 · 3 points · Posted at 18:44:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha awesome I used to play that at sleep overs we called it wormies and someone always always got hurt. Great times indeed
My sister and I took the slug wars in our sleeping bags downhill skiing. We’d get in them and slide down the fucking stairs to the basement over and over. I’m 41 now, and goddamn do I have a back problem. I wonder where it started, lol.
We did this in my house. But instead of sleeping bags, it was 1 cardboard box, and the person in the cardboard box had to catch those not in the cardboard box.
Also we did this on the landing by the staircase.......
The game then turned into sliding down the stairs in a cardboard box.
Oh my god we used to play that my brothers and I, we called it jacket potato wars, because you would get hot as shit in the sleeping bags sometimes to the point your head ached!
omg we played a version of that at my sleepovers with friends, except it would only be one person in the sleeping bag who had to “find” everyone else. we called it monster
Holy shit, this was the first thing that popped to my head and I was so sure it was going to unique. Well I was completely wrong. Love it. So many injuries.
Whoa. Did I know you two growing up? My brother and I used to stay over at a friends place and we did this exact thing all the time. I forget what we called it but I think it was “bag battle” or something to that effect.
OMG my brother and I did this too. We called it "Marmot-ing" because our sleeping bags were made by the brand Marmot. We didn't go backwards though, we just pulled them up over our heads and tightened them.
We had Worm Wars in my Boy Scout troop—gather a bunch of people in one tent (size doesn't matter), zip yourself fully up in a mummy bag (head in normal spot though) and brawl.
OH! My brothers and I used to play this same game but we called it "Blob". We would put blankets over our bodies and crawl around the house trying to blob each other. Good times.
"Bockey" or "Bike-hockey" even though only one person was on a bike. There were three of us, so the game was played 2v1.
The two people are on roller blades with hockey sticks and a ball (a hard plastic "street hockey" ball). The one person was on a bike.
The object of the game was to shoot the ball between the wheels of the bike. If we got it through, we got a point. If he blocked it with his foot, he got a point. We had a ~50 yard stretch of our street we'd play on. We actually used to set a timer and play for three five-minute periods.
Mstinos · 306 points · Posted at 17:28:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played "stick in the wheels" for one game. The kid on the bike thought up the game, so he got to stay on the bike. We had to chase him and if we could throw a stick in his wheels, we "got" him. Well I got him good. He faceplanted and got really angry. "why would you throw a stick in my wheels? I hate you!"
He was a bit special.
Curious if the person on the bike was wearing shin pads, at least?
My friend and I used to play "wall hockey" which was essentially just Butts Up with a hockey stick. We used a handball when playing the game, but for the penalty we would use the hard plastic street hockey ball and man we had some welts after those games.
as someone who also played this (and was the one on the bike 90% of the time) i can tell you neither shin pads nor helmets were usually worn. surprised i went as long as i did without a concussion.
Oh man that reminds me of my favorite highschool game fockey
It's a 2v2 on a sideways tennis half court, with hockey sticks and either a tennis ball or one of those plastic hockey training balls. The flavor of the game is destruction, both bodily and equipment. The puck is slapshot at the opposing team, who must block the puck from the score wall behind them by any means: typically with fleshy limbs or by hurling your hockey stick across the court. Half about dodging solid directed shots and half about keeping your opponents so unbalanced they can't land a solid shot, picking and choosing your battles
I'd like to imagine my imaginary Aztec ancestors smiled down upon me
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 16:34:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huffy Polo!
I did this too! The damage to my elbows was monumental.
Growing up, my mom taught us a game her and my uncle made up. It's a continuation of slug-a-bug.
Jeep wrangler - beep-a-jeep.
Police car - pop-a-cop
Motorcycle - sock-a-cycle
Boat (not kayaks) - float-a-boat
Camper (pop up or larger) - tramp-a-camper
Taxi - wax-a-taxi
Firetruck - fight-a-fire-truck
Volkswagen bus - slug-a-bus
Motorcycle cops can be worth 2 points if you call both sock-a-cycle and pop-a-cop.
Any groups of a specific vehicle where there are 4 or more is automatically ten points if you make the point call plural.
Ex. If i see 4 boats in a yard or on a lake I can say float-a-boatS and get 10 points.
Calling plurals negates any previous point calls out of that group of vehicles.
We've played this game on so many road trips and the points get into the hundreds. And even though my mom was always driving when we played, she still whooped our butts every single time.
somewhat related–another odd form of hockey: my friends and I would go up to our neighbor's pool with those short little knee hockey sticks and a ball or puck heavy enough so that it would to sink to the bottom of the pool, but not slide/roll around more than a foot at a time. We'd play from either side of the shallow end of the pool, and whoever could touch the puck to the other team's wall of the pool got a point. Played it all summer, had great lung capacity that year.
Yess! This was my favorite game as a kid. Trying to get a ball between the wheels on the ripstick was so fun because of how quickly you could change direction on those things
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rip stick hockey is my favorite made up game of all time.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 21:59:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG ,you just reminded me of a game we used to play that was rip-stick hockey. 2 teams with 2 players each would use hockey sticks while riding on rip-sticks (the skateboard like things you wiggle to move).
We used buckets on their sides as goals to score a tennis ball into. It was in an 3-car garage and all walls had to be open to bounce the ball off of. This caused us to use random pieces of wood and junk to block the open garage doors.
Oh man we played nearly the same game but the puck had to go under our board between our wheels for a goal. Talk about strong hips and legs to rip a rip stick and play hockey though
I have a story like this.
We use to play roller blade hockey, but we didnt have hockey equipment so used golf clubs and balls, we played for years without an injury until one day my brother took a big swing and hit my friend in the head and knocked him out with blood pissing everywhere. he had went to the hospital and ended up fine, save for a scar on his forehead. needless to say we didn't play after that
reminds me of our Sockey. Soccer Hockey...it was just soccer with rollerblades, played on a street in front of my house that’s an incline. terribly dangerous as we were like 7 and could barely rollerblade to begin with, let alone try to kick a soccer ball on one unstable leg.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:54:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've read hockey so many times in this thread that I'll never hear it the same way again.
We played a very similar game on skateboards. You can likely guess the name. In our game, you score by putting the bell under your brothers board, through the wheels.
My first thought to the answer of this question was bike tig. My sister and I would go out on our bikes and cycle round the farm trying to catch the other person.
Reading this makes me cringe. I broke my arm at the start of third grade playing some kind of weird ball game with me riding my bike. The front wheel hit the ball just right wrong and the bike went down HARD.
My sisters and I play a similar game that we called ‘woko’. We’re all on a ripstick/wave board and all have a hockey sticks in hand. There’s one football sized bouncy ball and we have to hit each other with the ball. You get points for where you hit the others. 1 for board and legs. 2 for torso and arms. 3 for the bum. 4 for between the legs. 0 for the head.
Lol! We had a game called hand-hoccer. We made goals in the street and played a version of hockey (with brooms, hockey sticks and whatever else we could come up with) mixed with soccer played with a soccer ball. You could hold it for 3 steps and throw it or kick/stick pass it but you could only score using the stick. You couldn't catch a pass thrown by hand either, only a kick or bounce off a stick. We played 10 min halves. Credit to a couple of south African brothers that moved to my neighborhood for bringing the idea to fruition.
I have a thing for tournaments. I don’t know what it is, but I love brackets. I’ve read books with nothing but brackets of random shit. “Best vegetable” or “Best vacation spots” and shit like that.
On my summer breaks from school, I would stay up super late, like 6am, and I would spend my time playing this tournament game while listening to sports talk radio. Basically I would write down the names of my friends and people I knew and fill out a bracket. I’d flip a coin to see who won. The first round started as best of five and they got progressively longer, with a loser’s bracket that was best of three. When a player got enough flips in his/her favor, they would move to the next round. After a champion was crowned, I would calculate all the winning percentages by hand and use their overall records to seed them going into the next tournament. I still have notebooks full of these tournaments in my parents shed.
u/indydude11 : Well, you guys had a bye in the first round, took easy wins over pastry chef and night porter, than edged out teaching 4-3 in a best of 7 final.’
T618 · 7 points · Posted at 04:08:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow, u/indydude11, I think you've discovered something. I'm not that excited about it myself, but I really want to see the birth of a new genre of entertainment!
I did this actually. I was a week away from the 'deadline' for choosing a major, I had like 8 that seemed interesting. So I just set up a bracket and flipped a coin. Best of 3 for pools, best of 5 for quarter, semi and finals
Communications. It was such a weak major that my school dissolved it the year I left. I was the last year to get a degree in it. So that's super exciting.
I have. I just started back at school in the fall, so I still have a bit to go, but I have been looking at internships with them, as well as the other teams in town!
You sound like you love math and statistics. What about sabermetrics? There's a whole industry of people who apply advanced statistical analysis to sports.
I've given thought to this, but I don't think I'm smart enough to handle all the math. I have a good handle up to Finite, but Calculus and Trig scares the shit out of me.
If you are looking for a soft landing to get some tournament directing experience, look into Middle/High School sports. Many districts have positions for Tournament Director for end of season tournaments.
Ax0m · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn are you my long lost brother or something? Am too obsessed with brackets and can run them in my head (properly seeded, with losers) no problem. And I’m in school right now studying television and film. Weeeeiiiiird!
Nah. I really haven’t had any exposure to statistics outside of sports. I worked in television for a handful of years, and am now back in school looking to get into sports.
You would be considered a very valuable asset in esports. You should absolutely look into it, there are tons of high level competitive games with good money put into them.
CS:GO, DotA 2, LoL, Rocket League, just to name a few that are enormous and have bracket style tourneys.
Ah man I thought it was just me, I'd simulate FA Cup draws from the round of 32, I'd draw the games out of the bag, then have 0-1-2-3-4-5 in the bag to simulate the scores of the games. I'd always be gutted when I drew my team as a loss.
I then started handicapping the draw for teams in higher (IRL) divisions so that when it came to draw scores the favourite only had 2-3-4-5 as potential scores so there'd need to be a real upset for the underdogs to go through. So simple but so fun.
God, I write programs to do similar. Writing a program that can do things like ladder tournaments whilst keeping the games played even and avoiding the same players playing each other too often takes a fair amount of planning so makes a good little project to keep me sharp.
I totally did the same thing, but with the "Quidditch World Cup" and dice. Would group every country in the world, plus a few territories (South Ossetia and Macau did particularly well), into regional playoffs per continent, and slooooooowly build up to the final. Sadly, I don't remember how the dice work: it all was pretty unbalanced though, since the Snitch basically turns every game.
It probably took hours but it was absolutely amazing. Couldn't explain to my family what I got out of it though.
OMG! We are the same person. My whole life, I've thought bracket style tournaments are so cool...
When I was a kid, I folded enough paper footballs for each team in the NFL and I drew little crappy designs of the logos on them. Then, I'd flick them down the hallway for distance and I'd have this giant bracket drawn up. I did this on rainy days, all the time. Interestingly, the same 2 or 3 footballs would always win. - Things I'd do to entertain myself, as an only child. lol
As an adult, I still really enjoy bracket style things. A couple years ago, I got a group of friends and we went out once a week for months, every time to a Mexican restaurant. I had a huge bracket drawn up and we faced off the Mexican restaurants based on voting and rankings. It started out, everyone thought my idea was so lame. By the end, there were farce arguments going on about which Mexican restaurant was going to win. People ended up telling me how great the idea was. :)
Haha. That’s awesome! I also used to do the paper football thing. I would have tournament based on how many field goals I could hit with them. I would stand at one edge of my room and flick into my window as the goal. I found myself cheating for the footballs I liked though so I went back to the coin flips. Haha!
Hahaha I could see myself doing something that ridiculous. I didn't do that, but I did have a Facebook group, an online version of the results, and I brought official ballots for scoring to each restaurant.
Same for me but with sports tables. I used to create whole new countries just to make imaginary football league tables for them. I still do sometimes, to be honest.
God this speaks to me so much. I would turn random mundane activities ("How many times can I throw this ball at my porch steps and catch it without it hitting the ground") into full tournament brackets.
My wife can attest that I never really grew out of it. I send her brackets all the time about mundane stuff ("Which Disney movie is the best," "What is your favorite restaurant in our town"), and we're planning to use baby name brackets as our announcements when (if?) she gets pregnant.
OMG. DO NOT DO BABY NAME BRACKETS. I did this. It did not end well. Though I guess that was more because we let friends vote and all her friends would just vote for the name she liked more.
Do you have any board games that stimulate your love of brackets? I can only think of puzzle games like Alchemy that had a single solution you narrow down until it's discovered. Maybe Camel Cup because it's inherently a betting game?
I did this with Matchbox cars! They'd race down a track made out of cardboard boxes, and then get re-seeded into the next tournament based on how they did. This one banged-up car had a bad veer to the left. If it was lucky enough to start a race on the right, it would sometime pull off a big upset by running the other car off the track.
Holy cow. I would set up huge Hot Wheels brackets, lined up in pairs all down my living room. I would put one car in one hand, one car in another, and smash them into each other. If you landed upside down you were out. This was before the coin flips. I never made the connection between the two before now! I should have kept stats on the W/L %!
204- · 8 points · Posted at 17:37:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do something like that too! When I was supposed to be sleeping, I would instead take all my matchbox cars and "drive" them toward each other. The first to flip over lost and then I would have a "winners" pile and a "losers" pile. Then I would take all the losers and find the best of them (the wild card). Then I would find the two best from the winners and have a showdown between all three "best" cars and then crown a winner from whichever flipped over the least in 10 throws. That car would then be the starter for the next time I did it.
That’s literally a game I used to play. Exactly the same. Land upside down and you’re out. Had a matchbox fire engine that was a bit weightier and won a lot of rounds
Do you have Asperger's by chance? My brother does and this is totally something he has done. But stats are also his big thing. In high school I would go to open new notebooks and find he had filled them with math already. Each year he gets the sports almanac for Christmas and by dinner time he's already filled the margins with stats about the stats
Haha. Maybe, but I’ve never been tested for it or anything. My dad used to make me make up math problems to solve myself on days I didn’t have homework from school. Might have come from that.
I did tournaments exactly like this, with coin flips that eventually evolved to dice rolls, with a mock football league I made using different area schools. This had to be like 4th grade, and I thought there should be a sports league for kids like with high school or college. I picked out 16 nearby schools I found in the phone book and gave them names and logos. I'd do a different tournament every day during snack break. It caught on and soon my friends were doing their own and we got in trouble for rolling dice and doing them during class, cheering if our school won. Fun times.
That sounds like a blast. And reminds me of a league I started for one on one football with an all time quarterback that I created for kids in my neighborhood. Everyone picked high school team names and played as them. My dad had a pack of electric tape with different colors that teams would use as wrist bands in their school’s colors. He was pretty pissed when he went looking for it later and most of the rolls were empty haha!
Dude! I totally used to do this as a kid as well. My tournaments would include "simulating" NBA playoffs or just a tournament of people I knew. I did coin flips, sometimes I would make other mini games like trashcan basketball idk - good stuff.
Whenever things were completely up to chance like a coinflip, I would also be biased to make my favorite team win lol
Oh I absolutely did the coin flip thing for March Madness when the brackets would come out. I’d watch the selection show with brackets I had hand drawn and fill them in as they were announced.
Holy shit, I used to do the same thing! Except I’d fill in the bracket with different girls in my grade and use my own judgment for who moved on. I was only like 9 years old at the time.
GCP_17 · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself and a friend of mine had a 'best of 7' 'best of 7' series in foosball. You had to win 4 games to take a series, and then you had to win four of those series to win the title. So you had to win 16 games of foosball (to 10). So first one to score 160 goals in foosball was the winner. Many drunk nights playing this.
Absolutely will. I have really looked and looked for a computer program that would keep track of the brackets and record keeping for me. Closest is excel spreadsheets that I have made for the results. I could probably design one for the tournaments that would keep track of records too, but all those if functions might be a little tricky for my level.
Krugo1 · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Check out Challonge. I don't think it does multiple seasons records, but it might be up your alley. I used to do my own tournaments all the time as a kid as well
I feel like a derivative of this game would make a great r/writingprompt. Like you're playing this with random friends names and you start to find that no matter what, one friends name keeps winning. No matter how large the bracket, no matter how you chose the winner, pulling cards, pulling straws, flipping coins, throwing darts a board, etc. that one person's name was always the winner.
I would have been pretty into this, sometimes I made my own board game RPG's and had combat systems that I calculated percentages for. Never quite got on the level of math it sounds like you were doing here though.
I... still do this. I use brackets to decide my favourite songs, what film I want to watch, what game I'll play next, and if I'm really bored I'll reenact what you've just described with random teams and seedings.
This reminds me of a phase I went through during my few short months of home/self schooling. I would spend a lot of my time alone doing vaguely educational activities, and I absolutely loved doing long division. I would take my mom’s phone number and divide it by 3, discard the remainder, and then do the same with the product I got, and so one and so forth until I had a number that was indivisible by 3. When I finally made it all the way, I would start over with other people’s phone numbers in our contact notebook or just make up long numbers to use. In high school I was thinking about it and I just sat down and did it with my own phone number for at least thirty minutes during a free class period I had. Very therapeutic busy work.
I was and am the exact same way. I used to simulate all the NCAA Conference Tournaments using an elaborate free throw shooting method in my driveway, then make a tournament bracket. Among many other even more mundanve things. Like the Bracket of Overrated Things. Or even the Bracket of Kid_Monotone's Past Crushes
Have you read The Final Four of Everything by Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir? It's my favorite book
I used to play a game that my friend came up with that we called the 10 second game. I played it by myself to simulate NCAA bracket games. Highest seed is down one with ten seconds to play, but has two free throws. Then the game plays from there. So much fun, and another excuse to do brackets.
I did the same thing when I was younger with wwf wrestlers. I would put all their names in a hat and create tournaments. And tag team tournaments with random partners. When I figured out how to make a bracket template in excel on windows 95 and print it to fill in... I just took it to another level!
I enjoyed doing things like this as well. It ended evolving into a football (soccer) league pyramid for a fictional country. Started out modesty, but now there's 18 levels of the pyramid, 3000+ teams, and I'm working on season 44. Teams are constantly coming in and out of the league as place names become more formulaic but also unique in a way, and not so random. I don't know why I enjoy this so much.
Me and my brother were obsessed with brackets as well. We made up fake college football teams and did the coin flipping to determine who won each game. There were different ranks of teams that would skew the odds of the coin flipping. Then after a season of hundreds of coin flips, we did a conference tournament bracket for each conference, followed by a handful of bowl games that were determined by a more intensive dice rolling game. Then we handed out awards to fake players, relegated team ranks based on performance and repeated the process. We did the same for college basketball and baseball. Still have the binders under my bed. Good times.
That's pretty awesome. I had 20 players, 10 boys and 10 girls, and everyone would participate in a big tournament at the start of the season. Then the Top 16 every week would play in the regular tournaments, and someone outside the 16 would have to wait for someone else's winning percentage to come down below theirs to get a chance to play.
It’s funny how we had the same basic idea with different execution. Here’s another fun tournament idea that’s fun to get people involved with: we used to set up a March Madness like 64 team bracket for something like breakfast cereal, Disney movies or candy bars. Then have people vote each week until you have a champ. Those got controversial haha.
As an 80s/90s kid, it has always blew my mind how kids all had similar ideas in a time before there was much communication beyond your neighborhood friends. Like how the hell did we all know to blow into NES carts to get them to work (even though that supposedly did more harm than good)??
When I was in middle school I managed to get a graphing calculator, and I would make programs on it. One of them was a random number generator bracket creator. I would make template brackets for people for their March Madness competitions and things like that. One of them got pretty close one year.
I also tried to hold a lottery for with a different program, but not enough people played to make it worth it.
I'm pretty sure Pete Holmes had a bit about exactly this, only he'd go up to the winner in school and congratulate them, even giving them a little prize.
I think I never really grew out of this. As a kid I had a nerf hoop league (just me and teams of my imaginary teammates and opponents). I even calculated my height if my nerf hoop were a regulation 10 feet (I think I was 8 foot 3). Later I made a baseball league using a dice game and kept stats like batting average and RBI. And I did the M&M battle royale thing that many kids do - smashing them together until there's a final winner.
Nowadays I spend a bunch of time before the NCAA basketball tournament each year ranking the tournament teams with a system based on the team & coach's historical expectations and fill out my bracket that way. It managed to win my office pool last year. I also dabble in economics, researching business cycles and making comparative studies between states and countries.
I've done some statistical reporting on the job over the years, but I'm not sure I'd want to do it full time. For me it's a fun hobby that melts hours away when I find something interesting to build a statistical model of.
Have you ever held tournaments with Skittles or M&Ms? Try crushing them in between your fingers to see which one breaks first? I've held entire tournaments that way. It's a lot of fun, and you get to eat the broken losers.
Wow that was so much like me as a kid. My parents thought I was so weird for it. That’s interesting you went into tv. I’m planning on going into the statistics or math field.
Zeran · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow. I used to do something very similar. I love tournaments too. Shit, when I was young, I use to race Chevron cars down the hallway and have a bracket system. Whoever got farther down the hallway won. Bo5 and all that too.
I did similar tournament structures with whatever toys I had. The most popular one for me was hot wheels jousts, where I'd hang a track between two tables, then put a hot wheel on either side, and push them down at each other. Whichever one stayed on the track after the collision won. I also did a similar thing with marbles. Beyblades were also huge for me cause I could organize tournaments with my friends and get competitive about it.
Never got so deep into the stat tracking like you, but when someone introduced me to round robins and double elimination formats my world was blown wide open.
I used to love making brackets too! That was until we made a bracket of all the hottest girls at our high school and Sarah got super pissed at us when she found out she got knocked out in the first round by Madison. Simpler times man.
This keeps coming up in all the little tests I do to find a major. I don’t really know what it is. It’s like tables for insurance and probability and stuff, yeah?
I also love brackets and shit like that, and was also told to become an actuary at some point. Ended up in electronic engineering though, turns out I love dumbass circuits and shit just as much, and I still get to deal with a shitload of data and statistics.
"Elevator" Someone would go into the furnace room, shut the door, and they were in the elevator. The rest of us would rearrange the family room, and bring in different props to demonstrate that we were on a different floor. We changed outfits, accents... we played this for a good year.
disqeau · 6628 points · Posted at 15:34:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is pretty hilarious and very imaginative. I'm reminded of the David S. Pumpkins skit on SNL!
[deleted] · 617 points · Posted at 17:04:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a reference to an SNL sketch, calm tf down. We get it, you don’t like all caps. Let people live their lives instead of bashing on them for a certain typecase.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:39:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can you explain what exactly makes it so funny? It seems to be hella popular but I get nothing out of it and would like to see other people’s point of view on it to see what I’m missing out on here
If you didn't specify "furnace room," I'd think you were my little brother. We played "office building." There were different characters with different roles, costumes, and accents (e.g. an executive who always wore a trench coat for some reason, a janitor, a receptionist, some middle manager with a bad Mexican accent whose signature piece of clothing was an old, misshapen felt hat). Tons of intrigue. People getting framed for workplace theft. Not a lot of actual work.
Oh my gosh, my brother and sister and I played a really similar game but we called it “City”, one of us would be like “want to play City” and next thing you know I’m wearing fake nails so I can make tappity noises on the type writer, my sister is enshrined behind the couch ready to tell fortunes, and my brother is inside the hamper looking for clues about the city’s mysterious history. We clearly had no idea what a city was actually like, those were fun days.
My sister and I also played "elevator" but it wasn't this exciting. We had a box that some play set had come in, and it was about 4 feet tall. My sister would climb on a chair and get in, and I would push it over.
My sister and I did this with my friend, too! Only we had one of those big blue Fisher Price elephant slides. We flipped it upside down and would rock it back and forth from end to end with someone inside of it, and that was “Elevator”.
I haven’t thought about it in years, so thank you for triggering this memory for me!
We played an "elevator game" too, but it was different. We stayed in high rise condos when we went to the beach, and we'd always take a notebook and marker with us. One person gets on the elevator and picks a random floor to go to, writes the floor in the notebook and leaves it below the elevator buttons and sends it to the original floor. And then switch. I discovered recently that this is not dissimilar to the "Elevator Game" urban legend...
Xarama · 35 points · Posted at 16:47:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So let's say you start on the 5th floor. One of you takes the elevator to 11, writes 11 in the notebook, and sends the elevator + notebook back to 5. The other person goes to 2, writes 2 in the notebook, and sends it where? I feel like I'm missing a step.
I embarrassingly stared at this response for 10+ minutes trying to figure out the pattern / reasoning on how the game worked and you decided which floor to go to next. I finally realized the person on 11 randomly chose to go down to 8.
Ha! I realize now, if I had read what i wrote posted by a different user I would have done the same thing. Hmm, if 11-8 is 3 and the square root of 4 is 2...no, thats not right. Okay, so 11 is a prime number, and 8 is a multiplier of 2..... no, that doesnt work either.
Probably should have included the phrase "person on 11 chooses a new floor, for example 8". I was just trying to be concise.
Xarama · 4 points · Posted at 17:13:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, you've pretty much got it, I was a little confused thinking back on it too but I think we ended up back together after each time and it would just be the other person's turn to go to a random floor and send the notebook back. Not very complex, but we were easily amused. And holding up the elevator quite a bit
Xarama · 3 points · Posted at 22:47:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
haha yeah, I was wondering what everyone else in the building thought of the kids playing in the elevators ;)
There used to be a GMod mod that was basically this. You and your friends would hop in an elevator and would take you from floor to floor showing you random crazy shit. It was weirdly fun - everyone just hanging out and wondering what kind of nonsense was going to happen the next time the door opened.
I played it all the time when I was college-aged: my friends and I would spend all night on a server together just hanging out and building crazy shit. I checked it out recently and it's definitely showing its age, but it's still worth checking out if for no other reason than seeing what the state of sandbox games looked like 15ish years ago.
Recommended mods: Wiremod (lets you create electronic circuits to control your creations), spacebuild3 (mainly to add arcade-style spaceflight mechanics to the game but has the added benefit of adding life support requirements whenever you go underwater), and Advanced Duplicator (lets you save/reload objects you create)
That's assuming of course you want to play Sandbox... I'm afraid I don't really know much about the other game modes
The room where the furnace is, usually in a basement. Sometimes it doubles as a laundry room, sometimes it's just a little closer with the furnace in it.
like a little closet with the heater for the house in it. Also had the water heater too. and the family room wasn't a proper living room, that was up stairs. this was more like a downstairs finished basement for the kids.
Bus534 · 9 points · Posted at 17:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to do this! Except we would use my moms sliding closet door, and we would make paper elevator buttons and tape them to the wall next to the door. Fun times.
Was just thinking the same thing and now I want to bring it up to my acting buddies!
Disera · 8 points · Posted at 18:26:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called Elevator with my cousins but it was a little different. The bed was an elevator and we'd all get on it, pretending to be strangers. Then the Elevator would break and we'd be stuck. Somehow that led to us trying to save each other from falling down the elevator shaft (off the bed) into Hell.
you guys are overestimating the work they put into this, for most rounds it was probably like turning a chair around and bringing in a lamp and then talking in a british accent saying "welcome to the chair lamp room guvna"
That reminds me of the game my brother and I would play. His closet was our spaceship and each time we opened the door we were on a different planet. Wasn't as elaborate as yours but wow you brought back memories
Jfonzy · 4 points · Posted at 17:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“One day, it was little Jimmy’s turn to go in the furnace room...”
(Cut to scene of Jimmy coming out of the furnace room to reveal an extraordinary fantasy world)
Reminds me of a game my sister and I played where we'd shut ourselves in a tiny broom closet and tapped on a piece of paper with a keypad drawn on it to designate which year the closet would time travel to. Then we got out of the closet and would be in the year xxxx version of our house
This is amazingly clever, unfortunately I could totally see parents not being cool with it. Did you ever get in trouble for moving around the furniture?
we lucked out, because it was the basement family room. Pretty much I was at my friend's house, she had 5 brother's and sisters, we would be left to ourselves, because we were little. Didn't even think about the repercussions, never got in trouble.
Oh my god my sister and I did this! But it was the bedroom closet and I was "traveling to a parallel universe" and she would rearrange the room and swap clothes😂
My cousins and I turned some couches and a blanket fort into our own little village, with each person having a "house." Sometimes we'd send out hunting parties to raid the pantry for deserts, or bring back more building materials (blankets/pillows).
My neighbors used to play this and invited me over a few times to join in. It blew my mind the first time I came out of the elevator cause I didn't know what they were up to.
I didn't see the word "room" in "furnace room", so I just imagined a bunch of kids locking someone in a furnace and putting a sofa in front of it so they couldn't escape
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar!! We called it the time machine. One of us would go in the bedroom closet and the others would “press buttons” on the outside of the closet door. Then the person would come out and we’d pretend it was whatever year we imagined
Reminds me of the Garysmod gamemod where all you do is sit in an elevator with others and the door randomly opens and you see the wackiest shit in the rooms.
On steam theres a game Called Gary's mod, its like 10$ but goes on sale all the time, its basically a game where everyone makes their own games and hosts servers.
There are popular games like Trouble in Terrorist town, where everyone is a terrorist and there are a few traitors, the traitors goal is to kill everyone before the time runs out and the terrorist want to survive. There is also DarkRP which is basically a roleplaying game where everyone picks a job and runs their own shops but most jobs are illegal stuff like gun dealer, drug dealer, etc.
My brothers and I played something similar to this. We didn’t go as far as to rearranging any furniture or anything, but we tied a small whiteboard around our neck (hanging off your neck- I honestly don’t know why we had these, but they were similar to the little mini ones your teacher would pass out in math class for group activities) and we would go into the “elevator” which was our small guest bathroom, write the number of the ‘floor’ we were on, and essentially play a game of tag. Someone couldn’t tag you unless you were on the same floor.
Ok, you make a ball out out of old plastic grocery bags. One guy stand in the doorway. They other guy gets the ball and tries to score on your door. You try to stop him. Games last about a minute.
My cousin and I were convinced that his neighbour’s house has diamonds in the garden. We found a bunch of shiny diamond shaped things in their yard scattered in random places.
We used to dig up the dirt hoping no one would notice to find more of these diamonds. I think we found 10 and we split them in half. We would come back again and again looking for them.
We made a promise not to tell any other kids or our parents about them.
One day my mom found one of my ‘diamonds’ in the pocket of my trousers and asked me if she should throw it. I was shocked!!! Why would she throw away an expensive diamond??
Turns out, they were glass teardrop pieces of an old chandelier they threw away. I was so disappointed because we even planned to buy a Lamborghini with the money.
As a kid, I found a diamond in the cellar. It was tiny--like the size of a gem you'd see on a ring or earring. I was excited and thought about it for a while before showing it to my parents. They told me it was just a bit of old costume jewelry or something, but I already had ideas in my idea. The diamond was going to make me rich!
To prove to them it was a diamond, the hardest substance on earth, I took it to the garage and hit it with a hammer. Whether it was a real diamond or not, the hammer disintegrated the thing. There was like no trace of it left after the strike.
I know you were just a kid and you probably know this now, but if anyone else is curious - hardest in this sense doesn't mean impossible to break with blunt force. It means almost nothing can scratch its surface except materials with a higher level of hardness (which there aren't many, diamond is practically the top of the scale)
I think part of that is because diamonds are already formed under extreme pressure from carbon, so the bonds are probably extremely strong. I don’t watch the vid but if it’s a flat cut without a point it would be like trying to crush an egg by only using a finger on each point, which is almost impossible.
theres specific angles that they shear very easily at. When setting a dimond into ring you have to be really carful not to pop the tool that flattens the prongs onto the diamond. I broke a couple when i was working as a jewler.
VaATC · 29 points · Posted at 17:02:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In case I did not miss it being mentioned I want to add a bit more. The term used for labeling resistantance to breakage is toughness.
Mmmm ... I've always heard toughness defined as the ability to absorb energy. Resistance to breakage is closer to strength. Of course, applying either by way of impact changes things, so it's not likely to be something that can be defined in a couple words.
PTRWP · 14 points · Posted at 17:36:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Specifically, resistance to being hit with a hammer would be part of compressive strength.
I found a nice forum discussion on this. From their discussion and others toughness is a resistance to breaking through energy absorption, but strength is the more generally applicable term for resistance to breakage.
No, diamond has one of the highest melting points known to man. If your soldering iron isn't a puddle of liquid metal at the end, the diamond is fine. Unless you take an acetylene torch and just open up on that puppy until its floating in a bath of liquid iron, it's perfectly fine. And unless you plan on spraying oxygen on it for some reason (why?) you're not going to ignite it.
Reminds me of the pipe I brought back for my brother and his gf (at the time) from Amsterdam. It didn’t break if you dropped it (demonstrated to me by the salesman, who pried my hand open, finger by finger, until it dropped).
Apparently the gf wanted to prove to her friends that it was indestructible, so she took a hammer to it, and—you guessed it—destroyed the thing.
VaATC · 6 points · Posted at 17:00:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes. What diamonds have in hardness they lack in toughness; another major property that gem usage is dependent on.
Diamonds (and most crystalline structures) have these things called cleavages which is the plane where it’s really easy to cut and break it. So in theory, if you hit it right, you could easily real a diamond
Yeah, diamonds are hella brittle. The way to test if it's real or not is to try and scratch glass with it, or try to leave a scratch on it. If it's a real diamond, it can scratch glass, but cannot be scratched itself by most everyday metals and substances.
I’ve had to explain to many kids that real-life Minecraft diamond armor would probably just shatter like glass. It’s a damn shame too because I’d also love to have real-life Minecraft diamond armor.
chuiy · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I recently learned that in order to cut and shape gemstones, diamond burr sanding wheels are used (tiny pieces of diamond stuck to a sander). In order to shape diamonds into rings and stuff, though, jewelers have to use a different process because diamond burr doesn’t work on diamond. It blew my mind.
I found a “diamond” and tried to scratch our big glass French door with it. I succeeded and no one was very happy about that. Based on your explanation it sounds like my “experiment” proved nothing.
I mean despite them being breakable and all, if it shattered to dust with a single blow from a kid, it was almost certainly glass of some flavor. Diamond is fairly robust, although I have made that exact point before.
Diamond is a 10 on the scale, 10 being the highest. But there is a newish material that's basically diamond but better. It's just produced in the same way, lots of pressure and heat, but with some variance that makes it's structure harder. Diamond Nano Rods or something
Cute kid. Diamonds resell values are horrendous. Like, 90% of the value is from what jewelry store you buy it in. A small diamond half carat is only worth $50 at a pawn shop
Yeah, even having multiple smaller diamonds that add up to a large carat won't get you anywhere near as much as a single stone of the same carat weight. Single diamonds are only really valuable if they are large.
Sadly diamonds tend to shatter when struck by hammers. Diamond sparkle because they have lots of cleavage planes so they can be cut in such ways that do fun things with light but that also makes them extremely vulnerable to breaking which great when you are a diamond cutter using a tool which puts the force on a single cleavage plane but bad news when you are a kid with a hammer thinking diamonds are unbreakable (though the resulting dust may still have some value)
When I was around 10 or 11, some kids dad brought coal to school as a show and tell item. At the end of the presentation we were each given a piece as a gift. I went home and buried mine in the back yard, cuz, well, in a few years I'm going to have a diamond and be rich.
My diamonds were quarters. I though when a quarter said "quarter of a dollar" it meant like "quarter having the value of a dollar" not "1/4 of a dollar"
So over the whole summer I, a 6 year old kid, had been bugging my 18 year old sister to take me to toysrus because I wanted to buy some giant robot or something. I told her I had the money cause I had been finding quarter dollars all summer. So we get to the register and the cashier looks at us like were idiots and my sister was pissed. She ended up buying me the giant robot anyways but she was pissed.
My wife and I considered selling a one karat diamond that her aunt gave us. We planned on buying a nice engagement ring with the monday. We took it to a couple of places and they all offered us next to nothing for it. We only considered selling it is because my wife is very petite and she thought a one karat diamond would look weird on her hand(I ended up using it for an engagement ring and it turned out beautifully!)
It has a black inclusion in it and it's only obvious when you get really close to look at it. As it turns out, gold is worth much more to a jeweller than diamonds.
Keep your diamonds and sell them privately. You and the buyer will come out on top!
I found a piece of fool's gold and bit into it to see if it was real gold because that's what cartoon miners do before declaring they're rich. I broke my front tooth, so I assumed that meant it was real. I didn't know it was the opposite.
There was a creepy old house at the end of our street. No one lived in it for several years, that I was aware of. Finally, a family moved in, a mother and twins, boy and girl. They were a year or two younger than me, so probably like 6 or 7.
My neighborhood friends and I were convinced they were ghosts. Super pasty, we never saw them eat, ever, and creepy in general to match their new home. Anyway, there were these two concrete pillars that were on either side of the driveway, right near the road. After the family was settled, they eventually replaced the old concrete statues (lions, I think) on top of the pillars with angels. Added to their overall creepiness... But I digress.
One day, we noticed that if angled correctly, the angels' eyes would glisten! So we got a closer look, and sure as shit, there were these little diamonds in the eye sockets. My buddy was just tall enough to reach them, so he plucked out all four of the diamonds and we giggled all the way home. Come to find, the diamonds fit perfectly in Lego hands, so we chalked that as a win.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Has it occurred to you that maybe it shot out from under the hammer and that’s why there was no trace of it? It’s still out there!!!! Go get it!!!!!
Diamonds are hard but not sturdy. They won’t scratch, but shatter really easily.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whether it was a real diamond or not, the hammer disintegrated the thing. There was like no trace of it left after the strike.
Well see there's where you went wrong, see. You shudda taken it to your pals, Fatso and Boots so's they could eyeball it and say it's a rare gem and worth millions, see, and they know a guy who'll take it off your hands...
That was me and my little game....watching way too many gangster movies as a kid. I found a beautiful costume piece all colorful and sparkling that I just knew had rubies, sapphires, jade, emeralds, diamonds...it was worth millions. Somewhere in all that revelation I decided there had to be more where that came from. So I became an international jewel thief and skulked around the house like the mad spy...when my mom was busy, I'd slip into her room and go through her jewelry box to find more. Found some.
But the payoff was my aunt - which is where it'd come from (she let my mom borrow it). And even cooler, my aunt had these handbags that were popular for a spell - with all these jewels/gems sewn into them in beautiful, ornate shapes, animals, birds, etc. She had about 10 of them until I, international jewel thief, liberated them from her.
I got in a world of shit over it...because it was apparently just stealing and they were all upset. But in my fantasy world, I was honing my craft and getting good at snooping out, tracking down and heisting valuable gems. They wuz not amuzed. Whatsoeva. My aunt eventually gave me or bought me one of those handbags and I cherished it for years til it just fell apart and I threw it out.
I would love to find those again. They filled me with such happiness.
Heh... I was a sad kid, always staring at the ground. I also went to a school full of cholos that liked to fight. This meant they'd frequently break the studs in their left ears and I'd end up finding them. Still have a little bag of gems, one of which was a huge cubic zirconium chunk that was appraised at around $380.
Emebust · 4859 points · Posted at 15:55:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Bummer.
Edit: Thanks you for my first silver!
And my first gold, thank you kind strangers!
[deleted] · 6141 points · Posted at 17:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had what I assume is a similar style of chandelier growing up. Those dangly bits of glass wound up in more than one sack of pirate booty for sure. Or as buried treasure, which my mom was obviously thrilled about.
It reminds me of a time when me and a friend found a rock not far from my friend's house that we for some reason wanted to smash to pieces. So we go to his place, grab a big hammer, and go back. Now, my friend is in a wheelchair, so he couldn't really help with the smashing, so I set to work. Smashing this rock to pieces was not an easy task. After having made a couple of scratches on it, we are more determined than ever to break this rock. Then my friend says: "What if when we break it, a big ass diamond falls out of it?".
I answer: "Wow, we would be rich!"
To which he says: "Well, I will. I mean, I found the rock, we're using my tools. You'll get a cut of course, but...you know."
My determination to smash the rock was gone. We didn't argue about it or even got mad at each other about this. We just did something else instead. But remembering it now, I see that he definitely was a bit of a douche. On the other hand, we were like 11 years old.
Reminds me a little house on the praire episode. The girls skip school and tore down their front door so that they could find a bunch of Fool's Gold. Island where they had fantasies of giant houses.
I remember thinking chandeliers were made from diamonds.... so disappointed when I found out they were worthless
kudles · 7 points · Posted at 16:41:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of something my cousins and me found in my neighborhood. It was a huge, knapsack-like bag of blue crystals. We dug our hands through it and poured it into bowls. We thought we were rich until we found out it was just a bag of copper sulfate for cleaning the lake.
Dmongo · 6 points · Posted at 16:58:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I once dug a hole in our yard and started seeing pieces of bones along with a interesting looking skull. We were convinced that we had found ancient dinosaur bones and would make millions by selling them. Turns out our dig site happen to the be same place we buried one of our dogs a few years back....
My dad told me the other day that he and his cousin used to try and catch lizards in their florida backyard, by making a lasso out of a blade of grass, holding it, and pulling on it when a lizard foot stepped in it.
Despite never actually catching a lizard, my dad seriously believed this was possible until he was about 50, when I met his cousin, told him the story, and the cousin promptly informed both of us that "Oh I was just fuckin with ya man, you can't catch a lizard with a piece of grass!"
I had a cousin that messed with my head when I was a kid. We believed our grandma's house was haunted. She said the color red is connected to the spirit world and if I touched something red, I would see things. Crazy thing is one time I actually saw something. It was a ball of light about 6 inches in diameter floating about 4 feet off the floor. That's the power of suggestion for you. I was maybe 6 years old.
That sucks. As a kid in the 80s I planned to retire early by selling off my California Raisins toy collection as an adult. Turns out I had vastly overrated their future value.
My FIL does this with my daughters except he uses the little glass dome pieces that some people put in vases. The older two have figured out his scheme but are going along with it for the youngest’s sake.
I think my oldest is just going along with Santa and the Easter bunny too, but I can’t exactly call her out on it.
Reminds me of the time me and my brother dug a huge hole in our backyard because we thought we'd get rich selling the clay under the top soil to art studios and the like. We were filthy. Mom made us bathe outside.
When I was in second grade, someone was spray painting rocks gold and hiding them. They ranged from the size of quarters to pineapple sized. Only a few kids knew about it at first, but I randomly found a small one and thought I struck it rich.
That ended when two kids got in a fight over one of the bigger ones and one cracked the other over the head with it. Poor kid was a wreck when he leaned he hurt his friend over a dumb rock.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:36:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought they were going to turn out to be pieces of crystal meth or something. What a relief.
Reminds me of my "diamond" story. I was probably about 6, and my parents decided it would be a good idea to go for a walk on the trail since it was such a nice day. When we got to the trail, we all piled out of the van and started our walk. I was holding my dads hand when I saw a shiny "rock", further up the trail that I absolutely NEEDED to have. I let go of my dads hand and ran over to the "rock", which was in a nice little pile of "mud", and grabbed at it. It got pushed a little deeper into the "mud" so I had to dig for it. As my dad caught up, it became more and more clear to him what I was playing in. Before he could say or do anything I managed to free the shiny rock from the pile of "mud". I ran over to mom and dad to show them my find and to my dismay they weren't very happy. It turns out the "mud pile" was actually dog poop, and the "shiny rock" was nothing more than something that the dog didn't digest. Well at least I had my gloves on.
TLDR: Played in dog poop to find a "rock".
Tapil · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Last summer I worked at a summer camp and I had two Chinese campers. They would dig up some white rocks claiming that they were quartz and that in China they're worth a lot of money, they even put some of them in their suitcases so they could take them back to China.
I wrecked my bike going off of a dirt ramp in my neighbor’s front yard. The tip of the ramp crumbled a bit and it was filled with pennies just under all of this dirt above ground. My sister and I must have carried $15 worth of pennies home before the teenager who built the ramp came outside and yelled at us. Still have no idea where all the pennies came from.
Omg one time we were digging around in my backyard and we found a couple of coins. We were convinced there was buried treasure down there. At one point we had all four of us siblings and two neighborhood kids digging a hole in the back yard. Pretty soon we found lots of coins. Turns out my dad was dumping his loose change in our hole because he found it hilarious we were labouring away digging a hole all day for like a week. My mom was not pleased lol
Oh my gosh you just reminded me of a time when I was probably 11 when a friend and I were walking through a farmer's field that hadn't been sown yet (so it was just dirt). We were just sort of kicking small rocks and such and then I noticed something glinting in the dirt. We dug it up and it was this little box, I'd say about 3 inches across and it was very sturdy; I think it was made of metal? Either way it must have been driven over with a tractor at some point because it had been partially crushed out of shape, which meant we couldn't get the lid off, but there was a little gap that let us see inside, and there was something glimmering in there.
We were so excited about our find and made the decision that I could keep the box (it was a very shiny so 11 year old me was stoked) and she could keep whatever was inside. We decided not to tell anyone about it because we didn't want it taken away, but we had to come up with a way to open it. So we buried it again and set a rock on top of the spot where we left it and rushed back to my house to get a shovel to see if we could pry it open. When we got back to the field we immediately realized our mistake because that field was covered in rocks, and even knowing the general area that we had buried it in we never found it again.
Every time I remember that story it drives me crazy wondering what on earth we found and why it was in that field. There have been times I've debated going back to look but it's been over a decade and I imagine with how close to the surface we buried it it would have been destroyed by a tractor by now.
This reminds me of when my dad wanted to get the kids put of his hair that he called "treasure hunting" . He'd go to the sandbox (or to where we were playing in the sand at the beach) and throw a handful of loose change in and then get a take and mix it in. I tell ya, kids would work from dusk Till Dawn to get every penny out of that sand without a peep.
I seriously read this whole post expecting it to be little pieces of meth and when I read your mom found one in your pocket I was like "oh God, oh no."
I hide a tear drop glass crystal in a girls yard that I had a crush on. Then I gave her a note/map at school- think pirate map but written in blue pen. We were in 4th grade. She never talked to me again. :-( I took the crystal from my grandfather's electrical fixture inventory- he was an back in the day-electrician. little girls name was Lisa Dunaway. She moved away and I've never seen her again.
Haha... brings back memories when I found dinosaur fossils. Found a bunch of bones, put them in my bag and showed my teacher the next day since our topics lately were dinosaurs. Turned out they were dog bones. Teacher made me wash my hands and I had to bring all my things home in a plastic bag because my backpack was supposedly full of diseases.
One time I found “turquoise” in my front yard. Just little pieces of it. My friends and I spent days digging it up and excitedly discussing selling it. Yeah... it was old gravel from a fish tank lol.
oh man, my friend lived down the street from an old mining test shaft. We hauled up about 20 lbs of gold to his house thinking we were absolutely fucking rich. Then his dad politely explained to us how to do a fools gold test. oof.
So I actually found two diamonds. I tested them with a few basic ones I heard about in science. I showed my mom to take to a jeweler and never heard the official results. Kinda bummed
I'm touched that your mother asked if you wanted to keep it even though she knows it's generally worthless. Mine would've tossed that out without a second thought.
Oh boy. Times dont change much. Something similar happened with my 7 year old last summer. He and his friends found this small safe in a field close to our house and tried to bust it open. They found these little glass pieces nearby the safe and store they were diamonds. My son was disappointed when I told him it was just glass and not diamonds because he too wanted to buy a Lamborghini.
I have a similar story. I got some sort of medal for being an alternate in a team book contest thing. I was a dumb kid then, so I actually thought it was made of real gold. I even argued with another classmate about it. I cringe whenever I remember this memory ugh.
crepus · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not to self: hide chandelier drops around the yard and tell future kids it's rumored a stash of diamonds was hidden on the property by thieves who never managed to come back and collect it ....
woht24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was so disappointed because we even planned to buy a Lamborghini with the money.
There was a deposit of fools gold near my cousins house. We were instantly prospectors. Lugging in big buckets of rocks to their basement, hammering away to get to the "gold" and using brushes and stuff to clean it all up. After a long weekend we had a pretty good amount of the stuff!
Hell it was so much fun I bet if I found a deposit today I'd do the same thing.
When I was about 7 years old, I found a "mountain" (was actually just a mound) of blue rocks at school. I thought they were precious so I took home a grocery bag full of them. The conductor of my school bus was so confused what I was doing with them but humored me and carried it to our doorstep for me.
Turns out they were renovating the fourth grade restrooms and I took home a bag of broken tiles. I was soooo devastated when my mom threw them out because they were disgusting. 😂
Reminds me of a kid in school. He found "diamonds" on his way to school. He wouldn't show us though. Finally our teacher asks him about it because everyone was talking about. She proceeded to pull piles of broken tempered glass out of his pocket.
When me and my sister were little, we would go to our aunt's house, and we found "magic fairy gems". It turned out that they were just these glass pebbles that kinda reflected light and looked really neat, and she kept them in her garden, but we actually thought that she was a fairy. No one ever broke the news to us, and we never told anyone, we just kinda realized that we we're dumbasses.
I knew this guy who would buy his kid a necklace or something with her name on it and when they went on a vacation, he buried it in the sand for her to find and told her that mermaids left it for her. He’d wait until they had been to the beach a couple of times and say they must have been watcning them from the water
I think our place used to have a quartz garden. It's a not exactly a ranch but that's the best word to describe it, and whoever decided to get rid of the garden ended up scattering quartz crystals all over the property, eventually being buried in the dirt from decades of rain. Well to a little kid this made crystal hunting a great hobby. I dug up everything from paper thin slivers of crystal clear as ice, to classic pointed-prism crystals the colour of cola, to giant quartz geodes that had to be shattered on the concrete to open. My favourite was a geode the colour of a dolphin that sparkled like an amphitheatre of flash photographers.
I have a chandelier story too. There was a shitty one in the ranch house that we took down and I looted all of the glass "diamonds". We were learning about pirates at school that month which ended with a treasure hunt. Each team would hide some treasure and make up a map that lead to it, then pass your maps around and go find each others treasure. Cool idea, but consider that I had a tea chest full of diamonds and someone in our group topped it up with proper chocolate coins we definitely did the next team a favour. The map we got in return was dumb and their treasure was just a dozen M&Ms wrapped in tin foil. Net loss.
When I was a kid I found what I thought was a glowing moon rock. Turns out it was just a piece of hot charcoal that fell out of the bottom of the grill and rolled down the driveway. Burned the shit out of me when I picked it up.
Similar story but what we thought were diamonds were actually sparkly white landscaping rocks lol. And I was absolutely devastated when I found out because I too had BIG plans for the money!
Yes! When I was little I used to hang out on the roof of my mum's workplace after school. I found these beautiful golden flat rings and thought they were real gold. I used to bring all my friends and we'd find a ton of them...found out later they were electrical doodads
After watching an episode of Scooby Doo and getting a vauge idea that smuggling involved sneaking things. My brother and I decided to "smuggle" a bunch of random small engine parts out of a parents friends repair shop, my dad caught us dividing up the loot in my bedroom
My grandparents had a gravel pile in their driveway for a while. My cousins and I used to dig in it until we found clods of gravel-which we proudly dubbed diamonds. They fell apart pretty easily though, so if you got mad at someone you could stomp on their diamond pile and rid them of their wealth.
found the indian! no disrespect but i work with a lot of indians and the first i heard “hmm this pizza from yesterday looks bad... should i throw it?” I was like “well not at me!”
edit: In american english you would say “throw it away” or “toss it”
I know someone that did this in jail. They'd close their eyes, and flip a penny or a button somewhere into their cell and spend the next few hours crawling around trying to find it.
Idk, seems pretty wholesome an activity for jail. It doesn't warm your heart a little knowing prisoners arent ALWAYS passing the time with hard drugs or gang violence?
I saw this documentary too. It was some guy in alcatraz solitary confinement, where he was basically locked in a box with no lights or human interaction except when they brought him food. That's how he passed time in there
rathat · 813 points · Posted at 17:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That actually sounds like it would work well to keep your brain busy
It's also useful for calculating the magnetic flux at a point off center from a loop of current carrying wire.
Add in some time variance and multiple coordinate systems and you've got yourself triple integral vector calculus! :D
It's not meant to improve your searching skills, it's to give yourself something to do in solitary confinement so you don't go nuts from the isolation and lack of mental stimulus
I mean, you know how calculus works at its core. You don't need those equations. :P
Draw an outline of the bed onto the floor below.
Divide the outline into large squares. Measure the height from the center of these squares to the bottom-side of the bed. Since you have the height above each square, you can get a volume. Sum up the volumes for the total, estimated volume.
Cut all squares into 4 more squares, and repeat.
Hopefully, it'll converge towards a certain value.
If it's a rectangular bed than Volume = length x width x height. Integrate with respect to any variable as long as the bounds go from 0 to that variables maximum.
You'd be surprised at the endless applications to which calculus can be applied. Plus, if you're stuck in solitary confinement (essentially), all you'd have would be your mind; a powerful analysis tool could be pretty useful for constructing and evaluating things there. But short of having access to maths books, you're not likely to learn calculus by inventing it for the third time.
I'm not quite sure that counts. I'm incredibly impressed by what the ancient Greeks accomplished, but afaik Archimedes only improved upon some of his predecessors wrt infinitessimals, but nothing was ever formalized or generalized. Leibniz and Newton both had complete understandings of calculus and could apply them in multiple domains, which I don't think would apply to Archimedes. In the bit of googling I just did to look into it further, it seems the derivative was completely unknown to the ancient greek, but who knows how much he really understood.
Dag, I remember that story from the tape they would give you for the Alcatraz audio tour. It made such an impression on me when I was little that I would blindfold myself and do that in my room at home. My parents thought I was nuts.
I also saw that documentary. Think he took a button off shirt and threw it randomly in his cell. Then crawled around until he found it. In the dark. Repeatedly.
I heard they didn’t hear the button land one time and went literally crazy looking for it. Started hearing voices and seeing the face of the guy he snitched on and stuff. Turns out, it got stuck in a spider web.
it's sad that humanity has to resort to caging each other up to accomplish some sort of righteous servitude. I wish we had a less psychologically damaging method. I hope you guys received cognitive therapy while in there, knowing one day I too could be faced with that sort of situation because of how reckless I am, it's just terrifying. Yes we should be afraid to disobey the law, but being locked up and essentially dehumanized, Idk man. I'm sorry for you and that guy, and all that go through our system.
Yeah, but like... some people do things where they should be isolated from society. I mean what are you going to tell them, "stay here at this remote place please until you're better?" Look at the Ted Bundy's of the world.
To be fair, I vaguely recall that a lot of the prisoners that got sent to Australia to start a new colony were mostly there for stealing food. A fair few were also there on what were probably false charges. The rest were political prisoners. Which makes sense - in those days if you were found guilty of a crime and it was bad enough, they just executed you. A fun day out for the whole family. :/
I guess the only sociopaths they wanted in their new colony were the British officers lol.
I don't remember them but there was 11 major crimes that would get you sent to Australia and I don't think things like murder or rape were on the list.
yeah, let's just spend ridiculous amounts of resources to send society's rejects to space and support them. great idea. about as good as sending nuclear waste to space.
it doesn't matter how well you figure out the science. you still need collosal amounts of fuel to bring the weight of a person to space, much less the moon.
Now for a bit of history: for the 1967 Apollo mission to the moon, Saturn V rocket's first stage carried 203,400 gallons of kerosene fuel and 318,000 gallons of liquid oxygen needed for, totaling over 500,000 gallons of fuel for getting out of the atmosphere alone. The second stage carried another 260,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 80,000 gallons of liquid oxygen. The third stage carries 66,700 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 19,359 gallons of liquid oxygen. All told, the rocket that achieved one small step for a man and one giant leap for mankind held just under 950,000 gallons of fuel.
Everything is relative though. Once we get to the point where we have 17 different trips to space a day it won't cost fuck all to throw a couple prisoners in with everyone else who is travelling to space. I don't think anyone was saying this will happen in our lifetimes but it does make sense once we are constantly taking people off earth anyways.
these aren't engineering problems. these are fundamental laws of physics. there are energy costs to achieve the required velocity to escape Earth's atmosphere or reach the moon. it doesn't make sense to blow away so much of Earth's available fuel relocating people when you could just dig a hole and put them in an equivalent "moon base" box here without that expense.
the useful payload of existing space shuttles are in the range of 1% to 4%. 90% needs to be fuel. the remaining payload is the structure holding the fuel, the engines, the shuttle, etc. Typically most of that 1-4% is life support, tools, etc used to support a mission, but I'm assuming you just want a cargo hold full of coffin sized human storage pods.
for reference, to help you appreciate the issue, a can of soda is 94% soda and 6% can by mass.
if you want to send the additional ~200 lbs of naked skinny human and a few days of food, water, and air from earth to the moon if you can assume 100% of what they need to survive is sourced from the moon somehow so you don't need to bring it, you're already at like 20,000 lbs of rocket fuel.
Ultimately for 'space prisons' to be potentially viable, we would not only need an entirely new and sustainable fuel source, but also much better means of using such fuel as efficiently as humanly possible. Any other way and it wouldn't be commercially viable to ship prisoners to space prisons due to costs; unless they receive massive stipends from the government but I've seen more surprising things happen in the government before so..
so ok, you've got your prisoner into space economically.... why? what is the advantage of sending someone to space and needing all of that life support over digging out a bunch of solitary confinement cells in the middle of nowhere. congrats, all your temperature, air, and shelter needs are managed pretty much for free, plus water and food are easier to manage logistics of.
Way to completely miss the point and type out an entire useless paragraph that I barley even read. It's not about the math. Everything is relative when it comes to cost.
You're completely over complicating this think of it this way, when air flight first became possible flights were INSANELY expensive. Once air travel became super common the prices dropped. Hell air travel in Europe is infinitely cheaper than north america for this exact reason, volume.
So eventually there will be so many trips bringing people into space everyday that throwing a couple convicts onto flights that aren't even full anyways will be a completely viable option. Again. It's all relative. I'm sure if you had told people you were gonna send convicts to Australia when it was first discovered people would have said the same thing. "What that's crazy why waste all the time and money on sending convicts there?" But once there were tonnes of trips going to Australia anyways it became a lot cheaper and viable to send convicts there.
Everything gets cheaper with volume and accessibility.
20,000 lb of rocket fuel to send a corpse to the moon. why not bury it on Earth and save the fuel?
there are theoretical maximum efficiencies in science. we can get close to them with good science and engineering but you can't beat them. you can't "r/futurology perpetual motion machine" magic your way out of the energy cost.
God you're an idiot. It's not about the individual cost to send 200 pounds of meat into space. That's not relevant when you have hundreds of trips into space a day already that have extra room anyways.
By your logic why the fuck would we ever transport prisoners anywhere EVER. Why waste the money why not just shoot em right there and bury em RIGHT there. It's just a waste of fuel no matter how small. Just a waste of resources no matter how small. Everybody just start murdering everyone who does anything wrong cus we don't wanna waste resources on them! Ya that's clearly not how it works is it? So we need to come up with solutions that guess what? Are gonna cost money no matter fucking what
Get a fucking clue, we don't even know how we will be getting people to space in the future so your argument was fucking redundant to begin with.
and this is the core of your misunderstanding. you seem to be under the impression that spare space to fit them is what matters, not the actual additional mass. it could be a 200 lb cube of super dense depleted uranium (~6.5" cube) it's still taking just as much EXTRA fuel to send that to the moon if you add that to someone's gym bag.
It's a bit disingenuous to call reckless driving, an act which is extremely hazardous to the public, "speeding." It's kind of like calling armed robbery "shoplifting."
Unless you have some sort of magical ability you have no way of knowing if you're going to encounter other traffic on a back road. About ten years ago I was almost killed by someone driving unreasonably fast causing them to cross into my lane around a corner on a back road with "no other traffic." If I had been a single second further along in my journey when I had reached that corner I would have been involved in a serious head-on collision.
Also, I'm really not trying to argue the merits of incarcerating anyone for any length of time for reckless driving. I believe jail/prison should be reserved for violent crimes, or serious other crimes against persons. My initial comment was simply about you calling reckless driving "speeding" which I think is intellectually dishonest and a sneaky way to try to prove a point.
I wasn’t intentionally being “intellectually dishonest” or sneaky, but you’re entitled to your opinion. I still think jail time for speeding down a back road is overkill. I was going 22 over before and that’s considered reckless, I don’t think that deserves time locked up.
The problem is that the Seth Rogens and Tommy Chongs of the world are getting thrown in general pop with the Ted Bundy types, and transformed into harder criminals.
Listen, I'm not saying that the current prison system is adequate/ideal, but there are people who need to be isolated from the general population while they rehabilitate. I would imagine that would include isolation at some point, and maybe someone would play that "game" OP described under similar circumstances.
Well you kind of skipped over half of OP's post. They wanted something more humane than being locked in a cage. There are other places in the world that do this already under the rehabilitative method. The people have furnished rooms, they're able to move around freely. They learn skills and trades all to prepare them for living in the outside world when their time served is over. Hell look at this vid from Norway (<1min long) in this minimum security prison. The man has his own small home. Or check out this Supermax prison (<5mins) in Norway.
And guess what? It's working. The recidivism rate is exponentially smaller.
VOZ1 · 3 points · Posted at 17:44:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my opinion, the people who need to be isolated from society are the minority of those locked up. We have so many people locked up for non-violent crimes, drug crimes, things that were definitely bad, but don’t even begin to approach the point where they can’t be a part of society. I believe even murderers and rapists and others who committed violent crimes can be rehabilitated and can return to being productive members of society. Restorative justice has a lot to offer in that regard, and simply making the punishment fit the crime would do wonders. There are so many things we can improve about our criminal justice system, and I believe reconsidering whether the very concept of prison even serves a purpose for most people convicted of a crime is one of the most important things we should do. I personally think incarceration should be reserved for the worst offenders with little to no chance of rehabilitation. The vast majority of the remaining people could be helped and punished by changing their sentence to a work project, some sort of extended community service, and all combined with counseling, therapy, that kind of thing. It’s a huge undertaking for our “tough on crime” society, but we need it desperately.
jmd- · 3 points · Posted at 16:17:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The important difference is rehabilitation versus punishment.
A lot of people out there need help, and our current prison system is not designed to provide it.
Gulag. Max 10 year reeducation sentence, they were held as prisoners but retained their basic human rights. At the end of the 10 year reeducation sentence prisoners we're evaluated to see if they were fit to return to society, if not, 10 years back in the gulag.
The point was reeducation and rehabilitation, not punishment like the American system.
You think that's bad? I got arrested on a Friday before a long holiday and it was for a different county so I had wait to be transferred to the county my charges were in. Turned into 11 days before I saw the judge and was able to be released.
Why was it so bad though? I used to be a heroin addict and at the time, I had been on methadone, I was completely clean, no illegal drugs in my system, only methadone, a drug prescribed by a doctor. I get into booking and they ask about my medications. I tell him and he kinda chuckles and says you're in for a fun time, we don't give methadone to the inmates. I spent the next week in a half in pure hell. Didn't eat or drink for days, hallucinating and I think I even had a seizure. Did they check on me? Nope. Offer me an aspirin? Nope. Thankfully I had money and was able to buy some comfort meds from the other inmates.
My "crime"?... Not contacting my new probation officer after my old one changed jobs and didn't tell me.
I understand that may be "harsh" treatment, but what else should we do to child molesters, serial rapists, terrorists, active shooters, and the like?
I mean, sure sitting in a small room kinda sucks, but it sure beats being disembowled by a heinous criminal... At least while you're in jail you don't have to deal with taxes, a mortgage, annoying bosses, dinner with the in-laws, etc. I say this partially in jest, but you have to admit that there are worse ways to be treated after you just shot up a school
Personally and probably an unpopular opinion, but when a person receives multiple life sentences totaling 400-700 years, they should be given the option to take the death penalty within a year. Forcing them to sit in a cage until they die naturally is a waste of tax payers money and should be considered inhumane.
That wouldn't apply in this case since it's expensive because of all the appeals. If the dude is requesting the death penalty then you'd skip the appeals and go right to the death penalty.
But they‘d get the chance so that means if they accept they either don‘t want to live anymore (making it a kind of exit live option) or they weren‘t innocent and accept their faith/judgement.
But that's with the cost of all the appeals and the trials and the method of killing them. If they choose after that year to die? Give em a bullet. It doesn't cost so much anymore.
This sounds really great in theory, but realistically implementing it would be very difficult.
Jon675 · 9 points · Posted at 15:43:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think its wrong to think that every criminal or person in jail is as extreme as what youre listing. You could be there for petty theft, not paying tickets, theres all sorts of non violent crimes that can put you in jail. Theres certainly violent people that need to be isolated sure, but to generalize all people in jail as violent or harmful to society is doing a disservice to everyone.
Oh, absolutely. Some are likely there for too many traffic tickets, or something similarly small. It wasn't my intention to characterize everyone in this way.
My point was just simply that there are cases where a jail sentence seems.....justified? If those qualities describe you (horribly violent, etc.), then I don't think it's as dehumanizing to put you in jail as the original comment made it out to be
Okay, but the majority of prisoners are not serial killers and rapists. We lock up a lot of people who had hard lives and turned to crime because they feel it was the only way for them to survive. Those are the people that need rehabilitation.
Understood, of course. I just made a clarifying comment in reply to somone with a similar view to yours. I was simply saying that there are certain types of acts that warrant a prison sentence, or something similar. Not for all types of crime, but for those that are the most violent or evil
I don’t think we’ll ever reach a level in society where that level of empathy can be taught. It’s an actual miracle humanity progressed past feeding those who disgust the majority of us to hungry tigers in public. Most people can’t put themselves in a murderer, pedophiles, or rapists shoes. I could never ever be a judge and uphold those absurd laws where you hit a gavel and send the remainder of some dude’s youth into an actual cage.
Empathy has to be nurtured to progress, either by our surrounding or our internal choices. I believe a society would flourish with empathy as the source of flow for action.
that being said, empathy is also understanding what a person goes through (objectively understanding the emotional range and response a person is subjected to) when they do things, and many people choose to do terrible things because of the way it impacts them emotionally. The psychology of human action is really intense and empathy is the root of all of the good of it.
We’ve made it a hell of a long way. We’re like the first society ever to make so much progress on racism. We’ve progressed so much large swaths of young naive fucks think tracing our footsteps backwards might be the solution to fixing problems they have no idea were started back on that trail.
I would rather be a golden retriever, they look like nothing really gets to them.
Preferably owned by a nice, childless white couple, you know, the type that would put jammies on me, pay for pet health insurance, and cook me dinner every night. That sounds like a cozy life.
On a trip to Florida as children, someone bought my brother and I some bouncy balls (similar to these ) with a looong stretching string attached and a Velcro (sorry.. ‘hook and loop’) strap on the other end.
The idea was that a child (in a large open space) fastens the strap to their wrist, throws the ball and it comes bouncing back. This was great, however, upon returning back home from the holiday, my brother and I discovered a new use..
We grew up in a house with three floors and started fixing the straps to the banister on the top floor, letting the ball dangle on its string all the way down to the lower floors of the house.. we had various games involving one of us on the top floor and one of us at the bottom with the ball.
The games usually involved something like the person in the top of the house would throw the ball down at the other one and this one had to catch the ball before it pinged back up.. Obviously, my older brother was usually the one doing the throwing and I was the one routinely being hit.. but I still found myself playing happily every time. Of course, there were many instances where we would pull on the elastic and enjoy watching the ball ping up through the house, bouncing around off walls and objects, but I’m not sure our parents approved so much.
Kuli24 · 13 points · Posted at 15:18:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eventually we think we chipped a wooden duck when it fell off the ledge. We confessed to my parents and never threw the ball again to my knowledge. But no, we didn't get in trouble.
If we ever played with a ball inside the house my mother would take it and destroy it!
Kuli24 · 9 points · Posted at 15:22:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh we had a felting ball that my dad and I used to play ball tag. Eventually I think my mom threw it out, but we're looking for another one... 20+ years later.
My brother and I would take a handful of bouncy balls, chuck them down the hall and watch them bounce around wildly while trying to dodge them. It was so much fun!
My brother and I did that in the bathroom. Cleared out all the rugs, towels, curtain, anything soft that would absorb the bounces, and then chucked the bouncy balls at all the random angles just to see where they would go. When Rocket League first released, it immediately reminded me of this.
Edit: this reminded me of another game we used to play.
Several of my friends had those large trampolines. One of my favorite activities when we were 10-12 was for a group of us (usually around 4, but occasionally we'd have up to 12 kids on it at once) to take off our shoes and put them in the middle, and then start bouncing and try to avoid getting touched by the shoes. Now, shoes on a trampoline are as unpredictable as a football during a fumble. I can't tell you how many times we bashed each other with flying elbows, fell off, and almost lost life and limb playing that game.
I used to do the exact same thing. I'd scrounge change all week and when my mom took me to the grocery store I'd get bouncy balls out of the vending machines. I'd have 20 or so, get home, go in the bathroom, and just chuck them all at the floor at once. Then when I was around 30, I remembered that game and said "Oh, I make real money now". I went on Amazon and bought 500 bouncy balls. It was fucking glorious.
In high school we had a small courtyard almost completely walled in that me and my mates would take as many soccer balls as possible into and then kick them as hard as possible in any direction. Painful chaos.
In elementary school a bunch of us would line up against the wall while one person threw a baseball at us. Like dodgeball for idiots. Then someone got hurt the school put an end to it.
When my kids were late-elementary age, I devised a game for them that involved a bouncy ball and our long staircase to the second floor.
You'd stand at the bottom of the stairs, and throw your bouncy ball toward the top of the stairs. Each step it bounced on on the way back down was one point, which discouraged hard throwing and encouraged easy lobs. If the ball went over the top step and stayed on the landing, it was zero points.
Anyway, it was slow enough, non-destructive enough, and compelling enough (due to natural sibling rivalry) that it would occupy them for long stretches of time and keep them out of my hair on snow days, rainy days, etc.
I would stand or kneel at the bottom of the stairs and throw a foam ball half or three quarters of the way up and catch it when it bounced down to me. Repeat for hours. I called it "Lonely Ball."
We used to do this on ice skates on the frozen pond in the backyard! Until my sister broke her leg. Then we had to wait until next winter to do it again.
I would take my collection of bouncy balls with a friend, I probably had like 30 of different sizes. We'd remove everything fragile or breakable from the small bathroom, close the toilet and then shut off the lights and just chuck them on the ground as hard as we could. It was actually pretty damn fun.
We were probably lucky we never broke the mirror. Don't think I had any of a big enough size that it wouldve been too likely though
That’s funny you say that. Me and a few cousins would compile all the bouncy balls we possibly could, put them in a plastic tub. We’re talking hundreds of bouncy balls. We’d assign someone to stand at the bottom of a stairwell. The people on the top of the stairs would dump the balls down the steps and watch the bouncing madness.
The one at the bottom would have to A) catch as many as possible. B.) withstand all the balls and stay on your feet.
It was such cheap entertainment and we’d laugh and laugh over something so stupid. What a thrill.
My friend and I would go into my empty garage and chuck a bouncy ball against the wall as hard as we could with the lights out. It was pitch black. As you can imagine, we got hit a lot
My brother and I used to throw a golf ball as hard as we could at a rough stone sea wall that would rebound it at a random angle, and close our eyes and hope not to get hit.
We used to have a glow in the dark bouncy ball with irregular flat sides, so its bounce was super unpredictable. We used to turn off the lights, throw it hard against the wall and try to be the first one to catch it.
This reminds me of a game we used to play at my grandma's house when we couldn't go outside. My grandpa kept his work boots at the end of a hallway. There were three of us and we would each try to throw a bouncy ball into one of the work boots. It was even more fun after they got a little yappy dog who liked to chase things.
Me and my brother did this! Except we threw it off the front door and fought each other trying to get it. We called it silly sides because the door wasn't flat so the ball would ricochet super randomly
A lot of baseball players learned how to catch by this same method (on porch steps) since the bounce off the steps is as unpredictable as the hit off a bat.
My cousin and I would go to the bathroom (only enclosed room with a hard floor) and throw as many bouncy balls as we could at once so they would just bounce all around the room like crazy. We always got hit by them..fun times
Also we'd have a bouncy ball war. You make a fort and then try to hit each other with bouncy balls but you can only hit someone by bouncing them off things.
My brother and I would go into the laundry room(smallest room in the house) and just SLAM bouncey balls against the floor and then duck/cover and hope not to get hit as it zoomed around the room half a dozen times
In elementary school we'd get all the guys in the bathroom right after lunch everyday and turn off the lights and throw a dozen bouncy balls at walls and they'd be bouncing everywhere, hitting you in the back, the head. All while we're just hysterically laughing.
My brother and I would turn the lights off in his room and shut the doors and just throw the ball as hard as we could at a wall and stand in one place hoping the ball wouldn't hit us.
We used to do this at recess! We would take a bouncy ball and chuck it at the brick outside wall and a group of kids would go running after it trying to catch it. Twist on the game of ‘500’
My best friend and I lived on a steep hill that wasn't very busy, so in the fall we used to collect fallen walnuts and roll them down the hill to see who could get them into the creek at the bottom.
My friend and I would turn off the light in the bathroom and chuck a bouncy ball at the wall. The two desired outcomes were that it would hit one of us or go in the toilet. We weren’t the brightest.
I used to do something kinda like this with a friend. Except we'd close the door and everything and just whip it into a corner and hope it didn't hit us.
NukeML · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah those ones that are smaller than a human eyeball. It could be anywhere.
We did this with tennis balls on our front porch, only we called it Stoop Ball. It had baseball rules and the further it went, the more bases it was worth if it hit the ground. Teams of one or two. One team “bats” while the other attempts to catch the balls before they hit the ground. Played this intermittently for years.
My best friend and I would do this but going down water slides. One would go down and then the other would whip the bouncy ball down the slide so the slider could try to beat it and then grab it before the end. Was a blast till one time I whipped it as hard as I could and accidentally hit my friend in the eye
Nice! My sister and I would throw a handful of them into the hallway and try to get through without getting hit by them bouncing off the walls. Man this thread is really taking me back to some great times...
pcrnt8 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my best friend and i would go in our garage and absolutely chuck a super ball as hard as we could. first person to get hit by it lost. those things hurt sometimes...
“My horses.” Whenever we were on a road trip, or honestly on any sort of drive, my family would try and spot horses before anyone else did. You had to shout “MY HORSES!” and then count them. It was a running tally but no one ever really kept score once the trip finished. Whoever had the most was the winner.
There was a way to get back in the game however. If you drove past a graveyard or church cemetery, you could yell “ BURY YOUR HORSES!” and everyone who had horses would go back to zero except the one who spotted the cemetery.
It was a cutthroat game and if someone had a lot of horses (i.e. just drove past a farm and brother has 13) then the whole family would be on high alert looking for cemeteries. It was a fun way to pass the time.
I’ve unconsciously played the game in friends cars because I’m so conditioned at this point and it scared the shit out of them haha. It was dead quiet and we drove past a farm. I ain’t giving up this chance to get ahead. Got my friends playing it now and I’ll keep the tradition alive.
*EDIT - Thank you guys for the gold and silver. I had no clue that this game was so popular! We thought about playing with cows but the numbers would have been so high haha. Horses were more rare and thus everyone had to be on high alert to spot them. Good times.
Because my family lives in Wisconsin, we played a version called "Cows my side". You only score points if you are the first to shout "Cows my side!" and the cows were on your side. If they were on the other side of the vehicle, you could block the other players from scoring by saying "Cows your side!"
Cemeteries killed the cows of everyone on that side of the vehicle. You would also lose all of your cows if you claimed cows early, but they turned out to be horses or some other livestock.
My wife and I play this game withy Teslas. We use to live in a rural community and they were super rare. Now we’re in a larger urban area and they’re everywhere! The game is almost becoming too much to handle.
My favorite variation of these games was "Hey Cow." You had to yell "hey cow!" whenever you passed by cows, and only the cows that turned to look at you scored you points.
We played "Cows" as well, with some differences:
You could claim ANY cows, any side.
If you claimed "CHURCH" first, your cows "got married" and had babies, i.e., doubled the number of your cows, no matter how many.
If you claimed "CEMETERY" first, you could kill all any other player's cows. My son once killed several million cows at once (you could really rack up the cows on a long trip, with the babies thing).
My wife yells “HEYYYY COWWWW” out of the car window and however many cows look up, that’s how many points you get. It’s pretty adorable and I can’t wait until our kids are old enough to play.
Our family played a similar game around Christmas time. We counted Christmas lights on your side of the road. The lights had to be outside and Christmas trees that you could see through the window didn't count. It was my fav part of Christmas lol
Since I'm in PA we used to try and count all the horse and buggies that passed by, and whoever counted the most won, it was very simple mostly because I don't have any siblings.
Same, we (Californian, though) play Cows on My Side. But we also upped it (as adults, since we obviously still play)—so every animal has a cow ratio. Horses are 2:1. Baby cows are 3:1. Llamas/alpacas are 5:1, etc. the rarer the animal, the more cow points they’re worth.
My family played a version similar to this. We would call "Those cows are my cows!" whenever we drove by a herd of cows. "Herd" being defined as two or more cows. And if we drove past a cemetary we would say, "your cows are all dead!" Cemetaries killed the cows of everyone in the car except the person that called it.
We work this game, minus the graveyard, with Christmas lights every year. You can only pick the lit homes on your side to count them against your tally, however if the person on the other side of the car calls the lights first, you're out of luck. BUT: you can ONLY count the lights on YOUR side of the car towards your own score, once again... unless the person on the other side of the car calls it first. This game provides some GREAT sibling fights on each and every simple damn drive. Thank heavens the season is short.
I heard about this game from a Wisconsinite whilst on a drive south down the 101. We started spotting so many hitchhikers/walkers/homeless/dirtbags that we started playing “dirtbags my side” it got pretty heated.
We played My Cows, but instead of cemeteries, it was bales of hay. If you claimed they hay, the other cows all starved. Due to the abundance of hay, it was a fast moving game.
We played the cow game exactly like this, except we added that if you pass a water tower on your side, the water saved half your cows if you come across a cemetary after it. Also I love how everyone has come up with this game independently. I honestly thought my family had come up with it.
We do this with cows and McDonald’s instead of horses and graveyards! Except the way we play, the least amount of cows wins. So we’ll see cows and say “_____ I give you these cows!” And he or she can only get rid of them at a McDonald’s.
We did this as horses, churches, and graveyards. Car was split up by side, left and right. If you spotted a horse on your side you got 5 points or 10 if it was an all white bourse. Churches on your side got 100 points. But if the enemy team spotted a graveyard on your side, you lost all your points. Since many graveyards have a church, sometimes you didn’t call the church since alerting the other team to it would ensure they’d look over to check.
No lie, I had to read that 4x before I understood the play. In my defense, I just got back from a Latin restaurant where we were at a language deficit. Food was fire. So was the beer.
On long roadtrips I love to play the Alphabet Game. The goal is for everyone to finish the alphabet in order from A to Z by pointing to signs that start with that letter. A sign can only be claimed by one person so everyone needs to stay on high alert.
It's everyone for themselves. It always gets interesting around "Q" and "V-Z" because those signs are definitely harder for us to find. "La Quinta" is usually a pass for Q as well as any sign that begins with "The" for the preceding letter.
wpgra1 · 19 points · Posted at 21:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same game, however certain horses got you varying points.
patchy horse was 2 points
-grey horse was 3 points
group of horses was 4 points
foal was worth 5 points
person riding a horse was 10 points
if you yelled horse and it was in fact a cow you lost 5 points.
Our road trips generally took way longer due to disputes and my mum turning the car around to verify the horse spotted. I fucking loved that game.
We played this in my family, too! Once, we started playing on a tour bus. Some people around us overheard our game. They clearly didn't know this was a game because I heard them saying, "oh, I guess some people have never seen this many horses before!" 🤦♀️😄
Bob002 · 16 points · Posted at 19:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We call it Bury Your Horses (and still play it). One time, rolling through Oklahoma on the way back from my grandmother's funeral we drove past several hundred horses on both sides of the road. Rules are: any time we're in the car, it's game on. You can't really call the cemetaries in certain places anymore cuz you know they are there. Just played it last week, though.
My friends and I played this in college but called it "Hey Cow!" You had to roll down your window and yell "HEY COW!!" as loud as you could. How ever many cows looked at you was how many points you got. If you drive past a cemetary everyone lost all their cows. Omg we all laughed so hard playing this on road trips.
I have seen someone stabbed during a game of monopoly.
Any game can be violent.
jagpag · 13 points · Posted at 21:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Living in Kansas we played a similar game called "the Windmill Game". If you spotted one, you shouted "Windmill!", with an additional "-spinning!" If it happened to be turning. Stationary windmills were worth 1 point, but turning ones got you 3, and you could wait to get closer to see if it was turning or not. But, if you called a windmill that was later discovered to be a conveniently shaped tree or something else other than an actual windmill, it was -5 points. Still a cutthroat game. Pictures of windmills on billboards counted, but turbines did not
When I play this, we would also yell "HORSE ROBBER!" whenever you saw a horse trailer on the road. (parked ones don't count) Whoever yells it first gets every other players' horses.
I know a family that plays this but they also do boats and water towers along with the horses. The boats being like the horses and the water towers being like the cemetery.
This is like pub cricket. You take it in turns (or whoever spots it first depending on the variant) to spot pub signs. You get a point for each leg the sign has.
So the King George = 2 The King's Head = 0 Black Horse = 4
I want to name a pub the Millipede and Centipede just to fuck with anyone else who plays it.
Ah. I just commented about this. We did it with feet instead of legs. Paws and hoofs included. I always wanted to name my pub The Coach and Ten Thousand Horses.
It's things like this... Most us who are around the age of 30 or older played this with our parents. This was pre-internet. So it's amazing how something like this can be so wide spread. Where did this game originate, how did it spread, etc...
Just played a game very similar to this called “My Cows” on a roadtrip with my sports team. Same basic idea but slightly different: person calls “My Cows”, you can marry your cows with a church and double your cows (cows were always very inbred), and a graveyard you can kill all of one person’s cows.
I was leading with 5.5 trillion cows, the 2nd place person has a few thousand. I’m on fire. We get to the last stretch of the trip through some back country roads. Person sees a tiny ass graveyard on his side of the car. 5.5 trillion cows slaughtered.
I remember playing this as a kid too! We played with cows tho, called the game "Cows and Graveyards", very original of us.. Virginia/Tennessee by chance?
This one makes me happy :) I loved road trips with my parents growing up and this will definitely be in my list of games to play when I do road trips of my own:)
We do this but with cows and we shout “YOUR COWS ARE DEAD” when we pass a graveyard. One time my sister drew a grave on a sticky note and we counted it.
I used to play with my mum 'the next one is mine' with cars coming from behind us and we'd see if it was a nice car or not etc because we had to walk and couldn't really afford a car.
B0h1c4 · 6 points · Posted at 21:54:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My daughters play a similar game, only instead of looking out the window, they look at their phones. And instead of horses, they try to "heart" every single picture on Instagram until we arrive at our destination.
...actually they continue the game after we reach our destination. It's totally different now that I think about it.
My family is less than three weeks away from a very long road trip, and I am very excited to try it out!
apc67 · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this as "my cows" but it somehow evolved into "my zombies killed your cows". You got zombies from cemeteries. If you had zombies, the next cemetery kills cows. A cop car kills your zombies.
Fun and common road trip game, most play with cows.
Fun Fact; It was even once seen being played in the [adult swim] cartoon The Venture Brothers. Brock and Hunter are seen playing, they switch drivers once Hunter loses all his cows due to a cemetery.
My wife used to play this when she was young. We played on a trek across the country and when driving with her sisters. I can confirm that it is cutthroat. She once called bury horse, and after a second I asked, 'Where?' She said that there was a sign that said a cemetery was up over the hill we had driven past. The lot of us came to the consensus that her horses were the only ones buried.
Hey I used to play a version of this! With my brother and sometimes my mom, we would shout "A WINDMILL, I SAW IT FIRST". You may think that it is a way too long sentence, but we did it in Spanish (am Argentinian) so the sentence was really quick, so whoever finished the sentence first got the point. Sometimes it would scare the shit out of my dad who was driving (my mom doesn't drive) but he eventually got used to it. However like an hour after starting to play we always forgot who was winning and had to restart. We had fun on our trips to the beach :).
Read somewhere it's a good idea to replace horses/cows with motorcyclists so when your kids grow up and are drivers themselves they are intrinsically more alert to them. Love the sentiment, yet to try it out..."my bike!!"...The cemetery part might be a bit morbid
Bfru04 · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that with some friends in College whenever we were driving long distances. Except it was with cows and instead of cemeteries/graveyards it was water towers
Oh my gosh my family plays this too! I thought it was a weird thing my grandparents made up. We call it “Horses and Graveyards”. I’m so happy someone else does this!! I sometimes play it with myself on long rides to work hahaha
We played this as well. We called it "horse horse". We would jsut yell horse horse evertime we saw a horse. had to say horse horse multiple times if there were multiple horses
From Wisconsin, I've played with cows. However, graveyards were "banks" and could be used to save cows from getting killed, and spotting a body of water let's you kill cows.
We used to play this with cows! Although there was always a graveyard outside of town before we got to my grandparents house so whoever sat on that side of the car always lost.
Edit: I should mention that we played it differently with the graveyard. If you were sitting on the side of the car that faced the graveyard all your cows died. It worked because there was only my brother and I playing the game.
My family plays a game very similar! It's just called Horses and everytime you see a horse you yell "HORSE!". We don't keep track of points at all but it's still very competitive to yell Horse first. If someone yells horse and no one else sees it, you yell "Neigh!" (pun on neigh/nay). We made it up a few years ago and play it all the time!
On road trips we play "American Flag". Be the first to spot it and call out "American Flag!" and you get a point. I live in the midwest and you'd be surprised at the amount of American flags on display..... Murica!!!!
We had a similar game, we called it Blitz. Instead of horses we used dogs, when we'd see a dog the first one to yell Blitz got a point and if we came across a cemetery the first one to say Cemetery, you lose all your Blitzs', won. I haven't thought about that game in 30 years, thanks for the good memories.
We played this but with point for everything - Red barns, 10 points. White barns, 25 points. Cemetery, -25 points. Cemetery WITH Church + 50 points. Cows were 5. Horses were 10, I think.
We had to take a "side" of the car and it was left side vs. right side. Left side was disadvantaged because it was sometimes difficult to see across 4 lanes of traffic.
Also, you could call out cemeteries on the other side to make sure they deducted their points.
We play this but with Cows. Also when you pass by a church you can "marry your horses" and double the number. It gets interesting when you pass a church with a cemetery, shit gets real!
I've gotten my friends to play it on long road trips.
I played a similar game with my family we called the cow game. When we were in the car, the person who spotted the first cow would yell, “COW GAME.” They would be the winner for that car ride. I was pretty good at it and my little brother would always act butthurt and mopey for the rest of the drive.
When I was eight or so, my brother, I, and my best friend played "the dark man game."
It was hide-and-seek in my parents' basement with the lights out. The person looking for the other two wore a glow-in-the-dark Skeletor mask, so the two people hiding could see him, but he couldn't see us. It got really intense at times, trying to find your way in the dark and trying to be as quiet as possible. Also, my parents' basement was unfinished, so occasionally you'd bump into a nail etc. Made it extra dangerous, lol.
We played basically this but called it the "alien game". Basement with the lights out, sometimes with teams, one or two people as the "alien" (that was hiding in the dark), and then a couple people (or more) as the "hunter" who had a nerf gun and a flashlight with a sock on it so it didn't shine much light out.
If you shot the alien before they touched you you got to be the alien, I think.
Also the basement was super old and unfinished so it was probably stupidly dangerous but lots of fun.
We played this but only 1 person would be the seeker and everyone else would coordinate to tag him. No sock though to tip the balance a little toward the lonely guy with the flashlight getting charged.
We would have nerf wars in the basement with the lights off. The attacking team would come down the stairs and rescue the "hostage" in one of the rooms, while the defenders would try to stop them.
Haha no way - I used to play this with my step kids.
They called it "Black Man" for awhile which I tried to steer them away from "Ahh the black man is going to get us!" just sounded pretty facepalm lol.
They switched to "Ghost Man."
My favorite was my step daughter had a sleepover and they were trying to "summon ghosts" in the living room or something and I could hear them saying "okay say it three times... ghost man... ghost man... ghost man" and on the third time I flipped the breakers in the house and they screamed so loud I thought the police were going to be called lol.
I had my costume on at that point and they were convinced they had summoned some crazy ghost.
Good times.
kuubi · 19 points · Posted at 23:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Germany we actually have a game called "Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann?" which translated would be something like "who is scared of the black man?" in which the children have to run away from a person, the 'black man', trying to catch them.
Personally I always imagined the catcher being a pitch black person - as in not the skin color black but just completely black as in darkness.
My older brother had a strobe light in his room so we'd sneak in there and take it out into the basement. Then we'd shut off all the lights, turn it on, and it would create something like a slow motion effect. We'd then either play tag or have pillow fights like that. It's kind of funny how useful the dark is for childhood entertainment.
Yes! We called it "the dark game" and upped the ante by forcing all players to stare directly at the overhead ceiling light for about a minute before we flipped the lights out and let everyone fumble around in the dark
We would do this for the “seeker” but everyone else hiding didn’t. It was fun.
SeaTie · 12 points · Posted at 18:37:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hah! We had a similar game we played in my friend's garage around their giant pool table.
The person who was "it" had a broken lighter that could only throw sparks. They'd come into the room and start madly sparking and chase us around the pool table in until they tagged someone.
It was super suspenseful because you could hold off on sparking the lighter and sneak around in the dark room, get up right next to your friend and light up the room and scare the crap out of them...
We called it murder in the dark.
But if we were found they would have guess who we were so we would try to disguise ourselves by doing stuff to our hair and adding extra layers of clothes.
wolsel · 7 points · Posted at 19:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game like this at our grandma's house. We had a ton of plastic chairs we'd set up as a maze for one person. They had to get to the end and claim the teddy bear pr something to win. Everyone else would hide in the dark and scare them.
The last time that we played, the maze runner got clobbered by a body pillow.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:01:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the same game, but it was with an super dim electric light saber to light the seeker. Super dangerous basement, too.
My friends and I would play with Nerf guns in the basement with nothing but a bunch of blacklights and strobe lights on. It's was crazy! Seeing people running with strobe lights makes them look like they are teleporting really fast in one direction and it's super scary. Not to mention your can't see where you're really shooting.
We did a variant of this as well. I had a Michael Myers mask and I was able to download the theme song and play it on repeat through an old boombox. Anyway, my brother would have his entire baseball team spend the night and I would slowly stalk them through the basement and stab them with one of those retractable plastic knives. The only way to survive was make it up the stairs. I'm pretty sure like half of them still can't watch the franchise.
Yes we called this the dark game but to even up the antics the person who was “it” would have to close their eyes and stumble around but cheating was super easy since it was also dark af
We played this game too except everyone was "it" and we all used lightsabers that lit up. So to hit someone you'd have to turn on your lightsaber and reveal your location, which basically resulted in a bunch of sprinting attacks in a dark, unfinished basement.
We played a game called "in the dark" where one person would go upstairs and the rest of us would set up furniture and boxes as booby traps in the basement. When we were done setting traps the one upstairs would turn off the lights and come downstairs and would try to make it to the far wall of the basement in pitch black with everyone else trying to stop them from advancing. I don't know how we didn't lose any teeth.
a game like this i played with all my cousins, basically a variation of hide and go seek, whoever the seeker was would wait upstairs while we all hid, then the lights would go off, and the seeker would have to find us in the dark, but if you scared the seeker, you were not 'it'. If the seeker scared you, you were definitely it. also, lots of rubber band gun wars
I saw it years after we had "invented" our game, but that makes total sense from a horror perspective, the only difference being our "villain" was visible, while Jodie Foster was the protagonist and had night vision.
My grand ma had a bunch of huge novelty size balls of yarn when I was growing up. I'm talking these things had to have been like four feet in diameter with yarn as thick as my child arms. And what my grand ma would do is unravel the yarn balls and stick one of our toys in the center and then yarn the yarn ball back up nice and tight and the toss the yarns balls in the back yard. The idea was we had to get the toy out of the center, but we weren't allowed to use our hands to do it. Our hands would be tied behind our backs so we didn't cheat. We'd be out there for hours hurling our tiny bodies at these giant yarn balls trying to unravel them and get to that sweet, sweet toy in the middle and me and my sister would work together where she'd find a long branch and use her mouth to fish it down the back of my shirt and into my pants and I'd hold the branch with my butt cheeks and so with the branch sticking out, I'd kind of be like a human fork. We usually made good progress with that move, but that yarn was so heavy. Sometimes we'd succeed, sometimes we wouldn't, and when we didn't, grand ma would walk outside shaking her head in mock disappoint, grab whatever loose end there was and unravel the whole yarn ball with one clean jerk. I miss grand ma.
rfp0231 · 1086 points · Posted at 20:03:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was reading this and thinking it sounded super fun and I got to the part about the stick and just died laughing. So unexpected lol
My great grandma has a ton of yarn. So my brother and two cousins (much younger than me and my sister) take them and make a gigantic spiderweb in her back sitting room. The only rule is that they have to roll it all up when they're done. Occupies them for the entire day.
... and use her mouth to fish it down the back of my shirt and into my pants and I'd hold the branch with my butt cheeks and so with the branch sticking out, I'd kind of be like a human fork. We usually made good progress with that move, but that yarn was so heavy. Sometimes we'd succeed, sometimes we wouldn't, and when we didn't, grand ma would walk outside shaking her head in mock disappoint, grab whatever loose end there was and .... "
m4gpi · 13 points · Posted at 23:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game kind of similar to this at a party (adults, but would work great for kids too): the host had prepared a big ball of goodies of varying value - wrapped candy, little toys/doodads, Starbucks gift card - rolled up in a long sheet of plastic wrap. Each player “has” the ball for some length of time, like 15 or 30 seconds, and tries to unwind it. Whatever falls out during the interval is theirs. When the interval is up they have to pass it to the next player. Just finding the start of the plastic took a few rounds. It was a lot of fun, and I got a cool sequined coin purse out of it.
I have so many questions. A ball of yarn that's FOUR FEET in diameter?!?!? Wtf, they're usually like 10-15cm across. Also, the whole stick-in-ass method seems weird AF, but whatever. If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid.
When I was a kid in grammar school it was always a joy to learn Ms. Quamm was substituting your class. She would bring this nylon filled with cotton and called it hot potato. She would have us all sit on the ground and pass it around until she lifted the needle on the record player. That woman must have been like 90 back then.
I read this without knowing what yarn is (second language) so I just imagined it was a thick omnikin ball and I was oh so confused... (assumed unravel was another word for deflate)
Sweet, sweet google translate... doesn't explain what the fuck that was??
I grew up in upstate new York and we would go ice breaking in the winter. Basically jump up and down on small frozen ponds and streams until the ice broke. Moms would have a look of horror when the neighborhood boys went home soaking wet in the middle of winter lol.
I played something like this at a kids house whose basement was so covered in toys you couldn’t see the ground. So we would turn off the light and just chuck toys at each other across the room using other boxes or toys for cover.
nigella · 849 points · Posted at 15:09:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Not sure how my two older brothers and I came up with the game, but I remember it being stupid, dangerous fun.
One of my older brother's bedrooms had no windows, so if we put a towel under the door to block out the light, it was essentially pitch black in the room.
We also had one of those old film cameras that had an operational flash that would work whenever you hit the shutter button.
We also had a small rubber eraser, and that's all we needed.
What we'd do is line up at one end of the pitch black room, and one of us would throw the eraser towards the bed, and at the same time another would press the flash button on the camera, which would fill the dark room in a brilliant white light for just a millisecond, just enough so we could see a freeze frame of where the eraser was in its midflight and where it might be landing on the bed. The image would be burned into our eyes as the room went dark again, and from there, and us being precocious young boys, would then begin our vicious, violent race to see who could recover the eraser first.
I think our parents finally put a stop to the game when one of my brother's misjudged his initial launch angle after the flash went off, and dove face first into a jutting corner of the wall, as blood poured from his nose all over my other brother's bed in the pitch black room while we fought over that precious eraser.
After that got shutdown, I believe we went into the living room after each grabbing a sleeping bag from the storage room, and we would each climb into one backwards, so our head was at the foot of the sleeping bag. Once we were all settled in our bags, then we began our brutal battle to the death. We called it Slugfest, and I believe there is an old VHS tape of Slugfest '93 kicking around somewhere.
Good times!
tr3vorw · 157 points · Posted at 21:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds fun. My friends and I would play “Scavengers in the dark,” which was basically like tag or nerf gun fighting or real fighting in pitch darkness indoors. Tons of fun. I broke my leg against a fireplace when my friend and I twisted into each other running full speed from opposite ends of a hall.
It's not what it sounds like but my cousin and I used to play the "underwear" game. We would go into her laundry room which was in the basement with ample room, and both of us would grab someone's used underwear from the hamper. Then we'd fight each other trying to get the underwear over the other's head. Obviously it was disgusting and had to stop when someone caught us playing it.
Ginch is another. Like inch but with a hard G like game up front there
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 17:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why does that sound like it should be some kinda slur?
"I'm tellin ya, Cleetus, the goddamn ginches are ruinin this country! Thinkin theyre better than us, drivin around in their hatchback convertibles, drinkin spicy lemonade with their ugly dogs. It makes me sick."
Ginches got nothing though on those goddamn spinnakers! They wander around like the belong here! Why can’t they just stay where they belong, out of sight back across the sea.
Ginch is another. Like inch but with a hard G like game up front there
I used to date a girl in high school who was like that. Every time she took off her pants or wore tight clothes you could aways see her "game up front there".
this man is of the deep reddit. many explorers have tried to find the floor to either his bedroom or the depth of his knowledge of anime, and have failed in both ventures.
Depends on weather or not you want to use the accent. I speak spanglish and I say cho-ness with an accent but my husband who is white has always used the cho-knees pronunciation. Either way, our 3 year old laughs everytime the word is used.
It goes both ways but the chicano drawl used on the -nies makes it sound more like -neighs. Kinda like man/meng, tomato/tomatto, it’s slang so there’s some flava to it.
seriously. kids are vile. they're cute, but they're super gross.... poop, puke, and boogars. I have a 4 year old niece and I've never been sicker in my life til she came along. she's germy and has zero issue with coughing or sneezing right in my face. ugh.
Last week my 8 week old daughter shit out the back of her diaper up to her neck. Then my 5 year old son had an accident and pooped himself. Within 5 minutes.
Oh man. I use to get sick like once a year. Now I have two that go to daycare and I'm getting sick often. They just go in and mash their faces with all the other snot nosed kids.
Nah I'll give you gross lol. My mom used to have one of those oldschool rubber douches you washed and reused. She kept it hanging in the shower, because that is likely where she douched. She walked in on my older stepbrother playing with that fucking thing in the tub, using the little rubber hose to blow bubbles in his bathwater and shit. Now that's disgusting.
Props to him for making it this far without a good mental breakdown. My therapist would eat this shit UP
Acc87 · 13 points · Posted at 17:39:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember some kid magazine in the early 90s having scratch'n'sniff cards with stuff like "used socks" or "armpit"..
...man things we call "gross" are just learned. We find another persons underwear gross, but have no issue sitting on the same toilet seat butt naked. We also touch door handles thousands of people may touch in a week.
jda-11 · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is there by chance another game where you constantly berate each other and try to make each other feel bad about themselves? Maybe he was just playing another game.
Me and my brothers did something similar as kids and we all shared the same room with my twin bros on a bunk bed and me on a twin. We would get the dirty underwear from the hamper and throw it at the fan and hope one of us doesn’t get hit. We called it underwear roulette.
This is hilarious. Underwear over someone's head reminds me of monkeys. There were a lot of monkeys in our colony. One day one monkey took someone's underwear which was drying outside and wore it over its head. It was one of the most hilarious things I have seen.
I used to make giant pillow piles and put underwear over my head and dive into it. I remember I was pretending to be a chimney sweeper? Makes no sense, just this random very early memory I have.
Making giant pillow piles in general were one of my great passions as a young child. I would rip all the cushions off the couch and toss them into the centre of the room. Then dive into it and dig around like a mole. I wish I was small sometimes so I could still do it.
I used to play this exact same game with one of my friends from cub scouts. One time, one of us (can’t remember whether it was me or him) flung a shot that landed the underwear on top of one of those tall halogen lamps. It started a fire, and we rushed to put it out, which resulted in flaming tighty-whities on my bedroom floor. Burned a nice hole in the carpet.
I was terrified to show my dad, but when he came in he thought it was hilarious and I was off the hook. Apparently my folks were planning to redo all the carpet shortly anyway.
Me and my brother had our own underwear game. One time I found 5 pairs of white underwear in my room and they weren't mine so I put them in my brothers room. They weren't his so he put them back in my room. Neither of us knew whose they were so we took turns hiding all 5 pairs in each other's rooms and when they were found they were hidden in the other persons room.
Oh Lordy! My sister and I played “Bra Whip” while folding clothes. Our mothers bra had those hard metal clasps and we used to take turns lashing each other! Wtf why!!! It hurt like hell too!
My pops and sister as kids would sneak into my grandpa's hamper, find the whitey tighteys with the biggest skid marks, turn them inside out, lay them on their parents bed like land mines, and wrestle. First one to smoosh the others face into the brown spot on the undies wins! So gross... it comes up every famy reunion, running family joke now.
You just reminded me about how me and a group of friends used to have sleepovers at each others houses and whenever we had a sleepover at Nilesh's his grandfathers hamper of dirty underwear was a constant looming threat.
Rukmer · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So looking back this probably caused some kind of trauma, but it reminds me of out my aunt would chase me and her kids around the house with her thongs trying to touch us with them. Her kids loved it but it was disturbing to me (I was about 4 years older).
I am way less disgusted at my childhood self now that I heard that this was also someone else's "thing". We would break into our parents dirty hamper, set up stations across the room from each other, and then bombs away. We swore ourselves to a lifetime of secrecy that my child self would be humiliated to find out that I broke.
Wikeni · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My oldest brother used to do this to us, hahaha. Then one time he snuck up behind a guest at his party and took a dirty pair of my dad's underwear and stretched it across her face, pulling back so she couldn't escape easily. Once she did though and saw these tighty whities in his hand, she had some questions.
"Are they clean?"
"Are they YOURS?"
He shook his head no to both and I think she stopped visiting after that, lol.
My brother and I used to do this! My most cherished childhood photo is us with underwear on our heads. It’s good to know we weren’t the only gross children
You just reminded me - on laundry day while my mom folded my brother and I would put my dad's clean undies on our heads and push our faces through one of the leg holes and pretend we were nuns.
Then we'd fight each other trying to get the underwear over the other's head. Obviously it was disgusting and had to stop when someone caught us playing it.
That's weird I used to play that game too, but you get kicked out of the house and branded a pervert when your 45 years old 😕
"The Bomb Game". We threw a ball around and if you got hit, you had to lie on the ground for five seconds before returning to the game. My sister and I and our brother-like cousins would play this against our uncles and although I'm pretty sure if we actually kept score, we kicked their asses.
Eventually all the uncles and my dad joined in and the youngest uncle joined the "kids" team. He told us he "played The Bomb Game in high school" (my younger cousins actually believed this) and we wanted him on our team anyway because he was more like the biggest kid. It eventually became a family tradition... ah, back in the day when my family actually saw each other...
I once had a job that was doing one of those get to know eachother activities, like when sometimes everyone will bring in a baby picture taped to a board and people walk by and guess who they think everyone is.
But my boss did it with our middle school screennames written on a board and we were all guessing who we thought soccergurllll22 was or zombieboob69
Ryouls · 9 points · Posted at 16:09:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother played a similar game. Except he used rubber balls, big rubber bands, his fists and such. If I entered his room he would try to hit my nuts. Or if I talked. Or breathed. I never liked his games
being the little brother, i was usually the one to enter his room to ask what he was doing. i was definitely on the losing end of this game, heheheheh.
In HS we had a four year rack game going. I don’t know why, it wasn’t pleasant, and the girls in our group even got in on it which wasn’t the slightest bit fair
I wanted to know what a "fat man" rubber ball looked liked, so i started to google it..
I then realised that I was about to hit enter on "Fat Man Balls" on my work computer, in my office.
Yeah I eventually re-read what it said and saw "shaped like the nuclear weapon" and got the general gist of it haha.
That'll teach me to google without reading properly
Reminds me of a game my male classmates played in high school. If you spot a guy sitting with his legs spread, you say "Moby Dick" and then throw a marker/pen at his groin. That "Moby Dick" is all the warning you get lol.
I played a game with the exact same name except it had different rules. In the game I played a group of people (atleast 20) all had the assignment of being heroes while there was one bomber(thrower). The bomber would announce when bombs were coming and throw the football as high in to the air as possible. If a catch is made the day has been saved. If the bomb hits the ground everyone had to comicly fall to the ground and die like they had just been blown up. Sortof like 500.
Damn I miss the days when family reunions were had like every other month, now everybody is grown up and we only see each other like once a year at a Christmas party we have but other than that, zilch. I crai errytime
zwind · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Host a family reunion if you’re not to far from family! Buy a bunch of booze and just have fun!
Haha, I used to play something like this with my little sister. We would get a few soccer balls, volleyballs, basketballs, whatever was lying around, and throw them on the trampoline (that had a net around it). Then we'd jump around and try to avoid touching the balls. First to get hit 5 times lost. You could bounce the balls near your feet and at another person, but it wasn't an exact science. Kinda risky, but it made the other person have to dance/ jump out of the way. Really fun game, we had a lot of great laughs doing it.
We had a bomb game too. It was me and my little sister and brother. One of us would pretend to accidentally swallow a bomb and the other two would have to perform emergency surgery. Once the bomb was out, we threw it away from us and take cover immediately.
Nope. Turns out, the surgeon had a bomb in them the whole time! And no one else has any surgical training! Cut then up with any thing you can get your hands on!
We had a similar game growing up, except we played it on a trampoline where you bounced the ball(s) towards each other. If it hit a limb that limb was "blown off" so you had to put it behind your back, hop around on one leg, etc.
Oh my god, me and my friends came up with almost the exact same game! One guy would throw the ball at the other players, and you couldn't move if the thrower held the ball. If you got hit you had to lie down for 5 seconds before returning to the game, but now you were the thrower. And the other players all had sticks so they could bat the ball away.
We used a floorball so we couldn't throw or bat the ball too far away. It was so much fun and I'd be down to play it today.
My brother and I would play some sort of “bomb game” too. We would stand a decent distance from each other in the yard (or in the house too) and line up like we were about to have an old west draw. We would then take turns throwing a soft ball (not a softball, but a ball made of soft material) at each other. The person being thrown at wasn’t allowed to move (you just have to take the hit) and whatever body part got hit was lost. Headshots and clean chest shots won you the round. It was a quick game, but was fun when one of you was throwing with your non-dominant hand with 1 or no legs left just waiting for the loss.
We had a similar one called the "grenade game" we would throw a ball at each other and if you didn't catch it and it bounced off your hands you lost that limb and the grenade was live and everyone had 3 seconds to get as far away as possible, closest person blew up and was out
Isnt it funny how when the kids grow up the family meetings suddenly stop...
Like it would be nice to see my cousins still
Zhikos · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This story is bomb
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your hitboxes were small, ofc you were winning.
dcoble · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, family reunions used to be the shit. Kick the can was our favorite game. On that side of the family out of my grandparents and their 5 children it's down to just 1 uncle, so those don't happen anymore.
Idk if you’re like me but I also miss having all my family in one geographic location. We used to have a ton of family here, probably because this is where my grandfather first arrived when he emigrated here not to long ago in the late 70s.
But eventually people moved to different cities for better jobs, cheaper cost of living, better schools, etc.
It’s no fault on them and there was no crazy big fall out.
And while we still see them, I get sad sometimes because I wonder what would happen if everyone ended up just staying in Chicago.
I envied my friends and classmates who had generations of families living in the area and had crazy huge family get together.
My brother and I also had a "bomb game," but it was nothing like any of the ones listed here, lol! We'd load up the Perfection board and set the timer, then run and hide. First to come out and "get caught" before, or as it was exploding, died.
"Yeah... I could've gone pro after highschool, but I just chose a different career path"
161_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You had smaller hit boxes too
cheaux · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Bomb Game" I had growing up was taking a kitchen timer and hiding it. We'd have to follow the ticking sound before it went off, or else we'd all be dead.
Now that I think about it, that's how we lost a few kitchen timers.
My cousins and I developed a very fun game we called "Boom Ball." We had a bunch of small rubber inflatable balls (thicker than a beach ball, lighter than a dodgeball), and the goal was to get 3 or 4 balls in hand. We were small, and holding more than two of these balls was a challenge, so the game had a way of naturally balancing itself. You could throw a ball at anyone else in the game, and if you hit them, they had to drop all their balls and count out loud to 3 or 5 or something. Meanwhile, you had to scramble to pick up the balls they dropped as well as the one you threw. It was really neat because your victory condition was also your ammunition, AND a defensive strategy (you could block incoming projectiles with balls you had in hand). And again, the natural balancing mechanic was great. Once you had 3 balls in hand, it became much harder to throw one of them at an opponent, so getting that 4th ball was a challenge. If you had no balls, you could adopt a vulture strategy, circling near someone with a lot of them, waiting for them to get hit and drop the payload.
This reminds of an old family tradition we have, every Fourth of July our family from the surrounding areas would get together at my Aunt’s house, we’d cookout and play board games together, then when the sunset and everyone would go to the pool and have this big tournament called “The Gator Races”. She had these inflatable alligators for the pool that everyone would race on from one end to the other, whoever won at the end of the night would be “Gator King” and we had a special WWE Championship belt that person would bring to every gathering until the next year. It was awesome.
My siblings and I had a bomb game. One person would stand at the top of a set of stairs (outside) and throw a soft football. The thrower had a limited count of different types of "bombs". Some bombs required to physically touch and others needed to hit the ground or hit the ground near enough. Some bombs needed to be caught and others just needed to be avoided. The goal as the thrower was to knock everyone out(figuratively).
My friends and I would play “Bomb” in which we would use a timer from a game like catchphrase, start it, and have to move as much stuff from the bedroom to the living room before the bomb went off
In elementary school we played Bombs and Barriers, which is like dodgeball but we’s stand up those stiff blue wrestling mats (you know, the ones that Velcro attach to the walls). There was a “medic” in each team who you had to protect; they healed the kids hit by “bombs”, and if they were hit the game was over. We’d gang up and attack the barriers. Much strategy, v fun.
we had a "bomb game" too but ours was where my dad would have his back to us and throw a rugby ball as high into the air as possible. whoever caught the ball won 2 points. whoever caught it first after landing on the ground won 1 point. coz it was a rugby ball, if it bounced it could go any direction. but if you caught it but didnt hold it high up in the air, someone else could tackle it off you. mum ended up banning it as it got pretty intense sometimes.
We played the bomb game with a digital watch timer back in elementary school. 'Terrorists team' set the countdown timer and placed the 'bomb' while the 'bomb squad' waited out of sight around the corner etc. Then the bomb squad had to come and locate the bomb and disarm it before it went off.
We played ghost. One person is under a sheet trying to catch everyone else and all the lights are off. Usually takes place in the living room so people are jumping around on furniture......there may have been one or two concussions because of this game. Lol
Ha! I just posted my reply of a similar game before checking comments. Only instead of a sheet, we used a sleeping bag. Guess it wasn’t as “unique” as I though.
When I was in middle school, my friends and I did something similar. One of us was “The Worm” and wore the sleeping bag. Everyone else tried to escape from the worms clutches in a small room with lots of furniture to run and jump on. It was fun.
My sisters and I were playing Ghost about 25 years ago, one of them fell face first into one of her bed posts. Landed right on her front tooth, caused nerve damage, tooth turned brown and decayed, had to get a fake tooth put in eventually.
We used to play E.T. in the playground. We'd run about acting out scenes from the film. I had a brown parka so invariably I'd get to be the lovable alien.
My college roommate managed to get up actual cartridge copy of it, and it is indeed a terrible experience that I couldn't play understand at all. Imagine my absolute dumbstruckness when my roommate invited over his brother and his brother beat it.
That game is the straw that broke the North American video game industry’s back. After being flooded with a ton of cheap, shitty games the whole market collapsed and a bunch of publishers went under. It’s the reason Nintendo was able to establish itself in the West.
Oh I loved the movie, especially the part where the police are chasing down ET to put him in a flimsy metal cage but he falls down a fucking ravine before they can catch him
I played that game on the Atari. Spent HOURS and hours playing at a friend's house. Beat it once, never thought about it again until the documentary started getting hype.
I mean, it was bad, but so were most Atari games, if we're really honest.
It's a coat...big..furry hood that you could zip right up and only your face is visable. But it was my older brothers so I only my eyes could be seen. No one had a brown one tbh. Kind of thing the band Oasis would wear.
Not really. As I explained earlier I was 5 years old and never needed to use this word since. I just assumed it was the name of the company that made the garment. As is often the way in England most companies are named after people. I just thought it was Parker. But I've now edited the post. Just for you.
sral · 14 points · Posted at 15:32:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think you mean brown parka and not parker. Cuz a brown parker sounds like you own a brown guy named parker...
Finally some pop culture! We did that too, not ET but Charlie’s angels. We would run around the neighborhood solving crimes. Fake crimes of course. We all had Farrah hair. :)
It was mostly “things like “who stole this” and “who murdered that” with no actual... crime victims. But we didn’t care. And when we “found” them, we would point our fingers like guns and stand together like they did in the show. Lol! We were a goofy bunch :)
We did this with Clue. Especially the scene with the singing telegram. Especially in pools.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this, but with Harry Potter. We'd run around yelling "crucio!" And "expelliarmus" crucio just made the other player put his or her hands behind their backs, though. Was about 10 when the first movie came out. Still think fondly upon those days.
I have a 16 year old son and recently I worry that I showed him films he was too young for. The main one being Clockwork Orange when he was maybe 12. Do you think it affected you in anyway? May I ask?
Watching horror movies was the least of my problems- I had a fucked up childhood in other ways that made a much more lasting impact on me than movies ever could have.
Though I don’t think A Clockwork Orange is appropriate for a 12 year old- I sincerely doubt the movie alone will cause any harm to him.
Might be a good opportunity to discuss what the word consent means though, considering some of the themes in that movie...
He's 16 now and tbh at the time I hadn't seen it for years and had forgotten most of it. He's cool though. When he can be bothered to speak to me. Typical teenager.
how cute! Some kids and I played something similar
My folks' comadre had a bunch of kids (my mom & dad had baptized one of the younger kids). The lady's kids and I would remake scenes from the spanish soap opera that was on at the time, "Mari Mar". I was the protagonist, (played in the soap opera by Thalia). It was so super cool to me because their mom would give them her old clothes to play with and she would dress up in stuff like sequin short dresses and heels with matching purses DAILY, so her old clothes were stuff like that. Swanky (in my kiddy mind) dresses, short tube dresses, bright blouses with big huge shoulder pads... We would have a total blast. After Mari Mar ended on TV, we stopped playing that. I don't remember why.
Me and my brother used to do that with Samurai Jack. We had those plastic toy swords you'd get at fairs (with red, blue, green or black plastic sheaths) and we'd stand on our parents bed and fight. One of us would be Samurai Jack (fun because he wins in the end) the other would be Aku and the rest of the bad guys (fun because you'd have the upper hand for most of the show).
Me and the kids on my playground used to pretend that the big Jungle Jim thing we had was the Titanic. The lookout guy would always scream that an iceberg was spotted like 5 to 10 minutes before recess was over and we'd all act out drowning or whatever. It was kind of morbid looking back on it.
I remember in elementary school Robotech had been on TV in the US for a short time. We'd all run around in gerwalk mode (bent over with our arms out like wings) pretending we were in it.
That never made it to our screens over here in the UK or at least I've never heard of it. But reminded me that I used to pretend to be Robocop too though!
Haha, this just reminded me. In elementary school I accidentally saw “Child’s Play” about the killer toy doll Chucky. So my friends and I created a game called Chucky where one of us was Chucky and if he caught you he got to kill you.
A friend and I played a game we called E.T. Emergency. We would sit in the swings and alternate pulling the chains so that we would be swinging sideways. We would swing in the same direction until one of us would randomly yell, “ET EMERGENCY!!!” in their best ET voice. You would then need to grab onto one of the vertical swing set posts and hold yourself up- then we would both let go and slam into each other.
I ate a lot of glue as a kid.
Yes. 5 year old me didn't know the correct spelling. I thought it was the company name so just presumed it was named after some english guy. Apologies.
THX450 · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, they were fine! We had to use My dads tennis racket from like the 80’s. It was still sturdy and the strings were tight. The ball was heavy to hit, but that also kept it pretty close so the batter would have a chance to be “out” since we played on the street and our bases were close together.
We played our version of stickball on the tennis court. We used a tennis ball and a variety of bats. Guys had to use actual broomsticks. Girls could use aluminum bats. Nothing more satisfying than hitting a tennis ball with an aluminum bat! Good night. Have fun finding that ball in the woods.
One of the chores my brother and I had was cleaning up the rotting fruit that fell off a tree at the back of our yard. I don’t remember if they were apples or pear or what... Anyway, one day my brother disappeared while I was picking up the mushy fruit. He came back a few minutes later with a tennis racket. He did the most hilarious sports commentary (ridiculous voice and all) while we took turns pitching these gross fruits at each other. The goal was to hit it as hard as you could with the tennis racket to make it explode. That chore became infinitely more fun.
I lived out in the country and would launch rocks with a tennis racket towards the neighbors house across the creek. Hit the house one time and freaked out and hid under my blankets for a good three hours
No I mean ice that you get from the little dispenser on the front of the fridge that you push a cup into and it shoots out (but yea I guess it comes from the freezer but you know what I meant damnit!)
I wish we could have done anything like what’s been suggested.
We didn’t have enough space to play baseball, even with a tennis ball, so we played tape ball in a tiny yard.
It’s literally just a ball of tape and paper towels. To hit you have to slap the tape and no matter how hard you slapped it, it always caught air resistance and fell maybe ten feet, so it was kind of unfulfilling. Bases were about 8 feet apart.
micge · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played badminton, but eventually all the rackets broke so we used discarded frying pans from a pile behind a market. I think they'd just done a "bring your old for n% off a new one" deal.
Hide and Seek in the dark. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had fun playing that with siblings/friends.
I used to have fun outwitting my brothers. We'd play in the basement, and when they came down with the flashlight to look for us and went off into a room, I'd sneak onto the stairs they came down off the start and hide there. They'd never think to look there because there's nowhere to hide on the stairs and they just cleared them when they came down. It was funny to watch them walking back and forth in front of the stairs trying to find us lol
Hide and seek in the dark was good. I remember once when I hid on a windowsill. It was a tiny windowsill, hard to balance on, so I had to keep moving my feet from it to the radiator that was under it, which was even thinner and hurt my feet. I was continually swapping the feet around, holding on with my hands to the window frame, hidden by a curtain. I remember someone actually touching me through the curtain, but not actually realising I was there, and I was hidden until they basically called the game off.
yeah i once hid on the edge of a bathtub with my back to the wall and the curtains half pulled. i had to balance on one butt cheek the entire time. eventually one of my friends came in and saw my sock but assumed it was a towel. needless to say, i won that round.
thats the problem with hide n seek, if you hide really well the game becomes not fun after a while because its a stale mate and you both want to just restart a new round
We called this Murder in the Dark! I was an excellent hider, but the tension of someone being very close but not finding me almost always causes me to giggle and give myself away. I still always smile when I try to bluff in games
Our version of Murder in the Dark meant you had to run after you had been found and it turned into a game of tag for those people. Once caught you become the murderer.
Me and my friend growing up had a more violent version of this. We'd be on opposite ends of his basement, shut the lights off, and "hunt" each other. We'd creep around and try to make noises to lure the other into traps. Once you figured out where the other person was, you basically just beat the shit out of them until one of you ran away and then the hunt started anew. Half the time, you'd pounce, slam into a table or something, and then the other person's laughter would give them away.
There were no real winners or objectives. Just dumbass 10 year old boys killing time.
We did this too. I actually wrote this in one of the replies but here I go again (copying it)
There was a time when there was a lot of power cuts in my state and duration was fixed too. So during summer vacation from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM there used to be no electricity and we decided it was absolutely the perfect time to play hide and seek. So one day we were hiding under the stairs of our Apartment, we used to keep our bikes there, when we heard something. Thought someone was messing with us. So we took a step back. After a few moments there was another sound. Now we knew no one was nearby, not wanting to get strangled by a ghost under the stairs we quickly ran out. Turned out there was a snake there. Yeah, so that stopped the hide and seek in the dark.
Manhunt was the BEST. We had a huge field behind the houses in our suburb, so we would go out there to play. It was like a hybrid with tag, so we had a “base” which was the neighbors house that you had to reach before being found and/or tagged. We thought we were so sneaky
there are a bunch of woods surrounding my neighborhood so we would go in there in pairs and hide behind rocks and under fallen trees and then when u saw someone you ran out and tackled them. So much fun.
I had never played this until high school. My best friend’s dad had recently gotten remarried and he and his wife would go out on dates a lot on weekends. That meant our crew of friends could go hang out alone at their house and do whatever we wanted. Instead of drinking or smoking or getting into mischief, we played hide and seek in the dark. It was awesome.
We used to have a motorhome when I was a kid and we'd play this when my dad was driving at night. A few of us kids would hide in the (very small) master bedroom in the back of the coach and then the seeker would try to find us in the dark. It was funny because there were only like 5 legitimate hiding spots in that room that we just cycled through, thinking we were clever, haha.
My friends and I started playing this summer after our freshman year of college. That is, until I smashed my forehead off the corner of a table and had to get stitches. Got ‘em out the morning of move in day for Sophomore year though haha
Hide and go seek in the dark was the best! The best "hiding spots" were not actual hiding spots at all but shadowed spots where you could sit (in dark clothing of course) and nobody would check because they weren't actually hiding spots. I would stay hidden forever just sitting in plain "sight" this way.
We called it Blind Man's Bluff. We'd even pretend to move somewhere else if the person got too close, by jiggling an item or throwing something away from us
r0b710 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was about to ask if anyone else called it this
hreisc · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my country we have a variant called "Gato Mia" which translates to Meow, Cat. The seeker asks the hiders to meow and has to find them based on sound (Marco Polo but in the dark and on land? lol). No flashlights allowed though!
Night time hide and seek was always the best. We either just played it around the whole block, or in the house we were all staying at for the night, which happened to be the biggest out of all of ours. We never played with flash lights though. Whoever was it had to go off of the very low visibility, or hope the moonlight shines in long enough to find someone.
We’d all get pretty good hiding spots, like up on the top pantry shelf, inside cabinets, and then a few times I hung on the side off the wall by holding onto the stair way, and then my best hiding place where absolutely no one could find me was just crouching down against a wall in a smaller room with nothing really beside me. It was just so dark, and no one really expected someone to just crouch out in the open like that, they always just brushed passed me to look around the couches and tables in the room.
We would all out on black clothes when we played hide and seek in the dark. We also didn't use flashlights. You could close a bedroom door and just stand against it and it was still hard to see you. Really fun times...you also have to be in a room with the light on while you count so your eyes dont adjust to the darkness
We usually played that around Christmas time because then one of the rooms was still lit by the tree. Then your eyes would be constantly readjusting. My dog would inevitably find someone and wouldn't leave that person alone. She bugged us all equally though, so it was still "fair"
Hide and seek in a dark basement was the best! People would set up traps like cardboard boxes or barbie dolls. We had a glow in the dark hockey mask that was super spooky and so when you hid all you could see was the mask floating.
Anyone play jailbreak? Basically cops/robbers at night in the neighborhood, farm, whatever. If a "cop" tags you, you go to jail (usually a porch). If a free robber tags jail and yells "jailbreak" everyone in jail runs free. If all robbers are in jail, teams switch roles for next round.
We had an extra lampshade lying around the house for some reason so I once put it on my head and stood really still behind my mom's chair. It took the seeker quite a while to find me haha
My friends and I played a version of this but without the flashlights because we usually played in our bedrooms which weren't very big. To make it a little more challenging whoever was it would have to stare at the light in the hallway the entire countdown before coming into the room just to make them extra blind.
Edited some stuff so this actually made sense I hate typing on phones.
We used to do that.. I was always first to be tagged because I was so afraid of the dark that I would just start running and screaming even before I'm spotted😂😂
No, because the seeker can still only really see where they shine their flashlight. We also wanted to be safe, and one of my brothers didn’t like the dark that much
I did the same thing! Only instead of waiting on the stairs watching them try to find me I went to my room and played video games. Got a decent amount of prime solo video game time that way.
I also played it but we called it “La mano peluda” or the Hairy Hand in english. It was a reference to a monster that would catch you at night and hold you with its scary hairy hand, kinda like a monster under the bed. It was really fun, one time a kid even peed herself while hiding under a bed. Also the seeker had to have his eyes covered and we spin them according to their age, one spin for each year.
Sorry for the grammar.
I was the Bathroom Dweller, when I was 8 I was better than I am now. I still play it with my younger cousins though.
Anyways I would hide under the sink, in the laundry machines, under some clothes, in a corner of the bathtub and anywhere else I could fit. I would dwell the bathroom for 3 rounds until the meta catches on that I hide in the bathroom and the next round I would hide somewhere else.
I still play it and while I'm larger and can't fit in places I used to I can still kick ass. The best feeling is finding a new spot to hide as a seeker and then using that spot as a hider. Haven't played in ~3 months though, maybe we'll play a round tonight lmao.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to do this, except we'd wear sunglasses at the same time. In the dark, with sunglasses equals totally blind.
nt96 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time my friends walked past my hiding spot, I always tried my hardest not to laugh.
We did the same, but pretended that the seeker was a velociraptor, complete with Jurassic Park style screeching sounds (or as close as kids could approximate). When an adult was the seeker, they were a T. rex, because they were big enough to pick you up with their "mouth arms".
Hide and seek in the dark was fun till my older siblings set up an invisible tape trap and wrapped me up like a joint in some bed sheets and threw me on the couch.
I played this in a church at night with a youth group a few times and man, there is nothing like it. Hiding in the darkest shadow you can find but still technically in plain site, the emergency lights, tall ceilings with echoing sounds. It was great!
Spotlight. It is basically hide and go seek, but with key differences. We would don dark clothing and/or camouflage, hide in the forest at night and then wait to be sought out/tracked by the person who was "it". Tons of fun.
MANHUNT now this was a good childhood game. literally took over the whole suburb
Artikay · 2230 points · Posted at 14:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time my dad took me to a church retreat for the weekend and all the kids there decided that they were going to play Manhunt in the woods at night. I was super stoked. It sounded awesome, I cant convey how hyped I was the whole trip upstate for this epic game of manhunt.
Earlier in the day we were fishing at a lake. My line kept getting hooked on a tree so I decided to walk along the edge of the lake to a better spot. I twist my foot a bit and land in this dirty ass lake filled with moss and shit.
After I go clean myself up and dont want to fish anymore so Im now playong by some monkey bars in the playground there. A kid slips and lands directly on my head. I get a concussion.
By the time night comes Im in bed with a concussion and a 105.5 fever which I assume was caused by accidentally drinking some mossy water. I did not play Manhunt that day.
To top it all off my Starfox game watch was broken from the water.
[deleted] · 277 points · Posted at 15:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Church retreats are always either really awesome or really shitty. There is no in between. Either way it's gonna be a story you tell well into adulthood.
My most vivid memory of my only church retreat was waking up at 3am to the sound of my bunk mate moaning. He wasn’t even doing anything, dude was just moaning in his sleep
My mom though.... Her pastor decided to hire some guys from the local town to come in with guns and act like they were holding the place hostage. WHAT THE FUCK
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 16:20:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean, I said you'd tell the stories well into adulthood. I didn't say whether you'd be telling them to a therapist or not.
At my church camp, we would play Sardines. It's like hide and seek but there's 1 person that hides, then the rest of the group goes to look for them. WHEN you find them, you have to hide with them. First person to find them, gets to be the next to hide. You only end when everyone's there, and how do you know if everyone is there? Well you whisper a mock roll call. lol. It's challenging going out to seek with 2 or 3 friends, find them, but telling your friends no one is "over there" then losing your friends so you can double back and hide with them. This has to be played in the dark. We played dozens of times in our church when we had "lock ins" which are chaperoned sleep overs IN the church. I'm an agnostic now, not a fan of organized religion, BUT some of my BEST childhood memories are from church camp or youth group.
I've been to church a total of 3 times ever. One of those times was with the youth group my friend was a part of for a "lock-in" night. Played Manhunt in the church in between the pews, through the galleries... Fun times. Church at night is extra spooky setting too
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, I also went to a lock-in with a friend's youth group. Was a pretty good time.
church retreats are the worst/best. that's where I learned shitty stage magic, karate, and lip-syncing, and also saw a girl fall out of the top bunk and punch a hole through her lip.
That's the kind of thing you'd expect from a church retreat. On one trip to Gatlinburg this guy takes on a dare to taste the hottest hot sauce in the salsa store. One taste later he's barreling down several stairs to Wendy's where they gave him a frosty. (He was sick for the rest of the trip.) On another our youth minister popped his shoulder out of socket during mega relay. Another one we were building a transition house where we were painting a room. The youth minister accidentally bought the type that if you were around it enough you got high off the fumes. That caused us to get high and we were such a laughing mess that we had to take a break every 45 minutes so we could get air. And my favorite involved my church and like 4 others putting dish soap into the fountain after hearing counselors sing at the end of morning show "Don't put bubbles in the fountain!" We never got caught because we bailed before we could. Church retreats are wild.
I'm happy to report that, in my neighborhood, the kids still play it! Every time a neighbor has a barbecue or party you can guarantee that once it gets dark the kids will all ask for flashlights to play manhunt.
The key difference in our game of manhunt vs hide and seek was that you were only caught if you surrendered. Basically step one find the people, step two beat them up until they surrendered and joined the hunters. Had to ensure the first hunter could beat someone up solo.
Every Friday night during the summer, as soon as dinner was done, the phone would start ringing to decide where we were playing that night. One of my best memories of my tween years.
Manhunt...one of the best parts of a Boy Scout camping weekend. Hours of fun and it never got old. The best game I ever played though was in high school. One girl had a party at her house, she lived in front of her dad's construction company, there was 40 kids playing in a storage/junkyard at night. So many places to hide. Nobody looked for me inside the dumpster. Some high school parties involve sneaking a bottle of Jack Daniels and smoking weed. Not ours. We played manhunt and drank Iced Tea. Sometimes I wish I was 15 again.
KPC51 · 3 points · Posted at 16:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt or sometimes called Hunt the cunt where I'm from is where the person that's it gets to beat the shit out of the people hiding until they get away or join them to be it
I remember playing this a TON during the summer with all the other neighborhood kids! Basically hide and go seek tag but at night. One time my sister his super well and we forgot she was playing for like 3 rounds. She was very mad that we just forgot about her lol
We had a good sized block of woods and a park nearby. It was very simple, whoever was it had a 5 minute head start and couldn't go in anyone's house and couldn't use a bike but the hunters could.
Edit: I just remembered, when we got older, like in college, we did the same thing but at night on a golf course with paintball guns. It ended in a stand off in one of the storm shelters where one of my friends got lit up around a corner at point blank. The kid was shredded. We weren't playing at actual course so we had our guns cranked up and he took about 7 or 8 to the rib cage before he started screaming to stop. When we got back to the house he took is shirt of and was just bloody mess of purple welts.
EuCleo · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes, and I saw kids of all ages playing it. My older teenage cousins and their friends would play it with us. One of the boys (gee, I can’t remember his name) used to wear costume masks to scare us. It was fun.
Where you had two large teams, anywhere from 6v6 up to 10v10 or more.
One team is “it” and has a base; the other team is given ample time to hide and it covered a large portion of our neighborhood with pretty natural boundary lines, probably slightly bigger than a city block but in a heavily wooded suburban setting.
The game changed teams once all players of the hiding team were captured and in jail. Members of the hiding team could free their prisoners.
Our jail was always the neighbors front porch who had large bushes and trees that created natural “secret” paths that someone could sneak to the jail and release their players.
Common strat was to send someone in to lure out the guards ditch them and another player would sneak in and tag them to free them.
The best! We had over 20 kids take over the neighborhood. Kids would go as far as bringing face paint or wearing all white to stand against white houses. Jumping fences, hiding under cars and bushes, running through the desert (patch of grass between a few houses that seemed much larger than what it is now as a 26 yo.). What a blast
I once had under a trailer for an hour and nobody found me. Got bored and went to find them only to see that I'd been disqualified and they'd started another round ages ago.
The only time I ever played, I actually won by hiding between an above ground pool and a deck, but under the deck part so whoever shined their flashlight in could see through to the other side
While we were in high school we would play a MASSIVE game of Manhunt with normally 80 people playing. The goal would be to go from one location to another without getting tagged, the distance was normally 3-6 miles. The runners would get a 10 minute head start with the only rule being you had to stay within bounds (usually two main streets so maybe 2 miles wide). Then the chasers would get in their cars with a driver and one person to jump out and tag runners. If you're a runner and got tagged would hop in the car and go around helping chase after people. Lots of stories came out of that game of people getting guns pulled on them when they tried to cut through someone's backyard. Great times!
Manhunt for us as kids meant 1 person was hunting and each person caught then became a hunter as well, until everyone was hunting the last person, who won.
One lunchtime when I was in school a group of us organised game of man hunt in the local park near the school, 5 on the first day, about 30 on the second and by day 3 there were over 100. We lived in the most eastern town in the UK and the park was woodland and public park space (see google map pic)
The roads that are cut into the cliff were the best part. You'd be tearing along being chased, leap down the wall, sprint across the road and clamber up the other side, often dodging traffic whilst doing so, I got clipped by cars more than once and having the balls/sheer stupidity to make those runs was what marked out a winner. The adrenaline rush of being chased by 4 people, making the jump into moving traffic, getting over the other side wall and leaving them in the dust was unbeatable.
This is how we played manhunt too. Never got THAT big of a game going. If we talked the neighborhood girls into playing we could get a game of 20 or so going. Usually more like 10-12. We made it slightly different by allowing the hunter a bicycle. If you got caught, you could either hunt on foot or if you were close by where you left it, you could hop on your bicycle too. But giving original hunter the bicycle ensured you didn't have some fat/slow hunter unable to catch anyone.
The high school kids used to play at the local middle schools. Every once in a while, when I was in middle school, we'd have an announcement about some hooligans breaking the shingles on the roofs. Turns out, manhunt got rowdy and the high school kids were jumping from roof to roof (open campus). Unfortunately by the time I got to high school and could play, the games always fell through.
There was a bit of a difference between the way I've always heard it played and what I'm reading here though. The Hunters would always start in one spot, and the hunted, starting in another, would have to make it across without being caught. There might have been some kind of jailbreak rule too but I can't remember. Now, depending on how big the play area was, the hunted would be in cars with minimum two people. Obviously, a chaser and a driver, the chaser could only get out if they were actively chasing someone down. This would be if we were playing from one side of the neighborhood to the other or even further.
We talked a bunch about playing in college, enough people wanted to play, but the timing never worked out. Plus, someone brought up the cops not appreciating the idea. Lame. Redbull... Get on this shiet
Yeah damn that shit sounds intricate and fun as hell. I'm in my 30s and now I want to play that way!
Ours was basically reverse hide-and-seek, with the added element of the bike, and we all stopped playing sometime in our middle-school ages. We had a neighborhood basically consisting of a giant circle of like 4-5 blocks, we were given carte blanche of the neighborhood and could hide in pretty much any yard (we all knew the 2-3 houses not to go around), and all our parents trusted us to be out as long as we wanted as long as we were back by dinner. Closest we got to jumping roofs might be hiding on someone's shed or climbing a tall tree to hide, but we all knew like every hiding spot. We'd play ALL day, take a break at someones house for lunch, usually one of the moms making PB&Js.
But the idea of an older game with cars and rooftops sounds like such a missed opportunity for an awesome idea. And kids now could organize a game so much easier with social media... although probably a higher chance of someone showing up who would ruin the game.
Yeah, I remember chasing my bro on top of this tractor trailer, him running to the end of it and just jumping off, tucking and rolling. I just watched him run off, then climbed down the side. I could never figure out how to absorb shock as well as he did.
I was super good at manhunt and I would usually follow the hunters. The key strategy is to hide where the hunter just cleared. Also if you were being chased, find the darkest corner of a house, run full blast and as soon as you turn the corner, baseball slide into the darkest shadow of the corner. The hunter will think you continued to run and will run right past you 10 feet away or less. The objective when hiding in a shadow is to not move a muscle, even hold your breath, when the hunter looks right at you, and his eyes will pass over you like you are invisible. Then run back around the corner where he just went around when he passes you. To him, it will look like you disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Twenty four hour paintball scenario game was similar in many fashions. You try to avoid the spotlights, because if you are unfortunate enough to get stuck in one near the enemy general's base, you will be lit up to high hell.
Ha this whole comment is just bringing back waves of memories and making me chuckle. It was never fun like just picking a spot and hiding, so you're totally right that the hiders really became hunters of the hunter, just stalking him, trying to outwit him, wanting to come up with more unique ways to hide, and you really wanted to get spotted after a little bit because the challenge of running away and losing the hunter was always the most fun.
Never got into paintball. Didn't really have the money in our family to afford the hobby as a kid, and as an older teen when I probably could afford it, never really had the friends to do it with. Definitely a regret to not get into it a little bit.
Only live once man. A lot of hobbies can get expensive really quick. Gamers, paintballers, artists, golfers, a lot of it can be somewhat of a hit on your pocket book or a major dent.
I play golf very seldomly, and it's a fun hobby for me 5-10x a year, almost always at a public golf course, with some hand-me-down clubs I got from my uncle... or you can be my buddy who is a member of a country club mostly for the golf, buys some sort of new clubs or equipment every year, plays probably 50-60x a year, goes to PGA Tour tournaments, etc. Same hobby, much different expense.
So, the roof thing was a bit extreme and actually did do quite a bit of damage. Pretty dangerous too, a bunch of kids running around in the dark jumping over some serious gaps. But, I've always wanted to get a proper adult group together to play like an all night cross town game. However, the party pooper in me thinks the cops would have to be told about it ahead of time to avoid any misunderstandings. "911? Yes, a man just jumped out of a car and chased a girl down before dragging her back to the car."
I haven't seen that tag movie yet. But, in my head I picture this cross town game as a coming of age(pre mid life crisis?), buddy comedy, like Superbad. The two friends (let's be honest, I'm picturing Seth Rogan and James Franco) sit up high looking down on the finish line and the hunters waiting for the final few runners. The sky is starting to show hints of orange, there's only a few minutes left before sunrise and the end of the game, no one has won yet. The two are covered in scrapes and dirt, clearly winded from a nearly endless night of running and hiding. they're not as spry as they once were. They look at each other and with a deep sigh "let's finish this". Fade to black as 'Time' by Pink Floyd starts to play.
I've yet to hear bad things about tag. The dragging thing was just an extreme example. Probably kind of funny to chaser/runner, but horrifying for onlookers. Like the bong/bomb scene in Harold and Kumar 2, haha.
This is exactly how my friends and I played a game we dubbed “amoeba tag” during recess.
One time, the slowest person started out as “it”, and we kind of mockingly ran circles around him until the fastest kid took pity and let himself get tagged. We scattered like cockroaches after that.
We do a different version of “amoeba tag” as adults and call it the “party amoeba.” Its best done at Cons. You start with 2-3 people, go to each gathering of people or room party and get the coolest 2-3 people to leave with you until you have a large crowd, then go back to your own room and all the sudden, instant party with the neatest people from all the other parties already there. Others follow. I always get the best parties happening that way lol.
Sorry. That really had nothing to do with “tag” just that “amoeba” reminded me of doing this on a regular basis.
Manhunt or sometimes called Hunt the cunt where I'm from is where the person that's it gets to beat the shit out of the people hiding until they get away or join them to be it
I remember having fond memories of playing man hunt all round there. Never was just school based. Guessing by the sounds of you were from Denes. It was who ever would turn up after school and see where the mayhem took us.
Many a time I have jump of the one the paths without thinking, only to be horrified when I saw the drop and braced for impact.
This is also how I played this, but we called it sardines. We played in the dark with flashlights and wore dark clothes. We were allowed to deceive the seekers by throwing things and changing spots. It was a nightmare.
Oh man, this manhunt was the best one. We live in a cul de sac with a park, so we'd have to climb fences and shit to get to the other streets, otherwise you'd have people around the proper entrance/exit of the street.
That feeling you get when you're getting chased by the whole neighbourhood is something else man
We played this way and we also played with teams and there was a base. One team would hide and the other team would seek (usually with one defending the base). If the hiders made it to base on-touched they got a point.
This was basically what our manhunt was. Reading all these it makes me wonder.. how the fuck did we all have the same name for a somewhat similar thing? Our parents never talked about it (only tag), yet somehow, across multiple countries (UK, Canada, USA) we all had the same game despite not being able to communicate with eachother (pre internet)
Since those days I've moved around the country and there are certainly regional variations. I'm now in the midlands and got blank looks when I mentioned manhunt, round here it's all ackey 123, which doesn't sound half as fun or dangerous :)
Was there a goal for the people hiding? I played this and for some reason remember using a streetlight in the middle of the street as the goal. The hiders had to get there and say "manhunt one two three" while touching said pole. However if a hider was caught they'd join the seeking team. Round ends when everyone's either been caught or made it to the pole.
This reminds me of my old public school. In my last 3 years of school we organized massive games of manhunt on our playground (which had forested areas and was pretty big for a school yard- like 8 to 10 acres?) where basically all of the older grades played. It must've been around 100 people as well. They foolishly forced people who wanted to join to be the hunter, so me and my nerdy, girlish, small self was picked to be hunter for a recess and they got bored. But I was able to join! Although I wasn't good at it and didn't have many friends I still fondly remember being a part of that massive game.
I also remember in winter time (from Canada so lots of snow) people would have snow forts and create alliances and would create very massive and elaborate snow forts with the snow sleds, then have different conquering expeditions to steal others' snow blocks to build up their own and force those conquered to work for them. It was also an older-grade school-wide event. Man those years were fun.
For me, Manhunt was one person hiding, everyone else looking for the one person.
The game you described, we called "Wolf Pack," because the hunter started out as one person, but the game evolved as more people were added to the "pack" and less people were part of the "hunted."
We used to play it on a back alley of main street in our small town. There was a cemetary and lots of other small alleys to hide in. It got a little out of control when some kids started climbing on roofs of various houses and businesses.
Corosz · 141 points · Posted at 14:58:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh goddamn we ran all over the neighborhood playing manhunt. Through backyards, on roofs of schools, just everywhere. Makes me miss gradeschool a bit.
Ours was called Murder in the Dark. Everyone picks a folded paper from a hat all marked O except for one X. the murderer. Everyone hides but still mills around, moving from one spot to another in a dark house. The murderer kills people by firmly grabbing their shoulder. The victim screams, falls and lies in the floor til the the last player remains and wins. It was terrifying when you could hear someone scream in another part of the house.
100% would play that again if my friends weren’t so damned civilized and just wanted to drink wine and talk about their kids and politics.
A few years ago I was on a golfing trip with a bunch of childhood friends, and our cabins were literally on the golf course. After coming home from the bar someone had the genius idea of playing a game of manhunt on the golf course like when we were kids. It was probably 11 at night, pitch black, with 8 guys in their late 20s playing manhunt on a golf course. It was amazing we couldn’t see shit and kept falling over.
yeah we played this too but really it was never that fun. i mean it was fun to run around suburbs at night, but aside from that - it was usually hiding for two hours and ends up being the "hunter" chasing down his or her crush in circles in a culdesac until everyone's like f this
funkyb · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Release". Manhunt but you had 2 even teams and once captured people were put in jail (usually a relatively well lit porch) and could be released if someone on your team got there and called "1-2-3 release!" Once you caught everyone the teams switched rolls.
God I remember playing manhunt as a kid. My dad used to take me and my siblings camping with the family, as in it was his sisters campsite and she brought all of her kids, as well as her nieces and nephews that she had to take care of after her sister had passed. I was super close with this side of the family at the time and it was probably the highlight of my memories with them.
My aunt owned this one spot at a site called Steeprock in my province. I loved the place. Me and my cousins and siblings would play manhunt at night, but the problem was that we didn't have any boundaries. The upside though was that we knew the entire campsite like the back of our hands. And we especially knew the best hiding places. I was 8 at the time we started this, my siblings are all older, the youngest of the cousins was 7. So it was 7-14 year olds running around at night. Ten of us exactly. My older brothers always stayed with me to keep an eye on me, but my younger cousins siblings didn't give two shits about him because he liked to think he was 12 and tried to act like a teenager so they just let him do stuff to teach him a lesson I guess. You can imagine how this turned out.
We played this for YEARS, or at least until they sold their campsite because we stopped going. But we eventually had to make boundaries after an incident with my younger cousin. I don't remember exactly what happened. But basically my older brother was the hunter, we were all hinders. We all had flashlights and three of us had walkie-talkies (both of my brothers, and one of our cousins, they were the oldest so they had to have them for emergencies, my dad had the fourth one back at camp so the adults knew what was going on), and we made it a rule that only the hunters could use the flashlights, so if you got caught you HAD to turn it on and keep it on, and the other rule was that every so often a hunter would have to go into the middle of the open field and flash their flashlight five times to signal a "group meeting." This was basically just to see who was all caught and who needed to be found still. If one of the hunters had a walkie-talkie but weren't in the meeting when it was called, one of the other two had to ask where they were and what they were doing just to be sure. Eventually we had it so that everyone had one.
We played for a good hour one night and stopped because we thought everyone was caught. After we did the hunter count, we realized my youngest cousin wasn't with us, but EVERYONE had been found and he was the only one nobody had seen. We couldn't exactly try to ask where he was, because at this time we still only had three walkie-talkies, so we split into groups of two, my oldest sibling going on his own, and we searched for another hour doing an entire sweep of the campsite, even going as far as running along the lake shore to see if maybe he was on the beach or something. It started to get concerning after the second hour had passed and NOBODY heard from him, so one of my brothers went back to camp while my cousin contacted my dad and said he was missing. We got all of the adults involved on the hunt, even though a lot of them were drunk, and we let their dog loose so he could find the kid since it was the kids dog and they were practically attached. But we were actually terrified for this kid because he could be lost in the woods or something and nobody would know. My older brothers and cousins were angry because it was their responsibility to watch us and make sure nothing bad happened, and they were scared for something to happen to him because it would be their fault. His sister cried, his mom didn't even bother to help, she just laughed and stayed by the fire to keep drinking. It was rough. We kept calling for him and saying that the game was over and to come out of hiding. For two hours. It was getting way too dark by the time we did a third search of the campsite, and we were seriously ready to call the camp rangers to issue an actual search. The adults were going to take care of it after they put us kids to bed, so we all stood in the field discussing it. Then all of a sudden we hear faint laughter. My brother points his flashlight up in the tree he heard it coming from, and there's my stupid cousin just sitting there. Laughing. My brothers and cousins practically dragged him out of the tree and yelled at him, telling him that the game was over hours ago. According to my cousin, after we all ran off to look for him the first time we called the big group meeting during the game, he ran over and climbed into the tree because he knew nobody would look there again. Oh and he heard us saying the game was done and to come out of hiding, he found it hilarious that we were all actually worried about him and thought he died and was going to get the rangers involved. His dad practically dragged him back to camp after while talking sternly to him all the way there. The next day his dad drove him home and grounded him and we all got to stay for the next three days. We changed the rules after that incident, set strict boundaries, and my dad got us more walkie-talkies so that everyone could have one. We also made sure that if my cousin was playing, one of his siblings had to stay with him at all times. None of them disagreed. Sometimes we even left him out. Manhunt was still fun after that though.
Our game was called Hunter. A variation on night time hide and seek but every player chooses an animal to be. The hunter had to find you AND remember what animal you were. Yelling for eg “BANG WOLF!” If they remember correctly, you’re dead.
The next generation in my family still plays this game and i join in when I can.
There’s something about being chased or chasing someone brings out primal instincts. It doesn’t matter if I’m being chased by an 8 year old, I still run like a squirrel.
MANHUNT yes!! My middle school would take us on a retreat (all 6th-8th grades but it was a small school so we'd have like 90 people at most) and every year we'd play manhunt at night where we could hide in the majority of the retreat's main area. Some teachers had flashlights and were the "hunters" and some teachers stayed back in "jail". If they pointed their flashlight at you and yelled your name you had to go to jail. Once in jail they'd give you a small task (sing your abc's, do a number of jumping jacks/push ups) then you were free to go. A good number of people would end up falling or whatever but no one really cared they just got back up since they didn't want to be found. It was easily one of the best parts of the retreat.
We played Manhunt, but flashlights weren’t allowed. I lived near a large wooded area that bordered a park, so we had about 100+ acres to roam around in that had some rough dirt roads. But we usually confined it to one or a few of these sections.
hoo_ts · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt was a great game, half a dozen kids would start at one end of the woods and a dozen kids would hide (complete darkness of course) the hidden dozen or so would eventually get caught one-by-one and join the hunt.
one rule was you weren’t allowed to leave the woods but they were damn huge; game went all evening.
Hiding in your perfect spot for a few peaceful minutes until your friend suddenly comes barreling into you at full speed with the “hunters” charging behind them.
We played this too in the forest at the end of our street!
One time I was running from the hunter, and I knew we were coming up to the edge of a small outcropping, so I decided to jump for some reason? It was maybe 15 feet high and I definitely twisted an ankle.
I played this alot as a kid, the very last time I played it I was prone on the ground at midnight on a new moon, pitch black In the woods. The hunter spotted me and started running towards me, I went to spring up and caught my foot on a root and basically threw my pronebody at him while he was running and my mouth connected with his knee, I fractured my upper jaw and knocked my two front teeth out. This was like 8 years ago (I'm young) and I still have jaw problems, fun times
Edit: but I still have my front teeth so that's a plus
We played in man hunt in college. Start on opposite sides of campus. One team tries to make it to the other side while the other team drives around in cars & trucks looking for them. If you got caught then you could help the other team.
The police eventually made us stop... didn’t feel it was safe (people in backs of trucks, people sneaking around at night, etc)
We played man hunt while camping out in one kids neighborhood. We would split into three groups and in the middle of the night try and find the other groups. When found, we would ambush said enemy group with ball bearings and rocks shot from sling shots. Lots of fun. Parents shut down the fun when one boy lost an eye.
So many good memories playing manhunt! Our whole neighborhood would get involved. One time we were playing and my friend was running for her life after almost being spotted. It was nighttime, so she didn’t see a low tree stump coming up in her path. She was going so fast, she summersaulted over it and landed on her feet. I was the only one who saw. Still the coolest thing she’s done to date, over a decade of friendship later.
Did this a few times in highschool, only limits were you could hid anywhere publicly accessible in desiginited area, could not hide on moving vehicle's.
canno3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers used to play that! Our mom would drop one of us off in the neighborhood and all of the neighborhood kids and us would go out looking. It was so much fun!
A twist on that, a few times I played a game where only one person hid. The rest would search for that one person, and when they found him, they would hide with him until everyone found him. The last person to find him had to hide for the next round. I think some people called it Sardines.
I think sardines is the reason for my anxiety of being left out of stuff. When you were a kid and you were the only one left looking for everyone else it was the loneliest feeling lol
dishie · 3 points · Posted at 14:13:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's why you gotta get gud, dude.
Seriously though, I know that pain. In 5th grade the mean girls invited me to a birthday slumber party just to have someone to laugh at. I was so excited to be included but they ended up ditching me in a dark garage and hiding from me the rest of the night. I watched Gidget and fell asleep alone. Took me literal years to forgive the birthday girl. Her brother had died (back when we were kids) so as an adult I understood she was having a rough time and the bullying was a symptom. Fuck the ringleader though, once a bitch, always a bitch.
I remember this! We only played it once when I was a kid because I made my brothers mad. We played it in my house with my brothers and their friends. I loved hiding near my dad whenever we played hide and seek, I actually hid behind him ON his chair with a jacket over my head while he played Word of Warcraft and my siblings had to call the game quits because they couldn't find me. Long story short I loved that hiding spot and used it again when we played sardines. My brothers didn't like the game after our spot was found very quickly. I can't tell if maybe it was because they were being too noisy bumping each other trying to cram under the desk and chair, or if it was the fact that there were five kids sticking out of my Dads computer desk. Needless to say, my mother was very confused when she turned on the lights and saw a bunch of arms and legs underneath a desk while my dad payed no attention to any of it.
Dude, Sardines waa my jam as a kid. It's really fun when you do it in someone's house and turn all the lights out so people can get away with hiding in plain sight, too
OSCgal · 6 points · Posted at 20:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in a church youth group, we'd have overnight parties at the church and would play Sardines. Lots of hidey-holes in a church!
That does sound like a lot of fun. It's pretty silly as an adult, too, because I can't squeeze in to spots that I could as a kid, so I have to do a lot more hiding in plain sight.
Inside No. 9 is an ongoing British anthology show where each episode is a self-contained story. Some are dark comedies, some are dark mysteries, some are dark dramas, but all of them are very British and very well-written.
The reference is from the very first episode, where the entire thing takes place in a large wardrobe during a game of sardines. The first season is on Hulu, can't wait for the rest to come over stateside.
That was our go-to game at teen church events, but the hiding person would tell their boyfriend/girlfriend where they were so they could have a few seconds to make out.
We played it at a movie theater I worked at once per year during the Christmas party. Trying to hide and not be found in the movie theater was a good time.
We did one similar but we would all bring our walkie talkies (there was only about 6-8 of us normally) and Our bicycles so if we were caught we could go back to whoever’s house we left them at and grab our bikes and our walkie talkies and join the hunt. Then to really spice it up the friends house would be home and it was the goal to get back to home and if they did they could sit and use their walkie talkies to fuck with us
Came to post about Sardines!!
We played it in an open park with barely any tree cover and I remember cramming into low spaces in the field between small hills, and near rain drainage grates
Sardines was the ONLY thing my friend circle ever wanted to play. As an adult I'm super claustrophobic, I really didn't realize it as a child I guess, but whenever they would start a game I'd just go do something else. Stupid never had a girlfriend and never will me missed the chance to be smushed in a tight spot with some attractive females of my age group, but it's not surprising I shoed away from that too.
I'm 15 and live in the US, we have manhunt AND ghosts in the graveyard. Manhunt (for us) is 1 kid hunting for everyone else, while ghosts in the graveyard was all the kids hunting for one kid, but when you find him, you have to hide with him, until the last person who hasn't found him yet loses.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 15:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, Eastern US, I heard the same game called both Manhunt and Ghosts in the Graveyard.
However our version was a blend of the two you described. Starts out with 1 person searching for everyone else hiding. Whoever the searcher catches joins the searcher. Everyone hiding tries to get back to base to be safe. Once everyone is safe or caught, the next round starts with everyone safe hiding, and everyone caught searching. Once 1 hider remains, they become the searcher for the next game.
Basically just a variation, not sure where it started
Yeah we had Ghost in A graveyard, but it was something about running through a "graveyard" and not getting caught by the kids jumping out from behind things. You had to set up a course for it, but it was a lot of fun.
Toezap · 9 points · Posted at 19:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Singular "Ghost in the Graveyard" here. In our version, only one person would hide and the rest of us would try to flush the "it" person from their hidey-hole and make it back to base without getting tagged. If you got tagged, you joined the "ghost" team and tried to catch the people who hadn't been tagged yet.
we had both, but we played ghost in the grave yard on a trampoline. one person (the ghost) layed in the middle while everyone else walked in a circle and sang a chant. at the end of which. the "ghost" would "wake up" but have to keep their eyes closed and try to tag someone, who would then go on to be the new ghost.
edit: I have also played ghost in the graveyard where everyone struck a pose and switch when the ghost isn't looking. the ghost would have to catch someone moving, if they see you move your out.
Chicago suburbs in the 70s. Ghost In The Graveyard.
jmel79 · 5 points · Posted at 20:20:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Texas.....I remember it being called Ghost Ghost in the Graveyard and had to yell that out when someone was spotted and everybody would haul ass back to home base.
Or something like that...its been damned near 30 years since I"ve played it.
We played it that everyone counted until midnight to let the 'ghost' hide and then everyone goes searching for them and when they find them they yell "ghost in the graveyard!!" And then everyone has to get back to the starting point without getting tagged. Whoever's tagged is the 'ghost' next round.
My childhood best friend’s house backed up to an actual cemetary. So, we played ghost in the graveyard in an actual graveyard for added spooky factor. Super fucked up now that I look back but damn it was fun.
Edit: also from the Midwest - southern Chicago suburbs
We played Ghost in the Graveyard, but it wasn't flashlight tag. Everyone had to wait for one person to hide and then you had to go around the house. If the hiding "ghost" popped out before you completed one full round about the house you had to complete it before you could return to the porch to be safe, if you'd already been around the house once you could just go back to the the porch from wherever you were and be safe. If the ghost tagged you you became the ghost, if the ghost tagged no one they were it for another round. We LIVED for this game. It was awesome, and I miss it so much.
While playing ghost in the graveyard, we'd chant "A ghost, a ghost, we wanna see a ghost! Horse in in the pigpen, cow in the junk yard, we want to see a ghost!" I don't know what a horse or cow have to do with the game, but we always said it.
Ah yeah we played that in boy scouts, except we had two seekers and a home base - you went to hide, and if you could get back to home base without getting caught, you win. One seeker would seek and one would protect home base.
Oh and we weren't allowed to use flashlights, so the seeker would just be wandering around in the forest at night looking for people. It got kinda scary
We called it flashlight tag. We didn't have much of a "forest" in the suburbs, but we would play in the little woods we had and our yards in our neighborhood.
this shit sounds like the beginning of a horror movie trevor i can see you behind the tree... come on man come out... trevor?!?! someone steps outs thats not trevor
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times we scared ourselves playing flashlight tag because we convinced ourselves that something like this had just happened.
Yes! I think we called it everything from flashlight tag, to manhunt, to midnight. But same thing. It was THE BEST at barbecues with 10+ kids and a huge yard.
When we started playing flashlight tag, it was just 3 of us (5 if their younger siblings joined) and we would stay in the same spot. When my best friend moved to the neighborhood, it turned into ninja flashlight tag which meant those that weren't it sneaked through the whole neighborhood. You had to hide wisely, if you hid near a younger kid, they would get caught first a blab where they saw you run to. I miss those days.....
Line up everyone except the “it” person. They’re not allowed to look anywhere but in front of them, nor are they allowed to talk except for roll call; the leader can look forward or backwards. If the leader sees the “monster” and can shine a light on them, the monster joins the line. If the monster can touch the person in the back of the line without getting caught, that person “dies” and becomes a monster as well. Game is over if all the monsters are caught or the leader is taken.
Leader can call for a roll call - each person says their name in order, which really adds to tension when suddenly there’s no one behind you (or when someone is there and they don’t say anything)
JKorp · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
jesus I thought you were Waji for a sec
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you forget trespassing is a crime
JKorp · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
momentarily, yes
but only "in the forest" for context so idk
wB68 · 8 points · Posted at 14:40:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this will date me, but we called it "Hogan's Heroes" from the TV show. Whoever was IT had to use a large flashlight, and the rest of us had to sneak up to him without being seen with the spotlight.
Haha we called it German spotlight, worrying name to think about now
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:27:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s what we called it- obvious, now, that it was based on the guard tower at WW2 German pow camps! I think all children play games about the current war, then after a couple decades they become dated and lose meaning, and are absorbed into games about ideas that children find more current and relevant.
We also played Vietnam- based around the field hospital.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have played same kinda game too! Though we called it "Baskervillen koira" (Baskervilles dog)
How about this instead: our "Spotlight" could only be played at specific locations, most notably the playground at our middle school. This was a classic wooden playground, the front of which resembled a castle gate. The bridge over the gate was one of the highest points of the playground, and this is where the person who was "it" was located.
Rules:
Game is played at night in the dark.
Person who is "it" has a flashlight.
This person cannot leave the top of the gate.
If they spot someone with the flashlight and correctly call their name while illuminated, that person is out.
Players must sneak up the playground, and cross a designated line near the gate along the castle wall.
First person to get at least two hands over the line (there's one on either end of the bridge) wins, and is "it" next.
My friends and I played this all the time when we were kids! We would use our entire neighborhood. Rounds could take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. Was so much fun. Called it ghost in the graveyard. God I wish I was a kid again sometimes.
We did a similar version in my basement with all the lights off so it was pitch black. Hiding was hilarious coz you'd hear the seeker crashing into things constantly
We used to play two variants of hide and seek... no forests here, so it was in a neighborhood (in a Northern European, so you wouldn't get shot if you trespassed), one was called Krógva og blunda (hide and close your eyes... standard Hide and Seek where you would stay hidden until you were found) and the other was called Blikka (Canned Hide and Seek - you were supposed to have a can, that the hiders would have to get to and kick before they were found, we didn't so it was usually a wall or a lamp post or something that we had to touch).
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being your typical teen edge lords, we called it German spot light tag or slave runner lol.
Also the spot light person would set up at like a central location/deck and the runners would have to reach a middle point without being spotted/called out.
GCP_17 · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we played "beam". Same concept, except for the person who was 'it' had a flashlight and if they shone it on somebody would should, "beam on [person's name]". That person was captured and the game would continue.
We called that Ghost in the Graveyard. I don’t think we went so far as to use dark clothing or camo, but it sounds pretty similar. Everybody but the ghost would stand at the ‘base’ and count while the ghost would hide. Then everybody would go find the ghost. As soon as anybody saw the ghost they would yell “GHOST” and everybody would run back to base. Anybody who got tagged joined the ghost for the next round. I think it was occasionally called something to the tune of bloody murder.
dikupu · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played this game as well, but we called it ghost in the graveyard. The person had to shout out “MIDNIGHT” to come find everyone
We played spotlight too but we also played a game called Bedlam: We draw a circle with a 2-5 meter radius in the ground. Two teams were formed and take turns Hiding and Seeking. The hiding team would hide, the seeking team would seek. If a seeker finds and tags a hider, they escort them back towards the circle. Once every hider is in the circle the round ends... but if a hider who hasn’t been caught runs through the circle (at least a meter or 2 in was the unspoken rule) and yells bedlam, everyone who is in the circle can run free. There would usually be a seeker acting as guard so that if someone does run through they can tag everyone again. Fastest team to catch all the hiders wins. We often played out in the middle of the bush or anywhere on our block with my backyard as the “Bedlam”. We are surrounded by tons of bushland so it makes it extra challenging to play. The tactic was dark clothes and using your torch as little as possible as not to get noticed.
Flashlight tag! We played this all through my childhood and even into the teenage years. We just got WAY more creative as we got older and it turned into a covert ops style game. Our rules were that once you were actually physically tagged by whoever was it, you were on their team so “it” grew exponentially.
One kid managed to climb 15 feet up a tree and he won because no one could get up there to tag him. Another kid fell in the lake, so he got tagged because my dogs started jumping in after him. Also noteworthy was the time some of us got lost in a cornfield.
Mine and the neighbor boys family were surrounded by and adjacent to a large forested valley that formerly held a lake before the owner blew up a massive beaver dam. The valley still contained a creek that had it's origin there due to several springs bubbling up down there. Oh and it also had quicksand... Nearly lost my sister once...
My friends and I played a dissimilar game, also called Spotlight. We would investigate sexual abuses by Catholic Church priests in Boston, and then report on it to the Boston Globe.
Ours was called "Release" and was played with two teams. One team was "It" while the other team hid. Whenever a kid was caught, they went to the base and had to stay on/near/touching it until everyone on the hiding team was found...OR...one of the hiding kids could sneak up to the base, touch it, yell Release, and all the caught hiding kids could run off and hide again.
There were also some rules/guidelines to prevent the seeking team from "guarding" the base too closely, but I forget the specifics.
I played this at night on camp sites when I was a kid. You caught the person by shining a light directly into their face. We called it 'Beam in the Face'.
We played a game like that but called it “light tag” because whoever was “it” called out someone they spotted, who then got up and tried to run away. The person with the light had to then tag them, and tagged people are out
I used to do the same with all the kids from by neighborhood but during the day insted. We had a ''mini forest'' in our street and we would climb the trees and/or use camouflage to hide ourselves. We then turned the game into paintball later on. The only issue was that there were some gypsies that started to live there and they weren't very happy with us but at the same time our parents gave them food so they never did any harm to us. I miss living there, you could go around the streets at 4am by yourself and no one would bother you. I complain a lot about my country but its probably one of the safest in certain locations.
Used to play hide in seak in a cornfield. We would have 10 or so kids and would have teams of 2 so the speaker wouldnt have to walk around the giant cornfield by themselves. It was a Ton of fun and would usually take up half the day.
I did this in school camping. The teachers went hiding, all the camping went dark and we had to search using flashlights. When finding, we would receive a token and run away, so we wouldn't give away the position to other teams. In the end, the team with most tokens won.
We played the same thing as well, but we called it German Spotlight. A small group of people had a big flashlight, and they'd have to tag you and put you in jail.
Mine was when we were in high school, called it fugative. Start at the school and run across town to a park without getting caught. We had "cops" in cars and if they flashed their headlights at you. You were caught.
We did something similar with my second cousins and called it Commando. Their dad had a big spotlight that he could attach to the top of his car. Their place was surrounded by A big field and then some trees. All us kids would run out and hide and try to get back to the house without being spotted by the adults. It turned into all of the kids teaming up against the adults. We had strategies where some would get sacrificed so others could win. What a blast!
There was a time when there was a lot of power cuts in my state and duration was fixed too. So during summer vacation from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM there used to be no electricity and we decided it was absolutely the perfect time to play hide and seek. So one day we were hiding under the stairs of our Apartment, we used to keep our bikes there, when we heard something. Thought someone was messing with us. So we took a step back. After a few moments there was another sound. Now we knew no one was nearby, not wanting to get strangled by a ghost under the stairs we quickly ran out. Turned out there was a snake there. Yeah, so that stopped the hide and seek in the dark.
zhinn0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God I played a version of this at my grandma's. Big property, woods, ravine in the back. My cousins and I would stalk each other in the night, creeping around thinking we were spec ops or something. Of course, we'd have, in addition to the dark clothes, an absurdly bright nerf or nintendo pistol.
We used to do a reverse hide and seek. The "it" will hide and the rest will close their eyes and count to 20. Once the seekers find the "it", they need to hide together in the same spot. They last one to find the group is the loser. Let me tell you, it's so hard to keep quiet while the whole group is trying their best to remain hidden. We can't stop giggling. I once played this with a group of 15 people during the night at camp.
We would play sardines, one hider everyone else looks for them. When you find the hider you squeeze in the hiding spot with them until everyone finds them.
We did this in my neighborhood growing up. My trick was to always have a giant trash bag handy so I always had a hiding spot.
We also tried a variant a couple times with paintball guns. Go out into the forest on a moonless night and everyone had a flashlight taped to their gun. The trick was to have a “spotter” on your team, preferably with a big ass Maglight, and have them hide behind a tree while shining their light back and forth. Everyone else would keep their lights off making them sognificantly harder to hit.
Oh man, reminds me of when the hurricanes came and the windows were boarded up shut the houses would be dark as hell and we'd play a game of pitch black hide and seek. We'd try to toss small things in the opposite side of the room to get them to go the other way. Man, I'd still play that as an adult as I think of it now.
We played this up and down the block growing up. We called it Raid. The person that was it had to yell "Raid on" and the person's name when they found someone.
In retrospect, this kind of sounds like a police raid or something. Kind of dark for a bunch of suburban kids.
Oh we used to play this when I was a kid. We'd have so many kids playing that we'd have 5 or 6 people it just to find them. We ranged across 2 streets probably a 1/4 sq mile to a half and have a blast. Most houses were really nice about letting us play and hide. I used to climb on my roof to hide and just watch all of the flashlights bouncing around looking for people.
My super small town had a similar game a lot of teenagers would play together, the major difference being that we did it in our cars and it was called “headlight”. Whenever a cars headlight beam hit you, you were captured (only the person/people who were “it” were in their cars while everyone else was on foot). It was a lot of fun the few times I joined in to play.
cbelt3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Flashlight tag”... very popular in my neighborhood in the 60’s. Then I got a 12V battery and a million candlepower aircraft landing light rigged up. Nobody could hide from me !!!!
When my husband was a kid he had a special-needs neighbor who “invented” this exact game and called it Schuzzbutt. Now our kids and our niece and nephew play Schuzzbutt whenever they get together.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this at summer camp, but called it "Prisoner Left to Die", and also "Zap".
One counselor would be kidnapped by the other and hidden somewhere in the woods. The campers would have to find them, but the counselors would hide in the forest and "zap" us with flashlights. If we were zapped we hand to go back to base to get a new "life" (a popsicle stick).
I loved that game! It was the one we looked forward to all week.
inner city we called this 'chase'. intense game of hide and seek but you had to tag 'home' if spotted. Hiding in any area of backyards and old factories. The entire block was fair and we might have had a dozen kids at the hight of it. Hours of fun and many many injuries.
We had a version of hide and seek where the hiders have to jump scare the seeker when they’re found, so the seeker was kind of terrified the whole time.
We called this ditch. The person" it" would find you if you were found you became part of the "it" group. The last person found won. The first person found was the new "it" person.
Played a similar game called neighborhood chase. In our version, if you could make it to the Big Rock (quite literally a big rock), you were safe. As each person was found, the team began looking for the next person. Being chased through the neighborhood, in the dark, while trying to get to the rock was my summer evenings from 10-13. Really it was just a glorified version of hide-n-seek but was so much fun.
Spotlight is the best! We play it as a family, all is cousins, when we are drunk and are trying to teach our kids to play lol. Our grandma was brilliant at it. We never beat her.
This is how I screwed up my knee! I went to hide behind a big tree that used to be there but had been chopped down and tripped on it and bashed my knee. I was too embarrassed to tell my parents so just hid it really well.
But hey, now that knee aches when it's about to rain so at least there's that.
Played a game like this one night in college with a bunch of my friends. Got the cops called on us because someone thought we were little kids being tortured.
My cousin and I used to play "witches". We basically made like a million poems about wishing harm on everyone we hate and would run around in the forest cursing them. We also did more wholesome stuff, like picking up twigs and leaves to put in our potion pots. The potions were also usually to curse people though.
My cousin and I made a potion once mixing everything we could find in my grandfathers shed into a huge bucket. It was mostly gasoline and chalk, and we knocked the entire bucket over by accident, killing about a twenty foot stretch of bushes. He was not happy with us.
My sister and I made potions with stuff in the bathroom. It was usually my moms long forgotten shampoos and lotions. But one time we found a container of hair bleach and activator and added that in and left it sealed in the conditioner bottle and it exploded and my mom put an end to all that.
Ah yes, 4 year old me was making “bug spray” that I planned on selling to the neighbors. I noticed that when I mixed two specific chemicals it made a white cloud of what looked like smoke. I didn’t breathe it thank goodness. Still alive :)
Can you prove that you're not a ghost child waiting to crawl out of someone's television screen?
F-85 · 5 points · Posted at 18:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this. Or maybe it was some combo close to this. I was doing the laundry and was just curious what kind of solution it would result in. Took a sniff to see what it smelled like. Right as I inhaled, a greenish brown fume rose up.
I ended up high for a period of time. Felt like I was fraction of my normal weight. Went to the garage and compared my hand to a spider I saw chilling under a bike seat until it started to wear off. Was fun while it lasted, but left me with a nasty headache that I slept off.
I did that by accident, while cleaning my old apartment in the dark with the power off (I’d already moved into my new house and was trying to finish cleaning so I’d get my security deposit back). Definitely fucked my shit right up. Then I went home to my new house and got carbon monoxide poisoning from the space heater.
I started throwing up every 5 minutes, tums, pepto bismol, then clear water, and eventually dry heaving when nothing else could come up. After a few hours I called my sister who was a nurse at the time and she took me to an ER (I didn’t have insurance). I did have long hair down to my waist at the time (I’m a guy) and they just kept saying “TELL US WHAT DRUGS YOU TOOK OR WE CAN’T HELP YOU”. Over and over. I had no liquid to give for a urine test for drugs so they let me writhe around for hours until finally giving me some saline bags to rehydrate with a tylenol in it. I got a bill for $7,000. I swore they’d have to roll my dead ass in to that ER with $7k in my pocket if they were EVER gonna get it. I rode that debt out for 7 years I was so mad.
I did the same thing with one of my friends! Except we never put the concoction in a bottle, just left it in the sink and would occasionally bring some barbies so they could bathe in it.
I did the same thing when I was 10! I mixed some acetone, alcohol, beans, lentils, and rice in a glass coke bottle. It exploded in the middle of the night, it sounded like the ceiling had crashed down on me, fucking terrifying.
There was glass everywhere and I had to call my mom at work so she could wake up my dad, so that he would let me vacuum it up without beating my ass. My younger sister, who I share my room with, slept through it all.
When I was in middle school my friends and I thought it’d be a good idea to try to give her highlights... but then our crush IM’ed me and wanted to ride bikes (what we did back in the early 00’s). We left container too long. You can imagine the rest.
Although I think that was a better ending to the story than what her hair would’ve looked like.
My sister and I did that, too! Not blowing stuff up, but mixing together stuff in the bathroom. We usually did it in the sink because I loved how talcum powder floated on water. Good times!
I used to do this, but called it "medicine making", likely because of George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl. Loved trying to find things that would make hydrogen peroxide fizz up.
I made potions with stuff in the kitchen (jelly, pepper, cheese, chocolate syrup) and then would heat it all up in the microwave. And then I’d try a bite and be disgusted.
My dad let us watch fear factor once and we did this too! We’d each make a dish with the same ingredients (picked from the pantry together, in the name of fairness) and who ever didn’t finish their “dish” lost. I lost a lot 😂
I used to love mixing potions like this. Sometimes we would mix them outside in this big black cauldron thing that I think was really for crawfish boils. it was my witches brew and I’d put different grasses and anything I could find from outside in it.
I did that once. I made a potion by mixing together all kinds of soaps and lotions and shit, then I proceeded to slather that shit on my legs and ending up burning the shit out of my legs.
When I was an only child, this was exactly what I'd do but instead I'd think of myself as an artist. Basically I'd take a small dasani water bottle and take anything I thought would look good in my layers of food art. I specifically remember using Hershey's chocolate syrup along with things like mayonnaise and ketchup. Very gross, but kid me thought it would look pretty. After I was done making my masterpiece, I'd reveal it to my somewhat obviously horrified mom who was trying to figure out what the hell her child just created, and put on that fake parent gratitude. Thanks for bringing back that memory!
I used to mix stuff in the bathroom as well, together with my brother.
One day, we put two detergents together in a glass jar, and closed it with a metal lid. It started bubbling, until the jar was so hot that you couldn't touch it. We left it on the floor, and left the bathroom. Not sure what happened next.
Used to do this too. When mini M&Ms were big in the 90s they came in these little plastic tubes that were the perfect size for making little potions.
Didnit at home and at a neighbor/friend's house. Then we got caught and got in trouble and had to apologize to the other parents for wasting their stuff and it sucked.
As a kid, I kept a water bottle in the bathroom and continuously added new soaps, shampoos, etc. I was going to invent the most powerful cleaner in the world and would be rich.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For some reason I got the image of really young children pouring stuff like bubble bath into the toilet
Lol I would play scientist like that. Have an almost empty bottle of shampoo and add random stuff like lotions, acne scrub, dish soap and then pour it in the dirt outside.
kurdur · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have you read George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl?
After my siblings and I discovered you can spray Off into a citronella candle and make a sick fireball, we soon moved on to spraying Off on the bushes around the house because it was cool to watch them turn brown die right away. Dad was not pleased.
One or more of the following are often added to harmful but appearing-harmless liquids and gases - a strong scent (e.g. mains gas), a change of colour, or a bitterness agent (e.g. Nintendo Switch cards).
Yup, they're coated with something that tastes extremely bitter, to encourage a child to spit it out if they put it in their mouth - I'm not sure what it is exactly, but my flatmate immediately licked his first Switch game to test it, and regretted it for the next fifteen minutes.
When I was in middle school a pretty hardcore wicken kid hexxed me because of a bad serve in PE volleyball. I freaked out screamed like a weirdo, stepped on his feet and punched him hyper extending his ankle. So there were both of us screaming for different reasons. He grew up to be an extremely prominent drag burlesque dancer and have taken my wife to a few of his shows. He is a really nice guy and always tell him I feel terrible about that serve. I wasn't even trying.
Thanks. I had just seen 'mustard gas' in another comment and it stuck in my mind.
wawzat · 399 points · Posted at 15:29:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to do the same. My dad would find the pails and pour them on the shrubs which would eventually die. He used to joke that he had a brown thumb. Years later as an adult I let him in on it and learned there is no statute of limitations on getting mad at your kids.
In 2nd grade we made a concoction with household cleaners and pool chlorine tablets that produced a low hanging gas and made my friends nose bleed severely when he sniffed it. In 4th grade we told our science teach about it and he told us we made mustard gas.
One of my neighborhood friends was "that guy." He would do anything someone dated or challenged him to do. He also did many things on his own, including copious amounts of intoxicants (especially household chemicals).
We would mix random stuff together to see if it was flammable, etc.
He mixed some chlorine pellets and a handful of other things, which must have included ammonia or something. Dude was wallowing around in the snow, coughing uncontrollably for a solid half hour.
wawzat · 25 points · Posted at 19:11:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it seems we were all "that guy" in my neighborhood. It's lucky we're all still alive and not missing limbs or any of our senses. We made small explosives, shot guns and bows, played with knives, caused fires, endless wipeouts on bicycles, skateboards and mini bikes. Burned our eyebrows off, cuts, broken bones, knocked out teeth, many trips to the ER. Today I would be probably be locked up as a child terrorist.
I totally dated a guy who was missing two and a half fingers on his left hand (and scars on that half of the body) for this very reason. He was arrested when it happened too, but he was a minor and since he only maimed himself they didn't do much beyond a fine and community service. He was so lucky he didn't die.
So your dad would find a bucket of murky mystery liquid, pour it on his shrubs, his shrubs would die, then later he did it AGAIN, and he...never figured it out on his own?
wawzat · 11 points · Posted at 23:52:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad is extremely smart and he usually has his mind on about six things at once but often not the task at hand. He probably thought it was rain water and poured it out while solving simultaneous differential equations in his head. Also it was a slow gradual death for the shrubs, it wasn't like we were mixing a batch of banned chemical warfare agents on a daily basis. I suspect we might have poured some on the shrubs ourselves when we were done but I can't remember all the details.
Damn y’all were wild— my mom said I could make potions with ripped up bits of paper in our plastic Halloween cauldron, and I didn’t dare put anything else in there but those tiny squares of dumbass paper
Speaking of mixing stuff with gasoline, my friend somehow learned about "homemade napalm" where you dissolve styrofoam in gasoline. As it turns out, a gallon of gas can consume a surprising volume of styrofoam packing peanuts, and eventually it turns into a sort of gel-like substance.
A small dab of that on a cut-open soda can that's folded over will burn forever, it's crazy.
We used to do this but in the kitchen, we’d mix all sorts of drinks and spices and powders into a cup, and then try to “trick” our parents or whichever adults were around into drinking it.
Thing is the “trick” was usually just to pour it into a coffee mug and say “hey I made you a coffee” while snickering to eachother like they wouldn’t think it was suspicious that 3 kids were involved in the process, we never normally brought them coffee out of the blue, we’d been loudly fucking around in the kitchen for an hour and somehow not notice that the cold mug full of milk, mayonnaise, ribena, gravy powder, chilli powder, baking soda and fanta wasn’t the hot cup of coffee we’d promised.
The best part was often my mum would fake drink it and pretend like it WAS coffee, and just be like “thanks guys” and completely take the wind out of our sails.
I did the same thing. I loved dexter's laboratory and i wanted my own, so I started my own "lab" in my room and had a jar of just a bunch of liquids mixed, and i'm pretty sure i peed in it too.
I used to go to camp at a local college where we stayed in the dorms for the week. One year my friends & i spent the whole week collecting the most vile stuff we could think up into an empty soda bottle. It started with lots of spit & bits of food, but soon devolved into cleaning agent & presciption medicine from a bunch of different kids. At the end of the week the plan was to dump the mixture into the public toilet & leave it there. When i poured it out, though, the smell was ungodly. It was so strong & horrid that i knew it was dangerous to breathe. My eyes were stinging & it made me instantly sick. To this day I've never been around fumes that strong. I also had this sudden fear that the fumes were flammable. I flushed the toilet & ran out of there as fast as i could.
I did this with every product in our bathroom, then hide the bowl under my bed. It took three days for mom to figure out what the eye watering stench was. I'm lucky the family pets didn't get into it
We wanted to see what was inside a 9 volt battery for ingredients for a poison. So what's the best way to open a 9 volt when your 8 years old? A claw hammer. Several bashes into it, and my friend grabs his eye. He said something squirted into it. An older kid said "Oh shit, that battery acid!" So me and my friend went back to his mom, and I sand "Mrs. Blah blah, I think blahblah got battery acid in his eye." She turned around from the kitchen like "what the fuck did you say to me?" And sees her son, clutching hie eye. She kicked me out of the house while she rushed him to the hospital. He couldn't play with me for a long time. His eye was fine if you are wondering.
My sisters and I, occasionally with some cousins, found our grandmothers shed with leftover things from her store. It was a "bent canned goods" store, so nothing was really going to ever happen to this stuff now, since a lot was already close to expiration when she got it or was otherwise "undesirable." So, naturally, we decided to see what was the foulest concoction we could make up. We're talking mayonnaise, pickle juice, shampoo, ebergy drinks, occasionally car fluids, whate er we could get our gands on. One of my sisters can't smell so she would laugh as we all would occasionally leave the shed for a breather. We got in a lot of trouble when they finally found out, and the defense "but we've been doing this for weeks!" certainly didn't help...
We would mix things from the refrigerator into a cup to see who could drink it (pickle juice, hot sauce, milk, etc). It would get gross but not dangerous.
This reminds me of when I had a chemistry set and a friend came over and we mix the most caustic of the chemicals together. He got the idea to put it in the syringe and he inserted into back of frog trying to squeeze it and all the solution exploded back in his face! She was screaming and waving his hands in his eyes like he was a blind banshee yelling at me to get the hose! I got the hose and he ended up being okay, the Frog hopped away but he deserved something bad to happen that day!
dishie · 1 points · Posted at 14:21:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If I was aware of children making a "potion" out of gasoline and chalk, the dead bushes would be a very minor thought compared to the possibility that potions are generally something you drink, and drinking gasoline is definitely not something you should do.
Either way, I probably wouldn't let you do this again.
I once saw a commercial for a feminine wash so I mixed up all the body washes, shampoos, and conditioners and used it on my bits. I was uhhhhhh pre-k age I think, based on my memories of the house where it took place. It burned. Bad.
I wish I had just made a super shampoo and let that be that.
My friends and I would make “apple sauce” by hitting old apples that had fallen from my friend’s apple tree with rocks and shovels. We had a “cooking contest” too
Are you a woman? Having a phase of dark crafts seems to be a trend with girls. I made potions with mud, water, leaves and those kernels on the ends of long grass - they were also to curse people.
Ours was made from every medicine we could find in our grandma's bedroom. One of them even tasted like m&m but it was white, others smelled terrible so we didn't bother. We 'activated' it by pissing on the bottle together.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 15:35:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What you didn't know was that you actually have been a witch this whole time. Your curses worked but since you never found your familiar who would lead you to your coven, you have just been cursing random people around the world.
I mean if Sarah's godlike witch powers didn't manifest until after puberty it's a safe bet to wait till you're a teenager just to make sure you don't have magical powers
I used to play something similar! I would steal my mom's empty mason jars from the pantry and try to fill it with the weirdest or prettiest things I could find. My mom let me keep my pretty "potions" on a shelf over my bed, but once she found a dead fish pulled out of the lake in one of the weird ones, she always had me dump those.
I ended up being a practicing Wiccan who's fascinated by the medicinal uses of plants and things.
Yeah my brother and I started a religion with mainly two gods and there were hexes too. Some of them were very dark like that one where a spider would eat the guts of people we don’t like and put its eggs in their body. It was very poetic too hahaha
When my dad was a kid, his little brother and sister tried to make a potion to make him disappear. They mixed a bunch of stuff in a bucket and left it under his bed at night, and when they woke up and he was still there, they cried.
We did potions too, me and a little girl on my block. Crushing flowers adding a bit of rubbing alcohol and spraying every animal, spirit, person we could
Did you play it like that because that's just what witches did in your mind (like witches curse, robbers steal, sailors ride boats, etc), or did you just think cursing people would be fun?
My sister and I did the same! We used a big planting pot as our cauldron, filled it with water, added twigs, pecans, rotten fruit, anything we could find.
I did potions with my brother and friend! We would crush berries and dirt together in a cup. We also twisted together monkey grass leaves and played Taco Bell. Oh and we played the potion game in the bathroom sometimes and would use up all of my friend’s brother’s acne products. Good thing they kept the cleaning products in another cabinet!
I used to put flower petals, crushed up shells, and other odds and ends into a bucket filled with water. To be fair it usually smelled delicious. Anything in the backyard was fair game.
We did this too! My friend and I found the key to her parent’s camper and we’d go through the cupboards full of shelf-stable foods and open them (not so stable anymore!) and make weird, disgusting concoctions that the other person had to eat.
My sister and I made a whole grimoire with a pentacle we drew on the cover. We're in a region known for its witchcraft ancestry and I'm still a bit of a witch at heart...
Before a full moon, I would spend all afternoon gathering up flowers, berries, mushrooms, and interesting leaves, then would crush them all together into a paste with a couple of rocks. I then left the paste in full view of the moon, like an offering, on a large flat rock that I dug up from a creek bed.
I called it "moon food". My brothers still tease me about it, decades later. I'm honestly surprised I didn't end up poisoning myself.
Wow my best friend and I did the exact same things! There was this little patch of forest we played in that had a tree stump the perfect size to sit on and I remember placing our “cauldron” (a bucket) on it and tossing leaves in. We both used sticks as wands, we were really fond of Harry Potter.
I loved playing witches as a kid. Making potions (of various cleaning products and mud) was my favourite.
One time I was using a straw to blow bubbles in my "potion" to make it look more potion-y when my little sister (who was probably 3 or 4) wanted to join in. However she hadn't quite grasped the concept and instead of blowing through the straw she sucked and drank a big mouthful of washing up liquid and dirt water and then I got banned from making potions.
I often used my mother's ever growing collection or bath and body lotions to mix together 'potions'. But I was a good witch and interesting smelling too.
Cryssw · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with friends also. I blame The Craft. Definitely tried the “light as a feather stiff as a board” thing a few times.
Sadly, nobody floated. :(
Oh, yes making potions! And also, we would do snow dances to try to get snow to come when we wanted. (We were not so aware of the cultural appropriation issue as children.)
My parents' patio stones still bear a stain from an early potion (it contained a lot of old salad dressing & ointment) and there's probably a chunk of 'napalm' somewhere on the patio as well, which was styrofoam plates we melted with gasoline. Potion making was easily one of my favorite games as a kid, but we had to wait in between 'batches' for household products to expire.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this reminds me of how me and my friend drew these "ads" for "camps" usually involving child abuse. like one was "camp be quiet" for kids who couldn't be quiet so their parents could send them there. the camp was putting the kids in a giant jar and there was some sort of sound detecting alarm.
our teacher found them and didn't report it, just made is toss it. she probably just thought we were possessed by the devil or something since we didn't skip school on 6/6/06 like she told us to. wasn't even a religious school...
When I was a kid, me and my sister found this random bit of concrete in my neighbor's yard. We kept trying to pull it up (with help from the kid who lived next door, who was our friend.) Since we couldn't get it up, we figured it must be hiding something under it. We eventually decided we'd open it up and there'd be a slide under it. The slide would lead waaaaay down into a big cavern where a witch lived. We knew the witch would attack us as soon as she saw us, so we spent time figuring out how we'd beat the witch. We knew witches were weak vs water (as seen in The Wizard of Oz) , so we decided we were going to ride down the slide holding onto water buckets.
My mother repeatedly told us it was a concrete spill from when our neighbors had a new concrete floored patio put on their house, but we just refused to believe her. I was convinced there was something crazy under that concrete. We tried as hard as we could to pull it up but it just would not budge. We were even using primitive levers made from tree branches to try to force it up. It just wouldn't move.
It was pretty close to a tree and was eventually ripped up when the tree was removed.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend in second grade and I made a list of official witch hunters. It was the fedex guy, the water delivery guy, my mom’s secretary, and her neighbor Raymond. We’d always hide from them because we knew they knew we were witches and would turn us in
This comment reminded me of this frogurt scene from the Simpsons:
Homer: Do you sell toys?
House of Evil Owner: We sell forbidden objects from places men fear to tread. We also sell frozen yogurt, which I call frogurt.
Homer: Well, I need something for my son’s birthday.
House of Evil Owner: Perhaps this will please the gentleman. Take this object. But beware, it carries a terrible curse.
Homer: Oh, that’s bad.
House of Evil Owner: But it comes with a free frogurt.
Homer: That’s good.
House of Evil Owner: The frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: That’s bad.
House of Evil Owner: But you get your choice of toppings.
Homer: That’s good.
House of Evil Owner: The toppings contain potassium benzoate… That’s bad.
Homer: Can I go now?
– Treehouse of Horror III (The Simpsons Season 4 – Episode 5)
*formatting
hmlns · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called witches when I was a kid too but it was completely different. You had to avoid someone who had their eyes closed by jumping around playground equipment without touching the ground. If they touched you, or if you touched the ground and they heard you, you lost. To be honest I'm not even sure why it was called witches. Once I met some kids from a different city and they played the exact same game but called it 'grounders,' which makes much more sense.
My friends and I did a werewolves and vampires version of this. We told people we bit them and now they were a werewolf or vampire. The people thought we were just playing but we actually had been mad at them and wanted to be a werewolf or vampire. We did not, thankfully, ever actually try to bite anyone.
In 3rd grade, I definitely tried to help my friend with a love potion mixed in a toy "Chemical X" bottle. It was mostly spices and weird food substances. I feel bad for that kid, he got a mouthful for gross in his chocolate milk that day.
My cousin and I were fairies. We told our little sisters that we would fly across the world at night. We told them if they ate eucalyptus leaves they could be fairies too. They did.
Witches was a favorite game with my friends and me growing up too. We had a medium sized trash can my parents would put leave in, and when it was empty we'd use it for our "potions". I always especially liked playing it when it was fall, it felt like I was deriving extra special witch powers during October.
My friends and I used to make potions out of herbs and mushrooms and berries and lots of dead bugs. We would mash it all up with pond water in little tincture bottles my mom always had laying around. We would then burry these in the ground to let them steep to full potency.
This game ended when my paranoid friend told his parents that he "couldn't remember if he ate one of the poisonous mushrooms or not" which of course he didn't. Either way my parents got an angry phone call and this ended the game... we kept playing, just now we played in secret.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to make potions out of dirt, mud, and insects. Whoever lost a wrestling match had to drink it
Raze321 · 7740 points · Posted at 13:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We didn't really have a name for it, but when we were on the playground for recess in elementary school we would play this game where one of us would go about halfway down the tube-slide, where it's just like one big hollow tube like what you'd see at a big water park, just not as big obviously.
And then someone else would slide down as fast as they could and try to dislodge the first dude, usually he would fail. Then another would come down and try to dislodge the first two guys. Then another, until Big Mikey would come down and we would all fly out the bottom of the slide like a freshly unclogged pipe. This was because Big Mikey was like five times bigger than any of the other third graders.
Oh yeah, I think we actually called it "Clog the pipe", which sounds pretty gay now that I'm recalling it as an adult.
Holy shit I completely forgot this show existed and this image just brought back a rush of memories. I was just talking about shows I watched as a kid and totally forgot about this one
Yeah but kids are stupidly fearless. I used to sled down a steep wooded hill in the winter and try and dodge trees on my way down. It was stupid, but it was fun, and for some reason I never worried about breaking my arm or leg or my back.
Lmao I tried to use a skate ramp to jump a creek with a sled one time. One side of the creek was a good four feet higher than the other at a certain point, so I thought with the height and the ramp, I could clear the gap.
Well I guess me and my brilliant buddies did not secure the ramp well enough, because when I sled into the ramp it slid forward - killing my momentum. I ate shit in the creek and broke my wrist (one of four times I broke my wrists growing up).
I can relate. My young daughter would want me to share in the fun of going down the slides with or after her, and I was like no way am I making it through all those twists without getting stuck.
My friends and I used hang out at a local neighborhood pool that had a pretty badass slide, but unfortunately it was removed because fat kids kept getting stuck in it.
Yep, also played "Squish the Lemon". Our version was coed (so progressive) and the goal was to just jam as many people in there as possible rather than force the bottom ones out.
I did the exact opposite of this, we would send one person to go about halfway down and then see how many other people we could in the slide without falling out.
Yes, we called it Toilet Monster. The first kid lives in the tube and is the monster, and the rest run by the toilet hole and try not to get touched. If you get touched, you have to live in the tube with the monster until one kid is left and that kid wins.
Same thing with the swinging bridge on the playset. That was called Swamp Monster.
Oh dang, my son has been coming home recently talking about all the people playing Clog at recess. One was an actual clog that a teacher had to come and pull kids out of.
We had an alternate version of this (had a wide metal slide, enough for 2 kids to go down side by side, no divider in the middle, just a wide piece of metal).
Instead of blocking people from going down the slide, we had to stop people from climbing up the slide. We called it American Gladiators.
So there was a gladiator at the top, and his job was to push/kick the shit out of any kid who got close to the top of the slide. If you touched the metal bar above the top of the slide (think of it as an above-the-head bar to grip while you steaded yourself before sliding down) then you became the new gladiator and got to defend the bar from 20 other 2nd graders.
It was a fascinating game because it was so brutal (the game quickly devolved into kicking the face of anyone who got close, lots of cuts, bloody noses and lost teeth) but it was also incredibly organized. As soon as someone touched the bar there was a peaceful reset where everyone got to the bottom of the slide and waited patiently for the new gladiator to take his position at the top and signal he was ready.
We had another version of this, but we took it a little further at the end.
Our game was called Sacrifice. One person had to stay at the top of the slide, and the rest of us were the monsters trying to drag the sacrifice down.
The playground looked kind of like this, focus on the tall slide and the room on the right. Our slide had a split down the middle and faced away from the rest of the playground, so we were pretty unsupervised.
Generally, the sacrifice would try to kick and push people coming up the slide back down, until they were dragged down. Sometimes though, we'd send a few people up at once, and one would make it into the room at the top.
When that happened, we swarmed. If they were still at the slide, we would grab each other like a barrel of monkeys game and drag them down into the sand, screaming. If they were in the room, we all flooded up the slide into it, and ended up forcefully ejecting them down the slide and yelling about it like a bunch of barbarians.
I think the game finally stopped when someone got hurt, because they were thrown all the way to the bottom of the slide.
Then the game turned into Lava Monster, where you could hit people with a koosh ball to get them on your side, or drag them off the playground if they got too close. You could only touch tan pieces and sand, so it meant a lot of climbing and elementary school parkour.
Instead of blocking people from going down the slide, we had to stop people from climbing up the slide. We called it American Gladiators.
Our version was "Toilet monsters". All the kids climbing up were sewer monsters, and the kids trying to push them down were plungers. Great memories :D
There were kids in my elementary who would do this without telling anyone and one time I went down the slide while they were clogging it and the next person slid down, and being claustrophobic, I panicked and kicked the shit out of the kids face who was clogging the slide. I hated that game...
I played this exact game as a kid! Except we called it ‘plug the toilet’.
We also played a similar game during winter. We had a small hill and would dig a hole at the bottom. We’d get someone to slide down first on a crazy carpet and the rest of us would slide after and try to hit them as hard as possible. It would usually end with someone crying.
In my elementary school we played a similar game but didnt have a tube slide. We just had a standard metal sheet of a slide. Anyways, the first person would just sit at the end of the slide, and everyone else had to try and go down fast/hard enough to knock them off the end. I think we called it something like "squish the lemon" but I'm not 100% certain.
I played a game in Elementary school called "Flush the Toilet". We just go on the curvy slide and the person behind you would say "Flush" and you just went down the slide, climbed back up the structure to the slide and get in line again. Why was this so entertaining?
Karueo · 3 points · Posted at 16:01:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a similar game in my elementary school, except we just stayed until whoever was first decided to get out.
Korb10 · 3 points · Posted at 16:24:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was at the Where The Wild Things Are kids entertainment place at a location (can't remember the name - Sony Metreon, perhaps?) in San Francisco, some many years ago. I was there with my son and daughter (and ex, which isn't directly relevant).
They had this spiral tunnel slide. My son was big enough to take care of himself, but I wanted my daughter to be able to safely enjoy, around kids much larger than herself. She would have been about 3 at the time.
So I went with her, mainly thinking about her safety, not my own. I sat down, placed her securely between my legs (so my back could shield her from the kids queuing up behind me) and down we went.
I quickly realized that it was a bit snug in there for an adult such as myself, and grew a bit concerned. We managed to slide down almost to the bottom, only to get stuck behind some other kid. And as you probably figured out by now, it wasn't long before at least one kid started to pile up behind me.
I started to feel anxious. I probably hollered at the kid(s) in front to get moving. I definitely felt helpless.
Finally, the kids in front got clear, and I was able to usher my daughter out, followed by my own extraction.
Yep, that was enough claustrophobic spiral tunnel sliding for one day.
For my friends birthday every year we would go to crappy hotel that had a sweet waterslide, and more importantly, no lifeguard. we would jam that slide so good.
We played something similar in 1st grade but we called it watermelon, and you would slide down the side of a straight slide and try to get the bottom guy to fall
I played something similar in elementary school as well I'm pretty sure we called it "trash compactor" though
hreisc · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would do this in real water slides at the local water park it was so fun. Some times we would knock each other out and other times we met up in the middle and slid down together. I remember one time my friend was blocking the tube but she had left out a small area under her arm opened and I slid through it as if I had been greased lol I remember our shocked "WTF!!" faces and we laugh about it to this day. Thanks for making me remember that!
Squish the Melon! You never wanted to be the kid at the bottom, and you never wanted the kid after you to go down feet-first and smash into your back. It was generally accepted that you were supposed to throw your legs over one side and then go down. If we ran out of people, everyone except the "melon" climbed off and went again.
We'd play this at camp on a tall metal slide; there was no cover, so there was always a chance that kids would fall off.
My friend and I did this. We called it snot like having boogers in your nose snot but one day the teachers caught us so we would have to play in "secret".
We did that until we almost drowned a kid. We got a good pileup going, and the water was backing up to the point that the slide was overflowing. He just wasn't tall enough.... He got trapped upside down in the slide under about 2 feet of water.
We played it on the slide sometimes but we had these 2 bars that ran parallel, like stair railings you could slide down, one leg over each one, legs akimbo. First one down planted themselves at the bottom, and we all piled on. Once we got so many people we reached the top. Then we didn’t know how to get off so we just all sat there till the bottom person fell.
We just called it “Bump” in my grade school. The lunch hour supervisors (non-teachers, but with power-trips, you’d think that they ran a military state how strict they were) hated it!
We did the game thing sorta. Had everyone go down the slide at once and get all crammed in the middle. But then we had a person at the bottom trying to climb up and grabbing at people’s feet and trying to pull them into the ground. If you got pulled into the ground you become the grabber. We did it on several slides but the most fun one was a really big spiral slide. We would basically be clinging onto the slide and each other in a tangled mess of limbs while kicking away at the person at the bottom.
We called it paper jam for some reason.
lyncs- · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this too! we had a name for it but I can't think of it
We did this too when I lived in Michigan, except we would slide down the side of an open top slide with our knees hanging over and then pile up until the first person got knocked off on the bottom. Looking back on it, it probably was pretty dangerous but we still had a lot of fun.
It was the neighborhood kids btw, we lived in a pretty decked out apartment complex. I actually have a lot of crazy stories from there if you want me to share them!
There was a similar game I used to play as a third grader but the intention was essentially to pull other people down with you. This ended when a bigger kid yanked me off the top, smashed my face in to the center pole and I lost my two, freshly permanent, front teeth. Everyone was traumatized. Good times.
We played a variation of this, only we called it "Sardines" because the goal was to see how many of us kids we could fit inside the tube slide before the poor sucker at the bottom was kicked or someone cried wanting out.
This sounds like the dumb shit my elementary school friends Mitch, Josh, and Darryl (biggest black kid in the neighborhood, shit you not) would've done.
I did something similar to this but me and a bunch of other kids would slide down the slide at the same time and like deliberately try to get squished and uncomfortable because we thought it was funny and we laughed about it
Loved this game! We called it “squish the lemon.” Unfortunately, this was at school, so any time the adults caught us playing this they put an end to it quickly.
cHalls · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this at my middle school too! I think it just happened by accident one day and then we turned it into a game, until kids started getting kicked in the back with hundreds of pounds of other kids piled up on them causing a lot of sore back.
Played this same exact game, we would all go down sideways though and you were basically shunned if you went feet first, I went full out feet first alot.
I played this as well, one time we all got very stuck and a few of the kids (me included) started to panic because we were getting crushed and suffocated
My friends and I had a similar game, only someone would go halfway down and everyone else had to try and pull them back up, and the one in the tube acted like there was a monster pulling them down. That was ended VERY quickly though, the teachers apparently didn't have a good feeling about that one.
The boys, however, had a game more similar to yours. Us girls were more into the roleplaying, usually as wolves or horses
Haha my elementary school did this too. I remember one day when some older people (probably middle schoolers, the middle and elementary school were next door) participated the slide actually broke at the top and the whole thing fell down with like 10 people in it. Someone broke their arm as well.
I actually did this exact same thing in school. Our Mikey was named Devin. We got in trouble for having something crazy like 25 kids in the thing. Amazing times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes. We called this “switch bitch” for some odd reasons.
Specially when you add Big Mikey was five times bigger than the rest or 3rd graders. Good thing you learn how to use a ruler properly about that time haha.
I did basically the opposite when I was a kid, there were 4 slides connected together side to side at this one playground. 4 kids sat at the top of the slide while another 4 were at the bottom and had to try and run up the slide and drag the kids at the top downwards. If the kids at the bottom managed to drag all the kids down they won.
Used to play this on regular slides with someone sitting at the end. Game was called squeeze the lemon. Just pile as many kids down the slide until the first kid falls off
Me too! Me and my cousins used the private road in our summer house area and we would all play "Shops". Bikes where cars, leaves where currency, everyone had a different shop or job and would just do that for hours, buying and selling stuff, helping the leaf economy progress. Good times! That game eventually evolved into "Amusement Park" cause one of my cousins had the great idea of having an amusement park as his job. Everyone wanted to go there, no one was on the road anymore so we ditched it completely in favor of the way more fun amused park.
Yawehg · 28 points · Posted at 15:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude we played this game too, except I always set up the game and therefore was basically the holder of all the money. So I would put out 'jobs' you could do and make 'magazines' of stuff you could buy with your money once you finished the jobs...
The jobs were all tasks you had to do specifically for me lmao; I think I may have control issues.
We did that in one of my fourth-grade classrooms, probably Social Studies. I ran the game store, renting out board games and puzzles as well as selling old toys that I no longer wanted, and I was probably one of the richest kids in the class. A buddy of mine was one of the poorest because he was the town psychiatrist and I was his only customer. And for whatever reason, the other kids were amazed that I always paid my bills in cash instead of writing checks. That somehow made them think I had even more money than I did. The teacher would sometimes introduce different scenarios and I ended up having to go to court after being accused of stealing someone's bike, so I had to hire a lawyer. That shit so much fucking fun.
We did something similar by acting out The Oregon Trail and making covered wagons out of the tables and that was a lot of fun too, but not quite on the same level as our city.
My cousins and their neighbours and I would play a similar game... One person would be the mayor, another would be the police, another would be a farmer, another a market, and the rest would be citizens...
I was once jailed for tax evasion (while being the market guy) and was sentenced to drink a capful of mouthwash, and was downgraded to a citizen.
But then I started a coup and got the mayor kicked out of office.
Me and my cousins did something like this. We would start by gathering up random things. Toys, food, stuff found outside, whatever. Then we would all have a store and a house. We used monopoly money and plastic coins for currency and paper for checks. We would buy shit from each other and just run our business. My plan was to always gather as much of one item as possible at either the start of the game or from buying it all up from my cousins. Once I had it all I could charge any price I wanted to.
We did this in the garage. My dad had a stop light and one of us would man it while the others drive around on tricycles and Flintstone cars etc. We each had a section that was our "house" and the rest of the garage was roads.
When all three of my siblings were still young children (I'm the big brother of the family), we had a game where I'd do what was basically improv comedy for them, kinda like SNL or MadTV. They'd sit on the edge of the bed, and I'd perform using props and my imagination.
I had one bit where I'd use Mega Bloks to create a crude handgun, and pretend I'm a cop. When I'd shout "Freeze!" and draw my pistol, the gun's pieces would fly apart, leaving me with just the grip and a stunned look on my face. It slayed them every time, they'd just burst into laughter and tears.
We did something similar except not with a pool. We would tie one person to a chair in a closed room in the house and everyone else would run and hide. It was hide and seek but you got the amount of time they had to get out of the chair to hide... This then got upgraded to include a Nerf gun that the "captee/finder" had to use to "kill" his captors. I recommend it
Lets think this through... Tying someone to a chair could be stepped up a notch. Cuff them to a plastic lawn chair (you know, the kind that the legs break off on if you kick it with about 4 lbs of force....) and make them count to 20. Airsoft pistol on the table 20ft away with an airhorn. Pick up the gun, hit the airhorn as a notice that its go time. Oh ... did I mention its in the woods?
Yep, limited ammo. Think someone’s in the bush? Well you can catch them with a bead if you aren’t quite sure where they are, same if they’re up in a tree.
We once played "007 duel" it was a nerf gun fight, but you weren't allowed to pull the trigger unless you first said a one liner pun or double entendre. It was hilarious.
I was about to add that it turned into this... Are you sure you're not one of my friends? Rope got too expensive for my dad. We always preferred it but would improvise where needed. We ended up hiding the pocket knife and the only rule was you could not secure the chair to anything (like a bed or door or anything). The captee had to be able to move around to find the pocket knife.
I wish. I basically tried to do this with my siblings but they were all too young and gave up. Plus I was the only one who knew how to undo zip ties with the knife so it wasn’t exactly fair. Never got to truly play the game, just thought it up lol
Edit: we TRIED to play but it never lasted long because either they couldn’t get out or they sucked at tying me up haha
We played something similar except we tied the person to a tree. One time we roped someone up and put them in a sleeping bag outside on the porch in the burning heat. I think he almost died.
We grew up in a small village and had a couple barn and old sheds to roam around. Super fun.
I used to play the same game but we'd lock the finder in a shed (which was pretty easy to open from the inside even when locked) and the others would go hide in the garden. I remember we used the thread from a broken kite to tie someone to the chair. It really was fun
For my brother and I the game was in how well we typed the other person up. I would use blankets, rope, chairs, closets, bins, and more to trap him and he would see how quickly he could escape.
I was always annoyed though because he rarely gave me a turn to be trapped lol.
iLolo · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Until you get that one boy scout friend who knows how to tie you up so well that you can never get back up. Or that one weird Uncle who's really good with ropes.
I tied my cousin to a pole with rope and put knives and scissors around him, just slightly out of reach. He managed to get out without using them. So if he ever becomes a magician, that's on me.
We did hide and seek on a couple acres. We started out playing, whoever was it would just count. Then we got trick handcuffs somewhere. It only escalated from there. By the end whoever was it would get cuffed, blindfolded, wrapped in rope then put into the hammock on the front porch which was then laced up with more rope. At that point, there wasn't much point in counting.
We would also play Marco Polo in my pool. Silent. At night. With the lights out. Which eventually turned into everybody sneaking out of the pool leaving one person outside by himself.
We did this too except we tied one of us to the vacuum with the cord and shut them in the closet! The escapee would then seek those hiding. (no nerf gun though) The game stopped when my grandmother found my youngest cousin tied up with the vacuum cord in the closet. Bummer.
We did something similar too but if me or my siblings was napping/reading in our own bedroom the other siblings would use jump ropes to tie the door knobs shut with the other door jobs in the hallway. Essentially locking your sibling in their own room until they screamed loud enough to notify our parents downstairs. Lots of fun.
But is the lawn chair made of wood? Because wood also floats. So proceeding in the ways of science, that means the lawn chair also weighs the same amount as a duck.
I used to put floaties on my feet in an attempt to walk on water. Always ended up with my feet on the surface while the rest of me struggled under water to get air. I liked the struggle tho
Ooh, new game! The word italics looks/sounds sort of like “Italian”, so anytime you see something written in italics you have to read it aloud Witta dee baaad Eeetalian accacente. Don’t even need any friends to play that game, and you won’t risk making any.
My friend Justin and I liked to play cowboys and Indians when we were ~7ish, and we both REALLY liked being the tied up cowboy. "ok now do stuff to me!" It's worth noting that Justin and I are now both very gay dudes in our 40s. Not together, just both gay.
Yep. And we were talking a few years ago and it came up that he did too. “Gosh we were dreadful pervy little shits” now we’re dreadful pervy adults. What can ya do?
shit i did this too.... did you also try and "surf" a paddle board under water? you could balance for a sec and then it'd just slip out from under you?
We would cross our ankles and flop around pretending to be mermaids. Also pretend to drown and one of us would be rescue lifeguard. At the beach I would flop around the waves crashing at the end of the day and also pretend like I was drowning while the waves beat me. Thought it was super fun. I have a princess complex if you can’t tell.
Hahaha floaties became illegal in my country for this exact reason - even with proper use, apparently kids can get stuck below the water with the floaties holding them in place.
Reminds me of one of my favorites. I would curl up in a ball, then stick out my arms and swing them in circles so it made me do a bunch of flips underwater really fast. Then I'd stop and try to stand up quickly, usually I would still be upside down, so my legs would just shoot out of the water and then pull me over while I struggled to figure out which way was up.
I used to love doing this! And would have exactly the same end result!
The game was quickly brought to an end when I miss balanced straight out of the gate and smacked my head on the edge of the pool
A type of video that pewdipie does where he looks at memes and rates them. Mostly to kill them off. It's so stupid to explain it but the videos are pretty funny
Elon hosted Meme Review 👏👏 on Pewdiepie (YouTube Channel) at the end of a video titled “Will Smith Hosts Meme Review” or something like that.
Anyway, Elon Musk reviewed a photo of a deer drowned in a pool titled “my dolphin broke” or something similar, and laughed the shit off of it. I loved his reaction tbh and everyone is memeing it if they know about it.
I recommend you subscribe to Pewdiepie on YouTube and help us 9 year olds out with a war against T-series.
MiDenn · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow 9 year olds are articulating their replies really well nowadays
forreal this sounds like so much fun to my 10 year old brain, but terrifying to my 30 year old brain that knows its about to have a child to take care of
My 40-year-old brain totally worried about my kids, but first thought about how much damage the chair could do to the pool liner and how much that costs to fix.
One of my most favorite fucked up things in the world is this story. In fact, the whole book Haunted had me outwardly cringing for most of it. 10/10, have read again and again.
Yeah definitely read Haunted, great work. I love how he talks about people getting sick at his live readings and people fainting and gagging trying to compliment him on his work.
There seems to be no mention of it in any of his bios, and in fact he apparently lived in a mobile home in his school years, which can preclude his family from having a pool.
I just started reading this last night. Holy lord.
XGX787 · 3 points · Posted at 22:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fun fact regulations in most places (iirc) requires a fix to this, most commonly a long grated drain so that one person can’t cover it all, or two drains far enough apart that one person can’t reach both.
Less fun fact: you can be eviscerated by a pool drain.
I didn't participate, but my buddies and I in middle school would go to a friend's house that had a pool, and they would pour gasoline into the pool and set the surface of it on fire, then try to swim below it pretending they were survivors of a shipwreck or Nazi bombing or submarine explosion
My brother was the wild one. Two things I know he did was pour gas on a skateboard, lit it on fire, and then free to kickflip the flaming board; and put a blindfold on and bombed our neighborhood hill with a blindfold on into a busy street.
I don’t know how he bombed the hill with a blindfold on. I fell while bombing that hill and you could see the bone in my elbow. I slid 10 feet on pavement and even farther on grass
My brother and I set up out trampoline next to our large oak tree... It had a nice little wood planks ladder you could climb up. This gave us the perfect angle to bounce off it into the pool, which was the game. 'Can you make it through the framework for the screens and into the pool?'
It came to an abrupt end when one of us (me) did not make it.
My brother and I climbed onto the roof and were going to jump into the pool, but decided it was a bad idea because that was the shallow end. It wasn't a bad idea that it was kind of far away and we might not make it and the steps are right there. No, the shallow end is what made us change our minds.
I tried to swing across the monkey bars on a jump rope but I couldn't hold on so I tied the other end around my neck. Was about to swing when my mom came flying outside lol.
God damn kids! I wrapped the chord from the blinds around my neck and charged at my brothers until I got snapped back. I did this over and over until my dad came to see what all the commotion was about. I did not understand his reaction at all.
I inadvertently did something very similar once with a bunch of friends. One friend is the rich kid of the bunch, and we are hanging at his parent's lake house. His parents are gone for the day, we are just swimming around in the lake for most of the afternoon.
We get it in our heads that one of us should put on every single life jacket that we have and then jump in the water. Think something similar to the dude wearing the multiple tuba parts that circulates on Reddit as "armor", but instead of tuba parts, it was life jackets.
I must have had on about 10-12 of them, all over my arms, shoulders, and legs.
Not only was this just a generally dumb idea in the sense that it doesn't really seem to be funny AT ALL looking back, we had put a much larger portion of the many life jackets on my legs and lower half, rather than my arms and shoulders.
This meant that when I jumped into the water, my head was what went under, as my legs floated more than my upper body. So I'm flailing around, trying desperately to take off some of the vests that just won't come off because I can barely move anyway. Luckily my friends were able to get some of them off me and turn me over long enough to push me back to land.
Oh Lord, this reminded me of a girl I played with in elementary school who would love to be tied up with jump ropes and try to escape. We did this for a while before one day I got bored, tied her up, and ran away (she still escaped, don't worry).
In 1930's Finland, My grandfather as a kid would play a special kind of tag with his friends in the forest. Everyone would climb into trees, except for one person, and that person had an axe. They would try to jump into another tree before the person with the axe could chop down their tree.
We never took it to the tying arms and legs to the chairs but we definitely had underwater tea time complete with a lawn table.
sprcow · 7 points · Posted at 15:23:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god, this reminds me of my cousin and I leaping off the top of furniture in our basement onto an old bed mattress on the cement floor. We'd take turns jumping off and then push the mattress slightly farther away and repeat. What could possibly go wrong?
I had my 7 year old cousin jumping off an entire flight of stairs into a few couch cushions. I was 13 and was trusted to watch this kid even though I was a terrible role model lol. He had so much fun though
My friends grandpa taught us this game called "tie up". Basically, cops and robbers but once you caught the robbers you'd tie them up to whatever nearby object you could find. Trees, docks, sheds, etc. and you'd basically have to houdini yourself out of the rope or be stuck all day/night until mom started asking questions. Probably not smart considering the frequent bear sightings in the woods. And wheelbarrows maybe weren't the best thing to tie someone into then push down a steep slope. Probably why I'm not into that whole bondage thing to be honest.
It was such a great movie! At least when I was growing up. Watched it not too long ago and it was way cornier than I remembered, but still gave me some great nostalgia!
Haha ya and the fart punchline at the end of the song. God that was bad. Or the kid who could fly and land a plane with nothing but some book knowledge. Whatever! It was still awesome
Before basically 2001 no parents did the modern thing of following around children above the age of maybe 4. After I finished my homework I didn't see my parents until sunset. This was common.
Same, I was born in 1988 - Funny enough, my Mom ran a Day-care for YEARS, but around the age of 10 she stopped. I guess she was kind of worn out watching so many kids for so long. I got away with QUITE a lot after that.
You bent down and the other person would wrap your wrists and ankles together and push you in. You would give them about 30 seconds to free themselves before jumping in and pulling them up. Good times
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 15:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to a play blanket caterpillar hide and seek. The amount of time everyone had to hide was however long it took you to wriggle free of a blanket cocoon constructed by the hiders. Nearly suffocated one time but honestly so much fun.
My brothers and I once decided to dismount the stairs in very big luggages (like for long trips). I was so glad to be the designated volunteer and sat in the case with a pillow to protect from shocks. Big brothers proceeded to close the case at the top of the stairs and give it the pinch it needed so gravity could do the rest.
Much fun. Nanny wasn’t happy about it
My cousin, little brother, and I would put blankets over our heads and jump off from the top of the bunk bed. We stopped after my cousin jumped backwards with a sheet over her head and hurt her ankle.
dejus · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a Hunter S Thompson story. Him and Bill Murray were hanging out and argued about who had the best Houdini impression. So Thompson ties Murray to a chair and threw him into the pool. Luckily he was able to escape.
We did a similar game! Tied each other up in the bathtub and turned on the water. I am often surprised all 4 of us survived childhood but it was a lot of fun.
We used to play, "escape artist" and tie my little brother up. He always escaped. This kid on our block demanded we give him a turn. We tied him to a lamppost. After about 5 minutes we gave up watching him struggle and left. He spent all afternoon tied to the lamppost. We only found him at sunset. Sorry James.
My siblings and I would practice escaping from kidnappers. We had an unfinished basement and would tie each other up between the wall frames, fully tied up, blind folded and duck tape over the mouth. We’d see who could get out the fasted
I’m very glad we only had those tiny blow up pool so our “drowning” games never went further then sitting on each other for a few seconds :x
swoogi · 3 points · Posted at 16:48:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a lifeguard. My heart just paused for a moment. I know as a kid I might consider that also. But that reminds me of a time. When someone got put on a spinal board and accidentally let go off at the deep end of the pool. Poor guy was strapped in also. Thank God they got him back out quick. Also that was during training. So he just held his breath, in fear.
I can't believe someone else did this. You aren't my brother are you?
We started putting wet towels over our heads because the escape was going too well. Like a waterboarding dunk tank.
We would take an empty bucket and take turns putting our heads in it and pushing it to the bottom of the pool to see how cool it is to he able to breathe underwater.
One of my friends would duct tape paving stones to his back, sink to the bottom of the pool, and use an air compressor hose to breathe. He'd just swim around down there forever.
We played something similar called "drunk man game" in the pool, we would forcefully bump into each other and hold each other down with force. Amazingly none of us actually drowned. However, I am terrified of plunging my whole head in water to this day!
When I was a kid, some local teenagers stole a shopping cart and left it in our driveway. That shopping cart became one of my toys. Being fascinated with warplanes, I would use multiple belts to strap myself into the shopping cart "cockpit" and play "bail out of the burning plane".
So many times I tipped the cart over and face planted myself right on the concrete and gave myself bruises on my face. Then I'd do it again a minute later. My mother was horrified that people would think that she beat me.
I started reading that sentence and remembered tying each other up and timing how long it took us to escape. It never occurred to us to up the ante with a possible drowning.
We used to put buckets over our heads and navigate through obstacle courses and If you got to close to a "swatter" they would wack you with sticks, logs, a mini baseball bat, whatever in hand. Idk how none of us walked away concussion free
I'm the youngest in my family by 6 years so I was subjected to a lot. One of the games we played that I enjoyed was my siblings would tie me up as best as they could and then I'd escape. I think this started when they just wanted to tie me up so I'd leave them alone but when I escaped it became a challenge. No waterboarding though.
Me and a friend did this same thing! It's kinda scary when you realize the water makes the rope swell up and now those knots are way harder to untie lol
We only had a river pool to swim in growing up. But we used to pick a heavy rock ( one that could keep us weighed down), then see how far across the bottom of the pool we could walk.
This hits close to home. Me and my buddies would lay out a big tarp on the pools surface and then jump onto it. It would wrap around and almost kill us every time
We were inadvertent LARP'ers. My friend lived on a mini-farm (they had chickens, llamas, and goats) and his mom would make up ziploc bags of monopoly money and hide them all over the place. We would go out and fight imaginary bad guys and find the bags of money so we could upgrade our gear.
I was the cleric so I started with a staff which I upgraded to "silver" (duct tape on the ends) then later to metal (we hammered mountain dew cans as metal end pieces). We made suits of armor out of cardboard boxes which we upgraded similarly.
The best was the road by his house, it was the river, and whenever a car would go by it would represent some Sahags (water monsters) jumping out. So we would come flying out of the bushes and start swinging our home made weapons like crazy people. It was the early 90's in the middle of nowhere.
EDIT: Instead of answering everyone individually, TL:DR We stayed in contact through high school, I went on an epic cross country Amtrak trip when I was 16 with them, we drifted apart for about 15 years before reconnecting on Facebook. I made his mom cry "good tears" when I was able to tell her just how much she meant to me growing up.
One of these days, you'll be leaving a restaurant and waiting to cross the road along with another couple. It'll be a little rainy, with low visibility, so when your date decides to step out into the street you'll say "watch out for the Sahags." But it will echo. The man standing next to you said the same thing to his date.
You'll turn, and he'll be holding a cardboard box shield. He'll look at you like "am I the crazy one?" But you'll smile, and unveil your cleric metal staff. You'll both drop your weapons and embrace each other, as your respective dates get in their respective cabs and instruct their respective drivers to "just go."
Naw, full hugs aren't gay when you haven't seen each other since you were twelve. Full hug, then manly wrist clasp then they're off to slay some Sahags!
But the hug must be manly. You know. That clap eachother on the back kind that would make your armor clang. Along with a manly full bodied laugh. The kind of laugh that says “devil may care I’m going to fight that deamon”
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had the opposite experience. In a class of 16 (12 girls, 4 boys) from K-6th grade i felt pretty left out. Met new friends when i was 12 and we've been a squad ever since, we're 27 now and roommates.
Drebnar · 320 points · Posted at 15:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Life is so different for each and one of us. I’m happy for you finding your squad _^
I had a squad when we were young. Then a lot of bullcrap happened from 3rd-8th grade and we were never the same. My final straw was getting kicked off the lunch table in 8th grade so other people could sit there.
I did meet the person I'd later be best friends with in HS that day though so it kinda worked out. My real squad came together in college. Despite me having graduated, another being in ghana, one finishing up an accounting degree, and another finishing up a teaching degree we all hang out when possible and stay in touch about every day.
Everyone finds their people, I'm glad you found yours despite how long it took!
I only had one person who messed around with my ex gf while the 3 of us were living together. Not to mention he was my closest friend out of anyone. The most hetero love I've ever felt for a person, gone in a single night. The rest of my friends proved to be the truest in their support during my hard times
I was dubbed the "gross" one, then one boy was special needs and the other 2 could have been disney channel stars, so they got all the friends who were girls.
I’m with you- I had one friend in elementary school. A different one friend in middle school. And then small group in high school. I’ve stuck with those guys sense. Life has pulled us a part, but whenever we’re together, no time has past. One of them became my wife, and my best friend lives next door to me. The three of us are inseparable.
I remember reading that book in a library and just sitting there stunned at the end. King might not have good endings to books all the time but holy shit can he capture characters and experiences like no other.
It's originally part of a collection of novellas called Different Seasons, so if you were looking for just the book version of Stand By Me (called the Body), that might be why you're having trouble finding it.
Different Seasons also has the book version of Shawshank Redemption, which is probably just as good as the film.
I don't remember how The Body ended, but I remember the end of Stand By Me being pretty great. Then there's also Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption / The Shawshank Redemption, both of which had great endings. The last part of The Running Man (the written story) has an awesome ending too.
Seems like he knows how to end his novellas better than his full novels.
Interesting, can you explain? Bev almost made It hard for me to get through. She didn't act like any human I knew, and mostly seemed like she existed to be idolized and saved by the boys. She "saved" them by fucking them. In a group of misfits and oddballs, she still was treated as the odd one out, and the book acts like that's a good thing
I thought he did a good job of depicting her home life, namely the abuse from her father. I liked how he did the same in Gerald’s Game.
Granted, I am not a woman and was never traumatized as a child so it’s not like I can say from first hand experience what it is like, but I thought he did a good job showing the struggle and existential crisis children face when their tormentors are their own parents.
Yeah, the abusive home life worked for her character. I was just disappointed that after all that abuse, after the fucked up way her dad sexualized her, it was treated as a good thing that her friends over-sexualized her too. I'm not saying "oh let's pretend boys never sexualize girls" or "the boys should be ashamed of their sexuality," but Bev's big fight-the-evil moment was literally convincing her friends to run a train on her. At like 12. And it wasn't just that scene, she was treated so differently from the rest of the group for the whole book.
but Bev's big fight-the-evil moment was literally convincing her friends to run a train on her.
I viewed it differently. It's been a while since I read the book, but my recollection is that King never explicitly stated that she was molested or abused by her father, but it was insinuated (her mother once asks her if he touched her inappropriately, no?).
So the way I took the sewer orgy was that here is this young woman, struggling with the changes in her body, the unwanted attention it's causing from Bowers and her father, and is reclaiming it, basically saying, This is something I control and that can be a thing of beauty and love and togetherness rather than a thing of fear or horror or disgust.
She was saying to IT, You can't scare me with sex anymore. Just like how most of the other characters took what IT used to scare them and claimed ownership of it. This is how Bev did it.
Anyway, there are a number of King stories with a strong woman lead. Off the top of my head, the woman in The Gingerbread Girl and A Good Marriage are strong and determined and overcome their tormentors due to their own guile and cunning and not needing a man to step in and help. But I grant you, most of King's works involving children are focused on boys.
All through high school I had very few friends, suffered a traumatic experience that messed me up for a long time, then another when I started college, didn't really make friends too well through college (I mean, I had a crew but after college it teetered off).
Didn't really find my swing until I was in my mid 20s, and now all the friends I've made since are really solid with me. I don't see all my friends as often as I'd like, but to my surprise on my last birthday, over 15 friends turned up to a surprise gathering (only 3 live local, 6 live at opposite ends of the country and the other 6 live overseas) which was absolutely amazing.
We went go karting and caught up like no time had passed at all. They stayed for around a week (that was hectic as I had 5 people crashing at my 2 bedroom house!).
Sometimes life starts of shitty and gets better, sometimes people 'peak' earlier in life, but whatever life throws at you, you just gotta enjoy the ride as best you can.
My bestie moved away as we were entering high school. We wrote letters but those were getting less frequent. When it had been around three months since his letter, I learned of his suicide. I haven’t gotten as close to a friend ever since. That was in the mid 70s. I’m in therapy now and is still torture to me as I talk. I don’t know how my now wife did it five years later.
heavym · 2 points · Posted at 01:48:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What!! I just watched that last night die the first time in 30 years???
I probably haven't seen it in about that long, I totally need to watch it again. Some of King's best work. Well to be fair, some of the best adaptation of his work to film. "The Dead Zone" is one of my all time favorites.
Stephen King can cut onions and scare the shit out of you with a single red baloon.
Alej915 · 469 points · Posted at 15:06:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude... My BEST friend moved away when I was in 6th grade and it crushed me beyond explanation. I didn't even get to say goodbye my mother just told me they left. That will stick with me forever. Fast forward 20 years and he's such a douchebag. Also a hard pill to swallow.
My best friend moved from Kansas to Singapore in the middle of 8th grade. We had only been friends since 6th grade, but when we first met, we instantly clicked. I went into a depression after that and a whole myriad of issues popped up subsequently. I can pinpoint that as the turning point. I had less than a week to say my goodbyes to her. We occasionally emailed (pre 2000, btw) but we fell out of touch. We got to reconnect via facebook in our 20s. I saw that she was attending a university in Australia. She got married. I saw her pictures from getting to meet The Backstreet Boys. She was beautiful. Pure. The kindest person I've ever met to this day. She was going to school to become a veterinarian so she could help exotic animals in enclosures, preserves, zoos, etc. She died in a car accident on her way to school one day. 2 car collision. The other driver in the other car died too. A 45 year old man. Her husband contacted me via Facebook and asked me if I would deliver the news to her other friends here in the states. One of the hardest things I've had to do via social media. I still think of her fondly. I've never met anyone like her since. It's not fair.
It truly was. Her mother was loving. Her father was badass. Her brother was the cliche "bother" and he grew up to be an amazing person, too. Her and her brother became closer as they got older. He was a few years younger than us. His tribute to her broke my heart. I hadn't realized how close they'd become. Sounded like they were best friends. :(
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never know when the bell tolls, only for whom after the fact. That's why its important to do as much good in this life as you can, regardless of crowns received in heaven or karmic debt repaid
Your story touched me so much that I literally want to donate to a wildlife preserve or something in her honor. That was beautiful and sad. Poetic really.
Well I'm sitting here in tears! She would have loved that. And I'm so very honored that her life and death have moved you to make a positive difference. Thank you for telling me. This warms my heart.
I'll have to wait til my tax returns come back, but I'm definitely going to! If you wouldn't mind messaging me at least her first name I would love to send you a picture/confirmation or something once I do. Also, any particular organization she was partial to?
Rorroh · 2 points · Posted at 07:13:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh.. that's a story I wish I never needed to know. I'm so, so sorry for your loss. That's a beautiful eulogy.. I think I'm going to have to hug some people I know now
My parents moved twice when I was young, just far enough apart to let me really develop some great friends. That, paired with leaving college after my first year, has really inhibited my ability to connect with people.
It's never too late to change, it's just extremely uncomfortable. But you never know how much you can surprise yourself. Just gotta find those people you share the things you love and the the things you love to make fun of. Don't give up!
I choose to believe this about a friend of mine. I moved across the country. Kept in touch every day, then one day she ghosted me. Hvent heard from her in 15 years. I hope shes just a cunt.
I had a friend who moved with no warning when I was twelve, and I had no idea where to find her. This was pre-social media. A couple of years ago, I found out that she had never left the county we were in, and she's deeply religious now. It's not a crime to be that way, but given that she used to chastise me for swearing when we were in middle school and now she devotes effort to putting Bible quotes on her FB page, I feel like we wouldn't have had a lasting friendship, anyway.
My best friend left me in like 2nd grade. I got a fever that lasted for a week or two right before she was going to leave and I wasnt able to go over to her house like we planned before she moved away. Never had any best or close friends after that. (Small school, everyone already had their circle of friends). Talked to her on Facebook in our 20s and that was it.
bkcr · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What if you were the one person who would have kept him from becoming a prick? His parents messed with his trajectory.
I moved away from my friends in 6th grade, didn't know to say goodbye. It was only an hour or two away, I'd see them again on a weekend trip, right? Never made friends like those 3 again. 7 or 8 years later we would connect on Facebook, catch up a little, still haven't seen them.
Similar experience but I was the one that moved away from my best friend. I only ever had just a couple friends before my bff. I was incredibly shy (now I’m incredibly shy with a touch of cringing awkwardness). But I met her in 2nd grade and she was new to the neighborhood. She even came over the day they moved in because she saw me playing the day before. “I saw a little girl here yesterday and wanted to know if she can play with me?”. We were besties since then but when we were 13/14 my single mother was no longer able to keep up the big house anymore since everyone had eventually moved out except us two. Obviously in 13 year old me’s mind, thag didn’t matter, and all I could feasibly understand was that I was being taken away from my only real friend (we also had a puppy that was SPECIFICALLY for my sister and I, but he wasn’t allowed at the apartment we eventually moved to so I lost him too). I had to go to a school an hour away from my bff starting 8th grade and that was the toughest time for me. I still never got over it and I’m in my late 20’s now. She and I never reconnected the same way again, and then she became SUPER outgoing and I never saw her outside of a club or bar. This is the only time I ever get to see her is if I drop a bunch of money I don’t have to go to HER favorite bars (nowhere near me ever) or go to some grimy club where the dudes just grab you and pull you wherever they want (HATE IT). She’s gotten so mad at me that I wouldn’t go to every single outing she wanted, and now we only speak to each other through random Facebook comments... I still haven’t accepted the fact that we used to be so in synch, and what we’d be like now if we’d stayed present in each other’s lives all that time, and I can’t accept she’s become all about what she wants to do and what she thinks is fun.
Zanki · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend moved school when I was in year two, so six/seven years old. She was in the year above but we were in the same classes and we were inseparable along with another kid. I remember going to her birthday parties, just going to her house to play, her playing at my house, her mum doing stuff with me my mum would never let me do. Just normal things like having a beef burger at McDonald's. Then it was all over. I begged my mum to let me go with her and she refused. I hated my new school (had moved to that town two years before) and after that, I didn't really have any friends and a few months later I was completely alone. The bullying got completely out of hand without my friend and her older sisters having my back and it never stopped. The only reason it stopped was because I moved away from that town to Uni. One kid from my school went to the same Uni as me and one day had his friends yelling stuff at me. I just remember stopping, looking at him and said, "seriously? Here? Why? I have never done anything to you so why?" Him and his friends stayed away after that but rumors still followed me. I was lucky I had already made friends and even though I was weird from having no friends growing up, they liked me.
When I was in high school, in year 8 (12/13 years old), we merged with another school and she we were back in the same school. One day I was standing with some kids and I saw her. I told them she was my best friend when I was very young. No one believed I was ever friends with her. They ran straight up to her and asked her. She looked at me, smiled, said she was and continued messing around with her friends. She didn't have to do that. She was cool, she was popular and I was so badly bullied I didn't even have a place socially, she could have lied, said no. She could have been mean to me but she wasn't. I hate that my mum refused to let me switch schools with her because my life would have ended up incredibly different. But my mum was an ass hole who never even tried to help stop the crap I was going through and instead blamed me and joined in. It's taken me years to get over the crap I went through growing up. I finally have a good group of friends who I see every week, sometimes multiple times, I play games with some daily, I have boyfriend who is incredibly sweet. It shouldn't have taken me until my late 20s to have these kind of social connections outside of a single relationship I was in as a student until I was 28 (I finally had a good group of friends when I was 25/26).
It's weird when your friends invite you to hang out with their friends. I'm deemed normal enough to introduce to other friends now. I've been making so many friends recently and it's to the point were I'm having a hard time fitting everyone in. I love it! I loved on new years I had to choose between different parties, I love how I can message all my friends to do things and someone will always be free to hang out.
I don't know what happened to my friend or her older sisters. Their mum died of a brain tumor. That woman was amazing and it sucked. She died thinking her husband, who was a PI, was actually a criminal because he was framed for stealing a piece of artwork he was recovering. He was cleared of all charges and so were his staff but that was a crazy thing to happen. It broke their marriage apart. I heard about all this through a secondary source. I think they had to sell their amazing house when all that crap went down.
I mailed back and forth with them for a few years and when I was 16 I went on an epic 2 week vacation with them. I spent a couple days at their place then we took a two week Amtrak trip across the Upper Midwest, through Seattle, down to LA where his father lived and then across to Santa Fe. It was amazing.
We're Facebook friends now and we talk sometimes but we're not super close as college and life caused us to drift apart.
We made it through High School before losing touch for about 15 years until we reconnected on facebook. And the best part is that I also found their mom on there and was able to tell her just how much she meant to me as a kid. She told me I made her cry but they were good tears.
This exact same thing happened to me. I did all the things you did just in a small town instead. My best friend moved away but we’ve managed to stay friends and now he’s moved back and we’re older so we’re still really good friends.
You will make friends like that again. Go out and meet people wherever you can, but let them get to know you at their own pace. Let them talk until they become interested in you.
sagey1 · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next door neighbors growing up were three girls, 1 in my class, one 2 grades below and one two grades above. We spent a lot of time together growing up. They were my best friends in every way. Their mother is my unofficial second mom.
They moved when I was about 12 or so. I've had many good friends since then, but never such a close friendship... growing up together as toddlers. Life passes you by too quickly sometimes.
Oh man, this reminds me of something we did in Scouts called "Fantasy Camp" (I know...)
But it was amazing. It was a regional event in late May or early June, so you'd have a whole bunch of scout troops from a wider area show out for it, and it was a full-on medieval fantasy weekend.
They transformed the main building into a candle-lit medieval tavern, and then invited a local group of actual LARPers to act as the "monsters" for Saturday.
So we would divide into groups in our costumes and travel through the trail system around this camp (out in the boons) and occasionally encounter roving monsters who we would have to fight using a simple dice based system. If we beat them they would offer up gold or other items.
There were also roving traders with whom we could trade items. All scouts were encouraged to bring little bits and baubles from home to trade for things like Gold or character upgrades. The cool thing was that the traders would give you a better deal the more imaginative you could be with the item you were trying to trade. So marbles weren't just marbles, you had to come up with this really great story about what they are, what their purpose is, and how you came to acquire it. The better the story, the better the trade.
Along the trails there were even little make shift rest stops and "taverns" set up where people would give you quests to do or information about loot that was hidden all over the camp.
All of this ended with "The dragon fight", all teams would compete against groups of monsters for the chance to fight the dragon, and the team that fought and beat the dragon (or got the most damage before getting wiped) were crowned the victors of the weekend.
On Saturday night there was a huge feast in the main building/tavern where no forks or knives were allowed.
It sounds nerdy, but it was actually one of the highlights of my young life. It was so fun and really impressive that they always managed to pull it off.
I spent like a full minute going through my head going "Okay... I know what LARP is, I know what RP is... but what is RV in this context...is this like instead of RPing as a good guy, they RP as a villian?" Then I realized what you meant... but still took far longer than it should have.
OMG. That sounds really freaking amazing. What a wonderful experience. I can't imagine how much work went into that, but those people rock for doing it.
Dude, I went to Fantasy Camp around 2004-2009! (For anyone else reading, this was in the Dartmouth region of Nova Scotia.)
I used to love it so much, the dressing up and roving around the site. And the feast was always so good. We never really played to win - just had fun. Sometimes we tried to subvert the camp, like one time we had a team that dressed up as accountants and my team dressed as gangstas. Another time we had a Venturer trading post but with a DJ booth, and we played techno and ate donairs the whole weekend.
Also I'm a Scouter now and my current troop does small-scale LARPing, like we build foam swords and do battles at camp, and Nerf wars!
It's still running actually! This year it's May 24-26.
I really like being a Scouter. It's a bit like having little cousins, and I love passing on my Scouting knowledge. My co-Scouters and I are all pretty busy too, but we at least have time for meetings and camps, plus a few hours per week for admin-type stuff. If you're too busy even for that, you could volunteer with Area to help run events like Fantasy, Alert, etc. PM me if you want to get in contact with Dartmouth Area.
I laughed out loud when you said actual LARPers because I imagined a bunch of forty year old guys in homemade chain mail absolutely DESTROYING groups of children in physical combat XD
Yep, I did LARPing shit as a kid, too. We had our own little universe of characters and pretended they existed and we made our own gear and had arcs and shit.
Right? I geuss I could call it LARPING....but we usually just called it playing.
Also, funny story: I managed to get knocked the fuck out one time since the heavy broom handle with pipe insulation had been "upgraded" with duct tape and wrapped really tight, which just made it less padded. It snapped my 'sword' in half and whalloped me on the head. I probably deserved it though.
Yep, I accidentally did this to a friend of mine wielding a stick that was rotted vs my freshly snapped one. Snapped his stick-sword in half and the debris flew into his eye :( no real damage, but he did have to get his eye flushed.
We just called it "us blank" the blank would be whatever we would rp, sometimes is was dragon ball sometimes it was smash bros, mostly video game slash anime stuff.
My childhood rp was eventually adapted to be my dnd campaign years later. My players were pretty surprised by how much of the world was developed and the interconnectedness of most things. Well yeah that's what happens when you have already spent a decade buulding the world.
Awesome, my and my brother and a few friends played games like this. We called the game 'Adventurers' and my friends older brother was the game master. We roamed around the neighbourhood, woods and big fields finding items and fighting baddies!!!
Started reading this comment, thought to myself, "wow, that sounds a lot like my childhood". And then realized it was my childhood. Hi, Josh! I don't lurk on Facebook as much as I used to, but your beekeeping stuff looks rad.
I've been thinking about writing monthly update letters instead of random Facebook snippets. Probably post them there, too, but likely just ping people direct to avoid the algorithm filtering. I will include you in the first one!
Hey! haha. Super small digital world.
Yeah, your mom is seriously the best, I probably picked up my love of bees from your indoor hive and those fuzzy bumble butts.
But yes, definitely include me, I enjoy vicariously following along on your crazy adventures.
(Also, don't judge me too harshly, I don't play fighting games but I enjoy the shit out of Aztez, I'm just really bad at it.)
Ah yeah!
I came to role playing fairly late (mid-20's) but I've definitely made up for it since then!
I helped run an 8 person fourth edition DnD game 123 sessions. I've done some Geist and Werewolf the apocalypse, currently I'm rocking some Star Wars age of rebellion.
So yes, started it young and just kept going.
This reminds me of one time when my older cousins came over when we were kids and we went outside to sword fight with sticks. When one of my cousins was struck down he bequeathed his sword excalibur to me.
I grew up across the road from a wooded valley and we used to play games like this all the time. We would set up forts in different parts of the forest and sometimes even war other kids who lived up the streets. I made so many different weapons out of things I would find down there. My favourite was under this massive willow tree. You could use part of the tree's branches as rope or twine to strengthen your fort or create a mace or all kinds of things. I haven't thought about this in forever.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 14:55:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably a good thing the cars didn't have AI. Maybe nowadays it might think said humans were trying to cross the road / waving due to an emergency, and then stopped the car, giving everyone a very awkward pause.
Now that's an interesting consequence of self-driving cars I hadn't considered. With no humans paying attention to the road it will be a lot harder to wave frantically to get help.
I think it's a good thing. Takes the stigma away. It's just what everyone did as a kid. Maybe not everyone had a continuing storyline but I definitely did.
Conversely, I feel like it extends the stigma to children playing, which simply feels unnecessary and odd, especially given the very deeply rooted terms that we have to describe imaginative childhood play. LARPing is a super recent term that has a pretty niche applicability. It just doesn't work that well in this context.
Well I don't have kids, so take this with a grain of salt for age appropriateness!
Get some Easter eggs and spray paint them grey, brown, and or green. Put various amounts of monopoly money in them (5's and 10's if you want to keep it simple or singles and other various amounts if you want to help teach them math).
Make a board of upgrade costs (these will be the various crafty projects you want to do) this is limited by only your imagination. You can use the ninja sock flail (put a sock inside another sock then duct tape the end to a dowel and you have a flail). Unless you want to use nerf or foam weapons be sure to stress that you don't hit real people or friends and that it's about using your imagination.
Hide the eggs in various places with various difficulty, make sure to put some in crazy places.
Turn them lose with your comfort level of freedom (I grew up super rural so we had a "be back by sunset" rule, otherwise we were free to roam).
Good luck and have fun!
If it's warm enough, water balloons can cost a few "dollars" a piece for them to buy. Start them off with a very basic water pistol, and have several upgrade-able ones. Maybe get a couple of those water weapons that soak up water and explode water when they hit things. If you live by a lake, you could hit up some garage sale to find some of the old inflatable tube type toys and set them up around the lake as targets.
Goddamn that sounds dope. And similar, in a lot of ways, to what me and my buddies played.
We were around that age, we played "boy army", which was basically just Army. We'd fight monsters inspired by DOOM or whatever video game we were into at the time.
Over the course of different campaigns we'd be 'promoted' giving us access to better weapons and "secret" parts of our military base and stuff like that. My dad even made us guns cut out of scrap wood.
We lived in the middle of nowhere, too, so we spent a ton of time in the woods.
Then, one day, my friend Kyle decided he was "too cool" for Boy Army and suicided himself (in the game) so his character could never be resurrected. After that we stopped playing.
Shortly after, Kyle made different friends and stopped hanging out with us.
Ooh I did something like this with friends too. Except I live in the suburbs.
We made swords and shields (but mostly swords) out of wood and basically beat the hell out of each other, we came up with some sort of a story but in reality the last man standing was the winner.
We would take stakes from nearby construction sites, go to Home Depot, etc. but at some point we got greedy, because we took a fence board and turned it into a massive sword, but then my brother broke that over my back. So we made a stronger one out of three loooooong stakes duct taped together, with the wood spray painted white and the gold painted silver, that sucker was heavy and hurt like a bitch to get hit by.
Holy shit, Me and my friend did almost the exact same thing. We lived on no outlet street with a bunch of woods around it. There wasn't a lot of traffic so we would climb trees and scout cars on our walkie talkies. We beat the shit of each other with taped up broom sticks. I remember taking a set of old bicycle handlebar grips and adding them to my bo staff. It was fucking rad. We also threw rocks at each other and shot each other with bb guns and slingshots. I'm actually amazed we never lost an eye.
In retrospect the only time anyone ever got hurt to the point of medical attention was playing a game of baseball. Who would have thought? The kid wasn't even playing, he was a little brother that kept getting in the way. I still remember him coming up behind me while I was at bat and I was like "dude, you can't stand there or you're going to get hit with a metal bat." So next pitch I swing and he got hit in the face with metal bat. There was blood everywhere and he ended up needing a bunch of stitches.
Yup! Super old school. What was funny is my parents wouldn't let me have any gaming consoles so I had to live vicariously through them. At one point I had them recording on VHS tapes that they would give me so I could watch, which is really really old school Twitch streams.
We used to pretend cars were metallic dragons and would place traps in the road, although it wasn't really a trap it was just those poppers wrapped in toilet paper you get from the cheap firework stand. It would pop when a car ran over it and we would cheer as if the "bombs" sent the dragon flying away
We did something very similar, except less fantasy based. We used Monopoly money to buy weapons, plots of land, build forts, etc. I somehow ended up as the builder so I’d buy plots of land from the town, clear them of all the brush and debris, mark the boundaries and then build teepees on said land before selling it to the other kids in our “town”. It was really fun although I don’t ever remember there being an objective. Just going on journeys for treasure, battling and looting, building, surviving, etc.
LRats · 2 points · Posted at 15:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I were as well. We didn't have a farm, but we were neighbors. Our houses were around the corner, but our backyards only had one yard in between. When we were kids that yard was mostly abandoned. My friend made swords out of duct tape, foam, and PVC piping.
My best friend and I did this growing up too (we called it playing "pretend"). He was a warlock and I was a demolition expert with an old pocket watch that I used as my "detonator". We would play outside for HOURS, and it's probably no coincidence that we eventually became obsessed with video games. We are still super close friends to this day too and I doubt I'll ever have a friend like him again
My brother, my cousin and I did something similar! We would pretend to be an adventuring party traveling the world, picking up quests and hunting monsters. I was the Archer, my "bow" was a curved stick that we eventually tied a piece of string to. My older cousin would give us missions to complete and we would run around the yard picking plants and flowers to grind up into "potions" and "fighting bandits".
Also, I'd go to my neighbor's house and play MegaMan. Essentially, we would put big empty Folgers cans on our hands to be our "blasters" and would fight imaginary enimies. When we needed to "recharge our batteries", his mom would bring us GoGurt! We had such a blast with that game!
I used to play "Ninja Fairies" with my friend, where we pretended to fight monsters with our martial arts and magic. I could use fire magic and my friend used ice, and we had a pet dragon who could use both. I had this stick that I used as a bo staff. She had this big leafy plant in her yard, which was our invisible, high-tech base. Good times.
I also had a friend who I would play "The Sandbox Game" with at recess, where he would make different enemies and terrain out of sand, and I had to defeat enemies to get through a portal to the next level. Now we play DnD!
This reminds me of going out into the field behind my house to fight "dragons" all the time. I would take a sword made from an old wooden broom handle I found and go fight the weeds that grew back there. Some were these tall prickly plants that grew about five feet tall or so. They were covered with spines and I'd always come home and pull a few dozen out of my arms, but they were battle wounds and I loved it. Every time I'd hit a plant it would scatter seeds everywhere as well, so they'd be back in droves a week or so later. Damn things grew like, well, weeds.
I took a friend out there, hooked him up with a sword, and we fought the dragons together. He thought I was nuts at first but by the time we left he was begging to come back and do it again later.
My brother and I did something very similar. I wish I could remember it better. It was a long time ago. Our parents had like 30-something acres of woods out in the middle of nowhere.
Both parents worked, our friends like 5 miles away. We'd either play Sega or we'd go into the woods and role-play as some magical warriors. We both had metal broomstick staves. We would "borrow" my dad's tools, including an axe, which my brother used to flatten the end of his staff into a rusty blade thing. We cut down branches from pine trees (with an axe, while in the tree.. Safe stuff) We made a very ramshackle fort, which we booby trapped with very real wire tripwires, that we made with some wire spools our mom used for gardening. Some were low, some were like chest level. We made warhammer style weapons by duct taping rocks to sticks and shit. We dug several holes to trip people... Usually near the wire lines.
We knew this little section of the woods like the back of our hand. We'd go on these epic adventures and battle monsters pretty frequently. Then we got older and stopped. Our home-made booby-traps and crude weapons are still out there I imagine. My parents no longer live there.
Good luck new owner. A couple of kids under 10 turned a random section that the 30 acres into a death trap. Hope you don't hunt.
My brother and I never had the armor but we would get way deep into our adventures and even talk about the next "campaigns" we'd set up. We lived on a large bit of land with not many other kids nearby and no cable TV.
Took me till I was 27 years old to actually finally sit at a D&D table and realize what my childhood was missing.
Holy shit! I did this too, only Legend of Zelda themed. Had a wooden shield painted to look like Link's shield (held on by old stapled underwear bands) and a painted wooden Master Sword.
My friend was a made up character, Link's brother "Lester".
We ruled the woods behind my house, drew maps and built dungeon "forts"...
jsake · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar as a kid. The only problem is my friend and I called it playing "selves"....
It wasn't until much later that we realized why we'd get odd looks and laughs from parents when asked what we were up to and said "playing selves" lol
Me and my cousins did this too. We called it "The Ogre Game". We had bases and factions and maps of the land. We also had train tracks in my Grandmas back yard so we would leave pennies on the track to smash them then initial them with "KJ" (Kenobi Joe, my cousins character the king) and use them as currency. If your character died in a fight you had to make a new character with a new name and backstory.
Shit, I came here to say the same damn thing! My friends and I used to have fantasy battles with a whole rule set of different attacks and hit points. There was even a GM. I always wanted to start making actual equipment for it, but I never got around to it.
Me and my brothers did this all day every day, all summer. Until we were way to old to be doing this and I got self conscious about it. Now I embrace my nerd and am actively looking for a DnD group to rekindle my love for role-playing
Me and two of my cousins played this game where I was a unicorn princess who had been turned into a human (no, The Last Unicorn wasn't one of my favorite movies growing up or anything), cousin E was a wolverine and cousin N was a badger. Or maybe it was the other way around. We fought bad guys and had to free my kingdom from the evil people who took it over, killed my parents, and made me human. When we'd get together over the summer, we'd discuss what happened the previous year and continue where we left off. We did this for two or three years.
Spent my whole child hood and much of the first half of my teen years playing pretend. We would play campaigns. So it would be many, many days after school all in the same story, we just picked up where we left off. Some of the greatest campaigns are: "The Rhinestone Cowboy" which turned into the "Crystal Kid" after "Rhinestone" died, now that I think about it that whole thing was definitely a tragedy as every main character good and bad ended up dying in that one. Rhinestone, his son (the Kid), My character (Peter O'toole), and outlaw Jamie, and his brother Juamo, all died.
Anyways, also have the epic of the four Jedi knights. That one is very very long. Suffice it to say that not all four Jedi lived full lives. Two went astray while two stayed true to the Jedi. Of the two who led the Jedi 1 was killed in battle fighting against an army of Sith. Of the two Jedi who stayed true one was also killed in that same final conflict. In the end what was so interesting is that the two opposite ends of the spectrum survived. Brother number 2 was the Jedi zealot who obeyed religiously while I was the rebel who had betrayed the Jedi and even killed them in battle. I ended up retiring in exile after redeeming myself.
The final campaign is the Middle Earth adventure. That one was a huge amount of fun and surprisingly didn't end in tragedy. The cool thing about that one is that now, many years later I am DM-ing a middle earth campaign set 50 years after the events in our pretend play (for my brothers as well). The son of one of our original pretend characters is making an appearance as well as my pretend character (an elf). They will be in the position of experienced adventurers giving wisdom and assistance, preparing the current roleplaying party for its next challenge.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did similar things as a kid with my friends. We lived near some woods that didn’t have any dangerous wild life, so we would go there and pick up sticks to serve as swords and fight goblins and orcs, and bandits. Good times.
It was the mid-late 90’s.
avahz · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ho yes. Good time. Also the "cop" version where we would ride our huge bike (kids bicycle) to arrest imaginary baddies with our wooden guns (slightly gun-shaped wooden stick).
My friends and I did something similar, the difference being it was the mid to late 2000's so we had been influenced by the early Call of Duty games so we were always soldiers in WW2. I was always the medic, we built "bunkers" from sticks in the woods, and our upgrades were just gaining rank. We also had the plastic guns with orange tips that made sounds when you pulled the trigger for our weapons.
Reminds me of me and my friends' Lego town. We had a section of my family's basement dedicated to this Lego town, and each of our friends built a house and had a family/group of minifigures we claimed for ourselves. Every person had some kind of job or a business, like running a restaurant or building and testing ships/weapons. We even made copies of some class money from grade school and had an economy and everything.
AAAH my buddies and I did exactly this, but sometimes we switched the setting from fantasy to sci-fi... we'd go to walmart and buy up a few super-soakers, bring em home to his dad's workshop and saw them up so they looked more like scifi guns, and wrapped em up in duct tape to make em look less neon and more sci-fi.
We'd spend 3 hours building weapons, about 20 minutes running around with them, then the next 6 hours playing Magic cards in a tree house.
Thanks "Fugget About It", I now know what a LARPER is
a2hton · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was always so weird to me that people could stay friends for so long because my family moved so much that I never really stayed friends with people for long
Kiujy · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In case in what not intentional, your Sahags sound similar to the Sahuagins from dungeons and dragons.
I played a similar game except it was called Not Get Seen By Cars. Everyone had 3 lives and it was game over if a passing cars headlights shined on you. Basically we had throw ourselves in ditches and gullies to avoid being seen.
We also went trick or treating on April Fool’s day, which netted us some candy because it was around Easter. One guy answered the door and said “I don’t get it” then shut it in our faces.
But my kids? My kids imaginary games blew mine out of the water, especially my eldest son. He and his brother had these intricate, involved plots and sub-plots that I never understood and most of their friends couldn’t get into. We always had enough wooden staffs in the hallway entry way to start a small fire. And one time this random guy knocked on my door and said, “you need to put that kid in theatre, he has talent.” But I’m not into whoring my kids and he didn’t want to do it, so that didn’t happen. Those kids had a lot of good times together.
madsci · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would go spider hunting, trying to kill the big brown orb weaver spiders that spun their webs at head level all over the yard. We'd decked ourselves out in our most badass gear and I was armed with a chain flail made from one of the rings from the swingset.
We found a spider by the chicken coop and I took a swing at it and it just disappeared. There was a pause of a second or two and we went from armored knights to screaming kids trying to figure out if the spider went in our hair or something.
ja-mez · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I did something similar. We were tiger princesses (think Kajit) and we defeated all types of evil in our kingdom. Of course we also married princes.
This reminds me of something my older brother and I did when we were a lot younger. We had a 10 acre house with a field in the back yard and a large portion of the woods in that area on our property.We ended up taking our toy machine guns and ran around the woods pretending we were in the military while at war.
I did basically the same thing to the extent of long story arcs, gear upgrades, character classes, and enemy types with my siblings growing up, though we rarely used props. At the time I thought everyone did it too.
Whether you knew it or not at the time, I'm going to go ahead and say that whoever came up with this game was some manner of huge D&D nerd (which is also what I am, for the record). "Cleric" usually wouldn't jump to mind for the average non-nerd coming up with a fantasy game over "knight" or "wizard". Even more than that, though: "Sahag" is much too close to sahuagin (also a water monster) to be coincidence. Good on them for passing on their nerdiness to you!
We did that with a glow in the dark frisbee, in the dark.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:54:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I recently got my three year old her first Nerf gun. My siblings and I would have all out Nerf wars up until about five years ago. I'm talking, flipping couches for cover, countless broken mirrors and picture frames, stashing ammo (or moving found stashes) around our dad's house for months leading up to whatever family gathering.
"Going to visit dad this weekend. Gotta spend $20 on Nerf darts and duct tape them to the top of the ceiling fan that's 12 feet off the floor."
It was intense.
I'm so excited to start the tradition with her. Maybe not so crazy since she's a toddler, but.. you know..
We did this in primary/high school but with and ball we could get our hands on. Tennis balls, rugby league balls etc. I dont know if this is a country-wide name, but we called it Brandy.
We used to do this too! We’d usually have a couple teams of 2 or so people, sometimes we would even forgo the tag part and just sneak around wiping pine cones at each other. There were two older kids down the street who were kind of jerks and picked on everyone. My team mate and I walked around a corner one time and came upon the two older kids and before they even saw us I just cocked back and wiped the cone as hard as I could, nailed him right in the side of the face as he was turning to look at us. Probably got him in the eye a bit but I don’t know. Partner is dying on the ground laughing, pine cone face kid is tearing up, his partners looking at me like wth man? I still feel bad about it honestly. I believe that was pretty much the end of that, at least with that specific group.
We used pinecones, and the person who was "it" was just essentially a moving target. None of us had the patience to find anything else and the pine trees are abundant in my childhood neighborhood so it was all out war.
One time when I was in middle school, some kid threw a foam nerf tomahawk at me and it skimmed the top of my head, leaving me with a sizable cut across my scalp. Almost had to get stitches. Those things are literal weapons!! Haha
I used to make tiny spaceships out of Lego and give their captains elaborate backstories. For a couple years I had a friend that did this too, and our politics/storyline was epic. It was too bad my family had to move back to St. Louis. I wonder whatever happened to that kid. We lost touch as twelve year olds do.
A guy I was friends with used to make really complex K'NEX guns with me and we'd play complicated spy/shooting games with them. He also ended up moving to St. Louis after 5th grade, crazy stuff! We had paper airplane golf/races one time for his birthday too, that was pretty cool.
EDIT: It was actually Louisville he moved to and I got confused. Still fun to share our stories!
We never did the K'NEX, but we did do a lot of paper airplanes too. The Library had a large study room nobody used, so we would go there and copy the planes out of the paper airplane instruction books we found.
We also build snow forts. It was Fitchburg, MA back during those nor-esters they got back in the early 90's. The snowdrifts were massive.
Sounds like a lot of fun! No snow forts for me though, a bit too far South. Reminiscing like this is fun, makes you wonder what would've happened if people hadn't moved, would you still be friends and whatnot, ya know?
I ended up being friends with two guys that had been carrying on the same story from their Lego universe into highschool. We all ended up working on shared Google doc files to flesh it out and make it actual fiction. Back stories, compendiums, stories that we called "movies" since we wanted the fiction to read like you were watching an action movie. It was a world where there were no governments and people lived in these giant city-sized bases, and you followed the rule of whoever ran that base. Advanced technology was involved, and eventually you find out that all these "guards" the protagonists are going thru in their adventures are just clones. Eventually the heroes find out that they had been cloned at some point. The whole thing started out so small and turned into a whole world that took over our Junior and Senior years of high school. Damn that was so much fun.
This reminded me of something similar. Me and my friend had a continuous storyline involving whatever toys we could get our hands on (mostly Lego, Transformers, and those little green army men) for a few years. We'd have periods of "peace" where we'd build a ton of bases and spaceships and houses out of Lego, and then overtime wars/conflict would start with stakes ranging anywhere from "The Decepticons have teamed up with the Ninjago snakes and they're planning to kill the president" to "Aliens are planning to blow up the Earth". Everything would usually end up getting destroyed and the good guys would eventually be forced to work from ruined cities/bases before finally making a last stand against the enemies. The Earth itself ended up getting destroyed plenty of times, with it being "repaired" by either moving to another planet or time travel.
My cousin and I had a complex ongoing multiverse of lego battles involving a specific Alien trying to conquer the Earth and/or universe that we made over the course of like six years.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i had a friend like that in secondary school :') we were given a map worksheet thing in school and drew little stick people characters all over it and it ended up being like a wheres wally, after that we'd bring more maps and pictures in and make more cities and ended up having a whole book of them which we called Rubeah (Ruby and Leah) i miss that :')
mygawd · 2 points · Posted at 00:51:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, of the endless possibilities for things you could make, I always made spaceships. I guess I'm kinda like Benny from the Lego movie
This is actually the only thing that makes me so grateful for technology. I was thrilled to see my third grade best friends request. I had to move back to my original city after only a year in hers too. I often wonder what life would be like if I weren’t able to kind of keep in touch with people I’ve met throughout my life!
My two brothers and I would build Lego spaceships and have wars by taking turns shooting marbles and each other's ships. I would make a big strong one and my brother would make a ton of little weak ones. It was so fun!
When Addy, the first black American Girl Doll came out, my friend and I became fascinated with her stories about escaping from slavery.
We would spend hours playing the “slave game,” pretending we lived on a plantation. Once her dad realized what we were doing, he helped us by giving us “real slave chores” to make our game more realistic.
Our dumbass 8-year-old selves were folding laundry and raking leaves until it was the right time in the game to flee the plantation for the Underground Railroad.
Our parents would then pack us “slave snacks” in case we got hungry on the journey. We’d be having the time of our lives munching on a dry piece of white bread, while our brothers ate dunkaroos and laughed in our faces.
EDIT: To answer some people’s question, and paint a clearer picture, my friend and I are about as white as it gets. In American Girl Doll terms, think Kirsten Larsen or Molly McIntire.
When my friend’s brother found out what we were playing, he told us we were idiots because only black people were slaves in the olden days. This had literally never occurred to me, and I remember feeling very confused and overcome with what I now know to be a sense of white guilt.
We were devastated with this plot hole in our game, but quickly found a loop hole that allowed us to continue playing for months and months: our characters weren’t always in slavery, it was their punishment after they tried to help other slaves. Also sometimes there “Freaky Friday” style mix ups, and sometimes witches made it happen. I don’t know, we were kids.
ALSO: obligatory thank you to the kind (but maybe a little racist) folks who showered me with precious metals. You will receive hand written thank you notes in the mail once I find out where you live.
Haha similarly, I used to play Cinderella and my mom would make me scrub the floors and dust.
I’d get annoyed if she wasn’t mean enough.
However, once I was done with the chores she always played the fairy godmother too and let me put on one of my fancy dresses to dance in.
My favorite part was she would “forget” the magic words and when I reminded her the last word was “boo” she would act startled.
She is a good mom.
I have a great time imagining your mom just wondering at her good fortune: My child wants to do chores AND wants me to be more of a disciplinarian? And all I have to do at the end is a little playtime (which is fun anyway)?
You must've been a great kid. She was certainly a great mom.
My kids are 3 and new. I realized really quickly that the kids are who they are and they are the magical forces. Some kids make it really easy. Yesterday I got my older one a little set that is a coop, chickens, chicks, and eggs. She was running around yelling I CANT BELIEVE IT! I CANT BELIEVE IT!
Haha similarly, I used to play Cinderella and my mom would make me scrub the floors and dust. I’d get annoyed if she wasn’t mean enough.
I had to check your username and make sure my tween hasn't joined reddit yet. She used to LOVE this game when she was little. We'd have a fancy-dress dance afterwards too (because Cinderella always ends up at the ball!).
I wish I had thought of the fairy godmother angle, though. Your mom is incredibly sweet.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 16:36:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
She's just about 12 and so far she's cool with staying off all social media (including reddit). We've agreed that we will revisit the topic of social media when she's 13 (since most EULAs say you must be 13+).
I might just be naive, but I think we have a pretty good relationship where she doesn't need to hide things from me. There are no off-limit subjects, and I always make sure to explain WHY she has certain limits. I also try to make it clear that she's allowed to come to me if she thinks I've made an unfair rule and we'll talk it out. There have been a couple instances where she's made an argument that's reasonable enough that I've given her extra freedoms.
That all being said, I'm keeping my kids as far away as possible from reddit for as long as possible. There are some rabbit holes I've been down on here that should never exist.
I think that came from when I went as Cindy for Halloween. My parents (being theatre geeks) had to have corresponding costumes when they took me out. So my mom had perfected her Fairy Godmother bit at Halloween and just had to use it again.
One of my best memories was my dad dressing up as the Scarecrow when I went as Dorothy and skipping down the street with me (even though his back hurt)
I’m sure your daughter will cherish her memories of playing Cinderella with you too.
That's so cute! My best friends' mom would do something similar after we all saw the musical Annie. She would put on "Hard-Knock Life," and we'd sing along to it while doing chores like scrubbing the floor and doing laundry.
Nowadays, f I need that inspiration to start cleaning, I just put on that song.
This is great! My 2 year old likes that movie. Maybe I can try my hand at playing Miss Hannigan in a couple years. To be really in character I’ll need a few flasks of gin on me... haha.
I'm currently expecting my first child in the next 6 months.
My mother was gutted when she found out we were having a boy because she couldn't do this now. She's since changed her mind again and has gone back to the original under the guise of letting him make his own choices about being a princess
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:52:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is the sweetest thing I've ever read. I actually saved it so I can read it later when I'm sad.
emmak8 · 5 points · Posted at 16:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play Cinderella and tell my mom to be meaner too!! One Halloween I even dressed up as Cinderella “before the ball.”
When I was 4 or 5, I asked my mom to play Cinderella and then told her I was the evil step mother and she needed to clean the house by the time I got back from school. It... did not work.
Omg. My bf knows the fastest way to get my attention is to help out around the house.
My fav is when he cleans the grout in our bathroom floor. He soaks it in oxiclean and then sucks it up with a steam cleaner. It's magical. I always show my sincere appreciation to him afterwards.
It's pretty close to the "salve game" but instead of a fairy godmother at the end of the game its endless whips to the back while chained to a tree. :)
(Entry 1 of 3)
1 : an unctuous adhesive substance for application to wounds or sores
2 : a remedial or soothing influence or agency a salve to their hurt feelings
The salve game sounds a lot like "playing doctor".
ammzi · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who is mixed as well as her sister. One day they were doing yard work for their very white grandparents and decided to start singing slave spiritual songs...
I had a friend whose parents were really against violent video games, so this friend would always hide the fact that he played Mortal Kombat with me from them. One day I was over at his house and we were on the internet looking up how to perform a "fatality" (a type of extremely violent finishing move in that game if you're not familiar); his mom walks in and asks what we're doing. I didn't know what the word "fatality" actually meant, and I guess I just assumed it was some kind of generic word for button combos in video games, so when she asked what we were doing online I proudly proclaimed, "We're looking up fatalities!". Instant classic facial expression from both my friend and his mom.
Yeah not only that, those kids might grow up with a warped sense that slavery was simply raking some leaves, and could be fun...that's not exactly great parenting on any level lol. I've seen worse though I guess.
Honestly if I had a neighbor kid tell me this and they seemed otherwise normal, I would just assume it's some dumb kid shit, I did the same exact type of stuff when I was little lol
I’m late to the party but I had a friend who was adopted from China as a 2 year old. As grade schoolers we were doing yard work at his house when he stopped the lawn mower and told his Dad “I know why you adopted me, for slave labor”.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know exactly how that would go. I had a thing for The Brave Little Toaster as a toddler, and once I called my dad “The Master.” Very loudly. In the middle of a crowded grocery store.
You kidding? I caught on to the fact that my brother and I were just free labor by the time I was five. I'd say that's a totally normal thing to hear from a kid.
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X87DV · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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I truly believe that there are some people who are wired to parent, and some others, like myself, who just aren't. You are most definitely grade A parent material.
you're forgetting abt the third category of people who start off not being wired to do it, but learn how through hard work and effort. not everyone already is a good parent but anyone can try to be one, which is the biggest chunk of it. :)
Not as hilarious, but I'll give you another one that I'm particularly proud of for free.
When my daughter was learning to write her alphabet she would get frustrated easily. One day she was refusing to write the letter 'A'. So I said we don't have to do this anymore let's draw a party instead. I drew a bunch of stick figure guests and asked if she could give all of the guests party hats, oh, and wouldn't it be nice if we put a stripe on the hats too?
Long story short she wrote the letter A a dozen times, then drew more guests and ended up writing the letter A about thirty times before she decided to make more elaborate decorations.
That day I nearly printed myself out a Father of the Century certificate.
The kids I nannies for were fond of graveyard. Everyone dies and lies in a pretend coffin on the floor without moving. Half the time they fell asleep, if they moved I got to tickle them ruthlessly.
I know now it was just to get us to stay still and shut up, but I unironically loved when I played that game in summer camp or kindergarten. I wasn't/am not very athletic, so games like that were the only ones I could get good at.
This was a favourite game with the scoutmasters, when we needed some peace and quiet for a few minutes. The kids loved the game too. Necer knew why lol
Just tried this on my 3-year-old because she's driving me crazy and she ran off to show me that her right leg is faster and her left leg is fatter. And now she won't leave me alone about what my legs are (they can't be fast or fat; they have to be something different) and she's not accepting any of my responses and she won't stop and I hate you for tricking me into this.
My grandpa made it up and I loved it so much. I'd ask to play it in the car all the time. I was the only kid of the family so I was excited to play with the adults any chance I'd get. My grandpa would make funny faces at me and would try to get me to laugh to lose the game
Our quite game growing up was called "Quaker", no idea why that name. It was good for movies, car rides, you name it. Kids or adults would just yell out "Quaker!" and the first one to talk loses.
At a summer camp as a kid, we played a game called “sleeping elephants.” The goal was to fall asleep first, and stay asleep for the longest. I would seriously try to win.
My Nan used to challenge my cousin and I to the “hold your breath the longest” game and the “stay silent the longest” I realised when I grew up it was just so she could read her book in peace lol.
Omg this is fucking hilarious. Your dads a genius 😂
Kaicpap · 979 points · Posted at 15:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't realize the brilliance of this until I was much older, but growing up my dad would trick me into helping him do yard work by turning everything into a competition
"Let's see who can rake their half of the yard the best"
"Let's see who can pick up the most leaves and sticks"
"Let's see how fast you can clean off all these parts to the grill"
Competition is awesome. We used to give our daughters points for trying new foods at restaurants. "Try a Mussel, its worth 25 points. Your sister just ate an Escargot, she is 10 points ahead of you."
They both have very adventuresome palates to this day.
My parents did this but primarily with vegetables and called them “Veggie Points”. It worked up until I had a flash of realization that I was (roughly) ten bazillion points ahead of my brother and had nothing to show for it. But we both like vegetables so I guess that was the true reward in the end 😂
Competition is what drives most people. "let's see who can get most money/biggest house/best car" etc. Without all the social pressure people wouldn't care much about all of that.
Omg yeah, when we cleaned the house my mom would tell us ‘whoever finished their chores first got to swiffer the floor!’ I think we just liked it because it squirted water but it was effective and my brother and I fought over it all the time.
Hah my mom was that type of parent. I was not that type of kid. She was and still is annoyed that she cant figure out how to motivate me. But its usually really boring limited types of things like that. Or negging. The kind of "prove me wrong" type of motivation. Ah yes a sense of pride and accomplishment. Thanks mom I'd definitely rather have that than enjoy reading my book.
We didn't do much chores as kids, but we also never got an allowance. One time my grandma asked me to help her clean the yard of sticks and I said "sure, if you pay me." She then accused me of blackmailing her, which scared the shit out of me because I didn't know what it meant but it sounded scary as hell.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Listening to my ex-military friends, this is like 90% of low-level leadership. Idk the terms, but all of the guys who ran less than a dozen people have stories like this.
My parents did it with who can pick up the most dog poop in the backyard. We had a good sized backyard and we had a weekly chore of picking up dog shit.
They got us homemade pooper scoopers, a milk jug cut in half and a plastic bag to scoop it in.
My sister and me would look for the best dog poo scooping stick.
When ready, my parents will start it like a race, "ready, set, go" and my sister and me would race around poop scooping.
We would then place our bags on a scale we had outside.
From what I can remember, it's just followed him through his life and I think he's a lawyer now or something? Basically he's just trying to live a normal professional life because he's not this person anymore, but people only want the meme.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 20:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I only went to a couple mallet parties but I remember once someone was serving everclear with animal crackers floating in it from a cooking pot. I think it was the 18 hole golf course thing, what a time
this video always makes me uncomfortable, idk whether it's the angle it's filmed at or just the way the guy is talking but his face is angled up so much that it looks like he's straining to say every word he says and is talking to the ceiling...it just tires me out watching it.
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
it's a better slave game then the ones my scout friends and I played for the past three years loosely based on the TV series roots.
In my defense I wanted to stop playing, but I have little influence and didn't want to be alone. The whole game stopped when the first black kid in 20 years joined our troop.
My friends and I also had a slave game but it was much more sinister. We would turn a papasan chair over and put a space heater inside with sheets on top. Then one of us would get under it and the others would lift up the sheet and whip,or poke and stab the "slave" with sticks or broom handles and such.
We played Underground Railroad in school, as a class assignment. The teacher had us carry provisions and supplies and “sneak” through the empty hallways as a group during classtime. I think I carried bologna and was not happy about getting something so lame.
IIRC, she set up some path markers and constellations set up, and had us sing “Follow the Drinking Gourd” trying to find and follow the North Star to find our way. This was like 25 years ago so I don’t remember the ending sadly.
Addy is pretty great too though and I totally played underground railroad with my friends when she first came out...we were all very white and it makes me cringe now, but it was very innocent at the time.
I remember in fifth grade our elementary school did an overnight thing where all the kids were slaves trying to escape on the Underground Railroad. Was intense and scary but a good experience to have. Obviously we didn’t face the same dangers, but the experience definitely helped me get closer to understanding what it was probably like for the slaves, if only a little bit. Is it bad they I would be interested in doing something like this again as an adult? An immersive Underground Railroad simulation that isn’t watered down for kids just to try to get a better grip on what it was like. Without risking being killed.
JT420 · 9 points · Posted at 15:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck yeh dunkaroos
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm reminded of when I was about 9 or 10 and would play a game with a slightly older neighborhood boy that I was a captured Native American slave girl and he was a cowboy who made me pick plants until I'd run away.
My friend went through a period when she was obsessed with Cinderella. Naturally as a kid she wanted to dress up and play act as her, so her mom would give her "cinderella" chores to do the house. Had her wiping the floors and dusting lol
Oh mine did not go as wholesome as you. I (white) whipped my neighbor (also white) with a jump rope. My mom made me watch as she cut it into 2 inch pieces and dumped it in the trash. We were never allowed to have jump ropes again, as this jump rope had been a cautionary toe in the water after they were previously banned due to another unrelated jump rope incident
Kehgals · 119 points · Posted at 15:02:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The 90s were a simpler time. Imagine the outrage if kids were playing something called "the slave game" now.
For sure. No doubt if these kids had gotten a chance to free some slaves or help them escape they would have been all over that!
Marie was just so totally unaware, she thought being a poor peasant was actually fun. Yikes!
jxd_- · 90 points · Posted at 15:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is escaping from slavery it wouldnt be bad at all if played now
People would still be outraged the parents encouraged the game and assigned "slave chores" to begin with. Which is dumb since this seems like a good teaching opportunity and sounds like it was one for the kids.
I mean imagine saying we’re going to play holocaust so get in this box and pretend you’re in a train headed toward the unknown. And say goodbye to your baby brother!
Fun is appropriate where it’s appropriate. If slavery is taught in a fun way you’re not setting kids up for an honest lesson about slavery at all. If their takeaway and memory of slavery is “wow that was a blast playing manhunt” then the lesson was a failure.
I think it also depends on the age of child and how much they know, and how much the parent explains.
I could totally see a younger kid who has been introduced to the holocaust and slavery in a watered down manner, because of age and how schools might approach it, starting to play a game like that. Both were definitely watered down quite a bit when I first learned about them in school - though that changed somewhat as we got older. (I grew up in the south. There was always an element of underplaying the horrors of slavery that I find appalling.)
I would hope that parents would take it as a learning opportunity, though.
Really? In a time where a kid can get suspended from school for doing the pretend finger gun?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:01:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of couree theres always some but I feel the whole overly-offended thing is massively overblown by people. Besides, that's just a school administration being rediculous as they tend to be.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:02:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I see more people offended by the idea that most people wouldn't be offended than actual offended people.
This seemed like a game of tag that my cousins and I used to play but we would call it Immigration, half of us would be Border Patrol and the other half would be Immigrants. The reason this was the name was because my uncle lived out in the middle of nowhere and his back yard was cut by a weird fence/stone wall. I don’t know if anyone has ever seen or heard about The Stanford Experiment where they split the two group of people up into Prisoners and Prison Officers but I feel like the roles got to us, I only say this because I caught two of my cousins hog tying another one of our relatives because they caught him and had to teach him a “lesson about coming into this country illegally.”
Just an FYI, we all come from first generation immigrant house holds. I’m pretty sure our parents never caught on to what we were playing since they just thought it was tag but it got bad from time to time.
Lol child me would have had a blast with that. We once played this game where we were hiding in a room that we pretended was a train car, and we were escaping some bad guys. And all we had to eat was some leftover cold pizza that we'd nibble on.
Ghitit · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is somewhat similar to a game my friends and I played on our way home from school. At elementary school back in, I dunno, early 90's, the school computer had a game called Freedom
This game was like an Oregon Trail approach for slaves escaping from the South. What we did after school was hide from all other people/cars while walking home. Sometimes this was elaborate like crawling into some bushes and other times was a simple as posting up behind a telephone pool while cars passed.
It was a fun game but more similar to some half ass hide n seek tho, the actual being a slave part wasn't that relevant but what we did was really similar to the PC game. It was all about making the route while being undetected.
We had a Halloween Party at my uncle's house. One of the "games" was to collect as many acorns as you can. Us kids collected several pounds of acorns that all ended up in his deer bait pile.
I convinced my younger sister to play Marry Popins, I would sit on our top bunk and flick my fingers, while she would run around and pick every toy up, until our room was no longer messy!
Our parents would then pack us “slave snacks” in case we got hungry on the journey. We’d be having the time of our lives munching on a dry piece of white bread, while our brothers ate dunkaroos and laughed in our faces.
I feel like that would have cheapened the experience. I get they were commiting fraud and just making their kids do work for them, but the kids would have likely thought (for a few years, at least), "slavery ain't that bad. People were just too lazy to get work done; I look forward to more slavery work tomorrow".
Perhaps add a few exhausting chores like "dig this hole" or "cut down this small tree.... Now imagine instead of that one tree, you had to cut 10 and someone was hitting you because you were too slow"
I played the Cinderella version of this. I would scrub everything with a rag and my grandma even made me the dresses. I had a blue dress with a brown skirt, black apron and flats for the “before” and a light blue gown with little glitter glue dots for my “after”
Yes! We watched The Little Princess too many times and played "slaves" all the time as kids. I have pictures of me and my sister raking leaves being "slaves".
Oh snap, my sister had Addy, and when my daughter turned 5 she got Kit and Mary Ellen from her grandparents. Really well made dolls and I like the stories they tell with them.
Do not, however, waste your money on any of the accessories. We thought it would be cool to get our daughter the space discovery playset and robot dog she locked onto in the catalog for christmas, and not only were we disappointed, but my kid literally said "that's all it does" when the button on the dog simply activated a robo bark. $50 for a plastic dog with a push button bark. We figured it would have movement or something for that price. And the space playset was a $100 plastic playbench with a lab coat and two small "maker" (read fake lego) sets. She has played more with the candy dispenser keychain that she got in her stocking than either AG toy, but plays with the dolls non-stop.
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. On a related note, I had similar experience with the Molly books. I begged my mom for a beret and stole my sisters glasses and refused to eat anything but mashed beets for like two months. I never figured out how to make the beets the way Molly’s mom did; it was legitimately repulsive but I was fucking committed.
We played a slave game, except different. One person was the slave and the other was the master. Basically we turned off all the lights and the slave tried to escape, if they were caught by the master the master would then proceed to beat the shit out of the slave
Island of the Blue Dolphins inspired by the book. I'd build a little hut in the living room and collect abalone from the beach (they were shoes) and fight off packs of wild dogs played by stuffed animals. I'd make sure to spend a good portion of the day staring wistfully out towards the sea and weep for my dead brother and my people. My actual brother would try to play with me but I'd be like, "NO! YOU CAN'T! YOU'RE DEAD!!"
I'd read the book every summer and get inspired to play again.
I had a similar game based on this book! I pretended our tree house in the back yard was my hut. Same thing with the weeping for my people and isolating myself from my siblings to make it more realistic. This brought back great memories!
Yooooo I played a similar game with my sister, but there was a little park maybe a quarter mile away from our house with a pond and cool flowers, so we’d play there. Plus there was a friendly red husky who lived in one of the yards that neighbored the park, so we called him Rontu.
My friend and I both played this, too! It spiraled into two separate games: Oshi’s Island (mine) and The Island of the Pasolmincas (hers). We both wrote “books” based off of our adventures, and have fun laughing at the cringy prose now.
Me too! Except I actually lived in the area that book takes place. Every weekend, we'd go to the beach and I'd be off building a hut and making baskets and stuff.
I had a wolf pack that lived in the forest near my school. (Keep in mind that the "forest" was a line of 5-10 short pine trees in a line). The wolf pack was my pack and they all listened to me, and the popular girls would get so mad that THEY didn't have wolves. So I'd let them "borrow" a wolf for recess in exchange for coveted silvery pencils & erasers in the shape of fruit.
Yawehg · 608 points · Posted at 15:22:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the "forest" was a line of 5-10 short pine trees
I'd let them "borrow" a wolf for recess in exchange for coveted silvery pencils
There's a book called "Tell The Wolves I'm Home". It has a distinct lack of wolves and is in fact about a girl coping with the loss of her beloved uncle/godfather and building a relationship with his "widowed" boyfriend until he too dies of AIDS.
We actually had a game like this! Although eventually the boys got into it and some joined the wolves but many created this military faction where they pretended to shoot the wolves. I’m really unsure how the staff didn’t notice the middle school boys pointing sticks and making shooting noises at other students but it was the game of the year. Some of the kids still remember and it was fun while it lasted.
Also for some reason me and three others made this weird factions of Sasquatches. The oldest boy convinced us we have to eat bugs to join the faction, i just pretended to eat them. But yeah even the popular girls got jealous and the “winner” would get a prize pool generally consisting of cool looking pencils.
We had a spider buster group from some of the wolf followers! We got rid of the big mean spiders that were inhabiting the wood playground equipment. Which meant relocating them to the metal jungle gym.
like a game of tag but instead of being "it' after getting tagged you're immobilized and have to wait until the it gets to immobilize everyone. when the last free person gets tagged everyone shouts "viva!" while raising their hand. last person to shout it becomes it.
so it's called shake shake shampoo because you have to shake your hips and run your hand through your hair as if you're shampooing it when you get tagged. being the first one to get tagged sucks because you'll have to shake your hips til the end.
freeze tag is boring. you just stay there and stand still awkwardly. But with shake shake shampoo you force the it to decide if the world is ready for his target's hip shaking. as for the target, freeze tag might get you weird looks from onlookers because you're standing still. but with shake shake shampoo, they get it. "ah that boy got tagged, nothing weird happening here. no reason to call the cops or the asylum on these kids". wholesome fun eh?
Me and my friends put our own spin on freeze tag and called it “toilet tag.” Basically, if you got tagged you stood still with your arm out waiting for someone other then the one who was “it” to “flush” you (push your arm down) which allowed you to move again. This went on until everyone was a toilet. Very weird now that I think of it lol.
This was the version where if you were tagged, you had to stay in that spot, standing, and you would slowly make wavey hand motions with your arms out sideways and gradually start crouching to the floor as if ‘melting’ - the person still untagged could save you by running under your arms, and then you were free again!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to play this on the streets. imagine getting tagged in the middle of the street, playing by the rules, you stay there. then a car pulls over, honks at a kid shaking his hips and scratching his head like a deranged person.
no. But I now have scoliosis. both have some "s" letters in them so that counts .
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 23:20:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had similar called “stuck in the mud”
Once tagged you were stuck in the mud, and stood let’s apart frozen in place, anyone else playing could climb through your legs under you and you were no longer stuck, once everyone was stuck, the game restarts with the last person to get tagged is “it”
We used to play similar game called ice. The 'it' was selected after a series of scissors paper rock. He would be ice and we all would be water. If ice touched water, water would freeze and would be immobilized. But if any other 'waters' touched a frozen player, he would again turn into water. The ice had to chase people and make sure no one gets unfrozen.
When everybody was ice, the next 'it' was selected.
Zorakas · 370 points · Posted at 14:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In gym class occasionally we were allowed to play this game called "Line tag." Essentially, everyone would have to stay and move along the gym floor basketball/volleyball lines and the one or two people who were assigned to be it would have to run along the lines to tag people. If you were tagged, you had to sit down on the line where you were tagged, becoming a road block for other people. Loved that game.
Line tag was dope. I remember loving it in elementary. Our teacher had a system where every 3-4 minutes a certain line color would be “lava” and off limits until the next color was announced.
Haha played this with my students, we called it Pac Man tag
A_F_N_F · 366 points · Posted at 13:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa had a bunch of old tires in his backyard. I liked to stack em and make a Batmobile out of them. My friend and I would rule Gotham (backyard) everyday.
So we moved when I was 8. We kept all the boxes, including those big wardrobe boxes. My cousin and I would build kinda big cardboard box forts in our basement for years after the move. She now has claustrophbia and can't believe that she crawled around inside boxes so much as a kid.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:58:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma has a bunch of empty yogurt cups. I used to love making little towers and houses with them when I was a kid.
Used to play “Get Down Mr. President” with my mates every now and then.
Basically one of us would start the game by placing our hand to our ear (like we were secret service). Last one to realise is “Mr. President” and we all dogpile him.
I'm glad other people know this one. I sometimes think I was raised in a parallel, but more fun, reality because no one I talk to seems to remember it.
When I was in the HS marching band, we would play this during the 3rd quarter of football games when we had breaks! I was always terrified of being Mr. President.
We did the same thing, except after we tackled Mr president, someone would yell "take his shoes", and we'd take his shoes while he was pinned. It was all about the shoes.
We played this, except it was only a few years ago at my frat house. As you can imagine, it was infinitely dangerous having 30 guys give you a flying elbow drop
SeaTie · 12 points · Posted at 18:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a party at my house once. We decided to play after getting plastered. My mom didn’t know what was happening other than the fact that drunk teenagers were laughing menacingly while slowly walking towards her with our fingers to our ears. I remember getting punched in the face, but only after I hit the ground. That was a great night.
We played this one on the dance floor at my friend's wedding. Picture it: 20 adults, singing 'Sweet Caroline' at the top of their lungs, all with one hand to their ears, having a good time, but watching each other. Waiting for the last poor soul who wasn't paying attention to suddenly realize what was happening.
It was the ditzy girl dancing next to me. I tried to warn her because didn't think she would survive the impending dogpile. She didn't understand and then it was too late.
"GET DOWN MR. PRESIDENT!"
I did the only thing I could think of: I tackled her first. Then I braced myself for the onslaught, fully expecting to get very hurt. But they were kind, it was over in five minutes and we all got up and kept on dancing. I'm not sure she ever understood what happened.
Our elementary school had a steep hill on part of the playground, so we would play a game that we invented called Best Falls.
5 or 6 guys would line up at the top of the hill, and another guy would be at the bottom of the hill. The guy at the bottom would ask the first guy at the top how he wanted to be killed. The guy at the top would say "machine gun" or "bazooka" or "hand grenade." Then the guy at the bottom would make a big show of using that weapon on the guy at the top, while the guy at the top would make a big show of getting killed and falling and rolling down the hill. Then the guy who just got killed would stand at the bottom, and the thrower would go to the top.
It was fun watching everybody leap into the air from explosions or jerk around as they were shot by multiple bullets and then roll down the hill. Everybody got the chance to be the shooter and the guy getting killed, and both were fun in their own way. We could eat up an entire recess playing Best Falls.
I've thought about that, too. When there was an explosion, we would try to leap as high and forward as we could, getting lots of air, and it seemed like we would land about 15 feet down the hill. I dont recall anybody ever getting hurt, though, and we played it all the time (probably 2 or 3 times per week).
Of course, being 4th grade boys, we tried to make them as funny and overly dramatic as possible, so there were lots of leaps, somersaults, rolls, clutching of torsos, etc. with accompanying screams, groans, and facial expressions to depict our gruesome deaths.
When the bell rang, and we had to go back inside, we would always end the game with the thrower tossing an "A-Bomb," and we would all blow up at once in a horrible bloody massacre.
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I just remembered another good one. The request would be to get killed by a bow and arrow. Of course that wasn't as deadly as a gun or a bomb, so the victim would take an arrow at the top, and start staggering down the hill, sometimes falling and getting back up. The Killer would keep shooting arrows, and the victim would stagger more and more, sometimes almost reaching the Killer before he finally shot enough arrows to make the kill. This one was longer and more drawn out, but it was fun for both the Killer and the Victim.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 21:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar story, but 4th-grade me was convinced I would grow up to be a stuntman (blame Fall Guy and Hooper) so we would re-create epic battle deaths and falls down the hill. Not really a game, but we did it for hours... Sadly no footage survives.
There was a steep hill at my grandparent's house growing up, and we'd play a game where we all raced to the bottom. Usually we would end up going to fast and fall, rolling the rest of the way down. It was extra fun because you had to make sure to stop in time so you didn't fall down the hill that was at the bottom. The second one was more of a cliff and impossible to climb because it was all clay, and at the bottom of it was a road that was pretty well travelled.
For me, it was "lego golf" that I would play in our carpeted basement. I'd make a small golf club out of legos (using one of the flatter pieces as my clubhead) and hit one of the lego tires around to different "holes." I think I used the targets from the game Hyper Dash for holes.
We played Lego Town. You split the pile of pieces straight away and start building what you want from your pile, and if you wanted something from another persons pile you had to RP it. We used 2x2 white and yellow blocks as currency, and ran businesses to get more money. I had success running a cinema because we had a heap of videos and I could use the TV as the movie screen.
My cousin had an awesome collection of baby dolls, and her family had an old (circa 1970) RV permanently parked next to their house. We pretended that we were pregnant (pillows stuffed in shirts, etc), and would eventually “give birth” to the baby dolls. However, we were also at the age where we thought teenagers were the coolest of cool, so the backstory was always that we were runaway pregnant teenagers who had nowhere to live other than this broken-down old RV. We thought the storyline was exciting and tragic.
...I didn’t realize until adulthood that our go-to fantasy was “trailer park”.
As an older sister of a brother, I didn’t get the chance to be a girly girl, I became obsessed with GI Joe. So my brother and I used to play that and go on “missions” all the time, and my dads in the military so we had all kinds of army stuff to wear lol.
I was in the same boat. I played a lot of GI Joe, Star Wars, video games, and went on a lot of missions. We would sometimes play with my doll stuff together, but when we did that it was usually to dress up our hamsters and put them in the dollhouse. I'm not sure it counts as playing with dolls if your dolls are rodents.
Similar but me and my boy cousin would play house but with Hot Wheels. We would pick a spot and make a "house" and choose which cars would be our family. It was a more ridiculous version of barbies.
My brothers and I all owned little armies of different GI Joe figures, and we'd play 'war' by taking turns being the only one in the room, hiding our figures in ambush positions to see who could best the others with their strategies. I had a ninja figure that was really OP against anything in melee range, so he was my ringer. If I could get him near something vital, he'd always win.
Same, but my younger brother always loved cars and anything to do with them, so we spent a lot of time building Hot Wheels racetracks and playing racing games on our Play Station (the good ol’ pre-internet days when split-screen multiplayer was way more common) I also have a vague memory of playing a Hot Wheels PC game.
Edit: I just looked up the game, it was called Stunt Track Driver
There's that game everyone played in their head on car journeys, with a little character running alongside and dodging cars and other obstacles.
For me it was super mario
For me my arm would become this super long chainsaw. With the windows down, I would look down my extended arm and it would chop down any weeds, trees, bushes or people it passed through.
I used to do a thing where I would blink every time a shadow was across the road. It was a bit much, kinda OCD inducing and became dangerous once I started driving, so I quit playing.
i did this too but my chainsaw couldn't cut through the metal lamp posts so it needed to be electrified first by cutting down a wooden lamp post that had a grounding wire coming out of it
I used to do something similar until the school got fed up with everyone sticking their arms out on the bus and feeding us horror stories of children getting their arms taken off by random poles and shit. After that it was the invisible man jumping over things
Can’t believe how far down This is... me, it was a laser and it was connected to my toes. The trick was to cut down everything except telephone poles. I’d have to lift up above the telephone poles.
Hell yeah! I had a version that was supposed to be more like a video game though where I would "level up" and get upgrades. So early on in the car ride I'd be using a shitty axe that could only chop wooden obstacles like telephone poles in like 3 hits, but then eventually by the end it'd be upgraded to a fire sword that could cut right through metal signs.
For me a spot on the windshield could cut through all the signposts but not marker posts. So I had to move my head around so it would manage to cut down the signs without hitting any posts.
I loved to do that, except I had a massive extendable lightsaber. I do it when I’m bored in school sometimes and I pretend that I saw the school in half. I’m in highschool.
I had a really long chainsaw too, except my game was sort of "car jousting".
Instead of a shield I'd have a laser gun and so would the person in the car coming the other way. We'd have to dodge each others laser blasts then try to wreck the others car with the chainsaw. Sometimes I'd blow them up with lasers and sometimes I'd chop them up but I always won. I'm the world champion imaginary laser/chainsaw car jouster.
zangor · 36 points · Posted at 15:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It has become a fairly popular Reddit motif. Ever since someone brought it up in a giant thread, it comes up on here every now and then.
Probably originally in the 'What are some things you think only you do?' thread.
I was surprised to learn I wan't the only one that folded up a straw and put in in the back of my mouth and had saliva go into it and bite down for it all to rush out - until the folded straw got really smooth. Apparently like hundreds of people also did this.
i was on a bus on the way to a pop warner game doing this, and i saw a cloud of dust over a hill then this dirt bike came whipping by, right where i was imagining it, and i thought i had super powers for a second.
I used to get my dad's business card and play "airboard" out the window with it when we were in the slow lane (facing the fields), which still isn't that safe thinking back, but it was hella fun.
Well, I’m a lawyer in Texas. I board them at a boarding stable facility in town and I pay more to keep two horses there each month than I pay in rent. I chose to have a very expensive hobby. Before I was making a livable wage, there was a time I kept them with my in-laws, and before that, I was briefly living in my car and buying them and me old bread from the day-old bread store.
About eight years ago I got fired from working nights at a gas station for “stealing” the trash bread loaves we were throwing out every night so I could feed the girls.
Me too! On the bus I always imagined I had been late and was racing on a horse to keep up and follow to school. One the occasional road trip, my steed returns, fashionably late as ever.
I imagined horses as well! I'd start with one and as our journey progressed we'd gather more and more horses as we went until I had a whole herd. I really wanted a horse.
Mine was a tiger made of water. My home town was basically a drained swamp, and it took a lot of drain ditches to keep everything from flooding when it rained. That's why the tiger was made from water, then it could run along the drain ditches by the road and go through the culverts and stuff.
I feel like that could actually be a really neat gimmick in a platformer: the ability to turn into a liquid to access certain parts of the level or make certain types of jumps or moves. Would be pretty neat!
Mine was Michael Jackson. For a while MJ was my imaginary friend and he would run alongside my mom's van, or he'd pull up to my house in a limo when he was on the way to some Hollywood party
I had a toy motorcycle that looked exactly like the one in those books! I held that up to my window and use that to race along oncoming traffic or just cruise the power lines
and when the window was down I would fight the wind monster on the car, and just when he was about to pin my guy down, the car would stop at a light or something, and he would get sucked away.
pezman · 3 points · Posted at 15:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My young daughter just told me that she was doing this the other day, and it was such a blast finding out that we both did the same thing. For her, level one is Mario, but level two is a ballerina who could jump very far and very high. And both of them can only jump onto green things.
Mine had a jetpack, but the caveat was he had to fly real close to the obstacles and if he fell too far behind he'd get crushed by the window frame and said obstacles.
For me, it was half Sonic, half Mega Man. Until I discovered the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games, at which point it turned into the apparently ubiquitous skater.
Am i the only one that imagined something between one of those big drills from the matrix and and a transformer, that would go through the dirt like a dokphin guess through water?
And of course gotta imagine where the utilities are to avoid those. It's okay if it destroys a car or three, though.
For me, it was me. But I would use the objects to help me get by. Like I could grab a powerline and use it as a whip to swing from. Or signs would be spring boards. Or those white tubes with orange on the top that are sticking out of the ground everywhere would be rockets.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I never played that game, but I see it mentioned all the time like everyone did. Was I a dumb kid?
Mine was the Hulk. Every step he ran would crack the ground, no tree could stop or slow him down and any car would be thrown to the side or stomped on. Good times.
Our old family car had black lines on the side windows all the way in the back, so I would use those as a template and only let myself dodge things using the lines
It was a nightmare .... I couldn't stop imagining the game even when k wanted to just take in scenery. I hated it... Also I get car sick if I look out the window. Luckily driving is much easier and does not have this "game".
I did this but I butt tilted to dodge.
Lampost on the left lift left butt cheek etc. If both sides just tense cheeks. Have a decent bum and I think I might have now sussed why.
I was fascinated with the parallax effect (close things go by fast, far things go by slow), so in my sci fi mind I sped up until the far things (mountains, moon) were going by as fast as the close ones.
Now we were getting somewhere.
Jaewol · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was either a ninja or a dude on a hoverboard.
I had a stick figure. They would jump from car to car, and depending on what kind of car they would be safe for a various time (I remember Toyota’s were 3)
My version was an imaginary me on a bicycle doing jumps over stuff. This was especially fun when driving next to pavements as they even have jumps and landings built in at each crossing point and at the end of driveways
I always wanted a dirt bike or a four wheeler as a kid, so I would pretend I was riding on the side of the road. It was important for me to learn where all the roads and trails were because I didn't want to get lost when Santa finally got around to bringing me my new ride.
I was either on a dirt bike, or super heroesque and could jump very long distances. It's amazing how simple things like that can make a long car ride tolerable at a young age
Somodo · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i had a dude being. chased by like assassins and it was super cool
Mine was a ninja that touched the ground as little as possible. Jumped from power lines and signs and trees.
amc111 · 241 points · Posted at 13:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I had sleepovers at my house we would play a game at night that was a mix of Hide and Go Seek and Reverse Tag where one person would go hide in the yard and the other kids would go out with flashlights and try to find them. And once you found him you had to tag him. If the kid hiding couldn’t be found or he made it inside the garage he won. It used to be that he had to physically be brought down and held to the ground but we had to stop playing like that when one kid ended up with a broken nose.
We used to play a game called sardines with one person hiding, the rest seeking. When you found them, you had to hide with them too! Totally thought that's where hide and go seek + reverse tag was going.
I used to play that, I think we called it “Home”. Basically you had to get to “home” without being caught/tagged. Also used to play it during the day. I guess it taught us how to sneak home at night when it came to our teenage years
We played something similar but it was called "Big black grizzly bear". We all went out in a group with one flashlight and chanted "big black grizzly bear where are you?" Until the "bear" was found, then we had to run back to base before he got us. Then all the people the bear caught were bears the next time
Me and my friends played this exact same game in middle school, except we split the players into 2 even teams of hiders and chasers and we used an entire suburban block, and even crossed the street sometimes. We called it “Block Chase”
We used to have one called blocker / blocka, which usually had one (or a few) seekers and the rest hiding. If the seeker beat the hider back to the home/base/den/whatever they shouted "block X by a 123". I wonder if the house block thing is where it got it's roots.
“Polar Bear Tag”
We had a fairly shallow inflatable backyard pool (bigger than a kiddie pool). Whoever was the “polar bear” had to navigate the pool by walking on their hands and knees while trying to catch the “penguins”.
“Peanut Butter Jelly Race”
Think of it as a variation of Red Light, Green Light. One person would call out “Peanut Butter” or “Jelly”. On peanut butter, the others would have to trudge around slowly as if they were stuck knee-deep in a pool of peanut butter. On jelly, they would zip around and fumble as if on a slippery, jelly-coated floor. The first one to reach the end won.
Children are weird and creative and it’s honesty the best.
Haha, thanks! It certainly kept us entertained for plenty of carefree summers. The comical aspect was definitely the best, part (imagine small children, arms flailing dramatically as they intentionally slip and fall on the “jelly”).
Me and my brothers used to do that with couch cushions and we'd have to all work together passing the cushions up the line so we could make it to safety.
My daughters are at the age now where the floor is lava and they can only walk on the grout lines of the tile. They upped the game to try and make the other lose though so it’s mostly assault at this point.
Lol, we did this same thing! We used those old school encyclopedia sets!
-eDgAR- · 667 points · Posted at 13:24:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had this old station wagon from the late 1970's throughout most of my childhood that I thought was amazing. It was big and there was so much room to play in the back. Sometimes I would put on puppet shows for the cars behind us in traffic when we stopped at a red light. As dangerous as it was for a small child to be loose in the back of station wagon without a seatbelt, I used to play an even more dangerous game sometimes.
I would lay across the top of the back seat and try to remain as stiff as possible. When my dad would brake/accelerate, the momentum would cause my body to fall either on the cushioned seat in front of me or on the the old couch cushions my dad had put in the back. I thought it was so much fun to roll and fall one way, then get back up and fall the other, and I would play this game a lot.
It wasn't until years later that I realized how dangerous that was. I was a kid just openly playing a falling game in the back of a station wagon. If we had ever gotten into any sort of accident I would've gone flying out the front or back windows and probably killed instantly. Still, I had so much playing that game.
We had a station wagon, too. I wonder if this is just 70s/80s American countryside culture.
We lived in a small valley outside of a small logging town and no one drove fast, so I think the risk wasn’t as bad as today’s fast-paced driving is.
I wasn’t allowed to play that game, as we had nothing in the back area. I just rolled around and that was fun in and of itself.
Going to town took around 30 minutes, as the roads out of the valley were windy and small and overall, my grandpa would drive slowly.
I miss that time because it always was so much anticipation — going into town meant I could eat something different like a burger from Dairy Queen or some bar food from my grandpa’s bar...
I dont know what model it was, but our family wagon had a folding rear seat in the cargo part that faced backwards, it had seatbelts and everything, so as a child you could awkwardly stare at drivers behind you
The late 70s were grand
Some Tesla Model S’ and other modern station wagons still have this feature! I walked behind one the other day and was surprised to see rear facing seats.
Family of fighting kids. 10/10 would buy just so I don’t have to look at their faces. Does that make me a horrible mom to want to share the love with the traffic behind me? lol
[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 14:35:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a station wagon, too. I wonder if this is just 70s/80s American countryside culture.
Pretty much 70s-80s family transport was a station wagon, 80s-90s it grew taller and became a minivan, then from the millenium onwards the minivan got a little more rugged and became an SUV. But they're still basically tall station wagons.
Station wagons in the 80s for road trips were awesome! They'd put the back down and us kids would roll around in the back, unencumbered by any safety devices like 'seat belts' as we hurtled down the interstate at 70 mph.
My dad did that with us on road trips, except he put down some sweet shag carpeting in the entire back area for us. There was no rear facing seat, he ripped out the cushions so he could have a "trunk" to keep stuff.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One day someone will post on a future version of ask reddit what their childhood games were and it will be....video game after video game ;-/
Oh man, one of my aunts had a station wagon with actual seats that faced backwards. This was the early 80s and I'm sure they replaced the vehicle before the 90s because my memories of that car are so fuzzy. We used to fight over who got those seats.
My dad had an open bed truck with two sides of very low slats and the end usually open (down). In the 70s as a young chils I used to ride on the flat bed with nothing holding me down, just clinging onto the slats for dear life. Had I fallen into the truckbed, it was full of sand and cncrete and nails and debris from building sites, had i fallen over the side or out the back flap i would have been dead.I didn't realise till i had een an adult for many years and saw a similar truck, just how dangerous that was.
He also put old seats in there so that we had places to sit if we wanted. No one wanted to ride up front with him when we got to play in the back. He also threw his arm in front of us when he had to stop fast. Did it so often I do it to anyone in my front seat to this day.
My dad used to do the "crazy drive" when my mom would run into the grocery store. He'd go behind the store and just swerve back and forth like crazy and we'd all fly all over the place and think it was the most insane thing ever. As an adult, I realize he was really only going maybe 10 miles an hour but as a kid, it was like being on a rollercoaster.
When I was in middle/high school my aunt and parents each had paper routes. This was in a city, so we had paper route vans. Big work vans with the back seats removed. The papers would be in bundles in the back and we'd bag them as we went, but after they were all bagged, we'd have a bunch of folded/bagged newspapers in the back that we'd toss up front for delivery as we went. Toward the end of the night, the back of the van would be mostly empty and we'd start "car surfing." We'd basically stand up in the back and try not to fall down whenever the van turned or braked. Sometimes my aunt would screw with us by slamming on the brakes and we would go flying. I'm not sure how we didn't break our necks. It was always fun, though!
When my dad had his Porsche gt3 (it had no back seats) I would ride everywhere in the back, don’t remember exactly what I did, but I know I had fun, except for that time he snapped out the rear end and gave me a rug burn on my cheek. I now understand why he felt so bad about letting me ride in the ‘back seat’
My dad had a camper shell for his pickup, and he added a bed. Basically it was a board and mattress at the front of the camper, raised off the pickup bed. Suitcases went under, kids traveled on top of the mattress. It was good for naps, but you could never quite sit up.
We would yell stuff out the side windows, or sometimes shoot spitwads. Mostly it was kinda boring.
I fondly remember being in the back of a wagon and hitting a known hump on the highway to get weightless for a moment before crashing back to the floor of the car.
There was a game my friend and I used to play at sleepovers. We had a different name for it every time, but the best name was probably "Turn All The Lights Off In The Basement And Throw Stuff At Each Other." It was a simpler time.
ibbity · 8 points · Posted at 22:42:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That reminds me of the glorious days when my sister and I had bunkbeds and would play Shove The (Stuffed) Animals Down The Side Of The Bed. Which was played collecting all the stuffed animals in the house and the person on the top bunk shoves them down the side (between the bed and the wall) while the person on the bottom throws them back up on top.
That’s awesome! Our version was more along the lines of baseballs and N64 controllers than stuffed animals (and we broke a few walls in our day), but yours sounds a lot safer!
I can't blame you. I used to love making my stuffed animals do "tricks" (flips and stuff) off the bed. It was literally me just tossing my toys off the bed.
I grew up in an apartment complex with about 20 other kids. We used to have and use marbles for everything. We used them as a currency and as a kind of "gambling" method (not in the traditional sense). We would play all kinds of other games like Bakugan, BeyBlade, have giant Nerf wars etc and we used marbles as a currency to pay whoever won, but we also had a special thing once a week we would do.
People would build tracks out of Lego, marble tubes, Hotwheels race track and other random building blocks and we would all come together in a flat area to put them all together. We would then use our most special marbles to race each other to the end, but there were a few twists to it. Some of the marbles were large, heavy marbles and some of them were just straight-up bouncy balls. As such, some people would build tracks that allowed shortcuts for the large marbles, some with shortcuts for small marbles, and some with huge gaps that only the bouncy balls could cross, with a winding maze for the other marbles to go through underneath.
By the time we put all the tracks together we would have set up a giant, elaborate race course that could sometimes fill up all the area we were allowed to take up (there was a corner nobody else went in, that was about 50 square feet in the back of the complex). So by the time all our marbles reached the end, we had a special rule for how we would divide them up.
The person who reached the end first would get to keep their marble and not have to pay anyone else, the second person would be given two "normal" marbles (small glass spheres with one red, one green and one blue stripe in the middle that we called "normal" because they were EVERYWHERE at the time) from everyone who wasn't first, and the third person to cross the finish line would take everyone's special marbles that were used in the race with the exception of the person in first.
Eventually, the parents of the complex started catching on to this and some of them would add more to the economy. There would be a huge Easter egg hunt around the complex, with some eggs filled with candy and some filled with marbles, as well as some special marbles here and there. We'd get new sets of marble tubes and bags of marbles for Christmas time and at birthday parties, the list goes on.
We used these marbles to buy things from each other, 2 marbles a Nerf Dart, 5 marbles a Bakugan etc. Special marbles would be worth 5-9 marbles depending on how cool they looked, large normal marbles would be worth 10, large special marbles would be 11-20 again depending on coolness, bouncy balls would be 30+. However, our young minds never took things like inflation into account, so every other holiday we all kept getting perpetually richer and richer within our own economy.
By the time I hit my teens (about 5 years after I moved in) I had a huge tub of about 5,000 marbles and a tackle box with a bunch of special marbles in it, about enough to buy a bicycle, then I moved across the country. My mom said I could only keep a few of them, so I kept about a hundred of the most special ones I had and gave the rest to my dad. He gave about half of them away when he moved too, rather than having to move an almost literal box of rocks. I don't blame him.
I played this game we called hunger games, and we had about 15 or more people standing in a large circle out in the field of school, someone would shout 3,2,1 and everyone would run. Sometimes there would be balls in the middle and if you hit someone with a ball, they die and cut in the middle. If you touch someone, they die and if you touch each other at the same time, you both die. When there are around 3-5 people left, the dead come back and require a quick double touch to kill someone. Last one alive wins. To make this more child friendly change death to ‘out’
We just got sticks and hit each other with them, we had rules for chopping off limbs, bleeding out, and all that. We definitely didn't try to make it more child friendly.
We did this too, but we had these things that were like two balls attached to a short strong (one on each end) that you could swing around. They had a pretty short range, but I discovered you could link them fairly easily by wrapping the strings (you didn't even have to tie them) and created these enormous 7-foot-long ropes I could swing around in circles. The game quickly arms raced to people trying to get as many things as they could to extend their ropes.
Not sure, we played it a bunch of different ways though, we had regular wars where we divided into teams, we had hunger games where we had to run to get our weapons, we had one where we lived in a kingdom and played politics or straight up assassinated the king to take over. That one was the most fun. We had people come up with complex lies and manipulate people to gain power in the kingdom. I once owned the bank and taxed people so much that the kingdom became extremely poor and took over with my economic power. But the point is, our childhood mainly consisted of video games and beating each other with sticks in the woods.
We played a very similar version also called hunger games. We would fill a big bin with water balloons. Everyone started standing around the bin and we would count down. At zero everyone ran to the center and got balloons then ran to try and hide. We also had things like sleds or tennis rackets in the middle that you could use as a shield. If a water balloon hit you and popped, you were out. Last person standing wins.
This was anarchy when we played it at my school. And it was ALWAYS requested by us. We had a lot of stuff though. All the items were in the middle of the gym in one of the circles, obviously the cornucopia. There were five softballs, if you got hit with one you were "dead" and had to sit down where you got hit while your partner had to carry on without you. Two hoola-hoops were used as a shield. If you got hit by a ball while you had a shield, you had to drop the shield and run away but you were still up. You can't pick the shield up right after you drop it. You also cna only be considered out if you got hit by a ball. No tagging by hands. Headshots did actually count. I think there were other things too like mats and hockey sticks but I can't remember what they were used for. I think the mats were used at "walls," you just unfold it and balance it on its side to form a wall. People would barricade themselves in corners until they realized how ineffective it was to a ball. It was a shit show though. People formed bigger groups and alliances, trust was broken, some people even went as far as "killing" their partner right off the bat. It started actual arguments between friends. Everyone hated it. But god did we ever love it. Always asked for it again every time it was given as a choice of things to play. As a whole class we decided that whoever genuinely didn't like the game and tried to purposely get out was to be kept alive all game just so they could suffer the chaos that was the Hunger Games. We felt like gods playing it.
We had a game called hunger games, but it was different than yours. Our was basically partner tag: you were paired up with someone for the whole game, and they could “heal” you if you got tagged. Anyone could tag anyone else, there wasn’t one specific “it,” so it was very chaotic and never ended since we were all constantly getting healed.
I remember playing this in school in PE. All of us we be at the walls of the gym and there were balls and there were mats to make forts. There were always like 3 alliances made by us.
Wall Ball. You throw a tennis ball against a wall and if someone else catches it your out, if you touch it twice and don't catch it your out, if it hits you and you don't touch the wall before the next throw hits it, your out.
Edit: seems like a lot of the older folks played this but with more violence/asses
Edit 2: When I played it I wasn't sure if it was a small thing only at our school or if it was pretty popular, looks like the second one. I'm having some good memories thinking about this game
We would play it at my middle school but we used a racquetball and instead of being out you’d have to stand on the wall and everybody would choose one kid (usually the one that played baseball or had the strongest arm) to nail whoever got out. If they missed you’re lucky and you keep playing, if they hit, sucks for you and you keep playing. No rules on where you could or couldn’t get hit either. If you didn’t want to stand on the wall you were out of the game for the rest of the week
we were reasonable people. you just had to run and touch the wall before you got pegged
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und88 · 18 points · Posted at 16:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer was absolutely nothing like wall ball for me growing up. Smear involved a football and tackling whoever had the ball. If you intentionally dropped or threw the ball, you got hit much harder.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 15:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think we had "butts up" as the name for this game in my middle school. It was a private Christian middle school however so we ended up having to call it something else when the teachers heard the name lol.
This one’s a classic. Always played it at recess in elementary school until it would end up on the roof (sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose). Pretty sure at the end of the school year one year the janitor found like 20 tennis balls up there.
I played this as well. Someone would always have to sneak into the gym and swipe two tennis balls. We had a tradition; when someone threw the ball onto the roof, we'd chase them down and dog-pile on them. I was lucky enough to never land it onto the roof. At some point, new strategies were developed. For instance, people were using their hats to catch the ball, and would line up near the wall to try to quickly get people out. You also weren't allowed to catch the ball three bounces in a row and could not move while you held the ball. This was basically the only thing I did during recess in the fourth grade.
The “can’t move” rule was always separated the boys from the men in my grade. If you were throwing bombs you were a badass. Sometimes if it was too far out we would fake throw it and have to touch the wall before the ball.
Also known as “butt’s up” by the older generation Great game. Because you wouldn’t ever be out. If you were “out” they’d make you face the wall and then throw the tennis ball at your butt.
Simba7 · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it peg ball. Similar rules as above, but when yoh were "out" you had to touch the wall before getting pegged with the ball as hard as possible, or else you get pegged with the ball as hard as possible.
Yes that happened if you were out twice in a row. They’d switch you forward the second time.
Nomtam · 3 points · Posted at 19:52:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got my first concussion playing wall ball in grade 5. I was running up to touch the wall and a grade 8'er cranked me in the back of the head with the tennis ball, which proceeded to smash my forehead into the schools brick wall...good memories...
play this with a soccer ball instead and you will understand why my school shut it down after i got nailed in the head. i didn't get a concussion though (that didn't happen until i ran down a metal slide in winter and slipped :p)
We called this one “ass ball” when you got hit by the ball you had to stand with your face to the wall and the others would throw the ball at your back/ass
This was a classic at my elementary school. Probably slight variations but it basically involved whipping a tennis ball at a wall. Like some kind of weird primitive form of squash.
There were a lot of great school wide elementary school games. In the winter the snow would usually get more of a icy consistency so that you could essentially make bricks out of it. I remember my grade and the grade above would build these snow forts out of these bricks and then we would try and run across to the others forts and steal bricks/destroy there fort. It got really violent, full on tackling.
People would take up defensive, offensive positions, building positions, to keep the fort fortified, there would be others off making or digging out new bricks.
Yep I remember Wall Ball! We would throw the tennis ball on the side of the house and If someone caught it, you had to tag the wall. If you tag the wall before the player hits the wall with the ball, you were safe. If you were too late, you had to stand sideways along the wall and get pegged by a tennis ball (no headshots or groin shots). If you don't catch the ball and it hit the ground, same deal.
We played wall ball or red ass depending on how closely the teachers were watching us.
lpo33 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this but also played "extreme" wall ball, where other people were allowed to tackle you to prevent you from touching the wall.
YVRJon · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school, we had "squares" made by the wall jutting out for the width of a classroom, with similar-sized spaces in between. There was one coveted square that was two stories all the way around, and that square was the venue for a wall-ball variant game we called "reeve." The person with the ball (a tennis ball) would throw it at the "front" wall (one of the two parallel walls). If someone caught it before it bounced, the thrower was out. If it hit someone and then hit the ground, the person who was it was out. EXCEPT you could save yourself from being out by "reeving." This involved throwing the ball against the front wall so that it hit the back wall before it bounced. If it was caught after hitting the back wall but before bouncing, the thrower was out; if it hit the ground after the back wall, the thrower was saved. It was a really fun game in grades 3-6 or so.
EDIT: I wonder if they still play this game at that school. I'd go back and see, except (1) I live across the country now; and (2) I'm pretty sure I'd get put on a registry somewhere if I was watching kids at recess.
In middle school we played a game called wall ball as well, except slightly different. We'd throw a tennis ball at a wall, and then whoever gets it has to throw it from wherever they grabbed it, and if they couldn't get it all the way to the wall they were out
I'd say most people have probably played this as kids. At my elementary school, we had a big wallball wall out on the blacktop that we used for this game. I can't remember all of the rules we used (aside from the "Poison" rule mentioned on the Wikipedia page) but I do remember that we called it Balls To The Wall at my school.
A friend of mine and his smart amazing black lab played their own version of Wall Ball. That dog was soooo smart, but she wouldn't play it with anyone but him. She was a really good girl, so smart and friendly and funny, and I loved to dogsit her. When she died he called to let me know cause I was so close to her.
We called it “spread eagle”, and instead of just being “out”, you had to go up to the wall, and get “spread eagle”.
That’s where you faced the wall and put your legs and arms out and the guy who got you out stood behind the line and got to throw the ball at you as hard as they could.
my school called it red ass i think, and we played it with a soccer ball. it ended when i got hit in the head with the balled and i bounced my head off the wall.
I just posted about this same game. We called it Red Ass. I forgot about the running to touch the wall if you miss part. Lol, people smashing into the wall trying to get there fast.
We called it pinners. And you would throw a ball against a wall and you had to catch it with one hand on the fly. If you dropped it then you had to run and touch the wall before someone threw it at you. Three strikes and you faced the wall and took three shots to your back.
Yep, we played this too, but it was called "Fumb", short for "Fumble". If you fumbled though you had to stand against the wall and try desperately to avoid being smacked by the next tennis ball, or those awfully hard balls painted red, white, and blue.
My friends and I had a brick wall in the playground, and we used to pretend we were all spies in an airplane while sitting on this brick wall. We'd execute 'manoeuvres' which were actually just us all leaning side to side, and I'd sit 'at the front' (the leftmost seat on the wall) and pretend to be the pilot. And there would be enemy spies and moles who would doublecross us, and invariably we would have to either jump out the airplane or do a crash landing. It was awesome.
A few days before Christmas my siblings and I would always play a game where we would all take turns being 'presents'. This involved crawling under the Christmas tree and curling into a ball, as if we were wrapped up toys. One of us would take the role of the child running in to open the presents, but when they get to the tree we would all spring up and try to tag them. If they were tagged then they would become a 'toy' and the one who tagged them would become the child. Creepy as fuck now that I think about it and also not very creative, I still wonder what the point was?
My brother (roughly 12) & my neighbours (3 boys under 13 at the time) and I (female, 9-10) would play a game where I was (in retrospect) working at a brothel.. I would be under a desk with a bed sheet covering the “entrance” and the boys would “pay” my brother to enter only for us to make loud moaning noises pretending to have sex, as the others outside would dance in a circle screaming gibberish & wearing only their underwear with my teddy bears shoved in their crotch.
No one knew what a brothel was, we were literally just making up things as it went. I mean we were pretty normal kids at the end of the day. There was another game called “centipede” I played with my school friends. You would monkey link arms (right arm usually) and the person at the front would run around dragging the other kids behind them, in doing this it built up enough momentum through 8 people that if the person at the front decided to do a sharp turn the person at the back would go flying. It was really fun. Once I was at the end of the centipede & I literally flew 7 metres & landed on my shoulder. It was dislocated. If that’s more wholesome for you lel
It was called "Dr. Dr. Cake". A game where my young cousin would menacingly push a toy shopping cart and scream "Dr. Dr. Cake" while everyone else ran from him. He was actually very terrifying and it was like running from a villain in a horror movie.
My brother and I invented a game we called King King. The "King" walks in a big circle as slow and regally as possible with our parents old comforter draped over their shoulders. The other person stands in the center of this circle and waits for the signal. At some point in walking around, the King will say "King......King". The second "King" is the signal. The King begins running and the person in the center must tackle them.
I remember playing "hospital" in kindergarden. Basically, one kid would lay on a bed and everyone else would try to "heal" their injuries with makeshift cures (I remember throwing marbles over the stomach would cure stomachache) before they "died". The kid pretending to be a patient decided when that would happen, which often led to arguments because we didn't want the game to end that soon.
YVRJon · 5 points · Posted at 17:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play doctor with a friend who was of the opposite gender...
Happy cake day. My friends would play a game we called “transformers” where we picked a transformer and then just ran around doing nothing in particular
My friends and I did this too - We were playing Dragon Ball instead.
I had read all the books and they only watched the TV-series. They would get furious whenever I picked a character they didn't know, because they had no idea what "abilities" my character had, so they couldn't counter it! Oh, the memories..
I love the idea of them trying to argue that you were making up "Buu" because "his name is stupid and why would the bad guy turn people into candy thats dumb and gay"
Or "theres no way goku has another kid named goten and he fuses with trunks? what is fusion thats not real"
EDIT: "bullshit you can't be goku AND vegeta pick one!"
My friends and I did this with DBZ, Sailor Moon, Digimon and Pokemon. So yeah, a group of five children ran around screaming pokemon names and acting like we were blowing bubbles or shooting fire at each other.
I can only imagine what we looked like to our parents.
My friends and I played Pokemon, only we would make up our own Pokemon and give them disproportionately OP moves, even if the Pokemon was just a straight up dog
He's /u/Tyrion5050 he's only half Tyrion, or maybe he's only Tyrion 50% of the time. Either way, he can eat, he doesn't just have to drink and know things.
Spider-Man for us. Only we played as a series of villains and would run around pretending that some imaginary Spider-Man was shooting webs at us and fighting us.
"Help, I got webbed!"
"OK now I'm doc ock! brrrwwwwfff my arms broke you out!"
"Thanks! I'm mysterio and now only we know that we aren't falling down a cliff!"
"Sweet I'll be lizard and climb across and hit him! Hya!"
Etc. This was in the 90s thanks to the Spiderman cartoon. Spider blood spider blood radioactive spider blood.
Zanki · 2 points · Posted at 13:35:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played Power Rangers with two kids in my school. Olivia would be pink. Michael would be red and me, even though I was a girl, I was always green. We'd just run around the playground, not really doing much but we were Power Rangers.
[deleted] · 43 points · Posted at 14:17:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would create forts in the basement, 1 would be defending the fort and the 2 others would be attacking. We would use nerf guns and it was always with the lights turned off. It was probably the coolest thing ever at the time.
we would just stand at each end of a hall and throw a tennis ball at each other. if you hit the wall behind them, you got a point. it's a lot funner then it sounds, and actually sounds pretty stupid now that it's typed out lol
p.s. microphone day and cake day at the same time? congrats my friend \ (•◡•) /
It’s either that, or a while back people were trying to convince others it’s a thing, so it could be that or a product of that. Either way I think the whole idea is funny.
Kuli24 · 15 points · Posted at 14:52:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Woah, yet another similar game. We would each sit at the ends of the hall with all doors closed. 1 box of Nerds candy behind each of us. Big pink bouncy ball was used to try and knock down the other's box of Nerds. If successful, you can eat 1 out of your own box.
Slumph · 13 points · Posted at 14:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also had a game called "wall ball" when there wasn't a hall available. That's more like budget squash. We were good at making up games, bad at names, and bad at being original.
We also made a game called wall ball. Pretty weird.
moskan · 3 points · Posted at 15:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play more or less the same game.
We would sit at each end of the wall with a soft(ish) ball and slap it back and forward, if we could hit the wall behind the other player you would score a point.
We recently had a rematch, my brother at 32 and me at 27.
It was awesome! 10/10 would recommend every one to try hall ball!
I'm pissed you just made me google microphone day. I heard the fucking wooosh go over my head when I read the search results. Feels like I was rickrolled
Hahaha, somebody already asked me what it meant. It feels good ngl
JT420 · 3 points · Posted at 15:49:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play something similar but with plush balls rather than tennis balls, we’d also have like 5 or 6 we’d use at once too. You’re right, sounds simple and mundane but that game was the fucking best.
wcpm88 · 3 points · Posted at 21:35:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played similar games, my grandparents' beach house had this loooooong hall that all the bedrooms were along. My cousins, brother, and I also played a game called "bed ball" where you essentially played tennis, but instead of a net, there was a gap between two beds, and you had to kneel the whole time.
I can imagine you fucking launching the ball at your brother to try to get it past him, as he flails his body in the general trajectory of the ball to try and stop it
I mean you pretty much just aim for the head and hope they aren't dumb enough to take the blow. but I'm not kidding when you're 2 hours in, a couple bruises is worth the win when it's against a sibling at a young age lol
My brother and I played a very different hall ball. It was basically a mixture of rugby and wrestling. There's one small rugby ball, and you each have a room at opposite ends of the hall that the other player tries to touch down the ball in, at all costs.
Similar to this, my friends and I played Gutter Ball. This game took place in a public pool that had gutters around the side. The object of the game was to score those little squishy pool balls into the gutter and get it past the goalie.
Hey, i used to play the same game with my exs younger brother but with a football, can confirm it is actually heaps of fun
gbcr · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, used to do this with my roommate in University. We had a long hall way in our apartment and played with a ball of duct tape, both of us played baseball and would just gun it as each other. Good times
Oof. Some of my friends and I actually tried to adapt this with a frisbee years later. A kid ended up getting nailed in the face and broke his nose. I've never seen a frisbee do so much damage
Similar to hallway hockey that me and my friends and brother would play. We always had these miniature hockey sticks and we would play with them and a ball in the hallway.
Heuby · 2 points · Posted at 16:06:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
E and my brother played this too! And it made our dog go nuts
Omg, I just realized me and my sister played the same game! Except there wasn't a wall at the end of our hallway, so it was just a point if it got past them.
When I was in college the guys in the hall above me decided to do this, except with a soccer ball. And I think it could be carried, not just thrown. So basically ~15 adults playing football in a 4’ wide hallway. I think they had a double-decker offensive line at one point.
But do you own the balls? Because that's half the game right there.
chotix · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh shit I played a similar variant of that but instead of a hall it was stair ball. The person on the bottom had a massive disadvantage so we balanced it by making points scored by the bottom player worth 3
I know mate, it was supposed to be a joke to get a few wooooosh's but it's getting out of hand! 😂 I thought "microphone day" was a pretty common joke in Reddit
We played "Head Ball" at church. The 2nd floor had a balcony that wrapped around the inside of the church. Half of us would go on the balcony and the other half on the main floor. We then essentially played dodge ball but you had to aim for their heads. If you hit them they were out, if they caught it, you were out. So multi level Dodge ball I guess.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this...with pillows though. We'd take all the throw pillows off the sofa, pile them into the hall. My room was at the end of the hall so we'd shut the door, one of us would stand in front of it and the other would be at the opposite end...and we'd throw the pillows trying to hit them. If they caught it, they became the thrower. If they got hit, we'd tally up points.
Hours of fun but inevitably one of us would shatter the ceiling lights and we'd all be in trouble.
😂😂 really though, when somebody comments under their own posts they have a microphone by their name. Microphone day isn't really a thing, I was just hoping I'd get a few bites.
My friends and I played Wall Ball, which was basically us throwing a tennis ball at the side of our houses. If you dropped the ball you had to run and touch the wall before the other player could hit the wall with the ball. After 3 "outs" the loser had to bend over by the wall and we would throw the tennis balls as hard as we could at them.
I had this game too. We called it Suicide. After three outs losers would get booties, we'd all chant booties booties booties and absolutely rifle those balls at them.
Played a game called the same thing, but ours was a mini football game in the hallway.
Both ends of the hallways were respective goals, the other doors in the hallways could be closed, to have more surfaces to bounce the ball off, or open, and have all he’ll break loose when the ball goes into a bedroom.
My stepdad hates this game cause we kept taking paint off the walls. Even made a hole in a wall slamming a door into it. Good times.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:45:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did ball tag. All of us kids and my parents would run around throwing a ball at each other. If it hit you, you were it. If you threw the ball and it missed you had to run to it and you could take 3 steps (always try to take the biggest steps you can!) Realign and then try to hit someone with it again. So much fun diving onto the couch as the ball flies past your back hella fast. Or side stepping it perfectly. My kids have grown up playing this game and I hope it continues on down the ancestry lines.
My roommates and I (21/22 years old) play a game we call stair Chuck. One person stands at the top of the stairs and throws a ball down trying to hit a metal sign behind the defender at the bottom of the stairs. Timeless entertainment
We played a variation on this, as we had a house with a floorplan where it was possible to have a first base (dining room), second base (where the long hallway intersected with the foyer and living room), and third base (the breakfast nook in between the living room and kitchen), while home base was at the end of the long hallway between the kitchen and dining room. Hitting it all the way down the long hallway, you really hoped it would get stuck on something because getting past second was difficult. Of course, there was also the possibility of hitting it down the stairs to the daylight basement, as a stretch of the long hallway just had a pony wall separating the staircase. Exciting times.
My brother and I had a similar game. One person would be on the bed and could jump or move to avoid the nerf ball being thrown from the doorway. The thrower had 5 tries to hit the person on the bed.
The flight of stairs that led to the basement had a small landing at the top of the stairs and the bottom and a door behind each. With one person at each end we would throw a kickball back and forth trying to hit the door behind the other person. If the upstairs person hit the downstairs door they got a point. If the downstairs person. Hit the upstairs door we switched places.
Me and my siblings were raised by single working dad so I was left to babysit pretty frequently. Our foyer is one where you walk in and you can see up to the second floor. So the stairs are L shaped and if you were to jump from the top platform of the stairs (over the rail) you could land right in the center of my foyer. We developed a fire fighter game where we'd send down a rope/curtain/sheet and slide down it resulting in endless rug burns and sprains. We then turned it into a swing, which was awesome.
It's actually pretty funny because I was always doing random gymnastics moves and stuff and ended up growing up to be an aerial silk/hammock yoga instructor!
Asmor · 5 points · Posted at 15:37:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Absolutely it’s very low impact, and it’s super good for any kind of back or neck pain. I’m not sure how “fat” you’re talking. I think there is a weight limit at some point, but a good aerial arts studio typically has good support beams in the ceiling for anyone. I brought my grandmother for a class once, and she killed it!!!
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 14:20:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "water game". Me and my sister would try to be the first to spot water running down cliff sides on the interstate on long trips.
My brothers and I played a game we called "kick kick." Two of us would lay on either side of the couch with our feet facing eachother then we'd put our feet together and kick back and forth gradually increasing in speed until it was just a frantic barrage of leg and nutt shots. It never ended well, nothing about it was clever, we were idiots.
My little brother and I played something similar to this that we called "kicky". You bend your legs about halfway, press the soles of your feet to the soles of the other person's feet, and then apply pressure. The objective is to get your legs completely straight and the other person's completely bent, all without taking your feet apart. Using other body parts to try and force a bend is, of course, cheating.
My brothers and I and our neighborhood friends (when we were like under 10 yo) used to play a game called rhinoceros. We would play in our carpeted living room. Each person would wear a hoodie, and would place a small pillow or folded towel on their head, and then put their hood up. Than you would get on all fours and place your forehead on the ground,effectively rendering you blind. The object was to run (fast crawl?) into someone's side, and when you got your head and shoulders under their torso, you would attempt to flip them. When you were flipped on your side or back you were out. Last man standing wins. Lmao it was the original battle royal.
My brother and I used to do a version of this. We would line our feet up and move back and forth and bend our knees to see who could lose balance first and roll of the couch.
icr97 · 44 points · Posted at 14:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
By far the dumbest game me and my brother ever came up with growing up was “Oxygen”. One of us would lay on the ground with a beanbag chair draped over our face and body and the other person would jump off the bed onto the beanbag chair and smother the other person’s face. The idea was to see how long you could go without breathing and when you got to the point you could breathe no more you would yell out “Oxygen! Oxygen!” hence the name o’ the game.
“Monster”. First played, by my memory, when I was four.
Usually played when Mom was out of the house, just me, my dad, and my sister. Dad would turn off all of the lights, then he would chase us around the house, growling and roaring. If we were caught, he would tickle us and drag us back to the living room.
The other kid had to reach a designated “button” (usually a metal coaster) and shout, “Pause!” so that our dad would freeze for 10 seconds, giving the captured kid a chance to run.
So many good memories of this game, I really appreciate that my dad took the time to play with us whenever he could.
We had a similar game called Bitty Bug! My dad would run around chasing us yelling "bitty bitty bitty bitty bitty...." and we would run and scream and hide from him. I ran into a wall once because I was so dedicated to getting away
I played a very similar game with my dad and young brother when we were little! Except we called ours "Barney" and the objective was to keep our stuffed Barney plushie away from the "monster" (my dad). Eventually we stopped playing because I kneed my dad in the crotch trying to stop him from tickling my brother. I honestly thought I killed my dad; he went all silent. Good times.
When my brother and I were kids, we used to play a game where we'd shoot root beer and see who could do it faster. I guess we must have seen people doing shots on tv or something.
We'd have our bottles of root beer, shot glasses, and then we'd pound the shot, and the first one to slam the glass back down on the table was the winner. Whoever had the most wins by the time the bottles were empty was the champion!
This reminds me of my baby sister. Years ago, around New Years, we were visiting my grandparents, quite posh people, and we were all having some champagne IIRC. Now at the time my sister was 4 y/o. So my grandmother used these little crystal sherry glasses to serve us kids champagne in, it was brilliant.
Anyway, we all toast the new year, ching-ching our glasses together, and my sister downs her little glass of champagne, slams the little glass on the table and says "Hit me again!"
My mum also just concluded "She must have seen it on TV." She loved telling that story.
“The penis game”played between 2 or more people in school. Take turns yelling the word penis getting increasingly louder every time whoever yells penis the loudest wins
I know this guy who told me about how him and his friends decided to do this during sex Ed and the sex Ed teacher told them it was healthy to use the words and made the whole class scream penis.
We played this mix of Lego Ninjago and Minecraft on the playground everyday. Herobrine would attack our base and we would have to defend it from his forces with our elemental powers and our talking dog with a shapeshifting watch.
I wish I could remember what the game was called but usually it had to do with having an area of about 3 or 5 neighbors yards as base. And we had to sprint and make it to the middle one before a car would pass by depending on which way they were coming.
You had to practically face plant into the middle yard in time so the car wouldn't see you that was the gist of it. Most the time it was played when it was getting dark out. I miss those days.
Right now my kids and I started a new game that I think they'll grow to remember. It's where I grab them in a weird way and they try to break loose. I always come up with weird ways to hold them and they struggle and pull until they are loose and yell at me to do it again lol
They don't know it, but they are secretly being trained on how to escape a predator. If someone grabs my kids I want them to be able to kick ass and make it as hard as possible. Playing this game I've received many scratches and bites lol.
It was called "Barbie War"
Basically we'd all throw barbies at the fan and then the opposing sides would take cover behind the beds with laundry baskets over our heads for shields
My whole family would play a 5 minute game of tag starting at the same time every night. Whoever was “it” at the end was it at the start of the next night!
On road trips my father would have my siblings and I play the quiet game. That ruse lasted years before I realized he was trying to have a few moments of peace. I was not a bright child.
My dad grew up poor and he had a lot of games that he would teach us so he didn't have to buy us toys.
mother hen v fox - everyone lines up behind the hen and holds the waist of the person in front of them. The it person is the fox. It person tries to tag anyone in the line, the "hen" tries to protect the "baby chicks." The person tagged is now the fox and previous fox is now the mother hen. Repeat.
tossing marbles - draw a circle, put marbles in the circle, toss marbles to try and hit other marbles out the circle. Playing this game helped with beer ping later on.
24 - take a deck of cards. Throw down cards until you can use the cards and math functions to make 24. The game was interesting with just addition and subtraction, a real challenge when I learned multiplication and became very easy with higher level math.
Tossing marbles, as you have it, is the classic marble game. It works as both a game mechanic and a pot for gambling. You'd prime the pot with whatever marbles you liked the least in your collection, and try to bait the other player into knocking them out, which risks their marbles being left in the ring for you to claim or them to recover. The big marbles were ideal for smashing smaller ones out and still having enough momentum to roll safely out of the ring themselves.
My friend and I went to Christian School and in 2nd grade we created a game at recess called "DOGS OF GOD" or D.O.G for short. We used to imagine the whole playground was the African savannah and we were anthropomorphic dogs that defended the wild animals from human poachers. We would pray to God to send us down guns from heaven and kill the poachers. After awhile, we transformed our characters into Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong because Donkey Kong Country (SNES) had just come out and we were really into that game.
"DIDDY! WATCH OUT! POACHER BEHIND YOU!"
"Dear God, send me an AK-47 in your name I pray AMEN!! RATATATATATATA BOOOOOM DEAD! I GOT EM, DONKEY!"
My siblings and I called it “bucking bronco”. Two of us would gang up on the third, tackle them to the ground, belly down. While pinned down, one would sit on the back of the downed sibling, facing backwards, grab the downed sibling’s feet, thumbs available to tickle the bottom of the feet. We all are very ticklish. Now that you’re sitting on the other with their feet in your hands, start tickling and see how long you can hold on, much like a bucking bronco.
My cousin and I used to play this board game called Heroes Quest, it was a fun game, but somewhere down the line we stopped playing the game with the official rules and kinda made up our own RP game. It was a blast we would sit there for hours and hours just role playing using this board game.I still think back on how much fun we had doing that.
We would put on our bathing suits and stuff the top and play baywatch. One of my cousins would pretend they were drowning and we’d run with a pillow in slow motion or throw out a jump rope to pull them to safety.
My sister and I came up with one we liked to call Walk Around the Whole House...At Night. Basically we'd wake each other up in the dead of night and sneak around the house without waking people up, then go straight back to bed. We had to walk around each room clockwise and around every table. We were weird kids.
While I was in “big church” as a young kid, I obviously got really bored. “Big church” was essentially just the normal sermon but of course had nothing entertaining for children. Used to beg my parents to leave or just fall asleep blatantly, which apparently shamed them.
My sister is 8 years older than me and would attend “big church” with us. We would play this game where person A held their arm out, palm up. Person B would slightly graze their fingers up person A’s arm from wrist to elbow. If person A thought that person B had reached the inside of their elbow (without looking), they would squeeze their hand in a ball. Person B would stop and show where their fingers were. If person A was right, they got a point.
This game could take like 15 minutes per round, was completely silent, and made us both content for the entire 60-90 minute long service. To this day I still don’t know if my then preteen sister was just amazing at handling kids or if my parents had hypnotized her to control me in church.
Play this game enough and you become a master at both the tickler and the guesser.
As a child me and my friends were very dumb. We would often fist fight for fun use sticks (and what ever else we could find) as swords and whack the hell out of each other.
As a kid I lived near a large forest as did my friends. And our game consisted of us hiking out to find a clearing preferably with a fence and picking up rocks and sticks on the way. When we found this clearing we set our "weapons" in the middle of the clearing we all stood at the far edges, we counted down from 10 to 1. At 1 we would either run and grab a weapon from the center or run to the forest to find our own. Then we tried to kill each other. But because we were dumb (and had no idea that breaking a bone in this forest could mean death) the only way to kill or get killed was to drop someone, either through stealth, sneaking up from behind them and dragging them to the ground. Or loudly, by beating the shit out of them till they fell over, despite the loud tactic's brutalness the sword fights were lit. The game ended when only one person was left "alive". Keep in mind this forest was big and we had no boundry's these games could consist of 8 hours of hiking only to have the first person you see kill you immediately.
Me and my brother would play “baby hair eating rhinoceros”. You’d pretend you don’t have teeth, say, “I’m a baby hair eating rhinoceros”, then pretend to eat the others hair..
Don't shame me for this but me and my sister used to tie clothes around our heads like bandanas and run around while my dad blew the leaves off the lawn. We called ourselves Nazis. Because we thought it was a cute way of saying "people with knots on the heads" like "knot-see." Boy we're we wrong on that definition.
On my buddy’s farm we played this game that was a combo of golf, hockey and soccer. We hit soccer balls with hockey sticks to various spots in and around his barns/yard
Forty-forty it : It was essentially a crossover between Hide & Seek and It (Tag). One person counts to 40 in the playground at base (usually a bench or pole) while others run/hide. After getting to 40 you then have to catch someone before everyone gets back to base. Base means you're safe, and if you It/Tag someone, they can pass it on to someone else until all but one person is back at base. Last one back to base who is still It/Tag counts to 40.
We did something similar but we called it “Candle Jack.”
One person was it(Candle Jack) and would close their eyes at home base which was a large rock. Everyone else would hide and then in unison, we’d yell, “Candle Jack!”
The it person would try to find someone and tag them, as we all scrambled to home base. If someone was tagged, they became Candle Jack. If no one was tagged, that person would take another turn.
Candle Jack was a malicious character from a cartoon. I can’t remember the name of the show though. Freakazoid, maybe?
We called it hide and seek chasey, and we sometimes played gang up, where if you were caught you were it to.
rytis · 36 points · Posted at 16:02:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a TI calculator with a random number generator. So I invented this game where I was at the Olympics in a skiing competition. My downhill run would get a score between 00 and 99, so I would take graph paper and fill in the names of all the major winter olympics countries, usually 3 skiers per country. They would get 10 runs, and I would fill in the scores they got, one at a time. As you did each score, it got pretty exciting since I knew what value they would need to stay in the top 10 for a potential medal, etc. the crushing agony of a low score of 10 or below. Sometimes the 10th round would be pretty exciting to see what score they would need to win. Once in a rare while someone would need a 99 to win, and they got it! I would even fill in my name representing one of the countries, and so I had a personal stake in the results. My teachers thought I was doing some heavy duty math work, but it was all in my head having fun.
We were 5 kids, and grew up on a farm, when the Sears catalog would come in, we would gather around it and flip the page real quick, then you 'won' whatever you put your finger on and said "mine" to.
We used to spin around with the catalog until we were good and dizzy and then drop it on the floor. Whichever side of the book you were on, you owned those items and had to trade with your siblings to own things from their side of the book. I’ve literally never heard of anyone else playing with the catalogs. Thanks for the great memory!
We used to play with ours, too. We would turn each page and oock ainerbing from that page. You couldn't skip a page and you HAD to choose something and you HAD to say you'd use whatever it was. Man I miss that catalog!
I've puzzled over "oock ainerbing" for 5 minutes, thinking maybe it was some strange Icelandic phrase that everybody knew but me... but maybe it's just a typo?
My brother and I called it hand hockey. We would put laundry baskets sideways and we would play hockey with a soft ball and our hands would be hockey sticks.
I pretended to be George Washington while my friend pretended to be Abraham Lincoln and we rode motorcycles and had to rescue the Easter Bunny from Ninjas.
It’s basically hide and seek in the dark. We would play it in a house with all the lights off and the seeker would be in a well lit area before starting. Everything is more exciting in the dark when you’re a kid.
Wow I thought my friends invented this game but I guess it really is just hide and seek in the dark. I tried googling "Dark Room" before to see if other people played it in their childhood but the name is so common I couldn't find anything so I just assumed one of them just made it up.
I’m not even sure how my friends knew about it, one day we just started playing it and no questions were asked. It’s quite possible that it propagated through word of mouth, from one kid to another.
We played “Hide the Furbies”. We had a bunch of Fast food furbie toys, we divided them up evenly between 2 teams. One team got the basement, the other team got the living room. Both teams would hide their furbies and then the teams would switch rooms. Whichever team found all the furbies in their room first won.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 14:52:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I’m in a car, I pretend I’m playing a rhythm game, so if I’m on the highway I’ll tap my foot for every car that passes by and if I’m driving through a normal street I’ll do the same for streets and residential driveways.
dctrhu · 15 points · Posted at 14:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a 3rd storey flat, so my sister and I would take turns lying on the floor at ground level in the stairwell. The other would take our entire collection of rubber balls (which at the height of the collection contained nearly 800) and poured the whole lot down the shaft of the stairwell onto them.
If you ever played that game and came away with fewer than five bruises, you were allowed to choose what we played on the Wii when you got tired.
If you received more than ten bruises, you basically had no charges pressed against you when you called the other a dickhead in front of mum.
I don’t think my friend and I had a name for it. But when I was 9 or so I was taking karate and after our kids class was done our parents would have theirs so we would be bored most of the time. So we put on our sparring gear and set down some mats and used the really big kicking pads (on mobile can’t find image) and charged at each other. He’d scream “Flabber Monkies” and I’d scream “Lodden Lails”.
It was easily the dumbest and most fun idiotic game I’ve ever played.
My uncle, brother, and I would play a game we dubbed "Asshole". We would turn out all of the lights, choose one person who was it, and put a blanket over them so they couldn't see. We'd spin them around as to get them to lose track of their surroundings, have them count to 20, and run to hide around the room. The goal was to stay quiet and not get tagged by the Asshole. We had so much fun, thwarting rivals by stomping the floor where they were quietly hiding and then running away. Sometimes we'd move the coffee table or a chair in the path of the Asshole to make them fall. I guess that's why we called it Asshole. We were assholes, but it was so fun.
Edit: We also played a game called "The Laughing Game". You had everybody sit on the couch while one guy would go into another room and make up an idea/routine to make somebody laugh. If you laughed, you were up and had to make the rest laugh. If you couldn't make them laugh you had to sit up there until you got somebody. I recall once when my brother was taking longer than usual to make up routine, but it got us all dying. This dude came strutting out of the other room, butt naked and clutching his sac as to hide it, wearing only a pink motorcycle helmet. He walked in throwing his knees above his hips, and walked right out. I miss those days.
I was a waffler, I could talk all night, used to do her head in, so my sister used to tell me to talk to her baby finger, so I used to sit and talk to her baby finger, even called it Sarah, Sarah was a great listener but not very talkative.
Years later I had my first kid and called her Sarah, I'd completely forgotten about my old friend until my sister reminded me
My brothers and I would set up all of our action figures around the kitchen and sit in the middle of the floor. We would each grab a ruler and a bunch of rubber bands and stretch the bands over the length of the ruler to create little makeshift rubber band guns. We would take turns seeing who could shoot over the most action figures, and the winner would get a dollar from each other player. I miss being entertained for hours by simple games like that.
Anyone do that thing where on a car trip you're looking out a window with a strain on it (like bird poop) and move your head around to make it dodge obstacles in the background (like poles or signs)?
Me and my sister used to play "baseball" by taking an empty 2L pop bottle and whacking a small pebble with it and trying to hit it over the power lines in front of our house. Since there were 3 power lines, whichever line you hit it over determined how many bases or a home run it would be
Me and my cousins played this game called "murder in the dark". There would be 1 murderer, 1 doctor, and the rest were civilians. All the lights in the house would be turned off. Basically, we'd draw papers out of a bag that would give each player their role (murderer, doctor, civilian) so no one would know who the murderer or doctor was at first. The murderer would tag people to kill them, and the doctors could revive people, but if the doctor was killed it was game over. To win, the doctor would have to survive until the time ran out
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game at camp! But we called it mafia :)
I don't know if this game is unique. No one I've mentioned it to had heard of it.
We called it 'Bloody Murderer'. One person hid and everyone else tried to find them. Once someone found them they would shout "Bloody Murderer" and then everyone would have to run back to the home base before the 'murderer' could catch them.
It was a lot of fun except that my friends parents got quite upset at a bunch of children skulking around their front yard screaming "Bloody Murderer". At the time I didn't know what their problem was. Looking back as an adult I'm like, "Oh...."
Throwaway account because I think my friends in the story know my main account.
I know the title says a game I played but this story is a game I found my friends playing.
It was a school day and me and my friends had lunch, this took place in 3rd grade I believe. I was eating my lunch and two of my friends (both of them didn't get along well) went to the bathroom. After a few minutes I also decided to go to the bathroom and right when I walked into the bathroom, I saw my two friends having a competition about who can piss the furthest. Just imagine walking in, seeing one kid pissing from the other side of the room straight into the toilet and the other kid right next to him, pissing straight on the floor while both laughing their ass off.
Battle bands. Pick a band and take turns using their song names like attacks, but you can only use each song once per battle. First person to run out of attacks loses.
It was a weird mix of improv and simply being able to remember a ton of songs from a band's catalog. Songs were useless if you couldn't think of some way to make them sound like an attack but also useless if you couldn't remember them.
Ex, Van Halen vs AC/DC:
"I've got a Man On A Mission to assassinate you and he can't be stopped!"
"Except by some Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap! So cheap in fact, I can afford some extra ones to kill you after I take care of this assassin!"
So forth and so on. Usually played on long hiking trails, car rides, etc.
I played hide and seek with fish. We had a 10 gallon tank with some tetras in it, and one of them had a different stripe. I would hide first and if he swam to the corner of the tank closest to me, he "found" me. Then I would close my eyes and count to ten before looking for him in the tank.
We had a bunch of bike trails and jumps in the woods behind my house. Lots of crashes. If you got off your bike during the game for any reason other than a legit fall, you became the chaser. One safe space from the chaser was on the other side of a big ditch jump. Only one person ever made it.
My grandma was the most beautiful, kind and adorable woman on the face of the earth. Unfortunately my grandpa controlled almost every aspect of her life, and kept her in a gilded cage.
The biggest joys of her life were here garden, her daughters, and us, the grandchildren. I was the youngest grandchild, and whenever we went over to visit, she would insist on some quiet time alone with me, to play at the bottom of the garden.
Down there, out of view of the house, we would go looking for the faeries that lived in the orchard. We would find little things that ‘the Aos Si (Irish faeries) had left for us.’ Some of the trees had tiny doors and windows that she had made, and stapled to the tree. Sometimes there would be a tiny washing line, with tiny dresses. Sometimes there would be jewellery (costume jewellery, nothing expensive - though at the tine I thought they were the finest jewels in the world), left by the faeries as a Thankyou for helping keep them safe. My favourite finds were tiny little oil paintings, my grandma was an incredibly talented artist, though sadly the outside world never really got to see her work. Obviously I didn’t know Grandma had actually painted them. And lastly, no matter what else we found, there were always feathers, left behind by faerie wings.
I always assumed that the reason we didn’t tell Grandpa about the faeries, or the treasures, was because they only wanted me and Grandma to know about them. Aos Si are often thought of as being a tad malevolent if crossed, so it made sense to my young mind. Sadly it was more that she was terrified of what he would do if he found out she was keeping secrets from him.
I treasured those memories, and the actual treasures, for many years, though a fire destroyed literally everything from my childhood when I was 17, coincidentally a year to the day after Grandma passed away. I still have a couple of bits of the jewellery, though they aren’t in great shape. But every time I see a white feather it makes me smile and think of her.
We recently discovered that my Grandma had kept meticulous diaries. Mostly filled with sadness, longing for the outside world, and the fears that my grandpa had instilled in her. But entries for days when we went down to the bottom of the garden were so joyful. Those entries were such a lovely reminder of those days.
I have so many lovely memories of her. She seemed like the most glamorous woman in the world to me. Whenever I stayed over, Grandpa would inevitably disappear for the evening, presumably to fritter away her family’s money. We would each have a bubble bath, then afterwords go into her dressing room, where she we sat side by side at her dressing table, her clad in one of long flowing silk robe and fluffy slippers, me in one of her shorter silk robes, with the sleeves rolled up a hundred times, in a pair of her fancy feather heeled slippers, which would constantly fall off my tiny feet. She would drink champagne, while I had apple juice in a champagne flute. She would comb my hair, precisely 100 times (I forget why, but there was a reason for that exact number), then we both did her nighttime skincare ritual together. After that, we would climb into her enormous bed, with the most beautiful pale blue silk sheets, and she would tell me stories. A lot of them about my great grandma (she was a complete badass!), her home back in Ireland, and sometimes about my mum and aunts when they were young. I would drift to sleep feeling like the luckiest little girl in the world.
In the early hours of the morning, before Grandpa woke up (they slept separately) she would wake me up so I could go into one of the guest bedrooms, before he woke up. He would have kicked seven shades of shit out of her if he found out she let me sleep in her bed.
I thought she lived such a perfect life. She lived in the lap of luxury, it wasn’t until after she died that I started to see just how sad her life was, how trapped she felt, and just how abusive her husband was. He did everything he could to keep her away from other people. She did not have even a single friend, but he constantly sabotaged any plans to visit by the rest of the family. She wasn’t even allowed to decide when she ate, or even what she ate. I so badly long to be able to hug her and tell her that she was worth so much more than that.
Whenever we have to wait my friends and I play " what would you put in an inconvenience store?" To make conversation. Condoms are pinned to bulletin board, back pain medication is only on the top and bottom shelves, gas station is by appointment only, items are listed in the currency of their country of origin, tires are only sold in packs of 3, isles only have one entrance or exit.
Mr. President. It’s a game you play through the day just at random times, you need to be on your toes at all times. When one person puts their fingers to their ear like they are holding an earpiece like a secret service agent slowly everyone who notices has to do it also, and the last person left who doesn’t do it is the president, everybody at once screams “GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT!” and tackles him
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:12:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a group of people I knew in school (late middle school IIRC) played 'Jungle Ball'.
We had a miniature basketball we used on the little kids court (the rims were so low almost anyone could dunk into them) and there was no dribbling. What there was was full contact with tackling, tripping and forcefully stripping the ball out of the hands of others. No hitting, kicking or striking allowed.
Was so chaotic that we had to have our own score keepers on the sideline. No one liked score duty since it was boring as hell. Thankfully the guy who brought the ball in (see: me) was immune to score duty. Which was good because I was diminutive in comparison to most.
Lobs were worth one (shots on goal), dunks were worth two, alley-oops were worth three. There was no three point line.
A part of me misses my good ol' Jungle Ball games.
Then there was War Ball (What dodge ball is nowadays. Our definition of Dodge ball was one person on each end trying to hit people in the middle of the group). So many people taking those rubber balls to the face. One of the few times that weighing next to nothing and being tiny paid off in life. I was a chore to hit.
That and Wall Ball, but that's neither unique or rare. Everyone played Wall Ball.
Jungle back sounds great. We played pretty much the same thing but inside someone's house with one of those little kids hoops. We just called it tackle basketball.
My brother and I used to loosely hang naked Barbies and GI Joe's from the ceiling fan in our room and turn the settings up slowly. Then we would take cover and wait for them to fling off at us. We were 5 and 3, good times.
I live in Canada. Since we have a lot of snow here, our recesses at school during winter would involve everyone building forts with their own shovel. Everyone had one. When it snowed, a tractor would blow the snow from the yard in huge piles. We would make contests of what gang would make the biggest chunks of snow and transport it to their fort to incorporate it. It was great. We had little snow houses. We would build all items a kid could think of. Snow is such a great medium because you can sculpt anything in it. One other thing we would do were 2m high or higher platforms to throw ourselves off of. We would fill the bottom with fresh snow and jump down and do flips. It was great!
We called it "Fat Geezer." We'd stuff our shirts with pillows and just lunge at each other until the other person fell. Sort of like pretending to be really shitty sumo wrestlers.
My sister and I also had "Messy Hair Salon" where we would pretend to be at each other's hair salon and just fuck each other's shit up. My mom would have to be on-deck to untangle our hair... and we played frequently. She loved that.
Coygon · 6 points · Posted at 14:34:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tickle Toilet Torture Time. Basically tickle the other(s) as hard as you can. First to lose control and piss themselves loses.
We had two, the first was a real life monopoly type thing with candy as currency, you would buy bikes, trampolines, pieces of sidewalk, areas of grass and if someone needed to walk on an area you owned or use a toy they you had to pay you.
The second was what we called hand hockey. It was in the living room, usually 2on2 or 3on3, the couch was a “net” and the opening to the stairs was the other one. We played with a hackey sack and you can only use your hands to pass and shoot, no throwing the sack, only slapping
When the snow in our driveway was plowed, it would create a huge snow mound that would be kind of closed off in a corner on the yard. My sister and I would pretend we were abandoned by our parents as six and nine year old children in Siberia. My older sister would take on a more motherly role, and would even have to fight off wolves attempting to infiltrate our snow mound created by digging through the snow mound from one side to the other. Sometimes we took fruit out there and pretended we had just harvested them.. again, in Siberia.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would stick his penis through a hole in the wooden shed and I'd scream and grab it.
My sister and I played something called "boom butts" either before or after we had our evening baths. We would both be naked and on our bunk beds, and charge our bare butts together. The one who fell off the bed first lost. My mom thought it was funny. My dad wasn't a fan.
cinyar · 6 points · Posted at 14:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't really translate what we called the games we played with my brother but I'll try.
"made in break-a-part" - we built demolition cars from legos and smashed them against each other until one was destroyed
"pull up & tiwst" - My younger brother would grab our bunk bed, I'd grab his feet pull him up, twist him into weird angles and let him go while he would try to spin so he lands on his feet.
I think it was a good thing our parents only allowed us one hour of video games/day (two on the weekend if our grades were good) until we were like 15.
My sister and I played a game called “Big Bessie” - which was essentially tying my sister to a blanket and having her play Bessie the horse while dragging me across the hardwood floors of our house while I played with all my toys on the blanket. I’m not sure why she ever went along with this game - it was only fun for me.
Alternately, sometimes we would play “Little Bessie”, which is the same exact game but I would tie her to a smaller blanket and bring less toys.
I might know why your sister liked that. Not sure if you wanna know.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahah i just called my sister a binch today and this game seems like something we’d totally do
cohree · 6 points · Posted at 15:10:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Danger Zones Hockey: During the winter time we’d pour water in random spots on my friends driveway and then when it froze we’d play roller hockey. You’d often get so tied up in the game you’d forget about the danger zones !
This sounds so bad but me and my brothers used to play "duck it's a drive by" at night when we were supposed to be sleeping. We would gather in one persons room and look out the window, waiting for any cars to drive by. Whoever ducked down last when a car was going by was "dead".
We also used to play bones, where if you caught someone making a mistake you could collect a bone on them which was basically the ability to knock them on the head (kinda like the shape your hand makes when knocking on someone's door). We would collect these by counting each others mistakes and then randomly redeem them on each other like "man I got 30 bones on you" and the one collecting could knock on the other person's head however many times and they couldn't do anything about it.
Me and my childhood friend would jump on his trampoline and pretend we were Mortal Kombat characters that were also news anchors. We would improv funny news stories in the world of Mortal Kombat between the story driven adventure we'd be making up and acting out. Fought many imaginary foes and bombed a fuck ton of jokes. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
The world needs this. If your day job isn't literally figuring out how to turn all the plastic in the ocean into a renewable, non-CO2-emitting fuel for airplanes, I don't know how you can live with yourself for denying us such glory.
I mean I guess I could circle the story, but I think the sudden shift in tone to something comedic would be jarring and out of place. That being said I think it would work better as a YouTube series, but I have zero experience with cameras and I have a feeling it would end up with a lower production quality than I'd like. No half measures after all.
I used to have loads and loads of bouncy balls. I would play a game where I would sit under the sink in the bathroom, and tip all the balls on the floor. I wouldn’t be allowed to move, and had to grab the balls closest to me and roll them to hit the other balls around until I could reach them all. The game ended when I either had all the balls, or my mum started shouting for me to get out of the bathroom.
Vhu · 5 points · Posted at 15:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had living room/dining room connected, so as a kid my siblings and I would play “The Blanket Game,” which consisted of one person getting on all 4s, draping a blanket over themselves, and blindly trying to crawl from one side of the rooms to the other while the other participants kicked the shit out of them. Still one of my favorite games.
extyn · 5 points · Posted at 15:52:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a little storage shed near the house so we would clear it of all the outdoor equipment and make it a clubhouse. Basically we'd add chairs and try to one up another by building the best household item.
The best one was a 'toilet' out of a chair that was missing a cushion and had a plastic bag under the hole. We cackled for days about it until my mom found out. Apparently, my five year old brother shat in it when we weren't looking and it just sat in the shed until someone got a whiff of it and complained.
I discovered this thread way too late and I have so many games I could've mentioned, but there was one that my brother and I played with our male cousins when we came up to visit. Gutenberg had to be played on a deer-shit-covered hillside, and the goal was to wrestle or titty-twist each other onto a pile of shit and yell GOOTENBERG if we successfully 'printed' someone.
I don’t think this was our invention, but my brothers and I used to play a game called “Get down, Mr. President.” Basically, this game is never ending, and at any time someone can say the phrase “Get down, Mr. President” to restart the gameplay. When someone says that, they put their finger to their ear like they’re talking into a bluetooth earpiece and everyone else who knows about the game has to put their fingers up, too. The last person to do it gets tackled to the ground, just like what the president’s bodyguards would do in case of an emergency, I guess.
When I was a freshman and my brother was a senior, we moved schools and realized no one at our new school knew about the game. So, on the last two days of school, we taught a bunch of people who didn’t have to take finals how to play, and that’s how we spent the last two days. The game actually got banned at my school because one girl got tackled and hit the brick wall and got a concussion. Fun times
He would throw me in space jail (our parents room) and tell me there was a force field so I couldn't get out and made me watch Cops for 5 hours while my parents were at work.
Then he'd bring me plates of deli meat and cheese occasionally as rations.
......
kyooks · 7 points · Posted at 16:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blackout hide and seek. At night me and my friends would turn off all the lights, cover the windows and cover all led-lights from electronics with painters tape. Literally pitch black.
Then we would play hide and seek lol. The fun thing about it was that you couldn’t use flashlights or anything, which meant if you wanted to climb up the door frame and leverage yourself at the top so they would continuously walk under you through the door, you could lol. (That was my go-to hiding spot)
But even more hilarious is the fact that because we learned each other’s tricks we would implement tactics to try and find each other more quickly (I.e. using a broom stick to whack the top of every door frame we went under; and sometimes calling each other’s phones to try and hear the vibration or see the light from the screen)
It’s also fun because when the person is in the room with you, neither of you can see anything so you’re just listening to them stumble and feel around. Sometimes the hider will make unintended noises like farts, stomach growls, bone cracks, or sneezes, etc.)
I grew up on a lake, and one of my favorite games to play was Water Taxi. My friends and I would use my parents' old rowboat and row each other to and from each of my neighbor's docks. We'd do all different accents when we were picked up, and pretend we were going to New York or Dublin or wherever else we'd learned about in Geography class that week.
Now, I can make the rowing machine at the gym my bitch.
We lived near the tracks that were used to film steam engine train scenes for Little House on the Prairie, and there was a water tower that they used to refill the engine.
A bunch of us kids would climb to the top of the tower, let out all but about 3 feet of water, then jump in. Once in, we would run around the edge to get the water spinning, then float around in circles on our poor man's lazy river.
The only downside was that it took the pump about an hour to get the water high enough so that we could reach the built-in ladder to climb back out.
Dead Baby. Sometimes called Drowned Baby. Me, my brother, and friends would all get in the shallow end of the pool. If 5 people were playing 1 person would get into a ball, hold their breathe, and lay on the bottom of the pool. The other 4 would stomp and kick the person underwater and shout “Dead baby! Dead baby!”.
There were no winners or losers. The person submerged tried to stay under as long as possible. The people kicking tried to be the most violent. Everyone took turns.
My Mom absolutely hated the game (big surprise) and forbade is from playing. My Dad loved the game and would cheer us on.
OFFENSIVE! Read no further if you DON"T want to be OFFENDED.
"Smear the Queer" was played on elementary school playgrounds. You had one ball and whoever had the ball was to be tackled and stripped of the ball. Whoever got the ball would also be tackled. Sometimes as the mob of kids was getting close, the ball carrier would throw the ball in the air. Having the ball and running for you life was the best part. So thinking about what the game was called being the "queer," running was the best part of the game. It was just a mob of kids after one kid all recess long. You ran a lot. Girls also joined in. They were often faster than the boys.
We also played this at my school. Called it the exact same thing. Finally in like 6th grade the principal came to our classroom (small school) and told us we couldn’t call it that anymore. We were all confused because he didn’t give an explanation. Loved that game!
Played this as well back in the 90s. Looking back as an adult, I just can’t imagine how someone initially came up with that name. Yeah, it was a different time. I’m not defending the name at all, but I honestly didn’t even know what the word meant until someone told us not to call it that.
The word queer used to mean odd or different. The guy with the ball is different from everyone else, thus he's the queer. Queer didn't have its current, specialized meaning until the late 1800s, whereas the "tackle that guy" game has been around since, well, forever. Or the name was just made up to be derogatory and hateful. I give it 50/50 odds either way.
We had "Kill the Man", where we would throw a tennis ball against a large gate and whomever had the ball had to escape the mob and get to the other side of the playground. Many ripped uniforms because of this game.
Flip17 · 3 points · Posted at 14:29:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stickle. What is stickle? It is a game played in an area that has many trees. Players pick up long sticks off of the ground, slam them against a tree trunk with a lot of force, thus causing them to break. The part that breaks off the stick then becomes an airborne projectile which flies in the direction of the other combatants players. First one to get hit dies.
We used to play a game called 'Raw' which loosely translates from Pashto to 'Quietly' or 'Slowly' in English. The name came from my mum shouting at us for making too much noise whilst playing the game (it will be come apparent why a bit later on).
Before we had our house extended we had a radiator in the living room which had a pipe that hung about 1-2 cm above the floor and there was a gap of about 0.5-1 cm between the pipe and the skirting board.The pipe ran along the whole length of the radiator.
The rules of the game were very simple. Try and get a marble to land on the pipe and it to stay there (the gap was the perfect size for that). This meant you would collect all the previous marbles that were used for previous attempts. The winner was the one with all the marbles at the end or whoever had the most before my mum got very angry.
My childhood home had a really long living room with a tall ceiling and almost nothing in it. One year for Christmas, my brother and I got a huge set of these cardboard boxes painted up to look like bricks. We'd both take stations on opposite sides of the living room and hurl bricks at each other. After a while, we'd make defensive walls out of bricks. But we knew that every brick stacked in defense was one less brick to be used as ammunition. And then then one of us made a bad throw, that brick was forever consigned to the No-Man's Land between our forts.
This would go on for hours. Like, breakfast until lunch. And in this time period we'd only throw bricks in a frenzy maybe twice (once at the beginning and once near the end). The rest of the time was spent shoring up our defenses, occasionally lobbing a single brick.
TL;DR: At age seven, my brother and I would play Accidental WWI Trench Warfare.
“PINE CONE GAME” rules- pick pine cones off the ground and whip them at each other. 3 hits and your dead. I would always come home from my friends house with cuts on my face. He had an endless pine cone supply in his front yard.
All of us would play this game during recess in elementary school. This was when everyone was friends and there weren't any cliques yet. One person would go down the tube slide and stay at the bottom. Then the next person would slide down. Then the next, etc. We'd fill the whole slide up until the "toilet was clogged". It was super fun to do when it got cold. We'd be crammed inside the tube huddling like penguins.
My childhood best friend and I used to play a game we called “Abigail.” We would tie one apron around the two of our waists and pretend we were a Siamese twin waitress named Abigail. We’d run up and down the basement stairs tied together in this apron to take my family members’ food orders and bring them back plates of plastic pretend food. This “game” entertained us for hours on end and although we’ve lost touch as adults, every now and then we shoot each other a “Hey Abigail...” message!
Monster.
Growing up in the midwest... we'd run into the corn fields when it was about 6' tall, the rip off ears of corn and whip them at each other. whoever got hurt first lost. It was always fun trying to find your way out of the fields, too.
When I was 5 or 6 I played a game with my dad called “eyeball crack the eyeball”
The premise was my dad hides in the closet and I run around the living room / closet hallway / kitchen and he had to jump out when I was near the closet to try to catch me. No eyeballs were ever harmed, name has absolutely nothing to do with game, kids (myself included) are fuckin nuts
Sting Ball. We made a tennis ball sized lump of aluminum foil and would whip it at each other in a sort of tag/dodgeball style game. If you caught the Sting Ball the thrower was out. If the ball hit you (and man that shit stung) you were out. If it missed no one was out. Kids would scramble to have control of the ball and scatter when someone else picked it up.
My friend and I would pretend to be salon workers where we would make our own “products”. It was just us finding empty bottles and mixing a ton of chemicals from the bathroom and kitchen to make things like shampoo.
Later found out my mom threw out all the “nice bathroom stuff” I gave her
I had completely forgotten about this game until about 5 years ago when I woke up in a cold sweat.
My two older sisters and I would play this game where one was the mother, and the other sister and I were crippled children. We would "come home" crying and tell our mother that we were picked on at school for being crippled. During this, we would be dragging our legs behind us or not moving our arms the whole time. We'd tell her all of the bad things they did to us and ask why they were so mean to us. She'd comfort us and tell us sometimes kids are just mean.
My family used to play "Doggy in the middle" where we would sit on the floor and try to roll and bounce the dog's toy ball to each-other without the dog intercepting it. We had this really long kitchen island so that was the best place to play as we could bounce the ball off the cabinets or island to try and make banking shots around the dog. The game ended when the dog managed to intercept the ball a few times which led to her getting a bunch of pets and treats.
Human beyblade. We were to poor to afford them so my brother used to put both of our arms on our chest and spin in circles while trying to knock each other over.
We also played pioneer which was walking in the snow to destinations like the grocery store because we didn’t have a car. We’d walk through snow banks with perfectly shovelled sidewalks available.
My friend and I used to pretend to be spies when we were 6-8
We would go around with a note pad and toy binoculars, climbing trees and hiding in bushes and secretly watching our neighbors, keeping notes of their daily routines.
Our block was actually circled by a single street that would loop back around, and I lived in the second house from the corner, with a HUGE tree in our front yard. So we would climb it and we could see any cars coming or going down our street or around the block.
From that tree, we could see over all the houses and into almost every backyard and into people’s windows within about 6 houses in any direction.
We had pretty detailed notes, actually...
In fact, our notes and some of the drawings of the things we had seen were discovered by my mom, and that’s how they discovered my friend’s parents were swingers.
... My friend stopped wanting to play spies after that gossip spread.
On a trampoline (no net of course) with 1 ball, whoever last touched the ball when it fell of was out (and had to fetch!).
This created a risk/reward system of going hard for the guaranteed kill if you hit someone, or slow if you just wanted to make sure others touched it. The other players could bounce the ball or other players too.
I used to play a game I made up with my friends when we used to drink too much on the street called angry neighbor. The rules were simple, you took the things on one person's lawn and redecorated their neighbors lawn with it. The best game we had of it was in a rich neighborhood where we chose the richest house and took all the things from every neighbor within sight (I think it was like ten houses). It took hours, their hose was ten hoses long, had many bikes on their deck, a plethora of potted plants (tore a Muscle bringing one big one over), a ton of solar lights done in a very pretty design, and a new deck chair swing. It was beautiful. I think the best part for me was imagining the conversations: "ahh Bob...wtf?" Bob: "John I really have no idea man, it was a hell of a night and I just woke up to it like this" or "ahhh bob... Wtf?" Bob: "fuck you John you never watered those plants". P.S. am an adult now and no longer drink to excess or am a little shit. Still a little proud of this one though
The "Initial Game". Growing up in a fairly big family that took alot of road trips, me and my little brother came up with this game to help pass the time. Two letters were chosen, say "A. R." and we would all just try to come up with silly things that could stand for like "Acrobatic Rhinoceros" or "Ashtray Repairman" No points or rules or anything, just a fun way to make the ride go by quicker and to get some laughs with some wit that the whole family grew to appreciate.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:19:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah I remember playing this "game" called "hide in the pantry and eat pieces of dog food til my parents found me"
My sister and I played a game where we tried to sneak a booger into the front shirt pocket of a particular woman that would visit our home frequently. It was a game of stealth, like reverse pickpocketing. I'm not sure either one of us ever succeeded but I remember sometimes standing/hiding for what seemed like hours just feet away from the 'target' waiting for the perfect opportunity to slide that nose cookie into its sheath.
I think by the time we retired the game after several years the final score was 0-0 with zero close attempts. Still was a lot of fun and trained us to be stealthy and patient!
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sister and I would play Crazy 8s, but instead of playing by the right rules we would take a standard deck of cards and flip them until we reached 8 we would go absolutely bonkers for 30 seconds.
Whenever we had art class in 5th grade, there was a water bowl in the center of the table. Whenever you washed your brush, the water would change color (obviously) so we made a game out of it. The different paint colors were different "elements" (red was dragon blood, blue was Mermaid Cove water, green was green moss, etc.) and we made potions. The sink was the "Magic Spring" and we emptied our potion into there while doing fake witch chants. It was awesome.
The naked man game. My father was always concerned whenever I mentioned it, because I also mentioned I played it in the closet with my babysitter. He was concerned this one time, and asked me to show it to him... It was operation, I just forgot the name.
When I was a kid in the Philippines we played a ghetto IRL version of Pokemon because we were too poor to afford the actual cards or games. We'd capture spiders at home or in nearby forests, storing them in matchboxes. Then we'd fight each other's spiders by placing them on 2 opposite ends of a chop stick and poke their asses until they "fight" each other. Since we were dumb kids we never fed the spider. Fights usually resulted in one spider eating the other.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger my old friends and I made guns with our hands and pretended to shoot each other. My dad got upset at me doing that and disciplined me. Also when I was younger I played DOS computer games on an emulator on my computer. Those games are SUPER old.
My dad would tie a ski rope to the back of the mower, and my sister and I would wear roller blades and take turns being pulled around behind the mower. This was supposed to be practice for water skiing but it was also a lot of fun on its own. He would do the same thing with the tube and that was equally fun but resulted in more injuries.
“Sarsaparilla, don’t die!” — The first person would punt a soccer ball straight up into the sky as high as possible. The second person would attempt to shoot the ball out of the sky by firing an arrow from a bow straight up. The rule was you could only fire straight up and couldn’t release until the ball was at its peak. The last rule was run and don’t die, or else our parents will be pissed.
We broke the first rule a lot, but never the last rule!
My brother and I played a game called "whiffle ball baseball fly swatter." no rhyme or reason to the name but the game itself was highly organized. Basically baseball but with a ping pong ball and a fly swatter. If you've thrown a ping pong ball you know how much curve you can put on it. Some insane sliders and eephus pitches. But smacking it with a fly swatter is without a doubt the most satisfying "thwack" you can imagine.
My brother and I used to play a tiny indoor soccer game in our family living room. We used a small nerf basketball and the couches on either side of the room as goals. We called it Rhonaldino.
There was a time as kids where my older brother and I could lay in our bunk beds and go through pretty much the entirety of Aladdin, line by line. I'd take half the characters and he'd take the other half, and we'd perform the whole thing late into the night.
My brother used to put me in a big laundry bag, spin me around, and then carry me somewhere and I'd have to guess which room of the house I was in to "win".
"Ammo Dammo", as we called it for some reason. We had this glow-in-the-dark jump rope that we tied into a ball and set under a lamp to charge. Then after about five minutes, we turned off all of the lights in the basement (safe, i know) and the person who was "it" tried to throw the ball of jump rope at the others to get them out.
Called it "bullet" we'd run around the basement at top speed. Not allowed to stop or hesitate. And we'd just run into each other essentially
sotis6 · 2 points · Posted at 15:14:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and SEE.
I’m sure it’s known, but to our family my oldest cousin “invented” it and all 12 of us would play these huge games.
It was hide and seek. But there was a base that everyone hiding had to get to to win the game. If you were ever SEEN, the person who is seeking would have to say “I see you (name)” and that person would be frozen. To unfreeze, another one of the hiders would have to “tag” you.
The challenge was if you got to base, you couldn’t get off to unfreeze someone. So basically to win, 11 of us would have to run to base together while the seeker was on the other side of the house.
HIGHLIGHTS:
-I was seeker one time, and saw 3 people holding hands, and I called them out each individually. Their way of getting around this was that as soon as I called one of them, the others were touching them to automatically unfreeze them. So as soon as I walked away and was out of sight, all 3 of them continued running. That was a big game changer for the family.
-One time my cousin hid in a circle for an hour with all the adults just reading the paper. She was the most mature of all of us, as well as oldest (she was 16, youngest was about 5/6). No one, including the people hiding, knew where the hell she was.
-sister one time hid under a float in the pool with a snorkel. It was legendary.
Guzz15 · 5 points · Posted at 15:20:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my little sister and cousin brother used to play 'Jasusi-jaas' or in simple terms, we used to play act 'Detectives'. In this game we played characters of a make believe detective show and me being the eldest got to be the cool, advanced weaponry wielding alien leader, code name 'Number-1' while they were my human understudies, 2 and 3. We used to run around my grandma's yard solving crimes with some ad breaks in the middle. A title and ending track, and a running commentary.
We also used to have concerts with title tracks from our favourite animated shows like Pokemon and Scooby doo.
That might just be the only thing I miss about my childhood. We three are still as close, if not closer.
When I was in high school, my friends and I made up a game we called Farfignugen. It was basically racquetball mixed with dodgeball. You would throw the ball at the wall and the other person would have to catch it. If they missed, they would have to run to the wall, but you could grab the ball and hit them with it. If you did then you got a point.
"Shark", We'd pile in on the top bunk and 1 person on the bottom reaches up and tries to tag someone to be the shark. It ended up being more fun to frighten than to actually catch/tag.
When I was a kid in Gym we played a game called Mat Ball, some called it Bloop ball. Basically it was like kickball, cept the bases were mats, and you could get a base hit, then the next guy could get a base hit, but you didn't have to move from your base. So you could have like 5 guys on first, 3 or second. If you hit a certain spot on the back wall it was a homerun, but only you went around. If you kicked the ball into a basket everyone on base got to score, or at my school we had banners and if you hit a banner everyone could score. It proved to be very competitive and caused a lot of locker room fights.
My brother and sisters and I would play “twirly-whirly” where we would hold hands and spin in a circle and let go and of you fell down you lose. When I got older I was big enough that I could spin my brother until his feet were off the ground then just chuck him across the room
Rescue the Princess. This was a game we created in freshman year of high school, the object of which was to create the biggest Golden Goose chain of participants as you could, by going door to door and asking, "come rescue the princess?" The only real rules of the game were that you weren't allowed to give any explanation other than "we're rescuing the princess," and if you joined the crusade you had to wear a hat. The stupider the better.
Since the game tends to work best when no one knows what's going on but the ones who start it, we would do it in different neighborhoods and city areas where we knew other students lived. At times the crusade would grow to forty people or more- I wound up pilfering a box of costume hats from the drama department at the time, so that anyone who didn't have a stupid hat could have one. Picture forty high school students wandering the streets of a suburban community, in baseball caps and wizard hats and Darth Vader helmets and motorcycle/leatherman caps and Dr. Seuss hats and bunny ears and even less conventional things, all shouting "rescue the princess!"
People must have thought we were nuts, or the least threatening gang in the state.
Friends rectangular basement had a couch. Two teams of 2 or 3. One team got the couch, other team got the pillows - these you used to create a defense.
Glow in the dark dominos, held under the light for a good 5 mins to get them glowing. Lights off and dominos scattered. Try and pelt the other team with the dominos.
Everyone had those old light up indigo watches where you hold a button for a little light. Once the glow faded from the dominos you had to use your light on the floor to look for ammo, but this was dangerous as made you a target. Threw a couple tennis balls in the mix for fun too.
We grew up in Florida and had an above ground pool. We would play silent marco polo in it. The person trying to find the others would still close their eyes, but the others would try to make as little noise as possible while still trying to avoid being tagged. We learned to listen for even the slightest noise and also follow the currents in the water.
I became good and drawing the person that was it to my current and then looping around quickly to make them think I was still going a certain way while I went around them. The current would carry a short while, but by the time they realized it I was already somewhere else. I also got really good at going underwater and resurfacing without making any noise.
My sister and cousins and I used to play ‘computer babies’ whenever we had sleepovers. We would bend a bunch of futons and create tunnels that acted as our rooms, and we’d sit in our ‘rooms’ and pretend to be genius babies and do things like order food on fake computers (which was always promptly delivered on a tray embedded into our futon wall), or save the world. When I think back on it, we were really just sitting inside bent futons speaking nonsense, but it was always a blast.
rmcg · 3 points · Posted at 16:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One day at primary school, we all went out at playtime and the playground was covered in this fluff. Like white, fluffy stuff. We were all excited, shouting "Candy Floss!", throwing it around and pretending we were at a fair.
We all go back inside, sitting in class when I start getting reaaaally itchy, then other kids are starting to itch and turn red... turns out it was fibreglass insulation that had blown over from a building site! We were all sent home in tears, itchiest I've ever been.
My mother used to buy our silence on long car journeys. She’d pay us 10p for every motorbike we could spot, as long as we were otherwise quiet and well-behaved. We’d have a pen and a piece of paper to keep count, and at the end of the ride she’d take our paper and hand over about 50p or so, and we would use it to buy sweets or a super cheap ‘toy’.
She retired the game one day after we drove in the same direction as some sort of motorbike convention. That trip cost her over £20 and my brother threw up on the journey home from eating all the chocolate he bought with his share.
Haha you just reminded me. When me and my brother were younger we once thought it was really fun to get jars full with water, fill our mouths and spit it out on eachother outside. Kind of a weird version of tag. It was so gross to get hit but funny as hell when you hit the other. So anyway, in the laughther one of us must have mistakenly blown their nose (probably me) . When I looked at my jar that I had set down I saw a bit of snot. It was so disgusting that I immediately had to throw up. "Ewww snot!" I yelled, and my brother had the same reaction.
For some reason I ran inside to puke in the bathroom, and I do, while my brother doesn't get that far. While puking I can hear him, and my mother yells that he is projectile vomiting all over the house. So once again I just laugh my ass off at the situation and how fucked up it all was. Good times, albeit weird.
I didn't play this as a kid but we played this when my niece was still a kid. In an Arizona election several years ago there was a guy running with the last name Doody. We'd see the signs on almost every corner. So as we would be driving around somewhere if you saw the sign you had to yell out "DOODY!" before everyone else to get points. If you saw two signs you yelled "DOUBLE DOODY!". It was a fun silly game to play for a few months with my niece when we'd go places. There were a lot of laughs over it. She got the only "TRIPLE DOODY".
About 5 years after the election my sister sent me a text. She got a picture of someone in a store wearing a Doody campaign shirt from that election. The last "DOODY" of the game lol.
My brother and I used to spend a few weeks at my grandparents’ house each summer. Pretty much we were bored as shit. They had the type of house where everything felt fragile. White carpet/grand piano/family heirloom type. Anyway, my brother and I would play this game called “hide the bean” where one of us would hide a SINGLE COFFEE BEAN anywhere in their house and the other person would have to find it. We would switch off all day
tjn182 · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While not politcally correct by todays standards... we played a game called "I win"
I all began at a Ryan's Family Steakhouse near the NC Zoo in the early 90s. Anytime you went, you saw outrageously obese people there.
My dad and his brother and my 3 siblings (ages 5-11 at time) developed a simple game. Find the biggest person and quietly claim "I win". No pointing. No sudden movements to look. Only get to call it 1 time per location. Must declare "The Game is on" before anyone can call it. All you win is bragging rights.
Needless to say, my mother was appalled by the game. Yet it never stopped her from randomly blurting "I win" at the most random times in the most random places.
Our best winner would definitely be someone worth of a Lifetime documentary. My best friend was with us, and "The Game" was on. He decided to check out the smoking section (still in the 90s) and came back with a face so red - barely able to say "I win". This man sat in 2 chairs, one for each butt cheek - Sat sideways at the table - had to reach hand to side to get food and place it on the plate that sat on his belly. Dr. Mom guessed he was in the 700lb range. Needless to say, nobody has ever topped this winner to-date.
Expecting downvotes... but still - that's our unique game! We still play it to date. Mom still hates it.
Oh - random coincidence - A friend of mine in college came and sat down to me in the cafeteria one day and was like "holy shit, I win!". We had never discussed this game before. I looked around and was like - "DUDE! You know The Game!?" - "Yeah man I play it with my family!". Sure enough, he was from the same small town as my dad. Very likely that it was something the folks in the area played quite frequent.
Empty Room Ball! Not a child but when I first moved into my house we didn't have any furniture other than a couple bean bags. We also didn't have a tv or internet. So we found a hackey sack and threw it around the large living room. Hours we would be at it, just shooting the shit, throwing the 'ball'. Eventually we got couches and chairs, but we would still play occasionally. One day the ball was thrown and never appeared again. That was the end of empty room ball.
Okay, this sounds completely insane in retrospect but the most popular game at kids birthday parties in my school (like 3.-5. grade) was drug smugglers. Hear me out here.
The parents would make little baggies of different drugs like tic tacs were pills, flour was cocaine etc. Then each drug was assigned a value. Then there were a ton of Monopoly money.
Some parents And kids would be “police” and the rest of the kids would be in smuggling groups. We all started with the same amount of money, then had to run around the area to find the mom or dad who was the dealer, buy drugs, hide them on ourselves and run back to sell them to the other dealer without getting caught by police.
It took a few hours and whichever group had accumulated the most money by the end of the night won.
There were frisk searches (some other kids were police too).
And I know it sounds completely inappropriate and insane, but it was also ridiculously fun!!
You weren’t allowed to hide the drugs in your underwear and other places where it would be a big no no to search. I remember I was really really good one time because it was winter, I was wearing a dress, but also ski pants and I could hide the drugs in the fold that was made between the two 🤷♀️😬😬
Curbs!!! I only recently found out that it is unheard of outside of Dublin, Ireland, like, where cows n green things is. Now, the rules varied from area to area, but most commonly- two lil scrappy Dubs stood on opposite curbs, only ever on a busy enough road, throwing a football at the opposing curb with the aim of bouncing it back to your own side and catching it. If you catch it, you move forward to a marker, and go again, move closer, so on n so forth. On a suburban road. Now if they catch it and throw it at your curb, you suck and you lose at childhood or something......emm.....Factual history books tell us that it absolutely was in the 1st to 44th Olympic games, only to be given up on with the Advent of PlayStation and girls
"Car": a game played with neighborhood kids. You hang out on someone's front lawn and when you see a car coming by, you have to run and hide by the time it passes or you loose a life. It's pretty dumb but I had a hell of a lot of fun doing it as a kid. I also ended up have an unreasonable fear of cars driving by house for longer than I'm willing to admit.
In elementary school we played "Titanic" at recess. This involved getting on the swings and swinging as high as we could and then the designated captain would yell "Iceberg!" and you had to jump out of the swing no matter how high you were. Then you raced to the slide that was designated as the lifeboat. Some made it, others didn't. We lost a lot of brave souls.
l3ane · 4 points · Posted at 23:27:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fashion Satement Awards. We would all dress up in the most ridiculous outfits and video tape or as if it were some sort of beauty pageant. We had commercials and everything. My brother still has the tapes and man o man am I glad YouTube wasn't around back then.
I made up a game called "Meteor" which was effectively "trampoline dodge ball" with a few twists. We had a trampoline growing up but only ever 2 or 3 kids were ever allowed to be on it at a time for safety concerns. The game functioned as a way to cycle kids on and off without thinking of it as taking turns. There was a net around the outside walls too (or else we would have been in real trouble!) and whoever was on the outside had to toss a ball over the top of the net into the trampoline area. On the inside, if you got hit with the ball as it came down you lost 1 life point out of a total of 3. Once you lost all of your lives you had to switch with someone on the outside and the game would reset.
The special variants included that if you were touching the trampoline (not mid-bounce) when the ball hit the trampoline but nobody else then you lost a life anyway. Think of it as temporary "the floor is lava" which encouraged everyone to stay bouncing when the ball hit. Sometimes this would get multiple people too, and if multiple people lost their final life point then more people on the outside got to go into the trampoline again. This also resulting in people attempting strategic bounces like "double bouncing" which launched yourself up but the other person lost all of their strength for their current bounce and would get very high at all.
The other option was to catch the ball while you were in the air. If you threw it (still airborne at this point) and hit someone else then they would lose a life instead of you. You were also able to just throw it back outside and there would be no penalty for anyone inside.
Kids on the outside of the net would try to throw the ball in varying heights in the air in order to make it hard to determine when and where the ball would hit the trampoline. That is basically where the name originate from, waiting until the "meteor" hit and trying to avoid it. However if anyone on the outside completely missed getting the ball inside the trampoline net then everyone got all their lives back!
We would call it Space Fort. My neighbour (my age) and I would sit and make a fucking wonder-of-the-world level architectural monstrosity out of cardboard boxes, Jenga and Duplo boxes, and pretend that it was a castle holding a kidnapped intergalactic princess in it and act out the whole plot to the rescue or siege or whatever with assorted action figures and stuffed animals. It would go on for hours and is one of my fondest memories
HamMcK · 4 points · Posted at 14:18:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if it’s unique but I grew up playing “now you see me, now you don’t”. Basically you choose a bedroom to play in and cover all the windows so it’s super dark. One person counts outside the room while the rest of the people hide, once done counting the seeker says “now you see me, now you don’t” while sticking their arm in the door and turning the light switch off. Then you have to find everyone in pitch black darkness. Tripping over things and getting hurt was pretty prevalent but still tons of fun.
We would play the "night game," where we would all go in a dark room, put a blanket over someone's head, and they would have to crawl around and try to catch and pull someone under the blanket with them. If they succeeded, then the person they caught would be the next one under the blanket.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 14:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking out the car window and imagining a creature following beside us that had to travel only on telephone lines, trees, guard rails, etc. Made long trips less boring.
We played a game involving a narrow stairwell and one of those big yoga balls.
We'd take turns being at the bottom of the stairwell and the person at the top would throw the yoga ball down and you'd have to try and smack it back up without it ricocheting off the walls or stairs and knocking the shit out of you.
"Pearl diving". I was the ship, floating on my back, and had to obstinately remain stationary despite all the ruckus going on around me and people trying to make me get the fuck out of the way. Sadly the "storm" would eventually shift my position and drag my imaginary pearl diver to the surface and he'd die agonisingly from The Bends. Yet again.
We had a polished small coffee table in the living room. Small size. When there were friends over, we would take coins (all the same type, about quarter size) and simultaneously hit them spinning. Whichever coin stays spinning longest wins. Hitting other coins with your coin is OK.
during car rides if there was a smudge or speck of dirt on the window I would move my head around so that it was doing "parkour" over different obstacles outside
OK so my soccer team had one kid lucky enough to own a paintball gun back when we were about 10-11 years old. There were 18 of us in total, and one paintball gun. So when we played (off the field) all together, which happened a couple of times per year, we invented a game called 'Secret Service.' Here is how it worked.
One kid would play the 'president.' The kid with the paintball gun would play the 'assassin.' All the other kids were secret service agents. The goal of the game depended upon who you were.
If you were the 'president' or part of his secret service detail, the goal was to keep the 'president' safe from point A (usually a tree house) to point B. Between A and B was usually a heavily wooded area with good cover and no shortage of great places to hide. The goal for the kid with the paintball gun was to hide in the woods, and try to put a paintball on the 'president' while he was moving between point A and point B.
To keep the 'president' safe, secret service agents could dive in front of shots, make a human shield around him, or if they were close enough (and feeling lucky) wrestle the paintball gun away from the kid playing assassin. Catch was, once you had paint on you, that was it for you that round. You fell down and played dead until it was over. So it was difficult to get the kid with the paintball gun without getting tagged.
My brother and I would use a graph paper to map out a battle map. Then created a list of basic military unites (soldiers, tanks, mines, ECT) and their stats and cost.
Then we would draw on the graph where we set our army up. Then took turns erasing and redrawing them as they moved or when they got into combat we would play rock paper scissors to see who won the fight.
My sisters and I used to play a game called “Nine” where basically, one of us was on the floor curled in a ball and the others bounced from bed to bed. The one on the floor would then “wake up” and crawl about going “nine nine nine” etc in a creepy voice and try to catch us.
It was weird.
When driving down the road we would play one of two games.
The “ABC Game” where we tried to spot the letters of the alphabet in order using billboards, street signs, license plates, business signs, or anything with words on it. I still get a little shot of dopamine every time I see an Antique Shop because those Q’s were always the most difficult to find.
Or my sister and I would split the road down the middle and pretend like we inherited everything we passed on our respective side of the road.
Having just discovered Choose-your-adventure books, we started writing ones of our own, and reading them to each other. That was too much work, so we started doing it paper-free. 1 game master, 1 player, just improvisation. We had ongoing campaigns that went on for months. Later I discovered actual rpgs, but we basically arrived there by ourselves.
We played FF III on the SNES (FFIV) and when my parents yelled at me for playing video games for too long we made cardboard cutouts of swords and espers and played our own version of FF outside with cardboard treasure chests hidden in neighbors bushes etc.
Used to play a game in elementary school where someone would sit on top of the slide while everyone else would try to push them off. No point of the game besides trying to stay at the top for as long as possible
My sisters and I would play “switch chairs”. We usually played this at our grandparents’ house since they had a lot of seating in their living room. Basically everyone would start in a chair (each cushion on the couch counted as one chair as well). Someone would yell “switch chairs” and we all had to jump up and move to a new chair as fast as we could. Sometimes more than one person would go for the same chair so whoever got their first would get it. We would continue to yell “switch chairs” and moving around until we got bored. There were no winners or losers.
I told my high school friends about this years later and we decided to play. Surprisingly the game aged very well and we had a lot of fun. Mostly because of how stupid the game was and because of the fighting for the best chairs. My friends dad’s recliner got damaged in the process so we all chipped in and bought him a new one for Christmas.
I was staying at my friend's house for the weekend while my parents were out of town. Ends up being the worst flood in my states history, and his basement ends up flooded. After we helped out and got the majority of the water out, we ended up playing baseball in the still wet and slippery tile using a broom and nerf ball. The pool table in the middle of the 'field' made for some interesting plays.
Silver, it was an adventure game where you could do special moves with your sword with mouse gestures. It was really revolutionary for the time and it gave you the sense of having control over your character.
My sister and I played “red devil run” - one child would take other children on the tour of the devil’s lair (aka our yard), while someone (the red devil) hid in a bush waiting for the tour to pass by. As it did, the red devil would jump out, the tour guide would exclaim “red devil run!” and everyone would scatter and to try to avoid being tagged by the red devil- except the tour guide who was in on the whole thing. Who ever was tagged would become the red devil, the tagger would become the tour guide, and the game would start again. For the life of me I can’t remember how we came up with this- but it was our favorite game. The point of each tour was to get more and more elaborate with the descriptions of my mothers flower beds, so that the devil was always a surprise.
Dirt clog wars. There was a subdivision being built behind my childhood home and we used to run around throwing clumps of clay/dirt at each other, with the occasional rock. It was a blast. We eventually became more bored with that at started throwing them at the houses under construction cause the would explode on the side of the houses and make a huge mark. The workers ended up telling our parents and we had to write and hand-deliver an apology letter to the foreman.
My cousin and I thought we invented a new game when we were kids. We called it puckey. It was basically hockey but with laundry baskets as goals and we used the Subway toy that was like a plastic golf club as our stick. I made a ring of tape on the floor to mark where the starting point would be, my mom was not happy. Fast forward 16 years and that house is now sold (we happen to be friends with the people that own it though) and the tape ring is still there. XD
"Sidewalk Tag". My grandparent's front yard was a rectangle split in half width wise by a straight sidewalk. One person would be "it", and could only stand on the sidewalk - not allowed to touch the grass. The other two had to run across the sidewalk as many times as possible without getting tagged. You had to keep crossing, and the person who was 'it' could tag you if they could reach you without touching the sidewalk (this includes taking running leaps at people).
I'm an only child and I was a pretty shy kid, so I didn't have a ton of friends. Plus we lived in a pretty rural area with no nearby neighbors from when I was born through the end of my fourth grade year. Anyway, I used to go outside and have these imaginary football games in which I was both quarterback and wide receiver. I got to be pretty adept at throwing a tight spiral to myself, catching it and then bringing myself down with a tackle.
yuhone · 3 points · Posted at 17:28:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would have monthly room sales growing up. We’d gather our unique belongings to the living room and set up a shop. We’d sell, trade, and barter our things. We’d make signs and decorate our shops to attract one another’s attention.
Everything from old clothes to our beds to trading rooms for the summer went down. We all made some pocket change and it left us feeling good.
My sister and i used to play “GirlBoy” it was CatDog except for a boy and a girl. We’d wear sweatpants and connect our legs through the leg holes and then walk around on our arms.
Way more fucked up: me, my sister, and 2 cousins used to play “stump soccer”. You fold your arms and legs into your sleeves and pant-legs so you look like an amputee, and then we’d play soccer.
My brother and I had "The Chinese Restaurant Game." The goal was to finish your entire glass of water, ice included, while at a Chinese restaurant. If a waiter came around you were not allowed to refuse a fill up. Those fuckers fill your glass every minute or so. It was fun for a kid but also stupid because we got very full on water.
Hint: The trick is to let the ice melt and then drink it all in one go ;)
My sister and I would play “Dinosaurs.” We pretended to be Brachiosauruses by getting on all fours and using one of our legs as our tails to kick each other. Whoever fell first lost. I was 3 years younger and much smaller; so this game was simply an excuse for my sister to kick the shit out of me and not get in trouble.
roleplaying as cats from the Warriors series. we all had our own names like Fernpool, Tigerfur, Froststar... ran around collecting twigs and leaves for food and chasing other kids from encroaching on our territory. we were the OG furries lmao
My best friend and i had a game where we pretended to be sisters in a large family, which I'm sure it's pretty common. The weird part of it was that the family was so large that we had about 12 pages of excel spreadsheets to keep track of things like the names and ages of our 25 siblings, the family's daily schedule, and what had previously happened in our game. Whenever we wanted to play it we had to make sure we both had all our paperwork
I would pretend that telephone polls were obstacles in some platform and sonic or Mario or whoever would have to jump over them. this translated to me moving my eyes up and down between telephone polls for long car rides
"Midgets vs Giants" - in grade school during recess a (quickly expanding) group of kids would gather in the field, and half would pull their shirts over their knees and be "midgets", and the other half would remain standing.
The goal of the game was for the giants to push over the midgets, and the midgets to knock over the giants by grabbing their legs. The teachers banned it pretty quick :(.
My brothers and I played a game we called “Fwump” out in our spare bedroom. That room had a king bed and one of us would put the comforter on ourselves like a classic ghost costume, and the three of us would run around on the bed trying not to get caught by the person with the comforter on. That person definitely couldn’t see and it was hilarious and amazing every time
Monster trucks, my brother and I would roll on top of each other as if we were monster trucks. Sometimes we would have "special" moves, which was us just sticking our elbows out or bending our knees to hurt each other. We would be covered in mud and grass (because of course you had to play on the floor outside). My mom hated it, we would rip our clothes and just be covered in dirt.
Foosketball. Greatest game I’ve ever played by far. Played it in HS football weight lifting class. It’s like basketball but with a football and you can run until you get tagged then you have to pass it. No out of bounds. Other rule is that if you throw the ball and hit behind the glass then you get 1 point. Two pointers are rare and three pointers are unicorns.
Crazy fun when you have 20 football players and as you can imagine a bit rough. We had more concussions, bloody noses, black eyes, and rolled ankles than during the actual football season.
tust3p · 3 points · Posted at 07:34:48 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin made up a game we called sock ball, we would play it at my grandmas when we were bored. Think of it like baseball with only 2 bases played in a hallway. You would roll up 2 socks together into a ball. Lay down 1 sock as homeplate and lay another sock as the other base you had to run to. Basically one person would pitch the sock ball and you would have to hit it with your hand (preferably way down the hall over the pitchers head) run to the other sock and back to the home base sock before the pitcher either tagged you or threw the sock ball at you to tag you out. There were so many epic long bomb sock throws to tag the person out right before they scored, good times.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:14:25 on March 11, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger my brothers, friends, and myself would play “the stair game”
It was essentially hide and seek mixed with tag- the person who was “it” would walk down the stairs into the basement (which was big) and the entire basement would be pitch black with the windows covered and everyone would be hidden. The goal was to get to the stairs without being tagged. Whoever got caught was then “it” and if nobody got caught the person stayed “it” for the next round.
Oddly enough this was extremely fun for a very long time.
Bit late to the party...but my grandpa and I had a game where we would turn off all the lights in the house and run around catching ghosts in Crown Royal bags.
I totally got what you were going for. As a child as we were driving down the road, I would imagine weaving in and out through dotted line in the middle of the road. It's not actually a "game", but it's something I would do to entertain myself as a child.
Apartment hallway. One person on each end sitting down. Would use backscratchers or rulers and fling bouncy balls down the hall, then other person would try to stop it from passing them. Pretty much just hockey while sitting on your butt.
I’m not sure how we didn’t get yelled at more than we did for making noise.
Every Saturday as kids after Gladiators finished me, my brother and sister would have our own “Gladiators” tournament. Always ended in tears - usually mine.
We really liked one called shoe toss. Basically while swinging on the swing set you kick your shoe off as you swing forward to see how far you can make it go in front of the swing. Whoever’s shoe got the furthest would win.
Every night when we went to bed, whoever was on the top bunk would hang their hand down between the bed and the wall. Whoever was on the bottom would try to catch it. That was it. Pretty simple, but playing this got us in more trouble than anything else I can remember. Almost every night was us plating the game, my mother yelling from the living room to knock it off, us continuing to play, my father storming into the room and yelling at us to knock it off or we'd be staying in our room for the next four years.
Behind my house there was a large park with a very large hill in the middle of it. The hill had a lot of trees and it was a mildly wooded park.
We would get nerf guns and a pack of candy cigarettes and set out. We would then play "army." One team would have the hill and try and scope out the other team with binoculars and spread out and communicate with walkie talkies.
The other team would try and sneak up and attack the hill team without being caught.
I invented a game called loungeball. Played with a kind of squishy foam ball maybe the size of a grapefruit, and goals were just designated areas of wall or bookcase at either end of the lounge. Could only be played sitting or kneeling; kneeling up or crouching was a foul. Grabbing the ball was completely disallowed, you had to kinda get your hand under it and flick it up in the air if you wanted to go for a slam shot. Any foul and you just hand the ball to the other player. No score limit that I can remember, game just ended when we got tired. High risk of being pelted in the face at close range. I would play either with my friend or occasionally my brother.
When over at my friend's house, it became trampoline ball. Same rules, but you could kinda bounce about. He had an inflatable plastic ball which I took to the face more often than desired.
We spent our entire childhood playing games of imagination, drawing maps for our fantasy worlds, devising backstories for Jedi knights, but this was the greatest and only sport we ever invented.
I did a lot on solo imaginative play. I had an invisible parrot forever. I never had an invisible friend. Just a parrot. And I would "carry" him around on my shoulder at home all day. And there was a special cage elevator for him to go up the stairs so he didn't have to fly.
Sardines. Opposite of hide and seek. I have no clue if this happened outside my family but all the cousins would draw straws. Whoever was “it” had to hide. Last person to find this person was “it”
Edit: it was called sardines because you had to hide with whoever was “it”
Came to say this as well. Fun game! More fun than hide and seek. Especially when almost everyone is found and is huddled trying to be quiet while the last person looks.
Run and Slide. There used to be a rug in the dining room which was adjacent to the living room which also used to be carpeted so there was a wood floor in between. The rule was when my sister said a certain color, run and slide across the wood floor, and I think she had to avoid getting tagged. Good times.
We also used to play this game called Pies at my grandparents house in the backyard. The Big Bad Wolf would show up demanding a certain flavor of pie. If he guessed correctly, he chased you. If you got caught, you were the wolf. I liked making up the most ridiculous flavors so I wouldn’t have to get chased.
My brother and I had a similar game “look how I landed”. We’d put on “slippery socks” and slide down our hallway on the wood floor. We’d crash at the end and yell “look how I landed”. Well he put his face through the glass door one day and nearly lost an eye. Pretty sure that was the last time we played that game.
I think me and my sister's game came to a sudden stop when my parents finally told us we could get seriously injured if we slid right into the wall or something. Damn, glad your brother didn't end up losing his eye, that sounds awful. When my aunts were little they were fighting on the middle staircase that had a window on the landing. There were 2 other sets of stairs on either side of the middle one. They were fighting and broke the window on the landing and luckily didn't fall out. They laugh about it now.
My brother and I had bedrooms at opposite sides of the hallways and one year one of my aunts got us a huge container of tootsie rolls. I’m talking hundreds. So naturally, like any 8 year old boy, we would sit in each of our rooms with the tootsie rolls and a slingshot and try and hit each other when we peaked out the door or came out to shoot
I would look out the window on long drives and imagine someone running alongside the car off the road, jumping the fences, doing flips, sliding under bridges. My imaginary running friend was very fast and athletic.
On car rides I would imagine a skateboarder outside my window swerving in and out of street signs and grinding on guard rails very swiftly to pass the time
My SO has told me about a game he and his brother would play they named "snow-speeder crash". It's where you slide down the stairs in a laundry basket and then inevitably crash into a wall. I used to play too but we used an old camping mattress at our house, we never named the game though!
Pants War. My brother and I would try to pants each other. We’d stand about two feet apart, bow, and then do the biggest squat in the world (to try to prevent the other from pantsing us) and then we’d reach for the pants and try to pants each other. Anything goes, the only rule was to (obviously) not wear a belt.
British bulldog. Which was banned at my primary school. So we cunningly changed its name to "bulldog". We were sneaky bastards
mdp928 · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One sibling jumps on parents' king-sized bed, while the other sibling takes the biggest pillows and hit the jumper's legs as hard as they could to try and knock their legs out from under them. Ideally as the jumper you would jump away from the pillow when it was swinging. Automatic win if the jumper fell off the bed.
Other game: both siblings would stand near each other at the far end of the living room. One held a throw pillow while the other would sprint for the hallway. Throw the pillow at the runner as hard as you can, try to hit them before they reach the hallway. Automatic win if the runner fell and bit it after being hit.
These games and more are why our mom, recently having found out about them now that we're adults, yelled 'this is why the pillows in my house were always destroyed?!'
My brother and I would take turns picking Star Wars ships out of a book, each had its own point value, and we would draw them on our own pieces of construction paper on the far left or far right side of the page.
Then we would pick a few ships to draw little half-inch lines next to, representing it's shot, and put the paper together and use a ruler to draw across the pages to see if anything hit.
Starfighters had 1 or 2 hits before being destroyed, and heavier ships had more (and a few more guns) but also cost more. We'd shoot back and forth until there was a clear winner.
We used to do this stuff all the time. It kills me how I've never bothered to get into board game design now that I'm older.
My mom used to have this giant, thick comforter and my brother and I used to wrap ourselves with either end of the comforter and try to knock one another down.
The rules are simple: if you think about The Game, you lose The Game. This is usually followed by an exclamation such as "Argh, I just thought about The Game!" which instantly causes all listeners to simultaneously lose The Game. You then all try to remember how long you've been playing, and whoever hasn't thought about The Game for the longest 'wins'. You'll probably remember it a few times over the next few weeks, starting over each time, until eventually it becomes months or years until you remember it again.
For example, I just lost The Game and I've been playing for around a month. My record is around two years, I think.
All of the kids in my neighborhood basically created a whole fake city in the woods. We all had our own houses made of sticks, used rocks as currency, and everyone owned some kind of business to make money. I sold "paint" made of crushed berries and made custom fountains from old broken bottles and stuff for people's houses.
We called it Manhunt but it had varying rules depending on how many kids we could get in the neighborhood to play.
If it was a large group and we got everyone to join we made two teams. One team would hide in the woods and the other team had to find the others. If you where found inside the woods you were taken to jail. At the jail was a football that anyone who wasnt found yet could sneak up and punt it as far as they can. This allowed for a jailbreak and everyone to escape. No one could be jailed unless the football was on the curb. If you were spotted outside of the woods you could run back into the woods and try to loose the chaser. If you got tagged while on the street then you were out for good.
If we were short on time or players we had another version that was much simpler. Everyone hides except one or two kids who go out to find everyone else. If found you now teamed up to find the remaining players.
My friend and I would play a cool tower defence game. I had this oversized chess board as a kid (maybe twice the size of a regular one), and we would spend maybe 10 minutes making cool castles out of dominos on each end, then we would take turns flicking a marble at each other’s and see which one would withstand the most hits. It was super fun, and I loved seeing how the castle would break/or hold on.
We had a rope swing in my grandparents back yard. Me, my brother, and my cousins would play a game where one person would get on the swing and the others would have lassos and they would try to yank them off the swing. Looking back it’s a fucking miracle no one got their necks broken.
We called it “Alien.” The game was that the oldest ones of the group of us would be the Aliens and the younger ones would be the humans. The goal was to get from one side of the house to the other, both safe rooms had the lights on. We’d turn off all the lights in the house, then tape like pillows, magazines with the robes or beanies we wore so we didn’t get “infected” before we started. You had to get all the way across the house in total darkness without getting caught by an alien. So, usually, if you heard someone screaming, getting dragged away, you booked it across the house to the safe room.
My brother and I grew up in scouts and our dad is a pretty good handyman. He would have us look on Google for a sword/gun we liked and then trace, cut, and sand it for us. We also hosted weekly meetings at our house so we'd always get 6-8 other kids to show off our new weapons. Also built a gun rack for the few nerf guns we had. The battles were epic.
I spend WAY too much time playing Roller Coaster Tycoon. So whenever I was not at home, and saw square tiles on the floor (just like the game), I would start creating imaginary rollercoasters, strictly conform the RCT rules of segment size.
Problem is, it's been at least15 years since I last played RCT and I still friggin do this. It's an addiction.
Animal Trainer. I do not know why. My cousins and I played it. One of us was the human animal trainer. The others were the animals, typically a variety of big cats. The trainer would have us jump thru a hula hoop (in the den, not outside) or jump over various obstacles. The one boy cousin would almost always be the lion cub named King would not have to perform but would get his head, ears and neck scratched by the trainer while lounging around. Yeah, he had it figured out.
We also did treasure hunts all over the end of the island where my cousins lived ala Romancing the Stone. One would set up the clues and map and the rest would go have an adventure. The derelict boat in the neighbor's yard was almost always referred to as "Noah's Ark."
OMG. An even older, really stupid game I played with my best friend was "Hide the Barbie." That sounds racy, but we were like 6 and 7. One of us would literally hide her Barbie dolls around the room and the other would have to find them. Basically, a live action hidden object puzzle. (Damn, I'm a moderator for the Hidden Object Games subreddit. I didn't put it together that I'd been playing HOGs for so long!) Anyway, my favorite place was to hide her up in the curtain rod area, or just somewhere near the ceiling. We were little and you'd think we couldn't get up there, but we were crafty.
My brother and I had a big (like 3 foot tall) Spider-Man plush. With it, we played “hit the Chinese cop” where I’d use the plush as a bat, he’d run at me, get hit by it, and run away, all the while saying shit like “mushu mustache”. Anytime I reflect on my childhood I realize I was definitely racist
It is played with a deck of cards and enough spoons for everyone, minus one spoon.
Players sit in a close circle and are delt 4 cards each.
Each player takes one card from their hand and passes it to the left at the same time. The goal is to get 4 of a kind. Once the first person gets 4 of a kind they grab a spoon. At that point every player may grab a spoon as well. Whoever doesn't get one is out for the rest of the game, kind of like musical chairs.
Sometimes the first person to grab a spoon does so quietly and the others don't notice for awhile. Stealthy players will continue passing cards while the unaware player(s) keep trying to get their 4 of a kind. They finally get it (or not) and suddenly try to get a spoon when they are all gone.
We also played this with pens in high school and called it "Pens".
A couple friends and I made our own version of d&d. It was way more fun, and way easier. We even made new versions instead of just fantasy. There was a weird space-age one and a Napoleonic era one as well. Still play sometimes
My brother and I used to play Time Team, it's a TV show about archaeology where they'd dig up some Iron Age site and explain all the history in a fun accessible way. We mostly found rocks but one time we found part of a drainpipe.
I was one of those infamous horse girls when I was younger, but didn’t have a horse. So, my sister and I would take saw horses our grandparents had, and use twine and horse blankets ( they used to have pack mules) and pretend like they were ponies lol. We also would make “stables” and “riding arenas” out of pine needles, just outlining the general shape they would be lol
My family had quite a few chest boards with a lot of extra peices. I gathered up all the pieces and sorted them by color. I would then line them up like a napoleonic or civil war style linebattle and roll marbles through each line to simulate artillery. Great times
I was an only child so I had quite a few. One of the largest and most expansive "games" was more just my imagination on permanent overdrive. I used to pretend my house was a town. My room was my house, my parents' room was theirs, the bathroom was the spa, the guestroom the hotel. The stairs and hallway was the train and the living room was the movie theater. We even had a fast food place (kitchen) and sit down restaurant (dining room). And of course when I got into Pokemon, my imaginary Pikachu came to live with me and we did battle in the hall.
There was also a tennis court with no nets at the park across the street so it was basically a fenced in concrete slab I could ride my bike around. I pretended it was a never-ending highway and the "exits" led to rest stops. It's really amazing how when you're a kid, you can take what is essentially nothing and turn it into a game.
We raced down our condo’s stairs in laundry baskets. The best part was the part was the position of the stairs was far from everything else so our neighbors never got angry
Jolly trolley. Basically, we had a plastic wagon, and we used to take turns being the passenger. When we were a passenger, everyone else tried creating a ride for us to go on. This usually involved telling stories, having a guy push the passenger around, and everyone else being characters in our jolly trolley experience. They almost always ended with the jolly trolley being pushed into a pool, for us to have to find a way to take it our before the next rider has a turn.
I played this game with my sister and cousins as a kid. we would put our shoes on a trampoline and jump around and dodge the shoes. If you got hit with one you were "out". We also played don't wake the dragon, popcorn, and this game called "Pain" where we would just wrestle.
When I was a kid in the eighties my neighbor's Grandma loves across the street from our two houses. She had like 30 acres, mostly woods with some old abandoned buildings scattered throughout. We used to dress in camo, put on those clear plastic safety goggles from wood shop and play a game we called one pump.
We would shoot at each other with BB guns, but you could only pump it once.
Except for Frances. When you got a shot at Frances, we all pumped like 5 times. Everyone hated Frances.
Hall soccer! Me and my friend used to play a miniature version of soccer in a wider-than average hallway. Some awesome highlights over the years we still reference today
I used to have a best friend that shared my level of imagination and we played all sorts of "stories". Basically we'd take a property we both really liked, each created a list of characters and then played it out. Most of them were like ongoing series; we had a Jurassic Park game about a bunch of people trying to survive the Dinosaurs (we loved playing this one in the rain, heavier the better for raptor attacks); our own Beast Wars transformers game and a Long Walk (short story by Stephen King we both loved) game where we'd walk back and forth in the backyard lawn for hours slowly whittling down our character lists. There were more but those were our favorite three.
Eventually we graduated into creating our entire own story and world, we made character sheets (physical appearance info, short back story and personality) and created a fantasy story for us to play through (we even had wooden swords my dad had made us. It was like larping through a D&D campaign except we had never heard of D&D nor larping).
Eventually we grew up and drifted apart sadly but that was a big boost to what would become my life dream of becoming a writer. The fantasy one we made up is the basis of the fantasy book I'm writing and hopefully one day will publish!
khoise · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Kick The Can”. Someone would kneel down by a can, it was a coffee can, small bucket, or anything else that would work. That person would count to 50 and everyone else would hide. Once they finished counting they would start looking for the others. They would try not to stray too far from the can because they needed to protect it. If they spotted someone they would have to jump over the can and yell “over the can on “kids name”. That person was then out and had to wait for everyone else to be out. The trick was to hide in a really good spot close to the can so that when the “it” person walked far enough away you could make a break for it and kick the can before they were able to jump over it and yell “over the can” on you. We would play this game for hours everyday of summer.
My brothers and friends would play a game called "Vampire Hunter". Played best with 4 (2 Vampires, 1 Vampire Hunter, and 1 Human). The human would hide in a pitch black room with the hunter. The 2 Vampires would then enter the room with the sole intent of turning the human. This consisted of pinning the human down and using two fingers as "fangs" to suck his blood. The Hunter's goal was to pin the vampires down and drive an imaginary stake through the heart of the vampires. In pitch black, someone always ended up getting hurt, yet all my friends wanted to do when they came over my house was play it. We still talk about it to this day and it must have been 15 years since we last played.
My cousins and I would play this advanced hide and seek game where the seeker has to find everyone and the hiders try to sneak up behind them and tap them on the head. If they got tapped on the head, the round would end. After 7 rounds of getting tapped on the head, the seeker would have to marry an ant as punishment. I grew up in rural Bangladesh.
My brother and I had a game called Boba Fett, and we’d play this with anyone who would come over to our house.
We had this massive, octagonal gymnastics foam thing with handles that you could sit inside when it was on its side (looked like a giant foam nut that would fit on a bolt). We would take a flat foam mat, and fit it through the opening, and when you did this it would look like a shitty version of Bob Fett’s Slave 1.
The goal of the game was that someone would sit in the Slave 1 on top of the horizontal foam mat, and everyone else would do their best to destroy it and knock the person out of it. Whoever was able to knock them out of the Slave 1, would get to go inside and be Boba Fett next.
We were so weak and shitty, that it was a legit struggle to knock over this massive foam device. Plus that person could do whatever they wanted to keep inside (balance with their feet, grip the handles, kick away whoever was trying to climb inside). We would do things like climb on top of it, whip balls at it (meteors), and hit it with sticks (our lightsabers). We liked to have fun.
Playfield- set of stairs with cement squares leading to sidewalk. Preferably 3 squares leading to the sidewalk representing 1st and 2nd base. The sidewalk is 3rd base, and grass is a foul ball and the street is a home run.
The batting player stands at the base of the stairs, winds up and throws a tennis ball on the stairs with the goal of having it bounce back to the street.
Defensive player stands on 3rd base and has to cstch the ball before it touches the ground.
Scoring worked like baseball with a similar inning system.
When I was a kid, I discovered that if I went out on a dry summer night and shone a flishlight around, I'd see blue and green sparks everywhere. Turns out, these were the reflections of wolf spiders' eyes. My mom and I would find a spark and follow it to look at the spider up close. We called it spider shining.
We used to play Spider-Man, we’d clime up the walls in the narrow basement hallway and hang parallel to the ceiling and wait for our “villain” (dad) to come past and then drop down and attack him.
We used to play D&D but irl. So instead of rolling the dice the game master ruled everything and we all acted our characters. We had made weapons and items and really pushed the role play aspect. It was really fun, but our school forbade the game because it was "too violent".
When my friend and I were 11 we started playing a game pretending we were witches. The intent was to trick my friend’s little sister, who was 8, that we really were witches. We made up different characters that would possess our bodies. Each character had their own voice, family, story line, etc. We created a witch academy, a language, tv shows, commercials, movies all from this witch world. We also did extravagant things to prove our powers, like climbing out of the second floor window and setting up magic tricks to make it seem like we had power. My friend’s little sister really believed we were witches and believed she was in a witch academy to become a witch. This continued for years. The story line continued to grow and her sister got married and had children in the witch world. We had an unhealthy level of control over her because she was afraid of the leader of the witch world (who would possess my body and talk through me). Her little sister became obsessed and after 3 years we were ready to end the game. We told her that the witch world was fake and at this point had to prove it was fake. She refused to believe it was fake and kept repeating, “you’re tricking me!” And was so angry. We were unable to convince her it was fake so we continued for another year. At this point she was 12 and we again tried to tell her it was fake. She didn’t believe it but we stopped playing the game and when she was a teenager she finally realized that she had been living in a false reality for years. She’s still bitter to this day.
TL;DR:
My friend and I created a extravagant witch world to trick her little sister. This continued for four years and when we tried to explain “witch world” was fake she refused to believe it.
In the 70's, my dad was involved in a lot of renos, and sometimes our carport became a holding place for Stuff. As kids we discovered that a sink cut-out from laminate counter tops slid really well on asphalt. So we'd sit on them and race down the hills. Or hammer nails into them and tie them behind our bikes. We caused a lot of damage to ourselves, a couple of cars, and the neighbour's house at the bottom of the hill.
Tiggy Football was the game we played on my schoolyard, and I havent heard anyone mention it so I'll do my best to describe the action that took place almost 20 years ago.
So, it's a game of football (soccer) with no ball. Standard tag rules apply, except the person was it was the person with the ball, so people were trying to get them.
Typical English schoolyard had a netball court painted onto it, so that was the field of play, the large D at either end was the box, and the goal was the width of the D on the by-line. (so pretty fucking wide).
2 teams, one person had the ball and you had to run through the goal. Simple. Quite impressive that we didn't break down into squabbling all the time due to tracking of the ball, it was pretty concise in fact.
Now, the best part of the game were free kicks. The game wasn't physical (we were playing on tarmac or laminate indoors so nobody wanted to go down) so we had a standard procedure of penalisation to discourage rough behavior.
When it came to the free kick, the entire team who had been awared the kick would come together and at this stage the ball would become hidden. When the free kick was taken, all the players would start moving, either attempting to mislead that they had the ball when they didn't or act inconspicuous to hide the ball when they were actually in possession. This lead to some epic moments of people sneaking through the team because the defenders were trying to coordinate who had been covered by defensive tagging or not.
Anyways, stupid game, but when you had no ball, its amazing what a group of 8 year olds would do to improvise.
A game that would now no doubt be banned is something that us school kids used to play every break time back in my school days from around 1955.
All kids owned penknives and the sharper and smaller the better for the game.
On smooth patches of mud in the playground we’d mark out a square (perhaps 18” x 18” or so) and one of two players would throw his knife (or drop it point first) so that the blade would stick in the soil. Following the line of the blade the square would be cut into two with the thrower claiming his chosen half – usually the larger half.
He’d then throw his knife into the smaller half, with the line of the blade again defining a line that would cut the ‘territory’ in two – the thrower again claiming the bigger portion.
With each throw one part of the line would be erased so that the ‘land’ was added to the bigger share.
Eventually he’d miss and then the second player would have to throw his knife to stick into his smaller patch of mud (to reclaim his territory) – if he failed to stick his knife in his land then he’d lose immediately.
Once having reclaimed his portion he’d be clear to repeat the knife-throwing to regain territory and hopefully to oust his opponent, with the battle ebbing and flowing for ages sometimes. The winner was the one who cut his opponents territory into a tiny piece, too small for the opponent to successfully spear with his own knife throw.
I never remember any game reverting to bloodshed despite us all owning knives and it was a great game of skill and concentration that kept us occupied for many a school break.
Me and my friends used to play "football soccer" when we were in elementary school during the breaks we had to play outside. Mostly during the winter though, the game was basically soccer but with could push and tackle each others since there was snow everywhere and that we thought we would be invisible or something because of it. Needless to say me and my friends never regretted our games.
PNWolf · 2 points · Posted at 15:42:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Remember when you were 6?
You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window, you were going to play doctor?
I grew up Mormon, and there were always lessons at church about how the “mobs” chased the Mormons out of Missouri. My best friend and I would make elaborate scenarios where we were running and hiding around the neighborhood to escape the “mob”. My friend was not Mormon and had no idea what the “mob” was. Maybe she thought we were pretending to escape the mafia?
I lived in a rural area growing up, and there were a couple other families with kids nearby. All the families had sit-on lawnmowers because we had big gardens. Everyone would drive them along the country lanes to my field, so there'd be 8ish of us and 3 mowers. We'd cut a race track in the long grass then have lawnmower races, or cut a road network and pretend we were driving cars through busy streets to run errands. We even incorporated them into a game of cops and robbers once where I was a robber in a stolen vehicle on the run and they were police cars trying to catch me. Amazing what your imagination can come up with!
Whoever won got to hit the loser/losers (respecting each hand played) in the 3 different ways.
If you lost, you get either:
-slapped on the wrist with two fingers for losing to scissors
-slapped on the inside of your forearm for losing to paper
-punched between the bicep/tricep for losing to rock.
Obviously, since I played it back in high school, no one held back. We'd cut class just to play it and sometimes there were 5 at the same time. Yeah, we walked away purple and red-raw all up our arms...
The "Pokemon battles" we had in primary school where we would just shout out random moves for our "pokemon" (other kids) to do and usually ended up with one of the Pokemon getting punched by the move tackle.
My dad and I used to play a game where we'd take turns hiding different dice around the house then the other would have to sneak through without breaking line of sight of the dice. If you walked in front of a die that you hadn't spotted, you took whatever value was on the face of the die in damage. We'd have a set amount of HP and if you took too much damage, your turn was over. It was super fun, super simple, and I had a blast playing it. Note - we used a full range of what I later learned were dice for D&D - D4 through D20. IIRC, my dad also had a D100 that would one-shot you if you didn't catch it first.
When I was a kid, maybe 6 or 6, we lived at the bottom of a hill in the desert. So whenever it would rain, it would rain pretty hard and the street gutters would fill up and get a good flow to them.
Me and my brother would find small sticks and drop them into the gutter at the top of the hill and race them down the hill.
The annoying car noise game. Seeing who can make the most irritating sound. One time my mum pulled over and made me walk the rest of the way home so I guess I won?
My neighbor and I played croquet, but thru the swingset in the backyard. Lots of high chips to get the balls up into the monkey bars and thru the swings etc.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't know if this counts cuz we were in high school, but...
Killer Golf
We did a golf unit in high school, not because we were hoity toity or anything, but because field space for PE classes was at a premium and golf putting could be practiced in the grassy medians by the parking lot. Half of our class stayed on one side of the building with it teacher, and the rest of us were trusted (why?!) to go around to the other side by ourselves. Well walking around putting whiffle balls at nothing in particular got real boring real fast, so we swapped to Killer Golf. You just hit whiffle balls at each other. If you hit someone you get a point. If you get hit you lose a point. Honor system scoring.
When even that got boring we'd switch to Golf Gardening. Hit tufts of grass with your golf club and try to get the mud and grass to stick to the side of the school. No scoring involved.
we played a game we called "Foot Hockey". Basically hockey rules, but with a tennis ball and we kicked it around. It was a weird amalgamation of rules and equipment from varying sports.
Goalies would don a baseball mitt, or they could use their jacket if they totally sucked. They could toss the ball if they saved it.
Middle school is when we found out not everyone plays this game, since we combined junior schools together. Then Foot Hockey took over middle school.
Some of us didn't get picked for teams (myself included), and we ended up playing Foot hockey in 2 ft. high snow in the recess fields. Turns out that that was way more fun, and the player base got split between the two games.
i would stay at my buddy zacs house and his big brother would watch us. so that meant we could do whatever we wanted. it was sweet.
so what we did was play the car game. his house was by this huge old church where you could run from the street and hide in its shadows pretty quickly.
the game consisted of throwing paper airplanes with taco bell packets in them at cars so hopefully ... i dunno they would run them over or something... i think it was being out at 2-4 in the morning that was the fun part.
anyways we got the police called on us i remember. we told them we were just playing around so nothing happened.
I lived next door to two of my cousins so we made up all kinds of shit. A game that sticks out most is one of us would sit on the couch and throw one of those plastic quarter machine aliens somewhere onto the living room floor. The rest of us has to crawl around blindfolded until someone found it. Cannot believe there were no concussions.
My friends and I used to play a game we made up called assassin: there would be about 5-7 of us who played at once. We would all stand in a circle and everyone had to slap the person standing to their left.
We would agree on boundaries (usually a large playground or whatever) and everyone would get 60 seconds before starting.
Once the game starts, a natural flow would start where you're chasing somebody while running away from somebody else. If you got slapped, you would tell the slipper who your target was, and they would become their new target. If slapped you would sit out for 5-10 minutes before re entering the game and picking a random person as your new target.
It was pretty insane cardio, and the place would usually played it was at this huge 3 story wooden playground at night. There were some badass moments of jumping or climbing huge gaps to get away from somebody. In hide sight it wasn't the most safe game, but boy was it a blast.
brfoss · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a newly constructed condo. There was a 2-story pile of dirt nearby. My buddy and I would grab refrigerator boxes from the new construction, haul them up the hill, climb inside, and roll down the hill. Repeat until box demolished. Switch to next box.
my Friends mom and I would gather up all the hangers in the house and stand at the top of the stairs and call my friend over, We would then proceed to launch all the hangers down the stairs causing an avalanche of hangers on my friend.
Did anyone play "Town" as a kid? Our bikes were our cars, rocks were our money. Our garages in the neighborhood were stores. I specifically remember writing down speed limits on the road with chalk. It was a good time. Except for that one time I went over the speed limit and got a ticket.
In high school my friends and I would play a game called suicide. Basically you would throw a ball against a wall and you would have to catch it. If you dropped it everyone would start to punch you until you touched the wall.
Stress Ball. We had to throw a stress ball into one of those huge plastic pretzel jars on the floor from like 8 feet away. Scoring was baseball style—9 innings for each side, 1 point for each make, and 3 outs (misses). If the ball hit the lip but didn't go in, it didn't count as an out, unless the other player (standing behind the jar) caught it before it hit the floor.
Even as an adult, this game is impossibly hard because the opening in the jar is barely larger your average stress ball. About half of all games went to extra innings tied 0-0. Eventually we ditched extra innings in favor of a shootout where we progressively moved closer to the jar. There's nothing more embarrassing than standing right over it, dropping the ball straight down, and still missing.
We played Roofball. We had a trampoline and a Nerf football, so the game was to throw the ball up onto the roof from the trampoline and try to be the one who came down with it as it feel off the roof. The roof was L-shaped, and you know how footballs take weird bounces, so there was a decent amount of randomness with where it would come down. Obviously this is a no holds barred type of situation, we're all trying to get as much air as possible so as to either reach the ball first or midair tackle the one who did. You only get the point of you can actually hang onto the ball long enough to re-establish yourself, there's no whistle to blow the play dead or whatever so just getting the ball is at most half the battle.
When I was a kid, I LOVED the Splinter Cell games. Only problem was that there was this super cool multiplayer mode in the later games, but they removed it from the GameCube versions that I got. 12-year-old me didn't let this stop him so my friends and I played "Splinter cell" at my house all the time, which was basically a real life version of Spies vs Mercs from the game. The spies would 'spawn' outside my house, and would have to extract a 'package' inside the house. Obviously we had to make a bunch of tweaks to make it fair, like making there be a lot more Spies than Mercs, but it actually worked pretty well!
Brother at the bottom of the stairs, me at the top. Hide from me throwing a spanner at him under a quilt. Yes... this ended exactly as you think. He had his head glued in hospital. Also used to play a game called "roofy". I know how it sounds, but it was gang up tig on empty derelict houses roofs. Once my mate fell through the roof, 1st floor and landed in the living room. Actually was unharmed. I now realiae how dangerous these games were. All we have to show for it is a few scars and wonderful memories!
We called it Quiddich because we had read/watched Harry Potter, but it was really just a simplified soccer with the fences in our backyard as goals, and one of those huge walmart balls for $2.50.
Okay so this one is kinda cool and I don’t know of anyone else who plays this one. So basically on any car ride if you focus your vision right, it will look like every speck on the window splits in two. What I would do is play a game where I would pick a speck and try my best for the speck to touch the air and only the air. I’d blink my eyes to “teleport” it either above or below power lines, or straight past the telephone poles. If your speck touched anything, find another and play again.
Horse Apple Tag in the creek. You grab those big green apple looking things and throw them at each other while running through a creek of nasty water. It was pain. It was pleasure.
We would shoot a potato straight up in the air from a potato launcher and just hit the ground and lay on our bellies waiting for the potato to land. Whoever got hit, lost.
Me my brother and my sister played this game where we made some fake money, devided that money equally and then called dibs on the rooms of the house. For example somebody got the living room where the tv was and called it the cinema. If you wanted to watch something you had to pay. Someone else got the kitchen, for every meal there was a "price". And so on..
We used to play it 24/7 for weeks and see who made the most money out of all. Usually it was my brother maybe because he was older.
My sister and I played "Car." We stood or knelt on the couch looking out the window (which was behind the couch), and if a car went by we'd yell "CAR!" and duck down so no one looking in the window could see us. Then when we thought the car had gone by, we'd pop back up and look out the window again.
At school me and my friends used to belly flop, among other things, from 8 feet up onto snow... Sometimes the snow was hard, sometimes it was soft but we sure didn't care
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The cousins and I would make a mini hotel in our grandmother’s playroom, making a triple decker bed with someone sleeping under the air hockey table, someone on top of it and me, being the eldest, on a table we’d prop on top of the hockey table (the safety here was questionable, thank god the parents rarely checked up on us). We’d make a fake currency out of sticky notes and trade the toys and teddy bears. Good days, thanks for the childhood nostalgia OP!
I have 8 brothers. We made up a game where one would stand at the bottom of the steps and the other at the top. The one at the bottom had the ball and the one at the top was the “target”. The one at the top would start on one side of the hall and call out an animal name (turtle) at which point they had to mimic the animal and cross the doorway at the tops of the steps. Upon crossing the doorway, the bottom brother’s goal was to hit the top brother with the ball- winner winner. No one ever hit the Cheetah.
Army. Basically we’d dress in full garage-sale-purchased camo gear (rag tag pieces of actual military surplus and hunting gear). Then we’d head to the woods for some epic hide and seek action
In preschool, my friend and I would re-enact Alice in Wonderland. But we would only get up to the scene where she gets big and cant fit in the door. We never picked up where we left off the next and would just start over the next day.
My sister and I (F) would take turns tying eachother up and trying to houdini out of it.
Also we had a "slave for a day" thing where usually it was not the game itself- it was usually used as a bargaining chip. Essentially I would be my sister's bitch (getting her drinks etc) for a day for whatever reason, usually for losing a different game.
Fast forward 20 years -I'm highly submissive in everything I do -.-
My best friend and I would play “mermaid” in the pool, which besides the obvious awful wiggly mermaid swimming we did, we also would do regular old mermaid chores like laundry, meaning we would take clothes from inside her house, get them wet in the chlorine pool, scrape them against a large decor boulder at the edge of the pool “to clean them,” all the while humming and singing “mermaid songs.”
Her mom was understandably pissed when she realized that we were destroying the family’s clothing in our imaginary lagoon.
Doorknob
Basically if you ever farted around friends and didn't call safety immediately someone else could call doorknob and you were free game to get punched, tackled, hit, whatever until you touched a doorknob.
This resulted in many fun memories. One time we were all at a friend's house sleeping on the living room floor. Early in the morning someone let out a squeeker and tried to roll over and go back to sleep. I called doorknob softly and the whole room erupted. The fart criminal tried to get up and run upstairs to the only doorknob in the house (front door) as everyone else grabbed a leg or hand or whatever and held him down and punched him for a few minutes.
Occasionally we'll all be together and someone will drop ass and get a doorknob called and a group of grown men go chasing each other around the bar or wherever.
My dad bought a shed for our backyard when I was in third grade I thought that it would be a good idea to name it “Aunt Millie’s Shed” and invite my best friend over to hide and gossip amongst the lawnmower, weed clippers, and gasoline tanks.
My backyard is also lined with large rocks/boulders that had appealing, shiny “crystals” or geodes exposed in the boulders. And my shed conveniently also provided a wooden hammer and a sledgehammer.
So every day after school, my best friend and I would go outside with those hammers and pound the shit out of those boulders to gradually hack off chunks of pretty “crystals” wearing sunglasses and aprons for “protection.”
We called it “mining.” My parents called it “natural selection.”
Along with my younger brother, my friend, and my friend's younger sister, I used to play what we called the Village Game. We'd each choose a profession, like smith or farmer, and then act out daily chores. We had an economy going too, where we'd trade our products or services to each other. So basically a somewhat medieval fantasy inspired role playing game. This was around the same time we all played Runescape together too.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This answer is gonna be buried, but that's too bad cuz my older brother and I would play the weirdest fucking "games" when we were kids. There were so many. I'll just describe two of them.
First, when we were really young (I was like 5 or 6, he's a couple years older) we would play a game he made up called "Cinnamon". Basically, how it worked is that we would sit across from each other on a couch facing one another. We would clasp hands and each of us would put our right foot into the other's crotch. We'd then pump our feet into the other person's nuts while chanting "cinnamon, cinnamon, cinnamon..." and the first person to start laughing would be the loser. I don't think Cinnamon got played too many times, actually, but I've told so many people about it that it's attained a bit of a legendary status with my friend group. One night at the bar there was a big group of us on the patio and a rousing game of Cinnamon got started amongst my coworkers. Some random stranger was watching and asked what the hell we were doing. When he heard the rules of the game he decided he wanted to play, too! It was surreal watching a bunch of fully-grown people that were supposedly adults all sitting around chanting "cinnamon" while pumping away at each other's crotches with their feet.
Another one that I remember playing quite a few times was "Catch 'em by Instinct," which was closer to an actual game than "Cinnamon" ever was. We'd play this when I was like 11 or 12. The way that Catch 'em by Instinct worked is that we would take our two gerbils (Laverne and Shirley) out of their cage and set them loose in the computer room. We'd then turn off all the lights so it was pitch black in there. Then I would crawl around on my hands and knees searching for the gerbils and try to catch them. Occasionally, if there was too much of a lull in the action, my brother would flip the light switch on just to laugh at me with my ear pressed into the ground trying to listen to where the gerbils were. I got bit a lot, but at the end of the day it was a surprisingly fun game.
Other classic games include:
"One Man to Beat... Mike Tice!", "Sorry Sir, Real Fur", "Army Dog", "Killer Grandma", "The Forest of Olivia" and many others.
Me and my two siblings used to play kickbutt on our trampoline. We'd spend hours just kicking at each other, trying to land a butt shot. Sometimes keeping score, sometimes not. Surprisingly, it only resulted in one broken arm after three years.
We had some (albeit less violent) trampoline games too.
In the summer we’d fill up a water balloon, place it on the trampoline, and start jumping. If it burst on you, you were out. We’d continue with another water balloon until there was only one person left. The “harder” version of the game involved several balloons at once.
We also played one in which one of us would curl up into a ball in the centre of the trampoline. Everyone else would jump around you until you couldn’t hold yourself curled up anymore.
Oh we definitely played played the second game you mentioned, I just can't remember what we called it. Trampolines were endless fun, and sweet to take naps on after I got older!
Wasnt so much a game as a different way I used a toy. All through my elementary school we had the wooden shape block things. All the other kids I saw would just kinda stack them. I would take them and lay them flat in these giant symmetrical as possible mosaics. One time a teacher took a picture of one and hung it on the wall for the rest of the year. I was pretty proud of that lol
My brother and I would play ‘Tarzanning,’ where one was a movie director explaining a very difficult action set piece: now you have to swing over this ravine, then fight these crocodiles en then rescue the maiden, etc.
The other was an idiotic actor playing Tarzan, who would inevitably, halfway through the course (the swing in my parents garden), mess up and feed the maiden to the crocodiles and fall into the ravine or something. The director them had a breakdown and yell about how many meters of film had been ruined.
We usually played it waiting for our parents to get the car out of the garage if we had to go somewhere, so it was a great way to pass a few minutes.
I played the part of Henry, an obedient dog, while my sister was the master. I'd fetch her toys and bring her refreshments while panting and wiggling my ass like a dog.
“Musquatch”: basically a game of make-believe where you could be anyone from any show, movie, game, etc. and you had to commit to the character and blend the worlds of all the difference characters and play out how they would interact. It was really fun until we all got greedy and started making lists of who could play which characters... it ruined the flow of things.
It was basically tag+punching. We all pretended we had Wolverine claws, so if you punch the other buddy in the leg, they can't use the leg anymore. Punch him in the arm, he's a one-armed man. If you lose all your arms and legs you "die" and had to run to the jungle gym to be "reincarnated" so you can play again.
It was 30-ish years ago and I still remember a kid named Matthew punching REALLY hard.
Whenever I went to this one friend’s house (between the ages of 5-8) we’d always play this game called The Claw with his dad. Essentially we’d just run around the yard at night trying to avoid “The Claw” which was my friend’s dad who would tickle us when caught. He’d play into it the character a lot and it was possibly my favorite game at the time until I got a concussion on my friend’s 8th birthday right before the biggest Claw game yet. I never did play it after that...
We use to play "The Bomb" in my pool with my brothers and neighbors.
Everyone starts outside of the pool and jumps at the same time. You have to get out as fast as possible and tag the other players by splashing them when jumping in the pool. When tagged, a splashed player had to go in the middle of the pool where they couldn't stand and count to ten. If splashed when counting, add 10. You can put your head underwater as much as you want.
The stairs were a "safe zone" where you could get out without getting tagged (but couldn't stay there more than 5 seconds), or you could try getting out as fast a possible from one of the sides.
We got extremely good at splashing people from across the pool, jumping feet forward and hitting the water at almost a horizontal angle, kicking water in a line. We invented so many different technique to splash people in front of you, behind you, on the sides, and so many acrobatics would come out of it.
My favorite part was when 3 -4 people ended in a Mexican standoff outside of the pool until some ran like crazy and pulled the trigger. It was a really intense game we would play for hours.
Not sure my dad enjoyed topping the pool of every day though :)
It was like hide and seek mixed with literally kicking a can.
Over the 4th of July week, our family would all pile into the minivan and head to the family cottage in Connecticut. Every summer we went and every summer we played kick the can. We had to make sure we had a giant can of beans or tomatoes when we showed up because that was the can we used for the whole week.
The person who was it basically counted as everyone ran and hid. If they saw someone they had to run and touch the can and call the person out. If someone ran by and kicked the can, everyone was free. The round ended when everyone was caught.
I think it was just another way to keep the kids busy and tired for an afternoon, but it worked.
Lived in a gang-infested neighborhood. The other kids and I would play "drive-by", where we would hit the deck any time a passing car would cruise past.
"hunt". One kid would be the fox, the rest of the kids would be hunters with airsoft guns. The fox would get a head start and run into the woods while the hunters tried to "kill" him. The fox was allowed to tackle hunters, set traps, and scheme with other hunters. It's amazing no one got hurt
Fisher price great adventures castle. My god the memories
Vaedur · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our kitchen had two entrances. We’d block them with couch cushions and the four kids (with no parental supervision) would divide up all the shoes and we’d chuck them back and forth at each other ! Shoe fight!!
My friends had a dogeball and a trampoline with a net around it. We would throw the ball in and all start jumping. We would try to not get hit by the ball. We would also attempt to make it bounce in a way that it would attack others. You couldn’t touch it at all otherwise you were out.
My cousin and I LOVED Yu-Gi-Oh we were little during its prime. We each had multiple decks and dual disks. We would run around my grandmas house during the summer pretending we were in the shadow realm fighting off people. The worst when one of us “turned evil” and we had a dual to end it all!
On the days I was alone I would go and find a decent wand size stick and pretend I was in the Harry Potter world. I would run around my yard shouting spells and acting like I was apart of the dark lords army. My imagination used to be so big when I was younger. Now it’s just gray and dull.
These are the days I relive in my head over and over as I work my 8:30-5PM job.
In my old house we had a long hallway leading to the master bedroom and my dad used to make me an obstacle course by turning furniture over and setting things in a certain place so I’d have to run and jump over or around them as fast as I could. It was so much fun and a great way to keep an only child occupied! Good memories :)
Velociraptor attack: requires 5-30 kids and a platform with a ramp
One kid is designated the 'velociraptor' (dinosaur noises non-optional). The remaining participants stand on a raised surface which must have a ramp. The velociraptor starts at the bottom of the ramp and must drag any of the victims from the platform to the bottom of the ramp. Once successful the person who is dragged off becomes the new velociraptor
Me, my sister, and my dad used to play a game we called Steamroller. We'd all lay down wherever we were and just roll over each other. It sounds dumb now, but damn was it fun.
Cows in the Cemetery. We traveled a lot, so to keep us busy we played cows in the cemetery. Each person counts the cows on their side of the car and when you pass a cemetery on your side you start counting from zero again. Kept us occupied for hours when we were little. FYI, Wisconsin has lots of cows and a fair number of cemeteries as well.
You hit a a stick of wood, that's raised on one side, with a bat to throw it in the air, them hit at again whilst being in the air as far as you can.
The a member of the competing team would have to go fine the stick, take it back to where it is whilst running and screening Qariiiiiii... At the same time.
Failing to throw the stick too far would make the team lose a point
Not being able to keep screaming Qariiii while running would also result in a lost point.
I’m super late to the party, but oh well. Hoping someone else may come along with a similar story.
My siblings and I used to play a game we called “Monster”. We would play it outside when our parents had guests over, since it requires multiple cars to be in our driveway.
The whole premise was a game of tag, and the “Monster” was it. You stayed within the driveway looking for the other players. But the other players had the benefit of being able to look underneath the cars in order to see where the Monster was and stay away (The Monster was “too big” to be able to lay down and get back up so they weren’t allowed to see under the cars).
This lead to some crazy tactics like the Monster hiding behind the wheels of cars or holding themselves up on the back bumper so the other players couldn’t find them. Some of the best fun we had growing up was playing this silly little game.
A variation of mumblety peg. It involved two people alternatively tossing a pocket knife into the ground (sometimes stupid close to feet). The game is mentioned in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer; Detective". Can't see parents today allowing what we did in the 1950's.
My twin sister and I would always play "that game".
It was basically just a make believe game that we would pick up and play where we last left off. We both had husbands and children and it would make supermarket and DIY store trips with our parents fun, as we would pretend we were shopping for our own "family".
We must have kept it going for years and I still remember that she had twin boys and one of them was allergic to onions. Ill have to ask her how much she remembers. We are 22 now.
One time during dinner, a pharmaceutical ad played on the TV and when they listed off "Loose oily stools and the inability to control them" as a possible side effect, we all lost our shit laughing at it.
Since then, it became something of a game to work that phrase into conversation during dinner. Whoever got it in first was a winner, but credit was also given for the most creative use.
My Dad and I came up with a game called “slappy ball”. It involved a slightly under inflated soft bouncy ball, I think from a fisher price basketball game, and sitting cross legged in my room, slapping the ball around the room as hard as possible. The ball was very soft so nothing broke, but you weren’t allowed to get up to hit it. You could only hit from a sitting position or a lean. Eventually my brother got old enough for it to become a 3 person game and it was fucking chaos. How we never broke anything is beyond me.
RULER. My cousin and I would take turns hiding army/action/cowboy/etc. figures in a bedroom without the other person looking—using rumpled blankets and any other items as hiding places. The rule was that once the room was “set,” you couldn’t change it. Then we’d use a ruler to play. A figure could go one ruler length, while a figure on horseback could go two ruler lengths, and you would take turns striking down your opponent. That’s why it was best to stay hidden. The winner was the “ruler.” I’m still impressed that a couple of 7-year-olds came up with that double entendre.
My sisters and I would play "butt-tag". We played it on a playground installation thing (idk the word) and were not allowed to touch the ground. We made a couple stepping stones with our shoes and that was it. It made for a fun game, because when you're only allowed to tag on the behind, it becomes a lot harder, but because we couldn't touch the ground you could get trapped on the ends... It basically meant we were climbing all over the place, trying not to get tagged.
There are4 siblings total, and when our parents were gone we would go into their room and play "Pigshark". 3 of us would get on the bed, turn off the lights and close all windows, and the 4th one is the "Pigshark" making snorting sounds and circling the bed on all fours or crouching in the dark trying to "get" you. Whoever is "got" is the next Pigshark. A mix between tag, hide and seek, and that crocodile teeth game.
Used to live near a farm and the farmer was a close family friend. My buddies and I would go out in the field after the hay was baled with paintball guns. Now this is when we were about 10-12 years old and the hay bales were over 6 feet tall.
The game started out with everyone but one person on bales and you had to jump from bale to bale. If you fell off the bale the person on the ground could unload the paintball gun on you until you got back up on a bale. And if you stayed on a bale for longer than 10 seconds you would get shot until you jumped to a new bale.
My siblings and I would play "dog catcher." We would take the dog leash (the basic kind of thick study fabric, not a fancy retractable kind with a super thin line) and loop the length of it through the handle making a sort of lasso trap. The catcher would hide around the corner of the couch and the rest of us dogs would take turns crawling on all fours and "accidentally" step in the leash trap with a hand or foot. The catcher would try to pull the trap, tightening it. If it caught the dog's "paw," the dog would try to crawl away while the catcher tried to hog tie the dog with the rest of the leash. If you were caught, you became the new catcher.
Looking back I'm surprised no one ever broke or sprained a wrist or ankle.
We used to play the airplane game where we would sit on the stairs and pretend each step was our own little seat and put books and blankets and literally just sit there for hours at a time. Mad what entertains you as a kid.
My grandma used to hide change in her yard and have us go around and dig it up. That shit was so fun
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Wars
Three or four of us 10-year olds would block out as much light as possible in the house - shut all the drapes, stack stuff up against the edges, etc... Then we would grab all the socks in the house: Dad's, sisters', brother's, mine. Over 100 paired socks were balled up and then divided between us.
Then war ensued! Literally for hours we would play hide and seek as we hurled socks at each other in the dark. Alliances were made, tables were bumped into, kids fell down stairs, balled-up socks in odd places were found by parents......
My brother and I would take baths together and put a wash cloth over our face and have the other person pour water over our face until you either started choking or passed out. I'm pretty sure this is just water boarding.
One of us would be blindfolded and the other would give a taste of something from the spice cabinet and try to guess what it was. The spices would start out tasty, but would get worse each round. It would always end when someone was forced to eat unsweetened cocoa powder.
I just remembered another one. We would put the upper half of our bodies in pillow cases (with the pillow still inside) and wrestle each other. It was quite challenging as you couldn’t see and had no use of your arms. The 1980s.
We played a game called "Blind Chicken". It was played on a jungle gym where the ground was lava for everyone except the person who was 'it'. Whoever was 'it' had to track down and tag someone, sort of like extreme marco polo.
My friend had a big backyard with a fair number of trees, so every time there was a group sleepover at his place we'd play "blind tag" - the tagger had to wear one of those old school sleep masks and try and tag kids who could see, but avoid the trees. Naturally, everyone else was trying to lure the blindfolded kid into the trees at a full run. It usually worked.
Genuinely amazed none of us ever got seriously injured.
Basically one person had a pillowcase over their head and their movement was restricted to being on their knees. Then everyone else playing had to stop the amoeba man from winning- which he did by tackling one of the opponents of the almighty amoeba man. The amoeba man's combatants were armed with pillow cases in which they beat the amoeba man with to prevent him from winning. They won when the amoeba man gave up. It was kind of sadistic looking back haha.
We also played a game called "spooky babushka"
There was a billiards room in my parents basement which had nothing but a pool table in the middle of it and it was the first room as you entered the basement. We would turn out all the lights and I had gotten this strobe light from school so we set it on a slow setting. The 'babushka' covered themself with a blanket and would start halfway on the stairs. Then they would enter the pool room and try to tag someone who was doing their best to avoid them. If you got tagged, you became the babushka. The strobe light definitely made the game much more intense and horrifyingly funny. I damaged my parents house alot playing this one.
My back yard had a big ass pine tree in it, and a trampoline. Me and my neighbor buddy would go around and collect all the pine cones from the yard and cover the trampoline in them. Like, cover. 100%. We would then get on the trampoline and start jumping. The game was to avoid being struck by flying pine cones and avoid landing on any, until they we're all back on the ground. We got really good at it.
"Baby Nightmare" On a trampoline, you and your siblings/friends are all babies, and you all are in your mother's stomach. You have to name and eat foods as they fall from the sky. There's not really an endgame, it's just jumping around and having fun.
Digga Digga Digga. We would remove all cushions, pillows, and blankets and place them in a choke point or confined place in the house (usually just the hallway) and then crawl around and try and get through them all. Also Suffakatie, where we would wrestle my friends sister Kate.
I’m cracking up at how lame this sounds, but my best friend and I used to have this game we called “popular girls”. We pretended we were college-aged girls and we would swear and “smoke” k’nex pieces behind the bookshelf in our classroom. Whenever we had to pause the game to discuss what’s going on we would say “PG out” and “PG in” to resume the game. Quite hilarious to think about! We also had british accents for some reason during the game.
We had a game where wed make a custom playing stick out of popsicle sticks and essentially play hockey on the carpet on our knees using a ping pong ball as the puck. Because the "hockey sticks" were custom made from popsicle sticks they were personalized and didnt always take the same form, so on top of the game being fun it was exciting when someone revealed their new stick
"The Sock Game": me and my little brother used to play a game in our upstairs hallway where my room's doorframe and his room's door frame were on opposite ends of the hall so each doorway was a goal and we would play goalie and try to throw rolled up socks into eachother's "goals"
Dptwin · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We all pretended we were yoshis I was a red one, my brother was blue, and my other friends were the rest of the colors. It was so freaking fun. We pretened to go on missions and rescue peach etc. I miss those time :(
In elementary school, we would play this game call 'watermelons' on the playground. one person would sit at the end of the slide and one person would slide down and try to knock him/her off. if the person couldn't knock them off then they would stay there as another person slid down. so many of us got injured playing the game that is was banned during recess (we still played it though).
Huckle buckle beanstalk. One person was "it" and they had an item that everyone knew, and they had to hide it somewhere in the room or house. Everybody else had to sit with their eyes closed until the person said they were ready. Then the person who was "it" sat and waited while everyone hunted for the item. When someone found it, they couldn't move it or reveal it's location, they just had to go back to where "it" was sitting and declare, "huckle buckle beanstalk!" The last person to find the item was the new "it".
The quiet game. He'd put pieces of paper on the floor and make us stand on them and be silent. The first person to move or make a sound lost. Decades later, I was living with my sister's family looking for work, and was riding with her and my two nephews in the car one day when they got into a big fight in the back seat. I asked them if they'd ever played the quiet game. When they said no, I said, "the first one to make a sound loses. 1, 2, 3, go!" and they shut up. My sister said, "I can't believe that worked." My grandfather was pretty clever.
I don’t know how or why my brother and I began calling it that at the age of 3 and 5 respectively, but we just ran around (naked if that wasn’t already clear) pretending to be superheroes.
Me and my sister had a game called “Sandwich” that was played on our parents bed, where of us would put a pillow over our head, and the other would jump onto the pillow while yelling “Sandwich!”
We were little enough that it was funny more than painful, but our parents still made us quit after they walked in
The “Hunger Games”. The whole neighborhood would gather nerf weapons, tennis ball(grenades), and the prized foam axe which would kill anyone immediately. The teams were divided into big kids and little kids and each gathered weapons from the cornucopia to put in their stash. We played this game for hours during the summer.
No matter what we called the game that night, if it involved running, hiding, counting then finding and tagging someone out, you could always be safe if you reached "gool" (pronounced like ghoul). It was the safe space you had to reach where you couldn't be tagged out and lose the game. I still have no idea why we called it "gool". Some weird kid version of "goal" I guess.
Roof ball. My siblings and I would take like a kick ball or something and just either throw or kick the ball over the roof of our house and we’d just keep going back and forth with it.
me and my brother still play "doorknob" if you fart you have to say "safety" before someone says "doorknob", if someone says "doorknob" anyone in the room can punch you until you touch a doorknob
In elementary school our playground had one of those tube slides. We would have one person block the entrance and one person block the exit at the bottom of the slide while the rest of us were crammed inside. We played this until our principal told us over the morning announcements to stop playing "that dangerous slide game".
My brother and I played this game called “Paper Pokémon” when we were in elementary school. I would draw an array of Pokémon, cut them out, and we would use them as dolls of some sort and make up our own adventures. Nowadays the hundreds of drawings are put away in a box somewhere in the house, so that right there is a ticket to nostalgia if I can find it!
So, when I was 9 or so, my buddies and I were sitting in my parents basement watching TV. We got to talking about Runescape (this was back in like 2004), and one of us said "hey, let's do Runescape in real life!"
So we ran over to our neighbors place (his backyard was all woods) and we starting acting out stuff. In modern terms, we started LARP'ing without even knowing what the hell that meant. We made up our own skills, lore, magic, political dynamics. We even had this chalk board that we wrote all our skills and stats on.
Thinking back on it now, it was pretty damn awesome. Coming home after school, ditching my backpack for a sword-like stick, and charging off to Billy's house to join my party in our next adventure. My version was called "Castle Life", and Billy's was "Medieval Madness". MM was the spiritual successor of CL and by all measures a vast improvement. I'm pretty sure I've still got the maps and books we wrote sitting somewhere at my parents house.
Hide and Seek with water balloons at night. There was about a dozen of us kids ranging from about 10 to 15 and we lived on a dead-end street. We split into two teams. One team had a bucket of water balloons and had to wait in the home-base house for like 5 minutes while the other team hid. There were limits on how far up the street one was allowed to hide, and only front yards and porches were allowed. Then the "it" team took their water balloons and would "sweep" up the block trying to find anyone who was hiding. If you made it past the "it" team, and back to the mailbox at the home-base without getting wet, you win. A lot of fun sneaking up and down the block trying to avoid the lights and making noises, and the inevitable dash for the box only to be thwarted at the last moment by someone "camping" near the base. Good times. Did this for many summers until the older kids grew out of it.
I’m bad at articulating words but when I was younger me and my friends had this game we played at school during recess. We called it ‘war’ and basically it was what fourth graders think real war is - we had areas on the playground that was our ‘turf’ that we fought over, we very frequently had ‘prisoners of war’ where we dragged someone from the other team to our ‘turf,’ etc.
Another game I had was that me and my friends came up with this game where we had ‘bad commercials’ - highlights included ‘playground where the gravity is reversed’ and ‘plastic surgery guaranteed to go terribly wrong’
When I was in fourth grade we played a roleplaying game before any of us knew what roleplaying games were. We had no dice (not that we knew we were supposed to have them) so basically if the guy running the game said you succeeded, you succeeded; if he said you failed, you failed.
Because we were nine, the story was incredibly bizarre. We began as anthropomorphic squirrel mercernaries, but soon were given headbands that gave us mystical powers, transported into a dimension of stick figures and pens that could make what they drew real, became involved in wars that pitted various elements against eachother, and finally became the gods of our own elements. I remember being particularily proud of myself when I, a general in the army of fire, defeated my friend, a general in the army of light. He betrayed me and attacked me by surprise, but I routed his forces and eventually killed him in single combat.
Our game ended when it was revealed that we had been mental patients in an insane asylum the whole time. Our "game master" wanted us to keep playing, but being mental patients wasn't nearly as fun as being gods.
We had a very large ditch in front of our house. My brother and I would run up and down it as quickly as possible without coming up to road level or falling all the way down and getting wet. Not sure how we didn't break our ankles.
“Flashlight Tag”. Our house was on a dead-end street. All the kids would gather at dusk to play flashlight tag when darkness fell in the summer. Depending on how many people would show up, the property radius could be 4-6 houses. You had to shine the flashlight on the person to ‘tag’ them, since you couldn’t always access where they were. Trees, roofs, sheds, all fair game. My favorite was the roof, because you could watch the seeker, and duck behind a chimney if they were on to you.
When I was about 5, I got into the routine of making sure the sheets on my bed were perfect while I was in it. I would imagine that an alligator named Ollie would come and make sure that my sheets had no wrinkles after I tucked myself into bed. He was there to help me, because if he didn't point out wrinkles for me to fix, something very terrible was going to happen.
It started out as a personal game, and ended with a lifetime of weird OCD behaviors. Brains are weird.
My siblings and I would 'Call Names'. You say a person's name (celebrity, neighbor, historical figure... whatever) and then someone else responds with a name that has something in common with the first name. Then another player says a third name that has something in common with the second name, and so on.
If anyone challenges the connection between two names, one of two things will happen: if the person being challenged makes a compelling case for the connection (e.g., Uncle Matt and D.B. Cooper [they both took the money and disappeared]; Dad and Bo Jackson [they both think they know everything]) then they get a point; if their connection is judged by the group to be crap (e.g., Ghandi and our Pakistani neighbor, or Mom and an elementary school teacher ["they both make me do homework"]) then the challenger gets a point.
My friends and I started this game when we were in middle school. What you would do is make the gun with your hand and “pew pew” at someone who is playing the game. The object is to get shots off without them noticing..scoring you a point for each “pew” you did. However many “pews” you do, they have to counter it with a “Ching” and a flat hand. Like a deflection. The game ended the very next day when one of my friends hit the score limit of 50.. Now, it’s an ongoing game for our entire lives with no score haha. We are all 25+ years of age and still do this in public.
Nyxaea · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother and cousins used to play a very in-depth camping game, we’d set up an actual tent in the hall, turn the lights off and close the curtains, and then sit around the campfire (which was the nightlight plugged into the wall) and ‘cook’ our dinner of crisps and sweets in plastic pans. We’d ‘sleep’ in the tent also go on adventures around the house, such as caving under the table and climbing the waterfall on the stairs, it was my all time favourite childhood game.
We took "giant pennies" which for those who don't know what they are, basically 4" metal discs made to look like a coin and rolled them across the field to each other. You had to catch the penny before it fell over or the team rolling would get a point. You could catch with your hand but most people used their ball cap to catch it. The pennies would also take crazy bounces so you had to be careful not to get hit in the face. They were also weighted differently so you could put different spins or speeds on it like you would for selecting different clubs in golf. We played with four at a time and you could either throw them all at once or one at a time. One person could throw all four or you could split them among active players. Lots of strategy but super competitive and fun.
“The Baby Game” - when i was really young, sometimes after i bathed i would ask mom to play the baby game, and she would wrap me in a towel and carry me into the living room and act like she just found a baby on our doorstep. never realized how odd that was until writing it out like that
“Ham” — my brother and I would each take one of the two couches that faced each other on opposite sides of the living room. We would get a handful of soft balls/beanbags and the object was to throw them all into the other person’s territory and leave none on your own side. I’m sure there were other rules, but the most important rule was that if you accidentally hit the other person in the head, you had to turn around and give them a free shot at nailing you in the butt with one of the beanbags. (Hence the name Ham)
A group of 10-20 kids had a large Swedish playground in our park. This is NYC too. We would play a game called Alive, we would have a group on the top of the "fort" defending while others tried to get to the top. You stayed alive by not letting the invaders drag you down. Lol. Lots of bruises playing this game
In first grade, we made up a game and called it ‘slide’; basically if you were playing, you had to expect a sliding tackle from every which way during our whole break. Went about as well as you would expect it to with the teachers, yet we did it for a whole year. Nobody got seriously injured that i can remember, somehow.
Our favorite was “Landlord”. We had these little play tents, and we made fake money that you had to earn by doing jobs in the basement (cutting money out, etc). Landlord would come around and collect taxes, policeman would arrest you if you didn’t pay your taxes.
It was fun as a kid. As an adult, it’s just a sad reality.
"Blown up body parts", like dodgeball but instead of being out when you got hit, you just lost the arm or leg or whatever it was. So you'd have to hop around or low crawl without using legs.
In my elementary school me and like 4 of my friends would play a fossil hunting game where we would go to this big tree, fill a bottle with water, pour it on the ground to make it wet, and using sticks we would dig around looking for dinosaur fossils or gems or whatever. Usually the winner was whoever found the coolest looking rock lol
When I was younger, probably around 7, I had this older neighbor friend who would come over and hangout. She was older and two grades above me so I thought she was cool because of that fact alone. We’d play catch, ride bikes, and she’d occasionally lock me in her garage for fun.
One day, we were hanging around the back of my house when we found these tiny little white “eggs” on the concrete. We assumed that they were worm eggs, because some of the “eggs” were longer and looked like worms, but crumbled when you touched them. We became obsessed with keeping these worm eggs alive and would water them. This went on for a while, until one day I took one of the worm eggs inside in an attempt to hatch it. I showed my Mom, very proudly, and said I was trying to hatch a worm. My mom took one look at what I had and told me that worms don’t hatch from eggs, and that the eggs were actually bird poop. Apparently I had a nest in the back gutter of my house and eggs we’d been playing with and trying to hatch was just a pile of shit.
To this day I still don’t know if my friend knew that the “eggs” were bird shit, or if she was playing the long game as a prank. Side note, I never washed my hands as a kid.
TL;DR I played with bird shit as a kid because I thought they were worm eggs.
Made "synchronized swimming" routines in a 3 ft pool and filmed them on my dads old camcorder.
My little 5 year old brother and me 8 would make "movies" about dectetive stories complete with commercials. I was the "director" and he held the camera so there is a bunch of me making these frustrated stomp and cut signals i thought were subtle that was supposed to tell him to stop recording to switch scenes. But he was young and didnt usually catch it. So i do the exaggerated signal like three times between each scene with this hillarious look on my face.
Princesses-slash-Winx. (We said it that way. Not princesses/Winx. Princesses-slash-Winx)
My sister and my best friends were also sisters so the four of us spent a ton of time together as kids. We love Disney princesses and this Italian show called Winx Club, which is about fairies and a magic school and all the things little girls love. So the game was we'd pretend to be princesses by day and we were each a particular Disney princess. I was Jasmine from Aladdin. We'd get all dressed up and go out to the backyard and go on adventures and then! Trouble would strike! Our villains captured our princes! So we had to transform into fairies, and again we each had a fairy from Winx Club that we liked to be. I was Tecna. And we'd go on magical adventures to save our princes. But of course, the prince's couldn't know we were both fairies and princesses so we had to transform and hide. We also transformed to hide whenever our parents came out to check on us because obviously they couldn't know, either.
My brother and I used to play "the ball game". Someone in the house (probably my dad because he traveled for work a lot) at some point brought home a small red stress ball. My brother and I would each be on one end of the living room, being goalkeepers, and we'd slap the ball back and forth to each other and try to get it past the other person.
punching each other in the balls during recess. we rearranged the tables for a mosh pit-like arena, and whoever was inside was fair game, standing, or not. it. was. so. stupid.
My friends and I played what we called “zombies” up until we were 18 lol. I had a pretty big house and whenever my parents were gone for the night or for the weekend or whatever, we would turn off all the lights and about five of us would go in a storage closet while one of us hid elsewhere in the house as the “zombie”. The 5 in the closet would come out and the zombie would try their best to scare the shit of them. Eventually we got more creative and started adding goals, like the zombie would hide “pages” like from the original Slender game and the people would try to find em. Later too we got an all black morph suit and the zombie would be in that... people got pretty hurt sometimes. I was the zombie once and got elbowed in the face and got a double bloody nose.
It was the best when my cousin came home in the middle of it and my friend who was the zombie thought he was one of us, ran after him and said “I’M GONNA GET YOU, FUCKER!!!”
Bike tag, just tag but on bikes, you had to touch your tire to another persons to tag them. We had the entite neighborhood as our play area with upwards of 25 kids at times. I remember being on the elementary bus and getting so excited as we rounded the corner and my brother with the rest of the middle school kids were waiting for us few younger ones who were brave enough tocome join, just like a huge bike gang.
It got to the point where we started making our own teams and alliances. We'd go out to empty lots on the weekends and make multiple trails with dead ends and little traps where you'd kick out a stick as you rode by and an old tire or log would fall across the trail to help slow your attackers. Even got wakie talkies at one point for communication.
Things definitely could get dangerous, plenty of crashes happened, a few fist fights, one instance of a guy running into a dog that darted across the road on the steepest hill we had (knocked his front teeth out). My all time favorite was when a dude made it to be the last alive all bc he had to go take a shit in the woods. He was eventually found out and humiliated as a gang of 20 kids just stood laughing at this poor dude trying to wipe with some leaves.
Not as a kid, but a 20 something. I've been waiting for a question where I can finally share this game. We typically play it at parties.
It's called the kpop game.
You only need a tv with YouTube access and a second music device.
Put on a kpop playlist (the more diverse the better) and take crowd requests for any non kpop songs. We've done everything from pop rock to heavy metal.
If you start the songs at the same time at least 8/10 times the songs will match up with the kpop choreography. Sometimes it takes a second or two for the music to match up. You can usually tell right away if for example it's a sad song versus an upbeat song and it won't match up. Feel free to try it on your own and you'll see what I mean.
We typically play in the background of the rest of the party as people are playing beer pong and such.
Russian Shit Bombs:
My cousins and I would play a sort of Dodge ball game with my grandma's turd brown throw pillows. We would do this in her living room full of knick knacks. If I remember right we had to Yell shit when we threw them and if you got hit you turned into a Russian spy that smelled like shit. We didn't play this when the adults we're around for obvious reasons.
The Node Game:
In highschool my friends and I would stand in a circle with no shoes or socks on and flick quarters at each other's feet. Who ever got hit and yelled out got punched. I was really good at the finger snap type flicking and had toe assassin like aim so I was always the champion. We we're really dumb kids.
My siblings used to make an indoor slip n' slide on our wood floor whenever our parents weren't home. It was so much fun and we would put dish soap with the water to slide faster, convinced we were helping to clean the floor. Face planted into the kitchen cabinets so many times. Our parents eventually found out by the water damage we caused.... worth it.
We'd play a game where there are 2 teams and we stack 7 flat stones on top of each other in the center and the teams would stand on either side and toss decides who gets to hit the stones and who catches. So one team now take a tennis ball and tries to hit the stones and also trying hit the least number of stones. Once the stones are hit, the team is supposed to come back and re-arrange them at the same time the other team takes the tennis ball and are supposed to throw it at whoever tries to re-arrange them. The players are supposed to use fake and Dodge and all these techniques. Really fun game but sometimes you would go home with a red ball print on your ass because somebody would've thrown it hard 😂
We used to play a game called ‘Raptor’. A group of us would usually play it in a small patch of woods. The game started by some one being the hunter raptor and their job was to defend a base location. Then they would close their eyes and count to 100 while the others ran and hid. If you could make it to the base you were safe, however if the raptor caught you and could hold onto you and count to ten you became a raptor as well. I spend many summers playing this in a ground of about 8, awesome memories.
Whip The Cow. Someone would hide a wiffle bat while the kids wait in the alley. The first one to find the bat gets to whip the kids until they run to the pole and saw COW.
All the kids in my neighborhood used to rip all the little blue berries off of the cedar trees, then fill the barrels of our BB guns with them & go to f#ckin War ! We would split into teams. We were only allowed 10 pumps & no head shots. If you got hit you were dead. Last man standing wins the war & next time was allowed to choose his team. Thinking back.. we may have invented Air-Soft battles without even realizing it. Only we had no protection, I remember getting hit with those berries like it was yesterday lol it hurt like Hell !
Oh god this brings back memories.. Me, my younger sister and my cousins on my mothers side used to play "Pedophile". Essentially this was an enchanced version of hide and seek with the added flavor that my younger sister would pull this EXTREMELY unsettling voice pretending to be an old fat man who liked little boys walking around laughing and making gross grunts remarks..
This in our cousins house in the more rural south of Sweden. Still have vivid memories of hiding under beds absolutely terrified as she'd come into the room.. My sister is whack y'all.
"Cricket." We shut off all the lights in a room so it was pitch black, and someone had the rubber cricket that would glow in the dark. Everyone had to hide and be quiet, and the person with the cricket had to try and hit someone by throwing it. This brought many laughs but also some fights because it sucked getting hit in the face. There were no real winners or losers but I still laugh thinking about it.
My friends granddad died when we're were three. We payed a game at preschool where one person would lie on the ground and the other would look sad and then we would both get up and pretend to drink tea. The game was called funerals.
My big brother would lay down and roll up into a big blanket. I would help him get up then he would start blindly running thru the yard. I would fling my body at him and tried to knock him down. 50% of time I would succeed in knocking him down, the other 50% he would just run in a tree or the house and fall over. We called it Wild Burrito
At night, my friends and I would play a game called "dark shark" in the pool. Everyone was on the shallow end of the pool, except for the 'shark', who had to stay on the deep side. We'd turn off the lights outside and in the pool so it was really dark. The 'shark' could only open their eyes underwater. The point of the game was to swim as quietly and quickly as possible to the other side without getting eaten/tagged by the shark.
Used to play a game called "Roadkill." In the winter when our street was iced over, all the neighborhood kids would stand in the middle of the street and try to make it to the sidewalk without slipping when a car came. If you got hit by the car, you lost.
We played a variation of tag called Sharks. It was played on a jungle gym that was mostly wood surrounded by metal. The shark could only stand on metal. While everyone else had free range. If you got off the jungle gym you could only take three steps or you would "drown" and become the shark. Also if you were tagged you became the shark. We played with 10+ kids for hours.
Evys19 · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trampoline ball" we would put a ball or sometimes 2-3 in the trampoline with us and if it hit you you were out. We all just jumped around and tried to make it hit each other. Definitely some bad head bumps and injuries but it was so fun.
Another version was one person would be outside the trampoline and they would throw them inside trying to hit someone on the bounces.
My siblings, cousins and I would play "the blob". We put a zipped up sleeping bag over whoever was "the blob" for that round, they would then run around tackling whoever they got ahold of until they were tired and we'd switch, good times
We would put one brother on the trampoline, and the other brother had to stand on the other end of the yard and try to shoot them with a BB gun. Then when they got shot they would switch places. We got caught one day by my dad.
We’d play “Piranha.” Basically we had a bunk bed and the one on the top bunk would put their hand through the crack in the bunk without moving it out. The other person would mangle the firsts hand as long as possible
I was forced to play this game with some of the new friends i made when i was 7-8 years old.We had to play Rock Paper Scissors and whoever lost had to be spanked on the ass me who has terrible luck eded up losing the most and went home with a sore ass,although i did get to spank the two guys and this one girl ass a bit i guess (not that there were four of us 3 guys and this one weird girl who i assumed as a kid was a tomboy despite having very girlish belongings)
But i was still fucking pissed that i went home with a sore ass least i never played that game again i guess
It was called bad pa me and my neighbor would chase each other and pretend to be redneck father trying to kill his kids
MlLFS · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a babysitter with big massive dreadlocks and we used to try to put as many pairs of pants (underwear for non brits) on his head without him realising
I used to play a game called "slippery snakes" with a bunch of my friends when we younger. The game was getting rags sopping wet, twisting them up, and then whipping each other as hard as we could in a pitch black room. The game was exilerating and also fear inducing. You just never knew when you were gonna get cranked by a wet rag.
We used to go into a room in an unfinished guest house behind our house, turn off the lights and basically beat the shit out of each other as a group. We didn't go too hardcore and we took a break if anyone got hurt. Sometimes we went as far as putting mattresses on the ground.
The funny thing is when we moved 1200 miles to the Midwest we found out that our new friends did basically the same thing in their basement. But they also stared at a lightbulb for a while before starting so it took longer to adjust to the darkness.
Blackout. Some older kids told my brother and his friend that if you jammed your thumb into someone’s butthole (with pants on) that they would black out. So you had a bunch of kids jumping on a trampoline trying to thumb each other screaming blackout.
You take a paper and write numbers from 1 to 30 for example. The numbers must be randomly written everywhere on the paper with some space between them. Then you and your friend(or more) can start playing. You start from 1 and draw a line to the next number "2" without touching other numbers(and previous drawing lines) or making any unnecessary lines. You keep going until the loser reaches a number where he cant reach it without touching another drawn line.
Also There a game where i would take a paper then put many holes on it. Then each players pulls the paper from both sides and you gotta move the pen (while pushing it into the paper) from below, go from one side to the other. If you get to the other side without falling in one of the holes you win. Its a dumb game but i remember it a lot
Me, my brother and the neighbours used to play a game on the trampoline that we called night guard.
Basically, someone was chosen as a night guard and the other people were statues in a museum. When the night guard wasn’t looking, the statues could move and do whatever. If the night guard caught us moving, the statues would break and then the night guard had to drag the broken statue to the closet. The night guard could also move the unbroken statues to make silly poses or bounce on the trampoline to try to make a statue fall and giggle or move.
The game never ended as the last statue standing became the new night guard and would restart.
After school my sister and I played the "pretend something terrible happened and watch mom's response" game. It was a good time. And worked every time.
Busta-booty. We all jump on the trampoline until someone counted down from 3. 3, 2, 1, BUSTABOOTY! At bustabooty, we would all land on our butts and whoever went the highest, would win. It was so fun
My cousin and I would arm ourselves with bottle rockets, whiffle ball bats, and use a trash can lid as a shield. We’d use the little hole at the end of the bat to hold the bottle rocket and voila! rocket launcher!
We would shoot them at each other and block the shots using the trash can lid shield.
Between the two of us, we still have 4 eyeballs and 20 fingers, despite Darwin’s options on such behavior.
I had 3 older brothers. All of us played 3 sports so we had blenty of “ balls”. The two oldest would put all of the balls in the back of our golf kart and chase me and the second youngest around the yard throwing them at us. Good times.
“Jugmates” - we would lie on the trampoline and someone would throw a juggling ball in the air. When it lands on you, you’re not allowed to flinch. If you do, you get “juggernauted” which means you have to sit up with your hands behind your head and someone would throw the juggling ball at your stomach. If they miss, it’s called “jugsment day” and everyone then throws the juggling ball at the person that missed the shot
me and my brother were “pizza” running around my aunts house and she would have to catch us and put us in the “oven” but don’t worry it was just on the coffee table, and she would have to put toppings on us by tickling us. it was torture but me and my brother loved it
Back home in India, we were really into riding our bikes fast. There was a very large tree in the neighborhood that was home to hundreds of bats that really stirred up at night. We made up a game where, at night, we ride our bikes very fast under the tree and who ever falls off due to the bat attack, they lose. They love to go for your ears so your instinct takes your hands off the bars, you freak out and go down.
In hindsight that was a horrible game, cuz Rabies.
My sisters and I played "Buns to buns". you stand on opposite sides of the room with your backs to each other, lean over and put your hands on the ground as if you're preparing for downward dog but with your hands closer to your feet. and then someone does a countdown and on "one!" you walk backwards qs quickly as you can toward each other with your hands acting as a second set of feet.
Once you both get to the middle of the room, you hit each other with your butts. Your butt is your only weapon. And their butt is the only place you can hit them to make them fall over. Whoever falls over first loses.
Buns to buns!
We would play tag on the big circular trampoline. You had to bounce on your knees and then tag someone in mid air. Or we played take down the giant with all the little kids trying to tople me onto the trampoline.
coolxm · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We call it "the game" you are not allowed to think of it or your out, we play it to this day and I just lost. We never keep score but it's always fun. The fun thing is that you can pull in ppl by saying "the game" in their facinity to kill them and then you and they are out for half an hour
coolxm · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just posted this in the group chat they all got fu**ed
A friend of mine had a toy pedal tractor. One of us would ride the tractor waiving at an imaginary crowd pretending to be JFK, then the other one would jump out from a bush or something and "shoot" JFK (with our fingers - we didn't even have a fake gun) then take off on his bike. The one who was JFK would pretend to be dead for a few seconds to give the shooter a head start, then jump on another bike and pretend to be a cop trying to catch the assassin. Sometimes the chases would last for an hour. Once Lee Harvey Oswald was caught, we'd switch turns and let the other guy be JFK.
And yes, we knew JFK wasn't shot point-blank like Lincoln. When you're trying to entertain yourself in a small town, you made do with what you had.
It was just a one day thing, but back in kindgertan or first grade or so we did this. On our playground there was like this small log bridge. It was a bit higher at each end and hung down lower in the middle. You know, not completely horizontal, as you would expect out of a log bridge. At the highest (th eneds) it was like, I don't know, 3 or 4 feet off the ground and at the lowest point it was like just a foot and some change.
So the game was that one kid would lie directly under the bridge with his head just below the lowest point, face up. And then the rest of the kids would take turns running as hard/fast as they could across the bridge above.
We got pretty close to trampling the kid under the bridge's face, but TBH we all thought it was pretty safe. The teachers obviously didn't.
I can see why we enjoyed this, though. Just recalling it is getting me all excited and giggly.
Probably too late to get seen, but when I was in daycare (early elementary) my bff and I would play this game we made up called "Poor".
We would build a little enclosure with these big wooden blocks the center had. It was just big enough for the two of us to kneel/sit in. Im pretty sure we even built it around us to make sure it was as small as possible. We would also have saved a bit of snack or lunch in napkins and brought that in with us, usually the hot dogs from Beans & Weenies or Pigs in a Blanket day.
The active part of the game was us just sitting there, fake shivering, slowly eating our squirreled away food, moaning about how poor we were.
My group of friends and I would basically role play a fantasy game in which we would behave like we were all werewolves in a pack. Each full moon night we would act out a werewolf transformation and climb onto the terrace tops and howl like crazy. This would obviously trouble the entire neighborhood since we did this in the dead of night. It wasn't too soon until people actually began complaining. The problem reached the climax when one of the neighbors called the emergency services to report all the howling because they actually thought that wolves would come down and roam in the neighborhood. We soon realized what a terrible idea it was and immediately after this entire incident unfolded, we stopped playing our fantasy game. It was fun while it lasted.
When someone farted we would all put our thumb on our forehead. The last person to do so, ate the fart. Next thing you know, mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandpa, and grandma were doing it. Because no one wants to eat a fart.
Me and my little sister used to “bungee jump” off of the top bunk of our bunk bed. We used a giant toy snake she had to wrap around our waist while one of us held the other end.
dcoble · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had a laser pointer that had to be plugged into the wall to work with a big power supply unit. We'd turn off all the lights and my brother and I and neighbors/friends would wear dark clothes/camo and hide out in the yard/woods... sometimes with toy guns for effect.
It was our goal to sneak closer to the house and tag one of several targets without getting hit by the laser. If the beam just passed over you it didn't count. Whoever was it (typically my dad) had to legitimately spot you, keep the dot on you and count to 3. Then you were out until everyone was caught or someone reached a target. Even if you got spotted you could hide behind something quickly and eventually the laser would have to move to protect the targets (assuming others were still alive). Then you could make a break for it or silently crawl to a new spot. It was a really really intense game as a kid.
I would focus on a treeline while looking out of a car window. a speck on the glass became 2 specks because of my distant focus. I would pretend those 2 specks were a snowboard and the treeline was the snow and I would tilt my head left and right to "snowboad" it.
really weird now that I think about it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I really don't know why... Not me, but my best friend would play the "pedophile game" There would be the "pedophile" and then they would play as children and run from them until the "pedo" could hug them to the ground. WTF. They were like 8.
We used to play something where one kid would get in a box and the other kid would shut it and tip the box over and over until you wanted to stop. Looking back we could've broken our necks doing that.
Also, my grandma had this magnifying glass and I would play detective - which consisted of me getting in peoples faces and asking them where they were on a certain date and I would write it down. I dont know what I was looking for but everyone was very annoyed.
Indian arm wrestling. I don't know how common this really was, my Dad taught it to me, but I never saw a single kid play it besides my cousins and I that he taught.
Two people are standing up, they line the outside of each other's feet up touching. So like the full length right side of my foot would be touching the full right side of my opponents. And you both have your leg stretched out just a little bit. Then you lock hands and start. The winner is the person who gets their opponent to move their locked foot that's next to theirs. This is achieved by pulling and pushing with the arm you have locked with the teammate as well as maneuvering your body. You cannot use the other arm (free arm) at all against the opponent, but it can move obviously. You can also move your free leg if you choose.
Honestly really fun, and a bit of a workout. It's mostly a balance game.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snipe hunting.
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Oh hey, same! Nowadays I have an outlet for it, though, so i have like six conceptual graphic novels in the works 😅
I used to play the "car game" with my childhood best friend and his sister during early elementary school.
Basically, we would stand out at the end of his driveway and watch for cars coming (which was itself a challenge because of the local topography) and whenever we saw one, we would try to run back to the "safe zone" (which was his garage) before the car drove past. Whenever there was a UPS truck or FedEx it was extra "dangerous" and we would have to throw open the exterior cellar doors and get into the basement, which was a farther run.
And as far as we were concerned, the four horsemen of the apocalypse were the garbage truck, the recycle truck, school buses, and the big claw truck that picks up cleared limbs. The last one especially, whenever we saw that thing we panicked and ran like wildmen because we knew it was gonna pick us up with the claw and take us away.
Good times... I fell down those basement stairs and whacked my head more times than I can count. It's a miracle I'm not even stupider than I am.
My sister and I would play "Ghosts." In this game, one person put the largest blanket they could find over their head, and they were the ghost. They chased the other person around and tried to tackle them. The goal was to put the blanket over their head and transfer ghostlyness. This went on until something in the room broke or we couldnt breathe anymore.
This is probably going to come across terribly, but when we (my two sisters and I) were growing up, we had these two moron cousins.. These kid's teeth were all black, they talked in mumble, they stunk, had bad attitudes and were overall just unpleasant to be around. Whenever we'd go to my grandparent's house, we (my sisters and I) would explore all over the place, since we were poor and usually cooped up in a very small house and my grandparent's had a large house on a river, basketball court, acreage, etc.. However - whenever we'd go there, the Retard Bros would inevitably show up and just become an annoyance at whatever we happened to be doing at the time.
So.. one of us (my middle sister, I think) invented this game "Octoball". I don't remember all the specifics, but there were a variety of tasks we had to compete. From what I remember, it was sort of like playing a game of "Horse" with a basketball, but with various other obstacles - whatever we could come up with in the moment. Lots of zany rules that would change as we saw fit - but one rule we didn't budge on: if either of the two moron cousins played - regardless of what they did or didn't do, the punishment was a kick in the nuts.
It would work like this: Me - I shoot and make a basket. I'm eligible to kick anyone I choose (one of those two) in the nuts. If I miss the basket, I'm eligible to reshoot until I make it. Once I make it, one of those two is getting kicked in the nuts. If they stick around long enough to make a shot - miss it and surprise - one of us gets to kick them in the nuts. Make it and - also surprise - they shot from the wrong spot, or they were supposed to miss that basket or something.. The punishment was also a kick in the nuts. If they questioned the rules, again, they were punished with a kick to the nuts. There were other ways to inflict punishment on them too, but it always involved a swift blow to the nutsack.
Needless to say, eventually they gave up and quit playing games with us.
Picture this: my house was off of a cul-de-sac, halfway up a VERY steep side street. Also my driveway, from the cul-de-sac, was a very steep slope down.
So friends and I would get a big wheel, two mover's dollies, and a wagon and take them to the very top of the very steep street, and form a train, hands on shoulders to keep the train together, and then careen down the street.
The idea was to slow down in the cul-de-sac. This was impossible. An alternate idea was to steer and go down our driveway off of the cul-de-sac, which was possible but usually resulted in running into the garage door at a very high rate of speed. Usually, the train broke up upon hitting the cul-de-sac halfway down the very steep street. This was not too bad for the person on the big wheel, who could steer; moderately bad for the person in the wagon, who really couldn't steer but could lean to make the wagon head into the shrubbery; and REALLY VERY BAD for the two people on the two movers' dollies, who could neither steer nor brake, and would, on occasion, go past the cul-de-sac and hurtle down the very steep street to its terminus in a big road, where one would be either run over by a car or go off something of a cliff on the other side.
Before bed, my sister and I used to play a vending machine game together. We’d lay on our backs and look at the ceiling and imagine super realistic snacks inside of the floating machine. We’d put in our imaginary quarters and buy our imaginary snacks and we would really be able to taste every snack. It was a wonderful game we played because the more focused she and I would be on our snacks, the more realistic it felt! Whenever we were ready to go to sleep we’d buy a bottle of sleeping pills and eat them all then pass the fuck out haha
I used to look out the window on long road trips and pretend a motocross rider was riding along side of us in the ditch along the side of the road. Jumping over cross streets, doing tricks over culverts and stuff like that. Made the time pass more quickly.
We had a neighborhood game that’s probably not unique, but I’ve never met anyone else who played this. We’d split into two teams, with each team starting on opposite sides of a one car detached garage. One team would throw a ball over the roof, with a ‘clean’ throw being one that bounced at least once on the roof of the other side, and the receiving team had to catch it before it touched the ground. If they did, the receiving team had to run around the garage and hit other team members with the ball before they could escape to the opposite side. If you got hit with the ball, you joined the team that hit you. The turns continued until one team had all the players.
Me my brother and 2 of our neighbors would play this game "Who's got the babes?" when we were like 9-13.
The rules were pretty simple. Someone would have the babes. And if you tackled them to the ground, you now had the babes...
When you did have the babes you would make sure everyone knew you had the babes by kissing and grabbing multiple imaginary women. This would go on for an hour or so until we were tired or one of us got hurt.
Hotel lobby!! One person was the hotel clerk at the desk (which was actually just my mom's ironing board) and the rest of us would put on costumes and dress up clothes and take turns checking into the hotel in character, complete with accents and ridiculous backstories.
Everyone from the really little kids, to our parents loved it and played along.
On long car trips, my brother and I used to take turns trying to bag each other with the middle seatbelt. We would extend the belt to its longest length, hold the metal end with one hand near the door handle, calculate the trajectory by eye, then lob it in a lazy arc to try and hit the scrotal target. It's a lot harder than it sounds, with various levels of difficulty from smooth, straight highway (easier) to undulating, potholed dirt trails (lucky shot).
There was nothing quite like forcing yourself to not move as your eyes helplessly followed the projectile's path like a guillotine's blade. The relief when it missed was like the adrenaline rush of a small mammal escaping the jaws of death. The results of a successful throw were mitigated by a couple of layers of clothing, but still left you with the sudden shock of impact followed by a sick sensation that propagated up into your guts.
The perfect shot was to hit both testicles with the blade edge of the clasp and I think I only ever managed that once. A successful hit would deliver an almost orgasmic groan from the victim and a berating from mom in the front seat telling us to quit it because she wanted grandchildren. We had three kids each, so there were no ill effects from our ill-conceived game.
Beanie baby wars. We’d set up my friends pretty big “play room” as we called it with two big couches on opposite sides of the room. We’d have 5 minutes to build up our defenses around the couch, then we’d shut off the lights and start wailing beanie baby’s at each other. Kyle, if your out there, I’m sorry.
Lol I used to do these too. My grandma had a large spare bedroom with a bunk bed and a queen size bed on the other side. We'd make up bunkers and what not. We had a hand full of stuffed animals that we had to ban due to hard eyeballs or just too heavy. Good times. Most battles ended with someone crying.
We would play 'Dont Get Swarmed'
Basically, every one of my siblings and cousins would stand equa-distance from anything bad, red ant hills, wasp nest, the fun stuff. We would all slap/poke the thing with a stick, and then scatter. If you got Swarmed, you lost. If you were about to get Swarmed and then evaded or got them to get someone else, you won!
Oh, what boredom can do to you....
The throwing game. Set up two nets about 20 25 get apart from each other and you have to score by throwing the ball in the net couldn't leave your crease. It was actually incredibly fun for something so simple.
mssDMA · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this counts as a game, but my siblings and I (6 kids) used to make Geico commercials with the old fashioned camcorder that recorded on mini vhs tapes. We would make up a scripts for that "Good news! -- You can save 15% or more by switching to Geico!" scenario. The one I remember best was a spinoff from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where I was a witch about to be thrown in some water to see if I float when one of my siblings broke in with "Good news!"
"I'm not a witch?"
"No! You can save 15% or more by switching to Geico!"
Cut to me plugging my nose and jumping in the pool because I was afraid to let someone throw me in.
My best friend (since 5, we are STILL best friends!) and I played so many fucking weird games that we still joke and laugh about to this day.
One game was called BleepaDeDeep’s Delivery Service (no idea).
One of us would be the “driver,” and we’d scoot around on my step-nephew’s (at the time) tiny lil scoot car. The other person would be the “customer,” and you’d have to create a character (like, say, a rich old lady or something), and decide on a costume/accent etc., and then the customer would pick an object in the basement and give the driver hints about what you wanted.
So, say you picked a teddy bear, you’d be like “I’d like to order something cuddly with soft fur!” or some shit like that. Then the driver would have to scoot around on the tiny car and try to figure out what you ordered. And if you were the customer and the driver brought you the wrong thing, you’d have to act all mad and whip the thing across the basement and be like “NO, YOU FOOL! I WANTED SOMETHING BROWN!” (Even then we knew how rough it was in the service industry lol). And then the driver would have to be like, “I am so sorry ma’am! Let me fix that for you!” And continue to scoot about on the tiny car and try to pick the right object. Haha.
We also used to make all sorts of super-weird videos with my dad’s camcorder.
One of them was a talk show we called Life of the Funkalistic Girls, where we’d dress up and act like valley girls and just talk about whatever. One time, we got in a fight on camera where my bff blamed me for hitting her in the “tittie,” (we were like, 10. No titties — which I said on camera, I was like “uhhh we don’t have titties yet.” Hahaha)
We had another TV series called Cooking with Ursula and Irma, where we would just act really, really dumb and try to follow a recipe. So if the recipe said “put the flour in the bowl,” we’d just put the bag of flour in a mixing bowl, etc. lots of fun moments with our amazing videos where my dad would interrupt to ask us what we wanted for dinner, and I’d be like, “DAD SHUT UP WE’RE FILMING!”
My brother and I would draw pictures in PictoChat, and would have wars. I would draw a castle, then he’d draw a tank destroying it. This would repeat. Kept us very entertained on long car rides.
Roll-down-the-stairs-in-blankets. Exactly what it sounds like, when my parents were gone me and my 2 brothers would wrap ourselves in blankets, lay down, and all roll down at the same time, tumbling over each other on the way down. Sometimes we would block the stairs with couch cushions as a wall to break through.
My brother and I would sit in the floor with our legs out to the side so that they would fall asleep. Then we'd try to stand up while pushing the other one over. I don't remember if anyone ever won, but it was hilarious.
One fall we played a game of “life” in the backyard. We used leaves to make thick lines of our houses like blueprints. Then, we would pick out leaves all in one color to lay out in squares and make into the furniture in our abodes.
Then we’d dress up in our mom’s old bridesmaid gowns and pretend we were living life in those leaf houses.
It was all fun and games until we killed the grass in lines and blocks and dad got mad, lol.
So we raked the leaves to the storm sewer grate and burned them - watching the smoke billow up out of the other grates up and down the street.
Made a game called chubby tired, one kid was on his hands and knees and had to crawl to tag the other players. He could only run every like 30 seconds but we were bad at counting so more like every 5 seconds. Having a lawn of pines trees made this game... interesting.
Me and my twin brother would smash .22 cal bullets with a hammer.....it literally sounds exactly like a ricochet from an old western movie....idk where our parents were while we did this
My cousin and I didn’t exactly have a game, but we had a...tradition? Routine? Idk what you would call it. But the guy that lived behind them was a turd and my cousin and I decided we were gonna revolt. Keep in mind, we are like 4-5 years old.
My uncle had a compost pile, so one day, we scoop some out and put it in a bucket. Then my cousin pees in the bucket and to add a touch of flair, we use some baby poop from his little sister. Then we cover it and let it ferment. Each day we would add more things- sand, piss, fertilizer, mud, oil, rain water, whatever and mix it. We never did much with it, because it became a game of how gross can we make it. The plan was to make a sludge to throw on his garden I guess. So we gave up that plan and moved to plan B
Plan B was, in my opinion, brilliant. My cousin and I spent days drawing dicks on 100 pieces of paper. We were almost 6 at this point, so make of that what you will. Then, we folded those pieces of paper into paper airplanes and threw them into this poor old mans yard. We did this several times until we got caught. When asked why we did it, my cousin promptly says “He’s a pecker!”
Me and my 2 brothers used Monopoly money as currency and gambled with it and shit like that. Then we'd rob each other with Nerf guns. One day we ended up in a 3 way fist fight and our mom settled it by burning all of our valuable currency 😔
My sister and I would poke one another as hard as possible whilst also trying to avoid being poked by the other. Usually involved lots of squealing and/or screaming and giggling too!
My cousins and I used to play a game we called "mouse trap" in their basement. We would divide into 2 teams and one would go upstairs while the other would set the traps.
We would run trip wires and set up leaning traps from the door to the back wall.
Then in pitch blackness the other team would try to get from the door to the back wall without setting off traps.
Worst I remember was a whole suitcase being swung down from the ceiling beam and knocking one of us off our feet.
My sister and I played a game in our parents minivan. When on long road trips we'd take the headrests out of the back seat and use them as turrets with the double prongs as barrels. We would shoot other cars behind us to keep our van safe, had a scoring system, different effects based on what color the car was. The details are lost to me, but the memory has not faded.
But the unique thing was we never actually looked up how you were supposed to play it. We played it that, somebody would read a word from a random card, and everybody including the person that read the card would write down what they thought the definition of the word would be on a piece of paper and folded up and put it in a basket. (Cardholder would write the correct definition) Then the person that read the word from the card, would mix up the basket and read all of the handwritten definitions aloud, and everyone would vote on which one they thought was the correct definition. If you guessed the correct definition you were awarded 10 points, and when people picked your made up definition (believing that it was the correct definition) you were awarded five points. It was usually the first person to 200 points wins.
But to be clear, these words were rather extravagant, unusual, and very seldom read or heard outside the game.
We would play a game called Poison Ball. Basically we gathered as many types of balls as we could and put them on the trampoline. Then you had to jump around without letting any object hit you. If it did, you were out.
We came up with a variation of tag called Anaconda (chose that name right after we watched the movie by the same name) where everyone could hide, and run around a play field, with one person being "it". Then, whenever someone gets tagged, they would hold hands with last person to have been tagged so the "snake" would get longer. Usually only a lot of fun if you have 8 or more kids playing it, but it would get crazy with the "snake" sometimes trapping us around trees and situations like that. Tons of fun when the whole neighborhood got involved.
Break the shell. Someone on the trampoline goes into the fetal position and people around jump until the person has to use their arms or legs because the freakout and want to stop bouncing.
There is also blind octopus, someone on the trampoline closes their eyes (or is blindfolded) and tries to find someone on the trampoline, but cant use there feet to stand and and has to grab them and pull them down
Drunk driver- two people are swinging aggressively. The rest have to run back and forth in front of the swing set. If you get hit and launched by the "drunk driver" you are out. Last man standing wins
My grandpa had a game called “One, two, three, go.” He said him and his friends would carry a gas can out into an empty field. You’d wrap your mouth around the spout and take three huffs of gas fumes, and on the third one you hold it in and take off running as fast as you can in any direction until you black out. A few minutes later when everyone was waking back up, whoever was furthest from the gas can won the game. I can’t believe he survived his childhood, especially considering he was fighting nazi’s at age 16
We used to pretend our trampoline was a giant frying pan and we were normal size people working in a giant restaurant. We made up new ways to make different recipes and serve them to the giants.
My friend invented a game he lovingly named “bone stick,” (Not what it sounds like). The rules were simple, each combatant goes into the yard and finds the biggest, strongest stick they can get, then violently hit them against each other until one breaks. Whoever’s stick survives is the winner, and they have the “bone stick.”
We’d get my friend’s little brother to come play with us . We’d choose someone to distract him and suddenly 2 of us would go “missing”. Then once he’d get close to finding one of us. Then the one initially with him would go missing and so on and so on. He’d never find us all . Lol
In our small front entryway, about 6x6, my little brother and I would stand at opposite corners with our socks partially pulled off our feet, say with the cuff at the arch or almost at the heel.
Without using our hands we would try to completely pull each other's socks off. Whoever got both socks wins.
All the kids in the neighborhood (white kids, black kids and asian kids) would get together in the woods and play "slaves"
A few kids were the rulers and the rest of us had to dig in the dirt. Ruler was always different so none of us felt like it was anything but fun. I dont even know what we were digging for! The ruler even had a whip of long grass to keep us working..goodtimes
"Sockey" - my brother and I would put on thick socks and slide around on our parents' bedroom wood floor. There was a fire place and a closet on opposite ends we used as goals. We basically played 1 on 1 soccer while "skating" around.
There was this whole imaginary league with team jerseys made of old shirts and markers. Seasons, schedules, the whole thing.
As boys, of course, things would get rough. I honestly don't remember if we ever finished a game without a fight.
Murder in the dark. We would turn off all the lights and the "murderer" would also be blindfolded. We would try to blend into furniture or climb up both sides of the wall. If they found any if us they would have to guess who we were and if they we were right then the other person become the murderer. If not they were it again. Lots of fun.
Though we gave it a violent name it was not intentionally violent. Lol. Cousins would always look forward to playing this with us when they came over. Their parents wouldn't let us play it at their houses.
In the summer We used to play princess where I would lay on a towel on the storm doors to our basement and my two old sisters would feed me strawberries from the patch in the garden. That was the entirety of the game... 🤷🏼♀️
In retrospect, this game is super horrible. My sister and I used to play a game called "Tom and Jerry" with her playmobile characters and dollhouse. Essentially there were two characters, Tom who was mentally handicapped and Jerry who was his brother/caretaker. Each game we called an "incident", and usually consisted of Jerry trying to use the house as some sort of place of business (I remember a tanning salon) or just trying to exist, and Tom having an "episode" where he would scream and ruin the house (we would throw the dolls around the room and smash the dollhouse so it would come apart). Basically we would have an elaborate set-up of whatever Jerry was trying to do and then have Tom ruin it and scare any potential customers. I don't know how we came up with this.
We called the game moo moo cow. At my friends house, they had a kids room in the basement. We would throw blankets all over the ground. One person who would be the cow, would cover themself in a blanket to prevent him from seeing. Then the other group of kids would grab the blankets off the floor, in away where kids were on opposite sides of the cow, and try to slingshot the cow. The other kids were, tho, only allowed to walk where the blankets were. Many of us were injured in the process.
At the same house we also made up a game call pitch black, were someone would turn off the light and go looking for the other kids. But everyone was swinging there fists or feet. That eventually became, I think we called it, pearl harbor. Were one kid would turn off the lights and have to defend the light switch. Good times being young.
My siblings and I made up a game called “Fat Chicken”.
We had this ninja Halloween costume that was basically just a loose black body suit. For some reason we would have whomever put the suit on and then we would stuff the suit full of pillows. Pillows down your legs, down your arms, everywhere.
Then we would push the person in the suit all around, into walls, down the stairs. Everything. And we would yell fat chicken.
Acorn war. God I haven’t thought about this in YEARS... me, my sister, and our neighbors who were brother and sister would prepare for this shit for days. We had 3-4 days to collect as many acorns as we could whenever we had time. Then when the big day came, it was all out war. Just pelting acorns at each other for however long they lasted. You weren’t safe in your own house. They hurt too... little welts all over us. If I had kids and they did that, I’d be like y’all are fucking idiots..... but it was so fun. The anticipation of it was so thrilling.
Stealth Assassin - the name I made up when playing a bunch of Tenchu. But one person hid with a fake knife. Everyone else counted to 30 and then roamed the street with toy guns looking for the assassin. The Assassin would hide in the shadows and general spook the hell out of you. The goal was to assassinate everyone. It sounds dumb but we had loads of fun.
Tennaball. It was a mixture of tennis and lacrosse. You would have to bounce the ball on a tennis racket and try to score. Generally 2 vs 1 and a goalie. The goalie would have a baseball glove and a tennis racket. Man it was so much fun.
Squashing machine. At school. There were two brick walls in the playground connected at right angles to each other. A child would be nominated squashee and guided to the inside corner then every other kid would pile into the corner. Like Hillsborough for kids.
Every Easter, my siblings and I would take two marshmallow Peeps, stick them with tooth-picks (to make a Peep-sized javelin or jousting stick), put them on a plate facing each other, and pop them in the microwave for 1 minute on high.
This resulted in our tiny Peep warriors blowing up like molten sugar balloons. First Peep to “pop” was the loser.
we had a game at school. (I called in sacrifice in my head, I dont know if other people did or not) there would be people swinging on the swings and everyone else would run through and try not to get hit. we would also push someone into the way and yell "sacrafice". the game was soon banned.
Carpet girl and Floor girl. We had a downstairs that consisted of both carpeting and hard tile, so my sister and I would take roles. Carpet girl couldn't touch the tile. Floor girl couldn't touch the carpet. And we went around the downstairs in circles, carrying each other, trading rides to make sure no one died. There was also Tripper, where one of us lay on the ground spread out while the other walks the circumference of the ground person, trying not get tripped. Ground person was the Tripper and had to take the other person down without getting up off the ground. Finally, there was Call Me, as inspired by The Lion King, when Pumba yells "CALL ME.... MISTER PIG." We would each take a side of a long hallway and one of us would yell "CALL ME....MISTER (animal)" and whatever the animal was, we would race to see who could make it to the other side of the hallway first while moving like that animal. If one of us said snail, you bet your asses we were squirming around on the ground trying to make it across the hallway like snails.
On long car journeys my little sister and I used to have pillow fights..... To be clear we used to each unzip a square sofa cushion and wear them with the cushion over our faces and then punch the crap out of each other. Only in the face though
Commenting WAY too late so I doubt anyone will see this but:
Cars are the enemy - you stand in a yard at a safe distance from an intersection at night. If you see headlights but aren’t sure if the car will come your way, it’s code yellow. If it comes your direction, it’s code red and everyone has to run and hide from the car as fast as possible. Code green when the car is gone, repeat process.
Fencil wars - 1v1, stack two couch pillows on the floor in the middle of the living room with a stuffed owl on top. The stuffed owl is the fencil. Countdown and do battle. Not a lot of rules here, you basically just beat the shit out of each other with pillows and a stuffed owl
I would play Barbies with my sister but they always ended up being murder mysteries, kidnappings, and other survival stories that often ended up with a few beloved cast members dying along the journey.
Edit: also I would get super pissed at my friends when we played because everyone was always dating or pregnant or shopping and they wouldn't let me kill or kidnap anyone and make the story interesting. pff. Boring
na222 · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Midgies" was a popular elementary school game for us. Squat down and stretch your shirt over your knees, then, with one hand inside your shirt, use your shirt as a slingshot to launch rocks at each other. You hopped around the playground like this, hence the insensitive name of "midgies." I got lunch detention for several weeks after someone got too many rocks to their head and the game was banned.
Man, me and my brother used to play 'funny ways of sleeping'. We had to go to bed at 8pm and there was no way we would go to sleep. I was in the bottom bunk and my one year older brother was in the top. Usually we would wwf wrestle each other for an hour or so til our dad would come in and our excuse of 'im helping him make his bed' didnt work and we would have to stop. Then one of us would use our blankets, duvets, pillows and mattress to make some item or scenario for a few minutes and then say 'ready' and the other would look and see what it was and obviously crack up at how funny it was. Well, funny for a 5 year old. We made boats, planes, elephants, giant shoes the whole lot! It was absolutely ridiculous and we loved it 🤣
Extreme chess. No one knew how to play chess at all, but basically every piece had its own "special" ability (that was made up on the spot) that would kill other pieces. No body knew how to end the game so it would go until someone would use the earthquake ability and flip the board.
In elementary school, all the neighbor kids and I played Grass Racing. It usually occurred while waiting for the bus in the morning at the end of my driveway. We could only play when it was raining, but we would each pick a blade of grass and place it at a starting line on the curb. The first blade to go down the storm drain was the winner.
Me and my brother would take handheld mirrors and place them in front of us so that looking down you would see the ceiling and not the floor. We would explore the house by "walking" on the ceiling.
My best friend and I created a game we called "Our Game". The basic concept was that we were the shape-shifting heroines in this epic story. From first grade through fifth grade, our saga unfolded every recess. Every year it got a little more intense and detailed. Our only rule was that nobody else was allowed to play Our Game. Occasionally, a friend of ours would ask to join in, so we would assign them a role, send them off on a pretend mission, and then quickly retreat to another part of the playground to continue our quest. I cannot tell you who were battling against, the name of the evil organization and villainous mastermind have been long lost from my memories, but I remember it being epic. From the outside, it probably just looked like two little girls having hushed conversations, then running and flailing wildly all while shouting code names, screaming, and making sound effects.
My brothers and i played “Annie” by reenacting the final scene when theyre on the train tracks being rescued by the helicopter. We would crawl on the edge of the of the couches and yell “PUNJAB!!!” “
Not me, but my dad and his siblings. They lived near woods, so they would often roam around and come up with things to do, but a thing they would often do is find a fairly thin tree and have one of them climb to the top, which would weigh it down in some direction. The others would then use ropes and sticks to pull the one on top closer to the ground. Once they were satisfied, they would give one last tug and let the one on top hang for life, and they'd let the tree go, making it spring back and forth in a completely safe way that I'm sure no one was hurt from.
Hide the shoe. It's like hide and go seek, but the hider takes their shoes off and has 1 minute to hide it in any spot they want. You then have 5 minutes to find it.
I lived in a house where we had a daycare of 10 kids, so we got pretty competitive.
My cousin and I used to play "Demolition Derby" with my Little Tikes Crazy Coupe when we were young. This was a game wherein he would sit in the car, I would push it up to speed and then jump up on top and we would go full speed into the brick wall in my basement...
The kids in the neighborhood would huddle up close together, and someone would throw a lawn dart up in the air, as high as they could throw it. Then we would stay huddled together and see who got scared and would run off away from the huddle. Last one there was the bravest.
Amazingly nobody was killed. I still have a bit of a panic attack when I think back to this.
My sister and I played a game called "polar girls" where we would make a school for our stuffed animals, and lived in the Arctic (dunno why it was called polar girls) and were polar bears for some reason. But the catch was we were"boy-girls", so we were girls, but could never have babies. This was not important at all to the game, but it clarified that we could date our imaginary friends (usually from cartoons) and never have to be a parent.
Now 19 years later, and I'm getting my fallopian tubes removed to become sterilized next year, so I guess I'm still playing that game.
My brothers and I used to play “The Tripping Game” on our trampoline. One person would close their eyes and go on all fours, then proceed to try and trip the other two. Often times it would end with someone crying, because we would kick each other as hard as we could. I was the oldest and therefore had the longest legs, often resulting in me winning most games.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster in the Middle. The driveway in front of our house was monster territory, and the non monsters were in the grass on either side. We would run back and forth across the driveway trying to avoid the monster. Eventually the monster tagged somebody and it was their turn to be in the middle. Totally pointless, and apparently we played for hours.
Invented a game with my brother and our two friends called "House Warz" (this was back in like 1995 or so when it wouldn't have been a huge deal) where we drew a floor plan of a house along with dotted paths and had game pieces. Random weapons were scattered throughout the house and it was a fight to the death by rolling the dice, deciding line-of-sight (with accuracy penalties for obstruction), and calculating damage/HP. Everything was done in pencil so it would be reusable the next time we hung out. Lot of arguments but totally one of the best ways to enjoy friends.
quake 2 on ps1, it had a story where you crash on a enemy planet and have to fight through levels to find a new ship where you kill bosses and stuff, I was 3-5 when I played it, chilldhood was grate
We played a game called “Crabs”. I had an open staircase at my house (the steps were each its own step only connected by the rails), so there were open gaps between the steps.
One or two ppl would stay under the staircase and try to grab the ankles of the rest of the kids who would run up and down the steps quickly. If you got grabbed, you’d have to swap places with the crab/grabber.
We were lucky there were no serious injuries.
Not really the same, but this reminds me of a game I played with my cousins once that we called "Sharks." We placed a mattress at the bottom of their basement stairs and then 2 people sat on the second to bottom step. A 3rd person started on the mattress and they were the shark. The shark was allowed to advance one step up every move, and then had to dive back down to the mattress which was essentially the ocean. The other 2 people also got to move up 1 step after after every shark move. There was no real point to the game, except that it was fun to dive down a staircase. Once you reached the top step the shark caught you and it was another person's turn to do the diving.
Cops and robbers basically like hide and go seek . We had the neighborhood to play in the cops would go hide in the corner count to a number and go look for the robbers . As a robber you would hide anywhere and run from the cops. Once you were caught you were taken back to the jail as we called it and could only be out if another robber broke you out but we always had a cop on standby so it was hard once you were caught to get out. Fun game we played for years idk if anybody else played this game I tried to explain it as best as possible
“Mattress surfing”. My brother, step brother and I got this idea off a movie. But basically we would go get the mattress off the sofa bed, put it at the top of the stairs, pile on and slide down the stairs.
At my aunties, there was also “towel surfing”. She didn’t have stairs so when we stayed at her house, she would get us a towel and lay it on the floor boards. We would all take turns to do a run up, jump on the towel and go surfing up the hallway.
Both these activities would go on for hours every time.
I have a pine tree in my back yard and I always wanted to climb it but never did because I thought the needles would hurt.
I armor up with paintball gear and run into the tree to make a path for us to climb. Once we got to the top we didn't know what to do. We decided on taking a sled up in the tree so we could sit comfortably.
That in the end just turned into us sledding out of my pine tree.
Or we would tie a sled to the riding mower and build gnarly ramps.
My younger sister and I used to play "whale" in the pool. One of us would get the tightest possible grip on the back of the other and then the whale would thrash around to throw them off. It was impeccable.
It was mostly a game with myself. When it was my turn to bat in baseball, and when I actually hit it, I'd start running for the base and would think loudly or say the word "rocket" under my breath. Presumably I was invoking the speed of a rocket to my legs lol. The best part is I came up with it from my Beanie Baby named Rocket, he was a blue jay.
I do remember one time getting really into it and yelling it loudly but I either don't remember if anyone said anything or if no one noticed. Hopefully the latter lol
"Extreme stairs" the first time my brother and I saw stairs in a house, we had the urge to slide down them, with nothing to brace our skin from the carpet, we had so much fun sliding down the stairs and every time we got these massive rugburns we agreed, "Worth it"
I’m an only child, so i used to play by myself regularly. I invented a game called the “closet game” where i just locked myself in the closet and sat there. I kind of enjoyed it actually
Me and my brother had this game. I don't remember exactly what we called it, but it was something like 'food monster'. Basically we had this long tube - like toy that we could fit ourselves in, and one person would be the monster, staying in the tube and demanding food-which would be any and all random objects lying around. The food would go in the top of the tube.
I remember this mostly because my parents asked me when I was older why we would periodically stack a huge pile of random objects in the middle of the living room and this came back to me.
My brother and I always had a few "Passive" games we would play, like "Get out" where, if one of us enters a room to, say grab something real quick, you quickly block the door frame and dare them to "get out".
There is also "everybody needs a headbut" where you need to say the phrase "everybody needs a headbut" before you violently headbut the other brother. "Point" if you manage to fit it into a sentance so they dont see it coming. Ex. "Bro why dont you own a salad spinner? Dont you know that everybody needs a headbut" Thud
Our sister never wanted to play with us, for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Every Friday as a special treat for a few years, I got to get a McDonald's Happy meal. I had hundreds of cheap little McDonald's toys, and I kept them in those bins that you get holiday popcorn (the 3 flavored kind) in. I used to dump out all the toys on the floor and play with them all at once. I called the game "Dinosaur Hoot." It usually involved a town and giant monster (a stretchable rubber rabbit toy).
I'm late to the party, but whatever. My friends and I invented a game we called Shlockey. It was a mix of soccer, hockey, and lacrosse.
Equipment required: 2 (or 4) little tykes hockey sticks - preferably stolen from a little brother, 1 lacrosse stick, a kickball
The game is for 3-5 players. We partly came up with this because we always had an uneven number of people over so we needed to come up with something we could all play with uneven teams - so Shlockey can be played with 3 or 5 players.
Also of note, this game can basically only be played in the backyard of my childhood home so it might be difficult to play elsewhere.
Basically 1 person was a goalie - they have the lacrosse stick. The "goal" was an outside corner of my house.
The other 2 or 4 players would be out in the field, trying to score a goal by either kicking the kickball, or hitting the kickball with the little tykes hockey sticks. A goal only counted if it flew into the goal area and bounced between both sides of the house. Also it was full contact, so you could - at any time - choose to tackle the other players to prevent them from scoring. It was also legal to throw the other players stick away, but not to use the other players stick to score your own goal.
If a goal was scored that 1 person would become the goalie, and the goalie would come out to take their place.
We would spend afternoons playing this until my friend John got tackled so hard we're pretty sure he got a concussion. Then we stopped.
jlb106 · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Death soccer. Everyone would get on a trampoline ( one with a net around it) and whoever was “it” would kick a soccer ball as hard as they could, barefoot, until they hit someone else. If you get hit, you’re it.
We played a similar game except only two people were on the trampoline and everyone else stood at one end of the yard, each holding some kind of kickball, soccer ball, wiffle ball, etc., and on the count of three we would all run past the trampoline and hurl the balls at the jumpers and try to hit them. If you hit someone you got to take their place.
Me and my sister used our fingers as dolls. Middle finger is the head, ring finger and pointer finger is the hands, and the pinky and the thumb is the feet. It was so fun back in the day.
My brothers and I would steal my mums electric wheelchair and take turns riding it round the garden blindfolded and following the directions of the others, the garden was on two levels and our game ended when I went off the rockery and her 2 grand extremely heavy specialist wheelchair landed on top of me. Good times
And it was on a gravel driveway. We would choose one "Ninja" and then he would stand at the back of the car port. Keep in mind, the back of the port is made of tarp as well. Then came the ninja training.
Each of the remaining kids would stand at the open end of the port and... gather the best "ninja stars" they could. They were rocks.
Then,one at a time, the throwers would whip a single rock at the ninja. If you missed, the sound of the rock hitting tarp was really clear. If you didnt... there would be no thud and usually yelling, crying, or , like one time, the sound of a kid faceplanting because he got hit in the temple.
We got REALLY good at throwing. A few of us got good at being the ninja. As we got older, we would choose the number of rounds before we went in. That's how many vollies you had to make it through. It was brutal. It soon became initiation-like. And I'm 100% sure the adults knew about it,bor at least had an idea because of the welts.
Most of us went on to join the baseball team. 7 years later I won a dodgeball championship with a team of our old ninjas.
Worth it.
imej97 · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play a game called hit the burrito. It was a simple game, one of us would get wrapped up in the thickest Mexican blanket we owned, then we would stand in front of the bed.
The rest of us would line up and then proceed to throttle the kid wrapped in the blanket as hard as we could onto the bed. We would all take turns, then wrap the next kid up and keep going. The first one to cry lost.
In hindsight that shit was stupid, but I remember it being stupidly fun and my siblings and I look back on it fondly!
I have no idea why we called it this but we'd play this in highschool.
We had a set of written rules that if you broke them and someone called "probation!" on you, you were busted......and so the punishment was that I kept an envelope full of little balled up pieces of paper, each paper had something humiliating written on it. You could get "probation" for lying, for saying certain words or phrases, etc, etc. Innocent things that if you weren't on your toes, you'd get busted. We took it to extremes too......we'd TRY to catch people in lies.....for example:
"Hey Pete, what's up"
"Nothing"
"PROBATION, lots of things are up....the ceiling is up above you, the lights, the sky"
You could choose to do what was on the 1st piece of paper you drew out of the envelope OR you could chance it and choose a 2nd one....but if you drew a 2nd one you HAD to do whatever was said on that 2nd paper.
So the "reward" being if you drew a particularly bad assignment you could get off the hook by choosing another one that might be easier.
The "risk" being you drew a worse one OR you chose one of those dastardly balled up pieces of paper that said "2x or 3x probation" meaning you had to do 2 or 3 acts.
Sounds easy enough...til you realize what we had written on the pieces of paper. MIND YOU, this was during highschool classes. It didn't matter if the teach was standing up lecturing, if the class was in the middle of a test, if a class mate was presenting, whatever you drew, you had about 30 seconds to get up and go do that act in front of everyone.
Things included:
Going to the pencil sharpener and standing with one foot in the trash can while you did it
Riding an imaginary scooter across the room to get to the pencil sharpener
Finding a way to crawl under the table beside the teachers desk and get back to your seat
Asking a particularly sassy girl in class "didn't you wear that yesterday?"
Walking to the pencil sharpener and trip and fall dramatically on the way
Knock your books and notebooks off your desk loudly.....5 times in 2 minutes
This game would be played across multiple classes with differing sets of guys in each class. Eventually the rest of the class caught on (the teachers never did) and would wait anxiously to see us make asses of ourselves.
Oh yeah and if for any reason you refused to do your punishment, everyone playing to 5 "licks" on ya.....ie punches to the arm or chest. You didn't want that.
This was all good teenage stupidity and on more than one occasion we got written up or got afternoon detention.
Survivors: all the neighbor kids and I made huts and lean tos in the greenbelt, right by a creek, we would start fires, roast hot dogs and marshmallows for food, make jewelry out of sticks, grass and rocks, and we even made currency out of can tabs
“The Game”. In school we played this, any time you though of “The Game” you would lose the game and had to tell everyone you knew who was playing the game that you lost, which would then make them lose because they ended up thinking of “The Game”. My longest streak was around 1 year until someone mentioned it in reddit and reminded me.
Not sure a competitive game but great fun and entertainment. In rural Hawaii, 1950's. There was a kind of legume that produced a sticky sap. We would glue the insteps of our bare feet, then stomp on tin cans and have a cacophonous dance and parade down the street till we became unglued.
When I was 7-8 years old, me and my friends used to pretend we were filming movies (mostly horror or fantasy). I always made lists of all the characters and I was usually the director, but I played a role as well. It was super fun, we would play till it was dark outside, sometimes even really film and we would often even play over weeks. This was "just" around 6 years ago, but it makes me kinda nostalgic
(only child here!)
My dad and I would find an empty playground. One of us would close our eyes and the other would give directions for how to maneuver the playset. Kinda like that trust building exercises that people do on company retreats.
Midnight tag. There were two version:
1. We played tag in a racquetball court pitch black. You ran to catch someone and occasionally ran face first into a wall.
2. We played in a cemetery around midnight. It was fun until you ran into a stone full speed and essentially took out your legs or you ran into a homie.
lucyg4 · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I (F) played "men". We basically divided the living room and layed out all action figures, cars and gadgets and chose what we wanted by school yard pick. One side of the room had a table, if you chose the open side you got the pink, 2-story Barbie doll house. From there, we practically went to war and created all sorts of scenerios. As adults, when we say "remember when we played men", it sounds like we did drag or something crazy.
Sonic! Not the hedgehog but the drive through! Or drive in, if you will. My neighbor managed a sonic joint for awhile and they remodeled her store, for some reason she brought the outdoor menus home and set them up on a giant concrete slab in the back yard. My sister and I would take turns with the roller skates taking orders and delivering “food”. Such a grass salads and mud burgers.
In elementary school, my friends and I would play "TNT" at the kickball court out in the field at school. We'd walk back and forth on a wooden bleacher seat until one of us stepped on one of the bolts holding the seat together.
The person who stepped on the bolt would yell, "It's gonna blow!" because we imagined the buttons would set off a bomb. We'd run as far away as possible, trying to run past the imaginary line we'd come up with to be the edge of the blast. If you make it past the line, you win and survive. If you don't, you're dead and we now have to come up with a way to revive you in another imaginary game.
map out the squeaky and non squeaky floorboards so i could move silently through the house and scare my family members until they were desensitized and just accepted that i could be right behind them at any time. they started looking over their shoulders, sometimes i'd hear a faint "are you in here" from another room and be pleased with myself
We played a game called "kill". You just ran at someone and knocked them down. Only kids that were standing in a certain patch of grass. Ah, catholic school games.
My friends and I used to play Exterminators. We would put all the shoes we could find in a pile on the trampoline and then everyone would jump around trying to bounce the shoes off. If one of the shoes hit you, you were out and you had to jump off. It was up the everyone else to get all the shoes off. This was back in the mid-late 90's when the safety nets around tramps weren't a big thing.
There’s this game in my culture called “Above the ground”. It’s basically tag but if you get on top of something else (a bed, chair, anything “above ground”) you can’t be tagged. It wa slots of fun lol kind of like the floor is lava infused with tag.
As a family we played the “pantry game.” This involved my mom, dad, brother, and I using the random things in our pantry to make a meal. It was always fun to see what concoction we would create together. As an adult, I learned this was all because we couldn’t afford groceries for a few days and my parents made it a fun game. It’s the moments like this that make me so appreciative of my parents - covering up something negative and making it into a fun game for my brother and I.
Spoons with a twist.
So we’d play the card game spoons the same way, except we’d place the spoons at the top of the stairwell. So it was kind of crazy cuz once one person moved we all just of rushed for the stairway on the other side of the house.
When I was really little my parents would play “the hat game” with me especially on long car rides. They would take a random object and put it on there head and ask “is this a hat?” And I would scream “no that’s not a hat” and laugh for hours.
"Shadow Children." I played this game not only with my younger siblings, but also with the neighborhood kids.
Essentially, we would play in the front yard at night, and whenever a car came by, we would have to hide as well as we could in the shadows, pretending to be trees, shrubs, or animals.
My friends and I would play torpedo football in my neighbor's pool. Basically we used one of this plastic torpedoes and you could only throw it under water to progress it like football. We did 2v2 with one length being a first down and going back would be a touchdown. Some of my best memories were created in that pool
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called Resurrection. One of us would lie down and be covered with all the pillows and blankets we could find. Then everyone else would have to sit on top the blanket pile, and the person underneath would have to attempt to stand up. Pretty messed up now that I think about it.
Oh yes! I would frequently play games of hide and seek with some children around the neighborhood. I remember one time my uncle Fish, decided he wanted to play with us so naturally we let him join.
We all circled up in the middle of the neighborhood (including Fish) and played Ro Sham Bo to see who was the seeker. It was Fish, oh boy he was excited! Fish was so excited that he told us the wining child would get to go with him to the local shop and get an ice cream
We continue to play and one by one he found us, under bushes, behind cars, even on somebody’s roof! Fish was good at seeking he found nearly all of us in 5 minuets!
It was just me and my friend Ryan left we were close to each other so we both began to giggle as Fish approached. I remember sitting there and praying he found Ryan before me! However Fish walked right up behind where I was hiding and got me!
The game ended and we all circled up again waiting for Fish to take Ryan so we could start another game! Fish and Ryan got into Fish’s beat up 1998 white Toyota Corolla and drove off. I was so happy for Ryan but also disappointed that I wasn’t the one who got an ice cream. I didn’t think much of it and continued to play with the other kids.
Fish and Ryan return maybe 20 minuets later and Ryan doesn’t look too happy. He was crying and looked a little red, he was walking hunched over and with a limp. He approached me and said nothing but he just started to limp home. I thought maybe he tripped with his ice cream because i saw some of what looked like vanilla ice cream on his face.
It’s funny that I haven’t seen Fish in years. When I asked my mom how he was doing she just brushed it off and said oh Fish is doing good! Getting the help he needs. Whatever that means.
It was only played when my Sisters Godparents kids came round, as they introduced us to it.
There would be about 8 of us in a bedroom. Try to make it as dark as possible, lights off, curtains closed etc.
The Murderer would be blindfolded, and would have to try and Catch/Murder someone in the room. The first person they caught would become the *Murderer*.
This was crazy shit when it was played as a kid, especially as you would see nothing but hear everything. And with 8 people in the room running around, grunting, screaming, falling over, pushing other in the way of the Murderer etc. And when you were caught, the Murderer wouldn't let you go. Hence the screaming and frantic rushing. Some even hid in cupboards/under desks/beds...
This was some fun shit as a kid!
Olnidy · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game I called scoop ball with rocks and snow shovels. It had a bunch a rules I made up on the spot but basically it was soccer and hockey and basketball rolled into one. I played it a few times with my friends and it was fun.
There was a Disney Channel thing you could do in the early thousands where you made up a sport and entered it on Disney Channel. Com and it might get featured on the Disney Channel. So with my older sisters help I entered the rules and everything. A few months later my world was shattered when the segment played and it was my game. Same name, same rules, everything. Except it was some kid from California and he had a whole back story of how he created the game. They took a few liberties and changed the snow shovels to cut up milk cartons and the trashcan goals into soccer goals. I was furious because it was my ideas and they stole them. I didn't understand as a kid that it was staged and now am honored they used my idea. My sister was sitting right there too as it aired and she didn't remember helping me enter the game a few months prior.
My brother and I played the "hiding game", we would be outside playing normal games until someone walked/drove by our yard, then we would hide as quick as possible. Jump behind a bush, roll dodge towards the corner of the house or run for any cover. It got so ingrained in me that everytime I'd hear a car in the distance I'd run for cover. To this day, I'm 31, I still sometimes get that urgency to hide if I hear a car or see people at a distance.
We would start taking all the toys in the house and sell them to each other for Monopoly money, we called the game "shops"
Gaumar · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child I would spin on my feet as fast as possible and then I would stop to see the everything around me moving. Cool times, now I know that the Earth can't spin cause it is flat and it has lost some of its magic
Printing fantasy money (drawing on a paper), then sharing for free among local kids, gthen making a competition "who has more money", then trading with that money for candies, sega and dendy game cards, and busting the kids that make fake money because we would draw better and our money looked nicer, so it was easy to spot the fake. This lasted for about a year, I was around 5 and I remember that feeling of being capable of doing everything till now.
Another time we would build book fortresses (my grandparents have an entire library (a huge room) of books.
I was passive in this next one. I was in kindergarten ~4-5 yo. There was a sleeping hour and for some reason the girls would sneak into my bed one at a time changing every day. I have no idea why they would do that even now, but imagine my feelings of weirdness back then when I was a kid. I don't even know if this can be considered as a game.
Back in around 5th grade, a friend and I loved to play in a giant grass patch in front of our elementary school (since that patch had all these small dirt clearings and weeds which looked like tropical plants that all together made that area seem like a miniature vietnam jungle). We'd spend some time before recess secretly building up giant fleets of paper airplanes of various designs (some for speed, others to carry "cargo" etc) so we were ready to play once recess begins.
We'd play as two opposing teams, split up the fleets into smaller groups, assign each new group to be a military "unit" or whatever and place them in different dirt clearings. The larger, stronger planes acted as cargo carriers, bombers, and rescue planes, and were loaded with small twigs and gravel (which were pretend supply drops and bombs to us) and hand-flown to other clearings. The fast planes were kept in the clearings/bases to RP fight the other team's planes (we'd throw the planes at each other as fast as we could, any two that crashed were considered "shot down").
... and damn did recess pass by quick when we were playing some crazy form of those pc milsim games
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Spy Tag". It was a normal game of capture-the-flag, but we would draw from a bucket to see who the "spy" on both teams were. The spies could not touch either flag, and nobody knew who the spies were. Their job was to keep the other team updated on where the enemy's flag was, because with this ruleset, the flag got moved around a lot. If the team being spied on correctly guessed the spy or captured the other team's flag, then they win.
It was always super fun, and we would get all the neighborhood kids to gather up on my street to play late at night.
When I was younger my family and I used to take a lot of road trips. My favorite was a game where my siblings and I would each take turns using my mother’s camera flip phone and secretly (which meant just leaning into a corner of the car where no one could see your face) take the most ugliest selfie of ourselves. My mother used to play too. Then when each of us were done we’d all look at each others pictures and come to an agreement on who was the ugliest and they would win that round. Although we never kept track.
Unfortunately those photos are long gone but it’s such a fond and hilarious memory
This could have been a popular game for all I know idk, ANYWAY we used to play this game called Wall Ball where we chucked one racquet ball at, you guessed it, a wall in a group against one another. If someone fumbled the ball off the rebound they would have to go touch the wall before another player picked up the dropped ball and threw it at the wall. If they don’t beat the throw then the person who got them out gets a chance to beamed them in the back from a decent distance away. Light core abuse I guess.. So fun lol
when I was 4 my sister and I invented a game we only referred to as "the woo thing" and I have no idea how we played it but I ended up with a broken collarbone
Flashlight tag. Best played in pitch black in a yard with plants and obstacles:
On person is "it" in center with a flashlight. Flash light person slowly turns in a circle in one direction at a continuous speed. Other players run around hiding. If flashlight person sees someone they call out who they think it is, if they correctly identified the player, that player is now "it" in the center.
Iirc we would add rules to punish the "it" person for making wild guesses, and for players who just hid in one perfect spot without moving. Game should be played with players moving hiding spot nearly everytime flashlight person rotates.
Me and my brother played a game we called "train fight". We would take all the cushions besides the bottom ones off the sofa and that was 'the train'.
We would take turns to be the instigator but basically you sit side by side in silence until instigator makes the first move and the goal was to push the other person off the moving 'train'. You could use arms/legs to keep yourself ON the train however once a limb touched the floor it was 'torn off' and you couldn't fight or use it for the rest of the game until you were pushed totally off the sofa onto the floor.
The game got fairly hectic with 3 or more players effectively having a royal rumble on a sofa.
My bro and I created "Wild Boar Kitty" which consisted of us trapping our kitty in a makeshift pillow fort, waiting for her to escape and then running around like psychopaths "hunting her" until we could trap her in a new makeshift pillow fort and repeat the process.
My friend and I made a game called 'curb ball' that we played in our neighborhood where we stood on opposite sides of the street and threw various balls (mostly basketballs and mini-basketballs) across the street and tried to hit the curb on the other side.
So, I would stand on the grass on one side of the street, he was standing on the grass on the other side of the street.
I would throw a ball and try to hit the curb on his side. If I hit the curb, I would get a point. Then he would try, rinse and repeat.
A twist was that if the ball hit the curb, it was common for the ball to bounce back toward the thrower. The opponent would then run out to try and grab the ball before it crossed back over the middle line of the street. If they could get it before the middle line, the thrower got another turn.
It could also happen on the bounce-back to hit the thrower's curb(without any bounces in between) and you'd get double points.
My brothers and I used to play a game called Kit Kit where one of us would sit in the middle of a blanket and just say kit kit over and over as one of us took the corners of the blanket and put them together. This effectively sealed the blanket around the person on the middle of the blanket saying kit kit. We would then drag the person while holding the ends together and the person in the blanket would continue to say kit kit. Then the game ended. I still don’t know the point and it makes me cringe when I think about it. I recently tried to play it with my son. He’s three and even he looked at me like I might be mentally challenged.
One person (usually an adult) would walk up and down the sidewalk, as all of us kids would jump back and forth across it. If we stepped on the cement or they touched us we had to become lava monsters and help them catch the rest of the kids. Man that was such a fun game!
So, you know those things that you'd throw a basketball into and it would "randomly" fall out of one the five holes? In elementary school, my friends and I would throw a basketball in there, and fight to catch it. If you caught it, you were safe. We did this until only two or three people were left. If you were unlucky enough to not catch the ball, we'd put you up against a brick wall and throw tennis balls as hard as we could at you. You could either try and avoid them because they hurt like hell, or try and catch one. If you caught a tennis ball mid air, the throwing stops and you're automatically safe from the next round. If you don't, then we just keep going until we've had enough. Totally unsafe, but it was crazy fun. We never gave it a name, surprisingly.
When cell phones first came out, my cousins and I used to borrow our parents’ phones to play “phone hide and go seek” at my grandparents house. We would text each other when we were about to go find everyone and would give hints if we were stuck. We would also text each other updates on who we found first. I was a very small kid (still am lol) so I was always winning.
We would find a long and short stick. Make a hole for the small stick to bridge across and use the big stick to launch the small stick. Farthest one would win
Is it a common thing to play “Slug Bug”? My sister and I played this: whenever you see a VW Beetle you exclaimed “Slug bug (color) punch them no tag backs” I thought it was a common game until my friend said she’d never heard of it.
When I was a kid my bffs and I would use the jump ropes at recess to play "horses" and we would take turns using them like horse reigns and running around the playground. We would often get in trouble for using the jump ropes like this because it wasn't safe and we might hang ourselves. Not sure how we would hang ourselves with a jump rope around our wastes...
Bedroom turf wars at my cousins' house, most fun when their family friends (brother and sister) were over. My male cousin, the brother and I vs my female cousin and the sister.
We'd try to sneak downstairs for snacks whilst trying not to get caught in the act by enemy, and on return not let the enemy into the home room.
Once our side agreed a secret knock so i'd know if and when to open the door, and he went off on his food mission. Minutes later, i heard the secret knock, opened the door and our rivals almost broke the door down. That was so entertaining as a kid.
But there wasnt really an aim, the coup de grace would usually be writing a note and pushing it under enemy door, of a huge hand drawn butt with ridiculous acne, and often the comment "this is your bum". very controversial back then often ended in a confrontation lol.
And Dead Man. Essentially hide and seek, but one dark room. the hiders could sneak around the room as the seeker was blindfolded. Ended with being tackled if you were caught. In a room with what seemed at the time to be a huuuge 5ft tall bunk bed, and the frame had one support that was just a pole. Made for hilarious getaways from being cornered on the bunk bed. Good days.
Not sure if you call it a game but we would wait at the end of the fence to see if a car was going to turn and once we saw a turn signal we would race the car to the other end of the yard.
Revolutionary War. In HS, my friends and I played a lot of paintball. For this game mode, two teams lineup in a field across from each other and each team has a captain who controls what your team can do. basically your team had to walk, take a knee, shoot, and reload in unison. No one was allowed to have hoppers and each paintball had to be individually loaded. The ballsy team usually had more success.
I used to gather up things from the yard, pinecones, rocks, leaves, sticks, grass..etc. Set them all out on the stoop in little neat piles. They were my "ingredients" which I would then methodically grind up, and mix together and claim that I was making the "cure for the common cold."
I also had a very, very complicated WORLD of imaginary friends. It was indeed a whole world. My best mate was Melvin, an alligator who wore a top hat and bowtie. We sailed ships. He was the "navigator" -- sounds like a pun, I must've known it was punny, but I took the whole thing VERY seriously. I miss sailing the open seas with Melvin...
Not exactly childhood, but definitely some of my more child like years... In college we played a game called “Goofball.” The rules were basically like kickball, but with a few exceptions. There were 3 bases - first, second and home - and the ball was a beach ball. Since a beach ball flies high up in the air and floats slowly down when kicked, the batter could interfere with a fielder trying to catch it by using a pool noodle. The batter kicked the ball, ran into the field to hit the ball away from the fielders using the pool noodle, and when the ball was safely to the ground they raced to first base. Doubles were a very rare occurrence. The noodle was then given to the next batter. Sometimes it was used to defend against being pegged “out,” and other times just to smack the hell out of the people playing defense. The act of hitting the ball with the noodle was referred to as a “goof.” We called it Goofball because you looked like a damn idiot while playing - you looked like a goofball.
Me and my brothers decided to grab every single trading card from yugioh, pokemon bakugan and even some weird ass lego ninjago cards.
We didn't have any particular rule so we just make them up and always argue on what cars did what. Then slowly we eventually got some pokemon theme decks and played with them instead of our made up card game.
My dad and I would set up all of my army guys all over a coffee table. Like 100 of them. His brown guys on one side, my green guys on the other. Then we would drop bouncy balls all over them and bomb them. Basically we were playing America.
My siblings and I played "magic carpet" in the pool. One person would go lay flat at the bottom of the pool and another person would stand on their back. Then the "magic carpet" tried to rise to the surface without knocking the person off.
The other game was "roadkill". Two of us would be swinging on the swings, and our sister would yell out an animal (bear! kitty! turtle!) and run/crawl in front of us. we would either 1. stop if we liked the animal or 2. slam into her. Most of the time it was a good excuse to just wallop each other with the incredible force of swing momentum.
Oh dang we played a game we called (roughly translated) Salami. Four people would be on a swing set, one swing each. The fifth would sit in front of the swing sets telling a story. As soon as the storyteller mentioned the world "Salami" in the story, you jumped of your swing past a line a few meters from the swings. First one to cross the line wins.
The storyteller would trick people not saying the word in full so that they jumped early sometimes, sometimes kids jumped too far into the fence next to the swings and all kinds of things. GREAT game
I grew up in Upstate NY and we played this game called Strap.
What you would do is have one player hide a belt this is normally played at night and the rest of the people would search a designated area to find the belt. Once you find the belt you smack your friends until the touch saftey GHould
RekRP1 · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Running Game."
Back in middle school, during recess all the kids in the grade would play on a blacktop a little over 100ft long. A couple of friends and I came up with it one day and played it constantly after that. Rules were that 2 people would be "it" while anyone else who was playing were the "runners." All the runners had to start at one end of the blacktop and run to the other side after the "it" players finished a count down. Other kids who weren't playing were stage hazards. If a runner was tagged, they were also "it" and joined them in the middle of the blacktop for the next round. This would keep going until the last person left wins, and the first 2 who were tagged were "it" the next game.
It caught on with most of the kids in recess, so by the end of that year we had probably around 60 kids playing at a time. Things got pretty hectic at that point, lots of kids crashing into each other,etc, and the last few rounds got intense, with like 5 kids trying to outrun 55 others. Great game, great times.
Jumping on sofas and beds and or anything except the floor because that was supposedly some ‘lava’ we had to escape from lol.
And acting like zombies in the dark while others act as explorers who don’t want to get caught so they’d hide in places while the zombies would come for them.
I'm sort of late to this one, but I'm pretty sure I have a game that no one here has played. This was around 6th grade, so I was maybe 12ish. A friend had a large house with two big bedrooms connected by a wide hallway and there were usually four or five us that hung out there after school.
Like a lot of these games, the "rules" sort of just evolved on their own. One kid would wear a blindfold, a full face motorcycle helmet and a heavy pillow case over the helmet... you were totally blind. The other three or four kids got old down pillows - the kind that you can hold by a corner and the rest forms a dense ball at the other end. The guy in the helmet would try to protect his nuts while everyone else tried to avoid the big handful of throwing darts that he had.
This will long get buried but we had a blast playing this game we created.
In my neighborhood growing up, all my best friends were neighbors. We lived within one or two houses of each other in the late 90s and were around 9-12. We would take an object, something like a Nerf football or whatever and one team had to place it in the neighborhood in somewhat plain sight while the other team was in someone's house for about 15 minutes. We would then also hide a video camera aimed at the object. The other team then had a set amount of time to not only find the object, but they had to steal it without being caught by the camera. It was a ton of fun coming up with clever ways to block the act of taking it, trying to find the camera so you could get in front of it, etc. We never had a name for it and am not sure how it started, but we had tons of fun reviewing our tapes.
I'd rearrange my furniture and use it as different things. My desk became a bed, my bed became a table, my dresser became a bench, my chair became a shelf, my shelves became windowsills, my windowsill became a shelf, etc. Ended when my mother lost her shit on me for napping on top of my desk.
My siblings and I would try to keep an exercise ball in the air for as long as possible using only only our pelvises. I don’t remember who came up with it but I remember playing it a lot.
Family cry. Anytime one of the children started crying (me or my two siblings) my dad would yell “FAMILY CRY” and the other kids would run into the room and fake cry. It was terrible when it happened to you, but goddamn did it feel good to mock you siblings when they were acting like brats.
My friends and I literally just called it "the game". Basically we would act as whatever characters we wanted and make up stories that put all the characters together in one place. I was James from Pokémon, my friend was Samus Aran, another friend was Link, another was Spyro the Dragon...
Who we were would change from day to day. There was never really a comprehensive story, it was just whatever we felt like doing. Maybe one day James tried to steal Spyro because he thought he was a Pokémon. Maybe another day Samus needed Link's help fighting Ridley. I remember constantly hearing/saying the phrase "Now you say [X]!" And if you were asked you'd do it. Unless it didn't fit your character. Then we'd fight about it.
We played that game from second through almost the end of sixth grade. Some friends even came over during the summer and we continued our "stories". The day my friends told me they were too old for this silly game and they wanted to spend their recesses doing other things, I cried.
Yaas! Pretend games were so fun! My cousins and I would play Pokedig, a beautiful blend between Pokemon and digemon. We even made our own little books about our invented pokedigs. This whole thread is making me miss being a kid.
My family owned several houses along the Ohio River on the Kentucky side. These houses used to be part of the Underground Railroad. So they had false panels in the walls that you could hide behind and hidden passages between rooms and tunnels between each house. Our hide and seek games spanned multiple houses.
I remember getting scolded once because I popped out of the wall and startled my grandma. She was cool about it later, though. Just scared in the moment. Lol.
The only rule was that you couldn’t go into the tunnel that lead to the river. That was off limits.
One child, the human pet owner, would completely own the other children who acted as the pets and got points for doing what the owner said. There was a shop where you could trade points for items and other things to meet all your pet needs.
Not particularly as a child, but back during my last two years of high school. My friend and I invented a variation of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" with about 11 different factors. Each time we added a new one, we had to draw a diagram to keep up with all the different combinations. Off the top of my head, some I can remember are Llama, Batman, Gun, Priest, Satan, Water, and Milk.
Dudes mom had a totally dark basement room. Turn off the lights. Everyone blind. Throw nerf football in room. Object of the game was to get the football into a plastic laundry hamper.
Strategy was go find who has the hamper. Beat the shit out of them then go hide the hamper. Then go find who has the football. Then marry the two up.
Me and my brother played a game where we got a wheel barrow and tried to make the most disgusting mixture of garden stuff we could find. Grass clippings, mud, plants, garden mulch, sometimes dog poop if we felt adventurous. And then...that was it. We just made it. Once we were done we tipped it out and did something else. It was gross for the sake of being gross.
The neighborhood had a game we called "Streetlight Superman". We gathered around a streetlight at night and whenever a car approached we would pretend to beat the crap out of one of us. Sometimes the cars would stop to break up the "fight" and we'd all run away laughing our asses off.
I sometimes wonder about the people that saw the "fight" and just kept driving . . . .
My mom would play "This is My Tree" with us when we were toddlers. You touch a tree and announce "This is my tree!" - when the toddler catches up and touches the tree and claims it you move to the next tree and "This is my tree!" Again
One of my favorite games to play in the car is padiddle. Basic rules are if you see a car that is missing a headlight you have to punch the ceiling and say padiddle. It leads to a lot of questions when I forget who I play with but it really makes you realize how many people are missing headlights.
The Yellow Car game. First person to spot a yellow car gets a point.
It leads to all sorts of arguments. Does a van with seats in the back count as a car? Does a camper van? How yellow is yellow- does a kind if sickly yellow green count, and if it does, then the golden-yellow car I saw an hour and a half ago must count.....
We also now have the Avonmouth Exception- because I once won a game 56-5, as we were going on a bridge past the car terminal at Avonmouth where they unload new imported cars from ships, and there are car parks full of hundreds of cars, many yellow.
My brother and I sat facing each other with our knees bent and the bottom of our feet flat against the others feet. The goal was to kick the other in the nuts. The risk was moving your feet to do so would make you vulnerable
We got a nurf gun, a couple bullets, and Someone who wanted to be the hunted animal. Deers, wolves and bears. Dears went down with two bullets, wolves with two but they could bite the hunter in defense, and three bullets for the bear, who could also bite the hunter. It was actually really fun to run around.
My sister and I would play a game we called Nancy Drew, where one of us would go to another room or area of our house/yard, and the other would make up a story, but you would only have the beginning of the story. The rest of it was hidden in folded notes around wherever we were playing, and each piece gave you a clue to the next one until you finished the story.
My cousin and I used to take all the "free internet trial" cds from the mail and play ninjas. One of us would throw it at the other who would try to knock it out of the air/shatter it with a "sword" (baseball bat, play sword, sword length sticks)
We called it "Cherry Pie" (we were really into guitar hero 2) and it was basically pool tag. Everyone on deck, last one to jump into the pool was it. That person wold jump in and try to tag someone. If you got back on to the pool deck without jumping over the side into the grass you were safe. If everyone was out of the pool, the it person would stay in and try to tag our legs. Whoever was tagged on the deck COULD tag the It person back and they'd have to retag. Once someone on the deck was it, it was all back into the pool for another round. We played this for hours and hours. Excellent workout jumping over your siblings to avoid being tagged lol
One was cops n robbers. Cops on bikes, robbers on foot. Everyone had a walkie talkie, cops n robbers on different channels. Robbers got a head start to hide from cops. If spotted by a cop youd have to run n lose him again. You were caught if a cop tackled you. Caught robbers become cops. These "undercover" cops could trick robbers by not telling them they got caught and listening in on walkies. Sometimes we'd play with airsoft/nerf/water guns.
J3EL · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to come up with new rules for chess. The rooks might be catapults that could "toss" other pieces, the queen would be a space ship that could move anywhere (but not actually be able to capture anything), the pawns could move backwards, the king had 3 lives, pieces could be tagged back in by skipping your turn, captured enemy pieces could join your team, it was a lot of fun.
I created a game at a beach with a 6 foot long stick and as many coconuts as I could find. I erected the stick, took a number of steps away from the stick, draw a line in the sand and threw coconuts at it until it fell. Depending on how far away you threw the coconuts and how stable the stick was it could fill in a fair bit of time.
Guard! Me and my friends would put a bunch of obstacles in our friend's yard, like a trash can, bicycles, lawn chairs, etc.
One person was the guard and stood with their back facing us. They would pretend to be like a nighttime security guard, walking back and forth, and when they said "huh?" we'd have to hide behind something when they turned around. We'd take things away until there was only one person left. The winner was then the next guard.
We also added in being able to lay flat or freeze in place when there were a lot of kids playing, since each thing could only be used for cover by one person. It was super simple but super fun, especially when people tried to cheat lol.
"kretengo" or translated from Bulgarian something like the moronlympics. The game mainly included older kids in the neighborhood torturing us in different levels (1-100 if I remember correctly). Where it would start with a pinch and ended in armtwists, kicking stomach punches and pouring water over us. Not much of a game now that I think of it...
Glow worm wars. You guys remember glow worms? Little soft plastic glow-in-the-dark worm shaped figures. Let em charge up in the light for a while, go into a room or basement where minimal damage can be done. Turn off all the lights. Total darkness is necessary. Proceed to whip glow worms across the room at each other. No other lights are allowed.
Well we were young, most of our parents grew up in the 70s, and we had heard them talking about an old game called “kick the can”. Us being only 5 or 6 at the time though that sounded fun just by the name. We didn’t ask what the game was or how to play (we were all bare foot because we were summer). One of my friends grabbed a can of beans from his house and we all started kicking it to each other. We got bored quick so I came up with the idea to see who could kick the cab the farthest, I even volunteered to go first. That was a fun emergency room visit...
You know the playground game "four square?" My sister and I played "2 square" on the back sidewalk. The cuts in the sidewalk make pretty decent sized "squares" and each of us would get 2 of them, so you'd end up with a 3' x 6' area each, and you could do shit you couldn't in regular 4 square, like fake out your opponent you were going to smash the hell out of it, and then barely hit so the ball would just barely go over the line. You could also hit the ball onto the edge of the sidewalk so it'd bounce real funny.
fd0263 · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play skates vs bikes. Basically my friend and I (both like 10) would ride around on our skate boards trying to throw sticks at my friend’s older brother (11) and his friends who were on bikes. Our aim was to get the sticks in their spokes while they threw their own sticks at us (and kicked us when we pissed them off enough)
We had a trampoline, not much of a game but we would put a water sprinkler under it for a slippier surface, we stopped doing that when me and my older brother went to chest bump, he fucked up and hit my leg, promptly shooting my knee up into my chin and my bottom teeth straight through my upper lip
Well me and my cousins were young when the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake came out. We used to "play" it but the unique thing was we would use a golf club instead of a chainsaw. Instead of the regular title of the movie I was known as the North Dakota Golf Club Massacre. I would chase my cousins around in the yard with the golf club I never hit them though thankfully.
Late to the game but I played Highassket Ball (aka 3 shot)
It was a free throw game played with a nerf basketball hoop.
The game was played in rounds. each player got three shots if you made your third shot you can continue in order to increase your score. if you missed after your third shot you would lose all your points. if you stop shooting before you missed your last shot you get all the points for that round and whoever had the highest number of points won the round.
so many hours gone to the highassket ball
My cousins and I made up this game called Abducted. One person was the victim, one was the kidnapper, and the rest were cops. As a kidnapper, you had to try to take the child without the cops getting suspicious. As a victim, you had to try to escape or get someone to help you. I guess we were some weird kids...
“Escape from the Nazis” - we were either POW’s or Jews, depending on whether or not we had toy guns. The Nazi’s were usually unsuspecting parents or passers-by.
“Flying Paper Dolls” - we would spend hours carefully constructing beautiful paper dolls, then take them outside on a windy day and wait for a big gust to take them on adventures. In some circles this game may also be called “littering.”
“Narnia” - a game in which my mother would tell me to go find Narnia and then shut me in the closet.
“Cheating Uno” - similar to regular Uno, but you tried to get rid of your cards faster by hiding them in your clothing, around the room, or by sneaking them back on the pile when no one was looking. If you got caught you had to take your cards back and draw 4.
“Back to the Future Part 2” - in which I would sneak around the house trying to avoid myself.
My friend and I were bored at her house one night when I was staying over. She then goes to her dresser and takes out a pair of her panties and throws them at her ceiling fan and they go flying across the room. We played this almost every time I went to her house. It was really fun when we would have to go hunting for them after they got thrown by the fan.
This was YEARS ago. In my grandfathers cabin in DR, me and my cousins (plenty of them) took the whole basement to ourselves since that’s where us kids would sleep. We split ourselves into groups of two and turned off all the lights so it would be pitch dark. whoever had to seek, would have to stand in one specific corner while everyone else hid. You can separate from your partner while hiding but not seeking. whichever team is found first is the seeker. We would literally play this the entire night. One of the moments in my life i will honestly never forget.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my step sister and our cousin played a game called worm where you would slide down the stair face first with your arms at your side. There wasn’t a winner or loser.
Another one was called the car game. Different types of cars were worth different points and we’d play it on long car rides. First to 100 points won. If you called out a car but it was wrong those points got deducted
You take tissues and peel it apart so it’s 1-ply. then you take a tablespoon of flour and dump it in the middle of the tissue. Pull up the corners and sides of the tissue and wrap it with tape so it looks like a little sack. Repeat a few dozen times and then go to war with a group of friends. The flower acts as a marker like paintballs.
My dad told me about how kids at his school would play rock tag. Exactly as it sounds. He went to a Catholic school and these kids were the delinquents. Apparently, they always played right next to the greenhouse too...
Flashlight tag:
My cousins had a mansion with two staircases and a bunch of rooms, so this game was a classic.
All the lights are off. One person is "it" and they have a flashlight with a narrow beam. Everyone else tries to tag them, but they can't move if they're in the beam of light.
Its simple, but it was terrifying to be standing in the corner of a dark hallway with four other kids staring at you, motionless, waiting.
Stepdad used to take us outside to play a game called “Gay Payton Manning” where he would have one of us (his 3 step sons) snap the ball to him and have the other 2 sprint down the driveway at full speed and try not to get hit by the football while also praying that you were not the one that he decided to throw the ball at. Another adaptation was created where the two runners would instead ride bikes back and forth on the street and avoid the ball. I would always play center as I was terrified of getting hit by the ball and I also did not know how to ride a bike. As for why Peyton Manning was gay in this scenario, I still do not know to this day. But it was still loads of fun regardless.
The coin game. Middle school stupidity.actoss the lunch table, player one places his/her knuckles on the table (both hands, like you are hitting the table closed fisted). Player 2 gets to slide a coin flat on the table as hard as they can into your knuckles. Turns alternate after one coin slide. First to draw blood wins. Basically bloody knuckles with currency. American nickels worked best.
I lived on a busy road, speed limit 35, but people usually drove faster. I played this game only one day.
I would stand at the mailbox and wait until an incoming car would get to a certain point while driving closer to my house. For example: a driveway 4 houses down . I would try to sprint to and touch my front door before the car passed by my front door.
If I won, I would let the next car get a little bit closer. I liked to think if I won, I was faster than the cars.
It was all fun and games until I put my arms through the glass on the screen door. No real damage just a lot of little scars you can’t really see anymore.
"Car" we usually played this at night. My house was the second house in on the block, there was a hill going down just past the end of the closest corner, and a curve a little ways down the block in the opposite direction, so you couldn't really see a car coming from either direction until it got pretty close. We would walk down to the closest corner and stand there and wait for a car to come from either direction. As soon as we saw the headlights we'd scream "car" and run back to the front porch. the goal was to make it to the porch and stand on the side that the car was coming from before the car got past us.
It was called the "door" game.Basically,one of my comrades would be on one side of a door,while I was on the other.Whenever the opposing person opened the door(and closed it back later),the other would be in a different position or act up a weird skit every time.It was always either funny or just made you question why you bother anymore.
I used to play a game with my cousins in which we would have one person swing on a rope swing and the others chuck walnuts at the swinger. The person who could swing the most without falling would win.
I was playing this when i was 8 or 9. Never would I play this now.
My sister and I would sometimes hum a tune and the other had to guess where it was from. Some were songs and others were catchy tunes you hear in popular commercials
Our favorite game was using all the stuffed animals we had (we had a lot) to bury the other in. Then the one inside this pile had to get out and pretend to be a zombie coming out of a grave.
Blob Monster - one person (the blob) was draped in a huge blue blanket and tried to envelop other people by pulling them under the blanket with them. The blob was aided by two “poops” - we would put these large L shaped brown pillows around our necks and swing the soft part onto other kids beating them down so the blob could envelop them. Hours of fun and somehow no injuries.
kolgor · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my friend we invented SKATEBALL. It's a mix between Soccer, Quidditch and Handball, but on Snakeboards and RipStiks.
This might not be unique but we used to play mat ball, essentially kick ball but the plates were giant mats that allowed a bunch of kids to be on the same mat all at once. This meant we got to play in huge groups, so much fun!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can my teenage years count? We used to play "Fireball." We'd douse a tennis ball in gasoline, light it on fire, throw it on a trampoline, and jump around, dodging the fireball.
That was it.
Once it fell off, we would pick it up and throw it back... you had about a second to do it without burning yourself. We'd burn ourselves every so often.
If we ever had a trampoline, we would've so effing DONE that!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:33:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's so much fun. It's not exactly safe, but as long as you don't sit up against the fireball and as long as you don't get gasoline on yourself, it's awesome.
Crab football. Basically it's football (soccer) between 4 or 6 of you. You are lay back on your hands (think when you are doing tricep dips) and can only move sideways when you had the ball.
Rock fight my friends and I would throw rocks at each other till someone gave up
nnic · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game in primary school, around the same time Jurassic Park came out, surprising called "Jurassic Park". It was basically a version of "it", where whoever was "it" was actually the t-rex. If you were running away from the t rex, turned a corner and stood still, the the t rex couldn't see you, and therefore not tag you.
There were a lot of disputes around if you moved or not when the t-rex was near, but it was a great game.
Not as a child, but as a parent. My kids and I made up a game called “line maker”. It’s a hybrid of hide and seek and tag, with me on a bike. We have a huge park behind my house (hills, trees, bushes, etc.). I would give the kids a three minute headstart, they would go hide, then I would get on my bike with a ball (it was soft) and go looking for them. If found them I had to hit them with the ball. If I hit them with the ball, they were officially on my team and had to help me find other kids. They had to run. The game was over when we found the last kid. I was always it at the start, letting me get a lot of exercise in. We did this about three years ago for an entire summer. At one point we had 20 kids out And would sometimes head out three times a day to go and play. Good times!
We loved playing “Noise Detector.” We would all be spread out on a wrestling mat in a neighbor’s basement and the Noise detector would close their eyes and sit in the middle of the mat. After chanting the noise detector jingle, the noise detector would crawl around with their eyes closed trying to tackle everyone else running around. Last one standing wins. A true classic
(Appologies for formatting I'm on mobile and bad at wroting)
Zombie tag. This isn't really a unique game but the thing that made it special was the sheer size at which we played. I went to an intermediate school just 5 and 6th grade and a group of my friends started playing just about 10 of us total. Eventually we got our whole class of 30 involved then our whole grade and eventually the 300ish kid school all playing zombie tag every day at recess. It was beutiful, the real battle royal.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sister and i didn’t have a name for it but we would lay down on our sides and take turns kicking each other as hard as we could in the vagina. i guess you could call that “unique”.
Me and a friend of mine made a game which we called "Zing Zong", basically a very complex and bizarre version of Ping Pong (aka table tennis). You play it on a Pool table. Then you can put the pool balls on the table in any position you want, I'll explain their use later. In the game, you play with broken Ping Pong rackets (obligatory) and play it like a Ping Pong match, except you need to get the Ping Pong ball in the holes where you would normally put the Pool ones. You can also position the Pool balls on your side of the table and, if the other guy hits one of your positioned balls, you score a point. When you get the ball in you get either 5 or 10 points, can't quite recall it. And last, but definitely least, it is also obligatory to play it with a lamp right on top of the Pool table. You don't really use the white Pool ball either tbh. And that's my very complex and bizarre game for you guys. Hope you guys try to play it, we laughed a lot and sorry for this gigantic text.
My dad always played a game with my younger sister and I called "Shoot the Kangaroo". He'd sit on one side of the living room on a computer chair with a dodgeball in hand (or whatever ball we had to play with: soccer, inflated rubber, etc) and my sister and I on the other side. We would have to cross the dangerous land in front of the couch swiftly while my dad tried to "shoot" us by hitting us with the ball. It started out with us pretending to be kangaroos, hopping wildly for our lives, but as the game progressed we would choose other animals to imitate while crossing in front of the couch (ex. crawling like a turtle, wriggling like a snake, flapping hysterically like a chicken). If we made it to the other side we made it unscathed, but if hit outside the safezones we had to die dramatically.
One other game I don't believe we had a name for. Basically, we would all take turns aiming and firing a "skydancer" toy (if you know what that is) at each other while the rest run for our lives.
When my brother and I were young, our mother was a nurse who worked nights. So, my dad had to try entertain two half-tame children until bedtime. We were probably around 6 (me) and 4 (brother) when my dad came up with a game called “Penguin”.
Sounds fine, until I describe the whole layout. My father would get a white dish towel and tuck one end into his collar and the other end into his pants, to give the white front that penguins have. You could only play downstairs, so you had two living rooms, a hallway, a utility and a kitchen to utilise ( it’s a smaller square-ish house). My dad would proceed to run around after us making “bawk bawk bawk” noises, and if he caught us, the one who was caught was “out” in the utility room. The other sibling must then attempt to free the other by touching them and shouting “FREE”. The only safe space was on the bottom of the stairs, called “den” (a lot of Irish and UK people used the word den for a safe spot), where you could sit and have a breather.
The creepy thing is, the light had to be turned off, and the only light allowed was one candle on the kitchen table. So you can imagine the sounds of a man shuffling around making weird bird noises. To make it worse, my dad would do this exaggerated snuffling, acting like he could smell us out, and would chase us.
Now that I’m older I’m completely baffled that my father had the patience to play with us if this was the kinda shit we liked.
As creepy as the whole thing sounds, I actually have wonderful memories of us playing this, and of my dad catching and tickling us until we were bellowing with laughter. We used to hate when mam left for work, so in all fairness he did a good job distracting us!
tldr: dad dressed as penguin and chased us in the dark.
Well we didn’t have a name for it it was really good. You and you’re friends are jumping on a trampoline with all kinds of balls (anything between tennisballs and skippyballs) these balls started bouncing when you started to jump. If you got hit by a ball you were out. We even had one guy trowing the balls which bounced of the trampoline back
My sisters, cousins and I used to play Manhunt but with Nerf guns. We would turn all the lights out & hide with one of us being the Hunter. When we found/spotted someone we would have to shoot them in order to catch them. Super fun!
Spit races. Me and my brothers slept in a bunk bed together. It was wooden, and from the top bunk we'd use the columns holding the bed up to roll spit down. Whoever's spit hit the floor first won. Thinking back on this is disgusting, wondering how much spit was soaked in to our floor.
Ghost in the Graveyard. In the fall and winter when the days were short there were a couple of dark hours before my parents would get home from work. My sister and I and neighborhood friends would cut off all the lights in the house and play hide and seek in the pitch dark with the seeker having a flashlight,
Bike Wars
While we were out riding bikes, anyone could yell bike wars and everyone had 3 seconds to prepare themselves. The only rule at that point is that you aren’t allowed to touch the floor, and that you should use whatever means possible to make the other bike riders touch the floor.
Most of the time, a person would have to put a foot to the ground, getting them out. But sometimes, something spectacularly satisfying might happen. Like kicking the front wheel of someone’s bike while going full speed. Or the occasional kamikaze where, if only 2 people were left, someone would leap from their bike in hopes of knocking the other person to the floor in a way so that the other person would touch the ground first.
We called it "Chicken," and by God, it was stupid.
You need a swing set (our school had 4 swings per set) and at minimum, one more person than the number of swings. (i.e. we needed 5 people.)
Put people on the swings. Remaining people run from one end of the swing set to the other. Successfully doing so earns you a point. If you fall over (not necessarily get hit) you lose.
In practice, the game was to do as many runs as possible before the game got shut down by a recess supervisor.
Dish Swish Squish. I've always believe my Dad invented this game, but who knows. Basically on road trips you got 1 point for spotting a satellite dish, 2 points for a Basketball Net and 3 points for a roadkill lol. Entertained us as kids that's for sure
Team Kill the Carrier: There are two teams and a ball. Which ever team has the ball does whatever it can to retain possession of the ball while the other team does whatever it can to obtain the ball. When the ball changes hands the teams change roles.
Basically it was just 16 or so kids beating the shit out of each other with a field ball in the mix. I think the recess monitors hated us because they let this go on for weeks.
The game was called chicken pox. We would pick crab apples off a tree in my yard and throw them into the street. Then, we’d wait for a car to come and drive over them. That was it. That was the game.
We had many... My family lived on about 30 acres with my cousins, grandparents, and great grandparents. Place was full of trees and all kinds of animals. We used to have airsoft wars and play hide and seek in the dark across the property. The airsoft wars were intense. You would take your airsoft gun and run all over, searching for someone to fire at. They are still canisters of the ammo sitting around in my great grandparents old garage. We did this stuff for years. A while back, my uncle built a new house about a hundred feet from his old one and while it was being built, my brother, cousins, and I all had a free for all. We played a whole new level of hide and seek in that shell of a house. We hid in cabinets, behind sheets of cardboard, etc. I believe I still have a picture of my brother sitting in the rafters somewhere...
Concentration camp...
I was around 8 at the time and my cousins and dithers would go into the basement and turn the lights off. Then me and some of my cousins (the Jews) would have to go hide while the other older ones searched for us while screaming in German accents. If one of the nazis caught you they always had to make a big show when they executed you. Good times
Me, my cousins and siblings made up a game called LIFE ALERT...based off the commercials. One kid is the "red life alert" which is the medic. And then one kid is "black life alert" which is the tagger. Everyone else is a citizen. The black life alert runs around and tags everybody. Once you're tagged u have to lay on the ground and scream HELP IVE FALLEN AND I CANT GET UP. And the red life alert will have to come to heal u. When they do that, you can get up and play again. If the black life alert tags the red life alert, then nobody can be healed and the game ends once everyone's on the floor. LOL best game ever 🤣
In kindergarten we were a small group of friends and often played our favourite game:
One friend lies down on the floor, while the other kids stand in line to walk over the the friend lying down, one after another.
We literally stepped on said friend, until she/he couldn't bear it anymore - Then it was the next one's turn to lie down
Well... we were the weird one's
When I was about 6 we got dozens of those little bouncy balls at this place my dad used to play pool at (one of those little family restaurants with small games). We got home and we had a MASSIVE 'Ball War'. My parents and my sister and I were all just chucking these things at each other and they were bouncing off every surface imaginable. Lasted hours. Every now and then we would start it back up, but that was the best thing we ever did imo.
“Wolf Pack”
There were four (sometimes five) of us that played a long-running, poorly defined imaginary game from the ages of about 4-7. We would all pretend to be wolves, running around the playground and yipping back and forth to each other in order to “talk.” I was always the daddy wolf, and my friends would be the mommy or baby wolf. Sometimes they decided to be a horse that day instead, which was always fine with us.
At the start of each recess we would all run to some fairly secluded spot (under a tree, or below a plastic play-house) and have an actual conversation to determine what the adventure was for that day. It was usually about finding food, or escaping some hunters. Looking back on it, we were probably viewed as some strange kids (there was howling involved, so yeah), but we had a good time and I think we’ve all turned out pretty normal.
chelpp · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two cousins would play "Rock School" on the stoop of their front porch. One of us would be the "teacher," hiding a rock in one of our hands in front of the steps at the bottom, while the rest sat on the top step as "students." Each student took a turn guessing which hand the teacher held the rock in. If you guessed right, you'd move down a step. Whoever gets past the last step becomes the new teacher. Not that exciting but it kept us busy for a while.
Me and my delinquent friends used to throw snowballs at cars (sometimes tennis balls if we got the urge and there was no snow). We’d hype up the kid who was about to throw one and then laugh when they missed. On the odd chance that we did hit a car we’d all start giggling and fleeing the scene expecting people to actually care and come chase us. Never happened until my dumbass friend hit my other buddies neighbors car with a tennis ball. Turns out we weren’t very well hidden and running away did nothing for us. Needless to say our parents were all pretty pissed when we each got home that night and we all had to go apologize. I miss being 12.
Sardines!! I’m sure a lot of people played it but it’s reverse hide and seek. One person hides and everyone seeks and if you find the person, you hide with them and the last “seeker” to find everyone is IT.
When I was a kid, I had this big loft bedroom with a huge ceiling fan. And being an only child, I had a huge wooden chest filled with stuffed animals. The chest was antique, it was about the size of an adult-sized coffin. My friends and I would play this game where we would throw the stuffed animals onto the blades of the ceiling fan, and when we got as many up there as we could, we would switch the fan on. The stuffed animals would go soaring all over the room, and sometimes you would even get smacked by one. I remember getting hit by the plastic eye of one of my teddy bears, that definitely hurt. Whoever could catch the most stuffed animals before they hit the ground won the game.
Windmill game. We just would try to see who could count the most windmills. I tried it with my kids, it’s getting harder, until you get to the wind farms and then you really get going
Not remotely as unique as the others as we just played "Pachin Pachon School".
Basically I set up this "school", having a sign on our bedroom door, to pretend I was the tutor to my only student, my little brother. We would then spend the afternoon together in the floor while I taught him anything that I recently learnt at primary school.
I may have been 8-9 and he was 4-5, so it's not like we followed an strict curriculum. Although I pride myself on thinking about all the times he came to me asking if it wasn't time for school already. I guess he wasn't in primary school yet and he enjoyed believing I was teaching him "grown-up stuff". Even though we would ended up just drawing and painting together xD
I love that memory :)
Ah! We also loved to build "The Pyramid" by gathering almost every single Lego piece we had to stock them together creating a massive pyramid. We would always leave a tiny door (the smaller the better) to be able to look at the "treasure" safely inside. It was like a ruby on a stand from some Lego set and we could lay down on our bellies and watch it for hours while talking.
My game was called headlights we went to a nice neighborhood at night and anytime you seen headlights we scattered like roaches and hid behind anything we could find and when their wasnt any cars we would drive around and play hide n seek where the seeker is in the car and the hiders had to send pictures of the car through FB messenger
played badminton in the backyard without a net and to get a point we had to hit eachother with the birdie. needless to say our reaction times became insane and we went on to be great players in high school
Ping pong balls bounced perfectly down my grandmother's old wooden staircase. On the floor below, we set up a bunch of mason jars, baskets, buckets, small glasses, etc, with different point values. The smaller the target, the more points. You were allowed to play defense by trying to hit someone's bouncing ball with your own using an overarm toss - but you would lose your turn. We obviously named the game 'My Balls Are Always Bouncing'.
My friend and I would always play this mermaid Olympic game, where it was basically the Olympics for mermaids. You would think that it would just be that, but were sisters and we didn’t have a mother, but an evil father. We also had “boyfriends” that didn’t know were were mermaids. There was also alternate worlds we would swim into. I don’t remember a whole lot of that.
There was also this other game we would play on the trampoline where we would pretended to climb a bookshelf... yes, a bookshelf, I really don’t know what the point of that was because in the game we never made it to the top, we just kept falling off the bookshelf.
Although I am an adult participant, my son insists on playing “cat toy soccer” at least once a day. He conceptualized this good time by guarding opposite doorways and kicking a small plastic cat jingle ball as violently as possible to score. It may sound simple enough, but it’s an intense sport! And the cat will appear for a celebrity shot now and again.
Me and my family played "yellow car" whenever you see a yellow car you had to tell it and let everyone else take a look at the car to make sure you weren't bluffing.
My brother and two sisters used to play this at a community club with the other kids, there was a big hall, lots of hiding places, we would turn off the lights and play a game of tag + hide and seek in the dark. It involved running into things you couldn't see, falling over and a lot of shenanigans. I think it started up when I was like 7 years old.
Beanie baby war - basically my sister and I had a TON of beanie babies and we would split them up and basically just throw them at each other from either across the hall or from the top to the bottom of the stairs. I don't recall if there was a point to it or if it was just a way to throw things at each other without getting in trouble.
"Mars Rover" was a game where everybody had to get into their own sleeping bag or under a blanket. Everybody would get on a large bed and try to push the others off. The last one standing won. The higher the bed, the more fun the game.
For a while on the playground at recess we would play tag. Except you couldn’t touch the ground. It was like a group of monkeys swinging through the jungle gym running from whoever was it. I used to be an agile little shit and at one point I had the perfect escape route. Run out and stand on a peninsula that kind of jutted out from the main area. From there, if the it person chased you down the peninsula you simply made about a 10 foot leap of faith onto the slide, and ran up back to the main area. It was pretty fun. Think “Mission Impossible Tom Cruise Freeclimb Cliff scene,” except with a jungle gym and about 10 rowdy 4th graders. Good times.
Xtreme Poison Ball—my parents bought got one of those big trampolines with the nets around them when I was 8 or 9, and my brothers, some neighbor kids, and I came up with a game to play on it. We found a little foam ball about the size of a softball, and with 4 or 5 of us on the trampoline at once, we’d jump around and try to hit (not throw) the ball at each other without letting it touch us anywhere besides our hands and arms. If it did, we were out. Last one standing got to start with the ball in the next round.
Harry Potter Initials—this is something I did with my dad mostly, but my brothers occasionally got in on it too. One person would give the initials of a character in the Harry Potter series and the rest of us (usually just me) would have to figure out who they were thinking of. They got to be pretty obscure and really tested our knowledge of the books. We later started doing this with Beatles song titles by listing the first letter in each word and making each other figure out which song it was.
American flag! Gotta spot'm all!!! Every time we got in the car with my dad. I forgot all about that, thanks for reminding me.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older cousin tried to make potions. One time we mixed sunflower oil, ginger and catterpillar guts. When the the spider that we tested our potion on stopped moving we thought that we had invented a paralyzing poison. Last week It finally downed on me that we just fucking drowned the spider
We would play “Jurassic Park”, one kid plays the T-rex and can only catch people he has seen move, but if they can turn a corner and freeze you have to ignore them and keep running after anyone still moving. Also, if you don’t move for too long the t-rex will smell you and catch you anyway, no camping.
The "it" person stayed on the ground and they couldn't move unless someone else was on the ground or to go to the ball. The it person could tag someone else with the ball by throwing and hitting them with the ball and the person who got hit would be "it" unless the intended target caught the ball. in that case the player who caught the ball could throw it as far as they could which would give everyone else a chance to run around changing position on the various pieces of playground equipment and hiding while the "it"s back is turned.
The IT wasn't allowed to simply toss the ball to get into a better position.
As intricate as all these rules are we never named the game. We played for hours a day for years from age 6 or 7 until well into middle school when girls happened. Some of my greatest childhood friendships and memories happened playing that game.
english bulldog. we only played it with some para-militaric scouts, that i‘ve been part of.
(paramilitaric because we are/were (not part of them anymore, since i understand what the group stands for) trained with firearms and had many very physically demanding games, among others different types of „wars“, but that‘s for another post. we also took uniforms, marching, -music, command levels and so on dead seriously and had draconic forms of punishment for all kinds of rules. at least most of them could also double as exersize, but that just made me hate gyms and stuff and made me become a fit, but very lazy adult)
english bulldog is one of our most beloved, well known, wide spread and easy to learn and understand games, at the same time it is also the one that is the most physically demanding for the toughest and best players, while other games usually get easier the better you are at it.
the rules are simple.
you play on a 10-20 meter long stretch of land, ideally wide enough for every player to stand hand in hand without them perfectly reaching both sides at once.
you start with two teams on opposite sides, often one team is alone at first, though.
that at first smaller team‘s task is to catch every single enemy team‘s members, this is a common theme in many very similar games
caught members become part of the other team, which is also common
one team is always running and the other is always catching (duh, the most common way of playing catch)
traditionally, you have a little „conversation“ going on before every round, where the catching team first shouts something along the lines of: „who‘s afraid of the english bulldog?“ which usually gets answered by the running team with something dismissive but kids usually just shout „not us“ back. yo mom jokes are very welcome here among others.
the catch is that in comparison to most other games of catch you dont just touch someone and say „gotcha“, oh no. you have to physically stop whoever you are trying to catch and then somehow lift them up, which more often than not requires teamwork or picking smaller/weaker members first. while the running person is in air, and not a single body part is touching the floor, you have to yell: „1, 2, 3 English bulldog“. if you fail at any part of this, the running person can still try to escape.
the exact rules here are a bit imprecise, but generally you play this with friends and family, so you will look out not to injure others. that said, push/bodychecks and similar things are allowed for both teams, especially when it comes to a small running team trying to force their way through a large chain of catching people. that said, the people catching obviously also can pull, grab, pin down and obviously lift up people. kicks and punches obviously arent seen, but a person that is about to be pinned down and tries to crawl away will obviously have a lot of force in his legs, so if you suddenly pull out his legs, you totally might get kicked. you cant just turn your brain off in this game, not at all.
so to reiterate: two teams, one starts small and catches others who are just trying to escape. both start on opposite sides and try to get to the other side. before running, every side traditionally yells something at the other side, but at any rate you need some kind of sinal for everyone to start running. if a member of the running team made it to the other side (be that touching the opposite side‘s wall or getting completely over a line) he is safe until the next round. if everyone either made it to the other side, is caught or is part of the catching team, the catching team (along with their new members that they just caught) go to the other side and now the two opposite sides do the same thing again. running side gets smaller and smaller and the catching side gets larger and larger. the last person left on the running side wins, but usually you dont just give up in this situation. some people do, but with us, every single person has to be caught whatever it takes. this usually is only one more round, but (not so humble brag incoming) personally, i am very good at this game and my record is surviving around 15 rounds. at that point i wasnt fit enough to yell anything in the beginning.
to be good at this game you not only have to be strong, have great endurance and be able to almost brawl your way through 20 or more people, you also need some brains. you have to know who is strong, who is tired, where are the weak points of the catching team and how to abuse them. i remember in my record run i was too tired to accelerate into a full speed run, so after every round i would slowly climb a hill (which existed on both sides) and would let gravity help me get speed to get through the enemy lines. in the same run i also used the fences on both sides of the playing area to wall run over the enemy lines. i have never done that before but it made sense to me in that point so i did it and survived another round. sometimes you also have to pick the biggest guy to run at and in the last second drop down and slide through his legs. doesnt usually work though and you have to expect getting pinned down, but if you run fast enough and the enemy doesnt and actually even stops to be stable when he expects you to run him over, you will be very close to the other side and can crawl into safety even with a few catching people on top of you. btw in case you are being pulled to the other side of the field you can pull against that to get to safety.
one more thing: i dont generally play like that, but some people do: as long as you are on the other side of the field (in the aim) with both feet as the running team, you can pull catching team members into your aim. if you do, they become running members again. if a running person that tries to pull a catching team member falls over and/or steps outside, they can be caught by the other team and themselves can only try to escape again, so the biggest guy cant just go the first round and carry the one catching person to the other end to end the game. this rule only exists to keep catching people away from the aim and in case they are trying to pick up a crawling person very close to the aim. further, you can play with the rule that as soon as you can reach your running team member‘s hand or whatever while you are in the aim without touching the floor outside, you can also pull your teammate into safety. i never really played with this rule either, but i could see how on larger fields with larger teams this would be very interesting as this would build team mentality much more.
i have taught this game to many people, be it kids, adults, men or women, virtually everyone likes this game, some, like i, love it above everything. some people dont like getting dirty though and it is the safest when played on a large lawn, but you can also play it in a gym, it‘s just that falling hurts more and usually, having to touch a wall instead of running over a line is more dangerous, but it can be done eitherway. i have even heard about people playing it in water but you just cant do that with kids, also pinning down should be avoided. pushing, pulling and picking people up still works though, water helps a lot there. ideally, you play it on a sandy beach though, be it inside the water or not.
On the way home from preschool my mother and I would play a game called "up the hill and around the curve" where she would describe our route home as we went.
Pretty sure she got tired of it eventually because one time I asked to play up the hill and around the curve and she just went "UPTHEHILLANDAROUNDTHECURVEUPTHEHILLANDAROUNDTHECURVE!"
“Chestnuts” Maybe some of you remember ... happens in the fall around apple season when I was growing up in Southwestern Ontario.
The chestnuts fall from the tree in a green casing and sometimes they break out. You collect them and then drill a hole in one nut with a nail. You then string a shoelace through the hole with a knot at the end to keep the nut on the string. You challenge an opponent to a match and decide who strikes first. One person puts their chestnut on the ground/dirt and the other person tries to strike that nut with theirs. Then the opponent gets a turn. When you make a strike the nut will crack and eventually break off of the shoelace - the winner is the one with intact chestnut. The idea is to keep a score of the number of wins that particular chestnut has including collection of the wins you obtain from the nut that broke open. Very much the honour system - but that is all we had back then no apps!
Do you remember?
It was called “run-across”. My basement was really long and skinny and the steps were right at the end of the room. We would get into two teams and one team would hide in the basement with all the lights off while the other team would try to run across the room without getting tagged. Some people would get clobbered because they’d sit right in the middle of the pitch black room and someone would run right into them. Lucky we didn’t break anything but it was s o fun!
bds310 · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would turn the lights off in the basement and slam ping pong balls at each other throw footballs anything we could get our hands on, it was so stupid and so much fun
SHIT MONSTER :
As kids in the 80's, we played a game called "Shit Monster".
How to play :
One kid starts off as the Shit Monster, counts while the kids scatter then proceeds to chase after them.
Objective: The objective would be to turn the others into Shit Monsters too. You'd do this by catching up with them, grabbing the top of their heads and making a pumping /sucking sound effect. You were replacing their brains with shit,effectively turning them into Shit Monsters with you. The pack of Shit Monsters expanded with every kid that you caught and hunt after the regular, non-shit monster kids.
How do you win? The winner was the last player standing.
It actually was a pretty fun but crazy game. We played it in an abandoned rock crusher building in an old quarry at the edge of our town (Stony Mountain, MB, Canada) It was a restricted area but there wasn't any police in our town that would enforce the trespassers (us) to leave. In hindsight, the location was super dangerous. One of the kids, Micheal, was running full speed and ripped his belly open on a rusty, jagged metal piece. It was the first time most of us seen a deep flesh wound. You could see the fat layers, it was so deep. He had to get tetanus shots and lots of stitches.
It was way funner than games like hide and seek as you were always moving and it got progressively harder. I am not sure how it never became bigger. Maybe the name was a big factor.
Pony poachers. Not sure how we even knew what poachers were but it was a game a player with my brother and our neighbor. I was always the pony and they were the poachers. They chased me around the yard and if I stepped in a divots in yard they were “traps”. They came to put me in the jail if they found me in a trap.
The jail was a big pine tree in our yard that basically had an opening that you could stand inside. I would collect the tiny pine cones that grew on the tree and fill my pockets with them. Then when I was in the jail or in one of the traps I would throw a handful of pine cones in their faces and yell “pony power!!” Then I would be free to keep running around.
My sis is 13 years older than me, so I was a lonely kid since she moved out when I was 5. I lived in the country on a state route so no neighbors close by either. My friends became bugs and animals that came around. There was a stray cat my mom set food out for that would be a jaguar hunting me. The bees and butterflies would be fairies. I'd use chalk and draw houses with full floorplans for the pillbugs and ants in the driveway.
my mom used to have me and my brother play the quiet game in public. whoever makes a sound first loses. neither of us wanted to lose, so people just thought my parents had the most well behaved children on the planet. really we just thought we were playing a game 🤷🏼♀️
My sisters and I grew up pretty poor and we didn’t really have too much to play with. One game we played was just based on whenever we did laundry. My younger sister would take the clothes from the dryer and put them in a basket. I would have the ironing board set up like a table tall enough for a small child. This would be my laundry shop. My sister would walk past and go “ding dong” to bring the basket to the “counter”. She would then tell me she had laundry that needed to be washed, folded, and ironed. I would take her basket of clothes and pretend to wash and iron and I would just fold and organize them for her. She would pick them up, put it in her basket and then organize them into her closet. Our game was just trying to make laundry fun. We did this pretty much anytime we could not play outside.
Dookie River: We'd lay two jumpropes on the ground leaving a gap between them. This was "Dookie River" and we'd all take turns jumping over Dookie River. Each round the jumpropes got farther apart and if you didn't make it across, you fell into Dookie River and were out. This kept me and my cousins entertained for hours at a time.
My brother and I would play this odd game we called "The Clam" that we came up with on long boring car rides. Basically one of us would have their hand, plam facing upward, on the car seat, the other would then have to poke that person's palm with their finger and try not to get caught by the clam. It was quite fun and kept us entertained.
At some point we upgraded the game and started using our mouths instead of the palm. Meaning one person would have their mouth open and the other would try and stick their finger in and out of there before they got bit.
Looking back on this it sounds kind of gross. But we didn't care
Ryzasu · 2 points · Posted at 01:29:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trash Restaurant". I lived at a camping and they had a trash dump for metal parts. Often there would be kitchen equipment in there like a microwave, a mini barbecue or a camping stove. Me and my friend regularly visited the trash dump and took all sorts of cool things from it to put in our "kitchen". We then played as if we were a restaurant and had to serve all sorts of things to customers. Every now and then we played that a "reviewer" would visit and we had to find out who it was and make an extra good meal for them so we could potentially get Michelin stars on our restaurant.
My cousins and I would pretend to be homeless cats. We would make forts around the house and hide in closets. The main goal of the game was to find a warm bed and “garbage” to eat and share with our cat siblings.
hsvakr · 2 points · Posted at 01:48:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“PUNCH IT BIG BOY”
When my dad was driving me and my brother would yell this from the backseat and he would start driving semi erratically and we went fucking nuts from laughter.
Feet fight. Me and my brother used to go on the couch and touch our feet together, then we had to try and make the other person’s knees bend by pushing our feet. The person who’s knees bent first lost
Cars. Several kids would get together on either mine, or a friend's front porch, and determine an order. When your turn came, the next car to drive down the street was your car. If it was a cool car, everyone would be jealous, and you'd feel like you really won something. If it was a crappy car, everyone would laugh at you, and you'd be ashamed.
KTOSM · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Hitting Game” (pronounced “hittin’ game” by my Appalachian sister and I). My grandma owns a mid century home that is basically one long hallway with bedroom doors on the sides and the master at the very end of the house. One of us would go to the master bedroom and count to 30, while the other hid in a side room in the hall. After the count was up, the sister in the master bedroom would sprint down the hall, while the sister hiding in a side room would jump out and try to hit her while she ran. Not tag; you couldn’t chase. You had to hit her AS SHE RAN BY or you missed your chance.
We played USA! in the deep end of the pool we would go in pairs and see who could go to the bottom touching with our feet, while at the top saying U, then S, then A and you had to finish it with “USA”. It was a game we made up during the summer olympics and a lot of my swim team mates would play.
Me and my twin sister used to play " Hide from the school bus "
We lived in a rural area, with only one lonely road an no other home close.
After we came from primary school and our bus dropped us, there was an other, mysterious bus that came an hour later but did not stop, turned at the end of the road and passed by our home again. ( We didn't knew, but it was the older students school bus! )
We soon created a whole myth around it and even dreaming about it, how it was an empty bus looking to steal children!
We would come from school at 3pm and play outside and having fun, until we saw the menacing yellow bus far away. It was a race to hide: jump in the recycle bin, run to the house or even dig in the snow. Even inside we would hide from the windows - don't let it see you!
Even now I can't help but smile at the though of running from a cute yellow bus. Fun times.
Me and a friend in grade school invented a game on the swings called "butt service" where u go really high on the swings and hang your ass off and swing by your knees and let go and do backflips and barrel rolls and various flips and twists for points. It was really awesome and it caught on quick the teachers put a stop to it when some kid almost broke his neck
We used to play “Lost.” Basically there were two teams and each team would designate a person to get lost. The other team would get this player in their car and blindfold them then drive around for like 15-30 minutes before dropping them off somewhere random. The lost player would then call their team and their team would have to find them without gps and the first team to find their lost member would win. Definitely a small country town game but I loved it
We played the "Dark game" where basically several people play Marco Polo in a dark room. But you aren't allowed to say Marco, only move around the room, blindfolded, trying to find someone in the room by hearing a footstep or a breath. It's both terrifying and exiting lol.
We played a similar game and called it "Dead Man" there was a little chant at the beginning and the person who was "it" was dead and we brought them to life then in a dark silent room they tried to find us with a blindfold on... A friend we played it with still has a chunk of bamboo in her knee from falling when she was blindfolded and landing on a basket
In elementary school, we had a game called protect the house. Basically, we set up four different quadrants, and made house out of five hula hoops ( I know what you’re thinking, that wouldn’t work) but they weren’t really houses. They were two hula hoops leaning on each other, two more on the opposite side, and one to keep it together. Basically, you would try and protect your “house” while trying to knock over other teams houses with dodgeballs. It was fun!
My cousin and I would play a game where one of us is at the top of a spiral staircase while the other one is at the bottom. The person at the top would throw Monopoly money into the air and it would flutter down the middle of the staircase. Whomever collected the most money in mid-air won. It is a really good memory for me. We don't speak very often anymore. :(
We played a game called “Bill Clinton The Frog.” I cant really remember how we got the name. This was a sleepover game. Basically, you always played it in as pitch black a room as possible, preferabley a well padded basement. Then it was basically like tag but you had to be as quiet as possible. The person who was IT would listen carefully for breathing or a noise and try and tag someone else.
I would go out in the woods and shoot a .22 rifle straight up in the air, listen for the bullet to land and try to find it. I'm an only child, if it wasn't obvious.
Chaos ball. I would make rubber band balls which bounce very unpredictably. Me and my friends would go to this alcove at school which had 3 walls and a ceiling and a trash can in the corner, the game was 2 vs 2 with the objective was to bounce the ball off walls into the trash can but also you could bounce the ball off walls and hit your opponents to eliminate them unless they caught it.
Sockey. Play full-contact soccer on a frozen pond, but you are kicking a beer bottle like a puck instead of a ball. Unlimited team sizes. Must be drunk to play.
I played the potion game with my cousins basically 1 of us would go into the kitchen and try to mix the most disgusting concoction they could think of and anything was game blenders microwaves anything the only rule was that we had to put edible stuff in it so we didn't die. While they did that we all waited in the living room for them to come out and we'd all take a sip of the drink it was terrible but i loved playing. But sadly the game was banned by the family because i made my little cousin puke.
"Smear the Queer." Not a sensitive game name by today's standards, but in the 70's "Smear the Queer" was the game in my neighborhood.
Rules: 1) The football (American) gets thrown into the air to be caught by the "Queer." 2) "Queer" catches the ball, and runs as much as he can with the ball before getting "Smeared" by the onslaught of tacklers. 3) Once tackled, the "Queer" throws the ball up for the next "Queer" to take a beating.
Before the internet, fax machines, etc., "Smear the Queer" was a game that was played all across the US with the same rules, and the same bloody outcomes; day after day. Should have been an NCAA sport. I'd buy a ticket.
Not as a child, but my roommate and I senior year of college made up this great game without ever speaking a word about it to each other. Our rooms were at opposite ends of a hallway, and one day we were both walking into our rooms at the same time, turned around, locked eyes, and simultaneously slammed our respective doors, ran to our closets, and grabbed the craziest combination of clothes we could find. 30 seconds later, we open our doors and are both dressed in something completely different. This would go in for 3 or 4 rounds until once of us broke and burst out laughing. We did it probably once every few weeks.
Toilet Tag. Regular tag except if you were tagged, you had to squat with an arm up like a toilet with a handle and the only way to get untagged was for a free person to sit on your lap, squeeze out the grossest sounding “bathroom noise” and flush your arm. Then you were free to run around again.
We didn’t play this as a child, only cane up with it about 3 or so years ago, but it’s the exact kind of thing we would play back then; it’s called Obsy Bobsy.
We both take turns bouncing an exercise ball at each other. The ball must bounce once and no more than once, and the aim is to not let the other person catch the ball while still throwing it in their general direction - the rules are pretty half arsed, we just make up who is at fault on the spot.
One of us is Obsy and one is Bobsy, whenever the ball is thrown, the person who threw days their name (Obsy or Bobsy), and when somebody misses / doesn’t catch the ball, we both shout “Obsy Bobsy!”
We made this up when we were like 18. What the hell is wrong with us...
My sister, cousins and I would play a game we called “Dead Head”. One person would go upstairs and hide some where with just their head hanging out (under a bed, behind curtains, in a closet). Another person would be the “tour guide”. Everyone would go upstairs with the lights turned off and the tour guide would give a tour of the “haunted house”, telling scary stories about each room with just a flash light. As they were telling the stories they would point the flash light around the room. When you spotted the “dead head”, the person hiding would scream “dead head!” And everyone would have to run back downstairs and touch the refrigerator before dead head tagged them. Rinse and repeat. Lol we were weird as fuck.
My friend and I played one v one football where we had a small field of play (about 20 yards deep 20 yards wide) where the line of scrimage was ten yards away from a basketball hoop we would then proceed under normal rules as follows.
To gain yardage and first downs you could do rushing plays by having a three Mississippi count defensive rush like regular touch football rules and try to sneak past your defender. If you passed the basketball hoop then you would gain a first down. To pass you would simply call your cadence then drop back and try to throw the football into the scoring box of the back board to gain a first down. If the ball were to bounce off the hoop and be intercepted by your defender then it would be treated as an interception. This would continue until enough first downs were converted to score a touchdown or go for a field goal or run out of downs.
Punting would consist of lining up 20 yds from the hoop and tossing the ball towards it. For every time the ball hit any part of the hoop or backboard you would add a first down to the balance of yardage from the previous offense's drive. You could make up to four throws but could only continue to throw if your previous had hit a piece of the hoop or backboard.
Scoring was simple. You either earned enough first downs to have crossed the goal line or one of your passes made it through the hoop. This would be considered a completed pass for touchdown. A field goal could be attempted if within 4 first downs of the goal line by having your defender hike you the ball and the offender tossing it end over end towards the basket. If it hit the scoring square or went in to the basket you were considered to have a good attempt.
The game would be timed on one of the players wristwatch to have 15 min quarters. Whoever had the highest score at the end of the game would win.
We had so many great games playing this and even had seasons with schedules and game times. This game truly was a staple of our childhood and allowed us to play a team sport we loved without the team and allowed an overweight non athlete like myself to compete with a fit athlete like my friend.
This is late, but back in around 2nd grade, my friends and I used to play a game we called groundhog tag. Basically, it was tag but with a “floor is lava” type rule to it where if the tagger called “groundhog” who ever was on the ground would be it. The twist to the game was that the tagger had his eyes closed. I’ll leave the speculating up to you guys, but this game is how I got my very first set of stitches on my forehead.
I have a bunch of cousins around the same age as me and we would play a game called "Blind Man" where someone would be blindfolded in an enclosed area, like one or two rooms, and everyone else (between 5-10 others) would hide from them. The object of the game was to be as quiet as possible, or to taunt the blind man and not get caught . if you were caught, you were the next blind man
Hamburger: bean bag on bottom. Jump from top of stairs, belly flop onto bean bag. Place another bean bag on top of child. Another child jumps from top of stairs into second beanbag. Repeat pattern until you run out of beanbags. Or children.
We never had a name for it but my friends and I would play a game where we'd line the floor at the bottom of my basement steps with pillows/blankets/couch cushions and then jump down the entire flight of steps. Sometimes one person would throw several rubber balls and you'd have to jump and try to catch them.
Then one day my friend Michael jumped too far and hit the door at the foot of our basement steps and we weren't allowed to play anymore. Michael was fine but he cracked the door clean in half, top to bottom.
My siblings and I used to play a game on long car rides: head squisher. Three of us would be sitting in the back seat. One kid (the squisher) would lean forward and one of the kids sitting next to them (the squish-ee) would stick their head between the seat and the squisher's back. The squisher would proceed to lean back and squish the squish-ee's head. There were three different levels that the squish-ee called out: soft, medium, and hard, each with a greater intensity of squishing. When your turn was over, the next kid got to have their head squished. On the "hard" setting it always felt like you were being crushed. Great memories haha. Kids will go to great lengths to entertain themselves.
“German Football” we called it: basically 2 players against a keeper. Goals can only happen if the ball is passed between the players without touching the floor. Each type of goal have point (volley 1 point, header 2 point, bicycle kick 3 points) all players started with 6 points and each time you are goalie and the other scored against you the points are taken from you count. If you attempt a goal but miss and the ball goes out of bounds is your turn to be goalie. When your point or gone someone else come in the game and you have to wait for your turn again. Hours and hours of this during the summer when we did not had enough for a 5v5. It was priceless!
Cool! I’m from South America and the name was always a mystery to me so this is revelatory - I have explained the game to other friends from my city and they usually don’t know what I’m talking about so it was not spread out around here. And the less running part is always a plus hehe 🙃
I can't for the life of me remember the name of it though, sorry :D
I've been trying to google it, but I'm sure we called it by some nickname in our local dialect that wouldn't make much sense in translation anyway.
Was a cool game though! I actually hate soccer (yes, it wasn't easy growing up in Germany, lol), but this was something I actively looked forward to in PE. That and beach volleyball (inside, no beach :().
I guess the "not much running" aspect really wins me over :D
My sister and I played a game called chin in your eye, elbow in your ear. It's pretty straight forward... You wrestle and the objective is to get your chin in the other persons eye while also sticking your elbow in their ear... Looking back in shocked there were no black eyes. Hahaha
I used to take a hand mirror and hold it under my chin and pretend that I was walking on the ceilings. I did this a lot at my granny’s house, which was old and had very high ceilings so it made it quite fun and interesting to “jump over” the light fixtures and door frames.
(My apologies if someone else has done this up above but there are too many comments to read through(though I did try))
My older sister and I would play a “game” when we had to do our chores. We would “race” to see who would win by finishing the chores first. She always let me win and then would ask me to help her finish hers because I was obviously so much better at it than she was. I fell for it every time.
Roller hunt. My friend laura lived in a mansion when we were kids and my brother and i would often play at her house. She had a giant unfinished basement and in it we would play roller hunt. Basically it was roller derby and man hunt. We would rollerskate around and chase each other down like man hunt. Her father was some executive at at&t so there were thousands of boxes of phones piled all over the place. We would arrange the boxes into a racetrack and when we caught someone they would get tackled over the boxes. The lights were out and only the person who was "it" had a flashlight. This was pretty scary because there were several secret rooms and hidden passage ways in the basement which had to be about 6,000sq ft. Good times. We were around 8-10 years old.
My dad used to pretend to be a grizzly bear and hide somewhere in our house at night with all the lights out. Then my older brother and I would take pillows and wind up the cases really tight so we could have a weapon against the bear. We would venture out from our ‘home base’, or, the couch, and go hunt the bear. We would carefully make our way through the house to check all the dark corners and crevices, pillows at the ready. My dad was a total sound effects guy, so when we did eventually discover his hiding spot, he would come snarling and roaring out at us. With only our pillows to protect us from the beast, we would run screaming back to home base. Most of the time he’d let us make it back alright, but would sometimes catch us and ‘eat’ us with a barrage of tickles and cuddles.
He also used to strap a belt around his chest on the trampoline, get on all fours and simulate a bucking bronco for us to ride. We’d climb on his back with one hand under the belt and the other raised high like a real bull rider. Then he would buck, jump and twist and try to throw us off. Epic
For context: I went to catholic school in Mexico. The school was pretty big (since it was prek-12), at the foot of a mountain (but high enough to overlook the city), made out of red bright bricks, and plenty of green spaces.
After school, I had to wait a couple of hours hanging out at school before my extracurriculars started.... SO to pass the time... by bff and I created a universe that combined (1) Avatar: The Last Airbender, (2) Winx, (3) Harry Potter, etc.
Eventually other girls from different grades joined our game and it was honestly so fun. We divided the school into kingdoms (air nation, fire nation, etc), created missions, a family tree, and even a very basic imaginary language.
came close to playing doctors with some old syringes we found in the park
Thanks for saving my life mum
bmak88 · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
gaga ball, you take a few medium size foam balls with 4 or more people and try and hit them at other players below the knee with said foam balls, players have to keep balls on the ground cant pick up the ball have to slap, super fun used to play it at camp, to be good you have to move well and watch your back.
At one picnic, me and the neighbor kids made up a game called "hot salava" that was basically complicated volleyball where parts of the ground were lava that you couldn't touch. It was a LOT of fun but the rules were too complicated for us to remember at the next party so we were all really disappointed.
Also, not really a game (or childhood), but in high school/college, me and my friends would ritually kiss our hand and tap the roof of the car whenever going through a yellow light.
Paper wars. You draw a battle field on a piece of paper. Then you draw some "guys" on either side. Each person takes turns standing a pencil in it's tip and hold it with you finger on the eraser end and flick it to make a mark on the paper. Your have to declare if you are moving or shooting. The rest of the details we just argued about.
"Bus Evacuation" - big sister would help me evacuate the couch (bus), like the bus evacuation drills at school. She would just help me get down off the couch over and over again lol.
When I went to Mexico with a friend and my family, we made a game out of all the dogs running around. We would shout “Dog Watch 1!” And the number would go up. We were on around “dog watch 30” when my friend starts stuttering and she’s like, “roof, roof! Roof Dog!” We didn’t know that some people keep their dog on the roof, so that became incorporated into the game as bonus points. Everyone was a winner because we saw sooo many dogs.
I grew up in a real small town, but we would play "manhunt". Not a unique game, but had some.... unique moments. We would set up a perimeter of a few blocks. 1 or 2 people have to wait 10 minutes at the end of the perimeter. Everyone else takes the fuck off into the darkness (only played at dusk or night). Basically hide and seek except you weren't allowed to stop moving, and you had to be in pairs or a trio in case of odd numbers. Within the perimeter, nothing was out of bounds. Treetops, yards, sheds, ditches, dog houses, you name it. If you were spotted by the hunters, they chase you down and you're now a hunter too. It was real fun having groups of like 14 kids and watching the hunters group get bigger, or watching a team from the shadows and having them get chased so you could escape. My friend and I were undefeated. Found every hider in a single tree one time.
We used to play "corpse and detective. " This was sometimes paired with "Dramatic Death," where we'd finger-gun murder each other and have to die realistically. You lose if you catch yourself with your arms, extra points for falling off of something or rolling spinning in the right direction with the "bullet."
Anyway, one person would be dead and the other was the detective, and under the guise of finding out how they died, they had to prove they weren't dead by making them move, laugh, smile, etc. Tickling was not allowed for obvious reasons, but touching was. The detective could move the corpses limbs about, lift their eyelids, whatever, and there was a lot of funny narration about the situation.
Similar, we played "Grand Poobah" which is where the Grand Poobah made a very dramatic speech while sitting criss-cross-applesauce. "I...am the Grand Poobah, Unamused...and Unamusing...make me laugh." This had to be said with a straight face, which got easier with practice. The other players then had to make the Grand Poobah laugh, but in this one touching was strictly forbidden. For some of us it was easy and just a matter of silly faces. Others, we had to get more creative. I remember one time I learned in really slow and creepy like, right up to my brother's ear after we'd been trying for like 5 minutes, and I just whispered "pepsi" and it set him off.
No me, but my dad. He grew up in the country and a lot of his cousins lived nearnearby. They would play "tree chicken."
All the kids would climb a tree, except one who would stand at the bottom and chop the tree down. Last one in the tree, even if it was falling, won.
Just one of many stupid games that led to my dad having a medical file thicker than my college textbooks by age 10.
Steal the bacon 🥓 - A game in 2nd grade gym class where the teacher tied a large black trash bag into a knot and had the class sit around it in a wide circle with about a 12’ radius to the “bacon” from the kids on the circumference. He would then assign each kid a number with each number having a duplicate. he would then call out a number at which point the two kids with that number assigned would run out trying to steal the bacon. This basically turned into a tug of war type thing where the winner got the bacon if they pulled the other kid back to their spot in the circle. We played this game rarely because we would get so riled up it was like cage fighting for us.
Soccer Wars. Hundreds of kids would run out of the classrooms at the recess bell. We'd empty the large metal crate of balls: basketballs, soccer balls footballs and volleyballs. We would take them out into the field and somehow, magically, just split into two large groups with about 50 feet between us. Then we would start punting the balls high into the air towards the opposing team. The kicks sounded like cannon fire. More kids would run to join. The entire school was unified at recess, all grades, both genders, loner kids and popular kids all doing the same thing voluntarily. You didn't have to be good at anything. The was no winning. You didn't have to kick or catch anything. Just dodge the cannons.
“The Chip Game” - my best friend in elementary school and I made up this game where one person would go in the bathroom and the other would take a plain Lay’s chip and put something on it — ketchup, icing, pickle juice, horseradish. Anything was fair game except dog food. The other person had to close their eyes, eat it, and guess what it was.
That reminds me of hand tennis or scorpion, but those circumvent the strategy of throwing just to inflict pain by having both people go pretty much at the same time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Isn’t mercy also that hand game where you have to bend the person’s hand backwards until they say mercy
BuxPro · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Long ago, my family lived in an apartment building, on the third floor. My sister and I made up a game using the vehicles that drove past us while we where on the balcony. We would choose either circle or square. And as a vehicle drive by we would look furiously for the gas tank door, 3 in a row wins! There would be the odd ‘blank!’ But it was fun!
A neighbor of a friend decorated their front lawn w bowling balls (hippie/college house in hippie/college town.) one night at a sleepover, around age 13, we took 5 or 6 and bowled them at bicycles and things that crashed well. Then we invented the game where we loaded them onto the backyard trampoline and everyone bounced while dodging bowling balls. I think we may have banged a toe or two but somehow no real injuries. Kids are dumb, folks!
We lived in WV but my mom is Canadian so we often took trips up there in the motorhome. My brother and I would try to spot as many license plates from different states as we could. Also we would try to spot road signs with each letter in them in alphabetical order.
We also had a game called Uncle Mikey. Basically I would play as a cat and he would be my human uncle mikey and we had adventures. Offer we would try to get our cat boots in the game but she didnt care enough.
‘Salt and pepper’ - me and another kid, my brother usually, would stand on either end of the porch. One person was salt and the other person was pepper. And you would just start walking towards each other saying the thing you were over and over. You say it faster as you got closer together so eventually the word is just running together and then at some point one person says “I win!” And then that was it. They won, and you’d start over.
"Basebee" - Combination of baseball and frisbee. Pitcher would stand on the mound and throw (more like whip it as hard as possible) the frisbee towards the diamond. Batter would have to catch it or at least slap it down so it doesn't hit a designated area on the diamond: this would count as a strike. Once the batter stops the frisbee, they throw it has far has possible and then run. Pitcher also couldn't throw it above the batter's head, this would count as a ball. Two balls for missing the diamond entirely.
enimch · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“P. Stinky”
It was basically ball tag but with this old orange ball that smelled of stinky cheese that no one wanted to touch. You’d end up waiting around for someone to come to you to avoid touching P stinky. Which subconsciously created the the rule of you couldn’t hold P stinky for more than 3 seconds.
A favorite game with me and my cousins was hide and seek, but with our DS’s. We would get on the pictochat and send eachother messages and clues. It was mostly used for taunting the seeker and for the hiders to communicate so it wasn’t so boring just hiding there. Also the seeker you use the connection bars as a way to tell if they were close to someone. Stronger connection = closer to a person
Back when everyone in the neighbour hood was young enough to free on the weekends, We used to play a game called kick the can. Basically one person was trying to find people, and when they did said person would go to jail. Then everyone else had to try and kick a can/bottle/jug that was set up in a central/open area. If everyone was found then someone else was it, if the can was kicked successfully, everyone in jail was free to run!
There was an ants colony near the best hiding spot, so I developed an immunity to ant bites obviously.
We collected bouncy balls, like maybe 100 of them, and dumped them from the top of the stairs. Whoever collected the most balls was the winner. Couldn’t then and still couldn’t tell you why we named it cat strangle.
When I was little I'd stand in front of the door with my hand on the doorknob and say "back!" (As in "I'll be back") then I'd walk out on the front porch, stand there for a few seconds, come inside and laugh my ass off.
I don't remember this, but my parents say that it used to keep me entertained for hours
So this is a game I made that passed through my friend groups for years and was even adapted and is occasionally played to this day.
So in it's original form it was called "The TARDIS game."
In our playground, there was a tree that was a decent distance away from a bench. The bench was the starting point and one person would play a Time Lord defending the TARDIS. The other people's objective was to get to and steal the TARDIS. If the Time Lord pointed their sonic screwdriver (finger) at you and shouted "HEY!" you had to go back to the start. There were a few places where you could hide and couldn't be sent back.
The game has now been adapted for my non-Doctor Who fan friends.
The newest version is called the mum game.
Instead of a TARDIS it's just called the wall because it's... well it's a wall.
Instead of a Time Lord it's the mum.
And instead of shouting "HEY!" you have to shout "BACK TO BED" and then the name of whoever's talking and they have to go back to the ramp that's the starting point.
It's amazing that this random game I thought of in like year 4 has lasted this long.
haunted house! my sister and I would decorate our hallway and take turns scaring each other going down it, not even just around Halloween Haha. we used to also pretend to yell at each other in foreign languages? or something lol
I dont know if anyone else has mentioned this yet but I call it the "Sunday game". it's where you start with a word and another person responds with a word that rhymes/is a synonym/or has a relation to that word.
this is how a game would go
starting word : keyboard
player 2 : board
player 1 : bored
player 2 : boar
the game will keep going like this until someone brings the word to Sunday
In high school, we would play a game called, "red light". The last one to hit the cars ceiling would need to remove an article of clothing. It was a great ice breaker.
There might be a few people that knows this game so I’m gonna be surprised if a lot of people knows this game. Back when i was 7 years old my mom took me, my twin brother(TB), my older sister(OS), and my moms friends kids(one boy and two girls. Leaves a total of six kids) all down to blockbuster near where we lived near at. My mom told us that we can get a game but only enough for two games so me, TB, and the other kid that was with us found one game that made me instantly loved this one marvel character forever. It was the ps2 game The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. This game was the soul reason that made me loved marvel forever and especially made me love hulk himself. For that whole day i played that game until twelve in the morning and sadly we had to return the game the next day and i didn’t want to return it back to blockbuster. It has been thirteen years since i’ve seen that game and i managed to find one on amazon for a great price and now i cant wait next week to get it.
Jeffdk · 2 points · Posted at 11:48:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and me dad would play this game called 'bagsy' where we'd dig up the Argos catalogue, look through it, look for anything we liked the look of, then yell 'bagsy' whilst putting our hand down on the product we liked/wanted.
it was a fun way for him to figure out what I wanted for christmas when i was about 6 or 7 years old.
Zombie tip, one zombie (the chaser) hunts five survivors (hiders), survivors get two bullets one can be used as a self revive one as a taser. Last person to get found wins
It was like... a chess war game? We’d draw a map and draw archers and swordsmen and move them. I can’t remember how the attack rules or anything would work but it was basically an turn based strategy game.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:22:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super fast cleanup. We hated cleaning our rooms so we'd stand on our toy box and countdown from 3 and then cleanup the room as fast as possible as to avoid the monotony.
When i was like 4 or 5 me and my aunt used to play "dentist" she'd put on rubber gloves and pretend to operate on my teeth. One day i randomly asked her to touch my peepee with the glove on. I can't remember why i said that, but i remember the absolute horror on her face.
My siblings and I used to play “clock,” where one person would lie on the ground and the others would run clockwise around them just in reach of their limbs. The one on the ground would try and trip the people running around.
Colors. There would be a "tagger" in the middle of the field. They would call out a color. If you were wearing that color, you would walk across to the other side. If you didn't, you would try to run across without getting tagged. If you got tagged you were it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:55:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Interrogation. One of us would make up a crime and interrogate the rest of our friends one by one, who would try to incriminate someone and justify themselves. At the end, they would analize the anecdotes and determine who was the criminal.
We would play this game called "sister sister", where 3 of us sisters would just be doing regular things together
Remfy · 2 points · Posted at 13:23:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 4th and 5th grade my friends and I almost always had "Chestnut War" after school at a local playground.
We were like 5-6 people and it was so fun. We sometimes formed factions with other people during a session and took out people with a numeral advantage.
I remember once getting hit on top of a playground tower (it didn't hurt at all), but smart me decided to fake that it hurt a lot and when one friend came to check if I was OK I threw a chestnut really hard at him. He wasn't happy at me after that and that ended that session.
Man I wish I could rewind time just a few years... 4th and 5th grade were the best.
My friend and I would play wii golf, but the goal would be to lose first. We called it Flog, and every time we sent a ball sailing into the water or off the map entirely, we yelled “FLOG!”
Thursday night, we planned to trade clothes and that's just it. I forgot when did it start and what our reasons back then. Haha, but its addicting! I dont know if its the reason why I'm into trading now as an adult. I do crypto trading alot these past few years even now and I'm really enjoying myself. I seriously caaaaant stop.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:45:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We sword fought at night wearing football or motorcycle helmets and wiffle ball bats. That shit hurts on the back of the thighs when you're blindsided. Ah good times.
Whenever my dad would leave for a work trip, he would hide a piece of gum around the house with a bunch of clues and put the first clue under my pillow. I always loved running around the house trying to follow the clues and find the little gift he left.
We were broke back then, and he had to work super hard to make ends meet, but he always made time for me. It makes my heart happy to think of him hiding those little pieces of paper around our house on the early mornings before he would leave, just so I could have something fun to do when I woke up.
Tacos
In Mexico, me and my friend always liked how people made tacos and we wanted to try to make some tacos, but, instead of meat and tortillas we used leaves and rocks. We placed rocks inside of a taco-shaped leaf and gave it to the kids in our town. We were like 6 at the time so I don't remember why we stopped, I think we bite one of our tacos and it (obviously) tasted horrible, that's when we stopped.
For some reason we called "ice pinata". Play halo multiplayer, only use plasma grenades and warthogs and try to kill each other. You try to dodge and stick a plasma grenade to to their warthog, but they can get out in time if they see it. The ice is slippery and makes movement and driving harder. The warthogs fly up high in the air and sometimes you're launched but you also survive.
In one memorable moment someone was launched, got out of the warthog, immediately threw a plasma grenade while still in the air and got one stuck on the other player.
Boomball. You needed 8 of those fold tables, and you set them up in a hexagon on their sides. You use a dodgeball or soccer ball and have to hit the ball against the tables to keep the game going. Everyone stands in the zone and the objective of the game is to hit the ball at other players feet while they try to avoid it in a "battle royale" style of play. I worked at a summer camp and set this game up one day, and INSTANTLY kids put their phones down and hopped in the hexagon.
"Candle in the Dark." Two teams, each trying to protect a candle set on opposite sides of the room. The goal is to blow out the candle of the opponent's team. While the room's lights are turned off, you can run, wrestle, virtually anything you want; however, while the room's lights are on you can't move or be caught standing. If you get caught, you're out for the rest of the game.
rydan · 2 points · Posted at 14:04:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and my cousins would lock ourselves in the hallway (it had doors on both ends and hooked around). Then we'd shut off all the lights and pretend we were blobs. And the only thing you were allowed to say was "blob". The name of the game was "Blob".
I played with pencils. They were a family living in a package. The red, yellow and pink were girls, the rest were boys. I also put marker leads in water until they color the water. And my hands were bathing dinosaurs.
Used to play a car game called "Ducky" with my brother when we were going on road trips. If you spotted a yellow car, you would shout "DUCKY!" but construction vehicles didn't count, and Beetles were worth 2 points.
Slightly embarrassing, but I was an only child so I had to be very imaginative. I had a loft bed that was my "castle". I would set up a ton of stuffed animals (like 20 to 30) on the floor beside my bed, climb up top, put on a unicorn headband I had, and become the "unicorn princess of the wolf kingdom". I would delegate responsibilities and issue decrees to the citizens of my kingdom.
Edit: yes, the wolves would talk back. There wasn't a real objective of any sort, but this was the closest thing to a "game" I did.
My family had this really long dining room table in that front room of our house (you know, the room in every middle class house that no one ever went in). My brother and I would set up our troll dolls in a ten-pin formation, then chunk a mini basketball at them as hard as we could.
We also used the same tactic with Beanie Baby Red Rover. Keep your army hidden behind your pop-up barbie bedroom, bide time, pelt opponent with requested babe when they least expect it. Bonus points for trickery.
Definitely Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on PC. I was like 7 or 8 at the time and was having the time of my life on this game. I'm pretty sure I was terrible at it now but back then I felt like I was a pro. After I finished the story mode, I started to play online with people from all over the world, but mostly from Poland for some reason. It was like I had discovered a whole new world, I then learnt that there were kids like me in countries that I didn't even know existed playing with me. I played online for 3 years or so, but then it was just like beefing with random Polski dudes.
My family used to say "boneyard" when we go past a graveyard/cemetery, and you have to touch the ceiling of the car until you drive past it or else you will be "haunted" it gets interesting when we come to a stop and still next to a graveyard.
Not really a game, but whenever my cousin came to visit, our two and my little brother would go to our uncle's (who's the cousin's grandpa) workplace (he's a carpenter and does all the stuff in a separate building next to his house), pick up some cool looking sticks and pretend they're wands and we're wizards. The unique part was that each spell had a different symbol, which we had to "draw" in the air using the stick while also shouting its name in order to cast it.
Everyone would sit in a circle and in the middle would be a pile of spoons, one less than the number of people in the circle. Then you would pass a two dice around the circle and if someone rolled a certain number (I’m blanking on what the numbers were, I think maybe you picked two different numbers at the beginning of each game) everyone fucking dove into the middle of the circle to get a spoon and whoever didn’t get a spoon was eliminated. 90% of the time you would end up with two people full on wrestling. This included; twisting the spoon resulting in cuts and sprained wrists, pinching the other person to make them let go, using your feet to push the other person away so they’d let go and unfortunately biting wasn’t unheard of. Oh and concussions...from a circle of kids ramming their heads together to get a spoon from a small pile.
The worst was the finale...two people and one spoon. This is where the bleeding and real injuries usually happened...with the rest of the kids jeering them on.
Oh and this was a game we learned at played at church.
My 2000's cousins and Brother would always play, "run from the robot" anytime we were all at our grandmothers house.
Basically it boiled down to someone (usually my brother) was a robot akin to the one from the movie incredibles, and the rest had to run away from him. The robot had to be on hands and feet, and could do rolls and stuff.
Looking back, it was basically just tag with extra steps lol.
In my hometown, the High School Booster Club would stake a big wooden “C” in the front yards of all of the High School athletes. The “C” was because the name of our town began with a C, duh. They would paint the corresponding sport onto it( 🥎 🏀 🏈) to signify your participation in said sport....little did we know that such an insignificant inanimate object would change the course of our lives, nay...HISTORY forever.
The year was 1999, I was 12 and it was Summertime in my tiny Midwest town. It was a time when the Internet and cellphones were still fairly new concepts and to pass the time we would spend our days outdoors with frighteningly very little adult supervision. My friends and I were goofing around in the front yard. All the adults were at work and as the noon day Sun beat down upon us we sat on the porch like tiny bowl cut and JNCO clad Gods looking out over all creation. It was there, In those ever waning yet seemingly infinite minutes of youth, that we would wax poetic about philosophy and ponder aloud life’s greatest questions...
“ Which 8th grade girl has the best boobs? “
“Is it true that Marilyn Manson had one of his ribs removed so he could blow himself?
“Was there even a Mambo number 1-4?”
“Seriously WTF is “Tubthumping”
“WHO LET THE DOGS OUT AND WHY?!”
I suppose some things are just unknowable...
I gave my Grumpy Grape Squeeze-It one last desperate squeeze as I surveyed the cul-de-sac. Our BMX bikes, a plethora of Mongoose, Huffy and even the occasional DYNO (if we allowed the douchey rich kid from down the street to join us),lay on their sides, like a herd of wild stallions napping in the shade of a mighty oak tree...
Also scattered about my Father’s prided fescue, an impressive combination of balls, bats, gloves, clubs and sticks etc. we even had a mini trampoline in the driveway where we all attempted Vince Carter level acrobatics in a dunk contest...even with all of these things at our disposal and despite our best efforts, boredom eventually got the better of us. Ahhhhhhh yes, BOREDOM. The loins of creativity...from which our most cherished and beloved pastimes have been squirted into existence.
While most of us sat there rocking the fuck out to Limp Bizkits NuMetal masterpiece “3 Dollar Bill Ya’ll”, One of the guys randomly grabbed a golf club and hacked at an orange sized NERF ball for no reason. We all watched It sail across the street, a high arching and beautiful shot. Remember those wooden “C”s from the beginning of this unnecessarily long story? Well, there was one in my neighbors yard and the ball ricocheted off the inside of the “C” and bounced through the middle of it. We all immediately wanted to try our hand at the new challenge and spent the day taking turns and attempting different shots of varying difficulty. By the end of the week we were carrying around golf clubs, bats, hockey sticks, shovels and whatever else we could fit in our hand me down golf bags. We trekked all over town like it was our own personal golf course. Our town is small so A LOT of yards had a wooden “C” in them. Around every turn a new “goal” with a different challenge than the previous. It became a magnificent combination of Croquet, HORSE and we eventually added a handful of custom rules and penalties. For instance: if you won 3 holes in a row you got to make a new rule! It was probably the happiest days of my life....but as with all things that too would someday end. People started complaining about kids messing up their yards, being loud and obnoxious and hitting balls towards their homes etc...
My best friends older brother had recently come home from college and introduced him to the term “Boofing”. We all thought it was fucking HILARIOUS so we called it BOOF-BALL.
THE END
xfox21 · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:58 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball-ball. Creative name I know. Full court basketball, full contact, no dribbling, all with a soccer ball. Damn I miss that.
It was a card game I made up. Each player gets 10 cards. The number cards represent points, and once the deck is done, whoever has the most points wins. Using a jack means that you can take 3 from the deck, using a queen means you can steal 1 card from another player, using a king means you can steal 5 cards from another player, and using an ace means you can choose 2 people, including yourself, to trade decks.
My little brother and I, at the ages of him (5) and I (7) would develop quite a few “unique” games. The few that I remember frequently playing were:
-A game that involved us making “mailboxes” where the whole premise would be delivering endless letters of nothingness to each other, we would put on certain personas pertaining to what we felt would be a good fit at the time. Although simple and sounding somewhat boring, it was incredibly fun, and felt as though it brought us into some sort of imaginary world.
-I’m not sure if other kids did this as well but me and him would play “school” Although the thought of that now seems incredibly boring, it was a fun game that I remember playing a lot of. We would take turns being the “teacher” and “student”, essentially taking turns every other day or a simple game of rock paper scissors usually determined which would be which. (Although id always cross my fingers in hopes of being the teacher). We’d make worksheets and read books to each-other and while sounding quite boring, it was something we both equally enjoyed.
*side question
I remember getting in lots of fights over board games as a child, usually ending up in one of us “rage quitting” or ruining our progress in the game. (Mixing up Monopoly money or taking all of the pieces off the checked board) I’ve always wondered if that was something that happened with other siblings, as it was a very often occurrence during the coarse of my childhood. Anybody else that had many heated arguments while playing bored games that resulted in this?
xAkumu · 2 points · Posted at 07:49:24 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to go to a park that was close enough to train tracks to hear the horn and basically you ran around the playground and if the train horned while you were touching the ground and not on playground equipment, you'd 'die'.
I frequently would hop on someone's back and doom them lol
xAkumu · 2 points · Posted at 07:55:31 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my dad would go on road trips anywhere, we'd each pick a color and had to keep count of the number of vehicles we saw with that color and whoever had a higher number wins.
Myself and about 12 kids in my old neighborhood had an ongoing LARP for like 3 years. It was some weird blend of LOTR, Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, World of Warcraft, & General Medieval themes. It got pretty intense, we had wars, factions, a functioning economy, etc.
I miss those days, I think I still have my old "keyblade" somewhere.
My younger brother and I would play a "game" we called "Lemons"
I was 15, he was 11
We had a lemon tree and a lake/dam on our farm (maybe 50-60m across).
I, with a full sized curved scythe, would knock lemons out of the tree, stab them onto the end of the scythe blade, swing the scythe around and hurl the lemons full pelt across the dam, in rapid succession.
He, laughing like a maniac, would stand on the other side of the dam and dodge the yellow meteors.
There is something very satisfying about the sound of laughter suddenly ended by a thump and subsequent screams of critric acid tears.
We played a game called ‘the country game’. Basically, there was this kid from Iraq or something (we lived in USA) and he taught us this game. Therefore, we called it the ‘country’ game because it was from his country.
How you play (from what I barely remember lmao): You start in a circle with ‘it’ in the middle holding the ball. ‘it’ counts to 5. Everyone else runs away. Then, when they reach 5, everyone stops and ‘it’ has to try to throw the ball at someone. If ‘it’ doesn’t hit you, then they will be ‘it’ the next round. If ‘it’ hits you, you get a letter and you are also it for the next round. (We decide a word before play, like PIG or COUNTRY depending on time) If you get all the letters, everyone gets to throw the ball at your stomach or face or somthn.
We also made movies with a flip camera about like war and stuff.
Also we also played Ninja, but we heard that game from everyone, so I’m sure everyone knows that one lol.
I had a fantasy story I kept alive throughout my childhood until around 6th grade. I would just play in my backyard with imaginary companions and enemies. I had a broom stick I would use as a wizard staff or just a normal staff. Sometimes I was a warrior or an archer but it was still in the same universe. There would be times I would just walk around the yard while I gave exposition in my head. I miss that dibiddle.
It's exactly what it sounds like. One of my brothers and I would lay face first at the top of the stairs with a blanket wrapped around us and then our other brother would push us down the stairs.
I used to play this game called stairs. One person would start at the top of a staircase leading to the basement of my friends house (let’s call them the seeker). They would wait for like 20 seconds and then all the lights in the basement would get turned off by everyone else playing. This was usually played at night so there was no light coming from anywhere and it was pitch black. Then the seeker would stumble around in the dark and try and tag people in the basement. The goal for everyone else was to make it to the stairs without getting tagged. If you got tagged you were out.
There was a bit of strategy but since no one could see anything, it usually resulted into a shit show of puppy guarding the stairs and making barricades for the seeker to run into while stumbling around in the dark.
california kickball! We would play it in middle school in massachusetts where i grew up. So pretty much the bases are those big blue mats and multiple people can be on one base at a time. But after your cross home plate you can either stop or you can keep going and head towards first. Pretty badass game a lot of fun.
GAME WAS CALLED STRETCH. TWO GUYS STAND FACING EACH OTHER, ONE WITH A LARGE KNIFE. GUY WITH KNIFE HAS TO THROW THE KNIFE INTO THE GROUND (BLADE IN) SOMEWHERE IN FRONT OF HIM. OTHER GUY HAS TO LIFT ONE FOOT AND PUT IT WHERE THE KNIFE IS, PICK UP THE KNIFE AND THEN DO THE SAME. WHEN YOU FELL OVER, COULDN'T REACH THE KNIFE OR FAILED TO STICK YOUR THROW YOU LOST. SURPRISINGLY NO TOES WERE EVER LOST AT THIS.
GETTING DOWNVOTED. I'LL PROBABLY NEVER UNDERSTAND REDDIT. ASK FOR A UNIQUE GAME, GIVE PEOPLE YOUR STORY AND THEY HATE ON YOU.
BUT FOR YOU BUD, I HAVE ANOTHER STORY... A FRIEND OF MINE THOUGHT HE WAS A NINJA. DRESSED ALL IN BLACK, DROVE AROUND ON A 125CC DIRT BIKE WITH A SWORD, PELLET GUN, AND KNIVES STRAPPED ALL OVER HIM. THING WAS HE WAS A SUPER SWEET GUY (WE ALL WERE ACTUALLY). ONE DAY HE SEES AN OLD COUPLE STOPPED IN THEIR CAR LOOKING AT A MAP (PROBABLY LOST) SO HE RIDES OVER ON HIS BIKE AND TAPS ON THEIR WINDOW TO SEE IF HE COULD HELP. THEY LOOKED AT HIM AND THE HUSBAND JUST PLANTED THE ACCELERATOR AND THEY GTFO AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. IT NEVER EVEN REGISTERED ON MY BUDDY WHY.
HE IS A FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ADVISER WITH A GLOBAL FIRM. I'M A CONSULTANT. IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME THEN I GUESS.
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Was a random PS2 game my dad and I picked out of the discount bin at Gamestop that we thought looked cool. Ended up being one of my favorites for the system; a 3rd person shooter that's like if Ratchet & Clank was played like Halo. Story and style was very cool as well; you're a robot fighting for the Droid Rebellion trying to liberate Ironstar from the regime of the evil General Corrosive and his Milbots, fighting necrotic Zombots and Demonic Morbots along the way. 10/10 would shove it up Corrosive's tail pipe again.
Sharks N Minnows!
So basically we would all go to one side of the field in a line, and there would be one or two people in the middle. Then we would all go at once, while the people in the middle try to tag you. If you get to the other end, you’re safe. Also me and a couple people made it a personal challenge to see how slow we could make it without getting caught. (I made it halfway there in slow motion before I had to start running)
My lacrosse coach had us play something like this, we have to keep a ball in our stick and people would try to hit it out and whoever won didn’t have to run
Eh. I guess what made it unique for me personally, was the community feel it gave. People in ny school gave literally anyone who wanted to a fair chance and it meant a lot, coming from a kid with one, maybe two or three friends for most of my life. You know? It was all inclusive and it was some of the funnest times for kids. Seriously, about half the people at recess would be on that field. It’s just nostalgia
D3Y3 · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weapon Tag. It had nothing to do with weapons. It has the same premise as Infection Tag.It had a very specific set of rules... I can only remember three.
DO NOT LIE IF YOU ARE IT. If you do, you get a 4 minute penalty.
DO NOT HIDE IN BATHROOMS OR IN OTHER GROSS PLACES. Common Sense
IF YOU DO NOT GET TAGGED AT ALL DURING RECESS, EVERYONE WHO IS TAGGED MUST GUVE GUM.
I don’t know for this one.
We used to play a game on playgrounds with a marry-go-round and a tower where one of us would go on the tower to throw rocks at guys on the marry-go-round while it was spinning as fast as possible. It was somewhat of a Russian roulette but fun.
Now that I'm recalling this it sounds insanely stupid and dangerous. It was super fun though.
Wasn’t necessarily a game as much it was to pass time. But when i was a kid and we took family road trips I would pretend that the car would recharge its “energy” when there was enough tree shade to cover the highway. I’d have a little humming going on in my head representing the passing of time/distance of unshaded road and how much “energy” was left before just barely making it to the next bit of shade for charging.
When we were about...11 or 12 or so, a friend and I were convinced that a little mound in a nearby grove was actually a barrow. So we'd spend several afternoons there, doing "archaeological excavations".
I study archaeology today. But it took me a while to get here. Looking back, I sometimes wonder why it took me so long to figure it out.
And every now and then, I still wonder if that little mound really is just a modern rubble dump.
Being from Indiana, my brothers and I and a group of our friends trespassed into a corn field and made a “fort” in the middle of it by stomping down the ears. Then we would start fires and destroy shit. We also would go around throwing ears of corn at each other while running through the aisles of corn. Kinda like tag but throwing ears of corn instead.
I was basically the game that MLB players play when a stealer tries to run but gets caught between two bases.
We had two bases set ~20 ft apart, one person guarding each base; the rest of the kids were touching either base. Each guard would throw a tennis ball back and forth to each other. While the ball was in the air, or if a guard missed the ball, the players would just run back and forth from the bases. While the players were off the bases, the guards could throw the tennis ball and peg the players. Needless to say, we were ruthless when trying to peg friends.
We played a simple sport called “Suicide” that only required a bouncing ball - roughly the size of a tennis ball - and a standard playground wall, maybe 15’ wide.
Any number of players could start. A player throws the ball at the wall, another (or the same) catches and throws again. However, if the ball hits below maybe 2’ from the ground (two cinderblocks up), they’d have to run up and tag the wall before another player recovered the ball and hit the wall with it, or they were out. Last man standing wins.
We had a game called Booger Snot Snotty Guy, which was essentially Marco Polo, except you played in the basement, covered the person who was Booger Snot with a blanket so he couldnt see where he was going, then the Snotty Guys got to beat the ever living fuck out of Booger Snot with pillows until he tagged one of the snotty guys. Rather than saying Marco, Polo. You said Booger Snot and then everyone would respond Snotty Guy!.
Me and my uncle had this game no one else knew about. It was basically doctor and he would check my temperature and check my prostate and stuff like that
Back in primary school we had a game called ‘sunrise’
We had a big football oval that we were allowed on on lunch break, and on a relatively cloudy day the rules would be you’re not allowed to go in the sunlight, so we would hide in the shade, and when a cloud went in front of the sun we would run to the next bit of shade while the sunlight was chasing us from behind.
We got sad after realising that it hardly gets cloudy like that at lunch time :(
Auesis · 1 points · Posted at 13:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Family used to drive a lot. When I was super bored, I would focus intently at some object out the window (road sign, parked car etc.) and follow it until it left my line of sight, then pick something else and do it again. Made my eyes hurt from constantly going left/right.
Styvly · 1 points · Posted at 13:34:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the games on my Leapster
xsilr · 1 points · Posted at 13:39:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game of football by myself with my imaginary friend who happened to have the same first name as my Dad. I would throw long passes and try to catch them. If I caught them easily or not at all, I lost. Only fingertip / diving catches went for yards. My friend never won a single game. I really felt bad for him.
I would throw a blanket down on the floor and just start fighting myself, pretending to be multiple characters from the video games I played. Sometimes I would have incredibly intricate and long dialogue with myself while playing both parties. And on occasion a character would die and I'd lay on the floor with my tongue sticking out for a few seconds.
I would do all this in the middle of the living room with my parents watching TV a few feet away.
Me and a friend would stand in the two lane side street he lived on and try to throw, skip, curve a frisbee past the other. Like street hockey with a frisbee- where the width of the street was the goal. We shattered a ton of frisbees skipping them off of the street.
General Chaos was a squad based shooter on Sega Genesis. You had a top-down view and a group of three soldiers you could cycle between to take direct control of them. I loved that game growing up, and can't think of any other game like it before or since then.
Gogger (I think there was also another name for it), there was this 25 ft diameter ring of tires at my school and we would get all get in it and you would hit a soccer ball or kickball with your hands and if you got hit in the foot you would be out. There were probably more rules as well but that was a long time ago.
My brother & I played 'The Lazy Cat Game'. Essentially we lay on the ground meowing and purring and pretending to eat whatever cats eat. Oh also one of my legs was 'broken' so I half slumped around. I'd occasionally throw in a few punches when we were having a 'cat fight'. Basically a game for lazy shits with the option of fighting with my brother if I wanted. Weird as fuck.
Also 'Razor Football' - playing an extremely violent and aggressive game of football with any item that isn't a football in the living room of my grandparent's house. We spent all summer there and there wasn't a great deal so Razor Football & The Lazy Cat Game it was.
Cousins and i would stand around the pool and do dodgeball. If youre hit you jump in. It made the next rounds harder as youre now running round a pool while soaked.
Wed. Also swordfight with palm fronds. Just break one off or find one use a rock and dull the edges. Winner was whoever kept theirs in hand or whoever broke the others.
There was also an odd number of us so if we ever played yugioh thered be 1 left out. This led us to tying the other person in a chair while they tried to escape.
I had a little tennis racket and some foam balls. Nobody wanted to play tennis with me, so I invented this game on the tiles in front of our house. I would hit the ball against the wall and move one row of tiles back each time I hit the ball. If I could make it all the way to the sidewalk without losing control of the ball, I won the game. I was Pete Sampras and the wall was as usually Andre Agassi.
We played a game with rules similar to baseball but with a football (football as in soccer). But each of us had a Beyblade style special ball with abilities. I drew spreadsheets for all the balls (Thunder Ball, Lava Ball, Shadow Ball, ...) and the abilities where like "Frost Ball would freeze whoever touches it first" so 2 people had to get it. Stuff like that.
We played a game called "The Mister." My friend and I would walk onto my front porch and ring the doorbell. My little brother would come to the door and yell "what are you kids doing ringing my doorbell?!" Then we would run and he would chase us. Basically tag, but he was always it.
GP96_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoe- see how far away you could throw your shoe off your foot. Played it when we visited my uncle.
We played a game called “The Buford Blob”. Now, I have no idea where the name came from. I don’t know if it meant the blob was from a place called Buford, or if Buford was the blob’s name. I think we just liked the alliterative nature of it.
Anyway, the game was played late at night. We’d shut off all the lights and one person would drape a comforter over their head, thus making them the blob. They would then have to fumble around and try to catch the other players.
It’s amazing we didn’t break more stuff than we did.
Competitive word searching. 2 people would sit over the same word search sheet and race to find the words. Whomever found the majority was the winner. Rinse repeat.
aziom · 1 points · Posted at 14:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in a room with lights off, the game's name in English would be "Midnight Witch".
Gravel. At my school, it was basically king of the bridge + lava. One person was blind and would have to call gravel if they thought someone was on the ground. Also, you could push people off the bridge.
We did a LOT of cross country car travel, I'm taking coast to coast, and our favorite game was called "I'm An Animal." It was basically 20 Questions, but exclusive to animals. My mom still laughs at me because when I was younger, like 3 or 4, I would give the answer away by whispering, "Pretend you don't know, but does [animal] have [part]?"
Two square. It is basically tennis rules played in two joined sections of the drive way with those large red bouncy dodge balls. My brother and I played that into our 30s when we had family get togethers.
My friends and I would stick those glow-in-dark stars to our foreheads with sticky-tak then turn off the lights and pretend we were aliens. We would build whole alien societies with commerce and trade. We would have to embark on a perilous quest periodically to "the light" (the bathroom with the lights on) to recharge our forehead stars and having your forehead star fall off required urgent medical attention.
My best friend and I decided we wanted to make a detective agency. So we came up with code words and would peek through blinds to watch intersections near our houses and make notes about the cars that drove by. (stuff like "11:48am Red truck coming north, turned and went east") We had notebooks with rumors about gangs that didn't exist (or at least not in our town). I don't remember doing anything else specifically as detectives, but we had fun pretending.
On road trips, we'd divvy up the gas stations by brand (Shell, Esso, etc) and every player was given two or three brands. Every time we passed a station of said brand, the player would get a point.
I vividly remember there were heaps and heaps of gas stations until one day I got a drivers license and they all went out of business. Every time I need gas or a bathroom break, it takes me forever to find one - regardless of brand.
“Cherry Bomb” you would have a ball and you would throw it at the people playing to try to get them out, or you can go into the playground equipment but you had to have your eyes closed
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is a videogame nobody played in my school or any people i've met later in life. "Hype"! A Playmobil RPG Fantasy Game! My sister, my cousin and i played the shit out of it, but we were to young to finish it. I would pay any price to play it again with them and finish it.
My younger brother and I would stand up on the edge of our parents’ water bed with our arms out, “singing” “AHHHHHHHHH” then fall backwards into the bed. Repeat.
Recyclable baseball – we pitched various plastic goods (detergent bottles, and the like) to a batter, who would take a swing at it and run the bases. When the recyclable item was too trashed we would grab another one and keep playing.
Ramp Jam – place a crap ton of your toys on a sizable plank of wood that runs from a chair to the floor. Goal is to knock every last item off the ramp using matchbox cars. Cars that are part of the jam must be knocked off using other cars before they can be used.
Tennis Baseball – baseball on a tennis court with tennis balls and a slim bat. Alternate rules. Pitches bounce once, pitcher's poison, if the ball hits the net you're out.
Younger brother and I used to run through our own makeshift obstacle course at home. It was really just challenges we made up like climbing up the stairs x amount of times or push ups or performing crotch chops ala WWE's DGeneration X.
It was really dumb and we always got tired as hell but we laughed so hard through it that we played so many times.
CMX4 · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I put ice down my underwear and would have to run around the house until it melted.
Me and my sisters would play “mommy don’t go” where the “mom” would try to get to “work” by crossing the living room while the “kids” would try and grab her legs and stop her from walking. Our mom made us stop playing when my oldest sister lost her balance and tripped, hitting her head on the coffee table.
There was this computer game i came across in the IT section of the departmental store when I was about 10. I think it was called 'minute man' or something (lmao). In the 15 minutes I got to play it before my parents finished fridge shopping, I remember thinking it was so freaking cool cuz i could rip lampposts off the floors and stop time. Never found it again.
Whoever is taking their turn as the Terrible Monster puts a sleeping bag over their head, and stands up. It is then their job to walk around my parents' semi-finished basement trying to capture the other people.
As the Terrible Monster cannot see, they basically gets cheap shotted mercilessly and try to somehow defend themselves while on the ground.
It sounds stupid, because it is, but we had a good time.
O cant remember much, i was young but SEGA Dreamcast had this amazing planes/mecha/Transformer game were you would ve the Pilot and fight other players (does somebody know the name)
My dad used to attach a wooden board to the back of his Land Rover via a rope, my brothers and I would then sit on the board and he would drag us around a field making sharp turns trying to fling us off. More often than not this was done in a farmers field so there would be a lot of cow poo and if you were real unlucky when ejected off the board would go skidding right through one............... fun times.
Sounds horrible now as I type this. A friend and I would take an old tricyle tire, stand on our street face to face and roll it at each other. If it hit the curb that was out of bounds. First to get the tire past the goal (end of the street) would win.
1) Sacroob - which is an arabic slang in a specific region for a Screw Driver.
We lived in a sandy/muddy area- so each kid would get their favourite screw driver from home, all pointy and ready. Somebody draws a big circle on the mud (using their sacroob) and then up to 4 people can stand inside and divide the circle with inner lines as “territories”.
The goal of the game is to conquer, and you do that by throwing your sacroob on somebody’s land but it has to stick (kinda like a dart on the ground) WITHIN the land and not touching any lines. Then you can use where your sacroob landed and draw a line that adds a new land to your territory and taking away from the enemy that you just hit. Also, you can only attack while standing within ur land. (Makes a comeback difficult and challenging, as the smaller your land, the more creative you have to be in your attacks). Yeah it was fun!
Game two was called Ethbaat Rujoulah (Arabic for Proving Masculinity..
this is a dumb game played at school. Only my school, only my friends hahahaha.
Any number of kids can play, we’d grab a fucked up rock.. not a fun smooth one, no, a 2kg pointy rock. And basically you have to throw it to your friends and they can’t drop it. You can use only one hand in a single game, left or right.
Oh, and you also can’t throw it AT your friend, cuz that’s obviously dumb and dangerous.. you have to throw it in a way where it goes up in the air and go down in a predictable way.
We played “Milk carton” after lunch every day we would save one of those square milk cartons and play a version of hacky sack with it. Everyone would circle up and you could hit it once with your hands and as many times with any other part of your body (mostly feet). Whoever messed up and let it hit the floor was out. Last person standing wins. The rules evolved into it being super competitive over the years in high school and was ridiculous. Could have been a pro sport at that point lol
Oh also we played “Sennis” which was basically tennis and a soccer ball so you use your feet. Can kick it as many times as you want but it can only hit he ground once and you can pass it through the air to your partner as well. Super fun.
My brother and I played “Trip” a lot. The top bunk of his bed would be a boat, plane, or car and we’d get all our stuffed animals and go on a pretend trip. Sometimes there’d be singing. We still remember a song we wrote about Antarctica.
My friends and I played something called "the ball game", which is kind of a variation of Calvinball with more strict rules. Every time you get hit with a certain ball, you have to perform a certain action until you get cured. For example, the spinning ball, the hopping ball, the singing ball, and so forth. There really wasn't a way to win, more of a way to get your friends to look stupid.
Maybe not unique, but my brother and our friends would play Quidditch in the pool. It would consist of 2 vs. 2 pool basketball while a third player from each team would look for a small, transparent, object (usually a marble) that was thrown blindly to the bottom of the pool.
We all had decent throwing arms so we would throw little balls/hacky-sacks/etc as high up a tree as we could. The other players had to get it out of the tree by Amy means available except for throwing another object, usually amounted to climbing.
Sometimes I think about all the balls we gave up on that might’ve gone on to hit joggers and cyclists out of nowhere on a moderately windy day
My younger brother and I used to play this game called clown. I can't remember our exact ages but we were pretty young. We used to do a king of slapstick physical comedy where we would jokingly fall or push each other, trip over things, stuff like that. One day we were playing with my cousin in the backyard.
I don't remember what I did, but apparently I did something that got him very upset. He found a piece of glass from the side of the house, a window had broken a few weeks prior (not an installed window). He basically ran at me with the intention of stabbing me, but I wasn't aware of his intent, I thought we were still playing the game. Without thinking I pushed him and he rolled over a garbage can while simultaneously stabbing himself in the face. He absolutely freaked out, ran inside to find my mom who took him to the hospital.
The entire evening was bullshit. He got 5 stitches and a cool latex glove balloon. Me and my cousin missed indoor intramural soccer. I got in trouble for my brother stabbing himself, even though he was the only who was trying to stab me. Nowadays when this story comes up at family gatherings he tells it very differently, but my version is, definitely, the correct one.
My friend had an absurd amount of Beanie Babies and a rather large basement so one night we came up with “Beanie Dodge.” It was basically just dodgeball but with these little stuffed animals. If you flung them by the legs/ears you could really let those things fly let me tell ya, his parents ended up banning us from playing because we would end up cracking the walls with the damn things.
My dad and I would sit on opposite ends of our very large finished basement and huck a ball at eachother and try to get it by to score points. It was just called BALL.
We used to play in the forest, making teepees out of twigs and branches, pretending we were mice, giving ourselves mouse names, making shrines, temples, stadiums. We would have to defend ourselves against the rats, snakes, and hawks, and just run around the woods. We even had a little shrine, where we had strings of seashells, twigs, and feathers hanging.
zangor · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Cat Taps'
I had this huge black and white plush fat cat my mom got me from Cracker Barrel for $20. It was so spherical and hilarious. So my friends and I used to get stoned and use the cat to basically play 'hacky sack'. But the catch was we could also use our hands. So it was like volleyball and hacky sack in one - with a really fat plush cat the size of a basketball.
My younger brother and I had a small stuffed animal with suction cups on its hands and feet. The walls at my dad's house were the glossy kind of paint, so were super smooth. We would lick each of the suction cups and each pick a wall. Then, we'd turn the ceiling fan on high and chuck the stuffed animal up there. Whoever guessed the wall it got stuck on got to chuck it next.
I loved sports and stats as a kid and had several games I played.
Would have a bracket of nfl teams and play war with cards to see who won. Used those little plastic helmets for each side.
Tiddlywinks olympics. Basically play the game tiddlywinks as countries with brackets.
Crayon races were another one. Would pit 2 colors against each other. Flip a coin with heads being one color and tails the other. If say green had heads and won the coin flip I’d move the green up one crayon length and keep that going to one won the race.
Orphans- We had a tree house and my sisters and I would pretend to be orphans. We had some woods in the back behind our house and we'd get some food from the woods, such as nuts and some wild onions....
I also played zoo with my youngest sister. In our basement we used, amongst other things an old couch and converted it into two cages, one for the bears and one for the dogs (we had a lot of dog stuffed animals). We used all the other stuffed animals too. We had quite a few stuffed animals, everything from standard bears, to Disney animals, to unusual animals and we made cages for all of them. For some reason, with the bears and dogs we would climb into the cages and throw them back and forth...
My brother and I made up a game sort of like Magic: the Gathering, but it was played with an ordinary deck of playing cards.
Basically, face cards, tens, and aces were your "creatures." Clubs and spades were weapons and shields that you could attach to creatures, while hearts and diamonds were healing and damaging spells; the efficacy of each was determined by the number on the card. I don't remember the details of how combat worked or what the win condition was, though.
"Yard adventure", basically the floor is lava but in our back yard. We ended up basically just doing parkour so we changed it to "Tag". Many injuries were had.
Weed wars. It's not like it sounds. A bunch of us discovered that if you strip a particular wild plant of it's leaves, that it made and excellent whip. This lead to us breaking down into teams and attacking one another. Our attacks were broken up only by our hunt for more 'weapons'. It was fun, but with all the threats of physical violence (and actual minor-violence), it probably shouldn't have been.
The rock game. Basically like playing Barbie's outside, but everything was a rock. TV was a flat rock, car was a big rock, money was tiny rocks. We definitely had good imaginations
Own a cottage in the thousand islands, we’d play a game called ‘survivor’ where it was hide and seek but everyone was seeking and only one person was hiding, the goal being to survive as long as possible.
We had plenty of trails and forest around the large cottage and we were on a hillside leading to the dock. A lot of room for me and my three younger brothers to run around in. Tons of fun actually and good times back then.
In the car my sister and I would "claim" all the businesses on our side of the car. So all the stores we passed on the left would be mine and vice versa for my sister. There was lots of "Yes! I have Friendly's and a bowling alley!" or "Hey thats unfair you have the Chuck E Cheese! ):" So sometimes deals would be made like "Ok we can both share the Chuck E Cheese and the Friendly's" type stuff lol. The dumbest thing is on the drive back obviously we we now had the other side of the street so things were reversed anyways.
We were also obsessed with the Beatles and would play house with our imaginary husbands Paul and Ringo in our imaginary homes on Penny Lane.
I imagine everyone played some variation of this. My sister and I grew up in the boonies of the Big Island, mostly black/brown lava and no neighbors for miles. We would hike out on random property, and eventually found a place where a crevice between two hill peaks. We would gather lots of small sticks and one large stick and go on each hill peak. We'd spend the next 30 minutes throwing sticks at each other, your only defense was your large stick, or aka, your blocker.
My younger sister always wanted to go to a Six Flags but was too scared to go on rides. So I came up with the idea to make our own. We'd play "bumper cars" and just run into each other holding pillows. I'd put her on my back and suddenly squat down really fast like a giant drop ride. I'd carry her in my arms and spin her around as fast as I could like the spinning rides.
It wasn't much, but she loved every second of it and still remembers it all those years later
Swedish: played with red rubber ball, kick ball in air, someone gets the ball and tries to hit other players. If you catch the ball that someone is throwing they are out until you get hit. There were varying boundaries but you couldn't go out of bounds. Similar to other games but it was fun.
Smear the queer: (hey, we were kids in the seventeen and eighties) : red rubber ball, boundaries, kick in air and whoever caught it was chased/tackled. At some point they could throw it away. The point was to evade the tackles as long as you could.
ZZT. I suppose you could call it a Rogue-Like, but one of the main features was that you could design your own levels and entire campaigns and even had a built in rudimentary programming language for creating custom monsters. Was very fun.
throw a tennis ball onto the roof of the garage, other person has to catch it, sounds easy but soon you get to trick shots off things, or slow rolls that bounce off gutters,
you miss a catch and you get a point, first person to 11 points loses, BUT if the ball gets stuck in the gutter, or you throw it over the top of the roof, you auto lose.
Celery Generals
We stole it from Tom Green.
You'd carefully craft a little person out of Celery and Cherry Tomatoes, held together by toothpicks, then carefully place them on the road. You'd have to make sure your General was the last one standing. If it fell over, you had to run out and move it to another spot, and if it got hit, you'd have to pour Salad Dressing over it and eat it up.
It got to the point where my younger sister continued it with her friends.
We used to play the "Food Trees" game, which is kind of an improvised version of tag. There would be four trees, one for "like it", "love it", "don't like it", and "never tried it". One kid, the chef, would shout out the name of a food, and the kids would run to one of the trees based on how they felt about the food. Once you reached a tree, you were safe, but before then the chef could catch you and "cook you up" (you're out).
Me and a friend would play a game we called double spy and basically it was hide and seek but we both were the seekers and you would count how long you saw the other and when you both saw eachother the game would end and the person who the one the longest would win and wed do like best outta 5
Basically, it's tag combined with hide and seek. The monster had to search for us and when the monster found someone, they would have to chase them and try to tag them.
The ‘Line Game’ : There were painted lines on the ground is wiggles and curves, we had the idea to have to play tag whilst on the lines however like trains we could not go back and could only outrun the chaser by speed or changing lines.
We called it "The chasing game". I would only ever play it with my sister and 3 kids from another family. The two boys (me and the boy from the other family) would try to catch all three girls. If one of them was caught, we would bring them to the "Jail" where they would stay until one of their team members would release them by tapping them on the shoulder. The boys could only catch one girl each at a time, and once caught, the girls could not escape. Since there was no time limit, the boys would usually win because that was the only way the game could end.
The kids from this family were the only people we would ever play it with, and every time we ever met up, we would always play this very game.
Uno, but every time you get an Uno you have to role a di and what number you get is the number of cards you have to take (numbers 6, 4, and 2 don't count)
Peg. Our class would get together in front of a wall with one tennis ball. Two people would throw it at the wall, and the first person to touch the wall got to throw it as hard as possible towards the others’ back.
Me and my friends would play this game called “Hunters”. It was mix between hide n seek, tag, and paintball/airsoft rifles (gave us a western feel). How it worked was one person (or two, depending on how many were playing) would be the bounty hunter and everyone else the bounties. We would all be armed with either bb rifles or paintball guns and the bounties would have 40 seconds to hide. The hunters would then try to gun down the bounties in the time span of 10 mins (depends on how many playing). If the hunter was shot, they would be able to respawn. If the bounty was shot, they would be dead for 20 seconds, then join the hunters. Game ends if all bounties were killed or if bounties survived for 10 minutes
My friends and I would play target golf. One kid (the target) would climb onto our monkey-bars and position himself in an awkward way that made fast movement difficult. The rest of us would start driving golf balls at him (using 3 irons) from about 150' away.
We never did manage to hit the target :\
We also one winter built a golf course (1 hole) in our basement. It was a par 4, 7-iron and 9-iron only. You had to chip out of the tool room, down the hall to the rec room—with a dog-leg to the left—then chip over the couch to the clearing in front of the TV, and then chip into the library (not really a library per se, just a room with a lot of bookshelves), and finally putt into a cup located in the closet. Blanket and cushions were used simulate the rough, sand traps, etc.
You could save a stroke by chipping right past the TV area, directly into the library. That was a tough shot, though sometimes you got a lucky bounce off the fireplace.
You'd think with all this golf related play I'd be good at golf. I'm not :\
TL;DR; played a lot of unconventional golf as a kid.
My brother and I used to sit across the living room with our legs spread (wearing clothes) and we would take turns trying to throw a tennis ball at each others nutsacks.
No idea where that came from but there was no flinching allowed and your hands must stay on the floor when it wasn't your turn to throw.
This may sound very strange, but when me and my younger brother were little kids we’d pee at the same time and see who’s pee could last the longest the longest.
Me and my brother used to play tackle football 1 on 1 in the basement but he would play on his knees and I would be on my feet cuz he was so much bigger
We called it Knee Volleyball. We had a large patch of carpet roughly 8 feet across and 10 feet long, we had two gymnastics mats that we’d lay on their sides and squeeze between the basement walls across the 8ft space so it acted as a net roughly 2.5 feet tall. At one end of the 10 ft length was the basement wall, at the other end was the back of a couch. So it’s basically a court with a net surrounded with boundaries on all 4 sides. We used a small gatorskin ball that you could hit with any part of your body.
The rules were simple. It was basically tennis, except the side walls are “in”, so the back walls are “out”. The ball can bounce once on your side, but only before you touch it, and you can also hit the ball straight out of the air. Oh, and you can hit the ball any number of times but you can’t reach across the net.
We had a blast playing this, and came up with all kinds of strategies. With your hands and the right type of ball you could generate all kinds of spin. Sometimes people would just bobble the ball to plot their next move, since you could touch it any number of times but you couldn’t hold it. In the end though the most effective types of shots were the ones that evaded your opponent. The court was just big enough that surprises shots down the line, short balls if they were playing deep, and lobs if they were hugging the net, were quite effective. Since you’re playing on your knees it’s difficult to move across the court quickly, so there was lots of diving which made it a serious scramble.
I’ve always joked saying if I get rich I would make an adult-sized knee volleyball court in my house. Though I don’t know if I’d be able to do anything about the one negative aspect of the game... we got some serious rug burns playing this game. Even wearing pants our knees got pretty fucked up in the years that we played this game.
We called it Gopher (or Go-for). I had a trampoline with a net and me and my friends would get inside and bounce with a big beach ball. One person on the outside would be the Gopher and we'd hit it at the gopher and he/she would hit it back into the trampoline. The goal of the Gopher was to get the ball to touch the ground inside the trampoline so they wouldn't be it anymore and the last person that touched it would become the new gopher.
My neighbors had a trampoline and an ungodly amount of balls (basketball, soccer etc.) and we called this game the “ball game” (creative, I know). So there’s a net around the trampoline and there would be 2 people inside and 2 people outside of the trampoline.
The people outside would try to throw the balls over the net and have it hit the floor, while the people inside would try and catch them. Each ball that hit the ground would be a point, we would play to 25 or so and switch sides. If you threw more than 5 balls at a time it would subtract a point.
Also there was a garbage can outside the trampoline and if the people inside could shoot a basket in the can it would also subtract a point. Took up pretty much our entire summers threw middle and high school.
Me and the neighbourhood kids would have "slow races": We'd go to the top of a nearby hill on our bikes, and then cycle back down. Last one to the signpost at the bottom wins. Rules: No stopping (foot on the ground means you're out). No going backwards. Stay on the road at all times (i.e not on the curb). It kept us amused for hours.
Me and my brother also played "Escape", where we'd tie each other up as best we could with whatever we could find and were timed on how quickly we could get out. My brother eventually became the forever champ when he tied me up and then put me in my closet with a doll that I was terrified of (He isn't a psychopath, he didn't know how scared of the doll I was. After that I didn't want to play anymore)
While driving I would mentally “collect” things on one side of the car which gave me points. The side I wasn’t collecting on lost me points. I always imagined it like shifting the tires forward on the passenger side to collect from the driver side or vice versa. Some of my ever changing rules:
Metal things were worth more. So if you’re driving on a divided highway with concrete dividers in the middle, but metal guard rails on only your side of the highway, the tires should be collecting from your side. If there were metal light poles in the middle it totally depended on the size and frequency on which side you should be collecting from. Poles and guardrail on both sides meant collecting across lanes.
I couldn’t just constantly shift sides, I had an internal feel about when it was ok to shift. Normally this was when I noticed I was about to start losing massive points.
Sometimes other cars counted, sometimes they served to block collection. So if you’re slowly passing a semi you damn well better be collecting from the other side on a blocking day.
Losing points felt disproportionate. A speed limit sign cost me more points mentally then the credit I felt earning them. Also anything on the passenger side (where my seat was as a kid) seemed to count for slightly more.
On boring stretches with nothing trees could substitute, but that’s usually just a wash on points.
Buildings never counted, they served as the boundary of what I could gather.
Edit: I might still do this while I’m a grown adult passenger sometimes.
Not really a game, but when we could, my cousin and I would get a plastic or styrofoam cup, and put whatever liquids we could find. Water, lotion, soap, freaking coke if we wanted to. The point was that we made “potions”. Before any of you ask, no we didn’t drink them.
I used to try to kick a ball to touch every step on the stairs consecutively before I could go upstairs. If it missed the next one on the scale I had to start again from the bottom step.
I could be there for hours forgetting that I’d initially needed to go up to the bathroom.
Me and my brother were creative in comimg up with trampoline games, our favorite was "Log". The Log's job was to roll around the trampoline like a log and try to trip the other players jumping over the log. The Log could alternate their direction as frequently as they want as long as they can maintain the log posture. This was a pretty painful but fun game once you got used to tripping off trampolines and getting kicked and stepped on if you were the log.
The best part of the game though, was the orgin of "LOG". We came up with the game of long after a camping trip one summer. We went to some hill billy red neck's house that had a sign out front for firewood. He answers the door and we ask to buy some firewood. He was confused and quiet for a few seconds then says "OOOH THE LOGS". This was the most sterotypical hill billy we have ever seen, complete with a balding wife, missing teeth, and a property full of junk. "LOOOOGS" became an ongoing joke and the basis for this game.
We also had a similar game called ROLEX, which was a reference to a scene in the movie UHF. Instead of a log you were a watch. You would lay in the middle of the trampoline and use your body as the two clock hands trying to trip the other players.
Me and my little sister used to play pretend a lot when we were kids. We would make up and characters and voices to go along with them and act like they would; the typical stuff.
What wasn’t typical is the characters we would make up. I distinctly remember one time we created this situation where I would pretend I was a wife who brought her husband to the hospital for surgery. She would be a male surgeon who purposely kills the husband during surgery so that he can make a move on the wife. As I sat down and pretended to be a grieving widow after the news came out that my husband died in surgery, she would pretend to be a handsy surgeon trying to take advantage of me in the name of comforting me while I mourned.
I really don’t know how/why we came up with this lol.
Further to a comment I'd made elsewhere, we had another unique game. A group of us at school used to go down to Ness point, the eastern most point in the UK and a 5 minute cycle from school at lunchtime.
On a stormy day the waves would crash against the sea wall and crash up in the air. We'd stand on the edge and when the wave crashed all try and dash backwards and not get soaked with stinky seawater.
Needless to say we'd often go back to school in the afternoon soaked to the skin and smelling like seaweed and on one occasion one of us got washed in by a particularly massive wave and getting him out from the slimy rocks below while the waves continued to crash was the closest I've come to seeing a friend die due to our foolishness.
We used to play "alligator pit". Basically, we had a trampoline with the big net around it. Everyone playing would start with their shoes in the middle and we'd start jumping around the outside. If you got hit by a shoe, it would be like being "bit by an alligator" and you were out. Had to get off the trampoline until we were down to one person (the winner).
We had a few and they all resulted in minor injury everytime we played.
Monster: One person was the monster. They hid under the covers on the bed (always played on my parents' king-size bed without their knowledge) and tried to grab the other players and drag them under the covers, at which point they became the monster. You could not leave the bed or you were out and the monster could not see. It was basically extreme jumping on the bed and someone always fell off or got kicked in the head.
Blackout Tag: We would turn off all the lights in our finsihed basement and hang a thick blanket over the window so that it was pitch black. Then we just played hide-and-seek/ tag (we hid until we thought we were about to be found and then tried to run away and hide again before being tagged). Someone would always run full speed into a wall or furniture and got hurt, but it was suprisingly very fun.
Mountain Lions: Basically just the floor is lava buit you were mountian lions instead (because mountian lions can't touch the floor I guess?). Instead of being encouraged to make it accross the room though you were encouraged to climb as high as you could. It resulted in broken bookshelves and pulling down curtains. We were only allowed to play it 2-3 times before it was expressly forbidden in our household.
In grade 6 after school, my friend and I used to pretend we ran a horse barn and had horse shoes. We would set up ski poles over buckets and all kinds of obstacles and prance around her backyard jumping over the “jumps” we made. The crazy thing is that we were both in riding lessons and got to be around actual horses, but I guess we just couldn’t get enough.
K9kai · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The cow game.
Back in middle school some friends and we decided to make a game in the turf part of the play area. One person crawled on their hands and knees, and everyone else had to run around in the turf to avoid the cow (the turf was a small space so it wasn’t unfair). The cows goal was to tackle the people running around and if you were tackled you also became a cow.
This was a ton of fun and later in the week one day we had everyone playing it one recess. So about 30-40ish kids ALL came and played the game.
It got banned that day and were never able to play again.
My dad used to sit on the couch watching football or whatever on tv while my sister and I ran back and forth in front of him with him trying to hit us by throwing balled up socks. We called it fireball, and looking back it was probably the laziest way for him to interact with us while also watching tv.
Tasmanian daredevil tag is what we called it. We would chase each other on our bikes and "tag" each other. To tag someone, you had to line up your front bike tire with their back tire and it would make a noise that reminded us of the Tasmanian Daredevil cartoon.
We had a game called "sparrow hawks" where the objective was for two of us to capture the family cat and bring it to the dog kennel (the "nest") without being stopped by the other person. The game evolved over time when we eventually realized that Boots probably didn't like being lugged around by a bunch of screaming children, so we replaced him with a frisbee that the "hunter" was allowed to hide anywhere on our property. But this meant that you no longer had to fight a squirming, evasive cat all the way back to the goal, so we gave the hunter an airsoft gun to tag people with in order to even it out. When you got shot you had to return to the nest before you could go looking for the frisbee again. At that point we started playing it after sundown so that the runners wouldn't get picked off from across the yard, and allowed them to surrender if they were caught at close range so you didn't get hosed with plastic bb's for picking the wrong time to cut through the garage.
We were probably too old to be playing this made up game but anyway we called it "Nim Nims" inspired by Blair Witch Book of shadows so basically you turn all the lights off in the house, lock all the doors, block any light coming into the house and one person puts a pillow case over their head and chases everyone else while screaming NIM NIMS!
My cousin had this storage room full of toys. So my brother and I, along with my cousin, would “gear up” which ranged from putting on dinosaur feet which squeaked as you walk, to broken lightsabers to those xylophones with the mallet attached. We would run around his basement into all the rooms and eventually the rest of the house to protect the family from the alien intruders. The boss alien was always in the boiler room because it was really dark and scary in there.
I’d always play “guns” which was literally just running around with a toy gun like a nerf gun, but had no darts or ammo what so ever. We’d just pretend we all saw the same invisible bad guys. Obviously that was hard. Sometimes we would play against each other without any ammo and argue for 10 minutes on whether my imaginary bullet hit you or not. Funny thing is though, we always had the bullets for the guns, we were just scared to lose them or the chance of hurting someone with them.
Monopoly Solo. Only child with two working parents and no friends my age in the neighborhood, so no one to play with. I'm not sure what the passive-aggressive deal was with my parents, but they always bought me board games. Like, who the f*** am I supposed to play this shit with?!?!?
Fortunately, I was very creative and came up with my own versions of the rules for Multi-player board games so that I could play them on my own. Don't ask me how I did it - I think I blocked out that part of my life.
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we used to play wall ball, which essentially is you throw a tennis ball at the wall and then you/other players try to catch it. if you touch the ball but don’t catch it, you have to sprint to the wall and touch it before someone else throws the ball at the wall. you were lucky if you didn’t get pegged on the way. it was tons of fun and i could still spend hours playing it
Grew up in a townhouse complex so the neighborhood kids only had one thing in common, scooters. We created a game where you'd set up two rocks on each end as goal posts, and try to kick an empty plastic bottle through them while riding scooters.
But here's the real kicker, we had nearby crab apple trees, so we would harvest some ammunition, and you were allowed to throw crab apples at each other and hit each others legs with the scooters to gain an advantage.
Nobody ever got seriously injured but man did that game produces some laughs.
I eagerly await Razor Scooters debut at the Olympic games. My townhouse complex will represent!
My friend and I used to jump on her trampoline and pretend we were germs in the toilet. Our goal was always to get on the toilet rim and then out of the toilet to infect people.
“Swordfight!” no, not that kind. We word pretend our whole arms where swords and swing them around trying to stab each other. If your arms/legs where stabbed, they where cut of and you could use them. You die if you get stabbed in the torso 3 times, stabbed in the back twice, and insta kills happened if you got stabbed in the head or a sneak attack of the back. If you die, you had to go and re-spawn, which would usually be where we chucked our coats. I played this regularly until I was ten, when my buddy broke my other buddy’s nose
Trampoline WWF. We used to have royal rumbles all the time and pull of signature moves, and all sorts of dumb shit. Especially fun when one of my friend's older brother would pretend to be Kane and come running outside and powerbomb/choke slam us since he was way taller and stronger.
When I was in like 2nd grade my old friends and I would pretend to be characters from mario, and the playground would be bowser’s castle surrounded by lava. We never really did what any mario character would do but just sort of roleplayed as mario characters while not touching the “lava” ground. I guess that makes it a spin on “the floor is lava.”
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ice Climbers". My best friend in elementary school and I would climb the giant snowbanks during recess and one of us would pretend to fall while the other holds on to their hand so they don't die. It was very dramatic.
Spy world. We would take as much yarn as we could find (usually two giant rolls worth) and string them around everything in the entire house, making “lasers” everywhere. Once the entire house was covered we would have to get across it holding an object and if we touched the lasers we would “die” and have to go back and start over. My mom hated when I played this game lol
My cousins had a pretty big staircase that was carpeted, so we when we visited we would bring all our blankets and stuffed animals and play a game of "avalanche" where one of us at the top of the steps would throw every blanket and stuffed animal in the house to try to knock down one of the others climbing up. It's a surprise nobody got hurt
Hide the belt. The concept is to hide belt under object. Lets kids go find the belt. When someone does find it your object is to hit kids with the belt while they run away to safety to the safe spot.
Firstly, the stairs from our main floor to the basement were quite steep, so I’d always take an old piece of carpet or something and pretend I was a bobsledder, and fly down those stairs for hours, bumping and crashing.
Secondly, my best friend at the time lived out of town in the country, and whenever we went to hang out there we would always get his dad to drive us around in his truck while we were in the bed, and we’d pretend we were surfing or flying or just whatever our imagination came up with and we’d do that for hours as well
Looking back, it’s a miracle I never seriously injured myself during my chaotic childhood
I live in a culdasac (sp?) and my neighbors and I would play "Indian" by gathering leaves and twigs from the neighbor hood and putting them all in the island part of the court. It was like playing house but outdoors!
My brother and I used to play balloon volleyball which is basically what it sounds, except without a net but a line on the floor usually demarcated by pillows.
We used to play manhunt in the woods at night, with full ghille suits ..... and paintball guns.
The seeker would have a spotlight and a paintball gun. The hiders would have camp and ghille suits, time, and darkness in their favor.
Oh and sometimes we brought firecrackers to "ambush" the seeker with, or to use as decoys. (light, throw as far as you can and run in the opposite direction before the seeker rounds the hill).
Me and my sister and two of our friends used to play “fox and turtle” in which everyone was a turtle except for the one person who was a fox and the turtles would crawl around until the fox came at which point the turtles would hide and pretend to be rocks until the fox passed by
It was just running around with a ball for as long as you could until you got tackled. Then you tossed the ball and the closest person had to grab it and run.
It was not a very PC name, but the game was simple and fun.
I would tie a stuff animal to a string and swing it around over the stair railing. My dad would bat at it from below. It was kind of like playing with a cat.
We used to play a form of dodgeball using a flattened volleyball, but played in a pitch black room with only a strobe light to see by. We called it "Twatfinder," and no, we didn't know what that word meant. It caused a minor stir when we first mentioned it by name to my parents.
Socky.
Essentially soccer with hockey sized goal at each side of the carport. Socky is played in your socks with a ball that was made of a big pair of wool socks wrapped in duct-tape. Socky includes 2 players per team, 1 goalie and 1 forward. So much fun.
mygk · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to just stand and stare in the middle of the playground, I'd get pissed if people tried to play with me cause I was daydreaming some kinda scenario and they'd ruin my focus.
I still do it sometimes, just only if I have to wait on something like a doctors appointment or something.
Spy. Me and my friends would pick another random neighborhood friend to follow around and spy on without them noticing. And if they caught us we would run away and hide.
It was never organized like "okay we are going to spy on this person this time" but more of a spontaneous thing based on who wasn't with the group at the time and if we knew where they were and if we thought it would be fun to follow them around for a few hours.
Lemme tell you it's a lot more fun to do the spying than be the one getting spied on. And it would weird parents out sometimes
edit: I just remembered we would even whip out the binoculars and walkie talkies sometimes if we were really feeling it
h_ound · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Hide the peg'. Dad would hide a peg in the backyard and I would find it.
We had a climbing frame which was basically a big metal frame shaped like a large cone with the top flattened off. And hanging down the middle was a long metal pole attached at the top by a chain, and at the bottom was a horizontal bit of metal which you could sit or stand on, and swing the pole around like a mad person. It would never pass safety regs nowadays, but in the 90s it was good fun.
Anyway, me and my sister used to play this game where we'd stand inside the frame (effectively like a massive cage) and fucking FLING this long metal pole around the edge of the frame causing it to bash about maniacally. If you got hit you had lost the game - and we called it monster chase.
The game usually ended in someone getting hurt tbh.
Ipmqn · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played our own form of hunger games in the park, with nerf/foam swords, Spears, tridents, maces, and bows. We also had a selection of locations to place the cornucopia every game to make things different, and his food in many places.
I used to imagine a man falling in the sky. He would just randomly pop into my mind sometimes, always in a tumbling freefall. Sometimes I would imagine he'd hit the ground, get up and walk around. If I was really bored I would imagine he started a whole life after his fall- got a job, wife and kids, the whole shebang.
But the ground would always fall through eventually, and he would be back to an infinite freefall. At least until I thought of him again.
The playing surface was a sunbathing deck near the pool at our campground. The deck was divided into quadrants. Four players would remove their socks, put on rollerblades, ball up one sock and stuff it into the other sock. This sock-whip became your weapon. Everyone skated around trying to use their whip to knock others' whips out of their hands. If you dropped the whip in your home quadrant, you could pick it up; if you dropped it anywhere else, you were out.
We had a small circular house growing up living room-dining room-kitchen-bedroom-hallway-living room.
My siblings and I played endless hours of 2 v 1 ping-pong capture-the-flag, oldest sibling vs two youngest siblings. The goal of the game wasn't just to retrieve the flag but to find it. Tag and you go to jail. Ball had to be hidden in plain sight but besides that there were no rules. Easily could take 20 minutes/half an hour of snooping around and darting back before it was ever found - let alone captured.
I had a lot of those old eyewitness picture books as a kid, as well as many small plushies and plastic animal figurines. I would spend hours having my little characters interact with the pictures in the books- eating the food, putting on plays in the colosseum, the works.
Everyone that went to my elementary school played this courtesy of the best gym teacher ever, Bucky McCalister. It was called Jurassic Park. He would lay out an obstacle course the length of the gym where you couldn’t touch the ground. There were little rubber “stones”, mats, scooters to slide on and cross the “lava”. We had to go in a single file line and we needed to work together to pass the materials back and forth because there wasn’t enough to just lay everything out and walk across together. It was the greatest team building thing I’ve ever done and the most fun by far.
We had this game we didn't really name. We would glue together like 10 A4 papers and draw a map. Then everyone could get skme land and start to be a kingdom. There was a guy who managed all the "money". Basically you would get some money for the houses and other buildings you had. You could then spend the money on an army then conquer everyone. Lots of fun.
My friends and I would stage Pokémon battles while jumping on a trampoline. If you fell off the trampoline you were "knocked out" and the next challenger would get up. No intentional contact allowed, just make the other lose their balance while jumping.
Power Rangers Fall Down a Hill. My friend had a steep hill next to his house with some trees and ivy on it. We would just pick different power rangers and then throw ourselves down this hill and try to dramatically tumble down this hill. That game stopped when we learned that some of that ivy was indeed poison ivy.
We would play hide and seek in the dark inside my house. We have a fairly large house and the third floor is basically one big living room that branches off into 2 rooms and a bathroom. The seeker would stay in the bathroom with the light on and count to 60 and at the end of it they would come out into the pitch black room and search for everyone.
It was fun because you could hide in plain sight and hear the seeker walk right past you. Also it got slightly dangerous because sometimes we would set up traps in front of the door like chairs or a mattress that the seeker obviously couldn't see so they would fall over the traps. We had a lot of fun playing that game haha
My brother and I used to train dragons. We gave them names and powers and used to fight beside them wielding swords. One Halloween (we live in Australia) my mum wouldn't let us go out trick or treating. So instead, we pretended that a dragon killed my brother and we hoped someone would come by, enjoy the free acting, and give us lollies.
Another one that we still occasionally play is Whacko. Basically each kid takes in turn of leaving the other kids. The kids then divide some lollies into groups of 5 or 6. It can be many lollies in one pile and maybe or two in another. Whatever you want. Then you pick which pile is 'Whacko'. In agreeance, you call back the kid (usually with a lot of excited yelling). The kid then comes and starts pointing to piles of lollies. If they choose the 'Whacko' pile, everyone yells out WHACKO and that's it. No more piles. I don't even know where this comes from. My cousins and brother and I have played our whole lives. My youngest brother played for the first time last year and cleared the table. Beginners luck :)
My younger brother and I would play this game where he would be a farmer and I would be a horse. We had a playhouse that had a sort of porch on the front, so my bro would section that off and it would be my stable and he lived in the house part. I would lie in hay (grass clippings) and pretend to eat it too.
Sometimes he would ride on my back and I would crawl around the garden. He would talk to me like you'd talk to a cute dog trying to hype it up, and I would neigh back. Wild times...
Also when my dad cut the grass he would make a trail in wiggly lines and loops before properly mowing, and we would set the track up with hoola hoops, skipping ropes, footballs etc to make an obstacle course.
As an only child I created an art factory, where each station was another part for the picture (drawing, colouring, signing...)
And I'd create a gallery and demand money from my mum for her favourite one.
It was a jumping game. We would climb onto the side of our house, run, and jump as far as we could. We introduced garden furniture into the game. So you run and jump over a pyramid of chairs and tables. When everyone did this, the pyramid was pushed back... and back... and back... then SMASH. Someone was out. Then we rebuilt and started again.
There were no winners in this game. You always lost. You always got hurt. For some reason, we loved doing it.
This is the first time I tell this story. I had a "friend" when I was a kid, we played a lot with a ball called Super Santos together at every kind of game involving a ball. Well, it was late that evening, like 7pm and it was almost dark. We had lost the ball and we couldn't play anymore, but then one of us started to spit on the other one, and the latter had to dodge. It was a gross war.
I pretended my hands were two fish while my grandma put her hands together and acted as if it were a shark. She would then try to catch my hands with hers. It’s one of my fondest memories of her.
Humphrey. It was a sort of hide and go seek/tag spin off invented by my sister and I. The twist was you had to get back to a base to be safe/win. The base was an old dinghy in the back yard.
There was an accompanying song. I don't know why it was called Humphrey.
This all just came flooding back to me when I saw this post. Kids are weird.
Me and my brother would put glue in each others hands and try to stick our hands together and then spin on an office chair to break it off. We just looked like idiots.
I gave my feet points while walking. My left foot got one point for each step it took, and my right got two; and each line/crack I stepped over doubled the points of that step (so if I stepped over a corner of two lines, it would be quadruple points, and so on).
I always stepped over as many lines as I could with my left foot to make up for the fact that my right got double the points. Guess I was always a sucker for the underdog stories.
I grew up on a dirt road in a very rural community. We played a game at night innocently called pull-the-snake (yes, I know). We would take an old bicycle inner tube, cut it, and tie a length of fishing line to one end of it. We would put the "snake" on one side of the road, and then hide in the woods on the other side of the road. When a car would come by, we'd start pulling the fishing line. We quickly found out that people loved killing snakes with their cars. The goal was to get the car to spend as much time as possible driving forward and backing up over the snake. It was all fun and games until someone got out of their truck to grab a gun out of the toolbox. We found that we all could run VERY fast through the woods at night.
Curb Ball!!! Two people stand on either side of the street and throw a ball (soccer, red rubber kickball, volleyball) One point for hitting the opposite curb. Two points if the ball rolls back across the street and hits your own curb. Three points if you ball hits opposite curb and returns to your own curb in the air. Hours of fun, till a car came along.
We would play a version of Manhunt where you'd have a team of hunters and then the runners, the runners would go off and hide somewhere in the neighbor hood and then it was their job to make it back to "base" (usually the porch of one of our houses). It was a nighttime game because the darkness always added to it, and we'd sometimes have a jail where the runners who got tagged would go.
My friends and I used to play this game called “Sit down and shut up!” back in the third or fourth grade. Basically, one of us what a teacher who would walk by, and we were supposed to try to whisper to each other behind her back. If she caught us, she just yelled “Sit down and shut up!”
I have no clue who made the game up, but we did during every recess.
Me and my siblings would play floorball. You basically sat on knees and rolled the ball to the batter. And ran around the “bases” until ball was possessed by fielding team. Sofas were first and 3rd base. Under the doorframe was 2nd and the front door was home. It definitely helped with school cancellations when you <10 years old
My friends and I played a game called Cucaracha where we would push each other down to the ground and yell “Cucaracha!” If we were successful. It was a very violent game and I got in trouble playing it at school.
Gamogi · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only happened once because of supplies but still was really fun and needed more people.
For context, as a child I lived in a forested mountain range outside of a large city in the California Bay Area. Our house had a massive retaining wall (with it's own backstory for another day), about 25 ft (7.6m) high. Above the wall was a our backdoor deck and patio and below was this bowl shaped dirt area with a rim at the top. There was a trampoline on the rim, right under the wall.
A lot of dumbass shit was done using the wall and the trampoline. The more innocent one was that when I was cleaning my room I found 500 unused water balloons and my brother (8 years older than me) decided the best idea (it was) was to fill them with soapy water. I went down to the trampoline and he stood up top pelting me with them and they would pop on the trampoline, coating it with soap, eventually making it almost impossible to stay standing. Similarly it was done using water guns but they held no ground to the balloons.
On a completely separate occasions my brother also jumped off the retaining wall and onto through the trampoline. No idea how no serious harm came from that.
Me and my cousin had a game inspired in Indiana Jones when we were young. We were in a Hammock and try to reach each wall hook just using the strong of our arms... Kind the bridge scene of the movie...
me and my uncle played this game called guess the body part. this is how my uncle taught me about the parts of the body. he even taught me some stuff about things between my legs
Another game that we would play later on in high school would be this game called "Ninja." This game often had other students from other grades participating. The idea of the game was that everyone was assigned a target to "assassinate." To assassinate someone, you were supposed to poke them in the back of the neck with two fingers WITHOUT them making eye contact with you. If you succeeded in assassinating your target before getting assassinated, they would give their target to you. The game would proceed until there was one winner left. This game could go on for weeks.
Late to the party but lawd we had so many. My favorite was when my older brother and I randomly threw down Yu-Gi-Oh cards in the backyard and pretended to be the monsters. Then, we pretended to get sucked away to the Shadow Realm if we lost. Sometimes we mixed in WWE and Ray Mysterio and the Undertaker would be flippin heads.
FUCK YOU JONATHON I NEVER FORGOT THAT YOU STOLE MY DARK MAGICIAN AND SOLD IT TO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD KID YOU RAT BASTARD.
My friends and I would play what we just called the scare game. Basically reverse hide and seek. You me person would hide in the dark and we would look for them in a group. They would try to scare us. If one of us jumped, we were then it. If they went for it t and no one got scared or we spotted them before they had a chance to spook us, they went again.
One time we were playing at my house and my mom went downstairs to do some late night laundry only to be hisses at from the darkness by my buddy. She lost without even playing.
For some reason at my elementary school, the blacktop had a 10x10 grid painted on it of 1ft squares. We had chalk to draw on the blacktop, so we'd have one person "draw" a maze by making one square a "start" and one and "end" and then on some sides of the squares, arrows to other squares. This created a bunch of different paths (often there was more than one path to the end).
Then everyone would jump around from square to square following the arrows, trying to get to the end.
My cousins and I used to play the “invisible man.”
Basically all of us would go in one room (except for one person) and shut the door. Then the person on the outside would knock, and those inside would open the door to seemingly no one standing there. The person outside would hide off to the side or something and say “it’s the invisible man!” in a weird voice, and then we would shriek and slam the door.
This eventually evolved into things like “the talking shoe,” the talking hamper,” etc. God we loved that game.
We were dirt poor coming from mexico, for some reason we would fill shasta plastic bottle of water and try to smash the cap off without moving the body. It was hard until I saw my older brother do it with a fast clean whack!
We did this when we were 8-10 of age Im 33 now, from time to time I would refill a 2 litter and do this to see if I still got it. Lol
A friend and me used to play hide and seek in Pumpkin Hill in Sonic Adventure 2. We will give hints on how the area we where (two ghost and a pumpkin) and stuff like that. It was very fun.
We had a pig stuffed animal with a bow tie, our childhood friend would be on the top bunk, dangling it like a puppet. Elvis pig, as she did an Elvis voice, would say pickup lines to me and my brother would punch it. Don’t know why it was so fun..
Ghhahn · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me n my sibling n cousin used to play a game called detdor, basically meaning run fast n we wud run around a table and catch up with the one in front. The thing is the table was a small one my mates were like small so i wud always win. Also spent one afternoon trying to knock out coconuts from a tree with rocks. I was not v smart.
It's not really a game per se, but we had something at my middle school called "fiddies," which was basically a do over on whatever you just tried (and probably failed) to do.
Like if you shot a balled up paper at the trashcan and missed, you could say "fiddies" and go again.
On the other side, you could issue a challenge to someone and say "no fiddies" and then they only have one chance to do it.
'dead buggy' - run around on all fours like beetles randomly until you hit another kid, then you have to lay on your back, wave your legs and say 'dead buggy' 3 times before you could get up again. Totally lame, kept us entertained for hours
“Junky Jennifer.” My brother and I would take road trips with our grandparents every summer as kids and I had this little doll we called Junky Jennifer. We would think up new creative ways for her to die while we sat in the backseat of the car. Maybe the back of the car seat was a waterfall and she went over, fell into the water below, and was eaten by alligators. We’d take turns telling and reenacting her murders.
We grew up watching a lot of xfiles and forensic files.
Two that we played at church when I was in high school. “Spinning Wheels of Death” was an ultimate frisbee played in a basement. The two teams had 3 cones set up on opposite ends, first team to knock down the other teams cones wins. We played this with those high speed frisbees.
Second was “Bloodletting”, it was a variation of Scoops which is lacrosse but with plastic handheld scoops. We would have goals set up on either end and played it like lacrosse. Only rule was “no blood no foul.”
Pretty fun game in a confined quad in school. Two pairs wrestle to pull one pair's rider off his teammate, first rider to make contact in the ground loses the game for himself and the fella who he was riding on. Could get pretty violent especially when the two guys carrying could be slamming into each other while the riders on top are grappling like crazy.
Friend had an absolutely massive property and plenty of toy swords and other weapons. We'd set them up in a circle in the middle of a basin in his backyard and all run to get them at once. No killing for 3 minutes so we could spread out first.
At first it took forever for anyone to find each other, so we established that certain zones like "fields" or "pine trees" would become off-limits after a certain amount of time. (Think Fortnite)
Usually it was only him and I and our younger siblings, so 4-6 per game, but sometimes more people would come over too. Think our largest game was around 15 people at a birthday party. Good fun.
BIG GREEN BALL! We would stand in a circle and try to keep this giant yoga ball from touching the ground, and if you accidentally kicked it over the fence you had to go after it, throw it back over, and then hop the fence before we could kick it back out again.
Also, if it was your birthday you had to stand in the circle and just get annihilated by everybody for awhile.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gutterball. My parents sent me to military camp which, god bless their oblivious hearts, they thought it was a regular camp at a military academy campus.
The teams weren't even, you went to a side on the shallow end and someone threw a water polo ball in the center and everyone had to try and get it to the other teams' gutter. No other rules for a group of 12-14 year old boys at military camp. This meant people were punching, kicking, scratching, if it could hurt you and cause physical damage it was done. Good times, fun game, got a lot of fond memories and a light scar on my chest from having a chunk scratched off
We lived way out in the country, so no neighbors and it was just me and my two brothers. We played 3 man baseball. Same general idea of baseball, but no teams. Three bases and home, but when you hit the ball (a pine cone usually) the pitcher had to tag you out and if the ball went outside the base line, that was an automatic out. Three outs and you became the pitcher. We had ghost players and elaborate rules to run the bases if the two batters were already on the base. Pretty fun.
My brother and I played a few stupid games growing up.
One was called “Rolling bowling”. We would lie down on our parents bed and roll into each other. The aim was to roll over the other person.
Another was called “Bombs 2” (said in an American accent), it went like this:
We would duck down on either side of the bed and throw this little foam ball at each other like we were lobbing grenades. The goal was to hit each other, obviously.
I don’t know why we called it that... There was no “Bombs 1”.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a large pond near our home and it was densely covered with trees and all of the homes near it had there backyards exposed to it but with a level difference.
Me, my brother and cousin used to sneak through them and act like we were some dudes who were on a treasure hunt and used to steal fruits from our neighbors backyard..
It was tons of fun and I still miss those days.
Basically we would go the garage and choose our wepeon and then battle it out. Hits to the head we immeadiate do but, body, arm and leg shots were all on a point system. If you blocked you got a point taken away. The object of the game wasnt to hurt your opponent but out speed and stratigally maneuver. My favorite was duel tiki torches. The counter balance of the torch end made for some wild moves. Cant believe none of us ever got hurt from this one.
My friends and I would always play that Mr. President game, but I know we werent the only ones. One person would put two fingers against their ear like they had a little earpiece, and as soon as someone noticed, they had to do the same. That last one to put up their hands immediately became "Mr.President". All the other people would shout "MR. PRESIDENT GET DOWN" and jump onto him in a huge pile.
Erm, pillowfights in the dark, trying to be quiet as fuck, and going to town on someone when they made a noise.
Played Diablo 2 with weapons made from lego (durabillity lol)
We had a custom game mode in Goldeneye where we gave my little brother a huuuuge handicap and we had to try and kill him with 3 other people. We called it KillaMomma (don't ask me why, I have no idea)
I doubt if me and my brother's were the only group of kids to play this but we called it the night game. Basically hide in seek in the dark. After it got dark, one person would stay upstairs and the others would go in the basement. We would let our eyes adjust and then the person upstairs would come downstairs and have to try and find the others. The person upstairs wouldn't be able to see well because of the light change. An extra rule, just for shits, the people hiding could throw balls at the seeker. Loads of fun and pretty scary for younger kids, especially if you have an unfinished basement.
My brother and I always played a game in the car which we called "fantasy" or something just like this. We often drived 4 hours or more and had enough to time to play
The grest thing is we only needed our speech
For example I said that i am Donald Duck and he's Mario and then we just played in the World of our fantasy with two character which experienced great adventures (or we were two brothers)
I miss this time No worries just our fantasy
I was never again that creative even though i want to 😐
My friends and I on my birthday would play a game called, "Roogie Boogie." It was essentially hide and go seek with the caveat that the person who was it held one of my toy plastic lightsabers and constantly made jokes. Now my house was very dark at night to the point where if you had your hand in front of your face then you couldn't see it. So the person who was it made jokes and if they found you they hit you with the lightsaber (not overly aggressive but playfully). It was a fun game, you would be hiding and then hear someone in the house laugh and then heard them get smacked. Ah good times.
Pee sharks and lava. Swinging on monkey bars, if you fell you’d fall into pee sharks and lava. No friggen clue where me and my buddy thought that up from.
H-CXWJ · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called the trampoline game. It was basically 44 home, mixed with brandy? So everyone starts at the trampoline in the middle of the yard, then someone counts, and basically if you've never played brandy it's tag but with a ball, the key difference here is that we used a very large exercise ball though.
The satisfaction of nailing someone in the head as they're sprinting back to the trampoline is incomparable.
A game little 9 year old me called "monkey brains". Literally you walked on the back of the couch and tried not to fall off the longest.
I was not a smart one.
When I was around 8 we came up with a game called 'Injection'. It was essentially tag except instead of tagging someone you jabbed them with a sharp stick. We agreed to stop playing it after one day, since my friend lost a chunk of his knee running away. Guess the fear of being stabbed was too good a motivator.
We used to play ''Sailormoon'' Where we'd have to battle each other for planet domination,
Another game was called 'Kick the can' It was fun too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “funeral” with my neighbours. Pretty much someone would lay on a pile of dirt and we would cover him or her with flowers and fake cry above them. We also had fake marriages. I still have 3 wives
Me and my friends would share a can of soda, drinking and passing it along to the next person making sure there is some left for the next person. It would continue for few rounds before there is just few drops left. The last one to pass with no soda left for the next person is declared looser and greedy.
You can not believe how long a can of soda can last when you drink it till the last drop.
It makes me sound like a little jerk now but I used to "hunt" moths and butterflies. I'd sit on the hill in my front yard and keep an eye out for those big white moths and monarchs. When I saw the prey I would take my "gun" which was a wiffle ball bat, hold it to my shoulder, aim reeeeeallly carefully at my target, and then fire. Only firing consisted of me sprinting 30 yards yelling while trying to knock whatever it was out of the air with my bat.
Thank God for my lack of coordination, because I missed an awful lot of the time. Still, I feel bad about the ones I did "harvest".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Those Two Guys". My brother and I would play it while being driven around by our parents. We were kind of like super spies driving around our hopped up spymobile. My code name was "Cheetah"
We would take an arrow (like from a bow and arrow) and throw it far as we could.
Or another one was when we would pick apples off our friends crab apple tree and then basically have a home run derby with them into our neighbors' back yards.
We used to step on pop cans, sideways so they cup around your feet and they would be our "quicksand shoes" it was a good time waster and fun for the moment.
Tadpole soup.
This is going to be really bad, I'm sorry for it.
When I was about 4 or 5 years old my brother and I went with our parents to a lake for a short vacation. We hanged around the lake for a while and we noticed a landing net besides the cabin. We then used the landing net to gather as many tadpoles from the edge of the lake as possible, place them in a tree stub, or a log, and then mash them all together using a piece of wood or something. This was called making tadpole soup.
I'm sorry again.
Probably not that unique but my friends and I often played "Haunted House" which was basically tag but when a person got caught they became a zombie and joined the initial tagger until almost everyone became a zombie and chased the few remaining survivors.
We also played a variation of this which was called "Lava Zombie". This had to be played in the playground (which had sand as the ground) and one person had to become the zombie. The zombie could only stay on the sand while others escaped by climbing the monkey bars, slides, towers etc, hence the name lava zombie.
We also pretended to be transformers, like a recurring thing. I was sideswipe.
We had a bunch of those stuffed monkeys with long arms with velcro on them. We would turn the monkeys into little balls and put about ten of them on the trampoline. My brother, sister and I would then get on to the trampoline and jump around. You would get five lives and for every hit from a monkey you would lose a life. If any of the monkeys busted open and was splayed out they became a bomb and any hit from them was an automatic loss. We also allowed you to catch a monkey if it bounced high enough and throw it at each other. It was a lot of fun.
We had a trampoline that backed up to our detached garage. We would play a baseball type game where the person on the trampoline was the defender and the person at bat would take a small ball and smack it with their hand. Depending on where the ball hit the garage was a single, double, triple, or HR. Hitting the ball over the garage was an out and if the defender stopped it it was an out. I don't know how we figured this game out, but we had a ton of playing playing that stupid game.
ptg33 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BAE Ball
Friend had a grassy hill that lead to a driveway with a basketball hoop. Had to get from the top of the hill to the bottom without getting tackled and losing the ball. Once you got to the driveway you had to get the ball in the hoop to score while defenders played regular basketball defense (no tackling). 2 on 2 was ideal. A lot of other rules etc. but that was the gist of it.
My brother and I would go at the top of your bunk bed and would carry me from top by my legs and my face is pointing towards his crotch. For some reason, I would move my chin and and down to tickle his balls.
I had been on the hunt for this game when I was a kid that I was SO PROUD to have beaten. I thought it was lost forever. But this morning I found it in a YouTube video.
It's called Alundra.
Please play it and tell me if you think it holds up. My brain remembers it as strait fire.
Hide the hotwheel track. Our mom used to beat us with it, so we would always try to hide it so she couldn't find it. Never, worked, she always found it.
Me and my siblings used to play a game we called 'crash derbys' where we would all pick our favourite ride-on toy like a scooter or truck and then just ride around our patio and smash into eachother as hard as possible. It was even better when friends would come over because we had so many ride-on cars. I don't know how mum didn't cancel the game but we used to play for hours.
One player at either end of the basement (about 10 feet apart), goals were the sliding glass door at one end and the liquor cabinet/doorway at the other. Players cannot leave their knees except to dive.
Each player has a serve with the same rules as volleyball, first to 11 by 2 wins.
It was played with a small, acorn squash sized indoor soccer ball hit with the hands.
I played a game that is fairly common for Youth Groups called “Sardines”. It’s like reverse Hide and Seek. 1 person hides and then everyone else goes to look for them. As the single person is found the finders then hide with the original hider so that there is only 1 person left. Then the game starts over with that last person now being the one who gets to hide.
This was a very popular game when the group was in a large building with lots of rooms and closets to hide in.
On my bus in elementary school we played 'the game game'. Each person would pick a character from any fictional universe and fight it out in a Battle Royale completely arbitrarily and out loud. The oldest kids on the bus always picked the same Dota character (Lina?) and just beat us every time and we couldnt figure out why. Turns out when you can make things up, it's easy to win. I ever won
Every year at Easter after dying eggs I would promply nake a nest somewhere in the hpuse and pretend I was a dog and guard the nest for a few hours like they were my babies.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghosts in the graveyard, in a graveyard. One person as it, rest run and hide behind the headstones and crypts. Goal was to hide until the seeker passed you, then get back to 'home'.
One time, I was in my favorite spot, on top a crypt behind a stone angel. Seeker was gone so I moved around the angel to climb back down. A teenage girl saw me, gasped, and I put my finger up and hushed her. She ran out of the cemetery screaming. I wonder sometimes how often she tells her 'ghost' story.
“Squirmy Worms” - at sleep-over parties we would turn the lights out and put sleeping bags over our heads then run around. Sometimes I’m shocked we didn’t end up at the hospital more often.
Roof ball!! We had a ranch style home with a fairly low pitched roof and my brother and I would throw a ball on the roof and wait for it to come back down. You had to jump, catch the ball, and throw it back on the roof all while in the air. We'd play for hours and hours
“Poison balls” - We has a trampoline with a net around it and would throw 5-6 large inflatable balls in. A bunch of us would bounce around and if you got hit by a ball, you had to get out. Only rule was you couldn’t touch a ball.
My neighbor and I played “Bob.” He would be Bob and I would be Bob’s friend (I didn’t have a character name) and we would do the most mundane things. Bob mows the lawn - and we’d pull up grass. Bob gets a cat, and we’d pet my cat. You get the idea.
There was this hole in the ground that would spout water sometimes, we had no clue what it was. So, naturally,Me and friend would pretend that it was magic and we would rub it all over our faces. We later found out it was toilet water.
Road trip game. Two variations. Called it “zip”. You count horses. Say zip when you see one, zip two for two, etc, with a max of five per enclosure. If you zip on a cow or anything else, you’re minus that number. I’m from Oklahoma, so it’s a fun game. The other variation is basically the same, but for hawks. It’s especially fun in the winter when there are no leaves on the trees. My daughter loves these games.
When my brother and I would visit my dad as kids, we had a game we would play with his girlfriend's kids called Steamroller. Essentially we all rolled around on the ground saying "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM ROOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" and trying to roll over one another. This would eat up at least an hour of every day.
I saw Jurassic Park at a fairly young age. It's still one of my favorite movies.
I used to have walk my dog around my parents somewhat large yard, since it wasn't fenced in and I was too young to walk him down the road away from the house. I would pretend I was John Hammond. Any chipmunks or squirrels I'd come across were dinosaurs that would have to be carefully avoided. Dumb, I know.
Slaisa · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lock and key. You play with 4+ people, its like tag but the tagged person sits down and becomes locked. The remaining people can unlock the tagged person by putting their hand on the guys head and saying "key". You can only win if you manage to lock down everyone. 1 round used to average out to 40 minutes.
My cousins and I would play a lot of unique games in our youth. My favorite was always be playing ‘the floor is lava’ while on the playground.
7uk4h · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother got this game called “Ghost and the blackman”. He put a white blanket on his head and ran after three year old me around the house. (He was 21). And he caught me, threw me on the sofa and started whispering in my ear: “Where’s the ghost? Where’s the ghoooost” followed by creepy laughs. He is now a neurosurgeon and I am doing good in school. We turned out okay 😂
edit: We’re Mexican and all our friends are black. We are not racist in any way, shape or form.
ping-ball, kind of a mix between table tennis and soccer, pretty fun here in Brazil but not so popular tho. the rules consists into a basic table tennis game, although we mark the ground and play with a soccer ball
We used to play "Every character in the world" which was basically larping as your favorite TV show or video game character
kitjen · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend used to put his duvet at the top of the stairs, climb inside the duvet cover, then tip ourselves down the stairs and go tumbling to the bottom. It hurt.
Our old couch had cushions on the footrest that could be removed. They looked remarkably like old wooden sleds, but slid quite well on our carpeted stairs. We would run up the stairs and slide down for hours on end.
Pirates and parrots. It was a ridiculous fighting game where one person would sit on the other persons shoulders. The parrot would have to get the pirate to lose their balance and fall, while the pirate had to knock the parrot off. Over time many rules were added such as pirate could not duck head, if a pirates knee touched ground they were eliminated
My cousins, siblings, and I used to pretend we were super hero's or knights. my sister was/is an artist and she would draw our characters and maps for us. It made our worlds feel so real. I was looking back at them and realized how cool it was. If anyone wants to see some of the art let me know
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Duzheez." Or something like that. After the lawnmowers came and cut the field next to the playground, we'd crawl around on the ground and collect the grass left behind. The, "winner" was the one with the largest grass pile by the time we got tired of playing.
There were different types of duzhees. Electric, water, metal, ground, radiation, etc., and you picked one and made up powers to go along with it. Like, zapping others, your grass pile being protected for x duration, you could steal their grass better, and so on.
1 vs 3+ dodgeball with the thrower on the ground and 3-5 people on a trampoline trying to dodge or catch. The fact that no one ever got injured still boggles my mind.
My brother and I would make "potions." These concoctions were really just us combining a tiny bit if every single liquid, lotion, serum, etc we could find in the house. We never went for anything dangerous, it was usually just lotions, body sprays, soaps, etc.
Anyways, it was weird because we didn't do anything with them once we were done. I think we usually just threw them away....wtf?
My sister and I used to play “Caterpillar.” All we did was wrap ourselves in a blanket it to make it like a cocoon and sit there till one of us just burst out of it and yell Butterfly!
“Guns”. Before you could get shot for it, about 10 - 12 of us would take toy guns out in the neighborhood (parameters were about 12-15 houses on one side of the street) and we would go hide. If you saw someone from the other team, you basically called out their name and that was “shooting them”. The neighbors all knew us, so hiding in yards and under cars wasn’t an issue. If you tried this now, the police would shut it down in seconds. Grew up in Yonkers NY, a pretty big city....
kadno · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to put a cooler on a skateboard and ride it down the driveway. Later, we tried dragging the contraption from behind a bicycle until we'd inevitably fall out. We called it "Nashboarding"
My dad used to a play a game called “The Envelope Game” with us as kids. He’d leave a series of envelopes around the house with clues to the next envelope’s location like a treasure hunt. In the end we’d either win a smelly sock or a tamagotchi.
Smear the queer! One person had a ball or object, who ever had it would get tackled by a group of people until they give up the ball or object. The winner was usually the biggest or quickest person.
My neighbors had a massive red ant pile and my friend and I would always try to make our own "ant poison" to get rid of them. Note that a mixture of water, dirt, sand, and sticks does not kill ants.
We played something called "Garbage Ball". We had a whiffle bat, but no ball, so we filled a garbage bag with filler we found in the trash. Also there were only three of us so the frisbee was the home plate. Balls couldn't be hit far so gameplay was more similar to what I imagine cricket is than baseball. "Garbage Ball Champ 2001" here!
Back when I was in Boy Scouts as a middle schooler we played a few creative games.
The first that I can remember was called "Zombie Game." One person would stay on the ground and everyone else had to stand on top of a picnic table. The "zombie" on the ground had to grab people and rip them off of the table and have them fall on the ground for them to also become a zombie. That new person also had to rip people off of the table. This went on till there was one person left and they became the next first zombie. I have no idea how none of us never got seriously injured.
The other game I can remember was called "Hunger Games." It was a basic survival game where everyone started in a circle and had to tackle people to the ground, last man standing wins. If knees or hands touched the ground you would be out.
JuRoJa · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marco Polo, but inside the house with a toy sword. One person would be blindfolded, and try to hit someone with a foam sword to get them to be ''it". Lost 2 lamps before parents banned it.
I have had auditory hallucinations my whole life. When I was a kid I called them sirens. I used to put earphones on and ear muffs and hide when it got unbearable loud. I was afraid to tell my family because I didn't want to be called crazy so I would tell them I hear sirens. I was able to play that game until I finally told my wife. She doesn't make me hide my siren game anymore.
My brother and I would in the fall and Winter play our version of 1-on-1 football. Field was pavement to pavement, and it started with one side punting. Other had to return it. Wherever you were tackled would become the point you had to punt from. So back and forth until someone got into their end-zone. Somehow that never ended up with any real injuries, unlike...
"The Tripping Game"
This was an inside game, where we would set up 2 bases (pillows), one of us in the middle had to trip the other trying to cross from base to base. That game ended about how you would expect, with me (younger one) tripping head first into the corner of the TV (it was one of those old CRTs with the build in cabinet under, so it wasn't going anywhere), splitting my eyebrow open, and getting a trip to my Dad's office to get stitched up (he was a doctor). The Tripping game was banned after that day.
We also were apparently not very creative in our naming as kids.
My parents took me everywhere, which included many trips to Denny’s. I created a variety of games hat required dice, but I never had dice with me so I improvised by flipping sugar packets. I assigned a “head” and a “tail” and viola, random numbers were in my grasp.
I know my parents saw me flipping the sugar packets because they often confiscated them for their coffee but I don’t think they ever realized what I was actually doing with them.
I used to play Trampoline Badminton with my dad in the summer. I would bounce on the trampoline holding my racquet, and he would be on the ground. I was such a little shit, I would hit the birdie really far away, or from left to right making him run all over the place whereas I was just having a ball and bouncing around!
Ghost in the graveyard. Always played at night, We would all gather in one spot(usually someone’s garage) and we would all count up from one o clock to midnight with a little song while the “ghost” went and hid around the neighborhood. After the time was up, we would all leave the safe spot and look for the where the ghost was hiding. If you saw the ghost you screamed “GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD!!” And everyone ran back to the safe spot as quick as possible. If you got tagged by the ghost while running back you were either the next ghost or out. It was fun but so scary for 9 year old me.
My brother and I would sit across from the room with our legs spread and try to hit eachother in the nuts with a hacky sack or tennis ball. I think we got it from Jackass.
Beanie Baby Wars. My brother and I shared a room, and out beds were in a line against the wall so it went door, then to the right was the foot of my brothers bed, head of my brother's bed bed, head of my bead, foot of my bed, then a two foot gap from the end of my bed to the wall. I'd get in the corner and he'd get by the door, and we would just huck beanie babies at each other for indiscriminate amounts of time. Hitting someone in the face was always the primary objective, but everyone once in a while one of us would get hit in the nuts and that was the best as long as it wasn't you.
me and my siblings would take turns rolling each other up really tightly in a very large blanket and then stand the person up and watch them run around and crash into all the furniture. i think the goal was to see how long it took to break free but we rarely got that far because we couldn’t get up off the floor after we fell down.
A friend and I played, what we called, "Roller-Wiffle-Basket" (ok, maybe the name wasn't very creative. It was basically half court basketball on rollerblades using a waffle ball and using those handheld curved wiffle ball launchers to transport and throw the ball into the hoop. Couldn't use your hands. It was way too much fun. Each element added it's own challenges. Scoring was just like basketball, but it would only end when we collapsed in laugher or fatigue.
Manhunt, man those were the days. The thrill of being out past curfew. Not only were we hiding for the other team but as minors we were also hiding from law enforcement. The neighbor of my friend where we played had dozens of ww2 vehicles that we would always hide inside or around.
My grandparents lived in the country and had a massive backyard with lots of trees. They also had a big porch swing in the yard. My cousin and I would play a game called Funeral. We’d take turns lying on our back on the swing, hands folded on our chest and eyes closed, while the other covered us in pine needles and different types of leaves and gave a eulogy.
ralanr · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends at every recess would pretend we were mystical elemental warriors with weapons and powers fighting some evil that I’m not sure we ever found out.
My elements were fire, wind, and earth. Whenever I used wind I spoke with a fake Irish accent, and my most common earth power was punching people with a rock arm.
I grew up on a culdesac. My brother would let me play with his friends as they played bike polo there. It was polo, played with crochet mallets, on bicycles. I don't think they actually knew the rules to polo, though.
my school had this little alley way that was closed off on 3 sides. it was large enough for 4 children to comfortable run around in but not much more than that.
so I invented a game of free for all dodge ball. the trick was that the ball only counted as active once it had bounced off of at last one surface. grabbing and fumbling the ball was ok.
mjklok · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
4 of my friends each grabbed a limb and threw me up into the air as hard as they could on the oval. Second time wasn't as fun because wrists are not meant to be landed on.
We called it the tennis game. It was a modified version of baseball but played on a long driveway with a hill.
Ideally you played with 3 players but could do it with two. The pitcher stood at the top and bounced a tennis ball down the driveway (50-60 feet). The hitter had a tennis racket at the bottom and hit it. The goal was to get to the base at the TOP of the hill before getting out.
The game favored the defense because the runner had to run up the hill to get to the base and most of the hits were pop flies. We had a rule that it had to go a certain distance to be a live ball.
The beauty of the game was the 3 people could play and just simply rotate instead of 'innings.' So we could play a 5 round game and it take 45 minutes of running, hitting and fielding. The rules were simple enough that arguments rarely broke out.
We played a game we called Cityville. There was a mayor, and everybody else would be a merchant or worker of some sort. With Monopoly money we would buy things from each other - which we needed in game (everybody had to get some food everyday for example).
The Mayor has a small fm radio transmitters and would read the news everyday. He would act like a DM and announced that someone was sick or that someone just received a shipment of goods.
Buildings our stands and then role playing being merchant was tons of fun.
My sister and I used to play "cops and robbers" which was literally just chasing each other around in a circle on our trampoline. We would also play "flip the bacon" which had one person lay one their back on the trampoline, and the other would try to bounce you into flipping onto your face.
We had a lot of games we played on our trampoline.
We called it Whipper Snapper. One kid with a jump rope was the whipper snapper, the rest of us rode our bikes in a circle around them. The whipper snapper would try to whip the jump rope into the bike spokes to get us to fall off our bikes. Winner knocks the most kids down.
Two of us would hide with all the lights off in the living room/dining room/den. And the seeker would come from the bedroom side with the hallway light on.
If you got scared by one of the monsters, you switched and became one. Then that monster was the seeker. We would play forever and scare the shit out of each other lol. It used to get so dark and we got so creative with our hiding spots.
My neighbor and I made up a game we called "croquet golf". Basically it involved whacking a tennis ball across our yard with a croquet mallet and seeing how many strokes it took for us to get it to land in a random hole in the ground that was created by a big sprinkler head. We could play that shit for hours and were so sad when the grass growth filled the hole in:(
Dead Man in the Cemetery. It was like hide and seek in the house except the seeker was blindfolded and if he found someone he had to guess who it was correctly or they would be released. We played this for HOURS at sleepovers.
We would play our own version of tag in my grandparent's basement. It's a lot like the regular version, except whoever was 'it' had to run around with a blanket over their head.
I had a bunch of games that I’d play when I was really young, but the one that always stuck out was the spelling one. Basically, any thought I had in my head couldn’t be expressed in words, you just had to spell it out real quick. A lot of the times I never really wanted to play this game but I’m a great speller now and it no longer crosses my mind
CH2016 · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play doctors and nurses when the next door neighbour. He was 55 so he was always the doctor and I was always the patient.
Ball to groin: my brothers and would stand at opposite ends of the garden with a golf club, turn by turn we'd try and hit each other in the nuts with a tennis ball. Then next player would play from where the ball landed. You got minus points for hitting our old dog
Coin Hockey. You take three coins (nickels work best because of thickness and weight [Canada]) and you set them up on a smooth table in a triangle so that they all touch in the middle. Then you flick them to separate. The opponent creates a goal flat on the edge of the other side of the table with their index finger and pinky (like this |..|. ). You have to flick one coin at a time to move towards the goal but the coin must travel through the other two coins. If your coin hits another coin or falls off the table your turn ends. You get 3 flicks total, which creates some interesting shots.
My siblings and I had a Harry Potter game in the trampoline. First we would pick out our wands from the forest in our back yard. Then we'd go play on the trampoline. I don't really remember any spells we used and the rules. All I remember about the rules is that if someone used stupefy on you, you had to fall on your back and bounce back up before you could cast a spell.
BaseGolf... our ballpark was the main upstairs room of my best friends house, only big enough for a pitcher vs batter showdown. His upstairs was open to overlook the stairs so anything above the balcony wall was a home run. The pitcher would use a wedge to chip a whiffle golf ball while the batter would sit on the coffee table and use a golf iron as his bat, with the butt end being the barrel. My friend would always try for bunt solo shot homers whereas I’d swing as fucking fast as possible. We broke a lot of stuff but damn was it so much fun.
When I was a child we had a forest behind our house. Deep in the woods was abandoned construction equipment. There were these large rubber gaskets that could fit 5 or 6 kids in it. The group of kids would chase 1 kid and try to catch them. The group was known as, gay retards. Hence the game was called, gay retards.
The second game was a version of hide and seek at night where the person seeking would pretend to slash your throat when you were caught. The game was called, mass murderer. The last person killed became the mass murderer for the next game
LA0811 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spy! I carried a backgammon case as my attaché and we taught ourselves a secret language, where we basically just added “ib” in front of every vowel in a word. I got surprisingly good at it and can still pull it off at a steady clip.
We lived in adjoining townhouses and had walkie talkies. I don’t recall any of our assignments. It was mostly about the tech and spycraft.
My spy name was Simona LeBona for reasons obvious to any preteen girl in 1986.
Me and my two best friends from like 5th grade all the way through high school would each put a knife on the trampoline and bounce them and then catch them. It’s actually really fun and we never got hurt haha went through quite a few tramps though.
My cousins and I played a pool game we made up that we called Categories. One person would stand on the edge of the pool while everyone else stayed on one side in the pool. Each person in the pool would pick something from whatever category was chosen (i.e. fruits) and if the person standing called your choice you had to swim to the other side of the pool before the person standing could jump in and tag you. We often tried sneak tactics like going really quiet or underwater. Oftentimes just getting hurt bc someone jumped on top of someone else.
My cousin and I would play a game where one person stood in front of a garage, and the other had to kick a ball past that person to hit the garage. But we were naming the kicks like Naruto moves because that's what we do we're into back then. Fun then, kinda weird now
I used to lock doors of cabinets with pieces of rope and rubber bands. I would get so good, my parents couldn't even untangle it and asked me to do it.
I also made contraptions of rope in the car. One time I managed to create a working transportation rope around the whole car. You could attach a napkin or a small cookie and upon pulling a piece of string, it would make its way around the front and back of the car.
I would picture a sentence in my head (usually something someone just said in conversation) and then count to the middle space or letter. Not sure where it started but I used to do this mental calculating all the time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would play "shadow catch". We'd have a ball and toss it up in the air and the other person would have to catch it by looking its shadow only. It's pretty difficult to do.
It’s like dodgeball but when you get hit you are it than must recover the ball and hit someone else to not be it. The best part is that this was not our outdoor game. It was chaotic and we broke more things than I could ever recall. Sliding down the stairs was necessary and one time I fell through a ceiling vent. This was also played full contact. It was incredible and I miss it.
I don't know if this is unique because we didn't invent it but my friends and I used to play American Gladiators. We set up full obstacle courses in my basement and had to run from station to station completing tasks while the gladiator stood at the end trying to hit us with tennis balls.
Lmao..... me and my best friend Boris used to find like apples or pears etc at my house and randomly throw them at each other’s nuts. Eventually my little brother joined in on the fun. Oh man how much good produce we wasted. One time one got me with a water melon.
This is dumb but it was my favorite game when I was like 4 and playing with my cousins. We would sit on the trampoline, one of us would be the "egg" and the other would be the "mama bird" and the third was the "wolf". The game started with the egg whispering a color to the mama hen and then curling up into a ball. The wolf would then say a rhyme as they bounced around the trampoline. At the end of the rhyme they guessed the color. If they got the right color, the egg would "hatch" and run away in a mini tag. If they got the color wrong, mama hen would chase them instead.
Brutal ball. Me and two of my brothers grew up in a very small apartment where the three of us shared a room. We had an assortment of bouncy balls of different sizes, from golf sized to soccer ball sized. We’d just throw them super hard at each other and let them bounce around our walls and if you got hit three times you lost. We each had special attacks that the other couldn’t use. We broke so many framed pictures playing that game haha
My sister and I would stand at one end of the house and then we’d take turns running across the house and try to peg each other with grapes. Bonus points if you could dodge more than one grape per run. Even if you missed, the grape splatter on the door was satisfying.
We had a game we played when it was dark called nightcrawlers. Lights out in the entire house. the night crawler that was "it" had to keep their eyes closed as we hid around the house they navigated their way around. you could only crawl to move, if you were tagged you became another night crawler, last man standing became the next night crawler. So much fun back in the day
So my best friend and I, around age 8/9 would dress up in leotards and play a game trying to find “Foxy Loxy” so we could rescue the animals he took back his cave to eat. Foxy Loxy was a character from a children’s book called Chicken Little.
There was no... reason for the leotards. It was an excuse to wear them and do cartwheels during our travels around the neighborhood.
Also, I don’t know why my parents even let us out of the house to do that.
I collected baseball cards. I would divide cards into teams and play a game of war using each player's batting average or ERA. Off-seasons, I would role play as GMs to make trades.
This might account for my love of spreadsheets. :)
Climbing door frames n leaping from one to an adjacent one.
pepsiv · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in summer camp we used to play ultimate tag, which is still one of my favorite childlike games!! it was like tag, but everyone was it. if you got tagged by someone else, you had to sit down and you were out until the person who tagged you was out. alliances were made and it was really stressful when you and your friend were the last two. last person standing wins (even if they had gotten people out.)
Evaara · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Back in middle-school we invented a game called "kikflip" which became a trend for years to come in our school. It was the bane of every black leather shoes (we were in a Catholic school with required uniforms) as the game basically consisted of playing soccer using a crushed soda can "puck" along the narrow corridors and hallways. We even had mini-tournaments every week and parents lamented at the rate their children went through leather shoes. It was finally banned after almost a decade of play after one parent supposedly ratted out our "sport" to the admin. Kids really got good and creative with that game and some even learned to do fancy juggles and feints along with some almost parkour moves (the halls were really narrow so that you can brace your outstretched hands or legs on each of the pebble textured sides to form a "web" or "bungie" to more efficiently pass/block the can) so it was a real bummer when as alumni we heard that our game was finally banned for good.
My sister, my best friend, and I had a game where we had to jump from the top of the climbing frame onto the trampoline, shouting "In your faces!" as we did so, and we had one bounce in which to try and tag someone else. If we did, they had to jump off the frame next, otherwise we had to go again.
This game was banned after I managed to land a solid flying kick to my sister's face and she somersaulted off the trampoline into a flower bed.
Sjoelen. A Dutch wooden shuffle board game about 6 ft long 2 ft wide. You slide these wood pucks. We lived in holland as a kid and played at parties and family get togethers. We moved to USA and still have it 30 years later. I will get it out for my kids soon.
BAY88 · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game called “dude ball” which was basically rugby with a basketball. We didn’t have a football so we just threw a basketball across my yard and tried to tackle the shit out of each other before the other team ran across my lawn. In retrospect, it’s amazing nobody broke anything playing, since each end zone was solid concrete.
The Amanda Show had Captain Bucket Head or whatever. Just a guy with a bucket on his head. He couldnt see. My brother and I would get this translucent bucket and jam our heads into it. The one without the bucket on would beat the one with the bucket. We somehow tricked each other into putting it on countless times
Every vehicle's tyre/tire nuts all shoot imaginary lasers and the only cover is other stationary vehicles, goal was just not to get hit, had me running everywhere as a kid, even now when there's a single car approaching down the road and there's a single parked car, I struggle not to run.
Not as a child but whenever I or my friends and I are walking anywhere drunk I enforce the game walk one run one. It's a simple game. We walk for a block and then we jog/sprint for a block. Gets us places faster. Note we do only play it in residential areas though. Not inbetween bars.
Suhidu · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game exactly, more like a parody of a game.
Moving the salt, pepper, mustard, ketchup, whatever, on the table, in turn, in a way makes it look like you're moving pieces on a chessboard. Lots of chin stroking and pretending thinking about what your next move will be.
Also, for a while, trying to clip a clothes peg onto the back of my mother's shirt without her noticing. That was great, when she found it long after you stopped thinking about it.
Suicide. No, not what it sounds like, it was a game where you toss a tennis ball at a wall, and someone in the group tries to grab it one handed. You catch it you do the same, but touch it and miss and you gotta book it to the wall before the next person wings the ball at your back. Stupid but so much fun
I grew up with two brothers. Lots of cousins and lots of family friends too. We were not short of unique games.
Nippy jippy you sat on the top bed of a bunk bed and put your fingers on the railing. Someone is not on the bunk bed and they have a plastic pipe and try and hit your fingers. It was agony but so much fun.
Hostage you sit in a room. It's supposed to be a bank. Somebody bursts in to rob the bank. The objective is to escape while kneeling with your hands on your head. If the robber spots you moving he shoots you.
Nincompoop basically tig but whoever was the catcher rode a scooter and shouted nincompoop
Escape convicts you had guards and prisoners. There was a chosen start and end point and the guards would patrol Inbetween these points. There were mutually agreed upon shadows and rooms that the prisoners could use to escape to the end room.
That is just a few of my favourite s. I have many many more.
Blinds man bluff.
Tie a (usually clean) sock around someones eyes as a blind fold, and everyone starts in the hallway with all the doors closed. First one the blind man touches Is "it". We took this to the point of spidermanning up on doorframes and walls that were close together. Long hallways are the best! Also great for indoor soccer :)
My friends and I, starting in 4th grade, played a game called "Stripper Tag" on the trampoline. Someone would be the "stripper" aka "it" and would chase the others around the trampoline to tag someone to be the next stripper. However, the stripper had to strut while moving (like swaying your hips or doing "sexy" moves) and must talk in a sexy way too (ie. "Oooh I'm gonna getcha~, "C'mere handsome~". Some of us got too into it and would be too "sexy" aka rubbing our hands down our body or shaking our butts. We usually ended up dying in fits of laughter so not many rounds were played.
An animal game where it was essentially tag, but you couldnt tag anyone higher in the food chain than you. My cousins and I used to play, the older you were the higher in the food chain you were. You were trying to stay away from your predators while trying to catch your prey. The eldest person wouldnt have any predators, my brother the wolf (he always seemed to have to have an automatic advantage when playing games) and another wouldnt have any prey, my cousin Dan the squirrel.
I forget how we kept score and such but remember it being a unique game and having a lot of fun.
P0OF · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Killa bike. We would run through the woods as my friends older brother tried to run us over with with dirt bike.
We played "Store"...my friend and I would take turns picking things from my room (mostly just my little tchotchkes and "pretty" things) and we would sit on the floor with them and each set them up in a store-like display. We would price them and use little pieces of pretend money to take turns buying stuff from each other. No real point to the game, but I remember it fondly.
We invented a game called Monster. Had to be played in outside after dark or inside with all the lights turned out.
One person was the monster and would have to hide and the others had to find him. If the monster jumped out and grabbed you, you were "dead" and had to lay in the floor. You could kill the monster if you hit him on the back while he wasn't looking. So you had to outsmart him and lure him out with someone as bait.
Really fun game for scaring the shit out of your friends and/or running into things in the dark.
Windmill. My dumb ass came up with this game to keep my younger sister quiet on long car rides. You literally just look for windmills and shout out once you do. Oh, except, we grew up in Texas where windmills are few and far between. So, this game started getting so competitive that our parents started playing and we would turn the car around to confirm if someone actually saw a windmill or not. -.-
All of our trips started taking at least an extra 30-45m so we could just prove yes that is a windmill, so suck it, Dad.
My brothers and I played a game called gorilla attack where we would set up barriers and whip toys at each other across the room. Looking back I don’t know how my parents never caught us
You could only play this in the winter when they boxed in the fountain in the middle of our school yard but we used to sneak around the box pretending we are spies or something and when we caught someone on the edge or from behind we used to "take them out" which usually was a light punch. We enjoyed this and even some girls joined us so it must have been a great game.
It wasn't unique back then, but rock fights. Supposed to use hardened dirt clods, but invariably, a rock would be involved and sometimes it ended in tears.
Made k'nex cars. Put beanie babies inside the car. Rolled the cars down the stairs. The goal was to engineer the safest car so the passenger didn't get launched out the car or have any parts break off. Good times.
My friends and I used to play a game we called Sally bounce ball. We had a soccer ball with two little pieces of rope tied to either end and we'd put it on the tramp and the rules were simple, dont get hit by the ball and hit your friends into it. Used to play for hours and would usually end up with a bruise or two. Man I miss those days
My brother and I would pretend to play pokemon. We put our backpacks, baseball caps, and knee high socks on and went into the wilderness to catch our imaginary pokemon. Our pokeballs were those red and white fishing bobbers.
My buddy and I used to dress up and play as Link from TLoZ.
We would color coordinate our shirts based on what "dungeon" we were going into. Blue if we were going in the pool, green for outside, and red for when the floor was lava.
My sister and I would have pokemon fights but it was basically Larping. We would make pokemon costumes out if carboard, clothes, belts, etc and then wrestle "to death". We were also eachother's trainers, so we would shout encouraging things in trainer voice while we wrestled. We were 5 or 6 at the time and the animated series had just come out.
We played funeral home. We took turns being the corpse. We would go putside and pick flowers, dress in my mother's dresses, and hold an actual funeral. We would make our siblings come and pretend tp cry. It was fun, but quite morbid in hindsight.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play a game called “Save the animals.” We’d scatter beanie babies throughout my basement, we’d pretend there was some kind of danger and run around grabbing beanie babies and bringing them to the safe house, which was just a large closet with blankets in it. Something about that game was comforting...feeling safe and secure from danger.
Army of Feet. My brother and I (probably 4-5). One person would be at the top of the bed with legs under duvet. Second person at bottom of bed under duvet. Person at top would kick their feet hard and fast and you had to charge through to the top to win. Brutal and savage game. Also Sharks. Person 1 lays on top of sofa and holds on whilst player 2 is laying on the sofa trying to pull you into the ocean to be eaten by sharks.
My siblings and I used to play what we called “the stair game”. We blacked out all the windows in the basement and everyone hid while one person went upstairs and counted. Then the person who was upstairs would come down in the pitch black and had to tag the people who were hiding while they tried to sneak to the top of the stairs without getting tagged.
We played for hours and it was insanely fun. Dang, now I wanna play the stair game.
It was called suislide, there was 1 person at each end of a tube slide and a person in the middle. The person in the middle of the slide had to do whatever he could to get out.
glerk · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I (she was 5years older, I was about 5-8 when we played it) tied us to eachother back to back. We pretended that our boss would come and check if we did our work but we kept falling down unable to get back up and whenever my sister made the "boss voice" we had to get up or he'd fire us if he sees us. Kept us occupied forever, man I love my sister.
My sister and I used to terrorize ants with chalk. We ground the chalk hard enough to create little mounds of chalk powder that resembled an ant hill. We also tried to "colour" the ants different colours. We tried to give the ant colony a better home.
Unfortunately, all we actually did was create a colourful ant graveyard.
Sit in the kitchen floor and roll matchbox cars towards the threshold. Whoever gets the closest to the threshold without hitting it wins. We'd do it for an hour or two every time.
Airplane. 3-4 of the neighborhood kids and I would get on this wide porch swing and pretend it was an airplane flight. Someone would be the pilot making announcements, the swing would speed up and make huge arcs during take off, we'd even have in-flight meals. Sometimes someone would get on/off mid-flight if they were late.
Yawehg · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to go into my garage and hit pebbles with a rubber mallet.
When I was young there was a desert by my house and I would gather up 10+ friends and we would all go out into the desert at night. With one person “it” they had an air soft pistol and everyone else had to hide. The person who had the gun would try to hunt the others. We called this game “Predator”. It sometimes took longer than 2 hours to finish.
Sister and I had one called robbery, where one of us would hide a bell somewhere on our property, and the other had to steal it and get it to the well house without being seen. You had ten tries, and you’d get hints after the 3rd, 6th, and 9th times getting spotted. We’d play it for hours.
My brother and I would stand about 10 yards apart and throw a rubber football as hard as we could at each other, if you catch it you get a point. Such a simple game kept us entertained for hours.
We also played "sock wars" its basically the same as building forts and shooting each other with nerf guns in the house but with all the lights off and you threw balled up socks at each other . My sisters enjoyed this game too.
We used to play "town" in the park in our neighbourhood. There were lots of pinecones, so we used them as currency. The park had a round paved track that we could ride our bikes around. I don't remember all the jobs we had, but I do remember there was a bike sales person and a police. The police would give tickets to anyone that was biking too fast. The fine was 10 pinecones.
bzurov · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my siblings and I were younger we loved Power Rangers, so my Dad came up with a game called Deviot Freeze-ball, he would chase us around the front and backyard and try to hit us with a foam football, if you were hit you would “freeze”, and have to stay still until another sibling crawled between your legs. I swear we played this game almost every night during the summer in my childhood.
Me and my brother was playing game we called Gorilla vs Vampires. Gorilla was using some stick like a sword and vampire was using water goose . Then we chased 1 another untill some give up or get beated up.
My Dad had built my brother and I a "clubhouse" in the garage. When I say a clubhouse I mean four walls in a cube shape, with a door cut out; no roof. But it was fine, we were already in the garage so he put a couple of chairs and a table in there and we had a clubhouse!
The game of Horse Badorties goes like this: I stand inside the clubhouse and toss the furniture over the walls to the outside. The other two or three kids playing pick up the furniture and toss it over the walls back in. The first one who loses an eye or gets concussed loses, I guess.
Our game didn't make much sense, but it was kinetic, and had a funny name, so we loved it.
There was this one game my cousin and I used to play that was scary as fuck. One of us would hide and the other one would try to find you. The kicker was that it was in my parents pitch black basement and the only thing you could use to find the other was an old digital camera with the flash on. Looking back on it maybe my cousin watched saw too many times...
My sister and I would pretend that we had an imaginary boss whom we had to report to. This boss would make us do all kinds of chores around the house such as cleaning the bookshelf.
I used to play a game called night crawlers with my uncle Jack.
Chr3y · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids we all built bow and arrows. We set up some hay piles and bushes, each one like 500 meters apart. We played "conquer the castle". You had to shoot your arrow in the air, and hit a pile or bush. Thinking it takes fire. From like 20 meters away. Everyone had his own pile/bush to hit. Only if everyone hit the pile/bush atleast 1 out of 3 arrows, we won. Else we had to begin from anew. (The villagers could extinguish the fire) Was pretty fun tbh.
I and a couple of my friends had Bows and arrows, we would stand in the back yard, shoot arrows straight up out of sight and run around looking at the sky while trying to not get killed when they came straight back down. We were about 10 years old then, nobody died.
Alright this was the single most intense game of all time, and it only requires one player. Basically the rule is that whenever you step on a different surface with a certain foot, you need to balance that by stepping on another surface with the other foot. For example, if you step onto blue carpet with the right foot, you should step onto wood with your left when you leave the carpeted area. You must keep a natural stride and the “charge” on either foot may not exceed 3. Good luck!
My siblings and I used to play 'Mama Duck, Baby Duck' in the pool. The whole premise of the game is to prevent the Baby Duck(s) from drowning if you're the Mama Duck, and to drown as often as possible if you're a Baby Duck. Whenever Mama Duck had her back turned, the Baby Ducks would put their face in the water and blow bubbles to simulate drowning. It was Mama Duck's job to recognize that her babies were in trouble and go save the Baby Ducks.
We spent hours finding creative ways to fake drown ourselves.
Nickmi · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sibling created a game called “broom ball”
It was a mix between baseball and golf
we had approximately 10 trees in our backyard.
You would pick 3 trees
Then you would pick a corner of the yard and someone would pitch you the ball and you would hit this little plastic ball as close to the first tree you picked as you could.
From their you would putt the ball and hit all three trees in whatever order. Least amount of strokes wins.
We were pretty proud of the game.
(All of this game would be done with a broom, you could use the hard side for long putts and less accuracy and the broom side for close puts but more accuracy)
If the grassy area was too wet/muddy etc., recess was held on the blacktop. There was a little white section on the corner of the blacktop that was used to park the religious Ed trailer, and that was considered “home.”
A group of 3 or 4 kids would be the “Tornadoes,” another group would be “debris” and the third group would be a family trying to make it “home” without being swept up into the tornado, or hit by swirling cars and cows.
Basically, picture a group of 15 or so kids, arms outstretched, spinning in circles and bumping into each other. HARD.
It was the best
Unfortunately, the principle banned the game within the year for being too reckless. Good times, though
I and my two friends-twins (/u/Tinheart2137) were a huge Bionicle freaks. Through most of our kindergarten and elementary school we would fight against imaginary Bionicle enemies, both at school and outside. We would come up with our own epic scenarios, stories, enemies etc. It was a lot of fun. Now that I think of this we were just three kids beating the shit out of air from another person's point of view. And it wasn't just fighting, we were having small adventurers, basically live-action D&D. Many people probably have seen us and thought "What is wrong with those kids", old fun days... Eventually we stopped because we grew up and it became embarrassing of course. But ah, the stuff we created in our childish minds. It would certainly save Bionicle series much more than the Gen 2.
Me and my sister would play the head game. One of us pretended we had lost out body to an accident so the other had to care for the head - like brush it's hair, feed it, tell it stories and tuck it into bed at night. Sounds so bloody boring now xD
Another game we played with our brothers too was crystal maze! If you don't know, crystal maze was/is and amazing TV show in the UK and in the 90s we were obsessed with it. You had to go through zone's and do puzzles to find a crystal. Our parents had one of this 80s/90s glass crystals so we would steal it and make each of our bedrooms (boys shared and girls shared) into a zone with puzzles and traps. It was really fun, plus our parents let us do it because we always would actually tidy up our rooms to make the puzzles better.
We had a long basement that ran under our property, so we invented a game called “Runner” which would be played like this:
As many as 5-7 people would be runners, and they would jog circles around the basement, humming as they go, enjoying their run.
One person would be a driver, and they would get to push this car: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/93qrdx/red_and_yellow_little_tikes_car/
The goal of the game was to push the car around, and rapidly smash into and drive the car over as many of the bodies of the runners as possible in a 10 minutes span while they tried to dodge it.
It’s amazing more of didn’t have head trauma or broken bones, cause this was only one of the many contact sports we came up with. good times.
When I was in high school we used to play a game we called red ass. One person would stand facing a wall while 3-4 others would try to bounce a ball off the floor into the ass of the first person, when you get a direct hit you're turn at the wall has come. Deciding who went first was always the hard part.
Legend of the Red Dragon (aka L.O.R.D.) Before there was the Internet, people used to call into a BBS, and if you are lucky it was a multi-line BBS where you can chat with a human. A good BBS would have 3-8 people on at once. So imagine an Internet where only 3 people can be on at once....yeah pretty terrible. L.O.R.D. was an RPG and even for someone like me who don't like RPGs, found it engaging.
Sitting in my parents king size bed, and formulating all the sheets and comforters and pillows so I was captain of a Starship.
When my mom would walk in, I’d always try to blast into hyperspace, but they would always get the shot off to dismantle our ship... until the morrow.
khang_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play this game we called "hunter" where it's basically tag, but once you're tagged you become a ghost and can't tag others but can help the hunter in tagging others(for example restraining them). Most of my school started to catch along and eventually the whole park was full of my school mates playing this game.
Me and my two younger brothers would keep a piece of notebook paper taped to the bathroom wall next to the toilet. We would have 3 categories and each one had a column with our name. Categories were: Farts, Pee, Shit. We would tally mark each time one of these events occurred. And I would get pissed off if we were sitting at the opposite end of the house and one of my brothers farted and didn’t want to go tally.
Naked Eamon. My brother is named Eamon. He would get naked and chase my friends and I through the house. He did this until he was like 5. He is now 18 and we constantly make fun of him for it!
Back in kindergarden and early grade school we would go around the neighbourhood and pick up different kinds of weeds and wild grasses. We’d then find fragments of brick and concrete blocks and grind them up into a fine powder by repeatedly rubbing them on the concrete steps leading up to our building. Each leaf would be a different type of ‘BBQ skewer’ depending on its shape and size, and we would ‘flavour’ them with seasoning (red brick powder for chili spice, etc). One of us would pretend to be the shop owner and the others would be the customers. We’d bargain and pay with other leaves or seeds. For some reason this lasted long as our go-to game. I grew up in an urbanising city in China in a comfortable but frugal household. There wasn’t much to do or play with except dirt and grasses, I guess.
We called it manhunt. Get all your friends in a line, you're not allowed to turn your head/speak. Walk around the house with one person pulling the last person in line and then they're on a team, rinse and repeat until there's one person left and you all just jump him. Playing from 9pm to midnight and scaring the shit out of people was the best.
My grandma from England use to visit every summer (Lived in New Jersey) and she would buy street chalk. We’d give her like a 10 minute head start and she would draw arrows all around the neighborhood and we’d have to follow them and find her hiding. It was awesome.
We balled up all the socks in the house and my dad would try to pick us off throwing the socks at us as we darted between the bathroom and three bedrooms. He was suprisingly good at it considering the hallway he threw them down was only maybe 4 ft. wide. Good times. Good Dad and great family.
Back in the middle school my friends and I made up a game called where it was a mixture of tag and the floor is lava.
Meant to be played on a playground, one guy was the monster (the tagger) and the rest were avoiding him. If the monster tagged you, you would join them. The thing about the game was that the monster could run as fast as he could on the ground but if he went on a playset, he could only walk. And the other players could only be on the ground for 5 seconds before they were automatically turned. So much time was spent playing this game, I miss it!
Cannibal slugs. Everyone covered themselves with a blanket and had to move around on the ground like a slug while making a specific "slug" sound: eeerrrerrrer. The goal of the game was to eat the other slugs by stealing their blanket. There were 7 kids in our family, so by the time there was a winner, they would have a ball of 6 blankets underneath them and still be trying to move like a slug. The bigger the groups, the harder it was to win.
My best friend and I used to play this game at night where we would take a laser pointer and hide somewhere, then the other person would seek you, but only using the reflection of the laser to guide you. It sounds kind of ridiculous typing it out, but it was really fun at the time.
Ant wars: we'd make volcanos out of playground sand and drop black, red and orange/black ants on top of eachother from different colonies.
There was one black ant that killed a ton of orange amd black ants that we wound up making a grave for and paying respects to later.
And no, I'm not currently a psychopath...
Also, my cousins and I used to pretend to be Powerpuff girls and "fight" against my other cousin who acted as Mojo-Jo-Jo. I was always buttercup since ahe was the most masculine.
We played hide and seek but the people hiding could use PictoChat on their DS to talk to each other and give tips about where the seeker is so they could change hiding spots if needed
Basically we wrapped up in blankets, pretended to be a sausage and someone "played" god and he had to turn us to get crispy on every side....
yea, its weird.
Oh! when you got to second grade in my school you got to go to the big kids park during lunch and there was one of these bad boys https://imgur.com/tWQUYex. In the winter it would freeze and instead of just spinning around it would move up as well (Think screw instead of wheel) and it was Most Definitely not supposed to do this but we didn't really care. Basically the game was king of the castle but the castle was spinning as fast as the strongest kid could push and the web was getting squished making it harder to hold on to as well as the bottom lifting higher off the ground the longer you stayed on without getting knocked off.
Not sure of it's a game or not but a friend & I tried digging a hole to Canada behind the bushes in his front yard just to see how long it would take to get there.
We used to play a ruleless version of D&D we simply called "The Game". This was before we really knew what Dungeons and Dragons were. We would draw dots on a blank piece of paper that were our characters and just draw things and one of us would be a "DM" in the sense he dictated what happened next and crazy scenarios. We'd do everything from pilot giant robots to hunting vampires. Sounds silly but I remember hours of fun doing it.
I never really had any friends growing up, and my older brother didn't want to play with me so I would usually make up overdramatic stories using my plushies. I would make one the villain and then three other plushies had to beat them.
I would also make up stories in super mario 64 bc at that time I found out youtube was a thing (this was back in like 2006-07 so the early days) and I saw a bunch of these machinima roleplay things using the game. Admittedly I probably shouldn't have been watching those videos lmao.
Edit: Oh also I would play music on my ipod and pretend I was in an epic action scene in the backyard. Like I would be fighting dr eggman or something.
My brother and i had an entire adventure series over the course of several summers. It started out after we had been to the renaissance festival and gotten wood swords. One day we went to play outside; however at the time he was obsessed with this old game called Jurassic Park: Chaos Island. Basically you hatch/tame Dinos to fight for you in an RTS
So where does this come in play? I wanted to play knight but he wanted to be a dinosaur. So we merged the two. A lone knight became an unlikely ally with a velociraptor (all the dinos could talk in this) and eventually raised an army to fight the oppressive red kingdom (because red is alway the bad guy). Eventually it expanded to having dragons invade, a civil war, and a spin off. Many imaginary battles took place in our front yard.
We also would “walk home” from the mailbox (half a mile away) but would spend hours playing as Warhammer 40k armies fighting in the woods.
Naughty time. Kindertan game which involved building a "cave" out of really big wooden blocks/boxes then the boys would line up and a girl would select which boy she would take into the cave to makeout with. I was chosen a lot so it was a great game.
My wife looked at me like I was crazy when I mentioned the game “Pillow Man” one time. Pillow Man was when my cousins, my brother and I would take turns lying on the floor, and the others would cover you with couch cushions, pillows, blankets, whatever and just jump on top of you, usually from whatever the highest thing they could climb in the room was.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back seat pirrhana :
During long car rides, one brother is the pirrhana, the other tries to pinch the pirrhana without getting bitten. The edge of the seat cushion is the water line, and the pirrhana can't come out of the water
I essentially used to play D&D with my school friends during breaks before I knew it was a thing. I called it "brain computer" and I would essentially be the DM for a story I made up, asking my friends for their choices. There was no dice rolling or any stats involved, it was just telling stories and pretending I was the computer waiting for the player's input.
In retrospect, that's really weird, but it might explain why I'm such a massive nerd now
My brother and I would play that Kim possible game with the car and we would go into free roam and drive to different houses and pretend we were actually in the houses.
Boot Square - a game consisting of a ball and a bunch of mates. Ball must stay in the square. Bounce once. Not touch anything other than head and leg (below the knee). You have three lives. If the ball goes out wjn you kick it you run out the side which the ball went out... Whilst being booted by your mates.
Loose all lives then you have to do the tunnel or circle. Tunnel consists of mates either side with a ball at the other end. You have to run and touch the ball whilst being kicked. Circle is created by mates. You have to exit circle whilst being kicked.
If you fall to the ground you are safe until you're back on your feet. Then it starts again.
The adrenaline whilst playing is crazy. So are the bruises...
The main game I played when i was in junior school was called all except for one. I've never heard of anyone apart from people who went to my old school who knows what it is. It's basically reverse tag where one person is 'it' and there are two teams who are trying to sprint after the person to tag them then that person is 'it'. The objective of the game is to have someone on your team be 'it' for as long as possible, you can pass the 'it' to someone on your team and some advanced tactics were you can line your team up with the person who is it behind them and they will sneakily pass it to one of the people but the other team can't see who it is. That's when everyone runs in different directions so the other team don't know who has 'it'. Dead good game and lots of fun trying to dodge past people. 10/10 would recommend
Puedd · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and all my friends would play “Squatchy” when we camped. Basically squatchy meant sasquatch and whoever was it was the sasquatch. We played at night with flashlights in big fields or in a big playground. If you got found you would be put in whatever the squatchy designated the “nest” for their turn and fellow hiders could rescue others in the nest by tapping them. The nest location was unknown to the hiders though. To win the squatchy would have to have all the hiders in their nest
We came up with a sand castle version of age of empires. It involved turn based construction, army development, and army movement phases. Most of what the game involved was building as fast as you could to then be able to survive rock volleys and stomps from your opponents "giants". It was incredibly fun and I wish my imagination was still that active.
Everyday when I was about 6 or 7 and my sister was about 4 or 5, we would decide what the "woowoo" would be. I would pretend to look in a book and see what it was for that day. It was usually lava or oatmeal. Anyway, the game was we would take the middle cushion off the couch and run across it over and over trying not to fall in the "woowoo." One day my younger sister (like 2 at the time) just sat down in the woowoo and me and my sister went crazy. We were like "no Natalie you're in the woowoo get out!" Pretty weird tbh
Lots of wholesome childhood games here. Ours tended to be a bit less safe, and a lot more anti-social. We used to play soldiers in the woods...with 2.2 air rifles. I have vivid memories of lying in the branches of a tree sniping my friends as they tried to run for cover when i was about 12. No goggles, actual weapons. If you got too close to someone and they shot you you'd literally have to pull the lead pellet out of your arm. Good times.
In November the air rifles were replaced with fireworks. Roman candles were for pussies. Full size rockets fired from drain pipes straight at each others faces. We'd go out when it was pitch black, and we'd be in woods. So you could barely see anything and then suddenly everything would be lit up as a rocket flew past your face a foot away and hit someone in the stomach and then they'd pretty much just disappear into the explosion and then pitch black again. SO dangerous, but man was it spectacular.
We played ice hockey on a frozen pond, half of the fun being it wasn't entirely frozen so there was a pretty good chance if you fell you were going straight through. One of my friends once accidentally set fire to an entire field. It was genuinely an accident, but then he was trying to cook fish he'd illegally poached.
We used to play a classic Scottish game where you'd break into someones back garden, on a long row of houses and then try and run through every garden in the street without getting caught. Bonus points if you set of security lights or knocked on the windows.
We probably should have had more supervision really...
We played a game called The Black Marble at my grandparents house. We took a large jar of marbles and added a plastic bag liner so you can't see what you were grabbing. The two you didn't want to grab were the tiger's eye, along with the namesake - the black marble.
If you grabbed a tiger's eye, you had to do a dare. This ranged from sniffing a dogs butthole, to eating something gross. Use your imagination.
If you grabbed the black marble, you got credit carded. If you don't know what that means, it is essentially taking your hand and swiping at another person's butt crack.
This was of course humorous and fun, as we were small children. Generally if you saw you had the black marble, you'd throw it into the jar and just bail as fast as you could until they caught up to you, usually on the bed in the far room, on the opposite side of the house.
Between that and all the sack tapping in middle school I'm honestly shocked I was able to have a child lol.
Me and my friends played a game called "post game". Super simple game that's based on a game called "one touch" which involves kicking a football (or soccer ball) against a wall but it has to be a single kick and you each take turns, so like a footballing equivalent of squash I guess. Anyway, what could make that game x10s trickier? Using only a street name sign as the 'wall' (they look like this).
Our road was the shape of an L and the sign was on the corner, with a river behind it (over kick it and you'll become outcasted) and so this made for some really ridiculously difficult shots. As a result we all became great set piece takers purely from playing this game every day after school until it got dark and all day on the weekends. I'll never forget my friend smashing the ball from close range and the ball ended up about 35 yards down the road, obstructed by parked cars and all but you best believe I curled that sucker like prime David Beckham (seriously, even a professional footballer like Beckham would be proud of this shot - 35 yards is no joke) and when it smacked the post and made the satisfying rattle sound I ran down my road, top off, screaming like I had scored the winner in the Champions League final.
Team hide and seek. There was a base at the center of the play area (the back of all the apartments), and one team would hide, the other would seek. You could hide anywhere, and for one team to win, the entire opposing team had to be at the base. If you were found, you could run away, so it was also like tag. If you were touched, you were taken back to base, but other team members could go to the base to save you. We spent countless hours playing that.
My cousins and I would act like we were homeless in the woods and had to scavenge and build our own house. We would steal tools, wood, and food from our grandparents. They always got so mad at us.
I made my parents sit on the couch and I would run past them in front of their legs.
At any given moment, they would shoot their legs straight up and I would stumble over them and ragdoll onto the floor.
This was totally my invention and I have no idea why I liked doing it so much.
We played hunger games. We would throw nerf swords,axes, and shields around the huge lawn of our friends house. We would then place rubber dodgeballs around as well but super hidden, these where power ups. The only way we could use said power ups was put them in drawstring bags we carried. Furthermore, if you got three kills you could go to the “shop”(their basement) and get an ultra weapon. That was usually a nerf GUN or nerf mini gun. Very very very fun and it got extremely competitive.
siyuze · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "banana ball" with my little brother. One person smash a balloon towards the couch would sit on the couch and try to keep the balloon from hitting. If the balloon hit the couch or touched the floor, we'd change positions.
My little sister and I played pretend dry cleaner. We tied a string from the top rail of our bunk bed to the door knob across the room. Then we would take turns sliding shirts and dresses on a hanger down the string while the other sibling would “clean” the clothes with a play broom. The game stopped after my mom discovered every single item of clothing from our shared closet in a crumpled pile on the floor.
i came up with a game called "industrial pain", mainly because i thought industrial was a cool word. it mainly consisted of jumping off of playground structures in ways we dared eachother to do, like wed tell eachother to land on our hands, on our backs, do a flip, etc.
the game was banned due to 3 broken bones within a week but good times up until the narcs showed up.
edit: spelling
We would go down to the creek and try to break out the ice out from under each other feet. I remember once my sister had gotten my one leg soaked three or four times and I couldn't catch her at all - so finally I got the idea to jump around her in a circle really fast - she started laughing at me because I hadn't made a single hole when the part of the ice she was standing on broke and dropped straight down into three feet of freezing water.
I was very into Tremors as a young'un and got a bunch of the other kids in school to play a game that was basically "the floor is lava" but instead of lava it was graboids. There was a hill at the back of the school field that was considered high ground so it was a bunch of kids at the top and other kids who were the graboids at the bottom trying to pull the hill folks down.
Thinking back I'm not sure why anyone would need to go to the bottom of the hill but they all did, running up and down the hill like fools only to be grabbed and pulled down into oblivion.
One day someone fell all the way down the hill and broke their leg and then we weren't allowed near the hill anymore.
jane_q · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I predict I'll see at least one "doctor" or uncle-molesting joke in here.
Basically, My Friends and I used to create this ball of unused cloth and socks. Its speciality? It hurts hard if it hits you. So, the game is played in an open ground. Ball is tossed high at the beginning of the game and the person who catches it will attack the nearest person with the ball. The person who gets his hands on the ball will attack the nearest person. The Cycle keeps repeating until someone starts crying out of pain or is seriously hurt. No prize for guessing, girls hated it.
We called it avalanche training. Basically my brother and I buried each other in snow until the person being buried started tapping their feet(that we left unburied) together frantically to signal they can’t take it any more.
Me and my brother took an axis and allies board, and used monopoly to build infrastructure which would correlate to how many soldiers we could buy and how many could be stationed into a given province.
14-28 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prison Camp.
It was like hide and seek except there were two teams. When caught you'd have to stand at a designated point (the prison) and you could be freed by someone slamming the wall and screaming FREE DEN !
My uncle and i used to play spot the spot it was fun where we would spot spots on each others body but it always ended in me getting pain while i was blindfolded.
I grew up on a farm so we had lots of animals, especially chickens. I had this game called "chicken chase" where I would chase chickens around the chicken yard and attempt to catch them with a big net that I would throw like a frisbee. It was one of those nets like you use to lower down the side of a fishing pier to retrieve fish that are too big to be brought up any other way. I would see how many chickens I could catch and lock into the roosts. It was quite fun, but our egg production went down significantly for a couple days after a good game of chicken chase.
We put names in a hat, innocent, sheriff, and murderer. We pick our card at random, and the sheriff grabs one Nerf bullet secretly from the middle of the circle. We all have Nerf gun.
It is the goal of the murderer to kill everyone by poking them, and the innocents must find out who the murderer is.
Me, my little brother, and my best friend would lay in the back of the minivan (no seatbelts, seats folded up) and each sing in one continuous note, trying to match exactly the tone and pitch of the others. That was the only goal, to blend our voices as perfectly as possible. My best friend and I (both female) once managed to make our voices MERGE into one and to this day it's one of the coolest experiences I've ever had, it's like your voice "disappears" even though you're still singing, and a ghost voice joins in.
Kudos to my mom for putting up with this game.
Xorhan · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play “fighting in the dark”. Basically we would hurl pillows at each other in a pitch black room while constantly chanting “we’re fighting in the dark”. Also we played “hut hut” which was a more fun way to transfer laundry from the washer to the dryer.
“Mad Dog”. I would curl up on the floor, pretending to be asleep- my friends would try and wake me up, and when they did, I would spring into action, scurrying after them on my hands and knees.
I’ve been told it’s surprisingly terrifying to have someone come after your ankles like that
We used to play “Curb Ball” on a little single lane road with a curb on both sides. One person stood on each curb and took turns throwing a basketball at the opposite curb. If you got it to bounce back off the curb and caught it without letting it hit the ground, you got 2 points. If you hit the curb and it rolls back to you, you get 1 point. First to 21 wins.
One time my friend and I noticed there were cracks in the sidewalk so we took tape measures and put the end in the crack and pulled them all the way back and “raced” them.
In elementary school my friends and I played a game we called "Teletubby Madness". I have no idea why we called it that but that's what we called it. There was a little goofy zipline thing on the playground and the point of the game was to knock the kid on the zipline off before he got to the other side. Unfortunately one of my friends got hurt when he got knocked off and started crying. We weren't allowed to play that game anymore after that.
My best friend and I played a baseballesque game in my back yard with a ping pong paddle as a bat and a little ball you catch at Nuggets games here in Denver as a baseball. We used boxes as bases. This game of 1v1 hybrid baseball is one of my favorite childhood memories.
When it was slow at our neighborhood pool, everyone would grab a ball; tennis ball, nerf ball, football, etc. Then someone would go and dive off the diving board while trying to avoid being hit by any balls. The first person to connect was next on the board. No balls could be thrown until you let go of the handrail and the longest streak won. We would play this for hours.
"Incoming"
We would stand on opposite sides of a ravine in the forest outback and throw sticks at the team on the other side while shouting "incoming". As far as I remember nobody got hurt. Hell, I dont think anyone even got hit. Wasn't all that big of a ravine, maybe 30ft from side to side. We wouldn't be trying to nail someone, either, you would just lob a stick so it had plenty of hang time.
My friends and I would take turns throwing a ball on a roof and if the ball bounced more than once upon returning to the ground that person was out. To increase difficulty we would start from crazy distances away, spin 20 times before throwing the ball, use a football(american), etc. Simpler times.
I had a set of marbles that I would give names to and had full on marble fights with different factions that are based on the color of the marble. It was great
We took the game spoons (sit in circle, passing cards around with spoons in middle of table. Once you have a set of 4 of the same card, you sneakily take a spoon. When others notice you’ve got a spoon, they need to quickly grab one too. Whoever doesn’t get a spoon is out) and changed it. We used knives, and hid them around the room (sometimes we just used knives on the table too).
So when someone has a set, they run to find a knife, and then when everyone saw that, they had to run and find a knife too. Didn’t end well sometimes lmao. Normally just butter knives though.
My cousins and I would chew the leaves of this really long grass bush plant so it would turn our spit green. Then we'd chase each other around the yard trying to spit on each other with our "poisonous spit"
As a child, I absolutely loved musicals that starred orphans: Annie, Oliver, Anne of Green Gables (to the point that I thought orphaned children were a requirement for all musicals). Anyways, I always played orphans with any other neighborhood kid who would tolerate playing with me. We had a play house in my back yard and we'd pretend to be foraging on our own without parents. We occasionally acted out our play-parents' deaths. My favorite part was when we decided that we needed to be nomads and travel far away for some reason or another (I think I just got bored of the play house). I loved "setting up camp" and "packing" and pretending we only had a slice of bread to eat.
So basically, I liked pretending I was family-less and homeless with absolutely no notion of what those things really meant.
In elementary, my buddies and I would bring tennis balls and sometimes use those small rubber red balls that elementary schools usually have. We'd go the handball wall things (don't know wth they're called) 2 or 3 of us would stand at the back white line with throwing balls, facing the wall. The other 4+ would be at the wall on our side. Their objective was to run to the other side of the without getting hit by us. If you get hit while running, you get to throw and the thrower becomes a runner.
We played graveyard as kids up at our cabin. My older brother would make the headstones and I would dig the holes and fill them up and we made our poor younger sister be the hearse. We would go around and find dead animals or bugs and then younger sister would have to pick them up and bring them to the hole I dug and I’d fill it in then my brother would make a headstone for it after saying a few words. I have no idea how or why we started playing this but we eventually had a pretty big graveyard of dead things and I think we only remember it so vividly to this day because we forced our sister to be a hearse.
We played a game called IRA where you'd split Into 2 groups,beaters and runners. The runners would pick a word the same length as the number of people on the team.One letter was then given to each member of the team and the runners were given time to hide.
When the beaters found a runner they would, well, beat the letter out of the runners. It was a fun game
We didn’t really have a name for it, but my dad played it with me and my sister. Each of us would take a corner of the room, and we each set up like 10 army men. You couldn’t hide them behind furniture or anything like that. Then we took a large marble and you had to roll it at each other’s army to knock them down. Last one with a standing army man won.
My friends and I would always pretend to be kings/dukes/emperors of medieval countries, managing the realm with political intrigue and outright warfare with a game master dnd style to trigger certain "events".
I would play this game where I was part of a all solo band... my parents recorded my first concert that will be played at my wedding.. Not one of my proudest childhood memories asking a”bitch why did you leave me”
Most made up games of my childhood were a variation on “playing house”, but instead of a regular family, we were an animal family. I used to play “birds” with these two girls at my elementary school. There was a tall girl who always wore mismatched socks that played the mama bird and the other friend and I would be the baby birds. I can’t even remember what we did... but I do remember being sad to move to a new town, sad that I would never play “birds” again, only to find my new classmates offered a similar game called “wolves”. Now I’m sure there were a lot of kids at a lot of elementary schools pretending to be animal families out there. And I hope there still are, despite all the technology we have pulling people of every age inward.
My friends and I used to tie each other up or to different pieces of furniture, and then you’d have to escape. I’d say the only one that really got me was when I was tied to a piano bench with fishing line. Otherwise it’s not that difficult to get yourself loose, at least not when the knots have been tied by other eight year olds. I’d say we were 12 when we stopped playing.
Might not be that unique but we played it in preschool and I started it again in elementary school but basically what we did was stand on top of a balance beam they had in the yard or the garden and try to push the kid in front of you off so you‘re the last one standing. It was fun trying to take down that one kid that pushed off like four other kids before you and see who has the best balance while still being strong enough to push off the one in front of you.
Footbottle. We'd partially fill a two liter soda bottle with sand/gravel then play football with it. I only remember a few injuries, believe it or not.
Paper aeroplane fight, an indoor game for two players. Fold a strictly limited supply of paper aeroplanes. Divide the room in half. Take it in turns to pick items of furniture, to build a barricade with, in your half of the room. Each player has five lives. Lose a life if an aeroplane hits you. Throw the aeroplanes at your opponent, ideally from the safety of your own barricade. When you run out of ammo, you have to bravely sneak out of your barricade to gather more from the no-mans-land in the middle, risking a direct assault from your opponent!
My friends and I had a lot of "creativity" when it came to playing arbies. I had a Fonzie action figure and we pretended he was a child abductor and had Strawberry Shortcake dolls in his trunk. I want to say it was our Barbies goals to get him and save the Strawberry Shortcakes but I think he was just a guy that lived on our Barbie neighborhood.
We played Ratchet & Clank in the forrest. I don’t remember exactly how we did it, but it was me, two of my classmates and a friend of my brother (she is 7 years older than me, and I was about 8 years old at the time, this was about eight years ago and we only did it one time, but it was really fun). I don’t remember the details but it was really fun, a lot of walking in the mountainside, and raining quite heavily. I miss being a kid
My brother and our friends played tag on the trampoline. The only catch was, "it" had to close their eyes and dodge the soccer balls we were throwing at them. My mom never understood.
When I was a kid, I used to stay at my grandmas place a lot, who is a former teacher.
She had a huge bag of old pens that dont work anymore. We used to build roads and cities using these pens, and use more colorful ones as cars. That was fun.
We used to play a game called "Save the World". There would be 3-4 of us on our trampoline (with net) and we would bring in 5 different balls (football, basketball, softball etc.). You would start the game with 3 lives, and the goal was to jump around and do as much cool stuff as possible without touching any of the balls. Not sure where we came up with the name but we played that shit for years.
We used to play Manhunt, where each guy (No girls were allowed to play) was given a letter, and the hunter had to find and retrieve each letter and make up the word. You were not to give out your letter unless you absolutely had to, whereas the hunter could use any means necessary.
The only rule: only make bruises where they couldn't be seen by adults.
I was in my late teens before I found out that most people played this non-violently. It turns out only my friend group used their letters as safe-words to get other kids to stop beating the absolute fuck out of them.
Back at my old school we played infection or zombie tag, the game would last all recess and sometimes it would include whole groups of the infected trying to find one person, I manipulated the rules so then I could take off jackets and change what I was wearing
When I was about 9, both me and my brother both got into Pokémon in a major way. We would play a game pretending that we were Pokémon trainers and had Pokémon and did battles with people that didn't exist, as well as each other.
At school. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE at our grade played this game called 'Murderer'. It played out as one person being the murderer, and when he tagged someone the victim would join the team. Basically a large scale game of infected from COD
When I was young I would always role play with my cousins and we created our own story’s, most of them now that I look at them were kinda like shonen anime because we would always have a tournament arc, a war arc and a rivalry. In the end we would always have a happy ending where all of us united together to beat the final boss.
Vvarx · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the thimble! Alright, so whenever my many cousins would come over, we would play this game, which was basically a real-life eye-spy book. Everyone would leave the room while one person would, of course, hide the thimble. You could hide it wherever in the room, but it had to be visible without moving anything (so no hiding it in drawers or under rugs). Then everyone else comes in and try to find it. They could also ask the « hider » if they were close, and the hider could respond with Cold, Warm or Hot. Whoever found it became the next hider.
Fairly simple, but damn this brought back some good memories ...
Devil Barbie. My aunt passed her large Barbie collection to me when I was about 7. It included one particular Barbie that for some reason I found creepy. I just remember her eyes looking very shifty and evil, with blue eyeshadow, black cat eyeliner, and sharp, pointy black plastic eyelashes. I never wanted to play with her.
Until I invented Devil Barbie. The game consisted of hanging the creepy Barbie, naked, by her hair to a string attached to the basement ceiling. We kids would then spin the Barbie - now called Devil Barbie - and run around the basement avoiding her gaze, because if she looked at you, you died. We ran around shrieking and throwing ourselves down on the ground behind things like complete lunatics. We loved it.
My childhood friend and I played detectives. We would go around the neighborhood finding different items laying around; a chewed up paper bag with dog hair on it, lost watch with bird shit on it etc etc. We would jot down everything about the object on a reporters notepad, inspect the object closely with magnifying glass and then find the suspect, track the suspect down and then "arrest" them. Our friendly neighborhood dog was guilty for the chewed up paper bag.
I think it was called octopus and we played it back in elementary school.
We would have 10 or more kids and one person would be the octopus, it was their job to tag people, and throw balls and get people out. The cool thing in this was that anyone who got tagged by the octopus became coral and they had to stand where they got downed and try to tag the remaining people without moving from their original spot. We usually played this in gym class but occasionally at a friends backyard.
We would play a version of tag called "Bloody Wolf" up a the local park after dark. Essentially one person was the "Wolf" and would go off somewhere in the park and hide. Everyone elses job was to go out and find the "Wolf", and once you found them you would scream "BLOODY WOLF" and everyone would try to race back to the starting point without getting tagged by the "Wolf".
The whole point wasn't really to play tag, but just to scare the living crap out of your friends. The "Wolf" would always hide in a spot where they couldn't be seen until someone was feet or inches away, and would then jump out and grab them. So many good memories of walking around with friends when we would turn the corner and there would be some dark bush off in the corner that NOBODY wanted to walk by. My favorite time I was hiding under some wooden stairs when my sister started walking down, and I reached through the wooden slats and grabbed her ankle while growling like a dog. To this day, it was the most bloodcurdling scream I ever heard.
No one ever walked down those stairs again, we always found another way down.
Acorns with the little twigs still on them were tanks which fought wars against the sticks. Some acorns had no twigs attached, some had 3, and some acorns were huge and/or green, so we even had some variety in our toys.
We spent a lot of time in cars as kids so my sister and I came up with games to keep us from not getting bored.
First was cheering every time we saw a Mack truck and booing every time we saw a Peterbuilt. Still not sure why the hate for Peterbuilt but yeah.
Then after Hummers became a big thing we would "call" them and keep track of points. Regular Hummer was 1 point, limo Hummer was 3, dealership was 5, and if you "called" one and it wasn't, you lost 2 points.
It was my dad taking my sister and I out around the neighbourhood, we lived in the inner city of one of Australia’s capitals. Lots of terrace houses and lots of cats roaming around.
You would get one point for every cat you sighted. You had to scream “CAT!!!!” for it to be accepted as a point. Dad would do loops around the neighbourhood blocks until it got too dark to spot the cats.
Learnt later on that it was a way for Dad to get my sister and I out of the house when mum wasn’t well. She had Schizophrenia and was a danger to us at those times. We never figured it out and loved Captain Cat Patrol.
My friends and I used to go in the pool at my house and play a game we called "The Favorites Game"
One person would sit on top of the pool ladder and everyone else would be on the other side of the pool.
The ladder person would come up with a fill-in-the-blank or a favorite/least-favorite question (ex: whats your favorite ice cream flavor?)
Then, everyone on the other side would whisper their answers to one person who would be "The Teller" and then the teller would state all the answers including their own (if there was only 3 of us we would add in a fake answer. if more than two people had the same answer we would assign them a number to tell them apart.)
The ladder person would then call out one of the answers and the person with that answer would have to try to swim to the ladder before the ladder person swam to the other side.
The loser would become the new ladder person and the game would continue on like that.
It was really fun and I highly reccommend it no matter what your age is :)
There's a cajun version of Go Fish called Makin' Groceries. The cards are all Louisiana specific (zaps chips, gumbo, beignets, etc).
abayda · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and i used to to see how many layers of t-shirts , shirts, sweaters and other various articles of clothing we could put on all at once . Good times .
I played Jasmine and Rajah with my little sister. She was the tiger and I rode her around the house while ruling the kingdom. When she was tired, I put her in the tiger cage (an overturned laundry basket).
Run around and pick immature pine cones off the trees around the neighborhood. They're small and dense, only about 3/4" long, and pointy. Once you've got a handful, run at your friends and toss one in the air, then whack it at them with a badminton racket. Getting hit by a tiny, pointy, dense little seed going 70 mph hurts like hell. Fun game.
zKBone · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It had a name I don’t remember, but it was the coolest freaking game I remember. I’d still play it nowadays if I could.
My friends and I would duct-tape pieces of pool noodle onto various things we found (things like mop handles) to make very usable but very safe swords, spears, shields, daggers, etc. We’d hold tournaments and fight with them. If your “arm got cut off” you couldn’t use that appendage anymore.
I dont know if it would be considered a game, but when we were home alone, my siblings and I would turn the ceiling fan on break-neck speed, and then throw toys at it and laugh and the noises it made, and whoever got hit hard enough to cry lost.
My brother and our friends came up with this game called “race-car” that we would play on our trampoline. There was this dotted circle in the middle of the trampoline that was there to show where you would get the best bounce, but for our game it served as the inner part of the “track.” We would run around the track and essentially play a game of circular tag. When we introduced the game to our buddy Austin, he added an awesome new feature. He would scream “AUSTIN POWERS!” and jump across the circle to tag someone on the opposite side of the track.
Good times.
Oh god, these are mortifying now, but hilarious stories at our own expense always trump personal embarassment, so here goes.
My little brother and I both hate spiders. Like, a LOT. So we came up with a perfect game for arachnophobes: take an older sibling's lifelike, hairy-looking rubber tarantula and tie a long string to it. Player one holds the spider string and perches somewhere near the top of the circular staircase. Player two stands in the corner nearest the bottom of the circular staircase, a somewhat claustrophobic position. Player one then swings and lurches the spider string at player two in an effort to trap, touch, or terrorize player two with the horrifying spider. Player two convulsively tries to exit the corner as the giant spider attacks, screaming and hyperventilating. Fun!
Another 2 player game for reenforcing arachnophobia: sit on the couch with "Spiders and their Kin" spread across your laps. Take turns flipping pages; the one not turning the page has to put their hand on the picture of the biggest spider on the next page! Ha! Ha!
One more game, this one (oddly?) not related to spiders: Take an old milk carton (the waxy cardboard kind) and lay it on it's side on the tiled basement floor. Scrape the milk carton across the floor towards your opponent, make sure to make it sound really loud so your opponent screams and runs away.
The end.
Edit: just remembered another one. My little brother and older sister and I would play "Bar" in sister's room. We'd turn her dresser out from the wall so there was a little alcove behind it, and we'd take turns standing back there playing "bartender". Sister had an iridescent glass decanter (so 70's) and we'd put kool-aid in it and the bartender would pour it into some paper coke cups for the customers to drink. The customers would then get visibly inebriated and start making a scene and have to be cut off and 86'ed from the bar.
My cousins and brother and I used to play a game called “Monster” at my grandma’s house many years ago. Pretty much we would all (about 6 of us) go into a spacious but not-well-lit room and turn all the lights off until it was pitch black. The only light that was allowed was a very slow-blinking strobe light from one of our phones. Because I’m the oldest, I was always elected to be the “monster” whose goal it was was to lock all the players in my “jail.” I won when I was able to get everyone in jail, but “free” players were allowed to break someone out of jail if they can get to them undetected. If I couldn’t get everyone into jail in a certain amount of time, I lost. In all honesty I had more fun scaring my cousins then actually playing the game so I always chose to lose, but it was grand seeing my cousins think they’re safe with one flash of the strobe only for me to crawl towards them in the dark and hear them scream in playful terror with the next flash.
Didn't really have a name for it, but we just tossed sticks into mud. Mind you, it was a lake sized mud puddle, deep enough to drown horses, and deep enough to go fishing when it was just a lake without mud in it.
I lived in Florida so we had an in-ground pool, and also an inflatable 'boat' type raft that you could sit in and it had sides. I wish I could remember the 'rules' (such that they were) but we played a submarine game where one person would get underneath the overturned raft with their head above water but underneath the raft. I honestly forget what the goal of the game was, but it involved these hoop-like rings we had that sunk to the bottom of the pool, and throwing oranges (we had a huge orange grove behind us), and trying to drown each other.
We also played Dodge Rock, but I assume that others played that too. We took rocks (or sometimes oranges, which also hurt if you got pegged with them) and paced off a distance and took turns throwing them at each other, while the target tried to dodge the rocks.
“The blindfold game”
My best friends brother had gigantic wooden furniture that was WAY to big for his small bedroom (a big oak loft best and 2 dressers) it was basically impossible to move in his room. We would blindfold 1 person and then then turn off the lights (I don’t know why we turned the lights off the person was blindfolded) and then we would basically run and hide from the blindfolded person in this room you could hardly move in.
If you were caught then you were the next person blindfolded.. this went on until someone got frustrated or their dad work up and yelled at us.
There was a short hallway where me and my two other siblings had our bedrooms, at the end of that hallway started the kitchen and there was a fridge near the end, we would each take those small bouncy balls standing at the fridge, and throw them down the hallway and try to dodge them as they bounced everywhere, the more balls the more fun it was.
I got a lot of cassette tapes when I was a kid that I didn’t like. I would put scotch tape over the corners so I could record over them. Then I would record myself doing my own radio show which included me introducing the songs, singing them, and then doing my own commercials. I would listen to them on the tape player that I had attached to the handle bars of my bike.
Bubonic Nunball. Kinda like four square but there was only two players and a freestyle circle in the middle where you could hold the ball and dance to gain style points (just like NBA Street). No gamebreakers however. No idea why or how my best friend and I came up with this but it was one of my childhood favorites.
We made up this dumb game called IBB (Island Bumpa Ball) which was legit just the two-square equivalent of four square.
We were camping and it was rainy and miserable ... So it was the 'island escape' for me my siblings and my cousin lol. We dragged sticks in the dirt road at the campsite to make the arena . Like it was pretty bad haha
My brother and I would play "War" when we were kids. An imaginary game that he was a one man army versus my army of hundreds of henchman. I love him so much i would make him invincible and always let him win. Now he's 18 and im 21 and sometimes we remember those imaginary games we used to play and laugh our asses off!
Tremors. One person who was ‘on’ wriggled around on the floor while the others had to get to the other sofa. If you were touched you was also a tremor. Last person to survive won.
Never lasted long as my mother went mad for jumping on the sofas.
My sister and I had this game we would play where we made a family out of our toys. Hers were stuffed puppies, mine were pro-wrestling action figures. They all understood each other, too. Like it wouldn’t be just unnaturally big dogs barking at comparatively small people; like they would have real deep life talks (well, deep for a couple of pre-teens). And we didn’t even have a name for it - we just called it “our game”.
I had a study hall period in middle school and it was in our multi-use gym so we sat at these long picnic tables we used for lunch.
I got this squad rubber thing off the bottom of a table and used it for a goal.
we would bounce a bouncy ball and try to get it to stay in the square. Your points were how many bounces the ball made before going in.
dd1818 · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love turning off all the lights in my parents room and having a "stealth" pillow fight with my dad. You had to sneak around and hope you didn't give away your position, or else you would get smacked with a pillow. Or you could just take a random swing! lol thanks for putting up with my games dad!
Every time you drive over the railroad tracks or a cattle guard you have to lift your feet off the ground and say "grandma!". Whoever didn't was a grandma because we thought the vibrations would make them more wrinkley.
Kick the can, SPUD w/ a Koosh Ball, Cops and Robbers (there was a jail guarded by someone with a huge flashlight/spotlight and if you snuck up and tagged someone from jail everybody got to escape), “war” where we had toy guns and if you had LOS on someone and made a gun noise they died, “The Floor Is Lava” outside on a swing set with monkey bars and we’d put items all over the ground and make courses to run across and someone was it and we had to not get tagged, hide n seek, freeze tag, those are the big ones off the top of my head.
Basically me and my friends and siblings would go outside and do whatever kids do outside and come home whenever we got hungry. Ride bikes, make forts, climb trees, just be kids.
We had a game called Ghostbusters. You pick your nose, and hide it on your friend. Then, after waiting for a bit, you just say "Ghostbusters" to them and watch as they try and search for the booger. Looking back it makes me wonder what the fuck was wrong with us.
I'd say it's unique in the sense, that I have never heard of it outside of my country.
It's called "Yellow car". Pretty basic: You see a yellow car, and you hit your friend across the shoulder. Reset after every yellow car. Repeat ad nauseum.
We would always be playing whatever sport the season called for, but sometimes in the summer we couldn't get enough people for a full baseball game. A lot of the time it'd just be my brother and our next door neighbor. So we created this game called "Pitcher-Catcher-Batter".
Getting in to pickles was always one of the most exciting parts of our baseball games, so this new creation kind of encouraged pickles to happen. We'd have home plate, then one base in the normal position of second base (behind the pitchers mound). Then you'd get three outs as a batter to get as many runs as you can, only needing to run to the one base and back. Obviously we'd always go for home and would get stuck in a pickle between the pitcher and catcher, which is where most of the fun would be.
We honestly probably had more fun growing up playing Pitcher-Catcher-Batter than we did playing actual baseball.
Our house was built around a 'T' of corridors with rooms leading off them.
My brother and I (and our friends if they were over) would sit at either end of the leg of the 'T', turn all the lights off so it was pitch black and then throw stuff at each other. Usually nerfballs but occasionally marbles.
Like the most pointless game of dodgeball ever but it was somehow hilarious fun.
I used to walk around with a frameless mirror wedged under my nose, with the mirror side pointed up. It made it look and feel like you were walking on the ceiling or sky. I was a latchkey kid, so I didn't have anyone around to point out how fucking dangerous this little hobby was and I'm surprised I didn't shear my stupid face clean in half.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doorknob-in a room full of our buddies,if someone farted,you yell "doorknob",then beat the shit out of them till they reach a doorknob..
Zombie game. Where one main zombie hides an object (visible) all of the runners have to retrieve the object and bring it back to “base”. Only the main zombie can run, if you get tagged you become a minion zombie and can only walk. Zombie wins if everyone is tagged. Runners (that are not zombies) win if they retrieve object back to base.
Remember this game was so much fun playing in the neighborhood
We basically LARP'd in retrospect, but we called it 'imaginary game'.
It was essentially me being a DM and emulating the Final Fantasy games we played fairly religiously. We would pick 'guns and stuff' or 'swords and stuff' and then I'd make up a story / plot / characters on the spot and away we'd go.
Half the time it included a train that got stopped by hitting [something]. I might have stolen a little from FFIX...
The "Being Unseen" game where we would play like ninja everywhere around the house and the garden to avoid being seen by our parents. Perpetual hide-and-seek game. 25 years ago, damn, time flies...
Demo durby! Two of us would sit back to back on a wagon and ride it down the hill in my neighborhood. The person in the front would stead and the person on the back defended the wagon. Then the other 3 or 4 people would chase them on scooters and skateboards with brooms and hockey sticks as weapons to try to wreck the wagon before it got to the bottom of the hill. Lots of fun until we broke our neighbors mailbox and had to put all our money together to buy a new one.
My neighbor and I would basically LARP. We had big backyards and woods to run around in, and we would invent storylines and fight for the good of our cause. He was a swordsman (big stick as sword) and I was a wizard (big stick as magical staff).
I can't remember who the big bad guy was, but we always fought waves of his minions - invisible goblin creatures we called Nims. His swingset was our homebase, our time machine, and our rocket ship.
Kickshins, by older brother and I would go out onto the trampoline and kick each others shins until one of us gave up and jumped off...
What was the point of this? Who knows
I vividly remember my brother and I playing Kim Possible as children. I was always Kim and he was Dr Drakken (however you spell it) and we'd always re-enact the episodes, lol
My brother, my two cousins, and I would play “hobos”. We would dress up with clothes meant to go to Goodwill and play in the unfinished basement. We would “sleep” under tables and staircases and complain about being cold. Kinda fucked up now.
I know this is going to sound super wrong but the game is called “Ebola River” basically at our school their was a play set and if you were pushed off of the play set you caught Ebola and died. Theirs a lot of other weird games I played but this was the main one.
This one counts as unique. My cousins would come over and we'd go into the finished basement of my parents house, turn the lights off and turn blacklights on, blast whatever music we were listening to (late 90s) and set up a big basket full of rubber bouncy balls. The object of the game was simple: Fire the balls at the wall as hard as you could and try to hit everyone else with the rebound while not getting hit yourself. It was virtually impossible to aim and to avoid being hit so it was just a game of chance.
We would ride our bikes down the paths in our woods. There were some steep hills and creeks and intersecting paths. We would pretend we were Native Americans riding horses chasing buffalo or going into battle with spears (big sticks). We would collect black raspberries and make shelters/forts out of sticks and bark and rocks and have our own village. Our younger brothers would wanna play so we would make them the cowboys and we'd all chase each other all over the place, them with their plastic pistols, bandanas around their necks, and bikes.
I made up a game called "bolf" which was baseball but we used a golf ball as a baseball since it went further. Problem was we did it at recess with plenty of kids playing around nearby.
Poor teacher almost had a heart attack when they saw what we were doing. Was fun though!
I had a shitload of lego, and looking to do new fun things with my lego I came up with a game called "garbage man"
I would live on a garbage belt, and would have to make my house and things only of the materials (lego) that came in every time (grab a handfull of lego out of my chest). I would try to make the most out of the things I got, make the prettiest house and car etc. And could improve everytime new garbage came in.
It would be different every time, which was fun. And it would occupate me for a few hours.
zKBone · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One summer me and my brother went on an absolute massacre, we killed hundreds of bees no joke, using only tennis rackets we would prowl our back deck and kill multiple a day, we actually got pretty good at it
I don't think this is all that unique, but my sister and I would pretty much backyard wrestle in our bedrooms.
I remember my sister's signature movie was like a top rope samoan driver called the omb-bomb and (I think) a reverse chokeslam. My finisher was the rock bottom because I didnt have the imagination of a 7 year old.
Animal Wars! I was obsessed with Animal Planet as a kid and knew a decent amount about a variety of animals. I kept a box and put a bunch of slips of paper in there, each with a different animal written on it. My brother would draw one slip and I'd draw another, and we'd have to behave like whatever animal we drew and FIGHT until the other person surrendered.
I was pretty faithful to the behaviors of the animal I chose, but my brother would just beat me up like normal. Haha!
Friends and I would play a game called "Ninja" and have two of us be guards and the other two ninjas. Guards could only walk in a designated area on the sidewalks but the ninjas could sneak anywhere, use distractions, get in trees, ect. The ninjas would need to work together to get the guards from behind. It was the coolest ever except we did get the cops called on us for sneaking around, people though we were trying to rob homes..😅
This was in high school, but it involved driving and trespassing so it was fun. Basically we’d all meet at an elementary school parking lot at night and hang out. Then to start the game there’d be “cops”, teams of 2 in cars; and runners; packs of people trying to not get tagged. The home base was a park about a 2 miles away through a neighborhood. We’d start running and if the “cops” came up on us we’d hop fences and go through back yards. The person riding shotgun would get out of the car and tag the runners, who would then become cops themselves.
It was really fun, and what made it cool was it was passed down from older groups of high schoolers. My friends and I were all too straight edge to drink while playing but I’m sure some people incorporated that.
I lived in a mountainous area where the backyard was basically the jungle. My neighbors and I would create traps for each other (pits covered with leaves, branches that would hit you if triggered, etc.). In hindsight we definitely could’ve killed each other with the contraptions we came up with. But we all made it to adulthood. Well except for Tim... we don’t speak of him.
Kbouds · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sting. In elementary school, we would take a soccer ball from gym class, and at recess/lunch hour, we would kick the ball as hard as we could at each other.
There were no teams, no designated kicker. Just a pack of school aged kids simultaneously running after a ball to try kick it at other people, and also running away so you didn't get the ball kicked at you.
My friends and I used to play a game where we simply walked straight forward, if we hit something we had to turn the way a bullet would've turned if it hit the object. It was always sad when you got sent a long way from the others (huge playground)
Skateball. It involved a batter jumping on a trampoline armed with a skateboard without wheels being pitched a tennis ball and running “bases” around the yard.
Me and my friends, we used to fantasise that we were either pokemon (think mystery dungeon games) or that we had an omnitrix and make up story lines on the go. Another thing was in my primary school I boarded a few nights a week and what we would play in the evening just before bed time was ‘Hulk Smash’. All the lights would be turned off, one aggressive boy would be nominated the hulk and he’d chase the others around in the dark and tackle them etc. while shouting ‘Hulk Smash’.
In the fall we'd rake a bunch of leaves into circles and pretend they we're bird nests and houses and play like that. Kinda lame but it was fun for us.
My best friend growing up and I would play a game similar to house but we were brother and sister. (She was a super tomboy growing up). But we called it brother and sister forever and instead of starting a new game every time we played together, we would just pick up where we left off playing. We said we were going to play it forever and I really believed that.
At my primary school we played, for a while until it was banned by the teachers, a game called "shoe" which involved taking a shoe from someone's foot, and throwing it as far as you could. I remember it being really good fun.
We used to have a driveway of different sized tiles. There were about the same 5 tiles spread out over the whole garage. The largest tile I used to call "the big" and I used to have to make my way from the end of the driveway to my front door only stepping on "the bigs".
My friends and I invented the game “George Washington.” Essentially I had gotten a free toy in a cereal box that looked like a giant pill and had weights in the bottom, so it wobbled around. It also had a picture of Simba on it, so it must’ve been around the time Lion King 2 or Lion King 1 1/2 came out.
We put Simba on my trampoline and started jumping. The goal was to not let it hit you while it was bouncing around. The game officially started when someone yelled “George Washington!” Why we picked him I have no idea, but I do work in a history museum now, so I must’ve already subconsciously been thinking around my career path. I’m also pretty sure that Simba toy is still in my parents basement somewhere!
When I was a kid my uncle and I played "find the hot dog". He said it was our secret game that nobody else could play so it was very unique. He would turn off all the lights, blind fold me and hide a hot dog somewhere on him. My job was to feel all over to find the hot dog. I was really good at it and always found the hot dog. Sometimes, when I would find it too easily, I could only use my mouth instead and he would put some ranch dressing on the hot dog to surprise me. It was so fun!
I loved playing hide and seek with my friends, not unique but what was different we would do it in a old factory that was destroyed in the war, it was huge, at least 70m wide and 4 stories high with a bunch of rooms and places to climb up and most parts of the factory were pitch black during the day.
We would play it 3v3/4v4, and we were searching for a spot to hide and then found a underground tunnel (for some reason it was full of promotional paper stacks) where you could crawl beneath and you would just hear them over us talking and searching while we were cracking up and making noises once they're further away. We came out after an hour of hiding, it was such an awesome location, it's still standing lol.
Choose your own direction Monopoly (that is, you could go either forward or backward with your roll of the dice).
It made it nearly impossible to collect rent, so to make up for that we allowed up to 3 hotels per property, for the rare instances when you could actually collect.
Of course, players would go back and forth over GO. To make the other end of the board interesting, we had to put $1000 on Free Parking.
There was no way anyone would go bankrupt; the only solution was to set a time limit and whoever had the most money won.
My older brothers and sisters would play a game called “pass out” when we lived in the Rockies. You’d crouch down then stand up straight as fast as you could and you would... pass out. Hilarious mountain family fun.
Sadly by the time I was old enough to play we relocated to a sea level home and the game didn’t work anymore.
The new house had a high staircase so instead we’d play “tip-it”. We’d lie down one on top of the other and yell tip-tip-TIPIT!!! The stack of 4 or 5 of us would all tumble down the stairs.
It was kinda like German hide-and-week, except the seeker had a scary mask on, and would limp around looking for people while forcibly opening and closing a pair of gardening shears, so all the hiders knew about where the seeker was was the slowly approaching sound of “Shink... SHHink... SHHHHINK...”
It drew inspiration from the video game “Clock Tower”.
When we were about 7/8, my friend created a game called “Fiber”.
Fiber was a monster of some sort and we would pretend to be scared of it and take all sorts of preventive measures to escape Fiber. The main and most memorable being a concoction of dirt, grass, water to make a potion that we would then drink.
Me and my best friend use to play this game we called pirate, where we’d swing this flimsy (like all netting) hammock between two of my trees bath and forth, making weird noises and then pretend “the ship” was sinking and we had to climb out of the swinging hammock situation (it kind of wrapped around you like a cocoon at this point) and up the tree where we’d pretend to be staking out a new pirate empire... it was oddly very fun.
Nettle tag/fight. There grew some stinging nettles in my school and we thought of a fun game where you picked up a nettle and whipped others with it. Despite that we called it tag, it was more of a fight.
At my elementary school sometimes during before school I would go to this thing called
One Team and we would sometimes play this one game where one person is the monster and everyone including the monster can only move on the lines on the gym floor and the last person surviving wins. It was such a good fucking game.
Kind of a variant of "The Floor is Lava," except the lava was my youngest brother who would chase us around and try and tag us. If he did, the acid got us and we died. Lots of laughter and screams of "ACID BABYYYY." Good memories.
Hill tag. The yard in between my house and our neighbors formed a small horizontal hill. One person stood on the hill as others ran by trying to not be tagged. If you were tagged by the person on the hill you have to be on the hill now.
Me and my friends played " Moving statues". One person would close their eyes and count to ten, the rest would stand like a statue in a weird position and then the person who counted would use an imaginary remote to "play" them and the statue would do a kind of an act. When we started the acts lasted like 10 seconds but eventually we started performing complete stories that would take like 10 minutes.
When I was in 6th grade me and my friends make a boardgame, it was about 4 factions, I was the sugar faction, my friends were the animal faction, spider faction, and the monster faction. It was like chess but with 4 players and dungeons and dragon aspects in there also, the way we won was trough getting as much territory as possible, we had 4 pieces that would branch out which were the "borders" they were tied by string. At late 6th grade we dropped the whole idea since the game started becoming to complex but it was very fun when we could actually play it. I still have it today but most of the things for it are gone but some boardgame pieces are still there and remind me about that time.
All the kids in my street used to play a game called curbie (probably not the spelling, but it’s not an actual word I guess?). You would stand on opposite sides of the road and throw the ball to hit the lip of the side walk, really simple but those cheap flyaway balls made it tougher.
It was safe to play near my house because very few people had cars.
Also, thought it was just a poor kids game specifically in Liverpool. Turns out kids down in Birmingham played it too!
In late elementary school a few friends and I made up a game called “Jason”. It was basically tag but you could only tag in the throat. As you can imagine, a bunch of kids running around throwing karate chops at each other’s throats led to a school wide ban of the game pretty quick.
My brother and I played “Dodge and Death”. We would divide the basement into two equal-sized zones and play using a variety of soft toy balls - mostly rubbery foam or Nerf.
Basically, it was dodgeball but with a cool twist - you took “damage”. Headshots were instant death but getting hit in the arm or leg just destroyed that limb. So you could hop around or one leg or maybe be reduced to crawling if you lost both. It was fun destroying their good arm so their throws would end up being weak and aimless.
Body shots were handled in different ways - getting hit in the side or shoulder (if that arm was lost) would result in a single-limb loss of your choice. Back, stomach and groin were 2 limbs, and neck was 3. Once you lost all 4 limbs you lose. Yes, games were won by a throw with only one leg left.
You got one “catch” per round that would nullify the throw and give you one limb back of your choice. You could also deflect balls with a ball held in your hand.
Fully recommend playing it. Actually I’m gonna hit my brother up and see if he’s down...he’s 30 now and I’m 24 but fuck it. We can afford a lot of balls and I have a massive rec room at my house compared to my parents’...also carpet flooring instead of concrete sounds better for diving plays lol.
My cousins would play war with bottle rockets, I played once when I was ten.... Got hit in the eye, luckily it was a dud and didn't explode, 10 yr old me was smart enough to never play again.
Every time i had a friend/friends over, my dad would let us play "chase". it was basically tag, but i had a large house, so at night, it was intense. My dad would go around, finding my friends and myself, and when he found one, that person would become on his side. It was so fun, yet so dangerous. Many cuts, scratches, and bruises. It was worth it tho.
My friends and I used to LARP Pokémon, we would pretend to catch Pokémon and then we would battle each other pretending to be the Pokémon and run around the entire street battling. We had a point system to level them up and evolve them. We had story lines and pretend girlfriends and even homes in parts of my friends garage. Our story lines would last for weeks until all of our Pokémon were maxed out.
One time, me and my best friend cheated by saying we had battled when our other friends weren’t around. In reality we would run from one side of the living room to the other and count it as a point.
I had a neighbor childhood friend that I’d play a game with. I’d find a unique looking stick, show it to her, then throw it into the woods. She’d go in and find the exact one and bring it back to me.
I grew up in a house on an intersection. My siblings and I played a game called 'Trolley'. We had a couch up against our living room window. We'd sit on the back of the couch, making sure we sat inbetween window frames. That way, at night, when a car drove by heading towards the intersection, the headlights would shine through the window and make a shadow of what looked like us riding a trolley against the other wall.
when home alone, me and my brothers would let our dog out and get his dog poop in a plastic bag, and throw it at each other in the house. once they threw it in the ceiling fan (which was on) and it went f l y i n g
When we were in the car for long journeys, I’d be bored after reading my Beano comic so I’d squeeze my bum cheeks as hard as I could every time we passed a lamp post.
I’m elementary school I had a group of friends of about 10 people, we would do sleepovers on each of our birthdays or on a long weekend.
We had this one friend who was all about entertaining, so she and one of our other friends would play this game called “the monster”
It entailed all of us hiding in the house “during the day, and night” and the two of them would tuck their knees in their shirts and fucking sprint waddle towards you in a dimly lit hallway,
You got attacked? You became the monster.
My best friend and I would play "store" when one of us would walk around the room and choose random objects, then bring them to the 'cashier' who would then assign arbitrary prices and total them on a calculator. Then we would put all the items back and switch so we could take turns being the cashier.
My brother and I played a game with a broom handle. We both held on to it, and the objective was to get it out of the other person's hands, or to hurt him so badly that he just gave up.
We never tried to cause serious injuries though. We were brother after all.
My sister and I would produce ice dancing shows on the tile floor by sliding in our socks, usually improvising some lyrics to "Flight of the Valkyries"
Basically you would get yourself one of those circular margarine containers like this. Then you would proceed outside during the sunnier months (I lived in Canada) and you would take the lid off your margarine container, turn it upside down and find yourself a good sized bee just minding it's business among the clover.
Here's where it got stupid.
You then would bring the container down on top of the bee, trapping it. Then you would raise the edge of the container a bit, but only just enough to slip the lid underneath it, not enough to let the now angry bee out. Now you have a bee trapped in a margarine container.
And here's where it got even MORE stupid.
The last phase of the bee game was to get the bee to stick to someone. You see, the reason you wanted the container to be round was so that you could move the container in rapid circles and make the bee do circles around the inside by centrifugal force. Then once the bee is disoriented enough you would open the container and rapidly launch the bee towards one of your friends. Why? Because when bees are disoriented or dizzy they cling to the first surface they hit that had traction, such as someone's clothes. Then about 50% of the time they'll try to sting you, the other half they just chill and then fall off and fly away once they are no longer dizzy.
It was the most psychopathic, horrible game. Looking back I'm amazed I avoided being stung; though other kids I played with were not so lucky. I also just don't know where we even got the idea?? I'm also sad for the bees. Bees didn't deserve that.
We played a game called "mama ball". It was basically wiffle ball but my mom played all time pitcher and my brother and I took turns hitting. The unique part is there was a "no crying" rule
My friends and brothers would play a modified version of hide-and-seek. We would turn off all the lights and go hide. The seeker would have a basket of rolled up socks, and in order for their find to count they would have to throw a sock at you. It was hide-and-seek dodgesock.
My family invented a game called SUATI (shut up and throw it) where we all sit in a circle and pass a ball around by throwing, hitting, kicking it. Used to be called Duster ball because we’d play inside and when the ball hit the TV it would leave a mark where it took the dust off. Then we had to move it outside and it became SUATI because I would hold onto the ball while I told a story and they got angry with me lol. We still play it to this day and it’s always a big deal to teach it to someone new.
So in primary school, we use to have this game called octopus. Theres one octopus to start with, and everybody else had to run from one side of the playground to the other, while the octopus in the middle had to try and tag you. If you got tagged, you’d join as an octopus. We had a couple of year groups playing this so ended up with about 100+ of us. Then they banned it. So we kept on changing the name of it to names like panda or stupid things like that
Faka3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made fart competitions with my brothers if we were awake around 1AM with all the lights turned off (We shared the same room, we were 3 in there) and if someone started farting, someone must imitate it, but louder-longer, if we giggled a little bit, it meant "OPEN THE GAME." and we could've go on to the point if you farted and there was no response, that means everyone's asleep.
"Eyelash tag" was this game where whoever was 'it' had to keep their eyes closed and try to tag someone. Simple enough, but it was in our treacherous unfinished basement and we would set traps for the person and hit them with pillows to try to knock them over. Also, the lights were off because why not.
Like a pillow fight, but someone had to keep their eyes closed and everyone ganged up on that person.
I had something called “are club” with my brother. (Yes, we knew it was grammatically ‘our club’ but we didn’t care). It was basically a mix of Star Wars and Indiana Jones and everything in between. A lot of nerf guns and sticks were used at the playground to defeat imaginary monsters and bosses. Looking back at it I had a great childhood
We called it the Fruit Rollup game. We used two Fruit By the Foot (don’t ask why we called it Fruit Rollup) packages and the goal was to have both snacks on the others side for at least 5 seconds. We would each start with one on our side of the couch. The couch basically divided the family room and the kitchen. The tricky part was that we also had one “neutral” person who was tasked with disrupting the game with their signature distractions.
So for a few examples, my one friend would wield a frying pan and try to smack the snack back onto the person’s side who just threw it. My distraction was to lay on the couch with a bedsheet and then pop up yelling “Spawn!” while flinging the bedsheet out as a kind of net. It got super intense and surprisingly we never broke anything.
We made up tons of dumb and fun little games as teenagers but that might have been my favorite.
Bmc00 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I would complain that we were bored, my dad would tell us to go sit on the sewer and pretend we were watching a movie. We tried it once, and it did not cure our boredom.
In elementary school, we made up a game that we coined: Handoccer.
As you might have guessed, it was a mix of both hand ball and soccer. You moved the ball up the field like in handball but could only score by kicking it into the net.
“The Koopa Game”
-basically 2 people in a trampoline, and a stuffed koopa and Mario thrown by 2 others on opposite sides like dodgeball. By catching one you could gain a life with a max of two lives.
“Giant Risk”
-normal risk board game played on a G I A N T board so large we needed tunnels and spaces to stand up in the middle sections to move pieces (yes, games took weeks to complete).
“Giant Jenga”
-opened cardboard salad boxes from a local grocery store taped up to make about 24 one foot by 2 foot pieces. Ladder required to play.
“Army Man Warhammer”
-take bucket of army men, split evenly, give each one stats like damage, movement, range etc, and give each player a yardstick. Proceed to make any location an intense battleground.
At recess my friend and me played the same roll play every day :D First I would go to the 'shelter' and my friend was going to be the ugliest doggo but I would choose her and buy her all the toys. Then the doggo would die in a subway accident and after that we would transform into Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable (and of course we used to sing the whole title music of Kim Possible) ... After that it would be Harry Potter and Ron Weasley and one of us would always die xD
Everyday the same story... But it was always fun :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At one point our parents bought a small ballpit. After the pit expired we found a variety of games to play with the balls. Stuff like pretending they were sheep and we had to herd them from one room to the other, a factory where we rolled them down the banister, filled laundry baskets and carried them back up (occasionally dumping the entire basket at once), or just threw them at each other from behind barricades. They stung pretty good.
My brother and I had one of those big multicolored parachutes you would use in gym class. We used to hook the hand hooks onto the top of our houses stairwell bannisters in random order. This would sometimes create a multiple pockets we could jump into, but sometimes it wouldn’t, and you’d just drop right out the bottom and all the way down the stairs. There would be like five different potential “pockets” to choose from and it was a game of chance. Don’t know how we didn’t get seriously injured.
Me and my friends played “At the doctors” where we all hung onto the slide at my pool and the person at the top had to push the rest of us into the pool. Lots of hurt backs that day.
I used to have game I played with a few friend we would basically set up sudo store fronts out side and make our own "currency" we would sell each-other toys and stuff like that it was fun and we did this every month once or twice eventually we decided to allow random people to play with us. It ended with corruption as people made their own currencies and words were exchanged so our parents stoped us from doing it again. It's nice to remember these child hood moments.
We would basically lay a variety of improvised hurdles (logs, metal fence, etc) in our backyard and then see who got over it the fastest and who touched the least hurdles. The highest of those was about 80cm high, maybe even a full meter.
Incredibly fun, even if you sometimes jumped right into a piece of metal railing.
We always played this game with the neighbourhood kids, there were about 10 of us. The game was very simple, all you needed was a ball. It was like soccer and the goal was to have possession of the ball as long as possible. Other kids who didn't have the ball had two options:
Try to get the ball
Kick the guy who had the ball as hard as you could
Needless to say, this was a very thrilling but painful game, we loved it.
In 4th grade a friend and I created this whole 2001: A Space Oddessy style story on the playground where the jungle gym was our main space ship and the swing set were the fighter ships that would be launched from our "main ship." This went on for the entire school year, ending with an epic space battle at the end of the school year. We truly felt like we were these bad ass space soldiers. It was the best "game" I have ever played.
We played Mortal Kombat until we got in trouble at school because some kid got upset that he couldn't play as Sub Zero ( my favorite and just cuz in a girl doesn't mean I couldn't be him!)
My brother and I had a game we invented which can only be described as destruction derby meets WWF's Royal Rumble. We had the old WWF Hasbro wrestling ring and would fill the ring with every action figure we owned. Then we took this huge three foot long plastic school bus toy we had and would wheel it at the ring as hard as we possibly could. Whoever could get the most figures out of the ring would win.
One of our neighbors had a hammock. We would lie in the hammock and hold the top closed, basically placing ourselves in a hammock cocoon. Then, two kids would go on either side of the hammock and spin that shit like a jump rope. Lots of kids fell out mid flip. Lots of kids puked of dizziness.
Bomber - one person was the bomber, the others were bomb defuser type people, idk, maybe we called em cops. The Bomber would take a handful of kitchen timers, set for 3 or 4 minutes and hide them around the house, then the rest of us would try to find them. If one went off the bomber won. The bomber could not interfere with the cops, but could try to misdirect.
Mission Impossible - one (or two if we had enough) would guard a location at night, often it was a particular bush in one friend's back yard, they'd have a flashlight. The others would start on the far side of the house, and try to touch the guarded bush without being caught. If the guard shined the flashlight on you and called out your name you had to go back to start
Ghost Tag - I'm fuzzy about this one, but it was played in the woods at night without flashlight and bicycles were involved? It was not the safest
My brother and I invented a game akin to Squash, against the front of our house. Service was from the edge of the front lawn, always underarm, but we used tennis rackets and balls. It was called 'Tchmong' (cher-mong), and I have no idea why. We played it summer after summer and still talk about it now at 33 and 37.
Totally wrong and insensitive now, but me and my brother created a game called "Gay". If you lose, you gay and the loser has to crawl on all fours through the legs of all the other players while they are standing.
So, it started when me any my brother were in Atlantic City. There was this claw game that I was really good at was able to get like plush baseball sized balls. One day not knowing what to do with it I threw it on top of the awning above our door to our building that looked like this. You can't see when it's coming down because it's above your head and it makes no sound because it's plush and soft. When it came down my brother jumped in the air caught it and threw it back up in one motion like a layup. When it returned I did the same and thus, a game was born. If the ball touched the ground on your turn that was a strike. If your feet didn't get off the ground when you caught the ball that was a strike. If you threw the ball and it didn't touch the top of the awning it was a strike. 3 strikes and you "Gay". We then started adding more players and before we knew it all the kids on our block were playing this game.
izene2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin used to play this game with our fingers called one one (well directly translated from Cantonese, not even sure if this is the name)
Basically we both place our hands out with the index finger pointing out, you then use your hand and select another hand( could be yours or your opponent) and their amount of finger increases by however many your hand was when you selected it. Any hand that reaches exactly 5 finger is out of the game
If both your hands are out then you lose.
So example
Player 1 Left hand (1 finger) selects Player 2 Right hand of (1 finger) then player 2 right hand gets incremented by 1 and becomes 2 fingers
Then it's player 2 turn
We came up with a game called "Alien". It was basically a reverse game of hide and seek in the dark. We had a nice finished basement with with a fairly unique layout and pool table in the middle.
One person was the "alien" and everyone else was hunters. The alien would be out in the general basement area hiding while the hunters gathered in a bedroom down there. The hunters all had weapons of some sort like nerf guns (like the ever awesome Eagle Eye with the laser sight) and they would come out into a complete pitch black basement and just move around trying to find the alien.
The alien, on the other hand, was just there to hide, make noises, and just generally scare the shit out of the hunters. I loved being the alien. Pouncing on people from the dark. Sensing their fear as I lurked just beside them unknowingly.
Really, it was just a great way for me and my brother to scare my good friend Kyle. He was always so scared and my brother (his hunter companion) would just feed his fear and it was hard not to laugh.
Kinda fucked up, but it was really fun in the 90a...
Oh man I finally have a story! So one of my buddies as a kid grew up in a big family (like 8 kids) and they a huge house and big back yard with like 2-3 swing seats and barns and such. Well they also had the biggest dog I've still ever seen, a St Brenard named Bruno. For reference when my dad would drop me off in his Subaru Bruno would walk up and stick his head in the window... with all 4 paws still on the ground.
So the Bruno game: that backyard was equipped with an electric fence, and we would walk along the outside of the perimeter as we were stalked by this 150+ lb dog that was anxiously awaiting our attempts to breach the perimeter and make a mad dash for the swing sets. We had to come up with strategy to confuse the beast, occasionally working in tandem to achieve our goal. He was obviously a gentle giant and just loved to tackle us and rip off our winter hats... but man that was the best rush as a child! He was our Sandlot beast, and we would play this game for hours. I think he enjoyed it as much as we did.
My siblings and I would put a ton of blankets and pillows at the bottom of the stairs and see who could jump from the highest step without getting hurt, all the while yelling “CHUCKIE CHIYA”
GHR501 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Talk to myself while playing legos pretending someone was playing with me because I had no friends.
My cousins and I would grab any random small object in the house and the person with the object would go hide it anyehre(could end up at the bottom of the sugar jar, back of the toilet, in a pillow case, where you dump soap for the washer, bottle of tylenol) we took however long it took to find it, used hot and cold to determine if we were close or not. I completely forgot about this part of my childhood. Thank you!! We also would shut the lights off and play tag inside once it was dark out
Edges of shadows are sharp, don't step on them, don't let them slide under your feet - step over edges of shadows of roadsigns, fences or buildings, jump up when a car shadow moves under you or out. You can step on full shadow or on full light, but not on the edge.
We used to have an old futon mattress that folded in the middle, and we’d play a game called “sandwich slide” in which I would lie in the crease (never my siblings... always me damnit) and they would fold it over on top of me, and then sit on top of the “sandwich” and ride it down the stairs.
I can’t remember why I kept playing.
Everyone gets on the monkey-bars (or on a good day the entire playground) and one person is "it." They have to close their eyes and try and tag someone. At any point, they can yell out "grounders" and if anyone is touching the floor, they become "it." Otherwise you would keep going until someone was tagged, or the person that was it got injured from trying to climb around with their eyes closed.
It was a lot of fun in early grade-school, so much so that when we were in high-school we would get groups together on the weekends and play a couple rounds for old-time's sake!
Pies. We all sat in the "oven"(usually porch stairs) and chose a specific pie flavor that "the baker" had to guess. The baker would always have to first ask if there were any pies in the oven and we pies would not answer, however, we would then start clapping our hands and the baker would say "I hear you pies clapping in the oven!!!". Then If your flavor were guessed you would jump up and run away and the baker would try to capture you and place you in "jail". If another kid was fast enough to elude the baker she could return to the oven and pick a new flavor. The pie could also run to jail and heroically release the captured pies! None of us knew where the game originated but it was really fun until a new kid moved next door and decided to be a chicken catchatori (sic) pie and we had never heard of such a thing.
NiaC56 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As children who were in the early drop off and after school program, my friends and I were at school for 12 hours a day and had to get pretty creative.
Two games we’d play after school were terrorist attack and survive the apocalypse.
I can’t really remember the rules of either (I’d their were any) but I remember rocks were grenades and sticks were guns and machetes. A lot of us got hurt and the college kids that were in charge put an end to terrorist attack.
Survive the apocalypse was pretty much us pretending the most of the population died in a nuclear war and we had to make live outside and try to start fires and try to kill what ever poor animal made its way near our playground.
They put an end to that game too.
But it was pretty fun
My sister and I called it "achoo" like the sneeze. We would get in the same bed and when we said "achoo" one of us would bump our butts into the others, getting more and more forceful, trying to push the other off the bed.
My grandparents lived in a log home and their junk drawer contained 2 perfectly organized containers of “junk” (bolts, washers, batteries, monopoly pieces, random small items) so me and my cousin would go to opposite ends of the house each with a junk container and we would hide the junk, places like between the gaps in the logs, on shelves, under the tv, and on my grandpa’s bald head, then we would try to find it. Most of the junk was lost forever I’m sure it’s still out there somewhere.
I made up a game when I was in first grade. It was called Capture. It was like freeze tag but there was some variation.
When you were tagged, you had to grab hold of the nearest pole on the jungle gym. You didnt have to stay frozen, just in contact with that pole until a teammate freed you from being captured. This way you could reach through the bars or down a floor level to get freed. Lots of running and jumping around the playground!
This game was super fun and everyone who played loved it, but then my teacher found out that I made a game and was not playing a safe/approved playground game and they said it was unsafe and we were not allowed to play it anymore.
Basically they said no running on the jungle gym in order to ruin about ten 6 year olds fun. Best 2 weeks of the year.
My best friend had this massive trampoline, so we got all the balls we could (rugby, football, tennis etc) and put them all on the trampoline. The aim if the game was to bounce all of the balls out of the trampoline and onto the grass. We would then proceed in 'levels' with more balls each time. We called this game "bowser" because of the mario-esque level progression.
I used to take words on packaging and signs and break them down into chunks of three. Not horrendously exciting perhaps, but I had some really rapid improvements in spelling following that.
My best friend and I "invented" extreme tic-tac-toe. It was basically a combination of tic-tac-toe and truth or dare where we made a giant 3x3 board out of branches in my back yard.
We thought it was lucky to play, so we'd play it before football games and important events. (We were both in marching band, lol.)
My brother and I played a game called cheese. One person would lay on their back w their feet up. The other person would stand over them w the layer’s feet on their chest/shoulders. The person standing/leaning on the feet would then say “cheeeeeeeeese!” while reaching out for the persons ears. the object was to touch the person laying down’s ears. The legs of the person laying down were usually strong enough to hold the other person at bay so it was all about getting the person laying down to laugh enough that they couldn’t hold them back anymore.
This game is called "Owens cock”. One day my friends and I were bored so we wanted to play a card game so I made one up on the spot. The first 2 cards have to be face cards to be the "nuts" the number cards are the "shaft" if you get a face card after the nuts it turns. If you get an ace your cock splits in 2. If your cock hits another one you are out. You win by having the longest cock or if everyone gets out. Also the if your name is Owen you automatically win. It’s called Owens coco because my name is Owen and I made all the rules on the spot.
When I was around 9 I played hide and seek with the bigger kids but when I went to count then look for them I could never find them, I later found out they just went home whenever I wanted to play with them by “hiding”
I remember this one time I spent 2 hours on the weekends
My friends and I would mash up different sports. So like street hockey, but with tennis rackets. Or basketball but you had to use a hockey stick to shoot.
Anyways, we'd usually play them for half an hour and then spend two hours typing out the rules on the computer.
Somehow I ended up way better at computers than sports...
soccer ball, a small group of kids. First person kicks the ball against the wall as hard as they can, at a bit of an angle. Next kid has to run after and kick it against the wall. If you miss the wall, you are out.
The wall at school was about 50 feet wide, we were on an asphalt surface so that ball could roll really far. Also, you could angle it to make it very hard to return the kick.
We'd also play it against a backstop, where you'd try to hit the end post (steel) part of the fencing and get a huge bounce (and/or a wicked angle).
Me and my cousins made a wrestling ring out of matresses, couches and other stuff and we use to fight all the time. The ''unique'' part was that we actually had belts, gimmicks, special moves, storylines, feuds etc. After we finished fighting for a day we would schedule the whole card for the next time we meet and, unlike wwe, it wasn't scripted. If you were too tired to continue or if your opponent hit a finisher you lost, unless it was a big match in which you could kick out of a finisher depending on how tired you were. We wouldn't hurt eachother with submission moves but if you had no way of getting out of it then you had to tap out. It was pretty fun, there were some minor injuries but it all went well. At one of my cousins house we didn't have the ring so we would fight on his parents bed insted, we could climb on top of the wardrobes which were pretty tall and jump towards the bed. We ended up breaking it lmao
I used to go to summer camp and we played quite a few unique games there.
One was called "Kiss Tag". It was basically freeze tag but in order to get un-frozen someone had to come and kiss you on the cheek.
There was another one called "Rambo" where all the counselors would cover their entire bodies in mud and hide in the woods guarding pieces of cloth. They were also armed with socks filled with mud. Every cabin was it's own team and we started at a central spot (acting as a home base) in the field outside the woods. The entire goal for the campers was to run into the rambo/counselor infested woods and try to grab as many cloth pieces for your team as possible then run back to home base and drop them off for your team. But, if a counselor was able to hit you with a mud sock, then you had to drop the cloth where you stood, and run back and touch home base before you could try again.
There was another one called Parlor Rugby which was one of my personal favorites! I miss those summers.
My (year younger) brother and I would play what we called “Continued”. We’d gather together virtually every toy with some kind of keyboard or tech-ish vibe, and button mash as we flew through space dealing with Star Trek-ish problems.
While the name implied things picked up where they left off last time, that as almost never the case. If it was dinner time mid-planetary catastrophe... eh there’ll be more planets I’m sure.
I think this is a mashup of kick the can and hide and seek?
We called it where's the wolf.
One person hides ( the wolf). Everyone else is closing eyes, counting to 50 at the base. Everyone then goes to find the wolf. Once found or if the wolf decided to try and catch you everyone ran back to base trying not to be eaten. Once eaten you also become a pack of the wolf. Last person not touched becomes the new wolf to restart the game.
A lot like volleyball but you punt the soccer or volley ball over the powerline which was over a ditch. You work as a team though, trying to punt it accurately to the other person without it bouncing and them catching it in the air. Running tally for both of your scores.
We used to play a game called cage. In our playground, one fence looked like the side of a cage, so we used that, and there were some lines on the ground that made a sort of square shape. The aim of the game, was to push everyone out of the square, or push someone up against the cage and hold them there for 3 seconds and shout cage. It was a lot of fun
My cousins and I called it "Green Eggs and Ham". One person would be the spinner and would, one-by-one, swing the others around in circles and then let go. The player had to stay in whatever position they landed in. The spinner would then go around and tell everyone what they're position looked like they were doing. Sometimes it was yoga, surfing, etc. Then the spinner would yell action and everyone had to act out what they were told they looked like. Then the spinner said "Betty bye time" and everyone would freeze, fall to the floor, and a new spinner would be selected based on who acted best.
Looking back it's pretty basic and bizarre, but it was a blast. I also taught all my elementary school friends to play and we had games of 20+ kids sometimes.
Tied one end of a rope to a metal post and the other end to a bicycle seat. We would take turns pedaling as fast as we could to see how far we could be tossed over the handlebars.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OKAY I'VE BEEN WAITING TO SHARE THIS STORY FOR SO LONG
So this wasn't me, but my stepbrothers. My stepmom was in her room on the phone with my dad, and my stepbrothers, who we'll call C and G, decided they were bored.
This is when they invented the game "Eat it or Wear it." It's exactly what it sounds like. They would find some crazy combination of food, such as fish sticks and maple syrup, and they had two options: the other person had to eat it or wear it. This game went on for several rounds before G burst into my stepmom's room and told her to record them playing Eat it or Wear it.
My sister and I had a matriarcal kingdom led by a Pikachu queen and her spouse Leevi the Lion. All the citizens were mainly plushies, ponies and barbies, but I think every other toy belonged to the kingdom as well. We had a court system, the queen wouuld read a book of law (written by me when I was 8) and would sentence other toys to prison. Every time we played together it was part of something bigger and we'd remember what had happened earlier to each of the toys. This establishment lasted for a year or two and then puberty hit me and suddenly I thought playing with my sister was stupid :(
My brother and I used to have a stuffed crash test dummy (height of a 10 yr old) in which you could take the arms, head and legs off. By the end of it we only had the head left. We would clear the living room floor and made our own hand hockey game in the living room. My net was one of the couches and his was the toy box. We played that game as much as possible and surprisingly never broke anything (as far as I remember).
Me and my sister used to play "salad shop" and "hay shop". Salad shop consisted of picking grass and every other weird green plant in the yard putting them in piles and using big leafs as plates for the "salads" and we would just sell these salads back and forth. No we never tried to eat said salads. Hay shop was only played after the grass had been mowed we would go get rakes and rake up all the grass that was cut and divide it into equal piles and if it was wet we sold wet hay if it had time to dry then we sold dry hay back and forth to each other.
I was in the car alot so I would look out the window and picture someone running along the road at the same speed of the car and wasn't allowed to look ahead, running to the rythym of a song in my head (usually something from fantasia, star wars or inuyasha) any time a sign came up they had to break the sign and I had specific ways each sign was broken, so a stopsign would be a kick or something and a yield would be a punch. If I got it right I'd get a streak going if I messed up it reset the count. I was a smart kid, good spatial memory and was really good with the piano.
My grandma got me a gameboy color sometime after that and my entire life has been downhill ever since
On road trips, different types of cars had different point values, and you played either to 200, or until you quit in anger.
Jeeps (specifically Wranglers) were 10
Suburbans (NOT TAHOES) were 5
All convertibles were 3 (top down was 5, but should have been more)
There were others too, which I don’t remember.
The holy grail was a Coke truck for 100 (really any soft drink branded semi- we live in Atlanta so everything is Coke).
The quitting in anger would come in over arguing who called the Coke truck first.
Me and my brother played this very aptly named game called "nightly ninjas" where we would throw bouncy balls as hard as we could off the wall of our unfinished basement and try to hit each other. We exclusively played during the day because we needed the sunlight but yes it did make us feel like ninjas.
We used to play “pendulum” where we would put one friend in the tire swing(hung horizontally), and then tape out a circle around it(like a sumo circle) and you would have to remain in the circle while trying to smash the tire swing, with the person in it, into other people to knock them out.
This was a large, real truck tire and many of us got mild concussions from this game. It was fun when you changed who was in the tire(they would just sit in the tire for weight), because smaller kids can get thrown around faster but larger kids hit with more force.
Submarine. Me and My little brother hade some huge cardboardbox we got from our dad that we used to draw on and cut open windows. We later put it in the backyard where we imagend it was a submarine where we went on trips underwater
My siblings and I used to turn off all the lights in the house and block out any sunlight from coming in. Then we’d split into teams and try to grab the ankles of someone on the other team. We called it the night game. Was fun until 3 of us rolled down the stairs with an umbrella and punched a hole in the wall at the bottom.
hoo_ts · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
booby-trapped-hide-and-seek under cover of darkness. we three boys shared a room.
I remember we put a whole tub of die-cast metal cars above the door jam so the lot fell on my brothers head when he came through - shit was seriously heavy. I don’t know how he was never concussed.
Ladder climb. Took a 14’ extension ladder, balanced it vertically and climbed as high as possible. After a few minutes of loud crashing, we realized we could move over from the concrete to the grass. Once you reached the top it would just fall over like a felled tree. Game was over when my buddy’s leg got caught in the rungs as he slammed the ground.
Take two plastic cups, leave one upright and lay the other one down, put your index finger on the rim with the bottom of the cup pointing to the upright one, push it down and release, trying to make it land inside/on top of the other one when it bounces
I grew up in Buffalo and there wasn’t a lot to do in the winter besides sledding and building snow forts. Wherever we were hanging out (at each other’s houses.) we usually got sentenced to time in the basement because that’s how you handle middle school aged boys invading your home. My friend invented a game called “Take it to the Body”. The game consisted of someone standing on their knees at one end of the basement while the rest of your friends also stood on their knees about 12 feet away with those blue rubber racket balls. You had to take a shot from everyone on the line, to your body, without flinching to get off the line and give someone else a try. Nothing was off limits, face, balls, chest, you wanted to hurt your friend, and they wanted to survive to hurt you.
Usually played in the middle of the night. The game starts with 3-5 people (gatherers) on one team in the safe house. The other 1-2 people (hunters) on the other team have a plastic bat each which are used to beat the living shit out of the gatherers if they don’t run.
While the gatherers wait in the safehouse the hunters need to place a ball anywhere they want in the play area but they also must shine a flashlight onto the ball. Both the light and the ball can be anywhere but the light must be pointing in the direction of the ball so it can be found.
Once the ball and light are set. The hunters bang on the safehouse to let the gatherers know they have 60 seconds before they can exit (usually giggling and scared shitless) while the hunters hide and wait.
The gatherers must then search for the flashlight which leads to the ball, once they get the ball back to the safehouse the game is over and the roles rotate.
The ball and light are usually placed strategically for maximum shit kicking. If you can’t escape the shitkicking you can call mercy but you have to return to the safehouse to “reset”.
Play pretend: My friend lived in a house that had dual cellar/basement heavy doors with a plot of cement in between the doors. (I think it was seperate families that had seperate basements) Well, we used to bring all of our functional car-like toys and make a makeshift spaceship inbetween the cellar doors by just sitting on that slab of cement, 3 of us in a row.
We brought chairs that we took the legs off of so it was just the cushion and backs of the seats,
That red and black handheld driving video game from the 80's with the projector screen that showed just a street and the gear shift and steering wheel, that was the ship's radar and steering wheel.
Joysticks from my Atari were used so the backseat drivers can fire the ship's missles.
We would wear sheets as capes and dress up like we were off on a space adventure.
Water guns were our handheld pistols, just in case aliens boarded the ship.
We would sit and do this for hours all the while yelling laser noises and fighting imaginary aliens trying to board our basement door ship!
deeiks · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sure it's not super original but during a family roadtrip when I was really young, I came up with a game I called Ham. The idea of Ham was to say words and have someone else repeat them back to you as quickly as possible. However, if you say "ham" they should not respond. I don't know why the word was ham and I was young enough to barely remember coming up with it. I do remember all the subsequent road trips where this game became a staple within our family.
We didn't really have a name for it, but it was hide and seek/tag in a cluttered ass basement with tons of bottlenecks where you couldn't move without making noise. The seeker had a winter hat over his eyes so they could only see down to their feet to prevent tripping over stuff.
As the game evolved, people would throw pennies to cause a distraction if they were close to being caught.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take the lids of Pringle’s and toss a random item and see how long it basically took to hit item or get in vicinity of item. Shit got crazy when we combined “floor is lava mode with it” because touching lava means you have to start from square one. This game sometimes went on for hours because well..if the floor is lava lol
To follow up we played a game of baseball with a basketball with kick ball rules meaning you hit the basketball with a baseball you could catch it to get out or get tagged with it while running around whatever we designated as bases.
There was also monkey bar basketball where each bar had a designated point system jumpshots were 10 points dunks 5..we were poor and unsupervised best of all every sport game we made allowed for tackles and or wrestling moves on any player in scoring position
Hick hockey. We took croquet mallets and a kids size soccer ball and played hockey with them. It was basically just field hockey, but completely no holds barred, all hitting allowed(checking and/or swinging mallets at people). It was the source of many, many childhood fights. We eventually were banned from playing when we ruined our third set of croquet mallets.
Me, my brother, and my cousin would play "Mojo and Spot". Two would pretend to be dogs, and then the other would be the owner. I don't remember anything beyond this, apparently it was fun though cause we would play it all the time.
I also got one of my teeth ripped out by playing this game. I was the dog and I had a jump rope in my mouth when my brother pulled on it hard. Thankfully it was just a baby tooth, but it was Easter and there were no dentists working. It was pulled down into my gums. It was gross.
For some reason we had like 12 unused (clean) bed mattresses. We played this game where I was in a room and designed a maze with the mattresses, once done I'd turn off app the lights so it was pitch black. Normally we had 3 to 5 people over and they would go through the maze. I often opened doors and made it much much longer by sliding the mats around. During all this I would terrorize the people in the maze by throwing pillows and crushing others between the mats.
Back when I was like 10/11, my friend had 2 of those plastic plahouses in his backyard. We had them put on opposite sides and basically played dodgeball using those as a base and also as a target. You had to defend the playhouses from getting hit, and you could throw or kick whatever balls we were using to attack.
It's a pretty basic game, but I always remember it because, for some reason, we called it 'The Santa Clause Game'. I have no idea why we called it that, but it's stuck with me forever.
My whole primary school used to play Celts and Romans. Basically Cops and robbers but slightly more advanced. The Celts would be making huts and pretending to cook stews etc. The Romans would be making weapons and stamping about. Then we'd all have a big fight.
You know sport games like skateboarding, SSX,gives points for tricks that you do?
My friend and I used to jump around doing tricks like that (grab your feet midair, stalling on rocks, etc). Nothing ever fancy cuz we were like 10. But we developed this elaborate point system and would have competitions.
When the board game Don't Wake Daddy came out we invented a live action version of it.....sorta.
"daddy" would stand on one side of the yard and the "kids" on the other side. Kids would scream "don't wake daddy" as loudly as possible and then had to avoid getting tagged by daddy before reaching the other side. Last person tagged was daddy next round
Game fell apart after a few plays when the obvious strat of getting caught early to not be daddy was figured out.
With tweaking it could have worked. We were always trying to innovate but we were too prone to disagreements about rules. I don't think we ever finished a game of kickball.
Pool kickball. The kicker would have to kick the ball over the fence to be in play, the runner would have to retrieve the ball and tag the kicker before they ran to the diving board and swam to the other side of the pool. Good times.
Don't think it's too unique but in our town. All of us played "asses up" or better known as "butts up". Basically a sadistic variation of wall ball that punishes the player by forcing them to face the wall and get pegged with the ball. Definitely left some bruises.
We used to play a game where 6 people would all put their hands into a bag and pick 1 pence coins, 4 would be before the year 2000 and 2 above the year 2000. If you were pre 2k you were a "guard" and if you were post 2k you were a "tagger".
The aim was for the "taggers" to put a small sticker of a colour assigned to them on each landmark across the village, normally we would choose 6 lamposts evenly spread across the village, within 1 hour.
It sounds really simple but nobody knew who was assigned to what team so it created some really tense interactions with a lot of mind games. If a guard was to assume someone was a tagger they could tag them and exclaim they've been caught, if they were correct then that team loses unless the player unless the other tagger could tag them back into play, if they were incorrect they were to be assigned a forfeit at the end of the game which were really bad (as to discourage random guessing).
Stickers weren't allowed to be removed by the guards so once a tag had occurred then you had to try and figure out who was guarding the landmark and see if you could track them down, stalk them and see them put a sticker on to confirm they were a tagger. We even incorporated the use of telephones down the line, so you could ring a person and ask where they were to try and rendezvous at a point where you've caught a tagger but instead you were a tagger trying to get them to move from the landmark.
It got really complex but it was so fun to play for hours, we even set up our own highscores to try and beat each others times.
A variation on trampoline basketball. 3 teams of 2. 2 teams on the ground trying to score on the hoop that's against the trampoline. The one team on the trampoline is hitting them with continuous and ultimate rejection. Whichever team scores gets to be on the trampoline. It was always a party.
My siblings and I would get in sleeping bags and slide down the stairs. We decided one day to do it with a rocking horse and put a hole in the wall. Sorry, mom.
My brother and I would throw an orange down a mountain while skiing and then chase the “golden snitch.” The winner got a nice frozen citrus treat and the loser ate snow.
My brother and I loved watching Popeye growing up (early 90s)
My dad, brother, and I would play a variation hide and seek. One person was it and and the other 2 would hide. The “IT” person would guard a bowl of spinach. The object was to take a bite of spinach (we used canned like popeye) from the bowl without getting touched it. The person who gets a bite or who gets touched ends the round. If you are touched, you are it; if you failed to get a bite, you are it.
We lived in a relatively small home so all the hiding spots were easily known. But the fun came from trying to get you opponent discovered to act as a distraction while you snuck around to get a bite. We would burn through 2 or 3 cans before one of us decided we had enough.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We put fertilizer and sugar in old steel cans and set fire to it. Then run like crazy.
We used a pencil and paper to draw army vs army. Then we'd press the pencil tip on our units, press down on the eraser, causing the pencil to flick across the paper drawing a straight line "firing" at the other side. We'd go back and forth or until 10 hits were scored on the HQ.
Not a child per se, but in high school I worked at a car wash. In the lobby was a gumball machine that dispensed super bouncy balls. When the wash was slow (no cars coming through), me and other employees, usually 4-5 of us, would sit in the break room and play what we called Bounce.
We would close the door the the breakroom (a small-ish room, about 8'x8'), each sit in a chair, and one player would take a bouncy ball and bounce it against the floor as hard as they could at an angle. It would bounce around the room and whichever player it hit first would be out, and had to leave the breakroom and close the door behind them. Then the next player would throw the ball.
Eventually, it would be down to two players, and whoever was left in the room last got to stay in the breakroom for an extra 15 mins while the other employees covered for him/her.
It was a great time-waster and helped us bond. I made some great friends there.
We had a spark rock club... we stole our parents hammers, sledge and otherwise, climbed big hills and smashed rocks to see who could make the biggest sparks. There was some "purpose" like we were making an energy source or whatnot but I can't remember some 25 years later. Kids are weird man.
We played Russian immigrants. I was the mom and a seamstress. My friend was my teenage daughter, and her little brother was my young son. We would forage for food and "cook" on our stone stove. There was a row of pine trees that acted as the main street in our pretend city. We were always trying to make ends meet. It was pretty involved.
i don't know if kids still play this, but I remember I used to love playing tag on the parallel bars. That was soooo much fun and would usually be the culprit for us getting an earful from the teacher when we were late to getting back to class on time after recess
My neighbor used to have this trap door under her bedroom that led into this tiny cave room thing. We would hide in there and pretend we were living in a sewer. She was my ketchup addicted baby and i would have to run into the living room and jump over her older brother while he was playing video games on the floor to get ketchup packets for her. He would snatch me whenever i tried and throw me back on the floor and then i would have to keep trying til i got the ketchup to bring back to her
In elementary school, my best friend and I were both obsessed with horses. So, of course, the most common game we played was "horses." We had entire stables full of imaginary horses that we would "ride" around the playground at recess (basically just holding our hands out like we had reins and galloping on two legs instead of four). Sometimes we would be horses instead, and her little sister would give us commands like "trot" or "gallop" as we scurried around her living room on all fours.
Me. Alligator, it was me and my sister on the playground and my dad would have to try and tag us through the playground (we were high up and he was on the ground) and it was like tag but he was always “it” because he was to big and old to maneuver the playground with us.
Fatman and Blobbin. My brother was Fatman and I was Blobbin. We would stuff pillows up our shirts and act out our favorite Batman scenes (it was the 90s so this was Michael Keaton's Batman). Except, you know, we were both too fat to move properly. We made ourselves a "Batmobile" out of pillows and blankets. Good times.
Blindfold tag. Get in a messy bedroom, close all the doors, black out the windows with blankets, then blindfold one person. The rest of the kids hide around the room, and the blindfolded person has to stumble about the room trying to find someone. The person found now gets the blindfold, then the process starts over. It's a game of skill and stealth.
I used to sing the jeopardy song in my head and then rap over it. The longer the rap, the better the score I would give myself. Don't know how i rated it back then when i was like 10 years old, but somehow i had an ongoing jeopardy rap battle with myself.
Basically a game with 2 teams. Ones a runner and the other is the chaser. The runner team thinks of a word relating to how many are on that team. If there's 4 people, then a 4 letter word would be cool. The chasers waits a minute or 2 before looking for the runners. If the chasers find you, then they beat the shit out of you until you give them the letter. Once they get the word, they win. It was my favourite game as kid.
“Mad Tree” basically Tag/Marco polo but it’d be late at night in the dark with all the lights off in the house and my brother would wear a sleeping bag over his body and pretend to be an angry old tree that’d be disturbed from his sleep. Once he’d find you he’d attack you and eat you by putting you in the sleeping bag.
S5C3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Buns N Thighs" (named after spongebob episode) was essentially hide n seek tag, but it was Buns N Thighs.
Murder in the dark. Our group was nicknamed the "Cwm Lane crew" and basically consisted of 4 families whose children all matched with age.so my oldest sister's best friend was the oldest of another family, and mu middle sister had three besties and I had two. Anyway our families would always do a meet up where us children would inevitably get bored.
Wed sneak off away from the adults to play murder in the dark - for the uninitiated its like blind man's buff where you blindfold someone and spin them in a circle. They have to catch everybody us and the first to be caught because It. Anyway, we turned all the lights off and frequently armed ourselves with pillows to throw at It as well as climb on furniture. It was banned when a bookcase fell over with somebody stood onto and underneath it and when somebody lost her tooth permanently in a separate incident.
After that we turned to "clubbing" where all 13 of us decided to climb o to the oldest girls bed and all jump up and down whilst "Everytime we touch" played. That bed broke into two unsurprisingly and the ceiling was later reported by the irate parents to have been shaking.
Good times!
We played a game called "lava monster" in elementary school. We had a brand new and really big (compared to the others) play-structure since the school had just placed down new temporary buildings. It was when someone was "it" (being the lava monster) would try to tag someone from the bottom of the structure. The structure went up like 5 feet so the people below would try to reach from the bottom to tag someome above. Whoever got tagged had to help the other "lava monsters" get everyone on the structure. You werent allowed to touch the ground. The "brave" but scary thing to do was go across this thin bridge (it was like 2 horizontal bars, 1 to step on to go across, and the other to hold onto. It was also filled with vertical things to show where to step) you would go across that the tagged person could easily get you at.
Russia, circa 1990. You and a friend, or up to 4 friends. One knife. Draw a circle in some hard packed mud/dirt roughly 6-8’ in diameter. If two people, divide circle in 2 halves. First person goes. While standing, in your half of the circle, throw the knife into your opponents part of circle. Has to land blade in ground. Then, you draw a line, based on the angle the knife went in, to the outside of circle and to where it touches the original line that y’all drew when dividing the circle. Erase the portion of the dividing line, and now that is part of your land. I’d draw a pic to make more sense but the game is awesome. You have to be able to stand on your land to throw knife. You win when your opponents have no more land to stand on when throwing knife. Also, the outer circumference of the circle acts as your “sun”. So if your opponent has cut away all your land that touches the outer part of circle, you now have to throw blind. I’m on mobile so if anyone wants I can draw a picture. We played this for hours on end, small kids and grown kids.
The Yesterday Game!! (Because we never played it quite the same way as we had yesterday.) The core group consisted of me, my sister, and five of our friends and their siblings. We all chose a fictional character to be. At least one of us had to be someone from Harry Potter so Voldemort could open “the portal” and rip us all out of our universes and have us converge in the real world. Then we’d run around the playground and try to figure out where we were and how to get back to our own universes. Usually, we got so caught up in side quests and fighting lower-level monsters that we never actually got to fight Voldemort, but it was a ton of fun nonetheless.
We would use a koosh ball, which was essentially a rubber ball that looked like a sea urchin, and basically play softball but with a ping pong paddle instead. We would play this in the basement and would put down pillows all over the floor as bases. You could peg the ball at the person running and there were a million different rules but it was a great game
My sister and our cousins/friends would play Teddy Bear Wars. We split in two teams, got on opposite ends of the room, turned off the lights, and threw stuffed animals as hard as we possible could at each other. Eventually we started upgrading to harder toys and a strobe light.
Turns out my husband played a very similar game with his brothers and cousins when he was young. It involved a strobe light and action figures which then eventually upgraded to pennies. The walls in the old play area in their mother's house are covered with little dents from the pennies. And they still refer to "The Great Penny War of '03"
You start off with a tennis ball, anywhere between 3 - 10 players (I was in elementary school when we played it), and an open area on the side of a big building. So the way the game worked was, you would throw the tennis ball at the wall as hard as you could (usually about 10-20 ft away from the wall was standard), and when it bounced back someone would have to catch it. (It didn't matter who.) If you caught it, you would then throw it at the wall again and repeat. If the ball touched you, however, or you dropped it, you would have to run to the wall and touch it to stop being "tagged" by the ball. However, during this time, you were open to be punched the entire way to the wall by anybody playing, and also to have the tennis ball thrown at you as hard as possible. Lots of good memories with this game, next to several black eyes and bruises. (And I think a kid lost a tooth once.)
This was actually when we were in middle school, but my best friend had these super tiny NBA jersey replicas. There was a wooded area behind his house where we would have teams and hide the jerseys and try to find the other teams before they found ours. Amazing how that kept us busy for days until I think they got lost or we got bored.
We would shoot an arrow into the woods and the first one to bring it back to where we shot it from won. Lots of running and tackling. Always a good time
close friend lives in a vhs rental and they have tons of empty containers. we use them all like building blocks and play inside the buildings amd then proceed to use them like giant dominoes.
We called it “the Dark Game.” We would turn off all the lights in the basement and all of us would hide except 1-2 would close their eyes and wait on the stairs. When they were done counting they had to search for the other kids to tag them as “out.”
Meanwhile, all the kids hiding would have to try to make it to the stairs as “winners.” Depending on how skilled the tagger was you either booked it, or strategized your path to the safe haven.
This led to a lot of kids tripping, head on collisions and running face first into the support beams, but man did we love it. Sometimes the parents would open the door for a quick second and the light would illuminate the dangers before you, as you clambered to escape The Descent.
My brother and I would take a deck of cards and sit about 8 feet apart from each other and throw cards. The other person would try to catch them with only the index finger and thumb.
My brother Matt had this final fantasy strategy guide, and in it they had like a huge bestiary of monsters with beautiful artwork and little descriptions of its combat capabilities. So my brother Sam would sneak out the book and we would go into the field and make elaborate stories of revenge and adventure. Our final boss would always be a monster from the book. There was a single tree in the field that we would pretend was the monster and we would hit it with sticks and stones. Sam would climb it sometimes and attack its "weak spot" or the branches. I liked being a healer so i just would shout nice things like, "Thank you!" or "Please!" and that would heal him.
Its no wonder Sam is a DM now, he was practically born for this stuff.
WesDan · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so unique, as I've recently found out, but my sister and I used to play Warriors with our cousins whenever we would get together. We were never characters from the books. We made our own characters and always had a medicine cat, an apprentice or two, and so on. We would "hunt" and bring back "prey" (stuffed animals), collect herbs for healing (maim the landscaping in their yard) and infight for power and rank. If we had more people, I'm sure we would've had two separate clans and battled it out for dominance.
My brother and I played “return anything”. A game we made up where we would throw “anything” at each other in rapid succession. (Pillow, sock, alarm clock, CDs, trophy’s,etc) (anything typically found in a kid’s room)
The objective was to catch the item and quickly throw it back, and before they could catch the first object chuck a new object at them while shouting “return anything!” They now had to return both objects while trying to add another object. When the action sped up it was ok to not add any more objects but you lost if you let anything fall.
The circle game. My family just used it to mess with each other.
For those that don't know what it is. It's the upside down ok sign you see on the internet a lot. My family has the rule where it has to be below the waist though.
My friends and I played Wall Ball, which was basically us throwing a tennis ball at the side of our houses. If you dropped the ball you had to run and touch the wall before the other player could hit the wall with the ball. After 3 "outs" the loser had to bend over by the wall and we would throw the tennis balls as hard as we could at them.
Goats and raptors. Grandma's porch was always the "safe" pen, and it was essentially a game of tag/hide-and-seek between all the goats (tagees) and the raptor (tagger). It's literally been probably 20+ years since we played it, so I'm not sure what all the rules were.
My sister and I played “iced tea” where you would stand up, point your arms straight out (like a t-pose), and spin in a circle. I asked her why it was called iced tea, and she said called that because we were mimicking what it is like to be the spoon mixing water and iced tea mix. Very interesting.
There was also “chicken nugget” , where she would jump on my brother and start attacking him.
Oh and there was also “Aquarium” where sometimes when I would go in her room she would shut the door and say I couldn’t leave until I looked at the “aquarium” , which was her stuffed fish plush.
Edit - lastly we would play “concoction” where we would plug the drain in the sink and just dump in a bunch of stuff we would find in the bathroom cabinet. Shampoo, tooth paste, mouth wash, nail polish remover, you name it.
We had a game called "Ten" where you played at 10 o'clock at night with a bunch of friends and a air-soft gun pistol. One person was it, and everyone else had 10 seconds to run out of the garage and as far away as possible. The objective of the game was to not get shot and if you did you were out.
This lead me breaking through a small tree my neighbors had just put up trying not to get shot!
My mom was a teacher and we’d end up bored after hours while she did stuff. My brother and I would wheel a computer chair into the hallway. One kid would sit in the chair and the other would spin the chair as violently as they could and whip in into the lockers. If you panicked, got hurt, or fell out of the chair, you lost.
Light tag! We had multicolored Christmas lights strung horizontally across the front of the house. We would all crouch down in the ditch (parallel to the lights) except for the chosen 'It' and each runner had an assigned color. 'It' would count down from 3 and say 'Go!' And everyone would make a mad dash for the right color Christmas light while trying not to get tagged. If you made it to your light, you were safe until the next round. We played this game year-round...
I used to play a hotel game with all my action figures. But instead of a hotel, it was a blanket for my bed. I would toss the blanket and it would make these various folds - the folds represented a hotel room and the larger the fold the more expensive the room.
I would craft storylines for all the toys coming in, role-playing a bit for each interaction. Sometimes people would even get banned and kicked out.
By the time we told ourselves we "outgrew" all our action figures, we decided it was time to finish them. We setup a huge outdoor area with TMNT, GI Joes, etc and basically had a war. Lighter fluid, bottle rockets, rocks from 6ft away, etc. We probably destroyed what would be worth thousands of dollars now, but at the time we told ourselves they were toys for "little kids" (we were probably 14ish). Looking back makes me so sad, we spent probably a whole summer destroying various toys.
"Blanket Ball". My little brothers and I would each get our favorite blankets, wrap it around ourselves and crouch on the ground in a "ball", and then try to roll over on top of each other in a big battle royal.
There weren't really and rules other than you can't come out of the blanket, but we played it all the time!
"Timber", where my brothers and i would stack every pillow in the house on the couch, climb on top of our tower, and tip over shouting, you guessed it, TIMBER. Sometimes one of us would be sandwiched in the mountain.
Half rubber. Basically 3-player stickball with a grocery store rubber ball cut in half. Hours and days on end. Hit that ball hard and it gets on plane and it might sail over the neighbors house.
Bottle game. We would take bottles from the garbage at our high school and chuck them at each other's heads. My best friend was a Tom boy at the time and I once had to awkwardly explain the bruise on her forehead when we got back to my parents. We also had Net game, where we would play tag in a batting net and the person who was it had to keep their eyes closed. The last game we had when we were younger involved us hiding in a dark room and having someone come in blindfolded to find us. We could jump over each other, run, etc, just couldn't get tagged.
We played stuntman by rolling off the roof of our mobile home (accessed via the big tree) onto my dad's foam camp mattresses. We only played this when my parents weren't home. If they caught us up on the roof, there would have been hell to pay!
We also pretended we were KISS. Buckets for drum set. guitars made out of old wood boards. The picnic table was our stage. Eventually we became our own band, Satellite. Unfortunately, lacking both instruments and musical talent (and the fact that we were 11), we didn't get far!
I used to have hundreds and hundreds of pokemon cards. I would set every single one up, one after the other in a huge maze around the house weaving in and out of rooms, going upstairs etc. Then we'd have a 100 sided die and each card was a tile. The goal was to get your game piece to the end. It was a completely straight line with no choices and nothing happened in the game except rolling the die and moving your pieces. Looking back it probably wasn't a very fun game for my parents but I loved it.
Trippin’ Turtles, one person (the turtle) is in all fours in an enclosed space. Everyone else is standing trying to get away from the turtle and if you get tripped down, you’re a turtle too! Last one standing wins and is the turtle next round.
I’m sure you may have heard of this one, we used to play kick the can in the woods at night. Basically, everyone hides except for one person who is the seeker. They have to go and search for everybody hiding. If someone got caught they would go to “jail” and have to sit and wait until every one was found. The kick the can then comes into play, if the seeker is out and about then someone hiding can run up and kick the can and then everyone gets out of jail or the game ends. Depending on different rules or whatever.
Game I came up with in elementary school after I read too many cold war tactical manuals for SF and antiterrorism groups (not that I knew what half of those words were back then). Called it "Cops, Terrorists, Hostages".
My friends, brothers, and I would split up into two even teams - cops and terrorists. If we played in odd numbers, we'd have the leftovers be hostages. Usually we split up into teams of 3:3:1, sometimes 4:4:2, etc.
I had a fenced in backyard and a single gate leading into it. The terrorists would take the hostages into the backyard, hide them around it, and take up defensive positions. The cop team would try to get in and kill/arrest the terrorists and extract the hostages without killing the hostages. Hostages could attempt to smuggle weapons into the backyard and could either turn on the terrorists or the cops, whichever side they wanted.
Terrorists had 15 seconds between cop entry and when they could start executing hostages. Cops could attempt to negotiate, which led to fun chases around the neighborhood as the terrorists would try to escape.
There wasn't much else to it, throw in some nerf guns, fake handcuffs, and some kid sized tactical gear and you have a good time. To this day, any time one of us is home and hosts a party, we'll play a variant of it lol
My sister and I would put unique twists on existing trampoline games. For example, most kids would play "poison ball" where you jump around with a soccer ball and lose lives if you touch it. For us, this got boring so we would switch the ball out for a large rock about half the size of a soccer ball. It definitely made things more interesting!
Eventually we got bored of that too and had to make things even more interesting. We had about 5 acres of empty land behind the house and it used to be riddled with Gartner snakes. They were easy to catch and didn't bite so we filled a 5 gallon bucket full of them and dumped them on the trampoline. We then proceeded to play "poison snake" lol.
We didn't know this at the time, but my mom has an extreme phobia of snakes. Years later, when that situation was brought up, she told me that she had locked herself in the basement and cried until it was over. Our poor mother! We definitely weren't bad kids, we just didn't know about her phobia!
Me and a friend used to play this f1 game on ps1 and used cheats to get tanks and blasted each for hours or used shooting to boost us but never finish the full circuit to keep playing
Trash People. My sister and I had our own rooms that were pretty messy and so we would cover ourselves in our toys kinda like the weird old lady in the movie Labyrinth and barter with each other. "ill trade you this shoe for that sock." etc.. we were weird kids...photo for reference.
I picked up a gamecube game at costco for like $20 in the mid 2000's. I'm blanking on the name of this game it was so obscure. I just searched on a list of all NA released GC games, and I couldn't find the damn thing. The cover had a Dr. Seuess looking character with spikey brown hair running, eyes looking up at the title of the game. I remember that vividly. I was 10, thought the cover art looked cool and thought I had found the next big game. Turns out the game was the biggest piece of shit, it didn't even function. A unique experience I had purchasing a terrible, broken game before they were readily available on Steam.
"WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WORM!" We'd get into sleeping bags in the living room, zip them as closed as possible, and inch around the living room trying to ram into each other like Spyro did with sheep while yelling "wiggle wiggle wiggle worm".
Another game didn't have a name, but two siblings would lay on the couch with the the soles of their feet together and start chugging their feet back and forth together going "chug, chug, chug" faster and faster until..."CHUGCHUGCHUGCHUG BREAKDDOOWWWNNN!!" and then the siblings would try to kick the other one as hard as possible before the other kicked them. My brother stopped playing the train game pretty quickly, it hurt him a bit more than it did the girls. Payback, Adam.
My neighbor and I would play a game we called “Scooter Ball.” It is essentially soccer but while riding a razer scooter and our driveways were the goals. Good times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "running bases" which was a modified version of "tag" with baseball. You set two bases apart from each other at a predetermined distance. You place a baseman on each base (complete with glove) and throw a ball back and forth. Players have to try to run back and forth without being tagged "out"
I wouldn't call the game generally unique, but it had some unique features that made me love it.
WarRock. It is a FPS that is heavily focused on rushing and aimoutplay. For the longest time WarRock really came down to the fact if you could do some key mechanics, bunnyjumping. It made the flow of the game much more competitive as you always had to counter a rushing bunnyjumper by using ingame sound to wrap around and flank their engage or fight them head to head.
I think the game these days have died a lot, it became a lot more invested in skins and premium due to the veteran playerbase that just can't seem to stop playing the game, theres really nothing like it's fast phase gameplay on the market. It used to have a lot of errors in the game engine due to CPU speed, making the game run "faster" if you turned your coremultiplier up.
When I was in year 9 me and my friends used to walk a mile or so every night to this one random field next to a canal that had bushes and trees around it and play a game called manhunt, basically just a cross between hide-and-seek and tag, one person would be “it” and count, everyone else would hide, if you got found it began a huge chase of trying to catch the person who was hiding
Vampires at Midnight. Two kids would like down on the small slide and count to 12 o'clock, while the rest of us had to lie down in the wood chips until they said 12. We would have to get up and run as fast as we could outside of the wood chips area. The vampires would jump on you and hold you down, and the only way to escape was to throw them off. I actually managed to throw one kid off of me and he immediately said, "I'M TELLING!" Fuck you Tim you little snitch.
My sister and I called it “War.” We set up toys on bins or tables in front of us and stood maybe 5 feet across from each other. The goal was to throw stuff at the other person’s “fort” and knock off their “soldiers.” We used badminton rackets as face shields.
We also played a game in the car where when a bridge was coming up you had to duck or your head got cut off and you lost. We also tried a rule where if you went over a bridge you had to lift yourself up off the seat but that didn’t stick as well.
I know we also had a bunch of other weird games, and memorably an ongoing, intricate play story with Bratz and the children from the Barbie Nutcracker set which involved the children and their parents getting in a horrible carriage accident that left the children orphaned, with the Bratz then having to adopt them...I definitely wish I had some video of us playing because we did some weird stuff. I think I lost all my creativity at age 12. :/
A little late but back when my dad lived in a farm we would have huge crab apple fights. If you don’t know what a crab apple is it’s basically a really small apple that’s super sweet/sour. we had a few trees and hundreds of apples. My brother and his friends would go against me and my friends (about 7 on each team) across a yard about 300 metres long with a light amount of trees. Since we were young they stung like a motherfucker but tons of fun. Also cake fights were pretty lit for a 8 year olds birthday.
Do not remember why we called it that, but it went like this: I would be in the center of the trampoline, jumping. Other people (usually my mom's day care kids) would be closer to the edge of the trampoline. And at random, I would jump towards them to try and.. tag them I think? Or maybe just collide with them? At any rate, looking back, it sounds very dangerous. The game made perfect sense at the time, but now...
Ants on a stick. Put a stick in an ant hill and then run and throw it in the creek (about 100 or 200 ft away) before they climb up the stick and bite your hand.
Bang Bang Wars. My brother and his group of guy friends, who all lived within a 5 block radius, created a game that was essentially laser tag but the guns were their fingers and the whole neighborhood was their play ground. I don't exactly remember the rules of the game and why it was so fun, but as the younger sister I was so excited when my big bro let me play.
Tremors. It was a game of tag where all the lawn furniture was safe and the goal was to get to the patio because it was made of concrete and tremors can't go through concrete, based on that one scene in the movie.
We used to practice Bear Alerts on my grandparents farm. Keep in mind that at the time seeing a black bear in the area was extremely rare. The gist of the game was while we were out in the woods playing, if someone screamed “Bear alert!” we’d all take off running down hill toward the house and the last one there was “dead”. The difficulty came in having to dive under multiple barbed wire fences at full speed. The “dead” were usually stuck under a fence with their shirt hooked or something.
We played a game dubbed 'Jéan Cleau' (titled for no reason) from grades 4-9.
To game is basically hacky sack but the ball is a crumpled up piece of paper and you use hands to keep it up mostly. To score simply shout "Jéan Cleau!" and spike the ball at your friends face parts.
Stupid and addictive. I heard it was passed down for a couple years after us too
I grew up in the middle of the woods so a lot of our games were pure imagination. My oldest sister would spend ALL DAY raking and drawing “roads” into the dirt driveway and dirt road. And then the next day we would all get up early and ride our bikes around the little town.
The best part was when the car was in the driveway, she’d draw a little drive-thru around the parked car and we’d “order food” from the passenger side and “pick up” on the drivers side.
I played "the gambler"... we'd play poker in the basement (using my stepdad's chips & cards set) then middle of the game someone would 'cheat' and someone would 'accuse them' (point a cap gun at them) then all hell broke loose, we ran outside and jumped on our ponies and chased each other shooting cap guns at each other.
Our entire cul-de-sac would often play "witch". This happened after dark. We were bordered by deep woods... someone went way deep into the forest to hide. The rest of us would go looking. It was pretty cool except for the witch hunt overtones... I was like 12 I think. There were kids as old as 16; I am pretty sure they split off to smoke weed lol
Lived in an old farmhouse that had a rundown barn. My 3 siblings and I made it into a "Narnia" and jumped around on haybales running from all the bad creatures.
There was also a field behind the house. We would drag chairs, tea pots, toys, etc. out into the field and play maze/house in the field... Until my grandpa brought the tractor out. Then we had to race into the field and grab all our stuff before he ran it over and made it into more haybales.
We didn't have a name for it but my brother and I would take our army men and line them up across from each other, and take turns with an orko that you put a stick into and pulled and he moved. He would then knock down the army men and whoever had the last army man standing won.
We used to play "Ice Climbers" on the playground. I think the movie "Cliffhanger" had recently come out and probably was large inspiration.
We'd pretend to be climbing mountains (i.e. playground equipment) using ropes, grappling hooks etc. (all imaginary). Occasionally, a bad guy would show up and we'd have to chuck our grappling hooks at him to kill him before he could shoot us or knock us off the mountain.
Curb. the curbs in our neighborhood were angled and the games objective was to shoot the basketball, or any round ball, to the curb across the street. the ball had to hit the curb and come back toward you to be given a point. for added difficulty, or more points, you could scoot back from your curb. to win the game, no matter the score, you shot it over a car that was passing by.
Uh my uncle and his brothers played shotgun tag... they would be in a barn and load low grain birdshot and establish a minimum distance as to not kill each other. The one brother said “ya we were picking pellets out of our asscheeks for weeks”
I'm 16 and theres this one that my youth group plays called "Man hunt" it usually requires at least 50 or so people and needs to be pre arranged. Basically we set up a 5-10 mile stretch of town with 15 seekers and the rest are runners. The objective of the seekers is to track down the runners (keep in mind the seekers are in cars) and the runners is to reach from the start to the finish with the seekers starting about a mile in front of the runners. Also, if you are to set up a "Man hunt" game, go somewhere with low traffic and/or get permission from your city council to set up signs making others aware that a game of Man hunt is happening and to go slower through the area (keep in mind about 90% of our games are at night so I wouldn't call it the safest)
My grandmother and I would play hockey in the kitchen with toy sticks and a plastic puck. Under the chairs was my goal and the doorway was my grandmothers. I would wear my slippers and slide around on the linoleum and pretend it was ice.
I also used to have a make believe barn in the backyard and paraded rainbow colored animals to my grandmother while she sat on the swing set and rated them
it's basically tag but the person that's "it" has to walk/run like a mummy (never happened). To start you have to open the sarcophagus of the person that's it. From then on we just ran around the room doing parkour, as the game devolved to tag.
Raquetball or Tennis ball. You throw the ball hard and people try and catch it on the return. If you drop it, you have to run and touch the wall before someone picks it up and nails you with it.
Whenever your car crosses a shadow you have to clench your teeth.
523KXP · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the hunger games books got popular in my elementary school, during recess, we would play a form of tag where everyone can tag anyone, and as long as your hand touched them first, they were out; you were still in. It was fun while it lasted; it was banned from the school because we took it too far. Had a few fights over the game, and one student fell out of the top of a pine tree and ripped her arm open in a gory display.
It was basically tag played after dark. One person or team would go into the (unlit) back yard and hide ("hider"). The other person or team would start on the porch and run counterclockwise around the house ("runner"). The object of the game was to evade whomever was hiding in the dark. The runner had to make it back to the porch without doubling back or getting tagged.
While the runner was in the yard, he couldn't stop moving or running and had to continue in the same direction. If you ran clockwise, you were automatically the hider next round.
If you made it back to the porch, you were safe and could run again. If you didn't, then you had to hide and wait for the roles to reverse. The runner could leave the porch whenever they wanted—they could keep the lurker waiting as long as they wanted. It was better to be the runner than the hider. The runner could hang out on the porch and do whatever. The hider had to lurk in a dark backyard and stay sharp for the runner who did not have to announce that they were running. Being the hider sucked. Being the runner was scary, but at least you weren't stuck lurking.
It was one of those games that emerged organically over time on summer nights in a house with no air conditioning. My brother and I playing with the Davis boys who lived next door. This was the mid 1980s in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Linard · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "lazy catch" and it's similar to catch but you stand still and in front of each other. And when one catches the other, you are not allowed to let go again, so it's a contest who can touch the other once more with elbows, the legs, ect.
It's actually quite interesting as you have to plan ahead and try to touch the other with as little as possible, eg jus the fingertips, so you can touch him again with the palm of the hand.
On long trips, I used to watch the telephone wires by the edge of the road, and pretend they were the vapor trails from jet fighters. So if there were four wires running along, you had 4 aircraft in a dog fight.
Then when you get to a post and one of the wires ‘disappears’, that meant the jet had been ‘shot down ‘ by one of the others.
Probably wiled away a couple of dozen hours this way.
PS this was in a time before game boys
PPS actually it wasn’t, but my folks were to poor and/or mean to buy me a game boy
XportR · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grudge, grudge, grudge.
It was like American football, but without padding, fewer rules, and played 2 against 1 in a 15x30 concrete-floored basement room with a brick fireplace on one end. You had four downs to get the ball to the fireplace while the 2 brothers tried to tackle you. Every loose ball was a fumble. Before the start of each down, the person with the ball would get in a 3-point stance and say, “Down. Set. Grudge, grudge, grudge.” Play did not start until the third ‘grudge’ was pronounced. Each score was worth one point. The game kept going until someone quit - usually crying and bleeding.
Lots of injuries, but no one ever got hospitalized.
I still play it (18 now) probably started when I was like 9-10:
In movie subtitles for an example (anywhere really) I just read the word/sentence and then group up the letters into 3s, 4s or 5s.
Capital letters and õäöü (in my language) count as 2;letter A can be “invisible” if there are too many too close; ? and ! can count as one or two, depends if I need 1 or 2 letters. [k & p in my language - first letters of translation for line and dot]
Example: Dogs are cute!
My brain: Dod, gsa, rec, ute, kp..., [Then read the next sentence and continue for an eternity.]
I tried to get rid of this habit once, I started to like it so I’ve been doing it for half of my life
My grandma would take me to the Southwyck Mall (in Toledo and no longer there) sometimes. We’d be in the Lion Store (like a JC Penny) in the furniture department. I’d pretend to be a sales person and try to sell rugs and couches to my grandma lol she was such a good sport, always entertaining my bullshit. I miss her dearly❤️
We played a game on the beach where you would draw four squares ( hence the name four squares ) with one of the top left corner for the server. The aim of the game was to become the server, basically you hit the ball up into someone else’s square where if it bounces twice their out. But you’re not allowed to smack the ball down, only up. Sounds silly but it’s so much fun. Gets really competitive especially when we played with the adults.
We used to play a game called "plaster blaster" back when kids were allowed in pubs (or at least in the car park) it involved us taking it in turns to kick a football as hard as we could at a neighbouring wall to see how much render we could knock off it. Even had a game with the drunken adults who could kick a lot harder and cause more damage
toocoo · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slap the person next to you if you see an Arizona license plate. I lived in Los Angeles.
In school me and my friend would be at the top of the schoolyard, one of us would be the dinosaur walking around making noises and hands in your classic velociraptor style. And the other would just be making guns, screwing on attachments making clicking noises and stuff. Can't remember if we ever did anything with said guns to the velociraptors. Good game though...
My friends and I still do this occasionally, but we would play hide and seek in specific room in the house (the room would change each round for variability) while in pitch black darkness, no flashlights or anything
But there was a catch to the game. The seeker would go in a different room to count and the hiders would put things like tables and benches and chairs in random spots before we hid, so that way the seeker had no idea what the layout of the room would be.
So many bruised knees man
also the funny part is that we'd have to be super quiet so we wouldn't wake up sleeping parents. So we'd slam our toe on the corner of the table and try not to scream while the hiders had to hold in laughter.
My friend and I used to play Absolutely Fabulous. We would do our hair us, put on lipstick, pretend to smoke a cigarette and call each other 'sweetie darling'.
ThatHo · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Ireland we used to play a game called *** it involved 2 teams keeps in mind this is usually played in primary school so teams were usually 50+. One team was British and the other would pretend to be members of the *** . The Brittish would pick a letter and hide. Then the *** team would basically try find the other team and beat them until they gave up their letter. Obviously they would cause carnage on the playground.
My younger brother and I loved watching American Gladiators growing up, especially the competition where the gladiator would shoot tennis balls at the contestants as they would try to make it from cover to cover within a set course.
We re-enacted this in the largest room in our house. We used to set up couch cushions, pillows, would sometimes take our twin size mattresses off our beds, and use other random things from around the house and our bedrooms to use as cover, and the other person, instead of throwing tennis balls, we used to throw stuffed animals and beanie babies at the other person, and if you got hit you lost.
Good times were had but my parents hated it since we always made a mess.
We played a game we called goofball: there was an art college we lived by that had a basketball hoop attached to a brick wall, with no space so you really couldn't do like a normal layup without hitting the wall. So we incorporated the wall and considered it in bounds. Really made for some cool passes off the wall billiards style.
My older sister and i used to play a game called "Happy Dining"
I don't even know how old we were when this started or how it even started to begin with. But anyways, my sister would be the waiter and i was the customer. My sister would dress up as some Aunt Jemima looking character with this crazy accent; she'd called herself Gerard from Spain, and i would be some customer (i dressed up as a different person each time) who had to deal with this whack job character my sister would create. We also filmed and edited these videos, and kept them on our family computer.
I would walk down our hallway to some theme song we'd hum, and then id be seated at our dining room table and i'd be handed some menu my sister and i wrote up (literally consisting of chips and leftovers in our fridge), and id be greeted by Gerard from Spain, and then she's start acting out in weird ways and i'd have to deal with it. Like she's start throwing food at me or taking things away in mid bite, or you'd hear her in the background banging pots and pans as I'd sit there talking into the camera about how nuts my waiter is. By the end of the video and i'd be leaving our dining scene, you'd always see my dad in his housecoat in the background making tea in the kitchen or toast for himself.
Her and i did this for fun so many times. I honestly wonder if we still have those videos kicking around.
A little game we liked to call "Tipsy Table" which, of course, was played by having two children stand at each end of a windsurfing long board in waist deep water and then stepping around wildly trying to knock the other kid off. It became significantly less fun as we grew up and the combined weight kids started to exceed 200lbs or so... more like sinky table at that point.
Inspired by obsessively Tony Hawk playing, when I would be in the back seat of a car, bus, etc. I would look out the window and imagine unrealistic, imaginary skateboarding lines. (i.e. grind on that power line, jump off and manual on top of the 18-wheeler, stall on the highway exit sign, that kind of stuff)
Tralan · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to wrap rocks in aluminum and I'd put them in a cardboard box and go put it in the backyard somewhere. Then I'd make a treasure map that I'd follow. I had a sword, a magic wand, and a laser gun to fight off enemies and monsters. The box of rocks was a treasure chest full of gold and jewels.
not as a child but we used to play this drinking game, I believe we made up while drinking.... called trivia. Everyone gets sits in a circle, and it goes clock wise. You get to ask a question to the circle and each person answers it out loud. At the end of everyone answering the person asking the question takes a number of chugs of beer for everyone that got the answer right. Everyone who got it wrong drinks as well. This was cool because you could have deceptive people be like oh is "E=mc2" early on so everyone says that then everyone has to drink. Also if you guarantee no one will know the answer you can say that, but if only 1 person gets it right you have to shot gun a beer, otherwise if no one gets the right answer everyone has to finish the rest of their drink.
There were other rules but that was pretty much the core rules. We had a ton of fun playing it camping, or if the beer pong table line was way to long.
On long car rides we would play Mental Monopoly, Hyper Draft style. We played enough to know all the spaces, cards and prices.
- Hyper Draft style = like a snake style sports draft, we would go around and pick properties but you would get the full set so for one pick could pick all 4 railroads or both boardwalk and park place for example.
-To roll dice on your turn, you and the player on the right would countdown from 3 and then each say a number between 1 and 6. This is by far the most fun part of the game. Especially when needing/avoiding doubles while in jail or trying to avoid landing on someone 14-15 spaces away...the 'i know that he knows that i knows' thought processes are amazing.
-For chance and community chest the player to your right would think of three possible cards and tell a neutral party. Then you would pick 1, 2 or 3. Then that third party neutral party could describe the card however they wanted as long as the out come was the same. I won many an ugly contest via my little brothers. Also a fantastic time.
You just had to remember your cash count, the space you were on and your properties.
My favorite strategy was to get the light blues and then either the Oranges or Reds...or the pinks if I really had to. Then I immediately sank all of My cash into hotels on the light blues. If no one lands on the light blues right out of the gate you're pretty screwed. If you manage to get landed on by a couple players, no one else has cash to buy houses so your fairly safe and can reinvest in houses on your second monopoly for the early kill. If it gets around more then three times though...you're pretty doomed. Also you have basically no cash early on and may or may not lose on the utilities in humiliating fashion from time to time....
We’d play “Jason”. One of our friends would don a pillow case with an eye hole in it, and dress like Jason Voorhees, Friday the Thirteenth, part 2-style. This was before the iconic hockey mask.
We’d run around the neighborhood, and he’d disappear. After a minute, we’d look around and he’d be standing next to a house like 50 ft away, just watching. We’d scream and run, he’d chase us. Repeat until everyone was caught and “killed”. He was so good, he’d scare the shit out of us. It was great.
PGtibs · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to do the 'revenge' game where one of us would randomly make a face at the other and look away and avoid their face for as long as possible(which would count as a point), this is then evened out if the other gets the oppositions attention and then making a face, through any way possible e.g. asking a question, callin their name etc. This was an ongoing game as the first to start would eventually forget however the current loser would want revenge, hence the name.
My brother and I would stand at opposite ends of our room. Person whos turn it was had to make a pattern of silly moves and gestures and other person had to mirror it. He were laughing all the way through it.
We usually played it around 8:30PM, that sweet apot after teletubbies and pokemons and before dinner and bed.
Imaginary Sonic while on road trips with the parents. Just looking outside and imagining Sonic on the highway hopping over the shadows.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played “Mechanic” where we would throw wire hangers in a laundry basket and “fix the engine” (untangle the hangers). We also had a beginner laptop where we would pretend to do job interviews.
Butt slapping tag. Me and a bunch of my elementary school yard friends used to have epic games of 30 plus people playing tag with a twist- you gotta smack them on the butt in order to get them “it”. No homo tho
My older brother would try and give us (me and my twin brother) magical powers.
He'd sing, "Walk into the hand, it'll give you magical powers, don't be afraid, just give it a try! There's no worries, just walk into the hand, I'm sure it'll be fine!" Over and over.
We'd walk our neck into his hand and he'd strangle us for a bit, then the game would end.
Trampoline soccer: one person on the trampoline had the ball and had to strike it mid jump while the other played keeper on the kickback net.
Trampoline football: best friend and I on the trampoline while a third throws up a jump ball. Full contact was allowed, and you had to secure the ball after landing to win. The sprinkler system was turned on for maximum fun and risk of injury.
Bouncy ball: throw a bouncy ball off a kitchen wall and try to come up with it. 2 person game, must be played on a slippery surface with socks on, and full contact is encouraged.
Top 3 games with the same childhood buddy at the same house. Many tears and heated battles, but far more laughs and good times. We never even kept score. Just played until we were tired or hungry.
Me and my brother would go to the trampoline and play Yu-Gi-Oh. The twist is we didn’t have actual cards and we made up charcuterie and moves by ourselves. You can guess that all of them were wildly overpowered.
I forgot the name but my cousins, brother, and I would play cops and robbers but with a twist.
Hide and Seek but all the players, except the IT, have the goal to Tag the IT before the IT finds and "shoots" them by calling their name. If the IT miscalls one person, restart. If the It gets tagged, restart. Now my cousins including my bro and I would easily reach 15+ players so being the IT would be the worst because of 14 other players rushing to tag you. Also, being the first shot would mean youll be the next IT if the current IT would finish all the players. so basically after the first is called out, strategies like rushing in at the same time, camping behind doorways, crawling under cars to tag the It's feet, hiding behind the trailing bodies of the players called out, sacrificing a bait player for the rest to rush in, etc. fun times. My highlight was when i ghillie suited up using mud and shit like how arnie stalked the predator and I tagged the It as the last one standing.
I don’t really remember what it was called but I know it was like smash bros but Spyro and crash bandicoot. It wasn’t a fighting game, it was more like a bunch of different challenges, more like Mario party now that I think about it. I know that it’s the reason my brothers friends nick name is crash (it’s because he would always choose crash so you know it kinda caught on)
We called it the 'Ghost game', basically you get a oversized blanket and put it over your head making you the ghost then try and tag the other people. As you could imagine, we frequently ended the game when someone ran into/broke something (i.e. walls, bookcases, grandfather's urn).
Me and my friends made an actual fight club. We used to do tournaments where we beat the shit out of each other. It was a lot of fun and no one was seriously injured.
Me and my friends came up with a game called “dudes” we come up with dudes who had different powers like “water dude” could control water “ice dude” controls specifically ice “cool dude” he had the power to be cool...basically every little thing had a “dude” we play around coming up with battle scenes for the dudes and pretend fighting we could only be one dude a recess time to prevent one upping each other haha
We played a game called psycho breakout, essentially a version of infection tag but with more steps. One friend would start out as the “psycho” and could throw his hat at anyone playing to get them out (or tag them) and they would get it as well. We had almost the entire grade playing it at one point with three or four different game modes. Good times
My dad had this huge Guinness Hat. The one in the picture isn't the exact one, because I'm 99.99% sure ours was completely green, but you get the idea.
Well it was a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek, except the seeker had to wear that hat over their head so they couldn't see anything. Meanwhile, all lights and curtains would be closed so the kids hiding would also be visually impaired. We limited ourselves to the bedrooms and hallway on the second floor so nobody would destroy anything that was downstairs.
As the seeker you basically had to listen and try to grab the hiders.
In hindsight, we shouldn't have been playing this on the second floor, with the danger of falling down the stairs but nothing bad ever happened except running into doors or poking someone in the eyes.
Bangcok. While sitting at opposite ends of the room we would hold solo cups between our knees and lean back, wed then proceeded to throw a tennis ball into the cups which would rocket to our crotch.
Not sure if this is common but when I was younger my dad and I would play this game called buttball. We would basically just through a inflatable spiky ball at each others butts until we were tired.
We had an in-ground pool in our backyard. My older brothers, myself and neighborhood kids played this game called “colors.” Basically one person is about 8 feet away on the left side of the pool and the others were on the “loveseat” in the deep end on the right side. The single person picks a category (colors, car manufacturers, action figures, etc) and those sitting away from him pick their own choice and tell one another so no two people have the same answer. The single person then starts to call out their guesses (red, blue, ford, Chevy) and if he calls the one you had decided on, you had to swim across the pool to the left side (about 12-14 feet) before the Caller swims and reaches you. If you got tagged, you became the Caller and had to have a new category. I don’t know where we came up with this but it is one of my favorite memories as a kid.
We also played Curby. The sides of the pool were curved bricks. One person on each side and a basketball. The object was to throw the basketball against the opposite side just right so the ball would bounce off the brick. If it bounced correctly and landed back in the water, it was a point. If it bounced up and you or your opponent caught it (either staying outside the pool or by jumping in) it was 2 points. Goal was to get to 21 first. If it just hit the brick and plopped in the water it did not count. We eventually started adding trick shots, triple points, etc.
Take the trucks off a skateboard so it’s just a bare deck, take it on a trampoline and have a blast doing all the crazy tricks from Tony Hawk games without the danger of busting open your knees on concrete.
It was like skateboarding on “low gravity” mode, and it was glorious.
My friend had an apple tree in his backyard that was pretty big and had a lot of low hanging branches that would allow us to jump from the tree onto the garage roof and vice versa. We used to play insane games of tag in his back yard using this fact. We would all scramble up the tree and then try to not get tagged by the person who was "It" by jumping in and out of the tree and on and off the garage. And being young boys we were very aggressive and would often end the session with many cuts, scrapes and bruises. As we got older we took our games of tag to the next level by playing in construction sites and abandoned buildings. And since we lived in the rust belt there were plenty of abandoned buildings to climb on and explore.
IRA, game played by up to 20 kids around the neighbourhood or estate at once where 5/6 people are given a letter and each letter makes a up a word like “shoes” or “animal”, the remaining kids without a letter then have to chase down each person with a letter and literally jump/beat them until they give a letter, aim of the game is to find out the word.
Only realising how brutal it was despite being so memorable and fun.
We , school friends used to make stories about each other but in a common universe and we pretend according to our character in real life too(in school). Everyone in our class know that and like once in a month there was a story telling session where one person have to continue present story or spinoff and whole class listened to it, I must say it was really a prestigious project,lol.It seems silly but it was pretty fun.
My cousins and I would play “poor people” which was actually just us pretending to have to use a lantern we had found in my parents’ basement and searching through the woods for some imaginary person named Sarah. Should have been just called “olden days” or something like that.
A few years ago he asked if I remembered the game and then said “looking back, kinda messed up because my family actually was pretty poor.”
Midget wars. Crouch down so your butt is basically touching the ground. Put your shirt over your knees and legs. Your end up as a torso with feet and long arms.
Then the goal is to hop/waddle around or walk with your arms and push each other over. Last one standing wins.
We had a game back in elementary school called Cyber Surfari. It was more like a contest against other schools but one night every year we’d stay after and go on this internet treasure hunt. I don’t remember a lot of about it but it gave you clues on finding the hidden links and it was a race to see which school could find the hidden links the fastest. It was really fun. We’d bring a bunch of snacks and drinks and stay up all night trying to be the first to complete the treasure hunt.
Basically, the aim of the game is to put as many clothes on as possible then either sit in from of a radiator or a fire and see who could last the longest in the intense heat.
'Boosh ball' we called it, kinda like dodge ball but with a large exercise ball as the ball instead, with bases you had to run past, which were all in crazy far apart from each other places.
A game called Kleilat. Translated it literally means clay stick. We would collect a stick or young reed next to the river put clay on the tip and proceed to launch the clay at each other. Wars were won and lost usually with one or more friends in tears. Good times
My brothers and I would make up our own "Oobi" characters and play out scenarios with them. It never really ended, and my two oldest brothers still come up with shit to this day, only its taken on a more parodical nature now, akin to YouTube poops. It's honestly hilarious. We turned Grampoo into a fucking Neo Nazi. "Ah, Chinese restaurant, lovely... but inferior!"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Granny Crossing. Carry a pillow and slowly walk across the hallway. Brother runs full speed and hits you as hard as he can and you hopefully land on the couch. Loved it every time.
tiloco · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings played Buy Sell. We took all our toys and made shops using my Yugioh cards as money. The cleanup took longer than the actual game most of the time because by the end our toys were all mixed up. Good way to kill a Sunday though
We would lay someone down on the ground, place one of our primary school uniform sweaters over their eyes and tell this story to the person laid down about being in a field, seeing someone who you thought was your dad or an uncle or w.e, but he wasn't, he was a stranger and as you walk closer you notice he has something in his hand, it's a gun and he shoots you and kills you. Then in the story we'd explain how it was the day of your funeral, all people stood around watching the story unfold would provide sound effects such as the sound of people walking into the church (everyone would walk on the spot) and then leaving the church, chattering, the wind etc. Then you'd tell the person laid down that they were getting lowered into the ground, and we'd say 'darker, darker, Colder, colder' while the kid telling the story would press on the sweater that was covering the person's eyes on the floor. We'd do this for a couple of minutes and then the person who was laid down would take the sweater off from over their eyes, sit up and because their eyes had been pressed down on and had been in the dark for a while the world looked all washed out and fucked up and weird, we used to call that seeing the afterlife. Thinking back on it it was really fucking weird haha but we all loved doing it. I was usually the story teller and people would queue up to do it.
Elementary school, we got a whole new playground about 4th grade. It came with tire swings. We played see who can not puke the longest. Recess right after lunch added an extra level of risk.
Basically, put a kid on the swing starfish style, belly down. Get 3 or 4 of us all clustered around and let it rip.
When the teachers caught onto that we had to switch to jack knifing off the monkey bars and breaking our wrists.
When I went to a camp as a child, we used to put a small cow in a football pitch and we used to chase a and whip the cow to make it get into the goal and score a goal, the teams were made up of 7-8 people so you can imagine that poor cow being whipped over and over again by a bunch of kids. It was cruel and dangerous but was fun.
White Wolf and White Dog. My sister and I basically would pretend to be animals and beat each other up. Two rules:
1. No crying counts
2. No telling mom
Not as a young child, but in early high school. A game called “Stick it or Lick it”. You and a group of friends are in a circle. You throw a stick at the ground, if it doesn’t stick in the ground you have to lick.
"killerman" was tag football without a ball. you have designated endzones, and someone is "it". once tagged the other person is it and tries to score. Stuff like that is how pro athletes get crazy spin moves and shit. also, i used to "catch raindrops" and this got me really good with hand eye coordination. if its raining, look up in the sky and catch the falling raindrops.
You found a nice thick broomstick. Then you and someone else squared off with your hands both alternating on the stick. Last one holding on won and once you let go you couldn’t grab on again.
We had to stop when we broke too many, which looking back was impressive considering how sturdy they were towards the end. But it would get intense. I remember the sisters across the street wanted to join in, and as soon as their match started one of them pivoted and threw the other over her back. Of course she didn’t let go and then threw her right back. Learned they were both in judo and they taught us some of their ways.
The song by Van Halen “Panama” was big and we saw the video all the time and loved the flying through the air on cables. We thought he was singing “Pannon Ball”. So we would lay down with our feet up and would get a sister to lay on the feet to “fly” and would toss her across the room. I’ve brought this game into my adulthood and I’ve played it with both my kids.
Murder Football. it was basically jackpot, but everytime the person throwing the ball ( we called him the jacker) he would stand still with his hands out and wait for someone to put the ball in his hands. you had to return the ball and anything goes. we would tackle eachother and throw things at eachother, this game would last hours. if you were the one to return the ball then you were the new jacker. parents didnt like the name, and it got pretty violent once we hit high school
Ulli17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played with friends that had a trampoline a game that had similarities to volleyball. Actually we had no name for it. There was always 1 or more kids staying outside the trampoline and trying to shoot the ball with their hands in the trampoline. Maximum 3 kids were staying in the trampoline trying to get out the ball with maximum 3 touches (like in volleyball) without the ball touching the ground of the trampoline. It was super funny :)
There were woods behind my house, so I would go out there and pretend there were these different tribes of people who lived there. I was a part of one of them and would help them out by making soups (which was literally a bucket of water with random parts of plants and leaves in it) and help them fight other tribes who were threatening to take their land. My closest sibling is almost ten years older than me, so it kept me entertained.
When I was in elementary school, and I'm a bit older than most of you, so this would have been literally around 1991/1992, we played some sort of game in a tennis court.
It involved two teams on either side of the net. It was kind of like dodgeball, I guess, but I can't be sure. We were throwing different balls across the court at the other teams. All I remember is that there was some bonus for kicking it out of the court and over the large fence behind. But, behind the court was, like, this large downhill that had a playground at the bottom. And apparently if one of the opposing team members was actually down there and caught the ball you kicked then the other team would get a huge number of points. It was quite literally some game of Calvinball, where the rules were made up by kids, they changed all the fucking time, and I have no idea what it was.
1) Wall-to-wall-ball, which wasn't really all that original and I bet similar games exist. The playfield was anything between two parallel lines that act as walls (like an alley but it didn't even have to be walls). Each player/duo stands on one side and can only move along the wall. Then you bounce a basketball to the other side, having to hit the ground once with the aim to hit the other players wall. Also you couldn't catch the ball, you had to always keep it in motion, like dribbing in basketball. It's basically a weird version of tennis.
2) Velociraptor. Someone was the raptor and had restricted peripheral vision, enforced by whatever contraption we could build. The raptor then had to patrol around and would chase the first person he'd find. Usually we played this somewhere with a lot of corners so you could lose the raptor.
So many different iterations of Tag. TV Tag, Stuck in the Mud, Hide and Go Seek Jail Tag, one we made up called ChickenHawk. We were really good at running around.
Me and my older bro used to have "ice fights" when our parents were not home. Essentially we would get a bunch of ice made from ice trays and throw them at each other (my older bro created this game lol). We were subsequently caught maybe days after and disciplined accordingly probably due to the immense amount of water spots found across the carpet of the entire house....and probably the lack of ice we forgot to replace lol.
tab527 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “jump ball”. Had the trampoline (netted) set up on the lawn. Little tikes basketball net set up on the patio. One small rubber basketball required.
Consisted of 3 players. 2 on the trampoline. 1 outside to retrieve the ball. Said person would throw the ball into the trampoline and whoever caught it had the chance to shoot it into the basket. Make it, stay in. Loser becomes ball retriever. Miss, keep playing until someone makes it.
Sock wrestling. My brother and I would wrestle in a the hallway with the objective being to take the other persons socks off. First person to have their socks fully taken off loses and you cannot pull your socks back up.
Ghitit · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My girlfriend and I would ride our bikes pretending to speak a foreign language we made up.
It was a blend of French, Russian, German, and whatever weird sounds we could reproduce that sounded good.
It was pretty hilarious.
Here's another: Same friend, we'd put sleeping bags over our heads and run around my house bumping into each other and stuff.
Once we were playing it and decided to jump onto my bed with the other person giving directions. So my friend was guiding me and she said " turn right, no, left... left a little more..." So I did exactly what she said until the end when I turned left not a little more, but a lot more and I ran and jumped and landed on my old fashioned flip-top, steel and wood school desk. God it hurt, but that didn't matter because we were laughing so much the pain was easy to ignore.
dusk27 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk what it’s called but we called it “Suicide” - probably because you must want to die to play it. It’s hand ball with a twist. You throw the ball, it bounces off the wall and if it hits you, then you gotta run and touch the wall before the other kids beat you up. If it bounces and you catch the ball, then whoever threw it has to run and touch the wall before the kids beat you up.
I made the mistake once of trying to run home out of fear but it just made my trip to the wall that much further because they did catch up to me.
We had a game in high school called "Ninja" you were supposed to sneak up on someone and knock them to the ground. The game only lasted about 4 months until someone got 3 people at once, knocking there heads together. One person was knocked out, one lost two teeth and the third got a broken nose. Kevin you are the ultimate winner, but he was also suspended from school.
In elementary school, my best friend and I would play Mean Girls (before the movie came out). We’d basically act out what we thought high school was like if we were rival popular girls:
“And then I joined the cheerleading team...”
“But I pranked you by dumping slime on your uniform.”
“And then I stole your boyfriend.”
“Well then I stole your boyfriend.”
“Well then I stole him back. I’m dating them both.”
“Well the captain of the football team just told me he loved me.”
“I told him to say that. He’s tricking you. He actually loves me.”
My cousins and I used to play “Kittens” where we would just follow around my older sister who was the mom kitten, on our hands and knees... I’m a guy btw. I just wanted to feel included I guess. The game really has no point except to pretend to be kittens.
Beanie Baby war. We had a ridiculous amount of Beanie Babys that we didn't really care about and we would set up forts and wing them at each other. Sort of like an indoor snowball fight. It was a blast.
My brother and I played 'Mine' when on longer car-rides.
Basically, the idea was that you're trying to make your own city. When driving around, you take turns claiming things for your city - you need schools, hospitals, transport trucks, police cars...
We would spend hours creating a laser maze out of string and masking tape in the basement, then challenge one person (who wasn't there for the construction) to climb through it and steal something we had hidden in a little toy safe. We had a few motion sensors as well that we would place strategically to trip up the thief.
My brothers and I would play "the dark game" which was essentially hide and go seek.. in the dark at nighttime. We'd usually go "seek" by crawling around, but the risk of running into walls/furniture was very great. Good times though.
We played Miners. There was a hill with an overhang in the forest behind the house. A lot of the rocks that you could dig out of it were quartz crystal (I assume) if you chipped away the outer layer. We were convinced we would become rich and spent hours upon hours quarrying and mining the place out and putting all of the good rocks in one pile and the shiny ones in another. We had shovels, pickaxes, brought down our sleds from winter with ropes tied to them to help with the big rocks - it was quite the operation for 2 kids.
tpfnf · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Grandson, would you like to practice driving?” My grandpa would put Crown Royal in his Coke cans and from the ages of 9-15 I would drive him if he asked because driving is fun and awesome. I didn’t put it together until I was 28. Great guy though.
My neighbor and I as kids used to play polo on scooters with croquet mallets through the street. Also we played a lot of ball tag as kids idk if that’s something other people did or not.
My buddy and I would draw "mazes" from a side-scrolling perspective with various rooms that had "traps and puzzles." Spike pits, rope swings, etc. Then we'd trade and during class try to go through each other's mazes.
I count my 15 year old self as a child!
Hunted. It's basically hide and seek mixed with tag, but we would do it in the middle of town. Usually the area is far to big to every really find them, so there for 3 hunters and one person who would hide.
The real fun however was that the hunted had to carry a GPS device on him, the hunters could check it every 5 minutes.
The schedule game! All the toys are set out in a dollhouse (or similar), and they all have schedules to follow and tasks to do. Usually they just moved around. Like I'd move the Barbie from the bed, to the kitchen, to the garden, to etc etc. The fun was deciding things like, do any of the Barbies want an early lunch? Does the Barbie prefer to read or go swimming in her free time?
Sometimes I'd play it with Pokemon and it would be slightly more complex. They were all part of a kingdom, each with a job. I remember there being babies, nursery workers, guards, a king/queen, advisors, etc etc. An enemy Pokemon would attack and chase off all the Pokemon it was super effective to. Then there would be holes in the Pokemon kingdom job ladder, and Pokemon would get promoted until there were no more holes. Baby Pokemon would grow up to fill the lowest ranks at the end of each 'turn', and new babies would be born. All the Pokemon were trying to become king/queen, and I was always weirdly proud of one if it got to work all the way up from baby to achieve its dream.
I absolutely loved the game. Once when I had a friend over, I wanted to play it. For hours. I didn't understand why my friend thought it was boring.
When my cousin would babysit us we would play “apartments”. There were four of us so two of us would be roommates and we’d have a billion playing cards each room would spend forever hiding all over their room. Then we’d go to “work” where one set of roommates were restaurant workers and the other two customers and they’d serve us weird concoctions and in the mean time one of the customers would sneak away to “break into” the other twos “house” and try and find/steal as much money (aka the playing cards) as they could
We were weird
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when me and my best friends at the time were 6-9 we really dug Calvin & Hobbes. And part of Calvinball, the game often played in the comics, was that you just make up rules as you play. And so did we, stealing all our parent's sports and outside equipment and setting it up in an obstacle course of some sort. Then we got a baseball, a very light football and a cricket ball and just started running around the course, trying to - if I remember right - hit the badminton racket in just the right way so the ball would ricochet exactly towards the king (Kubb) and knock it down. That would be one point. Another strat would be to have your ball ricochet from the racket and hit the other ball, so the player who got the king point would lose that point again and you'd get one. The one without a ball could just attempt to steal one from another player, but also had to defend his gained point by blocking other player's throws.
But that was just one point, you could gain up to 5 just on one course. But I don't know about the rules for those anymore, the one with the king and racket was by far the one we had the most fun with.
And we invented new rules every ten minutes or so, like if you had the baseball you could throw it in the air with your eyes closed and if it would hit another player or the friend's dog (who was running around having almost more fun than us) you'd get three points and could use the swatter to either use it to golf the baseball (I'm not US, how the hell should I know how to baseball?) or put it in front of an obstacle or object to maked ricochets and the like harder.
Steal the Bacon:
Two groups of kids at opposite ends of a basketball/volley court. Object (in the case of 90s kids it was a chalkboard eraser) and each team assigns a number to each kid on the team and an moderator calls out the number a representative from each team races to grab the bacon and bring it home. If you hold the bacon and you're tagged by the opposing team you're out and return to your team and the bacon is left on the ground.
Prisoner (Dodgeball variant)
Dodge ball but when you're out you go to the opposite end of the court and can come back in if you get a ball and tag someone still in play. Basically gives you the chance to be sandwiched.
I dont remember very well, I was about 4 when myspace was popular. My mother let me play the featured games section. One I rember was this click and point adventure game that begins with a foriegn woman that reccieves a telegram. She has to go to some sort of mansion. A short cinematic plays and she jumps over a wall and has to remove some siccors on a cable box and gains acess to the mansion. One of the rooms have a bunch of books on a shelf with suns on them. If anyone can help me find the name of the browser game that has been on my mind for the past 5 years I would appreciate it alot.
I had a buddy who's family had some dough, so he could afford to be a hockey goalie and play lacrosse (this is back in the early 80s, before that equipment became more affordable). As kids, we used to sword fight with whiffle ball bats, but damn did it hurt when you got rapped on the knuckles, so we brought his lacrosse gloves into the mix. Soon came the hockey pads, then the helmets. Somewhere in that evolution, we traded those plastic bats for sawed-off hockey sticks.
Let me tell you, 14-year-old boy without a girlfriend has a lot of agression and we took that agression out on each other in his back yard. We would spend hours fighting with hockey sticks. We had a few rules: no aiming for the knees, groin, or head and neck. It was brutal. Neither of us ever broke a bone, but the bruises were deep and plentiful.
Our hobby seemed to die out once girls came into the picture. Funny how that happens...
Murder-ball. It was basically just rugby before I knew what rugby was. Everyone vs the ball carrier.
Classic stitches!
Gubyy · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game for the swimming pool called Two in Two out.
The game involved 4 people, two people in the pool, and two out(or in) the pool. The goal was for the people in the pool to tag the people out of the pool. My pool had a fence around it so most of it was reachable from inside the pool by keeping just a foot in. There were two "safe spots" for the people out of the pool but the only way to escape those safe spots was to either leap over the people in the pool and risk being tagged or dive into the pool, swim to the other side and then get out. We spent hours running around the pool playing this game, it was so much fun.
When I was a kid I used to play "gameboy" by filling a clear plastic bottle with water all the way to the top and turning it on it's side. By tilting it slightly I could get the small bubbles that formed to battle it out. I imagined they were chasing each other and ripping each other to fragments in a fight to see who could finally consume all the others and become the king.
My cousins, sister, neighborhood kids, and I would play TV Tag. It’s just like regular tag, but your base is yourself. When “It” comes near you, you crouch down and yell out the name of a tv show. Then you’re safe for a period of time and “It” can’t puppy guard you. No repeat shows were allowed. I was very disappointed during school recess to discover that no one else knew this game.
cns187 · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clear Disc. Throwing blank CDs like frisbees in the driveway. It got interesting when the CDs would hit the ground and became sharp and jaded
My cousin and I used to play at my grandparents' farm. They had a large wooded area that we used to play Robin Hood and we called it Sherwood Forrest. But I refused to be Maid Marian.
They also had a basement that was never used with a hide-a-bed couch that we used as our pirate ship. We used to spend hours drawing up maps for objectives we had to reach in each "island" we came to. We would use throw pillows or whatever other junk was down there as obstacles.
We played Macrogo! Name inspired by a mashup of mallet, croquet and golf. Essentially we put the croquet wickets long distances apart with obstacles in between and assigned pars for each 'hole'. Game continued until we broke a croquet mallet.
When i was a kid at my grandmas house we would have this mini bouncy ball and we would throw it down the stairs in a boot and whoever got the coolest bounce in there would win. We acted like it was a REALLY big sport we started filming interviews with winners and called in our frienda to compete in the "olympics".
Hot Wheels grudge match. My brother and I would have a draft of our favorite and most sturdy Hot Wheels cars. Then, one by one, we would go head to head by ramming them into each other. Landing on back after impact means you're out. First to run out of cars lost. Some car legends were made and some passed too soon. RIP the 3 time underdog champ "Taxi"
synklo · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and the other kids that lived in my apartment building used to play this game. It was either called “graveyard” or “reaper” I can’t really remember.
Either way, it was basically tag. Except the person who was it was the Grimm Reaper, and all the others were ghosts who refused to be put to rest. If the reaper tagged you, you had to go into this little section enclosed by bushes. If the reaper got all the ghosts, the reaper one. But if you were a ghost, you could go into the bushes and retap your friends, freeing them from “the other side”.
Also the game had to be played at dusk.
We were kinda morbid kids. This hardly scratches the surface.
We just called ours "ball. Our living room was arranged so that the center was pretty open. Each person would take up a position at an opening along the edges of this space (between two couches, in front of the hollow space under the desk). It required at least four players (three kids + 1 parent) to cover all the spaces. Every player would roll one of those bouncy balls you see in giant Wal-Mart displays into the center, and the goal was to keep the balls in the play area by hitting them away when they rolled in your direction.
The idea was to the balls rolling hectically around and play goalie. Everyone "lost" when someone let a ball past because we'd stop the game to retrieve it (sometimes we'd play until all balls were out). The game stopped when us kids became strong enough to send the balls flying instead of rolling, mostly to preserve lamps, dishes, etc.
paintball was one of my expensive hobbies. being 11, co2 was a costly resource. me and my friends would set up bunkers in my room and pretend to play paintball... stupid game. but seemed original at the time and we had 3 days worth of fun before Corey called it gay and nobody wanted to play anymore. I miss the old days.
My brother and I would throw a milk crate onto the roof of our back hall (maybe 12’ high), just high enough for us to not be able to see the crate until it was close to the edge. We’d then use a basketball to try knocking it off the other’s side. Knock it off and you get a point. We called it the crate game.
We played this game we simply called "monster." Gave someone a big comforter and they had to crawl around while wearing it to be the monster (and they couldn't see out of it). Got all the blankets we could find and laid them around the house, you weren't allowed to step off of them. Wait until it was night time, turn off all the lights.
Then the humans had a few minutes to place pillows strategically around the house, whenever the monster touched them he'd fall asleep for 5 seconds. Humans also had tranquilizers that would work the same as the pillows, and one antidote to save someone who had a monster bite.
However, once the monster feel asleep too many times from the pillows, or got shot with the tranquilizer, they could "evolve." Gain limited eyesight, could stand for short periods of time, etc. It was inevitable these would happen, so you tried to survive without using them for as long as you could.
If you got bit, you became a monster starting from the most basic level again. Game went on until you were the last man standing.
We used to play this every time we'd have sleepovers as little kids... Adecade later, we're adults, and we still play it from time to time. Still just as fun as it always was :D
I was around 12 when the tv show survivor was huge. The neighborhood kids and I would create our own survivor game spanning our whole street. There were different tribes and games that would happen and we would eliminate someone. Sometimes the games went on for a whole week. We were weirdos.
We didnt have a name for it but in grade school we would have like wars between the boys and girls. There wasnt really any rules, but people would get take prisoner (normally me) and raid each others territory and shit. some times we'd just break out or what ever. I fondly remember shaw shanking my way out of the corner of the field those bitches had locked down.
We would have epic spear grass fights. Each spear grass tip was a different color, and we rated them based on how much they hurt or how well they stuck to our clothes. We would pull the spears out of the grass sheath and briefly suck on them to make them stick better before throwing them at each other.
Substitute teacher. We'd stand out in the yard near the road at night. Whenever we'd see a car coming we'd yell "substitute teacher!!!" and run and hide, so the car wouldn't find us as it drive by.
I think we got the idea of a substitute teacher a her being scary from an old movie where a weird teacher comes in and is found by a student with a frog in her mouth.
Bamrak · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an annoying child my dad would always play the pulling something and doubles game on road trips. 4 wheeled vehicles pulling anything counted, as did tractor trailers with wiggle wagons. I LOVED this game because I could beat my dad at it every time we played.
I was telling my wife about the game and in the middle of a sentence it hit me like a ton of bricks. The game was a competition to keep my ass busy so I'd shut up and focus on something. Well played dad, well played.
When me, my sister, and my female cousin were younger, we would play wrestle with each other, while my brother and male cousin were sort of the “referees”. We called this game “girls gone wild”. When I got a little bit older, I decided to look up “girls gone wild” to see if it was a real thing, and I panicked once I saw what it actually was lol
It was a simple game, involving my older brother, a slide, and golf balls. He rolled the golf ball up the slide, I would catch it and roll it back down. Shit got intense with a curly slide, but I did loose several teeth
My bro and i, "the kicking game", "the punching game"
The objective was not to hurt each other but to kick hard enough that it would hurt but pull back enough for you not to get angry right away slowly it would escalate just playful fighting
basically it was baseball but we used slippers and instead if bats, we kicked the slipper as far as we can. baseball is basically non existent in my country afaik so i thought it was so unique back then
We played a game called pickleball where a few people had to run across a yard and one guy with a football threw it at someone before they reached the other side. If you got hit you had to throw the ball. 1st person to be injured losses.
We used to play a game on PS1 called hogs of war. Once we got bored of that we played it in the garden with various buckets and spades and footballs, basically anything we could find that you could call a weapon. When you died you would come back next round singing “back to life back to reality”
It was good fun until inadvertently one of us smacked the other in the head with a spade and we were told to stop.
You need a playground to do this.
One person is the monster. They can’t touch the playground or else they die. Everyone else is on the playground. They each have to stand on the ground for at least 30 seconds to win. Everyone (it can be multiple people at once, and split up) must go on for 30 seconds, counting in their own. If they get tagged, they become the monster. Sorta like tag/gravel.
The floor is lava...but we called it "shark infested waters" and we would act as if we were swimming when we touched the ground. There was also an imaginary time limit that fluctuated depending on who was counting before the sharks "get ya."
I used to do this thing with my blanket where I'd be on my knees in bed and holding the blanket and then start flailing up and down with it really fast (basically head banging). It felt really fun for some weird reason. I showed it to my cousin (who slept in my room when she'd visit from out of town) and she loved doing it too and we called it "buenky fluenk". I think we were trying to sound German?
Me and my friends were collecting napkins. Every once in a while, we would meet up and have a Miss Napkin Pageant. It was always a very fierce competition, lol.
We would wait until it was dark and then my dad would flick a coin into our back garden and my sister and I would scramble around searching for it. I thought he was smiling at us having fun...I think he was laughing at what idiots we were
wrud4s · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents were divorced and on the weekends my mom had me she always had to work so I would get to spend it with my grandparents. We would go out to dinner every Friday night at a sit down place. We would take the straw wrappers and squish them into little balls and then use our wrapped up silverware and play a form of hockey on the table trying to hit the straw wrapper into the other’s lap. The time waiting for food was the time limit. It was always a fun way to spend a Friday night as an 8 year old.
I can't remember what it was called, but a group of kids in my cul de sac would get together after sun down and play kind of a reverse hide and go seek. One person would go hide anywhere in the cul de sac, including front yards; backyards were off limits. The group would count to 30 and spread out and try to find the hider. Once you found the person hiding, you had to hide with them. What made it really fun was the growing anxiety while you were searching and one by one your search party disappeared. The last person to find the group had to hide next.
My grandfather taught me how to hunt snipe. This is a nocturnal bird that's very elusive. Now this bird is so elusive that in order to get a chance to shoot it one person would be picked to be the shooter and stand in the middle of the woods while the rest of the party walked away in order to flush it out to the shooter. So, your standing there in the middle of the woods in the dark by yourself for what seems like forever. Eventually you get tired and head back to the house only to find everybody had been there since the left you alone in the woods. Of course you only fall for being the shooter once but man is fun to teach new people. Especially if they are particularly annoying.
Idk where I got this, but I had this card board with two holes and mirrows in it, after watching a submarine movie I realised the resamblence with a periscope.
So I mounted it on a stool, covered the stool with a wool blanket and crawled under it pretending it's a "sub".
HelixR · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
At school we would play ''bloodball''/''gating'' where the goal was to kick a ball through someone's legs. When succesful, everybody was allowed to hit/kick/hurt that person until that person touched an object that made him safe, like a lamppost or pole or something. At some point, kids were getting really hurt and it was banned on school, but fuck it was so much fun. Most people that got kicked actually laughed and liked it.
We also had a really neat game during gymnastics:
Matball: Everyone is divided over two teams. Each team has its own huge tumbling mat, puts it up on its side (long edge). Then, both teams have to eliminate players from the other team by hitting players with the ball. The team that drops the tumbling mat on its flat side first loses. This is nearly impossible in the beginning because so many players can hold the mat, but in the late stage, the mat has to survive on its own while the one or two players that are left try hard to knock down the other one or block shots on their own mat. Fun addition was that players which were ''out'' were sent towards the back of the opposing team's mat where they can hit those players that hide behind the mat.
“We did this thing called female wrestling. We took our clothes off, tucked our willies between our legs and tickled each other. First person with their Weiner to pop out lost the game”
An old friend of mine and I would write out and role play Star Wars fan fiction (this was before Disney, so we could use the EU) but then also ad lib as we went along. We'd get out the plastic light sabers, set a scene, and create the dialog (and then argue whether or not that character would actually say or do that). My favorite memory was of one where I was the apprentice to him as the master, and I turned on him in the middle of a mission (we had a very Obi-wan and Anakin vibe going but mixed in an EU story base). A lot of hurt hands and frustrating clashing creative directions, but it was fun.
Made up a game called speed ball with the neighbor kids. There was one trash can at each end of the yard, and we used an oversized tennis ball as the game ball. I think we played teams of three, the goal was to score in the trash can, but we would lay out jump ropes like 10 feet in front of the trash cans, and you had to either throw the ball in from behind the line or if you had a running start you could jump over the line with the ball but you had to release it before landing on the ground. No forward passes. On defense, if you tagged the player with the ball they had to stop running and get rid of the ball in 5 seconds. There were more rules but that was the gist of it. We played a tackle version as well which was a blast.
For winter games, we would make these crazy tournaments. One event would be “diving” (who could do the coolest tricks/flips off the roof into the snow). We would drag trees/big logs out of the woods and build grinding rails for our sleds in our “freestyle” events. “Bobsled” by building banks and pushing a canoe and jumping in to try to complete the course. Oh, and tube smash haha. Everyone but one person would have an inner tube and scatter down a hill, and one person would just sprint all out down the snowy hill and try not to get leveled by the people with tubes. Somebody always went flying. Good times.
In the 90s and early 2000s, my childhood friend and I would play "advanced Nerf" in my parent's basement. We had a huge collection of Nerf guns accumulated over years of birthdays and things like that, so we would play a Nerf game similar to Counter Strike (before we knew what that was) where we would buy the guns, defenses and armor with Monopoly money.
We would place all the guns on a table nearby, and build small forts out of pillows and blankets and chairs, starting out with smaller pillows first and no weapons.
The first round involved trying to destroy each other's fort with pillows. Whoever destroyed each other's fort first won more money, while the loser won a smaller amount of money.
The second round, we would take 5 min to buy a NERF gun, bullets and buy repairs to the pillow fort.
Later rounds we'd graduate from pistols to rifles, pillows to couch cushions, and start buying armor (bicycle helmets and taping pillows to arms and chest. Worth 5 HP each!). We'd play that game for hours, and sometimes all night during sleepovers. That was a really fun time in my life and I remember it fondly.
I remember my childhood friend would win often and we'd laugh so hard because he'd stack multiple bicycle helmets and baseball caps on top of each other as he wore them to show himself "prestige-ing" and would have 6-7 things on his head. He called it his final form lol
I’d run into the bathroom when my big sister was in the tub and start peeing in it. When my mom gave me “the talk” years later, I freaked out because I thought she meant that peeing on a girl got her pregnant.
Nothing too crazy but we used to play a game called "Beuken" which i guess would be dutch for "crushing".
Basically, all but 1 of our friends would group up in a line outwards from a wall whilst the 1 friend that's not in line would crush as hard as he could into us so we'd be sandwiched between the wall and him. 1 of our friends was pretty big and heavy so it was safe to say we were in allot of pain if it was his turn to be the crusher.
We were not the brightest of kids..
*rephrased sentence
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played a game that I sort of made up all from playing mechwarrior as a kid. We would throw the tennis ball at each other and whatever was hit, you "lost." An arm, a leg, you can't use that appendage. I think headshots or body shots were instant dead, but I don't quite remember if there was anything more to it than that.
We played freeze tag on the lines of the basketball court and called it pacman
Basically pacman froze people who were then roadblocks, you couldn't pass them because you had to stay on the lines but neither could pacman so if you got a roadblock either side of you with no way for pacman to get in. You won. It meant pacman couldn't just go around freezing everyone, they had to be strategic.
Hide from cars. When my friends came over, we would wait until night time and go to the front yard. When we saw some headlights approaching from behind the crest of the small hill our street was on, we would have a few moments to try and find a place in the yard that would partially obscure us from view. It couldn’t be too obvious like hiding behind the fence or the cars in the driveway, but I remember hiding behind small bushes, lying down behind a rock or climbing the tree and hiding in the scrub and then trying to keep perfectly still. Pretty sure the cars could almost always see us, but it was a bit of a thrill anyway as little kids.
The name of the game is Potato. In potato, all the players gather on a couch, which they pretend is the inside of a potato. They’re a famous rock band, trapped inside this potato. There’s no escaping or anything, and no exterior stimuli, just living your lives as a rock band inside that potato.
I played many, many hours of Potato in the basement during elementary school.
My brother and I would settle things by playing the counting game.
One of us would say a random number and the other one had to answer with a number greater than the last one by at least two but not my more than ten, without stuttering or pausing. Sounds easier than it is.
I know it sounds nerdy but we eventually had to grow out of spitting on the remote and throwing it to each other.
doowi1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I barely remember this but when I was in 6th grade or so I went to daycamp. The day was split up into activities, some of which had us spending a lot of time in the forest. During the break between activities, a couple kids sat down on some logs and began placing sticks and rocks in the dirt. Four of them began to "play" this complicated dungeon game. I honestly forget the rules but I recall acorns being player pieces, there being a minotaur you had to avoid, Medusa who would turn your player to stone for a set number of turns. I really wish I remembered how to play because I've been wanting to replay it for almost a decade.
I used to tie my feet together and swim in the pool ‘like mermaid’. I would ‘swim’ more like ‘limp’ away from the pool vacuum and pretend it was a shark. My parents would get mad at me for ‘almost killing myself’, so I usually did this when no one was home and when I wasn’t supposed to be in the pool. I’m lucky to be alive given all the stupid shit I would pull.
Me and my friends at school played Zombies. One guy started off as the zombie while the rest of us where armed humans. The zombie would try to sneak on the humans and "bite" them. If a human got bit they would lay down for some time and after that they would come back as a zombie. The humans could "shoot" the zombies with their finger guns and everyone did a great job of pretending to getting shot at and falling down, giving time for the humans to escape. Loads of fun.
My step-sister and I used to share a bedroom. We would pretend that we were orphans living in a terrible orphanage and every night we would talk to our friends in the walls and plan our escape. We pretended the hallway outside our bedroom had a laser grid we had to maneuver to get to the kitchen to steal scraps of food.
We played Hobo Run on our school playground back in the day. It was basically Tackle Football, without the ball, and a mix of Cops and Robbers. There were the Hobos and the Hobo Catchers, who had to tackle the Hobos and keep them held up somewhere, while the hobos broke them out. There were alliances and betrayals and a secret team called the Money Bags team. It became a lifestyle for several months untill a girl broke her arm, or someone called someone a dirty hobo mid class, and we were forced to stop. But we’d always start back up the next year.
My friends and I would run through a fairly magical-looking area of the forest near my house pretending we were fairies. We had fairy names for each other and everything. We also would harvest wild chives growing in the forest and make chains out of them - you know, in stead of flowers like normal kids.
A game I called 'Prey.' No, not the video game. Basically, one person was the prey, and the others were predators. The predators had to catch the prey but be on all fours until pouncing, which had to be a leap up and tagging the other person. No tackling was allowed. Predators also had to spread out. The prey had to get to a a designated safe spot with no running allowed, only walking. The predators were only allowed to move at a steady crawl when the prey was not looking at them, peripheral counted enough that two close-together predators had to remain still if being watched. If looked at, the predators had to freeze in their tracks. Prey could only move forward if looking forward where they were going. So, it was kind of a strategic red light/green light and tag mix, but we all acted like animals, too.
I grew up on a farm. There was a drainage tile that ran between our house and where the pig lots were. During the summer when I was 8-12 years old I would spend my time playing chef with the plants that grew along the tile. The unique part being that a main “ingredient” was poison hemlock.
I played siege with my friend in my basement. We set up forts out of like pillows and chairs and just fucking launch shit at each other. Probably the heaviest thing was a basketball. It was fucking great. The mess was bad though.
Catch the Bee. When I was in elementary school I used to catch bees in my hand to feel them flutter around and then open my hands to let them go. We had a pink flower bush that we called the bee bush because a lot of bees was always hanging around it. I didn't realize bees stung, until one of them decided to take one for the team and sting me. Lesson learned lol.
we loved harry Harry Potter and so played a game called "filtch" we had bases set up as the houses, one spot labed the library, one the dungeon, and the rest of the area were the grounds. it was basically a modified manhunt, where filtch had a flashlight, and a stuffed cat that meowed really loud if you stepped on it. At the start, everyone hides in their house, and filtch hides his cat and an agreed upon item that you have to find. If he catches you out of your house you go to the dungeon. your housemates have to break you out and get you safely to your dorm. at the end of every round, the house that got the item gets a point. if you didn't save a housemate you lose a point, and they become filtch. whoever has the most house points by dinner time lol jk by the time you guys quit playing, wins!. we had a whole neighborhood with a community backyard and different kids play houses to work with. so much fun!
edit: when it got bigger, we added "ghosts" who would help filtch find and capture students. totally forgot about that though.
TL:DR - Offshoot and built up game of manhunt involving a harry potter theme!.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See who could shit their pants the fastest after supper. Father usually won!
When we were really little, we used to go "sledding" down the stairs. The best sleds were these lap desks we had for coloring. Smooth plastic surface for writing, beanbag cushion for your lap. Flip it over and that motherfucker was built for speeding down a carpeted staircase. Of course, that only worked when we were small enough to huddle on it, but with a good shove, there was legit air time. When we outgrew the lap desks, laundry baskets were an acceptable substitute.
Me, my friends, neighbors or siblings would play this game called bloody wolf. One person was the "bloody wolf" and would go hide somewhere in the yard at night. We had a pretty big yard and lots of trees and bushes so it made it fun. After a countdown everyone else had to split up and look for the bloody wolf and you weren't allowed to stick together, you had to split up. The goal of the bloody wolf was to tag the hunters, whether it be by sneaking up on them or getting found and chasing them. Whenever the bloody wolf was spotted, whoever spotted them would yell, "bloody wolf!!" and everyone who heard it would try to sprint back to the safe spot as the bloody wolf was casing whoever they saw, usually the mailbox out front. It was such a fun adrenaline pumping game as a kid. Playing at night made it so much better.
Me and my siblings had always wanted a trampoline so when we finally got one we were very excited. We would spend hours everyday playing in the trampoline.
One day we came up with a game where one person lays on their back in the middle and tries to “tag” everyone using only their feet whilst the others try and “juke” the tagger.
This game had many childhood rules (that of course we made up on the spot) but was also very fun and reminds me of the simpler times in my life.
When I got out of bad and removed the plug, I imagined the bathroom would explode once the bath was drained so I had to make sure I was dried up and ready before that. I knew it was bullshit, but I played that for years.
My brothers and me would make an airplane course. We would build paper airplanes and take turns at different segments in a room. For example, “your plane has to touch go around the corner in order to progress”. It was the greatest fun 8 year old me would have for hours
Finally, an opportunity to talk about the game myself and my siblings called “Trash Can”.
The game was simple. We had a large plastic trash can that had a cover that slipped on sort of like a Tupperware, so if it was put on it wouldn’t fall right off. One of us would get into the trash can, and the others would secure the lid. The others would then proceed to spin the can around, and then drag it on an intricate path around the yard/basement/house/wherever we were playing. Eventually they would stop, and the player in the can would have to guess exactly where they were, based off of an attempt to remain oriented the whole time.
Used to play pokemon with my brother in the backyard. Except it wasn't pokemon, we just made up our own creatures and gave them whatever power we wanted then made up the bad guys and fights as we went. The weirdest part is that we would only ever play this on the trampoline.
Hide and go seek in the dark. Inside with the place as dark as possible (obviously lol), no one was allowed to stand. And the person who was it had a towel. When they found someone they had to wrap the towel around the other to make them ‘it’
We had so much fun crawling and crouching while trying to remain quiet.
Caobei · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja ThunderCats, a variation of hide and go seek played in our neighborhood. You had the powers of you character (which you were most likely assigned because the bigger kids took the adults first). We hid but could use special powers to get out of tight situations. We played over the backyards of many houses, it was the bomb.
After watching The Godfather, we became somewhat obsessed with Mafia antiques. For about a month, we started our own family and had training drills. (I.e. dodge rocks, scale playground, etc.) Never amounted to anything but it was definitely something.
Boogle. yes boogle. you get on your knees and try and sideswipe the opponent until they fall over. We got to the point of creating a storyline involving a nationwide banning of the sport and it only occurring in underground rings. One time me and my cousin my age went up against his older brother, in one swipe he threw us both across the room. Magnificent.
When we were a little more grown up and had access to cars, we would play something called “hostage” you’d have two teams split up between drivers and hostages. After setting up boundaries the drivers would blindfold the hostages and drive them wherever they could given the 7 minute time limit. After making tons of unnecessary turns and dropping their hostage off, the game was to locate all your teams hostages and make it back to the home base before the other team!
Spin in circles while staring up at the stars until a friend shined a flashlight in your face unexpectedly. It makes you fall flat on your back. Super fun!
At (around 12years old) school Lunch we used to play "Valley of death"
In one long corridor around 25 students would line up along either side to create the valley of death. Then someone stupid or brave would step up and try to make it from one end to the other while everyone else basically beat the crap out of them.
There was a BIG guy who could get pretty close. At that age people are pretty varied in size so it could take a group of 6+ little Fellas pushing against the big guys chest just to slow him down. Throwing people over his shoulder as he went like an ogre.
Every summer all my cousins would gather in one house for weeks. We would gather all the cushions/pillows in the house and lay them on the floor. One person would be picked to be 'on'and would wait outside, and the rest would lay down on the make-shift bed and be covered by a thick layer of blankets of duvets. The lights would then go off and the person that was on would walk in, and jump on the mass of people and blankets with the aim of trying to make them make a noise, they'd then be out and you team up until there's only one person left. Game ended with my brother breaking an eye socket courtesy of the people's elbow. Good Times
Tiger! We had a trampoline with a net growing up and I would pretend to be a tiger lunging at my little sister and her friends. Funnest part was leg sweeping them into oblivion.
It’s spoons (the card game) but with clear plastic spoons. Every spoon that is used (the ones you grab) are thrown into a pool but one. On land you play spoons; whoever gets the 4 match grabs the one spoon on the table and everyone else dives into the pool looking for the rest of the spoons till someone gets out. Clear ones work best because you can’t see them underwater.
I remember it rather vaguely because I was playing it with my much older siblings. Well here it goes, all players hold their hands in a circle except one who is called the Demiurg. (Player was chosen by his story-telling and mimical abilities) . This player starts off by narrating the story of despicable Demiurg and finally reveals himself (Ik dumb but kids are dumb). Afterwards we had 5 secs to grab some material which was his cryptonite. (His weakness material was hidden in his story) It sounds really shitty but as a kid it really daunted me. The eery mimics and motions of this creature were just sooo disturbing.
My cousin and I used to play "Tornado Drop" where we'd close our eyes closed and arms stretches out and spin as fast as we could in the yard. The goal was to be the last one standing. Lots of accidental bloody noses cause we'd inevitably end up hitting one another haha.
Also, my brother and I would throw thick blankets over ourselves and walk blindly about the house. Sounds dumb, cause I guess we could've just closed our eyes but it changed the atmosphere more while also acting as a cushion in case we hit something.
My sisters still play it today sometimes for old times sake play a game we made called ‘woko’. We’re all on a ripstick/wave board and all have a hockey sticks in hand. There’s one football sized bouncy ball and we have to hit each other with the ball. You get points for where you hit the others. 1 for board and legs. Two for torso and arms. 3 for the bum. 4 for between the legs. Zero for the head.
My older brother and I used to play this game called "Foot Wars" where we'd lay down in the back of the car with our feet together and basically like... push the other person's feet towards them. I'm not really sure what the goal was. Anyway, our mom was finally like "wtf are you guys doing" and when we told her we were playing a game called Foot Wars, she said that was too violent and we needed to stop. So we changed the name to Foot Fun and continued pushing our feet for no reason.
Me and my brothers used to play a game we made up called shade run. When we went outside we had to find a spot with shade and when the clouds covered the sun we had to run and find another shady spot. If we couldn't find another spot before the sun came back out we was out or if the sun hit us we was out.
I loved airplanes as far back as I remember. When I was a child whenever I get in the family car (always in the back seat) I start pretending I'm a pilot going through the start up routine - turning dials, flipping switches all over the place. Even made my own sound effects of jet engines starting up. And at the time I've never even been in an airplane!
I used to line up two parallel rows of paper towel squares on the floor with the row on the left having one more paper towel at the front. I would then put one stuffed animal on each paper towel and sit myself on the one at the front of the row on the left and pretend I was a bus driver and the stuffed animals were my passengers. The really weird thing is my mom didn't realize I was autistic until my junior year of high school.
We had these buckets for our stuffed animals that we were big enough to fit inside. We'd take turns rolling each other down the hall in them. We called it "Washing Machine."
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My gran has a jar of cotton wool balls she uses to remove her make-up. I locked myself in her bathroom and stuck them up my asshole, because the colours appealed to me.
Around end of May, when monsoon began in India, we used to run around with a bag to collect the mangoes that used to fall when the winds blew wildly and one of the rule was whoever got hit on the head with a falling mango that mango belonged to them and no one else.
During summer we used to go swimming pool. We used to divide teams in two and then one team would hide a coin, or anything small really, and the other had to find it.
We used to play hotel. Made utensils from soil and used various leaves to make different food and used to dig a trench and pour water in it and that was our Chai.
Also remember the show Legends of the Hidden Temple? We tried our best to recreate the whole thing on our roof, did a pretty job actually.
Ah, good days.
4zho · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it “Paper Armies.” I’d draw fantastical creatures on paper, color them in with color pencil, cut them out, and flatten them under a dictionary for a few hours to get them perfectly flat. Then I’d have wars between the left-facers and the right-facers, using the patterns in the rug as terrain. Because I hated creatures overlapping, ground units always fought 1v1 with a few units each for air support. At one point I cut out a dragon and dragon wing separately and stuck a pin in the connecting joints so that the wing could move. That thing was my prized possession for awhile.
My uncle and I would play this game where he would sit me on his lap and then put his thumb in my butt. Then he would show me both of his hands but I could still feel the thumb. It was a pretty fun game.
I imagined a ray coming from the centre of my forehead and tried to point my head so the the ray would either hit the corner of the room or the floor (pointing your head straight down doesn't count), because then nobody could read my thoughts.
W360 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jungle Pong, it was a version of ping pong that could only be played in a large basement with a concrete floor. Basically it was regular ping pong but the ball had to bounce twice on the floor to score a point and you could hit it into the net.
I taught my friends about ‘jet riders’ where you would pleasure yourself on the jets of a pool. The name of the game probably damn near killed my parents as it came from an argument they had where my dad yelled ‘We’re raising a fucking jet rider! This needs to stop.’
The first floor of our house was basically laid out like a big circle. As in, you could walk in the front door, go right through the kitchen, go right again through the dining room, another right through the living room and wind up back in the front hall. There weren’t any doors separating the rooms, so my brother and I devised a game where we’d run in opposite directions and either bang into each other, or hide behind furniture/in the hall closet/at the top of the stairs and pop out and scare the other one. Then we’d start all over.
I might text my brother “You go this way I’ll go that way” and see what happens. We were like 9 and 7 the last time we played.
I still don’t fully understand the game mechanics, as I was about 8-10 yrs old when me and my cousins played it.
The basic concept was freeze tag, but with a very weird back story involving a princess, knights, and a main character named Roam the Bee. I have no idea why.
Dinosaur. My sister and I grew up in a very rural area with about an acre of land at our disposal. Coincidentally one of our favorite movies was the Land Before Time with the "long necks" being our favorite dinosaurs.
We would go out into the woods to find the perfect dinosaur stick; a long straight branch that would resemble a neck. These dinosaurs would drink from the creek and fight each other like giraffes.
Kids are weird.
b0ingy · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie: Kinda like tag, except when you get tagged, you become another zombie. It continues this was until only 1 non-zombie is left. Then that person is the next zombie, and the game starts again. Also, the zombie hides a talisman somewhere. If found, it can be used to convert a zombie back to a person. If the talisman is found, the last zombie standing is the next zombie.
We’d also go to the mall and play “spies”. We’d pick a random person, and tail them. We were actually pretty good at it. Never got caught.
We used to play ‘sumos’ on the concrete netball court in our school. 2 people would stand on either side of the shooting circle, then the other kids would do a countdown “3, 2, 1.... zumooooss” and we would fight until we pushed our competitor to the floor and pinned them down for at least 5 seconds with all the kids doing countdown at the end. It was absolutely brutal.
yzRPhu · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would push each other down on the bed nearest the windowsill. Only one person ever lost, needless to say there was blood.
Rules: Two person game. Nighttime. Outside. Most fun in foggy weather, or a dark cloudless night with a new moon. One person is Guard and he hides a box. Other person is ninja tries to find it without being spotted by the guard. If the guard spots the Ninja, he alerts and earns five points. If the Ninja can approach the guard without being spotted and make it within five yards, he can "kill" the guard and earn 1 point. If the Ninja finds the box, and escapes without being spotted, he earns ten points. Switch sides after either earns points. Both players typically wear all black, and the guard carries a flashlight. In retrospect we should have forced the guard to hide two things to even the game or expanded the game to include multiple ninjas, since I don't think anyone ever found the box.
My friends and I played a game we called "Zaku Zaku" for no other reason than we were obsessed with Gundam in middle school.
It was played on a set of metal bleachers that were 5 seats high. A person would stand on the middle section. The other players would try to make it to the top and back down without being tagged by the person on the middle step. Tons of fun and only a few kids fell off the top or tripped with their face straight into a step.
Me and the neighbor guy my age used to just put nails into a 2x4 for hours.
Wasted a lot of nails and always thought we were building awesome furniture or a house, but at the end of the day it was one piece of wood with a bunch of nails.
My friend and I would make a whole town out of chalk on my very big driveway. It had a grocery store, gas station, library, you name it. Lol! We would drive around the roads on our scooters, that was my favorite. Every time it'd rain, we'd draw it again. My dad was not happy lmao
My brother and I used to play "I'm in Charge" which is where you forcefully dunk the other under the water in the pool while screaming "I'm in charge!!!!". I don't know what was wrong with us,
Don't remember the name, but there was a star wars game in the age of empires format. With several expansions, campaigns, heroes and factions. Including gungans. Fun as hell.
I played this game called “what is my dad going to do while drunk this time?” Hit me? Berate me? Turn into a religious zealot for the next month? Talk about how he can get my mom back? Give me money? Break things? Talk about killing my stepdad? Say my mom is a whore? Or be super nice to me? The suspense was real.
A group of my close friends in middle school would stay up late so the parents were asleep and play this game where we would each try to make the worst concoction we could using ingredients from the fridge, and then at the end we each got to dare each other to do something or take a drink. Some of these ended up being made with like horseradish, soy sauce, mustard, pickle juice, etc. Pure toxic barf juice
We used to make each other eat raw eggs or worms, moon people in traffic, drink liquor and whatever else. It was really just laughing at each other's torture more than having fun lmao
Buddy had a long ass hallway with a door in the center. We’d run down as fast as we could and had a person in the doorway with a tennis ball. You’d have to hit the person running down the hallway past the doorway. Pretty tough. Miss time like this. Also threw darts at the ceiling while laying down on our backs. Not the smartest game to play.
Amoeba man.
One of my two brothers and I would slowly walk around with a duvet covering or heads, moaning “AAAMOOEEEEEBAA MAAAAAAAANN”. The other two have to try and bring him down without being caught in Amoeba Man’s clutches.
We would play chef. There was three of us so we had cooking shows like cook offs with one of us as judge. We would grab things like grapes, weeds, flowers any thing we could use to make up a "dish".
When I was a kid I managed to rent a nintendo game called "The Wall Street Kid". I became fascinated by the stock market and decided I'd pretend to have $10,000 and trade stocks in the newspaper.
Every morning when the newspaper came I'd ask for the stocks section and my family would wonder what the fuck was wrong with me and why I was so excited to see the stocks section.
I kept a ledger full of transactions for over a year, full of multiplications and divisions on how much I made day trading stocks.
This question just made me remember the game "Sven Bømwøllen". Totally forgot I ever played it until now (I was like 6 or 7 years old), didn't really know what it was about. Its basically a game about sheep intercourse.
My friends and I would all gather every Saturday night at the stop sign in the middle of our neighborhood to play an intense game of manhunt. We would select who would be “it” and start counting to 100 at the stop sign. The rest of us would all the then take off all around our neighborhood and hide in backyards, under cars, in big ole bush boys, anything, you name it until they either found us or we made it back home to base. We played no puppy guarding but being kids, it still happened, all the time.
At my church there was this playroom that was chock full of toys. you could hardly walk around without stepping on something. This room was on the ground floor and had no windows. If you turned off the light it was so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
We'd all stand at the door and throw these kickball things around the room, then turn off the lights and scatter. The game was dodgeball but in complete darkness. After the initial scattering, there would be utter silence as we all tried to figure out where the other people were. Someone would make a noise (by throwing something or accidentally stepping on a toy) and the room would erupt in movement as shit flew everywhere. It was chaotic and fun and I'd probably still play it today.
We used to play a game called "speed bump" where we would lay down in the middle of the road until a car came and we would all scream speed bump to see if they would stop. Surprised none of us died.
We inadvertently invented tabletop wargaming except with Beanie Babies and using the furniture as terrain. We made up the rules as we went along and which animals could do what. It got pretty complex at times, with cover and elevation, command morale and zones of control. Never wrote anything down, but it was basically Warhammer for ages 5-10.
I had six brothers and we were “homeschooled” for several years although my mom and dad both worked. We would play a game we called blind mans creek. We would gang up on one brother and throw a large blanket over them like a net to catch them and then hold them under the blanket and hit them with broom sticks lol we loved it. We had another game called mouse in which if one brother was asleep someone would sprinkle shredded cheese on their stomach and make on the younger brothers eat the cheese off the stomach and if they woke up the sleeper they got blind man creeked. Pretty weird but we all had fun
We would go on the trampoline, and one person would be covered with a sheet and try to grab the other person. It was all fun and games until that one clumsy friend fell off the trampoline and told the adults. We weren’t allowed to play “the mummy game” after that.
This game was very popular when I was still in elementary. It was a childish game, typically played when you’re having a lame, boring class.
The game’s usually played between 4-5 players. So, first, everyone gets themselves a small piece of paper and write a someone else’s name, e.g. a mutual friend, a random teacher at school, X’s mum. without telling each other. After folding the paper several times to hide their writing, each player would then have to pass their paper to the person next to them in a circle.
Next, each player writes a random verb. Here, we all try to be unique and choose a silly verb like “swats”, “is licking”, “is sitting on”, “is leering at”, “is sucking”, “is ogling”. Fold, and pass the paper again.
After that, each player writes somebody else’s name but with ‘s (I don’t know the appropriate term for it so forgive me), like “Karen’s”, or even “her/his own”. Again, fold and pass the paper.
Then, each player writes a random body-part noun. And yes, you can guess what curious twelve year old kids would typically write: “ass”, “boobs” etc. Fold and pass the paper again.
Last one: add a random adverb like “incessantly”, “day and night”, “with all his/her might”, “happily”, “to his/her heart’s content” etc. Fold and pass the paper.
Each player then unfolds the paper and reads it. The resulting sentence is therefore a result of the creativity between all the players and without teamwork, wouldn’t result in a ludicrous, humorous adage!
Because our native language has a different word order to English, the third and fourth step is reversed though. This game brought super nostalgic feelings and my friends and I occassionally played it even in high school. The hardest part was when you had to suppress your laugh after reading the ridiculous content of that folded paper.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soccer with a chair
Nocrya · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and my siblings would either
a) Pretend we were a giant family (two parents and 5 kids) during World War II, my cousin would talk as if it was the news on the radio, my sister would be the mom looking over her 5 kids, we'd cuddle in huge blankets and pretend it was a cold winter
b) Run a restaurant (my grandpa had built a replica of a small house with a frying pan and kitchen), and we'd either be the waiter, the cook or the rich clients.
Nutball: two guys sit across the room from each other or down a long hallway, legs spread wide, and lob a tennis ball at each other's crotch. The ball had to go a certain height (above your opponent's head) so you couldn't just throw a fastball at the other person's crotch. No jeans or long pants of any kind allowed, only thin basketball shorts. First guy to give up loses.
The girls in our group always wanted to play but weren't allowed because, ya know, far less pain
Me, my cousin and my neighbour used to go down do an area that was actually a sort flood prevention thing near a stream and it had little collections of trees and bushes that you could go into. They were all separated and we used to be little villagers. One bush/tree thing by the stream was a fisherman's hut, one was a sort of black smiths with a little stump we Hammered on and another was a place for like, gear and stuff. I don't remember in detail but it was super wholesome. We used leaves as currency and long sticks to fish the "sea weed" out of stream and trade with each other.
Guess the color by touch. I remember impressing a lot of people by guessing the color their shirts were under their jackets.. I don't remember how often I was correct and if time has screwed the memory but I feel like I was correct the majority of times. Though my current logical mind is a uneasy by that idea.
Art museum. My sister or I would pretend to be a sculpture and then the other would be a discerning art critic and hate the sculpture and push it over in disgust. That was it. Willingly pushing each other other.
Not sure if unique but me and my cousin used to played barefoot mango wars, around 6-8 year old, basically we would walk over shattered glass, pointy rocks, nails, really hot surfaces, and trees and just whatever surface skillfully while throwing worm filled mangoes at each other; the first one to cry was the loser; we'd always end up with something stuck in our feet and we had to take it out and do first aid ourselves.
What is curious about this kind of play is that due to spending so much time barefoot the shape of the feet change; even nowadays, we both need wider shoes since the feet are somewhat more spread. I was born with slightly deformed feet, flat and skinny, but just with that play my bone structure changed and became normal and healthy saving my mom a lot of money in correction, apparently orthopedic shoes vs being barefoot, you can just fix a lot of issues just by being barefoot and let nature run its course.
My brothers and I had this game we would play that we called "Chubby". We would take as many pillows as we could, stand at each end of a long hallway and bash into each other with a pillow protected chest bump. A lot of fun and no hospital visits!
Me and my friends would play a game we’re one of us had to stalk the others and “kill” each of them one by one by tagging them. You were supposed to try to stay hidden from the others and we usually played it at night so it was basically stealth tag.
hxx6 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have duplo blocks and I would draw faces of Spongebob characters on them. Then I would get a bunch of blankets and chairs and make the bikini Bottom. The weirdest part is that I aways made Larry the lobster super big.
Dart tag. We would use a single shot foam dart gun to tag each other with and would run around the house at night in our socks with the lights off and usually a strobe light and loud music playing.
In elementary school my friend and I made up this game called shockers where we would both slide down the big plastic tornado slide together (which generated large amounts of static electricity) and see who could give the other the biggest static shock. Whenever we could create a visible arc of static it was the coolest thing. Good times.
Brother and I played smash 'em up derby. One would ride down the driveway between the two cars on our crappy old scooter while the other pushed our rusty metal Tonka dump truck down the street. Point was to crash. Don't remember anyone getting seriously injured or tetanus.
Instead of hide and seek, we played "Hide and Scare" - the object of which was for the hider to scare the shit out of the seeker before they found 'em.
I strongly suspect this is part of the reason I have worked in the haunted house industry for the last 23 years.....
It was a game only I played, and you played by lying down completely covered by blankets and pillows. And that’s it. No idea what I got out of it, but my family will never let me live it down.
I used to make football teams out of pens, use a marble for a ball and VHS cases for goals (in like a H shape). I had various international teams based on the colours of the pens, thicker pens tended to be in goal or defenders, midfielders were slight (used pencils mainly...BUT only short ones) and the forwards were medium-ish. It was 6 a side!
Having a rather good sense of imagination I had names for various players - most of which were completely made up; Tempastilli the Italian star striker, the scandal when he was transferred to France ooof.
kev0h · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would take two LARGE couch cushions and hold them like baseball bats. Then, our respective little brothers, obviously cousins as well, would run at us full speed, and vault off an ottoman. While they were airborne, we would swing our couch cushion baseball bats and just SMASH them mid air, often causing them to twist and tumble in the air, and then come crashing onto the remaining couch cushions we’d arrange into a sort of mat, and land in an awkward position. Amazingly, there were never any broken bones. Lots of laughs and tears though. To be a kid again...
My best friend and I, back when we were in 3rd-4th grade, used to play this “game” every Wednesday during lunch recess. Every Wednesday, the tornado warning sirens would test at like noon or something. It was just a few minutes after we’d be let out to play for recess in the playground ever day. It was timed perfectly when we’d reach the park. Once we got in the gate (we were typically side by side) we’d yell “head for the hills!” and we would book it across the playground and field all the way to one of the far corners. (This playground took up a whole city block. Had a track to run and such.) By the time were we’re halfway across, the siren would start. It was extremely loud because it was right on top of our school. The corner we’d run to had an extremely small “hill” for us to lay behind. The ground pretty much shlumped down into the corner of the fence . We’d lay and hide there until the sirens finished. During the sirens, we pretended that everyone else was getting sucked up into a tornado or something. Once done, we just casually got up and walked to the playground.
21 years later we are still best friends and make up some goofy shit.
Well we had a pretty bad hurricane one year when entire forests of trees came down. We essentially played the floor is lava, but while running across fallen trees. Must have played it for years as they never cleaned up the toppled forest. Probably some of my best childhood memories. Many injuries occurred of course.
Absolutely the best game ever. It's set in the Looney toons universe. You play as the Coyote, and you try to steal sheep from the Sheepdogs view, and into a designated location.
First level is quiet simple, you slingshot from one floating island into another, etc.
Last once is wild, youre in space, on the martians space ship, getting around aliens.
J still remember putting in cheat codes at certain places to get extra levels.
Damn, that was the best game ever for me.
Ampian · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when i was real little, like 4-7, my dad and i would just... throw bouncy balls up and down the stairs. My dad stood at the bottom and threw them up and I would be at the top throwing them back down. There wasn't really a point to the game... but my brother and I liked it so my dad kept doing it I guess lmao
My friend had a massive tree in the middle of his yard. It had to be like 30 feet tall and the branches spanned the entire thing.
We were bored one day and came up with a game where we would kick the ball into the tree and try and catch it when it fell out.
0 bounces: 100
1 bounce: 50
2 bounces: 25
I don’t know why we skipped 75 haha but the ball surprisingly only got stuck like 20% of the time. And we just kept playing the game throughout elementary and middle school. Eventually trying to do trick shots and kicking the ball through certain branches and whatnot.
I’m sure I’d have a lot of fun with it even today.
We had a game when we were around 12 where we tied an old door to the back of a quad bike. One of us drove the quad in a big lap of the field while we all tried to stay on the door and tackle each other off it
Butt tag. Me and my friends would play regular tag with our butts instead of hands. We thought it was funny because the person tagging people would have to run around backwords.
Me and my brother and sister would go on the trampoline and sit jump. If anybody doesn’t know what that is it’s when you jump then land on your but ok a trampoline. We called it a sump. We had sumpathons where we continuously sump, without taking a break or falling, and whoever got out first lost. We would play for hours because we were competitive. It was a big part of my childhood.
ad3420 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FINALLY I have wanted to tell someone this for so long. Me & my cousins made up a game, or should I say the older cousins. It’s called colored eggs. Basically home base was a stand up swing where 3-4 of us would cram onto and one person was the “big bad wolf” so basically the routine is the people on the swing each pick an individual color and a “family” color. The dialogue at the beginning of the game is the same starting with the big bad wolf. “Knock knock” “who’s there” “the big bad wolf” “what do you want?” “Colored eggs.” “What color?” This was always the exact same dialogue and basically if your color was called you had to make a lap around the house without the big bad wolf touching you back to home base which was the swing. Also family color meant everyone had to run. I’m pretty proud of this game.
We used to play "shit in a bucket" at my friends house. We would find a bunch of random stuff in my friends backyard, wiffle-ball bats, kickboards, toy firetruck, anything. And set up a garbage bucket at the other end of the yard, then try to toss the shit into the bucket.
We used to have this fireworks called "canchinflines" they fly away and whistle while doing so, so, we used them as ammunition for our "Umbrella stick weapons", burnt clothes, fingers, faces. A lot of fun.
Across the street football. We lived in suburbia, and the best place to play football was just across the street. To start the game there were two teams, each on a different side of the road on a driveway. The defending team would have to kick the ball to the other side of the street, attempting to put it out of reach for the other team to catch. If the other team manages to catch it in air, whether it hits a tree or a car or anything, they are now on offense and have as many passes they want to get the ball into the end zone. There were very little boundaries established other than the end zone, so people would often run around the whole neighborhood just to get into the end zone. Often times we had teams of 4-8, so we had some pretty intense games. I remember asking my neighbor to use his yard and promptly kicking a ball into his house that knocked his picture off the wall. Good times!
Me and a friend of mine combined Risk and Monopoly into one game. It basically turned into a version of Risk with money in which you could buy additional armies or trade territories with other player.
SgtEri · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doubt this will get much attention, but in 4th grade me and a friend who was in 5th grade would always play this game called S.E.W (he made up the acronym, i made fun of him for it) it was basically a LARPING of us pretending to be heroes. we stopped playing it one day for whatever reason, but now i have the word “hero” associated with him.
Me, my sister, & my neighbor would pretend that we had to cut the grass with only our hands.
I also liked to play teacher. We would gather all our stuffed animals up as students. Somehow we got ahold of those plastic films from those old projectors that teachers used. I loved writing on them.
When I was a kid there was an inordinate amount of kids playing Harry Potter and others playing Star Wars.
So basically the 4th and 5th grade classes were waving sticks around the playground making special effects noises at invisible opponents. I was one of the Star Wars-kids, I look back at these memories in horror.
But it's always good when others' cringe out-weighs your own. The real embarrassment came in when "Quidditch" was unofficially made an actual sport in gym class. Kids just ran around kicking a ball with brooms between their legs.
Us Star Wars kids looks on judging them as we swung around sticks while making lightsaber noises and pretended to use The Force on things and each other. Boy, were we the cool ones.
We had a spare bedroom in the basement, my sister and I would drag the mattress or and place it next to the stairs and see who could do the best jump off the stairs onto the mattress
Soft stuff war, my bros and I would make fortresses then collect every soft toy in the house, then yell go, then just throw everything you got until you run out of ammunition. The goal to hurt each other but not too badly.
I had a really good friend throughout elementary school who had a pretty heavy amount Asperger’s Syndrome and no one else who really wanted to play with him at recess, but was really fun to make up games and play pretend with. Our main common point was videogames, so we would literally make up a game with a level structure, bosses every x number of levels, upgrades, secret powerups/abilities, etc. every couple of months for years, with one of us “playing” and the other essentially acting as a Dungeon Master. Occasionally we had others join in and we’d say it was co-op or something, or we’d have “on-rails shooter” segments on the swingsets. It was a pretty big playground (as far as I can remember, it’s probably smaller than tiny me thought it was) so we were able to do our thing without getting in other kids’ way or being made fun of too much.
I’d like to think I made a difference in his life somehow, as he seemed like a pretty troubled kid with pseudo-violent tendencies that apparently came out mostly whenever I wasn’t around or paying attention (he might’ve just been having an early “edgy” phase though, like I remember him saying that his favorite Sonic game is Shadow the Hedgehog “because it had guns and was realistic”). Last time I saw him was also the last day of elementary school from across the cafeteria, he was crying and more or less avoiding me, and I later learned he moved away that summer. I’m in college now and think about the guy every now and then, I’m sure I could find him on Facebook or something if I really tried but that just doesn’t feel right to me...
We use to play a game called flyswatter. My dad would chase us around the house with a rolled up newspaper and try to smack me and my brother as we pretended to be flies flying around. He never hit us hard, and sometimes instead he'd use a spray bottle full of water. Great game and many great memories!
Me and my brother used to play "ready, steady, cook" every weekend together. This usually consistented of throwing crushed up crisps into baked beans, in a bowl, mixing it all up with a dash of ketchup and some melted cheese, putting it over toast and making our own variations with different flavoured crisps. So basically enhanced beans on toast.
Whenever one of our friends came over we made them take part too...until someone decided to throw yoghurt in with baked beans along with chocolate buttons. We all tasted it and yes, it was disgusting.
a couple grade school buddies and I "invented" a game called Mighty Stupid Grizzly Bear. One person was the grizzly bear, his job was to tag the victims. If a victim was tagged they became a bear cub. The bear cubs could not tag but they would tackle/restrain victims for the grizzly bear to tag. Last victim alive won.
Turned into a big hit at my school and we'd have massive 20-30 player games going at recess. Unfortunately, it was also pretty rough game for the victims. After a few injures the teachers kibashed it. It would return from time to time for a few weeks until being kibashed again. Fun times getting gang tackled by a pack of "bear cubs" on the playground.
vrbart · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“boosh”: tag but you had to slap the other person’s butt and yell BOOSH!
My sister and I would play "the crazy mountain game"
One of us would sit on our hands and knees with a duvet covering us, the other would stand on their back then the person on their hands and knees would shake about and try to get the other person to fall off.
In primary school, my best friend and I would go to the back fence after it rained and find fallen branches with leaves to act as large brushes, we would sweep all of the puddles that had collected together to form a long stream of water and we called it the hoover dam
My friends all had parkas with orange lining inside. They turned them inside-out and became lifeboat men. I was the odd one out with my dark blue lining, so I was always the drowning idiot who needed rescuing.
Rapsta · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay I might sound like a cunty kid for this, and that's because for the most part I was, but my idea of fun when I was 5/6 would be to get a stool, pick apples off my neighbours tree in the front of the house, return to my house and step on them all to crush them.
Loads of kids would go run around a forest and hide from one person that was called slender man pretty much hide and seek. It a hell of a lot scarier and darker
Me and my brother used to wrestle. None of us knew how to, neither do we know now. We did it on our parents bed half naked, had our intro songs and all that stuff they have in the WWE. It usually ended with my brother banging his head on the corner and crying. So basically he always won. Which is fucking unfair...
My best friend and I would play “beanie baby wars” where we would knock over a table or a chair for cover and chuck our huge collection of beanie baby’s at eachother. No point system or anything just hit he other person with as many as possable it was the best.
jortt · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Seek and Destroy: Hide and Seek in the pitch dark.
Me and my friend used to play bombs away, he’d lay on the floor on one side of the bed and I would lay on the other. we each had a bag of marbles and we’d hurl them over the bed at each other, it was fun until I chipped my tooth. we never played again after that....... good times
Me and my friend played a game called sniper where we got a sheet of paper, drew buildings and houses on it and drew little stick figures with names all over it. We would then pick three people and write them down on the back. We would take turns sniping characters on the paper and the first one to kill the other persons snipers would win. We came up with it ourselves and played it quite a bit. We thought we were geniuses.
The game where you pretend a little man is jumping across telephone poles when you’re in the car that apparently everyone else played too and never told anyone about it
It's called Alto. You throw a ball up in the air and call out someones name, then they have to catch it and throw the ball in the air and call another name. If they don't catch it everyone has to run away from them and when they case the ball. When they get the ball they call alto and everyone has to stop and the person with the ball throw the ball at somebody. If it hits them they lose a life. If they miss the thrower loses a life. You have three lives and you lose them all you're out. My dad and older cousins always threw the ball so high up it would hurt to catch it and if you get hit in the face there is no way in hell you are getting back in the game.
Some ninja game on the Commodore 64 with the OG floppy disks. Another game where you were a caveman. And a summer Olympics game. I can't for the life of me remember the names of those games. :(
When I was bored on a car journey I used to try and time my blinking so that I blinked between cars, or streetlights, or both. Eventually I'd get stuck doing this, unable to blink unconsciously, and it'd give me a headache, so I'd think to myself (God knows why, I was into Beyblade at the time I guess) "3... 2... 1... let it rip... finish now" to snap myself out of it.
My 6 siblings and I played “Runaway Baby.” One of us would play the babysitter, and all the others would play the kids. The babysitter would go in the closet and pretend to talk on the phone. It was the best part, hamming it up and pretending to be tacky and unobservant. Everyone would run away and hide. After the babysitter was done monologuing, they’d go out and hunt for the babies. If you made it back to your bed before getting caught, you won. I don’t remember how we determined who was the babysitter; probably whoever demanded it the most.
We had loving parents and never had babysitters, so we had to pretend to have inattentive adults raising us.
Powzor · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were quite a few, the top games:
“Weapon ball” was a game we played pretty often. It was a spin on tag/dodgeball, but with a twist. The game was limited to the space of the host’s front yard and the “weapons” were whatever sports equipment they had in their garage. There were two hand “weapons” like a hockey stick, lacrosse stick, baseball bat, etc or you could duel wield things like tennis rackets or ping-pong paddles. You could utilize your “weapon” as a shield to deflect the hit. The game would start out with one person doing the throwing and each person tagged joined the thrower. It was always fun because each house had different equipment available and a varied amount of yard space so the games were each different.
Another pretty unique one was a game involving legos. It was purely coincidence but all my neighborhood friends and I were the youngest siblings. So naturally everyone had an abundance of hand-me-down legos. We would basically do a Minecraft simulation prior to Minecraft’s existence. We would scavenge throughout the “day” with limits to what we could gather then “rest” at night for an allotted time. We’d build up our estates for different purposes, typically just to show how far we could get within the timeframe of a given day of hanging out.
Wow, I really hadn’t thought about this in a while. The rush of nostalgia is nice.
Bug hotel. We would go outside and build little buildings by sticking twigs and leaves and rocks Into the dirt to build buildings and seeing who could attract more customers (bugs).
It was hide and seek/man hunt but as each person was caught, they became part of the seeking team so the tide shifted gradually and eventually it was everybody looking for one person. It spanned several neighborhoods and sometimes we had upwards of 20 kids playing. There really wasn't a "base" and there was no "out of bounds" so it could last all day.
Drive by.. We would be doing whatever in the front yard, but when we saw a car coming down the street we would pretend it was coming to do a drive-by shooting and we would dive bomb into the bushes to keep from being shot. If we didn't make it to cover by the time the car drove past we were dead.
At the school ditch at recess during winter, we played a game which we dubbed “Donkey Kong 64”. This game did not involve video games.
Players would stand at random intervals on the slope of the ditch, and the other players would roll down the slope (“the barrels”) who we would jump over. How we didn’t smash someone’s face in IDK but it was so fucking funny thinking back on the shit we used to do lolll
My brother and I played “Knee baseball” in our tiny basement. It was like indoor wiffle ball/baseball except you played it on your knees like knee hockey and with a squishy nerf ball and one of those tiny souvenir bats. We had to stop playing abruptly when my brother got mad after I tagged him out at home and snapped the bat over his knee.
Tapping hands, essentially to make an endless palindromic fractal pattern that keeps growing by orders of magnitude, although that isn't how I would have described it when I was eight.
LRRL = L = L
RLLR = R
RLLR = R
LRRL = L
RLLR = R = R
LRRL = L
LRRL = L
RLLR = R
RLLR = R = R
LRRL = L
LRRL = L
RLLR = R
LRRL = L = L
RLLR = R
RLLR = R
LRRL = L
Now that entire think is a single L and I do it twice again, but reversed, and then once again back the same way again. Then that entire thing becomes one big L, and so on.
When I was ~8 my family went to a renaissance fair and each got a necklace with a different colored pendant. These colors represented the “magic” elements we were given control of. Me and my cousins then spent the next year having epic magic battles. It was really fun trying to make up spells to help you beat someone. My oldest cousin had fire, and he made it very overpowered. I had “essence” which essentially made me a storm shaman.
My dad and I would stand at opposite ends of the concrete path leading from our driveway to the barn, then we would roll croquet balls down the path at each other.
There wasn't really an objective. The path was narrow so if the balls missed each other it was exciting or if they collided it was equally exciting. The only rule was you had to yell "roll em ferndock" before each roll, 5 year old me loved it!
My friend and I played a game we called “Car Alert” when we were little. We would stand right next to the road and when we saw a car we would yell car alert and then run and hide behind trees and bushes and snow forts until the car went by.
Looking back we had a pretty minimal risk of being kidnapped or hit by a car. So I think I’ll pass this one on to my kids.
When my siblings and I were younger we played a game called “Geronimo.” Essentially we had this giant stuffed chair and we’d roll/fall down the stairs with the chair and try not to get hurt. Other games we had were “Star Wars Bowling,” “Roof and Dead,” and “Avalanche.”
Potion/perfume making... I picked all the flowers off my moms bushes and then I put them in spray bottles and I managed to grab some beer and dumped that in and I gave it to my dad telling him it’s better than what he had because it wasn’t smelly
When my brother and I were kids we moved across the country twice, and my parents drove the whole trip. We would also go on long road trips to visit family who lived several states away. During these long drives we would get really bored and eventually came up with a game we called "spot the celebrity", in which we would point out drivers in passing cars and say which celebrity we thought they most closely resembled. It was a good way to pass the time, and made those long drives a little more bearable for us kids. Even our parents got into it after a while.
My younger sister and I would crawl around in the front foyer using the doorways as "goals". We would take a lemon and wooden spoons and basically play knee hockey/mini sticks with a lemon and spoons.
Winner was the first to get to "a lemon" points (11 points)
My friends and I played hunger games in the park Forrest with nerf swords, bows, plastic knifes etc. Also played with food and a circle plan with timers
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made houses for lady bugs. We drew a bunch of rooms on the driveway and labeled them and then we put a few ladybugs on top and just watched them go room to room
My dad and I invented a game called ‘Pig-a-boo’. Basically it was hide and seek, but the hiders had the goal to make it back to home base before the seeker could hit them with a small, stuffed Babe the Pig (like from the movie).
We had a descent sized house so it made it a very fun indoor game. The seeker could throw the pig at the hider or tag them with it. First person tagged or hit with the pig was the seeker next round. 100% would play as an adult.
It was like dodgeball, but we didn’t have soft types of balls so we threw basketballs, footballs, and soccer balls. Many swollen fingers and headaches as a ten year old.
Also used to dig out roads and tunnels in the dirt around my home and playgrounds so my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars had somewhere to drive, race, and park.
My friends had a mini bike, so we would put a lawn chair on top of a Radio Flyer wagon, and then put another lawn chair on top of that. We would tie the wagon to the back of the mini bike. We would start in the garage, and the person driving the mini bike would tear out down the driveway and around the sidewalk, and the person sitting on the wagon on the lawn chairs would topple over onto the grass. I can't remember what we called the game, maybe how to be really stupid. But it sure was fun.
Back in 2002 when I was 12 years old we played "Ninja" one summer. It was basically parkour before parkour was a thing, mixed with the basketball game "Horse", and our obsession with video games.
The idea was one person in the group would choose a dangerous jump, balancing act, or feat of strength in the woods outside our family cabin -- then the other boys would be challenged to emulate it. If they were up to the task then they would be awarded points and eventually "level up". Generally the highest level Ninja present would be the leader of the pack and would try to help work up the less experienced or more scared boys to his level.
Anytime you saw a yellow car, be it while you were on the road or just out and about, you said/shouted, "Yellow Car!" I think it originated from yellow being my favorite color, and so i got excited when i saw a yellow car when was younger, as there are already not very many. From there, it just kind of became a thing that we did.
Bucking broncos.
The neighbors and us would take turns being the “bronco”, which entailed eating something spicy to induce wild bucking. Then a different kid would climb onto the back of the bronco and try not to get bucked off.
Not sure how unique this is, but people look at me weird when I tell it so...
We also had a trampoline. Often times when we would be jumping, there would be a pack of mosquitos that would bug us. It stared with one mosquito, which my brother and I named “Paco”. It came to us, then went away and came back with its whole family to eat us.
We started chanting “go away Paco” and made a dance, similar to what you might call flailing wildly, and would do that every time we got back on the tramp to ensure a safe playtime.
My parents wouldn’t let me have friends so I had to get creative playing on my own.
I used to build stuff without guidance. I would dismantle the radio and attempt to make a hybrid of it with something else (failed), built furniture out of scrap wood (rickety but worked), made nunchucks out of the mop handle (not bad), made hoops out of wire (got smooshed all the time), etc.
When my brothers and I were younger (me and my younger bro were about 10-11 and 7-8 respectively), we would play this game with our neighbor we called "The Game". It was essentially larping with hockey sticks and wiffle ball bats. And we would "pick a race" I.e. elves, men, dwarves. And we would form allainces and attack each others territories. Also was an excuse for my older brother and his friend to gang up on my younger brother and I. Eventually someone would get hurt and there would be crying and "going to tell mom". Was fun as hell looking back.
Police and thief! This is basically our version of tag but with extra steps. Growing up in Malaysia, this game is insanely popular among us kids. So, the setup's like this:
Choosing sides
Participants would huddle together and put one of their feet in the middle to form a circle. One participant would then do their own version of eenie meenie minee moe and whoever gets the end of the stick would be the police. The chosen participant removes his foot from the circle and goes to his jail/safehouse. The next player to get the end of the stick becomes the thief, and this process is repeated until all the players' are out from the huddle.
Starting the round
The thieves would stay in the safehouse while the police squad stays outside the safehouse within a safe distance. The police squad then initiates a countdown of 10 seconds. If nobody bolts out from the safehouse then the entire police squad wins and the game is restarted.
You're under arrest
The squad chases the fleeing thieves. To catch a thief, the police would have to latch onto them for roughly 3 seconds while muttering the countdown of 3 seconds and the phrase "You're under arrest!" If the thief escapes from your latch before the mutter is completed, it's not a valid arrest and he's still on the game. If the police completes it, however, the thief must surrender and stop fighting. The thief is then taken to a jail where some police officers would guard it.
Jailbreak
If you managed to read until this part, you'll see why a lot of the kids would prefer to be thieves. The jailed thieves would hold their hands and form a human line. Those who are not arrested yet can make a pass around the station and bail those thieves by touching the hands of the jailed ones. Once they touched, all the thieves would be free and can run back to their safehouses. However, up until this point, only a certain amount of people can stay in safehouses while the rest of the thieves would have to take one for the team.
Endgame
If all the thieves go into jail the police wins the round.
ElCaz · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple of my friends and I had a laser/phaser game (we would reskin it based on what we were feeling) where we would run around with our fingers pointed like guns and make laser noises. It was completely honour system based, if you got hit, you got hit and you needed to accept that.
Because it was relatively easy to hit a shot, the game was all about ambushing, sneaking, and getting around corners. It was really fun.
The best part is that when we disagreed about a shot, we would settle it with a foam sword lightsaber battle.
Those friends and I came up with lots of cool stuff. We made up a full set of rules to turn green army men into a wargame. We came up with an economy for our snow fort based on different types of snow and ice, with exchange rates and goods could be turned into commodities.
My siblings and i made up this game we named after a snack we used to eat on special occasions. It was this sticky rice cake our mom would fry around chinese new year. The game was that the person who was "it" would try to remove everyone (the "rice cakes") from the package so they can cook it. The rules were simple. All of us had to hide under a big blanket (the "package") and the person who was "it" would try to get us out of the blanket. Everyone huddled under the blanket would hold the ends of the blanket or try to put all their weight on it so that the person who was "it" wouldn't be able to lift it and pull us out. Such fun times lol
We played 'saccing'.
It's a game where you try to stick your hand as far as you can up someones ass (while wearing clothes) while he tries to shake off the other person to avoid being sacced.
There was a small and rather dark park below my apartment (more like a poorly maintained garden area in hindsight) with a bunch of trees, mouldy ponds, rocks, etc.
Me and my friend (we were about 7) used to run back and forth climbing / swinging on trees, rock hopping, etc. We used to call it "Spiderman Training".
Shoe tag. Whenever there was an event at my church, still the kids would sneak downstairs and play while our parents partied upstairs. Game is simple: everyone puts their shoes in a giant pile in the middle of the room. One or two kids stay in the middle with the shoes while everyone else backs up against the walls. Then the wall kids run around in a giant circle as if this were a roller rink while the kids in the middle hurl shoes at them at full force. Game restarts once all the shoes have been thrown. No clue how there weren't more major injuries, more holes in the drywall, or more parents coming down to check on us and put a stop to that madness.
When i was in the car, I would wiggle my toes to "shoot" at the passing cars (wiggle toes on left foot to shoot at a car on the left, wiggle both toes to shoot at a car ahead of us)
Another one I did was inspired by Lego Star Wars. You know how you walk around and collect those studs? I would "collect studs" by stepping on those sewer covers on sidewalks.
Well im 35 and still play it sometimes. If a friend called you fat or stupid or whatever... you could reply "ly thin or ly stupid" thereby making the comment "you are fatly thin". So the game was if you called somebody an insult you had to right away say something else so they couldn't "ly" you lol. "You're so fucking fat. Hey look a tree"
My friend, brother and I used to play on the trampoline all summer. You couldn’t get us off it. We had so many games we used to play on the trampoline, but I think the most unique one would have to be the cartoon hotel.
We’d play as our favourite cartoon characters and we’d all be staying at the hotel (the trampoline). We all had our own room in the hotel, which was just a portion of the trampoline.
It wasn’t very exciting but we played it a lot.
It requires 20-30 rolled up newspapers and 4 pillows so everyone can have a shield. Both teams alternate picking newspapers until the pile is gone and then you go to opposite ends of the room and turn off the lights so everything is pitch black.
The goal is to hit the other team until someone yells "stop" and the lights have to be turned back on. You can start by throwing newspapers across the room but that also gives your opponents a new weapon. You can talk to your ally and strategize but then your voice will give away your position. It creates funny moments when you can hear two people in a frantic melee because a team has confused each other for their opponents. There is also an odd satisfaction from chucking a thick Sunday paper across the room and hearing it smack someone in the face. No one ever got seriously injured and there are still ink smears on the walls today to remember these old childhood battles.
My brother and I had created our own universe of superheroes living in their own galaxy, called “Diamond Heroes”. We wrote character lists, planets, drew what they looked like and planned out entire stories which we would then act out with each other. It’s been 10+ years since we did that stuff and we still have all the papers for it and everything.
"Pillars" Our house was under construction and it had this concrete basement and pillars raised at that stage. So the game play was, each player held onto a pillar and there was a catcher. The game was for the players to exchange pillars. If the catcher gets to the start or destination pillar of the two runners, ahead of them, the catcher acquires the pillar and the person without a pillar now becomes the new catcher. I invented this and it was a huge hit amongst my friends. I also had additional rules like "skip" to spice it up. And as all of these things go, it ended with me hitting my head on the concrete pillar by running too fast(blame adrenaline rush). Thinking back, it was not one of the safest games to play for a bunch of ten year olds. It was hella lot of fun though..
There was a very involved tag style game. My sister, mom and I would run in circles around the chesterfield two would have leotards (tights) on their heads and the person who was it would be wearing underwear on theirs.
The person in underwear would have to try to tag those in “leotards” while those in tights would try to escape by running faster and swirling the tights legs as some kind of screen/nunchuck defenders.
Me and my cousin would face with our backs toward a cornfield. One of us would take a ball and throw it as hard as we could behind our backs. Wed wait to hear the ball hit the ground and then wed go look for it in the cornfield. Needless to say, wed lost alot of soccer balls.
If you look at your side car window, there should be a little decal with manufacturing information. When I was a kid riding around in my family’s car, I would line up the decal with driveways, other cars, and buildings and pretend to “shoot”them.
Me and I used to play a game with a cricket ball in which one player throws the ball along the ground down the ground and the other player tries to catch it before it strikes the wall which was at around 10 meters from us..kinda fielding practice 😁
I would open all the cupboards and drawers in the kitchen, crunch up some tinfoil into a small ball, and use a drum stick to try and hit the ball into different spots. Had a whole baseball game worked out for it...spice cabinet was a home run, counter was a single, etc. Good times pre-computers and cell phones :)
My sister and I grew up poor and bored so we came up south a bunch of games, which is coming in oh so handy as any adult with 2 toddlers. One of my favorites was coming up with awful choreography, song parodies, and recreating an American Gladiators game where one of us would sit on our top bunk with as many sock rolls as we could gather and try to peg the other with them as they made their way through a makeshift obstacle course.
My neighborhood friends and I would play "Curb ball." I just assumed it was well known, but have yet to meet anyone else that played. It had essentially the same rules as baseball or kickball, but it was played in the street... and you'd throw a lacrosse ball where the curb met the street, trying to achieve that perfect angle to where the ball would hit the street, then immediately hit the curb and bounce high and far away like a baseball coming off a bat. Then you'd run the 3 bases and home plate is the spot on the curb where you throw the ball. It was really fun trying hit that perfect bounce...and also added excitement knowing that each turn had to be rushed in case a car came.
Me and my friends played a game called "5 rocks" in this game we would get 5 rocks throw them above our hand and however stays on your hand is the points you get. "This was 16 years ago"
My friends and I would build a wall of pillows and blankets at the top of the stairs at their house. We would then dive into the wall and tumble down the stairs in a big heap of pillows and blankets. We called it extreme stair fails and uploaded us doing it on to YouTube. Yes it still hurt like hell, and yes we all probably have brain damage from it.
My sister and I would pretend to be pirates on our dad's trailer. It's one of those that you can tip back by standing at the end, and let crash down by going towards the front, like a big seesaw. We would pretend we were in a big storm with giant waves making us go to the back bringing the trailer up, and then as the wave crashed, it would bring us to the front dropping the trailer down with a big clang!
Ok, so me and a bunch of my cousins (maybe 3-4 of us total, ages 6-9, we were small) would all get under a large blanket and try to keep the people on the outside of the blanket from uncovering us.
The strategy would be to take the edges of the blanket and curl them under us to try to wrap it into the middle so that the only way for us to get uncovered was for the whole group to get rolled over.
I would get under the couch cushions and have my sister walk up and down the couch..
Wtf.. thanks for dredging up that odd memory yo
Phat72 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Oh man, I have a great game.
Required:
1.Three sticks
2.A yard or open field
3.Friends
We would play this game loosely translated to 'sticks', we would dig a small hole enough to bridge one stick over it. There would be the so called 'thrower', who's job was to launch the stick by using a launching stick that goes under the bridged stick and just yeets that stick downfield, where a group of your friends would battle to catch the stick. If someone manages to catch the stick in the air, he/she must stop where it was caught and try to hit a point stick that is stuck upwards in the ground where the thrower is. If you hit it with the caught stick you get a point. Rinse and repeat, until someone gets to X amount of points. Gets pretty intense. Just goes to show that you could make a game out of anything really.
We used to fernwhack. Basically use anything as a sword to take down ferns (we have a lot of ferns.) there were fields of bad guys.... we ended up finding some fiberglass tent poles that were awesome.
My brother, myself, and a couple of friends on our block would play a variation of tag that we made up on our bikes. The person that was “it” would have to ram their bike into someone else’s in order to “tag” them. You can imagine what the neighbors thought when they saw a bunch of kids outside ramming their bikes at full speed into one another for really no reason. In hindsight, it probably wasn’t the safest game to play as a kid.
As teens we would play manhunt (basically tag at night with a hide and seek twist)
First we would pick a home base usually a car.
Then you get a 5 minute head start to hide.
Once the time was up the guy who was "it" had to tag you before you could make it to the base.
I'm sure this wouldn't go over well nowadays. 15 black boys running around at night.
The reflex game - A group of people stand in a circle around one person with their arms across their chests. The person in the middle has a ball, and throws the ball or fakes throwing the ball at the people outside the circle at random. If a person outside the circle successfully catches the ball, he stays in the game. If they miss the ball, or flinch when the person in the middle fakes throwing it, they are out. The circle gets progressively smaller and the winner gets to be the next ball thrower.
We played a brutal game called Manhunt or sometimes called Hunt the cunt where I'm from is where the person that's it gets to beat the shit out of the people hiding until they get away or join them to be it
For us it was ‘Wall Ball’ as a group you bounced a tennis ball off of the schools sport hall outside wall, if you dropped it everyone would shout ‘Fumble!’ Then you had to try and race to the wall before someone else could throw the ball at it. If you weren’t fast enough you had to stand against the wall while someone pelted the tennis ball at you as hard as they could then it all started again.
My dad would travel a lot for work when we were younger when my brother and I were around 8-10. But when ever he was home we would play a game my dad called “commando”
We Lived in the suburbs and we would hop our fence in the backyard at night and sneak along the sidewalk along the road. Passing cars were the enemy and we had to hide in the bushes and make sure we weren’t seen. We were dressed in all black and our goal was to make a route back to our house (which was home base) Without being seen. It was so much fun my friends would come over and and my dad would play it with us. We took different routes each time.
Then when we made it back to base we would play Need for Speed underground on our GameCube and jam every time we heard the opening sequence “TO THE WINDOW!!!!” And then we would try to beat my Dad at NFS. My dad is awesome.
A bedtime game my sister and I when we were small little girls used to play we called “Queenie”, and used a big pillow on our bed to kind of play lay down hide and seek with the pillow till we fell asleep giggling, haven’t thought of this in years ha!
We had one called “Elevator Tag”. It was a hide and seek-ask game we would play at this one resort in Florida that we would go down to every spring break with all of our family friends who had kids my age. The game was set in the center of the resort where all the general hotel rooms were located that was basically 12 stories of balconies in a rectangular shape. you could see all the other balconies from whatever floor you were on and then there was a ton of brush on the ground floor you can hide under. On either short side of the rectangle were elevators (four on one side, two on the other) and then there were staircases on each corner of the rectangle. The game was divided into two teams, seekers and runners, and we had a time limit for each round which was 30 minutes (if you weren’t caught in 30 minutes, you’d win). What was so fun about this game was the fact you could be getting chased and then you are able to run into an elevator at the very last second before they get you and be off to a totally random floor for the seeker to have to hunt you down again. It got very intense, especially since you could see what floor someone was on from wherever you were due to them all being balconies. Very surprised the resort staff never got mad at us.
Hide and seek in the dark but with nasty twists. My cousins and I loved to do this during family reunions or anything that brought all of us together. The house we would always gather at was my Uncle’s 2 acre plot of land. There were no rules on where you could hide, as long as you stayed outside and it was somehow accessible.
The seeker had a flash light and if it was pointed at you, you’d lose and have to help them seek others. Thing is you can move from spot to spot and sneak around. Since we were such a wide range of ages we always made sure everyone had a buddy to make sure no one got hurt or got lost. What tended to happen is the bigger kids would find an amazing hiding spot and hide their smaller “buddy” with them. They’d then leave their companion in the hiding spots as they got caught. It was always hell finding the rest of the younger kids because they were so tiny and hidden at the top of trees or in garbage cans. I remember I once hid my partner under the house. After a while all of the seekers gave up and we all increasingly became worried since we couldn’t find the last hider. Turns out the little kid had fallen asleep down there and I had to go and pull him out.
Set up all the kitchen chairs in a circle with their backs facing each other.
Cover the backs of the chairs with blankets so as to form a circular tent.
One of us would be inside the tent, while the others would run around in a circle on the seats of the chairs.
Person in the tent can't see anything except the small spaces between the seat part and the back part of the chair (enough to see feet and ankle) had to try and grab an ankle.
When you caught someone they had to fall through the top of the blanket tent, and thus made you the new capture-er.
Falling through the tent was actually pretty harmless but one of us would always fall off the chairs and twist our ankles.
My brothers, and neighbors and I all played a game called 'Flick 'em'. Basically we used these awesome toys from the 80's called M.U.S.C.L.E. and lined them up on a table. It was a 2 player game, and each person would take 10 of their MUSCLE Men, and make a wall. We'd flick them across the table and try to knock out the other players' MUSCLE Men.
It actually had a bit of strategy to it, similar to what you see in most multiplayer games today. You'd try to get the bulky 'tanks' (though we didn't call them that at the time) to create a wall up front. and a light guy who you could flick really hard towards the other team, and not hurt your fingers.
I'm almost 40 years old, and I want to go play Flick 'Em right now.
iLeDD · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My much older sibling invented a secret game he dubbed "the quiet challenge" and to spare the details, It was actually just molestation.
Ups! Basically you tossed a volleyball up in the air and you could only hit it while you were jumping. Maybe not that unique now that I've typed it out.
We played another game where we cut into a tennis ball, filled it with lighter fluid, and immediately proceeded to kick it at one another. Good times. Goooood times.
We would hide from cars that drove by our house when it was dark. We'd have a look out for each direction, and when headlights were spotted, we'd rush to hide. At the bottom of a hill, behind trees, under or behind our parents cars, in the nearby creek. Really, it was to see who could find the most creative hiding spot OR be the most hidden in an open spot. Forget what we called it, but it was good fun.
We used to take a ball and put it on the trampoline and you could play with 4 people max and the goal was to bounce the ball and hit one of the other 3 to eliminate them. Essentially it was dodgeball but you could only use your double bounce skills on a trampoline. Numerous times I took a ball to the sack at full force.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my best friend in elementary school played a game we called "super birdies" with these 2 kids we werent even friends with. it involved running around the playground pretending it was a secret base. it was very stupid.
I made a game out of using two sorry boards. One normal the other Disney Sorry. Had some obscure rules like three sorry pieces on the same space blocked the path and some super strange combat system was involved. You would have to draw a card from the deck and whoever had the higher card got his piece sent back to the beginning. It’s all I really remember but we did have a ton of fun playing it.
Growing up in Ireland in the 90's (Finglas, for anyone who knows Dublin) we used to play a game variously called I.R.A. or I.R.A. Bash. Basically you'd have two teams. One team had a code word. Each member had a letter of the word. The other team wound hunt them down and beat the shit out of them until they coughed up their letter.
Considering this wasn't too long after the troubles in Northern Ireland I think it's fairly bonkers we were running around pretending to torture people as little baby paramilitaries.
I have a bio younger sister and an older brother. Growing up my dad was with a woman who had 3 sons. The younger two were roughly around my age and the oldest was a good 4 years older. We all used to go out, minus the oldest one, and play survival. My dad lived right across the road from a creek bed and we'd go out and pretend our plane crashed and we had to build our own civilization. We spent many a summer day playing and continuing the game. We explored all over that creek. My dad is no longer with her and I've dropped contact with her and her boys but those are some rare warm memories to look back on.
Description from wikipedia: A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch a non-existent animal called a snipe. While snipe are actual birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for an imaginary creature whose description varies.
We would take newcomers out into the woods looking for snipe. This was done in the dark. We would pretend to be looking for snipe as well, but our real intent was to lose them. Everybody had flashlights and we'd turn ours off once we were far enough away. Lost in the woods in the dark? Scared the shit out of me when I got pranked.
Edit: not sure this can be considered a game because you can only play it once.
k2wln · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
as kids in nicaragua we had this game where we gamble with coins. the rules of the game was throw the coin against a wall and whoever gets their coin closet to the wall wins and get to keep the looser coins. the coins had to be of the same value to good time !
Probably more dumb than unique but we would have rotten eggs fights. The chickens would lay eggs in the top of the barn but we didn't regularly check there for eggs. My cousins and I, when bored, would go find them and have fights. The one that stunk the most lost!
My uncle would tell me to dig deep into his pockets and have me guess what are all the things that I am able to feel in there. He told me not to tell my parents though.
SACball. Baseball in the cul-de-sac where left field was a row of evergreens 30 ft tall resembling Fenway.
Unique setting, not game.
Now sideyardball was more unique. My parents have a brick house. So, the batter would be standing close to the side of the house batting facing the house. Pitcher is further back and throws ball off of house first and tries to get it to arc down in the batters zone. Batter had to hit ball off house with no bounce and run bases just like bball, but pitcher can throw and hit player with ball if not touching a base for an out.
We also played golf with tennis rackets and balls going through our neighborhood trying to get it in different kinds of holes throughout neighborhood like a drainage hood. Had a par 12 near the clubhouse which to this day has never had under a par on it.
We were 10. Dr X was a villain who would kidnap and strip you naked and torture you. We were the cool kids trying to defeat him. One time we got lost in some really deep woods trying to find dr x. We had issues.
Sudoku is my favorite game. I always prefer to play it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WAR! We played with BB-guns and outfitted outselves with snowsuits and motorcycle helmets. Tons of fun until the a-hole new kid shows up with one of the new-fangled co2 airguns. The rest of us had red rider lever actions.
We used to play a game that we called tockey, a mix of tennis, soccer, and hockey. You would hit a tennis ball using a tennis racket in an effort to hit the ball into a hockey net. Change of possession would occur if the defender(s) stole the ball or the attacking team allowed the ball to hit the ground. Normally, we played in my front yard which had a tall tree in the middle of it which added another defender to worry about. Depending on how many people were around we would play both with and without a goalie.
Whenever the game was more than 1v1 we would rip some serious one-time shots! Broke quite a few lamps with errant shots and eventually we were smart enough to have the goalie start wearing hockey goalie pads, because the speed of the shots was no joke!
Nothing as amazing as many other ones, but I thought I'd share my own one about our game called "To be Continued"
As a kid my brother and I would grab bamboo sticks and role play, with epic storylines and roads to other dimensions with potholes of plot holes and winding journeys through realms ruled by demon kings and empresses hell-bent on destroying us for some vague reason.
We would even "warm up" our bamboo handling skills by doing this zombie shooting practice which both of us remember to this day.
Never the same, it would conclude at random points when the words were said, normally by a dying old man who would beckon me closer to whisper into my ear: To Be Continued...
My friends and I back in the Philippines played team tag. The game is more fun when played with more than 10 players.
If tagged, then you’ll have to hold on to team opponent’s base (i.e pole or car), form a human chain by holding hands or feet (make it as long as possible for the lasting team players).
Untagged players can try to “untag” the tagged team mates by touching the chain and then game resets back to normal.
The best feeling is the rush you get when the 2-4 taggers are chasing are you, but you’re still able to save the long human chain. Feels like you are the savior of humanity.
My friend and I played the "country and city game."
The premise was that we were two special ops guys who each had a unique skill set and team based on where we lived. He was from "the country" so his skills were in tracking, using natural resources, etc. and his team consisted of fellow country folk who were well-versed in that kind of stuff. I was "the city" guy so I had tech skills and a team of guys who worked with me.
We would engage in defending the US from all manner of foreign threats, mainly terrorists and WWII style enemies like Nazis or imperial Japanese forces. We would occasionally get into spats where the country and city squads would disagree on a course of action or something and would have small scale civil wars. Shit was fun.
Monster in the closet. We had bunk beds. I have two siblings. We would turn off the lights. Two of us would lay in each bed and then the other would hide in the closet. Then the one in the closet would slowly creak the door open and slither out into the room. They would build anticipation and then jump on one of the beds and "scare" the kid as the monster. The person who was picked was the next monster. We played it for hours. It doesn't sound as fun now but as a kid it was a blast.
My older brother and I would play a game called Blind Man where one person would go around the house calling out "blind man" and the other person had to cover their eyes with their hands and try to catch the other person by following the sound of their voice.
This resulted in four-year-old me running directly into a door frame at full speed. My head swelled up like a Macy's Day parade balloon and my dad rushed me to the ER to make sure I hadn't borked my brain.
My parents asked why on Earth we thought playing a game named Blind Man was a good idea. I have no idea.
When riding with my parents on the highway, I would find a speck of dirt on the window. By staring at it and moving my head, I made it "ride" the power lines as we passed by them, doing tricks off the ramps and dips the lines made. If you've ever played the old intenet game Line Rider, it was sorta like that, but without the internet, but arguably more fun.
V3D4N7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was in kindergarten at the time ,
We had a sand pit in out school like almost as big as half of the playground,
Me and my friends used to create butt stamps all over the pit in the recess almost everyday, was fun , never got caught probably if would have , we wouldn't be punished.
Sardines. Group of you lay on some persons lawn, one person rings the doorbell. Last one to get up and run away wins.
Myth6- · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made up this game called BTH (Ball-Tag-Hide). We had a small red ball and someone was chosen to be it, and he started with the ball. He would try to hit someone with the ball as that would tag them and make them it.
It was actually really fun and it lasted through elementary school.
I used to play “Matrix” with all of my friends and we would basically try to do hardcore parkour and then when we got close enough we would go into “slow-mo” more and start mock-shooting and fighting at each other and basically whoever got the first(or, being real, the coolest) shot or hit, the guy on the other team would keel over and act like they’d been shot a million times melodramatically. Eventually who shot first became an argumentative subject that we settled by throwing small stones really fast at each other while in slow-mo. One time someone threw too hard or someone new didn’t know about the stones and the recess-monitors told us we couldn’t do it anymore. I will say I also got hit pretty hard one time and started crying, but I wished we could still play.
I like to think it was “Cowboys and Indians” but with less racial overtones.
There were a million little games like that we played but I forget most of them. I suppose it isn’t exactly “unique” either lol.
We used to play vampire family with my friend. We were sisters that are 25.000 years old but looked young (you get older a year once in a thousand years) and we had jobs and handsome boyfriends. One of us would switch places with the boyfriend and we would hold hands, pet imaginary kittens, cooking some blood (hell yea).
We would invite our imaginary friend to our house and do vampire stuff. That was really fun.
We are still friends and meet up once in a while, I am happy that I had a friend lile her when I was a child she would never leave me alone when other bullied me lol I love her
My next door neighbor and I used to play "fairies". We would wander around her backyard garden leaving little presents for them in secret places and coming back to see them gone or half eaten. We'd walk around for hours singing songs to get them to come out to play with us.
We tied a small log to a tree and hit it with a stick. The game was called “mailman” and I think we were just figuratively beating the shit out of the mailman.
A few games at my grandparents house. One we called dark where a large room that had a pool table and ping pong table would get all the windows covered and when the lights went out you had to be the last one standing. Basically run around the room hitting each other. Another didn't have a name but we split up into two teams and one would be at one end of a field with apples and branches and whip the apples with the branches to the other end of the field to try to hit the other kids. We got hurt a lot at my grandparents. My older cousins came up with the games.
We used to play kerby. Two of you stand opposite each other on either side of the road and try to throw a ball off the edge of the kerb so it bounces back to you.
mgneto · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to stand up on a block of cement and pretend that it was some kind of futuristic "wardrobe" with a screen were we could pick the character we wanted to play. I always picked someone from Code Lyoko.
Then we just ran around fighting each other with our character's powers or killing imaginary monsters in a nearby alley.
My cousin and I spent a summer in our childhood running a pretend insurance company. We would sit in my room pretending to type on open Manila paper folders with keyboards and screens drawn on. Dressed up in the most business casual clothing pieces we had, we would use a bunch of office jargon and make commercials (without a camera) for our business, usually standing next to my mom’s car with a broken passenger side window and then running around to the driver’s side to show how we fixed it. We were just some poor kids in rural Oklahoma with big dreams of cubicles and claims.
I spent hours imagining a world of which I was dictator and adults were either slaves or dead
Bop23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we first moved to a new house, we didn't have any grass yet, just a huge lot of dirt. My step sister and I would spend hours digging trenches to shoot water down them with the hose. We also made little boats to float down our trenches to race them. This thread is making me miss the simplicity of being a kid
I was an avid summer camper. Sessions were usually 2 weeks. A huge staple for us was rafter ball. Especially days where it was raining and we had to stay inside. There was a main dividing rafter and the ball had to touch the top and fall on the opponents side to count. You couldn't just throw it over.
My brother and I would stretch out a tape measure down the hallway. Then roll marbles back and forth and see how fast we could roll them, how many at a time, etc.
In our middle school we played a game we called court dom. Basically it was like giant 4 square where u volley a ball back in forth with only 2 squares and we played it on a basketball court that was surrounded by grass so it was easy to tell whats out and whats in. So there were 2 teams on each side of the court and we would play with a basket ball & the line in the middle of the court separated us. Basically the ball could only bounce twice on your side, you can’t hold the ball, you cant touch it twice in one bounce & you have to kick the ball to the other side. There were 2 teams total, each team had 1 half of the court and around 8-10 people on each team. We would all be spread out on the court. So the point of the game is to eliminate the other team. People get eliminated by fault, where say the ball bounces on your side, then off the court & it was your fault, you were eliminated for the rest of the round. It was a really fun game.
Not sure how unique it was, but we called it "gama of square". You drew 4 squares (more like rectangles) on the ground and there was one person per rectangle. If ball hit your square and hit the ground outside of 4 squares, hit your square twice you lose a point or hit the ground outside and you were the last one to touch it you lose a point. If you lose 15 points you're out.
We called it ‘Wooden Sticks.’ We had triangular platform built about 10 feet up secured between three trees. There was a patio chair on it that the loser from the previous round had to sit in in. From the bottom, we would hit a stick against a tree so that it would crack in half and the momentum of one of the halves would go flying towards to person on the platform. Whoever hit the person in the chair first was ‘safe’ for the next round. No one got hurt despite the great potential for injuries.
JT420 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
44 home: It could be played anywhere, you just needed some sort of a landmark called ‘home’. Everyone would hide except the person who was ‘it’. The aim of the game was to get to home, touch it and say “44 home” without being spotted, which meant you were safe and weren’t it next round. The person who was it had to look for the other players, run back to home and while touching it say something like “I see <insert name> behind the brick wall”. The last person left hiding had the option to call “44 save all” when they made it home which saved anyone who was spotted and the person who was it had to be it again.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any of those spray painted lines around road work extend forever (like lasers) and you cant step on them (like deadly lasers) so you'd have to remember where all of the ones you'd passed already were pointed and by the end of a longer stretch you had very few places you could step.
Brick wars. My brother and I would make little bases and lob red clay bricks at one another. It was fun until the day I took a brick to the side of my head and knocked me out cold at the ripe age of 8. The good ol' days. Thanks for the memories Jeremy
My neighbors and I would play "Submarine" in their upstairs hallway. We would make the hallway completely dark by closing all the doors and we would set their computer screen saver to be fish swimming around.
I once had a rock fight with the kids across the street. Just threw rocks at each other from our yards. It was hilarious, until I got hit in the chest with the rock. But what do you expect?
I used to play a game called nightcrawlers. When darkness falls, we became the creatures of the night. Some people think that it would be better with blankets to use as dirt, but I've always thought that was a dumb idea.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My former friends all lived in the same rich neighborhood, with a lot of open woods space. As sophomores in high school, we were obsessed with the hunger games. The leader of the pack established a "hunger games" game, every fall, right around Thanksgiving. It was really in depth. We had tree stumps for the "starting blocks" that the hunger games people used, and made all sorts of "weapons" out of pool noodles, paper, cardboard and foam. We literally played it just like how the book went. It was honestly pretty cool and fun because we had the whole neighborhood to run around. Then we ordered pizza and watched movies after so it was great. Did not realize it was essentially larping though lol we are complete nerds.
Basically 2 players jump around on a trampoline, a bunch of various balls and obstacles flying around with you. Dodging and trying to manipulate the objects to fly into your opponent.
In the middle of the trampoline was a beanie hat with a yellow nerf ball inside it. After enough bouncing the yellow ball would emerge. Players would declare “the egg has hatched!!!”. At that point you could use the beanie to throw or swat at the egg only.
It was a point based game, but if you got hit with the egg you lose automatically.
Sounds stupid as fuck when I write it out, but me and my friends (in high school) all got super cut playing all summer long out in the heat.
Me and my brother had a trampoline in our backyard. We often would just sit down and play with a squash ball or hacky-sack hitting it in the air just try to keep it up in the air like you would with a balloon. We called it f--- up because, well, someone would always f--- up and drop it.
Still play this game called ninja. Its where however many people you have all start in a circle and take turns doing one movement. The objective of the game is to hit the hands of the others to take that hand out of the game, and if a person lost both hands then they're out. But you can only do one move at a time (ie step forward, move an arm, or try to slap someones hand), and if someone tried to get your hand you were allowed to try and react and move your hand out of the way
Rich people vs poor people. My brother and I would sit on one of our beds and our toys would be the poor people, using like ramshackle weapons and stuff and we'd fight the rich people with modern weaponry. Writing it down makes me wonder if that's where my soft spot for underdogs came from. Also my mom always made it sound like being poor was a badge of honor so that affected it.
I had an older brother and cousin who felt bad for leaving me out of games that I wasn’t interested in playing. I had A MILLION littlest pet shops and so we would play “Animals in Trucks” with my pet shops, tonka trucks, ninja turtles, Star Wars ships, etc.
We also had the KTA.... The Kitten Troup Academy with our beloved (and huge) cat, Meatball, to lead us into combat against the dogs. No dogs were hurt in the making of the KTA. This also inspired a lot of short stories.
We would put empty cans in the street as the bases and used lacrosse sticks as baseball bats. We had a bunch of Pokemon cards and both picked 5 at random.
The cards we chose were our line up and they decided how long we had to get to each base and what “powers” we could use to mess each other up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well my sister and I would pretend to fish for pokemon. In the front yard. Into grass. Just ended up catching a lot of grass...
My older brother put our moms sewing needles in the end of our Nerf gun ammo (which were the foam darts with suction cups on the end). We basically we're shooting each other with foam darts...
Apparently one had flown in the kitchen and landed in between the cabinet and fridge. Our dad found it the next day.
We had a modified version of punch bug. It involved many other cars, though. There was Cherokee Wompum (Jeep Cherokees), Tophats (Honda Elements), Saggy Ass Vans (Aztecs), and I can't even remember what else. The thing is that a lot of these cars looked similar, so if you called out "Saggy Ass Van" and punched somebody but it was actually a "Tophat" then that person was allowed to punch you back--in the ear. The worst part was that they didn't have to punch you in the ear right then. They could punch you in the ear at any point for the rest of the day. It was a living nightmare, wherein you would find yourself actually begging your friend to punch you in the ear and get it over with for god's sake.
This was like 6-7years ago now since I’m a senior in HS so it’s still fresh in my head. My school parking lot was basically the play area for recess and gym class so we had this big area where it’s essentially just dodge ball but it’s 1 versus everyone else. They would run around and throw a ball at people, if you get hit, you’re out. Hiding in the bathroom = immediate out, headshots count as a point. When everyone is out, the first person that was out is the next thrower. You can imagine being in a group, running from a person just launching kickballs at people and knowing there’d be pain.
We’d always pick one specific friend to go first since he was a pretty athletic person and could throw more accurate and more powerful than anyone else.
Carsten, if you ever read this. It was absolutely terrifying running from you.
I had nearly 1000 hockey cards from 1989-1994, I split them up by their respective teams and would play hockey games using dice rolls to determine the success of player movement or action. (I.e. faceoffs, roll one die for each player and the higher roll wins the faceoff) only ever used a D6 as I hadn't been introduced to d&d and the various dice yet.
I didn't like to lose as most kids do so I definitely cheated alot.
Salad (pronounce Sa-lod). Pretty much the msot violent game of kick can you can imagine. We would set a safety marker, could be a fire hydrant or pole, or any object that can be touched. A pop can would get crushed and then everyone would have to hop around with their legs spread apart (like jumping jacks). It was a free for all of trying to kick the can through the other players legs, if the can passed through your legs, then you would get swarmed and punched (no face shots) until you ran and touched the safety marker.
I remember one of my friends running home instead of going to the safety marker. In retrospect it was a pretty stupid and violent game.
We played this weird volleyball/racquetball combination with the roof of the house (sloping down toward the yard or driveway). Used a volleyball and took ordered turns hitting it up to the roof. Obvious strategy was to hit it at an angle to make your opponents have to chase and hopefully miss hit it. Played 1v1, 2v2, free for all, etc. Good times. Pro tip... Don't play on a side with a lot of windows.
“Bloody murderer,” kind of a different take on “Kick the can.” Takes place during the night, a bunch go out and hide then there is the person who is “it”, aka the bloody murderer. The bloody murderer goes out looking for the people hiding and when one of the hiders sees them they yell “BLOODY MURDERER” as loud as they can. Then all run to the base, typically a light pole.
May not go over as well today as it did 25 years ago.
We once were at a zoo with a group of like 5-7 people. Tjere was this bird that would scream occasionally but very very loud. We agreed on a game where we would have to go to a certain point if it screams. The last one would get a "punishment"
In 5th grade I made friends with some rowdy unsavory boys. I don't know why I wanted to be their friend so badly. I was a girl for which they teased me so much about and for my skin color. Eventually I gained their acceptance when I joined in on their mischief and games. One of their games was called "traffic jam". We would all gather at the playground slide and I take turns being the "jam" and the others the traffic. One kid would slip down the slide but stay seated at the bottom while all the others would slide down and slam into the back of the "jam" making up traffic jam. The goal was to kick the jam out? And the jammer had to make sure he could keep up the jam and stay seated as kids continued to pile up.
Thinking back on it, that was one incredibly stupid ass "game". We fucked up our backs for life I think and looking back I was most times the jam. Lol wth were we doing.
I grew up in the country, and with nobody really close enough to play with, my older brother and I would play "Escape Convict" with all of our dogs. The game was simple. One of us would take off running and after 5 mins the other would set chase with the dogs. The person who was able to stay gone the longest won.
“Dodge rock”
People throw rocks at you and you dodge them. If you get hit then you have to stand with your back to the people and the person who hit you gets a free shot.
The game always ended with crying.
Our grandma has a weird thing for porcelain dolls and baby dolls. She had one that was a regular stuffed bunny rabbit, but with a baby face. My cousins and I used to take pictures of ourselves doing really fucked up things, like hanging it on a noose, kicking it into the air, etc. We called this game "Bunny Impact."
Also, we would sit at the top of a flight of wood stairs, and slide down on our butts while constantly telling "BUTT SLAMMER" until we hit the bottom.
My 5 brothers and I would play a game we made up called darkness. We would go into the basement black out the windows with blankets turn out the lights and beat the shit out of each other. No teams, every man for himself but if someone was getting the upper hand we would all gang up on the person. The game would end when my father would slam his foot on the floor upstairs. A few times we’d invite friends over but they always ran away shortly after the game started.
my brother, our neighbor and I used to play a game we called “video game”. the premise was we were sucked into a video game world, and we all had different powers, and we just like ran around and swam in the neighbors pool and created situations for us to be in in the video game world. I remember my power was being able to turn into animals.
my brother and a different friend of his would also play “kung fu fighting” with me, which consisted of us jumping on the trampoline and hitting each other with karate chop motions and if we made contact, whichever limb was hit was sliced clean off and couldn’t be used in the next round. all while singing the song kung fu fighting. it was my favorite gave ever
My best friend had two moms and they were awesome. I remember that he didn’t have many friends over even though he was popular at school. I’m sure this had something to do with his lesbian mothers in the 90’s in an area that wasn’t very accepting of ‘non-traditional ‘ families.
Anyways they would come up with the coolest games and activities for us. Their house abutted a large woods area. They would set up these mystery/adventures for us. We’d get clues and a background story. Then we’d have to find an object or a person or something. His parents were very artistic and made us costumes and props, created forts in the woods and everything was themed perfectly.
We had an old west adventure where we had cap guns and cowboy hats. And we had to capture an outlaw who robbed a train. They had one of their theater friends play the outlaw. They even had a stage coach prop with bags of gold coins.
In the winter they set up what is basically now an escape room in their basement. Lots of clues and intricate locks and puzzles. The amount of effort that went into these games was incredible.
Me and my cousins still play. We throw what ever object we have up to the ceiling, and see who can get the closest without touching. I don't know why, but it's so satisfying when you get super close.
I’m not sure if it was unique, but I don’t see it being played today. Anywhere from 4-10 of us neighborhood boys would get on our bikes and basically play a game of “tag” on our bikes using the entire neighborhood. My neighborhood had a main looping street with smaller loops off of that and all of those went up and back down a hill. So, lots of hills and kids flying down them and into the main neighborhood collector. We would split into teams and the goal was to find and then catch up to your opponent. It had the classical elements of a kid game where we didn’t actually tag, since we were on bikes, but had to agree you had been “tagged” once someone was close enough.
So many of us ate shit...on asphalt. It was absolute freedom at that age. No real boundaries, no cell phone to be bothered by, no direct supervision. Just us and our bikes and the ability to use the slowest streetlight to turn on as the indicator to get home.
Those “80’s movies” aren’t really too fictional when it comes to how kids got out and explored on their own. It makes me sad my son will never experience that sort of freedom. He will enjoy other things I never had, but not that raw freedom.
When I was 9 I went to a sleepover and the girl wanted to play the “hump”game (once in her hot tub and then again on her bedroom floor) and then flash our very flat chests outside the window... all before going to bed with lesbian porn on tv. So yeah in retrospect she was probably being sexually abused - her sister was a teenager and had a boyfriend if I remember correctly. But I totally felt uncomfortable and never hung out with her again (I was nearly molested???).
It was called SAG. Where we would start on one end of the field. The team on offense had either a hat, or a balled up glove. You run to the other end and if you get tagged you have to stop and pass it to a teammate. From this perspective, it seems unfair for defense but the def nose would just shadow the offense. We got busted and had to stop playing because someone pushed my friend too hard and he cut his hand on the metal fence :p
KYNCIM · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play it every day over the summer. We were a short bike ride from a lake in my home town and we would go to our grandmothers house on the lake and swim most of the day. Dibble was game you played on a float.
You would find a stick, jump in hold it and swim around before letting go. If you saw the stick you yelled 'Dibble!' and dove in after it. Next person to get the stick got to dive and release it.
Thinking back I think my grandmother made it up and told us it was an ancient Native American game.
Also, keep in mind the lake was not.... super clean. Finding a brown stick was way harder than you think.
My big brother would make me clean up his mess before mum and dad would come in. After I had done he would dump baby powder on CARPET, that stuff was hard to clean for 6 year old me.
My cousin, who was super hyper, and I use to play a game called "Bonkers" that we named after our favourite candy, where we would lift the matress up and hold it against the wall with our feet while laying on the box spring then let it go so that it would crash and bounce off our faces then yell "Bonkers!" and repeat till one of us would puke or get a nosebleed and quit then would be the loser. Oh the 80's!
On Saturdays, my dad would have my sister and I play "Box-Dah-Hootah", something his dad did with him and his brothers. We'd get in the backseat of his car, and keep our eyes closed and covered for the entire ride. If we asked where we were going he would only answer "Box-Dah-Hootah", and we would get prizes (cider donuts and mystery bags at the dollar store) if we lasted the entire ride without peeking.
Turns out "Box-Dah-Hootah" was just my dad running errands and bringing us along to get us out of the house.
We also played a game called "Point Grave" in the church cemetary while my sister was in Sunday school. We'd take turns pointing at graves. That's it; no points, no attention to names, years, or anything. One of us would point at a grave, the other would nod and point at another, and so forth.
skimsy · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Summer breaks, my sister and I would pretend to be pokemon in the pool and do battles. We would usually be water types and moves like "water gun" would involve us spitting water from the pool at each other. "Aqua Jet" would be springing off the pool's walls underwater and ramming into each other. Good times!
Do whatever it takes to throw the opponent off balance. The first person to put a foot back down loses. Winner decides if they increase or decrease the gap distance by about 2 inches.
Sometimes you'd end up with one foot you picked up and would just have to make the best of it.
Sometimes I'd go full crazy, jump and grab him banking on my feet hitting the ground after his.
"Pod Racing"
Around when Star Wars Episode 1 came out, we put K'Nex together to form vehicles. We then raced them down the stairs. Speed counted, but safety did too - the K'Nex person had to stay intact.
Unoriginal
My brother and I also wrestled for literally hours on end. Not really unique, but we put a couple rules in place that helped out. He's much bigger than me, but I learned if I rubbed his leg or arm hair against the grain, he'd have to fix it right away.
We played a couple of games.
The first game me and my friends who lived across the street was “The Walking Dead” There would be invisible zombies we would hit with swords and nerf guns. We set up survivor outposts across the neighborhood and would fight other survivor gangs we made.
On the trampoline we would play “Murder”, where one person is secretly chosen as murderer and tries to kill people without other people seeing. That was pretty hard though because the trampoline was fairly small.
We also played “Movie World”, where we would choose characters from various media’s and just role played.
One of the more unique games we played was “Sonic Orange Soda Zombies” One person would be Tails from Sonic the hedgehog and we would tell him to get us an orange soda, but every time he came back he would come back as a zombie and we would climb all over the play set in our backyard and run from him.
Not really a game but me and my brother had like 30+ stuffed animals. We ended up making a long and confusing narrative involving those 30+ stuffed animals. Most of the animals had pretty complicated backstories aswell.
Chratt · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little me and my brothers would make little carnivals in our basement and we would each have stupid games (races, guessing games, bean bag toss, etc.) and give away toys as prizes and play each others games. Wasn't much but being that my older brother is in college now and I'm gonna graduate soon its nice to have memories like that I guess.
I didn’t learn this game until I was a teenager, but the friend group that I joined introduced me to a game they’d played since they were little called Blind Tag.
Basically it was tag played on a jungle gym, except that whoever was “It” couldn’t open their eyes, and no one else could touch the ground.
So instead of quickly running around, it became a slow, tense mind-game where the “It” would slowly and carefully navigate the jungle gym trying to corner someone, while the others would try to avoid him while making as little noise as possible.
I got really into it for the three or so times we played it, and now I’m so disappointed that we’re all too old to play on jungle gyms.
Titanic. From around ages 8 to 15 I had a bunk bed, despite being an only child. A family member took me to see Titanic in theaters during that time and the topic became somewhat of an obsession. At some point the "game" started.
The top of the bed became the upper deck of the ship. The bottom bunk/floor were the frigid waters. It was my duty to rescue the multitude of stuffed animals and dolls scattered across the room. I'd turn my window AC unit on full blast, set a timer, and rush around trying to get everyone safely on board before it was too late. I could only carry one at a time, of course. I also had to use the ladder to get them up, as tossing them from the water onto the deck above was completely illogical. It frequently ended with me, surrounded by survivors, under a pile of blanks. They would notice that hypothermia was setting in and attempt to aid me by having me sip Gatorade from the bottle cap or force down a saltine cracker. We'd weep into each others arms. Speak quickly of the ones we couldn't save. The ones that would forever haunt us. Often I would notice myself slipping away. I would imagine my funeral. Who would go? Would I be deemed a hero? Who truly loved me and who would only fake it for status once I became famous for being a savior?
During the warmer months of one school year (I think I was in Grade 5), the entire school participated in this game called Dirt Wars. Because most of the playground was dry dirt, we would use our feet to create little lines, which we would designate as our borders, creating territories.
Before long, entire wars began to break out, with people from certain territories kicking the dirt to destroy the borders. Some territories would engulf others, until eventually there were only two large nations warring with each other over the dirt borders. I was a part of one of the nations, until I became disillusioned with the war and created my own little side-nation with some friends. We called ourselves The Barbarians.
My brother and I used to play this game we called “Fat Antonio”
We would gather all the pillows in the house and one of us would lay down and the other would stack every pillow on top of the whole body sans head for maximum cushioning.
Then we would jump on said pillow human and make phrases like “OOFA!” And “THATS A SPOCY MEATBALL!” And other Italian stereotype speak.
In elementary school at recess this kid named david would chase my group of friends on the play structure saying shit like "I want your kidneys" we all had fun but the game didn't last long
My cousins and siblings would play a game we called “Carrots”.
You put every single blanket, pillow, comforter, and the like on this futon we had in my grandma’s play room
Two people hide in the blankets and try to stay in them as long as possible while the other two “farmers” try and yank you out and onto the floor. If a carrot stays in the blankets for two minutes, that carrot wins.
You didn’t win anything, you were just a winner.
It was literally four shirtless 7-10 year olds taking turns yanking each other out of a bed. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend used to steal eggs from the fridge and sit on them in a nest made of blankets and stuffed animals.
I think my sister came up with it. But she would sit on the floor and surround herself with all the pillows in the house. She was the "alligator" and my brother and I would try to steal all her pillows without "waking her". And if we made any noise when we went to get the pillow she would try to grab us and drag us into her little swamp. She could leave the "swamp" once we took a pillow that disconnected the circle. The objective was to get all the pillows without getting caught, I think.
The first was called "Laughing Hyena" and basically, it started b/c he would chase me around the house on all fours cuz that scared the shit out of me (still does) and it made him laugh. If I was standing on a chair or the couch, I was safe.
The other game was called "Udder Ball" and we inflated a surgical glove like a balloon. It looked like an udder. The goal is to keep the udder in the air and not let it touch the ground.
Not a game, a screensaver. Pixelvores, I believe it was called. These little blue dots would appear on your screen, "eat" the screen contents, reproduce, and eventually die.
“Roadkill”. My friends and i would stand in the middle of our street (in the suburbs, not super busy) and wait for cars to come and we would run back to the sidewalk to avoid being hit. No one ever got hurt but when i think back on it, what was the point of that game?
I forgot the name of what we called it but my buddy had a crap ton of stuff animals in his basement, when me and my friends got bored we would all go to his house and turn all the lights off downstairs and just chuck the stuffed animals at each other in the pitch black until someone got hurt or something broke. We were a bunch of little savages.
‘Little blind baby’ my older sister and my older neighbour would blind fold me and put me in a stroller and take me off roading around the back yard. I’d have to find my way back to the house blind folded.
WWE matches on my best friend's trampoline when we were about 9-10. Whenever I stayed the night, we would watch raw or smackdown and then challenge her little brother (who would also have a friend spending the night) to a tag team match. Obviously, the game wasn't around for long.
Some neighbor kids and I would play “the Scientist”. Which consisted of going to our respective garages and digging out bottles of every cleaner, solvent, etc. we could find. Which we’d mix together into the most terrifying concoctions. Then we’d draw on our arms with different types of markers/pens and see what mixture worked best at removing it.
It was incredibly stupid. And I’m always surprised we didn’t dissolve our arms off or die from inhaling corrosive shit that should’ve never been mixed.
We’re the exact reason they tell people to lock up their chemicals out of the reach of children. Goddamn, kids are stupid...
Paradroid 90. Loved to play as a kid and one of my most favorite games on the Amiga 600. Never heard much nostalgia talk about it so I assume this is not widely known.
Let me know if you know this game/what was your most favorite droid? I loved the nimble but quick machine gunner.
I’m sure this will get buried but my sister and I and some neighborhood kids would play a game we called “presents”. We’d make a “mailbox” out of paper plates and hang it on our bedroom door. Then we would find thing out of our rooms to gift to each other. We’d put it in the other person’s mailbox and knock on the door and take off back to our respective rooms. The better the present you have, the better you got in return. And if you were gifted a dud, you sent a dud back.
I guess we were all sweet at some point, before we turned into teenagers and fought and screamed daily!
My parents bought a new plunger one time... My brother and I spent the day chasing each other around and suctioning it into each other's stomachs and then pulling each other around the house until it popped off. It was hilarious and left very strange circles all over our bellies.
I used to build "theme parks" and "hotels" in the garden. The theme parks were just obstacle courses, and a chair where the person had to be blindfolded while I shook it and tilted it while making noises like a rollercoaster. The hotels were just when we had big cardboard boxes from something we had just bought and I'd kit them out like a room and talk about how the business would work. People, in theory, would have been expected to sleep in a box on my lawn while my mum was the head chef. I also had a bed that was raised with a large space underneath that could crawl into and sit under. Used to pretend I had a ghost train down there with torches as flashing lights and cut out ghosts and monsters. Had to use my imagination a lot. Then I got a playstation and stopped.
My sister and her friends used to play "Let's Run Away From Ryan!". I hated that game. I just wanted to hang out with my older sister, but I'm sure I was annoying as hell.
My cousin and I played "Cops 911" as we called it and it basically consisted of us shooting fake guns at anything and everything. As youngins in the south, pretty much every game had some fake weapon involved. This was one of out favorites though. Makes me wonder if he remembers playing it too tbh.
Also, the whole family would play "Ghost in the Graveyard" which is basically hide and go seek outside in the dark and one person is the "ghost" and has a flashlight. They had to shine you with the light and call your name to get you out. You could thwart this by running out of the light.
Lastly, there was a game called Sandman I played up until I was an adult really. You find a playground and a group of friends and play tag on the jungle gym. One person is the "Sandman" and is "it", but the catch is they have their eyes closed and can't open them until they tag someone. You could run or jump or climb however you saw fit. The one caveat was that if you touched the ground and the Sandman yelled "SANDMAN" while you were on the ground you still got "tagged". Thinking back on some of the games I played back in my late teens, shit got dangerous with people sprinting full speed with their eyes closed on a jungle gym lol
My family had one of those swing sets that had a clubhouse on the bottom and top level where the slide was. We played a game called jailbreak. The guard would stay in the top clubhouse with a flash light (it was my dad's Maglite and we adjusted it so the beam was tightly focused). Then the guard would yell jailbreak and all the escapees had to sneak out from the bottom and get across the yard and touch a designated section of fence and yell that they escaped before the guard could shine the flash light on them and call out their name (if that happened they had to go back into the "cell' and try again. Obviously you had to play this game at night, but it was loads of fun.
My best friend had a large trampoline and we had a game we played with some playing balls she had. You were not allowed to touch them, which was, as we were both jumping, quite the challenge. If it went well for some time, we’d add more balls until we were at the final level where there were 4 blue or green balls and one VERY special one, the pink ball. That was the princess.
Now the other balls were the bad guys and they weren’t allowed to touch the princess. We had to save the princess, but we weren’t allowed to touch the bad guys either. Whenever either one of us would touch a bad guy, the other one would throw the ball at you, which you then had to dodge.
Looking back on it, it was very complicated and almost impossible but we had loads of fun playing it.
My siblings and I were given a lego set as a gift at one stage. The set came with 3 figurines, a house and some vehicle thing.
We would place the lego house somewhere in our real house and then take a moment to go "hide" each others figurines in the house. The hiding wasn't really important even though we did play warmer-colder to help find them. The thing was that once we had all found our figurines, we had to get them back to the house. Or rather... they had to.
So we'd pick up our figurines and imagine they were real and tiny people. They could climb up books, slide down curtains and cords. We would make the little figurines parkour their way through the house in an attempt to be the first one back at the house.
Now, we were alone while we did this, as it was a race each person would be in a seperate room. Being in seperate rooms meant that you couldn't ensure the others weren't cheating. I'll admit there was a large amount of sportsmanship involved in needing to remain within the realms of possibility.
But to enforce this a little, after the race was completed, the first place winner had to re-enact their run for the other competitors. If you "cheated" in anyway, such as by having your figurine leap a metre into the air (a metre here being roughly 20x taller than the figurine itself) or by moving something around (you could argue that the figurine moved the object but you as a human, couldn't move anything)(IE: The figurine may have the strength to move a plastic spoon out of their way but there's no way to explain that the figurine was strong enough to shift an entire basket of clothes) then your race time was disqualified.
Not exactly the most unique thing but when I was young we lived near a canal, so whenever we went by I’d grab a stick and stir the water like soup, throwing twigs and leaves and grass in pretending they were ‘ingredients’ and pretending to sip it in my cupped hands. I was a chef.
My brother and I would play a game where one of us would lock ourselves inside my grandparent’s laundry chute with a small flashlight while the other one threw hard plastic toys down. The goal was to hit the person in the chute as hard as you can with the toys.
We called it poopstain. It was pretty much the floor is lava but if the dogs touched you when jumping from furniture to furniture you turned into a poopstain.
We had knock off Heelys, the ones you had to manually engage and were on both the front and back of the shoe. We played hockey in the one car garage with a whiffle ball and the goal was simply a can that had to be knocked over.
My cousin and I would run around with a mini tool kit figuring out which pieces of furniture we could take all the hardware out of, yet would still stay standing.
My brother and I have a game that has continued into our 20s where we try to sneakily poke each other on the nose.
Also road trip games. Start with a word and say another that relates to it (Toothpaste-toothbrush-hairbrush). And picking a category (places) and naming the next one starting with the last letter of the first (Canada-Alberta-Arizona)
“Hall Ball” - Brother and I would use the longest hallway in the house with all doors closed to smack a mini soccer ball back and forth with our hands.
Used to play a game called hide and go Fuck yourself.
cs700r · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pole to pole” was the name of the game...
We had a large trampoline with a really high quality net and pole system around it to keep reckless youths like myself from flying off the trampoline. The rules were simple.
One person is “it” and the others were only “safe” if touching one of the poles. You couldn’t stay on any one pole for more than ten seconds and you had to skip at least one pole when making your mad dash. Additionally, if someone ran to your pole you had to leave it immediately.
We spent SO MANY hours playing that game as kids and it was always a blast. Some very athletic dives and dodges that could have made it on ESPN top 10 (at least in our young minds).
Wouldn't say its unique to be honest but it'd be basically who can throw everyone else off the bed first. The game was banned when my sister cracked her head on the side of the radiator.
Several of my friends had those large trampolines. One of my favorite activities when we were 10-12 was for a group of us (usually around 4, but occasionally we'd have up to 12 kids on it at once) to take off our shoes and put them in the middle, and then start bouncing and try to avoid getting touched by the shoes. Now, shoes on a trampoline are as unpredictable as a football during a fumble. I can't tell you how many times we bashed each other with flying elbows, fell off, and almost lost life and limb playing that game.
Me and my neighborhood buddies would pick a color, and that color would dictate our superpower. Then we would battle each other with those powers and pick the winner arbitrarily.
One day, me and my brother were playing the same game. He would pick blue for air or red for fire, and he always declared that he had won every battle, which frustrated me to no end. I stopped in the middle of the game and said "I PICK BROWN AND THAT MEANS I CAN MAKE YOU POOP YOURSELF." He had to act like he crapped his pants every time I shouted "POOP".
My sister and I used to sit in our bedroom doorways which were across the hall facing each other and roll hot wheels cars at each other. The goal was who could get more across in to other’s room.
Thrones and Bones. I quite literally stole it from the book Thrones and Bones by making a board and learning how to play via the instructions at the back of the book.
If you are curious think of it basically as a modified version of chess, where the goal of the game for one team is to get the king outta there fast and for the other team it is to take out that king.
We had a game called 'Protect [insert name if person chosen] in which there were 2 teams, and one separate person, one team had to try and tackle the chosen person to the ground and the other team had to protect the chosen person, generally by attacking the attackers, the chosen person could not run and only walk.
We also had another game called red letter where you had two even teams and chose a word with the same amount of players as then amount of people in your team (Eg. If the teams are 3 Vs 3 than both teams will chose a 3 letter word), you then gave your teammates a letter of the word and once all players had a letter the aim of the game was to make the other team give you their letters and then form a word for it. This mainly required causing great amounts of pain.
My siblings and I played "On Our Own", based on this bit of 80's family movie garbage. We pretend to be orphans running away and would live in our families trailer. I did... slightly change the movies formula by deciding that the best way for me to stop the police from chasing us was to get my toy gun and kill them all.
‘The gate game’ - me and my 2 older brothers would use the neighbours front gate as goals for a 1v1v1 football match. Couldn’t score if you were on the pavement because that was too close and if they ball didn’t come back down the steps whoever kicks it gets it.
Was quality fun until the selfish neighbour wants to come home and park their car in front of their own house. But that’s when you move to a different neighbours gate.
My cousins and I loved to play the "touch nothing game". We would scatter all of our toys around the floor and would have to race around the room without touching anything. The kicker was that we were allowed to hit each other so we would try to push each other onto our toys. Good times...
Couchies I think is what it was called. Sort of king of the hill style game. When mom and dad were gone we would play this game where one brother had to defend the couch while the three other tried to take it over. Lots of kicks the the face
JAILER. It's kind of like tag plus hide-and-go-seek. Instead of one person being "it," there are two teams. On one team, everybody hides. The other team has mostly seekers, but one person is The JAILER.
If a seeker finds you, they have to catch and tag you. If you get tagged, you have to go to jail (usually our front porch). But you don't have to stay in jail. If someone else from your team tags you, you are free to run around, maybe even hide again.
But it is really hard to tag someone out of jail, because the JAILER is guarding the porch. If the jailer, or any of his team, tags your teammate who is trying to rescue you, then that teammate has to go to jail as well. The game is over when everyone from the hiding team is in jail (or if someone is hidden so well they can't be found and the JAILER team gives up).
If there is time, teams can switch roles and play again. "Bounds" are decided ahead of time. People can hide anywhere within bounds. We usually used our entire street.
This was back in the day when kids were allowed to run around the whole neighborhood and just come home for dinner. I have no idea who invented this game or even if anyone else outside our neighborhood ever played it, but it was the most fun game we ever played.
What we called "Blitz" which was no rules, no teams, and no points football. Everyone was for themselves and you had to keep the ball for as long as possible while everyone else would tackle and beat the shit out of you just to get the football and be tackled and have the shit beat out of them.
Beanie Baby Baseball. Football. And then finally Beanie Baby Quidditch. Couldn’t tell you how the mechanics of any of it, but it was EXTREMELY competitive in my house
My grandpa, uncles, and cousins were big time WWF fans. They had all the figurines, play sets, and a replica championship belt. I started wrestling when I was 8 years old and being young and cocky, I thought I could beat everyone in my family at wrestling. Including the adults! That Christmas we had a family wrestling tournament and my uncle beat everyone and won the WWF champs belt. From that point on, every Christmas we wrestled for “the belt” until I graduated high school and left for the Marines. I never won the belt in all those years!
Me and my older sister would also play on our trampoline and pretend we had powers and fought bad guys. Eventually she got bored so I’d play by myself, bouncing up and down and humming a theme tune, coming up with an entire frickin’ lore for this shit.
We played l”stirring and stirring my brew”. I was the oldest so I was the witch. I pretended to make a potion while chanting “stirring and stirring my brew” faster and faster while my siblings tried to crawl past me. Then I’d reach out and try to grab them and pull them in my cauldron. That’s one of the weird games.
Another one, we’d get lost in the woods and try to make it back to the house first to tell on the others. Because we weren’t supposed to go too deep in the woods.
Peanut butter sandwich - We’d take turns folding the mattress over the others and smooshing them while yelling “peanut butter sandwich”! This is the mattress on the bed we all shared.
We’d take turns hiding under the covers and holding a string tied to a stick holding up a box. The box had a piece of bread in it trying to lure out a mouse. Whoever caught the mouse got to let it loose outside where our kitty was.
We were extremely poor. We didn’t know it then and had the time of our lives.
Oh another game, baywatch granny. My parents had a waterbed. My siblings would pretend to be drowning and I would pretend to save them while bouncing them around on the bed. I would use my “granny” voice bc they thought it was hilarious. They would sing “Bayywatchhh Graaaaanyyyyy!”
My buddy and I played a pokemon/dragon ball game. I played as the pokemon like characters. My buddy's first one was bowser, and I would rawr and stuff. Another one I remember was named bird and unlike other creatures he could talk! My buddy would send me out to battle bad guys who were trying to take over the galaxy. I played them as well. Most of the times the battles ended with the creatures dying, but most of the times the baddy would power up in and fight in a desperate attempt to win.
It was just us at first, because I was a weird guy and had no friends, but we eventually found 2 other weirdos and continued playing the game from 4th to 6 grade. Ended when I went to junior high.
Dude is my best friend till this day, 17 years later. We talk about it every once in awhile. Here's to many more Levi!
I lived in a neighborhood with a bunch of kids around the same age. We would all draw chalk towns on our driveways with roads and ride around them on our bikes. We could visit the “McDonalds” down the street then come to my driveway to go shopping at “the mall.”
I used to play house with my dad's blueprints. He once taught me how it works and what are the symbols were for. It didnt take much time for me to take over of his office and lay out a blueprint of a house so i could play house with my pencils as my dolls! (coz i always see him poking certain spots with the eraser tip)
My younger brother and I would play “Titanic” in our pool. We would pretend to be eating dinner on our pool deck and then sit on the steps to pretend the water was coming in. Then we’d throw our patio furniture into the pool and drop a “key” in the mix and swim under water, through the chairs, and retrieve the “key”. We’d then pretend we were almost drowning and swim to the shallow end (or climb out of the deep end). At some point we had pool rafts, so we’d fight over who got to live by climbing on it first. It was pretty fun.
We also role-played as rabbits out in our yard and eat lettuce and carrots that my mom would give us.
My mom would also take us to the beach in the mornings and while she walked the shoreline, we would play in the sand pretending we were polar bears.
There are so many games we’d play, our imaginations were pretty wild.
me and my buddies used to stick the front wheel of a razor scooter in a small hole in the sewer grate, then swing the back part around. we’d jump over it as it swung around until it hit one of our ankles.
We couldn’t play tag at our school playground, so me and two friends made poodle , tag but instead of saying tag when we tagged each other we said poodle. We thought we were so smart. At one assembly I remember the principal saying “There will be no running on the playgrounds, no tag and especially no poodle!” It felt so awesome to know that some of the younger grades also adopted the saying, that even the principal knows.
In high school, my friends and I devised a “Final Fantasy” card game using a standard deck of cards. I don’t remember the rules anymore, but it was better than listening to Mr. Ambrose drone on about Punnet squares...
Hat wars: basically ranged tag, me and my friends played it all through primary school, we played Teams or Freeforall or Wingman. You basically had to tag the other person with your hat, mostly we threw the hats though. There was a lot of strategy about the hats aerodynamics. I remember one time one of our friends brought this absolutely incredible baseball cap that had insane range. We had to ban it because it was too OP. Very good times.
A game a friend and I came up with while we were bored in high school one day called the random question game. Basically just go up to a random person and ask for a random object.
For e.g. see a lady walking down the street, go up to her and ask her for a bag of cement or a pencil sharpener. The more obscure the item the better. Cue look of utter bewilderment and often pure disgust.
Also works for random directions to made up places.
Friend and I would play a game in his backyard with a football and trampoline (with the safety netting). Backyard sloped down from the house towards the woods. One would stand in the trampoline at the bottom of the slope, the other would stand at least halfway up the slope with the football.
Person with the football wins by throwing the football into the trampoline (3 wins and you switch places). Person in the trampoline can block or catch the football to keep it from touching the trampoline surface.
Usually resulted in the thrower running up and down the hill to retrieve the blocked ball a number of times before being able to switch. Very quick way to tire ourselves out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can't remember what we used to call it, but we had a game where would all start of as weaker characters from tv shows, books or games and then battle each other. The winner would them become a stronger and stronger character, we'd go pretending to fight each other. There'd be loads of us all playing in the playground at school.
My two siblings and I would play "copier" with our hide-a-bed sofa. With the bed folded out, someone would lie in the middle and we'd semi-fold the bed like the lid of a copier (Step 2 of this). As we got a bit older (but not more mature), the game advanced to include step 3 with the threat of step 4.
Obviously my younger brother got full-on folded into the couch like in step 4 and the game was never played again.
I once went to a really big boy scout convention as a kid. Up to around 100 troops came to participate in activities and there was a big bonfire and concert at the end.
Along one of the roads there was a massive line of 20-30 port-a-pottys and people would randomly walk in an out all the time. My friends and I (stupidly) invented a game where we would Sprint down the road directly in front of the restrooms as fast as we could and try not to get hit by anyone opening doors.
It was good fun until we got yelled at for being idiots.
My cousin and I would pin our barbies to the clothesline and then wheel them out at high speeds until the connector that stopped the line would smash into the pole at the end and thus some barbies would fall off the line. Eventually there would be one remaining "survivor" who would be named queen and she would get all the best clothes and get to drive the corvette.
We played the British are coming. We would stand by the road at night and if you spotted headlights from a car you yell “the British are coming!” And make a mad dash from the tree line. The last one to make it lost. Honestly it was pretty boring since we lived on a back road. We also would carve sticks and have stick wars or barricade my dog in a play house and run around the house. He would escape and catch us every time. What a smart and good doggo he was.
Kevhe4 · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stair baseball - played on grandma and grandpa's front steps. The front steps were big old brick and stone monsters about 8 feet wide and 4-5 feet tall. You stand on the sidewalk by the road, throw your tennis ball at the the steps and then have to field the bounce off the brick walkway and lawn and throw it back to the steps.
Fielding it off the ground twice got you a guy on base, catching out of the air was a home run. Missing the ball was an out and a bad bounce up onto the porch or roof was a strike.
And that's how my cousin and I played baseball with only two people every weekend growing up.
My older brother and I would ball up a tubesock into it's longer partner, and using a pillow as a shield, would have gladiatorial battles. If you took a shot across the face, which felt like a punch from an angry cloud, you had to fall and take the killing blow for the defeat.
My friends and I would play skully which would consist of a bottle cap filled with melted crayon wax as a game piece, and having to go flick the skully cap to a series of numbered boxes drawn in chalk on the street. If I remember correctly, if you hit someone else's cap you could hit it outside the board and they would have to start over.
Hostage hide and go seek. The hiders would blindfold and tie up the seeker somewhere in the neighborhood or greenbelt and then go hide. The amount of time it took for the seeker to get themselves untied was the amount of time they had to hide.
I remember I used to play “Mexican Resturant” with my sisters. (We ethnically white) we would turn an fm radio to the mariachi music and set up tables and make bean and cheese burritos. We did this many times and Mexican food is still one of my favorites
Nextte · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made like an eye symbol with our fingers and if someone looked in it's direction they could be punched.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I became very creative as children. I'm trying to recall some of the games we had made up a d two in particular stick out in my mind. There was "Jack and Mara" a couple who inexplicably kept falling pregnant. We had like 20 children and would gather all of our dolls and stuffed animals to represent them. It was an odd game. Basically we would try to do normal family stuff with all of our children while Mara kept getting pregnant.
Another we named "Big Boob Babe" or "triple B" for short. Where we would get balloons and progressively make larger and larger breasts for ourselves. Complete with the sedating and surgery parts. Then we'd have to do normal stuff with our giant boobs until one of them popped or something and we'd have to be rushed into emergency surgery for repairs.
There's a bunch more odd games like these, I just can't recall them in enough detail atm.
Me, my cousins and some of the other kids in our street used to play Manhunt, when one got caught by the hunter he/she would then join the hunter but had the possibility of sabotaging the hunt by leading astray. Most of the time the ones who got caught didn’t sabotage, but we had to be aware that there were a possibility of this happening. The most fun was when there were loads of snow outside, cause then we could follow the tracks to find them, it was so fun backtracking through our own steps and hide in a bush or something and see the hunter follow our tracks to a deadend.
Thanks OP! You just reminded me of a lot of good childhood memories!
Lived in a small town on an island, so it was all about original games, whether we made them up or they were 'town games'.
I won't mention the town games because in small town fashion, it would take anyone from there 2.2 seconds to figure out who I am behind the user.
But my cousins, my sister, and I had one we called 'Orphanage', in which our oldest cousin would adopt us orphans and we would pretend that the orphanage was coming to kidnap us back, and we'd have to find ways of escaping.
A few friends and I also had one we called the 'Mob Game', which we'd based off Cops and Robbers, but everyone was it and you had to capture and dog pile the one person who you were looking for.
We also used to play Fear Factor (like the tv show) a lot as kids. I ate a lot of weird things because of that game.
IDT in door tag
Co-op kids here breaking all the rules.
You had to take the elevator past the 4th floor. 1 kid waited at the bottom before making his way up to try and catch the rest of us. Everyone else tried making it back down to the lobby without getting caught.
The amount of stairway door slams, elevators being held up and general screaming got us in trouble every day.
We were a group of three friends who played some kind of DnD game when we where at school without even knowing what DnD was: one of us (the DM I guess) would tell us what was going on and we, the other two, would react accordingly, but all this in real time (running, jumping, pretending to slash enemies... etc.) across the playground. It was really fun but sadly it didn't last long.
Now, 10 years later, I have DnD so not much has changed hahaha
Bloody Mary. It’s like hide-n-seek at night but those that hide have to yell/call out Bloody Mary three times before they can change hiding spots or run for the safety.
Monster Rancher was hella fun! Use CDs to create monsters. Remember using Eminem and got a Lava Golem, trained him up and achieved S rank... never had I cried so hard when he actually died at the grand age of 5 years and 7 months :(
My siblings and I played a game called “monster” where we turned the lights off in a narrow hall which had stairs leading to the basement. One sibling would be at the bottom of the stairs blindly swinging a foam bat while two others were on the stairs. The goal was to push the other down the stairs where they would get whacked repeatedly by this foam bat.
Growing up we got to go to a giant jungle gym for recess once a week (this is around 2nd or 3rd grade). When we went it was with a couple other classes too! I invented a game that I for whatever reason called “heartbreak.” We basically played it every week with two massive teams. The way it worked was there was essentially a system of “tagging” people and eliminating them. The way that was done was by placing each hand on the other person’s shoulders, but they had to be facing away from you. So basically you were protected from the front and you could only get tagged if they got behind you, and no one was allowed to pull people off the wall or anything to force them. Which only worked because it was a massive jungle gym. So the whole objective was to route the other team to get behind them somehow to tag them. I feel like it was complex for me to come up with as a child, and also totally would be harassment as an adult haha, but friends that I knew back then still mention it 25 years or so later
My brother and I played "sumo" when we were kids, which involved using bungee cords to strap sofa cushions to ourselves and jumping down the stairs. The first jumper would assume the sumo position, and the second jumper would lunge at them to knock them over. The "winner" was whoever made it the longest before getting hurt. I'm not sure why we kept doing it, cause we always got hurt, but once you were enveloped in those chenille sofa cushions staring down 7 steps to a tiled basement floor- you just felt invincible. Granted, we never really considered head protection....
We played a game called Geng, which was simple. You threw a tennis ball into the wall , if the ball didn't hit the wall first then you became target which meant whoever got the ball could throw it at you. If they missed they'd become the target.
If the ball touched you after bouncing from the wall but you didn't manage to catch it then you became a target.
You can scream "Stop" to make someone stay where they are and force them to throw the ball from that distance.
I'm not sure if this is unique because it just boils down to "playing pretend" but we had this game called "Crimson Battles" where we'd pretend to be made up characters or characters from pop culture
Then we'd playfight around the playground with a rough story line, various alliances and pretty frequent character swaps.
My 2 brothers & I played the “banana-sticker game”. When we were putting away the groceries, someone would take the sticker off of the bananas and stick it on someone else. At first it was obvious, then you’d try to put it on someone else in a sly way: pat them on the back, leave it sticky side up on their dinner chair or bed pillow. Hahaha, gotcha! Eventually, it became all out warfare, wrestling each other to the floor and pressing it onto the other person’s forehead with all of the pressure you had in your thumb, while the other person yelled and flailed. There was almost no stickiness left on it by this time, so you could say that’s why you had to bruise the person “to get it to stick”. All of the fun was gone from the “game” at this point. Eventually the battle would die down and the war would come to an end... until the next grocery day.
The playground by our house had gravel on the ground, and a big tower thing on one side as well as the assorted other deathtrap playground equipment. We'd split into two teams, one had to defend the high ground (tower) and the other had to storm the tower and kick out the other team.
Our weapons were rocks (remember that gravel that was everywhere?), and the storming team on the ground would get pelted with rocks from above as they stormed the tower, and the tower defenders would get pelted with rocks whenever they stood up above the wall at the top or peeked around the corners where the slide pole and slide and stuff were.
The ground team people on the front lines had to climb the slide and the ladder thing and the stairs (the three ways up) while their team members attempted to cover their advance with a hail of rocks.
We'd leave the fire pole alone as a means of escape for the high ground team, although more than one kid got pushed off the top of it when the ground team would take control of the tower. To be fair, the ground team would often get pushed off the slide, stairs and ladder, once the advance got close enough.
The ground team would take POWs if any of the tower team got separated from their team while repelling an attack, and the tower team would have to plan a rescue or the POW would have to escape (we imprisoned them in the monkey bars and would set a guard).
And we'd do this for hours, and go home covered in bruises that our parents would ask about and we'd just shrug. "I dunno, what's for dinner?"
Our ages ranged from 6-12 and there were usually 10-20 of us on any given day out there. Because we lived right next to the playground (military base, so houses and apartments everywhere) our parents would just send us outside to play unattended for hours and hours. Shockingly no one ever got seriously injured, just bumps and bruises. This was in the 80's, can you imagine trying to get away with that sort of thing today?
me and best friend always used to play beyblades in the school field, we would just spin and attack each other screaming at the top of our lungs, we had a story line and everything.
I would consider my sibling's and my games more fatally danerous than unique; my childhood home had a backyard that steeply sloped down to a street below. There was a ditch at the bottom that we utilized as a ramp (made it super icy in the winter for maximum propulsion) and we would compete to see who could launch the farthest on a toboggan. If you made it to the driveway across the street below, legendary.
I'm sure there are other honourable mentions but this one was for sure the most memorable.
twzzlr · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
German spotlight. I’ve never heard of anyone else but the kids in my neighborhood playing it. It was basically flashlight tag, and all of us kids would run around the neighborhood playing it at night. Parents would never let their kids do that now.
me and my friend would ditch polish school on saturdays. we would get dropped off at the school but go in and hide in a stairwell or go to panera bread across the street.
sometimes we would play a game of who could slap eachothers ass, like you chase each other and just slap each others ass lol. it was only between me and my friend, both girls. we were neighbors all our life.
another game was when i was 8 or 9 years old, me and 4/5 friends (girls and boys) would hang out at someones house, then go into the bathroom with all the lights turned off. i know i was a weird child because i would be shoving people around the bathroom. i dont really know what the point of that game was, i dont think anybody was kissing in there cause we did play spin the bottle sometimes. i didnt have anger problems but for some reason i became violent in that bathroom
Me and my friend played a "cool im a monster now" game, but we pretended we had our own tv show, video games, youtube channel, almost 20 monsters with "unique" personalities and powers, overarching stories, and we did it for like 5 years straight. It was called 'Monster Legendaries', was a total ripoff of Monster Legends (a mobile game we used to play), pokemon and skylanders.
Dreamland! My 2 neighbors and my sister and I would would playing the trampoline, it would all start with us pretending to be sleeping. Then one person would wake up and go and get a midnight snack, generally cookies from the cookie jar. When they would open the jar they would magically get sucked into Dreamland! Then slowly the others would go to check and get sucked into the jar as well! We would then run around the trampoline acting out our "dreams" once you got hurt though you had to wake up! After everyone had gotten "hurt" in their dream, we would all sit in a circle and talk about how weird our dreams were. Then wed go back to sleep and the whole game would repeat itself. HOURS spent playing this silly game, seriously so much fun though.
My cousin and I would lay on our backs and throw cut up pieces of cantaloupe at the ceiling. It would bounce off and we’d catch it in our mouth. We called it canty catch. It ruined our grandma’s ceiling.
My parents wouldn't buy us a Nintendo. We had a computer and Game Boys, so they said that was enough. We used to make up the Nintendo games and act them out. We'd spend an hour walking left to right then right to left across the basement punching and kicking invisible enemies. We even did boss fights and would 'die' if we got hit enough times.
Not sure if it was as unique to everyone else as it was to us, but my friends and I would play hide and go seek tag without any lights on in the house. It made it extra challenging because not only could you not see shit but we would close doors as we checked rooms and if you got lucky, you would witness someone run full bore right into it trying to escape. Many hilarious injuries resulted from that stupid game.
My sister and I would get those big balls they store in nets in Target and punt them up the big ass staircase and wait for them to bounce down. I don’t exaggerate when I say we would play StairBall every day after school for hours
If you are asking because you are an adult looking for a game for your kids to play I made one up with my daughter called “10 step tag”.
it’s tag but you take turns taking 10 steps at a time. (invented it to save energy/be lazy) your “step” can be a giant leap off something, sliding down a slide. just 10 different foot steps.
My siblings and I used to play this game called ‘roller coaster’ where we would grab each others hair and fucking throw each other around yelling roller coaster...
Marbles, also this weird toy that I cant find, it was a ring about a foot in circumstance and it had little brass washers on it, you would spin the washers and the ring at the same time and they would "fall" around the ring and you would just spin it and do tricks.
Dark hide-and-go-seek in our pitch black basement. Well, at least I was playing that, while my older sister and her friends were playing “leave the person that’s It in the basement getting increasingly frantic and staggering around with their arms out in the dark”
Pinecone tennis. We would bat a pinecone over the telephone wires in our backyard with old racquetball rackets. Our neighborhood friends would come over and we would rally for hours trying not to let the pinecone touch the ground on our side of the wire.
Looking back now I wonder what my parents thought about the fact that they would buy us nice things but we would play with pinecones instead...
Oh my god, I can actually answer this one. When I was in third grade, I invented a game where we would all get on the swingset, loosen/partly untie our shoes, start swinging as hard as we can, and then launch our shoes as far as we could. Whoever got theirs the farthest won that round. The way the playground was designed, there was a really big field right next to the swingset that was hardly ever used, so there was a lot of room to play it safely. We called it "Shoe Fly" (which is a pun I'm still proud of today), and I had most of my class playing it at least sometimes. We always had one person whose job it was to make sure nobody was in the way and might get hurt by any flying shoes, and a bunch of people who were totally willing to run out and collect people's shoes afterwards so we didn't have to get dirty socks. These people would be up next. It was all weirdly organized and super fun.
We played it for the better part of a year, until one of the kindergarten teachers saw us and demanded we stop because someone might get hurt. Nobody ever did, so we did it more in secret for a while, but eventually our teachers were told to stop us from doing it and we were forced to end it.
Back in high school we played this game called “Saliva Maze”. So there’s one guy who’ll try to catch the enemy whose feet is on the ground and you should hop on chairs every 5 seconds or you get caught. We did it in our big classroom so the distance between chairs is no joke. When caught, the guy will lick any part of your body (face preferably) and you will both hunt for the next prey until the last uncontaminated person survives. Sounds gross but this was so intense lol
We used to cut off palm tree fronds and then cut all the needles off the base of them and make colorful duct tape handles, and then we would just beat the crap out of each other cause no matter how hard you hit each other it was just like an annoying wisp in the face. For some reason we called it Trontlet. Sometimes we would make double bladed ones like Darth Fucking Maul
Basically you get a can/bottle of whatever (Water, beer, soda, etc). You place the can/bottle a place where everyone can see it. Then you have one person defending the can/bottle if it gets knocked over by the other players. The other players will have a flip flop and they will stand at a certain distance and try to knock the can/bottle over. If they miss, they have to get their flip flop back while avoiding being touch by the defender, but in order for the defender to tag the players, he/she has to put the can/bottle back up.
It gets really intense, highly reccommend when at a party.
Me and my friends would lie in the middle of the street at night hoping a car would come by and then we saw it come around the corner we would all jump up and scatter.
Lawn Darts - the proper way. You all stand on the grass then one person throws the dart straight up, as high as they can. Last one to run is the winner and gets to throw next.
We played a game called Run Around and Scream. It’s like hide and go seek in that you have a seeker and then everyone else hides. The difference is that when the seeker finds someone, that person starts screaming and running around the house. When the others hear screaming , they also start screaming and running around the house. You do that until you are laughing so hard you fall down. Then your mom kicks you out of the house and the game is over. You never get more than one round of that unfortunately. In fact, you only really get one or two rounds per house ever, so when you meet someone new - it’s a good time!
Ooer · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chair Olympics.
The first Chair Olympics game was held at school during a class where the dream happened. The history teacher was ill and substitute teacher was nowhere to be seen.
After seemingly no amount of time, someone had the idea of piling all the chairs and desks into one corner of the room whilst everyone stood at the opposite side of the room, with one person holding a bouncy ball.
The keen observers can probably see where this is going. The object of the game was simple, the ball would be thrown into the heap of twisted metal legs and the first person to retrieve it would be the winner. I am honestly not sure how no one was badly injured.
In a way, we all saw what being in a pike charge may have been like, so it wasn’t an entirely wasted lesson.
In elementary school me and my friends started a "cut club" Essentially we would break a rock until we got a sharp edge and whoever cut themselves the deepest won. Thankfully we never got really hurt but boy was it stupid looking back.
I remember playing 'headless men' because we saw this random music video where a girl is back to back with a giant robot, and is then chased by suits with no heads.
It was just me and another kid running around in circles.
Good times.
When I was around nine or ten I used to have a friend who's Dad would play a game with us that quickly became a favourite amongst our friend group. The name of the game was "The Giant Green Booger Monster". And it basically involved my friend's Dad picking his nose so he had a lump on snot on his finger and chasing us around trying to smear it on you, and when this happened you were out. Kind of like Tag with a twist. The stakes felt so high as a kid as the thought of having this adult snot on you would really push you to your limit to get away. We'd climb trees, hide under decks, jump down laundry chutes, and scream as we were chased around. At one of my friend's birthday parties we begged the Dad to play one round. It was poorly timed and the rest of our parents came to pick us up as the father was chasing a bunch of kids around the house with snot on his finger. Needless to say the parents weren't super impressed, and I think that was the last time we ever played TGGBM.
TLDR: My friends dad used to chase us around with snot on his finger
When the matrix came out, I was obsessed with the concept of bullet time as a child. So what I would do is pretend that my right hand was Neo (head is index finger, thumb and middle finger are arms) and my left hand was Agent Smith. And then I would choreograph fight scenes between my hands via slowed down punches and whatnot. I even dragged some of my friends into this regretfully.
Yiink · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you know the party game mafia/werewolf, I play a version of that on a much larger scale. There’s usually 20+ players, and we talk on a forum over super long days and nights. Basically, there’s a mafia team that all knows each other, and a much larger town who has no idea who anyone is. Each day, everyone can vote on someone to lynch, and each night, mafia can choose someone to kill. We have 48 hour days and 24 hour nights, so the games can take weeks.
i used to play a combination between tag and hide and seek with my friends that we called "verstop tikkertje(hidetag)" where you hide and run at the same time and the guy who got tagged would be the new seeker
kept us good when we were around 6-12 until we started to go into puberty
Super tic-tac-toe, 2 player game on a graph paper. One person is X's one is O's and whoever connects 4 in a row (maybe it was 5 I'd have to do a test run to see what works, been so long I can't remember) gets a point. You then section off the recent game by writing a line all around, and you add the point to a tally. You continue until you've basically used up the whole paper and whoever has the most points wins.
Paper Wars. 4 player game on a blank piece of paper. This game didn't have much rules and was more about being fun and creative than winning. Each person drew their own base in a corner. You would take turns, clockwise, and each turn could be used to spawn a unit, or take an action. What you did was pretty much up to your imagination, and the more gruesome you could draw your character killing another character the better. Each faction was usually based on a theme from a set universe, such as a person's theme would be FF7 so they would have Midgar as their base and spawn Cloud and Barrett, or have the Death Star and use Darth Vader and Ewoks. You would draw and erase as you went along, and we took pride in how awful the paper would appear after many periods of doodling on the one page.
Robo Wars, this was a fully fleshed out pen and paper RPG that I designed where participants would create a character page choosing from several pre-designed robots. There was a comprehensive shop where they could purchase customizable parts which would change the appearance and function of their robot. There were set single player levels designed which were inhabited by organic characters (which I had originally designed for a different RPG idea) and players would get currency by completing levels, to purchase more parts. There was then a PVP system where players could duel each other and it became very competitive. I had about 20 kids in on the game at one point, and they'd come and see me at recess to play.
I remember my friends and I invented two games. We used to get so bored waiting for the school bus in the mornings that we made a game using the lines in between concrete pieces on our neighbor’s driveway (our bus stop was the driveway of a kind neighbor). The “it” person was only allowed to travel along the lines and cracks of the driveway and he would try to tag other people running back and forth across the driveway. We also used to use the bike racks as parallel bars to jump over, and two people would start at opposite sides of the bike rack. We have to launch ourselves over the bars and run to the opposite end, launch ourselves over the bars and see who could tag the other person first. There were all sorts of rules too, where you could run in the opposite direction or have three free passes to not jump, etc.
We used sharpened sticks to impale chestnuts on . We whipped them at each other, and got pretty impressive velocity. We used metal garbage can lids as shields.
We also played a game I invented called tail gunner on our bikes. The guy in the lead would try to shake off his pursuer and the other one tried to stay on his tail. Epic
My brother and I used to play blindfold noughts and crosses but in 3D so numbers 1-9 on top row 10-18 second row and 19-27 on the third. we shared a room and it was a good way to help us drop off at night. He usually won but he was a bit older and also used to do blindfold chess at the time so his concentration was better than mine.
Player 1 would lie on the ground face up and bring their knees to their chest. Player 2 sits upon the bottom of player 1's feet and requests an arbitrary floor number. Player 1 then launches player 2 with some amount of force equal to the relative difference between the current and previous floor requested. (Things usually didn't get interesting until round 2).
It wasn't until explaining this "game" to my boss about 2 months ago that I realized this isn't a thing everyone did (I'm 30)...
When I was around 5-6 my best friend at the time would play as adventurers. His mom would use a clothespin to fasten towels around our necks like capes and he had a ton of fake swords. We’d explore all over (his dad had a ton of tools and abandoned equipment and big metal boxes)
When his little sister got old enough she’d follow us all over trying to play too. It didn’t really work so she’d go back inside.
One time we sat on a red ant hill without realizing it. They came out and we both screamed and ran inside, the game stopped for the day after that.
Kunoxa · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a game called "Urban Assault" published by Microsoft in 98. It was the the first 3D video game I played, it felt like it came from the future, way ahead of its time. It needs a remaster for sure
My sib and I called it Beaterball, after the Quidditch position.
You take a soccer ball and two baseball bats, and use the bats to try to hit the ball along the ground through goal posts/standins. There’s a no man’s land in the middle third of the playing area to avoid hitting each other with the bats. Playing field is...I wanna say fifty feet long by maybe fifteen? Our driveway, anyway. The goal posts are standard soccer goal width apart, ish.
This game had no name when we were playing it, but as an adult I've just referred to it as "Guns." Its like rock paper scissors but more intense.
Both people tap their knees twice and make a move. You can
a) reload, signified by pointing your thumbs over your shoulders. you have to reload to shoot, but you're completely vulnerable.
b) shoot, signified by making finger guns. you can only shoot as many times as you reload. if both people choose to shoot they cancel out and the game continues.
c) defend, signified by crossing your arms over your chest. If your opponent shoots when you defend, they waste a shot and you take no damage.
The first person to be shot while reloading loses. My brothers and I played it for years, being that its a much more engaging and intense version of rock paper scissors. Later on I taught to my girlfriend and its a ton of fun to play in waiting rooms and restaurants and such.
We lived in a rural part of the uk and where lucky enough to own a field at the end of our garden.
At night in the dark my older brothers would drive an old land rover round the field. One would ride shotgun with a big BB gun. Then me and my mates would all hide round the edge of the field with pistol BB guns and a saucepan was placed somewhere in the field.
The winner of the game was the first man on foot to find and return the saucepan to there starting location. Also because is was dark my brothers in the car could only see you properly when the car headlights where on you so it was best played at night.
Scary but was always good fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would literally just throw a ball up the stairs and watch it roll down (or if i threw it too far, i would have to get it, obviously). i don’t know why but it was entertaining to me.
witty_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my dad was remodeling our basement, the first room he finished had no windows (eventually went on to become a home theater). It was about 12’ x 14’ with one door. The only light that could come through was under the door. My friend and I would shove towels in the crack so there was no light. Then line up on opposite sides of the room. The one by the door had to protect the door knob as long as possible from being touched. If the other person got tagged, they had to start over at the opposite wall. If they touched the door knob, they won and you would switch places.
We used to play 'the birdie game' in elementary school. It was a game I made up similar to tag.
It involved a crappy piece of playground equipment as the center 'safe zone'.
It was easiest with only 3 players, one being the bird who has to keep away from the cat. Another as the cat who has to get the bird and keep away from the dog. And the last as the dog who has to get the cat and protect the bird.
If more played the animals after the dog were chosen randomly and the players chose their objective.
My brother and I used to play a game we called “Benjamin Franklin” on the trampoline. One of us would be jumping while the other person tried to hit the jumping person with a ball.
Not very unique but we used to play mantracker in our neighborhood. Instead of horses, two people would start out on bikes while the other 10 or so would get a one min headstart. The twist is once you hit caught, you went home and got your bike and you joined the trackers. Pair this with the huge Canadian forests we had around the neighborhood and the game would last about 8 hrs per day (would make a truce for lunch of course)
Well Micheal Jackson would invite me over when I was 7 and we would play a game where we act like animals and take off all of our clothes. He said it’s our little secret
Wimbledon - someone(usually the oldest and strongest in the group) would hit a tennis ball as high into the sky as possible using a tennis racket and then everyone would scramble to catch it. Could let it touch the ground otherwise you’d be out, had to catch it before.
It was the best when it’d go up onto a roof and the tiles would mean that you’d never know where it’d land.
Bunch of teenagers hanging around, trying to look guilty as a cop car drives by, then turn and run like we're trying to get away. Points scored if the cop fell for it and chased us.
Small town. Dumb, overweight cops. They never caught anyone.
Acaexx · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a few imaginary games in my head when I was little:
When sitting in a car I'd picture a little dude running by my parents' car who would jump between the other cars to keep up.
When swimming, I'd pretend to be a vessel containing millions of passengers from destination to destination.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with my uncle except he was always the seeker and I was always the hider and if I lost then he got to put his willy in my bum /s
My grandad had a beach house and whenever we stayed there, my dad would let me and my sister bring a friend each. At night, we'd lock ourselves in our bedroom, turn off all the lights and played a game that was pretty much "Marco Polo", only that whoever was it had to put a pillow on its face and the others would sing "Pig Face, Pig Face" until someone was tagged.
The game was called "Pig Face". I don't really know where we got that idea from but yeah it was really fun.
I had a Spider-man figure and some fishing line, and a whole lot of dominoes. I liked the dominoes not for the game itself, but because I liked creating long chains of them to knock over in sequence.
The game was to use the Spider-man figurine, with a 'web-line' attached to his hand, held high, and then let it go to swing into your domino chain. The person who could knock over the most dominoes in a single go won.
Get Out of My Yard. One kid had a broom and stayed on the sidewalk in the middle of the yard, as the other kids would dash back and forth across the sidewalk, the old angry lady would smack u with the broom. When u got hit it was your turn to be old pissy lady
“Nightcrawlers” was a game where we would go headfirst into our sleeping bags, turn off the lights, then attempt to beat each other up while crawling around blind in the dark. The sleeping bags provided enough restriction and protection that no one usually got too hurt.
Had a little wagon and would roll down hill with me and my friends when we were 7 pretending to be knights and shit and jousting cars. I have no idea how we didnt die especially since we went downhill and crossed the streets going like 15 miles per hour
My sister would float relatively far out into the lake on a boogie board, then hop off and pretend to drown. I would then go out on my boogie board and "rescue" her. Neither of us could swim well, so that could've ended poorly.
My friends and our infinite wisdom thought it would be great to recreate the original Donkey Kong by finding the steepest hill in our woods and try to reach the top while another friend would throw sticks and push logs down to stop us
We played baseketball(like the movie). It started as a joke when the movie came out, but we actually had kids come from other neighborhoods to play with us because they heard how ridiculously fun it was. We had a hoop in my backyard from the previous owners and it was filled with grass, so it was a perfect field for us to play.
Me and a friend played 'Ventball', which was basically handball but you had to kick this small foam (like a coated nerf softball) and it had to hit this vent on the side of my house. Parents didn't really care for that, so it then evolved into 'Ricochet', which was again just handball-but-kicking, except this time we used a kickball--those pthoonk-sounding rubber ones with the little hashmarks on them--and took it to the baseball backstop behind my house. So much fun. Well, until you kicked it too high and it snagged the sharp chain-link at the top, piercing the ball and forcing us to climb up and get it, then finding something else to do.
When we moved my brother and I taped together all of our moving boxes and created a box fort/tunnel system that spanned our entire 2000 sq ft basement. There were multiple rooms and secret entry ways. We even had a dead end to catch unsuspecting intruders. It was lots of fun
My brother and I used to play a version of "Get your own back" where I would sit on the sofa and he would sit on my lap and I would throw him off onto the floor (gunge)
ITT: Reasons I never leave my four sons unattended for too long, and reasons why parents feel the deepest dread when we realize they've been especially quiet.
Dash Galaxy escape from the asylum .....or something like that all I remember was I was a spaceman on trampolines trying to get out of a room ...... I believe he's still there bouncing his way to freedom
O1_O1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme staring contest. Me and someone I used to play with as a kid realized that if you just leave your eyes open eventually you’ll get used to the pain, so we did and I’m surprised it didn’t affect our sight.
This was something I did during car trips. I would pretend the car "jumped" over the shadows in the road, be it road signs, traffic lights, utility poles etc. Id imagine the sensation of the front wheels leaving the ground first and try and have the front wheels land again before the back wheels did, like a one-two motion, and time the "jumps" over the shadows
We would play this in narrow hallways at school with any type of ball that was around the size of a soccer ball.
2 players, one on each end about 7-15 ft apart, would try to get the ball past their opponent. The ball couldn’t go over your head and you had stay one your line while on your knees or sitting (no standing). You could throw, punch, or kick the ball.
To this day I wish I could play this game again.
juul95 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freddy the fish. Casper the ghost. Putput (that little car). These were all Dutch games, so I dont know forsure if the games are international.
jihkr · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the second grade I used to imagine a ball bouncing around the classroom kinda like the DVD symbol bouncing around a TV screen.
It was pretty fun for me but my parents were a bit freaked out when my teacher told them what I was doing in class.
All the kids in the neighborhood divided into two teams, hiders and seekers. We decided on a location to use as a jail, usually a front porch. The seekers waited 5 minutes in jail, and could leave 1 person guarding it.
When a hider is found, they get escorted to the jail. However, another hider can run into the jail and scream “JAILBREAK” and everyone in the jail is free, so long as the guard doesn’t catch them.
I will never forget the days when my biggest worry was where I could hide near the jail so I could break my friends out.
It was pretty brutal because the person seeking would wear a pillow case over their head and we would turn off all the house lights, so they couldn't see anything. We would all arm ourselves with pillows and we would be allowed to hit the seeker and put objects in front of his/her path.
He just has to touch you or hit you with a pillow to tag you. It resulted in lots of crying and SLAMMING your pillow into the seekers face or legs. Them falling over and hitting their head. All the good fun that comes with these kind of games.
We played "Finger up the butt" and it sounds terrible. Mind you this was in a house with 4 boys. We didn't let our younger sister play for obvious reasons. You would casually go about your day and if someone came up behind you they could put their finger in yours as they shouted "Finger Up Your Butt!" You had to shout a little before you did it, and if they weren't prepared you got a point. Folding the laundry was a nightmare as anyone could sneak up on you. Good times.
Treeballtag. We had three trees in my yard that approximated to a triangle whoever was it” got a kickball to throw while everyone else tried to dodge. The trees were base. It was pretty fun like a pitcher trying to pick off runners but the bases were always loaded and there was no batter. It was great cause nobody won or lost and there weren’t points but we all had fun.
In my childhood home we had an extremely long staircase from the middle floor to the basement. My brother and I used to slide/fall down the stairs in sleeping bags and smack into the wall at the bottom to stop.
As a child me and a friend of mine would basically pretend to be monsters and fight each other with magic.
Now a days I work in a warehouse and more often that not we end up playing dodgeball with bouncy balls (they can goddam hurt if throw hard enough) or catch with a elastic band we ping at each other
My dad and my five siblings would play a game called Death in the dark. Basically just blocked out all of the windows and we had to find our dad in the pitch black, but he would sneak up on us and scare us. Ended up breaking the couch in half and then we weren’t allowed to play anymore
The apartment where we lived had a kinda long corridor. And we had carpets all over the home including the corridor. So my sister and I divided the corridor in half and took a ping pong set and made up a game in which the object was too not let the ball stop moving in your half of the corridor. Since there were carpets, the ball would stop moving fairly easily so it was a challenge and a pretty good exercise to keep the ball from stopping. We called it "ground tennis". Lame name but fun game.
Me and my cousin used to have bikes with speed counters, and near our village (a little town on the Spanish countryside) there was a ascending 2 kilometers long road that rarely saw any cars.
We spent a lot of afternoons competing to see which one achieved most speed. All of this without any protections or regard to road security regulations. Our record was 47 kilometers per hour.
I came to think we are lucky to be alive considering our hobbies.
I loved Spyro the Dragon so much growing up. So much that I created a dragon persona and talked my friend into creating a dragon persona and then we would run around our apartment complex pretending to be dragons and getting gems.
And then I stop and realize...I did this for Pokemon too when I was even younger. Pretended I was a Magby and waddled my little feet around the courtyard with a friend who was an Igglybuff...
My brother and I would choreograph these what we perceived as "epic battle scenes" with each other during the summer when we were home alone. We would take the legs off the side table next to the couch and "battle". We didn't swing aimlessly at each other and we never got hurt. We would add a swing and a block sequentially over the course of an hour or so until we had this long drawn out choreographed "battle" scene. We would do it over and over again until we had it perfect and could "perform" it really quickly. It was around the time Revenge of the Sith came out, so naturally we had force throws as well.
At my friend's house, we would tie one of us up with rope, zip into a duffle bag, throw it onto a moving treadmill, then move the bag into the closet and time how long it took you to get out?
I realize now that this wasn't the smartest of games to have played.
My siblings and I would cover the floor in whatever we could find whether it be chairs, toys, boxes, you name it. We would then turn off the lights and close the blinds so it would be as close to pitch black as possible. With items scattered across the whole room (basically every inch of the floor was covered) we would try to make it to the other side in the dark without tripping over something and falling on our faces. I don’t know why we thought it was fun but at the time it was a blast.
When my little brother and I would get cooped up in the winter (We lived in Wisconsin and it was common to have to dig your way out of the house, otherwise, you'd just stay inside), we would play this little clue-based game that we came up with.
Essentially, one person hid an object somewhere in the house, and had to write a series of clever clues that led to it. The other person (or sometimes we had friends play with us) stayed in a separate room until the person hiding the object (usually our favorite toy) knocked on the door and presented the first clue.
We thought the clues were pretty clever, and they usually revolved around things specific to us, as kids. One of the clues might have been a math problem, and the answer might have been a number specific to an item in the house (we had this massive ceramic umbrella holder thing with the number "14" on it that we often used for this game).
We had another game we played in the summer time when we'd stay up late. We lived next to an apartment complex on one side and a cornfield on the other. So we'd grab a bunch of the neighbor kids and play "Jason Tag" in the surrounding area. It was essentially regular hide-and-go-seek/tag but the person who was "it" had to wear a Jason hockey mask and wield a prop machete. It was a lot of fun chasing other kids through a dark cornfield with a hockey mask and a plastic machete.
The house I grew up in had a huge, mostly empty basement. Ultra thin carpet, some luggage, and unused furniture. I'm 10 years old, my brother is 8.
My dad was taking the training wheels off my brother's bike, but the wrench slipped and he accidentally bent back one of his fingernails.
He howled in pain, unleashed a barrage of curse words - teaching the both of us all of them in a single crash course, with both the context and the syntax - and hurled the wheel away from him, like he was throwing a Frisbee on the ground.
It zoomed across the floor on its edge, going the entire length of the basement, and slammed into the far wall. My brother and I were stunned, and we invented a new game:
Wheelies
You sit at opposite sides of the basement, on your knees, and whip this training wheel back and forth to each other. This is an 80's era training wheel, meaning it's made of solid plastic, and heavy rubber. Nearly indestructible, and probably weighed a pound or more. It rolled fast as hell if you threw it right. The idea was to hit your opponent's wall while they tried to catch it.
The game was a blend of catch and air hockey, only your balls were the goal if you failed.
We introduced our cousins to it and it was the main event each time there were family parties. The adults would be grilling, gambling, and drinking in the yard or upstairs, and they'd keep the kids in the basement.
One of my cousins discovered that you up the ante by rolling it off your shoulder, causing it to bounce. Now you could possibly get hit in the face unless you were fast enough. Getting a bloody nose or cut lip was a badge of honor.
Then the girl cousins saw how much fun we were having and wanted to play. We told them to fuck off and they tattled on us, getting the boys in trouble. We had to let them play.
The first match was my cousin against his two sisters, the youngest of which was the one who told on us. First throw of the game and my cousin hit his snitch-ass, bitch-ass sister square in the face. Slight diagonal, bouncing throw that landed on her eye, nose, and the corner of her mouth.
Blood starts gushing from her nose and lips and she screamed bloody murder. The adults heard the ruckus and charged downstairs.
We, the boys, all got spanked and grounded, and that was the end of Wheelies.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway Football. We used to line up 2x2 up to 5x5 with linemen. Doors were left open to allow big hits into stairs/washing machine/bunk beds. I can't remember if numerous broken bones or holes in the wall was the reason we were forced to change to concrete driveway tackle football because it was somehow deemed safer.
Whenever a car would drive past the road beside our house, my sister and I would run like hell to a nearby tree. If either one of us didn't make it to the tree before the car drove to the end of the road, we got "rund over".
I wrote some made up recipes on pieces of paper and their ingredients. We had 2 minutes to memorize the recipe we got. Then I mixed up the papers with ingredients and we would have to find those from the recipe.
I hope I explained it well :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See who could fart on each other the most.
Sorry, fellas, I'm taken.
Smalk · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tackle game". Using a soccer ball, you would attempt to dribble past or run away from everyone else, who would be trying to tackle you. However, no tackle was deemed a foul, and the dirtier the tackle, the better. So many twisted ankles and bruised legs. No winners or losers, however, extremely dirty tackles would be celebrated. Teachers had to stop us when we played on grass that was completely covered in ice, as they thought it was too dangerous, which, in hindsight, it was.
In elementary school my friends and I would play the "anything game" I believe is what we called it. Basically you could play as anyone from anything and we would run around pretending to be those people
This will get buried, but we used to play an amazing game in our gym class. (great gym teacher in elementary school)
BLOB: basically it was tag, started with one person, but then as you tagged someone, you had to hold hands and could not let go. Slowly the "Blob" would grow to the whole class all surging after the few survivors. Games got super intense and it kept the whole group involved.
Back in middle school we used to play this game called kronum. It was like basketball, soccer, and football combined. It was really just an excuse to beat the fuck out of each other.
My cousin and I would play “wolf and leopard” any time we were in a pool or outside. I was the wolf, she was the leopard. Basically we would crawl around on all 4s and pretend to be these animals. We would catch lizards and go on adventures. Basically doing normal stuff, but as our animal. Sounds so silly now.. but we would do this for HOURS every time we saw each other.
When we were inside we would play with our “packs”. Basically just a bunch of stuffed animals that we made into our own pack. The pack itself would take hours for us to plan on the phone.. like “who are you bringing?” “Oh, ok I’ll bring this one then since they are friends”. And they had drama, fights, adventures. My parents always loved when we show up for a 2 week trip to see family and realized I only packed stuffed animals. Haha! Good memories.
We would take a ball and throw it toward our ceiling, trying to get it the closest without touching it. Also me and my brothers would shoot each other with air soft guns on our neighborhood golf course.
Flash Flood! It was our favorite. My 2 sisters and I made it up. Someone would pretend to be a radio announcer and would come on the "radio" saying that there was going to be a flash flood that would flood the entire world. We'd have 30 minutes or an hour or whatever to build a waterproof house (blanket fort) for us and our children (our stuffed animals). After the flood finally hit, presumably killing off most of humanity, we'd start working on tunnels between our houses so our kids could have playdates. Sometimes we'd have to help each other swim out to catch fish for food (usually other small toys). Stuff like that.
When our babysitter would take us to my younger brother's football practice at the park, I would play Bottle Tag with my friends there. Bottle Tag is a very simple alteration to the game of tag where you fill a Gatorade bottle with rocks, and the person that's it has to tag you with the bottle. The bottle can be thrown and the whole park was the playing field. The park was pretty large so you had to run quite a bit when you were it. There were seven or eight different jungle gyms, basketball and tennis courts, a river, and a forest that the local kids dug bike ramps throughout.
And at school, we would play a game called ‘Family Tag’ (which later was called ‘Infected’ and turned more extreme) which is just tag but if someone is It, and they tag someone else, they are still it, it’s like a last man standing kind of thing.
„Wandball Spiel“ I‘m from Switzerland and this translates to:
„Wallball game“
My friend and I played a very weird „wall-pass“ game where we‘d habe to throw a ball at one of three walls and let it fall into a specific area.
You could catch the ball mid-air and go on to speed up the game and to force mistakes.
If you didn‘t hit the are or hit a different kind of wall or weird specific things that weren‘t allowed (specific rules we added playing the game).
Only we 2 played that game with eachother and I never heard anyone play something similar to our game.
It is kind of comparable to a weird mix of squash, handball (I don‘t know how known this sport is in the us or if it‘s even called like that lol) with weird extra self-made rules.
I have no idea who gave me paddles or why, but I had two paddles, a bouncy ball, and a trampoline.
The premise of the game was to literally smack the ball with the paddles while jumping on the trampoline; you get a point each time you smack the other person with the ball and you instantly lose if the ball hit you in the face. You also got points if you dodged the ball... I’m pretty sure everyone is scarred from that game mentally and physically.
Footstool: siblings pair up, one gets on hands and knees and becomes the footstool for the other. Having 8 kids in the family, we could do 4 pairs. The people acting as footstool try to stay as still as possible. The first to give up loses.
me and my former best friend used to play army men. he had a small obsession with ww2 and we would spend our days regularly storming the beaches of Normandy with our wooden guns.
My dad had several car games to keep us occupied. When he drove me to preschool I would count school buses. We would also claim water towers. When we were driving, the first person to see a water tower would say "my water tower!". We also liked to play a game where we tell my dad how to get home from various places.
Its when you gather up laundry baskets and all of your cats. You put all the laundry baskets on their sides, line then with blankets, and put a cat in each one.
Then you just sit there trying to keep each cat in thief basket until you get bored.
Didn't have siblings or cousins or friends to play with. So my imaginary friends and I made a class and we would hold lessons, have cool lunches, hang out, even get into trouble.
My mum's closet became the head teachers office where you would go if you were really bad.
We would all show off our amazing bento lunches that are parents made for us.
I even had a registration book and a star chart for the good behavior in class.
I also studied ahead so I could "teach" interesting classes on things I hadn't covered yet in school...
My neighbor and I would play homeless, where we were homeless kids who lived his playhouse in his backyard. We pretended that "the nice people inside" let us stay in their backyard and even let us use the bathroom if we needed to.
nosg0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I invented a game we called “Dead Guy on Camel’s Back” and the idea was that you were a guy in the desert who died of thirst and now your camel had to carry you back to civilization. So one sister was the “dead guy” who would lay limp across the other sister’s (the camel’s) back. The camel sister would have to carry the limp sister’s body across the house and if the dead guy fell off the Camel’s back, you lost.
Street luge on a mountain board. When I was probably 10-11 I lived near a big hill I would lay down on a cheap mountain board which was basically a skateboard with tall trucks and bigger wheels. I rode down that hill all the time.
My mom thinks this one is soooo funny and it is looking back on it but at the time my brother and I took this very seriously of course.
We grew up in Florida in a house with a very long steep driveway. One day after a particularly bad storm, it flooded, creating a decent "pond" at the bottom of the driveway. Im guessing this was before proper drainage was installed in our neighborhood, bc after a bit, tadpoles began hatching and swimming.
My brother and I were obviously fascinated by this and instead of letting us play in the stagnant water, she set us up good. She brought 2 chairs to the end of the driveway and gave us sticks with string attached so we could "go fishing".
I vaguely remember sitting there like 2 old men, fishing and talking quietly (so we didn't scare the fish).
Mom says it kept us busy for hours, damn near all day, before we wised up (or got sick of playing) and just scooped the tadpoles up with some cups. She says people were driving by honking and laughing their asses up.
Smart mom. Fun day for us, peace and quiet inside the house for her.
Mystery, or Mr Tree when adults were about, because it was a secret world they shouldn’t know about.
Basically it involved imagining hoards of skeletons of different colours trying to invade our village residential road. The severity of the situation was denoted by the colours of the skeletons - green skeletons were par, blue tough, red formidable, and white the deadliest of all. They were devious and always using backroads and shortcuts to try and REDACTED but we always saved the day, albeit sometimes at the cost of life threatening wounds including having our bones replaced by their bones and becoming possessed.
WWII. My friends and I were obsessed with WWII so we would dress in khaki, olive drab, camo, etc. and find twigs that were shaped like guns (seemed to always find a MP44/Thompson stick). We would mostly play it on the playground at lunch so we'd have other things at our disposal like pinecones as grenades, musical instruments as bazookas/panzerfausts, ziploc bags as bandages, etc. The game was amazing and we had some epic battles but one day the lunch monitors came over and asked what we were playing. We told her and she proceeded to throw us all in after-school detention for being Nazis. The principal was a good guy though and just had us form a library research club where we would eat our lunch in the library and read books on WWII and then discuss them. We also wrote papers about WWII and gave them to the principal for extra credit in our classes.
We would find sticks. Perfect sticks. Then we would carve them, shape them and admire them for hours. Then when one of us got bored we’d break the other’s stick so we could do something else. We’d fight then go do another strange activity. Our neighborhood was odd.
Writing random words in the air. It looked confusing to someone who saw me do it, but I loved writing words, watching them form and getting carried away with them.
More in highschool/ late junior high, but we would shut off all the lights and play hide and seek in the basement/ main floor of my parents house. Turned into seemingly hours of silence and then shouting.
We called it "mad dogs." It was a game where my younger sibling and I, and our neighborhood friends would all get on the trampoline and throw all our shoes in the middle with the laces untied. We would bounce all around, and once you got hit by a shoe or its laces, you were "out" and had to sit on the side. Last one standing won the game. Or, if you were able to bounce all the shoes off the trampoline without getting touched, you and the rest of the survivors all won. Looking back, it was kind of dangerous, but really fun.
One time my parents rented a bounce house for my younger brother’s birthday. Me, my brothers, and my cousin discovered that when you unplugged the bounce house, you would have about 10 seconds to escape before it completely collapsed onto itself. We spent hours taking turns unplugging it and trying to escape before it ate us up.
In our old house we do have long staircases, My brother and other siblings (We are 5 children) would place a foam on top of the staircase, seat on it (in order eldest to youngest) while holding each others waist and slide down the staircase. It was so much fun!!!!
A game we played that was a form of hide and seek, we called it polish hide and seek.
The point of the game was to count to 30 at home base then try to find people, but instead of just finding them you would just have to see the person, if you seen someone you run to base tag it and say their name. So the object of the game was to hide well enough for the seeker to overlook you and make a sprint to the base before then and say your name.
I still think about this game all the time and how much fun it used to be.
My parents had a pond that we would swim in as kids. We had a bunch of those colorful diving rings/sticks. My friend and I would close our eyes and throw those out into the water (or have someone else throw them for us). Then we'd pretend we were mermaids and we had a whole story, but it boiled down to we had to find the diving rings and sticks because they were special treasures or something. We would spend HOURS in that pond searching for them. I'm pretty sure there are still a few in the murkier areas that we never recovered.
We played a game that we called "Leg-able." Idk why we called it that. Essentially one of us was on our knees and couldn't stand up, and the other one was able to stand and run around, and the one on their knees had to chase the standing one around the living room. Imagine the state of our knees. It was ridiculous.
In elementary school we had a game called "shrimp on the barbie" in which we would all hang on the monkey bars and try to use our legs to pull the others off. The last one still on the bars won. It was the original Battle Royale.
Idk if it's considered unique but my family used to play hide and go seek tag in the dark.
Always played it in the middle of the night for maximum darkness. The seeker starts in the basement where a "home base" is located. No one is allowed to hide in basement, and the goal is to eventually sneak down to "home base" without getting caught. Seeker has to tag people to catch them. I ran into a folding table bc someone had moved to the middle of the room as an obstacle.
Duct tape lawn chairs to skateboards and ride them down the steepest hill in the neighborhood at ages 10-13. We would also leave the ends of sticks in the bonfire until they were bright red coals, stand on opposite sides of my friends yard and whip them at each other in the pitch black. We called it light saber fights. 14-18 we would have fireworks fights, they were like firecrackers but they would zip around once ignited. Light it, toss it toward each other, and pray, cause the direction they'd launch was random. At 16-17 we would launch shopping carts as far as possible from the car by holding them out the window and slamming the breaks. Hide and go seek in cars was super fun. My friend was very good at getting the car off the road and into bushes and shit, need a large but distinct boundary for the neighborhood you play in.
WW4O · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This thread: The incredibly unique game of make-believe!
Also. if y'all are reading these thinking "Man that was fun, I wish I could do that again," play some DnD or any other tabletop RPG. It's the most fun you'll have with pants on.
My late cat who was fat, lazy, mean and every cat stereotype rolled into one was an unwitting participant in all my childhood games. When we built the Millenium Falcon out of boxes, she was perched on top in her basket sleeping, acting as R2D2. When we played He-Man, she was the Mighty Battle Cat... just sleeping, as we play-acted around her.
"Handball", my buddy has an indoor ice rink in his basement (idk the material but you could skate on it) and we had a small rubber ball that you always see being sold in the huge bins at Walmart.
You could play whatever size teams, we usually went up to a max of 3v3s though and you had to score on hockey neta. You could use whatever part of your body to hit the ball, not allowed to catch the ball and hold it but you could catch it and throw it immediately.
The faux ice was quite slippery and we always played in socks to make it more difficult, checking was also allowed. You could make some crazy ass plays and could blast that little ball so fast that people would have sick snipes.
Me and my friends used to play a game we would just go to parks around the town and find chairs and stuff like that and tey to balance it on the top of one of the slides
Probably already mentioned but 'beat the letter'. The chasing team had to catch and beat up the running team and retrieve a letter from each member of the team by force.
At the beginning the running team agreed on a word and assigned a letter to each member of the team. If the team that was 'on' figured out the word, they win.
This is late childhood, but still counts, I was 16.
I worked at a boy scout camp and we had a waterslide. After all the campers left Saturday morning we'd have the rest of the day to Jack around and do whatever we wanted so naturally a ton of us wanted to go play at the lake with the waterslide.
We invented a game we called "bowling." If you sat in the middle of the slide correctly with your legs arched over the stream of water, it would just pass under your legs. We'd have six or so guys sit this way and link arms while 320 pound Dave came at us full force. I don't know why this was so fun as it often inflicted pain on everyone playing, even if the "pins" won. Either way, we'd line it back up and go again.
Eventually someone broke a nose and we had to stop.
Me and my siblings made up a game called Shark. One person would be the shark and everyone else would be a human. Basically everyone that was human would stand on this queen size bed (the boat) and the shark would have to tag you without his legs leaving the floor. Was good times aha
Also played a game where we would have 3 lychee seeds and thread them between each other.
My brother and I would throw random things (bouncy balls, gi joes, pens etc...) at the ceiling fan in the living room and try to dodge them when they ricocheted at full speed. I suppose if my dad ever found out he’d kill us but it was fun.
My cousins and I would play a game called “butt wars” where we would use our butts and knock each other over, last one standing wins. This caused many accidents.
"GET DOWN Mr.PRESIDENT" last guy to get his arm up like an FBI agent receiving a call gets tackled by all. We did this everywhere and even in a stairwell. I slid down the railing because I didn't want Big Matt to put 300 pounds of doom on me.
We used to play a game called "Moles" with our (mentally unstable) grandma.
We used to hide under the duvet covers, and she would pretend to be our paternal grandfather (She was our MATERNAL grandmother) who was "hunting moles for mole stew".
Note: Our grandfather was not a hunter and we'd never had anything CLOSE to "mole stew" before, so we have no idea where she got all these ideas from.
Anyway, she would reach under the covers and try to drag us out, and we had to try to hold the covers down so she couldn't grab us, and when she did, she used to drag us out of the room and tickle us so the other moles would hear "the mole getting killed for the stew" before she came back to grab the others.
We LOVED IT and it was the highlight of visiting her, but looking back as adults, we're constantly like "what the FUCK was that".
My neighbors and I used to play Indian. My brother dug a hole for a bike ramp in the empty lot next door to us and we used the hole as our “tee pee.” We would collect weeds to use as our firewood and flowers for our food. We would pretend to hunt the rabbits as well. Oh to be young again.
Green Ghost. I tag game played at night where the single ghost with a flashlight gains additional ghosts by tagging and it ends when there is only one survivor left. Now play this on 5-10 acres in the woods out in the country for maximum scariness.
more teenager, but still. Large trampoline, 5 guys bouncing on it. you take a kickball, and one guy while the the air from a bounce, calls one persons name, and airs the ball in their general direction, they have to catch it, bounce, and then repeat. bonus points for styling while catching.
Where there'd be two teams, hunters and hunted, and the hunters had to find and beat up the hunted. Most of the time my big brother and his friends were the hunters. I got really good at falling out of trees.
There was also Red Alert, where we'd ding dong ditch then crawl around while annoyed neighbours tried to find us.
My friends and I had this game called "Lava Ball". We had this unique set up at the school were it was street that went into the middle and on each side you had a 2 story building with sidewalks. Well this game was basically you threw the ball above a certain point on the wall and you had to hit it back with your palm like handball but the goal was to hit the other team like dodge ball. It was just an excuse for 4 or 5 13 year olds to basically hit each other with tennis balls. Still had a lot of fun playing though.
Newspaper tag! For whatever reason, everyone got the daily paper on my block growing up but no one read it. So we would collect all the papers and play tag, but to tag someone you had to peg the shit out of them with a rolled up newspaper. Such a blast.
When I was a kid I was obsessed with Naruto, so on the playground at recess I held a "ninja school" for my friends and I would teach them hand signs for jutsu and shit like that.
Omny87 · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about six or seven years old, my family and I used to live in Panama. Behind our house was this large, sloping hill with palm trees along the top, and this huge concrete gutter at the bottom that was about three feet wide and three feet deep (because of how much rain we'd get during the rainy season).
With this setup, my brother and I used to play "coconut bowling", where one person stood at the top of the hill rolling coconuts down the slope while the other stood at the bottom trying to catch them before they fell in the gutter. We played that for a couple weeks until my mom told us to stop before we hurt ourselves. We never did get hurt, which is surprising considering how heavy the coconuts were and what a klutz I was as a kid.
Me and my younger brother would play King Cow and King Wiggles.
I was chubby growing up so i got the nickname king cow, and he was skinny so he was named king wiggles (after a worm). We over saw 13 kingdoms made up from imagination.
Kingdom #5 for example was a sub-kingdom in charge of making cars and such. So we used old cardboard boxes to build bases. Where we would store our "vehicles" aka toy cars. Which we bought in big bundles used from a thrift store for dirt cheap.
And another kingdom was in charge of keeping the place safe. So it is where we stored all our guards and troops. Aka army men figures, transformers, jets, helicopters, Spiderman and a toy jet I found at a garage sale for less than a buck.
And everyday we would build on the events of yesterday and continue the "story line". Meaning we tried to build a living imaginary world. If for example one day we said kingdom number 12 was flooded. We would spend the day outside ine a small inflated kiddie pool acting out a war with our hot wheels and such "underwater".
I remember that kingdom number 13 eventually betrayed us. And we had a HUGE civil war that spanned over days & days of toy fights. We lost a lot of fighters (hot wheels) but in the end we won.
This went on for over a year. Until one day we eventually grew out of it.
We used to play this game called ‘Wa’ one person would be it and the others had to chase after them. Like tag but reverse.
We also played one called Banter 123 where you would stand against a wall and try and get to the other side from someone. If you got caught you would get beaten (pushed over)
We played All It at my elementary school. It’s like tag but literally everyone is it. If you tag another person they have to sit down. If you tag each other at the same time, then you play rock paper scissors and the loser sits down. This continues until one person is left standing. It was so much fun once you got a few hundred kids playing.
I'm not sure how to describe this. My brother and I would invent scenarios and essentially role play through them, but it was super minimalistic and never touched paper and was never acted out. Idk. We would just sit and discuss how our characters would respond to their world.
Not sure this counts as a 'game' but when I was a kid I was smaller than average. I viewed every culvert as a challenge to see if I could crawl through it.
Also, climbing to the tops of pine trees to see how far I could get them to sway, while pretending I was a pirate in the crow's nest.
Black Hole. We danced around on the trampoline and were transported to a dimensions of warlocks, wizards, vampires, pretty much whatever exotic/mythical rpg character you could think up. And later, LOTR with imaginary bows and swords, and about 7 acres of woodland to explore, plus a field or two.
Three lamp posts in a line on our street. Equal-ish distance between them. Two people stand on either side of the middle lamppost and race to the one in front of them and back and the winner is the first person to touch the middle lamppost again.
Also, bulldog. Like every lower class British child.
We played a game called "the log" if directly translated.
It was basically hide and seek but with a football. The game started with someone kicking the ball and everyone hiding. The person "counting" would have to retrieve the ball and put it on the initial spot. Then he's look for the others and "catches" someone by saying the person name while touching the ball. If someone managed to kick the ball without being called out, everyone could go hide again.
Rock wars! We would take the tops of cans of tar to make shields and throw rocks at each other. This lasted for about two weeks until someone got hit in the head w/a good size rock that split his head and needed stitches. Parents do not understand why anyone would want to play “Rock Wars!” and we were told to stop playing.
I got a beta of a game called Postal like 15 or 20 years ago. Within 5 minutes I smoked some meth for health, set a dog on fire which in turn attacked me and set me on fire, thus the only way to put myself out was to piss straight up in the air and gave myself a golden shower which made my character sick and vomit.
Raath · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was very young, about 7 or 8 me and my sister had this game where we would run up to drain spouts and shout "I like to go like this". We'd do it all the way home from school grabbing onto alternate pipes and the one who didn't have one at the end of the row was a loser for that round anyway. That was until one of us grabbed a spout too hard one day and pulled it off the wall. We weren't allowed to play that game anymore.
I didn't get a lot of toys as a child, but my dad used to get a decent amount of cellphones from his job. Whenever he replaced one, I'd take it and tape some paper on it, and pretend it's a space ship.
Also, I used to make snake noises in my head to make myself run faster and avoid death
Geo_D · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played baseball for like 15 years. When I was younger (8ish?) I would try to catch the sunspots floating in my vision while I was out on the field.
I literally remember jumping around and darting back and forth to get them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I(M) used to play what we called the Tree Game, we played for a few years before age 10. We had a tree we could easily climb in the backyard and that was our house, so everyone had a different branch and we chose pets to have(I had squirrels) at “night time” we had to get to the tree quickly so the monsters wouldn’t get us, we also had a bartering system and could buy cars and groceries and had our own stores. It was wild!
I was part of the butter club in which me and many of my friends growing up would get magic powers if we completed tasks for eachother every day at school. Meaning you had to like create the plum potion and other dumb shit like that. The power I tried to get was the power over wind and after my initiation into the club and I accidentally got a ball on the roof, i tried blowing it down.
7 year old me thought i needed to make more plum potions and things for my friends.
My cousins and siblings and I used to play "boogie man" where all of us, primarily the younger kids, run around a really big and pitch black dark room to run away from the boogie man, which was normally an older cousin hunched over with a blanket over them as they chase us around. It would be terrifying and fun as a little kid, we'd all use eachother as bait to escape the clutches of the boogie man.
We had this game called “ghosts” where you draw a face on a grocery bag or garbage bag and let it go in the yard on a windy day. Then you had to throw snowplow poles and rocks at it until you took it down
When we were kids, me and my brother had an above ground pool (it lasted maybe a year before it got taken out by a storm. In California of all places.). It was about 16 feet long by 6 feet wide and empty at the time. Me, my brother, our buddy would play a version of Smear the Queer (don't think you can still call it that) where one person would stand in the center and the other two at one end. The two would run as fast as they could and try to get to the other side. I think there was a football at some point but eventually it ended up being just two kids running full speed, inevitably getting tackled hard. There was like no room to get by because of the width and the 1/2 inch of water made it super slippery so there was like zero chance of making it across, but we played it for hours, taking turns being runner and tackler. Come to think of it, a lot of the games we came up with had a very high chance of injury. 🤷
My sister and i made this weird game up. We made my little brother hide a lotion bottle in our playroom, we then had a ball of maybe like 3 huge blankets that we put a rubber bouncy ball into like a needle in a haystack. Anyways after he hid the bottle we turned off all the lights (played at nighttime) and we had to feel around for the bottle. After one found it the squirt some on their hands and rubbed it in (for proof of finding it) and made a bee line for the blankets to search for the ball. You could also sneak to the blankets to not give the general area away of where the lotion was for who still didn't find it. Anyways first one to find the ball and exit the room won! No idea how we came up with that lol.
Living in the netherlands, one goes everywhere on a bike as a child (sometimes adult too).
My game going to school, on every downward stroke of my right pedal, I had to line it up with some feature of the road. A parked car, a dip in the pavement, a sewer grate, a road light etc.
Im sure people have been wondering why I was swinging over the bike path left and right, so I could line up the pedal haha.
When I was three I had an seven year old (only sibling) sister who didn’t much like me. She took me down to the road and taught me to play a game called ‘sardines’ where you have to lie faceup on the road pretending to be a sardine and if you hear ‘car’ shouted you have to decide if there really is one or not without looking. If you get up and run and there wasn’t a car you lose. My mum tried many times to stop my sister playing that with me. Then she eventually moved onto the bird poop sandwich game. I don’t have to explain that. But I did worship my sister who seemed very cool and worldly.
My friend and I throughout all of elementary school would play FATE in real life (if anyone doesn’t know what game that is, it’s an old PC game from Wild Tangent). Every recess we would play and almost every time we were at one another’s house we would play. Everyone thought we were crazy lmao.
My sister had a canopy bed with flimsy aluminum to hold up the canopy. She used a jump rope to tie a noose and she was going attempt to hang me. Parents walked in and saw us standing on her bed and I had a jump rope around my neck about to take a dive off the bed. I was too young to remember it, but supposedly I assured my parents it was just a game and we were having fun.
So there was this ps2 game, "rise to honor" featuring jet li. At some point you had to beat guards without being noticed, nothing crazy for a video game... but the thing is that we translated it into real life, and so with my siblings we played "guards vs ninjas".
As a guard you had to patrol around/in the house with your torchlight or w/e, and act as if everything was fine. Sometimes you could act surprised if you heard something. And obviously the ninja had to take out the guard by simply doing the famous "chop" on the neck with his hand.
It's amazing how little you need as a kid to entertain yourself.
I think it was unique, Well, our whole grade school really. So this is back in the mid 70s. We used to play a game called 'Ledgies'..
Basically the walls around the school had a portion about 7 ft up that was angled. Your job was to stand about 10-15 feet from the wall and bounce a tennis ball off of it aiming for the ledge. If you hit that ledge the ball would pop up and you'd have to run in to catch it.
Ledgies.. I am pretty sure the name had been passed down for years.
My brother would chase me while I tried to shoot him with my finger gun. If he caught me, he'd sit on my belly and I'd have to use my stomach to push him off. We'd just repeat that cycle lol.
Get a group of friends together and stand around a bonfire. Toss in a bottle rocket and hold still until it goes off. Person who got hit with the rocket loses. I guess it was an idiot kid’s version of Russian Roulette.
I was a little white girl in kindergarten growing up in a poor neighborhood. Our neighbors directly to our west were a black family that had a daughter in elementary school- although to me she seemed much older bc I thought she was just so cool and mature. During the summer we would play a game I made up on the spot that I called “Birds in the Wilderness”... we would both go to opposite corners of my front yard and we would basically just try to get to my front porch before the other one. I used to think I was so fast because I would always get there before she did. Little did I know she just thought it was great fun to run right behind me screaming like a banshee while I ran for my life. We lost contact after we moved away after a two years of living there. I am forever grateful for her kindness.
My friends and I always played a game called “zombies”. It was basically tag, but instead of passing around whoever was the chaser, you would try to infect whoever you could to join your horde. We would spend hours running around the yard hiding from each other trying not to get “infected”. We really upped it when the nerf guns and marshmallow-shooting bows got added to the game. They didn’t kill you, but you would have to freeze for like 10 seconds before running again.
We had a looooot of fun with that one!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Infected". There was one starting zombie and then all other people. If you were tagged for five seconds by a zombie, you would become infected as well. The game would end once there was nobody left, or recess was over. We even had items like med packs (revive a zombie), guns (make someone freeze for 10 seconds) and zombie serum (infect either yourself or a friend automatically) amongst others that I can't remember. Surprisingly, everyone would abide by the rules, and it was a lot if fun. We played it all of 5th and 6th grade.
My dad and older brother taught me a game called drive back that was mostly played in the street. All you needed was a football and mailboxes/trashcans/light posts or any other things on the side of a street decently far apart as the "goal. " The object of the game was to punt or throw the football past the set goal object for a point. You weren't able to take any steps closer to the goal except for a couple steps here and there to build up a kick/throw. If the opposing team caught the ball before it hit the ground you were allowed to take 10 steps closer to get a better shot at making a point. If the ball bounces once and you caught it that was five steps. After that you had to kick/punt it from where it landed. You also weren't allowed to touch the ball after you kick it so if the football landed funny and bounced back towards you you were shit out of luck. Such a fun game that I've never seen or heard of outside of my family, though I'm sure similar games were played like that. It was a traditional to play it at Thanksgiving, my dad's family vs my aunt's. Such good times.
My friend lived near a place with loads of these lilies called arum lillies which are a weed here in Western Australia. My friend also had a bunch of metal for some reason which we used as weapons. Some were long like swords and some were small and sharp like ninja stars.
We would go out to these huge lilly plantations and pretend we were fighting off enemies. If we chopped the flower off the stalk they would count as dead and because the metal was surprisingly sharp we destroyed them pretty quickly. We all got loads of mozzie bites and cuts on our hands from the metal but it was so fun we adapted and wore clothes to cover up and gloves. In the end we had to stop because the shire ended up poisoning the remainkng lillies.
The best part is we thought we would get in trouble from the shire because we killed all the lillies before they did.
Momar8 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your in a pitch black room and theres two pillows at the end of one wall. Theres one person guarding the pillows and the other people have to go get the pillows and take them to the back of the room. Also if you get tagged trying to get the pillows you have to go all the way back of the room and try again. We called it Undertaker
My family used to go to several places that were in the middle of nowhere. My brother and I would get really bored so my mom made up a game called Drown the Cows. My brother and I would each choose a side of the road and then whenever we passed cows we would estimate how many there were and that would go towards our score. However if the person on the opposite side of the road saw a lake then they would get to drown the cows and their score would go back to zero. At the end of the car ride whoever had the most cows still alive won.
Fast forward to being a teenager, my boyfriend came with us on a trip and we got bored so I suggested we play drown the cows. He gave me the blankest stare, and that was the day I learned that was not a game that everyone played on car trips.
We played this game when someone would sit on top of a slide, and another person would try to run up and grab onto them and pull them down the slide. It resulted in pants removal quite often.
When I was about six, my sister (7) and our next door neighbor (8) had this game we called "funny time" (real clever, I know). The foyer of our neighbor's house had tile flooring, and there were a couple of steps leading from the foyer up to the rest of the house. I was starting to play baseball at the time, so my parents bought this "ball" that had a very odd shape, so it would bounce in random directions. It was supposed to help me improve my reflexes, but I didn't use it for baseball. One of us would walk up the couple of steps, and throw the "ball" as hard as we possibly could at the ground. The other two tried not to die. We left the game behind after playing for about six months and shattering two vases.
irl Pokemon, sounded fun on paper but quickly realized how dangerous and pretty much fucked up it is for a kid to do. We collected capsules and used them as poke balls and we had to capture insects in them. The idea was to just keep outdoor insects as pets, just like in the games, and it would be a cool flex if you managed to really raise and train it. We quickly stopped after my friend caught a Yellow Garden Spider. It was suffocating in the capsule because he forgot to put holes on the cap...not to mention I caught a smaller spider in a big container with soil and everything, and somehow it escaped in my room...
The problem was we didn't know crap about what the hell we were capturing and we didn't how to even take care of it, plus using our captured insects and battling them out is fucked up. If you want your kids to do irl Pokemon the right way just tell them to watch Brave Wilderness on Youtube.
I only did it once, but one time when we were visiting family me and my brother and some cousins, who had a compound bow, played a game in the dark where we would shoot an arrow straight up and listen for it to hit the ground to try and find it. None of us saw the danger in this
My brother and I would play a game called "baby soup". He would be a baby trying to crawl into a pot of soup, and I would wrestle him and try and stop him from crawling into the soup and dying.
Me and my neighbours used to throw stones onto the roof of our houses to try and get them stuck in the gutters. Surprisingly more difficult than it sounds.
I grew up on a river in rural Tennessee, and we would play "Firefighters" a lot. We would get toilet paper, sanitary pads, anything we could find, and set it on fire with camp fuel(yeah, we didn't have supervision, like ever). Then, we would make a chain to the river and pass buckets up to put out the fire, or use tent poles to beat them out. Some of them got pretty dicey, which is probably why I have to fill in my eyebrows as a 34 year old woman.
Kidnapping, one of us would be the kidnapper and the rest would be his victims it was bassically hide and seek tag but the tag would have you dragging the kid away from his friends to some out of sight location, it was actually kinda fun and tense
We would play "Alien" basically obe person had this headset with blue LED lights on it and we would play in the middle of the night, it was played like hide and seek. Scared the living hell out of us when we would hear loud screeching and blue lights running towards us
Back in middle school, during lunch, about four or us would hang out in some trees near the back, which was our "fort", and we each had our own weapon of choice, namely a stick we found whose shape and durability we liked. We'd host organized and chivalrous swordfights, with a scoring system: iirc a hit on the limbs was 1 point, a hit on the torso 2 points, or something like that. First to 10 points wins. Point deductions were handed out for "unchivalrous", or dangerous actions such as hitting the face, or for hitting too hard (hits were supposed to be light taps, obviously we weren't trying to draw blood). Two of us would duel, one on one, and the other two acted as referees/scorekeepers.
I recall my "sword" had this nasty hook on the end (think of an eighth note and you get the idea of the shape of my sword), and I would use it to hook onto my opponent's sword, give it a tug to throw them off balance, and then hit them for a point. Once I mastered that move, I easily had the best record in our group. The hook even doubled as a way for me to hang it up on a tree in such a way that made it look like it was a branch that was naturally there, so even if people went poking about in our fort, no one would be able to find my weapon of choice.
Brings back memories. I still game regularly with one of our group, although I have somewhat lost contact with the other two. Now I'm tempted to go back and see if my weapon of choice is still there after all these years, although I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
1OO_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Hot." We were under the age of 10 when we invented this game.
My little brother and I took all of the blankets from the house and put them in the living room. We would lie one blanket down flat on the ground, and one of us would lay on top of it.
Then one by one the standing person would lay a blanket on top of the person laying down one by one. Pretty soon you have 10-15 blankets on top of you, and it's starting to get hot. Then you start feeling claustrophobic because it's gettibg heavy too.
Once the person under the blankets screams "HOT!" you cannot put anymore blankets on them, and then the person under the blankets has an opportunity to crawl free from the weight of 10-15 blankets.
Hulkskitball: a 2v2 hockey like game with no rules about contact in which the 2 goalies had hulk gloves to block chalk covered tennis balls from hitting a goal made of colored tape on a wall and the fielders have foam field hockey sticks covered in ducktape to make them harder. Starts with a face off in which a nonplayer drops the ball and starts on the second bounce. Halftime at 8 pts first to 16 wins. Official uniform: socks plus clothes
Official Arenas: my friends ridiculously slick basement.
One of us would sit in an inflated boat in a pool. When my grandfather said "Go!" we'd try to flip it with our hands on the handholds. Then we'd have to flip it back and get in, all while being timed to see who could do it the fastest.
Me or my sisters would lay down on the couch, and my grandma would stack pillows and blankets over us, making an “eggshell” for us to break out of. Whichever sister wasn’t in the egg would pretend to be a “predator” and try to eat the egg, but our grandma would tickle anyone who got too close to the egg.
After the predator got a chance to play, we would “hatch” from the egg and then would pretend to be an animal, and it was up to everyone to guess what animal we were. For example, we’d run around on our hands and knees and bark if we decided we were puppies. (No, there were no rules about it having to be an animal that actually hatched from an egg.) We played that game forever.
Thanks for the smiles, OP!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had invented our own language. We used that when neighbors were around. They got amazed and we were amused.
My grandmother had a big dollhouse with a little doll family, a mom, a dad, a baby, a brother, and a sister. When I was six or seven, I used to play one very weird, very specific game, over and over and over again. There would be a terrible flood, that the family wouldn’t notice until the water was already filling their kitchen, where they always were when the flood started. It was rising quickly and they knew they would die if they didn’t think fast.
They would quickly clean out the fridge so they could climb inside and use it as a boat (sometimes a bed, if I was feeling adventurous, but 9/10 times, it was the fridge). They would spent a few days in the water, getting more and more graphically afraid, the kids begging for reassurance and the parents just wearily trying to give it. They’d start to run out of their meager rations. The baby was always crying. Then they’d land on an island (the coffee table) and sometimes the game would keep going, but usually... I’d kind of lose interest there. But I played the flood game ALL the time. I used to be over there at least two or three times a week and every time I was over there, I’d play the flood game at least once, sometimes more. This went on for at least a year. I had a similar scenario I would make my poor grandmother play with me, minus the dolls, substitute water for lava and a fridge for her futon.
We would put shoes on the ceiling fan, turn off the lights and turn it on so the shoes would hit us in the dark. The fans would look droopy and I have no idea what the hell we were thinking...
Army. Thinking about it now we didn’t do anything that pertained towards the army, but we did run through the woods a lot in any weather condition and my oldest neighbor would give us “missions”. We actually did some crazy shit that I wouldn’t think twice about doing now
Bird and Worm with my sister. one of us would get under a blanket and tuck it under as much as possible while the other would try and find a way in to give pinches.
My little sister insisted we play a game where she jumps on a bed and I swing a pillow at her legs or feet trying to knock her down. If I knocked her down I was supposed to throw more pillows on her and do a damn froggy splash from the top ropes onto her. That game's name? Monster sandwich.
I acquired a bow and arrow at a fairly young age. Big mistake when you have friends like I did. At night we would shoot it straight up in the air and run around until we thought it would hit the ground. Before it hit we would all run under the porch... yep.
Those are two I can remember off the top of my head.
We used to sit at the top of the stairs and slide down the 20-ish stairs on our asses. We eventually got to the point where we would time it and work on shaving off time and making new record timings for the stair ass sliding competition.
My childhood friend Jon came up with this game called "Slobber Man", or maybe it was "Slobba Man", I could never understand what he was fucking saying with it. The game was nothing more than yelling Slobber Man obnoxiously and then whacking each other with large pool noodles.
“Aliens”. Named after the xenomorphs, first played when I was six.
As many kids as possible would pile onto whatever equipment was at the park. We’d run back and forth from invisible aliens, occasionally one kid would act like they were being dragged down a slide, and we would all dramatically try to pull them back up.
It was especially fun if one of the parents would surprise us by appearing at the bottom of the slide, dragging the kid back down.
Any kid who was dragged down to the ground, whether by an adult or because they slipped, would become an alien. This is why it was best played with a lot of kids, the game ended when only one human was left or we had to leave.
Blind Man Seek. We would put a blind fold on and play tag/hide and go seek inside the house. The game ended when everyone was found but the first person found would be the next seeker.
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Cops and Robbers. This was another spin on tag/hide and go seek except it was at night time with flashlights. All the surrounding houses had kids that played with us so our boundaries stretched most of the neighborhood. There was a jail that the tagged got sent to and the game ended if all the robbers got put in jail. But, a robber can tag/break other robbers out of jail to keep the game going.
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We took a piece of rope about a foot or so long and screwed a golf ball to the end of it. We would then twirl it and launch it across the yard. The farthest thrower would get a point.
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(I can't for the life of me remember what this one was called) You had one person that was it that stood in the middle of the back yard while the others lined up on the fence. The person would pick a genre(cars, color, dogs, etc) and call out corresponding things. If your thing got called, you had to run across the yard to the other side without getting tagged.
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Smear the queer. We played this in our friends old garden after it had been tilled so it was very soft when falling. One person was it and tried to get away from everyone else there. The first person to tackle the it person, was then it. We played until we were tired or someone got hurt.
My sister and I played a game that we called "Fan War"
We would turn on the ceiling fan to its maximum speed, then each make a paper airplane and throw it at the fan. The goal was to have your plane be totally destroyed before the other person did. We had all kinds of advanced techniques that we came up with to best destroy our planes.
My cousin and I made up a game called Slish Slash Doo Doo. My grandmother had a long hardwood hallway with a carpet runner. If you ran fast enough and stopped on the runner you would go sliding. So we would take turns to see who could get to the end of the hallway by yelling "Slish Slash Doo Doo" and then sliding. No idea how we came up with the name cause we were maybe 6ish? We are in our 40's now and still reminisce about it.
For real though, I went to an elementary school right next to a forest with a creek. We played "Tarzan" which was really just us climbing anything we could find and then falling off of it. There was also this big "vine" hanging from a tree (just a bunch of young branches bunched up) where we swung from and one kid let go after swinging and fell into the creek. Very fun.
My friend and his brother used to play this game called “Hot or Cold”, which consisted of then standing in the lawn while their older sister was on the porch. She’d ask “hot or cold” and they’d shout back whichever one they chose.
She’d then dump a bucket of either hot or cold water on them. That was it. Rinse and repeat. And apparently they loved this game and would play it all the time.
My brother and I used to ride to local playgrounds with my dad on our bikes and play a game that would put us on a watchlist today. It was called “Bomber on the Loose”. My bro and I would run all around the playground to hide and then my dad would yell “bomber on the loose, bomber on the loose!” And try to hit us with a squishy Nerf football. He’d nail us with the ball and we’d laugh and laugh. He had fun trying to hit us and we’d have so much fun running and trying to avoid getting hit.
This game probably wouldn’t fly today under that moniker.
I played this weird space car game that would be set in the future. You had to jump from side to side of a floating road and build a high score. Avoid obstacles with jumps and so. What one is it?
rrro6i · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would always take turns and perform magic tricks on each other when we met. Back then there was no Internet and we didn't own any books on magic so we relied a lot on our imagination in order to try and perform the best illusion and trick the others. It was fun. Kept us busy for hours.
I used to play a game with my cousins that we literally called “scare the crap out of each other”. It was basically hide and seek but it was in pitch black basements and the goal was to scare the person who was “it” the worst. Whoever scared them the least would be “it” next round. I have nightmares still of my cousin popping out from a cabinet to grab my legs as I walked by....
My friends and I would play Spy, where we would go around the neighborhood, mostly at night when we would have sleepovers, with our "spy gear" to keep watch and uncover what lurks in the night.
We had our "base" as a blanket fort in either one of our houses we would report to if things got hairy. We would make some "tactical" gear from string and bungie cords and use the spy stuff we got from Scholastic Book Fairs lol. Oh and cheap walkie talkies.
A game called "dropped it". You would lie on your belly on a roundabout with your head facing outwards. Someone would spin the roundabout. Then you either had a stick or bottle and drop it while the roundabout is spinning, you then had to pick up the item whilst going round and round Something tells me that this was a national British kids game?..
I would arrive st school and with my friend, we would explain what we killed with a brick (we did not actually kill anything. At least not me). It was often cats. We would say how we killed it. It was weird. It lasted like a month. It was not my idea but I was going with it.
I would also play vampire with another friend. We would run around pretending we were vampire and were a very exclusive group of two. We would imagine together what we did as vampires during the weekend. That was fun
bimlay · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would swipe my aunts giant metal mixing bowls and fill them with water and play Barbie swimming pool. We’d also float random stuff down the irrigation ditches.
My siblings and I would play dragon. One person would be in the downstairs bathroom as the dragon and the rest of us would be in the kitchen by the island. The dragon would come roaring out and start chasing us on all fours around the island. It was really fun. The other one we played was called commercials, we would put on skits for products on our front porch for all of the passerbyes to see.
Hall ball! One person would sit inside my sister’s room with the door open. Two others would try and run/jump/roll past the door without getting tagged by the ball thrown at us! It was so much fun!
Pokemon kingdoms. Basically we had a big pile of shitty pokemon figurines from ebay and we would divide them up evenly. And then we would set up little kingdoms in different parts of our house. Then we would procceed to wage pointless wars with each other complete with alliances, betrayals, and a small hell corner for dead pokemon.
Greatest fun of my life. I have never been able to have more enjoyment out of anything ever since.
Me and a friend would play "smack". We would kneel down and hit the ball to each other across the room. Like a cross between football and tennis using hands.
Spent many hours playing that game
Me and my buddies used to play literal war with the older kids in our neighborhood. I’m talking picking up logs and building forts by the creek that ran through our backyard, guerrilla warfare, etc. We’d break big branches off trees so they were fresh and sturdy. Then we’d peek the bark off and scrape them on the road until they were spears. I used my dad’s grinder to create a super sharp spear. I was like 7. We threw rocks and bricks at each other. Lol. Good times!
xJBr3w · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At dinner my brother and sister would play a game while eating. We would look around the room and find an object, then we would say "it starts with a __ and ends with a __.. my little sister would always pick necklace lol.
My grandma used to lay on the bed and tell my mom and her sisters that she was going to go fishing. My mom and aunts would start running around the bed while my grandma used a belt to "catch them" by hitting them, I assume lightly. She said they had fun for hours.
My group of friends in 5th grade and I would play “Granny.” One person would act like senile old lady, and the others had to take care of her. Weird to think about now. Lol
We would to forward rolls around in a circle trying to catch the person in front without getting caught by the person behind. This could last like 30 minutes, thankfully I grew out of this game when I turned 18.
When I was about 7 I had a friend and we would pretend to be wolves. Wolves that were rock stars. I would play air guitar and she would play air drums. We would have pretend jam sessions and then pretend to hunt elk.
My neighbour and I would play the "dead girl game" where one of us would lie in the middle of our street, and the other drew around her with chalk. The objective: finish being circled with chalk without getting hit by a car.
Neither of us ever got hit, and it was a 30km zone in a very safe neighbourhood so it wasn't like we were in any real danger. But boy, the thrill.
My brother and I would play a baseball type game but with one of my grandmas’ cane and a small soda can. We called it cane ball and she’d get mad sometimes because we’d chip the paint on her canes. Anyway, my brother is now a professional baseball player about to break the big this year. I like to think playing cane ball helped haha
Not so much a child, but we played it in high school. The game was called Destination.
We would split up into two teams. One person from team A would drive the entirety of team B as far as they could in 5 minutes. Team B would then get out of the car and have to get back to the starting point without being found on foot by anyone from the other team.
As long as one person made it back to the starting point that was a point for their team. Which ever team had the most points by the end of summer was the winner!
We played a game called "market" at school. Everyone brought little toys and stuff and put them on the desks. Then we just went around "buying" the toys we liked using paper money which we either drew ourselves or got from another game - a "company". The company produced cars, so there were car designers, sellers, etc. I was a secretary - for some reason it was considered to be a rather upscale job.
Another game that I used to play was "elections" inside a herd of plastic dinosaurs. With electoral campaigns, voting and all. The dino that won the elections got "a bone of power".
Also I used to make different contracts with my family and friends, and for some time I ran a "company" that collected taxes from my father drinking beer. I'm currently a law student so I guess it all makes sense now :)
My siblings and I had a nanny growing up who would threaten to chop our legs off with a cleaver if we didn't listen to her and come downstairs. We would always have a race sliding down the stairs on our butts to see who would've gotten their legs chopped off first.
dbx99 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Held my breath when entering a tunnel when riding in a car
My dad taught my little sister and I a “unique” game that he used to play when he was young, which involved farting into a doorway, therefore creating a barrier of fart, and whoever was the next person to walk through said doorway would “collect” the fart. We spent summers farting in doorways and waiting patiently to yell, “YOU COLLECTED IT!!!” to each other or our cousins while laughing uncontrollably because whoever went through was covered in fart. Hahhaha good times..
"Panic in the Backyard" We'd go out at night in the backyard with two teams. We'd huck those nerf footballs with the whistle as high into the air as possible and try and hit someone on the other side of the yard. The sounds were the best. Frantic running as the whistle got louder and louder and then, THUMP "Fuck!"
"Roll tag" just a cracked skull waiting to happen. Me and my cousin would play this extremely dumb game where one person would roll on the floor while the other person jumped over them. If you accidentally hit your foot off of the person rolling, you had to roll instead. Suprisingly, neither of us got hurt despite doing this for 3-4 years, and how easy it would be to trip over or stand on the other person.
There's this game that i don't remember its name but desperately want to know it, it's a 2D platformer, where the hero is a cat equipped with a sword, looks like an adventurer, who is platforming and defeating enemy dogs dressed like soldiers or british royal guards or similar to that, the only voice line i remember was when a dog is just walking on the platform normally without being engaged, he stops sometimes and say "yes sir, woof woof" while saluting.
That game was so special to me, it was my first video game ever and played it day and night, too bad i forgot its name :[
I'd do anything to replay it and let the nostalgia take over my body, if anyone knows something about it feel free to share, i'd appreciate it!
My sister and I used to play "poor". We had our favorite corner of the living room where the couches made a barricade and pretend to live in that 3x3 corner. We had to fight the bad guys too and find odd jobs like shucking corn. Come to think of it, "dangerous house" made more sense.
My brother and I would build cars out of Knex and crush them together over and over again. The one who still had a rolling car left (no knex touching the ground) would win. It got more and more widely creative with learning how to armor the wheels since they were the most important part and added a key rule of repairing your vehicle between crashes with any pieces still connected, so we started building tool boxes attached to the car with pieces in it.
hokasi · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid, if I was bored while standing beside a wall and there was a ball nearby, i’d kick the ball against the wall and make up elaborate rules for the process: don’t let the ball touch the ground, roll the ball off the angled roof if there was one, etc etc. At championship levels this game got intense 😂
Me and two other kids hung up a hammock on two trees on a hill. We'd jump on the hammock and pretend to be dying chickens. This game was called, "dying chickens."
"fuzzy blanket monsters". Two kids cover themselves with blankets and then run at each blindly. The goal was to pin the other.. or wrestle till someone gave up. I can't remember clearly.
Also did bear wrestling. You and a partner sit at the bottom of a small hill, the person in front has to crawl up to the top of the hill while the one behind has to wrestle and stop them. It was often violent.
Smear the queer... basically someone has a football and everyone else has to tackle them. Whoever tackles them gets the ball. The name didn’t really age well.
Two games that my friends and I played. This was high school, so not really kids, but we are still playing these games 20 years later.
Game number one is the garnish game. Your iced tea came with a lemon on the rim? It’s go time. You have to get that lemon on someone’s shoulder without them realizing it. Then it’s just a matter of how long it stays on. It’ll either fall off when they move too much or they’ll notice. We had a ranking system that I’m sure made no sense, since none of us are military. One garnish? You were a lieutenant. Two? Now you’re a general. You got more than one on the same shoulder? Now the stars come into play. It is also necessary to salute the person garnished as often as possible without making it obvious why.
Game number two I made up because EVERYONE in my friend group, including myself, was the ackshually guy. We would correct each other on everything, no matter how minor. We were the definition of pedants. Queue the “bah” game. You say something you know is wrong with the intention of being corrected by someone in your group (I.e. man, I’m glad we got that extra day in February this year, leap years are awesome! Friend: it wasn’t a leap year, you idiot. You: BAAAAH) If they correct you, you get to yell “bah” at them. Sounds dumb, but it stopped us from being pompous asses all the time.
When we were like 6,me and my sister invented a game named "The end of the world" that consisted in spinning around yourself with closed eye, then when you spinned 15/20 times you had to reach a destination, it basically was impossible and you will always fall on your back laughing. It was like the end of the world from a drunken /high point of view xD.
My sister and I played “let’s pull mommy’s hair out.” It was a game we played on our bunk bed. It was basically tag, but instead of tagging we would literally grab the others hair and pull as hard as we could so there was no dispute about being out. It was top to bottom to top circular motion on the bunk bed. the one being chased was mommy. We lost gobs of hair, but it tested our agility, speed, and made us not tender headed.
We used to take turns in the swing, we would throw balls at the other in the swing the swinger would kick the ball the other had to catch it before they got to swing. The balls never lasted long, they’d pop on a sharp rock or the barbed wire fence, so we got creative. We would pull up random grass plants in gobs and we would kick those until they were ripped apart soil flying through the air.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swamp,
The swamp monster would be on the ground with all the stuffed animals, the rest of the kids would be on the bed. The kids on the bed would have to collect all the toys without the monster capturing them, because then they would become another monster.
The game ends when either all the toys are collected, or all the kids are on the ground.
"Crash Test", where my friend and I would each build a Lego car, then push it off a table. Whoever's car broke into more pieces wins.
Playing Zelda but using lightsabers. When we were 10, my friend invited me and two other friends on a spring break trip to his aunt and uncle's summer home which was right outside a forest preserve. My other friend got us cheapo lightsabers to play with for the trip (not bootlegs, these were official, but they were the cheapo ones that didn't light up, and came with a belt clip), each of a unique color. Blue, green, red, and purple (I got purple). Since those happened to be the colors of the Four Swords Links' tunics, we pretended to be the Four Swords Links and fight imaginary enemies in the forest preserve.
Thumb Wars, Steve Oedekerk style. Inspired by his Star Wars parody "Thumb Wars" where the characters are all talking thumbs and their lightsabers are nails that grow out. You win if your nail makes contact with the front of your opponent's thumb, preferrably in a slashing motion. Just like the parody, you also have to make your own lightsaber sounds with your mouth. ("VWSSSSSH! VWAHH!")
King of the Hill, but in GoldenEye on N64. You play the Facility stage with Golden Gun selected. The Golden Gun always spawns in the bathroom, so the King of the Hill has to stay in the bathroom and protect it using the Golden Gun. The other players have to kill him to control the bathroom. ONLY the King is allowed to use the Golden Gun. If a non-king goes for the Golden Gun and kills the King, it's counted as cheating. Also, no Oddjob or Jaws, so everyone is of an even height.
We didn't really do snowball fights in grade school. Instead, we did snow wrestling, which was a hell of a lot more fun.
Not me, but my childhood friend who I really pitied more than anything. He was the slowest kid on the neighborhood when it came to racing (whether on bikes or on foot), and he wanted to feel like a winner at all times, so he would try to guilt everyone into "racing him". And by racing he meant "everyone go at the same speed and cross the finish line together so that everyone is a winner".
Do you guys remember that movie, Agent Cody Banks?
I used to play a game where I ended up working for a special agency where kids were constantly at war and we had to battle.
I also was obsessed with war video games and codename kids next door.
Street frisbee. Two vs two about 30yds apart in whatever flat straight part of the street was available.
Throw to the other side and if they are in the street and drop it, you get a point. If they are on outside of the street and catch it, they get a point. Play is null if frisbee hits ground in front of players.
First to 7 wins!
We played for hours. We’d dive into ditches and people’s yards to get to the frisbee, bomb them over each other heads. People would sit on their porches reading the paper and watch us. It was awesome.
My brother and I would wrestle on his top bunk, no holding back.
He's 5 years older than me and has always been very tall, so I would pretty much always end up flying off the fucking bed.
My mom wasnt a fan.
Not sure how unique these games are but all the kids in my family would make up a lot of trampoline games. Our favorite to play though was "Exorcism."
One person was possessed and they would start in the center or the trampoline. Everyone else would start outside of the trampoline net with our legs going under the net so they were inside with the possessed person. One person was the priest would start the exorcism and that's when the possessed person would come alive. The possessed person then had to try to possess other people by pulling people to the center of the trampoline. Everyone else could try to save the person who got pulled in by going into the possessed area and trying to pull them back to the other side of the net. The priest had to "bless" them for them to come back alive. If the possessed person got the priest then it was game over.
BREED the video game. Tons of hype and promises that led to a broken mess of a game, but you could seamlessly fly from space to ground and back. (At a time when we were all used to Half Life 2s loading every 10 seconds.)
I used to like to play house in the winter in a couple of large bushes I had that were hollowed out on the inside. I’d make snow furniture and use old wood for different pieces. I’d use a bucket and shovel to make weird “food” concoctions with twigs and rocks.
Louvey · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I shared the room with my 7 year older brother. It was a relatively small narrow room with beds on both sides and a lot of shelves and cupboards over them. There were two wardrobes, large desk and two chairs as well. When I was a kid my family wasn't too well off so we never had many toys. One day my mum invented a game called 'spiderwebs'. She would give each of us one spool of thread and knot one end to some furniture in the room. Then we would spend HOURS tying thread to every single rail/handle/knob in the room and then to the webs itself until the room looked literally like it was infested with spiders. Sometimes we would try to crawl across pretending threads are laser traps. Thanks for reminding me about it.
Used to put swimming goggles on and look under the water at the beach and stomp my feet pretending I was destroying underwater cities, the sand goes through the water really slow like explosions in movies
When I was around 8, me and my older cousin would make up staged fights (with some simple storyline to justify) and then call the adults and present it to them, like theater or something. He was already starting to practice martial arts and I was really into martial arts movies back then. It was really amazing. Today, I am currently working on a flight with my 12 stepson and it's amazing, brings back many memories.
Also, at around the same time, my grandma and my aunt had a dressing table with many perfume, baby powder, facial cream and other cosmetic flasks. I would align and pile some of them so that it made the table look like a metropolis landscape, with a big pile at the center representing a great building, much taller than the rest (think something like Dubai landscape). All of this while singing the melody from an Iron Maiden song which I didn't know the lyrics to, so I replaced them with "A maior torre da cidade" which translates to "The biggest tower of the city" in Portuguese.
A friend and myself would spell out words with my land line phone and call the person. So if the number was 666-8487, we would call them and say "Hey did you know your number spells out Mom tits?" We would then giggle like the 12 year old boys we were and hang up. Thank god for caller ID block back in the day.
"Beggar Girls". We used to play as homeless runaways and we'd film ourselves "stealing" food in grocery stores. We even went into a restaurant t and got the waitress to play along by taking our order before we dipped out on the check.
Actually a new one that has evolved from my 10 year old daughter’s fondness for Jeep Wranglers. It’s basically slug-bug, but we’ve changed it to Jeep-jab.
Mygn · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back then I was interested in geography and football. I loved maths too. So I'd grab a giant world map that had come with a magazine, choose a country, choose 18 cities whose name look cool enough and create an imaginary league out of these. Then simulate the matches with a draw or rolling die or playing the "bouncy ball game".
We had a sofa which was a perfectly rectangular prism and it was placed just in front of a wall which didn't have anything breakable on it. And the room that this sofa was in, was a damn big one (maybe something like 12×6 meters). I'd toss the ball from the other end of the room towards the wall behind this sofa, let it bounce once on the floor on its way back and shoot it while aiming the sofa goal. The rules were: Maximum of one bounce allowed before and after controlling the ball and shooting, no hand contact and not being too close to the sofa while controlling the ball. So, if you score a goal with the ball touching the floor 3 times, this is expected and you get 1 point. Every less bounce, you get more points meaning if you scored it without ever bouncing from floor, you get 4 points. Every team gets 10 tries each.
So I'd simulate the matches in a way I wanted that time , would make standings every week and go on until find out who the worthy one is for the Super Burundian League championship.
The thing is I was and am a big fan of Besiktas and whenever I'd play Turkish League in this game, I'd always include Besiktas in the league. But there's too much RNG in this, most of the time my Besiktas would get bad results and dwell on the midtable. To ensure its victory, I started cheating , like giving 5 more bouncing ball game tries or drawing one more time and I'd surely make it the champion.
Although i wasn't bald before, i was always a fraud one it seems.
We played a game called "General" in the woods behind a cul-de-sac in our neighborhood. Whoever has the largest stick is General. The general's win conditions were to tag all of the other children out with the stick.
This led to hauling ass with a giant battering ram of a rotting log at other kids. Good times.
One summer we invented a game we played almost every day. You're on a soccer field. Everyone has a whiffleball bat. 2 vs 2. One team starts at midfield. Each player pitches the ball to themself and tries to get one hit as far as they can. Then their teammate does the same from wherever the ball landed. Two strikes per person of you don't get a hit. You're trying to hit it towards the opposing goal. Once you've each hit (or stuck out), the other team does the same in the opposite direction. So you're slowly advancing toward the other team's goal. If you hit an opponent's ball out of the air after they hit it, you get an additional swing attempt on your next turn. If you hit the ball into a goal, it's 2 points (opposing team can try to block). If you hit it past the goal line anywhere outside of the goal it's 1 point. We had a lot of fun and got some very confused looks from people walking by.
"casino" basically each of us would come up with a money making business and try to make the most poker chips. the person running the "casino" usually would win 😂
Do video games count? Well, I had a crappy 1gig of RAM laptop and was on the search for for low power, free, browser based games. Found this one called rushteam and got hooked. Its basically a fake CSGO but its fun as hell and had a super active community. Although basically dead today, players from 5 years ago that I remmeber spending hours playing with will sometimes pop on again and its so nostalgic.
My cousin and I started a game we dubbed "Horses and Cougars" in grade school - basically a playground-wide game of boys vs girls tag. Very popular in 4th grade.
It was called "in the dark" or something non-descriptive like that. It was basically reverse hide and seek. In normal hide and seek. Instead of 1 person hiding, all but one person hid. It had to be placed in a pitch black environment so we always had to wait till after dark and then turn off all the lights in the basement. Everyone hides, one person counts to whatever and then stumbled around in the dark trying to find people. Last person found is now the seeker. It's really funny when you hide by standing very still in the middle of the room.
When my parents were out, we would turn off every light in the house. My brother would put on a scary mask from Halloween and stand at the back of the yard (we had a big yard) and slowly walk towards the house, every once in a while lighting himself up with a flashlight. My other brothers and I would be trying to find a place to hide inside and freaking out. Then when he would get in the house he would act like a creepy movie character and try to find us. And when he would find us he would try to scare us as bad as he could. I remember one time one of my brothers was hiding in the bathroom closet inside the dirty laundry hamper and when he was found he was so scared he peed himself. We still make fun of him for that one.
My older brother had a big bathroom in his bedroom - big enough for me to be in there at the same time. So any time he had to take a shit, I would come in and we would chat, but we'd call it "making plans" - if our mom called for us, I would call back from the bathroom saying, "We're making plans!"
My neighbors had one of those backyard playsets with a slide, swingset, crow's nest, etc, and the perimeter was boxed in by mulch. All the neighborhood boys knew the layout by heart because it was relatively small.
We played a game we called "King of the Rock" where one person was "it", and they had to tag someone else within the perimeter to pass it on. The catch was, the person who was it had to keep their eyes closed. In order to balance it out, someone could also be tagged if the person who was it said "King of the Rock" while someone's feet were on the mulch, so we all had to get creative and touch the ground minimally. It was pretty damn creative and we definitely had a lot of fun with the game. We're all in our 20's now but we all remember that specific game fondly.
We played a game called "Greasy Feet," where we would pretend to need a super hero named "Greasy Feet" to come and save us. My little sister Barb, playing the role of Greasy Feet, would "fly" to our rescue. We achieved this affect by me laying on my back, feet up, and her jumping up on my feet in superman flying position, holding my hands for steadiness as I swayed her back and forth like she was flying. Then I would sort of fling Barb into my other brothers and sisters, who were either the people who needed saving, or the villains she destroyed. We would do this over and over again, creating new scenarios in which people needed to be saved: bank robbery, dam burst, guys are beating us up, etc. It was so much fun.
This one I used to play in the backyard with my dad, specifically in the fall. I would run around and hide behind trees while he chased me. He would then proceed to chuck acorns at me whenever I poked out to run to another tree. Dad definitely got in a few good forehead shots, he thought this was hilarious. In retrospect, I don't think I ever knew we were about to play this game until I was suddenly running from a giant man pelting me with acorns out of nowhere. Thanks dad.
I always used to play this game where me and my sister were fish. Our house was always a little decoration in the bigger aquarium that was the outdoors. We got to choose what kind of fish we were and always fought over being the “rainbow fish” because that fish was rainbow and invisible and also had every superpower ever. It was basically house but as fish.
We also used to play with pet shops as kids and had at least a couple hundred and would always set up a baseball field for them to play in but it was hard because we could never hit the tiny ball with the little bat we had lol.
We played the ball game which we also called the trampoline game.
You get three to five kids inside of the trampoline with the net up and one or two kids would stand on the ground outside the trampoline. The person outside was the thrower and they'd throw balls over the net strategically to try and hit someone inside the trampoline kind of like dodgeball. When they hit someone inside they get to go in and the person who got hit has to come out.
The people inside would also throw the balls out once they got thrown in so there's a continuous stream.
The ball game happens to be the reason I had a broken arm half of fourth grade.
We called it Night Tag. It would be me and my 4 friends who were all around 11-12 who would run around and hide in our neighborhood. We lived in a small and safe little neighborhood where all the neighbors knew each other. Then my cousin and his friend who were about 14-15 would chase us down and find us. If they found you they would perform wrestling moves on you and you were then out, which meant go find another spot so they could hunt you down again.
had a punching bag, we took it and put our legs in it and would kick the shut out of eachother. we also played it on a trampoline so it was very dangerous. So many broken bones
My cousins and I would play Awesome Falls at my great aunt's pool. The objective of the game was to fall into the pool in an awesome and unique way, scoring awesome points while doing so. The more awesome your fall, the more awesome points you received. At the end of the game everyone won, regardless of how many awesome points you had, because we were all awesome.
My brother and I were teenaged karate afficianados. We hung a rubber ball from a string in the garage (roughly solar plexus high) and stood on opposite sides. Object of the game was to punch or elbow the ball into the other person's face. You could only hit or block the ball with knuckles, forearm or elbow. If you touched the string it was a foul and your opponent got to start again. Used to play this for hours. We called it "elbow ball." Lots of fun.
Me and my brother constantly made up our own games. My favourite one was one person on the swing, the other had to hit that person with a ball. The rules were simple, you had to throw from te front and the swinging person could deflect with their feet.
Boundaries. In short it was a variation of Dodgeball some friends and I played as we only had one proper kick/Dodgeball between us. We would decide on the boundaries of the field based on how many people were playing and decide who would start with the ball. They would go to the center and try to tag people out like in dodge ball.
If you control the ball you can pivot but you cant move around. (Except to retrieve the ball)
If you are hit you are out. The player in control of the ball can move to retrieve it and try to tag someone out from that players location.
If you catch the ball you now are in control of it and can try to tag people out. From the location of where you caught it.
If the ball leaves the boundaries it is up for grabs and everyone makes a mad dash to gain control of the ball. Upon grabbing it and returning to the playing field you have to toss it in the air to be caught by yourself. Where you catch it is where you are positioned. It CAN be intercepted.
My friends and I enjoyed it a lot. It was fast, chaotic, and who doesn't love nailing someone with a dodge ball? When I moved from the small town I spent most of my elementary years in I tried to have it catch on in the new one but to no avail.
My friend/neighbor, his little brother and I would play hockey on ripsticks, but we only had two rip sticks. The obvious solution to this problem was to put the little brother on foot by himself and then the older kids would be on a team against him.
Okay so me, my brother and my sister would smack eachothers buts as a game when the sky would turn pink, like at sunset, I was the youngest so I wasn't really questioning it, I just wanted to win lmao
Not sure how unique it was but we had a variation of Chap-Door-Run we called "The Grand National" where instead of knocking on a solitary front door and running away, we tried to do the entire street,knocking on a door, jumping the fence to the next house, knocking their door. Repeated all the way down the street.
Yeah, we were absolute dicks as kids.
XENSAT · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played really dumb games like trying to jump from stairs wearing roller skates or swinging as fast as possible while standing instead of sitting then jumping off of it, whoever got injured, lost.
My little sisters and I would play “house,” where we’d use books to mark off little rooms in our basement and we would use our American girl dolls as kids. There were three of us, so logically, one of us would be the mom, one would be the dad, and the third would be the dog. I also recall stealing my moms bras and putting balloons in the cups and wearing them as the mom to make it more realistic.
One person shouts out different kinds of animals and objects, and the rest jump and shout "MEAT" if the thing is edible meat.
If the thing isn't meat, you're not supposed to jump. if you do, you're out. the announcer tries to get everyone out and last one standing is the winner.
It's really fun, but also kinda weird when you think about it.
We had a game my siblings and I lovingly called "THE FOG." Really, it just stood for "the falling over game." We would kind of do like a headstand on our couch. Our legs would dangle over the back of the couch while we would be looking, upside-down, from the seat cushions. Then we'd all at once roll out of our headstands, off of the couch, and onto the floor.
We also played this game called KMA (or CMA or DMA or BMA or any other letter). Essentially, I was like a gatekeeper and my siblings (M and A) had to do a certain thing to get across (like crabwalk or jump). The reason there's so many names for it was because if they did the wrong thing, I would "kill," "crush," "destroy," "bruise," etc. them and they'd go back to start.
We also played this game called "Onion." My younger siblings would ride on my back and I'd crawl around like a horse. But this horse was very lazy and didn't usually want to go until they fed him an onion. They would just hold their hand by my mouth and say "onion" and I'd make chomping noises and galavant down the hall. I have no idea how we came up with any of these games.
For long car rides my dad had my brother and I play the “u-haul game.” Whoever spotted a u-haul or Ryder truck first would win a quarter. We had so much fun and it wasn’t until adulthood I realized how genius this was of my dad!
Me and my friends would try and find a nice tree with plenty of branches and climb as high as we could. We would then proceed to hang off the highest branches and see how much weight it could take before snapping. So 2 or 3 of us would hang on a branch and bounce vigourously until it snapped. Bonus point for taking other branches out as you fell. Luckily we had no serious injuries, apart from the one time my friend knocked himself clean out as he fell. I thought he was dead, until a broken branch fell and hit him and he squeeled. Gooood times.
Dark Park - Hide and seek in the dark. Close all the curtains and turn off all the lights, stuff towels under the doors. Whoever is it has to find people in the total dark and the people hiding can move around. Usually if you are hiding yours eyes have adjusted to the dark a bit more, the person who is it, was usually in the hallway. The darker the better.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Closet court.
We had a big closet with super sturdy wood shelves my dad built. We would pull the quilts, pillows, blankets down off the shelves and make a huge ball of fluff on the floor. Then we'd sit on the shelves and act like judges and condemn someone to death by having them fall off a shelf onto the blankets. It was fun.
Me and my brother would fill a doorway with a wall of teddies (the teddies acted as bricks) and when it was completely full we would charge ourselves at the doorway. So many well spent hours.
Another one, we would get our duvets and ride them down the stairs like a toboggan - probably not that unique.
Horizontal Man-Ball. Played on a playground, we had two teams, alternating starts with whatever we wanted to use as a ball that day. The goal was to get the ball to the other side of the playground by any means possible.
Both teams faced off at the beginning with a 3, 2, 1 countdown. On GO, both teams charged into each other at the center of the playground (usually a bouncy bridge) you had to keep the ball on the playground at first, but if it got knocked out of your hands, it was free for all, and you could go anywhere you wanted with it.
Somehow, we only sent one kid to the hospital when he got falcon-knee’d to the back of the head during a slide tackle in some grass. I have no clue how we didn’t get more hurt from it, but we were pretty much always covered in bruises from it.
The setup is like baseball: a pitcher, a batter and some fielders. The pitcher would throw and the batter would try and hit the ball in various places for various points (and the fielders fielded)
The differences start here.
1: we didn’t have a bat so we used some plastic pipes
2: there were several different types of balls from tennis balls to bouncy balls
3: the batter must face our house from across the street.
The name of the game was to hit the house loudly. If you hit the ball over the house you’d get a “runner on” but if you hit the house directly (and the fielders didn’t catch the Ball before or after rebound) you got a home run. The game continues until the golden snitch is caught. In this game the golden snitch is mom coming out to yell at us to knock it off/come inside. Whoever’s at bat at that time gets 20 points that don’t matter because we never actually kept score and the game is over.
Additionally: if you hit a house/car/object belonging to a neighbor it was the immediate end of your at bat no matter how hard you hit that item.
Three cleanly fielded balls and your out, switch batters.
Both halves of a bouncy ball must be caught to count as an out (they broke a lot)
My cousins and I used to pretend we were really poor and living under the dining table as it was a bridge, we hide quietly as we didn't wanted to be notice because then we will be separated and taken away, part of the fun was to choose who's turn was it to sneak to the kitchen and grab some food pretending the kitchen was a supermarket and we need to steal to survive..we would play this game for hours until one of us got sick for eating a raw potato.
My brother and I invented “Barrowkour”. Much like Parkour but you used a wheelbarrow to grind railings and ride up walls and stuff. It was as lame as it sounds.
We played a version of hide and seek. We would play it after the sun went down (we were far enough north that it happened before dinner time), in the snow. To tag a person, you had to tackle them to the ground. As people were tagged, they also became the seekers, eventually leading to the last couple kids running for their lives as a small mob chased them, with the intent of knocking them off their feet. No small number of us probably came away with concussions from that game. Still was fun.
My brothers and I used to play Jesus getting crucified in the living room after dinner. We would all take turns being Jesus (the coveted role) and the others would be Pontius Pilot or the centurions. You have to be completely still while standing up with your arms out to the side when you were crucified. Good times.
This will probably get buried, but we would constantly play a game we of course referred to as "The Game". My parents had an in-ground, fenced pool in the back yard and my next-door neighbors had a trampoline with netted walls in theirs. Everyone was very friendly and they were welcome to use our pool whenever they wanted while we didn't have to ask to use their trampoline. It didn't take long before we accidentally knocked one of the inflatable balls from the pool into our neighbor's yard and it landed near the trampoline. This inspired "The Game" and we spent the next couple of hours trying to get the ball from the pool, into the trampoline netting, and back without the ball touching the ground or using our hands.
The pool and the trampoline were maybe 100 feet apart, so the common strategy was to have one person "serve" the ball from the pool into the space between the pool fence and the trampoline where most other players would be waiting. Those players would try to kick/head the ball to each other while working it to the trampoline. The top of the netting around the trampoline was probably 10 feet off the ground so the players would eventually have to lob the ball high enough to land inside the trampoline area, but not so high that it cleared the trampoline entirely (this was hard). When the ball eventually made it inside the trampoline netting there would be one or two players inside the trampoline who would have to kick/head the ball back out to the players between the pool and the trampoline who would then take the ball back and get it back into the pool. If the ball landed in the water of the pool and didn't touch the ground or the bottom of the trampoline, we win.
We eventually got good enough that we started going back and forth multiple times to see how many times we could win with a single play. The person in the pool would continue to play the ball once it came back into the fenced in area and kick/head it back out to the middle players again. It was crazy, I think we only ever got 4 wins in a play.
Me and my little brother used to play a game with our neighbor where two people would ride an atv and the third person would try to run away after getting a head start. I remember eating shit in the mud and almost getting ran over several times.
Hide and go seek in the forest with snow shoes. It was about 60 kids all let loose in acres of land in butt fuck nowhere-canada all wearing snow shoes
Pete_J · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it socker. Played with my brother and my dad. First one to take off both of the other person’s (or multiple persons’) socks wins. No other rules besides don’t damage the furniture, the walls, or the other person. Games could and would start up anywhere as soon as shoes were taken off. The game kind of died off once my brother got into wrestling and dominated but we did end up playing a round (as grown men) in a hotel room while on vacation last summer.
We played a game call ‘red letter’ where a group of people would all be assigned a letter than together would make a word and the person that was it has to chase down and beat the people up to get there letter. They won when they find out what the word was
So I have no idea if anyone else will know what I'm talking about but my big brother had like a big figure from A Bug's life that also (for some reason) had a motion sensor thing in it. If you moved in front of it, it'd shout 'IDENTIFY YOURSELF - WHAT KIND OF BUG ARE YOU?'
So the game was that we'd put Flik at the top of the stairs, then try to crawl up the stairs so slowly that it wouldn't trigger the sensor, we did this a lot and only won a couple of times.
My sister and I used to play “Tony and Sophia Jump!” (Her name was Sophia, just to be clear). Basically we would organize all of our McDonalfs Teeny Beanie Babies in little huddles on the floor, and we would jump into the world of the Beanie Babies and help them solve their problems.
This town of Beanie Babies had an inordinate amount of crime. I specifically remember that the penguin Teenie Beanie, I believe his name is Waddles, often needed help finding missing or stolen items. Usually it was a different, less adorable bird Beanie who was robbing him blind! Ah, this post brought back some fond memories.
Yes, yes, I know what you’re all thinking but it’s nothing to do with that.
We had one of those bouncy balls you get from the giant cage in department stores, only it was like 1/4 inflated so it was small and flexible.
We lived in a culdesac with a manhood cover in the middle of it, that was both the pitchers mound and the base.
Home plate was the corner of our driveway.
We played with 4 people, 1 person pitches, one person hits, and the other 2 were in the out field.
The pitcher pitches the ball and the hitter hits it with the baseball bat, they then run from home to the man hole cover, back to home, and repeat until the ball is recovered and they’re tagged out. However many times you cross homeplate is the amount of points you got.
Once you’re tagged out the players rotate, batter goes to right field, right to left, left to pitch, pitch to hit.
The thing of the game was is that ball, when hit hard enough would become a ufo, it would stretch into an oval shape as it spun and would get some hella distance, or if the hitter knocked it straight back at the pitcher it would knock him off his feet.
Back in the early 2000's my friends and I played a variation of tag called Terminator. Our playing field was a kilometre radius of parks, residences, and commercial properties. We knew our way around the streets and little walkways, and at that time we all felt like it was a huge space. Basically, the person who was the Terminator would hunt down each player and basically beat the shit out of whoever they catch. The strongest kid always volunteered, and damn was he good at hunting us down.
I remember hiding behind a bush in a park when suddenly I heard rustling from a shrub behind me. I turned around and the Terminator casually stepped out with this huge grin on his face. I panicked and jumped down a drop that was about three times the height of my 10 year old self and I remember my legs buckling like a motherfucker, but I still managed to run away. I recall looking back and seeing the guy watch me, still grinning and then casually turning around to find the other kids.
I also remember watching another kid get caught and basically get his ass handed to him for maybe 5 minutes. It doesn't sound like a long time on paper, but damn it looked like torture. The kid the Terminator caught was crying his eyes out while the rest of us hauled ass.
What's weird is everyone involved remember the game fondly, even the guy that got beat up.
The elementary I went to had this sloped grassy area we called the Prairie in the back of the school that they never maintained so it was overgrown to where the grass was taller than the average sixth graders. The thing about it was that there was a patch of dry land in the middle surrounded by a few more smaller patches where no grass grew. You might see where this is going.
When I was in fifth grade, I was in a friend group with three other people because we all liked Pokemon. Because of this, we'd just run around LARPing ad libbed Pokemon adventures where one person was basically the GM while the other three made choices and acted out what they'd do in whatever situation we were in.
We occasionally played in that prairie because it was a great setup for routes and we used the clearings for gyms and our base and shit. Then when we were in sixth grade, the rest of our class and some other sixth graders caught on and because we were in the middle of a part where we were camping out, the class ended up taking over our adventure and turned it into a game we called Survival Camp.
Some people were assigned as leaders that would assign other people to gather wood (stray sticks) and food (weeds and various plants) and others would pretend to cook or straighten up the clearings. Then before we went inside, everyone would sit around in the largest clearing and we'd all have a toast and pretend to eat grass. It was really fun as a kid and it went on for most of the year until we suddenly got kicked out because it turned out that poison ivy from the apartment complex next to the school had grown through the fence and one kid got into it while another kid got sick cuz he was actually eating the weeds.
At least we cleaned up that area 100x better than the school itself. Now it's an actual field that the school uses for P.E. during spring.
TL;DR My Pokemon LARPing got turned into a communist camp until it was ruined by a kid who ate grass.
I had a lot of time to kill when I was a kid. I’m an only child, and my mom would take me to her job during summer vacations. I had very little to do. So I played a game similar to the old Simon Says toy. Similar because it requires balance and repetition, but much more basic in comparison because the pattern is repeating and you choose the starting pattern. The game requires you to start a pattern of four parts, then do the opposite. Then you repeat the all previous patterns again but mirrored. You continue mirroring patterns and go infinitely until you can’t remember the next “continuation of four”. It looks like this:
I usually tapped four fingers and sometimes tapped my toes and heels to help keep the pattern. I was pretty good at it, and I could usually keep going into the 14-16 set until I’d lose track. For fun I’d start the originating pattern at 4321 or 1324 or 4231. This game kept my mind stimulated through some dreadfully boring days.
It was basically just a glorified Treasure Hunt game we played outside where we had hand-drawn maps that gave clues to where other things were hiding in the yard.
I had a fuckton of Pokemon plushies, so my older cousin and I used to set them up, filling the basement stairs like shelves, and we'd each start with one. We'd try to knock down as many as we could, taking turns with throws. Whatever you knocked down, could be used as ammo next throw. Whoever had the most Pokemon at the end won. Getting the big fat Togepi I had was the meta. That shit was like S tier.
When I was a kid in elementary and got bored in class, I would close my eyes and squish em until I would see all the colors and patterns one sees when the squished their eyes. I would unsquish em and pretend I went to a different universe once all the colors and patterns disappeared. No wonder I got into psychedelics later on.
Basically we got a mattress, which was our ring... We'd cover ourselves entirely in the blanket... And then the match was on.
A wrestling game where 2 blobs fight for domination of the mattress. Whoever gets pushed off entirely loses. The main spectacle was that we were blobs. You couldn't use extended arms or legs, no kicking or punching, just blobular movements, you had to stay fully under the blanket at all times as well.
My siblings and the occasional friends and I used to play "Dinosaur Eggs". We would play it anywhere that had lots of sand, which a couple playgrounds near us had.
The idea was that you'd mold balls or eggs out of the wet sand and then build a nest. We had to protect our eggs from getting destroyed by other kids. Whoever had eggs still in tact when we left won.
It was basically just a bunch of kids throwing sand in each other's faces.
Not sure if it counts -- in 7th grade Geography? Science arts? Something -- we played a map game which included several sheets of paper that were spread on the floor, but not all at once. IIRC, we were searching for a fictional country. We'd get a new sheet of paper (or section of map) based on how we answered certain questions.
The name of this game has obviously escaped me, and annoyed me that I can't figure it out... for years now.
During recess, all the different classes would join forces and play "Boys vs. Girls." On opposite ends of the playground were designated places for the Boys base and the Girls base. We would all run around and capture members of the other team and take them to our base. The only way you could free your teammates was by going to the other base and tagging them without being captured yourself. The winner was the team with the most amount of prisoners at the end of recess. Winning team got bragging rights for the rest of the day.
After my parents got a new freezer, my brother and I got the box to play with, and that thing was awesome.
We would lay it out flat and play "demolition derby". We would take Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars and fling them at the l each other as far as we could. The "winner" got to take loser's car. Whoever ran out of cars first won. We developed rules on how you had to rotate though your cars too. Fun times
Me and a friend basically invented a dnd styled art game where we'd draw our own party and the monsters they'd fight, we had no clue what dnd was at the time.
I had a huge Thomas the tank engine wooden train track set from age 3-9ish, and would build massive train track ways and create elaborate story lines using the train tracks and my sisters Polly Pockets. Some involved love, some involved pirates, some involved murder mysteries, a whole variety of things.
“The Game”
The object of the game is to not think about the game. If you think about the game you lose and have to announce “I just lost the game.” You win by not thinking about the game, but you can never know you’re winning because as soon as you do you’ve lost.
My sister and I would sit down on opposite ends of the hallway in our house and play “roll the ball” except it was more throw the ball at each other over and over
My brother and I would sit at opposite ends of the room and throw a tennis ball at each other. The kicker here was that neither of us could flinch or make a noise or the other got a free punch
We played a game called levels, where we would invent a path though the playground and the other people would have to imitate it in a series of levels, like climing around the side of the jungle gym or whatever.
At the community pool we played this game we called “Dibble”. You take a match stick and let it go at the bottom of the deep end. The goal of the game is to spot it as it floats back up and grab it before anyone else does. Madness usually ensues whenever someone sees it and goes for the grab, causing everyone to jump in after them. If they miss, it’s a mad dash to get out and try to find it floating at the surface.
In retrospect, it was actually kind of similar to Quidditch...
Not too long ago we played this as adults during my buddy’s wedding weekend..still a lot of fun, but we ended up with a lot more bumps and bruises.
My uncle Keith just told me this story the other day about the game him and my step dad played as a kid. They just called it dog. My uncle was the dog and the game was to try and get off the lawn. My step dad and other older uncle would tackle and keep him from getting off the lawn. He never really liked the game but played because he wanted to be involved.
Me and my next door neighbor would always play his Xbox 360 until we got sent outside. Then we started to replay Halo 3 and Reach campaign missions outside. We had a bunch of nerf guns and would pretend that they were different guns from the game. This probably sounds normal but it's the most unique game I played
EDIT: There is one more game that is unique too. The neighborhood kids called it Raptor. It's a mix between man hunt and tag but only in one yard. The group of people who were it would hide on one side and the runners would be on the other. The runners would pick to go clockwise or counter-clockwise. You have to do a 360 around the house, and we would play at one kids house that was really huge so it was more fun that way. There was also a game called sardines where it's like hide and seek but that isn't as unique.
Walking blindfolded on a crumbled all wall surrounded by nettles wearing shorts.. if you made it to the end you were officially part of our martial arts club
My brother and I had a collection of hotwheels. Each had a superpower based on its design and color. Each time we'd pick different ones until each of us had half and then they'd fight for victory.
We also used our stuffed animals to play an animal village. Our bunk beds were the terrain which lent itself well to differentiated settings or the sort of conflict caused by uneven terrain or animals being out of sight.
My friends and I would disassemble model rocket engines, crush up the fuel into a powder, then use tape to form pouches around the powder and an igniter and make bombs to blow up our toys. It's a damned miracle we didn't get hurt, but we made some mighty cool explosions. I have a videotape of them somewhere.
Edit: Just remembered another game my neighbor and I would play. We'd put a ball in the middle of our front lawn, then get on opposite sides of the lawn. At "go" we'd rush, full-force, at the ball and crash into each other. Whoever got the ball to the other person's side got the point. We'd play until one of us got hurt and went crying back inside.
car dodging. we would hide in bushes and run out in front of cars at night. not waiting for them to do close enough to hit us. we just wanted to appear in the headlights of cars traveling in our wooded neighborhood at hours of the night children should not be playing.
Like many families, I would get together with my out of town cousins over the summer. But instead of playing outside and getting some much needed vitamin D, like normal children, we always went down to our grandma's basement to play "Coffin".
Our grandma had a black IKEA futon in her basement that folded out into a sleeping pad, but also folded up over itself, so it could make an enclosed box. You can probably see where I'm going with this. So one of us lucky kids would get inside the futon and play the deceased, while two other kids would close up the futon, lift it up, and carry it around the room. The rest of the cousins would stand around the room playing mourners.
Meanwhile, the "deceased" kid would try to stifle their giggles in the "coffin", cause they were supposed to be, you know, dead.
My grandma had this board game thing and I can't remember the name of. It was a spring loaded wooded frame with all these different sized circle pieces. You pull out one piece at a time like jenga but instead of the tower falling down the whole thing would explode in your face and smash the ever loving fuck out of your fingers.
Thrill Points.
Whenever we went to an amusement park, me and my friends would go out and try to go on as many rides as possible the scarier the better. My team consisted of the girls Noel and Alexis (mentioned in a previous post on r/teenagers) As well as another girl, I don’t need to tell u her name tho. The last 2 members on our team we’re boys. One owned the “Scrub Club” which I’ll talk about later, the other was a chill dude I met in Choir. The point is that we would snap a photo of all the rides we went on and depending on how scary or big the ride was, we would get a different amount of thrill points. Team with the most points wins. My team wins most of the time and we still play it to this day. Noel usually forces me to go on rides so we can get the win.
Edit: Fixed some spelling errors
We invented our own star trek rpg. My older cousin made cardboard control panels, then we'd act out space battles. I was the navigation and tactical officer, he was the captain, and my little brother was the engineer and transporter chief.
We also made cardboard phasers and ran around grandma and grandpa's house on away missions and repelling borg boarding parties.
We kept it going until we were in our early teens with the addition of a storyline where we were freelancers hired by a UFP that spanned most of the galaxy. The Kazon tribes had broken out into violence, the dominion was acting up on the border, there were borg sightings out on the fringes, and a new empire had shown up on the edge of the galaxy moving in from somewhere outside.
Peace talks with new empire were derailed by border attacks on both sides by unknown assailants, the Federation president was assassinated and replaced by his warmonger vp, then the klingons withdrew from the federation and abandoned their space, disappearing for parts unknown.
A buddy and I once stood on my lawn and took turns flicking a kitchen knife as high as we could into the air then getting out of the way before it came down. Kids are fucking stupid.
When my brother and I got home from school we would take all the pillows from around the house and make a wall of fluff at the top of the stairs. Then lean against it and fall to the bottom hoping to land on something soft lol...didn't always happen. Sometimes legs or arms would get stuck in the railing. The real game started when we heard the garage door opening - that gave us about 3 minutes to stop being injured and put all the pillows back around the house and act like nothing was going on before my mom walked in the house... Good times!
Oubbz · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and my bros used to wrap ourselves in duvets and jump off the stairs. Very surprised I don't have a broken back
I remember in the living room in the winter mostly(if it was hot a blindfold would do the job) then we used to try to find each other then the one with the least points after x rounds would try to find us(not blindfolded but searching around the house. Not unique but the memories. I remember i somehow got on top of the wardrobe. I tried doing it many times after that never once succeeded.
Roof Ball. Because of the slope of our backyard our garage roof was slightly over our 8-14 year old heads. We'd throw a soccer ball onto the roof, wait for it to roll down, then had to bounce it off our heads into the yard. We'd score points based on the items we'd hit with it, pinball style (a chair was 50 points, the fireplace was 100 points, etc etc). Spent a lot of time doing that.
We would play Texas Chainsaw Massacre tag at recess. If you were it, you had to chase around the other children with a pretend chainsaw. If you got caught, you had to lay down on the ground and pretend to have died horribly. The kid that made up the game watched a lot of horror films really early in life lol. He made me terrified of IT and Bloody Mary for most of my childhood.
I used to count the walls of a room by "blinking at them" one at a time, and if the number was odd, I'd punish myself by holding my breath for a minute or something, and if or was even, then it was well and good, and if it was a multiple of 5, I would reward myself with a candy or whatever I could get my hands on.
Me and my brothers played what we called “touching game” where they would bundle up in a blanket for a while and make sure they didn’t have any openings. Then I would go and try to touch one of them by prying up the edge of a blanket or trying to go under it directly. It was a lot of fun
I had a trampoline on a dock, and we would drench that fucker in slippery soap and water it down, so you almost couldnt walk properly. Then we'd throw a ball in the middle, and the game was that the one touching the ball last "had" it, so the objective was for the others to get it to bounce into the water, where they had to retrieve it in 10 seconds. As an adult, thinking of bouncing around on soap next to water freaks me out.
We had another where we would close us in in a sleeping bag from the neck down, so we had no arms to protect us, then try to jump kick the others off the trampoline. It's a miracle nobody died, although there was a lot of blood spilled.
I used to take a pack of pick-up sticks and made the outline of a maze-like "battlefield" on my carpet. Then I would place dinky cars on each side of the battlefield to be the "soldiers". My friends and I would take turns moving the dinky cars by 5cm at a time and when they touched we "battle them" by rolling dice. A little imagination can go a long way. Basically a stupidly easy tabletop miniature style game lol.
Rules: One person is the "Hunter" and the other is a "big fat pig" (BFP). The Hunter faces forwards and the BFP stands behind the Hunter, facing the Hunters back. The Hunter begins the game by saying the words "I am hunting for a big fat pig" while walking forwards, calmly searching for the BFP.
The Hunter repeats the words, walking slowly around all the while the BFP stays as close to the back of Hunter as possible. Whenever the Hunter feels the urge, they quickly turn around saying the sacred words "...and there it is!!!" while trying to capture the BFP. Of course, the BFP starts running away when the Hunter turns around, and and an intense game of tag ensues.
When the hunter successfully captures the BFP, roles are reversed and a new round begins. Like most tag games, the game gets exponentially more exciting with fragile and breakable items around, and of course the smaller the room the more intense the hunt!
We were renting a house in Cerritos, CA and it had this laser beam alarm system (this was back in the late 80s). You could see the little mount on the wall, but of course you couldn't see the actual beam. We would activate the alarm and then play limbo under the beams. The loser would end up setting off the alarm and then we'd have to deactivate it real quick before it called the cops.
One time it just wouldn't shut off. My dad (a single father of 5) had to come home from work, go up to the attic crawlspace and cut the wire to that bullhorn speaker thing which ended the game forever.
My best friend and I invented some type of kickball game. Basically, one person (offense) would punt a kickball on the roof (of a two story house). If the other player (Defender) catches the ball before it hits the ground, it’s an out - three outs and then you switch from offense to defense. If the ball is caught, the defender cant move from where they caught the ball until the next kick. If the defender doesn’t catch the ball, it’s a point and the defender can play from anywhere they like. We played this game for years and years and I remember it being an absolute blast.
Dinosaur, where you had the egg eaters, and nesting dinosaurs. Basically keep away in prairie grass taller than you are.
Sharks and minnows, not special but we played on half an acre of laid out hay bales where the sharks were running between the rows and the minnows ran and jumped across the top.
Pokemon battle, basically 1v1 dodgeball with 3-6 people on each team and if you got hit 5x you fainted.
Had this game that I’d play at my friends house that we called ‘Corners’. We went into the guest bedroom, someone was deemed “it” they got a nerf sword, turned off the lights and then said “get in your corners”. Then they would just go on a merciless beating spree.
We played a game called black magic. Basically we had a the main person who got a stick and would beat anyone with it if they saw them moving. They also choked themself for some reason. So you had to stay still while they were looking at you
Antarctica. Me and my sibling gathered all the duvets from the house and put them on to a bed. Then you battled the "cold" by going under all the duvets.
My buddy and I had a game where we'd roll a roll of tape down his stairs and try to hit his washer. If we did it, we got a penny.
Eventually you could buy upgrades to a better thing to roll a better roll of tape or a ball to more easily hit the washer. You could then buy obstacles that made it more difficult for your opponents ball/tape to get further.
My friends and I would turn off all the lights in a completely dark basement and play hide and go seek in the dark. Basically someone's is it and everyone else has 1 minute to rearrange the furniture to make it as hard as possible on the seeker. Then whoever's it has to come down and tag everyone. First person to be tagged is it next round. The hiders also get to move around and obviously have the advantage of knowing where the furniture is that round. There were so many injuries haha. I'm surprised her parents let us continue to play after one person broke their arm after doing a complete flip over a wooden rocking chair that we put right at the entrance of the basement
A friend and I would climb onto the roofs of neighborhood houses. The only real objective was to reach the peak. No ladders involved, naturally, you could only use fixed objects (fence, tree, etc) to access the roof.
I used to play ”Bandy the Cripple” with my younger brothers. I would lie on the floor near a chair or sofa as though I had slumped and fallen out, and they would have to get me back into the chair or sofa. I would pretend to have no usable muscles and couldn't speak. It was completely wrong, but my brothers’ loved it.
One friend would even be the director & would often shout “Cut!” & walk off irritated because she’d genuinely be mad at our poor performance. Then we’d all be nervously speculating with each other what/who she was displeased with, like real actors who’s job was at risk.
If you played a male part, you had to do a manly voice. Not doing the voice would result in a lot of the angry “Cut!” moments.
I don't know if this game is played else where but in Malaysia (where I live) we play this game called pepsi cola. It's where everybody jumps back three times in a circle and then we take turns trying to touch each others foot by either sliding or leaping. You only get one try each turn.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
poop ball. my sister and i would sit on those fake plastic baby toilets and throw cat toys in. we would pretend to flush the toilet. that was the whole game. kids are stupid
Dr. Quack-Quack: you and your friends (4-5 kids preferably) would create a human pretzel, holding hands and twisting, stepping over, turning and doing any movement that would make you all tangled up. Then you call Dr. Quack Quack to figure how to untangle you. LOL
Similar to the yellow car game, my family played “Jeep”. The distinct grill on the front of the car made them easy to spot from far away. Jeeps are not rare like yellow cars, but that’s what makes it fun!! And it’s also easier to mistake other cars for Jeeps, so more points deducted, which makes the stakes higher! So much fun for any road trip.
My parents had a rather large backyard when I was growing up so I would play farmer. I would wheel a wagon all around the backyard and uproot all of the small onion grass plants that grew wild. They were collected in the wagon and I would try to "sell" them to my parents. Granted, my dad wasn't too fond of this game whenever he had to mow the lawn.
Sick, dead and buried. We would run around our garden with a small tennis ball or something similar throwing it at eachother, if you got hit once you were sick, then again you were dead and once you got hit the their time you were buried and therefore out. Winner was the last man standing
We used to swin under the pool cover at night and race each other to the other side in pitch black water with a tied down pool cover. We would only leave it open on each end.
Me and my sister were obsessed with Nancy Drew, so we would play "Mystery." One of us would set up a mystery, like staging a murder with a chalk outline body, or a kidnapping by hiding a baby doll, or anything else our child brains could think of. Over time we filled up a big box with various props we used, like mysterious notes and other "evidence", and we colored and decorated the box to say "MYSTERY". Whenever we were bored someone would say "let's play mystery!" And then we'd bust out that box and be occupied for the next few hours, one person creating a case and the other solving it. Sometimes we'd set things up as the other person was working on it, like run to the other side of the yard to plant evidence that wasn't there before (we lived out in the country so we had a giant yard, plus a barn and a shed to hide things in). It was actually a big component of the game to not let the person solving the mystery see you while you manipulated things behind the scenes. It was the best game ever
It was called horsie. It had absolutely nothing to do with horses: it was where my friend and I would be playing in the yard, and I would grab her arm, and I would run as fast as I could, dragging her across the yard. It was amazing. 10/10 best game.
My hometown has a lot of bits of art made of concrete scattered around the various housing areas. A lot of it is functional an designed to be played on, so we’d make up games. There’s ones with mazes, weird cubist things you can climb on, or hide in. There’s an interactive map with all of them here
My brother and I hosted "Stick Wars" in our back woods. Several friends would come over to help us build forts and stuff out of downed trees and what not, on opposing sides of the creek. Divided up into 2 teams, we would gather up sticks and rocks for a set period of time (10 minutes usually, of ammo gathering) then start the war. This always lasted long enough for someone to get severely hurt and usually ended up with a stick or rock in someone's eye...
Blob - one person would be “it” and they would be covered with a blanket in a dark room and try to tag the others hiding or walking around them, similar to Marco Polo I guess.
After Star Wars episode one came out, our neighborhood kids group quickly centered our group play around the republic. Everyone had their own lightsaber, we used Monopoly money to reward people for missions, and younger kids were assigned as older kid’s padawan (sp?). So much fun. We even memorized Qui-Gon Jinn’s and Darth Maul’s respective death scenes. I still remember how to finish off the dual wielding Darth Mail.
I have been trying to find this game since forever but i'll try my best to describe it.
Its kinda like an fps but i played it near 2011 and it is basically a shooter game but with a helicopter and you don't use the mouse to do much, instead you use the WASD keys and a fire key for the bullets. The thing is I played this game for 2 years but I actually never knew what it was called, it never had a multiplayer mode and you could upgrade your helicopter as you win games, the levels get increasingly hard but my memory tells me I actually never completed the game.
I remember shooting down other planes but I forgot if I shot towers down, bad guys, or boss fights. I remember one instance where I couldn't make progress because of a white and blue color scheme helicopter that I think was the boss of the map.
This one isn't a unique game but I've never found anyone who knows what this game is.
Me and an old friend use to play a game we called "James bond-a-thon". It was bonbardment(sp?) But you lost function of what ever limb was hit instead of being Out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used a bowling pin to smash the shit out of hot wheels cars.
Get one soccer ball and three people on a trampoline. Using only your feet, you have to hit someone else with the ball in a way that makes them the last person touched by the ball before it rolls or flies off of the trampoline. The last person the ball touches before falling off the trampoline gets a strike. Three strikes and you're eliminated.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At parties, keep the balloon from hitting the ground.
I would pretend to be a dog all the time. Not just a dog, but, like, some weird hyper-intelligent warrior dog race. I think someone said the word "dogfight" around me, like, once, and I decided to build an identity around it. I was fixated on this for years, like, from maybe 7 to 9ish. I am so, so sorry to like every kid I played with who had to deal with this ruining every make-believe they ever foolishly invited me into.
In elementary school I made up a game called assassin, which was based on the multiplayer mode of Assassin's Creed 3 and 4. We have had like 9 players and each of them drew the name of another player, the name they drew was their target. Everyone was both hunting and being hunted at the same time. They didn't know who was hunting them or even who was in the game besides themselves and the target. Everyone used a special set of gold sticky notes as "knives" so they had to use them inconspicuously. Games at first lasted one recess, but eventually started to last a week or more. There were a few variations as well, like Wolfpack with teams of 4 who could revive each other, or hide where there were like 3 assassins trying to kill everyone else.
My twin brother and I would play a game we called “Bumper Bins” where we would empty our dad’s tall plastic laundry bins, flip them upside down, decorate them, and put them over our heads to wear them over our bodies. We would then charge at each other from across the room and collide...over and over and over..
We used to have stick races. There is a really slow moving man made crick behind my parent's house. If you follow it up about a mile it turns into a natural little stream. We'd start there with around 5 sticks and followed them for a few miles. There were some hills, turns, and a couple of waterfalls. You had to cross some streets it went under and relocate the sticks. It took hours. The crick was full of algae and small plant growth so there were obstacles that some sticks were better at navigating. Lots of fun. It was a good time to just shoot the shit dream up our next adventures.
Biglab · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The fam and I would take a paddle boat to the middle of the lake overload the front and fight to get to the rising end before it flipped all the way. Called it Titanic.
I played house in Minecraft, except we were also Mario and Peach (and Daisy were our daughter because idk). I often wanted a divorce and ditched my wife and daughter to build my own house.
We made a school-wide game called "Assassin" at our high school.
The objective was to "assassinate" one another between class periods. We assassinate by pretending to slit the other person's throat with our hands. There was no real point system, but it was more of like hide and seek, and everyone was both hiding and seeking at the same time. Who would end be the most sneaky in our friend group?
After our classes would end, we would blend in with the bustling students in the halls, staying low, and keeping a keen eye for our friends' faces in the crowds. We even began calculating each other's class schedules and figuring out which school halls the other person would or would not take. Sometimes maybe one day, or two days, or more where nothing would happen. Then I'd let my guard down for one moment and SLLLLCH. Dead. Then my friend disappears back in the crowd.
Those 5 minutes in between classes were always fun.
My backyard connected to the two house next to me and made a giant field, and the neighbor to my right had a basketball hoop and the neighbor to the left had a play set. Both of these spaces were considered safe zones.
Basically me and like 10 other friends from the neighborhood would start at the playset and had to run across the 3 yards to the basketball court, touch the pole of the hoop, and run back to the playset. Except one friend had a giant exercise ball and would try to hit us with it. Each round would be one trip from the playset and back.
If you got hit then you became the ball person. We’d play this game from sun up until sun down. We were pretty young and small too so the big exercise ball would make for some pretty spectacular wipeouts if you could take out the legs. We called it “ball run”.
When I used to go to my grandmother's house, my cousins and me used to kick our flip flops in the air. Whoever kicked highest, won. It was simple, but fun.
We would play a game called “swings”. We had a swing-set in the playground 4 swings wide. 4 people would be swinging while everyone else’s objective was to run from 1 side to the other. The people on the swing had the job of trying to smash into the people running. You could take the high speed approach by swing high and fast or the precise approach where you wait on the ground and swing/kick just as someone runs by. Resulted in plenty of bumps and bruises but it was a blast.
Someone would lay on the ground, and the group of friends would then stand around "digging" up the body to see it and act out the whoel thing. Then once we reached a point we "saw" the body, the person laying down would rise up and it then basically turned into hide and seek and tag.
My dad would buy cellophane wrap. Like the industrial large rolls. And wrap me and my sisters up and we would compete to get out first. Usually ended in someone faceplanting and tears.
Me and my sister's Mighty Max/Polly Pocket crossover adventures. Some took place in a cute little resort. Others took place at skull mountain castle greyskull (for some reason). Polly would ride on a pony or a black mammoth creature, she wasn't fussy.
I used to "Sumo Wrestle" with my brother and some of my friends. Both wrestlers would hold couch cushions on their stomachs and run into each other until someone fell down. Hilarious times.
Take a match to the bottom of a 10' pool and place it on the bottom. Get out as fast as possible, and be the first to jump in and get it as it comes up. Varying rules on If you can push people in or splash to obscure the view.
In 3rd grade at recess, my friends and I adapted tag to be butt tag. Meaning you could only tag each other on the butt. So naturally base was anywhere you could protect your butt from being tagged, like sitting flat on the ground or pressing your backside against the wall. This was super fun until the teachers found out about the game and made us stop playing.
“Bounce Time” on the trampoline. If we had a lot of other kids over, we’d all count down from ten. Then we all jump at the same time and when we landed together, it launched us fifty feet. (that’s what it felt like anyway)
Raitug · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava monster. People would sit and dangle their legs on a slide and the lava monster had to climb the slide and try to pull someone down
In my home town we used to this game. In this game there are a bunch of guys go up in a tree.
A chaser would go up and start chasing one of the guys. The task of the guys , up in tree, is to get away from the chaser and avoid being dead ( if the chaser touches you, you are dead).
While the chaser is looking to kill as many people, the guys have to manage coming down of tree and acquire a wooden staff. If this wooden staff is acquired and used to touch the guys up the tree, they become immune.
This goes on till all guys are dead or immune.
This game was fun and dangerous as there was a limited space to move in a tree and you could always fall down and get seriously hurt.
My brother and I had neighbors roughly our age, so four of us. We would play “The LEGO Game” which was always an epic weeks long game which always started at the bin. We had absurd amounts of LEGO’s in a big bin, and on the count of three everyone would rush to find and claim different pieces and mini figures and build houses and live stories for our characters. These games would last weeks and would stay set up in our room. We had a currency system and traded and came up with elaborate stories. This was a favorite of ours for a year or two and is one of my favorite memories.
Edit: we also played Nerf zombies with my friends and my siblings. There would be about 6 of us and it would always start with three people loaded down with as much nerf guns and ammo as they could carry. The zombies would have nerf swords. If you got hit by a zombie you became another zombie. If a zombie got hit by a dart they had to run back and tag the washing machine before they could come back and try again. It always ended up in a desperate last stand of one person against five zombies with limited ammo in the living room. So much fun.
As a boy growing up with 2 sisters we had to meet in the middle of our interests to have fun at home together. One Christmas my sisters recieved a Barbie dream house, and a digital camera. The three of us loved making videos and skits with the camera, and we came up with the idea "dollhouse murder." I would act out scenes with my sisters of many different scenarios, but they always included sex, cheating, and then murder. We would then plug the camera into the flatscreen TV to show our creation to our parents, and they were slightly mortified.
My younger brothers and I would drape blankets over our bunk bed and turned the bottom bunk into a tent, we would turn the lights off and they would have their goosebumps flashlights and make it seem like they were camping.
I being the oldest would then pretend to be a T- rex since this was when Jurassic Park first came out and I would then try and yank them out and they would then try and beat me up lol.
Kinda crazy how we needed pretty much nothing and we still have a blast.
It was called Monster. When I was younger, my house was always the one all the neighborhood kids went to after school. One day, there were 6 of us and we came up with a game called Monster.
Two people would be stuck inside a prison of some sort (we used a trampoline). Two more people would be “monsters” who had to defend the people in the prison. The last two would be survivors and would have to work together to try and get past the monsters and tag the hands of the people in the prison to get them out. If you get tagged by a Monster then you have to go into the prison. If the survivors get all 4 survivors out of the prison then they win, or if the monsters get all 4 people in prison they win.
It’s quite fun as long as the monsters don’t guard the prison too much, as that kind of ruins the fun.
I didn't have any friends growing up, so I used to play both controllers in fighting games and pretend to play with someone. I never had an imaginary friend persay, at least not in the sense that it was an entity with a consistent name and personality. I would just imagine someone was there.
I finally made a bit of a friend when I was still very young. He was a talented soccer player and I couldn't play for shit, so he would imagine he was dodging and weaving between players to get the ball to me. I was the goalie. He nearly broke my nose on several occasions.
With 4 siblings and a trampoline we used to have a massive fighting/wrestling tournament with special WWE kinda moves etc. We would play for hours until someone ends up crying
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I nailed two pieces of old wood in sword-like shapes and hit each others' swords until the loser's sword breaks.
Growing up, we had a stairwell in my house with an enclosed landing and a sliding door. With that door closed, the landing was only about 4 feet by 4 feet, with the only open direction toward the top of the stairs. We used the stairwell to play "Sonic".
One player stood at the top of the stairs and threw small rubber bouncy balls down the stairs against the walls, causing them the ricochet all over the place at the landing. The other 3 players would stand at the bottom, and do their best to avoid getting hit. Last player standing at the bottom of the stairs won, and became the new thrower!
The only rules were that you couldn't exit the stairs, you couldn't climb the stairs past the second step, and the thrower couldn't just throw the ball directly at someone, the ball had to bounce.
I made my best friend at the time play a game called “brothers.” We pretended we were brothers who shared a room. Gameplay consisted of me reading while he waited for me to get bored. We share a room, right? Gotta do your own thing sometimes!
Back in the late 80s, my 2 older brothers, younger sister and myself created a game called monster ball. We used a soccer ball and aluminum bat.
You need to bounce the ball to the batter. ,, and you could throw the ball at a runner to get them out. It was basically a combination of baseball and kickball.
The "fun" part was playing with friends that hadn't played before, and them not realizing you must completely swing through, because if you didn't, the bat would recoil back and hit ya in the head. Ahhh the 80s.
The stick in my right hand was Darth Vader and the stick in my left was Luke. I could run around jumping off rocks and banging two sticks together for hours...
My friend and I back in Washington would pretend we are Greek gods. I was Neptune and he was Zeus. We would function as if we were on a council and sometimes went to war with another friend of mine who was Hades. We would play a nerf war and we would have special powers that we could use to gain an advantage but we would have to sacrifice ‘mana’. Which was literally balls my sister hid for use with numbers on them.
OP_AF · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother, on car rides, would pretend to be agents being chased by the car behind us. We'd shoot at them, and pretend to blow their tires. Always tons of fun until your neck started hurting from turning around too much.
Invented numerous contact sports as a child with my friends. Bin boxing. Two people sat or stood on top of wheelie bins and slogged it out until your opponent fell off or gave in.
Blaze was another good one. Two people in opposite corners of a room. If you landed five clean shots you could execute your special move. Was quickly retired to high participant injury.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would sing the dramatic music to the Tarzan animated TV show and wrestle over plastic knives that we‘d use to murk each other „Saving Private Ryan“ style. We had a ton of fun wrestling for/executing each other with plastic cutlery, but so far no one I‘ve talked to seems to think that behavior was either normal or healthy.
Oh well lol
hootzz · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sledding year round.
We had a golf cart as a kid and tied rope from the golf cart to a sled and someone would drive the golf cart and you'd have to hold on for dear life
My brother and I got an old mesh potato sack, put a soccer ball in it, knotted a rope to the top of the sack, and hung the bag by the rope from a branch of a big tree. Then we added a couple of swings to tree, each with a swing path that brought us within three or four feet of the bag. We'd start swinging while each carrying a two or three feet long stick (about the thickness of a broom handle) and attempt to knock the ball into each other by hitting the ball or flicking the rope to cause the ball to curl over the defending stick for a head or arm smack. There were remarkably few injuries.
My brother would always bullshit and get me grounded but it didn't bother me because I used to create lego armies and have varying power levels of attacks on each team. I'd then roll to see which attack and where it would land. E.g rolling a 5 was me doing a swift punch in section 4. Any legos that broke were dead or injured. Entertained me for hours ^
While swimming with friends, one of us would put a bucket over our head and have the other push us underwater and float above us while “standing” on the bucket to keep it from floating to the surface. Once underwater, I would swim up, take my friends place on top of the bucket, and he would swim down and put his head in the bucket.
My cousins and I would go to a stream in between our houses and play sister wives. We would all be married and our littlest cousins would be our kids. We washed clothes in the river and caught frogs for food. It all seemed very normal at the time.
When taking a test, one of those bubble-in multiple choice ones...
A= 2 points for team girls
B= 1 point for team boys
C= 1 point for team girls
D= 2 points for team boys
E= 1 point to the losing team
And I would keep a mental tally as I went through the test, and would always hope Team Girl would win. No idea where that started.
Butts Up, involving a Tennis ball and garage door. You'd bounce a ball off the garage door and anyone could attempt to catch it but it had to be a one handed catch. If you dropped it or used your body to catch it, you ran to the garage door and were safe as long as your hand was on the garage door.
You'd wait for an opening (the game continued) and then try to run from the garage door past a line in the driveway. While you're running anyone can throw the ball at you, if you get hit your have a point, if the person throwing missed you they'd have to run to the garage door.
Once you had 3 points you were Butts Up and had to bend over in front of the garage door while everyone else got one throw at your ass.
Used to see who could catch the most crickets in one recess and see who could keep them the longest without getting caught (in the classroom) (we also had a class pet lizard so it worked out)
My brothers and I would have wasp wars. We would pick a wasps nest on the house and hassle them until one or more cane after us. The goal was to swat them out of the air with a flat stick without being stung.
We invented some cardboard armor and learned the attack patterns of different types of wasps. Some send a single investigator while others send the whole squad.
Wasp wars came to an end when we had inadvertently trained them to attack people on sight and my dad was barraged after work.
Lined up those old school green army men on either side of a coffee table and would flick a milk cap with our fingers to try and knock the others guys off the table. They could fall over and be ok, the only way to win was to remove all of the other pieces. We played for hours and hours.
The games got longer the smarter got. We would have a “draft” to pick our teams. There were a ton of different size guys and even a couple vehicles. I learned that if you pin a guy or two under the vehicle it won’t roll as easily. We played this until I was almost able to drive. I’d sit down and get a good game in right now if I could.
oddark · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I invented a sport called Appleball.
Two players get on a trampoline with an apple in the center. Neither player is allowed to touch the apple. You get a point if the apple falls off your half of the trampoline.
Grew up very close to Lake Victoria. As kids we used to swim so deep into the lake that the water would be several feet above our heads - despite the fact that we knew the waters were hippos and crocodile infested - and then race each other back to the shore. Flirting with death.Every afternoon.
livens · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would tie pillows and blankets around ourselves and jump off of his roof. His house had a walkout basement so on one end it was 1 story but got higher the further back you went. Whoever could jump from the highest place won.
Also, again in his basement, we would pour trails of rubbing alcohol on the concrete floor. Then light one end and try to outrun the flame.
I used to play manhunt with everyone I our neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. We would all meet up at my house around 10pm on the weekends and go out in the woods with about 15 kids. We would pick a small team of 4 against everyone else. Usually two people would guard a base that everyone was trying to make it back to while 2 more people went out in the woods to try and tackle the opposing team or flush them out. You have to take them though for them to be out. We carried walkie talkies and had groups split up even on the team trying to make it to the base to see which group could get the most people back to the base.
Sidewalk Jump - the game originated at the bus stop in front of my house. There were two teams and the goal was to force the entirety of the other team into the concrete or other paved surface (grass was the only safe zone). If a single player was “dead” (frozen) on pavement, they could be tagged back into play, but at great peril to the tagger, as strategy dictated guarding “dead” players from the opposing team to lure in those left alive. Once an entire team was on pavement, the winner was declared and the game started over.
The game started pretty innocently, but as we got older (and bigger) it got much more aggressive, with full tackles and (on a couple occasions) all-out fist fights.
During family parties all of the kids would go into the empty garage, turn off the lights, and run around in a circle and try not to fall. Last person standing wins. Repeat.
We played a game we called “Lighthouse”. One person stands in the middle of a large field with a high power flashlight. They spin very fast. If they catch someone in the light they would yell their name and that person has to go back to the edge of the field.
There are lots of obstacles to hide behind and the goal of everyone else is to sneak up and tag them before your name is called.
The person spins slower and slower until someone gets to them. Whoever tags them is the lighthouse next. We would always switch coats on new players so they called the wrong name.
One time I caught my ankle on a stake line for a small tree playing this game. It shredded my skin off down to where you could see the white of my ligaments. Still scarred today. Great game!
Late at night me and my brother would sneak out of our room, when our parents were in the living room, and try to sneak past them, to the other side of the room, and then we had to sneak back to our room, if you got caught you were out.
My friends and I called it the imagination game. One piece of paper and two stick figures. The goal was to eliminate the other persons stick figure by drawing literally anything. Ironically the games could theoretically last forever because as long and you can make something up it’s legal
My brother and I shared a bed room with our twin beds each in corners. We would push our mattresses off the box spring into the gap between the beds to make a "half pipe". We would then proceed to pretend to skateboard/skate on our half pipe. I eventually kicked a hole in the wall on accident by trying to do a front flip.
Me and my sister would make a ball of crumbled up paper, put the ceiling fan on low, and then throw the ball at it. Whoever got the ball to land on top of the fan first wins. After awhile we noticed the paper ball was too light so we put coins in the center of it to make it heavier. That lead to hours of loud, dangerous fun.
My cousins and I would play “orphanage”. I had two older girl cousins and one closer to my age. The older two would be the stronger orphans who took care of us while our “caretaker” (their mom) would take a nap. So, we would sneak into this little bathroom off of my aunts bathroom and take her nice shampoos and soaps, then go outside, squeeze far too much into a wheelbarrow with water and leaves, and proceed to make a “potion” that would make us wanted by parents seeking kids.
There’s these covers you can get that you can put over blankets to give them a pattern. So me and my brother went inside those (with the blanket still in) and threw ourselves down the stairs, whoever went down faster won.
Did no one else play Drive By Shooting? Maybe its just where I grew up lol. When a car would drive by we would yell it randomly and everyone had to drop to the ground as flat as possible. This game took a terrifying turn when my best friends yard had a slug infestation. They stick to you if you land on them fyi.
Used to play a game called Curb-ball with my brother and some neighborhood kids. Just a tennis ball and a curb in front of someone's house. The goal is to bounce a tennis ball off one curb into the grassy lawn of the house across the street for points. Super simple and a lot of fun.
Basically one person is up to pitch. The pitcher stands in the middle of the street and throws the tennis ball at the curb, trying to get the ball to land on the lawn on the opposite side of the street (behind them). If the ball makes it to the other side, you get a point. If it doesn't make it, or someone catches it before it lands, you get an out. Each player gets 3 outs before they switch pitchers.
My brother, sister and I used to play "Breakout". We would take all the sheets and blankets in the house and wrap eachother up like mummies. Then you had to break out of it.
One time playing, I was having difficulty escaping. Instead of listening to my muffled pleas for help, my brother and sister laughed at me. Eventually they made sure I didn't die.
It is the reason I get a primal panic when my arms or legs are restriced for any reason. Good times.
I have no name for it but I guess it was kind of like baseball mixed with dodgeball that me and two friends played one time. You basically went into a room and shut all the doors and whacked a bouncy ball with a baseball bat. If you get hit you lost a life and the person who got hit then got to hit the bouncy ball
We stopped playing it once I broke the light on the ceiling and my Mum yelled at us for it
It was an awesome game where one person would hide either 5 or 10 beanie babies In a room. The rules were simple. The beanie babies had to be partially visible and the seeker got 3 uses of getting a clue or "hot or cold". We use to hide them on ceiling fans and in bed posts. It was very fun to try and put them in plain sight places that would make my brother go insane.
Such a fun game!
Haunted house game. 1 person is it and everyone else hides with the lights off and the goal is to find each person while the people that hide also try to scare shit out of who is it
We used to play The Initial Game. It’s like Twenty Questions, but instead of guessing an object, you are guessing someone famous based on their initials, asking yes and no questions only.
Example: DT
“Is it a politician?”
Yes.
“Is he orange?”
Yes.
Hopefully you get the idea.
I’ve since modified the rules slightly, so that now you give the initials, and the answers to the three following questions (as best you can):
1. Male or female
2. Dead or alive
3. Real or fictional
Those were always the first questions anyway, and it makes it a tad more fun.
You can use actors, politicians, musicians, athletes, cartoon characters, book characters, historical figures, the list goes on…
We broke rocks with other rocks. For hours. It was super fun. We'd also dig holes to find more very large rocks. It was all granite too, so you'd get some nice crystal formations inside once they were broken open. We then loaded the broken granite into a crappy pink sled and dragged it out to the side of the road where we tried to sell them as geodes. Sales were way down until we started offering a free rice crispy treat with the purchase of a geode, at which point they picked up slightly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A modified dodge ball. You draw a grid on the concrete and you stack flat rock in the middle of it. The captine of the ''attack'' team hit the stack of rocks with the ball and everyone runs away and hide. The attack team has to place the rocks on the grid (each rock in a square) . The ''defense'' team has to find the other team and hit each memeber with the ball (get him out of the game). Only the ''attack'' team has the right to touch the rocks. Place the rocks (win) or get all your team mates out of the game (loss).
My brother and I used to play “Dante Hall” where one of us would try and return a kick (run with a football) from one end of our living room to the other, while the other tried to tackle him from his knees.
I can only hope there’s a brother duo playing Tyreek Hill rn
16-17 we used to play hostage. 2 teams of 4, 1 driver, 1 navigator, and 2 hostages per team. The two hostages started with the other team in the backseat of their car, blindfolded. Both teams would drive somewhere in a 5 minute time, and drop the hostages off. The navigator would then call their teams hostages, and try to figure out where they are and tell the driver where to go. You had to get your hostages, and make it back to start before the other team
We used to play bull rush. Essentially we're all a heard of bulls and we line up and rush 1 person facing the heard. His/her job is to flip one of the bulls who then takes their place. It's real fun, till you trip over one of the city's water valves sticking out of the ground and eat dirt/chip a tooth
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone laid in the grass facing up. Someone thru a soccer ball as high as they could into the air. If you moved to get out of the way you were eliminated. If you got hit then you were the thrower.
Sock-ball fights. We had a big bag of old socks that you take and roll up from the toe then stretch the elastic back over to make a ball. Then we'd basically have a snowball fight with them. They don't damage the walls, although you could knock over lamps and pictures. I had soooo much fun with this for a long time. Think the joy of snowball fights but with infinite ammo, not in the cold, indoors, and with very little injury potential. I think my worst was banging my head diving behind the bed.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At our house we play a game called "Chore Jar". I filled a big jar with slips of paper each labeled with a different household chore. My kids enjoy randomly selecting a chore from the jar and then completing it. The fun is starting to wear off after a few months but still getting some mileage out of the scheme.
Something called The Gorilla Game... one person would be the gorilla and everyone else would have to run from the driveway to the farthest tree in the yard and back without the gorilla getting you.
I would stack as many books as possible on my head and walk around my room while balancing them. I would keep adding more and more till my little arms couldn't or the books would fall off. After awhile it got boring so to spice things up I would pile books on my head while sitting and have to stand up, walk around, then sit down without anything falling off. The upside is I totally have great posture now and can still balance things on my head. Actually, a few years ago at a picnic with a bunch of friends, we ended up stacking whatever we could on my head. I think we got up to one and a half feet tall. Fun times.
We played "60" in my community. We'd get atleast 10 or more kids together (my biggest game was about 25 of us), usually after dark, and we'd pick 1 person to be 'it'. This person was usually someone who was fast. Then that person counts to 60 while the rest of the kids go and hide somewhere on the block (we couldn't leave the block or else we'd disqualified.) The person then tries to find those who are hiding, those who are hiding can run after they're found. The person who is it will tag someone and say "60" and then those two are both it, they try to catch others, then theres 3 people who are it, then 4, until everybody has been tagged. The last person caught is the winner.
Probably a dangerous game considering we lived in the hood and we never really kept track of how many of us played but nobody ever went missing as far as I know.
We played this thing called the floor is rising lava. At first you could stand on anything, but then the lava world Rose Ann so you could only stand on things 10 inches above the ground, and so on until you could only stand on trees and stuff
I have a twin sister, and we used to pretend we were Tom and Alexandria, world explorers! We would sit on the top bunk in my room (shared with my brother, 8 years older) or the top bunk in her room (shared with our sister, 7 years older) and the bed was our boat, our plane, or our bus. We would travel the world and find adventures, like Indiana Jones.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight hide and seek. We’d play it at night in the trailer court. All spots were fair game, regular hide and seek rules, but 2 people would be the searchers with flashlights. They had to flash you with flashlights in order to “find” you. And the last 2 winners would be the next searchers.
A couple of us would go into the rec room and run strings across the room at various levels and angles. We'd tie the strings to cans of bolt and nuts from my Dad's workshop. We'd then turn out the lights and invite the first "thief" downstairs. He'd have to get across the room without hitting a string and knocking over a can.
This was in the 70's, so pre-Catherine Zeta Jones...
My brother and I would pack soda cans full of rocks and sand and gravel. We would then take turns throwing them as high in the air as we could watch him hit the ground. The winner was the one who’s can broke open first. It would take a long time to break because we packed them so full. We would honestly spend hours doing this.
I apologize in advance, this was back in 1980-82ish and was not politically correct at all.
We had a game called "gay man". It was a version of tag. But the twist was that the gay man had a dead sea cucumber that was pulled out of our class aquarium. He/she would chase the other kids with this 10 inch sea cucumber and if you got poked with this sea dong, you were now gay man. After the cuke started decomposing, the game evolved back into tag, but we called it gay man for years.
My friends and I (about 6-8 of us) used to play a game we called "Ram Ball". It was a mixture of kickball and dodgeball. Basically, we all had a kickball and would kick it as hard as we could at each other. If you got hit you were out, if it bounced off of the house, fence, tree, and hit you, you were out. It was basically just a free for all in the yard.
Needless to say we had half a dozen complaints from the neighbor about us kicking the balls at their house since we used it as a backboard sneak attack, numerous kickballs to the face, and a few bloody noses. Hella fun though!!
My brother and I would build a fort with blankets and chairs like normal kids but there was a twist. The fort was actually a hutch and we were guinea pigs. My gran (who ironically is afraid of animals) was our owner and fed us and played with us.
Not a child, but my friends and I created a game in HS to play at the football field.
It's basically homerun derby using a tennis racket and tennis balls. A pitcher tosses the ball to the batter. Every 10 yards the ball goes from the hit is 1 point, so if you're batting from the goal line and it lands just past the 50, you get 5 points. You get three hits.
There are also three outfielders who can catch it to prevent you from getting any points OR they can let it bounce on the turf and smack it forward when it comes back up. It's actually annoyingly hard to catch the tennis ball because it tends to bounce off your hand, so I always recommend to first-timers to smack. Everyone tries to catch on the first try, and is embarrassed when it bounces out after I've warned them.
After the batter hits their three balls, the batter rotates to pitch, the pitcher rotates to the outfield, and an outfielder rotates to bat. If you have more than five people, an outfielder rotates to on-deck.
I set up a "Digimon Casino" in my backyard. A lot of themed games making use of plenty of imagination. A loose fence board was littered with rocks and bits of coal, and the player had to choose between two bottle caps to slide down the board. The caps were agumon and gabumon, the rocks were evil digimon and the board was the internet highway from the movie.
Another game was a card game I effectively made up with scraps of paper. It would be 5 to 10p for each game, but you could easily earn back your winnings. Thankfully, dumb kids kept doubling down on the fence board game. Lasted about three days before folks/I got bored
When I was fifteen, we moved into a bigger house and we were told to stay indoors one day while our parents were at work, during spring break. Most of our stuff hadn't been moved in yet, so there wasn't much to do to keep my younger sisters (aged ten, eight and six) entertained. I made up a game where we all had to climb up the stairs, but we had to take turns only going up one step at a time, and you couldn't step on one of the stairs if someone was already on it. We went in age order, so when my baby sister's turn came, we grabbed her hands and swung her up, past us and onto her designated stair. This kept all of us busy for about two hours, and there weren't that many stairs. I think we probably created new rules as we went along, too.
My sister and I played this game called War. Not the card game. We both had an admittedly absurd amount of beanie babies so we would use them as our army. We would go to our basement with our beanbag chairs and use them as bases and we would have to chuck the beanie babies as hard as we could and whoever hits the other behind the beanbag chair the most times with the beanie babies before we run out wins. You were allowed to hit the other player while they were throwing. It got intense.
My little brother played something they called "blind tag" where the person who shall tag is blinded, this dident go for long tho cuz my brother got a concussion from falling or ran in to a wall (cant remember)
When my sister and I were too young to read, we would sit with a mountain of picture books and "read" them by saying "Koo-cee-kay-bee-falci-hallow" over and over as fast as we could. I don't know why but it kept us highly entertained.
Bowling. One sibling was the bowling ball the other sibling was the pin, and being the oldest, I of course was always the bowler. Strangely they were always more excited to do it than I was, I just felt bad about it lol
When driving, I would imagine I had a really long finger nail that could cut through trees but not metal. I would slice through every tree, but had to point my finger down when coming up to a metal sign or light post to avoid losing the nail ablilities.
We played a game called "Elephant poop" where we would put all of our bedding and pillows at the bottom of our stairs and jump from as high as we could into our makeshift landing area.
We’d play Ostrich Tag at recess and it was basically like infection accept the hunter were the ones “it” and the Ostriches were the ones being chased. We’d start out by having all of the Ostriches gather on the playground equipment and then sacrifice someone to the Hunter via pushing them down the slide. We’d then all jump off the equipment and run around the fields behind our school (which were pretty big). We’d try to strategize in both sides, and at one point we almost had a quarter of our grade play it with us (which was around 40 kids).
My brother and I would line up at either end of the hallway and charge each other. The goal was to reach the opposite end of the hallway. We would exclusively play this game when my parents left.
My friend and I would play tag but pretend to be zombies and exclaim the body part we were going to consume as we were chasing them. Example: “I’m gonna eat your liverrr!!!!!” It was great.
Edit: wording
My younger brother and I used to play "Dad and Son". I was the dad and he was the son. Didn't realize how sad that was until I became a dad.
My dad bailed when I wasn't quite 3 and my brother was a newborn. He died a couple years ago. I'm 50 years old and realized at his wake that I had only spent a couple of months total out of my life in the same state as him. (I lived in SoCal, and he lived in the Miami area most of my life)
The saddest thing is my brother and I haven't talked in years outside dad's memorial. He screwed me over significantly, and even though I told him all I need to reconcile is for him to admit he screwed me, and apologize, he'd rather play the victim. He's only met his nieces and nephews maybe twice in their lives.
Take care of your kids. Model good relationships for them. Be there for them. That shit matters, and has repercussions decades later.
Pump BB gun wars with a rigid honors system. If you got hit you had to announce it and where it hit you. If it hit an arm or a leg you were not allowed to use that limb for the rest of the game. Head or body hits got you "out". We all wore safety glasses, but man our moms would have been livid if they knew we did this...
My brother and I used to play a game with the kids in our neighborhood called fumbleroofski. We would throw a football up on the slanted roof of our house and wait for it to roll back off. Whoever managed to catch it and make it to the end of the driveway without being brought down got a point.
Extra fun in the snow. Not as much fun when you are the smallest.
My older brother and I would play "Spot the Mario". He would play Super Mario 64 and I would look away. Once he paused the game the view would zoom out out of the level and I'd have to spot Mario. I guess it was kinda like an always changing Where's Wally (Waldo, for the American folks). I would be amused and he got to play his game without me asking for a go.
Back then, i had 2 walmart skateboards that i got for christmas (they were horrible to ride on) and these small stools to sit on. In my open driveway, we would put the stools on the crappy skateboards, sit on them, then proceed to race each other down the driveway. It was tons of fun.
We took ski poles and other long pointy sticks, threw them as high as we could straight up into the night ski, and try to not get impaled as they fell back down
When filling up gas, pull the handle 100% and try and let go exactly on the dollar. Number of cents you are off is your score (ex $4.93 is 7 cents away from $5.00 - your score is 7). Person with lowest score wins.
My dad would put my brother and me in "jail" to keep us occupied so he could do drugs. "Jail" was duct taping our hands and feet together and telling us to get out. We were in preschool and thought it was the greatest thing ever.
The seeker would be blindfolded, spun around ten times then set to count to fifty.
The hiders would then somewhat hide but also grab a pillow or pillow case stuffed with stuffed animals and wait while answering the seeker’s calls of “Marco” with “Polo”. When the seeker would get close enough the hider was free to take the seeker’s head off using the cushioned weapon. This would inevitably lead to the hider being touched which is when you’d rinse and repeat.
My brother and I played “snail” .
Basically, one person was under a blanket and had to crawl on all fours and tackle the other and drag them under the blanket. Then they would become the snail and the game would continue.
For reasons I can't wholly remember, or even explain if I could, me and some friends from high school would audibly repeat the word "base" in any of its forms (base, baste, baseball, basis, etc.) after it was spoken. For example. "Are you going to the baseball game?" "Base. Yeah, I'll be there." There was no penalty if you didn't do it, but we all did it regardless, every time.
It got to a point where teachers and school staff would advise any speaker who came to our school to omit the word from their speeches. It was eventually an automatic detention if you did it loud enough. It even got so bad that the school and the entire staff, including and especially coaches, started to refer to baseball as "batball."
We did it so much that I still do it to this day, and, in fact, I've quietly said base after every time I've written it within this post. I honestly don't even think about it anymore.
From when I was tiny, up until embarrassingly recently, my brother and I played a game called 'red spells trouble' (I did not name the game).
It's pretty simple, if a red car drives past you have to be hiding behind a parked car or you lose a life (there wasn't actually a penalty for this other than great shame).
We played it ALL. THE. TIME. There was no escaping it, ever. I must have spent so much time over the years crouching behind random cars.
Earliest memory: I remember playing with my friends yoo-hoo with a lollipop stick in my shed.....we called it the ghost game. I don't know who initiated this game but I certainly hope it wasn't me...one of my more disturbing memories
One day my brother and some of our friends were all extremely bored with nothing to do. My mother suggested a game of throwing cds into our garbage bin from across the backyard. This was early 2000’s so we had like a million AOL discs that we started slinging around the backyard trying to make it in the trash can.
A game a couple friends and I invented and perfected in the first grade, then brought over to our second grade class that we ended up in together. It was called the "kicking game" and would pit two groups from two different classes against each other in a battle of wits and strength. Each team had to stand behind their respective line and try to kick the ball over the heads of the other team, with the ball remaining in bounds, so that it hit the ground on the other side. "Winning" was subjective as noone kept actual score. Many fights broke out though, culminating in an end of the year brawl where one of my best dudes socked another kid in the mouth. Claims to not remember it though
Nords · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented "dangerball".
Played on a pool table, the goal is to shove as many pool balls as you can to the other side, while the opponent does the same. Aka you want to have your side empty. Yes there were injuries, shouting, and expletives, but that was the point of Dangerball....
luf100 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to "lion fight" which was basically just us pretending to be lions and wrestling. We watched The Lion King a lot.
In our house, we had a hallway with the bathroom at one end and the living room at the other. I always had to defend the bathroom side and my brother always defended the living room side. We basically took turns slapping a foam ball at each other, trying to get it past each other. Later, because we got stronger and the foam ball was breaking things and crashing into mom's plants, we changed it to Frog Hockey.
My brother and I used to play 1 on 1 football. We came up with rules and everything. We had objects laying throughout the yard that were used as "receivers". If you could hit the object with the ball we called it a "complete pass". There were three "receivers" and the defender had no idea which one of the targets the ball would be thrown to, making interceptions very difficult, but the targets were also small which made completing a pass just as hard. A pass would move you up 10, 15, or 20 "yards" depending on which target you hit. Fun game.
We had a house that was set up in a big circle. So you could run from the kitchen to the hall into the living room and then the dining room and then back into the kitchen. We used to play, "around the kitchen" which was tag but you could only go in a circle. All wood and tile floors and you had to wear socks without shoes. Later we moved and changed the game to "around camper" witch was the same but outside and you had to stay within arm's length of our family's big RV.
Gupboi · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would make up complete adventure games with custom maps and enemies and items in our heads
Soccer Swing. My sister and I would go to our neighbors (brother and sister), they had a little swingset in between our garages. One person would roll a soccer ball and their goal was to get it past the two people on the swings. If we had all four of us playing, the 4th person would be the ball chaser if the people on the swings kicked the ball too far away. We played this game so much
My mom would blow up balloons and we had to hit them up into the air to keep them from hitting the floor. She called it bee-bop. It sounds really dumb but I remember having the best time and my kids absolutely love it now.
Arrow Roulette. I had a long bow, we fired arrows vertical into the sky, and the waited for it to come down. Mind you, you cant really see the arrow coming down vertically against the light on a sunny day. my youngest brother almost got pierced through the foot (like 2cm beside his foot) and another friend tried to block with a self made Roman shield (the big ones). Arrow got through and stopped a hand width before his left eye. Fun times
Not as a child but me and my older brother went to college in the same city and played Assassin. If you got a picture of the other without being seen or without the other person taking a picture of you at the same time, you successfully "killed them" (5 points) and if you got a picture of their car without being seen you successfully "tailed them" (1 point). This led to some pretty upgraded long range lenses (started my photography kick that's still going) and some very sketchy looking stalking around campus/town. Eventually our friends joined in as informants and "contract killers" and as I was friends with a ton of sorority girls (don't ask me why or how), I eventually racked up thousands of points. He lives in Korea now though and I miss him.
I used to pretend I was a bouncy ball and walk in a straight line bouncing off walls and furniture around my house and heading in the direction it would have bounced. I have really no clue why but I did this. I remember playing this on multiple occasions and i'm pretty sure I thought it was a very fun game.
I used to pretend I was a mad scientist, when I was in the tub. I'd take a bunch of different types of soap and poor them in the water, and pretend it was potions. Gawd I miss being a kid.
Tapping my feet evenly.
Left Right right left.
Then right left left right twice.
Then left right right left again.
Then repeat the whole thing twice starting on the right. Then once again starting on the left.
I remember my older sister played some creepy game with me where she was the head of some vaguely evil institution, and me and my little sister were children kept there. We weren't allowed to have names. My older sister also played the role of some kind of social worker(?) who came to rescue us from the evil matron lady who, I must stress, she also played. A lot to wrap my head around as a kid.
It seems like the sort of thing that would be an ongoing game, like the D&D campaigns we'd both grow up to run. But I feel like it was just one long session, and a lot of it was her explaining the setting, which must have been difficult because I don't believe either me or my little sister was older than six at the time.
She's really always been a next-level storyteller, and most of her ideas are similarly disturbing at one level or another. I've spent my entire life trying to emulate her, particularly her creepy stories which always impressed me as we grew up. The feeling is, I gather, far from mutual. She helps me with my stories, but she doesn't seem impressed by any of them. When I try to do her brand of creepy, she just thinks it comes off as gross or confusing. If she doesn't like it, I don't like it, so I keep scrapping my stories partway through. I've been writing for years, but I've never finished a novel.
But I have a good feeling about the latest attempt!
I used to pretend to see a guy riding a 360 mower as we were driving, he’d have to try and stay on grass as much as possible and jump the bridges
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to throw rocks in the neighborhood creek with my hoodlum friends down the street. Not pebbles, but like actually digging up the surrounding clay and sand to find proper rocks to toss and make a muddy, wet mess everywhere. Whoever could make the biggest splash was basically the guy with the biggest dick. Then we upped the ante and started aiming at each others feet to soak one another since the only way to stand near the creek was to balance on clay and rocks right next to the edge, so you were always close to the water. We were 10 and had the aim of a blind man. One friend ended up with a broken toe and I got a nasty bruised gash on my shin that got infected and took a couple months to heal.
Not necessarily a game but we would ride in laundry baskets down the stairs.
Somehow none of us got a concussion. But then again we were so poor, soooooo there's just the likelihood that we never got medical attention. Just like that time I somehow got a fishing hook stuck in my leg and mom let some random guy at our barbeque remove it with pleirs and then told me she would buy me candy if we didn't do to the hospital. Jesus Christ.
I'm a Nurse now. So if I ever have kids they might have a better chance at survival.
My best friend and I were obsessed with Ariel and would take diving rings, put one around both ankles, and pretend to be mermaids in her above ground pool. We were around 7y/o at the time.
Chicken fighting -- hang from the jungle gym and kick each other until someone falls. Butts Up--throw ball against wall until someone bobbles it. That person runs to the wall while someone else tries to scoop on the ball one handed and peg them before they get there. If they get pegged, they have to kneel or bend over against the wall to display their buttocks while everyone else takes a turn trying to hit them with the ball. We are a community of highly skilled and emotionally traumatized infielders.
chr155 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Long ago, my brother cousin and I would play this game that we called “British Soccer”. Its essentially soccer but instead you use a beach ball and its played in a basement while Eiffel 65 blasts in the background. Many hours of fun and rug burns were had.
I would ride down grass hills in a wooden wagon Calvin and Hobbes style. Most runs ended by hitting a tree or flipping the wagon. One time I flipped, landed on the ground, and then got clobbered by the falling wagon right as I went to stand up.
Had a conservative household and a delinquent older brother so my parents never let me leave the house except for school and to work at my father's failng restaurant.
With no video games, toys for my age, or friends, I played outside a lot. While doing that, I trimmed old branches from the thickets in our Alaskan backyard into "fleets of star ships" after watching Star Wars.
I know kids play with sticks and shit, but I had piles of these and they were my only real creative outlet for like 5 years. I still think back and remember some of those sticks. I had a favorite that was perfect for my hand and symmetrical. It really did look like a starship.
Parent's cleared the back acres and I went to boarding school right beforeahand, so I never got to preserve any of them.
DaLB53 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slaughterball
2 nets at either end of our backyard, 3-3 (2 field and a goalie) you had a small soccer ball and you could do ANYTHING in your power to get it in the net except touch the goalie. Defense could do anything the had to to stop you
Frisbee tag, at one point amongst our normal tag and airsoft battles in the woods by my house with the neighbors, one of us had the great idea to throw frisbees at eachother to in an attempt to tag the other person which eventually ended us with us climbing up trees to avoid or ambush each other. Thinking back we were lucky none of us got seriously hurt.
We would shut off all the lights and blackout all the windows and start throwing our limbs all over the place trying to throw punches and block them. Basically a violent Marco Polo. I can never remember how we started that game but I know it always ended in tears and someone hurt.
We played a game of tag in the dark at a birthday party once. You became it by being hit with a ball. The ball was a black Vortex football that whistled. You would just be running and hear whistling whizz by your head. It was great!
Mantracker was a 2v2 game we'd play in the woods. The most unique was probably rockball though. Basically, dodgeball with rocks from a considerable distance apart.
We had jenga blocks, and would set up a tower on either side of the living room. Then we'd take more jenga blocks and make a catapult. You'd slam your hand down on the catapult and try to fling a jenga block towards your opponent's castle, trying to knock it down.
We used to play this game we made up called "Little Red Devil and the Cabbages."
One person was the little red devil and everyone else was a cabbage and if you were a cabbage you secretly picked a color and shared it with the other cabbages and then the cabbages all sat in the cabbage patch which was the porch. The little red devil had to guess colors and if you he picked your color you had to run to a series of preset points and make it back to the cabbage patch before the devil caught you or you had to be the devil.
We also played a game called "sock" with a group of friends at their grandma's house. She had a long wide hallway in the middle of the house with several doors. You could shut all these doors and it would be pitch black. The game started out that someone would toss a sock down the hallway in the pitch black and then everyone else had to find it basically blind. Eventually it morphed into hide and go seek in pitch black which was more fun.
As we got a little older, my male cousins and I would play a game called kick off returns. Everyone but one person would get in the endzone (behind the pecan tree in the front yard) and one person would kick the ball to the crowd. The object was to get the football and run all the way across the yard to the other endzone while everyone playing tried to murder you. There were no rules and several people got really hurt playing this. I cracked the vertebrae in my cousin's neck and knocked another ones front teeth out with an elbow one time. The game usually ended when too many people were beaten up to play.
Another game we liked to play was called Gates. It was like advanced red rover. One person would be the runner and everyone else playing would form a "gate" which would be us locking arms or standing shoulder to shoulder or all manner of creative poses. The object was that the runner had to plow into the "gate" and try to break through. This game was usually short because people got hurt pretty quick as well.
We also played a game called "battletops" where we would extend our arms and make fists and spin around as fast as we could, like a top, and the battle part came in where we would move towards each other as fast as we could while spinning. This never lasted more than two or three rounds.
When we were very little, my sister and I played a game called "Fatty" where we would puff our bellies out as far as we could and lean back and then run at each other full speed, smash our fat bellies together, and bounce off one another. We had to stop playing when we got older because it started to hurt too much.
My street had a small Bamboo forest and the baby bamboo that grew there was very soft. Every year when the baby bamboo would start growing we’d put on our football gear and hop on our bikes and quite literally have jousting duels. Looking back now I honestly can’t imagine anything more fun and exciting than that.
In high school me and a group of around 30 kids would take one weekend each year and go stay at some place out in the middle of no where and play stuff like capture thay flag and "hunger games". Once we even rented out the biggest youth camp in the state for a whole weekend to do this.
A game my great grandmother invented for us. Her brother used to go on walks around downtown everyday and would stop by and drop all of the loose change he found in a dish by the door. My grandma would empty the dish every Friday while I was there and divvy up the pennies between use equally then toss the silver coins on the ground randomly in her living room which was empty except for the couch we sat on, a coffee table, and a radio in the corner next to the couch.
After the silver coins were tossed randomly we would go around sliding any coins that were on the line between tiles into whichever tile it was mostly in. If a coin seemed exactly halfway between tiles it would slide into the tile with the least coins. Coins position in the tile was where they landed.
Then we would sit on the couch and either flip or roll our pennies across the room, 10 pennies each per round. At the end of the round, whoever had the most value in a tile got to keep all of the non-pennies in the square and we would each get our pennies back for the next round. If you landed a penny ontop of a coin you immediately got that coin and could choose to reflip that penny if you wanted. We would play this until all of the coins were collected by the two of us and I could keep all the change I won.
After we had played the game for a while and I knew the value of the coins we upped the anti. Each player could choose to use up to 5 silver coins each round with the same rules as above. The catch was, you could lose the silver coins you played with if the other player ends with more value in the tile that round so it could help secure a tile but it could cost you.
I played that with my great grandma every Friday for 2 years until I moved ~12 hours away. I couldn't tell the story at her funeral without crying but I will always be thankful for her babysitting me after preschool each day and this most cherished memory. I hope to teach it to some other little kids some day.
i’d play “stairs” with my little sister when we were 12 and 9 respectively. we’d take turns jumping off the stairs onto the ground. the goal was to jump off the highest stair. needless to say injuries were fairly common in this game.
With my siblings, we would put a person in a sleeping bag, put them in a wheelbarrel and roll them out to the woods nearby. We would dump them out and have them count to 30 or so and find their way back.
We used to play a game we called army boomerang.....my parents called it the twit game. Basically there would be whatever ball we could find, volleyball, dodgeball, or anything you could chuck at someone without it hurting too bad. When you had the ball you could take 3 steps then you had to throw it. Whatever body part got hit was useless and if you were hit in the head you were dead. This lead to us trying to take out each others legs so there would be 3 or 4 of us rolling around on the ground trying to avoid getting hit. So yeah we all looked like a bunch of twits.
camp councillors would go in the forest with glow sticks and plant them/hang them in various places then hide closely nearby with a flashlight.
once they were done someone would give the campers the signal and everyone would sneak into the forest.
the object of the game is to sneak up to one of the glow sticks and grab one before a councillor sees you and flashes you with a flashlight. if you got caught you were sent back to camp. and had to sit by the fire till the game was done.
a good strategy was to get as close as you can without being caught. wait till the councillor spots another camper, and while the spotlight (flashlight) was on them run to the glow stick and grab it. a councillor could think your nearby and even call your name to psych you out, but unless the light touches you it doesn't count.
My friend and I used to shoot suction cup darts at my back sliding glass door. Eventually we wanted an actual target to shoot at so we took turns standing in front of the door while the other shot. Taking a suction cup to the eyeball does not feel good. This went on for most of a summer until one day my sister sees us and says “why don’t you stand on the other side of the glass door so you don’t keep getting hit by the darts.”
That idea genuinely had not dawned on us all summer.
We would cut holes into our long underwear and pretend that we were cats. Except the cat that we were pretending to be peed on the bed because he was a bit sick. There for, we had covered the bed with plastic and my brother and I were upstairs peeing on the bed. For about 2 hours. Dad found out and was pissed, obviously. Man we were idiots.
I used to roll my brother up in a blanket and throw him off the top bunk. We called it burrito.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I actually still do this: have you ever avoided stepping on cracks/lines when you were walking?
Because I do a step further than that, since I was a kid, I've tried to keep track of the balance of how many times I've stepped over a line with each foot.
Doesn't sound too bad, just keep a tally left up 3 = step over the next 3 lines with my right foot. The problem came when I kept expanding what constituted a line. Eventually I had separate tallies for manhole covers, imaginary lines perpendicular to the front/end of parked cars, their wheels, alleyways, gates, shadows, other people, front & back of moving cars/buses, and various types of rubbish I'd inevitably step over.
I ended up getting to school with a mental tally that would look something like this:
Left: +1/-5/+2/0/+1/0/2/0
Right: -1/+5/-2/0/-1/0/2/0
Eventually, when I caught myself taking twice as long to get to school as I should, I forced myself out of the habit (mostly). These days I do catch myself doing it again when my mind wanders while walking.
I think this is rly common but in Kindergarden the boys and girls played this game I forgot the name of where u try to catch each other while running.
Not that special yet but I had a Crush (remember that I was 3-4 or something) and I let myself get catched easily by purpose because the girls had to catch the boys and if they were successful they had to kiss the boys.
That was the way to get on your crushs lips.
When we were between 10 and 15 or so, my little sister and I invented a game using badminton or tennis rackets and a badminton birdie but no net. We called it "Flutney," and I have no idea where that name came from.
It was a collaborative game, not a competitive one: the object was to continue the volley as long as possible without the birdie hitting the ground (and therefore each player had to send the birdie back over in a such a way that the other player had the easiest possible time hitting it back, not the hardest!).
Which is harder than it sounds.
Just in case one could not send the birdie back easy, one could hit it multiple times in order to gain control and tighten up one's aim before sending it back -- but only if one hit it three or more times! Hitting it twice was a "double Flutney" and counted as a miss, and it was your fault, not the other player's.
There were no boundaries, other than those of the backyard; no sides and no other rules, so no violations.
My sister and I are now within arm's length of sixty, and I still remember that game in detail. Funny world.
S-P-Y. Not spy, otherwise the adults would figure out what we were doing. But my cousins and I would decide to spy on the parents. This meant recon missions from the basement to hear what they were talking about and plan our major missions.
All missions, recon or major, involved excessive "power ranger rolls" across doorways or rooms so we'd be sneaky and invisible. Really, these were just loud somersaults on hardwood floors. The main mission always ended up basically with us crawling under the table while the adults talked. We were so good that will we'd crawl across their feet, they didn't even know we were there! Unbelievable!
And then while under the table, we'd be mouthing S-P-Y to each other and holding a finger to our lips.
I feel like I should mention that there were usually like 7 of us doing this at a time and the oldest was probably 13.
We used to play "21," a basketball game where once you score. You go to the free throw line and can shoot until you miss. The goal is to get to 21.
We also used to play smear the queer (sorry I don't know the PC term for it now) which was a football game where you try and tackle whoever has the ball.
So one day at recess we invented a combo game where it was 21 and smear the queer... On blacktop. The 80s were an interesting time.
This was honestly pretty recent, but earlier on in high school my two friends and I would wait until it was pitch black at night and play hide and go seek. Except the seeker pointed a semi-bright light at his face and could keep his eyes open, so he still had some ability to see but not entirely, mostly had to rely on sound and seeing odd moving shapes outside of the light. Also relied on making the hiders laugh.
Our back yard growing up was remarkably uniformly rectangular, so of course we plopped two soccer goals in there, small enough for 7-8 yr olds. Used to host games for the village kids there.
One day we tried to shake up the formula so my brother, a couple of friends and I developed a game we called "Rough-Rug" which was essentially a mix between rugby, American football, Olympic handball, and played on your hands and knees.
You would essentially crawl all over the field, full contact, and toss a soccer ball about trying to get it in the goals. Goal shots were not allowed to hit the ground before going in the net.
Parents eventually put a stop to it after too many burst lips.
xAusta · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to kick a soccer ball up this steep hill near my house and try to stop it from getting past me. I would kick the ball at an angle so I would have to run to save it. If the ball got past me it would count as a goal for the imaginary team I was playing against.
My siblings and I would play a game around the trampoline where one of us would jump on the trampoline, and the other 4 tried to peg them with the various balls we had. If you peg them, you take their place in the middle. We'd also play a game on the swing set with a huge red rubber ball, probably 2-3 feet in diameter. One of us would swing, and the other would try to bowl the rubber ball at the swinger, and you'd try to kick it over the house. Or if you were feeling cheeky, kick it back at the bowler. I'm amazed we never got more hurt then a few scrapes and bruises
My sisters and I used to play "Mole". Our basement was usually cluttered with lots of things for storage. It was basically hide and seek in the dark. Everyone would hide and The Mole had use their senses other than sight to go find them in pitch blackness.
Mucko... My friends brother would tie our shoe laces to each other or ourselves, and would chase us around with a hopitty-horse. Basically a huge ball with a horse head on it that weighed like 10 pounds. And he would Chuck it so hard that when it hit you it would stop and you would go flying. And if you were tied to someone who got hot you were equally screwed...The odd thing about the game is that it was happening if you wanted to play or not...
Me and my friends would play a type of tag dodgeball soccer combo on a hill that we would play for hours. Basically someone was "it", and they'd have to try and kick a soccer ball at us up a hill, so it would roll down. If you got hit you became "it" and were the kicker, fun times.
Top gun: our driveway was steep, descending towards the house. We'd tie a hook behind our bikes, one end of a rope in the open garage. One of us would go down the driveway as fast as possible and the other two would pull the rope at the right moment to stop him.
I think we stopped when we pulled too early and my brother flew to the back of the garage just when our dad opened the door. Fun times
We also played village when our cousins came over for the summer . We each built a house in the forest and we all had a character: obviously the sheriff and the bad guy, the barman ... We printed Monopoly bills for money (we had an old French edition, so the lowest bill was 1000, up to 50,000 francs, which was even cooler).
mdas30 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catch the bullet. Paintball edition
You won if you didn’t cry
My siblings and I played Don't Break The Vase... which was basically just monkey in the middle with a kickball that had a huge gash down the side. We also played broom ball on roller skates. Those were the days.
“Concert” one by one me and friends would get up in front of each other and pick a song to actually sing to. We would dance and dress up and make it like a real concert.
My go to Artists, were Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff and stuff like that. Haha
We held something in our hands to act like a microphone.
My brothers and I would make plasticine people, put them into our Tonka trucks and roll them down the stairs. We'd then do autopsies on them and see what happened. We graduated to putting toothpicks inside their little bodies and then after the crash, we'd cut them up and look for broken toothpick bones.
My friends and I invented our own rendition of the hunger games. Essentially we would just dump a pile of play swords, nerf guns, backpacks, etc., in the middle of my lawn and then spread out. We would count down and then rush the middle and try to grab as much shit as we could, and then disperse all over the neighborhood. If you got shot with a gun or hit with a sword or hit with a blowdart, you're out. Last man standing wins. We would play for hours on end.
My neighbor and I would take mulch and twigs and build cities. Then fill up a watering can and drown the city and would try to see if it would stay up.
mhimy · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of us would claim the couch, length wise, and most certainly up against the backrest. The other’s goal was to weasel and squirm between the sibling and the backrest-and push them off the couch. Pretty sweet game.
skt113 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor doctor( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Not sure if it's unique but its fun. You know exploring the patient's bod and getting punishment for it in school.
In elementary school we played "boys against girls" where basically boys and girls were shoving each other in a corner of our school playground and against the fence and you basically just had to knock people down to escape.
My cousin and I played a made up game called "sisters of the valley" when we were 4 and 7. We played homeless sisters working for food and building shelter, using play food to "eat" and using random blankets and pillows we'd find around the house (which annoyed the hell out of my parents). I eventually got bored of the game after a couple years or so and got my cousin to forget about it. She's 18 now and I'm 21 and we still joke about the stunts we pulled back in the day.
We played shotgun. It's like to rock paper scissors but it had reload, armor, and shoot.
The first round you always had to reload. After that, you can either use armor, or shoot. You can also reload as much as you want so you can accumulate ammo and won't have to reload again after shoot and your opponent uses armor.
Also we used to play hide and seek and when we couldn’t find me dad he would scream “I’m in the dishwasher” for example and we would always fall for it. My favorite was “I’m in the silverware droor” memories
My brothers and I would throw sleeping bags on top of ourselves, stand up, then continue to throw ourselves into each other until the last person was standing. Those were the good old days.
The floor is lava. Don't think anyone has come up with this but me and my brothers used to play avoiding touching the floor in the living room by any means necessary
I present to you, Pickle ball. It's a game my brother and I made up as kids. The name is sadly unrelated. The game is played as follows. It's a 1v1 game played on grass. 1 player is goalie, the other is the attacker. The goalie is played in a hockey net, and uses a broken hockey stick(one without a blade). And the attacker uses a mini stick ( small two foot stick made of plastic, used for playing hockey in hotel hallways mostly). The game starts at 5, in order for the attacker to score, they must shoot the ball (tennis or orange ball hockey ball) and have it bounce once before going in the net. If this is done successfully then the score would increase by one. If the goaltender makes a save using only the stick, the score decreases by one. If neither of these things happen then the score remains the same. If the attacker reaches 10 they win, if the score reaches 0, the goalie wins. (Sorry for formatting)!
We played a game called Matrix Ball. Sort of a cross between dodgeball and tag. One person had a ball and had to chase the others down and hit them with it.
No points, but the more dramatic or clumsy your dodging move was, the more respect or laughs you got.
Was great fun, but from the outside probably looked like a bunch of dumb kids throwing a ball at each other.
I forget what its called bunch of neighborhood kids would play a game where one person was it and he would put his flip flops on top of a piece of metal/tin can and other players would throw their flip flops at it(one per person) at a certain distance. You can retrieve your flip flops and run back at the starting /safe zone and do it again, but if the person it tags you while his flip flop is still placed on top of the can you were it. If you threw your flip flops and knock off the flip flops without hitting the can you become it.
Missing parts dodgeball- you get hit on a limb and you cant use that part of your body anymore. Get in the heart your done for. We would have a safety spot where you could grow limbs back.
My grandparents live on ~15 acres of woods. In the late spring, massive ferns sprout from EVERYWHERE and basically cover the ground (ranging from maybe 1 ft to 4 ft tall). My cousin and I would craft “fern whackers” out of limbs with a surprising amount of engineering. Had to be the right combination of brute force and whip to cut through several at a time. We spent hours trouncing around the property waging war on ferns. The big suckers were Generals and typically got uprooted (instead of whacked) and stripped of all leaves as a special “torture.” Grandma hated the way the ferns looked so she tolerated our violent games. Plus it got us out of the house.
We lived on 3 1/2 acres in northern Michigan woods that backed up to another 12 acres of woods. Someone had built a tp in the back woods. We would hunt for dogman and trail him back to the tp. Lots of fun.
The 1-2-5 Game (or 1 To 5 Game). Basically we would start by spreading out and then one by one we try to eliminate each other by aiming to step on a foot of another player in 5 counts/steps (1 count = 1 step). It's especially fun when one of us had new shoes and everyone else is just dying to step on them and that person has to defend himself like his life depended on it lol
My friends and I used to play your usual bed wrestling, but whenever someone fell off of the bed, they had to run outside of the house, down the street, and touch a certain tree before the other person got to them or the tree. If they didn’t succeed, the winner would get to keep a shared copy of Black Ops 2 until the other person won. Needless to say, I only have about 10 hours of BO2 on my Xbox account. My friend most likely has over 200.
My brother and I would say the next driver we passed or next person on TV would be our girlfriend/boyfriend/love-partner/life-partner. We always said it the exact same way, including pronouncing the slashes. Eventually it got abbreviated to GFBFLPLP. Now we are well into our 30's and still might assign each other a GFBFLPLP.
when my littler sister and I were 7 or 8 right when Pokemon came out, we would throw rocks at each others feet and tell our favorite Pokemon to attack each other.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Always used to pretend with my sister that we were the Super Mario Bros until she got bored of that one day.
She askse what I want to play and she says no as soon as a I start saying 'Super'. Instead I pretend what I meant to say was 'Soup'
The game which I invented on the spot involved us pretending to be packets of soup in our back garden (which represented a supermarket) and having to avoid being taken of the shelf by customers. I was tomato, she was minestrone.
It was only played once but I've never forgotten it
"Cannonball" We'd throw dodgeballs at eachother in an attempt to, "injure or kill," the other player. Any limb that got hit was blown off by the cannon ball and couldn't be used until the next game. If you got hit in the chest, stomach, or head you were dead and lost.
My best friend and I would look up spells online that would turn us into mermaids. There was one where we had to put our hands in some water and chant an incantation. I remember the next several mornings we’d run up to each other at school and talk about how we were transforming. “I woke up today and my legs were together! My tail is forming!”
We’d also abstain from drinking from the water fountains just in case water could touch us and turn us into mermaids like that show H2O, lol.
My mom used to also take us to all the beaches (live in CA) so we could try to find mermaids.
Barbie interrogation. Tie a Barbie to a chair and torture her to make her tell us how about how she’s alive like in Toy Story. When she didn’t, she went to my younger sister to be chewed on. Lost nearly all my barbies that way
When I was around 12, my folks bought me an ATV (I lived in a very rural area, next to a wooded area where I'd ride).
I had a friend in 5th and 6th grade who would come over and ride with me. We would pretend a stack of cut wood was our base, and "upgrade" my 4 wheeler with things like smoke, missiles, lasers, etc. Then ride fast through the woods "shooting" and dodging the bad guys.
For this game you had to use a very special ball that was originally a dog toy. It was a yellow ball about 2.5 inches in diameter with 2 or 3 different sized spikes equally spread out around the ball. There where short little 1/4 inch spikes that covered the surface pretty densely, then some 1/2 inch spikes that where spread out over the ball as well as the 1 inch spikes on the top, bottom, and 4 around the center of the ball. These 1 inch spikes made the ball very unpredictable when hit by players.
The field was anywhere we could rig a "net" or board between the teams. This was usually made of dog/baby gates and a chair or whatever else we could find.
We usually played 2 on 2. My bother and I, our neighbor whose house we played this crazy game in, and our really good friend from down the street.
Out of bounds was predetermined and was pretty much anywhere the ball could land where it would be out of reach by any one the players and this was agreed upon by all sides before the start of the game.
You can hit the ball with any part of your body, hand, foot, head, anything, but you had to stay on your knees. This is why it is called Squirm Ball, you were constantly squirming to try and hit or spike the ball.
You can only hit the ball once in a row and each side only gets 3 hits to get the ball over the boarder/net. If the ball hits the ground on your side the other team gets a point and we played until 21. The boarder was in bounds as well as furniture in the play zone. The floor is always out.
This game would get beyond crazy and some of the plays we made were just amazing. The ball being such a weird shape and being so unpredictable made it so much fun and new each time we played. Plus we were in smallish spaces like a 10' by 20' living room with a sectional couch, piano, and fire place that we would setup in the center of which made the play field very irregular shaped. This is part of what made it so fun. The ball would be bouncing on the piano or couch and everyone would be tense while we waiting for it fall not knowing where it would go because of the weird shape.
There is still a running dispute about who won a certain championship game to this day between us. Such good memories.
It's a bit hard to describe but I would tap my toes or fingers (left right whatever) in a recursive mirroring pattern that "zooms out" to larger levels.
So it starts with R L L R (this is the archetype)
Then it mirrors to L R R L
to continue with the shape it goes L R R L again, and back to R L L R again. Now these 4 sets of 4 can be an archetype too.
So the next larger one starts with left, going
LRRL
RLLR
RLLR
LRRL
and repeats with the pattern, so again
LRRL
RLLR
RLLR
LRRL
and finishes with
RLLR
LRRL
LRRL
RLLR
Which again, ends a 4 set and can become its own level.
No idea how many levels I made it without messing up, probably only 4.. 5 max.
It was called "3000". Someone with a dodgeball would face a group of people and punt the ball in the air yelling a number. Whoever caught it would get the number. Whoever got to 3,000 won. Simple but room for fun and laughs.
The Squish Game - The oldest sibling would lay on their belly on a bed or sofa as if they were planking, and the next oldest would do the same right on top of the older sibling. More kids were added until we fell off of the bed where we repeated the process for like 5 minutes until one of us got accidentally hurt. Idk who came up with this game or why we agreed to even play.
The Shower Game - One of us would usually be showering and the other would come in and ask the other if they wanted to play the Shower Game. Regardless of whether they agreed or not a few of us would barge into the bathroom and start dumping buckets of freezing cold water over the curtain and onto the victim, turning off the lights, or tossing empty shampoo bottles into the shower.
The Big Fat Liar Game - Inspired by that one scene from Big Fat Liar with the kid jumping onto that poor clown from a staircase a few of us would start climbing the stairs from the other side of the fence with high risk of falling off. Once we reached the top the first person would have no choice but to wait up there for the other kids to descend as climbing over the fence seemed too dangerous to us
I used to imagine that I was an inventor and try and make stuff with the old electronics, film canisters and random odds and ends in my night stand. My most disappointed "invention" was taking all the various magnetic things I had apart to make a "super" magnet that I then put in a film canister and put a long string on in hope of dredging the bottom of the 12 foot for change. I thought I would be rolling in money for snack bar snacks, but instead only got hair clips...my genius brain forgot coins aren't magnetic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom and I play this game called “Are you a German?” Basically, you hand each other a random object and ask, “Are you a German?” The recipient has to come up with a way they would kill (or incapacitate) their opponent with said object. The game goes back and forth until someone can’t think of a good way to do do the job, and the person who gave the object wins.
Coinsey. One person puts their knuckles on a table, the other uses one hand (and only one hand) to flick a coin at the first's knuckles. You then switch. First to give up loses. There was a lot of bloody knuckles.
My friends and I used to make paper airplanes and throw them at the ceiling fan in my family's 3-season porch.
Sometimes they would fly through unscathed, but more often than not they would get hit and fly off in another direction and we would race to catch them.
Aging myself..My friend and I used to play a mix of Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie. We would string lunes of thread up to random objects in her room and hide the threads. When her little sister came in she thought we were moving everything with our powers. Great fun
My older sister (elementary aged at the time) found a way to get my younger sister and I to bring her snacks while she watched TV. She would pretend to be a senile old woman named “Brocconice” who talked in a crazy voice and would demand certain foods or she would bite your fingers off. Cute, I know. We found it hysterical and would spend the better part of an hour bringing her snacks as she cackled, pretended she was going to bite our fingers off, and hurled fruit snacks across the room if they were the wrong kind. Kids are weird.
We called it peggydo it was pretty much football (soccer) except if the ball gos though your legs, everyone gets to beat you up until you touch the goalpost. We weren’t the brightest kids
I was the child of a single mom and would spend a good deal of time at home alone in my middle and high school years while she worked her second and sometimes third jobs. This was in the late 80s/early 90s. I loved baseball and collecting cards. I also loved the game Baseball Stars on the NES. However Baseball Stars was not robust enough to satisfy my appetite for baseball statistics, and I actually (sadly) did not own it. I always played it when visiting friends who DID own it. We just could not afford it.
In particular I ended up with a complete set of 1988 Topps baseball cards. I was obsessed with stats and read all the backs of the cards, memorizing facts and stats with my ample alone time. Eventually that was not enough, so I took some duplicate cards and started designing my own cards with fictitious players, and I would make teams and lineups. Then, I would get a pencil, typically a Dixon Ticonderoga #2, and either marbles or the little blue connector pieces from Construx sets and I would "play baseball" in the living room. Left hand pitcher, right hand batter. I'd sit in one corner and things like the bar dividing the kitchen from the living room would be the left field fence, couch the right field fence, and so on. I tallied stats on legal pads. VERY realistic.
So please don't go thinking I was really keeping detailed stats. Sure I did that part some, but many times this baseball simulation I had going on mostly devolved into home run derby. WHICH WAS AWESOME. Especially when you broke a "bat". I really wish I still had the cards I made because I drew the players and modeled the backs after real cards and in retrospect it at least would have been cute to see now if not artful. Sure passed a lot of time.
PS -- Anyone else play pencil break in elementary school? A whoooole other game.
We used to play a game when I was a kid, can't remember what we called it but it had a name. The game was similar to hide and seek in ways but with teams.
Basically there are 2 teams with even amounts of people, and they both go off in different directions of a park, large house etc. And hide from the other team, generally trying to plan out their hiding places and strategy.
Them both teams try to hunt sown the other team while remaining hidden themselves. When someone from the other team is spotted, you immediately point your finger at them (or a toy gun if available) and yell BANG! Thus "killing" them or eliminating them from the game, while also (somewhat) revealing your location to the other team due to the loud noise. This can lead to chain reacrions of people popping out of hiding places and eliminating the person whi just yelled bang. When everyone on one team is eliminated the other team wins. Quite fun.
Some problems occur when people spot eachother at the same time and such, but usually someone said bang first.
Please let me know if anyone knows the name of this game, used to love it
You take all the pillows, blankets, couch cushions, and anything else and stack them at the top of the stairs. There are 2 people up top and 2 people below. You have to try and get to the top of the stairs while they jump onto the stuff knocking it down the stairs. Many times that game went bad, believe it or not.
My sisters and I would play "Airplane" We would get chairs and line them up like an airplane, get sheets and use brooms and the like to cover the seats like a roof. We would pack suitcases to take as our carry on's and our older sister would make snacks and walk down the aisle as a flight attendant to give us snacks. We would always pretend that we were going to a hot country. Then once we got there, we would put everything away, grab towels, change into swimsuits and play a tropical ocean CD our mom had and pretend we were at the beach.
When you live where its winter for 8 months of the year, you try to make summer last a little longer!
We made up (probably not, but we thought we did), a game called "alligator". there was a short three laned slide with a bar across the top, one student was the alligator and three others had to sit in each of the slides holding the bar. The alligators goal was to get a spot on the slide so they had to climb up the slide and grab a foot or leg of someone sitting, then they would have to yank them down or try and slam their legs on the sides of the slide. If a student lost their grip then the alligator got to climb up and take their place. We started this one after our football game called 'jackpot' got banned. Alligator faced the same inevitable fate and was banned. This was north western Canada around 2004-2008.
6K6L · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game on our trampoline that we called Bluetag. Our trampoline had a blue covering for the springs, and if you've ever played sharks and minnows, you have a good idea of how the game worked. Get to one blue part to another without the "it" person touching you. If he did, you became it and had to switch places. Fun game for kids!
Geometric Golfer on a Macintosh back during 3rd or 4th grade in the mid 90s. Loved the Einstein character you could play with. Still got the music stuck in my head.
I grew up on a farm with 2 brothers and a sister. We had access to a scary amount of power tools, welders, and just about everything else we needed to cause mayhem.
We used to choose sides and fortify the barn and hog shed and have make shift wars. Best time was when my dad was given a set of golf clubs and we cut the tops off them just and then used the acetylene torch to heat them up and hammer them down into swords.
Me and a friend came up with a game we named 'Backyard Wars'. We would toss a bunch of random throwable objects around his fenced in backyard, start on opposite ends, and when we were ready, would run around grabbing the objects to throw at eachother. The objects included obvious things like tennis balls, basketballs, dog toys, etc... Bonus points for improvising with random things from the natural environment like sticks, walnuts, or anything else you could find.
Turned into a pretty dangerous game, and eventually we got in trouble when we tried to initiate another friend to our ways. We explained everything up front except the part where you could use literally anything you could find. Once the more dangerous things started flying around, he hopped the fence and ran home.
Nasxer · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played a game called Spoons. One at a time you'd go down to the basement and hide a colorful spoon. Once they were all hidden, everyone goes down and it's a mad dash to find someone else's spoon. The last person to find a spoon would be eliminated. Then repeat till you're down to one winner.
While driving in the car I would pick a dot or smudge on the window and have it jump over things that were in view outside of the car; power lines, houses, trees.
I made the dot jump over stuff by moving my head up and down.
Cdronk · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some kids play cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians. We played holocaust, taking turns at being Jews or Nazi’s. We were like 8 or 9.
My friends and I invented a game called Trash Bottle in high school. Our skatepark had trash cans a lot like these, with a small hole at the top and a lid that kind of sloped down towards it, but no lip around the edge to stop things from sliding off. Two of these trash cans were about 15 feet apart from each other under the shelter. So we'd take a water bottle or Gatorade bottle out of the trash, fill it halfway with water, screw the cap on, and each stand behind one of the trash cans trying to throw it in the other's trash can. It was surprisingly hard, but some of the kids got weirdly good at it.
We used to live in an apartment complex with neighborhood kids all out all day, so we got together and made up “Halloween”, where someone was Michael Myers (with a broom stick instead of large kitchen knife) and whoever was Michael Myers has to chase and kill us
My two older brothers used to tie my hands and legs behind my back and leave me in the attic. They told me it was to make me a better escape artist,but the older I get I’m beginning to realize they probably just wanted me out of the way. I always found a way out though so I suppose it worked.
2 teams, one team was the IRA who had to chase kids from the other team and literally beat a letter out of them, once all letters are retrieved you had to guess the secret word to win the game.
I can't imagine kids getting away with that anymore!
My friend and I would simply try to scare the shit out of each other. One of us would go into the basement with all the lights off and hide while the other person counted out loud to 60. Then you would just simply go into the basement with the light still off and walk around until the other person jumped out and screamed. Did it for hours haha.
My friend and I would go to a grass field with a tennis ball and rackets, and play a game called 2 bounce. Basically, we stood about 40 yards apart, hit the ball as high as we could, then let it bounce twice and hit it back up to the other person. The only rule was that it had to bounce twice. A lot more fun than you’d think. We’d play for hours just trying to beat our high score haha
"Zombie Tag"
Gather a group onto the trampoline. The zombie is it and must close their eyes and tag a human by tracking their bounce. The humans cannot leave the trampoline and whoever gets tagged swaps for the zombie. Shenanigans and good times follow.
We had a very stupid, and 'dangerous' game in our music band.
We would spin a large coin on a table, take turns flicking it with our finger so it would keep spinning, and the one who made the coin fall flat would lose.
If you lost, you had to position your knuckles flat on the table, and the guy who initially spun the coin, would flick-launch the coin into your knuckles.
Alot of techniques were developed to make this as painful as possible, and it ended up with blood on many tables, and several kids running around with severely bruised knuckles.
For some reason, the adults never caught on to it..
zuko94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played ninja. It was like hide an seek, but only one person would hide and the others would seek. The one hiding got a few nerf darts and could use them like throwing knives or use their hand to chop and “kill” the seekers. The seekers each had a nerf pistol to shoot the ninja with. It was a blast
Our yard wasn't set up very well for regular croquet (my mom has a lot of gardens, etc.), and frankly, regular croquet is extremely boring.
So we'd set up the course to basically be as difficult as possible. Our mom did stop us when we put one of the wickets on the roof of the garage though...
But we regularly put the wickets so that you had to absolutely blast the ball through in order to get it through, some wickets would be in the front yard (only accessible by a slightly down sloping paved driveway), some elevated, etc.
Me and my twin played a game called "wash wash" (idk why the hell we called it that) when we were like 5, it was basically throwing a plastic bag in the air and not making it fall down. It was really fun for our simple brains back then
A couple of friends and myself would often pretend to be different Pokemon. We would have battles, using the environment as our battle field and sometimes taking twigs and small pebbles and using them as different "moves". Often my sisters would try to join and we would do doubles. I remember one time we decided that the older kids, (myself and a friend) would be trainers and have my younger sisters as the "Pokemon". Not really unique but it was fun.
We had this old trampoline from when I was younger that had dry rotted and was of no use but we had all these metal tube pieces laying around from taking it apart.
So my friend and I decided we were going to go drilling for oil and strike that sweet black gold.
Every day for like a week we would go outside and hammer this tube into the ground. But the thing is, we lived in Arizona where the ground may as well be concrete with how dry and hard it is. We got the tube maybe 3 inches deep before my mom found out and yelled at us and made us take it out. But then came the other problem. It was stuck. We tried soaking the ground around it for days to loosen it up, we tried tying ropes to it to remove it. Nothing made that tube budge. We tried for about a month (admittedly most of the trying was actually us playing in the mud).
That was when we were like 9. I'm 22 now and the tube is still stuck in the ground in my parents backyard.
Blind nanny. We would choose a huge room and shut off all the lights. The blind nanny was blindfolded and needed to navigate the room and try to find/feel the hiders. The hiders usually ended up hitting the blind nanny with various objects until they finally caught them.
Xylerz · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The ditches on the walk home from the bus stop where very deep and very wide, and would usually freeze over in the winter. The game was pretty much have 2 to 3 kids walk out into the ditch until one or all of us ended up walking home with wet pants.
I don’t know if this was really “unique” but when I was younger I used to play an army style game where I’d make up a whole story line and play through something “campaign” styled with missions.
I was a big fan of call of duty 4 at the time and played the campaign maybe 10 times over around the time I was 7/8 years old.
My brother would hog the Xbox 360 so I would play in the basement a game where I played through all these different missions where people died, and I legitimately remember crying one time because I was so sad that one of the my squad mates died. That’s where I ended off the campaign and that’s the last of what I remember.
Man I miss my imagination.
Altnob · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically made up an entire RPG on a trampoline and did lots of GETS KNOCKED REALLY FAR BACK moves onto piles of leaves. I don't think we ever beat the last boss.
Dad was Marine Force Recon. We would play “markers” where he’d have me stand a certain way and I got different points for marking different places on the body. Didn’t realize I was learning knife fighting techniques until I was much older....
Rock tag.
It was the dumbest game ever. The person who was “it” threw rocks at everyone until someone was hit, then that person was “it”. A group of us played in the street where someone’s dad had parked their brand new Cadillac Escalade.
That dad was not happy when he had to replace his windshield. We stopped playing that game.
At summer camp we played a game called scream and run. Everyone lined up or started on the same line at one end of a soccer field. One by one we ran a far as we could while screaming. You had to stop once you couldn't exhale anymore. The farthest person was claimed the victor.
My sister and I would play haunted house. One person had to leave the room while the other moved furniture, put blankets up, maybe hid, anything to make it ~spooky~. This was all pointless because the lights were then turned off, and the person waiting outside the haunted house came in. The point was to scare each other, but really we just ended up covered in bruises because we would walk into the furniture that had been moved 😂
No name for it (that I remember.) Basically there was this huge wall separating a lower half and upper half of a my school. We had a really and I mean really bouncy kick ball and me and I would end up kicking it across the wall to go to the upper half. After a while 5 or 10 kids joined in and we made it a game.
My dad used to play a game with us as kids, that he now plays with my younger nieces & nephews. The game is called “silent robots” and consists of very quietly pouring water over rocks. Typically this game is played when other adults are trying to get some sleep during our large family reunions.
Me and my friends used to play tag but the twist was that you couldn’t touch the ground so we had to climb around the big jungle gym that we had. We also created some “modes” where some of the rules were changed.
Pinecone baseball: much like baseball, but with a pinecone and a catch. The goal of the pitcher is to hit the guy holding the bat...the batter has to stand still and has only the bat to protect himself with. The third guy (there were three of us hellions) had to catch the pinecone after the batter hit it, or retrieve it before the pitcher did. If the batter hit the pinecone, he swapped with whoever was successful in getting the pinecone, otherwise he would swap with the outfield guy. The outfield guy became the new batter, or pitcher if he retrieved the pinecone first. The original pitcher was demoted to batter if the outfield caught the pinecone, or became the outfield guy if the batter hit the pinecone. You earned 2 points for hitting the batter, and one point for avoiding the pinecone if you're the batter.
Pinecone dodgeball. One of us climbed into the tree while the other two tried to hit the climber with pinecones. I dont really remember the objective of this game, other than to beat each other up with pinecones. Whenever the climber escaped to the ground, it would be a new person's turn to climb the tree
We used to play games based off horror movies. We would copy 13 Ghosts and we'd pick which ghost we'd want to be, we'd also play Saw and just tie each other up and see if we can escape in two minutes. We were weird kids
"I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me." - one of your friends, probably.
Yimter · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suicide! Anyone else play this? Where you throw a tennis ball at a wall (for me and my brothers/friends it was our garage door) and you have to run up and touch the wall before someone else picks up the ball and throws it at the wall. And if you bobble the ball, you have to run to the wall before someone throws the ball at it. If you fail to make it to the wall three times before the ball hits the wall, you have to stand up against the wall and someone gets to whip the ball at you as hard as they can.
Sled wars, we would line up our sleds in our backyard (it was sloped a tiny bit. Don’t recommend doing this on a big steep hill) and we would get a running start and then jump on the sled and try and wrestle each other off or “hijack” each others sleds by umping on the other persons. We were bundled up in lots of layers and the hill wasn’t too steep so we were safe. Fun game and we played for hours almost everyday.
Death Sled. One big touring style snow machine, a 4 foot by 12 foot industrial sized sled, about 8 guys. All 8 start in the sled, the driver starts moving and then mayhem begins. Driver will keep doing loops while the combatants try and throw each other off the moving sled. If you get thrown off, you try and jump back on the moving sled on the next pass. Brownie points if you could clear the entire sled like the Samoans did. Helmets were banned by year 2. At the peak, we had close to 20 guys playing. Once a year while on a huge snow machine trip up in Alaska growing up.
We played a game in the pool called PTDK aka "Push the Drowning Kid".
It was basically hot potato but underwater. We had a pool at a friend's house that had a volleyball net. One person would be "the kid". The rest of us were on teams on each side of the net. The kid went into form of cannonball and held their breath as long as they could as the rest of us would push and kick the kid moving him onto the other side. Whichever side the kid came up on was the loosing team, and the other team got a point.
It was probably pretty common since I think it was on Zoom or something, but I made a game out of a pizza box with toliet paper tubes cut in half to make tunnels. I would have a main marble which would try to get through each tube by tilting the box and every "level" I would add another marble and if those enemy marbles touched my marble i would lose. Kind of like a Pac-Man game.
During middle school years, my parents were always cool with my friends hanging out and spending the night at our apartment.
So we developed this game during the late nights of sleepover where we would:
- Clear our the furniture in my room to the side
- Strategically lay pillows on the ground
- Wrap ourselves in a heavy blanket each
- Turn the lights off
- And just wail on each other, whoever we could find we would beat. It was in the dark so it was impartial. Or at least that’s what we told ourselves.
Yes we were all boys.
m0lson · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wood Chips"
Location: Playground
One person is “it” and stands in the middle of the wood chips (sand or other playground "ground material") blind folded. Everyone else is on the playground equipment to start. The people that not "IT" can then go on the wood chips but if the person that’s “it” calls “Wood Chips!” while they are on the wood chips, they are then “it”.
This is the cool part. If more than one person is on the wood chips when they call “Wood Chips!”, it is settled by Rock Paper Scissors.
Me and a buddy or two on a trampoline would tackle the shit out of each other. One person was on their knees tackling and the other would run along the edge.
Another between my sisters and I would "booty bump."
You could only use your ass or hips to knock each other off the trampoline. Idk how we didn't break a hip or leg from flying off.
The same trampoline, after many years, turned into a "potato chip" and one person would stand on the lower end while another jumped off the roof of our garage and launch the other in the air.
Essentially tag, but instead of tag, you had to try and smash the other peoples feet with a broom. There was bases that kept you safe for a small amount of time.
We weren't very creative, but definitely weird at naming things...
My grandpa and i used to play “Tarzan” out in the Weeping Willow. He would lift me up to “swing” on the vines and push me on the “twisty swing” which was a toilet lid attached to a rope hanging from the tree. When we got tired, we would enjoy a snack of Tiger Paws (barbecue potato chips). He was the best. Miss you grandpa.
Kick the can. Basically hide and seek, but it must be played at night and instead of tagging a person when you found them, you called them out of their hiding space then the two of you must race to a paint can, and if the person who was it kicked it over you were out, but if the hider jumped over it you were safe.
I had 3 elementary school friends and at point we declared different parts of the shrubbery and outdoor furniture like statues and benches a kingdom.
Each of us had one object in the corner of the playground that was our kingdom. I had the cloud kingdom which was designated by the taller shrubs next to one of those water statues
Then we would debate on diplomacy war and laws. We had to declare our populations, our land size and other information. If we wanted more population you had to get more we had to wage war to get more land so we could expand.
We used to play this extremely dangerous game called the “tire game”. It involves, as you may have guessed, a tire that would be rolled down the hill, a chalk pit type thing (quite steep), by the roller.
There was a tree just to the right of the main pathway that had a rope swing attached to just above the pathway. The goal was for the swinger to swing down in the direction the tire was going at the perfect time so they wouldn’t get hit by the tire, what made it dangerous was at the top of the arc it was about 3 metres above the ground. Which meant that if you were hit by the tire as it was bouncing and lost your grip you would fall off at a decent height.
At the end of the slope was a jumper and two stoppers, the jumper was supposed to jump over the fast rolling tire, and the stoppers tried to hit the tire with sticks to make it stop.
The only known injuries were me who was hit and flipped over by the rolling tire as I was the jumper. And my friend’s brother who was thrown off the swing as he was hit by the tire as it hit a root. Not serious injuries but both of us were winded and they damaged our pride.
Family of 6 kids, in the 80's.
We'd pick someone to wear my mum's old, tattered fur coat, and that kid would walk around the house like a hairy zombie, chanting "hum sum a rum" in slow motion.
Once you are found by the hairy zombie person you were out of the game.
I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the chant and costume was inspired by the evil characters in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
My brothers and sisters and I played a game where we charged at each other and jumped up and rammed each other with our shoulders as hard as we could. Somehow it was amazingly fun.
In my elementary school they was a game called ‘kiss chase’ and yes it is as bad as it sounds. Basically boys would go against girls and girls would go against boys and one gender would be ‘it’. I didn’t participate myself but I heard the game got banned for safety regulations since they tried to kiss the lips. Some parents got super mad as well since a kid kind of got assaulted while not playing the game. It was just an excuse to kiss their crushes lmao.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My imagination was incredible I would build worlds around myself depending on if i could go outside and play or if it was rainy. If i was over a friends house then we would play the ditch game. Where we would run up and down the ditch and try jumping over it doing "cool tricks".
KF5NXN · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to (and I guess still do) play a game where we would give each other “points” to do random or funny things in public. The points system was kind of like “Whose Line is it Anyway?” in the sense that it was all made up and the points don’t matter. It was always for ridiculous stuff that we’d never do, and was I guess our own ridiculous way of saying “wouldn’t it be funny if...”
My sisters and I played a game we called “Spinners” where you essentially make a T pose and just spin around hitting each other. There wasn’t really any goal other than trying to wack anybody that got close.
Me and my brother were alone in a hotel room for some wedding when we were probably 7 and 11 years old or so. Somehow we created this game called El Kabobs (some weird mishearing of “el kabong” from quick draw McGraw which was on tv lol) in which we would put our forehead on the carpet and slide across the floor on all fours and race around.
I already posted one thing but there was another one... My brother and our friends use to play a game called "car crash". We would gather up all of our hot-wheels, stand on opposite ends of the pool table, then we would roll our hot-wheels across the pool table and crash them together. If your car flipped over and the other was still standing you lose. We would have 10 cars on each team and the first one to flip all of their cars over is the loser.
We slowly discovered which cars were the hardest to flip and our teams got crazy good.
My brothers and I don't have a name for it. But if I had to name it now, 'Demon Pool Children' would be very apt.
Super simple premise. We used to live in a condo with an Olympic worthy pool. One person (the Victim) basically clings on to the side of the pool and tries to hang on. The other two would grab hold of the Victim's ankles and pull him/her along the length of the pool.
All this while the three of us would be screaming and laughing at the top of our lungs.
I used to play a plastic surgery game with my brother. Basically I would lay down face up on the couch and my brother would do surgery on my face. Like cut, stitch, etc but only using his hands. Basically I was just getting a face massage lol
Me and my brother didn't know the rules of poker, so when we were 15 and 14 we made up some game called 'Bank' where we each put down some cards and the highest combined value of those cards wins, and whoever wins a round gets to choose the number of cards played next round. Also, if you get a joker card you instantly win that round. The reveals were always so intense, because we would always try and bait each other into thinking we had better cards than the other. I'm sure a similar game exists somewhere, but we thought we were geniuses playing that.
"On the run", it was basically tag but over a couple blocks so we'd just run through anyone's gardens meaning you had to avoid getting caught by the homeowners and the kids who were "it" at the same time! Double adrenaline kick!
put apples in shoes and leave them in the middle of the road to get hit by cars
Another good game for kids on the road is the 'rope game', you and someone else wait for a car to come, then run into the middle of the road, mime like you're picking up a rope, and then mime like you're each holding it tight on either side of the road. When the car slows down, you both win.
Whenever I slept over at my friends house, her dad would play this game called fried eyeballs and he would chase us for an hour around their house screaming he’s going to get our eyeballs
When I was in second grade, I invented a game I liked to call "Butterflies and Caterpillars". I have no clue what the rules were (if there were any to begin with) but half the kids would act like caterpillars and another half would act like butterflies. Whatever that meant.
It really caught on for a solid 2 days and nobody even knew how to play it
behxx · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would play “hand ball”. Basically we would sit on the ground on opposites side of the room and we’d hit this tennis ball sized squishy ball with the palm of our hand back and forth. The objective was to get a goal on the other opponents side.
We loved dungeon keeper as a kid, so we would carve out dungeons in the dirt and our minions would be various hot wheels. Then we'd have invading hot wheels try to fight their way to the dungeon heart. In winter we didn't use hot wheels but making dungeons was a lot more fun in the snow than the dirt. We'd also use Knex and Legos to make dungeons indoors. To clarify they were 2d dungeons, viewed from above, so a wall would just be represented by a long grey piece.
Me and my brother use to play the very first Sims a lot when we were younger. Our Uncle gave us a bin of over 5,000 pieces of Legos so we would create a capitalist game of Sims with Legos where we used monopoly money to purchase bricks, land, and vehicles. We would make money buy working jobs or owning businesses.
We started by building the city and then allowing each other to dig through the bin and keep whatever we find in the first 2 minutes. I remember I use to have a lot of Harry Potter sets which came with gems and whoever found the gems could sell them for a good amount of money.
My dad had polio as a kid so his legs didn't work, but he had a super strong upper body as a result of walking on crutches all day.
So we (my brother and I) would play the "Arm Game" where my dad lay down on the floor and we sat on his arms, and he'd try to lift us up. When we were little it was easy, but even when we were teenagers he could lift us up (I'd guess we stopped playing it as pre teens, but sometimes for nostalgia as teenagers we'd test it out).
I imagine he would have had a killer bench press :)
“The Light Game” my dad and I would stand on opposite sides of the garage doors. We would take turns taking a step towards the center where the motion sensor outdoor light was mounted. Whoever made the light turn on lost.
Growing up, my grandparents lived two hours away from us. We would travel to visit every other weekend. Being children, my sister and I got bored easily. We played this game we didn’t have a name for. You had to count the cows on our own sides of the car from the time we left our house until we made it to our grandparents. If I looked on my sister’s side and spotted a cemetery, then all her cows died and she would have to start over and vice versa. Whoever had the most cows at the end won. Pretty sure this was just something my dad made up.
Aslonz · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in middle school a friend and I came up with our own card game where we would draw characters on paper, come up with moves, and rules. It was pretty neat.
Edit: it was like poor people magic without mana or spells.
Murderball...I went to an all boys school. We had uniforms (black shoes, grey pants, blue blazer, white shirt and tie) that we had to wear at all times on campus unless we were in gym class or sports.
The side of one building had no windows, and the ground sloped upwards away from the foundation creating a quasi amphitheatre that was about 20 feet across and 30 feet deep.
We would take a tennis ball and throw it against the wall. If someone caught it before it bounced or you bounced the throw you had to run and touch the wall and the person who caught it could throw at you as hard as they wanted.
If someone intercepted your throw at the wall or the runner then you had to stand against the wall and that person got a free throw at your head.
Probably not that unique...but I just envision all the parents showing up to see us in our uniforms playing this game. The "future leaders" that we were being groomed to be were absolutely going wild trying to pick eachother off with a dirty tennis ball.
In girl guides my friends and I developed this game we liked to call Germs. We would stand in a line and hold hands. And one person would be the head germ. They would then get to lead the line of germs and whip to line around as we all screamed “Bacteria” At some point the lead germ would yell “switch” and another person would step up to become head germ. Another aspect of the game is that loose germs would be standing around and had to avoid the germ train. If the germ train hit that person trying to avoid them they would have to join the train.
It was fun and all but it got so violet that our guiding leaders had to ban the game.
My brother and I used to make up whole stories with our beanie babies, going on adventures, falling in love, getting into battles, etc. We had main characters we played with all the time (Sly, Stinky, Hissy, all of the cats) and side characters that we didn't like as much but would come in to shake things up sometimes.
You put a basketball in a big black trash bag and swing it around. The rest of the rules are like a mix between football and basketball. You sling toss the ball(in the bag) to a team mate and you can’t move while you have it. Other team can try to intercept, or recover fumbles. You have to get to one end of the field and catch the ball to score.
The 'sleeping bag game'. It was played in a small room, and the person who was 'it' had a sleeping bag on upside down so that they're completely blind and have to move slowly. They had to bounce around the room trying to tag the other people who would make noises and try to bait then evade them. It was basically a way to play Marco Polo with a tiny room and no blindfold.
We called it Roll-uh, roll-uh. You lay a big blanket on the floor, 2 people lay down on the edge across from each other and you rolled up quickly towards each other. Whoever could roll up the most blanket eventually pulling the other person out won. Sometimes matches would go on for a half hour.
Mid 80s at my primary school. The entire playground used to play a game called Steam. Boys and girls would separate into two groups, the girls would stand in front of a corner in the yard. The boys would shout STEAM!! and run into the girls, squashing about 30-40 of us into this corner with their bodies. The teachers banned it. It was basically boys rubbing their bodies against girls who were trapped against the wall. We fought back though, and I do remember enjoying playing it. It didn't end when it was banned, it kept on being played in smaller groups on the sly; that ended up being a bit scary because you didn't know it was coming until you got steamed.
It was called The Slide Game. Picture a playground with a slide similar to this. 5 or 6 of us would go to the top and attempt to go down the slide together all at once, fighting our way through, wrestling and trying to hold each other back or knock each other off over the side, with the goal of being the first one down to the bottom. There were different strategies like lining up in back and going over the top of the awning or using your leg for leverage to stop and block the slide and try to force people over the side. Even then we knew it was dumb but we had so much fun doing it. I'm in my 30's now and I still occasionally wish I could play it.
My brother and my cousins played a town game. Everyone had a job and we had money witch was some poker chips. We had a person that owned a food shop, a police officer, and a banker and some other jobs and it was a lot of fun.
As a kid I used to play a game called “gato meow” which translates to “cat meow” (I don’t know why it’s called this). The game is essentially Marco Polo but is in a small room with all the lights turned off. With the lights off the seeker had no way of cheating if the tried to peak but also the hiders had no way of seeing where all the furniture in the room was or the other people. Which made the game 10x more fun than normal Marco Polo
This is specific to Japan but their license plates are 4 digits, like 13-97.
Whenever we would drive around, wed look out for mirrors (80-08) and straights (77-77). There were also wildcards in the form of dots (..-.7) and youd call out the license plate first and hit the roof. If you did it first, everyone else either... removed a piece of clothing or youd hit them. It didnt have a name except the get naked license plate game.
Oh and I had an 80-08 license plate so everyone would call it out when they saw me
My dad's side of the family got together a lot. We were only a few hours drive apart but every labor day and fourth of July we would all go to my grandparents house and play and eat and live there for a 3 day weekend. We're talking 30 kids and 6 sets of adults. It was a blast.
They have a ton of land with a little of everything from a pine Forest and a playhouse to a long grass prairie and a mowed grassy space. So of course we played Nazis.
It was usually me and 3 cousins as the bad Germans vs like 15-20 good guys and they would hunt us down and capture us and tie us up in the play house where the too little ones would feed us mud pies to pretend to eat or puzzle weed spaghetti or grass tea. Was a ton of fun.
Looking back everyone except me and my sister are all blue eyed and blonde haired little Aryan Master race so that lends an extra funny cast :)
We also played a game over my grandpa's she'd called Annie Annie over where we split into 2 teams and stood on either side. One would get the ball and call "Annie Annie over!" And Chuck it right over the top. The other team had to catch it before it hit the ground. If they did we would switch sides. But no one would say if it was caught they would just appear around the she'd and whoever got hit by the ball thrown by the other team had to join that team. The winner was chosen by whoever had the most players at the end. If it did hit the ground they called out pig tailes and we'd know we were safe. I really like that game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had no mates to play with so I would throw a cricket ball on a wall less in width and then try to hit it with my bat. Although it sounds wierd this improved my bowling accuracy and my reaction time in batting.
This was unique game I played as a child.
Trip. The goal was to trip the other person. That was the whole game. We had boundaries you couldn't cross to make it harder to get away. My older brother loved this game. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I used to play dragon fights with my fingers . Middle finger finger as the head , thumb and pinky finger as wings , and rest two as legs. Lol it was fun.
My cousin and I used to play this thing called “The Game” which we shortened to “T.G.”
We had a bunch of beanie babies that we played with during our adventure as Trunks and Gohan. It didn’t follow the series what so ever. It was essentially us playing Dragonball Z mixed with Pokémon (the beanie babies). It was part adventure, part comedy, part drama as this insane life unfolded. We’d play different parts for each other, like the dad or whoever. It was a saga that lasted from the time we were 7 til we were 12.
I’ve never really told anybody about it until now.
My brother and I would play this game while waiting for the bus in the mornings. In Autumn while the leaves were falling off the trees we would take turns running around collecting as many falling leaves as we could before they reached the ground. Whoever had the most when the bus got to our house won.
A game my friends, brother and I would play when we got together, we called it "lock-out" 2 people locked out of the house, every door/window locked except for 1. The people had to find the 1 unlocked entry, which changed when the people inside got bored. Lots of fun times making it to the second floor.
u_4ik · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My and my brother use to take baths together when we were three years old. We had this game where we would use our big toe and second big toe to wedge each other’s penises in between our toes and yank it as if pulling a pigs tail. Not sure why we found it so funny
we would sit in chairs towards each other, and we had a broken off piece of nunchaku that we would throw from across the room and try to hit the other guy in the nards
My cousins and I would lay pillows on the floor and run on them while trying not to step on the ground and in the pool we’d play “ninja warrior” (based off the original Japanese version that would play on G4) and we put floats in the pool of different sorts of shapes and sizes and try to run across the pool on top of these floats. I’m not sure how nobody got hurt in that pool.
Me and my brother played something called ping the bed pong, basically it was like ping pong (table tennis) but the ball rolled on the bed and you could pick it up and smash it at the opponents. It seems stupid now but it was fun. We also had challenges and stuff like that
Hat head - someone had to put a bunch of felt hats over their head, down far enough to cover their eyes and feel around for the other people (my friend and sister) in a room with the lights off to tag them as the new hat head.
not quite a unique game, more of a past time, but when i was growing up in rural China (now residing in the UK), we used to make fishing rods out of thin tree branches, piece of string and a hook fashioned out of anything metallic, and then go worming before going fishing for anything & everything in the Yangtze River! :)
GRAPE WARS!
My brother and I would get some grapes and run around the house blasting each other with them. They didn’t hurt enough to be dangerous, but they hit just hard enough to be satisfying.
Torch tag was one of our favorites games, I grew up in the country and at night we would all hide around the fields and climb trees etc, the person who was it would have to shine a torch at you and then you were it, sounds lame but we had a blast, simpler times
I was a mixture of soccer and dodgeball I guess? All players would stand in a circle and without using hands (soccer rules), you had to pass the ball around. After the third consecutive pass, it became a free for all. Whoever grabbed the ball would throw it at another player, or if it hit the ground, the ball was dead. If it hit the other player, they would get a letter (AIDS) and if they caught it, they lost a letter or gave you one.
Me and some of my friends came up with a little game called “Jumpman”. It’s help tag, but instead of just tagging the person, you had to tackle them and basically beat them up. Nothing more than a little horseplay.
Crock pot Land. My older sister would send myself and the younger cousins on scavenger hunts for snacks and toys (mom definitely played along). We grew up on 11 acres and half was wooded. Everything seemed a lot bigger back then. If we got distracted or frustrated my sister would "punish" us by making us run in circles or be spun on the tree swing or have to catch a frog to get back in the game. These adventures would take all and at the end we would go inside and my mom would feed us with Mac and cheese or stew... anything out of a crock pot. Hence Crock pot land.
My cousins and I used to play a game called “Light on lights off”.
The premise was pretty simple, we would turn the lights off and beat the shit out of each other until someone went to turn the lights on. When the lights turned on, everyone froze. Laughter would always ensue because you would see someone getting strangled, or someone being held over one of the bigger kids heads about to be thrown on the sofa.
There were no winners, but the loser was the first one to cry.
"souls". My brother and I made this tracing card type game when we were kids. I don't remember many, or any, of the rules. Probably weren't many rules because we were kids.
Step dad would kick a ball onto the roof, the four of us sibling would run around the gardens with plastic chairs and had to stop and sit when he kicked it.
When the ball rolled off the roof and bounced, if it touched you at all then you were out
I’m sure most kids played some variation of this, but we would go into our basement, overturn furniture and other large items and place them about the room randomly. We would then split into two teams and divide all of the beanie babies we had between ourselves. After we did that the teams started on opposite ends of the room, someone turned the lights off so it was dark and we snuck around the obstacles trying to peg each other with the beanie babies. I still have my beanie babies somewhere in case the opportunity to break that game out shows itself.
We used to have this game called tripper we’d play at recess in elementary school where you’d pick one person to stand in the middle of these huge sandboxes we had at our elementary school and everyone else would line up at one side of the sand box. You’d then have everyone sprint from the one side of the sandbox to the other and the person in the middle would have to try and trip people. If you got tripped, you’d have to join the original tripper and stand in the middle and be an additional tripper for the rest of the game. So every round there would be more and more trippers and the winner would be the last person un-tripped. It was a very violent game that consisted of kicking the shit out of people trying to trip them. Eventually it got banned and we couldn’t play tripper and more so we started just calling it random names until they just almost banned recess completely.
When I was very little, ~4, after a bath I would hold my towel like it was wings and I would run around the house naked and screeching and insisting I was a battra-bat. There were two types of battra-bats, battra-bat B’s and battra-bat D’s. It was immensely entertaining to me and probably a pain in the ass for my parents.
As for my boyfriend, he and his friends would catch wasps in those little pokéballs that had a spring hinge and throw them at each other so wasps would pop out.
My brothers use to play this game where they would hold me hostage with their air soft guns and if I tried to leave or do anything they would shoot me. Wasn’t really a game for me but pretty sure they had a good time.
With a friend we used to play with a tennis ball and a wood stick, we had to put goals to win.
There was some basic rules inspired from soccer like corners or throw-in.
We played this game called parasite. It was essentially hide and seek, plus tag, plus it was in the dark. Also if you got tagged you became it as well so you kept playing until there was only one person left.
When I was a young child, whenever we were walking in a large parking lot like Walmart, my mother would hold my hand and then start yanking me around everywhere like she was constantly changing her mind on which direction she wanted to walk in. That way she kept me both entertained and safe at the same time
She never yanked me towards anyone driving, but I've definitely hit a few parked cars
My cousin and I would each pick some of the Xmen trading cards from back in the day and fight bad guys using the powers from the cards we chose. Sort of Yu-gi-oh style, but we summoned them into ourselves.
My brother and I used to play the "blind game." We would blindfold each other so that there was no light entering our eyes at all, then spin each other around and pick each other up and take them somewhere in the house. Now that you are disoriented and have no idea where you are, you are given a task like "put a glass of milk in the microwave" or something to that effect. Your job was to feel around with your hands to try to figure out where you are in the house, how you are oriented, and how to get where you're going. We had gotten bored of playing hide and seek and such so it was a fun game to challenge our mind's picture of the inside of our house/the arrangement of the furniture. It started out as a very difficult game, but it did not stay that way for long. Our mind's are very good at creating new images with new sensory information.
My sister, my friend, and I played "Freaky Game" where we were being chased by a serial killer. We would start in a basic house set up, then have to drop everything and try to escape.
The house where I grew up was a back split, so it had a huge crawl space somewhat divided into rooms under the front of the house. There was an old twin mattress on the floor, a lamp we no longer used, pieces of leftover linoleum to cover the cement floor. Very atmospheric.
One time we were back in our crawl space hideaway and the power went out just as the serial killer was breaking in. Pitch blackness. Then my mother opened the creaky door to check on us.
We used to play a game called shrimping season. We played it in order to get ready for shrimping season of course (none of us were going shrimping). Anyways, the entire game was we would all stand in a circle, about 7 of us, and punch the person in the arm to your right. Definitely got us ready for the toughness of shrimping.
German spotlight. Played late at night. Group starts on one end of the yard and tries to get to the other end all while the “German Spotlight” was scanning the darkness with a flashlight at the same rate and speed side to side. Kids just running and diving into bushes and behind walls. ‘‘Twas intense.
"THE QUEST." It started as my friend Adam and I climbing across all of the backyard fences that were interconnected through our backyards. It was pretty great. There was all this ivy everywhere and rats lived down there. There was a semi-serious risk if you fell in. These fences went all the way from one block to another, totally interconnected, over some small hills, a couple of much taller wrought iron fences you had to climb over, and then? THOR. At a point near the other side of the block, there was a house where a "dragon" lived. Thor was a huge, beautiful Rottweiler dog. Very defensive of his home. We had to climb one of those wrought iron fences then scramble across a small patch of open ground to get to the last fence on the other side. The game was to be as quiet as possible. Sneak down, get to the fence before Thor heard you. Needless to say, there were some close shaves. It was a favorite Saturday afternoon activity.
Pokemon. My neighbor friends and my brother and I would pretend we had Pokemon and then would go out in the woods looking for new Pokemon. When we would find one we would try to catch it. We would also battle eachother. I found a big round Rock and pretended it was a Pokemon egg I was going to hatch.
Also, we spent a lot of time playing Lord of the Rings. Even though I'm a girl I had long blonde hair so I was always Legolas. I would find curved branches and take them home and take off all the bark and sand it for hours. Then tie a string to it and it was my bow. I also foind a kick ass grey cloak thing at the Goodwill. The boys would all find sticks to be swords. Then we would go on adventures in the woods. When I was about 13 my cloak went missing. Looking back I think my mom got rid of it because she was really worried I was a weird kid or a lesbian or something, and was always trying to force me to be more normal and popular. I wish I still had that cloak cause it was the coolest my my kids would love it. And it was perfect for hide and seek in the dark.
My cousins and I played basement soccer, on roller skates, using an enormous bouncy ball. It was played 1 on 1, points scored by hitting the opponents wall, no catching or holding the ball. Miraculously no one was ever injured, though we would get yelled at for the noise the ball made slamming into exposed pipes!
ETA: Another game we played was "Stupid Co Pictures". We took turns playing client and artist. The client would request some sort of reasonable design or image, and the artist would draw them something ridiculous and insulting. When the client protested, the artist would berate and insult them. I have no idea what the point was, but we would be in tears laughing at our dumb drawings and mock arguments.
I used to play the “Waiter” game which involved me as a 8 year old boy dressing up in my Grandmothers clothing and getting drink orders from everyone at family gatherings...
My brother and I would shoot an arrow into the air and whoever could put his foot closest where it would land got a point. I can't believe we never got impaled.
I played a game called Potty Pigeon on Commodore 64. The game title is pretty self-explanatory. You're a pigeon and you get points by crapping on a bunch of things (e.g. cars, people, other birds). I played this game a lot and the concept of this game still makes me smile today.
dikupu · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was in elementary school, so all involved were about 6-7.
Being so young and not understanding why boys and girls had weird feelings for each other, we invented this game where the girls chase the boys. However, the boys decided to really rub in our faces whenever we couldn’t catch them, or when we did catch them, saying “what’re you gonna do now?”
I don’t exactly know why, but the game was from then on that the girls would chase the boys and try to scratch them with their nails. Back of the neck specifically. Now my memory is a little fuzzy because this was a long time ago, but for whatever reason this was accepted by all parties, and the boys named this game “Meat Eater Puppies”.
I was the leader of the girls since I was the fastest and the first one to be playing the game, so for a few months I basked in the glow of being a leader of a 6year old army. Until one day the boys caught me and held me down against my will, and no matter how much I struggled they didn’t let go. So I bit one of them on the hand. Then finally the teachers were alerted and it all came to their attention that this game was going on. I got in trouble but not that much, and meat eater puppies was no more.
TLDR; girls chase boys, boys catch girl, girl bites boy, girls no longer chase boys.
Screwgee ball. It was baseball, but with a kickball so we'd be able to play in our small back yard without breaking windows.
We also used to go off to the junkyard, get old mattresses, screen doors, etc. Then build forts out of them and throw dirt clods at each other. I thought this was unique, but after many conversations about it with many different people from all walks of life I am now positive this this something all young boys do, or should be doing, during their adolescence.
I had a very big doll as a kid that was bigger than me at the time. One day I invited my friend over to play, we had already grown out of our doll phase but were still kids. My friend was really into makeup and decided we should make the doll pretty, so we did. But we had a lot more fun making her ugly. This went on for a long time until there was no more place in her face to draw. So we did the obvious, we started to draw on her body.
We got really wild, we stabbed her open and filled her with leaves and flowers but it kept falling out so we closed it with a menstrual pad. We stabbed her face and put a lego head in the hole to serve as a pimple, tied her legs together, tattooed her and all manner of hideous things. We were little psychos but man it was fun.
I'll consider myself a "child" as we were in college.
My friend and I developed a game called "FrisTree". The goal of the game was to throw a frisbee and try to deflect off a tree limb, trunk, branch, etc. Each successful deflection netted additional "points", but the person being thrown to had to catch it for it to count (you can see the glaring issue here lol). We never really kept track of points, it was more the thrill of how many deflections you can get in a single throw.
My friends and I had a game we just called "the Hill Game"
Guy at the top of a small hill throws a football, whoever catches it has to return it back up the hill to score - meanwhile everyone else is goin for your knees. There were some spectacular hits, and usually both parties would go ass-over-heels back down the hill, with everyone else chasing them. It didn't matter who caught the ball, it only mattered who could control it long enough to return it to the thrower at the top.
We never really kept score and nobody ever won - it was more of a framework for us to beat the shit out of eachother lol
Usually just make up little challenges for myself involving throwing balls around the house. Can I throw a tennis ball from the hallway to the kitchen without it bouncing on the hardwood? Can I "dribble" a plush ball against the wall and get from my parents' room to my room in 4 steps?
There's this game in Ireland (or where I'm from at least) called Castle Reigh where 1 team would pick a number corresponding to the amount people. For example, if there was 4 people you could say 'cake' then you disperse the letters amongst the team. Then another team would beat up the number team to try and get the letters and make the word.
Basically the players all stood at the top of a high in the playground and one person at the foot, was the executioner. You’d have to choose a method of being killed, for example being blown up with a hand grenade, or even just falling on a banana skin. You would then try “die” in the most elaborate fashion to get down the hill. The executioner judged who was best, and the winner got to be the executioner on another round.
"Blitz," was a variation on indoor football -- another game me and a friend made as kids -- that was like 1-on-1 football with wrestling rules. Essentially, you'd start out like a normal football game of offense vs. defense. The offensive player could throw the ball and catch it off the first bounce. Touchdowns were one point. No extra points. If you got tackled, you weren't down until you said you were down or tapped out. Submission holds were legal. If the ball came out of the offense's possession while on the ground it was always a fumble. I once turned my entire right shoulder black from bruising playing this game and lost like twenty pounds in a week.
We would pretend that we had a bank. We would take all of the monopoly money and stick it up on our dining room table along with some notepads pencils paper etc. and pretend we were bankers. By the time we got it set up my mom usually needed the dining room table to serve dinner or it was time to do something else and we also found out no one wants to borrow monopoly money at usurious interest rates.
"Running Away". Things were not so great at home so I would regularly run away and go live in the woods. The hard part was keeping warm. I learned how to identify a lot of edible plants and would stealthily plant seeds like carrots and water preexisting edible plants like wild blackberries.
Another game was to make friends with all the wild animals by paying attention to and copying their body language. It got to the point where I would go outside and be greeted with gophers, squirrels, birds, coyote, rats, and mice, depending on where I was. Nearly all the photos of me as a kid had at least one animal sitting on me. Heaven forbid we go camping where the animals were already used to humans. People would place bets on how many minutes until I was covered in squirrels or how many I would have on me at once.
How I never got bit or caught a horrible disease I have no idea.
It was this adventure Indiana Jones kinda game. I don't remember the name, but I do remember being some kind of architect kinda guy being in some Morroco kind setting. There was a snake under the bed and I had to find a hidden message in a painting in the hotel room. It had a kind of GTA 1 way of walking through the map to different parts.
Also remember having to use a docters stethoscope to open a safe and being shot at afterwards. The game then turned into this duck hunting style shooter.
If only I remember the name. For most part it had this Hopkins FBI style of graphics.
My buddies and I would play Stair ball. Someone would stand with a tennis racket at the bottom of a flight of stairs, and the other player would sit in a chair at the top. The seated player would then throw a beach ball down the stairs, where the bottom had to hit it back up. We were 16
an old apartment my family lived in (I was about 5 or 6) had these tall sliding windows about 3-4 feet above the ground. During one summer my two older sisters would tie a jump rope to me and i would jump out one of the windows and they would pull me back in. I didn't mind because I had just watched Indiana Jones for the first time and I would pretend I was Harrison Ford scaling the 3 foot wall.
Me, my brother, and my cousin made a card game that was kind of like Yu-Gi-Oh. It had magic cards, people, items, etc. We each took turns drawing and writing the descriptions for the cards. IIRC, a lot of them were pretty overpowered lol. There was one that was just a "super fast ball". I still have some of them in a drawer.
Kitchen Frisbee. Which involved throwing a Tupperware lid back and forth to eachother in the kitchen and dining room, despite glass and decorative breakables being all around. Surprisingly we never broke anything. My dad's idea, my mom hated it.
“Minions”. We would run screaming from our pet dogs claiming they were trying to hypnotize us and turn us into their minions. We would climb onto the trucks, into trees, whatever it took to make sure the dog never caught us. The dogs had no idea what was happening but they loved being involved in something.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I used to play the "The Worm Game". Two of us would lie on the couch, on opposite ends, facing each other. We would have a blanket covering out legs so it looked like we were one long worm laying on the couch. And then we'd throw a ball back and forth from each other but if one of us missed it we only had a few seconds to detach from the worm, because it would die. We weren't allowed to play video games as children.
I'm only twenty months older than my sister, so we played together a lot. I especially remember a game we loved to play : "L'Avion" aka "The Airplane".
I used to lie on my back, knees bent and arms ready. Then she would bend over, I kept my feet on her hips, so that I could grab her arms. Then I stretched my arms and legs to the sky and my sister was supported in the air effortlessly!
Imagine a six-year-old blonde hair airplane laughing and pretending to fly under the living room chandelier. For my part, imagine kind of an overturned and exhausted, trembling chair.
“Mess.” My friend and I would ransack my brothers room and make a huge pile of everything we found in the middle of the room, blankets, books, you name it. We always topped it off with a nice potted plant. My mom soon reinstalled the baby monitors from years past; she likes to say that hearing one hint of the word “mess” followed by a giggle would send her into a panic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I were religious persecutors at 5 y/o. My friends dad convinced us that it wasn't Cowboys vs Indians, it was Cowboys vs Laestadians. So there we were, running around with toy revolvers hunting laestadians for an entire summer.
My brother and I would play the “cell phone tower” game while driving on the freeway. Distorting a cell phone tower from a tree takes focus. It helped pass time on long drives.
My cousin and I would take printer paper and draw roads on them in a four way grid like +. We would then draw houses and buildings on the empty spaces. If you taped the papers together you could make a whole city. We’d make cities the size of our kitchen and use our hot wheels to enact roleplay GTA style scenes and games.
“Don’t wake the lion” there were 5 of us, 3 boys 2 girls, we grew up kinda poor and had to make our own fun, our oldest brother was always the “lion” he would lay in the middle of the floor under a blanket and we would have to run and jump over him and he would have to try and grab us. Once the lion “ate you” you were out and the last one standing was the winner.
We would run around with a blanket over our head and essentially play blind mans tag. Whoever got captured by the “ghost” then became the ghost and so on. Mom loved it because we would all be as quiet as possible to avoid being heard by the ghost and tagged lol
PineJ · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late but my cousins and I would get sent to the basement at my grandparents house. We would close all the doors and turn out all the lights and we would play "ghost". One person is it and gets blindfolded, the others have to try and quietly navigate the dark and not get tagged. Basically Marco Polo without the water.
It was basically pitch black down there even for the ones who were hiding
flmks · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No name for it but 3-5 of you would be on a trampoline with 2-6 (depending on what difficulty level you wanted) soccer balls as well. The aim of the game is to dodge the balls whilst remaining sitting, lying or crawling. If you get hit or stand up you are eliminated and the other players remain until there is one. Super fun game. We'd have some awesome dodges, manoeuvres and tactical plays trying to make the balls hit other players.
We played "Sugah, Sugah." You basically got up on the small brick retaining wall between our tiny Brooklyn front lawn and the sidewalk and grab a handful of leaves from the shrub. Then as you walk along the wall, you'd crumble them onto the grass saying, "sugah, sugah, sugah," (Brooklyn for sugar) the whole way and jump off at the end. There was always a line of kids from the block who'd play with us.
When we were 12, my best friend and I would pretend to be disabled around the house. So one of us would have no use of arms, and the other would have no use of legs. Getting up the stairs with no legs was hard, but getting food and drink with no arms was also a struggle. It was pretty fun for like an hour and a half at a time, but then we'd get too frustrated by our limitations and end the game
SPUD it’s a game played with a volleyball and a couple people. Everyone starts in the middle and one person starts with the ball. They throw the ball as high as they can and call out a name of one player, can’t be same as the last person who threw it. Everyone scatters and tries to hide (plays better near a house with obstacles rather than an open field). If your name is called you wait for the ball to drop and catch it and yell SPUD and everyone who ran has to stop immediately. The called out player with the ball then tries to hit any player he feels with the ball, usually the easiest target, but sometimes it’s smart to go for whoever has the least amount of letters. If you get hit you get a letter if you as the thrower miss you get a letter. And if the thrower does hit someone they get a letter removed, so if I was at SP and hit someone I would go back to just S. Last to reach D, yes Ik funny sex joke, (SPUD) wins.
It was so much fun with a good group of friends and we played it all the time. Kinda wish I could go back to those days now that I’m thinking about it. So many hilarious moments come from this game, especially when everyone starts to pick the same person to throw and they get mad lol.
My neighbors and I played a game called Dodos, there was no point we just squatted down, pulled our shirts over our legs, hopped around together and historically recreated the Dodo bird.
Besides that my brothers and I invented a sport called "Jug-Ball" but I can't get into explaining it because we might want to patent it someday.
I grew up by the U.S Mexico border so as a kid me and my friends would play "Border Patrol". Basically just hide and seek but the seeker got to beat the shit out of you if they found you.
When I was in the Boy Scouts still, we played a game called mission impossible. Most of the time we would play it in a forest or dark farm. There were two teams, one team had flashlights and had to defend a lantern that was sitting in a place of their choice. The other team would have to strategically capture the lantern without the flashlight team noticing. If the flashlight team shined their light on you, you had to go back to ‘base’ and start again.
We would play this game until we got bored or captured the lantern.
The winning strategy, sacrifice someone and plant another lantern by the other one. And then send another person in and take the original lantern, the ole switcheroo
You know 'Nightcrawlers', from Always Sunny? Back in the 90's, me and my friend actually did that. We'd crawl head first into sleeping bags and then just crawl around. Surprising amounts of fun, I totally get Frank and Charlie, hahaha!
Stick fights. We went in the woods and threw sticks at eachother about 15 feet apart with the goal being to break the stick over the other person. Winner was whoever got hit by less sticks.
I grew up in the suburbs in a big fat Italian family where your cousins are basically like your brothers and sisters, plus I had four brothers to start with, so we were always coming up with things to do, I'll pick my two favorites.
Snarf
This game was usually played on warm Summer nights when we were not allowed to go beyond the property line of whomever's house we were at that particular evening. Everyone would stand around in a circle about arms length apart with one person lying down in the middle of the circle with their eyes closed. The person lying down would yell "snarf" for some reason and then lunge in the direction they thought a person was without using their arms or legs and if they touched you, you were the next snarfer.
Handball
We did not know there was a game called "Handball" already so we made up our own. It's played with a soft volleyball. You are only allowed to use your hands, you can pivot but you cannot move without "air dribbling" which is throwing the ball clearly above your head. You can pass to your teammates and try to advance the ball to the opponent's goalie. The goalie is not allowed to move outside the lines of the goal and they need to stay within the plane of the goal lines to a certain degree.
The object of the game is not to get the ball passed the goalie, but to hit the goalie with the ball to score a point. The goalie does their best to avoid getting hit. Head shots and nut shots were worth 3 points, everything else was worth 1. You had to throw the ball from 10-15 feet out depending on what we could use as a reference point for a line.
My parents have a big yard and growing up, me and my friend used to play a space game. The deck we had was our spaceship and we flew from planet to planet to explore and fight aliens. Our guns were old super soakers I had. Our imaginations were at an all time high as we used to almost lose battles, find treasures, and make up these amazing worlds and monsters.
Me and my buds, the stupid 10 year old boys we were, used to play a game we called ricochet. In retrospect, it was a stupid name because I don’t think it really constitutes ricochet that well. It loosely does I suppose, but I’m not entirely sure it is ricochet rather than recoil. Basically we would go out in the woods and find sticks and swing them as hard as we could against other trees. This naturally would cause the stick to break, and the fragment would fly off in a seemingly random direction (at least to us, I’m sure it could be calculated based on the angle and force behind the swing as well as the shape/features of the spot struck). One time my bud swung a stick about 1/4 inch thick that broke and went flying straight into my forehead about an inch and a half from my eyeball. Had to pull it out (it actually limply lodged itself in) and bled for a decent while. Still have a backwards L shaped scar on my forehead from that. Naturally about an hour later we were back at. I was a smart kid.
TL;DR
We swung sticks at trees to send projectile sticks flying, almost lost an eye.
My cousins and I would use to play this game we liked to call 'Turtle and the Tigers'. Basically one of us would be the turtle and the others would be tigers. The turtle would curl up like a ball and make no noise and pretend to be a rock the objective of the tigers was to somehow make the rock reveal itself to be the turtle. We would sleep on the turtle, ride it and occasionally fart on its face. And when the turtle finally reveals himself he curses one of the tigers and then he becomes a turtle. Fun times.
Not unique I’m sorry but hide n seek was WAY more fun at night with all the lights off. My brothers and me were entertained for hundreds of hours playing that
During primary school we would use any empty can as a football and try to make the "ball" pass between a players legs. When that happened we would Scream "cueca" (meaning panties, in portuguese) and kick the player until he ran away to a "safe spot", usually a lamp post or something.
kjets · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Zombies" Can only be played at night, people are split into two teams the zombies and the survivors. The base is where the survivors start and they are safe there as long as they don't leave the base. There is a "safe zone" in the middle of the field which the survivors try to reach in order to "win". The survivors turn their backs and count to 30, the zombies hide around the field and wait for the survivors to run to the safety zone. Any survivor tagged on their way to the safety zone becomes a zombie next round and the zombie who tagged them becomes a survivor. Once a survivor leaves the base they cannot run back to the base they must make it to the safety zone or die.
(Also no babysitting the base)
Every 4th of July we would soak twenty pounds of different types of pasta and then it would go into buckets for each person. Then we would run around the yard throwing globs of pasta on each other. The whole yard would be covered and we laughed and laughed. Weird thing was, the next day all the birds took away all the pasta.
When we went on road trips my dad had me play a game called "Count the cops" and whoever could count the most wins. I didn't realize until I was like 20 that it was so he didn't get a speeding ticket.
Hot Dogs and Baked Beans. One kid would hide a belt and everyone else went looking for it, while the kid who hid the belt would let you know how hot or cold you were. When the belt was found the kid who found it could whip everyone they could catch until they got back t.i base. When everyone got back to base the belt got hidden again and the cycle continued.
Me, my older brother, younger brother and cousin would constantly play a made up game called Castle Bridge on the trampoline. This game went in for years. My older brother would narrate the game and what would happen and when the game ended, the next time we played would pick back up exactly where it ended.
We even kept stats on paper and my older brother would make store menus and keep track of how much gold we had. It was pretty amazing. I still vividly remember some of the “locations” and stories we would play. It was a super fun imaginative game. But got sad when the older brother slowly grew up and didn’t want to play with the three of us anymore.
I swear there were 7 different names for it. But in elementary at least 20 kids and I would always play "Butts Up." There were these huge lone standing wooden walls at my school for kickball or tennis ball sports, one day we came up with a game, you would throw a tennis or bouncy ball as hard as you could at this wall, all the kids would stand in line and someone would have to catch the ball and throw it again at the wall. If someone attempted a catch and fumbled it they would have to sprint for the wall and smack it before another player threw the ball and hit the wall, obviously if the ball hit first you were out. If the player attempting to get you out hits you with the ball they would have to then run and touch the wall before someone else threw the ball in an attempt to get both of you out. It was honestly some of the most fun I had at that age and the recess aids hated the game because good god did we throw that ball hard and a lot of kids took one in the face. Good times.
Quite a few but I remember my siblings and I playing guess the song where we'd hum or whistle a tune and someone had to guess. We also would race for everything. Like when watching TV who could name what the commercial was for fastest.
My brother and I would stand on two books (one boo under each foot) on the carpet, then slide towards each other as if on skates and try to knock the other one off.
My aunt had a trampoline at her house. Whenever we went over, my cousins and I would play a game where all of us would bounce around on the trampoline while a ball would bounce around freely. You'd have to dodge it or you'd get a letter; if you spelled O-U-T, you lost. If the ball would fall off the trampoline, we would all have to drop down on our butts; the last person to do it would get a letter.
At my elementary school there were “two playgrounds” meaning that there was a walkway in between the playground connecting the two main buildings of the school. One side of the play ground was red and the other side was yellow. On the yellow playground there was this big tube slide everybody liked to climb on top of etc. If you ever went down the tube slide though, you became a “jelly monster” and you would infect other people and turn them into jelly. This went on for several years and i’m pretty sure to this day my friend Emma is jelly monster.
The touching game. Anytime we'd gonto a clothing store id try and touch anything to conquer the world. For example if i touched a green shirt anything in the world that shade of green would be "conquered". The goal was to touch all possible color shades.
We had a game called "Avalanche" where we took all the pillows and blankets and put them on the stairs. We'd then take a bean bag chair and jump on it at the top of the stairs and ride it down. The pillows and blankets would all slide down together and we'd end in a big pile at the end.
We also had "car wreck" where we'd put some beanie babies in a barby jeep grand Cherokee and push it down the stairs and see where all the "bodies" would get thrown.
My sister and I, along with a random neighbor kid or two, would put on one of our AYSO jerseys (American Youth Soccer Organization, I think) which were always bright and colorful, and then pretend our front porch was a Spaceship. The "S" stood for "Space" in this game, obviously. We'd go on "Explorer Missions" and collect samples, fight aliens, have space battles... Awesome game.
We would also put on "Skate Shows," and ask the neighborhood to give us money to basically just skate poorly back and forth in front of our house.
Back when pokemon r/y/b on gammeboy color was considered a luxury, or was banned from school, my classmates and I would play pokemon pen and paper style. Basically it worked out like the Gameboy style, where we'd have our pokemons, assign hp/dmg/lvl/Special moves, etc. Idk how we ever made it fair, but i remember electrode was the most OP coz of self destruct. It was highly addictive for a while, the entire class would bust out their papers and pencils during recess and we'd have real-life pokemon battles.
My brother and I played a game on the trampoline, never gave it a name but I guess you could call it “NASCAR”. We would run around the outer edge of the trampoline saying “I’m Jeff Gordon” if you were ahead of the other. Of course this devolved into us closing in the gap of the circle to the point of us just running around each other in the middle. At that point nobody knew who Jeff Gordon was, I might still be Jeff Gordon to this day. But this was the whole game, we did it for hours. But the weirdest part is you would think my family were big NASCAR fans, but no. I have never watched a NASCAR race ever even on tv, I just knew it involved cars going around a track and Jeff Gordon was a good driver. We were not the brightest of kids.
"Virus" it was hide and seek but when you tagged someone they were it with you til there was only one person left. Sometimes you had a ball you could throw but if you were the one who threw the ball you couldn't use your hands to tag. You could also point with finger guns and ask if someone was infected because we'd often act like we were just being chased and hide with someone and then tag them. It led to a lot of intense movie moments and a ton of injuries.
Everyone would go into one room and close all the blinds, doors, and turn the lights out. One person was the Pumpkin Head and had to put a pillow case over their head with their arms vertically up in the case (to make them have a big head). To start the Pumpkin Head would get spun around 5 times then they would have to try to tag someone. Which was hard because your arms are stuck above your head and you can't see.....
Just to make it harder we would always tap the Pumpkin Head on the shoulders or back and push them around onto the bed or ground to mess with them. The room we would play in was the small master bedroom (12'x12') with a queen bed, two tall wardrobe like nightstands (that we would often crawl on top of). We would play with 4-8 people at a time and sustained multiple injuries from broken night stands, jumping and missing the bed, fingers into the standalone fan then jumping back into the bed frame injuring my back, and one girl even peed on the floor from laughing too hard. The Pumpkin Head also had a way to give up by finding the light switch in the room. Even if they found the light switch they would be the Pumpkin Head again.
Kind of a mean game now that I think about it but we would play for hours.
The “disease” game.
Essentially it was just regular “touch” or “tag” but whoever was “diseased” ran after the others whilst in a zombie like manner pointing ones finger and repeatedly grunting the word “diseeeeeaaaseeee”.
Whoever was touched first was now infected and had to infect the others.
Firobi · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stingers
(Our form of Tag), but using a tennis ball to tag people at range, below shoulders shots only.
Played in medium-large open space with the odd tree to hide.
The point of the game was to knock the other players off of their ripsticks by ramming your ripstick into theirs in strategic ways that would keep you on yours intact. Last player to fall off wins. It got very intense.
We played this game we called “Ghost in the Graveyard.” It’s basically reverse hide and seek, at night. We’d go into the woods or a dark playground, pick a home base, and draw straws to see who’d be the “Ghost.” Then the group would all face away close eyes and count to 50, while the Ghost would go find a good hiding place to ambush people. Whoever you could tag, would be the ghost next. It was incredibly fun and terrifying. Our playstyles ranged from timid wanderings to kamikaze missions, diving into bushes trying to root out the Ghost. My favorite was to climb up high close to the base, wait for the group to get out into the play area and spread out, let the fear grow, and jump down and yell and attack and cause chaos. It’s a great game. Potential for injury though, especially when we got older and added tequila into the mix...
In middle school we called it “The Game O’ Pain” where we’d sit around in a circle, legs spread and feet touching to make like a star pattern and we’d roll a heavy ball as hard as we could towards each other’s nether regions and if you moved to block the ball you were out.
When we lived with our Grandma in her big house, my sister and I would play the "Spy Game" it fluctuated between just sneaking up on Mom and Grandma or just me and sis playing a version of hide and seek where we constantly were moving from hiding spot to hiding spot with finger guns.
Basically we'd take a racquet ball and huck it against a wall.
Here were the catches though.
you had to stop moving once you grabbed the ball.
the ball had to hit the wall before anything else.
if you didn't hit the wall, you would then have to run to touch the wall.
if you made it to the wall before someone else recovered the ball and hit the wall. You were safe.
if you didn't make it, you'd have to stand with your face to the wall, ass out. The person who was the one to throw the ball while you were running then gets to throw the ball as hard as they could at you.
the thrower only get a one chance to hit the person. If they miss game continues, if they hit, game continues.
Vegetable soldiers. You make little vegetable stickmen with carrot and celery and tomatoes and toothpicks and then you lay them on the road and if YOURS gets rub over first then the other guy has to eat it. You can use ranch.
The sock game. My brother and I (6 and 4 years old) would be about two meters away from a laundry basket and throw in pairs of socks as fast as we could while our dad threw them back at us.
J_hwk · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I attended a small rural elementary school, think like 50-60 kids total for K-6. Every once in a while we would all (I think it was all of us, but maybe just kids of similar age) gather in the school gym and play a game that, to the best of my recollection, we called Downy.
We would split in half and stand on opposite sides of the gym facing each other. We would number off, 1-whatever. A teacher would call two random numbers and the kids with those numbers would race to the center of the gym where they had placed a blue Downy bottle. For those unfamiliar, Downy is a laundry fabric softener, famous for its teddy bear mascot.
The object of the game was to grab the Downy bottle and return to your side of the gym without being tagged. I recall having serious face offs in the middle of that gym, afraid to make the first move and fail in front of the whole school. I also remember loving when they would announce that we were going to play.
I haven’t heard off this game being played anywhere since. We were just a bunch of poor kids from the country and this was the late 80s. I guess you make the best of what ya got.
Has anyone heard of this game, maybe by a different name?
“Blind catch”
One blind folded person against everyone else not blind folded.
The objective of the game was to catch a pillow or ball that was thrown at you by anyone. However to not be “it”. (Blind folded) one had to capture someone who wasn’t blind folded by grabbing them. This led to some impressive acts of both athleticism and down right Stupidity was fucking awesome.
Evuul · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When going on family trips we'd often get bored. A game we would play would be to try and go through the entire alphabet using just letters from road signs. Haven't heard of others doing this, so its unique as far as I know.
Feet on the chair bum on the table ball game. We played it in school at the end of the day and you had to pass it to someone that want beside you, and you couldn't say anything.
Me and my brother built dragsters out of knex and would smash them into each other trying to cause maximum damage to the other persons dragster. We would routinely upgrade our dragsters to try and make them more durable/inflict more damage. We would do this for hours at a time
Ahhh the Knife game of World Domination in post soviet russia.
As kids, about 6-8 my sister and lived a happy little life in our Russian motherland. It was the late nineties but still felt very much Soviet. My sister and I loved playing outside with the other neighbourhood kids and sometimes we played the “knife game”.
You get a knife from your mama/papa, something sturdy and sharp, pick some good soil to play on, and use the knife to draw a big ass circle. Divide the circle in two (or how ever many players there are, usually no more than three) and those halves of land become YOUR LAND. You then take turns throwing the knife at each other’s land pieces in a way that the knife sticks into the ground and doesn’t fall flat, that’s a successful throw. Calculate your throw carefully because wherever the knife blade faces is the line you have to cut their slice of land, from outer circle to your initial dividing line. You have to stand on only your side of the land while you make the invading slice. If you were over ambitious and can’t reach their outer line (circumference) to finish the cut, you lose your turn and get no land. If you make it successfully then you get their land. Throw until the knife doesn’t stick in (hits a rock, bad throw, someone gets hurt, etc) and the next person has a go at cutting up your land. You have to be strategic in how you cut, how you throw and getting too greedy can be your down fall if you can’t complete a cut from your land because of your short little baby arms. You have to work around your opponent to make sure they are sanctioned off from making an easy cut of your land during their turn.
Once their land is too small to safely throw a knife at while they stand on it (safety first kids) you ask them if they want to risk it of submit heir land to your invasion. If they want to submit then they step off and you have to throw the knife into their land accurately about 10 times (or whatever number we agree on, usually depends on the size of the remaining shred of land) to claim the victory.
All sorts of strategies came from this game. Standing on to hide rocks to serve as your final base so they can’t successfully land the remaining throws. Cutting out weird shapes to restrict the opponents ability be to reach and forcing them to lose a turn or make smaller cuts of your land. Distractions, scare tactics, diplomacy, etc. It was a hell of a game and I would still play it if anyone was willing to chuck a knife around in the back yard with me.
TL;DR in soviet Russian, parents give child knife and you play in dirt
When my brother was way younger (like 5) I would tell him that I was secretly a wizard. I told him that if he wanted to be a wizard too he would have to earn “wizard points” and he can accumulate them by doing certain things. Well everything he did involved stuff I was too lazy to do myself and he finally caught on I was only using him to do my chores. In all fairness I was only like 10
Tag except with literally any type of throwable ball (That wouldn't cause injury).
Another one was my cousin and I would recreate the Star Wars movies with me as the main character with a plastic wiffle ball bat. He would throw fribees or plastic golf balls to to simulate blaster shots, and I would use bikes as Speeders and Ships.
We had a in-ground pool in our backyard and my sisters, the neighborhood kids and I found a brick. Horseflys would land on the AstroTurf, we would throw the brick, try to kill it and if you didn’t you would scream, jump in the pool and wait for it to calm down, land again and do it all over.
Growing up in Oakland we played a game called “Driveby”. Whenever a car would roll down our street someone would yell driveby and everyone would have to dive behind something.
I can only imagine how confused all the drivers were when a bunch of kids went ducking and diving as they rolled by.
Bootball. We had a rectangle piece of lawn 4 yards by 12 yards and it was 1 on 1 football my brother and I played. We would stretch a hose across one end of the grass and you had four plays to score
My brother and I would make paper airplanes and color a big red dot on them so they would resemble a Japanese flag. These were kamikaze planes and we would set them on fire and throw them around the yard. I was 10, he was 6.
Me and a friend who had a tub of like a billion LEGO pieces, would build things. Then we would do everything in our power to destroy the other person creation, by doing stuff like throwing it off the second floor. It became a challenge to just see who was better at building “strong” houses or spaceships or whatever we decided on. Might have played some influence on me going into engineering.
jumur · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some of my childhood friends and I liked to play Back to the Future. One of the guys had an old Science Fair Electronic Project Kit and we would slap some wires on there, grab a clock for obvious reasons, and pull down the blanket from the top bunk to cover the sides of the bottom bunk. Flip a switch, turn the hands back on the clock and boom we had traveled into the past. No one wanted to admit it didn’t work, so we all took turns pointing out things that were ‘different’ than before the time travel.
My siblings and I had our own "You laugh you lose" type game when we were kids. You would stand in front of everyone and you could either say or do something to make the others laugh. 3 tries and you lose. If someone laughed they lost and had to be the comic. Pretty fun.
My brother and I were pretty crazy kids, we loved heights. We have some stairs that go go to our basement, about 20 feet from ceiling to floor, with the stairwell walls being about 3 1/2 feet apart, anyways we would kind of chimney crawl all the way to the ceiling and at the bottom of the stairs we’d have like an old mattress and a bunch of blankets piled up then we’d jump from the top of the stairwell. Insanely fun, incredibly stupid.
You stand in a circle and try to "cut" the Arma or legs off the person next to you with your arms.
You can only make 2 quick motions though with your arm and the. It has to stay where it is until your attacked. They you get a chance to react and move your arm away.
We’d play little house on the prairie at recess with my other two friends. We’d fight over who’d be Laura and who would be Mary. The third chill friend who didn’t read the books and was just along for the ride would always be stuck as baby Carrie
My friend Jordan came up with a game, I think it was called ant trap or something I’m not sure. It was reverse tag and hide and seek, one person was it, and they hid, everyone else searched. Was pretty cool.
Edit: I forgot! Once you found the hider, you hid with them. The last one to find the hiders lost
"Jump Ball" where six or so of us kids would be jumping on the trampoline and put down a soccer ball. If the ball touched you, you were out and had to get off the trampoline. If the ball landed on the ground, the people who were off could throw it at the people still jumping and if they hit someone they traded places (dodgeball rules applied, so the jumpers could catch the ball if thrown and be safe). Last person still on the trampoline won. Winner started on the ground for the next match. We'd spend hours each day playing this game, and played it for years.
We'd get a bunch of golf clubs for cheap at the thrift store and used tennis balls.
Not all that extreme though. There was a water meter on that little strip of grass between the sidewalk and the road where a tiny manhole cover was on top but it was a good 1ft below the grass so it was a nice natural golf hole to us kids. We'd start at all sorts of spots in the neighborhood and make our own holes and some holes had certain regulations. We'd start in my backyard and have to hit the ball on either side of the house over the fence but can't go into a neighbor's yard or the street or else it's a penalty and must reshoot. Others we'd start like 4 houses down and can only roll along the sidewalk. Another we'd start across the street but would have to pitch it over the street. One of the more "extreme" ones was starting inside this massive runoff that was in the middle of a major street right next to ours. It's like 7 ft wide and maybe 8 feet deep and just a lot of concrete. Very little sewage was present so it was easy to jump down in there and start the hole there. You'd have to smack the shit out of the ball against the concrete embankment in front of us to get it to ricochet off the one behind us and bounce onto the grass patch up top before you got to the 3 lane road in front. Then we'd have to chip it into the neighbors yard on the corner (I lived in the 2nd house) and then play from there. It was a lot of fun and we played that for years. Probably around 7 or 8 of us from the neighborhood played over quite a few years. Most of them lived on the same street and the houses that they didn't live in we went to get permission from to play off their yards. It was a lot of fun. We played soccer, kickball and baseball too. we had an old swing set (it was an old one that had that long seat for 2 or 3 people that rocked back and forth) but it rusted out so we tossed the seat and wrapped it in chicken wire and used it as a soccer net. Oh and playing hockey with sticks from the thrift store and laundry baskets. Good times
debark. I would find sticks when I was bored and outside and carefully peel the bark off them it killed time. That or when we had pecans pecan smash champs. Using only other pecans see which pecan was the strongest. Crush them together the pecan that remained un-cracked moved on to crack other until he was cracked. The losers were eaten, eventually so was the champ man I love pecans!
When I was 4 or 5 my brothers put a helmet and a life jacket on me and had me ride my tricycle up and down the sidewalk while they beamed me with pinecones. They were the dense skinny pinecones too, so the hurt like a son of a bitch. But I loved every second of it.
“Open Bagel” with a large tube in a pool. Someone started off on the bagel (tube) and everyone else tried to do everything they could to make the person fall off the tube. Once the person was off, everyone yelled OPENN BAGELLLL and tried to claw their way into the tube.
A my name is Alice (or other A name) my husbands name is Al (or other A name) we live in (place that begins with A) and we sell (object that begins with A)
"Grab Ass". There were usually three or four of us... As we were all jumping on a trampoline, we'd each have a inflated ball squeezed between our ankles, as we jump. No use of hand allowed....We would continually collide into one another until you could smash the ball out. Last person still holding the ball wins. Would result in a lot of violent collisions, people trying to jump over one another to avoid contact...etc. etc. We'd do this for hours. I don't know how nobody got hurt, kids must be made of rubber.
I remember in grade school I lived in a house with branches in our yard. I'd pick one up and decide it was my favorite and would stick with me for eternity (that didn't last long). Being the youngest of my siblings, I was entertained to no end pretending that stick was a magic staff and having "duels" with my sisters. We played what I called "stick fight" once, but they always said no every time I asked to play again.
cpc2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Poop". Me and my best friend started the game as old people who were pooping, but the poop always got out of control and it started to conquer the world around us. Then we had to run from it because it was like a virus that turned everything into poop. Eventually we would run out of space in the playground and we would become poop. The winner was always the poop.
My sisters and I would put a very large heavy blanket over one of our heads and spin the person around in a circle. We'd turn the lights off and the person had to run around and find someone without taking the blanket off.
I had those big hot wheel sets where it has a motorized section that makes the cars go faster during the loop.
Well I drowned the cars in hand sanitizer and then put some on the track as well. Lit the track on fire then sent the cars on their way.
It worked as you might think, cars catch fire too and look super cool, but after the loop alcohol got everywhere and some was still in fire. Thankfully I did this outside.
Another thing I did was smash BIC lighters I found into the ground as hard as I could. Usually ends up a neat little explosion.
my brother, me and our two other friends would shut off all the lights in my creepy unfinished basement and we would just beat the shit out of each other, its like a moshpit
"MoonDog" - You filled a trampoline up with balls and then you and X number of friends got on, got down on all fours and closed your eyes. Somebody would say moondog and then everyone would start running around on all fours, with the objective literally being to smash into each other (with our eyes closed of course). Lmao no idea where any of this came from in our heads, kids brains can be wild.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child til i was 9 and my mom worked at a fishing lake when i was about 4 to 7ish. I would see how fast i could run around the lake, and see how many frogs i could catch in an evening. My total count was 25. I would go and find the prettiest rocks and sell them as lucky rocks for whatever change the fishermen had in their pockets, i ended up getting my ass beat by my mom over that one.
“Dark dark in the dark dark dark” we would go in a room and make it pitch black, usually with pillows or blankets in front of the windows. Everyone would hide and one person who have to find them in the dark. It was honestly really scary because you never knew when you were near someone. And usually we would try to scare each other.
The tennis ball game. It was just dodgeball with tennis balls in my back yard, me and my friends vs my brother and his friends, and they were 5 years older than us
kuery · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends, which were little than me by like 3-4 years used to play “Scream”, a game i made up that was basically one kid playing as Scream, which usually was me due to my age (and size, i’m 1’87 and 104kg, back then i was even bigger because i grew up really soon for my age) had to hunt down the other kids in the same fashion of tag, we had to wipe down the entire group to then change roles, usually the one who’d call being Scream first got to be him, even tho the kids used to choose me anyways ‘cause i added the fear factor of walking a slow pace, being unpredictable and always getting them, we played around the blocks in some streets were cars barely passed by so it made it a lot of fun.
I even used to dress as the Scream sladher dude sometimes in the carnival festivity, it was a blast.
Shrek. Imagine manhunt, but the “it” is in hiding until they stop and roar a shrek quote at full volume. Every tagged person isn’t another shrek, they’re an onion. They can tag people to freeze them for 5 seconds, three tags on someone and they become an onion too.
Doctor murder ball. Basically dodge all but with a doctor who can revive you if they drag you back to their mat. But if doctor got hit he was dead and no one on the team can be revived.
My neighbors and I played a game called cat and dogs. 2 of us would be on the top of the play set throwing buckets of pebbles down, the 2 on the top were cats. (the play area had pebbles instead of grass or woodchips) while the other person had to be a dog and try to run up the slide on all fours. All while buckets of pebbles were being thrown down!
Looking back, it was insanely dirty and gross. There were so many bugs in those pebbles, not to mention how many times the person who played the dog got hit in the eyes with the pebbles. And the dog who collected the buckets of pebbles often fell off the tiny ladder trying to rush back up. We would also get yelled at for messing the pebbles up!! But we loved it!
So it was me, my brother, a friend and three cousins. All guys. We'd have two teams of three. We' build a fortess made up of wood planks/logs, bins, plant pots and a whole bunch of other stuff all under this pine cone tree. We'd then collect pine cones from the ground and we'd chuck them at each other for hours lol the many bruises and bloody scratches were hilarious. Good times.
Night Tag at my grandma's house. My 2 cousins, brother, and myself would stay up for the new year and then play tag outside in the dark, no flashlights. My favorite time was when I climbed a tree and waited for my cousin to pass by, unsuspecting, and managed to jump down and tag him.
My friend, who lived across the street, and I used to play ‘the corner game’. That is where we used the end of the cul-de-sac as a race track, with my front garden being the pit stop for our racing cars...erm..I mean push bikes...
I loved that game, and we played it for a lot of years.
Until it was ruined by a lady in a mini reversing into my friend and knocking him off his bike.
I remember playing the "mattress game" with friends.
You start out with a vertical rolled up mattress. Then one person in inside and everyone else is outside. The people outside try to squeeze the mattress so much that the person inside can't get out, and the person inside has to try to get out.
My brothers and I would play a game called brakestompers. We would ride in a circle on razor scooters trying to stomp on each other’s brakes. Most of the time we just crashed into each other
“Jane and Jack”. My brother and I played this game. I think the guy’s name is Jack. We used to live in a trailer and there was this old tractor in the front yard where we mostly played there. I can’t remember if we were pretending to be married (we were young; I was maybe 9 and he was 5) or just strangers who had just met and were just going through life. I’ll definitely have to ask. It’s been so long.
My sister and I charged around the house like farm animals singing at the top of our lungs, "ten times ten is a hundred", over and over and over again.
J_Kor · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my Brother used to play this game where we see who can drink the most mud water
A little late but be and my friends would always play this game in the pool. One person comes up with a category I.e. food, movies, animals etc. and the other person has to say something in that category. The catch is the person who has to respond is mid jumping into the pool... so the first person has to say the category as soon as the second person leaves the ground. The second person has to answer before going underwater. Idk it was the funniest game to us seeing people freeze or them saying something really strange because it was the first thing they thought of .
This is a car game but weve grown to play it on walks and even while watching TV.
Every yellow vehicle is a "banana poke", worth 1 point. Weve expanded to "po-po pokes" and of course the traditional "punch buggy", each also worth one point EXCEPT!!! in my town someone has A YELLOW VW BEETLE. THIS. IS. THE BANANA PUNCH. 3 POINTS. BASICALLY END GAME.
My neighbor and I used to play a game we made up called "dropsies." It was essentially playing catch with a football and if the ball was "catchable" like touched their hands, but they dropped it, they had to pick it up before the other person yelled dropsies otherwise the thrower got a point. We had crazy rules we made up along the way too like if the catcher makes a style catch without dropping they get a point. It was fun
Sort of like 40/40 but with a load of extra rules including mandatory self-identification if you are a chaser and you receive a certain signal from one of the people being pursued. It was invented by 5 or 6 of us when we were 9 or 10 years old, and after a couple of years dozens of kids were playing it every break time. Then, our school merged with another local school, and the game died the next year. Shame.
Yeah it’s pretty much hide n seek but with a variation. We played at night with all the lights off. That isn’t the variation — this is:
We were all black kids playing this game, so we made a new rule that you had to hide in plain sight. In other words, standing in the middle of a room, corners, etc. You were allowed to move around but you weren’t allowed to hide in places that you could use as cover.
Eventually we added glowing bands (the ones you crack) for the person who was “it” because it kind of sucked running into that person and talking to them thinking it was an ally.
It was a great game for learning to control your smell, breathing and hearing.
Also being white or anything else doesn’t mean you can’t play this game, you are at a SLIGHT disadvantage though.
Tip: if you play this game, try to keep little throwable stuff in your pockets to throw off the looker.
Tip2:If you are the looker, when you stand still, you can here the breathing and you can use your glow bands as light to catch movement!
Once I took random electronics parts (my parents ran a computer repair business) and tried to build a time machine.
The only part I can clearly remember is what I now know is the motor from a hard drive.
"Kick Swing," a combination of swinging on a swing set and dodgeball. My dad built a small jungle gym with two swings, but there were three of us. So one person would throw balls (usually soccer or basket) at the two who were swinging. They had to kick them away because getting hit anywhere but the feet meant you got kicked off the swing.
We played ABH ball (Actual Bodily Harm) we placed a ball in the middle of the upstairs landing one person blocking each of the bedrooms and the simple task of just placing the ball behind your opponents doorway. Only rules were no biting, eye gouging and hitting ‘below the belt’. Only a few breakages of light fixtures and a lot of black eyes and bruised egos.
Friends and I would play Hide & Seek, but in the dark. In the basement. We each had to wear these glow-in-the-dark keychains around our neck, and there was a rule that you couldn't obscure the keychain to give the catcher a fair chance.
My town had a nice park, which was right next to a small lake. In the, park, there was a football field ( for americans "soccer") where me and my friends liked to hang out on summer. One day we got bored and we came up with a nice game.
Rules:
1 We kicked five penalties each round.
2 Whoever scored the least was forced to kick the ball into the lake, as hard as he could.
3 If he didn't kick the ball hard enough we would kick him in the ass.
We had a teddy sized wrestling ring, wrestling names for all the cuddly toys, and theme songs. All events were based on the WWF events of the time. Plus a plush duck called Duck Tunney (that's one for the kids).
And and my best friend from K-8th grade had the same name, so we played around like we were mercenarys and said our company name was TnT (First initial of our name.) We played it like how we saw in CoD. So we would be sneaking through his woods acting like we were stealthily killing enemy soilders.
Sometimes we had friends who would join, then when we discovered airsoft guns it was game over. We chased each other for fucking hours playing around. Those were some of my favorite times of my childhood.
He grew up and went to the navy, and I work the door at Walmart, so maybe it was a little more than a game for him.
In 5th grade, we had these duels where two kids would take turns in taking their index and middle fingers, and smack them as hard as they could onto the other kid's index and middle fingers. The duel would go on until one of the contestants gave up, usually with red/purple, quivering fingers. The other kids would stand in a circle around the duelists and cheer for them.
1990’s. My two older brothers and I would walk home from elementary/middle school every day. On the way, we passed the archery field that the high school used. There were always arrows that were left behind so we’d pick them up and just have them (I don’t know, okay?).
One day, my brother thought we should make a bow and practice catching the arrows out of the air as they were shot at us like in The Karate Kid. We did a pretty good job finding a strong stick that would bend and used a hooked bungee cord as the bowstring.
Started practicing by aiming up really high and having it arch down. Always be sure the sun is behind you if you’re the catcher After a while we aimed lower and lower until we were catching ones that were fired almost straight-on.
It was super dangerous and super dumb but the arrowheads were rounded, not sharp and the other kids in the neighborhood who saw it thought we were the shit.
As for those non-believers? Well.
Let’s just say I didn’t get all of my best Pokémon cards from packs. 😏
cgbehm · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would just jump around on couches and make lightsaber or blaster noises. I called it “playing imaginary”
My best friend and I used to play a game in elementary school called College Students. We would pretend that my room was a dorm room and we would rent huge books from the library and read them
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a minigolf game with bakugan, wood blocks, and plastic toy soldiers. I gad to knock the soldiers off.
Celebrity telephone. My brother and I would unplug the phones and bring them into the same room, and then one of us would 'call' the other and we would pretend to be two celebrities having a chat. I have a vivid memory of him being Sean Penn and me being Madonna and neither of us realizing how gross it was to be brothers and pretend to be two people who were dating.
I played Butt Fu with a neighbor of mine. We'd run at each other, jump, and turn so that our butts slammed into each other. Haven't thought about that in almost two decades...damn.
This will get buried because I'm so late but SOCKS! Here are the rules. Find the room with the best total darkness. No shoes. Hands and knees only. Whoever steals the most socks wins. That's it. Good times. Stitches only happened once.
I knew a girl who told me about a game she played with her twin sister as a child.
She said when she was about five years old, her sister and her played a game where they took a diaper. Pissed in it until it was absolutely soggy wet. And then threw it at each other like a volleyball. The goal was not to get hit.
Oh boy this is a fun one. Me and my friends used to play a game we called "SHAFTED". Its basically free for all basketball with a twist, one person has a 6ft long piece of pvc pipe and their objective is to just keep the ball from going in. Whoever scored the third basket every round became the new shafter. It wasn't really a game with a clear winner but it sure was fun.
My uncle got tired of hearing us playing Marco Polo in his pool so he taught us the silent version that was called silence of the lambs. Needless to say the first time we played this game at a friends house his parents asked us to leave and it took me years to realize why.
daxe · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it but, it was played with me and my older brothers. We kinda just fought each other on the couch in our living room. Also every time I went down (bc I was the youngest) I would go to another room that we called the "E.R." until I got back up and joined the fight again
I grew up in the boonies. No neighbors. No streetlights. When we got to go play with friends nearby we had to be driven. Our closest friends lived on a street that got almost no traffic. We used to reenact The Wizard of Oz. I always wanted to be the lion.
My brother and I would often make a line of little green apples from our trees across our street. Sometimes we would get three rows before a car came and we laughed hysterically. I don’t know why that seemed line the most fun thing ever, but it was.
In our elementary school recess yard we had these pillar things because the yard area was below the classrooms so the pillars were for the roof, however in about half of those pillars there were little “benches” around them, forming a circle in which we could seat around the pillars, and the paint they used for them was slippery. It all started by one kid sitting down, then another sat down and tried to slide into the first kid, if the first kid fell off he’d have to try and knock the second guy off by sliding, if neither fell they were now teammates, then a third guy had to try to knock them over with a slide, so on and so forth until you had kids all around a pillar sliding in circles around it trying to knock their teammates off because there was no more space left and everyone was crammed.
iSage · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game in my head when riding in the backseat of my dad's car where I could "capture" cool looking signs and use their powers to fight cars and change red lights and stuff. The cooler the name on the sign the more powerful, but also the harder to get. I remember Auto Zone was especially powerful for some reason...
My dad also spent a lot of time in a trophy store (he designed their pamphlets and stuff) and there were a lot of cool glass and metallic trophies, so I would play a similar game in there.
The reason the game worked is that we made the same drive so many times that I could keep track of what things were along the way and what I missed. It kept me busy during a lot of dull days, but I never got a good idea of how to navigate the city because I never paid attention to the road.
my cousin and i used to play a game called “check”. it was where one of us was a doctor and the other was a pregnant lady. one cousin would put her ear on the others stomach and if you heard “crackling” she was pregnant! had a lot of pregnancy scares as a 3rd grader.
"the ladder game" where my eight friends fought to get out of the pool on the tiny ladder in the deep end. If you made it past the handles you won. But it was every man for themselves and nothing was off limits. Pretty much if you didn't have a bloody/lip nose or almost drown by the time someone won then you weren't playing it right. I miss being 14.
My friend and I played "tyler and cody". We were two small girls in witness protection escaping from our evil master mind father. We traveled the world together jumping from planes into the wilderness of Iceland, Hawii, New Zeland ect. We had these balls were called "thunderbirds" or later upgraded to "firebirds" that did some really cool abilities like show hollagrams, shoot weapons, give us location on our dad, ect. She lived on a HUGE farm so we had the absolute times of our lives running around like maniacs.
"The Word Game" We often played this when we were eating at the family table or out at a restaurant. Whoever is it has to look around the area for a word. It has to be a word you can read and not the name of an object. So after you find your word you have to say the first letter of it. Let's say you find something labeled "Water" you have to say "W" then the other players has to find the word you chose. If someone gets it right they get a point, if no one gets it right you reveal the word and you get a point.
20gBag · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alot of Irish kids, myself included, used to play a game called "IRA beat up".
Basically you were divided into two teams. one team (the IRA ) was given a secret word and each player on the team a letter of that word. Then they were given a headstart and would run off and hide.
The other team would then try chase and find them and would take them hostage. Their goal was to "interrogate" the IRA kids and get them to give up their secret letter. The goal was to crack the secret word.
Here's the catch though. You were allowed to do anything to the kids u found, like regularly the games were just kids getting bet up.
In hindsight, not the best game. But at the time it was great craic.
My sister and I had a game called, "Last person on Earth". Someone would lay on the very edge of our parent's bed that was pretty high and the other would try to push you off. You could use anything to knock the other person off. So tickle them, put a dirty sock in their face, kick, punch, slap and so on. It usually ended up in a huge laugh fest as one person was desperately trying to hang on to anything while the other did all they could to know you off.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let me step in here for a second! When you grow up as a poor kid, you gotta create your own fun lol!
1) we had a small metal foundry in front of our house and my dad parked his scooter in front of it. I would climb on it and act as if I am riding it, with full sounds effects of a scooter. I would have my friends climb the pillion and we would move side to side to imitate the movement of the grand prix bike riders.
2) The other game was the train game. I would start a train out of nowhere and have the neightbouhood kids join by grabbing my tee shirt from the back and keep running. This would go on for a long time till we tired out.
3) This might be really bad, but we used to steal tomatoes from street hawkers/vendors and start smashing it on walls in the neighborhood.
me, my neighbor, and our sisters used to play in the vacant lot next to my house a bunch. we thought it was called the bacon lot because vacant was a 6th grader word lol. one of our favorite games was one where we pretended to be terrified campers and my sister was the bwolfoose: part bear, part wolf, part moose, all murder. it was pretty much just us shrieking, running around, and getting a lot of accidental skinned knees. good times
My dad had this game called "noodle ball" which basically meant we went outside to pass a street hockey ball back and forth but the goal was to get the stick under the ball to lift it in the air and get as close to the others head as possible. We also didnt own helmets.
My family had one of those giant exercise rubber balls that people can even use to sit on when at their office desks. When friends would come over, we had this made up game where we had to "crawl" on the ball, hands and knees from the loveseat in our living room to the couch (also in our living room, but with a fairly decent distance between the two). So one of us would execute this difficult task of moving forwards and yet staying on the ball while the others would throw pillows and couch cushions at them, trying to knock us off our ball, or obstruct the way so it was more difficult. If we fell off the ball for any reason, we'd lose. It was a blast!
We played "Shoot Your Brother". We owned a pellet gun because it was the '70s and common sense hadn't been invented yet. Whoever was "it" would put on two or three coats and start running down the road while another brother would see how many times he could shoot you in the back with that single-shot break-barrel gun before you were out of range.
I seem to recall that my brothers would sometimes "accidentally" shoot me in the arse instead of in my well-padded back.
Was played at a summer camp I went to. All cabins of boys and girls meet in a massive circle in a field. They would throw a rubber pig in the center and shout out two cabin numbers, then one member from each of those cabins had to charge into the circle, tackle and wrestle each other for the pig, until they could pull it back to the edge of the circle where their fellow cabin members stand.
Probably the most memorable game I played as a kid. Too bad they had to ban it after some kids got concussions.
When I was 10-12 my friends and I used to play this game called “tackle ball” on the trampoline. Usually it would be 2v2 or the occasional 3v3. We would have a basketball and the only objective was to keep the ball in our possession for as long as possible. We never really kept score, but we somehow knew which team was winning. You can probably imagine the kind of rough housing that went on during that game.
I explicitly remember drop kicking my friend off the trampoline only for him to fly 15 feet off the side of the trampoline. His teammate retaliated by diving for my legs and making me drop the ball.
Also, unrelated, but we would put fire crackers in their great dane’s dog shit for fun (RIP Max, love you dude) and we would go in the woods and chop down trees with hammers because our parents wouldn’t let us use axes.
We did dumb shit in middle school, we filled balloons with car exhaust and light them. We also found glass bottles in the woods and hit it with baseball bats and golf clubs. When we found a shopping cart we would go in the woods and push each other off the small cliff and see how far we would go.
Lava Ball, it was invented by my brother with a mini-basketball hoop, you know, the ones that would hang on the back of a door.
Anyway, the game was invented as a way to enjoy indoor basketball without getting overworked or sweaty. It worked like this, there would be a rotation of players, however many you had you’d form a line. The guy up first would shoot, then the next player up would play defense against the shooter. After the shooters shot, they’d rotate. The shooter would get in line, and the defender would now become the shooter, the next person in line becoming their defender.
The shooter would try to get it in the basket, or get it to hit the rim and then the floor.
The scoring rules went like this:
-3 points: if a shot was made in the basket
-1 point: if the ball hit the rim, and subsequently hit the floor
-0 points: if the ball hits the rim and the defender catches it
-0 points: if the ball never hits the rim at all
:all games went up to 11 points:
Misc:
• if the ball hits the rim; and bounces back to the shooter, he/she gets another shot.
•if the defender “packs” the ball (smacks the ball while it is moving upward on a shot) it is returned to the shooter
• if the defender touches the ball while it is moving downward, 3 points is awarded to the shooter for goal tending
(Pending edits for any rules changes, suggestions welcome)
Mike and mike... if my sister and I called each other anything apart from mike that person lost... also you had to say mike every minute .... no idea why we called it mike and mike
Jixor_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carroms
Not incredibly unique but i doubt many people on here know what it is. Great grandparents taught me it.
My sister and I played stair ball. One of us would sit at the bottom of the stairs, and the other would be at the top with the door closed behind them. Person at the bottom kept trying to hit the door, if they kept failing they could ask "mother may I move up X steps?" And the person at the top would say yes or no. You switch when you hit it. Our parents hated the game
gav989 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rollerblade high five jousting: rollerblade towards each other really fast and deliver the strongest high five possible. First to fall over loses
My sister and I were obsessed with Watership Down as kids. We used to play “pretend” where we would pick a character or an animal and pretend to be them and after we saw Watership Down pretend became pretend bunnies. The fact that the story was seriously disturbing didn’t escape us even as little 4-6 y/o so the pretend bunnies always took a dark turn. My dad watched us as we’d prepare traps for each other and stopped us one time when I successfully got my dog to chase after her and she screamed bloody murder (my dog thought it was a game and wasn’t being aggressive or anything). We went back to it after he left the room as long as I pinky swore I’d not sick my cockapoo puppy on her.
Ah, good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few-
Chairball- basically rugby using a standard American football and a lawnchair for the goal.
Sockball- baseball with a tennis racket and rolled up sock for a ball, runners could be tagged out by getting hit by the ball if thrown at them
Bottle rocket war- pretty much what it sounds like
We would take a few pieces of waste paper and crumple it tightly into a little ball, and wrapped tape around it to bind it properly. We would be on our knees/sitting down (this was an indoor game) and each have a net (two pillows or something, and we would use our hands to either slap the ball hard or use finesse with our wrists. Fun game
Chickadee - basically an international time traveling chicken that looked like my brother and I running around the living room saying we’re going to different countries. Idk it was fun at the time.
We used to shoot fireworks at each other, but not like your typical roman candle fight. We would divide into two teams and line up in the middle of the road a couple hundred feet apart, like line infantry, and shoot mortars and keg rockets at each other.
“Sneak attack”, it’s like hide and seek with all of the lights in the house turned off, weapons (nerf guns) and flashlights. A round ends once one person gets “killed” by a weapon (either touched if it was a toy sword or shot by nerf bullets). One player from each team had an instrument of some sort (like a toy flute) to signal their partner in the dark of another opponent nearby. Players can hold shields and “potions” in a backpack to heal.
Oh and then there was king of the hill- which is pretty self explanatory but we played it on piles of ice and snow the plow pushed up in parking lots. I remember on a particularily icey pile 7 year old me took a framing hammer to several spots to make hand and foot holds because my older sister could chuck me off too easily.
Hammers. Ice. Parking lots. Much safety.
Don't ask why it was called that but it was basically rugby but with no teams and everyone for themselves. Played with whatever ball we could get our hands on Great way to tackle and try to hurt your fellow middle school classmates you didn't like
Mummy in the Museum. We would pick a room in the house, turn off all of the lights, and hide. The “mummy” would wear a blindfold and enter the room, close the door, and try to find people. Not the most elaborate game but guaranteed to drive our parents crazy with all the screaming!
At sleepovers we'd play The Gun Game. Each team takes a corner of the basement and builds blanket forts. Then we shut off all the lights and crawl around and try to infiltrate the enemy fort. If you saw someone and knew exactly who it was, you'd say "boom, gotcha Matt" and Matt would have to go back to his fort. It was so simple and somehow worked even in our small basement.
One time our friend stayed hidden for so long we we're convinced he went upstairs but he was just so deep into a closet that no one could see him.
Me, my sister and my cousins played this game called "Pie Man" it was very similar to tag. So one person would be the Pie Man, wearing a mitten in their left hand. They would have to hit the others on the face with the mitten. After Pie Man hit someone they could not move until someone else freed them.
It was a very fun game, until my sister fractured her toe. We had to stop playing that afterwards.
My brothers and I would play "Decking Machine" when we were kids. We'd pull the cushions off the couch, unzip the covers and slide our arms between the cloth cover and the cushion, wearing them like shields. We would then go out to the trampoline and all be jumping like crazy, and decking eachother in mid-air. Kids would be flying everywhere. The last one to not cry was the winner.
thoroq · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends had a rented house on a lot owned by a construction company. So there would always be all sorts of big trucks, machinery, and building materials around. At night all of the workers would have gone home so we played a game we called Security Guard.
Basically, one guy would have a flashlight, while the other four or five would stand stay the opposite side of the lot from his house. Our goal would be I get to a tree right in front of his house before the one with flashlight pointed it at us and yelled our name. (He had to get our name right for it to count as a find). When people got found they usually just followed the security guard around "helping them" which usually meant making random noise to distract him. The last person found would have to be the next security guard.
There was always a lot of fun stuff to hide behind because of all of the construction equipment, but there was about fifty feet of clear driveway in front of his house so we would have to get creative near the end.>!!<
They were some real good times. About a year ago, the company tore down that house because they couldnt have a residential building on a commercial lot or something. It's sad because I have a lot of memories from that house. I still drive past the lot everyday on my way to work.
TLDR: Friends house had a lot of construction equipment, so we played a sneaky game hiding behind trucks.
pck_24 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dangerous trip to the top of the slippery mountain”. My brother and 2 friends from down the street tipped our trampoline onto its side, then soaked it with the hose to make it slippery. Contestants took a long run-up, then attempted to scramble to the top. It was superb.
I'd build a tunnel with our couch cushions—two on each side & a "roof"—crawl in, put one more cushion up to block the light, & lie in the darkness for hours pretending I was dead. :)
Mix Up Game. It was this game I would play with my elementary school friends everyday at recess. It’s simple in concept. You would play as any character from film, tv, or even books and fight bad guys, each other, or whatever other adventure we would come up with. Those were some of the happiest times in my life and I credit that love of creating stories with why I want to be an actor.
"Find the hidden Yoshi." This is how my sister and I turned a one-player platformer game (Super Mario Sunshine) into a two-player hide and seek game: One person would hatch Yoshi and hide him somewhere on the map, and then the other would try to find him. There was a built-in timer: if Yoshi is left unattended for too long, he disappears! Good times...
We would jump on a trampoline and throw a bottle cap at one another and you have 3 lives. After you get hit once you have to drop yo your knees and use your knees to bounce, if you get hitting while on your knees you have to drop to your stomach and roll around.
We played red rover, 2 teams lined up facing each other the team captin would callout red rover, red rover, send (insert name here) over. Then said person would run full speed and try to break the human wall of the other team. We had to stop playing because we had 3 people break there arms.
"Destroy the invisible bad guys" was pretty great. I took a hockey stick which functioned as a scyth, bow staff, gun, and club, and I killed invisible bad guys. Once I got a little older this evolved into "Kill all the dandelions in the neighbors yard". Never said anything but he probably didn't like me much
'draw' was gunslinging pistol duel with sock balls.
Barfman was reverse hide and seek, one person hides and the rest count and try to find them. When the barfman was found he tries to tag someone before the finders get back to base.
You start out with a penny and go door to door in your neighborhood asking if they have something bigger or better than the penny and then you trade them and go to the next house with whatever they gave you.
When I was young we worked our way up to a semi working BBQ grill, my dad wasn't happy.
1) McDonald’s Drive-Thru. There was a dumpster in the parking lot of our section 8 housing complex that had three walls around it. There was a small space between the wooden walls and the curb. We would take turns riding our bikes through as customers order while one kid would be taking orders on the other side of the wall. This one is pretty cringey.
2) Art Gallery. One person would be the designated artist. One person would be the buyer. The rest would be the art pieces. The artist would swing each art piece by the arms and let go. However the art pieces landed is the way they stayed. The artist would then explain to the buyer what each art piece was. The buyer then chose the piece they wanted to buy. The art piece that was chosen then became the artist. The artist then became the buyer and the buyer joined the other art pieces for the next round.
Basically we brainstormed the most eldritch and hilarious animal hybrids possible. It was great, the whole family would get in on it. We also had the "Alphabet" game where while we were driving we would make a list of things we saw in alphabetical order.
Pretend every car driving through our street was full of enemy gang members doing a driveby. Had to drop whatever you were doing to find cover and then pop out to fire back with your finger guns pointed sideways once the car passed.
If you were out in the open as the car passed you because you couldnt find cover in time, you pretended to get shot up and collapse.
We were Asian and half-Asian kids in an affluent suburb.
The land game. Each section of my yard (behind the house, beside the house, the driveway, etc) was a different “land”. Happy land, sad land, mad land and so on. You had to be whatever emotion of the land you were in. Played for many hours
Tweeters. We all pretended we were a family of penguins and had to fight against the polar bears.
xrensa · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
glass donkey, with me and my sister. One of us would come out of the "furnace" (roll off an easy chair) as a molten glob of glass. The other one would have to form all our limbs until we turned into a donkey, which then we could ride, until the donkey broke. My sister, being 3 years older, would always take forever to form and then immediately break, because she cheated a lot.
I used to look at the badge of each car and decide if it was alive or dead - audi: dead, Peugeot: alive. If there was an animal then it's alive, if not dead.
Stoop Ball (because of how stoopid the game was, seriously)
Played with 3 people or more. Everyone takes a number and gathers in a circle. One person, chosen by everyone else, is in charge of throwing the ball in the air to start the game off.
let's say we have 5 players
Step 1: a player is chosen. In this example, its number 2.
Step 2: 2 throws the ball in the air and everyone runs away quickly.
Step 3: as the ball is in the air, player 2 (the person who threw the ball in the air) yells out another players number.
Step 4: the player whose number was just called, has to run and grab the ball as player 2 (the person who tossed it) sprints away
Step 5: once the new number (ex. Player 4) grabs the ball, he yells "FREEZE!" Everyone must stop where they are.
Step 6: player 4 must then locate a person. They take 3 steps (jumps usually) in an attempt to get as close to another player as possible. Anyone is free game. Player 4 (the one with the ball taking the steps) then throws the ball at a frozen player. That player can pivot, jump, Drop to the ground, whatever, as long as they dont keave the area they froze in, in order to dodge the ball.
7 a: if the Dodger is hit, the player is out. Number 4 then grabs the ball, and restarts the toss.
7 b. If the Dodger successfully dodges, then number 4 runs after the ball while everyone else runs away. Once number 4 gets the ball. He yells freeze again and restarts his "three step" turn.
As the person throwing the ball, you had to find a happy balance of aim and force. If you threw the ball too hard and missed, then by the Time you got the ball back, everyone else could be a block away.
My cousins and siblings and myself spend countless summer nights playing this game
I would play a game that I called “Chess Hockey”. I’d use plastic chess pieces from a chess set I had, and make them play hockey against each other. I used the chess board as the field/rink, and then would use a die as the puck.
I would control both teams, so I was basically playing against myself. I distinctively remember letting whichever team was losing score so the game would be closer. I did this for years, and made my own league and would keep track of the standings and goal leaders and such.
My siblings and I would take turns putting lawn refuse bags over our heads and running around the yard. The other two would then throw stuff at us and trip you at random. It was dangerous and stupid and I'm surprised my parents would let us play it but I remember laughing so hard in both roles.
LeoD2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Storms. I don't remember how it started, but for many years, my cousin and I would pretend that huge storms were coming, and that we had to secure the house as best as possible.
Not only did we have the only safe haven from these storms, but we turned our 'bunkers' (my bedroom) into a child's dream. We had sweet dispensers in the ceiling, tv on every wall, and of course, no parents. All this while The Day After Tomorrow level of storms ravaged the world outside.
We did this every time we saw each other for several years, and we still reminisce about it from time to time.
For clarification, I was about 3 or 4 years old, and she was about 7 or 8.
Fight ball. Literally beat the shit outta eachother for the ball.
QStew · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
on road trips, my sister and i would play a game we called "your turn" - basically you had to do whatever you could go make the other person laugh. of course, there were some tried and true jokes or faces we'd make but as we got older it became much more difficult. at some point we both got ipods and stopped playing altogether.
Me and my little brother used to lay on a sofa with our heads on each armrest and just kick each other and tickle each other with our feet until one fell off the sofa, either from being pushed off or just from laughter. It was fun and worked as a game until one of us got kicked in the balls. We were like 5 or 6.
We used to play this game with my grandfather where we would wait until he sat down and got settled in a chair. Then we would come running out of our hiding spot and tape him to the chair. Now this isn’t regular tape. We were using duck tape so he would be there for a while. It was all in good fun and everyone had a good laugh about it including him. He was usually only wrapped up for about 5 minutes before we would go grab scissors and cut him out of it. Had some good memories doing it with my cousins.
loofde · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend in the last couple of years of primary school used to practice our aim at spear throwing by throwing them at each other. Basicly each of us would stand at one end of field and we would take turns throwing a blunted wooden "spear" at each other. Our aim got pretty good after a while so we added some extra rules, one of which was the banning of moving your feet when trying to dodge the spear and adding a plastic pipe that you could use to deflect the spear with as long as you didn't hit it too hard because that would shatter the pipe. We also tried setting the spear on fire once, pretty sure we stopped doing that after my jacket caught fire once, all in al its a bloody miracle neither of use ever got seriously injured. It was a great deal of fun tho, ahh to be young again...
We used to play Bedlam, a twist on Spotlight (hide and seek in the dark with torches): We draw a circle with a 2-5 meter radius in the ground. Two teams were formed and take turns Hiding and Seeking. The hiding team would hide, the seeking team would seek. If a seeker finds and tags a hider, they escort them back towards the circle. Once every hider is in the circle the round ends... but if a hider who hasn’t been caught runs through the circle (at least a meter or 2 in was the unspoken rule) and yells bedlam, everyone who is in the circle can run free. There would usually be a seeker acting as guard so that if someone does run through they can tag everyone again. Fastest team to catch all the hiders wins. We often played out in the middle of the bush or anywhere on our block with my backyard as the “Bedlam”. We are surrounded by tons of bushland so it makes it extra challenging to play. The tactic was dark clothes and using your torch as little as possible as not to get noticed.
It was played on a full tennis courts with two teams of equal sizes. Every player had three letters (A-S-S). You passed the ball back and forth over the net using soccer body parts with three bounces to return the ball. If you failed to return it a player who touched the ball on the returning team had to take a letter with each player getting eliminated after they took three letters until no one was left and a team won.
Hoccer. My best friend at the time was really into soccer and hockey so it was basically soccer, but you could check people. I stopped talking to him a few years ago for no reason. I got sick and then just stopped talking to like everybody. Oh well
My mom and I used to have ‘Socks Wars’, where after the laundry was done we would pair all of the socks, put them into 2 separate hampers, and sneak around the house looking for each other so we could bombard the opponent with socks.
Thank you for helping me remember this, it makes me happy to think about all the good memories my mom gave me.
We played a game in my friends finished basement called night-beat. As you can probably imagine, all the lights were turned off and everyone spread out, then when the game started we would proceed to beat the shit out of each other until someone cried or turned the lights on. There were projectiles and blah blah blah... we had to stop because someone was getting their ass beat and started flailing around and kicked a hole in the wall causing the power to go out.
I have told this story a little more eloquently a few times and I have people cracking up every time.
Me and my friends would play “Survival Game”. At first it had no name but eventually we just made it simple and called it Survival Game. We treated it like IRL Minecraft but it devolved into garbage when we decided to just add anything anyone suggested. So we got stuff like unobtanium and rulebreakium, which could do basically anything. Later we added supersanium (like super saiyan) which you could infuse into your weapons so you could kill aliens and goku. We actually had a system for weather too.
My cousin & I had a time travelling RPG that we played in front of my grandmother's house. The sidewalk was lifted in a couple of places from tree roots, and those were portals to different eras.
We saw dinosaurs, danced the waltz in the French Royal Palace, met the Greek Gods, it was so much fun.
Flipper. We had this giant hollow plastic ball, the size of a small child, that we would put on the trampoline and you had to dodge it. You could only move by doing a flip or somersault.
There was also a variation of that game we called "Mortal Combat," where my older brother's friends would throw that ball at you from off the trampoline. The rule for that game is that it ends when my youngest brother started crying.
My cousins and I had what we referred to as the "Girlfriend game." Basically, we'd just pick our favorite fictional female and play some form of house where they were our girlfriend. Some days, this included us picking what fictional male we were (young me shipped Vincent and Tifa for whatever reason) and had the occasional bout of pretend intercourse that was actually just us laying down, fully clothed, humping the ground.
In hindsight, it's a strange way to express one's budding sexuality.
"Dorks In The Dark". At night my brother an our friends would go into our room, shut the door, pull our shirts up over our heads so we couldn't see, and then basically just run around knocking into each other/things.
I just wanted to say that me and my brother, back in the 80's, were playing "The floor is lava" jumping from a piece of furniture to another, without any knowledge of it being known to any one els. Also we built the best fortress ever using same furniture. All of that was way before the internet boom, in a small country with a different culture.
At my school there was AstroTurf with netball lines and football lines. We used to play a sort of tig where you could not go onto the AstroTurf except in the D around the goals or in the center area where there were 2 sort of channels created by the netball lines and the football lines. You also weren't allowed to cross over the center line between the 2 channels.
We called it AstroTurf Tig (really inventive name I know), it was great fun.
Never heard of anywhere else playing this and doubt many other places if any did this because of the situation with the lines on the turf.
We threw grapes over our two story house to a sibling on the other side who would try to catch them in their mouth.
Rakor7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In High School I learned of Stanley Milgram, and his famous experiment, for the first time. As the older brother, I introduced my younger brother to a game I called the "Milgram game". It consisted of him lying on his back while I quizzed him on random facts. If he got a question wrong, I would push his legs into the air and towards his head like an extreme stretching exercise that got more intense the more questions he got wrong. He was mostly a willing participant and would laugh if it started to hurt so I knew when to ease up. Besides, he learned his state capitals and I got to dish out some harmless abuse.
Silent Marco Polo. Same concept as Marco Polo except you can't actually speak. So whoever is It has to close their eyes and listen for the other players, and everyone else has to evade them while trying to be as quiet as possible. It could get pretty tense. The hardest part is trying not to burst out laughing when the person who is It was right next to you and they have no idea!
At my dad's house, our bedroom was very dark (no windows). My sister and I would pile stuff on the bed across the room from the door/lightswitch with her on the bed and me in charge of the lights. The game was that she would grab stuff from the bed and chuck it at me after I turned off the lights. If I got to the bed without being hit, I won. If she hit me with an item, she won.
We had to discontinue the game after I got hit in the face with a rollerskate.
Napno · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would tie a piece of wood (really big piece, easily fit two or three kids across it) to a long rope that was dragged behind a four wheeler. Fun enough in and of itself, but eventually we took some chain and wrapped them in water hose to make grips so it was easier to stay on when going around turns. This eventually evolved into a moving king of the hill game where we would sprint after the board, leap on, and proceed to push and shove each other off of it.
The worst I got hurt was when a buddy ran in the opposite direction of the four wheeler, jumped and kneed me in the face. I had the good sense to not hold on to the grips and tumble off the back with a bloody nose.
We eventually had to stop after we were all briefly thrown off on a windy day. As the four wheeler went into the turn the board went airborne and since it was tied down it followed behind like a kite. It came crashing down into tmy friend knocking him clear off his feet and then bounced off the ground.
He ended up with a good chunk of his ribs broken and a long scar running across his chest where the corner of the board hit him.
I always played "Rock or Dirt Clod" with myself. I'd pick up something from my driveway that was either, well, a rock or a clod of dirt. Then I'd throw it up really high in the air and it would dramatically reveal it's true identity once it hit the ground.
Wall ball: You throw a tennis ball at a brick wall, and when it comes back you’re only allowed to let it bounce once in between coming off the wall and catching it. If it bounces more than once, and you threw it, then you have to run and touch the wall before someone grabs the ball and throws it too the wall. If the ball hits the wall before you do, you’re out. If you drop the ball trying to catch it, or touch the ball without catching it, you must run and touch the wall as well before someone throws you out.
Manhunt: We lived in a small town, and used to play a giant game of hide and seek with everyone. Didn’t matter if you were 8 years old, or 18, the whole town got a kick out of it. We always did it the opening night of our town carnival (when lights went out for the night you could hide in rides). We would all take head count at three separate churches. Whoever was oldest was in charge of getting the head count and reporting it to the other two churches either by cellphone, or running up to meet them. We had rules to stay within certain town lines, and never go up to the rich part of town, because they didn’t like kids running around. Never go past the main roads, and no messing around the hospital, police station, or fire department. You couldn’t hide in stores, or people’s houses. Yards were okay, as long as you had the owner’s permission. And the massive game would begin and last until daybreak. If you were found before the morning, you just went home. We always had a rule that when daylight came, you went home. It didn’t matter if you weren’t found. You don’t hide anymore, game’s over. Never have had an issue with missing kids or people getting hurt. We played it for several years, but it has since died.
There was a game I was playing on my HC 2000 where you were inside the human body fighting infections and viruses. You had to travel to the specific location with the problem and fix it. Forgot the name of the game but I really enjoyed it at the time.
"Drive by". We used to act like passing cars were doing drive by shootings and try and run and hide behind trees. Ahhh the hood old days.
olipra · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play a “game” after school everyday where we’d collect cicadas from the trees in my backyard and keep them as pets. We needed somewhere to keep them so we’d take a drawer out of my fridge, dump the contents onto the table, put the cicadas into the drawer and back in the fridge because that was the only thing we could think of that could keep them contained. My mom would get mad at us every day because we ruined food and put bugs in her fridge, but we kept doing it.
we used lincoln logs to make structures, barriers, and used plastic cowboy and indian figures (akin to green army men) along with a measuring tape and a deck of playing cards. Was our own version of 40k as kids. Now there is a game called Maulifaux (spelling may not be correct) that is pretty damn close too what we "made up"
Growing up, I went to a summer camp where we kind of had "class" schedules, except instead of classes we'd go to, we'd go to some fun (usually sports) activity. One of these was "mountain biking", I lived in the suburbs, there are not mountains, it was just biking.
We would play this one game called "Circle of Death" where we'd ride to a local park with a soccer field and use the centre circle as the ring. It was a big game of chicken on bikes. We'd all get in the circle and ride around trying to be the last person in the ring. Someone was "out" if they 1) rode out of the ring, 2) touched their foot on the ground, 3) touched someone else's bike with their body or their bike.
We'd now have 15-20 pre-teens on bikes playing a giant game of chicken. It was a lot of fun and I got pretty good and riding my bike, but in hindsight it was pretty dangerous. I can't believe they let us play this at summer camp.
Basically you and a friend(s) go on opposite sides of the street with a raised gutter(curb) on both sides and use a football to then throw at the opposing persons gutter, if you make a clean hit on the top of the gutter and the ball bounces back you step out, and throw again, each hit you move closer.
However once you miss you go back to your gutter start point and other person takes their go, first to reach opposing gutter wins.
The car game. We lived on a side street in between two busy main streets, during traffic multiple cars would cut through our neighborhood to get to the other main road. The gist of the game was that you had to be in the bed of dad’s truck (or a hula hoop if dad was at work)when the car passed you or you were dead.
It was fun because cars could come from any of three places (north end of the street, south end of the street, or the street that ran parallel to ours and essentially ran right into our driveway). We would have lookouts at each spot and when they spotted a car coming they would yell “CAR!”, and everyone would run like mad to get back to the truck/hula hoop in time.
The thing is, little kids aren’t very fast. They’re definitely not faster than a car rolling a stop sign and onto our street, so we had to adopt the point rule. If you were at the south side (the longest stretch) and weren’t gonna make it, you could call out the name of someone inside the truck bed/hula hoop and point at them. If they called your name back and pointed them you had created a connection to the safe zone and you were safe. Otherwise you had to sit out for one car cycle.
Me, my sisters, and my cousins played that game all the time as kids. That, paired with memories of letting our dog loose in the neighborhood to chase and catch him, eating tangerines on the roof in summer, and building forts in the air yard of the house. Those were good days.
“Mermaids.” My sister and her best friend started this, and I joined in because I was the annoying younger sibling that wanted to be a part of everything.
We’d lay out this massive blue blanket on the bed, it’d trail off onto the floor, and we’d sit and pretend to be mermaids. Pretty normal, I guess. The unique part is that we’d stick our legs into pillows and use those as our tails. It was also kind of like “the floor is lava” since we could only live in “water” - we could only move if something blue was under us, like the blanket or other pillows.
We’d sit on the bed pretending to bask in sunlight, sipping on juice that mom put in plastic martini cups for us. We’d be absolute bitches to each other, and we’d try to “kill” the rudest mermaid by pushing her out of the “water.” We were all very nice and polite kids so I think this was our outlet. I remember I got pushed out pretty early so I just had to be dead for like an hour - I just started burping and saying I was decomposing. It was a lot of fun but really weird looking back on it.
So when we'd get flat pack furniture and my parents were building it, I'd get inside the box it came in and my older brother would randomly stab it with a Phillips head screwdriver. I had to not get it.
"bag tag" a sleeping bag over the head of whoever was "it" then a mix of tag and hide and go seek.
Also ninja tag in the entire neighborhood, 2 teams one hiding the other seeking at night. If more people made it back to "base" from team A they won if team B caught more people they won. Usually there were 10-12 of us and we ranged maybe 8 blocks.
"Bumper cars!" I thought everyone played it but in describing it to other people I've just been met with blankness/incredulity.
It's pretty simple. You fold your arms and run around at full pelt attempting to collide hard, frontally (with your folded arms), with the other players and knock them down. Last man standing is the winner.
Also, I know it's not unique so not ideal answer but surprised I haven't seen it mentioned. We played a game we called "Denio" (DEN - ee - oh? Denny-o?)
One person closes their eyes and counts at some place or object (we used a bin in the playground, for some reason) while everyone else runs off and hides. Hiding isn't really necessary though I guess.
Everyone except the person who is "it" had to get back to the beginning spot, 'den' (so the bin, in this case) and touch it and say "Denio 1 2 3 home" (iirc) and so the game ended for them, I guess they 'won'. The person who was it had to try to catch the other people by grabbing them and saying "Denio 1 2 3 caught" (iirc). Once caught, you also become a chaser.
I think really the way to actually 'win' the overall game was be the original chaser and have nobody get back to 'den' in your round.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide around the fence." Basically hide and seek, but since I lived in the country basically there weren't alot of places to hide. So 2 of us would try and find a place behind the shed, or in the ditch, or around the fence and when we saw the "tagger" we would run our asses off. First person the tagger touched would then become the tagger.
It sounds boring, but it was actually pretty damn fun. It was even more fun when you played at night and wore dark clothes. You just had to watch out for bears and snakes.
My sisters and i were weird ass children. There used to be a commercial for a lawyer that had the tag line “Larry H Parker worked for me” and our “game” was to ride our bikes down a hill by our house as fast we could screaming “PERRY H LARKER WORKED FOR MEEEE” Absolutely no idea why or why we pronounced his name like that or at all. Like I said, weird as kids and we’re weird ass adult women now too
In elementary school, my best friend at the time would come over to my house and we would play a game we made up called "Nazi." It was basically hide and seek, except for we would turn all the lights off and cover up the windows to make the room as dark as possible.
Me an a friend, both little boys, used to play “pregnancy chamber” where we would sit in a pine tree alcove in his yard and hold each other’s hands and encourage each other to push and breathe as if we were giving birth.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play 5 man soccer on a trampoline where you could only kick the balls if you jumped
"Tinker toys" the toys had full could move on the ground and the jungle gym but couldnt run. They chased the kids who could run but not touch the ground. Last kid not turned into a toy won
Also "tape ball" which was monkey in the middle but the monkey could play full contact. You also played with a ball of tape
Another thing we'd do as kids was to go out to this field and climb down the manholes into the storm sewers. We'd eat lunch down there, crawl from end to end, and just had a grand old time. Someone saw yes, though, and saved us from our stupidity, and sealed the manholes shut.
I only realized later that if it had rained suddenly, we could have easily drowned in these storm drains and nobody would have been the wiser! Ack!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played "marbles down the stairs"
Was like bowls (bowling on a green), but with marbles, our bannister handrail was a perfect fit to have marbles roll down it.
A massive marble would be rolled down first, then the opne who got closeset with small ones won.Our parents used to go mental as we dented our oak front door and smashed many marbles while playing.
My brother and I always had lots of little games that would pop up from whatever we were doing. But there are two that we played depending on if we were outside out inside.
Outside, I would stand in the doorway of our tree house and he would stand on the ground facing the door. Then he would throw a bouncy ball as hard as he could to try to hit me and I would try to duck either side of the doorway to not get hit. It would leave target shaped bruises like a paintball.
Inside, we would build Lego cars and then crash them together from about 6 feet apart. The first to get the others person to fall out was the winner. But sometimes the two cars would miss and hit the other person in the legs.
I’m the oldest and I have a sister 2 years my junior and a bro 10 years younger. Our mom is a tiny, sweet, wholesome woman that never curses and raised us accordingly. I was a lil badass and I started the flip off game. We had to flip each other off in the presence of our mom without her noticing. Extra points if you were touching mom!
We played this game where we'd blindfold a person and that person had to catch someone in the room and guess their name while holding them. If the person was guessed correctly he/she becomes the one with the blindfold. While you are not holding (while blindfolded) anyone you can call out anyone's name and they have to respond "I'm over here!".
It sounds like a fun game except that the one who was blindfolded was locked in a room with the rest and the rest could hit him with any not too hard object to avoid being caught. There was blood and cries from time to time. I forgot what we called it, but everyone wanted to play it and let out their inner rage or avange someone for something. Sometimes we'd even scream loud a "fuck you" to confuse the blindfolded person about where we are or push them into a corner or something.
It was kinda fun, but, man, we were barbaric.
Zombies, we would have one person start as a zombie and have to bite other players until everyone is a zombie. This game was very against the rules at my school so we played it in secret during recess
We had a game called ‘Snake Hotel’. If we found a snake (usually just a common garter snake), we would take it to our Snake Hotel to stay, which was a pipe sticking out of the side of our house, and we’d make up stories about what they did there.
What we didn’t realize was that this circular opening was actually connected to the furnace in the cellar. We were sending snakes into our furnace.
Friend had a back patio that served as base. If you stepped off the patio you had to make 1 full lap around the house before being allowed back on base. 1 person was "it". If they tagged someone the tagged person became it. Whoever had managed the most "laps" before the "it" person tagged someone won that round.
We would play for hours during summer vacation. Like all day. start after lunch, play til dinner.
We would just throw sticks in the road at the bus stop and watch cars run over them. Then one day we decided to take it up a notch and just throw sticks at cars. One guy turned around so we all booked it up a tree and he just stood there at the bottom yelling at us until the bus came.
"Yeah my me and my Dad played a game called switch before. Yeah, you put one finger in mouth and the other up your ass. When he shouts switch you switch your fingers as fast as you can."
Bucket ball...admittedly a terrible name but we weren’t very creative back in grade 6. Basically it was a strange version of a basketball/netball/quidditch hybrid played with a tennis ball. It was played with as many people as possible. And involved throwing a tennis ball around a team on a large field. Basically you could throw it anywhere to your team but if you had the ball you weren’t allowed to move. You scored points by throwing the ball into a bucket at either end of the field. When there were more players we used to add more balls and buckets. I only have great memories of this game and it was played every recess and lunch at school. I still think about it every now and then and how fun it was
I "invented" a game that was basically "the floor is lava". Only we had a pit with "black beasts of Gabon" instead of lava. The beast was supposed to roam the room slowly and attack by grabbing the hand if someone steps on a floor.
Fun fact. Much later I found out that my fantasy land of Gabon is actually a real country in Africa. oh.
Our back steps faced an intersection. The street facing north only showed a small portion of the road. My sister and I would sit on the steps and say "ok, the next car coming that way is yours." It was super funny when a beat up car would show up. We would laugh and point at each other "ha ha ha! You got an ugly car." It was bad ass when a nice car drove by. We would play fight dating "no that one is mine! No, it was my turn!" We would do this for an hour or so. It was a small intersection in a neighborhood, so the anticipation was also part of the fun.
In elementary school, although I'm from Germany, we were not allowed to play soccer on the yard so we invented our own game called 'Rollball'. You could only roll or hit the ball with your hands, never with your feet. Holding the ball in your hands was forbidden as well. Everything else was like in soccer. It was great and when we left elementary school we all vowed to make the game popular at our new schools. Didn't happen of course but I have great memories from playing it.
After reading some children’s book, my siblings and I came up with “The Green Eyed Monster”. My grandfather, (who has Parkinson’s, and couldn’t play many games with us) played with us everyday we visited. He would take his glasses off, and chase us around the house as we ran and hid. By now we’ve grown out of it (I’m turning 17 today), but my grandma made us all little dolls of him last Christmas. The doll had a shirt made from my grandfather’s, glasses in one hand, and green eyes to top it off. I’m hoping one day to continue the tradition if I ever have any grandchildren
There was a video game called Deer Hunter... Or maybe Deer Hunter Hunt? I don't exactly remember, but the whole premise of this game was that you were this anthropomorphic cartoon deer that would hunt deer hunters. You also had these "calls" to attract hunters like, "Oh my God... THERE'S A THIRTY POINT BUCK OVER HERE!"
Outside of video games, there was always the classic "the floor is lava". We also had a thing where we pretended to uncontrollably fall down some stairs that where padded with some really thick carpet. I don't know why, but Vampire House was a thing. Pretending to be a family of vampires living together in a house, doing that vampire hiss every so often and then using decorative cups as props for when we pretended to drink blood. I really don't know wtf was wrong with us. We're all normal civilized people now.
My friends and I just played every single game of tag imagineable. We played tag on bikes. Tag on rollerblades. We played one game of tag where we had one of those rubber balls that had elastic string attached to it and a wrist strap. We'd run around pelting eachother. Just so many different variations of tag.
"Gaga Ball". I have no idea where the name came from. There were 5-10 players and the aim of the game was to either hit an opponent's foot will a ball or get it through their legs. You defended yourself with your hands so any onlooker would see a bunch of tiny kids running around like deranged crabs completely hunched over screaming at eachother.
My best friend and I during Spring and Summer would play outside (obviously) and whenever we conveniently found sticks in the ground in the form of an 'X' as in X marks the spot, we'd dig to see what we can find.
I recreated Pokemon Red using Pokemon TCG cards. Would lay out a bunch of cards facedown in the shape of Pallet town, routes to other towns, stacks of cards for gyms, etc. Tried to match Pokemon encounters with their respective routes, eg Pikachu is facedown in the area where Viridian Forest should be.
I’d start with Charmander and move 1 space at a time, flipping them face-up to uncover Pokemon (battle them by flipping coins to determine what attack they used, ignore energy cards) or trainer cards (items to put in my bag). If I won, I gain exp and with enough exp, Charmander levelled up and gained some HP and attack power. If Charmander reached lv16 I replace Charmander with my Charmeleon card.
I also caught Pokemon by rolling dice, forgot the rules, I think common cards were like 4,5,6 to catch, rare or holo cards were 6 to catch.
It was so much fun and if I could find my card collection I’d totally play again as an adult.
We’d have like thirty or so guys playing, and one guy would get a football and have to go hide in the neighborhood. He was the Bitch. Our goal was to find him and tackle him, then whoever got the ball next was the new Bitch. Nobody wants to be the Bitch, so it was kind of a hot potato deal once we tackled him. Generally one of the smaller guys would get left behind with the ball and have to go hide. I don’t think we ever effectively played more than like 2 rounds in a day ever. Brings back memories of bruises and black eyes.
Basically tag, where one person is "it", and attempt to tag another player to pass the title.
It combines elements of Marco polo though, as the "it" person must close their eyes.
The game is played on a playground, and if the "it" person suspects that a player is on the ground, they can call out "groinders", to pass the "it" title.
The game was quickly banned after a friend bruised a rib, and bad to go to the hospital during recess.
We called it “peg the peep” and it was played with a trampoline and a dodgeball.
Basically one person jumped up and down on the trampoline. You had to be jumping or you’d get kicked off.
People standing around the trampoline took turns throwing the dodgeball at the jumper as hard as they could. Dodgeball rules applied. The person who effectively hit the jumper then got to be the next jumper. If the jumper caught the ball, they could pass it to whomever they wanted for the next throw.
Surprisingly, no one got critically injured. There were some absolutely fantastic dodges and catches that happened.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sometimes I'd pull out a DS and play a little sound file I had made on it, and toss it at my big brother. Then we'd slide it back and forth and try not to be the one holding it when it "Exploded". Good times.
At elementary school we played a game called muff. Two of us would stand maybe 5 feet back from a soccer ball facing each other with the ball in the middle. Then on some signal we’d both charge the ball and try to kick it forward so we’d always end up at the ball around the same time kicking it from opposite directions at the same time trying to power through the other kid.
So many bruises shins. I can’t remember if we screamed muff as we kicked it either. I think we did.
When I was a little kid my aunt had this plastic bowling set she would set up for my sister and I to play with in a hallway. For whatever reason I would take my shirt off and declare we are playing macho bowling. I was like 6 or 7 at the time. Idk where this came from.
I made up a game to play in the car with my mom as a very young child that I called "Hospital or Cemetery". Basically, I would name a gruesome scenario in which a person was injured, for example "a person jumps off a cliff holding a bunch of balloons, but some of the balloons pop and they bounce down the cliff and land on some spikey rocks." and then scream excitedly "HOSPITAL OR CEMETERY!?" And my mother would have to guess where the person went, with four-year-old me as the ultimate judge. And then my mom, who is fucking awesome, would humor me and in turn name a fucked up scenario which would result in hospital or cemetery. We would sometimes go back and forth the whole car ride.
Didn't realize how dark this was until I was explaining this to my boss a few months ago and she said "wow what other fucked up stuff did you come up with as a kid?"
Kids at my elementary school played a game called "Crackabow"? ("Crack" like the sound a stick makes, "a bow" like what you do at the end of a performance)
It was basically dodgeball with a single ball, no lines, and the player holding the ball had some special abilities. There were sometimes teams, and sometimes every man for himself.
The game started by "cracking" the ball, meaning they spike it on the ground so it would bounce 3 times. Then whoever recovered the ball would start trying to hit other players. If the ball was caught, the thrower was out. This also applied to teammates, so passing the ball was by bounce pass only, or else you got your teammates out by accident. Headshots were illegal, I think this rule was forced on us by the teachers. But this was also used as a defensive measure, so players could deflect the ball with their head to avoid getting out.
Anyone could "crack" the ball at any time, bringing everyone back into the game. This could also happen on accident if the ball missed someone and just happened to bounce 3 times. This meant players had to work together to recover each other's throws before the ball bounced 3 times, in order to progress the game.
The game ended when a only one team or 1 player remained.
For context, this was a recess game played in Central NY around 2002-2005.
I've always been curious if anyone else played this game, or where it came from.
This was a game me and my brother came up with when we were still in primary school. My brother was on a quad-bike a fair distance behind me and when the game started I had to run to the "safe zone" at one end of the garden as he tried to run me over on the quad bike and I would duck and weave to avoid him. We didn't play it for very long as in one game I fell over and he ran me over which eventually lead to our Mum finding out due to the screaming. Didn't break anything though but I still had to go to the doctors.
We all lived on military bases in LA(state) so we would go outside and end up playing in the woods. The woods used to be where they did military training exercises so there were plenty of old fox holes and discarded military supplies like ammo boxes, sandbags, etc..
We were broken into groups by which street we lived on such as the Ryan streeters' and the Grove streeters'. Each street was at war with another street and the weapon of choice was clods of dirt that we would throw at each other. We would spend hours digging our fox holes deeper, digging passages between them, and camouflaging them as best we could.
I always look back on that time in my life fondly because I had no worries and I got to spend a large part of my time outside in the wilderness.
I used to play a game called “Balmania” with my step brother when we were kids. We had our imaginary friends play and it was a bit of a Harry Potter/imaginary friend mashup. We would send our imaginary friends off to hogwarts and play quidditch with them and make up all kinds of scenarios depending on the weather. In the winter we had snow fortresses, etc. We called it Balmania because that was the planet everything took place on.
Unfortunately after his dad passed away my stepbrother went to live with his grandparents and we lost contact. I’ve tried to find him on Facebook but no luck. Brandon, if you’re out there I hope you’re doing okay. I’m sorry that my mom was the evil stepmother to you. Last I heard you were playing football up north at your new school so I hope everything worked out for you and you’re happy.
We called it “Footy Go”. We had this 4-wall gazebo in our school yard. Each wall was an entrance to the gazebo but also acted as a goal without a net. We were kicking ball really hard and tried to score goals. Only counted if it was a ricochet from the ceiling or the floor though.
Blob. Basically there's one guy who's the Blob and he runs around and tries to tag someone. When he does the hold hands and try to get more people. This was on a basketball court so eventually if you got enough people you could completely surround someone but the catch is that when you're that close together you can't move any farther. So you either wait him out or get the edges to back out and have the center go in etc. I loved that game.
My brother and I use to play, "here's socks!" Essentially socko was a sock that we would have on our hand and the goal was to make each other east socko. No point really because it was just me eating a sock thanks to the size difference but if was always fun to get him back really good when he wasn't expecting it.
At my school they had these tiny rooms for music lessons. Like so small. We used to get as many of my friends as we could in and throw a rubber egg at the walls as hard as possible and see who could get hit in the balls first. Those were the days.
My sister and I frequently played a game called "Security".
It essentially boiled down to us using a defunked rotary phone to call "Security" about ever increasing ridiculous concerns frequently about an imaginary college named "Jonny". I think we may have been working at a fictional hotel desk. (I am not sure why we found this so entertaining.)
For example: "Secuuurrriiittyyyyy!!!!! Jonny has broken into the freezer again and is eating all the ice cream!!!"
or
"Securityyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! There is an elephant in the lobby- can you send someone to take care of this please?!?!?!?"
The boulder game. Anyone remember that episode of Thomas the Tank Engine where a boulder chases one of the trains down a mountain? Well that was one of my favorite episodes as a kid so I made a game out of it with one of those plastic balls that expands as it rolls. We’d run down the stairs and someone would roll the ball down and you’d try to make it down before being run over by the boulder. Fun times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's one called 'Screenball' I haven't heard of anywhere else.
Basically you play on a baseball diamond with a tennis ball. The tennis ball is thrown at the cage(? The metal screen the catcher sits in front of). You have a set order and the preceding player determines what happens to the next:
If the ball is thrown and gets stuck in the wire the next player is out.
If the ball is thrown and it hits the pole, the next player has to hit the pole or they are out. The harder you throw the further back it goes, making it harder for the next player.
Play until one player remains.
That's it. Fairly simple but was loads of fun from grades 4-6. Man I miss childhood.
Me, my cousin, and his brother. Have been close our whole lives. We’re all basically bestfriends. When we were young my cousin would come up with literally on the spot little role playing games for his brother and I to play. He would always be the bad guy and he would get all these papers with the “gear” we could buy. He would tell us how much money we got from killing a new bad guy, we’d get the money and our little piece of paper would say what gear we had.
Did the gear ever make a difference? No. But my imagination at the time was enough. I would feel like a badass if my paper had enough sick items on it. I’d give anything to go back to those days.
jbmb12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Sleeping Bag Game”. One person would be inside a sleeping bag and standing up and everyone else would hit them with pillows and stuff. The objective for the person in the sleeping bag was to tackle someone and hold them for 5 seconds. If they did that successfully then the tackled person was now the one in the sleeping bag. The main objective for anyone outside the sleeping bag was to knock over and hit the person as much as possible while not getting tackled. It was quite fun needless to say unless you were in the bag.
Me and my friend played "sharks and octopuses( we didn't know how the plural). We would stand on a mattress pretending it was a raft. Then we'd pretend an octopus or shark was dragging us down into the deep. It was complete with dramatic rescues and promises to never let go.
In high school (all boys, Catholic) we played nutball between classes or during study halls. You sit across from each other on the ground, anywhere from 10 to 30 feet apart, with your legs spread. Then you take turns throwing a ball trying to hit each other in the nuts. The ball was whatever we happened to have on hand, usually a tennis ball or soccer ball, but there was occasions where a lacrosse ball or football was used. Rules were simple: underhanded throws only, ball had to go above the tallest player's eyeline, and if you flinched the thrower got up to three free shots (amount varied because sometimes the free shot was allowed to be thrown normally, depending on who was playing). Winner was whoever lasted the longest before tapping out, but let's be honest, there were no real winners here.
No idea how this started, but anytime we got caught playing it, the teachers would just shake their heads and call us idiots.
leonmo · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Raccoon Ball". This was a two player game involving a plastic bowling set. Players sat at opposite ends of a hallway and used the pins to bat the ball back and forth. I can't remember what the goal was, or if we had a scoring mechanism.
Me and my sister made up our own irl harry potter video game. We had hit points and each spell had a damage amount. This was the perfect game for us as our yard was connected to our neighbors lawn, who happened to be my grandma. So we'd pick up sticks and run around this giant yard calling bullshit when someone cast avada kadavra.
Fokale · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will be buried but "hide the box" was ours. We were usually at our grandparents during the summers who weren't exactly well off. They had a big yard with a small barn on it. Well we would take turns hiding a soda box (think 12 pack size) and the others would need to hunt it down. Riveting stuff!
While riding a car i used to imagine two poles extending out towards either side which i could control by flexing each of my butt cheeks. The goal was to lift the poles whenever an obstacle or a passing car went by. It passed the time, plus free butt workout!
There was a dodgeball that a bird had crapped on near the trampoline. So we threw the ball on the trampoline and you couldn't let it touch you while you were jumping. Last person to not get touched wins.
We cleaned the ball but the game remained. Many hours were spent dodging that ball on the trampoline.
We would stand on both sides of a pond and shoot arrows at one another. Not sure why we would ever think there’d be no consequences? Fun for awhile until I took one in the thigh. Still have the scar! Decided we should do something that wasn’t as dangerous so we switched to BB gun wars 🙄
Card-boarding or Box-boarding.
We would find a square piece of cardboard and slide on the snow like a snowboard and we would build ramps and shit. No idea how I didn’t break any bones as a child...
1Fr4me · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play with “lightsabers” We didn’t use the store bought lightsabers though since we always hated fighting with those because we would actually get hurt when we hit each other. Instead we bought some PVC pipe and those pool noodles (which happened to fit together perfectly) and hit each other with those.
As the months went on a lot of kids got into it in my neighborhood. We made up a whole point system and people started making custom lightsabers with different colors and different styles, such as double light sabers (like dearth maul) and even started putting bike grips for hilts!
Later we made up a whole point system and would take rounds sparring to see who could get the most points! I always wanted to make a business selling them but after episode 3 came out the fad died.
Car game - My house was in the middle of a hill so roads were about equal on both sides. My friends and I would stand outside in the middle of the lawn, and when we saw a car driving on the street we would try to run to the far side of the house relative to the car. If the car passed your body without being on the side of the house and laying down you lost.
Beanie baby wars. Back in the day when beanie babies were popular. We had an insane amount so we would divide the basement in half, and each team built forts and barriers to hide behind. Then we would basically play dodgeball with the beanie babies.
We played a game that we called "Fun". When we would go to our aunt's house there wasn't much to do, but she has a slight hill in her front yard, at the bottom of the hill was the sidewalk. It was basically king of the hill styled, everyone starts at the top of the hill and tries to throw the rest down the hill and stay at the top. We would stop playing once someone got hurt, because it was no longer "fun" when someone was crying. We played tons of dumb games as kids.
We would jump on the trampoline with a volley-ball, a basketball, and a soccer ball. DONT LET THE BALLS TOUCH YOU. We would like jump near each other and dive out of the way to get each other out.
My friends and I created a tag game around my swimming pool when we were kids. One person was it, but they couldn't leave the swimming pool, the others could. One end of the pool was wide enough that we could stand safely without being tagged, the other end was narrow. The challenge was to cross the pool to the narrow end and then back without being caught. The person who was it also couldn't catch you if you were underwater. There was a limit of 3 tiles where you could walk on the sides of the pool, so you don't just run to the other side.
It became so popular that the whole neighborhood knew how to play it, but it only really worked in my swimming pool. Those are some of the greatest memories I have of my childhood.
Cousins, brother and I played a bomb game using the Perfection Game by Hasbro.
The four of us would start the timer and collectively complete the puzzle then all of us run away and hide before it explodes. If it exploded before you could hide you were caught in the blast radius and died.
There was another game my brother and I played as we got older it was basically who could wrestle each other from their bedroom to the others bedroom. Our rooms were across the hall from eachother so it would be a wrestling match to see who could forcefully drag, pull and wrestle the other into their room. It also involved submission, if you tapped out you lost there was a lot of choke holds and twisting extremities.
My parents had a pool. So me and my cousin would play a game where one of us when to the front yard and hurled a football over the house, trying to get it in the pool. The other person would be standing by the pool and would try to catch it to prevent them from scoring a point. Them was the days
We used to chuck golf balls at each other while in a swimming pool if it didn't skip on the water before it hit you it wouldn't count as a hit. Great game, too bad it never lasted that long.
REAL REAL young me and my next door neighbor used to play “the two thing game”. You just pick two careers and jump on a trampoline pretending to do them. I was always like a Pokémon trainer and in the army, or something like that.
Scramble It: basically it, but played on a playground apparatus that was a tunnel made of rope, (holes just big enough to fit through it you went through the side). You weren’t allowed around the sides where the entrances to the tunnel were, and basically everyone would just slide under or climb over if the person who was up, who would be on the other side, made a move. Such a lit game, but we got told off so many times because it was ‘dangerous’ (primary school).
‘Fry or Die’ whenever we got a helium balloon (birthday parties etc) we would use the static to get it to stick on the tv and then take it in turns getting electric shocks from it...
We would have Homey sock fights, named after Homey the Clown from In Living Color. We would ball up socks into other socks, and then beat the crap out of each other with them.
Back in primary school about 14 years ago (while most of the other boys in our year would play football etc) me and like 10+ other friends would do team based imaginary shooting games together. We used to throw small things like twigs as ammo and large objects like bean bags as grenades. If you were close up to someone you could karate chop them to act as a knife kill. Last team alive would win.
To pass the time when I was younger I would look out the window at the car registration plates as they went past and calculate the number I'd need to add to the plate to make 1000 before it went past. E.g. E657 6XD would be 343.
Now as an adult I'll randomly see a number plate and remember this game and curse myself for the next 5 minutes as I can't help adding numbers up to 1000.
It's the mathematical curse equivalent of consciously breathing and now I pass it on to you.......
We played this game called Zat Game. Essentially we would run back and forth across my cousins basement. The person who was it would have to peg the other people with kickballs or nerf bullets or things like that. It was fun but really dangerous because his basement was unfinished so there was metal beams and concrete everywhere.
"Ruggaball". We would line a room with mattresses we'd found and throw a ball in the middle. Then proceed to just beat the absolute shit out of each other, fighting over the ball. There was no point or time system. Just whoever seemed to have had the ball for the longest amount of time until everyone gave up was basically the winner. Drew won every. Fucking. Time. He was tough as shit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends and I would go one walks with his dog and basically play a verbal DnD style game that we would go back to every walk and continue. We kinda just stopped one day, but it was great.
ck2d · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Winnebago. We'd set two chairs up in front of a window and try to tell each other the most outrageous travel stories. First one to crack up lost.
Drunk driver. We had a trampoline with a net and one of those big fisher price cars from when we were younger. A bunch of us would bounce the car and try to not get hit.
We lived on a lot in the country, surrounded by farmers fields. Every few years the crop would be corn. My two brothers and I would go out into the corn fields once it had grown tall enough that we were completely obscured and run in different directions. There was something you would yell (I forget what exactly) and everyone would have to pause and yell back. Based on this yell and the sound of a hyperactive 10 year old running recklessly through a corn field, we would pluck a corn stalk out of the ground, root ball covered in hard soil, and huck the fucker as hard and as high as we could in the general direction of a brother, with the intention of the game being to hit them.
Basically a dangerous redneck cross between Marco Polo and lawn darts.
It's lucky, looking back, that in the many years we played this we never once hit each other. The root ball and soil on our leafy green javelins probably weighed a pound or more and was most likely full of stones. If one of us took one to the skull, it could have quite possibly knocked them out or at least hurt them really bad. I cringe at the thought of taking a jagged piece of rock in the eyeball. We were 3 children, 4' tall in the middle of a 7' tall corn field that stretched on for hundreds of acres, oh, and did I mention the coyotes?
No one would have been able to find us if we were out cold. Hell, even if someone was screaming it'd probably have taken a while. But when you're 10 years old growing up n the middle of nowhere, you don't think about shit like that.
When I was growing up, my grandpa had an old game console that played ataari games. My favorite was dig dug. I loved dig dug so much that my 3rd grade friends and I developed an outside game that could be played on the lines of the basketball court. It was basically tag but the diggers could only run on the white lines and the dragon could cut through them, to tag you and make you the dragon. The number of dragons increased until all diggers were dead.
Well, I had a bad habit of not putting the dig dug disc back in the case and box when I switched it out for other games....so I broke it when I stepped on it one day. He didn't get angry, but he was disappointed I didn't take better care of the game since it was technically irreplaceable. I felt so bad about it and I remember going to school the next day and telling my friends we couldn't play the tag version of Dig Dug anymore. Since I broke the disc, I also "killed" the game...
We called it Chinese Fire Drill although it was nothing like getting out of your car and running around. It was large-scale hide and seek with a group of friends and their parents. The parents would be driving around in a van and us kids would be hiding around an area within a few blocks boundary. This was a very small town so I don’t see how this could be feasible in most places.
During heavy storms, tropical storms, or hurricanes my dad, brother, and I would be in the garage and play "truth or dare" which was actually just challenging each other to run outside and touch something and run back. Like a neighbor's mailbox, or bushes, or a parked car.
My siblings and I had a trampoline that we played a game we called "dodge the ball" on. We would basically throw a soccer ball or two onto the trampoline with us, and the idea was to dodge it for as long as possible as it rolled towards you constantly. Whoever was out last won. Was a lot of fun honestly, especially when we threw multiple balls into the mix.
Me and my sister would take a bouncy ball and hit it in the ground as hard as we could and we would try to track it down and whoever got it was the next to throw it
My brother would pretend he had terrible (I’m assuming overly exaggerated) Tourette Syndrome. I was his caretaker and had to put him to bed, perfectly flat on his back, legs and arms straight. Tuck him in under the covers all proper like before social services showed up to monitor how well I was taking care of him.
He would flail around randomly, making it almost impossible to get it right. Never mind putting the covers on and tucking him in nicely. Things would always end up a total disaster with our whole bedroom a mess. It didn’t help that he’s 8 years older than me. Made for very heavy legs and arms.
It would end with me trying to smother him with blankets just as social services showed up and I would lose my job. Lots of laughs though.
Tw_raZ · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
6+ kids would stand in a circle and the kid in the middle of us would have a blindfold. The goal was to switch positions with other kids in the circle (not adjacent to you) but you couldnt get caught. How would you get caught? The kid with the blindfold could shout and raise the blindfold in intervals of at least 5 seconds to try to catch someone, but if they messed up 3 times in a row without getting it right once then they had to sit out and a new person went in the middle. If you got caught, you were thrown out, it was basically last 2 people standing win.
I used to play "Pokémon" with my younger siblings, where they would run around the living room and I would just pelt them with super bouncy balls. The sick fucks enjoyed it more than I did.
We would play "blob" my older brother get under a hunger blanket, sit in the middle of the stairs and we would have to try and get through, over,around, basically make it to the top or get thrown down. It was shocking that none of us were ever more injured.
Mendzo · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and i liked to play lego Roleplay as a child
And i was basically the mayor and control the economy and value of lego weapons,buildings, etc.
We used to play this with kids when I was a camp counselor. We had a large barrel and everyone would link hands in a giant circle around the barrel. If you touched the barrel, you were out and had to leave the circle. So basically you had to drag people into the barrel or use your legs to kick them into it. The large circle would usually work together to get others out. Then the circle of people got smaller and smaller until two people had to try to drag the other person into it while everyone watched and cheered. I loved that game.
Me and my cousin would take a super bouncy ball (small), go into the bathroom, lock the door and then proceed to throw the ball with all the force our small child bodies could produce, into the wall/floor/bathtub.
The goal was to cause as much havoc and destruction as possible (mostly knocking over bottles). It was insanely fun seeing this ball bouncing EVERYWHERE with the speed of light. We got into so much trouble everytime we did this.
My Scout troop used to play Irish Bulldog - you start with someone in the middle, everyone else tries to run across without being tagged. You tag someone by picking them up off the ground, which usually involves tackling them to the ground first. If you're tagged, you join the person in the middle.
We also played a navigation game where we had to take a compass bearing to a point at the top of a hill, hike/run up the hill through the woods, and find the leader who was hidden there before the other teams.
Im not the kiddo but the parent here, my daughter is 4 and I have her a few nights a week, when i have her we always have to play "princess games" where we reenact scenes from Disney movies usually with them playing in the background. She has dresses for each of them so dresses up and we will like dance around with her as cinderella and me as the prince or Belle and the Beast, or ill be one of the bad guys and chase her around the house. Shes OBSESSED with Beauty and the beast right now so we usually play that.
My dad gave us a rubber cuboid object (not sure what it was) and called it a Maja Ball (can't explain that either).
When you stood in a circle, and threw it on the ground, it flew in any direction. The object (or lack of) was to try to catch the fly Maja Ball and then throw it back onto the ground and the next person tries to catch it wherever it flies. You know I might still have my Maja Ball somewhere around here.
The game was called Ammunition. My siblings and I would hunker down behind one of the two twin beds in our room, and my sister would place her very large basket of stuffed animals in the middle of the room between the beds. The object of the game was to get to the basket, get as much "ammo" as you could carry, and get back to cover. After that it was basically just dodge ball with stuffed toys. We played this all the time and had tons of fun doing so. Fond memories!
Not a childhood game, but played as a team building exercise in high school: hotdog tag. Essentially freeze tag, but if you got tagged, you had to lay on your back and day “I’m a hotdog.” Other players could unfreeze you by laying on either side of you facing each other (the hotdog buns) and say, “you complete me.” Embarrassing at the time, hilarious looking back on it.
I was in a club called happy water with 2 other people in it in elementary school. We had a game where the first person that day to say “penis vagina buttwhisker” would be crowned “happy water.”
The happy water club also played this game in the sand box where we would walk around the outside of the sandbox. Every so often we would run across the sand box and yell “boots.”
Also, every time you talked while in happy water you had to speak with a weird speech impediment.
We played the Torchic, Eevee, Pikachu Hiding Game. It had nothing to do with Pokémon. My friend’s house had a row of large shrubs in the front yard. One person was the Seeker and the others would hide behind the bushes. We had numbered the bushes, and the Seeker called out a number and if someone was behind the bush they lost and became the next Seeker. I liked to spice it up by crawling quietly to a bush that had already been called out in an attempt not to get caught.
Iraqi war prisoner.
A bunch of us would essentially pick straws and the three short ones had to stand on the other side of the room with pillow cases over their head facing towards the opposite wall. The big straw got to be The General. The lights were then turned off, our crimes were detailed, and the general threw a tennis ball towards one of the prisoners as hard as possible, usually at the nuts
vqmatt · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a game called, "Head Wars". Kind of like tug of war, but we would put our foreheads together and push until one of our head crossed the losing point, which was usually an imaginary line.
Ghost. Inverse of hide and seek. One person (The Ghost) hides while everyone counts at the base for a minute. Then everyone splits up to look for the ghost. Once the ghost is found everyone is alerted and has to get back to the base before they are tagged by the ghost. You pick the initial ghost with doggy doggy diamonds/eenie meanie/one potato/ect. If the ghost doesn't catch anyone three times in a row you draw again.
The 2 players kneel at the ball return side of the pool table. One is stripes the other solids. Take turns trying to roll your balls into the corner pockets at the other end. First one to get all their balls stuck on the table loses.
The Slapping Game, for 2 players.
One person rolls a dice and if the other player correctly calls out the number it lands on, he gets to slap the roller of the dice. The winner was whoever could take the most slaps without giving up.
In school when we were about 12-14 years old, me an my friends (10 boys) played a game with two balls always the same balls, one was a fully pumped leather football, the other was a semi deflated basketball.
We then played the game which had one objective to kick the ball nearest to you as hard as possible at anyone you see, so we’re just there in a little (street football field) - don’t know if it’s correct in English. And this field had walls and bars on top so the balls wouldn’t fly out. And the game as said only had one purpose, hit someone fucking hard with that ball, hit the face he’ll yeah high five from everyone but the downed kid.
And btw I know the thing about the downed kid sounds like we were bullies or smth, but we definitely were not and everyone in the game were on equal footing.
Ps. Sorry for lack of punctuations and commas, not very good at it in English.
hjonk · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snake in the grass on my wrestling team! People in the middle had to be on their hands and knees and people on the outside had to put a hand on someone in the middle. Someone on the outside would tell a story until they said “Snake in the grass.”
After that everyone on the outside would break away running, but everyone in the middle would have to crawl hands and knees and try to tackle everyone who’s running.
My favorite game growing up was Monopoly. I’m pretty sure it was the first board game I got for a birthday and somehow I just got hooked. But the thing about Monopoly is that it’s long. And boring. And nobody wants to play it.
So little me decided to play it all by himself. I would set up all 8 players in a corner of my bedroom and just play the game as all 8 players, making trades to give each person a monopoly, exchanging money between each of the players. And on the the frequent chance I couldn’t finish one game, I would keep playing the same game for days and days until I finally finished. Maybe not the weirdest thing, but definitely weird.
My brother, 3 sons, and nephew play nerf wars at my moms. It’s unique because they do it in the dark and my moms house is really big and there’s lots of places to hide and then ambush. I find a quiet corner and look at my phone cuz it can last for hours! They have done this their whole lives oh and my brother is going to be 30 this year so there’s that
The group of neighbor kids would build The Machine.
We'd strap a bunch of wagons, garage wheelie cart, and such together with with bungie cords, and then have someone on a bike in the front to pull it.
Oh, and Boat Races. We'd all pick 1 piece of garbage/recycling, then run the hose for a bit from someone's driveway, then race our trash boats to see who could float to the sewer grate first. I longtime winner was Alec's flintstones push pop plunger.
The tennis ball game, one team was in a kids cabin/tree fort that was decently sized. It had a sliding door for the slide, a trap door with a rope, windows and the front door which you could open the top or bottom halves separately. And of course the whole thing was on 10 foot stilts with a ladder going up to the front door. The defending team had such a huge advantage. The attacking team would try to get into the cabin while each team was throwing tennis balls at each other. If you got hit, there was no "out". You powered thru depending on how much hits you could take. Classic move would be to climb the ladder, lean over to the right side, hanging on a window and peg tennis balls in point blank at the defending team. Broke my Nintendo advance because I took it up into the cabin depsite mom telling me not to.
Tl;Dr 2 teams, 1 defending, peg each other will tennis balls
We played "tag" but it had a twist. The person who was "it" could run and try to catch other people, but if someone makes eye contact with them, they have to freeze until the other person looks away. This kept my sister and I busy for hours.
There were two that really come to mind, these being "the sad game" and "walking into the wind." The Sad Game was simple, I would sit on the steps of my back porch and fake cry. That was all.
The walking into the wind game would involve me, and usually my dad, trudging across the back yard as if facing heavy winds. At random intervals, we would then melodramatically pretend to be blown away, spinning back across the yard. The person who didn't get blown away would call out to the victim, trying to ensure safety and attempting to mime help in whatever way, usually involving them also being blown back across the yard.
"the trip up game" basically tag but instead of tagging you would kick the ankles of the person who was "it" while they were running. If they fell you were now it. Used to get pretty wild with about 30 kids playing at once. Think it got banned when some kid broke his wrist
We lived on a decently sized yard that had a mini forest in the middle of it. My Dad did ease trough and worked with a lot of aluminium so there was a stockpile of scrap aluminium, he was also an alcoholic that would throw all his bottle caps in the driveway.
So we had an ability to make weapons and armor, and even a currency we could use. So we made up this larp, where we would fight bushes and tree's with our weapons, and then we would make armor and sell them for bottle caps. I remember one time in particular, where there was this garden that was really over grown with weeds due to lots of neglect, and we were mowing it down and then we got to the center and there was one huge tree we decided was the "boss" and when we hit it a huge wasp nest became disturbed and stung the shit out of all of us. We lost that battle.
With my cousins we would play a game called snapweiner and unlike the name suggests, it was basically 2v2 knee hockey, one goalie one forward, played with a size zero soccer ball where you could only slap the ball and not carry it. We built an arena in my basement with leftover drywall sheets we had from a bathroom remodeling. It was a very physical game with everyone on their hands and knees but even wth a cement floor somehow nobody ever got seriously injured. Ive asked my cousins and nobody is sure how we came up with the namez
I played pretty pretty princess with my cousin because she didn’t have anyone to play with when we were kids. Eventually my brother and other cousins joined in. Nothing wrong with three dudes and a girl rocking out necklaces, rings, earrings, and a tiara
Tap-tap hide and go seek. The rules were little like hide and seek, but there were a lot of differences. One person was "it" who would count while everyone else hid. When that person was done counting he would go look for everyone else but instead of trying to tag a person that was found, his job was to run to base and call out "tap tap I see far_star hiding in the tree" (for example). If he was able to call you out before you ran to base that was the same as tagging you.
If you thought you were about to be called out you could choose to run to base early in which case his job was to get to base first and call you out before you made it to base.
Playing at night seemed to be a big part of this game. I've searched on the internet and have been unable to find similar examples of a game played this way.
Shovel Ball. It was a game me and my cousin came up with. It was baseball, kickball, lawn hockey, and dodgeball. However you played with a shovel the entire time.
It was pretty dangerous looking back, but it gave us something to do.
Whoever gets hit with the poo poo pillow have to chase others and throw the pillow at
Lots of childhood memories with cousins in granpa old house. Lots of screaming, broken furnitures and vase and a whole lotta of whoopass by our parents
Mermaids. My grandma had a 5 foot deep above ground pool when I was growing up. When my friends and cousins were around we would tie our ankles together, usually with a hair tie or an elastic. We’d spend hours swimming around like “mermaids”, doing mermaid tasks like holding our breath and collecting pennies from the bottom of the pool.
When the wheat fields are harvested, they leave behind around 20 to 30cm of stem that's still rooted in the mud. If you grip a handful and pull it up your left with a handle with mud on the end, perfectly designed for flinging.
The loser is the one that gets covered with the most mud
During the summer me my sister and two cousins(who were sisters) would always stay at our grandmas house. My grandpa had hung this string with a fish bobber at the end of it in the garage so he knew how far to pull up in the garage. (He drove a hole in the wall a few times before thinking of it) When we would get too hot outside or it was raining we would go into the garage and hit the bobber around and would yell out random things. We coined the genius name of “Bobber Ball”. Best fun we’ve ever had.
"Bang" we ran around with sticks pretending they were guns... if you yelled "bang" you'd have to yell out the position and clothing of the person you are theoretically shooting at. If they were right you were considered to be shot.
Pokemon..but not the game. My best friend and I would walk all around our neighborhood and our woods like we were ash and brock. We would use the oldschool gameboy cases as pokeballs and kind of like a dice. You would say what move you were using and throw the case and if it landed open side up you landed your move if it landed open side down the opponent dodged your attack. We used the same mechanism for catching pokemon, it was glorious.
MRod32 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide n’ seek dodgeball! It’s exactly how it sounds. A bunch of us would hide and whoever was “it” would count to 50 or whatever and they’d have a dodgeball with them. If the person who was “it” found someone hiding, they would have to peg them with a dodgeball to get them out. Dodgeball rules applied though! So if you caught the ball when it was thrown at you, you could throw it far away from whoever was “it” and run away.
Those who were hiding that made it back to where “it” was counting without being hit were safe!! Last one pegged is “it” the next round. If no one gets out then the original person is “it” again.
I’ve never heard of anyone else playing this but I could be wrong. This led to so much fun growing up and so many fun memories. We’d normally just play in and around our cul-de-sac.
mhelgy · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego car smash. By brothers (3 of us total) would for hours attempt to build the strongest car. Once we were all done with our cars we would do 1.2.3 and roll them as hard as we could head on at each other. We would do this until 1 car could still roll. Then we would restart the process and the winner could repair his car. We had a lot of fun playing that! Lol
My brother, cousin and I used to play a game called "cockroaches" where we'd tale these plastic golf clubs, pretend they were guns, and ran around the house killing giant invisible cockroaches. The funny thing is we never had real cockroaches in the house so I have no idea how we came up with the theme.
This will probably get buried and never seen but I have a story of a game me and my older sister played that wasn’t unique, but the outcome was...
True Detective. Which is a classic every kid played... however, me and my sister played it a bit differently. Drugs were bad in a spot near our neighborhood growing up (nobody close to us was into it, there was basically just a single street a few blocks down of those druggie-houses everyone knew to steer clear from) and me and my sister got intrigued. We always wanted to go out and solve the mystery of where the drugs were hidden. Of course, we never found anything and ended up being clue after clue. So just as any other day, we packed our pockets full-stock of all mystery solving equipment and we set off to patrol “the ‘hood”. We always did a perimeter search and sometimes we would walk to the stop sign where you’d take a right to go down drug lane, but we’d never actually go down the road. It was like the Finding Nemo scene of “touching the butt”, but we would never touch the butt. However, today? We touched the butt. We decided to go down this beaten up road, but not too far. An abandoned warehouse and a giant shed were about a block down the road so we decided to not go any further. In our favor, right next to the shed was an alley way that lead to our backyard we would use as quick escape rather than going back to the stop sign and then towards home. So we begin our investigation of the abandoned warehouse, looking all over just the outside area - we couldn’t get inside. After searching around and finding nothing, I walked over to the mailbox that was used for the warehouse when it was in action, and I found an aluminum foil ball inside. Me and my sister couldn’t have been more excited for finding a potential major clue. As I start unwrapping it, tiny green leafs begin to fall out all over the ground (which I soon after learned to be marijuana, but at the time had no idea what it was because I was so young) and some lady drives by and screams at us like, “HEY! Don’t fuck with property that ain’t yours! GET OUTTA HERE!” So we drop the foil wrapping and book it down the alley straight towards home and we never played True Detective again.
Remember Chicken Invaders, the old Windows Galaga rip-off? Well, my friends and I would recreate it on the playground. The four of us would sit under a picnic table like it was a cockpit and make gun noises for the entire recess. Nobody even played as chickens, we all just sat in a row under a table going "PEW PEW PEWPEW"
Hallway had doors at each end. Used a mini hockey stick to shoot a bouncy ball at the far end, and tried to block it like a goalie upon its return. Sibling inside one of the rooms didn't really appreciate it, but, shrug
i’m probably late, but we used to play ‘Zero-G Ball’ where would have one of these and some old plastic/metal poles from my garage. I had a big open rectangular front yard which was perfect for games. The ball would start in the middle of the yard and we’d charge at each other with the poles trying to pick up the ball. You could steal from each other, pass it to team mates, but the ultimate goal was to throw it onto the roof of my house. When it rolled off it would naturally expand and you’d get extra points if you could catch it. In retrospect a bunch of kids with metal poles running around without any protective gear was probably super dangerous but it was super fun and a great memory.
“Revolutionaries”. Two of us were the government and two us were a famous revolutionary (I always liked to be Che and my sister was always Patrick Henry, for example). We ran around and played hide and seek with guns. I guess it was like cops and robbers. I’m pretty sure this was taught to us by my dad because he was into that kind of thing but I don’t remember.
A game called Death Pack. It was the pack full of death. When I was like 10-12, my older cousin who was in high school and his friends would all come down with us to our river house. Also before I explain how to play, I highly recommend this game to anyone who doesn't mind getting hurt.
We'd all stand in a circle, usually about 6-8 people. We'd begin juggling a soccer ball in between ourselves (soccer juggling, not hand juggling). Once we get to three good passes to different people without touching the ground, we'd all jump at the ball, usually tackling each other for it. The person who managed to grab the ball had to stand still, but everyone else was allowed to dodge, run away, etc. The person who grabbed it would chuck the soccer ball as hard as he could at someone, and if they got hit, they were out.
There's a few nit pick rules.
Juggles done consecutively by the same person do not count. For the juggle to count it has to pass to someone else.
If your hand is touching the ball, you can't move.
If you catch the ball, the person who threw it gets out. Catching the ball also gives you the chance to throw it.
Usually games went by pretty fast if someone caught the ball. And I don't mean that the game was over fast, I just mean everything was fast paced. Get third juggle --> Someone grabs the Ball --> Throws the ball at nearest person at mach 7 --> catches ball --> throws at someones else. All happens in about a 5-10 second time span. It was always a load of fun.
The reason it's called Deathpack is because it was the pack full of death. There were a lot of parts that hurt. Such as the rolling around on the ground trying to get the ball, or sprinting away and getting pelted in the back of the head by a white comet shooting through the air. I remember multiple times where I got a bloody nose from getting hit in the face. I wouldn't mind playing it again sometime.
When a friend stayed the night, and my parents let us sleep in the living room, we used to pile the bedding at the bottom of the stairs. We played a game where we'd jump from the stairs into the bedding. Whoever could jump from the highest step without hitting the door at the bottom won. I hit the door once, and my parents shut that shit down.
raibk · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"the professor and his sidekick!" single player mode
The professor is my right hand, his sidekick my left hand. Both standing on their "feet", pointing and middle finger. They had to figure out how to get to secret places...
... like the top shelf of the cleaning cabinet or wardrobes! Climbing and helping each other out, using tools they find and so on. They also helped me through food I disliked by digging paths on the plate to create some sort of labyrinth.
My brother would lay on my parents' bed (they had a bigger TV in their room so we hung out in there a lot) on his side, facing out. I would have to kick him in the back/legs until he fell off the bed, while he tried to stay on. If he lasted til I tired out, he won.
I'm not sure how much of a "game" it was, but back in elementary school me and a friend used to use magnets to go "scavenging" for iron filings by sifting the magnet through the the sand that would accumulate where the road meets the curb. By the end of the summer we would have entire Tupperware containers full of the stuff. I think it was one part a fascination with magnets, one part the thrill of basically playing Minecraft 20 years before the game existed.
When I was little, if my Mum ever needed to go to the supermarket, and my grandmother was in the car, odds were that we'd be left behind in the car with my grandmother looking after me.
I would then take the driving seat, I would grow up, and Nanny June became 'Annabelly'. We would always be on a journey to the local caravan park (Bashley) for a holiday. We'd go on some good adventures in a stationary car in a grotty car park.
My brother and i made up a game called Scary Wary. Our house had a very long hallway with lots of doorways in it. One of us would hide in a doorway and the other had to walk down the hallway and not yell when the other jumped out and tried to scare you. If you made it down the hallway without getting scared or yelling you got a point.
Swingball!!! I was in my mid to late teen years and come from a big family. Always nephews and nieces around and sometimes they needed something to do other than annoy me... So I invented Swingball! Similar to baseball, but the "batter/batters" were on the swing set and had to kick the ball while swinging. Now, since I was older and more athletic, I would time the pitches to where they could not be kicked all the time. I would time several pitches to where they would hit the kids in the face, which was a "do over". If I hit them in the torso, it was a strike. If they missed while kicking at the ball it was a strike. If they ball was kicked and caught in the air, it was an out... If they kicked a grounder, there were bases to run around, which gave me the opportunity to hurl the ball at them in hopes the timing was perfect enough to trip them up... Ball of choice was typically a volleyball... This was invented around 1984ish, and I played it with my kids when they were younger, with less face hits. To this day, it is still a topic of discussion at family gatherings...
Me and my friend had a game that we both swore up and down was 100% real. It went on for years, and basically it was that we could both see spiritual creatures no one else could. There were enemies and friends, we fought battles and explored areas, we even had peace treaties with some of the enemies. It was super complicated but we kept with it and kept playing it and always insisting it was real.
Over my grade school years I came up with various games that we played during recess.
Two Towers
In this game the players are divided into teams and one player on each team is assigned as the tower. All the tower can do is stand there while players from the other team tries to roll balls at them. If a non-tower player got hit by a ball then they were dead, but their corpse could be laid on the ground in front of the tower in order to protect them.
Cheesy Ball
In this one the players are divided into two teams and stand on opposite sides of a large rectangular area. A kickball is kicked back and forth from side to side until one side fails to return the ball and it goes out of bounds. Everybody on the losing side then falls down while making a big exasperated sigh, takes a few moments to catch their breath, and then they get up, get the ball, and continue the game.
Cowchips
This one was actually a board game that used multiple chess/checkers boards as well as chess, checkers, and backgammon pieces. Each player had a board and a full set of chess pieces, arranged as usual, and the goal was to kill the other opponents kings. Chess pieces could be moved as usual and backgammon pieces were used as defense barriers. A player could use a checkers piece to launch an attack at an opponents king, either by sliding it along the board (like as when playing Bloody Knuckles) or by kicking it like a paper football.
Boardwalk
This was essentially Four Square, but instead of 4 squares arranged into a bigger square we played on the parking spots in a parking lot, all lined up in a row. The player all the way at one end was the king, next to them the queen, then jack, and so on. Rules were the same as four square, but every time someone with a higher rank than you got out everyone would slide up the totem pole one rank and the person that got out had to go all the way to the bottom, on the complete opposite side of the king, and have to try and fight their way back up to the top again.
Arowana
On the school playground there was this wooden pole that had 6 metal pole loops sticking out of it at oblique angles, 3 upper and 3 lower, that essentially formed 6 oblique hoops that were big enough to fit a ball through. So we would play 3 on 3 games where goals through the upper hoops were 3 points and the lower ones were 2 points. There was a certain radius around the pole that you had to be outside of when shooting.
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Oh I almost forgot, at home I would pick empty pop cans out of the recycle bin, fill them up with water, and then wack them with my dad's golf clubs. Not really much of a game, but fun as hell on a hot summer day. My dad was not pleased with his destroyed clubs though...
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Oh, and I didn't even tell you about the only game I still play! It's a game to make long car rides go by a bit quicker called "Things and Stuff." Whenever you see a vehicle either pulled over or just sitting there on the side of the road you either count it as "things" or "stuff." "Things" would be people doing stuff, like pulled over and on the phone, or changing a tire, or looking under the hood or whatever. "Stuff" is just things sitting there, like abandoned cars. The way you can remember the difference is "Things is people doing stuff, but stuff is just things."
My best friend and I use to read and collect choose your own adventure books. When bored we would lay all books and then choose one book each turn until all are chosen. We then wrote on sheets of paper all monsters inside each books with their stats and then do a kinda of battle royale between books. Dead monsters stayed dead and surviving one had chance to heal with 6 dice. Winning books were put aside and played against other winners with their remaining team.
If my memory doesn't play tricks on me, the book Island of the Lizard King by Ian Livingstone was the one with the strongests monsters and we had to put it aside or split monsters between us otherwise it was almost a sure win.
I had a blind basset hound and my friend and I would play keep away from her outside. Also the ground was lava so we'd have to hop on the swingset or playhouse porch to get away from her. It was actually pretty mean I suppose.
One-,Two-Three. Involved 2 or more people jumping on a trampoline, and then on the count of three jumping on your bum, depending on who landed first the other would be sent flying up in the air (that person loses)
Back in the days, we owned these things called "moon shoes", which were essentially plastic frames covered in elastics that you'd wear on your feet to jump higher. I think it was meant to be some sort of trampoline alternative but it sucked hard.
So instead of using the shoes for their original purpose, my older brother took the elastics out and sniped my cousins and I at random moments. So we started doing the same, and eventually we started building forts out of kids toys and furniture, firing away behind our walls.
Basically someone would stand in the driveway with a badminton racquet and a pitcher would throw the birdie as high as possible. There would be 1 to 2 outsiders because it depends on how many friends you have over. Basically the cars on the streets are the bases. After your turn you would become the pitcher and would remember where you were. REMEMBER THERE WAS NO TEAMS IT WAS EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES. Anyways when you were a hitter and you hit the bird the outsiders could not move before you got to your previous spot, but they could catch it. There were a couple more rules that we probably made up on the spot but I don’t remember them
JXQX · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’d go to the bed room with my uncle, he’d blind fold me and we’d play “carrot or cucumber.” It was kinda hard to tell sometimes cause he’d put it in so much i really couldn’t taste what it was.
Wood chip. Everyone would try and hide on a playground, and whoever was “it” had to wear a blindfold and try to tag somebody. If you hear someone touch the ground, you can call “WOOD CHIP” and that person would be “it”. If you call wood chip and nobody was on the ground, however, then the “it” would have to go back to the start and everyone would has the chance to move positions
Cops and Robbers. A violent game of tag where people were caught and dragged by force to " jail" (a designated wall) and robbers had to free them by tapping, without getting caught and thrown in jail.
Later banned from the playground and creatively renamed to "Runawayers and catchers"
Then "Wolves and sheep"
In a whole different game of cat and mouse against the schools authority.
Everybody grabs a billiard ball. Now head to the base of a hill and chuck your billiard ball up the hill as hard as you can, everybody all at once or one at a time, doesn't matter. Then run up the hill. Whoever got their ball the farthest wins that round. Now throw them down the hill as far as you can. Same rules. Run down the hill or roll down the hill after them. Then throw 'em back up. Repeat.
“Body Ball” we had a bucket against the house and a soccer ball. The only goal was to hit the bucket with the ball, there were absolutely no other rules.
So we would basically just tackle and beat the shit out of each other trying to get the ball.
So I had a trampoline. My brother and I would play this game called "Air Gladiator". Basically you had to push the other person to the ground and you won. The kicker was the other person had to be in the air to be able to get pushed. So yeah, was super dangerous but super fun. Worth the concussion.
drdige · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with 3 brothers, 2 of them younger, and we were obsessed with trying to destroy each others genitalia. We would have names for all the different strikes, all with oddly patriotic names. The bald eagle was an attack from behind where the attacker would try to punch the victims balls from between the legs, and lift the person up with their arm. No points or structure to the game, meaning it never ended, and we were always playing. Good times...
We used to play a made up sport that was 1/4 soccer, 1/4 lacrosse, 1/4 basketball and 1/4 hockey where you’d use a baseball bat to hit a basketball into the other persons goal while they defended it. If you scored the other person then had to either make a a free throw or “bowl” the basketball into your goal for a chance to remove your point. Also we’d take sleds you use on snow during the winter and instead take them down rocky or grassy hills during the summer. I actually have videos of it way back when.
Me and my brother would put our feet together while we sat down and would stretch out our dads socks. Then, we would fill the long sock with more of pur dads socks and we would spin them around and hit each other with em.
We had a few! In the fall we would play Witch in the graveyard. Someone, the witch, would hide under a big pile of leaves and we would all circle around it singing until we woke up the witch, who would them chase us down. The first person caught was the new witch.
We played night hide and go seek, which is kind of crazy now that I think about it. We were anywhere from 6-12 yrs old. It would be 11-12 at night and we would hide in the dark, anywhere in this 6 house area. We wore all black clothes and occasionally would paint our faces black. Then we would spend forever trying to find each other. My one neighbor was kind of crazy and would climb on roofs, or lay in the darkest spot in the street or climb really really high in trees. I think about it now and wonder why little 6 year old me was running around in the dark at midnight.
So not exactly kids, but in highschool, we played a game called "Fugitive." Basically had as many people as possible running a couple of miles through neighborhoods from a starting location to a destination. The chasers were teams if two in a car that had to find them and tag them in which case they joined the chase. Largest game we had was about 80 fugitives and 20 chasers. Was a good time. Only one kid went to the hospital.
I invented a solo baseball game. I would stand on the sidewalk and pitch a tennis ball at the stairs in front of the house. Depending on how the Bai struck the stairs determined the outcome of the pitch. If the ball glanced off the edge of the stairs and deflected backwards or to the side, it was a ball. If the ball hit just right in inside off the step, it made a satisfying "thock!" sound, it was a strike. Often the ball hit the stairs in a way that it flew out, which was a hit: grounders, pop flys, left/right foul balls, etc. Is chase the hits and then try to throw to a vacant first base. If I figured I got the ball there fast enough, the hitter was out. Every once in a while, the ball would hit the outside corner of the step and really fly. If it crossed the street, I considered it a home run. There was enough randomness in how the ball bounced off the steps, that it almost always keep the game interesting. I played entire seasons of games out there!
Run across pillows (not touching lava) and avoid getting tagged. Get powers from huge bean bags, terrain modifiers from blankets, unique items with special effects, and stuffed animals that granted significant advantages (invincibility, hide for 3 seconds, chuck a black bear at tagger to stun them for 6 seconds). Entertaining until a new couch came down to our basement and made gameplay merely impossible.
My brother and I would grab a big pillow and pretend playing super smash melee on it. Back then we didn't have a lot of money and we got to play every once in a time when we visited our cousin that lived far away.
We didn't have a name for it at the time, but I now call it the claustrophobic game. So we would get a whole bunch of blankets and comforters and lay them out. One of us would curl up in the fetal position in the middle, and the rest of us would tuck all the blankets in around the person curled up in a ball. There was no knot tying allowed, but it was best to not have the openings of the blankets line up. Basically the goal of the person inside was to get out quickly, and the goal for everyone else was to make that as hard as possible. The restricted movement and excessive warmth really made the game interesting.
Super late to the party but we used to play a game called Gypsy, we were all orphan cats that lived under the dining room table & had to take care of each other.
Another game we played didn’t really have a name but we were always eating smarties & Calling then our Xanax - our moms were good moms don’t judge lol - anyway we had the Talkboy & would record these soap opera type stories where the woman always eventually got beat up and we would take turns smacking a magazine against a metal pole while screaming NO STOP PLEASE ILL BE GOOD (our playroom was a refinished basement)
Now that I reflect on it, someone really should of called the cops but we were living in Queens so nobody gaf, lol
Pickle run. We would all stick pickles in our asses and try to run a baseball diamond. If the pickle falls out, u have to take a bite. First one to home base wins
We called it "Indiana Jones". You had to stand at the back wall of the garage then hit the button for automatic door to close. As the door got close to the ground you had to run and do a dive roll underneath it. Whoever could dive roll through the smallest amount of space won.
Wall ball. We took a decently sized bouncy ball and we would whip it as hard as we could at the walls of the school during recess. If you got hit or if you didnt catch the ball, you would have to run and touch the wall before someone else was able to throw the ball at the wall again.
I made this game up for myself and my little cousins to play whenever we were at my grandmas house. We would pretend that the dinner table was a secret spy cave and the chairs were our computers. We would then run “missions” throughout the house, often having to fight off villains in her backyard. Good times❤️
My sister and I would set up stupid “traps” trying to be like home alone and Indiana Jones in our bedroom and then we would have my dad walk through the gauntlet
Me and my cousin would play a game we made up called “Sharks and Minnows.” Im sure that names been taken but our version was a little different. We would both slide down our carpeted stairs on our tummies like penguins and if the Minnow can make it to the bottom of the stairs without getting caught by the shark he wins. This was our favorite game until one day I was the shark and I caught my cousin by biting his right butt cheek and made him cry.
Probably not as unique as I once thought, but if there was a balloon, we would keep hitting it to keep it from hitting the ground. It got pretty competitive.
We had a spitting game. There was a water fountain that we would drink from by the playground and fill our mouths with and basically play tag by spitting on people if you were "it" to tag them. We had to stay in the playground limits. The increased range and having to really dodge the spit-water was what made it really fun. Yeah, it was gross but we were young and didn't care because it was damn fun anyway.
The deck game. You would punt a ball of the deck. Then you would run off the deck and run around the house. Someone would have to run and get the ball and try to tag you. If you got hit by the ball, you would be the new person with the ball. The person who ran around the house the most won. (When they are not the ball person)
The can game
One team was on the trampoline while the other threw a ball at them. The trampoline team had to juggle the ball, you couldn’t touch the ground and hold the ball at the same time, while trying to throw a ball into a trash can
Ki1664 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My cousin and I had this game called “Hurt Woody” and we both had rag doll like Woody dolls from toy story which we would throw around constantly. We would throw them down the stairs, against furniture, and as high as we could. We were literally that mean kid from toy story.
curb ball was really popular in my city when i was little.
you stand on one side of the street behind the curb and the other person does the same on the other side.
you take turns throwing a basketball at each side to try and hit the curb. the way the ball bounces off tells you if its a legit hit. it was a pretty fun game..i still see kids play it once in awhile
“Psycho Dog” (the origins of the name are unclear). The game started like tag with someone being “it” (the psycho dog). They would give everyone involved a 30 second head-start with their eyes covered like hide-and-seek. We would all run and hide. The trick was that instead of being tagged once you had “scratches”, like hit points in a video game. So you might only get scratches 2 or 3 times and make it away and those scratches would remain for that game. If you got scratched 5 times by the psycho dog you then became a psycho dog with them and helped them track down the remaining players till there was one person left standing.
Basically it’s a tag/hide and seek battle royale. It was such a blast to play during recess.
My brother and I grew up way out in the country on about 20 acres so all we really did was play with sticks and make forts. Nothing too elaborate. A lot of role playing as G. I. Joes or medieval characters. There was a lot of wood laying around so the forts got pretty big and we had access to tools so we’d spend hours actually putting them together. Or just riding bikes, had a pretty nice bmx track going before we moved into the city when we got into our teens.
Me and my mates were once talking about games we played as kids and a friend said "oh yeah did you guys ever do the thing where your mum would put you in the bin and tip you..haha"
We did not.
n0rsk · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Store Game
Basically we would each build tiny stores out of twigs rocks, etc and we would find cool stuff or services to "patent" (basically dibs). We would each start with 5-25 currency usually pennies and we would trade for good and services. My friend could build cool looking stores/houses out of twigs so he would always patent twig building, so I would always patent twigs. My other friend would patent rocks and would build a quarry in the rock drainage ditch. Another one of my friends would patent berries and make "paint" out of it. We would sit outside for hours building bigger and more elaborate stores to showcase our goods and try to amass the limited amount of currency, We would go into debt to each other which let the others foreclose on your store if all your debtors voted to.
Most of the rules we basically made up on the spot but the general idea was building a store to sell random shit we found and try to get wealthy.
"Evertwine". I lived in the countryside surrounded by woods and my friend lived a little ways away also with a huge expanse of woods. We used to go out into the forest and pretend we we're sister learning to fight and be warriors so when the time came for someone from another world to take us to be the heroes, we'd be ready. We fought imaginary enemies, spoke with the shadows in the woods, and created a whole fantasy world with a huge story. We always dressed up, often wearing cloaks and elaborate makeup, and spend hours upon hours in the woods.
We started carrying large sticks and sharpening them into points to stab. We learned archery and took our bows out into the woods. Eventually we got knives and real swords from yard sales or antique stores that we'd bring with us. My friend also bought a slingshot and we'd shoot down birds which we'd bring home to eat and use the feathers to make arrows. The forests were our home and we called our land Evertwine, because no matter where life took us, we'd forever be intertwined with each other and our world. This lasted from age 9 to age 17.
Not the most original name, but my brother and I had a sizable back yard growing up and my grandfather was a skilled craftsman so we always had loose boards and planks laying around. The goal of the game was to use pieces of wood to traverse the backyard toward our treehouse using only the boards, sticks and anything else we could find. You’d lay a piece down, travel across it, lay the next and then have to pick the last one up and hand it forward through the group to the front.
Seems pretty mundane as an adult but back in the day, it was the go-to game when we had the neighborhood kids over. I reckon most kids had a game something similar to this.
trcndc · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would roleplay when we went to his house. We'd play things like "the alien game" or the "pokemon game". We were around 10 at the time, he'd be a pyromancer and I'd be an escapee lab subject with absurd power over kinetic energy and a failing intellect. Anything we could, we brought in to our game, maps from mmorpgs, to represent a space ship, legos as mechs and self-insert characters brought in from another roleplay world in legos. Sometimes it was all mental and we'd have familiars captured from places like the upper atmosphere of a gas giant. It was really fun to sketch out some of the things in this make-belief world, I'd show him and we'd just roll with it. Good times.
I was a paperboy as a kid, and got a free paper every day as part of my job. My brother and I would sit across the living room from each other, and take that folded paper, and toss it across the room and try and have it hit the non thrower in the nuts. We would do this for hours.
We were not smart. We still aren’t very smart, but we were definitely dumber as kids.
"Garden Rodeo"
I grew up very working class in rural New Hampshire, the 3rd of 4 boys. My folks always had a really large vegetable garden up on the back half of the property. By October, there would still be vegetables that you could not give away, can, or eat and they kind of rotted on the vine.
The game was that you tied a 20 foot rope (6 meters) behind a small tractor and you laid down on your belly. Then one of the older brothers would drive the tractor in the lowest gear through the rotten tomatoes, squash, zuchinni... and we would time how long you could stay on. By the time the fun was over we would be coated in slime and mud and mom would hose us off behind the house. Good times. For the first year I typically played wearing a Canadian tuxedo, but we upped the game in year two and forced everyone to wear t-shirt and shorts.
We skipped the row of raspberry bushes, but you never made it past the corn, it just hurt too much.
In 1st through 8th grade, I went to catholic school so I had to go to church on sundays and wednesday mornings. Sometimes a weeknight too.
During church, I had laser eyes. The ceiling was super tall with lights hanging down from long wires. I would cut those down and watch them smash on the ground. I'd burn through pillars and stained glass windows. Christmas and Easter were the best, so many extra things to destroy.
This has probably been done before, but me and my siblings always played a game we called "dizzy" where we just spun around really fast with our arms out and the last one to fall down won. My sister still has a scar from where she spun right into our fire pit (which was just a big rusty tire rim)
I'm not sure if it counts as a "game", but I had a whole world of superheros that were in reality just miscellaneous junk from around the house that I repurposed into action figures. There was a whole mythos behind it: scientists had developed a compound called puttyshiite (real world item: a piece of caulking putty I found laying around) that would destabilize molecular structures when exposed to electricity (I wasn't sophisticated enough to phrase it that way as a kid, but I knew what molecules were, and I knew the puttyshiite broke them apart). This allowed puttyshiite to break apart any two or more items touching it when it became electrified, and when the electricty flow stopped the items would meld with the puttyshiite into a chimera item with new properties. My cadre of superheroes were all humans who had accidentally become merged with common objects in this manner, and became superpowered... stuff.
Speedster was a guy who got merged with his skateboard when a shipment of puttyshiite crashed and he got exposed to the stuff (real world item: a skateboard pencil sharpener). He could fly at supersonic speeds and shoot lasers from the taper on the front.
Puttywoman was one of the original scientists who developed puttyshite, who fell into a vat of the stuff and became a living blob of inert puttyshiite (real world item: more putty caulk). She had lost the ability to merge people and items but gained the ability to absorb and redirect energy into beam blasts, and since she was a blob she could deform and twist into shapes to access otherwise unreachable locations.
Ropeman was a guy who was holding a line of rope when he got exposed to puttyshiite and electricty (real world item: nylon rope). He could constrict people and slither at rapid speeds like a snake, and when he touched his head to his tail to form a loop he could turn himself into a pool of water deep enough to be a lake. This water was breathable, like liquid oxygen, and existed inside of him when he broke the loop, so he could also act as transport by having everyone dive into the pool then slithering away.
Slinknator was a guy that had been playing with a slinky on his desk when more puttyshiite happened (real world item: duh.) He was the team's strongman, possessing tremendous strength as long as he was coiled down (losing strength as he extended), and could stick either of his ends to a surface to either climb vertically like Spider-Man, or spring off it to jump great distances. He also had a ranged attack ability where he could touch his front to his back into a loop, and become basically a particle accelerator. In that form he could amplify the energy that powered him and launch a beam blast from the center, but he was immobile while charging and firing.
Cappy was a guy who had been merged with an acorn when he was napping under a tree (real world item: an acorn.) The "cap" on his head could act as a portal, and he could summon forth imaginary constructs from it to act as attack minions. Whatever he could imagine, he could summon. Basically Green Lantern, but an acorn.
The Spring Kids where three mischievous kids that joined the team at a later stage (real world item: three of those springy shoelaces they made for kids that could be threaded in to hold shoes on without needing to be tied). They were created artificially by accident when Puttywoman had Slinkinator and Ropeman allow some puttyshiite to absorb their energy then step away while she electrified it. They didn't get merged together, but the absorbed energy was enough for the puttyshiite to create coiled rope entities. The basically had Slinkinator's strength and ability to cling and leap plus Ropeman's speed, but at about half the power of the originals, and they didn't have the ability to do the water pool and beam blast moves.
Rock Wars! We live in Texas where it rarely ever snows, so instead we made our own game using rocks.
So, imagine snowball fights, but instead of snowballs, it was those “sand rocks” (basically loosely held together clumps of dirt and sand that exploded on impact). My brothers and I would play a “king of the hill” kind of game where we would take turns attacking and defending our little wooden playground. We stopped when one day, one of my brothers threw an actual rock instead of an aforementioned “sand rock” and hit my brother in the face. He was ok, but we decided to not to continue following that incident.
My friends and I would pretend we were these aliens that had super powers of whatever show we were into at the time. This went on for a couple years. There was also this massive tree, with really long vine like appendages we would go there with wooden swords and give the tree a haircut.
A friend and I would stand at opposite ends of the road and shoot an arrow back and forth. We would try and catch it on the way down. I think my dad got more mad about us bending arrows.
We lived in the Welsh valleys. Remember a game we had with a nonsense name, something like "lladddinow".
Group of players walk up to a guy with his back turned. The guy with his back turned can swivel about at any time while shouting "lladddinow!" Pretending to shoot us with his weapon of choice.
Group has to pretend to die in the most dramatic fashion.
Least dramatic death, as deemed by the gunner is eliminated.
We had one of those matts that you put in the water and you can stand on, and me, my brother, and our neighbors would wrestle each other to try and wrap someone in the matt and sink it in the water.
"Colored Eggs" basically it was a variation of tag.
The group consisted of a person that was "it" called The Big Bad Wolf plus the people that were trying to avoid becoming the next Big Bad Wolf (I assume that we were chickens but I can't remember.)
The group of kids would all stand together on a place that represented base and each individual person would pick a color that would represent them and as a group we'd pick one color that represented all of us.
The Big Bad Wolf's job was to guess a color and then that person with the color would have to run out passed a certain point and try and make it back to base without being touched by the wolf. Obviously more obscure colors gave us a better chance of not being guessed.
The game would start like this -
Bbw: Knock knock
Group: Whose there?
Bbw: The Big Bad Wolf
Group: What do you want?
Bbw: Colored eggs
Group: What color?
Then he'd guess a color and then keep going if he didn't guess one.
If the Big Bad Wolf guessed the main color the group picked then everyone had to run! Often the wolf would then target the slowest person, as you do.
We played this at my daycare but I don't know if other people have played this or even heard of anything like it.
SapiNt · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played “nogginball.” It was played by kicking a football around like soccer and the rules changed weekly, generally to benefit myself. We tried teaching other people, but we were the only real masters of nogginball.
My friends and I would play "Living Room Olympics."
My parents had (still have, actually) a large sectional couch with 6 removable square cushions. My friends and I would take all the cushions off the couch, and create various "Olympic games" using them.
The Long Jump was when we put all 6 on the floor end to end, and we'd get a running start down the hallway while trying to jump as far as we could. There was no attempt to land on our feet, it was really just us jumping face first into couch cushions. The High Jump was similar; we just stacked the cushions up and tried to jump over higher stacks, toppling them in the process and landing ourselves on the floor.
Come to think of it, most of the "games" were just us jumping around and laughing at the various groans of agony we'd make when we inevitably landed on the floor. We were like 10 and Jackass had JUST come out, so naturally we recorded ourselves doing stuff like this. I don't have a VCR hooked up anymore, but I still have several tapes of my friends and I doing this kind of stuff.
We used to play Marco Polo in the corn fields. We would all go to the center and 1 person was it. Then we would run out in all directions. It was the 80's middle of nowhere (Hale Center....literally the center of hell) nothing but fields around. Brothers wouldnt play with us girls after watching children of the corn.
I've got two!
The first being what essentially escape rooms are now. My friend had a basement that wasn't finished and was filled with odds and ends. There would be about 4 of us planning out how the room looked and the different things you needed to do to "escape" while one or two of us would wait in another room. I remember one scenario where the ground was lava so you had to jump on different platforms/climb on the hanging pipes to get a key and escape.
The second one was where my brother's and I would tape up a paper ball and smack it off the carpet in our hallway. The hallway was about 5 ft wide and about 30 ft long. It was essentially a soccer shootout but with a taped up paper ball and your hands. Good times.
"beat the letter" two equal size teams. One team picked a word in secret and allocated a letter of the word to each member of the team, they then split up and hide. The seeking team had to track them down and beat the shit out of each member until they gave up their letter. Sort of like manhunt with mild torture
It was Christmas Day and my brothers and I just got those motion detectors from “Spy Gear”.
One of us would set up the three motion sensors hidden underneath opened presents and boxes while the other two had to cross the room and reach the “boss” at the end of the room without tripping the hidden the sensors. We convinced our parents to leave the opened presents there for a week.
Ultimate tennis. My younger siblings got bored playing real tennis, so I made a new version. We split up into even teams and everybody gets a tennis ball. At the count of three, everyone tries to hit their ball over to the opposite side. The goal is get all the balls on your opponents side and that ends the match. Plenty of exercise and never boring!
ninden · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm really late on this, but I love this question!
I was the second, naughty child and spent a lot of time with my nose in the corner. I created this space ship game while in there where I was a space station. I would press my forehead and body as close in to the wall as I could, creating as much darkness as possible. I would then position my hands toward the middle of my body and up against the wall, creating the airlock. I would command all sorts of missions with my hand airlock opening and closing to let the fighters or frigates or whatever in and out. It was some of my favorite alone time.
We would hold wall hanging mirrors in front of us like a tray and look down into the mirror while walking so it looked and felt like we were walking on the ceiling and we’d have to step over the tops of door frames and walk around lights and ceiling fans. Stairs were trippy lol We never had a name for it though.
The Medabots GBA games as a kid. Best way to pass a childhood car ride. No guides to the games that I found to be accurate compared to observing the games themselves.
During summers in the 70’s, me & my best bud ‘Squid’, would save our popsicle sticks, break them in half, color & number them with magic markers, and float/race them down the curbside gutters in epic ‘America’s Cup’ style. Sometimes we goosed the current with our water hose if no one was watering their lawn. Back in those days, water was not considered something to ration.
When i was a tiny kid i was probably way too into The Fast and The Furious and Gran Turismo. I would try to re-enact movie scenes and my favorite tracks of Gran Turismo in my dads backyard patio. Definently remember bringing my rug with the city and streets on it outside one time and have a huge cop chase for over an hour.
Kick the can! We used to play in my friends backyard at night that had a bunch of surrounding woods. One person was “It” and the rest of the people would go hide. If you got tagged you were put in “jail”. If you managed to kick the can over everyone was freed from “jail”. We would have about 15-20 kids playing at one time. We played this even in high school when it turned into hiding with a girl you liked.
“Mummy in a suitcase”. Basically 8-10 people in a room and one of them puts a sleeping bag over their body. The person in the bag has to avoid being tackled, and the person that makes the tackle then gets in the bag. Stupid fun!
So, when I was in elementary school, we had this sweet wave-shaped jungle gym. It was sort of like this, but probably four times as wide, and totally free of paint.
During recess, we would take turns playing a game called "chicken fight." Two kids would free-hang from the higher portions of the bars, facing one another, and the goal was to kick the other player until they couldn't hold on anymore. Face-kicking was pretty much the only thing that was off-limits. And when I say off-limits, I mean kids pretty much just did it anyways. Fun times.
We would go in the basement, turn off the lights so it was pitch black. The “monster” had a blanket over him and had to crawl on his hands and knees while the rest of us tried to run from one side of the room to the other. The monster had to try and grab you and take you down while you ran around. Its was always freaky trying to listen to where they might be crawling. Looking back, It’s shocking to me the monster never took a knee to the face haha.
Piggy Game. We had a trampoline and a tree that cast a shadow on half of it. Essentially, the “pig” had to stomp the “farmer” to death before the farmer bonked them with a wiffle bat a couple times. The safe zone was the shadowy part of the trampoline; it gradually shrunk as the game went on.
-xMo · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soldier Front (SF) on ijji (a game portal website). I’ve logged a countless number of hours in between 7th-9th grade. Super fun watching montages (esp the Koreans on KSF).
Also played Gunz: The Duel & Alliance of Valiant Arms (AVA) on ijji as well. I miss those days.
We used to have a playground in elementary school and there was this rail with a handle on it that you’d hang onto and ride across on. The game we’d play was there’d be one person on each side. One person would hang on the handle and rock their body back and forth to gain momentum and then they’d fling the handle to the other side. The other person had to catch it or else they were out and someone else would take their place. The problem was the handle was metal, and this thing would go FAST. The school ended up banning the game because some kid broke his pinky trying to catch the handle.
My brother and I used to RP Avatar the last airbender but we were twin avatars, I was a primary earthbender, he was primary firebender. We played it allll the time, back when I was like 10 and he was 12, the good old days.
I played this game with a foam basketball for one of those mini hoops that you can hang on a door. Basically I’d set up kneeling at the base of the stairs going to the second floor and throw the ball all the way to the top of the staircase trying to get the ball to hit between each step all the way down (where two steps meet at 90 degrees). You basically win if you can hit every step all the way down in sequence. If I had a straight staircase, I’d still play that today probably.
When my sister left the dinner table to go outside and play, I raced after her. I played a "game" where I didn't want the screen door to shut behind her before I got to it, so I could just run straight outside.
Well, it shut just in time, my hand and the rest of me went through the glass, and I dangled in the frame by my leg for a few seconds. Thankfully all I got was a gash on my inner thigh, though it was pretty deep. Rushed to an emergency room and got stitched up. Still got a scar down there, about six inches away from the nutsack.
My cousins' basement was basically in the middle of the house, meaning it had absolutely no windows at all. There were couches, chairs, even some weight equipment and stuff, and there was one stairway down to it at the end of the long, skinny room.
When we were kids (under 10), my 3 cousins and my brother and I used to play this game where one person was 'it' and would start at the top of the stairs and then we'd turn off the lights and the goal was to try and get to the top of the stairs without being tagged in the pitch blackness. It was a lot of fun, but looking back, we probably could have gotten hurt in a lot of ways. Never did, though.
When I was a kid, my friends and I would get a bike pump and a blanket. We could cover the blanket over us and pump air under the blanket until we got dizzy or until we were unable to breathe. The person that lasted the longest won. Yeah, we were dumb af. I actually enjoyed it too.
We didn't really have a name for this, but my sisters and I used to run if we saw a car coming down our street. There wasn't any real reason, it wasn't a safety thing.
The idea was, you couldn't be touching the ground within sight of the street when the car passed. So, you could try and time a jump, or you could run to the bumper of the truck in the drive and climb on, or down the driveway and hide behind the truck, or around to the back door and sit on the stoop. I still avoid cars out of habit when I'm at my parents' house.
Another one was 'Crack the Egg.' On a trampoline, the 'egg' sits in the center with their knees tucked in, arms over head. Everyone bounces around them, trying to make the person in the middle land hard enough that they can no longer hold thenselves in form. Naturally, this game eventually ended with my sister landing hard on their head, as we'd been warned would happen for years. Sister was fine, but game stopped for good.
Private school was the best, I had an hour recess on 10 acres of field and forest with little supervision.
These sound like such fun games as a kid, all I can remember besides making tree forts is a "game" called smear the queer- basically full contact hand ball (the ball holder must run or be pummeled), I had a tooth punched through my lip, and a kid dislocated a hip before adults would finally stop us.
Two people would take turns throwing a racquetball against a wall. If a player made an error, they had to stand against the wall, facing it. The thrower then got to pelt the player who made the error in the ass.
"Buddy, ol' pal"
Two people stand side by side with arms wrapped around the others' neck/shoulder. We would each say "Buddy, ol' pal, ol' friend of mine" then try to trip the other one. The best way I can describe it would be full-body thumb wrestling.
All the neighborhood kids went to the playground to play “Cherry Cherry.” One kid had to close their eyes and navigate the playground/jungle gym essentially blindand try to tag another kid hiding on the structure. The catch is that you couldn’t hide on the ground - you had to contort yourself to hide on a slide or ladder or bridge. If you were on the ground and the seeker yelled “Cherry Cherry,” you lost and became the new seeker.
“Eat the cheese.” My brother and I would each be holding a slice of American cheese at one end of the front yard. After “On your marks, get set, go!” we would race across the yard to touch the big tree. Then, while touching it, eat our cheese as fast as we could. You had to eat it all the way and swallow. Then race back to the starting point.
Years later at my wedding reception he was my best man and he had us play it in front of all the guests.
My sister would hang her head over the side of the bed and i would lay on the floor. At a random time, i would reach up and tug her hair and say "ding dong dead service". Then we would switch. Thats the whole game.
We also had a fake phone on which we would prank call the president as Strawberry Shortcake (80s cartoon character) and call him a fartvillehead. He would hang up in disgust so we would call him back pretending to be someone else before revealing ourself as Strawberry Shortcake and calling him a fartvillehead.
Dog pinata. Not what you're thinking but me and my cousin were pretty much the real life Beavis and Butthead without even trying. We did a lot of stupid shit. Everything we did involved trashing everything but one thing we got a kick out of was tying a stuffed animal at the end of a rope and toss it over the wall. The neighbor's dog then proceeds to attack it and we let it rip the doll apart in their yard then we run off giggling.
We played this game called “Vampire Tag” where one person would be the vampire, and before the game started they would secretly pick another player to be their assistant. Everyone gets 30 seconds to run and hide. The goal for the vampire it’s to turn everyone else into vampires, which they can achieve by touching someone on the neck. Also, the vampires assistant stays a secret until the vampire verbally calls out for their help, which can make for some funny scenarios if you’re unknowingly hiding with them! Had a lot of fun playing this with all the other kids in the neighborhood growing up.
Moe (Meghan and Joe). My cousin and I made it up. Teams of two, played on your knees in the yard. Basically is was soccer with fists only. It was pretty fun diving around punching the ball
Car jumping. When the family would go on trips in the motor home, my little brother and I would get on the couch on our knees and face the window which was behind the couch. When a car would drive past us we would jump “over” it. We were probably 4 and 6 years old.
During car/bus rides, I used to blink when the streetlight lined up with the edges of the windows. A highschool friend once caught me doing this on a school bus ride coming back from a day trip from the zoo and thought I was having a stroke or something lol
Candle Tag.
Once you get tagged, you stand there and slowly "melt" to the floor. If someone who is not "it" tags you in this state, you're free to continue playing. If not and you reach the ground, you're eliminated.
Me and my neighbor would make loosely made lego spaceships or planes or etc with a pilot on them, stand on a table, and throw them on the ground and watch the “explosion”. We eventually had to stop cus It wasn’t kind on the carpet. But we’d spend hours doing that.
Edit- We also had “The Game” where we ran around with sticks in the woods and pretended to be clone troopers.
At the playground when I was a kid, we had a game specifically named “aah! Don’t let me fall into the lava!” Where basically someone would see how far they could put their body on the slide without falling off into the ground (lava) and begging whoever’s around to help them up, then that person could decide their fate.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had a long period in our childhood in which we played a game which goal was to make small car models (we had a lot of them) drive as far as we could. We used to play in my room between furniture - and we had to spin them a little bit, so that the cars could evade the couch and go the farthest. The best move was to spin the car right into the crack between the floor and balcony door, which was equally as satisfying as winning. We had a sheet of paper on which we accelerated the cars, played few 20-race seasons each day with 6-cars rosters at top popularity and I was making statistics which car is the best and shit. We got totally crazy about it.
Also, a game which we called fireball. It is a mix of table tennis and football which we played upstairs. Each played had to serve the ping-pong ball very low and try to score a goal - which was to hit the opposite wall, guarded by second player. God, it must have been annoying for parents.
We had a game called Vagina. One of my friends had a trampoline that had a tear in the center. Someone would stand in the hole and try to pull people in while everyone else would try to jump around and evade the center
My cousins and I used to jump on the trampoline and play “bull.” One person was on all fours and had to jump up on their knees to knock the others down. Entertained for hours.
"KIT KIT". In this we use to make square boxes on the floor usually with chalk of sand like an array and then we use to jump on those boxed with one leg and with each stage the difficulty use to increase and the one who use to finish it first was the winner.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My great uncle had a “game” he wanted to play once.
So he somehow convinced me when I was like maybe 11-12 to tie up my legs because he had a “game”, I thought he was gonna make me hop around the garden or some shit, idk hard to remember what I was thinking.
So anyway they’re tied, he sees them and dashed over to tie up my hands at this point I’m panicking thinking what is this mad cunt up to.
He picks me up and puts me down on the driveway which was kinda fancy it was one of them driveways that are comprised of lots of small stones, I start trying to get out of the binds, I look up and this motherfucker is getting in his car.
Before I know it he revs up his Toyota and spins the tyres, I then get bombarded with small piece of gravel and stones this goes on for about 15 seconds and all I can hear over the car is him laughing.
Through this I managed to get my legs untied and got up just as he was stopping he steps out of his car with his beer in his hand, chuckles and says, “was that fun?”, I angrily say “no” and notice the damage he’s inflicted. He then walks up to me and hands me £20 and says “you’re tough kid”.
Honestly he’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever known and has a genuinely big heart he just likes to torture people for his own amusement, which I have inherited, haha.
Bonus story:
Talking about my great uncle here again, this time with my dad. When they were young they were very close, my dad was like a little brother to my uncle.
One time my uncle would put my dad on front of his bike and said, “hey want to get some ice cream?” They went to go get some but instead my uncle went to the top of a very tall hill claiming he was taking a shortcut but instead he was going up there to ride down it as fast as he could with my dad on the front, they blast down the hill my dad says he yelled the whole way and while going down my uncle yells “THERES NO BREAKS” and laughs they eventually get to the bottom where it got really hard to control the bike and my dad went flying 20-30 metres into the distance and landed on the grass.
Save to say he never went for ice cream again with my uncle.
When I was a kid I used to say dodgeball by myself. I'd place a bunch of balls (Soccer balls, basketballs, etc) on a trampoline so that when I jumped it would make them bounce around. I'd have to dodge them and if I could survive until all the balls bounced off the trampoline I won
Korb10 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The in the dark game. One person goes and hides in the pitch black basement. The rest of the people go down and try to find the person. When they do, they quietly sit with them. It was basically the equivalent of “sardines” but in the dark. Very fun and terrifying for my young mind!
I played “The penny game.” I played this with the neighbourhood kids and my sister.
We had a patch of lawn beside a sidewalk, and one person would throw the penny onto the sidewalk, and the other players had to try to get the penny and put it on the sidewalk.
As you can imagine the lawn got pretty busted up but yeah. Very physical game, what with kids grabbing wash other for said penny.
The tiger game. Me and two of my two older brothers played it and they were tigers and I was their owner. We would do anything from sword fighting to football. And just because I was their owner didn't mean that I was in charge. They kind of bullied me a little bit cause they thought it was more fun. Really just make believe just as tigers.
Lords of the realm. Really advanced medieval strategy game for its time. You had to manage your kingdom on a turn based map. Keeping track of food production, weapons production, mining, quarrying, wood gathering and population happiness and health. You drafted armies from your population and armed them with whatever weapons you could muster, so the bigger army you had the less people you had to work. You moved the army like total war does today but when you fought it went into a real time battle with each army starting on opposite sides. You could build, upgrade and have real time siege battles. There was diplomacy and trading. It was just a real great but little heard of gem from the 90's.
My best friend and I were the last two human children beings raised with access to nature on the last natural preserve on the planet once known as Earth. Our bubble of nature was protected by a skylike dome, and all life in the dome was carefully curated. Our "parents" were artificial constructs placed there to care for us, and evidence of the "outside world" was known to be faked for our enjoyment. Our job was to enjoy and care for the last remnant of Earth. To be honest, I still play it sometimes.
Apples not falling far from the tree, my son, age 8, is a science officer on our starship. I'm the executive officer (xo, or when he's off duty, mom). Dad is the captain, and brother is the ensign. The dog is a construct. He has a biomimicry artificial arm, has trouble with the defense drone network (needs resetting almost every day), and enjoys away missions (errands) in our shuttle (the car). He's excited about our suborbital (plane trip) coming up next week to get some paleontology readings (visit grandparents in the desert). We play this almost every day and frankly, it's my favorite thing.
In my elementary school there was a massive bush in our playground that was about 30 feet high. I may remember it being bigger than it really was, but it was definitely much taller than an adult. In first grade, all of us would take turns daring each other to see how far we could go into the bush before chickening out.
The summer after that, they trimmed the branches off. When I came back to school, my dumb ass realized it wasn't a bush, it was an extremely overgrown tree.
Me and my brothers would play a game where me and my younger brother would hide under a duvet then my older brother would throw darts at any body parts showing. My mom was not impressed
Giant empty dumpster. One kid is in the dumpster, everyone else outside of it. Goal was to jump into the dumpster and climb back out before the kid inside the dumpster tagged you. If you got out without being tagged you win. If you get tagged you're now the kid in the dumpster. Game became very dangerous after they started dumping construction material...
When I was younger, I used to just mix a bunch of stuff into an examination glass. I added more stuff as time went on and just left it there for weeks. I’d mix like soap, hair gel, food, and other random stuff. Eventually a white moss formed and my mom threw it out.
Slaves and Kings. We had a construction site across my street that was mostly bulldozed forest for new developments. With three friends, 2 of us would be slaves/miners who mined for "rare" stones and minerals (just rocks), while the other two were a king and their right hand man that got to keep all the rocks. Basically we acted the parts like characters out of Conan The Barbarian. Sounds kind of messed up for 10 year olds, but we all took turns and it was really fun.
During car trips I would pick a spot on a window with a mark or water droplet and move my head as to postion the spot. I would try to avoid big trees and pretend to cut smaller trees, it evolved as I grew and my imagination would make all the effects look epic. Now I have to focus on not hitting things :(
Pine cone tag. Everyone would start out with the same amount of pine cones and you would hit each other with pine cones and you would call out how many hits you have in the round.
Marvel Overpower trading card game. Freaking loved that game. So hard to find people that have heard of it or played it. I even continued playing it with my best friend for the nostalgia factor up into my twenties. Still have my cards. I was never into comic books but its cool to see those same heros from the cards in the marvel movies today. I remember my friend telling me they were making a spiderman movie, while we were playing and being like "how will that even work. spider man shoots webs". So amazed by the CGI when it did come out but still disappointed by casting of Toby Tugboat Maguire.
My brother and sister and me used to play something called “blind dog”
It started out by throwing blankets over ourself and trying to find some sort of hiding spot while crawling on all fours.
Goal of the game was to find each other by just listening to noises we made. Some sort of Marco Polo and hide and seek combined.
The fun thing was we made blind dog noises which sounded like confused high pitched cries or something.
Padiddle. My mom was tired of bunch buggy, or "SUV pinch, a variety we used to hurt each other more, so we had to play padiddle while driving. WHen you see a volkswagen beetle, you slap the roof and yell "padiddle (color of car)." On even numbered Sundays, my dad made us use "perquakey" instead.
I had a trampoline and we used to play dodgeball with the trampoline. Everyone would circle around the trampoline and try to peg the person on the trampoline with the ball. 1 point for catching a ball and your turn is over when you get hit. The way to win was to doge the soccer balls and tennis balls and try to catch the footballs
toeb94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pokémon Hide and Seek” lol.
Younger sister and I would take turns hiding a Pokémon figure of our choice, and we’d have to find them. We were around 7 and 4 when we started. Went on for a few years. Miss those days
As a kid I lived by a big river. We would ride our bikes over to that river in search of a perfect stick that would represent a sword. At sunset all the kids in the neighborhood would meet and we would have a battle royal stick fight. Boy did we fuck up our hands and bodies with bruises and cuts. The pain was temporary, the glory is forever.
I grew up with 8 kids between 3 houses with only a 5-year difference between the oldest and youngest. We would often play games which span across all three of our houses.
There was this one game where one person would be 'it', and they would stand with their foot on a can or bucket in the middle of the playing area. 'It' would count and everyone would run and hide somewhere. When done counting, the object for 'it' was to get the other players out. This was done by visually seeing another player in the game, placing their foot on the can, and yelling "tap tap on (whoever they saw)" indicating they saw that person. Then the person they would call would be out and have to sit in the prison right next to the can. 'It' can go anywhere to find someone but has to have their foot on the can to call someone out. The goal of all the other players was to kick the can over while not getting caught. The round would end if the can was kicked or if 'it' got everyone out.
We called it "kick the can" but it is a bit different from the other versions of "kick the can" that I have heard of. It required the team of players to be stealthy and quick but would require 'it' to have good perseption and caution while moving too far away from the can, leaving them vunerable. Lots of fun summer nights spent playing this and arguments over 'it' actually seeing someone or not.
Sardines. It’s like reverse hide and seek. 1 person hides and everyone else splits up to look for them. When you find them, you hide with them. If your playing with lots of people it can get cramped, like sardines, hence the name. The last person to find the group is the loser and must hide the next round.
I’m curious if anyone else has heard of this game.
In elementary school there was a big oil stain on the blacktop in front of the playground. It was kind of shaped like a footprint so we would pretend we were tracking down Bigfoot.
I used to get forced to "play house" with the other kids at recess because I wasn't "social enough". I used to play 'who is most likely to be a serial killer' or 'how long before they realize that I, as the family dog, am not vaccinated & have rabies' were some of the things I used to do while playing house. This usually ended in the other kids crying to the teacher. I knew I upset them. I kept asking to not have to play with the other kids but the teacher insisted. I'm now an adult & still hate people. All through highschool I did as many solo-assignments as I could. Relying on others isn't ideal.
Me and my siblings would have one person guard the house while everyone else tried to sneak in and steal something from the living room. The guard had to investigate sounds and would kick anyone out that they saw. It was awesome trying to find new ways in.
My sisters and I would play as pickles hanging on a pickle tree, thrn a farmer comes and picks them one by one and puts them in a sandwich (made of pillows).
Also in grade school the 6th graders invented a ball game to play at recess and we played it a lot. It being the 90s, they called the game Whatever.
Used to create shields and weapons out of household items like wood and aluminum poles. We'd wrap the end of a pole in rags and keep them there with a bunch of duct tape. Throw some hockey helmets on a beat the living daylights out of each other.
Best weapon creation: Took one of those jungle gym hanging chains with the plastic handle on the end and turned it into a chain mace. Good times.
We played the dart game in high school. You would call somebody's name and when they looked at you, you pretended to shoot them with a blow dart. If they put their hand up to their neck when they saw you, they were safe. If you got hit someone had to come pull the dart out and then you were good.
We would hit each other from across the cafeteria, and I even played it with some of the guys when I joined the army. It's so fun!
Edit: if you got shot you had to lay down wherever you were until someone came to save you.
In primary school we played a variation on handball that quickly caught fire across other schools, and was banned by years end. In 5th grade my school had a wall with no windows near the back of the school and we played a game called "Peg". Instead of hitting the ball you could grab it, that way you could really throw it hard so we'd stand as far back as possible, throw the ball at the wall and watch it fly back. If the person attempting the throws the ball, touches the ball and it bounces on the ground before hitting the wall; well that person can now be "pegged" by the ball. The only way to be back in play would be to run to the wall, and tag it before the ball hit you. I remember how it started with just some people in our class then eventually the whole school was playing it, but obviously the teachers found out and it was banned. I did a quick google search and couldn't find anything on game called "peg" well.... well no schoolyard games.
I once played a "game" by myself the time I found beads. I shoved one up my nostril then tried to launch it out as far across the room as I could. I got one stuck in there and mom was ticked.
Me and my best friend lived on the same street. We also had a common "enemy" who was 1 year older than us and often bullied my best friend; he lived on the street behind us. His uncle or relative used to have a stone collection displayed on some shoe racks in his back garden, so we often sneakily stole a few and tried to sell them to strangers walking past our street.
We were about 5 years old so of course no one bought any lmao. Good times.
When I was 18, I joined the military and we would make our socks into tight balls and then duct(duck?) tape them. We would play dodge ball in between the bunks.
My family made up "The Log Game" when I was only wee for my cousin and I at family gatherings. We would start by lying down on the floor "as still and quiet as a log", and would go through rounds of competing to be the best object. So for example, an adult would say "be a banana!" and we would bend our bodies on the floor furiously trying to out-banana eachother. It would go on and on for hours of my cousin and I contorting our bodies into various fruits, objects, household appliances, anything that didn't make a noise.
I was in my late teens when I figured out it was my family's genius idea to keep the little children quiet that they got away with for far too long.
On our way home from school sometimes my siblings and neighbors would stop by our local park. There was a row of swings and being kids we quickly came up with a game that everyone could play together on the swings. There was a row of like six swings so six people would get on and start swinging like normal. One person was left on the ground. The object of the game was for the person on the ground to run from one side of the swings to the other without getting the shit kicked out of them. Swingers could of course twist and turn to get the runner and would quickly start swinging in alternating fashion. The runner was not totally unprotected however. Since we were walking home from school the runner was able to throw their backpack at the swingers. We had a lot of fun but how no one ever got a concussion I'll never know.
Not as epic or deadly as some of the stories here, but my sister and I played this game called "finger monsters". We used our hands such that the middle finger was like the "head" and the rest of the fingers were like the "legs" and the hand was like the "body" and made our hand-critters interact with each other. Sometimes they dueled, sometimes they danced, sometimes they met each other curiously, sometimes they went on adventures, sometimes they had deep philosophical conversations....
Battle droids. Idek why we called it that but t was just me and my brother lightsaber fighting a plethora of enemies. Every day id go on wookiepedia for more dark jedi names to add in, like Nihilus, Revan, Bane
Played a game we called smurf in elementary school where one person would be the smurf and they had to run around the school ground, find a player, and drop their ass on the ground to make them the smurf. Anyway this big husky 7th grader runs at me (I was a pretty small ass kid, but I was fit skinny) and goes for a tackle. I'm not sure what came over me, but I grabbed one of his arms bent over and flipped this kid over my back and watched as he slammed, back first into the ground. I then ran off and bragged to all my friends while the kid complained to a teacher and exposed our game, we never played again.
I have no clue why we called it smurf. It honestly didnt make sense.
One time I was playing "Goonies". Which was me putting a handful of pennies in my mouth and spitting them out. Then I swallowed one, told my mom, and had to go to the doctor.
"1,2,3,4,5". My best friend and I would jump on the trampoline in unison for 5 super jumps and then fall back on our backs. One of us would end up flyyyyiiiiiinggggg through the air and my god, it was the best game ever. We literally thought we invented the best trampoline game in the world. I still think we did.
We had a yoga ball on the trampoline and would play zombie
You throw the yoga ball at the guy who plays zombie, and he has to drop to his knees and bounce on his knees. Hit him again and he would crawl. One more time and he dead.
"The Toilet Monster". You know how when you were a kid you'd sometimes get worried that you'd get sucked down the toilet or some other drain? Well we turned that nightmare into a game during recess. Everyone would pile up at the top of a big curvy tube slide (the "toilet") and one of us would be at the bottom of the tube slide (the "monster"). Then we'd alternate between jamming each other down through the top of the tube slide while the toilet monster would crawl up the tube and try to take their next victim down, and when the toilet monster would grab someone everyone at the top would stop trying to push each other down and try to help pull the trapped person up. This game often resulted in multiple friction burns, static'd hair, torn clothes and bruised knees.
We played a game named “Japanese Soccer”. Each person was essentially a one man team and had his own goal to defend. The setting was everybody-versus-everybody with one ball.
It usually meant everyone ganged up on that day’s least favorite person first and lots of betrayals afterwards.
Good fun. Ah those silly days
P.S: Don’t really know if it’s actually unique or anything
The pinching game. My sister mom and I were in my parents room lights completely turned off at night. My mom would have to find my sister and I and pinch us as we were trying to get away from her. Loved that game as a child
The Garbage Can Game. My dad would put me into one of these garbage cans and close the lid. He would then roll me, and swing me, all over the house and outside all the while bashing me into everything and knocking me all over the place. I would then have to guess where I was and if I was right I got to get out. If I was wrong he would start all over again. Truth be told I liked to lose better.
g_hi3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get really bored during car rides, so I "developed" a game to play if I didn't have a gameboy with me:
It's like a rhythm game you play with your toes. When there's a line on the right side of your lane, hold your right toe down and the same for your left side. After some time I added some elements like lamp posts.
It was somewhat entertaining and I still do it nowadays.
Bull train. There were four of us. Three would hide underneath a blanket and run around blindly in our living room while the other would try to push them over.
Looking back on it, I don't know how any of us came out of that uninjured.
Most of these originated from my little brother and me. We were the only little kids in our neighborhood up till about age 7, then a family with 10 kids moved in next door and we were able to expand our repertoire. If you want the details just ask.
The games: Slick-slack-sloker-slucks. Roll Down the Jelly Roll. Walk on the Butts. Monkey Soldier. Giant Bats and Locusts. My Name is Tina and I have Long Blonde Hair. Well You Know What You Are? Sing Song Ping Pong.
My brother and I used to play "if this person were an animal, what would they be?" whenever someone walked past us in the street. The game would consist of us sussing out which animal the person resembled as they approached and then confirming it quietly between ourselves as they passed by.
No matter how inconspicuous we thought we were being, it must have been obvious what we were doing. I'm still waiting for this to happen to me as an adult to see what it's like being on the receiving end.
Me and my brothers would have “couch races”. We had a sectional couch that had a wall right on top of half of it and the other side was free. The ceiling was low so standing on top of the couch you could touch the ceiling. You each would start on the tops of one end of the couch and had to beat the person to the other side. If you fell off, you had to go back to your own start.
I called it "The Game" because my creativity only goes so far. I played this alone off and on for years, though, and each game usually took several days.
First off, I'd make cards representing like 50 or 100 fictional characters and randomize them into teams of around 10 characters each. After I made a list of who was on each team, I'd shuffle the cards.
Then the fights start. I'd grab a handful of between 4 and 12 cards at a time. Characters on the same team fought together. If Kim Possible and Sid (the sloth from Ice Age) are against Tigger, Cinderella, and Fireheart (from Warrior Cats) who would win? I'd spend several minutes trying to reason it out.
Sometimes I had ways for characters to become "Leaders" (twice as strong as they usually are) and "Healers" (can sneak their teammates away instead of being captured).
Each battle is over when only one team is standing. All of their enemies become part of that team. When all the cards are gone, I reshuffle and play again. When all the characters are on the same team, it's game over.
I used to play two games. One was called "Car Alert" where basically we would go about playing our normal games with the neighborhood kids and when a car would drive by, we would all hide. Then when the car passes we would return to whatever we were doing before. It was an unspoken thing that we were always playing Car Alert. Fun times.
Also my cousin and I would play a game called "Num Num". I think we got the name from this scene on Rugrats (Skip to ~9:50) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i4whz Where basically we would put blankets over our head and wrestle. It was fun
We played “Car”.
We lived on the corner of a slightly busy residential street. At night we’d hang in the yard and when a car was coming yell “Car!” And you’d have to run and hide before they passed by. Or get down flat on the ground.
I have no idea why, there was no real way to win or lose, but we had fun with it 🤷♀️
I was very poor, living on the streets for some of my childhood.
I used to go to this one little shop that had some small bread buns, and steal one so I could eat. The owner eventually caught on and tried to catch me in the act. Until the day he stopped trying. I think he let me win. Bless that man.
Two games! First was called ghost bike, where we would push bikes with no one on them and see how long they could stay up on their own-whoever's got furthest one.
Second was much funner and called drunk driving hahaha. We would go to the top of a hill, sit in a wagon, and be pushed down the hill. The only thing we could steer with was the handle of the wagon. Never got very far, usually got hurt, and was tons of fun
One was "mother" and stood against one wall and the rest had to stand against the other wall and take turns and ask "mother may I" to cross the room. Mother would choose different "steps" you had to take, like the banana step which was where you had to lay on the floor and stretch out, and get up again where your arm reached. Or the scissor step, where you did a scissor jump. A very unfair game, the tallest kid usually won, or the one "mother" decided.
Played a game in elementary school called "Suicide."
While other kids are swinging on the swing set, we would have to try and run past them unscathed. Like between them gauntlet style. Needless to say, we're got hurt a lot.
I played beamo tag every Halloween for around 12 years.
It’s pretty similar to three step, if you’ve ever played that. There is a beamo (giant nylon frisbee), and every person is trying to throw it and tag other people. Once you grab it, you can only take three steps before throwing it at someone else. If someone catches it, the thrower is down, if some gets hit, they are down. The only way to get up is catching the beamo mid throw or grabbing it and hitting someone else (from your spot on the ground). And you can’t leave the yard (unless you are retrieving the beamo.
It was all fun and games, but things got real when the metal ring inside the foam started to break through. We duct taped the edge, which wound up improving speed, so we were happy.
Ahh good times, many a bloody nose had by players (someone broke their arm once too).
Don’t know how common it is elsewhere, but me and my friends would play an advanced version of “ghosts in the graveyard.”
For those who don’t know, basically one person hides in the night and the rest try to find him before he scares them.
Now here was our “advanced” version,
Half of the people (usually 10! I was once popular!) would hide somewhere in what was basically our neighborhood (a group of like 6 blocks right south of Midway Airport) with water guns that were filled with either pee (gross), soda, or water. other 5 would try to find them.If One of the hiders (ghosts) found one of the seekers they would spray them in the face or neck and run to hide. If the seeker found the ghost, the ghost could join the seekers
Me and my family used to play a game during car rides that we called "yellow car I win". Basically, if you see a yellow car, you say "yellow car I win". If you're the first one to say it, you get a point. But you couldn't get points for construction vehicles, school buses, motorcycles, or company vehicles. Just civilian cars.
At school, we had this huge twisty slide. At the end of the day, my friends and I would go up and pretend like we were in some sort of action movie. We did this by having one person on the slide backwards on their stomach being pulled by everyone else to make sure they didn’t fall into a pit of ‘lava’. Whenever they let go, the one on the slide would yell, “NOOOOOOOOO,” as they slid down.
It was so damn fun and I really want to do stuff like that again. But if I tried it with my friends now, I’m pretty sure we’d have to explain ourselves to a few people.
Not sure how “unique” they are as I’m sure lots of people know these games quite well, but ghost in the graveyard, sardines, red rover, four square, and probably a few others I’m forgetting. My neighborhood of kids growing up just called them yard games, as in:
“Hi Mrs. Jones, can Justin come outside and play yard games with us?”
"Street seek" which was like hide and seek but all of the neighborhood kids got together and we set boundaries for hiding (only front/side yards or parks etc.), sometimes with just one "seeker" and sometimes we would play group vs. group.
Fox: hide and go seek in the dark, as we improved we wore all black. Except Brian, I found his dumb ass because of his bright white socks.
We also played “the car game” where we would start on the other side of the street and when a car came we would run across the street and get 3 feet off the ground before the car reached the “finish line” from the mailbox. Must have been awesome for the people driving the cars.
“Chinese eyes” we would fill water guns with vinegar and water, then run around shooting each other in the eyes, when you got someone you shouted “Chinese eyes!” And that person was out for 10 minutes.
5 plays, 1 in the middle and the other for made a square. Can’t remember the exact rules but it was like musical chairs with a ball. There was scramble to get to a corner.
There was a song and it was like
Pussy for corners who has the ball
Is she big or is she small
Basically me or one of my siblings would stand up on my grandma's deck as the rest ran around the yard below and the one on the deck would throw this yellow frisbee as hard as they could and try to peg one of the other siblings in the head hard enough to "go retarded".
Once hit you became the golden retard and got to throw the frisbee at others.
This is going to sound really weird, because it is. But basically, it would usually be a group of about 6-8 of us playing. We’d get a bunch of blankets and cover ourselves up from all angles to a point where the person who is “it” could not determine who is who underneath the blanket. Once that is done, the person being it has to come and make us laugh and use touch to gauge who each person was. Win and your turn is done, lose and you go again.
In hindsight, it was a weird game but we had lots of laughs playing it.
My friends and I used to play "The Car Game." We would all stand at the end of my driveway, and when one of us saw a car approaching from either side of the road (it would curve away from my house in both directions so you couldn't see that far), we would all sprint to the end of the driveway closest to my house. In order to be safe you had to pass a line on the driveway before the car passed the driveway, otherwise you lost a life.
My mom said she was totally down with this game because we were running at top speed away from any moving cars we saw!
In late primary school my friend and I walked around the school track on recess with a mass of other kids. We both kept our distance with everyone else because we walked in varying paces, so we decided to make it a game. The small groups of people (2 to 5) were called packs, the medium groups (6-10) were herds, and the massive groups that had people running were called stampedes and we had to run away from them. We simultaneously had to dodge birdees (dead leaves that the wind carried), barracudas (grass root runners) and invisible Leopleurodons. It was pretty enjoyable looking back on it.
I had a basketball, no hoop, but a flight of stairs. I would play one on one with my friends by shooting the ball aiming for the corner edge of one of the stairs. If it hit it correctly, it would bounce back towards us and if the shooter caught the ball we'd get the point. If the defender caught it, possession would change.
Paper wad baseball. I would build elaborate stadiums using books, beds, and anything that would work. Then I would throw a paper wad with one hand (no bigger than wadding up half a straw wrapper) and hit it with a pencil that was in the other. I had pages and pages of stats from each unique team. It was fun. I was a lonely kid sometimes lol
Damn I'm always late to the thread when I have a good answer.
I had a Lhasa Apso named Katie and she hated any air blowing in her face.
A friend and I played a game called "Sheriff Katie" where we would blow in her face to piss her off, then run away while she gave chase. The objective was to hide (or jump up on furniture) to escape the law (AKA Sheriff Katie).
I don't know why but I distinctly recall this being incredibly fun.
In kindergarden, we had a big playground. Most of it was grass so there were alot of mole holes around. We, the dumb children we were, would take sticks, stick em (no pun intended) in holes and scream MOUSE HUNT MOUSE HUNT!
I grew up on a block with 15 older boys. So we hand a bunch of rough made up games haha. The one I remember best was called battery. The younger boys and I had to take the socks off the older boys and then hide the socks. The longer it took the older boys to find the socks, the more their "battery" would run low. When they found the sock they would recharge. We would chase then around and try to get their socks at least half off their feet because then they would lose half their battery. Good times
In High School a few of my buddies played a really stupid train game. We were not too far from train tracks and anytime we were walking around if they heard the train horn they’d scream “Train” and run full speed trying to cross the tracks before it got there. They’d do this from like 4 blocks away too. How none of them died I’ll never know.
The "sun and moon" game. I was about 8, my step brother 7, and we had this dark scary basement with two pull-string lights on opposite sides around a big pole in the middle of the room. We must've been pretty bored because we just started running around turning them on and off and we eventually came up with a game with rules.
We both started at one light, then pulled and started running around the pole in circles. One of us was the sun and the other was the moon. If the moon had both lights off and ran to the pole before one was turned back on then they won, and vise versa. Eventually one of the strings broke and we had to jump even higher to grab the chain but that just made it more fun. Even if parents were pretty mad.
Probably not unique, but our school playground was below sidewalk level, it had woodchips covering the ground and there was a nearby chainlink fence on top of a nearby wall, as well as a log beam, monkey bars, and a climbable fort. So as kids we combined "the floor is lava" with "tag." We would hop off the fort onto the chainlink fence, side slide across the fence and work our way toward the monkey bars, across the log beam and back onto the fort. If you fell and touched the wood chips you were "it" if you already weren't it.
We didn't have a name for it, but it was the most stupid thing. Me, my brother and his friend Joe would get a rubber toy snake and take turns to beat the shit out of the other two who would be protected only by an assortment of pillows and a duvet. We all got 1 minute each turn and it continued until 2/3 decided they couldn't face another beating. The only rule was that you were only allowed to have the snake if you were willing to take another beating after it...
Middle of nowhere, South Carolina. When I was in elementary school, I had a friend who was obsessed with history and specifically the Civil War. At recess, his favorite game to play was "Civil War." We would organize ourselves into the Union and Confederacy and pretend to fight each other. Eventually, the teachers made us stop.
Punt a football across a net. If you catch it, you also get to Punt it to the other team. If you don't, you have to throw it. Throws have to be catchable and the ball has to go across the fence or else the other team has to punt it. No point system. Kept us busy for hours.
Rules: Everyone tackles one person and jumps on top of them. After a minute of the pile, they get up and pick a new person, yelling "[person's name] broke my favorite finger!" Chase and tackle new person. Repeat until everyone has had a turn and keep going, stop when somebody cries. It destroyed clothes.
When i was in primary school we played this game that i would roughly translate to 'the butt'...we basically just ran around and had to hit other's asses as hard as we could either in teams or not...there were no winners in that game
Murderer. Everybody draws a piece of paper to get a role assigned: murderer, detective or nothing. The detective goes into a separate room and we turned off the light in the main room. It needs to be as dark as possible.
The murderer needs to "hit" an innocent to kill him then 20 second after the innocent tells that he's dead. We then turn on the light and the detective has to investigate and interview each player separately on what they did, what they heard etc to find who the murderer is.
We started doing this with my family in the hotel room during long trips. Then my cousins joined in and it quickly became a tradition.
My friends and I would play this game called "suicide." The game was simple. Someone throws a tennis ball at the wall and everyone tries to catch it when it bounces back. If the ball touches you and then drops to the floor, you'd have to run and touch the wall while the rest of the people would get to punch you. If you catch the ball, you are safe. No points. Just good ole punching bags
We called it “Egg” which was like monkey in the middle and dodgeball combined. Two people would stand on both ends and the monkeys were in the middle (as many people as were playing) and the end guys would whip a mini basketball at them and if they got hit they were out but if the caught the ball they would take the place of the person throwing the egg. Sometimes to trick the people in the middle you could throw the ball to the other person on the outside
"Christians and Moors" I played this in Spain in elementary school. The Moors had to protect a secret word. Each Moor was the keeper of one letter of the word. For Example, if the word was "block", there would then be 5 Moors. The Christians, who numbered up to 30 kids, would then chase these Moors around the fairly giant campus and torture them until they gave up their letter.
The tortures we would dish out ranged from repeatedly dunking a kid's head into a filled up sink, ramming a boys sensitive region into a pole, rubbing a kids face in dirt, wrapping them around a pole and kicking their butt and legs (mind you, we all played soccer regularly and knew how to kick), bending a kid's arm until they either cried or gave up their letter, throwing sizable rocks and tripping people running at full speed over concrete to slow them down and so on.
We were fucking savages. And the Moors could do anything they wanted to escape capture. I remember this one kid who was pinned down by four boys, each holding one of his limbs. He then proceeded to wriggle violently and made two of the kids headbutt eachother. Sounded like a coconut hitting a hard surface.
The school made us stop after we kept returning from recess all bloodied and bruised.
There was this Tarzan game with a Tarzan action figure that could sense movement and sound. Basically, you had to touch Tarzan before he called you out. So much fun but I’m pretty sure we only played a couple of times before it broke.
We had this game we called SWAT ball that we thought we were going to make into a sport. We basically played soccer with this plastic ball that was hollow and had hexagons as the faces that were hollow. We had to stand on our hands and knees and you could only hit the ball not grab it. We had so much fun.
"Old man"
one kid would swing as hard as they could on the swing set while another kid had to walk slowly, like an old man, in front of the kid swinging. If you got hit (spoiler alert you always got hit) by your human wreckingball friend, you had to do a lap around the back yard.
"Dinosaurs"
We were obsessed with dinosaurs and watched a documentary on them from the library. We were super fascinated with the dinosaurs that butted heads like rams. So we stood on opposite sides of the room and ran full sprint at each other. Hurt like hell and we only played that came once.
"Crabapple ball"
One of us would climb to the tippy top of the crab apple tree in one of our yards so that our head was sticking out the top. The rest of us would throw an array of balls (basketballs, dodgeballs, footballs) and try to knock the kid in the tree out of the tree. We succeeded a couple times.
"The Dragon Game"!!!
It was basically Hide and Seek/Back to Base in the dark except our dad would be "The Dragon" and he would be the protector of the Crystal in the front room. Me, my sister and my mum would be Indiana-Jones-type people and would have to sneek from our hiding place (contained only to the downstairs rooms - "The Dragon" would fly into the cave (Dad would walk downstairs so he didn't know where we hid!)) to the front room, in the dark, to the get the Crystal without being caught by "The Dragon". If you got caught, you got "eaten" and had to play dead until the end of the game. My dad would growl and snort and say silly things and I remember I used to be so scared sometimes! We played this almost every Saturday when we were kids until my mum broke her toe after being too daring climbing down from a kitchen cabinet...We don't know how she got up there either...
Great question OP - brought back some amazing memories for me on this long afternoon!
At the lunch table. One person puts knuckles as flush to table as they can. Person opposite puts index and middle fingertips on table. Thumb on a quarter. And fire said quarter between fingers with thumb at the persons knuckles across the table.
Late to the game, but my dad was very creative when it came to keeping me busy.
He used to make a treasure hunt for me at homr where he gave me a clue, usually a printed photo of something around the house (like the corner of a picture frame or the sandbox on the garden) and I had to figure out what it was/where it was. He'd hide another clue there and so on.
Eventually I found the "treasure" which was usually just a toy I already owned or a small piece of candy. It was such a simple game and it kept me busy for hours at a time.
We would play Horse on long drives during family trips.
How do you play Horse, you ask? When you see a horse, shout HORSE as loud as you can. If you and someone else shout HORSE at the same time, you argue about who saw the horse first.
Sometimes it gets really spicy when someone shouts HORSE and it turns out to just be an alpaca.
My younger sister and I would play “vacuum cleaner” , we would take turns pushing each other across the carpet head first and whoever had the biggest knots/ most dirt/fuzz in their hair won. This usually resulted in massive rug burn on our faces and someone crying.
This will be buried, but oh well. We used to play a little game called "Sack Attack" where we'd take a plush seal doll, stand in a circle, and toss it around. When a certain amount of time would run out, or someone dropped it... that person would have to stand in the center. And the person who threw it got to (with all of their might if they so chose) swing the plush seal into the balls of the dropper.
Early 2000s, my group of friends came up with a game to play in the woods near our house. One or two people were space marines who had to wear headphones playing creepy music and static to kill sound and carry flashlights taped to water guns to kill night vision. Everyone else was aliens and hid in the woods.
Marines just had to get from one end to another without getting tagged by aliens, aliens were dead if they were sprayed. If a marine got back sprayed they were out because acid blood.
hide-and-go-seek-flashlight-tag-in-the-dark was always a go to!
basically, hide and seek in the dark. if the person who was ‘it’ shone their flashlight on you, you had to book it to a “safe” zone or item, and touch it. if you made it to the safe zone without being tagged, you were now ‘it’. if you did get tagged, you had to sit down until either everyone had been tagged, or if someone ran by you and you could reach to touch them, you were back in the game and THAT person had to sit down.
sorry if that makes absolutely no sense! that was a fun part of my childhood though.
A ball is kicked on to a Oval/Field, Everyone would chase the ball.
Once someone had the ball, Everyone else had to tackle that person to the ground.
Once they were on the ground everyone else would stack on top of the person.
Like all great things, This game got banned from my high school after a couple broken bones.
My brother and I would play war by creating lines of soldiers using little plastic dinosaurs and army men.
Then, to determine the outcome of the battle, we would take turns rolling different sized marbles towards the opponents line. If you knocked over a soldier he was killed unless he only partially fell over, in which case he was injured.
The number and size of the marbles you could roll was determined by the remaining size and composition of your army. We played this for years, changing it up by using different surfaces (carpet vs wood) and finding new and unique figures to recruit into our armies.
The best thing was that it involved not only skill in throwing the marbles, but also strategy by recruiting and deploying your armies.
G.I. Joe War was something my brother and I played when we were kids. Don’t think we gave it a proper name, but each of us had our own GI Joe ACTION figures so every now and then we would have a battle.
The rules were you had a set time (could be 5 minutes or up to an hour depending on if we were doing chores at the same time or not) where you set your Joes up. If one of my Joes had its weapon aimed at one of my brother’s Joes, and he failed to move his Joe out of the way before the set time was up, then my Joe was able to shoot his Joe. The same goes for my Joes being in the “sights” of his Joes.
Became quite the battle when my brother snuck his Sniper Joe into a plant our mom kept on top of the piano (one of those short pianos, not traditionally long and horizontal). He kept saying another of my Joes was shot and I couldn’t find the culprit. He won the battle easy when he used the tactic and that plant soon became a key point on the “living room battlefield”.
Drown: force the other person(s) underwater until they submit. Unfortunately someone almost (key word almost) drowned so the parents got all upity after that.
Shoot eachother with blanks. It was pretty fun actually.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game called Hell. (We never said the name too loudly otherwise we'd get in trouble lol.) But basically we'd all grab pillows and then pile into this toy house at once. If you were the last one in you'd automatically have to be at the bottom next time.
Imagine this scenario playing out in middle school.
You get a big group of friends, and one person would nonchalantly place 2 fingers over one of their ears like they are listening to an ear piece. Everyone that notices the first person doing it will do the same thing. Once there’s one person left, everybody holding their fingers to their ear yells, GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT!!! And gets tackled by the other people in the group. This is super fun in places like the mall.
Whenever we went to my grandparents house we would watch the only movie they owned....the 10 commandments. So we would often play "Moses" down by the creek at our house. In the movie there was a scene where the slaves would be stomping in mud and hay. So my older brother would make me and my little brother mush in the mud while he threw in reeds by the creek. Not sure why we enjoyed it so much but it was a favorite summer game.
I may have posted this before, but it was a game called "the dark room".
I am the oldest of a large group of siblings and cousins, and every summer we used to go to our grandparents huge old house in Meco, Spain. I was often tormenting the little ones to my own amusement, but we played this one game that is still brought up every family gathering. I honestly have no idea why they always insisted on it.
The premise was simple: black out the windows, and then everyone waits outside the room while I boobie trapped it (think home-alone style, with skateboards and marbles and buckets on doors and Legos and even kitty litter (once, but it was hilarious.)
Then I would turn off the lights and stand in the back of the room, and they had to find me whilst loudly running into everything I set up. The room was pitch black, but I had endless hours of amusement listening to them fall and knock things over.
My best friend Connor and I used to play "Ninja Warrior," which was pretty much just "The Floor is Lava" with more climbing on things and jumping between furniture. We'd make up "trials" and time each other. He was smaller, so he was always faster than me.
I am a twin, so my dad would have my brother stand in front of us and put one twin on each knee. Then we would play "whack a twin", with him rising one or both knees with us on them and then my brother had to tap us to lower us down.
My grandfather made up a game when I was very little, I'd translate it as 'runaway chicken', basically he would hold a kid (me, my siblings or cousins) with his legs and arms and the goal was to escape. Sometimes he would tickle us while he held us too. I was really fun
I loved playing library!! We had bookshelves in our basement and a nice big desk. My friends and I took turns being the librarian and checking people in and out. Then we reshelved then books and did it again.
Stumps: an FFA brawl but you had to keep your hands in your shirt and behind your back and you could only kneel, no standing. You were eliminated if someone got you on your back. Last man standing wins.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know what it's called, but when we were younger, my mom would have us sit with our arms on our hips. The point was for us kids to act like pots with handles. The adults would try to pick us up by the handle. If we let go, that means we would break.
Me and my friends jumped in a trampoline (those big ones that have the net around as well) and threw few golf balls there and tried NOT to get hit by them. Needless to say we got hit a few times..
My and my brothers had a game that I guess was called the pie game. Using our swing swing set, two people would swing and the other one would try to run past and not get hit by the swingers. When you reached the other side you would say PIE PIE in a super Mario accent(for some reason).
Not me, but my sister is really close to my cousin, who lives a three hour drive away. When she was younger, she would play hide and seek with the phone, telling what room they where in by echo
Turn on ceiling fan to HI. Roll a sock up into a ball. Stand under fan and toss sock upwards. Sock hits fan blade and goes flying in random direction, bouncing off walls, etc. If you catch it, you get a point. If you try to catch it and drop it or the sock hits you, you lose a point. If you are the tosser and the sock goes thru the blades untouched, you get a point (super rare). Funnest shit ever.
Don't break the egg
My sister (and sometimes my cousins) and I would go onto the trampoline. The "egg" sits in the middle of the trampoline. Then everyone else starts hopping trying to knock over the egg.
We stopped pretty soon as everytime we played someone would either land on their head, do the "scorpion" when trying to catch themself, etc. Looking back, we were idiotic.
We did play a game recently while on family vacation. And we stopped because I flipped, hit my nose. I got a bloody nose (btw I have a terrible fear of blood). I rolled a bit trying to stand so the blood got onto my forehead. I didn't know that the blood was from my nose, felt the blood on my forehead, fainted again.
My sisters and I used to play pretend all the time and as we got a little bit older and played a little more seriously we made up the “Unexpected” essentially it was playing pretend but you couldn’t talk out of the game and you had to go along with any plot that a person led too
We also played dragon-wolf transformers with our friends which was exactly what it sounds like, we were dragons that could transform into wolves
My brother and I would go to the backyard and dig holes. I don't remember any particular motivation or rules. We'd just take shovels to the backyard and get to work. One corner of the yard was ruined.
Dodgeball on a trampoline. 3 or four guys would jump and another 3 would try to pick off the jumpers with a soccer ball or volleyball. Looking back, it was a pretty dangerous game.
The "Clue Game". The person who was "it" has to write clues and hide them around the house. Typically 8-10 clues. The last clue was directions on where to find the person that was "it" was hiding. We taught it to one of our babysitters and she plays it with her kids now.
We had a game called "Deadman". Aptly named.
One person initially would throw a football as hard as they possibly could directly upward. Whoever caught the football would have to run from one end zone to the other, either one first. The catch is, is that from the moment you touch the football you are now the Deadman and the Deadman has about 15 other boys their age trying to take them down to the ground as violently as humanly possible.
Pretty soon the game evolved to where the ball would hit the ground instead of being caught, and we would just circle around it all the while looking each other in the eyes with primal vigor scouting out who is crazy enough to lunge for the ball and become the Deadman.
If you somehow ended up making it from endzone to endzone, nothing happened. No points. No prize. You were just allowed the relief of not getting slammed and no longer having the burden of being... The Deadman.
My siblings and I would cover ourselves in padding and then proceed to hit softballs at each other with croquet mallets. Absolutely pointless and painful but fun nonetheless!
"Wolf". Myself and my two brothers all shared a room as kids. We were 7, 9 and 13ish in age. Wolf was a game where you turned off all the lights and then fought in the dark. I'm talking full on fighting. Bloody noses were common. Twenty years later, my brothers and I found ourselves sharing a hotel room for some family event. As I'm in bed falling a sleep, I get slapped across my face as my older brother whispered "wolf, bitch". I was probably 30 years old. That was the last time I played Wolf.
We had this friend who was a delinquent and his parents were rarely around . They had one room in their house with 20’ ceilings and a fan right at the top. Us 4 boys used to turn the fan on and try and throw this giant chefs knife through the fan blades and into the roof . Really really stupid
We called it Whippy-ups. It was exceptionally dumb and I’m not even sure it was possible to win. One person would stand in a central position while other players would run in a circle around them. The sole aim was for the person in the centre to try and trip up the runners by kicking their legs from under them as they circled. I’m not talking sticking their foot out to trip I’m talking full on try to kick their damn shins into the future. Bizarrely there were no real injuries and I think my shins are now completely immune to any real pain as a result of this..
Curb ball. You stand on one side of the street and I stand on the other side and throw a large ball at the curb on the opposite side. Hit it and it bounces back into the street, get a point. Bounces from one curb back and hits the other curb and into the street, you win. Play to whatever. Hours hanging with friends doing this on lazy summer nights.
‘The hottest bet’.My cousin and I would beg on random things such as who can blink the most in 10sec(my mom would film the whole thing and rewatched it in slow-mo so that we can have a fair winner).Whoever lose gonna have to drink a shot of hot sauce(i don’t remember what kind) and then we would laugh our heart out because of the loser reaction.We play till all of us were ded ass tired and ‘collapsed ‘ on the floor.
I didn't have the greatest relationship with my siblings growing up, but we did have some fun every now and then.
One of my favorite memories was on a ski trip in Colorado, there was a small but wide stream outside of our cabin. Each person had to cross the stream by only touching rocks above the water, and the others could throw snowballs to try to knock the crosser into the water. We would play for hours without getting in a single fight (which was sadly a defining characteristic of our relationship growing up).
My mates and I had a make-believe place we called "the base" which contained a money printing machine, an infinite beer dispenser and a huge room full of clothes and shoes. We all had titles in it like CEO and regional manager and it was all supposedly built beneath the playground at school and only we knew where the secret door was.
inarff · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to go outside with a shovel and try to dig up treasure. In reality I was just banging my shovel into those X’s they put into concrete sidewalks.
arkie2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think we called it "riot" or something but I'm not sure.
There was a safe zone where everyone except the person who was it would stay for a minute while the person who was it would hide. The group would then have to go find the person who was it in some amount of time, but you couldn't go back to the safe zone until you spotted the person. Right when the person was found, they had to try to catch someone running back to the safe zone. Loads of fun. Something like reverse hide and seek.
chooxy · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play with my younger brother what we very succinctly called "talking game". A spoken adventure game with no written records, so naturally the game master (see also: older brother, myself) had complete power to create bullshit situations to enrich my own character over my brother's.
Though of course not too much bullshit that my brother would rage quit.
My cousin used to have a sizeable back yard with a trampoline and plenty of sticks around so us being boys growing up playing cideo games we got inspired to use various scenarios using things borrowed from video games such as naming our weapons “force edge” and creating our own twists on the stories according to which one of us won the fights, mostly on/revolving around the trampoline.
We got hurt so many times but dang those days were fun.
"Guards" My sister and I pretended we were orphans and that there were evil guards that essentially held us captive and made us work. This was an elaborate game that my sister and I played that we would incorporate into everything in life. Are we riding our bikes? It's because we have escaped and we have to go as fast as possible or else the guards would catch us and drag us back to the orphanage. Are we doing our chores? We have to make the kitchen spotless because the guards are going to come inspect and they will punish us if it isn't good enough. I would like to say that we had active imaginations, but we were just weird.
“Ducky Mo Mo”. I made a joke about the weird duck in Phineas and Ferb and people laughed. So, I made a game out of it. The object of the game was to hug me and talk to me. No one ever wanted to play.
My brother and I played a game called “Turtle”. We would both be under the same blanket with all the ends tucked down. We would then proceed to fart our brains out and whoever popped their head out of the blanket first, like a turtle, would lose.
We had a Trampoline and played the "UFO" game.The rules were the following:One would stand outside and his job was to throw the ball in the trampoline.The others had to prevent it reaching the ground of the trampoline.
If it reached the ground,he could go into the trampoline and whoever was most guilty of the ball reaching the ground had to be the next thrower.
We had a quite large trampoline so we often played 1v4 or 1v3.
Name explanation:The one was Earths last defender and had to throw a bomb(the ball) inside the ufo(we had a round trampoline with nets on the side) to prevent it from landing.
The “super hero” game. We would all spend 5-10 minutes drawing a special super hero we want to be and all their special abilities and then after that we would play fight or go on missions. It was like a kid-version of the game city of heroes but with my family
"The dead corpse". This was when we were rly small...like around 7 I guess. We would collect all blankets and pillows in the house and throw them together into the corner of the room, lower the blinds and turn off the light. One kid was chosen to be the dead corpse, lying deep in the corner under the densest part of the stack of cloth. The rest would hide within the surrounding blankets/pillows. Since we were so small, there seemed to be so much room to hide. After some time the dead corpse would emerge and search for its prey. Whoever was caught would be "eaten" and lost. I don't remember any winning condition for the prey...I think we always got eaten lol.
We called it "Slimey Pigs", which was basically hide + seek mixed with tag using a Nerf gun. Dad was usually it, and my siblings and I would make him play for hours.
“Danger” - get on the tall swings on the playground, go as high as you can, and start telling jokes. The combination of struggling to hold on during laughing and seeing everyone else do the same was the best.
My brother and I used to build wooden bows and shoot ourselves with self made arrows from sticks and pizza boxes and call it "Hunt". Sometimes we shot the arrows through the front wheels of our bicycles with the main goal being it getting stuck in between the wheel and the other one'd just flip over the steering. Was a fun time being in Slovenia for 5 weeks straight without speaking Slovenian lol.
"Touch it and Die." We filled three old tennis balls with sand. Everybody stood in a circle and passed the balls around with nice, easy to catch underhand passes. If you lost focus of a ball coming towards you and fumbled it everybody else could open fire and launch their sand grenades at you. To escape the pelting, you had to run and touch the side of the house. After that you could return back to the circle and hopefully not fumble again.
My friend and I would run around the woods near our houses and pretend we were on the TV show Lost. We would climb the trees to see if we could ‘find help’ and actually filmed it a couple of times on my camera.
When I was in middle school, my friends and I would play “numbers” we would sit in a circle at lunch (around 6-8 of us) and we would all stick out our index fingers. Going clockwise, we would take turns tapping someone’s fingers, and if you got tapped, you would add the amount of fingers on the hand they hit you with to your hand. If you stuck all 5 fingers out, that hand was out, and we’d go until there was only one person left.
My brother made up a game called murder. One person would hide upstairs in the dark and 1 person at a time would go up and check a room. if the room was empty they would run back down the stairs before they got murdered. If we got into the room where the murder was and got caught they would become the murderer. Lots of screaming in that game.
My friends and I used to play rts in the sandbox as kids. We would use Lego minifigures from home to be our heroes and would build separate bases in the sand. Our attacks on the other bases consisted of light attacks (poking with fingers), medium attacks (using your fist), and if you upgrade enough you could use your feet (towards the end of a recess). I played Age of Empires 2 as a kid and just got so addicted to rts I guess lol.
I don't know what it is called in English but in Polish we call it podchody. Its about one person hiding clues in the forest, house or the garden that are leading to a treasure (most often candies). The others are trying to find the clues reading them, solving the mysteries and finding the treasure.
Hide somewhere in the house when my Mom was coming home. I would make a ransom note that made it sound like I was kidnapped.
I would hide quietly to see if she would freak out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to tie together our little “driveway vehicles” with bungee cords and string, and then go down our long driveway in one big train of a vehicle as fast as we could. Those were some fun days.
I'm not sure if it was that unique but my cousins and i couldn't come up with it up until way later (~10yo). It was a combination of hide and seek and catch
Not sure if "catch" has the same name in enlgish but its like tag but instead of the tagged person to start tagging, they go into "prison" and anyone else playing as the "runners" can free them up by touching their hand/low/high fiveing them
The game was basically hide and seek, until the seeker finds someone and then they would have to catch em. All the rules of catch still applied so a round would usually take quite a bit before ending and switching seekers.
"Wolf Tag". Played in 5 rounds across all the houses on our street (30 or so). Round 1 was either 1 or 2 people Wolves ("it") and trying to tag everyone else while everyone else was trying to get to home base to be safe. Round 2 was the original wolves plus the others who were tagged in round 1. Round 3 was the original wolves plus those tagged in Rounds 1 & 2. So and and so forth. You won by surviving (making it to home base all 5 rounds). Amazing memories.
"The Pain Game" where you would start with a handful of ping pong balls and a paddle. Then turn off the lights in the room and run around trying to hit one another with the paddled balls. If you hit someone with the paddle instead, the lights came on, the offender took off their shirt and everyone got a free shot at their back from about 5 feet away. Ah, childhood.
Late but in elementary school we came up with a game called “Helen Keller”, which was pretty much marco polo but on top of the playground equipment. One kid was blindfolded and covered their ears while trying to catch the other players by feeling the vibrations when the kids moved throughout the playground.
The game was shutdown when a kid fell down a slide and broke his arm.
We played “Invaders”. We would split our lawn, and teams, into two sides. You the threw a frisbee to the other side. If it landed you had been invaded. After 10 invasions you lost.
As we got older and still played the game we had a blast diving to catch the frisbee before it landed.
Not really as a child, but in High School we would play “Ball Ball”. Just as you expect, you’d sit in chairs about 10-15 feet apart and toss tennis balls at each other’s testicles.
In college our game of choice was “Keys”. You sit about 10 feet from each other with your eyes closed and hands behind your back while taking turns underhand tossing your keys at each other’s faces.
So there were no winners with our foolish games, everybody loses.
Js229 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Waves”. We had a crappy 70s futon in our basement that we would fold into a bed. Somehow it was able to tip back and forth from the couch legs to the edges of the bed /, —, \ ... so we would ride the waves until someone went flying off.
One out of six of us siblings would put on as many shirts and pants as possible then lie on a bed. We would then grab as many sheets, covers, blankets, pillows, and cushion as we could find and throw those on top of the one sibling (with all the shirts and pants on). Then us and the neighborhood kids would take turns jumping from a bar stool on top of the kid lying down. Someone always ended hurt from flying off of the bed but when you're a latch key kid you find pretty inventive ways of hurting yourself and your siblings.
Me and the neighbor girl way out in East Kentucky had a game where we presented the local stream had fish in it. We made up all sorts of insane species of fish and built little rock dams to give them places to live. There was a species of fish that turned the water into milk, another that made orange juice...
Two kids on the swing set, one kid with a ball on the ground. The ball kid had to try to hit the swing kids anywhere but the feet to get them out. I'm a little hazy beyond that, but I think catching the ball was also an out, and that when the ball kid got someone out they traded spots.
My cousins and I used to play game called “Fat Albert”. All it actually was is football but played on your knees in one of the carpet bedrooms. My oldest cousin would take a pillow or two and stuff them inside his shirt making him resemble “Fat Albert”, the three of us would then try to reach the other side of the room with either a pass or handoff of the ball. Which of course meant our oldest cousin would just bash into you as hard as he could with his pillow stomach sending us flying. Then one day his mother walked in the room at the exact moment he blasted his little brother into the wall making a dent. That was the last time we were aloud to play Fat Albert.
"The ball game" mix of tag and hide and go seek, always played at night where someone was it with the ball everyone got a head start to go and hide then the person with the ball would run around and try to throw it at people if it hit you, you became it and had to hit someone else with it. Lots of fun , my buddy climbed a tree and hid for an hour and no one could find him the entire time
My brother, my cousin, and I would put on life jackets and throw darts at each other from across the basement. The life jackets were just thick enough to stop the darts. Shit was intense.
“Pie in the face”. It involved me and my siblings jumping around on a trampoline and throwing a wet dishrag at each other’s faces and on a successful hit we would yell “PIE IN THE FACE!”. I don’t know.
On the way into Detroit for any event, my brother and I would compete to see who could count the most burned out or abandoned buildings on their side of the car.
Me and my friends used to throw rocks at each other from opposite sides of a hill so you wouldn't know when you were about to get hit. Not sure how I've made it to 31.
Not really original but sometimes my brother and I would celebrate our birthdays on the same day and since we lived in a very "spacious" (almost no houses and big and empty fields) neighborhood we would play a war-like game between my friends and his, with fake plastic guns and imaginary bullets, my team made a lot of bases where we hid equipment all around the neighborhood and we used binoculars to see spot them easily (~1km away), i would dress in military clothes and my team communicated with walkie-talkies
We used to see who could climb the highest in the tree, or the quickest up the tree and onto the garage roof. It was always made better when my little cousin wanted to play. He was afraid of heights. We'd wait until he got half way up, call for him to look down and then he'd freeze up there. We were so mean. We'd leave him up there for hours and play with his toys.
Growing up, my family would play Snapdragon every Christmas. The adults would light cashews on fire with brandy. The kids would then try to grab the cashews from the flames and eat them (while still on fire) without getting burned.
When I told my husband about this, he didn't think it was a real game so I looked it up and sure enough. It is.)
It seems no one had my brother who insisted on playing his favorite game caller "You Killed My Partner" which was nothing more than him trying to get a gun away from me so he could "avenge the death of his partner". It was a real gun that had the barrel soldered shut. I got pistol-whipped a few times.
My father was never very athletic or interested in playing but one game I remember playing with him when I was young was called "over the door". You find a door that opens outward and throw a ball over it. No one else I've ever talked to has played this game.
Hide and seek tag around the whole neighbor hood on bike and skateboards.
Nyodo · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 4th grade we’d play “Kings of the Hill” during recess. Not that weird of an idea but the game itself was. On the playground we had one of those slides that were super wide and had 3 different slides in one. So we used that and we’d have a kid sit at the top of each slide and the rest would climb up and try to pull them down the slide.
The different part is that sometimes, instead of just pulling the kid’s legs so they’d slide down, kids would push them off the side of the slide and when some of them would run up they’d fall off the side.
“Super Checkers!” You could create any move you wanted, so long as the name and the action jived and it didn’t automatically end the game. Typically we’d only let the move happen once, to push coming up with new weird “super moves.”
It was kind of the Calvinball of checkers.
We would go into my friend's basement and split up into two teams (usually 4 of us to a team). Each team would go to one end of the basement. Then we would turn out to lights and cover the windows so it was pitch black. We would start throwing random objects at each other in the dark. Not necessarily soft things like dodge-balls, mind you. There were bowling pins, baseballs and other types of heavy or solid objects.
The winning team would be revealed once all members of the opposing team were crying on the floor.
Throw a newspaper in the air in front of me run and make a kickass jumping catch and repeat! Hours of fun. In reality I looked like a kid with no friends playing catch with himself. I swear I had friends.
We used to play a game called manhunt with two teams, "hunters" and "hiders". The hiders chose a word with the same amount of letters as team members (e.g. 4 player teams would choose a 4 letter word like "game"). Each team member was assigned a letter, then they would be given a head start to run/hide from the other team. The hunters would then have to find the hiders and beat them up until they gave up their letter. The hunters then had to guess the word based on the letters they got. It usually ended in tears
Foxcat · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Pie Game". My siblings and I would throw the couch throw-pillows at each in the living room and shout out different pie names as we did. "Banana cream pie!" "Apple pie!"" Etc. The first person to repeat a pie name lost.
Oldico · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Independence War II - Edge of Chaos
The best Sci-Fi dogfight / trading simulator ever!
Used to play tag with my brother and cousins in my pawpaw's tobacco barn. The rule was that you had to stay on the second level which was just 2×6s spaced out about 6 ft apart from each other. We used to be able to run in a full sprint on those boards. One day we were playing and one of the boards broke under my little brother's foot and he fell about 10ft and landed on his back with his head about 6 inches from hitting the pointed end of an upwards-facing tractor plow. Im pretty sure that was the last time we ever played tag in the barn. Shit was eye opening.
My dad and I would set up small pieces (army men, Polly pockets, chess pieces etc...) in whatever formation we chose, across from each other on the floor in the kitchen or hallway, and bounce a bouncy ball back and for to knock over each other’s game pieces, whoever ran out of pieces first loss. Fun at any age, I still play it with my kids sometimes.
The "SAH" game, my brother is 6 and a half years older so we didn't play any games except that one, and we lowkey still do. When we go to a store, clothing, grocery, etc we basically karate chop each other and whisper "sah" that's all. The reason it's "karate chopping" is because one time he was walking in front of the cart while i was pushing, and i decided that i would ram it into his ankles and yell "SAHHHH," he fell and I got in a lot of trouble
Me and my brothers had these metal figurines that we would tie at the waist and connect to a fan. The fan that we used had one of those sliding switches so you could calibrate the speed of the fan. We would put on armor helmets and have lid containers as shields and however times you got hit you would lose points. I got many headaches playing that game lol.
Tarzan Soccer Baseball. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like, we had a garden hose tied to a tree and a stump that we would swing off of. Two teams (all though it worked two player), kick the ball while swinging through the air and round the bases.
So many hours playing that game we came up with by ourselves (I’m sure it’s not unique, but we weren’t told it by anyone else).
Sandbox battleship. Each person builds ships out of sand about 8-10 feet from one another, usually about bread loaf size.
One large stone is selected for the game and each person stands near their ship taking turns throwing the stone and trying to destroy everyone else's ship.
If the middle of your ship was destroyed, you were out. After 10 more throws you could rebuild your ship and join in the game again.
If you could find a sandbox that wasn't used often the games could take days.
“Balloon Match”
This game requires one slightly deflated helium balloon, two people, and the widest and tallest door jam in the house. Each player (my little brother and I) stands on either side facing each other. The goal of the game is to keep the balloon from hitting the ground on your side of the door jam in 3 hits or less. The winner would serve from behind the line (no spiking was allowed on serves) if the serve hits you, it counts as a hit. First one to lose ten games loses the match. This by far caused more brawls and hurt feelings than any other game we played as kids...also didn’t help that dad would play with absolutely no mercy.
So there was this worm..... The main level (i think level 1) was inside the human brain... I really miss it
Also there was this tunnel with 3 soldiers, you play one at a time, you die, you get the second one and so on.... Usually I tried to get out of the tunnel by a ladder, i would die instantly.... I really miss it tooo
My brother and I are ticklish, so in the car my brother would have to stay still as I would pretend to "tickle" him without actually doing so. If he flinched before I actually tickle him, I win and get to actually tickle him. If I accidentally touch or tickle him, he gets to tickle me back.
We played a game called Fishball (still do). I don't know how popular it is...but it's basically a mix of dodgeball, tennis, and volleyball.
The rules: you play with a volleyball on a tennis court and you get three hits like in volleyball but have to get it across the net. The ball has to bounce once before you can hit it. If it hits you before it hits the ground then you got "sniped" by the other team and it's 2 points for them. That game is awesome
"White Eyed Monsters" My brother and I would be waiting in the car while my parents ran in to the store or whatever and anytime we saw a car coming we'd duck and hide. No score, really just one of the many stupid ways you entertain yourself at that age haha.
All the kids in my Neighborhood would get together and play a game called "Spill the Beans" which we eventually just shortened to "Spill" no idea why we called it that. Essentially it was just a version of manhunt without the chasing and jail. One person would be the seeker and the everyone else hid somewhere in the neighborhood. When the seeker saw someone they would yell "Stop or I'll shoot insert name here behind the rock or car or Bush etc etc. The goal was for the hiders to get up to the telephone poll and yell "Spill". If they succeeded the seeker had to be seeker again. I miss my neighborhood games.
Bonus: We also played a game called "Suicide" I think everyone played a version of it at some point. You throw a tennis ball at a wall and try to catch it. If you touch it but miss the ball you have to run and tag the wall before someone pegs you with the ball.
Back in the day, we played something called "busjetrap", not quite sure what to call it in english. It was like hide and seek, but with a twist.
You had one person who had to look for everyone, and a ball on a big open space. At the start, one person would kick the ball as far away as he could and everybody would scuttle to their hiding spot.
The person looking for the rest had to go get the ball and return it to it's original spot before he/she could look for the rest.
During the game, the people hiding could decide to kick the ball away again, at which point the one searching had to go get it back again and so forth and so forth.
The game would end when everybody was found or when either the person looking or hiding would give up.
'Speed Cushions' with my little brother. From either end of the living room, you had to whip (or 'yeet' I guess the cool kids would say nowadays) your pile of cushions (taken from the couches) in the direction of your opponent as fast as possible, while they did the same and tried to return the ones you'd thrown. The winner was the first one to have no cushions left on their side (or alternatively the loser was the first one to break something and get yelled at by our parents).
It's called Beckon and I've always wondered if other people knew about it as I always suspected my gram made it up. It's kinda like kick the can but with waving (like a hello wave). One person is it-person. They count while everyone else hides, this is an outside game. They run around looking for people and to get somebody the it-person tags them. The tagged person goes to stand at the base. The tagged person on base will yell things like, "Beckon beckon I need a beckon." Then anyone else still not tagged can wave at them from hiding. If they see this wave, or beckon, they get to escape base. When the it-person gets everybody to base, the first person to be on base without escaping is the new it-person.
We played I.R.A. like the paramilitary organisation. Basically it was like hide and seek with two teams. The team hiding chose a codeword and everybody got a letter, then everybody went out to hide. Then when somebody, or a group from the other team found you, they'd chase you down and beat you until you gave up your letter. The game was over when they could figure out the code word. Heaps of fun, dodging rocks.
My best friend and me made up a game in 5th grade called “Hold your balls”. At first only us two played it but we eventually we gad a group of about 20 other kids playing with us. Each person got one those rubber kickball balls and all you had to do was make sure no one else hit your ball out of your hand.
The only rule was that you couldn’t use your hands or feet to hit someone’s ball. You could only use your own ball. When someone dropped their ball you would chuck your ball at theirs to try and send it flying. Then they would have to chase down their ball before someone else hit it with their own.
Sometimes you got lucky and they’d miss and have to chase down their ball giving you time to pick yours up. That was it. There was no winner, just a lot of running. By the end of recess we would all be completely out of breathe, sweating like mad, and laughing like crazy.
The Red Star. It was a bullet-hell genre of video game originally developed for the PS2/Xbox but never got a commercial release. It was not only unique as bullet-hell game but as a game in it's own right.
The levels were constantly different styles and perspectives and point-of-view, so not only thematically changing but also changing the direction. So sometimes it would be bottom-up, right-left, diagonally, etc.
You had unique hero choices with different abilities. Very different bosses and patterns that were difficult to learn.
I originally played the PS2 demo when I worked at EB games and then later found a more developed pirated version that I played at home. It was a super fun and addictived game.
I don't know why this was allowed... The game was played with a tennis ball. Each player dug a hole in the ground in a selected area. Then the person who was it rolled the ball trying to land in that area. If the ball landed in your hole you had to grab it and throw it at any of the other players. Whoever you hit got a strike. I don't remember what happened if you missed. You probably got a strike for that also. If the ball landed in the area, but not in a hole the person who was it had to grab it and try to hit someone or they would get a strike. Each player took a turn at being it (probably defined by who got a strike that round.)
Every started with 3 strikes. (I think it was 3, part of me wants to say it was 7, but that sounds too crazy.) When you ran out of strikes, everyone went over to a wall and "stoned" you. To "stone" a player, each player subtracted the number of strikes they got from 3; that's how many times they got to throw the tennis ball at the person being stoned. So if you got 2 strikes, you only got one throw. If you got 0 strikes you got 3 throws.
After the stoning, the game started over again.
It was an odd game. I have never heard of anyone else who played it. And I can't find any information on it online anywhere.
Ader73 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I liked throwing rocks at cars because we liked the weird noise it made when they hit the car. Our parents didn’t like that game so much.
I lived in a city of former textile mill glory, and we learned some of the history of the mills in school. My friends in the neighborhood and I decided to put on a play which we forced all of our parents to attend, where we performed original songs about our sad lives as child laborers. As I recall one was called "Poor Little Mill Girl" and I'm sure it was a banger.
My friend and I would set up little obstacle courses around his room, and try and bounce a ball through the course without it stopping. Too many times I'd throw a ball too hard, and it'd land in an open AC vent, or hit an eye...
Skating Grandma. My older sister would dress me up like an old lady and stuff pillows in my clothes to give me a large chest and butt. I’d put on roller skates and pretend to figure skate how I thought an old lady would, and say things like “my hip!”
Using a basketball, you stand on one side of the street, they on the other. Throw the ball different ways to hit the curb, but it has to hit the curb at a certain angle, otherwise it didn't count.
Carpet tag was a game my brother and i played when we were younger. We had a very thick carpet that you could make marks on, so we would "draw" a track into the carpet (basically a big circle) with starting points and bases or shortcuts. Tag with a twist! simple, but it kept us entertained for hours
My sister and I played a game called “Bum Wiggle Bum Bum, Bum Wiggle Bum”. We’d be stood back-to-back with our arms linked. The aim of the game - start in the middle of the room, and whoever pushes the other to the opposite side of the room wins. Only rule was that I wasn’t allowed to pick her up (I’m 3 years older).
not really unique per se but i reemember staying at my cousins house all the time and we would make our own mini golf courses in his basement using all sorts of props
I don't have a name for it but here is how it goes.
I try to "throw" the door closed as softly as possible. So basically, I imagine a time interval from when the striker hits the strike plate to when it clicks closed.
Usually I under throw it a tad and it doesn't quite close but I've gotten pretty ggood at it over the years. A good time is probably around .5 seconds.
There was a family friend that had lost a hand, leaving only a nub behind. Me and my cousin were always super fascinated by it, and in turn him. Every time he came over, he said he “lost” his hand, and would have us go look for it. And by god, we spent hours looking for that damn hand.
Looking back on it, that’s a great way to get 2 kids out of your hair for a couple hours
Im not sure how unique this is but me and my family friends use to play Toro everytime they came over. They would lay on the hammock and try no to get thrown off by us. We stopped playing when the tree that was holding up the hammock broke.
My siblings and I would put all of our pillows and blankets in the hallway and then put our bathing suits on and dive into the blankets to pretend we were swimming in the ocean. We even had a deep end where most of the pillows were. We didn’t have a pool and we live in a place where we get 6 months of snow, so pretending we were swimming is usually as close as we got to actually doing it.
Ah one more! My sons played roller wars. They would come home from school put on shoulder pads from their football days (they were 1.5 years apart and this was 3-5th grade approximately my old skates and some rollerblades I picked up at a garage sale and they would skate all over my 3 car garage and beat each other with plastic bats.
“Jump, Jump, Sit” on the trampoline. There were four of us, and basically the premise of the game is that you get 2 jumps to get as high as you can before you jump and land on your butt on the trampoline. This results in one of the four flying high up in the air, and the other three just kinda bounce a little. I really miss the kids I used to play this with, and it’s a memory I think of often.
Edit: And “house”
We would gather in a friend’s driveway with some chalk and draw the outline of our fake house, complete with “beds” and “toilets.” We’d use our scooters and pretend we were going to work, and then one of my friends’ parents let us turn their garage into a “clubhouse” where we made paper dolls and had sleepovers instead of chalking up their driveway. God this was such a trip down memory lane, thank you for asking this question.
My siblings and friends would pull the cushions off the couch and set them on the other side of the den (about 6ft). Bigger kids would lay back on the couch with legs up (forming a seat) and little kid would sit on their feet. The goal was to launch the smaller kids across the room to land on the cushions. Whoever made it, won. Whoever didnt had a sore bum!
When I was really young (2 - 4) I lived in Belgium due to my father being in the military. Everyone there spoke Flemish and Dutch, yet I barely even understood English. When I was in Pre-K a few of the Dutch kids and myself used to play the pants game. We would just walk around and pants each other most of the day. I don't know how nobody noticed and stopped us from playing but it was an extremely common game among the kids; some even played it outside of school.
Bulldoggy. 5- or 6-year-old me would get on all fours on one side of the living room, and my dad would do the same on the opposite side of the living room. He would start a count down during which we both "rev up" like I imagined bulls would do in bull fights, and on "3-2-1-bulldoggy!" we both charged and tried to knock the other over. After several rounds, I was inevitably declared the winner.
I'm sure this will get lost, but this immediately reminded me of Bob Mortimers story about one of the games he played growing up in England. Me and my girlfriend constantly reference this.
Hkydoc · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but a co-worker’s kid (6 yo). I caught him playing “treasure hunt.” He rifles through all of the ash trays in our shopping strip that have the sand in them to find “treasures.” Then he brings them back to his gramma.
His gramma has him to collect the butts that are smokeable still and bring them back to her.
After every birthday party my brother and I would take home one of the balloons. Once it had lost most of its helium we would play volleyball over the couch or a bed. There would be lots of very dramatic diving to the ground to save the balloons from touching the ground although it usually fell so slowly I think most of the diving saves were completely forced.
Not even sure if this what they are called but my cousins and I all visited our grandparents often. We found this “china berry” (?) tree in the backyard. We would pick them and we would have “China berry” fights. I remember just having a bucket of these small green berry shaped things and just straight chunking them at my cousins.
I often wonder how no one lost an eye. It’s crazy how oblivious we are as children to some dangerous activity.
My sister and i used to love playing around with our sprinkler in the summer. We used to pretend we were in a drive by shooting when it would do that reset where it moves really fast and shoots little bits of water (or whatever you call that).
Yikes.
wtjax · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have this hill behind my friends house. We'd get a large stick, put on a jacket and launch ourselves off the edge of the hill like pole vaulting and land several feet down the hill. the dirt wasnt hard and it was super fun. At some point the hill got flattened as did the creek just behind it... it was really fun as a kid playing outside so much
We used to pick one of our friends at random and tie them up in a chair with ropes and duct tape and have them "escape". In reality we just tied them down so we could mess with them and slap them around. Looking back on it I realize this is pretty fucked up. Also looking back on it, out of all the times we played I was never tied up.
Does anyone remember Buns Up as a kid? Basically kids up against the wall bent over and someone would throw a tennis ball and try to hit one of the buns.
My friends and I would go on the trampoline and place like 5 footballs, basketballs, soccer balls whatever in the middle.
Everyone would just jump around and if you touched a ball you were out. It was so much fun diving over the balls to the one safe spot on the trampoline the balls weren’t at at the moment. I miss the days where we would be on the trampoline for hours just making up all these different games. This one was one of my favorite though
We used to play dodgeball against a wall at school during recess, except all we had were basketballs because the 4 square balls were only allowed in a different area of the yard. Kids regularly got their hands crushed between the ball and the wall, yet nobody stopped us. 1985 was glorious.
I played a weird game with myself where the car window would “chop” all of the grass and plants on the side of the road. I even had a point system based on different types of trees and grass. I imagined a leaderboard in my head in which I sat atop of.
Ball-Tag. Like tag and dodgeball combined (so, mobile dodgeball?). Whoever is "It" can have 1 to 3 tennis balls (or any ball generally non-harmful). If they miss they have to retrieve the ball(s) obviously to get someone.
Person who's "It" counts (10, 20, 100, whatever you agree on), everyone else runs and hides within the designated play area. Person who's"It" hunts anyone down. They have to hit you with a ball (throw or traditional tag, ball has to make contact though), who ever it hit, is "It".
When you've been tagged, you get the ball, make a short count (or agreed upon count, I think it was 10 or 20) and then hunt your friends down.
I suppose end game is when everyone is all tired out.
No head shots was or became a rule, (it would still happened on accident). I can't remember, I think if you headshot someone it doesn't count.
How you deal with cheaters depends on your group, if I recall one friend didn't like another of mine and it became a bit vicious, we had to stop playing, ultimately I thought it was pretty fun. You'd have those dodgeball moments of intensity between the person trying to dodge and the person throwing, except they can close the gap. The worst was being caught in a corner.
We weren't all equally fast but had pretty accurate throws so I thought it was a pretty viable alternative.
I think we used to play a game called "Running Bases" too. It was like Dodgeball meets a Suicide Squeeze in Baseball. Can't remember the rules we came up with though. Two people are in the middle toss a ball, try to tag out runners, I can't remember if everyone runs or not. Looking back it was pretty vicious, probably like a National Geographic episode where a pack runs from a predator, you play smart or be fast and agile.
First two out I think took place in the middle.
Both games I remember leading to some Spiderman, or Neo/Matrix dodge moments.
We had a game a lot like this but each person being chased had a tennis racket that we could deflect the balls with. I think it was meant to be like a Jedi deflecting lasers. Once we played in the garage because it was raining out and my best friend put his racket through the window. That was the end of that game. The window is still broken 20 years later
"Wiglets" was a game I used to play with some friends who lived down my road, we'd basically just zip ourselves up in sleeping bags and roll down the stairs repeatedly.
"snipe hunting". We'd sit around and carve sticks into really sharp points, then our parents would have us go hunting for snipes. We didn't know what one looked like, of course, because snipes aren't real. I didn't realize until many years later how the name played into the actual game.
Zombie Tag. Not necessarily unique, but it was the game that everyone enjoyed. It was a variation of Tag and Hide n go Seek. One person would be "infected" and they would need to count to 100. The rest of the kids would need to hide from the zombie. Once the zombie finsiehd counting, the hunt was on. That person would look around the neighborhood to find kids. Once he found someone, that person would get infected and become a zombie. Then it would come down to the last man standing. The joy of running from a group of 20 zombies was like no other!
I think it was an advantage that we lived in a Trailer Park. Our park is in the shape of an 8. The top is a smaller circle, with the bottom being the larger circle. We always played in the top circle. Back in the day, the owners weren't very strict with having kids running around their yard. Memories one can never forget!
My neighbor friend and I played this when we were 8. I would sit on my bed (it had a thick mattress and box spring so it was at least 2.5 feet high) and then she would pull me off the edge and I would just drop straight down. We thought it was hilarious til I broke my arm. I never played that again.
I pretended that if you were born in my town you could speak a secret language .
It was literally just me and my 3 years younger niece saying letters using gestures and inflection to communicate and pretending me were talking. Mostly to annoy the new neighbor kid who knocked off us my swing set because it was on "her property". ( It was not.) She also annoyed us because she said her name was really Ariel and her evil stepmom dyed her naturally red hair brown. We had seen the Little Mermaid too Stephanie.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The shit factory. We had an awesome playground at the neighborhood pool. Multiple levels, pirate wheel, springy rocker things, the works. We imagined a giant shit processing facility for all the worlds shit, but it was magical a la Willy Wonka. There was a large "main shit valve" (the pirate wheel near a tube slide) which had to be released to prevent dire consequences. There was a turbulent lake of diarrhea which we had to take the boats across (the rocket horses.) Thinking back on it, it's still funny, poop's still funny.
We played a game called stick-bottle which was played with an empty 1 liter water bottle and any stick you could find. We would stand in a circle and try to keep the bottle in the air using only the sticks and our feet. It was an amazingly difficult game. The best bottle for the game used to be a Crystal Geyser bottle but then they changed the design of the bottle. I recommend this game still.
I would get bored driving in the back of the car all the time. So I played a game where an invisible line shot perpendicular to my toes towards the sidewalk and when I lifted my toes the line would lift up. The goal was to keep my toe line from touching anything other than grass or trees as they passed by. It became such a habit that I almost got into a crash when I first started driving, because I was focused on that game out of reflex. It was a very difficult habit to break and in hindsight it is quite strange.
So, like, we would basically use our back door and when I touched it, he’d act like a different character from one of the cartoons we watched. His go-tos were: Mojo jo-jo, courage the cowardly dog, Ramsey’s, and the devil from cow and chicken.
I miss that game, lol. Maybe I’ll ask if we can play it again once I get home today.
“War” a friend and I would make forts on each side of the room, then we would turn the lights off and throw toys across the room at each other. Incredibly dangerous looking back on it, but it was fun. Still have smalls dents in my walls from it.
We played a game called "sticks". Sticks entailed collecting a small pile of small to medium sized sticks, piling them on the fairly major road behind our house, and then waiting to see cars either swerve to avoid running them over, or watching the cars plow into the pile, sending sticks flying everywhere.
When I was a freshman in highschool, like 15 friends and I played "the assassin game". In the morning, we would meet at a lunch table and put all our names in a hat. We would then pull a name from the hat. That name was our Target for the day and we had to poke them without them knowing. This definitely made for some paranoid days lol.
He had this trampoline game called “LLABA GAG” (gagaball backwards). We took a yoga ball and kicked it each other and if you got hit from the waist and above then you were out. Also if you hit the ball out of the trampoline you were out.
we lived in a rural area, and had a huge field/woods behind the house.
we had like a quarter mile straight line path.
We used to take turns driving the go-kart as fast as we could down the path, while everyone else would hide along the path and try and pelt you with balls, basket balls, tennis balls etc. somehow know one ever got really injured.
We had a family game called Lay-Lay that my sister made up. Basically, it was reverse hide-and-seek in the dark. Whoever was "it" would hide somewhere in the basement while the rest of us counted to 30 on the stairs and then came down to look for them. When we found the person hiding, they would jump out and chase everyone. When they caught someone, they would put their fist into that person's belly and twist it back and forth yelling "Lay-lay! Lay-lay!", and the person they caught would be "it" next. Some people were really good at hiding and the tension during that search would be unbelievable... good times.
reagor · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle touchys naked puzzle basement was full of them
When we were in our yard, the cars that drove by were filled with "aliens". You couldn't be seen by the aliens as alive or you'd be "taken", so whenever a car drove by you either had to run behind a building to avoid being seen or freeze so they would think you were a statue. There was no point to the game. But for years when cars drove by I got the urge to run.
My wife, who is Jewish, played “Anne Frank.” She and her sister would take turns pretending to hide in the house from a Nazi, played by the other sister.
Back in elementary school my friends and I developed a game we called “tetherball of death”. Basically, there’s two teams on the tetherball court who send the ball back and forth trying to hit each other. You went out if you got hit
We would run around the house with the lights off, but one person had the flash from my dad's old school camera. The flash had a test button and batteries, so it was a self-contained kid-blinder. Who ever had the flash would sneak around and try to blind the other brothers until someone got hurt, which is how most of the games would end. I remember that the flash made an audible noise when it was recharging to flash again. I am pretty sure I would have some "flash" backs if I ever heard it again.
We played a soccer game called “tapitas” (bottle caps in Spanish) in my apartment corridor floor, using 22 San Pellegrino style water bottle caps as players. 11 regular water bottle caps would make one team and 11 sparkling water caps (another color) would make the other team. We would position them across the field (floor), and use a token from another game as a ball. We had to press the caps with a flat beer bottle cap, so the “players” would move and hit the token. We could play for hours and create tournaments.
When we were young, we used to try to sneak through every room in the house as if they were booby trapped with laserbeams(coming from the electrical outlets), pressure-pads(patterns on rugs, etc), and roaming guards(our parents). We had to sneak through totally undetected. But our parents did not like knowing we were around them without them knowing, so they ended that game eventually. :(
This was all before we knew games like Metal Gear, etc existed or were created.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Batman game started in the late 80s. My grandfather took a pack of playing cards and drew a Batman symbol on one of the cards. He place the pack of cards on top of the blade of the ceiling fan and after a few spins they'd scatter all over. Whoever found the Batman card won a prize. My brother and cousins and I loved this game so much and I found out later my grandparents helped the littlest kids so they could win too.
My brothers and I would jump on the trampoline and yell “3, 2, 1, BLASTOFF!!!” and we would all land on the trampoline sitting down. Someone would go flying super high
My mom filled in our pool with dirt, our black lab liked to dig holes, my best friend and I (10 at the time) would use shovels to connect the holes and make underground tunnels to crawl through.
Me and my friends used to play a game called "Human Jousting" we had many variations of this game, one of which was when we paired up and piggybacked each other, and then charged into another pair trying to knock the person on top off, it was great.
A little game called 'Ding Dong Willy'. When my brother and I were kids and used to share a bath, we'd play a game where one of us would stand up with their legs apart and the other would have to slide between the legs and pull the other's penis down like ringing a church bell.
My siblings and I did not have a name for this game but I remember it was the most fun I had as a kid with all 4 of my other siblings. Mom and dad were both gone early, like before the sun had come up and somehow, all 5 of us kids woke up before dawn. The oldest of us was 12 i think, which made the youngest of us 5.
In my house we had a long hallway down to the bedrooms. The hall way was straight, then at the end turned left where two other room doors were. Going down the hallway you first had the laundry room on the left, then the bathroom on the left, middle/little brother's room at the end of the hall, my room/sister's room next to mid/little bro's to the left, and then older brother's room parallel from mine/sister's room.
Since it was pitch black in the house, we decided to make someone a "monster" and they would go down the hall, choose a room and hide there to try and snatch someone. All of the doors were to remain open and lights off so that no one knew which doorway the monster would be in. The goal was to walk down the hallway, make it to very end, tap the wall between the two bedroom doors and come back without being snatched.
If you were snatched, you also became a monster and chose a doorway to hide/stand in, which obviously made it even more scary for the next person to walk down the hallway. It was fun because you were terrified, it was pitch black and you had to rely on sound and feeling. As a monster, you would want to focus on the sounds you heard as much as you could, because you could not see anyone at all.
As someone who walks down the hallway, you want to really try and control your breathing, make as little sound as possible while feeling your way down the hallway, and not get snatched lol. After a while my brothers added some objects like books and back backs in the hallways to help make the game more challenging. It was the most fun I had as a kid with my siblings all playing one game together. When the sun came up, we got ready for school and left for the bus stop on time, and never played the game again.
I grew up in the 00s and early 10s. 2011 was a cursed time to be a child. I was really I into origami at the time, so I made the entire cast of angry birds out of construction paper and then played a total drama island style survivor game with my brother with the angry birds, complete with ships and an awkwardly drawn out elimination round, and all that beautifully cursed content
We set up bases in the front yard like a baseball diamond. They were usually soccer balls or something.
Two person game. The batter would throw a tennis ball as far as they could and then run around the bases. The goal was to make it all the way around before the outfielder could retrieve the tennis ball and throw it at the batter.
The batter could stop at a base. This would usually result in a game of chicken where the batter would try to bait the outfielder into throwing the ball.
The batter could choose to rethrow and the process would repeat. Can’t remember if we had a 3-out system or if we switched offense/defense every out.
Dad got mad a lot because apparently it ruined the grass in the front yard.
“Drop kick”
Where like 6 of us would all get on a regular sized trampoline and turn it into the coliseum. We would just run around, every man for themselves and drop kick the living shit out of each other until someone got hurt enough to stop
didn’t have a name for this next one but we would all have hockey sticks and pucks and have one person on a scooter ride past us as we all payed out slapshot after slapshot at that single poor soul
"Imhotep rise up" - I actually invented this game when I was 8-9 because I was hugest fan of Mummy films. Sooo basically we went outside with a blanket, wrapped a person (Imhotep) in a blanket like a burrito, basically suffocating, throw random grasses/flowers on "Imohtep" and gathered in a circle around it. When we would start running around in a circle singing "Imohtep rise up" and "Imhotep" should start wrapping out of the blanket and start catching kids. If Imhotep catches kid, he needs to fall on ground and be dead because mummies kills people, right? 😁 So this game is basically a catching game, but with suffocating in a blanket and Mummy movies references. I lived in a small village and one summer it was a huge game every kid played. I'm really proud of my invention and would love to play it, but oh well adulthood happened 🙃
"master sock ball dodger" the neighborhood kids, my brother and I would take a few pairs of socks and wrap them around themselves into a ball. We would gather around the trampoline, there wouldd be at least 3 players, 1 on the trampoline and 1 on either side. The two people on the ground would stand s few meters away and try hitting the player on the trampoline with the sock ball. If you were hit you had to get off and the person who threw the ball would get on. If you survived 14 throws without being hit congratulations you are the master sock ball dodger.
When I was younger I would often go spend nights with my grandparents. My grandpa would always wake up at 5am to walk to the post office and then drink coffee while he watched the birds at the feeder. By the time me and my grandmother woke up, he would be still sitting in the kitchen watching the birds.
We would always play this game called "Monster" where me and my grandma would say "monster, monster", and then my grandpa would get up and start making various monster noises and stomp his feet toward the room we were in. So me and my grandma would hide under the covers from the monster. He would get into the room and act suprised and search around the room for us. He would never find us until I giggled under the covers because I thought I was really hidden from him.
That little game really made me happy every morning for whatever reason. Now that my grandparents aren't around anymore, I can always think back to silly little games like that. It meant so much to me.
We played a game we called "red out". It was inside a pole barn, it was basically extreme around the world basketball game. If you missed on an x, you had to go back one space, miss on a circle had to go back 2. We had penalty shots for various things. If the ball hit certain walls, it the ball hit the white board we kept score on, even worse if the ball knocked off the dry erase markers from the board. if you shot from the wrong spot on accident. It was called red out because you could also hit or tag other players as long as you were on your designated spot and give other players penalty shots. Tag them meant you could slap, tag with the ball or kick as long as you were on your spot. You could also do parkour type tagging , as in you could run to your spot on your turn jump and tag a player and as long as you landed on your spot You had to shoot from you gave them penalty shots. The only way to get back in the game is if you made all your penalty shots/free throws all in a row. If you missed you had to start over again on your next turn. All the tagging and penalty shots caused some anger and there were several times we would lose our shit "red out" and get ejected from the game . it was actually very fun, we kept track of records and wins for years. Rules were added to over the years and there is a lot I'm forgetting. The only way to win was to go around the world and back. Make 5 free throws in a row and the final shot was a 3 point shot from the top of the key that had to be swished, determined by the other player /judges. The only way you could win if it wasn't a swish , was it had to be a trick shot. Behind the back, bounce off the ground etc.
This is old and will absolutely get buried but my two younger brothers and I used to play the 'cat poop game'. Our house had two staircases so you could race laps through it and was all hardwood floor so traction was questionable. We'd go through the house and shut all the doors and start the game by scaring the cat. Our dog would go mental and chase the cat.
The cat was much faster than our janky uncoordinated mutt. We would chase after the dog like Indians on the hunt or crazed devil children. The game ended when the cat shit and the dog ate it.
"Fat Flanders", we were all on the trampoline with someone in the middle on their knees. They were Fat Flanders and their mission was to try and take down someone from the edge but they couldn't stand up. Led to some fun dives and a few injuries but was ultimately hilarious
In the 4th grade, my friend and I invented a "Harry Potter dueling game" involving a small whiteboard, flat marbles, dry erase markers and a rudimentary grid system set in a room that we would draw.
Basically, we would each take turns moving our character (the flat marble) up to a set number of spaces, and then choose a spell to cast at each other. Each spell could destroy the drawn terrain, which we would then erase. Last wizard standing would win.
In the living room of my childhood home, there was a big couch with an ottoman in front of it. Me and my sister would play a game where one of us would run as fast as we could around the ottoman and the other would try to jump back and forth from the couch and ottoman without being violently bulldozed by the one running around in circles.
We called it “the out game.” Played with a baseball, gloves, and as many people as you’d like. You’d attempt to throw a challenging pass to another person and if they caught it, the “batter” was out. If they didn’t, they had to throw it back to you or someone else and you or them had to catch it in order to get the “batter” out. This would continue until there were 3 outs and then I guess we’d just wash rinse repeat. Not really sure if there was even a way to win but it was fun attempting to catch the throws with dives and crazy jumps!
i was always playing stupid games with my friends at recess.
our version football was kicking our shoes off at each other for fun. had to get a teacher to hop a fence and grab my shoe for that one.
another thing we'd do is just spin around for 30 seconds, until we were all dizzy, and then try to knock each other over. last man standing wins.
on particularly windy days we would try sweater sailing: tossing our hoodies up in the air and watching them fly. they could get surprisingly far if they didn't get caught in the trees,
we also kinda had a full contact version of jackpot. pretty fun.
Used to play "Jackass" with a couple buddies who lived on my block in middle school, one of us would have to stand still while one of the two others would try to hit the person standing still in the balls with a football. We may have a reduced sperm count, but it's better than brain damage!
I studied Aikido as a child, so I know 1-10 in Japanese. For some daft, unknown reason when I climbed the stairs I would go "1, 2, 3, ich, ni, ich, ni.." all the way up the staircase. Always ended on ni, even if I had to jump some stairs.
“Icky sticky dry mud.” When I was ~3 I would wet a washcloth and put it on the bottom of the bathtub and jump up and down on it while changing “icky sticky dry mud” the name is the most confusing part of this
So I loved the Quiet Game - everyone is quiet and whoever made a sound lost. I'd beg the adults to play it in the car with me.
Another car game was racing to see who could get their seatbelt and door locked first. It was something I'd always do with my mom and sometimes we'd fight to get the other unable to click in their seatbelt. As I got older and it was just automatic, we wouldn't play as much but sometimes, maybe once every six months, once we both get into the car one of us will suddenly spazz to get our seatbelt on as fast as we can, hit the door where the lock would be if it were an older car, throw our hands up in the air and yell, "I WIN!" Usually the other one is confused as hell but it brings back memories.
Also my grandpa made a game when I was so sick and had to go home from school. I was crying in the backseat with a grocery bag for when I'd have to throw up again and he made up a game where I had to list at least five words for throwing up. It distracted me, was gross, which meant it was cooler as a kid, and I stopped crying.
We had a game in lower school (age 10-12) called kick or kiss. The boys would try to catch the girls or vice versa. If you got caught you'd have to choose between a kick or a kiss. Started with kisses on the cheek. Ended with kisses on the lips. Guess we were all experimenting?
"Bat chuck" after playing baseball in the tennis courts we would end each game by dividing the teams on each side of the net a throwing the metal bat at each other at dusk.
We were creative kids grew up in a lower middle class apartment.
We used to throw tennis balls against a wall, the rules were you had to pick up the ball in one touch (if you tried to pick it up but were unsuccessful you had to run to the wall and touch it before someone threw it against the wall) you’d get 3 strikes. If you reached 3 strikes you had to stand facing against the wall at everyone who didn’t get 3 strikes gets to throw a tennis ball at you.
We had a game at school called kick the fence. It did not involve kicking a fence. It involved kicking a socker ball at a chain link baseball backstop. Each player had to kick the ball at the inside of the backstop on their turn. If you miss youre out, and you have to chase the ball and bring it back. The back of the back stop didnt count, but the poles did. Originally, kicking it over the fence counted (from either side, so kicking it over from the front fucked the next guy because the either had to kick it back over or hit a pole on the back) but eventually we canned that rule in about 5th grade when we got good enough to kick it over the fence accidentally so we made it an out instead. We literalky played this game from second grade until 6th grade every recess before and after school every day and were sad in middle school when the field ad no backstops.
My little brother and I used our mom's exercise ball and tiny trampoline in the basement to create what was basically ping pong. We would bounce the ball at the trampoline, and whoever let the ball hit the ground would lose. It got intense. We called it Bounce Ball.
You can imagine my surprise when, a decade or so later, I see SpikeBall in stores. They stole our idea!!!
Spoons: It was a game where everyone (usually four or five of us) draws a card and the person with the highest card was the Feeder and the person with the lowest card was the Eater. The Eater would be blindfolded and the Feeder would take a spoon put whatever they want on it and the Eater had to...eat it. Rules were: nothing poisonous and if you couldn't eat it you had to hold it in your mouth for 20 seconds before you can spit it out.
After shower, dad would cover us (me and my brother) in towel and take us on magic towel ride so we could not see where we were going. He would put us in odd places like top of headboard, in a closet, above the refrigerator etc. We had to then come out of towel, find our location and get out of this “hard situation “ - we used to love it, always excited to know where magic towel would take us next. The moral of the game which became clear to us only later in life was to teach us that life is like a magic towel ride - sometimes it blindsides you and puts you in seemingly impossible situations and you must not panic but get out of it with patience and persistence. I play it with my boys now and they love it too.
My sisters and I played 'Monster in The Hallway' which was essentially tag but in a narrow hallway. I was always the monster and the other two would try to get passed me. We learned to climb the walls and had the best times. Then we got a pool.
In elementary school we played a game called "kick back". Two teams lined up on other sides of the basketball court and people just punted balls back and forth. It got pretty popular when a new school opened. As a kid, I thought I invented it but I probably made that up and learned it somewhere else.
rjl603 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my brother were bored, my dad used to tell us to try and 'sit on your thumb and spin round on your elbow'.
My school (an all girl's catholic school in a pretty shit, low income area) was a two story, except for one section which was three stories. At the top of one of the staircases, there was a door that lead to three classrooms that were typically used as storage rooms. The classrooms were dark and dingy, and teachers never felt comfortable sending us up there for some reason, even though the last week before school was typically just 'free labour week' where the kids would re-arrange the classrooms, put things into some of the other storage spaces (it was primary school, so we'd stay in the one classroom except for phys ed and extra curricular, so each teacher would get their students to move their things to whatever classroom they would be in the next schoolyear).
Looking back it was probably just because the third floor had no supervision or maintenance that the teachers didn't feel comfortable going up, but in our small religious minds there were demons and ghosts up there. Sometimes when teachers would send us on messages, we'd dare eachother to go upstairs. Even when I was 11 I was still absolutely terrified to go in. Overall nothing bad ever happened, but we'd scare ourselves shitless theorizing why we weren't allowed up.
My cousins and I used to play “Backscratcher”. We’d go in the basement, turn off the lights, and then take turns demonically chasing each other with a back scratcher. There were many boo boos.
Not sure it really counts as a game but me and my Twin + Older Brothers created Rockie World! A world where our dog Rockie ruled. Long story short he ended up ruling the universe and our stuffed animals were also involved + Rockie's doggy crushes. One of the main villians was Evil Rockie of course who had black fur instead of gold lol. There's far too much lore and honestly it's still growing. Help! Rockie will destroy us from the grave!
Chair soccer. My friends and I all lived beside each other. Every summer we would setup those plastic white backyard chairs as goal posts and set a weight on top so they don’t move. We’d play 3 on 3 and rule was no goalies.
Don’t ask me how I came up with this game but my best friend and I would play this game called “birth control” on one of the slide towers at the elementary school by our house. I was the sperm and my friend was the birth control and my goal was to shove past him while he, the birth control, tried blocking me so I could go down one of the slides in order to “have babies.” Going down the left slide meant you were having a girl, the right slide meant you were having a boy.
We had a weird ass childhood but we’re still best friends 😂
We used to pile all types of blankets, pillows and any other type or bedding on top of the stairs. Once this wall was about 4/5 feet tall we would would pull out its base and let this mountain push us down the stairs. It was called avalanche and I'm still surprised we never broke anything.
We would play a variant of tag that we would call "AIDS". Same rules as tag, except than when you tag someone you're still it. Game would go until the last one of us got tagged.
Back in the day, we used to plan in class what we would play during recess. There was this one day when the teacher got annoyed at our noisy planning session and asked us what we were talking about.
My friend glefully said : "A game. It's called AIDS ! We touch eachother to give AIDS."
We all had to go to the principal's office and he asked us to rename our game. From this point, our game was reffered as "the sick wolf".
When I was a kid my brother and I would play the 'Nazi game'. In the 80s where we lived, streets were a lot darker than they are now, and between going to and being picked up from school, we were in the car a lot.
The Nazi game consisted of yelling 'Naziiissss!' and ducking for cover whenever beams of light washed over the car. I'm assuming the lights were supposed to be searchlights. After ducking, we played rock paper scissors with the loser being the lookout. The lookout had to slowly peek over the seat to see if we were being followed. If a car was there, you 'died', them the last person would do it solo until he also 'died'. Then we'd start over. The goal was to reach our destination 'undetected'.
Looking back, there's no way we were sophisticated enough to make this game up. We may have learned it from a cousin. Now that I think about it, that shit was pretty dark.
Namone · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to place “Apes” on the Playground. The lowest “rank” in this gang of children was a Chimpanzee. Then you could become a orangutan, gorilla, and finally silverback gorilla.
It was pretty fun and I was in it long enough I was promoted to orangutan. Then my “hazing” began - in order to maintain my new rank I had to throw rocks at the girl’s playing house not far from our turf.
I told them I wouldn’t do it. So I guess that’s good. Got kicked out, though.
Me and my cousin used to put a blanket on top of the couch, then used clothespins on the blanket to form small tunnels on the surface (by bending small parts of the blanket onto itself), then dropped marbles from the top and watched them fall and move inside all the tunnels and curves and come out the other side. It was a lot of fun, and we played it even though we did have videogame consoles!
Me and my friends wrestled and fought (but not trying to knock each other out) on a 16ft trampoline for hours daily, 1v1 2v2 4v4 Everyman for themselves etc.
To win you had to make the other person/people give up/say I yield/ tap out
It was so fun, I never lost even once, not even close
TLDR; basically beat up my friends on a trampoline daily, they needed toughening up
When I was a kid, probably 4 or 5 years old, every time I would go to my grandma's house she would give me a spoon and said if I dug deep enough I would eventually get to china, and after about half an hour of solo digging she would always come out and help. We never did make it, but we did get a good 6 inches deep.
In elementary school, my classmates and I had “territories” all around the school yard. My best friend and I had the territory under the slide. Whichever territory had the most pinecones was seen as the powerful team. We could even steal each other’s pinecones but we all made sure to have one guard while the other went out to look for pinecones.
We even created alliances with other territories but would “double-cross” each other all the time.
We didn't really have a name for it, but when it was dark out, my little brother and I would play a game where we had to get across the room without being spotted by the 'searchlight' (The other person moving a flashlight repeatedly in patterns around the room) - We'd start with simple patterns like just moving left and right, then 'level up' to more intricate zigzags, swirling, reversing the pattern, etc.
You'd be able to hide behind / under furniture, and vault over anything, so long as you weren't spotted by the searchlight.
In my old primary school (UK) there was a huge grassy hill in the playground for some reason. Every kid in the school would just gather at the top every break time, get in a big line and all charge down to the bottom as fast as we could without stopping for any reason
The only reason it was so fun was because every kid of every age played which meant big kids stampeding through groups of little kids, people falling over like horses on a track, it was just carnage.
The school had to ban the game in the end because people were just being trampled and after every game there’d be injured kids scattered all over the hill
It was a good feeling getting to the bottom after sprinting none stop in front of some huge older kids trying not to get steamrolled
There’s a set of 4 swings up our local park placed directly in the centre. Each player would take a swing and then the final player would get a football ⚽️.
There was no scoring as such just something fun to do.
Basic Rules:
The players on the swings would get going and have momentum and once everyone was ready the player with the ball would throw the ball at those on the swings usually starting from left to right.
One by one those swinging would have to dodge or kick the ball away. If the ball is kicked and then caught by the thrower they trade places. The person who is now throwing would start with the player to the right, continuing the line.
Extra Rules:
The park is at the top of a hill and originally we allowed any player kicking to absolutely whack that ball all the way to the bottom of the hill for a laugh. We then decided this was cruel and that any player could still do it, but gave up their rights on the swing and had to collect the ball and become the thrower.
Kicking players could attempt to hit the ball over the top bar of the swings and gain a life. This ensured that if they got hit or caught they would remain on the swings until it happened again.
Kicking players could attempt to catch the ball in their legs and collect the ball with their hands. They then pass the ball all the way down the line where the end player attempts to kick it over the top bar. If they are successful the throwing player would have to attempt ‘The Slalom’.
The Slalom:
The throwing player begins and the right hand side of the swings and must attempt to run through each swinging player without being kicked. This was basically punishment and a laugh and had no other purpose. Kids eh?
J-Todd · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I liked to "hunt ghosts" and we stapled a bunch of paper together, folded it and then every so often we filled a page with the details of a ghost we'd caught. We decided that doing that would trap the ghosts in our book. Once we filled it out, we buried it. God I hope no one opened it. They're releasing hellfire if they do. All that work we put into saving the world.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I would play this weird puppet game. I was the ventriloquist, he was the puppet. He would sit on my lap and I’d have my hand on his back pulling his shirt to make him “talk.” He would then come alive and run all weird in a puppet way at me. It truly terrified me. I don’t know why we kept playing this game. We laugh about it now, I’m actually cracking up while typing this.
My neighbor and I used to pretend falling leaves were babies being tossed from burning buildings. Catch the most babies before the bus comes and you win.
ODB2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do trampoline fights...
Basically mma on a trampoline, the old school kind without a net around it.
I didn’t play this but I used to go to my friends house after school and he had two brothers one a year older, one a year younger.
They would play this pass out game where one of them could be sitting their playing a games console or watching a film and the other brother would come up behind them and choke them until they passed out. They all had this technique perfected and it would only take a few seconds.
They did this to each other multiple times a day for ages, funny as hell to watch, probably not great for the brain however.
We used to play a game we called “Zelda.” We’d gather a bunch of “treasure” items, like strings of plastic beads, Monopoly money, plastic gold coins, etc., and we’d designate a shopkeeper who would go around and hide the treasure. The rest of us would run around and collect the treasure, then return to the shopkeeper who would sell us a weapon. There would always be a couple super good weapons, like nerf guns, and more not so good weapons, like swords. Once everyone had a weapon, we’d battle to the death, with the shopkeeper as referee.
Now that I’ve typed this out it doesn’t sound nearly as cool as I remember it, but we played it all the damn time and we loved it.
My cousins and I played fire escape. The stairway in our finished basement was open on one side. We would run up the steps and jump from the highest step we could muster the courage to attempt. We would hit the ground and, stop, drop, and roll. It was 100% unsafe and one jump from half the height we were doing it from would incapacitate me for at least a month now. I did, however, feel VERY prepared for a hypothetical house fire.
Dark Cloud 2 was this incredible game that combined the world building of the sims with rogue like combat in randomly generated dungeons. What you built in your time affects the future, and your goal is to restore civilizations by creating the building blocks for their given civilization in your world. You source the parts for town building in the dungeons, invent items and weapons to fight, and very early on get a giant mech that you use to absolutely decimate giant/hard enemies. The game has a cheery kids RPG vibe to the graphics, but the amount of detail that went into the scenery is absolutely amazing.
My friend had a lot of Nerf guns so we played a lot of games with them. Funnest by far was when we would turn all the lights off and one of us would hide in his house with a nerf bat. The rest of us would have to work together to find the person that’s hiding and shoot them but if you were hit by the bat you were dead.
“Car-ho!”... we would run around the front yard of my babysitter’s house until a car came. Then you yell “car-ho!” And all try to hide from the view of the car. If you ran out of time, the go-to move was to stand still like a statue and spit repeatedly (fountain statue, duh!)
We called it "murder the dumbass" at our park was a row of 6 swings. The dumbads had to run thru the 6 swings from one side to the other while the people swinging tried to kick the shit out of them. Good times
We played rodney king beating because we were stupid. I dont remember who made the game up but i didnt participate. I was a watcher.
Culobi · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my school we used to play called "7". Consists in throwing a paper ball in the air and hit it with the hand counting to seven, if one got hit by the ball at seven, everyone that was playing will give one kick in the ass to the one who lost.
In the old country we played a game where you stand across from someone, feet as close together as you can. Then you take a knife, throw it at the ground, and wherever it lands, the other person has to put their foot there, then they go.
I made a live action version of resident evil 2 for my younger brother to play. I cated out all the zombies and ammo was dotted around as little notes. I made a password protected 'door control program' on our amstrad computer which added authenticity.
My aunt, my cousins, and I had a game that we played after school and over the summer. She watched all of us while our parents worked.
She also was extremely impatient and had a bad temper. So her creative way to release that anger was The Orange Ball Game.
We had this orange ball, maybe a little bigger than a softball, but smaller than a soccer ball, with the consistency of a heavy dodgeball or kickball. You could fire that thing.
The game was, there were bases on either side of the yard where we were safe. She would stand maybe 10 yards back from the running lane with the ball. We would run back and forth between the bases and she would try to hit us with the ball. She played softball in college and never held back with her throws.
It was hysterical and a lot of fun for some reason, to see your cousin go flying when the ball took his legs out from under him, and seeing if you could get to the other base and back without getting hit.
I think her intentions were mostly selfish but hey, we had a blast and got outside exercising so I don't really mind.
Super monday night combat, first moba shooter IIRC
rwtwm1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one's a little more solitary than the other games. As a big football (soccer) fan as a kid, I was as interested in the stats and possibilities in the league tables as I was on the teams themselves.
So one day on a long car journey I grabbed a notebook and a pen and wrote little numbers on folded up pieces of paper. I then came up with 12 teams divided into two leagues and played 'matches' where each team's score was just the number on the little piece of paper.
Each league had two rounds of fixtures and there was promotion and relegation between the divisions. I started to come up with little back stories, and was amazed and delighted when random chance turned an apparently woeful side into championship hopefuls.
I probably passed the odd rainy Sunday with that 'game' over a number of years.
My sister and I and our cousins used to play “spider” in which one person crouches in a ball looking downwards in the middle of a blanket, they are the spider. The other players walk around the blanket in a circle. The spider randomly reaches out to grab another players foot based on sound and tries to grab them and pull them into the blanket. If they succeed, they wrap them up in the blanket and “eat” them and they become the next spider. It was fun!
drzrdt · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the pool, we’d hold plastic baseball bats under till they filled up through the tiny hole on the top. We’d than use it to play “dodge torpedo” under water. We’d make targets too but mostly try to hit each other.
He we used to play a game with my aunt “hug tag” and She tried to hug us and I don’t remember if we got caught whether we joined her team or we were frozen
But looking back me and my cousins realize how weird this was
On really cold days at recess we would play the "warm game" underneath the jungle gym. There was this walkway that you could crawl under to get out of the wind. Then we would all sit in a circle, warm rocks under our coats and then put them in the center to 'radiate' heat back toward us. Looking back I realize that we weren't really playing anything and just trying to not freeze our asses off.
"Starblazers": my sister and I would spin around in the yard, arms straight out, hands a'fist, eyes closed, until one of us would effectively roundhouse the other, yelling STSRBLAZERS! While the other cried over a newly bloody nose.
Somehow I usually lost.
In elementary school we invented a game called stomp tag. It was much like regular tag, only in order to tag someone you had to stomp on their foot. It was actually really fun because the game was all about quick footwork. But because stomping on someone's foot while running around often meant falling, the school banned it :(
We would play the 'state game' during car rides. You would say the first letter of a geographic location (state, lake, city, country, mountain range, etc.) and the rest of the family would start naming all the locations they could think of that started with said letter. After a while, you would get help such as 'its located in the western hemisphere' or things like that. The person who finally guessed it would then say the next letter and the game would go on and on for hours.
Really made learning geography important to my brothers and I from a very young age
Me and my bestfriend who was my next door neighbour were really into witches/occult stuff as kids, which i believe to be the first sign we were gay. Anyways, relied heavily on make believe, and played this game where we chanted some stuff to open a portal for the spirits. They would then come through the portal, posses one of us and the other had to figure out why the spirit hadnt gone to heaven. Sometimes an evil clown spirit came through and we’d chase each other around with a saw.
We used to play Kick the Can, except we'd only play it after 10pm. So like a dozen kids playing hide-and-seek in the pitch dark while all dressed in black. Some of use went so far as to paint our faces.
Good times, but honestly surprised nobody got hurt as we used to play on our neighbors property where there was farm equipment, wood piles, old pallets, shallow ditches and all sorts of other shit for us to maim ourselves with.
We'd also sneak into a nearby Christmas tree lot, climb the trees and see how close to the ground we could get the tops of the trees with just our body weight. Until one snapped off and landed on top of me after I fell ~10 feet to the ground.
fcjath · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play “throw a punch” where we would take 2 boxing gloves and throw them back and forth at each other from across the room
We had an above ground pool. But not one of those "shitty" ones. It had deck and was much more permanent than the cheap ones. So, it had a sand bottom that was mostly smooth but there were slight imperfections throughout. This plus the natural current made for a great play field.
Under water bocce ball is played by throwing the Pallino. This is thrown with your head and arms above the water so you can place it better. The bocces are thrown with your head below water. Its a shotput style throw. Normal rules apply after that, except for touching the Pallino. In underwater bocce, you can touch.
My sister and I would race to see who could get in the car first, buckle up, and lock the door. The first person to do this would yell “FIRST!!” I bet my parents had something to do with this hmmm
It kind of hard to explain but the playground at my school had this rounded “M” shaped monkey bar thing that you could climb on, what we would do is someone would basically go climbing up and down the bars until someone yelled “MAYDAY!” Then wherever the person was they had to stop and dangle from the bars, the people on the ground then had the goal of catching them before they fell off the bars, we called it mayday
It was called Button Button, Who’s Got the Button. My brother and I would start out at the top of the stairs with our Grandpa standing at the bottom. He’d hold a button in one hand placed behind his back. You took turns guessing which hand the button was in. The goal was to get to the bottom first. If you guessed correctly you got to move down a stair, if you guessed wrong you had to move back up a stair. We loved it.
Back in kindergarten and first grade we had our own variant of tag. It was called forklift tag. The way it was played was everyone who wasn't it had to run around with their arms out sideways, and the one who was it had to run around with their arms out forwards yelling beep beep beep the whole time. You tag someone by lifting up on their arms. The teachers hated it for some reason.
As a child, between 4 and 6, my father gave me a wireless xbox controller and apparently I thought I was playing a game, but it turned out it was just the T.V was on and I thought at the time that I was controlling the characters in the film. My father did something similar to my sister but just with a keyboard. He didn't do that one to me because I already had a laptop.
I have a few, the first one we played at our grandparents house because they had a billiards table, and the idea is you’d take a billiards ball and roll it across the table have it bounce off the other end and get as close as possible to the edge you rolled it from. I feel like everyone played that game though if they had access to a table. The other one I remember specifically was called grandmas junkyard. Basically we would put all the rubber balls we owned on the trampoline and we’d kick em back and fourth for however long and whoever had the most balls on their side at the end lost. We did other things that were more like team games though. One of which was in the sandbox in my backyard we would build walls and channels around a castle in the corner and in the opposite corner we would put the hose, the goal was to keep that castle alive as long as possible. I like to think I had a pretty good childhood.
In my neighborhood we played brick fight. The object of brick fight is "Don't get hit with a brick." I didn't realize until I was an adult that this wasn't a normal childhood game.
We also used to have "rumbles" with the neighborhood next to mine wherein all of the kids from each neighborhood would show up to a designated parking lot at a certain time, sometimes with bats or chains, and we'd fight with each other. I realize now that this was actually mild gang warfare, but as a kid it was a blast.
The tripping game, one person was on their knees in the middle of the trampoline, and everyone else would jump or run around the edge, if the person in the middle tripped you, you were it
Like many kids, we played wiffle ball. The difference is we only generally had a couple of kids around to play with. So we built out our own rules that allowed us to play 1 on 1 and used a special kind of ball. The rules kept the integrity of the game fully intact and became so popular with our friends that we started having tournaments. Instead of playing an actual ballgame with two full teams, we opted for our one on one rules. It was A LOT of fun.
Also, the ball was a huge part of it. Basically it was a ball from the ballpit at McDonald's.
General idea:
Only swinging strikes, no walks.
Use of ghost runners that advance with the batter.
If the Fielding team has the ball and you are off base, you are out. Period.
Double play: If the pitcher touches the pitcher mound before the runner touches first, the lead forced runner and batter are out.
I believe everything else was fairly consistent with regular baseball. The ball is a big deal. The ballpit balls don't have holes. They curve VERY easily. To hit a homerun, you have to hit it perfect to get it to go. A little over or under creates extreme popups and grounders. Likewise, I can throw 6 ft curveballs, screwballs, sinkers and the craziest knuckleballs you've ever seen with one.
The Grand Cherokee game. Any car ride with my buddies, usually on the way to hockey practice, we would look at the cars and try to be the first to spot a Grand Cherokee. I think it was because it was a new kind of car, the SUV, and it looked so different than other cars at the time (mid 90s). A few other people have told me that they did something similar.
You and a friend or sibling sit on your knees at the bottom of a flight of stairs. At the top of the stairs must be a closed door. One person throws the ball up the stairs and bounces it off the door. The object of the game is to catch the ball before your opponent.
"Ghosts in the graveyard"
3+ players but the more the better
Similar to hide and seek but instead of one person looking for a group of players, a group of players can either split up or stick together to find the predetermined "ghost". Once found the seeker shouts "GHOST!" and the ghost must catch at least one seeker to turn into a ghost before all the seekers make it back to base. Otherwise the seekers win the round and a new ghost is picked. If the ghost succeeds the group must now find both ghosts and attempt to make it back safely and this just goes on until everybody is converted
Chappal chor (flip flop thief)
Everybody removes their footwear, which are mostly flip-flops and puts in a pile inside a circle of 1 mtr diameter. One defender has to defend this pile from other people try to steal the flipflops, the defender must stay inside the circle at all times and other people can use the stolen flip-flops to hit the flipflops in the pile. If he touches any of the thieves, the thief becomes the defender and game is reset. When the last flip-flop is taken from the pile, the defender has to run to a certain point and back while he gets bombarded with the stolen flip-flops. At this point game starts over and pile is reset.
We played a game we made up called freako. We had 3 or 4 entrances into our house, and one guy was Freako who was in the house. The other 3 or 4 had to try and sneak into the house and hide for as long as possible inside. If freako caught you you had to reset and go out front. The end result was us getting creative on how to lure freako to one entrance and sneak people in the other ones. Great freakos would lure you in and scare the shit out of you. Let you get comfy in a spot and let you think you were safe and BAM, SURPIRSE! So simple but it was amazing.
When I was a kid, we had a trampoline that was in the ground. One of the games we played was basically dodgeball, but one sided. 2 or 3 people would stand in a circle around the trampoline while the rest of the people were jumping. Those on the edge would throw balls at the people in the middle. If someone on the edge missed a throw, or the ball was caught, they swapped places with the person they were throwing at
When I was a kid I was really confused with new words I hear from my playmates, that I started doubting where they got those words from. And how could they come up with that word and gave that word its meaning.
From that, I started inventing words and tell them the meaning of that word and try to even use it everyday when we are playing so they would think my ‘invented words’ are real, and they should be using it too.
Lol. Not a game I guess. But something I do to my playmates without them knowing I was just straight face lying to them with my ‘new words’.
We used to play a game called fumble where my brother would spike a ball down on the floor and we’d have to scramble and wrestle with each other to get it. If you held onto it for longer than ten seconds, you would win the round.
Mad Cow. There were these monster truck tires(that I now realize were probably massive tractor tires) stacked 3 on the bottom, one on top all on their sides. Someone is IT and stands on the top tire. Everyone else has to stay on the bottom three. You get touched by the person on top or they make you fall off you're it. XD there were a couple jerks that would come up and see if they could get people to fall off-the most success being if they could knock the it person off and topple several more in the process.
There was also horse and wagon which consisted of me dragging a kiddie wagon behind me by a jumprope across my hips(no hands!). At the time I could drag the wagon and 3 of the younger boys at a decent clip but if a fourth jumped on I could barely move it.
And then king of the hill. Literally. My best friend was usually the king even against the older kids and I his loyal dog. Which made me one hell of a hard to unseat player.
Idk I had a huge thing about animals as a kid :)
We used to tie our clothes in knots until it was football sized then we marked off two end zones in the living room, past the couch, across the threshold to the next room, etc. Then we essentially played football, but on our knees.
It made so much noise we couldn’t play when adults were home so it made it even better because we weren’t supposed to be doing it. The game has been passed down to kids for years now.
There was this circle in on the blacktop where we played during recess and it had a bunch of shapes along the circle. One of us would go in the center, close their eyes and tell them to start and stop running and then call out a shape and whoever was standing on that shape got to be the next person in the center. It became a really popular game idk why.
Another game all the popular kids played was called miniman and everyone would squat and pull their shirt over their knees and waddle around under the playground equipment and basically play house.
Used to live in west africa. My family is white. We played a variation of punch bug. See a white person? punch "white one". See a Lebanese person? punch "brown one". See a chinese person? punch "yellow one".
“The Fart Brothers.” I have no fucking clue who came up with the name, probably myself or my little bro, but my dad would come into my brothers bedroom with us at night and gather all of our stuffed animals together with us. He would then proceed to make up stories about the stuffed animals, and at various points in the story, he would make grotesque farting noises implying that the stuffed animals were having gas problems while going about their business. My brother and I were very young, so we laughed hysterically every time he made the noises. The story usually culminated in all of us throwing the stuffed animals around and pretending they were doing acrobatics while farting. It made no sense. But we fucking loved it.
When I was little my brother's and I went to my neighbor's house all the time and they would have this huge lego bin. When we would build cool stuff we would most likely want to trade it for creations or rare pieces that were found in the bin. Eventually, a currency called ”mini-money” was formed (which happened to be the studs that were in the lego videogames). We had a free market working on a small scale. People would actually trade their Lego creations for a stack of studs knowing that someone else would be willing to take that stack of studs for a different creation. Taught me a lot about econ.
We had this game, we never named it where myself and a few other boys would be chased around by these two girls whose goal it was to mark us on the arm with lipstick. We boys didn't really have any defense or offense to fight back, we just had to run away from them. Wed run all through our yards and stuff avoiding them as best we could. Surprisingly I was the only one of us not to get caught. Until one night. The girls were gunning for me hard, which was the first and only time in my life I've had several girls trying to get me at once. I knew this particular night I was in danger, that theyd do anything to get me, they had already gotten the other boys several times, i was the big prize. So that night I decked myself out, decided to wear football pads and a helmet, long sleeve shirt, jeans, the like. I stepped out and the girls were out in the street circling around like sharks. That's when it started, the boys came out and we all began to run, one boy fell within minutes, another not too much longer, it was just me. One of the girls called to me, I knew she was trying to trick me but she begged me to come talk to her and swore this was outside of the game. I approached and she started to talk to me about something, I dont even remember what. Then she looked over my shoulder and i realized I had fallen for the velociraptor trick from Jurassic Park. One of the other girls came from behind and pulled my helmet off and marked all over my face. It was humiliating. But then I realized, they got my face, not my arm. Technically I still got away. That was the last time we played, one of my friends got mad they got me the way they did and threw a basketball at one of the girls. Bit of an overreaction for sure
Two games in my house growing up with 7 brothers
1. Bing bang boom: basically just hand hockey with a tennis ball on your knees. We had a good room in the basement for it. Getting a slap shot to the nuts was the worst part but we all secretly aim for it.. Lol
2. Hut hut: football without the ball and we would just try to get passed each other and try not to get tackled. The older brothers would just pummel us younger brothers. Helped toughen us up a bit.
There were others but these were the big ones we played the most.
Mummies in the Dark - we only played at night and all the lights were out. one kid was the mummy and the rest of us had to hide from them. the mummy had to try to then find us with their eyes closed (in addition to it being dark).
just hide and seek with an extra challenge now that I think about it
My "uncle" and I used to play a game we called Paddle Ball.
My parents had gotten me a set of wooden paddles, think enlarged ping pong paddles, that came with a small rubber ball to hit back and forth. When we discovered that this wasn't all that much fun we decided to use a racquet ball instead.
We had a garage and a slightly longer and wider driveway that was on a gentle downslope to the street. The driveway had built in lines for the sides and a central line.
The rules went like this. To serve, you stood behind the middle line, and hit the ball towards the garage door, it always (not just on the serve) had to hit the ground once (and only once) before hitting the garage door, the line at the sidewalk and the sides were out, and the ball needed to bounce once (and only once) inside the makeshift court.
If you were the last person to successfully hit the ball, and have it bounce once in bounds, you got a point. You alternated next hits so you were trying to send your opponent all over the place when trying to score.
It was a blast and as I recall the rules took several hours to make up and get right so that the game felt fair.
My "uncle" was a troubled 30 something year old that my grandparents helped escape drug addiction. He came to live with my family for several years when I was younger because we all really liked him and he was on the right track. Unfortunately, after moving out on his own he eventually relapsed and the drugs and depression took over again.
He committed suicide 15 or so years ago.
I'll never forget the fun we had and how great he was with me. He was always kind and caring and constructive. He didn't have to be so patient and understanding with a maybe 12 year old me who idolized him. Miss you uncle Steve.
Pink poo poo - ages 5-8 - we had a giant pink blanket that my brothers and I would cover ourselves with. Two people under the blanket with the edges tucked in and one person out. The person outside would try and reach under and tag someone, the people inside would try and block the person by laying on the tucked in parts. Best game ever, we just outgrew the blanket.
My older sister would walk around the halls of my small childhood house with a couch cushion on her head saying "do doo do doo, do doo do doo" while my other sister and I had to hide and run away. For some reason we found it incredibly fun.
We had a line of Norway Spruce trees in the backyard. My neighbor, brothers, and I would take a kickball and kick it as high as we could into the trees.
The long branches guided the ball down like the chip on Plinko. Whoever caught the ball got to kick it back up in the next round.
I remember in elementary school on recess, my friends and I would play what we called boing-y boing, which consisted of us running into each other at top speed and ricocheting into the fence and each other at top speed. I remember us all being so pissed when the teachers banned it
Picture a typical suburban neighbor, square front yards creating two possible "stadiums."
Stadium 1
Home plate is at the corner of the yard next to the front door of the house.
Left field is the street and the house across the street.
Right field is the neighbors driveway and front yard.
Stadium Two
Home plate was corner of neighbors driveway and their house
Left field was our two car driveway with a tall van parked on furthest side of driveway
Right field was the neighbor across the street
A ground ball was a live ball. If the pitcher grabbed the ball before you got to first base you were out.
If the ball got past you, you had to chase it down and throw it back into the yard to stop runners from advancing. (If you hit them with the ball while advancing they we're out)
If the ball hit the street or drive way before touching grass it was an automatic out.
Runners on base only one base per base the batter made it. Single the "runner" moves one base
If there was a runner on first, you could grab the ball and hit the batter with the ball before he made it to first, it was a double play
A home run was hitting the ball over the fence of the neighbor across the street in stadium 1. Hitting it over the van in the driveway in stadium two.
While this game was only 1-1 one pitcher on batter...we had a 8 "team" league where we drafted names. And kept stats for each player.
Now up, Willie McGee (I went 2-4 with a double as willie but 0-5 as Ozzie Smith)
We had standings and statistical leaders, we finished one full 28 game season including a 4 team playoff best of 5 then best of 7 series
There used to be a pullout program in the county I grew up in and the pullout kids had a game at recess called "pinecone war." Different parts of the playground were different bases and you were either on the boys team or the girls team. At the beginning of the year, we'd divide up the bases and start and the game continued the whole year. The objective was to take over as many of the opponents bases as possible. If one team held all the bases, the game began anew. The reason it was called "Pinecone War" was because there were pinecones everywhere and they quickly became the weapon of choice. We pelted the shit out of each other with pinecones. Someone made an actual pinecone launcher at one point and that made things interesting.
Me and a few friends had a game called "Zombie". One person started as the zombie and the others were soldiers. The zombie had to eat the others so that they become zombies too, but if the soldiers pointed at the zombie and made shooting sounds, the zombie would be stunned for a few seconds. Game ends when everyone is a zombie. It's basically CoD Infected, but we were kids, we didn't know about that gamemode. A lot of other kids from the school picked up and it still got played even when me and my friends went to highschool.
All the kids in my apartment complex used to play "Jason."
One person would be selected to be Jason from Friday the 13th, they'd be given a Hockey Mask and a retractable fake knife and the object of the game was the kill the other kids. The complex was pretty big, with 3 floors and a lot of places to hide. The rules were simple, if you were Jason you could not run, you could only walk fast and you had to hunt all the kids down. The first person killed would be the next Jason but only after all the other kids were killed, everyone had to be traumatized to keep the integrity of the game.
After a while, all the best places where known to all the kids and hiding became really hard. There were a few good spots but they were also dead ends so if Jason decided to look there first, forget about it.
Basically it was a demented version of hide and seek, a lot of the younger cried a few times. The laundry room was a very popular place to hide for the newbies because the door could be locked from the inside however little did they know when I was Jason, because I was a fat kid, I could ram through the door and bust it open like Chunk did in the Goonies when they told him they had naked pictures of his sister so I had that going for me which was nice.
My brother and I played a game at bring family outings to Ikea where we would see who could collect most of those little pencils that had no erasers. Pencils in the stations where they were in a container were off limits. Any pencils on the floor or on furniture were fair game. We would tally up our totals at the checkout and see who won and return the pencils. This game became very competitive, even causing my brother and I to push and shove each other when we both saw a pencil at the same time.
We would play a game like dodgeball in the backyard. There was two big differences in that you could run anywhere in the backyard, no sides, and when you had the ball you had to stop to throw basically the ball made you stick to the ground. If you caught the ball that person was out and you would do this until you were the last man standing.
My older brother and his friends had this game where one person sat on a skateboard and would ride it down the driveway, then two other people were at the bottom corners of the driveway with skateboards and would try to roll them into the person coming down as they got to the bottom.
When I was in middle school I came up with this hilarious idea called a “Punch Circle.”
Basically you and a group of friends form a circle and all wildly punch the center point. There are variations of course—for example: Kick Circle or Fart Circle.
(It started ironically but was so hilariously stupid, my friends and I parktook quite a bit.)
My cousin and I spent every summer in a village with our grandparents. They had a big house including garage.
My granddad used to leave his car unblocked inside the garage.
We always slipped out there together, each one would be standing in one corner of garage and we pushed the car from one side to the other.
When the grandma caught us in there she always got mad what could happen to us in there, we just ran giggling around her and laughing granddad and went to chasing the chickens. Golden Slav times
I would mix up household cleaners etc to make bug killing potions and test them out on grasshoppers or anthills in the driveway etc to see if they worked. I later moved on to the more effective magnifying glass.
I didn't have anyone around me to play with so I had to make do. When I got to be around 14 or so I got into airguns and would hunt small birds and squirrels. I even built a suppressor out of PVC, washers for the baffles, and JB weld. I also made a target out of books etc so I could shoot in the basement if the weather was bad.
We took turns wheeling each other off the end of the dock into the BAYOU in my dad's plastic wheelbarrow. It supported my weight enough that I could paddle out into the channel a little bit. I was usually too scared to go any farther than that though.
Me and the other uncool kids in primary school used to stand by the football pitch where all the cool kids played football, and we would watch the seagulls and pretend we were flying them via remote control, with our hands.
In my family room, there was a large wall of cabinets along the floor and a bar opposite. With the couch and TV, there was approximately equal width of base-boards and an open area by the bar. We would use old tennis balls and try to roll them by someone defending their 'side'. In order to keep from breaking things, our dad made a rule that if the ball went up in the air, no score.
My brothers and I would play for hours, diving around the room and learning to smack the ball really hard, but keeping in on the ground.
I think my dad just wanted peace and quiet in the living room.
We called it “Blind Cat” and was only played during big sleep over birthday parties when there were like 5+ of us.
Basically, you turn off all the lights in the house and one person is the blind cat which is the equivalent of “it” for tag. They have to have a blindfold on and move around on all fours throughout the house search blindly for the other players who were “mice”. The mice hid during a 10 second countdown but could move away after the blind cat got near them. And it’s silent except for the sputtering laughter of like 6 middle schoolers lol.
Was good to keep in check how loud we were when we played games to not piss off my parents-Although one year a girl hid on a cabinet and it came out of the wall and she fractured her wrist. Safe to say, that’s the last time we ever played.
When the antenna TV set would go to static, my little sister and I would point our fingers at the screen and try to use “magic” to make it come back on. Then when it inevitably came back in tune, we’d argue over whose powers did the trick.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would throw random shit ( ladders chairs tables) into his deep ass pool and make underwater cities to swim through and around.
In hindsight we meant palaeontologists. This was after Jurassic Park came out, we were maybe 8 or 9. We would dig up big rocks to see if a dinosaur was under them. Great fun at the time. This came to an end when we dug out a concrete support for a neighbours fence.
My two older sisters would play "hide GermanPretzel" when I was about 3-4 years old. It worked just like hide and go seek, but instead of themselves hiding, they would take turns finding tiny nooks to hide me in. Some of the better hiding places were up on the top shelf of the closet, inside the fold out couch, and in the kitchen fridge
We had to this very wobbly rusty slide growing up. We would all get under the slide and one person would tip it over, people would try and run out of the way of the slide before it crushed them.
Koosh ball. It was similar to dodgeball except you would lose limbs according to wherever you got hit, and if you list that kind you couldn't use it for the rest of the game. If you got hit in the chest or head you lost. You couldn't catch the ball as that would still count as a hit on your hand and you would lose that limb
We played "bar" in my basement because we had a built in bar. We would serve empty beer bottles and CD's with cassette tapes between them as burgers. The fries were this ollllld bag of popcorn. We re-used that popcorn for YEARS! We called it Yuk Yuk's but didn't know it existed at the time (90's). Or we did subconsciously...We also put on Celine Dion performances from the fireplace mantle for our "guests".
Flashlight tag. We set up a bunch of.vertical obstacles and crawled around while someone sat on a table with a flashlight. If they spotted you with the light, and could say where you were hiding, you were it.
There's a ball. You can ignore it all you want and there's no goal, but if the ball passes through your legs, everyone can kick the shit out of you until you tapped out on some arbitrary object we had assigned for that purpose.
This was not a fun game. Participation was mandatory on the schoolyard.
My family had a camper that we slept in a lot, even when we weren't camping. A game we would play was sort of like hide and seek. 3 of us would hide in the camper and 1 person would be outside with a flashlight looking in through the windows. They would move around on the outside and if their light touched you then you were out. It was sort of inspired by the movie Monster House which had a light that indicated where the house was looking, so you had to avoid it not to be seen. The camper was perfect for it because it had good hiding spots but you still needed to move around a bit if you didn't want to get caught by the person moving to the other side of the camper. I don't remember if we had a name for it, maybe it was just called Monster House. Anyway, it was great fun and easily my favorite childhood game.
Steamroller. 5 or 6 of us on a bed one of those was the steamroller. The steamroller would lie across the bed and roll, the others would have to jump over them. First person downed by the steamroller was the next to be on.
We had a couple. There was “car attack”, where any time we saw a car coming down the street we were playing in, we had to run and hide until it passed. Behind garbage cans, bushes, parked cars, whatever, but we had to be hidden. A lot of adults probably thought we were up to no good.
Then there was “cement pies” where we would throw pillows at each other, and wherever it hit first would be “cemented” until one player could no longer move. Ideally you would just dodge a pillow, or try to get hit somewhere that was already cemented, then grab with your available hand. Also, getting hit in both hands wasn’t an automatic loss if we still had our feet, arms, or mouth in play, though feet were usually first to go. It’s a lot harder to dodge if you can’t move your feet.
In gym class (mid 1980s) we played a game called "Buffalo Hunters". The teachers would select 3x kids, give them each a tiny softball-sized dodge ball. Then the rest of the kids would run in lap around the perimeter of the gym while the three "hunters" picked off the "buffalo" one by one until there were only 3 left. The surviving 3 became the hunters in the next round.
The gym teachers enjoyed this immensely, watching, laughing as kids got hit in the face/groin/where ever, while hanging just outside the gym doors smoking cigarettes.
When I was in my parents car I would pick a dirty spot on the windshield, close 1 eye and move my head around as to not let the spot touch the trees or the power lines.
benzim · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snipe hunting. Snipes are very small, and imaginary, birds that hunt in bushes at night. So we'd take any new friends, or campers, out into the woods, hand them a sack and have them kneel behind the largest set of bushes open bag in hand. The rest of us would hike around to the other side and scare the Snipes so that they'd run right into the bag.
Of course, this could take alot of time and patience. The catcher had to hold very still and remain there until we were done. I mean this could take hours!
We had alot of fun hanging out back at camp while waiting to see how long it would take them to figure out what happened.
My older siblings and cousins made it up. It was this adventure pretend game. It was always a big event when the family would get together because all of the kids wanted to play scavengers....
Except, being the youngest, no one wanted me to play. I had a specific job as the "lamp". My job was to stand perfectly still and silent with my arms over my head...... like a lamp..... So whenever we played I just had to stand in silence and watch everyone have fun right in front of me.
Not exactly unique, but me, my cousin, and my brother would play a game of tag where my tiny baby sister was always 'it'. One game during winter, we all went upstairs to hide in the closet, and we could hear her tiny feet coming up the stairs, my cousin panicked, and slammed the door, which my middle finger had not quite made it to the other side of. It almost shut completely. I had to wear a bag over my hand for the rest of the winter to avoid the snow touching it.
My best friend and I (along with her little sister and occasionally some other neighborhood friends) used to hang out in her front yard and play a game where as soon as a car would turn onto her road we had to completely freeze. We had to stay frozen until the car was out of sight. If I remember correctly, the entire goal of the game was to freak out the people in the car by being frozen in place. We also had a variation of the game where we would play in the front yard like normal and then as the car was driving past her house we would all fall to the ground.
Growing up in my slice of California, schools spent a lot of our elementary years teaching us about the local Native American population. We often went on field trips to the nearby Spanish Missions and the local college that had replicas of their prime trading materials and furnished wigwams. They were taught in a really positive light (not the Spanish missions though, they were pretty clear about how oppressive they were to the native population.)
Basically Native Americans were the coolest thing ever so my friend Carolyn and I would play as two of them that had set off on our own to explore the mainland.
We'd build teepees from the sheddings of the huge eucalyptus tree in my yard, climb trees, and sneak into and explore the neighbor's "forest" (a half acre clump of trees).
We'd also gather and eat wild plants. Carolyn was the insanely smart child prodigy of my grade and would point out edible plants, so we'd gather up a big bunch, take them back to the teepee, and snack on them. We'd also gather up these things my siblings called "sour flowers" as dessert. They're these yellow flowers with long stems, and when you chew on the stem it's really sour, but not in a bitter way.
My best friend's parents owned the lot next door to their house that was about 2 acres. We created a community of cavemen from the neighboring kids and dogs. We were an egalitarian meritoracy with all the splendor of a budding cave-dwelling utopia. We would search the woods for animal bones to trade and form into weapons or art deco for our rock perimeter houses. Our monetary system was based on quartz and granite which were two of the most common bedrock strata around.
We played for maybe 3 years and some of the aspects of the game started to become somewhat sophisticated. For example, in the beginning we had an arena where differences would be settled with sparring but after awhile we started to mediate and hold court-I remember one of the rules was that you had to hold a decent sized rock over your head for as long as you wanted to talk.
There were factions and back door deals, enchanted weaponry, lore, and glory at stake. We were raided by older brothers and attacked with water balloon launchers and responded in kind with stones and sticks. We were barbarians, we were ten years old.
There were no limits to where the game could have gone. We were probably not ever going to get out of the stone age but I like to think that we would have if we didn't all get poison oak that one summer. I still think about playing this game.
When me and my brother and sister were younger my dad taught us the “couch game”. We would turn off all of the lights in our house and my dad would hide somewhere. We walked around our house (I’m the youngest and I was still scared if the dark so i never left my sisters side she’s the oldest and my brother was always a lone wolf.) If you get caught by my dad he would pick us up and take us the couch as a sort of jail and the only way out was to get taped by someone who hasn’t been caught. When he got all three of us in the couch he won.
The more I think about it we didn’t really have any way to win but for us it was a lot of fun. And if you have kids of your own I would highly recommend it.
My brother and I would go on “spy missions” when we were at family gatherings/weddings/other events with lots of adults and basically just choose a target and spy on them for as long as we had to to clear them of suspicion (usually if they were doing mundane things that would be grounds for clearing their name).
Another game, more like a weird bit within an ordinary game that my bro and I would do, was when we got bored playing royal rumble or war with our action figures we’d assume the male dolls’ roles in my sister’s dollhouse family. I’d be gpa and my bro would be the dad. The bit was we’d convince my sister to have the mom take the kids to the beach (located down the hall in another room) and we’d completely trash the house while they were away. In imaginary reality it was a tiny elf that would hide and caused all of the ruckus but my sister would not believe the dad and gpa no matter how much they pleaded, mostly because the elf always left before the family returned. This ended in role played arguments and real life arguments when it happened over and over again.
I feel a little guilty years later cuz she just wanted her older brothers to play with her and we took advantage but hey, it was all good fun and we laugh about it now
My brother (10 years older) and I use to play this game called "Mole People". All I remember is we would hide under a blanket and say, "We are the Mole People. And we hate the light!"
cut-off Frisbee. Setup two sides and throw Frisbee at each other. If you catch the Frisbee you are fine, drop it... anything it touched is not usable for the remainder of play. Game ends when one yields or you are hit in the head. My brother used to skip it off the ground and hit me in the legs.
The "aue" game. Is more like a weird rule, but whathever. If someone burps, basicaly you had to make a hangloose(🤙) on your forehead and say "aue". The guys who didn't done that got slapped. Don't know where and why this started, but I do followed the rule.
My younger brother and I used to play a game called “I’m Alive” where one would try to bury the other fully under blankets and pillows with no skin or limbs exposed to the air. Basically we each tried to successfully suffocate each other as children :)
Djmies · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Myst series, it was basically a point and click riddle adventure but with extravagant cutscenes with real actors and an insane well developed fantasy story. It even had its own bookseries. Pretty underrated game even now imo.
Was in Vegas around my 15's and meet two Zach & Cody looking British twins also there on vacation. They played the "Opposite Day Game" which was them slapping the absolute shit out of each other until one gave up.
It was a weird day at the laser tag arena.
p4lm3r · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kabubu and Firey Kabubu. We did this in scouting (when no adults are around). It is like dodgeball, except you use unopened pine cones. Yes, it hurt. No, you can't catch them because the barbs rip your hand open. For 'Firey' Kabubu, you just light them on fire before throwing them.
Downhill derby dive. I lived out in the country and in our backyard about an acre back there was a canal with a pretty steep slope, maybe a 9/12 that was roughly 30 ft up. We would get boxes and attach them to a wagon in whatever way so they would be difficult to come off and we would tuck the handle under the sum' bitch and ride down the slope letting whatever happens happen. Mind you we were in an enclosed box and couldn't see anything. So flipping was a surprise, going into rocks or a tree. The only smart thing we did was wear my full face motorcycle helmet.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game called red ass.
You whip tennis balls at a wall, if you get hit by the bounce back you have to stand at the wall while the person who threw it got to whip it at you as hard as they can.
Obviously face towards the wall, this the name red ass.
When the first Tron movie came out, we made up a "disc" game. Used a frisbee to bounce off the walls of an enclosed patio. The frisbee had to hit the wall, then land in your opponents square like dodgeball. The goal was to advance thru all the players squares to the master square.
Evil Turkey- at night in the house with all the lights off somebody was it. They counted to 50 and had a little nerf ball. If they touched you or hit you with the ball you were frozen. You can be unfrozen from the non it players. Round ends when all players are safe(area where the it player counted) or frozen. If everyone is safe then the player is it again otherwise longest frozen player is it. So dodgeball freeze tag and hide and go seek rolled in one at night.
We used to play 'Gladiator'. In our minds we were in the arena. Reality was throw the eyes of my friends parents. Just a bunch of kids running around their backyard with plastic football helmets, bike helmets, and swinging aluminum bats at each other.
'Robot Wars', like the TV show, but instead of metal the robots are made of lego. Me and my brother would design robots, with wheels, and then roll them at each other. Whoever's robot lasted the longest won.
My cousin, younger brother, and I played a game called sea monster. Which had nothing to do with the sea at all. The premise was that one person was the sea monster and the others had to avoid being touched by the sea monster or they'd become the sea monster. The kicker is that we always made my brother be the sea monster and it was basically just a glorified excuse for us to run away from him.
My grandmother would give us a ball of yarn and tell us to "make a web" as we were "little spiders". It was a blast, for cleanup we just snipped the strings.
Zakyle · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called avalanche. I played it with my best friend at his place. We would go around the house and gather every pillow and cushion we could find, then stack them all up in a precarious pile at the top of the stairs. One of us would be on the stairs waiting, while the other was on the other side of the pillow pile. The person on top would shout "Avalanche!" And throw themselves in to the pile knocking it down on to the other then we would fall down the stairs in the avalanche.
His mother was mortified when she found what we were doing. I'm still amazed neither of us got injured doing this. Kids are surprisingly resilient!
Me my brother and my best friend would play this game called Stalker. I was always the Stalker and in order to play it had to be pitch black. Then my brother and my friend would have a flash light and walk around our yards while I was dressed up in pure black clothes except for my silver skull mask that I’d wear. I’d basically hide in bushes or lay on the ground until they came near me and then I would pop out and tag one. Once tagged you had to stay on the ground and the other person had to come and try to tag you so you could get away. If both people got tagged the Stalker won.
On long trips across half the country to North Dakota as kids, my sister and I would play the "water in your mouth" game where we would put a little water in our mouths and try to make the other one spit it out, you had to keep your mouth open while the other person tried to make you laugh. A little "messy" but something we still will laugh about and have tried to teach her kids already!
We called it Territories. Me, neighbor kid on my left, and neighbors across the street would divide up our front yards and parking lots, grab a bunch of water balloons and sticks, and start all out war fare.
If you got hit or a balloon broke on you, you lost your territory and became confined to "no man's land" (the street). You could get back a territory by hitting someone else, but if you got hit while land-less, you were out for the whole game.
First person to four territories was deemed the winner, thus leading to many short lived alliances.
My cousins lived on a ranch and whenever we'd visit, there was so much exploring to do. We could play outside all day, feeding the chickens, brushing the horses, eating peaches and chewing on wild mint leaves. But then we'd need a little thrill so we'd go down the street where there was a pasture of bulls, or cows and bulls, I don't know, I just know they'd spend a lot of their day charging back and forth across the pasture. When the bulls were charging away from us, we'd pretend we were chasing them and run after them, but then when they'd turn around and charge us, we'd run for our lives until we made it over the fence again.
My cousin and I used to play "ninja" which basically was just us 8-year-olds 20ft up in a tree, attached by bungie cords and sword fighting with machetes until someone lost their balance and fell.
We called it "bed diving." My room had a hallway leading up to it, and my bed was about 5 feet in front of the door, and the door had its own little alcove so you couldnt see it when standing on the other side of my room.
Basically, the game was: one kid would be standing inside the room with a soft ball of some sort, waiting. The other kid would be waiting outside the door, and would at some point run into the room and dive onto the bed. The one standing in the room would try to peg them with the ball, and if they hit them, they'd get a point, or if they missed or the diver caught it, the diver got the point.
Really it was just an excuse to continuously run and dive onto my bed
We played a game called Bear that I made up. It was just hide and seek but one of the hiders was secretly assigned the role of the Bear. The seeker had to tap all of the other hiders before the Bear or they lost
xlylax · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw a blanket over someone so they can't see nothing then the other 3 that can see punch and kick the one that can't see untill he falls or starts to cry the one under the blanket has to some how grab and put down one of the ones that can see and whoever gets put down first then has to go under the blanket
I was fairly close with my brother's friends. We were in the same school. At the time there was a little playground in our school. While waiting for our parents, I'd be on the playground "castle" (the huge block of things with the slides, monkey bars, etc.) and the guys would be at the ground.
We played a game of if I successfully spat on them, they lost. I'm not even sure who came up with the game, but everybody had loads of gross fun.
My main issue is he's still friends with most of them to this day, and I occasionally see them. I really hope they don't remember it, but if I remember then it's only obvious that they do too! BUT I REALLY HOPE NOT.
My brother and I used to play a game we called "Bulldog: Whoever gets off the carpet". It was literally just two boys wrestling on the floor, trying to push each other off the rug in our living room. 1st person to have a body part touch the hardwood 3 times loses. My parents hated when we played this and battles were always more intense when my mom was out running errands and it was just my dad at home.
My sister and I played a game we made up called "bruises." We would kick and punch the shit out of each others legs and compare bruises the next day. Who ever had the most or the biggest was the loser. I have no idea where we came up with it, but we played it until we were teenagers.
My brother and I used to play the “Dark Game”. We would turn off all the lights in our room and make sure it was pitch black and then essentially play Marco Polo. A lot of falling, a lot of getting yelled at.
My friend's backyard had one of these with the exception that the slide was about twice as high. We played a game we creatively called "King" where one of the four (or whoever we had at the time) of us would sit on top of the slide and whoever was up there was king. The king had a knight to defend them and everyone else had to try to get past the knight and take the throne. Swords were sticks. Sometimes the knight would turn on the king and would basically coup them.
It was literally just an excuse to hit each other with sticks.
CoDent · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby wars. My sister and i had a massive amount of them back in the day. One of our games was to take pillows from the beds and create forts for ourselves and then split up the beanie babies as ammo. Then we would throw them at each other. I did this with friends in middle school, one of them broke their toe in battle. Shit was no joke. Good times.
Screw driver roulette: take the biggest screwdriver you can find. Stand with a group in a circle, make eyecontact with the person across from you. Someone throws the screw driver straight up. The first person to break eyecontact or get hit is the loser. Yup, we were dumb.
"Des noyaux" when we eat apricot we collect the seeds then we divide them to equal parts, everyone get their part. Then we put a colored seed away, everyone by turn through one seed to touch the colored one. The person who touched the colored one will get all the thrown seeds.
My cousin and I used to fly around on the trampoline, jumping over each other and shit with combat rolls and whatever, playing Power Rangers and killing putties. But we never fought anything stronger. Always putties....perhaps we needed more confidence.
My little brother and I (12yrs apart in age) would play "Fancy Dinner" while our mum was busting her ass hours away at a job to support us. I had to make our limited food look fancy with plating and garnish and he had to set up the tv tray with a 'table cloth', pick flowers setout the cutlery and pick a movie to watch. Then we would each compliment the other on something they did that made our poor food and circumstances 'fancier' than normal.
Now that we are grown ass adults our 'fancy dinner' game has leveled up. When we get together we shop for ingredents on a limited budget and I teach him how to make a delicious inexpensive meal from scratch. It has taught him valuable skills to impress dates without breaking the bank.
Basically tag, but in the dark and when you tag someone you karate chop at the neck and yell pork chop!
We also played the basement game which was very similar to pork chop but the person 'it' has to come downstairs in the dark with a lightsaber and beat the hell out of anyone they find. Catch is , everyone can fight back with anything they find. We would flip those rolling chair plastic mats upside down so the spike side was up acting as a spike pit. Also throwing open a closet door as someone runs by was a classic stopper. Eventually got banned from playing because my buddy threw a lit roll of firecrackers at me and it smelled up the whole house.
We used to hang out late at night a lot in the summer and when a car would come by we say "Car!" and immediately scatter to hiding spots. This was for no reason at all other than it was fun.
Nobody ever bothered us or called the cops or anything, we just fancied ourselves spys or bandits on the run.
My friend and I played Monopoly before we were really good at reading. We read "Chance" as "Change" and when we landed on it, we got one bill of every denomination.
My siblings and neighbors would play a game called Get off my Property. The object of the game would be for one person, who we called the old lady, protect their property, often a tree, and they were armed with a broom. The rest of the players had to try and get to the tree and touch it. The old lady was allowed to use the broom to get other players away from the tree, which often included smacking the other players in the face with it, and all the while the old lady had the scream “Get off my property!!!" if you got hit you weren't out or anything. You just had to keep trying. And if you touched the tree you didn't win, you just kept trying to do it again.
Played the Ring Wraith game with my cousins as they lived on a massive block of land with plenty of bushland in rural Australia. Had a couple of black hooded capes that made you look like the ring wraiths out of the LOTOR movies. The idea was to play normal gang up tag but if you were a wraith you got to be sneaky in the bushland and scare the shit out of the others like in the first movie
In grade school, my friends and I created a game called “Wall Ball”, in which 2 people would say near or against a wall, and 5 others would try and kick a kick ball, soccer ball, or whatever else we could get for recess and try and at the people on the wall, with the idea that you wanted to survive as long as you could on the wall. We spent a TON of time playing it until the lunch aids found out.
My buddy and I would always LARP on my trampoline. It was always a mixture of RuneScape, MapleStory, or Pokemon. We would be out there for hours, just jumping in circles, swinging our NERF weapons and yelling spells. He had a sword, and I had a tomahawk. We tried again after a few years but we just couldn't do it anymore.
jehssl · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play "corner ball".
We had a sofa in our gameroom that was rounded in the turn (the sofa was L shaped in a sense) and thus in the corner there were a hole.
One player sits on his/her knees in the sofa while the other tries to shoot the ball in the hole.
Just like in handball there were lines which you could not cross before shooting, but you were allowed to jump as long as you jumped before overstepping the line.
We spent so many hours doing this, like hundreds. It was a blast. Played it with our friends too.
SLEEPING BAG WARS. Two people would put on sleeping bags and the goal was to knock the other person down. You were blind though, no arms and limited leg movement. It was the best show for the spectators!
I don't know if anyone else ever played this; but my mom used to play "the scribble game" with us. Each person would take a turn making a scribble on paper and pass it on to the next who would then have to turn that scribble into a picture of something. It was really fun! I played it with my kids when they were younger as well.
The "Jump-Scare" game that I used to play with my family. The object of the game was just to scare the other person shitless. Pops didn't like the game, so was sick of my shit. And being a veteran, he wasn't fond of people purposely sneaking up on him.
The last time I played that game, I ended up in a wicked headlock with my old man screaming "NEVER.... PLAY THIS... AGAIN!"
We called it "Chaos". There were two teams, the cheese factory and the mouse house. Each team had a driveway as a home base and the driveways were about 75 feet apart. There was also the ‘mole’ who hid in the bushes and played on their own team alone. Everyone was equipped with two weapons such as, wiffle ball bats, tennis racquets, footballs, hockey sticks, basically any sports equipment we could find. The object was to get people out by hitting them with said weapons. If you were hit you lost a life, had to return to home base, and had to give up one weapon. Everyone started with two lives. You were also allowed to throw your weapon in attempt to hit someone far away. Last team or mole standing won the game. Added bonus: if you could catch the neighbor’s cat Jake, your team automatically won the game.
Parents banned us from playing after they caught a sister whaling on her brother with a wiffle ball bat in the middle of the street.
My brothers shared a room with two twin beds and a space on between. Since I was oldest, it was them versus me (them on one bed, me on the other) We grabbed all the stuffed animals in the house (probably between 20-30), threw them in a pile in between the beds, and had to grab as many as we could without getting off the bed.
Then we just threw the stuffed animals as hard as we could at each other. Game ended when we got bored or something got hit with a hard part like a plastic eye or something.
Baby baby stay out. Dad was the baby. The goal was to either protect or steal the baby. He’d crawl around going “Goo Goo Gah Gah.” Between me and my brother it would inevitably end up with both of us basically attacking the baby.
One time I got a little out of hand and jumped on my dad’s back, wrapping my arms around his head. My thumb went in his eye and scratched it. He had to wear an eye patch for a few weeks after that.
Bottle smash: played as two: take a pet bottle and partially fill it (half= easy quick game, full or almost empty= long game). In a wide place with a hard floor(asphalt best) take turns at throwing the bottle high, at the asphalt or make it slide. If the bottle completly breaks on your throw you win, small leaks don't count, unless the bottle ends up empty from the leaks, then it's a draw.
The amount of mastery and tactic it takes it's surprisingly difficult: do you try to break the bottle risking only weakening it or do a weak throw so your opponent has the same problem? Do you want to smash it on the floor or throw it high, if so, make it land on the cap or on the bottom (depends on bottle type, filled amount and damage already taken).
03114 · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My elementary school had a high wall the was the outside of our gym. We made up a game called wallball where iirc, the way you play is with two teams. You throw the ball from where you first touched it and throw it towards the wall and try to touch the wall. Someone on the other team then tries to catch or throw it to the wall. It if hit BEFORE you make it or wasn't caught up in the air, you're out. This way, it got intense at time cause your trying to not get out but also get the other team out.
Not really a game but I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and wild briar patches grow in such a way that they are mostly hollow inside. So my cousins and I would really hollow them out and turn them into networks of tunnels and basically use them like little forts.
We also used to go down in the 'holler' and swing on vines that grew up the sides of trees. Looking back I'm surprised we made it through childhood without getting eaten by some wild animals.
I used to play pinecone wars with my brothers and some friends in the neighborhood. It was really cool. There were some town homes being built in the neighborhood so we would play in there when the workers left.
In elementary school they replaced the old style, all steel, playground with one giant jungle gym complete with little rock wall, slides, monkey bar, etc. The new playground was all connected and extended about 40ft across the play area, which was filled in with those wood sticks that made the ground "soft".
The rules of Tribute tag are as follows:
If you're it, you can't get onto the jungle gym
If you're not it, you HAVE to stay on the jungle gym
The only way for someone to be to become "it" was to either rip the other kid off of the jungle gym and throw them into the sticks (as tribute) or to rip one of their shoes off and throw it away from the playground so they'd have to get it, put it on, and give everyone time to scramble.
We would play this game religiously every day and talk about it during lunch (getting tighter fitting shoes, best way to pull someone down, trapping someone for their tribute, etc.) Our entire world started to revolve around this strange thing we invented.
This went on for about 2 months and by then we had a crew of about 20 kids who were all on the Tribute Tag train, but it all ended on the day that Chad joined in. I remember we all huddled up when he asked to play, and we were all cool with it AS LONG as he didn't get us in trouble (he was a little soft, but hey, we wanted to grow the sport). Of course, he got pulled down as Tribute and started to cry, and that was the end of "Tribute Tag"
Now that I'm older, I see how brutal the game was... but it was fun!!!
You know those big plastic playhouses that are sometimes on playgrounds? The kind that's a brightly colored cube with no floor or roof and might have a slab for a bed and a few windows?
Well, we used to play "Titanic," where three or four older kids would slowly rotate the playhouse from the outside while one or two younger kids climb on the walls inside and try to stay upright. It was the best game ever and I realize now that we had a lot of trust in our older siblings. No one ever got hurt, to my knowledge.
My favorite game was "Dodge the Arrow." We'd go out in a big field with all the neighborhood kids where parents couldn't see us. One of the guys or I would shoot a compound bow into the air and when it came down everyone had to scatter and avoid it. It was pretty scary when the sun messed up your vision and the arrow just disappeared.
Also a game called "He-Man Dragon." We had a hallway with a balcony overlooking the living room that we tied a laundry basket to a blanket to the top of the railing and had an indoor tire swing basically. One of us would be in the basket using momentum to try and grab the others, roaring like a dragon. We would also jump off that railing onto the living room couch.
"Slip and Slide" was when we'd call our dad at work, tell him we were going to sweep and mop the floors to be nice (which he'd thank us for) then proceed to cover the kitchen and dining room floors with Dawn dish soap, soak it all with the spray-hose from the sink, and then slide around in our bathing suits. We'd then gather EVERY towel in the house to dry it up. That house had a lot of weird water damage when we moved out.
I have so many of these, we were latchkey kids! I'm surprised we never died or broke a bone. Knife Darts, Roof Tag, Ba(skate)ball, Runescape in the Woods and Blue Devil Hill were some other games we played.
When I was 6 or so, a Peruvian family moved in down the street and had a son (Francisco) who was the same age as me. The mom offered to teach me Spanish on her spare time, and my parents were stoked. After a few years, Francisco had become one of my closest friends and I had a decent understanding of Spanish.
We made up a game "brothers", where we were literally just brothers who would fight crime together. We made fake enemies and would set them up around his house/yard and run around strategizing and taking out the enemies with nerf guns/squirt guns/water balloons etc... it was super fun. After I learned a bit of Spanish, we changed the name to "hermanos" and would try to play the whole game in Spanish so I could practice.
I'm forever grateful that my parents are good people and we're excited that I was getting cultural exposure as a white kid growing up in a suburban area, and that their family was so welcoming and open to teaching me about their culture.
My older brother and I would sit outside watching cars pass and play a game we invented called “I Own It.” As a cool car would approach, the first one to say “I Own It” got that car.
There was no tracking our cars, or rules, or literally anything else.
Several. We used to jump off the roof of my single-story house, into grass. We definitely knew to tuck and roll. Somehow never broke anything.
Rock fight, we'd stand in my driveway and throw rocks at each other. Somehow we never got hurt by it, don't even remember getting hit in the face. I remember it being somehow amusing to hear the rocks whizzing by my ear.
Gumball war. At my friend's house was a big carport with a sloped metal roof. Growing around the carport were gum trees, which drop hundreds of spiky gumballs in the fall. So one of us would climb up onto the roof and the other would stay on the ground, and we'd fling gumballs at each other. I even nailed a plastic bowl onto a 2x4 like a crude handheld catapault. That roof was pretty high, luckily neither of us ever fell off.
Wacky races. At my house the gravel driveway went downhill and we had an assortment of bikes, wagons, pedal cars, and a tractor, so we'd race them down the hill. Accidents were common, especially with the tractor because it just had 2 tiny front wheels under the front of the tractor and the steering was very vague. The wheels would go CHUNK! and turn sideways, usually throwing the driver over the front of the tractor. For that reason we usually rode the tractor backwards and steered behind our back.
Extratigoo. A made up word because I thought I heard that word in zathura.
The goal was kinda to whack a rock off of our deck railing with a baseball bat, and get it to roll backwards under the deck. It was completely impossible to do, but me and my friends would play it for hours.
Teddy Wars.
It was on a trampoline and we had a variety of teddies that each had a certain power that you could use if you picked them up, I can't remember them all but I know one gave you extra 'strength', one made you faster, there were about 15 different teddies and this game honestly kept us going for years, good times.
Old Man In the Dark: One person would sit at the top of the basement steps and count till 30. Everyone else would hide throughout the room. After 30 seconds the “Old Man” would turn the lights off and slowly come searching for the other players. First one to make it to the steps or the last person found won that round and became the next Old Man. Occasionally we would step it up by setting up traps for the Old Man, trying to trip them in the dark. It was an absolute blast.
When we was 13-15 years old we played a game called 'open' short for open ribs. If you happened to be leaning ovee or hunched over or had your arms up not protecting your ribcage for any reason , anyone could yell "OPEN!" and throw an uppercut to your underarm/rib area. The game also devolved a little bit for legs where people would strike the scrotum.
My uncle got drunk on Christmas and was smoking a little extra so after his 1st 4 or 5 cigarettes I knew something had to be done. When he wasn’t looking I took his box of cigs and shoved little tin foil balls into the opening on the front.
On Rainy days we would play at this one kids house that was built in a big circle. We started in the hallway and just walked up the never ending inclining floors all day after school. Boring ass game but it kept us entertained. Eventually while we climbed floors we discovered dead bodies and even double of friends we left a floor below, sun game but you get a bit weird when you are isolated on the 564th floor of your friends house.
We had a unique twist while playing Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 (and other ps2 racing games). Rather than racing split screen, one person would leave the room, and the other (playing top screen) would hide their car somewhere on the map. We'd use a pillow case held down with a brick to cover the top screen, while the bottom screen had to find the other car.
It was hide n go seek instead of racing, and it was a lot of fun.
I used to have dreams at night where a clown came out of my closet and wouldn't let me wake up unless he could tickle me. So before I would go to bed at night, I always tried to remember to shut the closet so he wouldn't visit me.
Squeak bunny squeak. No idea where the name came from. Played in my cousin's basement. Turn off the lights so it was dark enough to just barely make out shapes. Everyone would hide (you couldn't be hiding behind something) and the person who was it walked around with a bean bag chair. They would try to make the people hiding laugh to give away where they were hiding and then go sit on them. Last person hiding won.
Repelled off the balcony with dog leashes tied together like mountain climbers and jumping off the second floor landing to a pile of mattresses and pillows. I’m honestly surprised none of us died.
The hitting game? Basically there were a group of kids and in the middle there was a soccer ball. We’d kick the ball trying to hit each other in certain areas of the body and if someone succeeds, we’d beat the shit out of the kid who got hit by the ball until he’s touched a light pole.
The kid who came up with the idea sadly passed away a few years ago of unnatural causes.
This is going to get buried but I was raised with my 3 cousins and we had these games where it would kinda be like we were all a character from an mmorpg we played (Pristontale if anyone wants to know) So we would all be a character from the game, I was a Priestess and we would all have "professions" I was a potion maker and one of my cousins was a blacksmith, he made wooden weapons out of sticks at a station he built (except they were pretend make of steel of course), we would walk around the forest to find stuff for our weapons or for my potions. Or clues for my other cousin's map or a "fishing pond" for the other one. We would crush up rocks with a hammer to make a fine powder, we'd bottle it up and sprinkle it in my "potions" or on the weapons to make them "stronger". We spent hours and hours outside from the moment we woke up til it was dark out. We walked around the forest in their backyard, we had our own little treehouse, we had a little treehouse that was just not in a tree so that was our "shop". It is sincerely some of my best memories.
I used to play a game with my mom, brother, and neighborhood kids called Dark Skies. My mom was the only one who could initiate the game. It would span across the whole neighborhood but would always end inside our house. Basically hide and go seek (but you can move) with every man for himself. It ends when someone scares this shit out of someone else. Terrifying as an 8 year old.
Me and my little brother used to sit in the hallway between our rooms(back to our doors) with a green ball a little bigger than a softball and throw it at each other. If the ball hit your hands and you dropped it you had to take a shot to the chest. Seems so simple and stupid but there's no telling how many hours we sat in there throwing the green ball at each other
We called it “the sleeping bag monster” this game involved my 12 year old self, my 11 year old cousin, my 10 year old brother, and my 9 year old cousin. We would play this game in our bed room and would put a sleeping bag over the persons head who were “it” and then trying not to get tagged by this person. So what eventually happened after getting lightly tagged got boring for us, the game turned into who could beat the shit out of the person who was it without seriously injuring them. Now that I think about it we were incredibly violent, especially when the youngest cousin was it and we could literally pick up the sleeping bag with him in it Jesus Christ
My two cousins, sibling, and I made up this game probably around the age of 7. One person was the wolf, and the three remaining people were the little pigs. You’d lock the door to a room, turn all the lights off, and the little pigs would get to hide under blankets and pillows. The wolf had to (a) find the pigs, and then (b) guess who was underneath. If he guessed you correctly you were the new wolf.
Whenever my brothers and I would find a box big enough to fit us all in it we’d douse the whole thing in lighter fluid, all 3 sounds of us would jump in the box, and set it on fire. Last one to leave the burning box wins
The Wallet Game. My dad would take out his wallet on the carpet and keep it away from my brother and I. We would try to wrestle him down to get the wallet and if we got it, we got the cash inside. We were small back then so we barely ever got it but when we did, we were buying Pokémon cards the next day.
ghne11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bottle rocket races. My cousin and I would take a bottle rocket, face it up the street, light it, and run. The goal was to make it past where the bottle rocket would fly to and explode. Surprisingly enough, this led to one of the three times I'd been on fire.
Knee basketball. Had a little basketball net and a little rubber basketball in the basement that was too small for us, so we’d get on our knees and play basketball that way.
It was especially fun since the ball is too small to steal from people cleanly so we had rules for how hard you could bodycheck people to take the ball. They were loose rules.
Faceball. The pitcher throws the football at the hitter, he hits it with the bat and the pitcher has to catch it. If he does hitter is out, if not he had to grab it and chase hitter around bases and tackle him before he gets home. There were no other people around the bases, just the pitcher. I dont even think we had a point system.
My friend had two Keeshond dogs, neither of which were very energetic. They would frequently lay down in the hallway upstairs, and if they looked at you, you had to die.
The other person could revive you by tapping on you, but only if the dog stops looking. Goal: make it across the hall.
2) Kid Army.
Wow this game was so awesome. We played this well into middle school even. The story was that one day, aliens came and spread a virus across Earth, killing everyone over the age of 16. Everyone who was younger than that no longer aged because we were immune somehow.
So we formed an army to fight the aliens. We made a map of the solar system, color coated for bad guys, neutral, and human owned planets, and slowly took the galaxy back over the course of years. You ranked up (up to Commander in Chief) by doing a certain number of missions.
You could do a defense mission, where you had to defend earth, a space offensive mission, a planetary offensive mission, or a recon mission. Each of my friends had different specialties.
And when you became a commander in chief, you got your own squad and the option to do missions using army guys. Each person got to use their own color of army guys.
Race the car to the garden. Basically walk up the long road from our garden until we see a car coming the other way. Beat the car back to the garden. Endless fun.
"The Gun Game" My 2 brothers and I grew up in a fairly large house that was far from town. Most of our days were spent outside doing outside things unless the weather was bad. On bad weather days we would each take our own pellet gun, make pellets out of tinfoil, strip to our boxers, and run around the house shooting each other. There was a 3 pump max rule on the rifles and when that pellet hit bare skin it hurt like hell. It would leave a whelp for hours sometimes days. Never really got caught by our parents but once my brother god hit in the neck by a pellet. We couldn't hide it so we said he got stung by a scorpion.
Probably already buried in comments but ours was "roof ball" basically a modified baseball. We would use a stress ball wrapped in electrical tape as the ball and a whiffle ball bat. The field was laid out so that the house was the outfield fence. Hit it on the roof, home run. Hit it over the roof and you get to keep running until the other team retrieves it and gets you out. Other modifications were the obvious 'ghost runner' rule. And you could throw the ball at a runner to get them out.
Me and my cousins were roleplaying as bacteria and viruses. The house was an organism and the adults were the immune system and medicine. It was basically a spy roleplay most of the time, but it made more sence because it explained why our HQ was in the middle of the enemy base.
My brothers would tie me to the chain link fence with a windbreaker with my arms out like a crusafix. They would then fill up water balloons and throw them at me. It looked like so much fun for them they would laugh and laugh and I would just cry until my mom would come untie me. Seemed like they loved that game.
My cousin and I would line the bottoms of the walls with pillows and blankets and turn the Veggie Tales up to hide the sound of us slamming each other around for hours. Full blown Greco-Roman meets WWE smackdown for like 4 hours.
There was no point system, and no winners. I'm sure there were several broken toes and at least one broken leg (someone brought steel toed boots to the game).
My brother and I played "Back to the Future", which was basically taking turns launching each other as far as we could sitting on a wheeled office chair in our cement basement.
My best friend and I would use pillows, stuffed animals, and blankets to make forts across the bedroom from each other and then use other things like batteries and other stuffed animals as bombs and such to blow up the other ones base and eliminate them.
The playground at school had pea gravel covering a lot of it (it was a rural school, we had a 2 acre playground, so we're talking a lot of gravel), in 2-3rd grade we had a game where we would gather cool looking pebbles and trade them, even going so far as to denote one kind as a sort of currency. This specific kind was found more in certain areas leading to wars between groups to control those areas. That ultimately led teachers to kill it. I think I still have some of the better pebbles I had.
ZakeJR · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
duck hunt 90s video game 🎮 dog Laugh I still remember. Maybe That’s my first Childhood video console game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Guerra de paises"
Every player had to choose a country. We had five seconds to run as far as we could. Then, we all had a turn to say: I declare the war to my worst enemy, which is [insert country]. And we had to choose to make long and/or short steps to walk in direction of that country. If we were right about the steps we needed, the country we chose was out of the game.
My dad used to play a game with my sister and me called “the not fair game”. He would throw a ball into the air and then assign points randomly. For example if you caught the ball you might get 100 points but you might lose 200 points for not giving the ball back to him fast enough, and the next throw you might lose 100 for catching the ball and gain 50 for giving the ball back. Great life lesson that not everything in life is always fair and equal and provided us with hours and hours of fun as kids.
Semi- two semi circles on either side of my playground. A group of people would run to either semi circle without getting caught. If you are caught you have to join the chasers.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game we called mixer.
We would basically LARP every recess. We would like "character select" when we started.
So everyone would go around and say who they were, you could be anyone, like pop culture, video games, whatever, you could be things you just describe like "I am Roman Gladiator, who uses a trident made from dragon bone.".
I think the only rule was that you couldn't be another player's selection.
Then we would go on adventures, fight stuff, talk about backstories and shit.
We had a few of these imagination games. We had another where we would play LARP primitive DND with coin flips we would play when we had more time.
I guess everyone else just saw like 4-6 kids everyday fighting invisible monsters, dodge rolling, jumping off the cement guard rail fence. A few kids came by and made fun of us every now and then, but we kept to ourselves and always played in the same spot, so we rarely got interrupted. As we got older we got into things like MTG, Yugio, handhelds, DND, etc etc. But this was always the funnest one for me, I miss it.
When I was 9 or 10 we used to draw maps and create a little rpg around it. Most of it was, get to this building, defeat the enemies, get the key, avoid the lasers, and escape. We would all sit around the same piece of paper tracing our current positions on the map with pencils. We'd act out the scenes and each map would be most complicated than the last one.
We would also fold papers and draw them as "cell phones" that could fold out to reveal a "computer" . I believe we had the idea of smart phones before they became a thing. At least we had the concept of a cell phone with a fold-out qwerty keyboard. Well before the Sidekick was ever released. As the cell phone industry started to advance I noticed similar concepts to what we came up with as kids. Except we used our "phones" for "secret agent missions". A lot of it was heavily inspired by 007 Goldeneye from the N64. But we'd remix it with Legend of Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, and other video games. We'd make the "screens" for our inventory selection which was composed of items from all of our favorite video games. Whatever item was "needed" for us to "complete our mission". We had such fun imaginations back then.
My brothers and I had a game call Ghost Fall. What you would do is put a blanket over your head so you can't see anything then follow the other "ghosts" up the stairs. Then when someone yelled GHOST FALL we would fall backwards down the stairs untill we reached the bottom. In hindsight I have no idea how we didn't get multiple concussions from this game
mhmc20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was the oldest boy in my neighborhood growing up. I usually wanted to play Pokémon or kickball but unlike my friends at school the 5-6 year old neighborhood kids wouldn’t really go for it. One day after trying (and failing) to get everyone to come watch me play sonic heroes, one of the girls suggested we play Chicken Fajita. My sister asked how to play and she responds “it’s simple!”
Step 1: Everyone say “What are we having for dinner?”
Step 2: One player (the ‘mom’) responds “Chick-Chick-Chicken Fajita!”
We called it 'The Pansy Tree Game'. So one of my neighbors had these tall evergreen trees that lined her fence. Maybe 10-12 trees in a row, around 20-25ft tall. We would climb the tree at one end, and try to jump tree to tree to the end, who ever fell down out of the trees lost, and was a pansy lol it was a ridiculous game, and we all always got injured really bad. No one ever made it to the end. Plus the neighbor usually noticed after awhile us falling down out of her trees and would chase us out of the yard yelling and tossing things.
Growing up in Ireland, one popular game was called "IRA". Each team would come up with a secret word, and assign one letter of that word to each teammate. Then you had to capture people from the other team and torture them to make them tell you their letter.
If no adults were around, the torture would consist of hitting the kid until they gave it up. If there were adults around, you'd tickle them instead. Not sure which was worse to be honest.
Me, my cousin, and our family friends around my age (we are all Italian) would play this weird game we never actually had a name for. We would run around the house and one person would be “italiano” and they would yell “IM ITALIANO” then we would all have to tag them and yell “NO IM ITALIANO” and basically you would have to steal everyone else’s italiano until you had all the available italiano. No one ever lost we would just kind of play until we got tired.
So I think we just called it war. Generally two “teams” of 3-4, both sides armed with a slingshot or two (the metal type with a wrist brace and elastic bands).
We may have established bases but the point seemed to be more about pelting the absolute fuck out of enemies by slinging/throwing the pecans from the orchard we played in at each other.
Both teams did this from their own “tank”—a tractor or a small farm truck.
Metal Arms: Glitch in the system! is a brilliant hidden gem. It blew my mind as a kid.
Cegrus · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents' house has a pool, which had a wooden fence around it when we moved in. Once my younger sister and I were old enough they tore out the fence, but didn't throw away the fencing. I eventually started cutting up the boards into sword shapes, sharpening them with a pocket knife and sanding them down. The neighbor on the other side has apple trees, and the branches hung over the fence. So we would take the sharpened wooden swords, and throw the apples at each other to cut midair. Always felt like a badass when you got a good slice
I grew up watching Heracle and Xena, I remember there was one scene in the show where a giant pit to the underworld opened up. So when I was at a summer camp we would constantly dig holes to try to reach the underworld. Also when it would thunderstorm we were convinced that it was Hera getting mad and trying to punish us so we would hide.
Another game I would play was a war game, a few weeks before winter camp me and some friends would draw up very detailed battle plans to try to defeat the other kids. Nothing ever came of it, but I definitely had fun with the countless hours making plans.
Grew up in Georgia, so we had thunderstorms pretty often. My 2 older sisters and I would turn off all the lights in the basement and wait for lightning. We would then try to guess how bad the thunder would be from it, based on a scale of green, yellow, red. Red being the loudest/longest. We would take turns guessing and “hide” if it was red, get behind a chair or couch if it was yellow, and do nothing for green.
Not sure how it entertained us for so long, but we did it almost every time a storm came through.
Our grandpa has a nice speedboat. When my sisters and I would go visit, we’d sit at the front of the boat with our mouths open and see who could get the driest tongue the fastest
It only got weird when we couldn’t agree on who’s was the most dry and we made our mom feel as the tie breaker.
In elementary school there was a big carpet-like thing rolled up. It was firm and 3 of us could stand on it. I called the carpet thing mustang burrito and my 3 best friends were always with me, so there was someone who couldnt stand on it. Eventually someone wanted to get on it and tossed someone off. This became regular. We made the rules(if you toss someone you have to yell mustang, complicated, right?). We played it in the breaks and our classmates started to join in. In the end there were like 40 kids (from like 5 classes) who were yelling mustang...sooo a teacher stoppes it coz oooh someone might get hurt. So that was the end of it.
By the way i dont know why did i call it mutang burrito. Burrito coz it was rolled up and mustang as the horse, not the car
We secretly cobtinued playing this with my 3 friends on trunk.. only one of us could stand on it.
When I was younger, my living room had 2 couches facing inwards toward each other with a lot of floor between them. So my friends and I would buy a bunch of glowie necklaces, turn off the lights, and use the couches as cover while we frisbeed the glow necklaces across the room in the pitch black back and forth at each other. It was ridiculously fun. One of those things that was randomly conceived out of boredom.
My neighbors and I created a game called “ hit me” where one of us would stand in front of the door of my shed singing “hit me hit me hit me” and the rest of us would whip kickballs at the person singing. Whoever made the person singing fall to the ground first in pain was the winner of the game and got to become the next hit me target... looking back I’m unsure why we found this game so appealing
My favourite game, imagine waterskiing but instead it’s a Razor scooter tied to the back of a bike. We’d take turns being the biker or the skier. Extra points for going up on the sidewalk while the bike is on the road.
I me and my sisters would pretend we are ninjas and I would create like a level up system of doing little stupid things like throwing little paper throwing stars and running around the back yard it was more fun than it should have been and I hope my sisters look back at that fondly as I do
emmian · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jellies" - One person pretended to be grocery shopping, and the rest of us sat in a row, curled up, pretending to be jelly jars. The shopper would say, "What type of jelly should I pick?" and the jellies would have to say out loud what type they are in a funny or cute voice. The shopper would choose which one they liked best by putting them in their cart, and then pushing on the foreheads of the jellies they didn't want and forcing them to roll onto their backs. It should probably be noted that we played this in our yard at the top of a small hill, so we ended up rolling down the hill.
My siblings only have vague memories of this game, so it's pretty safe to say that I invented it.
My friends and I came up with this game, which we simply called "The Game". There were two teams in this game, one defending and one attacking. The objective for the attacking team was to touch the "base", which was the area under my friend's trampoline. The objective for the defending team was to protect this base by getting the attacking team out by tagging them. The boundaries were the backyard of my friend's house. The attacking team could not get tagged outside of the pre-determined boundaries but the second they stepped into the backyard/boundaries, they could get tagged out. The round ended once any member of the attacking team touched the base or the defending team tagged every member of the attacking team out.
This game required us to get strategical by jumping fences, hiding in different areas of the backyard and planning which way we were going to attack/defend. It is one of the fondest parts of my childhood and required only access to a backyard.
snekly · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play "tower of terror" which was not a fitting name at all but that's what it was. We had a swing set that had a two seater baby swing. Our game include us fitting as many 4 year olds as we could into/on to this swing. Our record was 5. Then one of us would start twisting the swing up as tightly as we could. They would then hold on for dear life as the overloaded swing spun wildly. More often than not, at least one of the occupants would fly out during the ride only to hop back in for the next one. The game finally ended when I flew out during one of our rides and got knocked out cold after hitting the ground
Under water sea adventure!!!! So my cousin would put is in one of those huge plastic blue bins with the lids and there was a crack in ours. We pretended it was a submarine and she would pour little bits of water in the cracks while
Shaking us around and narrating the sea adventure
You had to go in a sleeping bag and your friend would have to stuff as much stuff in the bag until the person in sleeping bag said 'Stop!'
I'm surprised I didn't die
My cousin and I invented a game called "Lych". It was basically a more physical version of air hockey, contested on a kitchen floor.
We used our trainers are goalposts, used some weird hybrid of a rubber ball that looked like the Snitch in Quidditch.
Competitors sit on their knees & use open palms to try & slap the "Lych" ball across the kitchen, into the opponents goal. First player to 21 wins the game.
Incredibly simple, incredibly competitive & incredibly fun. We played endless games for hours on end.
Although my cousin may argue, I regularly lay claim to be the official Lych world champion. All challengers welcome...
I used to have some G.I.Joe trading cards and had my own rules on how to play. I swear it made tons of sense to me, but everyone I've talked to says it made little to no sense.
I was 13 and my younger siblings who were 7 and 9 decided that they were going to run across the living room infront of our 3 seat couch, while I stood by as the flank to spear them right into the fucking couch as hard as possible. Good times
My brother and I would tape toothpicks to our fingers and have “Wolverine fights” it was all well and good until I sat on my moms couch with a bloody back and stained it.
“The Buzz-Lightyear Game” basically myself and my three siblings would jump around on mom and dads bed and we would try to throw each other off the bed. If you were falling off the bed you had to stick one arm out and slap your chest with the other to “open your wings” and you had to yell “TO INFINITY AND BEYOND” before you hit the ground. If you did, you got to get back on the bed. If you didn’t, you were out
doo138 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family grew up in the middle of know where illinois in trailers. We we're obviously all very poor lol. My cousins, brother, and sister didn't have too many toys so we would have to make up our own fun. My favorite was when we would fill a ln empty bread bag (like the bunny bread bags) with dirt and tie it shut. We would then wind up and launch it as far as it would go. Whoever launched it the furthest won. Only rule was no overhead throws. You had to wind it up and essentially lob it. Growing up poor, we had a lot of these "games".
Blood moon, it was hide and go seek but one some one had a flashlight, you could do a full moon for 3 seconds, and you have to point it up
Half moon, 2 seconds , and point it at half the room, but blood moon you get to point your light at one person hiding, wich is less than a second
We used to throw a squishy ball (filled with a shaving cream like substance) into a ceiling fan. It was a two person game. You would throw it into the fan at the direction where it would be launched at the other person. If the person caught it, it was a point. Games went to the first person to get 5 points. It was hilarious and we still play it to this day, in-fact, we had a tournament for my friend’s 17th birthday yesterday. Nothing but great memories and fun!
My sister and I bought a trampoline after months of saving from our paper route. Growing up I was also in love with action figures of every kind (TMNT, X-Men, etc). We made up a game where we would lay out all the action figures on the trampoline. We made a group of “good guys” who we had to protect, then only by jumping up and down we had to force the rest of the figures off the trampoline by bouncing them off. The good guys also had abilities we could use, such as the Power Slap, where you would bounce a figure up and slap them off the trampoline with your hand. The goal was to knock off all the figures expect the good guys.
I’m now 37 and my sister and a close friend still bring this game up. We had so much fun with it.
I made stories about the battles of my left and right hands. Originally, my left hand was "good" and my right hand was "evil", but I introduced gray morality as I got older.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During the winter, we always played “Smear the Queer” at recess. We had no idea what “queer” meant.
My sister and I had the "booty bounce game"
We would start at the opposite ends of the house and slowly move backwards while shaking our butt.
When we eventually got to each other, we had to try and bump the other person with our butts as hard as possible and the first person to fall out of the formation 3 times lost.
Idk why we did this. It just seemed silly and innocent. It's a little weird lol
Growing up, there were always a lot of dirt and gravel piles in my neighborhood. My cousin came up with this game where one of us would throw rocks while the other would swat them away with a stick. Whenever you were hit, you’d switch spots. Looking back on it, I think my cousin just wanted to pick on me because I was the one with the stick most often.
“Hall ball” - a mixture of baseball and dodgeball played in the hallway of my house. My hall was shaped like a T. The top left end of the T was the opening to our living room the other end was closed off. The bottom of the T was where the master bedroom was.
The pitcher stood at the entrance to the hall and pitched to the batter at the opposite end. After you hit the ball the base was the light switch (1 point) where the pitcher was or the piano Bench (2 points) or kitchen table (3 points). The ball is never dead so if it bounces off the wall or ground and hits you you’re out the pitcher could also throw or tag you with the ball and you’re out.
On base you’re safe. The pitcher then goes to the part of the hall where the master bedroom is. They have to be an arms length from the door. The runner has to get to home base without the pitcher throwing the ball from that hallway extensión and tagging them. One out and you switch.
When I showered, i would turn off the water halfway through and rub bar soap all over the bottom of my tub and pretend i was ice skating. Dangerous af i don’t know how i didn’t fall.
One of us would put a cardboard box on their head, and run around, and yell in a toneless, robotic voice, "I, AM, A, ROBOT. I, AM, A, ROBOT." And everybody else would chase them. Whoever caught the robot first would snatch the box from off their head, place it on their own head, and run around announcing themselves as a robot. It was kind of like tag, except everybody was trying to catch the player who was "it". It was kind of like Blind Man's Buff, except the robot player was trying to avoid the other players.
We weren't smart enough to put eyeholes into the cardboard box, so the robot player was liable to crashing into obstacles. I'm sure our parents tried to ban the game, but we loved it too much to stop playing.
my sisters and I used to lay down on the floor and see if we could shoot our giant scrunchies onto the ceiling fan blades. then, we would turn on the fan and pretend it was snowing while the scrunchies floated down around us.
I made up “The Arrow Game” when I was a little kid. It was meant for car rides and every time you saw an arrow like on a road sign, you’d say “arrow” and get a point. Different colors were different points, white and black being the most common would be 1 point while more “rare” colors like yellow and red were 2 points and colors like pink were 5 points. Whenever we knew a big curve was coming up with a lot of arrows we would just yell “arrow arrow arrow!” faster and louder than the other person lol. My brother and I would get very competitive with The Arrow Game.
We would play Slam Fingers. Someone would hold open the car door while someone else would place their fingers near the door frame. The object of the game was for the door slammer to slam the others fingers with the door. The other person's object was to not get their fingers slammed but to hold their hand there til the last possible second.
I'm not sure who lost but we all ended up inside in the air conditioner so all those broken fingers were worth it. We lived in Texas and summers were hot.
My friends and I used to play a thing called “Piggy Monster” with my dad. I have absolutely no idea when it started or how it got that name, but it was basically my dad chasing us around the house. If he caught us, he would lift us up and tickle us and then everyone else had to come back and save the person being tickled! Once it had the name, my dad even made pig noises for us when he was chasing us. Those are some good memories.
I'm the oldest of three. We used to have a green plastic clothes hamper. Put the youngest, my brother, in it and push it down the stairs. I swear he would get out and run back up with the hamper, ready for another run.
Some of the kids used to play "beat the letter", where each member of a team would have a letter of a word and the other team would have to beat them up until they said the letter so they could figure out the word.
...It didn't take long for the teachers to ban that game.
It wasn't really a game, but we used to put on rollerblades, tie a rope to a bike, and "street ski".
Another one was "geneva". We just drew two lines on the road and stood in front of them facing each other, kicking a ball back and forth until it rolled over one of the lines. Basically, it was goalie vs goalie soccer.
Extreme strategic Ball is a game played on a fenced in trampoline where each player starts with a certain amount of lives. If you get hit with the ball below the hips you loose a life. If you scoop or hold the ball you loose a life (hitting only).
My friends and I used to play slave wars. We had an even amount of white friends and black friends at the time and we would assign one black person to one white person. If you were black you fought and if you were white you just had to hope your slave won in the eyes of everyone else there. My friend Richard and I were half black so sometimes we could represent whatever side we wanted.
We played “War”
We each got a nice stick, covered the ends with multi color tape in different ways so you knew who had what stick the next time you played, and beat the shit out of each other. There was no objective other than winning whatever duel you were in at the time. Also had bases, teams, made strategies. None of us were older than 10.
My brothers and I would play a game we called "Muk" (after the Pokemon). Essentially the 'it' person would have a blanket thrown over them and they would try to capture/pull the other players underneath the blanket.
We'd mostly play on top of a big bed since we were still really small. It was a lot of fun and I remember it fondly.
Me and my sister would take turns rolling back and forth on my bed while the other person tried to jump over the other to the other side. Many many many times I ended up falling off the bed lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to maintain our own fleets of military aircraft (I was a huge aviation buff at the time). I kept a running log of our aircrafts on an old Windows 3.11 machine. We'd get into huge arguments over trades and who owned what to the point where it'd turn into a wrestling match over the keyboard. It was extremely pointless other than to have bragging rights over our make-believe fleets.
I don't remember what it was called but we used to play a version of hide and seek where if you found the person hiding you would hide with them (in the same room or area if too crowded) until the last person finds the group. It was really fun playing in the dark where it's harder to see a group hiding.
Played something called "Tunnel In The Ball" ( should have named it the other way around but we were kids) its like dodge ball but u get 20 points if you jump over the ball like a tunnel and u get 10 points if you full toss catch the ball .
My brother and I would gather all the big pillows in the house and stack them upon each other. Then we would pretend to be a shop that sold pillows. We had Monopoly money and everything.
TV tag. I don't think kids play it anymore. You would draw a tv in the dirt with a stick, then it was basically hangman of a tv show. If the kid guessed they would have to run to a predefined tree, around and back, the player that picked the title to guess would chase you. Whoever got back first would pick the next title for everyone to guess.
Took my kids camping when they were much younger, they had never heard of it. Spent a lot of time as a kid playing it.
I’m not too sure if others played this game or not but we had a game we called “beat the letter”. There were two teams, each with around 5 players (team a and team b) One player from team a would think of a letter and write it down to ensure they didn’t change it. Members from team b would not know who in team a knew what the letter was and so they’d chase every member and beat them until they gave up the letter or were convinced that the player didn’t know the letter.
In hindsight, this game was pretty hectic and barely had any rules which makes me believe it was just an excuse to hit each other without consequence.
Another game we would play was the “in the dark” game with our cousins. It was essentially hide and seek but it was in one room and in the dark. The seeker also was blindfolded and was made to spin around until they were unable to walk. There were no sides and it was every man for themselves which led people to sabotage others by tossing them ruthlessly into the blind seeker. The bunk beds and the death trap cupboards on the room made it a lot more fun.
Finally, we would play house a lot but with the most plot twists. We would play a dysfunctional family and have the most absurd storylines which mostly ended up in murder or theft of a baby.
Needless to say, we were a strange family.
(Sorry bout the format Im on mobile lads)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Disease". Literally just tag but every time you tagged someone they would say disease. Not to mention this game of tag went on during classes, and lasted from grade 4-8 with my friends. Everything went, touchbacks and all
My brother and I would get a big cardboard box and one person got in while the other person got a big run up and trucked the box as hard as he could. Fun times.
We got bored or regular 4 square we decided to play 4 square but with soccer rules. You can’t use your hands, you can juggle for as long as you can , and the “King” ( or the person in the 4th square ) had to serve it the person diagonally to them. We even made a 2/3 rule where if the other 3 player can rule if the call was good or bad. ( if 2 of the people said overrule we played another round ) Kept us busy for hours on end, even to this day...
My neighbor, my sister, and I used to go out onto our long driveway and we would do this thing where we would take off one of our shoes like halfway and we would see who could fling their shoe the farthest and when we went to retrieve it we had to hop on one foot and whoever got their shoe first would win. We would sabotage each other by getting their shoe and throwing it further or you could cheat by just not throwing it too far. Got us into so much trouble but it never stopped us from doing it again
With my two best childhood friends, we invited a game called Queen. Took place in just a standard living room. One person would act as “the Queen”, one person would be the Joker who basically had to be creative and act out/find stuff around the room to make the Queen laugh. The last person was the Queen’s assistant who served really no huge purpose, but could give the Joker clues on how to make the Queen laugh (assistant sat next to the Queen on the couch). Once the Joker makes the Queen laugh 10 times, we would rotate, so everybody got a turn being the Queen, the Joker, and the assistant!
This really was interesting trying to find ways to make someone laugh with limited things in the room. It tested our creativity for sure :)
We played "flash light tag" with the neighborhood kids almost every night for years and years. There were at least 8 of us every night playing from dusk until 11-12 am. This was about from 5th grade until 9th grade for me...I was the youngest of the group. Even after that many nights we'd all sit on our front porch just BSing. During the afternoons/evening we'd all either ride bikes, play baseball or tag football.
edit: There was also a huge field of weeds by our house that we built trails through, and we played in there a lot too. I was the lucky one, I never get poison ivy.
Refrigerator. There's three bases--"like it," "hate it," and "never tried it"--set in a triangle shape and a center spot. The person who's "it" stands in the center and everyone else starts at "never tried it." Then "It" calls out the name of a food and the other players have to try to get to the base that matches how they feel about that food without getting tagged to become the next "It." The game continues until everyone gets bored or, more likely, when I start accusing my brother of lying about hating almond butter when I know damn well he's never tried it, starting a fight and making our everyone else uncomfortable.
My friends taught us this game when I was about 9 I think, and my brother and I passed it on to other friends and continued to play well into our late teens/early 20s.
The Truck Game. My brother and I used to throw a tennis ball against the wall of our house and try to get it to land in the bed of the truck in our driveway. It had many variations and rules we developed over time, and always stayed fresh with the truck sometimes being in a slightly different spot, or having another car in the way to make bouncing it in impossible. When we eventually sold the truck, my brother and I were more sad to see the game end more so than missing the truck.
We have created many other games before and since then but nothing comes close to the truck game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shock (flash light tag to most).
Not so unique.
However, most sane people used a front porch or another landmark in the neighborhood as the “base” that you had to get to without the flashlight being shone on you.
However, we called it shock because the lamp post in our front yard had a wiring issue and would shock you anytime you touched it. Hence the name Shock.
No one seemed to care that fifteen feet away was an electrocution free front porch...the light post WAS the base.
It used to be a neighborhood affair. All the kids in the area would play, about 30 of us, and you could hide anywhere within set parameters (we had about four blocks worth of property we could hide on). It was a great time.
Run around the perimeter of the outside of the house as fast as I can with a pedometer until the pedometer started to move. More fun than I could have had with other kids. Other kids on the block were mean.
We had this is old rickety golf cart for some reason, that barely ran but was absolutely amazing to me. So when my friend from across the street came over, we'd take turns driving it in tighter and tighter circles around our trampoline. Once you crash into one of the legs of the trampoline, your turn is up. Not sure what the goal of the game was, but it was really fun.
Book skating. We took barb back thin books and stood on them and slid around the carpet. It was great until I sprained my left foot.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Running Man (yep, we watched far too many 18 rated films as a kids!)
Basically one kid runs away on foot, while the rest take chase on bicycles.
Pretty sure some of the bikers had planks to hit the running man with, and we placed some sweet ramps around the place... I'm surprised there were never any serious injuries!
rich8n · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in El Paso, TX in the 70's and 80's, the name of the game was chinchilagua
"Life". We lived next to a hilly desert, so the game was essentially this: collect rocks, bargain trades with the players as to how much a "house" (aka rock/bush/etc) was worth, purchase your own houses, trade with other players, and roleplay. With one of those huge drainage pools say 10'x6'x4', we used that as a bank where we would throw our spent rocks into it.
“Pillow Pushers”. My cousin and I would get on a bed each with a pillow. We would then try to push each other off my pushing against each other with our respective pillows.
Me and my brother used to play hand squash with smiley ball. We got grounded many times as the neighbors complained many times to our parents . Fun times though
My brother and I used to play the 'motorcycle game' where we'd sit on top of our old timey washer/dryer as it violently shook and made motorcycle sounds until the cycle finished.
We also used to play a game where we would take armfuls of bouncy balls into an empty room, throw them against the wall, and attempt to dodge the 20+ balls that would bounce like crazy off the walls, ceiling, furniture, etc. Unfortunately, this game came to an end when, one day, I decided to play by myself and shattered the window with a direct hit from a barrage of like 15 bouncy balls.
I can’t remember what we called it, but since there were only two swings in our back yard and there were three of us, my brothers would play a game where two people swing and the third has to run between them. I realized later that I (the youngest) was almost always the runner. We had fun though.
I'm probably going to find this isn't unique at all.
In the UK the kerbs on the roadside are fairly tall and square, and on a quiet suburban road, quite close together. We used them to play "Kerby".
Mainly a two player game, each player stood on opposite kerbs and threw a football/basketball/etc at the opposite kerb. If the ball hit the kerb and bounced back you got points. You were then allowed to stand in the middle of the road and throw from there. You would keep throwing until you missed and then the other person took over. You would get extra points if the ball bounced back and you caught it, or if you caught it one handed. In fact, we added so many point variants it became impenetrable and somewhat boring to play, but I still remember the satisfaction of the ball hitting the kerb with a whack and sailing back into my hands.
Another I suspect isn't unique was something we called "Blocky". It was a sort of hide and seek, but the seeker had to get back to a designated lamppost and call "Blocky 1,2,3, you're out", while pointing at a player and describing their position. The players could avoid this by getting to the lamppost before the seeker could say the words. To be honest, I don't remember liking it that much, because there was no real reward if you made it to the post. You just had to join in seeking, and there were many arguments about calls being in-accurate and therefore not counting.
Man we were some stupid easily entertained children...
we played “metro” which is meter in spanish, the game basically was that if you were within a meter of the ball all the other players could kick you (but if they come to kick you they get within the meter and you tried to kick them first), but you were considered a pussy if you were too far.
Running from the bathroom to the fridge in under 10 seconds. It was like the Olympics. I'd throw pillows and put chairs in my way so it was like an obstacle course. I was alone a lot.
The game was called, what it’s like to have friends.
We lived miles from anyone and had no TV. So I would climb to the top of trees and when the wind would blow it would bend, then SNAP back into place. Or I’d play man hunt by myself.
In my childhood home, our stairs were straight up off the side of the living room, and the top of the stairs was a hallway that was perpendicular to the stairs. There were four of us, and we'd split into teams of two. Two people at the top of the stairs, but standing off to the sides protected by the walls, and two people at the bottom armed with Nerf guns. The goal for the team up top was to get back and forth a certain number of times without being hit. The team at the bottom tried to shoot the team at the top. It was basically like a real life duck hunt with nerf guns.
dnick · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See who could punch each other in the arm the hardest, last one to give up wins
chewy5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game called "Interception". Basically you throw the ball to the other person and then try to tackle them before they get to the end zone.
My neighbor had a trampoline with one of those mesh nets around it and 5 or 6 small nerf balls (softball sized but soft foam). The game was for 1 or 2 people outside the trampoline and 2-5 inside bouncing around.
Outside teams' goal is to throw the balls inside the trampoline and try to hit the players bouncing around. Players inside need to slap the ball back to the outside team without the ball hitting the trampoline.
If a player inside makes contact with a ball that does not leave the trampoline they swap with the player who threw the ball from the outside. If a ball is caught by a player outside they swap places with whoever slapped the ball from the inside.
Basically, if you're inside the trampoline, don't get hit by a ball and don't let the outside team catch anything you slapped out. If you're outside you want to hit bouncing players or catch the balls they try to slap. The height of the cage/netting around the trampoline made the outside team throw lobs so most "outs" came from catching. It was super fast paced and kept me and the other neighborhood kids busy for hours.
we called it "The Teddy Bear Game" we had two glow in the dark care bears in our playroom in the basement.
one person, the thrower, would stand in the corner of the room next to the stairs, he or she could not leave the corner.
the rest hid and moved around in the pitch black. if it was daylight out we would cover the windows with pillows. the person would listen for moment and throw the teddy bear. everyone had three lives, we went by the honor system.
also if you were close to a bear you had to throw it back to the thrower, no exceptions, its what made the game more challenging
We played a game we called Museum. One person was the Seller, one was the Buyer, and the rest were For Sale. The ones for sale would be spun around by the Seller then they would freeze us in random positions. Once frozen, you had to think of how you would work or what you would do when you were turned on.
Then the Buyer would watch each of us as the Seller turned us on one at a time. Whichever one the Buyer liked best would be bought and the game would start over with the Buyer becoming the Seller and the one who was bought would become the Buyer.
My kids play a game called “cat in the hat” they run around, one chasing the other with a stick raised in the air, saying “Cat in the hat! Cat in the Hat! Cat in the Hat!” That’s really all there is to it. It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
I grew up on a culdesac and we used that thing for all kinds of games/fun. One game involved about 8 or 10 kids riding their bikes around the culdesac, while 2 or 3 kids would stand around the perimeter with frizbees trying to hit a bike (if you hit the kid it didn't count). If you hit a bike you got to swap places and become the bike rider. It was good for at least 30 minutes of fun, until someone got hit in the face and rode home screaming... ah good times!
I played an odd one by myself whenever we were driving somewhere. I would clench my teeth everytime we passed a streetlight so it would end up being this weird rhythm of bite-relax-bite-relax. The goal was to hit every gap but my tired 10 year old jaw would stop after about 8 lights.
madd74 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a strange combination of Simon Says and What's the Time Mr Wolf? Where you and some others would have to get from one side of a street to another doing different actions that one person on the other side would nominate. If you did them without saying "may I", you'd have to go back to the curb.
Also, do any Brits remember rin tin tin and red arse?
We played "Tremors" with sleeping bags, just like the 1990 film Tremors. One or two of us would be the "tremors" head first into the sleeping bags, heads at the bottom, crawling around trying to eat people who would have to crawl and jump on the furniture and get across the room without touching the ground.
Hunter: a game we created. It's a mix of tag and dodgeball and each person gets two lives. Our yard and our neighbors was fair game. Favorite game growing up.
As an only child, I’d make the other little girls in the subdivision play Mary-Kate & Ashley with me. We’d just reenact the mysteries but fabulously. When by myself, I played Pocahontas, ripping the long branches from yucca plants and acting like all the trees were my friends.
Me and my brother used to do this thing we called the head game. Basically we just put our foreheads against each other and whoever was able to push the other persons head over some line we set won. It was kind of like weird reverse tug of war that got really painful after 2 or three rounds.
eddyp9 · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and sisters and I, 8 kids in total, would play "heave hoo". Whereby we'd get every duvet cover in the house and pile them up at the top of the stairs. Everyone would jump on, and yell heave hoo. As we all tumbled down to the bottom of the stairs in a mass of arms, legs and duvets. Almost always ended in tears but hours of fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We always had a sort of gamemaster for all of our games to spice them up, but 'Magic tag' was always one that stood out. We'd play tag (the one where you have to crawl through the legs to free someone) and when all of the people got tagged the round was over and you'd be given points by said GM based on how you played (this would also discourage playing like a dick). There'd be a shop with powerups controlled by the gamemaster and you could buy stuff like 'freeze', you could free someone without crawling through their legs etc. You could even make suggestions for new powerups in exchange for points. Though if he didn't accept your suggestion, you couldn't buy any more until the next round. We'd use this sort of GM to spice up almost everything we played, though we always called the GM 'The Man'.
Hit__ · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Numb game"
On our trampoline there was an invisible line in the middle in which someone stood ready to tag people jumping over. You could either be tagged or land in the numb to which you'd become the person in the numb trying to tag your way out.
My brothers and I would always play a game called “The laughing game” at our babysitter’s house when we were kids. There wasn’t enough room on the swing set for everyone there, so the person who couldn’t get a spot on the swing set had to make someone on the swings laugh, and the first to laugh had to give their spot to the person, and thus the game continued. We played this for YEARS.
We used to play a game called statutes. Its where one person would be the watcher and the others where the statutes. The watcher had to watch and catch anyone who moved while the where looking. If you moved you were out. You basically just stood there while they touched you or pushed you and you couldent move
When we were very small (3 and 7 or thereabouts, respectively), my younger brother and I would play the "spy game".
We'd start in my bedroom at the end of the house and devise a plan, which was always some form of "figure out what Mom and Dad do when we aren't in the family room with them". We'd make our way silently down the long hallway of our ranch-style home, taking cover behind doorways and doing as many silent somersaults as possible, until we got to the entryway of the room in question. We'd peer around the corner, behind the turned backs of our parents, and we'd watch them watch tv or snooze or whatever until one of them looked around or got up to do something or whatever.
For us, it was an all-afternoon affair, but I think it realistically took them about ten seconds to realize we were there on any given run, so we never heard about any secret plots or anything.
We played this game on the playground with what we called the "zipline". It was one of those things you grab on to and glide to the other side. But we would post a kid on either side and proceed to fling the handle of the zipline across at each other. If it hit the other side without you being able to catch it, making an audible ding, you lost a life. I'm fairly sure I have wrist problems due to this game but we loved it.
'stampede' was essentially a game of chicken with oncoming traffic. One of our friends had a high sloping driveway. We would stand across the road from it waiting for a car to come down the road, when it did we had to get to the top of the driveway before the car passed us. The twist was that the winner was whoever had the bottle to leave it as late as possible to make it and risk either not reaching the top or getting run over in the process.
We also had 'battle boarding' where we would race down the hill we lived on (in the middle of the road) sat on skateboards and basically beat the shit out of each other to try and get to the bottom first. People were shoved into parked cars, hedges, tipped over - it was great!
My brother and I invented a sport called "Bike Ball". He would put on his baseball glove along with a bouncy ball in-hand and I would hop on my bike. The goal of the sport was to pass the ball to the biker in the most impressive way possible. I would catch the ball with my barehands while maneuvering around on the bike. So, I had to balance and catch while he had to give reasonable throws.
This escalated in complexity despite us being young. He would send bounce passes from a distance, at high speed, or off of vertical walls. Sometimes the passes were intended to weave through my bike, sometimes they were over the shoulder. It became a true art which we will remember for years.
Playing tag on bicycle, but instead of tagging, you had overtake them. Luckily we lived in a quiet village, I would have been dead playing this game in a city.
I used to "make concrete" in the garden when I was quite young. We had a set of steps from one bit of lawn to the other that were made of some kind of chalky material, that could be eroded into dust with some effort and a harder rock. I'd sit there and whittle away the step, then mix the dust with water and make it into shapes. Understandably my parents weren't happy when they saw the steps.
When I was a bit older I had a group of friends that were very outdoorsy. We used to make dens a lot, and even made some pretty dangerous bows and arrows.
We had a stupid initiation to join our 'gang' called the PIT OF SHIT. Basically in one corner of the field we hung out in was a big hole filled with mud. We'd put a thin branch across it, then all urinate in the hole to make it extra unappealing. The prospective member would then have to slowly walk across the branch without falling in, while we all lobbed things at them and shouted "PIT OF SHIT".
What a bunch of little bastards
Cops and robbers with my cousins and friends. We rode our bikes, cops goal was to knock the robbers off their bike. Shit was dumb, broke too many bikes thankfully no one got hurt and we switched to football, specifically smear the not straight person. Again we were dumb kids.
All the kids play this where I'm from but pretty sure it's only where I'm from, correct me if I'm wrong!
It's called "One Cent", basically an advanced hide and seek / tag.
One would be "it" and everybody agrees on a single lamp post. The one who's it starts counting to whatever while covering his eyes by the lamp post. Then you start searching for the others, the aim of the game if you're not it is to manage to sneak by and reach the lamp post and say loud and clear "ONE CENT FOR ME".. it sounds odd in english. However if you're it and you see someone you have to touch the lamp post and say "ONE CENT FOR X" where X is the persons name. Last one who gets caught is it for the next round.
Played this game for hours every day when I was a kid!
My friends grandpa taught us this game called "tie up". Basically, cops and robbers but once you caught the robbers you'd tie them up to whatever nearby object you could find. Trees, docks, sheds, etc. and you'd basically have to houdini yourself out of the rope or be stuck all day/night until mom started asking questions. Probably not smart considering the frequent bear sightings in the woods. And wheelbarrows maybe weren't the best thing to tie someone into then push down a steep slope. Probably why I'm not into that whole bondage thing to be honest.
BXCape · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cans. Crush some cans flat, get a ball (we preferred a basketball), stand about 20 feet (or more) in front of each person with the can placed on the ground in front of your feet and hit the other person's can with the ball. Endless fun, especially when you're grounded and can't leave the front yard...
Game 1: We used to throw tiny rocks at cars in 5th grade. Not very unique, but pretty rare I think.
Game 2: Steal the mail out of the mailboxes of the entire street to look for money or other valuables while in elementary school. Got caught by our parents in my friends tree house which was stuffed with letters up to our ankles. They were so baffled they actually laughed, but made us go to every neighbour individually and apologize.
Game 3: We built "traps" in kindergarten, these "traps" were pieces of wood with a nail. We had to stop when one kid got actually caught by one and had to go to the hospital since the foot got pierced completely.
Game 4: Took shits in the bushes, also in Kindergarten.
Game 5: When we first got the bus tickets issued by our school, we literally just drove around the town for hours on end.
Game 6: While in first grade, my best friend and I tried to put our flaccid dicks in each others assholes and kinda rubbed along it. Was only a couple times though. Not gay btw.
Game 7: Have rock fights in elementary school, basically there was this dry riverbed and on each side stood a couple of kids and then we simply threw rocks at each other. Got stopped when I hit a kid in the head with a bag full and caused a laceration.
Game 8: Can't remember at which age exactly, however the game was a competition of who can lift the most weight with their balls. We basically tied increasingly heavier objects to our balls and stood up. I won. I still have a picture of the stretch marks on my balls somewhere. I think we got the idea from a TV show, I'm not entirely sure though.
There was probably more, but I can't remember right now so I might expand the list later on. We obviously also did normal stuff, but these things somewhat stand out in my opinion; I have no idea what other kids around the globe did though, maybe these games are actually quite common.
This is going to get buried but was the highlight of my childhood so posting it anyways
We made up a game called Curb-Ball where all you needed to play was a basketball and a street.
We would always have a ton of time to kill in the mornings waiting on the bus so this was our go to.
The rules were simple, first one to 20 points wins.
2 people each stood on one side of the street and you tried to throw the basketball and hit the curb on the other side but nothing else (like you can’t have it roll into the curb or be slightly off, 100% curb or no points)
A regular curb hit was 1 point, if the ball bounced halfway across the street back to your side after it was 2 points.
You could score 10 points by hitting the opposite curb and have the ball bounce and hit the other curb but you could score 20 and win the game instantly if you threw the ball over a car and hit the curb
We were in a boarding school with very narrow old fashioned corridors. Like 2 kids could walk past each other but two adults would have to squeeze.
We'd bunch up in two groups at either end of the corridor and sprint at each other as fast as we could. First team to get someone to the other end won.
Essentially you ran into a melee where you couldn't help but kick and elbow everyone.
We had broken skulls, arms, legs, wrists, at least 10 broken fingers. I personally was knocked out at twice.
I would go out and cut tunnels in the crunchy lower layers of the multi-acre bramble patch by our house. Often, there were young trees whose roots had been choked by the brambles, so I could rock them back and forth to break them out of the ground. Built up a pretty substantial "lumber" pile, but never got around to building anything.
I was born and grew up in France, and I lived in the country side. I went to a very small school (about 15 students per grade) for 2 years and when I was about 9-10 years old, I "adopted" snails and put them in a shoe box. I carried them around everywhere and brought them to school with me. I made them a little habitat inside the shoe box with everything from lettuce to rocks, to grass. Unfortunately I didn't put water in the box because I didn't think about the fact that they needed it to survive. So they all died after a few days. But I was very proud of these snails and they were quiet large (they have huge snails in Europe especially during the rainy season).
My best friend growing up was the kid across the street from me. We would open our windows and write messages on our Doodle-Bears and throw them into each other’s yards. We had to run outside and grab it, then repeat. So much effort lol
I grew up in Alabama and would often times be left with my "Granny Green", aka an old lady who lived down the street from the us during the summer.
While my parents were at work, we would run around outside and play so long as we stayed within ear shot of the porch for the lunch and dinner bell calls.
In Alabama, there is an invasive species of vine called Kudzu that grew every where that strangles all the native plant life and grows in huge patches, including all the way up some of the taller trees.
Now it being Alabama, nobody cared if we ran around with hatchets and machetes, so we would go find a Kudzu covered Hill and chop the bottoms of the vines off that were hanging from branches and braid them together.
Once braided, they were strong enough to support a child's weight. At first we played a game called "Tarzan" where we would go to the top of a hill swing out on the vines and back.
That eventually led us making up called "Bonk Bushes" that was a form of jousting. You would put on hockey pads and skate pads including a helmet and knee pads, etc.
One person would swing out a d as they swung back towards the hill, another person would swing out after them and try to slam into them and knock the other person off. If they didn't fall off immediately, you could put change and kick them until they fell.
In the mid 90s we played alot of "smear the queer" where one kid would get the ball and have to run away from the other kids. Once tackled by a queer smear-er someone else would get the ball and it would start again.
Didn't understand why my friend's mom banned it until years later.
We had like 10 people in the neighborhood. We would go and play this game shoe toss for hours like march madness style tourneys. You would go on a swing and have your shoe halfway off and the goal was who could fling your shoe the farthest. You would have 2 chances to do it simple but so much fun
Spud:
One person throws a ball up in the air and calls a number depending on how many people are playing. The numbers are assigned by a group excluding the ball thrower before the ball is thrown so the number is at random ( ball thrower gets a number). Who’s ever number is called has to retrieve the ball and call spud at while everyone runs away. When spud is called everyone must freeze and who ever has the ball has three steps and a throw to see if they can tag another person with the ball. Who ever touched the ball last is spud (ball thrower) the next round.
My sister and I played a game we called drive-by the rules were simple, when you're playing outside if you aren't behind something like a car or tree or standing on the porch when a car passed by you 'got shot and died'. Apparently my parents weren't a huge fan of us playing it since we lived in the inner city and drive by shootings have actually occured.
I vaguely remember my cousins and I playing a game with a basketball on a tennis court. We'd throw a basketball to the other side of the net like one would serve in tennis and we followed most tennis rules. Score was kept the same way.
My best friend and I would look for stupid stuff to do in high school cause we went to school in very rural/backwoods IL and one day we found the crown jewel - that we still talk about today called “Deer in the Headlights”.
His parents owned a “rehab house” for men in the area that would operate a few months out of the year to help those addicted to anything get *the help they needed. One of those things was tending to a small local garden in their back yard.
One night, during the months when the house wasn’t being used, him, his brothers, and myself all went out to the house and had this idea to park their car in the middle of the two gardens with the high beams on. Imagine two gardens next to each other with a pretty wide path of grass separating them down the middle.
My buddy had a large knife in his trunk (huge knife nut) and we got the idea to just throw the knife out in front of the car into the darkness and split into teams the the fastest team to find the knife and get back to the car won. Smart right?
We kept adding to it to make it more interesting and eventually replaced the knife with a pear* (for safety reasons of course) but the best version of the game, in our opinion, was to throw this pear out into the darkness and a team would go out and try to find it. The opposing team would then throw dead/expired/ruined crab apples at the team retrieving the pear* until they got back to the car.
It was extremely fun for a bunch of bored kids in HS - we got like 30/40 people total playing and no one ever got seriously hurt. *We even found a bunch of stray kittens one night after a pretty intense game.
Growing up my mom never liked buying me toys to play with, so i would just use my sisters nail polish and my dads work supplies to play house or use them as dolls and puppets.
Almost burned down the pasture across from grandma’s house. One of my cousins also still has a scar on the right side of his right eye too.
LZ__ · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad was a stone mason, and sometimes, when a person wanted the side if their house done with actual stones, as opposed to brick or block, he would find these huge geodes the size of your head mixed into the all the other stones. Whenever he found one, hed put it in his truck and bring it home and tell me it was a dinosaur egg. Then that evening we'd take it into the backyard and hed let me split it with a sledge hammer. I was always amazed at the Crystal's inside, if a little disappointed to not find a dinosaur inside. When I got a little bit older, and learned about fossils and some actual information about paleontology, I realized I never would find a real dinosaur egg like that, but it's probably one of my best memories of my dad.
Poison ball. Takes place on a trampoline and one or more balls. Object of the game was to be the last one standing. You cannot touch the ball under any circumstance but there was a lot of jumping near the ball and attempting to fling it towards people.
Ummmmm... Not entirely proud of it but my first cousin and I played "Bull". We would go on all fours and ram heads like bulls having a go. It was bad enough to leave us woozy at times. I'm sure we caused some mild concussions at some point. But you'd best be believing that the top of my skull can take a beating unlike anyone's!
I think I was around 12 at the time. Should have probably known better. Luckily, we both seem to have retained most of our marbles into adulthood.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t unique... but basically my cousin and I would play this game called “Set-Up” where we would just dump all of our action figures and select from them one by one until we had our teams. After that we would set them up wherever in the house and literally just make up a story on the wing and try to fuck each other’s bases up and last action figure standing wins. This game would literally take hours to finish and we would come up with the craziest stuff with our mix of WWF, DBZ, Marvel, and DC figures
Me and my brother used to play "StairBall". One person would stand anywhere on the stairs, while the other person would be at the bottom, with their back turned to the stairs. The guy on bottom would have this little foam Nerf ball, and he'd lay it up against the wall he was facing, catch it off the wall, then spin around and try to peg the guy on the stairs. Guy on the stairs could do anything to avoid it (use the banister, go full Matrix, whatever). If you hit whoever was on the stairs, you got a point. If stair guy dodges it, nothing happens. If stair guy catches it, the thrower lost a point. How we never broke a neck is beyond me
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called "slave camp" That was like a more brutal version of manhunt.
You had the slaves and slave drivers. The slavers home base was our trampoline in our big back yard, and the slaves started as captives. They had to use physical force to try and escape to the neighborhood block which was the boundary of the game.
Any captured slaves would be subjected to purple nurples and dead arms/ dead legs upon capture. Slaves also had the option of sucking up to the slavers to gain privileges and at times even rise to the rank of slaver.
Kind of messed up, but we really really just wanted to play manhunt and wrestle simultaneously. Usually the older guys would be the slavers lol.
My friends and I would take turns swimming to the bottom of the pool with a toothpick, while everyone else was facing away standing on the outside of the pool. Once we returned to the surface the game would begin and everyone would have to find where the toothpick was. It was fun because not only does it take a minute for the toothpick to float back up to the top, but even when you did find it, it's so small that you'd jump in to grab it and almost inevitably lose it amongst the tidal wave of four people jumping in at the same time. We still play it today when we can get everyone together.
My cousins and I played a game called 'Apple War'. Our little backyard in Jersey produced palm sized apples, which were perfect for throwing. We would break up into two teams and set up fortresses made of lawn chairs, tables, etc. on opposite ends of my backyard, and chuck apples at high speeds at each other.
I grew up on a farm/ranch, so my friends and I used to make up lots of games in the corn fields... the most memorable was the cornstalk war.
When the corn was harvested and the stalks started dying, we’d go out and grab the cornstalks, spin them over our heads like a sling, the lob the cornstalk and hunk of mud attached to the root systems at each other.
I don’t remember the conditions for winning, but I do know that the game pretty much always ended when one of us got hit in the face by a cornstalk hurled as forcefully as a middle schooler can.
Used to play a game called IRA
We'd split into even teams maybe 5v5, one team would choose a 5 letter word, each member given a letter, the other team would then have to chase and catch each member and beat the letter out of the person, until they got the word.
It got rough if they thought you were lying about what your letter was
We would take all the blankets, comforters, sleeping bags and such and arrange them on to our parents King Sized bed in different forts or gun turrets and use their pillows as jetskis on the floor, which was carpet, and have to go diving for "food" or to fight off bad guys. We spend hours playing on the "boat".
Mat ball, there are 4 bases which were big mats in the 4 corners of the gym. It was like kick ball where a pitcher pitches the ball, you kick it and can get on base. Once on base you can steal at any time, you could get caught in a run down and pegged. You had to run around the bases twice then to the center to score. Once you stepped off the base you had to advance, and if the inning ended with you still on base you automatically started at first base when your team got back up to bat. We’d play with like 25 people a side and it’s end up being madness on the bases.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is called Whomps, essentially soccer, combined with hand ball, combined with football(tackling). We made it up around the age of 8/9 and have been playing ever since(28M).
When the hunger games movies came out my sister and our friends decided to play something similar to the hunger games in the woods behind our grandparents house. The object of the game was to sneak up behind the other players and touch them with a stick, making them die. We would climb trees and spy on each other. It was pretty dope until I was spying on my sister and I was about to attack but was confused as to why she was squatting in the middle of a clearing exposing herself. When she left the clearing I decided to ask her why the hell she was sitting out in the open and she quickly avoided the question. Then it came to me that she took a shit in the middle of us playing the game outside on the woods. She kept telling me that she didn’t but when I threatened to go look she finally admitted it. Probably one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.
My brother and I would put sleeping bags over our heads and stand up and fight. We called it 'Pitter' because we thought we looked like caterpillars and were dumb as shit
I used to play the "dead squirrel" game with my three other siblings. One person would stand in the door frame in the dinning room. The other three would start on the other side of the living room and they were the squirrels. It was like red light green light but when it was red light you had to be upside down and legs and arms in the air to act dead. You could only crawl across the room to get to the other side and you could pull or push other out of the way. If you got caught moving or not "dead" you had to restart.
Played a game in the street under a giant oak tree named it “don’t look up”
One person at a time would pick an object and chuck it as high as they could into the tree and the rest of us had to stay under the tree whilst running frantically. If someone looked up they were out and if someone got hit they won.
The prize was just a bunch of laughs until we started using rocks instead of sticks. Then the prize was just stitches and tears.
Pillow heads! My stepsister and I would play hide and seek with pillows on our heads. The person hiding had the pillow case side in front of their face and the person finding had the pillow side in front of their face. We would stumble around, knock things off tables...and break all of our parents things! But it was so much fun!!
We played "crossfire." Essentially it was 4-way dodgeball.
We played in a basketball court, and had gator balls (those foam balls with the plastic-y covering) in the center of the court. On "GO" people would run to the center to get balls and take them back to their quadrant. The middle was no man's land where anyone could go, but you were an idiot if you stayed there. Once a team was out, their quadrant became no man's land too, allowing you more room to roam.
Standard dodgeball rules applied, except if you got a basket (from throwing the ball into the net) your whole team was "revived" and could join back in.
Three kids and my dad in a standard cab truck and the youngest sits on the oldests lap. Every time a car passes everyone yells "DUCK" and the youngest gets out of site.
:)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 9 siblings so we had countless games.
Tasting game: blind fold all siblings. The taste chooser would take a small spoonful of anything in the refrigerator or spice rack and feed it to each participant. Whoever could guess correctly would be a winner. Sometimes we'd do the cayenne pepper which usually resulted in us beating the shit out of the chooser.
Bang bang game: we all had various toy guns and would run around and shoot eachother which resulted in a 10 second death.
Wild race: we would use old boards and bricks and make multiple jumps and ramps down a hill. Then all jump on our bikes and race to get past the end of the property first.
Crash race: kinda like wild race but the finish line was crashing into the side of the old barn.
Cowboys and Indians: we had the toy guns for the cowboy team. They got to ride bikes and shoot at the Indian team. But if the Indians caught a cowboy they could torture them as they see fit. Like tying them to trees and leaving them and catching the rest of the cowboys when they try to rescue. I remember one sibling was tied to a tree for hours.
Freeze game: In the winter after a big snow, we would all strip down to underwear and race to grab a sled. Go down the big hill all the way to the woods. Grab a pinecone and whoever got back in the house first was winner.
Ultimate pillow fight: all siblings vs the oldest sibling at home. Anything goes. Pillows. Blankets. Smack em upside the head with a book. Use a sibling to beat the other. Throw siblings as ammo. My sister lost a tooth in this game and didn't even realize until after the game. I rememeber getting hit so hard I would see stars.
Sled train: we had tons of sleds with ropes ties to them. Each person would sit in a sled and the sled behind them would loop over their tummy. Then we would go down the big hill as fast as we could... This hill had a fence at the end of it, made of cast iron pipes. ( my dad got tired of the cows breaking through the wire) So as we are hurtling down this hill all tied together about to smash our faces in... The person in the front would roll off the sled causing a massive pileup just before the fence. Injuries were common. Rope burn everywhere. A few times the person in front wouldn't effectively cause a pileup and we hit the fence. Black eyes and bloody lips yay!
Trampoline launch: you all with trampolines know how this goes. All jump together and then sit down at the same time. The one to sit down last would get an enormous launch off the trampoline. Many many injuries.... But so much fun!
We had huge tree I'm my front yard growing up so my mom used to put a tennis ball in a sock and tie a rope on a tree and we would hit it for hours. All the neighborhood kids would join in too. It's not unique but I have never played it since we moved from that house
You take all the cushions off every couch and chair and make two rough defense forts in the living room.
Then get every stuffed animal, Small pillow, dog toy we had and collect the grenades. Then we would throw them at each other. But you could only hide in base for three seconds and you had to be standing/moving the whole time. Whatever part of your body was hit by the grenade was no longer usable. So if my foot was grazed, I had to hop on one leg the rest of the game until the other person is dead.
We could also “revive” our teammates limbs. Let’s say I got hit in the head with a grenade so I’m out, but I had both legs before I was killed. And you’re still in the game but only have one leg. Now that I’m dead you can “steal” my leg to revive you’re missing limbs. But you could only do it if you are the last man standing on your team.
We got a pile of sticks and leaves and threw Fun Snaps at them repeatedly, hoping to make it catch on fire. We did all this in our own garden. In case you don't know what Fun Snaps are...
We played a variant of hide and go seek in which the hider actually hides the dog instead of themselves and the seeker has to find the dog. Our dog was a Bichon and he was super chill about it and never made a peep. We'd put him into the clothes hamper, the toy chests, on shelves in the closet, stuff him into a pillow case, etc. In hindsight, that dog was exceptionally well trained and socialized ; what an absolute Saint for putting up with us kids.
"Foot on the floor". We would mount our bikes in a very tight garage full of stuff and could not touch anything. If you accelerated, you'd smash into something, touching it. If you were too slow, you'd touch the floor with your foot and lose. The idea was to be strategical and make the other player difficult to stand whilst keeping balance yourself.
Michigan in the winter we would play sockey. Basically soccer with some hockey rules played on a snowed-over soccer field.
So things like knocking the ball down with your hands was legal, as was body checking. Nobody ever got hurt because we were all bundled up for the snow anyway. It was pretty fun.
I used to play hide and seek with my Polly Pockets. For all of you younger folk that only knows Polly as the larger dolls, they used to be fingernail sized. So I used to empty my moms entire bag of bird seed on the picnic table and bury my tiny Polly Pockets in it. My brother and I used to try to find them and whoever got the most, won.
mancub · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two siblings and I started a game called "Ghostman." It was like a mashup of hide-and-seek plus tag but a little more violent. We played indoors with the lights out.
One of us, the "ghost," would drape a large blanket over our heads. The blanket had to be thick enough so the ghost couldn't see through it. The ghost would lumber blindly around a room with their arms out. Their goal was to try to grab any other player. When the ghost grabbed someone else, they would become the ghost.
Meanwhile, the other players had any number of objects they could use to beat the hell out of the ghost: pillows, NERF toys, wiffle ball bats, and so on. They would sneak together around the ghost as quietly as possible to (1) avoid being grabbed, and (2) position to hit the ghost as hard as they could. The ghost would try to follow sound and movement to find them before getting absolutely clobbered.
I played this with some friends once and someone whipped a ghost across the back of the head with a pillow. He got knocked out for a few seconds, we all laughed, and kept right on playing. I'm almost 40 now, and my siblings and I still talk about how we miss this game.
My sister and I played "the knife game". One of us was a giant knife and would roll back and forth across the room flat like a log. The other had to jump over the knife without touching them or you would get stabbed.
blind darts. You put on the gorilla mask, backwards, then we spin you around till you don't know which way you are facing, then you start hucking darts wherever you are imagining the dart board to be while we all dive for cover.
This is going to sound bad. When I was a kid (mid to late 90s) we played an American football variation called "smear the queer". There was no sexual meaning to it; queer meant it's definition of "different". We played it when we didn't have enough to play an actual game. One kid gets the ball & the others try to tackle him, one against the others. I played it in Hawaii but when I moved to Georgia they had no idea what it was
“Colone”. Its basically me and my friends playing hide and seek near a carrier column, by spinning around it. Whenever someone sees someone (there are no catchers) they both start running until someone touches someone. Then the game restarts.
Demolish Ball. My cousins and I would sit in a circle in the dark and take turns throwing a sit’n’bounce ball at each other as hard as we could. There was no goal, it was just funny hearing each other get absolutely annihilated by the monstrous rubber ball without warning. We also played with the lights on, but we wouldn’t sit in a circle in that version, we would just chase and beat the shit out of each other with the ball until someone got hurt... good times :)
My brother and I had a game we called Sleestak after the lizard guys from the TV show Land of the Lost (yes, we're old). It basically involved each person covering their heads with a sheet, blanket, or sleeping bag and wrestling. So blind wrestling, we were way ahead of the curve for the Bird Box thing. There wasn't really any goal or "win" condition, and the game usually ended with someone smacking into the heavy coffee table we had and getting hurt or us getting yelled at by my parents.
We used to find bits of trash, like a piece of a picture that had blown into our yard, and make up ghost stories. A few times we managed to really freak ourselves out.
My older sister and I had “sister-sister night” where she would create little games for us to play together outside. My favorite was when she made an obstacle course out of hula hoops; I had to jump from hoop to hoop, or she would hold one up for me to jump through, or I had to throw a ball through one. She also brought out basketballs, sidewalk chalk, bikes etc. She’s so creative and it meant the world to 7 year old me!
"Ninjas" One person would fill up a plastic bin up with the garden hose. His goal was to dump the water on the so called "ninjas" as they unmercifully beat him with pool noodles the entire time.
Butt Wars! Me and my sisters would find a pair of big stretchy pants, shove pillows in the back and pretend to be our most bootyful teachers while attempting to knock each other down with our giant butts.
When we were around 6-8 my aunt (who is a year older than me) and I would get my uncle (who is a year younger than me) and my little sister to tickle our feet. The goal was to see who could go the longest without laughing or thrashing around and making him stop. I always won, and am now immune to tickles.
Not unique to only me, but to a very specific state apparently. I grew up not playing "Duck, Duck, Goose" but "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck". I didn't even hear of the standard version before moving out of Minnesota, which is apparently the only place where it's a thing.
I think it's better for kids to play tho, because instead of just saying "duck duck duck, goose!" and running, you have to use different colors as you tap the heads of the circle (red duck, blue duck, orange duck etc), so it helped teach kids to remember more colors quickly, and you had to listen more closely.
MN had a state sponsored computer game company too, they made educational games that were actually fun like Number Munchers, Word Munchers, Odell Lake, they had something to do with Oregon Trail too, I forget what, but yeah, go go Minnesota.
When i was 9 and in e look elementary school me and my friends would play "the lion game". As far as i remember there was one spot on the playground that you had to touch abd soneone had to gaurd it. Thats about it. Idk why it was called the lion game but it was fun.
Anti-over: We had a couple of garages near our house where we would throw a tennisball over. If the person on the other side of the garage caught it without it bouncing first, they got 1 point.
When they had 3 points they run to the other side of the garage and the people there had to freeze in place. You then spit 3 times, jumped 3 times and hopped on one leg 3 times towards one of the contenders that were frozen.
The person who was frozen then had to make a basketball hoop with their arms and you try to throw the tennisball through.
If accomplished, the frozen person (with the basketballhoopy arms) joins the other team and you restart.
This goes on until all players are on one side of the garage.
My cousin and I made up a ton of different games. We were always outside finding something new to build and play with.
One of our favorite games we dubbed "Bumper Bodies" we would bring sleeping bags onto her trampoline and climb into them feet first, then stand up and jump and try to run into each other. The object of the game was to be the last person standing. It was always really fun and amazingly we never hurt ourselves with that one.
At a lake cottage my family used to rent me and the other kids would play "tooberball" which was basically football in inner tubes. To tackle someone you had to flip them off their tube.
Might be a game people played, but you just bounced a kickball and called someone's name and ran away, they had to count to 4 (spell spud) as they take steps towards who they wanted to get out, dodgeball style. When the person who was 'it' bounced the ball, everyone would be already beginning to Sprint away, but if ur name was called you would have to get the ball. I changed the game though. I would just sprint towards the bouncer, and if I wasn't called, be already in full sprint opposite of where I started. People started catching on and doing the same. So every just collided in the center and that was the end of that
"Yummy Socks". Around age 4, my dad and I would lay on a couch feet facing each other. Then we'd proceed to force our feet into each others face and yell "yummy socks!". We're weird folk.
We used to play "ball in the tree". There were two big maple trees that canopied the street in front of my house. We'd take a tennis ball and gun it straight up into the branches where it would disappear into the leaves before it ping-ponged off the branches and back down. The object was to catch the ball before it bounced twice.
The alternative version of the same game was someone would throw a ball (this would use a heavier ball usually, like a basketball) as high as they could and everyone would stand still and see if it came down on anyone. The tree was optional for this game.
Probably a little late to the game, but my friends and I had a game called heater. We would sit on a lazy boy or some type of couch and the person would be completly wrapped in as many blankets as we could find. The goal was to make the person as hot as possible and we tried to see who could last the longest. Always ended up drenched in sweat, but overall a great time.
Me and some friends would play what we called human battle ship during recess, we would pick teams then stand in the field in a line facing the other team. The teams would take turns throwing a foot ball at each other and if you got hit you were out. If the ball was coming at you and you moved you were out. You werent allowed to protect your face or anything. First team to run out of players loses.
Kingdom under fire the crusaders, is a cross strategy, rpg back and slash.
HCkc1n · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood best friend and I were convinced our grade school was ran by aliens so we spent the majority of grades 1 to 5 writing down and compiling evidence in our notebooks.
The covers of our books had S.A.R written on them as well as TOP SECRET.
You can probably guess it stood for Secret Alien Research. I’m 30 now and had forgotten all about it until reading this thread headline.
Boardball. Played it in my bedroom with a friend. It was quite elaborate, involving a “basket toss” plastic cesta used to fling a tennis ball at the back side of a tabletop shuffleboard set and the other person would be the goalie trying to prevent it from hitting a makeshift plywood goal. Much fun was had, many things were broken. Oh, and each player had a baseball glove to help defend.
I made up a game for my younger brothers called "Barrett ball" based on "Calvin ball" but with rules. Basically the game is like tips, so you're tossing around a ball while jumping and if you drop or dont catch it in the air, youre out.
The caveat is that we played it on the trampoline, so everyone is trying launch each other off or do insane tricks in mid-air. We'd play for hours and hours after school and eventually got the whole neighborhood (only like 10 other kids) to join in and we'd set up tournaments.
The blocks formed a pattern where the background was red and the yellow tiles formed islands and isthmuses.
So we invented the game of "Lava Maze" which was basically tag, but nobody in the game called touch the red blocks. The yellow ones were safe land. If you stepped on red, you'd be "it".
Edit:
Another, way lamer game we invented (when we were really tiny) was "Sorry Borry". We basically spun in circles with our arms outstretched and if we hit anyone else we were to say a word rhyming with sorry. If you run out of a rhyming word, you're out.
I used to play "Civilization" (Children are unaware of copyright laws) with my brother growing up.
It was a game that would take up the whole floor. Little nations made up of blocks and playsets competed for global dominance. We used Micromachines for vehicles, Risk soldiers for infantry, Calvary and cannon. We used pennies as currency and dice to decide outcomes.
There were different eras and tech levels, it was a sort of combination tabletop wargame/role playing game.
We played this from the age of 6 or 7 all the way into adulthood, the rules increased in complexity as we aged.
My brother became addicted to heroin and I wanted nothing to do with him, he never lost his love for the game, even when homeless he carried around Risk pieces and tried to convince people to play with him.
He died of an overdose before last Christmas. I made a lot of mistakes in my relationship with him, I wish more than anything we could play one more game together.
A couple of us kids in the neighborhood would come up with games to play that would wind up drawing in others kids nearby. I forget what we named it but we came up with an elaborate form of dodgeball with different types of "balls". Depending on how many were playing the field might be someone's yard or half the neighborhood. "Balls" consisted of:
A volleyball or soccer ball - could be used to block thrown weapons as well as being a weapon
a hard plastic throwing star with suction cups - could also be used to block but was a much smaller shield (and your hand was protected while holding it)
two smaller all-rubber thrown star toys that were at one point used as throwing weapons only but were later tied with a rope to form a bola which could be used for tripping. We were kids, we weren't great at using it as a bola. When someone managed to trip someone with it, it was an epic takedown.
A badminton birdie that had an area effect "blast" radius. It was so slow to fall and had relatively short range so it was fairly easy to get out of the way so it was sort of a sneak attack on someone who was distracted by another player. Couldn't be caught, had to be picked up. The only thing that could stop it was the volleyball provided it knocked it away far enough.
Then we usually had 2-3 other balls for general throwing. These might be a tennis ball or dense foam "baseballs", whatever was on hand that had reasonable heft for throwing but wouldn't outright kill someone. These could be caught in hand but, if dropped, you'd be out.
Rules shifted a little from time to time but generally you get the idea. Occasionally other items were added or effects shifted a little. A bunch of kids outdoors with energy meant we could play for a long time during endless, dull summer breaks.
Me and my brother used to play a game called “Hurts-a-lot” we would lean a mattress or box spring against the wall and let it fall on us while we were laying on the ground haha
Whenever I would have to change my sheets on my bed, I would take all the covers, pillows, and stuffed animals (I had over 40 webkinz) and lay it all out on my floor, making a soft landing. I would then just jump/launch myself onto it. I could do that for hours.
We used to make a ghost house kinda setup on our terrace, the terrace was big and had props laying around. We had our "men" hiding with towels on their faces, in the dark, behind the watertank with prerecorded spooky sounds on mobile, lizard and spider toys hanging from cloth hanger wires which are lowered by us when ever someone passes by.Cardboard ramp with sponge midway so the feet sinks in, etc. We used to set it up in the morning and invite friends and their friends to experience it for 2rupees.
One day the kids were so scared they started yelling loudly and our landlord found it.
When I would go to one of my friends house we would always hide in the back of a closet and "fortify it" with shoe racks and junk and have his older brother peg toys at us to break in.
Me and three or four friends played a game called Murderball. In a small bedroom we had a nerf hoop above the closed door. If you get the ball through the hoop, that's a point, play to ten. The other three or four players are allowed to take any measure to prevent you from scoring, and are allowed to obtain the ball in any way necessary. Many cuts and bruises for sure, but also hysterical.
British bulldog (before it got banned nationally) everyone aprt from one person would start at one side of the playground and have to get to the other side past whoever was 'on' in the middle. They had to stop people by any means necessary. (Rugby tackles, clotheslines, flying kicks) anyone they stopped was then 'on' with them. The more people that were on - the more dangerous it got.
We had 3 red bicycles racks in the park beside our house in the 1970s
The object of our game was to kick a soda can through the slats in the rack with the fewest kicks possible.
It sounds kind of lame now but for ten year old me playing that game with my brother and our friends was the highlight of our day.
My childhood home had the kitchen one one side, living room on the other and two open doorways connecting them on both sides. The hallway was at one end and from this doorway we would either lay down and "climb" the appliances and furniture around the circle, or we would wear our underwear and an undershirt and hold our breath and pretend to swim around the circle. My sister doesn't remember playing this but I do, vividly!
We would play “universe” where everything we watched, cartons, tv shows, or movies were real and we could be any character or combination of characters. It was fun when I was a kid
Oh man. I just had such flashbacks from when I was little. So many memories... Sorry for the wall of text. Also, not all of those were specific games but I hope you enjoy reading it anyway. I was a pretty outdoorsy kid.
Whenever my cousins visited we'd equip various "weapons" (broken handles from tools, sticks) that we'd fight "evil kings" (large Symphytum plants that grew thick like weeds behind our house) with.
They grew so thick we had mazelike paths in there, with a small area in the middle where you could rest or just chill.
Each plant was a king but where they came from or why they were evil, I don't know.
The fighting consisted of smacking the shit out of the plants while uttering our warcries and nobody cared that we did it since there were so many.
We had a creek that ran through a pipe under our driveway, which was really just a long road leading to only our house. Near the pipe there was a little area where the ground was usually dry. I built a boathouse for a toy boat out of sticks and mud there. It was neat. I also built a small dam and had to remove it eventually because water was getting close to the road, lol.
We'd (me and my sisters) spend hours walking back and forth up and down the creek, making little dams, looking at animals in the water, talking etc.
We had a large pond on our property that was always full of frog eggs and stuff. Oh, and a flock of wild ducks. Lots of entertainment for kids there. Next to the pond there was a treehouse that we'd built with the help of our mother and her then boyfriend. We spent days making concoctions out of plants and pond water. Even drank a little from some of them, as kids do.
When I wasn't with my sisters I'd walk around in the forest, my knife on my belt, and sharpen random sticks into spears and throw them at rocks and stuff. I'd also make bows out of flexible branches and string, and shoot straight sticks at things.
You might say "YOU HAD A KNIFE AS A KID, HOW OLD WERE YOU?!
Well, I got my first knife at age 12-ish and was taught to respect and use it. Sorry if this somehow offends you.
There's much more as you can likely guess but that's about all I can be arsed to type on my phone.
I could write more if people are interested, I guess.
I used to play this game called “Sniper” with my friends when my parents would host parties at my house.
Essentially the goal of the game was to get from one end of the basement to the other. There was one “sniper” who sat at the far side of the basement with a flashlight. We’d turn off the lights and if you could make it from the start all the way to the end and touch the table that the sniper was on, you got to be sniper next. If they saw you and pointed the light at you, you had to start from the beginning.
We had a fairly long and open basement, so we would rearrange all of the furniture (couches, tables, large pillows, etc) to make areas in the basement that you could hide behind and crawl from cover to cover.
We also did this thing called “Kid Freak” where we would re-enact what we saw on Chris Angels “Mind Freak”. We’d tie each other up and fill a large cooler full of water and see how fast we could undo the ties and get out. At the time I never really saw it as being dangerous lol.
“Witches” I had a lemon tree in my front yard growing up and when my friends came over, we would pick the lemons and squeeze them into a cup which we’d then poor salt into and drink. During this 2-ingredient process, we’d say we were putting in “frog’s legs” and other random bits.
My friends and I made up a game called "Shark-bait, RING OF FIRE". One person would lay upside down on an armchair and the rest of us would stand around throwing a yoga ball back and forth over top of them while they would try to grab it with their feet (and a little help from their hands). All while shouting "SHARK BAIT RING OF FIREEEE" whenever we felt like it was appropriate. Also, we were juniors and seniors in HS...
"Kill the sheep", someone draws a sheep in a piece of paper and the others have to draw things to kill or protect the sheep. Something like "The ninja kills the wolf so it doesn't eat the sheep".
We never made a name for it, but my sibling and I had a glow in the dark squishy ball that we'd charge under the light. Then we'd turn off the light and take turns trying to pelt eachother in the dark
My cousin (3 years older than me) and I once found two pale yellow knitted hats in a drawer at our grandparents’ house, and we decided that when we wore them, she looked like a banana and I looked like a lemon. We then built a whole fake TV programme called the ‘Banana and Lemon Show’, where we would spin in a circle while holding our nan’s (crystal glass; she wasn’t too happy about it) fruit bowl, which would transport us to a mystical land (usually the garden). We, as anthropomorphic fruit, would then interview the locals of this ‘mystical place’ (usually the rhubarb, sometimes the squirrel statue). Occasionally, our older cousin (7 years older than me) would join in with a little persuasion, but he didn’t have a hat, so we just pushed his blond hair into spikes and he became ‘Pineapple’. Good times.
Kickdeath and bloody ball. Kickdeath was on the swings and basically no rules try to get the other guy off the other swing. Obviously kicking punching grabbing, jumping on the other swing and kicking them down off. Bloody ball was basically dodgeball with any of the balls we used for recess. Think basketballs footballs and not like baseballs. This was in grade school so we were all a bit more resilient.
These games were invented when the teachers told us we couldn’t play tackle football.
Bob on your back. It was tag, except if you were "it", you had an imaginary guy named Bob on your back. You were trying to tag others to get rid of Bob, lol.
Roll down a hill while people throw stuff at you. Like pine cones, rocks, sticks, whatever we found. If you made it to the bottom without being hit you won.
Me and my neighbor would play a game called "Master". It was a game where you would basically be a servant for the other person. They would have to do anything and reply only with "Yes master". Looking back, me being male and her being female, and she was the one to come up with the game, I bet she is pretty kinky now.
We played “Thrash”. My two brothers and I would put a small basket ball hoop at the end of a long hallway. One person would stand at the opposite end with the ball. The other two would be between the hoop and the ball holder. The game was to dunk it any way you could without getting tackled to the ground. It would get pretty violent at times, but none of use got seriously hurt.
I’m sixteen, and sometimes still play with my sisters. The name is Blind Zombie. I made it up and fine-tuned the rules as we played, my sister helped with a name. ( if you play, don’t play on an open trampoline, injury WILL occur. So basically have a net)
Pretty much you get on a trampoline and a player( best with 3-4 people) chooses to be the zombie first. The “zombie” closes their eyes and looks around for the other players by sound, movements( pressure from feet) or just running around. ( its fun to taunt the zombie by talking or singing) Once the “zombie” touches another person that person is blind ( they must now avoid the zombie, who is also always blind, with their eyes closed.) If they are touched again they become the zombie the next round.
There are other modes I’ve made up:
Multiple zombies: if you become a zombie the original stays in until you’ve infected everyone, or until a certain time period.
This mode doesn’t have a name, but pretty much when you are touched twice you are out and the same zombie tries to get the last people.
There is also a sudden death mode. Pretty much the players can only be touched once and then they are the zombie.
Kick the milk carton. Half the time we couldn't find a ball, but there was always an empty milk carton around. We'd sit on the swings and one person would throw the milk carton, the swingers would kick it, and if the thrower caught it, you switched spots.
Scissors on the playground at school. All the swing sets were lined up next to each other so you’d get a person on each swing, preferably swinging down at alternate times. Then somebody would have to run straight down the middle of all of the swings attempting to time it right and not get absolutely destroyed by a kid swinging. Nobody held back either, the kids swinging would go as high and kick as hard as possible.
My sister and I used to play a game where one of us would bite a washcloth as hard as possible, and the other would try to yank the cloth out. No real way to win, game ended when my sister got one of her teeth ripped out (included root of tooth and all). Parents were very pleased with that one.
One of us would put one of those big bean bag cushions over our heads while laying on the ground and the other would jump onto the bean bag from the top bunk of the bed.
My friend and his little siblings and I would all create an economy in his basement where everyone lived on an island and needed a boat (a plastic bin) to travel off our islands. We all created jobs that everyone needed and our currency was pillows. It always started fair and equal, but then my friend and I would eventually create a monopoly and force his siblings to sell their house and boat and “drown”
Edit: we also did this in his backyard but instead of pillows we used sticks. We had a huge inflation crisis every time
My brother, cousin, and I would play "Three Ninjas" in our grandma's yard. She had a motion-activated light in her backyard, and we would try to sneak from one end to other without setting it off. This became less fun once we learned how to climb into the roof.
“Mustache or no mustache”
When my brother and I were little, we went on a lot of long road trips so we’d try to guess if the car we were about to pass had a driver with a mustache or not. Lol.
My brothers and a couple kids from down the road used to play a "real world" pokemon game where we just kind of imagined new pokemon based on whatever setting we were in, for example in a pool would be water pokemon, near garden beds would be grass pokemon, etc. We also made our own cards for the pokemon we made up with move sets, hp and a picture just like the real ones. I always thought it was significantly more fun than the actual games/trading card games.
Me and my brother would play "theme park" in the back garden. Highlights of the "theme park" were the "roller coaster" where we would sit on the floor and sway side to side going 'wooooahhhhh', and my personal favorite, "polka polka". This was where either me or my brother chased the other around the garden with a broomshank we had shouting polka polka whilst trying to stab the other in the back. Yeah. Not really sure what theme park we were emulating with that one.
I drew the inside of houses as cross sections on cardboard , I made around 10 of them, all very detailed and different. Then I laid them all out on the floor and imagined characters living in there and stories for them, who's friend with who, what they're doing, etc. Freaked my mum out a bit, since I was playing only in my head, but I still think it was cool. Can't remember where I got that idea from though.
It was called Murder. My buddy's parents would work all the time since they were doctors so they were never home, and the house was like 5000 sqfeet. There would be one murderer and everyone else would be blindfolded and we would try to hide around the house and try to survive. Everyone hiding would have a ball and if we we're able to hit the murderer we could take off our blindfold and would have to pretentd to kill the murderer in the back and then we would win. It was a dangerous game so many bruises and bloody noses from falling lol
We would tie someone up in see how long it took then to get out out if the closet, I wasn't too fond of it since they left me in there for over an hour one time
We would set a timer on the microwave and then the other team would barricade us in the kitchen and we would have to try to escape before the timer went off. They would also throw balls at us and if we got hit we would take 15 seconds off or if we caught the balls we would add 15 seconds.
So many sleepless and fun nights were spent over there and an even crazier thing is that our whole friend group of 10 people are still really close 15 years later
We played a game called "Kamikaze" which involved a tube sock stuffed with old socks or rags and packed tight in the toe. Then you would swing it around like a flail and try to hit the other person.
The two forms of this game were outside jousting on bikes OR in the basement with the lights turned off and windows covered with blankets so it was pitch black. You would have to sneak around and be quiet, but if you bumped into someone you would go berserker on them. You would keep hacking away at each other until someone gave up.
Sometimes someone would bump into the couch or a wall and start wailing on it when no one was even close to them.
An elementary school friend and I used to play bartender. One of us would pretend to be a hopeless alcoholic and beg the bartender for a free beer. The bartender would give the other this new, "special" beer called AJ beer. A lot of lip smacking and complimenting the taste of the beer, and then ask "what's the name of this beer again?" And the bartender would delightedly scream "AJ beer! It stands for apple juice!" Then we'd chase each other around like maniacs. Kids are weird.
Okay, so what you do is find a large sandy place (easy when you grow up in the desert) and draw a large circle, about 2-3 meters wide. Divide the circle into equal parts, according to the number of players, and each players names their part a different country name (I always named mine England, cause I was all cultured and shit)
So how we played was that everyone stands on their "country", and someone (usually me cause I was the oldest) holds the stick. The stick holder has to engage the others in conversation or something, and while they're distracted, drop the stick into another "country". The minute the stick hits the sand everyone runs away from the circle, except the person whose country the stick landed in. They pick it up and yell "STOP" as quickly and as loudly as humanly possible, and everyone else has to freeze.
Now stick holder, who is also frozen, has to throw the stick at any other player, who can't flinch or move. If the stick hits the player, the stick holder gets to take a "piece" out of his "country" (which basically just means erasing the boundary line and redrawing it). If the stick holder misses though, the other guy get to take a piece out of HIS country instead. Everyone walks back to the circle, and the player that got aimed at gets to be new stick holder. This just goes on until someone eventually becomes Ruler Of The Whole World.
Now that I've typed all this out, it just sounds like a dumber version of Monopoly but damn does it bring back memories
I lived in Chile in the 90s. We had no lack of games. It was a beautiful childhood. We lived in a small neighborhood and the thing to do (pre-internet) was to ride our bikes around our block. So when we were old enough to do so, I turned our little group of friends into a race team. We each had flair added to our bikes, and I setup post on one of my neighbors fences where I would collect passes that allowed my friends to do a lap around the block. I was in charge of making them and handing them out. If you were fast, you’d get extra passes which let you ride more. If you had no passes you were out of the game. If you didn’t have passes, I would make you do challenges. One challenge was going to this vacant house’s yard and steal a piece of hardware from these two pinball machines they had sitting out back. If you got it, you’d get three passes to ride. Other challenges involved touching a dog, telling me a joke that made me laugh, prank calling fandoms and doing sprints.
I put plays together. I had a trunk of costumes - tons of princess outfits. It was always the princes saving the princesses. The guys - my little brother and neighbor - would fight my next door neighbors’ dog through the fence, pretended it was a dragon. Then they would come to the window and rescue us - me and my best friend who lived next door. We also did musicals and I would teach them all dance moves lol.
I also had my own radio show - Barrel Radio. I interviewed my friends and neighbors and had contest segments, commercials and a fake studio audience. I played music and did holiday specials.
“Bears”, but it was just my sister and I on the couch, feet pushed against each other, and pushing back and forth to crunch other other into a ball. Not sure why it was called Bears...
"Sandwich" My brother and I would lay down a couch cushion as the bun, then one of us would be the meat. Other sibling gets to stack up the "sandwich" with blankets and pillows as the condiments and other sandwich fixings. Add another couch cushion as the top bun and then the sandwich maker gets to jump on the sandwich.
Amazingly, no one ever got hurt playing this, even when it devolved into "open faced sandwiches" and body slams.
Oh man... We played a crazy game as kids. Myself, my sister, and two other friends lived in a new development with lots of brand new empty houses. One day we found a finished house with the back door open. So being responsible kids, the first thing we did was "lock" the door in such a way that it looked locked/closed, but stayed open. This is where we invented the game called "bathroom".
One person was "it" and had to touch another person. If successful, that person would become it and the game would restart. Oh, and we were blindfolded. Listening was everything in this game! An extra condition was that if you made it to the bathroom, you were immune, got to yell out "bathroom" super loud, and could take off your blind fold and watch the rest of the game.
Once it was just me vs one of my friends who was it. He had isolated me in a room with his arms and legs extended far. I'd seen him do this before, so I guessed where he was, and ninja rolled through his right arm/leg, and made it to the bathroom. Everyone thought I cheated, but I didn't - it was legit. Shortly after, I got in a similar situation tried it again, but he blocked me with his leg. And that's how I broke my pinky.
Watermelon ball. Required items: watermelon, pool.
Idea: watermelons are juts barely above neutrally buoyant. The goal is to touch one end of the pool with the melon and stop the other team from touching your side with the melon. Only one hand/arm can be used to handle the melon. Can only move with the melon while your head is submerged.
Always ends with a cracked melon and some slightly chlorinated melony goodness to eat.
We had a large playground climbing house at our school. A friend and me would start at the opposite end and run around it. The first one to tackle the other won.
Most times we were really equal and were just running for 10 minutes until the break was over, remembering our positions for the next break.
We played a game called spud. Was a regional game in midwest i think. You start when one person throws a ball - like a dodge ball- up in the air as everyone is huddled within arm length. As throwing it he/she yells someones name and everyone else runs afap away. The person whos name was yelled waits and catches the ball and yells stop when everyone must freeze. Then the spud person gets three steps toward someone and then throws the ball at them. If they catch it then the spud person gets a letter (bad) or if they drip it then they get a letter. Yih acquire letters of s-p-u-d. The first oerson to get all the letters then has the traditional losing penalty - gonthriugh the spanking machine.
We had an old mattress and my siblings and I would take it and use it to slide down the stairs
oiliaN · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd drive up old logging roads until we weren't sure where we were and play a game where we tied one end of a rope into a slip knot then throw it over a tree branch, wrap it around our necks, and see how far we could pull ourselves up. Eventually you'd pass out and drop. Stupid kids.
My older brother and I would create forts on either side of our bedroom, one was where the two twin beds created a corner and the other had a large dresser and a bookcase.
We would then split the beanie babies evenly and get to our respective war-corners and start to throw them across the room at each other.
There was one specific beanie baby, Inch the inch worm, that was specifically deadly when hit with. My brother dented the wall behind me once with Inch. Inch therefore became the WMD of sorts and was sought after and watched for.
We would sometimes have teams, little sister and eldest brother, join us. It all ended when Inch hit the youngest, by me of course.
This was also when beanie babies were "collectibles," but little me did not care.
One person will hide a belt while everyone closed their eyes. Later, we have to find where the belt was hidden. The person who hid it will say cold/warm/hot to hint towards location of belt. Whoever found the belt can use it to beat the other kids who where looking for it. Everyone had to run to the safe zone (touching a wall or a chair) whoever found the belt gets to hide it and the cycle repeats.
from age 8 to 11 i went to this religious summer camp on a nearby island every summer. my family was never religious but it was the only summer camp near where i grew up. the highlight every year was towards the end of the week in camp the entire place (kids and camp leaders alike, probably 150 people) would participate in “Bible Smuggling.”
looking back, literally everything about this camp was culty and kinda fucked up, especially Bible Smuggling, but at the time it was the best thing ever.
Bible Smuggling was a semi-LARP game they set up where each tent (~8 children and 1 camp leader) became “missionaries” and as soon as the sun went down each group would set off at staggered times, each person hiding several “bibles” (usually small metal plates) on their person. the teams would then go on a huge journey under the premise that we were trying to spread the word of god™ to a neighbouring country which wasn’t allowed to be christian. along the way you would meet some people who supported your cause and others who tried to dissuade you. you had to talk to everyone and get clues from them about where you had to go next.
each year was slightly different but there were always some sort of high stakes task, like at one point you needed to get in a boat and let the ferry keeper take you across a bay, at another you need to hide in a barn stall with the donkeys while anti-christian government officials from the country you’re trying to sneak into do an inspection. everything was extremely serious. and all the participants are young kids. oftentimes kids would be genuinely scared or cry.
the climax of the game is when you finally reach the border. this was usually at around 1 or 2 in the morning, since the camp’s property was over 100 acres. at the border, the government officials yell at you, line you up against a wall, and search you to make sure you werent bringing any undesirable items into their country. this is the part where how well you hid your bibles at the beginning of the game really matters: if they found a bible on you, you were immediately transported into an interrogation room. where the camp leaders, aka government officials, would actually interrogate you. sometimes for upwards of half an hour. they would yell and kick chairs over and try and denounce your religion. sometimes they would be doing this as a front and actually supported christianity and after awhile would let you through to rejoin your group with all of your bibles still. sometimes they would put you in jail, automatically ejecting you from the game.
when all the teams are back, everyone reconvened at a huge fire and they gave out milk and juice and muffins and cookies, and the head facilitator of the camp would preach about the importance of spreading faith everywhere you went. such a fuckin trip hahaha. i’ll never forget it though.
Whenever there was a large cardboard box, like a refrigerator box, thrown out on our street, all the kids would gather and we'd play knife box.
One kid would get inside and another kid would take a knife (like a butter knife, not a sharp one) and randomly stab the box with it. The kid inside would have to make sure they weren't on the side of the box that was randomly stabbed.
This was back in 79-80. Yes, we were DUMB. No, nobody ever got stabbed.
Catball. When me and my little sister were really young, we got a kitten. What did the 6 and 4 year olds do? Sat on our parents bed and tossed the kitten back and forth. Our dad came in after a few minutes and stopped us. I cringe thinking of it now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey Island Sword Fighting, but with different rules. The swords were cardboard tubes or sticks, and we’d face off. The first attacker would insult the defender and the defender had to respond either wittily or by rhyming. The audience would judge who won. The loser would get smacked until the audience was satisfied. Winner would get to attack again. The game ended when the tube/stick broke.
"Interception" only to be played I in snow or pouring rain. 2v2 game that had most of the standard tackle football rules (played on a small patch of sidewalk / grass in front of the house). There was only room for 1 goal line play over and over.
The thing that made it unique was there was a 3rd player on defense who functioned as a "goalkeeper" and had a massive inner tube at the goal line. Instead of blocking balls he would block bodies. The goalies real objective would to see how many 10 year old boys he could make do two flips into the mud when thier quarterback hung them out to dry with a pass.
When i was young i had a trampoline and me and my friend would play a game where we stood on one foot and held the other. The goal was to ram into the other person and knock them down. We got hurt a lot but it was fun!
My brother and I played a game we called “Hallway Marco Polo” for YEARS, and everyone always wanted to play it when they came over. We had a really long narrow hallway upstairs, and we would block it off with the couch. Whoever was It got blindfolded and had to try and tag someone while everyone else had to stay quiet to avoid being tagged (idk why we called it marco polo considering there was no talking but the objectives are the same i suppose). Since the hallway was so narrow we could use both the walls to climb up above the It person’s head or jump over them since it was so hard to get around them without getting tagged. The game involved a lot of jumping and running and crashing into the walls which would shake the whole house so it wasn’t our parents’ favorite, but definitely a hit with the kids.
Had a game my friends and I played that we called "Butt's Up". We would throw a tennis ball at a garage door, trying to bounce it off and hit each other. If you caught the ball you'd have to throw it from the exact point you caught it. If the ball touched you and then hit the ground (you fail to catch it) you'd have to run to the garage door and touch it before someone else picked up the ball and hit the door with it. If the ball hit before you did, you lost a life. After you had no more lives you were out and had to walk in front of the door, face it, and stick your butt out. Then each other player still in the game got a turn to throw the ball at you. We'd play multiple games for hours, even adding additional rules to encourage people to be actively going for the ball. Like if the ball passed everyone, the person standing the furthest back would have to run after it and throw it from wherever they picked it up from. Or throwing the ball at another person so you both have to run at the garage. Was pretty fun, but really dumb looking back
Jumley · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chicken”. In school, while the teacher was out of class, we would run outside of the class as far down the hall as possible without getting caught. It was a daring game, hence the name, if you “chickened out”.
-Sardines. It's backwards hide-and-seek, where one person hides and the group seeks, but when you find the hider, you hide with them, thus packing all your friends in like sardines.
-Hitting golf balls out into the field behind our houses then be the first to find it and make it back.
-Finding frogs from the field and creek and racing them. Obligatory "no frogs were harmed". We just let em go and saw whose got back to the grass/creek the fastest.
-Horse, but on a trampoline instead of basketball. One person does a jump or trick and you must replicate or you get a letter. If you lose, you have to be the snack runner later.
The cow game. On long road trips, spot cows and keep track of how many are on your side of the road. If you see cows on the opposite end, you can block the other person from getting them for themselves. If you see a helicopter, you lose 1/3 of your cows, and if you pass a cemetery, all your cows die.
It doesn't have to be cows either. Any other livestock you spot can count towards your score.
This is going to get lost since I’m way late but on the blacktop my friends and I used to play ‘Pokemon’ now take in mind it was absolutely nothing like the tv show. Basically the trainers called a Pokémon each into battle and they ‘play fought’ and the first Pokémon to tie the other to a pole with a jump rope wins
My brother and I had a lot of unique games, the most notable being the ongoing Toy War and the Elemental Babies. The Elemental Babies were a group of aliens formed by shards of the Seventh Crystal Planet that had been strewn across the galaxy when it exploded. Depending on what they landed in, the bodies that formed around them would gain a different set of “element” themed powers. They formed a crime-fighting group and went on adventures in their spaceship (the jungle gym). As of the last play session, we are currently in the beginning of the Animal arc. Crow (an alien being who looks like an anthropomorphic crow, and has crow related powers like throwing knife feathers) had just been defeated, the battle with Mosquito had just begun, and the battle with Bear was drawing nearer.
My sisters and I took the adaptor plug from our electric piano and would just lick it. I think the point was to make our tongues go numb or something stupid.
I can't remember why or when we stopped, but on reflection, we are super lucky to be alive and not turned into modern art on the walls of the next room over.
Edit: Also want to add Deathball. One person has the tennis ball and has to keep it until the end of recess to win. Everyone else (ranging from my group of friends to all the boys in the grade) does whatever it takes to rip that ball from their fingers.
me and my cousins would play this game where one had to throw a tennis ball as high as they can and shout an amount of money, if anyone catched it the thrower would havd to pay him the said money.... no money was ever exchanged xD
My sister and I played what we called ‘inventions’. We used to swing our friends around by the arm and then drop them and whatever shape they landed in they had to come up with an object and give a description of how it worked and what it did. We would then describe it like on The Price Is Right.
Dom0 · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I scratched grease off a door hinge and gave it to my parents because it had a sweet taste. They refused.
Not sure if it’s unique or not, but a game we called “Booger” which was a slight variation on neighborhood-wide outdoor hide-and-seek and involved walkee-talkees, our motorized kiddie vehicles, and binoculars.
We had toys growing up but some of the best games were without them. My sister and I loved playing with our dog's leash. I would attach it to the long tube attachments from the vacuum cleaner and "go fishing" off the end of our hideaway bed in the living room. Turn it around and the loop for your hand became a kind of head and it was like a prehistoric sea dinosaur.
We also used it to help dislodge loose teeth. We'd put it in our mouths and pull like a tug o' war rope (both at the same time, or the one without the loose tooth would pull with their hands). Odd kids. I also used to grab white rocks and make a nest in the backyard and sit on them, like a dinosaur.
"Lobster Trap" My grand father would get on his hands and knees & start to whistle a little tune. We would run under the gaps between his arms & legs until the whistling stopped. Quickly, he would fall forward (trapping anybody underneath) and the tickling began! That was my favorite game as a kid.
We would fill up water guns and hide them around the backyard. After said water guns where hid, we would meet on the trampoline before deploying into the yard again for the original battle royale.
Frisbee, but with lives. If you got hit, you lost a life. If you caught a frisbee, you gained a life and the other person lost one. No one was ever "out" because we never kept track but it was an interesting mechanic to add. No one knew what "Ultimate" was.
When we got bored of that it turned into "Gladiator" where if you got hit anywhere you lost the ability to lose where you got hit. It was fun to hop around with one leg and no arms trying to dodge a frisbee.
The Car Game: When me or my firends heard a car coming by we would hide. After a while of okaying you genuinely get anxious about if the making sure the drivers cannot see you.
I had loads of small tot cars and about 3 sets of Jenga.
Me and my older brother would sit about 6ft or so from eachother and build small forts with the jenga.
Using the toy cars we would take it in turn to roll our cars i to eachothers houses. The first house to be knocked down was the loser. Over time you began to reinforce walls and whatnot with even more Jenga. Amazing fun.
Trampoline Tag: It isn’t what it sounds, what you do is one person is it and waits in the trampoline as everyone runs away and hides around our block we all lived on. When we were ready a ball was thrown to alert who was it. After that the goal was to get in the trampoline before the person who is it can tag you. The trampoline wasn’t massive and it had a net around so it could be a bit tricky. Babysitting wasnt allowed within a vicinity to keep it fun and if you were tagged then you were also it the next round. Whoever was lastman standing won and the next game the first person tagged is it. We spent our whole childhood playing it and I wish I could go back and play one more time.
Tree Knights. Somebody would go up in the tree house and try to fend off the other 3 of us with a piece of PVC pipe attached to an air compresser that would shoot pingpong/bouncy balls really hard and fast if you clamped your hand hard enough around the joint of the pipe and air compressor nozzle, and a pool noodle stuck on a broomstick. That's how I got my second ever concussion, I fell off the ladder and landed on a rock, I told my parents I fell off the shelf in the laundry room so they didn't catch on when I came to them walking screwy and had to go to the emergency room.
Not sure how unique it was but me and my sisters would play drive through in our mom's car, use walkie talkies as the intercom and bring the food out to the others on rollerblades or whatever. It was all fun until we put the car into neutral and it went backwards down our driveway into the neighbour's car.
My parents home, before they split up, had a stable built on the property which was built for a horse obviously but my mothers horse died before she moved it in.
My father turned it into a room when where he kept an old spare bed, a heater, old paperwork and other random things.
Me and some friends, at 6 or 7 years old, would climb up on all these boxes and jump onto the mattress on the bed.
We were just doing random jumps, splashes, legdrops and bouncing on the bed.
Eventually it turned into something where we'd jump from the boxes, shout some words we considered rude, like "sex", "willy", "fanny" (because of our age) and other simular words.
My brother took it a step further so that when he'd jump, he'd whip his trousers down and back up in mid air while shouting "sex" and landing stomach first on the bed.
One day our Dad locked the stable door after a friend had been round.
The friends mother called my parents up telling them that we were teaching her son disgusting words and encouraging him to show his pants (underwear) while jumping on a bed.
Star Trek: The Next Generation - I was Beverly Crusher. I wore my mom's oversized gigantic shoulder padded teal blazer, used a Caboodles as my medical kit, and had a TV remote that I'd use as my tricorder. This went on for longer than I'd care to admit and also led to my lifelong thing for Patrick Stewart.
I don't remember what we called it, but we made up a game that I found out years later was similar to the game "groundies."
The person who was it could touch the ground, and any part of the playground structure other than the floors. The rest of the people could touch any part of the structure, but not the ground. Nobody had to have their eyes closed or anything like that.
So it involved a lot of climbing around on the side of the structure and trying to corner people on the part of the hunter, and a lot of mad dashes and diving past as the hunter was in the middle of a careful move or adjusting their grip. Which often lead to the hunter desperately trying to tag you as you went by, missing, losing their grip, and falling off the side of the structure.
We called the game “buttered toast” but it has absolutely no correlation to the game. It was basically tag on bikes or scooters and whoever was it tried to throw a tennis ball at the other players. Bikes had more speed and could ride through grass but if you had a scooter you could get off and traverse environments that a bike couldn’t. So much fun. So much road rash.
My sister's and I would take VHS tapes and rotate picking something to watch. The one who got to pick the next time was determined by the first person to name the movie we were about to experience using only the trailers before the movie. If no one guessed right by the title screen the same person got to pick again.
It was a game played with my little brother and 2 girl cousins. I would be judge and stick boxing gloves in my shirt (so I could be grown with big titties) and pass judgement on whoever happened to be defendant.
The defendant would then fight the prosecution. Sometimes resulting in black eyes, bloody noses, and crying. We would record these games too.
Yah know, sounds a lot weirder now that I see it in text....
Not sure how unique this is but it was very unique among my schoolmates at the time. I'm a big fan of strategy games so to deal with boredom at school i would make my own strategy games using a4 papers a pencil and an eraser. Initially it was just a bunch of territories on a paper where you can build new things to earn more money, make armies and invade each other etc and my classmates loved it so much, i eventually updated the game by having serperate papers for battlefields, cities and even cut off stick figures for each soldier recruited to simulate a battle between classmates.
It was so popular everyone started making their own versions but they were far more simplistic, most of them devolved into just drawing territories and winning/losing those territories over throwing an eraser and see which side it lands on. I'm still happy for the fact that i started some sort of wave that lasted my entire elementary school years
If you called it out your friend(s) had five minutes to go hide somewhere in a 3 block radius, they then had to sneak past you and make it back into the house.
Those looking for you had weapons, and if they caught you, they would beat you up until you could make it back into the house.
We also had "Judge Judy Fights" Where we would watch judge judy, and then beat each other up during the commercials, but you kinda had to trick them into the fight.
My fav included going up to the window, and going, damn that girl is hot, friend jumps up to look for himself, then I grab and belt him across the legs with a toy vacuum. It did not end well as I tried to run and jump out of an open window to avoid retaliation and clip my feet on the window ledge and knocked myself out after landing on some rocks.
Moose nugget fights every spring in Alaska. There was a magical window where the outside would be crusty but the inside was kinda soft and the explosions were a thing of shitty beauty. We walked to school and my gross brother would store them in his Goonies lunchbox on the way home in case we ran into any neighborhood rivals. Mom wasn’t too happy on the days that they didn’t get used.
My cousins and I would play a variant of basketball in our grandparent's pool. It was free-for-all, full contact, goaltending allowed, dragging each other under the water, full on brawl for the basket. 3 of us, occasionally 4, would play this to exhaustion in our high school days all summer. We stopped when my cousin started playing collegiate football as an offensive lineman...
We used to play Hand Soccer. We had this soft soccer ball we would use, and play in a narrow hallway of the house. We'd get on our knees and hit the ball with our hands only, and you were only allowed to move on your hands and knees. If you got the ball to the end of the boundary, it's a goal. First to 10 points wins! It was a one on one game that was super intense, and would leave our knees super raw by the end
We had “slugworm”. One person would be covered in a duvet/blanket/sleeping bag. They were the slugworm. Then the lights are turned off. Everyone else has to avoid being caught by the slugworm. If you get “eaten” you become the new slugworm.
Difference is I was 18-21 when I played this, drunk, with drunk uni friends. We were all kids at heart and it is 100% the kind of game I’d have played as a child anyway.
You know those pool floats that have an inflated pillow and edge but the middle is mesh? My friends and I would have one of get in one and put another on top and we would parade around the pool having a "funeral procession"
"Suicide" Me and my cousin used to take action figures and try to find creative ways to "kill" them. Like tying a shoestring around their leg and the other end to a bed post and throwing them off the bed
We called it knockout. We would take turns hitting each other as hard as possible in the face until one of us tapped out. It would usually be played by 2 people. but you could accommodate more
My six siblings and I played the “in the dark game,” which was essentially hide and go seek in the house, but it could only be played at night and all of the lights would be turned off. A lot of injuries happened with this game.
We lived in a huge society so there were a lot of cars. Everyone would be huddled together and one person would choose a number plate in the society and the first person to find the car with the number plate would get to choose the next one. This way we also knew which car belonged to whom.
We had this foam lemon that was actually just a promotional product for Mentos. (1:1 lemon sized).
We used to go out to our driveway and play a game similar to basketball, but the twist was that you had the dribble the lemon into the air by tossing it over your head again and again. We had to get the lemon to certain places on the driveway, and then we could shoot the lemon into pre-determined lemon targets for different amounts of points.
There were the times when the lemon could be intercepted or fumbled. If the lemon bounced on the ground once, you could recover it with no penalty or turnover. But if it bounced more than once, it was turned over to the other player. Any lemon can also be intercepted out of the air, which encouraged long, high throws which were both more difficult to intercept, and also easier to fumble.
We spent hours perfecting our lemon balling skills until one day, we lost the lemon. The game never was the same.
Roadkill: Everyone in the car tries to spot road kill along the side of the road. Small animals are 2pt (squirrel size), Medium and Large animals 3pts (raccoon to deer size) are worth 3 pts. If the animal is unidentifiable, it's worth 1pt.
The first person to yell "Roadkill" and point out the carcass gets the point. If you claim roadkill and it turns out to be debris instead of a carcass, you're docked 1 pt.
The person with the most points at the end of the trip wins.
I’m not really sure if this counts as a game or if it counts as me being a total idiot, but would always think that there were snipers trained on me whenever I was in front of big windows, so I would try to make my movements as erratic to try to make them miss. Not exactly one of my proudest memories.
Me and my buddy would play nut ball, you get a tennis ball sit 15ft from each other and toss the ball in the air and try to hit each other in the nuts if you got 3 hits in a row you could throw a fastball at the others nuts, then we invented a similar game with a football but with a bunch of people so 2 lines of people maybe 60ft you can only cover one area if you got hit you were out if you moved your hands while the ball was in the air you were out, we we're pretty fucking stupid back then although we got drunk and played nut ball on his kids trampoline the not too long ago.
My grandparents had a motion detector in the hall. It was by the front door and I would get way on the other end, then I'd see how close to the front by crawling without setting off the motion detector.
You remember those hopper toys? The big inflatable rubber balls with a handle that you bounce around on? Well my sister and I had a great game involving those.
In our basement was there was a big support pole holding up the house. We also had a big thick rope that we liked to play with.
That game was this: One of us would tie the other to the pole with the rope as tight as we could. The person tied up would try to escape, while the other one of us would wail on them with the hopper as hard as we could until they wriggled free.
The Tribe Game. It was me and my two sisters. We basically threw all of our toys on the floor and then divided them up between us fairly and that was your "tribe". Most of our toys were tv and film characters so it basically became a massive crossover event, or a way to cram as many powers or concepts into a game as possible.
You could have one tribe where Pikachu and Captain Picard were in charge and they had Rito Revolto and Grizzlor as henchmen. Another tribe might have it's leader be R2-D2 and Ryan Steele but they have Godzilla and a Jurassic Park Velociraptor on their side.
Each tribe had it's own land and the games would be set up to cover the entire floorspace of one bedroom (usually mine). Most games revolved around us first discovering the other tribes and then either negotiating trade/friendships or war. Travel between the tribes lands was either done by walking, spaceship (which naturally all had "mini-beams" that would shrink the pilots down and inside them because the spaceships were all Star Trek micro-machines and the scale wouldn't work otherwise) or travel through the Stargate (a stool on it's side).
On long car rides, I would sync the radio to the cars passing by, trying to keep the beat to the number of cars. Sometimes would also use the passing lampposts to assist with the timing.
“Batman” we had a bad man mask and my dad would turn it backwards so his face was covered. He could see through it but would pretend to be blind and dumb and we would hide from him. And try to sneak behind him and hit him and then run away before he saw us. Looking back it makes me really appreciate everything he did for my brother and I. He would play that with us for hours.
We called it midnight wolf. One person who is the midnight wolf would hide and everyone looks for midnight wolf. When he is found whoever saw him yells "I FOUND THE MIDNIGHT WOLF", then the midnight wolf runs out of thier hiding spot and tries to tag the seekers while they run to a safe zone. It can get really strategic on where to hide when you have multiple midnight wolf's. Also I recommend you play at night.
My friend and I would make a “circus” for roly polies.
We’d gather stuff around the backyard like a blade of grass and make it into a circle and pretend it was a Ferris wheel or like racetrack jump. We would find some roly polies and they’d usually wander off but not before we attempted to have them be part of our show.
We also used to do a similar thing of making scenes with things in the garden in hopes of catching a leprechaun.
We only played when mom wasn't home. One person would hide the cordless phone somewhere in the house and then push the page phone button. Everyone else would have would search for the phone before it stopped beeping and "diffuse the bomb."
so you know how on school playgrounds there are the markings/drawings of the floor? sometimes they're like the lines for basketball courts, sometimes its like snakes and ladders on the floor. I'm not sure if other countries had this, but here in england that's something we had in our playground.
anyway, one of these drawings was a naughts and crosses board that kids could use chalk to play. me and my friend at the time used to pretend that if we stepped in each square in a secret pattern we'd be transported to an underground base and we'd be spies.
When we were in elementary school all of my friends (think like 15 kids) would play this game similar to Pokémon. There were pirates and there were mystical creatures. I was always a griffin because griffins in this world could breathe fire. Well the pirates would have to capture the mystical creatures. (Sometimes by tackling if we didn’t have a ball to throw at one another) If you were a mystical creature and got caught you’d have to stay under the big tree until you were called upon to battle another pirates mystical creatures. It was actually super intricate for 9 year olds.
As a kid me and my brother shared and a bed and would sleep at opposite ends of the bed. For reasons unknown, we played this game called king Arthur. The game was to kick the other guy directly in the nuts. Him being 3 years older than me give him a pretty huge advantage. Thinking about it now, I'm pretty sure he just wanted to kick me in the nuts but somehow convinced me it was a game. Ahhhh....to be a kid again.
We played "Pac-Man" at the playground. We used the painted 4 square on the blacktop as the "template". So Pac-Man and the "ghost" kid had to stay on the lines of the painted square. Pac-Man had to use the universal arm movements for "wakka-wakka-wakka". If the Pac-Man chomped you, you were out. Hours of fun.
SPUD.
You get a kick ball and a group of kids.The first person "it" holds the ball. You pick a topic. Example; Favorite food. Everyone tells the appointed speaker all their answers (you cant allow the person "it" to hear who has what answer. The speaker than tells the person who is "it" all the answers.
"It" had to pick a answer and throw the ball as high up as they can. Who ever had their answer picked has to catch the ball. Everyone,included "it" then has to haul ass away from the person whose answer was picked and is now "it". The new "it",after they catch the ball,they scream out "SPUD!!!" and everyone has to freeze whereever they are. The new "it" than has to spell out the word SPUD, taking a huge step, jump,leap with each letter. Wherever they land, they have to throw or roll the ball to the group who ran in the opposite direction. If the ball hits them,they are the new "it".
Never realized how complicated this game seemed until I just now had to type out how to play. But it was so much fun when we were kids. The older we got, the more gross and funny the topics became. I came from a neighborhood where all the kids were around the same age and we all played together, both boys and girls. There were like 15 of us, so SPUD was perfect.
Me and my sister would shove ourselves into a bin of stuffed animals, and close the lid. Then we would roll the bin down the stairs. Thinking back it probably wasn't the best idea to lock ourselves in a bin with no air holes in it, but who cares the game was fun as hell.
Kill the carrier. All you needed for this game was a little bit of space, a football (American), and a group of adolescent boys who didn't really understand the ramifications of hitting your head on concrete.
So basically one guy would start off with the ball and everyone else had to get him to the ground and when he was down he had to let go of the ball and the next person would pick it up and the game would continue.
Needless to say the game was stopped pretty much anytime a teacher or authority figure realized what was going on but we used to play it on all sorts of surfaces, twas a lot of fun.
Me and my siblings used to play “Satan Stew”. We would take an old oil pan or bucket and throw trash, dirt, sticks, rocks, etc in it, put some water in it and then make one of the siblings pee in it while everyone had their backs turned, then we would mix it up and go hide and wait for Satan to come drink the poison and die.
So there’s that
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine and myself would save our other friends and their families by going behind their apartment complex, and switching these giant black switches on and off. For extra protection we would do it more than once.
One time we needed to save the entire apartment complex, and checked to see if the main leasing office had one of these switches. They did. So we saved everyone by flipping them once.
It was those switches from the main office that made us realize we were just shutting the electricity off on and off. We were playing with the breakers the entire time.
I try to remember if we always flipped them back on. As an adult now, I really feel guilty that I probably made someones fresh food in their fridge go bad.
Preface: Remember those half footballs that Nerf made?
Anyway, as a bored child growing up on a farm property without all of the benefits of living on a farm, I had to entertain myself.
One the farm buildings was a 25-foot tall 'Corncrib' building. The building was white and had several doors/hatches alone it's tall side.
Using the flat football I would step back a ways and throw for one of the square windows and if it hit, and I was able catch it it would be a 10/20/30 yard pass.
My elementary school had a water fountain outdoor on the play field. It was a little bit off to the side so we had some privacy. A group of 3-4 of my friends would take turns and someone would fill their mouths with water and the rest of us would try our hardest to make that person laugh so hard they spit out the water onto the grass. We were weird.
My brothers and I played a game we called “Us Guys” when we were kids. It was basically LARP using sticks as swords and pinecones as grenades, fighting trees or other objects as main villains. The yard was always broken up into different levels and we would use a trampoline as a space ship and bounce to new planets.
Space Ball and The Ultimate Pringle Can Lid Game.
Space Ball is a 2 player game played in our unfinished basement. Luckily, there's carpet. On either end of the basement, there is a goal. It's just the wall. The ball is one of those really cheap kid's balls. You know, the rubbery ones that fly all crazy if you hit them? Almost always have a Disney character printed on them?. The rules are pretty straightforward- you have to wear socks on your hands so you can't grab the ball. You have to hit or kick the ball and try to score on your opponent. The only other rules were you have to stay on your knees the entire time, including when defending your goal. Also if the light gets broken, the player who broke it loses.
The Ultimate Pringle Lid Game is played in hotels where the doors have a short recess. Like this. Two players each occupy one of the recesses (the ones that are farther apart). A Pringle can lid is the "ball." The lid is thrown with the intentions of it landing in the opponents little recess on either side. The defending player can only touch the lid while it's in the air. If the lid lands fully in the recess, it's 2 points. If it's across the line, but not fully, it's 1 point, and if it goes under the door, it's an automatic win. First one to 21 wins.
“Dookie-dookie bird” put a huge feather filled blanket over your head and run around the house while attempting to tackle your sibling(s) as the dookie-dookie bird...
1) "Gaybag", literally just tig but you say "gaybag" instead. Whoever was it at the end of breaktime was gay or had the "gaybag" until the next time the game was played.
2) "The spinning game", A group of friends and I would just spin around the playground with our arms out. Nothing else that was literally it.
I’m not sure how popular this game was but my neighborhood friends and I had this game called “Spider”. We would all go to the park and the person who was “it” had to close their eyes and count to 10 and then they had to keep their eyes closed as they tried to tag someone. The catch is that the players who were not the “spider” had to stay on the playground equipment and couldn’t touch the ground without it being a big risk. If the players did touch the ground and the person who was it yelled “Spider!” Then the person who was on the ground was the next “spider”/“it”. Anyone who was caught/touched by the “spider” was also “it” next. We all had a fun time climbing around the playground and doing what we thought was parkour.
At the beginning of every gym class in elementary school, we were allowed about 10 minutes inside the gym to just do whatever we wanted with a bunch of balls, scooters, etc, before moving on the whatever sport or lesson we had that day. A couple of my buddies and I would take advantage of this chaos and we would kick a kickball high into the air just to see it potentially land on an unsuspecting person. We had to stop after the ball hit the teacher in the face.
Ultimate Rugby. Came up with it during a boring day at summer camp. We're all American mind you, so the rugby part of the name came from what we imagined what the rules were. Anyway, we played with one of those thick foam footballs(the NFL style one...not a soccer ball) and it was a combination of handball, real rugby where you had to bounce the ball every so often, football, basketball, and hockey. How so you wonder? We played in the school gym. With no shoes? Just socks. So you would gain what traction you could without slipping and basically had to commit to a direction because it was impossible to juke or stop mid run which is where all the passing came in. If I remember, it was 3 points if you made a basket, 2 points for a kick, and one point if you just threw the ball past the goalie. There were multicolored pads lining the walls so we sort of used it like a goal. Basically it was just a bunch of 11 year olds sprinting uncontrollably around a gymnasium with no means of stopping while trying to murder whoever held the ball. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "leaf". Never seen it played anywhere else, and i would actually love to see a adult version of it. So there is this labyrinth drawn in chalk on the ground. The walls are see thru, and "push thru" , but you step thru a wall "you're out". Each team has a small triangle in the others team room the have to step on. (you can't thru the wall". Everything before hitting is acceptable, pushing, pulling, yelling, lying.
When the game starts, everyone is facing and you can grab one and keep him locked over the wall, so your mate can run off to one of the safe zones. There's lots of strategy to it.
We would play a game that I still don't know the name of to this day. It would always get some laughs. The way it worked is this: You'd ideally have four or more players, a piece of paper and pen per player. Question #1: Where did you go? Each player writes where they'd go and then fold it and pass it to the person to their right. Question #2: Who did you see? Write answer and pass to the right. Question #3: What did they say? Question #4: What did you say back? Question #5: How did it end?
Now that everyone's answers are mixed up, ask the questions again and everyone answers with the mixed up papers. Great stories happen this way.
My cousins are all boys at that time, they liked to play Credit card. They swipe the 'imaginary' credit card which is their hand between my brother's or other cousin's ass or armpit. That was absurd
Gallina siega, which means blind chicken in Spanish, in our garage. We would blindfold one person and turn the lights off. The blindfolded person would the proceed to try and tag someone. The fun part was trying to avoid the random objects in the garage because it definitely was not empty. The game usually ended when someone started crying because they hit their head on a lawn mower.
Cops and Robbers, except on bikes and the game was won when the cops rammed their bike into the robbers and knocked them off, then proceeding to jump on them and beat the crap out of them
My siblings and I used to play this game where we blind folded one person (usually just made them close their eyes tbh), had them sit on a desk chair, and then we would spin them on the chair. That person had to guess when they came to a complete stop. It was hilarious watching someone sit there, thinking the world around them is spinning when really nothing is happening.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would go into the bathroom, turn off the lights, then throw a bouncy ball as hard as we could. The object was not to get hit. There were no soft surfaces in the bathroom, so it would just ricochet until it hit one of us. This was the height of entertainment when it was raining out.
There were four of us, very close together. One game we loved was "mashing behind the door," where one stands behind the door, against the wall, while the others all push on the door as hard as we can. It actually felt really good.
I never really played with other kids, but I grew up watching shows like dragon ball z. I'd run around pretending to be a z-warrior who was best friends with goku.
I would play a solo game based on robotech (macross)
I would draw two fleets of ships on opposites sides of a piece of paper (using ovals or small triangles) representing the Zendrati (composed of medium sized ova ships) and the humans (small triangular fighters). Sometimes I would add the SDF-1 or really small circles for the Zendrati pods.
Then I would give each ship a shot by holding the pencil tip on the ship and flicking it (kind of like how you would flick the eraser end when playing pencil war) across the page. The bigger oval ships took 3 hits to destroy the fighters and pods only 1. The SDF-1 didn't take hits exactly, but held a second wave of fighters if the first was destroyed. Since I was flicking the pencil, I didn't have precise control over where it went some sometime I would hit the target, other times not. Sometimes I would even hit a different ship (including friendly ships - a tragedy!).
I'd then take a turn for each side until one side was gone. At first you are hitting ships with every shot (target rich environment) but later on it's not as easy. At the end of the game you have a sort of history of the fight that looks like a bunch of perma-lines from tracer shots.
5ibes · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot peas and butter
The game starts when the game master (usually my friends older brother) would hide a belt somewhere in the yard. After the belt is hidden he yells “hot peas and butter, come get your supper”.
When the belt is found, the person who found the belt has to beat the remaining players with it until they reach the safe zone (which is also hidden) while yelling “supper time!”
The rules are simple:
1) no whipping people with the metal end
2) Everyone mud play shirtless
3) the safe zone must be indicated by a red shirt on the ground
4) if the belt is not found within 10 minutes, the game master may retrieve the belt and beat everyone until they run home because the game master is immune to the safe zone
To this day I have no idea if this is an actual game or if it was just an excuse for my friends brother to beat us with a belt
Happy Town AKA Mafia. Someone is "it" and chooses a mafia boss and an angel. Everyone closes their eyes (except for It), the mafia boss chooses someone to kill and the angel chooses someone to save; if they choose the same person, that person stays in, if not they're out. Continue until camp counselors tell you its time for the next activity.
I used to sleep in my parents bedroom when I was a kid. Back then, I used to think there were ghosts in my parent's en suite bathroom who would watch out for movement and get you if they caught you moving. To combat this, I developed what I used to call "Sleeping by moves," which was a system where I would lie there and wait for my parents to move in their sleep, and time the amount of time they moved. If they moved for three seconds, that meant that I could also move for three seconds and I wouldn't be noticed.
A lot of nights I would lie there for hours without moving, or store up move time to stretch or change positions.
The 7 shards. I just found it hilarious because it was literally a game where you'd throw a ball (bowling style) at a pile of 7 shards of rocks and floor tiles. Once the tile is hit, the team that threw the ball needs to put the pile back up while running away from the other team, which will be chasing each player with the ball trying to dodge ball them out of the game. Some times we'd be putting the last shard back on the pile and someone wacked the ball on us, destroyin everything again. The round is won either by putting the pile of shards back up or burning all players of the team that is building the pile. Sorry if it made zero sense, still a great game!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My church friends and I used to play Hunger Games, which evolved into making our own weapons with sticks as the game progressed. It ended when one kid made a bow with a stick and string he found and shot an actual arrow he had lifted from his dad's garage into my forehead. The arrow was did not have and arrowhead so I was fine, but it bled a lot.
Anytime we went to a hotel with a pool we’d play water Pokémon, which was just an excuse to splash each other and get water in our mouths to spit at each other like water gun.
We had a sweet gum tree in the back yard near a trampoline. My brothers and I would throw a bunch of the spiky ball that the tree dropped onto the trampoline and then try and push each other onto the balls. We called it "the Spike Ball Game."
“Rich”. My sisters and I would dress up in our grandma’s fur coats, jewelry, and makeup, and then make our youngest sister be our servant. We’d just sit around sipping water out of what we thought were fancy glasses, and tell our little servant to scrub the floor.
I think we watched too many soap operas back then.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a great one. We called it 'the cup game.'
Basically I had a unique situation where I had a trampoline on the side of a house, but a story above there was a deck. We removed the sides to the deck so it just became a wooden platform. We decided it would be a good idea if 4 players layed face up, with their heads facing the far edge of the trampoline. When someone yelled go, we'd all get up and start battling/wrestling/double jumping and seeing who could become victorious and grab the 'cup' above the door on the wooden platform. (It was basically a royal rumble meets ladder match, oh and also the trampoline was setup on a hillside where if you fell you'd roll down the hill). It was also fun to play in the rain. A few times someone would make it to the wooden platform but would somehow get pulled away before reaching the cup, and would fall down to the trampoline level.
Whenever a commercial ended on TV, my feet could not be touching the ground. I would put them up on the couch or jump just as it was ending. Also, when the kids went to Dragon Land, I had to be out of sight of the TV; usually hiding behind something. Same thing when the refrigerator closed. I would swing it closed and be out of view of it by the time it finished closing.
"Pencil poppers", I think we called it. We'd each choose a pencil. One of us would hold ours out horizontally, grasping both ends. The other person would pull one end of their pencil back and then let it go, "snapping" it onto the middle of their opponent's pencil. Then if the defender's pencil survived, they would get to strike their opponent's pencil. We would go back and forth like this until one person's pencil snapped, making them the loser. We used to try things like pulling out the eraser and flattening the metal bit, in order to create a "chopper", or use jumbo size pencils, or other things. I remember one of us tried covering our pencil with nail polish and letting it dry, thinking it might make it stronger. I used to play this with my brother. In hindsight it's a pretty dumb game, but it held our interest at the time.
Civil war.
You divide the room into two sides. Ea h side takes their playmobile toys. We had the civil war era with the Indians too so it was very historically accurate lol. Next you would set them up on the battlefield but theu had to be visible from the other side and couldn't not be locked in or jammed inti a crack. Finally you take turns trying to kmock the men down with rubberbands. You olay 1v1. 2v2. 2v1. Anyways you want as long as each side fires the same amount of bands per round. Clean up was a bit tough.
My mom taught me about key numbers. If it was 5:10 in the afternoon, the key number was 2. If she paid for a $15.49 bill with a $20, the key number was 4.51. You get the idea.
It was a lot of fun, but I’ll never forget my teacher looking at me like I’m an idiot when I asked when we were gonna discuss key numbers
My cousins would come over when we were younger and my mother would make my brother and I take them down to the basement to play. We made up a game called “Oonion Union”.
It was kind of like playing tag, but the person who was the Oonion Onion, carried a stick and chanted, “Oonion Onion” over and over for no reason. The Oonion Onion also couldn’t run or even really tag anyone.
I think the point of the game was to see how long someone would put up with being the Oonion Onion and to laugh at them the entire time.
My friends and I used to play this game called "Slava" in our backyards. It was basically that old kids game lava (for those that don't know, where you have to climb around on stuff because the ground is lava), but also tag. I don't know how we came up with that goofy name, but it added a new twist to tag, and it was fun as heck!
We would play “kick the can”. basically it was tag at night with a jail. set up a coffee can by the swing (jail) and if you could kick the can before being caught your teammates that did get caught got to run free again. We played at night on the farm lots of fun.
We 90s kids know spin fighters, similar to bayblade or battle tops. We would play spin fighters multiple days a week, but instead of using the tops and the bowl they are supposed to fight in, we would pick one out, proudly announce which top we were, then pretend to be the tops and spin around in the yard running into each other. Pretty sure there were tears every time, but still kept coming back to it for some reason.
My brother used to pretend to be a talking dog called ‘woof woof’ and I would be his owner. I always pretended to send him to the pound where he was constantly abused. Looking back on it, it seems like it was a bit dark for a child’s game.
FWMII · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Chicken Game” think kickball with one base, but you have to kick the ball wall swinging on a swing set. Hours of fun.
There was a video game that I played as an early teen called ‘Thief’. Basically, you had to hide in the shadows, not get caught and get the special loot.
One summer my friends and I turned this into a game we would play every day. There were lots of jitties (or pathways between houses with lots of high bushes on each side). We would each have a long stick or “sword” in case we got into close combat. There would be two thieves and everyone else was a guard. Being a thief consisted of hiding in the bushes and trying to make your way to the loot, and being a guard consisted of walking up and down the alleyway waiting to see a thief.
I don’t know how it lasted all summer because no one ever managed to steal the treasure.
Avalanche! We had a staircase with walls on both sides and a door at the bottom. One person started at the top and threw anything not too hard down at the others trying to climb. This meant a pile of all the house's blankets and pillows were at the bottom cushioning your soft tumble down the stairs. First to the top got to throw the stuff for the next round. Many people had their mouths covered to hide their crying from mom.
My mother had a spinning chair by her sewing machine in the basement, me and my brother used to take turns sitting in it and then spinning each other around, sounds normal eh? However, each corner of the room had a specific meaning, and if you stopped spinning and you were facing a certain corner you had to do a certain thing. There was this one corner, near the basement door, whenever you landed on it, you had to do into the dress up box and create the stupidest outfit you could think of, my brother would always put on this one dress that was too small for him. It couldn’t even reach his knees. It cracked me up every time I saw him wearing it. There were other corners like chocolate milk corner and “sexy lady” corner. I won’t explain those tho because this is already too long.
Me and two other guys would play a game with a soft volleyball using the roof of my garage. We would go in order throwing the ball on the roof and whoever was after you would have to return the ball back on the roof without it hitting the ground. It’s hard to explain but we used to play that intensely for hours.
On really windy days my best friend and I would tie bed sheets to the belt loops on our jeans and use them as sails as we road our skateboards down the street. It was a simpler time.
I had a few games i played on car rides... one where a rain drop or dot on any glass is the center of my reticle on a sniper rifle or sometimes rocket launcher. I would mercilessly murder whole towns and laugh while making pew pew noises. My family loved this game... /s
2nd game was i had a laser or lightsaber that stretched from 1 side of the car across the world to the other side at a certain height... and as we drove anything over this height was cut in half and i had to dodge some things and I'd pretend to have some people and items jump or duck over the beam. Fun times.
After dinner, my great grandma and my sisters use to play a game simply called "Name-Country-Animal" . My gGrandma thought randomly of a letter and we had a couple of minutes to think and write down a Name, Last Name, Country, Animal a food or whatever columns we would add. All had to start with the letter my grandma thought of. Example. Letter A: Name Ariel, Last Name: Archibald, Animal: Antelope, Country: Argentina. Great memories that I still cherish
My brother told me about a game he would play at his buddies house. The mom would take naps and they would take turns hiding something in her room. The other would have to find it without waking her.
me and my friends played a game called “peg”. it was just a game where the person who was “it” had a baseball, then tried to throw the baseball at the people who aren’t “it” if you got hit then you were “it”. Very painful
"Hey Cow". Living around Amish country led to many long, boring drives through the farm land, so my brother and I would put down the windows in the back seat and scream, "HEY COW!!" when passing a pasture. Every cow that would look at you counted as a point. Whoever had the most points at the end of the ride won.
I lived on a farm towards the end of my imagination years and we had quite a few cats and chickens that were free roam so I would have an ongoing war between the cats and the chickens. There would be different battle scenes that I set up and different commanders for the cats and chickens. Even had a cover system that I designed for the cats because they were docile enough I can pick them up and move them behind milk crates that were out in the yard. Good times
I was about 7 or 8, and my parents and my friends' parents were massive nerds, so we were exposed to Metal Gear early on. When one of my friend's family moved to a new house, we used couches and the boxes to play hide and seek. We loved it when it lasted for a couple of days.
When we had recess in primary school my friend group would run around and collect all the pine needles and pine cones we could find and make huge nests, then we would take turns being “mama bird” and the mama bird would sit in the middle of the nest with all the pine cone “eggs” in their lap and command the rest of us to do different tasks. Sometimes we had to get more pine needles, sometimes more pine cones, sometimes we had to entertain mama bird.
I remember at one point me and a few friends got mad because the same person was always mama bird, so we split off and made our own nest. The other mama bird got upset we left and started our own nest so he would command his remaining followers to steal our eggs and destroy the nest and make his bigger
Everybody is on a trampoline and on person is curled up -the egg- and then we all have to jump on the trampoline in any way, even right next to them causing them to launch. We win when the egg cracks/ uncurls.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Hero School
We would all wear "capes" (a blanket tied around our neck). One person would be the teacher. The others would sit in a line or circle. The teacher would ask a simple math question. Whoever answered correctly got to stand up and choose their power, and then walk through the imaginary "power machine". After class finished and everybody had their power, we would run around and play with our new superpowers.
This was literally some of the most fun I had with my brothers when I was like 8. I was the oldest so I would always be the teacher.
My 3 other siblings and I would play orphans. We would were blankets and just be sad and lonely all the time. My older sisters would find bread and give us pieces of the loaf to eat. We would sleep under the table and play with one toy. You know orphan stuff. Our parents were proud.
When I was a kid, I used to eat a lot of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, and one time they included a game with the cereal. It was Sonic type game, except it’s all the animals from Kellogg’s , I actually loved it so much!
Three of us would play this game--two are daughters, one the mean Mother... whose job is was to beat the daughters, starve them, force then into closets. Wtf
One of the games I play with my brothers and cousins when I was younger was a game we called “dwarf”, there were two opposites rooms with a corridor in the middle, with two teams. Each group have to reach the other room but the game here was that we have to move kneeling while fighting with pillows, so you have to literally cross each other from above the other kids, even sometimes my brother will take a blanket and keep everyone inside it and all his team will have to cross over you.
It was fun most of the game but there will always be some crying kid or some broken thing, still we play it a lot of times.
When I was a kid, I was so skinny I was off the charts. I looked like a skeleton, and my grandma thought my mom was starving me. My clothes were always falling off. So my sister and I would play this game where I’d put on a pair of pants and then run around the room until they fell off at which point we’d burst into laughter. We did this over and over again for hours.
Z0di · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mattress Sliding.
take a twin mattress and find some carpeted stairs. ride that sucker down until you hit the bottom, then carry it back upstairs for another ride.
warning: damages the carpet in a small way.
NCKRDY · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Light stick” - lacrosse played on a basketball court with a larger ball
I took a piece of water hose and attached it to a metal pipe for a makeshift whip so I could defeat imaginary hordes of demons and zombies. Good times.
I remember my brother playing a lot of interesting older pc games. This was back when you would access the games via dos. One was where you were a robot patrolling an abandoned space station. Most of every thing was on lock down and you had to solve puzzles to access new areas. How ever a security bot also patrolled around and if it caught you, it was instant death.
A second was a racing game where you could build your own tracks. I would often build crazy tracks or large ramps just to see the car crash.
Right before entering highschool we made a game called, "Ninja." We played on the football feild next to the school when it was pitch black dark outside. The ninja would be given a black hoodie to lay down anywhere in the field. Watching that person lay down brought back memories from "it" cause they would completely vanish into the dark. If you got to the other side of the field without being tagged, you win. If you got tagged, you would join the ninja.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play a game in his driveway, where one of us would take an aluminum bat, and the other would take a hockey stick, and we’d try to smack a basketball past the other one. There was a center line that we could not cross, as an intuitive safety measure.
The bat was good for a powerful blast, but the hockey stick emerged as the superior choice, due to its long reach, and the ability to scoop and throw the basketball accurately. The bat also had the unfortunate tendency to rebound off of the ball and smack the user in the head occasionally, which I recall happening to each of us at least once.
I was an only child, so I spent an amazing amount of time with a shovel digging holes in the backyard. I think I found like a marble once and I thought I was Indiana Jones
“Dodge poop”, my friend growing up had horses and 10 year old us thought it was fun to start fights with the dried poop laying around. Our reasoning behind it was that it was just chewed up hay so it probably isn’t that gross.. that is until you’re winning and all of a sudden you get a steamy fresh heap flung into your face/mouth.
To make it even richer we played baseball so I’d say we had above average 10 year old accuracy.
Plug. My cousins and I would put someone at the bottom of the slide. That person was the plug. The the rest of us would come down the slide trying to push the plug out. We’d pile up on each other until the plug popped. But before coming down as hard as possible we would declare what kind of food we were like “I’m a hunk of beef!”.
My brother and I would set up army men, blockades, trenches... the whole nine yards -- across the room from each other. Then we would take turns throwing one of the army men. Any opposing ones you knocked down were dead and set aside, and any blockades you knocked over were also set aside. Then you got your army man back and set it back up over on your side and it was their turn. Winner was the last army standing.
It was like tag, except the person who was the T-rex had to run around with little arms and roar and snarl.
brojay · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I invented a game called “frisbennis” which was a combination of frisbee and tennis. It worked really well on a court with a cage surrounding it. You could throw it off the fense to get creative with serves.
Me and my brother would play a version of chicken where we would take the metal tipped lawn darts and throw them straight up in the air the last one to leave the circle won the game. I very clearly remember several times for the dart would woosh right by us as neither one of us wanted to move until the very last second. They're illegal for a good reason I suppose.
In middle school my best friend and I used to find a big ol' open field, get a good run... and purposefully trip ourselves... We weren't the smartest and it's probably a contributing factor as to why my shoulder dislocates BUT we did learn how to fall properly so that's a plus I guess. We called it "The Purpose of Tripping"
football without rules, now that i think of it football with weapons would have been a better name. we played normal football but at the same time had ropes and sticks to also fight the other team
We would take turns walking alone to the woods at night with a flashlight, where the objective was to read an entire story out of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” prior to returning. The others would wait back in the yard, which was a fair distance away from the tree line and out of site from our spot in the woods with a break in the trees. Talk about getting the hairs on your neck to rise. Even just the illustrations were enough.
We’d pull ALL of the board games, books, magazines, toys, tools, snacks, HVAC filters, PC parts and software, art supplies, Pokémon cards, PlayStation games, instruments, nerf guns, pillows...... you get the idea ..... out of the storage room in the basement.
Step one was deciding who gets what materials to set up their store. There were some standard rules, like if you got the pc game set with 25 discs you couldn’t also have the Correl Draw 17 disc box set software (Thanks uncle Rick for all of that demo software btw!) If you got the legos you couldn’t also get the K’nex set, BUT you may be able to procure the shitty MegaBlocks if there were only two of us playing. If there were three, there might be some haggling over that one.
Next you negotiate over which blanket or set of blankets you will set up your store on. Additionally, you needed to select fixtures to display your goods. I always picked the white quilt with red and black pattern that my grandma made. Great quilt for sales by the way.. thin enough so that you could crawl around on it comfortably unlike a big heavy sleeping bag (who wants to hang out in that store??) yet dense enough that it didn’t get all bunched up. I digress. We’d pick our blankets and fixtures which consisted of the plastic bins we’d just emptied all of this stuff out of, TV trays, etc.
We’d set up shop by laying out blankets all over the basement floor and commence trade. The idea was to get the best stuff so that eventually your shop and “life” was the best. We’d negotiate, barter, haggle and probably even steal. We’d go for a bit and then shut the lights off to indicate that it was night time where we’d then enjoy the fruits of our labor and visit with one another as our shops now served dual function as our homes. Once we’d demonstrated how much fun we were having with our stuff, the lights would go back on and it was time to work again, tidy up shop, visit the surrounding businesses to pick up some more goods, analyze the markets to determine what products might be hit that day and sell, sell sell.
This would go on for a while until someone somehow would amass a much better shop/house/life than the rest. Some of the trading was to get stuff we actually wanted to play with, some of it was just moving pawns around, I think there may have been some Pokémon trading going on which added a “for keeps” dynamic.
Anyway someone would win, then it was a complete pain in the ass to clean it all up.
Apparently were some entrepreneurial little shits.
When my brother and I shared a room, whenever we were sent to bed instead of counting sheep we’d go back and forth trying to describe the grossest things we could imagine, trying to one up each other, trying to paint the grossest image in each others minds.
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Fat man Joe.
My older sister and I would stuff my brothers clothes with pillows, extra clothing, blankets, basically any padding we could find. Then we would throw him into doors, walls, down the stairs, beat him up. Only in the padded spots though. This was our thing until my brother and I became bigger than my sister. Then she noped out.
There was also hide and go seek in the dark. Yeah I know sounds normal, except one of my buddies would always hide naked, and then surprise to the person who was seeking.
Spider! One kid closes their eyes while attempting to locate and tag the other kids on the jungle gym. If you suspect anybody is off the jungle gym and in the sand, you can call “spider” to tag them. This would often result in us making mad dashes and leaps across the sand. The meta was to sneak up real close to the person who’s it and whisper insulting things to them before turning tail and sprinting away. Also if somebody was camping we’d try to give the spider instructions on how to get to them. Embarrassingly, a large group of us played this well into high school.
Stand on a step in the middle of staircase take a long wooden stick pretend it's oar and i am rowing a boat - with my little brother as a passenger sitting on a lower step - me singing some folk song.
Any time I pass under a bridge while in a car, My family and I all duck. Don’t wanna bump your head after all!
I got my friend to do it too, and he told me he subconsciously does it now too. His family looked at him when he did it once like “What are you doing?”
“The Orange Game”
My cousin and I would play in the spare room and pretend to go back in time by turning on the main light, this was an orange bulb for some unknown reason. We would then both get on a pedal of the unused exercise bike and peddled as fast as we could looking at the Orange bulb.
Sounds pretty boring to be honest but we made up awesome games all summer.
As a child, I made up things like Box Fort Wars and The Floor is Lava (Every single child probably played the latter.) I also played a game with my step brother which we called Butts. Honestly looking back on it I have no idea why we called it that. It was really just us in our birthday suits and jumping off of the top bunk bed to the floor.
Now as an adult, strangely enough, I still tend to make games up. Like getting as much stuff done as I can and having to be back inside of the kitchen before the microwave timer ends and beeps. If I'm outside of the room when it beeps, I lose.
I forgot what it's called but we would go on my friend's trampoline with a grapefruit sized ball and you would have to slap it into people's feet. If the ball hit you anywhere below the knee you lost a life. People would do flips and roll over the ball it was crazy. We had tournaments that would last hours.
hicmi · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Infection”. It was tag based on the Halo 3 custom game settings where one person would start off as the original zombie and they would then run around and try to tag other people. If someone else is tagged, they are now also a zombie and try to tag the remaining people. The goal is to be Last Man Standing and have like 11 people chasing after you trying to tag you.
"Whoever likes me, lay on top of me." It's pretty much what it sounds like. I wanted the cute girls from my neighborhood to lay on top of me, face to face. We played al afternoon but once my parents found out, they put a stop to it.
There were 5 of us so we took baths 2-3 at a time. While we were in the bath, the others would run past the door as fast as they could while we tried to hit them with wet facewashers. Mum's least favourite game.
"Knock Your Socks Off" You take turns (1 throw each) trying to get a balled-up pair of socks to land on the top of the ceiling fan. 10 pts for a successful landing, 20 pts if you knock the other person's socks off, but you only get 1 throw.
We used to take fold up sleeping mats and lay them on the stairs, one side was like a clothe material and the other side was some kind of plastic, plastic side up. Then we would grab sleeping bags, card board boxes, pretty much anything that would side and cruised down that bitch. Great time until my dumbass decided to use a laundry basket and give myself a little extra boost by jumping down the first few steps and ended up smashing my little sister through the fucking basement drywall. That was the last day my mother let us do that.
Stab. We would do a random draw and one person was picked as the killer. Then we would all fan out around the house/garage/barn. The killer's goal was to secretly "stab" every other person, in private, killing as many of us as possible without revealing their identity. Once you were killed, you would scream dramatically and pose in a horrific death pose, while the killer ran to hide and then faked surprise when everyone turned up to see who died. We would form alliances, and the non-killers had to unanimously pick the killer to win. Once the killer was found, we would start again. We would play for hours and hours and it went on for years.
I grew up in an apartment complex with a patch of grass in the center and all the neighborhood kids would play there. The ages ranged from 10 to 15 and we would get either a pair of scissors or a screwdriver and try to get it to stick into the ground by throwing it. The following person would have to put their foot where it landed and so forth until a person lost their balance. We called it suicide.
“Deathbe” (sort of like team freeze tag) it is played once a year at our huge Easter party. There are two teams the kids and the adults (often time the fathers and older brothers of the kids) adults would have footballs, frisbees, and normal and small sized dodgeballs. The kids would all start at a “base” the adults would then call out a new base somewhere in the yard (example birch tree or some sort of landmark) the base the kids would currently be on would no longer be safe after 5 seconds and they have to run to the new one. The adults would then throw the items mentioned earlier and if you were hit you were frozen and could only be unfrozen by another kid coming and picking you up. This would go on until all the kids are frozen or until the adults got tired. We layered added objectives such as moving a flag from the middle of the yard to a base.
Ghost and the the witch. Just one of the amazing games my brother and I played. One would wear a sheet, the ghost, and the other would hit them with a broom. I guess the point was to see if the ghost can catch the witch. Spoiler alert the ghost didnt win very much.
My brother and two cousins would get baby sat by my grandma everyday and during the summer. We grew up watching Benny Hinn(sp?), the televangelist that could heal people.
We would have one person play as Benny and two ushers on either side of the 4th person. "Benny" would come up and place his hand on the (4th)person who needed healing. They d place their hand on their forehead...making them pass out slowly backwards and the ushers would catch them.
I used to play a game with myself when i was little where my imaginary friends would draw on the wall and i had to try and figure out how to stop them. (basically it was just me drawing on the wall while verbally telling them to stop drawing on the wall)
My neighbor who is basically my brother and I used to play “Every Game” where we would just pretend to be different video game characters and run around our yards with sticks yelling sound effects from the smash games
We also played “Little Toys” with all of our different action figures from dragon ball Pokémon and all Nintendo characters. I saw a box of them in my closet cleaning last week and it brought on some feels
We played a game called broomball, which was basically hockey on roller blades using a broom and a golf ball. My sister made me do these tryouts before I could actually play on my own team. There were two of us playing this game, so I don't know what her backup plan was for if I didn't make the team xD
beejx · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm the youngest. My older brother and older sister invented a game called "Booger Boy" and I was always the Booger Boy. It was basically a game of tag in the house, and everything I touched turned into a giant booger that could no long be used as base.
When I was in second grade, a buddy of mine would find pine straw around the playground, and build “houses”. We would lay a perimeter and just pretend that there were walls. We went to a school that had a mock city government/ economy system, so we understood that people needed to be paid to maintain/ protect our house. So we paid other kids whatever change we had to defend/ clean our pine straw home.
My friend growing up had a pretty worn down trampoline that we played on all the time. There were holes in the nets and one section of the netting was sagging so much that there was essentially no barrier there. So we thought it’d be a good idea to create the “running game”. It consisted of 10 kids just running around in a circle on medium sized trampoline trying to knock each other to the ground until only one person was left standing.
No one ever got hurt, surprisingly, and I maintain it’s the best trampoline game.
Me and my friends used to ring on neighbours door bells and run, so this used to work in the following manner, We used to live in a society with flats on 9 floors, each floor had 2 flats, and one of them had their entrance right next to the central staircase. If we had to ring the bell at the 9th floor (let), so we used to stop the lift at the 8th floor, half of the gang would stay in the lift to keep it open, and half of us would go up and ring the bell like 10-15 times repeatedly, and immediately run downstairs and get into the lift, after getting down, we used to sneak out from the parking located at the first floor, which had a wall above it, so no one could spot us from the balcony.
A lot of people lodged complaints against this and brought it up multiple times society meetings, now they have cctv cameras on each floor, and we had to stop, btw, I’m 18 and I used to do this till last year, and I’m not ashamed of it ;)
At recess in kindergarten we played "hide and seek tag" where a seeker would have to close there eyes as everyone else hid in a small playground area and then when they oppend their eyes we would try to get the other side of the playground while the seeker tried to tag us if someone got tagged they would then be on the seekers team and we kept going untill everyone was a seeker
“Get Off My Lawn”: One person stands up at the top of the stairs, around the corner where no one can see them, and pretends to be an old man/lady. The other players try to climb the stairs as quietly as possible, and if the “geezer” up at the top catches you, while yelling “Get off my lawn!!”, you all go back down to the bottom.
The things that entertained us before we had all of the technology kids have now.
My sister and I would put all of our beanie baby’s in a pile and run in a circle, grab a bunch of them and throw them in the air, catch which ever we could, and throw them onto the couch. Rise and repeat until one beanie baby was left. This one was “out” and we played until we had a champion. Best. Game. Ever.
This one is a classic: Red Rover. For those of you who weren’t blessed with this game, it starts with two people linking arms. One person charges them and tries to break through their linked arms, if they don’t get through they have to join the chain. If they do breakthrough they go to the back of the line of people waiting to bull rush the chain of people. At my elementary school this was a teacher organized recess until some injuries got it banned.
On road trips my family and I would play the "ABC Sign Game". We would look for signs that had the corresponding letter in it but one person couldn't move to the next letter until everyone had finished the letter we were on. We also couldn't use the same sign but we could use the same word on a different sign. Since we couldn't move on until everyone finished it made the game last a lot longer and it's still one of my favorite games to play while driving although since I don't live near a zoo anymore we've upgraded to where Q, X, and Z can be on license plates.
The game was wrestling, But on a wall!
Basically you had to wrestle your opponent off the wall and whoever wrestled everyone else off would become the King. Really dangerous but fun at the same time
We would play “Poké World”. My cousins and I used to collect Pokémon cards when we were younger and my oldest cousin made up this game. It was like a side scroller RPG game where there were main quests and and side quests. We could pick our Pokémon, gain teammates, or socialize with other Pokémon. We would throw all of the cards on the floor and she would make the trees, bosses, background, etc out of the cards themselves (because we had sooo many cards). She was (and still is) soo imaginative and creative. It was our (or at least my) favorite pastime.
Oh Lord.. not terribly unique. We played Chicken on the playground not far off from how it is played in the pool except we played on wood chips and gravel.
For anyone unfamiliar, it is a game wherein one person rides on the shoulders of another and they attempt to throw other "riders" off of their mounts. I lucked out in that the dude I almost always paired with ended up being a 6'6" special forces dude later in life. And I am 5'9" nothing special now. It was a fantastic pairing for this game.
I remember one time we threw two people down a slide. Idk how we even got to the top...
Pillow Duels. You each start on one side of the room and you got a pillow. First person to hit the other with the pillow wins. You can throw it but once you throw it you are exposed if your enemy didnt throw it. First person to 5 wins.
Goalie Ball: in my elementary school we had a handball court right next to a hill that had a low brick wall to help support the wall. Two players, one the kicker and the other goalie. The point was to kick the handball against the handball board and try to get it past the goalie and hit the low brick wall.
It was my claim to fame as I came up with the game and they played it for years, even after i left the school.
One time we were backpacking around the age if 10. We setup camp at 5pm with lots of sunlight left. We created this game that was a little like chess with lots and lots of rules. It boiled down to throwing rocks at other rocks. So many rules. Then the sun went down.
It turned out it was more fun to argue about the fairness of the rules than to actually play. 10/10 would play again
Whyx_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have an A frame at school. We played a game called lava sharks. Someone had to be the lava shark and drag the others through the cracks in the A frame at which point they were also a lava shark. Needless to say we got injured and it was banned quite quickly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school there was this game called fairy killers where the boys would have to poke the girls for no reason
My brother-in-law and I made up a game called TASAEO (pronounced Tass-E-Oh), which stands for "Throw a stick at each other." It's kind of like two-person dodgeball but with a stick and less mobility.
Rules: Best played outdoors. You find a stick that is not too bulky but with enough weight to be thrown fairly accurately (≈10-15˝ long and maybe 3/8˝ thick). Two players stand an arbitrary distance apart and face each other. The goal as the thrower is to throw the stick at the opponent and hit them for points. Body shots equal one point, while head shots equal three. The other players goal is to dodge the stick without moving their feet. As a defender/dodger you may do as much wiggling/twisting as possible, but if your feet move the thrower gets a point. If you catch the stick, you get a point. A dropped catch counts as a hit for the thrower. The game is won when a player reaches a set amount of points (I think we usually went to ten).
When riding in the car, I would force perspective with regard to a spot on the window by closing one eye and then switching. This caused the spot to “jump” to the left/right.
Then I would make the spot jump over telephone poles, pedestrians, etc. as we drove.
Monkey wars. You’d each start on end of the monkey bars and try to get the other person to fall off. Usually just consisted of us kicking the shit out of each other.
Started a fake club at school called the “Wilderness Club” where we walked around at recess commenting on the weather and fallen leaves. We met every Tuesday.
My friend and I would line up at different ends of the hallway and we would close all of the doors to bedrooms and bathroom so that it was an enclosed rectangle. Then there was this soft ball that you would blow up to inflate (I want to say it was Koosh or something) and you would have to wail it down the hallway and get it to hit the door behind the other person.
“Escape” - my dad would contort his body into a series of loops and bridges against the wall next to the bed. My 3-year-old self would slither between them trying to get from the head of the bed to the foot without touching him. If so, his limbs would collapse into an avalanche of giggles and tickling. Good times.
Some people would run around the neighborhood at night trying to hide from the 2 people in a car rolling around with a flashlight. If the spotted you with the flashlight you were out, however if you were baring your naked ass at the car prior to being spotted you were free to go another round.
Blind Mans Bluff. All i remember was blindfolding someone, giving them a broom stick and the game was over as soon as someone broke something of moms. I imagine the goal was to find the other players but i have no memory of that ever happening. Also What time is it Mr. Fox? and Red Light, Green Light...
My 2 sisters and I had a “game” called the “butt club” in which we would take turns pulling our pants/ underwear down in front of one of our parents with their backs turned and tried to last as long as possible before they would turn around. As they were turning around we would quickly pull our pants back up and we had a blast doing this as it involved quick reflexes. We would often do this in the kitchen while my mom was cooking or doing the dishes. None of us ever got caught by our parents with our pants off. Don’t worry we stopped after I turned like 7 years old and I’m the oldest kid.
When I was little my dad used to take me to the firing range. I liked it, but the most exciting part to me as a kid used to be collecting the shell casings. I would collect hundreds of them and then build race tracks and castles out of them. They were my Legos. And no I grew up in Europe.
Basically all of us would lay horizontally on our stomachs across a bed and we were only allowed to look straight ahead. The "shark" would be on the other side of the bed by our feet and would try to pull us off the bed one by one all while everyone held on for dear life. You could help save someone or you could help the shark and push the other players off, but eventually the last person the survive won the round.
I don't know how unique this is, but me and my cousins were really into scary stories/books/shows and especially the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. Me and two of my cousins would always read the books, the older one read them to us before we could read, and then the two of them (they were brothers) would make a "haunted house" in their room or the living room or wherever for me and their sister to go through. Shit was SO fun damn I miss it.
My friends and I would play this game called Deadman where one person had to lay on the ground and everyone else chanted "dead man dead man come alive, come alive at the count of 5...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, come alive" and then the dead person would stand up and walk around with their eyes closed and try to find the rest of us. It was supposed to be played on the trampoline but we didn't have one so we played in the front yard. It was essentially Marco Polo minus the pool now that I think about it
“Avalanche” Cover the stairs with blankets and pillows then proceed to take turns falling down the stairs as others threw more pillows and blankets down after you.
My brother and I would play "Help! Help! The couch monster is eating me!" when we were maybe 8-10ish.
We had this couch in the basement that unfolded into a bed. Not a pull out couch or anything with a metal structure: it was basically a big long foam pallet that folded onto itself in thirds to be a couch. One of us would crouch inside the thing, under the folded couch seat, and yell the name of the game. The other would SPRINT from across the room to save them. The goal of the game was for the person in the couch to leap out at the right time so that the couch unfolded into the jumping kid's legs and clothesline them into the gaping maw of the couch monster. Biggest points went to the best flip, with credit going to the kid in the couch for the timing.
We played for at least two years, until my parents gave the couch away.
My brother duct taped me to a poll in our driveway once and said when I got out I could tie him up and we would see who escaped the fastest. Well it wasn't a game, he just wanted a longer turn on the N64 and left me outside for 3 hours.
I loved red rover. Hold arms with your class team as the other team holds arm. Basically one team calls out a name. The person who is called runs full speed at them. If he makes them break the arm link he picks a person to go on their team. If he couldn't he joined their team. It was great and yes alot of us were clotheslines and fell to the pavement. Why we didnt play this in the grass field who knows. The teachers let us do it. No one ever got hurt either.
Now a days, if a teacher would see this, they would probably stop it for safety reasons and console Tommy because no one called him over and he is hurt about it...
My elementary school has pecan/walnut trees and we used to, and kids still do this, have scavenging races followed by eating contests for finding walnuts and pecans. No one stopped us coz it was enjoyed by teachers as well. We also played "lets chuck acorns at people and who ever goes unnoticed the longest wins". The later was really fun :).
Me, my sibilings, and cousins used to play "the monster game" when we were little. Me (being the oldest) was always the monster. I would hide in the basement, make a bunch of pillow forts and setup little decoys. Then when all the little ones would come down and I would scare them and jump out and wrestle, etc.
No real goal or purpose, but we would do this for HOURS. No matter how many times I would hide and "jump scare" from the SAME spot, they would always freak out.
We're all in late teens, early twenties now and have a "shitty horror movie" tradition after Thanksgiving dinner now.
When I was a kid, there were a few of us that would go down into the basement of our apartment building that had a poured concrete floor that was smooth and kind of slippery.
We'd wrap ourselves in pillows with bungie cords, and run and slide on blankets toward each other, with the goal of knocking one or the other over.
My little sister and older brother came up with it. They called it "the bum game" Basically you are trying to sit on your siblings face and fart on them while they hopelessly defend with their feet XD It still gets talked about today even though we are all in our late 20s
My older sister would pretend to be passed out while myself and my younger sister would drag her to the bathroom and flush her head down the toilet.
Not sure why.
My siblings and I called it Lizzard. We would turn off all the lights in the basement and hide. The seeker would try to hunt us down while we tried to sneak to the stairs. If you made it to the top of the stairs you won. If you got caught you lost. So much fun.
yinkat · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play “Mr Fat Cats”.
We would parade around sticking our tummies out super far and seeing who could be the manliest. Along with that we would try to serve each other “ice cream” from magnolia tree buds. The Mr Fat Cats ran the whole town!
Oh and it had a certain song we would yell too. This went on from about 5 - 9 years old. Super fun.
While driving in the car I’d simultaneously watch the light poles on either side of the road. The goal was to not have my head tilted in the direction of the pole as we passed it.
I’d tilt my head left to right, changing before the next pole on that side approached. If the poles were placed unevenly on both sides, my head would go left, hold there a bit, right, hold, etc., but if they were similarly spaced I’d have to quickly go right left right to dodge both on each side. If they were exactly the same I’d tilt my chin up to jump over both at the same time.
I definitely looked ridiculous tilting my head side to side, up and down, but it helped pass the time. I’m 25 and still do it. Fuck I’m weird.
Slide Tag: grew up with a trampoline so my friends and I were on it 24/7. We'd put the sprinkler over it so it was constantly keeping the trampoline wet. We'd then slide into each other, think like a soccer tackle. There were two modes: one was traditional tag style, one person it, having to slide into others to "tag" them, the other was 3 lives each person - once you got slide into you lost a life - last person standing.
I lived in a brand new subdivision in Texas. We had a coldasack (SP?) and I used to shoot a bow and arrow almost straight up to where it would land on the other end of the coldasack. While it was in the air I would run over there and try to catch it before it landed. Last time I "played" it hit right between my legs and I never even saw it. Man I was dumb.
My little brother and I used to set up 'treasure hunts' around the house (we often made those chocolate doubloons the prize). We wrote and hid cryptic clues around the house for the other person to find, incrementally leading up to the treasure. Sometimes we'd go all out with the aesthetic and crinkle/ stain the clues like old bits of treasure map. Also, we played freeze tag in the dark with a flash light as the 'tagger.'
GLADIATORS:
At home, my sister and I would give each other ten minutes to go around the house to find armour and weapons.
My favorite set up was a Easter basket used as a face mask, I put two shin guards on my arm as armour and used a belt as a whip and a comb as a slashy knife.
We have weird scars...
At school a friend and I would use the fallen Palm fronds. The ones with the teeth and use them as swords and Halberds entirely based on what we found
Slapping each other really hard on the head and then saying that a fly or spider was on them. Wasn't really a game since the fly was always on me, now that I think about it.
I would gather things from our yard (leaves, twigs, berries, grass, flower petals, etc.), put them in a frisbee and pretend it was a salad and then run around with it and try to feed it to people.
Oh my gosh. I was obsessed with unicorns when I was around 8 or 9. I was also an only child, so had to spend a lot of time playing alone. I used to take this foghorn my dad had (he's a sailor), put it around my neck, and gallop around our yard pretending I was a unicorn. I have a very vivid memory of blowing the foghorn dramatically in the front yard, only to see a couple who were taking a stroll down our street staring at me. I can't really tell you what the game was. I was just...a unicorn.
Root tag! Basically you’d find a big tree where a lot of the roots were poking through the ground and play tag on them. You had to stay on the roots and you could take a 30 second timeout by holding onto the tree. It was the best when there were multiple trees to jump roots.
My siblings and I would play a game in the car during road trips where one person would listen to music in headphones and lip sync and the other person would have to try to guess what song. We had other weird rules that went along with it, but my memory of those isn't as strong.
I used to go down to my uncle's basement and he made me close my eyes for 10 minutes while I felt something wet and warm slide in and out of my asshole. Always wondered what that thing was lmao
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My cousin and I had our own talk show that we recorded into my brown Fisher Price recorder. It was called "Gross Talk" and we talked about boogers and poop and the like. I wish I still had one of the tapes.
zzzyx3 · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would lay out mats and basically have a really intense pillow fight mixed with wrestling with no mercy. We called it colosseum
My best friend and I would stay up late when she stayed over. My dad had a big collection of those small bar soaps from hotels, and we would wait until he went to bed, then come into the kitchen and "carve" them with with toothpicks into little people so we could play pretend. We were embarrassingly old at this point, like 13 or so.
This will get buried... and downvoted. But in high school we would play a game called, "concentration camp". Basically, we would set up in the auditorium of our school. One person would be in the back of the auditorium manning the spotlight and everyone else would be on the stage. From there we would kill all of the lights and try to escape moving from the stage to an exit without a spotlight hitting you. If it hit you, you were captured.
"Chaos Crisis". Our elementary school had wood and metal playgrounds with the wide metal slides and the thick metal bar across the top. We would all stand at the bottom of the slide and then yell "Chaos Crisis!" and then fight to get to the top, no holds barred. Once you were at the top, you maintained your position by shoving and kicking everyone coming up the slide. I have no idea how you won.
Tackleball. My dad made this one up. We would take a handball into our back yard and throw it onto the roof. When it rolled back down, who ever caught it would have to run and touch the back fence while everyone else tried to tackle them. I don't remember there being a score keeping component, but I do remember my dad catching the ball most of the time and letting my sister and me tackle him every time. We would play for 10 or 15 minutes, however long it took for my grass allergy to start being unbearable, then we would go inside and have a snack (after I washed whatever body parts were red and itchy, usually arms, legs, neck).
We’d play fun fun football and blackout hide and seek tag. fun fun football was only played in the snow, 2v2. no downs, the only thing that stopped play was out of bounds or touch down. basically us wrestling in the snow trying to get the football to the end zone. basically a mix of kill the cow and football but more violence.
blackout hide and seek tag we played at my one neighbors house when his parents went out at night. We’d turn off all the lights, try to block windows if there was light coming through and then the fun would ensue. all of us running through the house in the complete dark was a blast and as we were a rough group we’d almost always break something (vases, windows, shelves).
One other memorable one was there was a CVS near us with a huge wall thing around it because it was on the top of a hill. that year there was a huge snowstorm like 2-3 feet at least and school closed for a week so we’d go to the cvs and play the game of “who could jump from the highest place on the wall without getting hurt”
My brother and I would play a game we called “sock ball”. We would ball up 20 pairs of socks and stand across the room from each other. Then, one of us would get 30 seconds to throw every “sock ball” at the other. The goal was to hit the other person as many times as possible in thirty seconds while they tried to dodge the socks. This created so many arguments over whether or not the hit counted that we had to recruit my little sister to be the judge.
My elementary school's playground was divided into a younger kids section and an older kids section by a big concrete building, it was the tallest building in the school and was storage for PE equipment.
As soon as the bell would ring for lunch, my friends would grab our pencils, sprint across the yard towards this building, snap our pencils in half and try to throw the pieces on top of the building while shouting "Mexican Adventure!". Due to our feeble fourth grade arms this would take all of lunch. We didn't keep score, we just called it Mexican Adventure. Then we'd go back to class and make up some excuses about not having pencils.
I have no idea why we did this, why it was called that, or whether I was unknowingly racist as a fourth grader. Probably best left to time.
When I was probabaly in first grade me and my cousins would play the "Stair Jump Game". Essentially, the game is starting at the first step of a case of stairs and jump off of that stair to the bottom of the stairs. You would move up to another stair every time you passed the previous "level" and you would keep on going until you got too scared to jump off of whatever stair you had made it to. Let's just say that this game resulted in more than a few broken ankles.
I created a game to play in my head on scantrons for standardized tests when I was in early elementary school. The premise of it is you have a character that jumps from bubble to bubble going down the column, but your character can only jump two spaces left or right (ex. from bubble a to c but not from a to d).
When you come across the issue of needing to make a large jump, you need to use a point to get across with a “super jump”. You score points by chaining 3+ jumps that are directly next to you (ex. From a to b to c =+1 pt), or from ground pounding through the bubble you’re standing on onto one underneath it (ex. a to a = +1).
As I went through different phases, my mental image of the character and their abilities have changed. When I was really into Pokémon, my character was a Pokémon trainer and the “super jumps” were me calling out my Pokémon to help me get across. So, in a way I was kind of adding DLC to it lol
I’m finishing up high-school right now, and I still play this subconsciously on all of my tests with bubble sheets
"The Game". I have 2 older siblings, brother 8 years older and sister 5 years older. We would say to each other 'let's play "The Game"' so that our mom wouldn't know what we were up to...then we would go to one of the upstairs bedrooms, go to opposite corners of the room, and turn off the lights. When the lights were off you would crawl around and hit anyone you found in the darkness. Taught us a lot about sneaking and a lot about dodging flailing limbs in the night....God we were stupid. So much fun though.
My cousin lives in Michigan and snows a lot up there. Whenever I used to visit him in the winter I would bring all my nerf guns, and we would play “zombie winter apocolypse”. We would go to the park get four tables, flip them on their sides and basically rp a whole zombie apocolypse
"DeWalt" we had a mini DeWalt branded life jacket that went on a teddy bear (probably) it was heavy enough to throw it at each other so we would go out at night and played tag with it. You got hit, you were it and so on and so forth.
raxci · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walking back from school me and some of my friends played a game called "lamp post" where while walking/running in front of each other we would stop suddenly causing the guy behind to ram straight into your back. This then evolved into people shoving each other into actual lamp posts really hard
Played a game we just called "Suits." it was like if pokemon and Gundam had a baby. I was the story teller and the npc/enemies and my friend was the hero. He would seek out enemies, defeat them and acquire a power shard. If it was of a type (grass, electric, fire, ect) he already had, it would either power up an existing power or learn a new power based on a coin flip. And new typing would earn a new power of that type. Eventually he'd gotten powerful enough to start fusing types by holding onto the shards instead of using them right away. It was such a fun way of running around during multiple summers.
"Machine Gun" -- basically my siblings and I would beat eachother up on the trampoline with rapid fire punches. The first to fall off or cry would lose.
This will probably reveal my Reddit acct for any family member, but when the Casper the Friendly Ghost movie came out, Pizza Hut had these plastic glow-in-the-dark puppet-like toys, one of which was Casper himself.
My bedroom was in the basement, so we would remove everything breakable, shut out all light sources, get Casper all glowy, and then chuck him at each other in a blind sort of dodgeball/tag. It was pitch black, and the only thing visible in the room was Casper zipping around. It wasnt a huge room either, standard bedroom size. There were lots of black eyes and bloody noses, but we are saving Casper for the next generation. So much fun.
While on a car ride I would "activate" an imaginary laser sword attached to the door mirrors where the length of it would be the first thing the laser hits, so that I could cut stuff up while the car moved. I even had an imaginary point system where you gained points every time you were cutting something up and lost points whenever there was empty space and therefore wasting the sword's energy, so you had to have good hand-eye coordination and reflexes (I activated it clenching my right leg for right laser and my left leg for the left laser) to optimize the weapon's energy usage.
I still play it from time to time, it's pretty fun.
"Radio Host/ Gwens95-Talk". From when I was 4 to when I was 12, I had this super kid-friendly speaker, and it came with a microphone attached. I used to 'interview' my parents, friends, dolls, and just about anyone who was willing to put up with me. When I was 8, my dad showed me how to record on cassette tapes, and when became 10, I got a new cassette recorder (but I kept using my old one) and renamed my show "Gwens95-Talk 2.0".
In then end, I had about 6 cassettes of my 'show', but when I moved states, I can only find two.
Crash Time 3 - Highway Nights and Crash Time 4 - The Syndicate. It's a German freeroam car game. Best game ever. It also has lots of mods for it available for download and you can play up to 4 players with game controllers.
GARBAGE WARS!!! My litter sister and I were tasked with taking out the garbage. Somehow it was always piling up and so we’d usually take 2-3 bags out at a time. Now, we were easily frightened so the fact that we procrastinated until dark meant we had to do something besides just running to the trash area in our complex and back. Once into the main parking lot you’d quickly start swinging the overloaded bags of trash over your head and try to hit the other person. If garbage juice got on you it was an instant win for the opponent. The crazy thing is we both are germaphobic so it was pretty traumatic to get anything on you. 10/10 I’d still do it today.
“Monster.” You’d turn off all the lights in the house. 2 teams—monsters and humans. Imagine hide-and-seek + Left for Dead: the goal is for the humans to defeat the monsters (using nerf guns) before all the humans are turned into monsters by being tagged. Humans can barricade themselves for protection, and monsters can use household items/locations to conceal themselves (sheets, closets) from detection. The game ends when either all humans have been turned, or when all monsters have been defeated (you cannot be un-turned).
This was in the mid/late 90s in a condominium complex when I was in grade school (7-10 years old) and had a group of about 7-8 similarly aged friends, all within about two years of each other.
We would play the usual kids games outdoors like tag and hide and seek, but one of my favorite games was this play pretend game that one of us had made up called "Rollis-pollises"
I'm guessing at the spelling since it is a made up word but the premise was that we were each "Spirits" of a different thing (i.e. Spirit of Nature, Adventure, Water, Strength, etc.) kind of like Greek gods mixed with superheroes. We were defending the world from these demon/monster/creatures called rollis-polises and also dealing with our own dramas/relationships between each other.
We would pretend that the sandbox (that later became a playground) was our home base and we made up relationships between our characters. It was the most fun I ever had in my life from such a simple thing and I've used most of my hobbies to try and achieve that high again. Still haven't quite found it...
I definitely attribute that game to my current love of Tabletop RPGs.
Abby, Gabby, Helena, Ryan, Sheena, Shawna, Evan, and anyone else I might have forgotten, if you are on Reddit and see this I'd love to get in touch.
TLDR: a make-believe game where we were all Greek God-esque super heroes defending the world from a monstrous threat.
My friend had this hill behind his house with a 4 to 5 foot drop down onto some grass. We then would fight on the ledge and attempt to push eachother off. We called in "Hades" because we werent allowed to say hell. We called it this because we pictured us pushing eachother off into the depths off hell.
My sister and I would play “Sock Ball”. We would each stuff a sock with as many socks we could find, eventually creating 2 rock hard “sock balls” that were about the size of a football. Then, since we shared a room, we would proceed to throw them at each other as hard as we possibly could. The goal was to get each other’s faces. She almost broke my window once, and I’m glad because that throw would’ve for sure broken my nose.
Not sure if unique, but my cousin and I would enact the scene from The Lion King where Scar throws Mufasa from the cliff. We would take turns with who was who.
How it worked was we would sit at the top of the stairs, Mufasa kind of on the stomach, and Scar would throw Mufasa's hands in the air and then the person slid down the stairs.
NQK002 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play this game we simply called 'Treasure Hunt' and had a blast. We both drew maps of the house and hid 'clues' all around, which would be marked on the map with X's. Each clue gave a hint regarding the 'Treasure', which was just a big chit, or maybe a random item. Each of us would take turns hiding all the stuff and, after exchanging the maps, searched for them together. Whoever found their respective treasure first would win, and then repeat.
Everytime we went to our cabin with my family (25) members, our aunts and parents made a map and riddles and all the kids have to found clues and eventually they lead to a treasure. It was really fun
not as children, but in college we played a game called "2 hand 1 hand 1 hand"
It was a catching and throwing game thatyou coupld play in a living room (Went to school in NYC, so it was tiny shitty apartments, not dorms).
The games was played with a beanie baby lady bug.
could be played with like 2 to 10 people.
the game is simple. You play catch, you miss, your're down to 1 hand, you have to only use THAT hand to catch and throw. you miss, you're down to your OTHER hand, you can only use THAT hand to catch and throw, you miss, you're out.
Now, there were lots of rules, but the most overriding one was "when in doubt, rule it out" this kept the game friendly.
The other rules were mainly made to disqualify a throw and the names are fairy self explanitory:
whipper
spiker
'tweener
it-beginser (this made it so that nobody would be eliminated on the very first throw of the game)
there were others, but you were always looking to preserve the catcher.
lots of hours spent playing this game...it was mainly to pass time, not to be super competitive.
My best friend and I would play Charlie's Angels. We would go out at night with flashlights and patrol our townhome complex. It had a big brick wall around it, and we would walk along the top of it and jump into the bushes if a car came by. Back then, you could get free maps from AAA, and we got one of each state and hung them in her basement. We would plan our "mission" based on the maps before going out to patrol. Jenny, wherever you are now, you were a rocking fellow Angel.
Had this little lean-to roof connected to my dad's workshop. So my sister and I would take turns re-enacting the scene from the Lion King where Scar drops Mufasa into the stampede. My sister and I would throw each other off again and again. It was the best in winter cause then we'd land in fluffy snow. It was about a 7 foot drop.
We played a game called "Teacup". My older brother and I would put one of the younger siblings in a sheet and twist the edges like a burrito then swing them back and forth singing "Teacup! Teacup! Around around you go!" Then we would spin them around. Imagine the motion of a jump rope. It was fun.
Guns was one me and my brothers played all the time. Basically you had 3 different options, block, shoot, or reload. You start with no ammo and you can have up to 6 shots. So to play you slap your legs twice, then you pointed up to reload, cross your arms to block, or point to shoot. It's like a modified version of Concentration.
My brothers and I came up with "The Mist". One day there was low lying fog that moved across the ground and we decided it was following us so we came up with the idea of this possessed fog. Every time it was foggy for years we would go into survival mode thinking it was after us. We didn't believe in it but also totally did believe in it. Kid imagination is powerful. Years later I about shit myself when I read the Stephen King story, called my brother up like "WE KNEW ALL ALONG!".
Anytime we would have a family party at my house, my cousins my brothers and myself would play a game in the basement. We would turn off all of the lights except for two black lights and a strobe light, blast some sort of high energy music like kid rock bawitdaba or some rob zombie. Then each “team” would have a bucket of neon colored bouncy balls (the small rubber type you would get out of a coin capsule machine) that we would whip at each other as hard as we could across the room. Sometimes throwing handfuls at a time so they would bounce off walls and hit the other team from different angles. There was no winning or losing. But that’s what we did, and it was a lot of fun.
"bye bye Benny", we started playing it just after the Mummy came out on VHS, and we took the name from the scene where Benny is thrown off the boat.
The aim of the game was to make it to the top of a small grassy incline in our school playground. Once you made it there, you would then try to throw anyone else back down the hill whilst saying the iconic (to us) "bye bye Benny" line. No better way to spend a sunny lunch time than throwing your friends down a hill.
Ceiling fan baseball. We would roll up a pair of socks, turn the ceiling fan to its highest setting, and lob the socks up there. Bottom of the wall was a single, top was a home run. If you missed it was a strike, and if it hit the floor it was an out. Endless fun until the fan breaks, which was totally not us mom I swear.
When I'm at a family gathering and my brother is here, each time someone says a word related to pain, suffering, death even war or whatever we have to pull out the best surprise One Thousand Years of Death on the other. We don't count points but my beother's probably winning
At my elementary school, a small area of woods was next to the playground. This was a favorite place to play especially when it was hot. One summer, a group of us girls played with the tent caterpillars that were everywhere, building them little stick houses and pretending they were families. Too bad those tent caterpillars were damaging to the trees. :-(
I would put my thumb and forefinger together, flat. Like the "ok" sign but not circular. So each hand was a bird with the thumb and forefinger being the beak, and the other three fingers being the crest. I would make them talk to each other, and they would talk to me too. Eventually I worked out a whole backstory where they were a brother and sister named Birdo and Birda. I guess they were imaginary friends? There was a whole alternate universe worked out. Figured out ways to modify their shape to make different expressions and everything.
when it snowed my friend’s house had these huge(to us) 2-3 foot long icicles. We broke all of the icicles off and tried to sell them to “ice companies” we found in the phone book under the word “ice”. Did this a couple of times before her mom made us stop.
My brother and I would take our parents left over change jar and go into the basement and throw coins at each other. We called it penny wars. The best part is we would turn off all the lights in the basement so it would be pitch black and we would sometimes have a strobe light on the slowest setting.
Hide and seek in the dark! Exactly what it sounds like, we loved this game!! :D
Edit: if it was dark enough you could try hilarious "hiding" spots like doing a handstand along any wall, nobody would expect you in the open and your feet by their head :p
I used to ride my scooter on my cul de sac. I didn't always play with friends as I liked time on my own. I would pretend that each curb stone was a different country and scoot to each one pretending I was travelling the world. I still remember my neighbour asking me what I was doing, I said I'm going to Antarctica, she just laughed and watched me scoot a few curb stones down.
It was a fun way to learn about new countries. I'd try to memorise the globe and maps to think of new places to go.
Me and my friends in elementary school played "the big adventure", basically we would live an incredible adventure full of trials and made up monster fights to achieve a random goal at every play. Conveniently enough every trial was solvable with the personal skills of one of us (ie. "The only way to enter the secret dungeon is to solve the Pharaoh's riddle: what's 1234+1234?" and the kid good in math would step up and go overly excited "me! me! I'm good at math!"). At the end we would be like "omg pal, we wouldn't have done it without you"
I always played Simpsons Hit and Run. I always played that game despite me being a child that didn't know a word in English.
For some reason I loved doing the same thing every time I played: Start the game as Homer, get in the pink sedan, drive to the mansion from that episode from Itchy & Scratchy's creator. Next to this mansion, there was a rocket car that I loved, so I abandon the sedan and then drive with the rocket car to the power plant, where there was a secret entrance to a human size chess inside of one of the corridors in the plant. I'd push all of the pieces to the ground and then mess around the city doing car jumps and hitting people.
Curby, or at least that's how I think it should be spelt?
Two people stand on either side of the road and throw a ball, aiming for the curb.
If it hits the curb and rolls back to whoever threw it, they get 10 points and move to the middle of the road. There they can hit the curb for an additional 5 points.
This continues until passing traffic eventually becomes an issue.
I only had one close friend until about sixth grade. Before then, me and my only friendn, S, played some weird and questionable games.
One game in particular we called haunted bathroom. I think this started after we had made a muddy mess of the bathroom after playing wounded soldier outside. Basically, we personified every item in the bathroom as being possessed by a ghost: from the cabinets and the floor, to the shower mat, towels, sink, bathtub. Everything. Everything had a personality, and only the floor was nice (because it let us walk on it, of course). Every other 'person' in the bathroom was a real jerk, and would 'force' us to spend hours cleaning in the hopes of finally banishing the ghosts.
I'm sure my mom loved this game, because we really would sit in my bathroom for hours cleaning everything.
There were this books about dragons, dragonology I think? I’ll edit later if I find out something different, but my buddies and I would always have my mom and dad burry the “relics” and stuff that came with the books in the snow around our suburb. We’d use the books and make up stuff about the dragons, then use ninja tools from naruto to fight the dragons and get the relics. We had a dragon leveling system and everything. In the spring when everything would melt, we’d use water guns and balloons over the ninja tools, burying the relics and tracking them down. Looking back I really appreciate what my parents did. My mom even wrote out riddles while my dad was the one who actually went out in the cold.
Mforsb · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad has a dot matrix printer when I was growing up and all the printer paper was attached to the next sheet so we used to take the paper and play fax machine. We would literally write wicked stupid stuff on the paper and someone would sit in the closet and receive the faxes from under the door. Idk why we did this but it’s funny to think about now
I was an only child, I had this bag of those different coloured plastic balls and my Dad would try to throw them at me while I jumped on the trampoline.
I played sockball with many friends of mine. Typically consisted of a rolled up sock and a water bottle as a bat. One person would pitch and the other would hit and it was playing in my living room. The best part was that there was actually base running in my very small living room. Things broke quite often
Not sure how common this game is/was, but no one I’ve told has ever heard of it before.
Game was played in a pool with two teams of 3-4. Two towels were folded and placed on either end of the pool. A watermelon is greased with vegetable oil and each team fights to carry the watermelon and place it on the opposing team’s towel.
The oil made the watermelon impossible to hold and was rather difficult to predict in the water since watermelons are close to the same density of water and not quite aerodynamic.
I’m late to the party so I’m sure this won’t get seen, but this is the only ask reddit I’ve ever seen that I thought YES, I have something perfectly horrible for this.
When my cousin and I were little, we would play a game called “Sir”. My grandparents had these massive jars filled with coins, and that would be the currency for our game. I would set up “shop” behind the rocking chair (I was always Sir) and my cousin would have to do my bidding. If I thought she did well for the “days work”, I would give her some pennies. If I thought she didn’t meet my standards, I would dock her pay to almost nothing. She would cry and beg because she needed the money to feed her family, and I would tell her that wasn’t my problem and that she needed to work harder if she wanted to make something out of herself. We played this game for HOURS, every time we saw each other. Recently, I told my husband about this game and now he’s convinced I’m a sociopath control freak. Maybe!
We would get Calcium Carbide, dig a whole in the ground and then we added water, then cover it with a spam can with open side on the bottom, we would lit the thing with matches through a small hole on top of the can that would be fly like a rocket up to dozen frets into the sky. See a similar impact here
https://youtu.be/X8H3aH1E9ug
It was called “sardines”. Basically reverse hide and seek, where it started out with one person hiding and everyone else looking. When one person found the hider they would have to hide with them in the same spot until everybody was squished together like sardines. The last person to find the hiding group lost.
I had the biggest bedroom as a kid so me my 3 siblings and all my cousins would go into my room, turn the lights off and close the shades and then have a free for all brawl in the darkness. Surprising no broken bones but a few close calls
Our name for this game sounds terrible and the explanation isn’t any better. A couple of my friends and I use to play “terrorist tag.” Basically we would ride our bike around town, trying to find each other and then crash into the other person and then they were “it.” This was like a year or so after 9/11 and we were hearing “terrorist” a lot, but were too young to really know what that meant, so our definition was someone who just crashes into things...you know...like planes into a building or bikes into other bikes. Same deal.
We played “tie up” where me and the neighbor girl would tie each other to this tree with a jump rope and then the other would go inside. We also ripped all the leaves off of said tree. We got in trouble for that one.
Me and my siblings did so much stupid crap when we were young and the games switched up day to day. One day, we took turns getting into a box and the other two would close up the box and push it down the wooden stairs.
We played a game in the pool called “Stealth.” It was basically a mix of Sharks and Minnows and Marco Polo. One person would be at the end of the pool with their eyes closed (this person is the tagger), and everyone else would be at the other end (this works best with a long pool). Everyone has to try to get to the other end of the pool without being tagged. At any point the tagger can say “Stop” and everyone else has to stop for 7 seconds. We played this for hours when I was younger.
My neighbor and I would play “bar”. One of us would be the bartender and mix up a disgusting concoction, and the other one would shakily down said concoction.
My older step brother and I would play "Scaring Aliens". He would just hide in our shared room and I would try to find him only to have him jump out and scream at me to scare me lol. The game went fast but oh boy was it a rush.
we didnt have a name for this, but we played this fishing game where one of us would sit on the sofa and try to pull the others, who were 'slithering' on the floor, onto the sofa. sounds stupid but it was fun to us
I'm late to the party, but it seems like no one's talked about bum-smacking games, so here it goes. My sister and I (also girl, we were 12 and 7/8) would slap our thighs to initiate the bum-smack duel and stare each other down like cowboys and attempt to slap each other's butts while defending our own. Whoever successfully slapped the others' butt won and could do whatever they wanted to do (ie. get the sugar bowl). I think we mainly developed this game cuz the adults couldn't hit us, but we could hit each other.
"Contact" - Me and my brother invented this game. We would stand in the garden each with a bamboo stick, one of us would hold their stick up in a fencing pose and say contact the other would bring their bamboo stick up to meet this and say back contact. At this point the game was on. You would lock eyes and try to stare the other one out until the bamboo sticks parted. As soon as 'contact' was broken the aim was simple, beat the shit out of each other until someone gave up. There was a points system which was based roughly around the fencing system - the square target that basically makes up your torso - and there was also a no face hitting rule but both would always get ignored in the end. The game resulted in some honestly horrendous welts through the years.
Bo Ball: it was a game where it had football rules but with baseball equipment. The QB would use a bat to hit the ball to the receiver who had on a helmet and glove. The they would run with the baseball for a touchdown. It was a stupid game and there’s a reason we don’t play it anymore
I used to play this game where whenever I was being driven I’d pretend there was a dude on a skateboard riding across all the obstacles, trying to find the most accessible path without getting stuck. He would get stuck if I couldn’t find a path for him fast enough. This game got me through a ton of road trips, and looking back it’s kind of insane what I could do with my imagination.
I dont know what we called it but we had a specific word for basicly fuel. The fuel would be anything we could sort: marbles, stringbeats,... whatever was available at the time. We would be in a spaceship and we would evade monsters and attacks and what not. To do that we needed a specific amount of fuel. So we needed to sort out the fuel and when we used the fuel it got mixed all again so we could keep using it.
My cousin and I would play a game called Simba. We made up an imaginary friend together and pretended he would assign us tasks to do like crawling under chairs or hiding in the closet for a certain amount of time
I remember we also found a locket on the floor which said “simba” on it so that was pretty weird.
Also, Simba had an enemy called Morgraph and we would get toy swords and pretend to fight him but we never won lol
This was a game we played in our in-ground, rectangular-shaped pool involving flying karate kicks and trying not to drown. We had one of those giant (to us) 4ft beach balls that would float around on the surface of the pool. If you jumped from the edge of the pool and kicked it, it would have an initial burst of speed but would stay touching the surface of the water and slow down pretty quickly. We basically played a game of Pong this way, ideally with 2 people per long side of the pool. You’d jump, kick the ball, fall into the water, and try to get back out of the pool and up on the edge as quickly as possible to defend against kicks back at you. The goal was to make the ball hit the other team’s edge of the pool. We played this SO much and went through so many giant beach balls, because we’d eventually burst them from kicking them. It was also great exercise, given the scrambling to get up and out of the pool.
McsRn · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Teddy Bomb Wars.
Im one of 6 kids and my sister and i had a huuuge teddy bear collection. So we would split into teams of three in th3 basement, build legit bases on either side of the basement---which was really large-- and then just attack eachother. And it would hurt. Beanie babies were the best to use bc you could really whip them hard.. then of course the older teddy bears that had massive marble eyes bc you could really hurt someone if you hit them right with those.
Grew up in the boonies far from anyone else and had to find ways to amuse myself. Besides all sorts of questionable activities with fire, firearms, wild critters, etc, I'd play the crashed spaceship game. That's where I'd pretend to be an alien stranded on some backwater planet having to cobble together useful or fun items from old junk I found lying around.
My friends and I used to come over and play "The Stair Game" for hours on end. The game was literally just falling down stairs, and then trying to make it back up the stairs while everyone else was also falling down the stairs. We had like 6 people total one time, it was an absolute blast. The stairs has a thin layer of carpet on them so we thought it was safe
Game Setup: We would trudge through unbroken snow, creating a maze-path.
Game: Tag in the maze!
Rules: Simple, but enforced without mercy: no cheating and jumping between paths, no falling over onto the path walls, no stepping in the unbroken snow, no making new paths while a game was live. If you were caught breaking a rule, you were it.
Woah now I’m not falling for this one again, last time I told someone about the game my uncle and I play he got taken away for a long time and I had to spend all day at the police dept.
winkil · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Muscles"
It was a "king of the hill" type of game, where we would arrange our beds to form a big ring and push each other off it.
The twist is that whomever wears a blanket would become more powerful and resistent to being pushed around, so someone wearing 3 blankets would be nearly unstoppable and so on.
Idk if its a game as much as it was just us being little shits but, "Stick" ball.
Basically a tree fell in a yard on the cul-de-sac and me and a friend found a perfect batting stick with a slight curve. Over the next 3 days we would stand at the end of the street and hit sticks around the cul-de-sac seeing who could hit em the furthest. We practically stripped the entire fallen tree of branches but cluttered the cul-de-sac with well over 600 branches, twigs, and sticks. Cleaning that up was hell on earth.
Two brooms and a soccer ball or kickball. My grandmas carport that had some steps that were about 4’ wide, with roughly 4’ of space on each side of the steps. The spaces were the goals, and me and my brother would switch off being goalie and shooter to see who could score the most points. INCOMMING CREATIVITY We called it...broomball.
My cousin and I would sit at my the counter in my grandmother’s kitchen and play “bar”. We would drink chocolate milk, speak with fake accents and pretend we were from foreign countries. We would get into it too, creating elaborate back stories for our characters.
I specifically remember pretending to be an Egyptian policeman, in town visiting my long lost daughter.
I don’t know how we came up with it, but it was fun while it lasted.
We had a round above-ground pool and we would play Vortex Wars.
Basically, one team in the pool would try to walk in a clockwise circle as hard as they could for 10 seconds, which would make the water spin like a cup when you stir it.
Then they would pause and the next team would try to walk for 10 seconds in the opposite direction and try to force the water to spin the other way.
When we were too exhausted to continue, whatever way the water was spinning was the winner.
In elementary school, my brother and I would walk to school everyday so we’d make up games to make the walk more fun. The most memorable was a game where you’d have to hide behind something (tree, bush, parked car etc...) whenever a car drove by.
Me and my brother played butt tag. You would have to run up behind your "victim" and put your "weapon" (a plastic sword or something) up their butt. Damn we weird
Sometimes in Smash Bros I would pick Pikachu and my older brother would pick a human character and instead fighting I would pretend to be his pet. He brought it up in a conversation recently and he said he did it just because I liked it, but I only did it because I thought he liked it. I really just enjoyed spending time with him. I couldn't care less for that game. Fighting was more fun anyway.
my friends and i played Roadkill when we were young
when a car drives down the street, you have to try to race/outrun it from point A to point B (on the sidewalk, we weren’t flirting with death at 10 years old). for example, point A would be a stop sign, and point B would be my dad’s house 200 feet away. If the car passes you, you have to fall to the ground and play dead until the car gets to point B.
It was actually super morbid now that i think about it. and it actually explains a lot, considering the only friend from that group that i still talk to joined track for high school.....
Using pencil, draw a collection of asteroids along with two ships on different parts of the paper. Take turns to play. A turn consists of deciding to either move or shoot. To do either, place a pencil vertically, drawing side down over your ship. Apply pressure to the top of the pencil and flick using the other hand (it helps to use a somewhat dull pencil). This makes a mark indicating trajectory. If shooting, use an eraser to carve out the rock that you blasted. If moving, erase ship and relocate it to the end of the mark. Game is usually PvP. Shoot the other player to win.
My siblings and a few friends used to play "Operation Cornish Pasty".
We had a bunk bed which didn't have the slats screwed in. After removing 2/3 slats from the middle of the top bunk, we would carefully pile ourselves onto the bed then jump up and down whilst shouting the name of the game to a tune. Eventually the mattress would fall through the gap in the middle of the slats, enclosing the mattress around us like a cornish pasty.
We had a similar, less fun game called "Operation Beef Jerky" which involved spinning someone in a hammock until they couldn't escape.
My best friend and I played spy and used a white board to draw out the layout of my house and where we suspected everyone was. We had to sneak to the kitchen, steal a smack and return without being seen. It was the same route every time but we had to play it out completely.
Follow the ducky tail. Id put my hand in the small of my back sticking out like a tail. I did it to get my younger brother to follow me for whatever reason (had to leave the house and he was playing with his toys; mother needed me to take him out to the car etc)
I used to play I woke up somewhere I didn't know and had to figure out what was happening. Like I literally sat in my house, shut my eyes, opened them and then tried to come up with strategies to find out info on where I was and how I got there.
We used to play a game called "Go home to Jesus". My aunt would lay in her bed and pretend she was dead and my cousins and I would put makeup on her, lay a dress over her body, do her hair, put her shoes on, make sure she's got her good jewelry on, and then in goofy voices we would sing her funeral song. She would always pop up unexpectedly from her death and scare the shit out of all of us 😂😂😂
My friends and I used to play all sorts of games together when we were kids, but in hindsight these mostly amounted to terrorizing the local elderly residents (sorry Mr. Pickersgill...). We thought of ourselves as kind of a local "gang" and the four of us got into all sorts of trouble. Adam, who was sort of our unofficial leader, was the best (or worst, depending on your perspective) at coming up with all sorts of great ideas and plots for games and such. We mostly played pretend games, usually imagining ourselves to be things like cowboys and Indians and pirates and Atlantisans etc... And it was usually Adam who would come up with the game. I was a huge bookworm and somewhat of a stick in the mud sometimes at that age (we were all maybe 10 or 11 I think). I was that one kid who always argued about things like whether or not anchient Atlantis lasers were "fair" during these kinds of imagination games. In all honesty sometimes I wonder why the rest of them ever put up with me.
I think the best one was when Adam proposed playing "Spanish Inquisition". He told us all about it and we all agreed that it would be in the best interest of the town of we got rid of all the witches there. This involved us all trying to speak Spanish and bringing various "Spanish" things to make our Inquisition more "official". I got a pair of castanets from my aunt but I, of course, insisted they were maracas... I was also very insistent that we should be speaking Latin instead of Spanish (yeah, I really was THAT kid). Good Lord I was annoying back then... To this day I can't stand to watch home videos of myself as a child...
Anyway, we had everything we needed. We set up a dunking plank at our favorite pond and Pippin brought her younger sister to be "tortured" by us. I vaguely remember that there was an argument about it because Pippin's sister WANTED to be a witch and he had to convince her to say no so we could torture her. She eventually agreed and we set to dunking her in the pond.
Now, this was your classic English countryside pond. It was maybe a couple feet deep and covered in duckweed. We dunked her over and over and she apparently had a blast. In all honesty it was an extremely hot day and I really wished I could have gotten dunked too, but I knew it would ruin my clothing and my parents would be furious with me, so I never did. Looking back I probably should have considering how much trouble we all got in. Pippin's sister was green to the waist and her parents ended up making a round of phone calls that night. Mom made me write lines, which was her go-to punishment, but I think it was actually worth it!
The four of us are still in touch to this day! I eventually became a CPA for a large investment group, and Pippin and Brian ended up marrying and settling down where we all grew up. Adam went to school for conservation biology and eventually became a major environmental activist. He and his dog (who just won't die, I swear that thing is the oldest mut on the planet) travel the world trying to make it just a little bit better for the rest of us.
Manhunt + Red light-green light. The objective was instead of "It" being the person who tags others, the others had to tag "It" without being spotted.
We'd put on our parent's cammies, put on the face paint, wait for the dead of night, "It" would get a flashlight, and then everyone would low crawl as stealthily as possible. If "It" thought they spotted you, they'd shine their light on you and try and call you out.
Whenever I went to the beach, I pretended to be a turtle. I dug a deep hole in sand close to the beach, put pebbles in it to represent eggs, and sat down in my sand nest for the rest of our trip.
I've heard of different variants of this game, so I don't know how "unique" it is, and we weren't children, but teens...but we would always play "Name the Thing." On the surface it seems like a stupid simple guessing game: one person thinks of a thing--any thing in the world. The only rule of the game is the person who is "it" HAS to say "Name the Thing," verbatim. Everyone else has to guess the thing. That's it.
Whoever is "it" has to decide which guess is closest to the original thing and explain why, but others can make points for or against any Thing, and I guess the real object is to lay out a case why the person who's IT should pick your thing.
It probably only worked because we were SO high all the time...or laying around tripping...or drunk or hungover or SOMETHING. But we fuckin loved it.
My sister and I used to play "friend." We would use any sort of adhesive we could find to attach cardboard boxes to the wall and pretend they were lockers. Then we would stand at the lockers and "pretend" we were friends talking about middle school.
When I was in 6th grade some black kids made me and some other white kids play the "reparations game." Essentially they'd bully us to pick 'cotton' in the PE field. It wasn't really cotton but some dandelion looking thing. I told them I'm Hispanic but it didn't matter I had to pay the price anyway. It was degrading but on some weird level I at least enjoyed playing with the "cooler" black kids and I'd try to pick the most cotton to impress them.
At my grandfather's house my mother used to play "Crack in the wall", and the object was to roll a marble 15-20ish feet from the kitchen to the end of the hallway where there was a small marble-sized gap between the floor and the drywall. Roll it too soft and the marble wouldn't make it to the wall, and roll it too hard and it would go past the drywall and you had to fish it out from behind the wall, the object being to get it so the marble would be caught perfect between the drywall and the floor.
My mother was the youngest of a big, poor family and said she played it alot by herself as a kid. Taking into account the different ways the floor subtly leaned due to the age of the house I was shocked when she showed us as an adult 25+ years later that she still had the touch and got it perfectly into the crack on her 3rd try lol
Me and my sister would play this game called “Blind Eating”. How it worked was we would put a mask on and reach into the fridge or pantry and we would have to eat the first thing we found. I ended up eating, uncooked canned beans, raw spaghetti, a raw onion, moldy cheese and many other assorted disgusting foods.
Ball tag. We used a smaller dodgeball and would run around our half acre yard with about 15-20 neighborhood kids and chuck the ball at each other. Free-for-all style. We eventually got a trampoline and would play tramp ball tag. It was chaos!
My family lives close to my grandma, but we have cousins who live on the other side of the country. Whenever they would visit, we would play the Sticker Game. My grandma would have a bunch of small yellow smiley face stickers and one person would take 10 and hide them around the large basement, then would call us all down. Whoever found the most stickers won and whoever found the least would hide the next bunch.
We played a version of dodgeball called ‘stikbold’ (in danish).
One ball (maybe two), free-for-all, with the lights off, and a big gym mattress in the middle of a 15x15m room. Sometimes we’d be up to 15 players - kids running, pancking in the dark. One kid dislodged his knee on a radiator, another split an eyebrow - didn’t stop us...
My brother and I made up a language (he was 3.5, I was 2) that basically sounded like dolphins and we’d shout it to each other across the house then start laughing. Long story short scared the shit out of my grandparents when they visited.
Kick the can.
It was part of the “night games” the kids in my neighborhood would play along with things like ghost in the graveyard.
My dad taught us how to play because it was a game he played as a kid. One person would be “it” and sit on one of those large silver bulk food cans in the middle of the road and cound to 30 or so. The rest of the kids would scatter and hide. Once the person was done counting they would go looking for everyone else. If they saw you, they would have to call you by name in order for you to be out. The goal for everyone hiding was to sneak into the road without being seen and kick the can. Then that person would be it and the game would start over again.
SMAZ14 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember a game we would play at our neighborhood pool either called Crocodile or Alligator Eye (I can’t remember which). Basically, the players would line up on one end of the pool against the wall, while the Alligator stood outside of the pool right behind them, facing away. The players could leave the wall anytime they want (and independently of each other), and they had to reach the other end of the pool without getting tagged. The Alligator could turn around anytime they want, but if they turned around and no one had left the wall, they had to turn back away from the pool and take one step forward. I remember that you couldn’t be tagged if you were fully underwater, but there might’ve been a few other rules that I forgot.
This game goes by a lot of names, but we always called it "The Paper Game."
Each person starts a story with one line and passes their paper to the left. The second person follows the first prompt with a line of their own, folds back the first person's line, and passes to the left again.
By the end of the game, you've got a story per person of disjointed, tangential, ridiculous goofs.
I mostly used it as an excuse to make my relatives say fart, barf, and toilet.
jdoe36 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play flip the bird. The goal of the game was to make the other one see it without our parents catching us, usually during family dinner or when we were all watching tv. Think scratching my head with my middle finger, picking up a cup, that sort of thing. If you saw it, you lost and it was your turn to get the other one to see yours. My mom's response after I brought it up years later: "Mmhm. y'all thought I didn't know. I saw you two flipping the bird at each other. Your mama knows everything you knuckleheads did!"
Coon. My little sister had a raccoon skin hat that my brother and I would make her wear then we would have her hide while my brother and I hunt her down with our Nerf guns.
My siblings and I would tie karate belts to our bedroom fan, and then tie stuffed animals to the other end of the belts. We’d turn the fan on full blast and run away from them!
Mufato Ball. It was a game invented while camping on my birthday when I was very little. It's mostly similar to baseball with the following changes. There are only two bases. Home plate and 1st base. It is played with a foam football and a paddle for a bat. Outs are being tagged by the ball only. The opening rule is no showing of the underwear. After that new rules are invented every year just for that years game. By the end of the game it will have turned into absolute chaos and someone with expose their underwear and the game will get called because of it. We played this every summer on my birthday for the better part of 15 years.
There's two actually. One of them was just spying on people and hiding. The other one just happened on Christmas, because of the flashing lights. We would try to advance as much as we could between the intervals of the lights, we were also in a secret mission.
When riding in the car, my eyes would "jump" over gaps in the grass, like streets and driveways. I also walked up/down stairs so that my feet would miss steps with hooks holding the rail up, still do that sometimes.
arm421 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shins”. A game where you and another person held on to each other by the arms and kicked each other in the shins until someone either gave up or fell down.
We used to stuff large dog crates with blankets and pillows, one kid would climb into the center cavity, and the rest of us would heave the thing down a flight of stairs. I have no idea where the adults were, because I can't imagine this would have been sanctioned, but man was it fun.
My brother and I would play “Cats.” We would pick a type of feline to be and all of our characteristics. Then we would move to opposite ends of the room, where we’d be in imaginary cages. Then we’d go, “beep beep beep” and the “cages” would open. We then went on to fight to the death to see who would be the strongest cat.
I used to have this slightly off brand lego which I have no idea how I came across but I used to make little x people (1 4 by 2, 1 2 by 2 in the middle and then another 4 by 2 on top) and have them star in like this big brother type show and then fight to the death in horrifying challenges.
Anytime I was in the passenger seat of the car and we passed by a driveway entrance, I would pretend to lift the front wheels of the car until we passed the driveway entrance. Almost like when a horse bucks... it was weird.
PBPF (Pitch Black Pillow Fighting) - Essentially 6-8 of us friends go into the basement and grab their choice of pillow (goose feather pillow was murderous). We all picked our starting positions and someone cut the lights. From there it was usually very very silent for about 1-2min, then all the sudden you hear the first swing and it's all out war until something got broke or someone freaked out. Good times those were.
My cousins and I would play “Star tripping”, which involves one person spinning in a circle outside at night, looking up at the stars for 30 seconds. Then, right after they finished, someone would shine a flashlight in their eyes and they’d immediately fall on their ass, every time. It was hilarious because to this day, not a single person stayed standing up.
This is rediculous and I kinda want to try it but my eyes holy hell that would suck hahahaha I can be blinded by a flashlight even swung in my general direction.
My neighbors had a large outdoor trampoline with no net, so we'd play a game where one kid with a yoga ball would try to knock the others off. It was a blast, but unfortunately a state law made it illegal to not have a net around the trampoline :/
Little Sally Walker.
We all stand in a circle and chant a song while two or three people ran around inside the circle. Then they'd stop in front of a person and twerk in front of them (not required to, but it was the standard), then the person they stopped in front of would have to do the same. We were all 10-12.
We didn't have a name for it, but we all got ripsticks and lacrosse sticks and would try and nock each other off anyway possible. That meant sticking the lacrosse stick under the wheels or smacking each other with the sticks. It was lots of fun.
My brother's and I played a game called "fight in the dark" with these kids we were friends with (and remain friends with to this day) where we would go into the basement and black out the windows with pillows. Then someone would be the "light person". Their job was to turn the lights on and off. When the lights were off, everyone else would blindly wrestle anybody they ran into. When the light person turned on the light, everyone had to freeze in place, and the last one moving would become the light person.
We played this game from age 8 until we were in our teens and our parents told us that a bunch of boys and girls shouldn't be wrestling in the dark with each other.
Girls could play too, despite the the old school sexist name (we were kids in the late 50's, early 60's).
The game was simple. One kid had the ball. Everyone else tried to slaughter them, pile on them, rip the ball away. The challenge was to hold onto the ball as long as possible, by running around or just plain grit while ten other kids piled on top of you. Fun!
This will probably get buried but I’ve always wondered if other people do this. I’ve never talked about this before. It’s two different games that I would play with myself that we’re really similar
1) I would make drumming sounds with my teeth. Like tapping one side or another or both to mimic certain drum sounds. This is barely noticeable even if you’re looking for it and I’m pretty sure only I could hear it since it was happening in my skull.
2) when driving down the road, I would look at the lines in the side of the road and play a game where I would let my teeth touch if there was a line under me and if there wasn’t I would not let my teeth touch. You can think about it like guitar hero with only one note. If there was a dashed line ( - - - - -) I would touch my teeth every time. If it was solid, I would keep my teeth together the whole time (———-)
I’d stare out the window on long drives, imagining a little character running along side the vehicle, hopping up on the guardrail, jumping over road signs and ‘gators’ (or being blindsided and losing health if the signs snuck up on me). Bonus points for bouncing on roadkill.
We played wallball with a tennis ball (sometimes 2) and allowed for pegging as an alternative to bouncing people out, but obviously if you missed you would generally get an out instead unless you hit a really lucky bounce
I grew up in Germany and at the time, German license plates typically had 3 digits on them.
I used to always try to do math in my head to add and subtract from each number to make the plate read “666” in my head. When i finally saw a “666” plate, the game was over.
My cousins and I where obsessed the the dreamworld film “Spirit”. We would play a game on the trampoline called “1-2-3-SPIRIT” where we jump three times as high as we could go, then on spirit we would bum drop onto the trampoline and see how high we could go. Had nothing to do with horses and I can’t remember the reason we gave it the name, but we would play it all the time.
Another trampoline game we would play together didn’t have a name that I remember (I will ask my brother), but the rules went like this: one person went in the middle and would close their eyes. They were the hunter, and would listen and feel for the other players and try and tag them out. others would try not to get caught. The people who are not hunting could get off the trampoline, but if the hunter says that someone got off the trampoline they are out. Last one standing would get to be the next hunter. It was a game of stealth and perception.
I have so many more logged away in my memory, I’ll write out more if people are interested!
Pscel · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister and some neighborhood friends used to play "Blind bull" where we would close all windows and turn off the lights in one room. Then the "bull" would be blindfolded and had to try to catch the other kids while on all fours. If you were caught, you would be the next bull and so on.
Surprise surprise, we broke some things and weren't allowed to do it again.
Egg toss! My brother and I would wait until our parents were gone and we would bring a few eggs outside and each of us would have a turn throwing and egg as high as we could and the other had to try to catch it without breaking it.
It’s not really a game. We never named it either. My cousins lived near my family and my sibling and I would go over to there house to play all the time. There was a small field between our houses. The grass would end up getting very high before someone eventually mowed it out of fear that one of us would get bit by a snake. Copperheads were very common in this area. After the grass was mowed we would take it up into a large pile, and then make a giant birds nest looking thing out of it. We tried to put it in this area where three trees were growing close together so that it felt more like a real birds nest in the trees. Like I said, it wasn’t really a game but it would become our hangout spot and we would play other games inside the nest.
I made a game up. Stache or no Stache. As you pass cars on the highway, you profile the driver by the car he drives to predict whether they will have a mustache or not. Use anything you can to inform your answer: stickers on the car, the amount of dirt, license plate personalization.
If you are passing a truck, one will ask, "stache or no stache?". With trucks there is a large chance the man has a mustache. Women driving is a win for no one. After the guess has been said you can go further by saying full beard or some other form of facial hair. Then when you get to the car you look in their side mirror or casually glance at them through the window. You may get weird looks but thats part of the fun.
I don't recall the name of the game but we played something simmilar only it was about smiling. Could we get them to or not? If they won't look it didn't count.
Okay, maybe. When we celebrate a mustache, I think it may give them a little happiness to see everybody in the car staring and smiling, or it makes them very paranoid.
Me and my brother were pretty creative when it came to playing since there was a pretty big age gap(10 years, I'm the younger sis). Two games pop into my mind.
The first one was "Brother/sis food"which was basically one of us acting as a chef and preparing the other sibling to be some kind of dish.
The second one was "X and the poop" (x being my brother's name"). I was the poop ofc, and I would climb up my bro's back, under his shirt. When the time to poop comes I would slide out slowly. We showed this one at a family meeting and they all were entertained, but my mom. She didn't really know what was happening. Ah, good times.
Tldr:
Two games: bro sis cannibalism, and bro acting like he pooped me out.
My brothers and I basically played bogeys, but with the word c*nt instead. (For those who don’t know you take it in turns saying the word and you have to say it louder than the other person)
When I was little my brother, some friends of his and I would go to his room, make it as dark as possible and we would just fight each other in the dark.
That's it... That was al there is to it lmao
Jr_jr · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dark room” me and my cousins would go to a big room and turn off the lights, it was literally imposible to see.
Someone would stay out for 3 min while we all hide.
A card game my family played called 1000watts. It's like gin rummy with wild card and the first card you get is the number of cards you get. I have taught a lot of people how to play it, and have never met anyone outside my family that has heard of it.
We used to ride a "zabuton"- (Japanese word for a flatter version of a mattress) down a flight of stairs like a toboggan. There were 6 of us, we often went all of us at once. Oh and there was a bend at the bottom with a window.
2 teams, X amount of people, a flat crushed can, two end zones.
Objective: Kick the can between the opposing teams legs. Upon completion of successful 'goal' the losing person has to run to the opposite end zone while everyone on the opposing team beats the shit out of them as they run passed.
Rules: No headshots, no tackling, no tripping, no fighting back if you were the loser.
Literally that was the purpose, the winner was whichever team didn't give up.
My brother and I, along with a few of the neighborhood kids would play our own version of “Fear Factor”. We would do things like wade into stagnant water with thick mud, and whoever could get deepest into the muck would win. Or, we would boil seaweed and whoever went along and ate it would win.
Boobie attack....first grade me came up with this excellent game. At my birthday party we all put two balloons up our shirts and chased eachother around. If someone chest bumps you and a boob falls, that’s one life. Last boob standing wins
Spit tag. Yup the name says it all. It ended the day I got a huge mucus ball on my face. It reeked of pure shit and I gagged all the way to the restroom. We were in 6th grade
In the fall, when Pa was raking all the leaves to the burn pile, I would play "Salem Witch Trials." Inevitably a Barbie or two would end up burned at the stake for their crimes.
ahp105 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shlooba.” My dad and I would pass a football back and forth until I threw a perfectly placed spiral. When my pass was good enough, he’d yell “SHLOOBA” as loud as he could and throw the ball high in the air. I’d have to catch the ball and run past my dad. If he tackled me, he got a point, and if I made it to the gate to the backyard, I’d get a point.
I'm not sure if it's unique but I've never seen or heard it before some where else. The kids in the neighborhood and I would play a game called spud, every one got a number and one person would have a kickball. Everyone got in a circle around the person with the ball. Then the person with the ball would bounce it as high as they could and yell out a number. As soon as they bounced it everyone would run away from the ball except the number who was called. When the person caught the ball everyone had to stop where they were. The person with the ball would take 3 steps towards who ever they choose and then they would try and throw the ball to hit someone, you could dodge the ball u just couldnt move your feet. If you hit the person then they would.get a point, if you missed the person then you got a point. Then who ever gets the ball would bounce it. First person to get 10 points loses.
My sister and I would play Arctic explorers. When it was cold outside we'd choose a room, open the windows as wide as we could and turn all the fans in the room on high. Then we'd pack "provisions", mostly snack packs of gushers or Go-Gurt and juice boxes. We'd dress up in our warmest clothes and camp out in the room and pretend we we're on a mission in a frozen wasteland.
Dodgeball but with single shuttlecock. Field is a badminton court. If you are hit and the shuttlecock drop on the ground , you become ghost at the opponent's outer territory and help your team to throw the shuttlecock at your opponent. If you manage to catch the shuttlecock or not letting it drop on the ground, you are safe.
Me and my sisters would split a deck of playing cards and sling them across the room at each other like little mini frisbees all while hiding behind stuff and trying not to get hit. We also played “statue”, where one person holds completely still, and the other person moves your arms, legs, fingers, smile, eyebrows, whatever they wanted into whatever silly position that they want the “statue” to be in. Lol
We also played “swiped your gobble”. Bear with me on this one. We used to call the wobbly things on a turkey’s neck a “gobble”, and the aim of the game is to slide your hand across the bottom of the other person’s chin without them being ready for it and then you yell “swiped your gobble!” Lmao. And when the game gets intense, everyone is making forced double chins or covering their neck or putting their chin in their T-shirt. 😂 I miss being a goofy ass kid.
I used to roll pinecones under the tires of cars with my buddies in elementary school. Eventually some problems arose with neighbors and that had to stop.
Holding a mirror flat under your chin and walking around looking down. Gave the illusion that you are walking the ceiling. Still disorienting and fun as an adult
“Lump Bump”
This was in the late 80’s and no parents around, as both parents worked and kids could do whatever they wanted as long as their parents had a vauge idea where you were
My youngest brother would go upstairs and have a blanket he could see through over his head. He’d count to 10 and we would all hide. The house was set up so you could run through it in circle fashion, central staircase and kitchen tv room dining room all split off from center. He’d come down and chase us and if you were caught/killed by the “Lump Bump” you’d be “out” but you could help other siblings out as to where Lump Bump was in the house, as long as you didn’t give up their location
For some reason it was fucking terrifying being chased around and some friends would get trampled in the mad rush to stay out of Lump bumps way. Super fun though. We used to have a sign up sheet and wait list as to which friends were allowed to come over to play for whatever day we could play it. Too many kids and it wasn’t fun or scary so there had to be a limit. Usually someone got hurt and cried, but you sucked it up because it was the ‘80’s lol
I used to play who can stare at the sun the longest back in 6th grade with one good friend of mine.
xBirde · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tree dodgeball, my brother and sister climb the tree and try not to get hit by the ball which I’m throwing at them. Didnt last long before my sister broke her arm
Not mine but my friend came up with the most insane little "game" ever "Vampire Boy". It was a mix of hide and seek but instead of us all hiding we were trying to hunt our friend who would always try to manage to find a new and clever way to jump out and scare us, at that point it was like freeze tag until we were all "killed". My friend curled up in a ball on the top shelf of a closet (we were all little scrawny kids) and then leaped down without making a single sound and would bolt to kill us, it was a game where we were judged by endurance.
Worst thing was when i was the last kid "alive" and he scared the shit out of me so hard i kicked without thinking and knocked the wind out of him. i don't mess with vampires anymore
Fart Ball. It’s a game me and my best friend at the time made up, elementary school 2005-7ish maybe.
We never got a basketball because the “cool” kids would take it to play 2on2, so we would go down to the broken basketball goal and use a football. The object of the game was to run the ball around the other player like football, then to shoot in the goal like a basketball. Bonus points if you could squeeze out a fart and Max used to call me a cheater because I’d eat tons of chocolate (makes me gassy) and OWN him all the time on bonus points alone.
Ps: it’s harder to make baskets with a football than you think. 9/10 times it just hits the rim or backboard and flies in the opposite direction and you have to chase it!
It started off as a handful of us and turned into the biggest event every recess for a few years. It started off simple, but politics, arguments of rules and gameplay changes really got out of hand and ruined it.
There was a rubber dodgeball that 1 person kicked into a group of people. Whoever caught the ball would take the kickers place and kick it into the group of people again. That was it, until the teams started forming. People kicking it to certain players seemed like a coincidence at first, but didn't take long until we knew what was happening. The best 3 athletes joined forces and only invited the best onto their elite team. I played for one of the better rebel squads trying to take them down, but it was difficult. Then one day I was asked to join the elite group, so of course I did (went dark side). It was really just the boys that played since it was super rough and probably 50 or so would be in the game at a time. There were many fights, arguments, injuries, tons of spectators, and friendships lost. The teachers made us stop many times due to being too rough. It was a wild time waiting for the big game every day. I felt privileged to be one of the founders of the game.
Also some cool come together moments. One kid was mentally and physically disabled, but we were able to get him into the game to catch a ball as everyone celebrated. It sort of all felt like the movie Basketball going from a few kids to becoming super popular.
My dad set up a homemade game of 'Fear Factor' during a birthday sleepover one time. Me about 8 other 10 year old girls had to eat some awful concoction of Sprite, crab meat, and pink butter (you remember that short lived trend), and do stuff like spend so long along in my dark basement which they thought was haunted, and such. We had a blast. One of my favorite memories of my dad.
The game itself wasn't that unique I think, but what we called it was. When we would play fight and pretend we were fantasy characters or superheroes my cousins and I would call it "ting tanging"
Took our shirts off, sprayed ourselves with the hose, and threw chalk at each other. Low budget paintball.
EqFox · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a common area where we moved to, and the kids there played a game called "Ghosts in the Graveyard", which was pretty much just reverse hide and seek. It would be everyone vs 1 person, the one person hiding and deemed the "ghost", and the goal for that person was to try and scare the life out of everyone else.
The other team would try to find the "ghost" before they got a chance to really scare everyone, a new ghost would be picked, and the game restarted.
You play at night, outdoors. We got super creative, using string n' noise to pull at branches, ipods to make scary music, and a lot of waiting to build tension.
Mr hanky the Christmas poo- only it was literally nothing to do with mr hanky . We all stood on the backs of the sofas and someone was in the middle of the lounge on there knees and would pull our feet off the sofa and we would keep moving from one sofa to the other and if we got caught we became mr hanky
When we were younger (I was maybe 6, and my eldest brother was 9), me and my 2 older brothers lived in a one bedroom flat. When one of us needed a pee, the other 2 inevitably also needed to pee, so we all went together. 3 kids pissing in the same pot. I thought it was great fun to direct my stream towards one of my brothers. This always descended into a full blown piss fight, which was fun to us, but looking back, it was gross.
We played this game called Frasier. Not based off the TV show Frasier. It was based off some other show where the main character was named frasier and he had a dog and a friend who we actually called Frasier friend. Then we would go in the sewer. Aka under the bed I guess and do adventures. We would all fight over who got to be who and o think Frasier was a detective of some sort. Anyways it was weird looking back and none of us can remember the name of the show because we were so young.
We made up a game called Apollo where we would throw a quarter into the air on the asphalt and you couldn’t move until it landed. The goal was to hit someone in the head.
The other game we played was to ride bikes in a circle and each person would have a t shirt in their hand and the goal was to lodge the t shirt in the opposing riders bike chain and make them fall.
cyhis · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On car journeys my brother and I would play “my car” where you would spot a car and say “my car [name of car]” then that would be your car until you saw a better one and whoever had a faster car at the end of the journey would be the winner.
My brother and I made a game called "karate cat and karate dog". Basically you could pick an animal and become that but with the ability to fight with Karate or some type of skill. It always boiled down to him being a wolf and I was a fox.
I had a deck of fish-shaped playing cards with pictures of different cat breeds on them when I was little. me and my friends would shuffle (of course via the classic "spreading them out on the floor and mixing them around with your hands" method) and deal them all out evenly and just make trade deals until we were happy with the cats we had. The highly sought-after Sphynx usually required a 3+ cat trade, and they had better be good ones.
there were also Shoe Flinging Competitions, where we would all be on the swings and kick our shoes off as far as possible. or Crazy Hair Day where we would just go in the bathroom and completely fuck our shit up and then make my parents judge who looked the most retarded.
Ever heard of the Nut Mines? It’s a roleplaying game involving a giant squirrel sultan and overseer, and human slaves as they work to mine nuts that squirrels buried in winter. Few people know the origin, but it’s actually a cryptic reference to a few strips of the Dilbert comic where Dilbert uses a supercomputer and chaos theory to predict that giant squirrels take over the world and force humans to work in their nut mines. Source
Ghost in the Graveyard: Kind of like hide and seek but one kid hides and the group seeks. When they find the Ghost the finder yells "Ghost in the Graveyard" and everyone runs to base. Anyone tagged becomes the ghost for the next round.
My 2 older brothers, a friend, and I played a game we called "Trip-a-hoy". Our childhood home had a floorplan were you could basically go through the house in a circle. The middle brother and I would run around in this circle to the living room where my oldest brother and his friend waited. Armed with pillows, kneeling on the sides of couch cushions placed on the floor.
The object, of course, was to make it through the small gauntlet without getting your ass knocked to the floor. Run around and do it again.
Occasionally we would trade positions so the oldest brother and his friend could run the gauntlet, but the size difference between the pairs meant that they were far more successful at making it through unharmed.
My friends and I had a little game we called "My turn, your turn".
I do not recommend it for anybody.
The first player would find an object such as a piece of garden hose, stick, vinyl siding, old guitar (and yes these are all things we've actually used) and hit the other player in the back with it. The other person would then take their turn and do the same thing. The rules were, if you hit the other person you must then be hit yourself. You can at any time choose not to retaliate, and at this point the game is over, but when your back is stinging and has a big red mark on, it it's really hard to turn down the opportunity to hit them back.
Not as a child, but as a young adult. Gestation estimation. I'd never heard of it but a friend introduced me to it when we were on holiday. One person Google's the gestation time of an animal, and everyone has to guess the duration. The closest wins
I used to play a game on our trampoline. We (my brother, friends and I) put some balls on the trampoline and bounced around. The goal of the game was to let all the balls fly of the trampoline but if a ball touched you, you where out. I did this a lot and it was a lot of fun.
Ps. Sorry for the bad English. It isn't my first language.
Not really a game, per se, but there was this “fad” going around in my elementary school where a kid would make these certain movements over your hands and then you would have to have your hands and arms down together and then they’ll slowly rise up without you controlling them. One girl did the trick on me and I was really amazed at how cool it was so I asked her to do it again on me. Then another girl showed up and said that if you’re a Christian and someone does the levitating hand trick more than once on you, you won’t be able to go to heaven. I was crying for the rest of PE.
My friends and my brother and I made up a kind of 360 degree volleyball game with our netted trampoline. There would be one team of 2 inside the trampoline and one team of 2 outside the trampoline on the ground. The outside team would try and toss the ball into the trampoline and make it touch the trampoline floor while the inside team would try and defend the floor
The inside team was not allowed to catch the ball, only make hits. If the ball hit the floor, the outside team got a point and the teams would switch after 5 points or so. The inside team could remove a point by kicking the ball out of the trampoline with their foot, but if the outside team caught that ball before it hit the ground, then the outside team scored 2 points. It sounds simple, but a lot of techniques emerged like fake throws that bounced off the outside of the net, throws that hit just inside the back of the net, and passes over the trampoline. We spent many hours playing that game!
My brother and I had 2 unique games. One was called "Poof" and was played when we were really young. It involved each of us holding a pillow to our chests and running full speed at each other until we hit and fell down. The second was Duplo war, we each built bases in the recroom and used the small Duplo blocks as ammo to throw. The winner was who ever didn't bleed from a sharp corner. Our mom wasn't happy when she eventually found all the dents in the drywall after playing on and off for a year or two
anemoo · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister and I would play a game called “Bury.” Basically we would cover the other completely in blankets so that you couldn’t see them at all, then you do a sort of “excavation” on them like they were a fossil.
We also played another game called “Ugly Baby.” My older sister and I could cover my whole body with blankets except for my face which had a “flap” so that you could reveal and hide my face. My sister would then proceed to open and close the flap and when she opened it she would either go “Ewww this baby is ugly” or “Aww what a cute baby.” Thinking about it now is pretty messed up as I was always the baby.
My brother and I played “Ball wars” it was kind of an extreme form of dodgeball. One person would be on the trampoline while all other players hurled balls at them from the ground. We would use every ball available to us including soccer balls and basketballs. Tbh it’s one of my favorite games we played.
I used to play this game with my younger sister and 2 cousins. It was called Hardalee Darp Harp Harp.
I would stand on the bed in my grandmothers room and march in front of the mirror while repeatedly saying Hardalee Darp Harp Harp. My sister and younger counsins would get behind me marching and repeating after me. As soon as they would come into my vision in the mirror, my job was to trip or knock them over and off the bed and they would then proceed to get back in line and the process would repeat itself. There was no real winner because the entire game consisted of me knocking them off the bed.
My younger siblings and I played a game called "mirror the ceiling". Everyone grabs a handheld mirror of some sort and places it ceiling side up under your nose. You then have to navigate the house essentially looking down on the ceiling - the floor looks like the ceiling. It's hilarious because you bump into things you can't see. You lift your legs up high to cross doorways. And so on. Loved that stupid game.
We use to play a game like "the floor is lava" but since our carpet was blue, we played a game we called "Shark". As the older sister, I was always the Shark and my brother had to hop from cushion to cushion from the couch and not step in the "water". If he did, I ate him.
We use to play a game called "Pokemon Masters" and I would pretend to be Pokemon and try to catch and use my "skills" to capture my neighbors. I was always the Pokemon.
Also played a game where I was a wizard (Gandalf was my favorite character) and would try to beat my little brother with magic as I had this cool looking cane with a massive glass ball at the end, while he tried to attack me with plastic swords...this was obviously in public and people obviously were confused. We had outfits to play the parts.
...I just realized I was always the bad guy in things. Hmm'st.
In long car rides when my sister and I got too rowdy, my mom would kill the vibe by reading out random numbers from license plates with an operation (add/subtract/multiply, etc.) and we’d have to do it.
Briefly, we played the "Jurassic Park game" or "Dinosaur" game. It was like tag, and the person who was "it" was a dinosaur and tried to tag other people who then became dinosaurs.
My next door neighbor and I played the "fence" game where we would jump fences pretending to be runaways, or running from the cops.
We played what was called "The Orphan Game". It was a mix of playing school and house. I was always the "Madam", which basically meant I was a teacher and ran the orphanage that we decided we all lived at. I'd assign my friends chores while I made up quizzes and material on sheets of paper to teach to them. They had to go bake cookies or sweep the dirt off the sidewalk, or pick a bouquet of dandelions.
One time, one of the "orphans" (my sister) was being bad and refusing to listen during my math lesson, so I decided to tie her to a chair with some rope.
When I was in elementary school about 9 years old I rode the school bus in the mornings, and a couple of my friends and I would sit in the back seats and play "the car shooting game." We would make finger guns and just shoot at all the cars that drove behind the bus. The tar strips they put in the road to patch up cracks were the spin out marks from the tires, and shooting signs gave us power ups or money (though I'm pretty sure we never spent the money on anything).
Played this game religiously for at least a year, and we never played if one of us three happened to be absent one day.
My father and I played underwater soccer. You fill a water balloon and place it in the center of the shallow end of the pool. You score by getting it to touch the opposing wall or if the other person pops the balloon. IDK if it's an original idea but it was really fun as a kid in our little pool.
We played something we called Run Then Die, where one person was "it" and they gave the cues to the rest of us. When they yelled RUN we would all take off running in various directions, but when they yelled DIE we all just had to go limp like we had died and let gravity take over. The person with the most dramatic/glorious/funniest "death" was it and got to make everybody else Run Then Die
My dad used to play a game called "festive". You used to sit down each side of a garden with legs wide open. You'd roll a ball towards eachothers balls really hard. If you hit their balls, you'd yell "Festive!". You had to take it. It was a weird one.
My sisters and I played Tartan Man with a select group of similarly retarded friends. Like Blind Man's Buff but whoever was It went fully head first into a manky old tartan sleeping bag and had to run around blind without the use of their arms trying to tackle people to the ground so they could be freed from their tartan prison and make someone else It. We played it in the top hall by the stairs. We were idiot children.
There was a trifurcated tree behind my house that my friends and I would play 'trains' on, with a big knot coming out right at chest height we called the 'steering wheel', despite trains not having steering wheels.
That, and also our "jumping club". Which basically consisted of us kids jumping from some trails in our neighborhood down into the creek below, which was about a 10 ft drop.
Probably not that unique, but we used to play a game we called "pang-pang". We built pistol and Guns out of lego, and then ran around pretending to shoot eachother. If you got shot you had to pretend to die. It could get really intese.
Brother and I used to play catch..
With an orange. Neither of us knew why, we had perfectly good balls to throw but we decided that oranges were the spheres of choice. It all came to a head one day when we were playing orange catch in the living room and accidentally clipped the chandelier, causing it to crash down between us and sending glass shards everywhere. Luckily no one got hurt, but I can't help but remember the puzzled look on my mother's face as she walked into the living room, saw both of us just surrounded by broken glass, and me holding an orange dumbfounded as to how it could've possibly happened.
"Peer hunting." My grandparents owned a large piece of land in East Texas, full of hills, trees, and a little mini-canyon. It was a kids paradise. My grandpa, dad, and uncles had several deer blinds set up throughout the property from tree blinds, to ground blinds. Us cousins would get together and draw straws. Shortest straw was the "peer" (deer). The rest of the cousins would pick a blind for the hunt, while the "peer" was given the task of locating an item chosen at random beforehand which would be placed in the vicinity one of the blinds (it would never be the one with the cousin hunters, but you never knew which one the item was near, or which the cousins were in). The objective was to retrieve the item and return to the house without being seen. If you wandered in front of the wrong blind, you got pelted with BB's from a Red Ryder - if they were a good enough shot, that is. There were always winners and there were always losers in that game. We would do this all weekend, drawing new straws each time - once in the morning, and once in the evening until someone got shot. Once someone was shot, they were out and we moved on until we got to the last cousin standing, or our weekend ran out, whichever came first. There were usually only 3-4 of us that would play, and it was only in the off season so we wouldn't actually be killed, lol. Those were the most fun times of my entire life.
Jack Tripper. It’s the same concept as It Tag. One person is “it” or Jack Tripper. And chases every one around trying to take their legs out from under them. If you get tripped and fall completely to the ground, then you are now Jack Tripper. Hours and hours of fun.
My brothers and I played a game similar to the game they played in the movie "Grownups" where they shot the arrow in the air. Except in our version we took old machetes we had and threw them into the air and tried not to get hit when they fell. My parents were not too happy when they realized the reason their three sons were running around the yard screaming.
We called it the interception game. There were two guys on the trampoline, and two guys off. The two guys off threw the football to each other, and the two guys on tried to intercept/knock the ball down. If the guys off completed a pass it was a point, if the guys on knocked it down it was one point, and if they intercepted it it was two points. First team to 20 won. It was so fucking fun.
kit48W · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
King Rat. We had a giant pile of pillows and all the couch cushions. Giant. And one throw pillow was "the cheese". You had to crawl to the top of the pile and steal the cheese, and you could only push or bite your brothers and friends. Once you got the cheese you had to take it to your "den" your room and hide it. I can't remember the rest
I would pick up my sister my the feet, and my brother pwoud pick her up by the hands, and we would take her to the hallway which was about 36" wide, and swing her back and fourth into the walls. we didnt have a name for it, it kind of just went down like, "grab her hands"
When I switched Elementary Schools after moving in the 4th grade, the group if kids o ended up joining played Tag every day at recess. However, they didn't play regular tag they played a variant that they created called Spread. Basically, when you were tagged you were It, but the guy who tagged you stayed It as well. This would continue until only one person was left and when they were tagged the game was over. The game would start over with the person who was tagged last as the only person that was It.
In 6th grade during the stay after program (waiting for parents to pick us up after school ended) my friend and I invented "Great Balls of Fire." It was basically a mix of Floor is Lava, Dodgeball and Tag. The person that was it would stand on the wooden perimeter surrounding the playground jungle gym. They had a Dodgeball in their hands and could throw it at the other students who were confined to staying on the jungle gym, if they touched the mulch they we're considered out (because the floor is Lava). If a person was hit by the ball they were out and would join the person It on the perimeter. They could also throw the ball if they wanted. If the ball hit a part of the jungle gym (only first contact counts), that part would become lava as well and touching it would cause you to be out as well. Slowly the playing area would shrink and the surviving kids would be forced to climb on top of parts of the jungle gym to avoid platforms that had turned into lava. Last person left was the first IT in the next game. I was pretty proud of Great Balls of Fire. 2 years later I visited my old Elementary school's after school program to volunteer and get community service for my Home Mec classes and kids were still playing it and calling it the same name.
I grew up in northeastern Wisconsin. My two brothers and I lived in a very secluded wooded neighborhood that had Oak Forest surrounding it with a Creek running through the center of of it. The forest every fall turned into a Battleground the like which haven't been seen since the trench warfare in WW1. My brothers and I along with the other neighborhood kids would take our plastic sleds and cheap plastic skis and turn them into Battalion stations. Weeks prior to the battle were spent acquiring ammunition and building defensive structures and trenches. When the day of the war started the predetermined teams (mostly families with the occasionally only child on various teams) would all go to their stations and prepare for battle.
What followed was a glorious welt inducing War. Handfuls of acorns were launched via plastic skis staked into the ground, pine cones were used as hand grenades and sticks within reason were used as swords. The Oakwood Wars raged on for a good 5 years of my childhood.
Kids in my neighborhood played Scable-tee. Basically it’s dodge ball but with frisbees. Had to be played in the street and there were bonuses for hits or catches after the frisbee had been skipped off the street.
Boom ball. It was baseball with a wiffleball bat and a little tyke basketball. When you made contact it would make a loud sound. The rules were like baseball but you could hit them with the ball and be out as well. Also if you hit it in the cornfield it would be an out not a Homerun. We loved it
There was a game we called "Stick-it" in elementary school. It involved a tennis ball and a baseball backstop that was made of chain linked fence. The object was to get the tennis ball to stick in or go through the fence. You had to throw the ball from where it landed. If you could not reach the backstop from where the ball landed (couldn't let the ball bounce) or you weren't able to stick the ball after your opponent did you were out.
If I was walking somewhere at night, I would pretend to be a spy in enemy territory. I would dive behind bushes or into the ditch if I saw headlights coming and sneak through town.
I lived in a very large park with multiple playgrounds scattered through it. my cousin and I would pretend we're time splitters like the game and run around and pretend we were the people in whatever decade it was and try to find the time crystal and warp to another playground. Obviously had to use alot of imagination but from what I remember it was great
Trampoline dodgeball. One person on the ground throwing balls, everyone else on the trampoline dodging them like ninjas. If you got hit you swapped with the person on the ground. If you caught it you could throw it at airborne balls to deflect them. So much fun, so many balls over the fence
My cousin and I would go into my basement at night and turn off all the lights so it was pitch black. Then we would creep around and try to make the other one scream. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t handle doing that now as an adult.
Grandma's house had carpeted stairs going down to the basement.... walls on both side and a closed door at the bottom. We'd throw all of the cushions and pillows we could find and jump down the stairs into them... head first... flips... you name it. Sometimes on top of each other. I would NOT let my kids do this now though!
Throw lawn darts into the air and scatter (with friends).
Leggs4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In fifth grade I started a game of infected with my friends. One person would start as the tagger and when they tag someone they also become a tagger and you just play until everyone is tagged. Eventually we got almost everyone in the grade playing it.
me,my bro, and my friend lilly play a game called adventure quest. so the game goes like this: lilly has a playset and we use that as a rocket to explore the galaxy and go to different planets and walk around and find stuff and name them like: hydrolian flowers,quarion leon grass, ezain cats etc. and take them to the rocket (not the cats, lilly has like 10 outside cats and we don't bring them to the rocket). our favorite planet was pumpkin b 2 (witch had the last surviving kitten in lilly's grandma\grandpa's yard irl named pumpkin).
pumpkin 2 b was the moon of pumpkin 2 a the first planet in the pumpkin star system and we would choose characters before we played, and they would be video game characters or made up aliens and origin stories. most of my friends also played a game called cat and wolves which was 2 groups fighting(not actually fighting just like hunting each other down and pretend battle)
I tried to get my mom to set up mystery scenarios like in the Encyclopedia Brown books. She was like “uh, I don’t know to do that.” So I got pissed and threw a tantrum.
Ninja strike! More of a high school game but whatever. Everyone stands in a circle and each person gets one movement to try and hit the person next to them who is I believe allowed to move but can't move their feet. But if it's not your move you can't move so something like a jump kick could get you knocked out if you landed weird and couldn't hold it. Last person unstruck wins.
Our pantry had a sliding door so we played "elevator". The secret is, we were just using the game as a ruse to eat chocolate chips in there. SHOCKINGLY our parents knew the whole time.
My brother and I used to play movie rental store! We would take our games and movies and line them up in the floor along the trim and then browse them to pick games and movies and then check them out.
I used to stand in the walk-in closet, close my eyes, spin around, and try to think of the scariest thing I could. I'd open my eyes completely disoriented and a little out of breath. My mind would race with possibilities of what I might be seeing as I tried to interpret the images of the hanging coats and shirts in the closet as monsters. I usually didn't have a problem being afraid of the monsters in the closet at bedtime because of this weirdness.
Reading this whole thread reminds us of how we all had a childhood as kids before video games and technology were introduced to us. Such a wholesome thread.
There was this stupid game my cousins and I came up with a game which was basically tag in a small dark room and the person who was "it" would have to touch someone else. The catch was not just being in a dark room but the it person has a pair of clean boxers or some other small clothing t-shirt etc. (usually one of mine or my brother's) that have been soaked in water and they had to tag by hitting a person with it. When the "it" person hits another there was no arguing about who was hit because of the wetness of their clothes. The game we came up with initially had no wet clothes and just the dark room tag but people started cheating and arguing to who was the one who got tagged this the introduction of the wet clothing items.
My brother and cousins would play "hide and seek in the dark." My parents had a room just filled with stuff, they are kinda mild hoarders, and we would play in there. Someone was "it" and would wait outside of the room as everyone did their best to hide in and under stuff. Then someone would turn the lights off and signal whoever was it to come in in 30 sec, so that the messanger had time to hide back in their spot in the dark. It was an endless amount of fun until my brother sliced his foot on something metal in the dark and my parents shut it down...
Our backyard used to be a dirt lot, and my brother and I would build all sorts of things. Moats, castles, houses, factories, you name it. We spent so much time outside doing that,then the yard for finished and we couldn't anymore. (not sure If this is unique, I have no clue what other kids did because we weren't social)
My little sister and I used to play "swing dance" where we would dance with each other like swing dancers on TV. She was a lot smaller than me so it was easy to pick her up and swing her around. I may have dropped her a couple times.
Leg zombies. Basically zombie tag (where if you are hit by "it" you become "it" and the other "it" stays "it", last person alive wins) but for your touch to count you have to either get a persons shoe off or catch them by the feet so they fall. Long story short someone hit their head and the game was banned.
Note: this was during winter so the falls rarely hurt due large piles of snow but sometimes someone would fall on ice or rocks (laid out to stop slipping) and it would hurt.
The "Chicken Game". We had about 5 people playing at a time with me, my sisters, and two friends. The game goes like this: the "Farmer" would be chosen, and would make up an excuse to walk away from the "coop" where the rest of the players would be. Once the Farmer got far enough away, all the "chickens" would get up and run to find a large rock while being chased by the Farmer. The goal was to return to the coop and sit on the rock before the Farmer tagged you. If you were tagged, you were the next Farmer. If nobody got tagged, the person with the smallest rock was the next Farmer.
My brother and I would write down all of the different edible things in the fridge and pantry on small scraps of paper, put them in a bowl and draw 3. You had to combine the 3 things and eat it without throwing up or you lose.
I was friends with this kid whose parents had a lot of money. He lived in a mansion, had every gaming system, and had tons of fake guns and swords. when we got tired of video games we would play “For Real”. We would get a bunch of guns or swords and set off on a quest. We ran around his huge house killing imaginary enemies and making sound effects for hours! Usually the plot of our quest was a spin off of whatever game we were into at the time. Sometimes we would take it outside too; across the street was a thickly wooded area that has a coolie running through it that was perfect for adventuring. My favorite one was when this nearby house (another mansion) was under construction and was just wood walls and floors at the time, we played For Real there for an entire day on a CoD like quest. Sometimes I wish we could just go back to the good ol’ days of questing and adventuring around, but I’m old enough to know now that LARPing isn’t for me.
Aah I was telling my SO about this game the other day!
Me and a friend who lived down the road from my house when I was about 7-8 used to play this game we called “outtakes”
We would improv a scene pretending to me filming a movie or something and we would find really funny ways of getting the scene wrong and making it an outtake.
We thought we were the funniest kids ever! I used to love that game.
My cousin and I used to play Kim Possible where we’d dress like Kim and Ron and run around the house and yard solving missions and fighting villains using “gadgets” that we made.
If we were in the pool we’d play Mermaids where we’d act out imaginary scenarios but the entire time we were in the pool we were only allowed to swim like mermaids do.
It was like normal foursquares, except we had minigames. When somebody became the "King" (they were the longest standing without failing and getting 'out') they were allowed to chose which minigames we played by yelling it. It was a very complex set of 75+ minigames and I'm still amazed we all remembered them, to name a few:
-Hershey's
-White Chocolate
-KitKat
-Cherry bomb
-Corners
-TicTacToe
-Centers
-Scaffolds
-Countdown
-Traditional
We played this during recess and would have 20 or more people lined up waiting to play. If you want an explanation on each listed game I can give one later.
I used to stand on the side edges of the tub while the water was running and wait until it filled up while chanting a song about the water (I would usually make up as I went). When it was full, I would turn the water off and get in.
In middle school we would toss coins trying to get them to land as close as possible to a line. Who ever landed their coin closest to the line would get to keep all the coins from that round. Repeat over and over until we eventually got sent to the principals office for gambling.
My friend and i would stuff socks with other socks (sort of full metal jacket style) and blindfold each other. Then we'd spin for 10 seconds and try to find and kill one another. Needless to say there were more than one full power swing to the nuts
Sock Bombs. Me and my brother would take one wool sock and stuff it into the bottom of another sock and beat the hell out me each other.
Another was the scissor game. Wed lay down facing the oposite way on the couch and take turns dropping our heels into each others thighs until one quit.
elauii · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
two i can remember. we used to play "nyang nyang" which was like hide and seek in the dark with a twist. the seeker was the nyang nyang who would pretend to be a monster and crawl around on all fours just saying "nyang nyang" really quietly. utterly horrifying hearing that shit near you as you try to stay quiet and not get found. if you did get found whoever was the seeker would just bite the shit out of you until one of the other hiders could get up and run to turn on the light. at this time the nyang nyang could stop biting the first person and then go after whoever was running to turn the light on. as soon as the light was on that meant the game was over. the other game we played was just paranormal investigation where we went in my basement with the lights off and scared the shit out of ourselves pretending to be ghost hunters. we had flashlights and recording devices and we would call out to ghosts and ask to give us a sign and then freak out when we thought we caught a response
We called it "The Gun Game". Don't worry, it isn't as scary as it sounds. We would have friends come over and divide into two teams. We wore all black (including balaclava fashioned from t-shirts) and turned off every light in the house. One team would start at the front of the house and the other at the rear. The goal was to eliminate all members of the opposing team by "shooting" them without them seeing you (essentially just yelling "BANG" while pointing your finger gun at them). It was a game of stealth...so much fun. You had to be super quiet and patient...both of which not many kids had so it was the ultimate test of endurance. I miss being a kid now, thanks reddit.
Our unique game was quite simple. We'd turn off the lights, turn on a torch and it became the Ghost. Whoever had the torch would shine it around the room and we had to chase it and "catch" it by slapping the area the torch light had created a spot on. It was great fun. I'm in my thirties now and still play it with my nieces and nephews. Growing up poor in a big family definitely brought out our creativity!
So when I was a kid my family had this one couch that my sister and I used to play a game I now call “genital smasher” which consisted on putting our backs in each arm of the couch while facing each other and take turns to smash our genitals. As a boy, needless to say I gave up on it once we reached a certain age...
My dad and I would make paper airplanes and put large needles in the tips and throw them perpendicular to each other to try and stick the other one. “Dogfighting”
It’s safer than it sounds.
behns · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, my older brother and I used to play this game called “couch” when my older brother would babysit us on the weekend. All the game consisted of was my older brother lying down on the coach (and passing out) and my sister and I sitting on him pretending he was a couch and watching tv. This was literally all we’d do for hours.. and the the older I get the more I believe he was just a hungover genius
ibided · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m so late to the game but here goes:
We vacationed at a lake house in Michigan every summer with our extended family. My sister and my cousin made up a game for the shallows of the lake called bagel and toaster. One person had an inner tube and the other had a cushion from a boat seat that was square. That was the toaster. The toaster chased the bagel. Then they’d switch. Old times :)
I always invented games to scare my siblings, but a favorite was Red-Eyed Pig, where I was an evil cat their mother (also me) would lock into their bedroom and at midnight the cat would turn into the red-eyed pig and grab them in their bed. It terrified them, but they always begged to play lol
We would spend a full week doing a miniature city on top of a big sheet of cardboard with my brothers including cars, cardboard boxes as houses and buildings (my mom got into it and bought us textured paper for walls and roofs), small pieces of wire as lampposts, delimited streets and garden areas, the whole thing. We even made people from plastiline (with their own internal organs and red poster paint as blood injected into them with a syringe). After all was done and dried, we would stomp on the mini city doing raptor noises. We also had two Godzilla toy puppets that made noises, so they would chomp on the unsuspecting civilians. After the first time, they never allowed us to do that inside the house again. So much red paint.
Lab Facility:
We would wear white lab coats and googles and we would do experiments around the house. After a while, the rooms were color coded and you had to have proper IDs to go into certain rooms, and all of us had a "private lab" you weren't allowed to enter without the special ID everyone made. It quickly devolved into factions, getting the house more and more restricted. My mom had to carry a whole bunch of security clearance cards (drawn on pieces of paper to make it look official) if she ever wanted to get anything done.
The experiments ranged from things as inane as baking soda volcanoes to "splash quotient test subjects". We would throw plastiline dolls off the balcony (which were of course filled with red paint) and then we would measure how much of a splash they made. The test subjects were also subjected to "stress tests" with various blunt objects.
We were weird kids. Now we're weird adults. The red paint was a common theme, we wouldn't sacrifice anything that had to do with realism. My poor mom had a lot of red paint to clean along the years.
hmlns · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was maybe 10 my best friend and I would play a game we called suicide. We'd get up on the playground equipment and give speeches about how depressed we were and how we couldn't go on and then jump off and pretend to die. I haven't thought about this for years but honestly... what the fuck?
We played Streetlight Superman, which consisted of acting like we were beating the shit out of one of our friends whenever cars would drive by in the neighborhood. Then when someone would stop to help the person we were “beating up” we would all just run and laugh....very wholesome.
Statue. Me, my sister, and our nextdoor neighbour would dance around in our front yard and as soon as we saw a vehicle drive by, one of us would yell "statue!" Then we would freeze in place until the vehicle drove by.
Basketbrawl. We used to have one guy who had a tennis racket who stood in front of a lowered hoop. If they could block the shot it was a point, unless it got tipped back in. Then it was a point for the team. We played this a lot.
I got my entire 5th grade class into this variation of Wall Ball during recess all year long.
3 people are in play at once. You bounce a kickball off the wall, it has to bounce off the ground and you can only touch the ball while you are in the air. If you break a rule or can't get the ball to the wall or it bounces twice on your catch, you're out and someone from the line replaces you. I was surprised by how many kids were playing this game with us every day.
My friends and I used to try and make each other pass out. We would clench our necks with our hands as tight as we could, put our heads between our knees and breathed quickly in-and-out and then stand up strait. 9 times out of 10, one of us would pass out. I distinctly remember one of my friends passing out and hitting her head on the site of my bedframe. It took longer for her to wake up that time so we decided it was probably not a good idea to continue playing. I was a fucken idiot.
We had a game called "Home Safe" where one person would be chosen as "it" and countdown while the rest hide. Once done counting the it person would search for the hiders and try to tag them, while the hiders would try and sneak their way towards "home" where the tagger was counting, if they reach the designated object they are considered "home safe" and have won, whoever gets tagged first becomes it for the next game, if no one is tagged the tagger remains the same.
Before there was a fence between my cousins' house and their neighbours, we would play this game with the neighbour's motion sensor on their security light in the winter. We would try to get across the yard without tripping it. When it was about to turn on, a red light would flash so every time it started to flash, we would fall to the ground and stay still until the red light stopped flashing so the light wouldn't come on. Then we would continue, trying to go faster each time.
My friend and I saw some documentary about birds and how there's no more spaces anymore for them to nest. We took that as birds don't know how to build nests.
So we made nests for birds on treetops, with grass and leaves and branches. The birds just took away the materials and used them to build their own nests.
We played a game called blanket monster, basically someone is inside a giant blanket and tries to “eat” the other people by swallowing them up with the blanket, and then they became a blanket monster too
Smear the queer: basically the person who is "it" held an object (usually a ball or something soft) and the rest would attack and wrestle and tackle the whoever was "it" to try and steal the ball from them. Kinda of like a rough and tumble version of keep away.
Trampoline soccer. The goalie has to keep jumping consistently high enough that their feet come off the trampoline. Then everyone else is in a circle around the trampoline. Kicking the soccer ball over was a goal as long as the ball completely passed over the mesh and not the springs. It was surprisingly hard to score.
My brothers and myself had this rc dozer and one of us would be in control of the rc dozer and would pick an animal. The rest of us would act like that animal and move like that animal as best we could as the controller of the dozer would try to hit us. If you got hit you were out, if you were the last man standing you would be the next dozer controller.
When ever I was in control I would pick a snake for the animal. Easiest game of my life, but I always got targeted for it.
Me and my sisters would play this weird ass game where someone would walk around on all fours and act like a possessed person and try to attack the other people. Basically tag but with a messed up twist and instead of being “it” you just died.
Me and my best friends would play “men in black”. So we’d pretend we’re all spies and get into all black clothing that usually came from my closet. Then when all the parents were talking in the backyard we would “spy” on them and whoever got caught was out. Our parents didn’t even notice half of the time so we’d be there for sooo long.
My sister and 8 called it "bounce and Dodge". We would have one or more balls or varying sizes on the trampoline, and jump around trying to make the balls hit the other person without touching the other person or being hit by the ball. If you got hit, then you were out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite as a kid, with cousins and friends, was "dark tag". Basically we'd close the light in the basement, and one of us would have to find the others in pitch black darkness. Last one was the winner.
My parents had a giant vanity with a mirror directly across from their bed. My brother and I would climb onto their bed and perform a variety show in front of the mirror. We had a theme song and everything.
As a kid I shared a room with two brothers, at night we played a game called "stinky sock", at bedtime we would lay in our beds and one of us would randomly throw one of our socks we wore that day in the air in the hopes it would land on one of our heads and yell stinky sock!
The car game, when on a road trip or field trip with friends or family we would choose a car either driving behind us or in front of us and we would each choose a separate car and whoever chose the car that stuck with us the longest wins.
"You Die" was a game me and my friend would play with my younger brother. My friend and I would pantomime fake swords and guns and anything else we could think of and "use" them on my brother then act out them failing. Swords would break on his head, bullets pointed right at him would miss, grenades would bounce back. And my brother would just sit in the center of the room with anticipation waiting for the next attack to fail, and then he'd giggle like an idiot. Didn't play it more than a dozen times but I still remember my brother's chuckle.
Houdini Tag! Whoever was "it" would be tied up, typically to a basketball hoop pole, with bike locks and rope and would have to escape before pursuing the other players. There would be a ~10 second buffer period at the beginning before players could scramble.
Idk how unique this is but my brother and our best friends and I used to dress in full oversized military surplus gear and go hide in the woods and scream at people going for a nice walk down by the river. All best friends to this day.
I guess it's not so much if a game as just kids being shitty.
One actual game was "superhero" where we would test each others reflexes and agility by throwing rocks at the superhero while they attempted to dodge.
Arranging sentences in my head so either the letter count or the word count, preferably BOTH, would add up to a multiple of 6 and then an additional 2.
Looking after my little sister during the summer breaks we played a game called "house". For me it was so i could play my video game (nfs underground 2) for her it was a pretend world where i would drive her places like stores or work. I was able to spend basically all day playing my game while she was occupied playing "house" lol she seemed to have a blast. I even went as far as building her a blanket fort as her house to make it a little more real.
We had a big pasture to the side of the property running along the road. The property was at the bottom of two big hills. I used to play until all hours of the night because in summer, Texas is stifling hot (even at night), going outside was fairly dangerous to a redhead, and staying in all day was boring.
I would see headlights coming over the hill long before the car came down the road, so my game was to make a mad sprint to the barn before the car crested the hill and hide behind there.
As a mostly only child, I was both infinitely bored and acutely aware of adults watching me play alone and I didn't want anyone seeing me play Star Wars at 3 am in my backyard.
I'm sure I was spotted almost half the time and I'm sure none of the neighbors had any idea why some kid went sprinting hiding every time they drove by.
“Slap the Bull” My brother and I would tag our pet dog who was a large Doberman, then run onto the couch as she chased us. Once you made it onto the couch the other player had to run out and tag the “bull” and do the same.
Not me but a roommate of mine told me about this. She came from a very bad neighborhood and they used to play a game called drive by. Basically when a car passed by they'd all drop to the ground and the last one up was basically shot and out of the game. Kind of morbid but seems fun
The game was called "Chains". My dad was a conductor of a childrens wind band orchestra (ages anywhere from 7-15) and every rehearsal day we would have some outside playtime for a good hour, so we had lots of kids play in a school yard.
Similar to tag, there was one random person that needed to catch others, except when you catch them they join you by holding hands. Eventually, there is a "chain" of 10+ kids running after a person trying to close them in. The game was fun and taught the kids teamwork and coordination, because if two different people run the opposite ways and the "chain" isnt organized, two sides of a chain will run away from each other and break the chain, resulting in time penalty due to them needing to reconnect.
Everyone felt included and a part of a team, old and young, it was also a good workout, and after we would all get back to playing our instruments in the orchestra :)
Me and my twin brother had bunk beds.. he always had to be on the top cause I’ll roll right off in my sleep. So we started playing a game where he would stick his arm off and side and I’d try and grab it and pull him down. This lasted for weeks until i finally grabbed his arm and tossed him down 6 feet. Fun times
Shouted "Betelgeuse" 3 times in a dark hallway then ran around screaming in the early 1960s. Just fascinated with such a silly name for a star. I've always wondered if one of my friends grew up to write the movie
We had a whole redneck phase where we would come up with some pretty cool stuff out of boredom and whatever was laying around.
Redneck luge - a full 2x6 with skateboard wheels underneath and the deck perpendicular on top so you could steer with your feet. Stapled a sled to the top and use to pull it behind our bikes
Yard surfing - took that same sled once the luge broke and use to try to stand up on it while it was being pulled behind the 4-wheeler. Going across the driveway was sketchy.
Tire rolling - went down my neighbors really steep hill in a 200lb tractor tire that we found in the woods. Stopped doing it after we broke the 2nd mailbox.
Chicken - would stand about double the standard cornhole distance and would throw arrows across the yard at each other. If you hit someone, it was one point, if you caught the arrow, it was 2 points, and if you moved your feet (torso could move but feet had to stay planted) the other person got 3 points. Brother almost lost and eye when that idiot started using hunting arrows.
Fireball - soak a tennis ball in gasoline and kick it around
Tag - make trails in the woods and chase each other on 4-wheelers and try to peg the other person with a tennis ball to make them “it.”
My cousin used to have a hallway that seemed huge to us, since we were little kids, and we would get one of those small 25¢ bouncy rubber balls and we’d throw it as hard as we could against the wall and try to catch it as it bounced around. This led to the game evolving to finding a bigger room, more people, more bouncy balls, and we would even take chunks out of some of the bouncy balls so that their bounces were more unpredictable. We played this game for a while until someone got a black eye.
I used to play Indiana Jones in my backyard. It was pretty big and there were some spots with 3-5 ft drops from rocks. I would sharpen long pieces of wood with my knife and dig them into the ground. Then run off the ledge and see how many I could clear without killing myself. I'd also climb trees and try to jump from tree to tree in the woods behind the yard. I was 8 years old when I was doing this.
kit48W · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my friend and I would play French Canadian and native American. We would start in the wildlife preserve by our house really far apart and just start walking - we'd collect sumac and cool rocks and pretend we were on separate expeditions. If we saw each other we'd pretend we spoke different languages and trade and barter. He was super tan he was always the Indian I was always the pale European. We'd trade fish and make spears he'd pretend teach me how to spear hunt and we would sleep outside.
My siblings and cousins and I (totaling 5) would go to my grandmas basement and shut the lights off, making it pitch black. The person who was it would slowly and quietly count down from five trying to listen and figure out where people were. And at 1 they would lunge in a direction and try to tackle someone in the dark. Which resulted in either one or if they were lucky two people getting thrown to the floor. Ridiculously fun times in the dark cement floored basement
My siblings and I called it black ninjas. It was tag mixed with hide and seek. It had to be played at night. Half would go hide And the others would be looking. When you were found you basically had to tackle eachother to the ground. If the person hiding won the wrestling match, they got to run off and hide agai n.
Haha maaan this brings me back, I’m actually going to text them both after I type this and remind them.
Me and my older cousins would play a game called “warthog”. The name probably was derived from the idea of a hog tie but we were only like 10 so who knows.
Step 1: The oldest cousin (14ish) learned how to make a lasso with a rope. We would make a lasso put it in the grass, then pick grass over the rope to make it “hidden”.
Step 2: Whoever was elected “warthog” had to walk through the neck of the lasso pretending they didn’t know it was there while the other 2 people hid behind something.
Step 3: Once your foot was inside the loop the others would yank the rope tightening it around your ankle and then the fun starts. Run, kick, scream, jump, fight, anything you could do to not get tackled, held down and tied up.
It was most fun when my oldest cousin was the warthog because he was the hardest to lock down.
Played a game called “bear hunt” with my brother and cousins and grandparents at their house. Basically hide and seek but in the garage with the lights off. They had a gold van they parked in the garage and left it unlocked so we could use it to hide in as well.
Everyone would hide except the “bear” who was allowed a flash light. Everyone should find a place to hide and the door to the house from the garage was considered base. When the person was looking around the garage for another player, if you could make it to base without being spotted then you were safe to hide next round.
We all played it for years until my cousins moved away and subsequently my grandparents as well.
It’s basically glorified tag with a base in the dark, but it was more than that to us then and honestly still means more to me now.
Fuck I hate growing up, but hey maybe if I have kids one day I can teach them too.
When I was younger my brothers and I created “the cover game.” The person who was “it” had a massive blanket over their head so all they could do was hear where people were. It was also made difficult for the others since all the lights in the room are turned off so you can barely see the covered person. Soooo many broken household items, but damn it’s a fun game.
My brother who is, 5 years older than me and 8 older than my younger sister, invented a game her called "EFFORT!"
The game began when he would blow up a balloon and bat it across the living room, while my sister and I scrambled and dove all over to keep the balloon from touching the ground. Every time he swatted the balloon, he'd yell, "EFFORT!"
Whichever sister had the most rug burns whenever he got tired of playing won.
There was this game I used to play on the computer. it was this really weird looking guy and he was an artist or something it was all cartoon I can't remember what it's called please somebody help me
Runaway blindman. My friend would shut his eyes then run off as fast as he could yelling "RUNAWAY BLINDMAN". The other person would chase after yelling the same. My friend was always way better than me. When I asked him one day how he was so brave, he said he actually was squinting a little so he could see where he was going. He said that was part of the game, I thought it was cheating. It was still the most original and intense game I ever played.
My sister and I didn't really like our baby sitter when we were kids so we would make his life a living hell. My personal favorite was when she had me hold some red dye in my cheeks and when we play wrestled I started wailing in pain and spitting up the dye. Poor guy felt awful
My friends and I through grade school would play basically a modified version of Cops and Robbers we called Manhunt. We'd split evenly into two teams, one team would seclude themselves in a room while the other team went to hide. After a short amount of time, the hunters would leave the post and go searching for those hidden.
The goal of the hunted was to make it back to "base" (a spot designated before the game) without getting tagged by the hunters. Likewise the hunters goal was to find and tag the hunted before they got back to base.
We never had a set in stone scoring system other than; if all the hunted were found and tagged, that team lost. We would switch sides after each round.
The best part about Manhunt, we discovered, is you could play it anywhere given enough space. Small neighborhoods just outside of town? Sure! You friend who lives in the middle of nowhere is hosting? Use the woods and cover of darkness to your advantage! The local Walmart that one friend lives near? Clothing racks make for great jump scare opportunities!
It's not entirely unique, but me and my next door neighbor would play "hide n go scream" where we would take flashlights and hide around his house inside or out and whoever was seeking would scream when they found someone. My mom was usually outside smoking with his mom so they didn't really care how loud we were lol
I was a huge pokemon fan as a kid. So when me and my parents went to a fair I got them to buy me a set of Pokemon cards(not the official one's you guys in the US play, I think).
I had no internet at the time and no one around me played or admitted to liking Pokemon so I didn't know how the hell I was supposed to play the game. So I just made up stuff. We(me and my brother) would have these "awesome" pokemon battles where we enacted attacks from the anime. It was fun as hell lol.
I eventually learned how to actually play with those cards but it was damn boring so we kept doing the other one.
My cousin and I would play “Pokémon” on the trampoline.
We’d each choose a Pokémon and then pretend to do their moves, such as tail whip, by kicking each other.
Edit: we also played “crack the egg” on the trampoline where one person had to get into the foetal position and hold themself together while several other people jumped on the trampoline around them. If they fell out of the foetal position then the egg had been cracked and it would be someone else’s turn.
I played the license plate game. In California most license plates have three letters in a row. The game was to find the shortest word that used all three of those letters in the order they appeared on the plate. For example, a license plate with 7LIA675 could be solved with the word, 'liar'.
“Booga Booga” My sister and I would stick our bellies out like we were pregnant and run and jump into each others belly yelling “Booga Booga!” Over and over again.
From about 6-11 years old, my best friend and I pretended we were vampires, but not the normal suck blood type. Looking back now, I'm not sure why we even called ourselves vampires? We would snap our fingers and morph to another world. My friend was rather promiscuous from an early age, so in our imaginary world, she had a new bf every week, mostly famous people. Looking back, it was ridiculous, but knowing we could snap our fingers and go to this fantasy world with the guys of our dreams was enough to pass the time. Oh I almost forgot. She initiated me into this world by kicking me really hard in the crotch with her roller blades (I'm female, and she was pretty sadistic). I'm cringing now thinking back...
My cousin and I used to play “Beauty make overs”. Basically we would take any ingredient that could be found in her mom’s pantry, refrigerator or cabinets and figure out a way to use it on our self to make ourselves more “beautiful“. One hot summer day we started with an egg white and oatmeal mixture for a face-mask, mayonnaise for a hair mask and cucumbers for the eyelids... after sitting out in the hot sun for over two hours... you can guess the results...to this day I still will not eat mayonnaise.
SwenKa · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Ghost in the Graveyard". It was essentially some weird tag/hide-and-seek hybrid that we played at night, usually when our families were all together for camping.
Whoever is "it" counts on the "base" while everyone else runs and hides. When "it" is done counting, they yelled "GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD", and everyone else had to try to get back to base without them finding and tagging you.
As this was at night, and usually in not well lit areas, there were occasionally some injuries. I distinctly remember tripping over tent stakes and hitting bars on the playground I couldn't see.
Not sure if it was unique at all, but it's one of my favorite memories growing up with 2 older brothers. In our house, (before our parents renovated it), our living room had a sunken in carpet. We ended up every once in a while when we were bored and just being 3 silly brothers, we would put on socks, go to the carpet, and constantly slide into each other. We would do this for at least half an hour to an hour at a time.
I know it might sound lame to some, but for us, it was very fun, especially because there was a 7 year age difference between my eldest brother and me.
Me and my neighbor came up with a game called Derby. We collectively had a lot of Hot Wheels cars so we would make a team of about 10 cars each and sit a little bit away from each other. We would line them up in a queue line, usually putting our best ones towards the end. We would count down from 3 then on go we would push them toward the other car so they would crash. If your car flipped over completely on its back, your car was out. If it landed on its side it was a redo. If both cars land on their back it was a redo. You can't sub cars and the last man standing won.
My cousin and I would play “boogie bog.” Basically, during a family get together, we’d start at one end of the house and have to make it to the other end of the house very sneakily without anyone seeing us. If someone caught us we’d wait a few minutes and start over at the starting point.
This might be a standard game for all kids in Canada, so not sure how unique it is but here goes...
The game was called Sellad (not sure how to spell it). It was a recess game where you would crush a soda can to make it flat and then try to nutmeg other players by putting it through their legs, while they did the same to you. The twist was if it did go through your legs all the other players would be allowed to punch and hit you until you could make it to the safe space, which if it was outside was the fence, and inside was to touch a doorknob.
This game became a lot more vicious when you played as high schoolers.
My twin sister and I used to play this free form spoken fantasy/role play game. We figured out right quick that without room for character growth or improvement shit got boring fast.
Years later I tried D&D and pathfinder and found it oppressively limiting. Like... whaddaya mean there is no "formula" for the sort of thing i want to be? Let's just make it up then. No? Oh um... ok...
Me, my sister, and my cousin used to play this made up game when we visited our grandparents. I have absolutely no idea how or where we got the idea for it, but I know we played it for a few years. Basically we would all take turns playing each role, one person was a burglar, one a guard dog, and one a sleeping home owner. The burglar had to sneak into the living room where the home owner and dog would be “sleeping” on the couch and try to steal as much as possible without waking up either perosn and getting caught. If the owner woke up first they weren’t allowed to touch the burglar and had to wake up the dog, only the dog was allowed to “attack” and stop the burglar. I’m sure there were other rules too and we literally spent hours at a time playing this dumb game. In retrospect I feel like it was something our parents invented to keep us entertained and from making too much noise since the entire point of it is to be as quiet as possible.
After eating popsicles, my cousins and I would take one stick to the raft in the lake. A person would put the stick between her toes and dive in and release. Everyone on the raft would battle for best view and if and only if you saw it, you had to yell DIBBLE DABBLE and then jump in to get it. There were some waterpoloesque fights to get it if multiple kids saw it at once. We could barely swim at the time (around 5 years of age) let alone swim with someone fighting to pull us under in 12’ of water. The popsicle stick has the perfect buoyancy — it floats, but takes forever to come to the surface.
The kid who retrieved it jumped in with it next.
Believe it or not, we were very honest when it came to staying on the raft until we actually saw/yelled, even if someone else had seen it. This surprises me a bit, thinking back.
Bug stomp. At our old school there were wide concrete sidewalks in the parking lot. My brother and I used to swap guarding the sidewalks from the bugs. The bugs were the other person's feet. Basically, you just tried to stomp the shit out of the other person's feet and they tried to stay on the concrete sidewalk as long as possible.
My friends and I would play "warrior cats" at the park. For an entire summer we were all divided into "clans" and would build camps and fight each other with sticks. The goal was to gain the most berries off a certain bush in the park because the berries were "medicine".
"Death Ball". I'm not sure how unique it was though.
Basically you would hold a tetherball at the rope's full length and stand so it just brushed the tip of your nose. Then you throw the ball as hard as you can and when it comes back around you can't flinch or react at all as it passes by your face.
An older guy did this and threw the ball hard enough that the rope stretched on the way back. We learned about centrifugal force when it smoked him across the face.
After that we always took a small step back before we swung, but it wasn't as fun anymore so the game kind of died out.
Don't ask about the name, but we used to play a game called "Chunky" where one person was as usual 'It' but whenever you tagged someone, they joined your side. But, they couldnt tag anyone, only grab hold etc. After you tagged the first guy he would have to hold a guy he caught and then you slowly built up your 'army' of sorts until you just fuckin murked the last guy. It got brutal. I mean people were fully pinned against walls hands legs and torso, slammed to the concrete floor, and lifted into the air by 5 or so people.
This is what it developed into but originally, it was just me and my weird ass friends. We'd all just watched Madagascar (ironically / not ironically) and laughed our heads off at the "Moto Moto" scene and I just sorta made the game up on the spot while walking provocatively at people like a stud singing 'I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky' and the name kinda stuck.
It's called rackle. It requires a fisher price basketball hoop, a rugby ball, and a willingness to get the shit beat out of you. The attacker(and one or 2 team mates, lateral passes only) has to make their way across the yard and dunk into the hoop. The defenders, do anything they can to stop you. Full body checks, tackles, grappling, headlocks, anything to stop the other team. If you score, defenders start at the end as attackers. If you lose possession, the new attackers must reach the end of the yard and make their way back to the hoop. It's kind of a mix between basketball, football, rugby, and MMA, played by hockey players.
We had a narrowish front lawn, so there was lots of blood from hitting the sidewalk
I think we called it the "King" game. One guy was the King and the other three were trying to overtrow him by getting him out of the room while the King tried to get the others out of the room. MY older brother won every time because he was stronger than everyoen else.
We used to play “Assassin” where one of my brothers was the target, another was a bodyguard, and the last was the assassin.
The assassin and bodyguard had nerf guns. The target might have a small pistol but wouldn’t have as good a gun as the other two.
The assassin would get a few minutes to hide, and then the target and bodyguard would walk into the room. The bodyguard wasn’t supposed to actively search for the assassin as part of the roleplaying, but was supposed to be ready and reasonably on the lookout. The assassin would have to wait for an opportune time to strike, but if he waited too long, the bodyguard and target would leave.
Then, once the assassin is spotted or reveals himself, the shootout commences. The target flees, the assassin tries to hit the target and/or bodyguard, and the bodyguard tries to hit the assassin. If you took one nerf dart you were supposed to go down.
After there was a conclusion, we would swap roles and play again!
In fifth grade we had mandatory swimming lessons. My friend and I would wait at the school entrance during recess so we would be the first to get onto the bus to the swimming pool. The supervisor (who kept us from leaving the school ground) was the only one in hearing distance. So my friend and I took each other by the hand and jumped in a circle and chanted (translated) ''We're dying , we're dying , we're still dying'' We kind of traumatized the supervisor that year.
In fourth grade I was over at a friend house and we made up songs , on was about an alcoholic relapsing. (translated) ''No, no, no , this cannot be, there he is ,Fridolin, with his bottle of wine!''
Mr_PS · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super dumb game but we called it Mr. Knock'm over. Basically one person would lay down on outdoor trampoline and roll around. The other people would jump over Mr. Knock'm over. Of course, if you were knocked over, you lost. It was great when there so many people on the trampoline that people would knock each other over lol
I know this will get buried, but it was such a fun game I have to share. My family had one of those magic seeing eye poster things framed (it was whales), and that became our portal. So my brother, cousins, and I would play Legos and then our people would go through the portal and we'd continue the game as real people. Then we'd go back through the portal and return to the Lego world. It was just a neat way of combining two different story telling games into one.
My sisters and I played the ghost game, where one of us put a sheet over ourselves, turned all the lights in the house off, and the others would go hide somewhere. The person with the sheet (the ghost) had to navigate the dark house with the sheet on and find where the other kids were hiding. Once the ghost entered the hiding spot everyone would start screaming
My cousins and I would play the "shoe game". Basically a hide and seek with shoes. One person would hide the other players' shoes anywhere around the house then the rest would look for them. Person to find the most shoes wins and would hide them next. We would often ask our parents help hide them in tall places (eg. ceiling fan) because we were too short to see and would spend what seemed forever to find everyone's pairs of shoes
My friends and I improvised scary stories with acting, like we were in a horror movie. Almost always about zombies. Whoever was It chased the others awkwardly and out of step like the stereotypical zombie until there was no one left alive, and it was a mix of tag and hide and seek with stories in it.
"kot-kot" We'd open all the windows of our neighbours house and that was our "field" then we (4 little kids) would be attacked by the big brother of our neighbour who would throw pinecones as hard as he could at us while we would try to run away. He was the only one who could go in the house so while we were sneaking around the edges of the houde, he would just randomly jump out of a window or appear on the balcony and blast us with pinecones. Mind you this HURT so we prepared by putting on knee pads and helmets and thick sweaters (although it was summer) and still ended up with bruises all over. But boy was it fun. It got your adrenaline pumping not knowing when somebody would appear out a window and attack you.
I made a game called the M&M game where I would take one bag of M&M's and would put two between my index finger and thumb, stacked on top of each other. Then I'd squeeze the two M&M's together until one of them cracked. The cracked one was deemed the loser and was eaten, the M&M that survived would move on to the winners bracket to face off against the other winners of the opening round. You'd basically repeat this process until you only have one M&M left. You would then save that winning M&M and give it a name, and then the next time you get a bag of M&M's it would be the final boss in the next grand finals.
I actually convinced a few friends to play this in school and the competition was pretty hype, blue M&M's were clearly overpowered though...
It was a blindfold game we called "Fish, No Shrimp." My brother, cousins, and I would lock ourselves in a room in a house, typically, it would be our grandparents' bedroom since it is pretty big. Someone "The Fish" would then be blindfolded with a belt from a robe and then spin around 10 times. Then they had to use their hearing and sense of touch to navigate around and try and catch another person from among all the other players "The Shrimps". The person who was caught would then be the next person to be blindfolded. The thing that made it harder to catch other people, however, was that the other players could make all the noise they want, hide, and hit the blindfolded person with pillows which hurt because it was typically unexpected.
Cow shit creak. In a nearby farm there was an enormous mound of compost, a mix of mud, straw and various animal shit. My brothers and our friends and I would fill our pockets with small stones and after a rainy day we'd run all over the peaks and troughs throwing stones in the shitty puddles that formed. The aim was to splash as much shitwater as possible onto your opponents. This stuff tasted bad too.
I’m way late to the party here, but we had one we would play practically everyday in the summer.
My family had a circular (the shape is important) above ground pool that we used to basically live in for the summer months. We would play “Shark Attack” all day in the pool.
The rules were that everyone had to go around the edge of the pool and one kid was The Shark. The goal was to be the last kid standing after everyone got eaten by the shark (tagged out). You had a handful of power moves you got to use as The Shark. The Shark could yell out the name of the move and everyone would play along. You got like 2 “Shark Attacks” and 3 “Shark Fins” (but we would adjust difficulty based on the size/age of the kid playing The Shark).
The “Shark Attack” move meant that everyone would go the opposite direction around the edge of the pool. Let me tell you, with a bunch of kids creating a whirlpool, changing direction was really hard to swim against, so it would give The Shark the chance to nab somebody that couldn’t hold their own against the current.
The “Shark Fin” meant that The Shark would swim in a straight line across the the pool. Timing was of the essence here. Also The Shark couldn’t tag kids behind him and kids couldn’t swim against the current at random. So the power move was to Shark Fin and then Shark Attack after to reach the other side and everyone would come to you as they fight against the current.
Once all of The Sharks moves were used up your turn was done and it was the person leading the pack’s turn to be The Shark. But if The Shark got everyone they got to go again, unless it was an intense game and the last tagged person would be The Shark.
We would seriously play this for HOURS. ALL DAY. My siblings and myself, plus my cousins, plus friends would all play at once. It was incredible fun.
“Clog The Toilet” was a game I played in elementary school. On the playground we had one of those tubular slides and we’d get as many people as possible stuck in there before the recess supervisor walked over and told us all to get out of there. It was fun and, during the winter, made you less cold.
ryndez · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I shared a room, and at night we used to lay in the dark before bed and play "What am I scratching?" We would scratch our own bodies and the others would guess what body part it was based on the sound.
We moved into half of what was the old Manor House when I was about 8. Our bit had the huge staircase with slide-downable bannister and a square landing half way down with the stairs turning to go down parallel with the first flight. We had a lovely big black dog of indeterminate breed who was always up for shenanigans. In the bedroom I shared with my older sister our Dad had built beds against one wall with shelving separating the two beds in the middle. Our game consisted of getting the dog thoroughly over excited with her toy creeping down to the landing and throwing the toy down to the ground floor, the aim of the game was to run back up the stairs, into our room and climb up the shelves before the dog got back to us. Perfect mix of adrenaline and helpless laughter.
Please note, the dog was a happy participant and never got nippy, just wanted to bring us the toy to throw again.
My friend and i were in a fight with another girl at school (not a physical fight)
So we spent afternoons making hillarious mixtapes on cassette.
That included such gems as "this vampire bat, this inhuman beast" (from cruella de vil song on a disney cd), and "you are deformed, and you are ugly" (from hunchback of notre dame song on same cd)
And "you are a poor boy from a poor family" off my dads queen cd.
Ok. So. Forwarning. My brother loved this. It was always his idea, and he loved every second. Not gonna lie, I did too. He would jump in a sleeping bag, zip it up, and, essentially, curl up into a ball, and have me tie the top closed. I would then grab the bag, with him in it, and throw it down the stairs. We had 16 stairs. He'd thud against the landing, burst out of the sleeping bag, and run back up the stairs ready for more. We were about 6 and 8. Did it for 2 years. Tried again in highschool. He did not enjoy it anymore.
When I was about 11, me and all my friends would collect acorns during recess. We would then use our acorns for bartering for snacks and favors and things. This went on for a couple of weeks until our stashes, which we had buried throughout the playground and field, started getting raided by younger students- or so we thought. Sometimes I wonder if we just forgot where they were exactly or maybe if local wildlife had raided them.
A friend and I used to play this game I came up with in my basement, which had concrete walls and floors. I stood on one side of the basement and threw a gold golf ball at the opposite wall. It would bounce of the wall, then off the floor, then I'd let it hit my chest and catch it after it bounced off my chest. By myself it was just a game of catching it as many times as I could. With my friend, we threw it harder to try and get it passed the other person. The game ended when we got my washing machine and cracked the plastic window.
My sister and I would gather all the shoes we could find, place them on our screened in trampoline, and then get in and jump. If a shoe hit you, then you gained a point. It was like golf, except it ended when our mother would yell at us to give everyone back their shoes. I credit this game with sparking my love of gymnastics, as you had to be very acrobatic to avoid the two dozen shoes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, my siblings, and I would play this game called “sharks and surfers” where the surfers would jump back and forth between the two twins beds and the sharks would grab you mid-air and pull you to the ground. As the game progressed there would be more sharks as you got caught so it was a last-man-standing game.
It’s honestly incredible that no one got a concussion or worse. But we still laugh about the game and how stupid we were to be so careless.
My cousin and I would lock one another in a large wooden chest and see how long we could stay in there. You were allowed one item to keep you entertained like an action figure although it was pitch black when closed. I think the longest one of us lasted was about 3 hours before becoming completely bored.
In elementary school my friends and I would play two unique games:
On the swing set we would build up momentum side-to-side so we could crash into each other or grab the chains and whiplash around wildly. Usually we would get in trouble so didn't play this often.
We would also play a balance game I made up. We would simply stand on a concrete tree planter of our choosing and try to be the last one standing. It was great because you could team up to shove somebody off, feint people into missing a shove so they would fall instead, and hop from edge to edge for recovery/positioning. I think we made it illegal to touch the tree. Lots of fun though...
Good memories. They still make me smile when I think about them. Thank you for reminding me.
Pirate Treasure: had a sand box in back and parents would throw change in it every night and we had to dig up the box and find all of it. Provided hours of entertainment. Thought I was rich after a year of digging!
I would put my Game Boy Color in my room to charge, go downstairs, and then walk upstairs as slow as possible so there would be enough charge for me to play some more when I got back to my room
We played “War”. Our neighbors had bushes lining both sides of the walkway to their house, the boys would be behind the bushes on one side and the girls on the other (with one of the boys for help) Then we threw rocks at each other.... I really don’t know how none of us lost an eye
My best mate and I would throw a virtual custard pie at morning break. We'd come back later, face the opposite way when said pie would have circumnavigated the globe and hit us in the face! We were clearly an excellent shot.
Start this off with: I’m the middle child. On both sides of my family, I was either too young to play with the older cousins or too old to play with the little ones.
My big sister and cousin are just 2/3 years older than me, so at family gatherings, I’d usually try to stick with them. They made up a game called “Pesky” where we were all squirrels, and it was my job as Pesky to go retrieve items for our nest. While I was out having a blast finding leaves and rocks, they would relocate the nest, so I’d have to find them when I came back. When I did find them, the items I had collected usually weren’t good enough and thus began the whole game again...
It wasn’t for a few years until I learned that Pesky meant annoying and they were just trying to keep me away. I still had fun though!
My cousins and I all played this, and I'm sure it's not that obscure:
"Knock-knock."
"Who's there?"
"Big Bad Wolf."
"Whaddya want?"
"Colored eggs."
"What color."
The cousin playing the Big Bad Wolf would then guess a color assigned to each kid by the Mama Hen. If the wolf guessed correctly, the kid with that color would run around our grandparents' front yard ahead of the wolf until they were safely back on the porch steps. If the wolf caught that person, they were the new wolf.
Fumblerooski in a 3 foot wide hallway. The objective was to get to the other end of the hallway without being tackled and no other rules. We evetually had to stop after all the holes we kept putting in the walls. Tons of injuries too as we would sometimes have 4 or 5 people playing at once.
Deeter: think Marco Polo with no words in an 18 foot diameter above ground round pool. Blindfold chaser with a blacked out swim mask (oddly more scary at night) and they have to grab you to catch you. Chaser is trying to feel little motions in the water, and the two trying to stay alive have to move quietly and slowly if possible.
Worst was when the chaser was standing right above you and you're pinned to the edge underwater and your breath is starting to strain. Basically bolt for it before you drown...
Name originated from the floating chlorine dispenser. Originally you had to close eyes and leave hand on it so you could "feel" surface ripples. Ya, bit dense... We called the floater the Deeter. Name stuck, but game adapted to blacked out mask...
Played for years every summer, day and night....
Winter snow brought out an adjusted indoor version where chaser wore those glow in the dark octopus that are sticky and crawl down walls on the fingers of one hand. Crawling around in the partially finished basement in literal pitch black trying not to get caught.
Both versions when were legit terrifying at times when in pitch black. Outside underwater with cloud cover and no moon especially...
My mom had a digital point and shoot camera that she took pictures on, and she would sit at the end of the hallway in our house that lead to the living room and my sister and I would run and jump into the camera while my mom took our picture. We usually would try to make a really silly face while we jumped so the resulting picture would be really funny, and they usually were. We would do this all day and have plenty of good laughs.
My cousins, sister, and I used to play Scary Hide, which was essentially hide and seek but in our grandma’s basement and in the dark. One of us would go upstairs and count to 100 (which as a 4-6 year old when we played it, that was a pretty huge deal for me). I wasn’t so great at hiding though; I would hide under a blanket on the couch.
We also had Dogs Don’t See Us and Adults Don’t See Us, which my cousin who is closest to me in age would play. We would crawl around and try not to be seen by our grandma or her three dogs.
My cousins and sister also would play something called Gun Shot. I wasn’t old enough to play since it was a murder mystery type game. To this day, i still don’t know anything about it and it’s been 20 years.
The neighborhood kids and I would play this game we just called "builders". We would go into one of our basements and get as many couch cushions and pillows that we could find. We would then attempt to climb up the stairs using the cushions as platforms so we didn't touch the stairs.
At first it would start pretty organized with everyone helping each other out, but then the cushions would start to slide down the stairs and it would be a mad scramble to the top World War Z style.
Gunz It was a game that required Extreme discipline and muscle memory because it utilized animation cancels in order to perfect techniques. It was heavily look down upon Because I was solely reliant on glitches but this high skill ceiling learning curve is what stabilized the community for so long.
To this very day I believe that gunz is one of the most heavily high Skill Games in existence because it is a combination of fighting shooting muscle memory and movement. It was clear as day when a single player could out class multiple people because of pure skill. Even if someone were to pay to win in it with a clear advantage the person with more skill more experience and more discipline would always win.
All the top reply’s are really in-depth and imaginative games.
All Me and my friends had was game called “Butt Cancer Shark” where you snuck up behind someone while humming the jaws theme and grabbed their ass really hard.
The first was a game called “shark” there was a bed in the basement, that was the boat. You were safe on the boat. The shark would go hide somewhere in the basement. The rest of us were divers who would explore. The shark would jump out and try to tag us before we got back to the boat. If you were tagged, you were the shark.
Another game my dad taught us. It was called chicken base. Their were 3 of us kids and my dad who would play on saturdays after breakfast. One outfielder, a pitcher, a batter, and a catcher. Everyone was on their own team and we would cycle through, each playing a position. There was one base to the left. Hit the ball, run to the one base and home before being tagged out. If you caught a fly ball you got an extra out when it was your turn to bat. Hit it into the garden was an automatic out. Get the ball stuck in a tree was an automatic out. You could catch your own fly ball and be safe. Their were foul lines and other rules, but that was the gist of it. Great way to play baseball with only 4 people.
Me and my brother would put our legs through the bottom corners of plastic shopping bags, pull them up and put our arms through the handles. Then we'd see who could rip the others plastic bag off fastest.
We used to take all the pillows from the house one used to sleep and we used to stack them on him then take all blanket and everything till he starts suffocating and gives up and comes out by just tilting it a little bit once we reached till the fan and we ran out of stuff so then we started adding people for weight in this case it was me and my brother who were short and small at that time
The “flag game”. In an era where not every child had an iPad or handheld gaming system my mom made up a game to keep us kids busy on road trips. Who can find the most Canadian flags on our journey to wherever we were going.
It was an awesome kids game but we still play it as adults, with WAY more rules, bets, money on the table and detailed arguments about who spotted a flag first and why they deserve the point :) fun times.
In elementary school my friends and I would play a game at recess we called School Factor. One kid would start by jumping off the playground or doing something relatively dangerous, and the other kids would have to copy it or do it better. We had to stop playing after one of my friends fell off the top of the swing set and broke his arm. Ah, good times.
We played "eggos" where we always started out as eggs, and then hatched, levelled up by petting our faithful dogs, and going on a huge variety of adventures throughout the entire 2nd story of our house. Everything was fair game as weaponry. I used a shower curtain rod as a staff/spear, we had "safety swords", bunch of foam around a pvc rod, a couple of removable horns from a replica cow skull I had, an Andúril plate hanger decorative sword saw much use.
We fought wargals, orcs, daemons, and so many other monsters and beasts I can't even remember them all. Whenever one of us went down we could get brought back by a touch from our dog, who was always amused and followed us throughout the rooms
My cousins and I had a game called witch school. I was the teacher and would watch a bunch of kids science shows and try to remake the at home experiments. When they came over during the weekend we’d have magic lessons where I tried to teach them how to do the experiments. Also we had a running storyline about an evil wizard trying to attack us. It always involved sending my youngest cousin into the ditch to investigate for some reason.
Living in Ohio we had a lot of windy days. We had a game where we would make spears, arrows, bows, or whatever else and release a plastic bag in the air. The game was to stop the bag from flying away. Nothing was cooler than throwing a spear you made and direct hitting the bag out of the air. Sounds dumb but it was so fun lol. And I can count on one hand how many times he bag actually got away.
Who could get the other sibling in trouble for doing the stupidest shit the most. We never kept score cause we usually all got in trouble then the next day we’d piss each other off and the game would reset.
Good ol days
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the car if there was a spec if stare at it with one eye and every pole or energy line I’d go above it
We weren't kids, we were in high school, but we used to play "Quarters." You sat on opposite sides of the table and each had to spin your quarter and try to hit the other person's quarter to try to stop it from spinning while keeping yours spinning. Points for knocking theirs off the table and of course for every time you made their quarter stop.
When we were teenagers, We played the knockout game. Now what is the knockout game? Well it is where you consentually choke out one of your friends until they are knocked out. Now we were teenage boys, so what few brain cells we had we were actively killing.
When I was 8(ish) and my brother 4(ish) I named our reflections in the mirror. I told my brother they were our other siblings who lived in “Neverland.” They were able to visit/play with my brother in my body, as I had the ability to “turn into” them, but our bodies couldn’t transfer worlds. I told my brother he couldn’t turn into anyone yet as he was too young, but he could get to know the different people, animals, mystical creatures, etc., by them visiting him through my body. That way, when he reached the right age he would already have some friends in the other world.
This began as an imaginary game, but ended up merging into our daily life. For 2-3 years Neverland became a “reality” to my little brother. My friends participated, as did my cousins. He had preferred characters, less favoured ones, his own “horse”, werewolf protector, unicorns, a cooler version of his older sister (my reflection), etc.
My family had the army man game. We had this fireplace and the wall that held the fireplace was made out of jagged rocks and cement holding it together. We would take 5 or 6 army men each and place them on the rocks across the wall. We would agree on a distance and take turns throwing a ping pong ball at the army men to knock them off. It’s a really fun game. We had rules about catching the ball without a ground bounce etc
DSV686 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There are 2.
1st is MURDERBALL
Now this is way less dramatic than it sounds, a group stands in a circle, and volleys and bumps a Volleyball around, and if someone catches the ball, misses the ball they could have gotten but didn't try for, or knocks the ball away from the group, then has to lie in the middle. When you are in the middle people have the option to spike the ball at you, and if it hits you, you get to get up and start playing again.
The other one is Sneak.
Now my k-9 school was on a fairly large plot of land, around 20 acres IIRC. We would use the whole plot and hide, and we would have 3-4 people who would be seekers and try to find everyone else, and if you got caught, you got a point. The top 3-4 players with the least points would be the seekers in the next game or would draw straws if it were a tie. Eventually this got banned after 3 students broke their arms falling out of trees
Can Derby: fill a pop or beer can with rocks and throw them into eachother with the most devastating force until one can broke open, the last one that didn't have rocks spilling out was the winner. it was usually the less stuffed can would win but we all tried to fit as much gravel rocks as we could.
Billy Goat, we’d climb up the back of the couch on opposite ends with a pillow, place the pillow on top of our heads and meet in the middle to ram each other, first one to fall off lost. Probably gave ourselves a lot of brain damage...
I don't know if this counts as unique but it's one of my best memories from school. We played a game called takedown bulldog, a violent variation of British bulldog where the catchers can use any means necessary to stop their opponents from reaching the finish line.
What made this unique was the setting. For some fucking stupid reason, we decided to play this on a school trip to Hampton Court Palace, which is one of the most famous Tudor buildings. On the beautiful, painstakingly maintained lawns, amongst hundreds of tourists, about 30 of us were charging around, kicking and wrestling each other. It was like the church massacre scene from Kingsman.
Used to played “sausages” with my sibs. One person would ask a question, and the other would reply with “sausages”. Every. Time. It was hilarious.
“Who comes down the chimney at Christmas?”
“Sausages!”
There’s was also lots of childish toilet humor that went along with this which made it better.
H03797 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Blindfold game"
We would play this game in our dark basement where one person was blindfolded and spun in a computer chair. Everyone else would hide/quietly walk around the room and when the chair stopped spinning, the blindfolded person would stand up and try to "tag" one of the seeing players.
It was a fun game that resulted in a lot of injuries.
Find a random series of numbers in the world. (Usually an address on a house or a building.) add up all the digits. If the sum had more than 1 digit, add those together. Repeat until you have a one digit answer left. Then try to identify possible patterns in that one digit with the one remaining digit to the house/building next to it.
this sounds so awful now, but we used to play a game called “strip and run.” yes, i was a child. we were all children, tons of us in the neighborhood. it was basically like tag except if you got tagged you had to remove an item of clothing. so naturally, before starting the game, we would all (well, at least my BFF and I) pile on layers upon layers of clothes, mid-summer in 90 degree heat just so we would have enough to take off without actually exposing ourselves by the time the game ended. looking back, i cannot believe we actually did this, who originally came up with the idea, or even what age the “older kids” who played with us were at the time. i’m fairly certain I was maybe 6 or 7 and there were kids ranging in age up to young teens. totally inappropriate now that i look back on it.
When I was 14 we played a game in my school where me and my classmates would go around grabbing each other's butts.
When you did it, you'd get a point, and the other person would have to do it to you to tie it up. If that person didn't, you could just keep doing it to rack up points.
It didn't make any sense, and I'm sure it started when some guy wanted a way to touch the girl's butts, but we still had some fun with it
It was called “Everybody Run From Karen.” It was tag, but no one wanted to be it so we just made Karen it all the time since she was the baby of the friend group. The game ended when Karen tagged someone. Then we’d just start it up again.
That game kept us entertained for years. It was the dumbest thing lol
At my cousin's place we would have two people go downstairs and rearrange the furniture and turn off the lights then yell to the third kid upstairs that they were ready. The third person, generally me, would go downstairs and would trip up on the random brooms and buckets that were now littering the floor and the two already downstairs would then scare that person (me) as they were stumbling to make it one time around the pool table. Clean up was not so fun and now I am petrified of haunted houses.
I would jump on my bed, and at the peak of my jump I’d bend my legs and land on my knees. So then, when I bounced on my knees, I’d snap my legs back under me.
This game was fun, until one day...
So I was going pretty fast and laughing while doing this. Next thing you know, I land on my knees and I rocket forward. Then BAM. I sink my two front teeth into the window sill at the foot of the bed. I was in shock, and then the pain set in. Man I had a headache for like an hour.
I have since moved out of the house, but if it’s not painted over, you would still see the two teeth marks where I landed.
Other people might have played this too but it seemed unique at the time. The object of the game was to hide from my older step brothers until my mom got home from work so I didn't get the shit beat out of me that day.
Invented tons of games in grade school and into high school. One of our favorite was DMV Ball. Named such because we came up with it while waiting in a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). Sitting in chairs across from each other about 3 feet apart, you’d bounce a racquetball at the other player.
Rules:
Position: You have to sit up straight, legs back against the chair legs and knees bent at as close to 90 degree angle as possible.
Throwing: You can bounce the ball in any direction towards your opponent so long as the resulting bounce is playable to the opponent, “playable” meant no lower than the middle plane of your thighs when sitting down (thing the seem of your jeans) and no higher or farther left to right than arms length without moving feet. A kill shot was dead on center high on the knee which would bounce away from opponent. If you threw a ball outside playable area it’s a point for the other player.
Catching: You must catch the ball with only one hand and you have to throw the ball with the same hand you catch it. Bobbling is ok, trapping against body is not ok. A clean catch is not a scoring play.
Scoring:
opponent doesn’t catch bounce. 1 point for you.
opponent bounces ball in a non playable spot: 1 point for you.
Kill shot: dead on the knee and bounces away from from opponent. 1 point for you.
Games to 15, win by 2.
We once missed a flight out of LaGuardia because we were playing an intense game of DMV Ball and we weren’t sitting in our gate because it was full. Game went to 35-33. People were watching. Plane left without us.
My best friend, my sister and I all used to run around the few connected backyards in our neighborhood and play “power rangers”. We had hockey sticks as weapons and trees and shrubs were bad guys. We destroyed almost every plant in our yards before going to a neighbors and beating the devil out of his plants. We were very young and didn’t really understand what we were doing. He came out screaming and yelling to which my dad came outside and started screaming and yelling and ultimately we ended up getting banned from the guys property. When we would play hide and seek later on, if you were ballsy enough, the best place to hide was his yard lol
We would make these giant piles of laundry at the top of the stairs and pretend we were arctic mountaineers as the laundry caved in and fell down on us. Our parents didn’t care as long as we were getting the dirty laundry to the basement
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I spent the whole summer of our tenth year alive in an above ground swimming pool. We created this game called "Museum". We would pretend the walls of the pool and the hole in the latter were different frames of paintings in a museum. We played as characters in different paintings and we could "jump" out of our own painting and "jump" into different paintings and join that world. But the trick was we had to be back in our frame before the security guard saw you missing from your own painting. We would play this for HOURS.
I guess one could call it LARPing, but at the same time.....
My friends and I would dress up in suits, tuxedos, the works. We'd arm ourselves with a myriad of toy weapons, and act out our favorite action movies.
Reservoir Dogs, James Bond, Transporter 2, Crank, Scarface, etc.
We had a lot of fun. There was a playground a 10 minute scooter ride from my place, and I had one of those fusion asphalt scooters. Things could drift corners like an S15 Silvia.
We had a lot of fun being gangsters, detectives, robbers, hitmen, cops, spies, etc.
Church. My sister would put on my moms' mumu, we would make hosts out of white bread, and use grape juice for wine. Occasionally we would use a blow bunny for an alter boy.
Me and my two brothers had a game called "the night robber" where we had a toy cash register. One of us would be the cashier, one would be a pretend customer and the other would be the robber, the customer had to try and protect the cashier and not let the robber get the money. The catch was that the robber had to come in with an excuse to enter the shop and was usually wearing a stupid design. Hours of fun. We also had a game later on called "poor ass" where we would replicate Jack Ass stunts, pretty basic but fun.
Apple wars. We would make bunkers out of pine needles and chuck apples at each other. Another version was dirt clod wars, where we would make bunkers out of dirt piles and throw dirt clods at each other. Good times.
crack the egg. we would ball up into the fetal position on the trampoline as little “eggs”. then one person would try to super bounce the eggs and break them. every egg that broke then got to be a breaker and continued until all are broken. last one wins.
we did have a net but you could still land on the springs. once we bounced someone outside the net.
My friends and I used to play scream when our parents weren't home. It was pretty much hide and seek mixed with tag but with flashlights... and knives. We would chase each other holding out the knives like we were going to kill each other. Once we found someone we had to tag them for them to be dead. It was stupid thinking back on it but no one ever got hurt and we had a lot of fun.
My brother and me would take a mattress, and try to slide down the stairs on it. Spoiler : it's not working very well
jenflu · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a rural area with a huge backyard surrounded by cornfields. There was kind of a natural fence of bushes and trees surrounding our yard separating us from the fields. Berries and fruits would grow there. We also had an old rotting tree stump by the side of the house.
I hollowed the center of the tree stump to make a bowl and would gather leaves and berries and mushrooms. Then I would chop things with sticks that I had sharpened with rocks and pretend like I had a cooking show. Still love cooking
We grew up on a ranch and there were 4 of us kids. 2 would get horseback with ropes. 2 would get on mini bikes. The 2 who were horseback would rope the 2 off the motorcycles. It got very western but none of us were ever really injured.
Me and my niece are 6 months apart in age so I grew up with her basically. At night when my parents were asleep, she and I would play "don't let it stop". We would stand across from each other in the kitchen, in almost pitch darkness, and toss various items back and forth trying to awe how long before we dropped them. Usually we started with tomatoes, moved on to bananas, then cans of beans.
My sister, my cousin, and I used to play pretend office where we would pretend to write office work on a notebook and had files and would talk to each other to write some other stuff. We would basically write lines of scribbles but there would always be a hierarchy, where my sister was the manager/boss, my cousin was below her rank, and I was the lowest. We would do this in the living room and they would be sitting next to each other all the time, in front of the tv, but I, being the lowest rank in the group, would always sit alone at the far opposite end of the living room with my aunt’s fish tank, just looking towards my sister and cousin and just be jealous of them sitting next to each other and having fun together.
Every fall the massive oak tree over our end of the street would drop massive acorns. We would collect said acorns in plastic pitchers or other containers and commence a game of war, like a very painful snowball fight. If you got hit and couldn’t handle the pain, you got a break to nurse your wounds. Everyone on the street played baseball at the time, so often times you would feel an acorn whip past your head and explode on the brick corner of the house you were hiding next to. You may be surprised to know that no one sustained eye injuries, though I can remember having a knot on my eyebrow from an unlucky dodge once.
We used to play “guess how long it will be for my dad to get back from the gas station” everyone’s guess fell way short and we’re still not sure when he’ll come back
My sister and a few cousins all went through a pretty big Harry Potter phase. My parents had a pool table in the basement that we would chase each other around. We would put a bunch of pillows on the ground around the table and one person would be “it” and have to whip the pillows at everyone else. If you got hit you had to drop to the ground and not move and inch until another player that isn’t “it” came and touched you with a tinker toy, aka their wand and say “stupefy” before you could get up. If whoever was it could get everyone down they won. I don’t think anyone ever won. We always had like 6 people playing it just wasn’t possible.
My sister and our cousins on our other side also used to play a game called “monster” when we were quite little. Literally every single time my one youngest cousin on this side would be the “monster” and would just chase us around. There literally was no goal. The really stupid part though, was that every single time we played we had to do this skit at the beginning. Young cousin would crouch on the ground kind of in a ball and we would put a blanket over him. Then pretend we’re hiking or something and come upon this great rock (young cousin with blanket covering him) to sit on and have take a break. One person would sit and the “rock” would stand up and growl like a monster, we’d scream and then he’d chase us around for like an hour.
When my brother and I were about 8 and 10 years old, our cousin came over to babysit one night. We went down to the basement to show him all of our toys, but he picked up the exercise ball from our parents home gym. The game was called “damage“ and the object was to knock down the other players by throwing the exercise ball at them as hard as you can. This didn’t end well when my brother was hit so hard that he went through the basement wall. Needless to say, the cool cousin never babysat us again.
My family was really fond of playing Spoons. My cousins and I decided the game needed to be a little more exciting so we created Extreme Spoons. The adults would hide the spoons in one spot and tell us which room of the house they were in.
Whenever someone left the table it was a scrambling mess of us kids trying to get to the room first to search for a spoon to grab. Super fun but after one cousin broke their collar bone we weren’t allowed to play anymore.
My friends and I would go to the woods by the neighborhood and collect sticks. Then you pick a set of trees about 15 feet apart. The goal was the break a stick on the tree and have the broken piece fly and hit your friend.
It actually made you think about type of branch and best way to break it on the tree. It also kept Band-Aid in business.
My older cousins used to toss a whole bunch of different things into my grandma's toilet bowl when she'd watch them to make some crazy concoctions. They called it Spider Goulash for some reason
My two brothers and I played a game we called stage. Two of us would sit on the couch as judges while the other would be the entertainer and preform diffrent acts. If we hated the performance we would say "GET OFF THE STAGE"! If we liked it (which was rare) we would say "TWO THUMBS UP!"
Anyone play jailbreak? Basically cops/robbers at night in the neighborhood, farm, whatever. If a "cop" tags you, you go to jail (usually a porch). If a robber tags base and yells "jailbreak" everyone in jail runs free. If all robbers are in jail, teams switch roles for next round.
This was around the time cell phone were becoming popular, and some kids started getting them, which basically killed the game. Would maybe get through a round or to before everyone quit. Good times though.
Me and my friends used to play "walnut wars" back in the day, which consisted of finding the fruits of a walnut tree and chucking them at each other. It would always stain your hands, clothes, anything they touched green. If you got a rotten brown one thrown at you, it would explode into stinky mush. Good times.
One that kept us busy as young teenagers was "Moron Duels". We would all spin in circles as fast as we could for 30 seconds until someone yelled "go", and then we all tried to tackle each other to the floor and be the last standing.
99% of the time I didn't even contact anybody else before I was on my back on the floor, but there were a few good videos of a bunch of dumb kids that can barely stand, tackling each other.
My mom would write a list of words on a paper and i would find them in the dictionary and write the definition, page number and headers for each word. I really liked that game.
One included all of us getting on a trampoline with one person holding a towel. The person with the towel had to try and wrap it around our legs and pull it as to knock us down. The last person standing was the winner.
The second was a crazy version of the game "tag". The person who was it had a tennis ball and chased the rest of us around the house we were playing at trying to throw the ball and hit someone. If you got hit you became the one who was it.
Both of these games could go one for hours at a time, and there were definitely some times where we got hurt. All in the name of fun :)
My older brother and I used to play a game called 'hatch the egg.' I would hunker down into a little ball, and he'd throw a blanket over me and sit on me, instructing me to be quiet (cuz eggs don't talk). He'd eventually get up and whip the blanket off of me, cooing about what a cute little chicken/duck/whatever I was.
It was super fun to me (4-5 years old), but I realized in my adult life it was a nice way for my then teenage brother to get me to shut up and sit still when he was watching me.
My siblings and I would collect the offerings of the neighbor's Sweet Gum tree in the late summer/early fall. Of course, they didn't mind because the balls clogged up their mower. The neighborhood kids would gather for an all-out spikey ball dodgeball war. Casualities on all sides! It was great.
smaxup · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing the "Astronaut game" as a kid.
There was this big presentation on space exploration in school one day and the leader of my friend group declared that from that day we were all astronauts. My friends and I pretended to be this team of astronauts exploring space and landing on new planets. Any person walking by us while we pretended to be reporting and collecting new findings (shiny tin cans= undiscovered metal of unknown origin, plastic wrappers= alien matter, and a lot of other stuff) became an alien whom we had to observe from a distance to figure out its life patterns for 30 minutes or so until we'd get bored and move onto our next target.
Wish I kept in touch with them all still.
Me, my older sister and my two older cousins used to play 'The Horse Game' at their house.
Basically there's a farmer (always played by my oldest cousin) and three horses. The horses 'stable' or base is the guest room. The farmer hides a trinket somewhere in the house. The horses have to go out and find the trinket without getting caught by the farmer. If we found the trinket before we stopped playing then we won.
My brother, cousin, and I played a version of freeze tag that we called Geek. The Geek was the one who was "it" and had to tag the others.
Once tagged, instead of freezing, the player had to crawl like a baby and cry and try to get to the safety spot to untag themselves. If they couldn't get there in 30 seconds, they became the Geek.
We used to play "Radio". I had a tape recorder and a microphone and we used to record ourselves making adverts and singing songs and tell stories. We interview our parents and neighbors like we were roving reporters.
We used to play "Run Me Over," where my sister would use a toy shopping cart to run full speed into my ankles. Unfortunately it was plastic so we had to stop when my ankles started bleeding too much.
Also, sliding down the stairs in sleeping bags. Good times.
pjb145 · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sisters and I would go outside into our big yard and do slow motion Kung fu movie fights. We live in the middle of nowhere so it wasn’t as embarrassing as it sounds.
Also, even tho we had our own rooms, we once set up two beds and a floor space in my bigger room. We made a calendar, a rotating bed schedule so we all got the bed and floor, and scheduled different ridiculous activities. My favorite being a sock war, where we would prepare by finding as many socks as possible, balling them up, and engaging in an all out dodgeball style war in the room.
So me and my brother would get all our friends to play a game where we would lie down on some grass and shoot a crossbow straight up into the air and roll out of the way as it came down.
Another time, it was foggy and we made the new rule that since you could barely see the bolt you weren’t allowed to roll. I kid you not that fricking spear landed inetween my armpit.
Me and the across-the-street neighbour used to play doctor, where we would give each other "check-ups" and "treatment", which meant we were grinding on each other for a good 30 minutes, to "make it feel good". We were about 9 or 10 years old at the time. Really awkward to think about years later.
nkzgwz · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in Singapore there was a game called 'zhat' (no idea how it's spelled but it sounds like that) which was a rock, paper, scissors sort of game that involved both hands, and used man, rock and gun instead. Basically the positions used the index and middle finger to be formed, with fingers pointing up being man, which beats fist being rock, rock beating fingers pointing at opponent being gun and gun beating man.
I've already added to this twice but I just thought of another one lol
Me, my sister, and my next door neighbor had this game we called "dog pile" where we would just lay on top of each other on this ottoman in the living room until we fell off and crushed each other. We thought it was really funny and I don't know why
We used to play "Quicksand" all the time.
"Quicksand" consisted of jumping into a pool covered with a solar swimming pool cover(the old kind, that basically looked like bubble wrap), and trying to walk or run across before sinking.
You would almost always sink to your neck in seconds, but we enjoyed the struggle of getting out of it before dying.
Hilarious! /s
We still laugh and cringe at how this used to be our absolute favorite thing to do in the summer.
Battle arena. My brothers, who were around six or seven years older than me, would just slam me down against the ground, if I was able to escape I won, if I didn’t I lost. Loved being a human punching bag at eight, always was up for it.
had0c · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought this was going go be like super Mario löst levels. Turned out it was a scary fiesta.
Me, my brother and cousin would play somethi g we called "whatever you like" and it was basically just pretend where we were superheroes, soldiers or Pokemon trainers - always a theme. The thing is we played just in one room by improvising the interactions between the different characters, we have switched to dnd now.
I have two I fondly remember - "Airport" and "Church".
Airport - A friend and I would grab any and all bags we could find (duffle bags, old purses, etc) and would fill them up with my toys, "packing" for our trip. Then we would drag the bags outside to our covered patio (down the driveway and next to our garage), which was the airport. What was funny was that as soon as most, if not all, of the bags were outside my friend's parents would arrive to pick them up - I remember this coincidence happening more often than not. This would leave me alone with the clean up part of it. Of course my mom would help, and she'd be furious about it.
Church - this I would play alone (only child). I would grab lots of stuffed animals (I had tons) and sit them in "aisles" on either side of my room. I would then walk to the front of the crowd as the priest and would start my sermon. Then I would pass out communion, which was any cookie or cracker that I could get my hands on. As each toy made their way up to receive communion I got to eat a cookie/cracker.
Slave. Let it be known I was a little white girl going around our farm collecting things for “master.” I think I was more influenced by “Spirited Away” than the actual slave trade but it was still weird. I would also play wolf girl and I would prance around the farm in white fake fur and a knife; I’m sure you can figure out what film influenced that play too.
Floor chess. We used to have a checkered tile floor pattern one room of the house and my brother and I had A LOT of stuffed toys when we were little. So we would line them up like chess pieces on the floor and assign them roles and special abilities like the frog could leap over other pieces and stuff like that. Of course my brother always won because he had a dragon...
My family had a cottage that we would drive to basically every weekend. It took 2 hours one way so my sisters and I would do random shit to pass the time... One game we played was "Cows and Cemeteries."
It consisted of yelling out when you saw a field with cows in it... You then would "get" those cows. If you saw a cemetery and called it out, the other person's cows would die and they had to start over.
I honestly have no idea how it started.
Another game was to simply call out cars we liked and that would then be your car. You would try to get the best car by the end of the trip. I finally won once and for all when I "got" a Lamborghini Countach...
Played with groups of around 20-30 people (usually high schoolers because cars are involved). Everyone starts off in a main, central area and are broken up into two unequal teams; usually 14 "fugitives" and 6 "catchers". The rules were that the "fugitives" had to get to a certain location multiple miles away by foot. The catchers were tasked with finding & tagging/tackling the fugitives before they reached the spot. The only difference... they could have two cars. The "fugitives" got around 5 minutes to get a head-start and make their way to the location. They could go through alleys, ditches, parks, buildings, whatever they need to do in order to stay out of the sight of the "catchers", but still get to the location.
It was so fun to play and each individual game would last multiple hours typically so we only played it once or twice a month (if that). Not gonna lie, the police were definitely called a couple times, some mailboxes were broken, and only one person ever actually got "injured", but it was damn-good fun.
There was a tree in the field behind our terrace with a long bendy branch that you could sit on and have your feet on the ground. Someone would announce "everyone around the back for a game of Knock the Cunt!" and we'd all head to the field. The chosen one, or willing masochist, would sit on it, hold on tight, and the rest of us would shake the branch until they fell off.
Im not sure i had any unique games but i remember lightsaber fighting with my brother on the staircase and he had to get a brace on his neck after he fell.
So I don't know if it's unique, but I had never heard of it until my cousin showed me. The game was called "grounders" basically tag played on a playground where you have to stay on the equipment (the floor is lava style), if you get off the equipment and they say "grounders" you're it, likewise if your tagged you're it.
Pinecone wars was my schools game. Essentially we threw pinecones at eachother. Two teams, you are out if you get hit in the face, every where else was fair game
When we were kids and we'd go an stay at my dad's, we'd play a game called the ho run. The premise of this game was to spot as many prostitutes on our way as we could.
To clarify, my dad lives in a relatively sketch part of the city, quite close to where prostitution is tolerated (an otherwise underused industrial area), so this was a bit like i-spy
My brother and I used to go in the basement and give each other 10 minutes or so to build a fort. Then we’d each have a bag of like 100 rubber bands and turn the lights off. War ensued. It was hilarious and brutal. Taking a rubber band to the eye or throat in pitch black is hilarious. Really enjoyed that game.
Edit: oh damn this brought back memories of another game we’d play too. We had an open foyer to the second floor that had a little balcony. We’d set up tons of cups, plates, bowls, etc and then try to toss pennies off the balcony to land on them, like that carnival game. Fuck that was fun
All my cousins and I used to play a game called “Blob” we threw my older brother under a blanket and it was his job to crawl over to us and pull us under the blanket with him, if he was successful we were a part of the blob too. Everyone had to crawl
Walnut War, which is exactly how it sounds: a bunch of ten year olds separating into two teams who then proceeded to chuck walnuts at each other. Many injuries were had, but we all look back on that time fondly.
My brother and I used to be stuck at the tanning bed with our mom a few times a week. Needless to say, the lobby of a tanning salon isn't geared to children so we made up a lot of games there. The road in front of the salon had several speed-bumps. We would "grade" the cars based on how fast or slow they went over the speed-bumps. 0 being the slowest, 3 being the fastest. We wouldn't really compete against each other. It was more like us vs. the cars. We cheered for the "3's" and booed the "1's".
My cousins and I played "Boobie Fighters". You shoved pillows in your shirt (chest area, to be specific), and then ran at each other at full speed. Indoors, outdoors, didn't matter.
Had a game like this called “Alpha Male.” Of course we didn’t take it seriously at all. Two people puff out and try to push each other with only their chest while screaming “I AM THE ALPHA MALE!”
Me and my friend in primary school used to imitate the episodes of "super robot monkey team hyperforce go", or simply translated as monkey team, and add our own little twists and plots to it. I remember in bed just before falling asleep I would make up scenarios where I'm the character that's about to die and all others being really caring and sad around me. I liked that idea a lot, to the point of fantasizing. I sometimes wonder what that was about. Anyway, I grew out of it in like 6th grade.
Looking back on it makes it terribly cringeworthy, but we played WW2 and Slaves.
WW2 consisted of dividing into two teams and just running around in the woods with slingshots and nerf guns all summer trying to defeat the Nazis.
Slavery was fucked up. There was an owner and everyone else were slaves and we had ground up tire as the playground’s surface so we had people collect coal (the tire pieces) and put it down the slide so we could keep our “ship” running.
I’m not sure how our parents didn’t know what we played but it kept us busy for years.
I grew up near a firehouse that would blast its horn whenever there was a fire. My neighbor and I independently convinced ourselves that we could control the horn by clapping, so we’d have clapping competitions to get the siren to go whenever we had playdates.
I think I got it more than him, but Alex would probably disagree.
This was a game we played after school. It was called “Suicide” and basically we had a tennis ball we would throw at the wall and it would bounce and you had to catch it. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, the game was usually played by 5 or more kids and if you didn’t catch the ball you had to sprint to touch the wall. During this time, you would get punched and kicked until you touched the wall. People would also try to throw the tennis ball at you. Pretty fun times.
Late to the party but here goes.I can't remember the name of the game now but I think we called it the woods or something like that. Basically, one person comes up with a bunch of places to touch in the woods. A rusty chair that's been there forever, the tree with the big hole in the bottom, the second fence post from the gate, then return back to home base. If you touched all the points in a game, you won. Nothing fancy, usually a bag of popcorn or some candy, and bragging rights. The twist was that we played this game at night and no lights whatsoever were allowed. No cell phones, no watches, no laser pointers, flashlights, nothing and we had three people roaming the woods as "witches" who would scream and yell while roaming around the woods. If you were tagged by a witch your team was out. How we played this game for several years and no one got seriously injured, considering we're running around the woods at night time with no lights is beyond me. Sometimes I still miss playing it, it was quite fun especially being a witch and scaring the ever-loving hell out of contestants.
At summer camp (9-10 years old) we'd play this game called "crazy caterpillars." Everyone would put their sleeping bags on head first, then stand up and run into each other, trying to knock each other down. That was it. There was no real winner, but it was always fun.
My sister came up with the game "Filch" like the Harry Potter Character, Argus Filch.
The game was basically hide n seek in our family basement which was a big circle with the staircase in the center. Filch would do walking laps around the stairs looking for us. He could only run to check a spot if he heard a noise, so this allowed for time to hide in between laps.
The RP element to the game was that every person hiding had an 'invisibility cloak' where as long as they werent moving, Filch couldnt see them. If you got caught moving, you became the next Filch.
As we got older the game slowly became Filch cracking jokes to try and make the people hiding laugh and reveal their locations.
To this day, it is still on of my fondest childhood memories, and I still play it with my mates occasionally. Nothing wrong with a bit of childhood laughter and fun. Its even better if youre tipsy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle blindfolds you and then you have to figure out what he puts in your mouth by it’s taste.
This game didn’t really have a name, I guess you could call it traffic jam or something. But we used to just all pile on the slide on the playground. That’s litterally it, we just crammed as many people on the slide as possible. It was super fun back then.
Used to play a similar game on one of those curly tube slides called plumber. One person goes down the slide head first on their stomach and the person behind them grabs their ankles. Then the person behind them grabs their ankles and so on. The line of kids slowly lowers them self down the slide. The object is to get the first kid to touch the ground and then for everyone to get up to the top. Everyone had keep their hands and ankles linked at all times. It was actually a great co op game that required a lot of communication.
Edit: It was also really fun when we all came tumbling down because someone in the back inevitably lost their grip.
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my mother had these really smelly disgusting vitamins and supplements of all kinds. bottles and bottles she would take regularly which she was convinced was making her more healthy. one bottle had this big nasty brown speckled multi vitamin, another had cod liver oil or some brown liquid in little plastic balls, another had white smelly pills.
Me and my friend would take turns and dare each other to see who could eat chew and swallow one of them without barfing.
We called it “ Rock Store”. My personal favorite game. Every kid had a portion of the backyard as their store, and we each sold other people cool rocks sometimes simply as rocks but mainly disguised as something else, pet bunny, a plate, etc. We would go further and try to make a mail system using rope and baskets. and create it as a town, having different sections and we would have different spots where plants grew or the creek ran through. Very unique and we all made it up.
Me and my friends used to spend hours in the woods by my house making our forts out of twigs, branches, random scrap etc, then we would hide inside them and bombard eachother with everything and anything we could find and turn into a projectile.
I think the best one I ever made included a bathtub that we randomly found in the middle of the woods (looking back thats pretty weird) but at the time it was the best defense mechanism I ever had.
We played this game often over the space of about a year until one evening we thought we saw something in the distance, heard a horrible noise and ran home faster than our legs would take us. Never went back there again.
jib661 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That one where you'd cross your arms and hold your breath and have someone else pump your chest until you passed out
peoch · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my grandparents farm, my cousins, dad, and I would all play "Ultimate Manhunt". It was regular manhunt, except my dad chased us around on his motorcycle.
Our house goes in a complete circle, meaning there is a center point and you could run in a circle around the house. We used to turn off the lights and hide. My dad would come to find us and when he found us, we would run and he would holler “buck-buck” (I guess kind of like a chicken?) and chase us around the circle until he caught us.
Looking back, it is so weird, but my brother, sister, dad, and I had so much fun doing it at the time and have fond memories of playing the game together.
Edit: when we got our second dog, she would participate in the game too!
We raised golden retriever puppies once. I took an empty Kemps gallon ice cream bucket, tied a rope to the handle, threw the rope over a thick tree branch, and then put the puppies inside the bucket and pulled the puppies up and down like an elevator. I called it the Magic Puppy Ride.
So there's these plastic baskets that basically every fishing family uses up in the Northeast. They're big malleable and orange or white commonly.
We used to use them for our laundry. But as kids we used to sit in it, and pretend to be a hermit crab. Basically a game of tag where the it person had a severe disadvantage being in the "shell".
I lived in a developing neighborhood, so there were a lot of empty house lots around us. So me and some friends would grab small, broken planks of wood from the construction sites and used them to play "Rock ball". We essentially just went to an empty lot w these planks and tossed rocks up and saw how far we could hit them. And yes, we did hit people's house, but never broke windows or anything....good times
My brother and I would pee at the same time call it sword fight when we crossed streams, we designed it to always tie because longest stream won sword fight, shortest won race, and we both get an accuracy point for not peeing on the floor.
Me and my best friend lived on a road with a cul-de-sac, but no one lived at the end of the road. Snowplows would push all the snow from the 1/4 mile straight road to the end of the cul-de-sac, and a giant snow pile would sit there, like 8' tall.
We'd go find sticks that looked like guns, build a fort into the giant snow bank, and defend ourselves against the Nazis (big into WWII as kids). Each car that drove down the road was an Nazi tank or personnel carrier, and one of us would keep guard for cars while the other built the fort. If a car was driving towards us, the lookout would yell "RADAR SIGHTED", and both of us would grab our stick guns and 'fire' into the enemy vehicles until they retreated (aka turned into the driveway)
It was nice because we always won, because nobody ever had a reason to get all the way to the end of the road. Lots of hours spent at the cul-de-sac as a child.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't exactly remember the name of it, but it was a game on my dad's old PC back in the early 90s. I'm pretty sure it was played off of a five and a half inch floppy disk. You were a wizard but I think wore a blue robe. You jumped around and collected gems. if anybody could help me out with what the name of this game was I would greatly appreciate it and so would my inner child.
My brother and I shared a room growing up, and at night we would play so many games. One I remember pretty clear is seeing the passing headlights refract on the walls and ceiling and we would try to touch them.
My neighbor and I were CONVINCED that the alien from E.T. had an evil, dark twin that would stalk us around the house.
His name was BLACK E.T.
And my god, that thing was real to us. We’d be playing like normal kids then one of us would notice it and scream.
We would then both be pursued around the house my this invisible dark lord of the Spielberg smash hit, getting increasingly paranoid and i think once I pissed myself hiding in a closet.
We called this game "Haunted house" and it was so weird. My friends and I have created 3 horror stories, where you would have different characters, with plot and climax. We would all act it out and one of us was, of course, be the ghost. At first, we used to take turns playing different roles but later some people got really good at certain roles and they would just play those one. Each time we will pick one of the three stories to play. I think we just created a theatre play without knowing it.
I used to have an entire imaginary stable of horses in my head. Not unique in itself, but I would take it even further.
I set up jumps with wood from the wood pile and brooms or rakes or anything with a pole to train my jumpers, and I would do paced laps around the house to train my racers, and do laps on the bouncy trampoline to train my dressage prancers.
And no, I'm not currently a "horse girl" lol.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bartender. You would go grab a beer from the fridge for dad or his friends when they would finish the ones they were drinking.
ha1zum · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our grandparents house is at a rather busy street in a big city. Lots of cars pass by with moderately high speed every day. We watch the cars from the veranda and try to be the quickest at spotting a specific type of car that were passing by. Sometimes it’s Suzuki Jimnie game or a VW Beetle game, but most of the times it’s all about Toyota Zebra Espass.
All the neighborhood kids would get together and play a variety of games. The cringiest one was statues. One person would be care taker while the rest of us (8 or 9 of us all together) would pretend to be statues. No one could move or they would lose. The “care taker” would go examine the statues or “dust them” trying to make us laugh. We played this in the front yard. As an adult I now think about all the adults that would drive by and see 8-9 kids standing completely still in weird poses not moving. Creepy!
I'm sure it's been posted but I'm in mobile and after looking for a few minutes (while pooping at work) I couldn't find it on his thread.
I used to walk to elementary school every day and it was about a mile (felt like 5) or so one way. I would try to race traffic to that little crack in the street, the sidewalk-crack 3 ahead of me, the little tree in that yard, etc. Doing this would prolly make me look super weird with my little spasm spurt of speed with no apparent objective.
Tbh I would always pick objectives I know I could win because you gotta start off your day with a couple of W's.
I would also kick round stones from the corner house next to mine ALL the way to school. I would then make sure I know where the rock was left so I could kick it home.
Coincidentally I would get to and from school quicker because of my hidden speed gains.
Sometimes to this day (28yo) I still try to race cars to cracks in the sidewalk.
“Dick Rumble”. My cousins and I were probably in the age range of 8-13 at the time. It’s basically play fighting but with nut shots only. Often times it ended up with someone crying.
For some reason, I was obsessed with digging as a kid (I think it’s because Holes was my favorite book growing up). My dad had a few acres and he would give me a shovel and a pickaxe during the summer and I’d just go out in the woods and dig these giant ass holes for no other reason than to dig a giant ass hole
We played “Fuzz.” Fuzz on bikes or Fuzz on foot. One person would be the Fuzz. The others would scatter and roam the neighborhood streets on bikes or on foot. First person sighted by the Fuzz became the new Fuzz. Kept us moving.
Back when we were little, our school had a playground that was made basically out of sand and gravel. So, we'd play "castle war", which consisted of each player making a mound out of sand and gravel, about 15 to 20 yards away from each other, decorating it with whatever we'd find on the playground, and then taking turns throwing rocks at each other's "castles" (while, obviously, standing over it). When a castle was sufficiently destroyed, a winner was crowned.
It was all fun and games until one of my friends threw a rather large rock straight into my lip and split it open. I, of course, after coming home with a split lip and covered in blood, told my parents that I had fallen down a flight of stairs. They didn't seem to believe me, but we had learned our lesson and stopped playing after that.
I still have the scar and the memories. It was fun as hell.
We played Cock Rocket Football, it was a variation of Smear the Queer. It was in a pool with one of those phallic looking water torpedos. You throw it in the deep end, then everybody scrambles to find it and touch it to the shallow end of the pool. Don't get out of the pool, if somebody's dying stop killing them, and no other rules. So many innuendos, so many pants ripped off, so very very gay, except we did have a few girls that would play, and they were nastier, and meaner than we were. Pulling on a top wan't nearly as fun when you got slapped with a dildo(cock rocket) hard enough to leave a bruise.
The Teddy Tournament. A huge fighting tournament between all the stuffed animals, teddy's or stuffed toys from McDonalds with various hazards. Blue carpet was a water area, the stairs were a rocky/mountainous area and the top bunkbed was the top of a volcano, normally the final round. Came up with a bunch of abilities for characters that weren't really fighters like an Ermintrude from The Magic Roundabout teddy I got from a McDonalds Happy Meal who could use electricity from her tail lmao. A Tommy Pickles figure had the most wins I think.
Late but one summer, my school had this program to give kids a place to play and have activities and meals for any kid who wanted to show up. Didn't matter if you went to the school or not. So I ended up making friends with these two tiny Japanese girls. I was about ten with the oldest girl being about six and the youngest five.
We played "Sailor Moon" except all it was, was them calling me Usagi and they were Chibi Moon and Chibi Chibi respectively. They called me mom and hung out with me all day. I ended up going to their birthday parties and being super jealous of all there Japanese import Sailor Moon toys - all the wands and transformation pens and shit.
IDK what happened to them after that summer but I still remember them.
We used to visit my aunt and uncles farm damn near every weekend when we were kids, which was a 2.5 hour drive. It was because my dad wanted us to grow up with a good relationship to our cousins.
Anyway on their farm they had an insane amount of crab apple trees, and when the time of year rolls around that they aren’t good for eating, we used to have wars.
However this isn’t your ‘normal’ crab apple war. My late grandfather had an old trailer home that he had used to live in there, and we used to get on the roof of it and whip down crab apples at each other. There were two teams. The people on the roof, and then the kids on a trampoline that was kind of set up perfectly in a little courtyard between the trees.
We had to eventually stop the game a couple years later when we realized that the roof of the old trailer home was giving out.
We played Fat Man. We stood around the It person and sang Fat Man Fat Man why you so Fat? The It person would then say for breakfast I ate a horse(could be anything) and lunch I ate a bus(or whatever they made up) annnnnndddd for dinner I'm going to eat you! Everyone runs to try to find base. You pick a tree and don't know if it's base until It guy doesn't try to get you or you book it fast to the next tree if they're still coming for you. About 10 of us played this for years.
Kind of difficult to explain but I’ll give it a go. While on long road trips, or even just running errands around town, I would align smudges on the windows with signs/buildings/etc. as they passed by. When they were perfectly aligned, I would quickly blink as a way to pretend I was shooting them and make a ‘pew’ sound to really add to the experience. It would drive my Mom crazy hearing “pew, pew, pew” from the back seat for hours.
I also grew up to be a helicopter door gunner in the army, and so I like to think that this little game had something to do with that.
My sister and I played "Simba and Nala" because we really liked the Lion King. We just crawled around like lions. Only thing is I was Nala and she was Simba (I'm a dude). She's older and therefore had to be the main character.
In high school I was often home without adult supervision due to having a single mom. So me and my buddies would gather at my place to smoke some devils lettuce or whatever. We created a game that involved splitting up into groups in the living room. One group for each wall and that was your side to protect. We would turn the ceiling fan on high and chuck a ping pong ball into it. Your team lost points if it hit your wall or furniture. To get points you either throw it in the fan and hit someones side or swatted the ball at another teams area before it hit the ground.
“Mr. President”
Basically you go about your day but if someone put up their finger to their ear (like a secret serviceman listening to an earpiece) you also had to do it. You tried to do it stealthily so the other players had to notice on their own. The last person who obliviously didn’t have their finger to the ear becomes the president. Everyone shouts “MR. PRESIDENT” and that person gets tackled. Super fun game but it’s an all terrain sport so try not to get tackled while walking on cement.
My brothers use to “shoulder fight”. It was hilarious. You just keep your arms on your sides and throw your shoulders around hiring each other with them. It was kinda painful but it’d make you laugh so hard you pee your pants
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called slip n slide. We would drench the entire floor with water and then slide around naked. I lived in an old ass pub at the the time, so the water began to seep through the roof/floor
A game we called "Crazy Shoes", where we would take all of our shoes off and put them on our trampoline (with net) and we'd all bounce causing the shoes to constantly fly in different directions. If you got hit by a shoe, you were out. Last person standing wins.
"Lava Monster" The monster would count down from 10 so the survivors can prepare. Then the monster would climb, maneuver around the playground to try and catch the survivors without touching the floor on the playground and survivors couldn't touch the actual ground as it was lava. First person touched would be the next lava monster. We played that a lot ;-;
In my physical education class in elementary school, we used to all play this game that our coaches had made up. At least, I'm fairly certain it was their invention.
We would play it inside the gym. The way it worked is that one or two people would be "it" and would stand in the middle of the gym. The remaining 28 kids in my class would split in half and line up against opposite walls. These were the "runners". All runners would put on these flag football belts.
When the coaches blew the whistle, the people who were "it" would try to pull the flags of the runners as they ran from one side of the gym to the other. If a runner made it to the opposite wall, they were "safe". If the runner's flag got pulled, they would be "it" too but they would have to stand on their flag wherever it fell and could not move. They could only pull the flags of the other runners if they got too close.
This would go on until a final person remained. They would be allowed to be "it" or pick someone else to be "it" for the next round.
And before anyone asks, there weren't quite as many collisions as you'd expect. The real trick was to not sprint, but rather just run from and dodge whoever was "it" when they'd target you.
"Baby baby baseball" lol. We were not allowed to throw balls in the house, so we would play baseball on our knees, rolling the bat and ball on the floor so we would not get into trouble. Because its hard to have 4 bases in a living room, we invented a hybrid of baseball and cricket so the game would be fair for the "pitcher".
Little late to the party, but we used to have a string/shoe lace/etc and tie it into a large circle. Then you'd wrap it around your fingers to create two X's in the middle. Then your friend would pinch the X's and wrap it around the outside strings and raise their fingers up to have a new formation on their fingers.
You can continue the process in different ways - never knew if it ever had a name or way to do it.
I remember my brother made up a game called "Pup" (pronounced poop). The way he described the game to me was that it was everything and had anything. Basically the game was just normal childhood imagination with a name. Had a lot of fun with it until we realized we couldn't really tell people to play Poop with us.
In 2002 we invented a Battle Royale Football before Battle Royale was a thing
Each of the around 15 kids of my apartment building would choose a country to represent and one would be the only one GoalKeeper, then it was everyone against everyone game and anyone who scored a goal would be classified and left the game for the round until the last one that couldn't score would be eliminated, then all the others who scored would come back to play until there was only one and he/she would be the champion.
When our mom wanted some quite time she would play one, two, three rock with my 2 sisters and me. The game was, mom counts to three and then we see who can pretend to be a rock for the longest time.
My sister and I used to play Parent Trap! She was Annie and I was Hallie. She would do a British accent and we would practice the iconic handshake and we would dance to the soundtrack.
I don't know how unique it actually was, but when we where younger me and my friends used to play what was either called "Zombie" or "Alien" depending on in which mood we where. In essence both game-modes where the exact same thing, which was a sort of infectious tag, in which we had to be atleast 4 players minimum but preferably more. Since the school we went to was in a very large U-shape, it acted as a perfect battleground and provided plenty of hiding spots for the game.
One of us, chosen by random, would start as the Zombie/ Alien which the other kids where supposed to avoid at all costs. If you where touched (and very often pretend bitten) by the Zombie/ Alien, then you would become on aswell. The game ended when only one survivor remained alive, which meant that although we did team up, the risk of betrayal by the others survivors where always present. The game went from a strange idea one of us had one day, to a tradition we played for years.
My sister and I used to play a game we called "stand on your butt." It's pretty self explanatory: one stands on the other's butt and tries not to fall off. Seems simple enough, but we would introduce levels of difficulty the longer they balanced on the butt. Level one was just balancing on the motionless butt, level 2 was balancing while the other person flexed their cheeks, level 3 was slowly moving the butt side to side while the other maintained balance, and so on. Not sure how we got into playing that one, or why.
In Elementary school we got in trouble for playing (american) football at recess. I can't remember if other kids complained or if it was when one kid broke his arm, but they told us we were not allowed to play football anymore, so we created our own game.
It was played inside the gymnasium. It was very similar to football, but it was played with a kickball. I don't remember all of the rules, but I remember being able to score touchdowns and score by making the ball in the basketball hoops. I think we had to dribble when running with the ball, and the walls were in bounds so you could pass the ball off the wall and have someone catch the pass. It was a lot of fun.
Me, my older brother, and my two cousins (also brothers of equivalent ages to my brother and I) used to play a game with all the neighborhood kids called Monster. Basically, one (sometimes 2-3) people would be the “monster” hunting down the 20ish kids all hidden around the culdesac. It was pretty much hide and seek in the dark with someone chasing you down. It was terrifying and incredible.
030927 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called "Lightning Ball"
We used those hats that look like a swimming cap with Velcro on the outside. And you had a ball that stuck to it.
There were always two teams each with a person wearing a hat.
If you had the ball you had to get it on the opposing teams hat, but their team would tackle you and beat you down.
If the ball went out of bounds you had to do a sommersault throw in.
If you got your ball on their hat, you got a point of "Awesome Offense" and the other team got a point for "Decent Defense".
Every game ended in a tie and it was literally the most fun I've ever had.
After watching jackass and wild boys back in the third grade, my buddies and I decided to make our own videos. We turned it into a game and would always try to out do one another. But after my friend Zach rode my bike off the top of my trailer and broke his leg, his mom took his video recorder. She had seen all of our stupid clips and showed the other parents which eventually led to the end of an era.
No, I’m not making that shit up. My sister and I used to stay home alone when we were younger. Our younger sister had a Barney doll, and we were too old and cool to be mature about that.
When my mom would leave, we would each make a beeline for the Barney doll. The person who got it was “it”. That person would chase the other person in a game of hide-and-week and tag. When found, the person who was “it” would proceed to viciously smash the doll in the others face.
My mom would come home to us, facial rug burns and all, and not have a clue.
My cousin, sister, and I use to take turns pretending to be a witch and cook each other. We'd pretend to tie each other to something on the floor and then run back and forth into the hallways to "get spices and herbs" and run back to add it to the human stew we were making.
We needed a clubhouse but our house wasnt that big so we convened underneath the dining room table. Each day was assigned an activity and we would start each one with minutes from the last time. "Okay, we colored on Wednesday. We both agreed that was fun. Today is Friday. Friday is for stickers. What stickers do we have?"
Bash-Ball. A game we made in our neighborhood that happened in whoever's front yard that wanted the "home-field advantage" that worked kinda like hockey. But also kinda not. Almost any sports equipment was allowed as long as it didn't close over the tennis ball, like a glove. Lax stick, hockey stick, tennis racquet, you name it. The goals were based off the field and side of field. Each combination of people on teams were given their own team name. And any time the ball went out of bounds whoever said bashball first got to toss the ball back in. Oh and checking/tackling is totally cool, you just have to drop your equipment first. Super fun game.
In elementary school we made a game called 'scramble'. We played on half a soccer field. One person started by throwing both frisbees into the air. It was a free-for-all, you would try and get a frisbree and throw it at another player. If they got hit, you were out and had to stand in the field until the last person arrived. It ended with tons of faceshots. I think some kid was trying to teach us frisbee-football and it devolved into this. We played almost every day.
The hottest game in middle school every week was “Slap Ass Friday” where you’d try to slap the most asses. Naturally, it was boys who made it up. Realize now that it was basically sexual assault. Realllly hope that game died.
My older sister would have pee races with her friend. The house we lived in had foundation damage I believe, leaving the living room floor at a slight tilt. It was hardwood.
They would stand at one end of the living room and pee and see who’s pee would get to the end of the room faster.
4rft5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I went to a hotel as a child, I’d play a game where I’d jump on the bed. That’s literally it, but I’d pretend the closet was a elevator also.
My older brother and I went through a MonsterJam kick back in the late 90's so naturally we formed our own. Our main even would be seeing who could make the most durable monster truck out of K'Nex and see if it could survive a ramp jump down the flight of stairs of our two-story house. We would gauge the winner by how many pieces were lost, if it could still roll after the jump, and if my sister's Barbie dolls could survive the ride as the sole passenger.
To add a danger element to this, we basically had two time limits before we had to call it quits. First would be how soon till my younger sister figured out we stole some of her Barbie dolls and second would be when my mom finally lost her shit after hearing K'Nex clattering down the stairs.
Needless to say, these rounds never lasted long and there never any clear winner. Barbie could just never survive the ride down. Was always losing her head.
Boneless bodies. In the car, where you just kinda go limp and let the vehicles momentum swing your boneless body all over the backseat. Loved it. I recommend jug handles for maximum effect.
We had a trampoline growing up, and we would play this game called "mummy mummy" where one person would have their eyes closed and would have to stay on their knees and the other people would have to avoid getting tagged by the person in the middle while staying on the trampoline. There was a song with it too.
Sister, step brother, and I would play a game called "What are you doing up so late?!" Once it got late at night, like 10 or 11, two of us would hide in our dark bedroom. The other person would then come try to find us using a crappy little Fisher Price lantern that made cricket noises and other night time noises. When they found one of us, they would yell "what are you doing up so late?!" While we all giggled like idiots. Wash, rinse, and repeat with a new lantern bearer until we were good and proper tired and ready for bed. It was reserved for weekends since we had to stay up late to play it.
We went on the trampoline with a bunch of balls (weirdly shaped balls for added difficulty). Then you had to jump and not get hit. Goal was to be last man standing/jumping and get all the balls off the trampoline (by jumping in the right places)
All the players would start in a huddle with one person holding the ball (usually a kickball or dodgeball type). The ball is thrown as high into the air as possible and the Thrower calls out another player’s name. Whoever’s name was called has to catch the ball while everyone else runs away from the ball. When the ball is caught, the Catcher yells “STOP” and everyone freezes. Next, the Catcher is allowed to take three steps/jumps in any direction in order to get close enough to another player and peg them with the ball. If you miss, you get a letter from the word spud and you are the new Thrower. If you hit the person, they get a letter and become the new Thrower.
Me and my siblings and cousins would build a sofa fort, then gang up on each other to throw one of us in jail (the fort) where we'd pin them down and try to give them carpet burns on their arms and legs. Sometimes one of us would retaliate against the gang and attempt to rescue the prisoner, but they invariably got arrested and carpet burned too.
There were never really any rules over whose turn it was to be ganged up on, we all did our time, although I reckon the younger ones probably did more stints in the slammer than the rest.
Kids can be so cruel.
Never really thought until now about why the adults never stopped us!
Every Sunday me and my best friend st that time would play a game we called the Goblin game based on my obsession of that time of The Spider Wick Chronicles.
The game would mostly consist of us running away from and fighting invisible goblins that either only one of us could see or we could only see at certain points. There was a safe area we would stay in which was behind the main entrancs doors and the goblins would come from a hole in the bush near the entrance of the church.
We played different versions which involved superpowers or letting others join.
We played this for a good two or three years.
A super parkour ninja running beside the family car and leaping over shit to keep pace with us, and a super laser that shot out from the car and sliced everything up as we drove by.
Asteroids - in winter I would pretend I was a space pilot, sitting in the head of my body which was a spaceship. My eyes were the cockpit windows, so the game was to avoid my windows getting hit by asteroids (snowflakes) while walking/jogging.
Taping together plastic PVC pipes to look like super realistic and sometimes futuristic weapons and playing call of duty pvp at an abandoned recycling facility near Amsterdam, mind you we didn't even know what call of duty was yet
Qulwir · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were kids we would play an "elastic" game in my neighbors basement. We'd turn off all the lights, blast some music ("Another One Bites The Dust"), and try to shoot each other with elastics.
Later in high school we'd play a "guess the song" game. One person would load discs into a 5 CD changer, put it on random mode, and the others had guess the song and artist. First to guess correctly won.
Back when I was ten or so, my neighbors, siblings and I would play "kick the can". Basically we'd fill a large plastic soda bottle halfway up with water and set in my backyard. One kid would guard it while the others started at the front of the house. Whoever kicked over the bottle first was the next to guard.
Me and my brother would go over to our friends house when we were really young. I don't know why but I guess the mom had her youngest child nude and maybe he escaped her or whatever. The game was originally called don't let Tommy touch you (the name of her youngest child), but he was trying to play it when he was naked so the game took a darker turn from that day.
My back yard had 4 big sink holes in it. We would collect random junk, usually from our early childhood days like the red/yellow buggy, fisher workbenches, kiddie pools, old soccer nets, etc to make forts out of. Then we would use all our soccer, tennis, footballs, baseballs, etc to try and tag the other person. Thankfully we were keen enough only to throw at full power long distances and not to aim at the face. Imagine getting hit in the face by a baseball at full speed.
Rules: u can only throw in a fort. U can run to the other persons fort to throw it at him but good chance you get hit on the way over (this was needed because fort 1 and 4 were too far away from each other). No repairing the fort mid game. You are allowed to toss a knocked over item out of the fort. 3 strikes you are out. You can rob balls from others people forts which happened when u left ur fort to get the good balls that landed in the no mans zone. Winner gets to pick an item used to make a fort from one of the losers but all the losers can protect one item.
We’d fucking toss balls at eachs other forts for hours trying to knock down a 30lb-50lb object lmao. We’d team up and just rain balls on someone if they were too good at throwing the ball so they couldnt get a chance too. He’d hide behind his fort for what felt like half an hour. We’d throw balls at the tree branches for hours trying to break em so the net would fall out.
Yes we broke a lot of things but it was all junk we didnt use. OP combos were had. The kiddie pool propped up by the grounded punching bag was banned as a combo.
My sister and I had a couple of games we would play. First was "Stampy" where we would both pretend to be elephants on our parents bed, first to knock the other off the bed won.
Then we started watching That 70s Show and we started playing a game called "Ow My Eye" where we would try to get the other to say "Ow My Eye" by any means necessary. My mom hated those games.
We played a game called farter and we started it because one day we were on a trampoline and someone farted so we all grabbed onto a pole and said your the farter and you can tag us until we let go of the pole and you can touch the pole next to you
He man vrs My Little Pony. The ponies were minions of Skeletor, and would always win because they would gang up on He Man and shoot him with rainbows and love. Asshole ponies
"ant swimming pool." Fill a frisbee with water. Put in some rocks, none of them touching. Connect them with really thin blades of grass, tiny twigs, etc. Put in ants. See if the ants could make it from rock to rock. If they fell in the water let them struggle until they either made it back onto a rock or nearly drowned. Drowned ants got put on a dandelion leaf on the sidewalk until they came around. Sometimes they were burned with a magnifying glass "to dry them off." If they made it out on their own they were free to go. Ants carrying things weren't bothered. There was a rock in the center that the fastest ant got to inhabit with sugar on it. It wasn't connected to the others.
This sounds psychopathic. I promise there were no cruel intentions, my sister and I were just fascinated to watch them.
We used to play this game called the green mile. What it was was basically there were three guards and two prisoners and the prisoners were handcuffed and had to try to escape from the guards while wearing the handcuffs. We used to play this on a frozen lake in Michigan and it was probably in the month of March
Oh I thought of another one. I would play "Free Willy". Apparently this involved tangling myself in the cord for the blinds pretending I was a whale caught in a net. I would then triumphantly escape and flee to the ocean. That's right kids. I'm the reason those warning tags are on blinds cords.
Monchk · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being one of 6 boys, we had a lot of games growing up. I think my most memorable was when we'd stuff our clothes with every pillow and blanket we could forage from the house and throw ourselves at each other. We called our game "Fat Cat" and for some reason didn't last much longer after one of us lost a tooth.
“Wizards”. It was hide & seek tag with a ball & a metal rod. Whoever the Wizard(Tagger) was would get this metal rod that was as tall as we were, close their and count to sixty. Everyone else would hide themselves and the ball. After sixth seconds the wizard would try to find the ball and the others. The wizard could not tag anyone until they found the ball, so even if someone was found they could rehide until the ball was found. Once the wizard has the ball, they can tag anyone with their hands, the ball, or the metal rod. If you were tagged, you can help the wizard tag others, but only using either the ball or the rod, not your hands. It was really fun.
We used the play “Orphanages”. We were all orphans in a orphanage going through some truly terrifying shit. There was murder, blackmailing, teen pregnancy etc. And to make matter even weirder all the imaginary characters not played by myself or my neighbourhood friends were Animal Crossing characters. Rolf was a bad boyfriend in that game lol.
We also played “The Gem Game”. We were in a mountain top school for martial arts and we’d have to fight on the trampoline using gems that turned us into different animals with certain skills. Was like an evolved pokemon.
And then ofc we played “The Hunger Games”. We’d all be armed with sticks and nerf crossbows or something and run around our street tryna kill each other lol
We made this super fun game we called "boogeyman." It was a modified tag and hide and seek. The game was played inside at night. The "Boogeyman" had to turn off the light. All the other kids would run around and / or hide in the complete dark, and the "boogeyman" would have to find someone, grab them, drag them to the light switch, and flip the switch on. That kid would then become the "boogeyman" and have to repeat the process.
Luke hunt. It was a game in which we would hunt our friend luke. He was much stronger and faster than us so it was kinda like being in the predator movie where he would pick us off one by one. We where considered 'dead' once we admitted uncle and if we where able to tie luke up and take him to the garage by force we would win. So luke had to either make everyone give up or let the timer run out. It was super fun but had to stop when Luke tried to climb and tree and the branch broke and he hurt his arm and was unable to play football.
My siblings and neighbor had two we played at the local playground. One was called Colors and one was called Sand.
Colors: the playground had different colors for each part of the big set. For example: all the floors were green, the railings and monkey bars were all yellow, half the slides were green, half were yellow, etc. The person who was it could touch any color except the one chosen, the people who were not it could only touch that color. This set was huge so there were so many places to go. But it was essentially tag but with fun restrictions on people. So if the person who was it touched the color they couldn't touch, they had to restart back at the starting point and we got to move if we wanted. If we touched a color other than then one we could touch and got caught, we were it. I don't remember all the rules in detail but I loved that game.
Sand: this one was my favorite though. This was kind of like hide and go seek on a little but of steroids. So this was at the same play set. The person who was it would close their eyes and cover their ears for a bit while everyone hid on the play set. Then the person who was it had to go find them while keeping their eyes shut. There were only three rules to the game: the IT person had to keep their eyes shut, you could stand on the perimeter of the sandbox but could not leave it, and if you run/walk on the sand to get to another part and the person who is IT and hears you and yells "SAND" and caught you before you got off it, you were now it. So it was very much a game where you had to be as quiet as could be while trying to manuever around the person who was it and blind.
In car rides, me and my sister would compete to be the first to spot the same model of car that we were in. It got hard to distinguish who saw what first, so we started calling out the color of the car, and if it was a Jeep, what top it had, how many doors it had, and if it had a fire color.
This was all in good fun until we drove past a dealerships and there were two kids in the back yelling “Jeep! “ “Jeep!” “Jeep!” for a mile down the road.
My sister and I would play "The Water Club." Basically, on a warmer winter day (usually the sun was out) we'd sit in the backyard with all our outdoor toys with us (plastic buckets and shovels mostly) and melt snow into water. That was it.
I've since moved across the country and got talking about childhood games with a friend. When describing The Water Club, she exclaimed that she and her sisters use to play "The Old Fashioned Water Company." Same game, different name.
TheDFR · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Hide the GI Joes” all the time. We’d take 3-6 action figures and one person would hide them either in the backyard or the rec room, or whatnot. The other person would have to find them. Sounds lame, but was so much fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was super young, I shared a bedroom with my brother and sister and I would "host parties". I would do this a couple times a month. I decorated the bedroom and played music and movies on our computer, and I would cry and uninvite people when the wouldn't show up/throw away my invitations. For example, if my sister didn't show up I would cry and cross her name out on the invitation list.
My brother and I would also make things out of my modeling clay or play dough and we would sell them for pennies. The last time we did it, we both made cardboard stands and sold items in our bedroom. I sold dinosaurs and candy and my brother sold hot dogs. We ended up just getting our own pennies and buying each other's stuff.
We had this public park which had this kid small attraction which was full of slides which looked like a ship and had this little pirate wheel thingy too,it was placed right in the centre of this sandy pit. The games name was 'Shark Attack' basically tag but whoever is on the 'ship' is safe from the catcher who is on the sand which is the water, and we would run around the sand and get back on the ship or have our leg dangling out and give the catcher a chance,, fun times
Wed have a “cooking show” My brother or I would be the “chef”, and we’d mix a bunch of random ingredients in a bowl. When we were done, the other would rate the dish, depending on how bad it smelled.
Not sure of the details as this was almost half a century ago. When I was 4, my dad and I moved from the apartment with no bedroom in DC to one with one bedroom in VA. It was in a big apartment complex, and we made friends with our upstairs neighbors.
I remember going to play with their kids in their apartment. Cathy was 7 and wanted to play checkers. Theresa was 10, and she and I wanted to play that the Germans were chasing us. It involved lots of snuggling and pretending to hide.
I don't know how we came up with the idea, but it was fun.
Some 35 years later, an online friend told me she thought we knew each other in our last life, and that I had been funneling her information from the Gestapo to give to the French Resistance. Until we were found out, and I was shot for treason.
I don't know if that really happened, nor if there was a connection to what Theresa and I played at when I was 5.
Me and my sisters used to play this game that we’d call ‘fall on people’ (we were very imaginative, I know). So one of us would lie down on our back on the couch, and another one of us would stand on the arm of it and just, kinda, flop onto the other. There was no objective. We got very hurt. Luckily nothing too bad, but a lot of bruising and crying. So, yeah... our parents didn’t really like it.
Trying to see for how long I could stop thinking. I was fascinated by how automatic thoughts were.
Kaiyde · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On a massive trampoline in my country backyard, My sister would put on a red shirt and i would chase her around on said trampoline screaming I’M THE BULL
Me and my friends played travel agents. We would build these lavish vacations and trips and pretend like people were calling to book them. We made offices and everything. So many hours spent on the fake phone!
My brother and I played “sawblades”. Basically we’d take the couch pillows and whip them at each other while running around. If you got hit in the arm, you lost that arm. Lose a leg if you get hit there. Lose both legs and You can no longer move from your location. First person to be decapitated or take 3 sawblades to the torso loses.
My siblings and cousins used to play a game called "Black Plush" and it consisted of us in a room with all the lights off and one person would be designated the "Black Plush". He or she would grab a plush toy, usually a teddy bear or something similar and with all the lights off in a room completely dark they had to throw the toy at someone and the person that got hit was it. It was like tag but in the complete dark and throwing shit around. We would hide or use each other as shields. Oh, and the person who was it and missed the shot had to look for the plush animal in the dark while the rest of us scrambled to hide or go to other places in the room. Good times.
Game was called Black Plush because it was dark as hell and all you saw was black until a plush animal hit you. It was crazy when played at night, literally couldn't even see my own hands.
Roof Rescuers. It involved climbing onto the roofs of the farm buildings, delegating a rescuer, then pushing each other off the thin ledge that allowed us to perch on the roof arch.
Rescuers duty was to slide down in dramatic fashion, quicker than we were falling and stop us reaching the bottom of the incline and falling the 3meters to the ground. Fun times.
Grew up on a farm with minimal supervision. We had a lot of these games and worse. It's a wonder we all made it to adulthood.
"Drive-by shooting"
Probably more of an interrupt to normal play than a game of its own. Any time a car drove by, all the kids playing in the front lawn would stop what they were doing and scream "drive by shooting!!!" and do their best death-by-gun shot routine. There wasn't really an objective or way to win, but all the kids loved it haha. The parents were not so amused.
We used to play "Homie Style Basketball" during recess. We had one of those random pieces of playground equipment where you can throw a ball into the big hole on top and it would come out of one of the four smaller holes on bottom.
It was essentially basketball with 10 man teams and no rules against tripping or hitting people so that got banned pretty fast. Then we started playing "The Trip Game" which was where all the guys lined up at the top of a steep hill and tried to avoid being tripped while sprinting down said hill. If you got tripped, you had to help fuck people up the next round.
That also got banned because when there's only one guy left to trip, he's just running through a gauntlet of 20 asshole 5th graders kicking him and trying to violently shove him down the hill and one kid busted his head on a rock.
Basically one person stays inside the house and hides items around the house for the other players to find.
The rest of the players have to break into the house without the person who hid the items knowing, and get all the items before they escape, they were called the owner.
The owner has to do daily tasks like, napping, cooking, reading, amd get distracted and things.
If a player is caught by the owner in his own house they get locked up in the attic and everyone has to try and free them.
So fun with like 12 people
I remember a game we played where people were coming in through the windows and the back door, at one point we had one of our friends risk themselves by saving 10 of our inprisoned guys
My brother and I used to play "brother and baby", "sister and baby", or, when we could not agree, "baby and baby". This game involved a lot of making silly noises and biting each other with covered teeth (presumably to mimic the gumming of a child). I honestly don't recall what was fun about it but we did it all the time, especially on long road trips.
My sister and I had two games that came as a package when we were kids.... The first was called "Feet Fight." We would lay down and put our feet up against each other and the goal was to extend your own legs and force the others' legs to bend all the way. Nobody ever won, so after thirty seconds, the game would switch.
The other game was called "Die Die Die," and the goal of this game is to kick the other person as fast and as hard as you can. After thirty seconds or so, we would yell "Feet fight!" and switch back.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trampoline Ball"
Best if played with 5 or more. At most 3 people would be on the trampoline while everyone else would be standing on the ground right next to it, scattered around the outside however you wanted to be. We had a foam ball that we used and the objective was for the people on the trampoline to dodge the ball. If you got hit, you came off and the person that hit you took your place. If you were on the tramp you always had to be jumping.
For the people on the ground though you couldn't just simply throw the ball, you had to hit it like a volleyball serve where you threw it up with one hand and smacked it with the other. We played this game for hours sometimes. If someone was on for too long the players on the ground would sometimes gang up on them. You'd use different strategies to get the good dodgers off the tramp like faking you were gonna hit it so they'd take a big bounce and not be able to react or hiding the ball and kicking it each other under the trampoline so the jumpers didn't know who had it.
My brother and I used to play "clodhopping", where we pulled up a handful of weeds and grass (with the roots and dirt still attached) and tossed it onto the roof of our family shed.
Whoever got the most clods on the roof with the loudest thumps before we got yelled at won.
My sister, cousin, and I would play “Crab Cruncher”
It’s where two of us would lie down on the ground next to one another and put our feet in the air (“the crab”). The third would then back into our feet butt first and try to wriggle their way through our feet to the ground or on top of us (“the cruncher”). The other two would try and launch the other away or into the air or whatever. It was ridiculously fun, except one time my butt landed on my sister’s nose and it bled like crazy. We played for years, and I bet if we got drunk we’d still play and we’re in our thirties now.
Our personal version of Spin the Bottle. No kidding. We would each write down 3 or 4 “punishments” on a slip of paper. All papers folded. We’d take turns spinning the bottle. Whomever it pointed to had to pick a slip and perform the punishment. This led to the most glorious moment of my entire childhood. My friend “A” picked the punishment: Kiss “K’s” butt (with pants on). K and A are sisters. K got on all fours. As A leaned in for the kiss, K blasted a fart in her face. Life will never be better than that moment.
Our whole neighborhood would play a game called “Bloody Wolf” at night time. It’s basically just Hide-and-go-Seek backwards. So you have one or two “Wolves” that go hide. Then all the kids go out looking for the wolf.
First person to see him yells “Bloody Wolf” as loud as they can and everyone runs back to base for safety. The wolf tries to tag as many people as possible, so next round they are Wolves too.
Gets pretty scary when you’re a kid and the last of a handful of seekers.
I’m sure it’s not very unique to boys that grew up in the same time as me, but my dad and I used to play “Car Crash”. We would tear apart our couches and chairs, build almost a mini fort with them, and then take all my matchbox and hot wheels and give characters to them and act out their lives. There wasn’t many crashes occurring but I always told my mom she couldn’t play because it was “too scary for girls”
Ahem. My friend and I made this mythical water creature thing, and when we swam we pretended we were them. Basically, we couldn't see or talk above water, and we just did the usual role-playing type thing and made up some story that I can't remember.
Oh we also made a club where the whole class we hid from one person we didn't like behind a snowbank during recess. We'd just watch her wander around looking for us. 🤷♂️
We didn't have a name for it, but my best friend in elementary/middle school had a big room in his basement with a smooth concrete floor. One person would get a hockey stick and 10 pucks and the other had to run back and forth touching the walls with both hands 3 times while barefoot. We would switch rounds and whoever got the most hits won. Lots of bruises, cuts, and sprained ankles.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punch butt:
One of the older siblings (there's 5 of us) would sit on the edge of a chair and a smaller child would go stand in front of them with their back to them and the older child would put their feet close to the smaller child's butt. Then basically kick them across the room. Lol it was more of a push or a shove but if you do it too hard you can get hurt lol
I'm 1 of 6 kids, only girl being the youngest, and I was #4. We had so many different games ranging in stupidity.
One of my brothers and I would keep the younger siblings out of our room and we would set it up kinda like a carnival. Like tossing a beanbag into a bucket for skee ball, card games, and we even made fake money to use. We also tried setting up a miniature golf course in the backyard.
Some of the really stupid ones we did though we're to pile all the blankets at the bottom of the stairs and see who could jump from the highest step. We would also set all the blankets in a pile in the bedroom and jump off the bunk bed.
Probably one of my favorite was a game we called Head to Head, and you would get in a sleeping bag head first, we would all get our heads together in the middle of the room, and just wrestle.
The dart game ... we would pretend to shoot each other with a “poison dart” , the person has to pretend to be paralyzed until the dart was “removed” by someone. This went on well into high school. There were some rule revisions such as , Spider-Man : allows someone to pull the dart out by saying Spider-Man and aiming their hand towards you (pull the dart with web ) , and we allowed you to raise your hand in the event that you were darted, underwater and running out of breath ... we were idiots ...
We pretending like we were in a mario bros game but instead of being mario/luigi etc, we were the goombas. We would squat down and run around the backyard making random noises and that was basically it
Whenever I rode in a car, I used to imagine it had an enormous sawblade that could extend from it horizontally out over the landscape which had to be retracted to avoid metal objects and extended to cut down signs, trees, or anything wooden. I think the idea was an evil genius was trying to cut down all trees on the planet to deprive it of oxygen, but I didn't think too much about the reasoning.
Back when I was in grade school I used to play this "boss fight" game with two of my neighbors.
I was always much bigger than them, so i'd always end up being the boss. I would chase them around with "special skills" that I usually lifted from movies or games I watched at the time. I clearly remember one time I tried to be a maintenance robot from system shock 2.
I have no idea how we came up with it, we played it between 4-6 years old. It was played by throwing something off the bed then trying to bring it back without ever leaving the bed. This would result in hanging halfway off the bed then calling for the "boss" to help reel you in.
For little kids with no upper body or core strength, it was quite a feat for boss-man to pull you back up to safety with the treasure in hand.
push two soccer goals 10-20 yards apart,
you and a homie stand in front of each one,
then you take turns either throwing a football into the opposite net, or try to save the ball from going into the net,
first to score 11 goals wins.
bhub21 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a game, but any game we played would always have the same consequence. The loser(s) would have to drink what we call a “dirty butthole”. The winner of the game would make a concoction of four different liquids to make the nastiest drink possible. When we started there were were little to no boundaries to what we could use. Condiments would often be used along with aggressively boiled milk. After having many instances where sisters or cousins would throw up after drinking it we limited it to only beverages and no preparation of said beverages (e.g. no heating). Nowadays we mostly use alcohol.
When I was young, around 8, My friend and I combined windshield wiper fluid and mud into a pie we were about to eat before my mom whisked her home and me to bath.
In the country, there was a spotlight at every house that was on throughout the night. If we stayed late at a party at someones house and everyone was inside, us kids would go outside with a can. The can would be placed under the spotlight with a guard and everyone else would go hide around the buildings. The goal was to kick the can before the guard spotted and touched you. It was funny when the dogs or cats “helped” the guard since the animal would go up to people hiding. The game ended when everyone was caught.
I used to flick a piece of string maybe 3-4 long at my cat, and when they caught it, I'd quickly whip it around them several times really fast, effectively hog-tying them, yank them up off the ground for a couple seconds till they started to struggle, then drop them and let them loose. They'd always be really agitated about what just happened so they wouldn't think twice about attacking the string again, so I'd just repeat this process until I was bored.
We had an outdoor cooking show. We’d gather all of our ingredients from around the house, usually dirt, grass, leaves, rocks, dandelions, pretty much anything that could be used to make a dish look more interesting. We’d take turns talking through making our dishes as if we had an audience. We kept our finished “meals” for weeks at a time resulting in multiple crusty dirt pies on my mom’s front porch.
My sister and I had something we simply called "the game." We just went back and forth telling each other stories and adding to each other's stories. We would talk for an hour or two adding more and more to the same story until it was unrecognizable. If written down they would really just be awful self-insert fanfics with no coherent plot or real struggle. But they were entertaining and it was fun to see who could out embellish the other. We never told the stories to others, not that we could remember half of what we added by the time we were done, so we were never embarrassed by them.
Most of the TV shows we watched made an appearance as settings for our fantasies. This was more common with shows we both enjoyed such as Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z.
Car tag. My friend's dad owned a towing business and they had a tow yard on their property. It was tag, but the people who were not it had to stay on the vehicles. The person who was 'it' could touch the ground and be on the vehicles. Super fun, but looking back, it was super dangerous. One kid jumped down from the roof of an RV onto the windshield of another car and one of his legs went straight through. Lots of blood, but weirdly he didn't cry or anything. He just walked home down the road and the next day had a bandage around his leg and said he wasn't going to play car tag anymore.
I grew up with a trampoline (with a net) in my backyard and I remember 2 games I played with a few friends I had in middle school. We didnt have a name for the first one but basically we got a bunch of smaller sized balls and put them inside the trampoline. Then we would try to avoid them for as long as we could. When there are 4 or 5 kids in there it would get pretty hectic.
The other game was named "Trippo Whippo". Basically you had one person close their eyes and stay on their knees and they tried to trip everyone else who was in the trampoline by listening. Lots of time spent playing this one. I even play it with my current cousins when I can. Super fun.
I grew up in the countryside which meant really dark nights, and we used to play a game we called Spotlight.
A team of "guards" with torches (flashlights) would have to guard a designated point (usually a big Oak tree near my house). They weren't allowed to simply camp at the point and usually patrolled around the area in pairs.
The other team of "hiders" started at the other end of the village and would have to do their best to make their way to the point undetected. They could go solo, or in groups and the objective was to get as many people to the point as possible. If a guard spotted a hider, they had to shout their name as proof of detection meaning they couldn't really catch you if there were really far off.
There were no boundaries or limits to where you could go, and it often involved crawling through fields, and sneaking down Becks to remain undetected.
Was a really fun intense game, and we were often quite strategic with our plans, creating diversions to lure guards away etc
I believe I was age 5 or 6 , I would have play dates with my neighbor at her house or mine. We didn’t play “Doctor”, wasn’t clever enough for that I guess. We played “kissin booties”. I kissed her ass and she kissed mine, that was the ‘game’... literally just a kiss on the cheek lol. My grandmother caught us doing it under a bed once and flushed us out with a flyswatter. I don’t know her any more. Swedish Jesus I haven’t thought about that cringe in a long, long time.
I forgot what we called it but my siblings, my cousin, and I would all go downstairs into the basement. One person would take a dart gun and go over to the wall and count to twenty. As they went over to the wall we would turn off the lights and hide. After they counted to twenty they would then wander around the basement and try and find someone and shoot them who would then be it. Super fun game, we would all dress in black and it was so hard to find people.
My cousin and I played a game we made up called cheeseheads when we were about 10. The couch in his parents basement folded out into a ground level bed, and there were 2 L-shaped pillows which we would put on our heads (corner of the pillow behind our head, 2 ends wrapped around our heads) and smash into each other trying to push each other off the bed. This would go on for hours with us laughing non stop.
He now lives about 3000km away and I miss the hell out of him.
We had some kids from israel down the street. We would play a game called "fuzzy" ball. It was probly named this because these texas kids couldn't get the kids names right let alone learn games name in a foreign language.... Any how there was a kush ball. All would gather in a field or yard whom ever had the ball would throw it up and everyone would wrestle and jostle for the ball. Who ever got the ball was "it" while it you aren't allowed to move your feet while all the other kids would have 2 strategies either get far enough away to not be hit by the "it" person or to troll the "it" person into pitching at them. If you caught the ball the "it" person was out and if you were hit or dropped the ball you were out until the "it" guy was out. It led to very interesting game dynamics because the entire game could almost reset if you were able to catch the ball in a late game pitch or the feverish few seconds after the throw up pitch you would be either throwing as fast as possible to get anyone slow or unlucky enough or running for your life. So yeah I would play fuzzy ball with Israeli national kids. Ill always remember those years. Thanks for the memories Ella, Alone and Orin.... 25 years I still think about you guys.... Even though you would call Monopoly the board game Mono-poly...
Bloody Murder. I lived in a neighborhood with a lot of kids. And when it started to get dark we loved to play this. It’s like hide and seek with a twist. There’s one person who’s it, and everyone else goes to hide. If the person who’s it comes and finds you, you yell bloody murder and everyone pops out of their hiding places and runs back to home base. First person to get tagged by the murderer is it, and if no one gets tagged, the same person is it again. It was so much fun, but a little alarming to hear little kids scream bloody murder and scream the whole way back to base.
My brother and I would take green plastic army men and set them up in two equal groups about 10 feet apart. We would then, turns shooting at each others group with a bb gun. When your last army man got knocked down you lost.
Play “500”. One kid would throw a ball over the garage to the other kids calling out a number, if you caught it you got the number called. First to 500 wins. Just don’t catch -1000!
ryno · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghosts in the Graveyard
Basically hide and seek, at night, and the ghosts (ones hiding) would have to sneak back to the ‘base’ without getting seen or tagged by the ghost hunter.
Me and my dad would each line up our own ‘teams’ of army men and then take turns tossing them at each other’s lines...
We called it; Suicide Bomber
d3hall · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings, next door neighbours and I played "Beater Ball".
It was sort of like tag, but infused with violence. The objective was to hold onto a tennis ball and run around the yard, preventing other players from obtaining the ball. But we all had sticks or plastic golf clubs that we could use to beat each other with to obtain/defend the ball.
In retrospect, I'm not sure why any of us ever wanted to be the one with the ball...
My little brother and I would fight each other during advert breaks for the privilege of sitting on the sofa to watch TV. Whoever was sitting on the sofa when the programme restarted would be able to lounge across it (a 2 seater) until the next ad break. The loser would have to sit on the floor until the next ad break, when he could then challenge for the right to a comfy seat.
Me and my siblings used to play a game called Ongar on a trampoline. We would all bounce and try to sweep the opponents legs, if we managed to knock them over we would shout ongar! We usualy had to stop when some one got hurt. Was great fun though
Me and my buddies made up a game that we called "dodge the pedestrian" and basically we would lunge at my dog and get would take off and run close to us and try and juske us out. The point was to catch him when he zoomed by
Basically, hide and seek in the dark. It would take place in a large room and we would block out all the light so it would be pitch black. Everyone would hide and one person would be “it” and have to find the others with both hiders and finder being unable to see the entire time.
It was a very efficient way of playing hide and seek without much space.
We’d mess with the finder by trying to throw things at them or making a noise at one corner and running to another corner of the room.
When I was younger and around 10, whenever I’d go out to eat with my family, me, and my younger brother, would play a war like game on the back of the paper kids menus. Basically whoever had the best imagination won. so first we’d draw a line half way though the paper, then we would take turns drawing with crayons one thing to beat the other person, and they would draw something that would defend against it. It would go something like, here’s my mini gun that will shoot though your base, and the other would draw something like a electric forcefield that could repel bullets. It would always end up a crazy cluster fuck of imagination on the paper, with a mix of all sorts of fantasy. We would have modern military, dragons, mages, Syfi. It was always super fun, but I don’t think we’d ever come close to finishing during the time we were out to eat.
My cousin and I had a game we called "I've fallen and I can't get up."
It's as stupid as it sounds. My bed was against a wall, and we would slide the bed a little bit away from the wall. Then we sat on that space between the wall and the bed until the bed slid a little bit forward and we got stuck between the bed and the wall.
We would sit there like this until the bed slid far enough away that we ended up sitting on the floor after sliding all the way down. At that point, we would exclaim "I've fallen and I can't get up!" And we would wiggle out from between the wall and the bed and do it again. We did this maybe 3 times a night every time we slept over for a few months. I still laugh when I think about that.
'Fat person'. My sister and I would wrap every blanket we owned in the house around one or two people. After that we would throw the person down and repeatedly kick the fat burrito person. Sometimes even thrown down the stairs. It never mattered we were protected by this massive amount of blankets....oh those were the days.
At my cousins’ house there was a walk-in pantry where they stored food and household supplies. We would gather in the pantry and one person would look around for something to make the others search for. Said person could use the item’s name or some word/phrase on its packaging. As soon as the person finished the search term, she turned off the light. The others would have to blindly locate the item. Obviously this game was easier for them, as they lived there and were familiar with where things were.
My oldest brother would be taking a dump, my older brother would be his assistant, and i would be some rube who would wander into their lair and they would put me in the shower, which was actually a torture device that would do random stuff to me, like electrocute me, or drown me in acid. I was 5.
We had a game we called minion back in middle school, it was like tag but everybody you tagged became a minion and tackled other people the ground so you can tag them as you can imagine it got a little violent.
A weird car journey game I used to make up was being the ‘boss’ of the lights along the motorway- I used to scold them if they were just a red colour when all the others were bright (when they first turn on, they are an orange/red colour) or they were not turned on at all. I would “praise” the functioning lights. I was an only child.
The “dark game” my younger cousin around my age, and I would turn off the lights and the bed would serve as our base. We’d then try to turn on the lights but her older brother would try to catch us in the dark to keep us from getting to them.
I'm the only girl of 4 kids, which means I have 3 brothers and no sisters. We would play indoor football (I'm American, so not soccer). We would go to our front room, move any breakable items away from the area. My older brothers, who were taller than me and my younger brother, would be on their knees for safety reasons. It was fun
My cousins and siblings would play he Egg Game on Easter and other family gatherings at our grandparents house. We would divide into two teams, start in different rooms, open the door and just launch plastic eggs at each other.
Like hide and seek, but you are not allowed to hide. You have to be out in the open and then rush to the starting point. Maybe it wouldn't make sense to city folk, because it works since me and my friends back then live in a reasonably small town, so the point is that we can just scramble everywhere in the town, but we couldn't enter any buildings, or go to one of the neighborhoods (because then the play area would be too big)
Me and my friends use to play this game called Shark.
Now I’m sure a lot of kids played this or still do. But it was life or death for us.
One of my other friends had a Dog and a pretty big backyard.
He had a play ground in the middle of his backyard and we would use that as Base.
Now the reason I said it was life or Death was because his dog was mean. He didn’t like anyone but my friend.
The dog name was Blackie.
(All black pit bull)
And so he would have toys thrown out around the yard and we had to run and go retrieve it to base while the dog chased us around barking and growling.
If things got to bad, he would always intervene to stop Blackie from really hurting us.
It was a fun game.
I’ll never forget that time we were playing after school and my grandma came to pick me up because my mom and dad were at work and I was home alone and I was playing Shark with my friends and as she pulled up, I ran to the fence to climb over it to leave and Blackie bit me in the butt.
Pioneers, our bikes were horses and the trees were our homes. We had one tree in particular that had three levels where you could sit comfortably. Each was our bedroom. We tied a rope and basket so we can give each other stuff. It was great. Then one day we found out they were cutting the tree down. We were soo sad. Soon after that the girls I played with moved (I lived next door to an apartment building). It was all very sad for me.
My brother and I used to tuck our arms into the cover of throw pillows from our mom's bed. We'd have them tucked and upright as if doing Beavis' "Cornholio" and just attack each other. No idea how we determined who would win...but man those were some epic battles.
Visora · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon football.
Me and my brother used to use the pokemon figures that were about an inch high on a subbuteo cloth pitch.
We would place the ball in the best line we could find on the pitch and use the pokemon to try and hit the ball into the others net.
When a pokemon scored it was taken off the pitch and the first person to remove all of their pokemon won.
Okay late to the thread but we had many and not alot of real toys..
We took a beach ball and an old badminton net to the basement and played "wild ball" where as long as it didn't touch the floor it could bounce off any wall, thing or anyone and still be in play. That one kept us entertained for hours.
We played "pets" where one was the owner and others were dogs and cats and someone always had a favorite pet and gave them cereal as treats and tried to get the others to eat actual dry cat food or sit in a closet.. Idk that one sounds weirder than I rememeber now..
We also played slave master. My parents somehow either never heard this name or never told us how fucked up it sounded. After we saw the Prince of Egypt movie we played Egyptian pharoah and slaves and we made mud bricks and attempted to build things in the yard. The slaves had fun in this one. But then we would decide to revolt and break free and it essentially turned into "cops and robbers" around the neighborhood
We called it "Hallway of Death". The game was essentially trying to kill each other with a giant green yoga ball in a tiny hallway. It was so much fun.
We had a game called cucuy. It was essentially hide and seek but blind. You would stand in the middle of the room with a sheet over your head and spin in circles chanting "cucuy cucuy" and then while you spin, everyone else hides in somewhat plain sight around the room while the cucuy tries to find you. I cant remember exactly but I think we had to make noises periodically to give the cucuy hints, it was a highlight of my middle school sleepover years.
In gym we played Midnight which was a version of tag where the one who was it was called Mr fox.
They stood in the middle of the gym basically the half court line while everyone else stood up against a wall and in chorus asked "What time is it mr fox? and they would say three o'clock or 1 or 7 whatever and everyone would tale that many steps towards mr fox. At sone point they would say MIDNIGHT and everyone would run around screaming until everyone was out
My sister and I used to play restaurant with our beanie babies. We would use the beanie babies as both customers and food items, cooking them in various fancy ways. The name of the restaurant was Bok Choy and we would play it basically every week while I was growing up on saturdays. Much more wholesome than the games I would play with beanie babies -> read: full on wars.
I’m not sure if it’s already mentioned here but the “Walk on the ceiling” game.
Hold a mirror (the handheld ones on handles that all our moms probably had at least one of) at our chest to look at the ceiling in the mirror as we walked around. We’d have to “step over” light fixtures and stuff.
But it meant you couldn’t see what was actually in front of you on the floor. Many bruised shins were had.
Take different colored scrunchies and assign them an element. Throw them at each other and try not to get hit.
When I was really little my sister and I would draw a treasure map of my dad's workshop, hide an object, and mark X on it so the other would have to search.
Another time the house next to mine was moved, leaving pipes and some stairs. I spent a lot of time arranging a contraption to roll a ball down.
There's a big open space at my parents house where you can look from the top floor all the way down to the basement (about 35-40 feet). When we were bored, my friends and I would take turns dumping Beanie Babies on each other. One would lay on the ground (hands over the sensitive parts) while the other would dump a Rubbermaid tub full of Beanie Babies onto the other and we'd laugh and laugh and laugh
Sdd555 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play something called zombie tag. It was a pretty simple game of tag on the surface, but a few mechanics made it really intense to a fifth grade kid. We stood in a circle and randomly picked someone to be the zombie. Whoever was the zombie had to catch a human and convert him by tagging them, and then those two had to tag the rest until there were no survivors. The stipulations were that someone could only be tagged on their skin so that the slower runners had a chance to fend off the zombies and escape by shedding a jacket or pushing them to the ground. You also could not lie whether or not you were a zombie, so there was always that awful moment when you realized your best friend was dodging your questions and coming closer and closer. We had quite a bit of injuries with that game and got into slot of trouble when we played the "skins" variant but goddamn was it amazing.
It’s called bloody murder. There’s a base in the backyard and every person except one stands on it and counts to 30. Whenever we played, our base was either my trampoline or my friends pool. While everyone counts to 30, the one person goes to hide somewhere out in the front yard. Once they count to 30, they have to go touch the opposite side of the street and run back to the base all without getting tagged by the person hiding. If the people see the person hiding they can scream bloody murder and the person has to come out and chase them. The game gets fun when the person who’s hiding is able sneak around back into the backyard without being seen and surprise the people running back to base.
“Secret Lurkers” - my oldest cousin would draw a map of my grandparent’s house with a pathway through it. The goal was to sneak throughout that path without getting caught by the adults. If we made it we would get a badge that we cut out from construction paper (my very first one was shaped like a puzzle piece, I think I was six).
I thought I was a champ. Turns out our parents could see us the whole time. It must’ve been funny for our parents to see us crawling around acting all ninja when we were actually running into things and giggling the whole time.
"Viewer Discretion Advised" pretty much involved us throwing ourselves off of high stuff, contest to see who could get highest. Idk how no one got hurt. Another favorite was setting up a step ladder in the yard when there was deep snow and leaping off.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I was big and you were small." One of us would play as a small toy and the other would just be themselves. No idea how it started but it's pretty unique!
wed all stand on one side of the street, wait for a car to drive through, and then run across the street directly in front of the car just as it was about to hit us. and then wed repeat everytime a car drove through. there really was never a "winner" though, i think the game was just dont get hit my a car or you lose.
no wonder all the adults in that neighborhood hated us. i couldnt count how many times those cars had to slam on their breaks just to miss us. its a miracle that none of us ever got hit
We used robot action figures as games pieces that would wage war throughout the entire house. There were no actual rules. But when my Brothers Rx78 blasted my Zaku with a beam rifle I knew he was dead.
I'd play this fun game with my dad all the time. He had his own name for it but I called it, try to hold my tears in so he doesnt beat me even more for crying while hes beating me.
My brother and I would mix different chemicals we found around the house into a spray bottle. Then we would run around outside and find insects to spray with the new concoctions and watch how they react. It was pretty cool.
I grew up on a small farm with lots of apple trees on the property. Every fall the ground would be littered with rotting apples that fell from the trees, so my dad invented a game to make it fun for us kids to help get rid of the apples. We called it "Daddy Gonzales" (I have no idea why). He would take a big piece of cardboard, go out into a big empty field, and hide behind it while myself and my siblings would pelt him with rotting apples.
We used to play, "slaps".
Where one had to hit the other as hard as he could manage for 5 times in a streak, on the cheeks.
After 5 slaps the other got the chance.
The game had to continue till one of us chickened out of getting beaten up.
Or our parents intervened with more beating.
I'm amazed that we followed the game sincerely because the 1st one to hit was the second one to get hit, and we never backed out.
I played a game in primary school where you had to colour in a lettuce and not let two colours overlap. Then you had to ride a bike down a dinosaur. It was on a floppy disk too and I can't remember the name
I lived on a farm that had 15 acres and three greenhouses. There were also dogs, chickens, goats and horses. My friend down the road and I would constantly play like we lived in the wilderness. We'd "scavenge" for fruits and vegetables to eat for our meals. We'd also build houses next to trees with old wood (usually infested with rusty screws and nasty spiders), big blue tarps and old sheets. We'd make beds and furniture out of leaves, twigs and rope. We had the most fun adventures hiding from "wild" animals, like my sweet sheltie dog. We'd give out duties for the day like, "You go harvest tomatoes for dinner, and I'll travel to the "river" (a kiddy pool) for our weekly water!" Sometimes we'd pretend the horses were dragons we had to sneak past in the stable. We had new games every couple weeks, and that went on for like 7-8 years. They are some of the best memories I have growing up.
My brother and I played a game we called "jumpy couch" where we just jumped on each other. Nothing more than that.
JMST19 · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was literally called "The Game". My sister and I used to have plastic toy dogs, some were Puppy In My Pocket and other were from anywhere we could find good quality plastic dog toys.
Anyways, these dogs all had their own name, voice, personality and goals. We could play this "game" for hours at a time, nearly all day. The whole point was for the dogs to live a regular life, go on adventures, fall in love etc.
We made comic books about said dogs, always refered to them like they were alive, these dogs played a massive in our lives and my sister and I became extremely close after we stopped playing
TLDR my sister and I voiced and created fictional characters based off the plastic dog they were, and basically played God with these dogs
So. Driving down a motorway you have a series of lamp posts right? So I had to chew one way on my teeth to weave right and then the other to weave left. A bit like slalom skiing but with, um, teeth. And motorways.
My cousin and I played a game we called "old pacenta" (I have no recollection of why we called it that). We would dress up in our grandmas pajamas and stuff as many pillows as we could inside. We would then talk in funny hick voices and wrestle.
My best friend and I would sit across the room from each other, either in the edges of couches or on the floor with our legs spread wide. Then we would take whatever item we had (started with a heavy ass dog bone) and lob it toward the other ones sack. Direct hits were brutal.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sisters and I came up with a game called “scrapey”. We would take a plastic spoon and scrape the bricks from around our fireplace into a bowl. Then we would fill the bowl with a bunch of other random crap: pepper, paper towel pieces, bouncy balls, etc.
we would then fill the bowl with water and put it in the freezer overnight. We would get SO excited to go look at our “scrapey bowls” the next day.
Our dad kept getting angry when bowls of ice would hit him after opening the freezer every day, so he eventually limited us to one communal scrapey bowl
My brother and I played this super fun game where I would beat him at basketball then he would throw rocks at my head. Almost had to get stitches one time.
That boy sucked at basketball but man was he good with a pile of rocks.
BearXW · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our whole neighborhood used to have "Pinecone Wars."
We would have Nerf guns squirt guns, etc, build incredible "forts" with leaves, pinee needles, boards, and boxes. We would create teams in the same methods as one would for basketball in the neighborhood.
Pinecones were our "grenades." But it was more like dodgeballs, as we'd always leave scratches and cuts and draw blood when pelting each other.
We would use mushrooms as smoke bombs to conceal, or as "gas bombs" for an attack.
We used to play this game called "Brian Against the World." There was a kid named Brian in my neighborhood that none of us really cared for, but occasionally he would insist on hanging out with us. So we came up with this game where he was "it," and everyone else was on a team. He had a ball, and if he threw it at you and hit you with it you were now on his team. But first he would have to close his eyes and count to give us a chance to get some distance on him.
We did genuinely play a few times, but there were a couple times that while he was counting we would just run to another kid's house and hang in their basement or whatever.
Didn’t anybody play grounders/sandman? It probably went by a million names but one person was it and they had to close their eyes and keep them closed. Then they would blindly feel their way around the play structure while all the rest of us tried to silently climb out of their way so we didn’t get touched. The best part was that if the person said the name of the game when somebody was on the ground then that person was it, so we all spent most of the game hanging off the sides of the jungle gym in strange contorted positions.
At a local church there were two magnolia trees right beside each other and half of us would go up into one tree while the other half went up the other. We would then proceed to chuck the magnolia tree seed things into the other halfs tree until someone got hit and started crying.
When I was in primary school, we used to play a game called 'Kick It' where it was basically just the game 'it' or 'tag' but in order to tag someone, you had to boot them in the leg
My friend's sister always wanted to play games with us so we made one up called "Killer Mermaids" where we'd sit in their hammock, pretending it was a boat, and she'd have to knock us overboard out of the hammock without touching us.
She was also so desperate to play with us that she created a "game" called "Restaurant" where she'd write up a menu and then cook for us. Best game ever.
My dads parents lived about 6 and a half hours out into the desert. Not much to look at on the way. We went a lot. So for me and my brother to pass the time we would play a game that never officially had a name or an official ending or score. It was what object can be beat by something else. For example, Some one picks something random, a machine gun. Ok. Well I’m the rain and made you rust. He would come back with ok, I’m the sun and evaporated the rain. Ok. I’m blah blah blah that would destroy the sun. And so on.
When I was a boyscout we would play caterpillar. You would zip up in your sleeping bag, and just wrestle. It was amazing for multiple reasons, one big one was that my squad consisted from 2 guys and 4 girls, and I was in puberty.
We’d have a base in the neighborhood that everyone would try to get to while “it” would try and get ya. Last person “it” loses and starts the next game as “it”.
My father would prank my brother and me with tear gas. I thought it was normal until I was telling a friend about how our tolerances have increased over the years, and it turned into my friends always wanting to know what "crazy white people shit" my father has taught me growing up.
At least they know who to go to during an apocalyptic event, I guess?
Usually it'd be 2 teams of 4 people, with 2 separate cars. 2 people in the backseat would be blindfolded and driven around until they were dropped off at an unknown place. When the "lost" kids figured out where they were, they had to call the other drivers (not the ones who dropped them off) and the team that picked up their kidnappees and got to the predetermined safe area first were the winners!
My siblings and I played a game called 1 2 3 4. There were four of us.
My parents house has stairs in the middle so that you can run in a circle around the kitchen and living room.
When you play chase, running around the circle, any change of distance changes you from the chaser of the person in front of you to the chasee the person behind you. It's tons of fun. Throw in a barking, loping dog for bonus
Not really a child but in High School a bunch of theater kids would go to Spencers house to play a game called Tremors. Two people would blindfold themselves and everyone else had to run from them. Once the person in the blindfold caught somebody they had to say the name of the person they thought it was if they got it right that person was out. Other people could fight the blind person to try to get their teammate free. Since we played at Spencers house it was crazy watching him be blindfolded. He would slide across the wood floor knowing exactly where everything was. He would move his head around like Daredevil trying to hear any noise from other players. Fun times. Think I also got a concussion playing this game.
In first grade I once played the "How many red cards can I get at school today?" I think I got 2 or 3. Told my mom, she was very mad and told me to just wait until my dad gets home from work. So once we got home, I booked it to my room and deadass hid underneath my matress until my dad got home. Fun game, def would do it again.
One of the games my uncle made up when he used to watch us was Restaurant. We would pretend to look at a menu and order spaghetti, mash potatoes, and corn w/ kool-aid.
Well I'm a grown up with two kids and we invented this game a few years back but I love playing it. We're all shite at playing tennis so instead we came up with "All Ball". We have one of those cheapy, crappy balls you buy at a beach store. We go to an empty tennis court and then start kicking, slapping, punching, flinging and any other move you want to use to get that ball over the net. The only rule is that if your opponent scores (1 point for any unreturned serve) it's their serve. We play this on summer evenings until we get kicked off the court by serious tennis players. My kids love it and it's great exercise as there's lots of running around to try to return a serve. They also love the fact that we're breaking the rules by not booking the court time and using something other than tennis balls and racquets, as per the list of 'court rules'. Fuck the rules. FUCK 'EM.
We made up a playground game based on the movie Tremors, we called it "tremors." One person is "it" and they had to stay in contact with the ground at all times. The rest were up in the playground equipment and could not touch the ground at all. The person who was it would go around trying to tag someone on the equipment, and if you got tagged you had to be the tremor. If you touched the ground or got tagged you would rush to get the person who was the tremor before they got back on the playground.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my friends and I were in our early teens we invented a sort of hybrid tabletop wargame/RPG out of our disparate collections of Legos, which occupied a single side room at my friend's house. It was very simple in that different pieces conveyed different abilities to the things we made.
The game was played in sections, i.e. I had a castle set and could move and do things with every Lego guy and vehicle on that set. Guys at the edge of a set could move to other ones if they had the right gear (a guy with scuba tank could go over water, etc)
You had to use gold or transparent "jewel" pieces to power vehicles.
You acted by using a D6 die. The difficulty for everything was 5, and sometimes it was either 4 or 4 if there was advantages or disadvantages.
Ranged weapons let you attack guys far away from you; Melee weapons let you attack guys up close
Different pieces that connected to lego people granted special abilities: Jetpacks let you ignore obstacles, grappling hook let you climb on top of walls, thief's hood let you steal gold/jewels from a building or vehicle, etc. There were even levels of wizard: the beard gave you a magic attack, the wand gave you longer range, the scroll let you raise guys from the dead as skeletons or zombies, and the wizards hat let you act a second time.
Later medieval sets had silver weapon pieces that we called "star metal" after the Conan TV show, they were extra effective and ignored armor.
Armor and helmets let you absorb a hit.
We were heavily inspired by Warcraft. Turns out we kind of invented a game not entirely unlike Warhammer.
It was awesome. I am 36 years old now, and would absolutely play it again.
We called it Booty Ball. Later generations called it Wall Ball. Use a Tennis ball or racquetball. You throw the ball at the wall. On its return, try to catch and throw again. If you drop the ball at any point you have to leave it where it falls and run as fast as humanly possible to the wall and touch it before someone else throws the ball at the wall. If the ball hits the wall before you do, you’re up for target practice. Hands on the wall, legs spread, everyone gets a turn throwing the ball at you. As a guy, rebound throws sucked...
When we got to high school, we got bored one summer and started playing again. Ended up being more skilled with age and decided to play opposite handed. Sometimes one handed. Fun times. Hell, at 40, I’d still play the shit out of that game. It was tons of fun.
Edit. Just realized the word game is in quotations. Maybe my reply is not on topic. But, I’m leaving it in case anyone ever wants to try the best game ever.
The Kitten and the Tornado. I don't remember the rules. It involved a lot of spinning. No actual kittens (or tornados, for that matter) were involved.
I also used to make up card games with my best friend. Her parents had tons of decks of cards so we got creative with the card games we played. I remember one called Bullfrog. I don't remember those rules either. I just remember the name and that there were 8 piles of cards.
Switch. The premise of the game was you would stick one finger up your ass and the other in your mouth and when someone said switch you would switch fingers
Basically, we'd take turns getting into a sleeping bag head first. That person became the worm. Then the other kids got pillows and beat the shit out of the worm.
One time my friend was the worm and I broke his tooth when the pillow hit is head and his tooth cracked on tile.
Fun times. Felt shitty about it. We didn't play after that.
This one hurts to say out loud. Me and my my 2 neighbors would take turns hanging at the top of the slide with our hands while the other 2 people licked their hands to tickle them off. We were all about 5 at the time and didn’t even say no homo
This wasn't particularly a game, but my brother had a bunk bed at the time, that didn't have a bed in the bottom, we basically made a fort thing with a circle on the left side beneath the bed and my brother sat on a large desk area to the right and he shot me with a BB gun as I went in circles while I had my shirt off
My need for glasses unfortunately wasn’t discovered until I was 10-11ish when I got my first pair. From a young age I can recall playing a “game” where I would be laying in bed, for example, looking at items out of place/context such as a stuffed animal or article of clothing on the floor and try to guess what it was. It was so blurry that it was challenging. Then I’d run up to get close to the item to see if I was right!
When we were younger we used to live in a townhouse complex. My aunt, uncle and cousins lived in the same complex, on the other side. Every summer, we (my dad, my 3 siblings) would play "Super Soaker War" against my uncle and our cousin's. We would each have a Super Soaker (not sure if that's the official name if them, that's what we called them) and spent the day running around the complex on teams hunting each other with the water guns. Our house and our uncle's house were the home bases and filling stations and were always safe spots. As the summer progressed, we'd get more and more neighborhood kids joining in. Some years we would have 20-30 people on each team.
Sock war. We got all the socks in the house, rolled them up into little balls and pretty much played dodgeball. But we could hide behind couches and chairs and it was a ton of fun.
We played something called mafia, similar to hide and seek, but only one hide and the others seek, if you are hiding and someone find you they called all the others seekers and you should run to escape and if they catch you they smack you
In the Fall we used to take turns hiding under a big pile of leaves... then the other 2+ more friends would take turns hopping over the pile of leaves going in a circle and they would chant the times of the day " 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock... etc.. at midnight whoever was under the leaves would " come up from the grave" and gab whoever was skipping over them at that time. It was so freaking scary. at the time.
My siblings and I would play "Beyblade." We would all spin around, and moves our arms differently (spinning, punching, chopping, etc.). First to quit lost. Our parents stopped us very quick.
My cousins would play "The Stairs Game." It was Hide and Seek, but you could only hide upstairs. The goal was for the hiders to evade the seeker, and get down to the stairs. The seeker just had to catch everyone. It was a super stressful game, and was the most fun game we played as kids.
The only thing I can recall is a tournament style game I'd play with my Hot Wheels. I would roll them from the doorway of my room across a thick carpet landing towards a stairway. I made head to head rounds and whichever could get closest to the stairs without going over would win and move on. There were rules for cases where both cars went over, but they escape me now. I also acted out the role of announcer playing up returning champions, rivalries, strategy and such.
I remember it being a lot of fun and I don't think I ever caused too much damage.
When I was in elementary school, I loved stories about how things were made. I read that glass was made from sand. We have a sandpile! My mom told us there was too much dirt and stuff in the sand and we'd have to sift it clean. My little sister and I spent an entire damned day sifting the sand pile (with a window screen, lol) and proudly took some clean sand to Mom to get her to bake it in the oven to make glass. THEN she tells us the oven won't get hot enough. We were so pissed! When she was alive we all 3 joked about that one. She was good at keeping us occupied.
Just give a kid something to do and they'll be out of your hair for hours. I preferred forts made with tables, sheets, chairs and blankets for my kids myself...still to this day I love to read and see videos about how things are made, though.
Me and my cousin would see what household objects make you go down the stairs the best.
I still remember getting my uncle in on the game on a fold out bed and it threw him down at least 10 stairs.
Ah his face when he turned around with a broken nose was priceless.
nmsv85 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
mid to late 80s in Peru, my cousins and i would play "cochebombas"; essentially "car bombs vs. victims" in which we would wait for neighbors to walk by, and then "explode" because we all got too close to the car.
for what it's worth... that timeframe was riddled with terrorism in peru and this game was essentially the american equivalent to cops and robbers.
My older brother and I used to simply kick and punch the shit out of each other on the trampoline.
It's pretty cool because you can throw sick looking kicks and get really cinematic. Also dodging is more intense because you can just jump past anything and not care about the landing.
I got beat up pretty good. Taught me to sustain pain more easily. Not that I'm some kind of tank now, I just used to be an absolute pussy as a kid.
"The pipe game" basically when I was a little kid my friends and I found this big pipe in the woods. The way the game went was basically someone would throw this pipe horizontally towards a line of kids. These kids would try to run and jump over the pipe mid air. As you might expect it didn't go well at all and the game kinda sucked but at the time it was the best thing ever for some reason.
Ball on the roof! All four of us kids would go in the front yard facing our house. My dad would throw the ball and bounce it off the roof and we had to chase and catch it. Points were awarded if you catch it.
Me and my sister hosted a series of tv shows with my favirote stuffed animal (the main character, the stuffed animal was named tiger, but it was actually a cougar), all my matchbox/hotwheel cars and her barbies and stuffed animals.
"dirt hockey" we basicallt made a league with 4 man teams, gathered tree branches we used for sticks and a rock for a puck and played games with 3 skaters and 1 goalie in the woods!
I don't know if this is a Midwest game, Indiana game, or a made-up family game. In the winter we played "fox and goose". We made paths in the snow in a very large area. One person was the fox (They were it). The others were all chased by the fox. We had a safe zone. If you got off the path or were tagged by the fox, you then became the fox. Maybe we played this game because Dad was probably the best fox hunter in the country.
I used to collect seashells at the beach... And then play with them like they were dolls. They had families, conflicts, and a religion with a charismatic leader.
My two older brothers and I used to play a game on slow Sunday mornings called bums. Yep. You guessed it. We were playing bums. Our names were: Tubbs, Banana Peel, and Pencil Body. I don't remember a lot of the game but I believe blanket forts were half the point.
Aiti22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends used to spin around in a T pose like a Beyblade (Big toy at the time). I got knocked out by my friends palm smacking me on the side of the head. Yeah we were stupid.
My brother and sister and I used to play "pioneers", we would pile a bunch of blankets on the bed, turn the A.C. on really high, and take turns "driving the wagon." Two of us would get under the blankets while one would sit at the head of the bed jumping up and down to make it feel like we were in a horse and buggy. We also used to play "wilderness", where we would wander around the backyard collecting leaves and berries to eat. I miss having an imagination.
Me and my cousin had a hackysack and we would take turns lined up on the wall, one person would be about 10 feet away, the we’d throw it as hard as we could at the person on the wall while the other tried to matrix dodge it. We called it ‘splat’ and tbh idk what kinda game that was it was brutal😂
After playing Perfection a few times, my brother and I decided to do something else with it. We would set all the pieces up and put the board down and set the time. We would then go and hide to survive the "explosion"...it was a laugh :)
My brother and I used to go up to my grandparent's farmhouse on the weekends.
They had a barn, a few sheds and a huge property. We liked to collect "treasures" from the sheds and barn and hide them in places around the property and hope my grandad wouldn't find them and put the "treasures" back where they belonged.
The treasures consisted of anything shiny, springs, particularly large screws, any cool-looking tools we found and candles. I applaud my grandparents for letting us play our weird, magpie-thieving game for so many years.
we used too play " blackout" where you go too the basement which had a couch in the far corner of a large room that comes off a hallway with some smaller rooms off it. Basically you would black out the windows and turn off the lights, everybody would then have too start at one end of the hallway and had 10 seconds too hide. the goal was too make it too the couch without getting touched. the person that was "it" also had too wear sunglasses
We used to choke each other out to have forced dreams. We stopped after someone had a really bad one was a wreck for a day or two. Probably wasnt the healthiest hobby...
During commercial breaks, we (me, my sister and my twin cousins) would guess what the commercial was for. If the logo was shown, your guess didn't count. Filled the time during commercial breaks.
My best friend and his sister would, when they were around 10 years old, go to the busy country road they lived near. Speed limit was around 55MPH. There was a dip in the road where, of something was in the dip, you could not see it as you approached while driving on the road.
One of them would lay down in the dip. The other would be lookout. When a speeding car would get just close enough, the lookout would scream “LOOK OUT!!,” which was the cue for the one laying down to jump up, scream at the car, then run into the woods. Effectively scaring the shit out of the drivers.
They called it “Look Out”. I think they stopped playing when other parents were upset that they were recruiting the neighborhood kids to play...
When I was like 8 or 9 I was a huuuuuge WWE fan, with two of my friends we invented a little game:
We wrote down the name of all the wrestlers and each one will pick one until there was none left. Then we will use our wrestlers to make shows and the result of the "matches" on those shows was determined by a coin toss, that was how we determined champions and such. We also had drafts and everything.
Trash ball: you had to try to and trap a piece of trash (ie., coke can, brown paper bag, juice box) between your feet and then jump flick the trash into a garbage can. There was a point scoring system and many many rules, but that was 30+ years ago and unfortunately were not preserved for posterity’s sake.
We used to play in a building site nearby to our homes a few fields over. Where the trucks had been driving through this one area over and over, it turned the field into a shallow pit of mud and water. Winter came and the whole place froze over leaving a nice ice rink to play on. We grabbed some sticks, a tennis ball, put some wellies on and played our own version of ice hockey but you could pick up the ball and kick it around too.
We often feel through the ice, but it was barely half a metre deep so you just had to play around the obstacles.
After a week or so, my mum got concerned about why we always came home soaked so we took her up to where we played. She was surprisingly OK with it all saying she was happy so long as she knew where we were
So I used to play "War" the card game with a couple friends at school, whoever lost a round got punched in the arm, and we would do best of 3 if you lost the best of 3 match you get 15 seconds to run as far as possible, before the winner would chase after them and punch them in the arm twice as hard as possible. Somehow the school found this okay, I don't know if people still do this, because it started with my class, and I am no longer in that school district.
“The Darkness Game”- you all hide in a/2 bedroom in the dark, and the person who is finding everyone is blindfolded and the hiders can move about. I still play it now it’s the best
My brothers and I really enjoyed a sega game called Gunstar Heroes when we were kids, and there was a boss late in the game who was like a running man made out of spheres in a big spinning chamber, who'd do different attacks as he ran. We took this idea and would play the 'Running Man' game in the pool, where we'd first run in circles to get the water swirling, and then one of us(Usually me, since I was the oldest/biggest) would be the boss, and would run a circle doing scripted attacks as we went past the others, which they had to dodge, while landing attacks on the boss as they went by.
My favorite move as the boss was to reverse direction against the swirl and catch whichever person was closest behind me off-guard with a fast attack like a slide kick. Obviously, I'd hum the boss music as we played, and would speed up as I got 'hurt' more.
We used to make fake buck teeth out of Starburst. You bite a yellow one into 4 pieces (2 a little bigger), thin out a red or pink one out and spread it over your top teeth, and then just stick the 4 yellow pieces on with the 2 bigger ones in the middle. It helps to shape them a little like teeth, but they don’t need much. I was shocked that every person I mentioned this to as an adult had never heard of it. I thought it was a thing.
My brother and I had a game called “obstacle course” that in the beginning involved an actual obstacle course that our action figures had to navigate, but evolved into something else entirely, we would build a tower, maybe 2-3feet high with old oatmeal containers and small boxes and position our action figures on it , then we would take a large Tonka pick-up truck carrying one of our villainous action figures and roll it into the base of the tower. Any figures crushed by a piece of the tower were out, but if they only had an arm or leg crushed they could remain, though they couldn’t rest any weight on the damaged appendage. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were safe if the tower piece was fully resting on their shell, and there were a couple figures that couldn’t be crushed like the Thing from fantastic 4. The game was won if/when one of our figures managed to land in the back of the pick-up truck and unseat the villain
My sister and I would play "surfboard" in the neighbor's swimming pool. One of us would go underwater and lay on our stomach while the other one would stand on their back. The "surfboard" would then crawl around the bottom of the swimming pool until they ran out of breath or the other one fell off. It sounds dumber in hindsight...
My nieces and I (we were about the same age) endlessly played this game where we pretended to be in a submarine. And for some reason the ocean was always... exploding. Kids...
I still play this game with my 10 dice.
Basically, you throw one of the dice. then you take the die's score and throw that many more dice. Add up (with the starting die) to get your score. Also, if you rolled a six, you get another die to roll.
After that, you can play more rounds to try to get a higher score, since the only limit is the amount of dice you have.
Eg. Roll a 2 with first dice, the a 4 & 6 with the two you get from the first die. Then you got a 3 from the extra from rolling a six. Your round total would be 15.
My high score is 50 exactly. Rolled a 6, then (6,6,5,5,5,1,4), then (2,6) then 4 to get it.
My brother and I used to take turns "fishing" from our bunk bed. We used a waistband tie from a bathrobe and would toss one end over the railing of the top bunk where the other person would be waiting on the bottom bunk with a bunch of random toys and junk. When you felt 3 tugs from the line, you would pull the string up to find out what kind of goodies you got from that cast. Sounds super boring now.
“Wobbly Jellies”. Me and my brother used to fill condoms with water and push them around the bath tub until they popped. Hours of fun, would recommend.
Strixe · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to take turns kicking each other in the shins, with the winner being the last one standing.
We had this stupid game called the car game. Us and the neighbor kids would be in our driveway and start by the street. When a car would turn onto our relatively busy street, you would have to run and hide behind one of the three cars in our driveway. If you didn't make it, you were "hit" so you were dead and out. You could shove each other and whatnot which was dumb considering we had some brick walls on both sides. We played this for like three years. It got intense at times with yelling matches of whether you got hit or not. Literally played it once at 16 for the nostalgia with friends from high school and they thought it was dumb, but fun too.
I've already commented but there is another game that I used to play with my friends at my junior school.
Running with the theme of obsessions this one was based on a british tv show called Primevil which was based around the consept of time portals randomly apearing around the world that connected with dinosours letting them free to kill people.
This game was based on running and dodging teradactils or running from t-rexs, a simple idea that apparently people liked because at one point the group of people who played got to about 11 or 12. We would help each other run away with the aim of getting to shelter at a specific point or to renact scenes or scenarios with unique characters. This lasted for about a year or so.
There was also some scenes where someone would yell out what was happening and we would all act together running as a group or dodging as a group.
Same thing every bored kid with 2 decks of cards did:
Build elaborate defensive buildings or towns and attempt to destroy them with different ammunition from a nearby toy box or my prized lego set.
m0r0o · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I was a kid I used to play mommy and daddy with the a girl from the neighbourhood which I was into ( I was like 8 and she was 8 ). The thing is that there was always another dude that used to play with us, he was richer, prettier and he was getting to be the dad all the time and I was always the fuckn kid, more specifically I used to walk behind them while they were holding hands, those were some good fucking days
Back tag: just like tag except whoever is "it" is being hunted instead of hunting. Everybody who isn't "it" tries to become "it" by jumping and clinging on the back of whoever is.
When waiting for the bus at the neighbor’s house, we used to play “Deer.” This game consisted of us waiting at the end of the driveway until we saw a car coming up the street. The goal was to run to the opposite end of the driveway by the house and hide before the car drove past. If you were really good at the game, you would wait until the car was closer before running. If you got caught running still when the car drove past, you “died.”
We also pretended a giant fallen tree in the woods out back was a woolly mammoths we killed and had to skin (take the bark off). We even made a teepee near by to hang out.
I used to draw pirate treasure style maps of the nature around my house inclusing stuff like dragons lair etc.
Then i would plan expeditions to the supposed end spot and hope to find something.
One time i even brought a portable mini barbeque (tin foil tray kind).
But never used it, i always got tired or something after an hour and went home.
The was a lot of stuff around my house to work with though: different kinds of woods, lakes, ditches, a hilly area, swamp, sand mine, quick sand, an abandoned potato processing plant and lots of farms.
We called it "teeter totter boat" we took both of our mattresses and put them on top of each other in the shape of a cross. then we would place pillows underneath the top mattress, so that it was almost like a top, and some on the bottom. We would attempt to get the other people to fall into the "ocean" (the floor) and whoever was still survivng won. We always did it when our parents weren't home because they didn't like us undoing our beds.
For us, it was bottle dodge. We would fill 5 bottles of various sizes with random amounts of water, then we would drop one in the middle of my 3 cousins, little brother, and myself on the trampoline. We would then jump around wildly, and the oddly weighted bottle would shoot around the trampoline with an unholy hatred for the knees of small children. Every time someone gets hit, they get off and add another bottle until finally it's one person and 5 bottles in an epic bounce for survival.
Me and my sister used to have this toy dinosaur that came out of a plastic egg. As time went by, we lost the pieces and all we had left as a stupid half of a plastic egg, which we had no use for. So we'd take turns hiding it in each other's bedrooms without telling them and see how long it took them to find it. When we did, we'd hide it again. We'd always scream and laugh when we'd be just getting something from our room and find that stupid half of a dinosaur egg hidden in our stuff.
My family played that game periodically with different stupid objects. Once we hid a McDonald's toy that was a figure of Pinnochio in Shrek. Once I worked at a movie theater and when we threw away a big cardboard sign I ripped off Matt Damon's head and we'd hide his head around the house. It would be hilarious to walk into your bedroom and Matt Damon's head is snuggled nicely on your pillow tucked in your bed. Right now we're doing a drawing of a hand doing the "OK" sign (the one where you can punch someone if you get them to look at it) and we're going all out with this. My mom brought it on our cruise to Mexico and hid it in my cabin. I sent it to her in the mail in a normal envelope.
Not a kid, but in high school. We played wall ball with pegs in gym. Took a racket ball and just threw it against a wall. If the ball touched you, or you dropped it, you would have to run and touch the wall. If someone picked up the ball and hit the wall before you could, you had to assume the position on the wall and the kid had a chance to hit you with the ball. We got a ton of people into it! It was scary when the baseball players started.
daradv · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary during recess, my friend and I would lay on the swing on our belly and pretend to be a caged cheetah and wolf respectively. Sometimes we would swing over and hook the chains around the pole so we were hanging with our feet off the ground.
phluff · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chicken nugget”
Started while camping in tents. As kids one of us would go into the sleeping bag upside down. Hands in each corner, they couldn’t see, and became one large chicken nugget monster. The goal was for the chicken nugget to capture someone between their arms. When you got caught, you switched and became the chicken nugget. Everyone would be really silent because the chicken nugget could only hear and feel, and would roam around hoping to feel someone. People would have to move out of the way of the chicken nugget without making noise. The moment someone ended up making noise the chicken nugget would spring into action going full on TRex trying to find the person. Impossible not to laugh so this ended up bringing the chicken nugget into full attack mode. People could try to escape the chicken nugget by pushing them away. The chicken nugget always got someone due to it being such a small space.
We would also play this game at home, but it was less safe because the chicken nugget in attack mode would swing its arms around looking for something but would often hit the corner of the bed or a wall.
As college kids.. we would play nut ball... you sit on the floor with your legs spread a few ppl can play. But you sit about 8-10 ft apart. Then you simply toss a racquet ball at the other guys nuts. First to puss out looses.
When I was in the fourth grade we got a new school. So during my fourth and fifth grade years during recess if we were assigned the field we all already knew what we were playing. Throw the ball. Two teams would stand on opposite sides of the field and we’d throw a kick ball back and forth. The general rule was that the ball had to be thrown over the gap and caught. If the ball hit ground on the teams side the other team got a point. If someone caught the ball that person got a point. No body ever kept score but that’s how it was played. We’d all fight over catching the ball and who’d throw it. Lol. Two years we played this game like it was our destiny.
Whenever we went over to one anothers house, me and my cousins used to play Hide and Go Seek in the dark with weapons (a.k.a. lightsabers or nunchucks or plastic swords or just branches). We use our chosen weapon to hit the shit out of whoever you found or where you think they would hide.
A whole lot of fun packed with a whole lot of bruises and broken furniture.
Back when me and my sister, god sister and god brother were like 7-9 and obsessed with Pokemon we used to play "The Lickitung Game" which was kind of like tag, but we were lickitung abd had to whip each other with our "tounges" aka these long scarves my god mom had. It was super fun but also kinda painful cause we whipped those scarves at max speed and were also usually playing indoors on hardwood floor with socks on.
Played a game called "Momma's gonna knock you out" i dont remember why we called it that though.. anyway
My sister and i would collect any sort of ball we had in the yard. From basketballs to baseballs and everything in between and put them in the middle of the trampoline. We would then start jumping up and down and do our best to avoid all the balls. If you got touched you lost. Played this all summer until my sister landed on a tennis ball and twisted her ankle and we weren't allowed to play anymore
THE CAKE GAME. Me and my friend would lay down on our stomachs on a bed and her little sister would basically sit and walk and hit us all she wanted on us until she deemed that we were baked.
In elementary school during recess me and my friends had this "potion" brewing tree where we would mix the nastiest stuff in possible, like it was terrible. Our main ingredient was obviously pee, it was free and readily available. We mostly used various plants and rotten things we could find but every once in a while we'd poop in a paper towel and bring it out to mix in. Our greatest creation was named something like rhino pee. The game ended when our friend invited someone to the tree and peed in it in front of the person he brought so the person told on him and he got in trouble and nobody was allowed to go by the tree anymore.
"1,2,3" game on the trampoline where you just count to three then jump and sit or lay down (for the more brave). The result is one of the people getting bouced suuuuper high, my friend once hit a tree lol
Another trampoline game is crack the egg where one person would lay crunched up in a ball and the other had to bounce them around to break them open, was kind of dangerous but super fun
Aaand another one (trampoline) was called eyes, body, legs. The premise was basically youd try to tag everyone and get your body parts back while they lost whichever you choose to take. For example youd start off in the middle not being able to look or crawl around until you hit someone, when you did youd go "im going to take your eye" then youd pretend to take their eye and open one of yours. So now youre stilling rolling around but you have an eye, ect. The game ended when the person chasing has all their body parts, whoever was left over with the most limbs left wins the game
I dont think theyre exclusive to my neighborhood but a lot of kids didnt know them lol
My grandmother has a set of rock stairs about 12 or so of them. It is here that we played "school" or "the rock game". Stand on the ground before the first step. You take a small pebble and you do the ole.. Which hand is it in? If you get it right, you get to move up a grade. If you get it wrong you stay.
The winner is whoever completes school first by getting to the top step! Best played with 3 people..2 students and 1 teacher
Roof ball. Throw a ball on the roof and try to catch it before the other kids. Its much more fun when you're kid sized and you can't see over the roof, so you never know where the ball might come down.
We had a game called “sock grabbers” where each person would have a sock half way off their foot and we would wrestle to get the sock off the other people. Last one with a sock on their foot wins.
Deathball. We would line up along the base line of a basketball court. One person would shoot a free throw and if he made it we all had to sprint to the other side of the court before the person who made the shot got the ball and chucked it at us to get us out of the next round. It provided us with the adrenaline we all looked for.
“Ghost” was played by putting a blanket over your head and tagging other people running away who would become the ghost by getting caught. Also, we wrapped each other up in blankets and tightened belts around at different sections of the body (usually four belts) and timed the person for how long it took to get out. I believe this one was called hotdog.
I got in trouble when playing this with kids I babysat once. It makes sense now, though.
Candy hunting. My BFF and I would look for candy in the playground. Candy that other kids dropped and has probably been stepped on a thousand times. I remember this time when we found a squished Skittle on the ground and we fought over who gets to eat it. I won; it was yummy.
I actually never got sick from this game. I think it made my stomach stronger.
I beat the shit out of trees and bushes with sticks to knock the leaves and small branches off of them. When I got older I "upgraded" my weapon to random metal rods I'd find on the side of the road. Eventually I had to use my dad's gloves because I "upgraded" to a two-handed sword (aka a 3-4ft piece of metal rebar).
I don't know what the fuck was wrong with me?
I didn't have many friends.
Penda_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would “sword fight” which meant that we would pee together in the same toilet and cross streams a bunch and the first one to stop was the loser.
When I was a little girl (around 2-4) I created a game with my dad. When he got home from work I would INSIST that we both had to strip to our whitey tightys (had to be white) and play "you man me man we fight" where we would wrestle. I can only assume I saw sumo wrestlers on TV. I would even spread my legs and stomp my feet like they do. I guess he put a stop to it as I got older cuz it went from cute to creepy. 🤷🏼♀️
State Ball. A soccer dodgeball game on a trampoline. Basically I picked a state to represent and then u kicked a ball around a trampoline. If it hit u then u are it and have to kick the ball at the others who are trying to dodge. Whoever was it the least wins.
Played a game called Slenderman on my property at night. Everyone else but one person stays in the house while the one person exits. They take with them 6 or 7 (depending on the number of players) plastic balls to hide on the property. Then that person goes back inside and says they’re ready. The people on the inside give that person 2 minutes to hide before coming out. When they do, the object is to find all the plastic balls and bring them back inside. The goal of the person that hid them; absolutely terrify the others. If the hiding person tagged another player, they would scream and fall to the ground, and remain there for the rest of the game. There was no time limit and the searchers didn’t have to spread out but they did anyway. It was always fun to come upon your friend lying on the ground and be like “he was here.”
Me and a bunch of kids in my middle school (12 years ago) started a WWE wrestling ring inadvertently. Our playground was AstroTurfed and in the middle was this big white circle. Me and a couple kids decided to invent a game where the goal was to be the last one in the circle. If you got rung out you can't come back in (until we added teams when more people joined). There was no punches,strikes or grabs allowed. At first it was fun as fuck and it's all we did in recess. We started getting more people to join and we started having teams and tourneys around the game. Unfortunately some people who recently joined thought it'd be more fun to actually pull off wrestling moves. They completely ruined it because people started pulling off Ray mansterios shit and spearing people amongst other shit. People started to get hurt and the teachers banned students from playing the circle altogether. Unless you were playing sports you basically had to stay away from the thing all because some asshats ruined the best recess game.
Me and my brothers put these 'gore tex' (which was the name of the game funnily enough) snow gloves on and 'invented' a wrestling where you're on all fours, on the rug on floor of our living room.
you got points whenever you made each other face plant and you won if you pushed each other off the rug.
There were other rules but it was years ago.
bash32 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"TV Tag" - Someone would be the television and people would pretend to be watching a show or playing a console game (Mainly kids sitting with fake controllers making noises) - and then the "television" would randomly run, and we'd chase it down and tackle it.
The victim would close their eyes and have to guess what the item was only by smell. Everyone took turns being the “smeller”. Sometimes the smell was perfume, sometimes the smell was our cats litter box.
They cousins live in rural Hungary and their dad, my uncle, makes traditional Hungarian war gear like bows, arrows, saddles, whips (not the kinky kind) etc. Does horseback demonstrations all the time.
We modified the arrows by wrapping the tips in this spongy material so the impact wouldn’t hurt, taped them all down rally thoroughly then took up bases either side of their huge back garden and shot at each other to see who would win. 2 teams of 2. Great fun!
In high school we played a game called lacrosse dodgeball which is where everyone gets a lacrosse ball and form two teams. Then the teams stand on opposite sidelines of a football field and throw the lacrosse balls at each other. When you were throwing you had to be behind the sideline but you could run out to the middle (if you dared to) to retrieve a ball.
We played “Mafia” -my brother and his friends would chase my friends and I around with a pvc pipe with a pool noodle duct taped around it and beat us with it. They’d then take us and duct tape us to a chair and sprayed Axe cologne in our face. It was the free friends job to sneak in and rescue us. If the mafia got us all, we’d lose, but we could never win.
My brother and his friends would refer to themselves with the Italian mobster names, Joey, Tony, Frankie, and Vinny and speak with ridiculous accents.
It was thrilling.
When we’d go to the mall or any place with tile flooring, we would try to not step on the lines. We probably looked crazy to anyone watching, hopping & tip-toeing from tile to tile
My dad would play “spiderpig” with me and my siblings when we were small. It was basically just your standard wrestling but he was the spiderpig, which was some kind of snorting, growling creature. Every time we played, he’d pretend he was a boulder, one of us would “unwittingly” sit on him, then he’d start attacking.
My uncle would frequently stay on the pull-out bed in the living room when we were kids. In the mornings we would come out and wake him up, and he’d tie string around tootsie rolls and throw them over the foot of the bed, “fishing” for us. We loved that one!
Not smart at all and resulted in quite a few bumped heads, but my brothers and I played a Marco-polo-esque tag game where the person who was “it” put a sleeping bag over their head and chased the others around the house.
My sisters and I would play ‘ghost on the hill’ where one person would put a blanket over them and try to find the other two completely blind. We ran into a lot of table corners and walls.
On long trips at night I would guess the car that was going to overtake us by its headlights. Just something I would do to pass the time. Anorak from the start.
We played "Graveyards and Horses". It's dumb, it's boring, and I'm pretty sure my grandmother invented to get me sister and I to shut up on rode trips. Basically you collected points by counting horses on your side of the road. If you passed a graveyard (on your side of the road), you would lose all your points. Shit got real in the back of that car I tell you what..
The youngest sibling (me) would hide in the middle of a cardboard box while my brother stabbed knives into the outside of the box. The game was to not get stabbed. One of many fun games we played.
We had a really steep set of stairs in my childhood home so me, my siblings, and the neighbor kids would see who could down them the fastest in a sleeping bag. The landing was tile...we were not very smart.
Some of you may have played the computer game Age of Mythology before- for my brother and I, that was our game, and we played it as much as we could, whenever the parents let us on the computer.
But we loved it so much that just playing it on the computer wasn’t enough. So, we designed our own paper based version of AOM. We would tape four pieces of printer paper together and draw a map- we really like islands, so that was a pretty common one, and I was a fan of archipelago, so that also appeared a fair amount.
Once we had the map drawn, we would take a pencil and draw town centers that were unclaimed, and add trees, by globs of green marker, and gold mines, usually pink for some reason. Then, we would each choose a town center, and play the game.
I’m not really sure how we determined how much gold or wood you had, and pretty much all units, civilian and military alike, had about the same symbol. However, we had a complex key of which symbols were for which buildings, for myth units, ships and dockyard, even farms.
I don’t know how one won, but usually a conflict was trying to draw more dots than the other person in a small area and then scribbling over the other person’s dots. I don’t remember much of the rules, but sometimes when I’m cleaning at home I’ll find an old map from a paper AOM game, and I think my desk at home might have my symbolic key to say what was what.
Hide-and-go-seek in the dark, and once you find the person you had to tag them first. In the summer we played it in the neighbourhood - regular hide-and-go-seek but you have to tag them, if you lose them the can just hide again.
Scribble art : you know when you have to scribble on a scrap paper to get a pen going, well when I was younger I would sort of see images in those. So, I take the scribbles my parents made and colour them to create something. When I got older I told my sibling and cousins and we would just trade scribbles and try to make images out of it. Also told friends about it and even played it in high school.
In late grade school/early junior high a friend and I invented a "game" where we'd respectively stand at the top and bottom of a hill in my backyard, about 40-50 feet apart, and throw a wood-handled metal leaf rake back and forth. This wasn't a rigid yard rake, but a leaf rake with like 30 thin gauge 20" metal 'tines' that had a tendency to whip around when suddenly stopped after a 60+ ft flight, and were sharp enough to give you a good scratch.
The trick was to catch it in an underhand swooping motion, to preserve the momentum and avoid a backlash. It was difficult but really fun. Lasted much longer than "kick the flaming can" that we really only played once before almost burning down my parents' deck.
My friends and I grew up near a creek and some dense woods. During our childhood, especially the summer months, most of our time was spent exploring the seemingly never-ending vastness of those nearby woods. Well one day we found the nearby creek and we wanted to get across to the other side without getting soaked so we decided to build a "bridge". Our "bridge" was actually more akin to a beaver dam, as we just piled sticks, rocks, anything we could find into a single spot in the creek.
Now anybody who knows anything about water knows it doesn't just stop dead in it's tracks, it's gonna reroute somewhere. So after a few hours of us piling up sticks to make our bridge, some neighborhood man came out of his house red like a cherry. "What are you boys doing?! My entire basement is flooded! I'm gonna have to call the town!" We were all kids of course, so naturally our first instinct was to run, so we did and never went back to that spot.
There was a massive tree on my schools playground in elementary school that I tried to dig out. It got to the point that I was paying kids with the pennies that I’d take from my parents coin jar to get kids to spend their recess trying to dig out the tree with sticks. The tree never fell, but there’s still a massive dip where us first graders were digging.
My friend came up with the “soup nazi” game when I was in primary school. Based off the sketch from Friends.
It basically entailed us playing with the school’s sprinkler valves which was outside, and I remember getting my only visit to the principal’s office from doing that.
My elementary school had a giant map of the country painted on the asphalt. Like, the width of the school giant.
The states were outlined but not labeled. We would play a version of tag where whoever was “it” would call out a state and everyone would have to run to it before being tagged.
Calling out Alaska and Hawaii (floating out in the middle of nowhere together, as usual) or tiny states like Delaware if a large group was playing, were always kind of dick moves.
We had no idea at the time how educational it was.
“Rockets” in halo 1 on blood gulch. If you're in a warthog, the object is to run people over. If you're not in a car, you have rocket launchers and unlimited grenades.
Another game was "sorry" you had to keep your hands in your pockets and try to knock people over, and whenever you hit someone you had to say sorry.
Yicdeh · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger me and a buddy use to play "Knife Tree". We were both bored and didnt have much in the way of toys, so we went outside to this massive tree he had in the backyard and threw a knife in it. The objective was to hit as many branches as possible and have the knife stick in the ground when it landed. There was also a rule where if you caught the knife you stole the other persons points, even though there were no points. Surprised I still have all my fingers.
bexura · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Car! Coast is Clear!” - used to play this with my cousin ALL the time at our grandparent’s house. It involves sitting in these pink recliners in front of the living room window which faces a residential street. We would watch for cars driving by and if we say one we’d yell “Car!” and duck down behind the chairs. Then one of us would say “Coast is clear” when the car passed and we’d start over again. This was a TINY town so there was hardly any traffic. I’m really not sure why that kept us so entertained...
Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann.. Whos scared of the dark men.. 90s game. We played it in kindergarten (Germany). Now before you go apeshit the "dark" guy actually could be translated to shadowy obviously nothing about race whatsoever.. and as kids you weren't even in the slightest understanding of this might sounding a bit racy..
"Bowling for Heads" it was game show where my siblings and I would line up on either side of our parents' bed, with only our heads exposed. Then we'd roll balls across the bed at each other's heads. Probably one of us was the announcer. The last one standing was the winner. Not a really fun game, but we did like the name.
I used to play “hole” in my backyard whenever I got bored. I wanted to see how far the ground went down, so everyday I’d go into my backyard and dig this hole deeper and deeper, thinking about what mysteries are down at the bottom. Some days I would find marbles or old pieces of pottery and I’d rush inside to show my mom and she’d always be so proud of me! I didn’t find out last week until I found the box I kept all of my treasures in that my mom would put all of that down there and slowly fill in the hole so I could keep playing. I loved hole, and I love my mom.
You remember the game bloody knuckles? You punch each others fists til one of you give up. Well my sister and I would play bloody heads. Yes bloody heads.
Nobody who has heard of it is going to read this. Hell, nobody is going to read this....
VGA Planets.
This is back in the BBS days, just before the internet really took off. From what I recall, the guy who wrote it turned down all kinds of buyout offers and received death threats from people who wanted the source code.
Fantastic game, even if there were a few unintentional "features".
Tl;dr: Game consisted of a futuristic/superhero war game
When I was younger, my cousins lived right near a park. Like a block behind the house. Anyways I would sleepover all the time and we would always head over to the park. One day we went and started creating characters of ourselves and fought each other with powers and shit. Like I was a robot chick who was a mercenary. I had invisible powers and a huge shield of lasers. We would all climb trees and all over the the jungle gym. We would crouch in corners and pretend to shoot each other. From that day forward, we would play this game every time at the park. That was what the park was there for now.
Me and my siblings played a game we called “Robot”. It was a game that was sort of like tag but with extra steps:
The player that was “it” was called the Robot.
The game was played in our makeshift obstacle course.
Robot had to go at a specific speed, which was fast walking.
Players had no speed limits, they could run or slow walk.
Everyone had to keep moving at all times, no stopping.
Players could not pass each other.
Everyone has to be moving in the same direction as the robot.
Robot could change direction at any time.
Game ends when either someone is caught and becomes the new robot, or they break a rule and get disqualified.
Some rules we added later when we expanded from 3 of us to more players:
Obstacles that if you touched you would have to stop and T pose for around 3 seconds.
A safe spot allowing you to let other players or Robot to pass you. You can only stay there for 5 seconds.
Robot was allowed to take a shortcut.
That’s all the rules I can remember now. When it was the 3 of us, we just played on our beds as the obstacle course. They were placed in a way that allowed us to go in a circle from 1 bed to the next. One was higher and the other 2 were lower than it.
You could jump down from the high bed to a lower one, jump from that onto the third one over a small gap and then go back to the high bed by climbing the side, which also had a barrier for the head. So you really had to climb it.
The was this worked at first was Robot used his ability to switch direction whenever he wanted to make players go trough the harder parts of the obstacle course over and over and tire themselves out.
Then you either walk up and tag them, or, since players can’t pass each other, trap one behind the tired, slower one.
When we got our friends involved we had to change the rules a bit. First, we had to expand our obstacle course to include more ground, which just meant more climbing and jumping for everyone. We also sometimes just switched to another place which was a new obstacle course for us to mess around in.
Shortcuts were added to these obstacle courses, allowing Robot to skip the hardest parts of it. If Robot gets tired before the players, it was no fun for anyone.
A rest area was added for players. It was mostly to let others pass, but we also just used it to catch our breath for a few seconds.
Finally, a bigger course meant there were more clear areas too. So we added things like shirts or pillows on them, if you step on them you have to stop. And everyone behind you had to wait if they caught up to you. This was both a way for Robot to catch up to you and for you to catch your breath.
We used to play this instead of bedtime when our mom couldn’t hear us. But it was so long ago I might have forgotten a few things. Sorry for my grammar and/or formatting.
My siblings and I played “Titanic,” in which we would lock each other in my grandparent’s Murphy bed by slowly putting the bed upright, like jack and rose holding on as the titanic slowly went upward and sank.
Used to play the “push each other into people game” me and my sister in department stores would hide inside clothes racks and displays and try to push each other into unsuspecting adult shoppers. The more embarrassed the shopper the better.
We called it "Cage Rage." My brothers and our friends would put on our full-cage hockey helmets and hockey gloves, clear the furniture away and proceed to beat the shit out of each other. Our dads thought it was hilarious and would always watch
Me and a friend used to run around trying to stand on eachothers shadows, had a blast of a time!
EyyMrJ · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Mom and Dad." It was basically just an imagination game my Brother, Sister and I would play just about every day. I cant remember how we coined it Mom and Dad, but I do remember we were always orphans; and almost always ninjas.
Me and my brother would play “slow motion fighting” so we would pretend we were beating each other up, but extremely slow and soft. It was hilarious, sound effects and everything
I used to play a game with the creatuers that you could only see at the foot of your bed right when you wake up. At night, they watch you sleep, but you cannot see them, only FEEL them.
Anyways, i would turn out the light, race to bed, and hide under the sheets and hold my breath. If i could hold my breath for 30 seconds they would think im asleep and leave me "alone" for a while.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my schoolfriends used to play 'Big Jumps' where we'd find something really tall and then take it in turns to jump off it. It escalated a lot and eventually one of us broke an ankle, but did that stop us? Of course not. Eventually I snapped a ligament in my foot and broke a rub jumping off the roof of our art classroom and to this day remain the champion of Big Jumps. All hail me.
Levels. Basically parkour but for us kids. We’d make a “level” that involves climbing on trees, tires, jumping over and off item, rolling, climbing, etc. Once you completed the level, everyone else had to try it. If you couldn’t make it, you lost one of your three lives. We’d take turns making levels. As the numbers got higher, the levels got harder. Played it all summer long. Highest we got was 300-ish levels in a weekend.
1st/2nd grade age. The playground at our elementary school had some giant tires stood upright with the bottoms buried into the ground to hold them in place, and a couple of them were in alignment with a few yards of space between them. We would act like the tires and ground between them made a half-pipe, and would run back and forth between the two tires, doing handplants and other faux skating "moves" off the tires.
We had 2 of those water balloon launchers that need 3 people to fire. We assembled 2 teams and stood at a good range from each other. We took turns firing a balloon at the other team. A hit earned 50 points, but a dodge earned 100. We called it water balloon chicken.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the playground while other little girls played princesses or ponies or something else cute and fun like that my friends and I were running around flapping our arms and eating leaves and pretending to be fruit bats.
My siblings and neighbors and I would play "Beanie Baby Stores" where basically we would set up shop of all of our beanie babies then walk around using Monopoly money and buy other beanie babies from other people. The amazing part is that at the end we would trade back all of our beanie babies to the correct owner. Of all of those hundreds of little fluffy things some how we all knew exactly which ones belong to who.
if the neighbors weren't around to play, then my siblings and I would play "Beanie Baby Wars" which was just us chucking them at each other trying not to break too many household objects. Needless to say, our neighbors' toys were in much better condition than ours.
During long car rides we would play the “sign game”. Objective is find words on signs that start with A-Z and you couldn’t go onto the next one until the previous letter was found.
Bigs vs Oompas: The bigger half of our group of friends would allow a minute for the smaller kids to hide and then we’d go find them drag them out of their hiding spaces and hold them down and slap their calves relentlessly
Not really a game... But driving into our town we would see who could spot our little hometown mountains first, they were just glorified hills. Anyway, the unique part was what wecalled them when we spotted them... They were two giant hills right next to each other, very similarly shaped and actually, "twin" is apart of their actual name. Anyway, we would shout "Titty mountain". I was quite surprised at my friends parents horror the first time I shouted it in front of them. That was also the same time I realized only my family called those hills "titty mountain"...
So uh, basically what it sounds like. My sister is like 6 or so years older than me and when I was little and she was a teenager our form of wrestling was that I'd basically just run over and jump on her/tackle her over and over and it'd make her laugh, which would make me laugh. It'd usually start out with me running over saying "jump on Jessica make her laugh!" I was an easily amused child lol.
We'd also play restaurant, which was basically my ploy to get her to make me cheese chips.
Other times we would make pretend mail boxes and tape them outside our rooms and then make each other little cards and deliver them to each other.
Depends how you define “child”. When I was about 14 my friends and I invented a game called “framfrugle”. It was essentially baseball/kickball, using a half-inflated soccer ball and a golf club (drivers/woods, idk the difference, but we broke a couple). The field was as wide as the street, maybe a third or half the block long. Average suburban block length. The street was on a small hill, so the batter or whatever would be hitting slightly uphill, pitcher stood at the crest, and “outfield” was slightly downhill. It was basically a distance game. I don’t remember much about score or winning/losing but I’d guess in hindsight the runner was heavily favored
This is silly and probably too late to be seen but my sister and I used to play a game while swimming called “dead baby”. It’s exactly what it sounds like.
One of us would be the dead baby and the other would be the rescuer. The job of the dead baby was to pretend to be a dead baby in the water, go limp, and try to sink to the bottom as much as possible while the rescuer had to try to keep the baby above water as much as possible. I don’t know why this game was so fun for us, it’s kind of like wrestling with a fish out of water because everything’s so slippery.
Looking back on it, it was super morbid and I have no idea how we came up with the idea. I’m also surprised that no one stopped us or tried to help us. Must’ve been strange to see though haha.
ETA: we always played this in public pools or our friends’ pools since we didn’t have one.
I used to play army, and we would yell “The Russians are coming!!!” I didn’t know what the Cold War was at the time, but somehow I knew the Russians were bad.
Game was called “Golubtsy” by the name of Russian dish which is basically cabbage rolls with meat. You need to roll into the blanket and lay down, much fun.
"Hackey-basket-soccer-wall ball" basically playing hackey sack with a basketball, but it was in a small room where you can bounce it off the walls too. Only allowed to use your feet
My little sister and I would play “Products”. We would go into a Pictochat room on our Nintendo DS systems and would draw products and write little slogans for them. We would do this for hours, giggling from our separate rooms. We just were reminiscing about it today!
Last man on the club house. Its dodge ball on a wooden structure 6 feet off the ground that's about 12' by 12'. Now imagine 10 people in a 12 by 12 trying not to get hit with a ball thrown by someone on the ground. only one person ever fail off and he was fine.
Witches. Hurricane tore out some trees in our yard and we made dolls from the roots. Obviously they were super ugly so we decided they were witches.
Also there was dino island. That was the game for imagination where our older friend made up one catastrophe after another and we had to find a way to survive it. I don't think we made it even once. Her favourite setup was the toy fabric, old and unsafe, with toxic waste and explosions.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
flying underwear.
when i was about 10 or 11 i played this game with my friend and her little brother (weird i know).
one person would take whatever dollar bill was available (usually around $5 but one day i was miss moneybags cuz i has a $20 when my aunt had just given me money for easter). that one person would take that bill and hide it in 1 pair of (clean!) underwear. then you’d take 4 more pairs of underwear. while the other players closed their eyes, you’d put the pairs of underwear on each blade of the fan, 5 fan blades so 5 pairs of underwear. then you’d have the other players open their eyes, you’d turn on the fan, the underwear would fly across the room and wherever found the underwear with the money was the winner.
you never actually got to keep the money though. you just won the round.
We played this game that my friend came up with called “Dire Wolves.” To be honest, I can’t remember all of the rules, but it was essentially a live RPG tag type game that was based off a book series all of my friends and I were reading. The other 4-5th graders thought we were insane.
We didn’t have a name for it really, but I guess it could be called “Shopping District”. My neighbors had this basement that looked like it had been hit by a toy-filled bomb - I mean, they were EVERYWHERE. So my brother and I would go over and we’d decide we were all shopkeepers. The oldest sister would usually run a bookstore, my brother and the middle brother would run an odds-and-ends store, the littlest sister would run a pet store, and I’d run a restaurant/grocery store. And that’s how we’d spend a few hours of every day of every summer for like three years; we’d pretend we were successful shopkeepers with vastly interesting lives and lots of Monopoly money to spend. We were actually pretty good with it, and our economy thrived. Occasionally, we’d barter with our goods - if I wanted a certain toy, maybe I’d pretend to give my friend a free “meal” - and we always got along really well while playing. That’s probably the most fond memory I have of my childhood.
I wasted a lot of time during recess burying coins (like, actual money) and then trying to dig them up later. Astoundingly I got friends to do this with me.
Ilot3k · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid we would take a lot of road trips and since this was in the mid nineties we had to entertain ourselves so we would play what we called “My father owns a grocery store”. The game rules are simple, whoever’s turn it is thinks of something in a grocery store and says “ My father owns a grocery store and in he sells something that starts with W.” Then everyone guesses and ask questions like “is it purple?” or “is it frozen?” Something similar to Guess Who but with a grocery store.
BEN684 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dog used to play this I put my hand on his paw then and he puts his paw on my hand then he makes me pet him he always wins
When I was in grade school, my parents would get a ball and throw it into the air while my brothers, sister and I would try to catch it. Whoever caught it won but we would never keep track and do it for hours and it never got old. It's the little memories from your childhood that make you appreciate what your parents do for you
Unifos · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what we named the game, but back in middle school some classmates and I came up with a game similar to basketball but instead of a basket ball hoop we used a pull up bar that was bolted to a wall and was short enough for us to dunk on and we used a small dodge ball as a ball. It had some specific rules for how many steps you could take before you need to pass. How much points for a dunk or how much points if we threw the ball into the bar. Our P.E. Teacher/ Sports Coach saw us play this game a couple times at recess or study hall and liked the game enough to have us play it a bit for P.E. . I believe he still uses the game for his P.E. class.
I used to play this game as a child where I would see how long I could go without talking to anyone. I could nod or gesture but not say anything out loud. I would go for hours at a time, sometimes a day or two. My record was 3 1/2 days. I was a pretty weird kid. As an adult I wish we could all play this game, together, simultaneously.
One person would stand under the basketball hoop while everyone tried to make a basket. The goal was to make a basket but not hit the kid standing underneath. I still don't understand how the teachers never told us to stop.
My friends and I would play "toilet tag". Basically the same as freeze tag, except instead of tagging a frozen player to unfreeze them, you have to act like they are a urinal and pretend to urinate on them.
I used to throw a golf ball at the brick wall on the side of our house as hard as I could and try to catch it with a baseball mitt. I stopped playing after I beamed myself in the forehead.
When my mom would take me shopping, I'd get very bored since I was 4 and couldn't buy anything lol. So she made up a game where I'd have to go find her things to put in a "soup"- she'd say something like, "Okay, now go get me carrots!" And I'd run off to a nearby rack of clothes and grab the invisible carrots underneath, bring them back and put them in the cart (which was the soup). Looking back it was pretty handy at getting me not to annoy her lol
My brother and I used to play a game we called "Chainsaw frisbee" where we would throw a fabric frisbee at each other in either of our bedrooms. Whatever part of you that was hit with the frisbee was taken away. For example, if the frisbee hit your left leg, you could only use your right leg. If both your arms and legs or head we're hit, you lost. In hindsight, the name doesn't make much sense, but it was pretty fun to play.
Fancy Pants Adventures 3
Luv the game dezign and moving mechanics
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it conker wars.
We would go outside and each have a set amount of time to collect conkers. Then we went into our playroom and each got a set ammount of time to build a fort using whatever matrrials we cpuld find. We each got one sofa to use for this. Then we suited up. I mean helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, stuffing cushions up our shirts.
The living room was split in two and the game worked kind of like dodge ball. You hide in your fort and chuck conkers at each other until you run out of conkers. Then comes the fun part. You have to venture outside the fort to collect more, while trying to not get hit.
It was all fun and games for a few weeks until the window got smashed. Never played it again but have so many fun memories from it.
Chrika · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had family friends who had kids the same age as my siblings and I, which led to alot of time together. My brothers and I share a slight age difference, which led to alot of rivalry of course. As guys always do, we would routinely fight each other, usually age group vs age group. To escape the wars, my friend and I would retreat to the top bunk of my bunkbed. There, we would use an arsenal of weapons to defeat the invaders, usually ending with someone screaming in pain. Now, this was the time where courage the cowardly dog was a show we loved. There was one scene with a cillian named "le quack" I believed ,and we thought he was the worst of them all. One time, as my friend and I defended against the onslaught, my older brother charged into the fray wielding one of those toys that you walk, but it had a duck at the end of it. We promptly labled him as le quack. It soon developed where 1 of us would be le quack and we would try to get into the top bunk to abduct one of our siblings. As we did this, we were beat of course, but I think that was the fun of it. This was about 15 years ago, but I always remember it to be a blast.
My brother and I were big swimmers, and on holiday we would invent bizzare and creative ways of jumping in the pool all say long. We would then name each of them, the greatest of which was the "Super duper mega drive dive". Happy days.
we used to have a game called "Hospatimatello" which was our young minds way of saying the Ukrainian phrase (in bad english phonetic) "Hospadeh Pomelo" which my Ukrainian next door neigbours used to say in church alot-can't remember what it meant (help me out Ukrainians of Reddit-translation please). In the game, one of would lay on the ground as if deceased and we would hold a funeral for them. The other kids would sprinkle them with grass and say "Hospatimatello" over and over. Then, we would turn and walk away slowly. When one of us would utter the words: "he/she was such a good old chap" the deceased we had sprinkled grass on would rise up from the dead and chase us until he/she caught each of us. Hilarious and ridiculous all at the same time.
Used to play a game called “Screaming Memeies” (pronounced Meme-ies) with my sisters. Gameplay involved pushing each other down the stairs in those big rubber storage bins.
I’m a little late to the party on this one, but my friends and I created an entire sport we called “Bleek” that was a tennis/lacrosse/football type hybrid.
It was a full contact sport in which you would have to bounce a tennis ball on your racquet (basically dribbling rules from basketball) while running and try to make it to the other end of the field to score a goal. The goalie would have two racquets and the height of the goal would be determined by how high they could reach, which lead to fewer arguments than you’d expect given the difficulty of trying to avoid being tackled while also dribbling/aiming. Width of the goal was set with cones on the ground. The only real rules were the dribbling one, and that you couldn’t hit people with your racquet. I want to say it was first to 6, win by 2. It was exhausting.
I would still play this game any day in a heartbeat. Describing it does not do it justice.
So as a kid we played “scorch” and it was basically flashlight tag. We would have one person be it and they would look for everyone (late at night) and if they saw you they had to say “scorch on (name)” if they said your name you had to go to jail where you would have to be tagged by someone else hiding to get free. If you got caught 3 times you would be it. If they say the wrong name, everyone in jail goes free and they have to wait 30 seconds before they can look again. This led to a lot of changing clothes, and I still remember one time our neighbors came out to me changing clothes with another girl my age (I’m a dude) and it was a very very awkward interaction. Highly recommend this game and still play it every once in a while with my friends. (I’m a senior in high school)
My family is a bunch of cine-philes. So when we we hae this ongoing game where we name three movies, and/or TV shows and the others have to name the actor that was in all three.
Edit: For instance: Titan AE, Casper, The Equalizer
(Note if you name a TV show the actor has to be a recurring character, no one-off appearances)
His mother worked for a dentist's office, so she always had brand new, colorful tooth brushes. We would essentially conduct "military operations" around the house, finding and shooting at imaginary enemies. Our grenades or bombs were mini, unopened Dove Soap bars.
My brothers and I used to make popsicle stick "bombs" and randomly toss them at each other. Basically we would take 5 used clean wooden popsicle sticks and assemble them into a triangle shape (think 3 sticks coming up from the same point spread out like Wolverine claws and then 1 stick in the middle and 1 stick at the far end to form the base of the triangle). We assembled them in such a way where if you toss it, the popsicle sticks will "blow up" and pop apart upon impact with the ground or a person.
Or you could leave them on the ground as land mines for unsuspecting victims. :)
Osmea · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 3rd grade my friend and I would play kitty surgery or some similar name. As far as I can remember (this was awhile ago), we’d pretend to be anthropomorphic cat people who ran around doing surgery on other people at recess even though they weren’t playing with us.
My Brother and I used to play “warrior” I think it was called. Basically every Saturday afternoon we would go into the yard and beat the living shit out of each other so we would both become better fighters, I think it worked
Who Can Get Their Hand Closest To The Dog Shit Without Touching It. A game I’d play with my younger brothers. I’d go first and get pretty close. As as the unsuspecting brother made his move I’d shove his hand into the pile. The major drawbacks to this game are, the only winner ever here is the older sibling and the losers tend not to want to play again - yet some do. The ones who want a rematch will demand that they go first, thinking this will change the outcome. It only speeds up their loss. And yes, I think oldest brothers are somehow programmed to be assholes.
The choking game. I know, sounds bad, but in BJJ you can choke someone to a point where they are just barely conscious, feeling euphoric and kinda high. You let go the moment before they pass out and you get a nice head buzz for a couple minutes.
My friends and I would lower our heads and ran full speed at each other with the goal of ramming our skulls together as hard as we could. We didn't have a game, there were no rules or any kind of winning conditions. We just fucked each other up for a while and then stopped
My bro and I played a game that we called ‘Piggy vs Farmer’, where we’d take turns bouncing towards each other from either end of the trampoline, but one of us would be on hands and knees (the pig) and one standing (the farmer).
It was literally to see who would hurt the most when we crashed into one another. Usually a knee to the face sealed the deal.
I was deemed too young to play this game, but my older brothers and their friends used to play this game called "snakes".
Basically it consisted of turning out all the lights in the house, and all but one person finding a place to hide - this person being the seeker.
If you were a "hider", you weren't allowed to stay in one place, though.
It starts out with everyone trying to be sneaky, but eventually devolves into a bunch of kids running around a pitch black house.
I still don't know why they called it snakes.
We played a game called zombies it was exactly like tag except the people who were it had to run but like zombies and you were only mad it when you were rugby tackled. This got quite painful playing it on the tarmac school yard. It was definitely better on the grass.
Not sure how unique but I’ve never heard of anyone else playing it. Me and other kids in my neighborhood played this game we called SOS ball. It was normally 3v3 but could be more. We played in backyards with two small goals set up on either end, think small soccer goals. Used a small ball, bigger than a tennis ball but smaller than basketball, small enough to hold in one hand. The goal was to score on the other goal- you could run with the ball and pass it back and forth by tossing it. If you got tagged by a member of the opposing team you had to freeze and could either pass or shoot. If you went out of bounds the ball switched teams. Lots of fun.
We played a game called "Raptor". The field across the street from my parents house growing up was all tall grass. We would all wait at the road while the "raptors" went out and hid in the grass. The thing was, as you walked it would make trails that people could follow. If you were careful though, you could hide in the grass without leaving trails behind. After the first few games there would be trails all over the place and nobody would know where the "raptors" were hiding. The objective was to get as far into the field as you could without the raptors getting you. If you saw a raptor, you would yell raptor and have to run back to the street. If you got caught, you became a raptor. We used to get all the neighbourhood kids playing with us so the games could go all afternoon. When the grass had grown very tall near the end of the summer, you wouldn't be able to see where your fellow humans are and it would get really freaky, which was when it was the most fun.
Xcalz · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad played a game that we called “catapult castle”. Basically my dad built a “castle” with these building blocks we had, and I would make a catapult with the remaining blocks. I would launch little blocks at it until I was satisfied with the destruction, and then it started over.
The most dangerous game. Me amd my friends would cover one of us with a quilt so they were blind and then berate them with medicine balls and rubber snakes. Also see snake wars
My brothers and I used to put sleeping bags over our heads and play blind, violent tag in the basement. We had to stop after we put a hole in the drywall.
God this is so fucking weird and embarrassing to admit but around maybe 8 or 9 I used to take my sisters baby dolls and hang them on these little hooks on the wall and chant "sacrifice the baby in (insert color of onesie they're wearing) SACRIFICE THEM ALL!" and repeat this til I've named all the colors represented. I did it to freak my sister out bc she'd scream at me to take them down and one day my dad caught me doing it and I genuinely don't recall how that part went but I know I sure didn't do it again
Our elementary school was in the process of tearing out and replacing the old fundangerous playground equipment with more modern versions.
One year, a new slide showed up in all its plastic glory, replacing the old metal slide. We quickly discovered that sliding down this in our winter coats generated a tremendous amount of static electricity. This escalated into having 5-10 kids standing next to the slide, rubbing their arms on it to charge up. We'd take turns going around to climb up and slide down, and everybody standing to the side would zap them the whole way down.
I "cooked" dzsindzsa soup (dzs is a hungarian letter, we pronounce it like j) Dzsindzsa is a word i made up. It meant everything in sight . I throw it in an old pot, stir it then feed it to the chickens at my grandmothers
Another one my family all played and still do, star light star bright. Basically one person hides while the rest count. We would all as a group go and look for the hider (aka monster) and when we found the monster or when they wanted scare us, we would all disperse and avoid getting tagged by the monster before we get back to base.
“Playboy planet” where we went in the backyard and humped the ground. This was like 4 or 5 so I totally didn’t grasp why this was a thing. No weird touching or anything inappropriate, just a group of boys individually humping the ground fully clothed. Not even sure there was a winner. Just something we did I guess when we were bored.
ca1wi1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the summers when I was little, my parents, my brother, and I would play the car game. We would sit on our porch and try to predict the color of the next car to drive past our house
While holding a brick, we would put a garden hose in our mouth and jump in the pool so we could breath under water. Yea, it doesn't work but we kept trying.
You know how when you put a cup upside down in water, it stays full of air? Well imagine that but with a giant bucket cooler with handles, a barbell through the handles, and about 150lbs of weight attached to it to generate enough force to bring it about 3 feet from the bottom of the pool. We would see how long we could sit on the bottom huddled together under the bucket. Teenage years were simpler times..
Pretty late to the game here but oh well. My brothers and I used to stack all our pillows and blankets as high as we could at the top of our steps, and then we would dive into to wall of cushions and ride it all the way down the stairs. Sometimes we would do this for hours, and we never once had an injury due to it.
It was weird, but my brother and I would stand across the room from each other, western faceoff style. Then we'd start walking all dorky straight at each other, swinging our arms and saying "doo dee doo dee doo dee" in singsong voices until we ran into each other. Then we'd fall down dramatically, saying "oops sorry!" And then get back up and do it again.
Sometimes my sister would even join and there'd be 3 special children walking into each other and falling down, over and over.
I don't know why, but we had so much fun playing that dumb game.
Fox and geese. A winter-only version of tag where you stomp out at least one ring in the snow (two concentric rings is even more fun) with paths leading to the center. The fox tries to keep to geese from reaching the middle, and if he catches one they become a fox. Super hectic and exciting game every recess
In middle school me and some friends played a game I like to call “firing squad” where a group of people line up against a wall and the “shooter” throws a frisbee at the people. If you move you’re a pussy... it was pretty fun
Pficky · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I had elaborate fantasy games that we played on our grandparents 7 acre forested property. We ran around imagining we all had awesome fighting skills and magical powers and there were like evil gorillas who were taking over the world out to get us. Apparently we made up a fantasy version of planet of the apes. My favorite part of this though is whenever we did an action we would say "Pretend I...." rather than just saying what we were doing.
We(my two brothers and I) had a few. During the summer our Mom would lock us outside until dinner, so we had to entertain ourselves. If we weren't exploring the nearby ravine we were playing "hide and go kill" where you were playing hide and seek/ tag but the person who was "it" explained that you were really looking for their doppelganger and listed off their crimes and what they were armed with. Another one involved digging up bricks from the backyard walkway and breaking them a particular way. Whoever broke it the most got to be the "king of the garage". We used to be able to get on top of our dilapidated garage from a good climbing tree nearby
"Catch or Don't". A game where you throw an expensive/loud/fragile item to each other in various positions: overhead, behind the back, under the legs, and the only way to win is to Not Catch it. Of course that leads to a broken expensive/loud/fragile item which gets you in trouble
My cousins and I played a game called “Can’t Cry” which was just us beating the shit out of each other to the point of concussions and stitches but if you didn’t cry, you won.
My cousin and i use to play a stupid game, we would both sit on the bed 1m from each other, facing each other, shirtless. And the goal was to use one hand to pinch each others tits. After a while it got pretty strategic where we were both more defensive. Also there was a big part of aiming at your target, baiting etc.
So dumb yet so fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"James Bond".. we'd turn all the lights off and run full force around the house trying not to run into anything. I actually got pretty good at it until one night my cousins and I were at a hotel and we tried playing. I got brave and decided to jump from one bed to the other but completely missed and smacked right into the wall.
Another was "monster mountain". We'd gather all the pillows, blankets, couch cushions, etc and pile them up into a giant mountain. Then we'd jump from the second floor balcony onto them..
Thinking about it now, I'm amazed I'm still alive.
I'm not sure how unique this was but it certainly wasn't taught in school.
When we were on recess all the boys would line up with some kind of ball. Rubber ball, racquet ball, tennis ball, baseball. And then we would take turns running along the back wall at school while everybody threw their ball at you. We loved doing it but I can't imagine a grade school letting kids do that now a days.
My best friend and I both had trampolines and an endless supply of plastic balls so you know we were up to some fun shit. The game is called “No.” 1-2 players on the trampoline and anywhere from 2-4 players on the outside. The players on the outside have a ball that they try to throw over the trampoline netting and have hit the trampoline. The object of the players on the inside is to dive around and save the ball before it hits the trampoline. You could hit the ball infinitely with any part of your body, but if you couldn’t actually hold it unless you were on the outside. It may sound easy but with only 2 kids and a huge trampoline, it got pretty intense. There were some interesting team dynamics of the players on the outside. They would pass it back and forth so the people on the inside couldn’t follow it and fake throws and such. Very fun times. We actually still play it seeing as I’m only 14.
"Red Letters" . There would be two teams of as many people in your neighbourhood friend group. One team would be runners who thought of a word that had the same amount of letters as they had team members i.e. a team of 5 could use the word "crisp". Each team member would then get a letter each from the word which they had to keep secret from the other team. They would then have 60 seconds to run and hide from the other team who would chase them and ,when caught, beat them until they gave up their letter. Once everyone had given up their letter the team had to guess the word to win.
My friends and I would play something called "biscuit ball" which had nothing to do with biscuits - it was glorified indoor hockey with a tennis ball. The end result was either someone getting hit with a stick and storming off in tears, or a leg going through the wall... good times.
My friends and I played a game we called “Hot shots golf” for some reason. No affiliation with the real got shots golf. One friend had mini sticks nets in his basement (miniature hockey nets) and we would try to throw a wooden drink coaster into the nets. They were pretty hard and we would whip them at each other to try to score. Hurt like hell when you took them in the knuckles which was pretty much every other shot. Also you had to yell hot shots golf every time you threw one.
Another game we played in gym class that was dodgeball but you could build a fort with gym mats and we had 6 kg medicine balls to throw and knock the fort down. The fort would go down right away and then we would use the medicine balls as regular dodgeballs. It didn’t count if you hit someone with one, but they certainly felt the impact. Pretty sure everyone was knocked off their feet with one at least once. The last minute or two our teacher would blow the whistle and it was a free for all; go anywhere and throw anything at anyone. We started throwing the gym mats at each other for a bit until someone’s parent complained.
My brothers, friends and I would stand in the middle of a field and shoot an arrow from a bow straight up. Obviously the objective was to not get hit. No one ever lost, thankfully!
The slipper throw. You place a slipper half way up the stairs, with a sibling sitting in the room at the top. Then, you quietly sneak up the stairs, grabbing the slipper on the way up, finishing with a quick sprint and an overarm toss of the slipper at said sibling. Then swap places. Literally hours of fun!
My siblings and I would play "Talking Games" where we would take on various roles. Sometimes it would be a Minecraft or Pokemon themed (my sister's game), world domination/politics or military themed (my brother's game) or it would be a fantasy psychic rpg (my game). We would play for hours on end and keep track of everything on notebooks
Not so much a game, but rather a extreme form of torture. The Tickle Game.
My dad would put us to be, and threaten to tickle us in 5 minutes unless we were asleep.
Obviously we couldn't sleep and he would follow through with his threat.
This terrorized me endlessly. To this day I get physically violent when someone tries to tickle me.
mubear · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game where you’d hyperventilate (by breathing in and out really fast) and then run down the hall and jump at the end. I got all my siblings to try it because “it makes you feel like you’re flying.”
No idea how I came up with that.
We played a game called keys on the swing sets. You had to constantly swing and throw a set of keys into the other teams area. If it stayed in their area for 10 seconds you got a point. But if you threw it out of bounds (the perimeter of the swingset) the other team got a point. When we became teens it turned into bloody keys, where you had to bounce the keys off the other team first. We stopped playing because it started to really hurt.
The game was called Rabbit Kill. I played it with my cousins. I don't know that it had any sort of objective. Two people were the rabbits, who had multiple personality disorder consisting of "submissive, psycho and floozy" personalities. You could tell which personality was on at the time by how the rabbit made ear shapes with their hands --straight one finger ears = psycho, laid down=submissive and fingers splayed in a lazy,relaxed manner =floozy. It was the non-rabbit person's job to discipline the rabbits.
So yeah, kinda fucked up now that im having to describe it. We were not abused children.
When I was a kid we would play “hobos”,basically we’d all get in someone’s backyard and pretend to be homeless which meant making stew, catching bugs and scrapping moss off of trees for a job.
Lots of good times...
The Stick Game: Be outside with a group of people, pick two teams, throw sticks at each other until someone gets hurt and the game has to stop. (yes, I actually played this many times)
Total Darkness: 2-3 people hide in a pitch black room while someone else tries to find them. The bigger and messier the room the better.
Commando: teams are runners and chasers. starts at 11pm. goal is for runners to run on foot from one school to the next (about 5 miles typically) and they get a head start. the chasers start at the same location except they are in cars/trucks and usually carry one passenger to hop out and tag. if a runner gets tagged then they become a chaser. the runners who make it to the other school without being tagged get bragging rights. there is a lot of adrenaline and fence hopping, it freaks out the neighborhood idk how we never got shot lol.
Blanket Wars: In a hallway, on your knees, both players advanced at each other and had to try to wrap a blanket over the opponents head. The secret password was “no-ka-la-ka-vee-sie” (we heard it in a commercial, not sure what it means... or if we were saying it correctly) it was a claustrophobic nightmare.
When I was little my dad would play the "Ra Ra" game. It consisted of him coming into my room at night and just opening the door a bit and saying "Raaaaaa" in a deep menacing voice. It scared the shit out of me back then lol.
I don’t think we had a name for it, or maybe we called it the chair game.... my memory is hazy. My cousins and I would take turns blindfolding and strapping each other to a computer chair on wheels. Then we would blast music and go on a crazy ride through the upstairs of my house. The house wasn’t huge but there were 4 bedrooms upstairs and a loft type area. We would rampage around, and sometimes tipping the chair forward or backwards and try to confuse the person as to where they were. We’d blast this Boys II Men song and when it was over, the chair person had to try to guess where they were. It was NEVER the spot they thought.
My sister and I used to play "Sherlock and Holmes." We made a tent in my room out of a sheet draped over the window blind string tied to something tied to something else in order to hang up the sheet. We'd speak with horrible accents and would discover things that led to clues that would eventually prove that our dog was a villain.
We had no idea that Sherlock Holmes is one person.
My sister and I played "life guard" in pools. One of us would "fake drown" and the other had to rescue you. But the "drowner" would always come to, "freak out", and start fighting the life guard. If you successfully got the person to the stairs/ladder then you switched roles.
I forget how he named it but it was a game I use to play with my uncle when mom would leave
Somodo · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hermit crab tag. there's a murderer and seekers. 1 person hides somewhere in the house while the others venture out from the couch. You and your group explore the house and when you see the murderer you gotta get back to the couch or you dead. If M gets everyone they win, if even one person makes it back then the A's win. Turn off all the lights and get a flashlight for added spooky
we would shut the garage door at my neighbors house turn off all the lights ( there was no windows so total darkness) then two of us would hide and try not to make a sound as one person would have a plastic ball bat wondering around trying to find us and then beat the shit outta us.....ive got a few more if anyone likes that one each one getting worse
My mum set up this elaborate system of pillow forts to try and teach us about mortgages and interest and stuff. It wasn't very realistic though, because the pillow forts weren't $1,000,000 per square centimetre.
At my school, we had a game called "Zap!" it was actually pretty fucked up but this was middle school.
If you don't know the games, here's the rules:
You have to close someone's hand into a fist, and the only way that person can reopen their hand was to slap a girl's ass, and if you open it on your own, you were considered gay.
Me being unpopular, I was basically always "zapped" and never slapped a girls bum, so I was gay all through middle school until I finally got laid in high school (yes, it was a girl)
When I was a young teen I started a game where two folks would take the cellophane down a pack of Marlboros about %80 of the way off. Place a penny in the middle and each player would take turns burning holes in the plastic around the penny perimeter until it fell in. It was quite popular at the den I haunted. Of course this was the Eighties and smoking was still cool.
P030P · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stairball.
Made it up like 20 years ago so the rules are a bit fuzzy. At the beginning of the turn, you throw a basketball against the outside door of a second floor apartment. The ball would bounce off, and roll down the stairs to the sidewalk. Once it reached the sidewalk, you had to kick it back up. If you managed to kick it high enough that it bounced off the door again, you got a point. If your kick was short, a lot of the time the ball would come back at you very quickly due to the angle the ball hit the stairs. You could always kick it again when it comes down as long as it didn't pass the sidewalk onto the grass or into the street. If that happened, your turn was over. Using anything above your hips(including hands) wasn't allowed.
In my 7-8 year old mind, it was going to be there next Olympic sport. It was also convenient for me because you didn't need anyone else around to play it.
In the first and second grades, I would organize the large-scale harassment of boys on the playground, by organizing a game that I invented called, "Chase The Beatles". I think I'd seen "Help" on TV or something, and was inspired. I'd get almost all of the girls on the playground together, and we'd a pick a few different unwitting boys to be "The Beatles" and then chase them around the "hotel" (ie, the playground) screaming and shouting, "Paul! I love you! I wanna hold your hand!" and similar nonsense.
Jatlu · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Brady game. We would line up on the edge of my yard and try to get to the other side and back without my dog Brady proceeding to tackle you and try to hump everything that moved. Last one standing won, and believe me my dog could have been a safety in the nfl he took no prisoners
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Once dated my next door neighbour to stand on top of his shed in the garden and take a crap
He did.
I was scarred for life. Can still picture it coming out now.
Playing soccer everyone would juggle the ball and whoever drops it had to get hit once with the ball by everyone lol watch out if u hit hard make sure u don’t drop the ball next time
We had a game called “basket brawl” very similar to rugby however the ball was a dodgeball (rubber ball type) and two five gallon buckets on either side. The goal was to score into the buckets any way possible. There were no rules, no illegal moves, just two teams. Physical contact was constant. I distinctly remember throwing my best friend down a hill while playing.
We would regularly have 5-6 people on each team, there was never a set team count because we played with who we had.
Looking back, I have no idea how we didn’t get more hurt than we did.
"The Dark Game" Basically was hide and go seek in the dark. We would turn off all the lights at night and hide in one room. Then the person would have to find us in the dark. I hid under the sheet of my dad's water bed and no one could find me even with the lights on. Still proud of this 17 years later.
Me and my friends would all file into my backyard which was pretty large and fenced in and had some decent cover (a swing set, a trampoline, fireplace and stuff) and we would throw a bunch of tennis balls into the backyard and we'd all have a childs lacrosse stick and we'd pretty much play dodge ball with tennis balls using lacrosse sticks. Thinking back on it now it was chaos
I grew up in Oklahoma. The summers there are unlike any I've encountered in any other state I've lived in. I was 10. I lived on a street with a ton of kids. Only keep in touch with one of them now. When the sun would set, each kid would gather their walkie talkies and try to sneak in houses to get snacks out of the pantry without getting caught. I would always get any sour candy or peanut butter crackers. Then you would have to meet a designated water well or tree. Mind you these are houses of my friends so we all knew each other and the parents. I remember those days like it was yesterday. I haven't been back there in 25 years.
I'm not sure if its a real thing, but we played something called bug house. It was 4 person chess, two boards, two teams, and when you took a piece from your opponent, you gave it to your ally, who could then put it into their game.
this meant that the more rapidly you played, the more pieces you could give your teammate, who could overwhelm the other player by sheer number of chess pieces.
This lead to extraordinarily loud and aggressive games, to the point where an entire classroom could devolve into shouting about the game, until eventually our teachers banned it for being too rowdy. :(
STVCCI · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it block party. There would be three people jumping on the trampoline and one person outside of it and his goal was to throw it over the net on the trampoline and make it hit the bouncy part of it while the people jumping had to hit it three times before hitting it out back out of the net. Many many summers of pure fun for us.
"Detroit". Literally, it was throwing coins up into a tree. No idea what the point of it was, no idea why we called it Detroit. But we played it every break time.
I used to pass time in class in middle school with a buddy by having "stick man fights". You each get one piece of paper, and you draw a comic sized box of a stick man performing some act of destruction. The whole point was to draw a response to whatever the other person drew. Anything was fair game, guns, knives, bombs, acts of nature, fortresses, shields, trebuchets, you name it.
I distinctly remember playing “Risk” (not the board game) with my brother.
We would toss a ball or something just far enough in front of us so it would be difficult to run and catch. Then, we’d make a dive for it while we shouted “risk!”
It made us feel like badasses. It’s like playing baseball, but only sliding into bases. We would play for hours and I have no idea how else had so much fun for so long by just hurling ourselves across rooms.
The kids in my primary school used to have this game call "hunt the C*nt" where we'd choose a word give random people one letter from that word and then those lucky people would leg it. The people left behind though they were the chasers after 30 seconds they would begin to chase you down and if they caught you they would beat the shit out of you until you cracked and gave them the letter.
"Hide the crayon" This is proof that we didn't have much, but also you don't really need much to be happy.
On those rainy days, or at night when we had to come inside all of us cousins would play the game. While we also played hide and seek in the dark that was mentioned previously, there were usually 6 to 10 of us hanging around on any given summer night, and hiding spots would get used up quickly.
So we miniaturized the game, each person got a crayon or 2 and we literally hid crayons in the house. We would limit it to a room or 2 at a time. Then everyone would search at once like an Easter egg hunt. That game NEVER got old.
We would inevitably take a break around dinner time and have egg sandwiches...every night. Great times! I remember it fondly 1981 to 1988 ish, a simpler time indeed.
hermit. i had one of those pink plastic playhouses that i covered with mud and sticks. i would sit in there and whittle and pretend to be living off the grid. when the neighbor kids would come by and ask me to play, i would scream incoherently and brandish my sharpened sticks at them. hermit was a one player game
My dad was a hobbyist blacksmith and made a plate helmet and scythe one time. As kids my brothers and I would select one person to wear this gear, turn the lights down, put on Halloween soundtracks, and chase the others around
catzr · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Over ball” we would take a tennis ball and have a person or group of people stand on opposite sides of the house (outside). You would scream “over ball” and throw it up over and on the roll so it would roll down the other side and the people or person on that side would have to try to catch it. And it just went back and forth. No idea where it came from, but we had a blast hahah
me and my friends played this game called “Medieval” which was inspired by one of our older brothers dnd game and we got really into the style but we didn’t want to just sit down and pretend so we would go out into the woods and find sticks that looked like weapons and then pick a reason for half of us to turn evil and then beat the ever loving shit out of each other for like an hour every day. Best time of my life
Me, two of my younger siblings, and one of my best friends would play what we later called “Project Alpha” in our preteen years.
We all created characters named after Greek letters (Beta, Gamma, etc.) and NATO phonetic alphabet letters (Bravo, Tango, etc.). Our characters were people that were kidnapped as kids to become special agents for a mysterious organization that opposed the “Vipers” who were a group of terrorists. Each of our characters had a special power specific to them (like lightning magic, phasing, etc.), and a special suit of armor with its own abilities like holograms and invisibility.
We had an actual plot, character development, all the things you’d expect in an actual story. I realize now that we were inadvertently LARPing. We played three “seasons”, which were akin to Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, all with a unique plot and style, and would do an episode every day, then once we were done playing the season finale, we would go a few months before starting back up again.
A friend and I would pretend that we were Pokémon trainers. We both wore hats that we would turn backwards like Ash Ketchum, and we’d explore the forested area by our neighborhood while throwing pine cones at imaginary Pokémon.
We would also talk to an invisible Misty, and make sandwiches to take with us that we called, “poké sandwiches”.
My cousins and I played a game called "the mole" basically one person has a blanket over their body/head and crawl around trying to grab people and drag them under the blanket. That person then become "the mole". We usually played in the dark as well. I have no idea how we came up with this.
gir6 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, cousin and I would play “People’s Court.” (It had nothing to do with the actual tv show.) There was a judge, a criminal, and a witness/victim. We took turns. The witness was usually a Southern belle type woman who would tell her tale of woe about what the criminal did (it was usually burglary), then it was the criminal’s turn, who got to wear my dad’s work coat and draw a mustache on their face with eyebrow pencil and act surly, and then the judge, who would inevitably sentence the criminal to death. We had a big wooden chair in the basement that was the “electric chair.” The witness/victim would get to flip the switch, and the criminal would die a horrible violent dramatic death. I liked being the criminal the best because of the death scenes I would invent. (We were pretty sheltered kids, it’s not like we were watching violent movies or had been traumatized in any way, so I really don’t know where this game came from, but we loved it!!!)
The "got it" game. Something my dad always played with me. He had always been into cars. Classics and hot rods mostly. When we saw a nice car, we would say "got it" and have to say what it was. It was a great way to share his interests that ultimately turned into my interest as well. It was simple, but I loved it.
Now if memory serves me right, Jail Break was an ordinary tag-like game. I distinctly remember playing a "safe" version under adult supervision (Gym, Church, Camp, etc.). There would be Guards and Prisoners. The game would start with one of the prisoners in a "jail" (just a designated area). The guards would attempt to hunt down and tag the prisoners who were currently free. If a prisoner were tagged by a guard, that prisoner would then have to go and stay in the jail. But if a free prisoner ran into the jail and yelled "Jail Break" all of the current prisoners were allowed to escape and run. The game would end when all prisoners were in jail.
But like I said we played a modified version. The rules were mostly the same, with one significant twist. Everyone had weapons… Sticks, Bats, Nerf Guns, Paintball Guns, Airsoft Guns, some fools even brought BB/Pellet Guns from time to time. It was BYOW (Bring Your Own Weapon), so people brought all sorts of random items.
Furthermore, going to or remaining in prison, as a prisoner, was no longer an honor-system process. Prisoners were captured by force and held in the jail, by force. In fact, we scraped the whole "yelling 'Jail Break.'" As a prisoner, you could leave any time you wanted, but the guards, if any were nearby, would physically engage you if you left the cell. Of course, the guards would disarm the prisoners too, so the weapons would rotate around as the game was played.
We weren't savages though… While you could be physically restrained, held, dragged, etc. Kicking and Punching were disallowed, as were any attacks to the face and groin. People did get shot with various "guns" from time to time, but when you're holding a tennis racket, and the opposing side has a paintball gun, you tend to just surrender. It primarily revolved around hitting people with objects (like bats), usually on the sides of the knees. Prisoners can't run if they…you know…can't run.
“Finger Breaker.” Our school had a pool table but for some reason, had two eight balls and two solid orange balls. We would each have either the black or the orange and we would use the other balls to slide them across the table and hit the other. Whomever got all four won.
It was called finger breaker because when youd try to protect your babies, your fingers would get hit and it was painful af.
My cousin and I used to play a game called 'bartender' in which one of us, blind folded, would await a cocktail mixed, by the other, from anything we could find in the kitchen. We would drink it in disgust of marmite mixed with vinegar, custard, salt, milk and god knows what else. I called it the 'marmite hammer'. Ahhh, better days.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a sandpit in our garden. We were like 4 people most of the time and we always split in 2 groups. Two would do something else for a couple minutes before they played the guests, the other 2 would "cook" whatever they could come up with out of water, sand, parts of plants, dirt, whatever was in range. Then the guests would come back, were greeted and got served the food. After "eating" they would rate the food, service, decoration and more.
It was actually insanely fun, you could get creative with the food and the kind of guests you acted as (hardhearing, rude...), literally never got old. 10 out of 10 would play again
You would sit across the room from your friend facing each other with your legs spread. You would roll a ball and try to hit them in the crotch. They were not allowed to block it with their hands. Typically only played with boys.
The friend game. Me and my sister would pretend that we’re not related but really close friends instead. It would make hanging out together feel more special.
Now that I’m typing this, I realize how weird this game was.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get beat daily, then I'd wondered what it is that I've done.
Me, my brother and my two cousins loved to play “Tira la merda” literally “Throw the shit”, we threw dry goat poop (goats and other animal shit little balls of poop) and the first to take a “fresh” one lost if they didn’t hit one of the opponents with it.
We played for 15 minutes a day and go back smelling so much of poop that one time my uncle vomited after an hug. I think I would do the same now.
My cousins lived in a farm far from any form of civilization, so there was nobody around telling us to stop. Thinking it now it was so fucking gross.
British bulldog we loved it was a line of kids holding hands and we would have to get past .think it got banned along with handstands and running in UK schools
My entire family would play a game called “Bonk Bellies” where we would stuff our shirts with pillows or random fabrics and then run as fast as we could towards each other and leap into the other’s belly to knock the person over. Usually it was just me and my siblings but when we got our parents to play, they would knock us the f out hahaha.
Now I get drunk with my friends and play Bonk Bellies to this day.
Zifork · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play the “power game” where we each had super powers and would think of increasingly ridiculous ways to fight each other using these powers. We created a whole backstory and world with currencies and planets and special items and all sorts of things. We spent more time talking about the limitations of each other’s abilities than playing the actual game, but it was so much fun.
asoue0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a field with big rocks and trees along the side of a road. We split the area in 1/2 into 2 “teams” but it was more like 2 little governments. Each one had a worshiping tree where one side prayed to George Washington and the other to Abe Lincoln. We got sharpies and drew our flags on rocks. We had a rule that if you picked flowers on the other side you legally had to start a war. We met there every single day for a whole summer.
My best friend and i had a name for this game (won't divulge 'cause yeah haha) and it was a bit like a cartoon, as in we would have an opening song, a closing song, and a "come back for the next episode!".
Anyway, we were two sisters who were also witches, and had all sorts of powers (one of which was called " lose weight!" And, obviously, made us 'lose weight' - it's really rather sad). We could turn into mermaids, animals, and we both had boyfriends and could eat everything we wanted. We fought off evil witches by singing against them, and there were other mermaids we were friends with (one of them was called Coco and she was really slutty).
We played until we were like 10 hahaha. I miss her. I love her to bits (my friend, not the slutty mermaid haha). Also, we took inspiration from w.i.t.c.h., mew mew, sugar sugar, pretty cure and my mermaid melody (a few cartoons we loved watching when we were little).
"Attack Mack" was a game that involved beating my brother while he sat on a chair until the inevitable point where he tapped out. His name was mack, and he always suggested to play it.
My little sister and I would have “bra and undie” parties, lol. We’d basically get into our little training bras and underwear, then pretend we were sexy motherfuckers and have a lit dance party with some music. It was a lot funner at the time than it sounds!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "roll playing games" but really it was just a choose your own adventure story made up on th espot by the "dungeon master." There were no dice or stats to keep track of, just "You come across a fork in the hallway. Do you go left or right?" then the story would progress from there. It was pretty damn fun.
Me and my brother used to live in a house with a big garden , he would take the water hose and make a puddle. I then had to build a 'Kingdom' around the puddle with the wet earth. We gave ourself about 10 minutes of time then he would put the hose into the puddle and open it. I had to defend my mud kingdom against the water by building walls or digging up a hole for the water. We would take turns and whoever survived the longest would win.
Anytime we were waiting in the car for my parents me and my siblings would take turns drawing with our fingers on eachothers backs and the person being drawn on guessed what they were drawing.
We played a game called “Bucket Boy”. This involved my cousin and I putting a bucket on our head in the pool and going under water and pretending to be scuba divers.
My brothers and I played an game I would call “give me a ticket to anywhere”. I don’t know how we came up with this but one of us would have a carrot and a peeler. The others would ask for “tickets” to exotic places. Like one would go up to them and say: “One ticket to Madagaskar” And he would slice a piece of the carrot and give it to you. Then you eat it and that’s it. Very low budget travel :D We would play this all day long. It’s fascinating how easily entertained kids are..
Played on a netted trampoline with three people. Each person has 2 segments of net as their goal to defend. There is a single tennis ball in the center of the trampoline to start. You cannot grab the ball. All slapping and hitting.
You're not allowed be attacked in your goal but if you make a play on the ball in the center you're fair game. Full contact. First to 21 wins, must win by 2.
Me and my younger sister used to play "kick." Not very unique I guess.
Basically we'd sit on opposite ends of the couch and just kick the shit out of each others feet, shins, and thighs. I had a few years on her but she had the advantage of not having testicles.
Needless to say my parents threw the kibosh on "kick" pretty quickly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "germs" game. It started when one siblings would roll around on the floor. They were the "germ", for some reason. You had to hop over or otherwise avoid getting touched by the "germ" (they couldn't reach out, they could only roll) or else you'd become one. It's all fun and games until someone jumps on a face, but the real fun kicks in when you're the only human left!
We played "The Game" - Every household on our block had one of those torpedo footballs with the whistles and the tail on it. The setup, get an initial volunteer to be the 'Name Caller'. The Name Caller hurls the football as high as possible while everyone scatters as far as possible. Thing is, the Name Caller would call someone out BEFORE the ball hit the ground again (usually as close to the ground as possible). That person has to get the ball and when they did they yelled STOP! Everyone stopped dead in their tracks, an amazing honor system us kids had.
The new "Throwers" job is to now hit someone with the ball. If you get hit, you're out. Bounces don't count. Catches don't count, no penalty.
It usually turned into a game of 8-10 boys on the verge of sprinting as fast as possible in any direction but trying to time it so that if they are the one called out no one else gets too far away to hit. Only a few of us were any sort of 'athletic' so this game could go for hours due to no one being able to hit anyone.
It was a blast and I'm visiting my brother-in-law in April, him and my sister have an awesome group of grown-up kid friends and I'm going to try to get this going again. It's been decades.
My brother and I made this trail in the woods for this game we played for a couple years around Halloween, at night of course. We would take turns where one or the other would run down the trail and after a few minutes the other would follow (just walking) until the first one jumped out and scared the shit out of [you].
imbex · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in Chicago in the late 80s early 90s. I dressed up as Saddam Hussein and had the neighbor kids be my footsoldiers and steal food and toys for me. I'm a white girl...
One person would stand at the top of our jungle gym with a flashlight and everyone would have to hide at an agreed upon distance; you could however hide wherever you want. Then, in the dark, you would have to make your way towards the jungle gym without the person who was it shining the spotlight on you.
The person who was it would have to say the person's name or else it didn't count.
My cousin and I made rock hotels. We would draw elaborate hotels with chalk and then our pet rocks would live in them. It was really fun and a good memory to have now!
Tree-ball. When we were kids, my neighborhood best friend and I made up a game where we’d stand under a large tree with a big canopy of leaves (presumably during the spring/summer). We would then throw a tennis ball up into the tree’s canopy, where we could no longer see it, and compete to see who could run after it and catch it as it came rattling and banging down through the branches, usually in a totally different spot due to all the deflections.
I lived on a street where cornfields backed up to our back yards. In the winter, snow would drift across the fields and pile up in the back yards resembling a bit of a snow ramp. Typically, we would get a good coating of ice on top of it and then it became the winter slip 'n slide. We would all bundle up and everyone would take turns getting a running start and you would slide as far as you could on your stomach. We marked how far we went and the person who slid the furthest got nothing except the sweet sweet pride of knowing they slid further than everyone else. I'm freezing cold just thinking back.
Me and my cousin used to go to my grans in school holidays we used to play 'Bad crashes' razz toy cars into each other as hard as possible and watch chaos and extreme wall damage ensue.
Also who could smash the spaghetti into most pieces via a fan was also a laugh.
I used to take my bike and ride it around my school after dark. No hands. Through tight spaces, all the way around the building.
I did this whilst talking through imaginary Pokemon battles I was having in my head, using new, mostly unoriginal, creatures I'd made up (Rockomon, Mew Three etc.)
my sister and I would play "Taco Fairies" where we'd just wrap ourselves in blankets and run around the house pretending we were jumping over lettuce and tomatoes.
My siblings and I played a game called Hungy Chungy where we shoved pillows in our shirts and ran at each other
We had another one called pillow head where my brother would put a pillow on his head and try to find my sister and I. My parents stoped letting us play that one when my brother fell down the stairs
Some stupid game called mushburger (not sure how we came up with that one). From what I remember, one person would lay on their back on the bed and hold up a really big heavy pillow we had. The other kid would then jump on the pillow and try to weigh it down or whatever until the person’s arms or legs gave out and it crushed them lmao. If that sounds painful it’s worse when the person under the pillow would fucking launch you across the room! Needless to say we played this many times.
Oh boy, never thought I'd get to share these gems.
The first game my brother and I played was "pinches"... Here is how it goes.
Step 1. Each person gently pinches the others cheeks, between the thumb and index finger
Step 2. Count to 3
Step 3. Pinch the ever living shit out of those cheeks, first person to let go loses.
We would also play "battle pong". Just like regular ping pong, save for the fact that after every point scored, the loser would have to turn around and lift up his shirt while the other got to take a shot with the ping pong ball. And boy when you connect... the slap sound was insanely gratifying.
Me and my friend lived in a tiny little hamlet with a communal collection of wheelie bins, about 16 each recycling and regular household waste bins. We used to play in them, scavenge boxes and random junk from them, hide in them and jump out at people/each other... it was mental and we probably looked like right weird little urchins, spending extended hours playing in bins, but we loved it haha. We would also take stuff that we'd found and go and knock on our neighbors doors and try and sell them the stuff so we could get money for sweets XD. Good times lol.
We cleared out our large playroom, by moving everything to the edges of the room. We also covered all hard objects with any pillow and blankets we could find for safety.
One player was The Blob. They had a large dark blanket. The other players were just people. The goal was for The Blob to capture/eat another player by wrestling them to the ground and covering them with the blanket. Whoever got eaten was the next Blob.....the catch, the lights were off and every player starred at the lights prior to turning the lights off, this made sure everyone had a hard time seeing.
Star Wars ping pong. It was a table tennis/action figure/red rover style game. My brother would line up the Empire figures on his side of the table while I lined up the Rebellion figures on mine. We would then take turns serving the ball attempting to knock down one of the figures on the other side. The ball had to bounce once on both sides before striking a figure. If you knocked a figure over, they came to your side. The games took incredibly long to finish but they were always epic!
'pitu'. What we did is that we piled up 7 rocks on top of each other. Then we stood 3 meters back and with a tennis ball, the first guy to knock over the pile of rocks with only 1 bounce of the ball was 'it'. What he had to do was stand still with the ball and throw it at the rest of us whilst we tried to pile up the rocks again. If he hit someone, they had to join his team but they could not move with the ball.
Not so much "game" as sport. I think I had visions of an Olympic championship in it, it was also my first answer to the question "what do you want to be when you grow up?"
And for years my answer was always "The man who slides down stairs on cushions". It was that enjoyable as an activity I had career plans aged 3.
I used to play a game with my dad and my older brother called "one nose". One of us (usually my dad) would wear a hoodie with the draw string pulled completely so the only thing visible was the nose. Without being able to see, the 'one nose' would wander around the room slowly trying to corner and catch the other two. My brother and I would always try to hide under or behind objects that would be almost impossible for an adult to reach, and as you can imagine this lead to more than one minor injury. But it was so much fun to sneak around hiding from the 'one nose', and if we got caught then we would have to switch and become the new 'one nose'.
We played Sinking Ship. Everyone gets on the playground/swingset and one person would kick a soccer ball at the swing set. Any part hit starts sinking and you have to get off it and must remain off it for the rest of the game. If you try to sit on that part or don't get off in time you are out. Getting kicked in the face means you're out instantly. Simulates pirate ship getting shot at I guess?
This was that time in the early 2000s where every kid in the neighborhood had a Ripstik. So naturally, what group activity is there but for us to all ride around in the driveway and try to knock each other off!
There were surprisingly few injuries.
Honestly for a good few months we did everything on Ripstiks, just from riding over to each other's houses to play Smash Bros and 007, to playing full length basketball games.
We could never quite get the Ripstik to function properly in the pool, but I'm not opposed to trying again now as an adult.
My siblings and I would play "floor hockey", which consisted of flinging balls of socks (and even a Bulbasaur plushie) at the couch. The world before the internet was a grand ol' time.
deysiy · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to collect empty vaccine bottles pretend I was a cook add plants water and sugar and drink it.
I ended up with a severe allergic reaction almost killed myself thanks to my concoctions.
Me and my cousin used to play “fighter pilots” on the swings. We used to stand up on the swing and swing really hard. And then “eject” by jumping off. Fun days.
The "animal" game. While in the car, particularly on long drives, you get points for yelling "I got those /that (insert animal). " Point value varies based on rarity, white horses were 5 points for example. Most animals were 1 point, groups counted as a unit. Very rare animals were an automatic win. It was a very contentious game, with rules that had to be made up on the fly at times.
F3RNyx · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
My father had it hidden and I played it anyways 🔥😂👌
One kid stands on the arm of the sofa, other laying on the floor with their mouth open. The taller kid then aims and drop magnets into the other kids mouth. Not surprisingly, eventually dad had to come to the rescue for a choking kid and the game was shelved forever. Instead of the Heimlich, instinct took over and dad dangled the choker by the ankles, but it worked perfectly somehow.
Not as a child, but my office plays jollyballs (a hard-hitting mixture of ping pong and volleyball). We even have official documentation like good little developers: https://github.com/ai-invent/jolly-balls
We would tie our little brother to saw horses, chairs, whatever and time how long it would take him to get out. Or we would get bored and wander away and he'd be stuck for an hour or two.
We would play "You're on a fixed income" which was a phrase our grandfather often said and we didn't know what it meant. It involved one of us pinning the other on the arms of the couch with our legs while the other tried to escape. We would constant proclaim that the one trapped was "on a fixed income" until they escaped and we would swap places.
My older brother and sister used to wing me by my arms and legs and I used to love it. It ended once I dislocated one of my shoulder but whatever. We also used to play a game where we would roll each other up in blankets real tight and squirm around.
Wawawa, an activity moreso where my sister and I, in our onesies, would slide down our carpeted staircase on our tush. Loads of fun as kids, not so fun as anything older than 6
Narnia has just came out when I was like 8. And that was when I had just moved into my grandmothers house. My game was taking my cousins to explore the huge closet blocked off by boxes up in the unused master bedroom, because it was a magical adventure. My baby brother was stuck as lookout.
Touchdown run. The yard was a football field and one person had the ball. Score by getting to the new zone, then you try to make it back across.
Typically 2 or 3 tacklers vs 1 runner. Defenders had special abilities. While we'd normally tackle with not much force, you could perform an action and tackle the harder. For example, you could be Reggie White and do a cross on your chest, point at the runner, say " I'm praying for you" then put all your weight into a hard tackle.
Basically my friends and I invented the perk system for modern games.
My mommom and I would throw bouncy balls in the kitchen sink. Of course they would bounce out, but we would keep trying until we got all of them to stay in the sink.
"the dog game". My little sister and I played a lot of roleplay esque games, and our favorite one was the dog game. It started by wrapping me in a blanket burrito style and then I'd emerge in full dog form, and she was my granny owner. I went full dog mode and would run around on all fours, bark, pant, the whole shebang.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We had this game called “rio rio” (I’m sure some of my siblings would spell this differently). One person is the “rio rio”—basically, they are the steamroller making an ambulance-type noise, which noise is where the name of the game comes from. The rio rio has to roll around on the floor making the siren sound. Everyone else has to jump over the rio rio when as it rolls under them, and whoever falls or trips on the rio rio has to be the new rio rio. I consider this to be the funniest of our games, given the built-in punishment for falling is to know you’ll soon be fallen on.
At around midnight 10+ kids (older middle school kids, younger highschool kids) we would basically play cops and robbers but called it "Fugitive" at an elementry school that was in our neighborhood. There were two cops and the rest were fugitives. The whole school were the boundaries. When the game was concluded and two people were found everyone would yell out "MERRY CHRISTMAS" because that was the code word that two people were found and that round was over. We took ownership of the school and made sure people didnt fuck up the place, we wanted to keep the place to play. The night janitor was even cool about it, he could have called the cops. it grew to about 20 of us and it became out of hand, until one day someone decided a pogo stick would be good through a window and in a class room. that kid became a fugitive irl and ruined it for everyone. but damn it was fun running around that place.
I had a friend who had a above ground pool and it was getting old so they drained it and there were tears in the walls of the above ground pool. So my friend, my sister and I would go into the wall and crawl around as my friends brother stabs the wall with a knife. It was fucking fun as a child but when I think of it now it was really dangerous. The brother wasn’t crazy we were all young and stupid
It has a German name but we would go on the playground on one of this huge climbing things with tunnels and slides.
One person had to cover their eyes while the others climbed on it and he needed to search for us with closed eyes.
Obviously, there were dead ends.
The hiders could also walk on the ground and go up on another side if they were in a dead end, but if the person searching heard, because the ground was made of these wooden pieces then he could call it and they were also caught.
It was a ton of fun but I fell down with my eyes closed a few times.
sklars · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Rat Game": all 5 of us siblings would go into our basement and dress in all black, turn off the lights and cover the stairs with a sheet so no light came in at all. In complete darkness, one of us would be "The Rat" and the other 4 would hide. Then "The Rat" would crawl around as fast as they could and try to find the rest of us. It was terrifying. See also, the "Witch Game". Same concept except "The Witch" is covered in a blanket.
Pooga. It’s a combination of pool and Gaga. People hit the ball across a pool table with their hands. If their wrists touch the ball, they’re out! If their hands/wrists raise over the pool table, they’re out!
Is a two teams game. You have to draw a 3x3 box with chalk on the pavement and make a pile of 9 bottle caps in the center. A member of one of the teams have to destroy the pile with a ball. When he does, the game starts. The other team have to throw the ball to each member of the other team and kill them while they try to put each bottle cap in the 9 spaces.
I posted this before on some other thread last week, but it answers perfectly to this question actually:
In elementary school, we (as the entire student body) created and maintained for 2 months an entire and fairly complex parallel economic system during recess based on pine nuts as a currency. The more I’ve thought about it in the recent years, the more I realize we effectively operated like mobster clans. Without getting into details, there were territorial wars, hotel construction, racketeering, fraud, fake currency manufacturing and all kinds of schemes and shady deals going on. It grew so out of hand that the school administration had to get involved, banned entry to the Pinewood until winter, confiscated our huge hay reserves (hay was our main building material and akin to our economy’s crude oil or timber) and emptied our weapon caches, putting a brutal end to our neo-capitalist experiments. After that we went back to playing soccer and never talked about it.
We didn’t have a name for it, but we used to get inside the outside garbage can with the lid down and roll each other around. My skin crawls thinking about it.
Me and my friends at primary school (about 7 years old) played a game called 'tub tag'.
We found it hilarious that Tub backwards was butt so we played the old fashioned game of tag, but could only tag eachother by hitting eachother on the 'butt'.
We were questionable children, and the amount of arguments that sparked up about what counts as your butt or not.
We would bounce half a dozen eggs on the trampoline between 4 kids. If you got hit by an egg, you had to go to the walnut tree and try to catch one of the fallen walnuts on fire. We were never caught, or their parents didn't care
fxxth · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “animal tag.” The person who was it would act like a predator, and the people who were being chased had to act like other animals that it would eat it the wild. I mainly remember playing with the person who’s it as a lion, and others would be an elephant, antelope, zebra, giraffe, etc. Noises, movements and all.
For one summer, my cousins and I played “Torture Chamber”. It involves climbing over the backyard swing set and draping yourself over it in various strange and uncomfortable ways, then wailing about the horrible fate that awaited you if you “fell”. For example, if you “fell” down the slide, it was covered in razor blades and a vat of alcohol was at the bottom. We spent hours trying to outdo each other, including everything from grenades to vicious animals to dynamite. It was a lot of fun, and definitely had an effect on my...sexual interests...when I grew up.
Basically we played soccer with one goal and everyone was on one team except the keeper. There was a tree that marked the last defender for offside and if we hit it wide or the goalkeeper cleared the ball a certain distance the team would change.
The game had to be played at match pace as if there were defenders but we were all always attacking. Games would be timed between the two "teams" and a league table was tracked.
My brother and I used to play 'Dirty Goose' when we were kids. Whenever it was pouring rain, we'd go outside and run around. Whoever went inside first lost. We weren't the brightest kids growing up...
Only played it once, but little sister and I used to try and close the bathroom door on each other (I was about 5, she was 4). She gets the idea to put her fingers under the hinges. I felt the door let up and slammed it shut. I saw blood and opened the door. She stood there wide eyed watching the blood pour down her hand. I went and layed down in the bathtub and plugged my ears. Mom came running and sister started bawling. Doctors said her fingernails would never come back and that her fingertips would be permanently disfigured, but luckily, everything healed perfectly. We didn't play that game ever again.
I used to draw a scene on a piece of paper, it always had a hero and usually some monsters or puzzle or just a boss. I then acted as gamemaster, ruling what happenned when a friend playing the hero announced an action. It always involved modifying the drawing (adding a health bar, some blood, or changing the monster because he evolved to another form). It wasn't until many years later that I would be introduced to Dungeons and Dragons and I do pretty much the same thing (albeit more complex and less improvised) almost every weekend.
My dad used to play the "Strange and Unusual" game with us on road trips. If you could spot something (outside the vehicle - siblings don't count!) that was deemed "strange and unusual" you would get a candy. It kept the kids settled and observant of their surroundings for hours at a time.
We called it amnesia. We would throw a sheet over the top of the swing set and would sit on the glider and swing back and forth and hope nobody found us.
While walking home from school I'd grab a handful of gravel then pretend I was a B2 bomber, dropping individual rocks onto targets without breaking stride.
My aunt was a upholster, so at my cousins house we always had access to dozens of cushions to fuel our games. Two that come to mind are "Elephants of Oz" (no idea how we came up with that name) where 1 defender tried to hold off whatever room was deemed Oz against 2 others. Basically use cushions as weapons and shields and pummel each other with them. #2 was Avalanche!! which involved stacking up every cushion we could get at the top of some very steep stairs and running a rope from the cushion that held it all together, then screaming Avalanche and pulling the rope while you tried to be the first to the top of the stairway. Surprising we had some incidents that lead to stiches, but no broken bones.
We had one of those red&yellow Little Tikes cars when we were kids, but the roof had broken off so it was just the red bottom half with an open top. We called it the 'CollerRoaster'. Basically we would take it in turns with one of us sitting inside and 2 people would run as fast as they could pushing us around the garden until we crashed or fell over. Loads of fun. Always stands out in my memory.
NMJ87 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombies!! No not call of duty. My neighborhood friends would all come down to my house on a nice warm day, I had a play scape in the back yard that was "home" or the safe zone. I had a ton of Nerf guns, and who ever was zombie had to wear the Velcro vest. Zombies had to grab and pretend to bite the others to turn them into zombies. The longer without getting someone, the faster they'd be able to run. You could only stay at base for 2 minutes. It was a blast.
I used to play a game called "Break In" with my brother and family friends throughout the summer. Our friends house has a wooden fence around their backyard that is accessible on 3 sides, without having to trespass on someone else's property. One team would defend the pool's diving board while the other attempted to break in to the backyard and sit on the diving board without being tagged.
I had a rescue heroes toy that when you pushed a button it would call out a random natural disaster. My friend and I would play a game where if it called out "Volcano" we had to run up the stairs of the basement as fast as we could. No winners or losers. We were weird.
Me and my brothers were 100% the nerdiest kids you’d ever met, by far the geekiest in our neighborhood. We loved superheroes and would binge watch anime together all the time, which fed into our obsession with superpowers and Yu-Gi-Oh, so we invented our own card game. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was pretty much the coolest thing we’d ever made with our own hands. On the spot we’d invent superheroes with their own unique power sets, weaknesses, names, and abilities, and we’d make cards for them and ‘dual’. As I mentioned, we were young, so we constantly made up rules and powers during games so either one of us could win (usually me) and it wasn’t balanced at all, but it was still fun to see who could come up w the most creative solution to win. But the real fun came when we took it to the streets and got all of our neighborhood friends involved. We basically larped our own made up card game and flexed over all of our friends by having the most powerful characters and abilities and dominating the competition. I had the time of my life, and my brothers did too. I would give anything to go back
Me and a bunch of the kids would go out and find sticks. Carve them, heat them in a fire until they "harden" and go fight.
If you gave up, you lost your stick. If your stick broke, you lost.
10 of us at a time. It's a miracle no one lost an eye. We beat the crap out of each other...we quickly started wearing gloves and thick clothes.
I had a sweet stick with this curve not unlike a bayonette. I would hook the opponents swing, trap it, and direct it to the ground, then step on their stick....either breaking it or making them let go. I was pretty good.
My cousins and I invented a game called “Lumpy” where one person (Lumpy) had to go inside of a sleeping bag and sit in the middle of the room and try to catch everyone in the room. Everyone who was not Lumpy had to be completely silent and try to knock Lumpy over without getting caught. If Lumpy grabbed you, you became the new Lumpy.
It was super fun until one day I was Lumpy and instead of everyone trying to knock me over, they all left the room and left me there trying to grab at empty air. It lasted about five minutes before I figured it out and cried to my mom. That was the day Lumpy died :/
We played "TV" on road trips. My mom would randomly yell click and we'd have to "change channels" by stopping whatever we were saying/doing and starting a different scene. Worked really well if fights started in the car or if we started getting fussy about being bored.
My sister was really good at it because she would start doing infomercials for stuff: yelling "BILLY MAYS HERE WITH OXYCLEAN SEE HOW WELL IT GETS YOUR STAINS OUT" and start throwing water around the car. Mum would say click again and she'd switch to Shamwow talking about getting the water out by "beating it out like I beat that hooker." It would go on for hours and we'd all be rolling by the end of it.
When my me and my brother were about 4 and 6 we would jump on my grandma's bed. The headboard was high enough for us to sit on it, and we would sit on it and shout "MY KING CHAIR" and whoever wasn't sitting there, threw the other person down onto the bed, face first.
As a child, I got into dinosaurs pretty heavily, the Brachiosaurus being one of my favorites. I would simply make my fingers all point down the same way except my middle finger, I would lift my middle finger up more so it would look like a neck&head with legs. I would make it (run) In the grocery store on top of the fruits and meat sections(poking holes in all the wrapped meats) and at the mall, in the car I would have my dinosaur with me always. Anywhere where there was a surface I’d role play my hand as that Brachiosaurus. I soon realized people thought I was giving the middle finger and bash my mom for teaching me such things, but she would laugh and continue on about her day. She’d even paint a smile on my middle finger just so my Dino had a face. I had a simple childhood :)
My parents house is on a golf course just off the 14th hole. When we were kids we would sit in the yard the weekend and wait for players to hit balls over and then ask us to return them. We had a bucket we collected balls in during the rest of the week and whenever that happened we would try to throw as many balls over as possible instead of just their ball. Were we little jerks? Yes. Was it fun? Absolutely.
We also used to dump said bucket into the deep end of our pool and see who could collect them the fastest and get them back into the bucket.
‘Beating up in the dark’. We would switch all the lights off and beat the shit out each other, making teams to plan how to attack, and then if anyone got hurt, someone would try to find the light (quite hard) and we would take a break. A lot of fun. We also used to throw pillows and make forts using pillows and blankets on the beds.
In Korea, we’d play this game where you put your hands together and form a finger gun and poke each other’s buttholes with clothes on. It would be funny and embarrassing and as weird as it was, even my mom played this game with me...
My friend and I would play "Knock Down Guys" We would each select 10 Star Wars or GI Joe's or He-Men and sit across the room from each other. After strategically standing them up we would take a Lincoln Log and try to knock them down. First one to knock them all down, won. Freaking HOURS of enjoyment.
Another one was simply called "The Game". We took a Hacky Sack and sat across the room from each other and just tossed it to one another. The point was not to make it impossible to catch but to catch it in the "Coolest" way. You got 'Cool Points' for the coolest catches. It was better with 3 or more players.
We called it Hit the deck
We’d take plastic beaded necklaces and throw them in the ceiling fan and shout “hit the deck!).
Some games started when least expected.
We didn't really have a name for it but sometimes me and my brother would play a game along my uncle where we watched porn and the goal was not to get to get an erection. The first one who did got spanked.
My younger brother and I would play a game called "Mages VS Knights". Basically I would be the mage wielding this old book about natural disasters. I would have to avoid being slashed by my brothers foam sword (my dad made it using a PVC pipe and a pool noodle). After finding a natural disaster I liked, I would have to shoot my arm out, yell my "spell" and "shoot it" (throwing a pinecone). If my brother was hit by the pinecone, he would lose health. My brother would be able to deflect them with his sword and dodge and all this stuff. Super fun. He won most of the time due to my aim and his tiny body haha.
I played this when I was around 10 and my brother being 5.
It was super fun. Probably the main reason I love mages and warlocks.
My family never really got into video games until around a year ago. So im not sure what sparked the idea for this. But I wont complain.
Now my brother excels in Archery while I excel in throwing blades and Kendo. We still cosplay all medieval themed here and there when practicing.
Alan Jackson Ball. My brother and I would take cassette tapes and hit them with a rod/baseball bat, in a similar way you would a baseball. The spools inside would go flying once the tape cracked open like a pinata, and whoever hit the furthest one won.
Ap_Cr · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Children’s prison. At my uncles house they had the type of stairs that come to flat spot then rotate. We would sit in the on the flat spot and put our legs through the stair balusters and they would tie our shoe laces together thus locking us in children’s prison. They provided us paper and crayons so we could “write” a letter to governor for clemency. All we had to do was scribble and boom we were granted clemency. Good times
It's not necessarily unique, but my family used to tell us as kids that the bird called a Snipe can understand english and would come to you if you called them. So they gave us all paper bags and sent us "snipe hunting" all day. We lived on a ranch, and we were too young to realize these birds weren't coming lol (especially after my uncle pretended to catch one with his hand in the bag)
We played a game where one of us would stand in a full-body mirror and pretend to be an actor or a talk show host and the other would come up from behind and kill me some creative way, pretending to be a robber or assassin
My brother and I would play the rock game every morning as we waited for the school bus. Basically, we'd stand about 30 feet apart and take turns throwing rocks at each others face. We lived on a gravel road but these were medium sized stones and not pebbles. We played this "game" until one morning my brother blasted me in the stomach with a particularly large rock. As he laughed at me I put some heat on one and blasted him right in his shit eating grin. I busted out one of his front teeth. He ran up to me and said "Odinskind I think I chipped a tooth" I confirmed it was just chipped as he was spitting out blood and bits of tooth and we got on the bus. I contemplated running away from home that afternoon when he wasn't on the bus, and considered jumping out of the moving vehicle when the bus rounded my neighborhood and I saw my dad waiting for me on the front porch. That was the last time we played the rock game.
We were lucky enough to have a swimming pool when I was 11-13 and my sister was 6-8. One day our parents got in to swim with us and Dad did a weird cannonball where he left one leg out and straight. He called it the “Nestea Plunge” (I think that’s what it was) but my sister and I misheard it as “Nasty Klunge” and it became our favorite thing to do in the pool.
"I've got an animal in my mind". simple car game or time occupying game. think of an animal. then the others have to guess it with only yes or no questions. winner takes next round. hours of fun. mafe a little song for it too
It was called "salade". Schoolyard game. A group of kids take a crushed can and kick it around. If the can goes through someone's legs, everyone kicks that kid until they touch the safe spot (usually a pole or a wall or something close by). It got banned in my middle school cause we were playing and it went through this one kids legs and he refused to accept that it did so everyone kept kicking him. I remember feeling really bad for him but the rules were rules so we all just kept going. He was right next to the pole and we were all yelling "just touch the pole!" But he wouldn't and kept saying "it didn't go through!". It was bad. The bell rang and we all went into class except for the kid who just laid there. He ended up coming back to class 20 minutes later and when he did an announcement went over the PA saying that game was never to be played ever again. He never told who was playing the game which I really respect, but to this day I feel horrible for how it all went down.
For a while we played a game we called 'bongo ball,' which was kind of a variant on dodgeball. One person would hold a drum (which we called a bongo, but was actually a djembe) held up against their side with their arm. Everyone else, usually 4-8 others, formed a line in front of them, about 6-8 feet away. We'd have one dodgeball, and throw it as hard as we could at the 'bongo', bouncing it back at us at high speed, with the 'bongo' holder maneuvering the drum to try to hit people. If you got hit without catching it, you were out, and if you hit the bongo boy anywhere but on the drum, you were also out. It is surprisingly fun, the ball is always going fast, it's kind of hard to predict where it's going to bounce to, but the bongo boy has a surprising amount of control over it with practice.
PickMe: me and my friends used to pick a character from a game or show we liked. We would combine the stories from each and then just imagine everything else with nerf guns or sticks as swords. Not very unique but some of my best childhood memories
When I was in gymnastics, we had some weird games. But one that stood out to me was one called “Natural Disaster”. Basically, we all ran in a circle until one of our coaches yelled out a natural disaster. For fire, we had to throw ourselves to the ground and roll around (stop, drop, and roll). For flood, we had to jump on to one of the mats that were out on the floor. For tornado, we had to get under the mats. Then thunder was added in, where we had to sit on the ground and pound on it, making the sound of thunder. Basically, the last person to do said action would be out, and we would go until there was a winner. I always thought it looked funny to watch these kids literally throw themselves to the ground. (sorry if the formatting is weird, i’m on mobile)
Murder in the dark. One person would be the “murderer” which entailed being blindfolded and then searching for the other players. The room would be dark, and the other players would sneak around the blindfolded person trying not to get caught. First person caught is the “murderer” next time.
We played a made up game called "evil birds" there weren't exactly rules it was more of us running around playing like fantasy pretend. Presumably the original bad guys on our made up world were the evil birds.
My brother and I would play war; we set up 2 doll houses across the room from each other and strategically placed a bunch of little green army men in the windows, on the roof, etc. Then we chucked marbles across the room at each others’ houses to see who could knock all the others’ army dudes out first. I’m surprised neither of us lost an eye
Lived in a smallish neighborhood where all the kids knew each other. Anytime a hurricane would come all our houses would lose some shingles off the roof. We would sometimes take the shingles and meet up in someones backyard to play 'dodgeball' with them. It was like dodgeball with lots of cuts and bruises. It hurt a lot and looking back i'm surprised none of us got diseases and died tbh.
FIND A HOLE. One person would hide under a blanket and basically try to make an impenetrable seal and the other would thusly try to find a hole. It's awkward when a little kid is begging an older sibling to find a hole though...
We road tripped a lot when I was growing up. I always had the back seat in the minivan, and I would play a game where I would pick a dot/spot on the window and try to move my head to keep that spot above the power lines on the side of the road, or the horizon if there were mountains. Just a weird way to pass the time
My older sister or brother would be the knight, and the king\queen, They would make me be The Grudgen. I was wrapped in a big blanket and had to try and force my way past the knight to touch the king or queen, was basically an excuse for them to physically abuse me, but in a good-nature sibling kind of way.
I used to make cars and bikes by stacking, and arranging pillows in a specific order, and then ride(literally just sit between pillows and make "vroom vroom" noises) it for hours.
'Quick hands' -- basically me and my older brothers and father would have a ball, it could be any ball really, and the point of the game was to throw it at someone and have them miss it. So you'd have to do it without looking at them most the time, and you'd have to verbally say 'quick hands' when you were doing it. Often the verbal portion wouldn't be said unless it was just a random point in the day someone was doing it.
'Night Mummy'. One person laid on the ground with their arms crossed like a mummy. The rest of us walked in a circle around them chanting 'one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, ect'. Once the chanting reached the night time hours, the mummy would jump up and chase us down. If you got tagged you became a mummy and helped tag until only one survivor was left, they got to be the mummy next round. Bonus creepy points for circle chanting children if played after dark.
My buddy and I would slide action figures (the ones that had joints everywhere were the best) up the playset slide and see where and how they'd land. Points went to the best "poses" or flips and shit.
My siblings and I played a game called Soapy Soapy Roll. After our bath was over and the water drained out, we would soap up the back of the tub so we could sit on the ledge and slide down into the tub.
Then laughingly we would get out and dry off.
Except, we didn't get the soap off of our butts and it would dry and chafe our butts. Then we would walk around
all day scratching them, and our parents wondered what was going on. They went over wiping properly and how to wash your butt in the bath. We explained we already knew all that and were doing it. "Then why are you all scratching your butts?" "because they are itching !"
Then the caught us doing Soapy Soapy Roll and figured it out. So they told us to stop. But we cried and argued with them, because it was so much fun, like a water park. Then they told us fine, but we had to rinse our butts afterwards, unless we wanted a rash.
So then thereafter, baths included several rounds of Soapy Soapy Roll and rinsing off, before we finally got out and dried off.
I used to play a game called we called “flatball” with a bunch of neighborhood friends.
The objective of the game was to get the flatball from the other team and return it to the home base. Usually somebody’s house or just some spot to run to.
There were 2 teams with 6 players on each team.
My personal favorite role was the assassins. They were basically the offense for the game and each team had 2 of them. They each had a “sword” or two if we could find enough. Swords were just wiffle ball bats or plastic lightsabers. Assassins had to hunt down and kill the runner . A kill counted as a hit above the waist and not on the arm. If a hunter was killed, they were frozen until a medic comes to save them. Once the opposing teams runner was killed the game isn’t over, your teams runner had to get their flatball from them and return it.
The next role is the runner. They held the flatball and was basically the entire objective of the game. They held some type of ball (usually a flatball which is a ball that can be pressed into a frisbee type thing) and would try and avoid the other team. The runner was the only one who could touch the flatball. Once the runner was killed they had to give up the flatball to the other teams runner if they ask for it. Once a flatball makes it back to a base the game is over. If a runner is killed he can be revived by a medic. The medic just needs to tag them. Runners can also hide the flatball but it was risky because if the other teams runner found it the game was basically over.
The medic was a pretty boring role usually given to a younger sibling who was just happy to be involved. Their job was to run around and save killed people. They had a sword but only one and couldn’t kill the runner. They saved people by tagging them. If a medic is killed they come back to life after 1 minute
The final role was the guards. Their job was to protect the runner and the flatball. There were 2 on each team and usually stayed by the runners side unless there was trouble. Each guard get one sword. If a guard is killed the come back to life in 10 seconds.
This game was great because it involved some pretty epic sword battles, and the only way for the runner to get the other teams ball was usually to put themselves in danger of being killed as well.
"shovel ball" was a game my brothers and I would play. We used plastic beach shovels to scoop up and throw balls (soccer, tennis, whatever we had laying around). We'd score points by hitting the balls into goals at the ends of the field. We basically invented our own version of lacrosse.
Me and my brother played "100 Monkeys". It was basically a gladiator simulator where one of us was the "gladiator" and the other was one of 100 monkeys, each with their own unique trait, like "Electro Monkey", or "Ninja Monkey", with each power dictating how the monkey attacked. The gladiator had to take down 100 monkeys to win.
I can't remember what we called it but here is the gist:
We use the center circle on the soccer fiels as zone 1, we drew a matching circle with spray paint (a teacher helped) about 70 feet away.
2 people on each team, 2 hacky sacs. Team 1 started with both hacky sacs and they throw 1st. The objective is to make the hackey sack drop inside the circle. You can throw both at 1 person, split the throw, fake throws, throw low/high, etc.
The whole objective is to get the hacky sac to hit the ground in the opposing circle.
The defensive team's only job is to catch the thrown hacky sac or let it fall out of bounds. If you hit a hacky sack but do not catch it and it lands out of the circle, it's a point for the throwibg team. 1 point per successful throw, 1st team to 21.
That was it.
We spent about 2 years at lunch in good weather running tournaments in our class.
A pretty simple game I played in the scouts was called Stretch. You and another person would stand behind a line while using a sharpened stick or tent stake to throw into the ground. If the stick stuck into the ground the other person would have to stretch out one of their feet to the stick and they would have their turn. This would go on until someone fell over or couldn't stretch far enough to the stick.
"Helicopter". We would start at opposite sides of the lawn and start run/spinning at each other with our arms outstretched like helicopter blades. First person to fall lost. Great way to bruise the fuck out of your arms
My brother and I used to play ‘the rugby tackle game’. We’d lay pillows all over the floor and one of us would have to try and get out of the room without being thrown to the floor. Good times.
My cousin and I played something called "The Bogeyman". At family gatherings during holidays or birthdays, we would act sneaky and try to sneak past our family members sitting at the dinner table without them seeing us. Like go under the tables and try to ninja cross without hitting anyone's legs or feet. If we got caught, we lost. As I got older, I realized that family members would pretend not to see us so we would be satisfied with our game. I just remembered this when I read this question!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Superman. I would sit on my friends feet and he would push as hard as he could. I would sail through the air until I landed on pillows or the bed. We’d take turns sitting on each other’s feet and pushed as hard as we could until I was pushed so hard that I flew passed the bed and soared head first into a corner of the wall that stuck out. I split my head open exposing the bone. That was an unexpected trip to the ER that night. We were 6 years old.
Back in 3rd-5th grade, I used to play "Poison Ball" with my friends after school. The game would start with a Koosh ball, the Poison ball, being thrown into the air and everybody scatters. If a player is holding the poison ball, they can't move but must try to throw and hit another player. If you get hit with the poison ball, you're out and get back in when the person who got you out gets hit with the ball or a throw made by whoever got you out is caught by another player who is still in. Last player standing wins.
When we were about 11 or 12, me and a bunch of friends would play a game we called Border Patrol. We would wait until night, and there was a nearby golf course that a had a very wooded area with a creek running through it.
The Canadians started off on one side of the creek and the border patrol would be on another. We came up with a bunch of specific side rules, but ultimately the goal was for the Canadians to get within a certain location on the other side of the creek before getting shot by the border patrol with an air soft gun. The ratio of people was typically about 2 Canadians for every 1 border patrol. It was actually an incredibly fun game.
I had a pool game with my friends. Person #1 jumps off of the diving board and while their feet are leaving the board person #2 would shout out either pencil, cannonball, dive, or twist. Person #1 would then need to perform that jump, midair, before hitting the water.
Dive was only pulled out in serious situations. It was always embarrassing to watch as well as attempt.
The "Tickle Monster." My dad would go into the living room and pretend to go to sleep. My siblings and I would place the magic hat (a dark blue beanie) on his head then sing God Bless America to wake the tickle monster up.... then he would tickle the crap out of us and act a fool unless we ripped his hat back off. He would "fall back asleep" if we did that. Was honestly so much fun.
Sinnet, or early on in it's creation "Platyball" as a Phineas and Ferb tribute.
You had racquetball rackets, a tennis ball, and a long driveway. It was played like hockey but with 2 players only and you couldn't cross the halfway point. Tennis ball not allowed to go above the knees of players (hard to do with the rackets). To score points you had to hit our garage or the fence to the backyard.
We had a league for this in the neighborhood and once had a competition with about 20 kids. It was actually a surprisingly well put together, simple game for something made up by 6-10 year olds.
We'd fill aluminum cans with dirt, wrap them in "armour" and roll them across the street at one another. The goal was to knock the dirt out of your opponents can.
It was deeper than it sounds. The cans needed to be tough, heavy and fast rolling. Those three things tended to fight against one another and every can was a little engineering project.
Armour was mainly tape. Sometimes tissues, paper or plastic bags. Tar was highly prized.
I wouldn't say it was a game but more of being idiot elementary kids at the time learning about sex education. After we learned about Sex Ed in 3rd or 4th grade one of those. Anyways for a while we were like Seth. We were drawing d***s and T*Ts. when the teach would start heading our way. We changed those drawing into something else. And we kept doing that as kids. Im sure the teacher knew but that was one unique weird ass shit we did as kids learnign about sex ed lol
My cousin and I would play “Run away from my sister.” She was several years younger than us so we would run away from her, following the same route around the house every time.
My brother and I used to play a game called “Protect the President”. The president was a football that we would sit on the grass and we would take turns being President Football’s body guard. The other would attempt to get to and grab Mr. President while being blocked by the body guard. Unfortunately I was much smaller and younger than my brother so I made both a terrible body guard and hit man.
We played a game at school that was named "schmeee".
Essentially there was a poorly constructed AstroTurf mound with various wooden climbing apparatus connected and the whole thing was surrounded by wood chips.
One person was "it" and it was there job to push, throw, bundle people into the woodchips, making them also "it". Last man standing won.
Absolutely no rules and friction burns, cuts, bruises, splinters, concussion, serious neck or spinal trauma and ruined clothing were all acceptable outcomes.
My parents made up a game for Valentines Day. They wanted to give us candy so they made a game out of it. They made series of maybe 4 or 5 riddles in the form of small four-line rhyming poems each hidden with a bag of candy all over the house, where each connected to the next. When we were really young, they were easy like they’d hide them in the washing machine and the clue would be that it was where our clothes get cleaned. I think a few times we really had a hard time and they gave us extra hints to nudge us in the right direction.
At some point we became ungrateful teenagers and they stopped doing it. But it was fun.
My Brother and I always played "Ant-Gladiator" he came up with the idea. Utake a pot from the garden a bunch of black and red ants and a little big of dirt and put it all together and separate the ants give them different kinds of leaves and declare one ant (usually the fattest) as the queen. They would start fighting each other and when one team overpowered the other or the queen died u lost. U could intervene only a little bit but most of the time u watched and screamed at them to defend the right side and so on. My brother always took the red ants and they almost always won. It was strange looking back on it that we had so much fun building an ant empire forcing them to war and would watch them decimate each other.
My sister and I played "Mummy". We would collect as many blankets and pillows as we could without our parents noticing. One of us would lie on the bed and the other would pile everything on top layer by layer until the Mummy freaked out and then had to try to rise from the tomb.
I do not know why this was fun.
7palms · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When it rained, we would have ‘stick races’ in the gutter. Entertained ourselves for hours
"Hotel Under the Bed"
The bedsheet for my parents bed were slightly too big for mattress so my two siblings and I would crawl around between the mattress and sheets. Our dog would be jumping around on top nipping at us. No idea how we got the name though.
gfhei · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would alway love to play 'wolf pack'. One person would start on one side of a gym and the rest would be on the other. The one was the wolf and had to tag everyone else and anyone he tagged would join his team. Like sharks and minnows but on land.
There was a few variations that we'd play but I don't really remember them
"SHAMPOOPOO"! Everyone lays on the floor, back up, shoulder to shoulder and the person on then end yells "SHAMPOOPOO" then rolls over every until they get to the end.
When someone says yes or no, all others are allowed to punch him until he says some stupid long sentence like "my cousin lives in new York and he likes basketball" to be freed.
I played it for years. You can also add other forbidden words like numbers or names. Best game ever because the stupid people get punched by the intelligent.
Stick wars. As the name implies, me and my siblings/friends would just grab massive sticks and have fights with them. Looking back it might not have been the safest idea but god damn was it fun
At my friend's house, there were two ropes with handles hanging on his big tree, so the game was we would swing and try to kick the other off the ropes into the mud below. It was a pretty brutal game. We knocked each other out many a time
The Mulberry Club
There was a big Mulberry bush out on the playground, and when it started producing, the Mulberry Club formed. There was a leader whose job it was to choose new members, and crush up the mulberries with two rocks and draw "tattoos" on members with the juice.
Nonmembers were not allowed to sit under the bush but had to be allowed to join if they could touch it (because then the berries had 'chosen them'). Basically we started a cult in second grade
We played a game called titanic where we would get my friends giant dog house and we would both get in and jump in the pool with it. It would sink, fill up with water, and the person in the back of the dog house would either have to break open the dog house or push the person in front out.
8laq · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Threw a ball at a wall and jumped over it the next person would catch it and do the same. Great workout for a 10 year old.
Played some dumb games. Like "you could've gotten seriously hurt" dumb.
The neighborhood where I grew up had a lot of pretty good sized hills. We all usually hung out at or near my friend's house. He lived on one of said hills and at the bottom was a 4 way stop. We thought it'd be great to race down the hill on whatever we had available, but bikes were not allowed. Scooters, skateboards, wagons, big wheels, we had a little bit of everything. We drew a chalk line at his driveway and then whoever crossed the stop sign first won the race. We had more than a few cars screech to stop or honk at us as we flew across the intersection without even attempting to slow down.
Same friend. After he moved across the county, we didn't see each other as much. But we still played dumb games when we did. BB gun wars were fun. His new house had some property so we'd go back into the trees and shoot at each other (adding his brother in too). That stopped after I had a BB plink me between the eyes. I remember watching it fly threw the air and hit right on the bridge of my nose between my eyes. Another half inch either direction and it would've been a trip to the ER and possibly blindness in an eye.
Then on July 4th, his stepdad would buy unbelievable amounts of fireworks. And not the cheap Walmart crap, but legit fireworks. We'd then setup shop on opposite ends of the yard and have a bottle rocket and Roman candle fight. Kept us busy for hours as we'd try to flank each other. Literally hundreds of bottle rockets shot at each other. Granted, bottle rockets don't have much of a charge but our ears were usually ringing by the time we were done from all the squeels and pops next to our heads.
Slogged through many filthy creeks with who knows what floating in the water. Went swimming in creeks like that too. How we didn't end up sick is beyond me.
I don’t think we had a name for it but my cousins and I would play a game where I was a limo driver and they were the rich people I was driving.
I would always turn it into a James Bond / action sequence where I was the driver trying to outrun the bad guys and my guy cousin would start shooting back at them. Game would devolve into a weird spy shootout after that
When I was a kid, our driveway was made up of three large squares, so my buddy and I would get a kickball and play essentially "tennis-soccer". Similar rules to tennis, you got one bounce and then had to send it over to the other person's square, but like soccer you couldn't use your hands.
My sister and I used to play this game where we would hit balloons into the air, and we would try not to let them touch the ground. We said there were spikes on the ground, and there were babies in the balloons. We said if the balloon hit the ground, the balloon would pop and the babies would die. We had an interesting childhood.
“Turtle Shell” we had one of those furniture pieces where it has that big cushion that’s shaped like a shell. We’d take that cushion, go into the backyard and whoever had the cushion over them would walk along the back wall of the backyard while the others on the porch would throw rocks at them
When I was young maybe around pre-school age, me and my friends would collect BB's at a Japanese park looking for the most unique BB and compare to determine whose was the best. At the time we would call those BB's "baby balls." I still have a glass containing all the BB's I collected from the park.
In my first year of comprehensive school a group of us created 'The Game'. This was were there was a designated thrower and then the rest would have a minute grab any bedding and sofa cushions they could find and all try to cover themselves up on the sleeping room floor. In this time the thrower would find, usually a toy or plastic ornament to try and break through the layers and hit the people under the fort. We were around 12/13 at the time so it would usually take one direct hit to skin for a player to go out. The winner was the designated thrower in the next round.
My buddies and made a game up which we deemed Cambodian Roof Ball. My pool was in the back yard with a two story garage directly next to the pool. We would throw a golf ball on the roof and effectively beat the shit out of each other trying to catch the ball. If no one caught it, we continued beating the shit out of each other under water until someone comes up with the ball. The “point” for possessing the ball? You get to throw the ball on the roof. Fun times.
At family gatherings me and my family played "let's spy on the parents" where we would sneak up on the adults and see how close we could get before they noticed. It was fun as shit and that's what got me into stealth videogames
Totally thought this was a normal elementary game until I told friends and they all looked at me weird. It's now known as the "stripping game".
I grew up during the time when rhymes/chants were popular at recess time. So everyone stood in a circle, and you would say the rhyme:
"Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupidier, girls got to college to get more knowledge"
And other variations. As you sing the chant, you'll hop on the spot where you either cross your legs, or had them shoulder-width apart.
When the chant ends, if your legs are shoulder-width apart, you have to throw in an article of clothing into the centre. If your legs are crossed, you are safe or you get to retrieve an article of clothing you tossed into the centre previously.
We thought it was so fun and people would come to school with 3 pairs of socks, or during winter time, it was 2 pairs of mittens, etc. Eventually the teachers caught on and banned the game saying it is dangerous because we can all catch a cold. Now that I'm older, they probably were just really weirded out we were playing a stripping game.
I finally have a story to tell! We didn’t have a name for it but it was our own version of hide and seek. Whoever was the seeker would bend over and breath deeply for a bit then they would sit up very quickly and we would squeeze their neck right below the jawline. Of course they passed out and we would turn all the lights off and run to hide. Whenever said person finally woke up in a pitch black room/house they would eventually remember to come find us.
I realize now that I’m older this was an awfully stupid game to play and we’re lucky that nothing serious happened.
Chase the pinecone. First we find a pinecone. Then one person throws the pinecone. First person yo the pinecone must pick it up and throw it again. This shoudl loop until tge pinecone is destroyed or a child is hit by a car.
It was called “camouflage” the person who was the seeker would turn away from the group of kids who were also playing, then the others would hide where they had to be able to see the seeker but try and be hidden. After like 10 seconds or so the seeker would turn around and if they saw somebody, they would say “I see something [color of the clothes the person you see is wearing]!” We played this in elementary so I don’t know if other people played it too but it was a blast.
Chocolaterie, it was a game about traclveling around the globe discovering choclate recipes and making choclate and dealing with big companies it was ok for a 6 y old and very fun
And also some hotwheels racing simulator thingy
Edit: just found out they werent talking about digital games
In high school a group of friends and I would play a game we named "Hostage". You would divide into two teams and each team would take a member of the opposing team hostage. The hostage would then be blind folded and driven to a random part of town and kicked out of the car with only a cell phone in hand.
After the hostages were dropped off they would then have to call their team and try to direct them to their location. This was pre-smart phone days and you were restricted from using GPS if your phone happened to have it. So you were basically just relying on street signs and describing your environment to lead your team to you. Which ever team recovered their hostage and returned home first won the round.
Fortunately, this never put anyone in any dangerous situations. Though one time a girl did get dropped off on the outskirts of town and got somewhat chased by a pitbull. Unsurprisingly, I think that was the last time she played with us. The game usually ran without a hitch, but on a couple occasions teams had to be directed to where to pick up their hostage because they couldn't find them without the other team's help.
My friends and I played "Titanic" for hours. Basically it involved the swings and the slides at our school, on of us would hang down from the slide for example, then another would grab their leg, then another would grab the first one's arm, then another would grab the second's leg, etc, until there were about 20 people on the slides or swings, all hanging on to each other. First person to let go died and everyone they let go died with them. Happy days.
My brother and I used to get our sleeping bags on the trampoline. They were made of a really slidy material so we tended to fall over every five seconds, but when we weren't rolling around we pretended to be letterboxes.
We used to play a modified version of hide and seek. Same basic rules, but either the searcher or hider had to scare the other, so things like jumping out at the searcher from your hiding spot was allowed if you thought it would work. First person who screamed (or if someone was found otherwise) lost or was out.
Solitaire: align 9 in a circle. Starting with the top card, count clockwise the amount it reads (J=11, Q=-1, K=-2, A=1). If you land on a face-up card, you must discard and replace with another card face-down & continue counting clockwise with the amount you just discarded. If it's face-down, flip it to face-up and count to the amount it reads clockwise. The object is to have all 9 cards face-up, so the only way to win is to have 8 cards face-up and to land your last count on the last remaining face-down card.
We simply called it "The Ball Game". You played on a swing set with a mini four square ball. The swing set would consist of 2 swings and monkey bars going across the top to which the swings were connected. Two people would swing while the rest tried to throw the ball through the monkey bars and hit the swinger. If you got hit you were out and the thrower took your spot on the swing. The swingers, however, were able to block shots as well as kick/hit the ball away as far away from the swing set as possible. The person who picked up the ball had to throw it from where they stood, resulting in some epic shots.
I remember playing a game called “Splintercell” like the game it’s named after.
My cousin, younger brother and I would go to family parties and hide within all the cars after knocking on the front door. Then we would hide and shit like in splintercell.
Difference between this and ding dong dashing is that my cousin and I used to “interrogate” my younger brother by punching him etc like he was a bad guy.
The more I think about it, the more I laugh. Good times.
One time my cousins dad was trying to find us so we all slid under a car and just watched his feet walk by. Holy shit it scared us so much but it was the best feeling hiding from people.
But, then we would get in hella trouble cos when we get back, there will be like dirt or whatever on us from laying down on the road.
Thinking about it now, we could’ve gotten ran over or whatever when we were younger. My brother nearly did from skateboarding but that’s a different story.
We also used to play a game where we would keep punching each other’s fists until one person backed out.
My friends and I in high school used to punch each other’s knees instead of our balls. Weirdly enough, I suffered from a knee injury a few days ago and it affected me playing basketball today. As I’m writing this, I think that knee game is why my knees are really bad these days.
We had a gymnasium where the game we played was like sharks and minnows but with dodgeballs. We called it “hopbox”, I still don’t why, lol. If you were hit with the ball then you’d switch places with the person trying to hunt down the other players. You had to run to each side of the court to be “safe.”
Idr what it was called but it was like battleship but with paper. Each player got half a sheet of paper. Using the same sheet, you'd draw your spaceships and shield generators.
Players would take turns drawing a dot (in pencil) on your own side relative to where you want the shot to land on the other players field. You then fold the paper in half and trace over your dot on the backside, transferring the graphite to their side of the paper, resulting in a hit or a miss.
Take out the shields, take out the home base and win. How many hits, how many ships and shields etc was determined before play. It could get gnarly with generators inside other shields etc.
Pretty creative and strategic for some middle school kids.
"Citgo Says Go!", a simon says type of bicycle drag race. Citgo is an American gas station chain that used that phrase as a slogan in the early/mid 90s. 2 kids start from a dead stop, the "announcer" would yell "Citgo says Go!", and we'd take off and race to a chalk line drawn across the street. Once you got to the line, you slammed on the breaks and left a skid mark. The quickest to the line, longest skid mark, and closest skid mark start to the finish line all got 1 point. Minus 2 points if your skid mark started before the line. But if the announcer didn't say Citgo, and only said go, and you went, it was minus 4 points. So you would be negative for the round. There were multiple races, and a bracket playoff.
gsbadj · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Free the Belgian was what we called it. Two teams, at least 7 players per team, optimally. Typically played outdoors.
The game started like Hide and Seek, i.e. one team has a designated amount of time to find hiding places. After the amount of time elapses, the other team comes to find and capture those who have hidden. To capture an opponent, you grab the opponent and yell “one, two, three, man for me” while holding him/her.
The captured player then must go peacefully to a designated area where he/she is held captive, sort of like a jail, typically an area 5 by 5 feet. The jail area is guarded by a member of the seeking team who has to stand within 3 feet of the edge of the jail. If the captives grab and then drag the guard inside the jail, the captives all go free and must be recaptured. The captives could link arms to extend their reach, provided one prisoner’s foot remained inside the jail at all times. Play continues until all are captured.
The last prisoner to be found does not have to go voluntarily. He/she gets to resist, and the seeking team must physically throw him/her into the jail. This can get violent. Once the seekers get the last captive into the jail, they win. However, bear in mind that, as the seekers are trying to throw the last prisoner into the jail, they invariably come very close to the edge of the jail and are then prone to being pulled into the jail by the prisoners, which, in turn, sets all the prisoners free and the game continues until all are recaptured and thrown in.
We would wear a giant motorcycle helmet on our heads and ram eachother with it. You would always have to try and take the helmet away from the person and put it on your head so that you can ram into the other person. We stopped playing one day because one kid in our group lost his two front teeth.
My brother drew an entire town on 3 different giant canvases and we would divide the hot wheels and play town. It was great fun. We had restaurants, grocery store, clothing stores, houses. We even had an exterminator. Except what I didn't know until years later is that it wasn't a spider, it was a terribly drawn stripper. I was blown away by this revelation.
My friend and I would tape flashlights to the blades on his ceiling fan. We would turn off the lights. put the fan on the highest setting, and take cover. It looked cool as shit until the flashlights started flying across the room.
There used to be a huge log in our backyard. Me and my sister would pretend that it was a canoe, our flying dragon, etc. Eventually, we moved, and both the log and the tree next to are gone now.
The “Pine Cone” game where you would swing on a swing and dodge the pine cones our friends were throwing. If you got hit you’d get off the swing and trade with them. If you caught it you’d stay on and be able to throw it back at them.
Statues. My sister and I would take turns in the backyard freezing in some pose like a statue. The other would come up and press a “button” and the statue would start talking and telling some made up story. No idea why we did it, but played it all the time.
So there was a playground of a local elementary school that had all sorts of equipment, including one of those large wooden ships. It was built on a very uneven landscape, with hills and trenches, and even custom playground stuff built into them.
After school in 4th grade, I’d get with a group of maybe 20 kids, and we’d go to war.
But this wasn’t like normal child war games.
This was extreme.
We were separated into two clans, “The Brutal Army” and “The Rebellion” with specific roles. I was the assistant fencer of the Brutal Army and sparring apprentice. Our base was the wooden ship and the Rebellion’s was the trenches, where we participated in literal trench warfare. Our territory was divided between the two halves of the very large playground (more than an acre), which extended to a nearby park through a small patch of woods.
When we went to battle, we’d throw pinecones and various rocks at the other team, as well as use large sword-size sticks to spar. The objective was to hurt and not get hurt. There was real pain and real injuries, but they were all part of the game.
Like some weird ritual, every day after school we’d all meet and continue our seemingly endless war, and sometimes we’d take prisoners into the woods.
One torture method we used was what my friend Ryan, head fencer, called “The Extreme Dragon Tailwhip” where we’d strap the poor kid into the baby swing and twist it up all the way. Then, we’d swing it as hard as possible and RUN. It usually ended in vomiting.
This could be repeated with the tire swing for the more extreme “Tasmanian Devil”, in which I was once propelled nearly 180 degrees around the swing set and almost fell out during my “training”.
Interestingly enough, our games came to an end when some crotchety old lady yelled at Ryan for bringing his authentic fencing swords to one of our battles, and informed all the other parents that these games were no longer acceptable on these playgrounds.
Gym class in the 80s we played "Smear-The-Queer". This was not a game the kids just came up with, this was from the gym teachers. It was basically tag, but the one that was it would hold a flag. The we all had to tackle the queer. Pretty fucked up when I think back on it.
My brother and I are irish twins, he's slightly younger and always followed me around, wanted to do whatever I was doing and believed every single word of anything I told him, no matter how outlandish. Anyway, one time when we were probably 6 my grandpa gave us a bunch of his old hats, and we both really loved one in particular. Being the more dominant sibling, I staked claim to it. At some point, I wanted something from him and he told me if I gave him the hat, he'd agree. Then I had an idea. What if I kept this up; getting him to agree to do things for me or give me things that he doesn't want to share...but I never give him the hat.
And so it began.
The phrases "...or no hat" and "...or no hat?" are permanently engrained into my brain because of how many times they were said. I can't remember any specific time I used the tactic, but it was never for anything serious at all. Like if we wanted to roleplay something and we both wanted to be the same character, I'd use it. I think the most evil I'd used my power for was to bribe him into getting something we obviously weren't supposed to have, like candy or something from a top shelf.
In Italy we used to collect any kind of trading cards (Pokémon, Football Champions, Magic..) and one way to “trade” them was this game we played during breaks or after school and we used to call it “rischione” (it translates to “big risky”, sort of). It was like gambling for kids, but actually resembling those illegal underground gambling coves.
Basically, it consisted in launching a card from something elevated (like a garden bench) and try and hit your opponent’s card that he previously launched on ground. If your card ended on your opponent’s one you won the card he gambled. It was a really competitive thing with referees and crowd that were assisting to these matches.
My brothers and I had one we called "Shootout" where we would divide a room in half, set up an array of those plastic army men, and then try to be the first to knock them all down by shooting from the opposite side.
We even tried to mix it up by adding ping pong balls as artillery that you could use 3 times per game. Also a red plastic firefighter and a blue police officer that acted as "captains". If your captain got shot, you lost the game immediately, so we had to hide them super well.
I played it with a kid I was babysitting the other day and it's still super fun. Doesn't take a lot of prep and the rules can be switched around if need be.
My first friend liked to play a jumping game where you would pile all the stuffed animals on the other person and then leap onto the pile like it was a pile of leaves. The pile would keep the buried person safe.
I still don't know why someone had to be on the bottom of the pile though.
anoxy · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder. Turn off all the lights and everyone hides, and then one person crawls around in pitch black trying to catch and “murder” people. We had a super dark basement with basically no light pollution and it was so intense.
I made up this game with my friend called the “run out game.”
One person would sit in the living room on the floor while the person went back into the bedrooms and moved items, opens doors, turned switches off and on, walked around the room, etc.
Then the person would run out and tackle the other person. After that, you would take the other person back and show them the exact things you moved, touched, opened, etc.
My sister and I would play “head sandwich”. One of us would lay on the couch, put a pillow on our head, and the other would sit on it. Whoever lasted longer under the pillow won.
My little sister and I would play “Ice World”. We would hole up in a closet with blankets and a flash light and pretend everything outside was freezing cold. We would stay safe and sound and imagine the terrible cold outside.
Muzer0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For a while when I was a kid, I loved the whole thing about spies and gadgets and so on. Ended up getting bought a bunch of toys relating to that, but by far the coolest were these sensors, I guess they were infrared or something, that were wireless and basically detected anything crossing their beam. There was then a base station that picked up signals sent from these sensors whenever they were activated. The set came with three of them, so we would have a game where one of us would set them all up in imaginative places in a room, then the others would take it in turns to go into the room and try to find them and deactivate them (there was an on/off switch on the back) without tripping them (if you approached them from the back you could usually hold them still and flick the switch without the beam being triggered).
In terms of silly kids' games that didn't involve actual equipment, I'm sure we had some, just none are coming to mind right now.
My friends and I would wait in our street and whenever a car came we would run as fast as we could to the next street sign to be "safe". We called the cars "storm" and would basically be trying to evade the storm by going to safe zones / those street signs.
My sister and I had two play tents for kids and a million of my plushies. There was a Disney princess tent, and a Cars tent. We seperated my plushies into boys and girls, I was the boys counsellor and she was the girls, and we had them do activities and stuff. We scheduled a whole day around it and called it "Camp Couples."
For those who haven't heard it, there's a song about Shia LaBeouf being a cannibal in the woods and a guy running from him. It's honestly hilarious.
So me and my friends in middle school made up a game. Assuming we were all obsessed with hitting each other with foam swords, we used those.
"Shia" was the villain of the game, he gets any weapon of his choice and you have to hit him 5 times to bring him down. Then we had the other guy, the "survivor", he gets no weapons and has to run from Shia. It's my personal favorite assuming I'm absolute ass at fighting anyone. Then we had two "guards." The guards were there to protect the survivor and keep Shia away. They each got a sword.
The game was made when we were all 12 or 13 and we played it way more back then, but we're all 16 now and we still play it occasionally. Since it's creation we've attempted countless other games in the same format. It's honestly a great time
“Throw the Bottle” fill an empty water bottle with rocks, crush it, stand on the manhole in the middle of the street, and have someone slide it down the street. The person who is “it” must run after the bottle and bring it back to the manhole. Everyone else runs down the street (within bounds) and hide behind cars and electric boxes. The “it” person must say “tap tap tap, (while tapping the bottle) I see Thomas behind the red Hyundai!” If Thomas is indeed behind the red Hyundai then he is sent to jail. This goes on until everyone is sent to jail and then the first person caught is “it” next round. The “it” person can run around and try to find out where everybody is, but must run back to the bottle and “tap tap tap” to catch people. While he is off base, anyone can run up to the bottle and throw it down the street to free those who are in jail. Lotta fights broke out after freeing the jailed people. Lottaaaaaa fights. Rounds can take a long time and he who is “it” will get real bitter having to catch everyone again
Hopple Him: Maybe not the most unique thing in the world but the name was memorable. My cousin and I would climb up on the back of our grandparents’ futon and bounce onto the couch seats while screaming “Hopple Him!” Not sure where the name even came from.
Kill Bob: My sister and I had a Barbie punch buggy and dolls of Linguine and Collette from Ratatouille. We would set Linguine up standing on the edge of the coffee table, put Collette in the punch buggy, and roll the car as fast as we could into Linguine. Then we’d see how far we could get him to go when he got hit.
Food: In which my sister would pretend to be a small animal that snuck into a restaurant (aka our room). I was the chef trying to cook her. The closet was the pot of boiling water and she would try to sneak away while my back was turned so I’d have to go chase her and carry her back. To anyone who thinks this was just me bullying my kid sister, this was her idea and she would pester me to play.
Hamel: My friend and I couldn’t decide whether we wanted to be horses or camels so we made up a game called Hamel where we were horse-camel hybrids. The whole object of the game was just to sit on each other while the other person crawled around the carpet on all fours. Lotta rugburn involved.
I don’t know if it’s unique because my mom grew up in another country or if it’s unique because of how absolutely dirt poor she was but when she was a kid (and when I was a kid, even though we weren’t as bad off as she was growing up) played a game where you hit your thumb on something, then index, then index and middle, then index, middle, and pinkie, then start over again getting faster and faster. No one I’ve ever met has heard of this “game”.
I don't know how unique this is but you know the soccer goal and the area around it? Me and my friends used to play a game where 4 or 5 guys where inside the area and one kid was outside. The game was that the kid outside had to enter the goal while the rest had to stop him by pure force like if it waañs rugby. It was pretty awesome, altought we got hurt a lot
We would setup plastic bowling pins in 2 connected rooms with each of us having a room as our territory. We would then have round plastic ice cream bucket lids that we used to try to knock over the other person's pins with out getting hit by the "Frisbees". That was a lot of fun.
Lived in government housing cuz my parents were poor. Standard for a kid growing up in Alabama. Lived next to my friend angelo in these apartments. We'd always play baseball in the parking lot with a tennis ball or just kick ball with some other kids. But every now and then wed go over to one of the sides of the apartments with the tennis ball and play a form of wall ball, but our objective was to hit the single brick that was a wildly different Color than the rest. I miss my bud, haven't talked to him in what seems like 10 years.
My elementary school was in this huge property, a beautiful park full of trees and safely surrounded by walls and gates. The way our school worked we were there from 8 to 16.30, but the gates closed around 18. So basically every day we spent some time playing after the end of classes.
I was in a group with my 3 best friends and we were kind of the more wild girls of the class, playing games considered more “boyish” (don’t agree with this view but you get my point). We would be spies and our secret bases were in some selected trees or other hidden places, we built our reserve of little berries and sticks to use in battles against the bad guys, AKA the boys. We would try to steal each other’s bases and weapons... it was a lot of fun.
"Egg bomb"... My family had a restaurant, and pretty much i spent most of my time there. My sister and I used to play with the cooks and waiters this game during down time, I guess it's a take on hot potato.
You take and egg and go around doing your stuff. When in "tossing ranger" you would shout to any employee or family member "egg bomb" and toss the egg at them. Whoever let the egg fall would have to clean it up. It could be at any time, in the middle of a convo, while taking an order, cleaning, etc. The point was to catch the other players distracted. Some times immediately, sometimes the egg holder would wait an hour or so...
There where some common sense rules, like it had to be "catchable" no hard throws , the other person had to be facing you; away from the oven/stove, away from other clients, etc.
Everybody was on edge all the time. (the cooks always had an advantage on everybody else, as they would immediately notice when an egg was missing). You couldn't trust anyone at noon or closing time. Even years after we grew up and stopped going to the restaurant everyday, the staff kept playing. No idea where the game came from.
Not really a game but close enough, my best friend and I at the time were practically inseparable, we formed a secret organization known as AV, we build bases all of the place and even made our own weapons. He lived in the woods so we would always build cool shelters and have fires, this one time we actually forged spears from long metal pipes, not sure the whole forging actually worked but all the banging of metal eventually made a dent and we were so proud lol, I remember it like it was yesterday.
Home Alone. Basically me and a friend would set up traps in the backyard for each other to fall prey to. It was mostly play acting out various injuries.
Bander Killa [monkey on a leash] - played in open field, group of 5 or more. You draw a circle on the ground and put a leash/rope on an anchor in the middle of the circle. Everyone takes off their shoes & slippers and piles them next to the anchor, in middle of the circle. One person has to hold that leash and protect those shoes & slippers, & is not allowed to step outside the circle. Rest of the group has to steal those shoes/slippers, the monkey has to protect them and try to tag the people trying to steal. If someone gets tagged before all the shoes are stolen, that person becomes the monkey and the game starts all over again. If all the shoes have been taken out of the circle and stolen, the monkey has to run to a pre-determined location, while rest of the group tries to hit him with the shoes & slippers.
TheC2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tackle football... but in a back alley with no grass. It was 2 points for making someone cry. Also where I broke my first bone.
We made up a game called 'Silent Eliminator' to be played in our cousin's pool. It was basically Marco polo, but no call and response. Start with one person being 'it' and they counted underwater for ten seconds, then came up but had to keep their eyes closed and move through the water trying to tag someone. If you were tagged you joined the person who was it, counted underwater and continued until you had a pool of blind people fishing for the last slippery winner.
My brothers and I are in our thirties now but we still play whenever we're swimming, and because our uncle and my nephew play, it is a multi generational game now.
When I was a child living in NYC a friend and I would steal fresh fruit and vegetables from the front of bodegas. We would then take the produce to a busy 6 lane road and try to roll them under the wheels of moving cars. If your piece of produce didn’t get run over, you had to run across the road, pick it up, and try again.
This is how I almost got killed by an 18-wheeler, all for a potato.
Me and my brothers used to play a game called pickle. There would be two bases at either end of our yard those were the safe spots. 4 people would run back and fourth between the safe spots. One person would be in the middle of the safe zones with a tennis ball. His job was to peg the tennis ball at the runners as hard as he could. There were no points or objective besides not getting hit.
I have 4 siblings, but only one of my brothers did this with me. When I was about, 7 (he was 10 at the time) We used to lay on the couch opposite from each other, we put our feet together and started pedaling. As we pedaled, we would repeat “I know hes awake, I know hes awake.” As we said it, we’d pedal faster and faster until its fast enough. Then we’d put one foot in each others face and make goofy noises while wiggling our toes. I have no idea where we got it from, but it was kind of our thing and it was fun.
The “rock game”. The playground at my public school had tiny pebbles surrounding the playground and we would have one person on the ground whipping rocks at the others on the playground. Last one standing wins
Team tag. One person was designated "it". Everyone they tagged a person, they too became "it". The game devolved into about 15 people running down the fastest among us til he was tagged. The new round began when the last person was tagged and they started the new round as "it".
My cousins, sister, and I played Mop when we were at our grandparents' house. My Granma had this short mop - it was like a miniature version of an old school cotton mop with a wooden handle, probably 2 feet long. I really don't recall ever seeing her use it and the cotton mop-head was always clean, so I'm not sure what purpose it served.
Anyway, when we'd all be at her house, we'd grab the mop and play Mop. Mop was actually a game of tag, and the person who was It had the mop and had to tag someone else with the mop. That's it.
If we couldn't play outside, we'd play Scare. We'd split into 2 groups - my oldest cousin and I against my youngest cousin and my sister. One group would count in the laundry room and the other group would go hide somewhere. The counters would then try to find the 2 that had hidden, and the 2 that had hidden would do their best to scare the other 2 by jumping out from a closet, grabbing their feet from under the bed, etc.
So we played typical children's games of Tag and Hide & Seek, but we changed their names. Because kid thought processes.
Don't know if it's a game per se, but whenever I was at a bus which was like every single day, I would look out the window and imagine Wargreymon (my fav Digimon) destroying every car I saw. His backstory is that he hates pollution by cars and somehow his family got killed by such pollution, fuck knows how but he wanted revenge.
My friends and I had a game called "Attack of the Blind Slugs from Mars." One person would put a sleeping back upside down over their head and then had to walk around and try to tackle everyone else while they all beat the shit out of the slug with pillows.
This went on until someone got hurt, usually the slug, and then someone else became the slug.
"I One A Bug", which I used to play a lot with my little brother. Basically, person 1 says "I one a bug", person 2 says "I two a bug", and so on until someone says "I eight a bug", at which point everyone else goes "EEEEWWWWWW!"
Suitable for 2-3 players, up until your players realize that (a) player 2 always loses and/or (b) start getting wise with fractions, decimals, numbers above 8, etc. Obviously we haven't actually completed a game in years and years, but sometimes one of us will try and start one, which inevitably leads to a draw.
As kids with my 2 brothers one would stand at the bottom of the stairs and the other would be at the top and we would chuck any type of ball at each other
I used to take a deck of cards and use them to create a slasher movie in my head. I'm bad at explaining things but I'll try my best.
I would pick out seven cards and lay them in a line. I would make up names and personalities and stuff and assign one to each card.
Then I would take six black cards and one red card. I would stack them face down and shuffle them up. each personality card got a card from the deck and whoever got the red card was the victim of the round. I would imagine a violent death for them, and repeat the process until there was one left.
With the last one I would take four black cards and two red ones. I'd mix them up and if the card I drew was red, there were no survivors but if it was blank they were safe and got away.
In order to figure out which game to play when we were stumped, my sister, cousin and I would sit in a circle and play “Sum”. We would put lay our heads down in front of us and think of something to do. When you had an idea you would sit up and once we’re all sitting up we would share our ideas and whoever had the best we would play that! Sounds simple and dumb but it was fun when we were 10 to play SUM.
We played a game called "hide the hickory" during youth group parties at a friend's house, which was located on a large plot of land. Basically, one person would hide a hickory switch somewhere on the property and then everyone would search for it. Once it was found, the goal was to sneak around and hit as many people as possible before they got back to base... We would play for hours 🤣🤣
Me and the other kids in the neighborhood used to play a game called "Dimitri tag".
You guys know Dimitri from Sly 2 and the way he walks? One of us would be Dimitri and they had to walk around the playground like Dimitri and hunt the other kids. It also had the same type of spotting mechanic as in Sly, as in the Dimitri didn't see through walls and had to stop for a sec before turning around. The Dimitri was allowed to run only when spotting another kid and would have to start walking again if they lost their line of sight of the fleeing kid.
We enjoyed it a lit, but of course disagreements regarding the rules were common, so we started to write an actual rule book. But it was never finished because we grew too old. :(
Me and my brother would throw pairs of shoes in a sleeping bag.
We would take turns jumping into the sleeping bag as the other held it up from the top bunk, and try to find matching pairs of shoes
PL2285 · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend and her sister played "people." Like a woke version of house, they just pretended to be random people, not like mom or dad, but just regular people out there in the world.
There were so many, but this one's the easiest to grasp:
We called it "sucker". You got a cheap plastic beach bucket and put it on the ground. Every man for himself. Everybody tries to kick the bucket. If the bucket gets stuck on your foot, you get a point. The game is over when the bucket is in two or more shattered pieces. The real flavor of the game was that you were allowed to absolutely clobber/run somebody over as long as you yelled "sucker!" as you were doing it. Because games need rules. :)
My siblings and I were inspired by "whose line is it anyway?" So we named our version "categories" where we'd come up with a concept for short skits and we'd then we would judge how funny the other person's skits were.
The shoe game. On a trip to Switzerland with our ski team, we went on a hike near the village we were staying at one day. There was a big grassy area and somehow all of us kids and our ski coach started trying to remove each other’s shoes. A lot of wrestling around and stuff. It was pretty fun at the time and I think we played it a few more times on other ski trips, though we rarely found a place where you could wrestle around as much without getting hurt. That grassy patch was incredibly soft.
Played a game we called "running bases" in elementary school. We'd have 2-3 guys in the middle by the pitchers mound and would have to run from home to second without getting pegged with a tennis ball. It eventually became who can hit the weird kids the hardest with the ball until it was shut down by the monitors. After that we played Red Rover but that also got shut down when a girl got clotheslined into a backflip. Then we played wall ball which was what it sounded like but if you touched the ball and didn't pick it up you had to run and touch the wall before someone could peg you with the ball. That too became hit the weird kids as hard as you can and it was banned as well.
Racing friends down big hills riding in those red wooden or metal radio flyer wagons doing everything you can to take out the other racers.
As you and your friends race down the hill the people not steering the wagons will throw various objects at the other racing teams or hit them with sticks.
This game got so far out of hand the summer we started. We all wore helmets and knee and elbow pads but throwing rocks and full water bottles at each other you get hurt. At one point we had those single action pump BB guns and we're using those and airsoft guns then we started getting shields (trash can lids) soon after.
We continued to try and one up the others offensive game and defenses.
It was the best game ever!
It all ended sadly after I used my seat in the back I was sitting on and chucked it in front of second place as they closed in on us.
My seat was a cinder block.
Took their front axel and ripped it right off and they flipped up in the air like that semi truck in The Dark Knight movie.
One needed stitches, the other broke their collar bone.
"Fireball". We went to tennis courts at night, rolled a tennis ball through a puddle of flaming gasoline, and hit it at each other with tennis racquets and/or hockey sticks. You got points if you lit someone else on fire -- 1 point if they blocked the shot and got hit with flaming drops of gasoline, 2 points for a direct hit.
When I was young me and my nephew used to play on the PlayStation 2, however we used to believe that if it could see us that's why the game failed to start.. So we would run around the room to try and hide from it.. The crazy part is that it worked the games loaded when we did that.
All the kids in my year group at school would play this game called Behind Enemy Lines where you are on a defined field of two teams. On the opposing teams side you can get tagged and you have to wait where you got tagged for someone to pull you back past the centre line. The aim is to bring a cone back past the line without the enemy team being able to recover it, you can't kick, pass, or do anything except placing it on the ground for the next person to get it.
There aren't many sports I enjoy playing but if there were to be an ameture club opened I'd join fast
When I was a pre teen all of the town kids, there were about 12 of us, would play “captain howdy” with the 30 something year old mentally handicapped guy that was for some reason always around. The game was basically manhunt/tag with the older guy being “captain howdy” who was always the seeker. Weird part is when he caught us he would take us back to the base and simulate sodomy and general sexual abuse until another player could tag us out of the base without being tagged themselves. As I’m typing this I’m fully grasping how completely wild it is but umm, yea. That’s my contribution
Jurassic Park. One of us would be a T-Rex, another one or two velociraptors, everyone else was a gallimimus. Then we'd chase the gallimimus ppl. If T-Rex got them first, the velociraptor(s) would then fight the T-Rex for the kill (if younger kids joined, it'd be a tickle fight. If it was all older kids, slap fight cuz we were dumb). Vice versa worked too. Sometimes, all predators would work together to corner and"kill" a whole group of prey, then fight for the pile of dead. If you were caught prey, you just played dead on the ground. Living prey would run around screaming bloody murder about their dead herdmate until the predators went back to hunting again.
Aliens vs Predator. A fucked up game of hide and seek where we all hid, then tried to find each other and fight to the death for a win. The group would be separated as evenly as possible. One side is Xenomorphs, the other side is Yautja. Each side would seek the other, sometimes working in pairs. To win a kill, Yautja had to tap the Xenomorphs on the head (ppl tended to slap, but hey, kids are kids), Xenomorphs had to tap Yautja on the chest. If tapped, Xenos had to scream loudly and and go to the "Ship" and play dead, Yautja had to yell "Pauk de le!" and go to the "Nest" to play dead. First team to kill all opponents won. Ship and Nest were next to each other so ppl could see how many teammates were left alive. Did we act beheaded or like we had chestbursters? You bet your ass we did. Whoever had the most kills on each team, or who was oldest, tended to be team captain and got to pick their teammates.
Another was archeologist. We had a huge boulder mostly buried in the playground at school, and we'd just sit there digging it up with sticks and paint brushes stolen from the art room.
Cavemen Tribe Wars. We had a huge three tiered climbing structure with monkey bars, a slide, pole, and climbing net, made out of wood on the playground at school. Underneath, it was hollow, so we made that our "Cave". Basically we gathered berries, walnuts, seed pods, etc and would bring it to the tribal shaman to mash up with mud to smear on our skin, talking gibberish and just acting like cavemen. We also hunted toads and frogs, bringing them to the cave to be hailed as a totem. We carried big sticks, and walked around grunting like idiots. Other kids caught on, and made their own tribes, with their own totems and customs, staking out at other playground structures or on the soccer field by the goal. All was peaceful until the Plains Tribe (soccer field kids) attacked and tried to steal our totem, nuts, and berry mud. That started mass tribe wars that went on for weeks. We'd Don war paint, wear jackets like fur around our waists, and have tribal ceremonies before going into battle. As tribes were beaten in battle, they assimilated to the winning tribe and the winners territory expanded, all loot kept in the safe place with armed guard. Plains tribe fell first, even though they cast the first stone, to Cave Tribe. Tire Tribe made an alliance with Cave Tribe, and traded pillbugs for help guarding their loot so they could take on Swing Tribe. Tire Tribe won. The alliance continued, and both Cave Tribe and Tire Tribe worked together with their expanded territory to take out Tree Tribe (they set up shop by a giant black walnut tree), winning and splitting the loot evenly, sharing the land as a trade hub of sorts. Hill Tribe tried to sneak attack Cave Tribe, but were quickly out done by sheer numbers and force. All the while, Rope Tribe and Shed Tribe were duking it out for weeks, never conceding defeat. Cave Tribe tried to broker a peace treaty between the two, since they were so close to Cave Tribe, but it didn't work, so they called on Tire Tribe and together, took out Roe Tribe then Shed Tribe. After the war, the Tire Tribe, wanting to play on the slide, assimilated to Cave Tribe, and peace reigned over the playground for the rest of the semester. The teachers had no fucking clue what we were doing or why we'd return with mud, berry juice, and walnut husk juice all over our skin after recess and after school care when waiting for pick up.
The 90s were wild, man. Elementary school kids are weird af. We all just made up these games with no adult supervision, and the teachers tended to be clueless as to why everyone was screaming and running around all the time. Ngl, we tended to take the factions we played as back to the classroom to continue the hunt/war/whatever. I miss those days.
My sister and I would play a game where we would pretend to run an ice cream company, and would try to come up with the weirdest and least appetizing flavors we could. If I played it now, I'd come up with cum, heroin and communism, which is an empty bowl
Shaving cream on the ceiling fan blades and turn it on full blast trying to dodge it....and also throwing things like a peeled orange into it (2 different twists) lolol
I grew up in El Salvador, and we used to play a game called Numerito (little number). If you mentioned any number while talking, anyone could yell "numerito" and that person would get to give you the same number of punches on the arm as the number you mentioned. The punches were not that hard unless the number was only 1 or 2. It really made you think about saying numbers out loud. We had a lot of fun playing this stupid game.
I couldn’t step on cracks in the sidewalk - but also I couldn’t be in a driveway when a car drove by, or else the “radiation wave” from the car would kill me.
I played this game well into college and finally stopped because I realized it was stressing me out.
Before basketball practice in high school, a group of about 10 of us would regularly play dodgeball with a single ball in the locker room.
The twist? We eliminated all sources of light-- under the doors, the glowing red exit sign, everything. At the beginning of the game, someone would turn off the lights and peg the ball off the lockers so it would bounce off somewhere in the room.
Now in pitch black darkness, you have a choice: do I try to go after the ball where I heard it hit, or do I find a hiding place and try to wait it out?
If you find the ball, you do everything you can to get somebody to make a noise, and then you peg that shit as hard as you can in the direction of that sound. If you're hiding, you stay as still as possible and wait for your chance to take the offensive. If you get hit by the ball you're out. We added a bunch of additional rules over the years for dealing with special situations, but that's the basics of the game.
It played out like a horror movie-- minutes of tense silence followed by unexpected firefights that typically ended up with 3 or 4 people out of the game. After probably hundreds of games, it's easily some of the best and most tense fun I've ever had playing a game.
We would put on a giant t shirt, sit on either end of a hallway, put the shirt over our knees to create a trampoline-like surface, and slingshot coins at each other. First person with a black eye loses
the “bag” game. My brothers and I would climb into the woods next to our house to find sticks, then we would bring out a plastic grocery bag. We would place the plastic bag in the middle of the yard and split into teams. After that, we would play with the same rules as soccer.
I grew up with a large family of 8. We had lots of games like this. One of my favorite was the “rolly game” where someone would essentially roll around on the carpet and try to run into the others like a bull. It works better with less space and more people 👌🏻
I excitedly told my friend once that my favourite game as a child was taking a bunch of my fake plastic food, putting it in a blanket, tying it up and putting it on a stick. Then I'd put on a tv show with a lot of nature backgrounds on and pretend I was wandering around that wilderness, just living off the land. I'd open a can of beans for lunch, eat it right from the can, and drink my milk from a tin mug.
We used to "fish" for our small dog. You take a rope and tie it to a stick. Then you use a sock as "bait" on the end of our string. While on a bed you get the dog to bite then proceed to pull the dog up on the bed (boat).
My uncle used to make me grab my ankles close my eyes
iaendn · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child growing up so I generally played alone and my favorite game was throwing a tennis ball over the roof from one house to the other to see if 1. I could make it and 2. If I could run to the other side in time to catch it
This was my favorite game for years with my best friend as a kid. Absolutely terrified my sister but was a blast for us.
Basically I(Light Cat) would be in one corner of the room & my friend (Dark Cat) would be in the other corner. My sister would sit at the light switch & would flip it on & off. When it was on/light , I would crawl on all-fours (because we’re cats) as fast as I could to try to tag her where she stood, but when she flipped it off/dark, I would have to retreat to my corner & my friend the Dark Cat would run out. It would always inevitably end with my sister flipping it as fast as she could & squealing since we would get so close & our cat intensity would get a bit too intense.
I think it goes without saying that we both desperately wanted a cat...
My friends and I would play a game called "gatomia" (gAh-toe-mia) ...idk im guessing because cat in spanish is 'gato'.. Anyways we would turn off the lights in my room and cover the windows so itd be pitched black and we would all hide. One chosen person would walk around the room ( still in the dark) and try and find someone through touch. When they did the person would have to meow and the chosen one would have to guess who it was. If they guess correctly than that person was now it, and if it was wrong than we would all unhide turn on the lights than turn them off again and rehide, and they woulf contuine to be it untill they guess someone correct....
My cousin and I would have piles of stuff (plates, magazines, remote controls, vaccums) from each room of our grandmas house and have a "draft" to see who got each item.
We would all line up on the top of a paved hill on scooters, whoever made it the farthest won, but you aren’t allowed to push your scooter. You are allowed to kick others, throw objects, and if you get knocked off chase others down. It was a grand time
Kabadee- we used to have two opposing lines of us linked by our arms. One person would take a turn at touching someone on the opposing line before running back to there line. The linked line being touched would swivel around to try and make the retreat harder and once someone was touched the line breaks and sprints after them to try to tackle them before they reach their line
as a kid my “fire truck” obsession for me was for some reason, garbage trucks. The game was to call bingo whenever we saw a garbage truck, whoever had more bongos at the end of the day could get ice cream or candy
I miss the simpler times
While in the car an imaginary figure would be running with the car, but only keeping to the grass near the sidewalk. As soon as there was no way to get to the next bit of grass without touching the pavement, I lost
Scoons · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Am one of three siblings. One of us would lie in the middle of the road in front of our house, the other two would take up positions monitoring the road, one monitoring each direction. When a car was coming, the monitor from that direction would shout "car," and the one in the road had a couple of options: 1) Get up immediately; 2) Wait until the car got closer, then get up; 3) Stay there. The monitors could call out whether or not there was actually a car coming; it was essentially a game of trust. The sibling who got up closest to the oncoming car was the winner. If you got up and there was no car, you lost. If you didn't get up and the car had to swerve to avoid hitting you, everybody won. Bonus points if they angrily honked their horn.
My sister and I would take our great grandmother's cane and lay it across the arm of the couch. Then we would bound up and down on it, singing "seesaw imagine" over and over again.
One person hides somewhere downstairs, while the others have to find the balls to make way down the stairs, the person downstairs though has to jump out and touch one of the others, lights have to be off though.
Riksor · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wrog wrog." Someone had to crawl on all fours while wearing night vision goggles, which made you Wrog Wrog. Wrog Wrog had to grab someone's ankles and then they too were Wrog Wrog.
I used to play “do you like” with my mum, I play it now with my daughter. Basically you lie down and the other person asks things like “do you like olives, do you like cheese” etc. If the answer is yes you’re fine, if it’s no you get tickled. Eventually when you run out of ideas you just finish it with “do you like being tickled” it always ends with a tickle. Brings back really good memories 😊
My little sisters would play "Wild horses rake while mean people be mean", where they would be the wild horses raking (they hold the rake behind them as they ran around) and pretend people were being mean to them.
They could only play this when we visited family because where we live there was no need to rake, so we didn't have any rakes.
Cross your ankles in the pool and your shadow looks like a mermaid/merman. Someone goes underwater and the other person rides on their back like a surfboard. Practice doing handspring's in the pool attends you'll eventually be able to do them on land.
My siblings and I would play "bad owner" - a game where one person is the dog and the other person is a bad owner. We essentially role played animal abuse haha
Zanssy · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rollover tips” with my cousins (tips is tag in AUS). It was a variation of tag where you had to do a lap around the clothesline in the backyard and then do a somersault to be safe from being it.
purple pee game. my sister friend and me used to play this game called the purple pee u had to stand in a square with a line in the middle and pass a giant purple exercise ball back and forth it had to bounce once within the opponents boundary and the object of the game was to try to make the other person miss the ball leading to you scoring a point.
Me and my brothers were into wrestling when we were kids and had Royal Rumbles on our couch. You had to come in flickering the lights on and off, singing the entrance music of who you were.
My dad got involved once and it was awesome. He kept Rock Bottoming all of us off the couch and we had to team up to get him off
Well I'm not sure how unique it was but my friends and I used to play a game called "Ibba-Lobba-In" which basically consisted of one person counting to 60 with their eyes closed against a predesignated base object (usually a tree or post) whilst everyone else hid from sight. After the 60 seconds were up, the hunter would go looking for the hiders and if one were spotted then it'd be a race between to the two to run back to the base and shout either "Ibba-Lobba-In!" or "Ibba-Lobba-Out <insert name of hider>!".
The first person caught would be the hunter on the next round. If you made it back before the hunter then you made it through.
My cousin and I used to blow up boxes of balloons and let them go out of our bathroom window. We would watch them deflate and fall on our neighbors balcony. Later did we realize the balloons were boxes of condoms from his parents drawer.
Back in the day when my family had a good size trampoline with netting running up it, my brothers and I would put as many balls as we could on it (basket balls, soccer balls, etc) and jump on the trampoline. If one of the balls touched you, you were out. Last one standing wins. I should note I have 5 brothers so there was often sabotage but still one of the best games Iv played.
Living in the north lands of Minnesota there's always lots of winter snow. And we had a couple of old rusty sleds (snowmobiles) . Being the idiot kids we were, we would don our safety helmets and take turns driving as fast as we could in a straight line while the others would throw snowballs and ice chunks trying to knock the driver off. You weren't allowed to steer to avoid anything because that would make it too easy. Our parents made us stop after my cousin got knocked out and had a huge gash down the side of his face.
The other game we played was to pull a plastic toboggan behind the sled and build ice ramps. We'd pull each other over them trying to dump the people off of the toboggan. That game lasted longer. But someone broke a finger and we had to stop.
We called it “Zombie”. You’d take five cans of food and hide them on the main floor and second floor of the house. The main player would start in the basement while the other players, or “Zombies” hid in these rooms, lights out and all. The main player had to collect all five cans of food and safely return to the basement while using only their flashlight. It was so much fun!
My brother would play the "what would you do if" game on long road trips. We'd just make up crazy situations and ask what the other would do if it happened to them. It got to the point that we had "what would you do if" meme responses such as "I would sell it to a circus" "Well what if right when you were selling it to the circus a golden eagle swooped in and flew away with it?"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chimichanga” i didn’t know what a chimichanga was but i knew it was fun to say so me and a friend would toss and kick this big inflatable ball around while yelling CHIMICHANGA!!!
“ankle biters”
My cousins and I would set up a mattress on the floor leading to another one on a bed frame. There would be one runner & the others would be the “biters”. The runner would run down the mattress and hope that the biters would not catch our ankles and trip us.
6NiNE9 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"SNAP!"
No equipment needed. Just two people able to make four faces: straight face, smiley face, sad face and silly/monster face. You turn your head away from each other and immediately turn back with one of those faces. If your faces match, the person that yells "SNAP!!" first, wins. It's surprisingly fun and gets more hysterical the older, or higher, you are.
We played a game called the blanket game in a friend's basement. Basically one person who was "it" was covered in a big blanket/ comforter and had to catch one of the other plays, and by catch you had to wrap them in a bear hug so they couldn't get out. The catch was the people who were not under the blanket were able to push you around and climb on furniture.
Not entirely unique but my cousins and I knew just about all the kids in the neighborhood. So on occasion we’d have a mass plastic sword duel, like 8v8s. Each with swords of our choosing from our favorite universes. Nerf guns were allowed as secondaries as well. Closest I’ve ever been to war.
My brother and I are about 3 years apart and we have 2 cousins right about the same age. When i was about 11 my cousin who was older and i would go upstairs in the house and open one of the windows while our younger siblings were outside and could see us at the window. We would them throw firecrackers down at them as they would try to dodge them.
Needless to say but our moms were not very happy with us even though all four of us were having the time of our lives.
Get Down Mr. President.
Essentially "nose-goes" but you touch your ear like you have an earpiece in. Last to notice is the President, and gets tackled by all players
Wasn't really a game but my cousin and sister would dare me to throw myself into the walls at school as hard as I could. Brick walls. Surprisingly never broke a bone to my knowledge but it definitely hurt when I'd slam my head into the bricks.
I won't say I was any stupider than the average kid, cause I wasn't, I was just really angry and chose a lot of harmful outlets for it. And I was a weird kid.
On the bright side, they were really entertained. Sometimes I attracted other kids to laugh at my pain too.
I used to play this stock market board game, and destroy my entire family as a ten year old. 13 years latter I am a finance student in college, trying to work with investments soon.
When I was little I spent a lot of time at my much wealthier aunt & uncles house. They had this enormous basement that we were pretty much always playing in. In the basement alone there was a bar, a separate workout room, a bathroom, and a separate rec room, just to give you an idea of the space. We came up with this game where one person would be picked as the "monster" and the rest of us had to make it from one side of the basement to the other to grab some random toy or "artifact" without getting tagged by the monster.
The twist was that you could only move on all fours, and we had to do it with all of the lights off in the basement, which effectively made it nearly pitch-black in there with the exception of just a hint of light peeking from a tiny frosted glass window on one wall of the basement. We would set up cushions and pillows as obstacles, and built a sort of "lair" for the artifact to be in. The "monster" would have to defend his lair using pretty much only sound and touch. There was only just barely enough light to make out the silhouettes of other people depending on how close they were to the tiny window's light. If the monster tagged someone, they'd be put in jail (a closet) and could only be let out of jail if someone came and got them out. If the person didn't get rescued from jail, they'd become the monster the next game. Sometimes we would do two monsters at once to make it harder. My strategy was always to hide out in the darkest corner of the room and throw random objects at the monster to distract them or throw them off, which I guess was 100% legal in this game. Oh, and if you were the monster, growling and roaring was also mandatory for the role.
I also definitely recall bumping my head constantly on walls and tables, and getting rug burn all over my knees. Ah, good times.
We had a corner garden (3 gardens) with rose bushes in the front and a tight crawl space. Used to pretend I was being hunted by the alien from Alien. I hate horror movies..
Came up with ‘The Swing Game’ at around age 10 - 12.
At our local playground we had swing with 2 seats right next to each other. The game required 4 players.
2 players on the swing
1 player on a few meters behind the swing
1 player a few meters in front of the swing
The 2 players on the swing were required to swing as high and fast as they could. The 2 players on the ground took turns trying to hit 1 of the 2 swingers by kicking a football (soccer ball) at them.
You were allowed to ‘deflect’ the hit by kicking back the ball with your feet or having it hit the back of your seat.
If you got hit anywhere else, you’re out. The player who got the hit now gets to use the swing.
The game actually became really popular among the kids at our local playground. Looking back at it I have a hard time understanding what the incentive was. If you were good at kicking the ball and timing your shot, you were actually more likely to have to sit on the swing and risk being hit in the face (which happened quite often, with sometimes people even falling from the seat full speed)
I guess we’re just openly sadistic like that as kids. 🙃
It wasn’t necessarily a game but for fun we would explore abandoned houses and buildings in our neighborhood (there was quite a lot).
Also we one time got a huge group together and explored our local abandoned “insane asylum”. Lots of creepy stories of that place, it was a shit show back in the day, and to sneak into it there are tunnels you climb into about half a mile away from the building and the work your way into the old facility,
This place was fucking huge, dirty, and heroin needles were pretty common, but it was pretty bad ass, one of the creepiest places I’ve ever been. Unfortunately they finally ended up tearing down part of it/remodeling and building college dorms.
Rock paper scissors slap. It’s essentially the same game but if you loose you get slapped as hard as the person can. For bonus the winner would lick their hands to make the slap worse
"tongue to tongue". Basically my sisters and I made some nasty game where we pointed out our tongues and got closer so they'd touch. First one to move away loses.
If I think about it now, that was some weird shit my grandparents had to witness.
Ok, so when we moved into our house, the backyard had a basic wooden playset with a couple of swings. We also had a playset from our old house, so my dad brought it over to the new house and connected the two playsets. This left use with 4 swings, in sets of 2, facing each other.
Then, on one of my birthdays, my aunt got me a huge, blown up "soccer ball" that was light enough to be kicked at a young child and not really cause any damage.
We created Soccer-Swing. It was a four-player game where you would be on a swing and try to get the ball past your opponents, and we loved it. We probably played it every day for multiple consecutive summers.
"Kadawa" was the terror of children and teachers alike.
You drew a circle in the sand, and someone stood inside.
He was 'it'.
All the other kids stood around waiting.
When the kid in the circle stepped out, he was only allowed to hop around on one foot.
His aim was to touch one of the other kids.
When he did, everyone ran to the kid who was touched and kicked him while he frantically ran to the circle, which was a safe zone.
Now here's the kicker.
If anyone who was not it, touched the circle they'd become it.
If the former 'it' kid realized this, they are allowed to run around normally, but sometimes a kid would fake touching the circle and start hopping around on one leg from the direction of the circle, toward the unsuspecting kid.
When the kid who is still it dropped his second leg to the ground, everyone would rush to kick him.
Or, some random kid would actually step in the circle and grab an unsuspecting kid, which everyone would subsequently kick.
Kids who owned Timberland shoes were the apex predetors and were worshipped as kings.
Equipment tag. Pretty much the game "the floor is lava" combined with tag. Played on the most dangerous jungle gym the 60's had to offer without being very well maintained for 30 years. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i had two siblings who were younger than me so I was always the leader,everyday we would invent a game and name it a random animal name.
The best one that I still remember clearly was the 'lone wolf' basically theres a store owner and a security guard and a thief,for the store we used a broken bike that we layed on its side as a desk,and a toy laptop for the cash holder.
Both the thief and security guard used nerf guns and since our house was pretty big,you were able to easily hide from the other guy,we would play this game for hours since when the thief got caught,he would bribe the security guard by offering to split the money after the heist,you were even able to take over the store and owning it,thus the store owner becoming the thief trying to take over his store again,which would lead to a war folding out in our home.untill our father comes in and tells us to tidy all the mess we caused.damn i miss those days
My friends and I used to play this game we made up called "Arson". Its not what it sounds like. So we would wait until it was late at night, like 2 in the morning type of late. We would sneak into the garage and get a water bottle full of gasoline. Once we had that we would go outside and find a neighbors mailbox or garbage can or something of the like and douse it in gas and light it on fire. Then we would run away laughing like maniacs. We played that for awhile until we realized how much teouble we could get into and that it was a real dick move...
So we weren’t kids, but teenagers. When driving and pulling up to a red light, my sister and I would see if we could wait for the change without ever stopping, so we’d roll really slowly to avoid coming to a full stop.
We used to play a game we called "Fatman". We would use this huge sleeping bag and stuff it full of blankets and pillows so it wouldn't hurt when you were tackled, and try to make it across the room. Surprisingly hard to run and get back up too, but we didn't have a Super Nintendo, so what else were we supposed to do?
My brother and I played this game called “Indiana Jones.” It essentially was just an obstacle course we made in the garage. But the kicker was that when you started, you pressed the garage door button. So you had to do the obstacle course as fast as you could and then dive under the garage door before it closed.
We also had someone roll a big yoga ball behind you :)
Find the thimble, our mum would hide one of those sewing thimbles, and the first one to find it out of me and my siblings would win. These things were tiny, it kept us busy for ages. And sometimes our mum would do the hot or cold thing where she would say either warm-hot for the closer you were or cold to frezing the further you went.
I used to play this game where one person would be the thrower and the rest would be up against a wall, the thrower would have a ball and close their eyes and spin around, once they had spun around like 20 times the people on the wall would yell to let the thrower know which way to face. Then the thrower would throw the ball as hard as they could at the place they thought the other people were. It was a fun game but a lot of bruises came from it, and a few baby teeth a falling out, but definitely a good memory.
We called it European weiner. We played it at the pool, and basically you would pick an object to be the European Weiner(normally a ball or floatie) and whoever had it was winning. The object was to get the European Weiner by whatever means possible, and alliances and betrayals were totally cool(like helping someone get the weiner so you could take it from them after).
Broke my brother's nose once doing a flying kick to his face from outside the pool, good times. Don't remember why we named it that but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Me and my brother used to run around in a mash-up of Halo and Elder Scrolls stuff. Just swung swords and shot nerfguns at imaginary shit in the woods, collaborated as an entire cast of made up dudes (and Master chief) throwing spells around and fighting demons.
I've vastly reorganized it all into the basis of books I'm writing at the moment, so I never really stopped playing. And he followed it into an acting career he's chasing so I guess neither of us stopped - that's the first time I've actually thought of it that way. Huh.
"Kettle Ball" we would all huddle up around a nerf ball each with one hand on the ball. One was designated the "kettle caller" and would count down from a pre-determined number while everyone else ran in all directions, once the countdown ended everyone had to remain stationary with the exception of a pivot foot. The kettle caller would then attempt to bean another player with the ball who would then become the next kettle caller. Why it was deemed "Kettle Ball" is still beyond me but we would have fun for hours this way.
We called it Rambola. There was a really long floor at our house in a summer camp in Norway. One guy runs through the entire floor and kicks the other one in the balls as hard as possible. If you could still stand up, it was your turn. The winner is the one who drops first.
Retrospectively, i dont think the game is fun anymore.
Lived in this apartment where everyone in the building had access to our private park and football pitch, there was also a nice spacious area on the ground floor, I invented this game translated to "Nobody can see us" this game had 7 series (I can't explain how but I did one day call it Nobody can see us 2 etc.)
Essentially it was about 3-7 of us kids, hiding from every neighbour that came home, this game is so stupid it's hard to understand yet it was so fun. It involved rolling around on the floor, crouch walking, sneaking etc., there was no way of winning, you only lose if you get caught. Until one day my friend decided he would slide tackle the main door (has 4 glasses) and ended up breaking the window and having his leg stuck and cut on the glass, from that day onwards this game ceased to exist
My dad and I would make "goals" and go on our knees and throw a small rubber ball and try to score on each other. It was always my favorite game to play after dinner on Friday's.
We played a game at my camp called "One Touch One Bounce." We'd form a circle and kick a volleyball to each other, almost like a soccer juggling circle. You can't use your hands, and the ball has to touch the ground once before the next person touches it. Each person only gets one touch, so if someone gives you a bad bounce, tough shit. If you mess up, you get a letter that would spell some word, and then once you get all the letters, you'd be out. We kept playing until a certain number of people were out, then they'd line up facing a wall. Everyone still in got one penalty kick at the people on the wall, and then we'd start over. Tons of fun.
In elementary school we played a game called "Ditto" (yeah, like the Pokémon).
The rules were like this:
Two teams played against each other, each of which had a "king". The team that managed to clap three times on the head of the opposing king while saying "Ditto" three times won. The teams were allowed to do anything in order to defend their king, so it ended up being a biiiig brawl.
Nutball, me and a friend would take this exercise device that was two big red balls attached by a rubber cord, stretch it out between us, and take turns letting go and aiming at each others nuts.
Lived in the sticks of west Texas so I would build a teepee in the yard, would go “explore” my family’s ranch, play in the mud when it rained, when it really rained I would get a kiddie pool and float down our driveway, play in the cow’s water tanks...I was a tomboy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would pull thorns off of a rose bush, lick the back of them and put a bunch on our noses in a row and pretend we were dinosaurs. We did this until we were 16 lol
I remembered another one! My sister and I used to wrestle each other and our dad in the living room fairly often. The area of carpet in front of the fireplace became known as the “wrestle spot!” and if any of the three of us were sitting there it was free game to tackle em and play.
One day I’m coming down the hall and see Dad sitting there in front of the fireplace, back to me. I get an evil grin, and run as fast and hard as I can and boom! I knocked him over. I’m laughing my butt off, because hey, I finally got him! Except it wasn’t my dad.
I don’t remember that exact circumstances, but that day we had one of my dads coworkers over. They were both white-tan Army guys who wore the same kinds of clothes and had the same haircut. My 8 year old eyes couldn’t tell the difference between the two of them from the back.
So imagine, you’re sitting at a work buddy’s house, minding your business when suddenly a cackling gremlin knocks you over out of nowhere. I was mortified when I realized “your not my dad!”. All the adults thought it was hilarious.
I played this game with my siblings where we would write 'butthole' or 'poopy face' on a peice of paper and then put some tape on it. If you got the note succsessfuly stuck on you without noticing you became the 'butthole' or 'poopy face' and had to stick it on somebody else. Our parents did not approve.
Captain Chocolate Man. It was basically tag but if you were "it" you were Captain Chocolate Man. You then had to sit on somebody and fart on them, relieving you of your chocolate duties and now that person is Captain Chocolate Man. Not only was this hilarious for obvious reasons, but the pacing is what made it the best game ever. Since you can't fart on command, your next tag could be in 5 minutes or next week...
We would play tag but in two teams: One twam is the policeman the other is the robbers and once a policenan catches a robber he would beat the absolute heck of that robber and then they would become a policeman. Truly a cruel game which our parents approve. :))
During recess at my elementary school in the early 90's, a group of us would play "Chucky". One kid would wear a crown of red paper hair who was Chucky, and somebody would be Andy. The object of the game was to take Andy by the hand away from Chucky to a safe zone, usually under a slide. You had to hold Andy by the hand to the safe zone to win, and Chucky would be constantly guarding Andy. If Chucky tagged you, you were dead.
My siblings and I would take turns rolling one of us into a giant blanket, find a random object, beat the sibling in the blanket with said object, and then they would guess what they were being beat with.
So like this is gonna sound real weird, but me and my friends would play in the drainage ditches around our my house and a neighbor's. My lawn had a drain with a grate surrounded by brick at the corner, so we would sit on top of it and pretend it was a stove. We would fill buckets with water and grass and leaves and shit and make "stew" and other "foods" and play restaurant. Sometimes we would use the neighbor's lawn, which had a corner that was just a concrete opening and water would pool in front and make kind of a "lake" and "islands" of the cement that wasn't wet. We would jump from island to island and kind of play tag in a really small circle like that. We sometimes pretended it was a hotel or that a mayor was over there. And because the drains connected under the road, we could talk to each other through the tunnels if we were on different lawns. And then another neighbor's ditch was always flooded, so it make a small pond, so we would pretend to buy water there and other plants and stuff as if it were a store. So we would almost make a small town at the intersection of my street with a restaurant, a store, and a hotel/town hall.
Not a game as such, but my nephew (he’s a year older than me, my brother is ooooold) and I used to write little notes to each other whenever he stayed over and made little post boxes next to our beds. We thought we were so cool.
My dad made up a game where he’d drive us around in my mom’s Cadillac on summer nights and we’d stick our heads out of the sunroof and whoever caught the biggest bug in their mouth was the winner.
Hot potato, played with a ball of rags soaked in kerosene all night then lit on fire. It was a family new years eve tradition of some family friends. Surprisingly, we weren't injured, other than a bit of arm hair and the stench of kerosene the next day.
I made up so many games as a kid, but 2 immediately came to mind.
I used to do this thing where I'd toss a blanket up in the air, and however it fell to the ground, I created a house with rooms and hallways from the wrinkles. I'd toss in whatever toys or objects I wanted to fill the "house" with, and play for hours. I used to do a similar thing on a larger scale with some girls I played with while our brothers had baseball practice. There was this field nearby with tall overgrown grass, and we each flatten one part to create our room, and then made paths to connect them.
And when I was swimming during the summer, I was obsessed with this game where I would pretend all of the tiles in my pool were buttons that would create any object I wanted. I had them all sorted into categories like toys, food, vehicles, etc and would swim for hours pretending I had anything in the world.
It sounds like I didn't have toys 😂I did, but I don't remember them as much as the stuff I imagined.
Me and one of my friends invented a game called "RUB".
It was basically a version of PIG with basketball except with a rubber band. We each took shots trying to call out what we were trying to do around my house: land the rubber band on this box, hit this object from this spot, etc.
We eventually stopped playing it after we thought about what it meant to ask: "Hey Brian, want to RUB?"
Not so much a child but when we were like 13/14 on the playground we used to play "Gay Bottle" - you'd kick a bottle around at each other and whoever got hit was "gay" and had to kick it to someone else.
As soon as the bell rang for class the last "gay" person was permanently "gay".
Always makes me laugh to remember what a pointless, kinda offensive but impeccably juvenile game it was.
My two best friends and I would play “Puppy World” during recess all throughout elementary school. I can’t remember very much of it anymore, but we would climb through the monkey bars and up a ladder to get to puppy world, and when we were there we would play with the puppies. We had boundless imagination.
There was even an entire arc we did where we got trapped in the Evil Puppy World, and we had to get out to save the puppies in the regular Puppy World.
When I was younger, my mom, sister, and me used to play a game out in our yard called the bumblebee. My mom would be "the bumblebee" and stand on one side of the yard while me and my sister stood on the other side. We would have to try and get past my mom and run to the designated safe zone behind her. We had a signature move called "the jedi split" where I would run to one side of the yard and my sister would run to the opposite side and then both run full sprint to the safe zone so my mom didn't know which one to go after (Obviously she could have probably caught us both, but she let us have our fun). It was so much fun and we played it all the time. Next time I'm home from college I'll see if my mom and sister want to play a few games of it 😂😂
Sniper. There was a huge alley that let into a lighly wooded area behind our houses, and the YMCA play ground on the other side of that. It was basically reverse hide and seek with toy guns. One person would hide, the others would go looking for him. No teams, and if you got shot, you had to go back to base.
"The Olympics " Me and my buddy would start at the bottom of his carpet stairs with a stuffed animal and would essentially beat the shit out of each other until the winner emerged at the top of the stairs with the stuffed animal in hand. We called it that because it started while the 2000 Sydney Olympics was on in the background.
olmek · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Bet on Shoes' - put a big pile of shoes on the trampoline, place your bets on which ones would survive, and start jumping like crazy until only one remains
Me and a buddy would always get booted off video games by his parents after a solid day and a half. Reasonable. So we’d go to the backyard and come up with some type of soccer-style game with special rules. Different every time. Like you get one shot on the opponents goal 20ft away but only with a left hand throw while balancing on your right leg. Or you can do whatever you want to score but you only get two total steps and the defender can only block if they only touch the ball with a stick. It would eventually devolve into wrestling frantically trying to just get the ball through the endzone to say you won. Inspired in no small way by calvin-ball.
We would make a nest out of blankets on a bed and my older sister was the mom bird or lion depending on the day and me and my younger brother were the babies, also thought ufc type wrestling with home made outfits on our parents bed and the “draw on back game” were unique but as I get older I’ve learned they are pretty common lol
Two kids. One on either side of very busy street at night. Lots of traffic. High visibility. As cars drive by, each kid pretends to pull a rope so that drivers think you’re pulling a rope. They stop. We run away laughing. Aside from that it was barbies or hide and seek.
When I was in high school, I was given two very hungry step brothers. They drove me crazy, getting into my snack stashes (among other things), and I soon found out their obsession with black olives was as great as mine.
I would take labels of cans and replace them with other labels of vegetables or take the label completely off and tell them it was ground up ants. They were around 6 and 7, so it worked for awhile. Occasionally, my mom would reach into the back of the pantry for those lima beans and get a surprise, but since I could eat those olives every day, nothing was ever wasted. (I labeled the original cans with a marker rather than put the olive label back on them).
edit: It was like the hunger games in that house. My family never seemed to make enough food for two adults, a teenager and two growing boys. You had to put enough food on your plate to fill you up, but not so much that you looked selfish, because otherwise, it was a race to finish and run to the kitchen to see if there was a second helping left in the pan.
“Attack Jack” was exactly what the name was. My cousins and I are all around the same age, so playing this game with them was a lot of fun. I don’t remember much, but I know there were two teams: Jack and Julia. General Julia would send her team to... you guessed it: Attack Jack. Jack’s team had to defend him. It was a lot of fun but I don’t exactly remember why.
The Booger Wall. Whenever I went over to my cousin's house, we would pick our nose every so often and wipe it on this pink wall in her room. Some offerings were invisible, others were bloody from our incessant mining. Her mom eventually noticed when I was over one day and became LIVID.
Hide n go see in the dark. Get the cars out of the garage and shut the garage door. Play hide n go seek in the pitch black garage. Every spot in the entire garage is a hiding place. You could stand perfectly still and the seeker could walk right past you and if they don't hear you breath they won't find you. So many fun times playing that as a kid.
Haha oh here we go. So my neighbours parents used to fight ALOT. I was best friends with their son and we decided to play a game of 'Brian and Denise' it was basically us playing them, throwing plastic plates and arguing at one another. Except one day, we decided to put on a show of our game to both of our parents. The look on their faces was amazing.
When I was in sixth grade my friends and I would play something we called "marking".It consisted of us setting our crotches on top of someone else's stuff. If something was marked you get to have it. The game escalated over the weeks and we started marking body parts of the participants. The difference was that if you were marked you couldn't move that part until you were unmarked. If by some miracle your head was marked you could not palay until the next day. We used to do this in school. Teachers didn't care a dime. By the way we all said no homo
Didn't really have a name for it but my brothers and I played a game where each of us would take a side in front of the house and start walking in opposite directions on the sidewalk. Whenever a car entered our view the person would yell out "Car!" and both parties have to out run and make it back to the garage. If the car passes you and you didn't make it you "died". Worked better in our quiet suburban neighborhood. You couldn't stop walking until someone yells for a car so everyone would walk as slow a a possible.
My brothers and I would play "Pac-Man" on the trampoline. Basically, you'd get a couple of soccer balls on the trampoline so they would bounce with you and you'd have to dodge them. If you got hit by one, you had to get off the trampoline and the last person left wins.
We started coming up with all sorts of crazy strategies like double-bouncing a ball towards each other. It was a blast.
I used to play "Naseem Hameed" with my bigger brother. It's basically boxing with t-shirts as gloves, and of course an orange in the mouth. We stopped as soon as we broke my mother's big mirror.
Cops and robbers with no rules. My little brother was a robber on a bike and he was getting away so I took my shoelace off, tied a rock on each end and threw it at his bike. It warped around chain and frame and he went flying.
Me and my sister used to slide down the stairs in a sleeping bag. She used to make me be in the bottom of the bag which made it fun because I couldn't see up until I got old enough to realize I could get seriously hurt.
I think everyone played this game but to us it was pretty unique. We played the lava game in a rock garden we had in the front yard. There was curb around the rocks and there was huge lava rocks that we would jump from to and fro, same thing with the curb. We try to knock each other off the curb or the big rocks and it hurt like hell to fall on the little rocks but it was fun. You would re-spawn on the biggest rock and just got at it again.
We would invite over any friends that were down and once night fell, we would dress head to toe in black. Everyone got a flashlight and a team then we would hide around the neighborhood and play. Entertainment for hours. Man, I miss that.
Im way late but did anyone play a game called rollar bat? Its baseball but after the batter hits the ball they put the tip of the bat on the ground making a goal that the catcher had to roll the ball through?
We used to play this game in middle school. It's a mental game where you avoid thinking about The Game. Thinking about The Game results in a loss and you have to announce your loss to everyone around you.
Everyone reading this just lost The Game... I'm sorry.
The penis game - we would take turns saying penis, each time saying it louder than the other, until one of our parents heard. The person who could say it the loudest without getting their ass beat is the winner!
Gorgon:
this is played at night in large community halls with all the lights off or outside at night. 1 person is the gorgon and starts the game by taking apart a flashlight and hiding all the pieces (batteries, bulb, lens, case) throughout the play area in plain sight.
Once the game starts the Gorgon will lurk the area searching for the players.
It's the players job is to search the area and recover all the flashlight pieces.
If a player is tagged by the Gorgon they are turned to stone and cannot move from their spot.
The only way a player can be free again is if a player with a piece of the flashlight un-freezes them.
Once all pieces are collected they must assemble the flashlight and hunt the Gorgon.
Once the light hits the Gorgon he is slain.
Extra rules: players are safe on stairs to avoid people falling down stairs in the dark. They must continue in the direction they are going and the Gorgon can give them a slight headstart if he's being generous.
A couple of friends and I created a game with bottle caps when we were 9 years old. It would be a battle in an arena (usually a square painted on the ground), and each of us had 8 bottle caps in our teams. The goal was to take (on turns) your opponent's bottle caps out of said arena, with the winner being the one with bottle caps still on the arena. There were other rules regarding what happens if the bottle cap goes upside down (get an extra turn), how to change the bottle cap you were using (allowed you to defend with the rest of bottle caps of your team as you could only eliminate the bottle cap your rival selected)
It was so much fun, and pretty much everyone at school started playing during breaks. Even teachers were curious about it.
Not only that, but after school we'd go to bars all around Madrid asking them to give us bottle caps as we started to collect them.
Great times
Called it the “Elevator Game” . Ever in a cruise ship or a hotel with multiple sections of elevators? Then everybody go inside 1 of them except for 1 person, and the person has to try and catch us using the flights of stairs. Its more fun if the elevators are see-through so you can taunt your opponent as they use every muscle in their body to catch the elevator. Very fun game, 10/10
This is a game I loved playing with my mom. We’d draw a circle with tape, and in it we’d put marbles. Then we get like five or so marbles each for ourselves, and then we’d walk away a distance and take turns flicking or rolling our marbles into the circle trying to knock them out. Then we got to keep the marbles we knocked out, and in the end the winner would be the person with the most marbles. Keep in mind I was a child so when I rolled my marbles I’d be lucky to knock out one or two so these games went on for a while lol
"Ghost Tours." Cousins and my family got together. We'd then separate into two 'ghosts/monsters' who would hide somewhere in the yard. The rest would be led by the tour guide as they told ghost stories around the yard, stopping at stupid shit and saying how someone died there or something. Then at a certain stop, after they told a really scary story, the monsters would jump out and would have to tag as many people as they could. Everyone else would try to make it to a predetermined safe zone.
Was so fun late at night with my cousins that were 5+ years older than us.
My brother and i called it mortal kombat 101. We st9od facing another like a fighting game. Picked our favorite wrestler or dbz character and best the shit out of each other
Let it Roll Back to the Edge of the Bump. It involved rolling backwards down the driveway and tricycles. There was a bump... That's all I remember - I was very yojng. Would appreciate some creative comments reminding me of what it was or what it could have been...
Based on a 70s TV ad where a large bull (presumably drunk off his ass) came bursting into a bar or nightclub and destroyed everything, in lurid red-lit chaos.
We would, apropos of nothing, suddenly scream “Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull!” and put our index fingers pointing out at our temples, and run around furiously trying to smash each other down.
The mattress game: my sisters and I would take two twin mattresses and lay them over the stairs and slide down it over and over. One of the best memories, it sounds so simple now but was hours of fun
Not exactly as kid kids, but as me and my best friend got older we started this spelling game.
The rules were simple.
0: only one pen, a scorepad, and a mutually chosen dictionary as reference. The pen and paper are for scorekeeping only. Nothing else may be written down or recorded in any fashion anywhere by any means. The dictionary must be closed unless a challenge cannot be mutually resolved. This is a memory and recall game
1: The winner of the previous round decides who goes first.
2: Each turn you say a letter
3: The letter you say MUST have the possibility of making up a non-proper 4-letter or longer word as part of the sequence thus far
4: when it is your turn, you may challenge one of two challenges:
4a:You may challenge the opponent's previously played letter if you believe they have actually spelled a word.
4b:You may challenge the opponents letter if you believe the letter choice does not eventually construct a valid word, or if you believe they don't know a word that would be valid to the sequence.
5: Challenge resolution
5a: If you challenged them on having spelled a word and they in fact did spell one, they lose the challenge and the round. If the sequence so far does not in fact spell a word, then you have lost the challenge and the round. The winner of this challenge gains 2 points
5b: If you challenged the sequence validity and whether it could possibly spell a word, the opponent must defend and list at least one word that starts with the sequence thus far. If they can produce one from their own knowledge without looking at the dictionary they will win the challenge and the round. If they are unable to come up with a word, even if one exists and is known to you, they lose the challenge and the round. The winner of this challenge recieves 3 points.
6: When it is your turn you may forfeit the round if you cannot think of a valid play that does not result in you spelling a word. To forfeit say the word that would cause you to lose. If it is a valid word for the sequence you lose 1 point. If it is invalid you lose 2.
7: the game ends when someone reaches 21 point or more.
For example I might start by say "C".
You could say "A" because "CA" is the start to many english words of legth >4.
I might then say "T" bringing the sequence to "CAT". Cat is the internet's favorite word, but its only 3 letters, and still remains the start to many >4 letter words like "catastrophe" so the round continues.
If you then say "S" you have spelled "CATS" and you will lose if I challenge you. If I do challenge, you would lose and I could gain 2 points.
But the smarter move on my part #might# be to play "U" for "CATSUP" hoping that you aren't familiar with the word and try to challenge me for validity. If you do challenge me I would then get 3 points. But the risk on my part is your favorite Simpsons episode might be where Mister Burns is confused in the grocery store deciding between ketchup and catsup. In this case you would then be able to forfeit only a single point advantage to me instead of 2 or 3.
Why I love this game
You're not just playing with your own vocabulary. You're making a series of wagers about your opponent's vocabularly weighted against yours.
There's all sorts of things to keep track of, is the word we're spelling towards going to end on my turn? If so, where can I push it away from that word onto another one that ends on your turn. Do you the opponent even know how to spell the end of this word? Should I go for the three points and challenge you on a valid word that fits the sequence and risk giving those 3 points to you?
Played “ the blanket game” one of my siblings or I would stand in the middle of the room with a blanket over their head, much like Marco Polo trying to find the other people in the room, with the twist being you dodged and attacked the person while referencing 90’s pop culture. Like yelling John elway and tackling the person, James Bond and doing a summersault into their legs. Get caught and you go under the blanket. Just watch out for coffee tables and lamps
Roof ball. Preferably with a second story and a football because it made it unpredictable/more challenging to catch. If the ball touched the ground, it became a dead ball and re-throw. Last person to score becomes the thrower. Throw the ball on to the roof and a sea of kids wait to try and catch it and run back to the side walk for the point without being tackled. Yes, getting tackled on pavement was a frequent occurence. It was a mix of smear the queer and 5,000. If you don't know what 5,000 was. Just throw a ball in the air with and a group of kids try to catch it when the thrower called out a random number of points. Eventually making enough catches to equal 5,000 points.
Me and my 'gang' and the popular kid in schools 'gang' used to play a game called Romans and Celts when I was like 10 which basically just involved us kicking the shit out of each other and they always had double the amount of people because the leader was more popular:(
We play a game in which we basically create the map of a country or a place on a page . We would divide it in territories and every kid would be given some territories .
Then we attacked other territories , form alliances with friends and do other tactical stuff .
The way we decided how we won or not was by throwing dice and deciding who gets the better roll .
Or there is a game called 'Odd-Eve' in which we have set rules and we use some gestures to score points , basically search it up cuz it's way too long to explain .
If u are ever bored I would suggest playing this with your friends . Great time killer .
We played tag but you couldn't touch the ground or at least stay on specific paths, except for the person who was it. We played on the playground climbing all over the equipment, we played on the roof of my garage (you could jump from the garage to the neighbors house or on to a fence, and we played on top of some bushes and hedges.
The only injury was when I was surprised while standing on the roof and just jumped without looking. I had to jump out to clear the fence, but forgot about the power line. I hit that with the bridge or my nose and fell flat on my back. Just had the wind knocked out of me.
My brother broke his arm, but that wasn't tag that was just jumping off the roof on to a mattress.
I lost my best friend a few months ago. We played a game called cone-ball once. It's basically soccer free kick, but you're throwing a frisbee between a slightly wider frame (we used pine cones to delineate). The object is just to hit the frisbee in flight. You can use your arms for one point, or hit it with a pine cone for two.
My cousins, my brother, and I used to stay up past when our parents went to sleep to "raid the fridge." We would literally sneak downstairs, grab some food, and bring it back up into our rooms. It was so so sweet and was good practice for when I started stealing my parents alcohol with friends :)
As fucked up as it sounds we thought it was the best game we’ve ever created when we were little kids. The game was essentially hide n seek/infection. If there were say 10 of us playing 2 people would be the “Germans” then the rest would be the Jews. The Jews had to hide in groups until they were seen, then they could scatter. If you got caught (tagged) by a German you were now on the German team and had to find the Jews. Last Jew alive wins.
So in elementary school they made us play recorders in music class, as every elementary school does for some reason. I do not envy elementary level music teachers, those are some of the worst sounds in the world. Anyways, at recess we'd put them between our legs and run around trying to poke each other with them.
Beat the idiot. Sister and i would play this. One person gets a blanket or comforter over their head and body and the other person hits them with a hanger or stick. The person with the blanket on em blindly seeks the other in a “tag” sort of way. If you got tagged you then became the idiot and switched roles.
We would take a screw driver and take turns throwing it in the front yard. Wherever it landed we would have to stand there. One of us landed it in dog poop.
My friends and I once acquired a super hefty bouncy ball, that was pretty painful to get hit by. Our school had these small wet rooms at the end of most halls that were probably four feet by six feet across. We’d enter as a group, and continuously throw the ball at the walls as hard as we could while trying our best not to be the one to get beamed in the head by it. Kids are stupid.
We played "Tour of Duty" (all girls, for what it's worth.) The game mostly consisted of the bossy neighbor girl telling me I had to walk into the blackberry bushes to prove I was a good soldier. I also had to pee in a bucket with a BBQ grill on top.
Hiding my dad's keys when he was already late for work. I thought It was the funniest thing to watch his expression after he found them in a random place ex. Fridge.
We played in a room facing each other, with our backs against the wall, on our knees. One of us would start by "kicking off" a soccer ball. We had to to volley the ball back and forth three times in order for it to be in play. At this point, we would hit the ball with our forearms, fists, and feet, back and forth, trying to pass the opponent and hit the wall behind him.
First player to 21 won.
We played for hours until our forearms were beat red. We might have bled for this game too.
My neighbor and I would play "going to the grocery store, bye!" My house was arranged around a big staircase so that you could run in a circle around it. We'd run in opposite directions and when we met each other we'd yell, "going to the grocery store, bye!" ....and then we'd keep running. And that was the game.
My grandparents had a fun weird card game called Mille Bornes
The premise of Mille Bornes is that the players are in a road race. Each race—or hand—is 1000 miles (or kilometers) long. For two- or three-player games the goal is shortened to 700, with an option for the first player to complete that distance to declare an extension to 1000 miles. Mille Bornes is played with a special deck of cards. There are hazard, remedy, safety, and distance cards. Each hazard is corrected by a corresponding remedy, and can be prevented from happening in the first place by a corresponding safety. The target distance is reached by playing distance cards.
“Blind dog” We played this on our trampoline. The designated blind dog player was blind folded and had to stay on hands and knees while trying to tag another player.
We also payed a version of dodgeball with one of those giant exercise balls. Two people were on the trampoline trying to dodge throws from the players on the ground.
Ghost hunt: turn off all the lights in the house and then hide. One person stares at a lamp for a few minutes while we hide and then tried to find someone. They are completely blind and everyone makes ghost noises and slightly touch them or blow near their hand or face
Me and my sister used to hide underneath my bed and we would speak a random set of numbers, saying they were spells. When we left the bed my family would all act like they were different people or creatures from some magical land. This went on until my parents pretended to not know who I was and I freaked out actually thinking I was in a parallel universe. Refused to go under the bed again haha
I’ve seen it around now but the kids call it “mantracker”
I grew up in a townhousing complex with lots of low income families and ever Saturday night all the kids in the area would come out to play. I’m talking like 40-50 kids sometimes. The boundaries would be the whole complex (about 2 city blocks) and we wouldn’t have to cross any streets.
In grade 3, I would go to my best friends house down the block. Her mom would be working and her older brother who should've been watching us, would actually be in his room the entire time. When it would rain, we would play our caveman game called "Ogg & Oong". We would run around in storms, rolling around in puddles, collecting sticks for our fire. Then, after we would have enough sticks and were freezing from being soaking wet, we would start fires in her backyard, right beside her house. (We were cavepeople but we still somehow had access to lighters). When asked, we "had no idea who would be stupid enough to start fires beside the house".
I had a Demo CD copy of the computer game Caesar II. I played through the demo scenario for probably hundreds of hours. It didn't really matter to me that it was always the same map and problems, because it was just the amount of content that I needed to be immersed and I tried dozens of different city configurations for maximum efficacy.
The Dark Game. When our parents left the house two of my brothers and I would turn off all the lights, everything so that it was pitch dark in the house. It was way out in the countryside so it was actually pitch dark. We would then crawl around silently through the whole house until you found somebody else and would give them a good whack and try and get away without retaliation into the darkness, to repeat it again after people re positioned.
Another was a game where one of us sat against a wall which was the goals and they were the keeper, they threw a tennis ball against the far walls door and it would bounce back. If the keeper hit the doorknob of the door on the far wall they got a point, however when the ball bounced back the other one or two people could try and take a shot after the first bounce on the keep, if it got past him and hit the wall they got a point. It was awesome.
A third that may be more common is that one of us would choose how the others died in turn and we would all act it out, with the chooser awarding the best acted death a point.
Started out in our childhood, on BMX bikes, at the village hall car park. Then we got into motorbikes - Honda 90s, so not ridiculously fast - and started playing it with whole gangs of players in the woods. (Helmets? Nah, we won't need them...)
Somewhere through the years it progressed to Quad Tig, and for a while we had a variation called Trike Tig which was extra fun - three wheeled ATVs have a tendancy to fall over hilariously if you turn too fast.
We stopped doing Car Tig quite swiftly. It was, in retrospect, a poor idea.
I was probably 7 or 8 when me and the kid down the road used to throw our he-man figures at powerlines trying to get them stuck. And then we would try and get them down.
Dont ask me why we did it. It was a shitload of fun though
Me and a bunch of the kids around town would get together in a big open field down the street from our houses. We would bring a beach ball and the objective was to not let it hit the ground. There was no prize or point system. From the amount of broken bones you would have thought there was. I miss being young and clueless to the world.
So whenever me and my brothers got bored we would just scream out AVALANCHE and then we would all pile on top of the sofa and roll off all together. In the end we were all crying because we never learnt that every time we would do it we would bash our heads on a wall
Celery Commandos. We made little dudes out of celery stalks (just split them to make arms and legs). We put them on the road to see whose would get run over last.
My family had a long staircase in our house growing up and me and my sister would throw thin, hard covered book at each other, someone at the top of the stairs and someone at the bottom of the stairs. That game didn't last long after we both took several hits to both eyes lol
Me and my bestie would get out the plastic set of bowling pins, a ball, and a designated spot on the floor. Then one person would stand with the ball on the spot amd close their eyes. The other would hide the plastic pins (usually like 10) somewhere around the basement where the other COULD hit them with the ball without moving from the spot but would have to look for them.
And that was it, you cant move from your spot and you gotta toss the ball around trying to find/knock over the pins. I miss it i want to make a vidyagame out of it haha
We played “war” with our bb guns. 3 pump max. Mark had a temper, and would always cheat by exceeding the three pump max. Surprised no one ever lost an eye.
We also played “ditch”. The idea was to barrel down the gravel hill/driveway that was about 70 yards long on your bike. Then you’d have to jump off your bike at the end, without crashing into the stand of trees at the bottom of the hill. Whoever got closest to the trees, won. We did variations where we would draw a line that you had to ditch your bike at, and whoever landed the furthest away from the ditch point, won. We had lots of road rash, and 30 years later, every one of us still has at least one piece of gravel trapped under their skin somewhere.
Hah! I forgot all about this, but when me and my best friend were like 10 we’d throw any and all random floaties, pool noodles, balls, toys into the swimming pool and run around the edge as fast as we could to make the center of the water cyclone everything together, while shouting ”STIR THE SOUP!” like our lives depended on it. Once everything was flowing fast we’d stop and ride the current. It was our favorite thing to do whenever she’d come over.
Thanks to my grandfather I could play it on an old dos pc around 1997.
This was my introduction to PC's. Today I work as technical support and in my free time I like to play around with my Raspi 3.
Next project raspiblitz lighting node💪
You would start with one “lion” and they’d run around on all fours trying to tag everyone else running away on two legs. Each person tagged would become a lion as well and the last kid standing won!
(own horses) me and my older brother would go into the horse field and make a random bet. And the first one to catch and ride the horse without any saddle or anything won. My mom loved it because it kept us outside so she could do anything she had to do
I babysat kids that played “Timothy McVeigh” and “Tornado” sometime they combined them together....needless to say, we lived in Oklahoma.
vwato · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older sister/cousins used to play a catching game where we would throw a tennis ball onto the roof tiles, of which would cause the ball to randomly appear from the gutter edge and you had to catch it before the other player/s caught it. This got competitive very fast and resulted in a fair few hard tackles in order to deney someone other than you getting the ball
When I was a kid we had a trampoline in our back yard, our favorite game we would play was called "Bombscile" (who knows how we named it). A few people would stand on the trampoline and everyone else would try to throw all sorts of various balls in the air and have them land on the trampoline. They had to go at least above the heads of those on the trampoline to count. The kids on the trampoline had to keep the balls from landing by catching, kicking, hitting then off.
The Nasty Food Game. You could put a mixture of anything from the refrigerator and pantry into a spoon and the other person had to eat it. You got a point if they vomited. We got super creative. It was a brutal game
I used to play what I called Velociraptor, Jurassic Park had just come out and I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I'd hunch over, tuck my arms up so I had little dinosaur arms, and chase other kids around the playground at recess. I'd yell "VELOCIRAPTOR!" and start the hunt, I'd chase kids until I was exhausted and sweating. The principal later told me to stop because the other kids didn't like it but I never picked up on it because I was an only child and I lived in a rural community who took longer than other kids to pick up on social cues. My parents made no real attempt to socialize me, the school thought I was autistic for years.
We used to play this game as kids we called “Live, Die, or be a Vegetable”. Pretty much, we would tie our hands and feet and throw each other into the deep end of the pool and try and escape. One or two other kids would be in the water for assistance if anything went wrong... as of two 10 year olds can save another from drowning. Genius right? Thankfully no one ever got injured or died. What were we thinking? For a time, we would even tie dumbbells on to sink is down to the bottom. Fun times. I think I might start it up again once summer rolls around.
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We used to walk around holding a mirror upwards and looking down at it, pretending our house was upside down and we were walking on the ceiling.
"Trip Master" was me and my siblings game. Played on a trampoline. One person is it and has to stay in the middle of the trampoline on all fours. Then they have to trip another person to make them it. No idea how none of us broke a bone.
Herbie's and police on road trips. Herbie's were 2 points. Police were 1 point. With lights on 2 points. If you called one out in the distance and turned out to be a false call out you lost the points. Herbie's bus was 3 points. Any of these on a flatbed being towed was automatic win and we would start over! Simple yet effective way to pass time. We had so much fun playing it we would play no matter where we went and how long the trip was.
Wailka · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would run around the house switching the TVs to the static setting with the volume all the way up. First one to get caught by my angry father loses.
We got one of those big fuzzy hats you get at a fair and we had my sister put it on, which covered her eyes, and she had to play tag with it on. As soon as we started we all ran and hid and she ran full force into the corner of the house and fell back like in a cartoon.
It’s possible we didn’t make these up on our own but I have a couple.
Me and my cousins used to play a game we called the “New World” where we would walk through imaginary portals outside and explore uncharted land. (literally just our backyard) One of us would often get “stuck” in certain portals have to get the others to help us back.
We also used to stand in front of the picture frames at my grandmas house and pretend to jump in them. We would just stand there but explain what we were doing inside the picture. Ex. There was a picture of a river on the side of a mountain. We would “jump in” and talk to Indians.
One of my best friends was a girl that lived across the street named Amy. We would spend our summers at each others houses. I didn't have much as a kid, so when she was over we usually played pretend in the back yard playing with our pets. We had a game where we would "build a house" out of mud, various bricks, and sticks and we would play house. We acted like we were married and had kids and I would cook dinner and she would go to work or vice versa.
But. Neither of us played "husband". We were just two wives.
Yeaaaaaaaah, I'm a lesbian. IDK what happened to Amy. But she proved useful in my coming out against the "no signs" defense lol
My brother and I played the "Trip Game". In the rec room there was a fireplace and a loveseat at opposite ends of the room, those were the bases. One tried to go back and forth as many times as possible. The other assumed a crabwalk position and used only legs to trip the opponent. We played this game ALOT. We injured ourselves as much as you'd expect.
okkCon · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Toilet Tag, which was pretty much some kind of variant of freeze tag. If you got caught by the toilet bandit you had to stand still. In order to save you, someone who hadn’t been caught yet had to sit on your knees and pretend to flush, along with a FWOOOOOSH sound.
When I was a kid we invented “Slug Races.” We’d dig around our back yards looking for the best slug, then we’d draw a race track in chalk on the driveway and race our slimy contenders! We each had a stick and could nudge our respective slug back into their lane if they started to cross a chalk line. These races usually took a while, and thinking back I feel a little bad for the slugs. Although the spiders from our “Spider Fights” definitely had it worse, as their matches were to the death :(
"The Trampoline Game"
We had a trampoline in my cousins back garden that didn't have a safety net.
Everyone would get on the trampoline except one person. The person on the ground would throw the ball onto the trampoline and everyone on it could use any part below the waist (feet, legs etc) to keep the ball off the trampoline. If it touched the trampoline then the person who was closest to it had to get off and join the person on the ground. This would go on until everyone out with the last person being the winner.
The fun from this came from having so many people on the trampoline that it was hard to walk and the soft landing of it meant trickshots were encouraged.
We played "Spoke the tire". We would build bicycles out of the bicycle scrap pile (long story) and ride them down the big ass dirt/rock driveway while people stood at the bottom with big sticks to try and throw them through the spokes of your tire.
We usually aimed for the back tire only, which grinds you to a stop, but every now and then you would go sailing when your front tire got "spoked".
airy52 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would get on my rectangular trampoline with nets keeping you from going over, one person would put a pillow case over their head so they can't see and would crawl around trying grab the other player/s. You could try to be quiet and sneak by on the rails or do a big jump to cross to hide on another rail. Or life urself up a little on the net and hope he doesn't notice you.
My favourite game to play as a child was 'drug store' where i pretended to run a drug ring with all my barbies and stuffed animals. I'd give them all ripped up pieces of paper with fake drug names written on them, then i'd make them 'smoke' it or 'consume' it. Strange. Especially seeing as nobody around me as a child was doing drugs. I think I just picked it up from playing GTA at a young age.
Elta. The rules are simple, using couch pillows run at eachother as fast as you can untill someone falls over. Then repeatedly hit eachother with the pillows untill someone conceeds by shouting elta. The game usually ended with tears rather than someone shouting elta though.
Ball of awesome. It started with a simple game of football but it quickly devolved into full contact free for all. You were allowed to have a team of two and whoever had the ball at the end of recess won.
It was banned very fast bcz it was deemed too violent but we played anyways bcz we were lil badasses
A friend and I used to play “Cheetah Detective” on the playground.
Basically, we imagined that cheetahs had been kidnapped from the local zoo by someone in the fashion industry (Cruella DeVille style). We’d have to run around finding clues in order to save the day.
This would usually take place over a couple of days. We’d spend the first recess of the day planting clues in various places for us to “find” as we acted out the story.
It was a great time, even though the other kids thought we were weird. I still think about Katie often.
My sister and I used to play "Dig A Tunnel". My parents had a huge, heavy rug in their room that we would burrow under and make a network of kid-sized tunnels we'd then hang out in. We'd frequently bring in toys and treasures from around the house too, to make it more like a little burrow. The pattern of tunnels would change each game for variety.
In hindsight, the amount of dirt, dust, and other nasty things we were marinating in under there probably weren't worth the fun of the game.
Relesio, it was a cross between hide and seek and tag. You'd count while others hid, I'd you were found you had to race back to the count point. Beat the counter and you were released and shouted Relesio!
There are two bases a fair distance from each other(have to be stationary, we used primarily a tree and a telephone pole)
One person starts as the pickle, and has something to throw (really anything that isn't knives)
If you aren't the pickle, you taunt the pickle, running between bases. If you get hit by the Pickle's thrown object, you are now the pickle.
If you are touching a base, getting hit by the pickle doesn't count. ONE EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE:
If you are a scaredy-pants wimp and are overstaying your welcome on one base, the pickle can point at you and count to ten from halfway between both bases. If you do not leave the base by ten, the pickle then has every right to hit you until you touch the other base.
This game was best played with about 5-6 people in a very large yard.
I used to play "Dodge the log". My preschool was located next to a forest. As such, the schoolyard consisted mostly of grass surrounded by a fence and then trees.
In one area, along the edge of the school yard, there was a fairly steep hill. Me, or one of my friends, would roll this rather heavy piece of timber up the hill. The rest of us would lie down at random spots around halfway up this hill. At the count of three, whoever sat with the log at the top would release it. The people laying in the hill then had to roll away from it.
We did this for about a week, then Carl failed to roll away and got hit in the head. He survived without any major injuries, but our teachers banned the game.
I forget what it's called, but it works best in a field on a dark night. One person looks up at the stars and spins around until they're dizzy. Everyone else tries to run away while carrying a flashlight.
We would take a mattress and flatten it on the basement flight of stairs. One person would chase the rest of us from the furthest end of the basement and we would all run and try and climb the mattress and make it to the landing. Last person to make it was the tiger (person chasing us) in the next round.
Was so much fun, I remember climbing and someone pulling my leg forcing me to slide down to the bottom.
Don’t break the sugar bowl. You would say “don’t break the sugar bowl starting... now!” And the first one to talk loses. Pretty sure my parents did it just to shut us up and I regularly play it with my preschool class and they love it.
If you’re in a room where helium balloons are losing gas and dropping, you can play a game where all the kids run around and hit them so they go back toward the ceiling. The aim, of course, is to keep the balloons from touching the floor. We called it “cobbler” for no real reason. When the first ballon hits the ground, you all lose and Cthulhu comes to claim his prize.
My siblings and I use to pretend the cars coming down the road were about to pull a drive-by on the house and we had to rush down our driveway and get behind the car before they passed. I know it sounds bad but I remember it being fun lol
Me and my childhood friend used to play 'rivers' basically when it rained and collected at the side of the road we would watch it flow down the street into the grate. We loved this game so much that even when it was sunny we would pour a bottle of water out on the street to see how far it got.
We had a garden with a swing set, which had two swings side by side and this weird glider thing (we called it a glider because it had a bit of shitty plastic at the top called a glide guard to protect your fingers from the mechanism. It was like a two seater swing)
And we'd go out after school in slippers, one swing each, and try and kick our slippers off, mid swing, and get them as far as we could.
Once we got to around age 10 we could both hit the house and had perfected the art of slipper kicking so it lost its charm. Asking the next door neighbour if we could have our ball back was awkward enough - asking for slippers back was worse.
Bat tag. My best friend and I ran around the house and chased each other with baseball bats. We had a habit of trying to hit each other as hard as would could.
Kick the Bucket - hide and seek tag but the seeker sits on a bucket to count and then must both guard the bucket and tag everyone. Everyone else works together to kick the bucket. My uncle came up with it at a get together one year.
I guess its not too unique, but Hide and Seek in the dark.
I had a large basement, someone would go upstairs to count and turn the stair lights off on the way down. No flash lights were used, and the use of traps (moving chairs into the hallway for example) were common. The table was the caught area, and if someone hiding could sneak to you and tag you, you were free to hide again. Also hiding under the table was allowed.
We have a pillar in the center of the basement, I once won a round by just walking around it. I have a friend that got into our wood pile and had a winter jacket over them, for 20 minutes I looked and couldn't find them. We got creative, it was a lot of fun.
Two games I played as a kid in Korea... I no longer remember the names but they went like this... First is a land capture have you played on the dirt ground. You draw up a large rectangular area and you and your friends each take a corner. Each person then draws a quarter circle the size of his palm and makes it his base. Then you find a pebble you can flick with your fingers. You then have 3 tries to get the pebble back to your base, drawing line each time. If you bring it back, then you capture the land. If not, the lines are erased. If you cross out of bounds or cross into other people's land, you die. At the end, you compare the captured land size and the biggest is the winner. This is a game you can play with literally nothing. You can even play it by yourself. Our moms were not fans of the game because we usually came home filthy.
The next game was played on a paper. Any paper but something at least a standard notebook size. You draw a map of a country (Korea was popular obviously) and recreate the mountain ranges as well as major rivers. Each side gets a set number of military units like planes, tanks, soldiers, artillery, etc and you take turns placing them on the map by drawing them. To advance the units, you stand a pencil on the unit and gently hold the eraser end with your finger tip. Then you tilt it toward you until the lead end slides forward. Whatever is drawn on the map is how far that unit moved and/or attacked. Some of the rules are that tanks and the infantry cannot cross the mountains and the planes have to return to a point behind your foremost ground units, etc. If your capital is hit (just once or several times as per house rule) you lose. This is a game requiring not only fine motor control but a good grasp of tactics and strategy. Plus you get pretty familiar with the geographical features of the map you select. And you just need a piece of paper and a pencil.
I'm not sure if these are still played in Korea. We really only played these because most of us had nothing else. It was in the 70's and while Korea was bouncing back, we still didn't have most of the luxuries that kids these days are used to.
When my cousin and I were about 11 or 12 our parents let us just hang out together at her house during the summer when they were at work. We played a game we called “sticks” which was just us lighting sticks on fire in her basement.
We mentioned it once at a family dinner and my aunt about lost her mind. We were t allowed to play sticks anymore after that.
Javeyn · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"parking lot ball"
Get a McDonald's ball pit ball (or 3), and get you and 3 of your friends together in a parking lot at night and find 3 empty spots under a street light. Divide into teams of 2.
The game plays like ping pong. Each team stays in their parking spot, trying to kick the ball over the farthest line of the opposing teams parking spot. The middle spot is the war zone, where both teams may enter and try to snag the ball (feet only). You may not enter an opposing teams parking spot.
We had a game called “All Out War”. One of my friends had a finished basement that served as a playroom. During All Out War someone would turn out the lights and we all throw toys, balls, markers, whatever was close at hand at each other. It was like dodge ball but you never know what will hit you or from what angle. There was no winning this game but I think we all lost a bit of our humanity.
lscarl · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd call it "weed" was basically like dark rp from gmod lol. Cops and robbers, would use leaves and stuff for drugs and airsoft guns and random stuff. We'd just roleplay around the house or area, was a lot of fun lol. I guess that's what you get from video games haha.
I don't know what we called it, but my guy friends and I would sit in a circle with our legs spread, couldn't move, and took turns lobbing things, whatever we had at the time, a tennis ball, football, etc, into the air to try to hit each other in the nuts. You couldn't straight-up beam someone in the balls. Whatever you threw had to have some arc, so we'd lob things high into the air and it was always funny watching the victim's face knowing he's about to get wrecked lol. It was also more of like a pain tolerance game where you kept playing until you couldn't handle it anymore. We let a girl play with us once and that was a huge mistake.
My dad is kind of a "tough guy" and he always wanted me to be one as well. When I was a kid, probably 8 or so, my dad and I would work in the backyard and garden together and we used to compete to see who could catch the most wasps barehanded. I would always lose cause his hands were so callused that he didn't feel the stings like I did.
As I got older I learned that this was kind of strange after telling some friends about it.
Me and my friends would play hide n' seek with a ball. When the seeker found you he had to hit you with the ball. The first person to be eliminated was going to be the seeker. Also, the seeker had 5 minutes to find you.
Slapper. My brother, sister and I would all stick our arms out to the sides and spin in circles, trying to stay away from each other and only ever let our hands slap each other. I think you lost if you fell down or slammed into something.
Stick wars. We would go into the woods and collect solid twigs or branches that were small enough to throw well but big enough to hurt or count as a sword. We’d divide the sticks up picking 1 by 1 like a draft then split into two teams of 2-3. Each team took one side of the yard and then the chaos began when someone said 3-2-1-MARIO! I can only imagine what my friends parents were thinking when they saw their adolescent children whipping sticks at each other and screaming bloOdy war caries lol. If you got hit you weren’t out. If you bled you weren’t out. Only when you said “I surrender” did the game end.
Popcorn on the trampoline. Everyone would line up their shoes in the middle of the tramp. Then, on the count of 3, everyone would jump to make the shoes “pop.” The goal was to get all the shoes off the edge without getting hit by any of them. If you got hit, you’d get off the tramp and wait until the game was over. Haven’t played in forever!
"Battle Ball" could be played with only 2 people, but like all games is fun with more. Determine an "end zone" line that you have to pass to win. Then have the previous winner throw a football as hard as they can away from the line. Everyone else tries to catch the ball, but whomever gets it now becomes the target. Everyone else tries to tackle them/beat them up in any way possible so they dont cross the line.
Best fun you'll ever have getting a ton of bruises!
The Floor Is Lava but with 10-step immunity and also only barefoot.
Basically I could step anywhere barefoot for 10 steps before I would lose the game. Socks or shoes were invincibility and rugs on the floor and basically anything that's not the main part of the floor were considered safe zones.
I kept this up for like at least ten years all through elementary school and middle school without losing once but then I stopped after I realized it was kind of dumb to try making giant steps everywhere and jump on pieces of furniture when my family wasn't watching.
Roman candle/bottle rocket fights aren't a thing? No bb-gun + garbage can lid fights? While I do enjoy the creativity of some of the other posts, I am disappointed to see some activities overlooked by others.
We called it the "Wall Ball" game but perhaps there is another name for it...
You play with a tennis ball and a flat vertical wall.
The idea is to throw the ball against the wall but it would have to bounce of the ground first and then hit the wall. It could only bounce of the ground once and then the wall once.
If somebody caught it straight of the wall, on the full, the thrower would be out.
Relativey simple game and I'm surprised I have never meet anybody outside of my friend zone that played it.
Please tell me you've heard of it and have a better name?
Basically a game that was a mix of chasing, and extraordinary rendition. Named after the Irish Republican Army who were at the height of their activity during the troubles in Ireland in the 80's and early 90's.
You had two teams one was the I.R.A the other was the R.U.C. (Royal Ulster Constabulary, cunts, no one wanted to be them but they doled out the beatings). The I.R.A. team picked a word the same amount of letters as the number of players on their team. You then got time to split up, run, and hide while the "oppressors" posseed up and made a plan. They would either come for you as a whole group, or split up into hunting parties of 2 or 3. After that anything went.
Their mission was to track you down and kick the ever loving shite out of you until you broke and give up your letter. People had different rules here but we could; fight back, lie, escape, barter, whatever you wanted really but the only thing you couldn't do was give up your letter without taking at least a bit of a kicking or you were forever branded a snitch and your own team would batter you if they found out (Red Arse was often the forfeit, a secondary game I'll get into after).
Being allowed lie meant the other team had to hold you in case the word didn't make sense. This made it more tactical as they could let you go and hunt at full strength but if they didn't trust you they had to devote manpower to guarding you. This is where the mind games set in.
To win, teams took turns as the RA and whoever held out their word the longest, won. Games would go on for a whole day sometimes within a set boundary of fields, streets, lanes and estates.
Bonus: Red Arse is a game where you kick a football at your friend's arse. Usually it was the forfeit for the loser of any multitude of other ball games but it worked equally well as a punishment. One free penalty style shot for every, no restriction on power, ideally with a rough worn leather ball. If you move or look around, the shooter gets another go. More often than not not everyone missed but usually one sneaky fuck would run up and blast it up your hole out of his hand.
Created a game we called bomb island. We had a large trampoline with pretty good springs and a protective meshing that made it practically impossible to bounce out. We would fill the trampoline with all of the balls in the house (This was a lot). Then everyone playing would get in and start bouncing. If a ball hit you then you lost. Lots of fun
We would build cars with those large mega blocks. Make them big, small, fat, etc. But they had wheels and could be pushed. I unfortunately can't remember the name of said game, but we essentially built these cars and smashed them together. Whoevers car held up the best after a few smashes won.
Got in trouble for that game very often, but it was so much fun we just kept doing it.
We played coffin racing, we lived on the top of a hill and had skateboards, one day our parents bought some flat pack furniture which was around the size and shape of a coffin. There were a few boxes and we would race one another whilst inside the box and on the skateboard. We almost got hit a couple of times by cars but it was a good adrenaline rush!
Not so much a game as it was a ritual. My friends and I in high school used to do this thing where we'd take the newspaper into my driveway and set it on fire, then dance around it in our underwear. Lots of laughs from that.
Usually played around 2 a.m.
The dumbest game ever. There is a person who is “it” and in the sand part of the play ground and not on the play structure itself. This person has their eyes closed... yes I know this is not wise. The the others are on top of the play structures trying not to get tagged by the person who is it. These people are the “spiders”. If one of the spiders drops down to the sand to move from structure to structure, the person who is it can call out “spiders on the ground?” The spiders then have to say yes or no ( telling the truth). If no one is on the ground then the it person continues on as usual. If they say yes, the it person can then open their eyes and chase the individual that is on the ground.... I nearly broke my nose running straight into a play ground pole. I’m an idiot.
We'd build a large donut-shaped fort made out of snow in the middle of an adjoining field. One kid would stand inside the middle as defender, with the goal of everyone else to get inside. The person in the middle would defend as much as possible as all the other kids would team up and plan ways to get inside. I can remember diving headfirst over this 3-4ft high wall (depending on our age) and getting repelled back at the last second. Was exhausting but so fun.
"Rescue Squad".
It was always so cold getting out of the bath, the siblings would see you leaving the warm comfort of the bathroom and run to cover you with blankets so that you would stay cozy.
We would trap a bee in empty water bottles and put a slight amount of water in with them. Then we would shake them around for a while before emptying the bottle over one of those outside fans, shredding the bee.
When me and my friend were 6-8 years old, we were huge Star Wars fans. I had one of those Nerf Bows and a telescopic plastic light saber. We would go in my mom’s backyard and take turns shooting the Nerf bow at each other while the other person tried to deflect the arrow with the lightsaber. Awesome sound effects included.
Called it "I love a parade." We would take turns lying on our backs while, usually, my two brothers and stepdad would take turns walking on and over my stomach while saying I love a parade every time you step on the stomach
My brother and I would get a long white socks then stuff another set of balled up socks inside. We'd grab a pillow as a shield and then start trying to hit each other with the socks. Kinda like a medieval mace.
The other game my siblings and I played was stuffed animal war. Set up 2 bases and toss beanie babies and other stuffed animals at each other.
When my parents' TV broke they got rid of it, so the entertainment center had an empty space big enough for a kid to sit in. My 3 siblings and I would take turns being the "TV" and act out different programs. The siblings on the couch would "change the channel" so the TV-kid would have to start doing something new. Sometimes they would change it to the Spanish channel so we would say gibberish and pretend we knew the language.
Probably too late lol
Me and a friend used to play "Adventure." We had some super wild imaginations and would run around the play ground at recesses imagining different scenarios. The most memorable one was the submarine with the sea creature that we pretended broke a hole in the sub and made a nest. Neither of us will ever forget when I said "holy crap there's a hole in the wall!" We were like 8, and "crap" was apparently a bad word so it was really funny. We laughed nonstop the rest of the day lol.
We also imagined that the hopscotch lines painted on the black top were our houses and each square was a room.
Also, bark pizzas. We made a whole bakery out of using different shades of bark (wetter bark was darker so we used that as cheese toppings or chocolate frosting on cakes) and eventually got a couple other classmates to join us and set up a menu and everything.
"Stupid News" was one game we made up that we got really invested in. We pretended we were on a live audience news cast and would write scripts and have people from the audience join in talk shows.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha “ghost game” we would throw a blanket over a player and about 2 to 3 others would run away and defend their self against the ghost. Usually ended up in someone just tackling the ghost 😂
My brother and I used to compete to see who could jump down the most steps of our staircase. It was fun until one day I jumped down 7 steps and injured my big toe.
The name of our game is called Intense. In the playground of our apartment building we have a rectangular space to run around. There's a tagger in the middle of the ground and all the players have to run across from one side of the wall to the other. We set up safe zones in each end where the players much reach. The tagger has to try to tag as many people during each round. 1 round consists of going from one side of the wall to the other then run back without getting tagged. If you do get tagged you are out for the round and must wait next round at the starting point. Once you are tagged twice or 3 times if we agreed you deserve a slight handicap, you are the new tagger. When there is a new tagger, all old tags are forgiven and you start fresh.
We played hide the rat. We had a fake rat that we would hide in various places. When you found it, you had to hide it. The object was to see who could get the finder to scream.
We still play it with my kids. Currently- the rat is in our chest freezer.
Okay so this is pretty dark and weird, now that I think of it. So I was born in Mumbai, India and there train accidents were pretty common, you know people getting hit while crossing tracks and stuff. So I remember a man died in an accident when I was around 6. We heard of that incident and my neighbor and I used to play the train accident. Where one of us is the guy trying to cross the rails and other one is a train and has to smash the guy crossing.
I had this modified game of red light green light I'd play with my babysitters. I'd yell out a color like orange or blue and it would be something like hop on one foot or crawl instead of just running or walking, I always changed it up
My brothers and I would roll up magazines and newspapers and wrap them up in different colors of duct tape to make clubs. Then we'd chase each other around the house and beat each other with them.
Knee Ball!! My sisters and I (one on one each time) would stand a few blocks of sidewalk away from each other in my dads front yard with a kickball or basketball. With the right amount of air in the basketball we could have it go flying! We would pass the ball back and forth with our knee, having it bounce one time before the other player could use their knee to pass it back. We had to keep it straight so it would stay on the side walk and once we got really good we would be able to stand much farther away and have it sail to each other.
Me and my cousins went to the beach and marked the sand to represent buildings like drugstore, hospital, mall etc.
Then we grabbed leaves and used them as money. Every cousin (which were at least 12) had their especific job at our “city” and I was the baker :D
MiGSRK · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine who lived just down the road played a game called “Jet Wars”. We were basically these Navy Seals/Army Ranger pilots who were engaged in the worldwide conflict that had creatively been named Jet Wars. We pretty much just ran around acting as though we were piloting our badass fighter jets, periodically having to land and take out enemies in trees or underground where our jets couldn’t reach.
My favorite concept to come out of that game was “air brakes”. For when the jets had to stop. In mid air. And just... stay there, as though parked.
Rigor mortis. You would sneak up on your victim and wrap yourself around them yelling rigor mortis and you had to get out of their grip. Another one we liked to play was hide the body. Someone pretends to be dead and you hide the body, pretty self explanatory I guess.
My brother my adopted aunt and me all pretended like we were ninjas with elemental powers and fighting dark ninjas and I always told them it was just a game but they told me it was real and I was the youngest so I believed it even though none of us ever showed any signs of having powers except my brother claimed he summoned the thunderstorm we had back then
As a passenger in the car I used to tap and/or hold down my feet to match the two oncoming yellow dashes/straight lines in the middle of the road guitar hero style
It was a game called "Prisoner" in elementary school, played on a volleyball court with a volleyball. You had two teams on either side and the object was to throw the volleyball over the net to the other side without touching the net (ball or your body) and not have the other team catch it.
If the other team caught the ball, you were out, or a prisoner, and would stand off the court to the side. If you threw it and it touched them but they didn't catch it. They were out. If one of your teammates was a prisoner but you caught a ball the other team threw, they came back in. This continued until all members of a team were out.
It used to get pretty epic when your entire team was prisoners and you finally, finally caught the ball they'd ALL get to come back in. So many memories about this game but I've never heard of anyone playing it other than people who went to my school.
"King of the Circle" - Draw a circle in the dirt around a group of guys. Count to three, and start shoving. Last one in the circle, without a broken bone wins.
Variant - "King of the Dirt Pile" - Same idea, except we all started atop a huge pile of dirt that was going to be used for re-surfacing a local baseball field. Lots of tumbling down the hill. Hard to understand how someone wasn't seriously injured.
We played “rugby soccer” having little grasp of the rules of either rugby or soccer. Basically this was a three person game of soccer with only one goal, wherein the goalie defended against both other players. The two playing for points could not touch the ball with hands, but tackles, trips, and virtually all forms of assholery were otherwise permitted.
Winner was first to ten or last to cry/give up. Loser rotated to goalie position. Play continued until everyone was sick of being beat up. I don’t remember ever keeping track of an overall winner for the day.
"Murderer". We went to the third floor of our house and everyone got a card. Each card corresponded to a role with different abilities - the doctor could heal people, the detective could turn the lights on for two seconds at a time, the sheriff was the only person who could take down the murderer, etc. Whoever got the ace was the murderer, then we turned the lights off and everyone tried to hide while the murderer tried to "kill" everyone by slowly knocking them down to the ground. It was super fun, some of my funniest memories are from playing that game, such as my brother climbing out the window onto a small ledge that connected to a bathroom and performing a crazy sneak attack on one of our friends.
When I was young (like age 3-6) we lived close to some very good family friends of ours, so our parents took turns watching the other's kids so the other parents could have a night out. The other kids (my brother, and then our 3 friends who were siblings to each other) and I played a game that was like tag, except the seeker had to have a blanket over their head. I don't remember what we named it but it was basically like marco polo without the "marco" and "polo" calls.
Anyways, there was one night we were playing and I became the seeker. At that time, I was like 4 or 5, so my face was right at windowsill height in our house. You can probably see where this is going. I was running around chasing people (blindly) with a blanket over my head, and I smack my head on a windowsill.
Blood everywhere, parents of our friends have to come pick them up, 3 am hospital visit, etc. Yeah, in retrospect, it wasn't a very smart game.
TL;DR: played a blind seeker tag game when I was little and I ran into a windowsill and split my head open
We played Pokemon at summer camp. One of us would be the trainer and the other dozen of us would pretend to be Pokemon.
This was about the time the first movie came out, so we all had either a toy pokeball that would open up or the case for the gold Pokemon plaques that came from Burger King.
As I recall you could attack the person that was the trainer, but you were on his side if he hit you and the pokeball opened. Ah, nostalgia.
Not really a game but when riding in the car I would always pretend I was on a dirt bike riding beside us. I would pretend to hit the ditches and use them as jumps or see how long I could wheelie between hydro poles.... I still find myself doing it now and I’m 30.
We tied two GT's (they are the toboggans on three skis with steering wheels) on 15 ft ropes to the back of a snow mobile. Then we would ride around the the field trying to push/pull/ram/throw the other other person off their GT. Jumping on the other person's GT and throwing them off was fair game and if we were lucky there would be big drifts along the fence line we could try and ram the outside person off of. If you managed to hold on and pull yourself back onto your GT you were safe.
We had rules in place for safety such as no faster than 40kph, everyone wears helmets with face masks, and if we had a fourth person they would sit backwards on the snow mobile to let the driver know right away when someone falls off.
If you've ever heard of the book series Warrior Cats, my friends roleplayed as our OCs and we would go to the forest/field nearby as it was the perfect setting. We followed all the rules and even split up and played by ourselves because we were all part of different 'clans'. One time when my friend got hurt we even tried to use the herbs from the book, which resulted in me rubbing moss on my friend's open wound.
I also played a form of tag called Wallaby's with my sibling and neighbor where you had to jump like a Wallaby and pretend you're eating grass or whatever, and another person would play as the hunter. You had to sneak up on the Wallaby and the other player couldn't move if you didn't make any noise (which was almost impossible). If the Wallaby saw you, they could hop to the safe zone (grandma's garden) and the hunter had their own safe zone (grandma's OTHER garden) that mostly just served as a place for me to pout, since I fucking sucked at the game. We aren't Australian, by the way, and I have no idea why we chose Wallaby as the animal.
jibur · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Improv was what we called it. It's two players, player 1 gives you scenarios to choose from, we did zombies, aliens, or monsters mostly. Player 2 basically plays themselves in the imagination improv world as player 1 guides them through the game world. It's basically a no dice DND with little actual plot. But it's a big time waster if you have a good story teller for player 1
My brother and I used to play this game in out backyard with our neighbors. Split into two teams, one would punt the football to the other and you had to make it to the "end zone" before getting tackled. If you got downed you would then punt it to the other team. Rinse and repeat! I remember having a blast with this game changing and creating different rules each time we played outside the base game.
My sister and I would play “tongue or finger”, which now sounds WAY dirtier than it was. Player 1 closed their eyes and player 2 would touch player 1’s arm with either their tongue or finger. Player 1 had to guess which. We used a wet finger or dry tongue to confuse them. Spent whole mornings playing that game.
When I was like 8 or 9, the girl next door (well, 3 houses down; the less said about her the better), her brother and I would play a game called SPUD. A lot of kids probably played it, but I feel like it's not considered a traditional game.
It's like Freeze Tag and Dodgeball rolled into one, but instead of chasing each other like maniacs, everyone freezes in place after the ball is recovered during play, and the person with the ball has only 4 steps (for each letter in SPUD) to reach a target and try and hit them with the ball without it being caught.
My buddies and I played this “game” called shining. We would tell our parents we were having a sleepover and head to my buddies house with backpacks full of camo clothes, ghillie suits, flash lights, etc and wait till it got dark. We had a spot in the woods about 400 feet from the road. We would hide and wait for cars To pass by then shine flash lights at them, and we would do this game for 5-6 hours sometimes. It was a harmless game IMO, we were very far from the road but close enough that we thought it would at least freak people out. We played this game at the age of 14-16.
One night, we shined a cop on accident. We had rules to not shine or fuck with cops, because that could mean bad news. We thought it was a taxi, so we jumped up and got especially “shiny” to the vehicle, and to our horror the reflective stickers read “SHERIFF” on the side. About one second later an incredibly bright light shined back at us, and we freaked. We had escape plans, and even a map setup of the neighborhood and different escape routes we could use. We sprinted away and the Deputy turned his lights on in pursuit, I ran to a nearby house and hid in a mulch bed, and my friends (3 others) all ran different ways. I distinctly remember one friend who CLIMBED A TREE.
About an hour later, I hear my buddy yelling for me, but he is walking with 2 Deputies. He kept saying it was ok to come out, so about 10 minutes later I came out after I heard my other friends over by the other cops. Apparently they were already coming to investigate the disturbance we were causing, and knew they were right when we ended up doing it to them😂they asked us what we were doing and we told them flashlight tag, which they believed. They said what we did wasn’t technically illegal, but it was a gray area so they spooked us by saying they’d charge us if caught again. The icing on the cake was they told my buddies mom, and we never shined again because crossing her meant you would most definitely get snatched up.
I definitely do not recommend shining these days, we did it over a decade ago, someone may think you’re a domestic terrorist now haha.
Lived in a new apartment complex where a lot of young couples bought apartments, so we had lots of kids as families grew.
Anyway, we would go to the staircase, sit in different stairs while one would go to top floor with a glow in the dark bouncy ball, the we would take our hats off, the kid on the top floor would throw the ball as hard as he could and we would wait, if the ball ended up inside the hat of someone, that someone would win.
We would also play tag, in the staircase, in the dark, but we eventually stopped when one of the kids decided to fall down from the second floor... After that we would just play soccer or something outside.
My brothers and I used to have a pail full of bouncy balls. We would go into the bathroom and shut off all the lights, everyone grabs a handful of bouncy balls and starts throwing them! Very terrifying!
In high school, my friends and I would get in a circle in a field and throw our phones at each other full speed and you had to try and catch each other phones.
Friends and I used to play a game called "kammo", finnish for dread or horror. My childhood home had a basement with a longish corridor and a random hobby/storage room at the end. We would take turns waiting at the top of the stairs while the rest of us hid within the various cabinets and coat racks in the hallway and the room. When the hiders were ready the lights would be turned off and the one waiting would have to get to the 'end' without getting spooked while the hiders were trying to scare them. As we got older the game evolved with us and eventually it wasn't anymore about getting scared but instead about just taking the one down and beating them with various (usually soft) toys and things.
“WASHING MACHINE” me and my brother shared a room as kids and we had this game where we’d put our underwear on our heads and socks on our hands and then take these two mouse stuffed animals that had Velcro hands and we’d pretend they were scuba tanks. We would gather all our stuffed animals and through them behind the headboard of one of our beds. Then one would have to dive off the bed into the “water” (blue carpet” and retrieve all the animals. Don’t ask me why it was called washing machine it just made sense to us lol.
For whatever reason my sister and I loved to annoy my dad. The fastest way to do that was playing the “Two Things” game, only rule was you had to see two of something and say “Two ____ you’re it!” So it’d be, “Two cars you’re it!”
“Two trees you’re it!” Back and forth for probably only 5 minutes before he’d yell at us. We’re both in our twenties and still do it to this day lol
I don’t know if it ever had a name but my friends and I would just choke each other out until someone tapped out or almost turned purple. Which usually was the case because we pretended to be such tough shits.
It really worried our teachers because we actually had someone pass out on us.
My older brother and I played a game called “donkey” where I would get on his back and he would do everything he could to get me off. Smashing me into things, spinning like a madman, pull some WWE moves, anything. If we were in the pool while we were playing he would lowkey try to drown me. Sounds like I was just getting my ass kicked but it was actually insanely fun
I used to get tracing paper and a map book. I loved tracing the borders of nations on the map and then colouring them in. Was part the attraction of the multi coloured continent at the end but also knowing capital cities. Did this for a good couple of years from around 5 or 6
DaRush · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved to build forts with my friends we all had great ideas on where things should go until i realized i had to do all the work because my friends were make believe, they were awesome though!
Every night when our mom sent us to bed, my little brother and I would race upstairs, climbing over each other, holding legs, pushing and clawing to be the first one to the top. The one that made it first was named “Champion of Upstairs.”
The best part about losing is that the next night you had a shot at the title.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mirror - We would take a handheld or half length mirror and hold it while we looked into it and pretended to walk on the ceiling. Stepping over the doorways as we went.
It wasn’t really a game, just a really weird thing my best friend and I would do when we were kids. My house used to have a small walk in pantry with a path down the middle and shelving on either side. For some reason, that was me and my friend’s favorite place to hang out for a while. We would lay down on the ground under the shelves, snack on dry spaghetti noodles and powdered sugar, and make plans to live in there during our summer break. My dad would walk in while he was making dinner and just be like “oh, hey girls”, grab what he needed, and shut the door back behind him. I crack up thinking about it now because....why?!
I used to “drown” box elder bugs in a cup of water until they stopped moving. Then I would give them mini bug cpr and blow on them til they woke back up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In New Zealand the fire hydrants are under ground and have a yellow cover over them with the letters FH printed on them.
So when we would be out walking, the first person to see one and stand on it got a "free hit", which meant they got to punch someone in the group of their choice.
It's essentially a version of hide and seek with a football (soccer).
There is one seeker and all the others need to hide. At the start of the game someone (other than the first seeker) kicks the football from of the ground as far as possible. At this moment everyone scatters and hides whilst the seeker goes to collect the ball and being it back to the base/prison.
The seeker then wonders around until s/he sees one of the "hiders" as soon as s/he does, the seeker must run back to the ball as fast as possible and shout the name of the person they saw once they have made contact with the ball. That person is officially caught and sent to prison (next to the ball).
This continues until everyone is caught or until some or one of the remaining players manages to sneak behind the seeker and kick the ball shouting "KAROOOOM" whilst doing so. This will in turn free all the players that were prisoners and the game restarts.
Note we would usually impose a limit of "Karoom" so that the seeker isn't eternally stuck as the seeker.
Who could stay out side the longest while it was bellow 0 without gloves. We took turns cutting a thick broken branch with my fathers saw. We ended up calling it a draw when both of our fingers froze locked. Had to soak them in hot watch(felt like some one was cutting my joints off). Ended up forcing them closed and I am not joking you could hear the ice breaking in my joints when I did it. Hurt like a son of a gun. We had been 10 at the time.
My brother, our friends from our cul-de-sac, and I would play “Powers”. We would each control a different element, like fire or electricity and would each have a “weapon” we used, such as a staff or a sword. For weapons,We would regularly use rakes and broken broom sticks as weapons and run around our neighborhood playing. I don’t think people would let their kids do this now...
Proxik · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tied a big fat metal nuts at both ends of a short rope or cord and then made our little brother run while we were throwing these onto him in order to tie his legs since he was an ostrich and we were australian bushmans
The camel game with my siblings. We would go into the basement, split the siblings into two teams of three, and put a blanket over our heads. Then we would rush at each other while blinded by the blanket. Whichever team knocks the other over, or reaches the opposite wall first, wins. When we really wanted to step it up, we played "the camel game in the dark" with no lights on
The "pregnancy game". We would have open person lay down on the bed and put a bunch of blankets and pillows on their stomach. Then one of us would go in between the blankets and pillows and stay there. The third person would pretend to be delivering the baby, and in this process the second person would pop their head out and yell "supriiiseeee". We would all die laughing as the person popped out. Just to let you know we were all guys playing this game.
Ok, this might sound weird, but when I saw the question, I couldn't resist.
Me and my friend used to play a game we called 'Ossenstaartensoep', or 'oxtail soup' - but I guess it works better in Dutch. We would run around the house (outside), trying to see the other one first. Whoever saw the other one first, yelled 'Ossenstaartensoep' as loudly as possible and won that round. We didn't even keep score, we just proceeded to literally roll on the floor laughing our asses off every time. Ok, maybe not literally for that last part. That's it, that's the whole game. Kept us busy for hours on several afternoons.
Told you it was weird, but somehow this is a really fond memory for me.
My uncle and aunt used to make me play possum when they babysat me. You lie down under a blanket in a dark room and if you talk, you loose the game. Looking back, this was just a way to force me to take a nap.
My sister and I used to play "vet"; we would line up our stuffed animals and dolls on the couch and play Dr.Mario on the SNES. If we won the level, the patient survived. If we got a game over, the stuffed animal was tossed behind the couch and we heelped the next one.
We weren't very good at Dr. Mario unfortunately...
Roof tennis, though it would probably be closer to racket ball. We'd play in the driveway. Use the garage roof (3 stall). It slooped to the front and back. Simple game one person hits it up the other person has to hit it back before it hit the ground. Has to land in the drive way for point for sender otherwise receiver gets poiny. The sender could hit it again to recover if they send it over the roof or to far off the edge towards grass. Made for some fast moving through the garage to the backyard to try and save. Almost never worked but when it did it was awesome.
Me and my uncle (1 year older than me) had this Spiderman toy that would ride around on a little motorcycle with a working headlight. We used to turn all the lights off in the room, cover the window, and turn the toy on so it'd drive around and turn randomly while shining the headlight on stuff. We had to try not to get spotted by the light. That game got intense
the go-to game i played with my brothers was the last letter game. loser had to dress up in an old mr potato head halloween costume for a day if they lost.
for context, we played this game while in line for theme park rides, waiting for tables at restaurants, and on long car rides. our parents forced us to take it off for family pictures for christmas cards and stuff but there’s probably at least one candid of each of us looking grumpy in a mr potato head suit at the beach somewhere in storage.
My brother and I played a game called “fingers” basically we made little people with our index and middle fingers and went on adventures. Almost daily for years—“you wanna play fingers?”
Yeah we didn’t have any toys so we had to get creative.
We called it Lap Tag. Basically, half the people sit in a big circle with their legs spread. The other half pick someone and sit between their legs. One person doesn't have a partner, and they get to call the names of 2 kids in the inner "lap" circle. They have to crawl and fight their way to be the first to the kid without a lap partner, and the people behind them have to do ANYTHING to prevent that. We broke a few noses and got some black eyes doing this, because anything means anything...
We played “flashlight sock murderer” in the winter when it’s really dark. Me and my brothers gathered all of our friend, neighbors and possibly even cousins to play this. One counts and everyone else hides outside. Everyone had a flashlight but you didn’t want to be found so we just fell down and stayed scared. The one had to find the others and “kill” them by hitting them in the head with these wool socks. It was awesome. Still would play this.
My older brother and I would play a game we called "Power Pillow". It was like a pillow fight, only more brutal. There was ONE pillow which we had to fight each other for. Whoever had the power pillow would then get to mercilessly beat the snot the other, while they tried to retrieve the pillow.
Also, my grandma had a pool. We would toss her garden hose in there and turn it on. It had one of those old, heavy metal nozzles with crazy strong water pressure causing it to snake in and out of the water. Whoever got hit was the loser. That things would leave serious bruises.
We would play a game called night sounds in our pool at night. Basically put, one person was in the middle and had their eyes closed. They'd then proceed to dunk their head underwater and count to 10 as everyone splashed around to find a place to "hide" if you will. Then after the person in the middle finished counting theyd have to keep their eyes closed but then attempt to find and catch everyone in the pool. Keep in mind to be caught you had to physically be held on to, not just tagged. Once one person was caught by the seeker, theyd then have to close their eyes as well and both would return to the middle to start a new round. Basically it always ends up that a bunch of people are trying to find one person in the end and it ends up getting reallll intense haha
My friends and I would place plastic bags over our heads and then fist fight. First to get knocked out over lack of oxygen or a knockout blow, would lose.
My three siblings and I used to play the fan game. It consisted of us loading clothes (dirty or clean, who knows) on to the blades of the fan in my room. We’d then flip the fan on and run across the room, trying not to get hit by the flying clothes. Sometimes we’d use storage container lids as shields. My room was a huge mess when I was little (almost guarantee it’s worse than you’re imagining) so it doubled as a bit of an obstacle course, too.
Me and my little brother had this game called KOE! (which translates to cow). The goal was to simply make the other not stand. Pushing each other on the floor or on the sofa, while shouting KOE at the top of your lungs. Great times.
Pancake, created by me. I would roll on the bed or a trampoline trying to hit and knock down my sister. She would have to jump around or over me. If I touched her, she would have to lie down so I could roll over her entire body, there by making her a pancake.
Pat ball and crossfire. One played in the road, the other whilst taking a piss.
Gelby4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Black magic"
Essentially tag mixed with hide and go seek. It has to be on a playground, and the tagger was on the ground turned around with eyes closed, counting to start. Once the game started, everyone else has to be on the equipment. The tagger can only have their eyes open when on the ground, but if they touch/climb on the equipment, they must close their eyes. Once the tagger touches someone, they're it. If at any time someone else is on the ground, like to reach a different section of playground equipment, and the tagger yells "black magic" then they are automatically it as well.
My best friend and I usually stole some coons from my sister to play "dropsies". That game required us to each get one coin and keep the other coins in the "bank". When it was your turn to go, you had to flip or throw you coin at the other persons coin, and if you flipped it over, you would get one coin from the bank. As soon as the banks empty, the person with the most coins win.
My two brothers and I made up a game we called "Papi". Before I explain the game here is some background. So growing up, my family lived in the basement of my great-grandpa's house. My dad (or Papi as we call him) always worked graveyard shifts so in the mornings after my mom left for work, my two brothers and I would go up into the main house where my great-grandpa would take care of us till my dad got up.
Every morning after he woke up, he would call us like this, "rockrchick21, brother1, brother2! Come down!" We would have to go down to the basement where he'd have us make our beds, brush our teeth, yadda yadda. If we didn't go down right away, we got in trouble. Now, my dad has a very thick accent and if you know him, you can recognize his voice immediately.
So the game went like this. One of us was "Papi" and would start in a room separate from the other two would pretend to be playing with toys. "Papi" would yell with their best impression of my dad's accent, "rockrchick21, brother1, brother2! Come down!" to which the other two would respond "No!" At this point "Papi would be angy and say "I'm going to count to 3 and if you're not down here, I will come up there and give you a spanking!" the two kids would run and try to hide and then "Papi" would have to come find us at which point we would pick a new "Papi" and start again. It's a silly game but the kicker is that we got REALLY good at his accent.
So one day, one of my brothers and I were playing with toys and we hear the infamous "rockrchick21, brother1, brother2! Come down!" We think its our other brother so we giggle and yell "No!" then comes my dad's super heavy accent screaming "WHAATTT??!" from the basement. My dad moved so fast it was like he teleported from the basement to the room we were in. Needless to say we each got spankings from my dad and he still knows nothing about this game.
When I was about 2 or 3 my sister, my friend and I had a game where we would sit in one of those big lawn chair beds that fold up and we would jump out while it closed and whoever got caught lost. This lasted until one New Year’s Day where my pinky finger got caught in the hinge and had the end cut off...
We ran around on all fours at recess in a large field, pretending to be wolves. We all had wolf names (I remember arguing with another ‘member’ over which one of us got to use ‘silver’ in their name) We would snack on the white ends of onion grass and even build our own ‘dens’. We also had battles and had designated ranks in our clan.
I’m pretty sure this ‘game’ was inspired by the ‘Warrior Cats’ books, except we liked wolves better.
Fluffball. We would 1v1 on a netted trampoline and the game was similar to a mix of Hockey and Handball. Pretty fun until we got rug burn all over our legs and arms
This was actually a game my roommate and I invented when we were stuck at the house with the flu at age 18.
The game was Spingball. It was a combination of soccer, ping pong, and baseball.
One person would stand in the kitchen and pitch a ping pong ball into the living room and over home plate where the other was waiting. The guy waiting would try to kick it, but only if it was going to be a strike. If it wasn’t, don’t kick. If it was a strike and you didn’t kick, the pitcher got a point.
Anyways, once the ball is kicked and in the air, it’s fair game. There was a linoleum-carpet line from the kitchen to the living room that split the playing field in half. If the ball touches the ground on the carpet side (kicker’s half) or is caught by the pitcher, the pitcher gets a point. If the ball touches the ground on the linoleum side (pitcher’s half) or the kicker catches it, the kicker gets a point.
It doesn’t matter if the ball bounces off a table or wall or whatever, it’s fair game until it hits the ground or is caught.
We had a whole rulebook typed up at one point and a logo made lol. I miss Spingball.
On a beach you would make a little castle with a little sand ball in it. You would do it as the tide started to rise, and then see how long you could keep the sacred cheese ball safe. You could build walls, moats, and whatever to keep it safe.
My old best buddy and I used to play a game called 'Avalanche'. We'd make a giant pile of blankets, pillows, and other soft objects then one of us would stand at the top and run into said pile and try to push it all down the stairs while the other one tried to stop the avalanche. The stairwell was enclosed on both sides because obviously an open stairwell wouldn't be a very good idea, lol.
We didn't really play with a winner or loser we just played it because it was fun to throw yourself down a stairwell and not get hurt that bad hahahah
“Wormy wars” any time we had a sleep over this game would happen. Everyone would put their sleeping bags over there heads so we couldn’t see a thing and then it was just an all out brawl. We always had to watch out for this one kid who would just lay flat on the ground rolling back and forth taking everyone’s legs out. We called him the steam roller.
My cousin and I came up with a game using a shuttlecock and badminton rackets. There are 2 players in a field with “end zones” on each side. The game starts with the shuttlecock at midfield and whoever is decided to go first, scoops it off the ground with the racket. As long as it is in the air, you take turns hitting it back and forth, trying to advance to your end zone. Once it hits the ground, you alternate who starts the play by scooping it off the ground. It was surprisingly a lot more fun than we ever expected.
My siblings and the neighbor kids and I would play the “garage game”. Someone would wait outside while the others would find a hiding spot inside the garage and then turn off the lights. It was pitch black in there, no windows. We would then yell for the person to come in and find us all in the dark. Kind of like hide and seek but much better in a pitch black garage.
Me and my friend used to stare at the sub for a little bit and then look away and we’d see patches of colors around the place and then we’d name the colors and sometimes we saw the same colors. Good times
My two older brothers and I had three separate rooms with all doors facing each other. We all had a bunch of stuffed animals, and we would play a game called Room Wars where would would just chuck the shit out of all the stuffed animals at each other. Everyone starts with three lives. If you caught a stuffed animal that was thrown at you, you gain a life. But if you get hit three times you were out, and you sat in the middle of the three rooms where they could just pelt you with stuffed animals or you could catch or grab a stuffed animal to return to the game. There were many other rules, like jumping rooms and crazy ways to regain lives and stuff that I barely remember. We would play this game for hours and it would take just as long to clean up.
Our family room couch served as the divider with the dining room so it did not back up to a wall. This made it a natural rampart for our game, “Rampart.” Storm troopers and Klingons would always attack the rampart and get pelted with blankets (hot tar) and throw pillows (boulders). The three of us kids spent a lot of time playing on that couch.
A strange precursor to Rampart was only played by me and my brother before our sister was born. In this game the couch was a hearse limousine with a dead body in the back. One of us would drive while the other played dead behind them, and then slowly crept up to scare, tickle, and cause a crash into pillows. For some reason we called the zombie person “Inbreed Grandpa” hence the game name, Inbreed Grandpa. The 80’s were strange and I think I’ve blocked some stuff out...
Game called keep-up. When we had balloons from a party or something, instead of popping them, we would play together to hit the balloon in an attempt to keep it from hitting the ground. Basically like volleyball with no points. But we'd play all over the house, diving on the couch, avoiding lamps and such. It is easier the newer the balloon. After days the balloons relative weight would be higher so it would drop much faster. Maybe the only game my brother and I played where we cooperated and worked together. Good memories.
Zecuel · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in elementary, I and a friend had this fun game where during recess we'd squat down and pretend we were Lada's. We'd even make car sounds with our mouths and pretend we were holding the steering wheels, occasionally crashing into each other and ending up on our 'sides', kind of likes turtles on their backs. We were both childish and loved cars so it was a great combination
My best friend and I used to dump out all my little sisters stuffed animals (and there were a lot). We would then divide them between the 2 of us and each select an animal and then toss the animals into the air at one another till they collided. Whichever animal hit the ground first was the loser and was eliminated. The winner would then face the next contestant. We named each animal before the duel, and of course the last standing animal was the winner. Funnily enough, this started in the back seat of my dad's car during a long drive with oranges. Each oranges name was Octavius (the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on).
Other person (usually big sister) would put a big blanket over her head and arms, try to encapsulate me inside, while exclaiming "BLAAANNKKEETTT!"
Usually on top of our 2 story bed.
I once fell from the top, on to my back and went to the hospital. Nothing severe thankfully.
Battleship. We took plastic bottle tops, put them in puddles and threw rocks at them. It usually ended up in a rock war. Also "hunters request". It was just tag in the dark.
It was a solo game, but as people drove me around, I would flip a mental switch whenever I passed certain things on the road.
Watch a car go by? Up. Another car? Down. Up. Down. Up... Down.
My brothers and I also had stuffed animal fights where we'd set up forts out of pillows and blankets, and then throw stuffed animals at each other (we always lost every nerf dart we got, so this was our substitute).
My siblings and I made up this game called sacrifice.
It was played on the bed or a couch. The goal was to throw/push each other off and say that you had sacrificed them. The last person won the game and was basically blessed.
The “over the house game” one person goes to the front yard and throws a football over the house, two teams in the back yard wait for the ball and try to get it to the patio by any means necessary. No forward passes was the only rule. Dog piles and concussions were common. Typically played this game after a good snowfall so that tackling each other didn’t hurt as much.
I played a game we just called the "scissor game". My dad would lay flat on his back but with his legs spread like open scissors. You had to hop into the center of his legs and hop to the other side for a point. The catch is that my dad would attempt to trip us by closing his legs when we hopped into the middle. Played that for hours. Now that im older I'm sure my dad played it with us to tire us out for bed time.
The other one was "snakes in the dark". Which was pretty much hide and seek in a completely dark basement. So you had to find people by touch and sound.
We used to play "La Patadita" loosely translated means "The Little Kick". 2+ players to play. You would throw a baseball size ball and bounce it of the wall. If it hit you on rebound and you didn't catch it, everybody would turn on you and kick you until you ran to safety (touch the wall). If you caught the ball, then everyone kicks the thrower until he or she reached safety. Simpler times. 😀
_FXR_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This should probably be in r/confession...but when me and my friends were 15 and wanted a drinking game we all went to the pet store and picked out a beta fish. My buddy took his dads massive glass patron bottle that was a decoration and we filled it with water and threw all the fish in waiting for them to fight and the shots to commence...about 4 hours went by and we all just started drinking anyways and when we woke up the next morning it was one fish with only one fin still bobbing around in a pool of blood. 10 years later we still bring it up and realize how fucked that was lol
Slaps. It’s like tips but if you did a bad throw or dropped the ball you got a hard slap of the arm and then that’s was an S. Next was two slaps, face slap, pimp slap, then either double pimp slap or slapped on the arm by everyone playing the game. Then you were eliminated. Much fun
We would play tag with a Nerf gun and only one bullet. if someone missed they would have to track down the bullet or if you got shot you would have to find the bullet then go find someone.
Clog the Toilet. The first person slides part way down one of those high sided spiral slides and braces themselves as best they can. The rest of the kids slides down one at a time as fast as possible to try to dislodge the "clog". There's a lot of pushing and shoving until the clog finally breaks free and ends up at the bottom of a pile of kids at the bottom of the slide. Repeat. No points system, just the prestige of holding out for as long as possible against the abuse of the uncloggers. Fun times.
We called it Nautilus for the shell shape. Draw that on the ground in chalk about 10ft across (larger is perfectly acceptable!) Then draw hopscotch sized spaces starting at the center going out. The middle is finish, the outermost space is start, if you make it to the inside, you get to mark a space as yours. If you eff up, you don't. People will try to make like 4 spaces in a row, so don't eff up too many times! It's kind of like hopscotch mixed with tic tac toe except the spaces you mark as yours become rest spaces for only you.
my name's lester and when i was young my dad and little brother would play this game called "let's break our lester" which consisted of my dad swinging my brother at me like a bat
It sounds super weird like but it was ok. We had bb guns and we used to hide in the house, shout "come!" and then the other brother had to find the other and we would shoot eachother
Sounded super weird when I brought it up in the best man speech lmao
My brother and I played the Monongahela death worm, were one person would get in to a sleeping bag and they would have to swing there body and try to pin the other person down. We would play this on the trampoline and it was awesome.
Down in the basement of the apartment building I lived at in New York my friends and I would stand on opposite ends, turn off the lights and rush to the other side to flip the switch back on while throwing haymakers
When I was in elementary school, there was (and it's still there, actually) a caterpillar shaped jungle gym thing to climb on. The head had two stalks to grand and was big enough for a second grader to stand on. It was maybe 5 feet off the ground. My two best friends and I played this game where we pretended we were in an airplane or on top of a building and had no reason to live. We would yell "Goodbye, cruel world!" and jump off the caterpillars head.
My brothers and I played “walking carpet.” It was like Marco polo but on dry ground, usually inside, hence “walking.” We would drape a rug or blanket over ourselves to make sure we weren’t peeking, hence “carpet.”
Booby Trap/hide and go seek. My friend and I would rig a room in the basement with traps i.e. items on top of doors, micro machines on the floors, taped openings, tripping hazards etc. then we would hide. His older brother would then enter the dark room trying to find us, all while avoiding the traps. We would all take turns setting up the room. It was Home Alone, before the movie existed.
It was called “Tupple.” I used to live in an apartment complex when I was younger and everyone would come out and play, we had our own group of 10 ish and we’d regularly play soccer or football or whatever. Some Indian kid moves in and teaches us this revolutionary game (I specifically mentioned Indian because I think it’s an Indian game.) it’s similar to hide and seek. There’s a box drawn with chalk on the wall and the seeker (sometimes more than 1) has to count a minute facing the wall while everyone hides. If the seeker sees someone they must run to the wall and call out the hiders name as they touch the box, once you get everyone, you win. For the hiders to win, you just need one person to touch the box before the seeker gets them. (Which was pretty hard to do.) There we’re limitations on how far the hiders could go and also how much the seeker actually has to seek instead of camping out by the box. When the seeker calls the name out, they have to get the name right or else the round starts over. This made it fun to strategize as I would hide behind a car enough to reveal my shoes and switch shoes with someone else to confuse the seeker and mess up my name. Tons of fun in an apartment complex, none of the parents would care about you hiding behind their car or in their apartment hallways, sometimes they’d even help. I do miss those days, whenever you were bored you could go outside and always have someone to play with
My friend and I used to play a game called “sniff power”. When we lost something, eg. A Barbie shoe, we thought we could sniff it out if we focused really hard on it. We would sniff all around the room and eventually find whatever we had lost. Took me a long while to realise we couldn’t sniff the lost items out but by sniffing all over the room we were in fact searching everywhere it could be haha. We were dumb kids, and I am definitely still a dumb adult.
Stairbox derby. About as it sounds. we started with sleeping bag races but by the age of 8 we had mastered calculus and found ways to deploy ourselves down the steps in hampers, baskets, cardboard boxes (thats a bad one, the walls cave in and you roll, not slide) etc. My brother and I are grown adults now and in hindsight, we share one regret; we should of really went with pillows in our hampers and boxes.
We played a game called Oreo. Everyone ride bikes around the cul-de-sac, the thrower would stand in the middle. The object was to hit one of the riders’ bikes with a dodgeball. You could deflect the ball, but if you were hit you had to drop your bike on the side and you were the thrower. Occasionally people would fall when hit, but not too often. It’s a fun game if there are a lot of kids to play with. Me, 4 siblings, and other neighbors played for years before growing out of it
Under the blanket. One person would hide underneath the blanket and then all of the lights were all turned off. Everyone else would hide and the person under the blanket had to Fumble around in the dark trying to find everyone else. It sounds kind of dumb (it was) but it could be quite horrifying because you couldn't see anything and then the next thing you knew is someone grabbing you and you're suffocating because of a blanket.
pephen · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it's unique, but when I was around 7, me and my tween brother created this game where both of us would go to opposite ends of the hall and the door or wall behind us was the goal.
We had a small stuffed ball and we couldn't stand, just kneel and we could only play with our hands, but weren't allowed to grab the ball. We had to roll the ball and slap it to shoot or roll it and toss it in the air and then shoot.
We also couldn't go to the opponent's half.
To kick off, you had to roll the ball towards you, lift it high like in Tennis and before shooting you'd say "Ball in the air... it's on!!!"
Me and my older brother would play a game called "afro wars". We would put these beenbags that were 5 times bigger that our heads on top of our heads, pretending that they were afros. And we had to knock the other persons afro off with your own afro. The beenbag had to stay on your head at all times. Once your afro touched the floor or came off your head you lost, walls were okay. I would always lose because i was 7 and could barely carry it. But recently we had a afro war and it went for about 20 minutes since we could both carry it and wouldnt give up. I still lost.
I used to be such a loner, and still kind of am, so I didn’t have a lot of friends to play with when I was little. When I was in the car while it was raining( and I lived in Vancouver so it rained A LOT), I would track the beads of water going backwards on the side window, pick one, and race my bead of water against all the other beads of water. Then the race would end and I would keep a tally in my head of how many of the races I won or lost vs. nature.
I had 5 friends and I play "possum" where we'd go up into a tree on a beautiful summer night with 100 beers and a bottle of vodka, and we'd drink and reminisce about stories and what not, and we'd drink until we would fall out. When you fall you pull up a chair and relax at the bottom. It was only like a 6 foot fall so no one really got badly hurt. Winner kept the remaining booze. Never lasted longer than a few hours but it was so fun.
We played a game called the dark turtle. In it a child would hide behind a wall on their hands and knees , all the lights would be turned off and the objective would be to make it past the kid with out them touching you, they would jump out when you walked past and it was the most exhilarating thing ever lol
Called it Stilts. Based on a Pinky and the Brain episode, we would have 1 person pull a shirt over their knees and waddle around the house like that trying to catch everyone else, meanwhile yelling invectives and taunts in a caricature Southern accent.
I played a game with my siblings called "Dodge". They threw stuff at me and I tried to Dodge it. I thought I was faster than I was and they got to throw frisbees, tennis balls, oranges and figs at me.
It was a game called Top Hat. It was a PC game probably late 80’s or early 90’s I can’t really seem to find any info on it or any videos of it but I remember I couldn’t get passed the first 2 levels. Also The Adventures of Willy Beamish was a classic in my book
A little back story to start, This only really happened during a yearly party on my uncles property. It was a large property on a river that is big enough to sail/boat/fish/crab/wakeboard/ect, two elderly people lived on the property and were relatives but the way they were related is lost to me now. They were both obesse and had trouble getting around the large and quite hillish property, so opted to buy 2 golf carts to move around the property. During the party they would sit with the rest of the party goers until they would ask one of us to drive them back up ect.
Now to the game: The property was quite large with the house being smack dab in the center with two crab apple tree on opposing sides. The golf carts were two seaters which could easily fit 3 in the front and another 2-3 kids hanging off the back or sides. Because of the property being on a river like I explained before there were about 60 life jackets of all sizes for nearly any occassion. So two teams of roughly 4-5 kids on golf carts, with the life jackets used as cart armour and shields. Then we drove around and pelted crab apples at each othere (just the right weight to get a great welt if you got hit right, which was the goal) we counted visable welts as points. We did this for about 3 years until a kid who was previously to young to play got hit and started crying and we were told not to play again >.> (his mom even made him play...)
We also used these crab apples in a baseball like game where once hit all the peices had to be collected to get the person out before they got home.
jcdmja · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game called “hanging by a tendon”. We would take socks that had been paired up and folded into a ball, and then throw them at each other like soft snowballs. Whenever they hit, you had to yell “hanging by a tendon”, and then the aforementioned hit appendage would be floppy and useless.
Side note: this was sometimes played with underwear on our head as we pretended the underwear were army helmets.
We called it "Night Stick". The goal of the game was to be the last man standing. We played in my half finished basement. Each person would start under a light in one quadrant of the basement (picture staircase in middle of floor with walls splitting it into 2 separate rooms). Each person had an 8 foot long cardboard dowel as their weapon. To start everyone would look up at their light and spin around for 15 seconds. Once the countdown was done a fifth person would hit the lights, emerging you into total darkness. And I mean total darkness. We made sure to cover every little light source. Dark enough where even after 15 minutes in the dark your eyes would not adjust and it would still be pitch black.
The goal of the game was just to hit/touch other people with your dowel before you got hit. Games would go on for 45 minutes sometimes.
Other rules we implemented were "UAV" where if there were only 2 people left and it was dragging, someone who was already out could call out "UAV" and the two people left had to say "beep" within 3 seconds. And we also had a sudden death/rematch component. This only happened if there was a dispute on who got who first or if a game was interrupted (someone walking downstairs and turning on the lights). Basically the 2 people would stand about 15 feet apart under 2 lights and start the same way but it would immediately devolve into you swinging the dowel as hard as you could in front of you. That was actually how we broke the dowels and the eventual downfall of the game.
"The ship"
The bed was the ship and up to 4 people fought in it and tried to kick off others. The game lasted until someone cried. memories...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an elementary school friend who would make board games. The one I remember was a recreation of Riverdale as the board and there were player cards for all the characters. All her games played rpg style.
I am the oldest of three. Once when my middle brother and I (probably 7 and 5)!were upset at the youngest (2.5 ish) we played a game called “moving blanket”. We would cover ourselves with a large throw blanket (it was kind of a tight fit but we would curl up and it worked since we were so small) and inch around the house slowly moving his toys or throwing things at him (or at least that was the plan, we were too chickenshit to do anything that could get us in trouble with my mom). The idea was if we moved very slowly no one would notice. Eventually we started doing this more often, taking things from my mom or just moving around the house “secretly”. We were fooling no one, and I kinda knew that, but it was still tons of fun.
Another one I played with my middle brother was “robber and baby”. This was just us taking turns trying to pick each other up and carry the other somewhere while not waking up my parents (all three of us shared a room when we visited my grandparents, she had a trundle bed and a cot and we were young enough not to care).
The last one I remember didn’t really have a name but again it was when we were sharing my a room at my grandmas. My middle brother and I once tried to undress my little brother when he was sleeping. I realize that sounds really creepy like we were molesting him so let me clarify. We were probably 6 and 4 and it wasn’t sexual at all. The goal was to “mess with him” and see how far we could go before he woke up (it was only socks because we were afraid he’d wake up and we’d get in trouble for waking him up and because at 1.5 he was still pretty heavy for us to try and pick up) and have everyone confused when he woke up in only his diaper. But we only got to take off his socks and I’m sure no one even noticed because they could’ve just come off if he was rolling around as he slept so it wasn’t a very good “prank”.
We were weird kids.
pzzy69 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would collect crab apples that would fall from the tree in our front yard & throw them on the road & watch cars run them over. We did this for hours on end.
My sister and I used to play a game called “Shamu”. Basically one person would get in an inflatable pool and try to make giant waves using our momentum and hitting the sides of the pool. The goal was to get the biggest “splash zone” and get the other sister wet from far distances. Bonus points if you jumped and did tricks in the water.
“Super duper tackle tag” as the name implies, it was tag where the it person has to tackle people to not be it. The fun part was the game was played at night in a grid of 4x5 yards (as in property) Imagine 4 or 5 kids hopping your fences and yelling while trying to tackle each other, our neighbours must have hated us.
“Tests.”
These involved highly dangerous activities for elementary aged kids to be involved in.
One of the best was waking around the outside framing of a tall two story houses and across openings that had 20+ falls down to the center of the house.
Another great one was running over thin ice.
The goal was to not fall through or to get less wet than the others.
Every time we ended up with our boots as swimming pools.
Pure Michigan!
Watermelon ball. Get in the shallow end of the pool with a volleyball, two teams face each other on opposite ends. If your team can place the ball on the outside of the pool on your opponents end of the pool (with firm control), it’s a point. If you get tackled/dunked while possessing the ball, it’s a turnover. Very violent, very fun.
My brother and I used to play a bunch of different games in our backyard swimming pool. One of the most prevalent was like a version of water basketball mixed with water polo. We would set chairs on both sides of the deep end,(about 8ft) trying to either set a volleyball on top(2pts) or toss it through the legs(1pt). First to 10 pts win. Sometimes my dad would jump in and my brother and I would team up for a 2vs1. We played this almost everyday during the summer and it’s truly one of my most precious childhood memories.
"Chicken Fight" 2 people, you had to crouch down and put your arms behide your back and attempt to knock the other person over using just your shoulders and head. I am still the chicken champion to this day.
Tie and seek. The 'seeker' would be tied up and the 'hiders' would have as long as it took the seeker to free himself from the knots to go find somewhere to hide.
I played my own solitaire version of Battleships. I placed some empty shells ln the water surface and let them drift 10-15 meters away, then bombarded them with small rocks. Made me feel super powerful. Could do that for hours.
Introduced it to my 8 y/o nephew last summer with great success. And gotta admit, still found it entertaining (im 30 now).
We played a game called 1000. Which essentially was a group activity, one kid stood at the top of a hill with a soccer ball/ kick ball/ football and threw it at the kids at the bottom, yelling a number, surprise box, jackpot or bankruptcy. Everyone scrambled to catch the ball, in hopes they could get 1000 points, which would then make them the new announcer/ ball handler.
This game, amongst many many other games, was something that occupied our time really well! I miss being young and running around the yard.
I played a unique game - not necessarily a unique “game”.
Anywho, growing up, we always had the game “Parcheesi” in our living room! My household played every holiday, game night, etc. when I was growing up and still to this day.
It’s the “American version” of an Indian game called Pachisi, I believe. So, while it may not be unique to all - it seems as if 0 of my friends had ever seen or heard of it!
I’m from a small town in southwest VA if that matters.
"Roller bat" 3 people 1 batter 1 pitcher and 1 outfielder. Played on a paved road. Pitcher pitches the ball so it's easy to connect with, batter crushes it as hard as they can, and then the bat is placed horizontally on the ground so that the wide end is facing the pitcher. If the ball is caught in the batter is out, if not the outfielder and the pitcher have to work together to get the ball as close to the bat as possible, this is difficult because you get one throw and two steps. The picture then must bowl the baseball at the bat if it hits the bat the batter is out, if not he or she scores a homerun AKA one point. Repeat this process until the batter gets one out. Rotate positions, and repeat until everybody is bored or hungry then compare scores.
My sister and I had this game that we used to play on the trampoline. Basically, we would put a soccer ball on the trampoline, and then jump simultaneously for three bounces. On the third bounce, we’d send the soccer ball flying, and if you were able to catch it while you were in mid-air and land on the trampoline, then you got a point. Probably the funnest game I’ve ever played and we only stopped when my sister broke her foot because of the game...good times
When I was young my dad, sister, and I would fill up Tupperware with ice. We would then run around the house trying to shove the ice down each other’s shirts or pants. It was a fun and innocent game up until my sister ran into a telescope and her nose started bleeding. That was the last time we played.
Don’t have a name for it, but my pals and I used to throw a good dozen or so balls into a trampoline, and try to survive the longest by not getting hit by any of the balls. The balls are lava essentially.
chahud · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a nice trampoline as a child. Me and my next door neighbor (and best friend) at the time played lots of games on it. I clearly remember having intense imaginary Pokémon battles on it. I miss those simpler times
It's like "Around the World" but the second person had another basketball and attempted to block the shot by throwing it at the other ball. We made up a bunch of small rules to go along but they always changed and we never remembered. Fun stuff.
In my back yard there used to be a 2 person swing. Basically 2 seats that faced other, supported by 4 ropes on the rest of the swing set. My cousin and I used to play "homerun". One person would throw an inflatable ball at it while the other would swing as hard as they could in the swing. Depending on the ball, you could launch one pretty far. Any ball hit over the fence into the neighbors yard was a point, but if the pitcher cought the ball, the batter would be out. 3 outs per person then you'd reverse roles.
Basically, it was baseball but with a swing and no bases.
I don’t remember what it was called, but one person was dead. Everyone else would walk around them in a circle and use “magic” to try to resurrect them. The dead person would wake up randomly and try to catch someone before they all ran to home base. The person that was caught would then become to the dead person. Kind of like a weird, morbid version of Duck Duck Goose.
We played RPG rock paper scissor. TEchnically, we will draw in paper 2 hp around 10 bars for each others, then doing the normal rock paper scissor, for every win, you illustrate how to do dmg to opponent by doodle, which will cost 1 hp bar, or save it by call it cast, and only can use another casted ability next win if only you win 2 in a row, and do 3 bar dmg.
Me and my cousins would have intense pillow fights in the dark. We’d cover the blinds to ensure maximum darkness. These are heavy feather pillows we’re talking about. One of the cousins (always the same one) would get hurt, start crying and that’s when we’d stop. We called it stinky cheese....you had to say stinky cheese to signal you were ready then everyone just got to swinging.
My sister and I had tons of stuffed animals as a kid, and we would play this game we just called "pushing the stuffed animals down the stairs." (We were not very creative children.) The idea was we would push the some 30-40 stuffed animals we had between us down the stairs all at once, and watch them fall. Through all the chaos of them going down, many would get stuck somewhere on the steps, while most of them fell down to the very bottom. We would then carefully make out way down the stairs, dodging the stuffed animals that didn't make their way down, then throw the ones that did fall to the bottom back up. We would then push the ones we had at the top back down again, aiming to knock over as many of the ones trapped in the stairs as possible. We would repeat this for hours, with the goal of having them all fall to the bottom. Good times.
My brother and I used to play “ raft wars” every year we go to Florida for spring break at my grandparents house and they have a pool. We would each get a pool noodle and a raft. The goal was to get the other person off of their raft by any means... the game usually ended in tears.
A few come to mind. The oldest was "School." Either my sister or I would sit on the lowest stair, representing kindergarten. The other would ask progressively harder questions to move up the stairs and graduate. At the top of the stairs was "college" where the only question was "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Hard question then, and in actual college.
Next was "Tony Tiger Ball." We had a soccer ball that we sent away for from a box of Frosted Flakes. The basement had a lot of stuff in it but a path went all the way around. We marked off goal lines in a segment of the path and would try to kick the ball past each other. A lot of fun, kind of disastrous for our toes and the surrounding basement junk.
The last one worked as a substitute for hide and seek when we got too big to effectively hide anywhere inside. My sister had a bunch of stuffed monkeys, so we would alternate rooms and hide them for the other to find. I remember coming up with some great hiding places. And I realize writing this out that these were all indoor games. We did go outside, it was just cold a lot of the year and I'm afraid of wasps.
My cousin lived in the middle of a cul-de-sac, we'd ride our bikes to the end of the street and wait for a car a half a block away to turn down the street towards the mouth of the cul-de-sac, once it turned we'd ride like hell back to his drive way. If you made it to the driveway before the car crossed the street you'd stay in the game, if not you were eliminated and had to wait till the next game.
Was called war. We drew a huge circle and divided it up, then player with the stick would call war on someone and they would try to hit said person. If they were hit then that person would claim as much of that person's plot as their arms can reach( you drew from your area into theirs)
We used to play checkpoint - you take something inflatable like a yoga ball or blow up crocodile and put a headtorch underneath so it glowed in the dark. Everyone hides in the bushes and someone is on, you had to manage to run up to the checkpoint and throw yourself threw the air yelling checkpoint whilst trying not be caught by the person who was on.
We had to stop playing when I broke my dads rib by running into him in an attempt to slide through his legs and avoid capture
My best friend and her sister used to play ‘ africans’ as kids, where you tie your dolly to your back with a scarf and carried objects like the laundry basket on their heads.. and looked for water.
Obviously so many things wrong here!
Mistes · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school had several interconnected pieces of playground equipment. Instead of racing "inside" and use the slides and stairs, we would climb around the outside of the playground equipment and "race" from one end to the other by climbing the playground facade.
Drawing game I played with a friend in elementary. Two fighters with jet packs would put the other in near death scenarios. Other person gets out of the death scenario and puts the other in another near death scene. All drawn cartoon style with its own frame. Kind of like spy vs. spy.
We played kingdom game. The rooms were considered as respective kingdoms and we use the things in our room to trade if the other doesn't agree the war is inevitable( not physical fight,can be sneaking and stealing the things we need). The politics of making friendship with other kingdom. I wonder how we had so much time to execute our plans properly.
Me and two buddies got a refrigerator box, decorated it and reinforced it with tape, threw somebody inside, taped it up, threw them on the trampoline and then bounced them to hell and back. We called it “the mewzak.” I honestly have no idea why anymore.
We called it Come to Court. It was like hide and seek, except if you got found you had to follow the finder around until they found everyone. The finder had to keep track of everyone they had found and make sure they were all accounted for. This meant that you could sneak away after being found and hide again. But, if you were found 3 times, you became the new finder. Also, the finder has to say, "Come to court turbolag95!" when they find you. If they get your name wrong, you get to run free and go hide again, and it doesn't count as being found.
We played this well into the early hours of the morning sometimes.
Crocodile Kitchen - I was the crocodile, the two kids I babysat were thieves getting into my kitchen. I’d chomp them up and throw them into the “lagoon” then restart 55,000 times in a row
Several people start running around one target person in circles, loudly chanting “VAULT OF CIRCLES! VAULT OF CIRCLES!” Then we would all suddenly leap and tackle the shit out of them.
Me and my sister used to tie a string between my bookcase to the window and then tie our barbie dolls to it. We'd pretend to be evil giants who kidnapped the dolls (we'd probably been playing escape games with them outside), having them dangle above "lava pits" or "shark tanks". We'd usually make one of the dolls decide who'd get to live or die, it was all very dramatic.
The last game we ever played with our bigger dolls was tying them to these long sticks we found almost like bait on a fishing rod. We'd swing them around on the ground and in the dirt making them crash into each other, we called it "gladiators". It stopped when one of the dolls heads came of, so we put it in a pond to scare our friends in the winter when the water froze.
My friends and I created something called The Shadow Game... In essence, one person had to try trampling and stomping on someone else's shadow, all the while avoiding his own shadow being trampled on.
My cousin created a clue game for her sister and I. She would write punny clues and hints on tiny pieces of paper, fold them up and hide them. The clues and hints led us to the next clue and at the end there would be some kind of prize like candy. This kept us occupied for about 30 minutes.
My best friend and I were really into playing catch on the beach one year. So much so that we decided to invent our own baseball like game, but without bats? I just remember we had 7 bases and one of them was "snack".
My brothers and I created our own unique version of “Calvin Ball”. We tried to follow it according to the books, but regardless it was fun playing a game in the yard with essentially no rules.
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My brother (2 years older) and our 2 childhood friends (brother and sister;2 years older and 1 year younger than me) would play this game called: Austin World (that’s me).
The game would go that I would always be a shopkeeper, or “park concession stand” guy. Then they would pretend to be normal customers before playfully(?) beating me up. It was more of just beating me with pillows and chasing me around our basement to be honest. I can’t remember if I had fun, but I definitely played it more than once.
Another “game” was running around my basement and jumping over couches while blasting Sum41 and Three Days Grace pretending we were part of the Naruto universe. My brother was always Sasuke, with his emo, ~11 year old self.
We called it barracade, and the rules went as follows, humans were able to move pieces of wood to block themselves in a room but the "zombies" could not, and if you got tagged by a zombie, you became a zombie.
The was an old park across the street from my grandmother's house and in the park was a huge three story wooden labyrinth type thing and since it was old the were a bunch of boards that fell off and we would use them for the game, it was probably one of the best memories I have. Nothing was funner than having a group of like four other people hiding out on a room thinking they found the sweet spot and you tag one through the cracks and all of the sudden they're all out
My cousin and I would go on the trampoline with 5 or 6 stuffed animals that were about our size and WWE wrestle them all. Most of the moves were powerslams, chokeslams and ddts. Occasionally the stuffed animals would land some nice closelines or bodyslams, but we always kept our titles as the undefeated tag team champions.
"no no uncle" my uncle would try to sneak up on me and if I noticed him in time I would say no no uncle and I would win, but if I didn't notice him he would rape me.
Hocker. You could use anything you want as a stick (lacrosse stick, hockey stick, tennis racket, pillow, dart gun, blanket). Its pretty much full contact hockey on cement floors. Growing up with 3 brothers was cool.
Does high school count? One the routes home include a downhill, winding, gravel road of probably a mile (given how long ago, that means it could have really been anywhere between 1/4 mile and 3 miles). My friend and I would play game where we'd start at the top and put the car in neutral and coast down the hill. The goal was to make the trip with as little braking as possible, preferably none. IIRC, we'd reach speeds of 30-35MPH
PRO: I learned a lot about skid control and rounding corners efficiently.
CON: My car's transmission died a very premature death.
We had this game that we didnt really name when I was a child where my brother and I would pretend we were researchers in this mystical world that you couldnt see and we hunted down and studied mythological and horror-esc creatures. We had a little booklet we both wrote in that had thousands of pages of mythical creatures and what later devolved into creepypasta and SCPs (plus some of our own made up stuff).
Now that I think about it, it probably was because our grandmother was deep Irish and told us about the Fae and stuff, while also our grandfather (other side) was fully Native American and told us stories of the tribe's worst monsters. It just evolved into us being people studying these forgotten monsters and writing a book on them all.
Smash tennis, my brother and i would go to a tennis court and just try to hit each other with the ball. It was more technical than it sounds thought, we had rules, positions and different scores depending on which part of the body we hitted.
Me and a friend used to put a bunch of things like leaves and flowers and seeds into this huge puddle in the middle of the parking lot of my apartment complex and call it soup. We would use leaves as spoons and pretend to drink it while stirring it with sticks, not sure if we actually consumed any or not... We also used to grab handfuls of mud out of a mud pit and sculpt things on the pavement with them. so many dicks...
The Crying Game. My neighbors and I would sit in a circle in my front yard and recount sad memories of saying goodbye to family pets and such.... with the end goal of making ourselves/each other. I play a similar game now, only it's called therapy.
"Turkey Tag". My friends had a tether ball with rope that had broken off the pole. The person who was "it" would swing it around like a lasso before bashing you, and once you were hit you were frozen until someone came to your rescue. Eventually we got my friends dad to join, and he was referred to as the BFT - the Big Fucking Turkey. Total inhilation.
"Green Goblin" The designated goblin would go hide somewhere outside from our friends house to the house at the end of the block, only on one side of the street. Could be in a tree, could be in someone's yard, trespassing didnt cross our minds. Then all the rest of us playing would slowly make our way down the block looking for the goblin. Once the goblin was spotted OR someone had passed them unnoticed, they were free to come out and tag someone. You were only safe by running back and making it to the original house without being tagged.
"Ghost" Played in the upstairs hallway, all the doors closed and a rope going in front of the stairs (as if that would help). The "ghost" puts a comforter over themselves and all the lights get turned off. They have to roam down the hall trying to catch people and get a point after holding on to someone for three seconds. Then you switch and the one you caught is the ghost. This brutal game resulted in mostly injuries and crying ending the game, as the narrow hallway required the rest of us to barrel down the hallway and mow the ghost over so as not to be grabbed. Once grabbed, kicking was fair game. Sometimes we would try to balance on multiple doorknobs to stay off the ground. My brother fell down those stairs once. That was my favorite game.
"Clubs" We took those plastic kids golf clubs and boomerang-threw them at each others ankles. You had to jump to avoid them. First one to cry lost.
"Apples" we used to sit in my neighbors apple tree and throw the rotten apples at a cars tires just as they were passing so the apple would explode when run over. Wed also sit up there with a whoopie cushion and use it when someone walked by. The looks of surprise and confusion were worth it.
So so many more, looking back I can say I had an imaginative childhood.
We bought a pool table at uni and made a game called ‘pocket’. Essentially you play with two balls and have to slap them into the opposing players pockets, think hockey with your hands. Lots of bruised hands, lots of bruised egos
We had a really long driveway and we'd stand at the end of the drive. When on coming cars were spotted approaching our driveway, we'd run to touch the bumper of our parents car before the oncoming car would cross our drive.
Lame game, but we were homeschooled and we didn't get out much
When I was a kid I would re-enact mini-games from the first Mario Party game in the back yard with my sister. We created unique rules for each mini-game, for example the one where you had to jump on Piranha Pants, we would pick certain weeds and see who could get the most in a set amount of time. We had a Nickelodeon slime hourglass as a timer.
We would fill balloons with water and freeze it, then we would make snow bowling pins. It was less of bowling, and more like kids throwing a sphere of ice at snow dick structures.
My sister and I would sit at the top of the basement steps with all our barbies and other dolls. At the bottom of the steps was a baby gate we had set up. We use to throw them as hard as we could down the steps. Extra points if the head got stuck in the gate, and decapitated the doll.
Im pretty sure my mom was just relieved we outgrew the barbies.
I don't know that we ever named it, but my sister and I spent hours on end making our own water ride. We flipped an igloo dog house upside down and filled it up with water. One person would sit inside. The other person would spin the doghouse around the yard while still holding the water hose and spraying the other person with water. Best time ever.
My friends and I would go 4-wheeling in a huge open field at one of our friends’ farms. But each 4-wheeler would have two people on it, one to drive and one behind him to shoot (paintball). We would all drive around in circles as fast as we could and shoot each other. We called it “Jousting”. So fun. But so painful. Paintballs hurt a lot more when you’re adding the speed of the 4-wheeler to the shot.
My sister and I used to stand on the arms of the couch and fall down onto the cushions. This would go on until someone rolled off and hit the table. We called it "Fun Time Falls".
My dog dug a whole in our yard that a soccer ball would go into (the ball still stuck out above ground). There was only 1 whole but 9 Tee-off locations around the yard.
You kicked the ball, the rest was played just like golf.
We eventually made it an 18 "hole" course, the 18th Tee was 2 blocks away.
My elementary school class was a bunch of nerds. I was in a "magnet" program, meaning the district pulled together all the smartest 30 kids and shoved them in a class, replacing kids as they moved out. Funnily, most of us are stoners and still fairly smart (me being the exception as an academically lazy musician). Anyways
Being the nerds we where, many of the kids obsessed over various forms of media. Lots of kids played yugioh, made up games based off of books or video games, etc. I mostly played with the non magnet kids and this one less nerdy chick playing kickball or basketball or whatever. But the unique games where wild
Warriors led to lots of injuries. Warriors, if you dont know, is a book series based off of cats that fight or some shit. So, they pretended to be cats and claw at eachother and made their own names and role played.
Pokemon was kinda fun, but got old. You just kinda yelled the names of different moves and eventually the judge decided who "won". Basically the same concept as Toontown.
But squirrels. Oh boy. Kids would throw acorns,tackle each other, full on hit people as hard as they could,etc. The one time I played a kid kicked me in the face and chipped one of my front teeth (it was a permanant tooth at that point), another time the psycho girl brought a knife,etc.
Oh and another game I forgot. Memes. Kids had different clans like "pwnd" and "rekt" and "epic" and just yelled the words at eachother until someone got annoyed and quit.
My sister and I played a game called "Fork and Carl".
It springs from a story our parents told us that when they were growing up, their was a creepy old hobo who lived in the sewers of their neighborhood called Fork. One of my parent's friends, Carl, made the mistake of walking by the sewer at night, so Fork threw an old doll at his head. I doubt how realistic this story is, but it delighted us kids to hear.
So to play the game, we would choose the roles we would play (my sister usually took the role of "Fork"). The one playing Fork would have to hide in the closet with a doll of choice. The player being Carl would then pretend to casually walk by the closet, and "Fork" would then have to try to throw the doll at the Carl player before they walked out of range of throwing. My sister had impressive aim, so the game usually concluded with me getting a doll to the face and her inevitable victory.
My friends and I were really into Morrowind, so we tried to play it in real life in some woods in the neighborhood. We would gather berries to use as currency, and built wooden shelters for shops. Also, we peed on snowballs to use as soul gems for enchanting.
Awww man this brings back memories. Me and my crew used to play the Finger Game, there's probably another name for it but whatever.
Anyway the point of the game was to knock out your opponent's hands by putting them over 5 fingers. It's pretty simple but was a lot of fun. Both of you start with 1 finger on each hand, you can hit yourself, your opponent, or if one of your hands is knocked out and you have an even number you can split, so if you had 4 fingers on one hand you could split to 2 fingers on 2 hands. Eventually one of us found a way to win the game every time (as long as you went first) so we had to change the rules to exactly 5 fingers to knock out, anything excess would just carry over (so if you hit them to 6 you hit them to 1), this led to some very lengthy and intense matches on in the cafeteria and it used to get real intense on trips while on the bus (one lil bastard actually fought someone over it).
The game was pretty awesome and after the rule change required a surprising amount of strategy. It was the one game we could bring literally anywhere.
We called it the Chair game. Basically you'd set up a dungeon crawl around the house with enemies (action figures etc), weapons (Nerf gun usually), key cards, treasure and the works.
The key was you were on rails, and restricted to the rolling office chair. The pusher was also the DM, so he'd/she'd setup encounters in rooms and move the player around.
This is how we entertained ourselves on long weekends when my father was out of town.
Me and my cousins would line up like soldiers and our uncle would try to make us laugh until one person was remaining. Usually using toys or sound effects. It sounds dumb now but that shit was the most hilarious thing ever I swear. Once he got out the squeaky chicken it was all over
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We would get a pair of socks and roll them up into a ball, this was the grenade.
Then we would split the room in half and choose our side. The room was usually full of furniture and toys and other random objects we refused to clean up.
Then we would throw the sock to one side and start the countdown from 5 to 1 and the person on the other side had to get the "grenade" and toss it to the other side before it exploded. But you couldn't hold onto it for more than a second. As soon as it got through the halfway mark the timer started again.
You keep going and trying to get it somewhere difficult for the other person to get to so it would explode on their side and give you a point.
It was fun until we got bigger and the rooms got smaller.
We used to play the finger game
Which is great because we were girls
We would mix together weird foods and textures and have to figure out what it was we would be dipping our fingers into
My sister and I played "duty free shopping". We'd line items up on the stairs and buy and sell them. Yes, we grew up traveling quite a bit and northwest airlines was pretty persistent with their duty free shopping advertising
We had this game where we went into my friends cul-de-sac on our bikes, have one person not on a bike in the middle that threw a football and of you fell off of your bike or the ball hit your wheel, you were out. We had a few broken bones as a result of that game. Good times, though.
Scribble guess, we would get whiteboards and markers and someone would try to draw a picture with their eyes closed, and who ever guessed what it was they would get a point. And it would go around clockwise for who when next to draw. If you got ten points, you would win. Good times.
I’m late so this will probably get buried but man, this reminded my of a game my sister and our two friends used to play as kids! We called it “Olden Days” as it basically consisted of us taking any useful props into the backyard during summer days to pretend we were roughing it, you guessed it, in back in the “olden days”. “Olden days” also typically had a supernatural/magic component to to it as we were becoming fans of Harry Potter at the time, so not only were we 4 girls pretending to be women living in medieval times, we were also witches/wizards. Oh also the hose spigot was our dairy cow named Bessy.
As you’re probably beginning to see, we were imaginative and did not half-ass ANY of this game. This typically involved quite a bit of preparation, usually lasting about 1.5 hours, in which we scoured the house for any and every item that could possibly fit the theme and dragged them out to our big maple tree in my Mom’s back yard. This also usually included a stack of books that were going to be our recipe and spell books (duh). However, being the idiots we were we often chose to smuggle out the brand new (and not cheap) Harry Potter books. Now, like I said, this set up usually took 1-2 hours on average, so by the time we got out there and started playing in the hot summer sun we usually lasted a max of 30-45 minutes, at which point we would come in to the house “just to cool down” and then never go back out to clean up the plethora of household items we brought out there.
This is where my mom got really mad...as for those brand new Harry Potter books? Well multiple times we ended up leaving them out there for days during which time it rained heavily, and the books were ruined. Pretty sure we did this with multiple brand new books. Finally mom banned our cherished game of olden days, to this day I have no idea how she found the patience to not kill us!
Bonus story: The big Maple tree we played by was quite a trek (at least to us) from our house, so it was really frustrating having to go to the bathroom mid game. However, not far from the tree was a row of shrubs/bushes at the time. I informed my older sister that I had to go to the bathroom and would try to hurry back. However, my lovely older sister gave me quite a convincing speech about how if all I had to do was pee, I should just go squat in the bushes so as not to interrupt the game, not to mention people pee outside camping all the time, so it’s no big deal. At first I resisted, honestly. But she was a master of manipulation to my younger self and finally after clarifying that this would be our secret and Mom would never know, I hesitantly walked over to that bush, squatted, and peed. And by god, I didn’t even have my pants fully pulled up before that evil traitor went sprinting into the house screaming about how I just randomly popped a squat and peed in a bush. Through tears of shame, humiliation and betrayal I fumbled through the story while my sister laughed hysterically and my mom tried desperately not to lose it too. Fortunately for me (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I had 2 witnesses, our two best friends who witnessed the entire saga so I ended up avoiding trouble. But that day is the day I realized you can’t trust anyone and sisterhood means nothing 😂
I have a whack of siblings and we would play this game called "hunkabunka beanstalk"
Someone would take an item and hide it in a room and the other players would search for it and when you found it you would yell out "hunkabunka beanstalk". Thats it!
My sister and I used to travel from Kentucky to Pennsylvania to spend the summer with our dad. On the drive up, we'll would take turns saying, "I'm buying that car", whenever we met a card or passed a car that we liked. It helped pass the time during an eight hour drive.
Not a completely contrived game but a creative variation I think. My brother and I loved baseball... But it's hard to play 1 on 1, so we made up our own version. We had a pretty nice flat field that had a creek in left to center field, acting as one wall, and some woods in right to center field acting as the other. We setup bases and a pitching mound, then took an old piece of plywood and spray painted a small square on it to serve as a strike zone (the plywood being the "catcher").
So here's what we did:
My bro had an epic baseball card collection. We would sit down for a few hours combing through it and making our 10-12 player teams with those cards, kind of like Magic the Gathering or something. We would also draft up our batting order, flip for home field advantage, etc. Usually we got fully decked out in our cleats and stuff.
Standard rules applied for pitching. Except if a "runner" (I'll get there) was on base and you missed the plywood (catcher) then it counted as a wild pitch and the runner was granted a base. There were no stolen bases otherwise.
When the ball was hit the pitcher had to go chase it down, when they reached the ball one of two things happened. The actual runner (the batter) could choose to stay at the base as you would in baseball, or they could keep running and either be chased down or... As they approached home if you threw the ball and hit the plywood before the runner got there then they were out.
If the batter chose to remain at a base then they were granted a ghost runner, who would advance the same number of bases as the batter when the ball was hit.
Hitting the ball over the creek or in the woods was a home run.
Some changes we eventually made were using a tennis ball so we could hit the runner with it (like kickball), using a softball bat (which is thinner), and home runs only occurring if you ran them out (I.e. only "inside the park" home runs). The reason for that last one is because my brother was an incredible ball player - but he was a tall, lumbering first baseman. He could hit. I on the other hand was small and fast - I usually got singles and stolen bases (IRL), but I had a cannon for an arm probably thanks to this silly game. Anywho point being I could typically run down the ball and fire it into the plywood (or into my brother) before he could round the bases, and I became a decent pitcher, so it balanced out.
Anyway, it was just a lot of fun because we tracked the stats for each game then would go over it after... "Chipper Jones went 2/4 with a homer and 2 RBIs".. I mean he didn't, it was just us, but it was fun to pretend. Honestly I attribute endless warm days playing 1 on 1 baseball with my brother for my whole skill set, which served me well by the time I was a senior.
"Join us" one my friends and I made up during break in primary school. It started as just the 4 of us but then it gained popularity through the rest of our year group (small rural school so only 19) and a few boys in the year below. Was a lot of fun with the higher numbers. Basically tig but you run round saying "Join us", to catch people you have to get them to the ground. Once someone is caught they are also a catcher.
My friends and I were sort of the innovators of the playground so there were loads more but this one was the most memorable
There was actually another one, think we called it squash ups or something. Basically a more painful variation of hammers and nails (first person goes down the slide facing the correct way and sits at the bottom, next person goes down backwards so they sit back to back, next person goes down feet first so they are foot to foot with the previous person, repeat until person at the bottom cannot take the weight, classic Scottish/British playground game). Well our variation started exactly the same but after the first person the next people go down sideways facing left or right (alternating for each person) so you can fit more people on this making it harder
Basecervooball. A combination of baseball, soccer, volleyball, and handball/football. Two teams, one goal. Scores start at 12 and each time you get the ball in that goal, your score knocks down by 1. The first team to get to zero wins.
I guess it's not "unique" but..... "Guns". You know, the neighborhood kids all get out their toy guns and then we run around yelling at each other that "I shot you" and then he says "no I shot you first" and it was basically hide and go seek with arguments.
When I was a kid, I lived in Alaska. In the winter we used to stand under trees after a fresh snow fall and hit it with a big rock/tree branch/shovel so all the snow would fall on top of us. We also used to play tag on our snow machines (mobiles) around the block by throwing a ball to tag the opponents. Good times 🙃
My sisters and I played this game called FOUR! You’d start by grabbing a bat, hitting in on the ground 4 times, spinning around with your head pressed to the base of the bat, then running off to a certain part of the yard, running back, and hitting a ball that was on the ground with your bat. Then you’d yell, “FOUR!” There were no winners.
We had this big ditch near some woods that had steep walls but not perfectly straight up and down. We'd play tag on them. It was like tag while rock climbing because you'd have to grab tree roots and hand holds and stuff. And if you slipped, instead of falling to your death, you'd just slide down and get your feet in the creek
Can't remember the name of the game but basically there were two teams. One team had a word with the same amount of letters as team mates and their objective was to make sure the other team doesn't get there letters. If caught by an opposing team member it normally resulted in getting hit (a lot) till you gave up your letter. If the team got all the letters they won and then the teams would normally be switched about. Scottish children for you
My cousin and I played the bunny game, we would jump on her trampoline and every time a car drove past on the road we’d lay down as fast as we could so they couldn’t “shot us” (there was a fence there so that apparently blocked them from killing us) and if we didn’t get Down fast enough/got “shot” another player would have to get “bunny food” from the phone line pole thing that was right next to the tramp and feed it to the dead/hurt bunny to save them.
We played this every single time we were on the trampoline for years, I should probably mention that road these “hunter” cars drove on was somewhat busy because it was in between two schools
Two guys would hold hands arm wrestle handshake style. They would then try to hit the other in the nuts with their free hand. Challenge Hit In the Nuts, or Challenge H.I.N. for short.
Some kids played cops and robbers. I had a suitcase for some reason, so I filled it with monopoly money and baggies of flower and we played cops and drug dealers.
First choose a weighty stick. Then all stand in a circle facing each other with enough space in the middle to hold the stick out, then throw it up as high and as straight as you could. No obvious aiming allowed..... Just as hard as you could, straight up.
All players then MUST keep eye contact and not flinch whilst the stick hurtles back down to earth. This was the most important rule.
If it falls outside the circle missing everyone, mass relief from all players and increase in tension. Move on to the next person and repeat.
If someone eventually did get clonked on the head, everybody would fall about laughing hysterically whilst they writhed on the floor in agony.
In the event of a self clonking! Everyone would just fall to bits laughing themselves stupid whilst the self clonker writhed on the floor in both agony, and shame.
Game ends usually after a serious injury of some kind.
We had a shit load of beanie babies. I spent a few minutes hiding 20+ animals, and my younger brother had to find all of them. With no sense of inventory, we found almost all of the animals. 20 min later, Ma smelled something burning, and we realized quickly that there was one animal not found. The lobster beanie baby was hidden In the lamp right on the light bulb. Impeccable hiding spot, so good that it damn near burned the house down.
Look at the Dead Body. Someone would lay down on the ground, eyes closed. Everyone would circle chanting in a sing-song voice "Look at the dead body. Look at the dead body." The person would get up when they were good and ready, and with their eyes closed, they would chase the others until they caught someone. We were 5-7 years old.
In our neighborhood, we invented a game called "In the Mother's Stomach." We pretended we were fetuses (though we didn't use that word) playing around. Using our kid logic, we could roam around the body quite a bit. The swing set, for instance, was the lungs. We would have coughing fits whenever someone said the mom was smoking, and we would gleefully jump up with open mouths whenever the mom drank soda pop. The point of the game was to escape the wrath of the brain (always played by the eldest participating kid.) We were weird.
We used to play Super Fumble Football (based on the super fumble cheat code from the NFL Blitz 20-03 game) where if you got tackled you had to drop the football, so there really were no downs. We also had 3 exercise balls on the “field” that we used for rolling past each other to avoid being tackled. If someone hit an exercise ball at you and it hit you, you also had to fumble the ball.
Another game we played was a trampoline goalkeeping soccer game (I’ll have to explain). We used to have a play set in our yard that used to have a slide and various swings, but all the swings and the slide broke so they were all removed, leaving a big metal frame that we could use as a tall goal. We pulled the trampoline right up against it. The goalkeeper was on the trampoline and the shooters were on the ground. There were two smaller holes in the play set that counted as 3 pointers that were about 3x3 feet. Winner got the most goals/pts.
Kerby. Played with two people - stand at either side of a (hopefully quiet) road facing each other. Each player takes turns to hit the kerb, if you hit it you got a point, if you missed it was the other person's turn. If you hit it and caught the ball you'd go into the middle of the road and take as many turns as possible hitting the kerb until you missed.
Manhunt was a big one too. We'd play it in equal teams with a home base in which the running team could free any captured players.
My brother and I used to play a game when we were walking on the street where we tried to split groups of people up who were walking towards us by walking between them. It had a very complicated points system where splitting a big group up was worth the least points and splitting a couple walking hand in hand was the most points, you also lost points if anyone ran into you. We still play it sometimes now as adults.
We had a game called gum torture. Basically one person got held down while another person takes the chewed gum out of their mouth and tries to touch the person that is being held down with it.
“Chase for the ball”. Clear out some room in the house(on carpet preferably). One person sits in a chair on one side of the open area and throws a ball (about the size of a golf ball) and two people battle to get the ball back to the person that threw the ball. The person that threw the ball holds a cup and in order to win one of the people chasing for the ball must get the ball in cup. It was basically a mix of wrestling, football, and basketball - an absolute blast.
My cousin had a large play horse that you were able to sit on. It was really stiff but fairly light. We use to take ten or so jumping ropes and pretend to haul the horse up a large set of stairs by standing on the top and having one cousin tie the ropes to the horse. We would create all these methods for keeping the horse from swinging or hitting into the walls. Played it all summer long.
Im very late but im going to shate anyways. My twin brother and I had these stuffes horses called chunky horses. We used to grab those stuffed animals, get inside of a box with them, and race down the stairs, it was called chunky horse races. We even used sharpies and drew all over our boxes. I think my brothers had a portrait of his horse at the front, and flames down the side.
My family would carry around quarters and every time we saw a bouncy ball machine, we'd get a few. At home we had a basket on the kitchen counter FULL of bouncy balls. At any random time the inspiration struck, someone would grab a handful and start throwing them at everyone else. This would trigger an all-out war.
It didn't matter if mom was cooking dinner, dad was working on a delicate construction project, or people were trying to watch a movie in the living room.. everyone dropped what they were doing, grabbed as many bouncy balls as they could and took cover under the nearest furniture.
i would build “hotels” for worms out of little sticks and stuff, but then i would squish them and feed them to ants.
i realize now how fucked up and weird that is, but i’ce grown up to be a fairly normal adult
Kidnap! You would have 2 teams starting at the home base. Each team would take a car and two blindfolded people from the other team and have exactly 10 minutes to drive as far as possible and drop the blindfolded people off somewhere they wouldn’t recognize. They are only allowed to use their phone to call their team members to come pick them up when they figure out where they are. First team back to base wins.
My brother (8 years older than me) would play “Runaway Pillow” with me. He’d trap me against the floor somehow and pretend to sleep on me, making big exaggerated snores and whatnot. It was my job to wiggle free and run away. He’d give me a few seconds head start while pretending to wake up.
Idk if it was really considered a game, I guess more of an operation. During the 5th grade me and my friends would steal spoons from the lunch line. So that when we went outside we would make our way to the baseball field and start digging a hole to China. Each day one person was on guard duty in case a teacher or monitor stopped us. One person always had to recruit more people for the operation too. So we'd grab a couple extra spoons every day for more people to join. I think the furthest we got was probably like 2ft which for a 5th grader is an amazing feat. Only thing that sucked was everyday they would fill the hole back up with all the dirt we took out. 😅
Try not to cry when other kids at school laugh at my injured head, it’s a really an emotional game
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Me and my friends played Ball Tag.
Tag but with a ball and just two rules. If you got hit in the face you weren’t it and if you caught the ball thrown at you you wouldn’t be tagged. We would play this for hours.
Red card football, where basically there were 0 fouls so we just punched and tackled each other for the ball and someone usually wouldn’t have the ball for more than 10 seconds. We were stupid
Eyeball squyball. You sit upside down in the recliner and someone tilts it almost all the way over shaking it until you either fall out or say, “EYEBALL SQUYBALL EYEBALL SQUYBALL!!”
In elementary school we played a playground game involving at least 30 kids. It was called Raptors vs. Penguins vs. Humans. We all split in to these 3 factions and then battled. It made no sense but it was fun lol.
Kick the can. A form of hide and seek where everyone would go off and hide and the one person would stay at the can (usually an old dog food can) and count to a certain amount of time (usually 30 seconds). Then that person would go out and search for everyone and when they found someone it’d be a race back to the can. If the person who was spotted gets to the can and kicks it before the searcher calls out where they spotted the person then everyone that was previously captured is freed. If not then they are put into “jail”. Once all hiders are captured a new round is started.
My boy scout troop's scoutmaster had some land which was a field by a creek and had a steep slope going into the creekbed. We played a game called Desmond with that space and a football.
One team would start in the creekbed yell "Desmooond!" and chuck the ball up over the side as hard as possible. They would then start climbing up and run to find the ball, while the other team tried to stop them in a freeze-tag sorta way. The defending team won if they froze every attacker (though attackers were safe in the creekbed), and the attackers won if they managed to get the ball back to the creek, with dubious rules on how they could do so.
It was one of the most unique games I ever played, in the sense that it wouldn't work really anywhere else. I'm sure somebody could have gotten seriously hurt, but it never happened and we had lots of fun doing it.
The “bitchslap game” that a friend of mine and me invented.
Two people fight. They are only allowed to slap the opponents cheek and only in slow-motion so that the opponent had a chance to defend himself (in slow motion as well).
Whoever scores the most successful slaps, wins.
When I was a kid I made up a couple few games that I would either play with my brother, some neighbors, or else the kids at school. Two that stand out are a form of Flashlight Tag I called Monster Tag, and a game of Dodge Ball played up against a wall.
For Monster Tag one person had a flashlight and everyone else played as monsters. The monster's job was to sneak up on and "get" the person with the flashlight. The person with the flashlight's job was to avoid being gotten by the monsters and survive for a set amount of time. If they shined their light on a monster then the monster would have to run and hide, but they had to be facing the monster and looking right at them or it didn't count. No waving the light beam willy nilly around in hopes of hitting a monster. That one was usually played outside, and was a lot of fun to play while camping in the woods.
For Wall-Ball Dodge-Ball a group of kids would be lined up against a wall, with the stipulation that you have to always be in contact with the wall. Another kid would be facing them with a ball. Once the game starts ball kid starts throwing the ball, dodge ball style. The other kids have to avoid the ball and stay in contact with the wall at all times. If they either get hit by the ball, or else lose contact with the wall, then they are out. Instead of going and sitting off to the side though, they pick up a ball and start throwing it. Eventually you'll have several kids throwing balls and only a few or one kid trying to avoid them while running up and down the wall, or rolling back and forth across the wall. And every ball that misses bounces right back into the waiting hands of a thrower. That one was a favorite and caught on around the school pretty quick.
There was also a game of street ball my brother and I would play with an old volleyball I found. It was pretty akin to Calvinball, in that we made it up as we went along. Good times. And then a giant game of four square with multiple people per square. Probably a couple more. Usually had a lot of kids playing my games and all claiming credit for them as well. That's fine, we were all having fun and that's all that mattered.
I would play with dandelions like other kids played with conkers. I would hit the two against each other until one would finally be 'decapitated'. They would wrestler type names (only lamer) like Mike Spike or Jimmy Bash. I remember introducing the game to my friend, and there was one 'character' that survived over ten games and he became our favourite so I put another dandelion stem through his to double his strength and keep him alive. I then remember going home and drawing mini comics of these characters. I was a weird and lonely child who just wanted wrestling toys!
"Picadilly", it was created by my older cousin. Basically we would all sit on a chair round the dining table and one person was chosen to go under the table. Then everyone sitting round the table would attempt to touch the person under the table on the nose/mouth with their foot ( shoes off but socks on ) all the time the sitters would slowly chant "Picadilly, Picadilly, Picadilly".
At the point that one of us touched the person under the table on the nose/mouth with our foot the person touching would sing "Sockinary sockinary juice".
My cousin and I would play "animals" in which we would pretend to be animals just to have an excuse to beat the crap out of each other. One time we were rhinos and just kept headbutting each to the point where our moms thought we may have got a concussion, once they found out we were good we pretended to be leopards and started to scratch and bite each other. After that my cousin went home, supposed to be an all day play date turned into 30 minutes mfw I was a stupid kid. Fyi we did this until I was like 10.
Swing-set dodge ball. Basically two people are on the swings, the others try to hit you with the ball, if they hit you, they take your place on the swing. And from your knees down is a safe area, that you can use to protect yourself from the ball. Also, the people throwing the ball are not allowed to throw hard. lol
My family bought a new fridge when I was younger, so I had the bright idea to take the huge fridge box and strap it on a skateboard. My friends and I would take turns getting inside of the box and roll down a hill, off a makeshift ramp, into a bunch of trees at the end of the hill. We didn't have any logic behind it obviously but uhhh, yeah, fun times.
We'd roll out the sleeping bags and drag ourselves around the basement moaning "SLUUUGGSSSS", since that is clearly the sound a slug makes. We'd make slug piles, do slug dancing and have slug races. When we had a greater player to sleeping bag ratio, one person would go around with a white 'salt' blanket and cover a slug, who would then have to act out a horrible death. The 'dead' slug would shed their slug body and trade with the salty player.
My brother and I only played this once bc my dad was pissed when he found out. With each of us on the other side of the hallway, we’d throw plastic hangers at each other. Of course they’d hurt if you got hit and we were throwing them so hard they’d break on impact with the wall. I don’t know why we thought this was a good idea but it was a lot of fun
86Zeus · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chores. It was a game my parents made up. It's pretty self-explanatory.
My brother and I played a game we called “fat boys”. We’d take t-shirts from our dad stuff the shirts with as many pillows as possible and then run full speed at each other. Whoever was knocked over lost that round. Sometimes they’d be so stuffed that if we got knocked over we’d get stuck like a turtle on its back!
scII-H · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a court, my house was on a quiet court in a quiet neighbourhood, it was perfect
2 baseball bats
1 basketball
2 players
Each player stands at opposite ends of the court. One person serves the basketball by hitting it with the bat. Points are scored by getting the ball passed the opposing player.
Play continues until your bones and joints are in agony from the shock of hitting a basketball with a bat repeatedly. Or when you go to swing at the ball and take out a tail light on a car and get grounded (thus ended the final match ever played of this dumb game).
It's basically pong with people. I don't even want to imagine how much I damaged by body playing it.
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Helen Keller
It's Marco Polo but you don't say "Marco" or "Polo".
we used to play bicycle chasey (tag for Americans)
. you basically just get chased by the person who is it, who has to clip you on the back wheel (or anywhere really). we played it on an island that has no cars but thousands of bikes. it was easy to recruit other kids. yes, it always ended with injury.
This game called buffalo with my dad and older sister. we would stay on the furniture which was safe away from our dad or the "buffalo" who would get on his hands and knees and chase us if we tried to get from one couch to another
my two cousins, sister, and I used to play the "Jeepers Creepers" game in the backseat of my aunt or my mom's SUV, which involved three of us going under a large comforter and the last one trying to break in while making noises to frighten everyone inside the sheet. you win if you can get in, and everyone inside tried their best to hold the sheet shut with hands, feet, whatever lol. it was thrilling and terrifying and so so much fun!
I have two for yalls. The first was a 1 on 1 basketball game called overtime. The overtime period was 60 seconds, and each possession was up to 10 seconds. Your possession ended after the shot attempt hit the ground, or your 10 seconds was up. If you were losing, you could foul to send them to the line and hope they missed their free throws. If the score was tied at the end of the 60 seconds, then you went to another 30 second overtime. A lot of the time, it wasn't even about winning. It was more fun to see how many overtimes/game-tying shots we could get.
The second game, called rebound, was a bit simpler. Throw a football on the roof, and see who can catch it before it hits the ground. Since the ball would bounce all over the place, and you couldn't see it until it was falling to the ground, it made the game a little more evenly matched for short people like me. We never came up with any rules, so nobody actually won. But man, we would laugh our asses off playing that game.
I remember one day I found a whole bunch of plates my mother was going to donate. So I made the big plates the Mom and Dad plates and the little plates the Baby plate. And then I played with them like they were dolls, but they were Plate Family. I was a weird child. I literally could personify anything!
The water game. About 5 kids with Dixie cups stand in a line catching the trickle from the faucet until the cup is full. Drink the water, run to the back. First person to let the water hit the sink loses. Last person standing wins.
Both children hang on the monkey bars from opposite sides and attempt to kick and knock the other off. It worked for about one week before teachers caught on.
LEGO smashup derby. We made LEGO cars that were as tough and durable as possible and then smashed them together as fast as possible. One of us would hold a car in each hand and hold our arms as far apart as we could and roll them together as fast as we could. The last car that could still roll was the winner. They rarely shattered on the first smash, so we had to have many smash-heats. The only thing that could be done between smashes was tires could be re-inserted into the blocks. Otherwise we couldn’t smush the pieces back together or anything. We made all sorts of weird attachments on the front of the cars that were designed to crack the other car apart. There was a cheating scandal though. We had to outlaw LEGO-licking. By licking the LEGOs you could create a small amount of suction that held them together. After that we watched each other closely. Amazingly, we rarely broke any of the LEGO blocks.
Not really "unique", we just played hide and seek without lights at night, and other version was basic wrestling at night, and you guessed it, lights off
lolol I forgot about this! my mom use to drop me off at my grannies house an they was all ways some other kids there, we all use to play this game call tickel party. we all get in the floor in this big ball an start tickel every body an my granma an her bf was the refs. we all get in the floor an start tickel an if you quit or you piss you get out of the ball an my granma or her bf get to tickel you were you pee from. The last one in the ball gets to tickel my granma or her bf were they pee from.
In my elementary school gym class, we played "mission impossible." Two team leaders went first and the rest of us followed. It went like this: the floor is lava and you have to go back to the start if you touched it. We'd have objects to step on but not enough to cover the whole way so we'd have to move objects around from the back. Whichever team reached the other side first won. Ah, good times.
My brothers and I grew up on the Nueces River in south TX, a gorgeous limestone rock bottomed river with crystal clear water. We played this game at the river which we called “Pogi”, where you have two teams, around 2-4 people per team, with each team having possession of 1 side of the river. You start with two large rocks (around 1ft diameter) placed underwater in the middle of a deep and/or wide section of river. The object of the game is to get both rocks to your teams’ side of the river, and no other rules... Chaos typically ensues and leads to underwater brawls. Usually the strategy is switch off the “swimmers” and the “defenders”, with the defenders on the opposite teams bank keeping the rock away or trying to steal.
My father and I used to play "cow poker." I grew up in a rural area and all it was is when you pass a cow pasture that is on your side of the car you count how many cows there are and add them to your total. Whoever has the most at the end is the winner. You could substitute cow for anything really. "Mailbox poker" requires much more focus.
My brother made up a game called "moose". We would get down on our knees and put our hands up palms facing forward fingers spread (emulating a moose rack) and violently headbutt each other. Now, looking back, I see it was a great excuse to make be cry without being responsible because I agreed to the terms of the game. Older brothers are assholes.
My cousins and I used to play this game with my Nana’s egg timer, or as we called it, the bomb. It was in the shape of a pear, ugly thing really. We’d take all our toys and scatter them around the house, then set the timer and hide it in the cupboard under the stairs. We’d scream and shout and save all the toys from the ‘bomb’ by taking them in to my Nana’s bedroom and hide them under her covers. She hid it from us when the game got too much (the noise must have been horrendous with 4 five year olds screaming and a random egg timer going off too). She died a few years later, and when going through her things, there was that egg timer, just sitting in her bedside table.
I played the “game game” when trying to figure out what video game we were going to play. We would put out all of our games and eliminate one from the running each time, until we got to the last game. Sometimes we would do 2/3 or 3 times and pick the best of the top 3
My brother and I created a game called ‘Bomb Voyage’, where you got them out by throwing balls on to a trampoline. You had to knock the balls off midair and not let them hit the floor, otherwise you were out - absolute cracker.
Well me and my sister used to play some kind of roleplay in call of duty 4.
We pretended we had a restaurant and an hotel in the map "crash". Thinking about it now was very boring all I did was snipe her from my roof because she refused to fight... Such a strange childhood I had
Me and my brother uses to take our dads white stuff and shove our faces in it it gave us a really good feeling after it to this day I still dont know what it is
My brothers and I would find one or two large fans and create caves out of blankets (which were held up by the wind from the fans). We would then just sit in the wind caves. The whole point of the game was to see who could last the longest in the cold. It was a kind of a survival challenge, but it was never actually that cold so we just played until we got bored and left.
My brother and I would cover our faces with our off-hand, then stick our other arm through the gap between the elbow +chest and make a fist.
We would then proceed to hit each other repeatedly - as hard as we could manage with impaired vision.
Can't remember what the objective was to be perfectly honest. We used to play this game in the middle of the grocery store and it annoyed the hell out of Mom.
We were (usually) laughing our asses off as we beat the shit out of each other, so we got some funny looks but nobody ever tried to stop us.
My parents would occasionally buy long pieces of red licorice, and my brother and I would take turns whipping each other with them. This would usually result in welts, and occasionally blood (if the licorice was stale).
Me and my two childhood friends used to play a game called “malakai bug” malakai was the name of one of my friends (they were both brothers, he was younger) and the game was similar to the floor is lava but he... WAS the lava. Basically he was on the floor and he would try to reach us on the couch and we’d try to run to another piece of furniture before he got us and honestly it was one of the best times of my life.
My friends used to play “ buzzee”, basically we would all agree on a location like a bin or a telephone pole and everyone except the catchers, (usually two or three) would run away for around a minute. The neighbourhood we would play it in was very dense with lots of paths and alleyways leading on to different streets. The aim was to make it back to the chosen location without getting caught, once you reached the location you would wait for others to also get to the place. If caught, you would join the catchers. Usually we would agree on if you were in the first 2-3 caught you would be it for next round. The games would sometimes last for hours because people would remember all the routes.
One time me and my friend, we’ll call him James, were hiding in someone’s garden behind a shed for like a solid 2 hours, we eventually came out of hiding to realise everyone was searching for us and not just the people playing from the start, my other friends had “recruited” like 20 other people in my year. We ran as fast as we could and managed to get right next to the spot, however there was like 5 guys guarding it. We sadly never made it.
The guy searching counts (usually to 31) / starts from a spot! He then has to find everyone. If he finds someone he has to come back to the spot and yell out his name.
However, if the guy hiding gets back to the spot and yells out his name instead he gets to "hop" away from that location until the guy searching touches him (he can run at normal pace).
After everyone is found / gets back to the spot. The guy that was searching needs to piggy back everyone that ran away from the location the point he touched them back to spot.
It gives the guy hiding a goal, the hopping makes that no one is able to run very far away and him carrying everyone gets a nice laugh in the end!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to put a cup somewhere in the house in any position(except upside down) and crumpled up a paper into a ball and play “Paper Golf”
Just keep flicking the paper ball till you make it
My brother and I came up with the Rufus game. There were two sets of stairs to the deck. The goal was to run up one of the stairs than run to the CENTER of the deck and jump off getting as many laps as possible. The twist is that my German Sheppard, Rufus would try to catch us. And he was never done when you were. So you’d have to run and jump on the trampoline to avoid being bitten. Few injuries from that one.
My 4 year old son and I play a game where he comes over and loudly whispers in my ear “time to fart on mommy” and we see which one of us can sneak up and fake fart on my wife’s head first. He typically wins because he just yells kamikaze and basically jumps on her head while farting.
Not me, but my friend once told me she and her twin brother played a game where you were thinking of a sentence and squeezing each other's hand as many times as there were syllables in the sentence (meaning that you were supposed to squeeze the hand 3 times if you wanted to say "I love you"). This were the only rules and they had it right 90% of time.
Ante-I-Over. Where two teams stand on either side of a building. You then trow a ball over the building, and if the other team catches it they chase you one lap around the building and try to hit you with the ball. Oh and if you screwed up on your throw and weren't able to get the ball over the roof then you would have to yell out "Pigs Tail!" Anyone else play a variation of this game?
Whenever we would come home from a drive to dinner, a family outing, etc, my sister and I would play a game we called "C4" (Idk, I guess we thought we were cool secret agents and didn't want our parents to know what our game was). The game must be initiated while still in the car and one of us would look at the other right as we were parking and say "C4"!. Then we would rush inside to our separate rooms and change our clothes as fast as we could and put on our pajamas. Once finished changing, you had to run and stand at the entrance to your room and yell "done!" to win. I often lost because I would take the time to hang/fold my clothes and put them away while she would just throw hers on the ground.
Not the most exciting game ever, but I do get a kick out of the codename now!
Me and my uncle use to play countries, it was kinda like risk but it was in the front yard and life size. We also use to sing the entire game in opera. I was probably around 8 at the time and my uncle has since passed away so it's one of the best memories I have of him.
This is going to sound really bougie but we had a game called "Poor People".
We basically would pretend we were peasants living in the woods, we even had costumes with long skirts and aprons. Our playhouse was our home. Other than that it was usual kid stuff - running away from our dogs (who were inexplicably the bad guys), making mud pies etc.
My sisters and I played it heaps but I every time it comes up I get hassled quite a lot by my husband for how snobby it sounds!
I grew up when video games like Zork, Ultima, and King's Quest were just getting going.
My friends and I loved those games, so during recess we would play a game we called "Maps".
One player would draw a map, and keep it and guide the other players through it by giving them choices. The map maker would tell the other players what they saw, or heard, like "Your'e in a jungle, and you hear a waterfall to your left, you can go north, or West" or "You see a monster up ahead, but it looks like he's sleeping".
And then the players would say "I want to climb the tree", or "I want to look underwater", etc.
the only real goal was to get o the "end" of the maps, but players almost never did because we'd make them way too complicated for anyone to solve.
We had no idea what RPGS were, and had only heard of D&D as a scary devil worshiping game.
My dad made it a game to see who could fling more dog poo over the fence. I eventually realized he'd let me win and I'd clean the poop out of the yard for him.
Basically we found anything with wheels (skateboards, powerwheels etc) and would ride down our street which is a giant hill. The objective of the game was to use sticks, baseballs, and kicks to battle each other while riding down the street and knock each other off/make them crash. Last one standing wins.
Not sure this is unique, but we always loved to play ‘Mother May I?’
armcie · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "60 ticks". There was a goalkeeper. He counted to 60 in his head (with the last 10 seconds being counted out loud). Everyone else was trying to score goals off a volley - someone else kicked the ball in the air and if you kicked it before it bounced and scored a goal, the keeper had to restart his count. If the keeper caught the ball then the kicker became the goalkeeper. If no goals were scored at the end of the count then the last person to touch the ball became goal keeper.
Me and my sister played 'Cat & Mouse'. One would go under the bed duvet, 'Cat', and you had to catch the mouse who was on top of it.
Was a lot more brutal than it seems.
broom wars. we each held onto a broomstick (or any stick) from opposite sides, hands shoulder length apart and near the others hands. if you let go you lose.
me and my brother were incredibly good at this. i remember once him pulling back slightly so id adjust my weight and then he used the momentum to swing under/between my legs... so i had to somersault over it... he won this round because i then had a weak inverted grip, and he twisted to victory.
Me, my brothers and our friends would play Nask inspired by the first Harry Potter movie with Nask(the norwegian version of Filch) where one guy would go around pretending to be Filch looking for the others. What made it so fun was that it agreed that the one who played Nask would have to intentionally suck at actually catching us, just give chase if he caught a glimpse while simulatenously spouting lines from the book/movie plus improvisations in Filch's voice. One of my brother's Filch impression is 10/10 so we'd usually have him play Filch. We played this shit for years!
My friends and I used to play this game we called “Spiders and the Buggies” which was a reverse version of hide in seek in the dark. One person would hide in the basement in pitch black darkness and everyone else would start on the stairs and have to make a trip around the basement (it was one giant loop). If you were tagged by the person hiding you would help them grab other people until there was only one person left.
We took a flat headed screw driver and threw it as high and hard as we could, and whoever got it the highest and made it land point down, sticking in the ground, sticking as straight up and down as possible, won.
We threw it from one side of our yard to the other, across our drive way, with a group of people on each side. How nobody got shanked is beyond me....
We played Oregon trail. I tied our red wagon to my bike and made my sisters get in the wagon with all kinds of camping gear. Then I rode with them down the street to a neighbor's house ("Oregon").
We also played "Duck Lazy Pond." Our neighbors had a huge pot hole at the end of their driveway. When it rained and filled up with water we we get long sticks and fish leaves out from it.
Finally I remember making dolls out of sticks. I gave them hair from the streamers my sister had on her bike handle bars and either drew or carved a face on.
I would play jump rope with myself. This involves tying a rope to the gate and letting myself jump in.
I would also routinely play Sorry or Clue by myself. Just acting like I was multiple people and taking turns with myself and rooting for myself to win. It was a weird time.
Instead of "The Floor is Lava" my sister and I played "The Scrubbies are Coming" as in the Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaning products. If you touched the floor the scrubbies were gonna get you and scrub you clean.
My dad and I used to play a game with Necco wafers where we’d put one in our mouth and whoever could keep the candy in their mouth the longest without it breaking wins.
My brothers and I played the "Tennis Game". It was basically just baseball with a tennis racket and ball. The amount of home runs was sick... the neighbors roof still has marks to this day.
First one me and my dad used to line up on opposite ends of a hallway, and have one of our teams bionicles 'kick' the ball towards the opponents goal. Think turn based xcom style where you have to think about few moves in advance and block the angle and line of sight to the goal with one Bionicle and advance with the others. If the ball tapped an opponents player the possession swapped. Could have used anything but I had a ton of bionicles (the full original set of 20)
Crash cards was more simple. Lay out a bunch of face down cards and have maybe 5 or 6 face up at random. Then get about fifteen cars (I usually used model NASCARs because it was the early 2000s and it was still good then), and for each car you would roll two dice and move them forward based on what you rolled. If you landed on one of the face up cards you'd have to roll again. If you rolled the number on the card (say 8), then you were safe. If not then that car crashed. First car to make it across the line won. Often did it in teams with my dad so it was competitive but fun.
Thanks for this question OP, really reminded me how good my childhood was and how creative my Dad was.
My brother and I would stand next to each other and kick each other in the shins and then wait a day or two and push each other’s bruises
dkreak · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway Football...
We literally would play 2v2 in the hallway. Walls were TDs... only issue was the hallway is big enough for a grown adult to stand shoulder to shoulder... so we could barely fit 2 kids wide. Made it easier to bump the receiver at the line...
Until my friend put a nail threw his knee when he dove and got push into the door frame
My buddies and I played a game in middle school called "nut ball." We would face each other, legs spread, and sit about 15-20 feet apart. The game was played with a tennis ball. The rules were simple. The ball had to bounce once (before hitting the other guy) and the objective was to hit the other guy in the nuts. The loser was whoever quit first/couldn't take another hit in the nuts.
Looking back, that was a pretty stupid game to play.
We used to take Jenga blocks and make bases and artillery with the blocks. Like trebuchet type shit. We just sit there hurtling wooden blocks at each other’s faces trying to knock down the bases. Our mothers did not approve. Good times, good times
Ripstick wars. We played with 3 tiers of combat. Stick only combat, light contact and full contact. It was the original battle royal of 12 or so neighborhood kids and we all either got ripsticks for Christmas or we threw our extra Christmas money in the pot to buy community ones for those of us who couldn't afford them or just didn't get one for Christmas.
The goal was pretty simple, be the last one on a moving ripsticks without leaving the circular culdesac.
Stick only combat meant your only weapon was smashing your board against other people. It was pretty universally loved.
Light contact meant you could push or shove but no punching or hitting.
Full contact was pretty unregulated. Punch push hit, whatever you wanted was allowed but we usually tried to break these up by weight and everyone had to wear wristguards.
In fourth grade, Mrs. Bennett had the students each create a game for gym class. I created a jousting game using two mustache brooms with pillows duct taped to the ends, and each combatant wore a hockey helmet while pushed at one another on the square plastic gym "scooter" carts. Everyone lived.
My sister, our friend and I, would tie each other up on our front lawn with cheap plastic dollar store skipping ropes (they were harder to pull the knots out of than the good quality rope ones because the plastic would bind instead of slipping). The idea was to tie someone up the best so that they couldn't escape. I remember my mother back then saying something about it being kinky, but we had no idea what she meant.
Gym sharks, we had people who would run around the ground around the floor, and they had to tap whoever was on top to become one of the floor dwellers, this game stopped because the teachers stopped ot after i got hit in the face by the tire swing :/
Hide and seek in the dark. One person would go out of the room, we'd shut the lights off and hide. Literally anywhere. Once the person would come in, the people who were hiding were allowed to throw toys and stuffed animals at them to throw them off.
We lived rurally and had vast expanses of moorland to play on. On summer nights we would carefully select a good bamboo cane from the gardens (those things that are supports for growing plants). Then go play on the hill where we would pierce dry pieces of sheep/cow poop with our canes and run around dodging and flinging the poop at each other. We got points for hitting others and points for good dodges.
What do people do with all their dyed eggs on Easter? Our family has the solution.
Knock Eggs. Everyone in my family would decorate and dye a dozen eggs sometime before Easter, usually done as a family. We would put the eggs in the refrigerator and on Easter after lunch we would all get together and take turns knocking the pointier end of the eggs together to see which one would crack. Usually one person would hold their egg and the other would attempt to 'knock' or crack the other person's.
Rinse and repeat in an unofficial tournament style until there is one egg left and you are crowned the winner for the year. Been doing it since I can remember, and now I do it with my family. Never ran into anyone else who does this.
A game we called "Snap" different variations of one personw with a ball on the ground, trying to make the people on the trampoline take their spot. Whether it was basically dodgeball, or volleyball snap. We got creative and added catapult and leaf snap. Catapult, you lay on your back and deflect the ball with your feet. Leaf, you drop on the floor when the ball is up in the air. If you get hit then you take the throwers spot and now you're it.
My friend and I had a game in which one player had a ball and the other had a jump rope tied like a lasso and the whole objection was for the guy with the lasso to tie up the ball holder before they could run to the other side of the room with the ball. We called the game rodeo and I couldn't tell you how we came up with it besides the fact it was an excuse to beat the shit out of each other.
I would buy a pack of M&Ms or Skittles, open the package and then separate by colors. Those were the teams. Then a series of rounds would commence where I would pick one of each color, close my eyes, and shake them about in my hands as if I was about to roll dice. I would then pick one and eat it with my eyes still closed. I would do this until there was only one color left and they would be deemed the winner. I always secretly hoped the underdog would win but always maintained my sense of justice required in any game of chance. I wouldn’t eat the winner.
Night ball - like hide and go seek tag, but with a glow in the dark bouncy ball. Played indoors in a pitch black largish room. Seeker counts to 100 with ears covered and eyes closed in the dark while hiders sneak into place. Seeker has a small flashlight to charge the glow ball in their hand while counting. Seeker has to hit any hider with the glow ball to change to a new seeker. Hiders can move around in the dark and are encouraged to to help the seeker locate hiders.
Sweater - stand 5ft apart from someone and try to throw a sweater past them without throwing it too high above them or off to the side out of range
Claustrophobia - Friend and I took turns underneath a twin bunk bed that had open support ends like a hollow rectangle. Other person would use whatever pillows and blankets around the house to pack the other under the bed against the wall as tightly as possible. Then they spotted as you slowly tried to wiggle and push through all the debris to get out without freaking out.
My mom and sister convinced me to play the stinky feet game. They both basically just put their rank ass feet in my face and made me see whose was worse. I was the only loser in that game.
I invented a game called The Monster. It was basically catch but you had to touch them three times, and the runners had a one time powerup of stopping the monster for 3 seconds. You also had to "shoot" at the monster as much as possible, so tou had to stay near that player.
We had a crap ton of Playmobil when I was a kid-- medieval knights and pirates and Vikings and such. We would pick a character and together form a village. My brother devised a whole economic system where we each had jobs and could collect resources to exchange. The miner could sell ore to the blacksmith who could forge it into weapons and tools to sell. The carpenter could sell you furniture or build you a house. Sometimes shit would happen like Vikings might kidnap a villager and we'd have to rescue her, or we'd receive word that an invading army was on the way and we needed to prepare. It was all very imaginative! Good times.
I still remember the day I got out the playmobil, set it up and realized I didn't know how to play with it... my cherished childhood toys were just pieces of plastic that I didn't have the imagination to bring to life anymore. I had grown up.
When my friends and I were around 9-10, we had a game called "Pedophile" (we had no clue what the word meant at the time) where we'd go down into my 2 friends' basement (they were brothers), turn off the lights, and basically play blind hide and seek. We'd have to poke the hiders to signal that we found them (to avoid from other close hiders from running away).
Whenever riding in the car and looking out the backseat window I would imagine myself skateboarding alongside the road and jumping over objects/grinding fence posts
We didn’t have a specific name for it, but one of my best friends lived in a gated community that was very heavily planted and even had a island of sorts in the center that was full of greenery.
We would dress up in fatigues and try to sneak from one end to the other without any of the residents spotting us and introduce special challenges along the way.
I’m sure we weren’t as stealthy as we thought sometimes but it was so much fun.
Me and my sister would take a brown blanket and play RPS for who goes first. Then the winner of RPS would get rapped in the brown blanket and curl up in a ball repeating "Coconut man is who I am". Aaand that was the whole game, weird shit I know
We called it "Wirbelwind" ( German for Tornado ) my sister and I would grab onto a pole of our clothesline with one hand and spin around it fast, trying to catch the other
We had a nice flat hand rail going down our basement stairs. My brother and I would make these crazy lego creations and have a competition to see who could build the sturdiest lego contraption ans make it down the rail
My sister and I used to play “interior decorators” and we would beg our parents to take us to Home Depot so we could take paint chips and wallpaper samples for our game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother an I often played a game called “Lego War” which basically included any combination of figures designed to kill the others with powers we make up. Lets just say I always won.
There was this game we'd play when I was like 12~ called hide and grind. The Girls would hide while the boys would find them. Once found, the finder would thusly be ground on.
Grinding: to move one's ass around the crotch area of another's.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bloddy knuckles, with a hair comb
Dica92 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A version a dodgeball where you have a one person on the ground throwing and everyone else dodging while jumping on a trampoline
The game was bum-off.
Stand back-to-back on a bench, balance beam or playground rail and proceed to knock your opponent off using only your butt.
The home version involved standing on the ark of the couch so my butt would be at equal height to the posterior of my father and involved him launching my tiny frame across the sofa in gales of laughter.
My friends and I back then used to play Tree Tag. We played in a small area with about 6-10 trees in our elementary school. Just like regular tag, someone was "it" and had to tag someone else. The twist was that if you were touching a tree you can't be tagged, but you can only hold onto a tree for a certain amount of time before you have to start running to hold onto another one. We played this for the entirety of our fifth grade.
A miniature version of baseball that usually took place in an unfurnished basement. We thought that using pillows as bases would make it safer. Turns out pillows were a tripping hazard.
When I was like 5-7, I would always have "picnics". These picnics would consist of me taking all of the tubberware/food storage containers we had at the time and lining them up in rows in the living room. That's it, then I would just stare at my accomplishment. That was my game, and yes, I was an only child lol.
Me and some friends would turn off all the lights in the basement so it was pitch black(basement underground, minimal windows). Than proceed to grab whatever we could and throw, swing, lunge with said item we found. Loser was the one who turns on a light because to much pain. Lol good times, lots of broken chairs and misc.
The youngest of us would run back and forth while the rest of us stood on the top of a levee and tried to hit him with paint ball and/or air soft guns. We didn’t have a name for it, but the youngest would chose the winner when we were bored.
We would play "The imagination Game" and we had to tell the most riviting story and make a boring room as interesting as possible. The more lost in story others became the more likely you were to win. Lol.
We had an elaborately tall playground that we would play a game called don’t fall on. The one that was it would have to have their eyes closed. While everyone else had to hide. The twist was how small the playground was in terms of surface area though. So you had to hang under walkways, over the person that was it, or even on top of the roof. The spots got better every time due to all of the easy ones being found. We called it “red hot lava” because if the person who was it shouted red hot lava while you were on the mulch you were it.
Pig Mania. You rolled two tiny pig figurines instead of dice, and you got points based on how they landed. They were rolled out of a can called the pig sty, and you kept score on the pig pad using your pig pen.
cfxyz4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing "pinball" while riding in the back of a boat. When in motion, the boat is tilted back, creating a slope. We would lay down and use our arms as flippers to push a tennis ball up the course, and put obstacles in the way
As a kid growing up in the 80s/90s with very little parental supervision my cousins and I had so many different games.
Throwing a tennis ball and trying to hit power lines. Each hit was a point and first to 21 wins.
Throwing a tennis ball onto the roof of the house and trying to get it to roll into the cinderblocks which lined the flowerbed in the front of the house. The first one to do it wins.
Dousing ourselves in lighter fluid and running into the house in flames to terrify our grandma -- Figuring out scoring for this one was a little bit difficult because there really were no winners, along with...
Soaking the sponge like material from a mattress that was thrown away in gas, lighting it, and playing soccer. Nobody ever scored because it would instantly catch your shoe on fire when you kicked it.
Trying to find various plants around the neighborhood and down by the creek that tasted like different foods.
Walking down the street barefoot in the summer wasn't really a game, but it's something that was an annual rite of passage during summer vacation. By the time we got to the creek at the end of the road nothing felt better than dipping our feet in.
Prolonged battles of throwing various objects at one another.. Dirt clod wars, cherry wars, un-ripened prune wars, sock wars, stick wars.
This wasn't necessarily a game, but when the house across the street got condemned and there was a notice that it was to be demolished we did it with our bats before the city had a chance to get equipment out there.
We convinced some kids who lived across a field that we were ghosts and if we heard them playing outside we'd emerge through some bushes and haunt them. We had elaborate backstories... my personal story was that I fell out of a hot air balloon and was impaled by a piece of rusty rebar that was scattered across the field separating our houses.
There are so many more. Looking back, especially with children, I am appalled at the dumb things that we did. We're really lucky that we were never seriously injured... well, we were never physically injured from our "games" but the prolonged apathy from the adults in our lives are just the gift that keeps on giving on the mental front.
Bicycle/Lacrosse/Polo Jousting. I grew up with a gravel road, two of us would be on bikes with those cheap lacrosse sticks you get from Kmart. You'd ride your bikes at each other while trying to pick rocks up with the lacrosse sticks and chuck them at the other person's wheels. You couldn't hit the person with the rocks or any other part of your body, or run into them with your bike. First one to fall lost.
We called it "Twinkle Toes". Twinkle Toes was the evil cousin of the Tooth fairy. We had a very long rope swing in our backyard that granted a large range to move about. The game was essentially tag but you had to stay within the range of the swing. The combination of the restricted space and the idea of being chased by an evil fairy made it exhilarating yet terrifying. Ahh childhood.
As far as I know the only people who ever played this game went to my elementary school.
We used to play a game called 'ledge', that mimicked baseball. There was a small 45 degree angle, 2 inch wide feature on the side of an old building at our school (the annex), that made this game possible. Each team would take turns at bat, slamming the ball off the thin ledge, while the other team waited in 'the field', an area between two buildings. If the other team caught the ball mid-air, that was an out, if the ball made it to the ground it was a single base hit, if it bounced twice that was a double, if it made it to the other building and made contact, that was a triple, and if you managed to hit the French room windows directly, that was a homer. You would just keep track of who was on each base, no actual running.
It was the best. Has anyone else played anything similar to this? We would usually play with tennis balls, and learned the lesson that you can't use a lacrosse ball, or you will eventually break one of the French room's windows.
My brother and I were gifted bathrobes for Christmas. He was 12, me at 8. We took the belts off and we'd take turns tying each other up and seeing who could make the better knot and leave the other in the bedroom till the got out.
Away on a trip at school, my friends and I invented the “Caterpillar Fighting game”. Everyone gets inside a sleeping bag and hops around trying to knock everyone over and not fall down. Was fun until this weird kid got involved and punched me in the face.
Belly wars. In the pool you would start on one end and it was a 1v1 whoever got their belly touched first lost, you could curl into a ball for 10 seconds total every round and be invulnerable
Take two old tennis rackets (the wood kind) and cut out the strings, this is your racket. A slightly-deflated soccer (futbol) ball fits perfectly in the frame.
2 players take up residence in the street, 50-100 feet away from each other.
Player 1, with the ball, loads the ball into racket, then flings ball at opponent. Goal is to throw ball past player 2.
Player 2 must use his racket to stop the ball from passing player 2.
The sidewalk or street edges are out of bounds.
Both payers keep flinging the ball back and forth until someone scores, first player to 10 wins!
Matrix Fighting. Someone was “the one” and everyone else were agents who attacked “the one” in an onslaught. While “the one” could take any amount of hits, agents could be taken down with a good punch. The combat was imitation, the punches and kicks were not intended to actually hurt. Sometimes we actually had songs from the OST such as “Burly Brawl” playing the background.
Both roles were fun. Being an agent allowed you to react to blows in a overdramatic fashion. The “one often” got creative and integrated something like a pool noodle or pillow into their fighting style.
Saf22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Neighborhood Game. One team was in the backyard on offense, another in the front on defense. The goal was to get as many team members to touch the garage without being tagged by the defenders.
My twin sister and I would play a "game" before bathtime that we lovingly called Wormies. But really it was us just naked rubbing our bellies together because it felt nice.
When I was a kid I didn't have many kids my age to play with. So I played a lot of games in the backyard by myself. My two favorite were James Bond and Bug Hospital. For James Bond I would get in the hammock and face down towards the ground, pretending I was scaling between two high-rise buildings. I would imagine that the lines of ants along the ground where innocent civilians, unaware of a villain trying to blow up their City. I was their only hope. Sometimes I would save the day, but other times I fell to my untimely death.
Bug Hospital was a little more cheerful; I would regularly fish out the drowning bugs from the pool, and relocate them into little cubicles I made in a shoebox. I would try to revive them in different ways. Sometimes they would perk back up. Sometimes the tape I used to keep them on their little hospital beds contributed to their demise. Either way, so many fun times as a kid.
We didn't have a name for it but we used to go up into the mountains dressed in Halloween costumes and fight with lightsabers. It got pretty involved, we even had 2 or 3 "secret bases" which were just bushes with openings in the middle. One even had a mattress and an old office chair/desk in it that people threw away.
We also used to poke tarantulas with sticks until they chased us, that was a lot of fun too
My brother and I would pick a funny word and then go through the names of shows on the DirecTV guide replacing one word in the title with the chosen word.
Me and my 2nd grade friends spent a month's worth of recess time trying to make concrete with sand and gravel. We even did research online to see how concrete was made
Man I have a ton of these. We played tower game where you stacked people and cushions alternating until it got too high and fell over and whoever was on top would typically hit an end table. We also played cellar dweller where our one older, much strongerfriend would hide in the basement In pitch black. Then we would go in with no aim until he strategically subdued and executed all of us.
My friends and I made up an imaginary land called “Harminia” (also what we called the game)
To get to the land you had to wear a ring made by my friend’s grandfather who gave us all one. You had to shine it at the sun and then crawl through a tire swing to get there.
Once we were all there, we had wands or swords and an element (fire, water, earth, wind) and would battle dragons and collect fairies. We even drew up a map of all the different sections of my back yard (it was 3 acres with a LOT of wooded areas)
We had many large battles with giant-sized tinkertoy swords and trash can lid shields. Bonus - you could throw the shield if you wanted, like a frisbee.
My friend had a backyard with a lot of low hanging trees bushes and brush all around. 2 teams. Team 1 would take Team 2's shoes and hide it somewhere in the brush. It was up to the other team to get the shoe back in their side of the yard. Basically captured the flag but with shoes. Pretty stupid but we were bored
The eraser game. We had a white board eraser where the goal was to place it on someone's person or with their belongings. If you were stuck with the eraser on Friday after school you had to buy chips and soda for when we played Smash Brothers or something that night. If you got caught giving it to someone you had to take it back.
Played it for all of my senior year. It was great.
A rock-city building game where my brother and I would make cities out of rocks, then, we'd destroy each other's cities by kicking the shit out of eachother.
My younger cousin and I were obsessed with NES castlevania games when we were kids, so we'd play Castlevania pretend a lot. Specifically one of us would be the Vampire Slayer and the other would be the random towns folk and monsters. While the lights were on it was daytime, and the Vampire Slayer could explore the town and buy items and get clues as to where the various dracula body parts were hidden. (various key items that were hidden around the house beforehand) and when the lights went out? We'd yell "WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT FOR A CURSE". That's when the monsters came out and tried to tag and damage the vampire killer, who had three paper hearts and had to give one up every time they were hit. If the vampire killer found all five hidden items they fought dracula and pretty much auto-won the game.
Bonus: the nighttime monster always sung the song until they turned the lights on again https://youtu.be/-HUwLA57paU
My dad made it up. You hit someone and shout " last hit baggy beans for 2 hours". The time is up to the person doing the hitting. You can't hit someone why you've been last hit baggy beaned. You have to hope the other forgot and get them when possible. Many times we all would be running through the house screaming trying not to be caught. 6 people playing this game at once, it got violent on occasion but it was hella fun. Can't wait to play this with my nieces and nephews one day.
Kick Tag. Pretty much tag but only getting to trade who's "it" by trying to harm your friends with the best kick you can supply. Rules, only 1. Kick has to be done hip down otherwise you gotta kick again! Yes groin shots allowed! Yes you will be running full speed away from the person who's it and if unlucky enough to get clipped from behind.... Well let's just say you know what grass taste like.
P.S. We played this during recess our 5th and 6th grade years. Only got threatened to get suspended about once a month. Also somehow none of us ever got severly hurt which is just amazing to me.
Not me, but a friend of mine used to play “blind doggy” with his older brothers. They would sell it as a fun game everyone would enjoy when in reality they just made him get down on all fours, would cover him in a blanket so he couldn’t see, then they would just beat the shit out of him.
It was a lot funnier the first time I heard about it than actually having to type it out, but he did fall for it multiple times.
Me and my friend would launch rubber bands across the room behind the teachers back, and kept score. minus 5 points if you got caught, minus 25 points if you ratted the other out. We called it rubber band tag.
My childhood friend and I use to play city girl and country girl and we would make her little sister do things in order to become a city girl. The one time she made her poop into a cinder block. I wasn’t around for that one, I saw it later on though. I don’t think she ever became a city girl.
There was a sidewalk in front of one of my childhood homes that a kid had previously made somewhat deep impressions of their hands and feet in when it was being poured, and I liked to sit there and pack mud into them and try to get them out in one piece
"Klippie skool" (pebble school), I can't find anything about this online, so I am not 100% sure it was unique.
Quite simple, you need at least 3 friends, a nice staircase (more than 10 steps), and a small pebble (small enough to hide in someones hand).
1 person is the teacher, the rest is the students. The teacher needs to swich the pebble in their hands and then let the students choose which hand it was, when you guessed correctly you can go to the next grade. If you graduate you get to be the teacher.
My cousin once stopped us playing this, because I was winning, he was a sore loser.
Me and my friend played "grenades" it was a game where we took cover on either side of our basements and just hurl toys and other objects at each other until someone wanted to stop.
The Sesame Street game on Atari when I was 3 or 4. Not super unique but it shows my age as an elder millennial. I can say I played PC games as a child. And House of Games on Windows 95. Those were the days
I had this really thick furry hat when I was a kid with the bits that hang over your ears with the tassles. My friends and I made up a game like tag where I'd chuck the hat at them and if they got hit, they would help me catch everyone else.
But they didn't get the hat. The hat was mine.
I went to Catholic school (not allowed to bring toys outside to recess) - roughly 3rd grade, my best friend and I played with small crayon stubs, as if they were little action figures. We were caught eventually.
mungoo · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pencil people. Played it in school when we had the desks with storage inside, so we could sort of hide them. I made clothes out of paper for the pencil people and they just lived out their lives in our desks.
We had a 16ft trampoline in our back garden and would play a game called "Dodge The Ball", where we'd put 1-4 foot(soccer)balls on the trampoline and jump around avoiding them.
It ended up being quite the "art", as we developed ways of firing the balls at each other by letting them roll between our feet and bouncing in a certain way.
We also created the WTWF (which of course later got rebranded as 'WTWE').
My brother and I had a roof that was low enough and slanted enough we used to play a handball like game, literally played that same game there on that wall and roof for 20+ years until my parents moved.
My dad once took me on a 'snipe hunt' - which is basically when the parent takes a kid on an imaginary hunt. But of course he was my dad and I was like 10, so I believed him.
This is how wikipedia describes it:
A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch a non-existent animal called a snipe. While snipe are actual birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for an imaginary creature whose description varies.
The target of the prank is led to an outdoor spot and given instructions for catching the snipe; these often include waiting in the dark and holding an empty bag or making noises to attract the creature. The others involved in the prank then leave the newcomer alone in the woods to discover the joke. As an American rite of passage, snipe hunting is often associated with summer camps and groups such as the Boy Scouts.
One I made up for driving in the car was "bump or shadow". Basically you just look to the road ahead, and guess if the mark coming up was a shadow or a bump. It was harder than it sounds. And it's still kind of entertaining to occupy myself while on the way home
I'm sure it's not unique but my two brothers and I played Human Bowling. Two of us stood at the end of the bed, the other laid down and rolled into us, trying to knock us over.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game where on person lied under a blanket at the bottom of the stairs, and the other person would jump from the top, do a jeff hardy flip and land on the person in the blanket. Whoever got a serious injury first lost.
With my brother and a bunch of cousins, we once sat and made dozens and dozens of paper darts. These mean suckers can be chucked at painful-enough speed over a couple dozen feet or so, and they can be stacked together so when thrown together they spread out shotgun style.
Then we took them outside, split into teams across the street, and proceeded to barrage each other with handfuls of darts. The street was no-man's-land (weren't allowed to throw darts FROM there, but could still be hit) but darts would slowly gather there, so to get more ammo you had to dash out and gather up what you could while dodging the short-range fire from the enemy curb.
Anytime there's a tile pattern I would just have it jump around in the same pattern the Knight piece does in chess, I try to create patterns with it. Still do it to this day.
The Wikipedia game. Played all through highschool, it was funny cause teachers weren't able to prevent us from using wikipedia lol
We were a group of 8-14 guys, one person would pick any random thing. Could be anything.
You start by clicking random article and first person to find the chosen thing (USING ONLY LINKS stemming from that 1st random article) would win and get to pick the next thing to lookup.
Good times, landing on USA Wiki page usually meant you had a good chance of winning.
My cousins and I grew up on a farm, and one day we went into the woods and found an old railroad crossing and an old stop sign. It was winter, so we came up with the bright idea to tie the signs behind our ATV, we took turns riding the sign in the snow. The game was called “Stop It”, and the goal was to knock the person on the sign off into the snow. So dangerous, but so fun!
Grew up on an acre and a half, mostly all hill except for a flat portion in the front by the road. This was one of those state roads, no local fire or police. There were a lot of accidents just up from us, so it was popular to have large decorative boulders in the area for cars to smash into, instead of the homes themselves.
Anyway, we had a bunch of those and the game was basically running behind them for cover. You couldn't have a car pass you outside of cover or you lost "points". You also earned extra style points for how you got behind the cover, like slides and somersaults.
Used to play a game called "Roadkill" on a homemade slip'n slide with my older brother and his friends. There'd be a "deer" that stands or kneels on the tarp and everyone else tries to take the "deer" out while sliding down. I got a few scrapes and bruises from that game
My brother and I would play "well well well" which was essentially tug of war, and the loser would have to pretend to be someone. The victor would say something like, "well well well, who do we have here? It's ---- [person a kid knows]"
It was lame and a way to kill time when we were locked out in the hallway. I often was the loser, as the younger sibling, and was often George Washington, because kids don't know a lot of people
At our school camps we would have gladiatorial fights everyone in their sleeping bag and jumping off bunks into a pile of other people. It hurt like heck but it was fun.
We took a giant cushion and layered it over with all the blankets we could carry, largest and heaviest on the bottom. Someone would sit in the middle and the other person would tuck each blanket over them until they were a giant blanket egg. Then the person inside would try to escape.
Best escape time without rolling off the cushion won.
It was dark, it was hot, it was hard to breathe. We had to have a safe word.
As an adult I have issues with things covering my face and I think I just finally realized why....
We couldn’t play this game often. In fact I think we played once.
We took all of my buddy’s plastic models he’d built over the years—planes and cars, you know the type that come in a revell box and must be glued together with cement. Each model was about the size of a shoe. We took all of those in the back yard—a lush forest type space with a wooden deck and copious dry leaves. And, we had realistic role play war. And, by realistic I mean we went in his garage and got the gasoline container and some spread paint and other assorted aerosols for “flame throwers”.
We’d pour gasoline in to whatever voids we could find in the models and light it with the long barbecue grill lighter and buck them at each other. This was all pretty harmless. We had Dick VanDyke’s stop drop and roll burned in to our memories. Everything was going along well enough. But, I needed something climactic. So, I put about 1/2” of gasoline in the bottom of a glass soda bottle I found laying around and “invented” afterburners the F-16 I was about to launch.
The jet was already flaming a bit (you did have to be careful with spillage or the flames would get on you before you could ever throw the model. But, after I released the plane, I whipped out my secret weapon—the bottle of fuel—and flung the open end toward the airborne jet. Fuel sprayed out everywhere. Not exactly the effect I was after. Flaming fuel was now all over the wooden deck; the dry, baked, summer leaves—the wooden fence; the trees; and, well I suppose the model, too.
My friend yelled at me “what the hell are you doing??‽!!”
No time to really address that. It was obvious. Time to start stamping. And we stamped. We stamped the deck; the leaves; we hoses down the trees. Everything was out. There was a large scorch mark on the deck, though—and the aroma of a forest fire.
We hosed down the deck and leaves and came up with a plan to scatter leaves on the deck to hide our shame before either of his parents returned home from work. And, it was working. It was all working beautifully until his next door neighbor peered over the fence. “What are you both doing over here?”
If we’d had any game face at all we’d have gotten away with it. But, our guilty look was unmistakable. I got sent home by the neighbor lady. I tucked my tail and skittered away, happy not to have to endure the lecture my buddy got.
When I got home, my mom asked what we did that day. “Oh, we accidentally caught john’s fence and deck on fire. But we got it out.”
I guess my mom was used to my shit. That was the last I heard of it. Poor John got grounded for a month and his 13th birthday party cancelled (the following week). Sorry John.
Hide and seek in the dark: booby trap, we also referred to it as HD:booby trap. It started out as us and a few neighbors playing hide and go seek in our small bedroom with the lights out, but our room was so unbelievably messy and had natural booby traps we just rolled with it. One person would leave the room giving the others the count of 100 to set up traps and decoys and then we would turn the lights out. They would come in and try to find everyone before someone could sneak to the door and turn the lights on.
My brother and I had one NES to share with each other and for a few years we had a cousin of ours come by every weekend. We would all play that thing for hours and we loved having our cousin over so we did our best to not fight.
We developed a system so that we could play together fairly. We would each get one turn, that turn would be over if you passed a level, or if you died. We called it "Level by level, life by life".
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“What’s in the cup?”
I’ve always loved drinking water and as a child I had the bad habit of leaving my cup unattended (which is pretty normal considering it’s in your own home but whatever.) Once I would remember it, I would go ahead and grab my cup and proceed to quenching my thirst. Every single time my brother was around, he would put a random ingredient in there and would jump out of nowhere and ask “what’s in the cup?” Realizing the water tasted really weird I would just look down in my mortified. He would only put food ingredients ( thank higher entity). One time though I didn’t taste anything and I didn’t see anything and he asked me what’s in the cup? :/
Gotta thank the guy tho, Once I got into high school, I stopped drinking drinks that were left unattended
a game that really had no name but for the sake of conversation, I'll call "Volley".
A friend of mine and I used to play ping pong on a table my dad had put in our attic. We were "alright" (for early teens), on par with most other kids, but really weren't all that good, and we got bored so decided to play a game of trying to keep the volley going as long as possible, using the basic rule of playing the ball correctly (ie one bounce per side) as if we were "really" playing a game of ping pong. We purposely avoided "winning the volley to keep it going, to improve our abilities... Eventually, by doing that and increasing our speed of play, introducing increasing amounts of English and aggression, we both became very good.
We did the same with tennis for a while but then we discovered girls and that took a quick dive into the deep.
Haven't even picked up a paddle in twenty years. I think my "special" one is still up in my attic packed up in a box somewhere.
Oh...and kick fights with my older brother when I was a preteen. Not sure why but I always lost badly.
Hide and seek but 'it' is on a 4-wheeler that he uses to tag you. We played in a field with just a few medium height spruce trees for cover. That was the most unique, the stupidest was knife toss. We'd spread out far and catapult throw this 8 in., heavy, steel blade knife at each other. The goal was to catch it, which never happened in all the times we played. We did see some pretty spectacular close calls though.
Used to play “roofball” which was that me and my friends would throw a ball onto the roof and another has to catch it from the roof. The goal was to throw the ball so that the other person would not catch it. A lot of running occurred.
Marco Polo but on land. Find a big open field and whoever's it puts a hoodie on backwards or puts their shirt over their head and then you play it just like marco polo. It works because as long as noone runs off the field, following the sound of everyone's voice will keep you from hitting any obstacles
Being completely blind and running at a full sprint is an exhilarating feeling, let me tell you
We would use old shoe boxes and tape them up. Put a beanie baby in them and tie a long string to our bikes and have chariot races around our neighbors or hood.
My friends and I would play this game called "Bag the Nematode". Was basically one-sided dodgeball where one person stood on bleachers against a wall, and had to dodge a barrage of balls while not falling through the bleachers. We'd scream things like "bag him!" and "get that Nematode" even though they made ZERO sense.
Ball tag.
So basically, at recess, the first 5 minutes is just regular tag with a tennis ball or something. If you get hit by it you’re it. After the first 5 minutes (we can tell because a bell rings every 5 minutes during our recess) it becomes infection. Whoever was last it was it for infection, and tries to get everyone out. When they get someone, the other person joins the infected, but they still use the same ball.
We also had a lot of unique strategies like poker, where you stand behind the fence (our school had metal fences) and just sit there. It almost always worked if there was only 1 person, and it worked most of the time when there was multiple.
So yeah.
There were initials carved into trees and every recess my friends and I tried to solve the "mystery of the carvings" where we had to solve the mystery before the owner of the initials dies
It was essentially hide and go seek tag except nobody knew who was it, when you got tagged you had to sit down and not move, and you couldn’t talk to anyone.
Played late at night, caused lots of paranoia and was very fun as it really got adrenaline flowing any time someone started to come towards you.
Oh! Okay me and my sister would make our friends play “spy” (we weren’t creative with names). Where there would be two teams that would both hide an object of their choice. Then our bedrooms would be our headquarters and the teams would try to sneak around the house and find the other teams object and get it back to their headquarters first. If you were split up from your team and outnumbered by the other team you could get “kidnapped” (if they got you back to their headquarters) and would have to give one hint of where your object was hidden.
Basically more intense hide and seek.
My brothers and I played a game we called "Exhibit" where we were on a trampoline, we had to stay on our hands and knees/couldn't get on our feet. On opposite ends of the tramp, there were stickers that were pretty much the the tramp "rules" like nobody under a certain age ect. These stickers were the "goals". There was a soccer ball and we would just ram into each other to try to get from one side of the trampoline and have the ball hit the sticker. That would be 1 point.
Eventually, my brother had a friend come over and we introduced him to the game, and it got a lot more competitive. Instead of just 1 vs 1 ramming into each other to get to the other side, it turned into a mini 2 v 2 wrestling match and it lost the fun.
Shark
in our pool, 1 guy was the shark, he had his eyes closed under water und all people who are playing diving around. nobody allowed to touch the shark,,
I only played it with my older sister. It was called "Boobie Catcher". I would basically run up to her and flip one of her boobs screaming "Boobie Catcher"! When I got older and got boobs too she started doing it back. Now when the family gets together we play every once in a while.
We played "people and alligators" at playgrounds growing up. I was a variant of tag where the person who was "it" was the alligator trying to tag or "eat" the people. Simple rules: the alligator could only climb onto the playground equipment from 2 specific spots, but could get off and slide back on the ground or "water" from anywhere. The people were backwards from that, there were only two specific spots to jump down into the "water" but they could climb up on the equipment from any direction. We played this at multiple parks and it was always a favorite!
dgm42 · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Can Can. It was a version of cricket.
You set a tin can on the ground and one player tried to knock it over with a baseball while the other defended it with a baseball bat.
“Get the ball in the hoop.” It’s basketball, but the only rules are that you can’t tackle, eye gouge, punch, or try to hurt someone. Want to hold the basketball in both hands and protect it like a football as you truck your friend? Go for it. The real issue is when my friend learned how to use a lasso. He was amazing with that. He’d grab you from across the way, immobilizing you, then punch the ball from your hands.
When it would snow, we’d play the snow version called “trash ball.” We would set a trash bin (the large type you’d take to the curb every week) in the middle of his yard that’s 1.5 ft deep in snow and kick the entirely flat football in any direction. After that, the only rule is no maiming and no moving the trash bin. The deep snow meant that full on-tackling and wrestling was totally okay. After someone scored, we’d sprint back to the hot tub because we were only wearing swim trunks.
We had a trampoline and a large amount of golf balls that we scavenged from a creek near a golf course. We then decided to put them all on the trampoline and bounce around while dodging them. There was a net that kept them all in but we would get more competitive to get the others “out” by throwing golf balls at each other.
me my brother and our buddies LOVED that battle bots show, so we decided to have our own version. we each made our own "bot" out of a box, and added things like knives and scissors and whatever else the fuck we could, and then added a string to the top. we would hang them off the balcony/stairs and swing them at eachother until one of us won... my parents were not so happy with all the dings and chips and holes on the walls n wherever else, but god damn was it fun!
We had a plush-bodied Aladdin Genie with a hard plastic head.
My older brother found a way to tie his arms and legs around his body to create a ball.
We 4 brothers ran around the house throwing it at eachother.
The goal was to aim for each others head.
Stasticially more often, the soft plush part of the ball would hit you and you can pick it up and try your best to hit them.
But sometimes.....sometimes the hard plastic head would sink into your skull, and you wouldnt just be out of the game by the rules, you would be out because you got really really hurt.
Basically, my older brother and I were a little bit too old to watch Barney, but my younger brother still watched it and had a stuffed Barney doll that he loved. So my older brother and I would try to keep it away from him, throwing it over his head. If you dunked it in the garbage can, it was a touchdown. If you made a touchdown, feel free to make another one, and do it over and over and over.
"The Dark Game" - my step sisters, brother, and I would turn off all the lights at night, block all sources of light until we could see absolutely NOTHING... then we would walk around with our hands stretched out and knock into each other, shove each other, throw things at each other. It was a lot of fun. We got in trouble for it and I think we only played it twice.
My siblings and I played a game called "Houdini" when I was younger, which consisted of zipping me up in a sleeping bag and tying it shut and then shoving me in some unknown corner of the house (I was the youngest, bear in mind). There were no spaces that were off limits... I was put in the attic with the hatch closed, the cabinet underneath the sink, the washer in the laundry room, etc.
Escaped from most of em, except for the attic. My mom heard slightly worried screaming from the ceiling about an hour and a half later and my brother and sister remembered they had put me in the attic. Needless to say, we weren't allowed to play that game anymore.
My siblings and I used to stuff plastic bags with newspaper, then tie them off and draw faces on them to make ghosts. Then we would hang the ghosts from the fan blades, turn the fan on high, and try to run across the room with out getting hit by the ghosts!
"Real Boxing" We would pout large cardboard boxes over our bodies and bang into each other with the goal being to destroy the other person's box while maintaining the integrity of your own.
I'm the oldest of 4 kids, and I also have about 15 younger cousins.
My siblings and I used to play a game called "Lockout" where there are 2 teams. One team is in the house and the other outside. The team outside had only one key to the house, and they had to do their best to sneak into the house unnoticed while the others on their team would distract the players in the house by pretending to have to key at other doors. Meanwhile the players in the house are doing their best to make sure every single door stayed locked. Also, you didn't have to enter through the doors, you could climb through windows! The objective was just to get one player inside.
Second, my cousins and I have a family tradition of the game "faceball."
It started with a nerf football and wooden stick and eventually grew to a real football with an aluminum bat. Basically it's baseball except we played it on our grandpa's front lawn. We made up rules such as no leading off, if you get pegged you're out, and if the ball is in the pitcher's hand before you make it to first you're out. We still play it every time we get together!
We had this war in the woods by running around, hiding and throwing firecrackers at each other. Of course without any safety equipment. There were firecrackers constantly going off, most intense game I’ve ever played. Parents were not happy when we came back with clothes full of holes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this thing called "Egg". You had a rugby ball, a start line that was the same as the finish line and the ball planted like 50m away.
Now, you had to go, grab the ball and get back to the finish line. Buuuut... It was also a deatmatch. No rules. Everything goes. Tackles, punches, kicks, biting... We were fucking savages at 11 years old...
While my big sister played with barbies and dressing them ,I would take a barbie,put her on my plastic horse. Have Jim West doll and ken gather round her. Put a noose on her neck and hang her. Yes,I was a young girl and no,I did not turn out to be a serial killer.
My cousins and I created animal tag. Basically one person was a zookeeper and everyone else got to choose which animal they wanted to be. The zookeeper carried a dog leash and used the looped rope end to whip the animals, once whipped you were taken to jail (zoo) which was the city waste bins creating a gate against our grandparents garage. Based on your pick your animal would have special abilities. For instance a gorrila had the ability to catch the whip. If caught they could run away and live another day. My grandparents yard had a bridge that went across a little Creek and the bridge could only be used by flying animals and adjacent to the bridge were large stepping bricks that lead from one grass plot to another and the bricks were regarded as water and only flying and swimming animals could cross those. If the zookeeper wanted to cross the bridge they had to pretend to get into a hot air balloon and walk really slow to get to the other side and likewise for the water except it was a boat.
Some other things animals could do:
Cheetahs, jaguars and other dexterous animals could crawl over the trash bins out of jail but just once per game. (Flying animals not allowed to escape being that they could enter parts of the area others couldn't [Bridges and water])
Alongside that, a gorrila, rhino or other brute strength animals could open the gate and let ALL the animals free but just once as well.
Lots of other possibilities too.
We also used to play a game where one person would get the house key and we would lock them outside. They would have to find a way into the house through one of the several locked doors, windows or dog door without us noticing.
(I grew up around 7 cousins who would all get dropped off at my grandparents house from the school bus awaiting their parents to get off work.)
We used to play "Ghost in the Graveyard" outside. It was like a mixture of tag and hide and seek. The living person would go into the "graveyard" (any place, usually the backyard) and the "ghosts" would be hiding. As the living person came closer, the ghosts would jump out from their hiding place and try to tag them before making it out of the graveyard. Loved this game.
A few friends and I did what could probably best be described as extremely low budget medieval reenactment.
We did the normal stuff like get scrap wood and make it into swords and stuff. But we'd also make spears and lances out of PVC pipe, we'd take stiff wire fencing, bend it back on itself and then wrap it in duct tape to make armor and shields. The wire was stiff enough to be difficult to bend by hand, so we use mallets to shape it and that let us pretend we were forging stuff.
It started with just 3 of us, but at our height we had about 10 other kids with us. We still made most of the stuff but we had some big, awesome battles.
We played a game in our neighborhood that was a variation of “kick the can” for those who grew up in the 70’s - 80’s. Our variation was called IP or Intense Paranoia. Similar to KTC - one team would hide while the other would begin hunting 5 minutes later. The main diff from KTC was that if you were spotted hiding you had to be physically tagged rather than someone spotting you an calling you out. Once tagged you would sit on the front steps of whatever house was “base” that night. Unlike KTC where everyone would be freed of someone kicked the can in the front yard. But in IP in order to free the teammates from the base. Each teammate needed to be tagged back in. Making the rescues that much harder. The game itself would happen over an entire neighborhood at night.
I'm 1 of 5 children. We had several made up games but I'll just give this one as an example.
My little brother was very strong for his age and had a lot of pent up frustration. We channeled this into a game inspired in some parts by one of our favorite shows - The Crocodile Hunter (miss u steve). This game was called "Wild Pig". My little brother was the designated wild pig. And we as siblings would try to rope him as he'd thrash about, kick us, and send us actually flying across the room. We had one of those afghan blankets in camo colors which was the perfect looking net to use to try to tangle him up. It was fun and there were many injuries.
Me and my brother played “crazy taxi”. We had one of those plastic toy cars with a roof that you can sit in and push around or move with your feet. We were both slightly too big to fit but the premise was one of us squished into the car and the other pushed the car around like a maniac. The aim was to get the driver to submit. Naturally it involved a lot of ramming into the wall and flipping it on the roof. Looking back I’m amazed there were never any injuries.
My dad used to play this game with my mom where he moved out and she would have to drop me off to his house every weekend without talking to each other.
My older brother and sister used to play "Sharks and Lifeguards" when I was about 3 or 4. It would be played on a living room couch and consist of one older sibling being the shark and the other the lifeguard. The shark's job was to grab me and drag me to their 'lair' and the lifeguard would be there to protect me and stop the shark from dragging me off. Naturally this terrified me, but it was also a blast. Occasionally our golden retriever would join in as a shark and lick me to death :)
TL;DR tug of war between my older brother and sister with me as the rope
My childhood friends and I would play Super Smash Bros on pen and paper in school. Stick figures served as the characters, and we would use characters from other games as well. It served our imaginations well until we developed actually drawing abilities.
Ninjas. My bff,her brother and I would take (clean) laundry and wear their moms undies on our faces and stuff one sock in a tube sock then chase each other for hours in the basement.
We had to stop when her mom saw all the socks super stretched out. She never saw us with her underwear,thank god.
One of my best friends growing up had a dope basement with multiple rooms and no windows. One of these rooms was huge and this was the hangout zone whenever he had sleep overs.
In this game, one team would wait outside the room while the other team rearranged the room however they wanted and found hiding spots. The hiding team would then set a timer for like 3-5 minutes, turn off the lights, get in position and call “READY!” The outside team then enters and shuts the door. They have the allotted time to find the hidden players in the dark. Once the timer goes off members of the hiding team have to make it to the doorknob.
Basically hide and seek in a small area from a bunch of Metal Gear Solid fans.
Me and my brother used to have full on rock fights...we were too poor for nerf guns or airsoft.so played with rocks with nothing but a hoodie for head protection...only rule was no rocks bigger than a baseball lol
One game we played in the car was the sweet and sour game. The two of us would smile at the car next to us. If they smiled back they were sweet, if they didnt then they were sour.
Bob002 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This only happened one time, but my friend and I /u/andy-johnson one time started throwing some little plush balls at some sort of empty 12 pack container. You had to be behind a certain line (from the kitchen to living room) before you could throw. We only had one each and two of these empty boxes. We had to have played that for HOURS. I know were started early early in the morning (like 2 or 3) and played it until the sun came up.
"Hide the cucumber" with uncle John. He always used to hide it in the same place though...
Olegjo · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At primary school we used to be on the swings while one or two people were in the group d throwing soft balls at the ones on the swings. If they hit, they got to swap.
Played at night, usually outside. Make someone spin in a circle while looking upwards and shining a flashlight in their face. Let them go for about a minute, then remove the flash light and tell them to run. They faceplant every time.
jcev99 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to go “sledding” on the stairs. We’d grab pillows and blankets and sit on them and tie ourselves into a little “sled” and rode down the stairs.
The house we grew up it had a little decorative space next to the stairs. It was kind of like a balcony but for like a statue or plant or something. It was a little square area with the banister on three sides. We used to build forts and play there.
For a kid that grew up playing on steps, it’s kind of incredible how often I fall up and down flights of stairs as an adult.
Me and my brother play “prison rules”, or phone check. Basically, one of us yells one of the phrases and we pretend to stab each other with shanks. First one who gets 10 stabs in wins.
Every fall we would rake the leaves into a huge pile in my best friend's back yard with his two brothers then play two on two football. You could pass forward, backwards and as many times as you want. Diving into the leaf pile was a touchdown, but if you got tackled the other team would get the ball.
My best friend's dad would offer to "officiate" (drink beer in a lawn chair and watch) since we just raked his entire yard for free. We thought it was a great deal.
When we were little my little sister and I would do Roll Out battles. We would tuck in our arms and roll across the bed at one another repeatedly. You win each encounter by managing to be the one to roll over the top of the other. The game ends in hysterical tears and laughter and exhausted breathe.
What a pleasant memory this post have brought me, lol.
Blind man’s bluff...but instead of calling out so the blindfolded person could find you, we threw things. My mom made us stop playing after I dislocated my shoulder! Good times.
Use to play this "game" with my brother. Would wonder out into the woods and find a large dead tree. We'd grab the base of the tree and shake the everloving shit out of it until the top fell off and came crashing down to the ground. The idea here was that when we hear the crack of the falling tree top, we'd take off running. If you didn't die, you won the game.
In retrospect, I'm surprised the two of us made it to adulthood.
We used to play Radio Chair: One sat with crossed legs, usually my brother, and held his arms in front of him like armrests. I sat on his legs, my back facing his front, and then press the 'station buttons': his fingers. he then pretended to be different radio stations, depending on the buttons I pressed
My siblings and I played this game (cant remember what we called it but there was a name) where wed put a bunch of different kinds of balls or toy wheels or whatever the fuck would bounce around on the trampoline. Then everyone gets on and jumps and if something bounces and touches you, youre out. There were fights about the honor rule for sure.
Played in an urban area where all the houses had brick or concrete front steps. Players aged 8-12.
Take a blue handball and throw it at the steps. Players in the street and sidewalk try to catch it before it hit the ground. Hitting the parked cars on your side of the street was a single. Street was a double. Opposite sidewalk was a triple. Opposite houses was a home run. If other players catch the ball its an out, etc.
Trick was to try to hit the front edge of a step just right to get a perfect bounce for a homerun.
The balloon game! Played with one other friend in my parents master bedroom, was very simple but addicting: had to keep up a balloon no matter the cost. Smack it as hard as you can upwards/outwards, and the other person had to get to it and keep it aloft. You can imagine how the first few are easy, but there are epic saves to be made as the game progresses.
When we were supposed to be going to sleep every night, my little brother and I would watch the lava lamp on our bedside table. I would always choose the bottom as my home base and my brother would have the top as his home base by default. As the bubbles formed and bounced from each side, we would narrate a war story that coincided with the collision of the bubbles.
I would “win the war” every night because the bigger bubbles originated from the bottom and smaller bubbles were refracted from the top. I always told him that the bottom bubbles were more powerful because I was the older sibling. I’ve never told him our nightly war was rigged the whole time.
We podcasted in the late 80s before there were podcasts. Me and a friend would talk for hours on topics we liked into mics that weren’t hooked up to anything. We did this for years lol.
Lewbie · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Long hill in the village, starting at the top and running through everyone's back gardens, hopping fences and all that, till you get to the bottom. We called it the Grand National.
My mother came up with a game for me and the neighborhood kids called “wall dodgeball” let me explain the rules
1. All kids like against wooden fence.
2. The “it” person(9 out of 10 times it was my mother) would stand in front of everyone with the ball.
3. It person would then try to pelt you with dodgeball and many times until either someone caught it or we got bored.
4. Of someone caught it they were the it person
5. You could only move side to side you can not leave the fence
My brother and I would each act out three characters from films and television we liked (a lot of Allen Grants, Indiana Jones, and Luke Skywalkers). Then based on the performance we would pick character one, two, or three for the other. Then we went on a make believe adventure together as those two characters.
ok so like whenever i was bored in class i would stare up at the ceiling, and you know those ceilings that every school has? id imagine theyre a checkerboard and try and move my eyes from one end to the other diagonally while avoiding lights and stuff. its stupid as shit but it passed the time.
When I was in elementrary school, my brother and some friends played this game called black sheep. We assigned one person to be covered by a black blanket, then we all went into a dark hallway and the person under the blanket had to tackle everyone else who was in the hallway. After the everybody had been tackled the last person do have been tackled became the next black sheep. Really wierd, but was one of the most fun things that I remember doing as a child.
Skeleton Wars. Where my sister, bother, and I basically had the most epic, continuous LARP session of all time spanning approx. 5 years of my childhood.
Xdsin · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played "The Borg Game". We would hide laser challenge guns around the house and we would strap three laser vests to a person who would play as the borg.
Everyone would start out with a laser challlenge gun. You were not allowed to reload the gun. The borg person was not allowed to run.
If they caught you, you died. If they caught someone and put their hand on their type of laser challenge weapons, they were "adapted" to the gun and the players running couldnt use it any more.
The object of the game was to hit all vests until they all said "you are dead!" To stop the borg. You would try to find guns so you had enough shots to kill the borg while the borg was slowly adapting and taking options away.
There was this horror themed biscuit commercial game that used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. I haven't been able to find any references to it online so I'm kinda halfway doubting whether its something I dreamt, a horror biscuit game just sounds so bizarre.
Speaking of games only half remembered, there's another game from the same period of my life I'm also wondering whether I'm making up. You're controlling an anthropomorphic yellow helicopter and have to make it through a dark cave full of enemies.
If any of these ring a bell, don't hesitate to let me know, it's kinda bugging me whether these actually exist
Me and my older sister used to play a game called Waaah-Boosh, we would stand on the arm of the couch and just faceplant just missing the other arm.....fun times
I used to pretend I was the queen of a country. I’d dress up in this cleopatra costume my mom has that was basically a gold dress and cape. I had a notebook with all “regions” in my kingdom. I had carefully written about the industry in each region and demographics. When I learned about pie charts in school I added those too. Then I would lock myself in the closet alone, with my costume and notebook and pretend to be hearing complaints and solving issues for my imaginary citizens.
We played the “car game”. Not really sure exactly how it originated but we would hang out near the street in our front yard or neighbors yard. Then when a car would come we would have to hide from it. Then it escalated to us trying to scare people driving by. I have a full blown ghillie suit that kind of looks like a cross between Bigfoot and a sea monster. We decided to hide near the road until the headlights were close enough to illuminate us, but just barely. Then we would run like hell across the road and back into the shadows or out of sight. Not sure how convincing it ever was but 12 year old me likes to think I Made at least one person question their sanity.
My brother and I used to put rocks inside of socks and ride our bikes and throw the rocks at each other’s wheels trying to get the other person to eat shit. Hahahahaha
We also tied a rolling chair to the back of a lawn mower and drove that up and down the street with the other riding it.
Oh and we used to play “123 JUMP” where we had to do a trick on the trampoline and then get tf out of the way in under 3 seconds or the other person would hit you with their trick lmao
I've got a bunch of sibblings and my dad worked the night shift so we had to spend most our time outside so he could sleep. My favorite game we made was a city based around a rock currency. We had a banker, a police man, a tow truck, and an insurance agent. We all started the game with a certain amount of rocks and the bank would provide interest. We would have to bike around the yard to get to and from each others buisness. If we wrecked, the economy was stimulated. The tow man would be paid to "repair" the bike while the policeman would stop traffic. If the person who wrecked had been paying their insurance they would get a lump sum of rocks.
However, some of us who disliked our jobs would make behind the scenes deals. The tow truck driver may promise the policeman a free repair so long as they split the insurance payout. Or sometimes we would deposit rocks we found on the ground into the bank.
The game would generally end when the currency was hyperinflated and insurance fraud and corruption ran rampant. Who knew that kids less than 10 years old could so effectively simulate real world economies.
My friend's dad was a basketball coach and had a ton of basketballs in the basement. We'd turn off all the lights, hide behind furniture and just start chucking balls at each other until someone got a bloody nose or something. Boys are dumb.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play a tag sort of game in my grandparents living room, but each couch or chair was a safe zone. Running back and forth diving from one couch to the other. We naturally called it “couch to couch to couch to couch”.
Ditch jumping. My sister I jumped over the ditch in front of our house.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster ball. Played in the driveway. It’s essentially just baseball, but you have a tennis racket and the pitcher bounces a kickball to you and you hit it with the racket. You have to go around the bases but can’t stop. No singles or doubles or triples. If you get hit with the dodgeball by the pitcher before you get around you’re out. Also hitting it over the roof of the garage was a homerun but you CAN play the ball off of the roof.
It made for exciting times waiting for the ball to come down while you know the hitter is booking it around the bases.
My one best friend through grade school and her siblings had a TON of Lego. They had a huge house built out of it, one storey, no roof, about 5 feet by 7 feet on the floor.
Me and 2 best friends loved "Lego Serial Killer," where we'd make a cast of characters with backstories, then one of us would dismember them (except 1) and hide them all over the house and the other 2 had to find the bodies, reassemble them correctly, and find the murderer, who would be the only one still whole.
Balloon tennis - we would move the sofa in the middle of the room as a net and play tennis with a balloon as the ball and our hands as a racket, made for some funny moments hitting my siblings in the face in close proximity with a balloon!
We played The Animal Game. One person would lay down on the couch, and the other one would be the animal running around on top of them. The person on the couch had to say what kind of animal the other one was, but it had to be either good or bad. For example, a good cat might purr and cuddle, and a good bird would chirp and sit nicely. A bad cat would claw and bite, and a bad bird would peck and try to violently make a nest. You could pick more than one good animal in a row, but you eventually HAD to pick a bad animal. It was mostly just an excuse to beat on each other, but we played it all the time.
I used to own a ton of hot wheels and hot wheels “businesses” (gas station, hospital, etc). My cousins and I would make fake paper money and each have our own businesses and play with the cars and use the fake money. I also had one of those rugs that had roads and stuff on it for cases.
We did this weird combat game where you had to 'walk' on your knees by holding your ankles behind you and try to knock each other over. It's obviously unsteady, so it's balance and timing and speed. If you sort of shuffle along faster, you can gain speed to knock someone over. But they might brace for it a bit and you could fall over, or they might try to get out of the way last second and then you're going too fast without the impact you were expecting and might lose your balance, etc.
There were 4 of us, and you all just go at once, it's basically a free-for-all.
One person would be one a swing and the other person would pitch- as in kickball- a giant exercise ball at the swinger and they would try to kick it. Instead of jumping off the swing and running bases, landmarks you kicked it further than determined what base you were on. We called it Hanupa-nupa. Extra points to the pitcher if they rolled it under the swinger and made them bounce off the swing.
Ball on the roof game. The rules are throw the ball on the roof and the person who can grab the ball when it rolls off gets the point and they get to throw next. This game does not work with flat roofs.
Pinecone wars. Build forts, then throw pinecones at one another. Best after a rainfall, the pinecones turn into little rocks.
I used to play a game with my sister and our friends and our Australian Shepherd/Border Collie dog Buddy. Since Buddy was a herding dog, he loved chasing little kids and rounding them up. We had this plastic playhouse we would jump on top of and then run across our deck and jump into a tree while Buddy chased us and tried to nip our heels. We would spend hours playing this game, bolting back and forth between the play house and the tree. The last kid up would usually get caught by Buddy and make him very pleased.
My friends and I would walk around my neighbourhood complex after dark. There was a pool and playground that was surrounded on all sides by the houses in the complex but the inner portion wasn't very well lit. We would walk around all sneaky, trying to be silent, then one of us would yell out "ITS THE FUCKING BEAST" and we would all scatter, run through people's yards at top speed as if we were trying to evade some weird monster, and all meet up back at my house to do it again.
My elementary school had no playground equipment at all just the woods. So we would play house by taking pine straw and create the blueprint for the house, serve breakfast/lunch from a honeysuckle bush and use the stuff off tree bark as eyeshadow.
We would turn all the lights off in a large room with lots of furniture and basically play hide and seek but you had to crawl. It was quite thrilling when the seeker was skilled.
We would throw a heavy chair from the poolside into the deep end of the pool. Then we would jump in and sit on the chair at the bottom of the pool. I still don't see the point of it but it was fun
We had a large unfinished, windowless basement with lots of boxes stacked around. We were really into a PC game called Thief: The Dark Project and tried to reproduce the effect of gaurds going on rounds with lamps while friends tried to steal jewels and such.
We hid items around the basement with different values and had two gaurds patrol holding candle lamps, while thieves, armed with tiny flashlights, darted about trying to grab the loot and not get caught. If a gaurds tagged you, you're dead.
It was so fun to be gaurds or theives. As a gaurd, you'd walk around your merry way and one second there's a candlestick and the next second it's gone without a trace. As theives, you can chill as gaurds wander by and even knock out gaurds if you're very daring.
If you attempt to knock out a gaurd and fail, the alarm goes off and gaurds automatically win. A knock out was simply tapping the gaurd on the shoulder unaware. The gaurd had to silently collapse and blow out their light.
Soooo scary being in the basement in the dark, thieves abound, occasional whispers all around you, and then your partner disappears...
I played my own little version of Breakout on walls I would see, especially when I was dragged to church 3 times a week. If I was really bored, I would let the 'ball' go around corners, making for some difficult lines to 'predict.'
We used to play Velociraptors.
Some of us would be at the top of a slope (humans) and the other group would be on the bottom (velociraptors). The game consisted on the velociraptors grabing humans by the ancle and draging them to the bottom, where you became a velociraptor too. Good times.
hdpq · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters played the air port game we just pretend we are our parents and fight about who gets what in the divorce and who had to pay child support that month good times
Tube Tag.
We were a generation behind at the Family Reunions, but whoever was "It" had to go butt first into one of those circular pool-raft doughnut things. Everyone else had to stay in the water, but we could dive, push off the edges, kick the tube away or flip it, etc.
Pretty close to drowning many times when someone would dive under the raft guy, and then push off the wall to escape, only to have someone else defensively kick the raft guy in the same direction the underwater guy went.
We, we only did this once, but me and my sister was at my grandma's place and we were bored. Then we had an idea. You see, grandma had this miniature golf course game. We put a few different pieces together until we were saitisfied with the results. Then, we went outside to capture a few different snails. We put them on the now-race-course and watched to see which snail would win.
No one did. Snails aren't very good at staying on track.
We also liked to put different ant spieces into an arena and watch them fight. Now I feel bad for the ants. Sorry ants. :(
We basically played rock paper scissors and the winner gets to make a move like punch kick etc with their chosen character. Basically jump force turned into pokemon with the chance of infinite turns. Fun with groups till you cant even get a turn in
Squirrel chase. I'd pretend to sweep up the porch while my then bff would try to sneak past me. I'd then chase her with my broom until she ran away. I'd then go back to sweeping the porch. Rinse and repeat. If she got past me, I'd then become the squirrel. Rinse and repeat. So many summer hours dedicated to this game.
I didn't really play it exactly, but in grade school the kids in my class played this game called "run away from Matt" so if I got close to them/talk to them or wanted to join them in an activity, the game would start and they would look at me and yell...you guessed it! RUN AWAY FROM MATT!
Ah Elementary School, such good times
qck11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blanket game. Basically playing tag in someone's basement with the lights off, while the person that's it has to wear a blanket over them while they walk around. Not much running if you don't want your head cracked open.
Follow the dog. Kind of like hide and seek but the person who is it, the dog, has to spot and call out the name of the person he finds. Then those who are caught have to follow the dog for the rest of the game. If the other people playing are sneaky enough they can tag the followers and release them. So the dog has to spot hiders and also watch the line following him.
dryoyo · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being a low income to low middle class child in a suburb slowly converting from farm land, we lived a block away from my elementary school. The school had large baseball diammond backstops that went straight up very simular to these. I would take tube socks, fill them with a few handfulls dirt, and throw the Sock Ball over the backstop again and again. More than once I lost the sock due to getting stuck at the upper part of the fence and it would stay there until a significant weather event blew it down. I eventually ran out of socks and had to tell my step mom what I was doing with them. I had to pick up recylables for a week to pay for more socks.
When my mum used to take me shopping at New Look I used to find price tags and receipts, stand on the top floor and try to drop them on people's heads. What a little asshole I was xD
We did this in our late teens. We'd stand at the top of grafton Street, the busiest pedestrian shopping street in Dublin. Skateboards in hand we'd throw a bouncy ball full force at the ground in front of us so it would bounce all over the place hitting shop fronts and often people. Then we'd skate full speed after it, if you catch it you just throw it harder. You lose if you hit someone or get arrested or whatever
Pilifa · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would walk down the hall over and over again pretending to be either an old lady or a bad guy shooter and my older brother would be in the room watching and he'd either have to shoot me down before I shoot him or not shoot if I wasn't the bad guy. Sounds really stupid now that I think about it.
“T-Rex tag”, inspired by Jurassic park. Basically just a normal game of tag but as long as whoever was “it” (the T-Rex) didn’t see you when you stopped moving, they weren’t allowed to tag you as long as you stayed perfectly still.
Bonus game: “Monster Ball” on the trampoline - one with a net works a bit better. Get as many different balls as you’d like (nothing you wouldn’t feel comfortable using in dodgeball), and probably way too many children on the trampoline. If a ball touches you you’re out. Last kid standing wins.
Our local tv station had a "Hitchcock Week". The 3:30 move M-F would be a Hitchcock movie. The day after The Birds played, we all re-enacted the birds attack scenes from the movie. Imagine dozens of children with arms outstretched screeching as loud as they can, chasing the child victims to try to peck them. Good memories.
my brother and I built lego bunkers that contained a little a little lego guy then threw batteries at each others bunker with the goal being to knock the little guy out.
D cells were "nukes"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Boxxing with Two X’s”. You cut arm holes and a hole to see out of a large moving box. You place the box on a hill skateboard at the top of a hill, give yourself som good pushes and then close the box and fly down the hill. It was the funnest shit you could ever imagine, probably not safe but we didn’t care.
We used to play a game we called juggernaut. When I was a kid I had a long, flat sled with handles on both ends. The juggernaut would take the “riot shield” and put his arm through the strap and he’d have a nerf sword in his other hand. We had nerf guns and somehow thought we could beat the juggernaut. Whoever it was would just chase us all around my dark basement beating the shit out of the nerf kids.
My sister and I made up this game we’d play on the trampoline called “Save the King”. Basically we would put 15-30 tennis balls along with 1-5 plastic balls on the trampoline. The goal was to bounce the tennis balls (bad guys) off the trampoline by jumping while trying to keep the plastic balls (good guys) on. It was actually a lot of fun diving around trying to save the plastic balls from falling off while sending the tennis balls into oblivion with a double jump.
Solid Gold was a TV show that came on Saturday nights when I was a kid and they had Solid Gold Dancers that would dance to the top 10 songs of that week and I used to snag my mother's high heels and drape sheer curtains around me and pretend to be a solid gold dancer...I am in my forties and I might still do it to this day, minus the curtains 😁
Me and my cousin were babysat by our grandma every summer. We used to play a "game" where we'd sit on the sidewalk and wave at every car the drove by. For every wave we got back we'd cheer and run inside to get our prize, a cookie. We could do this for 6 hours straight and be perfectly content.
"Avalanche". I had steps with a landing that would do a u turn half way up/down. So we would get every pillow and blanket we could find and stack them up In a wall at the landing and the top of the steps and have on person try to get to the top while getting pelted with pillows and wrapped up in blankets. We had some living room pillows that were so dense like medicine balls. THOSE were the nukes lol.
My sister and I used to build snow forts and have snowball fights. But because I'm 5 years older than she is, it didn't seem fair for me to just pelt her with snowballs. Plus, that game wouldn't last long since she would get frustrated and go inside (or I'd get in trouble). So we came up with a solution:
We would each make a fort, and man the fort with 10 small snowmen (two regular size snowballs stacked on top of one another with twigs for arms). The rule was that the snowman's head had to stick up above the top of the wall, but other than that, you could build the fort and arrange the snowmen however you want. We would then take turns throwing snowballs at each others' fort. I had to stand behind my fort since I was older, and my sister stood in front of hers to throw. On your turn, you got one snowball for every 3 snowmen left in your fort, rounded up, and your goal was to eliminate the other player's snowmen. Play continued until one player ran out of snowmen.
My brother and I created "Ooorgge". We had a long rope tied to the base of a tree. We would take turns standing split legged over it whilst the other ran with the other end so it would straighten, whipping up into the standing brothers nutsack.
The name comes from the sound one makes when this happens to them.
My neighborhood friend group created a game called "ghost" where one person was covered in 3 to 5 heavy covers and had to walk around blind trying to tag the others. The real fun came as the person who weren't it would throw pillows, yoga balls and any other object at the it person. The game most likely caused many undiagnosed concussions.
The Land of Magitivity! My oldest brother made it. We "entered" the land of Magitivity by jumping through a moving hula hoop. Once inside we had fantastical adventures and battles alongside our animal companions. Mine was some sort of a bat hybrid, I think mixed with a tiny deer but I don't quite remember. Anyway, it was a fun game that kept us outside for hours and the only game that we all played nicely together.
rinc · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade school during the longest break we played Alien. There was one alien and all the rest were civilians. It was like tag, except to tag someone the alien had to hold his hand over someone's face for a few seconds. Then the tagged person also became an alien. If there was at least one civilian at the end of the break, civilians won. Now that I think about it, it didn't make much sense, but it was so much fun. In time we also developed ranks for kids that survived more games. The highest honor was to be called Ripley.
So you take a bunch of those army guys, make two teams, and set them up across from each other. Then you take one of those cheap knock off Nerf pistols and stand behind your team. Taking turns shooting and aiming for the other teams army guys. Last man standing wins.
“Blanket Monster” one person would have be covered with a blanket and the remaining players would have to try and evade the person as they swipe and try to “kill” the other players. Extra points for minimal noise made.
etha33 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"House ball" we would throw a ball on the roof and had to guess where it was coming down and try and catch it before it hit the ground. We played this for years.
My dad got a plastic 50 gallon oil drum for some reason and had cut the top off so it was open. Us kids stuffed blankets and pillows in it and rolled down the hill in the backyard all day long. That was a blast.
All the cousins would get in a room. Block all the windows making sure NO LIGHT got in.
Rules: no snitching if you 'lost'
Turn off the lights and, start swinging. It was the punching room. Someone always cried but never snitched. We were ages 7-12. There was no mercy until the lights came back on.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game we called "chicken". One of us was the farmer and armed with a Daisy BB Gun and the rest were chickens. The " farmer" would shoot the chickens to have for dinner. We never landed a shot on each other but it was a thrill shooting and dodging BBs.
You had one goalie (which was decided by whoever didn’t manage to hit the crossbar)
And the other players had to jugle the ball with each other and then try to get it in as stylish as possible. (Had diffrent points for different goals, for example header, 2 points volley kick 5 and so on)
If the ball touched the ground last person to touch was switched into goalie position.
Or if the goalie caught it he had to touch a goal post with the ball while all the other players could run away.
Once touched they had to stop and then the goalie had 3 jumps and could then throw the ball at players, whoever got hit switched into the goal.
Plus the goalie gained the points of whatever shot he cought. (Cought Header, gained 2 points)
Every goalie started with 20 points if they went down to 0 they had to stand backwards and everyone playing could kick the ball at them full force from relatively close range.
Loosing meant hella pain but we would still play it all day long.
My friends and I at school would throw a stick up in a tree and stand still hoping we wouldnt get hit when it comes down. Whoever got hit by the stick would be out.
This was me and my sister. So we were both kinda scared of the dark (Kinda still am not gonna lie) and what we'd do is after we brushed our teeth, we'd rush back to our room and jump into the bed. The person who was last (normally me) had to turn off the light and navigate through a room in the dark to their own bed.
Also we'd announce what we'd be dreaming about just before we went to bed
My brother and I played ice climbers. Basically we had a large playset in our backyard and we would regularly get ice or snow storms. we would get a hammer each and we would have to knock all the ice and snow off the fort without touching the ground once. It means climbing the icy monkey bars and going across the section that held up the swings with ice on it and knocking it off
We used to rearrange people lawn furnishings in my neighborhood to mess with everyone. Great fun. Especially when Christmas came around because there was a ton of Santa’s and reindeer to pose.
Statue. One person would stand in the kitchen and pretend to be a statue. The other person would try to catch the statue moving or doing anything not statue-ish. The statue would see how much movement they could get away without getting caught.
Another: Fore. We would take plastic sports equipment (bats or hockey sticks or whatever) and throw them as high in the air as possible while screaming "Fore" like golf.
I'm really embarrassed about this and don't fault me because I was a young kid and didn't know better. My brother and I would play "Rodney King". One of us was a cop and one was Rodney King. While riding scooters, the cop would pull over Rodney and then after a few seconds start beating him with a pillow.
Just typing this out, it sounds crazy. Obviously we heard about it from the news and it was a big deal but we didn't understand what was the significance of it.
My dad delivered milk for the local dairy so we always had a metric fuckton of plastic milk crates around. We would build forts out of milk crates and plywood and take turns throwing basketballs and soccer balls at each other's forts to try to knock them down on one another. It ended after my cousin took a milk crate to the face
Brother and I would play snes or PlayStation games against each other while saving saliva in our mouths. By the end of the game we’d have chipmunk cheeks full of spit. Winner gets to spit on the loser.
It also involved contagious laughter and accidentally letting a flood of spit onto your own shirt, or smushing the other’s cheeks to try to get them to release their spit on themselves so they can’t spit on you. So fun. So gross.
On road trips, we were allowed to scream in the car when crossing bridges (over water only). The best was when we went to Florida and went across the Seven Mile Bridge.
It started in daycare and went up until first grade but me and a few other guys would play this game with a bunch of girls and we'd split up into the boy team and the girl team. There objective was to chase us down and try to restrain us then kiss us. They won the game once they kissed all of us. Back then tho I didn't care about kissing girls and was just focused on the win.
My family had “tire toss” growing up. We took an old bike tire and some broom sticks and tossed the tire back and forth using the sticks. Hands were against the rules.
There wasn’t a point system, we just threw a tire around and tried not to get hit in the face.
In high school, our group of friends had a game called "Commando". Kind of like a suburban version of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie "Running Man".
This is best played after-dark, when no ones out.
Basically you get 10-20 kids to one location in town, usually a parking lot. This is now Point A. You need a few cars. 3-5 is best. Then the owners of the cars, pick one other person to drive with them. This group of cars and passengers are the "Hunters". The rest of the kids are on foot. They are the "Runners". Then everyone agrees on a Point B. Its usually 2-3 miles away. The game starts and the "Hunters" have to drive to Point B. As soon as they get to point B, they can begin the hunt.
The goal is to get as many Runners to point B as possible.
Needless to say this get out of hand pretty quick. Hunters coasting through neighbor hoods with their lights off, looking to tag Runners. If you get tagged, you join that car and begin Hunting.
I've had some of my most heart pounding "The Deadliest Game" type situations playing Commando. Love it!
Me and my mates would put a mattress on the floor and chuck a small foam ball into the centre. The first person to leave the mattress fully was the victor. It would usually start with a massive dog pile and one or two people waiting on the edges in case the ball squirmed out.
I grew up on a farm in the 80's and all my cousins lived within a mile or 2 of me. Usually 12-13 of us would all play in the summer at the farm. We made a zip line from one side of the barn to the other.....didn't go well. Built giant forts in our Hay loft and then sleep up there at night and bats would fly over. Built several tree houses, played hotel in a old grain barn. We would build furn. out of boxes and creates and make people check in at the front desk and stay in the small grain rooms. We also had a pond with a dock and we would have swimming races across the pond along with building cardboard boats to race. Winter we would drive a small tractor out on the frozen pond ( my dad and uncle would checked ice safety) and build snow forts and hockey tourn. We once played cowboy and Indians building a life size Teepee in the back yard. We started a fire in it and it ended up burning down!!! We would ride our bikes for hours all over the back roads. To this day we all still get together at the farm and camp for the 4th of July and have Boat Races out of boxes......
Disclaimer: None of us were gravely injured, mentally scared or contaminated by dirt.
My brother, sister and I created this game called "retardanation" where one of us are a monster that can only be killed if it's slapped in the butt. The other two would have to avoid the "monster" and jump between the two twin beds that were in the room. Sometimes we would use foam swords to snack from range. We were really weird kids.
Tvas12 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Acorn wars -
Me and a few friends would gather acorns from a nearby tree and strategically place them in the road and wait for cars to go by.
The acorns were our soldiers and if they survived or weren’t ran over they would move up in military style rankings
ishixa · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings made up the game "turkey-vulture". Basically one person is the Turkey-Vulture and everyone else has to take turns trying to dodge them while running to a room, grabbing an object, then running back to home base (mom and dad's bed). Lots of tears were shed over that game.
we had a big blue gymnastics tumbling mat, and 2 or so people would lay on the mat on their backs, using their feet to push the end of the mat, 2 or so others standing with the end of the mat, trying to crush & fold the ones on the ground...like a tidal wave.
it was mildly dangerous & may have caused an argument or 2 but fun as shit
Wynnja · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cousin and I would make "magical" weapons out of sticks and everyday shop items and we would wander around outside and fight invisible monsters. We would even level up and keep track of our stats. Oh, and we also wrote each other "encrypted" letters so the girls wouldn't find out what we were talking about.
Spy.
My dad owned a construction company and we would see how long we could remain on properties moving around from point to point without being seen by the workers.
We got really good at moving around on scaffolding and climbing onto roofs and ducking under decks.
We went to the hill next to our house and dug up bones. There were a lot of bones. Lifestock, it seemed, we sent one in once and it got determined to be from a sheep. Most pieces were tiny, the largest things we ever found were an entire lower jawbone, and something like an elbow (nearly sperical bone). That one promptly rolled down the hill and we couldn't find it anymore :(
Also, my grandfather used to run a printing store, and he had tons of leftover paper. Incuding a lot of huge ones. No one had larger paper airplanes than me and my friends. And we lived right next to said hill, which was the perfect place to launch them from!
Not quite as grim as it sounds. We took the sofa cushions off and then one person would lay on the bottom bit of the sofa. The cushions were then put back on top of that person and then anything else that could be found that would go on there and then the other people (usually my best friend and the time and my younger brother) would climb on top of all the other stuff. Sometimes jump. Person at the bottom just had to last as long as possible.
Also sliding down the stairs head first on our bellies. Haha.
We put football helmets, grabbed trash can lids, and had some wood poles from old brooms and stuff and used to beat eachother up, oh and we'd duct-tape a pillow around us.
My friends and I used to find tree branches and chase each other around hitting each other with them. I guess there game was "try to be fast enough to not be hit" I was a great sprinter and dodger
Me and my friend would throw rocks at a wall and see who could throw their rock closest to the wall without actually hitting it. If you hit the wall you lose.
Me and my brother played a game called sticky cake. We were little people who were shrunk, like in honey I shrunk the kids. And we were stuck in a giant bowl of cake batter (I guess that was the sticky cake). So this is how you play: you get all the blankets in the house, throw them on the floor. Then you roll around in the blankets and pretend they’re drowning you and yell “STICKY CAAAAKE”. Repeat until you are tired
We would create Kinex people/robots. Then we’d split the room in half and place them in random spots. We’d then take turns throwing a hackysack or some kind of weighted ball at them. The goal was to knock them over but they’d explode in the process.
Wasp jar. My brother would catch a wasp in a jar, shake the jar, take the lid off and lock me in a room with it.... Come to think of it that wasn't really a game at all. Hey!
We took a toy (working) microphone and pretended it was a camera broadcasting strip teases and other miscellaneous pornography to imaginary boys. I was 5. The girl who came up with it was 6 or 7. I taught the game to another girl, my age, she told her mom, and my mom came to me and explained if I wanted to play that with the one older girl or whoever else likes the game that was fine but some people don’t like games like that, and most importantly, I was not allowed to put the microphone inside of my vagina because there was dirt on it, even though I couldn’t see the dirt.
Someone chokes you out and just as you’re passing out the same person knees you in the groin. I never played but supposedly it made you see stars and kids were fuckin lining up for that shit in 4th/5th grade
my sister and i had a game called poopdeck where we would dress in full sweatsuits, hoods and all, and slide around on the tile floor while my dad tried to hit us with a rather robust rc car.
When me and my brother were little kids, my grandmother (who lives across the country) was in her early 60s, so she had ability to run slowly. We played this game called Disco when she was around, and when she was not around, we would play it with our neighbors. She probably was the one who invented the game. It was a game where we would turn on our brand new multi rotational disco ball in the dark and it was a tag game. We would run around chanting "Disco disco disco!" as we would run. Weird. As a child, my brother invented altered versions of children's games that exist.
My brother and i had a game we called "Jimmys". Whenever it rained we would go to a window, typically the big patio doors, and pick raindrops at random that had collected enough water to start running down the window. That would be your "Jimmy". You would then cheer your "Jimmy" on until it reached the bottom of the window. I think there was a slight competitive edge to it but it was mostly random and an excuse to shout.
Oh boy so many. One was called shopping cart. We had a small yellow fake cart. So basically someone would sit in the cart and we would run it into things trying to get the kid in the cart to fly out. Me and my siblings also love this game where we made a pile of pillows on top of one of us and each person tried to jump onto them from the highest step. First of all, somehow we never got hurt as kids and also being the youngest of four I was always the one picked!
We didn’t have a name for it, but we’d unravel a bunch of yarn and tie it/wind it between every piece of furniture in the house. Then we’d return late at night to navigate through like we were burglars dodging laser beams in a museum. This went on until, of course, my dad got tangled up in our lasers
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A lot of people probably did this, but I would "baptize" my younger siblings at the beach or hotel pools.
Oh, and we'd play "drowning person saved by 10 year old lifeguard"
Not really a game per say, but on long roadtrips my sister and I would spot roadkill off to the side and everytime we spotted an animal everyone in the car had to say one feature we liked about ourself. Still play it to this day.
Oh god, I know exactly what mine was. My 2 brothers and I had a trampoline as kids. One of us would be the "dee-de-dee". I believe it was a joke that Carlos Mencia told a long time ago (before everything was pc). But anyway, whoever was the "dee-de dee" would roll back and forth from one side of the trampoline to the other and you had to jump over them. If your feet touched them, you would have to be the dee de dee. Super bad game but it was fun. Sometimes we would fall off the trampoline and sometimes get stepped on accidentally but that's kids for you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my sister played this game called charlie sheen, we would take medicine cups and one person would be charlie sheen and the other person was the bartender. you had to drink the most shots of whatever the person who was the bartender mixed up for you. it was disgusting.
norams · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "James Bonds" with some family friends kids. My littlest sister got tied up and put in the closet and a few good guys had to rescue her, dodging and throwing any ball or pillow we could find.
I had a NASCAR board game that was given to the family at some point. It was old when I found it. I was maybe 8 at the time. The rules were pretty simple, three lanes in the circuit, roll a dice and move that many places, if you land in a certain spot you pull a card and get some kind of penalty.
I ran all 16 cars that came with the game through 3 seasons of 8 20 lap races each complete with qualifying rounds, point systems, and championships. In tye third season I heard about cars being in teams in the real world and incorporated that.
I kept track of all of this in a notebook. My parents had no idea what I was doing. They came across the notebook a few years back (20 years after) and I explained it to them.
Lay down a piece of laminated particle board. Run over the board with your BMX, and apply full strength on the brake just as your rear wheel is on the board, locking up your rear wheel. Rear wheel drags the particle board along, sliding and skidding uncontrollably. Skid and slide as long as possible. Release brake when about to fall. Take turns with other neighborhood kids. Longest distance wins.
I have 6 siblings and my mom would take us to the store together to run errands (think K-mart late 90's). We would try to see who could walk at the back of the group with an odd object and see how long we could get away with it before someone (a stranger or other patron) told mom on us. My brother would always win by dragging a rake behind us or wearing women's underwear on his head at the back of the group (he was 6/7 at the time).
Ball Jump. My sisters and I would have a really big blue bouncy ball and would put it on our trampoline. Then we’d have to jump and try not to touch the ball, if you did touch it, then you need to sit down and try to throw the ball to hit another player to get back in. But you only have three throws a game.
Windowball. You would try to throw a tennis ball into the second story window of a house while somebody was in the window trying to prevent it from getting in the window. If you managed to get the ball in, you got to go up into the room and defend the window. I spent many, many summer days playing this with my friends as a kid
My sister and I came up with this game on long car rides with our parents. There was a ton of farm land on the way to many of our destinations. We grew up in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, if you saw an animal that had four legs on your side of the car you counted it as one point. Passing a cow pasture was ideal, but you would see the occasional dog or cat as well. If you passed a church with a graveyard you had to "bury" your animals and start at back at 0. The person with the most points at the destination won.
trampoline wars... 2 teams of 2 would have and all out wrestling match and try to push the other team off the trampoline and the last person (team) standing won
We would fill an empty milk jug with water and tie it to the rope on the flag pole in our front yard. Then, we would spin the jug around and attempt to hit it was a baseball bat. The rope would wind around the pole, so we could only spin it so much. The person who broke it usually got wet and it was an oddly fun summer game.
Bed crawler. Someone would climb underneath a fitted sheet and chase around the person on top of the sheet. It didn’t really work unless it was on a king sized mattress.. Usually the person underneath would keep saying bed crawler as they tried to get the other person. Really fun times hahaha:)
This probably isn't as unique as others. But when I was younger my friends and I would play Tremors. Basically like the floor is lava game, but we were outside and anything that was grass, dirt or sand wasn't safe, like in the movie. We would try to get to places like the garage, deck, swing set, etc. and get "supplies" and "guns" to kill the monster before it ate us. The best part is I had one of those little Power Wheels Barbie Jeep, we would ride around in it and try to kill the monster while it chased us.
Used to play “walk the lugie” in second grade at school. We would tie a rope around someone’s neck and walk them around the baseball diamond on their hands and knees. We had to stop because a teacher thought we were playing slavery and took us to the principals office. Didn’t help that she walked over while it was out black friends turn to get walked. We were dumb not racist, getting walked was the best part.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Doctor"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would each create a bunker out of couch cushions and pillows. We then would lob television remotes and video game controllers, really anything we could use as a projectile.
Well one time before thanksgiving we played bunker and i being the older brother tossed the big direct tv remote and it went directly into my little sisters eye hole she had made to watch the incoming artillery. Well basically gave her the biggest black eye i have ever seen days before a big family holiday. We were not allowed to play bunker anymore.
Panda is Nigh. Me and my cousin would go out in terrible storms by the beach and toss a ball around, but there was a catch. We used traffic cones to catch and throw the ball. Why? Because we could. Good ole warm spring storms.
Count the vanes in the ac grate. Run your finger quickly across a random ac vent and see who could count the closest to the actual number of vanes based purely on sound.
We played Jurassic Park with our family dogs as the "raptors". You throw the tennis ball for them, then while they look for it you run the opposite direction, once they realize you're running away the chase begins..
S4ve- · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a variation of hide and seek, where one person would hide and the rest searched for the guy. When you found the one person hiding, you had to hide with him in the same place.
Often ended with 6 to 8 people in a bathtub or under the same bed. Fun times!
Everyone's in the pool. Take a clear 2 liter soda bottle, preferably with a white cap. Remove the label and fill with water. Everyone stands at the pool stairs facing outwards. Someone throws the bottle over their head behind them. You wait a few seconds for the water to settle and you all turn and go searching for the bottle which is now almost invisible. Often times you wouldn't find it until you accidentally kicked it or swam into it. Anyway, you get the bottle and battle or sneak your way back to the stairs with it. This is your base and if you make it there, you're safe - in theory. Repeat as necessary.
Me and my siblings played deadliest sibling where you would put a blanket on the floor, choose some stuffed animals and go to town on each other, first person to quit or be knocked off the blanket lost
Bavarian beavers. Move all the chairs away from the dinner table, two of us went under the table, two ran around the table. The ones under the table made loops with dog leashes to trap the beavers. The beavers were required to step in the loop on each pass. You had to time it perfectly to catch or not be caught.
When my mom found out about the game, she's told us that Bavaria was the name of a real place, and I remember thinking "obviously, that's why we used it."
Me and 3/4 of my class would play hide & seek on bikes. We lived in a medium sized village so we would zoom through the streets,we usually had 1m to hide. It was fun. I flew over the handlebars twice.
WALL BALL. My five siblings and I would throw a tennis ball on the side of the house in the driveway, it would hit the ground, someone else would catch and throw it at the wall, etc. If you tried to catch it and failed or got hit by it, you had to run and touch the side of the house before someone pegged you with the ball or you were "out".
If you broke one of the many "rules" you had to suffer through a "butts up" which was where you stood on the wall with your pants down far enough so your buttcheeks were out, and whoever called you out for breaking the rule could stand at a dedicated line in the driveway and try to hit your ass with the tennis ball.
I'm the youngest, so I inevitably had the most butt cheek welts. Good times.
May not be very unique, but my cousin and I would play knee football in his basement. It’s basically football, just on your knees. I remember it being pretty fun
I guess it was around the time I was 6. We had a playhouse in the backyard and the neighbor girl next door, who was the same age, and I, used to play the 'privates' game. I would drop my drawers and show her my little JohnCandyCrush and she would drop hers and show me... well, her 'hole'. I used to tell her not to worry, her pee pee would pop out soon enough. It brought about such a rush, knowing and not-knowing what we were doing was 'wrong'.
Me and my cousins used to play a game called "lights out" idk who made it up but whenever me and my sister came over we would wait till it dark outside so light couldn't shine through the curtains and turn off all the lights but some times the younger kids got scared so we would have him go upstairs and play on someones phone
We played a guess the temperature game when we would be driving home. Our local bank displays the temp and who ever guessed the closest got a Starbucks.
"Jumper". I would carry my mattress from my room in the basement to the bottom of the stairs, climb up the side of the stairs (the side without the railing), and see how high I could climb and jump onto the mattress. Rinse and repeat.
My friends I created this game called curbball. We would each stand on the other side of the road in front of a curb. We used a basketball and you would try to hit the curb(harder then it seems). You would get 10 points if you hit the curb. You then walked up halfway and would try to hit the curb. Every time you hit it from the halfway mark you get 5 points. If you missed, it’s your opponents turn. You could actually win the whole thing by hitting curb to curb. I’ve done it 4 times in my entire curveball career. Pretty fun game if you ask me. If you were on the final shot we would always do trick shots to make it more fun.
We used to make an indoor treasure hunt for each other, where we placed hidden notes around the house and set up little puzzles and riddles, which when solved, will eventually lead you to some "valuable" treasure. Ah, the good times...
We played War. Each player took a "base" and fortified it with like, laundry baskets and stuff. I liked to use the top bunk. The kitchen was Switzerland. Players would have to go on stealth missions there for snacks. We all kept highly dramatic journals. Then we would prepare for battle in which we would beat the shit out of the opposing team's fort with brooms and other household items. The goal was to steal pieces of the fort to break it down. Then we all signed a treaty and shared our snack rations.
Also, we played virtual house on Goldeneye for the N64.
Asells · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Googanot- hide and seek in complete black darkness. We used to set up traps and shit too. Good times.
Used to play the "Moon" game with my brother. Basically don't get seen or caught until you are in position and ready to "moon". Nothing like catching him off-guard looking straight at your bare buttcrack. Sometimes waiting a few minutes silent until someone "loses".
In elementary school, we used to play a game similar to dodgeball where a bunch of kids would have their backs to the wall, and one person would throw a bouncy ball at them. It was between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball. If you got hit, you were out. There was no fighting back. Just execution style
So we (siblings) would have a bowl of cereal. And we would play “se caí o no se caí” Basically “will it fall or will it not.”
The end where you hold the spoon would be on the rim of bowl. You lift the “ladle part at a 40- 80 degree angle. Then before you let it go, the other would guess whether it would fall into the milk or if you had enough cereal where the spoon would stay on top. . .
“The baby game”. My younger sister would pretend to put my brother and I to bed and as soon as she walked out we would make a lot of noise and she would come in pretending to be an enraged mother and beat us for not going to sleep...sounds fucked up now that I write it out but we had fun! 😂
We would play ‘shop’ where we’d each set up a business and visit eacgother. My sister ran a jewellers. My cousin ran a bank. I ran a pretend school and my best friend, who ran the post office, would send me threatening letters.
ksa10 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next door neighbor and I used to play some stupid games but this one is by far the worst. We called it octopus. The “octopus” would hold one jump rope in each hand and spin as fast as they could in a circle, whipping the jump ropes around. The other players, or the “fish” would try to push the octopus to the ground without getting whipped by the jumprope. One time the jumprope whipped me so hard that it actually broke skin. I can’t get over how dumb this game was or how it was fun for anyone involved
j_rek · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Troll- me and all my friends would turn the lights off and someone was the ‘troll.’ The troll would have to scare everyone and the first person to tap out or scream would be the next troll. Quite a few punches were thrown and bruises were had, but it was so much fun. We played it for years into our teens.
In first grade all of the girls in my class sat together at lunch and whoever had fruit snacks/gummy candy would participate in these fights (I don't remember if we had a specific name for it). We would each take out a fruit snack or gummy bear and make them fight each other and the one that lost got eaten. We would do this one v one until they were all eaten. I have no idea how we decided who won but I remember just giggling all throughout lunch at our fruit snack battles.
Me and my friends invented " Dot". Basically if you stand you say dot and when you sit you say dot. If you don't say dot, we would poke with the index finger and yell dot. It was really fun when people in school caught on to it. Basically a well known game with a weird word and breaking fingers !
My siblings and I would pretend our bed was a small lifeboat and we were in a massive storm at sea. We would spend hours saving one another after someone would fall off. Thinking about it now makes me want to play again, 30 something years later.
My brother and I made up a game we called "Tracks". Basically it requires freshly fallen, largely undisturbed snow. We usually played this game in the evening/night when it was dark out. The first person would start making tracks that weaved through the neighbourhood and around trees and in other zig zag patterns. They could also do snow angels or rolled down a hill or run so that the tracks were far apart. After about a minute, the second person would walk through the tracks as closely as possible to the original "tracks". Sounds really lame but we had a lot of fun doing this.
Me and my friends used to play "zombie" were one person was a zombie and the rest of us would just beat that person with sticks. Looking back at it, it was just bullying
I was an only child so when I wasn’t dressing up my VERY patient cats, I was playing a solo game I made up called “Caveman”. I would pretend I was a caveman that had been frozen in ice all these years and just “woke up” in my bed. I recognized nothing, had no language and I was very freaked out and also inquisitive. Picking things up and smelling them, pretending to eat my cats, run down stairs and make noises at my mom and pull her hair, hit my dad, never explaining the game to them. I still have an urge to play this when I’m home for the holidays and have too much vodka.
A kid from the neighbourhood invited me over to his treehouse to play woosh woosh. I was probably 10 years old and he was a bit younger.
Anyways i agree and we ride our bikes over to his place, climb up in the tree house and he proceeds to show me how to play.
This kid (jayden) then starts lighting the (already charred) nylon rope on fire of the swing that hangs down from a higher branch out of his tree house window.
As the flame builds the molten nylon starts dripping down to the ground;
"woosh-woosh" "wooosh-wooooosh"
Long story short it got out of hand and the kid burned down his own god damn treehouse and i learned what "woosh woosh" was.
My friends and I used to play backyard baseball on the golf course we lived on. In the fairway on the 14th hole we figured out that the drain grated and yardage markers lined up almost perfectly as a diamond.
In the springs when we weren’t actually playing baseball, we’d be out there almost every day after school playing a pickup game. Far out in left field was the rough that was used as the fence line for us. When golfers would tee it up we’d quickly pack everything up and move to the side to let them pass. Every once in a while, the drunker ones would stop for an at bat.
Had some of the best times of my life out there with those guys just playing ball. I’ve lost touch with most of them by now but man those were the days. It may not be as “unique” as some of these stories, but we were damn proud of that field.
Bonus game: We’d also use the abnormally long teebox on that same hole as our football field in the fall.
We didn’t have a name for it, but my siblings and I used to stack VHS tapes and dvd cases on the ceiling fan and turn the lights off. Then everyone would stand somewhere in the room and when they were ready, a designated person would turn on the fan. Basically the goal was to avoid getting hit. There wasn’t really any winners, and thankfully nothing ever got broken
Me and some friends made a game with a very immature name called dont poop your pants. It was a very very simplified version of dnd where up to 6 players were placed in a battlefield with the goal of being the first ones to the toilet. Each player had 20 hp and could think of any weapon they wanted and rolled to see if they got it. A 1 would be something shitty compared to what you wanted and a 6 would be a superior version of what you wanted. You attack and you can inflict up to 6 points of damage to a player and if you run out of health, you "shit your pants and die". Its concept is extremely dumb, but it's still fun as shit
We used to play a game called grab bag. We would find anything we thought would be disgusting to eat and put in in a trash bag. We'd take turns pulling out the items and eating them. We weren't the smartest, but I think it helped my immune system by eating all of those rotten foods.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunt the cunt. There would be 2 teams made up of folk from around our housing scheme and each team would have a word they had to keep secret. The teams would then attempt to beat the word from each other.
For a little while my siblings and I would play our own recreation of slender the eight pages in our basement. You couldn't really lose the game but it was a lot of fun. We would turn all the lights off and hide four or so pages around the basement then one of us would put on this stupid mirror mask thing that was tough to see through, grab a flashlight, and hunt down the pages while the others tried to scare you. With the lights off and that mask on you could only see what the flashlight illuminated. I can't remember why the game stopped. I'm pretty sure the mask broke or we ran out of good places to hide the pages.
We used the play “battlewood”. Battlewood was the name of the local pool and we’d pretend someone’s bed was a swimming pool and pretend to be swimming in it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao kind of dark but I had a babysitter who would love to play “husband and wife” with me.
Went on for a few years but it was my favorite game to play. Explains a lot of character traits I have as an adult
Nothing like a relaxing game of Nutball on a hot day at summer camp
Legs spread, lob a lacrosse ball and try to hit your opponent in the jewels. Blocking resulted in a free shot penalty, where your opponent got to chuck it overhand as hard as he could while everyone else in the cabin held your hands down.
The water game. My sister and I would spray water all over the cement in the back yard and try to make it across without touching the wet spots on the floor. We also had the sure bottle game which one of us would hide a sure deodorant bottle around the house while the other would try to find it. Good times.
The Quiet Game - my mother and her friend would tell me and my friend to lay down on the floor and to not talk or move and whoever stayed like that the longest would win. I don't really recall what we won, but I do remember trying to win!
Dad is asleep. Someone would play as Dad and lie down on a couch or a chair with a towel over their head while keeping guard of an object such as a lightsaber or ball. The Dad can “wake up” and take the towel off their head, if they see one of the kids in the same room/area their in, the kid is grounded and can no longer play. The kids have to try to steal the object without waking up Dad. My friends and I also added in a nerf gun that the Dad can only use when asleep. If a kid is hit with a nerf dart they are also out. The winner of the game has to play as Dad.
Used to play a game with my brother where we'd draw weapons and monsters and act out fighting the monsters using the weapons. My proudest moment was when I drew a monster so well my brother decided to keep it so he could show it to his friends claiming he drew it.
The card game "lost heir". Whenever I mention it, nobody has ever heard of it, I honestly thought my family created custom cards or something. It's basically euchre with four cities and 7 ranks, including a good boy and a bad boy.
When I would spend time with my grandfather we had a game where we would try and guess the color of the car that would pass the house next. First one to ten correct would get a dollar. He’s been gone for 16 years now and I catch myself playing when I sit outside by myself.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my bone-head friends used to hang out in some woods near the neighborhood. There was a train track that ran through it. We would have one of us go up to the tracks (which weren't visible through the dense brush) and start lobbing rocks into the trees where we were. We couldn't see them coming, but we had to dodge them as he randomly threw them towards us. Needless to say, many concussions and busted faces came of this game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if we made this up as kids. If it's not a real sport it should be anyways. We called it "War Ball." It was a combination of dodge ball and baseball. We would stand across the street and throw those miniature kickballs at each other. Much more power than real dodge balls and hurt much worse.
Rules were same as dodge ball except you had 3 lives.
Antelope. We live on a military base and the block was about a quarter mile long. All the houses were duplexes with the same design and yard space. All the kids from the area would come to our block with their bikes. One kid was the hunter and had a nerf football. Everyone else was the antelope herd and took off on bikes around the block. If the hunter could hit someone with the nerf then they swapped places and the person became the new hunter. As the hunter, you had to balance getting the easy target/crappy bike vs laying a trap for the kid with the 10 speed. Way too many hours spent playing this.
abrads · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called Clifford based on the cartoon Clifford the big red dog. We had a little tent setup in our basement and all the lights would be off. One person would be Clifford, they had to try and scare the shit out of everyone in the tent. Good times.
“The works.” Basically, I would give my sister a back massage, back scratch, a foot massage and a head massage. And she would allow me to sleep on the floor of her bedroom so I wouldn’t have to sleep in my own bedroom alone. I was a tad bit scared of being alone and she graciously allowed me the opportunity not to. For a small fee.
My neighbor and I were about 4 or 5 when we would play a game called Master and Slave. I had to do everything she said, or I'd be spanked.
Nezzie · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad's side of the family is decently big. My 3 aunts had 3 kids each, so when my brother and I were kids, we'd play with them when we visited. One of the games we played is one of us were picked at random to be the seed of a flower, then that person would curl up in a ball and lay on the floor. Everyone else would lay all the blankets and pillows we could find on top of them. We all would then "water" and "take care" of the seed. The person acting as the seed would then slowly stick an arm or leg out over time, since you know... It takes time for a flower to grow. Eventually the person that was acting as the seed would stand all the way up, signifying they were a fully grown flower. Then, the flower would pick the next person to be the seed, and the process would repeat until we got bored of it. Honestly, looking back on it, it sounds boring as fuck, but we actually had fun with it. Not sure how we even managed to do 1 round, let alone the 5 to 10 rounds we'd do when we played it. Maybe it was the suspense of wondering when the person would decide to sprout? I dunno.
My two older sisters and I used to play “Run Son, Run!” It basically consisted of one of my sisters pretending that they were my adopted mother and the other sister pretending to be my biological mother that escaped from a mental institution. The biological mother was always trying to take me back and they would fight it out all while my adopted mom screamed “Run son, Run!”
fr0896 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Please help! I've been trying to find this game since like 11, I'm 25. Played when I was probably 8 or 9 yo. Basically it's a turn based game played with AI. It's like monopoly with squares and buildings on them, except the buildings are companies in which you buy shares and rise up the corporate ladder. All I remember was it was fun but I can't find it for the life of me.
Don’t know what it’s called in English but there is that one game that’s popular in the Arab world , you grap a Pen and a paper , make a table and split it for those things , name of a human , name of an animal , name of a country (some times cities are allowed) , name of an Innominate object and the name of a plant , you pick a letter and find things that start with that letter , if the you answered with something no one else answered you get 10 points , if other people had the same answer for example multiple people had Rachel as a name then everyone with the same answer gets 5 points , game ends when you run out of letters or everyone gets board
My big sister and I used to "shoot aliens." Basically finger guns and "pew pew pew" sounds at every green street sign. But when we would drive home late at night we had to target the alien mother base. It was the Wells Fargo building that was lit up green. Good times.
My friend and his brother played "Avalanche". They'd take a sheet and put most of it on a tall surface like a top bunk or a counter with a little of the sheet hanging off. Then they'd get all of their hardest toys and put them on top of the sheet on the surface... and then get right under it and pull it on to themselves. Top tier game.
I wouldn't call it unique but it's called "Molkky", it's a version of Finnish skittles. It uses 12 wooden dowels and a wooden ball used to knock down the dowels. I sort of forgot the rest of it. It's a fun game for large groups and family reunion/get together, like outdoor bowling. 10/10 would recommend.
Our favorite game was “Slap ball” which entailed two people standing on opposite sides of the living room and we would slap a small rubber ball at each other attempting to block it from hitting the wall. If it hit the wall, the person who’s wall was hit was out and we would move to the next game. HOURS were spent fighting over how the bracket should work because we had an uneven amount of people...
My brother and I would set up 2 laundry baskets in the carpeted upstairs hallway and play “hand hockey” on our knees with a racquetball. Basically you’re just flying around on your knees swiping at the ball, trying to score in the other person’s “goal” (the laundry basket). It was a lot of fun.
My sister and I made a game called Spytag. It was basically hide and seek tag but everyone is a tagger and if you tag someone they join your team. The game ends when everyone has been tagged by the same team. I think we called it spy tag because it was full of lies and betrayal of who was on whose team but it was fun and lasted for hours and best played at night.
Ours was the "squiggle game". First person draws a random line or shape on a piece of paper, and the other person has to turn it into something by drawing in the rest of an image. It's actually still fun. Not really a way to win other than to have the most seamless integration into a drawing so you can't tell it was just a random squiggle to begin with.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play this game called geriatrics as kids. One of us would be the caretaker and the other would be the geriatric. The geriatric would constantly scream for morphine and the caretaker's goal was to divert his attention. It always spiralled into madness as the geriatric would grow more impatient with the caretaker's diversions. Hobbling around screaming "MORPHINE I NEED MY MORPHINE!!" and throwing shit around. Eventually ended in being scolded by a parent of how inappropriate the game was for children.
Another was called Mystery Curry, where we would take turns adding unknown ingredients into a bowl until someone either refused to have a taste or vomited. These ingredients included anything in the kitchen. Common ingredients would be baking soda, condiments, assorted spices, etc. You weren't allowed to see what your opponent/s put in and if you could guess what they added you could skip your tasting for that round. Very disgusting.
These were both about elementary school age...good times ..
My siblings and I would play "stinky socks monster". Basically the way it worked was one player was the monster who would be tethered to something in the middle of the room like a table. They had to stay in contact with the table at all times, if they tag another player they would be added to the monster and start to form a long chain. The game ended when the last player was tagged and became the new monster for the next round. To discourage hiding out of range if you tag the monster and avoid getting tagged yourself (say by tagging a person in the middle of the chain who doesn't have a free hand) you get a completely meaningless point. Also, if the chain ever broke anywhere then everyone from he break to the end was released and went back to being runners again.
We still play to this day with my cousins at my grandparents' pool. They have one of those rope floaties that goes across and is the perfect tether. The pool is great because you can go under the monster who can try and make a chain hand-to-foot for extra length. 10/10 game.
A mate and I made up a card game when we were 10. I can still remember the rules and it's a genuinely good card game, with several strategies to win and mess with your opponent. I'm not gunna say the rules cos I'm gunna actually try and make some money from it... Fuck knows how tho.
Me and my sister would play a game similar to tag one would be a pregnant refugee seeking political asylum and the other would be the border agent. We would section of routes to the base and it would restraint one arm each and basically have a beat down till you reached safety touching base. Lol we weren't very old and it was in the 90's, before the PC police show up we had little understanding of the hard ships people in that situation faced. No way mean any down play or humor in the what people in this situation face. We were ignorant kids lol
I think this is a well known game under another name
But me and two friends played Pluto.
You kicked the ball at a wall and try to hit the others with the ball as it returns, if you dont hit anyone, the next one kicks it against the wall, and if you hit one person he gets a letter; "P" you are "in" the game as long as you dont get hit 5 times and have all the letters p, l, u, t, o.
The game is played to the last man standing.
We played it for years!
When I was five or six, I would imagine a doctor coming to my bedside and telling me I had a horrible incurable disease, and I would die very soon. I’d feel a tingle of relief down my spine, and then I could finally fall asleep.
I didn’t realize what “playing doctor” normally meant until I was in my late 20s.
Ball game was played on a trampoline. Someone was "it" and would stand on the ground and throw the ball at the players on the trampoline. If you got hit you were it. Alicia and McKenzie cheated once, the jerks.
Monster was pretty much the same except you didn't have a ball and you tagged the person on the trampoline.
Gutterball was played at the public pool. You'd get those splashballs and throw them at the pool's gutter which was a concave gutter/canal that ran around the pool's edge and filtered the water. That game was a blast.
The Titty Twist Challenge. You and an opponent each secure a two finger grasp on the other's nipple (just one nipple on each person). On the count of three, you both pinch and twist as hard as you can. If you pull away, you lose the game. However, if your hand slips off your opponent without them pulling away, then you also lose the game.
We had a second floor banister that overlooked the living room. My sister and I would tie my dad's ties together and Tarzan swing from one piece of furniture to the next.
I played Little House On The Prairie. My friends and I would go outside and pretend to be pioneers. We would bring our dolls with us and pretend to have twigs and leaves and stuff for food.
Once I was playing this game in my living room. I took 4 chairs, 2 side by side facing the other two side by side. I put a big sheet over all 4 chairs, so it was a tent. I put our long and narrow coffee table at one end of it. This setup was the "covered wagon." I put some snacks, blankets, and my dolls in the "wagon." I took my two dogs and put their leashes on them, and I sat down on the coffee table. I pretended the leashes were reins and the dogs were the horses. "Giddy up!" I said to the dogs, and flicked their leashes. The two of them were basset hounds, and they yawned and fell asleep on the floor.
We played a game called "buck buck." I have no idea why it was called this. Picture row homes in Philly. Steps leading up to the front door, a kid would stand facing the door and count to 25. Everybody would hide in various areas within their field of view like behind cars, trash cans etc. They they'd have to say "Buck buck I see Freddy hiding behind the black station wagon." They'd have to get the name and location right for the person to give themselves up. So if Jimmy was hiding there, the person had to keep guessing. First one found was it next round.
When I was a kid, I discovered that you could kind of trick your body into feeling motion where there was none. I say kind of because the sensation is muted compared to reality, but it was there. In any case, I was able to teach a friend the trick too.
The holy Grail was making yourself feel a full rotation, like a backflip or something, while sitting still. We would sit for thirty minutes or more, in silence, trying to trick ourselves into feeling a flip.
I'm sure my parents appreciated that dumb "game" of ours.
We used to play a game called "Snozzle" which was basically peanuts, where 2 players interlock fingers and pretty much bend and twist the other players fingers until 1 person gives up.
But in Snozzle you grabbed each others noses, it was really stupid and we always ended up with bruises. We kept playing it though so we obviously didn't have a lot else to do growing up. Fun times.
My cousin and I pretended to be "kid cops" and fought crime in the yard. But somehow, over the course of the summer, there was corruption in the kid force and the kid cops became the bad guys that we were on the run from. And they had laser eyes.
"Feet Fight" - two people lay on their backs knees slightly bent feet together. You then push. Whoever's knees a straight first wins. This either happened with the other person's knees all the way bent or the other person pushed back.
I played a solo game where I would round up flocks of seagulls or pigeons and try to move them in a group. If they worked out what I was doing they would fly away. I spent a lot of time doing this at the beach but my siblings always intentionally scared the birds away and said I was being weird.
My sister and I used to have this elaborate pretend game in the basement where we were woodchucks or beavers (I forget which) and we traded sawdust for goods/services like snacks, chores, whatever. We had a whole sawdust-based economy. Denominations were different-sized coffee cans. We'd scoop up the sawdust from my dad's projects into the cans, then stash them away.
It took us more than a decade to find out that our dad had invented this whole thing to avoid having to sweep up sawdust when he was doing woodworking projects in the basement.
He confessed when the family sold the house because on move-out he found a Maxwell coffee can full of sawdust hidden in the basement and he had to explain why he was nostalgia-crying.
My cousins and I used to play ball dodge. We would pile a bunch of balls of various shapes (footballs, soccerballs, ect.) On a trampoline. We would count down and then start jumping, trying to dodge the balls in the middle as they started going wild around it.
If you got hit three times, you were out. If all the balls fell of, we would jump down, pile them in the middle and start again.
My brothers and I would sit across the room with our legs spread apart and we’d try and hit each other in the balls with a ball (usually the size of an orange). Sometimes an orange if we didn’t have a ball. Much simpler times.
We used basically take my dad's used playing cards and use them as money. We used to roleplay stories typically involving begging and kidnapping. The game used to be shitty but was fun. Good times . All we did was mostly count the money. One gets kidnapped and the other counts the ransom, math practice.
Starting from the toilet, we would run up the hallway to my moms room and jump/somersault on to her bed. Naturally, we yelled STARTING FROM THE TOILET while we were doing this.
Also, my mom would play Baba Bouey with us (thanks, Howard Stern). She would sit on the floor and my brother and I would run around her in a circle and she would try to catch us. The song she would sing went "baba bouey, baba bouey, ba ba ba ba bouey. If I catch you you'll be bouey'd. Ba ba ba ba bouey.
When we were little my brother and I used to play our made up game we called "Porcupine Butt." One of us would crawl around on all fours as the "porcupine" and the other would try to sit on them. And if you were able to sit on the porcupines back, you won.
Nevermind that later on we realized that you wouldn't WANT to sit on a porcupine. It was apparently more fun to try and sit on the back of the other person crawling around than trying to get your imaginary porcupine back/quills into someone's tush.
...childhood's a helluva drug
rpbjj · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG THE FROG GAME
My older brother and I shared a room for a couple years when we were little.
One person points their finger close to the other's mouth. The second person tries to really quickly reach their tongue out and lick the other's finger, and the person with the finger out tries to pull it away before they can lick it.
So like a weird version of hot hands but with your tongue.
Honestly hilarious because it's really a lose lose situation- you either lick someone or get licked
My dad created this game for my family and our friends called B.O.B. that we would play at our annual summer trips to Red River, New Mexico.
Basically the whole idea of the game was that you would choose “Brains” or “Brawns” and draw a card from the stack you chose that would contain a random challenge. The challenges in the “brains” stack contained challenges ranging from math to spelling to logic questions that were probably easy but seemed hard at the time. The challenges in the “brawns” categories got creative as we were right up against the woods and a shin high stream that was probably close to 45 deg F. So they ranged anywhere from stand in the stream for 30 secs to climb a tree to push ups and sit ups.
If you successfully completed your challenge then you moved up on the game board which was some map from a random board game like “life”.
My sister and I were the youngest at around 7 or 8 and the oldest kids went up to 17 so the game scaled really well and made time fly when we had nothing else to do.
Brother Are You There?
Party game for kids. Two people lie blindfolded on a (carpeted) floor, heads facing each other, grasping each other's outstretched left hand. In the right hand, a good sized rolled up newspaper, maybe several pages for young kids, the whole Sunday Times for adults who don't mind a solid thwack. Taking turns, one calls out "Brother (or sister) are you there?" The other person responds and then rolls around in any direction while still clasping left hands. The questioner gets to deliver one blindfolded hit with the rolled up paper. Sometimes you get a good hit to the head, sometimes through subterfuge you can disguise your location a bit. Alternate, while the other kids stand around and jeer or cheer. Trade with next two kids. Ah, good times when you're poor and only have a discarded newspaper for party toys.
We used to throw whole walnuts at each other while jumping on a trampoline covered in soybeans and acorns. The acorns would stab us with their sharp little ends and the walnuts would obviously bruise. We usually played early summer too, before they got soft and peeled open.
Country life is something else, man.
Infection, you would be "infected" and chase others and actually bite them to infect them.
Crash cars, with my shitty Hot Wheels (not my good ones), you would sit across from each other in the room and launch the cars against eachother as hard as you could and they would crash (or sometimes hit the other person)
The Penis Game - Pretty standard penis game that most juvenile boys/men play, only ours had a twist. My three older brothers and I shared a room with our Dad when we visited him every other weekend. We would lay there at night and see who could get away with saying 'penis' the loudest without waking up Dad. Whoever woke him up, lost. We played a modified version of this when we were at our Mom's house where we'd yell 'Fire!' Always a lot of fun
Oh! Also used to play hide and seek with some friends, and because 2 of the girls were the daughters of a super, we could go literally anywhere in the apartment building, and use the cameras in the back to find where everyone was hiding.
Fable and Morrowind on the Xbox I spent my whole summer exploring the open world and completed the games. One of my favourite childhood memories. I also enjoyed the customizability of the characters. Earning evil or good points was also a unique gaming feature.
Star tipping. You all stood in a circle around one person in the middle. The middle person would stair at the sky and spin really fast. Then the circle would yell stop and shine bright flashlights at the person and typically they fell. If not they had to run
In highschool my circle of friends invented a game coined curveball loosely based on the flash game.
2 players to a team and played on a street.
Our one friend lived on street that always constantly had cars parked on each side, even to this day it's hard to find a spot. The playing field was 2 cars parked on either side of the street to another 2 cars parked on either side of the street. We tried to use cars that had their mirrors slightly lined up.
We decided on a middle point/half court and the 2 cars mirrors were used as the goal line. The ball we used was a rubber kids ball(the kind that when hit with non kid strength it would curve and fly in seemingly random directions).
One team would serve by kicking from a point between half court and the goal line. The other team had 3 hits to get the ball back to the other side of the half court. Repeat until a team had a hit that passed the goal line (2 car mirrors). First team to 7 points wins, have to win by 2 points. If you fail to get the ball across halfway or hit it more than 3 times the other team got a serve.
We had about 15-20 team tournament when the game took over, ended up breaking a car mirror which caused the beginning of the end of curveball.
We used to play a game where we would have to try weapons on ourselves and go through "airport security". One person would go and dress up in some of the crazy costume stuff we had and then try to hide our toy guns, knifes ect. On their person and the others would have to search them. If you got through with a weapon your won.
Me and my brother played a game we called FlockerKnocker. We cleared all of the furniture in the living room to sides giving us a large play area. There were decorative pots on either side of the room that were the goals. The ball was some type of foam core wrapped in tons of duct tape. The game was to get the ball to rest on top of the pot, because the ball was too large to fit in the opening! There were no other rules and the game was a death match brawl. I miss the days of FlockerKnocker.
My cousins and I would play a hybrid version of hide and seek and tag where if you found someone hiding, they'd take off running to try escaping and you had to tackle them to the ground if you caught them and be taken to "jail" to wait out the rest of the game; if the person could escape, get somewhere inaccessible (like up a tree, under a car, etc), or manage to be the last one not found, you'd win.
I was a scrawny little girl with two big burly boy cousins and one very tall, strong girl cousin, so I got my ass kicked playing this game pretty often until I learned that I was a born sprinter and was the only one skinny enough to cram myself into weird places they couldn't reach me or think of looking, like between chain link fences and sheds or in duffel bags.
Our Grandma made us stop playing this when I got stuck about 25 feet up a tree in her yard and had to get our Grandpa to come rescue me with a ladder lol
panzek · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See how many pillows it takes to fully withstand the force of a 150 pound child jumping on another child from an elevated couch. Dont know why we plates this but it was fun.
My sisters & younger cousins used to play a game called “Freeze” - essentially ball tag. But with a hakisack. When the person that is “it” throws the ball, other players are allowed to move / run freely, when “it” gets the ball they shout freeze & no one can move! So many great memories playing this
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rollout; my brother would furiously roll back and forth on the bed while I attempted to jump over him
We would wait until the trampoline iced over in the winter, then we would set the trampoline up near our garage.
We’d then jump from the roof of the garage onto the trampoline and if you fell, which happened more often than not, everyone would scream: “SLIPPERY JOE! BAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH”
The last noise is intended as kind of a hockey buzzer. And slippery joe was said like Chris Farley would say it, if that makes any sense.
During the Saturday morning cartoon commercial break my brother and I would go into the bathroom, close the door, turn off the light, and hit each other.
my son created a game he called levels. could never understand how to play, seemed to have constantly changing rules, only constant was that i was almost definitely going to lose.
Bawlze · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our game was called dodge bear. It came from playing dodge ball in the house and not being allowed to throw a ball in the house after we broke several things. So we got all of our soft teddy bears and made dodge bear. Mom allowed us to play for months before the hard nose of a teddy bear broke a glass. That was the end of dodge bear.
I used to spend hours playing fusion frenzy with my mom on the Xbox as well. It’s a bunch of mini games that you try to win like an obstacle course or bumper karts.
My best friend and I always had some sort of dueling game going on with what I would assume were standard rules. If you get hit in the arm, you lose that arm, hit in the leg, you have to hop on the other leg. We usually used rolled up newspapers, foam noodles, or other sword type implements. Our favorite version though, was pitching wedges and whiffle golf balls. You really end up at a disadvantage once you start losing limbs, but I do have a pretty decent short game thanks to it.
We played a game in our semi-small town called "run from the cops"
That's it, pretty self explanatory, we would run through yards, hop fences, whatever it took to get away. Being 12 years old or so, didn't have much to really be scared of.
Also, we would put up literal walls of toilet paper across the road via two adjacent telephone poles...
Not as a child, but my wife and I have a unique game we play. We call it the "Car Game" but it could more accurately be called the "IMDB Game" because we invented it to play during long card rides.
One person names an actor in a movie say "Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump." The next person has to name another actor that was in Forrest Gump and another movie they were in - without repeating any previous answers. (Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump are now taken)
The second person could say "Robin Wright in Princess Bride"
and on and on. The point of the game was to see how long a string we could create without repeats or stumping the other person.
It leads to a lot of "I forgot he/she was in that movie!"
This is gonna get buried because I am late to the show, but I wonder if anyone else played 'Butts Up'. A game where my sister and I would run full speed at each other backwards and see who could knock each other over with our butts. We had rules about how/when you could launch yourself from the stairs etc. It became so complex we made a rule book.
My brother and I would play a game we simply called, “bridge”. We would be on opposite ends of the couch and with our legs form sort of a bridge that would connect our feet together. Once connected, we would then aim to kick each other in the balls. Could never imagine wanting to play that now
Pheasant...one person is the hunter, the other kids are the pheasants. You have to hide behind furniture, and then pop up for a couple seconds when the hunter shouts out. Hunter has to chuck a shuttlecock and hit the pheasant to kill the bird. Then all the birds scatter and get to hide again. Combo hide and seek + dodge ball basically. Play in an entire house or large backyard with shrubs.
Dodgeball bowling...Regular dodgeball, but there is a hockey net with bowling pins set up inside. Team has to not only get the other team out like regular dodgeball, but also roll the big rubber ball to knock down the pins. One person acts as goalie. If the goalie blocks the roll, the other team loses someone (same as if knocked out). Teams are much larger, at least 10-15 people each side. It's madness.
I grew up in nowhere Oklahoma, and my great grandmother had a patch of bamboo that was growing out in front of her house. So every time we would go out there to visit the folks, my cousins and I would raid the bamboo, and make these bamboo swords. And we would just beat the shit out of each other with them, we’d end up coming back inside all bloody and scratched.
We used metal garbage can lids as shields, Sometimes we’d get a splinter in the eye.
As we got older, we started getting BB guns, then we would go around shooting each other with those instead. Around the Fourth of July we had to shoot each other with bottle rockets and Roman candles.
It was all good fun, my cousins still talk about it. Those of us with a remaining good eye, can give a little wink to our kids when we’re telling these stories.
I played with rocks, and tracked rabbits and deer. There was a family of raccoons I would constantly harass by trying to crawl into their den. I only got in once because they weren't home that afternoon. Promptly fell asleep because I was sleepy I guess? The raccoons came home and I never tried climbing in there again.. they got mad and blocked the hole. I came home scratched up and my mom made me go get shots.
the best game was hit branches with a stick to knock leaves off it though.. I played that for hours and hours and hours.
Had siblings and friends and toys, just preferred the woods and pestering raccoons.
Every year during our Thanksgiving get together, my cousins and I would take turns going through a "haunted house." We would turn off the lights and just try to scare the everliving shit out of each other. Those were the days
I used to put “In the Hall of the Mountain King” on the turntable and pretend that the music made me evil. My three younger siblings had to try to get past me and take the needle off the record to end my “possession.” I always started off slowly in the beginning, but was made faster and more powerful as the music went on. If they got caught trying to get past me (getting tagged) they were “dead,” and the others had to keep going until either I got them all or they stopped the song.
Some friends and I came up with it in the third grade at recess. The rules were quite simple: if you were a guy you had to tag a girl, if you were a girl you had to tag a guy...with your goober. The game was actually a huge hit and before we knew it half the school was running around at recess thrusting their pelvises at eachother. Needless to say, it did not take long for the teachers/chaperones to notice. They were not happy and eventually the game was traced back to my friend group. The school then contacted all of our parents and held conferences. We were all threatened with suspension and told that we needed counseling. My two friends parents were all pretty religious so they took it quite seriously and the three of us were no longer "allowed" to hangout, which was a pretty tough blow.. but more inportantly I had gotten to tag Keena D with my goober (I always went for her) and it was totally worth it..
Newspaper baseball. We collected the old rolled newspapers in the neighborhood and used them as the ball. You had to throw them at the runner to get them out.
“The gay game” 4 of us would get on the trampoline and just jump like crazy. Boost each other, steal each other’s bounce and stuff. If you fall twice and any part of your body touches the trampoline besides knees below, you would be called gay for the rest of the day. I understand how offensive the name was now that I’m older :/
I’ve been waiting for a chance to tell this story, I don’t remember all of it but I can try to answer questions about it
To put it simply, my friend and I believed pretty much every work of fiction (like video games we played, books we read) that we liked was real, and we went on generic youth adventure novel style adventures with the characters, like saving the multiverse from Minecraft herobrine teaming up with the demon king Gannon. There was super Mario galaxy in there somewhere too. We kept up this game for at least 5 years.
When I was at school, we would play a game called "face ball". We would take a few coins and roll them up in a ball with tinfoil, then sit at opposite ends of the table and take it in turns throwing the ball at each other's face. If you flinched or moved at all then you lost your next turn. Keep going until one person gives up.
'Murderball' Two teams at opposite ends try to retrieve a ball in the center and bring it back to their 'goal' by any means. ~ There were a few torn shirts playing that one.
We used to catch animals, it was kinda fucked now that I think ab it we once caught a bat with a butterfly net though and that was the highlight of the year.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Turkey there is a game called "long donkey". There are two teams composed of the donkey and the jumpers. The aim is for the jumpers to topple over the donkey which is formed by the opposing team members bending over to create a "human centipede" like structure where your head would be placed in the crotch of the person in front of you. The game usually ends when someone gets seriously hurt. Search Uzun Esek If curious.
Herdy Gurdy. Really unique game I got with the PS2. All about herding different kinds of fantasy animals. Had a lot of cool characters and environments. Wish I beat it.
We called it deer and hunter. There was a rectangular field between some houses and a parking lot. Maybe 50 feet by 20 feet. We'd stand in the middle and the "hunter" would throw a ball in the air. Usually some sort of nerf ball. Everyone else scatters to an end of the field. We'd then have to run back and forth from end to end. If nobody was running the hunter could declare a "release" after a 5 second count and everyone had to run. If you got hit with the ball you were the hunter. We'd play this for hours until the street lights came on.
There was also a pool in my neighborhood. Nothing fancy but it had a 10 foot deep end. We'd play a similar game there called "off my wall". Now I think the kids call it shark attack. There is someone who is "it" usually new players were it. And everyone would stand on the wall on one side of the deep end. They then had to swim across the pool without getting tagged. This was and still is the motivation for kids in the neighborhood to learn how to swim. There are 3 or 4 year olds that push themselves to learn how to swim so they can play in the deep end. Usually it takes them until they are 5 or 6 to swim along the bottom. But we'd help each other out distracting the person who is it and making human chains across the pool to help the little ones.
Me and my cousin played “Spyg” (pronounced like fig with a soft g). It was us spying on people. We thought we were super clever by adding a g on it and NOBODY WOULD KNOW. I think we even had a notebook that said “Spyg” where we would take notes about our family members activities. It basically involved us probably not very subtly hiding around corners and doors watching our parents cook dinner and watch tv. Try to spy on our older brothers playing/hanging out. Oh, we even got hand held mirrors to hold around corners to see like real spies would. And we just giggled the whole time.
We’re both around 30 now and at family stuff will occasionally mention our covert Spyg days.
My brother used to narrate text based role playing games to me on long car trips. My favorite was “Huntermans Frenzy”. He is 8 years older than me, and. I was between 6 and 10 at the time. He would just make up an RPG to keep me entertained.
He would start off something like this, “You were in the forest. You have two throwing knives, and a canteen half full of water. You can go north south east or west. You hear the sound of flowing water to the east. You can see mountains in the far off distance to the north. What do you want to do?”
I would pick a direction and start exploring. He would just make stuff up as we went along, creating a narrative that my little mind was completely sucked into. I would get hungry and thirsty and tired. I would trap or kill small game and sell the skins at the trading post. I could buy better weapons and gear with the money that I sold my pelts and meat for. I would get parasites and have to buy medicine. He came up with all sorts of stuff. He would mentally keep track of my inventory, how much water I had, how much ammunition. He would keep a pretty good map in his head as well. It was a pretty simple grid, I could only ever go in the four cardinal directions. That made it easier to keep track of.
When I got too much gear, or he got bored of playing he would kill me off. Typically he would trap me somewhere where I couldn’t get out and a bear would kill me. Or he would twist my words and make me die by accident. For example: I would wake up after having spent the night in a tree and he would ask which direction I wanted to go. He would then tell me that I “walked west” but I was still up in the tree so I fell and died. I would get livid but eventually accept. that he just wanted to be done
It was a really fun game, and it managed to entertain my parents in the front seat as well.
Growing up the older kids in our neighborhood taught us something called the Password game where one team comes up with a secret word and the other chases down and tortures the first team until they reveal said word. Looking back, I see how messed up that was and I’m glad we stopped after a few of us ended up crying...
My cousin and I would bring a basket of shoes out to the trampoline, and then jump around with them trying not to get hit with them.
Another game was one my cousin called cherry bomb where one of us would curl up in a ball on the trampoline and the other would try and bounce you high enough or close enough to the edge to let go of your legs and stop yourself from getting hurt... we were really bored...
When I was 5 and my brother was 4, we played a game we called bumpity-bump, in which you sit at the top of our stairs, and pull yourself along with your feet so that you fall to the next step. We used the staircase exclusively this way for quite a while.
Several months later, my mom broke her leg when she tripped and fell down the stairs, and we immediately started cracking jokes about her terrible bumpity-bump technique. Needless to say, she banned the game after that.
In elementary and middle school we played a very politcally incorrect game called "Smear the Queer." Basically, one poor kid would have the ball and the rest of the gang would try and tackle them. The next kid picks up the ball from under the dog pile and the process repeats. There was no way to win and no rules other than tackle the kid with the ball. Many, many injuries happened at recess.
My older brother and I played 'Bulbasaur' where in which we'd get on all fours, say "Bulbasaur!" and hit heads for a few times till it hurt too much to continue. Fun times!
Like hide and seek, but only one kid hides and everyone else seeks. When you find the hider, you have to join them in their hiding place. Last seeker to find the group is the loser, and they have to hide first next time.
My favourite was when I climbed up my dad's desk and hid up on top of an enormous storage cabinet. In retrospect, that probably wasn't a safe spot for 5 kids to be sitting...
6th grade me and 3 others created what we called "Coatball". Premis is to get the coat to your partner while on swings. It's lined up every other one and you swing.....throw a coat...try to intercept.... Played this glorious game all recess all year.
The game where around 3 am when you got tired of playing video games or watching movies at a sleepover, you would toss tennis balls at each other’s nutsacks from across the room. If you flinched, the thrower got to pelt the flincher as hard as he could with the tennis ball.
Or the urinal challenge. Start peeing at a urinal and back up to see how far you could make it.
Me and my friends were quite fucked up as kids. We would always play this silly game called the “The challenge of the 1000 punches”, we would throw a rock as hard as we could to the ground and then whoever’s rock remained the most complete with the fewest amount of pebbles from the fall would have to either be punched by 2 people each 500 times at the bench or submit to crazy challenges like walking around in underwear or play tag with like a super heavy backpack. That game always hurt, but it was super fun though.
In the mid 90's:
After every Wednesday evening church service, the boys roughly 8-15 years old would gather in the parking lot. Two end zones were designated. A football was tossed into the air, and the battle began. Whoever caught the ball was "the queer" and became the target of punches, kicks, clotheslines, grappling, and pushing. His goal was to stiff arm, sprint, jump, and dodge all of us, while trying to carry the football to the endzone.
The game was called Smear the Queer.
Yeah, good times at your average church. /s
We were asshole kids and it was long ago. But we used to dress all in black and throw tennis balls at cars passing on the highway. When they would chase us we would hide.
My friend and I would play Hollywood and use an old camcorder to "make movies" which we wrote the script to or would make up on the fly. We did fake accents, even had a knife/ sword fight a couple times (horribly dangerous in hind sight, we used real blades, albeit not hella sharp). We were in middle school. I would probably literally die of embarrassment if anyone ever found those tapes. I'm 30 now, she's 28? and a psychologist, both of us are parents. We were not cool. Good news/bad news, no one will ever find them because 3/4 of her immediate family are dead or in prison for the death. Yeah.. that's really just bad news.
"Everything" basically my friends and I played around as anything you wanted to be, such as Indiana Jones, but you could be Yoda as well because why not?
As a young kid with older siblings, I would bug them to play. One would usually agree, but he got to pick the game. We usually ended up playing “library”.
Playing “library” is simple. We both get books (he was usually in the middle of reading his already), and then we sit next to each other and pretend we are in a library reading.
This usually kept me busy for a little while till I got bored and wanted a different game, but he would usually at least get to a stopping point/the end of a chapter instead of just stopping right where he was. :)
Blindfold tag. With 10-15 people at like 10 or 11 PM, we would all go to the same floor of a house, blindfold one person and make them chase everyone else in the dark. Essentially hide and seek, but in the dark in a super cramped floor with every person either running and hiding or trying to push other people to the blindfolded person.
We played Prisoners Base in our street, where we split into two teams, designated two driveways as ‘bases’ and then ran around trying to tag each other. If you got tagged you were a prisoner and you had to go to the other teams base to wait for one of your teammates to rescue you. To rescue a teammate, you had to grab their hand and both run together to your teams base.
Later on this evolved to include, at various times, ball-tag, snowballs, rollerblades, bikes, bike jousting, obstacle courses and a ten second hiding countdown. I don’t remember every rule, just the basic ones.
A game called backstop was big at my elementary school. As far as I know it was unique to our school.
It was played on a baseball/kickball field using a soccer ball. Instead of kicking from the home plate towards the outfield, you'd kick from the bases towards the backstop.
I don't remember all of the rules, but the goal was to get the soccer ball over the top of the backstop.
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We made "cakes" out of dirt, leafs and branches .. we got payed and still got to keep them (great business model!)
My brother and I would stuff pillows into our pajama pants and shirts when we were kids. We would then run at each other and bounce off each other.
One time I bounced into the wall and knocked THE LAST PAIR of connected deer antlers my dad had from hunting. It broke in half, separating the two. My dad was sad for a while after that.
My twin brother and I invented a game called “escape from beditz” which was based upon a tv programme called “escape from colditz”. We shared a bedroom when we were young, and in this game you had to sneak out of bed and make your way in silence to the other person bed and grab them. It was a fun game, but it did end up with us both paranoid. A few times we both escaped and ended up at the others bed at the same time, megalolz
My cousins and I used to play “Shark” in their pool. One person is in the water (The Shark). Everyone else is outside the pool, and the goal is to get from one side of the pool to the other without the shark touching you. If the shark touches you, they’re allowed out and now you’re the shark.
There are only a few rules:
The Shark’s goal is to tag you by any means necessary. They’re allowed to reach out of the pool as long as their legs stay in the water.
Boundaries must be set on each end of the pool for where you’re allowed to enter or exit the pool. The non-sharks must enter the water en route to the other side of the pool.
Once a non-shark touches water, they must cross to the other side. You are not allowed to exit from the side you entered.
There is no specified time limit, tag limit, or jump limit. The game is over whenever everybody decides they’re done. However, the player who had the most consecutive pool crossings without being tagged during the game is the winner.
My friends and I played something called the "don't touch green game," which was as simple as it sounds. All 3 of our houses had big open yards with tons of grass, but also a lot of trees, rock beds, fencing, etc. The goal of the game was to make it all the way from one destination to the another without ever touching the color green. We would play for hours. Man I miss being a kid.
Some honorable mentions for other games we made up were "baseball dodgeball" and "golfing with pinecones,"
And although I wouldn't necessarily call this a game, we would go into one of our parents' garages and mix together all sorts of chemicals, cleaners, and paints in order to make "potions." This was very dangerous in hindsight but luckily we weren't quite stupid enough to drink them.
Tfolla · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “kingdoms” there were two teams in two separate rooms, and you made rules that everyone had to obey while in these rooms. If you broke a rule, you would be kicked out. Some rules we would be “you can only enter the room with your right foot first” or “you cannot go more than 15 seconds without talking.” You would send people in one by one to try and figure out the other kingdoms rules. Each on had three. First one to figure out all the rules first wins.
I had a 6 foot metal blow dart gun that came with about 20 stun darts that were just plastic balls that would leave welts. We would play wii bowling and the loser would take a stun dart to the butt from across the room.
Left-orange. Stand in a circle tossing an orange across to different people (we had an orange tree and an excess of oranges in the summer). You can only use your left hand and you MUST throw it however you caught it so if you caught it in a really awkward position in your hand you couldn't readjust. You had to throw overhand and you couldn't throw to the same person who tossed it to you.
There was also "pee ball" which was basically hockey played indoors with brooms and a rubber ball (like the kind used for 4-square) and laundry baskets as goals. It's called pee ball because as the younger sister I didnt get my older (middle school aged) sister to play with me that often and while we were creating the game I had to pee really bad but I was scared that if I went to the bathroom my sister wouldnt want to hang out anymore when I got back so I decided as long as we were having fun, I wouldnt go pee. Well something happened that made me laugh REALLY hard and I peed my pants. Then we called it pee ball from then on.
We also had a bouncy ball collection and when we got bored we would go into the bathroom, close the toilet seat and dump them all out at once. It was just fun to have them bouncing off of everything and hitting us. We probably had like 200 of them.
Rapsod · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game of Little Aliens as we called it .....cousin and me played it every time he came to my house... we would crawl below chairs and hide under the table or behind couch and so on and on without our parents seeing us sneaking around the house like theifs in the night :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle would play thus game called switch. It’s where you take one of your fingers, and put it in you mouth. And then take the other one, and put it in your asshole. And when my uncle would say “Switch!” You’d switch your fingers
Corners. It was a version of eight ball my friends and I invented to play in his basement. You must sink all your solids or stripes and then hit the eight ball into a certain pocket — pretty standard base for our rule variations.
Start at the diamonds nearest the corner pockets on a pool table. Draw imaginary lines out 90 degrees to form a square area around the pocket. This is a corner. Along with the two dots out near the middle of the table, these are the areas where balls-in-hand can be placed after a foul.
Commit a foul and you must pull one or more of your own already-sunk balls out and place it in either a corner or on the dots. What is a foul? Hitting someone else's ball first. Scratching of all sorts. Hitting a called ball into a non-called pocket. Knocking a ball or balls off the table. Etc. You could stack fouls so that it's possible to commit a double or triple or more, pulling out a ball for each foul.
Why would you want to pull out the balls you've already sunk? Because each player must sink the eight ball in a corner pocket that they designate at the beginning of the game (not the same one as your opponent). You can use your fouled balls to strategically block your opponent, making it harder for them to make their shot or making it impossible for them to complete the shot without fouling somehow.
(My favorite variation allowed that if an opponent knocked a ball off the table and you caught it and tossed it back onto the table before it hit the floor, you negated their foul. It became your turn and you played the table however it landed after your save. In one set of games we played, it had to be a diving save onto cushions around the pool table.)
Me and my brother always played ”trampball”. We put a bunch of soccer-/american football balls, small and large, on the trampoline then we started jumping. You had three lives and lost one each time it hit you above the waist. The most fun part was when a ball bounced up and you did like a Bruce-Lee kung-fu kick mid-air to hit eachother. Hands down the most fun I had as a kid, so many memories.
“Why” is a game we still play today, its where we run house to house (or anyone) and say something so obscure, to make people ask “why”? The person with the most “why”s wins.
We used to throw our mattresses and blankets (and supplies of course) in the hallway, turn all the lights off, and pretend the end of the world had come. (90s)
My family would split into teams of two or three, we each get 20 minutes to build a Lego houses/castles/etc. and had to stick a set number of guys in the windows or around the building so they were visible, then all Hell would break loose as we hucked 4 x 4 bricks at each other's buildings. Last team with Lego guys standing wins.
We also put blankets behind the buildings to avoid losing Legos.
Avalanche. One person sits at the top of the slide with theur legs hanging down, everyone gathers around them. One person runs up the slide and grabs the person sitting's legs, trying to pull them down. The person sitting can only grab onto other people to prevent being pulled down, and they can also only hold onto other people. If the person is pulled down, many others fall with them, thus creating an "avalanche" of people.
We had sword fights with knives we taped to the end of branches. Whoever has the short branch ended up just running for their lives. Really a surprise none of my 36 classmates got injured seriously
My friends and I created a game we called “Tennis Hockey”. There was a section of my backyard that was ~20 feet wide and ~40 feet long. The fence post divided the 20 foot ends into thirds and we designated the middle of the thirds as the goal. Each player had to stay on their half of the yard with a tennis racquet. We would take turns hitting a tennis ball as hard as possible trying to score it past the opposing player, who is now standing in the goal. We played this for a good 3 or 4 summers before my dad got tired of us turning his backyard into mud.
My favorite rule that we made in this game was play it where it lies. So if the opposing player got a bad hit or the ball took a nice bounce your save/ the fence (and the ball was still on your half), you could essentially cut the field in half.
It's like hide and seek, except one person hides, and everyone else seeks. If you find the person hiding, you get into their hiding place with them. The game continues until all but one player is packed (like sardines) into the hiding place. Then everyone explodes out when the last person discovers them.
My friend and I created a Tag bootleg called Snake Features.
It was the exact same as Tag except you would say ‘Snake Features!’ Everyone thought this was original, and played it. When I told them it was the same as Tag, the trend stopped. Me and my friend still played it though.
We then invented a game called Under the Mistletoe. Everyone made fun of us because it had a ‘gay name.’ Thinking about it today, it kind of did. The aim was whoever was it/on had to bring others into the little hut we had and they’d be on with whoever was on first.
“The Force Game” in middle school. I folded a piece of small piece of paper 90 degrees so it could sit up and an other kid and I flailed our hands around towards it with the goal of pushing it over the edge of each others side of the table, pretending we where using The Force to push it.
The winner, obviously was whoever was able to push the paper off the edge opposite to them.
No turns or anything, you just hoped the wind you were creating was stronger than your opponents.
The result was an arm workout that looked nothing like a Force battle between Jedi but instead two kids trying desperately and constantly to slap a piece of paper but stopping within an inch of doing so.
I wish I wasn’t so late to this thread because this one of the first times I’ve got a good answer for an AskReddit.
My father bad up this ridiculous game called the "black scorpion". He would sit on the floor and chase me with his big toe and pinch me. I remember being terrified of being caught but would be laughing so hard my stomach hurt.
When I was little my friend came up with this game called "Rip-a-Dick" it was essentially tag but to get someone else 'in' you'd have to tug on their wang through their pants.
As you can imagine the teachers caught wind of our game and encouraged us to play the more conventional tag from there on out.
We would like play American Gladiators. My siblings and I would break out nerf guns, balls etc and make elaborate challenge courses in the basement. You know, like in the show.
One person would be the Gladiator protecting the targets you had to take out and another is the challenger trying to finish the course without getting hit.
Tons of fun and one hell of a way to make a mess/epic pillow fort.
Also off the wall, which was essentially baseball in our pool where certain areas were base hits on up to home run. For instance if you hit the buckle on the far end it was a home run but putting it out on the side is an out and you have to go get it.
Lobbing rocks at each other playing a backward game of "pokemon" but with dragons, where after throwing the rock we'd describe our ridiculous looking dragons in detail and then shout about whatever they were doing.
Also digging in a pit of broken glass to find whole glass bottles to use for potion??? shit???
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My memories of Crash Bandicoot will remain with me forever! Loved that game
Leaf Catching - running around trying to catch blowing leaves as they fall off trees. Much harder than it initially appears
Staircase Races - slip on a sleeping bag or hop in a cardboard box and slide down the stairs, hopefully without breaking anything
Little Red Chariots of Fire - hop into a wagon with a pair of boxing gloves, race to the bottom of the hill while attempting to unseat your competition
Commercial Guessing - during commercial breaks, be the first to name the product or service being advertised for each commercial. No points if declared after the name or logo appears in the ad.
Diving Catches - attempt to make a full-extension diving grab on a football tossed gently toward the couch. Similarly, wall-climb catches practiced against the backyard fence.
There were many others I can’t remember atm. We made up a lot of rules.
It was a first pc game for me and I'm in love with videogames since then. The supaplex it's name is! Have you played it? I think I will download it right now :)
“Taz”Me and my 4 sisters used to love this game. We had these taz the Tasmanian devil slippers, and we could only play at night. Our living room and dining room were connected so we had a good amount of space and it had really dark curtains. You had to crawl around the room in the pitch black and who ever had the slippers on was “it”. So many stubbed toes and fingers and knots on the head trying to get away, but a memory we all love to look back on.
Back in my elementary school there were two concrete slabs outside the emergency exits of the gym and a space between them that was empty. This whole thing occupied half the playground, with there rest of your elementary school equipment occupying the other half.
At recess and during lunch there was an always ongoing game that we all referred to as "Boys vs Girls" even though the sides ended up being arbitrary (and a third side that flew no country's flag popped up from time to time).
The goal was to grab someone from the opposing team and drag them to your team's concrete slab. If they touched it, they were now on your team and had to help drag other people to your slab without getting dragged away themselves.
We're talking most of the school here, probably a hundred kids trying to drag each other to and fro. Surprisingly no one ever got seriously hurt.
All of our games were centered around the old trampoline with exposed springs and no safety net. For one game we played, one person would lay with their feet facing the springs while everyone else lined up around the edge. Then we'd all take turns trying to get past the person laying down without getting kicked off.
On really hot days we'd all grab a sandwich bag and stand at the refrigerator to fill them with ice, then we'd run outside to dump them onto the trampoline. We'd go back and forth until there was enough to cover the whole surface, then we'd all get on and start jumping as hard as we could to create a flurry of flying ice and slipping hazards. I don't know how I made it through childhood without serious injuries.
One Summer my parents and my bff parents decided to go on a boat trip as our vacation. Our boat was wooden but theirs was made of steel. It was a hot summer, so we invented our own Sauna: My friend, her little sister and I dressed in bikini pants, crouched into the hot bow of the ship and closed it of with blankets and pillows. We spent a good portion of our vacation under deck, while our parents just checked from time to time that none of us had collapsed.
My sister and I played a game we called “Crash.” We would stuff couch pillows in our shirts and run at each other full speed from opposite sides of the room. We also invented a game called “Snakes” where we had to crawl-race around the house without using our arms and legs
About 4 or 5 people to hunt each runner. We would choose a safe location or 2. Then each of the runners would hide at the outside of the field/area and try to sneak back to that location. There was also an option to hide forever but there was a condition. I don't remember the specifics but it was something like snagging a flag or something. So it forced you back towards the open areas temporarily and it forced the hunters away from the safe spots.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was played in a quadrangle at school that encompassed a garden full of dog shit.
A basketball was selected and rolled through dog shit.
A player who was ‘the shitty king’ has to kick the ball at the rest of the players, designating them the ‘shitty king’ if they hit them , players would taunt the ‘shitty king’ and +rep would be earned jumping over or in front of the ball as the ‘shitty king’ is dribbling the ball along the ground.
The game ended at the lunch bell, whoever was the ‘shitty king’ was then taunted as smelling like shit for the next full day, until the next lunchtime.
The parents of the creator of this game were both highly paid doctors working in Psychiatric medicine
vactu · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a bat and ball game that was set up without scoring or running bases. You can play with as few as 3 people but more made it easier/more fun. It was stick ball so no gloves were needed. Pitcher, batter, catcher, and as many in/outfielders as wanted. The batter hit the pitched ball and the fielders (including pitcher and catcher) had to catch or field the ball cleanly before the ball came to a complete stop. If you fumbled or bobbled the ball at all, or if the ball bounced off you at all, the batter continued his at bat. If a fielder caught or fielded the ball cleanly, it was their turn to bat. It was a way to play "baseball" without enough players to cover the bases. Plus we rotated through everybody pretty quick so everyone got to hit which is obviously the fun part. It also built soft hands which helped later as we grew up and started playing organized sports.
“Find the Something” It was my grandpa who showed us this. Basically we would choose several objects (dice, market, chapstick, etc.) Then we would take turns hiding them around the house while the rest of us waited in a room. After the “hider” hid all the objects, we all searched for them. It was actually quite entertaining as some objects blended in better than others.
Roly Poly Olly. At the foot of the bed you put a bunch of blankets and pillows. The other person rolls from the top of the bed and onto the person who's laying at the foot of the bed with a pillow on top of them. I have no idea how we found this fun but it's some of my fondest memories. We had to play 'safe' games because I have a heart condition haha.
“Tremors” based on the movie with the worm monsters. It was played on a trampoline and the kid playing the monster would lay down in the middle with their eyes closed. The other kids would run around the monster and the kid playing the monster would try to grab someone using the vibrations. Then the captured kid would be “it”.
My mother and I played a game where she would say two related things like red and blue. There was no questions or any context to help us get it right. It was just guessing. When ever I would get it right she would say "DING DING DING" and I would run around our couch. Then repeat. I have no idea why I loved it so much be we played it for hours.
Lurd67 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would have "slug races". Basically, we would find slugs in our yard and put them on these huge boulders in our landscaping and line them up at the bottom. We put obstacles down (sticks and leaves) and whichever one got to the top first won. To make it more interesting we would roll rocks down at the slugs which would often cause fatalities. The slugs that died in the slug races will forever be remembered.
My brother and I always made up sports to play when we were younger. The only one that was banned by my parents was called "Charge!".
Charge was pretty simple. Two players, two metal baseball bats, two pop-up soccer nets, and a Nerf football. Each player stood in his half and you took turns hitting the football at the other's net. If the ball went in, it was worth a point. The reason for the name was that if a player yelled "Charge!", they didn't have to stay in their half for the next 10 seconds.
The inaugural game of Charge was short and ended 0-0. I charged, swung my bat, missed the football, and broke my brother's shin all within a minute of the game starting. I maintain that he forfeit and I'm still undefeated.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I couldn’t afford viable YugiOh decks so we made our own cards. Hand drawn, attack defense and special rules
Simpler times
syndus · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me my dad and my brother would go out in the yard and play kickball with a yoga ball that was shaped like an egg it was kind of an oval. We called it eggball
Oh boy.. me and my brother used to play a game where we would put our foreheads together and push as hard as we could against the other persons forehead and try to get them to slip off. The loser is obviously the first to slide off.
We had "Dont wake daddy" which was strictly played on Saturday mornings before 1pm. A competition in between my brother and I to see who can stay the quietest so my dad could sleep in one day out of the week.
I'd forgotten about it until we found a time capsule from elementary school that asked what my favorite game was. I think it was my favorite game because I always won
My friends at school and I (about 15 of us) played this game we called "Tornado" every day at recess. The title was pretty irrelevant. It was basically tag, except the person who was "It" had to stay on the ground and the rest of us had to run around on top of the playground equipment. The person who was "It" had to lunge, jump, and reach for us through the floor and bars of the equipment while we couldn't touch the ground or we'd lose!
My brothers and I played "The chase game" where we ran in circles around the house chasing each other. It sounds so simple but it was fun and scary, especially when one of us would hide in the bushes!
My parents knew this and got me a box full of those miniature cars. These and and a cheap plastic horsewagon from a fair were my absolute favourites. The rest of the family, however, insisted on getting me barbies.
One day when I was racing my cars (arranging them in lines and smacking them to see which one would go the farthest) my grandfather peeks in and comments how I'm not playing with the barbies he got me, basically guilting me into play with them in front of him. I put one of the barbies he got me on my beloved horsewagon and take it for a ride around the living room sofa.
He's pacified and goes back to the kitchen to talk with my parents. The horsewagon tips over and the barbie falls off. I bend down to put it away but decide to put it back in the wagon. It's now an ambulance taking the poor near death barbie to the hospital. I do more laps around the sofa and the wagon tips over again, barbie falls over. She's dead, the wagon is now a herst. More laps, another accident, a new tragedy.
By the time my grandfather leaves he's thoroughly satisfied that I've finally taken a liking to the barbies. My parents let me know it's ok for me to stop playing with the dolls and I tell them I will, right after I finish my 20+ car pile up tragedy.
Every now and then I'd catch my parents on the phone telling my grandfather "Yes, she still plays with the dolls. Uhuh, she was just playing with them the other day."
They just didn't tell him that whenever I decided to play with said barbies it involved them dieing a horrible death of some sorts during a car accident.
I would hold a mirror flat, facing the reflective side up at the ceiling. Then I would look down into the mirror and pretend I was walking on the ceiling, stepping over door frames and ceiling fans.
my friends and I would spend hours building our futuristic laser guns out of PVC parts and then hide in his dads covered boat shooting bad guys, like we were navy seals or something. This was the next logical thing to do after Legos and Micromachines were no longer the thing to do... all of this ended when they got an N64 tho.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knights of the dinner table, that's where the knights ride bicycles around in a circle around merlin who gets to chuck giant clamshells at the riders. Everyone wanted to be merlin and it usually ended with an injury during the first round
My brother and I used to play a game where we would arm up with metal poles and throw a hub cup vertically along the ground at each other. The idea was to "happy Gilmore" that fucker until it couldn't roll any more. Shin pads were introduced later for obvious reasons.
The game is called Myth and is from Bungie pre halo days. Its a uber scary RTS( at least for a child used to Mario on the original NES) with no building mechanic. All you need is these epic soundtracks. Unbelievably as it is. People still play it online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hTgvNsqb9Y
My brother and I had our rooms directly across from one another. Most nights we would play "funny face". Whoever made the funniest face, resulting in one of us laughing first, would win. There was no structure, just us trying to twist and distort our faces enough to get a really good one out.
The best was when one of us would laugh so hard we would wind up farting, which as you can imagine, really added to the laughing fit.
Hostage or name differently in other areas of the country. I was taught this in Indiana from cousins and brought it to VA.
2 teams of 2-3 people. One person from each was the "hostage." They would be blind folded at HOME BASE and be switched to the opposing teams car. You would drive that blindfolded person around town in the permitted zone(15 mins/ 5 mile radius of home base) and drop them off in a random place when the time limit is over.
The blindfolded teammate would have to call his team and direct them where he is by the description of area or roads. Street signs were cheating unless truly lost. The first team back to home base with their "hostage" team mate wins the game.
First time I played this was in my cousins area. My brother and I were the hostages and I shit you not, I was dropped off in the middle of the swamp/cornfields of Indiana. No houses, no sign of life for a while. I tried to keep track of turns but after 5 mins of donuts through corn fields.. I was screwed. My team lost as they had no idea where I could of been. I was 1000 yards behind home base but was mind fucked.
Bottle cap races: Run a hose down the side of the road and see whose bottle cap gets to the sewer first.
Polar Bear Fights: Each player picks a bear and an arena (top of the Eiffel Tower, for example), then we just wrestled on all fours.
Travel Channel: Put a giant blanket around ourselves and run around the house pretending to be traveling the world.
Insurance: If our parents went to a fed ex and brought us, one of us would be an insurance agent and the other would be a customer.
Dino boy/girl: One of us would be a soldier and the other one would send the soldier back in time to fight dinosaurs for some reason.
Rich kid/girl: Pretending to be super rich and famous. This one had a comprehensive lore including a family tree, history, and incorporation of world events and celebrities.
Cats and rats,. 1 or 2 cats started out, and had to tag the rats trying to go from the rat house to the refrigerator on opposite sides of the recess yard. Once tagged a rat became a cat. The rats had to get to the refrigerator, retrieve "the cheese" and run back to the rat house. We signified if a rat had the cheese by running with 1 hand in the air shaping a C. Good times.
We played a game called "Civil War". This game essentially consisted of us picking up small rocks and hucking at em one side vs the other. The best part was the local park with a hill that we called "Bunker Hill" where it was basically everyone vs 1 to hold the hill. You lost when you could handle getting hit with rocks any more.
Yak47 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smeer the Queer
One person had the football and everyone else tried to tackle them. No rules, no boundaries, and all the fun.
“Dillywackers”. We would roll up newspapers super tight, and then wrap them in duct tape, then we’d fight like gladiators in the colosseum. Tons of bruises, and one broken nose (friends little brother). This one time our friend who lived his childhood by some ninja Jedi code (whatever the fuck that meant) wanted all of us to fight him at once. 3 v 1 with one kid filming on an old school camera. All is going well and the ninja is holding his own and then all of a sudden we get surrounded by cops from every direction, guns drawn and all. Turns out someone called and said some kids were beating an old man with bats. We showed them the footage, they gave us shit, we took the fight to someone’s backyard. Good times.
Okay, so basically we were all ducks and the last one to glide was the loser and had to give their stash over to the winners. The only problem was that we had no wings...
Lucky we got caught by my friend's mum before we broke our spine from jumping off of the roof of our house.
Don't ask how we got up there in the first place even God doesn't know.
Tromp9 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The throwing game" where we'd cover one sibling in as many pillows, blankets and cushions as possible and throw things at the lumpy pile just to ask "did you feel that?"
I hope someone still sees this. Me and my friends played a game called worms. We would throw a bunch of blankets on the floor of my friends bedroom and then me and him would hide under all the blankets. His little brother would then climb on top of his bunk bed and jump off onto all the blankets and try to land on us. If he hit us he got a point, if he missed we got the point. There was a lot of crying involved in that game
We played a game called “Ice-block”, it was a ultimate frisbee/halfcourt hockey played on a tennis court. You would. Throw the frisbee to each other and have to get it to the other side of the court and then throw the frisbee back into the tennis net for points. I think it was 2 or 3 points if it went under the net, 1 point if it hit the net and zero points if it goes over the net.
Knife - we would each hold our left arm behind our back and face each other - the goal was to touch the opponents chest or stomach with your fist like you were holding a knife, or force the opponent out of the designated area we would duel in - if you got “stabbed” you had to do the most dramatic theatrical death you could
When it was dark and thunder outside,we would gather in someone's house,turn off the lights (in whole house) and play hide and seek. A lot of misfortunate accidents, slipping,falling, crying , but it was fun as hell!
"Renegade", you needed a ball, a trampoline and a timer. Timer is set to 3 minutes. Last one to touch the ball when the 3 minutes was up lost. You had to stay in the trampoline unless the ball went out. Last one to touch the ball when it went out had to go and get it, so the main strategy was to hit the ball off someones head and have it travel the farthest outside the trampoline. Once someone pegged the ball so hard at someones head it traveled two yards over!
“Belchy.” You take a pool noodle (the kind with a tube of air through the middle of it), put some water in it, and then both contestants place one end in their respective mouths. It then becomes a battle of lung strength and breath control as both parties attempt to blow the water in the tube into the other’s mouth. It’s named after the sounds you make when you lose.
It was SO much fun.
MrKetz · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take the giant lego's bucket and each design a fort with a lego man hidden inside who was the "king". Once making it as strong as possible, we would take them outside and take turns launching baseballs at each others fort. First to break down the fort and knock out the opposing kings wins.
Cartoon freeze tag, Cereal freeze tag, etc.
it was harder than it sounds, if we repeated an already given answer, we were basically tagged out then, too.
It was the first mental multitasking game I recall playing.
Monkey wars at recess me and my 3 friends would always hang out in like a monkey bar dome thing and one day we were swinging and kicking each other and thought what if we had to hold on and hang however we like as long as only 2 limbs were touching the bars we then had to get the other person to touch the ground. We got every guy in our grade to play. We even made classes like one of my friends would hang by his legs and if you faced him you had to too. Me and my friends ruled that game no one ever could beat us the we decided let’s face each other I faced leg hanging guy we made it to where we did it our way so I didn’t have to hang by my legs. I wrapped my legs around him and I swung backwards cause gravity/ momentum and he came with me. He landed right in his head. Needless to say that game was banned. Give us a break none of us had ever lost so we didn’t think this would happen.
We live near a beach and used to make houses as sand pits with built up walls. About 10 of us would spend most of our summer holidays at the beach and would build a town, each have jobs and use pieces of fishing net rope as cash
Was a videogame, Leisure suit Larry on Win95. To play the game you needed to answer some questions to make sure you are "old enough". So at the age of 6 i was asking my parents these questions http://www.classicgaming.cc/pc/leisure-suit-larry/age-quiz
My mom took away our nerf guns and other "weapons" when my brothers and I were quite young. In place, we would go outside and find the best sticks we could find and have "stick wars" where we would pretty much imagine we were Jedi's or Medieval knights engaging in battle.
If your stick broke, you lost. My mom hated the game, but it was super fun!
my cousins and I used to play a game called 'Runaway Maxi'. It was like hide and seek/tip. we would be chilling till someone yells runaway maxi and we would all run away from our cousin Max.
Werewolf. Me and my brothers would shut all the blinds and turn off all the lights so that our basement floor was pretty much pitch black. Then, the designated werewolf would go hide and the others would have to go downstairs and "explore" until they found the werewolf. Then they'd have to race back to the light upstairs before they go tackled otherwise they were it. It's been close to 20 years but we still laugh about that game.
The one game I remember that blew my mind the most, was Psy Ops: The Mind-gate Conspiracy. The way that this game slowly let you learn Psychic abilities and use them in combat and puzzles was AMAZING. I remember that the controls for telekinesis and other abilities were so fluid and intuitive that it was so much fun. But I may have just been a little kid and not knowing better. I have not played it since then. I may need to change that.
Arm War: three friends would sit in a row. The middle friend let their arms go completely limp. The other two friends each grab an arm and try to hit each other with it. The middle friend gets most of the bruises.
Lounge Ball: A finite amount of bean bag juggling balls were put in the lounge. You grabbed what you could, then the evening commenced. At any point from that moment on it was completely within bounds to throw a ball as hard as humanly possible at another player. Faces were 100% in play.
It simultaneously ruined and made the night, casually trying to watch TV while living in mortal fear of a black eye shot, and trying desperately to remember how much ammo everybody has.
Everybody hated it... and played it every single night.
With three different kinds of balls and Tupperware bins behind us, me and my brother would act as goalies against each other throwing foam balls as hard as we could. The different balls had different score values, god that was fun.
My friends and I had this spy toy that had 6 little laser gadgets. The gadgets would shoot an invisible laser, and if anything crosses the laser it would beep. Basically used to secure doorways from parents and let kids know when someone has crossed the laser line.
We used to these and have one person go and hide them in the giant room at there parents’ house. The others would then have to make it from one side of the room to the other without tripping any of the lasers. We had a rule that if you spot the laser, it is out of the game. This prevented anyone from building an impossible wall of lasers.
This led to a lot of climbing on furnitures, jumping from one place to another, ducking, diving. Just imagine on of those heist movie scenes where the robber is dodging a room full of lasers.
To this day, if I had those lasers, this would still be a great game as an adult.
EDIT:
Looks like it’s a game now, so I’m not unique :(
Me and my little sister would get our church directory, then one of us would have to close their eyes and point their finger. They would then start singing “ I wanna squeeze your buuuuuuuns, I wanna squeeze your buuuuuuns”. To the tune of The Beatles - I want to hold your hand. The other person then got to take the other patrons finger and point it and whoever the picked out of the directory. You would open your eyes in terror as you sung about bun squeezing to a person that was... how can I put this delicately... not exactly a runway model.
Rock War: Once.
Vietnam War on a military base, kids left to run wild. Some genius younger teens decide all the kids need to have a rock war. We all collected rocks for days and put them at two ends of large field. Divided into two equally sized/aged groups. Everyone picks up one rock a rushes to middle and throws---The end. Cuts, lumps, bruises, crying, shrieking. Dad asked about bruise on sister and large knot on forehead, got answer and cracked up laughing. He wasn't worried about a repeat game.
We used to play a variant of "20 questions" we called "logic puzzles". There's a large index-card version called "Crack the Case" and a series of books called "Lateral Thinking Puzzles" that take their inspiration from it.
It would usually start with a cryptic story that one person would share, and the rest of the players had to ask yes/no questions to get to "the rest of the story".
For example, one lead in was:
"A woman jumps, the phone rings, a woman screams, a woman dies."
In that case, the solution was that a plague or war or whatever wipes out humanity, and the one survivor - a woman - spends months trying to find people, at one point dialing every number she can. In desperation, she climbs to the top of a large building and jumps off - and right after committing physically to the jump, the phone in the room she was in rings and she screams in frustration and regret, dying when she hits the pavement below.
Another one was:
"Bill leaves home to go on a short trip. On the way back home, he sees to his shock that there is a masked man waiting for him. So instead of going home, he goes to a safe place."
In this case, Bill is the baserunner in a baseball game, and the man with the mask is the catcher - who has the ball, which Bill sees when he rounds third base on his way back, so instead of going to home base, he heads back to third.
There's a million of them, some really dark (and usually illogically so), some quite mundane. It's more fun with more people.
We had a game called Carrots and bumper. Go figure out. One kid acting as 'bumper ' was rolling on himself onto the ground on a carpet area trying to squish other kids called carrots.
Exaggeration. My siblings and I would push all of our beds together to form a big wrestling mat, and then play fight on top of them. However, it was all about the falls. A light slap on the shoulder had better result in a sideflip onto the other bed or you were doing it wrong. Great game, although after a few heads hit the wall or floor that one was over.
My cousins and I spent our summers at our grandparents house. There we would take turns battling the pool monster - the automatic pool cleaner. As young kids it actually kinda scared us at first, but once we got used to it the battle got to be more fun.
We played a game in elementary school where I would draw a bunch of Star Wars ships and we would take turns shooting (tossing a pencil) at them. If the pencil marked a ship I'd erase a chunk and draw in battle damage. Study Hall in the 4th grade was pretty fun.
I am positive there's different versions of this game played amongst lots of different friend groups but we used to play "Flashlight Tag"
About 8-12 of us kids would pick 1-2 people to be "it". You'd get a flashlight and have to count to 100.
While the taggers would do that everyone would go hide. We played with the neighbors next door so usually we had a lot of good hiding spots. The only rule was that we couldn't go inside because we'd bother the parents.
We'd all hide and when the taggers were done counting, they'd look for us, and have to tag us with the light, and yell the name of who they got to confirm the find.
If you got caught, you'd go to jail. You could be freed if someone who hadn't been caught yet comes to jail and tags everyone free.
It sounds really simple, but we'd get really into it, and develope strategy. Eventually we would form teams and modify rules for different types of "Flashlight Tag" .
At one point we had people hiding in the roof of a garage, squeezing in between really tight walls, and in bushes that probably had lots of bugs in them that had lots of diseases. (Lots of ticks and mosquitoes in the area)
It was a blast. We'd always play on Monday nights after the community bingo game. It was a small summer town and our flashlight tag game caught on.
There was one summer where most of the neighborhood kids had their clique of friends playing.
We'd eventually get tired and then hang out in the "kids room" we had in one of the houses and order pizza.
My siblings and I used to take laundry to fill in the steps and put each other either in a laundry basket or a suitcase and push each other down the stairs.
It sounds dangerous and abusive, it was dangerous but fun. Did get hurt a few times but worth it. We’re ages 27-35 now and we can still contort our 5’8-6’2 bodies into suitcases, and my brother can still managed to get into a dryer.
My sister and I grew up in the 70s. My dad was a tech guy and he brought home a hand-held/portable tape recorder with microphone. My sister and I would take turns, one of us pretending to be a celebrity or imaginary scary character (Dracula/The Warewolf/Bride of Frankenstein) and the other one would "interview" the celebrity/scary character and we would record the entire interview. We would also record the dog barking and play it back at her. That was so much fun, mom would take the recorder away from us and hide it, but we always found it.
We had a trampoline growing up, and my siblings and I would play a game we called “Zappzapp”. It was basically tag but the person who was It had to roll around on the trampoline and shock someone else.
Our house had a long hallway. My sister and I would close any attaching doors and get couch cushions and pillows to help block out light. We would turn off the light and throw balls at each other in the dark. We thought this was hilarious.
Spooky Woo is an honor-based game where, essentially, you turn out all the lights and play hide and seek.
THE TWIST?? All of the hiders are trying to scare the seeker. If you successfully scare the seeker, he or she is honor-bound to call out "SPOOKY WOO!"
If the seeker finds you but is scared, you stay put and/or try to sneakily find a new spot after the seeker moves on. If the seeker finds you without getting scared, you must join the seeker.
I would ride my bike around the street increasing my speed every lap. My friend would use nerf guns to try to shoot me, if he shot me 8 times he won. After 10 laps and he didn’t hit me 8 times we would switch. We were smart and tried not to knock each other off our bikes.
There was an outdoor basketball court that had 3 nets. 2 were at opposite ends so you could play full court and 1 on the sideline. The goal was to make a basket once in each net not but once you touched it you couldn't touch it again until the team moved to the next basket....and your feet couldn't be on the ground while you possessed the ball.
That was 25 years ago and we still talk about how hard it was to play.
My cousin and I used to pile pillows and blankets and cushions and chairs on his basement stairs and make like, tunnels. We would crawl around in there and call it “mole holes”.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play a really dangerous version of hide and seek. We would make the person who was it stand upstairs in the light and we would all hide in the basement with the lights off in the pitch black. But the catch was that we had 5 minutes to make an obstacle course and booby traps for the person who was it to walk into. We would make walls of plastic boxes, put legos and marbles on the floor, and move all of the furniture around. The person who was it wouldn't be able to see anything and would wander around blind trying to avoid all of obstacles and find us. We eventually had to stop playing because our parents found out and deemed it too dangerous haha. It was so much fun while it lasted though!
In fifth grade we played "Rodney King"... We would select one kid to start running who would be eventually caught and beaten until he yelled "stop" multiple times.
Sting pong. Like ping pong but every time you lose a point you have to take your shirt off, turn around, and give your opponent a chance to smack the ping pong ball as hard as they can at your back. Really fun!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I pretended to be ceiling-walkers by holding a hand mirror facing up so it looked like we had to step over ceiling fans and light fixtures. The game eventually got restricted to the first floor after my brother dropped his mirror down the stairs and almost went down with it. I just realized as I typed that what a mess it must have been to clean up a shattered mirror after it bounced down a full flight of stairs. I'm surprised the game wasn't banned altogether. Sorry, mom!
We also used to wrap tons of glow in the dark string across our bedrooms so when you turned out the light it looked like a laser security system, then we'd try to get across the room without getting killed by the lasers.
LJrrtt · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I created a game called Jewel Thief in which we pretended that we'd stolen some precious jewels and the "police" were after us. Our dogs were the police, but they never caught us, and there was no point 😂 But it was fun
Second post in this thread. This one may perhaps be more in the "game" (in quotation marks) spirit.
As a further preface: I was an only child. Also, most of my "games" involved rocks.
I would stand on the street in front of my house with handfuls of gravel from the driveway and throw them at the pile of rusty metal by the fence across the street. I had designated strike zones in my imagination. I imagined whether the batter was left- or right-handed. Depending on where my throw struck, it was a strike, ball, HBP or a hit for them. I pitched entire nine-inning games out there.
I had a plastic, half-sized baseball bat that I had weighted on the business end with duct tape. Turns out it could hit large gravel a looong way. I made up targets in the trees at the end of our lane and hit rocks at them for hours end.
My brother and I would have a contest to name all the places in our hometown every time our parents drove through it, we weren’t allowed to say the name of it until it was visible, and mom and dad decided what points went to whom
You know that typical outdoor patio set? The "glass" one that just wasn't quite transparent, like you would see for a shower? Take the foot rest parts of that, and put a blanket over the sides and back, forming a goal. Now all you need is a tennis ball. You could only use your hand in a karate chopping motion or you feet (you weren't allowed to pick it up or stand up) to try and score while remaining on the ground. Don't even know how that game started with my brother, but we used to play it all the time. I think we called it Pong 2000.
Either that or when we were even younger we would just play Pokemon. Pretend to be a different Pokemon and have "duels" with each other using the abilities they could learn. No one ever wanted to be the Pokemon Trainer, and it definitely wasn't played as often once someone chose to be Machamp and Seismic Toss/Submission were used a little too literally.
Friends and I used to play “rape tag” during recess at school. It was normal tag, except you had to dry hump the person to tag them. Not my proudest childhood memory...
We played Home, Garden, River, Ocean, Sea, in which we had one person pretend to be the crocodile and the rest of us had to jump down the stairs onto a certain stair deemed as Home, Garden, River, Ocean, Sea.
We had three mini-games. Whenever we were at sea, we could either play Follow Me Crocodile where we followed the crocodile along until he turned around at which point we had to run back to home and if we didn’t make it and get caught, we became the next crocodile.
Then we had 101 Dragons, where we had to stand on stepping stones and step our foot into the grass 101 times while the crocodile would try to step on our foot and if he caught us we’d win.
Finally, we had Crocodile Graveyard where we had 10 seconds to run and hide, and then the crocodile came running to find us. We couldn’t move until he called out ‘Graveyard’ when he saw us and then we all had to try and run back to home.
All in all, a pretty fun game we spent hours playing.
"rock wars" at the local elementary school. we were in high school we just chilled at the local school after hours. one team got the top of the steps and park, the other got the parking lot and dumpsters with a basketball court in between that served as no mans land. we would throw rocks at each other until we got bored or somebody got hurt. we did this over a hundred times with only 2 injuries. both were head injuries involving staples one was from a brick and one was from a milk crate, we were huge idiots.
Camel game. We'd put two chairs together, sometimes covering ourselves with a blanket fort, to make a "camel" and spend hours pretending to be lost in the desert. We had a toy laptop that we would pretend could generate any item we typed into it. No idea how that kept us at entertained as it did but those are some if my favorite childhood memories.
Bonus: Burrito toss. Older kid would wrap us little ones up in a sheet like a burrito, grab the ends and spin us around before tossing us onto a bed or couch. Amazing that we never broke any bones with that one.
Our schools football field and baseball field were separated by a steep hill, probably 15-20 high at a 30° angle.
My friends and I had a game we called Stuntman. We would stand on the top of the hill, and stage a fight that ends with one throwing the other down the hill. The other kids would judge not just the fight, but also the tumble down the hill. There was no winner, just grass stains and skinned knees.
Leaf catching game. When me and my cousins would get together at our grandparents house for thanksgiving or other holidays we would all go outside and wait for leaves to be blown off the trees and we would try to see who could catch the most! Sounds lame but it was a lot of fun and an important part of family tradition!
Save the Pinecones! We would play in my friend's yard and collect the pinecones on the ground that fell from the pine trees. We'd put them in baskets and act like they were babies. We were weird girls.
My friends and I traveled EVERYWHERE by bike. We grew up in a trailer park and the only thing I ever remember doing was biking around. I lived on a pretty quiet dead end street and my friends and I would take chalk and draw roads, stores, parking spots, and little houses for ourselves. We'd drive our bikes around like they were cars, and pretend that we had jobs and homes. It was honestly really cute.
I'm not sure I would call it a game but, I used to use a pencil eraser and randomly select a page in the TV guide (I'm old 44). Then erase parts of the celebrities face and draw in my own. My parents and grandparents hated it (or loved it, I'm not sure). It was the best feeling in the world when they found it. Just look at their face and they know it. "Dammit he got us again!" My grandparents had 3 channels they could reliably use so, I would mess up every show they could get in the TV guide. Also, yeah pick up and fiddle around with shit they had on the coffee table. I loved small pranks with the grandparent. Its a good feeling. Or just Rando collages from Junk mail. I still do that today
OMA_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had my GI joes and I used to make football teams with them.
They moved by standing them up right then laying them down in the direction they wanted to take them in. You moved your whole on the offense first then defense moved on hike then it was like chess, where each team moved two pieces a turn.
To throw the ball you would hold a marble between two fingers (preferably the middle and ring fingers) and use your other hand to flick it to the wide receiver.
In a tackling situation it would activate only when a defensive player touches a player with the ball via the movement process i explained above,
Then we would run 5 “simulations”
For the simulations, we would pick a pose for our tackler and the player with the ball and toss them into each other, if the ball carrier looks like he got his cheeks smacked 3 out of the 5 times we simulated the tackles, it was counted as a tackle. And if the bell carrier was smacked 5 times it’s a fumble and depending on the direction of the tackle we would move the ball 2-3 inches that direction.
Anyone within moving distance of the fumbled ball would be assigned a coin to toss. Heads means you got it tails would mean you missed. We would keep running the tosses until only one person that gets heads is left. If everyone missed we threw the ball 2-3 inches away from the last tails tosser. And check to see who is within reach and run the tosses again.
I was a weirdo and nobody would play it with me but my older brother.
Kick the fence. We'd take a soccer ball or dodge ball and kick it at a base ball back stop. Each of the poles were worth point's the hair the pole the higher the point value. We played to like 500 or 1000. If you missed the front of the backstop with your kick you lost. This meant there was a lot of value in hitting the poles and making the ball rocket out to the field. Also some risk taking in going high hitting the top crossbar and putting the opponent in a no win situation. There was one backstop with a few missing panels on the overhang so it was possible to come back from a over the backstop.
Ghoox2 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand on the edge of the stairs in the pool and try to push each other into the deep end. The goal is to stay on the edge of the stairs, without actually just standing all the way in, last man standing wins.
yankin · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicken rabies. The person who had rabies had to bite someone else to pass it on. Like tag, but with biting.
We didn't have a name for it. But what my brothers and I used to do was one person would go into the room, hide one of those glow in the dark animal figures, then he would turn off the lights and climb the top bunk with a teeny tiny flashlight. One by one we would slowly creep into the room and try to find the toy that he hid while avoiding his tiny searchlight and make it out without him spotting us.
My sister and I made a game called “pillowball” and it was basically a two person game of softball. The bat was a pillow and the ball was a beach ball.
The Land Before Time... When I was in primary school I used to hang out with the younger kids and nursery school kids, sort of like a mentor/monitor type of thing. Used to play this game that was only loosely based on the movie. Basically I'd be the mama pterodactyl and they'd be my babies and we'd fly around, flapping our arms, and when the Sharptooth came they'd have to fly back to me!
Thing is I only vaguely remember doing this. My sister, who used to be one of the baby pterodactyls, remembers it vividly as something she loved when in school.
Death Square was actually the front yard at my parents house. My brothers and I had a rule that we could do anything at all to eachother in that square without repercussion outside of that square -but you both had to be in it in order for it to be okay...
So, that included a lot of things: ambushing eachother with water balloons, breaking eachothers belongings, throwing rocks at eachother, kicking eachother in the balls, fist fights... There was an almost immediate escalation in violence. But nobody ratted to mom and dad. It went like this from elementary school until the end of high school. Other kids would fight eachother in our front yard too. Good thing mom and dad didn't get home from work until 6:30ish, lol
I distinctly remember my brother and I playing Harry Potter, where we just found some good-looking sticks from the woods and ran around shouting "Expelliarmus!" and shit at each other.
I also remember we would play a game called "The Life" where we would just make-pretend different scenario variations on our life that would be waaay cooler than reality.
We'd be like,
"What if we lived in a mansion that had a Grapette fountain we could swim in and drink from?!"
"Yeah, that'd be cool, but what if we had that and also real lightsabers?!!"
Human bowling. You'd have all your friends sit up with a pillow in front of them, legs over a bed and then one person would take another pillow and run into them trying to knock down as many "pins" as possible. One time we played it on the bottom of a bunk bed and I dove head first into the metal frame of the top bunk and next I remember I was looking up at the ceiling and confused on my back . Don't play human bowling on beds with top bunks. Otherwise it's pretty fun
Me and my brother would lay down, feet facing towards each other. We put our feet together and would push them back and forth as fast as we could while chanting “Feet, feet, feet, feet!”
There was no winner. We just did it as fast as we could until someone messed up and then we’d laugh ourselves silly.
Squirrels. My sister and I pretended to be the mayors/restaurant owners of a made-up town full of animals similar to animal crossing. We also invented television and the covered wagon. We technically were squirrels but I don't think we ever even thought of ourselves as them. We have a rival town of chipmunks, too. We also taught at the ninja academy on the trampoline.
My friends and I would play “ballheads “. These imaginary people with circular heads and small bodies, kind of like those characters in those emo “I made you a cookie but I eated it” cartoons from the 00’s. Then one of us would be the princess ballhead, and the others had to kill her to dethrone her and become the new princess. The only way to kill one another was to touch the other’s stomach.
We would play a game on the play ground called Nunny. Basically we would choose the girl we didn't like (looking back this was very fucked up) and she would chase us making the sign of the cross and yelling choir songs. We would scream in horror and run as fast as we can. Fun at the time but I don't think I would play it again lol.
Maybe not quite a child, but in high school, my friends and I used to play a game we called kidnapped, which I didn’t realize was weird until I moved out of my hometown and told others about it. Essentially you would get two (or more) teams of people, and one or two people from each team would be “kidnapped” by the other team. This meant that they were blindfolded, but in the back of a car. There would be a predetermined time limit (usually 30-60 minutes) and each team of kidnappers would take their victim(s) to to some remote location that would be hard to identify. Once time was up, the kidnapers would let the victims out of the vehicle, at which point the victims would call their team members in the vehicle that dropped off the victims of the opposing team. They would have to determine where they were, and the rest of the team would have to find them, pick them up, and return to base. Whoever returned first was the winner. The part that made this truly fun was that this was before people had GPS in their phones and none of my friends had GPS devices, so it really came down to your navigational skills and how well you knew the area. Looking back, it was probably pretty unsafe, but it was a lot of fun, and we never had any safety issues.
I am a twin and so I shared my room with my brother and a very large cushion.
Add a bunk bed and it didn't take long for us to decide to jump onto said pillow from the top bunk.
To create a sense of danger we would climb inside our duvets and both do it at the same time.
Ended with the odd near suffocation.
Still safer than the game where we used a sports bow to fire an arrow straight up in the air and then dodge at the last second.
When me and my two triplet brothers used to take baths together we would play a game called "find the soapy soap" and wed search through the bubbles in the bathwater pretending to look for soap until one would grab the others package real hard while the one getting grabbed would yell "thats not the soapy soap!!" And we would all start laughing our asses off
We played a game with swings where we would use the swings to attack each other. The names varied but always had the word swing in the title of a video game. I believe it was originally called "Swing Kombat X". There were normal attacks, charged attacks, kick attacks, hand attacks, grab attacks, and they each had a name. Usually made up weird names or used pokemon attack names and even had signature moves that your opponent couldn't use. The winner was the one who didn't forfeit. It was kind of rough.
Stella Ella ola clap clap clap singing es chiko chiiiiko chiko chiko cracker Jack, es chiko chiko baloooow balloooowww I gotta blow my nose so 1 2 3 4 5!
I used to play "Baseball" with my baseball cards. I'd pick two teams of all stars or actually just one team against another...last the cards out in their positions to make a field, set up books for a home run fence...then flick the cards from home plate...if they landed on a card, it was an out, if they landed freely in the infield our outfield in front of outfielders, it was a single...opposite field singles allowed runners to advance two bases...his over the outfielders were doubles, leaning against the outfield wall was a triple, over the wall was a home run. Three fouls was a strikeout. I kept stats for different teams had a 7 run maximum inning rule...out was my rainy day game of games!!
It was called Annie Annie basically one person get possessed by saying this phrase “Annie Annie in my body” however many times it takes, once possessed you have to chase everyone and if you catch them you get to beat the shit out of them.
It was fun.
Zombie!!! We'd designate a person as zombie, and hide in our van. The zombie would then chase us slow for a lil while before they could run. Basically tag but with some acting
My brothers and I would play a game we called ‘Pokémon.’ Basically it was like a game of catch but before we threw the ball, the person would call out a Pokémon move and if you didn’t catch it, then the ‘attack’ hit you. We started with 10 hp and each attack would cause 2 point damage unless you were used any of the special moves.
The special moves included:
- hyper solar ice beam - which killed you instantly
- poison earthquake - which if you caught without yelling protect first would cause 5 point damage
- any poison move (poison fang, toxic, etc.) - that, like poison earthquake, which if you caught without yelling protect first, would cause 3 point damage
Fog tag. Played at school early in the morning with hella gross of people not playing so you could be near them but couldn't be distinguished. Very thick fog was always necessary
“The North Pole.” During the summer vacations, my cousins and I would visit our grandparents and sleep at their house. Tthere, we would play a game we call “The North Pole.” A night, right before bedtime, we would gather around the airconditioner and build a makeshift tent (e.g. bedsheets over pillows & chairs) and place it so that the cold air blows inside the tent. We would put the aircon to its coldest setting, then we would challenge ourselves to sleep through the night inside it. Basically, we’re just kids imagining arctic climate in a tropical country.
We’d play what we called Another One Bites the Dust. We have a relatively long driveway with a couple curves that’s on a downhill slope. It was three people at a time and we’d race tricycles and scooters down the hill and whoever got to the bottom first won. But the main goal was to try and cause as much carnage as we could to each other on the way down by hitting each other.
The other was Dress Up Star Wars (big Star Wars geek). We’d just grab a bunch of costume stuff to try and develop a Star Wars disguise and then pretended recliners were space ships and used Lincoln logs as lightsaber handles. Good times
My brother an I used to hide in a bush in our front garden and throw berries at the lady opposite, who we hated for always shouting at us to be careful of her fuscias. There was a complicated points system. One day we heard her come to the door and complain about this to mum. Mum explained to her that, because we only saw her in gardening gloves, I was convinced that she was a witch from the Roald Dahl book, and that we thought we were protecting the neighbourhood children. She didn't see the funny side of this.
Me and 3 male friends (who are related) used to break rotten sticks against trees to see how far they'd fly. The kid's stick that flew the farthest had the biggest penis. Their female cousin did it once and holds the record to this day...
“Wreaking Ball” - it’s played on a swing set with 3 swings. The two people sitting on the side swings hold onto the frame of the swing set. The middle swing is the wreaking ball who makes their swing go in a big circle and try and knock the other people off. Last person holding on wins.
Me and my cousins would play "Fruit Store", everyone picked a different fruit and that would be their name. One would be the customer and that person would go to shop and guess the name of the fruits in the store, they earned one kick for every wrong fruit name they'd say. Then, the customer would say something like "I want 8 kilos of apple" and the person that picked the apple name would need to pass a test eight time to save themselves and to give the customer eight little slaps in their wrists with two fingers -Don't know what's it called in English, sorry!-
Good times, no one would ever pick passion fruit hah~
My siblings and I loved playing Bull Rider in the pool. My younger brother was bigger than my sister and I by the time I was about 10, so he would play the Bull and my sister and I the riders, and my brother would do his best to buck us off his shoulders. He would send us flying sometimes but the water cushioned our falls.
My sister, cousins, friends, and I would have this game we called "Red Eye".
Basically, Red Eye was an evil villain who lived in our basement, and the only way one could defeat Red Eye would be to traverse from the top of the basement stairs down to the basement then reach a trophy we had staged at the opposite side of the room.
The only thing though was that while you're trying to cross the basement, everybody else would be throwing anything and everything we could at you while totally in the dark. It first started with just pillows and stuffed animals, then people started throwing rubber toys, then plastic toys, then anything and everything you could get your hands on. The game was over either when you reached the other side OR someone started crying "STOP STOP STOP!!!".
Also if someone screamed "THERE'S RED EYE!!!" then everyone would have to try to run up the basement stairs at the same time to escape Red Eye. The last one up lost. Many injuries falling down the stairs.
I went to my neighbor's church quite often for special events and one of the games I remember playing when I was very little was one that I think was called Flashlight Tag where one person would hold a flashlight on top of a hill and everyone else would either try to not get caught in a time period or reach the top of the hill to tag the flashlight holder (I was like 4 when i played it, sorry the details are off).
Another game we played was where we threw a kickball around a circle and the third person to grab it would throw it up in the air and the person to catch it would try to dodgeball throw the ball at someone else, and if the ball hit them before it touched the ground they were out. I played it with like 4 17 year olds and my two neighbors when I was 12 so I was always out first, lol. I don't know why these church games were so much fun but they were.
Edit: Oh yeah! My friends and I would always divide up the stuffed animals of whoever's house we were in and make them create little towns with a mayor (mine was always a golden retriever stuffed animal) and have debates with the other town and mayor. I had a bunk bed growing up, so I'd usually be on the top bunk and send my citizens down to my friend to have debates with them.
My brother and I fenced, with our forearms/hand straightened into a "foil" of sorts. First to strike the others torso three times won. The game usually started when the first person struck their first point by surprise
Fetch the arrow! My older brother would shoot an arrow high into the air and my younger brother and I would take off running to see who could get it first. No, we didn't wait for it to hit the ground. We were not smart children.
Also one time we tied a rope to a tree a ways up and tied the other end to a four wheeler. Then we grabbed onto the rope and my dad would drive the four wheeler forward and we'd go into the air a little bit. Then he'd let off the gas and roll back a little and we'd get off. But one time by brother and my cousin let go at the same time and I flew about 20 feet in the air, so we stopped playing that game!
Spread eagle, wall ball with a punishment basically. If you were the person who had to go onto the wall for dropping the ball then you faced the walls and spread out and put your toes and noes against the wall with your hands against the wall and then one person gets to peg you just not in the back of the head. Game continues after, was tons of fun and made wall ball a little more interesting
My sister and I used to play this game when we were on road trips. If there were rows of farm land on both sides of the car, and they were whizzing past real fast making it look like long legs running, we were then "in a race". Whoever had the "faster legs" would be "in the lead", but whoever's side ended first was the "winner".
I thought about this game we used to play forever. I asked her about it when we were in our 20s, "Hey, remember that game...?" and she laughed and said "no". She's four years older than me so I guess I just made the whole damn thing up. 🤷
Acorn wars. We gathered those golf ball sized acorns and beat each other with them. Me and my older cousins did this all the time and it was actually really a lot of fun.
Mine and my brother bedrooms had a small hallway/ stair landing space out side the doors. We would shut the lights off shut the doors and throw bouncy balls as hard as we could . The object was to not get hit... everyone lost.
My other favourite was bike jousting. Wear hockey equipment and try to spear the other guy off his bike with a hockey stick. I don’t think anyone really won that game either
In grade school for a whole year this one game was rampant on the playground. There was a little hillside sloping off of the field, and people would build little nests with rocks inside in all the little potholes and grassy crannies. There were different groups that would constantly get into battles and destroy each others nests or steal the eggs. Everyone wanted to be in on the game. My younger siblings went to the same grade school after id aged out and at one point they banned all made up games.
Hit the deck: not very complicated or imaginative, but me (the youngest brother) and my older brother would stand at the end of the hallway, and my oldest brother would sprint down the hallway, and he would scream “HIT THE DECK” and then he would either jump high and try and tackle us or dive low and try to tackle us and we would have to jump over him or dunk under him. Resulted in numerous injuries.
Not sure if it’s unique but my grandparents live in a cul deck sac and every big holiday our family all gets together at their house. Once all we all get there we would go grab a empty coffee can and place it on the manhole cover in the middle of the street. One person would count by the can and everyone else would go hide, once the count down was over everyone would have to try and kick the can without being tagged to be safe. My parents played it, we played it, and now my kids play it.
Game- kick the can
mw3298 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would stare at cracks on the windshield and try to get it to hit other cars on long road trips.
We would play CHEF TIMES by the river. Instead of making mudcakes, we used to make big sticks and catch the garbage bags from the river, unpack them and play with the food leftovers from the cans. One time we tried to pull out the broken stove , it would have been awesome,but it was too heavy for us x) You see kids doing recycling without nayone informing them about it.
We also used to collect insects,especially ants and put them in handmade boats (those chicken packages) and would let them float down the river,daydreaming how they would depart in some city we never been to. Also we used to write historically inspired letters, put them in bottles (like we spent hours to make up the stoires) and let them float down the river. Oh the river,I miss it.
Rock, played with the kids toddler age to about 4:
Adult sits on the floor, legs straight, feet apart, hand holding toes. Then, while adult maintains that position throughout, kids try and tip the person over, turn then around, wangle them across the room, climb and jump on them, make a tent of them with a sheet and whatever else they decided
My cousins and I would play hide-and-seek in my grandma's basement. We modified it so the hidden would try to scare the seeker. All the lights were kept off and the seeker only had a flashlight.
The Fugitive. One person, "The Fugitive" , was given the worst nerf gun we had with only the ammo it could carry (usually 3 darts) and a 5-10 minute head start to go hide in the woods. Then the rest of us paired up to go hunt them down. The hunters were not allowed to fire first, could only be in teams of two, and were not allowed to be in sight of each other intentionally. If they ran into each other, that was fine, but they couldn't follow each other around. The Fugitive's mission was to get back home, past the hunters. They could hide and sneak past, or they could hunt and take out the hunters. They got to keep any better guns and all the ammo from anyone they took out. Only one pair was allowed to be left guarding home.
Manhunt but with nerf guns. The hunted get a head start and then the hunters go after them with nerf guns. If you’re shot you’re out, but if you can sneak up on the hunters you can ‘maul’ them and then they’re out.
Not really an interesting game, but an ode to the stupidity of children and their true pain tolerance. My older sister of 4 years and I would play the game I Have More Hair Than You. It consisted of one of us running past the other and tearing out a chunk of hair from the unsuspecting donor, placing the hair on top of our head, and then saying, "I have more hair than you." Sometimes this would end up in us cornering eachother and rapidly tearing each others hair out and putting it on our heads chanting, "I have more hair than you." The game was declared over when we would become tired.
Me and my sister used to play a game called “Hollywood”. We’d pretend we’d be best friends, we’d pick out fake names and such and first we’d pack our bags, party outfit etc etc. Then we’d travel on the “plane” (living room couch) and then we’d go pick out our hotel room in our luxurious hotel (one of the bedrooms). One of the activities was putting our stuffed dogs in the living room window and going outside on our deck and passing by the “shop” window and saying “oh my god! oh my god! I want that dog!” and we’d “buy” them. All of our luxurious parties we went to. We played this all the time.
My sister and I had a hammock in the yard. One used to lay there, and hold on as thight as possible while the other used to shake the hammock with all their might until the strength ran out, or the one in the hammock would fall
It was really funny, and surprisevely, we never broke anything hahah (other than ourselves of course)
When my mom was pregnant, she was incredibly sensitive to smells.
Being the little shit heads we were, we'd play "time the smell yell". We'd open some food in the kitchen and see how long it took my mom to yell about the stink from down the hall in her room.
It didn't have a name but we would slap a balloon back and forth across a coffee table trying to have it hit the ground on the opponents side. Way harder to actually have it hit the ground than it sounds. I can remember some epic volleys.
"Cafe Rhinoceros". My best friend and I had a cafe to serve drinks only. Drinks were made with watercolor; orange juice with orange, peach juice with orange and white, kiwi juice with green, coke with black, etc. We even used an old phone to pick up orders. We would do this all day long in summer out on the balcony of our house. When we got tired, we would fill a portable pool, make drinks and pretend to enjoy them in there.
Fortunately none of us was stupid enough to actually drink those, so yay!
My dad helped me with this. When I was bored with friends he told us we could run laps while pulling out ears as hard as we could. We even created a whole point system of how red our ears got and how fast you could run a course.
Devils and Angels. One person would be the devil and everyone else was an angel. Each side had its own base for safety (patio stairs) The angels would tease the devil until he chased them. If the devil caught any angels before they got to heaven (their safe base) they became fallen angels and helped the devil catch angels. If angels caught a fallen angel away from the safe space and without the devil interfering they would hold their hands above their head and say "pray, pray pray..." over and over while bringing them back to heaven. If they successfully reach heaven with the fallen angel then they become an angel again. I guess in this game the devil could win but angels never turn the devil.
We called it “the dark game”. We would blindfold whoever was It (and then turn off the lights to ensure no cheating) and everyone else would find a hiding spot around the room. Then It would blindly try and feel around the room trying to find you. You were allowed to try and move out of their way but you had to try and be quiet so they couldn’t hear you. Sometimes if It was coming near you we would throw things at each other to try and make a distraction. I really miss that game actually
My sister and I used to go into the neighbouring farm and out our brother in the bullpen with this young bull and see if we could get it to chase him cause our school uniform was red but we'd wear blue...
My brother and I invented at least 4 different war games similar to the precursors to D&D. I can't remember all the rules but we had a bunch of knight and archer toys and had an entire D6 based combat system. Hit points, accuracy, the whole 9 yards.
We also had a similar one with Legos representing war ships and forts that was simply called "the game" that took up half my bedroom for a month. Coasts were marked with bakery string with islands made from random debris.
The latter caused a lot of confusion when the game that you just lost became a thing in school.
My dad, brother and I would play “Draw a line and finish it” on the back of paper menus at restaurants. We played it for years and now there’s a Bob Ross game exactly like it. We had a family game night during the super bowl and played it. Brought back some good memories.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stuffed Animal Wars & Belly Bumpers. I usually played with my younger sister or if friends came over. Stuffed Animals Wars is straight forward. We would divide our stuffed animals evenly (better if you got stuffed animals w/ hard plastic eyes, hurts your opponent more) and make little forts and throw them at each other. Belly Bumpers we would hold couch cushions over our belly and then run full speed at one another trying to knock your opponent down.
My father created the game. He called it "running." We would go to the golf course nearby our home at night time and break up into two teams.
Think of it as a combination of hide and seek and Marco Polo.
Team one would run out into the golf course while Team 2 counted to for 2 minutes. We could then howl, The Hiding team would have to respond if they were far away by howling back. If you howl and the other team did not respond that meant you were close enough that it was now a game of Hide and Seek.
My brother loved metal gear solid, so one day we collected various "weapons" (nerf guns and pool noodles, maybe?) along with round sleds for shields, turned out all the lights, and killed each other repeatedly. Definitely the most fun I ever had with my brother.
Crash test dummy, we'd take all the couch cushions and squeeze them into a doorway as tight as they'd go then throw ourselves into them until we smashed through to the other side. Then rebuild and do it again.
We would hang out in the pool, one person in the shallow end and the rest waiting in the deep end, and the shallow end guy would throw a ball into the deep end. Deep enders would fight for the ball, and shallow end guy waited ten seconds before jumping into the melee. The goal was to place the ball squarely on the deck of the shallow end with both hands. There were only 3 of us so it worked out pretty well, but anybody we showed the game to would always try to circumvent the rules, so we stopped showing people how to play. It was a lot of fun and a good workout too.
Vilyda · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would gather piles of pine cones behind some massive rocks in our neighborhood. Then we would do a count down and hurl them at each other. Pinecones are really sharp tho, so we always ended up kind of injured. We also sled down a big hill that was covered in pine needles. We are from the south so it never snowed so dead pine needles were the most slippery thing around. We called it pine needle sledding because creativity.
My friend and I would play Haunted House in her absement. We would spend hours making a spooky scene and make her sosters walk through it so we could jump out and scare them.
I used to get a fan in the hallway, get a blanket, and point the fan towards me as I hid under the blanket. Then I pretended I was in action movies or something. I don’t know what about being under a blanket in high winds makes me think I’m in action movies, but it worked.
Miygo · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pictochat hide and seek.
My friends and I would get on Pictochat for the Nintendo DS. One person would be the seeker, and the rest would hide. Pictochat showed how strong your wireless connection was to other people, so when the connection got stronger we knew we were getting closer! The hiders would also give hints or taunt the seeker.
Lie to my step-dad to keep from getting a whoop'in. No whoop, I won. Whoop, I lost.
lven17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings (brother and a sister) loved wipeout the show so we would take like chairs and did like a little parkour event sequences ( we incorporated like pillows to make u slip and shit like that) from time to time.
We played "mallet ball" basically it started out as tetherball with croquet mallets, but when they were found to be too flimsy we moved up to maul handles. you discover a lot about yourself and your friends when you are in a 10' circle swinging a yard of hickory like mad men.
We played a game called "sledding" which consisted of going down a hill in our backyard using saucer sleds, the issue was however that we were doing this in the summer.
After we broke the plastic sleds and my dad yelled at us we substituted the red wagon that we had to carry things around in. we basically use the wagon as a go-kart and would roll down the hilland the person who went the fastest won. The issue was that only way to stop would be to tip over the wagon.
This game lasted a while and tell my mom looked out the window and afternoon and caught us sledding down the hill in the wagon straight towards the barb wire fence at the bottom of the hilland then tipping ourselves over about two feet from the fence.
We were forbidden to play that game after she caught us. (She also yelled at us for a while)
My buddy and I created “The Flip Game”. One person would run towards the other, jump up into the air, then the other person would sort of tackle their feet forcing the airborne lad to flip over and crash to the floor..
We’d take turns flipping each other over and that was about it. Not sure what spurred this great idea but glad I can live to tell the tale.
It was called 'put down the cards' and only my dad and I could play it. I have no idea how to play it now, just a fun game my dad and I made up I guess.
"3 Points" In the street, the field of play was the curbs as sidelines, the rubber/tar they poured between sections of the concrete road were the goal lines. And we just happened to have our mail box and a neighbor's mailbox pretty darn equal lengths away from the two goal lines. This gave us about 25 yards of field length, with about 7 yards deep of an end zone.
Both players started on their own goal lines. Game was: throw, kick, spin, sling a football and make it touch the concrete inside the other person's end zone. Kinda like a 1 v 1 onside kick drill, but you could throw it or whatever.
Ball touching inside the end zone gave you 2 points. If it touched your opponent first, and then touched inside the end zone, 3 points. First one to 9 wins.
My sister and I played a game called "catch-a-leg". One of us would have to crawl on the ground with our eyes closed and the other would have to walk around them. If your leg was caught then you lost then you switched spots and did it again.
We used to play crab apple tag. Basically we just whipped crab apples at each other. One day this got boring so we started weaponizing the apples even further by sticking thorns in them. Blood was shed. Pretty sure not many 7-10 year olds were playing that game.
Thoupp · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we called Swiggle. We would stand on my dad's bed and one of us would hold the TV remote above our heads. The other would violently shake the other one's arm until the remote flew out of their hand.
Once the remote flew out, the game was on. We could tackle, pull or shove each other to the ground. The first one to retrieve the remote and make it fully back onto the bed won that round.
BONUS:
My much younger brothers used to play this game they called "Taggo". It's basically reverse hide and seek.
One of them would hide somewhere in the house while the other counted. The counter would then start seeking the hider until they found them. Once found, the hider had to tag the counter before the counter made it back to base.
My cousins and I played Taggo, except we called it Bloody Wolf! They had a big house with woods out back, so we'd get all the neighborhood kids together - there were usually like 10-15 of us, and we always played after sundown. One person was the Bloody Wolf and would go hide while everyone else counted at "base" (the porch). Then everyone would go look for the Bloody Wolf, and once someone found them, they'd scream "Bloody Wolf!" and everyone would try to get back to base without getting tagged. Whoever the Bloody Wolf tagged was the next Bloody Wolf.
Me and my sister would play a game where we would hide a belt in our living room and then play “hot and cold” till the person eventually found the belt.
Once the person found the belt they would then chase the other person and try to whip them with it. The game ended when the person being whipped reached a safe spot which was usually a chair our couch established before.
Why we thought this was a good game I have no idea.
My cousins and siblings would get into a big room at night. Shut off the lights and hide. The 1 person has to enter the dark room, and find us using his hands and only assisted with laser pointer. The laser gave almost no light but was important for the immersion. Also. It scared the ones in hiding if it landed on them. The tension of laser being on you not knowing if the seeker knows you are there.
Trick the Mommys. Running around and thinking it was the funniest thing ever when our moms didn't realize us. I don't even remember playing tricks on them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play a game, very similar to spike ball, except we used bouncy balls on tarmac.
You could only let the ball bounce once and the aim of the game was to keep it going as long as possible, bouncing the ball as high as possible, we didn't try and win or anything it was just endurance. Probably some of the best cardio I've ever done!
Ladleball, is exactly what it sounds like. Lacrosse with Ladles and the ball is a raquetball ball. When our kitchen was being redone there was so much open space my little sister and I were bored and used the counter top as one goal and the door to the porch as the other and we would just bounce the ball and try and catch it in the ladle and score goals. But ladles are very difficult to catch a ball in and throw properly. It was a fun one.
Slyjacker- Around this time Jak and Daxter came out and i loved the game and wanted to do cool jumps like Jak. So in our basement my mom had a decent size workout trampoline. Along with that she had the giant blowup exercise balls. So one person would jump on the trampoline and the other person or two would chuck the ball as hard as possible at the person trying to knock them down.
Croquet Ball, the most recent game. Involves a pool, a X-Factor ramp, and a croquet set. The ramp was set at the edge of the pool and the object was to launch the croquet balls across the pool. If you got it across the pool it was 10 points and in the pool points were based off distance, Furthest got 5, then 4 then 3, etc. Put a few dents in the pool house with that one.
alligator and mouse. One person uses their pointer finger and moves around on the table pretending to be the mouse while the other person uses their hand with all fingers together to create the top of the alligators mouth and trys to catch the 'mouse'.
kind of like a rudimentary version of hungry hungry hippos that kept me busy when i was 3 sitting at a table on ferry rides with my mom.
My two older brothers were baby sitting me (I was 6 or 7) and gave me an origami box, they told me if I opened it I would disappear, of course I opened it. They proceeded to pretend like I wasn’t there with comments like “did you hear something? Must have been the wind” this went on for 6 hours or so. When our parents got home I had probably been sobbing for 3 hours and had accepted that I had been cast into the void for eternity. In the middle of drowning in my immense regret for opening that cursed box my mom and dad walked through the door and I cried out to them “can you see me!?”
That was a pretty fun unique game for my brothers.
“Who’s chasing who?” Me and my siblings would run endlessly in circle as fast as we could trying to catch up to the other one, all chanting “Who’s chasing who!” The fun came from arguing if you were chasing them or if you were being chased. It wasn’t till years later I realized we didn’t invent it, it was my parents brilliant idea to keeping us sugar high kids occupied when they couldn’t bother to deal with us.
akg720 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I would play Slug. One of us would stand with our feet inside the corner of a fitted sheet while the other two wrapped us up in it ending with the opposite corner wrapped over our head. Then we’d shove them over and watch them try to get out of it.
Friends and I played "strob light wars" turned off all the lights, cranked the music and basically threw pillows or shot nerf guns all while a strob light was going off.
Was a game where we had to stay on our hands and knees and keep a balloon from touching the ground. If it hit the ground Bill Clinton would tax the people. If the tax got to 10%, we would lose.
I invented a game I called Birdie that I played all the time with my twin. Basically, we each had a pair of scissors and pretend they were a pair of birds, with the blades as beaks. We’d try to make little nests with sticks and rocks for the eggs. We’d chop up little plants and weeds we found around the yard and collect little piles of seeds. I loved the game. My sister didn’t. Looking back, it probably wasn’t the safest having 7 year olds run around with scissors, but we always kept them pointed at the ground when we walked or ran so I guess we knew the basics of safety. And aside from a few paper cuts here and there, we never got hurt.
I used to play "cards". I had a huge box of cards; x-men cards, magic cards, baseball cards miscellaneous playing cards etc and the game was essentially me and my step-dad drawing from the box and comparing them in a go fish manner and talking about which one would win in a fight.
Lots of kids in my family, we played a game called "_______ beats us up!" Where we would jump on the bed and let the youngest would pretend to karate style beat us up while we would dramatically fall and shout lol
Not sure how unique this is, but whenever we went on vacation my cousins and I would play Elevator Tag. It’s tag, but across an entire hotel and you had to elevators unless stairs were the only way to not get caught.
Had long couch cushion tear off the couch. It was about 5 ft long with a split in the middle. We put the cushion on our head and swing it around as fast as possible. The other people would charge towards it and get hit to the ground. It was called Suicide Granny.
We had a game that we called "track". We only played it at my grandma's house. Basically you would designate 4 points on the street usually something like a street lamp or a tree. And the point was to run around those places forming a track.
One person was it and they would have to count (I think the number you counted to changed. Something like: 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 10, 15, etc on a loop). Everyone would run around the track while the person counted and then when he got to the number he would look up and everyone was supposed to be hidden. If he saw anyone he would have to say like "I see ___ behind the green car" if he was right then that person had to walk back to base. First one to run around the whole track won.
If you ran too fast and made too much noise you were easy to find. So it took skill. Especially with the changing counting times. Obviously this works best with a lot of people. You might see some legs but not sure who they belong to for example.
Gravey train. We used to get a group of kids together ride our bikes as fast as we could. While all riding together and we would just try to knock each other off our bikes
Did anyone ever play Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK)? It was a massive multiplayer online game developed by Walt Disney Parks. I used to wait till my sister got her share of computer time, and then played for hours. So addictive and so fun.
We read about this game in a book called “jackass leap frog.” I don’t remember what the game was about but we thought the name was funny. We created our own game called “jackass leapfrog to the extreme.” Essentially the game went like this: we headed to the basement and one at a time we would put a blanket on our head, spin around for 30 seconds, then sprint as fast as we could in whatever direction we happened to be facing. Countless times we were clotheslined by the backside of the staircase.
We played puffle assassinations.
Basically, one person stood at the top of a flight of stairs whilst the others all adopted static positions on the level below. The person at the top then had 30 seconds to hit everyone with puffle pillows (the ones in club penguin).
It was ridiculous but pu-full of fun.
We have a game in Sweden that is kinda like baseball, but not really. It's called Brännboll (Burn ball). My friends and I added tackling to this. So when the hitman was running, the other team was allowed to tackle them. Lots of people got hurt, but it was fun
“The Color Game”
When my brothers and I were younger we had a pool in out backyard. Any time neighbors or friends came over to swim we would play The Color Game.
It consists of one person on one side of the pool and the rest on the other side. The one person would say a category (ex: colors) and then list out as many colors as there are people on the other side. The one person would then go under water and count to 10 while the other kids would choose their color out of the ones the one kid said.
After the one kid comes back up he would say a color and would have to swim race that person who chose it. Whoever touched the other side of the pool first wins the round, and the loser becomes the new category chooser.
One of the best games I played during summer, still play it from time to time if we go somewhere with a pool.
My sister and I used to sit at opposite ends of the kitchen. You would sit perfectly still with your mouth open as far as possible. Then we took it in turns trying to throw dog treats into eachothers mouths. If you got the treat into the others mouth then they had to go hug dad.
Hours of fun
I was the oldest, followed by my sister, then my brother.
We used to play a game called Yikes! when I was about 10, she was 7 and he was 4.
Basically the game consisted of running away from my brother, and when you'd run into a room with him in it, you yelled, "YIKES!", turn around, and run the other direction.
We LOVED PLAYING IT.
But my mother thought it was mean to my brother, so she made us stop.
Unique game we played was similar to the slug war post in sleeping bags.
Except we would roll ourselves down the bloody stairs lol. There was no real winner or objective but it was fun as hell.
Also not to unique but in grade school we played A LOT of "hot ass".
The object was to throw a tennis ball at the school wall and whoever caught the ball after it bounced had to throw it from where they caught it. If it was below a line or didn't hit the wall, you would have to run and touch the wall before someone else picked up the missed throw and hits you with it.
If you manage to miss your throw AND get tagged by a player youd lose a life. If you lost all your lives youd have to stand against the wall and accept your "hot ass" which was hands over your head and each player threw they're harder throw at your back/ass. Good times
I had this game called “slappy stove” where whenever I saw the hot light on the stove i would slam my hand on a random burner. I only did it a few times and never got burned
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would flex my leg muscle as we went by a car or a road sign or something
dmgb · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cut hand and face holes out of fridge boxes. Stand inside cut up fridge boxes. Run full speed at one another, usually with a pile of leaves in the middle to fall into.
We called it Box Wars.
And yes, we were from an impoverished neighborhood.
My younger brother and I would play “Indians” in our backyard. This consisted of makings teepees, fishing rods, and spears out of foxtails and weeping willows. We’d also divide the yard in half and have raids on each others territory. One person got the half with our swing set, and the other had all the recourses. We based a lot of our ‘village’ on a book we read in second grade called Roxaboxen. Definitely the good ol days.
My sister and I would play peacock. We would stuff our ass crack with branches in our pants and make a nest of pine cone eggs in the woods and the neighbor boy would try to steal our eggs while we would make what we hoped were peacock sounds and chase him off. My ass still itches thinking about it. But it was fun.
My dad would play “Sleeping Dragon” with my sister and I when we were very small. He would lay on the couch and pretend to be asleep, and she and I would sneak around the couch, trying not to wake him. If we did, he’d grab us and start tickling until we sang him back to “sleep”
xombae · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh man I had completely blocked this game out of my head until now. It was called the Pole Game.
My friend has a square post in the middle of their basement living room. The idea was one person clung into the pole for dear life while the other people tried to pry them off of the pole. Hours of entertainment.
That friend I'm fairly certain had add or ADHD looking back on it so hanging at her house was always wild. She had this gold fish from the carnival that had lived for like 10 years in only an inch of water somehow, and would tear apart any other fish put into the tank. They called it Fatty, and my friend would tell us Fatty Stories where she'd put on a voice and pretend to be the fish and for hours tell us these crazy stories about what the evil fish had done. Kind of wholesome tbh, interesting how we came up with shit before electronics were super popular.
Not trying to be that anti - tech person, kids today are also very creative, just in a different way. Being from a small farm town with no where to hang out and before videogames were super popular, we had to come up with some crazy shit. We'd hang out in the towns only laundromat because it was the only place to go.
We also used to play real life Neopets. My friend and I had little sisters that were the same age so we'd dress them up as our pets, set up shops and pretend to shop there. We'd make the little sisters set up shops too but their shops would be doing up favors like making us lunch or giving us back rubs.
High kicks. My buddy Teddy and I would run at each other, probably from like maybe 10' away, and just jump and kick at each other. We were probably in grade 3. Anyway, we were roughly the same height so we'd normally bounce off one another. But sometimes, you'd get someone in the chest and they'd go flying. That was fun.
It was grade 5, outside by the main recess door was a long cemented porch about two and half feet tall with no safety rail where the stairs weren't.
The game was called "It from the Pit". After playing dukes or pulling shoes we would determine who started as "It". That person would stand on the ground beside the porch ledge and try to drag "safe people" completely on to the pavement below making them a new member of "It's" team. The kids on the porch would often try to help their teammates getting pulled down to the pavement by pulling on the arms while the people in the pit were pulling the legs.
Eventually the winner is the last person standing on the porch.. it certainly had a fight club or battle royale feel to it looking back at it haha
Many kids were hurt over the course of the months of the games creation. Kids would lose grip of their teammates and they would slip and they crashinto the pavement. The game was banned shortly after those incidents
We would play a game in dark basements with little to no light where everyone save one person would hide like in hide and seek. Then they would go around trying to tag people who would join the brood of seekers. Last one hiding wins. This may seem like a silly version of hide and seek but it was far more entertaining because in darkness you could move around and a lot of times evade the seeker.
"Piranhas". My elementary school took us to an open unused but we'll kept lot filled with grass and even a little hill and a playground. There was also a little wall, around a meter and a half from the ground, which was a perfect size for an 8 yo to play. A group of kids were the piranhas standing below the wall, the other were the swimmers standing on top of the wall. The piranhas jumped and tried to grab the swimmers and make them fall.
The most amazing part of this is how, even though we played the game for at least 4 years, no accident happened aside from a few dirty or damaged clothes. Nowadays I wouldn't let kids do that, I would be worried about their heads when falling from the wall, things like that.
I had a game with my older brother called Bouncy Ball. My brother would sit on the bed and I'd be standing on the other side of the room (we had a small room so there wasn't that much distance). The goal of the game was to bounce a ball back and forth between us and for it to bounce on the side of the opponent. Fun times.
Last Tag... Just before we were leaving from a family visit.. My Uncle would reach into our vehicle tag one of us and say last tag. Then the game was on.. We would make our dad open our car door and chase one of them and do the same... It got crazy... So funny such memories...
Lock-On: Basically a Air Force style dog fight on bikes. Two teams. Can be played one-on-one as well. Players ride bikes around the neighborhood, basically on a search and destroy mission. If an enemy is spotted, the goal is to tail them hard, scream "lock-on" when within striking distance, and rub tires until they crashed or surrendered. Good times.
Bee wars. You would get a jar and a lid and find the biggest honey bee and fight them. Not very nice.
Sticks basically beat each other with stick. My bro was twice the size of me and my sister and he would always win. No wonder it's the game he would always pick.
Can u tell we lived out in the country...
My friend and I would try to reenact “Tightrope Treachery” from Mario Party in the pool by having one person try to walk across the pool rope while the other person shakes it back and forth to try and get the person to fall off.
Had a couple but my fondest memories are of "Monster". I, my sister and my friends would get in an enclosed room. One person would go under a blanket and try to catch someone by tackling them to the ground, making them the monster. Needless to say we got yelled at a lot for playing but it was always worth it.
Me and my brother play this game where you get a point for touching the other person's dick and if I get tired of holding my brother who is constantly trying his level best both from his hands and legs to touch my dick, the game abruptly ends as it's a very tiring game.
mornon · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two cousins and I played haunted house. We would turn off the lights in a room, and one person was the ghost, one was the tour guide and one was the one being frightened. So stupid and fun to our grade school selves with nothing better to do.
Stealth Tag. Growing up I had a pretty big backyard that was basically a micro forest. My brother and my best friend worked out this game that was basically an intense combination of hide and seek and tag. We would wait til dark, and then turn on the floodlights over the back porch so the first 10% of the backyard was lit and the rest had pretty harsh shadows. The players who hid could wear whatever we wanted, so usually lots of camo and dirt on our faces. Whoever was seeking would get two tennis balls per hider.
The goal for the hiders was to conceal themselves as well as possible during a courtesy period of 30 seconds, then make it back to the back porch without getting tagged by a tennis ball. The seeker would try to find us and tag us, obviously, so the preferred strategy was to hide really well somewhere relatively near the back porch and wait for the seeker to walk too far away to easily tag you. Because of the lights though, the closer you were to the porch the harder it was to hide. Whoever made it to the deck last was the seeker for the next round, so there was a ticking clock element to it too. Super fun, but you need the right environment.
We didn’t call it anything but my house was right off of a busy main road. When cars or trucks passed we would have to hide behind an object of some sort to not get “hit” by the car. If you were “hit” one of your three live we’re taken away.
Lego GTA. We built a mini city with different typed of shops like a gun vendor and roads and such, and we would start our rampage. The star system was also present and judging from your actions it would raise the amount of cops and other military. Weird thing was we were super humble about it even on just a young age like at some point we would just accept that now our lego character has no way to survive and is now considered dead. I don't know what the rules were accurately but I remember the survival was hard. good times.
hoppsd · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I called our swing set the "exercise aquatic center". Despite the name there was no water or anything on the swing set. We would just sit at the top of the slide by the swings and pretend we were fighting aliens or driving to a new Earth.
Snorky. Don’t ask how the name came to be but when I was little we imagined my dad as a monster and you would get under a blanket, crawl on his knees and chase us around the house. It was fun and once he caught us, he consumed us under the blanket as we were dying of laughter.
We played the dark game... our basement play room was shaped like a long skinny rectangle. We would cover the one small window in the basement and turn off the lights. One person runs back and forth through the pitch black room and tries not to get captured/dragged down by the pair hiding somewhere in the course.
Now that I’ve written this, I just realized this is probably why I still need to turn on the lights to walk through any basement.
In Elementary school, our home room teachers always had us write in our own personal diaries. My friends and I played an altered version of “keep away” with a specific person’s diary. Keep it away long enough and you’ll find out shit about that person.
The first was "Shipwrecked" and the scenario was that we got stranded on a desert island. We had to find supplies in the wreckage (a.k.a the shed) and then build a shelter, create inventions that would be beneficial to our survival, scavenge for food (lemonade mostly) etc. We then basically played make believe Swiss Family Robinson style, with pirates and storms and various other scenes that took place in our island camp.
The second, we would take a big pile of socks, all in varying styles and sizes and textures, separate them from their pair, mix them up, put on a blindfold, and then match as many of them with their correct half in 1 minute. However many you got matched correctly would count as a point.
Growing up, my parents had a pull out couch and we’d always use it for sleepovers. One of the games we’d play during said sleepovers was folding someone up inside of the pull out couch and seeing how far we could push the “fold out” part in until the victim screamed to be let out. Inevitably, one night (and the last time we ever played the game) we couldn’t pull the couch back out and the person squished inside was left screaming for a solid two minutes or so.
Eventually we got them out, but it was a terrifying experience to think that your friend is going to suffocate to death and it’ll be your own fault. That was probably 20 years ago and we still laugh about it to this day.
FOOT DOWN. Neighbors and I (4-5 of us) would ride our bikes around a chalk drawn circle. Point of the game is to be the last person who didn't have to put their foot down to catch themselves. It involved kicking and ramming into the other competitors back tire.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late to this but here you go OP.
There was a fairly steep bit of hill we'd ride our bikes down.
You could get to where you were hauling ass on a bicycle real quick.
The game was that one of us would try to go flying down that hill before the rest of us were able to throw sticks into the spokes of the wheels and make the rider eat it.
It wasn't safe at all.
Bonus if you got it in the front wheel, they tumbled over, and broke their face.
My brother and I played a game where one of us would hide a stuffed animal somewhere in the house, and then hide somewhere else with pillows, nerf guns and other “obstacles”. The other person would have to find the stuffed animal and make it back to the basement before getting beaten half to death with a throw pillow. We had to stop when I lost two toenails and a chunk of my big toe.
In elementary school me and my friends would play "line tag". It was a variation of tag, where you would run along the lines of a basketball court. You couldn't hop lines or reach across to tag a person, you had to be beside them. It would suck when there were a few people on the same line beside each other, and the tagged person would be right behind you. You couldn't skip around people, so you would know when you're fucked.
Keebs- · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I (along with anyone else we could convince to play) would sit under a large thick blanket and poke the fog machine through the bottom, then seal off all openings on the bottom and let the fog flow. Whoever could stay under the longest won. In reality we all lost because you'd come out of there overheated, painfully coughing and temporarily blind.
wasn't really a game but my step brother and i would take turns resetting 4 digit combination locks and see how long it would take for the other to unlock it. somehow we were able to get it unlocked several times a night laying in our twin sized beds watching Elimidate.1 2 3 4 ... ELIMIDATE! strange times.
Lmoje · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I played kick the can, but with completely different rules than the normal hockey one. It was hide and go seek where everyone hiding had to get to the home base and kick the can, while yelling “Kick the can!”, before the seeker spotted them and said their name. If the seeker said the wrong name, the hidee could keep running. Shirts and sweaters were exchanged plenty
I dont think we ever had a name for it, or if we did I cant remember. But me and my brother would sit in laundry baskets at opposite ends of the hallway. Quite simply, the first to reach the opposite end won. Of course with a solid 10-15 minute war once we met in the middle which only a few times resulted in actual punches and a fight lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game with my brothers and cousin we called bonk. No idea if we came up with it or not, but I never played in school. Basically its tag in the house only instead of tagging someone with your hand you had to hit them in the head with a ball. It was a kinda firm ball a little bigger than a softball. Headshots were the only thing that counted.
Step One: My best friend and I would tie pillows/cushions to our torsos (front and back) using belts and duct tape.
Step Two: Go to his back yard where the huge trampoline was.
Step Three: We weren't allowed to stop jumping. While jumping, do whatever we could to launch them off the trampoline. Stealing jumps were fair game.
Not sure how we decided this, but you had to jump at the opponent backward. This meant if you missed, you'd basically keep going and land on the rocks that landscaped the back yard. The goal was to make your best friend land on those fuckers.
Step Four: Hope his mom doesn't get too mad that we got duct tape residue and dirt on a bunch of pillow cases and and couch cushions.
We eventually solved this problem by stuffing them in extra large shirts from the thrift store and getting the take and dirt on those.
She took us out for pizza because she was impressed we came up with a good solution instead of lying or doing it the way we started!
Somehow we NEVER got hurt playing this game, which we played at least twice a week for 2 entire school years.
The only time either of us got hurt on the trampoline was when we tried doing flips and landed on the edge where the springs and bar meet.
Well...
When I was about 7 or 8 we had a game called "knights." This was not what you'd think it was. This was not fighting with stick swords.
A friend asked me if I wanted to play and I said yes. We went to this park area where we both picked out the biggest rocks we could carry. The object was to find cover behind a tree or a trash can or a corner of a house. The other kid was basically their own trebuchet who would hurl it in your direction.
After one person had thrown their rock the other would throw theirs. So on and so forth. I threw mine first and he ducked around the corner of this maintenance shack. Then he threw his.
I managed to duck behind a trashcan. However the rock smacked the lid and bounced enough to fall off and hit me on top of head. So after I came to i was taken to the ER and had 3 "staples" in my head.
My mom made sure we never played that game again...
My friend and I would go into a back room of ours and go into the adjacent bathroom and turn on all the lights and stay in there for a minute r so to adjust our eyes. Then the other person would go into a complete dark room and hide/stand somewhere. The other (first) person would then stand at the door way in the dark room (lights are off now) and try to find the other person without moving around. Not very exciting but it was basically a test of if you can see in “pitch black”
Not really a game, more like a long running prank. One year when I was younger, Costco had a ridiculous sale on lettuce, but you had to buy a lot of it. My mom figured she would just get like 6 heads of lettuce and split it with her mom.
My grandparents came over for dinner that night & turns out my grandma had seen the same sale, had the same idea, and she brought my mom 3 more heads of lettuce. We all laughed about it and they left with their lettuce (so we thought.) It wasn’t until after they were gone, when we were almost finished cleaning up, that we discovered the 3 heads of lettuce my grandma had stashed under the table. The next week we went to dinner at their house. As my parents were bringing things inside, they had me run around the side of the house and hide 4 heads of lettuce in their outside refrigerator. After that, it was war. We always bought at least one extra head of lettuce every time we went shopping, and we had family meetings trying to figure out the most creative ways and places to leave the lettuce. If the hidden lettuce was found before we left the other persons house, you had to take it back. It We would try to recruit cousins (who lived with my grandparents) and other family members to be moles for our team.
That game lasted for over a year, and lettuce just became kind of a huge inside joke for us.
I now own a lettuce shaped candle holder, and a lettuce coffee mug.
”Spying” xD it was a pretty boring game in the longrun but there were 3 or more teams (the more the better) consisting of 2 players and basically we would spy on eachother until two teams wonder into eachother becoming one team xD sounds pretty boring but my neighbor had a massive property like forests and hills. Probably the reason why it was so fun but wouldnt do it anymore.
My siblings and I would play an adding game - where we were sitting in the car and would have to add the digits on a license plate as fast as possible. Fastest was the winner .... My kids and I play it now.
In elementary school we had a game where a group of 4 sat ontop of a slide with their legs on the slide. The person that was "it" had to run up the slide and pull one person down. That person would become it.
There was a lot of falling off slides and being kicked. Good times.
In middle school me and my friends would set up a random line on a sheet of paper and we’d attempt to make it work into an actual drawing. I don’t don’t think it was all my idea but I don’t remember where it came from.
I would play this game called “Touch to Touch”. You grabbed something like a dodgeball or soccer ball and you put it on the ground. You couldn’t pick up or throw the ball up only slap it around and roll it. The objective was to slap the ball hard enough to hit the other players legs with the ball. If the ball made contact with your legs you were out. It was the ultimate playground battle royale. So the people without the ball were either running away from the person with the ball or going on offensive blocking their legs with their arms to intercept the person with the ball. If you were playing with other athletic kids this game got really serious. Would definitely still play this.
My brother and I used to play Ripstick Wars on our sidewalk occasionally with our friends and cousins. Basically, ripsticks are these boards with two wheels and you can ride them kind of like a skateboard along with the ability to make sharper turns. So my brother and I decided to turn it into a competition and we fought in a small square. The object of the game was to smash into the opponent and make them fall off their board or the square. Pushing with hands was not allowed and you were only able to visciously slam your board into one another while maintaining balance. This continued for three rounds and injuries were not uncommon.
Me and my friend would always play "red eye" what is red eye? I dont know. It just sounded cool and we always said "lets play red eye" but it was a different game everytime because we did not invent any rules. But damn did it sound cool to my 4 year old ears.
It was called “Final Destination 4” and it consisted of taping a cardboard box to a skateboard and then putting someone (normally me) in said box. Then someone would run and push the skateboard while chanting “Final Destination 4, Final Destination 4...” and once they let go everyone would throw rocks at the person in the box.
The punting and kicking game. Divided backyard in half with one player on each side. You gain points by punting and or kicking the ball from your side, past the defender and into the opposing fence. Can only punt (or drop kick) if you caught the ball from another player’s attack. Different scores for certain potions of the fence. As the players (mainly club soccer athletes) got older, it got far more intense.
Crash and Packs, or something like that. Me and my brother would fling toy cars toward each other. Can't remember the rules exactly, but I think that whichever one flipped the other won.
At 6 or 7 ish, my two girlfriends and I would stuff oranges down into our shirts to simulate boobs, the go knocking on neighbors doors asking to visit them. Our dumb asses went into complete strangers homes. With orange breasts. To visit them. I would go ballistic if my children even humored an idea like this...
We would occasionally repeat the orange routine, but add pom poms, knock on doors and charge .50 for us to do a cheer for them.
Me and my friends played how many rocks can you fit in your mouth before you spit them out. Its simple, all you do is get rocks and stuff it in your mouth and whoever fits the most rocks in their mouth without spitting them out wins $10 we washed the rocks of course, we didn’t eat dirty rocks.
We would go to war at the park. We had a pay phone near us so we would tear off pages, fill them with sand and throw the “granades” through the air so it would rain sand, at the playground itself so try would have an exploding effect, or at each other cus it would hurt lmao. We always made sure other kids weren’t involved cus we’re not dicks.
If our backpacks were heavy enough after school my old best friend and I would play Turtle. Basically wrestle each other until one of us got down on the ground. Then that person would become the turtle (the heavy backpack becomes the shell) and it would be difficult to get up.
I was the only kid who played golf in my group of friends. We used to play alot of street hockey so one day I started a game i called Hockey Golf. We used our hockey sticks and tennis ball but the hole was usually a pole or some random thing and we'd make a 9 hole course by taking turns picking the next hole. It actually caught on pretty good for a couple months.
We had “Jaws” on the playground as kids. My best friend and I created it and got the whole recess population to play. It starts with one kid being jaws and as soon as he tags another kid the other kid also becomes a shark. Sharks have to stay on the woodchips and the people have to survive by running away and climbing up slides and stuff. The shark could touch you by any means necessary, like reaching through the holes to get your feet and jumping to tag the kid hanging off the side. There comes a point when everyone is just surrounding the last person and the are climbing on top of each other to reach him.
My sister and I played Broomball; our driveway had two even halves with a slit between that we used as a divider and where we drew the chalk. The game was hitting one of those super big bouncy balls from Walmart back and forth with brooms to score it into the goal, which was either the garage door or the street behind us, depending on what side you were standing on. My sister and I and a couple of neighborhood kids used to play this game a lot until I came inches from knocking an elderly woman off her bike one day and the game was banned.
Me and my cousins had a stupid amount of bouncy balls, and a hallway that when you shut all the doors became an enclosed space. So we would shut them all, each take five bouncy balls and try to hit each other. You had to bounce it off of a wall first then hit someone for it to count. Played this ALL the time, until we got a dog and we were afraid she’d eat the bouncy balls.
A cage rage. When spending time between hockey games in minor hockey, teammates would put their helmet and gloves on and fight. Creating a tournament. Yes its canadian
I would run back and forth and my brother would kick a ball at me to try and hit me. Sometimes I’d be on a bike or a scooter.
It doesn’t sound like I would have fun but I actually did!
Also sometimes if one of us was sat on the toilet, we’d have the door open and the other one would run past making funny faces and try to make them laugh
We called it blobs. We would each get a blanket and drape it over ourselves, then proceed to crawl around the house without looking. I got stuck under the dinner table a few times and man, it would hurt your elbows after a while, especially on the wooden floors.
Mulms · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was the first time my dad was alone with us for a week.
Now that I think about it, he was clearly anxious about it. He had to entertain my little brother (5y), my little sister (3y) and I, who was 10 at the time. My parents didn’t like to just put us in front of the TV, the challenge was finding an activity we would all like.
Well, that’s why he made it up, on the spot, the first night. It was called the “pink elephant” game. We’d be sitting in a circle and when our turn came, we had to come up with a challenge for others to do. Like, walk like a baby around the table 3 times or something similar. It was pretty much obstacle courses.
We played that literally every night. We loved it. It had no end, or pretty much any rules but it didn’t matter. We were just happy to be playing with our dad.
Mattress sledding. It is exactly what it sounds like. We would ride our mattresses down the stairs only to inevitably get stuck and tumble down the rest of the stairs into a giant pile of pillows and blankets.
My friends and I played a lot of 'robot wars' fights with robots made of Lego technic. We builded secretly our robot to be the strongest and simply launched them one versus the other. After few rounds, the 'robot' with less gaps between pieces would win.
Being flipped over would have given the victory to the opponent. So we soon started to build robots which could go upside down.
We played for hours, just stopping to apply modifications or build a new model.
God, they were just Legos but we engeenered and builded some almost impossible to destroy models
When my parents weren't home my brother and I would go into their room, cover the floor with pillows and spare mattresses, stand on opposite sides of the room and hold the 2 biggest pillows up over our faces and run at each other at full speed
Pee Wee (name not relevant to the game) - we had like an acre or more, long back yard that sloped down. One person would stand on the deck at the house at night with a flashlight and try to find everyone else in the yard. If you were the one hiding you would use stealth and cunning like a ninja, to try and make your way undetected to the base of the deck. If you made it unnoticed, you could hide again next turn. It was a blast to play. Very good memories of playing that with friends during summer nights, in the country.
Another game we played when we were a bit older was called Stickle. We’d be out in the woods and someone would yell, “STICKLE!!!” Everyone would scatter and try to find a dead branch on the ground. You’d take the branch and smash it against a tree in the direction of one of you friends and try to get the shrapnel to him them. Sometimes this would evolve into whole fortresses being built and the game lasting for hours.
There were more too, I just can’t remember them at the moment.
When I was little I always had stuff like COD or just gun related but I had that one awesome game and it was Skyrim always thought it was one of the only games without guns so I thought it was kinda unique.
Santoliya.
You had two teams, a ball made out of cloth, and seven flat pieces of earthenware or marvel or stones anything. Team A had to knock the stack down first, and then rebuild it while team B had to hit the player(s) from team A trying to rebuild it. Team B could pass the ball amongst themselves but the player holding the ball couldn't run so he had to try to hit the players from team A while standing still. The game lasted till team A could rebuild the stack and yell 'San San santoliya' or till team B could hit all the players from team A and remove them from the game. To this day I have not met adult who knew what this game. I look like an idiot everytime I mention it.
And 'oonch neech' ( high/low)
I have no idea what even was this game or how does one play it. I'm half convinced that both these games were a figment of my imagination.
When I was 8 my family lived in a townhouse with a basement that had a lot of junk in it. I would take my little brother down there and make him sit in a giant cardboard box with me.
I called this game “Anne Frank”...my brother was Anne Frank, I was Margot, the cardboard box was the cattlecar taking us to Bergen-Belsen.
I hope he doesn’t remember...
so there's a small rubber ball, you sit on your knees (hurts now that i'm older) and smack it with your hand. you can't grab it, but you can do so fucking much with it because it's bouncy that crazy plays occured and everyone was styling. i think at some point we ruled that gks have to pounce in order to make a save, because sitting still was too easy in door-sized goals and because a pouncing gk makes every play more epic.
Me and my friends would come over to my house and we would play hide and seek...in the dark...with "traps" setup throughout the room. The loser was the one who got bloody first.
Zombie Tag. Instead of transferring "it" to the tagged they "infected" the tagged. By the end only one person was left and we played with all the kids in my neighborhood so you were running from like 20-30 kids. Once you were the last man standing a safe zone was available and if you made it there you were extracted by helicopter (won). Almost no one ever won but my brother was a fucking ninja and was able to quite a lot. The safe zone was the big kennel we locked the dogs up in sometimes and it had a roof so it could be quite hard to get in the only gate. It was fantastic though. We played well into our teens.
My sister and I had a few games we invented on the trampoline. One that sticks in my mind is "bug and tower", where one person would be the "bug" and crawl around the edge of the trampoline, and the other person was the "tower". The "tower" would try to fall onto the bug, and the bug had to bounce out of the way
The other game was "mud baths", where one person would sit on the sofa and kick the other person from behind so they went flying across the room
My brother and I would play tag with a twist, the person who was it had a sleeping bag over thier entire body. Basically just running around into walls Lmao. A little bit more fun than that my friends and I would take the pieces that people would use as players in monopoly, hat car etc, all 6 and hide them throughout the house and the other person had to find them.
My cousins and would play bubble fish. The bubble fish would be in the basement in the dark while everyone else was on the stairs. The bubble fish would try to drag people into the dark and everyone would have to come save them.
My family and my dads best friends family would often go on holiday to a camping spot near a river. My ‘uncle’ would take me and his daughter on a canoe to go treasure hunting. He’d find a sand bank and tell us there’s chocolate bars hidden somewhere in the sand. He would have gone there before and buried chocolate bars in the sand. It was so much fun to dig in the sand and find chocolate at the end.
I don't know if it is unique,but from what I understand it's not that common.
So, a group of my friends and myself would play a game that we called "murder in the dark".
The way this worked was there were 3 different roles: the murderer, the detective, and the citizen. The role that you got was determined by drawing labeled papers from a hat, and no one is supposed to see what role you got for the game to work.
With all of the lights off the murderer is supposed to "kill" all of the other players by touching them and saying "you're dead". If this happened to you you had to lay on the ground where they killed you, and you had to be silent and were not allowed to move.
The job for the citizens and detective is to find the dead bodies and when you do you yell murder on the dark. When this happens all of the lights go on and the living people meet up to guess who the murderer was. The detective gets priority unless they are dead then it goes to majority vote.
The murderer wins by either killing everyone or not being guessed when a dead body is found. The citizens and detective win by spotting a murder happening or guessing the murderer.
marsaz · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in elementary school some friends and i started this foot stomping tournament style game. Basically to get a point you had to step on the other person’s foot, but there was a limited gameplay area so no running for your life. We had rankings and shit and the adrenaline rush you’d get when someone missed your foot by a hair was wild.
The "baby game"... my brother, sister and I are STILL PLAYING THE GAME! As children we decided we were going to play a game where we were babies that grew up... but we decided to never quit the game and just keep playing it for the rest of our lives. Every few years one of us remembers it and reminds each other that we are all in fact, still playing the baby game.
Sweet N Low. You take turns at a restaurant and try to get the sweet n low packet as close to the edge as possible without falling off. If it stops on the edge the other person had to eat the packet. But if yours when over, you had to eat it. Good times with my brothers.
Correct me if this isn't unique! Us grade school kids came up with a modification of standard Tag. It was called "vampire". The one that was "it" at the start of the game was Dracula. If you fall into Dracula's grasp, you become a vampire too and now try to tag the living runners. It was great because the last kids to become vampires always had a really stressful time, having 10-15 vampires on their tail.
We originally tried a variation where the secondary vamps had to hold the runners down and wait for Dracula to turn them, but that ended up with too many fights and hurt feelings 😅
Game: GINGIVITIS
Players: Myself and a cousin
Ages: Started @ age 6. Lasted 5 years
Rules: Try to do a sneaky sneaky and get your naked big toe into the other persons mouth. When your big toe is in their mouth you have to say GINGIVITIS in a British accent.(we are from the USA)
Example: My cousin is yawning while laying on the floor and i do the sneaky sneaky and come up from the side and slide my big toe in his mouth. While toe is in mouth i say “GINGIVITIS” in a British accent.
Stink Finger where one of us would put on a blind fold and out our finger in the cats bear cave and let the bears out into the forest. The winner earns the inheritance of fathers college funds.
The losers would have to make octopus wiener dogs with ketchup and mustard for the eyes
We used to play "the game of death". We had one of those hard rubber disks you skip on the water in the pool. Teams of 2 on each side of the pool. Goal was to skip the disk across the water and get it passed the other team and hit the wall. First team to 10 wins. It was call the game of death cause whoever was in the deep end was treading water while this disk that could knock your teeth out was thrown at your floating head. It was half playing defense and half survival.
Me and my brother had "Smash and Crash" a tounament where we would crash hotwheels until they flipped over or broke and if that happened they were out.
I'd bring all of my toy guns out to the back yard and plan my base defenses. I'd have full conversations with all the other characters that were in it. Most of the time I was an international arms dealer from the future who sold guns to all the different governments. I'd craft a weapon from the future and sell it to them. Spent 100s of hours selling billions of dollars worth of weaponry and was the most powerful man in the world.
Back when ninjago was a new thing, everyone in 2nd grade would go into the field and spin with their arms out trying to hit each other. It ended after someone ended up getting a bloody nose.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘The ghost game’. Probably a bit similar to something like murder in the dark, but the tagger had to wear a blanket over their heads and to tag the person you had to hug them. I have physical scars from that game, we’ve lost a projector screen because of it and put a hole in the couch and wall.
This is a game I still play today which only requires a pencil, a paper, and some creativity. The game is called Doodle Wars, and it is a turn based game centered around 2 sides, you and your opponent. There is a line on the paper to represent the floor, and a line to represent an impenetrable wall. This wall is unbreakable, no matter what, and this fact is one of the only rules in the game.
The objective is to draw something to get to the other side of the wall and destroy everything else on the other side, by any means necessary. By any means necessary, I mean ANYTHING. You can draw whatever you want, whether it be a robot, an army, a city, or something extremely dumb, like a shoe. The game ends when one person has clearly won, or in a truce.
The only recommendation is that when playing, try to be creative, because this game is super easy to win. All you have to do is create something like a nuclear bomb that destroys everything, and you win. The best games I’ve had while playing are the games where stupid, absurd things happen. Remember the shoe I mentioned earlier? I won the game with that. This game is extremely fun, and I’ve been playing it for years.
If you want to play doodle wars with a friend, here is the template. By the end of the game, the paper should look like this. I know, it looks insane.
Our house had a back porch about ten feet high. My siblings and I would put a thin blanket or sheet on the ground below to be a "cushion", then jump from the porch to the blanket, landing whichever way. It's amazing we never broke anything.
Nancy Drew. We only seemed to do it in the winter, when the snow was also covered in a layer of ice, so your feet would crunch down into it. I remember that the trees were people, and they all had names. No idea where the Nancy Drew part came in, lol.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm saving this post, for when my son is older. These are all amazing.
My sister, cousin and I used to run a home shopping channel out of our grandmother's walk in closet, a business enterprise which would last several years. I, being the youngest at 5 years old or so when this all started manned the phone lines from a stepping stool I used as a desk, using a extra telephone which was kept in the closet. I took orders and checked if items were available with the on air talent. My sister and my cousin (4 years my senior) were the on air talent and also in charge of finding the various products we sold from inside the closet. This closet was glorious by the way. filled with shoes and evening wear from the 60s, 70s, 80s AND 90s. Grandma kept her tools and general junk in there as well as upcoming Christmas presents. Oh, the curtain rods and windshield wipers we sold out of that closet...
Me and my second oldest brother came up with a game called “Kill Nick Jr.” I remember inspiring it from an odd dream I had nine years ago where characters from the channel came out of TV screens and wanted to kill me. We ended up using sticks from outside as weapons, like shotguns and my personal favorite: swords. We don’t play it anymore since we’ve grown up, but it still left a memory as to how unethically creative I was growing up.
I would play ba(skate)ball. It was just playing basketball on roller skates. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up and this kept me entertained for hours in my backyard growing up. We had about a half court with a basketball hoop and I didn't think practicing regular basketball was hard enough for me haha
'Midnight Rotunderies' with my brother and grandpa when we were little. It was basically flashlight tag but my grandpa would wear a halloween mask and he would walk around the yard roaring trying to 'find' us.
"Extreme Skateboarding" We had a creepy, dark, spider-infested crawl space underneath our laundry chute in the basement. My two sisters and I would "gear up" by adorning our full winter snow suits and jackets. Mittens, cap, scarf, and boots. Then, one of us would sit cross-legged on a skateboard and get hooked up to the "retrieval device" aka: three jump ropes tied together and then around the skater's waist. Then we would push the skater down the length of the basement, and let 'em roll as fast as possible into the spidey hole. We would then drag them out backwards with the jump rope device.
We played this game for quite a few months, until we realized the house was super haunted and moved out. Fun times, though!
My brother and I played violenceball. We used the little red ball ripped of a paddle board thing. The objective was violence so you'd throw the ball at each other and then fight for posession of it. We envisioned a real life version that used ball bearings and had a league full of preteen toilet humor team names like "butt thunder".
Massive pile of blankets and pillows on the floor. Take a small ball (like no bigger than a tennis ball) and put it in the pile and start mixing everything up. Then everyone starts with a hand on the wall, one person yells "Fumble Rumble Rumble" and everyone converges on the pile. First person to get the ball to the wall wins. So, it turns into a massive pillow fight meets needle in a haystack.
Hide and seek in the dark. It’s exactly what it sounds like. We would turn of all the lights at night so it was pitch black and we would play hide and seek. It was extra fun because you could hide out in the open, as long as you were out of arms reach. We stopped when a friend visited for the first time (didn’t know the layout of the place) and hit her head on a corner. She had to get a bunch of stitches...
Errahs · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
used to play a game with a neighborhood friend where we would ride our bikes up and down our road and toss a football back and forth while riding. soon as we reached the stop sign, it was a "touchdown" (3 points). turn back around and continue. if we dropped the ball, it was minus a point.
later we got a few more friends to join in.. chaos heightened as in order for the defense to stop offense from scoring, we had to ram our bikes into each other... on the pavement.. we transitioned to the field behind our houses and played a little more aggressively.
My dad has this game we used to play when I was younger where you would get walnuts that are still in their shells and role them down this cushion and if you hit the other walnuts on the ground they would be yours. At the end of the game the person with the most walnuts wins and then we would crack the walnuts and eat them so everybody wins. I’m not sure if this is a game they played in Iran or my dad just created but it was fun
I used to play a game with the neighborhood friends were we'd hide a close pin. One person would hide it, then everyone else would find it. We played at the same kids house because he had a pretty good size yard. You'd get points for finding it, or a point if everyone gave up. The rules were fairly lose, didn't really have a time limit or point limit. Just til we got bored. It just had to be visible and reachable from standing on the ground (because one kid was an asshole and kept hiding it up a big ass tree). You'd get 3 clues and/or a hot and cold meter. Most places involved putting it on a hedge, under the trampoline, in a short tree and on the fence.
"Mr Elliot's Arm Pits" middle school science teacher Mr. Elliot was notorious for his pit stains resulting in a ton of inside jokes between my best friend Ange and I. In the summer we put one of those oscillating sprinklers on or near her trampoline then would jump while dramatically trying to dodge getting sprayed by "Mr Elliot's Arm Pits" .
No, the gross name wasn't necessary to have fun jumping on a trampoline in a sprinkler. BUT it definitely helped make a game out of an already enjoyable activity by defining a clear objective.
In 1st and 2nd grade one of our favorite games was Treasure Hunt. We would choose items to bury around our school grounds (they were pretty big). Then our favorite part was to make treasure maps. It was usually 3 of us that would take care of that. We would draw different areas (sort of what Minecraft does). We would even make them look old by crumpling them up with sand and tear little bits in the edges.
We would have copies of them in a small binder to keep track of what and where something was buried. (Some were more difficult than others)
Then we would bury them in different areas and our friends would have to find the treasure maps before finding the treasure. One teacher liked what we did and donated small "chests" to bury the treasure.
I don't think our teacher thought showing us the Goonies would have that big of an impact, lol.
Me and brother invented the game “the riding of the bull”, which involved one person standing up with their legs spread far apart on a bed and the other quickly crawling underneath their legs on the mattress. The goal of the one standing was to drop down and land on top of the “bull”, and the goal of the “bull” was to make it to the other side safely. We played this for years.
The shoe kicking contest. My brothers and friends would swing on our swing set as kids and kick off our shoes and see who could kick it the furthest. I had these rubber rain boots that would always go super far. Thanks for reminding me of this.
Me and my sister played a game called "building falls down", where we used a big mattress that we slept on as children, we put the mattress vertical against the wall so it'd fall onto us. We would run and try to escape and not get hit by the falling mattress while also trying to push the other siblings under to get hit. The loser got hit
It was a fun game, 10/10 would play again if a big enough mattress could be found
Bathtub-blade. Based on beyblade but we actually used some materials from Beyblade toys itself and metal-made fragments that we adjusted to our game.
Of course battleground was the bathtub that someone threw away because he was pissed at Soccer team for losing Champion's League.
In the end,all our Bathtub-bladers were damaged beyond recognition(and further use)
On holidays with my family, my brother and I shared a tent to sleep. I think we where both between 7-10 years old.
We had some stuff in the tent laying around like a torch, walkman etc.
So we made the candy grabber machine game. One arm was the grabber itself, other arm was the remote control of the grabber, fingers where buttons. We alternate each other each time. One of us was the candy grabber and other one can pick up stuff with the grabber machine haha.
my brother and I made a game we called extreme ping pong.
Its basically just ping pong, but when you get scored on you take your shirt off, turn around, and the other person gets to serve a pong ball at your back as hard as they can.
I had a trampoline growing up, and three younger brothers. Us and the neighborhood kids played a game called Kill the Man with the Ball. Basically exactly what it sounds like. We had a football, we'd do a tip off like at the start of a basketball game. If you caught that ball, you'd have 5-7 other kids literally trying to tear you limb from limb to get it from you. It was fun until my buddy's buck teeth went through my brothers cheek and my mom had to miss work to take him to get stitches.
My two friends and i would go in my friends basement and one of us would sit in a spinny desk chair and the other would spin them around. After a few spins the person would then get up from the chair and try and run to the door while the third person hits them with a bean bag and knock them to the ground. We LOVED this game and would play it for hours.
My old neighbors and I played Trampoline Ninja, where one of us would be on the ground hurling bouncy balls at the rest of us who’d have to jump to dodge them, if you got hit you had to throw next. It was a blast.
We played “Election Day” basically infection but when someone became a “trump” (the votes were in and he had one as they would win most of the time) you had to yell “GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT” if you were nearby
When I was in grade school my Dad, brother, and I would play a game that we had developed over the months of breaking in the new huge basement we had in our new home.
We would go into said basement and throw a ball around and the rules were simple:
If you touch the ball you have to catch it
*If you are thrown a bad pass i.e. hits the ground or ceiling or way off target the thrower is in the wrong
You have three lives and if you drop(or throw it bad) you lose a life
Anything goes, meaning, any variation(behind back, not looking at who you’re passing to, fast slow.)
Any disagreements over who is responsible is decided by 3rd person
My sister and I shared a room and before we went to sleep we’d play this game called “faffy” named after the dragon from Dave the Barbarian..and all we would do is put the word “faffy” in front of an object. Like “faffy donuts” and we’d go back and forth til we fell asleep. We were like 4 and 6.
We called it "hot box". There were two bases about 15-20 yards apart. One person with whatever kind of ball we could find, would stand between both bases but back a few feet and toss the ball into the air. Ball person's goal was to trick people into running so they could hit one of them and make them it. Then the person hit became the ball thrower.
I don't know how unique it was, but I had never seen anyone else play it.
My dad would play "Monster" with my brother and I. He'd pretend to be this gangly monster and it was up to me and my brother to fight him and take him down. Really just ended with him tickling us and flinging us on the couch lmao.
Now I'm sad that there was a last "Monster" game and we never realized it! Probably when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade.
When my kids were little, we would play “Wonder Pets” in the pool. It consisted of me pushing them around on a floaty mat while singing the theme song to the cartoon Wonder Pets. Those were sweet times. My oldest is going to college in the fall. I’m really going to miss that kid.
I'm not sure about unique, but my cousins and I played this dumbass game where you had to go tgrough the alphabet and name something that started with that letter. (So, like, Cities would be A "Atlanta" B "Boise" and so on)
If you couldn't think of anything, or it took you more than 10 seconds to answer. you had to punch yourself in the dick
Not really a kid but in high school my friends and I loved to play “Red Herring”. To play we’d pick a room in whatever friends house we were at. That would be the scene of the crime. We each draw a slip of paper with our role. There’s four roles you could be: detective, murderer, red herring, and victim. There would be one detective, one murderer, one red herring, and the rest were victims. Once everyone knew their roles we would turn off the lights. The detective wood wait by the light switch. Everyone bumbled around trying to shake someone’s hand. The murderer would “kill” the person by scratching the palm of their hand. The person who had their palm scratched would then have to dramatically scream and die. As soon as the detective heard the scream they had to flip on the light switch. To not get caught the murderer would usually try to step away from the victim as quickly as possible so as not to raise suspicion. If the detective has a feeling they knew who did it they would guess. If they were right the murderer is “arrested” and the game starts over. The red herrings job was to “die” without having actually been killed by the murderer to throw off any noted pattern (like who was seemed to always be by the victim when they lights came on). If the murderer lasted till the end and was the last one standing they defeated the detective. We’d change up some of the finer details but overall that’s how we played it. I loved that game so much.
Finally, a place to share this. In middle school, my friends and I played something we called "The Dart Game." The premise is that you call someone's name and when they look over you make a gesture of blowing a blow-dart at them. If you got darted, then you would have to fall and go completely limp (no matter the situation) until someone "pulled the dart out." People would fall down stairs, off ladders, pretty much anywhere as long as we stayed dedicated to the Game. Obviously this doesn't apply to life-threatening situations but it was still great all the same.
Wouldn't really call it a game but me and my cousins would take a hammer and smash the brakes off of those small battery operated jeeps that toddlers can drive around and we would race them down hills and do drifts and hit ramps and try not to die.
My sister and I used to play with out Pokemon cards by sliding them across the table at each other. The card that ended up on top of the other would win. This resulted in plenty of bent cards. She eventually lost interest in Pokemon cards when I figured out the actual way to play with them lol
Me and a friend of mine would play various games to do with blankets, one where you have to be wrapped up tightly and try escape, another one was where we were each wrapped in a blanket and it was basically a race to see who could get to the other side of the room without leaving the blanket
‘Brawl ball.’ Played on a basketball court. Only rule is to get the ball in the basket. Our VP ended up banning the game, even though there were no serious injuries.
We played what could translate to "heist". One would set up a room, with a "safe" to break into without tripping any alarms. We would make motion sensor "laser emitters" out of lego pieces, "circuits" around closet lids, etc.
Then the thief would go in with the "tools" like cables (piece of string), "night vision goggles", try to spot the sensors and avoid them. You would "inspect" suspicious things and the other person would say if the inspection revealed anything. If there were pressure sensors on the floor, you'd have to deal with "floor is lava" factor, which was fun. If there were lasers, you'd have to do spider around them while the other one was watching if you touch any rays.
When you open the safe, you'd have to switch the "diamond" with its fake. Then the challenge would be leave everything as you found it to not raise suspicion.
So it was basically an RPG game we invented before we even knew what RPG was. It was pretty fun.
We were secret agent foxes, my friend had a big forest with a creek behind his house, and we would pretend we were spies on the run from the government for being..sentient foxes, among other things. Also we had British accents. (We lived in midwest USA)
Essentially we’d make an obstacle course in our basement, and have one person be “it.” That person would hold a rope that was made from a blanket and try to tag the people with it by swinging it around. We’d turn the lights completely off so it’s pitch black, and the other players would have to get from one side of the room to the other, without getting tagged.
When I was really young I loved the magic tree house series, the adventures, the puzzles etc. I wanted to go on crazy adventures like them. But, as you’d expect, from an 8 year old, I didn’t have the chance to find a magic treehouse. Instead I would go hide beer from our fridge around the neighborhood, draw a detailed map of all the “areas” we’d have to cross, like crocodile swamp and the Phoenix volcano. I would then go grab my mom and/or dad and say I know where some treasure is but we have to go on an adventure. I would then lead them on the “journey”, pointing out each location, letting them read the map, and being a tour guide of this imaginary world I created. When we would get to the hiding place, they would look around, grab the beer, and drink it on the walk back.
I played with bottle caps. I had hundreds of bottle caps and I created "soccer teams", with sprite vs. fanta (and coke were the keepers. If you push down on a button with the bottle caps you can make the button move, so that was the equivalent of the kicking. I had goal posts made out of empty yogurt bottles.
I would create a world cup bracket between different soda teams and would play against myself.
When I moved countries my mom made me throw all my bottle caps away (I'm pretty sure I was close to 1000), and 13 years later I still don't forgive her.
"Don't you dare let go" a game my sister and I created when I was like 5 and she was 3. Basically, one of us would grab onto a solid object (closed door, railing, large furniture) with one hand, then grab the other person by their hand and lean. Felt like you were defying gravity as you just hung towards the ground, at the same time telling the person holding both of you up "don't you dare let go" and preparing to fall at the same time.
Then eventually they would let go and tumble into a heap on the floor. Pretty sure it ended after playing hanging over the staircase and I being larger landed on her wrong.
My younger sister and I had a game we'd play in the car called "That's Where You Live" which, as the title suggests, involved simply pointing at things and saying "hey, you see that bin over there? That's where you live". We found it hilarious, and the worse the place would be to live, the funnier it was.
I'm now twenty two and honestly, we sometimes still play it.
I played a DOS game called 'Gorillas.exe' that was on my old comp. It had a destructible skyline or random height skyscrapers, and to King Kong style gorillas on opposite sides. The 'game play' was turn based where you set the angle and force to throw your explosive banana, with the goal being to be the first gorilla to explode your opponent. The strategy was going over or through, but in the end the 'meta' became the high lob with insane force numbers. It's amazing how such a simple game was so entertaining.
My dad was a huge fan of UHF, so when I was little and my dad did "upsy-daisy" with me, he would always say "Are you psyched? Are you ready to fly? Fly foofie, fly!"
We would turn the lights on and off upstairs from the bottom of the stairwell at grandmas house and make thunder noises and pretend we were in a storm. And that’s imagination kids
In one, there would be an assigned person to play "the cow". The cow would then go to sleep, and everyone else would have to drag the cow around the room on a blanket, trying not to wake it. When the cow "woke up", it would be an angry cow, and would try to tag us as we all ran away from it. The person who got tagged would be the next cow.
I did this with my best friend in kindergarten and 1st grade (so like 5-7 years old) and every recess we would go under the bushes and get the same big rock that was there. We pretended it was an egg, and would spend the entire recess gathering grass and flowers to surround the rock to make a nest for it. Day after day, over and over again. Nothing ever changed in the game.
My mom told me she used to play "Hot Dogs" with her brother and sisters. They all used to lay on the floor next to each other, like a pack of hot dogs emptied into the pan...then start 'cooking' by rolling around and squealing like a hot dog would. Thats it.
My dad, brother , sister and I invented a game we called "Steamroller". One person would lay on the floor with room behind their head on one side and room behind their feet on the other. The remaining people would be one on side of the steamroller and have to run across without getting touched by the rolling steamroller. If you got tagged, you became the steamroller.
I would take baseball cards and make individual piles by team one player at a time. As the teams would get a card they would race ahead of the other team one space. Had a gigantic “track” that I would make on the basement floor. Did it for hours. Don’t remember how one team would “win”
No name to the game but simple rules, hands behind your back and then try to bite the shit out of each other. With a quick twist shoulders became a dangerous weapon to the face (mouth and lips took a beating in particular)...Ahh the good ol' days
We'd "fish." Essentially got a string/rope, tied it to a clothes hanger, threw a bunch of random shit on the ground, climbed to the top of the bunk bed, and started trying to reel it in.
Boobeleboo: the art of standing at the end of the driveway (at night) watching for oncoming cars, holding out until the last second possible to sprint and hide from said oncoming car behind all the junk in the garage.
Dinosaurs! We had this fucking huge pile of sand in my backyard when I was little and my friends and I would bury “eggs” (baseballs or whatever ball shaped items we could find) and we would roam around and try to steal each other’s eggs. It was really very fun!
Edit: Just remembered camp zenith! One year I went and the entire camp played blow darts. It was like 500 kids walking around with our hands to our throats and the dedication when hit was unreal. People fell into gravel, got carpet burns, and spilled their food doing this. Counselors played too, straggling along behind their groups to un-paralyze people.
Golckey. It was a mixture of golf and hockey. It was standard rules of hockey, but with golf clubs and golf balls used on a large field. Tackling was a must so you always had to watch out. We played until I took a 9 iron to the face, which put a gash next to my right eye and chipped off some bone. It was all around a good time
Karate Ballet. You do ballet twirls and try to kick your sister in the process. A great way to get out anger and then blame it on just trying to win the game.
My dad had a computer game where you you played as a deer and you hunted rednecks and had calls like "free red nugget tickets"
It was called deer avenger
As an avid explorer of the outdoors, I managed to collect a bunch of pillbugs (which I kept in a plastic container filled with moss and other critter comforts for the little guys) and encouraged a friend to do the same. During weekend play dates, we would hold pillbug races, and pit similarly sized pillbugs against each other and watch them run from one end of the carpet to the other. It was exhilarating for six year old me, especially since I always ended up winning.
Boingidiongidiongkingkong -- I was the oldest of 5..the game was we took all the sofa cushions off, pillows, comforters...i, as the biggest, would lie down on the bare sofa and the kids would stack all the pillows and cushions on top..
They would say "boingidiongidiongkingkong! " and I would explode up and they would fly up, surfing as the cushions and pillows exploded out.
My sister and I would pretend to be homeless children traversing the country on our own (when i was 7ish and she was 5ish). We would take cans of soup from our cupboard and wrap a blanket around them and carry them around in the blanket like a sack. We would travel from room to room in our house to “camp out” and pretend to sleep for the night, eat our soup, and then move to the next room.
I have no idea for sure where we got this from, but I’m guessing I was inspired by the homeless train-hopping characters from the Kit (American Girl Doll) books (set in the 1930s).
Idk why our parents weren’t more concerned that we thought homelessness was fun?? I still have fond memories though!
We'd play hide and seek but with a twist, all the hiders would pile into a room and push the door shut and the seekers would try to barge open the door.
This went on until one day a fairly large seeker managed to slam the door off its hinges and crushed a bunch of us, after which we never played that style of hide and seek again(after some a harsh telling off and a trip to the hospital).
Me and my siblings used to play “intruder”. My brother, being the oldest, would be the intruder while me and my two sisters would be the one players. We would hide in a location around the house, usually a small room or closet, and wait until our brother found us. When he found us we would try to keep him out of the room for as long as possible(imagine three small kids trying to hold a door shut against a teen). The game got pretty wild sometimes and occasionally ended with an injury or broken door.
we had these big blue cushions, that we proudly called "Buttshitstones" and put them on our big staircase. then we sit on the remaining buttshitstones and slid down the stairs. and sometimes we put the stones on the lower end of the smaller staircase and jumped on them from upstairs.
and there also was that house somewhere in the village that had lion statues on their fence, and we were convinced that that was where the president of the village lived. i can't really remember this myself and my parents told me about it, so i don't know where that house is and who lives there.
Me and my brother lived in the same room when we were kids and we would each build our own fortress around our beds. When we're done, we would both wear construction helmets and start throwing each other with wooden bricks. Good times!
slender, it consisted about the videogame but slender could move and it was always one of us(usually me because i am tall af) well every time someone got killed that person became a proxy, it was 20 minutes where you must hide or you got eyefcked , you survived if the bell ringed and you got to the class, campers werent allowed lol
Me and my brother would play the Log game. One person would lie on the bed and roll around like a log, and the other person had to jump over. The log's goal was to make the other person fall. And that's how I got my first black eye
It was pretty common for my family and a bunch of other neighbors would go on a trip somewhere as a kid and one of the best things all the kids would play at the hotel was creatively named the Hotel Game where we'd split up into two teams to basically play a giant game of tag across the hotel. One team was "it" while the others tried to catch them and the only rules were no going in rooms, it was made even better one year when my family prepared for it and brought along some walkie talkies so we could split up and still talk to each other. We chased each other for hours until the hotel staff would make us stop from to many noise complaints. It worked best at hotels that were outdoors where you could see the across to try and see the other team, otherwise it's just a guessing game on where they're at.
We had an uncle who would play "kick the ball for a dollar"
But way it's played is that he would kick the ball and whomever brought it back got the dollar.
As you can imagine it turned bloody really fast.
Then me wanting to be the cool uncle tried to do it with my 3 nephews.. after the 2nd time of beating each other up they decided sharing the pot would be easier than killing each other.... dont say they're not smarter, bc man we never figured that out
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique it is but I made my barbies have sex with each other.
Hide a belt, one players who is on would hide the belt and specify a safe zone such as a small area by the swing or a tree and then all other player would have to keep their eyes shut til the player hid the leather belt. Then he would start to count down from 10 and then every would scramble to look for the belt. Frist finder would whip frigging everyone until each player is in the safe zone....
Please don't judge me it was a cruel game and I got it with the metal side once and cried for a bit..
Me and my sister played conjoined twins. We'd hide half our bodies under a blanket and pretend we were conjoined, just flailing around under a blanket.
I called it Attack of the Killer Chickens. You put your elbows in your sleeve holes with your hands in your shirt to make wings. One or two people were It. If you got tagged you turned into a vampire chicken too. Anyone not a chicken by the end of recess won.
This is going to get buried, but we played something called "The Everything Game". Basically, you could do whatever you want, play whatever you want, but no props were allowed. You had to use your imagination for everything.
My mom did daycare at our house and it was essentially a "clever" way of making sure the other kids didn't make a giant mess because they never had to clean anything up, we always did once they went home. It wasn't a perfect system, but hey it would work for an hour or two!
Bonvoyodge : (keeping the rules private because it's special) but basically..one ball... catch + dodgeball. Only with the entire family. Head shot is a default, crotch shot is an automatic (shameful) out.
I used to play "Extreme Tennis" by myself, I would kick a beach ball up my stair case then wait for it to roll back down so I could kick/punch it back up. I watched a lot of Naruto and wanted to work on my ninja moves.
My sisters and I played "Dead Body". One person lies on the trampoline, you sing a song about a dead body "Dead body! Dead body! ghoulie ghoulie ghoulie rum sum sum!" Then the person lying down tires to grab your ankles while you try to jump away. If you get grabbed you are the dead body. I am sure there were other versions of this, or we were just messed up kids.
A game where me and my older brother (by 4 years) would legit just fight each other. There wasn't any special rules or twists or anything, it was just full on fighting. We've matured now but those days when we were like 7 and 11 years old were the best lmao.
smm523 · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lipton, we would use the lid of a Lipton can and throw it like a frisbee at each other in the family room. Like tag in when you got hit with the Lipton kid you were “it” and it was your turn to throw
We use to play boggie school. Had a boggie church and everything. My sister use to make us eat our boggie as well. We were 7 at the time.
4jess4 · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called Ultimate Chaos. It began with me and my brother at one end of the corridor with all of my dads juggling equipment. My dad would then start crawling on his hands and knees towards us from the other end of the corridor and we would try and keep him at bay by chucking the juggling equipment at him.
We would turn all of the lights off in the basement and one person who was ‘it’ would wait upstairs. Then that person would come down and try to find everyone, but everyone hiding is trying to scare you and jump out at you. The person who scared you the most would be ‘it’ next.
My friends and I used to play "banana". We would hangout in the street in front of my house which is right at a small neighborhood "T" intersection where cars could travel in 3 different directions. When we would see a car coming our direction we'd yell "headlights!" and run and hide wherever we could so the car wouldn't see us when they drove by. If the car turned down another street before it drove by us, we'd say "banana" and come out of hiding and wait for another one. If you didn't make it to a hiding place before the car drove by or got obviously close enough to have seen you, you lost that round. We didn't really keep score, we just played until we were tied of playing or until someone obviously lost so much that the game was just over lol.
P.S. - Before all the "omg that was so dangerous"; yes, it probably was, but this was also 20 years ago and in a small residential area where cars would slowly turn onto the street so we had ample time to see them coming from a couple hundred yards away in any direction.
One of my two brothers and I would stand face to face, stretch our arms out to where our hands were at the others elbow. The object of the game was to not move your feet, with only slapping the others hands. A hard push might knock him, but if he avoided the contact, you were moving your feet forward. Lots of fakes, trying to get them to lose there balance. Good times.
My cousin and I loved to play video games together. When we were at my grandma's house, we were never allowed to play games and were always told to go outside. So we'd find a cool group of tree roots that looked like a bench with bushes all around, and we'd pretend to play video games with each other. we'd talk through what we were doing. I remember it being almost as fun as the real thing =)
I played „Curse of the Aztecs“. It was a story driven adventure with a lot of cool puzzles, cocoa-beans as payment and a big conspiracy about poisoned water and regicide. I learned a lot about the culture aswell! Great memories!
I always played "The Tripping Game" with my sister where she would sit on the couch and I would run back and forth and she would trip me. I would try to stay upright but slammed into the entertainment center every time.
My best friend and I used to play "Don't Wake the Parents" where we would put our pillows and blanket in the hallway right outside her (pretty aggressive tbh) parent's door and then try to stifle our laughter enough to not get into serious trouble.
Lawn darts catch, shoot the arrow as high as possible and try to get it to land right beside you.
naman_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fatty crougar, it was just tag but the fattest person was it at first and they would get a stick to help them tag other. Really messed up game but still fun.
My best friend and I lived a town apart but would always talk on the phone as kids. We would play hide and seek on the phone. Basically we’d hide somewhere and try to guess where we were lol.
We’d take all our action figures and put them on the trampoline and bounce as hard as we could until there was only one toy left who was declared the champion. Not only was it fun to see the champion but you had to dodge the toys with hard plastic tips, like all our dragon ball z toys? Yeah try landing on super Saiyan 3 Goku he was notorious for that. Then we’d take them all and throw them at an overhead power line that ran from the telephone pole to our house and try to get them stuck. The first toy to get hooked on the power line was the champion of that game. (I lost many legends to the roof of our house trying to hit that power line. RIP WWE Diesel and Yokozuna.)
“Together or Apart”: At lunch or dinner, we’d turn around and hide something like an apple slice or piece of cheese and maybe break apart. Then we hold it tightly on both ends and turn back and ask “together or apart” and the other kids had to guess if there was a fine crack running through it (therefore apart) or if it was still a whole (therefore together). So exciting. :)
1) Flick football. Me and my dad would kneel down either side of a room, a radiator was one goal and the sofa the other, and we would use a little spongey ball and hit it with our hands and try to score in the other person's goal. The term "flick" came from a special move where you flicked the ball up with your hand and then hit it whilst it was in the air. You couldn't throw the ball, only hit it with the hand like volleyball. Great fun
2) Not sure if this is unique or not but at school we played a game called Run Outs. You split into two teams of any size and each team had a "home" - we used two litter bins either end of the playground. You had to get to the other teams home and touch it, and the other team could stop you by any means possible. So like rugby or American football without a ball. Needless to say it got banned at school fairly quickly
I created my own character for myself within the universe of Avatar: the Last Airbender. Thing is, I played alone, so it consisted of me talking to imaginary characters and ‘bending’ what was around me- namely, sticks, rocks, mud, kicking the air, the works.
Still love the show deeply
sposth · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this fun game where 5 of us boys would jerk of to see who finished first and last.
First one won. Last one lost.
Looking back this was very stupid of me since I can only last a minute now. But I was a winner back then.
onurh · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, we would pretend-play Legend of Zelda. The catch is only like two kids ever knew what LoZ was (not including me), and also no one knew the characters other than Link and Zelda. So one boy would be Link, one girl would be Zelda, and the rest would be Zelda’s cousin, Zelda’s sister, Link’s brother, Link’s cousin, etc.; or the bad guys. It was just essentially a very elaborate “save the good guys from the bad guys” with LoZ related names lol
My dad brought some industrial ball bearings home from work. Big steel things about an inch across. My sister and I played “danger marbles” with furious speed on my mum’s nice parquet floor. It ended pretty much as you’d expect, but we kept at it for years.
I painted that room recently and found so many marble divots in the skirting!
My kid used to play "throw dirt in hair" with the pos neighbor across the street. No suprise this older, bigger crotch goblin was the creator and reigning neighborhood champion of said game, the only objective being throwing dirt on the heads of smaller kids. I'm not letting my kid off the hook here either as "throw dirt in hair" evolved to "throw rock at head". My kid came home bleeding and after his explanation of his wound, I was concerned that he might not process the necessary critical thinking skill required for survival.
If any of my siblings are on reddit, they'll know this immediately.
We called it bonsai. It started with the person being "it" just shooting everyone as they ran down the house (open floorplan), and whoever "died" the best was picked to be "it". It later morphed into "it" walking into a bar scene (one of our bedrooms), and just blasting everyone away.
At my grandmas house she had a motion sensor for a light in the room me & my cousins stayed in so we tried to sneak out of the room without the light turning on. We’d do everything from army crawling to climbing on top of the wardrobe to get out.
“Throw the ball over the wire” it’s as enthralling as it sounds. Growing up poor just means that imagination and the woods or a ball and a telephone wire is all it took to keep us busy and happy.
There were these large round tube-like things chained to the chain link fence at the edge of the field for my school; I think they must have been storage containers or something. They were large enough to sit on, so whenever it was too muddy to play in the grass, my friends and I would sit on the containers and we’d take turns telling jokes in front of the group while they rocked back and forth on the container. If someone laughed or slid off the container, they lost that round and it would be their turn to go up and tell jokes.
No, I am not practicing improv or stand up as an adult.
My yard was a dense forest with trails and various landmarks (benches, a shed, etc.). There were also flags on long branches as some kind of art installation put there by the house's previous owner. The neighborhood kids and I would split up the yard into various "countries," each with a home base and flag. We'd send diplomatic messages to each other and try to steal each other's flags. Our weapons were the sticky weeds that grew in summer. We'd prick it and throw it at each other.
I play a couple with my younger brother, here are some
Shopkeep
Essentially you use the chairs and other misc furniture like boxes and toyboxes and take all of our old toys and sell them to rest of the family
We also play whatever game we were just playing but in real life and in an alternate reality where we were soldiers/guards/etc
Leg cricket
Like baseball with four bases no bat just a football you could be caught out run out or if you kicked it in someones garden you was out.
Nothing at all like cricket.
The Shoe Game. At either playgrounds or backyard playsets, we'd hop on the swings and just see who could fling their shoes the furthest. You'd have two attempts (two feet = two shoes, ofc). If you break a window, you lose.
The hard part was if you were on a playground and flung your shoe really far, walking barefoot across wood chips wasnt that great but you won that round of Shoe Game soooo.
Net Man. Take a large comforter or blanket, drape it over one person. Everyone has to be on their hands and knees and confined to a specific space. Better if the room has obstacles like beds, chairs, etc. The "Net Man" then tries to capture someone by enveloping them. Probably should have called it Blob but my brothers and I did not know about that concept at the time, circa 1976.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play 'the power game' where I was earth (the coolest because I could speak to animals) my oldest cousin charis was water and then abi was air and them two could could merge and make a combined power of ice
Then me and my cousin Harry (his 'power' was fire) could combine...sort of lol and there were fire demons,water demons, air demons (they were invisble) and earth demons that were the strongest and all the demons were after me because I was really strong
We also had a game called I think it was either the troll or crocodile game where we would basically hide a 'key' (which was hiden by the troll or crocodile and you needed it to rescue the person taken hostahe before they were cooked and eaten) and one person would be taken hostage by the crocodile or troll or something and the troll or crocodile would be asleep under the sl8de which we would have to climb over (going UP the slide DOWN the stairs) without making a sound because if you did the troll or crocodile would awaken and chase everyone
The pushing game. You put your feet against the others, count down, and try to push the others feet to their chest. Many a face was accidentally kicked.
I know others have played too, but my little brother and I enjoyed the hell out of sting pong. I was a bit too good at ping pong so we upped the ante. You play shirtless and the other persons body is fair play. And the ball leaves Mark's if you hit them hard enough:)
Me and my brother had a very simple game we used to play (admittedly this was also mildly dangerous, but that's the best kind). So, we both had to walk in to school together, and to pass the time, we invented Stick Wars.
Each person would pick up a stick that they found while walking, then you'd attack the other person's stick with your own until one broke. The person that had their stick break then had to find a new one, and this repeated. An absolute blast to play, though we did occasionally whack each other's fingers.
"Johnny crack corn"
the it person would be blind folded. The object was to hide from the it person in the room. If the it person grabbed you for 3 seconds you were now it.
Oddly during the course of playing this we managed to play in our underwear because we found out clothes make too much noise and give away your position.
And the fun was trying to be quiet, as we know, this and being a kid do not mix...
Also as a caveat, you could hit or throw things at the it person to distract them from where you really were.
My brother and our friends used to play a different version of infected at our local pool. Instead of just tagging to infect people, you'd actually have to bite them (Obviously not hard). The was no way for the survivors to win, only to be the last one infected. Looking back at it now that was pretty weird, but still fun, and I'd definitely play it again.
In North Carolina there was a game we played called drunk driving where we would drink an entire bottle of water and ride go karts from a steep driveway down into another step driveway at top speed and ram the karts into our neighbors’ garage
My oldest sister would grab us by our forearms and spin around before releasing us so we would tumble around. If you chose sugar she would do a slow spin and release, salt would be middle speed and pepper would be full throttle.
Once your tumble came to a standstill you had to keep your position untill everyone had been thrown.
My parents bedroom was on the first floor and my two siblings rooms were upstairs. Don't know if it's a game but we'd all jump on the floor until mom and dad woke up if they weren't up.
“Wall ball”. Middle school-era, 10-14 years old or so. At recess or afternoon waiting on buses, about 20-30 kids outside stood facing the brick two story wall of the gym. One kid would zing a tennis ball or pink rubber ball at the wall as hard as he could. If the ball hit you after the bounce, you had to run to the wall and tag it before whoever managed to catch the ball could hit you in h back with it. If you caught it clean, you got to throw it at the wall to start the pain all over again. Played it daily for the three years I was there, teachers thought kids writhing in pain with welts was funny, I guess.
The other kids and I that lived on a pothole ridden dirt road in the swamps of Florida would play tag, but instead of tagging by touching with your hands, you’d tag someone by spitting on them.
Personally though, my favorite game was “Throw pine cones at each other until you bleed and pretend they’re grenades”
We played a game called "Wolf". We would walk really slowly out to the edge of the woods and stand there, then someone would yell wolf and we would all run screaming back to the house, only to slowly walk back out and do it again.
What we would do was grab one of those big yoga balls or space hopper and wrestle for its posesion, all while screaming "But it mINE", "no, IT MINE", "BUT IT MINE", and so on and so forth- progressively getting louder until we got tired or an adult told us to shut up
Reverse Hide and Seek , not sure if this was a real game but it was basically hide and seek at night within our neighborhood (1 block radius). The objective is to have one person hide (can move around whenever they want), they have a 2 minute head start and the rest of the group will be the seekers who start searching after 2 minutes with light sources (flashlight/phone/etc). Once you find the hider, you hide with them and follow them around until the last seeker finds the group of hiders. They're the loser who has to search without any light sources next round. First person to find the hider becomes the hider for the next round.
My little brother and I had a game called “Ghost Down”. One of us used to cover ourselves with a thin blanket (usually me) and the other person trying to bring them down :D
It was fun until I threw my brother into what I thought was a couch. It was a table :(
this just brought back a memory i haven't thought about in at least 15 years. my brother and i used to have this game called "dead octopus." we could be doing anything; eating dinner, brushing our teeth, running around outside, but if one of us yelled "PLAY DEAD OCTOPUS" we both had to drop to the floor in the weirdest pose we could manage.
We used to play tremors. We would grab nerf guns and other weapons and run around killing graboids, until they evolved.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and brother played Kabonkers, they filled up one of our dads atherosclerosis socks with other socks and beat the crap out of each other. This was inspired by In Living Color’s Homey the Clown
Border Patrol. My neighborhood was all Mexican except my neighbor and I. We used to have "border guards" stand in the middle of the street (mostly me). If you were "an illegal" you had to run past them across a line and not get tagged. As a kid, you think you're just playing a different version of tag.
As a child me and my two older sisters played "The taste game"
The rules are simple enough, be blindfolded and guess what you have just been fed.
I would give them mushed banana, strawberries, maybe a bit of orange peel. I got given bath salts, those little plasticy bath balls with the soap inside, vinegar, spoon full of flour.
Of course if I didn't play they'd just beat me up, 4 and 2 years older I was only little too.
.... the biting game....
cousin was a biter when she was like 3.
it was tag but instead if she tagged you... she was allowed to bite you... couches were our safe place. (which they had 4 cause they had 3 sitting rooms)
I don’t know what we called it or if it is even considered a game, but my sisters and I played this game where they’d lie on their stomachs on the trampoline and I’d either have to (literally forced to by them, youngest child syndrome) jump on their backs or roll on top of them.
Writing this has made me realise that was fucked. I was literally forced to jump on my sister’s backs.
Fin2K · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a very agricultural-based town in CA with lots of immigrant families from Mexico. During recess, we'd play "La Migra." It was essentially tag, except that the person that was "it" was an ICE agent (colloquially known as La Migra) and their goal was to capture all the players and put them in a pre-designated holding area.
I was in grad school when it dawned on me that shit was fucked up, and this was not a staple to people's childhoods elsewhere.
When my sister and I were really little we made up our own game called Bad Meat. Basically one of us would curl up in a ball on top of a couch cushion (representing a bread slice), and before the other sibling could put the other 'bread' on top, I would roll away while my sister shouts "BAD MEAT!". ah, simpler times....
Every time I would go past a house and there was a line in parallel with me I would put my teeth together. For example, a side of the house or fence or something lol. It's really weird
Me and the other neighborhood kids used to ride our bikes following each other around the neighborhood, acting like we were a commuter train. We would make a stopping noise at every spot in the neighborhood and let people get on our off. We went in circles for hours, probably freaked out a few neighbors.
My next door neighbor is a year older than me, sometimes we weren't allowed to play in the same yard. We made a game called "kick it over the fence" it's what it sounds like we would kick a basketball over the fence to each other. The trees were pretty old so we would try to get it to hit the branches. We played that for a few years. Thanks for reminding me <3
Trampoline Ball. One kid on the trampoline must dodge the ball thrown by the two people on the ground. Basically, dodgeball on a trampoline. It was amazing and I'd give anything to play it again and not kill myself in the process.
I would have a collection of pens, bottles, etc that were interesting shapes and would create epic sagas by using one as an arm, then reversed it was a blast of energy....I guess this sounds weird out loud, but it was like a totem from which my imagination would create the rest of the character, sceme, etc.
My cousin had a fairly big house so he had two staircases going up to the second floor. So every Thanksgiving or Christmas we would play Alligator. One person would be at the bottom floor while the rest were upstairs trying to escape.
My cousins and I at family gatherings play a game called “Hunk Drick”.
Basically we pretended to be alcoholics and make fun of our drunk parents. We’d get sodas, margarita salt, and limes. Pretending to take drinks, slur our words, and fall over while walking.
We played "go jump in the garbage bin". The 'king and queen' would shout at the two jesters to 'go jump in the garbage bin'. The jesters would then dress like they jumped in the garbage bin (peg leaves to their hair and clothes etc). It they made the king and queen laugh, they won and got to swap roles, if not, they had to go jump in the garbage bin again. "Did you laugh?" "No! Go jump in the garbage bin!"
Late to the party, but my brother, Dad, and I played 'Danbi', the name derived from Bambi. My dad and brother would hunt me with nerf guns like I was a deer... It was a ton of fun
We never had a name for it but I used to live I. Townhouses (townhouses are kind of like apartments but they are full 2 story houses + basement) but all of them are connect to make a big long building. Anyways the "backyard" was just a large field and a lot of parking. But at either ends of the field were 2 trees (4 in total) they kind of made goal posts for soccer. Anyways we would have one or 2 people stand on each end (depended on the number of people playing and how many balls we had) and everyone else stood between them. It was kind of like Doge ball but only a few people could throw the balls and the rest had to Doge them
Fishing with magnets and dowel rods behind our couch
quotth · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game called 'Pictures'. One person would pick a topic (i.e. an animal, an emotion, activity, etc) and the rest would have to pose as a picture. The winner (decided by the person choosing the topic) would get to pick a new one. Quite good fun in the mid '90s
sookia · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife and her cousins used to live in a rough part of town. They would play "drive by" Whenever a car drove by they would hit the deck, last one down was dead. Game went on until only one person was left.
Ghosts in the Graveyard. So I played this with my brothers and neighbors. My front door was home base, and one person had to face the door and count to like 30. All of us would hide somewhere around the street or on the side of houses, and the boundaries were no more than one house away, so Home Base was always in the middle. The person who counted had to find and tag somebody in order to become one of the Ghosts in the Graveyard. If you ran to the door before you got tagged, you were safe.
"GROISE!" Played on the trampoline with two or more people. One person stood in the middle and swung a rope, with a flip flop tied to the end, in circles about waist high. The other participants would have to go under or over the flip flop with out being struck by it. If you got hit, you went into the middle. Also the person in the middle, "The Groiser," had to shout "GROISE," prior to commencing the spin cycle.
We'd run around the outside of the trampoline, with one person on their front in the middle of it trying to grab our ankles and drag us down. Damn, those were the days.
We used to play a game called BB Butchers. At a sleepover anyone who says a word starting with “B” gets punched in the arm until they say BB Butchers three times.
Ghost in the Graveyard. Whoever is "it"(the ghost) goes and hides while everyone else counts. Once the count down is finished the group splits up to find "the ghost" if you see the ghost you have to yell ghost in the graveyard and run to "base" before the ghost gets you. The point of the game is to stay away and untagged by the ghost, or if you are the ghost - to tag a player before they see you. We lived on a big ranch in Texas and would play in the dark. Some nights it was dark enough to just lay on the ground and wait for someone to walk by to tag them.
Hanger hockey. My buddy had a plush soccer ball that was a little bigger than a softball. We would set up in his basement and hit it at each other with plastic hangers.
My friends and I would play “hurricane” basically one kid on the two person swing holding onto the bottom part of the swing. Then we wold spin the swing up as high as we could then we would let go once they are as twisted up as possible.
This sent the person holding on into a uncontrolled spin that got faster and faster. Whoever was able to hold on the longest wins and whoever got thrown off onto the ground and started crying lost.
How we didn’t hit our heads on the wooden support beam on the swing set is beyond me. Statistically at least one of us should be dead.
When I rode on the bus to school, looking out the window, I would stare passed the vertical steel casement of the window and would find that I could see the next feature/object/street sign/whatever in one eye before the other could see it.
I would try to See objects with one eye, and then manually switch to the other just to see if I could “beat” the object in view as the bus drove. It now allows me to choose which eye I look with at will, but had the added consequence that I now see double everywhere I go.
I have no idea if that is based in science, but I see two images always when both eyes are open. One image only when one eye is closed.
This game made me have headaches and sometimes makes my brain feel like it hurts. So weird.
Back when i was in third grade the neighbor and i used to throw rocks at each other for fun. Typical little boy antics. One time though, my little brother was meddling around and ended up getting his head split in the crossfire. I was then told the only thing i could play with for a month was a potato. So for the next month i would get a fork and a potato and then throw the potato in the air and catch it on the fork. Not particularly fun but i had to make due.
My friends with a few people in the year above used to play a game called “Beat the letter”. I joined in a few times but didn’t like it all that much.
It was basically man hunt with two teams.
Each team had to create a word with the length being the amount of people on that team and designate a letter to each person.
A team won the game if they could guess the other teams word by physically beating up the people on the other team until they told you their letter.
It was a pretty messed up game for kids but it was fun the few times I joined.
I stuck to the generic man hunt tho. Way less pain but still more fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spotlight. It was basically hide and seek, but at night. Whoever was “it” got a flashlight and anyone who got the light shined on them went to “jail,” which was the space between our house and the bushes. A free player could spring people from jail by tagging them without getting caught. Once everyone was in jail, a new “it” was chosen. The whole block was in bounds, and all the kids in the entire neighborhood would play.
2nd grade, my friend and I made a game called Baby Go Poopoo. Its was basically us taking turns pretending to poop for a good minute and running away from it before it exploded after 10 seconds. We would dive on the ground and everything. Fun times
My friends and I created a game called DoucheBall. Because it was so dumb we felt like douches I guess. Anyway. We all laid on the floor forming a circle in the middle with a decent amount of space maybe 3-6 feet of space from one person to the person across from them. Next we would get an exercise ball, like a BOSU ball and one person would start with it between their feet/legs. Then basically we would start tossing it around to each other, only using feet and legs. No hands/arms were allowed and it was allowed to hit your torso and head. It was never allowed to touch the floor. It was honestly a really good workout. We would change up other rules like if you were the last to touch it when it went out (tosser or receiver) you were out of the game, we would have team matches as well.
“Bellyache”
You hold as many throw pillows as possible in front of you then run and bodyslam each other. I was at a distinct disadvantage as the youngest (read:accident) child.
Born of boredom, Intenseball is a combination of volleyball, ping-pong, and dodgeball. It should be played in a room narrow enough to utilize the walls as part of the court.
Basically, you create a neutral space in the middle of a room about two feet wide, and mark it off with painter's tape. Place a stool in the middle of the neutral space, and two chairs facing the stool. This gives players something to aim for, to mix up the trajectories of their shots.
So a player starts with the ball in hand, and can "juggle" twice (similar to volleyball) with their hands or their feet before they need to send the ball into the other player's court, which must be done with the player's foot (you can't handball it over to the other side). Shots need to clear the height of the stool in order to be considered valid (so no bullshit low shots). You score if the other player hits a ball that strikes the ceiling, or if the ball hits the other player's floor. You can use the walls or any other people / objects that are in the play area, excepting the ceiling.
Seriously, based on this vague description, try it sometime. We played the shit out of it.
The game was called IRA.
Split into 2 teams of 4 or 5.
Team A was chasing and had to try catch team B after a 2 min head start or whatever.
Team B, before running away had to come up with a word and assign a letter to each team member.
Whenever a member of Team A caught someone from Team B, they were to beat them up with no fighting back (but could still try run away) until the letter was given up.
Goal was to eventually get all the letters and guess the word and then teams swap roles.
This game was so much fun.
I have two. One is the Animorphs game on the trampoline. Essentially it merged animorpjs and pokemon on a trampoline and the idea was to get a person to fall by using a set of abilities (start out with one and its your animal) and then you get a new ability (max of 4) every time you won a round, but it had to be a skill your animal would use. The other game was just called "The Talking Game". I was essentially a DM with a made up game of light and dark magic and i had the whole story down along with armor upgrades (grass, wood, bronze, iron, silver, diamond, magic, mud). Light summoners got to summon new creatures on even levels and black could summon on odd levels (e.g. rat at lvl 1 for black and mouse at lvl 1 for white) white was weaker early game but stronger late and black was vice versa. Some people got really far and they would just come up to me at recess or before school and just say talking game. Hardest part was remembering where everyon was at and not spoiling new cities and zones
Nomtam · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foursquare. Essentially four 2'x2' squares on the concrete. Then 4 people, each with a square, would try and bounce the ball (think rubber kickball) into another's square. You got out if you caught or held the ball, or if someone bounced the ball into your square and you couldn't bounce it into another's square. There was always a line of kids waiting to get into the next available square.
my cousin and i played “the carrot club”. we’d go into our grandma’s basement “to watch tv”, but really, we smuggled carrots down there. that was part of the game, to secretly get the carrots down there. then we would place a baby carrot in our mouths and try to fling/spit the carrot out as far as possible. the one who spit it the farthest won.
I used to make dolls houses out of shoe boxes/cardboard boxes and decorate the houses with items I'd cut out of the Argos catalogue (a big retailer here in the UK). And stick them into the houses with glue. I could pick anything from the catalogues, the most expensive things and pretend it was mine. I always loved when the catlouge we had went out of date, it meant mum went to get a new one and I could have the old one.
I lived in the country in Tennessee. We played a game like paintball war, but instead of paintball guns, we had tennis racquets and instead of paintballs, the ammo was either those pointy Sweetgum tree balls, or (more often) crab apples. The rotten crabapples made more of a mess, but the fresh ones hurt more.
Bottle rockets and smoke bombs left over from Independence Day occasionally made it to the weapons stockpile in late summer.
My brother and I used to sew our fingers together, using the dry cuticle bits. Then we'd open our fingers real fast and rip out the stitches. I think it was a pretty weird game.
My friends and I came up with a game called miraculous catch. The idea was that we would throw each other a ball and you would get points for making the catch look really amazing. So basically diving for it and falling down a lot. One unfortunate side affect of playing it is that afterwards whenever I would catch a ball in baseball or football I would instinctively fall. Or maybe I just really sucked at catching balls.
We played Bushwhack. Big hunter family, and my cousins, siblings, and I would play at family reunions. Our fathers would get decked out in camo and hide on the property. We would walk around with flashlights and try to find them before they jumped out and scared us. They would periodically laugh in a scary way.
Dyke. My family is fucked up and my brother made the name up. Basically, one person would stand in a line in the middle of the yard. The rest would try to get by. If you get caught, you’re on the line and you’re a dyke. Like sharks and minnows, but morally questionable.
We used to play tag with empty hug jug containers. It was real simple. Drink the juice down, and then use the empty bottle to throw at your opponent in a game of tag. If the bottle hit you, you were it. It's different now that we are adults and play it with empty corona bottles.
There’s a scene in the Phantom Menace where Qui Gon yells at Anakin to drop because Darth Maul or one of his drones was flying over his head, and for some reason, my siblings and I thought that was hilarious. So we made up the game “Anakin Drop” on the trampoline where you jump as high as you can, and my oldest brother would always be the one to yell out Anakin.... DROP and the last persons butt to hit the tramp was the loser. It was our favorite game for a looong time.
Playing handball (also known as punchball) where you hit a ball at a tall wall, but instead with ping pong paddles and balls because a table was too expensive.
“Dodge the Ball”
One player is on a trampoline and the other player is on the ground with a dodgeball. If the player on the trampoline gets hit, the players switch places.
Shoe Kendo, I would use an old broom handle and my brother would use the handle and metal rod from an old umbrella. We would run around the yard sword fighting and flinging old shoes that no longer fit at each other to score points that we didn't keep track of. It was incredibly fun but also sometimes painful, nothing like getting hit in the face with an old shoe to put a damper on the game temporarily.
We also had another one that didn't have a name but involved running at each other with a big yellow ball and trying to bowl each other over with the ball. Kids make up some weird games.
My twin brother and I would play this game called couch off.
One would lay on the couch, and the other person would get a running start and try to push the other off. If you managed to push them off, you won. If you couldn’t, they’d win.
I'm a little late to the party, but my sister and I would play "escape room" which involved taking turns to design an elaborate escape puzzle for the other who would be have one hand handcuffed to a heavy item of furniture and they had to find the key to the cuffs and get out. It might be as simple as leaving the keys in plain sight but out of reach, then the escapee would have to find an object near them long enough to fetch the key.
Now I think about I think we were essentially budding jigsaw killers.
Me and my brother used to play a game called “Sock Wars”. Basically we would be either side of my parents bed kneeled down and we would throw pairs of socks across the bed at each other. No rules just carnage 😂 this was often on laundry day when they were on the bed ready to put away.
“Feet Fight” was a barbaric game my older sister and I played for YEARS. Almost every time we played, one of us would end up in tears. We would sit on either end of the couch and face each other with the bottoms of our feet touching so that both our legs were bent at a 90 degree angle. Then we would count down, “three, two, one, FEET FIGHT!” We would push our feet towards one another as hard as we could while keeping the bottoms of our feet together. The goal was to be the first person to straighten your legs and cause your opponent to bend theirs into a submissive, squat-like pose. Kind of like a thumb war with your legs. Being the super competitive younger brother, I would get really into it, sometimes so much so that our legs would slip and we would end up slamming our feet into one another’s junk. That, or it would be a draw with both of our legs straightened and pointing towards the ceiling to create a flesh teepee.
We called it "Scare". Basically, one person would wait on the main floor of the house while everyone else would set up the basement as an obstacle course that the person had to get through successfully in the dark without getting injured or scared. This would usually involve putting slime on the railings, putting trip wires (yarn) across doorways, playing scary music or sounds, hanging wet wash cloths from the ceiling, etc.
It wasn't safe, but it was fun. We usually got all of our friends to play when they came over. Eventually neighborhood kids would ask to come over to play.
My brother and I and our neighborhood friends would play "guns". My my dad made these wooden "guns" out of scrap wood and we'd run around the neighborhood either free for all or teams. When you saw an enemy you would yell out "bang bang i got you Josh!" And then he would be dead for 30 seconds or so.
Fun times... untill the inevitable "Nuh uhh, you couldn't see me!"
Our Church youth group used to go on camping trips with father. He’d always hide candy under his robe and we’d have to find it with our mouths. Father was such a jokester.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play the “dead” game when I was little. For fun I’d just play dead, not even to scare people. I just liked being dead in different positions for some reason. The most memorable incident was when mom had run me a bath and when she cane in to do her makeup she found me twisted and completely submerged in the water. Scared the hell out of her, strangely she wasn’t that thrilled as I explained that I wasn’t actually dead lol
Not sure just how unique this game was, but of everyone I know, nobody else played a game like it.
You start off with a group of say 10 people (could be more or less, it didn't really matter); you add everyone into a group-chat (we used whatsapp). You split the group into a team of 3 and a team of 7. The team of 7, the letters, quietly think of a seven letter word and assign a letter to each of them. Then, they have two or so minutes to run around school and hide.
Once the two minutes are over, the team of three, the hunters, start hunting. They have to find a letter, and then beat the living shit out of them until they gave up their letter.
Because we only had a short lunchtime at school, every 10 minutes, we restricted the play area. It went from, entire school, then only outside, then only the playground areas. This notice was sent out into the group-chat to ensure everyone knew as well as what letters had been found. Once a letter is found, they join the hunters but they cannot reveal the other letters. We often only had one letter team member know the entire word and the rest only knew their own letters to avoid cheating.
Once all the letters have been found and beaten the shit out of, the hunters have to figure out the word (see, it's educational, Anagrams and shit).
Oh and officially the letters can only run and block (so they can't throw punches back) but if it was a particularly big letter team member, nobody was going to say they couldn't.
If lunchtime is over and the word has not been made, the letters win.
My brother and I played “shield”- we gathered up every pillow or thick quilt, every bit of padding in the house we could find. Then one of us would sit in a big upholstered chair and have it all piled on.
The one of us not covered in padding would take a running start and jump kick the pile as hard as they could. It never hurt and was pretty fun
The thrower would lob the ball high in the air toward the group of catchers while calling out a value (100, 500, 700, Jackpot!).
Whoever catches the ball gets that value and adds it to their total. Once a catcher's total reaches the max value, they become the thrower, and everyone's totals reset.
Toilet Monster. My elementary school had tractor tires bolted together to make a 2 by 3 rectangle (each square had 6 tires). 1 or 2 kids would go into the interior of the Tire rectangle while the rest stood on the top of the tires. The kids inside the tires would try to grab the kids on tops feet and "drag them under". Last kid to get grabbed won. It was a great game to play as a child, The main problem of that game was the spaces between the tires or perfectly sized to get your foot stuck in and twister break your ankle.
In middle school, my friends and I created a game called Fate, essentially a storytelling game where one person would be “Fate” making up a story about the other person, who could chose their own adventure based on the choices given to them by “Fate” until the “Fate” person decides to end the story. It was fun to be as wacky as possible. :)
Koosh War. A friend of the fam, kids were my brother and my age. youngest had a 30+ koosh ball collection. Rules were simple, huck koosh balls at each other as hard as possible, until someone cries.
Made Crossbows and Catapults a cooperative game. For those not familiar, this is a game where you build blocks around your castle to protect it. Then you take turns launching little disks from rubberband powered catapults or crossbows.
Usually you play against each other, and whoever knocks down the other's castle first wins. But my friend and I pooled our games together (we both had multiple sets), and would make a single gigantic fortress. It would take an hour to build our fortress, then we would analyze its weak spots and strong spots, then unleash hell on it. It could take another hour to bring it down.
We're both engineers now.
plorto · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my old neighborhood, all of the kids, including myself and my younger brother, lived Pokémon. We were all in elementary school at the time and were filled to the brim with energy, and one of our favorite pass-times was playing tag. One version of tag we had was virus tag, where one person starts as “it” and every person tagged by “it” also becomes “it”. So we thought, “why not combine that with Pokémon?” So, the rules of this game were essentially the same, except the person who was “it” was the “Pokémon trainer”, and had a poke ball. They used it to tag the runners, or Pokémon, in this game. The trainer got to start with one Pokémon, who would help to “corral” the other Pokémon, but couldn’t actually tag them. The last Pokémon to be caught got to be the trainer next round. We went through a couple of those toy poke balls collectively, they weren’t really meant to be thrown around, or at people, to be fair.
This was at my school but I haven't been able to find anyone else who played it so I think it might have been something one of our teachers made up. It was called "Octopus" and it was like tag, except if the person who was "it" got you, you became part of their octopus arm until only one person was left. Usually, instead of saying that person won, they were surrounded by the octopus arm of children and absorbed. It was insanely fun and, upon reflection, sounds almost cultish. But I remember loving it as a kid. I also sort of remember that there were ways to get tagged, but not become part of the arm in which case you temporarily became seaweed and couldn't run for a few seconds. The bigger the arm got, the worse time they had catching people because they had to move like a human wave and weren't very fast. It was a blast.
We played a game called sardines. Basically reverse hide and seek. Everyone is a seeker except for one hider who goes out and hides. Then the seekers split up to go find the hider and when one of seekers finds them they pack into the hiding spot with them like sardines. Last seeker to find the hiding spot loses.
We used to play a game called “Clothesline” where two of us would occupy the playground swings while the third would try to run through the two swing sets without getting kicked in the stomach.
It got really fun when we added a hose and flooded the playset with mud.
My sister and I would play “baby tito” which was basically just glorified “doctor” but my sister got to do whatever she wanted to me because I was the patient and her favorite was the “surgical procedure” where she would twist a tissue to a small point and then shove it up my nose to make me sneeze.. it was my least favorite but it was her absolute fav
Me and my brother used to put an air rifle and a box of ammo by the corner of our house. We'd start off running towards it and while one of us would have to load the rifle and shoot, the other one would try to escape around the next corner. It was truly a simpler time.
we used to always play a game call turtle wars. So, basically you have to cover your face with a mask or something and something that covered you so you looked like a turtle. I would always put a box on my body and cut leg and arm holes and a michael myers mask and you would have to only tackle each other and it was a thing that kept me and my family occupied for hours!
Late to the game! 'Scream'. My sister and family friends would go into our basement, turn off all the lights. Our basement was attached to the unfinished part and there was a huge hole (big enough for a kid to climb through) between the rooms. One person would be the 'demon'. The rest of us would quietly try to run and hide, hoping the demon wouldn't get us. The hole made it extra-fun as an escape route. Essentially hide and seek + marco polo in one.
Anther game I'd play with my sister: if we had a new friend come over, we'd trick them by pretending I was an identical twin. Quite literally, I'd run upstairs to change outfits every 5 minutes and pretend to be a different person.
Edit: one more I thought of. There was this doll website where you can give 1 of the four models a makeover. My sister would choose one to give a makeover, and I'd have to guess which model she originally picked.
We called it "The game without rules", though in actual fact there were plenty of rules. Any number of people would play. Everyone would start out drawing themselves on a piece of paper, and then you would all take turns drawing either (1) how you would kill other people (eg giant sword, laser death ray, meteor from space) or (2) how you would defend from someone else's attack (eg giant shield, invisibility potion, bunker). You could only draw one thing, so you had to get creative if you wanted to dodge someone else's attack and launch one of your own ("I build a heatwave ray that blasts heat in all directions around me that melts your ice missiles and burns you to death"). No one could die from an attack until the attackers next turn, so everyone had a chance to defend every attack. It can only be played with people who are willing to accept defeat to an exceptionally funny or clever attack, and works best with a large odd number of people around to vote on if a defense would actually work against an attack.
You don't erase anything, just keep adding to the picture, so eventually the paper gets covered in cool/funny little doodles.
cjtarp · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game in the pool where you each hold one end of a pool noodle underwater. Someone else would count to three and on three you would each blow into the end of the pool noodle and whoever got a mouth full of water was the loser. You could also counter attack by just pointing your end at the other person as they blow water in to their own face.
At my primary school (ages 5-11) we used to play a game called linky. Linky was banned pretty quickly at school.
Basically it was your usual game of tag but when you were tagged you had to join hands with the one who was 'it' and you were both 'it'. You continue tagging people and the line of people 'it' grows and grows. Sounds pretty mundane right? Wrong. I have vivid memories of tiny 5 year old me being pulled so hard from each side in the middle of a linky death trap. People would be running and dragging the lifeless corpses of their fallen comrades across the playground.
In college, we made up a game where we’d stand in a circle, then have someone get in the middle. They would then close their eyes and spin. Someone in the circle would then poke them. As soon as they feel the poke, they can open their eyes, and try to identify the one who poked them. If they guess right, the one who poked them is the new spinner. Guess wrong, and they do it again.
I used to play "tag" with my dad, and when my little sister was born later she was part of it too. It basically consisted of pony riding around on his back and general rough-housing. Using him as a jungle gym and such. Probably ending on the bed surrounded by stuffed animals reading a book and an eventual nap.
Hide and seek but everyone had nerf guns and/or foam swords. If you got found you had to duel. Winning the duel meant you got to go hide again, losing meant you became a seeker.
We played a game called "Grounders" on a set of monkey bars. The person who was it had to blindfold themselves and try and tag the other people who were on the monkeys bars - whoever got tagged was then it.
The people on the monkey bars werent allowed to touch the ground or they became it. So it involved a lot of dangerous moves to avoid getting tagged
Stick can. You have a can, and a stick. Each player gets a turn, and makes up 1 rule for the next player. There is no better game, VR can suck stick cans dick
My sibling created a deeply intricate game revolving around our baseball cards cuz we thought it was dumb to just look at them. It was basically all luck and each dice roll was coordinated to a different action. We would have huge tryouts to get our teams set up and then play for hours on end.
Does anyone remember playing slime sports? It was a simplistic game where you took control of a semi-circle made of slime and you used the arrow keys to move and hit a ball. There was a variety of sports but the most prominent were slime soccer and slime volleyball. I believe the game was on miniclip or addicting games, but it originated on its own site that I don’t think schists anymore. I guarantee you can still play it. In elementary school the me and other kids would have tournaments on the class computer. Good times.
My older brother and I were children of the 80s. We watched wrestling all the time. And back then it was big so it was on a lot. We were watching women wrestling one day and it was a match between a heavy set woman named Judy Martin and another woman who was very skinny but we didn’t catch her name. We just called her the skinny lady. After that we played a wrestling game called Judy Martin and the Skinny Lady. He always made me play Judy Martin. I was a tiny 4 yr old and he was an overweight 7 yr old.
Wall ball. We tossed a tennis ball against the side of the house and tried to make it hit other children on the bounce back. If you caught it, awesome, if you hit your cousin-even better. We didn’t keep points, and most of the time was spent chasing the tennis ball now that I think about it.
When I was like 14-15 and my little brother was 9-10, we’d take these scarves that my grandma made and tie them around our heads like ninja bandanas and sprint around the front yard throwing rocks at one another as hard as possible. Good times.
Also, same time period, my step brother that was about my age and myself put my little brother in every jacket we could find and pushed him down this big ole hill in the backyard.
Deathmatch. Tag, but everyone is it, getting tagged means your out for the round, and you can only tag someone's back. No standing against walls tho, gotta be accessible.
During recess standing against a wall and dodging a ball being kicked at us. The only rule was you had to stick close to the wall. Getting hit in the face would slam the back of you head into the wall. Also the wall was made of cinder blocks, so yeah.
Fog Frisbee. Created by my dad, I believe, when we were up in the mountains in an empty little lot by a lodge. It was almost like a Marco-Polo game at one point the cloud was so thick. There’s nothing like the thrill of not knowing if you’re about to get smacked by a frisbee or be able to catch it in time!
The other was just weird. My sisters and I would take a blanket, spread it out, and one of us would roll up tightly in it, head covered, arms tight to your sides, and see how long we could stand the constriction feeling before freaking out and unrolling.
My brother and I played what we called "The Game" up until before I started middle school. We would pretend to be superheroes or TV characters going about daily life, fighting villains (and we would play the villains too), and interacting with characters from completely different franchises. The most important rules of The Game were these:
Every time you do something in character, you have to say "pretend." Ex. "Pretend I kick Doc Ock off the building"
The Game stops when any adults come into the room, and continues when they leave. When they ask what you're doing, you say "nothing"
6 year old me played Dr. BumBum with my cousin Alan (he was 6 months younger). I was the nurse, he was the doctor. As the name implies, there was a lot of bum interaction.
Not sure if it is a coincidence, but turns out he is gay and muchos loves bums.
We called it "running baseball" one person started at the pitchers mound with a nerf ball of some sort. You had to run around the bases and only got a point when you made it home. Only 2 people per base and you could run in either direction but only score the traditional way you round the bases. If you're hit, you become the pitcher. We would play first to 10.
This is the first one I thought of, probably because game is in quotes: We called the game "Do whatever you want" and it was basically taking turns groping each other and dry humping. Good times.
Me and an old friend played wasp hunting. This involved going up and down our street smacking the bushes outside everyone's houses with bamboo canes to scare all the wasps out. We then proceeded to try and kill as many as we could with the canes by swinging at them. It was a miracle we never got stung!
For 2 years of my life I grew up in this really big house with multiple staircases and 4 levels. My younger brother and I would be mountain climbers. We use ice scrapers as ice picks, and anything that looked like a rope as ropes. We would pack snacks in bags and each had water bottles. At each level of the house we would set up camp. From the 3rd floor to the 4th floor we'd wear painting masks to pretend we needed oxygen.
Back when my grandma moved out of the house she lived in and retired after 70+ years of work, my brother, sister and I used to go to the top of her stairs (3 story house), and just glide down the stairs without any clothes on. Then when we got to the bottom floor we would scream "Help!" relentlessly until inevitably my grandma or my dad would scream "Can you please shut up?!"
Find the body.
Basically spending lots of time on long drives through, and to, rural areas, looking for ideal places that others might hide a corpse.
Maybe reading Silence of the Lambs isnt for 9 year olds.
My family and I had a game we loved to play on road trips called Baseball (not the actual sport). The original basis of the game was to name baseball players in a specific way. The person that started it had to name a player whose first letter of his first name started with an A and whatever the first letter of their last name was, that had to be the first letter of the first name for the next player.
Example -
Player 1: Alex Rodriguez
Player 2: Randy Johnson
Player 3: John Smoltz
etc.
If you couldn't think of one, you got a strike and 3 strikes you're out.
We modified it later on to include any "famous" person. To be considered famous, 3 out of 5 people had to know who it was without looking it up.
I’ll consider this a game under the Whose Line premise that the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. My friend had one of those big fold up mattress cots in her hallway closet as a kid and we would take turns trying to fit our bodies into it and then turn around and get back out. We called it “The Butt”
When we finished school, there was a park, we put our bags down, and we played "Slenderman" (Yes, dumb name). There was a Slenderman. You had 30 seconds to hide near the hose where was PE. We hidden in trees, followed slenderman is sneaky mode, other stuff.
If the slenderman saw you, you had to freeze for 3 seconds. The slenderman needed to touch you 2 times, and you are a slenderman too.
Me and my friends would go to the lake and spend hours throwing a medium to large rock in the air and trying to hit it with a second smaller rock. Super entertaining and surprisingly difficult. I still enjoy doing it from time to time but usually give up after a couple tries
ametca · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I made up a game called "Big Butt". This was a game played on the trampoline, and one person was designated as the Big Butt. The Big Butt would have to try and push everyone else off the trampoline using only their butt. Some of those flying butt shoves really had force behind them.
Well in brake at school we would run away from the dark patches made by clouds. We would play another game in the meantime but if anyone saw a "wave" everyone bolted to the farthest fence
Hits-a-tag was the name of the game we made up to play at recess. It’s a combination of kickball, dodgeball, and freeze tag. The game starts with a kicker who kicks the ball really really high into the air. As the ball is in the air, everyone runs around to get into an ideal position, either to catch the ball or to get as far away from the ball as possible depending on your gameplay strategy. Once the ball is caught, everyone must freeze in place. The catcher then can move 3 steps in any direction and try to “tag out” another player by throwing the ball. If a person gets tagged by the ball, they are out, but they are allowed to try to dodge it or catch it. If the person catches the ball, the thrower is out and a new round starts with the ball being kicked high into the air. If the thrower misses, the person closest to where the ball lands gets to kick the ball to start a new round. Repeat until there is one kid standing at that kid is the king/queen and gets bragging rights until the next recess. Damn that game was so fun.
Vacation- we ate a ton of candy and RC. Then would blast the song Vacation and turn off all the lights. Then you just grabbed and threw what ever items you could grab across the room at one another. Often was cans of RC, pillows, books, and action figures. Also it’s very dark and you’re running around into furniture.
Game ended when the song was over and the wed compare who got hurt. Everyone wins.
Me and my sister used to play a game named "Bear". Basically we stood up on a bed and when one of us said "Now!", we ran in circles on the bed shouting "Bear! Bear! Bear!" continuously until one of us fell. The one remaining up on the bed won.
I wasn't allowed "screen time" very often. And I loved Minecraft, so I made a little paper version of the game and played that. I made and played TONS of paper games.
My older brother came up with several games which I realized years later were not in my best interest to play.
One such game had me sitting on the floor indian style (or criss-cross applesauce if you like) with a blanket draped over my head, making a little tent. He would then stand outside of it and tell me to "dodge the lasers" before beginning to piss all over the blanket. After about a second of sustained piss, the stream would break through the blanket and hit me every time. I played this game a lot with him because I trusted him and thought it was great fun. As I got older I realized it was just an excuse for him to piss on his brother because it was always played in my bedroom, with my blanket, and it was never my turn to "shoot lasers" at him. My parents thought I had a bed wetting problem because of this game.
There were other, slightly less disgusting, but equally unfair games we played. There was one where he put on several layers of jackets, heavy pants, elbow and knee pads, etc., handed me a cheap children's jump rope and told me "defend yourself". I'd wail away on him with the jump rope as he slowly walked toward me. Nothing phased him. Once he got himself within range, he threw an elbow at me (with the hard plastic elbow pad) and gave me my first ever bloody nose.
I could literally go on for hours about the weird ass games we used to play. There were other interesting ones that weren't designed solely to torture me, but I've already written enough. I can add in more later if there is any interest.
Lego shops.
We built lego shops and stocked them with all sorts of lego items, hats armour capes, boats, horses etc.
However the economy was based off "hands" as a currency. You could tell if someone was a slave or a free citizen by whether they had hands or not.
hpchef · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pencil drop. Essentially darts on a vertical axis instead of horizontal. Played while sitting in a desk with the 4 ring bullseye on the floor.
brx017 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Ball. The a pair of Dad's old super long tube socks rolled tightly and tucked in themselves as a ball slightly larger than a baseball. Then we'd basically play outside in the grass, a cross between netless beach volleyball and ping pong. You had to hit it in bounds, although there were no markers to indicate the playing area. You couldn't catch it, you could only slap it. You could play off of one bounce, but if it bounced twice they got a point. I think we played to 50 usually, win by two points. I don't think you could score off of the serve, so you wanted to get a good volley going. I think we alternated servers every 5 points.
I’m late to this but I used to play a game called “fart monster” growing up. Basically my dog ruined the grass in my yard and there was mostly dirt. The fart monster would basically pick up handfuls of dirt and throw it at the other people playing. The dirt being a visual representation of a fart. I don’t really remember the point or rules of the game but I do remember we loved it ended up recruiting a lot of neighborhood kids to play. My parents also hated this game with a passion.
"Hit the Deck!" was just us standing at the edge of our lawn by a road, which was at the top of a small hill, and if we ever saw a car come by, we'd scream Hit the Deck! and sprint down the hill and lay down like we were hiding from bad guys. We did that for hours, passed it down to all our young family members until we moved away. Nobody has a good Hit the Deck hill right now...
My brothers and I would play "Burrito." We would put a blanket down on the stairs and hold it at the top edge with our hands and feet while lying parallel to the stairs. Then we would roll down and see how far we could make it into the basement while still wrapped tightly in the blanket.
Two Touch, we used to play it using soccer balls or the red play ground balls. You had two kicks to get the ball from where it laid to touch (ricochet off of) inside the backstop of the baseball field.
Hitting the metal poles instead of the chainlink would send way more energy back into the ball and you could knock it across the baseball field.
I've never been able to find anyplace except one small elementary school in California where this was played. I tried sharing it at a couple of other schools, but I wasn't popular enough to get it to catch on.
Digger. My sister and I would take every pillow and blanket in the house, pile them on my parents bed then dig through in a race to the other side. Played it until I was in my late teens
We would play hide and go seek but instead of counting before seeking the hiders would tie up the seeker with bedsheets. They could start seeking once they got untied.
Ours was kinda lame compared to the rest of these, and it didn’t have a name, but we would get on the swings during recess in elementary school, and jump off while doing some sort of dance move. There was a panel of three judges who judged on different categories, which were height, the dance move, and quality of the landing. It stopped whenever someone got hurt usually.
Sticky Tree.
The undeveloped corner lot in our neighborhood was filled with trees. We had a game that involved an ever-changing set of rules, but always included one tree being designated the “sticky tree” which became the safety area during the game.
BOB - Ball Over Barn
One guy on one side, another guy on the other. Both have baseball bats or tennis rackets or golf clubs or whatever. Just hit balls over the barn back and forth to each other all afternoon. For about 50 years now it's been the go-to game to play whenever everybody gathers up at the farm. My father played it, I played it, my nieces and nephews play it, and the barn is dented to absolute shit. Also, everybody's pretty decent at baseball.
Bubble Wars
Two or more players holding giant inflatable rubber balls on a trampoline try to wreck each other. Usually done in a tournament style. Nobody but me seemed to understand that the key to winning isn't running harder into the opponent -- it's to squat down and get your ball underneath the enemy's ball, then lift up. You just get pushed down into the trampoline, but they have nowhere to go but up, up, and away. It's a miracle nobody ever broke a bone.
I created this complex game before online games of this kind were an option. My friend and I started this little world on paper that began as a way to collect pictures of horsies and give them names and pretend like they were real. Then we would enter them in races. And then it started to grow in popularity.
So we gave people currencies and jobs. Someone handled the selling and care of the horses. You got a beginning amount of cash and had to earn more. Someone kept track of all the finances. I would draw up floor plans for people to “buy” homes and barns from. Someone became a vet. Etc. you had to contribute somehow and keep track of your money. You couldn’t go rogue and design your own house or create your own horse. It had to be within the community.
It was like an established horse trade, guild-run, mobbish world that the other original creator and I ran. I also tended to be very controlling and bossy back then. So eventually girls got pissed off by all my rules.
It was really fun while it lasted though!
Now I’m realizing it’s basically like DnD or other RPGs. Which i play now as an adult.
Curby. Probably more popular than I think it is. You stand either side of the road and throw a ball to hit the curb and come back. If it comes back to you without hitting the ground, 2 points. If it rolls back, 1 point. Great fun.
We’d go in my mom’s basement with all the windows blocked to make it pitch black. We had to walk through the basement while the other two players would wait in the dark to jump out and scare you.
Even when you knew it was coming it was still terrifying. Lots of fun though.
My brother and I created a game we called Mommy Ticklecrackers. It was a fairly simple game-one of us was Mommy Ticklecrackers, the old woman who loved her cat a little too much, and one of us would be Kitty, the stubborn cat who would not eat anything Mommy Ticklecrackers prepared. We'd argue for a few minutes about the imaginary food and then beat the shit out of each other.
This is probably a little late to answer, but my brother and I loved fighting with sticks. So much so that after watching a television series called "Last Man Standing" (or something like that) I built something from the show for us. The show operated like a reality show where people get "voted off", but was a little different. These people went all around the world and learned the fighting styles of the natives in different countries. Then they all competed. Whoever did the worst left the show.
There was one episode where they were somewhere in Africa (I don't remember which country exactly) and they fought with these sticks and shields. They looks relatively simple to build so I went to Lowes, bought the supplies, and made legit fighting sets.
The sword was pretty much just a dowel rod with a handle (maybe an inch or inch and a half thick) with some foam wrapped around the end (to lessen the damage when you were hit with it). It was around 3 feet long or so. The shield was a long dowel rod (same thickness) that was pretty much the height of your body. In the middle of the dowel was the actual "shield" portion attached to the dowel and behind the shield was where the handle was so your hand was protected.
We would go out in the front yard (along with all of our friends) and beat the tar out of each other and we had SO MUCH FUN!!! Minimal injury thanks to the foam and the shield, but it was incredibly intense. We would have bracketed tournaments with varying rules. The looks we got when cars would drive by were priceless. I can only assume they saw us and likened it to "Lord of the flies".
Marble blast ultra and 13 years later they made a SQL called marble it up that came out a few months ago but it’s not on Xbox yet 😞
Gerkit · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got grounded a lot as a kid. So I spent quite a few days held up in my room in the basement. (That's not the game.)
I decided one weekend to create an entire football league. With paper footballs. The bed posts being the goal. Created all the names of teams and kept stats.
Did my best to 'Kick' without bias. Had playoffs and a champion. Did a few seasons.
AdddeH · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In kindergarten we used to play a game called “The Swing Axe,” where four people used the swings in the playground to mimic the motion of swinging axes. The rest of us had to pass through the swings from one side to the other to win. The game was less dangerous than it sounds like as we didn’t use full force on the swings.
We had a game called 'hunt the cunt' that we played in primary school. The rules were that everyone starts on one side of the playground and one persons name is shouted out, this person became the cunt, it was there job not to get tackled to the ground in a set time.
My cousin made up a game call school (Very original I know), except that anytime that we refused to play with her, she called the cops on us. Good times..
Temple Run: based on the mobile game we used to play: you’d run down a staircase ( preferably spiraling) and the other person would throw down a yoga ball. The yoga ball would roll down after you, and if it hit you, you lost
So growing up, my neighbor and best friend had a big trampoline, we played so many games on it.. but I think my favorite one was where we gathered as many bouncy balls as possible between the two of us, and then bounce around on the tramp with them trying to dodge them all Matrix-style for as long as possible. Bonus points for bouncing in just the right way to fling a bouncy ball at your friend’s face. >:3
This got intense, yo.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HUNGER GAMES
Each kid would pick an invisible weapon and fight to the death. If you git hit with an invisible weapon, you would have to sit for 10 seconds. We had a 20 person game at one point lol.
We used to play a game called Capital Cities. Our father would grab out a world atlas and call out a country. My three siblings and I would then proceed to yell out the capital city.
The board was the Mario paint mouse pad turned upside down.
You would pick a color of marbles, give them a race and backstory or whatever and have them 'battle'. They would hit each other and knock each other out the "ring". Last marble color remaining wins
“Tee”. Pool game. Friends stand around pool while one person jumps in pool with a golf tee between their toes. After jumper swims away, bystanders wait till they see the tee float up. Then they jump in screaming “Tee!!!” Whoever grabs it first wins. Best to have a light grey tee or blue, and have jumper splash water. Super fun
Kick the bottle , 2 L coke bottle full of rocks placed in an open location one team hides and the other searches for them and has to tip them then they are captured, the remaining people can release their team mates from goal by kicking the bottle over and then they run away and hide again.
My sister and I used to both be in dance classes. I was in a Jazz/Hip-hop class, and my younger sister was in ballet.
In our spare time, we used to listen to our favorite song at that time (whatever it may have been) and choreograph our own dance routines for the song. We would practice a single dance for weeks, and then on a weekend, we'd show our entire family the routine. As we got older, it became less dance routines and more singing performances for special occasions.
This continued for probably a solid 3 or 4 years.
Quite recently (too recent to not be embarrassing smh), I was on a school trip and we were all sent to our dorms early for fucking about. We were bored as fuck and the internet was down. Then someone goes "ha I got a bunch of porn downloaded".
My cousins and I would play mermaids in the pool or orphan Annie out of the pool. We usually played orphan Annie in high spaces (in the dress up cabinets or in the crawl space under the deck).
The Blob. You and your friends are in a dark room, and one person is “it” and covers themselves with a bed comforter while crawling around.
The goal is the blob (the person that’s “it” under the comforter) has to find and pull the other player under the comforter to become free. Whoever gets pulled in is the next Blob.
Was hella fun until my cousin was the blob and launched himself head-first into a door.
"Blue Monster" - My family played this game where we (the children) would all hide under a single large blanket, and an adult would be the Monster by circling the blanket on their hands and knees waiting for a little foot or hand to pop out from the edge of the blanket. If the monster tagged you, you became the monster and the adult would then hide under the blanket continuing the game. We called it "Blue Monster" because the blanket we always used was the biggest blue blanket we could find.
My brother would play "shocky-shocky" roll around on the trampoline until youve built enough static shock the other person.Both get shocked in the process but still so much fun.
The game was called DOA and that stood for Dead On Arrival. I would try to fit onto a couch ottoman that was on wheels and hold on tight, my friend would wildly push it around the basement pretending to be an out of control ambulance with me as the dying victim on rout to a hospital. His goal was to injur me by hitting walls or spinning me, or getting me to go flying off. and we would role play the drama of the crazy paramedic and his patient, I remember the him doing the siren sounds. This was a very dangerous game for 8 year olds, and thinking about it now, it reminds me of the Jackass tv show how they crash into things riding shopping carts.
We used to play a game called "run and hide" with my mostly blind step sister. We would run into a room and "hide" which really meant standing in a corner or behind the bed and when she came in the room we would run out and try not to get tagged. It seems way more mean now.....
Night Crawlers, we crawl around like worms at night. Sometimes we go under the bed to mine minerals.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would roll billard balls at wach other's fingers on the pool table.
We would also play sock wars at sleep overs. Basically we have a bunch of sock bundles and play dodge ball with them in a dark house at night. Two teams at a time.
SirMaQ · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme ping pong. My cousin and I would smack a ping pong ball as hard as we can. I'm talking sore arm after each hit hard and we'd get points if we hit it back to the other person. We the switched a golf ball if ended in a tie.
Dodgeball tig, it’s tig just you throw a ball to tig someone and you could catch a ball to become ‘immune’ from the ball
Hvalot · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my dad went to Venice, we bought one of those masks which looked unbelievably scary. Then me and my two younger cousins would play a horrifying game. We would hide a can of pepsi in the house, crank up a music box, turn off all the lights, and give them small flaslights. I took on the mask and wandered around the house, and if I heard them or saw their light I would chase them. If the music box stopped I would turn on the light and chase them. If they found the pepsi they won.
Xaom64 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Worm"
One person headfirst into a sleeping bag, then they have to tag someone who is not in a sleeping bag. This game got surprisingly violent very quickly
Our favorite game growing up was a trampoline game where you tried to throw a ball and get it to bounce off your friend and out of the net of the trampoline. Then they would have to go out of the trampoline and throw it back it and get it to land on the base of the trampoline. The people on the trampoline would try to smack it back out before it hits the ground. Enough failed attempts and the person outside the trampoline would be kicked out. We called it Knockout. Good times.
My father kept us and our cousins busy with two games that were super entertaining and cheap!
First game, we would sit on the bottom stair and he would take a quarter and shake it in his hand and each kid would get a turn calling heads or tails. If you got it right, you moved up a stair. If you got it wrong, you moved down a stair. First to the top stair won.
Second game, my dad would hold a dollar and you would hold your index finger and thumb hovering around the dollar. He wouldn't tell you when he was going to let it go, but if you caught it you got to keep it.
He kept us entertained and engaged for a good portion of the time so our family could spend time together!
I remember being at summer camp, and one of our counselors told us of a game, I think he called it Magic Squares (it didn't make sense in the game).
The idea was that you are stuck in a cave and are trying to get out. The other player is the "god". You give commands, and then the god has to enact another command to keep you trapped.
The main rule was that you can't directly negate the previous command.
Anyone know of this? I think that the counselor's name was Mark.
When I was in middle school all the kids in the neighbor hood would come over and play band hero and guitar hero with someone on drums, 2 guitarists, and a singer. I know it’s not that unique but you don’t see that that much now a days and it was just an amazing memory .
On the sidewalk, we would set a bottle cap on a crack, and use a dodge ball to move it to the other person's square in the sidewalk. I'm an expert at this game, fite me
I would cover my sister in blankets and then I would spin with a foam roller in my back hitting her once per rotation. If I got dizzy and fell I’d lose if she could outlast me till I fell she won.
“Mortal Kombat” where my sister and I would push each other on the hardwood floor in socks while listening to the theme song. It was like a slippery tug of war thing. Kinda dangerous, in hindsight lol.
We had one called the silly game where one of us had to bear crawl on the floor without bending our elbows or knees while the other tried to make us laugh so we would collapse in the floor.
Probably not unique but there was a steep hill outside my house, used to grab cardboard crates (like the fruit ones) from behind our shop and slide down the hill in them, good times.
Not so much I was a child, but maybe around seventeen I shared a room with a good friend of mine. We often played a sort of word association game where the goal was to say "Dale Earnhardt Jr." This had to be linked with an easily explainable and reasonable degree of association. You could also lose by saying the same word or phrase twice.
Suffocation: me and my brother would wrap each other in a blanket, then wrap and tuck other blankets and sheets around one another pile all our stuffed toys on top and the aim was to break free.
Me and my brothers grew up in isolation and ended up in some Lord of the flies situations as a result. One game of our creation was called "blind man's bluff" one of us is blindfolded and given a stick. The remaining were allowed to try to sneak up on the blindfolded one and either slap or push the blindfolded one. The blindfolded one is allowed to try to beat someone sneaking up on him with the stick. Game ended when someone got seriously hurt or when we got bored.
Kevnos · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called balloon. It takes 3 people and a bunk bed. We would take the cover of my blanket to put whoever was lightest in it. We then dangle that person from the top of the bunk bed and proceed to pull him up. There was no real no real winner in the end, but it was fun.
Me and my neighbours created a game called "the number plate game" where we would have find the letters a-z in the second position if the car. We player it while driving to school, it was so much fun.
Nutshot. I wasn't exactly a "child" but I was 15 and a freshman in high school. Two teams would line up on each side of the classroom, go full spread eagle facing each each other, and try and smash each other's nuts with a plastic water bottle... all while the teacher was on his phone fully well knowing what we were doing.
Safe to say some of us won't be having kids in the future.
In the winter, we’d search for the biggest icicles we could find and then bury them in the snow underneath some big pine trees. We’d then go on an “expedition” to uncover the fossils of the famous giant monsters that were prophesied to have lived many millennia ago. Spoiler alert: we were the BEST archeologists. We always found those bones.
Lccockey. A cross between lacrosse and hockey. It was played with wiffle balls and those plastic scoops that elementary schools have. Sone jerkass stole the idea and claimed that he had come up with it, but it was fun as hell.
Not me, but my parents used to have a made up language called "Păsăreasca" which would translate to Bird Language and basically in a word you had to add after each vowel "p"+that vowel and if the word ended in a consonant you also added "p". Example: hamburger would become hapambupurgeperp; and yes, they did this in their heads, on the spot
In Elementary school the gum balls that fell from trees counted as currency. Green ones were worth more because they were more rare. We voted for a king who would sit on top of the slide. He stored the gumballs below the slide. Kids would have to gather them and bring them to him. Sometimes he awarded kids gum balls for random shit. Some kids would try to hide them from the king. The king would simply pay someone to go and steal them. We made an entire economy lol
Me and my brother played ripstick soccer. So you know this ripsticks that were popular a few years back? They're like a skateboard that you twist to go. But we would set up two goals on either end of our drive way and we would play soccer while riding these things. Dribbling was very cool to do with them and you can whip the back of it hit the ball for a shot.
Sometimes we would shake it up a bit and allow pushing and ramming boards, so things would get interesting quick!
Very fun game that I would recommend to anyone that owns one of these boards and a soccer ball!
we threw rocks at each other and the first one with a serious injury was the loser.
Umdron · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we called "Chicken". You would stand with your legs about shoulder width apart facing each other about 4 feet apart. We would throw a knife and stick it in the ground between the other one's feet. It had to stick in the ground to count.
When it stuck, they would move their foot in to where the knife stuck and then it was their turn. Your feet would get gradually closer together until they're only an inch or two apart. The first one to hit the other person's foot loses. Ironically the one that got hit in the foot with a knife was the winner.
We also played a variation called splits where you start the same, but throw the knife on the outside of their feet. Same rules apply, they move their foot to where the knife stuck. You ended up with your feet really far apart trying to do the splits. First one to fall down loses.
My buddy invented a game called "Swing Kick." (The name could use some work, but he was like, six.)
Basically, it's kickball, but the "batter" is on a swing, and you have to pitch it to him so he can kick the ball on his upswing.
Mostly, we just tried to boot it over the fence. Base-running wound up being fairly confusing, since most of the time, there were only like 2-4 of us playing.
My brother and I played something called “Cat-Dog” (inspired by the nickelodean show) where it is like leg wrestling.
We would lay on our backs on the sofa, one head on each opposite end and start off by touching the bottom of our feet together and equally knees bent.
Then we would shout “go!” and see who would be the first to push the other sibling’s leg all the way back until the other’s legs were fully straight and knees locked.
Well my female friend and I played this one game where we would basically just act like we were an adult couple and do our normal stuff like work and so on. Only that we "lived" in a world where you usually are complete naked and just outside put on underwear.
We were around 4 that time and my dad still teases me with that 13 years later.
We actually called it "playing nude" btw.
Growing up in Pakistan, the kids played a game called Monkey with a rope
Basically everyone takes their shoes off and piles them up around a bolt in the ground. The bolt is tied to a rope that the 'monkey' holds. That's as far as the money can go while holding the rope. Everyone else has to take all the shoes back from the monkey without getting tagged. If no one is tagged, and all the shoes have been collected then the monkey has to run because he is attacked with all the collected shoes. So whoever collects the most shoes gets the most throws. And it really sucks for whoever is the monkey.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a cousin would play "bonyun ball" where it's basically football in a basement and we had to throw the football in a laundry basket and yell "bonyun!". That was always fun.
My brother and I had this game which was similar to the Mayan Ball game from The Road to El Dorado. Our front entry way has walls on either side and has a potted plant holders which was attached to the wall and had a hole on the side like the goals in the movie. We used a small squishy soccer ball and you could only use your hands if you hit it with an open palm. Everything else to hit it in was fair game. We could never score that many points, so it was usually first to 1 or 2.
One of the best games I got to play with a lot of kids was our version of "cops and robbers". It was basically spotlight tag (play in the dark, finders have flashlights) but with 2 teams and the goal was to make it into a specific room in the house without getting caught. The room could not be directly guarded, so it was basically hiding for your life, developing a strategy to sneak into the house and then a mad dash for the finish line. Very high energy, in hindsight the combo of night tag with a personal way to win was a great combo.
Blood pool. Both players start with 3 pool balls in each hand. After saying "3,2,1 Dommelsch" both players roll all of the balls at the center of the pool table as hard as they can. With pool balls flying everywhere, you keep grabbing another ball and rolling it across the table as fast as you can until all of the pool balls are in the pockets or on the floor. Then that's it. If you bleed, you lose I guess.
Gorilla. Biggest guy in the group has to close his and and yell "touch my chest!" Once you touch his chest, the gorilla can chase you around the house with his eyes closed and wrestle you to the ground. That's pretty much the whole game.
In all seriousness, we would just race around the playground. This was a tradition that had consistently been passed down at that school for several decades. It’s happened so much over the years that there’s dips from the wear from our shoes. We’d run 5 laps around the playground set. I always won.
We used to play "Kick the Can." Basically there would be an empty can (probably a beer can) in the middle of clearing with a goalie, everyone would run around and hide in bushes and try to kick the can, the goalie could catch them and they would have to go back to the boundaries, whoever kicked the can would be the new goalie. Wherever the can landed after being kicked was the new spot for it to stay, and it was most fun played on the dark! Some areas my friends lived in had tons of kids, so sometimes it got pretty crazy in the middle of a soccer field.
Mini trampoline behind the couch.
Pillows, cushions, and bean bags on the opposite side of the couch.
Running start, trampoline over the couch, pose mid-air while shouting the pose.
Hope you dont land on the couch, or overshoot and knock the TV on you.
Good times until my parents saw us bail and shit that shit down
We used to play "crack the egg" on the trampoline. One person would sit with their arms and legs crossed, and everyone else would jump around them trying to launch them enough that they unfurled their limbs to prevent dying on the edge of the trampoline.
So I have this really old Acer desktop pc in my home, we have no internet plug in it and only a few default windows game, some classic rts like the cossacks and starcraft, red alert (that were all mysteriously uninstalled for reasons unknown), disney games like platform game version of Hercules and lion kings etc
But there's one game that leave a lasting impression on me:
So I got bored of most of the game I have on the computer, and start opening randoms apps hoping one of them is a game, then I found one.
The game is called Drug Lord 2, as the name implies u play as a drug dealer and try to make lots of money in the span of 50 days (I hate the time limit thou)
The game is entirely text base and the UI design is just the default applet design u would expect in windows xp.
Basically, I have to buy drugs that has a moving price, check other cities drug price and fly to the ones with a higher price for the drugs I brought and sell it there. From time to time you will encounter enemies ranging from rats to airport security and have a turn base combat(you can buy weapons from some dealer).
I was sucked into the game half of the reason because it is the first time I played a simulation game and the other half is because I'm sick of doing gauntlet run with Hercules. I got a note book and borrow my mother's calculator and go full Asian Drug lord mode doing all thenmaths and calculations to get the highest profit in 50 days possible -- then made an unbearable high score due to a bug.
That year I grew more interests in maths and got a better score, I was 9. A few years later, I will learn how to type in english by getting addict to runescape.
Last year, out of boredom, I actually take some time and give it a search on google and actually found the game again, if you're interested in some old school trading sim, I'd definitely recommend this game.
TL;DR
Drug trading simulation game make me study maths
We played a game called "Huckle buckle beanstalk" at my grandparents' house all the time as kids. We had a toy rabbit, about 6" tall (the specific toy was unimportant). We would take turns hiding it somewhere in the room with the only requirement that at least half of the rabbit had to be plainly in view without touching or moving any other objects. Everyone would go look for the rabbit and once you saw it you had to shout "Huckle buckle beanstalk" and then go sit down and wait for everyone else to do the same or give up. Then the first person who eyed the rabbit retrieved it (to prove they actually saw it) and took their turn hiding it.
budw1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Extreme Wars". turn all the lights off, blankets over the windows, make it pitch black in the room. 3,2,1 GO!!! everyone just blindly throwing whatever they find. i remember VHS tapes were one of the more common things thrown. yes, we broke A LOT of stuff. yes, we got hurt (nothing serious though).
We called this game 'the 1000'. It was the ultimate fun game for me and my sister. We would get prepared for the battle like real fighters (bandanas and stuff), pick a pillow as a weapon and go into our parents room, on the master bed and fight!
We had rules though. No hair pulling! The only rule. After a long time we would get out exhausted with nail marks on our skin and smiles on our faces... Doesn't sound any fun or civil but we would laugh throughout the whole game. We enjoyed fake fights very much.
Mom would usually caught us and woop our asses but we loved it and even plan our next 'the 1000' game in secret.
I'm late to this party, but the memories are too fond not to share. I actually have 2 games, and I didn't see them mentioned.
"Candy wrapper game"
We would take a a wrapper from a hard candy, like one found on a dinner mint, flatten as best as we could, and drop it from as high a location as we could muster on a playground. The goal was for someone to catch it before it hot the ground. The wrinkles, light weight, and slightest of breezes would have it flipping all over. A good breeze could carry it across the playground. If you caught the paper you were the next thrower.
"Pencil Shooter"
On rainy days, all players would father around a piece of paper. Each player makes a small circle around the edge. In turn, players would use one finger on the eraser and the pencil tip on their dot, and lean their finger to a side forcing the pencil to fall in a direction. The resulting line on the paper would be your move, and your new dot at the end of the line. The goal was to strike a line through your opponents dot in order to "kill" them. Last kid standing wins.
My little sister and I would climb up onto our fence and walk from backyard to backyard along it at night (everyone's fences were connected). Our neighbors next door had a huge play structure with a swing so we'd hop down into their yard to swing on it trying not to be detected. Our other neighbors had pet birds outside and we'd hop down to play with them. Our parents had no idea we were doing this. When one of us wanted to play, we'd ask the other "do you want to go to Chucky Cheese's?" That was our code word. We taught our other sister how do climb and balance when she was old enough, and then I grew up and got too heavy for the fence to support me :(
Dinosaur tail. I invented it in primary school when I was around 5.
Basically everyone had to hold on to the coat or jumper of the person in front, in sort of a giant conga line. The lead person would have to run around dragging the line of people behind them, speeding up, slowing down and changing direction in an attempt to make someone let go and break the tail. The person who lets go becomes the person at the front of the line, and the game continues until everyone is bored or the teacher watching the playground shouted at us for 'breaking' our coats.
Nearly 20 years later I went to pick my friends daughter up from the same primary school. What were they playing in the playground? Dinosaur tail! I was very surprised!
My friend and I played a game we called "buddies". The narrative was that we were friends who lived together and worked together.
We'd start our "day" by pretend waking up, going to work, working, bringing all the money to our secret bank accounts, (we were secretly rich and going to surprise our poor families with a bunch of money all at once), we'd then watch a scary movie on the gas meter, and go to sleep.
Perhaps the most unique thing about the buddies was that we shared dreams. So after watching a pretend scary movie on the gas meter, we'd have pretend scary dreams in the back yard.
Then we'd wake up for work.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
IRA manhunt
One team is provos, the other's paras
The provos come up with a word and each person on their team is given a letter
The paras Hunt them down and beat the letters out of them
Ghost in the graveyard...whoever is "it" hides somewhere in a cemetary, unknown to everyone but one person(the guide). The guide then walks the group of players around as if in a tour group, making up fake back stories for the names on the tombstones until they come to whoever is it, who then jumps out and scares everyone and chases them back to base. Whoever gets caught is the next one to be it, and the person who was it becomes the guide for the next round.
It never really had a name but my parents call it "hello hello", basically we'd be walking somewhere and I'd trail behind them a bit and then kinda jog up next to them and go "hello! I'm just on a jog!" and pretend like we were strangers. I remember doing this a lot. (I was like 3/4/5 something like that)
rwilkz · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foot wrestling. 2 opponents lie on their backs, knees bent, soles of the feet touching. Ideally on a 3 person couch so the armrests can act as bolstered. Using only your feet you have to push the other persons feet down til they are bent up like a pretzel. You win.
My brother's and I used to play this weird booby trap game. We'd set up one of our bedrooms to be a maze of trip wires, proximity mines, alarms, and imaginary lasers, then hide something as a piece of treasure that we needed to get, without setting off the traps.
The thing is, the other person has to leave the room so they don't see you set the traps. And they could be made from anything and when set off the "defender" would just make a loud fail buzzer sound. So a random action figure you didn't set up could suddenly have lasers coming out of its eyes just because you noticed he stepped in front of it. My dumb ass 6 year old self didn't think of that, but there's no way of knowing how much my older brothers cheated.
Socketball. It was basically just people making a goal post out of their arms and others trying to throw or kick a ball through it. It was dumb, but of course our school eventually had it banned
My dad is currently in the military, so eventually, I got to live in Okinawa, Japan. The area I lived in was next to a cul-de-sac of houses so there were plenty of other kids there as well. And the curfew was a lot later(Like midnight), since the crime rate was very low. So we would play a game called “Manhunt.” So there were two teams of players, one team hid, and the other would seek them out and tag them. Once the person was tagged, they would have to go inside the center of the cul-de-sac where they would either wait until the end of the game, or until another player from their team tagged them so they could escape. Now that I think about it, it’s a lot more like Cops and robbers, but I’m just glad I was able to play it with before I devolved into spending my time online.
I was an only child and wasn't allowed to make friends with kids in the neighborhood. But I had tons of movies, so I would put one on, pick a character, and sort of shadowcast to my empty bedroom. Costumes would often be involved. It was like playing with imaginary friends but with sound effects.
We made up a game called “you decide game” and it was basically just make up an OC (that wasn’t a term we knew back then) and pretend to be that person.
Okay maybe it wasn’t so unique, but it was fun and the backstories of some of the characters would get pretty deep.
Some friends and I would put on carpet skates, which are these shoe attachments that made them really slippery on carpets, then we would slide around my basement with exercising balls and have wars. Surprisingly no one got hurt
Our game at school was affectionally known as 'Mugbee'. It was a cross between rugby and mugging (not traditionally known as a sport). Basically played with a football and you had to hold onto it as long as you could without ending up in hospital. If you didnt possess the ball, your objective was to get it off the person who did using any method at your disposal. No teams, just individual players. Sometimes we would have 100s of kids playing every lunch break. The person who held the ball for the longest amount of time was considered the champion for that session. Speed and evasive agility were the key traits required. The look of fear on some kids faces when the ball spilled out to them and they realised they were about to get gang tackled was priceless. Good times.
Me and my sisters would make "soft dirt" by putting dirt into a sifter or we would play restaurant and make tacos out of leaves and sticks. We were poor lol.
Sjf715 · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvinball...eh, just messing. I could never figure out the rules.
I have two that come to mind. One was “grenade”; a friend of mine had this small plastic bowling set and we would sit at each end of her small hallway, close all the doors, and then just whip the pins and balls at each other, the balls being the grenades because they hurt like all hell. The other one didn’t have a name as far as I remember, but four friends and I would turn the lights off, one person goes on each end of the bed, and then you all run at each other and try to knock each other off the bed. I ended up once chipping my friends tooth by accidentally kicking her in the face.
Final Fantasy Tactics on the DS.. dude that shit was so challenging but fun trying to get all your favorite characters leveled up and evolved!!! Absolutely loved it and it remains one of my fondest childhood memory’s!
Abusive Pokemon trainer. My brother and cousin would be Pokemon and I'd be a bad trainer. I'd tell them to do stupid things, pick "fights" with Pokemon they had no chance of beating, and had this soft, stuffed something (I'm really not sure what it was) that I'd hit them with.
My dad would have me hide on the floor of the front seat of the car (in the 70's before seat belts were mandatory) and drive me around the city until I lost all sense of direction and location. Then I'd get back in the passenger seat and it would be up to me to give directions to get home.
My little sister and I played "ninja granny" growing up. She would ride her scooter to the "crosswalk" where I, the granny, would slowly hobble across the street. Once I got close enough to her, I would become a ninja and attack her. It was basically just a way to fight her without getting into trouble. She thought it was hilarious.
Two games come to mind: Independence Day - Basically a dodge-ball war where you had to take out each other with balls. One of us was the "mothership" and they had to be protected by the "Alien" team.
The other was "Hot Lava and Devil Man" it was pretty much a LARP game we played as kids that had drama and one on one "fighting" with make shift weapons and "powers" you had to fight your way up the chain to get to Hot Lava and Devil Man.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just lined up, pulled our pants down and tried to see who could piss the furthest. The taller kids had an obvious range advantage so we made them piss on ther knees to make it fair. There was one girl in our little neighborhood group who sometimes hung out with us. One time she stabbed a small hole in the cap of her disposable plastic water bottle, stuck it between her thighs and squeezed on it to force a stream out of the cap end. Good times.
We were only like 7-10 years old so don't judge us too harshly
Group of guys would pelt a tennis ball at the wall and a different guy would try to catch it. If he fumbled it or if a ball touched someone, they would have to run and tag the wall otherwise players would pelt them as hard as they could with the tennis ball.
My brother and I called it beach. He would roll a set of shuffleboard discs (X=8) down our hill, while I would stand with a shuffleboard poll trying to block them before they made it to the beach. If any of them made it all the way down to the wall and fell on the beach, he would win. If not, I would.
Then he would yell BEACH BEACH BEACH and 8 yr old me would start to cry. Classic.
Mega-Tennis. Our school had a 4 court set up, 2 in each fenced in area, side by side. So we would play where one set of 2 courts was a side, and the 15' fence between the areas was the net. You got 2 bounces as opposed to one. It was exhausting.
D3Y3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bullies and Nerds. The bullies were on the ground with dodgeballs, and the nerds were on the trampoline dodging the bullies.
Felt like we were in the Matrix lol
D18 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grew up going to church every Sunday. A bunch of bored kids around my age made up a sort of turn-based tag game. To start, everyone started bunched up together in the middle of the gym, then jump outward to get some space from each other. You were allowed to move each foot once on your turn. You would basically take a giant step, pivot on that foot, and giant step your other foot. Then you'd wait for your next turn. You'd usually end up almost in the splits because you'd reach so far to make the most of your movement. You could get someone out by stepping on their foot, or by getting them to move when it wasn't their turn. If someone was going to step on your foot you could use your turn immediately, but it would forfeit your next turn.
When we made up the game we asked "Should we give it a name?" and one of the kids said "How 'bout no?" and then for years we'd all go play How 'Bout No.
In the elementary school, my friend and I were really into horses and riding (both if us still are, to be fair), so we would gather up a bunch if pine needles and make tiny jumping courses and then gallop around jumping over them. It was pretty fucking lame
Someone would place a toothpick at the bottom of the pool and let it slowly rise to the top. Everyone had to wait outside and once the toothpick was spotted they would try to grab it as they dove in (you were not allowed to grab it once you were already in the water, if you missed you had to get back out and try to dive for it again). Whoever caught it gets a point and is the next to place the toothpick at the bottom of the pool.
I was 10 when Kennedy was assassinated.
My brothers and I played a game where two of us would play Secret Service agents, one would play the President, and one would play the assassin. The agents would escort the Prez from the rear bathroom down the hall to the bedroom and the assassin would try to jump out and shoot the Prez before being stopped by the SS agents.
This had to be pretty unique.
In middle school my friends and I played “Murder Ball.”
It was basically “butts-up” but with a raquet ball. A raquet ball is a thick rubber ball a little bigger than a golfball
If you touch the ball without catching it, you had to run and tag the wall but someone else could pick up the ball peg you touched the wall.
When it started going around school, a lot of people wanted to play. We told all the newbies that in order to play there was an initiation.
The initiation was: you stand nose to the wall and i crow-hop through the rubber ball as hard as i can into your back. Most of them didnt know i was a baseball pitcher at the time. Most kids didnt keep playing.
My dad was Charlie Force Recon, Marine Corps. so you can imagine he was pretty hardcore. He was openly vocal about his pride as "A KILLER!!!"
So when we were wee lads (my younger brother and I), dad would play 'camoflage' with a pellet gun pumped "...only three times" which of course was a lie because I would get snapped on my ass painfully when he would find us from a distance.
We were required to dress in child sized combat fatigues and boonies and we got 5-10 minutes to apply natural foliage to our camo and hide. Dad would play the "Patrolling Enemy" and would saunter into the 5 acre forest/field that was on our property and talk loudly like he was with other soldiers. He would impersonate chinese communists, russian communists, and of course Marines. If he thought he saw us he would "put a round through em" (bb).
The goal though was to "kill" him. He supplied us with rubber kbars, and if we could legitimately sneak up on him and stab his vital areas then we got McDonalds. Sometimes one of us would try to stab dad, and he would swing around with the muzzle of his bb gun at us. He would scream."GET DOWN MAGGOT ON THE GROUND NOW HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD MAGGOT LAY DOW LAY DOWN LAY DOWN.....DON'T SPEAK YOU PUKE STAY DOWN!!!!!!"
Then dad would point the bb rifle at the one of us that was caught, and then he would imitate a nazi german accent and begin "leveraging human assets" against the survivor..."YOU HAVE ZTHREE ZECONDS TO APPEAR, OR I VILL KILL YOUR BRUDER...ZREE...TU...VUN...." snap..goes the bb gun and brother is "dead". Then I would lose because I lost my partner.
But sometimes we got the kill, and successfully ambushed dad and took him out silent and deadly, tale his rifle, then execute the mission. "The mission", was to then hide the body, so we would cover him with branches and grass, then we had to proceed to a designated position behind our house. From there, dad had stapled paper plates with orange highlighter to several places across the backyard. The backyard was several acres and had quite a few old growth evergreens, it was beautiful.
We had binoculars and we would identify together the targets, and then we had to find a path and remain hidden from view to get to within bb range. Dad would at this point be a referee and had a steel whistle on a leather strap around his neck. He would judge our movements and blow the whistle if we didnt worm flat enough to the ground or were too obvious in our movements and we would have to go back and try again.
Once we successfully moved to bb range, we would then have to hit the target with one of us playing spotter with the binoculars. Each target was worth a dollar. So in an afternoon we could get McDonalds and earn a few bucks doing it.
Bunt baseball. In my garage we set up a minibasbeball field. It was 1v1 and you could only bunt. It went through alterations of rules like how hard you can throw. When we got heated we would pitch as fast as we could and try and bunt off that. And then you would peg someone to get them out. There was nothing better then the adrenaline from getting a bunt and try not to get pegged
Break-away: My brother and I would get 5 minutes to collect as many suitable sticks as possible. When the 5 minutes were up we would then take the sticks and hit them against trees causing the end piece to fly off in the other competitors direction. This game resulted in many cuts and a lot of matrix like near misses.
Basically we all put on 3 pairs of socks and got on our hands and knees. We moved the furniture so there would be a big open space, then we would crawl around and try to pull each other’s socks off. But you had to grab them one at a time. Last one standing wins!
My cousins and I used to play “The Pickle Game” with my Uncle. I know, I know, sounds worse than it is lol.
Premise is that my uncle is a shopkeeper and we want pickles. He has none and when he is eventually forced to tell us that, we would all hop over whatever was being used as the store counter and attack him. So basically we were just trying to beat him up but had the tension of having to wait for him to say “we are all out of pickles” but before he did he would come up with as many things that start w a P and are found in grocery stores as he could.
“I’m very sorry but we’re all out of pistachios”
“Are you deaf old man, we said we want pickles!”
“Ahh I’m sorry, but as it turns out we have no more pumpkins in stock” and on and on. Was great fun, until we got too big to actually play that vicious game. 😂 I have very fond memories of this game.
Me with my younger brother and sister used to play a game we called The Flintstones. If you remember the opening theme song you see Fred when he gets to work and a bird "punches" Fred's timecard by biting it. One of us would be in the bedroom closet and someone would stick one of my dad's baseball cards from his childhood collection through one of the slits on the closet door so the other one could bite it. Looking back now we could have been sitting on a gold mine of 60's baseball cards but we were dumbass kids. Our father wasn't impressed
At my grandmas house we would build bunkers at each end of the hallway using foam fold-up beds. All my cousins and I balled our socks up and had sock wars, throwing them at each other until we were worn out. Great fun.
Covered ourselves in a blanket in a wheelbarrow and we would wheel eachother the area and the other person would have to guess where we were. Sometimes we would wheel the wheelbarrow into some strangers house and take off and the other person would get out and realize they were in a strange backyard.
Involves the use of cardboard and tape to create winger, rotored or other suits, then jumping off a chair, flapping wildly, then arguing for hours about whether "it worked a bit".
Not as a child, but in our 20's a group of us would use our cars and play hide and seek. 1 car would hide, and the other 5 vehicles would seek. We used busy streets for the boundaries and every 20 minutes the hides would call the seekers with clues.
Wave57 · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bash Cars.
This game was the shit, me and my brothers would collect all of our hot wheels and line them up. We would take two cars and bash them against each other until one car flipped over, either fully upside down or on it's side. Of both cars flipped it was a rematch, if one flipped on it's side, and the other on it's back, the car flipped on it's side would win. We did this for hours, and would have a huge tournament for it. When we went through it, the losers would get lined up for the next one, so there definitely was a seeding element of sorts.
We had to ban a couple cars eventually, cause they would always win. One that comes to mind wasn't even a hot wheels car but it was a mini Flinstones car, that was bulky as hell. Nothing was going to stop that behemoth. Fred had strong legs let me tell you. Literally undefeated.
Ouisch · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One memorable summer the city was paving a couple of roads near the end of our subdivision (the roads had previously been gravel, and prior to this we had great fun hiding in the ditches). There were huge piles of soil/sand all over the place at the construction intersection (they were also installing a sewer system, hence the huge amount of dirt dug out), and on weekends (or after 5PM on weekdays; basically any time after all the workers had left) a bunch of us kids would take our bikes (pretty much thick-tired basic Schwins, although I remember two kids that had those fancy 5-speed rides) and push them up to the top of each dirt hill. Then we'd try to stay seated as we skidded this way and that downhill. Of course we often lost control and fell of our bikes and rolled down the rest of the way. I remember coming home covered in filth and Mom asking "What in the world have you been up to?!!" "Nothing," I'd reply innocently. At that time Cedar Point, the giant amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, (about a three hour drive from our locale in Detroit) had recently opened and was advertised heavily on TV. None of us had been there, but we christened our private little amusement area "Dirt Point". That was our rallying cry that summer - "Hey, I'll meet you at Dirt Point!!"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's pretty much tag, but when you tag a person; instead of them chasing you, you have to beat each other up. I used to love playing that at recess. Even though each game ended with the teacher yelling at us.
my younger sister and i had a creek behind our house. we'd make a habit of trekking as far down the creek as we could, and she was always curious about the flora and fauna we found. so, being the responsible older sister i was, i pretended to be some kind of expert and told her about all the plants and animals, usually with names i had made up. "ah yes, those are the common water-walker bugs... the dog-hair grass..." etc. etc. it went well until my sister thought the cloud moss was really pretty and we brought a bucket down and filled my mom's bathtub with it. that put a stop to things pretty quickly. (p.s. i was like 10 don't judge)
My cousins and I used to play catch the flag, but with one of us in place of the flag, and no clear playing field so we could just run anywhere and hide with whoever was the “flag”. Really only played it once or twice, since it ended in us dislocating our youngest cousins shoulder and a hospital trip.
We would each draw a fortress on opposite sides of a sheet of paper with cannons. then attempt to "shoot" the opponents cannons to win. Shooting was accomplished by standing your pencil on it's tip, putting the point of the pencil on your own cannon and then with one finger on the eraser, pushing the pencil down. if the pencil mark traveled all the way to the opposing cannon it was destroyed.
LT71 · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike tag basically we bust crashed bikes into each other only thing is you could throw stuff and hit each other as well
We played a game called flamingo. A childhood friend made it up. Kind of complicated. The basic idea was that you had to throw a tennis ball into a small inflatable pool to score. The thrower had three tennis balls and can only throw one at a time underhand. The goalie had to retrieve the balls and throw them back from where they landed. The goalie also had one of those hand held jai Lai ball thrower things as a goalie stick. The basic premise was that you would have to end up making ridiculous diving saves because you had to run back to defend the pool after throwing the ball.
Stupid game me and my siblings made up. I remember we even made a guide for the game and rules. I can't remember exactly how the game goes, but I'll try my best to remember. I played this with both of my siblings at my grandma's house, who has quite a big property with a bunch of walls, a couple of sheds with small pathways between them and a bunch of obstacles. All three of us all had a base, quite far from each other. The base was a marked part, that we marked before we started playing. On your base there was a box, with I think four pairs of your own shoes, at the start of the game. There also had to be an empty box on your base. You were allowed to take one shoe of the other person at a time. If you were on their property with one of their shoes, and they saw you, the person had to say something and you have to drop it. If you weren't on the other person's property, that person was allowed to run after you, and tag you to get that person's shoe back. When you got to your own base with someone else's shoe, you had to put it in the empty box. You weren't allowed to take out your own shoe out of someone else's "empty box", but you were allowed to take the other person's shoe. You were allowed to make agreements behind other peoples back, for distracting or something, and even just screw them over by making a double agreement or something.
I am probably forgetting a lot of rules, but it was quite fun to play. It took about 30 minutes per round. Now that I write it,bit sounds quite boring, but back then it was really fun though. I have always wondered if there is a game like this that already exists...
Taped a pair is scissors to the ceiling fan then everyone hid behind furniture and turned the fan on. My mom hated us. The scissors embedded themselves into the wall and pictures and stuff. We were terrible kids.
Xyver · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play ninja tag on the playground. It was a variation of grounders (whoever's it has their eyes closed, the people running away can't touch the floor and can only touch the playground), but we all cheated at grounders too much so we changed the rules.
Everyone has their eyes open, noone can touch the ground. If you're it and touch the ground, freeze for 5 sec, and everyone else can touch the ground while you're frozen. If you're not it and touch the ground, freeze for 10 sec
We played this for a long time... Well into our teenage years, we'd even drive around to find the best playgrounds for it.
My sister, and step brother who are both 4 years older than me would play a game back when I was about 2. I still remember most of it, we called it "Spy." Not sure why but my sister was a mage and I was melee. We had a lot of props so it was really easy to get immersed in the imagine. My step brother would role as the moderator. He played as the quest guide, enimies, you name it. When I think about "childhood", Spy is the first thing I think about. It was great, we used anything and everything we could inside and outside. The sad part was when they grew out of playing with me about five years later but im suprised it went that long. I truly miss childhood.
"Who can be the quietest" now I realise it was a way that my family would get my siblings and I to be quiet. Didn't really work, most of the time the game would end in arguments over who really was the quietest.
My sister made up a game called "Snake in the Grass". We all stood in a circle while someone told a story. At any time in the story they said the words snake in the grass, we all broke into a game of tag. Whoever the story teller caught was the next person to make up a story.
A friend of mine and I would play "Frebreze Tag" where we would each be armed with a bottle of frebreze and turn the lights off. When we would locate the other in the hallway, we would then spray the crap out of each other. By the end of it, we smelled incredible but were just as damp.
Winner was decided based on whose clothes were dryer.
My sibling and I used to take newspaper ads from our house and deliver them to our neighbor's front doors to share the savings. It seemed like we were the only house with papers always on our front door so I had the brilliant idea to share the wealth. Sorry neighbors.
School Handball. Not European handball but any NZ or Aus will know what it is. Pretty much the rules are different at every school I’ve ever been at, making it pretty unique.
Eg. The ball can bounce threw you square on one bounce and if it goes into someone else’s square with out you touching it, it’s fine and the game continues as if you hit in their square.
Also using footballs and feet instead of a handball and hands.
After it snowed we would arrive early at school and make a maze in the snow. Then we could play tag inside the maze we made. If it didn't snow more we would end up making huge mazes throughout the days and play with 20 to 30 kids at a time.
When our mom wasn’t home my sister and I would take a twin mattress and ride it down the stairs, tug back up and do it all over again. Fun stuff until you hear the garage door open and frantically try to put the mattress back in place before she gets in the house.
My two twin brother and I used to put up two hot wheels race tracks side by side and race two cars down at the same time. The winner would move on until we had the fastest car champion. We had around 100 matchbox cars and we would do this over and over again.
5-cus · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I plus several neighborhood kids would play sort of a modified version of baseball in our backyard, except the batter was swinging on our swing set and the ball was a giant 4 ft inflatable rubber ball that the pitcher would lob at the swinger who would kick it. The kicker would have to vault off the swing after the kick and run to the end of our yard and back before the opposing team hit them with the ball. We had so much fun with this we played it multiple years in a row.
Hay wars. At my primary school we used to go onto the field and grab all the recently chopped grass that was long and looked like hay. Kids would generally team up and make clans were they would stand the hay to build walls or make igloos out of it. The game grew very fast until nearly every on sun the school was playing and it got very violent t with kids charging each others bases and stealing the now limited hay. This would go on until someone got hurt and then we had to stop. Until the grass was mowed again ...
Monkey Champ. We would hang on the monkey bars and face to face and with only the use of our legs we would try to pull the other person off of the bars. Not always a peaceful game..
My sister and I used to have blanket fights. We would cover ourselves with full size blankets and wrestle until we were sweating. Kinda gross but tons of fun!
We used to play Nook when we were real young. Essentially, our older Brother sat in the corner of his bed (corner of the room too) and we piled all the pillows and cushions in the house in the corner his bed was pointed in
When our brother said "Nook" my sister and I would rush onto the bed to remove as many pillows as possible. No holds barred.
If you get knocked off, you're out until it's over.
If we both end up on the floor, our brother won. If we got all the pillows off the bes, we won.
The best time was when my brother and I were having a tug 'O war with the last cushion on the bed, (he held one corner in his hands, I held another corner in my teeth) and we pulled so hard it burst open. I fell off as a result, but I count it as a win.
We made up a game called Pegball. It’s played in the pool with two to three people and four balls and it’s essentially pool-based dodgeball with an elaborate points-for-hits system, so you’re basically aiming at the other person’s face.
Me and my sister came up with a game called Tag Tag. It was pretty simple, when you're on a trampoline, usually the round ones, they typically have tags that were on the spring guards on either end. The point of the game was for one person to be "it" and the other people would have to try to go back and forth from one tag on the trampoline to the other without getting tagged by the person that was it. It could only really be played with three or more people though, as the trampoline was not really big enough to get away from anyone for too long.
My friends and I used to play a game called "barricade". We had a play room with tons of mattresses which connected to the family room by a long narrow corridor with a door at the end. There were two teams and the defenders tried to block or the door with mattresses and defend it from the attackers making it into the room. We had some great 4v4s, but the door began to detach from the wall and we broke off the door handle from one side so we were banned from playing it.
This might be too much of an actual game but: Lightball
There was a streetlight out front on a pole maybe 25 feet tall. Stand under the light and take turns throwing a tennis ball up at it. The scoring varied, but it was usually something like 1 point for hitting the wires. 2 for getting it between the low and high wires without touching them. 5 points for hitting the light sconce itself. 10 and the game ends if you hit the sconce and the light goes out (if the light comes back on within a minute or so, the game resumes and it's only the same 5 points)
We'd play for hours. Or minutes. All depended on the athletes that showed up that night.
My friend was the youngest of an uper-middle class family in the suburbs. He lived at the top of the hill, and the bottom of the hill was a forested dead end. So it basically our private racetrack. This kid had a ton of things with wheels. There were those Tyke Cars, radio flyer wagons, some crazy 6 wheel bus thing with a steering wheel coming out the top, assorted scooters, bicycles and tricycles. Some of them were modified by previous generations for speed. Wheels and tires and bearings from other things. It was our own gravity drawstring. At the bottom of the hill, the road stopped and there was a metal barricade and pine trees behind that. So, not OSHA approved.
Not really unique... But running the local stormwater drains. Roughly 1km long in 2 different directions. Now they're locked up behind steel cages so kids of today don't get to experience the joy of toying with death-by-drowning.
sarz37 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
kick the can
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late to the thread but me and my sister used to get inside a box and roll down the stairs inside it. Supised we didn't end up with any broken bones lol. We also used to ride pillows down the stairs, and sleds down the basement stairs.
So me and my brothers, me being the youngest, would play wiffle ball in the backyard. I didn't want to play as much as they did so we played "Pin Zach down to the ground and threaten to spit on him unless he plays."
Clid51 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek tag, but you had a ball you could throw to tag someone. The safe spot you were trying to reach as a hider was our friends open garage.
We’d play for HOURS since in Vegas the light pollution keeps it bright without the sun.
I lived in a neighborhood with a ton of kids (like 15 kids but it felt like 45) all around the same age in the 90's. I remember when inflatable furniture was popular, and every kid in the neighborhood had a different version of the inflatable chair. There was a hole between the seat and the back of the chair that we would squeeze our torso through so the seat of the chair would cover the front of our body. Then we would 'Sumo Wrestle' aka run at each other at high speeds and bounce off each other. We did it for about a week, and then some kid lost, cried, and told his mom he got hurt (he didn't though) and we had to stop. We revamped the game temporarily when everyone got Sock-em-boppers. I miss the 90's
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bowling for Feet"
I was super creative with names in 4th grade (9-10 years old).
Grab a kickball or dodgeball. Get a really long swingset. Fill the swings, put 1 kid on each end of the swingset. Roll the ball down the middle so it would go under each individual swing if they were still. Whichever swinger touches it as it goes by has to give up their swing to the person who rolled it and is now rolling it. Goal of the game is to stay in a swing as long as you can (until recess is over).
Fucking teachers made us stop playing it. Don't know why, it was fun as shit.
Played spear wars at the age of like 12 for about 30 minutes before parents dident think is was a good idee to throw long sharpened sticks at each other.
I played a game called sock golf in our house... basically you get a big bowl (popcorn bowl) and each of my family members would take turns placing where you put the bowl anywhere in the house. Then the same person would choose where you start from. The person would could throw their socks into the bowl in the least amount of throws would win the round and get to pick the next spot. Loved that game.
We played a game called capture the fleece. The basic premise was to capture a shirt. My cousin(who was older and just playing along) would act like a monster and we’d have to sneak into the room he was in without “waking him up” and take the fleece
I played a lot of Pokémon as a kid so my friends and I liked this Pokémon named corphish and in my friends house his living room connected to his kitchen in one side and the area where his front door was located on the other side, and we’d play the “Corphish game” when we got really bored and essentially there’s a corphish, with two pillows, one in each hand, and the goal of the other players was to run from kitchen to door area without getting hit, no point system, no outs or resets, if you get smacked by the corphish you just eat it and keep going and hope they don’t get you with the other hand.
We had a game in middle school that we called nazi frisbee (not proud of that name but 14 year old me thought it was funny)
Basically dodgeball played with frisbees on an open field. If you had a frisbee, you couldn't walk or run (you got three steps if you caught it)
If a frisbee hit a player or was dropped, the player lost the part of the body it last touched. Getting hit in the back, chest, or head resulted in death. Lower torso lost both legs. Winner was the last person left with at least one limb.
Games would devolve into a bunch of preteens angrily flinging frisbees at each other with their non-dominant hands while hopping on one foot.
It was great fun. We played just about every weekend from 7th grade up through 12th.
1 time around 8 years old played house with a male and female neighbor, in said game the other 2 were married and played legit house but then she would come over to where I was and we would just make out the whole time. Is it normal to be that young and have pretend affairs? Lol
Living Room Football:
Played on your knees and a pillow for protection
Same rules apply as regular football but only four downs to score.
Goal-line stances were intense!
allute · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it classifies as a game, but there was something we did in grade school where you'd sit across from a partner, holding hands with your arms crossed and theirs straight. The person holding your hands would have you close your eyes and picture a hallway with many doors of various colors and sizes. You'd continue exploring doors. There would be recurring characters that several people swear to have seen including a teacher who would torture you and write an F on the black board in your blood. I kept seeing a clown who would pull hankercheifs out his pocket, set them on fire and throw them on you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to stand on the armrest of our couch (long couch) and throw the cushions at each other to see who would fall off the arm rest first.
I’m a twin. We called it dogshit. Barefoot on the grass out back. Hands on each other’s shoulders facing each other. And then used to try push each other to step in dog shit.... we never did. But was hilarious.
A friend and I would bring our bikes and giant pointy sticks to an open field then go to opposite ends, yell go! Then try to out chicken each other while throwing our spears at the opponent's spokes.
A clock it want fun tho my mum sead that i have to puch the arm of a clock every 60 sec a dot
Ma3zer · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "piggly wiggly". When we went to family parties the adults had a room for coats and the kids would lay the coats on the floor. All of us would hide under the coats except one person who is the "it person". The "it person" would wait outside the room while everyone hid under the coats and then would come in and touch the top of the coat. If you were laying under that part of the coat you discreetly had to say "piggly wiggly" and the "it person" would have one guess to figure out who it was. If they were wrong they would keep playing but if they were right you would switch places.
We had a game called ball tag, where, in my grandmothers circular basement, we would run around and throw a yoga ball at each other to tag whoever got hit. This was when we were all around 7-12, so the ball was pretty much 3/4 of our heights.
Chip chip golf. Started it in 5th grade with some buddies. Might have been done before, but same concept as putt putt but we would use buckets and random things to chip over. Really helped my short game.
My family lived kind of in the middle of no where so when we turned off all the lights it would be pitch black in the living room. My mom, brother, sister and I would empty out the room and then turn all the lights off. We would crawl around the room and attack each other blindly with blankets and pillows. Sometimes a car would drive by outside and light the living room up and we would all go running at each other. The game only ended when someone got hurt and started crying hahahaha. Sometimes our dogs would join in. My mom still talks about how much fun she had playing that game with us.
Me and my brother and step brother used to play a game we called “Mini Fighters”. We had a loft conversion so the room was pretty big. The game was that you had to be in a crouched or kneeling position at all times and you could only hop or roll to move. We built large forts out of pillows and other bedroom furniture that we hid behind and then we had to “fight” by throwing bean bags and other soft objects at each other like grenades. If you got hit then the other fighter could attempt to destroy your base however there was always 3 of us so this was difficult not to get hit before you got to the other base. We had lots of fun playing this game though I don’t think my dad always approved as we’d bang on the floor a lot as we hopped and rolled around!
R_Carr · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to throw a football onto my roof and then try to catch it when it bounced off at a weird angle. Why yes, I was an only child.
There was a large ditch in between 2 septic fields in our rural ontarian ementery school. Thr object of the game was pretty simple, it was tag. We would run from one side of the ditch to the other while the person who was 'it' had to stay in the ditch. Once you were tagged you went into the ditch and the other person became a runner again.
We spiced it up with taunts, such as singing the bill nye theme song while walking slowly accross, or standing in the ditch and acting as bait so others could cross safely.
Little late but I have to share,
Me and my sister would play doctor but it involved blowing into each other’s eye while holding it open. Why? I have no fucking clue
“What’s in the toilet roll?” When Me or my mum were in the bath, one of us would hide something from the bathroom inside of the tube bit of the toilet roll, whoever was guessing would have to look around the bathroom and guess what it was. A bit like eye spy I guess except you’re trying to figure what is now missing from your view.
Lorali · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game which we called ‘the spastic game’. I’m not sure where the name came from though.
So what we would do, is after we’d been put to bed we would both sneak out and see how close we could get to the adults without being seen or heard. They were usually at the dining table playing cards. Of course we’d get caught, yelled at and told to get to bed. Rinse and repeat until we got smacked.
We called it “Wormies” stand in a sleeping bag, arms inside. Ram into each other to knock your opponent over. We did a 1v1 bracket. Last one standing wins Wormies
We played this in the playground on recess at a young age. Basically it was guys versus girls. The guys found one of the girls. If they tagged her she would end up in the homebase, which was one of four or five series of foundational poles under the playground. She'd have to stay at the homebase touching one of the poles. Only another girl could free the captured girl or girls by retagging them in the homebase. But the homebase was guarded by one or two guys so they would run the risk of getting tagged themselves.
We called it Kick the Can. You setup a coffee can somewhere in the yard and take turns kicking a soccer ball at it. After each kick, if it wasn't hit, you'd kick the ball from where the ball stopped last. Each time you knocked over the can, you got a point.
We had a nice cliff i the forest by our school when I was young, so every recess we ran out there, grabbed our signature sticks and re-imagined the defence of Helms cliff. We were almost 20 kids doing this every time we got a break!
Butt Bumpers. Start at the top of stairs sitting down. Slide down a stair, when your butt hits the next stair, scream "BUTT BUMPERS!" repeat until you hit the bottom and crack your ass.
My sister and I loved grabbing random items around the house and performing full on infomercials for them. We also loved recording super weird talk shows on tape cassettes.
No, wait, hear me out on this! It wasn’t just red light, green light— we had yellow light, which meant you had to walk heel-toe to the signaller. And blue light, which meant the police were coming, so hit the deck. And disco light, which meant surprise dance party. And orange light, which meant the sun was burning your eyes. And black light, which meant night time so go to sleep. And purple light, and polka dot light, and pink light... I don’t remember what they did, and I have no idea how many other lights I’m forgetting, but we kids were lining up to play this.
I remember my family would have bonfires in our backyard and we would invite the neighborhood kids over as well. We would play this game called “Green Eyes” and it would start with a scary urban legend about a monster with green eyes. One person is Green Eyes and has to hide somewhere in the front or backyard. There was a designated “safe zone” and at the beginning of the game everyone who isn’t green eyes would turn their backs and count out loud, and we always counted in this style “one o clock, two o clock, three o clock rock, five o clock, six o clock, seven o clock rock, all the way to midnight and we would all yell “midnight!” Then it was up to everyone to split up and find green eyes. If green eyes is found you’re supposed to yell “Green Eyes!” Then you run back to the safe zone before they can tag you, the first person caught is green eyes. Us kids LOVED this game, our parents however hateddd it cuz of the yelling and screaming all night, so much fun though!!
Rufus the Retarded Rabbit.
You get a sheet drapped over you and you spin in a cricle, as you spinning somone throws a pingpong ball into the room. You then get on your hands and knees and crawl around trying to find the ball. Meanwhile 3 to 4 other people are mercilessly wailing on you with pillows. It doesnt sound that bad but once the pillows fluff gets compressed into the bottoms it starts getting bad. one friend got a concussion, and i cracked a wall with my body after 3 people hit me in the side at the same time. Literally threw me into the wall. I dont remember anyone ever winning this.
the pain game. we had a trampoline and everyone who was playing got on it. you could throw no punches, kick no kicks, but if you said ow, you had to get off. anything else was fair game. noogies, indian burns, fish hooks, knuckles dug into ribs. i'm not sure how long we played that game, either in terms of single games or how long we realized that we were idiots for playing, but it left a significant mark on my psyche.
My friends and I would play "Houdini" wherein I'd get tied up with all my karate belts and then have to escape. I had a bunk bed with a ladder that was great for that game. One friend also used two laundry baskets to make a cage. And I vaguely remember being tied to the bed itself.
My sister and I shared a bedroom and when we couldn't fall asleep we'd play tag with flashlights on the ceiling. The AC intake vent was base and the lights chased eachother around the room.
We played a game called Freddy Krueger. One person, Freddy Krueger, would wear a mask. (Not that scary but we were young so we thought it was). We were in complete darkness and could only use a dim flashlight. Freddy would tag everyone, and the last person left won. The main thing about it was that in the dark it was super scary, especially when we were in my cousins basement. We would try to run away or throw pillows at Freddy to stop him. If you hid, Freddy would probably find you because there was no noises except those made by the players.
Make the biggest slide in town as fast and slippy as possible (water, mud, dish soap) then go down it and try to fly over the playground fence at the bottom. The one time someone achieved it he got wedged under a parked car, damaging it and himself.
My best friend and I used to play a game in my basement hallway. One person rode a skateboard down the hallway and the other had one of those giant bouncy ball things with the handle that you hop around on. The person with the ball was tasked with knocking the skateboarder off by any means. If the skateboarder made it through, they won.
"Apple wars" on bamboo sticks, as kids we put apples(they were kinda small) on long bamboo sticks that were really flexible, then we swung the bamboo at each other and the apple would come flying off, and they would hit really hard sometimes.
Me and my cousin played what we called “dark room” we would turn the light off and close the door and just battle to the death with pillows and blankets. Good times
We used to play nightworms, and I'm always reminded of it anytime nightcrawlers from IASIP is mentioned.
Whoever is 'it' puts a sleeping bag over their head. Lights off and everyone else has a flashlight. The nightworm has to tackle someone with a flashlight, and then that person becomes the nightworm.
We had this big and wide metal/aluminium slide in our school, and at the top there were a bar above the entrance so you would have to sit down when you went down it.
So what we did was that like 6 or 7 of us would hang from the bar so our body up to our chest were resting on the slide and 1 guy would take of his shoes (socks on metal is slippery) and he would try to run up the slide and grab our legs and try to knock us down the slide pretty much, played it for house every day.
My friends and I made up a game based on tgat Sea bear episode of Spongebob. One kid was a sea bear and the other were Patrick, Spongebob, Squidward. You had to run around for a bit then get in to circle to not be caught. Later we added other rules like you yell out speed or sheild the sea bear could not touch you. I can't remember the other new rules we added but I remember one day a teacher came and asked us what we were doing and kid named Josh A. explained it to the teacher and I will not forget the absolute confused face she made after being told about our game
When i was in high school me and my 4 friends used to player a game called Tank Trouble 2. But we had a problem of there only being able to have 2 players playing at once so we then found a website called Scratch where we found that a user created their own version. We found that is was very similar and it allowed 3 players but we wanted 4. i went on to code in a 4th player and added 12 powers to games original 3 and made the games map 6 times larger.
after this the game would get supper competive and i added some very OP power ups such as the nuke so the balance things out force shield power ups would also spawn which would shield a player from the nuke blast
My younger brother and I played "shrimp or no shrimp". We used to love popcorn shrimp and I convinced him that not every shrine actually had a shrimp in it. So we would guess if there was actually shrimp and then take a bite and see. Sometimes I got away with eating the shrimp out so it was only breaded crumb so I could win.
Shovel ball was a good one. We had the head of a shovel who’s handle had broken off in the middle and used it like a baseball bat with some random little inflatable ball. We used a few permanent things like the tool shed and a specific tree as bases. They were nowhere close to being in a square though haha. We played it all the time until the shovel was lost one winter :(
My cousin and I used to play a “game” called run from the cars. We would stand out in the middle of a fairly residential street in a super hero pose waiting for cars to come. The street had three stop signs before our house, each stop sign had an alert. The first was a green alert, the second yellow, and the third which was about 50 yards away was a red alert. When a red alert was issued we ran from the car into the bushes in our front yard.
SMITH (8+ players, 5th grade & under) — One person starts out as Agent Smith while the others have a minute head start to hide. After a minute, Agent Smith will start hunting you down and try to Smith you by sticking their hand in your stomach or back uninterrupted for three seconds: “One, two, three, SMITH!”
If you get Smithed, your job is to hunt everyone else down and Smith them. Last one to get Smithed wins. Grabbing and light tackling is allowed (it’s the slippery fuckers who get away the most).
Needless to say, it got banned pretty quickly, but it was one of the most fun playground games we played.
Huckle Buckle Beanstalk- My father would hide a small item (thimble-sized or so) in one room while my little brother and I would wait patiently in another. When he was finished, we would enter the room and proceed to try and locate the item. Once found, the person who found the item proclaims “Huckle Buckle Beanstalk”.
To this day I don’t know why, or what that phrase means. I have the internet, I’ve just never thought of looking it up until seeing this post. Thanks for the jog down memory lane, OP.
At camp we used to play a game called knife foot. The idea is everyone stands in a rough circle. Then one person takes a knife/sharpened stick and chucks it at the ground near someones foot. If it sticks and is within one knife/stick length of their foot they need to put their foot in that spot. It is then their turn to throw. Last one standing wins.
One of my friends played a game called sack of potatoes. Where you would sneak up on a sibling and drop the family potato stash on them. They had a lot of hospital visits due to sack of potatoes.
My friend and I called it "Dangerous Dave" (after the computer game which we were also fans of). It was basically extreme follow the leader with climbing all over things and using the jungle gym at school in ways you normally wouldn't. You lost if the leader did a stunt and you weren't able to follow (like if you fell off or something), and the leader switched if he fell while attempting something difficult.
At a local lake there was a little platform leading into the water for people to jump in. We stood in a circle on the Plattform passing a soccer ball to each other. When it hit the water the last person to touch it hat to jump in and fetch it. You could also jump in and try and kick it away. So if you had to get the ball you had to be quick. To get the ball out of the water you had to throw it up and it had to touch the platform. The other players would stand at the edge trying to kick it back into the water before it landed.
Played that every day in the summer with my friends! Such a great time going to the lake right after school.
mp111 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot peas and butter.
1 person goes off to an area and hides a belt, 10-20 kids goes and tries to find it. First person to find it gets to whip anyone they catch as they run back to the “base”.
First time I played this, I had no idea what we were looking for of why we were looking for it. I was like 7-8.
Me and my buddy would play mystery sandwich, during a sleepover, we would go down into the kithen and blindly (lights off) grab condiments from the cupboard and whatever we got we had to put it between bread and eat it. Some truly disgusting yet funny times.
Someone rolls on the floor and others try to jump over you
SXOSXO · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn't all that "unique" in that a lots of kids in NYC played it back then, but we would play this game called "suicide" using a handball. We didn't even need to be on the handball court to play it, just needed a flat wall and some open space. One person would throw the ball at the wall as hard as possible, and when it bounced back, everyone had to avoid being touched by it, or try and catch it instead. If the ball touched you, whether by grazing you or if you failed to catch it, then you had to run to the wall and touch it as fast as possible to be "safe." Anyone touched by the ball became a target, and everyone else could grab the ball and pelt them before they got to the wall. Worst part is if you got hit before you got to the wall, then you'd have to stand against the wall facing it, and everyone got a turn to pelt you as hard as they could with the ball. It was an equally sadist and masochist game.
On long drives (which we had a lot of) my sister and I would play this game..
-Close your eyes, and open your mouth. The other person has to put their finger in your mouth (operation style) and try to avoid the other sibling from chomping down on the others finger.
My next door neighbors and I played “Dragon Blood.” Which was essentially a live action rpg where we imagined NPCs and fought them off by ourselves with sticks and wooden swords in the yard and pretended to gain xp and level up. We’d make up abilities and spells and such.
My parents were strongly religious and thought that dragons were of the devil, so naturally I felt very edgy playing a game with “dragon” in the name.
I think we kept playing that game every day for at least a year.
I used to wait until I had to poop, would go to the bathroom, and would sit on the toilet and then time myself on how long I could hold it. it was torture, but hitting 6 minutes felt amazing.
My siblings and friend's siblings tied long dog leashes around me and my friend's waist and let us fight until they felt we were being too rough and pull us apart. They'd make bets in who'd win.
My best friend and I in Elementary School would wait for our parents to pick us up at 3:00pm. The front of our school had a nice grass area to run around in.
Well, in the winter we somehow both ended up owning the same coat. My coat was red and his was orange and they were the puffiest winter coat you can imagine.
We literally look like we were severely obese children with them on.
We came up with the Fat Camp game with these coats. We would just run around in slow motion and fall over and make groaning noises. It is a fond memory for me.
My little brother and I played a game called “The human Caterpillar” basically we just went in a sleeping bag and did a parkour through the moving like a caterpillar, and at the finish there were a lot of pillows and if you got to the finish you had to jump out of the sleeping bag and as much pillows as you could. After the other person got there you did a pillow fight until someone gave up.
We also made a house of cushions, pillows and blankets on the sofa and just chilled there a whole day...
Lizard earrings. I would catch lizards and let them bite my earlobes. Then they would just dangle there like earrings till they got bored and dropped off. yes, I walked around with lizards hanging from my ears. Please note: no lizards were harmed by me.
Cat game. Grandma was crazy cat lady and had 9 cats roaming around a 5 bedroom house. You won the game by entering every area of the house (bedrooms, kitchen, patio, etc) without being seen by a cat. If seen you would need to restart. Would require some creativity time to time, like throwing something to distract a cat so you could advance to new area.
I would dress up as an old man and pretend to put my brother to bed at "pappy's house" then go sit in the living room. The goal (I think?) was for him to escape without me "seeing" him, because I was pretending to be such a slow old senile man. And I'd feel around and ask if it was him getting out of bed. Then.. I'd just.. put him back to bed.
"The Dark Game". One sibling (who was "It") would count to 50 in the bedroom at the end of the hall with the Nerf gun. The other two would hide in the house. Basically Hide-N-Seek tag with foam balls. Plot twist: All of the lights were out, and downstairs was off-limits (parents would watch their stories down there).
I played food critic with my twin sister. Basically I came downstairs and didn’t feel like making myself lunch.
I looked at her and said:
“Want to play a game? I’m a food critic and this is your restaurant. You have to try and make me something delicious so I don’t shut you down”
Proceeded to demand her menu (basically anything an 11 year old could make) and make up “fractions” for her poor food etiquette, hospitality, and restaurant atmosphere. All in good fun though, played that game for a couple years before she realized I just wanted someone to make me food.
We had this game we'd play at recess on the swings. We'd swing at each other and try to knock the other kid off. It was good fun until a small girl tried to play and got the wind knocked out of her.
trench. my dad and i had a gravel driveway, and trench originated there. we made little mounds of gravel with our hands about two feet apart and then put toothpick sized twigs in the mounds. the sticks were soldiers and the mounds were trenches, of course. then we would toss pieces of gravel at each other’s trench and try to knock the soldiers down. last man standing wins!
We made a game called hide and seek soccer. The game starts with everyone gathered around the ball and someone kicks it and the seeker has to retrieve the ball and place it back, well everyone hide. And if the seeker sees you they have to try and tag you and if they manage to tag you, you have to wait by the ball but if you manage to kick the ball, before they tag you, they have to stop and retrive the ball again. If you have not been found you can go and kick the ball to "free" the people who have been found.
-As much as i loved this game, i hated it as well.-
We used to stand a fair distance away from each other on the lawn and take turns throwing darts at each other. Whoever moved lost the game.
When I was a young boy, sharing a bedroom with my brother, at bedtime we would play guessing games like 'Name That Tune' or just take turns guessing what TV character the other was trying to imitate.
I can’t believe no one (I have seen) has said heads up 7 up. Classroom of kids. 7 kids go to the front of the class. The rest of the kids would put their heads down on our desks. The 7 would then pick a person and tap them on the shoulder then return to the front of the room. The people who were tapped had to guess who tapped them. If you were right you got go up front and that person sat down.
Launching pebbles with a tenis racket :loved the sound of rocks on roofs.
We would also launch small patatoes by sticking them into the end of willow stick
“Animal rescue”
When a friend would come over, i’d take out all of my stuffed animals and each of us would pick an equal number of pets. Then in turns one of us stays in the room while the other goes around and hides the stuffed animals around the house. Then each one had to find the other’s pets and rescue them.
Unfortunately i was the only one who actually enjoyed this game while all my friends got bored..
I played a game I called "card baseball". I divided a stack of my baseball cards into two teams. I took the home team and spread them out into their listed positions (I had two center fielders, though, left center and right center). Then I would take the visitor team, and "pitch" a penny. I would swing the card and hit the penny out to the field. If it went in the air and landed on any card, despite the bounce, it was an out. If it rolled over any infielder, it was an out. If it rolled over any outfielder, it was a single. If it landed in the infield without touching a card, it was a single. If it landed in the outfield in front of the outfielders, it was a single. If it landed well passed the outfielders, it was a double.
My brother and I played this game called “What If I Died On You?” You basically lie on top of the other person and make your body limp and heavy and they have to get out from under your dead weight.
For years I played a game I had dubbed handsketball - played on my garage hoop until we moved from that home. The rules got semi-complex, so I'll do my best to summarize. It involved slapping or throwing a handball against my garage or towards the basketball hoop above the garage. I received points for getting the ball in the basket - more points depending on where i was standing and if it was slapped in or dunked in(towards my later teenage years - hoop measured 9 ft 2). A possession started from about twenty feet from the hoop(edge of my driveway) at a marked line. The ball could be tossed or slapped in the hoop or against the garage - if the ball goes in the hoop points are awarded, but the possession is still alive and I had to make it behind the line in x dribbles/bounces depending on what level i was on. If a basket seemed unlikely based on the angle throwing or slapping against the garage would reset the bounce count, but did not reward any points. If the ball bounced more than x times a point would be deducted and possession was dead. There was no running with the ball and if you attempted to catch it and dropped it a point was deducted and the possession was dead. I designated levels of 20 or 30 point intervals at which point I would have one less bounce/dribble to reset possession or score a basket up until the point where I only had 1 bounce/dribble to make it back to the starting point and do it again. If my score dropped 5 points at any given time I would have the option to either quit - which hurts my OCD, or do 15 pushups or 30 crunches. Been years since I played this game and miss it - had gotten both me and my dad into great shape - which we are both no longer in.
I built castles using different books making walls. And used chess figures as soldiers. Made some sort of resources for my people to get to build more walls and buildings. I really enjoyed the process of planning. Sometimes I invited my friend and we built two castles in such a way and had sort of wars between our kingdoms. I guess it was the most interesting experience of chess in my life. The childhood was so beautiful omg
Trixux · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two childhood friends and I would walk into the forest next to my house and try to find little trees. If the trees matched your height that meant it was an omen that you were going to die.
I made this "game" more fun, by having the older sister stall her younger sister and snapping the trees to be the height of the little sister. One day in particular, after doing this to every tree we came across, we convinced the little sister that this was more than an omen. It was a FACT she was going to die. Scared her so bad she ran home crying while we laughed our evil little asses off. Her mom was furious at the bigger sister though, so we had to stop playing this game.
Wind Monster
When a breeze came through, you have to run and sit in a "fairy circle", circle of mushrooms in the grass. Last one in, gets caught by the Wind Monster and dies.
Me and my twin sister used to use blankets as sleds and slide down our carpeted stairs when were around 7-9 ish. We then brought my little 3 year old brother into it, sliding down with him in tow. Sooooo many rug burns were acquired. Sleeping bags were the fastest by a long shot by the way in case anyone wants to try it out.
Night boxing: we closed the door in our room and all windows and also switched off the lights, complete darkness and then we started to fight.... man that was soooo fun
My brother and I used to play “rollercoaster” which was us just throwing each other down the stairs in laundry baskets. Amazing we turned out as normal as we did after that one.
The pen game! Basically, my two friends and I each had a designated pen, and the person who possessed the most pens by the end of the game won. The pens could never leave school gounds and games lasted one school quarter each.
Pens were acquired by any means necessary, from pick-pocketing to straight ripping them from each other's hands. One epic school mass in the last week of school all 3 changed possession 3 times. Multiple detentions were received during the festivities and the game only lasted one year because they never put us 3 in the same homeroom again, lol.
In the 90's as kids, we played a game called 'Nemesis.' if you have played the video game 'Resident Evil 3' you know where this is headed. It was night time outdoor hide and go seek. We didn't work much on the rules though. Once you got caught, you just got the shit beat out of you and the nemesis would move on after. Different times lol.
Apex Legends is a pretty weird game I played as a kid
gorkt · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Many days as a kid, when I first got up in the morning, I would pretend that I was a time traveler who came from 200 years ago and woke up in present day. I would take a shower, marveling at the water flowing out of the ceiling, be amazed at the electricity and the plumbing, in awe of all of the strange clothes that were given to me to wear. I would go to the kitchen and be astonished at the food etc....
Truth: I still play this game in my head sometimes, just as an exercise in gratitude and perspective.
when i would hang out with my sister, and my cousin, we would specifically find channels on commercial breaks, mute the tv, and just overdub with the dumbest shit. this led to us doing the same with our favorite movies, and basically seeing who could make everyone laugh the most.
(i think that’s why i love youtube channels like Jaboodydubs and BinkieMcFartnuggets so much; knowing other people did/do the same thing blew my mind)
We had a treehoouse game that we would play at my friends house. There were two teams. The people on the ground vs the people in the treehoouse ( was actually pretty high up and a legit tree house). The ground team would try to get grenades (pinecones) into the tree base. The people in the tree house had to swat them away. Still have clear memories of it and pinecones to the face.
Cow pat frisbee- when we would take our dog for a walk up the common my dad used to pick up the dry cow pats and chuck them at me and my sisters like a Frisbee lol
Me and my brother would go on the swing set while our babysitter swung a plastic skipping rope around. We would have to dodge it with our feet or get whipped in the ankle. Looking back, I’m surprised she let us play that.
I was over a friends house around 1995 and we were playing this first person sword fighting game on his PC. It was extremely immersive as in it was literally first person. I can’t remember the name nor can I find any information it. I’ve also asked me friend about it and he, too, remembers who it was innovative for the time but can’t remember the name of where to find it.
I grew up going to conventions. So, sometimes I would play tag in the hotel with my sister and whatever other kids I could rope into it.
Requirements: two elevators (bare minimum!) preferably two or more banks of elevators spaced away from each other.
Rules: run to an elevator, go to a random floor. Dash to a different elevator, and repeat. (If there are more than one bank of elevators, you have to run down the hall to a different bank of elevators.). If you get tagged you’re out!
I remember taking a glass from the cupboard, shutting it, and trying to get the glass to the water dispenser on the fridge before the cupboard closed. I was easily amused.
When we were little, my brother and I used to sit in our dad's old La-Z-Boy recliner and pretend the arm rests had remote control buttons to do... something. What, I can't remember. Whatever our childlike imaginations could dream up, I guess. It was called "Clowny Clown", and no, I can't fucking explain it, either! 😂
Big ball - you stand in a circle with like 4 - 8 people and try to keep one of those exercise balls in the air
Disclaimer: we did this in our early 20s but A:I'm very immature and B:I needed a place to spread the word about big ball
ABReee · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically at age 3 and 4/5 me and my bro lived on top of a hill in South Africa in an enclosed area and we used to roll big ass rocks down a hill and one of us would have to dodge them on the way down. I could have died many many times but I was too stupid to realize that I was being an idiot
jobbus · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play ram bam ball. You’d take a half deflated basketball and kick it as hard as possible into a group of friends. If you’d get hit, it would hurt like crazy, but you’d be the next kicker.
Was awesome!
We used to play "town" where we would spend hours drawing a town with chalk all over the driveway and there would be roads and stoplights but there were only three of us so we all had one job forever. Our neighbor was the used scooter salesman. I was the mailman and my brother was the town bum. That's all we needed. We would play for days until it rained and washed the chalk away.
“Survivor” - climbed up in a tree and the last one to leave the tree is the survivor
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
When i was really young, me (8) and my brother (9) had made up this math game that when sometimes we where on a store, we would try to hide stuff under our coats/shirts/pockets and when we got home, whoever got the items totaling more would win. It was years until we realize this was a big no no. Thankfully we never got caught cause of our innocent baby faces 😀
I had a gym teacher that created a game called Slam Ball. It was a wierd combo of rugby with obstacles and random sports balls. It was awesome being able to form tackle people in the middle of the gym and not get in trouble!
We played Dragonball Z. It was like a real life rpg where training gave you levels and skills and we would pretend to fight enemies. Mostly, the training consisted of actual training like pushups, lifting, running. I played with my older brother all the time.
Pick em' up and bust em'- all of us would get on the trampoline and bounce a football in the center. Then, whoever grabbed it had to fight off the endless onslaught of everyone trying to tackle them and take the ball. Whoever could last the longest would win. It usually lasted until someone flew off the trampoline.
I used to always have animal crackers as a snack so I made them fight and whatever cracker broke lost, got to be honest I think the fights were rigged it’s like whatever animals I liked won, weird right? Also when I was in kindergarten and this is super cringy during recess I used to pretend I was some like video game hero and have like a laser sword except it was a sword with a laser interior not a sword made out of lasers and run around attacking imaginary bosses. People must have thought I was retarded but it was fun somehow
We had a Playground game called “Whatever you want to play”. You basically just picked any character you wanted to be and then everyone would create fun scenarios to act out involving all the chosen characters.
We did that. It was kind of like Super Smash bros with our imaginations. Except in the late 90s everyone would pick Ninja Turtles, Mortal Kombat characters, Beetleborgs, Power Rangers, Spiderman, Batman, etc.
In the early 2000s almost everyone wanted to be Goku or Vegeta.
Remember the cartoon show, "Gargoyles"? My siblings, a childhood friend of mine (who I unfortunately no longer speak to 😔) and I made up our own gargoyles & pretended to be them in the universe from the TV show. Our stage? The trampoline in the front yard lol. Ah, good times....
Probably way too late to post this but my friends and I used to play a game we called “Dark Tag”, basically tag but only to be played late on a cool autumn night. Hiding and stealth was always an advantage, and we used my best friends yard, his neighbours yard, and their neighbours yard which all connected by holes in the fences. Nostalgia.
My brother and i would turn off all the lights in our bedroom and close the door. Then take glow in the dark bouncy balls and throw them at the wall as hard as we could and try not to get hit. It was awesome watching a little green lights fly by at super speed. Hurt like a bitch though. Then we started using non glow in the dark balls. And thats how my brother got to wear an eye patch all summer.
My daughter (2.5 years old) plays a game where when anyone tickles her she screams GIMME BACK MY DICKADAHS, escapes, and holds out her hands. She follows you around until you pretend to barf into your hands, give the fake barf to her, and then she eats the imaginary dickadahs barf. She then laughs hysterically and moves on. It took months of toddler frustration and blindly guessing what she wanted until she finally showed us what she wanted to do to get her dickadahs back. Now she takes her 3 month old sister’s dickadahs on the reg and laughs yelling I ATE YOUR DICKADAHS as she runs through the house.
Murder The Man With The Ball; basically dodgeball, but if you said "SpongeBob SquarePants" backwards ("pants square bob sponge") before you got hit, the person with the ball had to let you go and hit someone else
Schocz · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my friends just destroyed a window by accident cuz we played baseball in the street
My brother and I would have kick fights. We’d be on either end of the couch and just kick the crap out off each other. And when mom sent us outside, we’d kick each other in the shins as hard as we could. Repeatedly. We were not the smartest kids in the neighborhood.
We had a game called Dodgeball. But we didn’t divide everyone into 2 teams, we ran away and played free for all.
Without eliminations.
It never ended unless people got bored or tired.
laerie · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to take all the cushions and pillows off the couches and chairs in our living room and would create an obstacle course type thing where you had to jump from pillow to pillow but couldn’t touch the floor. After telling friends about this game years later, they said they also played “the floor is lava”. We called it doot dot deet dot. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
My mom used to have to go to the hospital all of the time because she had cancer, so my dad and I would play zoo keeper in the waiting room. Basically he was the zoo keeper and I was a lion and he moved the chairs around to create a “cage” for me. And whenever he turned his back I had to try and get out of the cage without making a sound or being noticed. Most of the time the other kids in the waiting area would join in and it was a fun distraction from what was going on with my mom.
“Bonkers”. My friend and I would use a bouncy 4 square ball and hit it back and fourth with our heads. Probably why I’m lowkey messed up 😅
jatctt · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played drive-by. We would be just merrily playing in the front yard and if a car happend to drive by you had to duck behind a tree/bush/car. If you didn't get there before the car was in front of the house you were shot and were out. None of us ever initiated the start of a game....it was just ongoing. I'm sure the neighbors thought we were weird AF.
Basically flashlight tag. The seeker kid stood in the middle of the court of our neighborhood with a flashlight, and wasn’t allowed to leave the street. The rest of the kids in the surrounding yards had to make it all the way around the court without being spotted. If spotted, the seeker had to call you out by name and where you were hiding.
We used to get the whole neighborhood to play, and everyone would dress up in black and sometimes put eye black on. Really got into it.
I made legos that were made to fit along our bannisters and raced them down the stairs where they would suffer generally catastrophic damage. They also did a fair bit of damage to the bannisters.
“Driveway Sprint” basically a hybrid of gang-up tag and racing to a finish line. All you need is 3+ players and a house with a driveway. One person was ‘it’ and would run to one side of the house and count down from 10. The objective for the racers was to run in a complete loop around the house and make it to the other side of the driveway which served as a finish line—if tagged on the way over you would join the person it. You could run in either direction around the house but since it was gang-up tag, everyone was encouraged to make it around before the opposite side of the house became swarmed with kids that were it.
It has the perfect balance between dodging/sprint skills and blind luck—once every 10 rounds one of the littler kids would sneak passed for a surprise victory.
My friend down the block had a massive pine tree and it would drop HUNDREDS of pinecones. We would use bats, tennis rackets, basically anything that we could and try to hit them through two power lines by his house. They were probably 30-40 feet in the air and the gap was relatively small so it was a real challenge. The game came to an abrupt stop one day when on my backswing I railed him in the lip with a metal bat.
Big kitty, little kitty. I think it was an excuse for my older brother to wrestle and torture me.
Duvenz · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No rules basketball - Basically football where your goal was to get the ball in the net. On top of that we played with 3 people
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a neighbor that just moved in and taught all the boys on our dead end street a game called “Hot Cakes and butter don’t smack your mother” easily one of the most terrifying and fun games we had. The game only took place in the darkness of night and there was no real out of bounds (neighbors backyards were not restricted)The rules were 1 ref (person who didn’t participate in the round) would hide a belt or other object from all the players , the objective for the players was to find the belt or object first then pretty much just beat the shit out of every other player until they ran to the safe zone (usually the front porch or up a tree) the player who found the belt/object in the previous round would be the next rounds ref. Something about hurting each other (to an extent) and escaping w/out getting hurt was extremely entertaining
Btw the name had no correlation with the rules it was just really funny for us to say
My cousins and I would play tag, but the person who was "it" was head first in a blue sleeping bag. Can't see, breathing was limited and you had to tag someone without breaking anything in the room. The other players were to treat the ground as lava.
One game we played was kick the can. You kicked a can down the hill and everyone ran. The person who was it ran and grabbed the can and set it back up. They then started hunting for people. If you saw someone you would run to the can and say "123 I see Dave ". You were then caught and it. But if Dave knew they were seen you could try and beat them to the can and kick it back down the hill to be saved. Lots of slide tackles to try and save yourself.
In elementary school my best friends neighbors lived on a huge hill, on which we would play the bag game. Essentially everyone would get grocery store bags and stand at the top of the hill. Who ever could catch the biggest gust of wind and have their bag fly the furthest would win. Our parents all loved it too because running to retrieve our bags was great exercise.
I’m primary school, me and my friend got really bored and was trying to imagine things to do. So in our primary playground there was these logs you could stand on, all lined up from one side of the playgound to the other side. There was also semi-circles of logs attached to this log line, the logs were tiny you could only stand on one with one foot.
So me and my friend invented this ‘game’ of who could stay on the logs the longest. You could battle to try push the other person off and even if they got pushed off, they had to stand on the floor for 10 seconds, then get back on the logs. So no one actually won it. What I loved about it was after a few days we had my whole class playing it and we all enjoyed it, until the teachers banned us from playing it because of health and safety.
Me and my god sister would play “sisters” we were sister witches with hot boyfriends who battled evil beings. We both had “day jobs” and would use the old battleship cases as laptops.
The Pokemon Trading Game. Because APPARENTLY, I was the only one in the entire world who actually knew the rules and wanted to play with people. But they only collected :(
Booby traps. My parents hated it in theory.. I can see why lol.
Basically we had a large basement with kids stuff and some couches. We would have one person chosen to sit upstairs. The rest of the players would go downstairs and make the basement a mess of booby traps. Toys over the floor, couch cushions covering all the steps on the stairs, coffee table in the middle, etc. Players in the basement turn off all the lights and call the upstairs player down to come find them. Upstairs player has to find everyone without falling down from the traps! We’d play this for hours. Very fun looking back. Not very safe.
Also in the basement theme- turning off all the lights and running around holding couch cushions, bumping into each other. I’m nostalgic af right now
Syako · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shadow tag. You tag someone by stepping on their shadow. No hiding in shade allowed.
rlev · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it “quick-up pick-up”
Being a small child, I hated cleaning my room (like most do), but I loved when my room was clean and tidy, so I’d rationalize it by cleaning AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. Sometimes I’d set a timer.
Then my mom would come in and vacuum and make my bed and it was the best.
Now I’m 23 and I still clean my room as fast as possible to get it out of the way and done quicker haha.
r_s_s · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
World court tennis
Ok, so I know it’s a “real” game, but I’ve literally never met anyone else who’s heard of it, let alone played it. Turbo grafix game.
Imagine your standard fantasy rpg. Meet the king, quest to save the realm, cruise around town to gear up. Now imagine that every random encounter on the world map is a full, 3-round tennis match. Also if you lose you go all the way back to the first town.
Never made it to the next town, but god I loved that game
Gosh I had so many, but Hide and Tag was my favorite and the one we used less, sadly. It was basically a hide and seek game, until you actually found the person hiding. Then, it became a tag game, where now you have to catch the person you found or ignore them and look for the rest. The kid you tagged also had to "tag along" to find the rest, so now you've got a helper. That ment that if one kid was way too fast, you could just build an army and then tag them. The last one to be found or tagged, won. It was really fun.
There was a game I remember playing on Windows, where you are a penguin and you run through this maze or just a normal map don't remember clearly. It was way back in early 2000's I have been trying to find it's name forever. With no success.
My group of friends and I had a game called metal monster. We would all stand on a jungle gym, we had a huge one. One person would be the monster and could only hang onto the sides or just be on some form of metal on the set. Everyone else had to simply run around him on the jungle gym. The person running couldn’t go to the ground though (no metal there duh) but if the monster did get you they were it. Just a spin off of tag but it kept us going for hours
Atance · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was tag, but you tagged the other person by touching them with your penis. Played when I was 5. Never understood why the 8 year old thought it was wierd.
In elementary school my friends and I would spend all of recess under the jungle gym being owls. It was basically playing families but we were a family of owls. We played this from kindergarten to probably 2nd grade 🙈
Tootie Fighters. For obvious reasons, this was a game that my brothers and I played. Basically, two fighters enter a ring to combat each other, but the objective is to hold each other’s tit for a whole 10 seconds, if you’re disrupted and lose grip of one of the tits before 10 seconds, you must continue battling until both tits have been defeated by counting to 10 while holding on to the tits of your enemy. Good times!
soymlk · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
big booty! you would take a big exercise ball, have someone sit on it, and everyone else would take turns running up and trying to kick the ball out from underneath them. resulted in a few injuries, lots of second grade fun
Pillow battle.. you throw a pillow at each other. Now my parents had these flat leather pretty heavy pillows. The point of the game was that whichever body part you hit, the opponent couldn’t use that body part anymore. Hit a leg, it’s gone, gotta play the rest of the game on one leg. Hit your good arm? Too bad, throw with your bad one. The real bonus was hitting someone in the eyes. Oh the amount of lamps etc that got broken by flying pillows :)
My father was a meat man so we always had dry ice at hand. We used to put chunks in the down stairs sinks and let a good 3 to 4 foot deep " fog " form. We played Monster. One lurked under the shadows, and dragged people down. Everyone else just had to survive.
There was a game that me and the neighborhood kids used to play as a kid named free-for-all. It was essentially an augmented game of hide and seek. One person who was "it" would close their eyes and count to 30 under the light pole close to my house. Everyone else would run and hide anywhere around the block. Then, once the person finished counting, the hunt was on.
Once they began searching, the goal was to find everyone before someone made it to the pole and yelled free-for-all. When the person found someone, they would have to sprint back to the pole and tell "TAP TAP ____" with the blank being the name of the person you found while pointing to where they are. If you said the wrong name you would be it again and the game would start over. If you found everyone the first person you found would then be it.
The game evolved a lot over the years we played it, with us developing different strategies and methods to win. Hiding close so when the person who was it went out searching we could stealthily make it to the light pole and get free-for-all, hiding in trees and making it down and sprinting back before whoever was it did, hiding in spots where it became a sprinting match because they'd have to get super close to see you. We made so many memories playing this game as a kid and it made up such a huge part of my childhood
WBANA · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a toddler, my mom and I had a game called the “fire hydrant game.” I would point out fire hydrants we passed while driving, and my mom would act surprised and say something like “well there can’t be another fire hydrant!” I don’t know if it’s necessarily “unique,” but it’s a fond memory from when I was young.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my cousin's and I used to play what we called yard dart chicken. Each of us had one yard dart and a "shield" (metal trashcan lid) to catch it with. We'd throw the dart as far up into the air as we could towards each other and then try to catch the darts with our shields. Teens like us are why yard darts got banned in the US back in the late 80's (though we were playing with them in the late 90's early 00's) but fortunately neither one of our dumbass' got hurt though there where a few times our hands nearly got impaled because our shields weren't thick enough.
This was a game I played after graduating high school, so not a child per se, but still young and a long time ago (for me). My friends liked to hang out at Dennys quite a bit, because it was a pretty small town and we were often up very late. Here is our stupid, yet somehow engaging, game.
First, ask the server for a bunch of creamer. Works best if you have ordered coffee, but it isnt required. Then two combatants sit opposite one another at the table. Each takes their fork, turns it upside down, places it so the end of the handle is in contact with their chest, and points the teeth (not sure the actual name of them) toward their opponent. Whoever starts grabs a creamer and throws it at the fork, wrapper side facing the opponent.
The object is to get the creamer to hit the fork just right, causing the teeth to pierce the lid. This, of course, covers the losers shirt with creamer. Quite a satisfying victory, and worth many a belly laugh.
This game is surprisingly challenging. Getting the creamer to go at a high enough speed to pierce, while also being accurate in such a cramped space, is not a simple as it seems at first. It might be best to implement some other rules, such as the elbow of the thrower must remain in contact with the table at all times, but this isnt required.
Bonus is that any mess you make gets all over the players, so it doesnt cause any extra work for the server to clean up.
Late to post but my sister and I would play the line game. She world draw some sort of line on a paper then I would and on and on it didn’t have to be a line, or could be a squiggle or whatever. But you couldn’t pick up the pencil and it couldn’t be more than one line at once. At the end we’d usually have a picture of something.
Not a game I played as a kid, but I game I play with my kids.
My daughter has a WiFi enabled Go-Pro knock off. When we go out, we'll take turns in hiding it and using just the image you can see on the phone screen you have to try and find the camera.
Only once had a issue where the camera fell into a river, but it was in its water proof case
MosiJ · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In primary school my friends and I would play this game called dangerzone. We had these monkey bars that were in a kind of arch shape and the aim of the game was to run through the “danger zone” while people on the side were swinging back and forth trying to knock you over.
My cousins and I invented a game called Mag Bag, a hybrid between Marco Polo, Hide and Seek, and a plain good beating from your closest relatives:
One person crawled around in a sleeping bag (their game-required protective layer) yelling “MAG,” with the others responding “BAG” from their hiding spots. Like any good game, Mag Bag was of course played in total darkness. So you’ve got your Marco Polo and you’ve got your Hide and Seek. Good family fun.
Here’s the kicker: when the crawler got too close, your options were to get tagged and switch places (not an option), or to beat the living shit out of them with whatever inanimate object you could find. That alphabet puzzle map? Ninja stars. VHS tapes on the shelf? Knock them all off and firebomb the kid. Couch cushions were weapons of battery. Stuffed animals weren’t your friend when you were getting pelted by those plastic noses.
Eventually, Mag Bag became a sort of hazing ritual for the younger cousins, because they could never win. That lasted until my step-brother (the youngest member of the family at the time) had enough and told the adults. And that was that.
RIP Mag Bag.
nvtiv · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It didn’t had a name but every christmas here on spain the TV was 70% spot of toys for kids. We played this game where we would choose who would get the next spot. Like:
-“You get next one”.
An Audi spot
-“Nice I get a a car! Now you get next”.
A barbie spot.
-“Oh damn”.
At the public pool we'd play a game where someone would stand in the water with their legs in an upside down v shape with their eyes closed, and the other person would have to try to swim through without being noticed to win. You slammed your legs shut if you felt them/the water from them swimming move.
Slip n slide but in the shower. Either me or my sister would stand on the sides of the tub to change the water temp for the other sibling to slide back and forth in the tub.
“Dr Jones” - I used a screen door that automatically closed to make narrow escapes out of. I would open the door, then get out a stick of gum, put it in my mouth, then run out of the door before it closed. I kept increasing the sticks of gum from 2 to 3. That was a horrific mistake. I went face first through the glass window of the door (because it’s was the early 80s before everyone used plexiglass).
When my parents found me, they thought my lip was gone and looked for it in the floor. About 50 stitches later - I only have a minor scar on my bottom lip.
“Lava Ball” 3 or so of us would get on a trampoline with a basketball (the lava ball) and avoid it without jumping off. If the lava ball touched you, you became a mutant and essentially acted as a sentient lava ball and tried to tag the others, and they could also leave the trampoline and throw the lava ball. The last one standing wins
The ball goes in the middle of the yard
Everyone starts on the edge of the yard
You must kick the ball at other people to take a life away from them.
If they catch the ball they get a life and you lose one.
It’s called oof because roblox
(We’re still kids)
My brother and our friends came up with the Baseball Card game. We would draft player cards to form a whole team. We would have little balled up pieces of paper that we would pitch to each other. You would hit it with the baseball card that was up to bat. The other team had a pitcher and a fielder. If the ball hit the card, you were out. If it hit the ground, you had to throw it with the card to the base trying go get the batter out, just like baseball. It sounds silly but it was a blast.
Garage ball- we would close the garage without lights (no cars) and whoever was “it” had to go into the house and count to 20 while everybody hid then they came into the garage with a glow in the dark ball and throw it as hard as they could in any given direction hoping to peg somebody. It was nerve wracking when you were hiding cause you never knew if they were going to decide to wing it right at you. Good times
Whenever we visited my cousins, the two boys would team up against the two girls, and we'd try to inflitrate the front porch at night. The defenders would have flashlights and would have to tag the attackers. It was basically like a stealth version of tag
mub · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sloggs!
If you notice someone fart you can shout "Sloggs", then everyone is allowed to punch the farter until they get bored, or the farter manages to can name 3 pubs then whistle (14year olds can't name pubs so we just said "Butcher, baker, candlestick maker, cat, dog, <Whistle>")
If someone calls "sloggs" on you but you can prove it was someone else, you get to call "False Sloggs" and start punching them instead, as above.
If you fart and say "Saves" before anyone can shout "Sloggs", you are safe. Punching someone who says "Saves" is False Sloggs, and a punching is to be expected.
usually the punching was aimed at the upper arms or legs, nothing that shows visible bruising.
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.....I was still saying "Saves" until my mid 30's.
I played a game called “dragon” with my friends where we held each other’s hands and the one in front would run around and everyone else would have to try and hold on. Yeah, I almost got a concussion from playing it.
Amoeba quest, you put a blanket over yourself and on all fours like an amoeba so you cant see. You start in the same place and you have to get to a room or spot in the house before the other person without taking off the blanket. You could attack the other person to slow them down and whoever got o the spot first won. Again you cant look outside the blanket so you had to feel around yourself and move slowly to find where you are in the house. Was a lot of fun when we moved to a new house and didnt know the entire place yet
Not unique per se, but we would play a 4-6 block radius “manhunt.” We would go into peoples yards, backyards, tree houses, hide in bushes, under their porch no where was off limits except hiding inside an actual house or business. We would play this every Friday night and sometimes 30 plus people would show up and it was insane! Games could last for hours!
My cousins and I used to play therapist where everyone would make up a horrible life problem and the therapist would have to solve it. Usually by awarding ridiculous amounts of money.
Me my brother and his friend would get a stack of playing cards and throw them at each other and try to paper cut the other person. We would also play quarters where you bounce a quarter in a shot glass but I stead of alcohol we would have a bunch of different juices and liquids in them. It was disgusting!
Everyone starts on the front porch after dark. One person is chosen to be the first ghost and runs off to hide.
After the round starts, everyone must get from the front porch to the "base" (trampoline) in the very back of the backyard. If the ghost tags you, you are out.
The catch is that you aren't allowed to touch the base until someone sees the ghost and yells "ghost in the Graveyard!" Until then, everyone is stuck looking for the ghost.
Everyone who was tagged out in that round now joins the ghost for round 2, so there are progressively more and more ghosts until only 1 person- the winner -remains.
We'd always meet and strategize before each round, who's going to run fast to try to bait the ghost or who's going to sneak around the other side of the house etc. As ghosts we laid some pretty diabolical traps.
We played a game named traffic.
There was one guy who was the police officer and the other ones were riding their bikes. The officers task was to set up rules and the others had to obey these laws. You had to drive at a certain speed and set you indicators (your arms). If you did everything the officer was Just walking around if not He would chase you and tried to get you off your bike. When he caught someone He took the Bike and the next one was officer
We used to play a game called "Take a Swig". We would get a empty two liter bottle of soda fill it half way with a gross concoction (usually have a vinegar, vanilla creamer, horseradish base) , and throw it to the person next to you.
So you try to throw it high but a catchable pass (If you kept throwing shitty passes usually a 3 strike rule you have to take a swig) and if they drop it you take a swig.
Not sure if unique, but me and my siblings hid in a duvet cover and pretended it was a spaceship. The goal was to get from are bedroom to the downstairs living room. I now have claustraphobia
We found that if you took off the slide, it left you with a cube and a bunch of things to hang on to. We would select one person to be the "flipper" and the rest of the kids had to find something to hold on to while the playset was repeatedly flipped like a giant die.
Friends and I developed games when Jackass was at its peak.
We invented Crash Cans and Napalm Soccer.
Crash Cans involved two gladiators and their respective drivers. The gladiators would hop in to the trash can (one with wheels) and then be squared off and rammed in to one another on the open street.
Napalm soccer involved homemade napalm in a coffee can being lit on fire. The can would then be kicked and down the street until someone "scored". (no one ever scored)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bell game.... I grew up in a restaurant, and when it was empty me, my sister and friends would play the bell game. Basically you all have to go and hide in the restaurant except for the person who controls the bell. Then the bell person rings the bell and goes looking for everyone. Those who are hiding have to then get to the bell and ring it, then dive over the sofa!
"stick wars" I know creative, the idea two teams in a near by woodland. Often played around a hill. Find large sticks and throw them full force at the opposing team. First team to back out lost. Games often lasted till blood was drawn or someone legit was knocked out. Mostly due to it turning in to "small log wars".
Trampsketball: Full contact basketball on a round trampoline with a moveable basketball hoop placed so the hoop hangs over the trampoline. Surprised no one broke any bones.
Also, different 1v1 game, forget what it was called. Set up two hockey nets about 20 meters apart and had to throw a tennis ball into the net. Couldn't pass halfway line.
Me neighbor and I played a game we called the pegging game where we have a tennis ball each and the first person to “peg” the other with the ball wins. Basically dodgeball with no boundaries (my front and back yard) and only 1 ball each. Fun times back in the day
Between me and my two brothers, we only had two bikes. So we made a game where two of the brothers would take the bikes, and race down the hill near our house. The kicker was that the third brother would wait at the finish line with an old broomstick. The “winner” would get the broomstick through their spokes, throwing them from the bike.
Slenderman. My basement was split into 2 different segments by stairs. The survivors would sit on a couch/bed with a flashlight and one person would be slenderman. The survivors could use their flashlight every 5-10 seconds for a couple seconds. The whole point of the game was to scare the people on the bed.
We also played Five Nights at Freddie’s in that basement. We’d setup phones and tablets and connect them all into a Skype call. One person would be in the room watching the cameras and telling another person when to shut the door.
We called it "corn mongoling". No idea where the name came from. You go down by the feed store, there are always tons of dry ears of corn that fell off a truck. You collect a bunch of them. The feed store is next to the river. You go up on the bridge with the corn ears and try to hit shit floating down the river. Points were awarded based on size of item hit, huge bonus if said item was alive (ie duck, goose, or person fishing).
It's probably the best example I have of what growing up in a small town is like.
My younger sister and I would play “dolphin trainer” - basically she was the dolphin in the pool and I was the trainer from the side who would throw sinkers for her to get and tell her tricks to perform. Sometimes we put on shows for an imaginary audience.
Pretty sure it's well known and not our own thing but, Release. Used to gather all the kids in the neighborhood and play at least once a week. Epic fucking games.
We had a huge rock wall that surrounded a tennis court in one of the parks we used to use as a base. Kids could scale the wall in a chase, dip around the top and jump off the lower parts to continue on. Damn I miss that!
My brother and I played this game where the bed would be the 'goal'. One of us would have to bounce the ball on one of the ball and try to head the ball on the bed. The other would try to save it. Yep, he was the goalkeeper of the senior soccer team and I of the junior!
Beanie baby wars. We had tons of them, probably 40 or so. We’d divide them and set up a little battle station maybe 10-15 ft apart and let em rip. Was a blast, until you got blasted in the face.
Cool car / Dweeb Car.
While driving, first to spot a “cool car” got a point. Cool car were usually expensive luxury cars. Had to call out what type of car it was. Got pretty good at learning all car models and etc. If you got it wrong and it was a dweeb car, you lost a point. Made car rides not so bad.
"Grenade" basically my friends and I had a bunch of old toys, like plastic bowling pins, an old plastic castle, even baseballs. We would each take turns picking walls and defenses and then our weapons. We would build two or three bases about 30 feet apart, then just throw shit as hard as we could with the goal of hitting the other person and destroying their base.
Sock baseball. My brother and I would take those little souvenir baseball bats and hit sock balls. Then we’d run around the living room for the bases and would have ghost runners.
Home runs were when you could hit above the fireplace. So many broken picture frames.
Not sure how it all got started, but there was a grassy island in the cul-de-sac with a mailbox and a few trees (probably only 10 yards across both ways) which became the playing area. And one day we found a giant bamboo shoot, but not like the slender ones you’re thinking of. It was probably 2 feet wide X 3 feet long and had some decent weight to it. Basically it was tag with this bamboo log as an extension of your body (you could throw it, swing it, etc), touching it meant you were out and last one in got to be bamboo man next round. Soon all the neighborhood kids joined in, and lemme tell you it was hilarious, 70 lb children stood no chance against the bamboo log. Lots of injuries but lots of fun
I created the game “Director” that we would play on the playground in elementary school. Basically, one person would be assigned the Director, and they would call for scenes for us to shoot. They would often be disaster scenes, like asteroids coming or a sinking ship. Then we would act it out, and the director would add certain parameters or twists and we would react accordingly.
We also made a less PC game called “Suicide Bomber”. Basically we would line up along the wall with our eyes closed, and one person would start. They would tap the bomber in the shoulder, then yell for everyone to run. The aim of the game for the bomber was to get close to someone and “explode”, so everyone was full of paranoia running away from each other. The person who was blown up would then pick the next bomber and so forth. Sometimes we would get spicy and pick two or three bombers to shake things up.
When we were out with our parents at big box stores or walking around outside my sister and I would ask each other, if there were velociraptors here, Jurassic Park style, how would you try to hide or escape? Extra tough because they are super fast and can jump really high.
This also works with zombies, with different considerations.
I grew up with my sister and two younger cousins in the same house. I was the oldest and we were all about 2 years apart. We made up this game called Dragons looking back now it was probably weird to watch us out on the trampoline jumping around screaming. Essentially we all started out as an egg and the others would jump around us until we "cracked" and after that basically we jumped around and attacked each other. Randomly we would evolve to the next level. More than anything it was jumping on a trampoline with narration.
Late to the party but I remember in elementary we would play "fence soccer." You would take turns kicking a soccer ball against a chain link back stop and you would win by either kicking the ball over the top of the fence or you would graze the side pole and have the ball go way off to the side it behind it because they would have to hit the front of the fence.
You couldn't use hands obviously but the younger grades started cheating by using "wristies." They would catch it with their wrists so they could easily drop kick it over the fence.
My dad played this game called “cow jumping over the moon” not sure how it started but my brother and I would run around the bed and my dad would try to catch us by jumping to the side of the bed we were on
aweb93 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Before web 2.0, my Dad used talk about this 'Warload' game. The internet hadn't come far enough along to look it up. We're taking like Windows 98, CompuServe dail-up stuff. He was able to find an old rebrand called "Apocalypse" though. He drew up the rules from memory, and a map of Europe. We used a combination of game pieces from Apocalypse, and other games. Dad even find polished black rocks to designate dead areas on the map. He still has all of it in his basement. We need to get a game going.
I lived in a small apartment, but we had a long narrow hallway basically connecting all the rooms in the apt.
I would get out my baseball cards and randomly pick cards until two "teams" with each position filled were assembled.
I would ball up a piece of loose leaf paper....sit on my knees on one side of the hallway, toss the "ball" in the air and slap it as hard as I could down the hall. Hits the wall? Foul ball....passes the first door on a fly (single).....passes the bathroom door (double).....gets to my bedroom door (triple).....hits my parents door at the end of the hall (HR).
Kept a "book".....stats, team records, etc....playoffs were intense.
Kind of depressing that some of my best childhood memories are slapping a piece of paper down a hall by myself...but I was having a blast at the time!
uderu · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A kids game called CITY - STATE...you call out a letter and then BTW all players you have to write the answer starting with that letter in the categories... Like one counts the alphabet, another stops her/him... Shouting out the letter starts the game: B: city: Boston, country or state: Belgium, animal:bear, color:blue, instrument: bugle..... Who finishes first counts to 10 and stops the game. CHOOSE YOUR OWN CATEGORIES AND have fun! 😊👍
My cousins, my brother and I made up a game called “Chocolate”. Basically you just have someone lay down on the floor and cover them with every couch cushion and pillow you can find and then jump off said couches and body slam the shit out of the mound of cushions. Chocolate was a fun game.
My friends nearby and I used to play this really stupid game called 'ghodi ghodi' where 'ghodi' literally means a mare. Suppose we had 8 players, a team of 4 lined up bent like a horse from a pole to form a chain. All heads and backs facing down, no bending the knees and hands tightly holding the waist of the person in front of you. Then the other team members, one by one, used to run and climb the formed chain. If the chain broke somehow, second team would win and if the players on top fell down, first team would win. There were just too many injuries involved but nothing stopped us back then. I still can't answer, why?
During winter time we used to build a slide in our staircase. We would fill out the whole staircase with matresses and afterwards step in some of those big paper bags you get from supermarkets with two wholes on the bottom for our legs. Then we slided the whole freaking day. :D
Psychic guess who. The standard game of guess who is played, except when you are asked a question such as "does the person have a hat?" You had to remain motionless and silent while trying to project your answer to the other player . They then flip down the tiles they think are correct. This game is rarely won by anyone but it can be fin to play (later the name of the game was changed to jedi guess who?)
My friends and I back in middle school played “Sirius.” Which was taking all of the music channels on satellite tv, hiding the info, and whoever could correctly guess the artist or song title got points.
Those skills have paved the way for bar trivia several years later.
Might not be too unique and I imagine others played it.
"Kill the man with the ball" or "Smear the queer"
There were nosidelines, no endzone, no points. It was just a group or kids and a football. The football got tossed high in the sky and someone, for some damn reason, would grab it. The objective was for everyone to tackle the person who had the ball. The guy who had the ball merely had to avoid everyone else.
One sided dodgeball, all the kids and cousins lined against the wall. Then my dad would peg us with a ball. If you caught it or it landed on the ground then you politely returned it to him.... oh my god this was child abuse 😮
I would play "bull and matador" with anyone that was near me. I would put my index fingers up by my head as horns, paw my foot on the ground, and then charge, whether they were ready or not. I was a weird kid hahaha
We use to make cars/planes out of hay and pretend to race or go on adventures. My grand papa should have one bale out. We could make a club house out of it
My buddies and I played a version of King of the Hill - only on a four wheeler pulling a sled behind it, at nighttime in the dark, around my friend’s farm, in the winter on the snow and ice.
We would hide in the ditches, behind barns or trees, etc., then try to overtake the driver and gain control of the four wheeler. Usually that meant jumping on the sled then pulling yourself up to the speeding four wheeler where a struggle ensued for four wheeler dominance. Good times!
I grew up the youngest girl to three older brothers. We had heaps of games that would ultimately end with me in tears but one of them was a spin off of ‘play dead’ whereby I would have to lie on the floor as still as possible and if my brothers saw me move at all they got to kick me.
A secret game with an uncle who called it Cave Explorers
Zadsta · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kids in the culdesac and I would play this game called deer. Basically you lie down in the road and when a car comes the last person to get up wins. Wasn’t long until parents found out and banned us from it.
My friends and i had a "drive through" drug dealing station. I have no idea where we got the idea from....we used monopoly money and grass as pot, scraped off drywall as coke.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two sisters, growing up two of us would share a bedroom. Both of the bedrooms were directly across the hall from each other. The bedrooms carpet was green and the hallway carpet was blue.
Whenever we were put on timeout and were confined to our rooms we decided to play this game where we pretended the hallway was the river and the bedrooms were land. One person would be in the hallway and would be “it”. The other two people would have to try and jump from bedroom to bedroom, not stepping on the blue carpet or the ‘river’ and especially not getting touched by the person in the hallway. It gave us SUCH an adrenaline rush. I can still feel the adrenaline just thinking about this game :)
In 3rd grade I was new to school and had trouble figuring out what to play at recess. I always wanted to play with one of the classroom balls but by the time I got to the opposite end of the room where they were stored all the good balls would be gone. There was one semi-deflates dodgeball that couldn't hold its air. One day I decided that air or not, I would play with that ball.
So I took it a created a game involving throwing this quasi-flat dodgeball up and over a telephone wire and then players on the other team and other side of the telephone wire catching the ball to prevent point scoring. It's a little odd but throwing that near flat dodgeball could be more fun than throwing a properly inflated one.
After a couple of weeks the game I had invented became so popular that other kids started taking the flat dodgeball and I wound up being able to play with some of the normal balls since demand for the flat ball was so high.
3rd grade was a fun year, also the year I ran a science goggle repair service for the school and became rich in kudos (schools version of kid incentive money you could trade for candy or special privileges).
Gryfth · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to go into the garage with the door shut and lights off to play tag. Basically you can’t see shit. The garage is empty so the only thing we could do was face plant a wall but after awhile you learned where those were. I think the worst thing that happened was when Robert (it’s always fucking Robert) lost his cool and straight up punched our youngest cousin in the jaw thinking it was me. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm and I made my own obstacle course.
We had to get from the upstairs roof of the house to the upper barn across the way without touching the ground. Whoever failed this was stuck washing the dishes by our grandma’s exacting specifications.
Kinda late to the post but here's mine. It was called "stick wars" and was quite simple. You get hit by a "stick" you lose a point. You hit somebody with a "stick" and you gain a point. Deflecting a stick midair with another stick gained a point as well. Only throwing sticks allowed i.e. no melee to reduce possibility of maiming. No further rules.
When I was 11 I was playing such game and turned my back to search for a good deflecting stick for too long. I turned around just in time to see a 2 by 4 makeshift javelin of a "stick" before it hit me up and to the right of my eye. I hit the ground like a sandbag and proceeded to hobble home and try and tell my mum I "fell over" even while splinters still remained in the bulbus bleeding lump right at the front of my head.
My sister and I came up with Avalanche. We would stack everything that wasn't too heavy to move onto our basement stairs and try to climb up and over it. There was no purer a spike of childhood adrenaline than cresting a peak of couch cushions only to realize the accumulated detritus beneath you really wanted to be at the bottom of the stairs like right that moment. Endless Mufasa reenactments ensured.
Worm wars. My brother and I would stand across from each other and put sleeping bags (zipped up) over our heads. Then we would basically charge each other and wrestle as worms.....I loved it, it sounds strange.
We used to play "bakery" - making 'cookies' outta mud.. We'd sprinkle grass seeds on top & let them dry in the sun.. Some of them looked like irl cookies.. We took one to dad once & to this day I don't know if he knew what it was or not.. Because he took a great big bite of it & then spit it out. Lmao.. Knowing dad he probably knew what we were up to.. But who knows. Lol not necessarily unique but fun to remember.
I can't remember what we called it, but one Christmas me and my two older brothers got giant bean bags. 1 each. And then we would pretend they were airplanes, and try and throw each other out if theirs. It didn't count if you were holding onto the edge, so the game would go on for hours. Switching 'airplanes', jumping ontop of each other. Good times.
Another one we used to play was 'foot tag' (not sure if we made it to or if it's a real thing) but, two people would try and get from the living room to a bedroom, without touching the ground. We had stairs in our house, but it was still pretty easy (pillows, beanbags, slippers etc) but my brother's would ALWAYS make me be it, and I don't think I ever got them 😂
We would play "Beanie baby lineup." Essentially, we took our giant bags of beanie babies and lined them up in our rooms - this would take the form of a huge spiral - then would go to the start of the line and shuffle each one forward by a few "steps", one at a time.
The goal was to make it down the stairs, out the back door, down the porch steps and to the slide, but I made my beanie babies take such tiny steps that I would be exhausted before getting anywhere close.
Naturally, my little brother would cheat and run straight to the slide with his beanie babies.
Bonus game: we also threw our beanie babies as hard as we could into the sky and tried to hit the flag in our back yard with them.
My siblings and I played “sneak”. Our grandpa would always be in his library reading or watching tv and we would always try to sneak in and out without him noticing or try to scare him by spinning the globe, knocking books off the shelves, or something. He always caught us but sometimes he would play along and we got a huge kick out of it.
We used to play "restaurant" where we'd make decorations for the table and bring out the fancy cups/plates/silverware and fold napkins into swans and shit. We made menus on the computer and printed them out with fancy descriptions of the delicious food.
In middle school we would play this space game where we take a giant sheet of white paper and draw planets, spaceships, etc. and then have them go to war with each other. Derek always had to have the most powerful species, and he always ruled the universe and was invincible.
Me and my brother created our own game on our trampoline that was a combination of rugby, football (soccer), wrestling, and a bunch of rules that we followed religiously. In hindsight i'm amazed at how well we followed the rules. It was so complicated that it would be impossible to explain to anyone else, even our parents conldnt comprehend what we were doing. This is a great question, thanks for bringing back the memories. If anyonr wants me to attempt to explain it I will gladly try to do so.
My house was slightly raised on a hill, overlooking the house across the street (on a cul de sac) from us. So we used a tennis rack and ball and there was a pitcher, 1 fielder and a batter. If you hit it over the house, it was a home run, hit the roof, it’s a double. Anything else was fair play. My driveway was the infield, so the bottom of my driveway was second base. Not super Madeup but definitely unique.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the "swing game." we had a bunch of neighborhood friends come over and two of us would get on the swing set. the others would stand in a line just outside of swing range wearing baseball hats. the swingers would have to kick off the baseball hats by kicking the brim of the hat, then when you kicked off a hat you got off the swing. the game ended when bobby got kicked in the nose and started fountaining blood and our parents banned the game. the best part was that bobby never even wore a hat.
It was more a game for me. But for a long period of time (years) I would sporadically enter my sisters room under a blanket when she was trying to go to sleep and pretend that I was Harry Potter under my invisibility cloak. Except I would be yelling annoying things from under the cloak. Still cracks me up thinking about it.
My cousin and I played a game where we would build a LEGO “fortress” and see who could take the least damage from 5 throws of a metal ball. The only rule was you couldn’t build just a square solid building because that thing is indestructible.
This all ended after we broke my lamp from a bad bounce. We were probably 9 or 10 at the time
We played " Ball Tag" during recess, which was a combination of tag, dodgeball, and hide-n-seek.
The tagger of the new game was always the last one it from the previous match, or we decided by rock-paper-scissors. The tagger would count to 10 while the rest of the players disperse across the playground to hide.
You could sneak around from place to place, but if you were found by the tagger, they'd chase you to the edges of the playground to get you. Forcing you to either try and lose them, or find other players to draw their attention. If you were tagged, you had to count to 10 before you could tag anyone. Also you could only dodge the ball. Catching and deflecting were against the rules and led to the violator becoming the new tagger.
The ball was live except during the 10 count when the tagged player became it. You could tag someone however you wanted. Throw it, kick it, roll it, ricochet it, bounce it, etc. But the preferred method was sneaking up on your target and touching them. This was to keep us from hitting other kids at recess.
The level of intensity of this game was like the chase scene from the beginning of the bond movie Casino Royal.
Me and my friends played a game called roadkill, we had 4 kids on swings and we tried to run through them. Every kid was awarded points if they got someone and the kids who were running got awarded points for getting across, or getting thrown the farthest. we never really kept track of points besides them being arbitrary numbers but it was fun to see people laughing and smiling at getting fifteen or so points
Wall Ball, sport of Kings, Queens, and the unhinged.
Equipment List
- 1x standard racquetball ball
- 1x large wall, preferably gymnasium size
- 1x first aid kit
Every player for themselves, no teams.
The ball is thrown toward the wall fromthe location of pickup by any player. Movement allowed and encouraged, no official positions exist. If the ball touches you at any point, the next surface it must touch is the wall.
If a throw fails to reach the wall, or a player is struck by a rebounding ball, they must sprint toward the wall and touch it. During this time, all players are free to intercept the ball and strike the running player with it. This, however, counts as touching the ball and not impacting the wall, thus requiring the player who impacted the runner to sprint for the wall themselves.
Players of skill are allowed and encouraged to time a ricochet to impact a runner as they arrive.
Anyone who purposefully strikes an ineligible player is subject to one free shot from the player struck, with no wall touch penalty. Repeat offenders are subject to firing squad, in which the offender must face the wall, hands at their sides, and allow each player one penalty-free strike.
There are no points tallied, nor is there a winner. The point of the game is the game.
jamo20 · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm hella late, but in summer camp when I was younger we would play "handball," which, iirc, is an actual game, but ours had nothing to do with the real sport, and was something my friends and I came up with on a whim one day. We'd play on a soccer field with two even teams, each with a goalie and however many others joined us. The ball was a soccer ball, but you ran around carrying it in your hands and had to throw it into the goal to score. There was no stopping/resetting, so it was a super active game, and after a score the goalie would just pass it back into the field of play. If you had the ball you were free to be tackled or have the ball stolen from you. There was a lot of passing involved too, but if the ball was intercepted it was fairly risky that they'd have a whole open field to run down and then try to get it past the goalie one on one. Pretty much everyone would be running all around the field the whole time trying to get open or attempting to get close enough to the goal to score. Not sure how much of this makes sense, but god damn did I have a lot of good times playing that game!
If there's any questions about other rules/procedures, I'd be happy to try and answer!
“Bennis” a game I made in my street where we play tennis rules but with a football (soccer in freedom units). That was fun.
Nutball was a risky game where you sit across a floor from your opponent (usually my wee brother) and sit leg spread hands by your side. The other person has to bounce the ball on the floor once and the try to land on your nuts. If you block you lose the point. If you miss your throw the opponent takes their turn. Repeat until a decided winning point like 5/10. It was hilarious and scary at the same time.
Timing myself to do a shop on roller blades or my bike run was another game.
I have lots of silly games I played but those came to me quickly when I read the question. Good times
There was a game that didn't have any name, but we called it the Fingers Game. You and the other player held out your pointer fingers to begin. You would tap one of your fingers to the other person's, who would change their fingers to show the total. The point of the game was to get the fingers to add up to five and then that hand would be out.
It was really fun and addicting as elementary kids.
Pique-esconde do terror ,basicamente, uma pessoa (entre eu e minha irmã) era escolhida para ser o caçador e ele parava e contava até 10 nesse momento a presa tinha que andar em algum lugar em torno da minha casa (do lado de fora) aí o caçador tinha que sair correndo atrás da presa e dar um susto nela ,sempre acabava com nós duas caindo no chão de tanto rir.
(I think) my dad made a card game called "good morning my lady, good morning my Lord".
You get a standard deck of cards and distribute to everyone playing. You can't look at your cards. In clockwise direction, each players puts a cards at the center of the table. If the following cards show up:
Ace - everyone puta your handle at the pile of cards, the last one to do so gets the pile and add to his cards.
7 - players needs to whistle. The one who can't takes the pile of cards.
Jack - everyone needs to salute. If not, or if make any other movement, take the cards.
Queen - everyone says "good morning my lady". If not (or if says something that is not the phrase) take the cards.
King - same as queen but "my Lord".
The first one without any cards in their hand wins. When everyone gets the hang of it and goes faster, it gets funnier and funnier. Me and my family played so much that we would use 4 decks of cards or else it would end the game before anyone would miss and get more cards from the pile.
Well, we had this game we called 'Slender'. We had one kid as 'the Slender' and he had to catch the rest of us. Whoever he caught had to help him. It doesnt sound fun yet, but believe me, playing this game after midnight in a big ass garden was pretty fucking terryfing.
I’m sure this isn’t that unique but the amount of fun we had makes me feel okay posting. We called it: trodge ball. All you need is a trampoline and all of the balls (of any kind) you own.
Two people in the ‘middle’ would be on the trampoline. Then (we usually had 3 throwers) the throwers would be anywhere around the outside of the trampoline (being across from each other or evenly distributed works best) with the collection of balls. Then the people in the middle would be jumping and it’s just dodgeball from there.
I honestly don’t know if this explanation does the fun factor justice but we never had so much fun in our lives. There was nothing better than timing your throw perfectly when they hit the trampoline so they’re just floating and helplessly watching the mini basketball you just laser beamed to a perfect nutshot (sorry I’m reverting back to a 10 year old boy). The best part is I don’t know which was more fun, being a dodger or a thrower.
Note: we never set a minimum distance from the trampoline to throw, but if you have a dickhead friend who would walk up and throw from 2 feet away I could see that being an issue.
I used to play this game with my sister where we stuff our mouths with grapes one at a time and see who could hold the maximum amount without chewing them. Fun times😊
"Count Your Outs" - played with a frisbee and any number of kids. If a person caught your throw, that was an out for you. If the frisbee hit a person, or they touched it trying to catch it, it was an out on them. Ten outs and you had to go through the "rickets".
i know i'm late to the party, but me and my brother would tie two pieces of string from our parents room down to the second floor in the living room and we would take turns zip lining all of our action figures so they would collide in mid air. Who's ever action figure got knocked off and " fell to their death " was the loser. ( Leonardo vs Cobra Commander, Hulk Hogan vs the black power ranger etc etc ) We called it Aerial Wars.
Bury and punch. Get all the blankets and pillows couch cushions and bury a sibling. Then jump/punch and roughhouse etc. It was funny because we couldn't feel it at all. But writing this now it sounds really dysfunctional.
We played 52-Card-Pickup-Tag. The target would carry around a deck of cards and “spray” them at someone and if that person was hit, they’d have to pick up all the cards before they could start chasing other players. My parents are still finding cards in vents around the house 15 years later.
My sister and I collected Bryer horse models. We played with them almost like you would a Barbie, they had relationships and dramas and family and all these personalities and stuff...I think we had them put on a play like it was a school play one time. They were horses but our normal toys
My house growing up was basically a big circle with rooms all along the outside, we would have a haunting game with 1 person walking through and 3 trying to jump scare them. It was really fun and we had to get back to starting room to be safe. Sometimes with big groups we had it so one person had the flashlight and the remainers could be picked off.
We also had freeze tag in a bar parking lots so all of our ideas weren't so bright.
Drakan II
3D graphics game where you are a strong woman who can fight with swords who partners up with a fire breathing dragon!!! You slay these giant creatures (some version of Orcs) with your sword and elemental arrows to save your brother. You can ride the dragon around too! SO COOL. And this game was in the 90’s.
We used to play this game with my grampa (Pop) called ‘Hurley Burley’ where he would chant this Gaelic song and we’d have to guess how many fingers he was holding up.
We had no idea what he was saying only that we had to guess the fingers. If we got it wrong we could go again if we got it right he tickled us.
The tension that would build up as you kept guessing wrong was on par with watching the last 2 minutes of your team in a championship game.
Me and my brother used to do something like tag, but it was in the pitch black basement and we played with nerf guns that had “laser” attachments.
Basically had to move as quietly as possible and search with the laser. If found you had to shoot. Hit, they’re out. Miss, you better find your fucking dart.
My brother and I and our friends were really into ninjas and all that sneaky stuff back in the day. We had a pool so we invented a game just like Marco Polo but without saying “Marco” or “Polo” to find each other. We called it Silence. Whoever was “it” had to just use their hearing to find someone else. We even spray painted a pair of underwater goggles all black so there was no cheating. It was actually way more fun than it sounds.
I use to be stuck at school an hour early every morning since my mom was a teacher. Same with my friend. Basically the game consisted of taking the ball out of an old school mouse and playing air hockey on a table in the library except we used ourhands instead of those red things. Which is why we ways had bruises all over our hands... Kids are fucking stupid 😂
There was a "hide and go seek" type of game that I doubt they will ever do in today's age. I was in a boyscout camp, and there was a camp wide hide and go seek game, counselors looking for hiding campers. It was the 80s, Rambo was big, and actually I read some manuals on camouflage because my best friends dad was in the army and had a crate full of manuals and shit. Many kids climbed trees and went to the obvious spots (hollow logs, rocks, etc. some of us knew the terrain intimately) I went maybe 20 feet from where we started, behind a stacked stone retaining wall making a dry path over a sometimes muddy trench. I laid right in the mud and leaves, and smeared it on my arms, legs and face. I scooped up leaf litter and covered myself with it and laid face down wedged between the rocks and the ground.
They weren't looking for someone so close, and never expected someone would lie in a dirty drainage ditch and spread mud all over themselves. So I won. There was no prize, a bunch of us "won" and most of them looked like me. That was the only time my camouflage obsession in gradeschool helped me in life.
I can't remember what we called it but I'm pretty sure if you're British, chances are you would remember it. The game was that two lines of people stand opposite each other at a pretty substantial distance. A few people would be in the middle and you'd have to run from your side to the opposite side. If one of the people in the middle caught you, They'd deck you. It was absolutely brutal but It was a great way to pass the time until teachers told us to stop.
nlreed · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me smile remembering "Santa Clause Bump in the Wall". A simple game between my brother and I of standing up on your bed at night, pretending to be Santa Clause (which involved saying things like "Ooh I'm Santa Clause!! I'm just walking..") then bump into the wall and fall back on the bed! Much hilarity! No idea where it came from, why we chose Santa or even remotely why it was funny but it's a cute memory! :)
A bit late to this but my little brother and I played with toy cars a lot when we were younger (like hotwheels) and there were 2 games we used to play a lot.
First one I think we called "Crash". Having a hard time wording this properly but you know how you can kinda 'throw' a hotwheel along the ground so that it looks like it's driving on its own for a sec? Well we'd run a tournament with all our hotwheels where we'd have 2 cars and kinda 'throw' them so that they drove into each other. We'd keep doing that until one of the cars was upright and one of the cars was tipped over, either on its side or upside down. The winning car would advance to the next round while the loser was eliminated. Winner at the end would get a tally mark (with pencil) on the underside to show how many times they won the tournament.
The other game we played, I don't remember what it was called, but there was like a little toy car structure with like garages and a ramp/slide on the top with a helicopter pad. We used to roll the cars down the ramp/slide and if the car tipped over, it was eliminated. Kept doing that until we had a winner, which like the other game, had a tally mark added to the underside.
We still have those toy cars and you can see all the chipped paint on the cars from playing Crash so much, some of them have damage to the wheels or pieces that broke off. Some real MacGyver work on some of them; I remember one car has a bandaid across the top and another one has scotch tape wrapped around it. You can still see the tally marks on the undersides of the cars too. Geez what a nostalgia trip I just went on.
At a big retreat one weekend, the weather was terrible and we were in this massive old really creepy house. With not much to do (sometimes we played DS, but not everyone had one), we made up something we called the Whistle Game (because the original item was a whistle). One person had to be "it" and started with a whistle. We would all begin to move around the second floor of the house, which was basically a massive circle, and "it" would pass the whistle off to someone else, who then became "it". They would pass it to another person, and another, and another, and so on. The rest of us would try to catch "it" WHILE they were holding the whistle. An unspoken rule was that if you had just passed the whistle off, you couldn't immediately yell who you had passed it to, because that would have made the game a lot less fun.
It was derived from a game we called "the apple game" which we played in a much larger range (a city block) except there was only one "it" and it was essentially hide and seek except "it" could run and we had to actually get them instead of just finding them.
I can't remember what we called it but I'm pretty sure if you're British, chances are you would remember it. The game was that two lines of people stand opposite each other at a pretty substantial distance. A few people would be in the middle and you'd have to run from your side to the opposite side. If one of the people in the middle caught you, They'd deck you. It was absolutely brutal but It was a great way to pass the time until teachers told us to stop.
I cannot remember the name but a mech game on ps2 that plays kinda like xcom, I remember it being awesome
Ajaxl · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother created the upstairs downstairs game. One person stands at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom. Then a ball is thrown up/down towards a target area defended by the other player. Points for hitting the target. Oh and the person upstairs has a target either side to defend to counteract the added difficulty of throwing upstairs versus downstairs. We still play it sometimes and we are now 22 and 16.
Neither a child nor unique but one game we play at my woodcraft group (basically british hippie scouts) is ratchet screwdriver where you sit in a circle with your legs spread out and someone sitting in between them facing away, there's a person standing in the middle who will say a colour or item of clothing or hair colour etc. and everyone who that applies to sitting in the inner circle will try to touch the top of their head whilst the person behind them will try to wrestle them stop them from doing so. Most fun I ever had
Me and my brother would get in the game room, turn off the lights, and grab a flashlight to shine around the room. The goal is to have the other go from point a to point b without having the light land on you, which acts as the security camera.
In elementary school, me and a friend sold tickets to a lottery. The prize was different every day. Some days it'd be 4 Gobstoppers. Maybe it'd be a pack of Runts. It might be a pencil. Perhaps half an eraser. You never knew! $0.25 to enter! Eventually we were given shit by the teacher for promoting 'gambling.'
But, by far, the most fucked up one was STRIP CLUB. This was with my babysitter's kids that we'd see every day after school. Some point in the summer, in their playhouse, we decided this was an actual game. Kids running around in bathing suits all summer come up with some weird shit, man.
Me and my friends played a game called Buck Buck. Two teams with 5 or 6 each. One team, the bases, would link arms and legs and bend at the hip, creating a base for the jumpers to land on. The jumpers goal was the land as hard on the bases as possible to get the bases to fall and hit the ground. I don’t know how none of us got hurt because we were in like high school at the time and not small.
I lived on a loop - a circular street like a racetrack with houses both on the outside and in the middle of the loop. Maybe 40 houses total.
We’d play with 4+ kids with 2 of those being the ‘finders’ on bicycles. The rest of the players were hiders/runners and played on foot.
The goal of the game was for the runners to make a complete loop around the block without being spotted by the finders on bikes. We’d start at one persons house - that house also being the finish line. The runners all traveled in the same direction around the block and got a head start (maybe 30 secs?) before the finders could take off on bikes.
The finders could only travel in opposite directions around the block and could not turn around or come to a complete stop. The runners could hide anywhere in the front yard of homes. Could not enter homes or go into back yards. To catch a runner, the finders simply had to call out the runner’s name and the location they were hiding. But this could only be done while the runner was still ‘in front’ of the finder (relative to the direction that particular finder was allowed to travel). Once the finder passed the runner on their path around the block, the runner could then reveal themselves without fear of being caught by that finder.
So it became a game of coordination between the 2 finders. If they passed up a runner traveling in the opposite direction, the runner could take off looking to make it as far as possible before coming upon the other finder who would be traveling in the same direction. So the finder would race around the block on their bike and let the other finder know who they most recently saw and where.
My friends and I still play this. Basically at night when it was pitch black we would play a game of hide and seek tag where two+ people run to the far end of the yard (it was pretty big) and have to get back to the porch without being tagged. The seeker would get a really powerful spotlight flashlight.
"cool car" me and my twin brother on car journeys would look our the window, as the name suggests, when we saw a cool car we'd go apeshit and scream "cool car!" If the other agrees that the automobile is in fact a "cool car" the person gets a point. Most points wins
I can't remember what we called it but I'm pretty sure if you're British, chances are you would remember it. The game was that two lines of people stand opposite each other at a pretty substantial distance. A few people would be in the middle and you'd have to run from your side to the opposite side. If one of the people in the middle caught you, They'd deck you. It was absolutely brutal but It was a great way to pass the time until teachers told us to stop.
One person stands on the outside of the trampoline (as kids we only had ones that had a net surrounding it) with a football and your goal is to throw the ball over the net and hit the trampoline floor. The person inside the trampoline just tries to catch it. If the ball hits the floor of the trampoline the thrower gets a point and you switch positions at 5 points.
Later we would add different rules when it got too easy for the catcher, stuff like only diving catches or only 1 handed catches. It was a fun game and entertained us for hours and hours.
Criminal- my brother and I grew up living in hotels. He was two years younger and so a bit slower. I would give him a two second head start to reach our room at the end of the hallway. Then I, the police, would have to tackle the fugitive criminal before he reached the room. There was lots of yelling, "Stop, police!" People loved us.
Don't fall, bitch - we also played a game where one person would jump on the bed and the other would grab the ends of one or two pillows. Then you would try to knock the legs out from under the jumper. The jumper would try to alter his jump pattern to make you miss completely in which case you get a point. We would trade off whenever you get knocked over. The only time we broke something was when we told a friend about it who insisted on playing. He smashed a light off the wall like a total amateur.
Voices of the Sea - basically we ran around the yard trying to steal a string of fake pearls from the birdbath.
Kidnappers - If we were playing in the front yard, and someone drove by or walked by, we would yell, "Kidnappers!" and run and hide.
Scream Hide-and-Go-Seek - Regular HNGS, but when you were found, you had to scream at the top of your lungs and run away. (I'm sure our parents loved that one.)
I made a game up with the kids that grew up in my grandmas neighborhood and it was called firecracker. You play firecracker at a playground and one person is it they have their eyes closed and they are trying to find the other kids who are hanging off the jungle gym or whatever, the kids who aren’t it have to be veeeerrry quite and they can’t touch the ground if one of them does and the person that’s it yells “firecracker!” Every body has to freeze where they are and if you’re on the ground then you’re it!! It was a really fun game and no one got hurt surprisingly lol.
We called it "gecko". It was a version tag that starts with one "gecko Hunter" and they have to hold onto one of the players for 10 seconds to turn them into a gecko Hunter as well. It then goes on until a herd of kids is chasing the last gecko and dog pile until he gets held onto for 10 seconds.
Oh shit, I swear I thought this would never be told until I have kids. My brother and I as well as some of the neighborhood would play this when we were growing up. This game happens to use the Skyball manufactured toy, and by no means am I trying to give them free advertisement or anything, but it's a good ball.
Contrary to my earlier statement of trying to not give free advertisement, we named this game Skyball... Think what you'd like about that, but think about basketball, baseball, or football ok.. Its normal if you think about it. This is a game where you throw the ball onto the roof. Best played with 3 players but you can add or subtract. Each player starts with 3 lives. I think youngest always goes first. They throw the ball onto the roof, and call the name of a player before the ball hits the roof. That player must catch the ball before it hits the driveway. If you do then it is your turn and you can throw the ball and take your turn as well. If you miss the ball however, you lose a life. Even if you lose a life, OR lose your last life, you still throw the ball. (Its wonderful to take another life with you on your last breath). When you lose all your lives, you are out of the game, but get to start the next game when you are the first loser.
That's the main premise, but there are lots of technicalities, and those are here.
There are many different situation that happen when a ball is thrown towards the roof. (Towards being the key word).
You can:
Throw the ball over the roof resulting in a loss of one life, and you have to retrieve it.
Throw the ball into the garage below the roof resulting in a do-over, but if it happens again, you lose a life.
Throw the ball into the ground, thus missing the house entirely.. This happens when you are trying to go for a quick play where you just touch the edge of the gutter and it take one bounce on and one right off. This is a strategy used when an opponent is far from the roof. They dont have much time to run to the ball. Like the previous rule, you get a redo. If it happens again, you lose a life.
Throw the ball, hit the roof, but then when it rolls off, it hits the grass. The thrower loses a life in this case. Hitting line is ruled by whoever is most convincing, but you can call a redo. That's what we usually did.
Throw the ball without calling an opponent's name out.. This is frowned upon and results in a redo. You can essentially do this as much as you want, but then you're just throwing a ball to yourself and you look dumb.
Admittedly, it's a pretty silly game, but if you want strategy, this is the section for it. These are in order from least to most effective.
Throwing the ball and waiting until just before the ball hits the roof. Almost always there is enough time for the opponent to realize they have to catch it and react.
Putting spin on the ball is cool but doesnt move the ball much.
Rolling the ball isnt bad because it has the tendency to roll off the roof and hit the gutter in such a way that it pops it into the air, chipping it over the player that assumes it will simply drop. This is a lucky occurrence and helpful.
Throwing it very close to the top of the house without going over is ok because this gives the ball decent speed, but it's too risky, you can easily throw it over, resulting in a loss of your own life for almost no reward.
Throwing the ball so that it comes very close to the grass, but then hits the driveway. Unfortunately, against most players, this will not dupe them into thinking that it will hit the grass because it is almost always worth it to just grab the ball AND this maneuver is quite hard to pull off confidently. So it's not a great tactic and is not very often seen performed on purpose.
Throwing the ball straight up and just clipping the gutter. This is the fastest way to get the ball to hit the driveway. Thus used on people that are waiting far away from the roof. And preferably the slower opponents. You also get the jump when catching the ball in that position. If you catch the ball at a normal distance and then walk or run towards the front of the roof, it's always smart to follow that person in case they call your name. The person that does this cannot throw it in a way that sends it far from the roof, so almost always should you be close, rather than far.
The best tactic by far is as follows. And just as well the most difficult. Admittedly this makes me lose lives as an adult against younger people, but that's life I guess. This is where you get such a good throw that takes only one bounce on the roof, about the middle way up and then the second bounce is extremely hard to tell where it will land. There are two options for the second bounce if done right. The first being that it will hit the edge of the roof (the gutter) and go relatively far. The second being that it just misses the edge and goes straight to the ground. This is strong because as the catcher, you will not be fast enough to cover both options. If you think it will hit the edge and stand far away, but it misses the edge and goes straight to the ground, if done right, you will be too far away to catch that. Alternatively, if you think it will miss, but then hits, it is often too far for you to run and catch it. Words Of Wisdom: The best way to defend against this is to assume it is going to miss the gutter. This is because if it does hit the gutter, it will be in the air again, so you technically have more time to catch it, but not always.
And that's Skyball, it's a pretty good game and entirely original. Ask me anything you want about it.
My brother and I had a tape recorder with a mike, and we used to make up stories that we would record, and we would wander about the house/backyard trying to figure out how best to create the sounds to match the story. Was pretty fun. Wish I still had the tapes. I should ask him if he remembers doing this.
When Fight Club was released we made our own version without some of the violence to prevent injuries. No face hits in a “ring” of 3 people and if you were knocked out of bounds you were out of the game. Last one in was the winner. Some bumps and bruises but I think it helped my little brother build toughness. He later went on to have the confidence to join the Army.
My friend used to have a massive box of costumes in the basement, and every time I was over, me and my friends would do a “fashion show” A.K.A. Dressing up in the strangest combinations of attire we could manage. We would dress in the basement, and then once everyone was ready, walk upstairs to the adults, who would judge us on a scale of 10. Whoever had the most points would win a fruit roll-up.
Bruiseball - in a small, unfinished room, 4 to 6 people are sitting down. There are 2 juggling balls in play, and if at any point you are in "possession" of both of them then you are out, last Man standing wins. Basically you just pelt your friends with juggling balls.
Lacrosse basketball - on a basketball court, two teams of 3. 2 people on each team have tennis rackets, 1 person with a lacrosse stick. You play with a tennis ball. Lacrosse stick player has applied basketball "traveling" rules
And my personal favorite:
Pop up - on a designated court (in my case, my front yard) you have 2 sides with teams of 3. Each person has 3 lives. Use a handball or a tennis ball. You MUST throw above the porch roof height, if not, that's an out. If the ball lands closest to you in bounds, that's an out. If you throw the ball and it lands out of bounds, that's an out. Game goes on until all players lose all of their lives. You can also optionally give a life to someone who has lost all of this lives. It's honestly a game with a pretty solid mesh of athleticism, strategy, and trickery.
The unique layout of my yard and the quirks of the different sides makes things interesting as well. One side has more tree and the chimney so there's more "out of bounds" but there's also more ground to cover. A 2-1 meta developed where the person on your team with the fastest reaction time sat in front. The person in the far back sat behind a portion of the house so they have to have sweet hands as they are getting the highest pop up throws. The last person is kind of in limbo and covers the remaining ground.
In elementary school at recess we’d swing sideways on the swings and try to hit each other. We called it swing wars. We thought it would be such a success that we wanted to call the President and have him make swing wars a real, recognized sport.
My cousins and I used to stand in the bottom of an empty grain silo and throw rocks up the side as far as we could. The game was to not be the one who gets hit by the rock as it came hurtling back to earth
We set the backyard up with lawn furniture and two flags. Split the neighborhood kids in two teams. Then dumped every nerf football or devices that could be hurled at an injury inducing rate in the mix. If you got hit you were out. If you caught a projectile the thrower was out.
First one to hit everyone or get the flag one. I never knew lawn furniture could be a lifesaver
Tennis baseball. In the basement of my cottage my cousins and we would take a medium size exercise ball, have a jumprope in on the group as the net and the goal was to, well, play tennis with these plastic baseball bats. It was fun because the balls were always a little deflated along with the two bats being the "power bat" and the "skinny bat". one was pretty big for my 7 year old hands and with the other you could get more spin. We would have tournaments for hours and hours on end.
I grew up in a house with a large multi-room basement, that was as big of a floor plan as the rest of the house and was half exposed (the land outside sloped from front to back. All the rooms were connected in a circle except for one that only had one way in and out. All of the rooms were pretty big.
One very bored night in high school, my friends and I got the idea to black out the windows and turn off all the lights, and play freeze tag in the dark... except instead of just touching someone, you mercilessly whack them with what was formerly a toy blowgun. So you have anywhere from 6 to 10 people, standing as perfectly and silently still as they can in the pitch black darkness of my basement, listening as the person who was “it” saunters towards or away from them, guiding themselves mostly by touch and the blow gun but also somewhat by sound (if someone tried to scurry away or find a new hiding spot). Sudden discoveries and chases would leave you hiding and trying to catch your breathe as quietly as possible. Traps were set (a giant snow tube wedged in one of the doors, couch cushions scattered in major running spots) and cries of adolescent horror and glee were yelped. It quite literally felt like being in the recent horror movie “Don’t Breathe.”
Anyway, the game became known as “the stick game,” and my parents absolutely despised it... I can’t imagine why.
Dahric · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swinging statues. A bunch of kids would get together in my front yard and one person was the swinger and one person was the guesser. The swinger would proceed to take each person by the hands/wrists and swing them in a circle (swinger stayed planted while swingee was swung until their legs were in the air). The swinger would then let go and the swingee had to freeze however they landed. They then had to decide what they were, based on the pose they were frozen into. They whispered to the swinger what they were and then once all the kids had been swung and frozen the guesser had to go around and guess what they were.
You could boop someone on the nose so they could act out what they were for a moment but you had to quickly turn them off by tapping them on the back. If you didn't turn them off in time they could escape and run around to each statue and boop them on the nose to free them. Once booped and free they all can start running around booping noses. If you can't shut them all off you lose and you're out. But if you guess what everyone was correctly with no one escaping, you became the swinger in the next round. The game was played until there was one statue left standing which could take hours. It was my favorite game!
When we got our trampoline for the first time it came with this safety net around it like every trampoline, but we make this game where you had to score points by throwing a dodge ball over top and hit the trampoline. It was so much fun to play and my siblings and I all got back pain from jumping so much
Me and my sisters used to find as many balls as we could (Basketballs, Baseballs, tennisballs, etc) and put them all on the trampoline. If you got touched by a ball you lost 1 of your 3 lives. Last one standing wins. Eventually all the neighborhood kids were playing it with us.
On a 3 seat couch my sister and I would lay on the couch with our back/neck against opposing arm rests. We would line up our feet so they were touching similar to how you would do patty cake with your hands. Then on the count of 3 all hell would break loose and you’d try and crunch the others legs up into their chest or until they tapped out. Played it for years until we got too strong and broke the arm rest lol
My grandmother told me about fire balling. You make a baseball sized ball by stitching together scrap fabric. Soak this ball in lantern oil and set it on fire while tossing it around at night. It's fun and dangerous.
My childhood best friend and I were obsessed with the movie 'A Little Princess.' We created this game where we played the poor, orphaned princesses who were forced to work and do horrible chores all day long. Her mom played Miss Minchin and we would get her to order us around and give us really hard chores, like organizing the closets and cleaning out the fridge (we were like, six). We'd also beg her to be really mean and yell at us for not doing the chores right and we'd get upset if she wasn't rude enough. Looking back, I have no idea how this was our favorite game, but her mom probably loved it.
I grew up on a farm and there was a group of us 12-14 years old. We would ride quads & dirtbikes and play tag. The rules were you had to touch the person (not just the ATV) before someone else was considered “it”
Me and a few friends had a game called burnout, (just like the video games). We would ride down this big hill sitting on our skateboards and race to the bottom and push each other off. Lots of pain, lots of fun and lots of pain.
My dog would sit at the bottom of the stairs and me and my dad would be at the top and when we called him he would chase us up the stairs and we had to run down the hallway and jump on the bed before he caught us.
My little brother and I used to own a small white board along with many different colored markers.
We played a game which you could call an RPG.
What we did was draw a small grid on the lower right and lower left corners of the white board, which represented our inventories. Our "characters" were stick men we drew and we could use swords and magic and all the crazy stuff. If we wanted to move our characters more then 20 cm away from them then we would erase the original and draw another stick figure in another position and location.
So, of course, many of our attacks consisted of kamehamehas, rocket launchers, space-warping sword slashes.. Etc
We would always fight against giant monsters or "bosses" if you will. Everytime we defeated one we could loot coins from them.
In the upper left corner we drew a shop guy with a counter in front of him, that's where we would go to buy more weapons/armor.
We loved playing that everyday, it was so fun.
It was however, pretty tiresome to keep erasing "frames" and drawing new scenes every 3-4 seconds lol
My brothers and I would set up a mini Olympics athletic field in our house. We'd put masking tape on the floor for a "standing long jump", tip a wagon, a kitchen chair, folding chairs on their sides for hurdle races, frizbees as a discus, a pool noodle as a javelin, etc. We had so much fun trying to best our own records and beat each other.
I don't know if it's a game exactly but my brother and I would hide the leftover biscuits from dinner, the Pillsbury ones in a tube, and once they got nice and hard we'd throw them at each other.
Take a big flat wall and 5+ people and a tennis ball. Random player starts by throwing the ball at the wall so it bounces back. Anybody can go for the ball to grab it and throw it back at the wall, but if someone touches the ball and "fumbles" it, a player near to him has to shout "FUMBLE!", grab the ball, and bounce the ball off the wall before the fumbler can run up and touch the wall.
If the fumbler touches the wall first they're off scott-free, but if the other player hits the wall with the ball first, they get a free throw at the fumblers back while they stand facing the wall, firing squad style.
This will get buried. I’m very late. The sunglass game. We played every weekend night. Basically man hunt but the person who was “it” had to wear sunglasses. I lived in a. Really quiet neighborhood so the neighbors let us run through their yards. Many sprained ankles, scars, black eyes and a few broken bones. Mostly laughs though.
We had 2 that were similar to the classic punch buggy game. Kids like punching other kids right?
Paco In a Tow Truck:
Identical to the punch buggy game but for non flatbed Tow Trucks currently towing a car. Derived from a buddy who yelled at a Spanish driver in a tow truck “hey paco move your fu#%ing tow truck while he was blocking our street football game. “Paco” preceded to get out and punch him in the face 1 time and left. We just laughed at our buddy for being a racist asshole while he cried.
Name Game:
Everyone had a nickname and if you used the persons real name you got punched until you said their nickname. Good luck trying to remember nicknames like Big Mac, Mr Potato Head, Hot Sauce, Slow Jeremy, Goldie Locks and Stumpy Grumpy while your buddies punch repeatedly.
“City” - everyday we would change roles and be different people abiding the laws like we thought the world worked, like you get put into the hole the moment you are put into jail.
In my household, I had 9 siblings, making ten of us total. When we were young, we would play a game we called "Mr. Boxy Box" where someone would put a box over their head or big enough around their body and then basically get beaten up by the younger siblings. It stopped when I was 6 because my oldest brother 10 years my senior accidentally flung me across the room by swinging his body at me when he was covered by a refrigerator box.
I have no idea where the idea for it came from but my cousins and sisters and I all came up with a game we called “old cripple lady” where someone would be the old cripple lady and have to dress up and knock on the door and come in saying they want their payday cash loan. Then the players would have to say no! And sometimes be mean about it and she would say curse you or I’ll get you! Then we’d turn off all the lights and have a home base being the bed. Whoever was designated the old cripple lady would have 30 seconds to hide somewhere in the house and then the players would leave one or two at a time and try to find her hiding spot without getting tagged. You’d have to run back to base to be safe but if you got tagged then you turn into the old cripple lady and it starts all over again! It was so much fun I’m gonna try and get them all to play it again even though we’re all almost in our twenties now.
A primary school friend of mine always wanted to play a game where we pretended to be horses that were in some way abused by their owner. She was weirdly obsessed with the thought of abused horses that needed rescuing and made up different versions of this game every time we had a play date. After a few times I just said no to this game because I didn't want to pretend to be a sick horse anymore.
Sence · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind chicken, basically you locked a bunch of people in a room, blindfolded one person while the others threw balled up socks at them. If the blind chicken caught somebody, they became the blind chicken.
It was basically just an excuse to pelt your friends in the balls with a sock ball.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a few of my friends back in middle school made up a game, I had forgotten the name of it and had introduced it to some of my other friends where we subsequently name it “the game”. It was always played on a playground and there were hiders and a seeker. The hiders has to stay on the play set and avoid the seeker without touching the ground while the seeker had to navigate the play set with their eyes closed trying to tag someone. We eventually realized that the seeker would always peek unintentionally so that they wouldn’t hit something or fall off, so we decided to add in blindfolds for the seeker. The game resulted in a lot parkour and climbing as well as many bruised shins from missing jumps.
Dividing up the blocks and army men, building forts at the top and bottom of the stairs, then taking turns bombing each others forts with the "little bricks." Objective: Knock over all the enemies army guys! Hours of fun for all (except anybody that needed to go upstairs).
My stepbrother and I used to crawl under our bed (which was full of misc boxes and items) and “dig” tunnels through them and called ourselves Office Worms, holding important meetings and high stakes dealings in said exclusive tunnel systems
We played "Investors" growing up. We each started with an amount of money and would ride our bikes around and auction of people's homes. We never really got far enough into to crown a winner, but it was fun pretending to buy houses.
Me and my brothers would play soccer. But the goal was a 4 foot by 4 foot bucket,with holes in the bottom so the ball would come back out, 10 feet up in the air. As an added level of difficulty the ball can only bounce on the grown once before it has to be touched by a player. If it bounces more then once the run is over and you start the game over again. Our record was 32.
Woggul · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Noughts and crosses.
You draw two overlapping snad-timer shapes on paper, and you need to invade the squares. you start at opposite ends of the board.
the 4 corners and middle are "Super Positions" where you need the surrounding spaces to be taken to take them. (noughts and crosses can be on the same position except the "super positions".) Whoever gets the most Super Positions wins the game.
My sister and I would go into the plastic playhouse in the backyard and pretend to be two people just going about their day until SUDDENLY a TORNADO struck (which involved a lot of pushing up on the roof to spin it and throwing ourselves into walls). Terrified screams / enough collapse of the house to require reassembly was encouraged.
pgwnd · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark, it was hide and seek, except in pure darkness
I used to have a pretty long walk home from school, and there were lots of beer bottles on the side of the road. I would kick a bottle, and occasionally, I would try to crush it by stomping on it.
My brother and I would play a game we named super cyber ball that was basically us kicking a giant bouncy ball around the kitchen as hard as we could until we broke something. My mom had tons of knick knacks everywhere so the real game was waiting to see if she noticed that something was missing.
We used to sit cross legged on the living room floor and have a ballon filled with air and try to make it land on the other persons side it was a one on one thing myself against my brother but I guess you can play with multiple people. Just can’t let the ballon fall on your side. Simple yet hours of fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
kitty combat we would fight each other in a arena style thing
My brother and I used to play this game where we would place glow in the dark stars all around the house and then turn all the lights off. We would then race to try to collect as many stars as possible until they were gone and whoever collected the most stars would win. Remember always having a blast playing this as a kid and still brings back some fond memories.
Kissing tag. We were in Grade Three or Four at the time. There were two groups, boys and girls. If the boys were "IT" they had to chase the girls and tag them. If they tagged you, you had to kiss the tagger. A big old oak tree was home free and you had to run around the entire house before you could go to the tree and it was a BIG ass yard.
Catch and bull - When you tag someone, you had to dry-hump them.
Catch and karate - When you tag someone, you had to beat them up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I spent way to long making rules for a war game based on fictional countries with fictional continents drawn out of staples together graph paper and we would have mock battles or "mini games" which were mostly rounds of others games we liked, such as paintball, halo, tag, foot races, and all, sorts of sports, that would decide who won or lost a fight. Some of the "mini games" with too many points made the game too complicated to play becuase instead of one country winning and taking the area or losing we started to try to factor in how bad of a loss the "mini game" was and that made people argue about which "mini game" to play becuase some had higher costs dependinng how much you won or lost by. The game very quickly feel apart but the maps we drew were neat and I spent a lot of time populating it with fantasy creatures and then used it for a DND game a few years later.
So, unique but not coherent for a game, lol.
belenb · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game has no winners or losers. It’s called IFG (imaginary family game). you would need fake food, babydoll, and decorate your bedroom as a house. The best part is your celeb crush is your IFG spouse. I was OBSESSED with playing house, baby dolls, playhouses, dollhouses etc. the reason why it’s called IFG is because you can have as many imaginary kids as you want. To make it more “realistic” I created blogs of what happened with throughout the day. It was a blast.
I'd play a game called Kaos. (chaos) you start with a blank piece of paper and take turns drawing shapes. Passing it back n forth until you fill the page. It kept me and my brother very entertained through very boring church services
We had this huge boulder in the front of our house on one side and the other side the drive way. Me and my uncle who was only a few years apart as kids created a racing game. We would race to the boulder tag it and run back but you had to say pineapples or banana depending on how we felt some days we cha nged the word. I always lost lmao i would fall laughing once i reached the rock.
We played an elaborate game of tag called “monkey jail” where jail was this bench swing with this cheesy wooden monkey cutout nailed to the tree above it at my great aunts house.
My sister and I shared a room and our beds were across the room from each other. Whenever we'd get a balloon, we'd play this game where we'd lay on our backs on our own beds and try to kick the balloon across the room to one another, only using our feet.
Not as creative as the other ones. But my brothers and I would grab giant comforter blankets (the fat ones you use in winter) drape then over ourselves (like ghosts) so that we couldn’t see. Then we would try and knock each their off the bed, but you couldn’t fall off on your own either because then you lose. Since we couldn’t see where our opponent was we fell off a lot. Led to a lotttt of injuries lol.
We made up a game called "Water of Life" that was based on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where he had to drink from the Holy Grail.
We would each hide upstairs in a room with a dixie cup of water inside of it. The "seeker" would choose a room and, without looking around the room, would drink from the "grail." If someone was hiding in the room, he had drank the "water of life;" if not... well, we all know what happened then...
Me and my friends would play blind man's bluff but with a twist.. the game would be played as normal but the "blind man" would be equipped with a BB gun! So instead of us getting caught we got pelted with BB pellets..
A tennis ball. An empty five gallon water cooler jug. Home run derby. That sucker would thwack the jug with a satisfying THOOM and fly 200 feet away. Made us feel like superheroes.
We used to all pick video game characters and then make up storys with them, eventually i made up a character called "everything man" that had any video game power he wanted, but everyone thought it was OP so i stopped being him lol
"Mexican Bobsled". Our group of friends would all ride down a hill sitting on skateboards armed with broomhandles, trashcan lids, etc. We'd beat the crap out of eachother Mad Max style, and whoever made it to the bottom of the hill won.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
bike tag. we’d ride around on bikes and tag each other. wow that was dangerous and people got hurt.
aoyfas · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hit the pole". Lol, the projects I grew up in had these huge electric poles. Lmfao, we were in an Extremely low income housing; your rent was based on income. Ours was $10 a month. No toys to play with; but tons of kids. The "It" person(s); usually 2 people: would block the pole; everyone else would try to hit it.
My friends and I at recess would crouch (so like if you put you knees in your t-shirt except we didn't do that) being Eggs and do things like that, like race and go down the slide
PIG. It's like super pool, but much better for groups.
All you need is a yellow ball, a purple ball, a pool table and 2+ players. If 50 people play, you all circle the table and find a line in it. 2 people stand around the table to start, with both balls on either side. The one who starts takes the yellow ball in their hand and attempts to hit the purple ball in 3 tries. If they miss all 3, they get a letter towards PIG.
Once the yellow ball hits the purple ball, the game really begins. The player has successfully touched balls (c'mon guys) and has completed a turn without getting a letter. The next in line must grab the yellow ball WHEREVER it goes after the contact (except for fouls) and hit the purple ball. However, you must always be on the other half of the table than the purple ball is on. If the purple ball goes into a hole when someone hits it, the NEXT person in line gets a letter. This is what helps change the game when only a few remain. If the purple ball STOPS moving (spinning is moving) then whoever's turn it was gets a letter. Naturally, there's a lot of throwing and running around involved so plan safety accordingly. Some fish and their tank have already seen their last days.
If anyone finds cheap methods of beating the system, abusing physics, or otherwise making the game full of cheese, they are prone to be categorized as "Trent rules", after the man who started them all.
Our all time favorite was Sock Wars. All of my brothers played AYSO soccer every year, which resulted in mounds of knee socks. A new color each year. We would roll all of them up to donut shapes, leaving the foot part unrolled so we could swing them like a sling. Then we made pillow forts and off to war! Soft but deadly accurate projectiles!
I'm not sure if this counts as a game per se, but my friends and I used to babysit other kids webkinz on the playground. You could find us underneath the biggest oak tree at the back of the playground.
I forgot exactly how to play it, but in elementary school my friends and I invented a game called dotball using a bouncy ball and either a tennis court or volleyball court. It was pretty fun and I think we even got other kids to play it.
My sisters and I had a game called "Skunk." Whenever someone wanted to play they had to yell, "Not the skunk!" and lay down on the floor. The spots you wanted to lay down on were the sides and if you weren't quick enough, you'd have to lay down in the middle who is then the Skunk. The Skunk had to lay there until the other two people roll over them once each, and then after everyone just rolls from side to side of the room and you had to try to roll over the other people.
Our uncle taught us, or possibly made up, a game called Guaragh that was a kind of tag/hide-and-seek combo played outdoors. The game leader would disassemble a flashlight into pieces (batteries, body, lamp). The game leader would then call each player forward one at a time. Some players would receive a piece of the flashlight. Another player would be "tapped" as the Guaragh. Other players would receive nothing.
All players then scatter and hide. The players' goal is to find all the pieces of the flashlight and assemble it before caught by the Guaragh. The Guaragh's goal is to find all the hidden players and tag them (at which point they're out and the Guaragh can confiscate any flashlight pieces). Either the Guaragh wins because the flashlight can't be assembled or the players win by shining the flashlight on the Guaragh.
We'd play in the cornfields surrounding our house with dozens of cousins. It was pretty much mayhem.
My mum and her brother and sister apparently played a game called catch a poopoo when they lived on a farm where they'd throw sundried cow poop at each other like a snowball fight
sowee · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my bother and father would turn off all the lights on the house and then would take turns hiding in the dark until found. It was very fun
This was more when we were 12-13 when the internet was kind of a new thing (at least for us), but me and my friends used to play a game we just called chicken where we'd take turns each showing a minute of a video, and whoever couldn't watch the whole thing would be out. The videos ranged from super cringey or annoying, to gross porn (scat or gay porn (surprise, guess who's gay)) to really graphic shit we definitely shouldn't have been watching (microwaving cats, beheading videos and live births)
It's a surprise we didn't end up more fucked up honestly.
Pretending to be a werewolf and attacking my friends xD
They eventually added on tying me to a table as part of it.
Basically they would have to catch me then restrain me while trying not to sustain injuries.
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I was a weird kid.
Ninja. We had a big sleep over and around 11pm we turned off all the lights in the house. It had to be pitch black, there was no vision needed in a game of ninja. Now think about the game like hide and seek, except you can't see anything. And when you find someone, you don't tag them, instead you beat the hell out of each other. This game had many ways to play. Everyone looking for one person, one person looking for everyone, half the people looking for the other half. The greatest part of this game was how often you would end up fighting the wrong people. It always became a free for all in the end. You knew the teams when the lights were on, but as soon as they went off you were very alone and had no idea if a sound was from a team mate or an enemy. They had the same suspicions. Here are 2 of my favorite stories.
I was on the hide team. We all split up and I ran for the bathroom. I opened the sliding glass door to the shower and got in. I figured I should sit down near the faucet so if they opened the door and felt inside they might not touch me. Then someone comes into the bathroom while being chased and the shower door opens as someone else on my team gets in too and stands there. The person chasing them enters and looks around, opens the shower door and somehow manages to miss my friend entirely. As he leaves my friend sighs in relief as I whisper, "Get out, shower is taken." He freaked out and made a bunch of noise which resulted in a 3 person bathroom brawl.
We were tracking friend 1 down and heard him run up the stairs. The 3 of us quickly follow and wait outside the spare room that we heard him go in. We decide friend 2 should go in and fight him and if he runs out of the room the other 2 of us will take him down while we wait for him. He goes in, we hear a ton of fighting and then a shape appears in front of us who looked kinda like friend 2. We ask him if he is still in there and he goes, "uhh... yeah." So the 2 of us go in to finish the job and tackle friend 2 and start punching and kicking like crazy. Friend 1 turns on the lights and we look at him all confused and then at each other realizing we were attacking friend 2 the whole time.
Dirty Sock Wars...Rules of the game are simple...1. Collect every dirty sock in the house...the stinkier the better. 2. Roll each sock into a ball and divide socks into two equal piles. 3. Divide bedroom with a rope and drape a sheet over it...for best results use your sisters skipping rope and tie one end to bed post and other end to drawer. 4. Sit on the floor opposite eachother and prepare for battle. 5. Lock & Load. Whip socks in rapid succession and try to ricochet off walls, doors and celing for bonus points. Direct head shots rewards shooter with 5 free socks from other side. The winner is the one who gets rid of all their socks first. For best results play in the dark. For ages 8+
WARNING: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE TO FISH TANKS, LAMPS, TVs, PICTURE FRAMES OR ANY OTHER BREAKABLE ITEM AS A DIRECT RESULT OF PLAYING THIS GAME. PLAYING THIS GAME MAY ALSO RESULT IN GROUNDING, FRIENDS BEING SENT HOME EARLY, ROOM SMELLING LIKE YOUR DADs WORK BOOTS AND/OR EAR SCREECHING PROFANITY FROM YOUR MOTHER OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.
My brother and I put on the "Kid's Circus" on our playset in our back yard. We had made tickets, practiced routines, and our family acted as the audience. So much fun!
Me and my brother used to play a game of catch, i can't remember if it had a specific name now.
We would throw the ball to each other and if you didn't catch it you lost a "life". First life you would have to go on one knee. Lose a second life and you're now on both knees.
Drop another catch and you could only catch or throw with you weaker hand. Lose your fourth life and you shut one eye.
Losing your fifth life means both eyes are now shut. Don't catch one more and you lose.
You would gain a life back by taking a catch.
You would also lose a life if you threw a wayward throw that wasn't remotely catchable.
"Grounders" A game of tag played on a playground with a rock/gravel base.
All people that are not it must stay on the playground at all times. The person that's it is allowed to have their eyes open on the ground but once they get on the playground they have to shut them. When the it person is on the playground with their eyes closed and hears someone step on the ground (rock/gravel) they call "grounders" and are allowed to open their eyes and spot someone instantly tagging them in the process.
P.s. the typical way of choosing someone to be it was by running to the playground at recess and having the last one be it.
We played Toilet, basically two teams, if you touch someone in the other team they became a toilet and if your whole team was caught (usually 3/4 people) then you would become the poop fest, only way to win was te de-toilet you friends by sitting on their squatting lap, making a poop noise, flushing their handle a.k.a extended arm and then they were free to play further. Good times with a lot of laughs.
We would put toys out throughout the living room, then scoot around on cushions(used as canoes) collecting them and bringing them back to our own couches (resembling ships) then use the toys in a "cave." Me, being the oldest, won every time
Red letter - basically, there's 2 teams. Hunters and runners.
Runner team makes a word with the same amount of letters as team members and each is given a letter from said word.
Hunters track down the runners and get the letters from each of them... by any means necessary (typically, beating the snot out of them until they give it up)
Me and my sister had a trampoline with a net and a basketball goal. we would play a game where one bounces on the trampoline with a basketball inside the net. the other person would run around the trampoline trying to punch the basketball through the net to hit the one on the trampoline. If you got hit you get a chance to make a long shot to get that life back. We would play this for hours
We used to play what we called “ball game” in which there was 3-4 people on the trampoline and the person in would have to hit you with the ball.
The rules we came up with made it really stratigraphy though, as you had to make it bounce first on the trampoline or it didn’t count, you could head the ball away and f it went down the hill and past the fence you could do a long through to try and hit someone and they couldn’t move but they had sometime to move into a good spot.
We would form alliances where we would through it at our partners head and they could hit it into someone else, or they would roll it to them and they could head the ball on the ground or bounce the ball at someone.
If someone rolled it the closest person had to do something risky like bounce it up or have the balls to not move.
My sister and I used to play “match of the century” in our driveway. It was kinda like tennis. We’d use racquets, balls and a makeshift net. The difference was we’d also do the commentary and we’d make up crazy things about each other. One gems frequently mentioned was, “gahwhatsmyusername has always been insanely jealous of her sister’s innate playing ability after losing her two legs in a dog walking accident.”
Also, neighborhood kids would come over to play hide and seek in our basement. We’d turn the lights off and the seeker had to keep their eyes closed. Many bumps and bruises.
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I used to throw a ball up the stairs, it would then slowly bounce down the steps and I had one chance to volley it right up the stairs (without touching the steps) so it hit the chest of drawers on the landing and then start bouncing back down the steps again, ad infinitum. Hours of fun. I was an only child.
Neighborhood friends and I used to play this game we called “go to my becom”. It was essentially just hide and seek, but when you found someone you would say “go to my becom” person hiding would go there but you could watch out for others still hiding to give you a thumbs up. If you got one, you could then run and hide again as long as the seeker wasn’t looking at you. We had boundaries on where we could go to make it a little easier on the seeker, but the game could still go on for quite awhile.
It was a mix of volleyball, dodgeball, and soccer. It got super vicious but it was so much fun. We’re all in our late 20’s now and we played the game at our annual family picnic and it was brutal. I can’t believe we would play as kids.
We used to play a game at my grandmother's house which we just called "nanny's game"
We'd write out categories like countries, flowers, colours, animals, musicians, actors, etc. Whatever we could think of.
Then someone would choose a letter and we'd all write down something for each category beginning with that letter.
If someone else had the same word as you, you got 5 points, and if you were the only one with that word you got 10 points. 0 if you couldn't think of anything.
I'm not sure when Scattergories came out. I played it at a friend's house in high school, about 12 years ago, maybe. It almost seems silly to have paid for it, though, since you can make it so easily yourself!
I remember the rules being slightly different. If you came up with the same thing as someone else, neither of you got points, so it encouraged people to come up with crazier ideas.
Treeball. It's basically baseball in the woods with trees for bases and sticks for bats and a racquetball instead of a baseball. The unpredictable flight of the ball makes the game of baseball fun.
I called it the "night crawlers" or "night watchers" I would shut the lights of. Then pretend someone is coming in if they see me awake, and not asleep. They would try to "kill" me I had to run and turn on the lights as fast as I could before I die. But usually I pretended to be asleep, kinda messed up now that I think about it.
We had an above ground pool. We also had a metal bat we used to beat the heck out of trees with. The metal bat was all jagged and sharp from years of bashing trees. The game was, someone would stand outside the pool and throw the bat at the person in the pool. The person in the pool had to duck.
I lost. 30 years later I still have the scar above my lip.
we would fill the floor of a room with blankets and pillows and everyone hides under the blankets in any arrangement.
one person who is designated the searcher, has to grab onto somebodys appendage and determine who the person is. if they are correct they swap, otherwise 3 tries and you rearrange the room.
Sort of a one sided walleyball using my family house roof. Kinda volleyball but with a ridiculously slow pace due to the ball disappearing onto the roof and reappearing somewhere somewhat unexpected. Insults and distractions were bonuses. Over the peak of the roof was a foul and you had to run around the house to get it as punishment.
Ideal game for drinking and being drunk at 17.
When baseketball the movie came out we were pretty jazzed at how close to idiotball it was.
Basically the same game but with the “HORSE basketball” part replaced by lame volleyball.
Me and my four friends would play “Mr. President” where we all put our fingers up to their ears and whoever did it last was the ‘president’ and the rest were the ‘CIA’ and the CIAs job was to tackle the president to the ground no matter what.
If that sounds dangerous you’re right. We shattered many a phone playing this game.
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Apple wars. My friends, Parents had a small apple orchard, it was a team sport. Basically you got yourself a pointy stick, collected some apple ammo, stuck one of them on the stick and whipped it at your enemies. Bonus points, for super mushy apple sauce strikes and sneak attacks.
There was a game we call "fechadinha" and the objective is to make your friends fall from their bicycles by stopping in front of them, if you touch the ground you lose, we normally played 4 people at the same time in decently open areas but needless to say it was a little dangerous.
Me and my cousin would try to make it from one side of grandma and grandpa's house to the other without being seen. So when she got married a couple years ago we of course played it at her wedding xD
No idea how it started, but my older brother and I would play a game we called “Fox in the Road.” I would lie down in the road, and he would charge at me as fast as he could on his bike. When he passed a certain spot, he’d yell “FOX IN THE ROAD!!” which was my cue to attempt to get up and out of the way before he could run me over.
I usually didn’t make it.
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"Racketgoal" basically just tennis (1 on 1) but you are trying to score a goal, which was usually a doorway.
“Booty chase”.... my dad would bend over and look through his legs and chase me and my siblings around the house like that. If he caught us he would tickle us. It was so fun as a kid but probably not as fun for my dad when we would tell other adults that we loved playing booty chase with dad 😂
One person stands on one end of a trampoline. On the other side there are two people throwing many different kinds of balls at the person jumping and trying to dodge it. Caused lots of nosebleeds but it was fun.
My brother used to set up grids of faced-down Pokemon cards in my basement (where we played games), I had a deck of my own and so did he.
I also had a bucket of Duplo's and I would throw a Duplo on the grid so it would land on a single card. He would flip the card and I would flip the top card of my deck and would battle it with my card (we had our own rules for battle which I forget now).
Eventually when I built up enough cards I would challenge the Pokemon master (him). It was my favorite game to play even though I could never beat him.
I had this game I played with my friends. It was called everybody's it and the basics we're that if you tag someone you had to sit down and if that person got tagged you would get back up and some games would last for hours at a time because of this
Oh man! A post to finally pull me out of my lurking. So when I was a younger, my parents were members a of a club that had a huge campground and pool. All the kids would get together at the pool for "tarbaby." After a race across the width of the deep end, the loser was designated "it." Then "it" would have to jump in and tag all of the other players who started each round on the opposite end of the pool; as players were tagged, they joined the "it" team. "It" could swim any direction but backwards, and the other players could jump in whenever they wanted, and climb back out for that matter. But if they were standing on their side of the pool when the first "it" person touched it, they were tagged too. Bit of a mouthful, hope I described that clearly enough. As we got older, our plays got more creative. Great times
At about 12 years old my best friend and I had one set of boxing gloves for the two of us. We are both right handed. So, we'd box each other with one glove and take turns wearing the right hand.
Every once in a while one of us would land a good shot and then we'd roll around on the floor laughing at the fate of the recipient of the punch.
"Sleeping Beauty" We lay down and dont talk. Whoever "wakes up" first loses. I made this game up, because even as a kid I didn't like playing with kids. And yes, I'm an only child.
Our family room had a sofa and another big chair a few feet (3-ish) away from each other, so 7 year old me would try to cleanly leap between them. I scared the bejeezus out of my grandma doing it, whoops.
When me and my friends played Garry’s Mod we’d build an arena and choose a gun to use and one person would have the bomb. There were two bomb sites and it would take 40 sec to blow up and 5 sec to defuse. If you had the bomb and were killed, the person who killed you would get the bomb. Great fun.
My brother and I would round up all the toys we had of a particular type and invent stories and plotlines for them.
His Matchbox cars starred in mystery stories or "big race" stories where we would race them two at a time on a plastic racetrack toy. The main characters were a lime green Miata named Lima, and a teal Ford Escort named Bluegrass.
The plastic frogs and snakes left over from his nature-themed birthday party usually just had various social problems within their amphibious/reptilian community.
Stuffed dogs and cat beanie babies/misc plushes were patients in a vet clinic/shelter. The karaoke machine that switched a blue screen on and off was the high-tech vet computer that scanned the animals for problems and microchips. Lite Brite pegs were magical pet food.
Webkinz toys had soap opera plotlines, basically. At one point my dad gave us an old computer monitor that he had no use for (it was for a computer that could only run AOL) and that was the animals' computer. I made and printed out fake website homepages that we would tape over the screen. One of them was a website for romantic advice and chatting, which the slutty French raccoon would use to meet men. My dad saw that particular one taped to the monitor one day and got really pissed off because he thought I had visited and printed out an actual website homepage for getting romantic advice and meeting singles/divorcees/widows.
Our Playmobil toys (we had lots) were part of the most complex game. The game was called "Scene", because I had had Playmobil toys since I was four and I called playing with them "playing scene" for some reason.
In Scene, a crew of pirates met three sisters, got married, and they all gained magical powers when they were visited by a giant iridescent marble. Their powers were element-based and represented by different color marbles (green for earth, blue for water, clear for air, red for fire, rainbow for "energy", yellow for light). The pirate leader and the oldest sister became "king" and "queen" and had the strongest powers. They all landed on a magical island where their powers grew even stronger and each marble actually became sentient.
Over time various other people/animals were washed onto the island, and at one point the island was under siege by another evil pirate crew led by a sexy woman. The powers were basically used to Care Bear Stare the evil pirates into goodness, but the woman pirate still had a nasty streak in her and tried to seduce the king away from his wife several times and was successful at one point. Eventually we started playing on a table that didn't have a ridge on the edges, so we couldn't use the marbles anymore, so the king and queen absorbed most of the elemental abilities and other people just sort of had minor powers like telekinesis or talking to animals.
I think at the end we had something like 75 figurines, each with their own personality, name, backstory, and ability - and those were just the human figures. We played that game for probably eight years. My parents still give me Playmobil figures for Christmas and birthdays even though I don't even live at home and haven't played "Scene" with my brother since I was maybe sixteen. My next birthday is my 23rd and I bet I'm getting at least one mystery figure packet. I don't even have room for them anymore and all of the ones we actually played with are still at my parents' house.
Matrix Path of Neo. A basic level to level revision of the films. It was also created by the Wachowski. I'm not a gamer in any respect. Movies on the other hand are my life. There iare references in the game to other films and certain levels based on films like Drunken Master and Vertigo. Also the ending boss battle is awesome with a immersive levelling up system. Really great game.
My friends and I would play a game we called “The Dark Game”. We would turn off the lights in the garage and everyone but the person who was It, would go hide. The person would walk around with a flashlight and if they heard a noise would turn on the flashlight, and if they found a person then that person would be it. This went on for a year or so until my heavier set friend decided to sit on top of the hood of my dads beloved car and left a nice dent
First was a game with my brothers we would play at a tennis court with two courts next to each other. You get on either side of one of the courts so the net is not in your way. The goal is to throw a frisbee and hit the fence behind your opponent.
Second game can be played on a normal tennis court or volleyball court. Goal is to land a frisbee within the bounds of your opponents court. For a tennis net to make it fair, if your throwing from the front field you have to land in the backfield.
Played a game called “hurt time” (stupid name but it’s fitting) we would take a sock full of marbles s or various hard objects and put the end over the ceiling fan, we would turn the fan on high and the faster the fan started spinning the sock would start getting pulled off the ceiling fan blade. eventually coming off the fan and flying at a random direction. There were 2 pillows in the room to use as “shields” but roughly five kids so you would battle for pillows to hide before the death sock of marbles came down and gave you a concussion... the joys of childhood.
Just like regular freeze tag, one person starts as "it" and freezes the other players when they tag them. Players can only be unfrozen when tagged by a player who is not "it". Here's where it gets different.
Once unfrozen, that player now has hypothermia and must return to home base as fast as possible. If they are tagged by the "it" person before returning to home base they are now also "it", thus increasing the number of people who can freeze other players. The last person standing wins.
Not my story but my dad’s - he and his four brothers played a game called Hatchet in the Dark. The one who was “it” would put a pair of underwear on their head, turn off the lights, and then wildly swing a hatchet through the air with the goal of hitting someone. The room they played in didn’t have a window, so it was pitch black. It’s a wonder any of them survived, but hey, the 60s were a wild time.
In our living room when I was young we had two large sofas that faced each other on opposite sides of the room. When I was about 12/13, and my sister 6/7, I would sit on the sofa almost laying with my legs tucked against my chest, and she would rest her butt on my feet. Simultaneously she would do a little jump and I would kick my legs as hard as I could, launching her across the room onto the other sofa. The spectacle of her absolutely flying across the room and the sheer joy it gave her meant we would play it for hours on end.
I played this game called zombie and it had to be played at night with little visability. So this is one zombie and you had to tag everyone else making everyone zombies.
In middle school, me and and a couple of friends started playing a slightly different version of tag. We would choose one person, usually one of the winners of the previous day, to be “it” at the beginning of our recess period. If you were it, then you would have to go tag someone by holding them down for 3 seconds straight, meaning that, if someone were held down, they could try to break free (this got a bit rough occasionally) If you succeeded, though, then they were also “it.” Repeat until the end of recess, when we would reconvene and find out who won by surviving the entire 25-35~ minutes. At first, it started out as a small group, but, as the year went on, we would choose to add other kids who wanted to join in or were curious. We had so many kids at one point that some teachers held a brief meeting in our social studies classes, in which they told us we had to stop playing the game because it was too rough.
I’m assuming they also didn’t like the fact that we called the game “Herpes.”
My sister and I used walkie talkies or my grandparents’ intercom system to guide each other to a certain room. The goal was that one person would close their eyes and listen while the other person would guide them to the room they gave the orders from. “Take three steps forward and then turn 90 degrees right” etc
We would play our own version of tag/infection/hide and seek in the locker room at our school.
The locker room was really big, it had two bathrooms with stalls, a decently sized shower room and two locker sections.
So we’d go down with between 6 to 10 of us and shut off all of the lights, choose somebody to be it and then everyone else hid. If you got found you could run. The way you got tagged though was whoever was “It” would have a bunch of lacrosse balls and he would whip em at you.
If you got hit you were also it and got your own lacrosse balls.
“Car game” my dad and mom where pretty big car people and my dad had just bought a 97 Subaru and I was obsessed with the look and every time I saw one and yelled “daddy’s car”( I was 8) I got to the point that we made a game with points and rules and even added cars like “mommy’s car” and “grandad and grandma car”.
-had to be same year to year model.
-had to be with someone else who is playing the game to verify your points.
-if you called a car out and it was not the right car minus one point.
-dealerships and the cars we own don’t count.
I’m older and have a 5 year old and now she plays the same game with me and my wife. One car is different a concrete mixer.. her favorite looking car lol.
A buddy had one of those giant exercise balls, but with a handle. Kind of like Randy Marsh's ballsack. We would line up two couches facing each other covered with pillows, then run at each other and bounce off at full speed. Pretty fun, pretty destructive.
My brother and I would play beanie baby war. We would set up forts with pillows and blankets on both ends of the hallway and split the beanie babies up evenly. We would start throwing them as hard as we could at each other while protecting ourselves with our forts. Honestly I don’t remember how it ends. I think either one of us got hurt to the point that we had to stop or one of us just hoarded all the beanie babies and that’s how you won. Seriously it was so much fun
Me and my cousins made up a game called "vampire" where whoever was the vampire had to lay down and everyone circled them chanting "vampire vampire please wake up". After the chant was finished the vampire would have 60 seconds they counted down and everyone else had to hide in a pitch black room. If the vampire found you first you were it next round.
My father was a division 1 wrestling coach. We had a wrestling mat in the (fairly small) garage and the walls were also covered in wrestling mat padding (my family never uses the garage for cars, a practice I continue today in my own house).
My sister and I created a 1 vs 1 game sorta like baseball Home run derby in there. It was full of weird rules and quirks. We used a mini bat (like you get at minor league stadiums). The ball was a squishy ball that was easy to hit but wouldn’t hurt anyone if it came back to the pitcher.
No one ran the bases. You batted next to the garage door and faced the opposite side. If you hit the ball into the upper part of the opposite wall (not covered by the wrestling mat), it was a home run. It wasn’t that easy to do. If you managed to hit the ball into the wall and back onto the ground, you’d count it as a single and keep going. We’d keep track of who was on base, just for fun sometimes.
You could get “out” by striking out, hitting the ball against the wall and then having it be caught by the pitcher, hitting the ball directly into the pitcher (whereupon they’d throw it to the imaginary 1st baseman and you’d be out), hitting a ground ball that rolled to the opposite wall and up (the mat there was too long so it curled up and made the ball roll into the air) and then having that be caught before it landed, pop flys, etc. A pop fly could legit be a ball that was hit into the side wall, then the opposite wall, then caught. It was madness.
We almost didn’t really keep score. It was understood that hitting was the most fun but it was also fun/comical to try to get outs since the squishy ball would careen randomly around the small room. I remember playing this game with some friends also and had a blast with it until we took the mat out years later.
Slime monster. It's basically hide and go seek for the first but until somebody is "found". The seeker then yells "slime monster" and everybody runs to a predetermined safety point, we used a porch. You are it if you get tagged
We used to play "Penny in the Pot" all the time - my aunt taught it to me. Essentially, you take a penny, clench it in your butt cheeks, walk over to a pot, aim, squat and 'drop' the penny in the pot. Each round the pot gets smaller, so you might start with a bowl and work your way down to a shot glass. This used to be highly competitive, with sudden death rounds and everything.
My crowning achievement was a 5p coin in a wine bottle. I used to play this while I was 7, I'm 29 now and it's still one of my favourite games, it was introduced to flatmates at Uni and colleagues at work and has always goes down well... Once people have got over the weirdness of holding coins in your butt, obviously... Alcohol optional but definitely recommended for adults.
A playground game we used to call, "Groundies." it was a mix of hide and seek de tag. Everyone would be on a jungle gym(or playground equipment), and hide in any spot. Then the person who was "it" would stand still with their eyes closed until everyone shouted, "ready." Then the person who was "it" sought out everyone and attempted to tag them, all while their eyes are closed. The other players can move around and escape from the blind assailant as much as they want, but if the person who is it yells "Groundies", anyone who is touching the ground and not on the jungle gym is automatically out.
We played a game called "Juice". We'd all stand on the curb of the road and everytime a yellow car started down the road, someone would yell "JUICE" and everyone had to touch a house door (one of ours) to avoid elimination.
Me and my cousin played something we called "spadanka", it basically means "falling game" in polish.
We would stack big, hard couch pillows (the ones that go on the back of the couch) on couch, on top of each other, in the least stable way we could find. We would get the height to about 1.5 meter (5 feet). Than we would climb onto them, trying to balance and not fall, role playing as pirates on a ship.
After losing balance (sometimes intentionally), we would fall off the couch, screaming, pretending sharks are eating us. When only one of us fell, we would try to help, but the "waves" were always too much, so the second person always "died" too. Sometimes we would of course intentionally make other person fall and only pretend to help them.
It was fun, we always played it for hours when we had seen each other (4-5 times a year). We didn't grow out of it, but our grandma moved and sold the house, and we didn't have the couch to play on anymore.
I have two games. They’re both awesome, one on one format basketball games I played with my brothers on a Little Tikes basketball hoop growing up (can also be applied to regular hoops but the ideas were generated on a mini hoop):
1) “10-5”
— Coin flip performed for ball.
— A player shoots from a predetermined distance, moderately far away (a particular section of baseboard in our basement was the PERFECT distance), while the other player tries to tip in missed shots.
— Tips must be done mid air off of misses. (as you can imagine, this this can involve significant subjective judgment at times)
— If the initial shot is made, the shooter gets the ball back and shoots again until they miss. (there can be a scenario where the score is 10-0 to 0-0 after one turn (i.e. first shooter makes his first 10 baskets))
— If the initial shot is missed, whether or not the miss is tipped in by the tipping player, it becomes the tipping player’s turn and the same sequence repeats.
***IMPORTANT NOTE to the above statement: a miss MUST hit the rim to change turns.
— First player to 10 made shots and 5 tips wins.
2) “30-second games”
— Coin flip performed for ball.
— Ball is inbounded to one player and a verbal countdown from 30 starts.
— Player with the ball dribbles and shoots where they please (typically 3-pointers are taken early on in the game)
— Same scoring denominations as used in regular basketball (predetermined 3-pointers count as 3 points, all other field goals count as 2, free throws are 1)
— Defender can play defense to distract but NO blocks or steals. The shooter’s shooting mechanics must be unaffected, or else it’s a foul. (e.g. defender can block shooter’s vision or focus in any way as long as there is no contact)
— All fouls result in free throws depending on value of shot (same as regular basketball) and a stoppage of the verbal clock.
— If the flight of the shot is affected by the defender, accidentally or not, its treated as goaltending and the verbal clock is stopped until the ball is inbounded by other player.
— Clock continues to run for all makes and misses.
— 8 second shot clock at all times, violation results in a turnover. (there have seriously been times where one player gets ahead big early and forgets to shoot while they waste time lol)
— 1 timeout per player in regulation.
— If ties after regulation, overtime is a 15-second with all of the same rules except 4 second shot clock.
Typing out the rules of 30-second game definitely doesn’t do it justice in terms of how fun it was lol. A lot of what made it so fun was the verbal clock and different strategies (e.g. intentional fouls late in the game, determining when to take layups instead of three pointers when ahead, things along that line). Similar kinds of things exist in 10-5 strategy wise (if you get to 10 made shots quickly, “good misses” where the other player can’t make an easy tip are important to keep your lead, tip strategies, etc).. Additionally, there were tons of obstacles to consider based on the layout out our basement (low ceiling, close wall on the right side of the hoop, stuff like that). These were particularly important considerations for 10-5 so we had some additional rules that wouldn’t apply to everyone.
We made up tons of creative games like that, but those two are the best of the best. All the memories typing this out. So fun.
We use to play "lightshow". My brother an I would get flashlights, glow sticks, blinky lights and glow in the dark stars and "display" them all over our room. We would tie them to the fan, tape them to the walls, etc. We would then invite our parents to come to the show. We would all get into our room, close the door and turn the lights off. Then my brother an I would turn on all the lights and perform.....
Lightshow was over when one time our grand finale involved breaking a glow stick and spraying the liquid all over the room.... opps.
We would shut our door to our downstairs and fill it with pillows and blankets. We would then jump down the stairs or over the banister onto the blankets and stairs.
One person pretended to be asleep and the other had to wake them. One you woke up, you lost. It started off with gentle pats on the face and escalated to fish hooking, slapping or just whatever it took to get the other person to respond, thus, "waking" and losing.
We use to play a game called "sacrifice" in elementary school where one person would sit at the top of the slide and everyone else would have to pull him/her down.
I know I'm late to this party but I thought I'd share my childhood game.
My cousins and friends played this game we called "Seamus" and the rules were simple: You had your players against everybody else. The players decided on the "Seamus word" to listen for. Something not terribly common or uncommon, words like eat or run or went, etc.
If a non-player said this word, the first person to shout "Seamus" got a point, and if they could managed to shout "Darby McGraw" You'd get 2 points. However, if you were a player and YOU said the forbidden word, you lost 2 points. When a non-player figures out what's happening, the players pick a new word.
This was wonderful for pretty much any boring event. School trips, family gatherings, church services. I miss that game.
Also gangup tag. One person is it, they tag someone. Both people are it. Repeat until nobody is left uncaught. You can hide, you can bluff, you can run faster than the rest; It doesn’t matter in the slightest if there’s twenty people doing a pincer attack on you.
When I was younger, my cousins and I would play “Ding Door Piss.” It has the same premise as ding door ditch but after you ring the bell you’re supposed to whip your member out and start pissing on the door. You had to finish before the door was answered or you lost. We primarily played at night as not to be seen very easily or at all.
Then when older, my friends and I played “Car Tag.” To start off, no we did not vandalize cars. It was a game of hide and seek, I know the name is deceiving, in cars. We would play in at least 3 teams of 2-4 people. Boundaries would be set by roads/highways that would be about 1-2 miles by 1-2 miles. The hider team would get 5-10 minutes to go somewhere and hide/park. Once there they were not allowed to move. After that they gave hints through a group text. They had to coded (ie: if by a local sleeping research center a hint might be “we’ll snore while we wait for you to find where we lie”). We would limit the number of hints to 3-5 given every 5 minutes. If you found them with a hint given you won and could hide next, but if no one found them within the hint limit the hiders had to say where they were, without giving the address, and the first one to find them won and could hide next. Whenever I described this to anyone else I had to say that this was a very rich white kids game.
In 1st grade me and my best friend were digging under the slides and stuff. My friends put her finger under the bottom part and she called her finger "Mr. Wormy" and we would play games with him. Not really that unique.
My sister and I invented a game called "Dizzy Doctor" where one person would stand in the middle of the room and spin as fast as they can. The other person would try to grab them and put them down in a chair. We would chant "Dizzy doctor" over and over while spinning. No, I can't explain where the "Doctor" part of the name comes from.
My cousins and I would also play a game called "Hide the book" which is pretty much how it sounds. One person would hide this old pocket planner of my grandfather's around the house and everyone else would look for it. We'd use "hot" and "cold" to denote whether you were getting closer or further from the book.
Myself and all my friends had ripsticks growing up. For those that are unfamiliar, a rip stick is kinda like a skateboard, with only two wheels, so you have to rock side to side in order to move, turn, gain speed, etc. We would take the ripsticks and smash them into each other, in attempts to make the other person fall off. If you fell off 3 times you were out. It was like real life Mario kart battle mode minus the mystery boxes.
We all stood on a garden wall and one person on the ground. That person pointed at each player one by one and asked "pick a death".
You then choose how you died. (Machine gun, bazooka, crossbow, the Goldeneye etc) and they killed you with that weapon. Aim of the game was to die as dramatically as you could to your chosen weapon while jumping off the wall.
That's it. No winner, no loser. Just jumping off a wall in style.
When my cousin and I would stay at our grandparents’ house, we would often go swimming. They had those little “backswimmer” bugs in their pool and my cousin and I would fish them out with a net and give them drunk driving tests (no, really). One of us would be the cop and the other would be the voice of the bug. The cop would ask the bug if they had been drinking, the bug would say no, then the cop would ask the bug to breathe in and breathe out. At some point during the test, whoever was the bug would give a ridiculous, raspy breath, which would confirm they were drunk (somehow). The cop would then take the net and fling the bug angrily back into the pool.
As cops, I guess we weren’t so much concerned with actual justice as we were with displaying our anger at drunk driving pool bugs.
More than 2 but as many people can join
Stand 10-20 yds from wall and bounce the ball back. Catch with only one hand and throw with the same (ie catch with left throw with left)
If you drop the ball or miss the wall or catch/fumble with 2 hands you must run to the wall and touch it before someone picks it up and hits either you or the wall. Called an "Out"
After 3 "outs" you can can stand in front of the wall and catch one that is being tossed to rejoin the game. If the ball hits you again or you drop it, you sit out until next match.
You may get hit with the ball and catch it with one hand before it bounces for a fair catch.
You must always hit the wall without a bounce no matter how far you are. If someone is in front and blocks it or drops the rejoin catch you must still run and toch the wall.
If you are standing in front of the wall you may block the ball to make someone else run.
The only time you dont have to run to the wall is if you hit the wall without a bounce after a fair catch or if someone is in front of the wall and makes a fair catch to rejoin off a ball you tossed.
Tips
You dont have to toss it back to yourself you can catch an opponent who may not be ready by bouncing at an angle towards said opponent
You can build a team by helping others back in the game or purposefully eliminating others. This is not a team game though there can only be one winner in the end.
If a dog steals the ball in the middle of a match the owner of said dog must retrieve or automatic 3 outs if ball is immediately replaced. If not replaced then 3 day ban ensues for said dog owner. (This has happened more than enough times to make the rule. With some entertaining dog chasing. More cardio)
My brothers and I used to play this game called “Crash”. We’d go on the opposite side of the living room and literally just run into each other. Not the most sophisticated game but kept us entertained. We eventually graduated to “Crash: Stair edition” where we took a card board box, got in closed it up and pushed each other down the stairs. That was a revelation when that came along.
Ball in the Hall, epic brown paper bag jumping contest, our own secret language, and blindly knowing all the names to our massive matchbox car collection by touch.
Basically my 4 siblings and I would take turns putting on a blind fold in a dark room and beating the shit out of each other with pillows. When the blind man tagged someone, they were the next victim. Ended in tears 8/10 times. Usually mine. Ah, memories.
We made a game where you have to hit a pole with a ball from about 20m away, the first to hit the pole would go into the next round, it was honestly so much fun for how simple it was. It was also quite funny thinking back that the pole said no ball games
I used to make a click sound indicating +1$ every time the part of road our car was on was covered by a shadow. If you click while the cars over sunlight covered road, you loose all your money!!
We played dirtball. It's 2 teams trying to put then keep a basketball in a milk crate for 3 seconds. Full contact tackling. Usually 3 or 4 kids up a team. Usually played late at night so a full moon made it better
A friend of mine and I used to play “the spring roll”. It consisted it one of us rolling up in the blankets of my parents’ bed. The other would catch the “spring roll” once it got to the end of the bed so that the person inside wouldn’t hit its head or get harmed. Then they would put the “spring roll” back up on the bed and the person inside would unroll. Then the roles would change.
It was really simple but immensely entertaining. My mother of course hated this game because we would ruin her bed, so after a few days of playing we were never allowed to play again.
My sister and I used to play this game called ‘tiger.’ We’d stand on all fours on each side of the room. At the count of three, we’d run to the middle and start wrestling. She once kicked my tooth out and I swallowed it.
There was as a row of planters that were either circular or ovalish. It was basically tag, but you couldn't be more than 2 feet from the planters. It was more strategic than regular tag, and we had loads of other rules, but we played for like 4 years at recess, so it was complex.
We called it bases. You'd set up 3 bases similar to baseball, home plate, first base, and second base. The pitcher would pitch a Racquet ball, and the batter would swing a tennis racket.
Our house, which was 2 stories tall and really wide, would be about 100ft in front of home plate. Bounces off the house were in play, and catching a ball off the house was still an out, even if it rolled off the roof. Anything over the house was a Home run. If a hit didn't get out of the infield before bouncing it was an out.
Batters get 5 strikes (because a racket is hard to swing), and strikes were called if the pitch hit a lawn chair behind the plate. Only 3 balls per walk. The idea was to get the ball in play and ricocheting off the house as much as possible, because the house had a few angles to play with!
You'd play in teams of 3, so the pitcher would usually cover whatever base they wanted, with 2 outfielders ready to field ricochets.
Game was an absolute blast! I want to play it still to this day!
Most of my games with my brothers revolved around the stairs
One that we never named was when one of us would be at the top and slide down head first and the other would run up and we'd slam into each other with make believe rasengans/chidoris
Then there was stair soccer where we would take a ball usually those almost basketball sized colored plastic balls you'd by from the grocery store and we would fucking whip them at each other up and down the stairs. Basically if you could block the ball and send it back or catch it then it stays in but if it gets behind you the other person got a point.
This made for lots of injuries but it was a great time nonetheless.
Twisted System. We would stuff a backpack full of books and tie a rope to it. We would stand in a circle and try to jump over the rope as one person swung the backpack around. Game usually kept going until someone got hurt. Got to make your own fun
I mean it wasn’t super unique, but my cousins and sibling used to go “Grass Sledding” in their yard. Their backyard had a HUGE slope and we used to take both sleds, medium sized TONKA trucks, and makeshift sleds and zoom down the hill. It was a lots of fun and came with complimentary cuts, bruises, and scoldings from our parents for doing something so reckless.
My friend and I would throw things into his tree in his back yard and try to get them stuck. And then we would throw other things at the stuck things to try and get them un-stuck.
My friends have a trampoline and we used to place a ball on it and jump around it. We had five “lives” and every time the ball touched you, you lost a life. When your five lives were up, you were out (but could still jump). I was the master at that game.
My family would go on hikes almost every weekend. I would play this game I imagined in my head called “Kirby” (I think I had a Kirby game on my game boy advance) where I would basically jump around from tree stumps and avoid puddles. Picking up sticks and seeing animals gave me different power-ups. Kindly, my mom would play with me. Gosh I was a weird kid.
We played apocalypse, where one person was a 'zombie' which others have to survive as long as possible or escape, (Pretty hard) while everyone has a Nerf pistol with five bullets. That's all. It was quite fun with multiple people.
Me and my mates at school created ‘Helicopter’. Basically, at the start of break time, you were allowed to borrow a skipping rope to play with for the length of the break. Naturally, the first thing we did with it was to spin it around and get people to jump over it when it came around. You were failed to jump, you were out.
Cat Scratcher. I dont know why it was called that. I was the cat because I was the smallest. I was 3-4 years old and I was pretty into animals. My brother was some sort of bad guy/villain. Our friend was the damsel in distress. I dont remember much beyond that. I would perch on my dresser and make hissing noises. Was I an attack cat? Did I even scratch anything? Who knows.
Also, not really a game but my brother and i had quite a few stuffed animals between us, most were mine. But they all had really intricate personalities. Some of them met their fates at the points of our scissors. Memorably, I had a lamb(possible a stuffed Lambchop) named Sheep. Sheep was the most evil, villainous creature our young brains could conjure up. Eventually, we executed her and removed the scented thingy in her. I dont know why you would make a scented stuffed animal, but okay.
A game called Crazy Monster. Someone or the “monster” would hide, and then you’d try to find them. Once the monster was found, everyone who was looking had to run back to a designated base (usually a bed that was considered a “safety” zone) before the monster caught you! This was a really fun game with my parents. It felt like a Scooby-Doo episode.
Magnet fishing. Where I had a magnet attached to a string onto a pencil, I’ll then scatter a bunch of paper clips on the floor while sitting on the couch. I was a broke mother fucker so I had to be creative.
I still play this with friends when they come round:
This can only be played in a fairly large room that has one light switch, is completely dark and has some furniture here and there (chairs, sofa etc.). One person guards the light switch while a team of 2+ people have to creep around in pitch black and try to hit the light switch. If the guard touches you, you’re out. The “attackers” can make distractions or slither along the floor and duck behind furniture, the only objective is to hit the switch.
Yes, I know, the guard could just stay in one place, but if multiple people sneak up on him in pitch black, it’s kinda hard to get them all. It’s all about strategy.
When traveling on road trips me and my brother would play the cow counting game. The person on the left counts the cows on the left side of the road, the person on the right counts them on the right. If you pass a church your points double, but if you pass a cemetery your points drop bsck to zero
cave man. We basically assumed the role of countries and different spots of land were your country. We battled with various items and had to forage for food
Horsey Branco- my two older brothers would pretend to be horses and my sister and I would get on each ones back and the two pairs of horses and their riders would fight to the death.
Edit: also the horses would try “buck” and throw us off of them
My sister and I created so many stupid games. One of the first was called Turnip. The goal was for the two of us to tap everybody’s shoulder without being seen. (Don’t know why we called it Turnip.) We made like 10 more weird games and... the home movies. Don’t get me started on those bizarre home movies.
Water swat. One dude is the shooter and has a the hose and has to shoot down the swat team for as long as they can. The swat team was given wiffle ball bats and had to hit the shooter. The swat team also had sleds to use a shields. If you were a swat officer you had to go back to the garage then go back to fighting the shooter. It was fun times.
OJChan · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called “anything”. essentially we chose fictional characters and fought each other. Eventually it just turned into who can remember the strongest character.
Here’s a list of banned characters:
Chuck Norris
God
Goku
Full Power Superman
and anybody on that tier of power
I basically created a freeze tag game crossed with a few other games(I don’t want to get into it) So basically at recess this game started getting popular and with more people came more arguments and they’d always come to me. Eventually, I “appointed” a few friends as second and third in command and my “cabinet” grew from there. People got very pissed off that they were at the bottom of the hierarchy and it really made a large portion of my grade hate each other for a time. Soon, we realized that the game had shifted from a fun game of tag to a brutal political bloodbath. The game broke off into two factions, both trying to rally students to play their game. Despite a few weeks of certain defeat, my side won in the end. This story has always been really cool to me because it shows that age doesn’t play a factor in power and tension. I think the game started in 2nd grade and finally ended at the beginning of fifth grade.
We played a game similar to handball. I don't recall who made up the rules, but the gist of it was this: You had a handball (blue rubber ball) and you would throw it against the church wall, the ball would need to bounce once and then anyone could catch it and throw it against the side of the church again. The trick was throwing hard enough to bean someone with the bounce or make it un-catchable. If a someone dropped the ball, then then they had to run as fast as they could and touch the side of the church. On their way to the wall, they would be getting punched. The longer you took or if you tried to "dodge" and take a roundabout way, the more punches would be thrown at you. I think someone once mentioned "prison rules". This was played at Holy Cross Middle School (in South Central LA). Good times.
Jerdom · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game at our local pool we called Shark. Basically one person is the Shark, and the others need to escape shark. The shark can only move while under water. Whichever part of the body the shark touched would be rendered useless. For example, if you touched the arms or the swimmer, they could only use their legs to swim. Touching the body or head would mean the swimmer is out. I would always go for both legs and arms :)
I used to take all of our Beanie Babies (easily 300+) and line them all up throughout the house in a snake/winding fashion.
I would then move this line through the house - I would move the first one approximately 1 foot forward, then move the next, and the next....
I would crawl around the floor moving these beanie babies for hours.
Jay_FP · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slaughterball. Basically the same premise as dodgeball, but my friends and I were about 3 feet tall at the time, and my much older cousin (who came up with it) was about 6'3". Usually ended in a trip to the store to replace a popped ball.
Doubt it's unique but I haven't heard of it outside of my experience with it.
Elimination. From what I can remember we were divided into 2 teams on a vollyball court. Using an old red dodge ball one person on team A would chunk the ball over the net to team B. If person on Team B touched the ball but did not catch it and let it hit the ground they were eliminated and sent to the side lines. Throws continued until only members from one team remained.
My brother and our friend played a game I think we called Kneeling Sumo. Basically you walk around on your knees and hold your feet behind you while trying to knock the other players over by leaving into them. I recommend playing on a thick carpet.
My sister and I had a game we made up called Buses and Trains.
Basically one of us would sprint flat out down our hallway and the other would attempt to cross the hallway between two doorways without getting smashed.
Blob. Basically hide'n'seek in the dark but the person who was "the blob" had a blanket over them so they were completely without sight. We had a version we played in the pool with a pair of goggles that had duct tape over the lens. Many injuries as a result of blindly running into furniture.
I don't know if this is a game, but we would definitely enjoy it. We would have a siblings' court. I have a huge family so it worked out pretty well. My oldest brother was usually the judge and depending on who was voicing the "legal" complaint, the attorney and prosecutor would differ.
One time someone stole my lightsaber and I was absolutely positive it was my brother A. We had two witnesses come to the stand and state that they saw him do it. He had no alibi and only one very stinky character witness, my little sister who was a toddler at the time.
Big brother A was found guilty and sentenced to death by dog pile. Turns out my very own lawyer, big sister M, was actually the culprit and everyone knew it. They just wanted to rile me up.
I don’t think it’s unique to just me, but where I grew up Man Hunt was huge.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blind Man’s Bluff” It’s like hide and seal but the seeker wears a blind fold and you turn the lights out and play it at night. There were broken noses.
Hodgeball. Was a cross between soccer and dodge ball. Standard soccer rules, except you could pick the ball up if you weren't moving throw the ball at the other team to make them "out" (like dodgeball).
The name comes from the last name of one of the kids who was always targeted, even by his own team.
My younger sister and I would play “the drinking game”.
We would play with several stuffed animals and make them talk or dance, etc. until “nighttime” where the bigger stuffed animals would go to sleep. This is where the two smallest stuffed animals would wake up and have to sneak around the other stuffed animals, adventure through the living room and to the fridge where they would sneak a can of soda and drink it.
We played this for a couple years until I learned what drinking games are. I insisted on changing the name but kept calling it the “drinking game”.
TLDR: Essentially we played with stuffed animals so we can get drink a soda.
When the first Harry Potter movie came out we played our own form of Quidditch that consist of me,my brother and sister and the kids in our cul de sac on bikes trying to kick a soccer ball to the goal. We had two little tikes car for the younger players to be beaters/goalies and everyone else was on bikes. I want to say it was pretty much soccer on wheels except more painful, just thinking about it gives me pain on my knees and shins from the kicking and the bike pedals. We played a few rounds that summer before the pain got to us.
The “elevator game”. Parents and family friends’ parents invested in a new construction condo at a beach town. Construction stopped during winter, but our parents would still visit there as their units were complete and they wanted to get them ready. There were two different buildings, each half built, but had fully functioning elevators. 4 of us would run around the construction hiding in different crevices in two different teams. Sometimes you could see someone in the other building but by the time you got there they’d be gone. But being that the entire beach town was desolate in the winter it was creepy and cool to sneak around there.
We played 'giant clam' with our beds. We would prop the top mattress against the wall and one of us would climb on top. The other kids would lay on the bottom mattress and wait for the brother on top to push away from the wall and have that mattress fall on them. They would then change into pearls.
The person on the top mattress usually got flung into the wall or radiator.
(preface: i am mexican) in elementary school I made up a playground game called Border Patrol which basically was just a violent version of tag. One team was the Border Patrol and the other was the Illegal immigrants. The whole gist of it was to pretty much just tackle the other team if you were border patrol. but the kicker was that when we played i made the white kids the immigrants and all the minorities were border patrol and we’d pretty much just beat up white kids but they thought it was so fun hahahaha. funny enough when faculty caught on, it was a couple of the white kids that got in trouble.
Late to the game, but my sister and I were weird kids so I have to share some of our games.
Nu-nu: a hide and seek game where one hides while the other closes their eyes. When the hidee is ready, they shout "nu-nu!" And the game is on. The seeker can call out for another nu-nu to help zone in on the hider. We got really good at throwing our voices. The game was always the best when we were in a new house for the first night (we moved a lot).
Sleeping bag battles: played with our cousin who was the same age as us. We'd put sleeping bags on head-first and beat the shit out of each other. There were three of us so one could referee/push us into each other. Expanded to include obstacle courses as well.
Soap floor: my parents had some friends over including my mom's cousin (mother of previously mentioned cousin, that's what we called her kid anyway) and her husband. While the adults did boring shit upstairs, we stole a few cookie tins and took them to our basement playroom. My dad had a big workshop with smooth, sealed cement floors next to the playroom, so we soaped it up, soaked it, and were sliding around on it. Clothes created too much drag, so we stripped to.our underwear. Parents found us hours later and just kinda let it happen for a little longer.
Mini games: my sister and I have a series of minigames we have been playing for years. Playing "QWOP" requires one to shout "QWOP" at the other in any location/setting. The other must mimic a bad round of the internet game, QWOP. We also do the 👌 game, but instead of punches, the other must do awkward squats while placing opposite hands on knees. We also discreetly flip each other off in all situations as creatively as we can.
Everyone playing would bring their bike, and pair off into teams of two. It was essentially doubles tag on bikes. The entire local college campus was our playground. Because we were playing in such a large area, you wouldn't always have perfect information about who was it. So you could call/text people, play psychological mind games to trick people into thinking you were it, set up diversions. It was a ton of fun!
Kyle-2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it perfect midnight. My friend had a big house and we would turn the lights off and throw plastic ninja stuff at each other. It was actually kinda scary lol
There was a huge swing in a park near me that could fit like 4 people. 4-5 people would get in it and 2 people would help us swing. Now the name of the game was plane. We basically tried to swing the swing really high and while we were doing that some of out other friends would roleplay as flight attendants and captains. We would bring snacks and splash glasses on each other saying it was turbulance. We also roleplayed as other passengers from exotic places and such. At one point the “passengers” started winning lotteries and getting special promotions. It was a lot of fun
1990-1994 My friend and I would take
G.I. Joes AF from hasbro and lay down on the floor of my room to battle.
We would lay head top to head top touching which was a rule.
Then we would toss the figures up in the air as high as the ceiling but if it touched it and deflected back you were allow to block.
The trick was to make the toss so that it would hit your friend in the face but it was high risk high reward you both had to sit there and take shots till you honed in.
If the person flinched you got to dead arm them.
Sometimes we had to settle arguments outside so we would do it with pretty much anything throwable.
My parents are divorced so we used to travel a lot after my dad moved 3 hours away. We would play a game about spotting wildlife- $1 for a deer or group of deer, $5 possum, $10 fox, $50 for a hot air ballon, $100 for a blue whale... amazingly my sister saw a hot air ballon once, she was so excited. No one ever saw a blue whale though...
Probably any skater did this... In the car I would kinda finger skate on the stuff going by in the window. Grinding benches flipping sets etc. Made 10x more fun with a tech deck.
My cousin and I were stranded on a remote island with dragons. Our “plane” had crashed on this island and we were alone. We had to set up a fort and fight dragons. We did this everywhere, we just moved our fort.
Barney the Tiger! My younger brother and I for whatever reason decided that was a cool name for a game. Anyways, it's more of a LARP session tbh.
My brother would be Barney the Tiger, and I would switch between the zookeeper/tiger owner? and the zoogoers. He would attack anyone that wasn't the owner, and try to escape his "cage", and only the owner could calm him down.
We would build more and more elaborate cages for Barney so that he couldn't escape, until it eventually devolved into a game of secret hideout. (Our hideouts were cool, we put kitchen chairs sideways and arranged them into maze-like positions, and pulled out couch cushions and covered the entire thing with blankets, so it was like a labyrinth in there (at least, that's what I remember, lmao.)) Good times.
I forgot what it was named back then but basically all you needed was a ball and something static, a reference, that could be touched (a tree, a street lamp, etc). Let's call it Death Soccer or something.
You'd try to pass the ball between the other peoples' legs (it's a free-for-all). If someone got the ball passed between their legs they would be beaten by everyone else until they touched the point of reference. It wasn't as violent as you are probably thinking, but it was very much a "retarded white boy" game.
We stole the idea of Calvin Ball from Calvin and Hobbes and we had some epic games and battles of creativity with the rules in constant flux during the game.
My sister and I used to play the “Barter Game”. We’d both have a pad of a paper and pen. Then we’d both write something down and reveal, and that’s what we were giving each other. She’s always would give me a car or something equally awesome. I’d give her a bag of broken glass. I loves this game... she did not.
We played a game called Stupid Land where we would just spin in my father’s office chair (which we weren’t allowed to do) and say the word stupid (which we also weren’t allowed to do). We didn’t know what it meant but we figured that it must be great if we weren’t allowed to say it.
Davy Crockett ball. Don’t ask how we got the name, but basically you get 3 handballs, put them on a netted trampoline, and try to not let the balls touch you. If you hit, you had to go to the hospital and wait 10 seconds to be healed, but if you got hit while being healed you were out.
This is a pool game. It was first made for very small pools. We called it "Shark". The "it" person was the shark. The shark had to keep their eyes closed, and needed to touch someone else to get a kill. The catch was the shark's head had to be completely submerged for a tag to count.
Basically Marco Polo, but with no call outs and your head has to be submerged. The game became about sharpening your other senses to locate people in the water. And instead of just flailing in their direction, you'd want to go underwater and kick off the side very quickly in the direction you think people are before they can get out of the way.
If you wanted to play dirty as a people, you could splash or throw something in someone else's direction to lure the shark toward them.
The smaller the pool, the more intense the game is.
My friend and I made up a game called "Bat to Bat". We were able to use the trees, bushes and the side of my house as goal posts, and if you stood between them then it was like standing in a goal around the size of a soccer net.
The rules were simple, we each had a baseball bat and a baseball glove. The "swinger" would hit a tennis ball as hard as he could towards, the other person, with the hope of getting it past him while between the "goal posts" to score. It had to be within reach of someone jumping with the bat extended, if it was higher than that then it didn't count. If they scored, they got a point.
The other person obviously tried to stop the ball, and they had a point system too. Stopping it with your body was one point, catching it with your glove was two points, hitting it out of the air with your bat was three points, and hitting it out of the air with your bat and into the other person's goal was four points.
So it was kind of like a mix of baseball, tennis, and soccer. Tbh I'd still play it today, it was a lot of fun. We always used to play "for" whoever our crushes at the time were, like gladiators lol
My brothers, the neighborhood kids, and I had a game we called the city game. We would take all of our toys, action figures, cars, lego people, etc and dump them in a huge pile on the floor. We would then do a “fantasy draft” picking out one toy at a time. Once you had all your toys you claimed a room in the house to build your city. We would then take about 30 minutes to build our “cities.” After they were complete we ran the cities. Sometimes there was diplomacy, but mainly we “bombed” each other by building LEGO “missiles” and throwing them at the other cities. Alliances were formed, alliances were broken, people yelled at each other, and eventually someone would get really mad and we would all just go outside and play on the trampoline.
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We'd play stretch. Nothing fancy, but my schools playground was just a field of dirt. Basically, you place four sticks at the same distance from eachother, so you'll have 3 gaps, and you jump across only touching any of the gaps once. And you stretch it out. I guess you can figure out how you win this. There were a lot of falls.
We made up this game called "Only 4." It's exactly like Hide-and-Seek, but when you have five or more kids and want to exclude some of them out of the game.
My brothers and my dad would play "wolfey". It was basically hide and seek but we would turn off all the lights in the house! It was scary so the adrenaline was always pumping but if it was my dad hiding (which was everyone's favorite) he would scare us and then tickle us. No real winner just getting scared and having a laugh.
My mom would hate it because it basically meant an hour of screaming... She made us stop playing because we kind of started getting scared of the dark Hahaha
When me and my sister we're little we would play a game called supercats. We we're time traveling secret agents who would go back in time to protect the time line. We could also turn into cats. We were super cool. We had back stories and a logo and everything. Every time we were somewhere with a play set (especially the play places at McDonald's) we would designate what was our time machine and save the world over and over. Normally we were saving it from the Nazis because they were the only major badguys we knew about.
We played supercats for years and it's one of my fondest memories from my childhood. When my sister left for college she gave me a hand drawn comic book of the adventures of the supercats and it was amazing.
The skivvy game. A skivvy being a type of shirt, although we just used a sleeveless shirt.
Anyway it was a game I played with my dad when I was like 3-5 and I apparently loved it. The basic premise was that I would run up and down our hallway and my dad would throw “skivvys” at me and if I caught them I would throw them back at him as hard as I could (which wasn’t very hard for a 3-5 year old) and I would be laughing the entire time. I would beg to play the skivvy game and then we would play until I tired out or ran into something.
In 6th grade me and a bunch of my friends played a game where one person stood on top of this little hill we had by our school and a bunch of people would stand at the bottom and the person on top would throw rocks as high in the air as they could and if you caught the rock you became thrower but if you got hit with it you were out. Good times.
My brothers and I used to play the “Slug bug” game. For those who don’t know the way you play is that whenever you see a Volkswagen Beetle you yell out “slug bug” and punch another person playing in the arm.
We got the too inpatient for that so the game quickly devolved into us punching each other whenever we saw any Volkswagen.
Trips to see family in The Netherlands was just a non-stop sequence of us wailing on each other.
we used to play something my uncle always jokingly called "hide the sausage". funny, this is the first time I remembered in 20 years, no one has actually asked me this question before!
No idea where the name for the game came from but in elementary and middle school all the kids at lunch played "Smear the Queer" meaning more the weird kid not gay but not sure since it was 15+ years ago.
The game basically consisted of someone throwing/kicking a football or soccer ball into the air in a large field. Someone would grab it and then it was a free for all. The object of the game was to hold onto the ball as long as possible with no rules. Once the person with the ball goes down it is then relaunched into the air and the next round begins.
Had a friend in middle school who was a squirrely guy and he could hd onto the ball forever. That was u till he had a leg broken at which point our school made sure to post a yard supervisor in the field to stop the game from happening.
Me and my brother played a game I called "slippy bippy" basically we covered the kitchen floor in soap and or oil and slid into each other as hard as we could, some injuries ensued. We would do our best to clean up the floor before our mother got home but the floor would remain slippery for a while
In my teens my brother and I played a game called flags. We lived rural and we drove around stealing the farm flags that farmers use to tell trucks to stop at their farm to pick up bobby calves. Anyways we would find the longest straight road and the aim of the game was to hold the flag out the window and see how fast you can get before the flag rips off due. This was a stupid unique game. My top speed was 167kms and I still hold the record over my brother haha.
Played a game called wipe wipe where it was pretty much tag but with baby wipes... almost a guarantee either me or my little sister would end up eating shit and crying
We played the “border patrol” game in my best friend’s backyard pool.
Basically everyone would have to start in the deep end and make it out of the shallow-end steps- having to cross the rope in the middle on the way. The game started with one “border patrol” person who was It and their job was to tackle/drag/dunk/drown/throw the people trying to make it to the steps back across the rope into the deep end. When you got thrown over/under the rope back into the deep end (including your fingers or legs or arms grabbing the rope), you joined the border patrol for the next round to try to throw everyone else across the rope.
It was a vicious and dangerous take on sharks and minnows that left a lot of my friends with claw marks, scrapes, bruises, rope burn, cuts, and even ligature marks on the neck by the end. The rope in his pool stretched over the years to the point where we had to retie it a few times a summer. We justified it because a few of us were lifeguards but someone definitely could have drowned in the process. We still play it once a summer when we all come back from college.
we had three extra kinds of tags me and my friends when we were young. One we called temple tag. It was basically a game of tag where you could only run on squares that incircled the pavement. If you tried too take shortcuts by running outside the squares you were punished, but only if someone saw it. If someone saw it they could say "tag youre it!" and they would have too go too where they were going and count too 10. But beware, because that could indeed also turn to the opposite aswell, as your friends could also just as much as you, tag a non tagger and then he would be the next one too tag.
Very hard too explain but easy when youre doing it lol
The second is called sand tag, which is basically the same. But this time you were running around on low walls surrounding the sand of the places where kids played. Same rules aswell.
But the most interesting one we called were snow tag (we werent very good at names lol. Anywho there you made your own paths in the snow where you could only run and you could set stops and other things ^
Me and my brother's used to recreate scenes from movies and games. We would recite everything said and every action done, even if one of us needed the toilet, we would take our scene into the bathroom and continues whatever nonsense we were up to.
We played "avalanche" which consisted of putting a bunch of pillows at the bottom of the stairs then either going down in a laundry bin or just jumping.
“Car Number”. This is hard to explain so I’ll try my best.
We lived in an apartment complex so there were naturally many parked cars. The parking spaces were under all the buildings and the space was very dense. Basically, the person who was “it” had to give out the last four numbers of any license plate. Everyone else had to find that specific car without getting tagged. The catch was that you had to be touching a car at all times, if you weren’t, then you could be tagged and out. You could also touch someone who was touching a car, therefore giving you the ability to make a chain (which was dope, been in a 6 person chain before). If you made it to the car you were safe, otherwise the first person tagged would become “it” in the next round.
Growing up my sister and I always had a pool at either of our family’s houses (parents divorced). We would also always have a change jar. We’d take a huge handful of change and throw it into the pool, wait until they sink, and race to collect. The person with the most amount monetarily would win the round.
Note: rinse and dry change off when done with pool shenanigans
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Ducking. Named after those stone ducks in peoples yards as decoration. 2 groups pick their bases and load it with interesting stuff you find in neighborhood yards. After an hour you meet and everyone decides which team found cooler shit. The winning team decides which houses yard you put everything on. All ducks face the front door. As kids our favorite part was to watch everyone in the neighborhood walk there the next morning and collect their things back.
Not as a child, but in my college dorm a bunch of us would play wall tennis. We would take a light sponge rubber ball, and hit it above a certain line on the wall about 5 feet high. Then we had to get out of the way and let the other guy hit it, again above the same line, without letting it hit the floor. You had to hit with your open hand or closed fist, not grip it.
My friends and I played something we called bike tag.
There was a tagger and runners.
The taggers goal was to graze the back tire of the runners bike.
High speed chases were the scariest thing I've ever done 10/10 would do it again.
We played this game in our cul-de-sac called German Sausage. Basically, of the seven or so of us one would stand in the middle of the cul-de-sac with a large bouncy ball, and would yell out the name of a random person they were trying to hit with the ball. The person in the middle would throw the ball as high as they could, and when they caught it again the game would start, with everyone else trying to help the ball-person hit their target while the target ran like hell. Good times.
Boats. In middle school my friends and I would take the little red plastic spreader for the cheese and crackers we got sent on our lunch and cut them into unique shapes on warm winter days. When recess came we would go to the top of the driveway for the bus and find a little stream of melt water and drop our little red boats into the water and follow them to the finish line, grabbing them just before they went into the sewer grate. Overall I would say it was probably a good 100m course or so.
It was super fun because the melt water created little channels through the snow and ice and there was an element of suspense waiting to see if your boat would come out at all, and if it did what place you'd be in.
Me and my brother made a game called charge to the spinach. We'd put on full sets of plastic armor, face each other from across the room, and charge full speed at each other while screaming "charge to the spinach!". I don't think either of us actually won because we both always ended up on the floor after running into each other.
Me and a buddy, being the older ones of the group, convinced the younger kids that Pokemon were real and that we had some, but could only use them at a specific island we can warp to anytime. But, to gain such privilege, they had to overcome some trials. The hardest was being spilt a liquid we had stored in a Pokeball toy (Liquid, IIRC, was of gross stuff like car grease, dirty water, and some due milk/juices) over their head, and they had to endure it for 5 hours. Game ended when the grandma of the only kid that went this far was passing by and smelt his scent. He lasted 3 hours. I'll never forget this, Pedrito.
Me and my step brother created a basketball game called 42. You shoot 2 3's from the 5 spots around the 3 point line. You make it it's worth 2 points. While you opponent or opponents have a chance to "tip" it in. They get three "tip" trys per shot . if they make the tip they get 1 point and person shooting loses 1. Game ends with 1st to 42
We had a game called chaos tag which is tag but with Rock Paper Scissors if you let you would go down and when the person who got you goes down you get back up. :/ it never ended
One person would have to respond to every question with a preset response (usually something like "my dick") and everyone else asked questions to try and make them laugh.
My brothers and I would play " Let's go to rehab". We would set up chairs like a car and drive to this super fun vacation place. It had a pool, playground, all the cartoons a kid could want, and our mom was there, and we were always happy....
In reality we were always told by our grandma that thats where our Mom was, but we never knew what it actually was or why.
My brother, sister, and I played this game called “In the Bun”.
We’d gather our blankets and pillows and would toss them on our parents king size bed in a nice large pile, also known as the Bun. Then we’d take turns being caught in the Bun while the other two would dive in trying to save the one caught. In the end we’d save one, while one other person gets caught, and the game would start over. There was a song we sang as we played to.
Chicken but with a country twist. As a kid whenever I was with my country friends we would take teen recurve bows and stand about a foot apart facing eachother. Each one of us would take turns loading an arrow and shooting it as straight up as we could; whoever moved was considered a chicken. When we got into our early teens we added a twist. Whoever caught the arrow was considered a legend. I had an arrow come so close to hitting me it ripped my zipper off my pants.
There is this game I used to play as a kid with my cousin. It didn't really have a name. We would both pretend we're characters from a video game or anime and play fight. Also sometimes we played games within video games lol.
Another one I could think of was I used to play freeze tag all the time with my school friends and there was this other game where you'd have to run, and there would be one person chasing everyone and one you got caught you got put in jail. The only way you got free was if another player broke you out by opening the door when the person chasing everyone wasn't nearby. If that person was too slow they risked getting caught and being put in jail too. The game only ended one everyone was in jail. Needless to say, the person catching everyone rarely won
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor friend and I had a game we called “bunt ball” where the “pitcher” would soft toss a tennis ball down some brick stairs in her backyard, and the “bunter” would bunt the ball off the stairs. The pitcher then had to get the ball and tag the pitchers mound (a rubber softball base), or else hit the batter with the ball, as they ran around the side of the stairs to try and get home safe. It was pretty fun, although falling down those brick stairs was rough.
We played “policemen and a criminal”. Like a game of tag, but all over our little town. We “hunted” one of our friends until he got cought. Sometimes we used walkie talkies to report any sightings of said “criminal”. When he got cought, someone else took his place.
Half the people are Zone-protectors, half the people are runners.
Everyone starts in the anti zone and you have to try and get to the main zone. You can either be sneaky or just leg it.
Also there is zoneoff. Basically the same thing but people have to get to the other teams zone. first team with all their people in the other zone wins.
We played a game simply known as "The game" (originally finger wars) it was basically DnD except the gm was GOD and we didn't have a board (it used to be played with our fingers acting as stickfigures of the characters hence the old name) The only thing I remember really clearly how one time I threw an axe down a dragons throat. Good times.
created up this sport when i was a bit younger. i had a two car garage with both having their own garage door. we have two goals but you can have like 4 people play but it’s basically broom hockey. but there was a line you had to cross back over if you were trying to score otherwise the goal wouldn’t count. it’s hard to explain but it was so much fun
I used to play a game called catapiller when I was little with my sister one person would lay on a huge blanket at the edge with their head out and the other person would roll them up. Usually it was easy to get out but sometimes it was pretty hard.😊
it was fun at the time I guess
“Scocer” (Scooter soccer)
Me and some friends down the street would ride our razor scooters, kicking a soccer ball down the road with our other foot. The big white stop sign lines at the end of the streets were goals. Good times
Sorry for the long story, but I feel that I need to share one of my most fond vacation memories from my childhood.
TLDR at the bottom
Background:
Southern france, around 2001. I was 10 years old.
My family and I was spending summer vacation camping in a caravan for 3 weeks, at this campsite, that were placed at the bottom of some hills, some parts were steep and rocky and not that safe. There were about 20-25 children involved.
This game went on for most of the time we were there, but it seemed like much longer :)
The game involved into this small children run society in the hills. The currency was cool looking rocks. We built small bungalows houses from bamboo, tied with willow leaves and covered with larger leaves. There was an active economy, with a working bank and a workforce with different jobs:
Stone-finder:
Important position, stonefinders went out to find the best looking stones, to fund the economy and spending of the bank. You got paid stones, but less than what you found, obviously (yeah, tax system)
Material-finder would gather materials for houses. Paid less than stone finders, as it was an easy job.
Builder / engineer: engineer was usually the older kids, that were smart enough to figure out how to build stuff and teach the more sump workers. Engineers were paid more.
Axe-maker: take sticks, willow and sharp axe like rocks and make a weapon. Get paid.
So we started gathering materials, all was collected to a central bank - conveniently run by me - effectively making me the king.
Find resources or build, get paid in rocks - pay tax or deposit rocks to the bank for storage. Save up, buy a house, which you paid me for, I would then pay the workers.
This game kept going until we had a small colony of like 3-4 small bungalows. We then started having people that didn’t wanna gather and contribute, but still wanted to play in the game - so we made even smaller bungalows, that were prison cells - which is where the guard job started - guard the prisoners for their sentence - which could be smaller periods of time at a time.
Kids didn’t wanna go to prison for not contributing, so they tried to steal from the vault - now guards needed to be posted at the bank - securing that no one would steal.
In the late-game, a faction of 5-6 kids broke off from the colony and wanted to start their own.
As we all lived at the same campsite, gossip walked and I got word, that they were colluding to steal stones from my colony, to kickstart their own.
At that point, we had a very large collection of “cool rocks” which often also meant axe-head type rocks, as a I loved those and kids were paid a lot for those. So the area was effectively vacuumed for any weapons-quality stones.
With the recent gossip news, I mobilized all people to axe making duty - and we made some cool looking primitive axes.
I had to end the rival colony, once for all.
We teamed up as an army, one of the kids knew where they wanted to set up camp and we stormed them. With massively superior weapons, resources and numbers, we convinced the kids to disband their colony and join us, and we’re given some cools jobs - alternatively I would’ve ordered for their already scarce resources to be seized.
The kids joined us, we played the remaining time of the vacation and all ended well - with some great memories.
You might think “where’s your parents?”, it was a strict kids only zone and the parents respected that - they were kids free most of the day, from morning until evening, only interrupted at lunch. So they probably enjoyed being able to get tipsy without kids disturbing them all the time.
Though, my mom wouldn’t have let me play, if she knew, that our base was placed basically near the edge of a pretty steep rock side of the hill, that could’ve been ouchie to tumble down from. But no casualties.
So that’s the way I effectively became a dictator at 10 years old.
TLDR: Became king at 10 yo of children-run stone-funded colony, evolved to dictator / warlord to fight rival kid-colony.
Beehive. My brother and I would load up a bunch of toys in a pile at opposite ends of a trailer home (or some other similar big structure) and your job was to defend and steal other items. It’s was a bit of a tag game, so if you were tagged on the way there you had to go back and wait for a certain amount of time before you could start again and if you got tagged going back to your hive you had to drop what you had in hands. Fun stuff!
We played a game called Buffalo. It involed ghost rideing a bike (pushing it so it rides by itself) down the street and then other kids would have sticks "spears" and try and throw them into the spokes. If you do then you become the bike pusher. The bike would usually fly into the air if you made it into the front spoke.
In middle school we played a game called suicide, it involved a tennis ball and a brick wall, pretty much we would throw the ball back and forth against the wall to each other. If you dropped the ball or had been touched by the ball and it hits the ground you had to run and touch the wall or someone would whip the ball at you. There were no rules on where to hit, getting whipped by a tennis ball In the face did not feel good..
I had a game called "scary noises in the night"! I had to think of a scary noise and so did the other kid, and then we both had to say which of the 2 noises we would rather hear if we had to choose between them late at night.
Okay so it was this game called "Camoflague" where a teacher ( or kid ) stands in the middle of an open field. They cannot move from their spot. If they cant find anybody, the yelled out "Camoflague!" In this case, everybody has to leave their cover and tap the the person in the field on the back in a certain time. An example being: Round 1 = 60 seconds. Round 2 = 50 seconds. Round three = 45 seconds. All the way till 5 seconds, thats where you stay counting at. Its fun
Green Boogar Tag - We had a green bean looking plush toy with a helicopter hat on and goofy buck tooth grin. We’d run around my friends mansion throwing it at each other every New Years. If you were hit you were It. If you were It when the clock struck New Years you were Green Boogar for the rest of the year.
Me, my sister, and a cousin had these cheap ikea chairs and the seat part broke off of all them so all that was left was the wheels and a base. We took other chairs, (like these but for indoors): Chair and we put them on top of the base (similar to this one) swivel chair base and we’d take pool cues and push ourselves around the pool table pretending like it was a drive through. So stupid but so much fun. I’m surprised we never broke the pool cues or got caught tearing up the pool table!
My sister and I used to play this game as kids where we would put our index finger in between eachothers front teeth, and then in smal incriments the other sister would slowly bite down harder and harder on the other sisters finger until we couldnt take it anymore. Usually would end with bruises on our fingers and a few tears and there was never a winner or a loser lol. Just a dumb thing we did, like all the time.
Myself and my sister (started at about ages 8 and 5) would try to be the first to say '1,2,3 BANG' whilst pointing a finger gun at the other. You have one chance each day to be the first and it resets at midnight.
This has lead to multiple occasions of me bursting into my sister's room as a teenager at 12:01 to wake her up and do it.
You don't win anything other than the satisfaction of having remembered and getting it in fast enough before the other realises and shouts it as you faster.
I love that we still, to this day, play this game and we are both adults now.
Me and my best friend were super obsessed with Call of Duty (Specifically BO1 Zombies) back in first and second grade during recess we played a game where we were in zombies with other kids where every game we would have 6 zombies and 2 survivors and to kill the zombies we would punch each other. No one told a teacher until this one other kid who played with us punched another kid in the face instead of the gut or arms like we normally would, the kid got a bloody nose and we were no longer allowed to play it.
My dad always made sure I did my chores - even if I had a friend over. So I had to wash the dishes, and I told my friend we could make it into a game and she could help me. I was sergeant dish wash and she was lieutenant towel dry.
Ambulance! Which basically entailed my dad making a siren sound, carrying me to the car, and putting me in the trunk. Then I laid in the trunk until I used the emergency handle to get out.
Deerfield - At my 2 room country school house in South Dakota.
We'd divide the school grounds in half & one teacher would lead one group & the other teacher would lead the other. (Groups consisted evenly of all ages in 1st through 8th grade - so ages 6 through about 13) The object was to steal into each other's territory & retrieve certain objects at the back of their area without getting caught. Those who were caught had to join the other side. We'd play this game for days at lunch time, if not weeks. The group who got everyone & all of the other sides objects won, but keep in mind that each side was constantly also stealing their people back throughout the course of the whole game.
Growing up we had a large group of families who would all go camping together on weekends every summer.
One summer us younger kids came up with a game we called shoeball. All it required was a pair of shoes and a tennis ball.
One of the campgrounds we frequented had a big flat field. So we'd put one shoe at either end of the field and split into teams. The goal was to get the ball into the other team's shoe. It was basically football except, in my opinion, harder and without rules.
I got my very first black eye playing shoeball. It was one of the most fun things I did as a kid.
fkrebs · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We watched Steve Irwin all the time and play "Crocodile Hunter" one would be the Hunter with a blanket as a net and the other would be the Crocodile, then we'd switch roles
After Mrs. Doubtfire came out, my friends and I had a game where we took turns interviewing new nannies. We pulled names out of the newspaper.
tandm7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before July when firecrackers we're plentiful we'd open a small soup or tomato paste can on one end, and punch a small hole with a screwdriver in the center of the other end. Jam a firecracker down in the hole and stand the can in a tray of water. Neighborhood kids would gather with sticks and bats, golf clubs what ever's available. When lit the pressure from the cracker would send the can up like a rocket and spray water around the tray. We'd then all try and hit the can out of the air as it came down. Turns out looking straight up and wildly swinging sticks and bats causes many many injuries and eventually some pissed off mom's missing cans, pans and bake ware. But the game went on for years.
dbh444 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ohhh good times. Other than "Royal Rumble" over the back of the couch the game that sticks out the most was one we played in our friend's rectangular finished basement. I'm sure it was much smaller than it seemed at the time but essentially it was a mix of hockey and indoor soccer. We had a set of those mini plastic golf clubs, 2 on 2, all players on their knees with goals on each side. Instead of a puck you had tiny plastic ball and it was all out from there. Best sleepover game we ever played, would go into the wee hours of the morning and wake up with plenty of rugburns on the knees.
We use to play guess the advert because everyone fucking hates adverts we decided to make it competitive can only get the point if you say the brand before it comes up on the advert.
Made up a game called “Pie”:
One person is the customer,
One person is the door/cashier,
2+ are the pies
The pies pick a flavor (most of the time they were gross). The customer knocks on the door and chooses a pie. The door says “That will be x dollars”. The pie that was chosen gets the x amount to run from the customer. If the pie makes it back to the store (safe zone), then the customer has to be the customer again. If the pie got caught, they become the customer.
So pretty much tag, but not everyone gets to play lol.
1 2 3 block. One person would count at a tree and every one else would run and hide. Once that person reached 100 he would look for everyone. The people hiding would have to run to the tree and say “1 2 3 I saved myself,” but if the seeker saw you, he would run to the tree and say “1 2 3 block X.” The last person had the chance to save everybody by saying “1 2 3 I saved myself and the world.” Then next round if he saved the world, the same guy is it, or it was the first one found if no one saved the world.
“Find the boy/girl” it was pretty much marco polo except you could only feel around and you were blindfolded (instead of just having your eyes closed). I fell down the stairs quite a few times doing this. Its a miracle i’m still alive
I used to draw some sort of small blob on a big sheet of paper with my brother. We each had a blob. Turn by turn, you draw a way of attacking the other blob, or a way of defending it. There are litterally no rules regarding what weapons can be used, so we got pretty creative a lot of the time (ie killer dolphins, mario coming out of a tube and jumping on the head of an army or robot ants that eat metal). Good times.
Cinto escondido "hidden belt"
Basically 1 person got to hide a belt somewhere around the house while everyone else waits at base. Once hidden everyone else would come out to search for the belt, whoever finds it gets to hit the rest as they try to make it back to base. Base was safe zone.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle use to play proctologist with me. He would examine my rectum with his special tool and pretend it was time to get my annual colon screening
We had a lake lot that had a road going around the neighborhood in a huge oval with lots of trees on both sides.
We played a game called "Drive Bys" where we would have snipers with paintball guns waiting to ambush drivers with shooters riding shotgun in gocarts. Oh, I miss those good old days.
My sister, cousin and I played the “Amelia Bedelia Game”. We would turn the lights off at night when it was pitch black and whip my sisters Amelia Bedelia books around at each other as hard as possible. You had to yell “Amelia Bedelia” as you threw it giving away your position and becoming the next target. I was born deaf in one ear and had terrible echolocation abilities. I still to this day have no idea what that book series is about.
"The Whack Game", 1-3 people would pull long weeds and then the others would run away. We played it in a wide area of our city with a lot of nooks and crannies. Whoever got caught was whacked until they could run away. It didn't hurt too much, just a really hard sting.
There are no rules and no winners, only temporary holders of the ball who will be pummeled by whoever does not have the ball. Repeat until too injured to continue.
Red ass/ donkey. Throw tennis ball at wall and hope it hits the ground, if so you are safe. If not the catcher has to throw the ball at you BEFORE you get to the wall. If you get hit three times you get red assed. You stand facing the wall, a player stands 5m away and gets three throws. Number of players, unlimited.
All of the kids in the neighborhood would throw pine cones at each other. They were hand grenades and wherever they hit you, that limb was gone. Of course, if it hit you in the head or torso, auto dead.
But the result was most of us hopping on one leg with one arm behind our backs trying to throw pine cones and dodging the ones coming at us
Pimp pong. It was just ping pong but using hands as paddles. You got double points if you got a really loud smack sound. We had an ultimate version were you could play it off anything as long as it hit the other side of the table in one bounce. We also had bike polo with baseball bats. Oh and those torpedo pool toys. We would make a field goal with thumbs together, index fingers up, one side of the shallow end to the other. That one was really hard, but we got pretty good at it. It was like throwing big darts at matrix speed.
We used to play “Avatar” after the movie with blue people came out. We would run around our neighborhood park and all the kids had sharp sticks and we would forage for leaves to cook with. And we would braid our hair and make believe we could connect with those dragon lizard things in the movie.
Poop monster. It was basically Tag, but whoever was "it" had a stick dipped in dog poop, making them the poop monster. They then had to tag the other kids with the poopy stick. If you got tagged, you were the next poop monster.
I used to play "the labours of Hercules" with my friends. I was Zeus (I know that's not how the myth goes) and I would send my friends on scavenger hunts like "find me the hardest stick you can find" or "bring me the neighbour's dog".
After a while we got into little fights about why I should be the one giving the orders and not them.
My husband played "Yellow Car" with his siblings. Every yellow car spotted on a road trip was worth a point if you said "yellow car". Only exceptions were car lots. If you saw and claimed a yellow Cadillac, you won the game permanently.
Probably not unique but it was a sort of hide n’ go seek I’d play with me cousins where it’s pretty such the same rules except that there is one person that is “bad luck” and if you found that person that round was over and that person would have to go back and count again. It was really weird but whatever.
Dead alive. Basically if stairs had an odd number of steps I’m dead, if it had an even number of steps I’m alive. I knew the result going into the game bc I went up and down the same stairs pretty often :/
Ninja hide and seek was a lot of fun. Play at night with the house as dark as possible. Everyone wears black, whoever is ‘it’ gets a flashlight. Some of the worst and ‘in plain sight’ of hiding spots become excellent.
Ghost in the graveyard. The "ghost" hides while the other players count for one minute on a designated base. After the minute is up all of the players try to locate the "ghost" and once you find or spot that player you have to yell "ghost in the graveyard" before running back to the base. The ghost attempts to tag players to add more ghost and you start a new round after players makes it to the base. As the rounds go on it's virtually impossible not to be tagged because your out numbered. Great game for strategy and it was fun whether you were a ghost or searching for the ghost. Would have 15+ kids in my neighborhood playing this for hours. Also was a great excuse to stay up until 2 am playing outside.
When my cousin and I were little, we would play the poisonous mushroom game. He had a field next to his house full of wild mushrooms growing. The goal was to pick them up and chuck it at each other. Bonus points if you got it in their mouth. They tasted awful. I love mushrooms now.
Ripstik hockey. Ripstik is like a skateboard type thing that was popular when I was a kid. Exactly like it sounds, played in a driveway, we would set up bricks or whatever was laying around as goals, play with brooms as hockey sticks and a crushed soda can as a puck. We only played 1v1 because there were only two of us but we played that for hours and hours on end. No rules except you have to be on the ripstik to touch the puck, unless you javelinned the broom to block a shot. Body checks and throwing the broom under each others wheels is full send. Calvinball esque, we had a whole system of penalties and scoring that involved taking sips of ginger ale and then running around the house before the other could make 6 laps around the goals. Even more fun when played in the rain, ripstik hockey was responsible for the demise of countless brooms in my childhood.
Human jousting, there were 2 "horses" who would give a piggy back to the jouster and the aim of the game was to knock the other jouster off, or for the horse to fall over completely so both jousters are trying to push each other off while the horse either helps by knocking into them or focusing on staying upright
Don’t know if this is a unique game, but basically we would look for words on signs that start with a then b and so on until we completed the alphabet. X still haunts me to this day.
My cousins and I used to go in to my grandma's laundry room, lock the door with the key, then throw the key out the window and then yell for help.
I dont know why we did it. I was 5 and just doing what my older cousins did
sflo0 · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ass smash" - We would jump on the trampoline and try to knock each other off it by bumping our butts into each other. We were fairly young and my Cousin was about a foot taller than us and always won.
My cousins and I came up with a game we called "Crazy Monkey". It was basically like tag, but whoever was 'it' had to move around acting like a crazy monkey.
Me and my sister would take turns making "magic stink drinks" for each other. Basically we would take absolutely disgusting food items and mix them up in a cup and try to guess what were in them! No spit allowed though.
My grandpa made up this game called “switch”. Basically the premiss of the game was you had one thumb in your mouth, and your other thumb up your pooper and when he said go, you switched them. Super fun. Can’t wait to show it to all my friends!!
_skot · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Over the House"
Played with a group where we would throw a ball over the roof. If someone on the other side caught it then they would run around back to the throwers side and try to hit someone with the ball. If they did, the person would have to return with them back to the catchers side.
My brother stood at the top of the stairs and I stood at the bottom.
The game consisted of him whipping a soccerball or dodgeball at me as hard as he could and me using a paddle to hit it away before getting hit.
In elementary school we came up with a game simply called, “Tackle.” No point system. No time frame. Just tackling each other into the ground. It was glorious. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more alive. And with the resilience of a 9 year old, you just got right back up and back to tackling. It must be what the battlefields of Valhalla are like.
Me my brother and my neighbor played a game that we called boosiee and pretty much it was either a ffa or 1v1 where we got 2 yoga balls and held them in front of you and tried to ram the other person off their feet.
We used to play a game called Blackout, and we could only play it at night.
Basically it was hide and seek but in a giant garage filled with stuff, and you had 5 minutes to move things around and hide in them. Meanwhile, the person who was the seeker had to stand inside the house and stare at a light with one eye covered, and the other staring at the light. Once our time was up, he would walk into the pitch black garage and uncover his eye and cover the other, which gave him almost like a “temporary” night vision.
Tbh that game was super hard and every round lasted longer than you would expect. Definitely a game I miss being able to play.
My grandad had a snooker table and I always remember one game me and my cousins thought would be fun. It was to hide behind the front garden hedge and poke the snooker cues through it when people walked past to scare them. My nan went mad when she found us, glad we didn’t hurt anyone, still makes me laugh though!
Me and my friend would play dolls/sims but with school supplies. The rubber was a baby, shortest pencil was another sibling, the pen was a dad, but all the other pencils were mom, aunt, uncle and cousins. We could sometimes add other characters as compass (the evil guy). We used to play it at school during breaks, useless to say my classmates thought we were weird.
Kinda late. We called it grenade, because we were all jumping on the trampoline, and we had to throw a hat back and fourth without dropping it, but you would have crazy throws that had to be possible to catch to count. Oh if it stopped everyone does, but whoever dropped it lost.
So this is kinda different from what’s been said but mine is a video game. Aside from the usual games on the ps2 one game sticks out in my memory is “Gregory Horror Show”. If I’m being honest, the game kinda messed me up as bit. It was demented and as a child it was very scary- still is kinda scary when I look back at it now. For a game with a 12+ rating, it definitely pushed the boundaries.
My friend and her sister played a game where someone would cover their eyes and another person would feed them something and they had to guess what it was. Often it was something mixed with ketchup but sometimes it was anchovies mixed with mayonnaise.
Babies in mommy's belly who eventually got birthed. It sounds super boring when I've typed it out, but you CAN'T knock it till you've tried it. My understanding of anatomy was awful at 7,so fighting off imaginary turds (my friend's 4 year old bratty sister who we were forced to play with and we couldn't stand her so we always found clever ways to do fucked up shit while being nice) and kicking mommy's belly a hard as we could would literally keep us occupied for hours. We just laid on the floor and threw a blanket over is to act as a make shift prego belly.
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Also kinda gross, but oddly normal, we would play family and hump each other fully clothed. One person would be mommy, then one played daddy, and another would be kid and more would be kid, if there was more.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide by the forest and get in trouble. it’s a real nerve racker!
We played a game called Acid Monster. It’s a derivative of the Floor is Lava game.
We would turn off all the lights. One of us would be the monster and lay low to the floor. The other one tries to stay on the bed as the acid monster tries to pull you off the bed into the lava.
“Falling Lessons”
My sister annoyed the hell out of me as a kid, so I made up a game where I’d basically just push her off the porch/stairs/anywhere she might get hurt, and she had to try and land on her feet. “In case you ever fall irl”.
I brainwashed her into begging me to play a game I invented to bully her.
We laugh about it now, but damn I was cold and she was gullible
The name of the game is chicken 3 or more people ride bikes in a big street square you could do more then 1 square depending on hiw many people there are. The goal is to keep riding your bike slowly and not touch the ground with your foot if you went out of bounds your out if you stop moving and your foot touches the ground your out and thats it basicaly just keep riding for as long as possible and try to get other people out of bounds or to stop moving.
I would play avatar with my older brother
He would yell "earth!" And throw a pillow at me or yell "air!" And throw a blanket at me. These were full force throws that knocked me down. I had such a nice brother 🤣
Beanie bag wars. The second floor of my house is set up so that there are two hallways across from each other and then a big space inbetween. We would fortify each end with pillows and blankets and then gather all of our beanie babies.
We would then let out a battle cry and start whipping beanie bags at the other side like an indoor snowball fight.
It was always scary peaking over the bannister to see a beanie bag whipping towards your face.
So my sister would basically push me down while i would say "what a wonderful dayyyy" idk why but we would do this for like 3 hours straight then i would go play on my ps2
We had a little lifted platform on our playground in primary school and played 'ghost'. Where someone was ghost and had to get the others off the platform but it was just really an excuse to push and pull each other. It could tear a freindship apart.
My friends and I play the cow game. Basically when you are in the car mostly on a road trip, and if you spot a cow in the act of sitting down or standing up you get a point! You can earn two points if you spot cows having sex as well! Points are kept by yourself and you just keep adding up over time! I’m at like 14 😂
Oh boy. The name of the game was "Masochistomy" (It's fun for you and me!) Three player game in my buddies room where two of us would wait in the hall while the third stacked evrything he could in the bedroom into a giant obstacle/tower random mess of hockey sticks and office chairs and lots of painful things. When it was time to start the stacker would place a glow stick in the room and turn off all the lights. Lights out in the hallway and he opens the door and the other two would charge to be the first to get the glowstick (unaware of the painful configuration of crap everywhere). You get the glowstick first? You get to set up the traps next round. I recall the pain and confusion like it was yesterday.
We played junebug police. We had a terrible junebug population. We lived out in the country and the ground at night would almost be solid junebugs. So we'd go out there hootin and hollerin stomping the bugs, acting like they were criminals and trying to get away. Holy shit we were demented. LMAO
“Tripper” - one or two people lay flat in the the hallway and the rest must run through the hallway without getting tripped, if you were tripped you had to replace the person laying on the ground
Presidents - if we were in a group of four or more of us, one of us would slyly put their finger up to their ear (like the secret service). Last person to notice and put their finger to their ear is the president, which follows with all the secret service yelling “ GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT!!” and we tackle them. We did this at parties. in class, at prom. Fun stuff
We used to climb in our dogs big plastic crate and close the door. Then we would roll it around the room as rough as we could. We also used to get into those little red and yellow little tikes cars and push it down the big hill in our yard. We always flipped over multiple times. We weren't the smartest kids but it was fun.
Buck-Buck. You need about 20 kids that don't mind getting hurt. Divide into two teams, one team lines up near a tree, they all grab each others waists and bend over forming a human centipede. The guy nearest the tree bends over and hugs the tree. The other team, one at a time, runs up behind them and leaps onto their backs, and attempts to climb along the line to touch the tree while the human centipede attempts to buck him off. The teams switch once everyone has been bucked off. First group to break the centipede wins.
Well, turns out there is a Wikipedia article about it - so I guess not unique back then.
Spider wars. My grandpa used to make these ‘cells’ using cardboard, he made a 10 x 10 cm box and inside had like 9 miniature boxes that were 3 x 3 cm. Then he would go to the garden and get 9 different spiders, put them in each of their cells in the box. Just caught them with his bloody hand. Now mind you we live in Australia, you don’t just go looking for SPIDERS in the garden- 90% they are somewhat poisonous lol!
Then he would get a 30 cm wooden dowel rod, and place 2 of those 9 spiders on the rod on each end, and then we would watch as they meet each other in the middle and BATTLE. It was absolutely epic!!!!!!!!
Another story is my studio, an extra miniature house in my back yard that was always empty apart from clothing boxes we didn’t bother unpacking. The studio was levelled up so you could see from the window my house and the street. My sister and I used to play imaginary, use the studio for different situations like a spaceship that we were flying, or a haunted house, or a stranded island. It felt so real and the best times in my life haha.
My elementary school banned tag, so we invented “taco”. You could only play on a sunny day. It was tag, essentially, but you knew you were tagged if the shadow of your hand overlapped with the shadow of the person you’re trying to get. It made the game a lot harder but more fun, and we technically couldn’t get in trouble for it. If you got tagged, you’d yell “TACO!” instead.
My friends and I used to play "The Elevator Game".
Basically, there were levels (starting points) that you had to run from into an elevator to touch the back wall, then you had to press the open door button before the door closes all the way. If it closed you'd have to ride the elevator completely up and down back to our floor by yourself. BUT. You weren't allowed to start running until the door started to close. If you hit the door and stopped it from closing as entering the elevator, you lost that round and had to stay at your level. You only move onto the next level when you successfully complete one.
The starting points varied from...
Right in front.
The closest wall.
Around the corner.
Laying down on your back.
Laying down but upside down.
etc...
We also had another game called "Chair Monster" But, that's a story for another time.
We used to play real life Bow Man in middle school, after the old flash computer game.
Basically two people would stand on opposite ends of a field with those dinky little kid's recurve bows, and shoot practice tip arrows in the air and try to angle them to land on your opponent.
You could pivot so that the arrow only hit your foot, but if you jumped out of the way entirely, it was an automatic win for your opponent.
If you caught or swatted the arrow before it hit you, you won.
When I was really young my friend and I played a game called "Punch the Boobies." Her parents had these drapes that would inflate when the window was open because of the wind coming in. Then we'd jump on the bed and punch the drapes and say "punch the boobies!"
Bashee ball we called it. My family moved into a bigger house when I was younger and we had this empty side room it was large and a perfect rectangle with carpeting, a perfect arena for my brother and my favorite game. All it takes is two players a soft foam ball with some weight to it and two opposing walls easy enough. The winner was first one to 5 with only one score board. Meaning if I score 3 times and my brother scores 2 the total score would be 1 in my favor. Bashee ball can be played utilizing every body part except gripping with fingers only open palm slaps leg kicks body blocks, 0trick shots all allowed. Each player defends their wall pre measured of course and the ball hitting the wall yields a point for the shooting player. Played this game as much as we could I vividly remember rug burns on my knees after particularly long matches.
My brother and I only had one bike so we used to play a game where he would ride around in circles really fast and I would try to catch up and throw a big stick in between his front tire spokes. Made for some great front flips
We played a game called "the box game" involving a plastic chest used for storing pool toys being pushed into the pool with a participant inside it. The box consistented of a floor, four walls and a top that all snapped together. The box gradually filled with water as the remaining participants did whatever they could to sink the box faster. When the boxed participant could no longer hold their breath, they would break out of the box by kicking out the walls or whatever and swim to the surface. We would play this consistently for hours at a time. I have no idea why, but it was ridiculously fun.
“Murderer” where you asked an adult to pick one murderer and made alliances to try to figure out who the murderer was so you could do a citizens arrest.
Sometimes someone would team up with the murderer to kill all the other people.
I made it up because I loved horror movies and I really used to get into it with my cousins but now that I look back into it I was a total psycho.
My friend and I used to play ‘rocks’ in the summer in Utah. ‘Rocks’ could mean several things. The main definition of rocks was a game where one person would take a turn seeing how long they could go without laughing and the other person, along with anyone else who happened to be passing by, tried to make them laugh. I would time the person trying not to laugh using the timer on my watch. Never got too good at that one.
Another ‘rocks’ game was where we would go around outside and draw crude dicks on the rocks in the yard. I suppose it was a small form of rebellion in mormon town. That was pretty much all there was to it.
The third kind of ‘rocks,’ which only happened once, was a little stranger. One day, we were out on the swingset, and I made a joke about my friend being pregnant. She sort of... went with it, and put a rock under her dress where a baby would be. I pretended to be the nurse at the hospital and she ‘gave birth’ to the rock by dropping it out of her skirt into my hands. Then, of course, I had to have my own rock baby, so I followed suit. The labor was very realistic- a fair amount of screaming was involved. When we both had our infants, we ran inside to use markers to draw faces on them. When we opened the front door, there was a very disquieted family touring our boarding school that had seen the whole thing staring at us uncomfortably. I maintain that that only made the whole thing ten times funnier. We continued our game, much to the head of house’s chagrin.
Yes, boarding school. You heard me. How old were we in this story? High school. I went to a small, strict Utah boarding school where we weren’t allowed phones. There were no boys. You made your own fun. And we did.
Honestly played this well into my teenage years, "Heavy Hammers". Clasp both hands together and swing them around as if you're holding an extremely heavy hammer. So it would be slow to lift and if you swung and missed your opponent the momentum would send you flying.
When me and my sister were really young my dad would play this game with us in the pool called "gimme some space" which was kind of like silent Marco Polo. My dad would keep his eyes closed, relying only on his hearing, and would try to chase us down and dunk us under the water. He'd be yelling "Gimme some spaaace!" And we'd squeal and frantically try to swim away, but our laughs and splashing would let him dial in our location and he would get us. He would get us.
Me and my siblings would all play “house”, except each of us would choose a profession. My brother- the vet. My sister- the banker. My other sister - the teacher. And I ran the restaurant.
Strangely convenient that playing “house” always began with me making all my older siblings sandwiches.
My brother and I would get sewing thread and make the bedroom into a giant cobweb, using every door, knob, bunk bed board, drawer handle to wrap the string around.
I don't know if this counts as a game, but my sister and I would speak in a fake made up language and pretend we understood exactly everything the other person was saying.
I used to collect those small bouncy balls that you get at the store next to the 25 cent gum ball machines. My parent's house has a very narrow hallway so my brother and I would throw the ball with a lot of force against the wall so it would bounce back and forth quickly, and then we would run through and try to avoid being hit. We would pretend it was a laser and that we were trying to dodge the beam. I failed plenty and got many bloody noses from this.
We had a giant rope swing with a seat that we tied a long electrical cable to and hoisted some poor kid up as high as possible. Then we all let go so they could take a massive swing. Whoever got the highest without chickening out won. We peaked at about 50 ft in the air. It was decidedly dangerous.
When my family were on a road trip we would choose a lorry company and count how many we could find in either direction. The winner is the one with the most points. It would make motorways much less dull! Eddie Stobart for me (bonus point if I could see the name written on the door)
Anyone ever play "Yellow Car?" Everytime you see a yellow car you call it out and the first person to call it gets a point. But if you see a yellow Hummer that's like the golden snitch, it automatically wins you the game unless someone else sees another yellow Hummer later. They cancel each other out and you go back to your previous points.
We called it Predator, one of us would wear gloves and these big wonky boots with my dad’s big coat. That person was “the predator”, it was basically like hide and seek tag.
Once the predator tagged everyone we’d restart.
It was actually really hard to run in all of the gear, but a lot of fun
My mom told me a story of how she and my uncle used to put a piece of road and put it under their grandmother sheets, when grandmother would go to sleep, they would pull on the road, so the poor lady would get scared it was a snake or smth and would jump up from the bed, while they told be giggling behind the sofa
Two huge houses were being constructed at the same time on even bigger adjacent lots in the neighborhood. As a result, the lot(s) had a bunch of dirt hills about 8-10 ft tall scattered throughout in a sort of grid pattern. So we, the neighborhood kids, played Tremors (based on the movie).
I'm pretty sure the game exists as another name, but that's what we knew and based it off. It starts with one person being it (or a tremor worm) and those who weren't had to go from one end of the lot to the other (approx. 150 yds if I recall) at a designated pile (using one of those surveyor flags we'd find). The dirt piles were the safe zone, meaning you can't be tagged on there and whoever was the worm stayed below. If you were tagged you became a tremor worm too. Winning was easy at first since all you had to do was overwhelm that one person right away. But soon we added rules like starting on one particular hill first and moving one hill column at a time (i.e. you can't just sprint from the start to the finish). Things got harder when a few worms would defend the last hill. It was fun for a summer until they actually used the dirt and leveled the whole place.
My mom had an in home day care. If the kids were being particularly obnoxious I would play “catch the fairy” with them. You know how you can get your cat to chase a laser pointer? Okay we’ll instead of a laser pointer it was a flash light and instead of a cat it was children.
My younger brother and sister made up a game called statue power rangers. I think they would just play power rangers, like any normal kids in the 90's, but if anyone walked in they would just pretend to be statues. I didn't understand it then and still dont.
Similar to "the floor is lava" my brother and I played this game called "the floor is water." We'd throw blankets and cushions on the floor and pretend to be drifting on a raft out to sea.
Also, whenever my mom brought clean laundry upstairs from the laundry room (which was in our basement), she'd ask us to take the laundry baskets back downstairs. So for fun my brother and I would pretend there was one of those test crash dummies in the basket and push it down the stairs. Unfortunately we couldn't play that game anymore after my parents had the basement finished, because they didn't want the paint on the walls to get scratched up.
My cousins and I used to play "get off my lawn." Our Nannu always used run garage sales and we would take items and place them on the lawn. Then one of us would act as a grumpy old man and chase away the others trying to steal items. Those were the days 😀
My Cousin and I were huge fans of dinosaurs and loved playing Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. Her and I built cages and acted like we were the dinosaurs in the game.
Everyone got a string with one bead, and the name of a target. Someone else had yours.
If you weren't in a safe spot, or in a group of at least X, your killer could come up, touch you (back, shoulder, arm, what have you), and say "[Person]! You're dead!" In which case they get all your beads and the name of your current target.
Safe areas get restricted as time goes on, and the bodyguard requirement increases.
Our game was called pickle. We had a long hallway in the upstairs of our house, and in the middle was a skylight that extended to the third floor. One person would stand in the skylight and chuck a tennis ball up to it. As he threw it up, people on either sides of the hallway would run and try to switch sides. If the man in the middle pegged you with the ball as you were running you were out.
We used to play "ghost" with my younger brother and his friends, basically we used to put a bed cover on top of a designated person and they had to find us in the room by using their hands, however the other people may beat up said ghost, with kicks, pushes or strangling, it was a really fun game imo, and yes we did get hurt a lot, but it was fun. As soon as the ghost had a firm hold on person A, person A then had to play as the ghost, rinse and repeat till everyone had bruises
(we also used to have a punching bag that we used to pull up and SLAM into the ghost) 😂
"Jason" - Tag/Hide and Seek, except the person who was Jason had a selection of a large plastic ax, plastic fake chainsaw, and plastic machete he had to hit you with and "kill" you for you to be out.
"Sharks and Minnows" - One shark in the middle and everyone lines up on one side as a minnow, then ran to the other. When the shark touched you, you became "seaweed" where you were touched. Then if you were seaweed and touched a minnow they became seaweed as well. Last minnow wins.
"Blob tag" - One person is it, and every time they touch someone they become part of the blob, there is a restricted play area, but you try to make everyone part of the blob, and last person not in the blob wins.
"Camo Tag" - not tag in the true sense. The person who was it would have to stand in a 3ft circle. One person was the judge/spotter. Everyone would start touching the circle area. The person who was it would close their eyes and count to 30. While they are counting loud enough for everyone to hear, everyone scatters off in different directions and hides when the person counting is done. The person who is it then opens their eyes and looks around, if they can spot you and call you out. Then you're out. They need to identify you in some way though, like "Person with a red hat behind the large pine tree.", this is where the judge/spotter comes in to play, they judge whether the person actually sees someone or not. Once they are done looking around, they again close their eyes and count to 10 and everyone is required to move closer to the person in the circle. Rinse, repeat. Winner is the person who tags the person who is it while they are counting.
"Kick the Can" - I think everyone knows this one.
"Flashlight/Laser Tag" - Not the actual game laser tag you could buy though, this was played at night with either a flashlight or laser pointer, where we ran around the neighborhood and whoever was "it" had a flashlight(with a tight beam) or laser pointed and if you were hit with it, you had to go back to jail which was usually someone's driveway.
"Rock Baseball" - one of our dumber games, literally someone just throwing small rocks towards someone and they hit em with an aluminum bat. Still surprised no one ever got their eye taken out.
"Jousting" - Us on our bikes with brooms, jousting and trying to knock each other off the other bike. We wore catchers gear, hockey gloves, and hockey helmets with a face shield so we wouldn't poke our eyes out.
"Bees" - We'd find a bee/wasp/hornet nest and throw rocks at it until the bees came out to chase us, and we would run from them and eventually jump into the pond or someone's pool with all our clothes and shoes on, then go home soaked. We upped the anti a bit when we got older and shot bottle rockets at the hives instead of throwing rocks. We got stung a lot, but never stopped us.
"Tip It" - This was literally two groups of kids throwing a ball or frisbee back and forth, if it was caught, then it was thrown back. However, if it wasn't caught then there was a judge who decided if it was a bad throw, or a drop, and either the person who did the bad throw was out, or the person who tried to catch it and didn't was out. The tip it part comes in when the frisbee is thrown, if the other team "tips" the frisbee(meaning they hit it up into the air) and then they catch it, or someone else catches it, then the person who threw it was out. Last person standing wins.
"Football or baseball toss" - similar to tip it but with a football or baseball, only difference was just a plain catch put someone out and a drop put someone out, no tipping of anything.
Tat_24 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember the exact name right now (something like grenader or bullet). We had one of those nerf footballs with the tail that whistled and one person would be it and would have to throw it as hard as possible and hit someone for them to be it. If you caught it you had 5 seconds to throw it back at them if you hit them you get 10 seconds to run away. Headshots and Nutshots were encouraged.
My friends and i would take all of our toys and section the basement in half. We would station our toys around our respective side, with the intention of eliminating the opposing toys, or finding our way into the "base" of the other toys. We used our imagination to determine how far each toy could move per turn. Attacking and landing hits was rock paper scissors based and blah blah it was super fun
My buddy and I played a soccer style game using ping pong balls and shoe horns. We laid out a soccer field on the living room floor and couldn’t pass midfield. You had to use the shoehorn for dribbling and shooting. Shoe boxes for goals. Good times.
We had several acres with nothing on it but some old barns and a pond, and we’d play Nomads. We’d gather junk, pine straw, sticks, and anything else we’d find around in blankets rolled up on our backs. We would just walk around and “scavenge”, pretending to explore new territories. There was no driving force to the game, just imagination.
We would make a circle out of cushions etc. about 6m in diameter. Two blind-folded Knights would sit in the circle and the arbiter (a parent) would throw two rolled blankets into the circle, knights had to find one and hit the opponent three times.
Murderball. We had this play gym that had wooden monkey bars pretty low to the ground. The objective was to get one of those small foam dodge balls through the monkey bars. It consisted of two teams and the defending team would use ANY means necessary to prevent the offense from scoring. I remember one day my buddy straight up hooked another buddy in the face and knocked him out cold to prevent him from scoring. The game did not stop and the defending team ended scoring. Fun times
My siblings and I had an elaborate world that we inhabited with our large collection of stuffed animals and other toys. We would play different stories much like an "episode" of a TV show, but we always ended up playing our favorite "episodes" over and over again instead of thinking up new ones.
"Snaps" - a game where you throw and catch an imaginary ball by snapping your fingers to throw and catch. Weird how people could get upset when you dont throw them a ball that never existed but it happens.
Anytime it snowed, my sister and I played this game called the lost ice. We would search our backyard for this so called "lost ice" like Indiana Jones. We were basically looking for cool looking ice. The snow that melted off our window air conditioner dripped and froze and made some pretty cool ice below.
Snakey snakey - one girl on either end of a jump rope, they'd shake it around on the road like a snake. They also had an agreed upon keyword that the other players had to guess when they jumped over the moving snake. If you guess right, you win.
I was 3 or 4 and my sister and I were playing with twins down the street. The twins were notoriously "bad". One of the "twits" as we called them whispered in my ear that the keyword was "fuck". I said "I'm not allowed to say that". My sister says "oooh what is it?!?! I promise I won't tell mom!" I whispered it in her ear, she immediately runs and tells mom and I get my mouth washed out with soap.
My Dad used to play this game we called the "Run Game" with my 4 sibilings and I.
In our childhood home, the basement was essentially a long hall way and at the end of the hall way there was a opening to the right that led into an office area.
The objective of the game was to run to the end of the hall and go through the opening into the office before getting hit by ball my dad threw at us while we ran away from him. If you were to make it around the corner into the office without getting hit, you would win, and proceed to the next round for another run, and you were eliminated if you got hit.
Sometime we got drilled pretty bad, to the point we faceplanted from getting hit from behind by the ball, but we loved it. We would play for hours. I'm sure my parents loved it because it wore us out pretty good. Simple game, but I have a lot of good memories from it.
About 25 years ago, we played a game we called Indian Ball. The street was the field. The ball was a whiffle ball that had been covered in electrical or duct tape. The bat was either a whiffle ball bat or a tennis racket. Batter hits the ball, then lays the bat/racket in front of them, lengthwise. If the ball is caught in the air, that's an out. From wherever the ball is retrieved, the fielder rolls the ball back to the batter in an attempt to hit the bat/racket.
The batter, meanwhile, has to try to catch the ball off the ricochet when it hits the bat/racket. If the batter fails to catch it, the fielder becomes the batter, the fielders rotate, and the batter becomes the furthest fielder. A third out also results in a batter/fielder switch. We usually played with 2 or 3 players, occasionally 4 or more.
My friends and I created this game we called sword fight. Basically, you’d hold your middle and index fingers out, and when the game started, everyone would run around trying to “stab” other people. If someone tapped you on the arm, you’d lose that arm and have to only use the other one. If someone tapped your leg, you’d have to hop around on one foot. If all four of your limbs were tapped, or someone tapped you on the stomach, you were out. The last one alive won.
‘Faceball’ : you and a friend stand a predetermined distance apart and take turns throwing a ball at each other’s faces. As a target you must stand completely still or the thrower gets a point. As a thrower you get 1 point for either hitting the face (and only the face) or making the target move. First to ten wins. A squishy ball works best but I’ve played with balls where flinching was definitely the better option.
Try it. It gets pretty intense.
My friends and I would play this game called “Categories.” Here’s how to play: a designated person in the pool deep-end would yell a generic category such as “tree,” for example, to a person who has just hopped off the diving board. That person would have to provide a sub-category in response — such as “maple” — in mid-air before they hit the water. You get a point if you can get the word out before you hit the water and lose points if you can’t. It was absolutely adapted from the drinking game “Kings” and I am just realizing this now as an adult.
My twin sister and I played ‘the ugly sock’ game. We weren’t children but had bedroom doors opposite one another, separated by a metre or so. We argued over who this particularly ugly green pair of socks belonged to, both denied ownership. Each of us would toss the pair of socks back into the others room when they weren’t looking. Soon we were each standing in our doorways like goalies, trying to throw the socks into the others room, and bat the socks away if they came near. This was actually heaps of fun and we ended up keeping the socks specifically for the game. You’d hear the soft ‘plop’ of the socks landing on your bedroom carpet, and you knew the game was on!
Used to play a game with my cousins called ninja which was basically a mash up between hide and go seek and tag... we’d turn all the lights off and move all the fragile things and the person who was it would still have to wear a blindfold. I got many bruises and scrapes playing but god it was fun lol
Basically, it starts as dodgeball or piggy in the middle. Then, the loser lies down. All of us (maximum was 8) will then stack up on top of them in order of lowest to highest points.
I don't think any of us realized how weird it looked. The scrawny kid of the bunch usually was at the bottom, and us occasionally flattening him helped him become the hulking giant he is today.
We had a bar (like, for alcohol) in our house that the previous owners had built. When we were like 11 and 9, my sister and I would spend hours playing “bar” where one of us was the bartender and the other one pretended to be a man who has had a rough day. “The man” would complain about his job and his wife while the “bartender” served him drinks, usually shots. “The man” would sling back shots (of water) and get increasingly drunk and start slurring words and stumbling around the room. “The bartender” would start by trying to cut him off, but then would feel so bad for him they’d continue to serve him. “The man” would get increasingly drunk and belligerent, eventually getting into a bar fight or falling asleep at the bar. Then we would switch places and would do it all again. It was our favorite game until my mom said we weren’t allowed to play it because it “was too weird.” Remember, we were both little girls playing this game. We didn’t have any alcoholics in the family - just active imaginations.
My brother and I started playing this whiffle ball game when it was pouring rain. Somehow it was the only game we played that was actually fair (he’s 8 years older than me). Anyways we would play in our driveway with a wooden bat that was so heavy I could barely swing it (he would hit lefty as well). Then it was just 1 on 1 whiffle ball with us sliding all over the place and chucking balls at each other. He would’ve beat me every time but you could only run so fast when it was pouring and the driveway was slick. So many good memories and close call injuries from this beautiful mess of a game. That was 10+ years ago and still to this day when it starts to really dump rain I think about finding my brother to go play this game.
Penny Wars! My brother and I made up a game one summer where we would each slide a penny on the floor and try to get it into certain areas marked out with tape. It started out just like a simple game of shuffleboard but the "unique" twist was that whoever won got to add a new rule that would be part of the game for all future matches.
By the end of the summer we frantically spinning around, speaking in rhymes, punching each other on the arm if they used a word containing the letter 'e' slinging handfuls of change across the house.
My sister and I would play “This or That.” Essentially, we would sit down with an old Sears catalogue (or similar) and take turns with one person picking two things out from the items on a page and the other choosing between them and explaining their choice. Honestly, it was just a poor-kid’s version of window shopping but adding a forced-choice aspect to it.
When my brother & I were little enough, we played "Wild Ponies". Basically, my mom & dad would crawl around on the living room floor on their hands & knees, with my brother & I each riding one of them like a pony. The goal of the game was, of course, to knock the other kid off their pony, but it was complicated by the fact that you couldn't control where the ponies felt like going, and at any moment they might whinny & rear up so you had to hang on tight just to not fall off.
My best friend also invented a bizarre game that involved shutting my brother inside the laundry chute (it had a door you could close from the basement), and then we would collect all the stuffed animals, pillows, couch cushions, etc from around the house, and throw them down the chute until he was completely buried, & then we would open the door & he would come tumbling out in a landslide of stuffed stuff. To be honest, I think he got the better part of the deal.
Weirdest of all, my dad invented a game around the fact that my mom was kinda OCD and used tons of bleach on his undershirts, so after a few months of wear, the fabric would basically start to disintegrate. When the holes started getting big enough that he couldn't justify keeping it in rotation, he would put in on before bedtime, and stride around pretending to be a giant ogre (he was 6'6", which helped) while my brother and I tried to jump up and rip the shirt off him until it had been reduced to shreds. One time he was left with just the collar around his neck. It was a pretty amazing game.
I used to play “imagination” by myself a lot as a kind. “Imagination” meant creating family dramas using household objects. Sometimes included dolls or figurines, but most often it meant playing with whatever was available-crayons, rocks,or toiletries. My favorite was using the toiletries in my grandparents bathroom, where I would monopolize the bathroom for hours creating dramatic tales of complex family dynamics and love using shaving cream cans, deodorant, shower gel, and hair curlers. My mom was always horrified that I would dominate my grandparent’s bathroom for hours when guests were over bc they had a whole chest full of toys for us to play with, but I just wanted the toiletries!
Avoid the priest or get touched...we use to avoid them at all cost because we could get our selves off just fine without them....what’s odd is society still approves of that game because of how many churches there are...interesting
Infected. It was any basic tag game expect it was at dusk and though the night (until we had to come in.) One person would start as the infected or "zombie" and screech at the top of their lungs terrifyingly as they chased the others. You had no "weapons" and could only hide and run hoping for the best. Once you were bitten (tagged) you were now one too and had to hunt the others until only one was left. You could work together or alone but all zombies worked as a group. They'd yell as loud as they could when they found someone and then you were swarmed by the rest. Quite freaky thinking about it now. Lots of others joined in and there weren't rules on how far you could really go. We'd climb trees or get on anything just to stay "alive" but now we realized that others played somewhat similar things.
My cousins, brother, and I would play this game where we each set up a shop. I was really little so I only vaguely remember it, but I remember my older cousin always had me help with her shop, which was the fish shop (fish were actually pillows). She’d send me with money to the other shops (located in different rooms of the house) to buy things and bring them back to her. I remember my brother running the kitchen shop, which is where you got food. We used fake money and were basically kids learning how to spend, save, and make money using our own game. Not sure exactly where the title came from.
Bull fights. My cousin would ride around on his bike in the yard and run all of the younger cousins over. It was horrifying and nobody else got to be the bull.
In my neighborhood (So Cal) we used to play a game that called "Tape". The game was played at night and involved about three of four delinquent kids placing 3 foot length pieces of duct tape on a residential street with the sticky side facing up. Kids scramble and hide in the bushes when headlights approach. Unwitting drivers, drive over duct tape which sticks to the tires and then thrashes around inside the wheel wells as if the car has a flat tire. The driver stops the car, gets out, inspects the situation, removes the tape, curses at the delinquents giggling in the bushes. Driver gets back and drives away only to hit another section of tape 100 yards down the street. This is usually when the real game or the chase begins. Irate drivers would sometimes chase us on foot, over wall, through backyards, but we knew every escape route in the neighborhood. Good times.
My friends and I would play a game on the playground, I'm pretty sure we called it "sneaky." Consisted of drafting two teams to fight over a racquetball. the team that didn't have it would Chase and tackle whoever did on the other team in an attempt to secure it for their team. Passing to teammates was allowed. Played in winter so it was a lot of tackling each other into snow piles.
In the warm months we played "wall soccer." Again, two teams. Center line drawn between school building and the edge of the blacktop, which was up a short slope. Hundreds of kids would take part in this at a time, all types of balls were fair game. The side on the slope would try to throw or kick balls into the wall of the building, one point per ball. The other team would try to kick or throw them onto the grass, point per ball. Blocking of any kind was allowed, as long as you didn't pass the center line. A few kids would try to keep score, game may last for days. So fun haha
Invention Sunday.
Basically just forcing my brother to sit in my room with a bunch of gadgets/wires/LEGO until we both invented something.
As the name suggests, this happened each Sunday.
I’m not sure he loved it as much as me...
Me and brother had a game called “asshole” where we’d throw a ball back and forth and when you caught it you had to think of the worst names possible to call the other person. If you blanked, you lost. It always began with “Asshole”.
Zombie tag. Basically someone started as the tagger (the zombie), so every person they tagged also because a tagger. The people who are still "alive" (those not tagged), had the ability to make a gun with their hands and shoot a tagger if they got to close. This wouldn't actually do anything except the tagger had to stop chasing for 30 seconds. You only have 3 "bullets" so you'd have to conserve them until absolutely necessary.
It was a fun game I played when i was in primary school, it got really intense if you were the last person running from 20 kids trying to tag you
Smear the Queer; we put on football pads and helmet and tried to peg each other in the head with a teather ball, it wasn't the kind of game where there were winners or losers, just a bunch of guys dicking around, I miss being a kid.
Tag on Super Mario Kart for SNES. Just running into each other on the maps after someone was designated as “it”. No weapons just your own driving skills. :) It was teh awsumz.
oscuse · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Horse, horse, horse, GRAVEYARD !!!! buried your horses.
We thought it was raptors that could only see movement. And so basically the “Raptor” could only yah players who were moving. They had to get from one end of the room without being eaten.
My friends, my brothers, my brother's friends and myself would all play Lord of the Rings after the movies came out. We would roam around the neighborhood with miscellaneous weapons made of sticks. Would do everything in our power to avoid the road (Black Riders) and racking up orc kill counts that dwarfed Gimli's and Legola's counts. Would spend hours after school and on the weekends protecting Middle Earth.
We also would throw butter knives in the air and try to get them to stick in the grass. We would awarded scored for how straight up and down it landed or how many times you could get it in a row. That eventually turned into us getting throwing knives and throwing them at a target (as we were told it would be safer)
Used to play 'extreme ping pong' when we had big sleepovers. One whole pack of ping pong balls, anything you can hit with, (books, dustpan, cookie sheet) a couple of bases to hide behind, and every man for himself. I don't remember how the points system worked but it's safe to say you were out if you got hit in the eye.
My dad had some fun ones. He'd roll up all our blankets and form a giant ball. It'd probably weigh like 20lbs. My sister and I would jump around on the bed and he'd throw it at us. It was called blanket bomb.
Another bed one was my sister and I would lay under the covers and my dad would stalk around the edge of the bed silently. Then reach under the covers and grab our legs and thrash us around like a shark eating a seal. Rinse, repeat.
One I really liked was my aunt would make a dozen or more cards with icons of various things in the house (dishwasher, laundry, basement stairs, attic door, backyard shed, lawnmower, etc) and then create a chain where we'd have to go and follow the "clues" to find whatever was at the end. Super simple, but real fun!
„Hofball“ it was basically tennis but with your hands and a bigger plastic ball, you had to be careful with your arm, because you hit the ball with your wrist. The field was bit smaller, but the rules were similar to tennis, was quite exhausting but was really fun to play. The floor was usually concrete
My cousin, sister, and I came up with this game we’d play at family holidays where we’d go to different dimensions/lands using my uncles computer cabinet.
I remember one part where I pretended to be the evil version of myself from another dimension, and the other two had to pretend like they were the evil versions as well to trick me or something. It was all imaginative, kids fun
Game you say? We would tape all the light switches shut and crawl on the floor with out making any noise. The seeker had to look for us by making small steps and look around the house. We all had to do the roles in total dark too. Me and my friends had a couple of small injuries, but it would be fun to scare the seeker. I would usually be the "worm" (hider) ._.
Goblins gonna get ya. But it turned out to be a really old french game of tag that made kids run as fast as they can in the dark. You can Google the rules. It's dangerous and fun.
I’m not sure how unique but I went to a boarding school that had a concrete courtyard on the grounds all divided up into squares. The player limit was however many people you had or if you ran out of squares to go around. The squares were pretty big, but I was pretty small so who knows? You all had a square each and stood in it, then you’d hit a tennis ball with the flat of your hand so it bounced in your square first and then into someone else’s, that person did the same, if you failed to hit the ball into your square and then onto someone else’s, you’re out. Some kids got really good at this game, getting all low shots and ‘skimming’ and shit. Useless talent :) had it developed into a sport....oh, edit; if the ball hit you anywhere other than the flat of your hand, also out, loser.
Guitar hero 3. Also I played that game with gamepad cause i didnt have enough money for guitar gamepad and i walkthrough the whole playlist on hard difficulty
If I remember the events correctly, someone introduced me to a "paintball" game you would play with a piece of paper a d a pen. You would fold the paper, and each person would use the cap of a pen as a size rule to draw five little barriers, and then draw 4 little circles representing their pieces, then we would take turns, and on your turn you could move and shoot each of your pieces. Each piece could move the length of your thumb from the knuckle, and you would "shoot" by standing the pen straight up on your piece, and sort of press down and flick the pen in the direction you wanted them to shoot. If you practiced a lot you could get some pretty good range, but it gave a chance at a miss, and you obvioulsly couldn't shoot through barriers. You would just x out pieces as they moved.
I ended up expanding the rules a bit, such as having snipers would could shoot twice, the second shot coming from where the first shot ended, but they couldn't move and shoot in the same turn, and a couple of other types of pieces. Was pretty fun, and we'd play it in school all the time.
audi83 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back during the depression me and my friends would play a game we called switch. We’d stick a finger in our mouth and another in our ass hole and then we’d scream “switch” and switch the two fingers
"Deadly Critters" was a tag game I came up with while my neighbors and I were bored. I picked up some nice rocks, putted them into a nest we made with sticks and leaves and other people would try to steal the deadly critter's eggs. One kid was the Deadly Critter and his job was to guard his nest, run after the other kids and try to stole back his eggs. If the deadly critter touched you, you were dead. We added apple juice as a revival serum and few others rules and perks over the years. We loved that game.
My child started a family game when she was about 2. She would always call out “water tower” when she saw a water tower. This turned into all 3 of us trying to call it first. Then on drives around our area and on long road trips we call them out and keep track. It’s a fun way to pass the time. Sadly, where we live now has no water towers, but has a lot of small waterfalls we try to spot instead!!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know if this was already said, but my dad taught us to look at car license plates and try to find math equations in the numbers. Like if the plate ended with “734”, we could say “7-3=4”. Every equation we found was a point, double points if there were two kinds of equation in one (ex. “818” can be either “8x1=8” or “8/1=8”). We weren’t allowed to shout it out, but we did keep an honor code for who said what and if the other person could see or not. Kept us super busy during long car rides.
Four or five years ago my brother and I were making jokes about delayed reactions. We then began to punch eachother, but wait a few seconds before saying “ouch”. As the game continued, there were longer intervals of time before each reaction. We are still playing the game. I ouched last week, but before that, the last time I ouched was maybe June of last year (as soon as we ouch we get punched again)
We had a game,my father thought us, the name would be somewhat like "division". You need only two squares to play on land. You both start with one square and you start with a knife. You stand on your territory only and need to drop the knife on your opponent's half in a way that the angle of the knife sets a line which bites off as much as possible. After your turn erase the original divisior line and draw the new based on the knife-drip. It's your opponent's turn. The game is on till one doesn't have enough space to stand on.
Another one was “dramatic stacks.”
Basically just falling over/stacking it in the most impressive way without actually hurting yourself.
Typically involved a trampoline
Peanut butter and jelly: one person goes between two mattresses and tries to escape as the other two jump up and down on the top mattress.
Smash that bug: one person is the bug, the other two do all that is in their power to smash the “bug” to the floor - belly had to be touching the ground. Oh, and you sing “smash that, smash that bug” to the tune of macho man.
Beer maggots: dad would throw all his empty beer cans on the kitchen floor and yell for us to come in to stomp the “beer maggots” (beer cans).
The ‘Guess what?’ Game
My brother and I used to share a room as kids and when we where very young we would spend our nights playing the very simple yet some how addicting game
One persons would start by saying “guess what!?” Then the other would reply with “what?” Back to the first person with a “I forgot” and then it would repeat, changing role each time in till one of us got bored
My sisters and cousins would play hide and seek in the dark, originally we played it outside at night during the summer, like ridiculously late, until my mom made us stop and told us to play inside so we’d turn the lights off and play; I wish I could remember how the hell we thought that stupid shit up
My cousin drew up a map with different climates and areas filled with forests and trails beaches and mountains. You’d roll a di and continue on the path until one of his Pokémon cards would jump out and you’d have to duel it. Essentially a Pokémon nintendo game but on paper. Kept us busy for hours.
Green Ghost was my and my older brothers jam as kids! You'd play only at night, and it was basically backwards hide-and-seek. But the person who was it would go hide, while everyone else had to count (like a clock I should specify lol.) Once you counted to midnight, then everyone would split up on the whole block to try and find the "Green Ghost".
When you found them, you had to shout out the games name, so everyone who heard it had to run back to safe as quick as they could before they'd get tagged by the one who is it. Lots of special memories as a kid with that one! I always appreciated my brother letting me play with him and his friends.
My cousin and I had a game we played at bath time called "weinies under water" , I wish I was making this up, but our penis' were essentially scuba divers and we would attack them (each our own) with toy sharks and dinosaurs.. we were very young and it wasn't sexual in any way.. just strange..
My friends and I had "Pinecone wars". Where we ran through the woods throwing pinecones at eachother. We also had sticks to try and deflect pinecones and would stickfight if we got close to eachother. Many bloody knuckles and bruises. We were like 8 years old. Our parents were always a little worried but didn't mind since we had a lot of fun.
You know those Little Tikes Elephant Slides? My sister and I used to flip that bad boy over, sit in the top part and fling each other as hard as we could backward and forward. It was like a poor man’s version of those Viking ships you ride at the county fair.
Oh I have been waiting for this opportunity for years. My memory is fuzzy but here's the general gist:
Back in primary school there were these two girls who CONSTANTLY harassed me and my friends. They would come up to us all the time and say "hiya dudes" (which is what we eventually named them) And so we came up with a plan; we hung around in this little area outside a door with the idea being that we were safe from the hiya dudes as long as we were in this area (we were kids don't think about it too hard) they eventually got bored of us but for some reason this area became the centre of a game we would play for the rest of our primary school life: Harmony.
As far as I remember, the story is that we're all there to be safe from the hiya dudes but we also really want to leave. One person every round is selected as some sort of protector, in charge with making sure we stay there. They would go out into the playground to "find food" and from there it became a variation of hide and seek, where the rest would run and hide while the protector thingy person had to find us and violently drag us back to harmony against our will.
And that was about it. I have no idea why it was such a big thing for us but even now we still bring it up occasionally. (By we I mean the one primary school friend I have left)
We called it "Rural Surfing" but a better name would have been "The Ground Is Lava." On our 10 acres woods overgrown with privet, yaupon, and other large bushes/small trees, we would climb up one of them to start and see how far out we could get without touching the ground. Curiously, we never played the inside version.
My brothers and I used to fill garbage bags with clothing and beat each other with them. I ended up going mouth-first into the counter at one point. Great fun!
My brother and I used to play Megaton Seagull. Anytime we can across a lawn or field, one of us would put our arms out like a bird soaring and yell out, “xx megaton seagull” (xx being a number) and tackle the other. The number of megatons the seagull was determined how hard the tackle was. Loved that game!
Not exactly sure how we came up with the game but we used to play a card game called, “Thermonuclear War”. I guess we mashed it with seeing seagulls on a walk one day...
We played Ghosts in the Graveyard, which, with a quick Google search I just realized ISN'T unique. We were playing it before the internet was a thing really, so how it spread, is beyond me.
Power Bands. Basically it was game when slap bracelets were a thing and we all (like 6 people) had different pictures or designs on some slapbracelets that offered different powers such as super strength, super speed, laser vision. I don't exactly remember how the rules went but I'm almost certain they changed every time that we played LOL
One of my siblings would lie on a bed while we place layer upon layer of blankets on top of said sibling until they couldn’t breathe, in which case they had to muster the strength to push off all the blankets and escape. Pretty fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called "The Traveler" back in 3rd grade.
Basically, we would go to this area past the playground and do roleplay. However, in order to start the game, we would all meditate in a circle, holding hands. Whoever would see the place we needed to travel to in their mind, was the person who was the Traveler, and the other players were his/her companions.
Pretty great game until creepy shit started happening when we didn't end the game.
LOLO is one of the more unique games I played as I child it was a puzzle game on the wii
melz69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Raised in a doomsday cult. We would play games that would involve us being pressured into giving up our religion. We would also prepare ourselves for any types of torture by discussing what was the worst we could imagine. I was around 9/10. Thanks mom and dad for telling us the Armageddon could come at any minute
My friends and I used to play a game called "Monkey Wars". Two people would enter the monkey bars from opposite sides and try and kick each other off. It was fun until the school banned it.
So, this is a game I played by myself in the car. I would watch the side of the road and clench my butt cheeks when there was grass, curb, etc. and un-clench when there was a break (driveway, intersection, etc). Essentially, if it was flat I could relax, otherwise I clenched. It was enough to keep me preoccupied for little rides in the city. I never told anyone about that, but it’s my special little game.
We played the Walmart game. If you see a Walmart truck you yelled "Walmart". If it ends up not being a Walmart truck you get a negative point and you can go negative in points. Some rules are if it's a Walmart truck and only the cab not the trailer is Walmart it's two points. The game ends when the car has reached it's next destination, even if that's to stop and get gas. No points rewarded if the Walmart truck is in a Walmart or Sams club parking lot. Your mind will be blown at the number of trucks on the highways.
Sardines, hide and seek but instead one person hides and everyone else looks for them, if you find them, you hide with them until the last person finds you.
"Pin My Sheep"A silent game of hide and seek where there was a designated sheep's pin the seeker would send everyone s/he found hiding. The catch was anyone hiding could free the sheep by making eye contact and a hand gesture to free them all. The seeker would then have to go find the missing sheep again. S/he won when all were collected. One of my best memories!
Gdinez · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Popcorn” five of my cousins and I would load a trampoline with a ton of balls. Soccer, basketballs and jump around and whoever got touched would be out. When a ball would bounce off the people who were eliminated would throw them back in. Loads of fun. Miss being a kid.
We made up a game where we draw up our own cards, shaved down a pencil to use as a die and we rolled a number 1-6 and our character's cards had corresponding attacks. Whoever's HP drops to 0 loses. It's kinda like DnD with the character cards but it's sorta like a Pokemon battle. We all try to keep it balanced with light/heavy attacks and buffs and spells too. Lemme know if you wanna learn the game since we played this in class/lunch until we figured out that we could bring our games.
We would chase one another with a metal tool of some kind while the other screamed "No, not THAT doctor!" This happened way too many times, and we liked it way too much to not consider it a game.
"Kick The Kids"
My aunt or big sister would hold a couch cushion against her feet. We (the kids) would run full force at the cushion. At the moment of impact, the person holding the cushion would kick and we'd go flying into air, soaring majestically.
“Tensies”
Basically my dad and brothers and I would take turns throwing a tennis ball or racket ball onto our slanted roof from the driveway and the goal was to try to have it bounce a certain number of times. First 1 bounce then 2 then 3 etc. if you did it correctly you got to go again until you messed up and the next person would go. It was pretty great.
My friends and I played a game called "Runaway Snake". This involved one person running from one driveway across the yard to the neighbor's driveway while dragging a jumprope or regular rope and going "Run Away Snake" over and over in a singy tune.
Other players had to grab the snake before they made it.
I would hide in a box whenever my nana was at my house, then start making animal noises. She would guess what animal I am, and when she got it right, she would have to take care of me as that’s animal.
(I swear I’m not a furry)
Late 1960's, early 1970's, my friends and I would play a game we called "Statue Maker" - one person would swing the other kid around until they landed/stopped in a certain position. Then the person who swung that kid around, or another kid, would go to the "statue" and press various "buttons" on them (i.e. their nose), or move their arm/whatever, so they would move or do something silly.
Older brother at bottom of steps, out of eyesight. Me at the end of upstairs hallway. Older brother chucks Nerf ball as hard as he can and I try to catch it...classic older brother tactic to pelt little brother over and over lol
Hotshot
My brother and I on our knees at opposite ends of long hallway try to chuck a tennis ball past each other with at least one bounce. He always got the end with a door frame that acted like goal posts....
"trapped on the boat" where bed = boat and like say a table at the other side of the room is an island with treasure (stuff on the table)
So basically use our imagination to get across the room without touching the ground. That could be using string to throw and grapple or have smaller boats (cardboard box for example) that would be transport around.
Silly kid thing but it was the first thing that came to mind reading the question.
Me and my sister used to play a game we dubbed "I'll mace you good" (yes after the simpsons) where I made a home made mace with a ball of paper on the end of some rope attached to a stick. So we'd wait till it was dark then go to the woods and I'd chase her around shouting the name of the game (never intending to hit her) she would run away laughing her ass off. Dunno why she enjoyed it so much but eh it was some quality bonding
Grew up as a boy in Texas in the redneck era of the 50's and 60's - 1. Rock fights,(these were potentially lethal when Brad, the local fat kid who weighed 185 in the 5th grade let loose of a half pound piece of jagged flint at your head from 10 or 15 yards. Our parents knew that it happened occasionally, but it was just like; "Oh well, boys will be boys.") 2. BB gun wars ( Red Ryder BB guns essentially just "lobbed" bb's so it wasn't anywhere near as potentially fatal as the rock fights with Brad) 3. Jumping off the roof, or jumping out of trees. (For some reason at this particular juncture in history, all boys from that era determined that leaping from heights was a novel idea. You might be imagining flights from maybe 6-8 feet, which was generally the case, but sometimes these would be from 12 -16 feet, in response to a dare with a pretty girl present. This probably coincided with the "Man of Steel", (Superman) appearing for the first time on TV .Ironically Steve Reeves, the first Superman, killed himself.) 4. Catching horny toads/wasps or yellow jackets. (we would catch the wasps, honeybees and yellow jackets in a jar by holding it upside down over one or more of them. At one point I fumbled the jar freeing about 16 of them one me and my best friend. I have been bitten over 800,000 times in my life.) tracer
We never gave this game a name, but my brother and I were couting straw bales when we were going on the Autobahn. Here in Germany there were (or still is?) two types of straw bales, cylindrical and cuboid. Each one of use would pick a type of straw bale and that would be our army. Then we would count any straw bale of our type and who had the greater number won. Fun times.
Also hoyitos or little holes.
All players get to dig a whole big enough for a tennis ball to fit...2-3 inches apart from each other in a straight line. We'll call that home..... Then you have base or safe zone is about 20-30 yards away from home.
Players take turns to try to roll the ball from 10yds away into any hole except for theirs. Once the ball lands in a whole, who's ever it is sprints to get the ball and tries to tag (hit with the ball) anyone else, as they're running towards base (where they can't be tagged). The point of the game is to make it back home without getting tagged. While you wait at base whoever is IT tosses the ball in the air at different heights giving you a chance to tun back home. You get tagged you switch roles until everyone makes it back home.
Milsim-style Nerf Gun battles around my neighborhood.
Me and some of the other kids around the military base housing would go all out. We'd bring out 3 and sometimes 5 nerf guns, per person, out to one of the playgrounds. There were playgrounds with equipment scattered around the area and we developed strategies for defense and offense of these playgrounds or territory. There were rules mainly just saying no deliberate injuring of other kids, be mindful of other people (adults and kids not involved) and we had fun.
One time we orchestrated a large scale assault on one of the playgrounds which was held by some other kids across the road. There was grass and trees, some landscaping berms with bushes, road, and grass with the enemy park ahead. There was one team that went head-on with heavier weapons, while me and 5 other kids moved around the residential streets to flank the objective with some sniper rifles. We took the territory, and by one rule we came up with, they had to retreat back to another point.
Those were good days. I still have some of the nerf guns. This was back in 2011 or so. I'm 18 now.
Two teams either side, one on side there was an elevated walkway around 3 foot off the ground and the other a play bridge, same distance from the ground.
Rules were:
1. Every player must take it in turns to throw
2. You must throw UP and towards the enemy team, enemy team can call foul if they do not feel ball was played high enough
3. Ball must go past the midway point, you can throw and catch from anywhere up to the midway point, ball MUST stay within the confines of the play area including the elevated level
4. Enemy team can request a rethrow if a foul ball is played, it is up to them if they continue or request a replay
5. A catch can be made on a foul ball, a catch can be made on a rebound as long as it doesn't touch the floor
6. Enemy catches your ball (before it bounces) you are out
7. Players that are out are restricted to the elevated level on their side and cannot throw (players that are in are still allowed on elevated level)
8. Players that are out can catch a ball, if they do they they are back in and the thrower becomes out
9. You can nominate a team mate to throw a ball for you on the condition you take their next throw
10. You can nominate a guest player (a player not on either team) to throw one ball for you with no foul
11. You only get to come back into the game once, on your second out you are removed from play
12. Game ends when all players on one side are out, or until the bell rings, in which case the team with the least players out/removed from play wins
The game started as just playing catch in turns, then we decided todo catch a ball and the other guy is out. Certain people dominated in this iteration. So we refined rules over the course of maybe a year taking inspiration from baseball and (our form of) dodgeball. In hindsight we did an amazing job at balancing and making the game fair for everyone
Me and my friends made up a game called "3 second reaction" where we'd say something and we would go around our circle clockwise (sometimes anti-clockwise) whilst they had three seconds to say their reaction. Whoever went beyond 3 seconds or didn't say anything in the 3 seconds lost! I was known as the "Founder" whilst they were known as the "Co-founders"
My mom used to play math "games" with me when I was younger, around 5 or 6 - just an hour of straight up arithmetic questions every night before bed that she managed to convince me was really fucking fun.
My brother in law tells tale of a game from his elementary school playground that sounds both fun and gruesome. The game was called "Shellac". Kids stood in a circle with a tennis ball in the middle and kicked it around trying to shoot it through each other's legs. If kicked through another players legs, the scorer gets one 'shin slide' on the loser, where they take their heel and slide it down the losers shin as hard as they could. Play then resumes until another goal. Players exit the circle when they cannot take the pain inflicted.
My step-brother an I would play this game where he would say something REALLY mean. I would then go and tell on him. The best part would be when our parents would leave he would beat the snot outta me. Good times.... goooooood times.
Tree to tree. We’d find a copse of sapling evergreens and climb up and attempt to travel as far as we could by swinging back and forth and grabbing the next tree and transferring over.
We get home covered in sap and bruises. It was brilliant!
My dad and his Boy Scout troop (back In the 70s-80s) would play a game called “hide the belt” and “Jake Jake the rattlesnake,” both of which were very violent. in Hide the belt you would take the buckle off of a Boy Scout belt and you would hide it. The first to find the belt would then beat everyone with it. All my dad has to say about it was that, “you would hope they grabbed the end with the metal tip.” And for Jake Jake the rattlesnake they would get two kids and put blindfolds on them. Then they would hand one a bucket and one a stick. The kid with the bucket would hit the bucket and the kid with the stick would beat him with it. Good times.
My friends and I used to play what we called “Maps.” It was basically dungeons and dragons but without rules. One person would draw a medieval style map and imagine a Lord of the Rings/Skyrim style world. In play the creator of the map was the “narrator” and would tell the players what was going on so that they could react within the game. The narrator would also voice npc characters as well as record your character’s items and sometimes keep a skill tree and spell list. We would get really into it, and draw huge 2” • 3” maps with full npc, town, and biome profiles and unique weapons, plants, and creatures. We would sit for hours playing each other’s maps.
We also had a combat system. When players were in combat the narrator would describe the opponent’s attack and then count down from five on one hand. If the player couldn’t come up with a counter in five seconds they would sustain an injury which was recorded on their player profile until they healed. If the player countered the attack they were usually aloud a five count to launch their own attack. For this part we would sometimes use a die to decide how successful the attack was, but other times we would just leave it up to the narrator.
We played futuresque Star Wars themed maps but weren’t as fun because gun fight were impossible to narrate and maps would either have to be made per planet or not be detailed.
We had a game called “hog tie” we’d play at recess. We’d basically find the biggest kid (out of our friends) and place hula hoops over him and try to hold him there with the hula hoops while he’d thrash around like a wild animal trying to escape. There’d usually be about 4 of us or so holding him back with the hula hoops and it wasn’t uncommon for them to break and dwindle our numbers. Our operations got shut down quick by teachers but if we could get a 10 minute game in we’d be happy.
Looking back on it it seems cruel but we’d all be laughing in tears including the “hog”.
Killerbats. It was basically kiss chase, except all the girls put their hands in their coat pockets and flipped them over their heads and screeched “Karr killerbats karr”. And instead of kissing you’d “get them” and they’d be dead.
The safe spot when the girls were being chased was a single block of concrete that we all had to try and balance on at once.
I asked for bat wings instead of fairy wings for christmas so that I could be the best.
In college we made up a game called "yellevator". When my roomates & i were on an elevator we would literally scream until just before the doors opened at the end of the ride. Then we'd act like nothing happened.
ino420 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play “Town”. There were about five of us and we would each pick a specific job. I was always the farmer, my cousin Brian was always the general store manager, my cousin Kenny was always the army general (because every town has a military base), my cousin Jeff was the fisherman, and Eric owned the airport/ hospital (because every town also has an airport). We would live out a few days in the town, trade resources with each other and whatnot, use action figures and blocks to setup houses and different buildings, it was a great time. There was never an end to it, so we would usually just have monsters or zombies come and attack and we would live out the rest of the game fighting for survival pillaging neighboring houses for supplies and trying to recruit survivors to our team. I would always try to heroically sacrifice myself in some way. Good times.
My brother , sister and I created a game that we just called dominos. At my grandparent’s house there was this long stretch of hard wood floor with small steps on each side of the stretch.
We would get their dominos out, split them up and then we would build little houses with the dominos. Then we would pick one domino and fling it all the way across this long stretch of hard wood floor to try and destroy the cool little houses we made.
It would slide across the floor and crash into the domino houses. Whoever destroyed the whole “town” or base first won! It was super fun.
When I was 3 I would play with my rock and shell collection as if they were dolls.
dc6758 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister and I were about 9 and 10 we used to play this game called “who am I”. One person would play a ghost who forgot who they were after death so they would chase whoever else was playing while screaming “who am I!!! Who am iiiiiiii!!!!!!”.
It was pretty spooky and a lot of fun lol
Bâza - I think this is probably pretty common everywhere, but I've never seen educated and high-class kids play it and I've only heard about it in Romanian.
Basically, someone stands against a wall covering their eyes and one person out of a group of people punches the shoulder of the person against the wall. The guy who was hit has to guess who hit him, if he doesn't get it right, he has to be punched again. If he guesses the person who punched him correctly, that person becomes the guy who gets punched. Game ends when someone fucking dies or gets their shoulder dislocated.
This was a game we played at my barn. It was a combination of dodgeball and hide-n-seek. The person who was “it” had to count by 5s to three hundred. The other players (minimum of three other players - 4 total) split up and tried to hide. We played rounds of 3.
The object is for whoever is “it” to find the people hiding, once found, peg the person hiding with a ball. The person hiding had to try to dodge the ball, then the race was on! The person hiding has to make it to “home base” before being hit.
It got the be really fun when the people hiding sort of worked together. This would mess with the “it” person. Lots of strategy was involved.
We also had boundaries so that it kept the game in a relatively small space.
"wompus" is the greatest game I've ever played in my entire life.
We had a swing set with an attached "castle" portion that kinda looked like this except without the fancy stuff on the right side. We had a football (the wompball) that the dropper dropped from the ledge that borders the swinging area. After the dropper dropped the ball, the swinger had to try and kick it. After the ball is kicked, the thrower and dropper had to chase after the ball. After the ball is retrieved, they had to throw it into a goalpost formed by two trees in the yard. After one round was completed, the dropper and kicker switched positions.
This game was not only overly complicated after the rulers we're finalized, but it also took about 30 minutes per game due to the crazy scoring that I completely forget. Again, this is the greatest game I've ever played.
I played this ‘game’ while in the car where I lead my eye-line over the top of objects as they went by. I was sort of imagining some kind of character running and jumping across telephone wires, roofs, other cars, ect.
This was a version of tag that involved a toy shopping cart. Whoever was "it" had to ram someone with the shopping cart. It was pretty scary but super fun. We always played it when my cousins were over, and there was a particular Summer where that was THE game we played. I remember jumping from couch to couch and running as fast as I could while my cousin or brother chased me yelling "Shopping Cart Killer!!!!!"
My mom told me that she would just let us go downstairs and be nuts. Someone got hurt every single time but it was never serious.
We also played "Strobe Light Tag". My dad had a legit strobe light that you could set to flash at 10 second to 1/50 second intervals. It was the most startling thing when whoever was "it" suddenly appeared right in front of you when they were all the way across the room just moments before. Super fun.
I was an only child and didn't have to many friends so I would set up a game of monopoly with all eight pieces and play. The difference was I would make personalities for each of the pieces and give them a reason why they were investing and selling properties. I would kind of make a story out of it.
My sister, cousins and I would all play a game called Hunter. One of us would be "it" and would blindfold ourselves with a scarf, then we grabbed a sword (really, a plastic dagger from an old halloween costume). Then we'd listen for the others, and hunt them down using only our ears to guide us. I was the best at tracking them down, but I was never great at lunging for the attack because I was afraid of hitting a chair or something. It was great fun and everybody loved it.
It’s exactly what it sounds like. My brother and I would recreate Mufasa’s death scene on our stairway.
One of us would be Scar and the other Mufasa. So Scar would sit at the top of the stairs while Mufasa would army crawl up the stairs quoting lines from the movie or singing the sad tune or whatever. Once Mufasa got up the stairs, Scar would throw their hands down onto the tops of the other’s hands and shout “LONG LIVE THE KING!” And then whoever was Mufasa would let go of the top stair, yell, and slide down the stairs on their stomach. We’d take turns being one or the other, and we could play this for HOURS. It was right after it came out, so I was about 4 or 5 and my brother was 6 or 7.
Mind you, I cry every time I watch The Lion King, so I have no idea what possessed me to trivialize this as a small child. I feel like a monster.
Don’t touch the lava!! Floor is lava. Furniture is safe. Gotta keep moving. Rules may be changed as game continues to be more advantageous to myself in the event I run out of furniture.
Butt's-up: You'd throw a tennis ball against a wall and someone would try to catch it. If they fumbled the ball or it hit them then hit the ground or somehow missed the ball they had to run and touch the wall before someone else grabbed the ball and threw it against the wall. If you didn't make it, you were BUTTS-UP!!! You'd have to go to the wall and bend over while all the other players had a chance to throw the ball at your butt from a set distance.
There was this game me and my friends played during recess. On the playground, there was one big painted square. The rules were simple: you run and bump into each other until you're knocked out of the square. You weren't allowed to push each other, only run and bump into each other.
Using tree leaves in a bucket and add water to mush it up and water the plants with say water. In my head I thought it was better for the tree that way.
There were a couple.
One was called Zombies. Over the span of a few houses on various street that we lived in were places we could enter. If an adult or zombie (kid similar to being it in tagged) talked to you or the zombie kid saw you, you were now a zombie. With this game nothing was off limits besides parents bedrooms. This one time a kid pushed this other kids brother off their "fort" (pushed over garbage bins) and so the kid whos brother was pushed got mad and led a write over the fort, where the all became zombies after being yelled at by the neighbors.
One was a variation on tag where instead of counting everyone would shout "ready!" once they hid. After everyone achieved perfect hiding spot then the seeker could seek. Alot of times this was played either in the early moring, 7-8 am ish, or 10 pm ish on weekends or around 7 pm on weekdays.
One was a game on road trips where someone would say the name of a place, such a nation, ocean, state, continent, city, wherever really just not street or place (Disney, Orlando Internation Airport etc) specific. Then you take the last letter of that word and find another word that starts with that letter. Each word could also only be used once. Ex: "Kyiv" "Vancouver" "Russia" "Argentina" "Amsterdam"
Getting stuck into an endless loop of A's is frequent.
Me and my friends would play a game called dun da (creative name!). It's a pool game so you need to be in a pool, but it's were one plays as a shark and him/her will go to someone and try to dunk them into the water (not random people). When they go above water to breathe, they have to close their eyes.
Car crash which was a where someone get in one of those foot powered cars for kids, another pushes the car to speed that you can't get with our feet and ride down a big hill or something and see if you make it to the bottom or crash.
We had a game called "Car Dive"
There was a 2 way road going past my street, and in my street there was a small (15×30 metre) patch of grass, with a small (maybe 3m high) hill on the side of the grass away from the road.
The game consisted of standing at the roads edge and looking both ways for cars. When a car was coming we had to run towards the hill, and dive down the other side, into cover, before the car drove past us.
No one was ever "out" even if they were too slow to make it to safety, but it was good fun
Secret agent: Me and my little brother and would take shoelaces and string them up all over mine and my brothers bedroom (lasers). Then we would put an item (treasure) in the center of our room. The object was to sneak in through the vent which was the top bunk on our bunk bed and “extract” the treasure without getting caught. One of us would be the owner of the treasure and they would set up the lasers and other obstacles, one person would be the hacker (honestly this person didn’t do anything unless the agent got caught then they would try for the treasure) and the third person would be the agent. Their job was to sneak in and get the treasure. We played this till I was a junior in high school lol
My friends and I played "Shadow walkers". We'd dress up in dark clothes and hide in the bushes, then challenge each other to reach specific destinations without being seen by the teenagers hanging out in the park playing basketball. We took it very seriously and everyone had their own carefully designed shadow walker outfits that we were always improving.
Basically you would call out your friend for talking shit in a sense. If a friend were to say, ‘I do mid-winter swims, the water isn’t even that cold’, you’d then turn and say, ‘odds on you stripping down and going for a swim then’.
If the friend really doesn’t care about the cold, they’ll say something like 1 in 5 or 1 in 10.
At that point you count down from 3 and both spit out a number between 1 & 5 (or whatever the odds are) at the same time - if you both say the same number, then ol’ mate is going for a swim.
The only catch is - whoever asks on odds, must also play the same odds. So, while you are trying to catch your mate out and make them go for a mid-winter swim, it could backfire and end with you swimming instead.
My mates and I still play to this day just with more at stake
zuxa · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drawing abstract things. We played this in a group of four colleagues in primary school. Someone named the abstract thing like: love, habit, chance, fear, etc and then we draw it, each on a separate piece of paper. At the end we compared the drawings and discuss. Nice times.
Me and my little brother used to play a game we called "Kick Box", basically if we ever had an empty 12 pack soda box we'd kick it back and forth across the house and the first one to bust a whole in it was the loser. We we're very bored kids now that I look back at it
We would play a game called Predator. Basically hide and seek in the dark with the Predator wearing ski goggles and using a laser pointer as his only source of light.
My friends and I, ~16-17, when driving to the beach and passing a ton of farms, would open one or both sides of our miniman sliding doors and yell as loud as we could "HEYYYY COWWWWW!!!!" at cows on both sides of the highway/freeway when we passed them. Whichever team got the most cows to look their way won the round. Oftentimes, one would stick their head out over the pavement "for an obvious advantage."
We were not smart.
We called this game...oh shoot I can't remember.
Sometimes other drivers and their passengers would give us weird looks, probably because they thought we were calling them names.
Also oftentimes, one would pee out the side of the minivan with the door open while going 60 mph, with other dudes in the back of the van. We REALLY were not smart.
At recess my friends and I played four-square to the death which means instead of getting out you get pull a punishment from a hood and they were very bad
efemd · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I truly wondered for years if anyone else knew but, Safety/Doorknob.
You had to say “safety” after farting or burping in order to keep yourself safe. People around you try to say “doorknob” before you can say safety and hit you in the shoulder until you touch a doorknob.
My friends and i used to play alot while in school in Ohio. Took it to back to Turkey, we’d beat the shit out of people if we caught them.
My friends and I made up this game called “Nightmare”. Basically you build a small fort out of lawn and foldable chairs. There’s one person that has a soccer ball and has to destroy the fort with the soccer ball by kicking it hard at the fort. It was actually a little dangerous but we didn’t care. The point was to hit everyone with the ball so they’re out.
Another one was called “Dropkick”. My house is the last one in the row of houses. This means there’s a fence that separates my backyard and a small road. There’s teams on either side of the fence. You have to dropkick the ball over the fence and the other team has to catch it to earn a point. Sometimes we dropkicked it too hard and it went in the neighbour’s backyard.
The last one doesn’t have a name but my friend and I would get our scooters and would ride to random difference places in the neighbourhood and then try to find each other after 5-10 minutes
Mexi Ball - Uncle learned the game from a bunch of southern Californian Mexicans:
Dig small ball sized holes dependent on the amount of players. Each person is designated a hole. You take a ball(we would ball up socks and tape them over and over until it was SOLID, or use a tennis ball or racquetball) and each player rotates their turn to roll it. Whatever hole it lands in the person runs up to the hole/ball and grabs it. The others all run the opposite direction, where there is a designated line(maybe 100ish feet away). The one with the ball then turns around and tries to hit as many people as they can with the ball before the rest of the people can cross back over the side with the holes. Each person hit with the ball puts a rock in their hole. If they don’t hit anyone at all, they put a rock in their hole. First player to 5 or 10 rocks is out and their hole is filled. Last man standing wins.
It was so fun. Some people would intentionally roll it into their hole if they were confident. Or everyone would try to roll it into the slow guys hole because if he missed he wouldn’t be able to recover. Some people target the best player with the ball to try to take them out first.
The best part was when the ball would be rolling and hit a bump and go in a different hole so the first guy out is the one who was screwed over by a bumpy yard.
JibbyX · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If any of my friends swears someone starts a countdown and at the end everyone hits the table and says "ding." The goal is not to get dinged. It started out as a joke but they actually stopped swearing.
me and a bunch of other kids from the neighborhood were playing football when someone said the word sack as in to tackle someone. we thought it was quite funny so we made it into a game. one person stands in the middle and yells sack. one by one we run at the person and try to tackle them onto the ground. if you are tackled to the ground the next person takes a turn. this continues until the person gets tackled or everyone is too tired to play or it gets dark. most kids parents banned their kids from playing. we had to come up with different ways to play because we ended up getting bruises. that’s the type of shit we played
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night tag. Which is tag during the night. We weren't very creative.
In middle school my friends and I made a game called “dog fight” which was essentially us just beating each other up and we were confused when people called the school about seeing us in the playground. (Added fun fact: we were all scrawny pre-pubescent girls that wore outfits like Jojo Siwa)
My grandmother had a chain hanging in her shop, I use to put it on my neck to suffocate me, I remember I liked the tingling sensation on my throat and my head went numb, I took it off when I couldn't breathe anymore, one day my mom (she couldn't see me) went to wake me up cause I was passing out, I was a normal kid and didn't do it to hurt myself or anything I just liked the sensation and to pretend I was in a boat that was sinking, not knowing what I was doing
So when i was in kindergarden we would play this game and everybody had to join it, and it was like tag but the limb you were tagged on you couldn't use for the rest of the game. People kept tagging peoples legs so they that to jump on one foot towards them...
Kinda boring, but my dad and I had this little bakery that we'd go to after he picked me up from school. It was next to a parking lot, and had these big windows so you could watch the cars pass through. The game we played was, in alternating turns, whichever car passed by, that was the car he'd buy me when I graduated high school, or the car I'd buy him when he'd retire. The rules were expanded so if you got a car you didn't like, you could toss that one out and gamble it all on the next car, but that was the one you'd have to keep for the next two turns. The game would end whenever we finished what we were eating and left, and was the source of many heated arguments through mouths stuffed with cookies over who was stuck with the Jeep and who got to walk away with a fresh Prius.
Keetirenzo - my cousin, sister and I pretended to be shibito (zombies from the Forbidden Siren games). Two of us had to follow exact routines round the house (in the dark) whilst the other person tried to sneak past us. If you saw them you scared the shit out of them.
That and pretending to be sligs from Abes Odyssey. The slig would be in the back garden and “abe” would sneak round the side of the house and try to possess them by tapping their shoulder unnoticed.
blewf · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dark darkness." Super complicated game. My cousins and I would arm ourselves with pillows, close the door, turn off the lights, and then beat the shit out of each other.
Some one always got hurt and we were banned from playing.
Not sure if this is "unique" but my familiy would play the alphabet game on roadtrips when my younger brother and I were little. Basically someone had to come up with a word that started with "a" and then the next person had to come up with a word that started with "b" and so on.
I remember one trip my my mom brother and I were visting my great aunt in north carolina. We were driving somewhere with her while playing the alphabet game. It gets to the letter "p" and my brother very loudly says "PENIS!" My mom was bright red, but thankfully my great aunt just laughed it off.
Basically it's red light/green light, but no one calls out red/green. So you start at one corner of the house, behind you in the back yard is where the caller/target/person your trying to reach is. You get 10 free steps around the house, so you had to really leap if you wanted to make the best use of it. After your 10 steps, if the target/caller/whatever sees you move, they call you out and you have to restart. The object was to get to the caller and tag them out. Did I mention they're supposed to hide? So you also don't know if they're looking or not so sometimes you have to move verrrrrrrrry sloooooowly. And if you're the caller its on the honor system that you're not just watching all the time, but its pretty easy to tell when someone is doing that Jordan.
Alternatively you make your hiding spot a little more obvious, or red light/green light it so people do know when you're looking.
we werent that young, but my friends and i created a game called “its my turn on the xbox”
to play, you grab your pants or shorts or whatever, pull it as high as you can. someone is the mother, and the others are the kids. when you start, player 1 yells “its my turn on the xbox” and then player 2 yells “no me!” then player 3 goes “no double me!” and so on so forth. after that, the kids run at the mom. the objective of the mom is to survive, and the kids try to touch mom.
I was obsessed with trying to make The PowerPuff Girls. I lured my siblings/friends into it. I found a substitute for Chemical X. Some kind of strong smelling cleaner in a small unlabelled bottle I stole from my grandpa lol. I also plotted with my best friend from school to sneak out at night and go to Halloween Town, from the Disney movie.
“Atomic leaves”.
Me and my friends had a constant game going on, where anytime we where outside together, if a leaf fell from a tree it was an “atomic bomb”. Basically anytime you spotted a leaf falling you’d stop what ever other game you where playing to run for your life and hit the deck.
We had spiral staircases growing up and my younger brother and I (~5 & 7 y/o at the time) came up with a game where the object was for one of us to get to the top of the stairs while the other one tried to prevent it. I know this sounds bad from the start but we were kids. Anyway, I volunteered to try to make it up first since I was older. So I start up the stairs and what's the first thing I see flying at me? A fucking dart! Not a plastic dart, a real metal one. Somehow I dodged the first one but then he threw another one and it was heading right for my face! Somehow I got my hand up in time and it stuck right in the palm of my hand. Of course I lost my shit and my Mom had to pull the dart out. Last time we played that game.
“FIFA street” in school basically a soccer game but the main objective is to hurt the other team with outrageous tackles and wwe moves
No one was safe and also got in big trouble and hurt but it was worth it
"Walking on the ceiling". I would put a mirror under my chin, look down and walk.
zulwe · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would put on our thermal underwear and pretend that it was chainmail, then put on our bathrobes and pretend that they were tunics,.
Then we would get our school rulers, and two clothes pins to make a hilt, and shove them into our belts as if they were bodkins.
We would then get our pillows to be shields, and a pair of tube socks to make into morning stars. We'd roll up one sock and put it into the other and would make a wicked weapon!
Hallway hockey.
We had a bunch of these tiny plastic hockey sticks (about a foot and bit long) and my brother and I would sit at either end of a hallway.
We'd slam the dense nerf ball we had back and for with little regard to walls, floors, or safety in general.
There weren't really nets, just the walls behind us.
Many welts were earned in those games.
T. rex football. Playing catch and pickup games using only your forearms and body rotation. Gets a lot of good laughs bc of how stupid it looks but I have great memories
Suicide ball . There’s rules but the main premise is if someone catches the handball without it bouncing you get to peg the guy who threw it before he runs back and touches the wall which was usually someone’s garage door lol
We called this wall ball. I got in a zone where you could hear the ball whistle when thrown. Damn fun game till the school thought it was too violent. Hell we used to play tackle football without gear. More durable then today's kids I think.
Psycho. Me, my brother, and my 2 cousins would hide somewhere in our grandparents house at night, with no lights on. Our uncle would try to find us, and when he did, he would carry us into the laundry room and one of us would try to save the captured guy. It was scary, but fun. Once we got older, our uncle couldn't pick us up anymore, and he became more busy with life to play with us. Btw my uncle is NOT a pedophile, I know the way I worded it would make it sound like it, but we'd always ask our uncle to play, but like I said, most of the time he was too busy.
This game consisted of several pizzas being ordered and eaten while we decided teams which ranged from two a side to eighteen a side or there abouts but it can go up and up. The empty pizza boxes became goal squares I guess (we never bothered properly naming them). Whoever owned a ball and had it with them would hoof it into the air and then it was a free for all to grab that ball and stick it on the pizza box of the opposing team. You couldn't pass it but if someone was trying to claw it out of your hands your team could grab you to try and counter it and so on. If the ball went under a car, in a pond etc the game continued. There were no boundaries and no real rules ever discussed.
As this was a game played by mates it never got too rough aside from being dragged along the tar mac, no major injuries were had but damn do I miss that game and those summer days.
Tartarus Hole the game where you had to be king of the tube slide. Basically at school whoever could stay in the this certain spot in the tube slide while everyone else tried to be king. It was pretty much war, if you were king of the slide you were king of the school. Sadly it got banned 😞
Our driveway was long and steep. So me and my brother (3 years younger than me) would get on our 2 man sled during the winter. One of us would have back and we would pretend we were like the snow speeders on Hoth. If we made it down the whole driveway we killed an ATAT, if not we crashed. We did this for hours. When I realized my brother liked when we crashed, despite it not happening very often, I decided I would, using my 9 y/o brain, point us in a direction that would have us crash, or shake the sled so we lost balance and feel over.
Bb gun war. 6 or 7 of us kids and play war with bb guns. We were fucking dumb kids
My little brother had a bb stucj in his temple and i had one stuck in my thigh. We had a rule of only 2 pumps so it wouldnt get "too painful" .
e-day0 · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Traffic Jam off a Cliff”two people would go on the monkey bars at each end, meet at the middle and try grapple each other off with feet, hands whatever. Last on the monkey-bars wins.
We collected iron from the soil with magnets. Whomever had the most iron flakes at the end of the day, was the winner. We all had Tupperware to hold our flakes and different magnets. Crazy.
Xpenz · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking for the lowest license plate number on car rides. Don't know how license plates in the UK and America work but I guess finding a 10 or below is quite a rare occurrence.
The lead game! Basically we made teams and threw pieces of broken lead (off of normal/colored pencils) at each other. Different colors stunned the person you hit for a certain period of time and the goal was to get the entire opposing team stunned.
Ended up becoming a class-wide, never-ending game. We played during recess but also during class. People broke colored pencils intentionally, then stored the pieces of lead in specially made containers. We formed extensive plans and schemes to win. Got banned after a kid got hit in the eye... good memories
When i was 10 or so me and my brothers friends would play "Ewok Rugby" where we would put blankets on and just smash into each other. Leading to a concussion and chipped teeth.
When I was little, my brother and I both really liked cars. So we created a game where you basically call dibs on a car by saying "BB I get to have that car NEA (no exchanges allowed)" and they'd get put into an imaginary garage. Whoever says it first wins the car, so we would have to say the phrase super fast to the point where it doesn't sound like itself anymore. There is no real winner and no end to the game. You just get bragging rights for a little while when you see a really cool car. I still play it all the time even when I'm by myself. My imaginary collection is probably worth trillions of dollars :D
Turtle. You crawl on a bed on your hands and knees with a pillow on your back as your shell. That’s it. That’s the game.
Ibn87 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up Bob the Barbarian. Whoever was Bob had a large blanket placed over them and fought everyone else in the room, there wasn't a real objective everyone just beat the shit out of each other while laughing lol
Raining rocks. We would grab a handful of gravel, throw that shit straight up and run out of the way. I don't think we really had a scoring system. We would just play until someone got hurt or we got bored.
We had a trampoline when I was growing up and spent hours inventing new games that would last a week or until we got bored. One of those games was called poop. One person would become a log and roll around proclaiming “poo” and the rest of us would jump over him. It’s safe to say poop didn’t last more than a few hours.
t67443 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else play Red Rover? It was where you had a BUNCH of freinds, like a good 15-20 and you would be on teams. Whoever was voted team leader would then take turns picking from the rest. Then the 2 teams would stand hand in hand across a field from each other. One team would yell "Red Rover Red Rover, send (insert name of opposing team member) right over." That person would charge as hard as they could at the opposite line. Either they got the other team to break hands or the hands held tight. If they broke the other teams line, they would go back to their original team, if they failed they would then be on the opposite team. Do this until no no one is left on one team.
I only remember playing it a handful of times because you needed A LOT of friends, but it was an amazing amount of fun, even in my older years.
Impossibile Mission, Commodore 64. It was mind-blowing.
Nelmsc · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made a "game" about washing the kitchen floor. We hated doing it as kids, so we decided to turn it into the floor washing game. We would poured warm, soapy water on the floor and would slide our bodies across it to wash it. No dirty mop. Just our whole bodies. The floor was much cleaner and we had fun.
Hide and seek in a dark basement. But you had to shoot them with a nerve gun. The hiders got one bullet to stall the seeker temporarily and make their escape.
The Arsenic Sisters. When we were kids my sister and I would play this game with the next door neighbor sisters who were close in age. Basically it was like a make-believe/make-up-as-you-go game where different stuff happened all the time, but the main thing that stayed the same was that the older sister pair would somehow murder us with arsenic and we the younger pair would die dramatically and haunt them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LEGO Generals Risk.
You have to own Risk and Lego Minifigures. Set up Risk as normal, with each of you picking a Minifig as your general. Jarjar Binks minifig sits off the side of the board on the table, in one of the clear containers that held an army. A specific minifig we call Bob the Whale-Sitter sits on the whale drawing on the board.
Take your turns as normal, but every time you attack, your general faces the territory you are attacking. When you are fine your turn, your general sits in the last territory you attacked from or moved armies to.
This is where it changes gameplay. If a general is on a territory that is lost in a battle...the winning general has fake Lego buttsex with the losing general and the losing general is placed back on the board at the owner's next turn as usual. Three times being anally raped got you a visit to Bob. Three times with abib meant you were bad at protecting your holes and had to go "sit" with Jarjar Under Glass.
It changes the game a little. We invented it when we were around 13/14 and continue to play that style nearly 20 years later. Friends love it
My sister and I at around 5&4 y/o had a game with our neighbors called "Dead bird". We thought of them like our second grandparents. The objective was one person was the bird and the other two were hunters. The person playing the bird would run around pretending they're flying and making bird noises, while the hunters fired and shot "the bird". The bird would then be picked up and brought to a little backyard bench a few feet away that they'd be "brought back to life" by tickling. My sister and I were always the bird and we played as long as we could. They were so sweet and you could tell they both expressed genuine love for us. I still visit them to this day (I'm 27 now), but the husband is very forgetful lately. Really hope he sticks around long as possible though. He's 96 now.
“Bat rock” with my sister. We’d throw our enormous collection of bouncy balls down the stairs, with one of us waiting at the bottom with half of one of those plastic Easter eggs. We’d use the Easter egg half to bat the balls back onto the step, trying to keep them from bouncing down the hallway. We’d do this for hours.
Someone I know made up the Jeep game to keep his kids quiet on car rides. He's a huge Jeep Wrangler fan so the idea is to looks for Jeep Wranglers or Hummers (idk why). If you see one, you have to yell "Jeep!" And describe it to claim it if it's not clear which one you're talking about. Or point to it. Whichever makes it clear. If you're not sure if a Jeep has been claimed, you can say"Jeep! Did anyone call the red one behind us?". If yes, no point to you but also no penalty.
So if you're driving past a parking lot and there are a lot of cars and you spot a Jeep it would go something like this:
You: Jeep! Blue hard top
Passenger: Ok, Jeep red down first row
Points are only accrued if the car is on and everyone is buckled in (cuz this was made for kids).
One point per Jeep or Hummer 3.
+2 for Hummer H2s
+3 for Hummer 1
+3 for Hummer limo
+1 point if any of the above are stingbee yellow
So a stingbee yellow H2 limo would be 6 points. If you call a Jeep and the vehicle is NOT a Jeep you lose a point unless you correct yourself before someone calls you out on it.
Whoever has the most points at the end of the trip wins.
So many, one was called booger ball. A bunch (actually just two) people would be on the swings and one kid would be the booger monster and would throw a kickball over their head and try to hit them. Once you were hit three times you became the booger monster.
And gaga ball, you get a big inflatable ball and bounce it around the room. If it hit you below the waist you are it and have to try and hit others with the ball. If you are it when the song is over (an ABBA CD is playing in the background) then you lose.
Me and my friends made up a game we called Rough ball. One person was "On" and threw a tennis ball. The others beat the shit out of each other to get the tennis ball and return it,then they were on. Was fun
When I was a kid, in the rainy Pacific NW, I would get home from school around 3 and would play outside. We had a larger property in our neighborhood and an awesome yard that had grass, a blueberry patch, some big doug firs, and more. The yard had several different "levels" with low easy-to-maintain, shrubbery for landscaping.
It was the fucking TITS.
When no one else wanted to play with me in the frequent rain storms, I would take the lid from my turtle sandbox, and fucking SLIDE down a steep 20' shrub-covered hill over and over again. It was the best, you guys.
Also another fun game me and a buddy invented and played on many occasions was called "smash n crash". Basically two or more friends would take a lego dude and build a badass vehicle around him, also from legos, and we would sit on opposite ends of a hardwood floor hallway, then hurl the vehicles at each other over and over.Pieces of plastic shrapnel shooting off in every direction making that super satisfying plink sound as the pieces hit the ground.
The last "vehicle" that had successfully protected its driver was declared the winner.
Over time the game evolved into an elaborate physics game, where you no longer needed to protect the whole body, just the head. We started to build ironclad protective bricks of plastic with a head suspended in the middle like some fucked up ancient ritualistic tomb. It was a great game of skill and precision. Good times.
Yarks- (played on trampoline) one player starts out the the yark and us to stay on their stomachs crawling around trying to tag others and make them yarks. The last person alive would get attacked by all the yarks while they screamed “FEAST FEAST FEAST”
Raptor:call of the shadows
This awesome shoot em up where you play as a plane scrolling over a war torn city or something. Just the midi soundtrack is so nostalgic
Tewtea · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I see VAG. Lol we used to think it was hilarious when license plates had letters that read like funny/bad words, we called it I see vag because in our province for a while all veteran plates started with VAG so was pretty common to see.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt Versus Belly. Played by my sister and me when we were like, 5 and 7. One bares their butt, the other bares their belly, you make them touch, and whoever goes 'wtf no this is too weird and also tickles' loses
I used to make up games in my neighborhood and with my church. The one’s that I remember are 1) The Running Man and 2) Vampire.
1) The Running Man: This was basically reverse tag were the person who was it was chased by every other person. Required a large space and lots of slow kids. When someone got him they became it and then were chased by everyone. There were other rules too, but I don’t remember them and they were area specific. Yes, I named this after the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie.
2) Vampire: this game was sort of like hide and go seek. One player would count at the home base then all other people would run away. The count was like 5 seconds though so people couldn’t go far. Then the “vampire” would yell ‘stop’ and everyone had to freeze. Then the vampire would try to find at least one person while blind(eyes closed). The other players were allowed to shout to help him or whatever they wanted really but couldn’t move. Person caught was the new vampire. My favorite part about this game was about 15 years after I had stopped playing this game( age like 12-13ish ) I came back to the neighborhood to visit my parents and I saw a whole group of new kids in the neighborhood who were still playing “vampire”.
The belt game - 1 person goes into a dark room and hides a belt, once hidden every one else playing enters (again dark room no lights, shades down) every one looks for the belt and if you find it you are allowed to whip anyone in the room until they run out the door. The only rule you have to hold onto the metal buckle and once you are out of the room you can't get hit with the belt. We would play this with my cousins I remember being so excited when I found the belt you would remain calm and quiet and then stand in front of the door and whip everyone you could. Then once everyone is out the room the person who found the belt would go back in the room and hide it for round # 2 The game would end once a grown up would scream "What the hell is going on down there you better stop it before you get in trouble"
Me and a friend used to play "power rangers" Buy putting on extreme sport protection equipment. Our imagination ran wild 😂😂
diba_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was in high school but a friend of mine created a really fun game you can play with other people on a pool table. No pool sticks, just a cue ball and a solid ball.
The objective is to knock out your opponents that you're playing against (everybody has three strikes). The idea was similar to a game of pool - you hit the solid ball with the cue ball into a pocket by rolling the cue at the other ball. You play in clockwise order. The trick is you can only throw the cue sideways and forwards in order to hit the solid ball, not backwards.
If a player before you knocks the ball into a corner then you lose a strike. If the solid ball stops rolling before you can hit it to keep it moving, you lose a strike. This results in players dashing around the table trying to get an angle on the solid ball so they can hit it legally with the cue ball. Gets really fun when you're drinking
Funny story was, my freshmen year of college I was on the football team and I showed it to some team mates in pre-season before any of the other students arrived on campus and my team mates started playing it with other people and it spread and I think one of the dorms actually had a tournament, they named it "X-Ball", as I didn't have a name for it myself
“Duck”. We used to go on a lot of long car journeys when we were little as half our family lived in Scotland and the other half in Wales (we were in England). So on the motorway, any time we went under a bridge we had to shout “Duck!” and duck down in our seats. If we didn’t, we had to say “owwww” and rub our heads.
That was the entirety of the game. I don’t know why it kept us so amused.
My brother and I lived in Japan for about 5 years as young kids (we are from America and our dad is a marine). Why we didn't learn the language is beyond me, but that made for some lonely 5 years, where we couldn't really make friends. We came up with this game, I can't remember what it was called, but it was revolutionary to us at the time. It's basically where there are two teams, one with me and my brother, and one with 15 super muscular guys. One of us would pretend to tackle the guys and fight them off, while the other took a plastic bag to hit the tree stump at the other side of the yard. We would also make up plays, play sushi restaurant in our stairwell with wind up sushi toys, etc.
My sister and I shared a bunk bed. We'd play a game called "Ship." The bunkbed was the ship and we'd go diving off it in search of treasure. The treasure was usually toys that we kept in a toy box under the bunk bed.
We used to play a game called the “vampire” game, where we turned off all the lights and one person would be outside the bedroom while the others were under the quilt. The “vampire” would then come in the room and jump on top of the blankets and then if the person managed to grab someone from under the covers they became the vampire. We had to stop playing it though because my cousin threw a wooden chair at us and almost knocked a glass vase down on top of me.
The snail speed game.
A game me and my sister came up with when we were kids.
This was whenever we were in the car. You start with having a snail pulling the car. Then you can upgrade depends on what signs and buildings you pass by. Horses, unicorns, eagles whatever (some companies had these as logos). P signs were bombs you could throw at other cars. Bus stop signs means your car got bigger or smaller depends on the color of the sign. There was a rule for every single sign. Stop/hold signs means you lost everything and had to start over, though you could collect shovels (arrows signs) and if you had at least 4 (1 for each wheel) you could dig under the sign thus avoid them.
After the car drive we would (typically on vacation) press the button on the car that opens up the back of the car. This was to "Save the game". Lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before I got Yu-Gi-Oh cards I played with a normal deck of cards. Basically we'd remove the Q, K and J, got 50 LP and do what was kind of like poker. Higher card could kill lower cards, Ace killed all but 2 and Joker cleared the field.
We played a game that was essentially the opposite of hide and seek and combined tag. One person hides and the others fan out and try and find them, if the it person was found then the person had to chase the others and tag them before the others got back to a safe base.
This was played in a heavily wooded area that had only one street light per three mile area. It was absolute madness and guerilla style stealth tactics were learned at a young age because scaring the pants off your teenage cousins was worth the beating they gave you after.
Me and my friends made a game called Deer. Basically it was hide and seek in my basement with all the lights off, but the seeker got a foam sword and needed to "slaughter" all of the deer. The deers had pillows as defence tools and could revive others if they happened to walk by a fallolen comrade. The game ended once the hunter slaughtered all the deer.
Since it was so dark, you could choose to hide in plain sight as it was the perfect level of darkness where you cant see anything but outlines. Another thing is that my basements a oval, so you have the option of hypothetically just playing tag instead.
Me and my brother were commonly forced into playing "soccer" with our sister.
This soccer, however, consisted of her putting on our cleats and kicking our shins repeatedly. Mother never actually saw that part, so we couldn't get her to stop our sister. This also meant we would get in trouble if we tried to stop her because she would cry, as our other thought she wasn't doing anything wrong.
Thus, whenever she wanted, she would come up to us in our cleats and go "sohkhrr?" before kicking the crap out of our shins.
"Handball". No, not the actual popular sport, but kind of like four square? We had a court that was basically the size of a badminton court, and we had a line in the middle. We had a tennis ball, and we played in doubles or singles. The ball had to bounce once on your side, and make it to the other side. You could only touch the ball once, or else you were out. If the ball bounced twice on your side, you were out. If it didn't touch your side at all, it was a "direct", and you were out. If it touched the line in the middle, it would be a Line-A (now that I think of it I think we were trying to pronounce Linear? Line?) and we would replay the round. If you got out, there were plenty of people waiting in line to take your spot.
"running bases" me, my brother and 2 cousins played. 2 bases, in a straight line, 2 caught, 2 ran. you had to run from one base to the next without getting pegged in the back with a tennis ball. no score, no reason, just battle bruises.
Greased Watermelon. You cover a watermelon in Crisco and throw it into the lake. Everyone runs into the lake to retrieve it and you have to bring it to the shore for a point. You can also cover yourself in Crisco if you choose. It is always slipping and sliding and usually changes hands quite a bit. You keep playing until some inevitably drops it while on the beach.
So I had a basket that was pretty big, it was white. In the winter me and my friends played a game were on was in the basket. We had to be in a pretty big place to play. Then you would try to see the basket moving, and you would take a picture. It was really boring now that I think of it.
Don’t have a name for it, but my son now calls it the bug game. You start by telling some elaborate story about an outing, and end with:
“on the way out the door I spotted this gross bug on the ground. I looked at the clerk and said “I won it!” “
The idea is the person you are telling the story to says “I two it” and you say “I threw it!” And it goes back and forth like that until someone says “I eight it!” At this point he story teller will say “ew! You eat bugs?!”
It’s tame, and maybe a bit lame, but I loved it as a kid and now my son can’t get enough of it and he always wants to be the one to eat the big/disgusting thing in the story.
I was an only child for the first ten years of my life, parents were divorced and lived 5 hours apart, so I spent 10 hours of every other weekend in the car. I started “Blink”, and I would find a spot of dirt on the window and whenever it passed through something specific I would blink. I still catch myself playing sometimes when I’m in the passenger seat!
semp19 · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Congestipated” (congested+constipated). My apartment building had just gotten a new slide (twirly slide) and they forgot to put a piece in so it had an immediate drop (not smooth) so someone would sit at the bottom of the slide, blocking the exit. Everyone else would throw themselves down the slide as hard as they could to try and knock the person out. Even after they fixed the slide we continued to play it. This game mostly resulted in people getting hurt but it was fun.
“LEGO SMASH” - you take a small object that is “the prize” and build around it with LEGO until you’ve made a big brick of LEGO with the prize inside. Then you slide your brick across the floor and attack the opponents brick by smashing them together. The person who can smash the opponents brick apart to get the prize while keeping their LEGO brick intact wins.
Curvy Derby. Basically my brother and I would over exaggerate the turns in a curvy road and slam into each other when we went around a turn after shouting 'curvy derby'.
nosyIT · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lifted my feet off the floor of the car whenever we passed telephone poles, fantasizing leaping over them like a super hero.
I live in the Midwest. In elementary school we played a sort of spin on king of the hill. We had to protect our “ice fortresses” (actually just big mounds of ice and snow). We were brutal. Knocking kids off, throwing around ice chunks, tackling people. And that stuff was rock solid, thinking back on it now it could have gone horribly wrong. The teachers put an end to it pretty quickly. We weren’t allowed to play on the ice/snow mounds after that.
Basically you roll a pair of socks into a ball, and then you chase people around the house trying to hit them with the socks. If you get them, then they’re it and they have to try and get someone else.
My sister and I had a game called “Poisonlips.” One of us would be Poisonlips and had to try and kiss the other one on the lips. Then the person who was kissed would become Poisonlips. It was basically tag but with kissing.
Normal playground tag except you couldn't touch the ground and had to climb around on the sprawling, connected playground equipment. If you made it back to where Shredder [who was "it"] first started you earned a Turtle Blimp and could run across the ground once. Good times.
Made up a game called sub wars. Each team is designated one “sub” and the other players are “torpedoes”. If a torpedo tags the enemy sub, the torpedos team wins. If a torpedo tags a torpedo, you both explode and have to return to your own sub to be tagged back in, or we called it refueling.
My brother and I would put on a pair of ankle socks, then long socks, then low cut socks. We would wrestle, but we could only use our forearms and hands on the sock. The whole point was just to get the socks off. I think it evolved from the Indian leg wrestling you do in boy scouts
I'd kneel down in a doorway and bounce one of those high bounce balls against the opposite wall and then be a goalie and try to stop the ball from going through the door.
I was an only child and lived in the middle of nowhere...
Probably late to the party but in middle school (6 to 8th grade) we played a game called elbow ball. During breaks in our spanish class we took the ball out of the mouse and gathered around a round table with our hands together and elbows out. We would hit the ball and people and try to get it passed them. Last man standing won.
You're in the car running from dinosaurs. The cars behind you are different types. Smaller ones are fast and bitey, bigger ones are the t-rexes, mini vans were herbivores. It was super fun.
My brother and I grew up in a cul-de-sac with 8 other boys. Our next-door neighbors, a family with 3 of the boys, had a hammock with its own stand, so you could move it around the yard. We played a game on it called "River Rapids."
As many of us as possible would pile onto the hammock, and then the older boys would start shaking and tipping the hammock, like we were boating down a rough river. We'd do our best to enmesh ourselves to the hammock, or to each other if need be, but the combined weight of us all would eventually get the side-to-side swinging momentum out of control and the hammock bed would eventually swing perpendicular (or further) to the ground, and we'd all fall off.
Everybody gets smushed when a pile of children falls to the ground. You just hoped you weren't the first to fall off, especially as a younger kid. I distinctly remember being fully smashed by a kid 5 years my senior falling shoulder-first into my chest. I also remember the sound a child's head makes (including my own) when it connects with the metal bar directly below. That's usually when the game would end for the day. surprisingly no concussions or broken bones ever resulted from our glorious tom-foolery.
My whole neighborhood would get into a game called "Manhunt". We would wait until it got dark and basically play hide and seek but everybody but one person seeking, with tag at the end. instead of touching the person you had to get the person down and hold them there until they gave up. It was a blast, many injuries were had and names were called, but we always played for a few years.
Trampoline Dodgeball. We'd have two people on the ol' backyard trampoline and two people on the ground. The people on the ground have a couple soft, plush balls and run around the trampoline throwing the balls at the people on trampoline as the people on the trampoline do their best to jump/flip/dive to avoid the balls. When you hit someone with a ball you switch places. It was a blast.
This isn’t mine but my girlfriend played foxes. In foxes you waited for it to snow and you walked out specific paths and made circles in the snow that were “safe zones”. One of her siblings would be the fox and you all had to stay in the pre-chosen paths and try to not get caught and become the Fox.
My family and I played a kind of reverse hide and seek. One person would hide and then everyone else would leave a bedroom that was designated the safe room. If you found the person hiding you would shout a pass phrase something like “Peanut Butter!” and then you had to run back to the bedroom and touch the bed without being tagged by the person hiding, if you were tagged you hid next.
i "invented" one: we set/draw an small square space on the ground and then everyone, but one person remains inside that space. Everyone inside the space is safe, but has to leave it one by one, and run at least 100m then come back. The person on the outside has to catch that person, that was inside the space, when they leave to run.
If the "catcher" grabs you, you are the new "catcher". If not the "catcher" try to catch the next person.
Whenever my family did long car drives, (like the time we moved two states over) I was in charge of keeping my kid sister from fussing. One trip I was totally out of ideas, so I started saying every single word i could think of starting with the letter “A”. Then B, and C, etc. The game was to get every word possible, and the person who gets more wins. The weird thing was, it was actually fun. My parents chimed in too, and my little sister was completely occupied trying to “out-word” me. By the time we got to our new house a few days later, we were doing the letter “r.”
In one house we had a huge shower that one u lucky participant would go into with blankets and pillows. The other players would then throw bouncy balls at the walls really hard to create a death room.
M3tri · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, my family used to camp at a campgrounds every weekend throughout the summer. Right beside the campgrounds was a radio tower. Whenever my dad and I were going to the campgrounds we would watch for the tower to come up over the hill. Whoever said "I see the tower!" first won!
We played "No Touchy." The idea was that, if you touched the other person, even accidentally, you lost. So you'd get lots of stopping abruptly in front of people while walking, standing directly outside car doors, etc.
This evolved into Super No Touchy, the goal of which was to be the first person to touch the bottom of the other person's foot. Not sure where the name came from, but this one was mostly just waiting for the other person to forget you were playing and tagging them while they were asleep on the couch.
I wood play a twisted game of snowball fights, but there were no rules so we would throw them with rocks/ice in them,shove ice down our backs and usually we would stop when someone got hurt.
Tryly · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play a game called spies/secret agents. We all go into a room and set up our 2 iPods to film from a certain angle. Then, who ever was sitting out has to try to get from one side of the room to the other without getting seen in the cameras. Really fun game that we made up .
The bike game. Essentially it was tag(or tig as we called it) but with two teams, one riding bikes are the runners, the others on foot are the chasers. So when someone on foot managed to tag someone on a bike the tagger would get the bike, get a 20 seconds headstart and then would become a runner and the person that wa tagged becomes a chaser.
We played it around a one area that was large enough to make it challenging but small enough so that it wasn’t impossible.
Every single day after school, it was the most fun man.
Me and my siblings would walk down our street pretending to wear stripper heels, holding empty bindles and shout at oncoming cars whether or not they wanted chicken noodle soup. At that point, (since it was New York and drivers there don’t give a damn what’s in front of them) we would just run away before they hit us.
We only played in the middle of the night, so in retrospect it was pretty dangerous lol
Tl;dr “high-heeled hooker chicken”
Another fun one was “Sacrifice,” where we left our stuffed animals in the street to get run over. R.I.P. to all my beanie babies.
"PIGS". I think it's a popular British game, but not sure. Anyways, we would find a wall, and kick a football against the wall. You had one touch to get it to touch the wall, and then it was the next person's turn. It keeps going around until someone kicks the ball twice or fails to get the ball to hit the wall. If you failed you would get a letter, e.g: P, and when you got 4 letters (PIGS) you would lose. Punishment was getting "Redassed", Loser had to bend over facing the wall, and everyone who played would get one chance to shoot the ball at their ass. Fun times.
DennRN · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but we had a really fun game called pirate ship.
Setup:
Go to a park with a sand box and a wide metal slide (usually built on the side of what’s supposed to be a ship).
Player 1 = Captain (defender)
All other players = Pirates (attackers)
The captain takes a single handful of sand from the sandbox in a cupped hand and tries to get as much of it as to the top of the slide as he/she can.
Game play:
Once the captain is at the top of the slide, the pirates try to board the ship by running up the slide.
The captain rations the sand to the best of his/her ability while trying to keep a trickle flowing down the slide to make it impossible to get enough traction for the pirates to get up the slide.
The first pirate to successfully board the ship is crowned the new captain and a new round starts.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game for my siblings called around the world. Basically, they went around cleaning the different rooms of the house and I’d say we’re going to a different country for each room. I’m not sure how cleaning for into the country, but my parents were very happy to come back to a clean house 😂.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played base-hand-kick-ball. There were five bases including the corner of a wall sticking out, the lamp, the Corner of a couch, and a newspaper for home plate. This was played in out very small living room with a yellow rubber ball from Walmart, and we swung our arms as bats. We used to play for hours and hours, and we ruined every window blind in the room. There were so many different little rules we made, but we also knew all of them at the time. Too many to remember but it was basically a combination of baseball, handball, and kickball. Great memories!
Jewel Thief: We had a motion detector that in our house that shined in three colors depending on the motion it detected: green, yellow, and red. My dad would place a football at the top of the stairs. What we had to do was make it up the stairs snag the football and make it back without making the motion detector turn red. If it turned red, you were out and the next person went. The person who could touch the football to home base first wins. Home base was just a random piece of furniture my dad would pick depending on how hard we wanted to make it.
My brothers and I would play a game on road trips that entailed the artist drawing one of the other two without looking at the paper. They couldn't close their eyes, because they had to see the face of the person they were drawing, but they had to shield their own drawing from view. The results were always pretty funny. At least to us kids.
My sister and I would act out the fight scenes from Buffy. We had the Buffy/Faith fight down pretty well. I always made her be Faith so I could “stab” her in the stomach.
My cousin lived in a literal mansion so all of the kids would come over for family events and play hide and seek. An unoriginal game but the size of the house and all the secret doors made it interesting.
When I was on road trips I would put my headphones on and imagine myself on a horse or motorcycle next to the car. So the horse would be running along the road in the grass and through the trees. I tried to be as realistic as possible reacting to bridges, etc.
Flashlight tag. During the summers at night my brothers and I would play with other neighborhood kids. You would hide around the couple houses that we lived in and someone was "it" and tagged someone by flashing their light on you
I used to live in a city with one singular tall building that you could see from miles away. When driving home from out of town, the first person to spot it and shout the tower's name won.
My mum nearly crashed one when my dad, brother and I all yelled it at the same time
"Whac a frisbee" cue all of us little kids finding a stick or a broom or anything long to play deffense or offense. Now the object of the game is to throw the frisbee across the street (suburban neighborhood not too much car traffic) and land said frisbee into the neighbors yard. One team would try and hit the frisbee out of the air. Teams would then have to throw from where the frisbee landef. Games stopped when the neighbor noticed us tearing up his lawn.
Butt Boompers.
Brother and I would stand heel to heel, back to back and try to get the other off balance. You'd thrust your butt backwards as hard as you could.
I quickly gained advantage as I grew to be a fatass.
My mom and I would play the "U Haul" game any time we drove in a car together. Whoever spotted the U Haul first won, but it had to be on the weekend. However, as time went on, our definition of "weekend" became looser and looser 😂 Also, we added in rules like if we were at the "airport intersection" and saw a plane flying above within the markers, we won too.
My sister and I would lay on our backs with our legs bent and the soles of our feet together, and would then have to wrestle the others feet to the ground to win, we called it 'foot wars'.
Stunts 4D driving simulator, a DOS-based racing game with horrible graphics that let you create your own tracks. I would spend complete days making those tracks. The game fit in a 1.44mb diskette. The music is forever stuck in my brain.
Basically me and my sister would cover the windows in our room and turn off the lights. One would hide the other would have a scarf over their eyes and try to find the one hiding.
It's very fun and we brought it to school and did it during pe. we took out a lot of pe stuff where you can hide and Once it's all done we turn off the lights, cover the windows and the game starts. whoever gets caught becomes teammate with the one who's it. So In the end there's one person hiding from everyone else. Super fun game and it was fun finding new hiding spots everyone was so creative.
I played colour tag in elementary school. If you were “it” you could not touch the ground or the platforms of the playground. If you were “not it” you couldn’t touch the ground. It was really fun and it got really competitive.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a slumber party game called “Tractors” and whoever yelled it first at bedtime rolled over onto the other people.
Synyzy · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
First one to shout "Tractor!" whenever you saw a tractor won.
Padiddle, a.k.a. Sex Points. When driving, if you spot a car with a headlight out, you slap the roof of the car and call "Padiddle." Whoever gets the most points wins. During teenage years, the game morphed to Sex-Points, which was basically Strip Padiddle.
The person that was the “seeker” had to be blindfolded and everyone would hide around a room in the dark. When “the seeker” finally found a “hider” they had to guess who that person was by name without taking off their blindfold. If they got it right the “hider” would become the new “seeker” but if they guessed incorrectly, the game would continue for additional rounds until the “seeker” guessed correctly and a “hider” would become the new “seeker”.
Also we’d make the room pitch black so there was no chance of cheating.
I’d play this game with my cousins at Thanksgiving as a child and we absolutely loved it. It was our very own creation and we’re still proud of it all these years later.
dwc29 · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids my brother and played "surf board" whenever we were in a pool. one goes down and "lies" on their stomach at the bottom of a shallow pool and the other "surfs" on their back while the "surfboard" tries to shake the "surfer" off... lol
Me and my siblings use to play "hide and seek in the dark" which consisted of us playing hide and seek outside our apartments late at night and when the seeker would tag someone they'd become a zombie and would have to help find the remaining people .
“Haunted House”, I was always the “narrator”/ghosts of the place. My cousins would “inherit” a house, which was just our backyard, and we would play as them moving and living in the house. I lived in a place where our parents put their cars inside the backyard. So the cars were the “walls” of the mansion. I would narrate, or direct actually, what would happen, and my cousins would react accordingly. Like hearing a voice or seeing someone walking down the “hallways” and they would act surprised. It was fun and always our go to game. Especially since we were really into horror movies.
I remember the first year of high school they took away the football and anything we wanted to play with during recess because kids were getting injured. Eventually I found a plank about 2 feet long and 2 inches wide. I started throwing it in the air and trying to catch it. A couple of friends and more people started to try it. We spent the entire time throwing a stick in the air. Good times. They eventually got after us and took our stick away. He never had a chance.
Obant · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had two. "Up-up" and "Trippers & Strippers"
Trippers was brutal. we usually played during the fall when you could load up on an extra sweater for padding. A friend had a corner lot with a thin side yard. Each end was a goal. One team would have to run a ball to the other side, while the other did anything they could to bring him down, including full tackles, leg kicks, ect. If the running team scored, the other team would have to remove an article of clothing. Usually a shoe, sock, or sweater. It wasn't a smart game... it usually ended when someone got hurt.
The other, Up-up, was played with a ball. Anything from a dodge ball to a hacky sack. Everyone would stand in a circle, someone would throw the ball as high as they could, call out someone's name, and everyone else would have to scatter. If the name person caught the ball, they could throw it up and call someone else's name. If the named person dropped the ball, theyd have to retrieve it and yell freeze soon as they had it. Everyone else would have to stop moving completely, then the ball holder would have to try and hit them. If they did, that person got a strike, and everyone would unfreeze and get into a circle again. If they missed, the thrower would get the strike. Three and you're out until, last one in is the winner.
Me and my brothers and sisters played stick wars we would find sticks about 3 feet long and maybe a inch or so thick couldn’t be to big and We would whack a tree with the last 6 or so inches of the stick with some practice you could get it to break of and go spinning at a really high rate of speed we would aim at each other and it would usually end when someone got hurt
Curb-ball: we lived on a set of row houses with curbs on both sides of the street. During the day, in the summer, no cars were around and we'd bounce a tennis ball off the curb, and the other person would be the fielder. We'd have set lines, like past the defender hitting the other curb was a single, over the curb but before the sidewalk was a double, over the hedge line was a home run etc... We tired ourselves out throwing a tennis ball at the curb when we couldn't get actual games going. Best two player game ever.
While we didn’t play it that often, myself and one to two other friends played a game we called “sit-ball”.
Basically, the object of the game was to get a playground ball into a goal guarded by another player, all while sitting or basically doing a slav squat. There were “lives”, or hitpoints I guess you could call them, that we had and if they hit zero you would lose. There were some other rules and procedures but that’s the gist of it. Hope you find it as interesting as we did lol
Not so much when I was young but right about the time I got my driver's license my friends and I started playing the "Volvo" game, which another friend of mine had invented but we added some rules and made it our own.
Basically the premise was when you saw a Volvo you would shout "Volvo" and get a point. If you mistakenly called Volvo on something else you lost a point. However there were a bunch of random rules too, like Volvo semi trucks are worth 2 points and Volvo construction equipment was 3. Orange Honda Elements were good for a point or 3 points if you were in a state's capital city.
Our friend Ryland's Mom had a Volvo with the vanity plate "DR ANNI". So if you saw her puttering around town you had to yell "DOCTOR ANNIE" at the top of your lungs out the window at her and you would automatically win. She got yelled at a lot. One time our friend Stephen was working in a dealership garage and she came in for an oil change so he snapped a pic of himself changing the oil in the Dr. Anni Volvo and was considered a local hero.
The game phased itself out. There don't seem to be as many Volvos on the road anymore and the new ones don't stand it cause they aren't boxy.
The game was played on a trampoline. One person was the pilot, and the other three people were “toys” being transported abroad. The people who played the toys had to lie down in the middle of the trampoline, shoulder to shoulder, and not make a single movement or sound. The “pilot” would pretend to fly the plane at the side of the trampoline, and would have his back turned on the toys. If the pilot felt any movement from the toys (it’s very easy to make a trampoline move) or heard a giggle or sigh, he/she was then allowed to kick and hit the toys (hard) until they stopped moving or laughing or screaming.
It was actually quite funny for us back then because the pilot was usually one of the brother/sister duos and would always pick on their sibling the most. It got pretty abusive lol.
In hindsight, this game is absolutely terrible. But for some reason we thought it was sooo funny.
Put a whole bunch of rocks on a trampoline and jumped as hard as we could. The winner got hit by the least rocks. It's also a convenient way to destroy a lawnmower in the future.
No real name for it but when on a car journey with my friends as a late teenager we used to shout "jogger, 10 points" when we saw someone out jogging. Never kept scores or anything but it was just fun to see other people's faces drop when they missed out on the 10 meaningless points.
Like a reverse hide and seek where the goal is to ambush the people looking for you. By basically jumping behind them and shouting ambush at them.
Also the "dinosaur game".
A pool game where one person was a dinosaur and had to chase and tag everyone else.
The twist is the game was divided into two timed phases. During the day the dinosaur could just freely chase everyone but at night, he could only "see you" if you made noises. Which basically meant the dinosaur kid had to go around and try to make people laugh by making silly faces and or actions so he could see them and catch them.
"Joshia's dragons" we'd each have our own elemental power and use it to fight either each other or whatever imaginary enemy we could come up with, typically dragons. Man I miss being 8...
“Brumble”. Imagine a baseball, dodgeball hybrid played with a broom. There were only two bases and the pitcher had to remain sitting at all times. Each time you ran between the bases was worth 1 point. You got to keep running between bases until you got pegged with the ball (which was actually a kickball).
Also, Bouncy Ball Mayhem. Basically my friends and I would ride around on our bikes in a cul-de-sac and pass a bouncy ball but you can’t get off your bike or stop. And we did everything to stay by those rules which resulted in several crashes but also some very memorable moments.
on car rides we would play "the alphabet game". during long car rides you had to try to find each letter of the alphabet in order somewhere outside the car (meaning bringing books didn't count). so we were always on the lookout for signs or license plates with different letters.
Q was the hardest to find but there was a town with a q in it's name about 2/3 of the way to my grandmas house. so it quickly grew into try to be up to Q by the time we hit there.
My sister and I played "return to antartica" (there was never an original "going to Antarctica" either). Essentially we pretended to be orphans trapped in Antarctica. We sat on my bed all day and the good sea wench (our mom) would bring us what we called "fish grenades" which was actually just uncooked oatmeal in an old coffee can. We made her bring us that to eat. We played this game often
Our neighbors had a nice wooden swing-set in their back yard. It had a couple swings with monkey bars above them, a climbing tower on one side, and a rope swing on the other.
It was basically just a "lava" game, but the premise was that the swing set was a giants' hairy butt crack, and the ground was the toilet water. We were all "cling-ons," pieces of poop clinging to the hairs" and we did our best to move from butt-hair to butt-hair, while also trying to forcefully remove other people from the butt, kicking or shoving them off the butt and into the toilet water (wood-chip-covered ground) below.
This will probably won't be noticed by many, nor is it quite in the spirit of the question. But I got to play a cancelled PS1 game called Thrill Kill, 4 player death match game with excessive violence. Hugely controversial at the time. So much so that it was never released, but I got a bootleg copy of it.
It was mediocre by current standards, but the novelty of playing an ultra violent unreleased game wasn't lost on young me.
Not me but a few Republican kids I went to school with. They’d guess how much black people would sell for on the open market (in slavery times). Some were built for labor so their value increased while others were suitable to lay with (women). It was so Republican lol
My brothers and I had an ongoing "game" that wasn't actually fun at all and was taken super seriously for no reason. The first person dressed and ready to go in the morning got the front seat in the minivan for the 4 minute ride to school, and I had to "win" everyday or I was pretty much plotting the systematic destruction of my brothers' lives. So I used to SLEEP in my school uniform and said I'd brushed my hair and teeth when I hadn't, to ensure my continued victory. I would subsequently endure tireless bullying about my unkempt appearance and terrible hygiene at school... But somehow that 4 minute ride of glory was totally worth all the tears and low self esteem. It was initially more of an incentive my mom put into action to get us going in the morning, but it also extended to after school daily as well, and the three of us siblings had a contest to see who could call out the name of our neighborhood first, upon the entrance sign coming into view... Then once we pulled into the driveway, we raced to see who could touch the front door first. This meant all of our seat belts were clicking off two houses before ours, and the van doors were rolling open before the car was even stopped. It's understandable that we were this competitive though because if we won, the prize was literally nothing.
Whippee. In elementary school, we had a bucket full of chalk, jump ropes, basketballs, and other recess stuff. Whoever wanted to play lined up at the door after lunch, and when they let us into the courtyard we all raced to the bucket. Whoever secured the longest jump rope with the most beads still attached was the whipper, everyone else playing was a whippee. The whipper chased the whippees with the jump rope, pretty simple. If the whippee could snatch the rope mid-whip and yank it from the whippers hands, they would be the new whipper. I guess winning would mean being the whipper for the entire recess period.
Tagaroo. All the kids in the neighborhood would come over to our house that had a huge yard. We would take all of the kick balls, footballs, soccer balls etc and throw them all over the yard. My dad would then try and peg all of us kids as we ran around the yard and hiding behind trees and other things. If you got hit you went to jail and could be tagged out to be freed by another person. Game ended when dad had beamed every kid an no one was free.
Mu99az · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Socks
Get a football sock each and pack it full of other socks at the end. That’s your weapon. Pull the blackout blinds so it’s pitch black and start swinging at each other. Sometimes added a strobe light
On the mulch covered ground of the playground of year 4-6, (3rd to 5th grade) my friends and I played "Knights and Horses". It was simple, yet brutal. People got in pairs of 2. One of them (the "Knight") would climb on the other person's (the "Horse") back like they were getting a piggyback ride. Each pair of knight and horse would run around and attempt to knock the knight off the horse in any way possible. It got really violent. I think this one kid broke his arm doing it and the teachers tried to ban the game.
We called it "Rodney King". Some of us were Rodney's,some of us were cops. The cops would Chace the Rodney's around, then we'd beat the shit out of eachother! Played it everyday for like a year! P.s. I'm from a small town in Canada! Lol!!
Bit late so probably get buried but me and my friends used to come up with lots of "make-believe" games that would expand and turn into an epic series with plot twists and cliff hangers. My favourite was probably this game me and my friend played where we were talking dogs living in this world run by talking animals. I was a male dog called Dodger who was really clumsy and stupid and always getting into trouble and I lived next door to a female dog (played by my friend) called Candy. Dodger was in love with Candy but was always making a full of himself infront of her so it never worked out. It really does sound like such a stupid pretense but we got so much mileage out of this game with reoccurring extra characters played by us (like Dodgers shy younger brother who started dating Candy much to Dodgers annoyance and was subsequently killed off because of this) and had special "episodes" where Dodger and Candy would go on holiday to these exotic countries and meet other animals they'd never come across before. I loved it. Best memor of my childhood.
My sister and I played a game we called “Push and Pull Back” where it was literally one of us pushing the other (playfully) to see how close they could get to the wall without hitting, then we’d pull back at the last second.
We were playing near the corner of a wall, and it was my sister pushing me. One of my earliest memories was being pushed towards the wall, passing out, and waking up in the hospital after receiving stitches. I have no idea how much time passed, but I can still point out the stitch wound on my forehead today. And that was definitely the last time we played that game.
Me and a bunch of my buddies used to play a "game" where we all stood in a circle and one of us would shoot a an arrow (bow wasnt that powerful ~30lb draw weight IRRC) straight up in the air. If you stayed still you won, bail and you lose your dignity.
This was "typically" "not" done right next to our homes...
We played sardines. One kid hides and everyone tries to find them. When you came by the hidden person. You hide with them. The last person to find the group is the next one “it”. Always a challenge to find the hidden person but not let on you know so you can slip away and join them.
A little late to the conversation, but my older sister and I had two fun games. One was “Kim possible” where we’d both have to go on missions and battle different bad guys. We played it on the trampoline. One person at a time. One of us would have to jump in the center circle that was drawn on the trampoline. This meant you’d teleported to a new level. The other person had to gather various objects from inside the house like teddy bears and plastic bowls and such. You’d have to jump and bounce the object then punch it out of the trampoline to defeat it. But you couldn’t touch it with any other part of your body other than your fist or you’d be defeated. The final boss was the other sister who would come out and fight you. Basically until someone was too exhausted from jumping.
Our other game was much more arbitrary. We had a deck of cards with dogs on them. We called the game “K9 yes” and we had to each present a card and then both decide which was cuter. The winner got to tally the corresponding number to their score. It was awesome when you had a cute dog with a high number. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game we called "magic fencing". In which we would battle it out with imaginary medieval style weapons e.g. Bows, swords, shields. There would be teams and each team would start the other side of the playground. There would be no go zones called "lava" that people would have jump across. At one point we had two massive teams. From the teachers eyes they saw 2 teams of 30 children run screaming at each other having some medieval battle whilst making the sound effects and screaming "heal me!", or "avoid the lava".... Fuck it was fun
Myself and my two best friends were at the top of our class when we were around 10 years old, we got our work done faster than most kids, and our teacher would mark and then let us go out for lunch early. So we'd have about 10-15 minutes more than other kids usually.
We started a game called "Spies" where you had to run to the end of the school field, we'd meet in our 'secret' tree base, and we'd choose our Pokemon for the mission. Our mission was usually to spy on things in the playground and report back at the end of lunch. Didn't really have any specific objectives mind you.
Until we watched this video series in class, I remember some of it pretty clearly but I don't remember what it was called. I think it was a BBC-produced series? A mix of real people and CGI/puppet creatures was involved, and basically the world was falling apart or slowly dying. There was a dragon who'd tell the kids what to do, and each week we'd include the mission into our lunch missions.
Then one day we noticed the trees in the forest were 'bleeding', and we started to think the world was actually dying. Each lunch for a few months we'd scrape sap off of trees and do 'experiments' to work out what it was. We spent way more time out of school together, our parents would always ask what we were up to and the response would be "Saving the world". They laughed it off but we continued on.
One day though, we came back and the sap was no longer there. We believed we saved the world.
The year after we were in different classes, and the year after we were at different schools. We don't speak anymore, but there's no adventure quite like saving the world with your friends!
I mention this on here a lot for some reason. "Salad" Super violent game.
You play with a soda bottle half filled with water acting as a makeshift soccer ball. There are no teams, every man for themselves. The aim is to kick the bottle through anyone else's legs when both feet are touching the ground. When that happens everyone that was playing jumps in and starts wailing on the person until they reach a goal that was designated beforehand, like a door or backpack on one side of the field. The faster they make it the less they get beat up.
Some people would purposely trip someone so everyone would get more punches in.
Saw a guy get jump kicked right in the chest straight into a door once. Just started spectating intead of playing every day after seeing that.
Needle Rabies. The whole first grade class played. At first, only one person would have the Needle Rabies, like the person who's "it" in a game of tag. They'd tag someone. That person would then have the Needle Rabies and there would be two people tagging. They'd tag and tag until the entire class had the Needle Rabies. Then we'd all be dead and the game would be over.
One player would stand at the top of the stairs, and another at the bottom. Our stairs had a ceiling, and a wall at the top, so the lower person scored by bouncing a racquetball off the back wall, and back down the stairs, and the upper person gained points by stopping it.
We had pictures going down that stairway... they died bravely
foxi44 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I got to high school and my family was on the way to go camping I made up a game that every time we went over a cattle guard someone shouted "cattle guard" then everyone had to find a screw, touch it with a finger, then lift their feet off the floor until we passed over the guard. I have no idea how I came up with this, but some of us still play this as adults.
Not sure how unique but water sumo wrestling. Try to get the other person to touch their feet on the deep side of the pool or make them tap out by literally drowning them. No holds barred and no rules. My best friend and I nearly killed each other countless times.
k3lpi3 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called heat leeches with friends. For context, my country is very cold in the winter and we were woefully underdressed, so the coldest and least dressed of us would chase each other round to hug them and "leech their heat" to keep themselves warm for a while. It probably saved us from hypothermia not by stealing heat but by running from the leech.
We played, "Tenni Ball". It is basically street golf.
We all lived in the same neighborhood/elementary school area. A lot of my friends grew up playing golf so it was only a matter of time until it evolved into something like this. Everyone would have a tennis racket and a tennis ball. We started play from one of our house's front yard. The goal/pin/hole would be one of those blue postal mailbox drop off boxes that you can find on random streets. In our little neighborhood we had about 3-4 of these.
We would then smack our tennis balls down streets and over houses to try and get to the hole in the fewest shots. Some holes would be to land the ball on a specific step of a friends front stairs, etc. The average par would end up being about 8 strokes, maybe.
Amazingly, in all the summers we played this, we never broke a window or really bothered any homeowners. Really brings me back and I would love to play this again with everyone from back home.
Sticks vs rocks. One day you’re stick one day you’re rock. The object is to throw your kind at the opponent. You couldn’t wait to wake up and be rock that day.
Hide the quarter. My uncle would give me a quarter and tell me to hide it and he would try to find it. It was fun until he made me start hiding it in my pants.
So you’ll be driving through places that were blown out by dynamite for the highway to be built through it. You see dirt hills and a lot of times there would be exposed rock, we’d call them “cliffs,” but it was really just exposed rock that was blasted away. Me and my brothers would be in the backseat “claiming” these cliffs as our own. If we spotted them first we’d yell “mine!” And then that one was yours, lol. Our parents probably hated us yelling “mine mine mine” from the backseat
We used to play a version of ‘house’ but it was ‘When a Stranger Calls’ (the movie from like the mid 2000’s) and we’d act the whole movie out and take turns getting to be the one who says “the stranger is calling from inside the house. INSIDE THE HOUSE.”
Idea was if you saw a cool car or one you liked you had to say”I CALL THAT CAR” and no one else could “call it”. Basically you owned the car if you called it and no one could call it if you called it.
Nahz27 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Almost lost an eye playing our version Richie Rich's Kidapult.
Our living room in my parent's house has always been set up in a U with couches and at a time we had a fold out couch on one of the sides. We were 4 kids total.
We would unfold the couch, 3 of us would lay on our backs with our legs up as springs and the 4th would fold the couch back over forming a 📦. Then they would jump over the top, being catapulted by the human springs inside to the couch across the room.
Miscalculating that landing put an end to our game. Considering I was the oldest and supposed to be watching my 3 brothers, I told my mom I slipped on the rug when she saw the gash on the corner of my right eye. Next day the rug was gone.
Best friend and I had a card game. Lots of cards in the deck (it wasn't a standard deck, I dont recall exactly what it was... I suspect one could make a standard deck work too as long as you have 4 of each kind.)
Both of us would have half the deck, in our hands, face down.
Start putting down cards 1 by 1, until a match occurs. Then it was a race. Use the card in your hand to cover the match (both). See if there's a new match. Cover that match. (If both of you are going for the same match, the one on bottom wins, the other pulls back his/her card for the next try.)
Whoever runs out of cards first, wins.
It was good plain slap dash chaos fun, but it ruins the cards (which is probably why we didn't use a regular deck) since collisions inevitably occurred.
Ps: yes, the honor system is involved as there's really no time to verify your opponent's actions. I never cheated.
CARS. Omg cars was the best
Rules are simple
UK rules BTW
Mini Cooper +1
Single bus +1
Double decker +2
Firetrucks or ambulances +5
Motorbikes +1
Yellow cars (yellow is my favourite color) +1
Any Lambo Ferrari Porsche (Sports cars in general) +10
2 categories - add both of them up and double the point total. (Firetrucks and Ambulances are excluded from this.)
My brother and I would have a notepad and pen to tally up and because we sat net to each other in the back of the car we always keep check.
Sometimes my dad would drive us round to a mink cooper dealership and goodness we were allowed max 20 points
At the end of the journey most points win.
Game didn't have a name, but it was basically hide and seek. The hiders would each have some sort of melee weapon, a toy machete for example. The seeker would have a nerf gun that was generally loaded with the same amount of darts as the hiders (In larger groups the seeker would be given extra darts in a larger magazine, or a side arm to overcome zerg tactics). The seeker's job was to shoot ever hider. The hider's jobs were to hit the seeker.
“Nicotine” — I grew up being completely anti-smoking because school told me so, so when I was eight, and I saw my neighbour smoking, I would get in my bike and ride past him singing the nicotine song, and would only leave when he started throwing shit at me.
"Spider". I usually played it in living room or hall. I took a spool of strings and tied pieces of furniture together to create a spider's web that spanned across the whole room. When my web was finished I sat underneath and tried to catch family members that got to close.
We played a game directly translated to Belty (riempje in dutch)
So it worked like this:
Everybody in the neighborhood got together at the playground. One person hid the belt in my street. As soon as someone has found the belt, they can hit anyone as hard as they can with the belt while they run until they’re back at the safe spot (the playground).
Not even making this shit up, I was about 9 years old, and there were kids between 8 and 17 years old playing this game all together, sometimes even the older guys played with us.
It was kind of a painful game, but what else are you supposed to play as a little boy? 😫
My brother and I made a war game, we had a name but it’s been long forgotten. Basically, I had a few hundred plastic army soldiers (green, purple, tan, barf green) and his carpet had a pattern of small squares over the entire thing. There were different classes as shown by the way the army guy was standing or the weapons he was holding. Snipers, scouts, captains, and foot soldiers. We later added artillery into the game when we agreed on how it would work, basically longer range snipers. Each class has a movement stat, and range stat, later we added dice to the game for a chance to miss the target, snipers had the least chance to miss. You had a certain number of soldiers you could move per turn. Captains had no weapons, they were just objective pieces to capture. You won by complete elimination or capturing the enemy captain(s). We played this for many years, had printed rules in a laminated binder and everything, even got my friends to play it with us.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s in rural Minnesota. We lived like way-the-fuck-out in the country. Nearest neighbor a mile away. We made up lots of games, but one of the stupidest but most fun games was The Water Game. Usually it was me, my two younger bros, a few of our cousins and my best friend. We lived in a big rambler with a finished basement. The game would start in the basement kitchen because it was the furthest place from the front door on the main floor. Each of us would fill our mouths with cold water, and then with small intervals of time between kids, we’d each make our way silently thru the lower level of the house, up the staircase, thru the main level of the house and then out the front door. No running allowed. The goal was to be the kid who didn’t spit his or her mouthful of water out until they made it out the front door and to our sidewalk. The best strategy was to be the first or second kid to fill his or her mouth, then very stealthily hide somewhere to silently surprise the other kids with a huge but obviously silent scare so they’d spit their entire mouthful of water out in the house somewhere. You couldn’t tickle your opponents, but somehow causing them to laugh and spit could be achieved however. My standard techniques were short comedy routines such as:
The T-Rex jump scare
The Pepé Le Pew boing boing boing up the stairs
The Steve Martin in The Jerk “finding the rhythm” dance
The ET phone home scene
Schroeder’s dance moves from the Charlie Brown Christmas special
When we first made the game up, we’d used Koolaid but later switched it to plain old water because stickiness. I assumed my mom had no idea what we were doing because she was always out in the garden. Turns out she knew, but was thankful we weren’t bugging her or beating the crap out of each other per usual. I’m the oldest; the only girl.
My mum used to hide around the house with a wet flannel. My brother and I would run around the house in excitement waiting for her to pop out and hit us round the head with a wet flannel.
wouldy · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's an Ethiopian card game called "Injera" I learned when I was younger. You take a full deck of playing cards and spread them in a big circle. Then you put 4 cards in the center and each player takes a turn pulling from the circle of cards. You draw a card and match it with one of the cards in the center. They can be an exact match or the product of addition or subtraction. If there's no match the player puts their card in the center. If you get a match you keep drawing cards. You can also steal from the top of your opponents stash if you have the same card. The the most cards at the end wins!
In grade 7 at a camp,the dorms had long narrow halways with a bunch of rooms on the left and right of the hallway. The hallways were around 5 feet wide. A bunch of people (myself included) made a game called murslugs(idk what we were thinking) it invloved two teams were a group of 6 people were in sleeping bags and the other were a group of runners (idk like 8-9 people) who were trying to reach the other end of the hallway without getting tackled, no one could agree what was considered tackled s what ended up happening was people in sleeping bags would comletely grand slam people into the ground then hop ontop of them. Fun times...
I went to a small private school for 7th & 8th grade, and once a year at the annual reunion/get-together/meeting we'd play a game called Barn Door. People were broken up into teams of 4-5 people. The captain of each team had a flashlight, and the director of the school had one of those mega-flashlights/spotlights. They'd hang a metal garbage can lid from a big pine tree that stood in the middle of the lawn. Each team had a designated starting location, and the director stayed near the tree. At dusk we'd go out to our location and wait for the school bell to start the game.
The object was to sneak back and hit the barn door without getting caught. You were caught if another captain or the director of the school shone the flashlight on you AND called out your name. Once you hit the barn door you'd yell out "BARN DOOR", and then go in and have cider & donuts. Team that got the most barn doors won.
"Scare me or not". It was like hide and go seek except the object of the game was to scare the seeker. The seeker then got to choose who scared them best and then that person would become the seeker.
I'm not sure if its unique or not, but my siblings and our cousins used to play a game called crayons where there would be a tagger in the middle and everyone else was runners. Before the game started we the runners would decide who got what color or alternatively multiple people could be a color. Once when the target said your color you ran to the other side and if you got tagged you would help the tagger.
I'm not sure how unique this is, but my siblings and I played Easter Egg Hunt all year round. We would take the empty plastic Easter eggs and take turns hiding them for each other. We thought it was so fun, it didn't matter that they were empty!
My dad and I used to play the License Plate game on road trips. You couldn't call plates from the state you were in unless you had first called an out-of-state plate.
Douche cone. Basically you’re in the forest with your friends (for whatever reason- we were hiking when we made this up) and you wear your hat backwards (to look like a douche lmao), find a Pinecone, and throw it AS HARD AS YOU CAN at the other person. There is no winning to douchecone.
We would take a marker pole? It was used to mark pipes and lines and stuff. Idk the actual name of the thing but it was like a red/orange wood pole that we would swing into the air and try to stick in the ground. You'd be judged on how it stuck in the ground on a scale of 0-10. 0 being no stick at all and 10 being straight up. It would be like the first to 50 or something.
We had a game called “battle of the tsunamis” where we would ride on waves(or rip sticks, whichever brand you had) and would try to hit the other off of their wave. It got to the point where we would eventually use the hose or broom stick and either throw them in front of the other’s wheel or at the back of their board to try to get them down lol
My mom had this game as a kid with her siblings. They'd catch a bunch of bees in a matchbox and then close the whole house up when their parents were at work, open the box and run away from the bees. Not sure how anyone "won" that game...
My friend and I would play the shin game on the bus ride home. Basically we would try and crush each other's shins into the seat in front of us. You had to be sneaky to get your foot behind your opponent when they least expected. It was a very stupid and painful game.
-Kley- · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Table tag. We’d go to a park shelter where there were bunches of picnic tables and play tag where you couldn’t touch the ground. I don’t know how we made it through those games without broken bones.
Blade runner. Same park. They have swing sets with like 8 swings, side by side. Put kids swinging (violently at times) on all 8 swings and someone has to run through like a gauntlet. For some reason, it was desired to be the ‘runner’.
Shoe flinging contest. Same park, same swings. Loosen up a show while swinging and fling it forward as far as possible.
I use to play hide and seek but the catch is everything had to be off to the point where you couldn't see anything, basically having to hide from and having to find the other person blind.
I still think the game is fun, you rely on touch and sound.
My brother and I used to have a bunk bed, I was up top and he was below me. When we were too awake or just didn’t want to sleep, we’d throw stuffed animals up and down to each other, trying to hit each other or seeing who could make who laugh (since our parents room was literally directly next to ours) and sometimes they’d hit our ceiling fan or we’d get too loud and have to pretend to be asleep. Some of my best memories are in tat bunk bed.
The “Judder Man” was basically hide n seek but with a twist. You’d have to play at night and have the whole house to play with because it adds tension. The seeker would dramatically play out part of a script from https://youtu.be/1TUOPeNJCK8
Once the drama scene was over, everyone would scat to it and hide and wait and pray they were the last ones found because once you were found, the seeker or “Judderman” has free reign to beat yo ass with a stick. It was funny at the time, okay.
"The Red Ball game" This is a two for one because over the course of a few years we wound up with two different games that went by the same name. We had one of those red plastic-y inflatable balls that you find in the big cages at walmart or target (I always find it hard to describe them exactly.) This one was about two feet in diameter or maybe slightly smaller.
It was essentially free-for-all dodgeball with one ball and you had to hit the other person in the head. We played in the basement with a couch in the middle of a relatively open room. You could hit them with the ball while holding it in your hand, whack-a-mole style, or you could throw it (hard) like a dodgeball.
Eventually we bought a ping pong table that sat in the room so in order to still have a game we played ping pong with the red ball. You throw the ball at the other side and the other person has to catch it before a double bounce or before it hits the ground or walls. You pretty much just stand on opposite sides of the table whipping the ball at one another off the surface.
Haven't thought about those games in a long time :)
Well these aren’t games but some things we would do is grab this foldable table we had and slide down our stair case into a pile of pillows that we would put against the wall; we called it “Crash Course”. Another thing we used to do is take all of our sofa pillows, stack them on top of each other and just throw ourselves off, praying that the fall was perfect and the pillows would land in a domino sort of effect to cushion our fall cause if not, our asses were GONE. Finally, we used to have this spray called “DUSTRAP” and spray it across an entire section of our floor and just slide through it. When we would run out we used oil though.
😂😂😂
My siblings and cousins would play manhunt in my grandmas basement. It was pitch black and we would set up a trap for whoever was it to trip over when they got to the bottom of the stairs. The best was when they would trip over that old school riding horse with springs on it. They would yell cursing us out while the horse squeaked back and forth. Everyone would be giggling while trying to remain as silent as possible. It was great.
Also my three brothers and I would have slipper wars. We would get as many soft slippers as we could and have 2v2 battles whipping the slippers at one another from across the room.
AKRN47 · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red Bull.
One person rode on this wicked rinky dink mini bike wearing a full face red helmet trying to run over the other "players." Everyone else would throw various objects including basketballs, lacrosse sticks, and pretty much anything you could get your hands on trying to knock the "bull" over.
There really was no winners the game just ended when someone needed to go to the E.R. Or she protective services showed up.
My brother and sister and I would take turns dragging each other by our feet, face down, along our long, highly polished, hardwood hallway because if we got the speed just right our foreheads would bump ever so slightly with a fun thudding sound and feeling.
Everyone joins a group chat, some people get chosen as the hunters and the rest goes to hide. Every x minutes every person or group have to send a selfie that reveals some hint to their location, and then the hunters try to figure out where people are. Once we played it in PE, and shit was bonkers since everyone tried their hardest. A friend of mine once played it with his friends, and he laid in a ditch filled with nettles for like 40 minutes because he sent a picture of a field every time and they couldn't figure out which field it was. Meanwhile he heard hunters running by every once in a while and people screaming when the hunters caught up to them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was an apple tree in the corner of our front yard and many of it's branches hung over the road. We would climb up it and stand on the limbs. When kids rode their bikes or cars drove underneath it we'd shake the branches making apples fall on them. They were small apples so no harm was ever done. But the foliage of the tree was so thick we were easily able to hide in it, laughing.
Also, from the same house. There was an ice cream truck that often drove the neighborhood. We found endless humor in yelling at to stop then running away and hiding. We would even be inside our house and yell "STOP", and then duck below the window. I bet that driver came to hate us for wasting so much of his time.
smbeck · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played "shark" in our pool. Two of us would be on a full sized air mattress on the water and one of us would wear goggles and go under the mattress. Whoever was the shark would stay under the air mattress for a bit and then pop up and try to scare/surprise the people on the raft and knock someone into the water. If you fell in you became the shark if the shark was able to catch you, the original shark then went on the mattress.
Back in elementary school, we used to have people swinging as fast as the could on the swing set, and then the others would try and run through them without getting hit.
We'd all be in bed before sleeping, usually all piled into the biggest bed. Then my dad would give us each a letter of Zambergoonish in order and a category. So for example, someone would get "Z" and would have to name, say, 2 countries beginning with Z. If they couldn't get them, someone else would get a chance to steal the point.
You go through all the letters and make up different categories and questions for each one. Whoever has the most points, wins.
Beat down - Took our couch cushions and whatever pillows we could find and just beat each other down on the trampoline. Some of those pillows felt like they had a lot more than foam or fabric in them might've got a concussion once.
Slide home - another trampoline game where one person was it and they started in the middle while the other players had to slide to another pad at least 2 spots away from where they were while avoiding getting tagged.
Me and my brother would each lay up one end of the lounge with our heads agains the arm rest so we were locked in. Then wrestle with our feet and try to kick each other in the nuts. Not smart kids
Secret service - a team of x amount of kids had to escort the president around the neighborhood before the assassin could get him - this was right after the attempted assignation of Reagan
My group of friends in high school had a couple of weird games. Our favorite was one we would play when eating together. If someone was eating a sandwich or burger and they took a bite and then set it down without putting something on top of it (napkin, chip, French fry etc.) the first person to notice could punch your sandwich and you’d lose the game.
Another was “the game”. If you think about the game you lose the game. We’d be hanging out and then someone would say “the game” and we’d all think about it and lose lol
A game me and my friend would play in fifth grade was called Whack-A-Sack. I had this tennis ball sack in my shed that we would fill with tennis balls (usually two for the fun of it), hang it up on a tree branch in my backyard, and whack it with planks from a bench we had taken apart. We played this many a times but the last time we played was when I accidentally whacked my friend on the tooth. He was alright but it pulled the energy out of the game.
The cup of water game. Stand back to back, each with a (plastic or paper) cup of water in hand. Both throw the cup of water upwards. Last one to run and not get wet wins.
It didn't have a name. The point is to find "69" on license plates.
One of the last days of school 8th grade we were walking to some bowling place(6 kids in the class). There was a girl in the class who couldn't attend school for the last week of school, so it was her last day. Funny thing is she was known for laughing whenever someone mentioned 69. So we played the game. And one block later, we see the taxi literally labeled "69".
in kenya there's a game we played as children called "chobo ua". its a soccer game. chobo translates as "nutmeg" and "ua" means kill. so basically, if you nutmeg a guy, everyone playing is allowed to kick/hit/otherwise kill the person who has been nutmegged until he (or rarely she) touches base.
stupid game but we had fun with it. yes, plenty of fights broke out during the game...all part of the fun. basically a game teaching you how to defend in soccer...
we also had such classics as "no bendings" which meant that if you were caught bending you were allowed to get your butt kicked...literally...
"pax" which meant if you were caught not having your fingers crossed (pax..which meant pause) then you were allowed to be slapped by anyone also playing...
in our own family, we had a game where we'd try to predict the next line of any show/movie we were currently watching...and if you got it right you'd get a point. i guess you'd call the game "one point for me"...because if you got the next line correct, you'd shout "one point for me!" of which nobody knew how many points they actually had..
we also played the circle game from malcolm in the middle...not unique but fun (not really) non the less...
My brother and I played a game where one of us would sit in my moms truck and the other one would have to tag them before they closed door closed to keep from being tagged..... yeah I went to the emergency room after I sent finger got smashed.
Uhm I had one of those carpets with the roads and buildings on them. Had a friend chase and catch me to then wrap me in it, cook me, cut me and eat me. Involved chopping the carpet to chop me into smaller pieces and I believe sitting/walking over it to process me or whatever.
What I also really liked to do when I was older than the cook me me (with one friend only really because they had a house with a guest bedroom in the basement) was to do some "torture" stuff. Now that I think of it a lot of it was straight up bdsm shit. Like pegs on ears, nose, lips, nipples, hitting with a stick on the bare ass but also lying on the super cold stones with bare skin (back/stomach) with the lights turned off and touching the radiator until it hurt at which part the game started and we had to endure the pain until we either didn't feel anything anymore or couldn't hold it.
For the first game I was like 5-7 or something, I think in the younger region of that. The other one something like 8-10. I don't exactly know why I did it umi) I just remember that I enjoyed the shit out of it.
I invented a game called forks and mallows with my brother. It consisted of jumping on beds on opposites sides of the room and rapidly throwing a box of plastic forks and a bag of marshmallows back and forth. It got very intense at moments. If you stopped jumping, held for too long, or dropped the bag or box, you'd lose a point.
Equipment: Racquet or tennis ball, wall, preferably brick or concrete, with a flat hard surface in front of it.
2 or more players, ideally at least 4.
Rules: If you're holding the ball, you throw it at the wall. The other players attempt to catch the ball before it stops bouncing. If it comes to a rest, then the player of the thrower's choice gets a penalty throw (described below).
If you touch the ball but don't catch it before it hits the ground, you get a penalty throw, given by the person who does catch the ball after you touched it.
Penalty throw: When you receive a penalty throw, you must put both hands on the wall and duck your head. The thrower then throws the ball at your butt. Flinching or ducking results in another penalty throw. Missing or hitting above the shoulder blades results in the thrower receiving a penalty throw.
When I was very young, my best friend and I would duck behind and between parked cars whenever we saw or heard a car coming down our street. We would hide next to the tires, so they couldn’t see our feet, and sometimes pan around the cars to keep the driving cars on the opposite side of the vehicle.
Me and my brothers loved Zorro as a kid (we watched the originals at grandpa’s), so we made up a game where we would pretend to have whips and whip our arms at things as we drove. Whipping things gave us materials, and we would ‘craft’ items, like better whips or a gun, that had special powers, or a higher durability, or similar. In hindsight, it was interesting to watch our interests shift over time: Later on, ‘endgame’ was getting the resources to craft an Iron Man suit.
I loved creating many complicated games as a child... this one just struck me as the most unusual or unique.
I'm late to the party so this will probably get buried, but we used to do "taste test". We would mix weird shit from the fridge together and the other person would have to taste it. My sister mixed coffee creamer, Tabasco, and I think pickle juice together , that was the one that I actually swallowed and made myself throw up!
I'm seeing a lot or imaginative and fun games people must of had a blast playing. All me and my friends did back in the day was have rock fights. Yea, we took positions and whipped pebbles at each other.
"Police versus Groundhogs"
In a roadtrip, you count every groundhog/police you see and compare the number at the end to see which one wins
(I'm from Quebec, Canada)
This is a game that goes by many rules and variations but what we called it was "Catch the Cunt" (Scottish) and the way we played it was you split into 2 teams and one made up a word and the other had to chase them down and beat each letter of the word out of the running team. I received a fair few bruises and gave a fair few back, loved the game.
Blackout. Everyone gets in a room, closes the blinds, towel under the door, lights off. Whatever you can do to make it almost impossible to see.
Then, one person is 'it'. It basically freeze tag in the dark but everyone is trying to turn the light switch back on.
My family used to play it when we were kids. My brother's and I shared one big room. Lots of things to hide under and corners to lurk in while you waited for you chance to sneak to the switch
We called it Chuck Norris. We played it in my backyard which had a decent sized deck that was raised enough to crawl around under. One person was Chuck Norris and would hide while everyone else went inside and spun around for 30 seconds. Everyone would then come outside and look for Chuck Norris, and the first one who spotted him would yell CHUCK NORRIS and everyone would try to run back inside the house before they got caught. The idea was if you spotted him first and got away you got to be Chuck Norris, but anyone who got caught was out. It was surprisingly fun and I have some great memories from playing that game as a kid.
Mat ball. Kickball in the gym but if you hit the ceiling you were out and the only way to hit a "homerun" was to hit the hanging sports banners right near the ceiling. The bases were large black floor mats on each corner of a basketball court. You could have multiple people on a mat and the way to score was do a full circuit around the court.
Not really unique but myself group of friends will have a pillow fight in the dark in the basement. So the only sounds you would really hear is someone hitting another person or running into a support pole giving away their position. It was fun but suspenseful.
I had a game we called “dodge dog”. It was basically dodgeball, except on your side of the playing area you could build a furniture fort to hide behind, and there was only one ball which was in the form of a heavy life sized toy dog.
whenever I was riding in a car or bus, I would look out the window and focus on individual patches of grass (i.e. a stretch that covered the front of a house, and the actual front lawn of that house, with a sidewalk in between the grass--aka a typical suburban neighborhood or houses off the main road). I would then imagine a ball bouncing between patches, never landing in the same patch more than once and always moving. Sometimes I imagined a worm going underground beneath the sidewalk and then leaping above the sidewalk to reach the next patch of grass. I don't know if any of that made sense but I always played that game in my head as a kid.
We played a game called Blender. You would hold one hand of another person and then spin around faster and faster. Eventually, the centrifugal force would throw someone to the ground. This person lost.
We played Spotlight tag in the Theater in High school.
Everyone sits on the stage and two people man the large Theater spotlights on either side of the sound booth. They turn off the lights and use the spotlights to try and find people before the spot lighters get tagged.
We had a game that we played on the trampoline called “don’t touch the shoes”. It’s pretty self explanatory. We’d throw a tone of shoes in a trampoline and we’ll...try not to touch them. It got so much fun because my neighbors joined and there was a ton of them. It was so hectic.
Hide and clap. After the conjuring came out this game was like a hightened hide and seek that was somehow demonic only because you couldn’t help but remember that one scene from the movie.
Monster under the bed. One person is it and they have to be under the bed and try to drag people under. If you were dragged under your the monster. People on the bed are allowed to help the grabbed person. It must have been fun but I remember getting hurt from people pulling your limbs. Also stopped playing once I almost got seriously hurt. My old mattress was on an old metal base with these like Bungie elastic things across it. That sat on-top of the bed frame. I was under the bed on my back pushing up on the mattress/base and my two cousins are on the bed. I dislodged the metal base from the frame and had to tell at them to get off before my legs have out otherwise I would have received a big metal bar on my neck.
When my little brother and I were around Nerf age, we would play Arms Dealer. I, being the older one, had a shop full to the brim of all the foam-projectile weaponry you could want, and my brother would have to carry out various assassinations for me in order to get better guns. It all went tits-up when he had all the guns, though.
My brother and I used to get into fake arguments and pretend to be censoring our own cuss words (i.e. go to pause you pause -ing *pause). The goal was to make it as convincing as possible to our parents that we were cussing without ever doing it lol
Kindof a cruel game but whenever my friend and I were out in the marshlands (sc coast) we would battle fiddler crabs. We would hold our champion one at a time such that it is able to clamp down it’s big ass claw on the other. We would take turns until one gets crushed. Probably not the most ethical game but probably better than cock fighting lol
I loved playing "Murder in the Dark" with my cousins. The game involved one tagger, who waited outside of any room that could be made dark (often it was a bedroom with closed blinds at night).
All the other people would then hide in various places around the room. When everyone was hidden, someone would shout "ready!', and the "murderer" would come in and try to "kill" everyone by tagging them - this was obviously much harder because they couldn't see anything.
What made this game even more fun was that when the players were "murdered" they would scream really loudly, and when it's pitch black and silent and I heard a scream I'd jump a mile.
My brother and I used to pretend to be spies and sneak around our grandmas house trying to go unnoticed. We were never caught! Wasnt till 30 years later that I realized we didnt win our game. They were simply ignoring us.
My best friend from childhood and myself made up a game called "crockey". It was a mix between croquet and hockey and it basically involved us using croquet mallets to smash the rock hard croquet balls at each other. I'm retrospect I don't know how neither of us got seriously injured. That shit was so fucking dangerous.
“Survivor” I grew up in a forested area, my brother and I would pack “survival packs” with food, water, books, etc and then leave the house at the same time. Whoever could build the best lean-to from fronds and branches and successfully stay out of the house the longest won.
Once we played on a day it was supposed to rain and our lean-tos were waterproof until a point (mine moreso)! I remember that once his started leaking he camped out in mine because he didn’t want to lose the game lol
Mora71 · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid we played the lincence plate game. White Maine for example the game was all about spotting white plates it was pretty fun.
My family road trip game was you had to cross your fingers every time you saw a white horse. You could uncross them if you saw a black dog.
In primary school for like almost a year my friends and I would play “Lizzie” I honestly can’t remember at all what we’d do all that it was always a wild ride. “Lizzie” was a wooden pole at the back of the school that was a robot in the game.
So there's two teams of two (there was four of us kids in the family) two are security guards, the others are bombers. They had to sneak a bomb (usually some little toy or something random) past our security spot. They would get as much time as they wanted to upstairs to prepare, dressing up and hiding it in there clothes or baggage or whatever. They didn't have to even bring the "bomb" if they wanted to. Then they would go down the stairs and the security team would question them or search them if anything seemed off. But you could only search if you really believed they had it. The bombers win if they get the bomb past, or if they get searched and don't have a bomb. The security wins if they find it.
“Tickle Monster”-We would play it at night and our dad would be the tickle monster. We would turn all the lights off in the house except for one room which was the base. He would hide and we’d have to go find him and when we found him he would scare and tickle us until we were able to escape. If we did escape he’d chase us back to the room. It was pretty fun but like there was no way to win. It was just a cycle of getting jumpscared and tickled over and over again.
dchuey · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister and I were really young (maybe 4 and 6, or 5 and 7) we used to visit our grandma for the summers. We had to share a bed at night and we used to play this game where we would take turns 'drawing' a picture on each other's backs with our index finger.
Which ever of us was the canvas had three chances to guess what the other was drawing. This went on until one of us dozed off or grandma got frustrated by the constant whispered giggles and told us to go sleep.
We also used to get in tomato fights at times late in the growing season. Other times we'd catch a praying mantis and feed it grasshoppers or catch buckets of crawfish in the nearby creek.
My grandma passed away a few months ago and I haven't really thought about my childhood summers at her place until reading this thread. Funny how the brain works sometimes.
I had this little mechanical pocket game. When you pulled the lever 4 sections with different robots drawn on them spun around. One of the robots was rather skinny. There was an old abandoned house in our neighborhood. My friend and I decided that the house was the residence of the ghost of Old Man Bones. We would ride our bicycles to a point near the house and pull the lever on the game. If the pieces stopped and assembled the skinny robot we would freak out and say Old Man Bones was home and take off on our bikes as fast as we could around the block back to the starting point and spin again. If it was any other robot or hodgepodge when we pulled the lever, we would ride slowly around the block to give him a chance to get home from wherever imaginary ghosts go when not being stalked by a pair of 8 year olds.
Burnball, you throw the ball which is a tennis ball. It bounces back by the time the ball bounces back and some catches it you have to touch the wall. If you fumble the ball. It means you still touched it so you have to run to the wall. Reason being that if you don't touch the wall in time and get hit before by someone else. You'd be put on the wall arms behind the neck and you'd have everyone playing beam the ball at you. And if they missed then they get hit by the one that was supposed to be hit. Meaning a lot of tricks went into this. See, we played with the side of the school which was two stories high. Well, if you were skilled enough you could hit the top and you have enough time. Most of the time it was just baseball players, we loved it. Slamming the ball into the wall inches away from it to make it richochet as fast as possible towards the legs of someone else so they have to run. We got so good at this with a tennis ball we could jump out of bounds in basketball and throw it backwards towards the defence's legs making it out on them. Ah, memories.
The colour game! Whenever my family drove, we would pick a different colour semi truck and count whenever we would see a truck in that colour. I would always cherry pick white, because it was the most common.
im gonna call it 'lights on, lights off'. we had a decently long hallway with a light switch on either side, and would have one of us at the end of it.
the other would turn the lights on and off and the one in the hallway would try and make their walk as creepy as possible but only when th lkights were off, like a stop motion kids horror game.
Wouldn’t call it unique but as a child, I used to play Mums and Dads with a girl. We both knew each other from our mothers who were best friends so we grew up together. Her brother used to be our ‘child’ and we would tell him to go to bed as me and his sister kissed and hugged, we were both young (10 years old if I remember correctly)
To this day we are happily engaged and are expecting our first child, due on the 21st August this year:)
Our family made up a game called "soccer tag". One person was "it". They had to kick the ball around, chasing the other players until they hit one with the ball. It is a surprisingly fun game!
At family dinners a selected person would have to close their eyes. Then one person takes something off the table and then the person who closed their eyes would have to guess what was removed. Alternating guesser and grabber.
The best game EVER!!! THE BALL GAME! My dad would sit at the bottom of the stairs with a bowl and would put varying amounts of money in the bowl for each round. Just coins, or a buck here and there. My brothers and I would sit at the top of the stairs and take turns rolling the ball down the stairs. First one to get it in the bowl wins the money! I play it with my kids now. Good memories.
Back when movie theatres would have a series of still slides before the trailers; usually for local businesses.
One person at a time working our way down the row we would ‘win’ whatever image was being shown on the screen. The next person would win what was shown on the next slide etc and compare who collected the best prizes at the end from fruit to a fleet of sailing boats to an entire city.
"Tiger" It was aimed at 3 or more players. One person, the "tiger" pretends to sleep on a bench. The other 2 must circle around the bench and return to the designated 'home' without waking the tiger. If the tiger wakes, you run to home. If you're caught by the tiger, you are eaten and become the next tiger. Used to love this game, and it became much more fun with more than 4 players.
“Guess who“ at bedtime using people my sister and I both knew
“Moms closet game” where we turned out the lights and hid in a walk in closet while someone who was blindfolded looked for us.
“Hoboville” our VERY intricate village in the woods
And then there was the summer we set up a card table in the basement and played canasta every day.
picks- · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, we had this one room in my house that had no furniture or anything in it. My sister and I referred to this room as the "blank room." We would go into this room and play a bunch of made up games. The one that I remember the most was a game where we would pretend to be random creatures and battle each other. She was always a fire ring tailed lemur and I was a huge, metal knight.
My friends and I used his two lacrosse sticks (without heads on them) to beat the fuck out of the plants and trees in his yard and pretend we were samurai brothers
My mum pretty much raised me by herself as my dad is high functioning autistic and wasn’t a great dad.
When I was super little I used to hate brushing my teeth, so my mum used to do it with me, after I’d cleaned them I’d drink some water so my cheeks were full up.
My mum used to repeatedly chant “swallow it, swallow it, swallow it.” And I used to either swallow it or pretend to swallow it.
Then my mum being a hard nut used to squeeze my cheeks so (if I had water in my mouth) i used to squirt the water out my mouth.
Looking back at it, probably a bit weird, but I’d give my life for that woman.
“Hardcore Belly-Boarding.” My brother and our friend and I were in elementary school back in the WWF “attitude era” when wrestlers like The Rock, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Mankind were at the pinnacle of their careers. There used to be “Hardcore” matches where wrestlers could use an assortment of random weapons, really any blunt object they could find, IIRC.
Our apartment complex had these long, straight driveways. We would spread out weapons all over the driveway, lie flat on our stomach on skateboards at the top, and, using our hands to paddle, race to the bottom. Anything goes in between, as long as you stayed on your board and on your belly.
Age5 the neighbor girl and I would play a game we call go to the beach. We would take off all our clothes and jump off the picnic table in the backyard. No idea why we called it that but it was fun
That moment you realize your childhood was pretty dang boring compared to others. The most unique game I played was one where we had imaginary pet cats that would do anything we told them to do, and they could fly. Essentially magical cats. We constantly tried to one up each other on what our cats could do.
Oh and then there was our version of the alphabet game while riding in the car (had to be the first letter of a word, can't use the same sign twice and others had to find a different one, no license plates except for x which still had to be the first letter, etc), first one to z wins. No prizes or anything, just bragging rights.
Fishing. Grandma would be on the sofa and the kids would be “swimming” around on the floor. She’d cast her line and hook one of us. Reel us in onto her lap. Then she’d clean, cut, and prep us to eat for dinner.
The falldown game. You go to a dark beach on a night with no Moon and stand around the "player" in a tight circle. One person rapidly strobes a flashlight in the players face while they stare up into and past it at the stars. Everyone else rapidly spins the player in a circle for 20-30 seconds while counting up loudly. At the agreed upon maximum number the player is told to "RUN!!!!!" and is guided in a direct generally free of obstruction or ocean. The player sprints as fast as they can in that direction, dizzy as hell and totally blinded, until they slam into the ground usually without realizing they are falling. Being that dizzy eliminates the falling sensation for more people so it seems as though you are running in a straight line and WHAM the ground smacks you in the face out of nowhere.
The person who wins is the person who runs the farthest though the real winners are the people who watch as a dizzy drunken idiot eats sand while running at full speed.
My friend and I were a fan of 007 James Bond and guns. We were both agents (007 & 006) and we'd sneak around doing objectives. One of us would get "Shot" but a special kind of tranquilizer dart that would make us become the enemy (villain's side). The other agent wouldn't realise this when completing the objective when suddenly he turns against you. You must then try and pursuade and convince the converted agent that they're on your side, try and wear off the effect, a deathmatch (depending on the circumstance) or even the good guy surrenders. Playing out different situations.
Probably makes no sense as I can't really explain it but as a kid, this was so fun haha.
Sock Wars. My dad used to have a lot of socks, and when the laundry was done me, my brother, my mom and my dad would get in teams. We would fold a bunch of them and and take cover behind the bed while trying to hit the other team. A simple game but it used to make us giggle for hours.
Late to the game, but my siblings and I would play "Bury 'Em."
What you'd do is find a ton of blankets and lay them out flat one on top of the other, smaller ones on top. Then a person would sit cross-legged in the center of the blankets and would have the blankets tied up over their head with loose "knots". They would have to undo the blankets just by rolling around on the floor, no help from anyone else.
Step one, the hero : Get a sword and a metal garbage can lid for a shield. Wave the sword and talk a lot of shit.
Step two, the flying hammers: Across the yard your opponents will hurl croquet mallets at you using the clothes line as a giant sling shot.
We would fight over who's turn it was to be the Hero.
The clothes line sling shot made the mallets lob across the yard in a slow arch. The kid with the sword was very rarely hit. Most of the time we were laughing so hard we could barely play. Sadly it was discovered why the clothes line was stretched out and the game was nixed by a parent who came home early. As an adult I remember they were mad about the laundry line not the danger of the game. curious.
Sardines- Hide and seek, but when you find them, you hide with them, so eventually you have a bunch of people packed in an area hiding. Sucked when you were the last to find them, got very quiet suddenly lol. Used to play this in a large church during sleepovers.
Backdraft (the movie had come out and was a big thing). We’d each have a blanket we were responsible for saving. We’d hide someone else’s blanket in my parents’ basement, then we’d go pretend to be sleeping like firefighters.
My parents had a basketball game in the basement like the arcades that would count down from 60 with the first shot made. Someone would go make a basket and we’d all scramble “awake” and go try and find our hidden blanket and make it back to the bottom of the stairs before the basketball game timer buzzed.
Anyone who didn’t make it was caught in the backdraft with the victim they were trying to save.
Whenever we went with our parents to stay at our grandparent's house for a week, my sister and I would inevitably get bored and invent new ways to entertain ourselves.
We used to challenge each other to 'missions' which involved sneaking around the house without being seen by an adult, and retrieving a specific item from a specific room. E.g 'go into the living room and bring back one of the cushions off an armchair without an adult noticing you'.
Upon return to base (our bedroom) there would be a quiz set by the 'mission control' with questions about the room that the 'agent' was sent into. E.g how many ornamental plates are there in the display cabinet?
If you were spotted by an adult, or worse, spoken to, your mission was failed and you had to return to base immediately and it would then be the other kid's turn.
We literally spent days on end playing this. The adults must've thought we were well weird!
Me and my mom used to play this game called "tractor, trailer, or truck". Whenever we were driving around, we'd yell whichever vehicle we saw before the other person could. You win if you have the most before we got home.
cowlad · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pombies”. Cod WAW original zombies with a Water bottle full of vodka. After every round you take a swig and pass it around. Some nights lasted longer than others. If you died on like round 8 or earlier and had to start over thats when you were fucked.
My siblings would play a game in which we shut the blinds to a room and turned the lights off so that it was too dark to see. Then we would run around singing 'common sense, common sense' over and over for about 30 seconds until someone managed to turn the lights back on. I guess the goal was to survive without getting a concussion or losing teeth.
We were aged like 5-10 when we played this, I don't know who or how we came up with that shit
js3456 · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a friend from Germany who taught me this game so maybe this is a well-known game there...but anyway, it was called the chocolate game. The way it worked: everyone sits on the floor in a circle and there is a chocolate bar wrapped up in several layers of paper and tied with string in the center. The first person to start has to put on a jacket, hat, scarf and mittens, pick up a fork and knife and try to open the chocolate bar and eat it! While one person is doing this the other people in the circle are rolling a six sided dice trying to roll a six, once someone does (roll a six) the person who was trying to open the package has to give the new person all of the clothes etc. to put on. The game ends when someone finally gets to the chocolate and bites into it. It sounds simple, but this game was really fun! Plus...chocolate
I used to play a game with the 50 states quarters back when I was a kid. I would flip all 50 quarters in quick succession onto the ground then take the ones that landed on tails out and re-flip only the ones that landed on hands. I would do this for as many rounds as needed until there was only one quarter left and I deemed that quarter/state the winner. I'm pretty sure I even kept track of which states won the most times in a notebook I had. I made up a lot of probability games and games of chance when I was younger but this is the only one that I still remember the rules I made for it. My older brother found one of my notebooks when he was staying in the basement at my mom's house for a little while a few years back and drunkenly called me to tell me he thought I was a genius and needed to go to the casino with him. I'm not sure what he saw but I know most of the stuff in those notebooks doesn't even make sense to me anymore even though I came up with it.
Shin Kickers. My brothers and I just ran round the garden kicking each other until the other two gave in. My dad found it hilarious, my mam not so much.
We played the cussing game in 1st grade. I don’t remember the exact rules but like... I guess the worse the curse, you were it? I don’t know. I just remember running around at recess cussing at each other and occasionally being “it”
When we were very young, my twin sister and I played a game called "Cow." I was always the farmer and she was always the cow. How the game worked was she would eat grass and I would pat her on the head and say "Good cow." And that was the entire game.
We played basically dodge ball in trees. One person would be it. We all climb the trees and hide in a good spot. The person would throw the ball over the trees and whoever get hit are it.
Some might say? Why not throw it directly? Cause the tree was nice and grown. No bald spots.
Me and my stepsister used to take a glow in the dark frisbee into the cellar with the lights off and so how long we could last until we got scared and ran out:
deber8 · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m pretty sure it’s a pretty common game, but we used to play spoto in the car. If you saw a yellow car and you were the first to call it, you would get to punch everyone once in the car. By the end of a long road trip our arms would be hurting a lot
We would play a game called Target Practice. We had a big backyard and one person would stand on the back porch while the others would go out into the yard about 80-100 feet away. The person on the porch was the shooter, and they received a package of bottle rockets they could use to try to hit one of the other kids running in the yard. If you got hit with a bottle rocket, you were out and had to be the shooter the next round. The person who survived the most consecutive rounds won. It was a lot of fun when we got a big group of kids in the neighborhood to play.
My brother and I would play "Knife Fight". The game started by yelling "KNIFE FIGHT!" and then grabbing a close, non-lethal weapon and attempting to stab the other to death. The caveat was that there was only 1 'knife' allowed. So you have to fight for the 'knife' and usually it was the TV remote. Imagine the scene in Saving Private Ryan in the end when the german and the american are fighting over the knife and the german slowly eases the knife into dude's chest. It was just like that, but non-lethal.
noumew · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I created "Kangaroo Jump Spy". You put both legs in one pyjama leg and hopped around the house trying to get as close to your parents without being noticed. When you were spotted you had to hop away as fast as you can (bonus points for tripping the other person up so they got caught first).
Pretended I was my British twin for a week. I wrote her name on tests I had that week, changed my handwriting, and my hair. I am an only child from the Northeast US.
Slight cheat here, but my friends and I played this in college and not as kids. The cafeteria to our dorm had these huge spiraling staircases to and from the entrance and exit. We all had ID cards used for our meal swipes with our pictures and names on them. When we were leaving the cafeteria we would stand at the top and then throw our IDs down the staircase. Whoever landed their ID card closest to or on the last step won. If more than one person landed on the last step, tie breaker would be whoever’s ID landed picture-side up. Automatic failure for anyone who chucked their ID to the ground level. We called this game “disCARD.” And it was awesome.
Flashlight Tag. The defending kid would have one of my grandparents' big boxy flashlights and try to stop the others from reaching the "safe zone." If the light was shining on you, you had to stop moving and the defender could tag you to force you to go back to the starting position. Once all but one runner made it to the safe zone, they won and the kid who didn't make it got to have the flashlight.
Obviously it was impossible to actually stop most of them from making it, so we scored the game based on how long it took to lose using a stopwatch
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mait.
Two teams. Medium sized rectangle drawn in the sand.
The object of the team members on the outside (OT) is to tag players from the inside team (IT) and run out of the box, effectively eliminating the tagged player. Eliminating an IT player gives you a free respawn for the OT.
Object of the IT is to stop the tagging OT players from escaping the box after they enter and wrestling them to the ground and roughhousing with them until they submit by yelling Mait. Succeeding give one of their eliminated team members a respawn.
Basically OT tagging players usually go in alone for quick tags and escapes. But when caught, they get dog piled and torchured by the IT. This involved strangulation, limb submissions, and blows to the genitals.
We played this as kids at school in the middle east and we were told it was an Indian game. I feel we changed a rule or two if it is a real game. Would love to know what the legitimate rules are.
Ball on roof. We had a tiled roof so if you threw a tennis ball up there, it would bounce around and you would have no idea where it would fall. First person to catch it wins. Super fun 10/10 recommend
I would talk to myself in gibberish and wait to see how long it took for an adult to say something. The goal was the fastest response possible. Yes I know, I was a strange child.
So when I was little my sister and I would help my mom pick tomatoes. We were in charge of picking off the horn worms (anyone with tomatoes will know how tedious this can be). So I convinced my sister that picking the worms off and throwing them into the woods was a fun game and I did none of the work and my sister was convinced she was getting a good deal.
We didnt have a name for it, but basically me and my younger cousin would start at one end of the driveway, while our older brothers (about 4 years apart), would stand on either side of the driveway. We would sprint to make it to the end of the driveway before they could hit us with whatever balls we had on hand. Footballs, basketballs, and sometimes golf balls, (we grew up on a golf course), were thrown at the head every time. If we were hit, they get a point, if we make it to the end, we get a point. We were always the ones running :( don’t even get me started on the stick battles....
Me and my best friend at the time used to make ‘potions’. That’s normal but we used some really weird things like spit sometimes. We’d also make it red and splash it all over her shower wall to make it look like a crime scene. We’d spend HOURS in there just doing fucking weird shit we weren’t allowed to. We probably put cleaning products in them too. We also used to ‘drown’ the bath toys in the mix. It was weird.
We always played the “car game” each different car was worth a different amount of points like a PT cruiser would be be 2 a limo 7 an oddly colored car would be 5 old fashioned would be 6. Person with the most points win.
"Ankylosaurus and T-Rex." We used to play it in the car. One of us would punch the other (the ankylosaurus) and the other would "bite" by making jaws out of both hands (the T-Rex). I don't think there was really a way to win. It was mostly an excuse to beat on each other. It drove my parents crazy, and one time got us kicked out of the car to walk home in the dark Wyoming night.
When I was in the car I would look out the window and pretend there was a little skateboarder "riding" the lines/signs/mailboxes/buildings and such on the side of the road.
I don't know if this is an original game or not, but I searched for it on Google and I couldn't find it so I assume it's unique. To play roller coaster, all the kids who wanted to play (the more, the better) would join hands and run as fast as the could down the hill. They would run in a line with the kid in front leading sort of the way a roller coaster has its seats arranged (the ones without rows). The goal was to run in the most erratic and fast way possible and make it similar to a real roller coaster. Often they would be going so fast that kids would lose grip and fall and become really dizzy. It was fun and sometimes resulted in injury.
death race. we would armour ourselves and our gocarts and try to knock each other over or destroy the other's gocart. We had lots of great short, steep hills to work with.
Jeff had an awesome gocart his grandfather made. It had a steering wheel and was made to look like a jeep.
I had four wheels, two axles, and a lot of tools. I tried to make a gocart that would take out jeff's jeep, but never could. I made bumpers, spiked roll bars out of 2x4's and nails. One time I rear-ended the jeep with my spiked front bumper and got stuck to the back of it. Jeff just steered away and drove off with my bumper.
I swear to god me and my friends thought we invented the infection tag game. We played it before it was popular at our school and got lots of people involved, we had plenty of memories from the games we played and we were so confident we thought of the idea first. Those were the days
When I was a kid and we took long car trips, my family and I would play "Ding Dong". A Ding is a yellow car worth 1 point, a Dong is a motorcycle worth 1 point, and a Ding Dong is a yellow motorcycle worth 20 points. We'd get ridiculously competitive about it, especially driving by car lots. Easily provided hours of entertainment.
We'd play Butts Up where one person had a soccer ball and everyone else would line up and bend over holding their ankles, butts facing the kicker. The kicker would then kick the ball, trying to hit everyone else's butts. If they knocked you over, they won. If you stayed up, you won.
My uncle used to come over to my house during the summer. We would play this very cool game where he was the security at the airport and I was transporting drugs. He would put his gloves on and my butt felt really weird for sometime. My mom always cried when I told her about our game. Still dont know what the game is, highly reccomend it when playing with your children/younger siblings.
Raymx3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gym teacher used to take the tallest boys in the class to his office for special “fun time” while us shorter boys and girls had to wait in the gym. Always wanted to play but never got to since ima wee lad. Oh welll.
We would play a game in the driveway, sort of like Monkey in the Middle, only instead of trying to steal the ball the person in the middle (who we called the dementor, I guess we really liked Harry Potter back then) would try to get the person being passed the ball to mess up. And instead of playing catch, the outside people were passing a volleyball
War. The primary school field had a large tree with space underneath a root at one end, and a hollow bush against a fence at the other. Boys against girls, each team would try to take prisoners, who would then have to go to the other teams base; and free your imprisoned teammates, but getting all the way into the enemy base without being taken prisoner.
Kingdoms!! Me and my friend made it up in middle school. It requires a chess board and we didn’t know how to play chess so we created our own game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game called “dead raccoon on the doorstep”
Basically one person would lay on their back, and the other person would walk out the imaginary door. Then they would make up a reason to go back into the house. One time when I was the dead raccoon. My brother stepped on me and said “time to go to work.” And then he turned around, stepped on me again and said “oops I forgot my keys.” He then “grabbed his keys” and headed out the door, stepping on me again. Then he turned around and said “oops. I forgot to kiss my wife goodbye.” So, he turned around stepped on me again, “Kissed his wife,” and “headed to work again.” We went back and forth making up excuses to go back into the house. Eventually we traded off and my brother was the raccoon and I walked all over him. Crazy stuff.
My sister, friend and I would play "Poke'Body" where we'd fold the paper 3 ways and each of us had to draw either the head, torso or legs of a Pokemon and write the names in the corner. Each of us would rotate on drawing each section that we were gonna draw (so like, me-head, friend-torso, sis-feet then sis-head, me-torso, friend-feet and so on.)
The weirdest thing we came up with was Diglett -head, Poliwrath-body and Ponyta-legs. Those were good times.
Any Bounce. You play with a tennis ball and baseball bat. The rule would be you’d hit the ball and as long as the person caught it on a catch and didn’t juggle it, it would be their turn to hit and you would take their position. There was an abandoned parking lot on my street and all the kids from our street would get together and play it like almost every day.
My friends and I would take a kickball, and throw it across the street in an attempt to get a good hit on the curb. If you hit it just right the ball would come flying back. Each success was 1 point, first to 10 wins. If a car came and you could throw the ball over the car and bounce it back you won automatically. Called it curbball.
kc954 · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where I used to live my friends and I played this game which I can't remember. The person who is "it" has their eyes closed and is trying to get the others. This is played on a playground and if you are touching the ground at all and the tagger notices they can say some phrase (I don't remember, it was the name of the game.) then that person was it. I would pull crazy stunts to avoid the tagger like hanging off of stuff while not touching the ground.
The greatest sport ever made, me and my friends came up with, called Tennis Hockey. It's basically exactly what it sounds like, you've got 2 hockey goals, typically you have 3v3 with a goalie and you play with tennis rackets and a ball instead of sticks and a puck. And you had to dribble the ball with your racket, similar rules to basketball dribbling. We had offsides, and other penalties like hockey does, oh and the goalie wore baseball catcher shin guards so they could slide easier on the concrete. Played it at least once a week all through highschool.
Whenever my mum was doing the hoovering, my brother and I would pretend that it was a huge force sucking us towards it like some kind of vacuum...
Anyway we’d grab hold of staircase bannisters, objects, eachother, whatever to try and stop us from being sucked away. We didn’t always get along but I remember this game pretty fondly.
I live in a house that is on the outside of a square grass patch with a path to walk to your car and houses. When I was about 6 me and 4 other kids in the street played a game we called 'don't die' (very creative I know)
Basically one kid would stand in the middle of the grass square (usually the oldest one there) while the rest of us ran to different sides of the square on the path.
The aim was to do 3 laps of the square and then touch the street light next to the main road.
The person in the middle would cover their eyes and while they did we would book it. Once the person in the middle removed their hands to look you had to duck down and not move and if you did you were out and had to stand in 'jail' which was a really tall wall that separated out street from the 'rich' houses.
It was basically that on repeat until someone won.
“La inmigración” I don’t know if this game is common with first or second generation Hispanic kids but it goes like this. You would have a group of kids who are “La migra” their jobs is to prevent the other group of kids from reaching their side of the “border” (usually some sort of physical line like a creek or wooden fence). “La migra” would do this by either wrestling the kid to the ground and if they get stuck and can’t escape they would get stuck at “prison” (pretty much time out) for a few minutes. If you make it to the other side of the “border” and “la migra” can’t catch you, you win. The game stops either whenever the kids get tired of running everywhere or everyone who isn’t part of “la migra” gets over or people decide to start over. Because the unnamed group gets smaller as time goes on, it gets harder for you get over because “la migra” has more resources to catch you so it’s a common strategy early game to mass cross and hope you don’t caught. The game is also crazy racist, whenever I invited some of my white friends over the other kids automatically made them part of “la migra”.
It’s pretty much cops and robbers except some of the rules are different and it’s a reenactment of adults crossing the Mexican American border.
We created a game with the metal parallel bars on the play ground it was like tag but you had one person on each end and they had to catch up with the other person and lap them, when you got to the end of the bars you had to vault yourself over the bars so if you had short legs you usually lost.
Bike tag. Pretty self explanatory, same rules as tag but on bikes. It had different variations, one where there would be only one "it," another where infection rules would apply. We had a lot of collisions and crashes but it was a fun time killer.
We noticed there’s an arrow between the E and the X in FedEx, so every time we saw a FedEx truck or mailbox we’d call out “FedEx, see the arrow!” There were supposedly points, but nobody really kept track anyway. That was a fun game.
I wasn't a child when we did this, unless 17/18 counts as childhood.
My ex used to have a huge 4 story house that was sorta given to us as her parents bought a new place.
Instead of wild parties and stuff we thought we'd throw dinner parties followed by Hide and Seek.
We closed all the curtains (blackout) and flipped all the light switch fuses, plunging the house into total, pitch black darkness.
Normal hide and seek rules applied, pool room was the 'out' room.
The only light allowed was from a lighter or your phone screen, no full fledged lights allowed. It was incredible. I had a black friend who was so dark skinned that he was only visible under the strict light conditions with his eyes open or if he smiled, i always hid behind him (I'm 6'2 and he was like 6'5)
I would lie on the floor on my side, and push off walls with my feet like i was jumping off the ground. I would grab ledges, or the corners of walls, and just climb everywhere. I also cleaned the floors, which was a bonus.
I’m not sure how unique it is but in elementary school PE class we played grenade dodge ball, it was like regular dodgeball except when you got hit in say the arm you lost that arm, if you caught it you lost both hands and had to try and kick them at people, if you lost all 4 limbs or got hit in the face or chest you were dead.
Caravan Game, played in the car, usually on the motorway.
If you saw a caravan, you had to blow a raspberry. If you saw a caravan being towed by a 4x4, that was two. If you saw a caravan being towed by a 4x4 that had broken down that was 3 raspberries and so on and so forth.
There wasn't really score being kept, and dad would make up new point values for each new caravan related situation we came across. Think the highest point worth we got to was for a Caravan being towed by a 4x4 that was broken down and on fire and the caravan was also upside down.
Daft game really, but kept us kids amused looking out the windows for caravans, and relatively quiet save for the occasional flurry of raspberries from the back seats.
Me and my 2 brothers used to play moles, the youngest 2 of us would get under the duvet and move around while the eldest brother tried to whack us like whack a mole. Looking back he was just breathing the shit out of us.
Never really had a name for but in the house I grew up with we had about an acres worth of back yard with a swing set all the way at the end. Me and my cousins would swing as high and fast as we could. Once we reached maximum speed we would half take off our shoe and see who could kick them the farthest. Arc speed and timing all came into play. Best we did was landed one near the house by the pool area.
establish the number of players, 2 - infinity, and dig a small hole in the ground for all except one. Smash a coke can to use as a puck. Everybody has their own stick, the player without a hole for their stick is "it" and tries to knock the puck into a hole. The point of the game is to keep your stick in your hole and not allow the puck to end up in your hole. If the puck makes it to your hole you are "it." Any player can take over a vacant hole by putting their stick in it, forcing the player contesting "it" by knocking the puck away (as far as you care to) to scramble to an open hole before "it" can. Think of duck duck goose with weapons.
Curby! You stand on opposite sides of the road and throw a football at the curb. If it bounces back you get a point, if you can catch it without bouncing you get 2!
I used to hang beanie babies from my bedroom window on the 3rd floor using the film (?) from old tape cassettes. Can’t quite remember the point other than it was fun. Often my parents would watch as this poor things would be lowered past the window in the living room (2nd floor). I would then try wined them back up...
LorLuk · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 5-6 Pokémon had just come out, me and my cousin (who I lived with at the time due to family reasons) made out own Pokémon game where we would make a ring (most of the time it was a bed because it was soft) pick what Pokémon we wanted to be and wrestle using Pokémon attacks. We invented how to make the pokemon moves realistic (to us as a child at least) the battles were choreographed so we'd practise how the battles would go and what out moves were and to make sure we both remembered what to do we used to call out our attacks, for example if you used sandscreen you had to thow a blanket over the other person to blind them and they had to attack under the blanket for one move, tackle was a soft shoulder tackle and you had to fake falling back, and our favourite pikachu's Thunderbolt we had to call it out and the other person pretend to be shocked ect, all of that was done whilst on all fours as we quickly found out that standing up we'd end up falling off the bed or being tackled off it, needless to say there were a few accidents but we always kept playing.
To this day I remember most of the moves we used to do and the fun we used to have, we still have a laugh about it now and again, the thing he didnt/doesn't know is those memories were the best of a bad childhood and I'll always love him and see him as my brother for that dispite the petty arguments and fights we've had down the road.
A childhood friend and I had a brilliant game we used to play called "Crashbox". In essence, two players each picked the same number of Hot Wheels cars (or similar generic toy cars) as their team. The players would sit facing each other on the floor, usually about 5-10 feet apart. Further away was more difficult but also better, due to the way the game was played.
We took a single car and wound up, pushing the cars back and forth to count down from 3. On "go", we would hurl the cars as fast as we dared at each other, with the aim being to crash the cars somewhere in the middle. In the best case scenario, the cars would collide and go flying off in different directions. The aim of the game was seeing how the cars fared post-collision; your car was deemed "out" if it landed upside down when it finished its tumble. Obviously if your car could no longer roll on its wheels it was also eliminated.
The best cars to play this game were divided into two types: the ramps and the heavies. If you picked a car that was extremely close to the ground and/or tapered, you could often make the other person's car fly without worrying about your own car. On the other hand, if the goal was pure destruction, you picked one of the older/heaver cars with a higher proportion of metal or a bigger body. After all, smashing the other car (or your opponent's legs) usually spelled victory.
Basically, this was two dumb kids throwing metal cars at each other. There weren't too many scars (because we were either gentle and accurate or vicious and inaccurate) but we caused our fair share of damage. On at least one occasion in my garage we hit a soda can and exploded it all over the place, which was fun to clean up before anybody say. I didn't envy the baseboards in either of our houses either. Still, the game was 11/10 considering the tubs of cars we had at our disposal from older relatives, and I'd play it again in a heartbeat.
Whenever my sister and I were staying at my grandmother's house we would play Superheroes. There were two beds in one room and these represented the tops of high-rise buildings. Then each of us would take a bed and declare our superhero name (which changed with every round especially if our persona was defeated). We would then battle to the death, diving from skyscraper to skyscraper, ducking and weaving and using every trick in the book to cause our nemesis to fall to their untimely demise. In reality, we were simply calling each other names as we shoved each other around.
Games of Superheroes were highly frowned upon after I landed too enthusiastically on the camp bed and broke several of the slats.
We also had a game called Figgy Pudding. One person would lie very still on the bed and the other would jump on the bed singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" (because reasons?). The aim of the game was to jump right next to the other person but not to jump on the other person.
A similar game was Oink (yeah, I don't know why we called it that either). One person would lie in the bed under the covers. The other person would stand at the top of the bed just above the player's head and then attempt to jump the full length of that person's height, landing with feet on either side of the person's feet. For some reason we would shout OINK really loudly as we were doing it. The aim of the game was again, to get as close to the other person as possible without actually jumping on them.
And then there was the game of Camera in the Dark. One person had the camera and the other had to try and do the worst poses they could find, while the one with the camera tried to catch them off-guard.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Lava Monster" I'm pretty sure everyone has played a variation of this game at least once, but it is essentially tag, but every time you tag someone, they join you to tag everyone else. So it's essentially a battle royale. We used to play on a jungle gym and I can't tell you how many 8 year olds ran head first into a pole.
I have a few, gosh this is going to be embarrassing to travel back to:
- In preeschool, I used to play 'peter pan' with my group of friends
- In about third grade, all the girls used to play 'monster high' where we would use chalk to design rooms. We actually still hang out together for the most part (I'm in tenth grade now)
But the game I remember most was from kindergarten, where my group would play 'scooby doo'. The group was me, my twin brother, and three other friends (two of which are still friends of mine). I was always Velma.
I used to play a modified game of the floor is lava in which me and a friend would use a small blanket and 2 pillows to maneuver through our house, upstairs and then back down again, without touching the ground. And then once that friend stopped talking to me, I played with action figures and moved my little knickknacks around in my room to create dens and houses and castles and such. and then I got into minecraft
Super Mario 64 - I played it on the Nintendo DS whe I was 5 so nearly 2 decades later in 2010, my parents got it for me on christmas, it was my first electrical device and what got my love for video games started. at the time I couldn't get past the 2nd level which i think was the bomb run level (i'm not sure) and when I couldn't beat the level I would NEVER Get bored of just swimming in the water underneath the drawbridge and trying to get to the tip of the castle, I wanted to go back about 2-4 years ago but the game chip was sold and my DS didn't work, but over the years I evolved to playing the Original XBox, the the Wii, Xbox 360, then the 3DS XL and now the Xbox one (which I got for my 12th birthday 2 years ago) and I owe everything to Nintendo and hopefully in the future I can turn my hobby into a career.
Note - sorry for the grammar, i'm in music class and i'm trying to finish as quickly as possible and have a great day
BFravo · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing this game once with a family of really tough boys that were like brothers to me my two sisters and brother. We were in the boys back yard and it was a really dark night, you couldn’t see in front of you. The game was we all sat in a circle and I don’t know who went first but someone took their sneaker and used the lace like a mace and flung the shoe around their head and let go... it would hit someone and the sound of them crying out in pain in the dark was hilarious. We’d all get a good laugh and then who ever got hit got to throw next. Lol ridiculous... I remember getting hit and the dark getting lit up with the stars it created in my eyes.
There was a time, during a really bad winter, that a square section of my bedroom roof fell. So there was this GIANT whole in my room and it just got invaded with moths. So my cousin and I got our water guns and waged war against them.
Took ages and one even rammed into eye.
Looking back I don't fell good about it. Can't say I want to go through that again.
bush84 · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to take a pair of socks each, put one sock inside the other to make a kind of sock mace then proceed to beat the fuck out of eachother with them. Those were the days
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played SHS (See it, Hear it, Smell it) When waiting for the bus to come in the morning my sisters and I would see who could see the bus first, hear it first, and smell it first. When you got all three you had to shout out “SHS, I win!”
“Hinka Laka” was the game me, my brother, and best friend played as kids. Weird as fuck game. One person was the hinka laka and the two others had to avoid them. The hinka laka would slowly walk up the stairs with their back turned to us and a broom or fireplace poker (dangerous af now that I think about it) in their hand and say “hinka laka hinka laka hinka laka hink”. While they were doing that you had to try and sneak up behind them and touch them before they turned around. If they turned around you had to run and get into a safe zone which was on any couch or in the kitchen. The hinka laka would chase you with the fireplace poker or broom and try to tag you. We never used the poker or broom to tag each other, I think it was just for intimidation. This was our favorite game, and probably most unique, by far.
Basketball with lacrosse sticks/lacrosse ball. I had these shitty plastic lacrosse sticks with a little catch so the ball wouldn’t fall out. Stupid fun and mad respect for long shots. Usually played 1v1 with my best friend in his driveway.
In college, my friends and I invented a game called Chalky Ball. It was a 2 person game sort of like racquetball, but using a ping pong ball and paddle. First person would serve the ball, which was hitting it against a chalk board and the opponent would have to return after it hit off the board and bounced on the floor. As we got into it more, we made specific rules like if you were able to knock a piece of chalk off the chalkboard, it was an automatic win. But if you were able to knock the squeeze bottle, that was dangling off the edge of the chalkboard, off and have it hit the floor, it was an automatic win, plus the other person had to buy you a burrito. But if you missed and hit the ball down the stairs next to the chalkboard, it was an automatic loss and you had to walk down a shitload of stairs to go get the ball. Damn do i miss Chalky Ball!
Every time our parents left we would pull out the guest "mattresses" (basically cheap foam) and put our sleeping bags on them for a slick surface and then use them to cover the stairs. We'd pile pillows to fill in the gaps and even would make a safe landing pad at the bottom. Then we'd get in another sleeping back and slide down. Good times.
One time we put a hole in the wall and so we moved a poster to cover it (in the foyer and low on the wall, very conspicuous). My parents didn't find out about it until they moved a few years ago.
We used to play knock-a-door-run (or ding dong ditch depending on where you are from) but instead of running away we would just stand there when the person opened the door completely silently, blankly staring. Winner was one who got the angriest/funniest reaction or who stayed there so long they just close the door in your face.
iTeoti · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sillow.” The gist of it was get two big pillows, run at each other full speed, whoever falls over first loses.
In elementary school I played "leopard and sloth." I'd be the sloth and he would be the leopard. I would try to escape extremely slowly in vain and he would catch me and devour me. Every time. Dont know why I always agreed to it haha
Mrs. Corn, my older sister played a crazy, wacky teacher that chased my cousins and I around. Some of my fondest memories were making up weird characters to play with my cousins.
DO NOT TRY THIS!!! Growing up with little supervision in the inner city we would tape a nail to a bullet cartridge so the point was on the primer. Sometimes required a washer or quarter taped to the nail head. Meet up in the ally and throw the thing in the air and run. If the bullet fires and no one gets hit you win!
Sacbf · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A website, I think, had a town on it and there was different buildings, one where you could create a mixed up monster thing and another one where you could create cakes or follow orders given and you make those cakes. I used to play it with nothing else to do. Those were the best days, always quiet and peaceful.
Tornado.
Everyone jumps around the trampoline in a circle mimicking a tornado. We all die. We “wake up,” in heaven, and the mission is to earn our angel wings so we can fly. The kid who jumps the highest gets their wings.
Baseball with a football... You throw the football and play baseball the same except you can peg... A ball would be a throw to the person that was out of reach and a strike would be if you didn't catch it while in reach.
We called it "Bury". If you were sure that no parents were going to be around for a while and me and my sister would grab every blanket, pillow and bed sheet in the house. Then one person with lie on the bed while the other covered them with every piece of fabric we could. then time how long it would take to make your way out.
Foot wars. Me and my brother would sit on either end of the sofa facing each other with a cushion between our feet (knees bent).... First person to force the cushion away wins a point.
I can't believe no ones mentioned Doctors and Nurses..
dymbob · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shag A Pole"
Probably more bullying than anything else, but the older boys would, mid-game of whatever else we were playing, gang up on one particular younger kid and hold each of their limbs. The victim would then have their genitals repeatedly rammed into the nearest pole or tree while everybody else cheered and chanted SHAG A POLE! SHAG A POLE!
Glasgow is a crazy city.
Oh, me and my best friend had some fucked up games as kids.
"The Mummy." When we were going down some rather creepy place or alley, one of us would scream " THE MUMMY" from the top of their lungs. And then we would run for our lives until we couldn't run anymore. Presumably my friend watched The Mummy at some point and as a child less than 10 years old, it scared the shit out of him.
"The giggle monster." I tried to literally translate it from the German fantasy name "Das Kichermonster", which is essentially the same game as above, just with "the giggle monster" instead of the mummy.
"Ball fight." Us and some friends played a variation of soccer and football, with the only goal being: get the ball, keep the ball. There were no rules except for no spitting.
"Dark fight." The same as ball fight, just in the dark and without the ball. Does it make sense? No it doesn't, and it never did.
"Bollocks throwing." We would sit in a room across each other and open our legs. Then we'd try to throw a tennis ball into each other's private parts. I hope we're still going to be able to have kids some day.
If "child" encompasses late teens, at uni some of my rock climbing mates and I used to play Hot Cars in the summer and Cold Cars in the winter on our way to/from the climbing wall or site.
Hot Cars: keep the windows up, sunroof closed, fan heater to full. First to open a window or turn the A/C on is buying the first round
Cold Cars: windows down, sunroof open (in proper cold weather) or in milder cold weather, windows shut but A/C on full chill. First to turn the heat up is... Well, you get the idea.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yellow car" is a fun car game to play with family, friends and anyone else on a road trip. It goes like this:
If you see any non commercial vehicle with yellow color you call out "yellow car!". First person with a set number of points wins (normally we play to 10).
Standard cars and SUVs = 1pt.
Jeep 4x4 = 5pt.
Motorcycle / scooter = 10pt.
I made up a game called “Q” where two people would swing back and forth at opposite times and then when I said “Q!” We’d grab hands and swing wildly everywhere. It was very fun.
My mom used to have us play “sleepy girls” where for ten minutes we’d do things pretending to be sleepy.
“Oh pretend to cook like you’re sleepy”
“Run in place like a sleepy girl”
It always ended in a nap 🤦🏾♀️😂
I made up something called "oops I lost my glasses." One person pretended to drop their glasses, close their eyes, and feel around the room for someone. Whoever got touched was the person who had to lose their glasses next. The people who were being chased after had to stay in one room, but they were able to throw things at the person who had their eyes closed to throw them off their trail.
You draw a circle with a knife, and divide it by number of players. Each player had a knife and the goal was to throw it into the ground and cut off a piece of another players ground. The trick was, you had to successfully stand in your land to throw the knife. So if you were losing hard, you'd be balancing on one foot on your tippy toes.
“Killed the coolest”. Basically you were supposed to fall down (on sand) from some part of a playground you could climb up on when being “shot” by another kid. The one who fell down in the most extraordinarily cool way won. Bonus if you did not hurt yourself (too much). Think old western movie, someone falling down a house. That’s how you were supposed to be “killed”.
There would be two teams and a bag of chips. Usually Doritos because it’s what my mom always bought. One team would start out with the bag, and the other would turn around and count so they could get away. The goal was to eat as many Doritos as you could before the other team tagged you. If you got tagged you had to handover the bag and let them run away. Whoever finished the entire bag first won.
One time I was playing with my friend, and my sister and her friend were on the other team. They ran upstairs and locked themselves in the barn and ate all of them. We got so pissed we returned with rubber band guns and shot them down when they presented the empty bag. Needless to say, that was the last time we played that game with them.
Me, my brother, and my friend played night crawlers bofore we ever saw iasip, we would make the room pitch black and then just fuck around with each other
Me and my younger brother created a mini universe. A whole cast of characters in different worlds.
If I remember correctly there was Persilick, Diabolic, rockman and a few more 'good guys' that I can't recall anymore. They fought against, Grinder and various monstrous species. We acted out every character, changed our voices, our stance and behaviour. The whole shabang.
Thinking back it would've mostly been recreations of kung fu movies, power rangers, Doctor who etc.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand apart with about 200 ft of space between us. Each of us would be wearing a paintball mask. One of us would have a paintball gun. We would shoot at each other and dodge the paintballs. If you got hit in the mask, it was game over for you. Very fun, very painful.
“Trapped” which was played in a dark basement. Started in an enclosed room with two exits- a regular door and a square hole that opened into a closet that also started off shut. The It person shut the door and the closet door, everyone else inside. Goal was to make it to the safe zone- the stairs without being caught. Some strategy involved being multiple exits and places to hide outside the starting room. But the last person left was usually sacrificial and rarely also made it. Oh and lots of injuries involved due to metal pipes that inevitably were run into in the darkness and adrenaline fueled escape attempts. Good memories.
Super late to the party, but my brother, cousins and I created Gockey. It was essentially a similar idea to hockey, but used one of those mini soccer balls, golf clubs instead of hockey sticks, was played in the dirt field beside the house and used two over turned water troughs that weren’t being used for life stock. The closest to hockey we could get when we were young and was a blast, minus the fact that it really jacked up my dad’s golf clubs... Haven’t thought about it in years though haha.
Jet Set Radio Future for the O.G. XBOX. It was such a dynamic open-world game that involved graffiti-spraying inline skating teens in Tokyo and you compete with rival skating gangs either to race them or out-spray them in order to dominate parts of Tokyo. It's such an amazing game and the graphics were phenomenal with soaring skyscrapers and being able to navigate through different parts of Futuristic Tokyo and and the OST was top-notch which was mainly electronica, hip-hop, and sample-pop music and one of the best soundtracks I ever heard.
Best childhood ever
Hmblcf · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ballcycle, you play football (soccer, not that other rugby-like game) but on a bike.
Growing up I was younger than my brother and much smaller than he and my cousin. We loved to play a bunch of different games but the best game by far was “Gnome Football” which was played in my basement. 2v1 both of them versus me. To make up for the size and coordination difference and the lack of size in my basement they would play on their knees and I wouldn’t, the best part was that if I escaped them once it didn’t matter because getting from one wall to the other was only 3 yards, so I had to turn back and re-enter the war zone. I don’t quite remember the rest of the format and rules exactly but it worked out really well and was a great time. Surprisingly we received little to no injuries and only broke 1 window from a successful field goal.
I live out in the country and we would play a game called Hostage late at night. There were two teams and you started at the home base (usually the Waffle House). Each team would have 10 min to take one hostage from the other team blindfolded and take them to a random location. This could be a farm, a random parking garage, the middle of nowhere, anywhere you could get in 10 min. Once the hostage was dropped off, they had to count to 20, then they could take off the blindfold, figure out where they were and find a way to contact their team to pick them up. First team back to the home base wins.
It was so fun but also so dangerous. The fact that none of us were hurt, kidnapped or murdered after being repeatedly dropped off in fields, alone, with no form of communication is a miracle. But it was still lots of fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the swing sets we would have people swinging back and forth, and the rest of us would try and run underneath them without getting nailed. Many bloody noses were witnessed.
We had this game at school called "Catching". Basically extreme catch. You'd stand on opposite sides of a field with a tennis ball and throw it like Deku threw that ball at practice in BNHA to the other side of the field. Groups of at least 3 people on each side so there was a better chance at catching it. Then whoever caught it would toss it back as quickly as they could trying to get the other team to miss a catch.
We had a golden retriever and whenever we went for walks with her I'd chase her in the field and try to catch her by just diving after her while shouting "in the name of the king".
So there are these bugs called Chicken Chockers, which are the larva of Tiger Beetles IIRC. They look like a nightmare fusion between a worm, a grub, with the face of a Stag Bertle. They can be extremely aggressive, but you have to fish one out. You had to find a Chicken Choker hole. (Its just a hole with no mound) and the top of a pine needle down there (make sure there is only one pine). Then let go and wait for it to wiggle. Once it wiggles, pull it out SUPER FAST and youve fished yourself a chicken choker.
We made arenas, seeing what animal would survive the aggression if the Chicken Choker. I do realize now that this is wrong.
We played a game called the cow game. My brother and I each had our side of the road and you would count cows on that side. Who ever had the most cows at the end of the drive won. If you saw a military base or missile silo you could nuke the other persons cows.
"Fighting in the Dark". We would block all the windows in the basement and search around until we found each other. No punching in the face or anything, but everything else was pretty much fair game. This continued right until early highschool...
We played brick fight. We would build opposing forts out of cardboard or other scrap materials and stockpile bricks in each fort. Then we would hurl bricks trying to break down the other fort and hit our opponent. Lots of fun but I dont know how we survived childhood.
We also played calvinball which was pretty fun, I recommend it.
All those bullshitty games on tiny CDs that came with cereal where the whole point was to fly a plane trough a terribly designed world to a circle or whatever
Around 1994 so about 5 years prior to the launch of super smash Bros for N64 my brothers and I used to run around the yard pretending to be video game characters fighting eachother. We would pick whatever we wanted from whatever game and just pretend to beat on one another.
Leonardo, megaman, Mario, Fox, yoshi,
Imagine our surprise when we saw the first smash trailer.
Roadkill game. Be the first to identify roadkill on a car trip, you get points. Something like a squirrel would be 3 points. Raccoon, 5. Dog, 15 but you're a monster for calling it. Deer were like 30 or something ridiculous. Everything was double if you were the one to hit it, but not if you did it on purpose. (This was added as consolation because no one likes hitting an animal)
The only person to ever get banned from the roadkill game was my best friend's oldest brother, who hit a horse and totalled his truck. Friend was a Horse Girl and since we invented it we agreed all his points were invalid from now on lmao
Before Pictionary, we played a ridiculously funny game called Dictionary. The player in charge found a really obscure word and all other players wrote out a definition. The most believed, if incorrect, won the round. Word Eg, Snip snap snorem, Nizam.
BONUS: Learned lots of obscure words and how to lie convincingly!
Never named it but we would punt the top of a football (American) so it would roll on the ground and it could take a huge bounce at any second. You had to not let the ball get passed you. Ruined a couple good footballs playing this.
Used to play a game with my older sister we dubbed "suke-it the sock-it" where we would throw socks at the ceiling fan, if you got one on top of the fan blades it would spin it around for a couple seconds before launching it to a random place in the room. There was no real winner or loser, but we competed to see who could have the socks land in the funniest places. Lost a lot of socks that way. Worth it. Nothing makes a kid laugh harder than a sock launched from a fan into a fish bowl.
When my sister, cousin and I were kids we used to play the SEAL GAME, as in the animal seal.
Both my cousin and I pretended to be seals and therefore we could only crawl in the ground or move around by bouncing in the floor like a seal without being able to use our hands.
My sister who was the only human had to take care of the seals so she would cook imaginary seal food and throw blankets over us so that we could fall asleep etc.
We even folded a mattress into a U shape and pretended that was the seal cave so we would crawl in there.
Sounds silly but I was one of the funnest things we ever did together.
Velxin · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play in “Dreamworld” with my friends during elementary school. It was basically a real life rpg with kingdoms, races, currency and quests all within our playground. I was the “Dragon King of Cinder” and my friend was a dragon. It was fun going on adventures and switching roles so it was more immersive. Eventually we got alot of people to play with us and had a blast doing so
we played 'ledgies' at a local public school in the summers of my youth c. ages 5 to 10; you'd get a sponge or india rubber ball and bounce it off the wall of the school. The brick walls had a thick concrete kind of 'baseboard' at the bottom which ran around the whole school up to around 2 feet or so, which had a really wide sort of ledge at the top with around a 45 deg angle. So the goal was to hit this ledge and the ball, instead of hitting the ground as it returned to you from a bounce off the brick wall above, would fly up straight at you and you had to catch it. You'd get one point for each catch. You'd do it head to head against another kid and first to 10 won. Also, you could stand on the ledge, with our little kid feet, and hold on with your fingers in the gaps between the bricks; so this game was to see how far around the school you could go without falling off. That ledge was all we had but we had fun with it.
When I was a kid I played this game with my friend where one of us would get under the bed sheets, place all of pillows, and sometimes ourselves, on top of them. We then had to see how quickly we could get out.
Man-hunt. All the boys would split in half and one side would hide the other half would search military style. We had walkie talkies and everything. Losers would have to sneak snacks to the winners house for the sleep-over.
Family all grew up together in the same neighborhood so we had no boundaries.
My brother and I had a very excitable cocker spaniel who would jump on anyone who moved too quickly. He and I would set up a baby gate in the doorway to our kitchen and strip down to our underwear. We would then bolt to the gate, pushing each other along the way, finally jumping over it. Whoever didn't have claw marks all down their legs was the winner.
Pirate Baseball Not me but a game I made up with my kids and the neighborhood kids.
I was the pitcher in the swimming pool with a splash ball and the kids took turns batting with a Noodle Float. When they hit the ball, they had to swim to the far side of the pool before I could retrieve the ball and tag them. If they could get to the other side the next kid had a chance to bat them home (again they had to swim back to where the "home plate" was before I could tag them with the ball).
I lost almost every game, but we played almost every week for a whole summer.
My friends and I made a game called Survival. It was sort of like "battle royale" tag where someone was it and the other people had 30 seconds to run and whoever got tagged was also it. Last person standing won.
Me and my two sisters used to play a game where I (would have been about 4 at the time, and I’m a male) was a little girl named Alice, and my sisters were horses. They’d borrow my mum and dads dressing gowns, and use the belts as tails.
They’d gallop around the house and I’d have to try and pull their tails off. Once I had pulled their tails off, they’d turn into a pile of flowers until the other sister could come and turn them back into a horse. (Or if I turned them both into flowers, then I’d win the game)
We also had a game called ‘Sacré bleu’ where we would get a magnifying glass and look at random objects in the house and say ‘sacré bleu’
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called windmill! We would go on long trips and whenever you saw one you had to yell it “WINDMILL” whoever had the most by the end of the trip won
I read the title thinking video games but realised it wasn't from everyone's comments. My sister and I modified the board game mouse trap and called our version mouse friend where we would help the mice get around the board and avoid the traps
My sister , my cousin, and I played "Sealard". It was just a funny word my sister made up when she was like four or five and it became the name of a mythical creature we created. We laughed about it all day and without really meaning to created a game were one person is the creature chasing the other two. The person playing the creature is covered in a blanket and runs around trying to attack the others without really being able to see. Once you got bored of being under the blanket you would try to wrap up one of the others in the blanket and they would become the monster. We used other props that we found in the battle to make it more interesting, and mostly just ran around laughing and yelling nonsense. Over the years we created a rich tapestry of convoluted backstory to the monster involving demons, mad scientists, prophecies, time travel, and alternate dimensions. It was weird.
We called it "vangbalspelleke" (or as we retardedly called it "vangspalbelleke"), which basically means "catch-ball-game".
The game was played with one guy (my bro or me) on the trampoline and we had a small, foldable goal (TheKage from Kipsta). Our garden was fairly long, but it wasn't al that broad, so we didn't have that many options.
The setup was basically, when you walk into the garden; the goal facing the opposite way of you, then about 10 meters of free/defenders space, then a line, which split the garden in a zone before the goal and a zone just in front of the the trampoline, and then came the trampoline.
Anyway, the guy outside the trampoline threw the ball over the net surrounding it (yes, it proved useful on many other occasions) and the guy inside had to try and catch it without dropping it to the trampoline-floor. When he didn't catch it, the thrower got the ball back. However, if he managed to catch it properly, he got the chance to shoot the target (goal) at the other end of the garden. The thrower outside had to prevent the ball from going into the net, but he could only cross the line to the defensive zone when the catcher had grasped the ball. So it was basically a sprint versus the ball.
When the catcher scored, point for him and unlucky for the thrower. After a game of 6 minutes we changed positions and when we each did one of each (or two sometimes), we looked who scored the most points, obviously, won.
Would've been more practical probably if we did put the trampoline on the other side, because I can confirm, the window that overlooked the garden still had round spots on it even on the day we sold the house. Good times never come back...
Aevc · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for this game but I had a glow in the dark plastic machete that had been part of a Halloween costume. We would turn off all the lights in the house and one person would start with the machete. Everyone else would hide and whenever we thought we saw someone we would throw the machete at them and it was basically glow in the dark dodgeball it was really fun but we weren’t allowed to play anymore after breaking some stuff throwing the machete around.
svezia · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fir-cone war our school area was riddled with trees. Every break we created 2 groups with about 15 people each. The Girls would go around and gather Fir-cones and bring them to a secret camp. The boys would split up in small groups attacking the enemys groups and taking the gatherers hostage. It would mostly be small skirmishes but if one team manages to have most of the fir-cones they would attack the enemy camp forcing them to relocate. If all the gatheres were taken and one team was dominating the other they won.
‘My baby’. My brother and I (we’re both boys) were probably 4 and 6 respectively, still sharing baths. In the bath. You get a flannel wet. Each hold one end in your mouth and proceed to have tug of war using your teeth, whilst shouting ‘my baby!’. It’s kind of mega messed up and strange to think about this now. I’m 24. Should maybe have a game of it sometime.
The game. The idea of the game is to forget the game but you get points (that you don’t tally) for reminding others about the game, starting the game again. The longer you could go without mentioning the game before somebody els mentions it the better. Literally did this for years. Months would pass, we’d be going about our business when one of us would stop mid sentence, look into the distance and whisper “the game”. you’d be surprised the reaction it used to get.
Me and my brother made a game called "it" were one person would go on the floor and spin a quarter and the other would sit in a chair and try to drop a penny on it
Had 2 siblings similar ages growing up. We all drove in the car together often. My dad tricked us into putting our seatbelts on and not arguing about seats by saying “first one to put their seatbelt on, touch the roof and say ‘finished’ gets to sit in the front seat next time we are in the car.”
2 door car. Competition was fierce if you were in the back.
I still do, but when I'm on car rides, the poles of landlines would be kind of like checkpoints. The cars in between the poles would be like obstacles, and in order to jump over them you would have to blink.
I was a smelly kid, so we would play “stink tag,” which was basically me chasing everyone around as a toddler when I needed a shit. Either I’m just a really smart kid and didn’t care , or I was completely oblivious to why we would play it
I made sure there was a large enough clearing in the living room for me to march in a big circle, and make sure that I had my nightgown on. Once it was time to play, I would pull the skirt of the gown over my head and imagine I was a giant running muffin person, or the "muffin man". I would march in the circle with the dress covering my face and I would inaccurately sing the muffin man song while doing so, and after a few round of it my little sister would throw herself on the floor (she was the log) and trip me over.
Our fun game growing up was called scuttlebutt! Four or five people would be swinging on the swings at different intervals and you would have to run through with out getting hit. Definitely not the smartest game to play.
We played kick cricket! We had a long Hall so one would stand at one end and bowl a tennis ball to the person at the other end who then had to kick the ball and run from end to end as many times as they could before getting out. Good times
Not so much a unique game but when you were playing tag to decide who was IT first we had stupid songs to figure like "ip,dip, dog, shit, fucking bastard, silly got, you are not it." I don't know if this is a well known thing but there were loads of these stupid rhymes that I can't remember
"kowabunga!" We piled every cushion from every couch in the house in our sunken living room, and proceeded to sprint down the hall and jump into them while yelling "KOWABUNGAAAAA" as loud as we could. It was sweet
Real time Risk. I Drew a fantasy or real world map which I divided into regions where 1 was controlled by a player. These maps where huge and we played it with 5 to 6 people. Everyone was also free to chose their own faction. It was turn based which meant that each player could attack a neighbouring region which was either controlled by another player or an "npc" faction. We fought the Battle with wooden swords or bows if it was medieval based and bb Guns when it was a modern war. It was really fun and I feel nostalgic thinking about it.
We created a game called spinny. We would lock arms and each face alternate directions. We would proceed to spin as fast as we could. We would get very dizzy and fall over. It was great.
We also played jaws on an open back deck. We would scream "JAWS GOT CHRIS" and throw them off the back deck. It was rough, but fun.
The names pretty self explanatory, you get a point for every yellow car you see, and you have to shout yellow car.
There were 2 main rules. 1, if you see the same car twice in 5 minutes (drive up and down a road looking for a parking space) it only counted once. 2, first to 100 wins.
However, yellow cars are very rare - so you need more equally rare cars to gain points, here's a list of cars, their points and what you said to win them.
Yellow car - "Yellow Car" - 1 point
Soft Top- "Soft Top" - 1 point
Mini Cooper - "Mini Pinch" - 1 point
Union Jack Roofed Mini - "Mini Union" - 2 points
Same model car as you - "Snap" - 2 points
Same model car as you and same colour - "Double Snap" - 5 points
Same model car as you and same colour and year - "Snaperoo" - 10 points
Any classic car - "Classic" - 10 points
Any super car - "Vroom" - 50 points
You could also mix cars. So, for example, if you saw a classic mini cooper in yellow with a union jack, you would say "Classic Yellow Mini Union Pinch" and get 13 points.
There were optional actions too, where you would pinch the person next to you for a mini pinch - and slap someone on the arm gently for a yellow car - but it could be dangerous so we stopped playing with those rules.
It was a very fun game and made long journeys much more enjoyable. Plus it has the added benefit of teaching children to look out for stuff on the road when they do learn to drive.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bowling". 1 person would be the ball and the rest if us would have to stand in a bowling pin formation. The ball would have to roll and try to knock the pins down. Fun, but painful.
Me and my old friend used to make commercials for stupid crap that the other one picked and act them out. We had a lot of fun selling whatever we could think up. I miss him, man
my dad told me he used to play hide the belt with his brothers. also they would get boxes or something to use as a sled and slide down big hills that had a lot of dry pine leaves and stuff. its really slippery, i went hiking there once and slipped.
Garage ball, rules every changing, it needed a kick ball and a garage to kick it into with the door open
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Monkey Feet." It required our empty dining room, and one pair of cotton winter gloves. My siblings and I would go head to head, each sibling with a glove on their right foot, and we'd try our best to wrestle the other glove off of the other's foot. We'd end up covered in sweat and mild rug burns, but it was super fun.
I Am Still Kinda A Child And I Will Be Playing Iroh Pai Sho From Avatar The Last Airbender In A Week With My Dad After Constantly Winning In Checkers :)
We used to play “curb ball” in England. Each person would stand on the curb across from each other then throw a basket ball to the opposite curb. The goal was to hit the edge of the curb and make the ball bounce back to you, then you’d run and catch it trying each time to get closer to the other curb. Once you reached the curb on the other side you’d get a point, the other player would go to the other side and start again. We played for hours even making a team version where we’d divide everyone to each curb and when the whole team got across you’d win or get a point, that depended on when it got dark and the game was over.
We’d pull the couch out and essentially just run in a circle trying to tag someone. Naturally people want to be behind whoever is it, because they presumably run the fastest and there’s no way you can get tagged if you’re behind the tagger, which is where the reverse part comes in.
Once a round, whoever is it can tell “Reverse!” And the circle begins moving in the opposite direction. Whenever someone is tagged, the circle also switches direction.
We also used to play “The Blob” usually in a dark room. One of us would be under the covers and we’d be the blob. The goal was to eat other people and they grab a blanket and become added to the blob.
It’s a nice feeling knowing I, as the older sibling, introduced/invented the two games that marked mine and my siblings childhood so well.
Close all the doors in the hallway, put our heads inside pillow cases, pillow in front of our faces, run around bumping into each other until someone got hurt and cried.
when we where kids my friends use to bring a leaf of bread put it on the floor then we all gathered around it then the last that came on the toast had to eat it
We would play horse with a deck chair under water. Set a trick for example loop the deck chair 4 times then do a kickflip . As you can imagine got ridiculous after a while the tricks you would have to set
My sister created this Game called "BALL- GO" and the premise of the game was i stood on top of the bed and she would stand on the floor and kick a physio ball at me as hard as she could.. I didn't see that this was just an excuse to kick the thing at me until years later
Me and my brothers (and friends) would play “Cat’s Meow”. Essentially we had a finished basement that we’d all go down into that was a maze of furniture and poles. One person would get blindfolded and they had to try and run around and tag anyone else in the basement. Here’s the catch - anyone without a blindfold on could hit/beat the person who was blindfolded with pillows and other semi reasonable stuff that wouldn’t kill them, but we got really creative. We had a pool table and we’d often lure the blindfolded person to the end and then two people (one on either side of the pool table) would run with a blanket stretched like a rope across the table and just absolutely demolish them with a clothesline. Many people got hurt but it was awesome and as long as no one told the parents we were good, we all suffered a bit.
If the person with the blindfold on actually tagged someone then the tagged person had to “Meow” like a cat out loud. If the tagged could identify who it was then the blindfold changed to that person.
Car cricket - on a road trip, count all the cars you pass, until you pass a red one. The number of cars you passed is your score, and then the next person in the car is in. Highest score wins.
When I was in elementary school, we would play this game we called "Pinned", where basically there were two teams- guys and girls, and then each team would take turns trying to pin the opposite sex against playground equipment or the fence. Thinking back to it, there was no winning and it seems a little raunchy
My younger brother & I used to have drawing contests; I was always the judge (cause I'm older & wiser, duh!). No matter how hard he worked on his drawing, I was always the winner. I'd critique/dismantle his art, pointing out every flaw, then comparing it to how amazing mine was. He cried pretty much every time. I was basically a huge asshole as a kid, always making that particular brother cry
"Cars go by" So when my brother and I were too young for closing the bathroom door, the bathroom with a door in the middle of our upstairs hall was the spot for "cars go by". Whoever was on the toilet would watch the other pretend to be various crazy drivers going by/running down the hall. In retrospect it's super weird and embarrassing, but at the time it was fun to act silly/watch someone be silly. And I guess laughter helped move things along for whoever was on the toilet.
All the kids in the neighborhood had a cap gun. We'd have major cap gun shootouts... Was also a pretty rough area to live in to..
Kagaro · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Willy cruncher. We just ran up to each other and smashed with a our palm then clamped down and crushed the victims willy while yelling "willy cruncher"
"Turkey". Whenever I went to my grandparent's house for holidays I would beg to play this game. I was the hunter looking for a turkey for dinner and one of my lucky relatives got to be my turkey. I would choose my bird by pretending to shoot them with my hunting rifle and they would fall out of their chair onto the floor. Then, I would "carve" them up and get them ready for dinner.
I have no idea how this started but it was played at least once per holiday for longer than I would like to admit.
Our playground at primary school has one corner that had been repeatedly painted over (never sure why). It resulted in a tangled mess of lines, some straight, some curved that all overlapped each other.
I basically made a game of tag, but you had to walk down a line, you could only change lines at a point where two crossed and you could only tag someone on the same line as you, so you have maneuver carefully to try and avoid getting tagged.
So you had a bunch of 4th graders doing lines in the playground.
Apparently other grades were still playing it after I left so I felt pretty proud that I started a new thing.
Not a game, but a 'toy' that I had. I was probably 8 or so and my dad bought me a replica cannon at a flea market which probably date back to the 50's. It came with chemicals that you packed into the barrel and was ignited at the other end. This thing legit went off with a fiery boom every time. It was terrifying and awesome at the same time.
Oh man, I have a bunch, but here are a few of the best:
The first is my favorite, and I still 'play' it all the time. I call it the texture game. Basically you look at something and imagine what it will feel like, then feel it to find out if you imagined the feeling correctly. Simple, but can surprise you! This game definitely changed after I was old enough to start trying mind altering substances. You start being wrong a lot more.
We used to play a lot of games on the trampoline. We had a giant bucket of golf balls that we would dump out and then jump around until only one was left. We split up the golf balls between us like teams and tried to get ours to be the winner by jumping near the other balls and hope that you dont come down hard on one straight to the arch of your foot.
Another good one was the dance competition called "are you a diva or are you having a seizure"... and if the dance was deemed to suck, everyone else would yell SEIZUH! SEIZUH! (Basically seizure in a Boston accent). Ahhhh good times.
We used to play a game called ‘Werewolf’, a younger kid would pretend to be a werewolf and we’d basicly just throw him around and repeatedly throw him into hedges. Its weird to think about now because we used to be pretty harsh throwing him around, but we all loved it
Snake Mongoose! You and a sibling kneel facing each other, hands clasped behind your back. One of you is the snake, and has to hiss. The other is the mongoose, and has to make mongoose noises. (I still don't know what those are; mostly I just made aggressive phlegmy noises.) Then you try to knock the other one over. Generally this has to be done by hooking them with your neck. Or, if you're my sister, by wildly throwing your entire body at your opponent. Whomever ends up on top wins.
See also: Flinger. You get on the swings and fling your shoes as far as you can. Bonus points for getting them on the roof of the house. Flinger pro-tip: if it's muddy, remember to bring an extra pair of shoes for the retrieval process.
Yellow car. There wasn’t really a running score, but if you spotted a yellow car you got one point. A yellow bus 2 points. A yellow plane/helicopter 5-10 points.
i used my box of yu gi oh cards to invent a sort of dungeons and dragon's game where the monsters my characters would fight and the scenarios that happened were randomly chosen by which of my cards I drew
i think it would actually sell quite well, get on that konami
My sister and I would try to get lost in our house. One person would be blindfolded, and spin around until their guesses as to their direction were confirmed as completely wrong by the sighted person, and they'd decide you were ready. Then, crawling, they would try to find the door.
The best part of the game was constructing the room in your mind, because you'd go the direction you thought was correct, and find furniture in completely bizarre places, and
the room would look suddenly completely strange in your mind's eye. The round was over when you figured out where you were, and made it to the door.
Wiffle Ball Golf - it was basically dodge ball of sorts except everyone had a golf club (real one) and a plastic wiffle ball that you would hit at the other players to try and get them out. If you got hit with a ball you would be out. If you missed someone you would run after your ball to take aim at the next person. It hurt like crazy if you were close and nailed.
Honestly not sure how no one got seriously hurt or that we were allowed to do this given all the swinging golf clubs... We were probably like 9-10 years old - it was a blast.
Pillow fort making, me and my bro would make forts, then try to destroy the others fort. I really enjoyed that. Nother game we play, and kinda still do, is Cruise Ship Hide in Seek. You go to a section of the cruise ship with walkie talkies , and give himts to the other. Side note - The Casino js a great place to hide
Levitation. We had three families of kids who would get together for entire weekends. The eight of us kids would levitate each other, especially the big boys. The person to be levitated would lie on his back on the floor, eyes closed, and everyone would sit around him with two fingers from each hand under the edge of his body. One of us would sit at his head and tell a tale of his death. After the story ended we would all take turns saying, "and then he died." The story teller would remind the body to be "light as a feather, stiff as a board." Then we would lift him up. Over our heads. With two fingers. Effortlessly. We did this countless times.
My middle brother and I used to play this game called "Tommy loses". Tommy is our youngest brother.
First I'd say "I Win.", then the middle brother would say "I Win." and we'd both say together, "Tommy loses." . If Tommy happened to say "I win." we'd both look at him and say "No, Tommy, you lose."
This went on for years. Tommy is now a plumber who enjoys the company of men. Still not sure if our games affected him.
Your team. When you are out and about with someone, you pick and choose another person you see and say "Your team." The goal of the game is to make the other persons team worse than yours. It is a mean spirited game.
Pigwidgeon Ball: we’d jump on the trampoline with various sizes of balls. Then we would pretend the balls were owls from Harry Potter. The small ones would be Pigwidgeon, the bigger ones Hedwig, ones that went in odd directions were Errol. If you got hit by an “owl” you were out. I have no idea why we came up with that particular idea, but we thought it was hilarious and fun
While in Home Depot or Lowe's, this involved walking around the store until one of us said "Furbies hide!" And then we'd all disappear into the shelves until the person who called the alert would say "Furbies safe!". Our parents hated this game.
The blob, you hide under a blanket or sheet and crawl around blindly trying to 'eat' people. If you got caught then you were part of the blob.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Canadian Dodge Ball". It's very different from dodge ball though.
There's one ball, and only one player can hold it at a time. Once they have the ball they have to freeze in place, and they can either try to throw it at someone (below the face) to make them "out", or they can try to pass it to someone by bouncing the ball against the ground. However, if someone catches the ball before it touches the ground, the person who threw the ball is out. Once one player remains the game is over.
It's pretty fun, but I haven't played it in nearly a decade.
I had a game called slimy cat where I would dump my mother’s olive oil on our cat and then chase it around naked trying to catch it, and if I caught it I got to fuck it
Edit: Also, my best friend and I always played like if it was a Diablo in real life, it was awesome, sticks and invisible enemies, we've had everything.
Gerefa · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby olympics anyone???
astnla · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Geometry Wars 2! Not that many people knew of this game and it’s really sad because the game is gorgeous. It was supposed to represent more of a retro shooter like Galaga, except with a modern twist. The game is still 2-D but a lot less 8-bit. It takes place within a square / more rectangular shape, and the enemies spawn randomly in corners, or various places within the screen. It’s very flashy, and has bright beautiful vivid colors. It’s also got party play (local). Honesty it’s one of the most beautiful, fun, laidback but interesting games I’ve ever played.
The one game mode that really intrigued me was “Pacifism.” It relied on killing the enemies by passing through gates rather than killing them by shooting. This one is the second most challenging one in my opinion and I hold a record of almost 900 million to this day.
There are other game modes like “Waves.” This game mode has enemies that go in a straight line, back and forth on the screen and it’s usually a row coming from the top or bottom/left or right. The spawning increases rapidly overtime.
Another favorite is “King.” This one includes circles on the map that allow the player to shoot while inside of them. Each circle lasts about 5 seconds, then you have to hop to another one while avoiding them while you’re on the move. The circle acts sort of as a haven but you have to move quick when the circle shrinks and disappear otherwise you’ll run into an enemy and die.
Last one of my favorites is “Sequence.” This one is one the most difficult ones but fun if you have a party (make sure the party is good because you all share the same amount of lives.) In sequence, you’re fighting through 4 rows of 5 levels (20 total) of enemies spawning while also dealing with a timer, so you have to kill the enemies quickly in each round before the timer runs out. It’s usually easy with the first phase of the round, but after you kill the starter enemies, more spawn and you have to quickly kill the second phase of enemies. The game gets harder and harder as you progress but you have 3 lives, and earn more lives after a certain amount of points. I’m pretty sure it’s every 200,000 points.
Overall, the game is a very well thought out game with a total of 6 game types. I just narrowed it down my favorite 4/6. I still have yet to find someone to disappoint with this game. It’s very addicting, fun, rage filling, and beautiful with the graphics. I strongly recommend, or even looking it up just to see how it is. It’s a very fun game, and is also backwards compatible on Xbox One! Just remember it’s Geometry Wars 2: Retro Evolved. Not GO1, GO3. GO2!!!!
Aelis_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were young, my sister and I would play a game we called Crocodile Chase. We'd gather every pillow in the house and design a course for each of us from one side of the house to the other, then hop from one pillow to the other on one leg until we made it all the way across, normally to jump onto the couch or a bed, or, when we felt particularly adventurous, we'd have built a fort out of chairs and blankets that was our safe house. You could only stay on a pillow for 5 seconds though, and of course, if you stepped off, you were eaten by crocodiles.
Punch bug is one a lot of people know, but no one know's "18-wheeler (loury) willy."
If we saw an 18-wheeler on the road, we could give someone nearby a wet willy. This, for the few who don't know, is the act of wetting your finger with spit and then sticking in someone's ear.
It started as many fights between my siblings and me as you can imagine
My brother and i had a game whenever we went out. We would spot fashion faux pas and score points for it. Eg. Sandles with socks, 10 points etc. The worse the faux pas, the higher the points. I dont exactly remember what's the rest but it included jeans with flip flops etc.
No my bro is not gay. We are not fashionistas. We only spot very obvious fashion disasters like a walking christmas trees. It wasnt like we could pick out the minute ones like " that top doesnt match that skirt." At the end of the day we would tabulate the score.
Night Ball...We would go into a friends basement and turn all of the lights off. It was pitch black and then we would throw balls around the room trying to hit each other. It was carnage. Besides being blasted by a ball at any moments notice there were also the obstacles, like chairs and walls, that you would run into.
We would all about 5/6 of us would hide under the duvet making sure there's no gaps and then one person would be the monster. The lights would be switched off they had to try to get their hands under the duvet and drag someone out. It was terrifying, but probably the best game ever as a child.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Others may have done this, but we loved playing hide and seek with Pictochat on our Nintendo DS's. We would ask for clues to find each other by typing messages on our DS. I figured out that I can find people by looking at how good my connection was, the better it was, the closer I was to them. Guess you can say I'm pro.
fenn2b · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sacrifice,” how it was played was my older siblings on the swing set, and then myself and my two younger siblings walk in front of the swing set, without changing speed, while chanting “sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice!” There were no winners to this game. We would just try not to get kicked by the older siblings on the swing.
I recall building an elaborate city out of mud, dirt, and rocks and then, realizing I would never feel proud if it, demolished it before anyone else could see it. I don't think I ever told anyone before, and still have never really felt pride in anything.
On a cheerier note, when I did have some other kids to play with, we realized that we all liked batting but not really any other aspect of baseball, so we'd take turns pitching crab apples instead of baseballs. A little smaller and harder to hit, but really satisfying when they exploded and no chasing after them.
South Texas raised. We used to have speargrass battles in the fields. We also would play rock castle war, since our school had that white gravel everywhere instead of grass. We built mounds and makeshift forts out of small sticks and then we would take turns throwing on rocks at a time trying to knock down all sticks/ walls
Monkey catcher. It was sorta like sharks and minnows. Basically, you and about five others would run around the yard trying not to get caught by the monkey catcher (he would catch you by throwing a hula hoop over your head) until a certain amount of time was over, then you could run onto the porch and be safe. It was fun, and a lot harder and longer than sharks and minnows for the catcher.
On our way home from visiting family, once we got to a certain point on the highway, my parents, sister and I would try to guess if we had any messages on the answering machine when we got home, and if so, how many? We could tell right away when we came in because our answering machine back then would blink once if there was one message and twice if there were two or more.
It was a simpler time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard. A nightime version of hide and seek. Olle olle oxen free. First time I saw that in a movie, I screamed. I think it was What's eating Gilbert Grape. or is it Whose? I forget.
I had imaginary horses that I road around. My friend and I both played this game all the time during recess. Basically we just wandered around with our hands out like we were holding reins. Oddly enough neither of us had ridden a horse outside of those little pony rings.
My favorite horse was Sky, a dapple gray mare. Had a new one pretty much daily but she was my favorite.
Me and my friends used to play “scoops” in our elementary school. Two players on either side of a large box line with plastic scoops trying to score at least one of three plastic balls. Nobody ever used the scoops or that area (which was meant for jump rope) so we could always play there.
I know i'm already too late but me but we called it the note game. It was like hide and seek with riddles. Me and my brother almost exclusively played it when we visited our cousins. 2 teams of 2 people but it really doesn't matter. One team hides but they have to give you a note with a riddle. Could be anything that leads you to a picture frame, fridge, cabinet, etc. And there they would find another note. And they just had to keep deciphering notes until they found us.
We had this game called “Butt Bounce” that my siblings and I played on our trampoline. What we did was chose one person who was ‘It’ and we would circle around them as we began bouncing. This person would also bounce simultaneously. On the count of three the person in the middle was to jump as high as they can and land on their butt in the middle of the circle. The goal the rest of us had was to exchange our simultaneous bouncing momentum to the ‘It’ person to make them surpass the six foot netting around our trampoline.We exchanged the momentum by bouncing at full force in the trampoline as the ‘It’ person hit the ground. Once you did that you would switch out the ‘It’ person.
Looking back on it, this game was so dangerous but extremely fun. Once my, at the time, second youngest sister(13) was ‘It’ and she went over the net. Thankfully she went over only a bit and was able to hang on to the net. It was crazy times xD
Me and my friends when I was little created a game called “point.” The premise of the game was there was two teams, each team armed with whatever form of toy guns we could find, and you had to yell point whenever you had aimed at someone. At that exact moment everyone had to freeze, then someone would have to take the gun from the frozen “pointer”, and at the exact angle it was pointed and move it all the way to the person to see if the barrel had hit the person. Depending on where you got shot determined wether you were dead or if you couldn’t use a limb because it was shot. Spent many hours playing this game since we would lose our nerf bullets, in minutes, if we tried to have a nerf war.
my family bought a plastic pool and noodles and we would put water in the middle of the noodles and blow on each end until someone would get a mouthful of water usually choking because you were usually inhaling when you lost
A game called "Murder". It was like a weird mix between Hide and Seek and Tag and Clue.
You drew papers from a hat, not showing anyone your paper, and whoever had the x was the murderer. Then the game began. Everyone would just split up and wander around the area. The person who was the murderer would "murder" a person by giving a person two chops on the back. The person would then lie down and wait to be found. When the victim was found, the person who found them would call out "Murder!" And everyone would convene to figure out who did it. The victim obviously was dead and had to remain silent. When there was a majority agreement on who the murder was, the person being accused would reveal if they were the murderer or not. If they were, game ended and a new game could begin. If they weren't the murderer, the accused were considered dead and another round would commence without those that were dead. The goal for the murderer was to last until they were the very last person alive. If you want to know, you were only supposed to murder one person per round, however if the group was particularly large, we'd allow 2-3 per round if the murderer could get away with it.
It was a fun game with large groups of people because it would sometimes go on for a long af time.
Me and my brother got inside our duvet covers and fought each other when me were young, thinking that it was like a hamster ball but in hine sight we were just chucking haymakers at each other and pushing each other into walls with only a slight restriction of the sheets.
I had imaginary horses that I road around. My friend and I both played this game all the time during recess. Basically we just wandered around with our hands out like we were holding reins. Oddly enough neither of us had ridden a horse outside of those little pony rings.
My favorite horse was Sky, a dapple gray mare. Had a new one pretty much daily but she was my favorite.
so, one time around the age of 10, my bestie and i created a game called “Tam Tam” which can be translated with “Boom Boom”. anyway, it was similar to hide and seek. we all split in two groups and after the countdown RAN the opposite ways. the objective of the game was to hide and then look for the players from the opposite team. (we had a judge to make sure nobody was peeking while running) once u find them, u call out their name and “shoot” them with an imaginary gun and they are out. the team that shoots all the players from the opposite team wins. it was incredibly entertaining to play.
SOCK WARS!!!! Pretty much wrestling, with the objective to take the other persons socks off. It was awesome. My sister and I started doing it right before I started to get stronger than her so it was really a limited time thing.
My brother and I would turn out all the lights at night and walk around the house in the dark while our dad was hiding. The soul purpose was for him to eventually pop out and scream/grab us to scare the shit out of us but we loved it.
Mom was not a fan of this game. And me and my brother fucked our selves up occasionally on the corners of furniture. The things we enjoyed as kids.
My little brother has this trike that came with a drift function and we would do one of 3 things after school.
I would chase his on a scooter until the scooter was hooked into the axle on his trike or one of us fell over and got hurt.
We would create dirt piles and then lay plywood on them just to see how much airtime we could get on the trike.
One of us would stand on the back of the trike and see how long we could wheelie for. This happened very rarely because one time we hit a ginormous crack in the concrete and it send us flying upside down, and we both got concussions. This was in 4th grade for me and 2nd for him.
tradal · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
front mission 3 or suikoden 3
probably not the answer people are looking for. damn good games. unique too.
I think it was just called Spider and Flies, and it used to be a really popular game with my class for years. We had a basketball court with only yellow and white lines, and Spiders were only allowed on one specific colour (can’t remember which) and Flies were only allowed on the other colour. This made it interesting as you could cross into different territories and potentially be caught. It was rely just a fancy game of Line Tag but it was so much fun!
xZora · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle Jack used to share a room with me when I was a kid. He always liked to pal around and get nuts. He always used to take pictures of me with his disposable camera, which I thought was a little weird (he still uses that disposable camera to take pictures for his website).
The strangest part though was that he hid a hard drive under the floorboards at my mom's house.. I don't know the significance, he's a lawyer now so he must have his reasons.
On road trips, we always played the Alphabet Game. Basically, you start with A, and you find any signs/words that started with A. Then you move to B, and so on. On the extra hard ones like X and Z, we would allow a license plate only if it started with that letter. Always a great game to play even alone to try and pass the time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I was riding with someone (IE not driving) I would "skate" between the divider lines with my eyesight and try to weave between them all. Solo "game" I'd play.
Suuuuuper uncool now and once my parents found out about it, the game was over forever, but my uncle played this game with me we called target practice. He would drink and drive and let me throw the bottles out the window and try to hit power poles/trees on the back roads we would take. Also, the "don't lie to your parents it's bad. But if they don't ASK don't TELL."
I very vividly remember hitting tree dead on and being a mite upset it didn't explode like I thought it would.
It’s definitely too late but growing up my twin brother and I had two older brothers who always exposed us to the cool shit all the older kids were into so one of earlier influences we had was Dragon Ball Z. Not only was the fighting cool but the continuous storyline and the style which boils down to a number of things. So basically we made our own characters with different backstories and a general plot line and basic continuity. Us playing this was basically us pretending we had our own anime and it revolves heavily around fighting. The two main characters of the series were Marmaduke, an Iraqi Wookie who’s owner (Marmaduke was originally a Dog) was a baby named “Owner”. They’re both really powerful fighters and one of the main antagonists is Marmaduke’s brother “Gingerious” who hated Marmaduke and wants to kill him. I should mention that the series heavily revolves around comedy, in some ways it was more comedic but ultra violence was sort of our thing. Owner’s main antagonist is “Yakov Shlomo” a Jewish baby who was rivals with Owner for reasons unknown
I didn't grow up in a religious family but I had to go to Sunday school anyways - I also had to go to mass every Sunday morning. I got so used to mass being the same every single time that's I'd get back home and recreate it with plushies- word for word. As an adult I am not sure if I am scared of that or not.
We played "Potato" with our cousins whenever we were at our grandparents house.
Players: 2+
Equipment: Hills Hoist (rotary clothesline for the non-Australians)
Instructions: In opposing pairs, you each take up position on either side of the clothesline pole, with one hand on the pole.
To commence playing, each person begins moving around the pole in the same direction, with their hand remaining on the pole at all times. At the same time, both players are chanting:
"One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Five potato, six potato, seven potato, MORE!"
After screaming the word MORE as loud as you can, both players must let go of the clothesline and run to the pre-determined finish line. For us, it was the green house about 10 metres away.
Spinning around in a tight circle before the run to the finish line meant you were dizzy, so someone was always either running off sideways, falling over, colliding with the other player etc.
Hard mode expansion: Play on an irregular surface / incline.
“Moo”
Whenever we went on a road trip into the country in Australia , my sister and I would play a game called “moo” where anytime we saw cows in a field , we had to yell out the window “HEY COWS” and whoever had the most cows turn to look by the end of the trip won
Me and my brother were about 6 and 8 sharing a room. He had a glass of water and he had put his knees up under the duvet. He poured the water over his knees and the water trickled down like rivers frome the top. Before you know it we had run back and forth from the bathroom 20 times pouring glasses of water down our beds and had completely soaked both the mattresses and the duvets.
We slept in sleeping bags for the next few weeks until they dried. One of my favourite memories
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a developing neighborhood (like it was a corn field before houses went up) and my brothers, other boys in the neighborhood would all get together with snowmobile helmets / paintball masks and we would go to the new houses being built and have dirt clump fights where the number of teams was decided by the number of dirt hills there were.
Not really a game, but the precursor to a game. Did any one else in primary school start games by marching around the play ground shouting "WHO WANTS TO PLAY STUCK IN THE MUD" (Or whatever) until you collect a huge gang, all linked by the arms, shouting the same thing until its time to start playing the game? How did that get decided any way?
We had a few as young children... there was several instances where we would steal my dad's underwear and wear it on our heads pretending to be sumo wrestlers and we would waddle in front of each other and basically attempt to charge the other person over. Unfortunately for my father this game was played both inside and outside unbeknownst to him.
The other game was a bathtub game where my sister would boot me out of the tub for insubordination and I would have to fetch a funnel from the kitchen to wear as a cap to get back in. Part of goal was to both find the funnel and avoid getting caught.
It consisted of a large group of people (usually around 20 people) and they would all try and search for a person or several people over a large area such as woods or really built up area (pretty much where you lived) and if the person is found they would be able to run until touched and held so they couldn't go.
Grease The Frying Pan
Essentially, it was a modified tag game.
The person who was “it” would turn around and hide their eyes while someone rubbed circles on their back saying, “Grease, grease the frying pan. Who shall crack the egg?”
Then someone would punch the “it” person on the back.
The “it” person then gave the “punishment”, which was largely based on how confident you were about who punched you. For example:
Highly Confident- Run around the house 10 times, do 20 push-ups, count to 100.
Low Confidence- Count to 10 Mississippi slowly.
If the “it” person judged correctly, the puncher was now “it” and had to carry out the punishment before beginning to search. An incorrect guess meant they remained it and had to complete the punishment before searching.
All hiding had to return to the base, which of course could be changed in the punishment description phase, without being tagged by whomever was “it”.
Repeat over and over until someone’s mom called you in.
Best played at night with those much slower and smaller than you.
Summer was the best!
I would hold my arm out the window and pretend it’s a giant chainsaw that could only cut through wood and metal or concrete would make it breakdown. So I had hop over signs and lampposts but would chop down power lines and mail boxes.
Dade was this game my brother and sister and I played when we were very small. The dining room had two doors, each opening onto an L shaped corridor. We'd run around this loop. Whoever was Dade (it) would chase the other two. They'd shout "Dade" upon catching them to tag in whoever they caught - or to change direction. So hearing Dade might mean someone had been tagged OR it might mean you had to run the other way but unless you felt yourself being tagged or saw it you didn't know which. My brother was the youngest and still a toddler so he was mostly Dade. The strategy was to never get too close behind anyone else incase suddenly they called Dade and they caught you.
"The Categories Game". Basically any occasion my family needed to find some way to occupy itself in the face of unstructured waiting time, this game would inevitably get suggested. The premise is pretty straight forward--you'd pick a category, say movies, animals, cities, historical figures etc., and you'd go around the circle and answer the question; there wasn't an agreed upon amount of time, but eventually someone would just blurt out an obnoxious buzzer noise to signal your humiliation. The catch was every round you'd have to answer the question going down the alphabet, i.e. the first round answers had to begin with A, second round B, third C and so forth. We'd usually just agree to skip hard letters such as X, Q and Z but not always. No one kept score and there were no winners; however, hours on road-trips and waiting for dinner at restaurants were occupied from this, and we still play it from time to time when we're all together.
bethzx · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
didn’t really had a name for it but on long car journeys we used to play a game using pubs that are named after animals, whoever spotted the pub first got that pub and however many legs the animal the pub was named after would be the points u get, e.g. “the iron horse” would be 4 points for 4 legs. Whoever had the most points at the end of the car journey won
Me and my brothers played Star wars on the beach at my grandma's cottage has kids, we would find flat rocks preferably triangular to be Star destroyers and big round ones to be rebel cruisers we had a stick to measure movement of each ship per turn and then you whipped rocks at each other's ships until they shattered, and I honestly can't believe we made it to adulthood with all of our eyes
PS I have no idea what the movement mechanic added to the game whatsoever we literally just chuck rocks at each other's rock ships as hard as you could
It was called "No Touching" (odd name, but we were kids) and what we would do is build an obstacle full of random objects like brooms, buckets, tables, etc. and we would place some random item at the back of the obstacle course. The goal was to get through the obstacle course, grab the item, and head back all without (you guessed it) not touching anything else.
It was pretty fun since you get to feel like a spy going through laser alarms in some spy movie (probably what inspired it).
Pick up and throw. More of a sub game within a game of wiffle ball. When I ball gets picked up by the pitcher they have an opportunity to throw another pitch from wherever they pick up the ball.
“Balloon.” Perfect in a little bedroom when there is nothing to do and you are a child. Maybe this game is too dumb to describe here but it was really fun when we couldn’t go outside. Two people. One balloon. Each person allowed to hit only once. Object to keep balloon in the air. So when it was your turn to hit the balloon, you obviously hit it away from the person so they couldn’t get it. Then there was the 3 foot rule. If balloon is at 3 foot level, you are not allowed to hit it downward.
Hours and hours and hours of fun. Intense cardio. I’m 67 and I just played it with my 15-year-old grandson and now he always wants me to play. Every day I hear, “let’s play Balloon.”
My friend thought was funny to role play horror movies at night... She was 2 years older than me, so of course she was always the moster/killer and I was the victim... I still can't watch the movies we roleplayed and till a few years a go I was still afraid of the dark 😭😭😭
Didnt have a name for it but my neighbor and i woukd fill a plastic bottle about half way with sand and stand in the street about opposite of eachother. The goal was to throw the bottle sliding it across the street and the other person had to stop it with their feet only. If they got it past you they got a point.
On the flipside my nephew that i tutor and babysot taught me a weord game he calls "you just got megged!" After some soccer player or whatever. Theres a small ball and you play inside. The goal is to kick it between the others legs. Doesnt count if you onock it between your own legs.
I used to play guns with my younger brother and a two friends from the neighborhood. We would stay up late and play at night with all the lights turned off in the house and it was essentially tag/hide and seek.
My cousins and I, maybe 10 of us all together, would gather in my mawmaw's extra bedroom while our parents played cards on Friday nights. Between Atari matches, we'd decide to shut the lights off. Couldn't see shit. Everyone would just start swinging. Well, some us hid as best we could. The rest went for blood. Usually ended when someone would start crying, interrupting the adults card game, and we'd all get in trouble. Great times.
Swim whale Swim. Two houses with an empty lot (nice, mowed yard) between them. The houses were safe and there was 1 "Shark" in the middle. Shark yells swim whale swim and everyone has to run.. shark tries to catch them. Get caught.. you're the whale.
Oh, gosh. Late to the party, but we called it “soft floor”. We took all the cushions off the couches and all the mattresses off the beds. We turned off the lights, and turned on a strobe light, and beat the shit out of each other with pillows. My mom actually bought about a dozen extra glass covers for the light fixtures because we broke them so often.
The rules are simple, first one to see a purple car & then shout "purple car" gets points (number unknown). I've been playing for a good 30 years now and these days it usually ends with a discussion about shades of purple and maroon controversy.
i remember a game called stomp that i played with friends in my school you basicly you had to say STOMP¡ and stomp into someones feet and it was really really stoopid and we would get detention for playing it. worth it tho
Played it as teenagers.
Death Ball.
It was like if kickball & dodgeball had a drunk child, but we used those big yoga balls, instead of kickballs or dodgeballs.
When I was a small child my father would make his hands into spiders that I would have to crush to kill. It was called The Spider Game. I play a similar game with my dog now - I don’t have any kids - but when I was in second grade I wrote the paper a description of the game and it was published for Father’a Day. My old man still has the clipping framed on his wall.
Growing up my cousins had this large book that had different board games on it. It had a space cut out for the pieces and dice. I barely remember this thing and i have never been able to find one. I think each "page" had a different board and theme. No one in my family remembers this thing. #mandela effect
Heavy shoe. As soon as my dad got home, my brother and I would latch on to his ankles and have him try to walk around like that. Now that I think about it this was really mean of us...
Mainly games with my cousins at my grandparents due to lack of child friendly things, so we had to use our imagination. Monster in the dark and crocodiles were personal favourites.
Monster in the dark consisted of one of us crawling around my grandparents stupidly big entrance hallway with all the curtains shut so it was blackout. The non monsters were on the stairs and the aim of the game was to run around the hallway and get back to the stairs without being tackled by the monster.
Crocodile used more props. The "crocodile" lay between two twin beds about 2 foot apart and tried to pull the non crocodiles down into the gap as they jumped back and forth across the beds.
We used to play for hours at family parties and looking back I'm amazed no one was ever hurt!
Balloon tennis was a favourite with my siblings. when balls were banned indoors in my house we used to split the living room in half with cushions and bat a balloon back and forth over the "net". Used to hit rallies of thousands.
Kill! Neighbor hood game of hide and seek that covered about a square mile. 30 -40 players 1 person is “it”. If you are found “it” gets to punch you as hard as the can. Then there are 2 people that are “it”, and the next person gets hit twice.... Last person usually hid until everyone just goes home.
The apartment my brother and I grew up in had a long central hallway with a door at one end that had 9 or twelve little glass panes in it. We would stack those multicolored cardboard bricks up in the middle of the hallway like a wall almost 6 feet high and stand on either side so we couldn't see one another. Then we'd take turns swinging a bean bag chair in a circle before releasing it to come crashing through the wall as fast as possible with the intention of "squashing" the other person while they tried to dodge it.
This stopped when my younger brother got hit and fell backwards, cracking one of the glass panes in the door with the back of his head. He was fine, but our parents were pissed.
We had this game on our rectangular trampoline that we called the four corners.
2-4 players would all hop onto the trampoline together. 1 person would be in the middle while the others all picked a corner. The goal was for the people in the corners to try and get across to one of the other corners without being touched by the person in the middle. They also had to go to a corner that was empty so more players actually made it difficult and needed more cooperation between the corners players to make big moves. Preferably the trampoline would be wet at this time as well making it even harder to stick a landing yet also making sliding plays more viable.
Was a fun game we played all the time in the summer with our neighbors.
Ball Tag is what we played.
It’s basically dodgeball with a trampoline. You have one person on the ground with a soccer ball and everyone else on the trampoline. The person on the ground can’t move with the ball in their hands and they try and peg someone and then they’re it. If someone catches it they can toss it anywhere but if the person on the ground catches it the person who threw it is now it.
I’m younger than all my brothers and so I got pegged a lot.
I had a sizable collection of the McDonalds beanie babies and a Tarzan treehouse playset. I used to pretend my beanie babies were in a club and the treehouse was their clubhouse. I would celebrate their birthdays by making a piece of toast with jam on it as the cake. They'd play games and go on adventures and stuff.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would get a group of people and go to the local pool. There we split into 2 groups. We would use all of the pool noodles to weave together and create battle ships. These were impressive.. We were able to sit inside of the "hull". We would then stock up on the pool basket balls and go to war in our battleships and try to obliterate the other team.. Our pool has since gotten strict about pool noodle usage..
The person who's IT watches you hide, but after 30 seconds of hiding, they put on a blindfold and need to tag the people hiding. The people hiding are allowed to move as they please. We also restricted it to two rooms and the hallway that joined them so it was at least possible for the person it to find you.
Scream in the barrel. Surfing game. Everything is super echoey in there.
Soupp_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkeys! We would take all the cushions off the back of our sofa and put them on the floor and then, because the sofa was against the wall, we’d run along the edges of it trying to grab and throw each other off. Last one on was the winner.
I played a shareware game called "Find Felix" that i couldnt find for years. It was a dos text entry instead of point and click adventure. I searched for years, and eventually got a response from one of the original devs who responded to my necropost kn abandonia years later. We couldnt recover the game in the state it was in, because noone had that architecture anymore. So.... thats one that i played that probably noone other than share ware people that bought floppies at midwestern computer conventions had played.
As a young teenager, we used to play drum and bass hide and seek.
It worked on a similar basis that others have suggested. All the lights in the house would be turned off(preferably we would play at night time), we would play eerie electronic drum and bass so loud that you would feel the vibration through the house. Then the seeker would use the torch on there phone to go off searching.
My favourite place to hide was always wardrobes, it was always a shock for the finder when they pushed aside some shirts to find a face staring back at them.
Worm,
Basically it's a camping game for night when It's kinda cold, and everyone or everyone but one is in a sleeping bag, and you have some people stand up, and try to grab people, and put their heads in your sleeping bag hole, while they knock you over any way possible. It was great fun and we usually ended with the winner laying on top of all the exhausted losers.
My best friend and I had a block of wood that my dad cut in half. We painted matching sides for every side of our blocks. Each side when matched, took us into different worlds. Was a fun, creative game as a young kid. We didn't know we were essentially just roleplaying haha.
Moss wars! We grew up near a creek so we would find good sticks to fling moss on (we could fling some moss 25 yards with a good stick). A group of 3 would get on either side of the creek and we would just go at it
We saw the movie Christine about the killer car, so we started playing a game where one of us was Christine. Everyone else would start in the basement and had to make it to the third floor on top of the bunk bed. Whoever was "it" could only get you if you were on the ground. As the older sibling, I always made my little sister be Christine haha
"Hide the penny" We played it in the living room, maybe 5 of us. One person had to hide a penny somewhere while the other 4 closed their eyes. It had to be visible, like on the clock on the mantle piece. Then the hider would sit down while the others would lurk around looking for it, but the thing is, when you found it, you just sat down, but you had to be tricky when you found it, like if you saw it, and then bolted for a chair, everyone else would know to look at the last place you looked. We loved that game.
My family and I during the tv ad breaks would play a game where we’d have to guess what brand or company the ad was about. Everyone would just be yelling at the top of their lungs to get their answer heard and it was the most chaotic but also fun thing ever to kill time during the advertisements.
In India we played “utting, baiting” in school, basically if one of your mate forgets to tell you baiting while sitting down or utting when he stood up people who he is playing would bang his back literally by punching on the person’s back and remind him that he forgot to tell others.
“Jet” was a game I played with my brother who had a bunk bed with me. We played when we were around 5 and 7.
When we went to bed we really just assumed the roles of fighter pilots. We both took to the make believe skies and relayed what we did and saw to each other in that military style. Sometimes we would see action. Like my bro could suddenly proclaim “bogey on my six!” And I would shoot them down. I’ve been shot down a few times but always ejected safely.
Fun game. Later on I realized we were just playing a make believe version of Ace Combat
My game was called fonkersonker. I would wrestle with pillows while doing dance moves. It really wasn’t something I could win but I had so much fun with my dad.
A game my siblings and I all used to play was a game we called “Black Cat”. It was essentially tag, but we would play it at night after my parents had gone into their room and we would shut off every single light in the house except their room. However, even the tiniest bit of light creeping under their door could give away the black cat, so we would stuff towels under their door. The objective of the game was to run back and forth between the front door of the house and the back door without getting caught by the black cat, we had to do this until the black cat tagged us. Who was the black cat? The unlucky person who got to be “it” was someone who dressed in all black everything, including an old ski mask we had. The black cat was practically invisible in the dark and it was always a thrill having to run away from someone you can’t see. Playing in the dark ended with some bumps and bruises, but it was one of the most fun games we created.
It was a variant of tag but we just called it "Mother Medusa." Basically, everyone including the person who was it couldn't touch the floor and we all had to scramble on top of furniture. Having a large basement with lots of tables and couches made this game a blast for all of us!
My elementary school recess group played Territory Tag, a variation of Tag where we split the entirety of the playground into half (or thirds, sometimes kids decided to form a third team). Our goal was to defend the territory from invasion by the other side. We had Team Hill and Team Playground. The Rocks were the designated “jail” for anyone that got caught outside of their territory. We had legit wars and shit. Good times.
German spotlight. You have one or two free people and a spotter with a flashlight. Everyone else tails the spotter in a line. If you are in the spotters light and he calls your name you go into the line. The free people had to free the prisoners to win. Ended up in some crazy shit. Had to rename it for a few years because we learned what the game actually was about
"cheese" me and my sister would create obstacles (all included not touching the ground so we'd be climbing on things) around our backyard and we'd have to go through them in a certain order.
"cops and robbers" one of us was a cop and the other was a robber in jail, the cop would go on a donut run and while that happened the robber escaped and went to go hide. The cop would then have to find the robber. If the robber was found they would have to run until being caught and getting thrown back to jail
Which Colour Car? As a kid, my parents, my cousin, and I would spend a week every summer at my grandpa's ranch. It was about a 5 hour drive from my house, and after the first 2 hours of driving, the roads became very quiet since we had left the main cities. Once we reached a rural stretch of highway, we would begin the game. Each person got to guess the colour of the next oncoming car to come around the bend, if they were correct, they got a point. No extra points for make/model. Asides my dad, none of us knew our cars well. I loved this game because it was only happened for few minutes every so often, so it never became a hassle to play. Just a nice way to pass the time on-top of talking and listening to music.
When I was very young, I would put out my finger in a circle, than have another finger completely straight, have them far apart and then try to get the finger in the hole, obviously I didn’t know what it meant, but I think it’s pretty funny to think about. Also, happy cake day!
We used to play wall ball. It was normally played with a tennis ball in front of a large, flat wall. You'd casually bounce the ball off the wall to each other and catch it. If you dropped it while trying to catch someone else's throw, you'd have to run and touch the wall before someone else grabbed the ball and hit you with it. If they hit you with it before you made it to the wall, they'd get a point. Bonus points for huge welts on the other person when you beaned it at them.
Me and a friend of mine used to put a bunch of pennies on a ceiling fan in her moms bedroom. One person would be hiding under the blanket while the other one turned the fan on then ran to the bed and got under the covers and all the pennies would fall on us lol.
so you know how people say number 1 for pee, number 2 for poo? well we took it a few steps further. somehow we made to 1111, where piss n shit n other is coming out of every pore and crevice of your body. pretty nasty. i know. you can judge my family now
Maybe too late to post, but my brother and our friends used to play this secret agent game. One person would tape laser pointers (always on) around our house when it was dark. The other person (secret agent) has to try to successfully cross this laser maze. The secret agent was given a spray bottle with a limited amount of sprays to reveal this laser. We used to have around 10 laser pointers so it got pretty intense sometimes.
We called it “butt ball” ...its basically red A with a soccer ball and you just kick it against the wall rather than throwing a tennis ball...and the one who lost had to stand facing the wall and each person got to shoot the soccer ball at them as hard as they want. From a decent distance back of course. Was tons of fun and a great workout.
xJacon · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Violent Volleyball: everyone (4 or more people) is in a circle and one in the middle sitting or crouching, you hit it around the circle 3 or more times and then you spike it in the middle. If it hits them, nothing happens. If you miss, you’re in the circle. If you miss hitting the ball and it’s clearly your fault, you’re in the middle. If after the third hit the person in the middle catches the ball, everyone is out of the circle except for the last person who touched it. Play until there’s one person left standing and then repeat
SF here. We used to play "Kick the Can" in Golden Gate Park. The object was simple. You set up a can in a clearing. Everyone would scatter except for one person who had to protect the can. If you were able to get to the can and kick before you were tagged, or more often tackled with supreme aggression you would win the game once you got to 5. If you got tackled or tagged then you would go to jail. If someone kicked the can when you were in jail, then you were free to go and try again. If everyone wound up in jail, then the can protector won. We would all eany meany miney moe to see who would be the guard. Fun times. Lots of black eyes, skinned knees and bruises.
My brother and I made up quite a lot of games when we were kids. Most of them are long forgotten but one in particular sticks in my mind.
We would take off the cushions from the sofas and grab spare pillows and spread them out around the room in 'stations'. There always had to be 7 stations because each one represented a continent.
Now, I have no recollection of what 7 year old me thought happened in other countries, but the game was that we had to jump around and land on the continents 1 at a time and pretend to eat typical food, speak the languages (which was obviously gibberish) and if one of us was 'on' Europe, the other might be 'on' Australasia and have to pretend to be asleep because of the time difference. Was weird af but kept us entertained on Sunday afternoons.
Obb89 · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game called "Everlot" in which we grabbed every item in the garage (hockey sticks, foot balls, literally anything) and threw them at each other in order to get them out. Each team stood on opposing sides of the drive way and threw objects until someone either A. got knocked out by a hard object or B. started crying. I miss the glory days :,)
We used to play various games where you threw things at each other, typically boys. There were minor rules like stay on your side, but other than that it’s play at your own risk. These games ended when someone was too injured to continue.
One such game was during our 6th grade trip to Washington DC. I was in a room or 4 boys that had those adjoining doors to another room of 4 boys in one hotel we stayed at. I brought a ton of glow sticks with me for the trip and we decided to have a glow stick fight one night. We had to stay on the beds in our rooms and fling those sticks through the open door to try and hit the other players. We ended up with quite a few welts. That game ended when one player took a glow stick in the mouth and it exploded getting that glowing goo inside his mouth.
Another time, during Thanksgiving, a bunch of boys and cousins were throwing around toy ninja stars at each other in my basement with the lights out. That game ended when someone’s hand was broken underneath the leg of a heaven chair.
My friends and I used to play this really weird game. We would play it in my bedroom which must have been about 10 feet by 10 feet, with my bed pushed to one side. All the lights off, door closed, and my room had no windows. One person would stand with his back against the door and throw a tennis ball into the room, and then everyone would search for it and try to put it in a bucket across the room from the door to earn a point, after which the lights would come on, the scorer would go to the door, close the lights when everyone was ready, and the whole thing would repeat. Game was full contact. It didn't have a name and I'm not actually sure if the person throwing the ball shut the lights off immediately after throwing the ball or if the lights were off when he threw.
We used to play this in our early teens, usually with about 4 players.
GaGa Ball. An awesome game at my camp where you stay in a circle of benches and try to hit other people’s legs with a ball using your arms. So you end up hanging down like a gorilla protecting your legs and swinging around. Tons of fun.
“Moley”. We piled up loads of blankets and duvets on a bed and tucked our little sausage dogs within the various layers. We would also bury ourselves in the covers. The game consisted of blindly writhing around in the bundle of blankets like moles, trying to find the dogs. Ireland in the early 90s - what a time to be alive...
We played house like normal kids, except we laid out giant quilts on the ground to represent our individual apartments and we called it “House-House-BaLouse” so it rhymed... and we would use my moms office supplies to go to an office and answer phones as if we worked there.
Ubaar · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for it but me and some friends used to go to the dollar store and buy foam swords, all get on the trampoline and just whip eachother with the swords until we collapsed. The last person standing won.
The “Wet Kleenex” game. The person who was “it” has a wet kleexnex in their hands. My sisters and I would turn off the lights, crawl on the floor, and if the person who was “it” touched you with the wet Kleenex you became “it”..
Essentially tag in the dark and instead of getting tapped by a hand you got tapped by a wet Kleenex
Basically you get the swings going full speed with kids on them and you have to run through them and not get hit. You don’t win anything, and you don’t loose anything. Everyone would take their turn !
gorbal · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to pretend to kill each other and whoever the killer thought acted out the best death scene got to be the killer next.
Two of them: one called "Pick-Up Sticks" and the other called "Pah-Diddle!". the first game was not really a game and, with hindsight, was my brother fucking with me by grabbing a bucket of Lincoln Logs and throwing them on the ground and telling me to clean them up; the faster I picked them up the "more I would be a winner". Second game was a game of reflex played exclusively in the car. Whenever a car with only one working headlight, it was a race for the first kid to slap the roof of the car and yell "Pah-Diddle!". Whoever managed to slap the roof and yell the word first won. As you can imagine, it got on my parents' nerves real quick.
The game was a set on the jungle gym at a public park. The “Blind Chicken” would have their eyes closed and needed to find one person to tag on the jungle gym. Players could hide, as well as run from the “blind chicken”. the Ground was fair game as well, but if you were on the ground and the “blind chicken” said “GROUND!” you were now the blind chicken. Really fun game i played with the rest of the neighborhood kids at the park.
My brother and I played "Black Ninjas". We were in a secret clan of ninjas called the black ninjas, who were top ranked of all the clans. We would go out and fight the other colored ninjas (brown, green and our rivals red ninjas)
We had it mapped out a lot. We were a part of the clan and we all had code names. I was Tuffy and my brother was Punch.
Our leader (master) was white tiger along with a lot of other imaginary ninja clan members. Tank, White Bear, Brown Bear, Genie, Taz, and Donatello. Along with some others I can't remember at the moment.
We would play in the outside, if any car went by that would be a "tank" and we would have to hide before it saw us.
We'd find some good sized sticks to be throwing knives. Then we'd head into the woods behind our house. One of us would hide two litre pop bottles around and the other would have find them and take 'em out with the throwing knives.
We had countless storylines that went on. Whether one of us was getting captured or all the other ninja clans were banding together to take us out.
When Pokemon Gold and silver came out, we thought it'd be cool if there were ninjas out there who were better and stronger than us. Alas the Gold and Silver ninja clans were born. We got our asses kicked a lot in those days. Yeah,... Good times.
I used to live in the boonies on 10 acres of land with a mile long driveway. I had to use my imagination a lot, but it helped to have such a great backyard. My cousin and I used to play this game called “Lanes” where we would go down my driveway and pretend we were in some sort of endless shopping mall. We would pretend there were stores all up and down the driveway, and I would swear I could visualize each store. We had endless money, of course. My favorite store was the glitter gel pen store.
Also, I don’t know if this counts, but in elementary school I ran an imaginary friend adoption agency. I even had competitors, eventually.
I played "rocket ship' with the cat. I would set up pillows in a "U" shape as the command module, then grab the cat and throw a sheet or blanket over the pillows with us under it inside the U. Then we would blast off, with me rocking and shaking the cat until we got into orbit.
Things would calm down until a comet, asteroid belt, or alien attack made things rough again. I'd basically shake, roll, and tumble all around with the cat until he had enough and bolted for it. No, he did not like it and was not patient at all. That was the fun, trying to hold on to him as long as possible through it all. Despite this, he still slept on my bed every night. I didn't do it all the time either, maybe one a month or every other month or so, just when the feeling hit me.
My sister and I made up a version of pool called "Wussy" which amounted to sliding the balls back and forth against the table with your hands and trying not to let them hit the other side or to slow down, while you run back and forth around the table.
Also, good luck not slamming the balls into your fingers or jamming them between the ball and the side of the table. Hence the name.
When Mario Kart 64 came out me and my brother had 7 Mario kart tracks all over the neighborhood. These included tracks that went through neighbors properties, up and down driveways and through the baseball diamond at the nearby FOP park. The largest stretched 3 blocks to the neghborhood Dairy Mart and back.
When I was in my last two years of elementary school, while riding home on the bus, I was friends with this Arabic kid and we'd play a game we called "SL" (Swordmen's Labrynth) which he and one of his friends came up with, but I kinda bastardized it to be a bit more comedic. It wasn't as much game as it was roleplay.
The premise is that we were in an airplane with tons of people and some monster murdered us and the airplane crashed into an island. We then woke up with the monster and a bunch of people dead, and us in robotic bodies, and then we made that island into an independent city country thing and called it Liberty City (Not to be confused with the one in GTA IV, this was a bunch of years before it.)
The first bit of the plot was the only serious portion of it and the rest of the time, a bunch of funny stuff ensued like replacing our personality cores with ferrets, making us act like ferrets, prank calling the emergency numbers of various countries, calling my friend's child's cake a deformed penis (He roleplayed having a wife and two kids,) ect.
It had many funny moments that I can't now remember off the top of my head at the moment, but what I can certainly remember is that this bitch ass bus assistant would rain on our damn parade and claim that we're being too loud and separate us, even though she hypocritically screamed from the back of the bus to converse with the driver. I hated her.
Also, happy cake day, I'm also celebrating my own!
Me and my two older brothers would make a bunch of paper airplanes then take turns playing Godzilla by running around the apartment, making Godzilla sounds. The other two would try to hit Godzilla with paper planes. If you got hit 3 (or maybe it was 5?) times, your turn was up and someone else would be Godzilla.
"Hide and Clap". Basically like hide and seek except the seeker has a blindfold on and the hiders have 5 claps each. If the seeker asks a specific hider to clap, he has to. As a seeker, you would have to navigate your way towards the claps you heard. If you touched anybody, they were out. The first person you found/touched as a seeker would be a seeker in the next round. The hiders would have 1 minute to find a spot to hide, they were not allowed to move from that spot until the seeker either found them or gave up. If the hider clapped 5 times, and still wasn't found he won.
I built this weird hybrid of skiball and cornhole out of K'nex, which is to say I built a tower with holes in it and if you tossed a beanbag into one of the holes, it'd roll out the bottom. There really wasn't anything more to it. I taped piece of paper over the holes with scores, but there was never much of a game to it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "saw" game. Me and my brother would be in the living room battling with pillows. We played with the edges of the pillow being chainsaw blades, so if you threw it at someone and it hit their arm you gotta act as if it was severed off. Or if we one of us got pinned down and our neck got hit, obviously you died and had to "respawn". Looking back and typing this ya might think we were messed up kids but it was very fun and time consuming haha good times man, good times.
Roll the bat. One person with a baseball bat would stand at one end of the street (in my case it was the end of a cul-de-sac) and get pitched a tennis ball. Fielders would be behind the pitcher and get the ball when hit and the batter then has to lay the bat on the ground. The idea for the fielder was to roll the tennis ball and hit the barrel of the bat. The ball then pops up and the batter has to catch the ball otherwise the fielder who rolls it gets to bat. To give the fielders a better chance at hitting the barrel, the batter could lift up the bat and the fielders could run closer to the bat as long as the bat was not touching the ground. Spent many many many hours playing this one, and got the neighborhood hooked! Fun times
I have absolutely no idea why we called it this, but in third or fourth grade my friends and I played a game we called "white weiner." On our playground there was one of those crawl-through tunnels, and it had the little ovals cut into it for air circulation/light. The tunnel was just close enough to the ground that we could reach into the holes. So the purpose of "white weiner" was that two people were outside the tunnel while two or three were inside. The ones on the outside tried to tag the ones on the inside by reaching through the holes. If you got tagged you had to yell white weiner and you switched places with the one who tagged you. White weiner.
Sometimes I wonder if someone in that friend group knew about glory holes.
We start at the top of a grass hill. Kick a rugby ball down a hill and run after it. Everyone against each other only rules were no head smacks of ball shots, whoever brought the ball back to the top of the hill won.
My Brother and I used to play a game where one of us whisteled a note and the other whisteled another note and so on, we would try to find a song, so we both had to think what song the other is thinking about and had to improvize, its fun!
I had a falling out with my best friend when I was 7 and didn't talk to her for a few months. During that time, I was a very awkward kid so I had no other friends. So I made up a game where I was always being followed by little imaginary monsters or goblin type creatures whose main goal was to trip me over, whilst I would do my best to outsmart them and discover their secrets. Turns out, being the weird kid who mutters to themself about little tripping monsters whilst alone in the playground is an excellent way of making friends, because one day a random boy asked me what I was doing. I told him, very seriously, "I'm trying to outsmart the little monsters that trip me."
And from that day forward, we were a team, investigating the tripping goblins and trying to foil their treacherous plans.
My cousins and I would play this game with all of our parents. We had a huge house, and it was pitch black at night. We would wait while our parents hid glow sticks all over the house, and then proceeded to hide behind couches, etc, to scare us. The premise of the game: you and your team (my cousins) must collect all of the glow sticks from around the house. If you get captured by a parent, you’re out.
Our parents were the type of people to scare the crap out of us, so all of a sudden you hear one of your cousins scream bloody murder from another room and you’re just like... “oh shit”.
When we were kids me and my next door neighbor and his brother played the “Cover Game”.
We would close the door to his bedroom, and blindfold one person (normally with multiple pillow cases and a bandana) and they would be “it”. They went into the closet and counted to 30 then came out and tried to tag people. It was great because once they are close to you, you could skinny up and hide or try to athletically and sneakily get past and away before they tagged you.
We still recall “highlights” of people diving away through someone’s legs or flipping off the desk over them onto the bed to make a great escape.
Things did break and injuries did occur, but we must of played it regularly for a couple years.
The game doesn't have a name that I know of. When I was riding in the car as a kid, if we passed a cemetery, you had to hold your breath and say rabbit over and over in your head until you saw a white house (churches didn't count). Then you could breath and say bunny. I lived in the middle of nowhere so there were a lot of close calls where I almost passed out. I did this as an adult until about 7 yrs ago when I moved to a town where I had to pass a VERY long cemetary with 2 traffic lights on a regular basis. I have no idea where I learned it from and no one else in my family did it.
We played a role play game where we were all Yoshis and had to beat Darth Maul from Star Wars. Darth Maul oppressed the Yoshis, but we fought back. There were also light sabers and guns from Star Wars.
It was called Fly Billy Fly. The first thing to do is to find a big hill. Step two is too run from the top and jump. The goal is to tumble down the hill in the most creative way possible. Do tricks, go fast.
Yes, I actually played this in elementary school. And no, no one else would play with me. Apparently I'm too extreme
My sister and I used to play a game we invented for our Hotwheels toy cars. We called it "Carreterita Roja" (Little Red Road).
Our mother had a short but rather large, square table that was decorated with a single, narrow, black line along the edges of its surface, like a frame of sorts, that would serve as the race track. The width of this "frame" was roughly equal to the width of three hotwheels placed right next to each other.
Set up: We woud both take turns choosing a car from our shared collection to make up our "teams" which usually were comprised of five cars, though it sometimes varied. We would then assign a turn number to each of our cars (1-5 kinda like Worms Battlegrounds). Finally, we would each place our starting cars one next to the other at one of the "track's" corners.
The Goal: Be the first to complete two laps around the track with all 5 cars.
The Rules: This was a turn-based game. In each turn, players had to give a single boost with their hand to one of their cars. The further the car got without falling off the table or going off the track, the more successful the turn. Similar to golf, the players would boost their cars form their latest location during the car's next turn. Each corner of the table functioned as a checkpoint. If a car fell or went off track (at least 1 wheel had to be touching the track by the time the car stopped moving), it would be returned to the last corner it touched before going off track. If a car went off track because another car collisioned against it, both cars would be returned to the last corner they passed, regardless of the car's team.
This last rule made the game especially exciting: you had to be really careful with the amount of force you put into each boost. To much and you may risk hitting a car a in front of you and sending it off track, to little and your opponent would gain advantage on you. Additionally, we would both abuse this rule in moments of desperation and turn our own cars into Kamikazes: Given the right circumstances, a single well aimed boost to one of your cars could send two of your opponents cars off track along with yours, reducing your opponents advantage over you.
To this day, it still remains my favourite game from my childhood. :)
It was called wild stallion. We lived in a city where it could snow up to your roof. We’d let my neighbours black lab chase us around the yard then toboggan off the roof of one of our houses. If the dog got you then the wild stallion tagged you out. Only three wrists were broken. Winnipeg amiright
Prisoner's Base. My cousins and I played at our grammar school and it became our family game played at all our family get togethers. It's an old game and I've never met anyone else who plays it, but it's a ton of fun with a good sized group of active people. It's like a game of team Tag, with home bases and "tagged" people being put in prison and having to be tagged back out by a team member. When we played there was a lot of strategy involved in terms of decoys, fakes, group rushing, sacrificing a slower runner to release a faster one, finding ways to use the terrain to your advantage, etc.
DnA915 · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We came up with a game where we made tunnels out of carload boxes and played tag inside... Innocent enough right? But the twist was that the person who was it, was on the outside, and they had a metal baseball bat. It was incredibly fun to try and escape once they heard you move. We were so stupid we didn't realize how bad it would have been if we got tagged in the head.
The floor is lava but I played it alone and I was always Tommy Lee Jones. It’s not unique but definitely weird.
frogji · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a version of kickball where we pitched the ball to someone on the swings. The momentum from swinging would make our kicks crazy powerful and the ball would blast across the entire playground.
my sister and i played "cow and rock" one was the cow, the other the rock. the "cow" would push the "rock" around the house with her head. there was no point to this game what so ever. and we played it all the time.
Me and my friends had this game called monster in the dark! We would turn all the lights off in the house and get flashlights. One person would be the monster and we would search for them as they would hide. Usually we would use a flashlight to help look for them. If they found us they would jump out and try to scare us, and chase us trying to tag us. We we got tagged then we were the monsters, and they were one of the searchers. We usually had a saferoom like the bathroom, where the lights would be on. The monster couldnt go into the saferoom so we would usually go there and wait for them to hide again.
my brother an I used to play this toilet guard game at my nan’s house (at her house, the toilet was right in front of you as you got to the top of the stairs, which is where we were located during this game)
Basically we would sit there, and just guard the toilet ? Sometimes we’d make up passwords, sometimes we’d just forget to stop people going to the only toilet, but every time we would always block our grandad from going into it (sorry tedward).
My older cousin also got my nan this weird like talking doll thing that would say “adult” things like “i’d like to take you home with me” and other not really funny funny pickup lines etc; but still hilarious to 9 year olds who are just working out what stuff like sex is. He became apart of the toilet guard crew
honestly i have 0 idea as to why this was entertaining or even a game as such but oh my god the amount of hours wasted just sitting on the stairs in front of the bathroom
I used to use a popsicle stick as a baseball bat for my GI Joes so they could play baseball on my desk. I’d wad up a tiny piece of paper and let the Joes take turns at bat. I made a little field and everything...I was 8 and the internet didn’t exist yet.
Pylon Ball. It was like hockey but the stick was one of those tall orange pylons without the base. The goals were also pylons but with the base. The ball was a volleyball or soccer ball. You were allowed to throw your pylon at the ball to avoid a goal. You could also hit someone's pylon with yours and, if you knocked it out of their hands, you could try to kick it away for a power play. If they didn't have a pylon, they couldn't interact with the ball at all. We had several teams in the neighborhood.
2-Tap - soccer-type game I played a long while ago. There was a goal in one corner of the front yard with maybe a 5m x 3m area coned off. The game was usually two-player, where one person was the goalie and another was the player. The goalie started with the ball and threw the ball out anywhere onto the street, on the condition that it had to bounce in the coned area first. When it stopped, the player then had two kicks of the ball (hence 2-Tap) to get it back into the goal. If the ball went into the coned area on the first kick, the player wasn't allowed a second. If the player missed the goal, the goalie threw the ball again; if they scored, they swapped places with the goalie. My brothers and I played this game for hours on end on weekends, was a good time.
Random objects game. Like paper scissors rock but the object you could be wasn't limited to paper, scissors or rock. But then you had to justify why your object beats the other persons object
My mother’s a housekeeper so growing up, sometimes I would go to work with her and had nothing to do other than sit quietly in whatever room she was in. I would give names to her cleaning supplies and treat them like dolls. So the Windex, Pledge and the rest were like dolls. I couldn’t touch them either so I would just stare at them and give them backstories and hear them “talk” in my head.
"Hall Ball": we made a big ball of tape and would basically play hockey with our hands in a long hallway.
"Ripstik Wars": my friend and I would try to drop pool noodles in front of each other's ripstiks to stop the shells and make the other fall off. We got really good at balancing and turning on a dime!
I used to play a game in the car where I would tap my foot when we passed a street light - left or right depending on switch side it was on. It was as if I was jumping across from one to the other in giant leaps.
Two girls late at night when we are supposed to be in bed. It was a sleepover. Objective of game was to put on every single item of clothing on, layered endlessly, in my closet and drawers. And I had a lot of clothes…
We ended up in a standing position with our arms stuck straight out. Then we would laugh until we cried. We started to take pictures of the outcome over the years. This started at about age 7 and went to age 13 or 14.
It all ended when my friend turned 16 and got a car… so much for a childhood fun.
My sister, my two cousins and I would go "ghost hunting" at our grandparents house. Each of us would have a notepad or paper to note down any "irregularities" and then we would walk around the house to every room and check if anything had been moved by "ghosts". As I got older I made sure I was walking in the back of the line so I could move something without the others noticing. Then when we got to the moved object the others would freak out about it moving and they were SURE that there were ghosts. The only reason I moved things was because if we never found anything, the others wouldn't play the game anymore. Their surprised faces was just a bonus. I was a manipulative little bastard.
Owlerr · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game when I was younger where you'd scream "BALL TAP" and then hit someone in the balls. That's literally fucking it. The worst part was, you couldn't even opt out of this game. Nor did many of us even opt in. Fuck middle school.
ctorx · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a rural and dry area of California. Every summer we had to clear defensive fire space around the house. My father was a firefighter so we did much more than the requirement. My older brother would use the weed eater to knock down the weeds and I would rake them into piles. It was hot, boring and exhausting, so as a kid, to make it more enjoyable I created a game in my mind, that raking was an Olympic event. I put more style into it, found enthusiasm and the time flew by.
gxnld · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk if anyone else played this, but my sister, cousin, and I would play sandwich where like the pillows would act as the bread and one of us would be an ingredient in the sandwich.
Picture a pillow, a 4-8 year old on their stomach on top, and then the other two running around getting blankets and other soft things that we'd call more ingredients to put on top (I distinctly remember calling a blue blanket blueberry sauce). After we think we were satisfied with our creation, we would put the matching pillow to the first one one top and then load ourselves on top and then after laughing for who knows how long, restart with someone else's turn to be an ingredient.
I'll be floored if anyone sees this at this point, but I used to play a made up dodgeball like game for trampolines with nets. The rules were simple, regular dodgeball, but instead of being out when someone catches the ball or hits you, you just jump into the air and on to your back, and throw any balls you had up into the air. When you caught a ball, you would yell "1/2/3 catch," and at 3 catch, everyone else had to fall back and relinquish their ammo. We just played with any random ball we found that wouldn't hurt too badly, so some were better than others. The game became largely based on controlling the good ones.
There was no way to win, but it was freaking intense, and we'd play for hours. There was barely enough space to throw usually, so our younger siblings were able to compete on the same level as everyone else. It was great.
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"Meow Bloop" A piece of playground equipment had a ramp to get to a small clearing with a slide on the other side. Those at the bottom were fishes (hence the bloop sounds) and those at the top were cats (hence the meow). Fishes were trying to get to the top to become cats, cats were trying to keep the fish away and stay as cats. It ended up getting banned when it started getting pretty nasty and kids were getting hurt/bloody/injured.
Edit: There were a lot of others. Ah to be a bored kid again with no video games in mid 90s suburbia.
Elbow jousting. Just as it sounds. Stick your arm through your tee shirt so your elbow is sticking out and then run at one another. I'm surprised there were no broken bones.
Pillow face: We'd sit maybe a foot or two apart and chuck pillows at each other's faces. It didn't hurt but if the force knocked you over, you lost a point.
Goon and Poop Monster. For Goon, one of you goes face first into a sleeping bag and then stands upright and enveloped in sleeping bag while the other kids run around and hit you. The Goon wildly jumps in whichever direction to “tag” a new “Goon.” Kinda like a human piñata that has the ability to attack back.
Poop monster was similar to The Floor Is Lava, except we’d push each other off of furniture onto the floor and once fallen, you are the poop monster and you can grab other kids and throw them into the poop also.
You know those velcro ball and pad for your hand toys you could get? Well my brother and I would use a firm-ish rubber ball instead and seat it back and forth trying not to let it hit the floor. And that's how the clock in the living room got broke. Mom was pissed
My extended family would go to weekly dinners at various restaurants. If they had a machine selling bouncy balls, my cousin and I would get a few.
After dinner, everyone would go back to my grandparents house. My cousin and I would go to their upstairs bathroom, stand in the bathtub, and toss the balls into the toilet. Of course, we’d then reach into the toilet to retrieve them and toss them again.
The game would end when the balls would inevitably go deep into the toilet and we could no longer reach them.
There was no scoring system to this game, and iirc, the goal was to get the balls to disappear into the drain hole.
How my grandparents plumbing system didn’t get completely fucked after dozens of bouncy balls is beyond me.
When I was between 4 and 6, my dad and I would play “throw block,” which consisted of him sitting on a couch in the living room, throwing stuffed-building-blocks for babies into a tiny rocking chair in the corner (he had to have super good aim to reach it!), and me, running around trying to hit it away from the chair. Even if he was super close to landing the block in that tiny chair, I’d throw the block back and say “not even close!!!” To be honest, it was actually a super fun way for him to get all the energy out of me before bed.
In elementary school we used to play "Kill the guy with the ball". It was sort of a cross between tag and rugby. No points were scored. At some point, while being chased towards certain death (in our minds), you got someone else to take the ball and then the hunt was on again. I think it was the adrenaline of being chased and knowing there was some kind of pain awaiting you if you weren't fast or agile enough. The worst injuries were scraped knees and elbows.
"Legs" You'd get on a trampoline and kick each other with your legs till the other players didn't want to play anymore. That's it. The rules were simple, and perfect. Because of the way the trampoline works, you can't kick that hard a the ground underneath you gives out, absorbing some of the energy. You were allowed to block with your arms, but attacks could only be from legs. Technically quick hard kicks were the most damaging, but we usually went for dramatic both foot flying leap kicks because they were so fun. Believe it or not, it wasn't that violent. There were few injuries and most games ended with us lying on the ground laughing so much we could hardly breathe. The only real injuries happened from ring-outs, which like head attacks, were not encouraged.
Evidently my brother and I were the only two people to ever play Cubivore. It was on the GameCube and we always rented it from Blockbuster every weekend. In hindsight we should’ve just kept it when Blockbuster shut down.
It was a top notch game, but whenever I mention it NO ONE ever knows what I’m talking about. They seriously need a sequel or remastered.
My brother was terrified of germs, and I managed to convince him I was holding an invisible paint pot of germs and would brush the floor around him, causing him to freak out massively. I could paint an invisible line of germs in front of his bedroom door and he wouldn't cross over it, I even painted an invisible circle around him once and he wouldn't move from the spot. We were very young and I have since apologised for being such an arsehole :-t
Curb ball, or "curve ball" as we used to call it. Two kids stand on either side of the street that has a curb and you take whatever ball you have, preferably a basket ball and throw the ball across the street attempting to hit the curb in front of your friend in order to get the ball to come back to you which counts as a point, if you throw it over a car you get 2 points, and you can go to whoever gets how many points first wins.
So when we were younger my friends and I would always try to create fun games to play, probably because Nickelodeon had that show about kids making up their own unique sports.
After a few failed attempts we called it a day on creating games and went to my swing set. Boys being boys, we had two kids swinging and one of our friends decides to mess with one of the kids swinging and starts to swing his arms near his feet to mess him up. On the first attempt he clipped my buddy’s foot and his shoe went flying.
This birthed the great game of “Shoe Swing Fling”. You got three attempts. You would swing as high and fast as possible with one shoe half on, and at the correct time fling it as far as possible. Longest shot is deemed the winner.
We got into this game. We crafted a championship belt and had tournaments for it and all. This is such a stupid, random, fond memory I have of growing up. The simplest things are often the best!
The arrow game. Stand outside in the backyard, one person with a bow and arrow shoots it straight up. The game was to hide and not get hit. That was a good one until we accidentally started landing them in people's yards. Seemed like a death threat so we stopped that one, lol
Age 9, living with mom in an apartment complex that had a lot of other single moms and their kids who were my age or younger. I was tall for that age and someone had a long red "Radio Flyer" wagon.
There was a pretty steep grassy slope at the end of the driveway. I would turn the handle around as my steering rod and pile one or two kids on the back. We would haul ass down the hill and sometimes wipe out at the bottom in a fit of laughter. We loved it and had so much fun until one of the kids' moms found out and told us to stop.
“The Doo Doo” 💩 - as many kids as we had were in on it. You tagged the youngest and smallest person and they were the Doo Doo, everyone ran from them screaming as the Doo Doo desperately tried to tag someone to take away the taint. 💩
"Monster" kinda like reverse hide and go seek/Tag.
We had a partially developed basement for many years(walls framed but no drywall on them). Whenever my parents would have people over the kids were always sent to the basement to stay out of the way.
One person would be the Monster and the rest would hang out on the stairs for a few miniutes.
The Monster would go hide somewhere in the dark basement after the few minutes were up everyone who was hanging on the stairs (usually 5 or 6 people) whould go into the basement and look for the Monster. Once the Monster was found it was a race to get back to the safety of the stairs.
If the Monster caught you, you would be the next monster.
This was played after the sun went down with no lights on. Only some light through the windows from the street lights.
As a kid I had a book of arts and crafts, and it has a whole section on face painting, with pictures of boys and girls with their faces painted as animals and witches and monsters. I used to lie on the ground with the book, imagining that if I pressed my face against the face of the kid in the book, the face paint would transfer to my face, magically transforming me into a bear or a vampire or whatever. Then I'd go on some fantastical adventure, and if I needed different powers, I'd rub my face on a different page.
I spent a lot of time doing this, to the point where my parents started withholding the book from me until I did my work, letting me play with it for a while as a reward. Im not sure I ever explained my game to them, and my fascination with the staring at children's faces confused them more than a little.
Lived in an apartment with friends, it was two stories, one carpeted stairwell. I think it had 13 steps.
Take a few foosballs, stand at bottom of stairs, and toss them up the stairs from the ground floor in an underhand, lobbing motion. The goal is to get the foosball to land (and stay) on the last step before reaching the top floor. Because it’s the 13th stair, you get 13 points. If it hits and rolls down to the 8th stair before stopping, you get 8 points. Most of the time if it starts rolling down the stairs it goes all the way to the bottom and you get zero points. If you throw too high and the ball goes up to the second floor (above the top stair), you get zero points.
There is a game that my brother and I called “western fencing”. My uncle taught it to us when we were 12 or younger, basically you put one hand behind your back and use the another hand to hit other people’s head, feet (below the knee), and the hand that you put behind your back. Every time you lower your body to hit other people’s feet, your head expose for the attack and vice visa. It’s an interesting game, ahhh, good old time...
On the bus ride, I would pretend a snowboarder or a skateboarder was travelling besides us and would have to jump mail boxes and tricks using the ditches and stuff.
Not sure how unique it is but as a kid, my siblings and cousins would play a game we called "cops and robbers" basically a more intense version of hide and seek. Two people would be the cop, and the rest were robbers. You had to run and hide from the cops. Once you got caught, you went to jail. Basically you had to sit out the rest of the game until everyone was caught or a another robber you broke you out or prison, a cop you always be on "duty" to prevent this. What made it different was that we only played at night, outside and the method of catching people. You had to hold them down for more than 10 seconds for them to be caught, if they could break free from you, you had to go catch them again. Someone always got hurt but what you expect when 15 kids are running around at night with only one flashlight and basically wrestling each other.
Can't remember a name for it but basically two people stand in a circle drawn in the dirt. Then a line is drawn through the middle so you each have a half.
Now using a dagger you take turns throwing the dagger in your opponents half whilst standing on your side. (thankfully your opponent doesn't have to stand in the circle when you throw ;) )
From where the dagger landed, and is standing, you draw a line from the edge of the circle to another line in the dirt, erasing the old line and taking over that part of the circle. You continue like this until one of you no longer is able to stand in their area while trying to draw a line.
We were a pretty big group of friends who lived around the same area and played for the same football club. When the footy posts went back up for the season, we'd go down, split into two teams and stand on the 40m line so there was a 20m difference between the two teams (rugby football field). Kick the ball back and forth as high as you could, catch it and you advance 10m, drop it and lose 10m. Force them back to the goal line and then kick a field goal to win.
On training days it was our warm up to the warm up. We'd be so buggered from playing that we'd die when we had to do laps to start training, especially in March when its still warm and we're unfit fucks.
Dynamite!! We would make a line in the middle of the yard, split into teams, and then throw balls to the other teams side as fast as we could and whoever had more when the timer ended lost. It was intense. Lots of screaming.
The blindfold game. Basically one person blind folds themselves and has to catch someone who will be blindfolded next. Everybody else gets to beat the shit out of him with pillows, no head or crotch shots
After high school basketball practice, we played a game that toughened us up physically. We called it just Extreme Basketball. Usually 1-on-1 or 2-on-2, and the only thing different is that fouling was allowed! Almost anything goes, except no fists.
Remarkably, no one got hurt badly. Mostly just bruises. It encouraged you to keep moving away from the defenders, and helped you finish your shot in real games so we got a lot of 3-point plays.
Bear paper nuclear war! Basically on each side of the room you had forts of pillows with teddy bears on them. Each person would have a turn to throw a paper ball to the teddy bear. First one to knock them all down explodes the fort
Instead of playing “hold up the bridge” when driving under a bridge, my family would “duck under the bridge” bcause my parents told us that’s how dad got his bald spot - because he didn’t duck under the bridges as a child. We all totally believed it.
Eraser wars. I would use pencil and paper, draw forts and use my eraser to create defenders and attackers (the little pink eraser filings). As they attacked fortifications, I would erase them- this also functioned as the arrival of reinforcements.
My mom would clean and save styrofoam trays from meat and stuff and I would cut them up into little pieces and use it for dirt for my toy loaders and dump trucks.
In elementary school we all played a game called Watergravel. It was sort of like tag. Somebody was It, and everyone else kind of walked around the playground area - on the ground, not on the jungle gym. The person who was It would then yell "watergravel" and everyone else would have to book it onto the jungle gym structure. You could only be caught if you were still on the ground. If you are on the jungle gym you were safe.
When I was younger, I went on a lot of road trips with my church, and we would always go on these big white vans for up to 8 hours. Anyways, we would get bored on these vans, so me and my church friends came up with a game called “glasses or no glasses” basically, when our van was about to pass someone, we would have to guess whether or not the person was wearing glasses (any type of glasses) based solely on the car they were driving. If you were right you got one point, however, if you were wrong you’d lose 5 points, and the winner got first dibs on what bed they wanted when we arrived at where we were staying. It was a really fun game and would always make the drive go faster. I recommend you try it.
Corn Dog (Beach Game) - Just like a hacky sack circle but with a volleyball. You get in a circle with a group of friends. Toss the volleyball to someone and who ever causes it to fall or hits it out of the circle has to run into the water. Then come back outside of the circle and roll around in the sand until you look like a corn dog. You have to be a corn dog until there is a winner. Then everyone runs and jumps into the ocean and start over when we get out.
Plut00 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor, I am not even lying when really young me and my cousins would play this, this was stereotypical Doctor on how they just touched you, considering they were older I was practically molested
sjc16 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Name that Filthy animial" Was on a road trip with parents, parents friends and their kids (minivan days..) and we were looking out the window at the people driving around us naming what animal we thought they looked like. Hours and hours of entertainment. The parents even joined us.
In grade school I made up this game that a lot of us would play if we had indoor recess. It was called “Jenga Wars”.
2 players would take half of a jenga set, and each build a fort about 8 feet away using the pieces. One piece would be selected from each fort as the “king piece” and would be stood straight up.
Each player would take turns sliding one Jenga piece on the floor at a time at the other persons fort in an attempt to knock down the opposing king. First person to knock the opponent’s king piece down wins! Lots of interesting strategies!
Secret Agent Man. You’d run from one kid’s house to the next at night in all camo ducking into bushes and hiding behind trees while cars pass. If you’re “seen” you have to start over from the beginning.
My dad taught my sister and me a card game that he called fish, but it wasn’t go fish. It was basically a modified version of Uno using a regular deck of cards. It’s still a fun game to play with a large group if you’re like me and don’t know how to play spades or hearts.
idk if we made this up ?? or if this is literally a popular game with a different title or something?? but anyway me and all the kids on my street used to play a game at bonfires we called Tour Guide. we would pick a base (usually the steps at our front door) and a tour guide and a monster. everyone would chill at base while the tour guide and monster went to go find a hiding spot for the monster. we played this shit late at night and tried to make it as spooky as possible. after the monster was in a hiding spot, the tour guide would come back to the group to give us a tour. they would lead us around places,, pointing out random things,, and eventually one of those things would be the monster's hiding spot. the monster would jump out and chase everyone back to base. who ever the monster tagged was the monster next. obvi you were safe once you got to base. it was basically just a game where we tried to spook each other out with jumpscares and it was 11/10 fun times
This was a seriously childish one but 'Yucky Pasta Salad'. All i was was saying what you would make a pasta salad with, but with increasingly more disgusting items. Honestly i have no idea how this kept me so entertained and it probably ended up almost the same game every time, the only thing it does now is put me off ever eating pasta salads
My friends and I did this thing we called "Butt boarding", we would sit at the top of my friends driveway that sloped towards the dead end road, and try and make it down the driveway of our other friends house across the street that sloped down hill from across the street on skateboards or scooters. It was fun.
Dragonsong
Okay it's like hide and seek but stranger. So me and my friends went into a dark area, house, backyard. Etc. Anyways, we would pick the 'dragon' aka whoever is it. They would pick a song and then everyone else would pick and animal and hide. The 'dragon' would play the song and have to find people for the how long the song lasts. If they find the person they yell "(whatever animal they chose) Is on fire!" Then that person would play dead. If they did find everyone before the song ended, the last person found was it. If they didn't. The people not found would grab some object and pretend it's a sword and chase the 'dragon' while a song played if they were caught they couldn't play got 2 rounds. If they didn't during the time of the song, the person farthest would be it.
Not really as a child (I was 12-15), but with children, "The Sleeping Game". I lay down, try to sleep and up to 3 kids jump on my back and I do as if I was shocked. They looooved it.
10 years later and I have insane back problems. Most of the nights I cannot even sleep without waking up from pain.
I grew up in a village with tons of children. Every weekend we played a village wide game called 'Tribes' where we effectively created our own feudal society.
Every game went on from the last, we had kings and lords and merchants and even peasants who would go into the field and pick long grass to trade in as taxes.
Occasionally a group woukd splinter off and form a new tribe and we'd have huge wars which we fought with sticks.
Foo-dog. There was a rather sizable, shallow portion of our pool with a drop off that lead into the deep end. Standing up as a child, the water came up to about your waist. The object of the game was to physically push, throw, or knock the other contestants into the deep end. Last person standing was awarded the honor of "Foo-dog." I have no clue where we even got the name from.
Pretended we each had talismans from Jackie Chan’s Adventures. The whole living room became a battle field, we’d throw the talismans (checkers pieces) to each other when we needed super strength to fight the couch or super speed to run away from the TV.... good times. Innocent times.
how long can u not get the belt for, basically u had to do something bad or mean and then hide in a place and see how long it takes for you family to find you, my record was 3 days
“Wagon Derby”. My friend and I would put our siblings in each of our plastic wagons, push them forward at running speed with the handles, slam them bumper to bumper, and whichever sibling yanked the other out of their wagon won.
Everyone would buy a little car like hotwheeles or matchbox, we would draw a giant race track and set it up with "traps" like spikes, pitfalls, and road blocks...you put the cars at the start, every player has 3 "pushes" per turn, you have to push the car with your finger 3 times, avoid traps, other players + not fall out of the marked race tracks...
Orphanage. My friend and I would tie each other to trees in the woods, pretending the orphanage owner was punishing us. We sat out there for hours. It was super messed up
After the movie Twister came out a friend and I would ride around our neighborhood on our bikes "chasing tornadoes." We took turns being lead. Leader would kind of meander duck duck goose style and then out of nowhere say "F4 get Dororthy # ready!" We would then go off onto random hidden dirt trails in the woods to make the climax more thrilling. One of us would sometimes "crash" and a dramatic "go on without me!" type scene would play out.
I grew up in West Virginia. If you've played Fallout 76 you can see why I had to develop such an imagination before the age of 8.
We used to turn all of the lights off and have someone get pushed around on the computer chair in different directions of the house, pretending it was a ghost train. It would be the best if there were more people as they could hide and jump out a various points.
Taking sentences spoken by others and tapping out the syllables on my fingers in sequence, then mentally editing the sentence so that the number of syllables is divisible by 5 and would land on the last finger.
My brother and I and some of our friends used to play a game we dubbed “Missile”. We lived in the country near a highway so at night we’d all run around the yard until a car appeared on the highway. Someone would yell “missile!” and everyone had to hit the dirt and avoid being seen. There wasn’t really a winner because we had no way of knowing if the driver saw us but it was fun nonetheless
We used to play a game that was BASICALLY the floor is lava, but we had this AMAZING wooden park to crawl around and climb around. It kept us busy enough to where we were old enough to walk to the park, but probably;y too old to be playing in the park.
Doesn't really count, but we played this game called fish out of water constantly in our late teens early twenties for this frantic period of two years. You go to a playground after dark, and someone's "it". They count to 10 and try to tag everyone else, but they also have to keep their eyes closed the whole time. Everyone else is not allowed to touch the sand/woodchips/whatever, they have to stay on the playground structure/climb around on it etc. Whoever gets tagged first loses and becomes it for the next round.
It works best with small, claustrophobic playgrounds, where there's a high rate of turnover.
We would get there at like 8-9pm and stay there until 2 in the morning, just like 5-6 grown ass adults at playground. We wouldn't even keep score. Once the game gets going and people get into it time just starts evaporating and before you know it you're all sweaty and it's late as fuck.
Every summer, spring break, Christmas, and Thanksgiving when everyone was home from college we would put games together, it was super nice
i_p_i · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but...
"Ghost, ghost, where's the ghost?"
Basically modified hide and seek where the hiders were all ghosts and the seeker would wander around asking "ghost, ghost, where's the ghost?" and whatever ghost was in hearing distance HAD to respond by saying "Boo" in at least a speaking voice (no whispering) or by banging/knocking on a wall or door nearby. Any discovered ghosts would "haunt" the seeker by following them around and interfering with the seeking whenever possible but could only do so by whisper or lightly tapping things.
Game to be played at night with all the light out. Seeker gets a flashlight, ghosts get nothing.
Keejyi · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freddi Fish 2. Not 1 or 3, just 2. I’d spend hours not progressing the story, just messing around with the blackboard and being a goof.
Whenever my parents got a good sized cardboard box to play with, we'd cut a hole in the bottom and make it look like a TV. Then my sister and I would take turns to be the watcher and the TV. Basically the watcher would just yell out what they were changing the channel to, "News! Family Matters! Captain Planet!" and the person "in" the TV would have to act out whatever they said. When you run out of ideas, swap over. It was actually a lot of fun.
If you spot a smart car, thats 1point
If you spot a Volkswagen Beetle (buggy), thats 2 points
If you spot a mini cooper, thats 3 points
If you spot a fiat 500, thats 4 points
If you spot a hummer, thats 5 points
If you see a police car, thats -1 point for whoever you choose.
We recently added Tesla and Limousine, which are both 10 points
My mother had a really large front yard but it was all slanted and loads of tree roots so it was always hard to play any ball games in that yard. buuuut the house had a nice slopped roof. So we took that to our advantage.
You take a soccer ball an you play with about 3-5 people and the goal of the game is to throw the ball up on the roof and when it would run back down the next person in line would have to push the ball back up on the roof. AN you had to be in mid air to touch the ball and put it back up. No catching and waiting you had to be athletic and leave your feet. That game was fast an mean. Your trying to eliminate the other players of the game until your the last one standing. So your trying your best to make it very hard for the other person to make it to the ball in time to jump catch and then toss it back up on the roof all in one motion. My friends would do the dreaded gutter check shot once in a while. Which basically was like spiking it in volley ball into the gutter. An it counted because it was part of the roof. it was nearly un beatable if you were not ready for it or fast enough. Only other rule was if the ball feel off the side of the house and not directly in the field of play "which was the drive way area and the front slop of the roof it was out of bounds and the game had to be restarted but the person who toss it out of bounds was out for that round.
God roof ball was fun. Im glad i thought it up. I miss being a kid sometimes.
I'm super late to this! But my brother and I used to make "wine," where we took berries from the bushes around our house (many of which were absolutely toxic), and we'd crush them with a rock, and strain the juice out with water into a huge jug, then stick it in the shed that was left untouched the whole time we loved in that area. The poison water was left there at least a year to ferment, and we'd take it out and sniff it. Good thing we were at least smart enough not to drink it.
Driving passed random people and dad shouting out the car "hey kids its uncle garry wave to uncle garry" and having this poor bloke awkwardly wave back not having a clue on whats going on ..
Legend of lagai
I think that’s how it was spelt it was for reg play station and was a killer game lost it in a move and never was able to find it again
DUTCH BLITZ! I Grew up in very rural western PA with a very large quaker and amish population. I'm not either of those things but in the amish grocery stores they sell this card game and its absolutely a really fun time. Sort've like a canasta variation.
Treat your self to some new after dinner fun and pick up Dutch Blitz on amazon.
Paper RPG battles. My brother and I would use a piece of paper, and draw out a battlefield in the background. Than privately, we would draw out a fighter/creature on one end of the paper. After we would cover our Fighter with a different piece of paper while the other drew theirs on the opposite end. After we finished we would take turns "attacking" each others creation! (the attacks would take place with pencil/eraser)
'Antarctica'
During sleepover we would crank the AC to max and make it super cold in the room, hiding in our sleeping bags or pillow fort as if we were dealing with a blizzard and peeping out to
Colored eggs. It was a call back game. You’d choose your “color” then line up even facing each other, red rover style. Then one side would start: “What do you want?” “Colored eggs.” “What color?” Then the starting team chose and all those colored eggs go to the other side. Repeat. Team with most eggs wins. It would usually end in an argument over changing your color after you got picked. Played in grade-school in Texas in the 90s. Haven’t thought about it in years.
Whenever we’re in a hallway with multiple elevators, we always try to guess which one will come first. Works the best when there aren’t those signs that say which level the elevators are on. In present tense because despite the fact that my brother and I are both adults, we still play this game whenever we’re together.
My friends and I made up this game called shark in the dark when we were little. It's pretty intense tbh.
Basically it's like hide and seek but in a pitch black room also the seeker is called the shark. However, instead of just finding them you have to slap them or jump on them.
The last rule of the game is the first round must start organically so if you're at a sleepover about to fall asleep or everyone is watching a movie together the self chosen shark can just start attacking people.
This game was always the best thing ever until one fateful day when we were playing shark in the dark. I was hiding with my very sweet friend under the bed and I wanted her to get caught because I heard the shark coming so I tickled so she would laugh or something.
Bad. Idea. She's a swimmer and also we were in a dark tight space... she punched me in the nose hard. and that was the day shark in the dark died.
My sister used to play this game where she would lock me in a plastic storage bin and make all my siblings sit on top of it. And then kick it and yell at me when I cried and panicked saying I was ruining their fun. And wouldn't let me out until my parents got home and then would threaten me so I wouldn't tell them what she did...that was pretty unique.
Bull bull was the name of the game. Someone would get on all fours and act as the "bull bull" and we would all have to run from one end of a room or a backyard to another to "avoid the bull bull" and if you were caught, you were now the "bull bull". 98% of the time, no one would be caught by the "bull bull" because it was absolutely useless and we were mostly bipedal, but every time someone was caught, everyone I played with was thrilled. Endless hours of fun.
It was a game I played with my mom waiting to pick up my dad every week he came home from work. We would write random numbers from 1-999 on a sheet of paper in random places with a pencil and then have two different colored pens, one for each player. You have to circle the numbers in order, one after another with your pen and at the end, count up who has the most points. I’m pretty sure my mom always let me win but it was still fun as we waited for my dad’s train to come.
Ok so there were at least 8 kids in our neighborhood, including my brother and I, and we had a huge neighborhood that was more of a series of connected houses and no backyards, just grass in between the complexes. The game we played was called Runner. The was 1-2 Runners (depending on how old the Runners were) and the rest were people called Hunters. The Runners had 30-60 seconds to run to anywhere on the opposite side of the neighborhood before the Hunters would chase them down, either with nerf guns or by hand. The Runner had to get to the objective, which is where the started running, before they were eliminated by Hunters. I was the reigning champion with the most objectives captured and the longest run time on non-capture runs. It was fun.
My cousins, brother, and I would play a game where we would keep tapping a person (like tagging someone, but repeatedly) when going up stairs in my house. The only way to stop it is if you yelled “Timeout I’m not playing I quit!” On the stairs. We would play this game so much when we were little we would continue to do it on any flight of stairs. We started this game when I was 4. We still continue to play this game now and I’m 27.
In the winter the boys would bumper-ski, which was after a snowfall then waiting until a car or truck passed by on the street then the guys would grab on and slide for a block or so then let go.
Door-ball in the summer. In the school yard there was a door and we marked the strike zone. You only needed a batter, catcher and outfielder.
When I was 4-5 and began going to pre-kinder, I always cried on the way there. My mom made up a game to count school buses we saw on the way to the school (it was a relatively long drive). It helped me take of my mind of the trip and saved me the tears till she dropped me off lol.
Not me, but my kids. They are obsessed with magic in forests so they love to go hiking and tell us imaginative stories about the lore that happened there. See that crooked, fallen giant tree? It's an old giant called a Faulkner and it was charging after the gnomes over there (pointing at some bulby rocks). The Faulkner cast a spell to freeze the gnomes so he could catch and eat them. But before he could reach him the fairies that disguise themselves as those flowers over there swarmed and tripped him. He cut that path through the trees as he fell to his death and has lain there ever since. The fairies have feasted on his bark-like skin for centuries.... These 7 and 9 year old girls need to write a book. They are so good that I hang on the stories they tell. And they are usually interactive (look out, there is a sleeping x over there. Tip toe through so we don't disturb it's hibernation)
Mummies in the Dark. Someone is blindfolded and waits outside a room while the rest of us 'hide' they come in and have to feel their way around. We can move around the room if we choose. Once the blindfolded person males contact with someone they are allowed to touch them for a little but not the head and they have to guess who it is. If they guess wrong the person who was 'caught' is allowed to relocate themselves. The first correct guess leads to that person becoming the mummy.
we had a game called “off the step” in elementary school. it was a mix of baseball and off the wall. we had a small cement yard adjacent to the monkey bars, and a short 4-5’ fence enclosing it.
during recess, we would use a tennis ball and see how far we could bounce it off the edge of the step. if it made it to the fence it was a double. over the fence it was a homer. fouls when you missed the edge and pop flies left you open to easy outs. ypu wpuld rotate ‘batters’ and after 3 outs and the next team was up.
great game. if you ever find a good step with a short fence 15’ back, grab a tennis ball and give it a try.
Ultimate the-floor-is-alligators. Begin on the top bunk, jump down onto the toybox, climb onto the dresser, swing across the bedroom door to the closet door, then swing back around to the bed.
There are several that I would play but the one I still continue to play with my wife now is "The License plate game". Growing up my family would always drive across the country to visit family for holidays and whatnot and wedd would try to drive the whole way without stopping at a hotel. My dad has sleep apnea so he almost always falls asleep especially while driving so this game was a way to keep him up and alert while driving. The rules for the game are pretty much whenever you start a roadtrip you look at the other cars license plate. Whenever you see a license plate from a state no one else has seen you have to tell it out and tap the other player. If you tap someone and the state has already been named by either yourself or the other player then your partner gets to tap you twice. It's a pretty fun game and you start to recognize license plates more and the yelling/tapping/trying to remember whether you saw that once state 10hrs into your drive helps you from falling asleep. Also you can only really play this game with the driver and whoever's shotgun, mostly because they can see infront of them while driving and it's also hard to tap someone in the backseat.
My entire family still does it to this day. I don't exactly remember how it started, but the idea is that every time someone says "moose tracks" (the ice cream flavor), everyone has to put a closed fist on their chin. The last person to do it loses, though there are no consequences except that the rest of us ridicule them.
My parents, my two siblings, and I have done this for so long that it's become instinctive. This has caused some embarrassment when I'm not with my family and someone says "moose tracks," because I will have my fist on my chin before I even know what I'm doing, earning me some weird looks from whomever I'm with at the time.
I don't really care though. I'd rather look stupid than lose the game.
I played a game called “hey cow” whenever we were in the car. It’s extremely simple, every time you pass cows you roll down your window and shout “HEY COW” as loud as possible. You get points for every cow that looks at you.
My husband and I play this game together now that I am an adult, and it’s even more fun to play with him!
At recess we would play a very bastardized version of (American) football.
Basically, for any given 45 minute recess session the following would happen:
Sam and Alex were team captains and all time-QB. Why? Because they were the two most popular kids at school.
Sam would get first pick, Jarred, and Alex would get two picks and the ball.
They would then each pick teams which usually resulted in about 25 kids per side- give or take on how energetic the weird kids were that day.
Ryan would then pick which direction each team would go- into the sun or not. Ryan would either be picked 2nd or last depending on how sunny it was. Why did he get to pick direction? Because he brought the football.
There was a line of scrimmage, of which only Sam or Alex (the QBs) had to stay behind. For everyone else (receivers, dbs, linemen) it was a free-for-all. Anyone could run pre-snap including the QB.
Each team had 4 downs to score, no first downs.
Jarred was the ref (hence his first overall draft status and Alex's two pick compensation). Any penalty he called would result in yardage and a replay of down. Why Jarred? Cause he was super nice and anyone disagreeing was a dick.
The game played out as follows:
The QB would run around (staying behind the line), while his receivers would also run around. The linemen would chase the QB but could not tag him until the ball was "snapped." Once the QB spotted a an open receiver he would loudly yell "hut" which "snapped" the ball. At this point, the QB could be tagged after "3 seconds." These 3 seconds were counted as quickly as possible by the defense (usually by slurring down "mississipi" into a 3/10 a second pronunciation). The QB would then throw the ball. Once caught/intercepted normal two-hand touch football presumed. If dropped, the ball was moved back to the line of scrimmage and the next down attempted.
This would continue until either Alex's team scored or threw an interception (Keeping in mind Alex's team goes first). If Alex failed to score on 4th down, then Jarred would call a penalty, move the ball up, and attempt 4th down again.
Sam, would then get the ball and get exactly four tries to score. If Sam's team turned the ball over on downs Alex's team got the ball. Jarred did not call penalties if Sam's team had the ball. In 2 1/2 school years of play, Sam's team never once attempted a 4th down- having scored or intercepted on one of the first 3 downs. Sam's team would usually only face a 3rd down about once a month- and it was common for them to go a whole recess session with no 2nd, 3rd, or 4th downs, essentially scoring on every play via one long Hail Mary.
Score was kept by counting interceptions since there were only two outcomes on any given "drive": a pick or an interception of which an interception was less common thus easier to remember.
In 2 1/2 years of play, Sam's team never once trailed when the "5 minutes left" recess bell rang.
Upon hearing the bell, regardless of who had the ball Sam's team would offer double, triple, quadruple, ect or nothing to Alex's team. If Alex's team accepted, then Sam's team would get the ball at the 50 (the big tree) and if they scored, they won, if they failed to score, then the game would be tied 0-0 (since it was a double or nothing offer). This meant that regardless of the day's action, there were only two outcomes: Sam's team winning or Sam's team tying.
We played every non-rainy day in 3rd, 4th, and the first half of 5th grade.
Sam's team won or drew every single game- except for one: a legendary pick-six by a 3'8" undersized midget of a girl who could probably run a 4.20 forty. Sam's team loudly argued with Jarred (one of their own team-members) that Callie had stepped out of bounds as she left everyone in a cloud of dust. Keep in mind, at no point in the 2 1/2 years of play had an out of bounds ever been established.
The argument was so loud and so intense that the teachers banned the game for the remainder of the year- hence why we only played the first half of 5th grade. Sam never played football again at any level- including high school despite being an outstanding QB with a cannon of an arm. The division within the grade of "Sam's team" and "Alex's team" was so deep that when middle school football started we lost every single game in 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. Not until varsity football in the 10th grade were amends made.
We played tag on four wheelers (ATVs). My cousin would drive in front of me and I would speed up and tail him. Rule was you had to touch one ATV to another or your hand had to touch the person. I don't know how we never really hurt ourselves but we loved that game.
When I was younger and I had a play date with my best friend we made up a game called Z-Tag. We both had 2 balls and the seeker had a nerf gun. So the seeker will count to 20 and go to find the hider. But the lights were off and the way the seeker got the hider(s) our is by shooting them with a nerf dart. You had 10+amount of players of darts. But if the seeker got hit in the head by a ball and he/she doesn’t deflect it with their own ball or dodge it the seeker has to let one of the captured hiders back in the game and they can’t seek for a minute.
MrKLR · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fart Lady. Great name, I know, but it was when I was like 8. Basically my sister and I would lay on our parents bed with a blanket balled up at our feet. Then we would yell "Fart Lady!" And we'd have to get completely covered in the blanket before a 5 second count down or we were "gassed"
I wish I could find it. It was from the Leeds library, around 1996, on a floppy disc. It was an RTS game similar to Warcraft. It was 2D and had pixel style art.
I’ve tried finding it through Wikipedia and old RTS games to no avail :(
We would play a game that I made up called "So Safe." Basically, the premise was that we were all at a camp and one person was a serial killer. Before every round, we'd determine who the
camp director was, and then everyone would draw coins from a hat. If someone got a certain coin, they were the serial killer.
This meant that anyone could be the killer, even the camp director.
Then, the camp director would make up reasons for everyone to split up, such as "you need to go get firewood," and "we'll stay here and set up the tent."
When you split up, you couldn't return to the central "camp" area until you would've realistically gathered firewood. While gone, however, the killer could shank someone with their thumb (making a thumbs-up was considered to be a knife), and the victim could choose whether or not to scream and die loudly.
You couldn't make a knife if you were not the killer, and you couldn't scream if you weren't dead, however you could lie still on the floor if you wanted to add confusion.
If anyone saw the killer murder someone, they had to yell "911!" and the camp would win.
However, if the camp director said it was midnight, everyone had to squeeze under a large blanket in the middle of the room, with the exception of the killer. By this point, everyone would know who the killer was, since the killer wasn't under the "tent," and they'd try to hold down the blanket edges while the killer attempted to reach underneath and "stab" people.
Generally, there were so many people that the blanket wouldn't hold them all, so we'd see a lot of cutthroat hijinks, like pushing someone outside of the tent.
Great times, it was a real adrenaline-booster.
Oh yeah, and we played it in the dark.
Commando. Have about 6 people while camping, basically a "team" of 4 people have to make it from point A (designated start area) to point B (campsite) while the other two people are on quads/dirt bikes looking for you. Best to play at night when it's hard to see and you need flashlights. You'd drop all the runners off at the start point then go back to camp and wait a few minutes then the 2 seekers would take off on the quad and try to find everyone before they got back. Only rule was you had to stay within 50ft of the trail/road so the people on quads could actually find you.
You can play in the city too. We used to do from one high school to the other within certain streets for the boundary. Those were bigger games, 20 seekers in cars and about 50 runners.
Well there's this game not unique to me but unique in Turkey. It's a game where the more the merrier. One guy starts with the ball and everyone else in close proximity. He throws the ball straight up and yells another player's name. Now that person is trying to catch the ball as fast as they can while everyone else tries to get away as fast a they can.
As soon as the ball is caught everyone stops and then the guy with the ball tries to hit someone. So kinda like a standstill dogeball shot. If successful the new person is it, if not the same person is it again.
Not as a child, but as suburban teenagers with nothing to do past sunset we would play a game called "kidnap".
Kidnap consisted of two teams of four; a driver, a navigator, and two victims- one vehicle per team. Since the game was played at night, teams would park in a well lit area (usually a Meijer or movie theater, but really anywhere that was off a main road) to plot their drop points. Drop points were unusual places your teammates knew of, ranging from creepy dirt roads in the middle of BFE to dead end streets in ritzy subdivisions. The only rule of drop points was they had to be within an X mile radius of the starting point. (After all, we were teenagers and gas money wasn't cheap).
Each team had three minutes to decide on a drop point before the victims were blindfolded and exchanged. Knowing the opposing team's victims knew where your teammates were being taken, navigators would try to interrogate victims on the way to the drop point. However, his main goal was to distract them. Loud music, bantering, obnoxious questions- anything to take the victim's attention off the road and focus it on him. Drivers would also play along by making odd twists and turns in case the victims were trying to navigate the route inside their heads.
Once D+N were satisfied the victims were lost, the driver parked at the drop point. Here the victims took off their blindfolds and were each given a flashlight and a pocket knife. The driver then made sure the GPS on victim's phones was off before kicking them out of the car and booking it to find their teammates. Victims then had to race to the nearest landmark or intersection, call their own navigator, and let them know where they were. The first team to find their victims and make it back to the starting point won.
Side Note: Everyone loved playing victim. Imagine being dropped off in the dark with no idea which direction to head. Adrenaline kicks in and both of you really need to work together to find your way to.... anything. It was rare victims knew what street they were on, let alone what city they were in, so if the drop point was too overwhelming they were allowed to turn on their GPS. And trust me, some drop-points were fucking overwhelming.
You get three cards, and your goal is to get 31 or think you have the highest number between 0-31.
You knock, everyone has one more turn left besides you, then you show your hand.
If you are the lowest number you lose a life.
We used 10 dollars. So everyone got two lives. 5$ per life. If you lose you fold your 10 dollar bill in half to show you have only half a life.
Normally we would play with two decks because we had like 15--20people playing. I was like 8-12 during this time. lol I won so much money like twice.
Really fun game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor had a long drive way that my brother and I used to go down with bikes or whatever was around. Eventually I learned that I could tape a folding chair onto a skateboard and have a blast. Obviously it was hard to balance on and we wiped out many times. Fun as heck though and I thought I was a genius for thinking of it.
mcook5 · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a church up the street from our house, and my brother and I used to just use this church and the yard surrounding it as a playground. The church had a square landing that was almost like a patio out front with large columns in the corners, and a metal railing that lined the edges. We used to play "Cat's Eye", based on the part of the movie with the story "The Ledge", where the guy had to walk around the high ledge on the outside of the building, along the outside edge of the church's patio. Because our mom definitely let us watch Cat's Eye) when we were waaaay too young to be watching that.
I grew up with two best friends, so as a group of three, we had to make ways for games to be even with an odd number.
The one we played the most was Automatic QB. One guy was the QB, the others switched between WR and CB after every throw. A catch was worth 1, INT worth 2. First to 5 got to be QB, next round
Trap or horror rooms. 1 person would sit outside the room while the others set traps, for example i would tie toys to a string, tie that to the handle and with the powers of my 10yo engineering skills make it so that when the person enters the toys drop on them. Another thing, idk if it counts but we used to take toy cars apart, leaving just wheels and the plate then make them out of clay (or whatever the squishy plasticy kids substance is called) and send them down a ramp towards "cities" made out of common house objects. The point was to make them crash and then be excited about the dents and everything. The car thats destroyed the most wins. The exciting part was taking off the damaged parts and recreating them after. If i remember correctly we were greatly inspired by flatout hah
On the side of our garage there were some stacks of plywood leaning against it in a way that we could slide down on them. At the time a neighbor friend, my brothers and myself would play that we were on the last hour of the titanic, and slid down as if we were the unfortunate people on the ship. It was around the time that the movie came out. Lol
It's not much of a game, but a very loving memory. We have a cottage in the woods that's 20 minutes away. My cousins and I spent every moment we could in those woods. We had a "tree house" (read just a huge tree with a bunch of branches on which we sat). Of course, we had the stake out tree and everything else that goes with a house. It was our little secret layer and we had secret meetings and even a secret alphabet. Our missions were very important. A small crew equipped with hand made bows and arrows, fighting for our haven. Mainly fighting of the imaginary enemies, but every once in a while we had a real mission, like investigating the illegal dump yard not far away. Or stealing from our moms the seads for our own garden in the woods, or replanting the forest when the grown-ups fucked up and cut down a bunch of trees.
dcgood · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee football.
Played a lot of knee football in my basement (carpeted) as a kid. My friends would come over and we'd move everything to the side with 2 or 3 players on each team had a good 40 ft. Because of the open floor olan. Played to the rules as well as we knew. No forward passes, hike the ball, full contact, no Mississippi rush and a lot of knee burns. Touch the ball to the teams wall to receive points. Played this well into middle school. Loved it.
I used to larp in a way. A friend of mine had what we would call "the game" and he would have us go on quests and fight enemies. We would even level up and gain new abilities as we went along. This went from elementary school into early middle school before we stopped. But it was a hell of a lot of fun. We would play it any time we were together with our group. And it was a continuous quest (we never started over) the whole time.
Oh man finally I have a great story for one of these and I'm way too late but meh.
This is the dumbest, most ridiculous thing and when my brothers and I speak about it now none of us can work out why the heck we did something so stupid...
So I grew up as one of five boys all quite close in age and we had an old Bedford Midi minibus to get around. In the back of the minibus were some bench type seats that faced each other.
My parents always encouraged us to be creative in long journeys to keep us entertained and not end up arguing. One of the games we came up with (for some reason) was where we decided that we had to stay silent and try to make each other make some noise.
We sat facing each other with our legs stretched out in between the legs of the brother opposite, the heels of our feet resting just next to the testicles of the other.
The basic rule was if you made a sound you got your gonads squished. That was it. We all sat in apprehensive silence trying not to giggle and it all eventually ended up in a bit of a free for all melee in the back of the vehicle until mum or dad yelled at us.
Good times!
mlm777 · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “crocodile” which involved running around the perimeter of an area rug as fast as we could. The first person who got tired, dizzy, or fell over was eaten by the imaginary crocodile in the middle of the rug.
My brothers and I used to play a game where we threw a hot wheels car on the roof of our house. If it rolled all the way down to the ground and landed wheels down we'd all look at each other, put our hands up in the air and exclaim, "After all THAT?!?!"
We had a BIG oak tree that would drop thousands of acorns. The acorns would fall into the patio area. My father gave my brother and I a 5 gallon bucket and we would walk around collecting the best acorns.
This process would take more than an hour as we always wanted to pick the best acorns. The acorns that had been chewed by squirrels or cracked when hitting the ground were no good to us.
Once we had our buckets full of acorns, we each got 1 walnut. This was like a ‘nuke’. Anyway, the game was simple. Two shirtless kids running around pelting each other with acorns until our skin was covered in red spots. We had one walnut to throw but you only had one chance to throw it, it was usually saved until the end.
My dad also liked this game because we basically just cleaned up all the acorns from our patio one by one. Kept us busy and cleaned. What’s not to love?
We would play “real life”. I would buy the kitchen and charge everyone for food and drinks and my sister would buy the bathroom and charge everyone to pee. She was always terribly upset that no one would use the bathroom.
I used to shoot hoops in the driveway, while role playing a Star Wars character in my head. I would fabricate scenes and voice aloud all the dialogue while tearing it up in my driveway with a basketball. When you think of a kid playing basketball by themselves and they say things like “and he shoots, and he scores” to narrate what they’re doing, it’s like the same thing only I was blowing up the Death Star or dueling Vader in my mind. Either that or I was a WCW wrestler in my mind. It’s just that basketball was my mode of acting those things out.
Seriously about the most formative activity I ever had. I was really good at basketball as a result, but mostly only play as a mental release and chill activity rather than competing.
We played "sneak past the alarm system". We had an alarm system with a motion sensor that lit up whenever it was triggered, even when it wasn't on... so we'd try to avoid it and make an entire lap around the house while always keeping an eye on it. Whoever triggered it lost a life, and we had 3 lives. Sometimes we also played with collective lives to work together to make it the full lap. Sneakiness and acrobatics ensued... eventually we made it all the way through the house multiple times, using exploits like the sun hitting the floor or someone having recently moved a big chair to a convenient location. It was also great dusting, so the parents kept letting us. It's amazing what 6 year olds with too much time can do.
There was a game called butts up played with a tennis ball and a wall that we played in the suburbs of Chicago. Dunno about the rest so I don't know if it is unique. Though would love it if someone knows that game and could refresh the rules for.me
When we were kids, with my brother we would play « slow-mo fight ». It’s exactly as it sounds : two kids punching and kicking each other in slow motion mode, sounds effects and deeper voices included. I would never won, because the bastard would cheat and tickle the hell out of me. But it was fun.
In church, there would be this sign that showed which hymns would be sung. I summed up the numbers in each column to get a winner. The 1's usually won, and the 100's were the heavy underdog.
Also, I cut out the NFL logos on the back of a cereal or fruit snacks box and a deck of cards and would play "war" and have tournaments. I even started keeping track of the winners each "season".
Counter strike irl with actual bb guns. One team has their shirts off wrapped on their heads. All over the streets of Philippines. Best at night. Sometimes my team would open a concrete manhole and shoot all the cockroaches in it
My friends and i would play a variation of dodgeball but each person had a nerf dart we would throw like knives while we wore those sticky nerf vests. We would sometimes put steel bearings in the darts to give them weight to throw farther.
Someone I once knew described a game he called "Batman". He and his friends would run around dark alley ways searching for one another. When someone spotted another guy, they'd stretch their arms out and run straight at them, closing the distance as the other runs away, then try to smack them hard. Rinse and repeat.
My cousins and I played a game we called knee ball. We played 2v2 and occasionally 3v3. The court was in a carpeted bonus room and was around 25ft by 12ft. There were two goals each team with one they defend and one they try to score in. All players had to have at least one knee on the carpet at all times. We used a nerf basketball that was a little bit bigger than a tennis ball. You weren't allowed to grab the ball and had to use your hands almost as sticks. You could scoop it up for an aerial shot but weren't allowed to have it in the scoop position for more than a split second. There was one goalie/defender and either one or two offensive players. We had a goalie box which allowed the goalie to grab the ball if they wished. We had penalty shots that were taken from the middle if a rule was ever broken. If a team hit the ball out of bounds, the ball would be given to the goal keeper from the opposing team. Knee burns were common but damn I miss it
I don’t remember how we got the name but “Captain Purple Pants”, essentially it’s hide in the seek in the dark but the hiders have pillows. If the seeker finds you you have a chance to get away by hitting them so hard with the pillow that you blur their sense of what’s around them. Lots of fun nights ending with someone getting angry, good times
This was a card game. We both pick cards. We then both pick Batman characters. I always get to be Batman (this was the most important rule). Batman always wins.
My family didn't like to play that one with me.
This isn't as good as when I tried to set the deck for crazy 8s with my grandpa. He was very pleased as I accidentally dealt him all the 2s and 8s. My family definitely made me play that one.
I would go into this fantasy world where I was in an ancient civilization and act out hunter/gatherer scenario's, I even created my own meal called "chimchip"which consisted of mashed beans.
In reality, I was really just riding my scooter on my grandparents driveway talking to myself.
Whenever we were driving somewhere I would pretend that none of the car tyres could touch the shadows made by the trees. In my mind I would jump the shadows with the car, or lift a tyre or two off the ground to avoid touching the shadows. Endless entertainment!
"Avalanche"- my brother and I would pile as many pillows, blankets, and sheets as we could find at the top of the stairs. We then would pull the heap down on top of us causing us to fall down the stairs. Clean up was a bitch. Needless to say, this was a game only played when mom wasn't home
Objects.
Player one collects household objects and throws them over the 2nd story balcony in “random” manner. Player(s) 2, 3, and 4 lay on the ground below. Last one to move wins!!
My brothers and I used to play "Rock wars". It was similar to pokemon with a hint of geology put in the mix. Types were based on what the rock was, if it was igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, etc.
Giant rocks that meant something or were backyard land marks were mythical and if you beat it, you got a smaller rock to represent it in battle.
The other difference was that stealing was common and acceptable, but only if the other person wasn't present. That would mean we'd hide rocks in absurd places and our mom wasn't too happy about it.
The real fun was scouring the neighborhood for super unique, cool rocks, especially fossils. Going out of state or a new environment meant the opportunity of new rock types that had never been seen, granting you a battle advantage.
We were kinda nerdy kids honestly...
Me and a few friends had a game that never officially was given a name, but we always called it "The Red Dress". It was usually played in a large open area. One person had a large stick, and a blindfold on. Everyone else had to run around trying not to get "caught" by the blindfolded person. And by caught i mean hit by the stick. If I remember correctly, it was based off of an obscure goosebumps-esqe TV show or something, where someone tried stealing from a blindperson in one of the episodes. In retrospect, it probably wasn't the safest game...
Edit: the show was called "The Haunting Hour" and funny enough the episode it was taken from was also called The Red Dress
My mother was a shift worker, and Dad (who was the stay-at-home parent) had the policy that he didn't care what me and my sister did in our room, as long as we didn't wake Mum. This led to some...interesting games.
The two I remember most were a game where we scattered pieces of paper over the carpet, turned off the lights, and ran around in the dark until we slipped over. The other was a game where we would simply put a pillow over our faces and run face-first into the wall.
I have no idea what the point of these games was, other than just seeing what would happen.
"Taxi." My dad has 65 acres of land where he used to raise cattle. Whenever we were kids, he bought my little brother and I a two-seater go-kart that we would ride in the pasture whenever we would stay at his house. One day I came up with this game called taxi where one of us would drive through the pasture and try to splatter as much cow poop as possible on the passenger. After the passenger was completely covered in cow poop, the driver would leave the other person at the farthest point away from the house. The driver then was supposed to loop around and trade spots with the passenger. The trick was: every time we played, I was the driver. Most of the time I just left my brother stranded there.
When we had a sleepover at my house, we would take one of my dad's old English Leather cologne bottles and fill it with a mixture of all the liquid personal care products in the bathroom.
This was then the potion we, as spies, were tasked with protecting from the Penguin People. Sometimes my friend and I would be the Penguin People, trying to avoid capture by the police.
We made all kinds of props that were clues the game, like letters, newspapers, police lineups, and stuff like that.
I haven't thought about that in decades! Thanks for reminding me!
"Toonsi" This game was a game made out of sheer boredom in the late 80's. Me and my cousins made this "game". Being between the ages 12-7. First, all participants enter the room. Second, all participants grab a blanket, and cover thier body focused on the head so they couldn't see. Third, position away from all participants. And lastly, "Toonsi" begins as soon as the lights were switched off where then EVERYONE beats the living crap out of each other till they gave up.
The one that doesn't give up is claimed the winner.
Granted we didn't know why we covered our heads AND turned the lights off. But it was to discourage targeting. Though being family, we knew who was who, lol.
Now that's funny, lol. We thought we were the only messed up kids around. I think we named it "Toonsi" being inspired by Mario 3 toonooki, but who really knows that the best I could deduce, lol.
We had this pebbled driveway as a kid. I was (and still am) fascinated by pebbles/rocks. I would bring different stones into the house from the front drive and put them in my "rock collection". It wasn't a until a few years ago (now in my mid twenties) that mum told me she would be constantly taking the rocks from the "collection" and put them back outside in the drive.
Apparently she did this for years and I never noticed. I probably bought all the same ones back too.
Some friends and I played this game called blades of doom. We would have two people swing on the swing seat and everyone else had to make it from one side to the other. We would have characters we would do as we crossed. Like one kid would play an old guy looking for his cat. If someone would be swinging at him he would scream the cats name and dive to the ground before being hit by the swinger. It’s weird looking back but was so fun.
we had a pool and a hot tub in our backyard. We also had this plastic motorized seal that would swim. The pool was freezing cold, so we were all in the hot tub. One of us decided that we should play a game, where we turn the seal on and try and avoid it. If you got touched by the seal, you need to jump into the pool (we called the pool "Antarctica", and we described it as if you get touched, you get a ticket to Antarctica) and swim from the stairs to the ladder (one side to another)
I actually ended up getting used to the freezing hell that was the pool, so I stayed in it the pool and watch them play, we all had fun
Shoe game - every kid in the neighborhood meets up at a trampoline. Everyone takes there shoes off and throws them in the middle of the trampoline. Everyone gets on the trampoline and starts jumping. Object of the game, dodge the flying shoes, if you get tagged by a shoe you have to get off the trampoline and have to retrieve shoes that have bounced off.
I don’t know if it’s unique, but I never heard of it before my husband’s family. They always played “graveyard graveyard you’re buried” while on trips. The goal is to find as many animals as you could and as you passed a graveyard, you say the above phrase. Whoever get buried (the ones that didn’t say it first) also lost their entire animal count. I’ve never liked the game so I’ve never played it.
We just play the ABC game now, which I think everyone knows. Look for the letters of the alphabet in order as you are going on a trip. Whoever gets to Z first, is the winner.
I'm not sure if we had a name for it but me and my brother used to take off our duvet covers, wrap ourselves in them to the point we couldn't see through them and try to find each other around the house. When we did find each other we'd fuck one another up till the other fleed.
a game called charlie the unicorn which was a card game with dice played during lunch time. basically me and my 3 friends pretended to know how to play a game and one other person is trying to learn how the game goes but the 4 us would continue making up random rules. we started to remember certairules over others and started keeping a notebook filles with random ass rules. it was a time killer.
We played a game called bloody murder. There were 3 roles, the first was 1-5 murderers depending how many were playing. Second 1-2 cops. Then everyone remaining (the majority) were townspeople. The goal of the murderer is to find and touch all of the townspeople before the cops find and touch all of the murderers. Every time you got murdered you had to let out a blood curling scream so everyone knew someone had died. Best played in a large wooded area in the dark.
Second game didn't have a name but was primarily played at night during a camp out. You have two or three people guarding the camp. And everyone else has to try and enter the camp undected by the guards. Those who get caught have to be guards for the next round.
Played a game on a short dirt track with a go-cart and 4-6 players on foot. Person in the go cart carried a football and wore a hat. The goal of the game was to steal the hat off the person driving the go cart so you got to drive. If you were hit with the football you got a strike, 3 strikes and you were out of the game. Lots of running around. Track was tight so the driver had to slow way down. Just dumb fun.
Not my childhood, but my son. Somehow he decided when it's just guys we take off our shirts and throw them at each other. He used to get really excited when my daughter and wife would leave so we could 'throw our shirts'. Then it would usually devolve into superhero wrestling... as it does.
Sproutball. Every game would start with 6 balls, 3 on each side. If you get hit, you're out. If you catch someone else's ball, your out. It is very similar to Dodgeball but out P.E teacher doesn't want us to get hurt, so he used soft, smaller balls instead.
With my brother upstairs, I’d use (toy) wooden blocks to build fortified castles in the corner our basement and hide 20 (toy) standing army men inside and behind them. Then my brother come down and would whip 5 blocks from the opposite corner at the castles as hard as he could, then we’d count how many men were still standing. Next it was his turn to build and my turn to throw.
The game required a combination of defensive building skills, throwing accuracy, strategic deception and luck, kind of fort building and the milk bottle carnival game meets Stratego. We would play for hours on a rainy day.
game called "moppet" played with my twin brother when we were very young, 2-3 years old. etymology unknown. (my mom says we had our own language with many incomprehensible words)
as far as I can remember we just ran as fast as we could and threw ourselves into the couch.
Everyone gets a toy gun. One person hides in the house while the "team" waits a minute in a closed room. When the minute is up the team has to clear the house.
Rules are, you basically get a line of sight on someone and yell bang. They're dead.
It's really simple and there's a bit of judgement call involved but it's really fun. No health, no lives, just peaking around every corner terrified the bad guy is right there ready to one-shot you. If you die you have to lie there until the round is over.
This twisted version of tag I came up with. We would blindfold someone who was it and hide in an area of the room.
We would make sounds to alert who was it or just mess with them by touching them before they tagged us. We’d even put stuff along their walking path. We had some very intense games hahaha
Violent tag. I played it with my close friends in elementary school. There was a huge wooden train which was home base, and we’d run around trying to catch each other. If someone got to home base, you could pull and pry them off of it and they would be it. So we’d crawl around on top of it and the teachers got so mad when they caught us playing
I don't know if this is really a 'game' but once in a blue moon, on the playground in our school, dozens of kids would get on a different side of this bridge that was in the middle of the structure. Someone would yell "STAMPEDE!" and we would just...run at each other. This would continue for about 5 minutes straight before teachers are able to stop it. It was like a war zone
For christmas we got a set of laser tag. A couple guns and couple things you wore on your chest. Problem was that we didn't have enough for the kids in the neighborhood. So the hunters each got a gun and the raptors wore the chests. If a raptor tagged you once you were out. The chests allowed for 3 hits before you were out.
Funny part was that the sun triggered the vests. However, running like a raptor hunched over made it really hard to hit you in the front.
Sometime in early elementary I had an older friend show me how to draw very crude and simple anime styled fox people. She drew me my own original character to own, called Hardison. A bit later, we went over Bridge to Terabithia in class, and as an assignment, had to make our own imagionary world. I took Hardison and put him into the world of Golith (Go-lie-ith). He had a little sister, there was a princess, a whole lore... I wrote history books and drew art, and spent every single day playing outside as Hardison with my wooden sword and imagioning things. Later in elementary, a good friend and I played that game every single day at recess way back in the playground.
Oh, also in elementary we had The Village. Nearly every kid in our school was playing at the time. Our school yard was surrounded with a tree line, so we all climbed under the trees and made 'homes'. Pinecones were money, and people made buisnesses selling things like crushed plants that smelled good, sticks, and the rare and expensive potato. After a bit one girl brought monopoly money and the economy switched- There was a smaller supply and very little people accepted pinecones anymore, and a lot of the rich now had nothing. It got worse when the girl who introduced the white mans money needed it back because her mom got mad. Her mom then complaned to the school and a few kids were found off school grounds digging potatoes in the field so The Village was totally shut down.
I had an empty laptop box from my dad’s work laptop. It could unfold open and still stay standing up on the floor, with a plastic handle at the top. You guys, I made this shit my doomsday prep box. It contained:
two cans spaghetti o’s
one 4-pack AA batteries
flashlight powered by AAA batteries
two sci-fi novels
a small teddy bear
a flathead screwdriver
a pocket knife
a candle but no matches
an extra t shirt
a barbie
I was 6. I would open it every day and ponder how I was so clever and was prepared to survive.
This was when limewire, kazzaa, Napster were big. There was another one called Morpheus. As a 10 year old me and my friend would download random videos of monkeys smelling their own poop and fainting... guys getting hit in the head with shovels ... and I think some cky clips where people just did crazy shit. Definitely a lot of crazy and stupid stunt videos.So we would go do dumb shit. Like jump off of sheds ... and yell “Morpheus!” While doing it.
I played a self made "rpg" with my siblings, using acorns as characters and taking turns attacking. One swing of the hammer or one stab of a screwdriver, then it's the other person's turn. Acorn Wars.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Making a cake”. Basically, one kid would curl up on the couch/chair, and the others would proceed to layer every blanket and pillow over them. When this was finished, the other kids would climb atop the heap, and the person inside would try to get out.
I don’t know if this is unique but when I was in elementary school there was a map of the US painted on the ground. There were four groups of states that were colored either red, blue, green, or yellow.
So my friends made up a game called “States”. You have to pick one of the four colors and whichever color was chosen we could only step on states of that color. Once we started, we had to push each other off the states. It was really fun because it involved a lot of physical action, but we all agreed to not take it too far.
It was all fun and games until we were banned from playing it :(
My cousins and I used to play a game where one person would draw on one half of a folded piece of paper, without the 2nd person looking. Then, they'd mark the spots where the lines crossed over to the other half of the paper and the 2nd person continued the drawing, without knowing what the first drew at all.
The results were ridiculous drawings such as an alien head with a giant human leg coming out where the neck should be.
My middle-school classmates and I played Kreem-o Scheem-o at recess in winter. It was kind of a cross between keep-away, tackle football, and king of the hill. It had to be played in winter, on the snow that piled up from plowing the playground.
As you would expect, much blood was shed.
vhexs · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I played his own version of hide and seek. I haven't found him yet...
KILL. It’s a mixture of soccer, dodgeball, rugby, and horse. Basically you get a ring of people and dribble the soccer ball. After 5 dribbles with no person going twice in a row you have to catch the ball and throw it at someone. If they get hit they get a letter from the word kill. If the thrower misses nothing happens. But if you tackle the thrower before they throw the ball then the thrower gets a letter. Spell the whole word kill and you’re out.
'Rock battle' we went to a playground with a big sandpit, and you guessed it, started throwing small rocks at each other until someone started crying. Ot was usually 2 teams consisting of most kids in our neighbourhood which was a immigrant housing area, so we didnt have money for 'normal' games.
On the way to my local Six flags we would play who saw it first, all the game was is the first person to see the theme park.
The funny part is one day when I was about 6 and my brother was 4 i made a deal with him that I would check the left side of the road (were the six flags was) and he would check the right. So of coarse I win the game and then the little shit starts crying because “I didn’t get to see it” and it’s been an inside joke ever since.
I remembered in my childhood school we played a game called “bad mama” which consisted in a kid playing “the mama” and she would torment the other kids to show she was evil, the one who tormented the worst was the winner.
ld1x · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the super illegal home daycare I went to, we had a game that we called “Dark Game Trap”. It was essentially hide and seek, in the dark, and we set “traps” to try and slow down/hurt the seeker. This included trip wires, moving furniture around to new spots, items that would fall on you etc. I’m honestly surprised that nobody died...
As high school kids, we played a game called “Zonk” which was a complicated dice game involving bong hits. It was awesome. - (sent with my index finger on my nose). I was probably more mature at 11 than 16 btw.
One of my buddies and I spent a majority of our childhood running around our backyards in a world of our own, racing super motorcycles and fighting bad guys, aliens, monsters, robots ... basically the saviors of the universe. I guess from an outside perspective we looked pretty rediculous as his mom dubbed our game "IOWA" (idiots out wandering around)
My sister and I played apple basketball when we were kids and actually had apples in the house. We’d prop open the refrigerator door with the produce drawer and sit at the other end of the kitchen and try and get a basket. Needless to say if you missed, the apples would break apart and apple chunks flew everywhere. We laughed until we cried and then had to clean up before mom got home. Years later she found unidentifiable chunks on top of the kitchen cabinets. No idea what those could have been.
“The blanket game”. Essentially, one person had to put a blanket over themselves in an already pretty dark room and were under the blanket until they tagged someone(kind of like land-based Marco Polo). Those who were trying to avoid being touched were mostly silent but would sometimes make stupid noises/hurl insults or throw things at the person under the blanket. A lot of minor injuries occurred in this game, and in a recent adult revisiting of this game in a double bed hotel room, my brother (not under the blanket) hit his head on the ground and got a concussion. It’s a great game!
We called it Snub.
My best friend would come over and after dark we would sneak out to the edge of my grandparents property that was on a road that inetersected on one side with a main road and with the highway on the other. We would stand at the edge of their property in the dark and as soon as a car turned onto the road, we would full-sprint away and dive down into the shadowy arborvitae to hide. We would do this for hours. Occasionally a car would stop because the sight of two girls sprinting in a field at night had to be kinda spooky, but we were never caught.
Not sure if teenage years count as “childhood” but this game sure was fun for almost 5 years.
We called it “Spy” and our setting would be our school campus at night. We’d get a large group of at least 6 and would split up into teams. The goal was to sneak around campus being as stealthy as possible (parkour and climbing was also encouraged) so as not to be seen by other teams “patrolling.”
The inspiration for the game was metal gear solid or splinter cell, whichever stealth action game lol.
The rules changed every time we played to add complexity and endgame rules. Once we had a friend act as a sort of game master and he would leave clues for teams to solve an Easter egg hunt. He would also text false information or tips to opposing teams to cause conflict on the field.
It had a sense of danger too, as we’d be hiding in bushes stalking another team or sprinting and jumping fences to avoid getting caught. (Once while jumping a fence my foot got caught and I face planting, my team mate dragged me to the bushes to keep me from being seen LOL)
The game was so much fun, even if it was a little against the rules (campus locked at night) and now at 23 my friends and I still reminisce and tell stories about our favorite moments.
Back when Five Nights at Freddy’swas still a thing. My friend had a computer and an ip camera, so they used to act as the “cameras”and we would play five nights at Freddy’s. It sounds stupid now but back then we had so much fun. Preferably played in the dark.
Late, but I have to talk about The Imitation Game!!
It stemmed from a subset of Try Not To Laugh, and ended up being its own, more important thing. Setting it up and playing are the simplest things in the world. First, give each player a sheet of paper. Tell them to write as many characters/celebrities as possible down, while breaking the paper into little slips. Put the paper slips in a container (ours was my brother’s homemade Minecraft chest), and you’re all set!
To play, you grab a slip, read it, hopefully know the character (if not, draw again), and then you have to do your very best imitation of that character. You can’t say the name of the character, and using quotes from the source material is discouraged. When you have a 14-year-old girl trying to imitate Gilbert Gottfried, that’s when you know you’re playing a good round. Whoever guesses the character goes next. It’s so fun, and I wish my siblings would still be down for it!!
"Shark" it was a mix between dodge ball,chasing and tip-the-can.
If you were the shark then you'd count to 100 when everyone would go hide around the housing estate. Then you had to try find them but instead of catching them you had to hit them with the ball. Once you're hit you become the shark and the other person has a few seconds to sprint away.
Everyone who wasn't the shark had to first hide and then stealthly (or not in a lot of cases) try make it to the home base (standing on a wall) without being hit by the shark. The loser was whoever ended up as the shark when everyone is on the wall.
What made it frustrating as hell for the shark was people would jump down from the wall and taunt the shark to hit them, distracting them so someone else could make a break for it. If you lost you started the next game as the shark so a bad run could be killer!
This one doesn't really have a name, but it's basically like a geography game. Any place in the world goes, but you can't repeat a place somebody has said. For example, let's say that somebody started the game with, "France." You would have to find a place in the world that starts with the letter E, like "England." (Which is a part of the United Kingdom, so it works.) If anybody repeats, (say that the next person said "Delaware," and then the person after that said "England" again) that person would be out. There are no winners, just losers. I always had some pretty creative places, because we traveled a lot, and I'm a nerd.
I grew up in a large family, and being the oldest I got to come up with all sorts of entertaining things for me my siblings to get up to. We all really liked Star Wars growing up, and this one sticks out to me:
K'NEX Pod Racing: You chose a small plush toy character to be your racer (mine was usually those little Yoshi or Mario dolls), and you built them a Pod Racer out of K'NEX. Once everyone was done building, the race would start. We would set up a course in the backyard (it was usually full of obstacles and treachery). The rules were simple, you ran the race with the Pod Racer in your hand, flying it around the course to the finish. The stuffed toy pilot had to stay in the cockpit in order for you to win. Bashing (of pod-to-pod) was allowed, and if your racer got destroyed you were out. We played this game all the time. It was fun because it encouraged everyone to build something creative but sturdy, and then a foot race at the end. Good for mind and body.
Color game: played in a pool, one player thinks of a color and then holds the other player in their arms. The other player has to guess what color, and every wrong guess results in them being dunked backwards into the water. When they get it right they get to flip the other person in the water and dunk them.
My siblings and I made up a lot of games as children, all under the brand "Brod Star" (our last name starts with Brod-). We had a theme song/commercial jingle for any new game or idea with the lyrics "Brod Star Mall has done it again!" repeated a few times.
We had, first, the Brod Star Mall, where each room of the house would be a different store and one of the siblings would be the shopkeeper. These could be toy stores, grocery stores, book stores, clothing stores, or anything else we could come up with.
We all watched the anime Fushigi Yuugi and held a Brod Star Fushigi Yuugi con, complete with vendors selling Tasuki tessen fans (that was me) and my sister cosplaying as Hotohori.
We had Brod Star Wrestling, for which we would all beat the shit out of each other in pairs until one person gave up. No real rules, no limits to what moves were allowed, no time limit. Pure violence.
We had Brod Star Restaurant where the only menu items were whatever we were having for dinner and, if you didn't want that, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, along with a small selection of drink like water, water with ice, and milk.
Even now with all of us in our 30s, every once in awhile when one of us has some new idea, the others will sing the Brod Star Mall theme song/commercial jingle.
“Cheers to the Martian chug-a-lug!”
It was basically a tea-party my sister and I would play. Except aliens were involved. And you had to say that before every drink. I can’t remember how we came up with it.
My friend Adel and I would make my brothers and their friends lie face down in our (carpeted) basement - they had to escape. If we caught them trying to move, we'd beat them with PVC pipe covered in 1/4 inch of foam that my dad made for us instead of buying those nerf swords. Those things hurt.
Im sure it's been said somewhere already but we used to play kick the can whenever we go together as a family (which I should note is huge, if my math is accurate around 20 kids). the game would be at night and a can was placed on a hard surface such as a patio or driveway and someone was picked to be 'it' and they had to count to 50 while everyone else hid. Once they got to 50 they had to start looking for kids to tag, but the challenge was to stay close enough to the can to prevent anybody running up and kicking it over before they were tagged. Had so much fun with this game and super challenging to win
Me and my buddy wanted to invent a new game as kids. We didnt have much resources. So we the first things we found. A basketball, and a shovel. Cue the name "shovel ball" person shoots a free throw, person with shovel stands under net with shovel just barely under rim, shovel person trys to block ball scoring in. It they score then shooter gets 2pts, and sides switch. If shovel person successfully blocks, they have torun to the top of a big dirt pile my dad on the lawn, and back, jumpin and touching the net or touching pole if to short. The shooter has to run and retrieve their missed shot and dodgeball hit the shovel runner successfully for a chance to try scoring and negating side switch.... shooter couldnt move till it clearly a missed shot, and shovel blocker cant block the rim by tilting at angles, breaking rule resulted in a free 3 pts to opponent to make cheating seem fruitless. We were 12.
We would sneak up to the adults, record their conversation on the YakBak, then take it to a room and listen to it. We would try to understand what was said in the horrible recording and write it down.
Billy Release, a version of hide and seek where the seeker puts each hider they find on a "base", usually a front porch. If someone who hasn't yet been tagged could get to the base, step on it and yell "Billy Release!', all the prisoners were set free to hide again. Meaning the seeker had to find hiders and guard the base too. Really fun!
My dad made up a game called “Horse Bunk Beak” - it was basically Calvin ball. The rules changed arbitrarily and we all would fight about who was actually winning. It was a lot of fun though and it makes for some great memories to reflect on. My siblings and I are all grown up now and we have a new niece in the family. I can’t wait for her to get old enough to learn how to play.
Two teams in the woods, preferably on a cloudy night.
Hunting each other with torches, if you get caught in a torch beam you're dead. So the trick was not to be walking around with your torch on because you'll be spotted, only switch it on when you think you're on target.
When I think about it now I don't know how someone didn't die
We called it "Closet"
Me and all my friends would run and hide in my buddies mom's walk in closet to hide from the biggest guy. Then our biggest friend comes in with the lights off and starts swinging and kicking and beating up everyone in the dark.
I used to talk to my best friend in kindergarten/first couple grades on the telephone. We would get our mom's cookbooks and read the titles of recipes we thought sounded really good! I also remember we would take an object and hit another object with it and we would have to guess what was being hit or what we were hitting with. Sounds so silly but I always wonder if she remembers playing these games.
"Basketman" ... my sis and I would overturn a small wicker basket and place it on top of our little bro's head, who would then proceed to run around the house trying to catch us. So basically tag, except for my brother was always it and that a basket was involved. Looking back, I'm just glad we didn't call him "the wicker man"
"Knife in the Dark" was a game that could only be played during the winter when it gets dark at 4:30 pm. My sister and I turned off all the lights, shut the blinds, and cranked up the radio or John Mayer's Room For Squares album. We had a fake rubber knife from Disney World's Epcot and a toy cap pistol. The knife wielder was given a minute to hide in the house had to creep up on the gunman and stab them. It all was great fun.
At my friends house we would play a game called "Beanie Baby Wars", back in the heyday of beanie babies. We would dump all the beanie babies in his hallway and throw them at each other. But if you got hit in a limb you would lose the use of that limb, hit in the crotch you would lose both legs, and would only die if hit in the head or chest, which after you would reset to normal after 5 seconds. There were times where we would have no arms or legs, and would just lie their throwing beanie babies with our teeth hoping for a quick painless death. Surprisingly no picture frames were broken.
His dad also had a lot of yoga balls, so being smart 8 year-olds, we decided to try our hand at sumo wrestling using the balls as our stomachs on his trampoline (one without a safety net). The game only lasted one round, when we charged at each other, and me being the smaller of the two few 5 feet of the trampoline flat onto my back. Luckily I was not hurt, but we accidentally learned about Newtons Laws of motion that day.
Not sure what it was called but it was sort of like tag but over a few blocks (if your not in america, suburbs use a grid system for streets so like a few streets in each direction and each street was a block) but we had small numbers taped to your back and front and if the person can call the number on you your also it trying to get close enough to people to call there number but rules were no covering up numbers and no going more then like 5 blocks it was really fun especially at dark using a flashlight.
It needed a minimum of four people to play, with one person serving as the judge. It was an improv game where the judge would as "what do you want to be killed by?" and you had to come up with the most unique/creative method of dying and then act it out. The key was to make it as entertaining and hilarious as possible.
The judge would pick the winner and then that person would become the new judge for the next round.
Me and my friends (3 in total) used to play in the schoolyard to be spies/firefighters/summo fighters/bomb defusers/vikings/... We didnt like football. G friend purpose and planned the battles/scenes/weapons and me and J friend did them.
Usually my J friend cried because he wasnt the winner or got the weapon he wanted. XD
Also once we got caught be the enemy (the gurls) and played to be fathers. Drink tea and have babies....
My very first game I've ever bought back in 1998 was Dungeon Keeper.
I played that game so much it was never enough for me. The original CD broke inside the computer from so much spinning one night. Took me years later to find it online and with mods and maps added i started my childhood all over again.
A game I will most probably never find something as unique as it was back then.
We briefly played an unnamed game as friends on camping trips, but stopped when we realised the destructive power of what we had created.
Two teams of 3-10 people stand maybe 30 feet apart from the other. In a field. In the countryside. At night. It's pitch black, and the aim of the game is simply to throw one of the objects at hand, and hit a member of the other team. You have a choice of objects:
4x small light-up balls - you can see them, but you can't hear them
2x Nerf howlers- you can hear them, but you can't see them
1x Football - you can't hear it, and you can't see it, but my god can you feel it.
Ultimately, I guess we remixed Dodgeball a little bit, broke a couple of noses, caused a concussion or two, and all quietly agreed to never play it again. Could have just dropped the football, in hindsight.
"Ride to china"
Essentially i would go on a piggy-back ride on my brother while covering his eyes.
The challenge was to get to the other sofa without falling over.
Now this part, makes very little sense so bare with me;
We would pretend that the floor was lava, yet my brother pretended to be a giant robot able to withstand the lava.
I guess we called it ride to China because at the age of 6 we had no clue what China was like so we assumed it had volcanos and giant robots?
Another game was called "marmalader" where me and my bro would just run away from the vacuum cleaner. Pretty sure we pretended it was marmalader andcwe did know the real name, but I can't remember how stupid I was back then...
Hacky Sack Tag. It was literally tag outside running around our neighborhood but with a hacky sack that we would throw at each other. You got hit then you were it. Best part is we would nail people at very close range, it didn't feel good. Fun times though!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pacman
Fssh02 · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'fling yourself down the stairs'. Pretty much what it says on the tin.
BUT, one day we went to some Scottish friend's house, who's kids we were mates with. We introduced them to the game, so now there were 6 of us flinging ourselves down the stairs of a 3 story building with curves in the stairs and everything. It felt like 900CC Rainbow road, with pillows as items. There were pillows and projectiles everywhere. We had to stop because one of their lame kids smacked their head on a laundry bucket at the bottom of the stairs, and my lame brother hit me and hurt his arm. We got a pretty bad roasting and their parents didn't see mine for a good few months after that. Come to think of it, I don't remember the exact name of the game we played. It was a long time ago...
"Slow learner". The game involved laying side by side on the trampoline and throwing a tennis ball up into the air and you were not allow to move until it struck an individual or the trampoline. The object of the game was to cause the most pain by balancing precision and peak velocity of your throw. Boys were able to cover their goods. If you dodged a ball then everyone got to "nicely" punch you. If you threw the ball off the trampoline you had to go get it and then lay furthest from the middle.
Little brother and I made up a game called “ball game” You would both start on a trampoline with a net. One player throws it up and if the opposing player can’t catch it, a point would go to the thrower. If you managed to catch it and throw it back into the air it’s now worth 2 points, which can go back and forth up to 5 points. Play to 20. You throw it out of the net no points and you have to retrieve it. We played way to many rounds of this.
We also played basketgolf; start at different “tee boxes” from around the yard, and hit a mini basketball with a bat into a trampoline with net. Count strokes on each hole and add em up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On a trampoline we used to play a game we called "steamroller". One person would roll around the tramp trying to knock anyone down, if you fell over and were rolled over by the person you were out. Game was fun asf.
x3Joel · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend in 2nd/3rd grade and I used to have, between the two of us, about six or seven toy swords. A shiny gold plastic broadsword, a wooden one-handed knight sword, one of those flimsy hollow plastic katanas with a sheath, a he-man looking thing that normally made sounds and lit up (though the batteries were long dead and we never bothered to replace them), you know, just a bunch of different toy swords you'd get over the years of visiting toy stores and county fairs and amusement parks or whatever.
Anyway we somehow decided one day to just scatter them across our lawns and put on rollerblades, and skate around the streets duelling each other all day. We eventually came up with powers or attributes for all the swords - this one can shoot a beam, or this one can push people away like you were using the Force, etc.
Some of them were meant to counteract others, and none was the "best". Every time one of us would start to gain the upper hand the other would skate and dive into the grass to grab for the countersword and fight back all dramatically (picture a "hurt" wrestler reaching dramatically for his tag team partner while being submission-held. It looked a lot like that).
The game never had a name, I don't think, but typing the word Countersword right now felt just right somehow, so I'm gonna call it that from now on.
I'd draw something (usually a pokémon), my sister would try to replicate my drawing, then I'd replicate her drawing and so on until it was completely unrecognisable.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I were obsessed with Final Fantasy IX so we would go outside and pretend to be in an RPG with turn based combat and level ups. Different sticks would be different weapons and stuff. And while the enemies were just imaginary, the bosses were things like large trees, cars, gas tanks, etc.
Tin can relivio...Can't remember all of the rules. Basically it's a game of tag where you put a crushed soda can in a circle on the ground, and if you tag someone while the can is in the circle then they are "it". If you tag someone but see that the can is out of the circle then you are still "it". You have to put the can back in the circle then go try to tag someone again. I think when someone throws the can out of the circle you have to yell tin can relivio. It was fun
We played "mum, can I have some bread with butter" (we were not great with names). One kid would play the witch, one the mum and the remaining children would be her children. So everyone had a certain role. The children would ask the mum, one by one, if he/she could have some bread with butter and the mum would send him/her into the "basement" to get butter. In the basement would wait the witch to "scare" the child. When each child had been to the basement, the children and the mum would take each others hands and dance in a circle singing translated into English something like: "The clock stroke one, but the witch didn't come", "The clock stroke two..." and so on. The witch had then to jump out of the "basement" and catch a new witch.
Let me know, if you know this game. I think it's so weird and it even had a song.
My family used to play yellow car on road trips.
It was really simple. Count up all the yellow cars you see and if you see a yellow hummer and yell out "yellow hummer!" You win and the game restarts.
“Ollie Ollie oxen free” when you couldn’t find someone during hide n seek. That meant everyone had to come out and the game restarted. You didn’t always play with OOOF, but I’ve never heard anyone else say it!
I don’t remember this specifically, but my mom likes to tell the story about how she checked on me and my neighbor outside playing a game called “mom doesn’t like us so she locks us in the closet” basically we drew a square “closet” with chalk and would take turns ordering the other one in.
My mom said she was just waiting for a visit from DCFS after he went home and told his mom about it
note: I was never locked in a closet or even remotely abused, and as far as I know neither was he. We just made up some weird shit.
Swing A Ling. Growing up me and my brother lived in Downtown Myrtle Beach(Ghetto as hell), but we lived near a children's park. Often whenever we would play there we would stand on opposite sides of the swing and take turns throwing the swings at each other. The first one to either back up or get hit lost. By the end of my 5th grade summer, half the neighborhood participated in taking volleys.
Sardines is a good one. Hide and seek but one person hides and everyone seeks. Once you find them then you have to hide with them.
Played it a couple years ago (I'm 27) with my cousins where 7 of us where squatting in the walk in shower for about 20 minutes while our 10 year old cousin was looking.
We didn't have a name for it, but it was basically a modified game of tag where we would rake the leaves in the yard into a maze (just lines marking walls, we didn't have 3m high piles) and you couldn't tag people over a wall.
My sister and I loved Hot Wheels as children. But we didn't just race them, we created a complex society with them. Disputes among them were settle with races. My car, Serpentine, ruled alongside my sister's car, Jet. The first ladies with Americana and Tonka. (Americana was an off-brand car with an American flag on it, and Tonka was a Tonka truck.) We had a big collection of cars, so we rotated some of the citizens, but there were at least 10 main citizens we kept around. As well as the mundane, everyday things, our cars dealt with things like food shortages and political unrest.
Also Cup Wars, which was just us putting plastic or paper cups on our fists and hitting them together until one of our cups was destroyed and the other emerged victorious.
NKHdad · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I invented "The Game" in high school. It basically combines football, soccer, rugby, hockey and handball into one sport.
Rule 1: It can ONLY be played in inclement, snowy weather (so as to equalize athletic abilities).
Rule 2: You have to dress like an idiot. Socks over shoes, hooded sweatshirt on backwards, etc.
Rule 3: No slide tackling (due to multiple injuries)
Rule 4: You have to bounce the ball (typically a semi-flat soccer ball)
Rule 5: You can only score a goal with a kick or a header.
Rule 6: You can tackle/hold anyone at any time.
There are more game play rules but it is AWESOME. I'm 36 and still yearn to play every time it snows.
Not unique, but I recently realized how ridiculously stupid "follow the leader" is. It's more a test of loyalty than a game.
"alright, timmy stepped in the puddle, now we all have to step in the puddle."
cathef · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
if there was a full set of stairs - we played school. Needed to have at least 3 ppl. One was teacher, others were students. Students started on lowest stair "kindergarten". Teacher would hide a penny in one of her hands. Each student got a turn. If you guessed right you moved up a "grade" which was one stair step higher. If you guessed the wrong hand, you "failed" and had to stay on the same stair step. First one to "graduate" or reach the top stair won.
Not one that I played, because I knew it was bad and I was a good kid (which only meant I wouldn't actively participate), but my sister had a game called Beat The Donkey. You throw a shoe at the donkey and then retrieve the shoe before the donkey gets to it. The "donkey" was the front door. So really it just consisted of repeatedly throwing a shoe at the door. From inside the house, of course.
So... I don't personally remember this part, but my parents have recounted the time they were woken up by a mysterious thumping sound that repeated every few seconds. They came into the living room to see what it was, and saw my brother and me innocently watching TV while our sister was in the same room just throwing a shoe at the door.
but when my little brother first joined school,he got a bag that also included a pack of colored foam letters and numbers.
We would then play this hide-n'-seek esque game,where someone waited in a room while we hid the letters and numbers in wacky places.Then,they would try to find them all.There were logic puzzles,jackpots,criteria, and everything then.
So basically a scavenger hunt,I guess.I TOLD you it wasn't that creative.
This game called 'Martini' - basically, we'd pretend to be drunk rich white women, at age like, 7. Think what a 8 year old would think real housewives is.
Me and my sister used to play this game we called sandwich. It involved A LOT of pillows.
We had to get on my parents bed to play this game (because where else are you gonna find pillows??). She would lay face down on bed designating herself as a piece of bread. I would then pile on pillow after pillow, saying things like "This is a piece of lettuce" -plop the pillow down on top of her- "this a slice of tomato" -plop!- "This is a slice of cheese" -plop!-
This would continue with like like salami, pickles, onions, mustard, mayo, Turkey, cheese, ham- basically if we had ever seen in a sandwich, it had a pillow. We'd name condiments until I ran out of pillows to lay on top of her. (Sometimes I got a little aggressive with the plopping, and it turned into sort of a one-way multiple pillow fight, where the other person doesn't fight back- sounded more like a -whumph!-)
At this point, there is anywhere between 10-15 pillows on top of my little sister. You can't physically see her body anymore. With this many pillows, they were stacked so high, that I had to do this sort of running jump/leap thing to even be able to be the "top bread slice". I would basically try to smush her into the bed with her giggling and laughing throughout this entire process! In order to smush her, of course I'd have to wiggle around and try to make the pillows fall. After the sandwich collapsed, we'd switch places and do it all over again.
Two teams - one was the Germans, the other wasn't.
If you weren't a German, you and your team had to come up with a secret word that had the same amount of letters as the team had members (e.g. if there's 5 people on the team you had to think of a 5 letter word) then each teammate was designated one of the letters and everyone ran away.
After counting down, the Germans would then come and find the other team and beat the letters out of them. If they succeeded in finding everyone and getting the letters from them, they then had to work out what the word was to win.
Appoarch the watch tower. I grew up in rural America. We had this old feed hopper that would only hold half a dozen bushels of corn that we didnt use anymore. Think bucket on legs, about 12ft tell and just the right size hopper to hold a person safely.
At dusk one of my brothers or would crawl up it with a flashlight. Their goal was to spot the other approaching players and then use the flashlight to "tag" them.
The catch was that between the house and the watch tower was just open flat grass yard. So the approaching players would crawl slowly across the yard. If you moved to quickly you were easily spotted. But you needed to move fast since it was a race against the others.
So the game relied on night vision and the color of cloths. Less then a hand full of times someone actually reached the tower, so it was also a "best of" contest.
I wore black hoodie one time and my brothers couldn't see me even though I was a few feet away. Scared them good.
I would play that I was at Charles Xavier’s academy but I was actually going to classes and acting them out (movies dont show the kids going to class much). Also there was a cafeteria in the school with unlimited Chick-fil-A.
"Grandma surprise" My best friend and her younger brother would raid the fridge and cabinets for anything we could find and try and make the grossest tasting drink. Anything edible goes. We would then trade drinks and taste each of them. Whoever throws up first loses.
My cousins and I used to play “make the king or queen laugh” and one person sat on the couch and the rest of us were court jesters and we would have to do whatever we could to make the person sitting down laugh. If they didn’t, the next jester would try but if they did, the jester became the king/queen and the other person would become a jester. I was the littlest one in the family and I always felt so cool making my older boy cousins laugh.
My friends and I played a type of horror tag with nerf guns.
The rounds would be generally short and the seeker would have to cover his face with one of those scary ghost masks. Imagine the grim reaper and we would hold like scythe too. Those of us who were being chased each had a nerf gun with one bullet in it and were not allowed to hide in the house, only sneak and run when necessary. So with the lights all turned off, the seeker would have to know when to make loud scary screeching noises and when to be quiet in order to scare us players and catch us. You know those scenes in movies where the monster is on the ass of the protagonist less than arms reach from catching him, well that’s the purpose of this game. To capture that feeling. And it was so fun and terrifying. This would lead to seriously high adrenaline moments where we’d run through the little hallways in the house fearing for our lives. It was such a blast. We’d shove past each other to escape the monster. The one bullet in the nerf gun would be used to to make the monster fall for 5 seconds and allow us to run. But eventually the monster would always win since each player had a Single bullet to use for the whole game. I still remember one of my friends would make us stop sometimes because it was so scary and blood pumping. But we all had so much fun.
I Actually still play this one. I call it "Kingdom War." Basically you start with a castle, a wall, and a scout on a horse. You draw them on paper. Each player chooses a color. You outline everything you draw on your kingdom with that color. To severely dumb it down it's Clash of Clans on paper. First person who's castle to he destroyed loses. However, even after months, there has yet to be a loser and there are two alliances in the game. I even wrote a book taking place in the fantasy world the game takes place in. What was supposed to be a game me and my cousin were gonna play once did we were bored turned into an ongoing game months later and a book.
Don’t remember what the game was but there was this one game we’re these monster like creatures chased after you and you had to avoid them. I remember it being like a big city you could run around in and t was on a pc disk. This was like 2006... man I’d love to find that game again lol.
In primary school my friends and I would play "Mr whippy"
It was basically tag but we used a long sturdy leaf (flax) or a branch, to 'whip' the other people, that's how you got in
Me and my cousins used to play “don’t let the balls touch you” where you went on a trampoline (net required) with about 5?or more balls and just jumped around trying not to touch a ball, if you touched a ball you would have to roll into a ball and let the bounces move you and other people would try to avoid you
When I was bored in the car as a kid I would always look out the window and watch the cars go by. I would tap my foot whenever I thought we were at the exact middle of two cars. It got hard when you were out in the middle of nowhere and cars were more sparse.
I would also do this with trees/lamp posts sometimes.
We called it “football biking” it consisted of one or more people attempting to drill someone in the face with said football or make them fall of the bike somehow. It may seem dangerous but it was hilarious and funny for me and my friends.
Gutter ball we called it.
My cousins house was on a slight hill with a curve to the left.
We would have one person at the top with a golf ball and the other had to make traps or barricades in the gutter to stop the golf ball getting to the bottom.
We would just keep swapping, taking turns who built and who had the ball.
Was actually fun.
Two people hold up a rope and each person takes a turn trying to pass a certain stage (there are variations on the stages). Ex. you pass level one then the next person gets a chance to pass level one. If you mess up, you have to wait your turn to try again and stay at that stage until you pass. First person to get through all the stages wins.
In Malaysia, the rope is often made with rubber bands since food often comes wrapped up in banana leaves and rubber bands so this is easy to do.
At this weird gifted school i went to once a week they had this new-age "outdoor classroom" thing out front. It was ten large tree stumps in a circle with a stone bench in tbe middle. We called the bench "the Sacrificial Altar" (we were about 12).
At recess we would get 2 dodgeballs or soccer balls and there were 14 people in our class. 10 people on stumps, 2 on the altar, and 2 suckers on the ground. People on the stumps would throw the balls around at each other, and you had to catch the ball or you had to get off the stump. The people in the middle were easiest to hit so you didn't want to be there.
The kids on the ground are in charge of refereeing and going to get the ball when it rolls away. If someone got thrown off the stump you could try to steal the stump, whether to fuck someone else up, get off the ground, or get to a better position than the altar.
TL;DR: we had a game of switching places and hitting each other with dodgeballs that didn't have an end, but had very specific rules.
Marvel Rise of the Imperfects, to me that is a great fighting game that has never been like any other I've played. It was fun its story weird but I loved that, all the new characters that no one has done anything with. If you don't know it follows an alien invasion which leaves most Marvel Super heros dead, so new heros are created to fight the heros that have been taken over by the aliens. You do play as some of the Marvel heros. Anyway this was 2005, way before superheros were cool and back when I was still interested. One of my favorite PS2 games. I was 5
During recess my friends and I made up a game called "Sacrifice" where we'd all gang up and try to push the "victim" (they were in on it beforehand though) all the way down the slide, while they tried to break through the wall we inevitably made with our bodies.
Mainly worked because our slide set had this bar on the top you could grip onto....surprised no one got hurt lol
My brother and I used to tie each other up as much as we could to a chair (think belts, robe ties, shoelaces, christmas tree tinsel, all of the above, whatever) and see how fast we could get out.
No, I do not have a BDSM kink as an adult. He does, tho.
Afraid of Everyone at my Nanny (Grandmother) and Grampy's house. They owned a three story historical home with 17 rooms and two mudrooms. With a set of stairs at the front of the house and another set at the back.
My cousins and I used to use one of the two mudrooms as a home base(starship bridge) of sorts. We'd meet in this bridge to press all kind of imaginary buttons of a space ship and plan voyages.
The whole idea of the game was that we'd start at the base and plot out missions that lead us throughout the house. During these adventures, we had to stay stealthy and not let anyone see us (hence the name Afraid of Everyone.) After we completed our missions, we'd head back to the bridge to report our findings and start plotting out new missions.
Gosh I'm still a little nerd, and this sounds fun to me LOL
"The christening" - my cousins and I would chase each other with a bucket/bottle of water and try to "christen one another with holy water". In reality it was just throwing water in someone's face for hours. Good times! No pagans left behind.
In elementary school we would grab as many of the recess balls as we could after lunch and go over to the baseball field. We'd split up, half of us on each side of the tall backstop, and punt the balls back and forth. It was cool to catch a ball that came over, but there weren't any points or anything like that. Just constant kicking and running
"Invisible Men" we would flail around pretending to beat up an endless stream of invisible men. It would end when we got tired and the one who imagined they beat up the most would win.
my brother, sister, and i would play what we called "karate king" for some reason. basically we would grab pillows and hold them like shields, then body slam each other as hard as we could and if we knocked a person down then we became the karate king, then in order to become king you have to knock the king down. i have no idea how we decided who actually won.
I used to play this with my friends, we used to call it "buttkick"
You walking and chilling around until someone sneaks behind you and kicks your ass with just as much strength he wants to, unless you manage to "counter strike"him.
Just do a spining movement to wich almosta always end with your fellow agressor being kicked in the ass or hips
“No daddy No”
I forget what movie it was but me and my cousins saw a movie where one scene was someone talking on the phone to another guy and over the phone you heard “NO DADDY NO” and then the sound of the kid getting hit,
So we pretty played hide n go seek in the dark but whoever was searching had a wooden plan and would pretty much just swing it around trying to find people and if you got hit they wouldn’t stop until you said “no daddy no” It was some great times back then
My personal spy game at around age 7 or 8. We were "spies" but the only object was to get from one room to the other without anybody seeing us. It was so thrilling. We'd sneak through the whole house and outside near the pool and have goals of getting from one area to the other with our make believe spy gadgets. One time we pretended to my mom that my friend had gone home and the goal was to get her all the way back into my room. I set up a chain of stuffed animals to hide behind. We failed! 😂
We played "night ball", in which a team threw a ball over a house to the other side, and that team had to get the ball back to where it was thrown from. You couldn't be sure which way they'd go, and it inevitably ended after 10 minutes or less when someone would get hurt, because there was a lot of tackling. One friend's house was ideal for it, as you can't fully run around most houses...
Hide and seek in the dark. Exactly like hide and seek, but in a pitch black basement. 😃 We would put blankets over the windows to ensure it was pitch black.
Me and my friends in highschool created this game, its essentially slugbug, but with mustangs. this was early 2000's and you could easily count 50 mustangs in a 15 minute drive. everyone would keep their eyes peeled for a mustang to appear because if you didn't, your arm was going to be hurting by end of the trip, we didn't go light on each other (sometimes).
We made a twist- "banana mustang", if you found a yellow mustang it was worth 2 punches.
The game of "Guys" started off simply enough: me and my brother would dump out our bins full of toys and action figures, arrange them in lines, and have epic battles. The problem is, this inevitably devolved into arguing. My brother would take all the "good" figures, like the full team of Power Rangers, while I would make up bullshit "powers" for mine, like suddenly Princess Leia could blow up the planet.
Through an infinite amount of afternoons spent yelling at each other, we eventually managed to cobble together a primitive, action-figure-based wargame, complete with home countries and statistics. Most of this has been lost to time, as we never wrote it down, but it was necessary at the time. Dramatically so.
Also, we never came up with a better name than "Guys".
Never had a name, but my sister and I would play a game whereby one person sausage rolled up and down the bed. The other would have to jump over them. You could swap direction at any point while rolling. Aim was to trip the other one up. Passed the time till our parents yelled for jumped on the bed.
Funny story we broke the mattress so bad that one night a spring burst through and punctured my dad buttock, resulting in a trip to minor injuries 😂.
Also who can forget the weekend, where you head to a store gran a box, and slide down the stairs in it. Hours of fun and no ever got hurt somehow!
Not sure if other people play this as well, but the "blow dart game." We used to play it at summer camp. How it worked was if you made eye contact with someone, and put your hand up to your mouth a blew (like you were blowing a blow dart) they had to sit down for 10 seconds. If you anticipated it coming, you could block it by covering your throat with your hand. The point of the game was to get the best and most creative blow dart "kills" that you could. It's kind of similar to the "Circle Game" now that I think about it. I've been working at a different summer camp the past 3 years, and I've tried to introduce it to the other counselors and play with them, but it never really catches on :/
it wasn’t really a game, but when we were little me, my sister, and our friends would have races going down the stairs sitting on/in a pillow (picture sitting on top of a pillow but with your legs actually IN the case part). So, my best friend and i were racing, and needless to say, there was an injury. my friend was riding the pillow, flying down the stairs. But, at one of the last steps, he tried stopping himself by shoving his feet down into one of the stairs, but momentum had already built up, causing him to fly foreword headfirst towards the ground at the bottom. he tried breaking the fall using his arms, which, of course, broke one of his arms...
i still remember him holding it up to show us and seeing his (sideways) “S” shaped forearm.
good times lol
I don’t know if there’s another name for this game, but we called it mongaloo. It was a form of tag. You play on a four square court. The defenders had to stay on the lines. 1 person can move on the middle line horizontally, 1 on the back horizontally. And the tapper vertically up the middle line. The other team tries to get their people all the way across and back without getting tagged. It could expand to multiple squares. That was tons of fun.
A playground game that had apparently been played for years by previous "generations" and as far as I know, unique, but I'd like to be told otherwise! UK primary school.
Game was called Yoggit. Team game, two teams of varying amounts of boys/girls. Object of the game was to throw (yog) a tennis ball as hard as you could from behind the "baseline" of your side of the playground over to the opposite side in the aim of it being fast enough/far enough/accurate that nobody on the other team would manage to catch it from behind their baseline. The distance you threw from was agreed on based on how good a thrower you were. I happened to be among the best of the lads, me and my mate Robert, had to throw from an extra 3ft behind the baseline.
Without meaning to be sexist it was often the case that the girls would be let forwards up to the halfway line to throw, apart from Jemma Hall who could throw "as good as a lad"...
Extra points given for a one handed catch.
Played it most break times when I wasn't busy trading Pogs or competitive flick-frisbeeing my collection of Smartie lids epic distances with just a flick of my index & middle finger... Anyone else do that? My dad showed me how to with milk bottle caps when I was little but smartie caps were brill for it, get some arm power behind them and they fly for huge distances.
Let me introduce you to “Midnight Madness” my three brothers and I would sneak down to the garage at midnight, turn off all lights and start throwing punches at who ever you you could find.
Got to the point where we blind folded each other during the day just to play. Which turned into us just having fight club with the neighborhood.
“Color cars” we would play it in the, well, car. Everyone playing would choose a car color, and count how many times they see a car of that color until the game ends or until we reach the destination.
If you choose black, gray, or white, you were gonna win.
Lava Monster, the person who was it got to pick two colours on the playground and they could only touch those colours (you couldn't choose the base colours of the playground), and you would have to tag everyone.
"Lego City adventures" I grew up as a single child with my mom working most of the time. After hw, getting tired of playing mario kart 64 for the 1K time.... I would use the city of Legos I built to mame stories that would last about a week. They would go from Bionicles wreaking havok Transformers style, to Spider-Man saving people, to local crime vs police. I never wrote anything down, but I would keep things in place while I thought about where to with the story. I would sound a bit crazy talking for the characters, but it would pass the time pretty well. I rarely had friends over and my cousins wouldn't like playing with them as I did, plus I didn't like their inputs at the time (I was/am? an asshole), but man wraping the story up was always fun.
I grew up somewhere where we got a lot of snow.
We would trampled down paths in our backyard that could get waist high. Then we would put our hands inside our snow pants, get our jackets on, and run around trying to knock each other over. Lots of fun.
The Floop game. Basically, we always though that the guy Floop from "Spy Kids" looked weird, so we would play a modified version of tag in the back yard where one of us would become Floop and chase the others around the yard until they were tagged.
We played in my friend’s basement during sleepovers. It’s basically the opposite of hide-and-seek. Turn off all the lights and one person hides. Everyone else has to find them. You’re walking around in pitch black trying not to bump into something, talking to your friends.
When you do find the person you don’t say anything, just be quiet and hide with them. The other people realize you’ve stopped talking, so they try to remember where they last heard you and try to find both of you... all until there’s one person alone and everyone else is hiding.
Not really a child at my 20's but i still remember "Fate: Gates of Dawn" which was pretty unique.
It was some kind of RPG with cities and dungeons and wilderness, being the 'good old days' there was no map, except the one you'd draw yourself during your journey. You could have like 4 parties of 7 characters and move them around independantly. For some tasks/quests/riddles you'd need multiple parties to e.g. open some door in dungeon.
Was great back then, i think it was for Amiga. wikipedia link
Me and my brother would dissect one half of a room with an invisible line in the center that you couldn't cross. At the back of each of our side would be lined with a formation of stuffed animal ammo. Taking turns, you grab a fluffy and run up to the line and throw your shot at your opponent while on defense you ran as far back as you could in order to dodge the attack.
If you catch the attacking shot, you get to return that shot plus your regular attempt.
rhm54 · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock School - One person was chosen as the "teacher" while all the other kids sat on the bottom step. The teacher would hold their hands behind their back and put a rock into either their right or left hand. Then they would hold both hands in front of them and let the class guess where the rock was. The students who choose correctly went up a step and a grade level. This who chose wrong stayed put. The one who graduated first was the new teacher.
I was in a friends car with her and her family, and a yellow car passed us on the road. my friend yelled banana and I was utterly confused- her and her family would look out for yellow cars and if you spot one you’d yell banana and get a point.
it was fun, and I began joining in and also playing the game with my other friends.
There was also this game I played with my cousins called ‘murder in the dark’- basically it was extreme form of hide & seek, in the dark, with no safety base. get caught, you’re a murder as well, you just have to be the last person hiding and you win.
There was this game that I would play in the car as a child while we were driving places. I would pretend that there was a swinging tarzan like character and I would watch it swing from branches to streetlights and signs, creating it's path in the fast moving world. It seemed so real to me at the time, imagination is a crazy thing.
We used to play “The Crocodile Game” on the stairs to our basement. The stairs led to a hallway, but you had to round a corner to get to the main living room in the basement - the hallway basically teed at the end of the stairs.
One sibling would be designated The Crocodile, and they weren’t allowed to crawl higher than the fourth step up from the bottom of the stairs. Above that was safe for the other players. The Crocodile would round the corner and hide in the basement living room while the rest of us crept down, one stair at a time, hearts pounding, and at the perfect moment the Crocodile would jump out from behind the wall and try to tag people before they could reach safety.
The suspense we’d experience when the crocodile would wait until you had your nose clear around the corner of the living room wall...
My moms favorite film is twister and I used to watch it with her a lot so my friends and I made a game out of it. Basically, every time it was even slightly windy out we had to run as fast as possible to grab onto a fence or part of the playground so we wouldn’t be blown away. If we didn’t get to something quick enough then you had to spin in circles as fast as possible till you fell over because the ‘twister’ had you. Then after the wind stopped we would all sigh and say “we’re in the eye of the storm”.
When I was in grade school, I had an ESP game with a much older kid on the school bus. One of us would think of a shape (square, circle, or triangle) and the other would have to guess what the shape was.
This would happen whenever we encountered each other on school grounds or the bus. His ESP was hit or miss, but I always guessed correctly. He couldn't believe my mental powers and I, on the other hand, was pretty proud of myself.
Years later, I dawned on me that he may have just been humoring me.
Two person game. One baseball and a set of power lines. Lowest wire is a single, next wire is a double, next is triple, and top is home run. If you miss the wire and the player on the other side catches the ball it’s an OUT. If you miss and they don’t catch it is a “strike”. If you hit the wire and they catch the ball it’s an out. Hit the wire and they miss the ball you player is on that base.
Blind alligator or blind old man. You had to hide in the closet with a blind fold for about thirty seconds while everyone else hid. You could only catch someone by grabbing them. The difference between old man and alligator was you had to be on all fours if you were an alligator. Additionally my little sister and most of her friends are thespians so you could expect a lot of "get off mah lawn" in funny accents or a bunch of growling.
We played "Name That Band" while driving with my dad. His truck didnt have a tape deck or cd player so whenever a song came on the radio the first person to be able to name the band who played the song got a point. Whoever had the most points at the end of the drive won. Short or long drives it was something we always played. We all got pretty good at recognizing songs/bands with in the first couple notes.
Qwaga · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play feet fight, except not where you push your feet together. No, we would get into the position like we were going to, except we would just kick each other. No groin hits and no using hands. Everything else is fair game.
My brother and I would be the ones to pick up our dog's poop in the back yard - we'd do this once every two weeks or so, and so there would usually be a bit to pick up, and we had to search for it.
One day, we were bored. We decided to take the plastic bags of poop and see how far across the yard we could skip the bags. This ultimately led to the bags ripping, and we couldn't double our work, so the game then became seeing how high we could fling the plastic grocery bags of poop.
We have trees.
When the first bags got stuck up there, we decided to fling some more up there, to try to knock them down. Didn't work. In fact, the exact opposite happened - the tree had more ornaments now!
Our house is on a hill, and our back yard faces the direction one comes up the hill. One weekend, on our way back from church, my brother and I were playing in the back seat, and my dad says, "What the hell is in the tree?"
We go silent.
Eventually, they get it out of us. We got sent to our room, to "think about what we'd done." We found out later that my dad had sent us to our room and he had gone to his because he had to laugh so hard.
I lived in the countryside and we had a field next to our house and the grass would grow tall. My sister and I would make paths by crawling through the grass and make little bases. The field was big enough for us to make quite a network.
rschwa · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I made up a game that we literally named Pain and Misery.
He had a trampoline with a net around it. I’d sit in the middle with a bucket of tennis balls and throw the tennis balls at him as hard as I could.
A childhood friend that lived in my same apartment complex, and myself made a d20 system turned base combat game with Star Wars action figures. It was an Empire vs Rebellion thing. This was back in the late 90s when the Kenner line was reborn.
Essentially we assigned various stats to each figure, vehicle, and ship and had DnD like modifiers for d20 rolls. For damage we used d12 for ships, d10 for heroes (Vader, Han, etc), d8s for vehicles, d6 and d4s for infantry depending on weaponry. It was truly fun and a game we played all the time. We would always get excited with each new line of toys and would spend our allowance money on them.
We of course would act out the battles with the action figures too.
My brother and I would play "Helicopter." We would hold hands, spin around in a circle as fast as we can and then just let go. We would do this outside in our front yard. I'm sure our neighbors thought we were just dumb. 10/10, would reccomend.
My brother and I would shout directly into each others ears until they went all tingly. Like reverse ASMR. Neither of us has hearing damage as far as I know.
Also, a friend and I would play "Mountain Lion Hunting" which involved us stalking his 2 cats and trapping them in bags or boxes. They quickly learned to hide when I came over, which only made the game more engaging.
I made my own board game using my baseball cards. I would make my own teams and set up the baseball field. I would used tiny balled up paper for a baseball and pitch it to my batter, and hit the ball with their card. I would move the carts around the bases depending on the hits For some reason my dream team always won. Probably because I'm a genius.
Rock Roulette. You gather a bunch of rocks, throw them into the air, then run around in circles hoping not to get hit.
Also blackjack but with new rules made up as we went along. Resulted in things like getting stuck in old potato salad and not being able to do anything for a bit and having to chase a mailman to get a lottery card.
Goldilocks — at least this is what I called it! It’s basically an intense version of hide and seek. In one spot of the house, there’s a “base” (let’s say a big bean bag). One person is seeking, everyone else hides. You have to make it to the base without being touched and can’t hide within a certain vicinity of the base. If you’re the last person to get touched, you’re the seeker the next round! We’d shut off every single light in the house and play this as a family, or with friends. We’ve even still played it as adults and my nieces/nephews all love it.
Probably isn’t exceptionally unique, but it felt like it was to us.
I was an only child so I would get bored. Sometimes I would throw a ball as hard as I could at a wall and try to catch it. Also, I would try to spy on people without them knowing it.
I don’t know if it was unique but we played cricket 🏏 on road trips. On coming traffic was the “ball”. Each car that past was one run, a truck was 6. ( if I remember) and a red car meant you were out. Kept us entertained for hours.
"People and Cars Can't See Us". I know the name could be a lot better, but hey we were 9.
I live in a place that gets a fair amount of snow. Every few years, we get a few good 12"+ storms. After the snow plows would come by there would be large banks of snow on the sides of the neighborhood roads. We started by just laying behind them any time we heard a car or saw a person. Soon we got the idea to dig trenches or cavities behind these snow banks so we could hide even better.
The first month or so, it was just my yard and my friends yard. After a month of walking up and down the block in our snow gear we wanted more. That's when we started digging trenches in our friends yards.
Soon enough we were walking, running, jumping, hiding and laying in the snow throughout the neighborhood and even in the nearby community college parking lots.
Sometimes we would just lay in the snow long after the car or person had passed just talking about whatever kids talk about. We would laugh or even occasionally be silent just staring up at Midwest winter's sky.
There was no score, there was no winner. It was simply about just running around the neighborhood not caring about cold or snow just for a thrill and some companionship.
Edit: spelling
133112 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At 4-5, my sister and another kindergartener would show each other their butts on the school bus.
My ex and her cousin played a game they called “TRAP” and it consisted of putting things such as army men, nails, bottle caps, etc. on the stairs and then turning the lights off and waiting for the older cousin to walk down said stairs.
Late to the party, but my brother and I would hold an annual "Peep Jousting" tournament around Easter time. Two peeps, each with a toothpick stuck in them, would be placed on opposite ends of a plate and put in the microwave. First peep to get stabbed by expanding onto the opponent's pick loses.
We would all stand around a ceiling fan and throw a ping pong ball into it, making it shoot off in different directions. We each had 3 lives and if the ball hit you, you would lose 1. If you managed to catch the ball then you could take a life off another player.
Last one standing wins and gets to throw the ball at everyone else’s bare skinned back.
Goat. Basically like Octopus except the person in the middle is the "Goat" and everybody else is on a team against them. The team had to survive a specific number of rounds to win. If you got caught by the Goat once you got a "Curse" which wasn't very bad and would only affect you for the next round (e.g. hop on one foot for the next round of you're out). The second time you got caught you were given a "Deal". You could take it or be out. "Deals" were much worse. They had to have a trigger effect (e.g. when this person does this, this happens or do this), the impact of the trigger had to affect the entire non-Goat team that did not exceed four rounds (e.g. everyone must run backwards for four rounds) and the person receiving the "Deal" must not tell their team what it was or the Goat would win. Most people would just decide to be out after being caught a second time because being caught a third time would trigger a "Council". Once a "Council" was triggered, the person receiving the "Council" would remain in and everybody left on their team would be out. A "council" must be taken. Fourth time a player was caught they were out (which would logically give the Goat a victory because in order to be caught a fourth time you would have to be the last person in). The non-Goat team would try to keep as many players as possible because in the final round all the people who were out would join the Goat's team and win if the Goat won. If you were caught in the final round, you were out no matter what. My friends and I had multiple variations of this game but we eventually settled on these rules.
It was a teenage game between my best friend, his older sister, and I. The first one to see someone really unattractive got to call out "that's your girlfriend", and won until the next ugly person came along.
In elementary school my friends and I would have spinning contests during lunch/recess, everyone would start spinning around and whoever kept spinning around the longest without stopping or falling over would win haha
The shaddow game. We would jump in a circle around the trampoline and jump over other people's shadows. If you landed on a shadow you're out. The strategy was to get others to land on your shadow by moving when they were in the air.
3 or more friends sit in a circle around a room and pass a throw a felt marker around. there were penalties for dropping the marker, but i don't recall them now. the crux of the game was that at any point after one full revolution, the thrower could shout "No warning!" and chuck the marker as fast as he could at someone's face. penalties for the thrower if the catcher caught it. there was a whole tonne of rules involving singing and hitting or other things.
"Squared Box"
this was essentially just an imagination exercise. took one piece of paper and drew a line so it's divided in half. the first person has to draw something, then the second has to draw something in response to what the first drew. sometimes the drawings fought, sometimes they just went and had dinner or off to bed or something.
Me and my little brother used to play "Zoids" where we would each ride our bikes and road rash style kick eachother while we were pedaling for all we were worth trying to dismount the other. We would also try to throw sticks at each others wheels too, it resulted in a lot of bloody knees and a few scrapes and bruises. And my bike being totaled by bent spokes and a busted handlebar. After one of us were dismounted we would proclaim ourselves the winner.
Zoids was a japaneese anime that was kind of big at the time.
Before I ever realized you could "extend" songs, whenever I would go to my grandma's house I would try to sing the Scooby Doo theme or the Imperial March for as long as I could without finishing it. Actually challenging when you're not musically aware in the slightest as a kid.
“Green Sign”. When on the highway me and my biological father would try to find all of the green signs before the other, hence the name. There was no real point system, you just had to find the sign first. One of the nicest memories I have of him.
Me and my brother were competitive growing up so in the pool I would get on my brother's shoulders then he would ask me a trivia question and if I got it wrong he would slam me into the water. We switched places and tried to see who could stay up the longest.
My friends and I had these spy sensors that triggered an alarm when you passed in front of them. We made a game where you had two teams. One team hid the sensors through the house and the other team had to make it from one end of the house to the other without setting the alarms off.
Me and my brother would play this. It was pretty much any other game, such as cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers, but one of us would be named Sam, and the other would be named Bob.
We had a game we invented in grade school called Freeze Man. It started as a way to keep warm during breaks in winter (just keep moving but if you stop moving you're 'frozen' and can't move until another player tags you) but over time we developed many different versions of it until we settled on Freeze Man 6.
In Freeze Man 6 there was a certain person who runs around and tries to tag people. If you're tagged, you have to stand still until another player tags you again to free you.
The third time this happens, you lose all your 'lives' and have to join the taggers team. The game ended when all but one person was on the taggers team.
When the game ended, everyone gathered around the original tagger in a circle. The original tagger then had to close his eyes, spin around and randomly point to a new person who was going to be the tagger next round.
We played this basically every break for at least 3 or 4 years.
We played Medusa. If the "It" person looked you in the eye, you had to freeze. I don't remember how it ends, I'm still sitting here waiting to get unfrozen. Also, we played magic carpet rides for hours on end. Lot's of blankets on the floor and anything in the house that could move was on our magic carpets along for the ride. We also had these large round moving containers and we would roll around in the basement and bang into each other, or play chase. I remember lots of squished fingers.
Whenever my twin sister and I watched Dragon Tales when it got to the part where Emmy and Max would wish on the Dragon Scale we'd dive behind the arm chair because we pretended it was a nuclear bomb.
"broom ball" - essentially soccer but instead of a soccer ball it was a dodge ball and instead of kicking the ball you wacked it with a broomstick. 2v2 and usually ended in full on broomstick swinging battles or our moms screaming at us for bending their broomsticks.
My family and I and I assume many other people play "The Game." It's a very simple game and the one rule is: You can't remember The Game exists. This gets very competitive at random moments especially when one person remembers and says it out loud. Once everyone remembers, everyone has lost and The Game resets. My record is 3 years and while explaining this I lost a 3 week streak.
We played belly bumper boys. Basically just wore oversized shirts and stuffed them with pillows and blankets and sumo wrestled.
We sang “two belly bumper boys are round on the outside, round on the outside” Inspired by Eminem.
My best friend and I created a game called, “ one in a million” we would take basketball cards or playing cards and sit on the floor in a room and we would pick a direction and start flinging cards, first I’d go then he’d go. No winners. But if your card got stuck in the blinds or landed somewhere odd, we both would high five and scream “one in a million!”
I'm the youngest of 4 in my family. My and one of my elder brothers used to play a game called Catapult when I was about 5 years old, for the record he is 8 years older than me.
He would lie on his back and lift his legs up, you would sit on his feet to become the cannonball. He would then outstretch one arm towards me, in which I pulled his arm and he would launch me. We would usually put a bunch of lounge cushions and blankets to land on. There was one time he launched me so hard that I went through one of our windows head first and I fractured my skull.
Cindy go get it. My best friend and I would kick a soccer ball and his youngest sibling, Cindy would go get the ball. We would make up some scoring system and tell her she was winning. 20 years later we try to play this game still but she has caught on when we ask for another beer now.
Well one friend and I played a game we called Bonkers were we'd shut off the lights in her finished basement, turn around until we got dizzy and then try to find each other by running full tilt at the noise of the other person until we crashed into each other. I am honestly shocked we never broke anything.
Another game that was played at our house (because we had a wooded property) was Mummy Tag. Take an old bedsheet and completely wrap up the person to be It. Spin them around until dizzy and then RUN. You had until the person disentangled themselves to run and hide. So basically like hide and seek but with a variable time frame for hiding.
Mocorn · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As the oldest brother with five siblings I created a game called "the inner sanctum". You would wait until dark one night when our parents were out, locate the main breaker and without warning you turn off all the electricity in the house. Panicked screams would be heard throughout the house and the game was on! The objective of the game would be for the survivors to gang up and form a little tribe. They would equip themselves with pots and pans, sticks and blankets and slowly venture out towards darkness in hunt for the mighty breaker that would bring them light again. This breaker would naturally be found in the darkest parts of the house "the inner sanctum". This meant that I, "the monster in the darkness" could see their shadowy outlines as they inched their way through the pitch black landscape. I would equip myself with wet napkins that I placed on their faces with great care as the bravest of them reached my domains. Bonus points for whispering in their ears and make scary noises right next to them.
If complete mental breakdown occurred I would sometimes turn the light back on and join the crowd as if nothing had happened, but they all knew.
« Blink wink » my sister and I were bored on a long flight one time as kids so we came up with a painfully simple game where one player starts the cycle by saying « blink » or « wink ». The other player then does the action while responding with the other command. This goes back and forth until someone screws up by blinking when they should have winked or vice versa, or saying the wrong command. Streaks and speed are the only real goals
My friends and I would play “Black Magic” on the playground in elementary school. It was sort of like tag, only the tagger had to keep their eyes closed and the people running away had to stay on the playground equipment at all times. The tagger felt their way blindly around the playground while the runners tried to silently avoid the tagger while not stepping or falling off the playground. If the tagger thought they heard someone touch the ground, they could call out “Black Magic” and whoever was on the ground was now the new tagger. We played this game for years.
My friend had this wooded area by his house and we would all hide there at night while a person with a flashlight tried to spot us before we could run to a safe spot. I forget what we called it.
My friend and I rode down to a church parking lot on our bikes and pretended to be maverick and a bogey and we’d try to get behind the other, lock on, and fire missiles.
I ... went on a boy scout trip from Virginia to Alaska. When I was 12. In a converted school bus. Everyone fell asleep, every single day, except for the driver who didn't like us talking to him, and me.
So to keep myself occupied as we traveled across the great, very very boring plains of the USA and Canada, I took to clicking my teeth with the white lines in the road, sort pretending i was super mario hopping along.
If i hit a line i sang the little 8-bit mario death song and started over.
This game was on the DS and was by far the most strategic heavy game I had ever played at the time. Playing local games with my friends via bluetooth in school was honestly some of my most treasured moments.
"Bull fight". My sister and I used to go to opposite ends of the stadium (the lounge) on our hands and knees. We would then paw the ground with our 'hooves' making bull noises before proceeding to charge head first into one another and battle it out until the other opponent conceded.
Haha nice. Ours was someone runs behind the bike tries to snatch us off. Buttttt my sister grabbed the back tire. Her arm went straight into the bike. Got stuck. Skinned her arm. U can imagine the rest. My mom was pissed.
Used to play survivor with some kids on my street with our Ripstiks on the common road: you had to try and knock people off their boards.
Accidents and crying we're not uncommon, but that didn't deter us from implementing this concept with bikes. Needless to say, this didn't turn out well and we stopped playing the game after a bad injury and an extremely angry mother happened...
This game didn't have a title growing up, but as an adult I now refer to it as "don't make noise, the landlord is knocking". We were poor growing up, so if the landlord came knocking we automatically started playing this.
Trying to go undetected by my dad as he mowed the lawn. He had a big loud walk behind mower, and used earphones to block the noise. This and the fact that he was walking back and forth across our big lawn made him the perfect sentry. I would make maps of the yard and try to plan the whole thing out. I would try to get to various points in the lawn. Inside the swingset, behind the big tree, scurry along the rock wall, circle behind the shed. Honestly laying down super still behind an embankment while a this massive chomping machinery came a within a few feet was the most exhilarating thing.
I'd also try to plant tennis balls and soft dog toys in his path (this was prob dangerous, I don't think he liked this part) When the mower ran over the tennis balls it would make an awesome sound and shoot out of the mower at a zillion miles per hour which was epic. This usually put him on high alert and intensified getting caught even more.
The best part is my dad and I never discussed this game. I just started doing it and whenever he'd spot me he'd make finger guns and yell at me as I would run like a maniac.
I also played this game with my a friend and even brought it to his house with his dad (he had a much bigger yard, lots of map variation) great times
My brothers and I used to play a game we called 'Swing Ball'. One of us would get on a swing, and the others would toss a ball at them. The objective was to kick the ball as high and as far as you could whilst swinging.
Qwaga · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older brother played mind computers. We would imagine are brains were computers and we would play games on them and stuff. Then one day my then 12 year old brother got mad at me and told 6 year old me "Mind computers are actually real I just made them up!" and I cried. I don't know why I cried
My cousin and I used to play “wedding” where we’d marry our stuffed animals, and go on a honeymoon. Then we played adventure cats. Now that I think about it, it was like Warrior cats
shamls · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We built a new house when I was 7 or so and we had to live in a rental house for about 2 months after we sold our original house. The rental house had a creepy basement that was just one big room plus a tiny bathroom. There were nails sticking out of the walls and a pile of rags in the corner. There were some weird drawers under the stairs that were body sized so we would go inside one, slide it shut, and change one thing about our appearance and the others would have to guess.
My Granny used to encourage us to play Funeral, where she would lie on the couch with eyes closed and her arms crossed over her chest while we filed past her saying funny things about the “dead” person. I was a mother myself by the time I figured out she was doing it so she could rest for a minute.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sis and i played steam roller. Basically 1 kid rolls back and forth on a bee and the other has to jump over them. If you get steamrolled then ur thr new steamroller and then the other kid gets to jump on the bed.
Footsketball. 2 teams of 2 each play within their 3 point lines in an indoor or outdoor basketball court (2 hoops is important, and preferably indoors)
One team is on offense and the other is on defense. 1 offense player throws a football within their 3 point line towards the other basket. Between you and your partner, you get 4 downs in each turn.
Offense can score in 3 ways. An extra point is worth 1 point and is successful if it hits the backboard only. A field goal is worth 3 if you hit the rim. A touchdown is worth 7 if you make it.
HOWEVER, if the defender catches the ball off the backboard, rim, or off the wall (or past the hoop if outside) then it results in an interception and 2 points are rewards to the defense. This makes for playing defense a lot of fun as you get to try to catch a deflection (or airballs if you play outdoors)
Outside, our strategy would be for one player to stand behind the hoop to catch easy interceptions and have one facing the hoop to catch defections off the board or rim.
We usually played to a certain number of points, say 50. This game was much better than any game our gym teacher wanted us to play.
We would go on two and a half hour long road trips every holidays, so we would play this in the car on the way. You basically just go through the alphabet and try to find a word on a sign, building or car that started with that letter. It was semi-cooperative, since the whole car shared the alphabet, but it was still competitive as to who got the word first. The words you found had to be real words (not abbreviations or jumbled letters from license plates, although if the license plate spelled a real word you could use that), but place names counted, and for X you could do eX (like exit), since it was practically impossible otherwise.
I still play in my head on trips and aim to see if I can get all the way through before I reach my destination.
We had these long hallways in my elementary school, so we would hop on ripsticks and grab broomsticks. It would be one on one. Everyone else would watch in awe as the two kids crashed into each other hammer eachother with brooms. (there were a few bets involved)
Needless to say there were a lot of injuries, broken broomsticks and angry teachers/parents.
We played "Tantrum". It was basically your standard Monopoly game, except 15 minutes in my little brother would throw and fit and accuse one of us of cheating, or flip the board because he cheated and was called out on it.
Me and my sister used to play this game with a bean sack. I couldn't possibly remember the name because it was nearly 10 years ago, but we would bounce the bean bag from hand to hand, smacking it up in the air and hit it over, like a game of tennis. It was so much fun, until the day we broke a glass vase in the living room when we played it there. It wasn't long after our parents banned us from playing it!
It's possibly one of my fondest memories of her, because as we grow into adulthood there's less of our childhood antics. Maybe it's because she's maturing faster than I am to be honest.
Me and the mailman would play Glowworms in my treehouse.
lpet · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a thing called 'joust' - once yearly event in high school where we'd get drunk and have a jousting competition with bicycles and hockey sticks. It was actually a big event by grade twelve, lots of people, bonfires etc. Was fun.
When I was younger my friends and I made magic potions by just adding anything we saw in the house, kitchen, washroom and putting it in a jar. It was fun to make different potions. Just have been a nightmare for cleanup.
Cibiii · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super late but why not.
Literal translation would be The Blind King. It is similiar to hide n seek, but the Person seeking has to keep his eyes closed. While searching for others. On a wooden castle. Which eventually had to be taken down due to health precautions. I wonder how i never fell through the hole in the floor.
As a kid, my friends and I rarely played the usual playground games. We did, however, come up with characters and stories and act them out during break and lunch time at school. We would improvise loads of stories and even come to school the next day and discuss what new things about our characters we'd come up with, backstories and abilities.
After a while we'd switch to other "games" and start again, but we'd still come back to the old ones from time to time.
I guess it explains why I took an interest in writing and acting in later life.
"Tomato". It was reverse hide and seek. One person hid, while everyone else looked for the person hiding. If you found them, you had to quietly hide with them without anyone noticing. If you're the last one to find them, you hide the next round. I have no clue why we called it "tomato".
chyko9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind Monster Open Water. My dad would close his eyes in a pool so he couldn't see us, and my sister and I would try to move around in the pool without him noticing, lunging toward us and grabbing us. It takes a fair amount of stealth, especially in small pools. One fun aspect is splashing or throwing objects to distract the Blind Monster (i.e., my dad) from where you really are. Only works in pools with no one else in them or else awkward situations of my dad grabbing random people occurs. Honestly, I'm 22 and we still play it now whenever the family gets together, it's tons of fun!
zook54 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Monster" was a game we played in my neighbors backyard. My neighbor was 3 years younger than me and an only child. I consider him a second brother and we would play outside together year round for as long as I can remember. We had a couple of other neighborhood friends and I have two sisters.
We usually would have at least 4 people over at a time and my neighbor, being any only child, had tons of toys, especially balls (dodgeballs, foam footballs, real footballs). My neighbor also had a very nice playset area. Pretty spacious and mulched.
So one day we had 5 people over. Myself, my neighbor, little sister, and two neighborhood friends. And we went into my neighbors garage and threw every single ball he had to the back playset, throwing them at each other as any 13 year old would. Once all the balls we could find were out, (about 15) we scrambled to the back and talked about play dodgeball but teams wouldn't be fair given the odd number.
So we made up a game. The game was that all but one of the players had to stay in the mulched playground area. The other single player was the "monster" and could roam about the lawn as he pleased. The balls were then given to the monster and the monster began throwing, trying to hit everyone in the mulched area. From then on out it was like a 1v4 dodgeball with lopsided boundaries. The playset is obviously confining to begin with and with 4 people, it was cramped. The Monster got the whole lawn to roam. The playset had nice cover but in order to get a good angle to throw, they had to stand on the edge of the mulch.
The game was super fun and surprisingly well balanced for the two sides. We played this game constantly during the summer, coming up with variations as we went along but always went back to the original.
I got an inflatable beach ball from a "concert" one time. It wasn't even that big, about the width of my tiny shoulders. But we had massively steep stairs (if you've ever been in a Victorian Era house, that was the type of stair grade we had) with an enclosed staircase. I'd stand at the bottom of the stairs for hours basically playing one-man volleyball with this thing, batting it up the stairs, waiting for it to bounce and come back before hitting it back up. I was absolutely gutted when it finally got a puncture hole in it and died a noble death.
Pinball Wizard. During summers I was in a program through school where we'd do fun activities and shit and one of the counselor guys would chuck a bouncyball as hard as he could in the gymnasium. It was an elementary gym so it was the size of a basketball court plus 2 or 3 feet and had no bleachers so it was a box and the 2 hoops. The bouncy ball would bounce on everything and 15+ kids would chase it down. Fun times.
Conker fights, I don't know if this is a unique game or not though.
We would pick up conkers and tie them to a string, then we would take turns in wacking our opponent's conker as hard as we can. Last conker standing wins.
Trampoline Rugby, as it sounds we used to have one of those large circular trampolines in our garden as kids and used to play 2v2 rugby on it. Being tackled mid air off the trampoline and falling to the ground hurt... A lot. Obviously there wasn't a safety net around it 15 or so years ago.
I grew up on a farm and this was one of the safer games.
Wamp. Pronounced wahmp, this was a variation of tag where the “it” person had to keep their eyes closed or was blindfolded and had to try and tag people. But, if they heard someone on the actual ground around the playground, they would yell out wamp and if anyone was on the ground they were the new it person.
My brother and I would play a game which we called "Indiana Jones". This game was spurred from our love of the movies and specifically the scene where Indiana Jones has to run from the boulder in the tight hall way. I had an old trundle bed in the corner of my room and my brother and I would pull the extra bed out and but a ton of bouncy balls at one end of the cavity created underneath the bed. The goal was for one of us to climb under neath the bed and pick the right ball and crawl out while the other would slowly push back in the spare bed kind of like a closing hallway which would squish you.
Me and a couple of friends built a badass lego city in school, and we kept playing with it every recess. We had names and traits and backstories for most of the characters, and it was so much fun. I really miss the way I could get so into something.
Then when the semester was over, the teachers wanted us to disassemble everything, so at the start of the semester we always had to pretend the lego people had had to evacuate the old city and reestablish a new one.
God, those were the fucking days. These days I'm just a depressed mess :(
My brothers and I played a game we made up called “Horse.” (We were like 8,6, and 5 yrs old at the time.) But one person was the “horse” and they had to crawl around on all fours while the other two tried to put a blanket over them and wrestled the “horse” to the ground. In reality it’s a game we made up to beat the living hell out of each other.
A friend and I at the bus stop on rainy days would pick out the best blade of grass we could find. The water rushing on the curb into the runoff drain was a perfect "mini river" with "rapids" that ran for about 100 feet. Obviously whichever blade of grass made it into the drain first won.
The HA-HA game. Everyone lies on the floor with their heads on each other's bellies. One person starts with a "HA!" (which bounces the person's head that's on his belly). The next person goes "HA! HA!" and it keeps going until everyone's heads are bouncing and everyone is laughing uncontrollably.
We played Wood chips. Get a group and go to a playground. Someone was "It" and had to try and catch others while blindfolded. Could yell wood chips to get someone out if on wood chips. 30s cooldown on calling wood chips. Very fun.. Very brutal..
Teams of 2 or 3 would line up about 50 yards apart in the street. Playing at night in a neighborhood there'd be no cars. The goal was to knock over a standing glow stick in the other team's end zone by skidding other glow sticks along the ground. Like skipping a stone.
You couldn't move on offense, only on defense. You could attempt to block the skidding stick with your feet and run to it, but not when you were throwing.
We'd play for hours, but poor high school burnouts would run out of money to buy more glow sticks
My brother and I would go to the side of our house (two floors with a steeply pitched roof) and throw the ball on the roof and have it roll back down. The goal was to get as close to the top as possible without going over. Hitting the top shingle was 10 points, the next row was 9 and so on down to zero. If the ball hit the chimney on the roll down and bounced left (toward the vast majority of the house), no bonus. If it hit the chimney and bounced right and didn't fall off the front edge, double points. If you threw it over the roof or it rolled off the front edge, no more turns. You get five throws and you only get your points if you catch it. Yelling distractions is 100% allowed, but no physical interference. Loser has to run around the house five times.
Celery generals. Me and my little brother would build stick men out of celery and toothpicks with cherry tomato heads.
Then you go up the street a bit from a traffic light and trade generals with your partner.
Wait until the light turns red and you both run out placing each others said generals in a position you hope they get run over.
Whoever’s general gets run over by a vehicle first has to wait until the light tunes read again and run out and eat it off the ashfault with a fork.
If you want to play on easy mode a Quick shot of salad dressing is optional.
We would play tube wars. We would go on the trampoline and wrap ourselves up in blankets with our arms at our sides and legs together then get my friends sister to wrap tape around us so we couldn’t move. We would then try and knock each other over. First to fall off loses
We never had a name for it, but my friend lived on a circular street, so we would ride our bikes around it in a race. The catch is that we would be holding table legs (we had our own table legs spray painted to our desire) and we had to shove the leg into the spokes of the person next to you. We went through many wheels in that phase in our lives. And casts.
We would play “hide the switch”.
Bear with me –
-All the kids go inside, except the person hiding the switch(A long, thin, flexible but sturdy stick that our parents would traditionally use for “corrective measures”).
-A person hides the switch in a very clever place while no one is looking. Once hidden, the people come back outside to search for the switch.
-The person that hid the switch would say “you’re getting warmer, or you’re getting colder” to indicate how close someone is to the switch.
-The catch is, the person that hid the switch does not say this to any person in particular. It is just a statement made to the crowd of people hunting for the switch.🧐
-The person that finds the switch got to grab it, and whip the ever living daylights out of everybody standing around them as they fled and pled for mercy.
-The person that found the switch was then able to hide the switch the next time. This gave them the luxury of knowing where to place them selves so as to not be close to the person that finds the switch.
— this was before the Internet FWIW
This isn't from childhood but my husband and grown daughter had to take a 13 hour drive across the prairies in the winter. To break the bordom they made up a game they called, Road Kill or Truck Tire. They would guess which it was on the side of the road. They had a great time.
A couple of my favourites were 44 Home and Sardines. I dunno how well known they are but basically in 44 home you get one person to count to 44 near an object while everyone hides, then everyone has to try and touch the object without getting tagged by the person who's in.
Sardines is like a twist on hide and go seek, where one person hides and everyone has to find them. The catch is, whenever you find the person you have to hide in the same place with them, until the hiding spot becomes packed like sardines.
We used to play beach ball tennis, but instead of a net we used the picnic table in the front lawn. Basic rules of tennis but with those nice giant beach balls. Eventually we lost them, and started using a volleyball (renamed it volleyball tennis), and that's when we started breaking things. Was still super fun though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle always used to play the "get naked" game with me. You know, the one only uncles can play with you. He said I shouldn't tell anyone though lmao
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and my cousins when visiting our grandmother, used to play a game called "Dead Man" where someone (usually me, because I was the youngest before my other cousins were born) would play "dead man" and lay on the floor with their eyes closed. The rest of the kids would walk around "dead man" in a circle and chant "dead man, dead man, come alive. Til we could to number 5. 1,2,3,4,5!" And then scatter. Dead man would walk around with their eyes closed and try to find someone. If you got touched my dead man first, you were dead man for the next round.
I remember very vividly trying to catch my cousin who I knew was on my grandma's staircase and opening my eyes just in time to see myself slam face first into the steps.
Roofter. Kind of like pepper, but with a tennis ball. We lived in a duplex, and the neighboring duplex was very close, maybe 20-30 feet from roofline to roofline, with a yard in between.
The goal was to throw the tennis ball with a trajectory so that it would bounce off of the roof into the air, and come back down into the yard. If the other person caught it, it was a strike. If it hit the ground, it was a hit. If you were skilled enough to bounce the ball from the target roof to the opposite roof, that was a home run.
That was our go-to if we didn't have enough kids for stickball in the street.
When I was in boy scouts we came up with this game we called 'Thicket'. This was only played once it got dark. Wherever we were camping we would designate some central circle or square marked out with sticks that the person who was 'it' would stand in with a flashlight. At the start of the game we'd all be there around the circle and the person who was 'it' would close their eyes and count to 50 or something (it varied) while everyone would find a place to hide. When the counting was done the person in the circle would try to use the flashlight to find people without leaving the circle and call them out. If you were found you were 'out'. If he couldn't find anyone or ran out of people he could see he would again close his eyes and count to 40 and the people hiding had to move in closer. The process repeated again 30, 20, 10 each time you would have to get more and more creative as you got closer to the circle to find a good hiding spot so you wouldn't get seen. Whoever survived to the end and was the closest, or managed to actually get all the way up to the circle somehow without being caught was 'it' the next round.
It was like a red light green light but with the added night factor and hiding. And since you knew you had to get closer each time you would have to decide whether you wanted to head out quite a ways away and have more potential spots or only stay close by but have a narrower range of potential options as the rounds went by. There were some pretty great spots people would come up with. One time one of the troop members came prepared and brought a fuckin camo jacket and pants and literally laid flat on the ground among some leaves nearly right next to the circle and didn't get caught somehow. I miss those days.
Booda booda booda... daaaaa while standing at the the head of the bead with my brother, facing the wall, and pushing yourself off the wall onto the bed while yelling the daaaaaaa I’ll the way through the fall
"manhunt" basically hide and seek and when you get caught you become a seeker. Difference is we played on a housing estate with a park and lots of bushes at night.
“Crab apple baseball” basically we had a bunch of apples that would fall in the backyard and use them to play home run derby.
The bigger the smash/spray the better the hit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Encarta! Virtual tours (pre Google maps), interactive articles with video/audio clips, pictures of indigenous tribe women, nude renaissance paintings! 3rd-6th grade was Rad! There was no internet then. I did plenty of "research" on that game. I had a huge interest in art and world culture. 😉😉
My family and I would try to guess the amount of cars (train) there were when we stopped at a railroad track
chyko9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's also the Smyrna game. Because there's a town somewhere in the Jersey/Delaware area called Smyrna, my family would try to come up with every single possible town name with "Smyrna" in it before we got to my grandparents' house in Delaware. Options range from "Smyrna Village" to "Smyrna Heights" to "Smyrna Elderly Development." If you repeat a Smyrna, you're out.
My siblings and I would take turns laying under all the blankets and pillows in the house, the others would stand outside and hit the blanket covered person with a belt as hard as they could 5x , we would also use jeans my mom hung up to dry and called it "pantsing" lmao
Jousting, inspired by watching a knights tale my brother's and I would use the farm drive, two lines of concrete separated by a grass strip as a jousting run.
We'd kit up in old motorcycle helmets, stuffed cushions inside our jumpers or whatever other body protection that could be found, got the biggest stick we could carry, mounted our bicycles and had at it.
We played a game called "Top Gun" right after the movie came out. I was 9 years old and lived in a neighborhood that was a loop. There were probably 30 kids on the "block". We would use our bikes and ride around having "dog fights". We put baseball cards in our spokes, held by clothespins, to get the "blap" "blap" sound of an engine. The goal was to be able to get behind another bike and slightly turn your front wheel into their back wheel, which was a "hit". Needles to say there were a lot of crashes, whether from avoiding the person behind you, or because when you "hit" their back tire, your front tire would bounce off and cause the handle bar and front tire to violently spin the other way, causing you to go straight to the ground! Good times growing up in the 1980's. We would play until the street lights came on!
We called it black-white basically one person was chasing everyone else and had to catch them all.
The twist is that there were pathes of black concrete between buildings which provided huge shortcuts and escape routes without which it's nigh impossible to win.
If one spotted someone on "black" they could announce it and he would lose.
Both sides could do that but it's the only way to win for those running away aside from the chaser giving up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah, let's see....
I remember playing this weird game where we grabbed each others arms and swung one another around until the other person let go, fell, or was seriously injured. Not exactly the safest, but it was legend!
I played the magic game. It was basically dnd without dice, just your imagination and a narrator. Didnt even know dnd was a thing back then. I was always the one asked to be in charge of it.
Anyone else have something like this?
Me and my step brothers went outside with our Nintendo DS, then we would join a pictochat channel and 2 of us would hide while 1 was searching. We had to describe our locations where we were hiding in the pictochat channel with drawings.
It was pretty fun
chyko9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I spent our summers at the local swimming pool. One of our games there was guessing what song the other sibling was singing under water.
Damn this is gonna get buried but oh well. My senior year of high school my friends and I watched fight club. We then came up with sock wrestling. One on one matches with only one objective: take the opponents sock off. Only one was needed. We did this randomly and whenever someone looked like they were about to fall asleep.
cjoy31 · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my son and daughter were 3-4yo, they made up a game on the swing set they called In the Crocs. The kid swinging tried to kick their sibling standing in front of them (but ostensibly just out of reach). Bonus points were granted if they hoofed the other really hard in the groin area (yes, I was a bad mom sitting on the lawn chair letting them assault each other like this). When I questioned if the name of the game was because of their footwear (they usually wore crocs at the time), they both agreed it was not. It was because they said the area to aim for (pointing to their crotches) was called that.
My sister and I played a game called " Old lady and the hot water hat". I have absolutely no idea why we called it that. But basically we would take a pitcher and fill it up with the hottest water that the spigot would give us and then take a wash rag and try and shoot it into the pitcher. If you made it into the pitcher then the other person had to get it out. It was a ridiculous game and I have no idea why our mom let us play it but we had fun.
Dsham · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate Destruction. Lights off. All of us huddled in the middle of the room. One person is the beast that will slowly pick us off...if we let him. Eventually it turns into a real free to play battle royale with no loot boxes.
My friends and I created a lot of games one of our favorites was called "spells" we all loved Hardy Potter so we all created our own wands from sticks in the forest behind our house and would fight with spells from Harry Potter. Each spell had a something you had to do. For example expelliarmus (a disarming spell) we have to throw are wands and launch backwards, Or "eat slugs" (pretty obvious) we would have to pretend to vomit slugs for 10 seconds. We also included the spell
avada kedavra (killing curse) you would have to lay down dead for 20 seconds but if you used that spell you most likely get ganged up on. We included almost every spell. Oh the good'ol days.....
I had a game called "ball 10/10". Two players both start with 10 points. You both stand on either side of the street where one will throw a ball across. If the other person doesn't catch it they'd lose a point andere the other would gain one. So the score would go 10/10 - 9/11 - 8/12 and so on. The goal was to get to 0/20. Which would often take a while because it could go from 1/19 to 19/1 and back sometimes.
Trip - the Game. Basically, my brothers and I would get on the trampoline and attempt to trip each other. Eventually, this evolved into using long tube socks stuffed at the end with balled-up socks as makeshift whip/flail/bolas to catch others by the ankle/leg and yank their legs out from under them.
Ugh. So many... My sisters and I played a game called "Werewolf" when my parents left the house at night.
Essentially you would turn off all the lights except maybe 2 or 3. The goal was to get from room to room turning on lights to stay out of the reach of the Werewolf (only ever played by my older sister). But you had to turn off any small lights you turned on to get to the next spot. The Werewolf couldn't go in the light so my older sister was just kinda lurking in the darkness the whole time and would bite you if she caught you to turn you into a werewolf too.
Parents got alot of calls from concerned neighbors who heard lots of screaming and yelling coming from our place at night when all the lights were off. There was no way to win this game either, I think my sister just liked to bite us..
We also played a "game" called "Spooky Woods" which was literally just my older sister and i grabbing my little sister by her hands and feet, throwing her in a closet and telling her ghosts were in there for her while flickering the lights and screaming.....
We were fucked up children with dark imaginations. I realize this.
“Bumper Cars” - starting on the opposite side of the living room from my sister, we spun in circles as fast as we could for 10 seconds, then ran at each other full force until one of us fell over and lost. As you can imagine, one of us was usually successful on the first try if we didn’t fall over under our own power on the way there.
There was a variation that required us to hold hands while spinning together in a circle, but that was mostly abandoned after I dislocated stuff and subjected my parents to some child abuse-ish questions from the doctor.
Surprisingly, we’re both still mostly functioning normally.
fishing pole, a pole made out of loom bands and we would have to try and collect whatever items were downstairs, the person with the most items would choose our next game.
Countries, every room was a different country with different habitats and laws. There would be forts, police, tourists - everything. It was ideal for when a guest was over.
Saw some iterations of this on YouTube, but my youth group made the first organized ripstik soccer league. Wed play on a wooden basketball court in the gym of our church. The goals were four legged chairs, seven feet apart. The object of the game was to put the ball (volleyball) in the goal with the one's ripstik. It was legal to use any razor brand board, but traditionally the game was three on three, everyone riding the standard board. If you fell off, you'd have to run back to your end where the loading zones were shuffle boards in the corners. If someone was benched before you fell off, they'd take your place.
This shit was intense, believe it or not. Lots of people got hurt without lasting injuries. I was actually the first person to break a bone playing it when someone checked my board out from under me. I loved it though. Wed normally play first team to 7, but I could see it being professional and playing with periods, like in hockey. My youth group made an extensive manual for the rules to the game, and surprisingly, even our youngest players got the hang of it. I seriously wished this caught on with more people, because it's just that competitive. It's definitely strange from afar, but once you can ride fast enough and you know the rules, the game begins to fly by.
I only get to play it whenever I'm in town and the youth group is active, which isn't often. But I always look forward to breaking a sweat over my favorite made up sport.
Poke and stack random things on meth head/alcoholic dad until he would finally wake up from a binge, just to have all this stuff piled on him oddly. When he got up he was always so confused but we thought it was funny.
My entire neighborhood growing up used to play a game called "silent" at the neighborhood pool. The pool had a diving board that went about 5 feet above the pool deck, one kid would stand on the board and try to listen for other kids swimming across. If they saw a kid swimming they could dive in a tag them. It no one was going across they had to move further down the board. Fun times.
My sister and I would play "Draw your kidnapper" where one person would describe the "person" who kidnapped you while the other one had to try to recreate it. This obviously turned into very strange looking individuals!
We would also do an adaptation where one person would start and draw the head, the next person could draw one feature (like one eye, or one ear, hair, etc.) , and then it would go back and forth until we deemed the creature done.
We spent hours doing this and now I have introduced it to my young sister-in-law to keep her entertained during long car rides.
Blood train. 20 people one is running in circles in the edge of the trampoline and everyone is in the middle. If the person running the edge or the “train” hit u you had to lay flat and die. You had to unzip and unhook door to trampoline and you lived but couldn’t be hit. You can shove people into the “train” and the the “train had to stay at the same place. I actually made game in unity inspired by this called bloodstainz n trains. Pretty fun little game
Happy cake day! And I used to play soccer with a bike, it was really dangerous but I was stupid in that way. So basically we would hit the ball with our tires and sometimes kick with our feet while on the bike, you had to be moving though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skittles vs skittles colors and other games where different colored candies were various nations at war lol
I use to look out the car window and use my two fingers to grind a skateboard along the power lines in my imagination. Being a child in the back seat my vantage point was often only the sky and power lines through the window.
Alright, back in the 90s there was a windows game called Demolition Derby or somesuch. My friends and I, being intelligent 8-10 year olds, recreated the game going downhill on bicycles. It was fun. I got good at ditching my bike before hitting the ground.
Kazozo · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would stick our fingers up our butts and chase and force the other one to smell it.
poophy · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mental tic-tac-toe. Assign each square a number and play in your head. Me and my brother did this on long car rides. I think that this was my dad's idea. I'm not sure if he was trying to teach us something or just keep us busy.
Ok so this is extremely weird and you’re probably thinking if she did this as a child, what is she like now? and the answer is I’m a weird person. Ok so here I go:
When I couldn’t go to sleep I would take my bed sheet and put my feet on the edge of it, and put my feet in the air, then I would grab both corners of the sheet and try to see which hand could climb the edge of my sheet to reach my foot first. If you don’t understand then idk what to tell you
Bman2U · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess it's not really a game but we used to race popsicle sticks down the curb whenever it rained
Nothings. My sister at the time (now my brother) and I didn’t have real money for bets or challenges so we came up with Nothings. We went as far to allot ourselves certain amount of “Nothings” we earned each week and bet with them. We got into massive fights over this too when we thought the other was cheap or just to see who had more money. Our mom couldn’t stop laughing the day she found out we did this as we were arguing in the backseat. But any game we played we bet Nothings. We jokingly do now just because.
Boat game. On road trips, you spot a boat you call it and it's 1 point. A boat dealership is 5 points. If you call a boat and it turns out not to be a boat, you lose a point.
Born of boredom but we figured it was just about the perfect item that isn't too frequent but it's common enough to stay on your toes.
Pykor · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Winter - Indoor Knee Football.... In the living room, 1 on 1, me vs my bro... 3 rules (1) Ball must cross line b/4 shoulder hits ground. (2) No Sleeper Hold (3) Know power elbow to the thigh.
Summer - Shallow End Pool Soccer.. In shallow end of pool, 1 on 1, me vs my bro... 3 rules (2) ball must hit side of pool. (2) Feet only. (3) No drowning.
Fall - Earl Baby - Line up 3 boxes, one of which has a kid inside. Earl (as in Campbell), is once of the other kids, he would not know where the 1 kid was hidden. Kid would yell "Earl Baby" while running right through the box of his choice.
Twin sister, me, and our older sister (18 months older) played two games in the yard. One was "crash-up smash-up derby, in which we ran full speed at each other with the sole goal of trying to knock the shit out of each other. We also played "Tron," which consisted of throwing multiple frisbees at each other as hard as we could. Kinda like dodgeball, but with injury as the goal.
We also made Buckhorn "salads" in a paint tray frequently and pretended to be eating fancy food. Yeah, we might have been poor now that I think back on it.
Me and my older brother always played „pain soccer“. Normal rules except the first one who cries automatically loses... I lost everytime and we played it till I was about 12yo
It was called “cheese go cheese stop”. In my completely dark and under-built basement, all friends but one would hide in and one friend would close their eyes and blindly gripe around for us. Hiders are free to move, but the finder has a certain amount of “cheese stop”s and “cheese go”s that force hiders to either freeze for 10 seconds or change hiding places. Seekers cannot call “cheese stop” in the middle of a “cheese go”. Hiders are encouraged to throw things at the seeker. Fun times, rather unsafe.
My neighbor and I played "Secret Agents"
We would spy on the other neighbors and our families and correspond via encoded notes that we left in a pile of bricks between our houses. We each had a decoding circle to read and respond to the note. We fabricated the schemes of a bad guy we called "Ogle" (I think this name came from a Lego villain, back before there were TV shows and movies) and come up with adventures to thwart his plans of world domination.
We played a game called sticks. You know when you take a stick and smack it against a tree and the end flys off into the distance? Well we did this and if you got hit with the piece that broke off you were out. It was usually a group of 5 of us. Made for some good times.
We also used to have bb guns fights.... good times in the countryside of Pa
Worm car wash, I came up with it because worms were too dirty. I dug the through the ground putting worms into a bucket and convinced my friend to clean them, with her mouth. Then I put them back in the ground.
During the holiday season, we often would take long car rides in my mom’s ‘99 dodge caravan to a relative’s house for Christmas or NYE. To pass the time, me and my brother would sit opposite to each other and count the houses that had their Christmas lights up. The game was simple- the side that had the most lights would win.
Of course their were disagreements of what’s constituted as Christmas “lights”. Usually nativity scenes with a single light on, were thrown out.
I played a game with my best friend called "Killer". We lived in a land called "Barefoot Land" because it was the 90s and our parents did NOT give a single f if we wore shoes outside. The killer (usually my friend) would kidnap me and throw me in a room with another girl "he" kidnapped.
That's about as dark as it got, because the other girl's brain had been removed and filled with yogurt and we called her "yogurt brain". She was a mess.
Rules:
- Help throw your friends down a hill and yell, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!"
- As you roll down the hill you were supposed to yell, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!"
-Then get up and yell, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!"
-Then climb the hill and help throw your other friends down the hill while yelling, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!"
Throwing a ball of wasted up tape at each other genitals....towards the end of said games it got lit on fire for added excitement
r3n4m3 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn’t have a name for it, but all my friends and brothers and stuff would get into a dark room with an electric wheel chair. The wheelchair had a little green light on it so you could see it. One person would be in wheel chair while everyone else would try to sneak around the room avoiding getting ran over. When the wheelchair would miss a person, it would go right into the dry wall.... parents where pissed... was super fun tho!
The "hot dog man" would go wait behind the shed. Then everyone else would sing "Hot dog man! Hot dog man!" outside the front of the shed. Then the hot dog man would run out from behind the shed and try to get someone before they made it to the safe zone.
I'm sure there's a repressed memory that helps explain where it came from.
We would play Hide and go seek with cars. We would have a group of us. 2 people per vehicle. The car that was it would sit at the front of this neighbor and the others would go hide in the neighbor hood. When you found someone you would flash your lights to "tag them"
We played ‘sticks.’ You grab 3 sticks and put them on the sidewalk about a foot-length apart. The first kid would step in the first gap, step in the second gap, then leap as far as they could with their third step. The last stick would then be moved behind their last foot.
Next kid went the other way and moved the other last stick behind their foot and so on. If you fall or can’t jump over all the sticks, you’re out.
We played a game called "Colored Eggs." I know we didn't invent it, but I don't know anyone else who ever played it. Basically the "it" person or chaser was referred to as the Big Bad Wolf, and everyone else was a Pig. All the pigs would have to choose a color. Of course, when you are young you choose red or blue or something normal, but as we got older we went deeper down the Crayola well, choosing colors like rope, periwinkle, or burnt sienna. There was a dialogue between the Big Bad Wolf and the Pigs:
Big Bad Wolf: Knock knock
Pigs: Who's there?
Big Bad Wolf: the Big Bad Wolf
Pigs: What do you want?
Big Bad Wolf: Colored Eggs
Pigs: What color?
Big Bad Wolf: ___(insert color here)_
Then if the Wolf chose your color, you had to race around an obstacle course back to the home position. The Wolf would try to catch you, duck-duck-goose style. If you were caught, you were the Wolf next time.
It was a lot of fun, and since we played in my grandfather's basement, as we got older, it got more dangerous that you would hit your head on low hanging ductwork!
Super late to this thread but just had to point out that we played this exact same game at my grandparents house when I was a kid, but this was in Sudan. It honestly never occurred to me that people played it outside of Sudan. The only difference between your version and ours was that instead of the big bad wolf and the pigs it was just a generic wolf and chickens, but the script was exactly the same (except in Arabic instead of English).
Scooter Soccer! It was like soccer, but you played it on your Razor Scooter or equivalent scooter. You could use the scooter itself to block and hit balls away, but you could only move via scooter. So, if you got off to block a shot with the scooter you couldn't move anywhere.
Lots of ankles were destroyed flailing those things around.
We called it 'S.O.S box' and played it when we were kids on a road trip along the motorway or dual carriageway. Simply, who ever was able to spot the sos phone box on the side of the motor way first would get a point and first to 5 won. Where we live they are little orange poles with a phone box connected to the top and you probably would see one every mile or two along the motorway. God it was so much fun, if you ever remotely saw Orange in the distance everyone would start to shout out 'I see it, I see it'!
My brother invented Russian Guard, a take on Kick the Can, where if you were captured, you could escape and hide again. The entire neighborhood played that game every night one summer.
Ghosts in the graveyard. Basically 2 "ghosts" try and capture everyone else. People can be released by tagging the captured peeps. We played out in the country in the dark on a 3 acre yard with trees and Barb wire fences. I personally was stopped full out sprint by the Barb with fence on two occasions. Tons of fun.
"Winking game" its was a game we played with large groups of kids. So simple but so fun. So you get a deck of cards and made sure to put in 1 or 2 jokers depending on how big the group was. Everyone gets a card and whoever gets the joker(s) was the "killer". To kill all you had to do was wink at a person looking at you and once the person sees you wink they drop to the floor "dead" and can't move or talk. Killers can't kill each other and anyone can guess who the killer is but if they guess wrong they die. The fun part is everyone has to blink at some point so people would guess someone blinking and that person shows their card and if its not a joker the guesser died. So we would all get crazy with blinking a lot but you could throw in a wink or literally wink at 3 people real fast and kids just drop to the floor. The tension would rise more and more and if one killer survived or if it was just the killer and 1 person the killers won and if the killer(s) were found everyone else wins. Everyone can talk the whole time (besides the dead) but you had to announce your guess. So it also threw in some strategies to. So say one killer could oust the other make other kids take a guess for him. Like say "Jane Doe has to be the killer" but he can't guess but everyone will start to eye that person and find out its true. That way no one would suspect that person was the killer while he kills everyone. It was super fun.
“Gorilla” me and my brother would get on a make-shift raft in our pool and see if who could sink it first. Super weird, not sure how we got the name, but so much fun as an 8 year old
etc18 · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "snake in the river" while waiting for the school bus.
One person was the snake and had to stay on the sidewalk. Everyone else tries to cross the "river" either by jumping, or crossing on the cracks.
If the snake tags you before you get across, you join the snake trying to tag others. Last one caught is the winner!
Me and my cousin were the oldest out of the church kids, we were all obsessed with dragon ball z. So I was pretty much king of the garage and would set up tournament battles between 5-10 year olds. And they would fight each other to impress us. Lmao!
Szyz · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I invented a game called "world on fire" where the ground was lava and you had to get from A to B without touching the ground.
My sister and I got so bored of playing teacher and student that we decided to play church. My sister was the priest and I would just sit there as she read the Bible. I would then grab bread, make little balls and that was communion. Yep, you guessed it, we were catholic.
Deadly Creatures, a game on the Wii. You start off playing as a tarantula, fight a scorpion at the end of the first level, play as that scorpion in the second level, and then go back to the tarantula. It switches every other level and was superbly fun. You fight bugs and other small creatures in a cool desert setting
The Angie game. We had a noon hour supervisor named Angie that you’d try and not get spotted by. If you tagged her without her seeing you then you got a popsicle the next day.
One person plays the teletubby, and the rest people who run from him/her. The teletubby's job is to catch the others and consume them (basically tag them). They do this by chasing them around, but if they start to sing the teletubby theme tune and rock from side to side, whoever can see them must advance towards them as if hypnotized, get to within 3 metres, at which point the teletubby ends their song and can chase them.
There is a safe area, called "home." This was a small hill with a large tree growing on it. However, the teletubby can sneak into home through the "TV"(which was an area by the base of the tree) and sing their song there (in home). However if they don't successfully catch anyone whilst singing their song, they must finish the song before they can leave the TV.
The teletubby never won, and we got bored of this needlessly complex game within weeks.
I like to play guess the elevator when i go somewhere that has multiple elevators. You press the up/down button, and guess which elevator is the one that will arrive first. Its a lot of fun to play when there is more than 2 elevators.
My two brothers and I created a game called "pool shark". My oldest brother James would play the shark by straddling a pool floaty and guarding the surface while my other brother Tyler and I tried to dive to the bottom and collect dive sticks. If the shark grabs you before you can exit the pool you lose a life and have to drop your stick. Each diver got 3 lives.
I have vivid memories of my oldest brother James grabbing me by the foot as I was frantically trying to exit the pool and dragging me back into the water screaming.
I'm guessing this is where my intense phobia of sharks comes from.
Don’t know if it’s unique but “Knee Football”. Play in an open carpeted room where you could only crawl on your knees and you were down when your elbows touched the floor. You couldn’t only throw the ball too. My knees will always bare the rug burns scars and I was even knocked unconscious once.
"Tropical piss forests" me and a friend in year 5 (aged 9-10) used to climb trees at our school during the lunchtime break and once at the top we would piss out of it back to back, we ate the same things everyday and we always got out at the same time. The last day we played this was a doozy, I was given 25p by my parents so bought an extra biscuit and my friend ran out of the hall before me (we didn't go to the toilet for the most of the day so we were always busting) I must've got out of the hall about 2-5 mins later as I reach the school field that I see him up the end of it climbing the tree already.
So as I get to the tree he's already started his stream, so I'm climbing up the tree getting pissed on, anyway, as I near the top (30ft tree) I grab a wet branch and my foot hits a wet branch and I slipped backwards. Now I couldn't see the ground all I could see was this stream of urine hitting my face, my friend and the clouds. As I hit the ground I landed more on my neck than anything and I know I hit the ground twice (I bounced...) So I'm completely out of it wondering what the hell has just happened, not sure which way is up. I get up to realise that I'm about 2ft away from a chainlink fence and 3ft away from falling down a hill into a boggy stream that I've seen multiple items disappear into the mud.
Now a dinnerlady was walking up the field as she had seen me run out and had invariably seen the whole debacle, screamed at me, "GET BACK IN SCHOOL" as I had fallen on the wrong side of the fence and was now outside the school so technically playing hooky...I spent the rest of the day unsure of what went on and my teachers describe me to my mother as having been "very quiet" and "we don't know whats come over him." Thus is the story of the day I suffered an untreated concusion by falling out of a tree covered in piss.
McDonald's used to have these round disc shaped ice cubes when I was a kid.
For some reason, my cousin and I would drink our sodas and then take turns being a priest. We would hand out the disc ice as if it were a communion wafer. We called this game "the body of christ"
Trampoline RPGs. I played final fantasy and my brother would watch. Then when we wanted to play together I would write a story, essentially being his dungeon master, and we’d take turns fighting on the trampoline. We had foam swords.
I remember one of the moves i would use against him was spiral cut from FFX (Tidus’s first overdrive). One time I kicked him in the face with it. Good shit.
“Pony car” in the car my family would play a game that we were to yell pony car every time we saw a mustang on the road ( an actual car not just a horse) we still play it to this day
This is way too late and it’s going to get buried.
But the game was called “blah!”
Basically one kid would put his or her head inside a pillow with the pillowcase still on so you’ve got a pillow in front of your face and you can’t see.
You then have to catch one of the other kids like in the game “tag” but your only way of doing so is to run around and yell ”blah!!” And dive at where you think they are to catch them.
If you miss, the pillow on your head guards your face from smashing into the ground.
We were about 7-12 years old and this was in about 1992.
I’ve asked everyone I know and no one has ever heard of the game Glover. It’s a glove that moves around on a ball but it’s always on an adventure going into different worlds similar to Mario64 but just a glove.
rufcob · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To this day me and my friends still play ping volley.
In a ping pong table, there will be two players per team. The serve is your normal ping pong serve, but after that it turns into something more like volleyball.
The ball has to bounce once on the table after each turn and it can also bounce once more anywhere else. Each team has 3 non consecutive touches per turn just like in volleyball. Blocks with any part of the body are allowed and don't count as a touch.
It's harder to score with your own serve so "breaks" are highly valuable.
We still get together once a year and have a competition in which this is one of other made up sports we play.
We played what we called "Nut Shot". My brother and I lined up two yardwaste barrels about 50 feet apart. We would stand behind the barrels and then throw a Nerf vortex football back and forth. Your objective was to throw the football in the barrel. Your opponent wasn't allowed to move, catch, or block ball. So the real objective was to hit your brother in the nuts with a football. I am the much more athletic brother, so I thoroughly enjoyed the game lol
Every holidays we would drive up to my grandparents' property to stay with them and on the way if you were the first to spot a windmill we would get some tiny teddies (the little chocolate biscuit thing). Sometimes a debate would ensue if the windmill was without blades or not, if it really counted as a "proper" windmill or not
My siblings and I had a game called “Witch’s Pot” where one person would be the witch and the others would be her minions (there is a total of four of us). The witch tells the minions to fetch X number of ingredients to make a potion that would turn them into whatever animal the witch wants and the minions race around the house to go find ingredients that have something in common with that animal (for example you could bring a book if the animal was an owl because they are wise or a penny for an ant because they are small) and bring them back to the witch but you have to bring your ingredients back one at a time. Once somebody has all the ingredients the witch calls everyone to the pot but if they have an ingredient in their hand they have to put it back where they found it. The minion then explains all the ingredients to the witch and why they are related to the animal and if the witch accepts the reasons for all the ingredient then they put them all in a bucket and dump them on the minion’s head (which turns them into that animal). If the witch doesn’t accept any of the ingredients then they throw those at the minion and the minion must put them back before they continue finding new ingredients while all the other minions scatter to continue finding ingredients until someone has enough for the potion again.
My Dad and I would play 'The Loop' on the trampoline, not much to the game except that one of use would be 'The Loop' who would try and roll around and make contact with the other player, when you did they were out.
Another one we would do was 'Sack of Potatoes', where Dad would pretend we were a sack of potatoes and try to put us in our aga stove no matter how much we protested that we weren't in fact a sack of potatoes.
Another one was pool based, the leader would chant 'Chitty chitty bang bang pop bang _____' and then name something like volcano or ballerina and everyone else would have to do a handstand and act it out with their legs. The leader then picked whoever had done the best reenactment.
My mom used to play a game with me when I was really little when my friends came over called “tumbleweeds” we had these weird ornaments in our living room that were basically just like a light hollow ball made of twisted sticks, she must’ve got them from homesense or some other store, and basically the person who was it would try to hit the runners with the tumbleweeds but the trick was that you could only roll it on the ground (like a tumbleweed) I spent a lot of fun times in my house playing that
"Booties Up". Basically like Off the, Suicide, or Aces, it involves bouncing a tennis ball off the wall, except when you lose you have to stand against the wall while everybody else tries to wail that tennis ball at your ass cheeks.
The Game
it’s a game that you’re always playing and you loose if you think about The Game. so how you win is by forgetting about it essentially. when you think of it you have to say “I lost the game” out loud therefore making everyone else who plays the game also lose. I think it’s mostly a theatre kid game but it was fun
One person lays on their back and sticks one foot in the air. The other person grabs the end of the sock and runs in circles thereby twisting the sock and spinning the person on the ground in circles.
There was really no point other than to have fun. No points, no way to win or lose. We tried to get the sock twisted to the point of coming off the foot without pulling it off the foot.
Martha - multi player game
Someone was selected to be "Martha" the babysitter who was napping on the couch and not to be disturbed. Other players would sneak into the livingroom and slap, yell at, or otherwise irritate Martha. Martha would wake up and chase everyone. Again, no other rules or really winning or losing, just chasing each other around and being crazy. Actually, it might have been like a tag thing and if she caught you then you had to be Martha. Would have to ask one of my siblings if they remember cause its been a few years since we last played, like 40ish.
Nobody Takes Mugsy's Picture - 2 player cause nobody liked it except my sister and me
One person is Mugsy, the other person has a pretend camera. Person with pretend camera chases Mugsy and pretends to take his picture. Mugsy keeps yelling "nobody takes Mugsy's picture" and that's the game. I loved that game.
Dark Tag. It's just tag, but in a house with all of the lights off. Our house had a pretty circular flow so it worked well and there were plenty of furniture and things to hide behind. The dirtiest trick was to hide behind the kitchen counter and lay out a blanket on the hardwood floor, and then when the Tagger came running through the kitchen they'd step on it and WHOOSH...you yank that blanket so hard from under their feet they have permanent brain damage.
My friends and I invented "Brawl Ball" one summer as an outlet for our desire to throw and swing things at each other. Each person chooses a "Striker", often a plastic wiffleball bat, Nerf sword, or tennis racket. There are a selection of different soft "BallsBombs" like Nerf footballs, tennis balls, and kickballs. Each is assigned a different power: the orange Nerf football was a "Flash Bomb" - if you saw it hit a surface or it hit you, you had to close your eyes for 3 seconds. The tennis ball was a "Sticky Bomb" if you get hit with it the person who hits you counts to 5 aloud, and you must retrieve the tennis ball before the countdown ends and hit someone else with it, restarting the countdown with you as the counter. If you can't hit another player before the five seconds are up, you die. We had other various types of BallBombs, like one that roots anyone hit with it for five seconds, and another that makes you switch your Striker to your off hand. The only way you can use the BallBombs is to pick it up, touch it to the base of your Striker's pommel and say "Uplink" aloud. You must do this each time you get a new BallBomb, as it serves as warning to the other players. There is also a large rubber ball named The Ball of Death. Being touched anywhere on your body by it is an instant death, so players hit it at one another with their Strikers (like a Bludger from Harry Potter).
How to win: players can only be defeated by touching them anywhere on their bodies but their heads/groins with a Striker or anywhere with The Ball of Death. Certain BallBombs could kill as well. The goal is to do this without hurting them (though the only penalty for injury is your friends getting pissed). Players defend themselves from BallBombs and Strikers with their own Striker. When two players' Strikers touch, either/both may declare "Duel" aloud. All play stops, the field is cleared of BallBombs and The Ball of Death, and the two have a duel with only their Strikers. First touch wins (minus head/groin), and the other players not in the duel serve as judges. The victor has the option to claim the Striker of his opponent, or a BallBomb of his choice before play resumes. Anyone defeated drops any equipped Strikers or BallBombs and goes to the respawn zone off to the side. They must wait a full minute before re-entering the Brawl. If killed by The Ball of Death, they wait 2 minutes instead (great for a drink break). Once only two people are left alive, they have a duel to decide the champion.
Me and my neighbor as kids around 12ish came across a knife in his garden. Now this can also be played with a screwdriver or anything else that can be flung into the ground as well.
You stand facing one another, with feet together. Now in either hand you take the knife and you whip it into the dirt. You do this from standing height and with a "throwing knife" style. Like grip it by handle or blade, whatever your throwing knife preference is. If the knife blade doesn't stick into the ground, you fucked up and it's now your opponent's turn. If it sticks, your opponent must now move one leg to the knife. He then picks up the knife from that spot and it's his turn.
You don't want to get overzealous and try throwing the knife 5 feet away thinking you will win, you will most likely not stick it. Usually a foot or two at a time. Also, missing first and then stretching out your leg after your opponent sticks one now gives you a further range to possibly beat him right way. Sometimes when your opponent is stretched out (where the name of the game came from lol) you can then switch hands to change the direction for an easy win. You win when your opponent can no longer move a leg any further to reach a stuck knife. Both feet must stay planted at either the beginning point or where a knife stuck til the end.
cas_17 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Balloon Bop!” Whenever there was a leftover balloon lying around the house from a friend’s birthday party or whatever, and it didn’t float anymore, you just had to pass it around between you and your siblings and keep it in the air as long as you can. You can use any body part but the balloon can’t touch the ground or furniture. It was kind of a team effort but at the same time a contest to hit it hard so the other person messed up haha, kept us occupied for quite a while...
Street surfing- tie a rope to the back of a bike and have someone pedal while a second kid holds onto the opposite end of the rope while sitting on a skateboard. Fucking fun but also idiotic
Toy wars. We had bunk beds. Hung blankets on them from top to bottom as "shields" to hide behind and just pelted each other with random toys. First one who had their "shield" knocked down lost. It was a painful game.
cxrze · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"creeper" it's tag but when you tag someone you have to either chose to hold there arm and help or stand still until someone untagged touches you so you can move (Name inspired by Minecraft)
I was an only child for a bit. Got creative. If you press down on a sideways plastic soda cap you can get it to shoot/roll forward, and the spin makes it slide and turn. Basically like drifting a bottle cap.
I started building obstacle courses and learning to drift the bottle caps with accuracy. I had some cousins come over and I introduced them to it. We played for hours.
“Ripstick wars” usually played 1v1 but could be played in teams each person has a broom stick with no head. You poke at the wheels of the other players ripstick to knock them off. Once you knock a player off you ride to the “gong” (basketball pole) and hit it with your broomstick to confirm the point. If the person you knocked off rings the gong the point doesn’t count. We stopped playing the game after the broomstick ricocheted off the gong straight into my forehead.
Bouncing dot. While your parents drive, you focus your eyes on a speck of dirt on the window of the car. As the car moves you have to move your head around to make it bounce over all trees, buildings, etc. If you hit something, you die. Telephone poles or streetlights count, but strung wires don't (but you get bonus points for going across the wire and tracing the downward arc and back up). You are allowed to effect the hit box by changing eye focus.
cypeo · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Crocodile." Basically Marco Polo but with complete silence. The "Crocodile" is it and has to find someone in the pool using just the sound of breathing or water. When they catch someone they have to guess the person correctly to win.
It's a real adrenaline rush to almost get caught, splashing around wildly and try to lose the Crocodile by slipping back into the water quietly
Not sure what everyone calls this, but we called in Manhunt.
When the street lights came on we would meet at the bottom of the hill and form two teams. Oldest kids were captains. One team would hide and the other team would find. Front yards only. No trash cans or private property. Trees allowed as long as it was within the reach of the smallest person playing. Our map was two square blocks.
The other team always waited in beanies backyard on the trampoline. When we started getting older it’s where we would sneak one of our parents smokes in before the game. You were supposed to count to 300. We never counted... not my teams anyway. You leave beanies and if you see someone you had to tag them with both hands to capture them. If someone from the hiding team made is back to the trampoline they would win. No camping the trampoline... no camping that house at all. If all the holders are found they lose. No jail or goo. None of that sissy shit. You get found and get tagged... you are dead. You have to walk back to beanies trampoline and wait underneath it until the games over.
We would get rolls of toilet paper from construction site port-o-lets, soak them in gas or kerosene and light them on fire and kick them around the street at night. Kinda like flaming soccer.
We lived in a rural neighborhood.
Sometimes the roll would roll out so there was a nice line of fire down the street.
One time it went under a car, luckily a brave kid got it out.
COHERG · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents basement used to be unfinished. A few of my friends and I would divide into even teams opposite of each other. We would then turn off the lights and throw tennis balls and try and hit each other. If you were hit, you were out. We had a bunch of old furniture that were used as shields and such. Couple bloody noses and black eyes but it was a fun game.
Hide and seek but it’s exclusively with my dad. He takes the game super seriously though, he hasnt showed himself in 15 years! Im still looking for him wish me luck!
Lot of trampoline games. Here are the ones I remember in no order: (Keep in mind that this was before the days of having nets around trampolines. This was a bare naked tramp.)
Toilet Bowl: The trampoline was a toilet with the spring/padding area being the rim. One person was the turd goblin who would try to wrestle people into the middle of the bowl and then scramble over and "flush" the person before they could get back to the rim. To "flush", the turd goblin must touch that "tag thing" with warnings on it that was sewn to the edge of the nylon. Now the flushed person is the new goblin.
Don't Touch the Toys: Action figures and other junk are put on the trampoline. Everyone tries not to touch any of the random bouncing objects on the trampoline until it's all bounced off. You have to exit the trampoline until the game is over if you get touched. Good for pulling "sick Matrix moves". Added insanity if the badminton net was up and we moved the trampoline to be under it.
Trip: One person was the tripper and had to crawl (no standing allowed) around the trampoline trying to trip or otherwise knock people over. If the tripper caused the other person's knees, hands or back/ass to touch the trampoline, they were the new tripper.
Dodgeball: This was the favorite. Rules are similar to the usual, but there is only one person off the trampoline trying to hit people with a ball. Whoever they hit has to be the new thrower. If you catch it it doesn't count. Also you could "save" your friend by catching it for them, but we probably shouldn't have had that rule because it only encouraged favoritism. It probably should have caused an added punishment to the person hit if someone else caught the ball.
When I was younger, I spent a lot of time in Maine visiting my cousins. As this was before the Internet was big there and it was pretty rural, there was fuck all to do there. We decided to make up a game called Orphanage, which we took pretty seriously tbh. We made up entire back stories surrounding our “characters” and I even remember learning some French from an old English to French dictionary to really provide some “real ness” 😂 anyways, we would sweep the porch as our chores and make up lessons, jewelry making (which was just tying together bits of grass and flowers), and one day we had a brilliant idea to start a soap making company at our “orphanage”, or my great grandmothers side porch. We all secretly gathered all the bar soap and hand soaps we knew wouldn’t be missed, a few buckets, and flowers. We made such a mess on the porch with our “concoctions” and our families got so pissed about the missing soap we had to stop playing imaginative games for a while lol.
My sister would play this game where she would punch or kick me in the balls then go cry to our parents that I was being mean to her. Then she would laugh while they hit me.
"Under the Futon". One of my oldest brother's exes had this really high-strung cat. My little sister and I would lean our faces over the side so that they were upside down, looking straight under the futon to where the cat was waiting on the other end. Sometimes we'd have to try and get her attention, most times she noticed us right away, and began charging up at our faces. We'd lift our heads right at the last second, then move so our heads were hanging over the opposite side of the futon, so the cat would run back to where she was. We kept this up for several rounds. Kids are so easily entertained. I still wonder what would have happened had I not lifted my head.
“Shark in the dark.” Not sure how unique it was. It was basically hide and seek at night in our basement with the lights turned out. It was pitch black down there... and our basement was unfinished and filled with everything from extra wood and storage boxes to my dad’s tools and lawn equipment. So the game was about finding someone and also not getting hurt. The bravest kids would go in the crawl space underneath the stairs.
CamHC · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I loved to play something we called "The Shoe Game", where everyone takes off their shoes and lays on their stomach hanging over the edge of a merry-go-round. Then everyone does their best to hide the shoes under/around the merry-go-round, but still within reachable distance. Another person pushes the merry-go-round as fast as possible and you had to grab as many shoes as you can. Loser has to push the next round.
“Daily Jog”, which happened once per week at grandmother’s house, where we gathered for Sunday brunch after church. Three kids running in a giant circle around the center pedestal in an unfinished basement for as long as possible. Record was around 30 minutes.
The tripping game.... We just renamed smear the queer cuz teachers didn't like that... Then as slightly more of an adult, leisure pong... Basically 1v1 beer pong on a coffee table while sitting.. Bounces only and we'd make a net with spent cans
I had "Voccer" which was a mixture of volleyball and soccer. We'd play on a trampoline and it was basically a keepy uppy game where you could use your arms (but not hands for some reason) and legs. There were two teams and we'd have an imaginary line and if the ball fell on your side you'd have to take a player off the trampoline.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Leaf game: In Autumn when walking home from school, if you saw a leaf you had to think of the word leaf.
I'm pretty sure I had some sort of word association O.C.D. because what 8 year old walls home thinking leaf leaf leaf leaf.
All this thread is doing is making me realize how much I wish I had friends or siblings growing up.
We moved a lot in the Navy, and I'm an only child so I never really had anyone to play with. Some of the neighborhood kids would get together when I lived in Puerto Rico, and we'd box sled down our neighbors yard, that was a steep hill.
Since none of us had seen snow at all, it was the closest thing to sledding we could get. It was fun! The bigger kids would use trash cans and roll down. (I was 6-10 at this point)
Umm... I did a lot of LARPing myself. Which was basically just me dressing up and using whatever props I had, and then pretending I had people around, and I'd act out scenes I'd made up from some of my favorite books.
I was writing fanfiction before I knew what it was, lol.
God, I spent all my childhood reading/writing...I was quite boring.
German Spy... played at night it was like hide and seek with a flashlight outside. Everyone would run and hide around a particular house and would have to make it back to base without getting caught. The person with the light would have to shine it on the person and call them by the correct name in order for them to be caught. A lot of debate occured on whether or not the light beam was actually on the person, they called the name of the right person, etc... also, fuck the guy that camped by the “base” (front porch) and didn’t give anyone a chance to actually make it there.
Came up with this one in high school, so we were barely still children. Basically you head into your area woods with a group of four friends and find a small tossing stick, approximately .5’’ in diameter and 14’’ long for each pair of teammates. Game is 2 v 2. You’ll get with your partner and start tossing the stick back and forth, catching with one or two hands and quickly tossing it back to your partner, who is standing appropriately 15 feet across from you , and the other pair is doing the same with their respective stick perpendicular to you and your partner, creating a cross 4 style of gameplay. This is where it gets fun and gets its name... the goal is to get to 21 points, scoring a point each time you or your partner catch the stick. To prevent the other team from reaching 21, you can try and hit the other teams stick out of the air with your stick mid-air, initiating a ‘crossfire’ in which if both sticks fall to the ground, both teams go back to 0. If you catch your stick after a crossfire and the other team drops it, you stay at your number and they drop to 0. And if you both catch it after a crossfire then you both stay at your number and winner is still at 21. I spent hours in the woods playing crossfire with the homies...
My cousins and I used to play this game. Where you would take a hand put index to thumb like the nice emoji or whatever one that is. You'd do it on both hands and then flip them so the index and thumb make an eye hole and the 3 other fingers are down your face if someone looked at you or if someone saw you. They had to stop what they were doing and lay on the floor/ground. You could block it by doing the same thing with one hand right side up.
I played this at school and I don't remember what it's called,but you get a group of friends and play essentially '500', which itself is someone is throwing a football up in the air,yelling a number, and everyone trys to catch it for points. Person to 500 points becomes the new thrower, and repeat until recess ends.
For some reason we didn't have a football, so we take a tennis ball, someone is throwing it at a brick wall and everyone has to catch it off the bounce.
The difference is if someone drops the tennis ball, they must run to the wall to become safe and until they do the primary objective is to hit the person who dropped it.
We played this at school so the punched weren't too hard and we couldn't pin them or anything, just lightly tap them.
Sundance was our golden retriever. We would close one back gate forcing her to run out the other side of the back yard. By the time she looped around the house we would all be hiding. The first person she licked and/or knocked over was the loser.
When I was growing up I made up a game called, "Disney Mix-Ups" to play with the other kids that my babysitter watched, and her biological children.
You could choose any Disney character you wanted to pretend to be and mix up the characteristics of other Disney characters. It could be part of their wardrobe, magical abilities, weapons, animal side kicks, etc.
It was a lot of fun and great to play outside just using your imagination.
All the kids on my street and I invented “Rope Tag”. We got a six foot rope and tied half of it into a giant knot so it looked like a mace. We would run around playing tag, hopping over fences, hiding under bushes while the person who was it would throw the giant rope mace and try to hit one of us. If you got hit, you were it. Played for hours, it was awesome.
When I was a young Scout, I learned a game called "I can see the moon in the spoon". Works like this:
Pass around a spoon in a circle. Everybody will of course claim to see the moon in the spoon, but only those who fulfil certain secret criteria would be "actually" able to- they're told by the person who started the game whether they can or not.
The criteria? You'll only be able to see the moon if you say "thank you" when you receive the spoon. But it will take a while for everyone to figure that out, especially with kids.
This game didn't seem weird when my friend and I played it back when we were 5.
So basically we would take pillows (the larger the better), stuff it in front of our shirts, and pretend that we were pregnant woman about to give birth. We would sometimes take turns "acting it out" as in slowly pulling the pillows out and whaling.
We just found pregnant women funny at the time I guess, didn't understand the nature of it all
When the Nintendo DS came out we used to play hide and seek using pictochat and you knew you were getting close to someone when they showed up on your chat room.
My father and I played a points gane based on cars, the scoring as follows.
Yellow Car/Mini-1 point
Yellow Mini - 2 points
Orange car - 3 points
Orange mini- 4 points
Limos- 10 points
Obviously you count up your points and at the end of the journey, whoever has the most points wins.
We also played a game using number plates, where one player would state a number such as 16. The first player to spot a number plate which numbers added to that total would win a point, and then repeat...
Hide and go home! Super fun game we would play at my friends house. It was essentially a mix of hide and seek and tag. 1 person was “it” and they had to close their eyes for a minute on the deck in the backyard. Everyone else had to run and hide somewhere on street or in the yard and the goal was to stealthily get back to the deck without being caught. If you got caught you had no choice but to run and try to get around whoever was it. Sometimes we would switch it up and say if you get caught you had to help whoever was it by trapping the other players but only the person who was it could get them out. Super fun game! Have some great childhood memories playing it.
We labeled it “the jumping bean.” We would stack up every pillow from our large couches until it was about, 9-10ft tall. One of us would stand on the counter and jump on the pillows and ride them down. We were weird man.
Left for Dead, one kid becomes the zombie and the rest are survivors, the zombie tags a person and then they also become a zombie, the only way a game can be over is if there are a few survivors that survive and are able to hide for a long time or if everyone eventually becomes a zombie.
60's playground game called "Foursquare"... Batting a ball and trying to eliminate someone out of their square (drawn with chalk on the cement...)
And the next person in the waiting queue moves in, while the reigning champion (and the other two) keep their square for the next round.
Started back in elementary school, The game was essentially hide-and-seek with a base, played at night. The game consisted of two roles- one seeker and at least two hiders. The seeker starts on the base, generally a deck or other easily discernable location with boundaries (the most common for us was between the boundary lines in the center of a shuffleboard court built in the middle of a yard). The seeker closes their eyes and counts to 20. During this time, known as the "prep phase," the hiders must come up with a place to hide within running distance of the base, but not in sight of the seeker. After the prep phase, the "action phase" begins. During this phase, the seeker turns on a flashlight and begins to hunt his prey. If you get flashed by the light (and the seeker acknowledges you in doing so), you're out. If you can ninja your way onto the base without getting flashed, you're safe. First person to get flashed is automatically seeker in the next round. Rounds generally go ad infinitum until it's time for bed or enough people quit.
This game led to a very healthy metagame, with all sorts of strategies and smaller rules getting used over the years. Almost immediately camping the base was banned. The seeker's job is to seek, get seeking! Soon after was the 20 foot rule- hiders must hide no shorter than 20 feet from the base or wait at least a minute before moving into the base.
Over time, people got smarter playing the game. Everyone knew the land pretty much blindfolded, so more creative and well-tested strategies were used. No longer was it simply hiding where you wont be found, instead it was about routes, cycles, shadow management, fake shines (placing the light in the opposite direction of where you're looking, providing a trap for any unsuspecting hider thinking your back is turned), and above all else, timing. Nothing was more satisfying than sneaking onto the base while the seeker was distracted shining some other poor soul.
This game and variations are still played by us to this day - I'm 18
Scoots and booties!
Under a short stone bridge’s arch, you have two teams of two. You attempt to kick a soccer ball and hit the other team’s wall, then get the ball to bounce back to you so you can kick again, trying to hit their wall once more.
That is the only way to score.
You wouldn’t believe how many almost broken fingers and toes we had from diving into the wall to stop the ball.
wearing clothes, jam a penny in your butt crack. hold it in place with just your cheeks while you walk across the room. try to drop the penny into a bowl on the ground to win.
I wouldn't say it's "unique" but I'd still like to share. Basically when we were younger me, my friends, and my brother would play a game where we would choose 1-3 characters (from video games, tv shows, movies, etc.) and we'd basically "play fight" with eachother until one person won. It was one of my favorite "games" growing up.
Basically smash bros (I didn't know about Smash at the time) but with more characters.
kick the can. i cant remember exactly how it went. a bottle full of sand or rocks in the middle of the yard. i think one person was a tagger and others had to grab the can and take it to a safe spot, or kick it idk.
M_Shoe · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"King and son." My friend isahia and I used to play this when we were maybe 7 years old. There was really no point to the game other than one of us telling the other to do stupid things like "climb that tree" or "roll in that pile of leaves." Its funny though, because at the time I was obsessed with indiana jones and my parents got me a fake whip... (Not really fake but it wasnt 800$ real leather..20$ maybe) Us kids being innocent and immune to racism would be yelling at the other to do whatever we said while fake whipping them as well. I still think about what is must of looked like to passer bys seeing this. Especially when I was king and he was son. Me being white, him being black. :/
We used to just dig and dig and dig.
We found bones once pretty far down in a hole (maybe 15 or 20 feet or whatever)
Also we used to climb the trees in our yard and play jumberjack and cut the tree branches off. Why my parents were ok with this I have no idea.
Another fun one, we played car tag. Each of us had 2 to 4 people in the car with a neon light in the back window. Rules were you had to stay within the city limits and you flashed your lights at the person if you saw them and they were it. All had walkie talkies and stuff. Good times. Yes gas was only 1 a gallon when we were playing.
My best friend and I would each put on a pair of my dad's sweatpants and a sweatshirt and then stuff-stuff-stuff them with clothes and then like...bounce into each other? Like big squishy people bouncing off each other.
Forgot what we named it but I was at a school that had another right beside it in Fort mcmurray. The park at the other school was way better so we played there. Object of the game was to get from one side of the park to the other without touching the platforms or the ground so it was kind of a floor is lava climbing game and got pretty dangerous at times cause you had to climb over the roof parts that werent meant to be climbed on. Once you got to the winning platform you had to run to the start platform to win. Its funny because a year later kids from that school were playing it and even called it by name and i dont remember showing anyone how to play but my friend might have. I remember telling one of the kids hey i invented that game and he was like ya right lol
Zombie tag was the best thing in middle school. One person started as a zombie who could tag people. Everyone that was “it” became a zombie and the last person not a zombie won!! So fun, i always ended up in a group of survivors lol.
We use to play the alphabet game to pass time in the car. You would have to spot the letter on a passing number plate and call it out before someone else did. The goal was to get through the alphabet before anyone else. We also used to memorise the phone numbers of businesses we drove past often and then when we drove past them, would have to close our eyes and try and say it out loud. Or we would have to add up the numbers in the phone number before we passed it.
I made up a bunch of these to play with my little brother when we were younger.
"Which Book", played mostly before going to sleep, basically one person chooses a world to play out (Ex. Fantasy or GI Joes or Superheroes etc. ) Then the other person makes up the world and characters, and the first person plays as their own character in that world (usually it is just yourself). I was surprised and happy to learn about DnD when I got older.
"Monster Containment" - One person is the "Monster", and they have points they can use to pick powers. Everyone else is a guard with toy guns. It's contained in an area of the back yard with an imaginary door. They do tests with the monster, until it breaks free and tries to kill everyone.
"Prison" - Kind of a reverse of the last one. One person is the warden, and they choose a few upgrades for their imaginary prison in the back yard. Everyone else is a prisoner, each with some sort of specialty (Ex. Thief picks door locks). Prisoners want to escape or comply long enough to get let out on good behavior.
Those were just a few of them, we made up a bunch.
When i was 12 to 14 yo my dad got me a 44 yo tutor for math and english. She showed me a game that is still my fav to this very day. I never get tired of playing hide the penis. She had another game she taught me aswell. She called it caress the clit. Still enjoyable to this very day. I just had to branch out and find other players. My dad paid her every week for a few years but my grades never improved. He told me my grades didnt improve because i didnt give a fuck. Truth was i gave to many fucks.
dls14a · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played grape factory where we would ride on my grandma's stationary bike and eat grapes...
‘Mummy, mummy, I’m in your tomb’ - our bastardisation of blind man’s bluff, but we’d entomb someone in a sled first, and wrap them in toilet roll (much to my parents’ chagrin) and THEN release them
Unsurprisingly, we were injury prone in that game.
We also used to ‘play’ Prince of Persia on the trampoline, which mostly consisted of chasing each other round the trampoline and pretending to be able to do parkour.
Very small and largely underrated game with only 1.47 million copies sold world wide. However that number made it the third highest-selling game in Japan in 1996.
This game goes into a deep adventure, the aim of the game WAS to defeat bowser... until he ends up joining your team to defeat the bosses to gain Bowsers castle back after being taken over by the big boss Smithy & his nasty (and very dumb) team of enemies. The main objective of the game is to restore the the star road and gain back bowsers castle, but there's small adventures you can go on along the way as you go along such as Mallow's adventure to gain back the stolen coin.
For anyone who's played this game you'll understand what i'm talking about, this game was an amazing game, and you can actually emulate it for free, so for anyone with an SNES Emulator I recommend it. It's an amazing experience, with an amazingly good but sad ending :( <3
We played a game where one person has to ride a bike around the neighborhood and all the other kids would throw rocks. I’m surprised an adult didn’t step in to stop us
I walked around the 5meters deep hole in my garden and the game was if I fall into it I die. I lately told my dad about this and even tho 15 years has passed he still got mad.
Bit of an odd one, but I would make Wooden Swords out of whatever scrap wood I could get my hands on. Me and my friends would beat the hell out of eachother with them but thats the normal part. However what I figured out was playing Basketball as we fought.
You couldn't touch the ball with your hands, just with your weapon. The only time you could grab the ball was to shoot. If you got hit in the arm or leg you lost that limb. If you get hit in the chest then you have to wait three seconds to jump back in.
I had a bunch of baseball cards and had to find a way to split them in half along a material line, starting with easy things like pitchers and position players, all the way down to heights, places of birth, specific stats, etc. I couldnt reuse a distinguishing feature.... Then I had a black pitcher and a white pitcher who were pretty much the same in every way remaining except one. I sat there on the carpet for what felt like a long time, separting them and seeing how it felt, bringin them back, staring at them, trying to find a creative way. I think in the end I left them together.
One game where we had mini frisbees, (originally from a set of frisbee golf, and the goal was to throw and hit my younger brother with the frisbee from far away (+1 point). Most points win, and we played as a family/neighbors' family.
Another game where we would draw chalk intersections & retail all over our driveway and would take our bikes/scooters/rollerblades and play pretend city.
Another game I played with my brother was with stuffed animals. We would alternate farting on these poor creatures, and seeing how bad theyd smell afterwards...There was no way to win the game.
My brother and I would play this game with our neighborhood: Blindmans Bluff. You find a big jungle gym and someone is "It". They would have to play with their eyes closed and try to tag the other kids without seeing them. You had to stay on the jungle gym the whole time, but if you were "it/the blindman" and you thought someone was on the ground, you could yell "fish out of water" and open your eyes. If you were right that person was "it" next. I fondly remember hanging off the jungle gym, or standing on a post by a bridge and jumping over the person and running away before they could catch me. It was a bit dangerous, but a lot of fun.
My dad taught us a rainy day game, never really had a name for it. We had a bunch of small dinosaur figures as well as army men and cowboy men (you know, the little green stand up action figures). You separate the figures into two piles, sit on opposite ends of a hallway and line up as many figures from your pile as you want. You get a racquet ball or big bouncy ball and you took turns trying to knock down the other players figures. If you knocked them down you added them to your pile. It took a long time to get the other person out, there was a lot of back and forth. It's a fun game and I'd still probably play it now as a 28 year old.
Cats 'n Mice
We would wake my aunt up crazy early on a couch bed mattress when she' d come to visit, and we'd hide under the mattress, and she'd swat at us and grab us and give us a hug if she got us.
Cosibo
Like bloody knuckles, mixed with dice. Class trip, we were visiting Costa Rica which has some large bronze coins and we thought they were gold (these are like quarters) so we made up a game where one spins and the other tries to either keep it spinning by swiping it with one finger, or tries to pick it up with their thumbs. I forget the exacts but you'd lose coins or get your knuckles blasted by a gold dubloon. Making our own gambling game and having big gold coins was very appealing as a kid, and we treasured those hard-won quaters. I highly reccomend encouraging your children to play for money, and play gambling games early.
Deathbroom - stand like 30 feet from each other and take turns throwing a broom, handle first, at each other. You could cover your balls and move your head if it was going directly at your face.
Hose ball. One of my close friends has a older brother with developmental disabilities and like to yell the word hose and call people hoses. One day, we took a foam/nerf ball and used some wrapping paper cardboard centers as “hose” sticks and set up doors at the end of the hallway as goals. It was like hockey, except you played on your knees with the hose ball and the hose sticks. It was grand. Hose!
As a high schooler my buddy and I would play the “IMDB” game. You start with a movie and name a random 2nd movie. You have to use actors, directors, writers etc in the least amount of moves to get from movie 1 to movie 2. We later added alcohol into the mix. Fun times.
Harry Potter obsessed, my sisters and I invented this “quidditch” game which incorporated three players, a ball, and a trampoline. Person on the trampoline would have to dodge the ball. Was pretty fun actually! Would do again.
Simply put. It was infection Tag (with one person turning more and more other players also it), but the first it person had the special ability to evolve based off of RE3s (just released) Nemesis and other monsters
The goal of the It person was to make everyone it.
The goal of the other players was to rip flags off of the it person enough times to 'kill' them.
5 tags for level 1-2.
10 more Tags for level 2-3.
15 for 3-4.
It only takes 1 tag to turn another person it.
Every level the it person would grow an extra set of skills (level 1 you can only walk, level 2 flashlight tag etc).
The players tagged would become zombies. Who could only walk, but could also make people it. Only taking 10 tags to be out permanently.
It was weirdly complex. But we played it every summer. Basically just a reason to smack each other.
I don't remember the exact first time I played, but I was definitely young.
The game would have to be played in a close to dark as possible. Usually at night with all the lights in the house or room turned off. One person was to be "blind", either by trusting they would not peak or by blind folding them.
Whoever else was playing had less than 20 seconds to hide or get somewhere away from them. Then.. The "blind man" would have to hunt down someone and grab them. The other people could simply hide or run. Whoever was grabbed first lost and then they became the "blind man".
Played quite a bit of "Man Hunt" as well since we lived by woods.
Locked my sister in our room by just shutting the door. She was too little to reach/open the door, so she would stay there. I don’t remember the context of the game, but it was a game alright—I remember getting really angry when she started to be able to open doors and would come out (I think the game entailed me putting her in the room then walking away or something) and follow me. I would be all like, “[Sister]! Get back in the room, you’re not supposed to be out!” all self-righteously like I wasn’t trying to trap her in a room. I don’t think it was super malicious—although I remember a hint of it.
The other ‘game’ I remember was one we would play with all our MLP figures—we had this dollhouse, and all these ponies and brushes and whatever, and would play with them in the dollhouse. Now, there were rooms that we liked more than others, and so there was always a fight for who got what room. We’d both say things like ‘if my pony doesn’t get this [insert room, brush, bow, you name it], I’m going to ignore you for the rest of my life!’
Which ended up being like ten minutes, tops. We didn’t hit each other or anything, maybe wrestled and took stuff away, but most of our threats entailed ignoring the other for some set amount of time or having the ponies fight each other or something. We’re both iffy on the details. Some incident would happen at least once a week. I’m pretty bossy, so I was usually the instigator. Tbh I’m surprised my mother didn’t break it up, but we pretty much always made up and, again, it wasn’t like we were hitting each other.
I will say that our relationship is perfectly fine, lol. I don’t think I traumatized her too much except when I accidentally hurt her (I’ve always been the sibling that’s like ‘don’t tell Mom’ when the other starts crying lmao) or forced her to go out on the roof with me or else she wouldn’t be able to watch Air Bud with me on our 3DS when family was over. We’ve always gotten along well so long as we’re not in each other’s hair all the time. She’s great.
Urquix · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I sort of just went into our basement, set up a big ol mattress, grabbed some pillows to use as "horses" and "rode" around on them and jumped on each other like Mario does to Goombas. It was good fun until my sister dislocated her elbow and ended up going to the hospital. We never played it much after that.
Being homeschooled me and my siblings had a lot of time at home to come up with dangerous ways to have fun, and we had a lot, but two stand out in particular.
Basketball on wheels (quidditch-ish?)
Me and my brothers were big into Harry Potter, and so naturally we invented our own form of quidditch. except we played on ripsticks instead of brooms, because obviously. It was essentially just basketball on wheels, and we most certainly should have worn helmets, but of course we didn’t.
what can only be described as mixed martial arts on swings/roller skates
before it got renovated, we had a rickety old deck that had a long straight part (think like a bowling lane kinda) and then at the end it opened up to an area with a roof thag it had 2 of those big hanging hammock/chairs with smaller bits for your feet. Two of us would put on roller skates, and two of us would tie up the main part of the chairs and just swing around on the foot stool bit, which was about the size of a standard playground swing, but with only one connection point. Then the roller skaters would get up some speed on the “runway” and hurtle into the zone where the swingers could reach us, and the goal was to get to the back of the big area and back (past the swings) without the swingers being able to knock us down. The real fun part of this was that our deck was about 12-16 feet off the ground (steep back yard) and was not in good shape, so when we streaked past the swings and slammed into the railing to stop ourselves, the railing would lean out, and sometimes pieces of wood would just fall off. It’s a miracle we didn’t die.
Sock ball. Like baseball or kickball but you hit or "sock" the ball with the top of your fist. Never met anyone who played it in elementary school like we did.
Late to the party, but I’ve got a few of these from my teenage years that were stupid/fun:
“Activity Hour” (aka Murder Ball) - dodge ball but with soccer balls, frisbees, tennis balls, etc (nothing that could do serious damage, though, like baseballs or lacrosse balls).
How to play:
Divide the crew into two teams, one on each side of the yard. Following the rules of Dodge Ball, proceed to throw every ball or frisbee or whatever at your opponents until one side wins. Bonus: “the double” - if you could hit a person twice, (ie: by throwing a soccer ball high in the air for them to try and catch and then a second person wings a frisbee at them and hits them causing them to lose focus on the soccer ball and they get hit by the soccer ball as well) they lose an additional player on their team.
“Driveway Bowling”
(Ok, so we only played this one once or twice, as it requires using a bowling ball you no longer have use for/stealing a bowling ball or two from the bowling alley).
How to play:
Procure bowling ball(s). Find a driveway that is flat or has a slight decline going to the street. Quiet, suburban neighborhoods work best. Set up make shift pins (2 liter soda bottles filled with water work) across from the driveway entrance on opposite side of street - a street with a curb is recommended to stop the ball from rolling too far. Make sure there are no houses across from the driveway/alley you’ve designated. Make a chalk line in the driveway from which to bowl. Try and bowl 10 frames without the bowling ball shattering.
fufooo · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Referee". Used to play this when I was a young kid (7-9ish) with 3 others.
One would be a referee and hide in an elevated wardrobe, and after some time (up to the referee, it ranges between 5 seconds up to a minute or whatever) the referee would burst out screaming 'Stop! What's your excuse?' and the others would freeze in motion.
During those few seconds of the referee hiding, we'd have to grab any random props/toys from around the room and create the most random stories as our 'excuse'.
The referee determines the winner from the funniest story.
And example of an excuse; if I grabbed a doll or figurine I'd say something like "I was farming in my fields when suddenly this doll grew out of my plant."
Till this day I'm still good friends with them, but we have no idea how we created this game...
As an excuse to punch each other my sister and I made a game called “Chicken Noodle Soup” where we would hit each other as hard as possible and sing “Chicken noodle soup soup chicken noodle soup soup”. First person to make a sound out of pain lost.
Valkyrie Profile 1 and 2. To this day the only games to even get a semblance of similarity to it are MOBILE games like Brave Frontier or the collaboration those guys did with Final Fantasy to do FF Brave Exvius. VP 1 to this day remains one of the best JRPG I have played. The only other game that comes in close competition is Chrono Trigger. VP 1 has a lot of bad voice acting but a lot of the voice actors are also reminiscent because they were the voice actors to the old school Pokemon anime. You will hear Brock, Misty, Ash/Ash's mom's voice actor frequently voicing a lot of the characters.
This game came out for the Playstation.
80sTan · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
American Ball. A game that consisted of maniacally throwing, punting, kicking, tossing, and flinging every ball in existence. This includes whiffle balls, tennis balls, baseballs, footballs, frisbees, soccer (eurobroball- as we called it), basketballs, foam screaming nerf lawn dart (the american choice), and I believe a dog toy actually. We were 14. We were young, dumb and American.
Kick the can - concept is pretty simple. Can only be played at night. Take any old aluminum can and stick it outside in a central location. One person counts to 50 while everyone goes and hides. Once the person is done counting, everyone that is hiding can then try to kick the can. If the “searcher” spots you and jumps over the can before you kick it, you are out. Once you are out you become a “searcher”. Sounds kind of lame, but we played this all the time as kids.
Context: my older brother and I are 3 years apart, my younger brother is 6 years younger than me/9 years younger than my older brother. We used to love playing hide and go seek. Except we didn’t hide ourselves.. we took turns hiding our younger brother (who was barely older than an infant). One time my older brother hid him in a dresser drawer. Ahhh good times..
We called it “din-jee”
Set up was a soccer goal at the top of hill in my friends back yard. we would then use hockey sticks to try and slap /pass/ shoot a basket ball up to the goal, where there would be a defender with a lacrosse stick and unnesesary safety gear lol
"Bag Ball". It has all the same rules as dodgeball (ball handling-wise) except it's 2-player.
Standing on your knees at either end of a 20' long "court"(ideally, shag-carpeted), each player in turn attempts to 'bag' the other without the target player catching, prior to it reaching the ground. Any miss is a simple no-score.
The court itself features two barriers spaced ~4' apart, behind and between which each player kneels.
The one oddity is that if -when thrown- the ball should (for whatever reason, other than hitting the target-player and landing uncaught) bounce into the neutral zone; then, whomever should sprint-crawl and grab it first has the next turn.
The ball? Tightly crumpled newsprint ~ the size of a lacrosse ball- held together with -HUH!- white lacrosse tape. Games are to 21. You must merely win by 1. BTW; no body part is off-target, the bag ball itself is canvas-textured and it can effin hurt.
No special equipment except jeans and tees, I suppose. You really don't want to be scurrying hyper-fast on hands and bare knees for very long.
Kids of lesser means in wealthy towns come up with some stupid shit. But I would SO play right now, if I could reserve my parent's old living room, circa 1979. And challenge my brother to a rematch. I think that last throw was bullshit.
dls14a · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would rip the heads off of barbies and throw them on the ceiling fan and wait until our mother turned on the fan on a hot day
“Poor girls” my family was already kinda poor but my friends and I used to play out in a shed in our backyard. We would basically sweep the shed and play house. But playing house like we lived in a shed outside lol.
Ditch ‘em. Basically a massive hide and seek game all the kids in the neighborhood played at dusk, until after dark. Everyone hid and as a seeker found you, you joined the team of seekers. Long summer evenings kids from about 8 to 14 would play, until you had to go in. It spanned blocks and blocks of neighborhood.
We also played ghost in the graveyard when we were in 3rd-6th grade. It involved counting and running around outside a house.
Long summer evenings outside we’re the best! Thanks for reminding me of fun times, when we would roam all day and night without supervision.
jmun9 · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bratz Dress Up, Get Down, and Be a Bratz Superstar! Randomly chose this game at my local swap meet, and it was the best $5 spent. This is like a ‘dance dance revolution’ type of game except with bratz. There were 5 different girls to choose from Jade, Meygan, Sasha, Yasmin, and Cloe. My personal favorites were Sasha and Jade, anyone else play this game? Also who was your favorite girl? The music was the best part though!
Mighty Midgets. It was a game an old friend of mine made up. We both had younger brothers the same age, so at their soccer games we would play. We would usually make the goal half the distance in between the posts of a chain link fence. Basically it's just penalty kicks but you have to play from your knees and you could score off rebounds. It was an excuse to dive around, make crazy saves, and not have to watch our little brothers.
On road trips I used to imagine a Tarzan like character who would run along side the road and swing and keep up, the catch was he wasn't allowed to touch the ground or go out of frame in the window. Kept me entertained for hours
Pretty sure this is how I discovered I had ADHD
ZyeCS · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Road Rage" in 1st grade. About 10 of us would ride our bikes around the neighborhood, and each have a bunch of sticks.
We would try to get the sticks in the front tire of each other's bikes, last man standing wins.
Lasted about a month until Anthony broke his arm and we all got told off.
My brother and I would play a "game" every time we were at a pool where you could jump in. It was more of a silly vaudville act than a game, but basically we would pretend to be walking into a room and "Charlie" was supposed to have fixed a water leak, or turned off the water, and we would step in and "splash". No idea why it so amused us but I very vivid remember doing this a LOT.
When I was a kid I played a frisbe game with my brother. The frisbe was made out of soft fabric with a sand fill around it. The point of the game was to hit the frisbe with a wooden stick for 1 point and if you could hit it back to the other player mid air still spinning that was worth 2 points. Good times.
We had a tube slide at my elementary school and we played this game where we would try to get as many people in the tube at once. We would cram like 12 kids in that slide
My younger sister and I played this game called "Puppy" for 4 or 5 years when we were little. My sister would act like the name suggests, a puppy. I remember building forts/kennels and telling her to do tricks. It was a fun game, although it sounds a bit weird.
“Yellow car” every time we saw a yellow vehicle and said “yellow car (or if it were a truck you would say truck) I win” we would get one point and whoever had the most points in the day won.
Mission to the Moon was a game where you would take maybe five random objects, such as a yardstick or a traffic cone, and get from point A to point B by making a path where you would take the back object and move it to the front. You would play this with a team of 4 or 5 kids and race to the end
Shaboodal
My sister and I played a game I made up called Shaboodal. It was basically Simon says but instead of Simon it was shaboodal and at random intervals we would yell wiggle like a noodle when you’re doing the Shaboodal. Think squidwards dancing scenes and imagine 2 8 year olds try to replicate it.
We thought it was so fun and played it all the time during our vacations
Cychet · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Roll off the bed". Literally me and my siblings would cover ourselves in blankets and pillows and just roll off the bed simultaneously.
We also had another one we called "ball time" where we'd just stand in a hallway and bounce a rubber ball to each other.
We were bored as shit growing up.
Animal wrestling. My big brother and I would select an animal and a power. For example, if I said I was a cheetah he would have to let me have a three step head start or if I said I was a spider I could shoot a web to restrain him for three seconds. We would then proceed to beat the shit out of each other. Good times.
Me and my friends played “four corners” it’s a game where you are on a tennis court and you have a person in each of the 4 corners. The goal of the game is to keep the tennis ball in motion and for it to not stop. (It can bounce as many times as you want it just can not stop moving) once it stops moving in your corner you are out and then the remaining players keep playing till there is one winner
My cousin was the king of games when he babysat me and my siblings as a kid, but our favorite was a game called Alien. He would just walk us around the house, point at random things, scream “LOOK IT’S AN ALIEN” and we’d have to shoot it with nerf guns. I don’t know why it was so fun, but I have amazing memories associated with that game. I’ve actually tried playing it with kids I babysit now, and it’s always a big hit.
Garbage Chute. Everyone went down the playground slide at the exact same time, causing a huge buildup of people getting stuck! When you finally got to the bottom, you had to climb your way back to the top with everyone still slowly trying to reach the bottom.
My school shut that down real fast, but I'd totally play that again in a heartbeat.
“Yo Homies” or “Border Patrol” as we called it. Basically in middleschool my friends and I used to play airsoft with really high end, powerful, fully automatic replica airsoft guns and one of us lived on a plantation with a SHITLOAD of land so we’d always play at his place. Anyway, when the sun would go down, we’d establish a “border” which was a line cutting through his land and we’d divide into 2 teams; 4 of us were border patrol (and rode around on a gator) and the rest were the ‘mexicans’ who were only allowed to wear underwear. The goal pf course was to get from one side of the plantation to the other without being riddled witj bb’s going 400+ fps by the border patrol. Super politically incorrect but SOOO much fun
Had a game called 'tiger' that was played on a trampoline for boundaries. Basically, one person would lay in the center and one person would jump near them to "aggravate" the tiger. The tiger would start chasing after each person until he caught someone. We had 3 'play deads' which we would flop on the floor and stick our tongue out where they would come by acknowledge the use of that and run after another individual... Was a bit of fun with a small group for me growing up
Harley or not.
I’ve had many motorcycles and hence many close calls on motorcycles. So we created the game Harley or not. The kids call out motorcycles when we see one, this equals 1 point. If it’s a Harley they get an extra point. There’s really no end to the game and score keeping is almost irrelevant but my hope is that my kids learn to look for motorcycles on the road when they are old enough to drive, plus I was really tired of the fighting with each other when they saw slug bugs.
I used to always hide the remote. I'd swap in dead batteries. Turn the volume up all before turning the TV off. Delete all of their TiVoed programs and fill the TiVoe up with infomercials. Spit on the TV. That kind of thing.
One kid would have to climb into this giant yard waste rolly bin with a locking lid. Our group would lock him or her in there, roll them to a mystery spot and make them guess where they were. Then we would unlock it and run away - they had to count to 100 before getting out and then drag the bin all the way back to home base. If they guessed wrong they had to go back in the bin again.
Occasionally, we’d forego the mystery journey and just push the bin down a big hill for a crash landing (lid locked for this).
I would describe these ‘games’ as pointless, dumb and dangerous - so, basically, perfect kid activities
Godzilla - stepbrother came up with it and my little sister and I would play it (little sister and I were about 9 and 7, stepbro was about 15). One person would be at the top with sleeping bags, pillows, anything soft but heavy works. "Godzilla" would throw the pillows and stuff at the other two who were trying to pull them down to the bottom of the stairs.
I just want to say that I learned I wasn't crazy or as unique as thought after browsing the r/threekings subreddit.
We started playing the game back in the 90s. Doors to the Mind. That's exactly what it was called back then too. Dark room, friend to guide you, have to say a stupid little prayer thing, they guide you through the doors of your mind and hopefully you don't die.
This was back before I was allowed to browse the internet and we were only 9/10 years old, so we had heard about it from a friend, who learned it from another friend, whose brother played it and learned it from some other boy at school, etc. It was even being played when I moved an hour away from that town a couple years later in 2002/2003. We played it at recess. We would get inside a huge tire (the ones they put on the playgrounds to climb on) and cover ourselves with jackets. One person would guide us, we would be too creeped out to continue or the teacher would yell at us.
I did research it when I was a few years older and the only thing I ever found on it was that it was a game witches played (couldn't find the link ever again if I tried). So until I found that subreddit a few years ago I thought it was just some dumb game the kids in town made up.
The name of the game was sock. I have two brothers and two of us would gang up on the other and plug his nose so he had to breath out of his mouth. One of us would take off our dirty sock and shove it in their mouth. There was no way to win, we would just shove dirty socks in each other’s mouths
“Whomp” or “Whompy Cushion”. My older brothers had my younger brother and I wear pillowcases over or torsos and heads with the pillow still in it, face first. We would run blindly into each other at full speed. Whoever falls down first loses.
Stop and party!
The person who was "it " would close their eyes, while everyone else hid.
After counting, the person was it, would search for the rest, if they saw them, they would point at them with finger guns and say "Stop". The people who were hiding are supposed to get behind the person who was it and tap their back. If they did, they have to yell party and dance.
Tilez1 · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game created by fellow elementary schoolers called “Krocker”. It’s a combination of Karate and Soccer (Or football). There is nothing more to the story than lots of people were injured.
Whenever you are in the car you stare out the side windows and control an avatar doing tricks on what you see outside the window. I would mess up whenever I would see a fire hydrant.
Tree hung over the trampoline. We'd throw a sock up on a high branch and see who could grab the sock first. Mid-air tackling was allowed so that got a bit dangerous. We called it "Capture the Sock".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a game called whose bike keeps going the longest once you hop off (imaginative, I know). It basically involved building up speed and then hopping off our bikes at a point, and then watching as our bikes kept going till they dropped, last one standing won.
10_02 · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cops and robbers”, but no rules and the robber was sprayed with nasal spray.
Not mine, but my wife told me about her’s, called “hey cow”. When you drive by cows on the road, you roll down your window and scream “hey cow” at the cows. Whatever number of cows look up at you is how many points you get. I don’t know if it’s fun for children, but I’ll confirm that it’s fun as an adult.
GageCo · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother had a game he would play where he would pee in the trash can.
Before we knew about this though, my mom could not figure out who was doing it we would sit at the dinner table and she would ask him "Do you pee in the toilet?" and he would always so no. One day though we are having dinner and he starts telling us about this game he plays where he tries to pee in the trash can. Turns out to him having a game where you pee in the trash can and peeing in the trash can are different things
I forgot what it was called, but a group of five of us who all grew up on the same street would play a game of essentially tag. One of our friends was always “it” and he’d flip his eyelids inside out at the beginning of the game, and then act like a creepy monster. We’d have to hide from him. Nothing really happened when you got caught, no one else was ever “it”. But it was always fun and a lil creepy. He did a great job playing a zombie like monster.
Everyone gets in a circle, puts their palms together and says “1..2..3..ninja!” Which is when everyone strikes a fight pose. The object is to slap the other players hand to get it out. If attacking, you can only make one swift motion. If dodging you can only make one Swift motion. The turn order goes whichever way you decide, and you can attack whoever. You’re out when both of your hands have been slapped, wrists don’t count
We would get on each other’s back like a piggy back ride and then hit the other person with similar setup with fists or legs. The last person standing was the winner.
We had this little toy monkey named 'Caesar' one person would hide him and whoever found him took his picture on a Polaroid and post it on a little bulletin board and a mark on a whiteboard, whoever found him hid him again, whoever hid Caesar the best i.e. if no one found him within the week won. we still play to this day.
Oh man, me and my childhood friend used to play a game called "Combination" where we would make up a crossover storyline between two fictional characters we liked, where he would be Sora from Kingdom Hearts and I would be Link or something and we'd pretend to be those characters and "battle" each other. Those were good times. :')
Making as many triangles as possibility between points on objects outside the car window as I rode. Triangles always had to use a side of the previous triangles, so the end grouped area shape was continuous. I was a weird kid.
alk47 · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dizzy boxing: each competitor sits on an office chair or is taped to a rotating clothes line and is spun for 30 seconds or so. Then they beat the shit out of each other until they regain their balance.
We played a varianton hide and seek at night called SCARE. Played indoors, turning off all the lights, player who did not scream wins. The trick was to hide well enough that no one could sneak up on you. Rounds never lasted long as no one could handle the anticipation while in complete darkness.
My neighbors and I used to play "Bug City". We used to gather up old aluminum cans and old sour cream containers to make them "skyscrapers" for the aforementioned bugs. We'd make little signs for the bugs and tape them to the containers, like Potato Peter's Pizza and Mosquito Mike's (there were no mosquitos).
The populus was primarily potato bugs that we'd roll up into balls and act out various bank robbery scenarios (the robbers were usually worms and slugs would be salted on sight).
Another one we'd play was "Rat King" where we'd run around the woods riding brooms pretending to be shapeshifting warriors. My best friend's little brother was the evil Rat King that wanted to turn the world into his rat subjects. He rode a giant, you guessed it- rat and we'd have imaginary Narnia-mosque battle scenes in a clearing.
"Goblin" a form of tag. The person who is it is The Goblin. The Goblin can only tag another player by throwing a soccer cone (light and with holes so even if you throw it hard it won't go very far or hurt you.)
Now here's the extra fun part- because the goblin can only tag you with a thrown cone. So if they have thrown all their cones, you are immune to getting tagged, so you can kick the cones, throw them at the Goblin, taunt the goblin etc.
We had a neighborhood nighttime game we called "Prison". A boundary was set about 6 houses x 2 houses. A specific driveway tile of concrete was designated the prison. There were 2 teams. 1 team would lay face-down on the prison tile and count to 100 or so while the other team went and hid. It was basically hide and seek. But when you found someone you took them to prison. Remaining hidden people could run out of hiding and tag a person in prison to free them and the could hide again. This meant a prison guard was preferred but you could still free people if you were fast. Fun game.
My cousin and I would play “Florida” when we were maybe 3-7 years old. We would dress our dolls and then spend a good hour packing their bags for Florida. We would haggle and argue over who got the best items of clothing. This was usually the entire game, although occasionally we would arrange the kitchen chairs in two rows and pretend it was an airplane. We never actually arrived in “Florida” or anything. And yes, we were little Jews in NYC.
My sisters and I used to play this game we called mermaid Soccer where it was exactly like normal Soccer but we would have to kick with both feet. We fell over a lot but it was still really fun!!!
Then at one point we got a trampoline which made mermaid Soccer so much easier and a lot more fun!
As kids we used to play a game whose name I don't remember but in that there would be 2 teams with 5 minimum 5 players on each team. A circle would be made and a handkerchief would be kept within the circle and taking the circle as a centre point both the teams would stand 10 metres apart ( the teams would stand behind a line drawn in front of them ). Each player would be given a random number ( 1-5 if there are 5 players on each side ). A referee will be standing at the centre point and name a random number (1-5 depending the number of players in each team )
The person from both the team having that number would run to the centre point and try to pick up the handkerchief without the opponent touching them anywhere on the body ( mainly head,back or hands ) which is counted as out and a point for the opponent.
So it would be depended on two things either you are very quick that as soon as your number is called you pick up the handkerchief and run towards your own team or you don't go for the handkerchief and let your opponent pick it up and touch them on the body before they go back to their own team and cross the line and get a point.
Extremely fun game to play as a kid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Essentially, it was box car racing. Except that it was makeshift rafts with wheels, wagons, and when we got a bit older, using bikes but no braking allowed and you pedalled until anything was ineffective. The one to not crash into anything (almost always me except the one incident) won. I think the worst thing to happen was a kid crashing on a utility post and skidding into a person's cactus plant. Usually the person that crashed just got a few scrapes and bruises. But on that particular day, we decided to go to a different street to avoid risking another leg full of spikes.
"Barbie 90210"
I lived across the hall from my best friend "Amy" when I was in 4th grade and she was in fifth. We had about 25 Barbies between us, which we played with every day. In addition to that, Amy and I (to be honest; it was 90% Amy and 10% me) would publish a gossip magazine about this Barbie world. There was an advice section, "they're just like us" photos, gossip about the hottest new couple, advertising for the local mall. It was legit. Amy watched a lot of 90210 with her older sister, which is likely where she got the ideas from.
I know I this is really late but...
There was a game we played called "big or small" where someone would draw the other person but over exaggerating the features. The person drawing would ask a question like "big or small?" Or "long or short?" And if you wanted to spice it up ask "yes or no?", and draw a part of the body really big or small, etc. The person answering would never get to see the drawing until it was finished. They always ended up looking really funny. Recommend for when you are bored.
Amazon which was advanced tag for a playground where there were 3 people who were "it" 2 were the alligators and couldn't leave the wood chips and one was the lion and couldn't leave the jungle gym. 10/10 would recommend!
We use to play a game called “Statue”. You would have the kids that played the statues and then there was a seller and a buyer. The buyer would come up to each statue and the buyer would give a brief description. Then the seller would push the statue’s belly button, which would turn the statue “on”. The statue would try to be as wild and crazy as possible to entice the seller. To turn the statue off, you would have to press the statue’a belly button again. At the very end, it was up to the buyer to decide which statue he or she liked the best. Whichever one was picked won!
Okay. You and your friends sit on a porch. The game master gives everyone a color.
When they call out two colors, players have to race immediately to a preappointed location. The loser has to become the new game master, and the previous master adopts the previous color.
You keep going until you get confused or tired and decided to play freeze tag or some form of house.
2-6 people swing on a swing set. 1 person kicks a ball at them and has to hit their body. Swingers can defend themselves by kicking the ball. If you get hit, you and the kicker trade places. There were other variations and rule changes involved.
You bounced the ball and couldn't travel like basketball. Got tackled like rugby and football. Played it with a soccer ball. And scored by throwing the ball in a hockey net.
When in the car looking out the window, I would use specs of dirt, bug guts or bird crap as a little platformer/Mario. I would bob my head up and down to make it "jump" or collect points by going over street lights, letter boxes or cars.
My sister and I had a couple of these, one was a weird tag variation, another was basically the bird box challenge, and the last was some weird camping thing?
The tag variation was made up buy sister after we watched a Lego Harry Potter video. It was tag except you had to shout "Bother!" when you tagged somebody and if they were touching a wall they were safe.
We called the bird box thing "Sorry" (y'know, like the board game because we were such original children). Rules were that you had to walk around with your eyes closed and when you ran into something or somebody you had to apologize and head in the opposite direction.
I'm not sure how unique this last one is, but my sister and I would pretend we were hikers going camping and some signs were mixed up which caused us to become lost. One sign (pointing out the front door) said "Monster Forest" and was supposed to be full of monsters, the other sign (pointing out back) said "Camp Ground" and was where we wanted to go. Well, apparently, somebody switched the signs and the front yard was the actual camp ground and the backyard was the Monster Forest™. Once outside, we would pretend we'd been camping for a couple of days before noticing that we were in the wrong place. The king of monsters (a tree root that was shaped kind of like a hand) was called "Skeleton Hand" and he protected us from the other monsters (just imaginary things we'd run away from) while trying to get us out to the actual camp ground.
These games took up 99% of our free time
Cleeth · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sad that I'm late to the party here.
My friends and I held onto every bicycle tire tube that ever got a puncture. Eventually we had an abundance and we would stand at either side of our court (arena) with a number of tire tubes slung over our shoulders like fucking belt ammo.
We'd proceed to throw them at each other at full force, first to 3 wins. Or in the case of something beyond a 1v1, 3 hits and your out.
Two people would hide in the basement and then the seeker would turn the lights off and go downstairs and try to find the other two. I remember just trying not to laugh when someone was right next to you tripping and banging into everything but they didn't know it.
"The Pantry Game" -- my brothers and I would cram ourselves into the (quite small) pantry and dare/force each other to consume either nasty concoctions or shots of pure ingredients (salt, vanilla, "butter seasoning", etc,).
We played this game called hunter where we would assign each other animals with different abilities that would affect how fast we could run or if we could jump and climb. It was basically just over glorified tag.
Dixie’s Diner. I was a waitress for my baby sisters. I used bark as plates and made salads out of wildflowers and weeds. My husband loves to poke fun when my sisters come over now.
Sisters: Hey, we’re coming over.
Husband: Dixie’s diner, open for business!
We used to play shark, we’d throw all of our shoes on the floor, run to the couch with one person being the shark (they stay on the floor) the object was to get all the shoes without the shark getting you. The only way the shark could get you was if you were on the floor. So naturally you used the furniture to get around. The hard part was getting the shoes that were far away from furniture.
My five cousins and I all grew up together. We'd all sit next to each other on chairs outside. One person would go into a room and decide how they would make us laugh. When they were ready they'd sing out and everyone outside would take a sip of water and hold it in their mouth. First person to laugh and spit out all the water was the loser and the next person to make everyone else laugh
"Same punch," kinda like "slug bug," or "sock-eye." Whenever your driving around or running errands, whenever you see a car that is the same model as yours, you punch the person next to you. Not unique, but different from the norm
Name five cereals. When I was in elementary school, whenever we were in an elevator with a group of kids, (I grew up in NYC, so this was basically every time we went to someone’s house) someone would shout “name five cereals” at which point everyone in the elevator would pick a target to give a purple nurple to, the stipulation being that you had to name five cereals before the winner of the nurple draw had to let go. It was a serious game of honor, obviously losing the nurple draw could easily be nullified by just pulling out of reach of the winner of the nurple draw, so we instituted a rule where you weren’t allowed to move and if you did you had to name ten cereals. It’s amazing the speed at which the contents of the cereal aisle flee your mind under duress.
I'm one of six kids so we had so many different games we would play!
We use to have this big trampoline in our backyard. One of us was the designated wolf who had to attack the village people. Another one of us would be designated 'the town' where everyone had to sleep at night (just be touching the town while the wolf slept.) Once daylight broke the towns people had to go out and collect water from the edges of the trampoline by touching the sides then running back and giving to the town. The wolfs job was to tackle and take the towns people to his/her cave.
My little sister was a very good wolf who scared the living daylights out of all of us. It was actually really fun.
We would line up at the diving board with two people in the pool, and we’d walk to the edge and they’d “shoot” us...then we would dramatically fall into the pool, dying spaghetti western style.
Whenever my parents were shampooing the carpet they would move everything from the living room into the dining room and when this happened I would pretend it was a jungle and try to come around/under/through everything
Dad would sit in the recliner and use a mini hockey stick to shoot a squishy ball at me. I was the goalie. The goal was the space between the wall unit and the wall. I eventually played goalie in a roller hockey league as a teenager.
Mr_B0X · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when I was in middle school, my best friends across the street from me would play "Rock Wars"... They had a huge back yard with a cattle pen. It was this big ol open area with a barn off to the side and with being in the hillcountry, it was surrounded by rocks. Well this incredibly stupid game involved each of us taking a corner and rocks. We had 3 rocks of whichever size we chose and we would lob them at each other like playing idiot battleship... It went on for like a week before it came to an abrupt stop when one of the youngest brothers got hit with a fist sized rock from about 30 yards away. Had to go to the hospital and grt stitches just above the eyebrow... It was nasty. We never played that game again. Now that I think about it, this is probably the dumbest game I've ever played in my life... After Anthem of course.
When I was about 8 or 10, my grandparents lived in this 3 story house, and my cousins and I would visit often, usually playing in my grandparents' bedroom upstairs since they kept the toys up there. One thing that they had up there was a massive plush dog (About 4-6 feet long) that was super light (Maybe weighed 2 pounds.) Anywho, my cousins and I got the idea that we could sit on the dog, grip the long floppy ears and ride it down the carpeted stairs to the landing. Good times. No one got hurt, fortunately.
One time I broke both my arms and played some games with my mom.
Ga_x · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The sausage game. Take a blanket and all the belts you can find. Roll your sibling in the blanket. Tie them up around the arms, legs, knees, shoulders with the belts. You’ve made a sausage. Sit the sausage on a desk chair ( one that turns) and turn them as much as you can. Their goal is to catch you.
The funniest is that our play room was on the top floor of the appartement and we had a spiral staircase. Good times.
We would get any available can, then group up. One guy is it, and those who aren't take turns hitting the can with flip-flops. When we miss, we are forced to stay with our flip-flops until the can gets hit, or we manage to sneak past the guy who is it. When we manage to hit the can, the it guy must go after the can and put it up first, then he can tag us. Whoever gets tagged becomes it for the next round.
My friend's family had a couple of really unique ones, bit the best was the Sleeping Bag game. On the night of a slumber party, one person would be "it" and leave the room while everyone else changed sleeping bags (or didn't) and would cover themselves completely. I think the rules were that you couldn't touch, but you could get real close and make noises, trying to make someone laugh and recognize them that way. Shit got real creative sometimes because, since one person was "it," there was always one empty sleeping bag. So sometimes, they would fill the empty sleeping bag with pillows and one person would slide their sleeping bag very close to the pillow filles empty one and stick their hand under it and mimic the motions of breathing. I won't lie, they got me with that move once, it was executed brilliantly.
Cpen · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would run from the shade. On overcast days, where it was constantly going from cloudy to sunny very quickly, we would all gather under the shade of a tree. Then when it went from sunny to cloudy, we would start to book it to the next tree because the clouds would cause shade to look like it was chasing us and consuming all the light. Whoever got caught died and would try to slow our path from getting to the next tree.
Cherry Bobs. Played it in grade school in Australia in the 1950's. There were several versions of the game, all played with cleaned and dried out cherry pits. The most popular game consisted of a player building a small pyramid of sand, maybe four inches high, then making a small indentation in the top. He would then stand with his heels against the pyramid and jump outwards as far as he could, and draw a line at that point. That was where another player could come along, stand at the line, and try to lob a cherry bob into the indentation at the top of the pyramid. The player with the pyramid would have placed 'odds' on the success of the player lobbing into the hole based on its size. If it was a small hole and the lobber got one in, he would maybe get six or seven cherry bobs in return. If he missed, you kept his cherry bob. There were many players with little pyramids (this was in the schoolyard at lunchtime) so you had to have a competitive offering to get someone to toss.
We called it ‘the pole game’. It was played on a trampoline, and was a mini-rugby/american football game. One guy was the tackler, two were the attackers. Aim of the game was to touch the rugby ball off the base of a chosen pole on the trampoline. 1 ‘play’ consisted of one person trucking the ball across the trampoline and trying to beat the tackler. The next play was the second attacker doing the same from wherever the first attacker made it to. You had 5 plays to make it to the pole!
We had a huge white grapefruit tree and also hated grapefruit. We would collect them and would play a back and fourth king of the hill with rotting grapefruit as missiles.
"Crusher" was a game me and my brothers used to play where one person laid down on a cushionless couch and we piled everything possible on them. Couch cushions, pillows, blankets, books, chairs, people, anything we could find. After we we done, the person had to try to get out. Honestly, sounds kinda terrifying now...
We also played "Tripper" in our basement which had three couches in each corner of the room. One person had to run from one couch to the other without getting tripped. One person was the tripper and had to crawl around on their hands and knees trying to trip people. If a person fell they became the new tripper.
In 5th or 6th grade, my friends and I would play a game called “Fidel” in my buddy’s pool. One person was Fidel Castro, the diving board was Cuba, and the opposite end of the pool was Florida. Everyone would start off on the diving board end with those floaty pool mats (“mattresses”), and the Fidel would start in the middle of the pool. Everyone would then try to swim across the pool on their mats to “Florida” without the Fidel pulling them off. If Fidel got you, you would become a Fidel as well. If you got to the other side safely, however, you won.
In retrospect, a somewhat questionable game for kids to play, but it certainly aligned with the times.
My sisters and I had a sophisticated system set up where we gambled with gold buttons over a Rummy tournament while we pretended to be Captain Hook's pirates and sipped water that we dubbed "rum".
We found some lawn darts from when one of our dads were young. Us neighborhood kids would stand in a circle, facing outward, with one person tossing it as high in the air as possible. If you were the first one to run you were a chickenshit, the worst possible title for a kid that age.
Ronnie was the first to run one day and he took it in the dome and he's talked slower (and a little funny) ever since.
Not sure if this counts but when I was 13-14 (a couple years before road saftey classes) my dad and I played the game 'mortercyle' where if you saw a mortercyle on the road you got 5 points. Now that I'm older and learning to drive Im greatful as hell that my dad taught me that game. I've never not seen a mortercyle on the road.
The Monster Game. We'd turn all the lights off in the house and my dad would hide somewhere with a nerf gun. My three older siblings and I would tip toe around the house looking for him, and when we did, he'd pop out and shoot us with the nerf gun and we'd all run away screaming. It was our favorite game.
Shark. You'd have one person under a trampoline with a hose and everyone else on top. The "shark" would try to spray people through the trampoline. Kinda like tag but much more fun.
My friends and I did a weird variant of charades. Except you didn't guess what they were doing. You had to try not to laugh while they did the silliest thing they can think of. Whoever laughed would have to take the persons place and try to get the rest of us to laugh.
"Jackie Chan Move" My best friend and I were big fans of Jackie Chan. His movies and especially the cartoon. The game mostly consisted of yelling "Jackie Chan move!" and then karate chopping his older brother.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game where whoever had the ball would be beaten by the other players. There was no good side to possessing the ball.
Ball and Wall.
My local REC grounds had a wall that separates it from the street that had lighting ,so in the nights you could sit with your back to the wall and be all but invisible to someone a few meters away. So everyone would pick a spot on this section of wall and then one person would boot a football or rugby ball (depending on what we had played earlier) as hard as they could to see if they could hit someone (we weren't very smart kids) if you were hit then you would come off the wall and join the kicker. Last man standing wins. and yes it did really hurt.
"Seat Belt Race!" It's exactly what it sounds like - a race to see who could get their seat belt on the fastest. It only lasted a few seconds, but 8 yr old FartBox lived for this game.
Touch-ass, basically tag but we had to touch the ass of the other kid and yell "touch ass". No other rule, literally that was the only rule. Girls played too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer...
Which by today's standards would be bigoted and prejudice...
Funny and best thing about it is...
None of us knew it even knew what a queer was..we just knew they had the ball and needed a good tackling.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a hallway in our house with two arches at the ends. I took a sock and I played this stupid game. Here are the rules if you’re curious. You’d start at one end of the hallway with the sock. You had multiple ways to score from their. You could throw the sock to the other end of the hallway and run down and tap it in with your hand, one point. You’re not allowed to throw it in. For two points, you throw the ball up and tap it hard into the end of the hallway.
My cousins and I would take our shoes off and put them on the trampoline, then we'd jump around trying not to let the shoes touch us as they bounced. If you got touched, you were out.
Two lines of people "red rover" style. 1 football. Each line lines up with their hands behind their backs. One person from one line hurls the ball towards the other line. If you stand your ground and get hit by the ball you stay in. If your hands block the ball, usually specifically protecting your nuts, you leave the line. Proof that r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Hot Buttered Blue Beans—- There was a home base and a hiding area. one individual would hide a belt while all others were at home base. The hider then would call the other players to the hiding area and all would search while the hider would guide by saying “warmer or colder” until someone found the belt. The finder would the yell “Hot buttered blue beans” and then chase the other players back to base while being able to hit them with the belt (below the waist). The finder would then get to hide the belt. It was great fun and no one got really hurt.
During the hockey games where the men played, the kids would play on the side of the bleachers, and we would use a crushed can and two garbage bins as a goal. You scored if you heard the cling.... good times
LucS2K · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pillow tower”
My sister and I would play this game where we take turns and would stack pillows on top of each other. The point was to stack the pillows and cover the person so much to where they couldn’t breath and were practically buried in pillows.
Two Base. It was like baseball, but with two teams of 2 and two home plates.. One team would bat and one team would pitch/back-catch. If you got a hit you just run back and forth to count runs. One out and you switch. We played with a tennis ball and you could get someone out by throwing the ball at them or catching it after one bounce on a hit or strike.
Burritos! My brothers and I would take turns tightly wrapping each other up in a few layers of blankets like a burrito to see who could out the quickest. It was awesome. I'm considering introducing it to my husband if he doesn't think it's crazy.
My friend and I had this game we liked to call “animal shoe catch”. Whenever he came over, we would grab my smallest stuffed animals and a shoe and would sit at the stairs. One of us was at the top, the other was downstairs. We would put a stuffed animal in the shoe and send it down the railing. The person at the bottom would catch the shoe and throw it back up, leaving the stuffed animal with them. When all the stuffed animals were downstairs, they would be thrown back and you had to try to grab them all.
The best part was when someone would get hit in the face because the other three the shoe too fast
Me and my group not friends would play this game (imagatively called "the game" by us) where is was just tag, on a playset/playground, however the seeker had to keep his eyes closed and the hiders couldn't touch the ground, touch the ground (and get caught) you're out, open your eyes, restart your count. Pretty fun, relatively dangerous yes... But who cares
First game was we would go into our bathroom put away any breakables and just throw bouncy balls into the tub and see how many things it would bounce off! We may have gotten hit a few times and I have no idea how we didn’t break anything. Lol
The other thing we used to do was booby trap a different spot of the house. ( our baby sitter used to let us do this, she rocked 😂) We’d put slippery stuff on the floor, put up Saran warp etc, then we had to walk through each other’s traps.
Not me, but according to my dad, when my aunt (his sister) was a kid she'd play the "tidying up game". This consisted of her running around the perimeter of a room singing "running round the room, running round the room, see a toy, pick it up and put it away!", at which point she'd do exactly that until the room was tidy. As far as I'm aware this wasn't something their parents made up to trick her into tidying. It's just a thing she did.
This really old nitendo game boy color game called Lucky Luke. It was about this cowboy going on these missions in the Wild West where he encounters various obstacles and enemies and even native Americans. It was a really fun game and gets very interesting as the game goes.
my brother and i would play hide and seek in the one room, and to be night time. Rules: one would have time to hide with light, the seeker would slighty open door and turn off light and try to find hider in the dark.
the room had a double bed a couple of wardrobes and tv cabinet, was pretty funny when we couldn't find one another when we hid under the pillows on the bed.
my brother was on top of a cabinet, he couldn't get down once. good times
My sister and I would play a game called
Assassinate the President.
Basically it consisted of one of us pretending to shoot the president (who no one played, we just pretended they waisted) and the other one would be the body guard who would get to jump in front and dive onto the couch. No idea where we got this idea, I guess we just wanted an excuse to jump onto the couch... we brought it up to our mom recently who didn’t remember it and all she said was “God you two are fucking weird.”
I remembered another — I invented a pool game called Poncha Ka Wancha when I was about 7 or 8 and all the kids at my pool club played it for the rest of the summer.
First off, the name was “Native American for ‘shark catches fish’” 🤦🏻♀️ — I pretended it was an ancient Native American game because kids are weird.
So, the rules.
We all started out on one side of the shallow end of the pool. One person was the shark and the rest were fish. The fish has to swim from one shallow end to the other shallow end to be “safe.” The shark had to try and tag them out.
The catch was that the shark had to stay above water and could only tag body parts that were out of the water. The fish would stay under for as long as possible and try to come up for air only when the shark wasn’t beside them. And the shark would stalk victims and wait for a stray arm or leg to come above the water, or for someone to come up for breath.
It was actually a really fun game! I should’ve claimed it as my invention instead of giving it the weird name. Cool thing was, someone told me they used to play it as a kid a couple of states over, so it traveled! They used the name and everything. Not sure if they believed that I invented it.
Gods & Titans. Me and my friends would split in half, half of us were the gods and the other half were the titans. We would come up with different powers and try to win the war against the opposite group. It was kind of an exotic game because we would also invent backup stories for each character; for example, one godess and a titan were secretly dating, so the titan tried to help the gods win the war.
"Alphabet". Whenever we would take long road trips as a family my brother and I would play this game called Aplhabet. Basically it was a race to see who could go through the alphabet the fastest by finding the letters on signs. Billboards, road signs, store signs, almost any kind of sign. So for example for the letter "A" you would have to find a sign with the letter "A" in the word (Ex: C"A"R PARTS HERE). It passed the time especially when we were on the interstate and their weren't a lot of signs.
I genuinely don't know if it's a common thing, but I've always played punchbuggy with my dad. If you see a Volkswagen Beetle, punch the other person. You see a Kombi, you punch them twice.
“Hurricane”. We’d gather supplies and make “food” out of dirt, pine needles, and whatever else. Stockpile everything in the outdoor playset my cousins had then hunker down while “riding out the storm”... Grew up in Florida if that wasn’t obvious.
One weird game I remember playing with my younger brother was simply called "Germball". We had one of those jelly toy balls with the little feelers all over it, and it was kinda like dodgeball. If it hit you, you caught germs and lost the round. Don't remember what the stopping point was but before we both had video games to play, it was a good time killer.
As a child playing football it was just me and my dad. So yiu make the goals and then one person crosses it in and the other has to score on the volley.
If it goes in you geg a point. If it's not on the volley or it's a miss the goal posts get a point.
I preferred it to football and spent lots of quality time with my dad
My friends house was on a pretty busy street (I'd say maybe averaging 5 cars / minute). She had a tree and a lamppost on her frontyard that were maybe 15 feet apart.
The rules were simple. If the passing car was red, you had to be touching the lamp post as the car passed or you lost one of your lives.
If the car was any other color, you had to touch the tree as the car was passing.
The game got more and more difficult as the night was setting in because you could only see the color for sure when the car was much closer.
We eventually added a new rule where if you wanted an extra life, you could sprint to the stop sign (which was about 150 feet away) and come back. If you made it back before any car passed the house, you got your life.
Looking back, that was a pretty fun game! Lots of exercice too!!
Edit: Now that I think about it, we called the game "Red danger". It sounds way more badass that way!
"BEAT!" One of my best buddies and I had a standing game called "BEAT!" - there were only two players - my buddy Andy and I. We would take turns being the aggressor and defender - though turns would sometimes be weeks apart, and when the game began was always a surprise. The person who was "it" could yell the word "beat" at any time/in any situation -- then they would count down from 5 to 1.
Meaning, you had 5 seconds to find something to defend yourself with before being attacked with God knows what.
Home Depot was always a particularly noisy place to play this game. Oddly, Toys R Us was the only place that kicked us out for playing it.
Lighting roman candles and having roman candle stick "fights". Never quite understood the point or rules to this game other than to try and hit the other person aka my two older bros and a sister.
Crab soccer
Walk like a crab only, throw or kick Dodgeball into street hockey net ( with a goalie, who can only sit)
A teacher started it in my grade school and it just blew up, to the point where we actually had yearly draft! The 8th graders were captains and were allowed to draft 1 eith grader, 2 seventh, 3 sixes ect...there was a legit League with playoffs ( winners got to play teachers team in from of the whole school) and even Someone who tracked goals! So there was a scoring race!
even to this day, when I run into someone that went to the school, we usually end up talking about it.
Bink. Your goal is to hit another person with a couch cushion. If you get hit, whichever limb they hit is binked and you can’t use it for 10 seconds. If you’re hit in the head you are dead for 10 seconds and everyone gets to whale on you.
Most of our games revolved around hitting each other with couch cushions,now that I think about it
Edit: you also shout “Bink!” every time you hit someone. I have no idea where my parents were when we were doing this, because my mom hated violent games and my dad hated noisy kids
We were really into baseball in my neighborhood. We played a game called “half yard game” which was basically like volleyball but with baseball gloves and a baseball.
We split the backyard into two sides and the “net” was an imaginary line about the height of the one story house which would mandate You’d throw the ball at ample height to make it possible for the other team to have a chance of catching it before it hit the ground.
Their objective was to catch the ball before it hit the ground. It usually produced a lot of sweet diving catches and some no look surprise throws.
Usually played 2 v 2 or 1 v 1. Though occasionally had larger games. We scaled the size of the court based on the amount of players. Had a decent sized back yard.
"Icy Hands". We had a skating rink close by, which had a hockey layout on the floor. We wanted to play, but nobody had hockey equipment, so we used a bottle crate from the nearby supermarket. We played with 4 people teams and the goal was to get the crate into the half circles at the ends of the field, ya'know, the ones who marked the goal area.
It was hella fun, and some random people joined us even.
Wish I wasn't so late to the party...
I am the oldest of 4 brothers. 2nd oldest and I used to play "escape" with younger two. We'd take various items, usually a sleeping bag over their head, my karate belts, and plastic toy handcuffs, and tie them up. They'd then be placed in the closet, or tied to a chair or bunk beds. It typically took them about 15 minutes to escape; we were good at our part of the game. If it took longer, we'd go in and get them before they started yelling so we wouldn't get in trouble. It was never mean spirited; they always agreed to play, and I guess it never occurred to them to have us older ones be the escapees. We thought it was a riot, but I'm sure they only enjoyed the initial phase of the tie up.
Not that weird I think but we played Celebrities. So I start with Heath Ledger which has the initials HL. So the next person would have to name a celebrity that starts with L. So like, Liv Tyler. Then the next person could say Tina Turner and the direction reverses and goes back to player 2.
Zulubo · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hup.
A surprisingly intricate game. One kid with a giant bamboo pole marches in circles around a house chanting “Hup. Hup. Hup huppity hup.” A flag sits in the backyard, and the goal for the rest of us is to get the flag around the house past the hupper to the front sidewalk. If the hupper sees you, he can chase you and hit you with his stick, and then you’re out. Otherwise, he has to keep circling the house in the same direction. You have to avoid the hupper by listening to his chanting and carefully staying around the corner from him at all times.
Many strategies emerged, such as sneaking in from the alley, hiding in the garage, etc.
Brother and I had sock wars. Ball up your socks, throw them at each other. Eventually we started using more strict rules, like how you have to throw it in a stylish way. He started putting pebbles in his socks, and Mom put her foot down then. I would guess that's mostly because she was tired of unballing our socks though.
We played "rag-out." The goal was to sit on a skate board and make it to the end of a sloping driveway. On either side of the driveway, the rest of the gang would be waiting with towels with a knot in the end. Their job was to swing the towels under the wheels of the skateboard. If you successfully snagged the skateboard, you would get to ride down the driveway. The goal was bragging rights to the number of times successfully completed, which was accomplished through a combination of swerving and speed.
Essentially, hide and seek in the dark. Two teams, one would wait at the top of the basement stairs. When the other team was hidden they screamed "MARCO". The team at the stairs turned the lights off and navigated a dark basement to try find the other people.
The more we played, the more creative we got. We would trash the basement by making "obstacles" for the team to stumble over, and in return they would exaggerate their tripping and try to get those hiding to laugh.
As a 12/13 year old, I always chose to be on the team with a Male family friend of the same age. We would both hide in the closet and taught each other how to make out.
Growing up my cousins and my siblings played “Code Lyoko” . Yes it’s referencing that French cartoon show on Cartoon Network . Anyways , it was pretty simple , everyone picked the character of their choice each round . We had a tree as a base and 2 electric boxes as the enemy territory . We would then chose the enemy amongst us and try to attack their Electric boxes . Yeah .... it wasn’t a good idea cuz those boxes zapped us . The more scars the better the odds that we were draining the enemy . It was greatly stupid . The only way to end it was if one of decided they got fried too much . Then we’d wrap it up with a love story by proclaiming our love to the tree 🌲, ( the base) .
My family played “Padiddle” (which I believe is a northern US thing) You yell “padiddle!” when you see a car with a headlight out. 2 points. -2 points for false calls (motorcycles). No one ever kept track so I don’t know why we had a point system.
We'd pick up a stick each - one of us two, me a broomstick, another a sword-length one - and just... Make up an epic, basically.
In the end, we'd all each basically become gods; one of creation, another of destruction and me basically a terminator-style cowboy version of Death, keeping the two in balance as they fought out their differences. While we'd had a lot of similar sorts of "games", this was the only one we ever ended up continuing and finishing. It took the span of months, starting from us just... Kinda being kids at a small town, and working up from there.
I still recall one detail I came up with that became a recurring thing too, a sort of "doom forest" wherein very few things lived - aside from these "birds", of sorts. They had metallic, drill-shaped beaks, no legs nor feathers, and just kind of a doughy vaguely bird-shaped body that mushed around the branches they perched at. If I recall, they were actually insects of some kind. Anyhow, there were also smaller, long-legged and pitch black birds in the forest that would instantly fly off if they spotted you - and their noise was comparable to that of a motorcycle revving up. This of course resulted in the birds rising into a massive swirling flock above the forest, first dark from them blocking out the sun and then suddenly turning silver as they just turned downwards and barreled into the woods, spinning at such high speeds they annihilated pretty much everything there and dying. "Suicide bird", I guess was their name, fittingly. For some reason they made a howl kind of like a falling plane when they dropped.
There were also big lumbering plant creatures that regrew the woods within a matter of days - kind of like goobbues from Final Fantasy, growing seedlings atop their back and replanting them all around. "Gardeners" of sorts.
There's much more to it, but sadly it's all lost to the ages and my poor memory.
We had a game called “Floods” that we used to play - the basic premise was that a group of people (this could be a family, a sports team, random groups like a royal family, criminals or people making a movie etc) would have a nap and when they woke up the whole world had flooded and only the bed they were on was floating. So then we all had to stay (four or 5 of is) crammed on a single bed while all kinds of drama, fighting, shark attacks took place. If you fell off you were out of the game (and I guess drowned).
Used to play “Aliens” as a way for my mom to keep us occupied in cold Canadian winters. She would take the cushions off our couch and block out all the light in our basement. In the pitch dark one of us would be the “alien” and have to hunt the others who wandered around the dark holding on to each other.
If the alien was good he would slowly pick off the kid at the back of the chain and cover the mouth so they couldn’t scream. Once he got you, you would join him in hunting the others.
Probably the scariest and funnest game to play, and we would be down there for hours. By the end of it, there would be bruises and broken stuff from smashing into things but mom preferred that to playing video games constantly.
deck65 · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Killball”
Remove the protective tarp from the giant trampoline. Then remove a spring from both sides directly across from the other. 2 vs 2. The object of the game was to dunk a football through the “goal”. No holds barred. Game was up to 21 or until someone got injured.
See how long I can rot away in my own insecurities and not bother anyone else with them.
Nah, but to answer your question: on the title screen of DVD's, you'd have an area that shows you where you're clicking (I.e. you'd have the Play button highlighted if you have it selected) be a certain color, then when you select it, it changes the color for a second before switching over to the designated screen. We (my family and I) would guess what color it would change before clicking it and we would see who's right. It's very competitive when you add money into it, especially during a Family Matters/Full House marathon.
We also like to look at different license plates and see where they're from. Mainly on long road trips.
We used rocks and a drain. The drain cover had little holes all over it and it was positioned for 360 degree access. There was one goalie who had to protect all sides. We would rally up as many rocks as possible and begin. Whoever was able to sink enough rocks through the drain wins. The kicker was that the goalie changed if they were able to trap the rock flat under their foot. So if your rock was trapped, you had to quickly switch and defend the goal until you caught someone else's. No name for it, just good memories.
Tankr · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Late to the party, but my brother and I had a game where the rectangular basement was split into two sides, the we would grab every pillow, cushion, and sleeping bag we could find and divide them between our sides. We would then proceed to pummel each other by whipping the objects across the room trying to knock the opponents projectiles out if the air or attempting to render the other unconscious. The victor was crowned when all of the objects were on the enemy's side.
Also trampoline foot-tag: tag your opponent's feet with your foot to not be 'it'
Alternatively, trampoline ball-tag: gather all the balls you can find and kick them around in the trampoline, whoever gets hit is 'it'.
Soda pop! (No idea where the name came from) take your socks off, stuff one inside the other and have basically a snowball fight with smelly socks.
One of our more dangerous ones was to crawl into sleeping bags and slide down the stairs basically blindfolded. That one stopped when my little brother caught a foot on a step and stopped sliding since he was more tumbling down the stairs at that point.
We had a 55 gallon drum in our backyard and we would have contests to see who could walk the farthest backwards on the drum which would then move forwards!
In elementary school we had the fifty states painted on our outdoor basketball court and we would play 'state tag'. One person would be 'it' , everyone else would stand on a single state and then the person who was 'it' would call out another state and everyone would have to run to that state and try not to get tagged. The problem became since we were only 7 or so at the time so we didn't know all the states in arguments would ensue about what state you were actually standing on.
We used to have soccer balls on strings that were meant for practicing kicking, however we used them to play "the Spider-Man game" where we would basically just lasso the other person by the legs as they tried running away.
Growing up in Michigan we had no shortage of snow, so we would pile up as much snow as we could into a mound and then hollow it out to make an igloo. We would then stay outside in blizzard conditions to simulate "surviving" in the frozen tundra.
JKibbs · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
High Point. You’d take a soda can and go around the circle karate chopping it with your hand at the “highest point” until the can broke in half. This would typically be played in the last seat of the bus and left us with bloodied up hands...
FROZEN SEAT! If you yell that while sitting on a chair, no one else can take your “spot”. I’m not sure what prevented some kid from just sitting there anyways. Everyone just respected the unspoken rules of frozen seat.
Me and my brother made up a game called scooter ball. It was kind of like a combination of soccer and hockey, but you’d be on razor scooters. The objective was to get a really small squishy stress ball into the goal (which was a wheelbarrow). the biggest catch of the game was that we played on our driveway which is at a slant and allowing the ball to go into the street meant you lost.
Running bases! It involves sidewalks leading from your house into a street sidewalk, a ball and 2 teams(4 people).
Essentially one teammate has a ball, and is on their sidewalk step and you throw it to the other team on theirs.
The goal of the game is for the "runners" to run to the other step before the ball gets to the other side and get tagged out. You had to be fast.
Just picture actual baseball and the runner trying not to get tagged out between bases. We would play till sundown. Lived in inner city and we somehow all knew how to play this
20 4th graders vs 1 4th grader who has the ball.
Tackle the person who has the ball.
First one who touches the ball after it’s dropped becomes the cow.
Full contact...
When my older brother and I were small (say he was 8 and I was 6), we created a game one summer, which, in hindsight, has to be the most ridiculous game for a road trip, but we loved it. Game titled Bunyip. Name of the game: watch for overpasses while driving down interstate, sit on edge of built-in bed in a big, black Ford van, and be flat on your back when going under overpass. As you became prone, you had to call out “bunyip”. Whoever stayed upright longest, but was still prone under the “bunyip”, won. We created this game driving across Nebraska—not a plethora of overpasses, as I recall. Who knows how or why we came up with this game....or named it Bunyip, as those surely aren’t found in Nebraska. My brother is 44 and I am 42 and we (and our parents) still reference bunyips, of the overpass variety.
“Car Tag.” We would run to a location in the yard and wait for a car to pass, where we would then run to touch the house before it reached us. If you were too slow, you were “kidnapped.”
Pakyul · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's probably way too late in this thread for this to gain traction, but I've got two.
The first was called "Choo-Choo Train". I'd sit on the window sill in the living room on the second floor and slide back and forth going "Choo-choo!!" One time, the windows were open with the screens in. I fell out and was dangling by my legs hanging upside down. My older brother ran over and held my legs while yelling for our mom and they got me back in.
The other game didn't have a name because we only played it once. I ran around shooting a pencil out of my mouth at my brother and he tried to deflect it and hit me in the face with a Mickey Mouse pillow. I know what you're thinking, but I'm not insane. I made sure to only put the eraser end in my mouth, because the tip was pointy. The eraser end wasn't pointy, but it was at some point erased flat so the metal edges of the ferrule were even with the rubber. It scraped my throat a bit when my brother inevitably got in a solid hit, but I turned out okay.
Two teams of two. It was like baseball but with a soccer ball. Basically we pitched a soccer ball as hard as we could at the batter who had a standard aluminum bat. We stopped after I check swung at a pitch and hit the ball causing the bat to fling right back into my face.
My best friend and I were in the car with my mom once when she commented on how yellow cars are so rare, but once you start counting there are much more than you realize. So we made a game of finding the suckers.
Works like this: Each person guesses how many yellow cars will be spotted by the end of the car trip. Upon seeing one, you have to be the first to shout "Yellow car!" and you get a point (Schoolbuses, cars that are multicolored, and any cars that are promoting a company or business logo on the side do not count). The winner is the person whose guess at the beginning was the closest to the total amount of yellow cars seen. If there is a tie, the person who spotted the most cars becomes the winner.
It's not the most exciting game on Earth, but it's intended as a game that can be put on the backburner while you chat about whatever. It does feel pretty cool being the first to see several yellow cars in a row, though. I usually end up winning.
Me and the neighborhood kids would usually play tag or ball tag. I know that is not unique, but it was the basis of a game we came up with.
We would also play manhunt... at night... in s very large graveyard... if you’re not familiar with manhunt, it’s basically reverse tag. Instead of one person trying to tag any of the other player’s, it was all other players trying to track down one person. If you caught them, you’re the next one to be hunted....
But that also was not our unique game...
My friends and I grew up in horror movies, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Prescott, Alien, etc...
So we came up with a game that incorporated tag/manhunt with “horror” characters.
All I remember was, there were two teams... the heroes and the villains (the “horror” characters).
The horror characters had unique abilities you could use to catch the heroes.
The Predator could turn invisible. The way we played that was, if Predator got within sight (you both saw each other) they would shout “You can’t see me” and you would have to act like they weren’t there... you couldn’t run from them, but you could walk quickly, but once you broke line of sight (turning a corner) you could run away...
I think Freddy Krueger had an ability where a hero had to spin in a circle for 3 seconds before they could run.
Another villain had a ball (ranged attack) they could use to “tag” someone.
Someone else could “mute” a hero so they couldn’t yell or warn their friends for x amount of time.
If you were a hero, you went to “jail” (someone’s front porch). The game ended when all heroes were caught (or we got bored). The other heroes could rescue their friends by tagging them back in, but there was usually a villain guard hiding near by.
"Death Run" was a favorite in our Boy Scout troop. Everyone stood spread out at one end of a soccer field, with one person designated the Death Runner. After a countdown from 3, everyone started running. The Death Runner tried to make it to the other side of the field, and everyone else tried to tackle him before he did so. If you tackled the Death Runner, you were the next one. If the runner made it to the other side of the field, they chose the next one. Repeat.
My brother was around 10 years older than my sister and I (twins) and there was this game we always loved to play: one person had a nerf gun, while the rest of the players had nothing. There was a nerf stockpile that the “hunter” protected. The two “innocents” had to get to the stockpile and kill the hunter. Both sides goal is to kill the enemy team.
Inne inni over? Not sure how to spell.
You throw a ball of some sort (tennis ball racket ball etc.) over the house and if the other team caught it the throwing team had to then run to the side of the team with the ball without getting tagged.
Seems boring but was very fun
This is slightly embarrassing because I was like...4 years old, but I used to play a game I called "lappy" (not sure why) that involved sitting on the rim of the bathtub farthest from the faucet during bathtime and sliding on my bare butt down, into the tub just as most of the water was drained. The residual water made a splash akin to when a car runs through a puddle on the side of the road and sprays water. It was glorious and I loved sliding down the tub. So yeah. At aome point my legs grew too long to do this anymore and it was a sad day.
My sister and I used to sit on a big rock in a garden next to my grandparents house and tally cars going by. We would have notepads and pens, we would make tally charts with how many cars of each colour drove past. We were about 8 & 6 years old, respectively, and would do this for hours.
Easter egg wars. My little brother and I would set up pillow forts on opposite ends of the hallway and then throw empty plastic easter eggs at each other. Lots of fun and they don't really hurt. Plus they pop open with a good thwack.
Ditch. It was a neighborhood game of group hide/seek plus tag. The boundaries were the neighborhood line. Last person not found/tagged that made it back to base won. It was played after dark with flashlights. Some nights the game went on all night.
"Slobber"
Basically tag but you'd tackle the person down to the floor and then they would become a slobber too, last person alive wins and becomes the first slobber next round! Was really popular in middle school as we had a gardens area so it became part hide and seek too.
Oh and the slobbers had sort of a call that was just a slobbering sound
My best friend and I would get the lids off power aid and juice bottles. The lids had to be sturdy, not flimsy.
Once appropriate lids were aqquired, we would stand anywhere from 5-30m away from the bin and have a contest of flicking them in. Sort of putting it between your rude finger/thumb.
You had to count in rain, wind etc.. Obviously the further away the harder it got, but oh boy the feeling of landing a small lid in a bin 30m away gives you a massive erection.
We played every recess and lunch.
Can we all take a minute to appreciate the moment everyone has gone through with their siblings/friends where someone goes: "Let's make it so that ____." Everyone does this when working out their own game rules.
We never really named it but one of us would go on our hands and knees and the other two of us had to pass him, worked until my brother gashed his forehead on the big 9 on the fire station we played in front of.
In elementary school we had a “game “ thing at recess were 2 people would spin a rope and people went under it. There was about 25 or so kids going under and that’s it.
“The Dark Game.” It was essentially hide and seek, but set in a closed room with all of the lights off. Any window curtain was closed, any cable box with lights was covered up, and thresholds were blocked by towels or pillows so that the room was pitch black.
It would start with the person who was “it” by the light switch, and everyone waiting somewhat close by. When they turned off the lights, everyone else scattered quietly. Confined in a single room, it doesn’t seem like it would take too long to find someone.
But here’s where it got interesting: everyone was armed with pillows. When a person was found, they were beaten senseless, and anyone who followed the sounds of screams joined the fight, which lasted until we were all worn out and breathless, and someone turned on the light again to reset.
We played a game called Going To California. Family and friends would sit around in a circle. Each person would say, "When I go to California, I'm going to bring [item]." Each person brings a different type of item. Examples: one person brings a toothbush. Another brings a t shirt and so on. After everyone picks an item, the person who goes first then says, "When I get to California, I'm going to [use item]" and everyone in the circle says they will do the same thing with the item they brought.
Example: first person says, "I'm going to brush my teeth with my toothbrush." Second person says, "I'm going to brush my teeth with my t shirt." And so on.
Kermac · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
500 (this was THE game back at my primary school)
Game is played on a basket ball court.
2 teams of however many players on either side.
1 tennis ball.
100 points if you hit the back board.
200 points if you hit the ring.
500 points if you hit the pole.
You can throw the ball from within your teams quarter.
Catch the ball with 2 hands/catch the ball after juggling it = shot from half court
Catch the ball with 1 hand on a rebound = free shot from 3 quarter court
Catch the ball with 1 hand = 5 steps inside of the opposition teams quarter all while the whole team is trying to push you as far back as possible (shit got super physical)
Hobash · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crocolfball.....It was played with a croquet mallet and a softball. But you had to get the ball in a hole like golf. The course was our backyard the hole was a sewer drain. Twas dope.
One person hides 2 or more find him. Before hiding he leaves a recorded message in a tape recorder about his whereabouts. The hints are supposed to be subtle and intriguing. Because of the hints tht radius is much larger about 500 metres. Could also do this with objects.
Me and my siblings used to play it, we would find it eldest brother in or around the house. After listening to his recording first. It was the most thrilling and intense experience I've ever had.
The only this i can think of is that me and my mates would throw bouncy balls at the side of passing trains and try to catch them and throw again (our afterschool club thing was right next to some tracks in a small town). We would wait for the trains to come and then see how many times we could get a bounce before they went by.
My summer camp had a game called 'reach the beach'. There wasnt actually a beach, no one knew why we called it that. There was a 12 foot wooden tower in the woods with team buckets at the bottom. It was in a clearing, and a counselor stood on top with a spotlight and megaphone. The other counselors would be in the woods wearing camouflage and have flashlights. All of us campers (7th grade - 12th grade) would try to make it through the woods undetected and place their team tickets in the corresponding bucket. The team with the most tickets won. If you were spotted by a counselor you had to give up your ticket and try to get a new one. It was awesome, a ton of fun, and everyone took it super super seriously. Good times
Smear the Queer. May be a fairly popular game, but you'd get a ball, and whatever kid had it got chased down and tackled by all the other kids until they dropped the ball. Then whoever was brave enough to pick the ball up again would run and get tackled by everyone.
“Shake, spit, or slap” - I was a younger brother to my sister, and when I was about 5 and she about 9, we “played” this “game”. It was simple, she would tackle me to the ground, sit on my chest, and let me pick one of the three: shake, spit, or slap. Shake resulted in her bouncing on top of me a couple times making it difficult to breathe. Spit is where she would hawk a loogie on my face, and slap is where she would slap me on the cheek. Once it was done she would get up, and that was the game. Dumb 5-year-old me eventually chose each of them thinking one couldn’t be worse than the other. Boy, was spit disgusting.
When I was a kid growing up in a college town, we'd play Memorial Stadium Tag (MST). It was hide and seek in a football stadium. We'd usually play for the first half and then watch the second half. I remember jumping from ramp to ramp and they were a good 70 feet off the ground.
Dog soccer. I played it with my friend who moved away. We would go upstairs, get in our knees, and smack a inflatable soccer ball around into each other’s goals. We would take take on different roles, like “British doggie.” Fun times.
I played a game called "Throw Up" with my brother. We would be on a trampoline and throw a ball up as far as we could, and the person to catch it won. We hit our heads a few times because we looked up at the ball instead of where we were going.
Whenever my family would be driving somewhere, I’d flex my right buttcheek when we passed a house on the right, and then I’d do the same for the left. Always imagined hitting a target as we drove by. Still do it to this day! lol
My brother and I made up a game called "Uniboob and the Hairy Lagoon". It was basically just hide and seek, but it was in the dark and you had a rubber ball (like the ones you can get in toy stores). The person with the ball is the Uniboob and the seeker. The person hiding is the Hairy Lagoon.
I don't remember the specifics, but the Uniboob would have to throw the ball at the Hairy Lagoon in order to win. And the Hairy Lagoon would have to say a phrase once they were hit. I don't remember the phrase.
“Life” basically an RPG game but where you talked instead in the car. You were given choices and you had to make the right one. There was a zombie mode a classic one, military and etc.
Can’t remember the name but basically someone would tie our hands to each side of a swing and we had to start swinging. We then had 30seconds to free our hands. At the 30second mark we had to jump off.
First time i played it one of my hands got stuck and I jerked backwards. I ended up having to go to hospital for a dislocated shoulder.
This legendary game was founded in 2015 and lasted two years.
The ball, a golf ball had Ishmael written on it.
The game.
All boys would get into a circle. Players competing could vary from 5 to 25. No girls allowed. Once the ring was formed no one could interrupt.
The Ishmael master would start, throwing the ball to another player in the ring. The ball has to bounce ounce before being caught by said player. It is up to the catcher to commit. If he goes for it and misses the catch. He is out. If the thrower is clearly off target and no one makes the catch there is a democratic vote between all players in the ring on who should be eliminated. The thrower, or the player who was destined to catch.
If the vote fails. Sudden death occurs.
This involves all players creating a hallway where at one end the Ishmael master, and at the other, the challenging player. A distance of 10 strides between the two players. Silence falls onto the courtyard as tensity increases. The master, choses when to throw and at what speed. The ball must still bounce ounce before being caught. If caught by the challenger he stays in. If he misses, disqualified.
Process of elimination until two players are left. Sudden death is formed for the finals. And the remaining two players continue the game. Each time the ball is caught the players take a step back, slowly increasing the distance until one fails to catch.
One of my “brothers” made the grudge sound PERFECTLY and it scared the shit out of all of us.
So there was like 8 of us hiding from him in pitch black darkness. We’d be hiding ing crazy places around the house (ex. On top of a closet, under the spare room floor board, behind the sink, or in the attic) and no one could see because it was legit pure darkness and he would just walk around each room slowly and make the grudge noise.. As he draws closet he would get louder, somehow he just knew were we always were and suddenly all of us are hauling ass out of the room because if he touches you, you cant play any longer because you’ve been ghosted and once that happened you couldn’t play until the next game, one game usually lasted about an hour and a half so at younger ages that felt like forever!! So you’d be forced to sit with the parents while we continued
Hands down the best game ive ever played! But theres also our avatar game where we controlled the elements and our parents went along with it and bought us dope ass clothes and water guns or whatever we needed for our character so that was pretty dope!
"The Animal Game."
We came up with several variants but ultimately the game was an adult would call an animal name out, and us kids would act it out. Adult would pick a favorite impression, then call out a different animal, continue until bored.
"Home Alone" one person waited at the top of the basement stairs while everyone else makes a mess of the basement to booby trap the robber. Then we would hide and turn off all the lights. So basically hide and seek in the dark while someone is stumbling around tripping over upside down furniture.
I game called "darktooth beaver". Basically we'd turn all the lights off in the house at night, and one person would be the darktooth beaver. It was basically hide and seek in the pitch black. My brother had really giant teeth and he was the original "darktooth beaver".
I'm not sure if this counts as a game or not, but sometimes I would approach my brother and ask him to wrap me like a mummy. I would proceed to lay in the middle of the living room and pretended I was in an ancient Egyptian tomb. I think my intent was that I wanted to scare my mom or dad. But I always heckin' fell asleep before I could scare anyone.
Crazy baseball: A combination of baseball and dodgeball one person was the pitcher and everyone else was the base runners. One base runner threw out the ball as far as they could and all the base runners en masse would start running the 5 bases in order as quickly as they could. The pitcher would retrieve the ball and race back to try to hit the runners with the ball, if the runners were on base they were safe, but when they were in between bases they could be hit with the ball. Every time the base runners would round all five bases and made it to home, the runner would yell amount the amount of times the had scored. If the pitcher was able to hit a runner three times, t
He runner was out and the runner would become the new pitcher.
“Rodeo Clown”. One of my friends had a trampoline and one of those toy cars for little kids to drive in, so we would have put the car on the trampoline and have one person sit in the car while everybody jumped around them. The goal was to flip them over without touching them, and tbh it was kinda dangerous because you could fall off the trampoline and really hurt yourself. Still fun tho.
I also had this game that I called "Snapple Pong." I would take two Snapple bottle caps and tape them together to form a makeshift hockey puck. I got a friend and then we played air hockey with the puck. I still have one of the pucks.
weebx2 · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school for "recess" we would just go into our gym. So me and my friends would always play "ball tag", it's not that unique, but basically its just tag but instead of touching you would get a basketball thrown at you. We also played "get the ball" also not that uniqe but we would just run around in groups and try to get the basketball, you could tackle,hide it, or pass.
Jr6153 · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the car, I would look at speck on a window, and using perspective, I would move my head around to make it look like it was moving across the outside environment
RAMBO!
2 teams: Runners on foot and Chasers in cars.
Runners get from point A to B without getting caught by the people in cars, usually a couple miles through town.
Always ended up Running from the cops and going through people’s back yards. The cops loved to play! Seriously.
My brother and I used to have an ongoing competition where the first one of us to see an American flag while driving around would yell "I see an American flag, I win!" Since we passed the same few flags on nearly every car ride, we would shove each other out of the way in an effort to be the first one to lay eyes on it. If we both started the phrase at the same time, the first one to finish saying it would "win".
Naturally this drove our mom up the wall. She eventually forbid us from playing the game, saying that we should instead comment "I see an American flag... beautiful!" Being good, obedient kids, we said that from thereon out... "I see an American flag, beautiful!" The game stayed, only the phrase changed. And mom couldn't prevent us from playing, because we were obeying her, too!
My brother and I would go out on the porch for a while and my parents would turn off all the lights and hide a Glowstick somewhere incredibly difficult to locate in the house. We had to stumble around in the dark looking while my parents occasionally shouted “warmer!” or “colder!”
It was absolutely my favorite game as a child. Unfortunately I made the mistake of bringing it up as an adult and my parents almost died laughing. Apparently they were taking the opportunity to play their own version of “hide the Glowstick” while we were out on the porch waiting.
When my friend had knee surgery he was going through rehab and needed something slow but would help him move with his knee so we invented "doomball"
Basically it was played inside with an very under inflated balloon. The object was to pass the ball to the next person and you could use anything but your hands and you only had 3 hits to pass it.
It really helped him with his eye-hand coordination and helped him stay up on his knee for extended periods.
I used to make bets with Satan about taking my soul if I missed at throwing something, or I'd pretend to sell my soul for hella money or something.
I always thought if I meant it hard enough, he would appear and speak to me or make the contract, and that if I held my end, or missed my shot, or saw the money, or whatever, it would be sealed.
It was from when I'd see South Park and Simpsons, and I think it was on Looney Tunes as well.
TJR25 · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On ATV off-road fury 2 (video game for PS2) we would hook up 2 to 4 controllers and we would all go into explore mode and play “tag”. If you were it, you had to try to run into the other people to tag them. If you ran into the infamous wall at the edge of the map that sent you flying, you would become it. Made for a lot of fun.
My two siblings and I would play predator and prey, where one person was a predator animal, like a lion, and the other two were prey, a zebra or a rabbit. The predator had to “kill” the other two, (tag them) and once tagged, you became a predator.
We never had a name for it but:
This one requires both a decent backyard and deck, though im sure there are other ways to make it work. It also has to be played at night.
We would start a fire in the back yard and the fireplace was pretty much at the furthest point away from the deck. This could also be replaced by a light of some sort or anything that is a clearly visible objective.
Then someone would go up on the deck with a flashlight and try to "spot" everyone before they could cross the yard and reach the fire. If you were hit by the flashlight you were out. The first one out would be the next person on the deck, but everyone else still had to try and make it to the fire before the round was over.
It gets preety intense for both parties once everyone gets the hang of moving from cover to cover and coordinating your movements, so the spotter can't focus on one person. It became particularly difficult once you were the last one left.
Yellow car. A yellow car was one point (never trucks), punch-buggy’s were two, and yellow punch-buggy’s were three and you were allowed to hit someone.
I’d wear a pair of socks that for whatever reason my childhood dog loved to rip off my feet, then I’d run around the house and jump on elevated surfaces while she tried to get the socks.
Me and my brother used to climb into one of those metal 55 gallon drums and roll down a hill in our front yard to measure who could walk the best while dizzy. Was pretty fun till my brother rolled too far and instead of stopping he slammed into a tree and gave himself a concussion.
I don’t know if this is unique because I have no idea who pitched this idea. “Mr. President”
Game must have minimum of 3 players. One person is elected “Mr. President.” Then half of the people become “Assassins,” and the other half are the “Secret Service.”
It’s basically tag, but you’re only going for the President. When the Secret Service sees the Assassin, they have to shout “GET DOWN MISTER PRESIDENT” and tag the assassin before they can reach the president. The President can’t tag, he has to rely on his Secret Service for protection. The Secret Service is immune to Assassins. If an assassin is tagged they have to go back to the designated “start” location for a minute. The game goes on indefinitely until the President is successfully tagged. Usually the assassin who tagged the President is the one who becomes the new President. Occasionally a mock election is held though, to make it more interesting.
Naturally strategies began forming, such as placing the president on the highest point of the jungle gym and placing a guard at every entrance. Some opted for the “hide and seek” strategy. They hid the President and only interfered when assassins got too close to locating the President. However, some people went full agro... The President would be in plain sight, and every time an assassin appeared, they would all tackle the assassin at once.
The teachers tried to enforce rules at first. They banned tackling entirely. Eventually they banned the game because the “Secret Service” would gang up on assassins 4 to 1, all piled on, which resulted in multiple sprained ankles and bloody noses. Now that I’m older and I think about it, the game is kind of messed up. Also, the scrawny kids always ended up the assassins. Poor kids.
'Steamroller'. My brother, sister and I would play this game, one person would be picked (usually my brother since he was the tallest and oldest) and you'd have to roll flat on the trampoline from one end to the other, and my sister and I would have to jump over him. He'd increase his speed, eventually knocking either my sister or I, or both of use over. We'd play this game for hours on end. Sucks that we're older now and don't usually play these types of games anymore, but it was fine while it lasted
“Judge”. During dinner me and other kids would all sit around the table and pick one person two be the judge and two people to the be prosecutor and defendant. The prosecutor would try to make the funniest case he could and the defender would try to make the funniest defense. The judge and the other people deciding would rule guilty or not, and that was how the next judge was chosen. It was a hilarious game and we still talk about it today.
“ Shoot the Ghost!” When me and my cousins got together when we were little we would always make up silly games! Shoot the Ghost was based on how we wanted to be Police Women and shoot the “ Bad Guys”. The target of the game was to Shoot the Ghost and to not let them escape “Ghost Jail” where they were prisoners! I will never forgot this game especially since my team won most of them! 👻
In high school, in our boring town, we would meet up and set a play area. Then each car was given a walkie-talkie. One car would head off and hide, checking in with a clue every 15 minutes, while the others scoured the play area trying to find it.
The best motivation to catch the car first? You'd now get to go and hide your car in the dark somewhere, usually with your girlfriend, and only have to check in every 15 minutes.
More than a few times, I'd roll up on a car I recognized and not see anyone sitting upright.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Golden Corral” my big brother would throw a random object across the room, and whoever got it first won.. he would throw me around all the way to the random item. No clue why he called it Golden Corral.
iqnux · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Five stones (only Singaporeans will get this)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mermaid/seahorse/washing machine:
Played in the pool. I would give my older sister a quarter and in exchange, she would piggyback me in the pool as one of the aforementioned. She’d do neat tricks and go underwater too. Washing machine was her spinning around fast.
Rock and Roll Danger: one person was the Witch and had to set up an obstacle course, and the other skateboarded through it. Extra points if you collected any live toads along the way
Secret Sisters: tie our bedsheets to our bedpost and rappel down the side of our house, or jump back and forth onto the neighbors flat lower roof.
My sisters and I made up a gamecalled "Beetle-bugs" -a mix of tag and the floor is lava.
1 person was the Beetle-bug and crawled around and chomped their teeth. The other players had to hop on the furniture and couldn't get down unless they shouted "Beetle-bugs! Beetle-bugs!" When the players got down, the "Beetle-bug" had to speedcrawl to tag people. We also had throw pillow ammo we could use only if we yelled, "Exterminator!!!!" If they got tagged, they became Beetle-bugs too. Last one not tagged won the game and had to start the next game the Beetle- bug.
My parents had a large basement living room. One person sat at the foot of the stairs outside the room with the door closed. Everyone in the basement found a hiding spot. We would call "OK" and then the hunter would turn off the light, and come in (it got pitch black). You're not allowed to move, and the first person found was the new hunter. After a while we modified the game to setting up booby traps or completely rearranging furniture to thwart the hunter's plans, and if you heard them getting close to someone else you could shout "easy prey in the corner!" or by the bathroom, etc. Basically you try to throw off their sense of space a la Marco polo.
When me and my younger cousin were children, riding in the car we’d sit on our knees and look back at the cars behind us. This was a game played at night so the headlights looked like bright monster eyes!
The way to play was to cover our eyes and scream “GO AWAY MONSTERS!” And when we uncovered there always seemed to be less.
Me, my brother, and cousin made up the this game called "The American Cheetah". I would portray as the cheetah everytime and my brother and cousin would play as the hunters(?) I would hide and they would have to try and kill me (with nerf guns) and the "cheetah" would have to dodge the bullets and kill them both. Its like hide and seek but not. Strange game.
I'm a little late, but my brothers and I used to "Joust". All four of us were and still are obsessed with high fantasy and whatnot. We had a long, straight, driveway that we would ride our bikes down and attack each other with wooden swords that we made or bought from Renaissance Festivals.
Not sure I would classify it as a game, but, my childhood best friend and I would ride our scooters from point A to Point B. While riding, we would try to produce as much saliva as we can and hold it in our mouths without spitting. When we reached point B, we would spit out our stock pile of saliva to see who’s was bigger.
Another game which did not last very long was hitting rocks with a tennis racket into the street. To avoid suspicion, we hit the rocks from a tennis court (sly us). We would play tennis until a car came by. We made sure that we had a stockpile of rocks at hand to direct at the car. From what I recall, this stopped after the second outing when we hit a car with people that knew my childhood best friend. Not sure the damage it did. I do not think it broke a window or shattered anything.
I think we may have had an obsession with rock throwing to be honest. One time I remember we were making a game of attempting to throw rocks into the neighbor across the street’s mailbox. After about 2 hours, his dad came out of the house and yelled at us pretty good. We were definitely assholes.
My brother and I played “concoction”. You roll a dice and whatever number it lands on is the number of ingredients you are allowed to pull from the fridge. Then you mix them together (without the taster seeing) and the other person has to drink it. Then the taster tries to guess what you used. It was never pleasant.
A game called ‘windmill’, whenever we saw a windmill on a road trip through the countryside, the first person to call ‘windmill’ would get a point. We played this game for around 10 years and added other items to the game such as Australian flags and animals pooping
When I was little, me and my brother used to play “Bicycle.” We would lie on separate ends of the couch, put our feet together, and pedal like we were on an actual bike. We would pretend to go up a hill, down a hill, start to pedal too fast, and crash. We did the exact same thing every time.
"Mimiqueens." We basically did a slav squat and either walked or hopped around like that, only saying "mimi." To my recollection there was no goal lmao
At school, we had this game with our scientific calculators.
Press 0 and then =, then press Ans and +1 then the equals sign continuously. We would have races to 100, 1000, even 10000. We made this game up when we were doing somr Physics exercises
Pillowman. One person would be the “Pillowman” and put their head in a pillowcase with the pillow sitting vertically on their face. This was so they couldn’t see and also so they had protection. The “Pillow Masters” would both have pillows (whoever had the tempurpedic was the one we feared the most) and their goal was to just beat the Pillowman senseless. The only rules were you have to hit with a pillow, you have wait five seconds between each hit on the Pillowman (although we’d usually wait longer to catch him by surprise), and the Pillowman has to keep moving. Everything was fair game but the face was the best target since it was the most satisfying to hit and it was protected.
To add an extra level we could turn off the lights and block out every window so it was pitch black. Sometimes turning off the lights could cause the Pillow Masters to turn on each other and give the Pillowman a place to hide. That game is the reason I can say my brother clotheslined me with a tempurpedic and I’ll always love it because of that
Also we performed a ritual and spun the pillow man around before each game so he was dizzy. Best time to strike
We would shove one kid in the bottom of a sleeping bag and then another kid inside the sleeping bag on top of the first one. The top was was able to see a bit and then we would push off and roll down the staircase tumbling over and over. Many injuries ensued but it was a neighborhood hit!
This game isn't extremely unusual but back in 5th grade I was in love with the TV show Survivor. So at lunch I would be the host while 5 of my friends would vote each other out and at the end vote for the winner, that's it. But then one day one of my friends started calling everybody rude nicknames, so one day another one of my friends was so fed up with it that he told the teacher. The teacher proceeded to tell the principal the Principal told the vice-principal who then talked to my friend to tell him everything he wrote down. he was sent to lunch detention for a week and the teacher lectured the whole class on how to be nice to each other, and then at the very end of her lecture she specifically said "AND NO MORE SURVIVOR!" and everyone just started staring at me. So yeah, that was a weird game I played as a kid.
“Tornado” my brother and I would walk down the sidewalk and when we would spot a car we would try to hide so they couldn’t see us when they drove past!
Miteh · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man. Here goes.
So growing up me and my sister used to play this game called astronaut. Basically we had a dresser inside of a walk in closet, and it created this crawl space in the back of the closet.
So we would climb on top of the dresser and use belts to tie around our waist and then attach the end to the bar that you hang shirts off of. And we would hang off the bar and go head first into the crawl space taking turns trying to retrieve items among the rubble.
We also played another “haunted house” game where she would get into a laundry hamper full of blankets for padding and then a blanket over top to make it dark. And then I’d drag the hamper around the house like a ride and try and scare her and make weird animal noises and stuff. It got to the point where I’d play an old Halloween tape in the background and drag the hamper downstairs and stuff.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this one called safety. Whenever you fart, you have to say safety quickly. If someone says doorknob that person gets to punch you until you touch a doorknob. If someone says six all round, everyone in the room gets to punch you six times. Sometimes, like on a camping trip you get absutely wrecked since there are no door knobs, or in a room of heaps of people, you'd cop heaps! There were a few other rules but I can't quite remember them all
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was an ongoing game by the way, so in the middle of the shops, at church, playing sport, or at school, wherever you where it didn't matter. I think we just all grew up and forgot about it
I used to play Army Men II religiously. So many good memories playing that game, it helped me through my elementary school, middle school and even part of high school. When I build my very own pc that's a game I am buying and I highly recommend it to anyone.
ZMK13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma made up a game “everything with feather flies.” She would name different animals and if they fly we’d have put our hands up otherwise you had to keep them down. If you messed up you had to give her an item of yours and at the end you had to “buy it out” using a talent of yours like playing a piano or dancing. She made sure we had fun while also making sure we practiced whatever we took interest in at the moment.
While playing alone, we had hot wheels and track with the parts to make a ramp (ramp and clamp for the starting point), so I would find a decent space to launch the cars. I remember giving many of them nicknames (probably 2-3 dozen total cars). Tumbling counted for length.
Unsurprisingly, the same few cars always won.
Also with my brothers, we had wooden children's blocks and a nice long wooden floor. We would stack them in random configurations, and roll a tennis ball from one end trying to knock them down. Each individual block counted as a point.
I don't remember it well as I was the youngest, but my cousin made it up and it was a game that was what I can describe as some sort of a group hide-n-seek/tag game. The bears would find and/or chase the people and would "eat" them if they caught them.
I feel like it may have been more complex than this, but this is all I can really recall.
"Furby Ball." It was basically a full-contact baseball game played on 5 bases ran in a pentagram formation. It was originally named because we used a Furby as a ball, but it was short-lived. We later stuffed a Pikachu plushy with a softball and wrapped the whole thing in duct tape. That became our official ball and after a few years of adding duct tape every time a seam split, the Unholy Wad was able to function as a ball by itself without needing the softball core. The name was eventually changed to Pentaball since we never played with a real Furby since our first game. I found out later in life that that name was also taken by some other, probably lamer sport.
Each base was a 1.5' length of PVC pipe stabbed into the ground with a small orange cone on top and we marked a 10' radius from each base. This was a "base zone" and the baseman was not allowed to leave that zone. You capture a base by either knocking the cone off the base pole or by removing the baseman from the base zone. If at any point you were struck with the Unholy Wad (either tagged or pelted), you were out. The bases were ran in a pentagon pattern to create the longest path between two bases for a runner to run as well as creating points where several runners will intersect paths, possibly slamming into each other or creating choke points for the outfield team to attack. It was also to be edge lords. Outfield players were a non-contact position and you were not allowed to attack them if you were running the bases. The only real combat rule was that you were not allowed to ram people with your head. Some players wanted to wear helmets and eventually started trying to weaponize them.
Surprisingly, the only injury sustained in this game was a single concussion. One of our helmet wearers ran bases for the first time without a helmet and caught the Unholy Wad square in the back of the head from like four feet away. We did almost impale one of our team captains on a base pole once.
A friend and I would wait at the end of my parents driveway for cars to come down the road. We would then race back to the other end where a basketball pole stood. The first to touch the pole would win, unless the other person could get to it before the car crossed. The goal was to be the last person to leave the part near the road, but still be able to touch the pole before the vehicle crossed the driveway. We did this using our feet, skateboards, scooters, rollerblades, and bicycles. Whatever we both had on that day. For those wondering; my parent's driveway is around 100-150 feel (~33-50 meters) long.
Me and my cousin played “surgery.” You cut a hole in a garbage bag filled with water and try to see it back up with minimal water leakage. It was weird, but we loved it
As a kid we would see who could do a series of feats of strength on the jungle gym in our backyards. We strives for the coolest tricks and fastest times. It was pretty fun.
Two games. One was Sputnick. Tossed a volleyball against the ground while standing in a circle and ran waiting for it to hit the ground. Person closest to Sputnick had to grab the ball and yell KGB. Then toss the ball at the someone. If they caught it KGB lose one point. If they move or get hit KGB gets one point. If you fell you became KGB agent for next round. First to 5 wins.
We also played serial killer. You got two knives (popsicle sticks) to fend off killer. Game was played in dark or with a hide and seek aspect. If serial killer finds you, you give up a popsicle stick. After two, you were dead and would be displayed on the floor or a couch/chair. Parents were quite disturbed at this game.
We used to play "boys vs girls" at recess in my little private Lutheran elementary school. It was just 22 7 year olds, divided by gender running at each other at top speed in a field and beating the shit out of one another.
No one stopped that, oddly enough. That was okay but pokemon cards were banned lol.
It was a blast.
When I was younger, every time my family went out to dinner we played "the game", this game we created. There is one storyteller and everyone else is guessers. All of the guessers whisper a word into the storyteller's ear and then the storyteller has to make up a story that includes all of the words in it. Once the storyteller finishes telling the story, then all the guessers have to guess what word each person picked and whoever's word is guessed last wins. As I got older, the better the words became and now it is this huge family thing that we sometimes still do. ;)
Kynsia · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Black-and-white tag. Played this with the neighbourhood kids untill I was thirteen or so :)
We had this wooden play house with a slide, pole and several (probably dangerous) ways to climb over, in, and under. Under this house were those black rubber tiles that are meant to prevent broken bones and scrapes, and the normal stone tiles were white. The person who was it was not allowed on the black tiles, only on the house and the white tiles. The other players were allowed on the house and the black tiles, but not the normal tiles, so they couldn't leave.
Getting from the surrounding tiles to the house required some acrobatics, but there were no spots where you couldn't be reached, so everyone was constantly on the move.
The kicking game! We each start with a dodgeball but can only use our feet like soccer. Then you run around and try not to get hit by someone else’s ball that’s kicked at you. We did it in a large field with only an outer boundary. Sometimes we had to instill a no guarding rule.
Whenever we were at my Nan's place there wasn't much to do, so my half brother came up with this game for him, me and my cousin to play and pass the time
One of us would be blindfolded and sit in a chair at the end of the room, while the other two scattered little toys all over the floor but would have to leave a clear path the the other side of the room. Once that was done, the person who was blindfolded had to try and reach the other side of the room without treading on any toys. If they succeeded, they got to take the blindfold off and swap with whoever layed out the clear path if that makes sense
All in all not a very complex game but it sure kept us busy
Hide and seek in the dark. Sounds simple but we took it to another level. We would tape over every light, clock, anything. You couldnt see an inch in front of your face. We played at like midnight and another objective was to avoid waking up my friends parents. We would have like 6 people over and all play. We would send one person to a room across the house and all hide. While we hid, we rearranged furniture to get in the seeker's way. And the seeker had to physically stop the people hiding g from reaching base, tagging wasnt enough. We would hide in plain sight, spider climb up hallways and just sit there.
etm105 · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"TRON" - we loved the original 80's movie as a kids. It was pretty much dodge ball but with frisbees. If you hit your opponent with a frisbee they were "out", if you caught the frisbee the thrower was out
My brothers and I would put coins into socks and throw the sock in the air. Everyone would face the sky, and whoever got hit in the face was out, and lost, in many ways.
We would fold each other up inside of pull out sleeper sofa, and leave each other there. Whoever lasted the longest won.
Also, we would tree-dive. We would climb our grandma's pine tree with football gear on and freefall into a bush ~15' below.
My friends and I made up a game called monster. We would play in each other's basements. One person was the monster who would wait upstairs until we all hid and turned the lights off. The "monster" would have a blanket or blindfold on them and would have to come downstairs in the dark with their eyes covered and the first person to get tagged was the monster next. The catch was that the kids hiding could move around and attack the monster. Once I had a heavy wooden chair thrown at me while I was still coming down the steps. I still have a scar behind my ear from it hitting me all those years ago.
The swing game.
We had a swing set growing up, and of course, being boys, we made a gauntlet out of the thing. Three people would be swinging, while one ran back and forth until he got obliterated by an oncoming body. Timing was the strategy to winning, at least until those swinging started to aim for you. The game was intense, fun, and it was a great bonding time for my brothers and I, especially when someone got hurt and we had to convince them not to tell mom.
I would make up games all the time to play with my brothers. Alot of it was either entirely based off of or literally was supposed to be stuff from tv and movies. An example was that I made a game where we all had watches from Ben-10 and imagine stuff based on that, but I was teaching them how to use their powers and stuff like that. I even made an overarching meta game where all of the games were made by a game company I owned.
jlxc77 · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Fleedle Deedle”
my brother and I would stand on one end of the room and throw a ball to the other end, the first one to stand up with the ball and yell fleedle deedle would win.
There was absolutely no rules. tackling, hair pulling, yanking the ball from each others hands, everything was fair game, it was essentially an excuse to kick the shit out of each other
My sister and I would put dress-up dresses on and choreograph our own dance number. This involved a baton we had as well as standing on furniture and myself picking up my little sister and spinning her around. We did this for many other songs as well. However, we played this one the most often.
150Dgr · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve only been a Redditor for a month or so. (I’m old) Never would’ve imagined such a broad entertaining bunch of responses from a simple question. Plenty of “unique” games that I’ve never heard of and I thought me and my pals had some good unique ones. Lol...
Used large syringes (no needles obviously)from my Mom’s work at a Veterinarian hospital to spray each other. The ones for horses were particularly large and had quite the range. You were it or out if you got sprayed.
Okay so my cousins, long before we became distant, would play this game called Zombies. The premise basically the Walking Dead with pillows as the weapons.
Some of us would be the attackers and have pillows and shit and we had bunk beds, so we were situated there.
The other cousins would be the zombies and they would be outside the room and they would enter the room and the rest of us would beat the shit out of them with pillows. And that was it, not too interesting but you can probably imagine all the shit we broke because of this game, including the entire ceiling fan, a television, a lamp, and a younger's cousins pinky. Our parents would get pissed at all of us whenever we played, but we always had a great time trying to "kill" each other with pillows.
Sure this is not the most out there game, but it definitely reminded me of good times and probably the last time my cousins and I actually bonded. Now we all basically hate each other so...
Me and my mates used to play a game on skates where we would chase each other up and down the street and try hook each others feet and smack each other with hockey sticks.
Ice tag was whenever you were running from a certain someone, who had bags of ice, and if you were caught, you had to get the bags of ice dumped on you.
nytoT · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm from Panama and we played a game called "Tun Tun Calavera". The game was based on turning all the lights off and leaving the room completely dark. The seeker had to cover his eyes and look for everyone based on sounds. Also you could hit the seeker and even drop him. It was very fun.
Mine was kinda weird. It was a hide and seek kinda game that me and my dad would play when mom was at work. basically I would hide, and dad would try and find me. I could move and stuff too, and he would tell me where he was by yelling for me. I lost when he would find me and beat me with jumper cables. Honestly most of the time I would lose, but he was having a good time so that's really the magic of it :)
We played a game called "pooey pooey pooey pooey wee" while on car rides. My parents used it as a way to get all the random stuff in our heads(mostly sweat words) out before we got to our destination. We would go around the car coming up with the dirtiest songs we could come up with, always ending the song with "pooey pooey pooey pooey wee". My sister always won and she still has the dirtiest mind of all of us. Also we were very well behaved kids outside of the car.
In my neighborhood, specifically in our cul-de-sac, me, my brother, and the rest of the neighbor kids would all get together to play games in the summer. One in particular was called "7 steps". Pretty much, one person would get chosen to be "it". The rest of us had to go back to our porch. The people on the porch would have to loop around the house once and make it back to the porch to win. We got 7 free steps from the porch, hence the name.
The person who was it would have to try to catch thr people who were running around the house and yell "out!" When they saw them move. The person who was it would have to see the person running's feet move in order for them to be out. Prett6 much it was a game of strategy. Be clever when chosing your path aroubd the house, and be as quiet as possible.
Man, I really miss those days. I'm a senior in high school now and I still remember those times like it wad yesterday. Unfortunately the neighborhood kids stopped coming around after the summer succeeding 8th grade. That was the last year we did anything together. Oh well. Just part of growing older!
We played dentist. One person would eat some hard candy in the "waiting room" and then go to sit in the recliner and the other one would scrap the candy pieces out of their teeth with a crochet hook.
We used to have heaps of my Aunty's leftover yarn and when it was raining in winter, me and my brother would wrap all of the yarn between the stair railings, windows, and door knobs to recreate the scenes in action movies where the spies bend around the lasers. It was so much fun.
One person, the zombie, would hide a bunch of nerf guns around the house while the survivors hid in our bathroom. Once the guns were hidden the zombie grabbed a lightsaber. The survivors then ran around the house to find guns. Once someone found a gun the zombie was let loose and had to tough survivors with the lightsaber or stick to infect them and they in turn would grab a stick. The survivors had to shoot the zombie to stun him (stand still) for ten seconds while they ran away. The zombie wins if he infects all the survivors. The survivors win if they find all the guns.
Needless to say we lost a lot of darts around the house and dented the walls a few times. The fun was worth it though. Also once I tripped over my dog and fell down the stairs. (Yes he was fine and don’t worry about me)
Jump Out and Scare You! How could I forget! My ex and I and our kids made this up one night. We played hide and seek just a regular game in the house. When the kids were It, my ex and I hid in a bedroom. We could hear them out in the house rummaging around and peeking behind doors and such trying to find us. When they got close to the close the bedroom door we jumped out and scared them! So it evolved that night into a game in the dark, and whoever was It had to find everybody who was hidden in the dark and if the It person walked past you, you could jump out and scare them anytime you wanted to.
We played it when the kids were really young, but we also had a great game of it after they were all in adulthood, and we closed off the basement and shut off the lights and they went nuts. Well, me too. It is a really fun game.
"Catch of the Century." Me and my friend would throw a Nerf ball and try to make amazing tip/dive catches and the best one was....Catch of the Century. Until the next one.
Cauzix · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Peen ball" I know mature right? Also was mentioned as "puus ball".
Consisted of all the boys gathering in a circle (usually 6+ boys, best around 9-10).
The goal was to be the last in the game.
The (valleyball) ball was thrown hard into the middle initiating a high bounce.
You would attempt to hit the ball or "snipe" (kinda an areal) someone with the ball anywhere under the knees down to their feet or in between/through their legs(a meg). If this happens the person who got shinned(hit on shins) or megged is out till next game. This contenues till 4 people are left.
When four people are left, the playing field is shrunken.. making it harder to avoid getting hit. (Stepping out of bounds resulted in something called “hip down” which was where you got out if u got hit from hip or lower insted of knees.) This would contenue till there was 2 people left.
At two peole left there was the finals
The finals were really specific and odd so sorry if i explain bad. The two people had to crouch down and could not move. A bystander would drop the ball in the middle of the two and whoever could smack the ball onto the other feet first won the whole game.
The game consisted of a lot of specific rules like
You couldn't touch the ball with two hands at same time
You can have ball touching you hand for more than a second at time (to prevent grabbing rather than hitting or slapping)
If you hit someone's croch or head, you become "shoulders down" or "hip down" depending on how bad the hit was.
If you hit the ball far from the playfield, YOU have to get it not the closest person
If someone was megged they also got laughed at by everyone because it's super hard to meg people by slapping the ball between their legs
Most people in the game, if they were good or smart, hunched over and gaurded their legs with their arms ready to hit the ball away.
I loved that game so much and won't forget playing it with all my guys at school.
Sorry if I explained the game bad, I enjoyed typing this as that game was played for hours at a time on late nights in the streets or at school after lunch and it makes me smile to think back on it. Thanks for anyone still reading!!
"The guy game" was larping before we knew what larping was, i was about 6 or 7 back in 2000 to 2001 time period and we would all pick a "guy" who would typically be a favorite character of ours like Cloud from Final fantasy or Blade, sonic, mario, kirby, ken, barbie, etc... And we would just be silly dramatic kids "role playing" our characters incredibly inaccurately. This was only us and the two neighbor kids who would participate but we had a blast lol
Put my friends into a locked (acid?) barrel, the blue ones with a black cover and a lock, locked them up real good and rolled them down stairs all over the small town and a lot of other places because we could. Parents never knew, I have later told them and they were angry at young me.
Surprisingly there’s not a lot to do in deserts in California. My friends and I have always done traditional things out here like running around the desert with airsoft guns shooting each other. That one gets fun at night. Also riding dirt bikes is HUGE out here.
Edit: I ALSO JUST REMEMBERED. Some days me and my older brother would get every pillow and cushion in the house and make a big wall of pillows. We’d jump through this wall and whoever jumped furthest through it won. My brother always won because he was 11 years older than me....
xYike · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BELT - it’s like hide and seek combined with tag?
Step 1) get dads leather belt
Step 2) define a play area and base (back yard, big tree over there is base)
Step 3) one person hides the belt in the back yard while all others cover their eyes
Step 4) kids disperse, looking for belt
Step 5) belt is found by player who grabs it and chases all other players, whipping them with belt, until they reach safety by touching base
I had one of those trees in my front yard that produced the “helicopter” seeds that would fall from the tree.
We’d throw tennis balls to dislodge the helicopters and it was a competition to see who could catch the most helicopters. Literally the whole block played. Even the teens.
It infuriated my father as he then had to clean up all of the dislodged “helicopters.”
Right, so you push 2 couches together to form the 'house', player one hides in the 'house' while player 2 tries to sneak into the 'house' through the 'window'. Just as player 2 allllmost manages to successfully sneak through the 'window' player 1 jumps up and screams "DON'T CLIMB IN THROUGH THE WINDOW" in a demented northern voice.
That's it. Player 2 looses every time.
I only ever played this with one friend, Jack, but we played it regularly. Boxing day of Christmas 2018 we hosted a highly anticipated 21st anniversary game of 'DON'T CLIMB IN THROUGH THE WINDOW', we are both 26 years old now. Jack won the reunion game.
Jack was always better at "DON'T CLIMB IN THROUGH THE WINDOW" than i was and continues to perform better than me in his broader life now we're adults.
When we were in the car and and we didn’t have our DS’s me and my cousin would count all the American flags on our side of the road (because there was SO many of them) and try to see who ended up with the most by the time we got to where we needed to be.
Not even really a game but my one friend had a room that was basically a tiny cinder block storage area. We would collect the bouncy balls you got from the quarter machines and throw like 25 bouncy balls as hard as possible off the walls. Last person standing won. In retrospect I think we all won because none of us ever lost an eye.
This was a fairly irresponsible game and we were chased many times down the road by aggrieved drivers. We'd fill long sleeve clothes with newspaper and arrange it to look like a body. We'd then proceed to hide it on a blind corner and hide behind a nearby fence. So many cars would come screeching to a halt. Their emotions would change dramatically once they realised they'd been duped
I had a long narrow basement me and my friends would play this game in. We would have about a dozen or so tennis balls scattered about the basment and we'd divide the room in half. Various shelves, chairs, tables, etc. provided cover. The length of the room was about 40ft so to make it interesting we always played in complete darkness. We could use flashlights to find "ammo" but if you didn't keep track of the enemy munitions you would just be giving away your position and get beamed immediately. The win condition was survive.
Then there was also Deck Dodgeball and Bamboo Sticks which are stories for another day.
Every man for himself “football”. We called the game smear the queer. Basically when we got on the grass field someone would throw the ball and everyone would run to pick it up. Who ever had the ball would try to run away from everyone who was playing. When you got tackled you just gave the ball away to whoever wanted it. There weren’t really points just bragging rights. We would mostly play this game at school in the early 90’s. School staff would always try and stop us because kids were getting laid out and missing school.
We called it “funniest girl in America”. One person would have to do something funny and whoever laughed lost and was up next. The people guessing would be on the swings and the person trying to be funny would be in front of the swings just enough to where they wouldn’t get hit. I normally won a lot of the time haha.
Also played this games at my friends house where we were xmen but got to choose our own superpowers.
After Halloween I would set up a candy shop in the living room and have my siblings and parents buy candy from me lol
Hand animals. My father and me would pretend our hands were various animals. A loose fist with the middle finger extended slightly for a nose represente dany kind of small animal. Hamster, guinea pig, mouse, etc. Four fingers straight down and middle finger out for a dog, horse, cow, etc.
The unique thing about this we had various named animals with traits and story lines. For instance, there was Fussy Duck who compulsively cleaned things up and would quack in extreme annoyance when there was a mess around. Eventually, Fussy Duck got married to a female Fussy Duck and started getting lazy and didn't clean things up. They eventually had a baby duck named Baby Alfonso duck, who was a member of the "Baby Alfonso Club" which was populated by animals named Baby Alphonso. (Baby Alphonso skunk, Baby Alfonso chipmunk, etc.) There were also the Boysens, who were small rodents about the size of a guinea pig. There were only 5 left in the world and they each were from a different country with a trait reflecting that country. In 2019 terms, the traits we gave them would probably be considered racist. But this was in the 80s and it didn't seem racist then.
We had an entire continuity in existence. It was super fun and I played it way later (into my mid teens) than I usually admit. Even into my twenties (my father died when I was 25), he'd occasionally randomly make Fussy Duck appear and scold me about something. I always felt like Fussy Duck was his favorite.
It was a fun game and one I sort of revived with an ex-girlfriend because she thought it sounded adorable. New animals were created for that, except for Fussy Duck. Fussy Duck will always exist if I play this game.
We used to play dogs in the snow. Literally just pretend we were dogs, walk around on all 4s, lift a leg to pretend to pee on things, play fight, try to sniff butts. It was all kinds of fun!
bast58 · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The British are Coming" - Based on the TV series Daniel Boone with Fess Parker. OK, here goes, My grandparent's house had a downstairs that was awesome. It had a laundry room/mud room/plant room. Plus a billiard room. Add on a two car garage. Then add in an throwback den with a fireplace decorated vintage 1950's Early American. We played in the den. The point of the game was to sneak up the stairs to Mam-maw's pantry and grab some cookies or cake or whatever was yummy there, and there was always something yummy there and get it back down the stairs to the den for us to enjoy. The code word for adults almost catching us was "The British are coming". If any of my cousins are on Reddit, I will immediately know, since I made up this game. If ya'll are here, I love you all.
Sleeping bag monster. Wait until night, turn off all the lights in the basement and cover the windows to make it as dark as possible. The monster is just what it sounds like, a kid with a sleeping bag over their body. The monster had to catch and pin a person to get out of the sleeping bag. We broke a lot of stuff, to say the least.
Me and two friends played an absolutely insane Need For Speed/Grand Theft Auto-Type game for a literal year in a backyard. It started off with all of us having like 3-4 Hot Wheels in our "houses." If you entered someone's house you could steal their car, ideally their fastest car, IF you left a car behind for the one you stole. Thus, having bad cars was advantageous for this swapping mechanism. If you were caught, you gave up a car for free, if you made it back to your house without them noticing you now had a new car for yourself.
We were obsessed with the Fast & Furious franchise so naturally we raced. Races were down by sliding down the slide the fastest and winning prizes. We put a ruler in front of the cars and moved it for an equal start. Winning a race could earn you other cars, or money. Money was so, so important. There was a bidding system where we would purchase hot wheels in an auction, this was over 10 years ago and we talk about it today we probably stopped because of winter or something.
Hot dog, I would sit in the chair we had underneath our steps and my little brother and sister would come running at me. I had a pillow that acted as a hotdog bun and I would catch them in it, making a hotdog.
This game was not safe at all, but it was super fun.
I played a game with friends and my little brother where we got on scooters and rammed each other. We called this game “Ramming” and to invite someone to play with you, the lingo that you would use is “want to Ram?” Or “want to play Ram?” The guy or girl who falls off loses. We didn’t have any scooters that were the same so we had a tournament set up and what i can only describe as a “pick and ban” phase to choose the scooters to use. There are many different play styles and very different scooters to use. For instance, the sparky scooter was a scooter that could spin really fast and was low to the ground. I used this on primarily because I could use he spinning to knock lighter players off their feet. The most widely selected scooters were the battery powered one because it had a heavy base because of the battery and had large tires so it and both of these things just destroyed my sparky scooter thing (we called it the 360 when I rode it because I could spin it 360 degrees and everyone else couldn’t) I would spin and ram into the battery scooter but it wouldn’t budge, and if I didn’t fall off, the other player would just move away a little and wait for me to ram it again until I did fall off. The scooter that countered that one is this one that we had that the rider would get to move forward by shifting your weight from your front foot to your back foot. countered the battery scooter because it couldn’t move backwards for some reason. If the battery scooter rammed it head on, (Don’t worry we limited the speed for the battery powered ramming) then it would not budge. The reason that this specifically countered the battery scooter is because the battery scooter could not turn without doing a little Austin powers thing, so when it’s looking to ram you, it can’t turn, which means that the shifting scooter player can predict the angle that the battery scooter was coming from and meet it head on. The 360 destroys this scooter though because you could be looking as if you are going to hit from one angle but then completely swap and spin the other way and swipe him off his scooter. I can go on about this for days but there was a Rock Paper Scissors game going on with our six scooters. Much like in super smash bros, there are neutral matchups, bad matchups, and good matchups, but those were the three main scooters. He other scooters were back pocket picks if your favorite got banned for that round during the pick ban phase. This game obviously did not start out this complex or physical, but over the two years we played it, (almost every day) it got more strategic and the ramming got harder and faster. The game ended, not because of a injury, although there were many, but because the sparky got demolished in a collision with the battery scooter. It was completely unusable and it was my favorite. The whole seat was cracked and fell off the scooter entirely. One of the back wheels got bent. I was crying for a long time over my loss and there was not counter for the shifting scooter after the 360 got wrecked. I couldn’t even ask for a new one because all of our parents banned it over time even though we still played it. When I lost that scooter, it felt like I was losing a part of me lol. Like your car getting totaled that you spent years modding or something. The game may not have been safe, but it was worth the scrapes and sprains because it was thought provoking to think of strategies with each of the scooter’s unique traits. (This one scooter had separated front wheel like a bicycle so I picked it after the 360 was banned and did a wheelie and swung at the opponent’s handlebars and she lets go of the handlebars and immediately fell because it’s a scooter.) and it was super fun to get those big collisions that happened every once and a while.
Edit: I realized I went over the “meta” and strategy without going over too much tactics or stories from the actual matches. Basically any concrete was fair game, driveways and all. Everyone would watch and cheer on whoever they wanted to win for varied reasons. We ended up needing a referee because humans are terrible. So the person who is deemed least biased would be ref. This ref would not bet any items or money or food, would not be best friends with or related to either contestant, etc. we ended up making a little boundary liner that limited the players that wanted to camp with the low rider and battery scooter. (Forgot to mention that this scooter was named the “gas bike” although it was electric and not a bike at all.) The pick and ban phase was not there at the beginning, but it the way it worked was that I would flip a coin with my opponent, lets call him Fido, and I get heads. That means I go first. I would either pick a scooter or ban a scooter. If I picked a scooter then Fido would just pick whatever counters my scooter, but if I banned a scooter Fido would just pick a scooter that doesn’t have too many counters other than the scooter I banned. If Fido didn’t want to pick for some idiotic reason, he could ban another scooter and then it’s my turn again. Everyone has their strategies to get their perfect scooter, but if you did the same thing twice people would catch on to your schemes. This was incredibly fun and kept the game fresh. I live in southern USA btw so there are no seasons and it is outside temperatures year round.
EdIIt: dont ask me how old I was I have no idea it was just mid elementary school. You try and pin point when you started watching Spongebob. That’s probably not possible at least for me.
I’m definitely putting too much work into this post, but it was fun to write about and I guess I’ll copy it for future posts lol.
I invented this game in second grade where I got an exclusive pack of kids from my class and we would “swim” around the playground as fish and go on missions to save the others if they were “stuck in the seaweed” or “drowning”. the game eventually became so popular that one girl asked me if she could play with us and I told her no because I already had a good 10 people playing there was not enough space on the platform we usually stood on. she got mad and told the teacher.so it got banned.
My grandmother made a life size red and green power ranger out of rights and stuffed up newspaper which had elastic strap at the neck hand and ankles. We wore them and had very intense fights
I used to play follow the girl across the street for hours, she would tie a jump rope around my wrist and walk me around her playhouse. We also had swing races on the set in her backyard and see who could get closest to the powerline. And playing spider where you get on an upended seesaw thing with a pole in the middle that hangs down from the structure with legs crossed and you take turns pumping each other.
Not a “game” per se, but me and my brothers played the “imagination game”. In it, we each had a race of creatures that formed kingdoms, had civil wars, forged alliances, and broke them. We would have massive battles (with pretend ships and armies of course) and would basically take turns narrating what was happening and even having in character dialogue with each other. We basically created a HUGE universe with many different Gods, places, and history. Every session was cannon in this universe, and we played it for about 9-10 years. Every now and then today, I still think about my race. College has changed things a lot and I don’t think about it nearly as often, maybe 4-5 times a month. My little brother wants to write a book about it, and I think his creativity stemmed from the game. Our mom banned video games in our home until i was like 14 so we had to make due with outside and our imaginations.
"Naughty children." Me and my 3 siblings would take turns into who was the parent while the other 3 would get into bed. They would then sneak out, then the "parent" would randomly come running in. Whoever was caught out of bed was the next "parent".
Sounds corny, but it kept us entertained for ages (this was in the 70's).
Assassin. Our older brother was the assassin, we would build a fort of couch cushions, and one of us would be the target, the ambassador of Norway. It went pretty much how you think it would.
Me and my sister played punch buggy except with Canada Goose jackets. Whenever we walked past one of the stores, it turned into a full on boxing match. I’ve now kept the tradition alive with my gf, so the game lives on.
Me and my friends call this absolutely brilliant game pungboll. Translates to nutsack-ball. This game is guaranteed to get you jacked up on adrenaline and at the same time bring out the best of laughs and truest of joy with your closest friends. It also shows who really is the champion around.
All you need is anything roughly the size of a tennis ball. A tennis ball also happens to be the perfect item for the job because it is light enough to not (completely) destroy either you, your friends or anything in proximity when thrown.
The game is very simple. You and your friend(s) sit at an agreeable distance. Around 4m away is normal. You then sit with your legs apart wide open, facing each other. Now you take turns and throw the ball at each others nutsacks.
Rules should be fair, agreeable and made up with each others, followings are guide-lines:
Wear lose clothing, otherwise there can't be suffering and the game loses its purpose.
When throwing the ball, you should have a fixed and steady elbow using only your lower arm to throw so the throws are under the same conditions of force and aim.
You shouldn't move/jerk because you're afraid the ball might hit you. If you do, you're weak. And if a ball were to score perfectly and you don't take the pain the game intended to give you, you're frowned upon and there should at least be a another throw.
You lose not by getting hit, but by chickening out.
The champion is the last man standing due to low pain threshold and outstanding aim. A true champion.
Materials:
3 brave people
Ripsticks for each
Concrete play area
The game: there is a pirate, who attempts to wrestle off the merchant. However, the warrior stands in his way. The game continues until the pirate wrestles the merchant off of his ripstick.
The twist: there are two areas to play: regular space and hyperspace. To transition, players must go to a spot and shout "HYPERSPACE" or "NORMAL SPACE". Preferably they grab a pole or something to do this. Note that you do NOT have to transition in this spot. The pirate has the ability to descend back into normal space at any time and taking anyone he touches with him. This makes for a great opportunity to win, as the warrior is forced to go to the transition spot.
Safety: if you successfully wrestle somebody off of their ripstick, HOLD THEM. Hold them up so that they dont crack their head against the concrete. This system has failed my friends and I only once in the past 10 years.
Also learn how to ride a ripstick well before playing this game.
Real-life RuneScape back in 2007 when I was just 10 years old with my cousins.
We literally recreated RuneScape in my gigantic backyard. Around the Spring of 2008, I used my Border Collie and Jack Russel puppy as my summoner pets and had a 99 summoning cape to show my "awesomeness" of being a Master Summoner.
We played that every Spring and Summer for the past 4 years until high school came. Everything pretty much changed after that. It was about 10 of us playing and then we kind of went on our separate ways during school time. Because I was the football linebacker jock, had cousins in geek clubs, tennis, badminton, volleyball, basketball, etc. Had about 20+ cousins and they had their cousins from their other parents side of the family in the same high school.
Eventually around Junior year, I became depressed since I was given a pacemaker and so a whole bunch of us played Real-Life RuneScape to cheer me up. Now I'm 21 and everyone has their own lives. I hate growing up... Wish everything was still the same :((
Scare the bear, like hide and seek but you jumped out and scared the shit out of sibling; also haunted house, which was my niece and sister go visit our haunted house and one of the attractions would be real and would chase the visitors
I used to play this one game called "hide the soul" with one of my old toys. I don't really remember much about it but I haven't heard of anyone else playing it so I'm claiming it as unique.
My sister and I made up our own cheap version of “escape the room” before that was even a thing (that we knew of at least.) One of us would draw a fantasy underground cavern with all sorts of objects like a bridge over a stream, vines hanging down, rocks, etc. Then we would write down “the way out.” The other one would have to guess the actions it took.
We got more and more creative with it. For example, my sister came up with one where I had to jump up and down on the bridge to break it and use the wood to repair a broken ladder with a hammer I found hidden in a shrub.
First of all, my sisters and I would build a hard-packed sand castle/mound in the backyard. We'd carefully dig out a labrynth (to our minds) of tunnels originating from one central hole in the top of the sand mound, and ending in a number of exit holes around the base.
We would then spend a period of time hunting for and catching skinks and lizards from the garden. We'd place them inside those empty lego carriers with the slide lids in the shade to keep them secure. Once we had at least one each, we'd let them go so they'd race into the hole at the top of the sand hill. Whoever's lizard shot out of the bottom first was the winner.
Yes this sounds terrible, but we never made any lizards run the gauntlet twice, and they all ran free back into the grass on exiting the hill. (Dad figured a sand patch was as good as any sand pit, so no walls to encumber them :p).
While in the car, id pick a speck of dirt on my window, and I’d pretend it was doing an obstacle course. I’d “jump” over street lights, fences, other cars, etc.
There was a path through a wooded corner lot near our house. We would ride our bikes through this path. It wasn’t a wide path and frankly was much of a path at all. One year we found ground hornets on the path we had made that summer. So we threw a bunch of rocks at it until there was a big swarm above the nest. We would then ride a bike as fast as we could past it and the rest would watch. The idea was that if you rode fast and far enough, they would stop chasing you and return to swarm above the nest. It was all fun and games until Mike hit his handlebars on a tree and crashed. He wasn’t far enough away. He lost “Beat the bees” that day. We went home and resumed that game later. I have no idea how many times we played it that summer. Only one casualty that I can remember. Occasionally it would be a sting here or there. We’d shrug it off and keep playing. Mike never played again, he only watched.
We used to play the "screamy game" on my Granny's farm with my siblings. It was an amalgamation of tag and hide and seek. The seeker was on a bike and the rest of us would hide. The reason we called it the "screamy game" was because when you were found, you had to make a break for it and you had to scream while you were being chased. If the seeker caught you (they usually did), you were out and you became the seeker on the bike. Made for some short pursuits as we would run out of breath screaming so much. It was a dumb game but it lasted a few years.
My brothers and I would play the "run and slide" game. We took a sock and folded it into a ball and threw it across the house trying to tag the person out before they slid and made it to base, one at the end of a hallway the other in front of a gas fireplace. I'm sure you can guess why we stopped playing that game.
Zombie. I had a book about surviving the zombie apocalypse. If I had the book I would answer random trivia questions and if I answered it correctly,the questioner would get the book and repeat. Whoever had the book by the end of the recess won
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probably not that unique but it’s fun so i’ll post it anyways. me and my friends would sometimes have combined sleepovers with my friend’s younger sister and her friends at their house and we would all play Hide & Go Seek ~In The Dark~ in her house or sometimes outside. no flashlights. just complete darkness, and every light in the house had to be turned off or covered up. the neighbors hated it. just a bunch of 11-15 year old girls screaming and laughing all night. good times.
Skateboard wars.
Basically tag football/rugby, but you used a skate board.
You were allowed to throw/kick your skateboard into another person with the ball to knock them off. We wore helmets and pads and even mouth pieces and shoulder pads.
But...
It's all fun and games until someone breaks their tail bone. Me.
It was the only place I wasn't wearing a pad.
You would know that Mr. Murphy was the league commissioner.
Woodchips. On a playground one person would close their eyes and be it. They had to fumble around and on the playground until they tagged someone. If someone was running on the woodchips and the one who was it yelled “woodchips” while they were in the woodchips they had to be it. The game was intense and many a toes were stunned wandering aimlessly into slides. Another name for it was sand or really any ground surface we played it on.
You choose two houses on the same side of the street and each of their letterboxes marks a safe zone. It is preferred you pick two neighbouring house's letterboxes so you would run 1 house length but adjust for difficulty.
The goal of the game is to be the last person to be able to reach the opposite letterbox of which a car is coming from. If a car came east, you would run to the west house's letter box. And visa versa.
The real challenge comes when the common occurance of cars coming both ways and cars driving one after another in the late game where both people are exhausted for running letterbox to letterbox for hours.
So me and my dad used to play this game called “Son go in your room your mom and I have to talk”. Later that evening I heard my my mom and dad yelling and usually dad would win
Pickle. No idea how we came up with the game or name...but two people would stand about 50' apart. They would toss a ball between each other. They were essentially the base. The object was to run back and forth without being pegged with the ball. Normally either a tennis ball or baseball. Obviously we were trying to inflict pain..so you didnt want to get hit.
Whenever we drove to Mexico my family would play "count the dead dogs!" Basically you had to count how many dead dogs were at the side of the road. Our record was 47.
“Penguin races” me and brother live in a house with a long thin hallway that has laminate flooring. When we were younger we used to put both of our legs into a pair of pj bottoms so we could barely walk properly and then put on slippery socks. We would face each other down the hallway, pushing and knocking each other over and sliding about. It was so funny
Me and my brother used to go to a friends house after school when we were about 11-13, our friends were about 11 and 14. They had rooms directly across from each other with a hallway in the middle of the rooms. We got in teams of 2 and used to throw everything in each room at each other through the hallway, literally every stuffed animal, article of clothing, book, etc.. Their mom came home so mad everyday and eventually shut it down. Best 2 weeks of my life lol
My friends and I lived in a section of our neighborhood that was a circle with houses on the inside and out (so the houses made an (0) shape) and this game involved at least 5 people with up to 20 sometimes. Usually played at night, we called it zombie island, it was a game of infection tag where one person started out it and each person tagged joined him. The last person alive got to choose the next person to be the first zombie. The catch was that if you stepped onto the street, you became a zombie, and zombies could run on the streets as well as yards. The first zombie would count to 20 as we all ran for our lives and split up usually into groups of 2 or 3 with our friends to go hide. The circle had about 20 houses on the inside so games would be 45 min+ sometimes. Only some of the backyards were fenced in in the middle of the circle, with trees and brush in the middle, so we would also run through backyards and climb trees. We played thiw game so much we had names for areas of the circle like Death Valley and codes for everything
I already commented here but I just remembered a MUCH COOLER GAME I created with my younger cousin called "Sea Monsters"
At my grandparents house, the upstairs living room had a giant bin of toys and there was a pile of blankets on a table that we would sleep on if we spent the night. The thickest one was sleeping bag material and would start as our base island. We each started with a toy gun and had a few items on our base to start off; for instance, we had a paper shredder toy thing that we pretended was an oven and a plastic drum that we pretended was a water pitcher. The carpet around us was poisonous water and you couldn't be touching it with any part of ypur body for more than three seconds or you die, drop whatever you're holding, and start over at the base. Every so often, the imaginary "sea monsters" would show up and we had to kill them; sometimes we'd pretend that one bit our leg or arm and then we couldn't use that limb for the next few minutes. The reward for killing the sea monsters was getting to add islands (blankets) and rocks (chairs, some had wheels) to the surrounding water to be able to access more places and expand our base, as well as getting more stuff from the toy bin (but you had to put down blankets or roll a chair over to get to it first!) Orange lawn cones were water filters which would allow us to drink the surrounding water to stay alive, or if we could get to the waterfall (stairs) without touching the carpet, we could get drinking water and catch fish there (the stairs and the tile floor at the bottom of the stairs were considered freshwater that we could touch). There was really no way to win the game, you just keep building up your base and killing the sea monsters and adding areas and rules to the game as you go along (ie. picking up a random toy and saying "we could use this as a [instert item here]"). Really anything goes as long as you're not so strong that the sea monsters become an irrelevant threat; they become more dangerous as the game goes on, which makes inventing more weapons really fun. We had older cousins that would ask to play as sea monsters, but we always refused because they either didn't play according to our rules ("Sea monsters can't walk on land! Go back on the carpet and get on all fours!") or they'd be really OP and say they killed us permanently (when we clearly established our respawn rule!)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russian roulette ....
With nerf guns
kj-98 · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock snowballs
I come from a family with 8 kids and we had this big basket of like 200 pairs of socks.
It got cumbersome for my foster mom to always match them so she got us to do it. Like once or twice a year in a big batch. Essentially the goal was to be fast and match as many socks as possible because once you where done that was your snowball amo and we'd have a sock now all fight.
EuCleo · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I created a game called bocce frog.
I had been given some sticky toy poison dart frogs for Christmas.
In this two-person game, first we rolled a puck out onto the floor. This was the target. Then we took turns throwing frogs at the target. We each had three. The person with the closest frog scored a point. If I had two frogs closer than your closest frog, I had a point for each. If I had three frogs closer than your closest frog, I got three points. You get the idea.
If one of us chose to bounce a frog off the ceiling, instead of throwing it just directly onto the floor, that frog was worth double points.
Finally, after all of the frogs, but before the score was tallied, we each got to roll a tennis ball at the frogs. Any frogs that we hit with the tennis ball changed sides. If I hit your frog, it was now my frog. But if I accidentally hit my frog, it became yours.
My sister and I basically had a fight club, we would fight each other pretending to be different fictional or made up characters and would sometimes loop our friends into it.
Whenever my friends came over for the night, we would wait until it got dark, then go into the basement. Once everyone was in a different position, one person would turn off the lights, rendering the entire area pitch-black. Once that happened, we would try to find each other and attack. We called it Night Fight. Because we couldn't see, you had no idea when you would bump into someone and start brawling it out, trying to be quiet so the others wouldn't find you and attack while you were distracted. The rounds would last about 15 minutes each until someone got hurt enough to warrant a break. Somehow we never had anything too bad happen, worst injury was a long scrape down someone's back from being thrown against a shelf.
War - with BB guns. The rules were: 1) person had to be at least 50 feet away. 2) NO shots above the upper chest. A neck or head shot was a penalty, as was a violation of rule #1. A penalty resulted in the offended party getting a free shot from 25 feet away into the backside of the offender. Needless to say, nobody wanted a penalty.
I don't think we ever had a name for it, but we would ride double on a bike while blind folded and try to guess where we ended up. One person would sit on the cross bar and steer and the other would sit on the seat and peddle.
This game was just called "The Rosie game" because it involves our dog, Rosie. So Rosie is a heeler, which is a herding dog, This means when we ran, she bit our ankles. See where we're going? We had this little playground you could climb and then there's a slide. This is the rules: No walking, you have to climb the stairs or climbing wall to go down the slide, if Rosie knocks you down you lose one of three lives. I would get a friend or two, and then my brother, and we would take Rosie outside. We would hook her up to one of those leashes that goes in the ground, and then get her in the yard. Now you count down, and when you reach 0, you run. Climb up the climbing wall or stairs, go down the slide, and run back without being knocked over, and then repeat until somebody falls down from Rosie 3 times.
"Kick the Bucket" It's a bit hard to describe, so bear with me.
One kid is "it". They have to stay on the front of the house and are not allowed past invisible lines parallel with the sides of the house. With them is the "bucket". Not always a bucket, but something that sits on the ground and is kicked. Every one else starts at the back of the house and is free to roam where they will.
The object of the game is for one of the kids who is not "it" to kick the bucket. If "it" sees you, he kicks the bucket, calls out your name and where you are and then you have to join them stuck at the front of the house. If someone manages to kick the bucket without being seen, or after being seen before "it" manages to kick the bucket, then everyone who was captured is free and they have the time to run out of sight again. If "it" captures everyone, they choose a new "it".
What really made it fun was my friend's house where we would play was big and had a huge yard all around it with all kinds of hiding places like junked cars and ditches. Also, when "it" would walk away from the bucket to check around corners, there were some mad scrambles to kick the bucket before they turned around. We'd waste entire days doing this.
2 groups, in 2 separate vehicles would exchange 1 member of the party to each other, and then blindfold that “hostage”
You then had 20 minutes to drive your blindfolded hostage as far as you could from the “rendezvous”
At the 20 minute mark, you remove the blindfold and drop off your hostage at the craziest place you could find; It’s now a race to retrieve your team member that was taken hostage by the other car!!!
The first car to retrieve their team member and bring them back to the “rendezvous” was the winner!
It was so much fun being the hostage trying to figure out where in the hell you’ve just been dropped off, then trying to explain to your friends over the phone how to come get you.
There was a large mound of dirt in a field by my house. We (kids in the neighborhood) started calling it the desert island. We would place some treasure (whatever we had at hand that day) on top of the mound and took turns seeing who could get it the fastest. We built on the rules and challenges. It turned into an obstacle course were you had to collect the treasures in a specific order. There was also kids on the ground that would throw balls at the runner. If the runner was hit they had to kneel for five seconds. We had referees to make sure the runner was following the rulers and time keepers to keep track of everyone's time. We took it so seriously. Things got so heated one day when someone wanted to carry a bag with them to hold the treasures on their run. Half of the kid said this was unfair because part of the challenge was holding all the treasures on your run. It got really ugly that day. It was such a great time. It was a sad day when they developed the lot and removed the mound.
In middle school, my friends and I created a game we called Slap Happy.
The players would stand in a circle. Whoever started would turn to the person next to them and slap them. Then that person would slap the next person down. The slap traveled the circle until everybody except one person quit.
We had some things like reversals, double slaps, back hand, double back hand, etc. These were used randomly and without clear reason. We had an unspoken rule to just not be dicks about it.
In our biggest game (10+ willing participants), the final three were myself, my cousin and my best friend. All three of us were too stubborn to concede. The game was ended prematurely when a recess monitor broke us up. Apparently, slapping your peers at school is frowned upon.
2v2 Using a frisbee on a tennis court. it has the same scoring and basic rules as tennis (ie where the serve has to end up) with some variations do to the frisbee
-once the frisbee was caught you could only pivot on one foot. Have to get rid of frisbee within 3 seconds of catching it
-pump fakes are allowed
-couldn’t throw the frisbee in a downward motion so no spiking it if your were at the net
-your feet had to be within the white lines on the court when you caught the frisbee
Feel like I’m forgetting some of the rules but it was an absolute blast to play and absolutely wore you out. May have to hit some of the guys up to bring it back this summer.
We played a game called "Soviet Russia Ice Farmers". We had this pool where it froze over one night so in the morning I went out with my cousin and two sisters to play this game. There was no objective but I played a prisoner with one my younger sisters and my older sister and cousin were our masters. We used sticks as ice pics and we were screamed at to hurry up by my sister and cousin and we just tried to extract as much ice as we could from the pool. It was a one time game but it sure did pass some time.
Street games,(Unique cuase most children my age play video games) Since we are filipinos living in the province we got wide streets just for us, We mostly play "Patintero", "Tumbang preso", "Bente uno" and much more. I'm 13 now if you ask
Spike Ball. You threw a ball onto a trampoline & then took the hose and covered the trampoline in water. We would then all get onto the trampoline (5-6 of us aging 6- 15) and bounce. If you got touched by the ball, you were out. It was so fucking hard especially with the water. My sister slipped and broke her ankle and we were no longer allowed water on the trampoline :(
The game was basically a "live-action" rpg where we just made up a character and a scenario using only our imagination. There was no barriers and no references but the movies and tv shows we used to watch and games we used to play (we had never played rpg at the time).
There was a period when we were doing that every week or so and it would go on for hours... on the ground floor of 30 floors residencial buildings. I can only wonder what the adults who saw 12 years old kids laying "unconscious" on the floor while the others went away to have a "fight" thought about it lol.
Looking back, I think it was a very good use of imagination and creativity when colsoles and pc games were not very popular.
I have three siblings, and the four of us are all close in age, so we were always quite misbehaved growing up (and had no censorship from our parents). The strongest memory I have of us bonding is when we created a game together called, "Did you change your plans?"
You start the game by making up a story about future plans. Then, someone else asks, "Did you change your plans?" and you had to come up with a reason why you had to change your plans, and the reason ALWAYS HAD to involve queefing. No matter what your plans were, you had to change them because of queefing.
We came up with elaborate, creative stories for hours on a nightly basis, and even wrote each other letters about how we had to change our plans due to queefing. My eldest sibling was 10. My youngest was 5. I still don't know how we came up with this game.
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When waiting in restaurants my mother used to play a game with me and my brother. She would draw a head shape, and we would each take turns filling in the face with wild eyes, ears, etc and seeing what kind of monsters we’d end up with in the end. I wish we kept some of the final drawings, they were interesting to say the least
By the time my family got their second car, we started to see it everywhere. We saw it on the road, in the background of our shows, I guess it was a popular model. Until we got our next car once it died, we would always point at a car when it was the same model as ours and shout the type of car it was before anyone else did.
Disks of death!
At night when we were kids and would have sleep overs my dad would go somewhere in the house to hide and we'd have to go find him. Except the entire house is pitch black and he jumps out and scares the living shit out of you and the goal is to throw paper plates like frisbees and hit him but we just run off screaming. So fun great memories lol
“Game?” Idk about that....It was fun but really weird so don’t judge.
So it was kinda like a murderer game. And whoever was it had to sit in a dark closet and have their mouth taped shut and their hands tied. The others had to hide around the house while the person that was it had to try and untie themselves. So I specifically remember me being it this one time. I was untying myself and I got out like 20 minutes later. I found the other kids (my cousins that loved the game) and they helped me find our uncle. So after we found him we couldn’t find our aunt and her friend (who we soon found out were hiding in my garage)
Hear me out, if was a fun frickin game. But we stopped playing after we started walking over to our other aunts house freaking out bc we couldn’t find our aunt and her friend. :(
Base Dodge- Baseball with a dodgeball. In order to get a base runner out you have to hit them with the dodge ball. If the base runner catches the ball they score a point.
I used to love playing in my sandbox in the backyard but just setting up army men and pretend battles got boring. I decided to ramp it up a bit with filling the sandbox with water and making it a challenge to save as much of sandbox as possible before it overflowed with water. There were left over wood pieces from a backyard deck and we would use those to create dikes, dams, and whatever else to hold back the rising water. If you built them too high without a strong enough base, it would fail. Losing that side of the sand box.
It was loads of fun up until my Mother would yell at us for wasting water. Which I never understood since we had a well and the water was pretty much going back to which it came.
"Black out" ruff game of "hide and go seek" you have seeker everyone hides. its at night the lights are off once you find some one you wrestle and ruff them up then "you" and "seeker" go find the next person and same thing needless to say dont be the last to be found youll be sore hope your not in a game of ten peeps lol
In 2008 i stumbled apon a game called RuneScape. It was a quite simplistically kept MMORPG which didnt restrict you to one combat style but instead let you switch around from being a mager to a ranger or a melee warrior. Also there where plenty more skills such as mining or woodcutting that you could train. The maximum level of any skill was 99; the creator of the game doubted that any player would reach that level because the required xp you would need to level up was exponentially growing as you progressed, meaning that on average you would have to spend 100's of hours to get to the maximum level of just one out of 26 skills. It turned out though that dedicated players would take on this grind and so a small comunity of real hardcore players had arisen. 11 years later, the game still exists, And I still play it whenever I have any spare time. Its become a part of my life by now. There is something intriguing to this game that can’t be explained. I never found a game that comes even close to this level of perfection.
BLupas · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in elementary school, one of my friends used to not like playing tag because he never wanted to be it, and most of my friends agreed with this, so I came up with a game that I called "elemental freeze tag". The game would work best with multiples of 3, but could be done as long as there were at least three people playing. Each team would be assigned one of three elements - fire, water, or grass - and they would chase each other accordingly: fire would chase grass, grass would chase water, and water would chase fire. This way everyone was both "it" while also running from the person who was "it". After that it essentially became freeze tag unless there weren't 6 people playing, in which case the person who was tagged would be frozen for about 10 seconds. I sadly, however, came up with this a little late, so we didn't get the chance to play it much, but it was fun while it lasted.
My brother and I just randomly came up with a game where we'd hide on opposite ends of our parents' bed and throw stuffed animals like grenades at each other. The "unique" part of the game was that one of us would shout "MAUDE" and the other would shout "ARADIA" in roaring voices as we were throwing something. If you got hit you had to make a goofy scream and the other player would get a point. We switched who was "Maude" and who was "Aradia" each time we played.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to shove a ton of goldfish in our DVD player, which would break it
So my brother, my father and I would grab a tennis ball and then sit Indian style in a circle about 10 ft away from each other. Or if the room was big enough, in couches and chairs. We would then lob the ball at each other, trying to hit each other in the balls. You wouldn’t get points for hitting balls tho. You’d get a point if your toss was mid air and the recipient started laughing because he could tell it was on target. You could only catch it if it was going to completely miss your body, otherwise you let it hit you. You’d let it hit your face or stomach but once in a while, upon release, you’d realize it was going to hit its mark and you’d laugh and then catch it so it didn’t hit you in the sack. If you didn’t want to give the opponent a point, you’d let it reach the destination like a man.
TL;DR we were broke so we would try to hit each other in the balls with a tennis ball
Cheslyn House. On the way home from football (I played 5 times a week) and when you saw the sign to this Manor House now a museum you had to shout CHESLYN HOUSE. I never won but always pretended I didn’t hear dad say it first
We often pretended we were either homeless or stranded in the woods (nearby small forest) & build forts. I mean elaborate forts out of branches and logs.
We would play fairies and try to catch fairies for literally HOURS down by a nearby creek.
Dinosaurs. You played on a playground & someone could either be a T-Rex or a Velociraptor, & they had to stay on the sand. The kids had to try and get past the dinosaur. The kids would be on the playground trying to get down and across to other parts without being eaten (touched) by the dino. Then they became the dino.
Don’t wake daddy. In middle school we had a long set of steps that had a longer step in the middle. Someone would stand on it with their eyes closed and we had to run past without them touching us. Super dangerous, always fun.
We played ‘Spies’ and would meet every day at the side of the school for months on end with matching notebooks writing about stuff.
We played orphanage a lot and pretended we were abandoned. Your standard house games as well.
We recorded radio shows a lot. We counted the alphabet out on license plates on road trips. In order.
We used a flight simulator to pretend we were pilots for a loooong time. We made libraries with barcodes and check out systems. We set up pretend movie theatres in our homes.
But our all time big one - was Barbies. Barbies did it all and more let me tell you.
I called it "kit kat kit" because that was my favorite candy (still is but that's beside the point). You could role play any character from any thing you wanted. I made it to avoid fights between my brothers and me. They could be a transformer/power ranger/whatever and I could be whatever I wanted (mainly Naruto characters).
Spee21 · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Laser Pointer Game”
In my parents house we had a ginormous crawl space (900 sq feet) that was filled with our old toys, old TVs, or whatever my parents hoarded. The game was simple, an abbreviated version of hide and seek with a laser pointer. The person who was searching for others would just have a laser pointer as a flash light and catch people if they flashed the beaming laser on them.
My brother and I would play a game called 'big dumb animal' where one of us would cover ourselves with a blanket and then crawl around and run into things while the other one just watched and laughed.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tree King", we would all get up in a tree that wasn't too high and spread out. Then we would yell GO! and try and knock each other out of the tree. Last person still in the tree wins.
Keittiöpallo, kitchen ball. There is a goalie, who guards this certain recess under the counter in my friend's parents' kitchen, and another player who sits in front of the back of their couch.
The another-player then tries to get a floorball to the goal. I don't really remember if you would throw the ball, or use your hands as rackets or flippers.
Was fun until the friend, who was at the time unnecessarily violent sometimes, would throw the ball way too hard and it would hurt.
It was a game called “Bull” a very dangerous game Indeed. So my friend brought an exercise ball and we used to run at each other and ram them. The goal was to be the last one standing. You could get eliminated by getting thrown out of the trampoline or tapping. And everyone would take turns being the bull.
Christmas Lights! During the christmas season whoever saw Christmas lights while riding in the car had to shout "Christmas lights!" first. We would keep score, with no real goal in mind. I have 7 siblings so it was very competitive and included a lot of rules about whose window you could look out of. My mom now tells us it was the game she hated most.
"Drive-by" Basically, this game was always being played in the background. Say you're shooting hoops in your friend's driveway, and a you see a car coming down the street. The game was to quickly try to hide from the car before it reached us. If you didn't find a hiding spot in time, you were "dead". Played this between the ages of 10-14/15-ish.
It wasn't until later on in life that I realized we were just practicing for the real thing because we lived in a slightly "hood" area.
I dont remember the name, but a few friends and I would go about 20 feet away from each other, turn around, & run at each other as fast as we could, & try to trip each other, Prince & repeat, whoever fell first lost
"Maze". It's not what you think. It's actually a game where you bring out a paper and a pen and draw different genres of games like side-scrolling, 2d RPGs, and actual Mazes then you let other people try it out. It's kind of like the flash games on the browser but you control the player by drawing lines as the player's navogator
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sleep tickling”. My uncle would tickle me when I was asleep. Haven’t played since I was a little kid
Crazy bags. When it was really windy, my parents would send my brother and me outside with grocery bags and string and let us "fly" the bags. We thought it was great. My parents are geniuses.
I was a pretty weird lonely kid, so my best friend was my imagination.
Inanimate objects became characters in a bigger story I couldn’t make sense of.
My left hand was a brother, the right a sister. They argued a lot, but in the end they were friends again. They go on crazy adventures.
Under my desk was a cubby hole where we stored tools. In first grade the scissors were friends, and they ate the paper. I would cut little pieces out, and have them have ‘jobs’ one worked as a pencil ‘sharpener,’ shaving off the edge to show lead. Sometimes the pencil would fight the scissors, and eventually became ‘real’ too.
When I got into trouble with other kids, they’d send me to eat lunch alone in this small room. All by my self, and come and retrieve me when lunch was over.
I pretended mashed potatoes were snowy mountains or monsters, and that the peas were people fighting to cross it.
Its Ninja, a game where you can gather in a circle and take turns making a single pose. After everyone makes their starting pose, they try to use their next turns to try to touch the person next to them. In a single movement, with the target allowed to move out of the way. If you get touched by the other person, youre out.
Crotch Ninja adds the difficulty of having to hop and pelvic thrust into your target in order to get them out.
This was traditionally played at New Years in my best friends cul-de-sac with all our friends from high school.
We played a game called "Mr. President." Kind of like nose-goes, everyone just starts putting a finger into their ear like they have a headphone in there. Those people are the secret service. Last person to put their finger in their ear is the president, and they needs to be tackled in order to protect them from bullets.
Downhill derby!!! We had a big hill going from grandmas house to the garden, and a bunch of little pedal cars and ride on toys. My two older cousins and my sister and I would just fling ourselves down the hill and hope we didn’t die it was awesome.
In the winter we’d tie a rope to the back of our snowmobile and just whip each other around into snow drifts and haybales on sleds or just chunks of plastic. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Claim Game”
When on the road with your family, each person gets to claim one car they see on the road for the duration of that day with the intent of seeing who can “claim” the best car by the end of the day. Whoever claims the best car wins, with “best” being determined by a majority vote in your vehicle. Generally speaking expensive sports cars are where the money is at, but unique, funny looking vehicles can sometimes win depending on the group you’re with.
We played "Roller Bike" during the height of the original roller derby craze. Next-door uncle had an oval concrete driveway. All able neighbor kids got on their bikes and rolled around the oval, with some now-unremembered method of "winning". After a good number of injuries and busted bikes, the neighborhood parents collectively called a halt to this amazingly fun and dangerous game!
Still nowadays me and my mom while going on trips play this game called Baywatch, the object of the game is to find as many yellow cars you can on the roadways that are not buses. Each time you say Baywatch before someone else does you get a point first to 15 wins. But, if you call Baywatch on a bus or not yellow car it is -2 points, At one point my mother got so pissed at me for beating her she banned Baywatch in the car
Guy in my head who is not allowed to say "Oops, I'm not allowed to say that." So he says that over and over and over again whenever I felt like thinking about him. I can still see his face.
My brother would hold my hands beside my head, then I would have to guess what hand he would hit me with. If I was right I wouldn’t get hit if I was wrong I would. If I was right three times in a row it was my turn to hit him. Lol it was a game of honesty and trust.
You would start on a sidewalk with the lines in it, grab a basketball and a soda bottle cap.
Put the cap at the center of on of the lines and then 2 people stand on opposite ends of the cap behind each of there own lines of the sidewalk.
OK| •| |OK.
Bad example but that is essentially what it would look like. One person on each side behind the lines and the cap on the middle line, then you try to move the cap with the basketball across your opponent's line, first one to do so wins.
I don’t think we ever named it. Or maybe I was too young to remember. Basically we would play 1v1 with one person on each side of a power line that also had a light pole over the line. You would take turns throwing the football, the nerf kind that whistles and was connected to a stick with a tail. If you threw it over and the other person missed it you get a point. There were mailbox boundaries. You would want to hit the power line so that it would drop too hard to catch. We played this at the same line every night for years and year first person to spell bomb loses. That’s it the name was bomber. We sometimes played 2v2 as well.
My brother and I used to play this game we made up. One of us is lying down and choking on an imaginary gold coin. The other performs some CPR pumps on the other's chest until he spits the coin out. The first one catches the coin mid-air and yells "Yaaarrrr!", tries to bend it with his teeth to verify its goldenness, and in the business of bringing it close to his mouth gets it stuck in his throat. Reverse roles, repeat forever.
Freeze/Zap Tag: like freeze tag but there is an extra mode you had where you got Tazed. So basically when you tagged someone you had to say out loud which one you wanted to use on that particular person, and if you didn't they became the tagger. When you are tazed you have to lay down in a plank-like position making it harder for the person to get away, however when in the forest it made it harder to see.
When me and my cousins visited our grandparents for Christmas we would jump on couches and avoid the floor because the floor is lava or sharks can’t remember exactly
We played rocket tag. We'd put pop bottle rockets into paper towel rolls, light them and shoot them at each other. If you were hit, you were out. It hurt like a BITCH to get hit but we loved it. Once, a local friend had an out of town visitor who ended up with a bunch of burns on his neck. They looked like hickeys to the host mom and she freaked out. He went with the hickey story so we wouldn't get busted. Being a preteen in the 80s was the best!
"Wipeout" - literally played the song Wipeout on a record player over and over while playing.
Anyway, my older brother would try to hit us with a dodgeball. If he hit you, you had to play dead where you were hit unless another kid could get to you and touch you - resurrecting you. The only way the game could end is by my brother killing everyone with the ball without anyone resurrecting. We broke so many things in that basement lol.
Split my forehead open. 13 stitches. I'm a 5'3" woman. At the time 130 lbs. Guy slammed my head into a wall!! Pretty deep. Concussion and all that. As far as injuries from anything fun? Fractured ribs falling out of a tree.
Kick the can (common game unique twist). In the summer when corn was highest we'd sometimes take a can out into a cornfield and find a large bare patch of dirt which is a low spot where water collects in the spring rains and prevents growth. We'd set the can down in the middle and played roshambo to determine who was "it". Idk if you've ever played kick the can, but doing it in a cornfield is tough...
So many factors come into play:
The weather - Clowdy=Easier to hide
The rows - Looking down a row you can see for a long way, across rows maybe a few yards
Sound - You're in a corn field. You can sneak all you want, but when you make the commitment to bolt for the can you'd better be fast because everyone and their mother is gonna hear it.
Sense of direction - Corn is well over your head, its easy to get turned around and lose track of where you are. I once got lost and had to use the sun and knowledge of which way the corn was planted in this field to find my way back. Had I been wrong I'd have walked a half mile before stepping out.
We would pick a number like 7, then watch cars pass buy, the seventh car would be yours. Then start over and say like 2, then the second car would be your new car.
We played Dukes of Hazzard with the kids that lived in the yard behind our house. This was 82, 83ish. Obviously. I was about 7 or 8.
I was always Bo and the neighbor's daughter was Daisy. We would run and hide from my brother, Boss Hogg, and her brother Roscoe P Coltrane, and usually wound up in a closet hiding and making out until the "cops" got near and we'd have to make a break for it.
We would play a game in the pool similar to marco polo but no marco or polo and your eyes can be open underwater. This is best played in the dark.
If somebody sneaks out of water people can tell the hunter that they are and he will yell fish out of water. If their thighs are out of water they are it. If the person hunting wrofully yells "fish out of water they have to wait 10 seconds.
No sacrafise type of stuff and the hunter has 5 seconds to hear where people are and breathe
My friends and I had this thing called the “annual bag run” in like 4th grade.
WhAt we basically did was tie the rope things on your bags together, form a straight line and run down a steep ass hill.
Looking back that shit was mad dangerous and the fact none of us got hurt is a miracle.
Car fishing. String up a pop can to a fishing line and you sit in lawn chairs with a cooler and cast them out to the street. Reel em in and try to get a car to run it over.
My brother and I had a bunk bed that we could reach the fan from. We would put Hot Wheels cars on top of the fan blades and then turned the fan on. Sometimes the challenge was to see whose car flew the furthest and other times it was to who could hold on the longest. Our parents did not appreciate.
My cousins and I played this all the time at my grandma's before we, you know, eventually grew up and didn't talk to each other because family is weird.
To play, pick one person to be the Ghost and put a blanket over them. They would stay upstairs while the rest of the group hides. When everyone is ready, the lights are turned off and the blanket-covered Ghost tries to find them. You're out if the ghost catches you in the blanket. You win if no one finds you. The first one found is the next ghost.
"Honkers" Yes I know it doesn't sound so kid friendly but hear me out.
When on trips to Maine, My family (mainly me and the cousins) would make weird faces, type on our phones, air drop messages, or even act out honking a truck horn towards truck drivers to get them to pull the lever to honk or whatever, I'm not sure that's how they honk in cartoons. All from the car window, of course.
By the end of our 8 hour minimum drive we count how many honks we got over the period of time while driving and always tried to beat a highscore each trip.
We also have a similar game which is pretty dangerous but funny (this game is one for short cars not trucks.) We call the game "Funny face" cliché name, duh.
How we would play, is that whoever got the driver in the lane next to us on the highway to look over when we made funny faces, got a point. And each weird look you get from a driver you add up the points depending on how many passengers of that car.
At the end of the drive, we would see who got the most points and who ever won got a cupcake.
tynara · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember play a game in a Samsung old cellphone orange screen was kind lara Croft theme I don’t remember the name
I would do alternate history roleplays with my friends. I remember one when LBJ became a tyrant because my character won the election. He also invaded Canada and took over all the eastern provinces. And George Wallace ran too and split the Southern states off as a New Confederacy. Then I went back and convinced the Western states and the Prairies of Canada to hold a convention and split off as the Co-operative States of America. The 3 countries fought from 1964 to 1968, until they all united to get a Chinese-backed regime out of Hawaii.
It was a mix of "hot and cold" and base. One person would hide a belt somewhere in the vicinity while everyone else starts off at base. Everyone would then go search for the belt and the hider tells people when they are hot (close) or cold (far). The belt finder then gets to chase everyone and whip them before they get back to base. Then the finder becomes the hider.
Gridz. It was a fun Mac game where you build humanoid robots that either destroy each other, destroy your enemy's bases, or help build your base. The bigger you base the faster you get points and more points get get you more bots. Hell of a game. I think you can still get it somewhere out there....
Ok, so this is still something we sometimes do, but my cousins dog had a favorite squeaky toy we called the goosey. So one day, she made up a story about how the goosey is always following her around and quacking whenever it wants. Later that day she farted, and yelled "IT WAS THE GOOSEY!" and thus a tradition was born
I used to always love to kick a bouncy ball over the power lines at the road where I live and I did this for years.I would simply kick the ball over the power line,go get it from wherever it landed,then kick it back over the power line.There was no danger of ever hitting a car because I live in an area so rural that you can go to sleep lying in the road at night and feel safe that nobody will drive by before you wake up at dawn,so my parents didn't really care.
Edit:I just remembered that a few times in first grade(only twice) I played tick tac toe by myself.I would take the first turn then I would close my eyes and blindly mark another spot as the opposing player and whichever spot I marked in or whichever one the mark was closest to I would count as "my oppositions choice".I lost one game to my "competitor" and won one game as well. It got boring fast.
When I was around 12, my brother(2 years younger than I am) and my dad would play the "interception game". Football is very prominent in our family line so its conception immediately stuck with us.
The jist of it is, my dad and the two of us would alternate being on offense or defense, and the person on offense would "huddle" with my dad and figure out a passing route. Dad says hike, person on offense runs the route and the person on defense has to try to stop them from catching the ball, or try to intercept it. A catch on the offense was a point, a blocked pass by the defense was a point, and an interception on defense was two points. To win you had to be left with two points more than your opponent with a round of redemption.
We started by going to 20 points, then 30, then 50, and from then on it was just until everyone decided to be done. The highest score I can recollect was my brother beating me 224 to 222. That game took almost an hour and a half and it was probably the best Thanksgiving of my life.
Zhubal is basically a game based in negative reinforcement that is similar to an adult version of 4 square. Although if you call it that you get a penalty. I. An only describe it as the best game ever invented. Another key rule is that you can't be told how to play.. You learn by doing and unintentionally breaking the rules and receiving penalties.
No-look is a game where a group of people stand in a circle and bounce a ball to each other. Primary rule is not looking at the person it is passed to....like a no look pass in basketball. The must bounce once and be catchable. Points are bad and if you drop the pass thrown to you, you get a point. The goal of the game is not to lose. If you lose, you are crowned the Dingus....
We made a roller coaster by lining a rubbermaid tote with blankets and pillows and would throw each other down the stairs...with the lid on of course because you know, safety.
-The "no thumb game." See if you can go a whole day without using your thumbs for anything or else you lose.
-"Giggle closet." In my bedroom there was a walk-in closet you could hide in. Take turns sneaking out and trying not to be spotted by the adults of the house. For some reason this was insanely funny, so we'd end up having to cut off the sneaking early to go hide and giggle in the closet. Pretty sure my parents spotted us every time.
-"Dark tag." Best played at night. Pull all the blinds shut in a room and close the door so everything is pitch black. The person who is "it" has to grope around and try to touch someone and then that person is "it." It was kind of dangerous since it's best played when you don't move things out of the way so the "it" person gets confused and trips over things. Those hiding are free to move around but must be careful to not make any noise. With just a bedroom to hide in, it's a really enclosed space so you have to be sneaky. My favorite thing to do was toss something across the room that made a noise to distract who was "It" so I was free to find a new hiding place. Parents put a stop to the game when they found out about it. We weren't happy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pin hockey. We played in a empty cafeteria. Each player gets a row type area ( like the layout of a foosball table, and is equipped with a bowling pin ( all we had at the time but interesting to use) and the goal is to hit a wiffle ball hard enough across the floor to hit the opposite wall. First team to 17 wins, 8 players a team. It was weird as fuck but we played it all the time, I just was always curious how it would be played professionally, bc we used plastic pins and a wiffle ball
My friends and I would take Matchbox cars and sit on opposite sides of the kitchen floor. We would then slide them across the floor with the intention of having them collide. If they crashed and your car did not land on its wheels it had to be removed from your pile. When they did not collide the cars were returned to their respective players. Cars had to go in order.
We would select 10 cars each (we had our favorites) one at a time. So many fights but such a great time.
Not that intricate, but me and my siblings had a netted trampoline, and would have "knock out contests" which involved that weird double jump technique and seeing who could drop kick the others into submission
“Slugs”. When we were too pent up but couldn’t be thrown outside we would play this game. We would go to the basement, turn off the lights, get in sleeping bags and fight as slugs. Basically limbless battling. Get the rage out with minimal damage. We also would climb and leap off of very rickety furniture (collapsible variety) just for hoots.
All I can remember clearly is playing what we called Mini Olympics with a bunch of different games we came up with.. me, my younger brother, a girl my age and her younger sister who was my little brother's age. Our mum's were friends. We awarded gold, silver and bronze but the youngest girl always came 4th, so we assigned 'pearl' as 4th.
The “Marker Game.” A popular game I played with my classmates in later elementary and early middle school. Everyone in the class was given an NFL team (because that was easy and got the guys hyped to participate), as well as a few close friends in other classes.
In tournament style, starting with group stage, and moving to a bracket, players would have a crayola market that represented their team. I then held all the markers out between two hands (making an “H” shape with them), and then, with my eyes closed, would drop markers one by one until one remained. The last standing got a point. First to 10 advanced. Played it while there was free time in class.
It became very competitive, and my desk would often be surrounded by classmates when matches went on. The teachers actually stopped class most years for the championships.
Not for the feint of heart... find a SMALL foyer or entryway with doors that close on both sides to to make a small room... take a hand ball (the blue ones, not real hand balls) and just wing as fast as you can into a wall... First to take a shot that makes them give up (usually the eye, throat or crotch) is the loser.
Whenever my family would drive to my grandma’s house, my dad would point at a car on the highway and I would name the brand of car it was, Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota, etc.I don’t know why I was so fascinated by car brands, but it kept me entertained.
My neighbor and I would very meticulously set up our armies in his basement. Rows upon rows of army men, all in various strategic formations on either side of the room. It took FOREVER. Next we'd carefully divide a bunch of small lincoln log pieces between us equally, before making our way back to our side of the room. Then we'd hurl our lincoln log pieces at each other's troops, sending them flying into the air and all over the room.
"The Crutch Game" In our laundry area the dirty clothes would just be in piles all over the floor. My brother and I would take turns using one of the crutches to fling socks and underwear or whatever nastiest piece of laundry we could find at each other. The person getting the item flung at them was not allowed to move or take off any items that land on them.
Well me & my sister used to put a bunch of pennies in a play milk jug, and we would take turns pouring them all into our mouth, then putting them back in the milk jug. We'd just pass it back and forth in a car ride.
The pancake game. Me or my brother would lie on the sofa and then the other one would lay across the top of the seats and roll off, thereby squashing the original like a pancake!
It hurt, but was so much fun!
Me and my friends in school made up this game that we called "Stump".
It was basically hide and seek tag, with a bit of that game "predator and prey" or whatever you call it.
There was also a safe zone, it was this giant tree stump in the middle of a forest, situated in a small clearing.
Game started out with 1 person that would be "it" (they usually volunteered)
The rest of the class would run into the forest and hide. The person would then run into the forest and try to tag as many of us as he could. If tagged you would go back to the stump and sit down(so everyone knew you were tagged) to wait for the next round(which would be around 5 minutes if the person couldn't tag everyone)
Now the people that get tagged are technically out, but will come back in the next round as tagged as well if there was anyone left that hadn't been tagged.
You could run to the stump while the people who were "it" were out trying to tag people, and this would mean you were "safe" and would not be "it" for the next round.
The game was hilarious cause people eventually started evolving it, and would leave someone "it" to guard the stump, so we would hide in groups and all charge in and hopefully confuse/outmaneuver the person.
It took us 2 rounds to catch this 1 kid as a whole class(20somethingvs1), he was so fast. If he was it usually you couldn't do shit but try to jump over bushes and run around trees to get away from him.
It ended up being played by the whole school for a few years. Not sure about anymore.
So, first, let me state that my school was full of crazy psycos.
We used to play these things called the gullible games, because the jocks people would tell gullible nerds that the gullible games were fun and harmless. Anyways, they were a series of games that were just "beat each other up for 5 minutes". For example, gullible bumper cars, we would constantly body check each other for 5 minutes, which would sound harmless, but mind you, these were grade 5 jocks against grade 1 gullible nerds, so there were some HUGE bruises. And gullible tree, where we would spin around and around a tree as fast as we could and try to pull each other into the tree. Gullible wall, the grade 1 nerds would form a wall and the jocks would try to push them down. New ones were thought of all the time, and people would get hurt all the time. So now you get a sense of what I mean by "crazy psycos".
Dominos used to build forts and/or bunkers. Then we would strategically place little green plastic army men in and around the fortifications. Each side would get a certain number of dominos to used as bombs, this depending on size and scope of battle. Both sides of the room had to use a certain amount of room too, you couldn’t just arbitrarily put a fort on shelve for example. And, each person had to use all bombs and once an army man was hit he was taken off the field. The person with the most men when all the bombs were used up at the end, won.
Good times!
And every once in a while a stray domino would come close to taking an eye out...
I don't remember what we called it and it isn't all that unique, but my friends and I used to block out all the light in his large finished basement and then play hide and seek in the pitch darkness. You had to get to the stairs where the seekers start without them tagging you or you getting hurt so alot of it was just based on sound, which was dope.
3RD grade, the game was "ONE MAN KILL". We had a sloping grassy hill at our elementary and all the boys ran around knocking each other down. If you were knocked down it counted as a kill, you stayed down or risked wandering to the sidelines. "Larry" had either been held back twice or started school late and was a beast so it was actually played to see who got second place because nobody beat Larry. We played everyday all year that year.
When I was younger. My cousins, sister and I made up this game called "oops"
This game was played on a trampoline
the whole premise of the game was to make someone fall over or off the trampoline. If you did manage you would say oops and if you fall you are out. this goes until there is one person who hasnt fallen
looking back on this. I'm really glad no one got seriously hurt when we played this.
I dont think its unique but heres how it went. Only to be played at night, this game was like hide n seek tag. One person would count at one of the kids' trampolines whilst we all went and hid. After the seeker leaves, its the objective of the hiders to make it to the trampoline without being caught. I always lost cuz i didnt like the dark and the hiders always took a route all the way around the block just to get to someone's backyard and hop the fence to get to the trampoline.
We used to “can cars”. Which is where you you tie two empty pop cans together with fishing string. We’d then stretch then two cans across the street at an intersection and put the cans in bushes that are across the street from each other (so it suspends the fishing line in mid air.). When a car comes it would catch the fishing line and drag the pop cans down the street. Cars all over town were clanking!!
trampoline ball! every ball in the yard would go on the trampoline and you had to jump around and avoid touching any of the balls. if you got hit you had three lives and then you were out
My friends and I played a game called "bear." It was kinda like a mix of hide and seek and tag at the same time. We'd set an object as the starting point (normally a tree or something easy to reach out and touch). Then, one person would start as the bear and count to a number based on how many people were there and what everyone agreed on, while everyone else hid. The objective was for everyone hiding to get back to the original object and touch it without the bear tagging them. The bear, then, of course was trying to get as many people as they could before they touched the object. After everyone had either been tagged or touched the tree or whatever then everyone who had been tagged by the bear would join the bear's team and everyone who made it back got to hide again. You would go until everyone had become a bear, so if you had like 10+ people playing it would get really hard to be in the last like 3 hiders. Then after everyone is a bear you can play again and choose a new starting bear.
Gosh. It’s a toss up between playing “baseball” with a big stick and a pine cone in the middle of the road or shoving Cheetos up our noses (one in each nostril) and seeing who could blow theirs out and have them travel the furthest distance.
"Goggy on a stick"
Grew up on 40 acres in the middle of nowhere with 3 brothers. Lots of cows, no video games and bad TV reception.
The game, goggy on a stick, involved finding the best stick (fun in itself), stabbing it into a cow patty and then chasing one of your siblings with it.
Hours of fun for the whole family.
"Dead Weight" one of you would lay on the floor on the side of the bead, you let your body go completely limp. The other person would try to lift you up and get your lump body on the bed. I grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania, there wasn't much to do during the winter.
My oldest sister played grumpy guts with us, her younger siblings.
When ever someone was grumpy we would play grumpy guts, I do t remember the rules, but the grumpy guts would be made fun of outside and people would dance and sing around them to try to make them laugh and feel silly.
So I hope this doesn't sound condescending because I think it's absolutely adorable, but....the saying is actually "Grumpy Gus". Any chance child-you misheard it and had it wrong all these years?
There was a significant amount of time in which every bathroom in my home had potpourri in it, and every time I went pee I would throw some potpourri in the toilet and pretend I was brewing a potion/casting a spell.
Pillow blanket slide. My brother and I would gather up nearly every single pillow in the house and line the staircase with them, and then slide down. My adult self is now ASTOUNDED that neither of us injured ourselves during this shit.
Mermaids and Pool Sharks. We would bind our feet and pretend to be mermaids swimming in the pool, trying to evade the invisible pool sharks. The catch is that they are only invisible up until the moment their jaws open wide just before they eat you.
I’m still afraid to swim in a deep pool alone. Never know where those fuckers are lurking.
One player had a tennis racket, one or more other players had balls. Tennis balls, I suppose, but not always. The defender had to stand in the same spot and protect themselves from thrown balls with the racket. If they touched you you swapped out. We didn't develop a scoring system.
Ball tag! I had a large basement and a few of my best friends would come over to spend the night. When it got dark enough so no light came in through the windows we would arrange the furniture in random obstacle patterns. One person would be "it" stand by the stairs with a glow in the dark ball that was just charged by the lit wall light. "It" person would turn off the light and then count to 20. You had to hide and take cover and BE QUIET because when they were done they had to use sound to find you. Goal was other players reach the stairs and say safe without getting pegged by the ball. We literally played this until the end of high school. Scariest plays happened when my friend who pitched varsity baseball was "it" lol.
Death ball: We would have early morning track meets that required us to be at the High School before sunrise. We would hand out 50 tennis balls and everyone would move to positions all over the gym. We would turn the lights on for three seconds and then turn the lights off. You then threw balls as hard as you could toward where you thought everyone was. I just remember trying to see in the dark, then getting hit right in the eye with a tennis ball which would make your eye see sparks. Hilarious
My neighbors and I would play reverse hide-and-seek where one person would hide and the rest would try to find them. If you found the person, you would have to hide with them....whether there was space or not.
In middle school pe, wed play crotch bowling. We’d set up the pins normally, but someone would sit behind the pins with their legs open. It was pretty fun... and painful. It’s funny how our coach didn’t even care.
Doesn't have a name, but I would climb a tree and try to spit on brother. He would use a rhubarb leaf to shield himself. We would "play" until the rhubarb leaf was too torn to use as a shield.
My brother loved it and my parents thought it was hilarious.
I was 5 at the time, my cousin was 5,my sister was 8. They were brown hair, brown eyes, I was very blonde, blue eyed. We had a mini trike (banned now) atv. I would chase them down and run them over...the thing was light so it didn't hurt. It was our take on cowboys and Indians, my sister called it Nazis and Jews.
I didn't find out until my teens just how bad this was
Who can make the loudest female orgasm sound, I played it with my friend when I was twelve and we paid each other $5 to see who won. it was fricking hilarious when my teacher got angry.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know this is going to sound strange and no one is going to believe me, but my twin brother and I used to play a game when we were really young that I cannot, to this day, fully understand.
I know that we were under 8 years old because my grandmother was still alive - this was prior to foster care. We would stand facing each other then put our hands on each other's shoulder and then stare into each other's eyes with total, 100%, quiet, concentration. The idea was to not get distracted keep our eyes locked and aim to (this is the weird part) weaken the other person by literally draining his strength or energy - or him draining mine. There was a road in front of our house, one way I could get an edge was to wait for a car to go by and watch for him to get distracted and quickly glance at the car. The second I saw his eyes move to look at the car I knew that he was not concentrating and he knew that I knew it and that was the turning point. After that 'slip' we were no longer equally matched, I felt stronger and he would feel weaker, he was now on defense and I was on offense - for lack of better words. Once I knew that I had him I would start to stand on my toes to be a little taller than him while pressing down on his shoulders with my hands. If I stared hard enough, as I pressed down he would begin to physically lose his strength and I could feel it, I could feel his strength leaving him... His legs would start to shake and he would eventually fall to the ground laughing and totally helpless. It would take several minutes to 'recharge' and regain strength to do it again and we could do it multiple times in a day. It didn't always work, we had to both be in the right state of mind for it to happen. If one or both of us wasn't fully in it nothing would happen and we'd try again some other day when we got bored. He could just as easily get me to fall if I wasn't able to concentrate too. I remember feeling like he completely zapped me of all energy, I was helpless to stop him once he gained that advantage; as long as he kept his focus it was like being so tiered you couldn't move. It wasn't a bad feeling, it was fun for us. Most of the time we were laughing so hard just laying there in the grass, one of us temporarily paralyzed, staring up at the clouds. It wasn't weird back then but now I look back and it's just friggin strange and I still do not understand it. We talk about it, but both of us 'know better' now, we are responsible adults and it just sounds silly when we bring it up. I honestly believe that we could not repeat it again because we have been told, taught and conditioned to know that things like that just don't happen - but it did happen. I gave up all social media except Reddit, and the one thing I do to justify this account is to periodically erase my account and start over. I could care less about the "karma" and the constant popularity contest, I'm telling you this really happened and this account will be erased soon, take that for what it's worth. I told several people about this and every time I do I get the same quiet concerned look.
A game we made up called Hand-Ball. It was played my old square trampoline with a net. In the game we had a volley ball and we had to be on our knees, then we sat opposite sides from each other, the point of the game was to hit the ball into the others side of the net. We pulled off crazy moves and techniques, especially cause you couldn’t throw the ball, you had to hit it.
Every year on Christmas, my sister and cousin would play the “Santa game” where two would pretend to be sleeping and the other would be Santa. Santa always had to sneak into the room and place the presents and the others would have to wake up and try to catch him in the act. Santa always had to run and hide and try not to get caught.
Walking to school via a winding sidewalk/road whenever we heard or saw a car coming, we had to run to the nearest driveway before the car reached us. Entertained us and we got plenty of exercise before school
Sometime in the early 90s, my parents threw a memorable New Year’s Eve party. Mostly family (aunts and uncles and some family friends). Maybe 10 families and their kids so around 20-25 adults and 15-20 kids. Everyone was having a good time and it was my first time seeing all the ‘old people’ dance. Also, this was in Saudi Arabia and most of the people there had never had alcohol but it looked like everyone was role-playing being drunk. I have pictures of my uncles all drinking juice but posing as if drunk, exaggerated facial expressions and all. Was a blast for a sober NYE party.
One thing that stood out as ‘peculiar’ was Uncle Anwar. Uncle Anwar was a quiet man - he only ever seemed to enjoy taking about IBM vs Apple. It’s hard to recall any specific character traits. Except the party.
He spent most of his time on the dance floor standing in the corner (facing it), arms straight out with his hands planted firmly on the wall and just kept, uh, guess you can call it side-stepping.
Both feet in the middle > left foot to the left > right foot to the left > pause > right foot back to the middle > left foot back to the middle > repeat in the other direction.
He did that for so long that everyone present couldn’t help but notice it. For the next decade or two, it became a game for us. Every few months, we’d all be in a room and suddenly someone would shout ‘Uncle Anwar Dance!’ and everyone would grab a corner, do the dance for like 10 seconds and laugh.
Turn the bik upside down, spin the wheel as fast as you can and stop it with your teeth. There was no purpose, nor intelligence but it made a cool sound if you held your teeth on it.... Don't judge me.
At Christmas time, my three siblings and I played the "color game," which was picking an ornament on the tree and describing it in only its colors and then the others had to pick which ornament was described. According to my mom, her and her siblings played it as well.
Me and my brother had a pool game to play if it was a public pool with one of those safety rails on the steps.
We'd take turns locking our arms around the rail and the other would do their best to wrestle you away from the rail. Quite fun, probably dangerous
My uncle was really big on playing doctor. Though there werent any medicine involved and he just kept sticking his finger in random places to check my temperature
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*even thought it was originally invented by kids
At my elementary school, most of us liked playing rough-and-tumble games that to outsiders probably looked like semi-evil chaos. Most of them were invented by us.
We would play Piggyback Wars “king of the hill” style. With each two-kid piggyback team having to fight their way to the top of the melee mountain (small hill).
Another one was Red Ass where you took turns throwing an Indian rubber ball at a wall with the next player in the sequence being required to catch it after one bounce on the ground. If it bounced twice or you missed your catch, you had to stand at the wall while the previous player got to pitch the ball at your ass. Those balls were really dense and rebounded off the wall really fast making it pretty intense, you usually ended up with back welts if you didn’t catch it. It was good pitching practice for baseball.
But by far the most fun and exhilarating game we played was called Trip Tag. This game was like a reverse tag where the player that was “It” would be chased by all the other players and they would try to trip him. Now, it sounds like a really mean game and you’re thinking ‘poor kid’, but this is where the fairness angle comes in. The person to trip the one who is “It” is now “It” and now everyone chases him. If you wanted to trip you would have to be willing to get tripped. There were also rule changes after people got hurt including no upsweep kicks and no soccer style slide tackles. Another rule was no fake falls. If it wasn’t a good trip, you’re still “It”.
This was all from 7-9 year olds. We made rules, we had very few injuries and we burned a billion calories every recess. Good times...
That was just the stuff I remember from elementary school around 1985-1988. I don’t think we would have gotten away with any of this nowadays.
If I get enough interest, I might be willing to divulge the mayhem games we came up with in my teen years.
"Rolling Thunder," one or more people would lie down on a bed or any soft surface, and one or more people would be standing up. The goal of the ones lying down is to touch the ones standing by rolling around fast enough, the goal of the standing players is not to get touched by the rolling thunder. It's best played on a bed because it's a tight space which makes it harder for the standing players. Man, all the times we rolled off the bed though . . . ouch.
When I was 5 my mother would throw a giant rubber ball or a kick ball at me while I was swinging & I'd kick it across the yard. I'd get her to do it maybe 5 times before she gave up though.
bcap10 · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "monster" on the trampoline. We had a net around our trampoline and whenever the cousins or a few friends would come over we would hop on.
One player would volunteer to be the monster. From that point, the monster was not allowed to open their eyes. The monster flailed and dived in all directions with the goal of taging anyone. The other players could try to sneak around and dodge the monster, or they could team up and simultaneously bounce the monster if they were feeling lucky.
Plenty of bruises, one ripped net, and lots of fun resulted from our shenanigans.
My brother and I used to immitate a warfare using those tiny green soldiers. We used to throw a soldier to an enemy one to determine who's going to fall. The first one to lose all of his soldiers will face defeattttt
My brother and I played this game we made up called "Zap!".
It was pretty much lazer tag (before we even knew what lazer tag was) mixed with hide and seek. We used our hands aimed as guns and whoever shouted "ZAP!" first got the point, then you had to immediately turn around, run away and start the next round. Out house was two story and had 3 sets of possible staircases to go up and down.
It was a good game.
Bike tag. Everyone is on a bike and to tag another person you need to hit or rub your front tire on the persons back tire (this is how my older sister got stitches on her chin) fun game tho
We played this game where we made these paddles with duct tape and cardboard and then smacked a ball around on the floor and tried to hit each other. This was like 6 kids in a basement with cardboard, duct tape, and some kind of nerf ball, making shit up as they went along. I don’t think we even had a name for it.
Ryzasu · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The lava lake bionicle game". This one started out with us making custom bionicles. I lived on a camping with a big swimming pool which for most parts of the year never had other people swimming in it. One day we acted as if we were the bionicles at the swimming pool, which was now a lava lake with tons of different monsters that we had to discover. Each time we played we would draw all the new monsters that we found. I still have the drawings somewhere. We had an imaginary "lab" in which we kept all the monsters, did experiments on them and research.
Over time we extended this way further than just the lava lake. The camping was now a gigantic island with all kinds of stuff (a jungle, the lava lake desert, a huge ice/snow area, etc). Each area had their own monsters. We also came up with tons of different magic birds that fly over the sky every now and then, which cause certain effects like changing the weather.
We eventually added a huge amount of lore and explained the life cycles of many monsters in great detail.
Although we played many different roleplays, this one was definitely the biggest and lasted over 2 years.
ia_nyc · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hostage" - 2 teams of 5, in two cars. Each car would switch 2 people (the hostages) and have 20 mins to drop them off at the side of the road in or outside of town. Then, you have to race to find your own team members who were taken hostage and return them to the set starting point before the other team does
We used to road trip a lot as a kid & I came up with “first name last name game” (clever I know) where someone says the first name of a celebrity & whoever gets the last name correctly first wins & gets to go next. We even had a “people we personally know” version.
Also, not sure who came up with this one, but my brother & I used to each take the opposite ends of the (same) blanket & wrap ourselves so only our backs were covered & when we said “GO” we had to spin & wrap ourselves really fast & see who had more of the blanket wrapped around them till there was no blanket left & we’d usually end up falling over. Called it “2 headed” cause we were wrapped in the same blanket so it looked like one big body with 2 heads. Not sure if I explained that well enough but that game was too much fun.
so when I was ''little'' say 15ish my babysitter and I would play ''cops n robbers'' the cop would tie up the robber, the robber would pretend to fight back, the cop would ''silence'' the robber, I was the cop, she was the robber, it got kinky fast
I spent a decent amount of time at this one friend's house and we would make a fort in the living room and pretend that we were unborn baby pigs inside the mom pig's stomach. We would build pretend video game controllers and toys in his room then bring them out to the living room and the mom pig would swallow then for us to play with inside her belly. So so weird yet innocent at the same time.
My brother and I played this game called "The last melon" where we would put as many balls and toys on the trampoline as possible, one would be a protector, the other would be the attack. The idea was to bounce all of the toys off in a limited time. When the last toy/ball was left you had to yell "THE LASSSST MELON!" (like in Ice Age) or you didn't win when it fell off (like uno).
“Timber”. Big bed, one person stands next to the bed blindfolded, other person stays crouched on the bed. The standing person yells “timber” and throws them self on the bed trying to land on the other person using their ears to hear where they are, crouching person tries to avoid being landed on. Many injuries were sustained playing this game.
I used to play game with my little brother, I'd act out a different character/monster and he'd have to hit me in my nose for me to change into something else. I play this with my kids now.
... my older siblings would play a fucked up version of tag where they would exclaim one of us has AIDS and then the person who was deemed to have AIDS had to infected another sibling by touching them to get rid of it.
we used to fight in lunch break at school. we had an archway with benches on either side, so we sat there and fought, we didnt punch in our faces but we kinda did "showmatches". it was a weird mix of mma, wwe, tekken and fight club. it was awesome because it was fun and nobody got seriously hurt.
My brother and I played a version of survivor. It would involve us like eating sticks, building huts and pretending we were stuck on an island. No joke- the end of this game was when I was 8 and he was 7. He got kicked off the island and I pushed him off the roof of our house (yes I know this sounds terrible) and he broke both wrists, double casts. Survivor is now banned from my parents house, but damn did we have fun,
Ghost in the graveyard. Whoever was “it” had to countdown while everyone else hid. Then you had to go looking for them. Basically it was outdoor hide and seek, except once the ghost left the base, you would make a run for it. Once you made it to bass, you had to shout “Olly Olly oxen free!”
Battle ships. I stand on top of the embankment of the river armed with a pile of bricks, my brother at the river edge tossing logs in the river and I throw the bricks at the logs. It ended with a brick hitting my brother's head, requiring 6 stitches.
A little game called manhunt. The hunter would have a machete, and everyone else would be running around like a chiccen with it's head cut off if hunted. Mexico really was a trippy place.
My dad would play F-Zero on the Super Nintendo with me as a kid. I sucked, so instead of trying to win races, we would try to make the coolest looking crash. I'd jump off the track, crash into other cars, etc. So while everyone else called it "F-Zero", I called it "Car Crash".
Me and my friends would play a lot of unique games and normal games with a unique twist to it.
A little background: I lived in an apartment with my family most of my life. And the kids in the other apartments and I would play in the corridors (cuz somehow the building had long and big ones).
Coming back to the games, normal games like dodgeball? We called it Monster dodgeball. Idea? One person is chosen to be the "denner", guy who got the ball. Everyone else became the victims and the rest of it is as usual. Guy/girl who got it gets out. But here comes the scary part. To add to the fear factor of the game, we switched off all the lights of the floor we played on. Good times
One of the more unique games we played was 'Wild West'; an RPG where each player had a role akin to the Wild West stereotypes. I played the titular role of the Doc, the quack doctor of the swamp. I reprised the role countless times, despite me not being part of the action between the sheriffs and outlaws.
I don't remember much of my childhood, but all I know is that these games had given quite a bit of color to my otherwise uneventful childhood. I still meet up with my old pals every year, and I do look forward to meeting them soon.
I just climbed and jumped off a bunch of stuff. I didn’t have friends.
dledo1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Psycho killer - one person would be the killer and Chase all the neighborhood kids around the yard. I saw all the r-rated movies young so I pulled the Michael Myers run when they couldnt see me but pull up real slow and creepy on the other side.
Played with two people. One person hits the water balloon with a plastic bat. If it breaks, home run. If it doesn’t break, the pitcher has to chase down the water balloon and hit the batter with it to get them out.
Two opponents would lock hands together like they're about to arm wrestle, and then proceed to dig their fingernails into their opponent's hand until one of them succumbs to the pain.
"Trapdoor spider": my dad would cover himself in a large blanket and my sister and I would run around and he would grab us under the blanket like a trapdoor spider does and we would become part of the spider until we captured the other sibling. Twas a blast.
Run around the house, played constantly with my cousins. Think tag, but if you're It, you can only run one direction around the house and the rest of the people can only run the opposite direction around the house.
“Cheetahs and Gazelles”
A viscous form of tag where the cheetah gets to claw, bite, tackle, and try to kill the gazelle while the gazelle runs for its life......
My younger brother an I had a collection of matchbox cars and we created a game called "Smash Up Derby" where we would basically smash the cars into each other and if the car got knocked over, it was out. The loser was the one who lost all of their cars first. The best cars were the ones with the low fronts and the heavier vehicles. You had to move the car with your thumb from the last position it was in...you couldn't move it. We also played a game with plastic mini soldiers and tanks. We would position them on a field in battle mode (the snipers were hard to hit)...we would shoot rubber bands from the opposite side to knock over the soldiers. We also used a limited number of rubber balls as special bombs. My brother was/is 15 months younger than me. We were much closer as kids but not so much any more.
Growing up we had 3 peach trees in the back yard. Most years my father didn’t use any pesticides or fertilizer and just let them be. So we would get a few good peaches every year, but most would start to shrivel and just fall off the tree.
We would fill milk crates up with fallen peaches, most just starting to turn, go out into the street and play baseball, or rather “peachball”.
Kids from the neighborhood would all come over for peach ball and we would all inevitably be covered in peach bits and a huge mess out in the street. Not sure if it was the peach fuzz but I remember being so itchy by the end from, almost like fiberglass itch from all the peach guts covering us.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:44:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tenny-ball. A tennis/volleyball hybrid played on a tennis court with a kickball.
Fire hydrant! My siblings and I would yell out every time we passed one in the car. It really annoyed the shit out of my dad. He has literally screamed profanities at us for it. We still did it.
One of us siblings would be the "mom" and put us to bed. We would have to sneak out of the room while the "mom" continued doing whatever. If we got caught, they beat the living shot out of us.
"Night fighting". Game involves as many participants as you want.
First find all the old magazines, newspapers, in your house. Roll them up and tape it tightly shut - wouldn't do to have anyone's weapon unrolling in the middle of combat. Everybody gets a rolled up, taped shut newspaper.
Second make blindfolds out of anything to hand - long socks, dads' ties, etc, all but one person must wear a blindfold. The person who isn't wearing a blindfold is the target.
Third; you play at night. Make the house as dark as possible, close every curtain, turn off every light. All participants start in a room of their choice. The 'target' (the non-blindfolded person) must attempt to whack the heck out of any blindfolded person without themselves getting whacked. While the 'target' would try and bait the blindfolded players into wailing on each other.
Of course you could call out, make noise, and try and make deals. But the point of the 'target' is to cause as much chaos without getting whacked to the point of calling uncle.
I'll never forget nearly breaking some knuckles on a fridge after getting tapped in the balls by a short player who had ducked down and swung luckily into me. Brings back the memories of good times.
The "keezatango" it's when you stand on the ladder of the backyard monkey bars, grab ahold of the outside ring (of the hanging rings), push off the ladder, swing a semi circle on the ring and grab the monkey bars with only your legs. Then release the ring, hang upside down, release your legs and "land" gracefully. The landing was always the hardest, until the day a bolt cover fell off and the exposed bolt jammed into the side of my knee, exposing bone. Good times.
It was known simply as "That Game." So, we had a dug-in swimming pool which was a real half-assed job done by the people who lived there previously. As a result, no matter what we did, it was perpetually murky with algae (it was rough concrete in a lot of places so we could never get it entirely clean). Anyhow, my siblings and any friends who would come and visit would play a game which we called That Game. The rules were: No opening your eyes above-water, and when you catch someone (had to be more than just a touch) and named them correctly, they would then be 'it.' It was great fun, trying to keep as silent as possible when they were up for air, quickly getting away when they went under near you, or when you were the one looking, seeing a jet of bubbles as someone narrowly escaped.
Bees or Meat Eating Eagles...wed basically run around screaming like we were being stung or eaten alive. Screaming bloody murder. You won only if someone stopped and asked if you were okay... or tried to help.
My mother would pretend not to know who I was or where she was. She would yell at me to get out of her house or that she'd call the police on me for abducting her. She'd chase me around too.
In elementary school my friends and I would play "red alert" during recess. It was basically hide-and-go-seek tag but anywhere you dared go.
We'd hide in empty rooms, storage closet, or lay down in the fields.
Whoever was "it" often would stay it for days.
A couple times teachers almost caught us. My friend and I we're hiding in the band room and a teacher came in and we just held still until she left. So you were half hiding from your friends, half from the teachers.
“Choobies”. My lil’ sis and I would play when she was really young. We would build a fort out of blankets and pretend we were creatures that had to stay warm or we would die.
I still throw a blanket it on her sometimes and scream CHOOBIES! I’m 34 and she’s 26
ohrynh · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Graal Online Classic!
if anyone else played it, what was your name, what guild were you in and how many hours?
Rock wars, we would throw rocks at each other, if you got hit you were out. Good times. We dug trenches and filled them with "ammo" (rocks) and built walls and forts, one team started on the tracks witch were uphill and had unlimited rocks, the other team had the trenches and the forts and the objective was for the team on the fort side to take the tracks. Lots of stitches came from this game :))😂
“Guess the Culprit”: My sisters and I would take turns thinking of a “culprit” (could be a cartoon character, celebrity, friend from school, etc.) and one person had to be the sketch artist and draw the features of the culprit as we described them. The sketch artist would then have to guess who the culprit is based on their sketch, and would only show us their sketch after either a) correctly guessing the culprit, or b) giving up. We would spend HOURS doing this and it never got old. The best part of the game was how simultaneously shitty, hilarious and somehow accurate the sketches were
In Elementary school, my only friend and I would stand at the top of the jungle gym and play 'sports announcer'. We would watch the other kids playing during recess and put on accents while we commentated on the game going on. Normally soccer. We'd put on our horrible British or South American accents and loudly call out what was happening during the game. The highlight of this game was when someone would score and we'd be able to shout in our horrible South American accent "gooooaaalllll!!" We got weird looks from the other kids.
My sister and I would make powerpuff girls by mixing sugar, spices, and flowers and stuff. We knew we’d never make them because we didn’t have any chemical X.
The funnest part was when we’d take the gross, colorful mush that was leftover and pretend we were throwing up behind our neighbors shed in their backyard.
Ryzasu · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Army duel". This was one of the later games me and my friend played before growing out of the role-playing phase.
The game starts with both players standing on either side of a "battlefield" (an area of like 4 meters. But in our game it would be like 1km across). We first decided on what the battlefield looked like (water, forest, etc).
Then both of us had to choose a certain typing for our "army". For example a dragon army, a tree ent/nature army. A fire army. A golem army, etc.
And then we had to explain how we positioned our armies on the battlefield (for example, 300 archers on the right flank supported by one giant, 3 giants in the middle supported by 20 semi-giants, a dragon on each side of the field, and stuff like that). We were also allowed to have 5 "spells". A spell would be something like summoning a meteorite or a tornado, or healing/strengthening a certain area of your army. But many different spells were possible.
Once the setup was done each of us would take turns to explain steps that our army would take. For example, let the 300 archers on the right flank attack the giant.
Each player had an imaginary "wall" at their feet. The goal of the game was to destroy that wall. Which was only possible when most of the opponent's army was taken down.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little bro used to be pretty small at like 7 or 8, either really blond hair and we had just gotten a yellow lab puppy.
She took to him as a litter mate and would play fight and play fight him like a sibling.
We used to go out on our back deck, and he would run as fast as he could, and I would let our dog at him to see how far he could make it before she would take him down lol.
Beetle juice! my friend and I were obsessed with the movie and would look for pincher bugs and beetles in her grandmas garden to smash up with flower petals and water and then drink it in hopes of summoning beetle juice! Don’t know where we got the idea that it would work. Given we were 7 or 8, but I still gag thinking about it today.
My little brother and I used to play on a grouping of rocks outside of our home...
It was a stylized retaining wall with huge rocks dotting the angled landscape.
We played a different version of "shark and minnow's," which we called "T-rex, velociraptor"
We would start on opposite ends of this wall of rock, and SPRINT towards each other, one trying to tag the other, and the other trying to avoid being tagged.
We both, even while we played this, knew how dangerous it was, and yet we still did it, ALL THE TIME.
We used to play the fan game. We would turn on the ceiling fan and set up targets on the wall and take turns throwing a ping pong ball into the the fan (sometimes other things) and see who can hit the target first.
Broomball. Duct tape ball in the middle, plastic tables standing on their sides forming an arena. Two tables forming the goalposts. Four brooms, four players, 2 teams. No rules.
Highest score wins.
Most matches would end with someone being hockey-checked into the bleachers
I was a bit older than a kid when I played it but I've never forgot it for some reason. The game is called Space Station Silicon Valley and was on the N64. You played as a microchip that could take command of living things in each world. Spent so much time playing that game just messing around.
Pretty embarrassing to admit, but my friends and I somehow developed a game called "Bone Tag". It was the same concept as tag, except you had to dry hump your opponent for them to become "it".
In vietnam, I'd play this game where a group of people would circle around a charred pot from cooking with fire (this was in the countryside), play rock, paper, scissor, and who ever looses, gets a mark from everyone in that circle by the charcoal from the bottom of the pot
We played traffic jam as kids at school. 2 groups of boys entered into the two separate ends on monkey bars. You had to stop the other group of kids from getting to your side. If you tried to climb out, you were allowed to push that kid down to the ground.
Stupid thingy majiggy, basically when I was around 5 years old my cousin and I would play slots on the computer and every time we didn’t get 3 sevens we would yell “stupid thingy majiggy” and pretend to be mad but we laughed so hard every time we would say it
Two teams of two across my parents king sized bed. We used rolled up socks as projectiles. If you got hit you crawled on the bed and was in prison. Your team or the other team could save you. Remember playing it with the babysitter she actually got really interested it too
We called it "herbalist." My sibling and I lived on the edge of the neighborhood and our only childhood friends were the two kids next door. Their backyard was bigger than ours, and no matter what season it was we'd go in their backyard and play.
Herbalist was weird because it had a class system: there was the "chocolate" farmer, who used a child's rake to rake up dirt and sort it into different colors. Then there was the pie maker, who traded the chocolate farmer pies in exchange for dirt, the main ingredient in pies. The pie maker also traded with the herbalist to get different decorative berries, acorns, sticks, etc. for the pies. According to my sibling the next job was hot cocoa maker, which was prob lower-middle class right above farmer. They made mud to go with the pies.
The herbalist, the highest class worker, got to sit in a child's play house and organize all the different berries and leaves in this little fishing tackle box. The pie maker gave pies to the herbalist and the herbalist deconstructed them. I was oldest, and there was nothing so satisfying as shoving yourself into that grimy toddler-sized playhouse and getting to smugly accept the products of everyone else's hard labor because you had what they needed.
The younger the sibling, the more lower class they were and I feel like we all just accepted it? I don't know if it was the sibling hierarchy or what, but I only remember switching roles a few times. We'd sit out there for 4+ hours multiple times a day. This is a 90s kid childhood that also involved the Sims, Playstations and Razor scooters, so it's not like we were broke. We just really liked pretending to be this little functioning society.
We also once held a funeral parade for a dead cardinal with sparklers and a song.
We used to play a game called "charge". It's a game based on DBZ, SF and a liitle bit of yu yu hakusho w/ a mix of hand clap games. The game can be played between 2-(x) amount of players. I believe the max that we got was around 20. It was crazy. The mechanic is to eliminate your opponent by attacking them w/ 3 different attacks (lvl 1-3 while directing it to the person that you want to eliminate)
There are 6 moves in game.
1) the charge move. You gain one power charge. It is done like when you see DBZ charge their ki energy. Can only have a max of 3.
2)block, can block level 1 and 2 attacks. Its done by crossing both arms around your chest/face. No energy charge cost.
3) the energy mirror. This move will able to reflect ALL energy blast except the lv2 attack, thus eliminating the player that attacked you. Form a triangle w/ both hands to do the move. Requires 1 energy charge.
4) the hadouken, requires 1 charge. Should be self explanatory, hadouken your opponent. Can be reflected and blocked.
5) under hand blast. Requires 2 energy charges. Can break/go pass through the mirror move. Blockable. To perform the move, put 1 hand on your wrist with the other hand palm up, then blast away.
6) The spirit gun, requires 3 charges. Unblockable. Can be reflected. Gesture a gun with your hand and fire away.
A higher attack will always win and it both attacks are at the same level, it will be negated.
Run around the bed (and a variation in the dark)
When I was a kid, my dad would chase me and my brother around the bed, pretty self explanatory. We had to avoid him, he had to catch us. All that stood between us was the bed.
We played License Plate Bingo. On road trips we would keep an eye out for license plates from different states. When you saw a new state, you could call it and everyone got to check it off if they had it on their Bingo cards. The “free space” was whatever state the trip began in.
To keep the game fair, each of us provided a list of 24 additional states we thought we were most likely to see, but somebody else got to decide how those states got arranged on your card. That way, for example, one couldn’t gain an advantage by having New York (free space), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland all in the same row during a drive from New York to DC, or be at a disadvantage because a random selection somehow only gave you everything west of the Mississippi. (I suppose if you wanted to, you could add a condition or rule here and there eg. you can only call a plate outside of proximity to its home state, or that your list of states cannot include any you will be traveling through.) It definitely got us kids to study our maps before any vacations.
I don’t think we ever determined that whoever was the first to get five in a row would actually win anything aside from bragging rights, but one time we decided everyone wins because we saw a Hawaii plate while on the mainland.
Irish Warthogs. It was our version of British Bulldogs, except we played it on a steep hill. One side would try to get up the hill, while the other team got one chance to run down and annihilate as many kids as possible. Amazingly, nobody ever got hurt too badly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pool noodles electrical, and dict taped to shit.. then all out war between the 12 something kids on our street.
I was born in 1998 and my brother and I played Game Boy games and played alot of Super Mario Bros. That was the most unique game we have ever played as kids
I'm not sure if this is unique, but I'd draw an unfinished shape on a paper, and the other person would finish the drawing into something new. (i.e I'd draw a circle, expecting it to turn out as a face, but then the other person would turn it into a globe)
"Shoeball!" My friend and would each throw a flip flop into the tree until it got stuck. We would then throw the other flip flop at it to try and hit it and make it fall down. If that got stuck too accidentally, we would have to find other things to throw at both of them. You won when nothing was stuck in the tree that you threw up there.
We played BaGolf in the street. Metal bat and a golf ball. You lost if you didn’t hit it as far as the other person or if you were “pitching (tossing)” and got pegged you lost LOL
Had a game called zip, zap, marble orchard. Each player had their own score and each word has a meaning and a point value associated with each it. Zip stood for dog; counts as 1 point. Zap is horse; counts as 2 points. Marble orchard(archard if using southeastern u.s. dialect lol) is a graveyard; counts as 3 points. Game went until one of us would reach 21 points or the trip was over. They say my great grandpa made the game up on a road trip with my dad. Who knows. But it was a fun game!
BTDxDG · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Monkey Ball 2
Does it could take if I never played it? I could never get the disc to load in my gamecube
We played a game called "Zip". It involved looking for deer and horses while in the car. If you saw a deer and were the first to say zip you got 10 points for each deer that was visible. You had to count them out and tally your points. If someone counted more, or caught you over counting they could take those points. With horses it was 5 points each. If you said zip on a cow however, that was a deduction. You lost 5 points for every cow that is visible.
It was dumb, but a fun way to pass the time on road trips as kids. Our dad always kicked our asses though since he has the eyes of a hawk. Plus he did that while driving too.
My friend and I used to play ‘the game.’ One of us would be using the restroom and the other would slide a pen and paper under the door with a line or shape drawn. Then we’d add on to it switching back and forth until we declared it to be complete.
Also, we weren’t children; we’re grown women and it’s a really fun fame.
src670 · 1 points · Posted at 01:56:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time our bus in school passed a cemetery, we would hold our breath to avoid being haunted by the undead that would recognize us as not one of their own...stupid, I know.
Oh shiat hope I'm not late on this one. In my family my brothers would lift one end of our rectangular table by putting books or something underneath, surround the edges with music tapes, put some obstacles in the middle and we had ourselves a homemade analogic pinball. We'd use a glass or metal marble and other two music tapes (inside their holding boxes of course) as the pad to hit the marble. It was fun...ah good times when you are but a child and then you grow up and learn...things...
My three younger cousins and I would spend days during our summer break building mazes out of sheets and blankets on the clothesline in our back yard and then play tag inside them. If you broke through a wall you had to fix the maze and you became ‘it’
As soon as recess started we would get a jump rope and as many balls as we could. We would stretch the rope out as a boundary line, split into two teams on either side, then start kicking balls up in the air. The goal was to catch them before they hit the ground and kick them back over. Every ball that hit the ground on the other side was a point for your team, however no one actually kept score so it was just a bunch of kids kicking balls into the air for thirty minutes. This went on all year
"Grand Theft Auto spiderman" so basically back in my PS2 times I bought a disk from a tent that sold PS2 games really cheap so I came through a game labeld GTA spiderman I bought it for 2 dollars and it was basically GTA San Andreas but CJ had a spiderman skin
We used to have a trampoline in our backyard and me and all my friends would play what we called “the ball game”. Basically one person would be outside the trampoline and throw a ball up into the trampoline and everyone else inside would have to try to catch it. If you dropped it you were out and you had to leave the trampoline and go throw balls in with the person who started out. What made it interesting was that once u caught the ball you had to throw it back out and not let the kids on the outside catch it. We had a smaller backyard so you had to try and fake them out so they couldn’t run over and catch it. We had a bunch of other rules that made it interesting but I honestly can’t remember them all lol. We used to play this for hours on end over the summer.
"Run chicken run" my older brother came up with this game. He took a ladder and sat on top with a basket of tennis balls while my sister and I ran around the bottom of the ladder. He would shout run chicken run and we would do laps while he tried to hit us. It was thrilling to try and escape
That reminds me of squish the lemon! It was an open slide, one of those metal ones that burns you in the summer. The first person would slide all the way down and sit at the bottom. The second person would slide down with her feet over the side until she slammed into the person at the bottom. Repeat until you could no longer fit any lore kids on the slide. By the end the people in the middle were getting absolutely squished and the person at the bottom was trying desperately not to fall off. It was a blast but I’m not sure what our goal of the game was.
We called this game British Bulldog. No idea why. We were all born and raised in California.
My cousins, sister, and I would go in a room and turn off the lights. The British Bulldog had to put a blanket over their head, and everyone else was tasked with trying to get past them, in a pretty small room with lots of furniture obstacles. There were different techniques. Crawl at such a slow pace under many obstacles that the Bulldog could not detect you, make a bold lightening speed attempt, hang back and wait for others to create a diversion, etc. If you were captured, you became the new British Bulldog, which was a dreaded fate.
One time, my cousin and I were attempting a team work system, in which he was supposed to launch me over the Bulldog. Instead, he accidentally shoved me into the back of a chair, slicing my lip open. Blood everywhere. Our parents banned the game after that, which made it even more coveted and legendary.
Anyway, my cousin felt terrible and gave me his Tamagotchi, so it was worth it. I’m 33 now and still have a scar on my lip.
"Cricket".. a game to play on car trips. Every car that passes you in the OPPOSITE direction equals one, however, every yellow or red car means game over for you. Highest number is the winner. I find myself playing in my mind when i go for drives just because im so used to playing it.
Not sure if anyone mention this with a different name but me and my ex used to play “pedidle”. When driving in the car if you drive past someone with a head light out whoever punched the roof of the car and yelled “Pedidle!” First the other person to strip naked. It was fun in the beginning of our summer love but once the winter came we just switched it to a point system lol.
'Bush-babies'. My school had a big wigwam tunnel made from willow branches that had loads of different tunnels and rooms, and my group of friends took it over and we'd hop around in the squat position like frogs and dig at the dirt and called ourselves 'bush-babies'. We had this whole family dynamic, with like the king bush-baby and if you wanted to join the game you had to tasks like go collect grass or keep guard.
"Fort Building"
As a kid I despised my sister and anytime it snowed a lot, I'd have her go outside and build a 'fort' by crawling into a big snow bank. Once she was decently far enough in, I'd pack the snow behind her and left her in there until I felt she had a sufficient 'punishment'. Yes, I was a horrible child but to be fair I was only about 7 at the time and she was 3.
Back then and still to this day, I play “Guitar Hero” in the car. Basically I’m sat in the passenger seat, clenching my buttcheeks in sync with the lanes on the road like it’s Guitar Hero.
I didnt have a nane for it but my parents had one they found fun. They would so how small of a box they can stuff me in without air holes and how long it takes for me to pass out as they heavily taped the box and kicked it around. Got to big for it though....
My sibs and I played “AHHHH!” You’d walk around a preset path in the house, and two of us would be hiding somewhere, waiting to jump out at you and scream “AHHHHH!” After a couple of rounds, my dad would inevitably come downstairs and yell (in a thick Polish accent) what the hell are you kids doing???
“Destined to biff” My family would play this game on the ski lift. You’d each pick a really wobbly beginner skier and if your skier biffed by the time they passed your chair you won and you had to yell, “DESTINED. TO. BIFF!” loud enough for the person to hear.
We played this game a ton because my parents were ski patrollers.
“Butt’s Up” kind of like wall ball, played against a garage. If the ball was thrown so that it hit the crack between the door and the cement, the person who threw it had to run/touch the wall before someone else threw the ball on the wall. If you got there first, you were safe. If the ball got there first, you’d have to stand facing the garage while everyone else threw the ball at your butt.
-Either me/my sister would go in the bedroom and one would stay in the living room. The bedroom person would tell "I'm fainting for my sweet love" and the living room person would attempt to run into the room and catch the other before they fell backwards on the bed.
Honestly have no idea where this game came from
David and Goliath
we had an L shaped couch and would just stand at opposite ends and run into each other head on and who ever fell backwards first lost.
“Titanic” in the pool whenever it was cold. All I remember was dramatically drifting away underwater while my sister whispered “Jack...come back...Jack.”
Know I a little late, but my brothers and I played this 2v2 game called Gorilla, which consists of two players wearing boxing gloves on all fours (the Gorillas) and the other two (younger) brothers were trying to fetch an idol which was usually a stuffed animal or football.. anything goes from stopping the idol fetchers from retrieving the sacred relic, we also played versions of this without light, very dim lighting.. that was just one of our cacothic activities our poor parents became fimilar with.. some great times with out a doubt.
You all are creative. We just played “Don’t touch the floor” and “Popcorn”— get a bunch of stuffed animals onto a blanket; we’d pick up the ends of the blanket and repeatedly toss the stuffed animals into the air. The last toy left on the blanket won. It was the toys that were competing with each other. We’d have championship games in which the overall winner would go into retirement afterwards.
We played POISON which was a mix of horse, four square and freeze. You shoot the basketball, then if you make the shot you have to get the ball before the second bounce, if you get three in a row then everyone else has to freeze where they stand and you can roll the ball between someone’s legs, if you make it they are out. So the opponents want to be far away.
Trick is if you don’t make your shot then the next opponent in line has to get the ball before the second bounce as well. SO, you can throw the ball really far and your opponent has to get the ball before the second bounce or they have to shoot from where it lands.
There was a big clay cliff above a beach near our house. we'd each take two screwdrivers and start digging handholds to climb up. Once we got some height we either tried to get above someone and dig out a chunk to drop on them and make them fall or come up below them and dig out their footholds. Just grabbing someone was cheating.
We used to play "Attack of the Giant Potatoes." No real rules or purpose... we would just put pillowcases over our heads (with the pillows in them still) and run around the house screaming "Attack of the giant potatoes!!!!"
We also had a wrestling federation called "The Bacon Brothers and Sister" (I was the sister). Good times! :)
The special Hide-and-seek. So, those who hide, had to go to specific places, and the seekers, when they find the hiders, they get punished. Yeah, not dramatic.
jetexe · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two, actually. Not sure if they’re actually unique however.
In sixth grade, we had several tetherball “courts” in our school field. Me and my friends got bored of it so we decided to change the rules a bit. Basically, one person is the it and has to stay out of the circle around the tetherball. They could reach inside with their hands but that was it. As the it you could also swing the ball around and try to hit people with it.If you got hit, you became it. Simple. We had to stop because.. well... take a guess.
The second is something that might not be unique but there were these 2 raised platforms in the school field-they were 20 feet apart. We created this game called “islands” where it was basically tag, but the islands were the safe zone. You also had to stay in the area around the islands.
Amoeba Man.... it was basically a way to cause my younger sibling pain and strike fear into her heart. She is 3 years younger. I read Garfield in elementary school and he was at the core of the character; I would cover myself in a blanket/sleeping bag, and move about the house like a one celled organism. Slowly and menacingly silent. And when I happened upon another unsuspecting life form I proceeded to ‘eat’ it. Eating consisted of me dragging my little sister, kicking and screaming through my cell wall into the dark recesses only to be, expelled and hunted again. Sigh.... good times , good times...
Carpet Hand hockey, on all 4s. One of your hands became a stick and played with a small ball. My brother and I would play for hours. We also shredded the knees to most of our pants.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from mom's drunk boyfriend. Pretty self explanatory. Trees worked the best.
Me and my friends played a game called kick the can, basically there is one person who is protecting the can and looking for people but they need to stay about 30-20 feet from it and the other people hide, when the person so is protecting isn’t looking, everyone else, or one person will try to kick the can.
Simple
atqy · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember as a kid in school I played a game called "Chucky" with my friends, we went to the playground and there were 2 walls, parallel to each other, so then we would all go next to one of the walls and one kid had to stand in the middle of the field, the objective was that we had to reach the other wall without getting caught by the kid in the middle, if you got caught, you had to join the "Catchers". It was pretty fun and I still have good memories of it.
My sister and I shared a room and when we would clean, the 3 kids and my dad would end with a clean room and play Balloon Ball, in which teams sat on opposite beds across the room and hit the balloon back and forth trying to hit the opponents’ bed
As a child I wanted to play Rabid Rabbits and my dad got me "The Rub Rabbits". Here's the plot of the game: this guy wants to get some, but the girl he's interested in is avoiding him, so he just chases that ass whatever it takes.
Was it appropriate for my age? No.
Was it a great fucking game? Hell yeah.
My brothers and I played a game called run big bun. It was essentially tag. You had someone designated as the "It" person and the others were buns. We ran around until one of the buns got caught.
The other game I played with my friends was broom ball. It was basketball but one person on each team had a broom that they could use to block, swat or push the other team or ball with.
My husband said that him and his cousin used to put tube socks on the blades of a ceiling fan. Then they would turn the fan on, and try to catch the flying socks before the hit the ground.
Button button who’s got the button... we’d sit on the bottom stair while one person stood at the bottom with a button in one of their hands behind their back... if you guessed the right hand you’d move up a step... first one to the top wins!
I’m going to describe it really poorly but it was baseball with lacrosse sticks, only three bases, and no pitcher. The ball had to be a little beanbag ball, and instead of tagging someone out you had to hit them with the ball. We also played on a hill for ~extra danger~
Me, my brother and my sister used to make up these really fun games when we were young. One of them is this game we called "Roll Jump". It was a game that when 1 person rolls, the other 2 jumped. Exactly what it sounds like, but when you trip over the person that is rolling is out and trade places. I am 14 and still remember that game LOL.
My cousin and I would set up Christmas play each year, complete with little tickets for our family members and songs.
One year we decided to make a haunted house instead. We stung yarn across the stairway and then covered it with blankets. You had to crawl up the stairs where we'd placed old pictures and led tea lights. It was super fun for us, but not so much for our grandparents...
Me and my sister played “the alphabet game” on long drives. We would start at letter A, and using billboards, call out a word that contains that letter, all the way to Z. We weren’t allowed to use the same word for two letters (can’t use “Ball” for A and B) can’t use road signs, or license plates. The game would usually gridlock at Q, V, X, Z where it would get really tense.
My parents and I developed a game called "Draw Off". The idea of the game was for each player to draw a picture combining 3 nouns. Each noun would be chosen by a different player and could be anything, as crazy as it gets. Some of our best examples are: (Apple, toaster, car, giraffe) / (Hotdog, fish, lightbulb, bow) / (Snake, heart, goggles, disco ball). Everyone playing at the time would spend up to 20 minutes drawing line art of the chosen nouns without looking at the other players' drawings. The winner was the person who combined the nouns in the most creative/funny way.
Now looking back on the game, it was such a fun way to spark creativity into me at a young age. Such fond memories :)
“Snow bash” whenever it snowed a lot we would assemble 2 teams of 5-10 and we would line up on each side of a field and then just go at it. If you got tackled or knocked down you had to run back to your starting side before you could jump back in. If all of your team was “out” at the same time you’re team lost.
“Eureka” Our pool had a slide and you had to go down the slide, catch a ball, and shout Eureka. That was it. That was all you had to do and you got a point.
“Ghost in the dark” my cousins and I would turn off all the lights in a room/bedroom and play tag but with the lights off and a sheet over the person who was”tagging” everyone else. Not sure why we felt then need to add the sheet on top of the already dark room but its was an awesome game. One of the last times we played left my cousin and I scarred. Fun story to tell
Tombi or Tomba on ps1. Loved it as a kid and then tried to track it down for nostalgic purposes only to realise it's now worth a small fortune lol! Maybe I'll get lucky and find one someday.
We had aimball, where we'd have to throw a plush ball between stair banisters ... the higher up, the more points, but most points were awarded for successfully tossing it through the four-inch gap between the bottom pillar and the first banister.
We'd play this rpg mode, where my sister would have to work her way up the ranks college bball style. All the characters but hers were Pokemon, each specie having its own team. The final four would usually be Mews, Mewtwos, Pikachus, and of course, my sister.
One person was it and stood in the middle of the yard. Everyone else had to run as fast as they could from one end to the other without getting tripped by the guy in the middle. If you got tripped, you joined the guy in the middle, and everyone kept running back and forth till there was only one left.
I don't remember what we called it, but two (or more I guess) people had sheets of paper and one person would draw a part of a creature and describe it, for example: a torso that is an oven. The other person would then draw that, then add something to it, until the creature thing was complete.
Inevitably they would both look absolutely terrible but it was a fun time
when i was growing up in the Philippines we had thousands of different spiders (varying from docile to super poisonous), we would either catch them in the wild, or there would be a neighborhood spider broker that would wheel around a tower about waist high, with little slots to fit a matchbox in them. inside the matchboxes would be different spider species. every saturday, the spider broker would make his rounds/kids would go hunt for spiders, and meet up at the bodega like store in front of my house where they sold bbq on a stick and, after eating the bbq, would put both of the spiders on either ends of the stick and force them to fight eachother. its like pokemon meets hunger games in the phillipine ghettos after a midafternoon snack. fuck i miss it.
Me and my brothers came up with a game called “Jump Ball”. It was like dodge ball but involved a trampoline, soccer ball and no hands. It’s a miracle none of us broke our necks.
Ok ok, i used to pretend i was mario and two of my friends were sonic and a peach in a crossover in where we would fight any evil that was on the move and it was our job as unlikely allies to save the world and we would run around the school like idiots doing power rangers moves and poses while fighting imaginary bad guys...
My sister and I would put a basketball on the trampoline and keep dodging it as it would roll back to us.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Magnus Tennis. Tennis with oversized Badminton rackets. No net, and a ping pong ball. There are some more complicated rules but it was really invented just so you could put crazy spin on the ball.
I went to america for 6 months to a house that had 2 stairwells, and 3 floors, we played a game we called hug monster where we had 20 seconds to hide and then the person who was it forst would try to find you, if you were found you would try to escape, which was sometimes possible with two staircases, and if you were caught there would be two seekers, you had to hug someone to tag them, we would play wiht our mother and litterally scream and scare our neighbors sometimes, and it was so scary for some reason, but so much fun. cant really play anymore bc with one stairwell you get easily cornered at the top floor
Super late to the game, but- orphans! We lived in the mountains, and used to pretend that our parents abandoned us in the woods to fend for ourselves. We'd build little houses and stock wild berries and roots. Odd kids.
Kemerd · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would match the tone of random objects perfectly, moslty vacuum cleaners, because we thought the sound it made when the two frequencies were perfectly aligned was cool.
Pretty sure that's why I have perfect pitch as an adult, lmao.
I grew up with 2 sisters so we had shoes everywhere. Like dozens, even as kids. We had a big trampoline and we would pile all these shoes on it and start jumping. Rule was dont let the shoes touch you or you were out.
“The tripping game” we would run in circles around our kitchen/living room and not to jump over the “trippers” leg. It was a really fun game, until, my brother broke is arm.
Shockingly, we were not allowed to play the game anymore.
My friends and I had a game we called "Slappy-Wag". Played in a pool, teams would try to score on an opponents goal. Goalies were in tubes and could use hands and feet to try and stop a score, but could not leave the tube. The rest of the team would swim to get the ball. Once they got it, they could not move, and could only advance the ball by slapping it while treading water. Once the ball was touched, non-goalies could not move, but could try a diving block after the ball was hit.
In fifth grade my friends and I played a game on a play structure with a slide with a roof thing on top (Most of the slide was exposed, just the start of the slide had the roof). The roof of the slide was a throne and the goal was to shove the person on the throne off it, down the slide, and seat yourself on the throne in their place.
Edit: it was called Lemur King (I have no idea why)
"Jellyfish - blop", basically my siblings and I would dress in our mums petticoat skirts, wore the waist over our shoulders and ran around the garden chanting "jellyfish blop, jellyfish blop"
siint · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd buy the oversized plastic balls at walmart/target for $3.99 or so, and play a volleyball hybrid on our garage roof called garage ball.
Couldn't hit it over the peak, that's out.
Could bounce or roll on the roof as much as you wanted, just couldn't let it hit the ground.
Rolls off the side were out if the ball was on the way up, but legal if on the way back down, which usually led to either injuries diving for balls or arguments when the call was close.
We'd play either 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 with neighbors. Many summers of fun with tournaments and everything.
My brother came up with a game called Everything Everything. We set up rules like how many characters you have and their abilities on a point system. Ex if you choose a human it would be 1 point, but if you choose iron man it would cost more. We'd make ourselves teams and then go on an "adventure" with one guy as a judge who would decide what would happen. Similar to DnD but we had never heard of that before. Somehow my brother always won in the end no matter what we did even though he was never the judge.
Two team of 8-10 people from a chain pressed against a tree as the anchor. The team locks their heads and arms between each others legs, forming a chain of the team members.
Hold strong!
The other team takes turns running and jumping onto the chain and tries to break it. As the team piles up o. The chain, hold on for dear life! First person to touch the ground loses!
Points add up and you take turns, frist team to 3 points wins.
Had a bunch of toy cars, at least 100. It was pretty simple, you would grab two cars and roll them at each other, whichever one stayed on it’s wheels was the winner.(even though I would give my favorite car multiple tries until it won). keep repeating until all the cars were done.
First: I went to sleep-away summer camp and they would play this game called bombadeer where the counselors literally would swing tune socks full of flour (I think) at campers and if you got hit you had to freeze and wait for one of the “nurse” counselors to unfreeze you. Til then you were free to be whacked by flour.
Second: my best friends sister played a few games with us when we were little. She was like the ultimate babysitter. One was colored eggs where everyone picked a color and stood a good distance behind her. It was done like red light green light where if she called your color you could move forward towards her but if she turned and caught you moving you had to go back to start. The goal was to be the first to tag her.
The second was called children soup and she did it when we were really young. We’d sit in a circle and she would stir an imaginary pot and start adding imaginary ingredients. At some point she would say “I think I’ll add some CHILDREN!” and we all had to run and if she caught us we were added to the soup and out. This continued until only one person was left.
Now I really miss being 7! Thanks guys, appreciate it.
As kids, my cousins, brother, and I would go in the back room and basically play tag but we would turn the lights off and blast Mindless self indulgence.
When my brother and I were younger, we used to play "Butler." But of course, since he is 6 years my senior, I was always the butler. He named me Flosty and would make me get him food, drinks, etc. I never caught on until I was older that he was just making me do things for him because he was lazy lol. I didn't care though because I got to hang with my big bro
See how long you could hold your breath, my brother was explaining this game to his friends in fifth grade (he's the older brother) when he held his breath to long to impress his crush, he fell and hit his head on the ground so hard it gave a sicking crunch. Blood everywhere and a concussion for a week. We didn't play that ever again.
When I was younger and my church had a church van, I, along with all the other kids in the van, made uo our own "dibs" game, with the cars we passed. If we see a cool car, first person to call "dibs!" Would "own" the car. Of course, we'd often "trade" cars, and try to collect the best ones. Soon, it evolved to include cool houses we would see, and a regular "dibs" turned into "Called the (insert details on car or house here)" so others couldn't take it from you. It soon also evoled to where everyone had 2 "snatches" a day, so if someone called dibs on a house or car you wanted, you could "snatch" it away, but they could also "snach" it back. Then, kids started teaming up, combining the cars and houses they owned, to become the owners with the best stuff. We would develop our own secret signs to signal when we saw a cool car that others missed, so that we knew we had it and they couldn't snatch it. Mine specifically was me holding up four fingers and saying "TMNT" (I was obsessed with the show at the time) it was fun. Those kids eventually stopped coming to the church, yet years later (it was when I was 8, I'm now 16) I still mentally play the game. I have a habit of double blinking at cool cars and houses I see, I physically can't help it. I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop tbh, but yeah, it was a fun game.
When my brother and I were kids we’d play explorers on this huge snow pile in our backyard. I was Ferdinand Magellan and my brother was Christopher Columbus. We pretended that the snow was icebergs and we were on ships racing around the world ... twas before we realize that good ole Christopher sucks BALLS
Lived on a small country one lane road in the mountains. We used to wait until we could see a car and then run and try to hide before it got to us. We jumped in the creek or under bridges or behind trees. It was a fun game.
When I was younger I loved on a coldeesack (idk how to spell it) and wed used to play this game called "Deer and Lion". It was a game where you would hide in the tall grass at the end of the road witch you would crouch down and hide. It was like tag but you had to pin them down to get them out.
Not the most unique, but my step dad built 3 wooden shelves above my bed. In the middle, I took some books and stacked them up next to each other, leaving about 8 inches of empty space between them. This acted as a basketball rim. I then took a stress ball and would shoot around and “dunk”.
Also, used to make my WWF action figures play football games.
I was obsessed with action figures. It was a weird feeling outgrowing that phase. I distinctly remember trying to hold on to it, but the intrigue/imagination just wasn’t there anymore.
The swinging game. All through elementary and middle school my friend and I would leap from the playground swings and have our other friend catch us bridal style. We had names for each, and held practices. We fell backwards, lept in various ways and distances, and looking back it was SUPER dangerous. And my friend was strong as shit to catch us (we were all girls).
My grandad worked for a large dairy and so we had tons of milk crates around. We would stack them to build a drive thru window and then some of us would drive thru with our tricycles and bicycles and order food. The restaurant owner would gather different ingredients like different types of leaves, different soil types like sand, garden soil, rocks, etc, and then then cook whatever dish the customer ordered and deliver it through the window. My favorite was a mud pie sandwich with dogwood leaves as the bun and a dandelion garnish.
It was a combination of Library/a game we named after the Nickelodeon show ‘Wild & Crazy Kids’. My sister and I would lean all our books on the stairs like they were on shelves in the library, and pretend to browse them and check them out. When we were done, the game changed to ‘Wild & Crazy Kids’, and we would start at the top and knock all the books down the stairs as fast as we could.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huckle Buckle Berry. I am the youngest of 10. My parents worked ALL. THE TIME. My dad was an OTR truck driver and my mom woroed at 3 different hospitals. I grew up in the early 90s. I had two sisters that were closest to me in age(4 and 5 years older) so we hung out alot. Well.... They were stuck with me. We played huckle buckle berry. We lived in a pretty big house and the premise of the game was to get a piece of aluminum foil fold it up about the size of a individual unwrapped gum wrapper and hide it. A piece of it had to be visible from its hiding place. No matter how small. And then whoever found it got to hide it next
The game was called "Avalanche". My family had a staircase surrounded by high walls. The bottom of the stair had a doorway. We would secure multiple blankets at the upper level over the top opening of the staircase and then load them up with pillows and stuffed animals. Teams of two would be placed below the canopy and then the load would be dropped on them. Escaping from the payload was intense. Sometimes it took minutes because the force of everything falling onto you would knock you off your feet and turn you upside down as you fell down. We competed for best escape time. Opening the door at the bottom of the stair served as an emergency relief - we kept our youngest sibling outside to act as a safety.
Whatever book was popular at the time (The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.) my best friend and I would act it out, assuming the roles of our own characters and adding a lot of plot twists. I do a lot of creative writing now and credit that early exposure.
We would take turns crawling all the way under the bed against the wall and then the others would stuff whatever things we had in the room like pillows and blankets and books or whatever under the bed.
Then we would time the person to see how long it took them to escape from under the bed. Fastest time won the round. It was always a challenge to see who could pack the stuff under the best to keep people in.
Unwanted Kitten: My parents would put me in a sack and toss me in a lake or river then drive away. I would escape the sack and swim to shore, then find my way home. If I got home within 7 days, they lost and would try again the next day.
It was really fun until I turned 5, then they couldn’t find a large enough sack.
Me and my brother used to shut all the doors in the hallway, so the whole area was closed off, stand at each end and throw bouncy balls at eachother while trying to dodge them all bouncy around. It made a god awful noise but we loved it!
I mostly watched, played maybe once or twice, but my brothers would play a game on the trampoline they called old Garfunkel where you stand on one leg, hold the other foot, and try and get the other person to fall down any way possible. Pushing, punching, jump kicking... so many bruises.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people have done this, but it's that "slide game" where people would go down the slide first facing forward and staying there then backwards, then forwards , feet to feet, back to back, the cycle never ends.... intensity varies on the size and shape of the slide of course
Until we eventually got bored or if some weak ass little shit complained about their back or legs hurting
It was basically like it sounds, you tag someone and they join you, trying to tag the people that aren’t “infected” yet.
Though, in 4th grade, we all thought it would be a great idea to tackle people to the ground to tag someone. This went on for some time until a teacher saw it and made us not tackle each other anymore.
As a child in elementary school my friends and I would play this during recess and/or after football practice. Keep in mind that in my middle school located in Mexico, we did not have any playground games or anything... rather than a square courtyard.
The game consisted in getting all the guys from our grade to participate. Once all gathered we would do a nose goes and the last one ruled was considered the “bulldog”. He alone would stand in the middle of the courtyard as everyone else would go and line up at one of the ends; the point was to get to the other side without being not only tackled but literally bought down to the ground at any cost. So as 10 kids would run across the concrete courtyard charging towards the other side- the bulldog needed to fuck someone up and bring them down so they would be tagged and now the 2 bulldogs have the goal of bringing everyone else trying to run down. Last standing wins.
I remember friends getting broken arms and noses. We would tackle slide and try to trip them. Shot was insane for 4th graders.
At my cousins house he use to have a junk shed. In that shed was an old radio. My cousin and I would put on head phones and pretend to be air traffic controllers for hours and that old radio was our control board and radar. Rarely did we even pretend there was an emergency. We would literally just tell fictional pilots wind conditions.
We called it bike pickle but basically it was kids lined up on either side of a wide street with tennis balls and other balls in hand then one or more kids would ride their bike through the firing squads. It was basically dodge ball on a bike. Some kids got really messed up but we all had our turn either throwing or riding.
My siblings and I would play "murderer." The rules were that you could only play at night (in order the boost the scare factor) ! and all the lights in the house had to be turned off. All but one person would hide around the dark house and the designated seeker, or murderer, would have to find them one by one. "Basically hide and seek," you think to yourself. Ah yes, but when the murderer found someone, they would tap them in the shoulder and very softly whisper in their ear "you're murdered." Naturally this resulted in a ripple-effect of screams from people throughout the house as we heard each other start shrieking. Fun times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run Around the Rock
One way my dad entertained the my two siblings and I on Saturdays that my mom worked was Run Around the Rock. My dad would crouch down in the middle of the living room while the three of us ran around him chanting "run around the rock". Suddenly, he'd reach out, grab one of us, and start tickling. One of my fondest childhood memories
MATG66 · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would tie a long rope to a stuffed animal, place it on the opposite side of the street, hide in the bushes, then pull it toward us as cars drove by. Then we would watch their reactions as they ran it over.
I have an older brother (well two but just this one Sheldon, 9 years) older, when he was in high school ish and I was 7-8-9 ish I would ask him to play this game. It was a bit of a benefit for him. I laid out this big comforter out in the living room and I had to make a tall glass of Chocolate milk and put it in the middle of the blanket then hide. Eventually, and he would take his time while I basically sat hiding and watching the blanket. He eventually drank the chocolate milk, and it would "put him to sleep" and he would fake fall asleep on the blanket. My job then became: completely covering him with the blanket. I had to cover him entirely or else I lost. I almost always lost. lol
I had to sneak to the blanket and slowly start folding it towards his lying body and as soon as I was a bit too loud he would wake up and attack and fight back. Of course I never "won" because according to him he had his toes out one time or his hand was sticking out. As a young baby sister I apprecited him playing with me while older and it was the funnest game.
Me and my cousins played a game called "sandwich". At the time, we had a few air mattresses around out house and we would blow them all up. Then, one person would lay on the floor while we piled on the air mattresses and then proceeded to jump on them. We counted times it took for people to scream for air, escape, moms, bathrooms, etc.
A long time ago my sister, a friend, and me would play a game where we would throw my clean underwear into my bedroom fan which would fling it around the room. If you were hit by the underwear you lost. 😂
“Quad game”. My grandma had a few acres of field for her horse. Lots of different terrain. Thick bush, open field, jumps for the quads, sawdust hills, spruce forest, birch forest, a treehouse. We used to play in groups of 5 or 6 with our neighbour friends where two people would be on the quads chasing the people on foot. Very dangerous. Very very very fun.
This one time, me and my twin brother would play "FakeOut", where we pretend to be dead and see if our parents fall for it. Adam was amazing at it. One day, he pretended he overdosed on prescription drugs. It was so convincing, my parents started crying. They were so convinced, they actually buried him in a proper coffin. I bet he's having a good old laugh down there. Boy, he really faked them out, huh?
My sister always tells me now about how when we were young, I’d walk around outside mumbling to myself, and she would come out and asked if she could play with me. Apparently I always told her that I was “playing by myself”. My whole life I’ve really struggled with maladaptive daydreaming, my current medication helps but it’s still something I do a ton, but looking back at it that must’ve seem just batshit.
Finally man. Truth. Die. Spy. Me and my cousin ran a covert highly effective spy operation. Imagine like a rogue kind of mercenary group in a star wars type universe. 2 main factions were red and blue (never came up with names for them). Most people were synths but we were a 100% human group with some dope ass synth weapons. We would help blue in the war against red (pretty much the empire). To this day as a grown ass man when i’m in the shower i still pretend it’s a ship taking off for a mission or ill turn a corner with the strap and take out the group of synths in the room before they can even blink.
The animal game.
Basically 20 questions with animals the only category. One person thought up an animal and everyone else had to guess it by asking yes/ No questions
But no limit on questions. Usually started with "does it have 4 legs?" Etc.
I remembered this game recently when i was thinking of my ridiculous general knowledge on the subject of animals...
There weren't many times when someone didn't guess the animal.
Edit: usually a car game on one out the many long car trips we went on.
Played to break up I Spy rounds etc.
One day while visiting my grandparents in another city, I convinced my older brother to "Sumo Wrestle" with me in the room that we used to stay in. We stripped down to our tighty whities and made the ring out of our clothes. We then pulled our tighty whities up the crack of our asses and proceeded to sumo wrestle by slapping each others chests until one of us fell out of the ring. The end.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 5 siblings and I played this game where our dad would get under a blanket at one end of the living room and then we had to try and run past him from couch to couch and try not to get snagged from beast of the depths. Once he had an ankle he would drag us screeching into the tickle dungeon for a few seconds before regurgitating us gasping for air, crawling back to the safety of the couch.
So my stepdad was a funeral director (and generally weird as fuck) and he would let me and my friends crawl in the back of one of the hearses.
We'd sit up by the window on our butts and wrap our arms around our knees. Then he'd floor it across the parking lot and the momentum would send us flying backwards.
Hearses have rollers on the inside to help put the caskets in, so if you sat just right you would slide a solid 8 feet before slamming into the back door. Then he'd hit the breaks and we'd slide back up.
I imagine it sounded something like WHEEEEE - THUNK! WHEEEEEEE-THUNK!
Sometimes he would (try to) do donuts in the hearse with us in the back. That was fun.
Drip, drip, drop. The summer camp version of duck duck goose where whoever is it has a plastic cup of water and they either sprinkle a drop on someone’s head or dump the whole thing and run around. Never heard any of my friends play it.
We had a game called round the house terror, it had two variants. The first was indoors how it originally started, we took my uncles army socks and stuffed them with more socks to get them heavy, we would then run around the house whipping them at each other.
The second version of it came as we got older and I’m sure weary of breaking things in the house. This version was outdoors and we took little footballs that they used to throw out at the high school games along with things like nerf footballs and the like and would run around the house throwing them as hard as we could at each other.
One rule table tennis. Aim of the game was to keep the rally going as long as possible with the only rule being the ball cant touch the floor. Ball could obviously be hit as many times as you like and it made for hectic setup shots and plenty of rebounds off body parts and objects in the house. Points would last minutes and games would last hours with no real winner but everyone who played!
My little brother and I used to have beanie baby wars, at some point in my childhood my family and I started collecting beanie babies at one point we had a huge bin filled with them I'd say like 25 gallon or something close to that, well the game was that we turned off the light of one of our rooms and hurl them at each other until someone quit(or parents yelled for us to stop) those hard plastic eyes or noses could sting and left a couple welts in my childhood, such a great memory that I dont think about too often.
We played a game called orphan. One child is rolled up in the carpet and starts to quietly cry in the rolled up carpet. Other child or parent walks by and pretends to discover the orphan rolled up in the carpet by first hearing the crying and then unrolling the carpet. Start over.
My best friend and I used to play what was essentially racquetball in his garage, the only thing was it was FULL of random shit. the ball would fly randomly around the room smashing into things. 2x points for breaking glass. Haven't played a more satisfying game yet.
Cabeza. You run up to a friend, jump up in the air and with both hands grab his/her head and cram it into your crotch while screaming ‘CABEZA!’ Lol 90’s we’re lit
DKuroi · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to roll down the stairs inside duvet sheet gilled with pillows.
Looking back that was crazy dangerous , but we were bored.
A babysitter once taught us to "sled" down our stairs. We live in Florida, so this was amazing. We started with pillowcases and eventually upgraded to a twin size mattress. We "sledded" those stairs until my parents ripped the carpets off and turned them into woord floors. I have carpet stairs now and definitely want to teach my kids!
When I was in early grade school, we created a game called Monkey Wrestling. Basically it was between two people wearing their bike helmets. You try to touch the other person’s helmet. You get a point if you do. You get a strike if you touch the person face. First to five points wins.
When I was young my grandfather and I would go fishing all the time and be being all of about 8 years old would get bored. So eventually I would just throw a stick into the lake and start throwing rocks at it to try and hit it. This obviously scared all the fish away and my grandfather would get frustrated but loved seeing me so entertained. Fast forward 16 years and I was deployed to Japan walking on the beach with my buddies and I decided to show them my game stick rock. So I threw a stick out into the ocean and started hucking rocks at it. My friends laughed at me and called me a hick, until I gave them a rock to throw. Before we knew it there were 4 big grown ass men throwing rocks at a stick in Japan.
When driving on I-95 through North Carolina there are the signs for south of the border camp ground. You have to call out south of the border every time you see one to get a point. Negative points if it was not actually a billboard for south of the border. There are at least 30 of them. My parents and I have played this game my whole life. I usually win.
You play a game of ring around the rosey, and then its last man standing wins, you have to knock everyone else over without leaving the yard. Obviously was in like 6th grade or something.
I was in a Boy Scout troop of like 15 kids, the church we had our meetings at had a huge area of wooded land behind. After our meeting we’d play a game of MANHUNT. Three out of the 15 of us would be the “hunters” and the rest of us would hide. We had about 5 minutes to find a good spot, and could relocate if we felt we were going to be caught. The hunters would travel in a group and if they found someone they’d give them the biggest wedgie, basically ripping their underwear out of their pants. The game lasted about an hour and then we’d all laugh and go home. We did this for about 6 months until one of the new kids parents complained and we were forced to stop.
We would hold literal wrestling matches on my trampoline when I️ was in elementary school. Like full on tournaments and whoever won always had mad respect after. By the way we are girls lol
I would play Commie Hunting range with my brothers. Pretend to hunt down commies in the range and bring back their tongues or something. You're only allowed to bag 3 of the animals during the season though.
seekAr · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At night I would pretend giant table saws would come trim the sides of my bed while I slept so I would make sure I slept in the very center. I would pile all my stuffed dolls and animals around me so that if I rolled over, one of my flock would be sacrificed to save me. Even my beloved Cabbage Patch preemies ... they all had a bigger calling as Saw Fodder.
My cousins and myself would play Star Wars on a fallen tree, they were two and five years older than me and being the youngest and the only girl I had to play princess Laia, sit on the stump and wait to be rescued. They wouldn't even give me a "weapon."
Hide and ho seek in the dark. We didnt have phones and flashlights and stuff. Just in the basement, no lights. Everyone had 10 seconds and lights go off. Shit it was so fckin dark
vagkws · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play alot what we called "Nintendo hide n seek" . basically we used the pictorchat of the DS to send messages with hints or draw something that we could see . We had to find the other person and understand all the clues they given us to win. The are in which we played was pretty big and cluttered so it was a really fun experience
Sumo wrestler. We would put on XL shirts (as tiny 8-year-old girls) and stuff them with a bunch of pillows. Then we’d count to three and run at each other to send the opponent flying. Whoever’s still standing wins!
We lived in a twelve unit townhouse style complex. In the parking lot there was a faucet that would drain downhill. The parking lot being rather large, we would create a river with the water and ride our bikes through it singing songs we would make up on the spot. We would do this until an adult came along and stopped us. Usually citing water bills or some nonsense. Looking back, I have to scoff. It was subsided housing and non of us had to pay the water. Just rent and electric.
My grandma would play a game with me called mamot. Where she would grab my arm swinging it back and forth saying mamot over and over again until she said MAMOT and I would have to stop myself from slapping me.
NDS or Natural Disaster Survival, the real life adaption I made on the school playground. It is based off a Roblox gamemode by the same name.
The “disaster master” would call a disaster, and we would have to respond accordingly (i.e. flood means get to high ground, earthquake means get to low ground, tornado/wildfire means get away from a specific area, etc) and whoever didn’t make it in time would be out.
Some friends and I made a school-wide competition for NDS that would apparently be the most played recess game in years, attracting almost 150 people one day.
It got banned after a fistfight broke out over the high ground.
Whenever there was a trampoline (with side netting) around, my friends and I would play a game called "dead boy/dead girl" where one person would lie down with their eyes closed and their arms crossed while the others would jump around them singing "dead boy/girl, dead boy/girl, come alive on the count to 5, 1 2 3 4 5" and then that person would blindly jump/run around the trampoline trying to tag someone. Once you were tagged you became the dead person.
I was an only child so I was by myself a lot. I liked pretending that I was a well respected artisan living in a kingdom. Like I was the worlds best maker of flower crowns which must be meticulously sourced and crafted and were very important to the kingdom I lived in.
Parent now of adult children, but when our boys were little we played a game called "cheetah." This was simply rolling fresh fruit (usually grapes, but anything smallish that would roll was fair game) across the kitchen floor, The boys would be on their knees and would have to chase the fruit to eat it. Double healthy - fresh fruit and exercise!
Zaps_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baseball, but bases were just 4 objects in a diamond shape, the bat was anything we could swing, and the ball was whatever wouldn't break everything around. Me and my little brother (4yrs younger) would do this whenever we were bored and stuck somewhere. Our most creative combo was pillows for bases, the top part of a Swiffer handle as a bat, and a pair of tightly balled up socks as a ball. I'm studying computer science now, but he just started opening day for his top 10 JUCO baseball team, and will be playing D1 baseball next season, so I guess it worked.
(Early 2000's) The asian kids in my elementary school invented this game called "Line Tag". I say invented because my 4th grade teacher remarked how it was the first time he's ever seen the game played. All you needed for the game was the Four Square squares. On our blacktop, we had a bunch of Four Squares going down in a row.
So you basically have two teams: "Defenders" and "Runners". Each Four Square square could have three Defenders, one for each line, laterally. Defenders have to keep their feet on the lateral line. The Defender's captain was on the first lateral line and could also go down vertically on the center line to create like a half-swastika defense line. The Defender's captain can go further down the imaginary vertical line in between the Four Square squares if there were more than 3 Defenders.
Runners would start behind the Defender's captain. Once the Runner's captain slap the Defender's captain's hand, the game would start. The Runners have to jive and juke the Defenders until they get past the last Defender. The Runners have to keep at least one foot in the Four Square.
Any Defender that "tags" a Runner gets that Runner out. The game was all about catching the opposing team off-guard.
If you're having trouble imagining the game, just think of a 2D version of Ender's Game battle arena. The enemy's gate is down, so the speak.
Runners that get past the last Defender have to come all the way back to the start. This is where it gets fun, because the Defenders' attention is split between the Runners infront of them and behind them. This is where the Defender's captain half-swastika defense comes in. His vertical line makes and breaks the defense line, since the other Defenders can only move laterally on their own line.
The game ends if the Defenders tag all the Runners out. The Runners win if at least one Runner makes it to the end and back to the start. Even so, we still play out the remaining Runners to see how many more can make it.
I haven't visited my elementary school since then. I doubt the game's legacy lasted, but I would be pretty happy if I saw a bunch of kids playing line tag now. I wouldn't mind playing again.
WallBall - There was a 10m brick wall on slightly raised ground at my primary school. We would get kids to line up and maintain contact with the wall while others would line up at the end of the raised ground and throw/kick balls (soccer or rugby balls) at them. If you got hit you were out.
Maybe a bit late but my siblings and I used to play "blind mans touch". One person was blindfolded and the others would all run around a small room as the blindfolded one listens and chases after the other. Good times.
My sisters and I would have major food fights with specific foods. For example - did you know that you can shoot corn if you press a cooked kernel between your fingers and the inside shoots out?
Also, we’d cut up hot dogs and throw them at the ceiling straight up so that little wet circle marks would be on the ceiling. Best game ever.
BB Gun Wars: around 10 boys, 7-10 years old, running around the neighborhood shooting each other with BB guns... every man for himself, "Purge"-style. The only ones that ever teamed together were the twins. I remember hiding my swollen knuckle from my parents for weeks, I didn't want to stop playing! Great times, and somehow we all still have our eyes!
Any time I was at a sleep over with my best friend we would go around in our sleeping bags and pretend to be dinosaurs. We called it little sluggers for some reason. Essentially you had to crawl around and complete different objectives in your sleeping bag.
I use to try to see how many things I could think about at one time, so I would sing a song, count & try to hold a conversation. It came in handy the other day while listening to music & doing yoga.
My family play guess the check Everytime we go out to eat, every now and then we get winners and it makes the kids really happy.
Hjhhjk · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and his brother always got packs of gum in their christmas stockings so they liked to play “how much of this can we fit in our mouths before we choke”
llama_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and sneak
(Best played outside) One person counts with their eyes closed and everyone runs and hides.
When they open them the objective is for everyone else to subtly sneak up on the person who counted.
But if the person notices them sneaking and is able to tag them they are out. The person who successfully sneaks up and tags the person who counted wins.
The game is played until either someone tags that person or the person who counted is able to tag everybody out.
I made it up as a kid. I have a bunch of brothers and lived on a big property with lots of trees, it was a big hit.
I can recall two "games" I played with my older siblings. The first one we would tie the toe ends of our socks together (while wearing them) then make our way down the staircase. The second was a game we literally called "Smother". We would willingly lay down and let the the other sibling press a pillow over our face. The winner was whoever stayed under the longest without struggling. There were others but those are the two I remember the most. Maybe my older sister was trying to kill me I don't know.
My parents had one of the sprinkler attachments that sprayed upwards like a wall. Me and my brother would jump threw the wall into a different dimension, place, time period etc etc...
“Lava Monster” - Basically one person would be the “lava monster” and stay on the lava (ground) trying to catch us runners like tag. The catch was the runners weren’t allowed on the floor. So we would be running on top of the couch, hopping from furniture to furniture. Anything to help us stay afloat. If we stepped or fell into the lava or the lava monster tagged us, we would become his or her minions and try to get the rest of the runners until one person was left. Kept us kids at family parties busy forever! Adults would get upset though lol.
When my grandma stayed over at my house for a few weeks because she had just gotten surgery, me and my sister would play "crockey" or "crutch hockey." We would use her crutches as hockey sticks and put socks on the end caps so they wouldn't get scratched. We'd play around the house for what felt like hours it was so much fun.
In my neighborhood we would play lightning bug tag. You catch a lightning bug and smoosh the light on someone’s shirt. They have to catch another lightning bug and smoosh it on someone else’s shirt before the light on their own shirt goes out. Disgusting in many ways, I know.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my child hood friends would take empty trash cans and throw them at each other. So funny
One of my cousins was always breaking his arm and when we played Wallball our friends would tease him about throwing like a "pussy" so I made it to where everybody had to throw with their week arm we called the game Pussyball
We played a game called "lions in a tree" It was us pretending to be....lions in a tree. I also played this game by myself called "OCD". Its when I would run up the hill and if I ran up in time to knock on the door, my whole family wouldnt go to hell. The funnest part about that game was that it never had any official timing system only whatever my mind told me was fast enough. This resulted in me running up the hill over and over for about 20 or so ish minutes.
Bash basketball it was a simple game there were six of us no team if you had the ball try and shoot a hoop while the others could stop you just about anyway they wanted with the use of weapons. Another one we had was throwing a cricket ball as hard as we could at each other over a 15m to 20m distance
Princess Di and the butler. I would dress up in princess clothes and tied a wagon to a tricycle and my friend Danielle would drive me up and down the drive way. Sometimes he would drive recklessly and I'd have to be like "Belvedere SLOW DOWN or I'll find another butler!". Other times my brothers would pretend to be cops and pull us over and I would give them autographs. Then the Dianna passed away in a car accident and I never got in that wagon again.
I don’t think we had a name for this game, except maybe “Guns”. We brought out very realistic looking plastic weaponry (orange caps were around but we had the old stuff and removed caps when necessary. This would have definitely gotten us killed by r/badcopnodonut cops if we we were of darker complexion).
We divided into teams and laid in wait for the others. Sort of like hide and seek or paintball with no projectiles. Somehow, it worked out. It was generally agreed when one person “got” the other or if both died in a shootout.
I think the game ended when we lost interest or the team that was hiding made it to “home base”.
TL;DR: We wandered the streets with realistic toy guns, likely scared neighbors and never had a problem. Thanks white privilege!
so me and my sister would play barbie clue. I would murder a barbie, decide who did it, the motive, and create characters for my sister the detective to interview. She would have detective barbie and her partner come to my barbie’s ranch (i loved horses as a kid so it was always a ranch and the suspects lived in the barbie dream house on the property) located in our window sear and interview the suspects. It was literally csi for a 5 and 9 year old. There was intrigued, romance, money hungry land developers, warrants etc. We’re pretty sure it’s from our mom always watching crime shows when she thought we were busy playing lol
My little brother and I used to play one-on-one football in our hall. We made up our own theme song (a la Monday Night Football) and would turn on lights in the rooms just off the hallway in synch with our theme.
My friend and I used to play metal gear solid, where one person would be the guard who had a timy cone of vision and the other eas snake and you had to get from one side of the tiny new york apartment to the other. Whoever played the gaurd got to go "what was that noise?" to change up their patrol route or also "whose footprints are these!?"
Graph paper, a pencil, and some dice, to play a RTS-type war game with my cousins in the 80's. We had ships, planes, tanks. Had a ton of rules I can't remember... you fired at opponents by flicking the pencil as your "shot" - there was a dice rolling aspect and resources as well...
Bottle caps. We would draw a bottle cap court with chalk on the ground on our small street. It was a series of boxes in a square that were numbered from 1 to 15. Everyone started at one. the object was to go in order from one to fifteen by flicking the caps with your finger. After reaching fifteen, you were poison. Then you would try to hit your opponent’s bottle cap with yours. If you did they were out of the game. Years later I learned to play croquet. Rules were almost exactly the same, except with mallets and wooden balls instead of bottle caps.
We would stay up late at night in our shared room and play “movie outtakes” where we would just act out outtakes, like someone falling and then laughing.
When I was a kid especially around 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, instead of paying attention in class I spend a large amount of time drawing out small stick men in battle in ridiculous scenarios, and constantly adding to it as if it was a shifting and changing battle on one sheet of paper.
Huggyleg. We (being a group of kids like elementary middle school age, 2 to each family and there were like 4 families that would play) would lock the door in one of our parents master bedrooms, and the lights would be off, and somehow whenever we played it was evening so the light coming through the closed curtains wasn't too strong but you could still sorta seen.The person who was "it" would have to hug the other kids legs. If you caught on and held on for a few seconds, then they too became it. It ended when it went down to the last person, and then they would be the winner.
As weird as it was, we only played this game about 4 or 5 times but we'd play it for like 3 hours each time.
DL6 · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag, on bikes, using Nerf guns, and handheld CB radios.
We used to play “pigs in nests”. We sat inside boxes peen tending to be well, pigs in nests, crawled in to the bathroom to lick up water with our tongues.
Here's a game we all played once as a kid. Spinning violently in place making everyone in the room noxious and losing all coordination for a minute, Good times
Run down the hill yelling "Carity, carity, carity." When we got to the end, yell "Kimberly." Yep, that was the whole game.
Hide from cars. Someone kept watch and whenever a car came down the road, we had to get out of sight before it passed our house. If the car "saw" you, you had to freeze until it was gone. The watcher would call out "clear" when it was safe to come out. Alternatively, we could climb a tree and then pretend the passing cars were food. (a blue car = a blueberry, etc.)
Tag/hide and seek around the family van. The object was to tag someone else. You could look under the van to see where their feet were and try to sneak up on them, or you could hide by standing next to the wheels. Climbing on the bumper was a great strategy for moving without being seen- as long as you stayed below the windows.
We put our feet into the hoods of our winter coats and zipped the coats around our legs to form "kayaks," and then we'd kayak down the stairs, which clearly were a waterfall.
Hold a mirror just below your chin and look into it as you walked around the house. It looked like you were walking on the ceiling, surreal.
Play house by raking leaves into floorplans. Sometimes we'd even make long "roads" we could ride our bikes on. In the winter, we'd create the floorplans by excavating paths in the snow.
Looking back, we sure played some dumb games, most of which were probably my ideas.
Oh, I forgot: when we had a long drive, we played detective. We were on the trail of some criminals and the way to catch them was to find clues in the signs, license plates, etc. we passed.
I liked watching game shows as a kid (reality TV was booming in the 2000’s) so I would have an imaginary show with imaginary contestants and have them do challenges to get points and at the end of the season someone would win.
People are probably going to tell me everyone played this game, but we had pocket knives as kids (70-80's) and would go out to play. We would draw a circle in the sand/ earth and take turns throwing one knife in it. The point is where the knife lands you draw a line from one end of the circle, through where the knife landed (only if it stuck in the ground, otherwise it's lose a turn) to the other side. Then the biggest half of the circle is "yours". We take turns doing this until the whole circle is claimed and count who has the largest area.
slento · 1 points · Posted at 02:47:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and his brother had the cool house where a bunch of kids would be there all weekend hanging out in the basement or playing outside. We had one game where the object was to make your opponent's head touch any surface. You have people backed into corners while someone else had their palm on the kid's face trying to force it into one wall or the other. we would have giant tournament brackets of upwards of 15 people.
So many but one that stands out is lazer pee. It was just me and my friend pretending we could pee lazers and "kill" one another.
There was also a detective game where a squirrel or " Mr. Squirreley " would give us people to hunt down and catch. We wpuld run aroud the park throwing pinecones at the "enemy" and using sticks as walkey talkies .
There were two games I remember playing with my siblings, the one I'll focus on was called slender and the point of the game was to tag whoever was it, and then you become it
Whooever was "It" walked around the house with a flash light and had to flick it on if they thought someone was there, and if someone was hiding they couldn't tag you until whoever was "it" walked around again, but, to make it fair, the person who was "It" could only use the flashlight three times in a row while walking so if they wasted them it became a free for all between all the stalkers
I don't think it was unique but we played aggressive trampoline Dodge ball with our own special rules and variations of dodgeball like king, someone stood in the middle and someone else would guard them from the ball, the king wasn't supposed to move out of a circle we made but the guard could shove them
We had some pretty intense games during the summer, I miss all my siblings but they're in college now I'm home alone
Counting cows. On long trips when you passed cows you had to count as many as you could. When you passed a graveyard you lost them and had to start over...
rlgies · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game we called “One-O-Cat”. It was base ball for only three people. We live out in the country but I also had 7 brothers and 5 sisters. A lot of fun
Curb Ball : players stand on each side of the street. With standard red rubber ball take turns throwing at the opposite curb. If you hit curb and it bounces back on the ground, 1 point. If it hits curb, bounces up, if you catch it with foot on the street, 2 points.. if you catch it without having to step in the street 4 points. ( This makes it fun as on close ones you're reaching over as far as you can trying to keep your balance and not step into the street)
I shared a room with my younger siblings growing up. Whenever we had to clean the room, to get out of doing my share I would build a fort called a "fun house" which was essentially just a duvet tent with my SNES and Megadrive setup underneath. I would then charge admission to my sibling in the form of them cleaning up toys. I got so much more mileage out of that than I should have.
I don't remember what we called it, but when I was younger, me and a friend would place little army men or just small figures on larger toys like doll houses and toy garages, then we would take turns trying to knock the figurines over by throwing pennies. The first person to knock the others person's figurines over wins. It took years to figure out that you could just throw the pennies really hard.
I used to close my eyes and go 'aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' because I thought it would tell me something important.
My sister (who is hard of hearing) and I would play this game where we would creep towards the road from our front porch. We would keep going until we saw a car and then we would run back to the porch for safety. The first one back being the winner.
It wasn’t until my sister was in her twenties that she realized I could hear the cars way before we saw them, hence, I always won.
When I was a kid we invented a game called flop saucer where you would sit on a trampoline with 3-4 people in a circle and roll a quarter around the outside, shifting your weight to keep the quarter circling around the outside of the players as long as possible. No real way to win or score points, just a collaborative challenge.
My parents’ kitchen floor had that classic black and white checkered square patterned linoleum.
To play Black Squares, you walk on just your toes or heels, on only the black squares. Extra points given for moving ridiculously between squares by leaping large distances or pirouetting, stepping quickly sideways, lifting your knees comically high etc. (no scores are officially recorded at any point). Periodically you should stop, hold your hands at chest height with limp wrists, rear your head back and screech like a velociraptor.
Repeat.
We played this well into our 20s.
Just installed new black and white checkered linoleum in my new kitchen. Immediately played Black Squares.
When I was eight I gathered up all of my military themed toys and started coming up with a rules set for offensive and defensive power, cover, damage types, etc. The collection consisted of action figures, transformers, army men, micro machines, hotwheels, and the like. At first I used tinker toys to make forts for them, but soon got bored and took the action outside. Dug up a huge patch of the yard about three feet deep, made crevices and caves in the cliff face of the hole, and piled up the dirt in the middle of the hole to make hills, valleys, and earth works. Had a blast with it until my parents went out back one day and saw their perfect suburban lawn demolished with my toys still set up mid-battle while I took a break for a snack. Got grounded for a month for that one.
Ever since then I have been obsessed with tabletop game design, but never got an opportunity to really pursue it. Instead I paint minis and come up with mods for wargames to fix balance issues and make the game more enjoyable. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much interest in these sorts of mods where I live, so most of them have gone un-played.
Growing up next to a horse racing track in New York, they had a very large playing lot. On Saturday nights that parking lot was FULL. we played the "license plate game". We'd ride through the lot on our bikes pick out a car, go back and relay the plate number to the others who would have a time limit to come back with the color and make of the car. Dumb, I know but a fun way to blow a Saturday night as a 10 year old.
Back when rip-sticks started getting popular in new Zealand we would have a destruction derby before school started out on the concrete basketball court. For those unfamiliar a rip stick is a skate board but with two fully roating wheels. One wheel at the back and one at the front. Where the board was in a figure 8 type shape. In order to make them move you would have to wiggle your back leg and the board would accelerate. As you can imagine it was very easy to fall off. So us kids decided it was a good idea to rip-stick around the courtyard and try and knock each other off the rip stick, using the rip stick only to whip the back of whoevers board you could come up against. It was pretty damn fun IF you didn't fall off and scrape your knees.
Shark! In elementary school, a group of kids would sit on the very top of a wide slide and another kid would be the shark, the shark had to run up the slide and try to pull as many kids as they could from the "boat". Fun times.
We used to play "Monkey man" which was basically tag at night but the monkey man couldn't run and the other people couldn't hide unless the monkey man was in line of sight.
Best was one time I was monkey man hiding under a bench swing thing and grabbed a girls leg as she walked near causing her to piss her pants.
There was a knotted tree in our side yard but the knot had a hole in it that always had gunk in it. My sister and I called it "soup and stew" and would go out and stir it every so often.
“Horsey Horsey Neigh Neigh” It was where you sit on someones back as they crawl around the room like a horse. The objective was to try not to let the horse make you fall off. It was like a mechanical bull ride, but with people. Me and my brother loved this game and we would take turns being the rider. My brother always made me be the horse but it was fun.
We found a 6 foot long leather whip one day, Indiana Jones had just come out, so of course we all wanted to be like him. But being dumb 8-10 year old kids, the coolest thing we came up with was to use it to play tag.
I’m sure a lot of people ( adults) had a WTF? moment driving along and seeing 5 or 6 little kids running down the street laughing hysterically, with 1 kid, always crying, waving a 6 foot bull whip in the air chasing the other kids.
Yup, getting tagged with a leather whip fucking hurts. A lot. But tagging one of your friends between the shoulder blades with a whip? Satisfying beyond words. The newly tagged person almost always ended up on the ground, in a ball crying. Walk up them, drop the whip on them and say, “ your it”.
I think we played that game for most of the summer until a responsible adult took the whip away from us.
Our family always had a one month vacation over summer, and my sister and I along with two of our cousins came up with the idea to set up a sprinkler so it sprayed warm water on to a giant trampoline, and at night we liked to play “everyone closes their eyes and we all wrestle on the slippery trampoline in the dark”
Other summer pastimes included “pretend to be a cult of short hooded trolls making a child sacrifice to scare to pizza guy” and a fun little cooking game where we baked pancakes made from the first things we saw. If the dog wouldn’t eat it, you won.
My parents used to have us play "the ghost game." You can only play at night and when I was very young we would play in teams. We would turn out all the lights in the house and otherwise make sure it was as dark as possible. One person gets to be "it" and while they stay in the only lit room/area of the house all the teams would slip into the darkness and hide. Whoever was it would then go through the house, no lights/flashlights, looking for the hidden teams. The teams would hide (they were able to move spots, but they have to stay together) and try to scare "it" before being found. If you manage to scare "it," the ghosts win. If you're found before spooking "it," then "it" wins.
Two people lay on their stomachs on the back of the couch face to face and grab each others elbows. Object is to rock and roll the other person off the couch before they got you. Loser is first one to fall. So much fun.
My mates and I called this game "Slope Shot". We played by having one person be the shooter and the others being the runners. The shooters job was to shoot a regulation hockey puck at the others while they ran over several snow mounds of varying heights. Thankfully no one got domed by a frozen hockey puck but we did get some good sized welts over the years.
We did a lot of play acting growing up, basically LARPing without realizing it.
When the movie Holes came out, my cousin had just recently gotten a pool in their backyard. We dug holes for fun in the pile of dirt. Spent a whole summer digging holes, sitting in the holes, we even put little fire places in them and attempted to make popcorn.
We also went through a phase of each of us acting as a character from Final Fantasy VII.
Harry Potter.
Blitzball in the pool from like we were in Final Fantasy X.
Every Sunday my family and I would go to my grandmother's house for family dinner. This was a requirement set by her, and my siblings and I really didn't want it, since we were not very close to that side of the family. We dreaded every single visit. However, there was one bright side: she owned a lot of umbrellas. Like, more than necessary for an old lady and her old husband living alone. Like, I'm talking 3 drawers full of umbrellas, and then some more. I have no idea why she had so many. Anyway, since my cousins had to be there as well and they were always as bored as I was, we used the umbrellas to make tents and pretended to be camping under them. My grandmother would scold us for playing with the umbrellas (she's fun at parties) but we would just ignore her and we would try to see who could make the biggest umbrella tent. Sometimes we made one gigantic one to accommodate everyone. It was especially fun when it was actually raining, because we would sit inside our umbrella tents and listen to the rain.
My brother and I were really into music, we would even compete on who knew the better music in a certain genre/theme. We would grab a judge and ask them for a genre of music or a situation in which you would play a song. Of course, this game became unfair when my brother got a girlfriend because he would always grab her to be the judge.
We still play, but with other things like anime ops and video game bosses.
We had a big yard in the woods, and my mom would hide clues on paper all around outside and in the house. We had a little play toy chest that it would eventually lead up to. Most of the time all that was in it was a toy she had taken from my room but I loved that game.
My brother and I made a large wooden square, backed with 2x4s. It was probably 4ft x 4ft. The game was soccer, but basketball style — 21. Had to take the ball back, and offense nor defense could get closer than 5 ft to the goal. Such a fun game. Worked awesome for accuracy and wasted a ton of time.
My dad would sit in the middle of the floor while my sisters and I would run around him in a circle. The objective of the game was to not get caught, because you would be tickled! Then you were released and kept running around. I haven’t played it in years but I sure miss it.
We used to play "chain". One of the person was selected after a tournament of rock paper scissors. He/she would then try to chase and catch others. Whoever was caught had to hold his hand. As people were caught, a long chain was formed making it easier to corner remaining people in the ground while making it difficult to chase them.
The first person caught would have to start the game again. We tried to catch the fast runners early so as to end the game quickly.
Fun times :)
"Cumquat tag". Me and my twin brother must have been about 8 years old when we invented this game, and calling it this because we thought the fruit sounded funny. One of us would be an old man, and the other was a kid who had to hide from the old man. had nothing to do with cumquats. there were a few safe zones where you couldnt get "caught"
My siblings and I used to take all of the cushions off the couch and all the pillows in the house we could find, and make a huge pile of them in the middle of the living room. then one kid would stand with their back turned to the cushion/pillow pile, and another kid would stand on the opposite end of the room facing them. both would be holding a cushion in front of their chest. the kid on the other side of the room would run and jump into the standing kid, launching him/her into the giant pile of fluff! we would all rotate and take turns.
My siblings and I made a game when we were little that we called "Dodge Dakota" (apparently our dad had a Dodge Dakota (car) when we first made the game, I don't really remember). The whole thing started when we would have "sleepovers" in my brothers' room, and we would line up, looking out the window and have to hide whenever a car came past. Eventually it evoloved to us running around outside and having to hide whenever a car came by or we would die. An elaborate system of points developed, cousins, neighbors, and friends were taught the game, and more and more rules were created. Now, just over 10 years since we first created the game, I barely remember what the original rules were, or if the original game even had rules at all, because so many rules (or, as my brother called them, "barely even suggestions") have been added, changed or removed.
My siblings and I used to have "jenga wars". You start by splitting a jenga set 50:50 with your opponent. Next, place your 'flag' (vertical jenga block) at opposite sides, about 6 feet apart. The objective is to knock over the opponents flag. With your remaining blocks, you either build walls for your flag or launchers. Launchers are 2, 3, or 4 jenga blocks laid flat and stacked on top of each other. To launch, lay another jenga block against the long side of the stack, and smash that block with your fist. The stacked blocks will fly forwards faster than you might expect.
Players need to decide if they want lots of launchers and not a lot of walls, or lots of walls and only a few launchers. After the first round of fire, rebuild your arsenal and try again. First person to knock over the other flag wins.
At my church when we were bored we had a 3 v 2 one day and it was a whole day waiting for my parents to leave whilst me, my brother and a friend were throwing rocks at 2 others who would fight back. Once The boy on the other team tried tossing a massive rock and he was stopped by an adult passing by. We had vents we hid in and would pop out and ambush them with the rocks. It was really dangerous and I am surprised no cars were broken.
I used to hang out in my garage and pretend that I was a pioneer. I did a lot of fake cooking over fake campfires. My grandma also made playhouse/kitchen areas for my cousin and I in a couple of the different houses she lived in. We would make food out of mud and plants. My family really likes food 😂
Annie Annie Over. Normally played with a nerf ball or some sort of softer ball and a detached garage. Two teams. However many neighbor kids and cousins are present divided by 2 is the amount of players on each team.
One team starts with the ball and they yell Annie Annie Over and throw the ball to the other side. If no one on the other team catches it then the catching team throws it back over yelling Annie Annie over. If one of the people does catch the ball then their objective is to come around one of the sides of the house and throw the ball at one of the people on the other team.
Not sure how points were scored or if anyone wins but it kept us busy as hell for years.
Chicken but with anything we found toys pieces of wood different sport balls you can be hit as many times but if you flinched you lost. A lot of kids were injured but no one got in trouble because if you told you faced a punishment witch was stand still facing away from us and we got to hit you any way we pleased. The game would be played at anytime. Oh do I miss the good old days. Freaking out about someone trying to hit me or actually being hit at anytime.
During road trips my family would go through the alphabet naming as many musical artists/groups as we could in order until we couldn't think of any. Not sure we ever made it to Z (Ex. A me: Avril Lavigne mom: ABBA dad: Adam Levine then back around)
We were pretty poor in my neck of the woods. I had a bat from when i played tee ball. We also had a basketball but no goal to shoot at. So we started playing “baseketball”. Had all the bases and we used ghost runners since it was usually 2v2 all the time.
Heist...my brother and I were bored at my grandma's. We had a lot of yarn and jingle bells. The deal was you'd hang a bell from yarn across the room. 1 at a time the next person had to not ring the bells and grab something on a stool and leave without ringing a bell. Whoever had a success/fail got a point and had to beat their own system.
Glow I the dark game. My brother had this glow in the dark wolf mask. We lived in the country so our basement would get almost pitch black. One person wears the mask and the other people have to try to hide. It's super scary. The mask gives off just enough light that the person wearing it could see a couple inches in front of them. If you saw the masked person coming, you have to try to move from your hiding spot before getting caught.
Death Ball. Basically, its a trampoline game my friends played on. There is a ball that rolls around it and who ever touches it is dead. The last person remaining wins the game. That, is what I consider a true battle royal game.
Our backyard had a playset with 3 swings. One person would be the designated thrower/referee, the other 3 would swing. While swinging, you could tell the thrower "Now!" and they would toss a soccer ball near your feet. You would usually have them throw it when you were back in the swing so you could swing into the kick. There were 5 checkpoints in the yard and if the ball landed passed one of them, it was that number of points (1,2,3,4,5), similar to how there are lines on a football field. If you kicked it and it rolled all the way and hit the fence, it was 7 points, over the fence in the air was 10. First one to 30 would win so games lasted 20-30 minutes each.
I would draw a battle scene on a sheet of paper. I would win some battles. Lose some others! Got more ideas as I grew older and then I stopped one day.
Shit, I want to now make a new game.
Couldn't afford live fireworks so we'd pick up used ones and put on a show by throwing them in the air while making sound effects. We called it trailer park fireworks show even though we weren't in the trailer park. Now that I've said it out loud it's even sadder than I remember.
‘Garage-tag’ it what it came to be known as. One person stayed inside and counted to 30, while the others hid in the garage. On top of things, in boxes, smashed into the shelves, it didn’t matter. Once the person who was ‘it’ was done counting they walked into the garage backwards, and shut the lights off.
Let the fun begin.
We would toss dog food around to make small noises and distract the person searching if they came too close, set up booby traps, you name it. A friend of mine once just stood dead center in the garage and was never found because everyone has to navigate by the walls, lest they trip over something.
Edit: if you were about to get caught, the general rule of thumb would be to scream at them when they were close enough to smell the garlic bread in your breath.
Wenis ball. It sounds weird but me and my brother had a hallway in our house, that had two sides to it, and at the end was a drop down into either the living room or dining room. The ball looked like an American football, and bounced like a reflex ball. It was basically football but you could use roughness like you played rugby’s. You tried to score touchdowns or punts. Touch down is when you get into the opposite room, and a punt us where you throw it or kick it into the room. Touchdown worth 5 points, punt worth 2-
3 players. One thrower, one volleyer and one kicker. You need a mini soccer ball, a low wall and some outdoor space.
The thrower throws it to the volleyer, the volleyer volley-balls it to the kicker and the kicker kicks it over the wall. Then you run and go find the ball.
We used to take a nerf football and start from the end of the dining room. If you were on offense, the goal was to touch the ball to the three seater couch at the end of the living room. If you were on defense, you'd start off in the living room, and it was basically kill the man with the ball. Do anything you can to stop the other person from getting the ball to the couch - basically a 1-on-1 goal line stand.
Nutball. 2 guys stand about 15 feet apart and bounce a tennis ball at the other dudes nuts. (Fully clothed, because I know someone will ask) If he flinches, free shot with the tennis ball as hard as you can. First guy to drop to his knees loses. Played this in high school constantly.
My two sisters and I came up with a music- themed road trip game where two of us would challenge whoever was "it" to name a song with an unusual word or phrase in it. No ad jingles allowed, had to be a legit artist song. Bonus points if you came up with a different song from the one the challenger was thinking of. If you got stumped, the challenger became "it".
I remember this one time, my youngest sister challenged me with "a burrito" and naturally I ended up giving in. She started proudly singing one of Jim Croce's hits and before I could set her straight and tell her he was singing "Operator", my middle sister pipes in to confidently correct her, stating: "Nuh-uh, he says 'arboretum'... duh!"
There I am: teenaged, incredulous at their stupidity, and all sorts of righteously indignant... meanwhile my mother (driving), had to pull the car off the road to finish laughing.
It was called "Fishing". Buddies of mine, my brother and I would throw this giant plush fish in the center of the room, jump off the couch, and fight each other for it
my siblings and I, and occasionally a friend, would go outside and pick flowers. We would then take those flowers upstairs and tie them to a string, and throw them behind our beds like we were fishing. We made up an under-the-bed monster called a “dun dun dun death” that was basically an evil rat, and pretended to try to catch them.
Hot Butter and Blue Beans!
One person hides a belt or paddle, perhaps a spatula, while the rest would try to find it. Whomever finds the object would yell "HOT BUTTER AND BLUE BEANS!!" which would invoke terror because the person who finds it gets to run around hitting anyone with said item!!! I was one of the youngest siblings/cousin, and a girl. That war cry meant get to moms lap asap!
My brother and I play this game called Log, where you play on a bed. Since one side of the bed had pillows, and was elevated, you rolled a dice, whoever got the highest number would get to start on the pillow side. 1 person lays horizontally on the head of the bed, and the other at the end. And you just roll around and whoever rolls on top of the other first wins. You weren't allowed to use your hands, so it was really hard. So far, we've broken 2 lamps and 12 vases.
Red Rover was huge at my house. Also PHASE 10. And don’t forget thee ubiquitous “jump off the top bunk and see if you survive “ game. Or the “someone be a lookout while I climb up the wall in the hallway” game.
Rom my personal favorite, the “let’s play spaceship while we lay on a blanket in the back of the Pinto station wagon” game. That game could only be played at night.
It wasn't necessarily a 'game' but I had this thought stuck in my head that I could not get out of my bed (or anyone else's bed, for that matter) if there was a number four on the clock. So if I woke up at 8:40, I would have to wait until 8:50 to get out of bed. If it was 10:04, I would wait until 10:05. It was the same for getting off or onto couches. No idea why I did that, but it lasted from when I was four or five until age eight.
My cousin and I would put golf balls on the trampoline and jump to dodge them form hitting our feet. We called it “dodge the asteroid.” It’s still one of my favorite things
When I was in my sleep over prime (5th to 8th grade) we had a number of bracket elimination games. Losses always resulted in punishment.
Well, it so happened that my mom had a Southern themed clay pot in the basement that was large enough to sit on. Since my parents basement was limited on airflow, this became “the [fart] Pot.” Have to fart, fart in the “the pot” and put the giant coffee table book back on top to avoid hot boxing your friends.
When you put anywhere from three to five 11-14 year old boys in a confinded space with pizza and soda, and you will get enough methane to effect a regional climate.
The rules stated that if you lost a game you were to remove the book and take an inward nose drag that was at least 2 seconds long...if you lost a championship you had to take a second breath through your mouth...you know, because you had to eat shit.
“Roosball”- played in a squash court. Similar rules to street handball but you can use any of the four walls and can set basketball screens on opposing players. Also, must be played in socks.
My brother's room was in the middle of a long, straight hallway upstairs. We used to get our dad to sit/lay in his doorway where we had piled an ammunition of our entire stuffed animal collection (which was no joke). Then, we'd run back and forth down the hall as he tried to take us down with the stuffies when we passed the doorway.
Me and my brother would play a game called uncle Matt and son ( my uncle was named matt) and one of us would pretend to be my uncle and the other would be the son.
My little brother and I were born in the 80’s. Our (much older brother) was in the military during the Gulf War and our parents didn’t really hide the news from us so our games were awfully inappropriate.
We played “prisoners of war” which was like tag except the players (POWs) started up in the branches of our tree and the person who was “it” was called Saddam Hussein. The objective was to get out of the tree and past the property line without Saddam Hussein whacking you with a stick. The stick could be launched javelin style at you too and Saddam Hussein would announce “smart bomb!” It was almost impossible to win without someone getting hit so there was a lot of shrieking “sacrifice yourself!!!!” and running in the opposite direction. I can only imagine what the adults in our world thought.
In my country we could buy tiny boxes of mini Pokémon figures. They’re mostly made of rubber or something. The vendor was a guy that stayed outside of our primary school pretty much everyday after school. So basically the aim of the game was to start one foot away from each other and drop the Pokemon on the floor. Then the trainer can take turns throwing the Pokemon at the other one hoping to hit it. Hitting it meant you won and got to take one of their Pokemon. Another version of it, rather than hitting the Pokemon instead you’d want to be close enough to the Pokemon that your thumb and pinky can touch both Pokemon. It was a pretty cool game that me and my entire school did. I had 2 tupperwares worth of pokemon
I would convince my next door neighbor bestie that I knew how to make face masks. We would mix up All Kinds of random crap in her kitchen and do "masks".
We had a game like cops and robbers, but the cops got bikes and were a smaller crew. We all knew the neighborhood fairly well so we would set boundaries. Bike crew couldn't get off the bikes unless they had biked into a park or something and couldn't get to where you were on one. Everyone else had either rollerblades or just ran.
It's crazy to think about how much distance we covered in such short periods of time. The whole game would last a few hours while everyone got caught. AFter the first hour, the guys not on bikes would have a hard time running another couple kms so it wasn't so bad haha
For the life of me I can’t remember how this started, but every time my Mom would curse (fuck, shit, etc...) my Sister and I got to yell “Shitfire!”, at the top of our lungs whenever we wanted once and then it was used up until she cursed in front of us again. Some of the funniest results = Scared some mall cops with it, yelled it from the car window at a passing rollerblader who turned back to look and then lost balance and fell, yelled it at a stop light at the next car over who was obnoxiously playing loud music.
Huckle buckle beanstalk, goes back a few generation, nobody else that I know has heard of it...
So the premise of the game is that someone gets chosen to hide a thimble (could be another small object, but for us it was my great grandmother's thimble), everyone else leaves the room, and there thimble is hidden... You can put it anywhere, but it must be in plain sight, not underneath something, or in a drawer or anything like that. Once the thimble is hidden everyone comes back and starts looking.
After you've spotted the thimble it's best to be kind of non challant about it and pretend to keep looking, then you sing huckle buckle beanstalk... And sit down. Everyone keeps looking until everyone has found it.... Hints can be given, warmer/colder. The first person to find the thimble gets to be the hider on the next round.
I was super bummed that my little brother got the huckle buckle beanstalk thimble after my grandmother passed.
My sister and I played a game called sticks. Where we would go on a walk in each of us would pick up a stick. Then we will put hit each other’s sticks with our own stick. Whoever’s stick broke first, lost. The winner was king of the sticks. My sister always lost this game. Until one day she won. She brought the Winning stick all the way home. I convinced her to let me hold it after much begging. Then, I promptly broke the stick over my knee. She cried. I was 26. She was 22. If you’re reading this. Sorry Kate.
Everyone would lay belly down on the park merry-go-round with our heads and arms hanging over the edge. We would usually use someone's shoe or a old can and we would take turns picking up and dropping said item while spinning in circles and yelling "got it" or "dropped it". There was no point to the game but it was fun. Things were so much simpler before we all got online game systems and phones.
My friends and I used to play a game that we called "apple wars"
I lived on a large plot of land that consisted mostly of fields. To begin we designated two teams, each team was comprised of a four wheeler with an attached trailer. For each team there was a driver on the four wheeler and one to two "throwers" in the trailer. Everyone wore helmets (not all of them had face protection, it was first come first serve) and the people in the trailer often scavenged pillows as makeshift shields . When the game began, we would drive to the nearest apple tree at the edge of the field (while maintaining a safe distance from the other team) and shake the crap out of the tree to try get as many apples to fall into the trailer as our "ammunition". Once the trailer was full, or the other team began to approach, everyone manned their positions and the war began. Both teams blasted around the field frantically trying to get the better angle. The driver's sole job was to maneuver the vehicle to try and give the throwers a target, while trying to dodge the incoming apples. The throwers on the other hand would absolutely pelt their friends on the other team with apples. This lead to some pretty cool long shots, chases, drive-bys and moments where the driver was left completely vulnerable, with the throwers in the trailer hiding behind their garbage couch cushions. Each team had to keep an eye on their ammunition, or risk getting caught empty handed. The game never had breaks, and each team would have to refill at apple trees on the fly. The game went on until either everyone was too sore to continue, or just too tired. In all my time of playing apple wars, no one ever got injured, other than a few bruises. Either way it was some of the most fun I've ever had.
Butt ball. Played during 5, 6, & 7th grades. Basically one person in a group of friends throws a racquetball (or tennis ball if you're feeling particularly sadistic) against a wall. When it comes back, you have to catch it using one hand if it comes towards you or in your vicinity. You have one bounce. No running away from it or your "up."
If you try to avoid catching it or miss it, then you're "up" and have to go and kneel in a prostrate position as small as you can against the wall, i.e., make your butt (the target) as small as possible.
Then, everyone else stands at about foul-line distance and gets to throw that ball as hard as possible at your ass.
I think it's this game which is why I'm such a great catch. And I have the welts on my ass to prove it.
Alright so a little background I grew up in rural northwest Pennsylvania. The first "game" I can remember was called kids out alone , me and my two cousins would spend pretty much every day in the woods pretending we were orphans living in the forest. Not really a game but we called it that for some reason lol I think it was influenced by the box car kids books. Then fast forward to boy scouts and we would have "stick wars" were we would go into the woods in two separate five to eight man teams and literally just hurl sticks at each other in a mock battle until one side gave up or was outnumbered due to injury. Idk how this was allowed to happen and I can't believe no one was permanently blinded or maimed haha it was finally outlawed when a kid took the sharp end of a stick to the mouth and peirced his lip. Pre teen boys are savage af what can I say. Then we had BB gun wars with the "one pump" rule cause ya know... saftey. Then we got a paintball gun and had a game called fugitive were everyone had paintball guns except the fugitive who got a five minute head start into the woods and had to "escape" back to base. This was usually played in the dark but sometimes during daylight. I could go on but you get the idea. Kids are rough if you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough.
My brother and I had an ongoing imaginary game that went on for years. We were each super heros I had the power of fire and he had the power of ice. We decided that red jewels/crystals/glass/basically anything remotely cool and also red represented my power and anything blue represented my brothers power. The idea was to collect as many of these things as we could to "power up" so we could fight each other in an epic showdown. We would walk around the jewlery section of the mall pointing at various rings and necklaces and saying "I call that one" for multiple years for a showdown that never came
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Me and my friends played “dip to the golden rod” so we were all huge gamers in highscool. So naturally we stayed up late and gamed hard. My friends live all in the same neighborhood and the same street lol but a few blocks apart. We would bounce back and fourth between the three houses. But this one friend had the setup for us lol, the finished basement with surround sound, all the game systems, fridge, couches, chairs, bathroom, and it was a circle. So three rooms and lead into another one in a big circle. etc etc the works. So we stayed over there a lot, during the dry period of gaming or overload of gaming. We would take a break and play dip to the golden rod. The basically took a glow in the dark sleeve for the WII remote. And one person was to place the remote sleeve somewhere in this basement. This person was the “it” person, the rest would be on the stairs waiting. You could only see a very very very small part of the baseman’s from the stairs. So after the “it” person places this golden road. We turned off the lights to make it pitch black in the basement, even filled in the windows with pillows or blankets. The people on the stairs had a mission then. It was to get the golden road back to the stairs, without being tackled by the “it” person lol. Once you’re tackled and held for
Three seconds you’re out. This fucking game was so much fun, other kids in the neighborhood heard about it and wanted to come over and play lol. Eventually had like 10 kids in the basement playing this game every weekend lol the person who got it back to top of the stairs was now the it person for the next round. I miss those simple times
“Grandpa’s Knife”. We had two teams stand on opposite sides of the yard and we chucked an old rusty fillet knife into the air at the other team and tried to stay still for as long as you could. Very similar to arrow roulette. No winners, only losers.
We would play a game called Beckons Wanted. Which after a google search says it exists but doesn’t explain the rules.
So this is from memory from 25 years ago.
One person or a small team is “It” or the guard and the game would start like hide and seek. Except we’d play across an entire suburban block. The guard counts and all the prisoners would run away and hide.
The guards would go look for the prisoners and sometimes we’d play “I see (persons name)” or tag them and they would be caught. That person would then be escorted back to jail.
When the prisoner gets back to jail they start shouting “Beckons wanted”! Luring other escaped prisoners to set them free.
An escapee would then be motivated to tag the person in jail. The prisoner would look for someone on their team to come back to base. They would then “beckon” them if the coast was clear.
If the guards catch all the escaped prisoners they win. If they give up, the prisoners win.
In hindsight it was a very broken game and easy to cheat. But we played it a lot over many summers.
When I was in the car I'd add up the numbers on the display and see if I could make them end in a 5 or a 0. If the number was over a threshold of 5 or 0 I couldn't subtract below that. (E.g. 8 can't go below 5 ). I was bored in the car a lot
In Junior School we had a game called 'Grab a cock and pull it ' . Took it in turns with the girls chasing each other round the a playground. Obviously us boys didn't have much to grab of the girls anatomy but it was fun trying.
We still cringe about it 40 years later
My brother and I would play a game we simply called "shoe fling." We'd get going really high on the swings at the park, and then see who could fling their shoe the farthest. We always had to wear shoes with laces -- no fair if one of us was wearing slip-ons. Part of the game was being able to get the shoe off your foot and in flinging position without dropping it, all while swinging.
After we got really good, we set up targets to hit. Had a few close calls with almost hitting other folks at the park, but that never deterred us.
Used to play a game called "Forrest." I would stand in a field with my brothers on both sides and shout "RUN, FORREST, RUN!" over and over again while they ran.
Smear The Queer (I know right?)
I think this was widespread, but if you aren’t familiar, from what I recall of playing with the older kids at the age of 6... everyone stood in a group and threw a football up in the air. For some (unknown and psychotic reason which you’ll soon see) everyone tried to catch the ball. By catching the ball, one became “the queer” and everyone would scream “smear the queer!!!” And proceed to chase and tackle the person with the ball until everyone involved was piled on top.
I assumed the queer would then throw the ball for the next round.
I never caught or wanted to catch the ball. Even at 6, this seemed like a terrible and terrifying game.
Close Call (I think this may have been localized and invented in my neighborhood):
We would ride our bikes in circles up and down the street and try to get as close as possible to the back tire of someone else, and bump tires without crashing. When contact was made, the person in the rear would say “close call!”
Some other games that my brother and I created:
Big Bad Wolf:
This is actually a really good game, especially with a group of younger, preteen kids. Think Hide-and-seek except whoever is “It” aka the wolf, hides. Also it’s a night game only. This game needs the darkness in order to be enjoyed as intended. The group, or little pigs after giving time for the wolf to hide, begin chanting “who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf. Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf.” As they wander around in the darkness trying to prove to themselves that they aren’t afraid of the wolf. As time passes and when exploring the dark corners of the play area, the true motive of the game is realized as the “little pigs” grow increasingly anxious, the fear drawing the group closer and closer together, their voices quivering more and more as they peer around each new corner until they pass close enough to the wolf that he springs out with a growl and grabs the nearest little pig as they scatter back to base. The wolf doesn’t give much chase and typically only grabs one little pig. Once the remaining pigs are back to the base, the wolf and captured pigs (who are now wolves) hide again and the game continues until their are no more little pigs left. I remember the growing anticipation/fear of the wolf’s surprise becoming increasingly exhilarating as the number of little pigs dwindled one by one. It’s basically a game of jump scares. You know it’s coming, but not when or from where.
The last that I’ll mention was one of my favorites. It was called ManHunt. I don’t really know if my brother actually liked this game or if he would just humor me when I wanted to play it. It’s good for two-three players and several, preferably wooded acres of land, and lots of time. One person “hides”, though not in one spot and the other person(or two) try to find them and prevent them from reaching a specified area.
The hunted person is basically just on the run through the wilderness. There’s basically no boundaries. Take the longest route possible, through the thickest most difficult terrain available.
The Hunter would take the high ground and use the Hunted’s absence as an opportunity to get into a position to ambush the Hunted when they emerged and made a break for the safety zone. If I recall correctly, the Hunter didn’t necessarily have to physically catch the Hunted, just spot him and be in close proximity.
This game was heavily inspired by films such as The Fugitive and Rambo. And is probably more fun as the Hunted, if you want to practice moving through different wooded areas while avoiding detection at all costs. I would usually be pretty dirty and bloody by the end of the round.
After writing all of this I realized I haven’t read any other comments yet. I hope I read the question right and this is what we’re doing lol.
Our game was "slasher flick" we all had paper bits in a hat we all had to draw. One paper said "killer" and rest rest were "victim" no one could say what they were then we all shut the lights off and hide. Then the person who was the killer had to find us. If the killer tagged you you had to lie down and wait out the game. Last person found was the winner. We were ten when we came up with this. Clearly watched too many horror movies
My uncle goober (strange name i know) would always want to play a game called snuggle monster at night when i stayed over. Idk but he changed the name to tummy sticks years later. After that it was hide the weenie, something about it would help me poop after bigger adult meals. He wad a weird guy
This wasn’t my game but one passed onto me from a friend. We were also teens - it was called Where You At. You needed at least three cars to play. One car would go hide at a spot in town and text 2 or 3 clues about the location to the other two cars. Then you would have to try to drive and find the hidden car.
Another dumb game we started playing as teens we called Walmart - basically you just play it while hanging out or driving around. There are two rules. You can’t say anyone’s name and you can’t curse, if you do (and someone catches you) you call Walmart. At the beginning of the game it’s decided how many Walmart’s you have (or really chances) really hard to remember if you are playing this for hours along side drinking or what have you. The very first time we played the prize was chicken nuggets. Every now and then we play Walmart for old times sake
My brother and I would play a game called "Look, a bus". The whole point of the game was to be the first to shout "look a bus" when you saw a bus. No one kept score, ever.
My cousin and I invented a game called "Bitch" when I was maybe 12 and he was 10.
In my basement, we had a dart board on the wall nearby the pool table. Each player would get one dart and jog around the pool table and throw it while rounding the final corner toward the dart board. You continued jogging towards the dart you threw and grabbed it out of the board (or wall) to then start another lap around the pool table. While you were getting just out of the way, the other player was doing the same thing, and making a running throw at the board while you were just getting out of the way.
Essentially, the game was running in circles while throwing darts near the other person. It was called "Bitch" because after every throw, you had to say "Bitch" after every throw. Usually in an exasperated tone if you got the wall or didn't get a bullseye, but you would shout "Bitch!" excitedly if you did somehow managed to get a bullseye. You would then keep track of how many bitches you got.
We invented this game at like 3 in the morning and played for hours because we had way too much energy and thought swearing was the funniest thing. There were multiple times when a dart flew inches from my head. Super fun.
We played a lot of quests. I distinctly remember collecting Star Bits but they were wooden pieces of a puzzle and we were saving the sun and earth. Our older cousin helped and indulged our imaginations. I know this was pretty common but it was so much fun.
We used to play “Survivor”. Our airplane crash landed in the back yard and we had to build shelter and collect food and stay alive. I think our young brains got the TV shows “Lost” and “Survivor” confused with each other.
When I was a kid my friends and I made up a game called “waist or higher”. Basically we put 3-4 soccer balls/dodgeballs on a trampoline and the only rule was that you couldn’t get touched by a ball above the waist or else you were “out” and had to go run around the yard 5 times. Although we couldn’t throw the balls at each other because that would have violated the rule, we could, and did, kick them at each other as hard as possible. We spent hours playing this game and it was honestly one of the most memorable parts of my childhood. I miss those days.
We didn't play it as kids, but in recent years my friends and I made up a road trip game called "Damn, Daniel!" after that stupid video from a few years back. Basically, we try to notice white vans before the others, declaring "Damn, Daniel!" when you do. When you reach three wothout your atreak being interrupted, you declare "Back at it again with the white vans!" and receive a point. It's so dumb, but we have, like, official rules typed up and everything.
Sorry, this one is kind of long.
Okay. I have a story with this one, and it still annoys me to this day. In 5th grade, me and my group of friends wanted to find something to do at recess. We wanted a new game. So one day, we came up with this one game. We called it “Knife Party”. All of us (at first 5/6 people) would stand in a circle, decently spaced apart. Then, on a count of 3, we would all run at each other and “cut” each other’s arms and legs off. To do that, you just run up to them and pretend to slice at one of their arms or legs. When you lose an arm or leg, you can no longer use that. So if someone sliced at my right arm (not with any real knives, just to clarify) then I wouldn’t be able to use it. You cannot kill someone (again, pretending) until both of their arms and legs are gone. Eventually this one kid made paper knifes for everyone, but there were no sharp edges or anything, so it can’t hurt anyone unless you use too much force or something and end up punching them by accident. By this time we had about 10-15 kids who would do it every day with us. Okay. I can kind of see why this next thing happened, but their reasoning was just stupid. The recess duties told us that we had to stop playing this game, because it was violent. But not only that. They said this. And this is basically their exact words. “This game is violent, and if you keep playing it, one day you’ll start using real knives and then people will get hurt and die. Then one day you’ll all become murderers and look for people to just go kill and you’ll go to jail.” That was their reasoning. Then after that, they watched our friend group really really closely for the rest of 5th and 6th grade. They literally banned every game we played. Knife Party. Cops and Robbers. Infection. Some other game like infection but different with our own rules. Literally everything. So then recess was super boring and we would all just walk around looking depressed and trying to find a new game they wouldn’t ban, or tying to figure out how to do it secretly. Now I hate recess... Once I got to middle school I was glad I didn’t have recess anymore.
I’ll stop there. Thanks for taking time to read this, sorry it’s long.
I'd like to know if others played Rileo. Basically it was a game like catchers, but when you caught someone you had to hold onto them long enough to say "rileo rileo two fives make ten" If you did this you could then escort them to a designated area where people who were caught are placed. They can leave until someone else who is not caught reaches the box and frees everyone.
We also had a game like catchers where if you tagged someone they were it also and you would just continue on until everyone was caught.
I used to play ‘bonfire.’ To play, I’d pile everything I was strong enough to move in the middle of my bedroom— all my books, toys, clothes, linens, and then dance around it like a fiend. Pissed my mom off to no end. Good times!
A game called holleta(hold-and-tag).
It was a game we used to play inbetween classes when i was small.
Basicly you had to sides - safezones, and between them theres a big field.
One unlucky person start in the field while everyone Else is spread between the safezones.
The people in the safezones then have to run across the field without getting tagged.
The rules for tagging is as follows
Taggers in the field
1= normal tag - touching a person and yelling tag
2= both people have to touch the person they want to tag
3= og theres more than 3, then the 3 people should always touch a person at once.
To entice people to run from the safezones, the tagging party could yell 1-2-10. And run into the safezones - they then had to violently drag their targets into the field before they could tag Them.
I dont want to explain All the rules, theres so many.
This game is very old, and it is kindoff my schools traditional game.
Some of my friends parents remember it from when they where Young at my school.
Anyway it was a very violent game and there where frequent injuries.
Scorpion - A pool game where one kid sits on a pool noodle, paddles around the pool, and tries to "sting" other swimmers with the end of it. Whoever gets stung has to get on the noodle with them until all kids are on the noodle. Last person to get stung wins/is the next scorpion.
Man Overboard - Another pool game. Everyone gets on a pool raft. Then everyone flails around until they fall off the raft. Then everyone has to get back on the raft. Basically you have to hold competing goals of getting everyone on the raft and also trying to make it difficult to get on the raft. Everyone wins if everyone laughs.
Grass vs. Concrete - We had a big yard and big driveway which helps for this game. Everyone splits up into teams (Grass or Concrete). You are safe in your own territory (Grass or Concrete). If you go into enemy territory, you can be tagged, and then you are on the other team. The game is over when everyone is on one side. Winner being the last one tagged. There is an understanding that you have to go over to the other side to make yourself vulnerable (otherwise the game is an automatic stalemate). It's sort of a taunting thing. Also, it's totally ok to grab someone and pull them to your side if they are close to the line. As long as your feet don't touch their territory, you're good.
Mufasa - This is similar to man overboard. You need a jungle gym with a slide. A whole playground is nice. Start with a classic game of ground-is-lava. Then when you're safe in the jungle gym, someone "falls" down the slide - inches from the lava. You struggle to pull them up. Then when they are almost to the top, you grab their hands, whisper menacingly, "Long live Mufasa!" and pull their hands off the slide, causing them to slip down to the bottom of the slide. This repeats until the game is over. The game is over when someone starts playing a different game.
One of my favorite memories though is of an afternoon that my dad came home from work and told all the kids to come outside. He took us to the garage where we each selected a "bat" of some kind (actual bats, golf clubs, homemade lightsabers), collected all the balls (basketballs, dodgeballs, beachballs), and brought them all out to the front yard. There we split up into teams and tried to knock the balls past the opposing team. Any ball to get past the other team was a point. That was a great afternoon.
We had a small Forest of Bamboo in our back yard. Walking through the opening of that was like stepping into a different world. We would play all your known games like hide and seek, tag, etc. But we always would pretend like we were somewhere else. It was quite magical as a child
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shit I mean there is a lot that I used to play with my brothers. Most of them violent. Here I'll just list them off
(Btw these stories are all with my brothers)
me and my brothers would set up a mattress and a bunch of pillows at the bottom of the stairs, then one of us would get in this laundry and basket and the ones at the top would push the basket down the stairs.
We had this footrest that opened up for storage and someone would get in and the other two would stack as many blankets and pillows on top of it and try to trap them in.
We had a trampoline with a net that lasted like a year because we would abuse the net so much. We would throw eachother at the net, dropkick eachother, get into fist fights, one time my brother tried to bring a belt onto the trampoline to whip me and my other brother and the belt buckle ripped a hole in the trampoline.
We had 3 big trees in our backyard where all the branches are really high up, one day i decided to take a rope and swing it up on a branch. I tied this piece of wood to it and we would get on the swing and then push ourselves off of the tree and swing around the tree. On the other side was a fence so we would swing around to the other side and stand on the fence until we jumped off and swung to the other side.
Just fighting, like whenever we were bored. I would walk into my brother's room and start wrestling with him. Sometimes when we were really bored we would try to choke eachother out or fill the sink with water and drown eachother. Or throw chairs, lamps, logs of wood, pretty much anything that you would see in a movie fight scene we would try to hit the other person with. When we got a dog we would try and get the dog to bite whoever you were fighting by giving her treats. The crazy part is that after we would be totally cool and just go back to what we were doing. Like I wouldn't even be mad if my brother just walked in and threw a chair at me or tried to whip me with a belt.
On long car rides we would just punch eachother repeatedly in the arm to see who would pussy out first.
We had this one really narrow hallway in our basement and we would try to get the other person up against the wall on their side and someone else would put their back up against them and their legs on the wall to pin them and see if they could still breathe after a long time like that.
We played this game where one person would put a bunch of blankets on their head and charge at everyone else. That game ended pretty fast after we ran into a couple of walls.
I don't know if you would call this a game but me and my brother's started this thing called "fire club" where when my parents weren't home we would bring a metal garbage can lid inside and start fires with whatever we could.
We would turn off all the light in the basement and set up obstacles and two people would hide while the other one would in with a flashlight. The people hiding would try to jump out and pin the guy with the flashlight and they would start suffocating them with a pillow.
For all these games anyone could say stop at any time and we would stop. It's like the universal rule for all the games.
We took the base idea from Venture Bros....
Except we have since added horses.
So... whenever you pass cows (must be on the side you're riding on), you call "COWS!" And then count as many as you can. Those are your standing "cow points". Any horses you pass save your cows in the event you have a cemetery that is called out on you (also on the respective side you are riding on).
So say you have 4 cows and 3 horses, 3 horses will sacrifice themselves to save your cows, so you would still have 3 cows and 0 horses after passing a cemetery. All horses at the end of the game (end of the car trip) are added into your cow count.
I also love the idea of "immortal cows" when you pass a statue ...this will be added to our rules.
We had a house that was once a bottom / top duplex. My brother and I had the top "house" kitchen / dinning room as our bed room. This resulted in a small space for sleeping and a hella large space for playing. We had an abundance of space for play. We would set up an Americana gladiator's obstacle course with nerf guns. It was the game where you went from barricade to barricade trying to hit the bulls-eye. It was fairly awesome and decently accurate.
Super chicken. When I was best friends with my neighbor, each of us would take turns lying on our stomachs on a skateboard with our arms straight out. The goal was to push the other person as hard as we could down a hill. Surprised we didn’t get hurt😂
We played a game called Blammit. All the boys in our subdivision had toy guns and camo. You had to sneak around the very wooded subdivision and find the other boys without them seeing you. Once you saw another kid, you yelled BLAMMIT [boy's name] and he had to sit and count to 100. Then he could respawn and continue playing.
These games would literally go for 12 or more hours. We were ruthless and very crafty with our hiding and stalking skills. This kid named John was fucking legend at it. He ended up joining the Marines and of course, he made it back home after he went to real war. Because we prepared him very well.
I'm 49 now and I would give my right arm to play Blammit with my buddies again. Todd, Kris (RIP), Fish, Bobby, and John, my hero and defeater of fucking CANCER, this is Danny. Thanks for the memories guys!
When I was in elementary school we played what was essentially infection tag, but we called it Rabie Man. Good times:)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Welllll since you asked... When I was probably 10 and my sister was 6, I came up with a game called, "Houdini." This game consisted of me binding my sister with jump ropes (hands,feet, arms to body, etc), fastening a tie/scarf around her eyes and mouth, covering her like a burrito with blankets and then I would put her in a closet to "escape" like Houdini and just leave her be while I did something else 😂
To this day she remembers this so well hahaha
Also invented my own cooking show with her as my guest taste tester. After it would rain, we would go play outside and I'd mix grass, leaves, berries from bushes, bugs and dirt into puddle on the ground with my handy-dandy stirring twig and she would have to eat it. I eventually, as an adult, attended culinary school for a few years. So, thanks little sis!
I'm not sure if I was a childhood sadist or if my ideas were just very unique and created from ignorance but I now,at 24, feel for my poor sister 😅
Garage ball- when it was to cold or rainy to play basketball outside we would play in our garage . We had 2 wooden pieces opposite of each other running the entire width of the garage that served as great goals... no need for an accurate jumper but definitely needed to have some great defense and handles to get the edge in such a confined space.... They were just low enough to dunk on too. RIP to a couple of fluorescent overhead lights
Me and my best friend (both prepubescent boys) would play a make believe game called “Princesses” and we would choose abilities that we could do based on Ninja Turtles and Super Mario and any other cartoon that was popular. We would create these epic multi-staged battles with different villains and come up with creative ways to defeat them.
The objective was to save the “Princesses” or April O’Neil or any cute cartoon character so we could make out with them as a reward for saving them.
I swear I’m not an incel. Just a product of pop culture and video games. This is all pretty embarrassing to think of now.
“The season”. An American Football game for two brothers who can’t find anyone to play against.
You pick a team you want to be and take on their season or create a customized season for that team.
You will be playing as that team playing against their opponents in a hope to play in a bowl game or a playoff or championship.
As an example You would be Ohio State playing their schedule in hopes of a national championship. OR in another season you could be Northwestern playing their schedule in hopes of a sweet bowl game.
The field is usually as long as the strongest thrower can throw
Depending on the difficulty of the opponent you and your teammate get a certain amount of throws to make it to the end zone and the amount of time the quarterback gets to make the throw...End zone equals a win. Running out of throws to get into the end zone equals a loss.
With a good team you might get 3 throws. Bad team 7 throws. Championship 2 throws.
When you catch the ball you are down.
Quarterback gets a certain amount of seconds to throw (maybe 3 with a good team and 5 with a bad team.
The wide receiver can only run the same route once per game.
If one player starts the game as a quarterback he must finish the game as a quarterback.
At the end of the season you total up your wins and decide if you make it to a bowl game, playoff, and championship.
Me and my brothers, cousins and friends all had our own neighbourhood racetrack memorized entirely in our heads. Used to have crazy races and good laughs on that track.
My cousin would make scavenger hunts for me. The first clue was directly handed to me and hinted at the location of clue 2. “Look in a place where cold becomes hot.”=microwave/oven.
This is is going to be super buried as I'm late to the party. In 5th grade one of my friends invented a game called "sex tag". He was always it and would chase us around. If you were tagged he would dry hump you on the ground. I was the fat slow kid so often I was the humpee. It all ended when the principal caught wind and pulled us all in to explain why it was a bad idea.
I often wonder two things:
1) Did my friends realize at the time they wouldn't have to be humped and were only in it for laughs of me being humped?
Israeli candy digging was a favorite at camp, we had an Israeli councilor and apparently he played it back home, the idea was to put two pieces of candy under two piles of flour and two kids would put their arms behind their back and use their face to brush away the flour, whoever did it first got the candy.
Myself, two siblings and cousin played “cat hunter” game. We would wander around our neighborhood (and other neighborhoods) hunting for cats to catch. When we would catch a cat we would pick them up and whisper in their ear “you have been caught by the cat hunters, you are now on parole” then put the cat back down. 1 point per cat you caught. 2 points for hard to catch cats. There is no lengths we wouldn’t go to catch a cat, running thru yards, climbing fences or trees. When we saw a cat we had already caught we would tell each other “that ones already on parole”. Looking back people must have thought we were a strange bunch picking up cats and whispering to them then putting them back down.
ODB2 · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would get in cardboard boxes or plastic laundry hampers and ride them down the stairs.
Sirgit · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja Crusaders. I thought this game was this shiz. Ninja's that transformed into scorpions/tigers/eagles, etc. If you played 2 players, the other player could ride a top you as an eagle.
a game me and a group of friends made up when we were 9, we had a huge ass dollhouse and had dinosaurs who lived in it, and the goal was to kill as many mutant ladybugs as possible. we had an interesting imagination
I'm not sure it was unique but I had these tiny plastic green soldiers (like the ones on Toy Story) and I'd create two armies hiding on chairs, behind table legs, and so forth ... then I'd have 10-20 rubber bands and I'd start with one army and I'd shoot the rubber bands trying to knock over (kill) the soldiers of the other army ... then I'd go to the other side, collect the rubber bands, and try to shoot the army I had started with... used to play for hours.
It was basically hide and go seek + tag in the dark but we went all out. The play area spanned half of our suburban cul-de-sac (9-10 yards, front and back) and we often had 8-10 kids (or more!) playing. Everyone dressed in dark clothes and camouflage too.
So one person started out as the alien and was "it". Everyone else hid. If the person who was "it" found you and was able to tag you, you became an alien too. So as the game went on, more and more people were "it" and hunting for the remaining kids. But since they had to tag you, sometimes you could get away and re-hide. As multiple people became aliens, they'd often have to work together to tag the older, faster kids by surrounding them and cutting off all paths to escape.
Also, you were aloud to change hiding spots whenever you wanted so people would be sneaking around and trying to relocate into yards they knew the alien had already searched. But it got tricky as things went on because you could lose track of what other kids had been tagged and you had to figure out who you could trust.
Everyone kind of developed their own strategies. Some kids tried to find a really good hiding spot and never move from that location. Other kids were basically on the go constantly and never actually hid. They were just sneaking around the entire play area. Sometimes the group of aliens would work together to find remaining kids. Other times they would fan out to cover more ground at once and to be more likely to spot someone trying to change locations.
Thankfully, all of the various neighbors who lived in the play area were very understanding of us kids running and sneaking through their yards at night. Looking back, sometimes I can't believe they were all encouraging of our game! Even those neighbors who didn't have kids were cool with it.
A weird hide and seek and you're it combination while we jumped on top of a stone maze on a little playzone the thing wasnt that tall jus 2 or 3 walls over 2 meters.
Looking back we were lucky only one of us falled head first in the spawn of 9 years.
Probably the #1 game was always: What small target can we agree on as the target and then nail that sucker with a rock? It was playable almost anywhere and we mainly picked inoccious targets.
In my house we had “running around ball tag”. My dad, brother, and I used to play it. There were two balls, and if you were hit by one, you were essentially “it”, except both balls functioned separately iirc, so you could have one “it” person with both balls or two “it” people with one ball each. You didn’t really win, the game usually ended when someone either got hit too hard or we got tired, But the goal was to not be “it”, so as soon as you got hit you had to pick up the ball and try to hit someone else.
This was especially fun because our house was two floors, quite big horizontally, with two stair cases sort of at each end and plenty of rooms with multiple doors. So it was very conducive to continuous chases. And the downstairs rooms with only one door (of which there were several) functioned as safe zones, although any part of your body outside the doorframe was vulnerable. Basically you could stay in the room and be safe, but that was kinda lame and boring so after a while we’d always make a mad dash across or down the hall to another room, or up the stairs.
Also, when we first started playing the game we started with a couple blow up pool toy balls, but because of how abused they got in this game, by the time we last played they were just dense masses of bubble wrap and masking tape with the broken remnants of blow up pool toys at the center lol.
The Delias catalogue would arrive for my cousin, then we'd go through every item (like the same shirt down in 5 different colors) and pick our favorite (favorite color of each item, then our favorite item from the page, and then our favorite item from the double-page spread.
I grew up in Mexico and we used to play a game we called “Changalalai”. Basically you’d have two wooden sticks. One short, one long and a hole on the ground. Two teams. I don’t exactly remember all of the rules since it was about 20 years ago, but you’d place the short stick in the hole and by using different positions, you’d use the long stick to send the short one flying. Then you’d measure how far it went with the long stick. If someone who played can brush up on the rules it would be awesome! Anyway, it was so fun and always had a blast with the kids in the neighborhood.
Pretending to be a robot that has impersonated the real me and trying not to get caught by my parents. I would knock on the walls to change my battery at my back and whisper codes to the wall.
"Don't touch baby poo colour". It was basically a game of getting across the room without touching the floor. But the carpet was a horrible mustard colour, we had once heard described as baby poo colour.
It’s like dodgeball on a trampoline. One person is the thrower and is not on the trampoline. The other people get in the trampoline and try to not get “pegged” with the ball. I can’t recall all the specific rules but basically you tried not getting hit or try to catch the ball. Last man standing wins.
Me and my friends would play “tag with the tennis ball”, often on rollerblades around my one friend’s circular neighborhood. It was pretty fun until you got nailed with the ball and ate shit rollerblading lol.
Army men war. Take a few handfuls of army men and place them at one end of a hallway and the other kid does the same at the other end. Then you throw a ball from your end to the other. If you hit any they're dead and out. Take turns until all of a teams army men are killed. Played this for hours with friends.
When my cousins visited, we would play a game with Knex where we would make a gun and "shoot" everyone else in the house. You just take a long piece(barrel) and 2 short pieces(handle and "trigger") and connect them with the 3 piece intersection. Then you just squeeze the trigger towards the handle and the barrel would fly off.
So much fun from such a simple thing. I miss the days of youth.
Smashing Bashers. My brother and I would setup one straight hotwheel track across the middle of the room. Then we'd choose our team of hotwheel cars and battle. On each end, we'd push the cars as hard as possible into each other. You lost by falling off the track and landing upside down. If both are standing they go again.
Muffin-ass: Essentially badminton over a long distance with G.I. Joe figures in place of shuttlecocks. You win if you hit the other person and if the G.I. Joe breaks all pieces are in play.
We called it “Handy Over”. You usually played 2v2. One team would stand on one side of the house with a tennis ball, and the other would stand on the opposite side. The team with the ball would yell “handy over!” And launch the ball over the roof.
If the team on the other side caught the ball, they would run (or sneak!) around the house and try and throw the tennis ball at a player on the first team. If they got hit, they’re out, if they make it to the opposite side of the house, they’re safe! If the team missed the original “catch”, they have to yell “handy over” and throw the ball back over the roof.
It was an exhausting game, but so much fun! It only really worked with houses with equal front and back yards, and the roof couldn’t be too high for our noodle arms.
Also we had a game collaborately made by all of the neighborhood kids called super tag. Where one person would be it and it would take place in a block radius. Lots of hiding in people's yards happened.
My grandpa used to play a game with us called 4 quarters. He literally hid 4 quarters and we had to look for them. My sister and I adored that game. The beauty of simplicity!
My family has huge family reunions every year. All the teenager cousins (like 17-18 of us) always get together at least one of the nights to play “Real Life Mafia” late at night. We first choose God, the doctor, etc. randomly, and then turn off all the lights and everyone lays down on the ground or in beds. God wakes up the “killer” and they tag someone. The rest of the designated people whisper/point to their choices so that God can see/hear, and when God turns on the lights, everyone “wakes up” and gathers around the dead body. We all hold a trial and each person makes their case as to why/why not the accused person is guilty/not guilty. We then hold a vote, and based on the vote the accused is killed/not killed. The game continues for multiple rounds until we find the “killer”. This game literally keeps us up for hours, but some of the younger kids get kind of scared ;).
Lego Wars. My brother and I would build castles out of Lego and hide several Lego men in the castle. Then we would build Lego bombs which were a brick of Legos about the size of a golf ball.
We would launch several bombs across the room at each other's castle. If your Lego man was knocked over or buried under rubble, they were eliminated. Last player with a Lego man standing won.
“Barrel Hill”
We would crawl into a giant empty drum meant to hold water and roll down a 200 yard steep hill that was my back yard.
For every stump we’d hit that flung us into the air we would get points.
There was a creek at the bottom so some of us would wait to make sure we wouldnt get stuck in the water. If we did make it into the creek it was 10 extra points
Bull game. Someone is a bull, someone is a horse, and someone is riding the horse.
The person playing the horse has to be on all fours with the rider on top(holding on for dear life. The bull then rams the person off of the horse as quick as possible. If the rider falls off the horse and the rider win.
it wasn’t really about the whole animal aspect. We just thought it was hilarious to ram my friends younger sister off of each other.
Midnight fight. We would wait for it to get dark, turn off all the lights in the playroom, close the door (and stuff the crack with towels), and then run at head first on all fours like small, drunken rhinos. We would seriously charge with the intention of head butting each other into oblivion, but usually ended with us head butting ourselves into the wall.
“Don’t you touch me!” One person would lay on their back on a couch or bed with their knees to their chest and feet facing out. Then the other person would stand on the ground at their feet. The goal was to try to get past the persons feet and get to their stomach to tickle them all while they are kicking you and yelling “Don’t you touch me!” To this day I can’t imagine the horror my friends mom must have felt when she heard her kid screaming “Don’t you touch me!” The older I get, the funnier this game becomes
If you remember the Oddball setting in halo it was basically that, but on longboards. We mapped out a route around the neighborhood affectionately called "the Gauntlet."
Two teams. One object (for us was usually a monkey's fist knot). The team to hold the object for the longest wins.
The objective for the other team was either to knock you off the longboard while you (or a member of your team), were holding the object. Or, somehow get it out of your hand without knocking you off the board. If they succeeding in either of those then the object was turned over to their team. (The game works in an every man for himself format as well).
And that was it. There were basically no holds on what you could do to knock an opponent off the board. Also it probably goes without saying but we were often traveling at moderately high speeds while playing. We were actually teenagers at the time (and all males), so it was a good way to just indulge in good old full contact violence with each other.
Like I said it was kind of like oddball from halo crossed with reverse quidditch crossed with football/MMA. I should clarify that none of us were actual athletes and this was not just a Bro-hazing "toxic masculinity" situation. Nobody was ever seriously injured and more importantly nobody left angry or with injured pride/ego's. Thinking back on it, it was kind of like a right of passage, but one that we all repeatedly participated in with each other every weekend for years. Unsurprisingly it formed an unshakable bond between us.
This game had a spin off called "The purple mattress of death," which was basically modified king of the hill on this old POS mattress my mom had.
Edit: All 5 of us are close friends to this day and recently met up to ride the gauntlet again. It was a quasi-sacred nostalgic experience and I love each of them like actual brothers.
“Chicken” where we turned off all the lights in the house and someone was the Hen who said “chicken” and the other kids would HAVE TO say “peep.” It was like a blind tag game.
We played a game called “hot dog.” We separated into two teams and went to the opposite sides of the yard. Then each player took a stick and impaled a turd out of a dog pile. Then we flung it through the air trying to hit members of the other team. If you did it right, you got shit on everyone else but none on you. Sometimes you’d run out of dog crap, but the other team would miss and you could re-impale their turd which was now on your side.
Good thing we had two big dogs crapping the yard up.
Person who is it stands in the middle of the road with a ball... doesn’t matter what ball sometimes it was a football sometimes it was a soccer ball.
If you’re not it then you’re on your bike pedaling on the sidewalks trying not to get hit. The goal is to bike the length of the street. The first one to bike the length of the street 10 times wins.
The ball even got stuck in my friends front tire sometimes and their momentum sent them over their handles. After screwing our bikes up we retired this game lol
My childhood friends and I had a game growing up that we thought for sure would have professional leagues by now.
At least one person per game would get injured so the game eventually earned the name "Massacre."
The way the game worked was that there was a big blow up ball, like the giant rubber ones you could find at any Walmart or Toys "R" Us (r.i.p.) There was two teams of two facing off against each other and each team had a big goal to guard. The court was wherever we could play and worked similiar to Tennis without a net. We would use chalk to draw a line across the middle of the court which was dubbed the "Murder Line." The goal of the game was to hit the ball into the other teams goal without your feet crossing the murder line.
What made the game truly unique was that you couldn't strike the ball with any part of your body. You had to use a "weapon" to hit the ball with and it was your choice and responsibility to choose your weapon. Anything without a blade or anything sharp on it was fair game. Everything from baseball bats to hockey sticks to rakes and even croquet mallets got used.
Each team could position themselves however they wanted but the most common strategy was a forward and a goalie. The forward would often use something like a bat to hit the ball hard and fast while the goalie used something like a rake for length and coverage to block the goal. The courts were small so that ball would come at you like a meteor. The real kicker was that anybody who crossed the murder line on foot was allowed to be hit by the other teams weapons until thwy made it back to their side of the court. Boys became men on the Massacre court.
Cactus sticks. Cousin and I found out we could impale cacti on sticks and then run around chasing each other with them. Nasty cacti with the hair thin needles you couldnt see but could damned sure feel.
After a certain amount of chasing and fun, I accidentally swung my stick in such a way that the cactus slid off and was flung at my cousin. Thus cactus sticks became "oh shit run from the flying cacti this game sucks!"
The real game was playing "find the needles you know are embedded in your palms but can't see" for 3 hours once we got home.
fink31 · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drop kick wars.
X amount of people get on the trampoline. Last man left on the trampoline wins.
Only way to remove people from the trampoline is to dropkick them.
Ideally, a dropkick is two feet landing on the chest.
Basically picture a bunch of 8 year olds and ‘The Matrix’ physics.
One person would hide while we all counted, and then we each split off looking for them. Once you found them, you’d stuff yourself in with them in the hiding place and try to be as quiet as possible, while they inevitably stepped on your toes.
Eventually it would be really hard to control the noise level of like seven kids smushed into a hall closet, and so the last person to find them would open the door and we’d yell Sardines!! and they would be the next to hide.
It’s super hard to play as an adult because of your size, so I feel especially nostalgic about this one.
Me and my best friends made a game up in elementary school and I will never forget it. It's called Cat and Mouse. It was tag kind of game. One person would be the cat and everyone else would be the mice. The objective was to grab the cheese (rocks) from behind the cat who would chase us and whoever she touched turned into a cat. The weird part was we made up a pledge of allegiance for the game..."I pledge allegiance to the cheese, of the United states of cheesemerica, one nation under cheese" you get the rest. We weren't very original Haha but man those were some fun carefree times. 2 of those friends are my maid of honors in my upcoming wedding!
Kind of boring, but ever since I was little, my brother and I would call out, "Bingo!" Every time we saw a yellow car. You weren't allowed to call out busses, construction vehicles, or taxis, just regular cars. And if we'd say it at the same time, a jinx, jinx again, battle would go on until one of us won. I've spread this habit to my friends, and now they all do it out of habit.
In my neighborhood we would play Sardines, which is like hide and seek except when you found the person you would hide with them. The last person to find everyone was the loser. It was fun because you'd have to find a good place to hide where other people could fit with you. I liked it. Also I had my first kiss while hiding. :)
I know I'm late to the party but my brothers, their friends, and I had a game called "Googleshnoz". The person who was it, the "Googleshnoz", had to wear a sleeping bag over their body and run around the room to tag someone else who would then become said "Googleshnoz". Those who weren't it had the main objective of beating the absolute shit out of the googleshnoz. I personally remember being around 9 years old and getting dropkicked across a table by my then 14 yr old brother and then being speared by his friend as I got back up. And the thing is, if you were to tag someone while being knocked over, it didn't count as a real tag. It wasn't really until recently that I realized this game was an excuse for us (really mainly them) to be the shit out of each other (me). There's other greats like the controller game if y'all are curious...
When I was about 11 or 12 I lived in this duplex building, we were downstairs and had one upstairs neighbor. She was this nice little middle aged lady who kept to her self. My friend and I would play ding dong ditch where we would knock on her door (or make some “hilarious” noise right outside of said door) and we would run down the steps either back into my apartment or in to the back yard or something. We would do this like 10 times within an hour or two. We thought it was THE funniest thing ever. I can’t believe that lady never told my mom what we were doing, there’s no way she didn’t know it was us.
Another game we played was one where we would both build little forts in my bedroom and take turns throwing objects from around the room at their other’s fort in an attempt to demolish it. This was a game we would always play at night. We were always very loud and laughing and having a good time. One night we had woke my mom up playing the game, she came in my room and shouted “STOP IT WITH THE 1-2-3 BLAMMO” and we died laughing. That game would be forever known as “1-2-3 blammo” after that.
Pikmim 2 for GameCube. You had to collect treasure from a planet using plant like minions in order to get out a massive debt. It was oddly highly addictive
I played “Lions Share” with my little brother. I would lay down on my bed with my head on the pillow and my little brother would have to get through a barrage of kicks to try to take the pillow. Catch was that he could only approach from the base of the bed so he got kicked in the face, shoulders and chest a lot. Needless to say I never switched turns with him. We played it a couple times before our parents told us to stop. Fun game, good times!
Its called the "8 year old me never felt pain because he would gain karma by not agreeing to thr pain when hurts" game. TBH the attitude still helps now
That hat game. You put a hat over your face so you can't see, and then you chase people around the house and who ever you touch will have to put the hat on and chase the others. So basically blindfolded tag.
ticks. we would pretend we were slowly killing the body from the inside (with some obvious ignorance on how ticks work). Things like running jumping stabbing the ground, making forts and raising eggs (rocks) to continue our pilgrimage. Then hop to the next body.
Lava-Laser Balloon. it was a game where the floor was lava, we had a balloon and i made some little uniforms. We would jump from object to object throwing a balloon and if it touched the circle on your uniform you were out and whoever made it last won. It was pretty fun
I dont remember the game, but i know the game was none existing in my country to buy. My childhood friend got it through a competition. Anyway its about crashing cars, basically you tried to blow the other person's car up , either by throwing them off a building, pushing them into a trap, or just running into them at full speed.
Some maps were extremely uniquely built and i bever understood why the game never got to sweden.
Sadly my friend later lost the disc and now we sad.
Ninja vs Cowboy:
Me and my best friend (a very competitive pair) had a nerf gun and a broken set of ladder ball. One person armed with the gun, the other a long hard price of plastic.
The game was simple - ninja has 30 seconds to hide and whoever hit the other first wins.
This game came to close after a particularly violent round in which I (the cowboy) decided I should try to find my friend around my backyard fence and got the ever loving shit kicked out of me with a red plastic ladder ball tube.
My mother declared the game forbidden and now all we have is memories
Side note: this is the same friend who I accidentally hit with a golf club at full speed and gave him 11 stitches across the head.
We used to play a game at our beach shack that had roof with a very slight incline, starting at about 7 feet. One person would roll a ball up the roof and then you had to listen for the sound of it rolling in order to catch it before it hit the deck again. The roof was all crooked, but you could kind of tell where it was rolling more or less- the exciting part was in the split second it appeared overhead and you realized you either guessed right or were way off.
Unfortunately the house was rebuilt so the game can’t still be played.. it was the perfect combination of low roof and low angle- wish I could still play!
I love this post, in college our friends used to talk about all the different gym class games we played across the country or in different countries- so amazing how creative people can be!
"Pikmin" my older brother made it up based on the video game and he would wistle and point at things and have my little sister and I pick them up. It was just a trick to get us to clean up his room.
Water meter! My brothers and I ran the whole way to school as we played this game in elementary school. You had to be on a water meter lid on the sidewalk in front of the houses when a car passed from any direction, but you could only use one meter for a single car, and could only move in the direction we were headed, never back. You had to gage the traffic flow. And that one hill with no houses was the worst! It is probably why all of us eventually ended up running varsity track and regularly ran sub-5 minute miles.
Growing up we all had cb radios in our vehicles. We would play hide and seek with our cars or trucks. Everyone would split up in town and one person would drive around and try to find the people hiding. Everyone still would shoot the shit with each other over the radio and you could tell you were getting close by how well the people would come in. It did however escalate one night. A couple of buddies drove their car on a paved park trail that was basically a golf cart path. It was good old fashioned small town fun.
This is an odd one so be prepared, when I was little instead of the normal hide and go seek like most other kids (Which we also did but this one I distinctly remember), me and my family had a game called, “who’s there” where essentially me and my brothers would all line up and run towards the door, we would all say “who’s there!!!” And my dad or mom would always say some outrageous creature or animal and if it was something we would be scared of we would run as fast as we could back to the beginning of the hallway leading up to the door.
This went on for hours.
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When I was in elementary school, there was this sport called "box ball"
There's a 2 x 2 box drawn on the concrete floors and each floor had a ranking (Jack, Queen, King, and then Ace [highest]).
We would use a volleyball to spike into each other boxes trying to get each other out trying to move up in the rankings. If the ball hits the box once and then hits the ground, you're out. If you save it (maintaining the ball off the ground by bouncing it with two hands), you can spike it to another box and it goes on and on until somebody gets out. Once you get out, you move back down to the lowest rank (Jack). We would add modifications such as ISOLATION which only the Ace and King would fight to the death. Fun times :)
We had a game we called "EE AWE EE AWE" kinda like the donkey sound. The premise of the game is as follows. Start by riding scooters up and down the sidewalk of our suburban neighborhood. Then when a car turns down the street you yell "EE AWE EE AWE" and dive off your scooter into the grass, laying lifeless until the car passes out of view. This was a game exclusively played at night, and we'd always start to get bugged out when we saw the same car 3 or 4 times. Like who is this fucker to drive past lifeless children in the grass multiple times? Concerned citizen, or raving pedophile with a rabid hankering for little kid ass? You decide.
When i was a kid all my family would go to my grandma's for Thanksgiving. She had a large basement that had 1 tool room below the stairs and another bedroom with a closet off to the side. Then there was a big wall in the middle that divided the basement into two areas and there was a door on either end.
So when we would get all the cousins together we would all go downstairs and play a game that we called "Monster". Basically we would block out all the windows with pillows and turn off all the lights so that it was completely dark. One person would be named the Monster and everyone else had to run or hide from them, if you were caught by them you would then become the monster and have to chase everyone. The best part was you could chose to play it fast and sprint at them full speed or play the slow creepy monster making crazy noises and crawling on the ground making everyone scared (this was usually my go to).
It was really intense because since there were two doors on either side of the wall you could continue chasing everyone in circles, so when someone would get tired they would try to hide and possibly get trapped in an area with no escape and a monster close by. This made for some freaky moments, whether you were waiting behind a door wondering if it was about to be pulled away from you or sitting in the back of a closet trying to muffle your breath so no one hears you. Also its always fun chasing everyone in a circle as the monster only to all of a sudden turn around and go the other way, it usually ends up with everyone screaming and pushing people behind them so they stay "alive".
Uhm, in elementary school this one guy and two other girls (along with me, also female), would play this game at recess called Magneto. It had NO correlation to the X-Men series and I honestly don’t know why we called it this. I was ‘married’ to ‘Magneto’ (the guy) in the game and the two girls were our kids and basically we would run around saving them from getting kidnapped...yea i dont know...
During the winter after it snowed my brother and cousins would play what we called “The Guapi Game”. It was a pretend society in our made up Eastern European country. We spent most of our time mining/searching for hard chunks of icy snow, which we called guapis. They were our currency. When a chunk broke or crumbled, we called it a false guapi, and said it wasn’t worth anything anyway. We also had to face invading Russians using toy guns and helmets from WWII. Good times.
“School.” *A set of stairs is required. To play, the “students” begin on the first step. The “teacher” holds a hidden object in one hand and each student takes turns guessing which hand. The teacher should switch it around from hand to hand between students. A correct guess moves you up a grade, to the next step, but a wrong guess remediate you back a grade. The winner is the first to “graduate” the top step.
It wasn't as a child really. But a couple of buddies of mine moved into a 4 bedroom house after high school, and it had a 3 car garage. Some one had us store a ping pong table for them for 2 weeks. After they got the ping pong table back, we still had our own paddles we bought but no table. One day we had a couple chairs set up in a line in-between car spot 1 and 2. We started hitting a ball back and forth. Several bong rips later we went to Walmart got some duct tape, some wood, 2 badminton nets, and some nails. A long weekend later or was born.
we just called this game "war." we would get a great big sheet of paper (had one of those 18x24 newsprint pads) and each draw a fortress on either side. Then we would take turns drawing either shields, weapons, or soldiers and try to break the other's fortress. much of the game was spent arguing over what was a fair turn, but the games went surprisingly smoothly.
another drawing game we had was super hero, where we would each take turns creating a hero. first person would draw the head, the next drew the torso, then arms and legs, then picking what their powers were and what the name was. Next you'd do it all over again for their sidekick.
My neighbor and I used to play a game on my trampoline called “pineapple upside down cake.” We called it that cause the ball we used was yellow?? Anyways we would have a small ball on the trampoline and we had to jump without it hitting us. If it hit you then you were out. And if you caused it to fall off the trampoline, then you were out AND you had to be the one to retrieve it. It was such a stupid game but we played it ALL the time.
My cousin (a doctor, farmer, and former Army vet) invented this game on his farm in rural Wisconsin. A player from the "offensive" team (at bat) hits a foam Nerf football off of a tee. The "defensive" team starts in a designated 10' x 10' square about 40 feet in front of the tee. Once the ball is hit the defensive players can run out of the circle and retrieve the ball and attempt to tag an offensive player "out" by hitting him with the ball. If an offensive player tags a defensive player, the defensive player is frozen there as a "base" as long as any offensive player is touching them. An offensive player must touch one base before they can return to the tee (home plate) and score a point. You can deduce from those rules the various hitting, running, tagging, and scoring strategies. It was an epic game that got far more intense than it should have and resulted in torn ACLs and concussions...
In the hockey rink, before practice, my whole team would get all of the nets and extra nets and make a maze. Whoever got through fastest got $1 from each challenger
Kinda late to the okay, but my sisters and I would print out pictures of people we knew (either family, family friends etc) and stick them on the faces of guess who cards. The questions we would ask about some of them would get really out of hand.
Another game we used to play of the same style was a 52 card deck with people we knew. I'm sure you can imagine the games we'd play with that
“Murder in the Dark” - in a bedroom with the lights off, one of us had to put a pillow over our heads, spin while counting to 10, and then find the others hiding in the bedroom while still wearing the pillow.
“Chucho Escondido” - or “Hidden Branch” - the group of kids would break off a long and thin tree branch and designate a base. Whoever was “it” would hide the branch somewhere while the rest waited with their eyes closed at the base. When the “it” kid announced it was hidden, the others would race to find it. Whoever found it got to chase the others back to the base and whack them with the branch.
We didn’t have a name for it, but my childhood friend and I would turn all the lights off in a room and throw a handful of those super bouncy balls and just try not to get hit by them. Dumbass ball, I guess you could call it.
I played a game called "broken leg girl" with my best friend. One of us would pretend we had a broken leg. And the other would have to do things for them... like getting them snacks and toys. We were weird kids.
I used to play "boys vs girls" on the playground. Basically the boy's team and girl's team would just do stupid stuff to each other (like attack the opposite team with dirt or steal whatever toys they had) and we would occasionally take captors. I left the girl's team because I didn't have a Bratz doll so the other girls were mean. Me and the only other girl on the boy's team then tied up the girl that was mean with a jump rope until we got in trouble from a teacher.
“Cut the Cake” we would swing on a rope swing across and someone had to run through without getting hit by the person on the swing. Idk we called it cut the cake haha
Sleeping bag wars. We would put sleeping bags over our heads, zipped as you would to sleep in but with the opening at our legs. We would then wrestle, completely sightless, and see who could win by basically not tapping out. So much potential for unnecessary injury.
Just to name a few:
1. We would whittle long, whippy sticks (Maybe 4 feet long) and collect crab apples. We would then wage full neighborhood wars, each side in a fort we would build in the woods by sticking the crab apples on the ends of the sticks and “whipping” them like you would cast a fishing rod. Would launch the apples hundreds of feet with real force
monster: this is played on a trampoline, we would put three tramps together and one person would start as the “monster”. Monsters would only be allowed on their knees for the game. They would attempt to attack and wrestle the other guys bouncing, if you were taken down you also became a monster and the pair would set about trying to take more guys down ( who are bouncing over the monsters to escape) . The last man standing won, and the next round would begin with a new monster.
Bounceball: same trampoline set up, but now with one of those miniature basketballs. It would bounce around as the guys bounced, and you couldn’t let it hit you. If it hit you, you had to jump off. You could kick the ball soccer style, with the goal of hitting another player with your kick. If you missed, you were out. If you hit the other player, they were out. Introduce more balls to mix it up.
Many, many more invented games along with the classics. It was a special time.
Baseball but instead of a ball and bat we used a frisbee. "Pitcher" would throw to the "batter" who would have to catch the frisbee then throw it and run the bases.
We called it “Roll the ball”. A room with equal sized doorways on either side were goals. My brother and I were both goalies, rolling a baseball sized stress ball as fast as we can back & forth as fast as we could. It actually was a lot of fun. This was ages 5-8.
A sibling and I would go to opposite corners of the living room and yell “Corners. Positions. Ding!” then run and meet in the middle and wrestle till someone got pinned to the ground. Basically wrestling, but the intro was really what it was all about.
During family holiday get togethers we would put my little brother against our same aged cousin in a mma style fight. This is in the 80's so it wasn't so horrible. I don't know if our parents knew but they would pummel each other.
I used to be convinced my parents and siblings were plotting my murder, so I was always playing a game of, "how many things in this room could I defend myself with?"
My family was always very loving. It was completely irrational, but oh boy, kept me on my toes.
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There was this game called “stop” that we used to play with my friends in elementary school. It is fun to play with a large group of friends. One person throws the ball in the air while shouting another person’s name from the group. That person tries to catch the ball without the ball touching the ground. If she catches the ball in time, she can shout another person’s name and the process repeats itself. Until she catches the ball, everyone else runs away from the person whose name is shouted. If the person can’t catch the ball in time, she is now “it”. As soon as she holds the ball she shouts “stop” and then everyone has to freeze where they are. The person with the ball now has to select a color and shout the name of that color. As soon as the color is determined everybody runs around to hold some object with that color while the person with the ball tries to hit them before they do. If she can hit them in the next round they throw the ball in the air and the game repeats itself.
It was some type of role play with Lego's. The rules would change often. Even within 5 min of playing. It will change several times before someone gets mad and leaves.
The object was to keep as many items (birdies, footballs, wiffleballs, bats, frisbees, tennis balls, sticks, pinecones, whatever was available) in play as possible (preferably airborne, but at the very least in motion), all while holding a beer in one hand and any kind of racket or hitting device in the other.
We called it Australian Rules because at the time shows like Wide World of Sports seemed to air nothing but marathon coverage of Australian Rules football, the actual rules of which seemed indecipherable to us...
There’s an ancient Roman game that I learn as a young child’s called “rota”. The game is played by two people with 3 marbles each on a board has 8 dots in the shape of a octagon with lines connecting each dot and a dot in the center. The goal of the game is to get three marbles in a row on the board in either a straight line or in three consecutive outside dots. One player goes first and then the next and then it keeps going like checkers. Very fun game that I would suggest.
This will probably get buried, but I used to play a game called “rocks”. So basically you just have a blanket covering your entire body and you lay there. Eventually a “storm” will come and everyone just rolls around.. it was actually pretty fun.
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Manhunt
There was a base, usually a green electric box that residential neighborhoods have. One team would count with their heads down for about 60 seconds while the others would essentially go out and hide.
The intention was to hide with a strategy so that you could tag the base before you were tug out by the other team.
A lot of fun !! We’d play and allow about half the neighborhood fair game and since a lot of us lived there we could hide in back yards, under decks, on porches, etc
Dang, I’m probably too late to the party, but my brother and I had the BEST made up games. We had these 9 paper balls we crinkled up and we would place 3 of them in the middle of the hallway. We would each be holding 3 balls and stand back to back in the middle of the hall. We then counted as we took 10 steps away from each other. After 10 steps, you could either hide in your half of the house or go after the extra balls for more ammo. We then hid throughout the house and would try to sneak around in absolute darkness to hit the other person 3 times with a ball. If you caught one you earned a point back. One time, I had a green shirt on, so I literally hid by lying down on our green couch. Sucker walked right past me. This game was such a treasure to us that we even had a fancy box to store the paper balls in...God I miss my childhood.
The plan was a concoction of random crap mixed together secretly. We'd have a little competition where two of us would make it in secret and one would judge the best "plan". Can you call it a game? No. Did we pretend it was? Yes. Did we eventually spill a bowl onto the carpet? Of course.
My friend and I used to play “poor”. We’d collect berries from her shrubs and put them in pots from her kitchen. We’d pretend to make food with them and I think live outside. We stopped playing when her mom asked what the pots were for and then told my mom what we were doing and I got really embarrassed when my mom laughed.
I’m a social worker now, so that definitely feels like a game a social worker would play.
The Rock Game
Me and my best friend would stand across the street from each other and throw rocks at each other. Ocassionally would use skate boards to block them. Took a big one to the head one time and almost passed out. Good times
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My little brother and our neighborhood friends devised a game we dubbed "Football Freeze Tag". The person who was "it" would have a Nerf football and close their eyes and count to ten while everybody else went into hiding (the boundaries usually limited to the front and backyard of our friend's house, although we would make exceptions for larger groups. On those rare occasions, usually birthday parties, etc., we might have TWO people with nerf balls, to up the ante). After counting to ten, the person with the ball would then roam the property looking for everyone. If they found you, you'd get the ball thrown at you and if you were hit you were frozen until another player came by to unfreeze you. If you were flushed from hiding and got away, you had to run to the tree in the front yard that was the 'base". This would go on until someone got frozen three times, and then they became It. We could play that game for hours, and sometimes did!
I guess you would call it a variant of hide and seek, and may have been played by other children as well.
Me and my sister's grew up way out there in the country.
So no one cut their grass. And it got insanely tall (let's say 4 feet, but for three children 3-6 years old, plenty tall enough) and we played a game called doe's den.
It was fairly simple. Two of us had maybe 2 mins to find and make a den to "sleep" or hide in.
To make a den, it was as simple as stomp or push down enough grass to lay down in.
The only trick was that you could make as many "Dens " as you wanted and could move freely throughout them, and who ever got caught first was the next "hunter" ( who had to look next time. )
You were also allowed to use previously made dens, made by you or anyone else.
This was back in the mid 90's and there was nothing else to do but table games and local tv.
But I'll tell you what, I may have loved it more than the floor is lava, becuase its the one true game that we created among us, and was a truly personal experience that only we share.
Basically, one person has the whip, which was really the string of my jacket that got pulled out, and they try to whip the other kids playing. We played it at school at break on the playground, which wasn't big by the way.
It stung a bit, but not bad. Full adrenaline rush on both sides when we played. Lots of fun blocking the slide as the whipper was coming to the top.
It's called "Old lady." Basically one person *Normally my older sister* would wrap a blanket around her. Myself and my little sister would stand behind her. Basically she would just run into things accidentally and apologize like an old women while my sister and I would run into each other and whatever she "accidentally" ran us into. It was like... Weirdly fun. 99% of the time we are giggling like idiots for no reason.
Another game we had was "Don't get up" Where I would just keep pushing my little sister down, again, her just giggling like mad as was I. It was weird but somehow the funniest thing ever.
I don't know if this is really unique, actually, but when some family friends visited from Canada, they taught my siblings and I a game called Murder in the Dark. Basically there's one "detective", one "murderer", and everybody else is just a normal partygoer. You draw pieces of paper out of a hat (or bowl or cup or whatever else you have on hand) to decide these roles, and keep your role secret, unless you're the detective. The detective goes into another room, the lights are turned off, and everyone else begins to mingle. While they mingle, the murderer whispers "you're dead" to someone else. The person who has been killed screams and the detective is called back in and is then allowed to ask each living person 2 yes or no questions in an attempt to determine who the murderer was. My younger cousins still convince me to play it sometimes at family gatherings when there's enough of us together.
During my college summer breaks, I use to work at a camp for kids. It was a five day camp for the kids. The other two days were split up as one day for cleaning/prepping the grounds and buildings for the next group of kids and the other day was a personal day to do laundry, go into town, and just chill. The camp wasn't that large so we could usually get all cleaning and prep work done with a little less then an hour before dinner/supper time. So staff would just wait in the cafeteria until food was served. To pass the time we adjusted tables and chairs to make fairways and greens like a golf course. The eating space was big enough to make five or six holes. The rules were the same as golf but instead of a golf ball we would slide our cabin keys (think shuffleboard) down the makeshift course. It started with two of us but each week other staffers started playing and it got pretty serious. During the week, staff would talk about ways to improve the game; like changing cabin keys to empty altoid tin cans so all "golf balls" were the same, adding cloth napkins as bunkers, and glasses of water as water hazards. By the end of the summer we crowned a champion by seeing who had the lowest score for the entire summer. The winner even got a trophy someone bought at a thrift store.
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My family used to play the “name game” on long car rides. You start with a celebrity with A as their first initial (i.e, Ashton Kutcher) then the next person has to name a celebrity with a first name that matches the last initial of the previous celebrity. (In this case I’d say Kurt Cobain) then it keeps going. If someone says a celeb with matching initials for their first and last name it gets reversed. When I got older I’d play with friends and to make it harder we’d name “only athletes” or “people we know from school”.
I would collect poop from the cat and collect them, everyday I would just follow the cat and say “please kitty, please give me more”. Each one was different! ;p
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My brother, sister, cousin and I would play a game we called “sushi man” and basically we would grab a pillow and ask one another if we wanted sushi and when we said no we just ran around beat the shit out of each other with the pillows
We would take “vines” off some of the willow trees in my friends backyard and then braid the “vines” into whips and hit each other or “sell” them and the currently was cotton pods we collected...I guess that’s why I like pain now 😶
The best game we ever invented (honestly it should be an olympic sport) was "Skyball" - with my friends at school we developed this intense game. In a small square room with a high ceiling, 4 players stand in the corners. Each has a ping pong bat and a bin behind them which is their goal. There's one ball.
You serve by bouncing the ball against the wall, then players attempt to get the ball in each others bin. If the ball hits the floor it's a foul. Can be played 2v2 or every man for himself.
It's very fast-paced, like squash meets ping pong meets hockey. Sadly after a week of amazing tournaments a teacher discovered our sport and shut it down for good :;(
We had this game where we had a better trampoline with 1 people inside and 4 outside, we also owned this massive beach ball and it played basically like messed up volleyball three hits each and if it touched the ground on the other side you got a point.
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not really a game, but my dad used to pay me and sister go out front and throw punches until the other bled.the person who threw the winning punch got the money
My cousins and I would play a game where we'd do our best impression of someone getting shot or stabbed or otherwise killed, preferably near a gentle slope of some kind. We'd over-exaggerate our best tv-style death, to the amusement of one another.
We called the game, "Who can die the best?".
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My uncle bought me a little shitty golf set. I was 14 and they were for 6 year olds. It also came with a shit ton of golf wiffle balls. My friend and i would stand in my garage hitting the balls back and forth at each other. We called it POWER GOLF. my garage wasn’t very big.
I can't remember the names, but it was this game were you put in a CD and plug in these controllers {that had different mechanics on them}. Me and my brother both had one but his was a tool kit type thing, and my one was this baking set . So the premise of these games was to use the controllers to make stuff as fast as you could and get tasks done. I used to play with my brothers one all the time and he used mine a bit as well.
It was nicknamed Fort. Started with no rules, just 2 home bases, and you'd hunt down fellow kids by tackling them and taking them to your fort until you run out of time or kids (and thus win). We'd play strictly at night. The first time we had so many injuries we set rules to instead tag people out, then it became more fun, less anger or panic. We played for years and loved it. This was played in remote ex-pat compounds, no TV, radio (except shortwave), or Internet to speak of.
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nsfw game as a 7th graders.There were two teams.The objective was to grab the opponent team member's balls to eliminate them them.
My cousin and young self created a game which, now that I think about it with an adult brain, was highly offensive... "Slobbering Idiots". The game consisted of said cousin and myself running around, babbling and just being moronic to annoy our peers and get the attention of our elders. Worked ( in some way ) every time.
My older brothers and I always ended up playing games that involved pain and suffering.
Pillow tag involved us taking our pillows and putting them on our heads so that the pillowcase held the pillow in front our face. This created a protective barrier around our faces and also obscured our vision. Once the pillows were in place, we ran around the house blind, smashing into things while trying to find and tag each other.
Circle of death was a game we played outside with a bike and any soccer/dodge-balls we could muster up. One person rode a bicycle in a slow continuous circle. The rest of us stood in the center and attempted to throw balls so that they would wedge between the tires and the pedals, causing the rider to stop and fall off. Whoever knocked someone off the bike became the new bike rider.
Don't know if this is original but me my sister and close family friend so and daughter would play tomorrow and Jerry. There was the three of us who would be Jerry's and hide pieces of paper around and we had to go collect all the cheese before the other guy was older than us could catch us. There were specific home bases and safe zones, powerups like immunity and we had plans for bothering of our houses. It was the best!
"Spiderweb". We basically took all the yarn we could find and spun it between random objects in the room. In the end you could barely move in there, but even rolling it back up again was pretty fun.
One summer on a family trip to visit my great uncle, my brother and I made up a game in my uncle's yard. His backyard had a few small apple trees on either end, but was mostly just grass. Basically we put 1 tennis ball in a sock, then another tennis ball in a different sock, and "Battlet" was born. The idea was to wrap your sock around the other guys tree for points. But the middle was a battleground. We would just wail on each other and try to run past. The best was when a sock would wrap around the others and you could just pull it away to disarm them. My big brothers face when i stole his weapon is forever imprinted on my memory.
As i'm reminiscing, same brother used to put me in the wheelbarrow, pad it with pillows, and run me around the yard trying to get to warp speed. Everytime we hit warp, he would throw me out of the barrow and I'd time travel.
We called it "time machine" or sometimes "back to the future." We would put blankets over our heads and spin around and then be dizzy. I think we tried to pretend that we had gone to a different time. I vaguely remember describing when/where we went.
I had 4 siblings very close in age and we all did this at the same time in the living room. Iirc there were collisions.
me and my brother use to play a game we made up that we called “chib” (‘bitch’ backwards that had nothing to do with the game whatsoever) and the soul purpose was to see who could stub their toe the hardest. it started as a light tap on the wall and we would slowly work our way to full on, Lionel Messi bicycle kicking the wall as hard as we could. needless to say, neither of us really won because me being the younger and not to brag, but smarter of us, i would always make him go first. and he was the type of person to do what ever it takes to win anything if he knew he could. so on a regular basis he would go first and say “you’re on” and proceed to cock his leg back, hold for a solid 2 seconds, and with no hesitation, kick the ever loving shit out of the wall. i would end up dying of laughter every time, and he would end up breaking something... every time.
mind you. we were 8 years apart. i was 6, he was 14...
On long road trips I would count tings on the side of the road, hub caps, blown tires, memorial crosses, how many times my dad switched lanes and didn't hit the little bumps in the middle. Yeah I was a weird child
Not exactly child - teenager with my s/o. We called Jesus Fish (an emblem associated with Christianity for anyone in the world who might not know that) like you would call punch bugs. So if you saw one of those emblems, call out "Jesus Fish" and playfully/lightly "punch" the other person. Jesus Fish were 1 point each. Jesus Fish with legs (call out "Darwin Fish") would get 2 points. Jesus Fish with Star of David inside it got 3 points. It was a fun day when you'd pass a mini van with 2 big Jesus Fish and 5 tiny ones on the rear window; we were smacking each other and saying "Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! JESUS FISH!!!" as fast as we could. Then one day I found a Jesus Fish with a Star of David inside and a cross inside of that. We decided to call the game forever in my favor. There's just no topping that. Shame though. It was fun. Sadly, Jesus Fish aren't as common now, but it was so much fun when they were popular.
We played groundies. Basically in after care we would go onto the big playground and a person was it, they had to close their eyes and tag someone. Everyone else had to climb around the playground. If u wanted to risk it you could hop down and sneak to a new spot but if the person who was it called groundies while you were on the ground that counted as being tagged.
we would play a game where my brother and I (who are a year apart) would run away from our youngest sister (who is 5 years younger than I am). We came up with a verbal, written and sign language for it. The game could be played in the backyard, grocery stores, grandma's house, church... practically anywhere.
My mom read Eragon to me when I was really young. So after that I wanted to be a dragon rider, but the closest I could manage was convincing my best friend that water balloons were dragon eggs. Somehow my mom agreed to go along with this and even let us carry the ‘eggs’ around in the house.
There was also a low hanging branch in a tree outside that we could straddle and pretend to 'ride' until we bounced on it so much that it broke.
At a scout camp in New Mexico we played Mountain Ball. It's a baseball style game but instead you have three teams, five bases which you run in a crazy order, one out per inning, self pitch and we used an ax handle as the bat. Good times were had all summer long. It was fun to have kids who have played baseball all their lives try to transition to a game with similar rules but different enough to mess up in the heat of the moment. We only had one injury all summer. One kid got hit in the face with the ball and broke his jaw.
When my 4 siblings and I would spend a week or two during the summer at our Nanas in Long Island we would have pine cone fights. Not you’re typical “game” but still hours and hours of fun.
We used to play a game in the leaves every fall: one of us would lie on the ground while the others covered us with leaves. The buried one would lie there while the others held a “funeral.” It was the buried one’s role to rise up out of the leaves at some point and scare the rest of us away. We called it Funeral. I don’t think we’re especially morbid, but for some reason we loved it! (And I think that’s why I love the smell of autumn leaves to this day.)
My friends and I would play a game that we called Shrek for some reasons (yeah just like the movie). Basically it's kind of like tag but the Shrek/tag had to close his eyes. We played that game in a playground so we couldn't leave the playground and every the Shrek yelled "Shrek" we all had to answer back. Kind of like Marco Polo. We would always end up fighting because one of us was cheating and we stopped playing when I fall down the slide and broke my right forearm... My mom was mad at us when we told her what happened
I grew up in a small town. We'd play hide and go seek around town in our vehicles. We'd call each other on our cell phones and give hints and try to find the other person. Good times
I collected pokemon cards when i was young. Use to have a pretend game of a pokemon adventure. I randomly scattered pokemon cards around the house and they would be considered wild pokemon to fight as we traveled to fight gym leaders. Got one of my friends on board with it and his sister till we had a seperation. Now i will soon play some kind of pokemon DnD game i hope it will be similiar.
Me and my brothers would sit with our legs spread out in front of us and toss balls of varying types and sizes at eachother seeing if we could land a nut shot. Somehow I managed to have a child still lol
My two brothers and I went through a "land before time" phase. We watched it every opportunity we got, and naturally we pretended to be dinosaurs while tromping around our backyard.
Oldest brother always got dibs on being Littlefoot, middle brother played the role of Spike well, and I, being the youngest and female, had only Cera or Duckie to choose from (Duckie all the way).
Pretending wasn't enough though, we had to BE like them. That meant eating the "tree stars". We inevitably ate the leaves from my mother's lilac bush. Let me tell you, they are truly disgusting, but we kept doing it, daily, because dinosaurs.
Me and my 3 siblings played game called 'portable bike tag'. A local high school in town has 13 or so portables in a grid formation with asphalt walkways in between them. The area consisted of 3 long asphalt paths with 4 smaller equally spaced out perpendicular paths. We would bring our bikes over there and play this game. One person would be randomly chosen or volunteer to be 'it'. The object of the game would be to bike around and pass someone coming at you from the opposite direction making them 'it'. The portables hide the paths and you might never know someone will be hunting you around a corner until too late. You can never stop completely (as if caught you will become it), but you try and increase your speed to beat the person trying to come down your path or tactically slow down to make them overshoot before they notice you down a side path. Also, playing with 3 others you would sometimes never know who was 'it' until too late, or if you were 'it' try and play off as if you were not.
We spent many days during the summer doing this with lots of laughing and screaming.
Not my game but my dad's, one time he was picked to test out this He-Man board game or something with a couple of other kids. Turns out the game was so boring they came up with a different game they called "Hop Hop to The Barber Shop". So the room had a big table and they'd hop around the chairs and whoever got to the middle would be at the barber shop with another kid pretending to be the barber. This turned out to be a much funner game.
I played Little Big Planet 2 and 3. Honestly they gave so much creative space. I miss having a PlayStation. I have an Xbox 1 S but, it's not the console for me. Wish I could trade it for a PS4.
My older brother and I (I was about 5? He was 7 or 8) would close ourselves in our playroom closet and turn on the projector light so we could see, and then we would stick pencils up eachothers butt. I'm not sure why. We haven't gotten along since I was like 10. I've never told anyone about this before but its been in my mind for years.
My sister and I would play "woah". We would ride in the back of the station wagon holding onto our ankles. When dad took a turn, we would roll all over the cargo bay, bouncing off the walls and each other. Woah. Aaah, the 70's.
We played spider freeze tag. You draw random lines all over in the dirt or on pavement with chalk and the players can only travel along those lines. If you’re tagged, you had to freeze for a few seconds. It was pretty fun as kids.
My cousin and I would take turns drawing arrows on pieces of paper and place them around the house, leading to a hidden toy or something. It was basically a treasure hunting game
"All" my friend and I would play it at recess in elementary school and it was just us choosing two characters from anything and just making up a story.
A friend and I actually came up with a very basic miniatures wargame using Green Army Men when we were about 10.
The battlefield was defined by the tiles on the kitchen floor, with each tile being one space. Each figure had a set of stats, depending on which pose the Army Man was in — Armor for how much damage it took to kill it, Damage for how much it did, Range for how many tiles away it could shoot, and Speed for how many tiles it could move each turn. And most of them had special rules.
Like the crawling guy with binoculars was the "Spy", and couldn't be shot from more than 1 tile away. Or the flamethrower guy damaged everything on the tile it attacked. Or the radio guy had a really low attack, but increased the range and speed of everything else on its tile.
I think the win conditions were to either occupy the enemy base (a tile marked with a LEGO wall where all your guys had to start from), which involved getting I think 5 units into it with none of theirs in there, or else to kill the enemy commander (a GI JOE or other action figure who we assigned massive amounts of armor to).
Upside down basketball with a tennis sized rubber ball. No holding it, only hitting it up in the air like volleyball. Other players could smack it out of the air if you bounced it too high or didnt keep your body inbetween them and the ball. Points were scored by bouncing the ball off the wall onto a high shelf. Basically it always devolved into my brother and me pushing each other all over the place but it was fun.
Puppy baseball. Anytime we were bored at home, my two brothers and I set up a mini baseball field in our room things within the room as bases and establishing a home run line. We used stuffed animals as our players while we controlled their, and using small replica bats and whiffle balls.
We played using the standard rules of baseball but we would slowly move the stuffed animals around the bases
One of my friends and I would play “whiff-dodge.” It was like dodge ball with a whiffle ball but you couldn’t move your feet. So we’d stand like 10 yards apart and try to hit the other person. Hit to the body was worth one point and hitting their foot was worth 3. First to 5 wins. It was really fun to lob the ball high in the air because since you couldn’t move your feet you just had to accept the inevitable!
Around 1992 or 1993 I was given the X-Men boardgame but I didn't care much for it. The figures that came with it were cool though! My big brother was in to military miniatures so I went to him for help on how to paint miniatures and he gave me some supplies. I had a bunch of fun painting up the figures. I took a 4'x8' plywood sheet that we had in the garage and painted a square grid on it. I made a bunch of terrain like clusters of trees, a bridge made of popsicle sticks, blue craft paper cut into river sections, hills made of that crappy styrofoam that sheds tiny balls everywhere all the time, small structures, etc... My friend from down the street and I spent weeks writing in spiral notebook making up all the rules and how the mutants powers worked in our game. It was a lot of fun but I don't have any of that stuff anymore.
Uncle Ben’s show and tell. Basically, every time my uncle Ben would come over on Sunday, he’d play a game where we would all show each other different things in front of a camera. He always said he liked to take pictures for his higher ups at the church, as they thought it was cute. Usually we would show things like action figures or a new video game on our game boys. Uncle Ben always showed weird stuff though. He would have snakes and sock puppets that he kept in his shorts. It was always fun to slap it cause Uncle Ben would always make a funny noise. The one time though, the snake peed on us a little and it got stuck in my brothers hair. I always tease my little bro about that. Was my favorite game as a kid
Me and my friends would pour about 6 dozen golf balls on the trampoline and then bounce/ roll dodge out of the way of the encroaching balls. If you got hit 3 times you were out till the next round.
Big machines always fascinated me as a kid. The cranes and bulldozers you see as a kid and how monstrous they were. Well the garbage truck was the only one we saw from home and we would get up to watch it in the morning (my brother and i) because it made all of those rumble sounds. Then my sister and dad would play "garbage truck" where they would pick us upside down and wave us up and down like the garbage truck would with the cans while yelling "garbage truck!!!!"
Amazing the stupid stuff you can do to keep kids entertained. I did this to elemntary school kids as a high school counselor which was me just tossing kids in the snow as they tried to all swarm me.
We had a game called "throw and defend" that me, my sisters and my cousins would play.
Two teams of about three had to hide behind makeshift walls (couches, boxes, pillows and upturned mattresses) and throw (soft) balls at each other. Everyone had three lives (except the youngest, who got five).
You could catch balls from the air to save yourself AND regenerate one heart AND revive a dead party member (you had to sit out if you died, but usually only for a minute or two, and you're cheering for your team members to make a catch, so it was still pretty fun).
The walls were designed to eventually fall over as the game went on so you'd have to be careful with taking cover and try to knock your opponent's wall over with the balls.
If a ball landed in the middle, you could run out and grab them, but you weren't allowed to throw any balls unless you were back in your base (which meant you had to be sure your team had all the balls, or be quick/good at catching).
Not all of the balls were the same, so you learned how to throw and dodge them and how to coordinate with your team (three balls are harder to dodge than one).
It was always heaps of fun when they were over and we'd come back to the adults completely red in the face from all the exercise. SO much fun and I'd still recommend it today.
tl;dr: dodge-ball with health, cover, and other dumb stipulations designed to make it more fun/team oriented
The game is one versus one, both players play from their knees, each in front of their goal in a room. players are about 7 feet from each other, the goals are similar to the size of hockey goals. The ball being used is a 5 inch semi soft ball – think a dog’s chew toy. You aren’t allowed to pick the ball up but you can smack it or punch it. Typically the goals for us would be a couch, or some other furniture. If it hits the goal then you score a point. It’s a quick reaction game where you’re basically the goalie and the offense at the same time.
I went to a Christian summer camp as a kid and we played a game called smugglers. We would play it at sundown so it was harder to see. The goal was to get from one end of the camp with a Bible verse to the other without getting caught by counselors who would "shoot us" with water guns if we got caught. It was one of those campers vs. counselors games. I have memories of sprinting across the camp to leaving other campers to get caught so I could score more points. Kids would bring special clothes to wear so you couldn't see them as easily. It didn't hit me how morbid this game was until later I realized it's about missionaries smuggling Bibles communist countries and killing them if they got caught.
In our living room we had a big carpet runner, and one night we sat with dad with golf balls and a putter to see who could putt closest to the edge before it rolled off.
My brother got within half an inch from rolling off and Dad exclaimed “oh bullshit wank!”
From that day on, Bullshit Wank had been invented.
Around 6 or 7 years ago, I lived in a place where I ter et was rare my dude. So me and my brother had to find awkward ways to have fun. We made up a “game” called “kick the fan” or something. It consisted of us kicking a fan back and forward until it tipped over. We would sit on a table and just kick it. Some extra info was the fact that one day we kicked it hard enough for it to go back, hit my brothers nose, and break. The fan wasn’t the only thing that broke. My brothers nose was pretty bad after that.
Me and a friend would play live-action club penguin in her front yard, because she wasn’t allowed on the computer. One of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever done. Very fun at the time
My sister and I would play “sock pull”. You crawl around on the floor trying to get each other’s socks off. The rule was you had to stay on hands and knees while doing it. It got rowdy and usually tables would get bumped and my mom would yell.
I used to hang out with some shitty kids in my shitty hometown that made a game of throwing toads as hard as they could against road signs. It was horrifying.
Also used to use a qwerty keyboard in my head to type things out and had a goal of making both the left hand and right hand letters be even for each sentence (manipulating spaces and punctuation, and sometimes capitalization to achieve that.) Since been tested for OCD, might have it. I still do that when I’m nervous. But in 5th grade I had a wpm count of 90!
As a teenager I would play "why that person is cool" while driving around in the car with my good friend. The game is started by finding a pedisterian and asking your friend "Hey (So and so), do you know why that person is cool? The response may be a yes or no, but an explanation of the pedestrian's coolness must be provided.
My dad wrote a short column in a newspaper once about parenting, and he mentioned two classics: "Look where else my Dora stickers stick!" and "Jump on the chair until the springs break out!"
Knock-Knock-Knock.
It was a simple game, but the memory of it gives me the willies. I participated in this game between (roughly) the ages of 2 and 4.
So how it would start is this : Mommy would have to be sleeping. Dad would have to be out. I would have to be alone in the office. In the wall between the office closet and the doorway would come three loud knocks. I would waddle over and also knock three times. Sometimes me and the man in the wall would take turns doing this several times, sometimes just once. The game was pretty much over when he seemed to lose interest.
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Kill the space alien. One person was the astronaut and would defend the bed, the other person would be the alien and assault the bed. I was like 4 or 5, and remembering back on it it was very creepy in a sexual way. I have honestly no idea why, but it got weird.
We played the “Stinky Jake Schmidt” game. We had a patch of dirt and we built roads and houses and used our toy cars to drive from one house to another. But we all avoided “Stinky Jake Schmidt’s” house. We created them to be the most unpleasant folks!
Best part is my brother married a girl whose dad’s name is....Jake SCHMIDT!
As kids, we'd play "Wall Ball"...several kids got together and threw a bouncy ball (tennis balls worked great) to a large wall and when it bounced back someone had to catch it...if the kid caught it, they threw it again to the wall, if they touched it and didn't catch it, the kid would have to immediately run to the wall and touch before someone else picked up the ball and hit him/her. Great fun!!
My sister and I would walk around the house holding hand mirrors showing the reflection of the ceiling and pretend to be walking on the ceiling and create obstacle courses we had to maneuver through.
Also me, my sister, and all of our cousins used to play "popcicle". We would all swim to the dock in the middle of the lake with a popcicle stick and one person would dive as deep as they could and let go of the popcicle stick and when it floated to the top and you saw it you tried to be the first to jump in and catch it.
Another one was an ongoing game we played with all of our friends. It was called "blow darts". If you made eye contact with one of the other players you would pretend to shoot a blow dart at them and wherever you were, if you got hit, then you had to drop to the ground. Another player would have to come help you back up.
I grew up in a pretty remote area, so there weren’t many other kids around. I loved baseball. My stucco house featured exterior walls with the bottom three feet or so covered with river rocks in cement.
I would pitch baseballs at the rock wall, and they would bounce back at random angles. I created entire major league games in my mind with imaginary runners and fielders, with outcomes depending on the “hits” generated by the rebounds off the rock wall and my ability to field them.
And that’s part of the reason I’m so weird today, LOL.
Oodahn · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm only 17, but I was raised on the older gen consoles. I don't exactly remember what it was called, but I played a home alone game (the cartridge was comprised of the classic aftershave scene) for the Super Nintendo. It's like a faint memory of mine, and I remember being scared of it for some reason.
In addition to that, I played a game on an original Nintendo 64 that I also dont know the name of. It was basically some motorcycles, along with some techno music, racing down what seemed to be a "futuristic" track.
I wish I remembered their names.
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When I was young my cousins and I always played this game called “ball run”. 1 person on the the second floor by the stairs looking down. 1 person would run from the door and try to dodge the person at the top of the stairs throwing the ball at the person running. 3 lives each and person to have the most at the end wins. Cool and fun game I guess. We had tons of fun
We played a game called "beer bottom". My neighbor and I would climb as high up as we could and fall straight onto our butts. Whoever did it the highest and the best won. I have no idea how we came up with it or how we came up with the name, but we played that game for a long time. We've since reminisced about how stupid we were
My mom used to play this game with us when we were really little. She would call the four of us into the kitchen where she’d be sitting at the table. She’d start complaining about not feeling good. She’d then convulse a bit and dramatically lose consciousness and fall to the floor. She’d play dead for a couple of minutes (while we were all freaking out and almost crying). Then she’d suddenly “wake up”, except now she was a black women named Aunt Jemima. Aunt Jemima would gather us up close to her and tell us, “Yo Mammy’s gone children. She’s gone to that big blue heaven in the sky, and she ain’t never coming back. I’m your Mammy now! She’s dead and she ain’t never coming back” Aunt Jemima was warm and friendly, but brutally honest about our Mom being dead and never coming back. Then my mom would convulse and fall back unconscious on to the floor again. Couple of minutes later she would wake back up, “Oh my! What just happened? Are you kids alright?” We’d all be like, “Mom! You totally missed it! You died and went to Heaven! And Aunt Jemima came into your body and told us you were never coming back! Then she died and then you came back! You missed Aunt Jemima Mom! While you were dead, she took care of us!”
WTF Mom. So messed up, but very strangely hilarious.
We played “Halloweentown” (nothing to do with the movie). We came up with random, spooky creatures like “Unipire” (a unicorn and a vampire). And then we just ran around the yard acting spooky and shit.
Four wheeler tag. Where unsupervised 10 year old kids would drive around in the woods and tag each other at high speeds on four wheelers.. crazy how none of us got killed
Teddy snot-nose. I had a stuffed bear where the string on his nose unravelled slightly, making it look like snot. My dad would ravel the string up, make him talk “I’m not feeling so well beaniver” and I’d run away as my dad proceed to make him sneeze the string/booger at me.
My friends and I would play Maul Ball. One person would pick up a piece of litter and everyone would try to tackle and kick the shit out of the the person running with the litter until they physically couldn't hold onto it anymore. There were no winners and the school made us stop playing when one kid got tackled on pavement and split his head open.
"Robots!" It was kind of a mix of tag, hide-and-go-seek, and... I don't know what. Charades?
Basically, one person is "It." "It" is a fearsome dragon with a vast castle decorated with lots of magic statues, that act like robots when activated. The other players are trying to hide from the dragon by freezing in place like one of the statues. You can move when out of sight of the dragon (we always played around the outside of a house or small building. Handy corners to duck around). If the dragon sees you moving, you run. If they tag you, you're captured, but if you get out of sight, you can try freezing again. The dragon can investigate a suspicious statue by poking it, at which point to player pretends to "activate" by acting like a robot. If the dragon is satisfied after a poke or two, it moves on. If the player breaks character or isn't convincing enough with their robotness to allay suspicion (open to interpretation, we tried to be fair about it :p), they're captured.
Captured players are brought back to the dragon's main lair, and the dragon promptly goes to sleep (closing their eyes), dreaming happy dreams of their future snack. Now it's up to the other players to organize a rescue party. If you can touch the dragon's neck (the key to the cage is on a chain around the dragon's neck, obv) without getting tagged by the dragon, you can run to the cage to release the captured player. The dragon wakes up when the key is taken, trying to catch pretty much anyone they can in the chaos. If the captured player wasn't successfully released, the angry dragon eats them and they're out.
It was pretty much endless. There was a theoretical win condition for the dragon if they managed to catch everyone, but in practice we reset every few captures and switched to a new dragon, because we just liked pretending to be robots and making daring escapes from dragons. And making people pretend to be robots, and catching and eating them. :p
I know I'm super late to the party and prolly no one is going to read this, but it was fun to remember. Thanks OP. :)
"Fan Dart" My brother and I used to play this game in the summers when he came home from college. We'd get nerf guns and shoot the darts at a cieling fan trying to get the fan to slap our darts away. Whoever got their dart flung the furthest won, and when we got really good at it, we would come up with targets or areas that we had to hit. It was so simple but so fun and very special to me since I only saw him a couple months out of the year.
dshars · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skeleton tag. We had this rubber skeleton that was like a foot big. Whoever had the skeleton would be "it" and if you got tagged you died and left the game. We would play in between two trees and touching one of the trees made you safe.
The last person not tagged wins. Then everybody goes in the middle and the person that was it throws the skeleton as high up as they could. Whoever caught it was it next.
Played this game for hours. Had the whole neighborhood playing
Nemesis. Like cops and robbers but zombie style. One person would hide as the nemesis and everyone had to find him them run. I lived in a row home so the rule was you had to be someone on the blocks property, front and back yards only. If he caught you, you were a zombie. I used to hide in all of my grandfather's cars because he had like 5. Someone else climbed like 30 ft in a tree before.
In my cul-de-sac, we would play “Hide and Go Seek Base Tag.” Basically, one person would be it and everyone else would hide. If you were hiding, you would try to get to the base (the manhole cover in the middle of the cul de sac) and say “1-2-3 not it!” and if you were It, you would try to find someone, then run to the base before them and say “1-2-3 [name of found person]!” If you were the first person out, you’d be It the next round unless the last person in the round got to the base safely and said “1-2-3 Free for All!”
I remember once when we were playing my friend Luan got to the base safely, but never actually said “1-2-3 Luan!” The guy who was It just assumed Luan had declared himself safe when the It Guy was away from base. At the end of the round, the It Guy got the last person out, but then Luan preceded to step on the base and say “1-2-3 Free for All!” Meaning the It Guy had to be It for another round.
In retrospect, it would have been really easy to exploit a lot of our games we played in the cul de sac if you were willing to lie about it, but for some reason, lying was never really a problem. I guess we just never really considered it. Funny how kids internalize things sometimes.
Flashlight tag. We played when it was dark outside. One person has a flashlight (as powerful as possible), everyone else is empty handed, and they have to catch the flashlight bearer, who avoids being caught by blinding his/her pursuers. Whoever caught the flashlight bearer took his/her place. We perfected some corrida moves after a while, baiting someone by holding the flashlight away from our bodies and snatching it back at the last second. People got hurt running into each others. Good times.
We made “Ant Land”. We would make a little village for ants out of sand, leaves and rocks. We’d float them out to islands on the leaves and make them “houses”. Poor ants. We’d do this for hours, I wonder what they thought. I watched “honey I shrunk the kids” recently with my 7 year old and it all came back to me!
Vacuum cleaner. The old plastic tubing jump ropes. I’d be the “vacuum” my brother would clean the corners of the house. I wasn’t the brightest child, I can see now. 😑
My friend and I would play zombie in his basement all the time in like 4th or 5th grade. He had tons of nerf guns that he and his dad would spray paint silver and gold or cover in black electrical tape to look really cool, or he'd attach random bike or machine parts to them. He would come up with super cool stories about zombie apocalypse survivors (it was that age where zombies are the shit) and play multiple characters, and we'd make forts out of the furniture in the basement. It got pretty intense; I got pretty good at making gunfire noises and my friend was really good at zombie screams and looking like he was getting shot. We'd fake loosing limbs or being injured, and sometimes we'd turn out the lights and pretend we were finding clues to a cure and stuff. Other times we'd play russian roulette with the one nerf gun that had a spinning chamber or stick tacks into the nerf bullets and fire them at targets.
We used to play one we called "Turkey Wars". My little brother and I played it for years, before introducing it to some classmates. Once we built the new house and moved out of the trailer. The trailer you could think of as a map. Pretty much you'd have a group of people over (middle school/High school) Split into two teams. Wrap our individual self in a blanket/sleeping bag whatever you brought. Have a glow stick around your neck (the kind with the little plastic end that can connect and make a loop) also there where some coiled glow sticks at each and of the trailer, these where the respective teams "flags". If you got the glow stick ripped off around your neck you had to go back to your base to put it on. So basically bash/smash/crawl your way though the opposing team to get their flag to your base you get a point. People were sent through walls closets whatever. Many were injured it was great fun! P.S. only played at night, stealth was as good as brute force sometimes. So yeah pitch black other than the glow sticks.
In my Highschool Theater class we played a game called Zombie on the days we had the auditorium to ourselves.
Everyone would spread out and find places to "play dead" or just sit still basically. One person went around to each of the "dead" players and attempted to get them to react in any way to them, but without touching the other person. Once you reacted whether it was a look on your face or a noise, you were part of the horde.
I won a few times because no one really figured out my humor. But I was pretty good at getting the weak-links first and snowballing the rest of the class if I was patient zero.
My mom used to play a game called "Bombs Away" with my brothers and I, where she would stand, with a basket of clean laundry, at the top of the stairs and throw pieces of clothing at me and my brothers at the bottom. We'd start with bigger shirts and move down to socks, which can, if thrown with good form, absolutely nail a child at 15 feet away.
There’s this game my father taught me years ago. It’s called Switch, and the premise of the game is you take one finger, put it in your mouth; the other one goes up your asshole and when he says “Go!” you switch.
As a youth I made a giant paper football that I brought to church and we would play a large scale version of tabletop football. If you slid the football into the final three floor tiles of the opposing side of the fellowship hall you got a touchdown. Extra points were actually kicked through the kitchen counter opening.
I made schedules lasting almost the entire NFL season culminating in a playoff and Superbowl.
Winner took home a giant golden paper football. I think it lasted for two and a half seasons before my parents left the church because the pastor was having an affair.
When I was about 5 or 6 I became obsessed with measuring tapes and would go around the house measuring the furniture, rugs, etc. I made my mom follow me and write the measurements in a notebook.
Round the table pong, it’s just ping pong with the net taken down and the players standing around the sides of the table. The object of the game is to keep the pong ball in play on the table, but no one is allowed to use a ping pong paddle. Objects found in the basement only and no shoes.
Okay hear me out. My sister and cousin and I would play “lost kids.” We would pretend we were on a plane crash and had to survive and this would go on all summer. We were so young, never seen Lost before. After watching it when I got older, it was the same concept. Crazy.
My sister and I would take a hackey sack with us into the car whenever our parents brought us somewhere. We had to take turns throwing the hackey sack into one of the storage compartments in the other person's door or inside the recess where the handle is. The smaller the hole, the more points it was worth.
Big snowy - burry someone under pillows then act like your on a hike and walk past a “mountain” then it comes alive and you chase the people
Arround till you catch one of you are the big snowy.
'Devil's Triangle' was a drinking game we came up with in high school. It was a variation on the game 'Quarters.' When we played 'Devil's Triangle,' four people sat at a table. On the table, three small glasses of beer were arranged next to one another to form a triangle. Each of the four participants took turns being the 'shooter.' The shooter attempted to bounce a quarter into one of the glasses. If the quarter landed in one of the glasses, the person at the table sitting nearest that glass had to drink the beer. We do not remember the exact origin of the name, but none of us used the phrase 'Devil's Triangle' in our yearbook to refer to any kind of sexual activity. To us it was just a game with glasses in the shape of a triangle. If the phrase 'Devil's Triangle' had any sexual meaning in the early 1980s, we did not know it.
We played "Hide from Cars" as kids. It was a simple game we played after dark. Everyone would stand near the road, or sometimes in the middle of the road, and then as soon as we could see the headlights of a car approaching, we'd run and hide as fast as possible so as not to be seen by the driver. Most of the time we'd jump into bushes or scurry behind trees. There was never any way to know if the driver noticed us unless they honked or stopped the car (almost never happened) so there wasn't a score to keep. It was just fun to play and gave a thrill.
Back in highschool me and my friends who all sat at the same group of tables would scribble on paper and then trade papers and try to turn the scribble into art.
I could probably do that shit for days and never get bored
Don’t Touch The Pole. We stood in a circle holding hands around a pole in the playground. We’d slowly rotate chanting “don’t touch the pole” with a very specific inflection that is engrained in my memory. Anyone who touched the pole was out and the circle got smaller and smaller until there was a final winner.
Sardines! It was like reverse hide’n’seek I suppose. One person would hide while all the others would count and then seek. If you found the person, you hid with them. Then the next person to find you both would hide with you. This would continue on until everyone was hiding together except for one person still left seeking. At this point, the group yells out “Sardines!” (as your all hiding together and packed in like sardines), notifying the remaining seeker they lost. This remaining seeker would then be in for the next round. A top game! Can’t wait to teach it to my nieces!
Flush down the toilet. My sister and I were turds and my aunt, who used to babysit us, was the “flusher”. We’d get flushed into the basement and then experience the amazing journey of feces through the sewage system.
So The Little Mermaid was my favorite movie as a child. I grew up with one younger brother and two younger cousins. We had a "game room" with pretty slick linoleum floors. I don't think this 'game' had any rules really or an objective now that I think about it, BUT we would put pillow cases on our legs and be mermaids and swim/slither around . At some point, 'we got legs' and got to go into the adjacent living room to explore the land.
Me and my sister played a game with my grandpa called Push Down. The idea was that we'd try to stand up, and he try to push us down, like whack a mole kind of.
It was the sort of game you'd think the kid would outgrow first, but I recall a point when it started to get too physically strenuous for my grandpa, which was kind of a tough realization about aging for me as a kid.
Me and 3 other guys would patrol our neighborhood with unloaded nerf guns and protect everyone from the outsiders. We would pretend to shoot every car, moving truck, mail truck, or whatever that came through our street that wasn't one of our neighbor's cars. We all had codenames, and better yet, distinct hand signals for what kind of car/truck was coming around the corner.
Each of our backyards and driveways was a different base and we'd switch bases as the day went on.
After watching a Navy seal documentary, we decided that we were gonna dress up in all of our green clothing (our camo outfits) and try not to be seen while we played the game.
Note we used specifically unloaded nerf guns because one time my dumb ass thought it would be fun to actually shoot the cars.
I got grounded.
Played from 5-12 years old or something.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
every christmas, my brothers would roll me around in the christmas tree box. i got a nosebleed once. we kept doing it.
My brother and I would play the “kicking game” on the trampoline. You just jump around and kick each other anywhere but the head lol. The rules were that if you got actually mad you lost and if you ran away you lost. Trailer park things
As a kid (actually I recently played it as a 20 year old) my siblings and I used to play a game with our friends called murder in the dark.
We used to turn off all the lights in the house and then one person would go and count in the pantry. Everyone else would hide and the seeker would have to find them without any lights. You just had to go with the feel of it.
We ended up having to put in a new rule of no scaring the seeker because we broke one of my mothers picture frames and my little sister ended up becoming scared of the dark for a while because we scared her shitless.
There was a creek that ran through our block in the town I grew up in. On one side of the creek, on the upper slope above the creek a path had formed running along with the water. Around it on both sides of the path was Japanese Knotweed, which looks like Bamboo to a ten yr old.
Japanese Knotweed is an invasive species and, well, a weed. So it grew thick. And it was the best place to play Predator with the other kids in the neighborhood. Mostly it was us kids as soldiers with toy guns and sticks as guns in the “bamboo” hunting for the Predator.
My neighbor and I would set off a bunch of smoke bombs outside and call it “the smog of time.” When we walked through the smoke, we would pretend we were in a different time period (usually with dinosaurs) until it cleared or we walked back through.
Everyone starts at the bottom steps. One person is holding a button and you take turns guessing who has the button. If you get it right you move up a step. First one to the top wins.
My two brothers and I, used to take a construction grade trash bag and fill it with dirt, rocks, corn husks, basically anything heavy. We'd fill the bag about 1/4 full and tie a knot at the top so you could spin it around over your head and throw it really well. We then would get on our bikes and race to the bag, wherever we decided to place whoever got the bag wouldn't then try to chase the others down and hit them off their bike with the bag by either throwing or hitting. If your threw it, it became a race to the bag again to see who could get the"bag weapon" lol and basically repeat the process. It was the funnest game ever even if it was super dangerous and violent.
Apparently as a very young child, early in my speaking days, I once pointed at some Christmas lights and proclaimed "my lights!" This turned into a car game I would play with my parents where we tried to "claim" the most Christmas lights during however long the car ride lasted. I always won because I never drove and that makes it a lot easier to count lights at the end of the block!
At recess in elementary (in the 70’s), we had no play ground equipment, but our school district wasn’t deterred. In their great wisdom, they deposited old used tires all around the playground. So we would race car tires from one end of the playground to the other. And when we got *tired, we would play with the sludge that was always found inside the tire.
My cousins and I used to play a made up game called "Goat"
Basically we would sneak behind the other person, get as close as possible and make goat noises before biting their hair off of their head. We were little shits to each other.
Another one was called "butt stairway race"
I think that one explains itself.
Dirt Clod wars. We would form two teams, collect up a bunch of dirt clods, and throw them at each other. No points, and the game would usually end when someone would get hit with a dirt clod that had a rock in it, resulting in some bleeding...
Spotting letters of the alphabet on license plates- in alphabetical order- and pointing them out. Whoever got to Z first won. Or seeing how many different state's plates we could spot.
And my grandmother knitted- when some Schenectady got tangled up, she would give it to me. I could sit for hours just untangling the stuff and rolling it up into a ball for her.
My best friend and I made bows and arrows out of k’nex and giant strong rubber bands. We built pillow forts on either side of the room and fired the k’nex arrows at each other. The sheer speed at which those fired was DEFINITELY NOT SAFE and it’s a miracle I didn’t lose an eye. I definitely recall hearing them whizz past my ear. My childhood room still has indentations in the wall from the arrows.
Lots of stupid weird games as a kid, due to having 3 siblings and parents struggling to make ends meet (hey, late 70's/early 80's family planning at its best).
The floor is lava game of course, jumping around on all the furniture and annoying our mom.
'Sandwich' as we called it, where we would grab our pillows from our beds, than have one person lay on the floor and lay their pillow on top of them like a bread slice, then the next person would lay on top of that pillow, put their pillow on top of themselves, and so on, as we tried to get all 4 of us and our pillows to balance into a human tower.
Our back yard wasn't huge, but also wasn't tiny and it had several large silver maples that would drop tons of leaves. We would rake maze paths in the leaves and run around on them-calling out any cheaters that jumped over the leaves instead of sticking to the paths.
A few times in the winter my brother and his friends would build a berm of snow across the road near our driveway, then hide behind the snowbanks from the plows waiting for cars to come along and slow down to drive over the snow berm in the road. As the cars slowed down they would jump up and pelt the hell out of the cars with snowballs. One guy got so pissed he jumped out of his car and chased my brother and his friend into our back yard, but they ducked into a hole in the snow and hid under the deck.
Similarly, a middle school friend and I would climb a spruce tree by her house after school (a good 25 ft up) and then pull cones off and huck them at the later school buses that came by--extra points if you got the cones to go in the windows and smack people...especially if the were the hard sticky cones that hadn't opened up yet.
Probably one of the oddest but funniest stupid kid games we played was called 'Popple-mobile'. My younger sister, who I had to share a room with, loved dolls. I despised dolls (still do). My younger brother was always game to trash her dolls, being a boy. Younger sister had a small kids play stroller, the kind that collapses really easily. She also had one of those annoying stuffed animals (this is the later 80's) called a Popple. My brother and I would strap that stupid Popple into the stroller, then put its 'helmet' on (was my dad's sports/athletic cup...didn't know what it was at the time...so gross now) and then ram that damn stuffed animal in that stroller into the support pole in the middle of our basement like a crash test dummy. Main goal was to get the stroller to collapse on itself and the Popple by hitting the pole with enough force. Ahhh...the fun of being a stupid little kid capable of entertaining yourself!
My gramma's house had a laundry chute so either I or my sisters would stand in the basement under the opening of the chute while someone else dumped an entire basket of laundry on them. Not really a game with a winner (guess that makes us losers?! Lol), just stupid stuff we did as kids.
My cousin and I developed a game on a trampoline in the style of baseball. The point was to throw a soccer ball as high in the air for the other to catch it. Both players must maintain a constant bouncing motion (ie can't be stationary when throwing or catching). If you throw and the other successfully catches it, that's an out. If they miss, its a single. If you throw too low (like you can't just spike the ball on the mat), its an out. If you throw and the ball lands on the ground and never hits the surface of the trampoline without interference, that's an out. Yes, we chucked the ball as high as we could throw it. Yes double-bouncing your opponent wasn't against the rules, but was a necessary strategy. Yes, we would severely strain our necks trying to watch the ball go into the sun while trying to maintain a bounce and position yourself for a catch. ... I can't believe neither of us are in wheelchairs! And this was before those protective nets really became popular!
Mine was called “Chew up the interior of mom’s car.” This was before I knew I could bite my finger nails. I would just sit in the back seat of her car and gnaw on the soft side panels while she drove around. She had to replace those entire side panels multiple times. Wish I had photos.
I'm 15 but When i was 9 I dumped out all of my legos to get all of the cool pieces. My sister also got some cool pieces so we traded them around. It evolved into us building "trader posts" and split the big lego pile in half to make a pathway from one trading post to another. We both called out traders Joe, so naturally the game had to be called "Trader Joes." My other suster got involved the next summer after that and the gameinvolved into a lego roleplay game with lego currency and a trading market. I build the best house and tradung post for my Joe
I’ll be honest, I don’t know how unique it is, but we played kick the can. We’d put white chalk down in a 50 ft circle, and put a coffee canister in the middle. The guard can’t puppydog the inside of the circle, and had to tag people out. If he/she tagged you, you were in jail, if you kicked the can, you were the new guard and everyone broke out of jail, if you tagged everyone as a guard, you won
My brother and I would chase each other around the house shooting “Lays Stax” lids at each other by squeezing the bottle. They went about a foot when launched at max power, so it inevitably was whoever could load/dodge better.
mta8 · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I as a child used to send those little bouncy balls like hell into the floor to bounce it back on the wall and then to me, so I could jump like a goalkeeper to try to catch it before it hits the piece of furniture behind me. My mom hated since she had glass pieces ontop of this furniture... I broke a few until she hid them from the little balls.
My brother and I shared a bedroom and would play a game we called "Avalanche". We had a bunk bed that was kitty cornered and one person would climb down into the gap, while the other would throw a bunch of shit (pillows, bedding, toys etc) on top of them from the top bunk, "burying" them. If they yelled "help" you had to dig them out to save them. I remember it being a lot of fun but also definitely remember almost suffocating once or twice lol
Me and my friends would run around school during recess and basically play an RPG. All our classmates were evil villains and we came up with names for all of them. All of them had certain powers.
One of my friends would be the narrator(what we now realise would technically be a dungeon master). The rest of us would have powers like one guy being a werewolf and one being a cyborg. We would just run around school pretending to fight the villains and save everyone. Also we did this till like 8th grade. Aah well it was fun.
"Egg" is played in the water, usually a swimming pool. Player 1 cradles player 2 in their arms. Player 1 thinks of a color. Player 2 must guess this color. If player 2 (the egg?) guesses wrong they are dunked in the water by player 1. This continues until player 2 guesses correctly and player 1 throws player 2 out of their arms. Player 2 (winner?) is now the dunker.
My sister, cousin and I would play what we called “Lemon Ball” where we would essentially play “keep it up” with a lemon peel left over from the kitchen. So we would basically just bat around a lemon peel.
I lived with my cousins, so we were like 5 people.
We played a game called 'ice and water'. We split into teams 2 ice and 3 water. The water team would run and the ice would chase them. Team ice had to touch the body of the water players and yell "freeze". That water player would then turn into ice and then would play against water.
It was such a fun game to play especially when 2 water players were freezed and all 4 ran towards 1 water player, goood ol' days
My sisters and I would play a game where we called dibs on houses. Idk when it started or who started it. But we’d be driving and “call” houses. I am the oldest so I got dibs on literally any house, even if they called it first. I always shared, but they were mine. And they knew it.
I knew that tactic wouldn’t last many years so I took advantage while I could and did my best to rule with mercy.
XECS78 · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My youngest brother as a toddler would always want to play “Itch Tigers” any time we would drive in the car. For the longest time we had NO IDEA what Itch Tigers was supposed to be but it basically involved shouting out “One itch tiger! Three itch tiger!” And so on, just taking turns. Whatever, kids do weird things.
Eventually we realized that he was actually meaning to say “hitchhikers” because we used to count how many hitchhikers there were on our way to the cabin every weekend in the summer since before he was born.
When I was in first grade, my friends and I were in an after school program. The after school program would give students time to finish their homework with the help of teachers who would stay after school ended. At this after school program, they had this book of school/after program rules. My friends and I would get bored very often after finishing homework, so we would break as many as we could without getting in trouble. This ended up being a very bad idea as I ended up getting suspended. Oops.
Animal Alliteration Attack. Came up with it in high school with church camp friends. Take an animal and a verb that start with the same letter and perform the action in a turn based combat formula until someone runs out of creativity. Ie. Bear Bite, Salamander Slap, Tiger Tickles. I still play it in my head pass the time
pictochat hide-and-seek! a group of like 4 of us would take our nintendo ds systems out in the neighborhood and hide with them and taunt whoever was "it" when they came close enough in range for each others ds systems to connect wirelessly. also gave us something to do when hiding because normal hide and seek has long quiet lulls when you know the good spots
We played a game every time we drove through this nowhere community on our way to somewhere else. The community was known for being small, pretty, and full of old people, so we'd take bets on how many people we would see outside while driving through this community. I once had a whole bus get in on ot, and it got wild.
When I was very young, we used to take the yellow dishwashing gloves and put them on our feet and pretend to be scuba divers. I swear I'm normal now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a very imaginitive child. I'd stage wars with coloured BB pellets, for example.
The main one that sticks out is on long car trips, on the motorway. The entire trip, normally hours, I would picture this guy running alongside the car, ducking barriers and fences and stuff. If he hit an orange phonebox, he could make a gun, shoot cars, just keep improving until we arrived.
I'd be lying if I said I don't partially do this now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super hugs each time we pick up trash or clothes we get a super hug (tighter hug) from my Dad
Back in grade school my buddy and I would swipe every pillow, couch cushion, and pillow around his house and make a giant wall at the top of his stairway. One of us would be at the bottom and the other at the top. Then one of us at the top would then push all the pillows down the stairs to try to stop the other from getting to the top. We called it “Avalanche” and it was the best. His mom hated it though lol
my brother and i used to throw ice cubes on the porch as hard as we could to see them explode. for some unknown reason we called this game “smashing grannies”
My sister, her best friend and I would go summer sledding down the big hill in our backyard over summer breaks. Obviously there was no snow since this was during the hottest months of the year. Basically how this worked is we would take a round sled, put a sheet over it, then one person would sit on the sheet on the sled and hang on the sides. The other two would hold the ends of the sheet on either side and run down the hill. Most of the time you would get pulled off the sled and get dragged down the hill inside the sheet, but it was super fun! Also resulted in many grass stained clothes.
I would accidentally tap my foot in the car and to even it out I would tap the other foot in a specific combination of pressure and time so that they felt the same
One was a car game and we would go through the alphabet A-Z in order finding things that we would drive by looking for the letter we were “on” on things like car stickers or road signs. Fun way to pass time and get really excited after finally finding the “Q” you’ve been looking for
I'm fifth and sixth grade, everyone played "zap". You write zap in big letters on the back of someone else's hand and a time (typically the time school got out). Then on the palm you'd write an action and someone else's name (ask out Jessica, kiss Carl, hold hands with Ben, high five Mary, slap Luke). If they looked at their palm before the time written on the back of the hand, they had to do it.
My best friend and I would "draw maps" of our bus ride home. But really all we did was hold a pencil to a sheet of paper and let all the bumps in the road and turns guide the pencil. I remember my mom trying to act like she understood
My sister and I would “draw” something on the back of the other and we’d have to guess what it was. We got 3 attempts before we lost our turn. We always seemed to play it whenever we were on vacation somewhere and we couldn’t fall asleep. It was pretty cute :)
We never had a name for it, but my two brothers and I used to play a game on our trampoline where we'd all jump in sync three times counting out loud, and on the third jump we'd all have to land in a sitting pose. This almost always resulted in one of us getting "double bounced", which sent them flying, arms and legs flailing. We would play this for hours and it never seemed to get old.
When me my little sister and brother were young and violent we played this specific game. I don’t think it ever had a name to it though. Okay so here it goes..
We had a bunch of broken garden hoe handles and rakes and no cartoons after 10am. What we would do is draw a circle around ourselves and “claim “ that land. Whoever touches the inside of your circle with their own stick won it. If you leave your circle you could attack someone but it left your circle wide open. That was the supposed rules but really we made a bunch of circles in the dirt and beat each other with sticks.
There was this one game that I wish to Zeus I remembered the title. And basically you were starring in/filming a movie and you have to go through different scenes/levels and occasionally you would finish a scene and get to rewatch (and possibly redo it for the scene’s sake??).
I’ve witnessed newer games kinda like this, but I just can’t remember the name so if anyone knows about this game, you should let me know PLEASE & thank u. :))
Me and my brother had a game called “stick ball” one of us had a stick the other had a ball. There was a small hill in our yard so The person with the stick would be on top of the hill and the person with the ball would be on the bottom next to a fence throwing the ball at the person with the stick, if the person with the stick missed the ball he gets a strike, three strikes he’s out, if the person with the ball threw it lazily, the person with the stick gets an extra turn. The person with the ball had to catch the ball after the person with the stick hit it, if the person trying to catch the ball fails to catch it and it goes over the fence, the person with the stick gets a point.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Superball. We would just throw balls and do thinks related to sports. Everyone got a $1 rubber ball from Winco and for instance if you wanted to claim the powers of Michael Jordan, you scream SUPERBALL BASKETBALL! and fucking dunk on them. My favorite was Superball Shot Put in which you yeeeeet the whole shit right into their face from as long a distance you can. The farther that you land a hit, the more of a fukin legend you are
For Christmas my grandparents used to take hundred feet + string and pin it somewhere in the house. We’d go all night not noticing the string leading up to opening presents because they had it tucked against the wall so it’d blend in with the white paint.
Then we’d have to track the string through the house sometimes outside to the garage to find where they hid our presents.
When I used to be in 3rd to 5th Grade, our school had both a state map and a world map on the playground, and basically every day we played this game called “State Tag” where the person who was it would call a state, and everyone would run and stand on it, it was basically tag but the tagger got to choose what the next safe spot would be.
My parents would build a tower and then sing, "Build a tower knock it down! Knock it down! Knock it down! Knock it down! Build a tower knock it down! My fair [the name of whoever was playing it]!" (To the tune of London Bridges falling down) Then whoever was playing it would proceed to knock it down.
In case you were wondering, yes, this was post-9/11, so it was probably not well thought out by my parents
We called it “bread”
We would take my couch cushions out (shaped like slices of bread) and use them as giant two handed weapons. What ever part of your body you were hit in you would no longer be able to use. Thought I was so inventive with that, never heard of larp at that age
My friends and I used to play a game called 'stuff by Hilary Duff', we put a trampoline in front of a basketball hoop. Everyone is circled around the trampoline trying to score while one person on the trampoline is denying everyone while yelling "STUFF BY DUFF"
Not as a child but as a teenager me and three friends would go to the racket ball court at the University. These courts were underground and had a wooden door with a small window. When you turn the light off and block the window with a coat or sweatshirt it would be pitch black inside.
We would take a pair of boxing gloves and each get one. Then we would roam around in the dark and swing anytime we felt someone near.
It sounds pretty gnarly but it was surprisingly fun and noone ever got hurt too terribly.
My family and i still play this game to this day. When we were younger and we saw a car we wish we owned or thought was cool we would say “money on that (color and name of car) no pulls!” The rules to the game were if you’d didn’t know or say the name of the car someone could steal it or you just couldn’t have it . And if you didn’t say no pills another family member could say pulls and it was there’s. It didn’t matter that we had no way to keep track of which cars we called usually they were forgotten and kept playing the “game”
"Slug"
We got into sleeping bags fully zipped inside and crawled like slugs around the house. 4 kids in giant sleeping bags just rolling around. Inevitably someone slugged down the stairs and it turned into riding down the stairs in sleepingbags cacoons. I am amazed we had no injuries however there is still a hole in the wall at the bottom of the staircase.
When we were bored on long car rides or when our batteries in our Game Boys were dead, my sister told me to imagine my favorite Pokemon running alongside our car. So I'd often imagine Entei (a big four legged volcanic lion looking thing) keeping up with our car by leaps and bounds, jumping over bridges and dodging through trees. It was simple and not extravagant, but still, it's something I think of from time to time when I'm a passenger on long car rides.
Hayfever: me (F) and 3 brothers used to frolic about the country stalking eachother so we could shove dried hay up/down eachothers shirts. Who ever stopped long enough to itch was promptly tackled by the remaining three and hay-harrassed until they give up. Repeat cycle until there is only one standing.
Similar game a bit later (inspired by Mr Schwarzenegger) was aptly titled 'GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!'. No real winner for this one. Mostly just screaming that then hoping when you launch yourself at them they don't move.
Jacket whip. Whenever we would find a jacket lying around near the playground, we would have to whip another player with the jacket yelling "Jacket Touch" and then the hit player would take the jacket and go for someone else. We also had the "sand touch" variation where it was essentially the same thing, but with sand and direct hits.
me and my two younger brothers would play “death ball” whenever the spiky chestnut husks started falling in the backyard.
The game consisted of each player armed with a tennis racket and a garbage can lid, and you had to wear shorts and a t-shirt. You could not get closer than 20 feet to any other player, and the aim of the game was to smash the spiky husks at your enemies.
The game ended when someone started crying, or when mom/dad caught wind as to what we were playing.
“Running away”...basically pretending to do that. Me and my brother would pretend-pack all these awesome gadgets and ride our bikes back and forth along 20 feet of sidewalk, pretending to get the hell out of there.
My older sister always made me play goalie at "Lawn Jarts"
DaedeM · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guess the card brand. As kids during long journeys we would keep an eye out for cars approaching us from behind and over taking us and the first person to identify the manufacturer would win.
Also playing corners with my little sister in the middle and squishing the daylight out of her.
We used to ride our bikes in a circle around a kid standing with a stick in the middle. His objective was to put aforementioned stick in the spokes of one of the bikes being ridden, if you fell off the bike you become the stick kid.
We took a deck of playing cards and played them like Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. (I play the nine in attack mode to defeat your seven! etc.) Also I hogged the video games often, so my little brother would pretend he was in the story as an invisible character.
At my elementary school, 4th and 5th graders had a different playground/play area than the younger kids. And it didn't have a lot of 'toys'/ playground equipment. The actual 'playground' was just a sawdusted area with two different types of monkey bar sets (monkey bar rings and a slightly more traditional set of monkey bars except it was shaped like an A-frame). Otherwise there was just a large grass field and a wall for wall-ball closer to the school building.
Touch football at recess had just been banned becuase we were getting too aggressive. So my friends and I suddenly didn't know what to do. Somehow we invented this game:
Take basketball
Stand at the end of the A-framed monkey bars.
Throw the basketball up over the bars and keep track of how many bars it bounced off.
Catch the ball / don't let it touch the sawdust.
You were out if you didn't catch the ball and your score was how many bars the ball bounced off.
We had no name for this game and didn't actually keep score. It sort of just became who could last the longest. The ball was just the right size that every now and then it would miss all the bars and fall straight through.
We played Gauntlet on the swings. There was a swing set that had 8 swings all in a line. 8 people would swing and then everyone else would try to run in between the swinging people.
One of my favourite games was with my cousins. It consisted of hanging out under a drain under a bridge and scaring anyone who walked over it by sticking our hands through the spaces between the wooden planks.
“Where’s the plutonium” Id pick my favorite action figures to interrogate the bad guy action figures and some would get frozen in ice others were taped and melted (old figures I didn’t care for anymore) or buried alive and dug up for more questioning and the main question was where’s the plutonium lol
I'm not sure how unique this game is but we used to play on a trampoline in my neighborhood all the time. In the summer we would throw a bunch of ice cubes on the trampoline and jump around. The in equal distribution of child weight resulted in about 100 flying ice cubes that gravitated towards the weakest in the group. I forget what we called this but it hurt.
My brother and I used to lay on opposite ends of the couch and put the soles of our feet together. We’d ensue a war much like arm wrestling or thumb war and the winner always ended up kicking the loser in the face. It was a great game until the summer his legs got a lot longer than mine.
Chuey7 · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played two really unique games growing up. The first game we called "Statue Maker", and the second game was a hide-and-seek/Marco Polo hybrid.
In "Statue Maker", one cousin was a Statue shop owner, one cousin was a customer, and the rest of us were statues. The goal was to be the statue who was picked. The catch was that each statue had an on/off switch that the shop owner controlled, deciding when the statue could move and when it had to freeze. The most creative statue, or at least the funniest to us, would be chosen. Our personal favorite was our one cousin who started out in a sitting/crouched position, and when turned on would waddle around in the weirdest fashion yelling "I need to go potty"!
The other game we played in the back room of our Grandma's basement. One of us, usually one of the older cousins was the seeker, and one of the older guy cousins was the "security". Basically, it was hide and seek in this smaller room, but the lights were turned off and the door was closed, making the room pitch black. The seeker would enter, and could use any tactic to try and find the hiders, as long as the lights stayed off and the door stayed closed. If he/she found someone, by tagging them, they would yell "SECURITY", and the security player would basically kick the door in and attempt to drag the player out. Each round, the security team would thus gain one member, until eventually one hider was left and was crowned the winner. The best part of this game, however, was once the security team had a few members. It became a game to try and not be dragged out in the hopes that the seeker found someone else while security worked their magic. Eventually, the security team would resort to basically jumping the hider who was found and dragging them out of the room by any means necessary. I miss those days.
My sister and I would get up early on weekend mornings, before our parents were awake, and pretend we were a shop that people brought their VHS Tapes to be rewound. We would set up a VHS Tape assembly line to rewind all of our tapes. We would pretend we were dealing with angry customers who really needed their tapes rewound fast. Wild Times.
I made up a game called "Crazy Carpet" which consisted of placing as many pillows and blankets that I could find side-by-side on the floor. Considering that I'd usually do this after she folded the laundry, I'm grateful that my mom let me play this one. I had so much fun and if I remember correctly, 5-year old me was usually really good at cleaning up afterwards!
Whenever I was in a car and just staring out the window, I would pretend my line of sight was a sword and move my eyes in these long and graceful swooping patterns to cut down trees and telephone poles as The car passed them. I got some pretty sick combos in.
My sister and I used to get a deck of cards and chuck them like ninja stars at each other. When we’d run out, we’d yell “Stromboli!” And run around and collect as many as we could just so we could have ammo. WTF.
We also used to build towers and structures out of Disney vhs tape cases. This would help with our decision on what movie to watch in some way.
Also, my sister and I would play a game outside where we pretended we were in a different universe parallel to our own. We had to look through this special glass to be able to see this other universe though. For some reason all I can remember is that there were giant spiders and that our mother was an evil witch.
Lastly, my sister and I would take drinking straws and pretend to swim around the house as deep sea divers (the straws were our breathing Apparatuses) and search for forgotten treasures.
Pirate ship. It was like fish out of water except we used the play structure instead of water lol. Insteat of saying "marco/polo" we would say "shark bite/ahoy"
I added random decimals. This was around the first time I learned how decimals worked. I pretended to be in an office, and that my job was to add the prices that I found in old receipts (I got these from my family's grocery receipts). I spent several hours just adding the prices, checking if the sum I got would be equal to the final price on the receipt, then get another receipt. Took me some time because I was just able to add two numbers at a time, and it took me forever to add each pair of numbers. Was a stupid kid.
My dad and I used to play a game when I was in the tub called “sink or float” and he would drop random items in the water and I’d have to guess whether they’d sink or float!! I thought it was the coolest thing and I’ll always remember it.
We had the an extremely fun and reckless variant of wall ball.
There was a huge brick wall in the back of the school. About 1 foot of grass. 3 feet of sidewalk. And then it was a rocky downhill slope that leveled off into a soccer field.
We would play wall ball but due to the rocky slope, the ball would bounce any which way. It was also #full contact.
We used to beat the shit out of each other playing that game.
My brother and I would hunt each other using Nerf darts and four foot long sections of half inch pvc pipe as blowguns. The only rule was that the "prey" couldn't know you were about to take the shot.
3 types of war. Stick war which was battle with staves, we took great pride in our sticks lol, ones that had been sharpened already by beavers were a get. Gun war in which we hid in the mountains taking turns so no one knew where anyone was. To take someone down you had to see them before they saw you and yell bang. Then there was pinecone war. You wouldn’t think it but there were some serious injuries with those real spikes mofos
My stepbrother and I used to play "flying squirrels". We would wad one sock up inside of another and throw them at the ceiling fan on high speed. We were banned after one ended up breaking the tv.
Hostile Takeover is what we called it. We were farm kids with a lot of land around us and nothing to do.
So you had two teams. Each team had a driver and a navigator as well as their "hostages" (at least 2 people). The teams switched hostages and blindfolded them before putting them in their car. Each team set a timer for about 10 minutes (we would change the times sometimes). During that time, we'd try to get the hostages confused as to where they were in town and then we would drop them off in a random part of town (or, if they were unlucky, a field in the middle of nowhere). After being dropped off, the hostages would call their navigators and try to guide them to their location. First driver to find their hostages wins.
The game stopped when someone dropped their hostages off on private military property and guys with guns found them.
We would play archery chicken. There was a set of power lines going past the house two people would get on opposite sides of the lines and stand inside a hula hoop placed on the ground. The rules were simple first person to step outside of their hula hoop lost and the arrow you fired had to go over the top of the power line. The only thing about it that wasn’t completely stupid was that at least we used blunt tipped arrows.
Me and da boiz would play a game called caillou where we had a kayak (one that was hard plastic and you sat on top rather than inside) and flipped it over. 10 kids would try to scramble on top of it until someone accidentally flipped it over. only about 6-7 kids could get on top at a time so the other 3-4 would try to flip it over(if it had not already been flipped) and once they had flipped it they would try to get on as quickly as possible. It was basically just kayak king of the hill now that I think about it but it was so fun. we still occasionally try to play in the summer.
We played "I don't want to go to school". My brother and I would take turns dragging each other across the pool in the shallow end. The goal was to make the "kid going to school" touch the other end of the pool using brute force, then we would switch. We got hurt alot.
“The Inspector” was a weird game me and my friend played when we were seven or so. We would literally imitate and recreate the scene from Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi in the black suit and hat comes into the bar with his men. We called that guy the inspector, but to this day I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I’m pretty sure we never even had a reason either. I’m still friends with that kid and we have yet to understand why we did that or what it meant.
Okay this is gonna sound weird but my parents’ bed is pushed up against the wall with the headboard against the wall. So when my sister and I were younger, (we’re both females and 2 years in age difference), one of us would lay on the bed facing the wall and push to be as close to the headboard and wall as possible, and the other would sit on the one laying down’s feet and I’d push her or she’d push me up and down with our hands holding (somewhat) the wall, and sometimes I’d push her up w my feet hard and she’d go flying lol.
Me and my brother used to play a game called Graffiti. On sorta long car rides we used to spot the amount of graffiti we find on walls. We didn't keep score or anything, just to pass the time.
The dark game! Me and my friends would turn off all the lights in one room. We would blast music and then one person would leave the room and count to a number while the others hid in the dark room. Then, once the person is finished counting, they have to go in the pitch black room and try to find the others!!
I broke my head open playing this, but it still is one of my favorite games!!!!
First find a basement. Then turn all the lights out.
Everybody would scramble to their own unique home base and “turn into a cat”.
You would then walk around on your hands and knees around the basement meowing in the darkness. If you ever bumped into another cat your goal was attack the other cat while hissing and meowing. If you gave up on the fight you’d scramble back to your home base and start again.
“Baby in the darkness” created when I was about four. We would shut the youngest cousin in a dark room and chant “BABY IN THE DARKNESS” at them until they cried. Pretty shit game, but it had a decent replayability value, as every couple years there was a new little toddler to harass. Looking back, it was basically a cousin hazing ritual.
Sekh- · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our childhood home had shag carpeted stairs to the basement. One of us would curl up into a ball and crouch down on one of the steps. They were the "cactus". The other was the "log". The "log" would go to the top of the stairs and logroll down the steps, smashing into the cactus as they did. I have no idea why we found that fun...
Basically you'd be in a pool with your friends, and start at opposite sides of the pool facing each other. One of our friends would be the referee in between us, and would count us off. Then, we would have to stay underwater, swim towards each other, and get the other person's foot above the water before they got ours (essentially whoever stayed underwater the longest won).
It was really fun and we made it up at a hotel in Florida where I'm pretty sure the lifeguard hated us cuz we were almost drowning each other lol.
My siblings and I made up a sort of hide and seek game based on the Harry Potter video games. On the games, there were sections where you had to sneak around the castle, avoiding teachers who were patrolling the halls. So, we would designate someone to be the teachers, they walked a set route, and the others would sneak around trying to find objects that the teachers hid around the house. If you got spotted, you "lost house points". If you ran out of points, your team lost. Of you find the hidden objects, though, then you won.
Play in the yard at night and if a headlight touches you then you lose.
Twirling
Hold an action figure in your hand and he’s a controller for small pretend heroes.
-Index finger
—forward: walking/running
—backward: punching/kicking
-middle finger
—forward: jumping/climbing
—backward: weapon attack/tools
-thumb
—forward: driving/flying/superskill movement
—backward: super attack/explosive attack
I’m 34 now and still like to twirl. What a great game :nostalgia:
Me and my half-brother used to see how long we could hold our breaths for until one day we would hold each others head under the water (we had a pool) and try and guess how long the other person could hold their breath for. We would flail around if we were under too long but it stopped when my dad saw me holding my brother down and he came out just as he started flailing and that was the end of that.
Junk ball. Sit in lawn chairs, 8-12 feet apart, facing eachother. Legs akimbo. The point of the game is to get as high of an arch possible, and tag the other person in the balls with a hackey sack.
Signs, during long car rides we would sit in the back seat and whenever we would pass a road sign we would both turn around and compete to who could see it for the longest as it went into the distance. There was never a clear winner.
I am in middle school and I play quarter golf where I roll a quarter with my friends on a path if it goes off the path you stand where it rolled off. If you fail to roll no retry it counts as a roll. Person to get the least amount of rolls wins.
Santa ghost: so it was me my brother and our 2 cosins one pf us was the santa ghost and had a blanket over our head so we couldn’t see, the rest of us tried to not get tagged, if you were tagged you became the santa ghost then we added balls, people could pelt the santa ghost with them for fun and if the santa ghost hit you with one you were in. There was a song you could sing to taunt the santa ghost it went like this ”the santa ghost whose made of toast went howling out the door, the santa ghost whose made of toast he could not steal no more, fun times
Growing up in India, the most popular game to play among kids was cricket (played with a bat and a ball). My best friend and I developed this game called "Foo-Cri" which was essentially cricket played with the feet instead of the bat. So, it was a mix of football and cricket, and we could play it indoors with a soft ball.
One day, he got a sponge bat, and we decided we could play with it indoors, and so, we decided to call it "Bat-Cri" (because now we played this with a bat).
We played this for years until we realised that "Bat-Cri" is just cricket (bat and a ball)...
Not a fun-game story, but hilarious none the less.
"Tornado". My sisters and our friends would lay the water hose in a big circle shape in our front yard of our house. This area inside the circle was referred too as the "water hose area" and was safe zone against "tornados", kindof like a basement would be in an actual tornado. We would then get on our bikes, skates or roller blades and ride around until we heard/saw a car coming down the street. (The rule was you had to ride at least 3 houses to the left and right of our house and across the street. Anything less was not allowed as it was too safe). When you heard or saw a car coming you had to rush back and physically get inside the "water hose area" before the car passed directly in front of it. If you didn't make it back in time that meant you were hit by a tornado and dead. One you were dead 3x you were out. I grew up in Texas.
“Crashing Cars” me and my siblings would be in the trampoline, with side nets, and all be in different corners/sides. When we yells crashing cars we would run and bounce into the middle and see who survived. There wasn’t really ever a “winner” but nonetheless we found it super amusing running into each other and falling back. There were like 5 of us btw.
Not super young but around 14-15 me and my friends would go into Walmart and grab a specific dog toy. A lil pig that would oink when squeezed. And one person would have this toy and occasionally squeeze it to act as a tracking device and everyone would have to find him. We got kicked out alot so we would go to multiple Walmarts to play
Bear hug football. Full hug around means you are down. Two hand touch wasn't extreme enough and honestly getting hugs from competitors made the game more lighthearted (although no less competitive).
Various productions that we put on for family members and classmates. These were rehearsed and choreographed. I remember one called “The Christmas Show.”
I also had a made-up language with my best friend called “Chooki.” We have been friends for 26 years now and still remember most of it.
My brother and I played “store”. Where we would lay out ALL of our toys and possessions and the other would pretend to shop with Monopoly money and such and “buy” the toys haggling and all. There wasn’t any real purpose and cleaning up was annoying. We both had to take turns walking into the others “store” and buying things then that thing magically ended up in the others “store”
It has to be said with all the exclamation marks and in a deep thrash metal growl.
Basically we would coordinate our bounces as high as we could on the trampoline, both bounce on our backs, and when we came up, use one hand to try and knock each other off the trampoline. It was 2 points if we knocked the other off, and only 1 point if we knocked them down.
We played to 21 points exactly. You couldn't score over 21, so if you were at 20 and you knocked your opponent off, you had to go another round.
You could also try to stutter bounce, or double bounce before the backflop which would give you extra height and or power to make it easy to knock the other down, but if he read it right, he could be ready for it and it would backfire on you.
Lots of strategy, lots of pain, but oddly enough, never a broken bone or "confirmed" concussion.
My family played the rubber band game. This was my parents and two siblings. It started unexpectedly, usually while one us of us was walking upstairs. My dad suddenly slinging a rubber band from his recliner chair in the living room. We would feel the quick snap on our leg or arm and that was cue the game was on. We all had stashes of rubber bands hidden through out the house.
There were rules: not at the face, don’t hit the guys in the crotch or the women in the chest.
We would chase each other, each for themselves, around the house shooting rubber bands at anyone you could. If you were close enough, you could do a direct snap: rubber band stretched between the thumb and pointer finger then snapping it directly onto the other person. Damn that made you jump!
When you were out of ammo and cornered, you lost.
Writing this out, it sounds a little crazy, but we laughed!
_marje · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walking on the streets without touching a single shadow... That was fun. Child's imagination.
“RipStik Rampage”. Basically the neighborhood kids, my brother, and me riding RipStiks around in a driveway running into each other as hard as we could.
Arson. I lit things on fire. Dumpsters, fields, matresses... It was my favorite game. Forgot to mention in my other response that Junk Ball was played in my late teens and early twenties. I lit things on fire from before I could walk until I got put on medication.
I'm thinking I should probably go back on my medication.
Anytime we were forced to be in the presence of our parents, like during dinner or during a long car ride, we played games to ease the tension. "Look Around the House" for instance. From out seats at the table we would take turns describing an item while the other tried to guess what it was. In the car, while the music was playing (if it was playing) one of us would keep our face towards the window and would make the other crack up by turning around making the best face we could come up with. I am laughing just thinking about it. We also played the "Great White." Which was basically dumping a bunch of cold ass water over the top of the shower curtain while the other was in the shower. There were way more games than this though..I could go on and on.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play man-hunt. Basically tag, but out in the dark, and no where was really off limits. We decided to spice things up and give the seeker a leather belt to slap us with when they found us. my friends were terrified when I cornered them at a dead end road with a belt in my hands.
My friend and I used to play a game where one person would say A is for ___ then a thing starting with A. Then other friend goes A is for ___ (name the thing the other person named) then B is for ____. Back and forth till you get to Z. Was a fun memory & improv game (since you couldn't name the same things for each letter as before).
Pine tree jumping on my backyard near a tall stone wall we had these tall thin pine trees, they were like 2 or 3 feet away from the wall. So anyway my cousin and me would climb the wall and then jump to the pine tree and hug it for dear life! The tree would bend over and then we would drop from the tree and roll on the ground. We did that over and over. Fun times! Bliss of living in the 80s and your parents thinking an Atari was an idiot’s box.
I used to have alot of swords and guns and toys etc..and I use to make really long story lines with literaly make 3 dimensional characters.But to anyone else i was walking around aimlesly talking to myself.
We used to play "Vampire". It was basically infection style tag.
9Hoot · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For whatever reason, whenever I went on road-trips; or really anywhere in a vehicle, I'd play a little mental lumberjack-type game in my head.
Every time you spotted a telephone pole or street lamp (or really any piece of wood or metal sticking out of the ground that looks cut-down-able) while looking out the window, you'd blink, and by blinking, you sent an imaginary axe flying horizontally at whatever it was, consequently "chopping it down."
It was actually pretty fun and a good way to pass the time while travelling.
My brother used to collect AOL CDs. Whenever we were walking by one of those giant bins he would sneak a pocket full so we had hundreds of them around for a while.
CDs make great little frisbees. We would play a "game" where one of us would sit across the room with a Halloween mask on (simple face protection after a tooth got chipped) and couldn't move while the other threw CDs at them.
It got way better when we started playing in a dark room with a strobe light facing the person in the chair. The person throwing could see fine and the person in the chair usually couldn't even see the CD before it hit them. The freak out moment when the light went out was hilarious.
This sounds terrible written out. We weren't throwing hard or trying to hurt eachother, it was just enough to cause a little spike of fear, and we always took turns.
We used to play a game called “don’t wake the bear” one of us three kids would pretend to sleep and the other two would wake them up you then had to race across the basement to the stairs. If both made it “the bear” went back to sleep if you got caught you became the bear haha
I used to play this game called “tornado” where my dad would stand at the top of the stairs and I would at the bottom and we’d spike a balloon at each other and if it hit the steps you lost.
Spud! Everyone gets a number and stands in a circle with a ball. The person with the ball throws the ball as high in the air as possible shouting a number. Everyone tried to run away except the person who’s number is called. If your number is called you have to catch the ball before it hits the ground. If you catch the ball you have to throw it in the air and shout a different number until the person doesn’t catch the ball. If the ball hits the ground, the person who’s number was shouted screams spud when they pick it up. They get three steps towards someone and have to throw the ball at them. If they catch the ball the thrower gets a letter, if they get hit with the ball and it hits the ground that person gets a letter. You play until you spell out spud and then your out. Last man standing is the winner.
The games usually went on for waaaay to long but it was such a great memory playing this all the time as kids and all you needed was a ball!
Best played after dark when the street lamps go on. One person starts as the black bear and they hide. Other kids would count and go looking, basic one sided hide and go seek. When somebody found the Black bear that would person yell, "BLACK BEAR!". At that point the game is tag with a home base(street light). If tagged Black bear escorts you to jail, but only one person at a time. Ideally jail will be next to home base so Black bear can capture and defend. All runners have a chance to release the captured by a simple tag. Once everyone is either captured or at home base the round is over. Captured become part of the black bears and you keep going until everyone is a black bear.
The neighborhood kids, my sister, and I invented “Volnis Ball”. We combined rules of tennis, hand ball, and volleyball ball and played on a court outlined by sandals in one neighbors driveway. We started with a tennis style court with two even halves. You could play doubles or singles. Singles only had one hit to get it back across the line but doubles allowed for three alternating hits. You wanted to get the opponent to miss the ball it hit it out. We played with a kickball because we allowed for the ball to bounce on the ground once for singles and once every alternating hit between doubles partners. We’d play this game barefoot for hours in during summer nights!
I remember my brother and two of my friends playing this game in our partly finished attic. There was mostly storage up there so it was very cluttered. One person would put a blanket over their head and weild a plastic toy baseball bat while the other hid somewhere in the room. The seeker would wa Der around trying to make the holders laugh and beat them with the baseball bat, if you got hit, you became the seeker
Also my brother and I played "you hit me, I hit you twice as hard" I was younger so it never worked out for me
I dont remember how we called it, but with my bro we would play this game where we sat on the floor then dropped the little couch on top, completely covering us, it was fun
My sister and I would play "Bomb Berries". When we walked with our dad to the post office we would sometimes pass this beat up wooden shed with an old no trespassing sign and a berry bush with little red berries next to it. Our dad told us not to eat them since they weren't edible. So obviously they were poisoned and genetically created. We would bring a handful home and smash them in slides to look under a microscope and do other experiments with. If you ate them you would balloon up and explode and we were trying to shut down the labs and take down the creator and distribution. I was probably 7, CSI Los Vegas was my favorite show back then.
There was a little pond behind our house that froze in the winter. My brother, cousin and I would go back there with our rubber boots to break the ice. We would pretend we were saving the whales and giving them a place to breath. The shitty part of the game would be when we would hit a deep spot and our boot would fill with ice cold pond water but we just go get a new boot and come back LOL
[insert family member’s name]-y monster. My grandmas house had three bedrooms a bathroom and an attic upstairs. We would elect someone to start as the monster and go up and hide with all the lights off. The rest of us kids would hold go up to investigate singing “scooby de dum de dum de dum.....”. The first one to scream became the next monster
I had this kite string on a spinny thing and i would wrap some of the string around one of my stuffed animals and then toss her into the skylight from the 2nd floor and then my brother down below would try and catch her. We called it "Skydiving".
When I was a 5th grader the school paved over our four-square court, but left three circles where the tetherball poles used to be. Add a kickball, and three circle was born.
It was better than four square because the king circle was the furthest away in the triangle arrangement.
Peak achievement was getting a line of 30 + kids waiting to play a game we invented.
My brother and I would write dits and dahs (morse code) on pieces of paper, wrap a domino with the paper and a rubber band, and throw it over the barn to the other to have a conversation. We were 10 and 8 years old. Our dad was a radioman in the Air Force WW2 and seemed to enjoy providing us with the essentials.
mt2010 · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to play Ticklee - (Tickle Me). We used to be in teams ( dad and I vs mom and my younger brother) . The aim of the game was to playwrestle by tickling the members of the other team and the first person to give up 'lost'. Because it was even numbers, being 1 member down pretty much guaranteed being tickled until you couldnt breathe. We played this for years, almost every night until we got too big and started accidentally hurting each other because we were stronger. Its one of my best childhood memories! It was especially fun when we had guest team members (ie cousins or friends who joined in if they came for sleepovers).
The pinecone/black walnut game. My cousins and I would get together alot during the summer. Within my farm there is a huge cluster of trees that have black walnuts and pinecones fall to the ground. We'd each go to a separate side of the Grove, and find as much ammo (green "hard" black walnuts, and hard pinecones) and throw them at each other until one of us cried. Good times. I really wish we'd talk more still as adults.
We would play a version of tag where the fox ("it) would chase the rabbits. The "den", which was just a blanket under the ping pong table, was safe. However, you weren't allowed to be in the den for more than some arbitrary amount of time, and the whole game took place in the basement which had three rooms and a staircase in the middle, creating a loop. It was kind of hard to get up speed running around the loop, but you were only allowed to enter the den by diving at a run. One of the rooms was always dark (for some reason?) and any player was allowed to hide in there, on the many many perfectly-sized-for-children and just-heavy-enough-to-climb shelves. It sounds silly typing it out, but we spent hours and hours playing and loved finding weird hiding spots. Many arguments were had about what constituted a dive into the den and how long rabbits were allowed to stay.
We played a game we called "Red Alert". There were usually about 5 of us, 1 person was "it" and would be hiding in the basement in the dark. The rest would line up at the top of the stairs as King/Queen/Jack/etc which was decided from the previous round. So the last one up would be the frost one down next, if you got tagged you were "it". But basically you walk down into the darkness, so you can't see great at first, and try and find the person hiding and yell "Red Alert!!!" and sprint up stairs as soon as you said/heard that.
Played this for a year or two probably, terrifying to go down first haha. I think I broke a toe running up once because I hit it on a part of a wall that stuck out a bit at the top of stairs.
Devil's dare, a trick game from when I WAS 5-8, BUILD SOLELY TO MAKE MY FEMALE FRIENDS STRIP, ya don't know why but I remember having this sense maturity at that age, don't recommend trying the day now, would get slapped, need liquor and a game you can cheat and and make it look like luck.
I made up a game I called "Sideways" where I'd be walking along and then suddenly gravity would start coming from a different wall of the room and you'd have to grab and hold onto whatever you could before you 'fell' (slid) into the wall with all the gravity. Then it would come from a different wall...
I grew up in a beach town, so I went to the beach a lot with my family! My brother and I used to “fight Poseidon,” where we would stand right where the waves break and try to kick/punch them. If we stayed standing, we got a point, but if the wave knocked us over, Poseidon got a point.
While we waited for a wave to come, we would scream at Poseidon and trash talk him in hopes he’d bring out the BIG waves
We also piled all the balls onto the trampoline (even the yoga ball) and bounce and try to avoid them while bouncing strategically to get them off (there was no net ao it was fairly easy). That game stopped when I flipped off one time and nearly broke my spine.
My uncle and I would play a game called catch the tail, he'd stick his tail in my butt so I could catch it. My dad got really mad whenever we played it.
We played a game called “Jail Break”. We had this club house where we would all meet at like 9 in the morning. Two people would be “jailers” and the prisoners had to break out of the club house without being smacked in the head by a jailer. Once you got out, you ran around for pretty much the whole day trying not to get smacked. One game lasted about 5 hours. (There were a lot of us) :)
Whenever my brother and our next door neighbor went on car trips, we would look for the Semi trucks called JB Hunt, they’re frequent but not too overpopulated and when we saw them we would yell “JB HUNT” and punch someone in the shoulder to get a point. Whoever had the most impacts lost and the one who racked up the most points would win. But you can minus their point if you see another JB Hunt yell it and punch them back.
I obtained a very dense rubber ball from Chuck E. Cheese, about 2 inches in diameter. We would run around the cul-de-sac around throw the ball at each other, attempting to leave bruises. We enjoyed this.
Realeaseies. About 15 kids would go to the beach at night. Rules were you could only stay in the bush between the dunes and 2 beach tracks. About a footy field of sandy Aussie bushland. One person was in and they got to have a torch. Then it was basically hide and go seek tag last person found and caught wins. It was the best. We’d be in the bush until 10pm. All cut up and bloody hahahah. The adrenaline though. I was a champ and my trick was to just hide in tall grass laying on the ground. No one expects it cause usually people got in trees. Sometimes people would walk within a meter of me and would find me. Wow thanks for the memories haha
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two brothers and I played “turn the lights off in a walk in closet and beat the shit out of each other” often.
This one was passed down from my parents to me: Slugbug, as the name suggests has two or more players on a road trip search for Volkswagen beetles. The first person who sees one shouts SLUGBUG! And point at the vehical, they then punch the other player(s) in the shoulder. There is no set ending to the game, previous rounds may be rejoined without warning. Beetles with one headlight disabled can be called out by either party following a Slugbug, as a PERDIDDLE!. Perdiddles allow the caller to either punch the other player, or kiss them.
Whenever my parents would leave us alone we would gather all the couch cushions, pillows, ect. in a large pile, then proceeded to fill in the basement steps while someone stood at the bottom with the door closed. After being buried you either climbed your way out or tumbled into the basement after opening the door.
‘Chicken’ me and my friends would play chicken at the park near our houses, the goal of the game was to get from one end of the swings to the other, which 2 people on the swings would swing back and forth, if they touched you, your out. Also you shouldn’t pass the boundaries of the swings (the legs on either side)
Never had a name for it, but during a really boring excursion to some bush camping area, me and my friend would say a random word that was on someone’s shirt, pants, sock or shoes, basically anything they had on. Then we had to guess who the person your opponent pick out was. (Has about 100 students who came from upper class families so lots of different kinds of posh clothes)
(First time on reddit, don’t know format. Forgive me senpai)
When you’re driving down a country road each side of the car gets their side, any time you see a cow you yell “HEY COW!” And you get as many points as cows that look at you.
Did anyone else play 'murder in the dark'? We used to play it at sleepovers. All the lights would be turned out and one person was 'the murderer'. The murderer would have to try and tag everyone by running around in the dark trying to find them. Your job was to try and avoid the murderer, but if you got tagged, you'd have to let out a huge blood curdling scream and then fall to the floor and pretend to be dead. Last person left alive is the winner.
So someone starts by hiding a belt in the yard/neighborhood. Once the belt is hidden, that person sits out and then there is a safe base. Everyone goes around looking for the belt until someone finds it, then the goal is to whack the other kids before they get to the safe base.
Pretty simple game, but it definitely gets the adrenaline going. Grandpa taught us some wild shit growing up
We blacked out an old diving mask and would play tag in a buddies pool. A lot of fun. Weird silence as you would have to swim away as mask we are would get closer. Friends outside the pool making stoopid comments and laughing made it more fun. Tease the hunter by swimming close and let them feel a wave or hear something...
khumps · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rip-stik wars. By this point we had all gotten very good at keeping balance on our rip-stiks. Everyone rode around (4 or so of us) and the goal was to be the last one on their rip-stik. You were allowed to do anything that didn't involve painful blows(actually punching, going for the head, etc) but you could grab, push, etc) also forcing someone to ride on to the grass was fair game. It was a lot of fun
We played a game in the car in which if you saw a car in the oncoming lane missing a headlight you’d call out “one light” and that would start the game; then after that it’s points per how many lights you got. Obviously you got double for no headlights, and for motorcycles. But if you guessed wrong it put you back to zero. Apparently my parents told us later it was originally called “one eye” but my sister lost an eye due to cancer so they modified it.
We would play “who survived” we had a PT-cruiser Barbie car that we would pack full of barbies/GI joes/action figures and fling it down a full set of stairs and see who stayed the car. The ones that did got to go again until there was one victor remaining.
Another hide and go seek in the dark game. We would play in our unfinished basment that was pitch black. My brother and I got a laser tag for christmas one year that came with a gun and 2 sensors each. (one for your back and one for your chest) so if you only wore one sensor on the front, we had enough for 4 kids to have sensors, and one person to have 2 guns, or 2 prople to each have one gun. The gun holders were the seekers, and the kids wearing sensors would hide. we would play with the neighbor kids, and the base of the stars was "homefree". You had to try and get to the stairs in the pitch black without getting shot. So fun. I lived on an acrage that was all forest and we also played this outside in trees with our tree house being homefree. Oh, also, I forgot to mention that if we didn't have batteries for the laser tag, the seeker would throw rubber balls instead, haha
Did anyone else play Mannequin? This game usually was played in a large space (we did it in the 3 room downstairs area in a friend’s house). It started with one person (the shopper) facing the wall and counting to 30, then turning around to find everyone posing completely in different positions completely still (like a mannequin). We usually dressed up in hats or scarves etc to display as the shopper then walks through the store and checks out different items. You are not allowed to make any noise or move while the person who is ‘it’ is looking at you or you’re out. However, you have to move around the room each time the person looks away from you. The object is to be the last mannequin standing.
The game always got pretty competitive as the amount of mannequins decreased. It usually devolved into everyone including the shopper trying to make each other laugh so they would be out. I remember holding a lounge singer pose - think “paint me like one of your French girls” - and having the shopper sit next to me on the couch, gently stroke my cheek, and say in the creepiest voice, “I think I’m going to take this one home.” I lost that game.
"Sockey"
We would crush a soda can and use that as a puck. Make goals with anything we could find and beat living fuck out of each other trying to win lmao.
Pegger. We had a small playground on campus with a few features that you could climb on. This is how you played:
-One person is the pegger, who has a ball
-The other people are players
-The players have to run from feature to feature every 3 seconds (emphasis on RUN, not climb/jump, as in feet on the ground)
-While people are on the ground, the pegger can throw the ball at those people. If the ball hits that person, they become the new pegger.
-It seems simple, but it was super fun when I was little. Some people would just run back and forth quickly, while others were risk-takers and ran across the whole playground.
Eventually, it was shut down because someone got hit in the head, but I still remember it...
It was called baseball me and my father played it when I was a young man, though my son isn’t liking it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game where two people sit on opposite ends and one person stands in the middle. The two people on opposite ends would roll the ball(usually a basketball or soccer ball) to the other person, with the goal to hit the person in the middle. The person in the middle has to avoid the ball without moving side to side(pretty much the ball goes straight) the person who hits middle man, goes in the middle. You keep track of how many balls you avoid for your score.
Another game was called Abu hani (Hani’s dad don’t ask where the name came from). The way this game works is someone sits on a porch/stairs/steps/bench. This person is “Abu hani”, the rest of the players (usually requires at least 5 people) would insult Abu hani and try to get him to chase them. Abu hani can get get up whenever he wants once a person reaches a certain point (usually like 3-4 ft away maybe less) Abu hani them chases them and tries to tag one person before they reach the safe/starting zone. This person becomes Abu hani’s captor and is our for the game. Continue this until all the kids are captured. Last one captured is the new Abu Hani.
We always played "Rip-Stick Keep Away" there were usually just 4 of us in teams of 2. We used the concrete pad/driveway at our house and everyone would be on ripsticks and we had a football. You always had ~10 seconds to pass the ball to your teammate (no handoffs) without the other team getting it. We played this game for hours and hours sometimes without even realizing that 5 hours had passed since we started. Fun times.
I pretended I was a soldier and would do everything a soldier would do. From showering, to haircut, to boot camp (kid style), to attire and what I ate. I was really strict for a couple years from 7 on up. Makes sense why I joined the Army, haha.
“Moon Rainbow.”
We’d climb up the magnolia tree in my front yard as high as we could, pull our penises out, twist them up sideways, and then piss. It’d create a wild spiral that would glow in the moonlight, hence the name. It was originally called “Golden Cone,” and the definition of it I wrote still stands on Urban Dictionary.
Sometimes two of us would go at once. We called that a “Double Helix.”
“Shoe wars!” I’m late to this thread but my best friend to this day and I invented a game where we would go in my backyard on my swing set and swing as high as we could. Once you were at your highest peak or whenever you felt good enough you would jump off of the swing and where ever you landed at you would leave a shoe, and the next person would try to best the distance. It was such a fun game we played it almost everyday after school
feve10 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 2.
I had a one of those pop a shot things (but a simple one). And we had to make it from 5 spots in the basement. The problem was we had low ceilings so you had to line- drive it in. The spots were "short" (free throw), "middle" (a inlet behind it), "stairs" shot from the stairs, "Railing" (a little bit behind stairs), "far" huge spot behind it. And occasionally "super far". It lasted us for hours and hours trying to get all 5 before the other person.
I had a HUGE driveway on a hill. And I have a TON of Hot Wheel cars. On summer days my friend and I used to grab 50 cars and do a bracket style tournament to see who went the farthest and then mark which one went the farthest and then do an even BIGGER tournament with the bracket winners. We used to give backstories and everything.
If you’ve ever watched the Naruto Abridged series by MasakoX and Vegeta3986, they had a running joke about the log used for instant swap jutsus—mainly, that they would shout “Looooooggggg!” whenever it showed up.
My friends and I turned that into a game where one of us would say something like “Guess what?” or “Can I ask you something?” If they respond, you would say “Looooooggg!”
It was kinda like our version of that thing where you make someone look at your hand with the thumb and finger forming a circle.
merdub · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lesbian vagina doctor. Although I’m not sure how unique that is.
I didn't have many friends at primary school. I would take my arms out of the sleeves of my coat, fasten the top button round my neck as if it was a cape, and pretend to fly around the playground as the superhero "The Scarlet Cornfield". No one else really joined in. My super power was annoying people I wasn't friends with.
Me and the neighborhood kids would play a game called hubcap. We would hide behind parked cars and throw a hubcap behind a passing car and then when he stopped we'd go over and pick it up and yell "you lost your hubcap" and then run off with it. So much fun
Getaway! The Mennonite crew building my family’s new home would tie up my brothers and me like a blacksmith puzzle so we could get out, but it would take a while so they could get some work done without us getting in the way. “Escape,” go bug the guys, rinse, repeat.
My brothers and I use to have this game where you'd take a small ball and one person would have to chuck it as high as they could. While the ball was in the air, everyone else had to run. The person who threw it would have to catch or retrieve the ball and when they had it, everyone had to freeze. They would then get three steps before having to throw the ball at someone. If you got hit, you were "it" next round.
"Treeball", a variation of dodgeball where only one is throwing the ball & others are in a tree. Target is the whole body excluding hands and the head. Extra lives could be acquired if the ones in the tree could catch the ball, throw it far & then run around some set object before the thrower got back fetching the ball. If you got hit, you had to switch places with the thrower.
My neighbor had a huge tree and there would be 3 or 4 of us in the tree and the person on the ground had a tennis ball and would throw the ball up and try and hit one of us. Sounds simple but since the tree was huge there were a bunch of branches so you had to throw it just right to hit someone. And if you were up in the tree you had to quickly maneuver around to avoid being hit. Once you were hit you had to go to the ground and throw the ball. So it was kinda like dodgeball/tag just in a tree. We wouldn’t chuck the ball super hard to hurt each other. I actually found it easier to lightly throw the ball to better my chances of hitting someone.
We called it "hurt nerf" (shit name i know) but we'd take out the sharp bits from thumbtacks and put them on the end of nerf darts and shoot them at eachother. It hurt like hell but was good fun when we were bored.
"No-passes" was/is a game my mom taught us during our road trips as kids. The objective of the game is to spot license plates that aren't from the current state you're in and say "-insertstatehere- no passes!", That means you get a point. The challenge is if anyone else says "pass" while you're declaring the no-passes, they get the point instead of you. This game stretches and also applies to cemeteries for some odd reason. It was a great way the she kept us looking out of the windows and at the surroundings! We still play it on every road trip. 😁
We didn't have an official name, so we called it the "Tennis Ball Game". Original, I know. So basically we had three tennis balls between four of us. Three of us threw it on the roof, while th fourth got the advantage of seeing where the balls go. Whoever didn't get a ball got the advantage.
Don’t know so much about as a child however my mates and I were at the beach and we invented ‘Sunken Pit Ball’. All you need is a tennis ball and a spade and a beach.
One is the batsman who holds the spade, you have a bowler and the rest are fielders, doesn’t matter how man fielders you have.
The bowler bowls/ throws to the batsman either over or under arm and the batsman hits it and then has to start shoveling sand directly below them building a hole.
The batsman gets out when you get the ball into the hole or touch the batsman.
Dibble dabble. Our parents would drop us off at the pool while they golfed and so we would take spare golf tees for dibble dabble. One person is It, and they would hide the golf tee somewhere in the pool. Everyone else (about 10 kids usually) would stand on the edge and watch for the tee to start floating up. If you saw the tee, you yelled "Dibble Dabble" and there was a five secind window for anyone to jump in to grab the tee.
The tee would usually get lost in the waves if a bunch if people jumped at once, as I sometimes there was and advantage to waiting a second. First person to get the tee out of the pool wins!
Its a was a small town 'country club" so there were always just a handful of us kids there and we had tge entire pool to ourselves. Great times
All you need is a tennis ball and some space and you just play tennis with it, except you use the palms of your hand as a racquet.
We used to have a line in the middle, single tap/ double tap rule, you can't "carry" the ball. Sometimes we change it up by forcing the players to use just one hand for the game.
If you've got more people you make a team and play 2v2, 3v3, etc....
So hand tennis was a pretty big deal, kids used to dive into concrete to save the ball.
During school we'd have tournaments and knockout rounds during our recess or lunch break, winning streaks and being "MVP" was the coolest thing ever!
Idk how it was named but there was one like enduro game or smth and you could do races but you could play it as an open world game aswell. .. the main thing was that you were able to build up so much momentum that you could jump extremely high and that was so much fun back in the days
I had a game where I would have colored pencils or markers and use the colors of the power rangers to fight against pens or regular pencils. So. The pointed end would be their head but at the same time it would also act as their fists. While the bottom or the eraser would act as their legs and feet. So I would twirl them against each other in the air and sometimes they would hit each other multiple times before bouncing away from each other. It was awesome for me.
Other times I would take all my toys and arrange them in the living room carpet protecting a mini basket. I would then try to score a goal while flicking my pogs that I had. I never did like pogs but I heavily enjoyed doing that. I guess I really did like having fun by myself.
bak_g · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Flintstones" We'd walk around the back yard looking for toads, then we'd pick them up and throw them vertically as high as we could and yell "Flintstones!!" when the toads came crashing down, they would sometimes vomit op their insides
We played a game called “Sphincter”. It was like Bump - or Knockout - from the free throw line of a basketball court, except we played it along the baseline. You would underhand the ball into the brick alongside my buddy’s garage door and it had to hit the bricks above the light and go over your head into the hoop. You had to make it before the person behind you did or you were the Sphincter.
We broke his parents’ light often, and I do not know why we called it what we called it.
We played a coin game. The idea was to spin a coin by flinging it with your finger and keeping the coin spinning.
If you failed and the coin stopped spinning the opponent had a chance to flick the coin at your knuckles (you had to keep your knuckles on the floor). Missing or hitting would continue the game until one of the players taps out.
Hide the rock. When babysitting my cousins and I, my grandma would hide a rock that he glued googly eyes on. It would keep us occupied so he could watch Matlock in peace.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stair ball. One player climbs to the top of these stairs we had outside (no railings or anything, about 15 to 20 feet off the ground) and we threw balls at them that they could Dodge or catch. If they caught a ball and was able to hit one of the bottom players. If the person on the stairs hit a bottom player they got a point. If a bottom player hit the person on the stairs they get to switch. . . Needless to say we really should have died there
I see a lot of phosphenes (rings and circles your eyes see sometimes when closed in light) , possibly as a side effect of being colorblind. So does my cousin and we went to the same school so during recess we would run around the field using the phosphenes as targets while "shooting" at them with finger guns.
Definitely a weird af game, but also pretty unique I think.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Overall I was all about pretending these like complex narratives, usually involving great strife and impending doom. My dad is really into history and would tell me a lot about stuff that he’d read, often not age appropriate.
So I would either act out by myself or talk my friends into pretending various moments of strife with me. The Iranian hostage crisis, Mao’s purges, Stalin’s purges, the Soviet revolution, the fall of Saigon, the occupation of Paris, the fall of Barcelona, etc. It was mostly like fleeing and going “Come on! The Germans will be here any minute! We have to go”
Opeace · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have a ton of random legos. As they started to become more expensive, my parents stopped buying as many for me, so I would go to the stores and take pictures of the front of some of the designs, go home and recreate the designs with my collection.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So there are these trees called cottonwood trees. They are pretty much the worst thing ever. They are soft so you can’t build with them, they don’t burn well for heat they cover everything in sap, they have these seed pods that turn into puffy cotton blowing around everywhere and they are impossible to kill. So as a kid we would have some one try to climb one and see how high they could get while the remaining players cut the tree down with claw hammers. The soft wood comes apart pretty easily so claw hammers gave the climber a bit of an advantage as a hatchet would fell the tree quickly. I guess the point of the game was to fall the from the highest without getting hurt. Bonus points if you could escape to a neighboring tree before yours hit the ground. When you grow up in a speck of a village in rural Alaska anything is a game.
inhoc · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a 3rd floor in our house that was essentially a big wreck room. My sister and I would have beanie baby wars because we had collected so many of them and didn't know what to do with them now that they weren't worth a fortune. Basically we split the room in half, built a fort on each side, then just tried to throw beanie babies at each other. If you hit someone they lost a point, if you used a big one they lost two points. The tricky part came in collecting more ammo once you ran out of beanie babies. You had to run out into no mans land and grab ones in the middle that had already been thrown. We had a rule if you crossed the middle line to collect beanie babies, you couldn't throw at the other side and if they hit you it was double points. It led to lots of Matrix esque moments of dodging enemy fire and scrambling back to your fort with your new found weapons. I was two years older than my sister, into baseball, and a future engineer, so my fortresses were much sturdier and when I'd barrage her fort it would often lead to screaming and a collapsing fort unless I let her use the couch or a table. She was always a good fun sport about it though and often brings it up as a fond memory. We're almost 30 now and if we ever had the opportunity I bet we'd play again.
“Office” was a grownup life game my cousins and I played in my grandma’s back yard growing up. We each had an area in the yard that would be our office where we did our designated work. The oldest cousin would be the banker that day and we’d use leaves from an avocado tree as money to buy snacks brought out from the house, office supplies, etc.
Another cousin would be the nurse, and every time one of us got a scrape or something she would cut off an aloe leaf to treat it.
My favorite part about it was that the only money we’d ever earn was from the “banker” shaking the avocado tree and collecting as many leaves as we could for 30 seconds a day. Also peeing outside lol
I used to not be able to shut up, so my parents, as we were on the road a lot, made up a game; if there was a yellow car, whoever called out yellow car first won. Eventually through my complaints, pink cars were worth two yellow cars and a purple car was worth three! Whoever wins gets free ice cream.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school an elite few played "tackle soccer." Basically soccer but we just slide tackled non-stop. The goal wasnt so much to get the ball but rather to see who would cause the most damage to the other players. Also there were no teams, free for all.
After school me and my friends would get the bus home, being young and edgy and possibly mentally deficient we came up with a game to pass the time: the imaginatively named "left hand side of the bus game". Similar to "kiss bang marry" every time you pass someone on the left of the bus there were three options and being 14 and unreasonably cringy we chose "fuck, kill, or shit on their chest" needless to say I'm disgusted by my past self especially the amount of old ladies whose chests I elected to shit on, but damn if I haven't been cry laughing the whole time remembering this.
Every year when my cousins would come for the holiday dinner at my house, we would play Hall Ball. We have a hallway that leads to some stairs. There was a low ceiling and the stairs were about 20 feet from the wall you were hitting from. We used a small toy ball and it was just like baseball rules. We had a pitcher and a hitter. The hitter would hit it with their hand. Certain distances were base runs and if you made it down the stairs without hitting the ground it was a home rub. That was hard to do because there was someone “down field” and if they caught the ball you were out.
To this day that was the most fun game I played as a kid. Next would have to be four square and then tetherball 😋
"I don't play", a game that we still play as almost high schoolers. Basically tag but you need to scream "I don't play" when you tag someone. If you say "I don't play", you are tag immunized.
Lawn dart chicken...
This was back in the day when lawn darts had long metal pointed tips. I would play this with my 2 little brothers. 2 people stand across the yard from each other with their legs apart and you take turns throwing the darts across the yard. If you moved your feet you lost. Whoever got their dart closest to between the other persons feet was the winner. I often wonder if our game contributed to the redesign of this childhood toy. They no longer make them with the long metal tips. I also taught my little brothers how to play “bicycle chicken” and “I will shoot my bb gun through your bicycle spokes as you ride by (I promise)”.
My brother and I used to do stuff like spin around really fast, and then try to run in a straight line, and another thing where one of us would lie on the floor with our feet in the air, and the other would sit on top of that persons feet, and they'd get launched across the room/
M I would play “poison ball” with my friends. Basically we got a bunch of balls, put the lm on a trampoline, and tried to avoid them. If you got hit by one of the balls you were out
I used to play a game called “hide my Halloween candy before my grubby ass siblings could find it and eat it”
And then a few months later we would play “hide the Easter candy” ... basically same game but it’s a new season. Contestants get bigger, stronger and more cunning with each season that passed.
rci22 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play turned-based battles with all my fat pencil erasers. One of each color was in the party and each one had a different elemental power. I was about 13 and knew it was too little-kiddish for my age, so I tried to keep it a secret.
lj379 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My antisocial personality even came through to my family when I was a kid. I liked to play “postman” where I’d delivery them letters when I wanted to speak to them and they’d have to put their letters back to me in “the mail box” and raise the flag to alert me to collect. If I wanted money I’d include in the note “postage required”
Slip, a bunch of kids would split into two teams, one on bikes, the other on foot. The two teams would start at the opposite sides of our small town. A target was made, and the kids on foot would have to make it to the target any way possible without being spotted by a kid on a bike. There was a clear zone around the target where the bikes were not allowed.
We called it "Tom Sawyer". We have 2 groups, the 1st group(the loser team) must line up and lean forward supporting each other. The 2nd group must climb and ride on their selected person, once all the 2nd group are all on the 1st group's back, the 1st group can now move and attempt to make the person on their back fall without using their hands.
If the person on the back falls, it's one point for group 1 but if the person in the 1st group fall its one point for group 2. The group with the most point wins.
Stick Wars. Behind my neighborhood there was a huge hole in the woods so we’d get two teams on both sides of the hole and throw sticks from the ground at each other. It was dumb af there was never a winner and it always just ended when someone got hit in the face and or started crying. We did this like every day lol.
I would gather up all of the pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, cushions, etc. in the house and bury my brother under this giant mountain of plush stuff and then slowly tunnel through to try and "discover" him without him detecting me first. If he saw light, he'd burst out from under and yell "invading babies!" And I'd lose. If I managed to find a foot or something before he realized it, then I'd yell out the same thing and tackle/dogpile on top of him. Then we'd switch places. He was around 4 or 5 at that time and I was around 9 or 10. Amazingly for all of the unsupervised play time we got as kids we never came up with anything more dangerous!
The Neverhood. It's a claymation puzzle game. Blew my fukin' mind as a kid.
haens1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play a game by myself when sitting in the back of a car. I never had a name for it, but i would pick a "spot" on the other side of the road, and anytime a car drove past the "spot", lift up my toes, and put them down after they passed, as to kind of outline the moving cars. It was honestly really fun on highways.
The purpose of the game was to find a thing with a letter that you picked
ie. the letters G. So you would go
George, Gurdie, Gorilla, Goat and Greenland. You would get 10 for original answers, and 5 points for unoriginal answers. you would keep on going until all letters were answered, and you would add up all your points.
I used to jump on a trampoline with a like pumping iron weight on it. When the weight hit my foot it would hurt a lot, the goal was not to get hit by it. I LOVED it, until I got good at it and the game got boring.
Me and my sister when we were kids we used to live in a house (it’s still our family home) with a big hibiscus tree in front of it.
We would gather the flowers, and start mushing them (they turn very slimy/slippery..like the same consistency as the liquid for making bubbles) and mix them with water. Some parts of petals or parts of the flowers and leaves we separate and we start selling the “flower juice”with some “petal flavorings” TO EACH OTHER. Like we took turns to buy from each other. We don’t drink them (apparently you can drink hibiscus petals as tea? Haha I never knew before)
Yeah so that’s how we spent a lot of our summers...selling each other flower juices 🤷🏼♀️ Twas fun! The process of making your juice looks great is nice.
I played scooter jousting basically you got a fake sword or a long stick and you charge at eachother on scooters and whoever falls or chickens out loses.
K_Ver · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play a game called "Mr. Pillow". When we were young we had bunk beds, and for some reason there was one of those ergonomic pillows in addition to our normal pillows, but we both hated it. So throughout the day, if the pillow was on your bunk, you'd switch it. When it was bedtime if Mr. Pillow was on your bunk, you were stuck with it.
Me and my friends play a game called "Do it or Get Slapped," and someone will give you a choice of doing a dare or getting slapped. You could only have on chickening out of a dare each day and you couldn't have other dares cancel each other out either, because it became a problem.
Moxxic · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bad soccer. As in badminton and soccer. I am so glad my friend didn't have braces at the time
Guess the commercials! My sisters and I had a lot of fun playing it.
Also “It’s mine” when flipping through my mom’s Tupperware and Avon catalogues. You know how there are pictures of delicious food in tupperwares? Or cute toys for kids, or clothes, or lip balms? Our small hands are waiting above the pages and as one of us flips it, you have to cover the picture with your hand and say it’s yours.
We would also play with paper dolls and build “houses” for them using legos, boxes, slippers, pillows, etc. The funny thing is we never really get around to playing with the paper dolls. It’s already dinner time before we “finish” the houses trying to one-up each other.
I play padiddle. Its when you're in a car with friends (or by yourself cause mama didn't raise a quitter) and you see a car coming at you with a headlight that is on and one that is off. That's when you say padiddle and touch the ceiling of the car. First person to touch the ceiling gets the point. Last person to touch the ceiling takes off an item of clothing.
Later on i decided that there would be some additions to padiddle.
Semis = 20 points.
When you see a car behind you with a headlight out you say eldiddap and touch the floor. First person gets the point, last one takes of an item of clothing.
I will play this shit all the time, when i'm by myself, or with a bunch of people. Whether or not their playing alongside me is inconsequential.
Fairies. Cousins and I would make a bunch of fairy houses in my grandma’s front yard using only leaves, sticks, flowers etc.
I remember at one point we all seriously believed we were building houses for “real fairies” and were devastated after it rained one night and the houses were gone. Our fairies were homeless and we were heartbroken lol
Favorite part was making the bathroom and using acorn shells as the toilet.
Late to the thread, but our game was played on a trampoline with a canvas barrier around it so you couldn't fall off. The game was called "dead man" or "dead guy tag." Four or five people sat on the trampoline, everyone around the edge, except for one person in the middle. The person in the middle was the "dead man." The dead man would have to spin around a few times, and wear a blindfold so that they couldn't see. Everyone ran around the edge of the trampoline trying to avoid the dead man, who had to continue lying flat on the trampoline surface since even though they were technically a zombie, they were still "dead." The game began with a chant to raise the "dead man" from the dead, and whoever was playing the dead man would quietly and creepily start to come alive. Whoever got tagged by the dead man became the dead man in the next round.
We lived in queens NY. Someone was stabbed in our apartment complex elevator and their body was dragged for quite a distance. We played “follow the blood trail” but never got to the end as it went on for many blocks.
Not as a child, but when I was in the Air Force for technical training, we all went out for smoke breaks and played "lighter game" where the whole class would stand in a circle and toss lighters back and forth, catching and throwing them with the back of our hands. If you miss, you're out. So now I have a really weird skill where I can catch small objects with the back of my hand?
The other thing we did was throw rocks at each other like savages. Boredom is one hell of a drug.
My brother and I would sit on those sit and spin things and go around and around like it was a time machine. When it stopped, we got off and wandered around the room in a different time. Sometimes the past, sometimes in the future. Sometimes we would pretend to see dinosaurs and they would chase us until we jumped on the sit and spin, spun it around and around, and went to a different year.
Whammel- my brother and I would get on all fours on opposite ends of the living room, each guarding a “goal.” I would guard the liquor hutch and my brother would guard the laundry room door. We played with a soft, squishy, small soccer ball. You basically played it like air hockey or soccer with your hands, crawling around and smacking the ball at your goal. Sometimes we’d spar back and forth like table tennis which was fun. You also couldn’t dribble up too far bc our living room wasn’t that big. When you score, you yell WHAMMEL!
We played Sharkey at my church!! There was this old wooden play set with a bridge and then each side had slides and whatever else. One person was the shark and was under the bridge, the rest of us were on the play set. We’d run across the bridge and whoever was the shark had to tag someone as they ran across (or if you could reach them anywhere else on the playground, like if you’re sitting in the slide and you get tagged). So whoever was tagged became sharkey!
So it’s basically tag but you had to be a lil sneaky and it was on a playground. Super fun though!
bsbrit · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played “The Sock Game” whenever either of us used the bathroom.
Our shared bathroom was next to a long hallway, so whoever was using the toilet would stock up on balled socks, and the other person would run by the open door down the hallway and try to dodge the flying socks.
Every once in a while one of our parents would walk by and sigh very loudly when they saw us.
My brother and I used to be on in our bedroom and were supposed to study. Our mom used to keep checking in on us and so we had to be quiet. The weather used to be pretty cold and we didn’t want to step on the floor either. So we devised this game where we made a ball out of crumbled paper .... it used to be the size of a ping pong ball .... we taped it over to make it a lil hard. The bat used to be any book that was long and light in weight. The batsman and baller used to be on their respective beds. The batsman would get out if he hit the floor or gave a catch. And if he managed to hit the ball on the other bed or the wall behind it, he would score a 4 or a 6.
We spent a few winters playing this game while our mom thought we were studying 🙂
Now I live in a different country, away from my parents and brother, and memories like these are a source of both joy and sadness. I tell my kids about all the games we used to play together and I hope that they too will remember their siblings with the same love and affection that we have for each other🙂
My backyard had a seven foot tall tower with a slide and ladder attached that my dad built for my sisters. Me and one of my sisters used to play this game where the tower was a spaceship that took us to different worlds. My dad had a bunch of screwdrivers and we would stab them into the ground and pretend they were bombs that would blow up the planet. My sister and I caused mass genocide across the Galaxy.
Rock-a-pults, when I visited a friend he showed me this game which involved using a shovel, putting the mid section on a log, and using your weight to fire it. Two teams hurtling rocks at each other, first ream to cry uncle loses.
Rock-a-pults, when I visited a friend he showed me this game which involved using a shovel, putting the mid section on a log, and using your weight to fire it. Two teams hurtling rocks at each other, first team to cry uncle loses.
We used to take turns throttling each other till we passed out . Think we called it "American Dream". We done it for the feeling of Euphoria just before you lost consciousness. It was a very PG version of erotic asphyxiation now that I think of it.. . .
“Frick” or frisbee stick. We had hiking sticks and a frisbee and created a game. We would run around on the beach (because it was vacation) with our sticks in the air and someone would throw the frisbee and we would chase and catch it with the stick. Whoever caught it got points and if they could throw the frisbee with the stick, double points!
Fun family game we made up with my cousins, aunts, and uncles. Fun times in seaside.
megoyo · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings would play "bus surfing". We'd stand in the middle of the bus and try to stay standing without moving your feet for as long as possible. In retrospect it was probably pretty insufferable for everyone else on the bus, but now I have excellent balance on public transportation, so.
"The Finger Game." I played this with kids in my elementary school all the time. It could be played with multiple people but is typically 1v1. Each person starts with one finger up on each hand. You then take turns hitting eachothers fingers with your finger. The number of fingers you hit them with would get added to their hand. So, the person starting would have one finger up and when they hit the opponent's hand the opponent would add one more finger. Then the opponent would have two fingers up, and could hit the starting player's hand and add two fingers to their hand, and so on. When you get five fingers up on one hand, that hand is out. You could only get someone's hand out with even addition (like 4+1 or 2+3) and if it wasn't even it would carry over. So if someone had four fingers up and got hit with two fingers, that hand would not be out but would end up with one finger up. The first person to get both of their hands out loses. Kind of hard to explain, but it was fun and got kids to technically do math.
Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego Hide and Go Seek.
We would draw up two square pieces of paper representing the loot and the warrant. The person hiding would be the crook and would have a certain amount of time to hide the loot, the warrant and finally him- or herself.
The person seeking would have to find the loot and the warrant before finding the crook. If the seeker inadvertently found the crook before finding the loot and the warrant they would lose.
My neighborhood friends and I created and played a game called “Medusa”. One person was Medusa and you had “jewels” which were pillows. We seriously gathered all the pillows together for this game. Medusa would have a temple (a blanket fort) with her jewels inside. The trick was to grab as many jewels without being tagged or having eye contact with Medusa. If she got you, you froze like a statue. The other “jewel thieves” would be able to unfreeze you by tagging you. It was such a fun and wild game.
Pen & Paper pokemon games. We made up our own region with our own routes, gyms, cities. We also designed some pokemon as well XD. Then one person acted like a DM/narrator and the others played the game. Passed countless hours through this.
My grandparents have nice pond about 100 yards in-front of their house. My grandpa golfed a lot and use to buy large buckets of old used golf balls and practice by hitting them from their house into the water. When we were young, my cousins, my brother and I use to go get handfuls of golf balls and hit them into the pond with a baseball bat instead of a club. You can hit a golf ball so far with a bat ( I recommend you try it, but be careful) and they soar! Whoever hit the most into the pond won. It was good times. It’s a very simple game, but we were so competitive when we played. We never had a name for it, so lets just call it “DingerGolf”...I wonder how many golf balls are at the bottom of that pond...😂
It was a friend me and my best friend played on bikes. We weren't allowed to stop and had to make the others put their feet on the ground by cutting them off. Really dangerous ngl but it was so much fun, we developed a meta and everything. Good times
My sister and I would play “buy that chair”. We would hold hands and spin in a circle real fast, then one of us would let go and fall/land in a position. The one standing would assess the chair for design then sit on the “chair” to see if it was comfy enough to buy it. If the chair was bought you won the game. Still fun to this day
We called it “Mainstreet Co-street” and we would basically divide our big L-shaped driveway in half with a chalk line and one person would be the cop while everyone else who was playing were just normal people. Then we would all get on bike, or scooters, or big wheels, or roller blades and play on the Co-Street side of the driveway. Whenever anyone went to the mainstreet side of the driveway the police would have to pull them over and it usually ended in a big police chase/ game of tag
Stubbs but for play station even tho it wasn't for it. Got a CD with mutliple demos and Stubbs stood out the most. Stubbs is a 'play as the zombie' game. Cartoony and funny.
Whole laundry list. I was always outside when I was little.
I have no clue why, but when I was growing up, ‘zombie tag’ (if you get tagged, you and the person who tagged you were both taggers) was called ‘witch tag’ or, if you were totally cool and grown up, ‘b-word tag’ (I swear I’m not making this up)
I was best friends with my neighbors grandson, and we had our own crop of games.
First was ‘Lazzerman’ (that’s how we spelled it). Basically, you needed chalk and a driveway. You had to draw a straight line of chalk across the driveway and had to prove that you could cross the driveway without stepping on a line. Basically, like playing Horse with a basketball, but you’re a spy dodging ‘lazzers’. If you made it, they had to make it, then it was their turn, and they got to draw the line.
We also ‘played’ Code Lyoko (a show on Cartoon Network) and spent more hours than I’d like to admit trying to pry the manhole in front of my house open so we could set up our own sewer-base like the show. Funnily enough, once, a pothole ate through so much of the asphalt that it broke towards the sewer, and my uncle, who was in public works, let us go in and hold flashlights while they worked.
There was a rocky ditch separating the 2 houses, so we always challenged each other to ‘ditch walks’ where you had to walk the length of the ditch with no shoes or socks.
A fun running tally we had was how often his grandma swore when we watched the news.
I don’t know how it got the name, but ‘Tom and Jerry’ was a game we played where whoever could fall off the monkey bars and land on their head and neck more without giving up won. I lost my first tooth this way.
The game I remember most fondly was ‘pregnant joey’ (since his name was Joey) where he and his 200 pound self grabbed my 60 pound body and swung me in circles by the arms and threw me as far as he could. He graded me on how ‘realistically’ I crumpled, and I graded him on how far he threw me.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my neighbor when we were in fourth grade would pick up the empty beer bottles that we would find in the undeveloped part of our neighborhood, empty them if there was any liquid, and one person would throw one bottle up in the air and the other would have to try and hit that bottle with another bottle. The aim was to get both bottles to shatter. It was a lot of fun
There used to be a computer game called recoil that was basically us controlling a tank. My parents and I tried looking for it again but to no avail. I was 7 back then and I'm 26 now. Anyone else heard of the game?
The Pit. Whilst driving done the road (1980s), my mom would hit the brakes at random. Us kids in the back of the station wagon, with the metal-backed seats laid down, would slide forward, often slightly violently, but try not to fall into The Pit (the gap between the back and front seats). Definitely would not get away with this now, what with seatbelt laws and other such nonsense (/s).
"Zombie", a game that I came up with one day during recess back in 4th grade.
It was basically freeze tag, but one person would start spreading the "infection" until the whole gang of kids had it. The dude that survived until the end without getting infected won.
That game had the most casualties in the playground, since kids would jump from the slides to catch others, tackle them, or actually bite them. It was fucking fun.
EDIT: Just to add a note:
It's so heartwarming to see that kids still play this game. A few months ago I went back to my old primary school (I don't remember the reason), and there was this group of children playing it.
Now this is a sort of improv game where everyone has to be invested in the scene and in winning the game
To play you would have 3+ people. 1 would go out if the room while the other two would create characters for themselves and hide a certain object. Then the first person would come in again and would try to gain the others trust and let them tell the first where the object was.
If the first person could find the object within ten minutes of him returning to the room he won.
But here’s the kicker. If the first person messed up and was unable to convince the others to show him the object he could call “reset”. This would start the conversation over again but the clock would still be ticking.
So in the end the others would have to decide who “won”. And it was fun either way. However, I personally preferred letting the first person find it.
My brother and my cousins and I used to set up 2 couches at opposite end of their basement (room was maybe 15x10) to use as cover. We then got every throwable item they had that was at least a little softer than a baseball (basketballs, racquetballs, tennis balls, footballs, etc.) We would then turn off all the lights and fire away at each other. I don't remember clear rules for points. The loser was usually the first team to cry out, "TIME OUT! TIME OUT! TURN ON THE LIGHTS!"
We had a pool table, but young brothers and I didn't [want/like/know how] to play pool. So, we would throw all the balls to one half of the pool table, then the two of us would toss balls with incredible velocity to hit the other balls, bringing them either back or knocking them into the sockets. Any balls that came back across the halfway point were fair game for throwing. The goal was to get as many balls into sockets, not horde balls, and not run out of balls on our half. Fun times.
My brother and I would take turns piling all of the couch cushions, blankets, etc that we could find, on top of the other person until it was pitch black underneath it all. Then it was just sort of a waiting game to see how long until the other one panicked. Usually me, since he would sit on top of me, and I would thrash around trying to get an air hole.
I'm now realizing that my mild claustrophobia might have a root in playing this game...
VadJag · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont think we ever named it.
At night when we were kids, our bedroom was up the stairs. The bathroom was the opposite side of the house through the living room, kitchen, and down a hallway. One of us hid in the dark house, the rest had to get to the bathroom and/or back without getting caught, while also being quite as we had to pass by our parents bedroom.
Good times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put your bike in lowest gear, try to trap others without touching them, if you touch the ground with your foot you're out.
zackuo · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill the Dill with the Pill
The Pill being any sort of ball, the Dill being the person who had the ball, and Kill meaning tackle the crap out of the person 😂
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What’s the cloud?
we would take road trips all the time and it was super boring and we had nothing to do. so one time i just started this game where you had to spot a cloud and you each say what it looks like and the person who got the most votes won and got a point. here’s how it works
For example, say if you see a cloud and you think it looks like a duck. then your brother/sister says “No it’s clearly a baby” then your dad says i think it’s more of a dragon and your mom thinks it’s a face.
Everyone unanimously has to agree on what the cloud looks like and it has to be an option that one of the members said and you can’t vote for yourself. so say my duck gets 2 votes, the baby gets one vote and the dragon gets one vote, the duck wins, so i get one point and we do that until we reach our destination.
Nanosaur. I played it on my iMac G3. You were a raptor (or similar dinosaur, I can't recall) and you shot lasers and had a jetpack.
kglens · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played baseball but in between the bases there was a guy with a rope and the objective of that “fielder was to rope you by the feet and keep you from going anywhere since there was only one guy in the outfield to round up the ball. Most times we ended up pissed off at each other and started hucking rocks at each other till one of us got hit in the head and ran home.
4th graders vs 5th graders "get the red kickball in the other person's soccer goals, NO RULES! (No out of bounds, hand balls are fine, kicking, tackling, anything goes). Just get..the ball..in the other team's soccer goal.
Second: to answer your question, my siblings mde a game of going “Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!” every tiny we drove in a sort of tunnel, or at least extended enclosed space (usually due to an overhead multi/lane highway(s)) until it passed and they could see the sky again. You has to last until then or else you die.
Five-year-old me caught on. Naturally, this drove our parents nuts.
“Chicken Tag ”
When I was in first grade I played this game that was essentially tag but the people being chased were supposed to act like chickens and the ‘it’ person was supposed to act like they had a shotgun and shoot the chickens. Nothing crazy special but an example of kids being overly morbid.
Schmear ball. My buddy had a higher end nerf type basketball goal set up on the door of his closet in his room. The kind that came with a small basketball that was made of rubber and the rim was metal, backboard was plastic, etc. On the opposite side of the room was the futon he slept on. One person laid flat on their back on the bed and tried to shoot the ball into the net. The other person rebounded the ball, and promptly threw it as hard as they could at the shooter to “schmear” them. There were no points, no winner, and a decent number of intentional and unintentional nut shots. Junior high was a strange time.
Spud. I just remember it had something to do with a tree and covering your eyes, and we played it in my friend's backyard until the fireflies came out and then we played tomb raider.
"Bubble-gum run". This was in primary school. Essentially to start the game someone gets nominated to get on the ground whilst everyone else surrounds them. You then proceed to kick the person on the ground (usually lightly) whilst chanting "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide".
After a minute or so of kicking, the person on the ground screams "BUBBLE-GUM RUN". At this point the person on the ground gets up and chases and tackles someone. Now whoever that person tackles stays on the ground and everyone surrounds that person and proceeds to kick them again chanting the song.
We called it “wave.” It’s basically hide and go seek/tag but the zone was usually three houses across. One person is “it” and they are trying to get everyone out by looking at them and calling their name while they are still visible. If you get out you have to go to “jail” once your in jail you have to keep an eye out for another player who is it “it” and is not in “jail” to wave to you. Once you see the wave you have to wave back and once this happens your free again. And you can run from jail whenever you want before all the people get found and put in jail.
When we stayed at my dads, we'd go downstairs to the pool table and play knuckle break. Literally rolled pool balls as fast as we could at each other in an attempt to wound each other. It was fun but one of my pinky fingers still doesn't work properly.
When I did my math homework, I did something called a “chip flip”. Every time I answered a problem , I’d eat a tortilla chip and do a summersault over the back of the living room sofa. My dad thought it was awesome, and would clap every time.
I made up a game on road trips called, "cow, I win". You literally just had to see a cow and say "cow, I win" and could only say it multiple times if the cows we're separated by fences. Road trips through the Midwest for ya!
Hide and Seek and Scare! It’s essentially hide and seek in the dark but when the person finds you, you try and scare them. Then whoever scared them the most is who is it next
This isn't really unique, but I just thought it was too cute not so share.
My sister and I would grab things from our kitchen (cans of food, cereal boxes) then set up a "store" in our kitchen. We would "sell" things to our parents.
We would also be in the living room with our toy cash register, which had a small microphone on it. My sister and I would pretend to be sectarians, and drink hot water, pretending it was coffee
My cousin and I had two games. They were footskitball and buntball. Footskitball was basically basketball with a football and buntball was kickball but you only run to the pitchers mound and back to home.
My childhood home was next to a cow pasture and across from a eucalyptus forest, so a lot of my childhood memories involve wandering the wilderness next to my house. One summer my neighbors and I invented a game we called the spinning game where one person would close their eyes and get spun in circles until they lost their sense of direction. The others would then lead the person into the wilderness and they’d try to guess where they were. This was excellent fun for about a week, until one of the neighbors, we’ll call her E, and I were in the forest playing the spinning game and I led her straight through a wasps nest. I remember looking down and seeing them crawling across her legs and screaming bloody murder about bees as we bolted through the trees. E got stung 10 or 20 times and lost a shoe to the woods that day, and I somehow made it out without a scratch.
Looking back that game could have ended up a lot worse, but then again I wasn’t the one who stepped into a wasps nest in flip flops.
Me and some friends would go to a stretch of rode where no cars go down, one or two people would throw PVC pipe to try and stop the rest who rode bikes down the rode.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had a large back yard with orange trees and mostly the signature Greek dead bushes and grass so it was bright yellow and brown on the ground and lime green on top.
Anyway, we had built this whole world in our minds and basically played out a fantasy movie in real time, full improv. It. Was. So. Much. Fun! We where both about 7 or 8 and in the scenario we played out her back yard was the corrupted land where the evil guys lived and we where just two magic sisters who had been separated at birth and found each other thanks to our dragon tattoos we both had on our wrists. We would fight imaginary wars and train our magic skills with sticks and stones and we may or may no have thought her neighbors shiny yard decorations where the tresure and his dog the monster protecting theme and having broken into his yard to steal some of his rocks.
If you have or know young kids tell theme it would be a fun idea to pretend they have magical powers and their imaginations will build a world around their actions. These are some of my most treasured memories of my friend and I.
daemyn · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cone ball. We would get two teams on each side of a line on a pretty small court. Then we would use sticks or broom handles or whatever to fling roadcones across the line at each other. Usually 2 or 3 cones were in play at a time. Dodgeball rules, if you got hit with a cone you were out, but it you catch it on your stick your whole team gets back in.
The "Steve Irwin Game". One person would be Steve, and have to climb across the swingset without touching the ground. The other person was an animal and would be allowed to catch Steve if he touched the ground.
There were different levels with different animals - emu, crocodile, blue tongue lizard, and they all had different ways they were allowed to move/catch Steve.
When in the middle of nowhere it was zombie apocalypse. Went out in the woods and pretended zombies were after us, made shelter and weapons with sticks, and occasionally added in super powers. When in the city it was spot the next Florida man
My family plays a road trip game where everyone picks a rare vehicle, like a car pulling a boat or a yellow semi-truck. Every time we pass one you can score a point, but only if you call it out. The round is over when we pass under a certain number of bridges. If you saw a car carrier, you got the same number of points as there were cars on it.
Floppy socks. When you come inside from the snow and your socks are a little wet, pull them down so that you have extra sock at your toes. Then kick that part of the sock at each other while saying "floppy socks!"
Killer Ball, 3 of us, one at each end of the hall, one in the middle. We had one of those “Tennis” size bouncy balls and we through it SUPPER hard trying to hit the person in the middle. Only rule was we had to bounced it off the wall.
Murder in the dark, same as above but in a pitch black room.
Cops and robbers on ATC’s. If you got caught we would sit you down tie you up with tie downs and dust you the hell out!
My brother, sister, and I used to catch bees in those cheap, plastic bug catchers, put them on the trampoline, and jump until they opened. The goal of the game was to see who could get off the trampoline first. We had a net around our trampoline, which made it even more exhilarating!
Dark hide and seek. The house would be completely dark and the only light was city lights or the moon coming through closed blinds. The trick here is that whoever was "it" wore a night vision headset.
This was performed in a 2 story house with 2 staircases and the living room had a step down where the fireplace was base. If you've never used a night vision headset, when you wear it, it's a little different field of view and the depth perception is gone. For those hiding, you could only see a single red power LED of the headset when they we're close enough, and it happens to strike fear in strong men. My fond memory is creating a shoe skid mark on the stairway about 6' up the wall from falling down the stairs away from the red eyed monster.
My cousins had a game called 'Butt Wars' which we would play upstairs at my grandma's house whenever we gathered. The simple idea of the game is basically bumper cars with your butt. You run backwards into each other, and the goal is to knock everyone down. It's actually really fun and I would play it any second.
Jumping on the very back of a pig then it runs wild all over the pen in the muck til you fall off. Then the new game was getting back through the muck without losing your shoes/boots.
Playing in the half constructed houses in my street. One time the workers left this flat-ish square of a cardboard box inside the house that was full of pink sponge. The container was about as tall as me when standing up on its thin side and wide enough to squeeze into and run around inside like a squirrel.
Well a neighbor kid and I decided to do just that. We took turns and it was stupid enough fun for a few seconds distraction. Shortly after, we started feeling the entirety of our limbs ache with the feeling of little thorn-hairs in every pore of our skin. It felt like we just rolled around in a carpet of thorn balls and didn't notice until the little shits had left their little devil hairs imbedded in our skin.
By now some of you will have figured out that the box full of sponge was actually fiberglass insulation.
It was fixed after my dad found me miserable in my room, laying in my bed face down with my legs floating in the air trying not to brush them on anything. After finding out what I did he said to get in the tub and rinse myself in hot AF water so that my pores can open up and wash out the fiberglass. It was kind of funny to go back outside fully cured of my suffering ( although with tender skin from the near scotching water) and see my neighbors sister helping him douse his leg with the garden hose in an almost comedic display. I enlightened him on what to do and he went inside to go do the same. Good times.
This was more like junior high than little kids, but we used to play "what if..?". The rules are pretty easy. 1) write 3 "what if.." questions. You can make up anything! Be creative and it can be hilarious!. 2) pass your questions to the person on your left (best to play with at least 4 people). 3) write answers to the questions you were given..
Now is the fun part!! Pick a person to read the 1st question on the piece of paper they were given aloud. Then the person to the left will read the answer to the 1st question they answered. This continues around the circle and through all three questions. So the questions of the person to an individual's right will end up being answered by the person on the left..
Holy cow!! I haven't played this in a long time! Reminds me of when my friends tried to explain it to me at school. Sounds kinda confusing to me now that I tried to type it out. Super fun though, especially after playing a few times and people get creative with questions and answers
In London, threw ball at the edge / corner of the curb (sidewalk) in the attempt to make it bounce back to your side, the more times you did this, the more you could gloat and upset the player on the opposite side.
Buttball- we would take a tennis ball and throw it against the wall, it had to bounce before hitting the wall, if bounced more than once you had to run to the wall and touch the wall before the ball hit the wall again. If you didn't beat the throw you got a letter B then U then T...... Once you spelt BUTT you had to hug the wall facing forward while everyone playing got one throw at your butt.
I can still hear the thump of a tennis ball whizzing by my head smacking a wooden garage door,
Flashlight tag through the streets of my neighborhood in the dark of the night. My friends and I had certain limits and houses we couldn't pass but if you got shined by the flashlight you were it. Some people would stay hidden for hours. It was fun but terrifying at the same time lol.
"Paper Chain Factory" was one of the weird ones. My friend and I had a fascination with manufacturing jobs or something... I really don't know what our inspiration was!
We would set up a Paper Chain Factory with each of us sitting at a desk with a stack of construction paper and a pair of scissors. We'd both cut a bunch of equally-sized strips of differently colored papers, then link them together. Over and over again, for hours on end.
We would even take turns pretending to be the angry boss, throwing out paper strips that weren't the right size or creating more demanding quotas. We started over every time we played, otherwise we probably would've had a mile-long chain. Not sure who our imaginary company had for clients, but apparently paper chains were in high demand.
We used to play Sting-pong growing up. After every ping pong point (or 3, I forget) the loser turns around to get pelted in the back by the winner. We would all have welts all over our backs at the end of the night. Oh, also civil war paintball. Walk a set distance each, turn around, no hopper (musket load), fire one shot, step closer, reload, re-fire until someone gets hit.
In fourth grade we made up a game during recess we called “sacrifice” where we would all push and shove each other at the top of one of the rolly slide type things where it’s basically impossible to come back up and when someone slipped up and started rolling down the slide the rest of us would chant “sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice” over and over until they reached the bottom.
It was a fun game, but the teachers didn’t exactly like the idea of s bunch of kids “sacrificing” each other and they put a stop to it after a week or so. Still, easily the best and most entertaining game of my childhood.
I don't know if this has been mentioned before or how unique it is.
My friends and I when we were kids (sometimes with my friends dad) would play what we called Hide-N-Seek-Go-Tag.
The game takes place outside. Before the game starts all participants designate a "Safe Spot" and would do "My mother told me" or "Eenie meenie minie moe" to see who was IT 1st. (If y'all remember that).
The safe spot was usually just the front porch of either my two best friends. They lived across the street from eachother just around the corner from me.
Then we would all go to the safe spot. The person who was IT would cover/close their eyes and count to whatever we decided the time was. (Usually like 30 mississippi). Then whoever wasn't IT would run around and hide. After counting, the person that was IT would seek everyone out and chase them if they were found. If they made it back to the porch they were safe. First to get tagged was IT. If everyone made it back to the safe spot and didn't get tagged, they were IT again.
1) This one my brother and I still play now when I come back home from college. He has string lights in his room that can be set to strobe. When it’s dark out and you close the door to his room, it’s pretty much pitch black. So we set the lights to strobe really fast, which creates a really weird effect like you’re in a stop motion. Then we just play catch, which is really hard because you don’t see as many “frames”.
2) This one was really stupid that we played in the beginning of Spring. We got a bunch of those long thin poles that the snow plow company would leave in the ground so the person doing the snow plow could see where our lawns began and the road ended. Then two people would ride bikes around the street (it was a private drive so we got very minimal traffic, while a third would throw the poles at the bikers, attempting to get them into the spokes so that when the tire spun around it would come into contact with the bike frame, causing the rider to fall or at the very least come to a very abrupt stop.
3) Another one we did on the private drive, using the low traffic to our advantage. My brother and I both had ripsticks, and so one of us would get on a bike and tow the other on one of the ripsticks via a rope tied around the frame of the bike. We got to the point where while I was on the ripstick, I was able to lay down on my stomach on top of it and we’d speed down the street, and we could do a 180 at the end to turn around and keep going without needing to reset. I felt like Tom Cruise doing some Mission Impossible shit, gliding so close to the ground.
4) We called this one “Assassin”. My family owns some cottages on one of the Great Lakes, and since they’re right next to each other, we have about an acre of land available to us including the public land in between the small neighborhood. One person would be selected as the “assassin” at random. Only they knew they were the assassin. Everyone else was an innocent bystander. The assassin’s goal was, of course, to kill everybody. To “kill” someone, all you had to do was touch them and inform them that you’re the assassin. They then had to lay down on the spot. At any time, you could ask them to move and lead them to wherever you’d like to “hide the body”. The dead people may not move on their own and can only speak to confirm to an innocent that they are indeed dead and not just laying down for the hell of it. In the beginning, the innocents have to play dumb. They can’t act like they know there’s an assassin somewhere. Once a dead body is spotted, they may be on full alert, completely aware that one of them is a killer. Additionally, as soon as at least one body is seen, any living innocent may call out “911”. The innocents collectively only have one 911 call, so this may only happen once per game. 911 meant that any dead innocents came to life as police. The police must try their best to act as if they do not know who the assassin is (in rare cases they actually didn’t) unless living innocents have evidence or an assassination is witnessed. They had to figure out who the assassin was and tag them. A false tagging lead to the police dying. The assassin could also theoretically kill the police, but this never actually happened because in the case of a tagging tie, the assassin lost. Once 911 gets called the assassin needs to try to finish off the remaining innocents before the cops get him. It was a really fun game that was slow and strategic until 911 got called and then it got really hectic. We later found out that “Assassin” is extremely similar to Garry’s Mod’s “Murder”, which is odd because none of us has played the game before we made the original rules. The rules evolved a lot over the summers we played it. It works best with 5-7 players we’ve found, although we’ve never had the numbers to play it with more so maybe it could work with more.
On the playground, at the swing-set, a group of kids would swing and it was their duty to try to hit the person running through them. You ran until you got hit, and if you hit them, you'd take over running.
Clue. But with our house as the game board. It had an upstairs and everything. It got intense! We counted steps and everything (the staircase was a pain!!) we even had props like rope and candle stick. Good freaking times!
As a lil kid, I did something I later called "Action Drawing". I would draw out scenes and adventures, controlling and voicing different characters. I would end up creating pretty crazy plot arcs: in one, the recurring villianous megacorporation Business Inc.'s leader, Mr. Business, had a child with the goal of having it be used as a vessel for the CEO (Chief Economic Overbeing, essentially their god). The CEO was in reality the manifestation of the force of order, taking on material form to conpletely remove all entropy from the universe, essentially freezing everything, aside from a small pocket dimension he would reside in. Luckily, my hero, also an immortal, snuck into the pocket dimension, and proceeded to just beat him up for several billion years until he finally allowed chaos and entropy back into the universe. Pretty fun part.
Thunder Sticks!
Ok so the main premise is Tag, but with a twist. Someone is IT, but they can’t pass being It with touching directly - only non-direct flying broken stick bits. The chaser (it) has pick up sticks and chase anyone not “it” while slamming sticks against trees/branches/rocks to ricochet the now broken stick debris to hit the target kid being chased with the broken part. Essentially just a bunch of kids running in circles in a forest smashing sticks against trees and screaming from close encounter stick dodges, or getting nailed in the face with flying broken wooden shards.
As young boys we would often run around on Summer days without shirts. This would often lead to a game of "whistle or loose it" This was a simple game that one boy would pinch and hold another boy's nipple. Then the pincher would then say "whistle or loose it" The pinchee would then have to whistle, which is difficult when one's nipple is being pinched. To make the game more interesting, (read cruel) if the pinchee attempted to whistle and failed. The pincher would then twist a little and say it again. The game progressed until the pinchee was either able to whistle, or said "I'm a little Princess". If the pinchee was able to whistle, he was now the pincher. I have seen many red/bruised nipples because no boy wanted to be a little princess.
One of my grade school teacher’s had this game “Beckon Follow”. It’s kind of like tag. One person is it, everyone else hides. The “it” tries to find everyone and if they see you and call out your name you’ve been tagged and you have to follow the it around in a line. If you’re not caught, you can try to sneak up on the line of people in jail and free them by physically tagging them. So the it is always moving around, everyone else is also moving but trying to be quiet and stay hidden so they don’t get caught. The it can also call out “beckon” to which all of the people who aren’t yet caught have to reply “follow”.
Game was fun because I went to a school out in the country with a lot of fields and hills and space so you had places to hide while you played. Obliviously it wouldn’t work on a small playground.
Don't know how "unique" it is, but basically it was a specialized version of hide and go seek. Say you had 10 kids playing, like 8 of them would go hide, and 2 would seek. The two seekers would go out and once they saw you, you had to go to the center of the playing area where there was a can. Obviously the 2 seekers won if they could find everyone. The kids who were hiding could release their captured comrads by running in and kicking the can, which would release all the kids who had been spotted and allowed everyone to re hide. The seekers could put you in jail by just calling out your location, but if you were making a run in the open to kick the can then they had to physically tag you. Fun ass game, we played it a lot as kids.
Christmas Drive. During Christmas my brother and I would play this game in the car where he or I would get points for simply having Christmas light decorations on our side of the ride. It made any drive during that time fine because we actively searched for them.
As a kid although I lived in town, my grandparents lived in the bush and we had a camp in the woods as well. We would find an area with a bit of a clearing and make pretend houses by clearing the low hanging branches and underbrush, use sticks to build up shelves, etc. At my grandparents we called it Aster Cottage (in August the little meadow nearby would be full of them), and at the cabin it was a witches den with potions and spells etched into fresh birch bark, and bottles filled with berries and leaves.
In university we played a version of the card game Speed, but with the play area in the centre of the hallway and our decks at the end. So every time you played a card you had to run to the centre of the hallway and back.
My sister and i never gave it a name and the rules were incredibly fluid, but we used to play catch by putting a tennis ball in a bread bag and throwing it high in the air, then racing to be the first one to catch it. (We would throw the ball using the bread bag as like the handle??)
I made up a game called “Baby, Don’t Go Down the Toilet.” At the top of one of those swirly slides in the playground would be two players: the mom and the baby. At the bottom of the slide was the devil (I went to catholic school for elementary). The devil would try to climb up the slide to drag the baby down to hell via the toilet drain, and the mom would try to keep the baby from being dragged down. The baby had to be neutral unless verbally persuaded by the devil or the mom. It was good physical activity and good practice for improvising oral arguments.
A game I made for road trips when I was a small child which if you saw a car that you wanted or was cool you would say “my car” before anyone else did.
My family on my dad's side (which included my three uncles and all of their sons) would sneak into the neighborhood school playground sometime before dinner but after all the kids left for the day. We would play this twisted game of "booty on the wall" where all the kids would line up on the wall used for Wall Ball and our uncles would throw the ball at the wall. We would have to dodge it and the last one standing was the winner. However, my sister and I were usually excluded because we were the only girls in the family. The last time we played was when my oldest brother was about 16 I believe. The topic of "booty on the wall" comes up quite often whenever we all get together. It's a funny little memory of our childhood.
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My sister and I would play the game of "Jello" in the car where we would share with each other the color and/or flavor of Jello we were (rainbow jello was a crowd favorite). We would then flail our bodies along with the movement of the car. We would lean on turns, slump forward on stops and rear back when the car was started again. It was quite a fun little game between us.
“Roly Poly”: my best friend and I would get into fetal position inside a sleeping bag and zip it all the way up. We’d roll around the tent like a rolled up roly poly, one of us trying to bump into the other and the other trying to avoid (like tag). It was really fun for two hyper 8 year olds!
"Butt ralley" this is a game from the locker room of junior high.
People would get the floor super wet, and get their naked body wet. Then they would line up at the one side of the room, start running and throw themselves at the ground sliding across the room at incredible speeds.
I think the first to slam into the wall on the other side first won, there were definitely some minor fighting on the track.
Growing up I shared a room with both my siblings, so we had 2 sets of bunk beds right next to each other. One would lay on the floor in between beds while the other 2 took turns jumping from the bunk beds standing, legs spread, on the top rung of each ladder, gripping the bars on the side to slow their fall less and less each jump while they land feet first right onto the crotch of the person laying on the floor below until they couldn’t take it anymore. We brilliantly called it “Don’t Crunch the Crotch”. We were some stupid fucking kids.
Me and my family like to play the Alphabet game where you have to find words that start with each letter of the Alphabet in order from A-Z. License plates didn’t count when we played and the word has to start with the letter, it’s always so much fun and usually a challenge to find all the words/ letters! It also sucked when you saw a word that started with the letter after the one you were currently on but then pass it and find the letter you are currently looking for and realize that you can’t use the word you passed anymore and now can’t find that letter anymore.
Snowball fight involving one snowmobile in a large pasture.
Two kids would be on the snowmobile, and 2-4 others would be on foot.
If you were on the snowmobile, you had the advantage of speed, and being able to do drive-by attacks on the others. Disadvantage: everyone could clearly see and target you at all times.
If you were on foot, you had the advantage of being able to hide (somewhat), and you could effectively come out of nowhere and blast one of the snowmobile riders upside the head without much difficulty.
In the end, the two teams were surprisingly well-matched, despite the huge differences.
‘houdini’ was the game where you were tied up and put on a skateboard. Then you would get rolled down the driveway and you’d have to untie yourself before you get to the road. There was that and trying to ninja roll under the garage door without tipping the sensor. Aaahhh childhood
We used to take an action figure/car, throw it and debate with each other as to whether the character/car occupants would have died or survived based on how they impacted the floor, stairs, other toy cars, etc.
My parents were livid every time we played it in the car.
"Hall Ball" . My favorite childhood game required of a hall way of about 15-18 ft, a half dozen or more 10"-12" diameter vinyl balls, 1 exercise ball and 2 players* on either end of the hall on their knees but upright facing each other. I started playing with my best friend when we were in 1st or second grade, as we played into our teenage years, there was more at stake. Hall ball was a bit like whose line is it anyways, everything is made up and the points don't matter. There were many unspoken objectives and was a game of scarce resources. The resources of the game were ammunition and satisfaction from inflicting pain. The main objectives were to hit the other player in either the face or the balls with a fastest fastball you could throw. In a typical game, both players would use a hall ball in either hand as a way of blocking with the left handed hall ball, while reloading and firing shots at the opponents head or family jewels. The game would range in moods from standoff to an all out shootout. Part of the game was the number of hall balls you had on your side. If you had many, it meant your opponent was hitting you more and you would have to move around to pick up scattered hall balls on your side. But it also meant you had more ammunition. Since the game was played on your knees, moving around and diving for balls that were out of reach became a positional chess match. Reaching for a ball meant the player couldn't defend themselves from an incoming attack. For instance lunging for one of the balls that was partially deflated and was a more painful to get hit by could pay off. But just in the moment when that player would make his move he would leave himself vulnerable to a barrage of rapid fire blows, including the most coveted of all hall ball inflicted pain, a direct hit of the exercise ball to the face. The game was over when both players are too tired and sweaty to continue.
Growing up in a strict religious household resulted in no video games and no internet for way too long, but this never stopped me from having an awesome time. I can clearly remember inadvertently creating my own turn-based RPG out of paper and a vivid imagination. I folded our printer paper several times and cut many symmetrical rectangles out of it. I used crayons to draw me and fake friends as the heroes, and animals and mythical creatures as the villains. I even incorporated different health, attack and movement distance for each of the heroes. Each map was a grid with a bunch of copy/paste villains and I had to defeat them without me and my team losing all our health. Whichever one of my characters killed a villain, got a +1 to a stat of my choice. To keep it fun, I added OP enemies that'd easily defeat my whole team so I would have to replay my same map over and over again, grinding on the same easy enemies next to the hard ones until I could beat the whole map. I grew so attached to these pieces of paper I took them with me on car trips and would set up a new battlefield anywhere and everywhere. Sadly, my game didn't last forever because I added "goblins" and my parents saw this. I did many bizarrely creative things like this as a child to keep myself entertained. Such as not only run a stuffed animal town called Happy Land, but hold political debates between the animals. Civil unrest grew on certain topics and we even had a civil war twice. Half on one side of the room, half on the other. I kept the winner random by making the toys toss Lego from their hand to the other side, if a stuffed animal was hit, they were down. Thankfully, a lot has changed in a decade and we now have WiFi. Sure, I'm 18 now, but I still love life and seek to use my imagination to the fullest. :)
Sorry if I rambled off-topic too long. ;)
My siblings and I would place a single powdered donut on the kitchen floor and all climb and sit on the kitchen counters. We’d then all start pointing fingers and questioning “who put the donut in the middle of the floor”. It was like a pointless mystery game, and we called it “who put the donut in the middle of the floor”.
So Sardines is when one person hides while everyone else counts, and then everyone goes looking for the hider. If you find them you squeeze in to wherever they are and hide with them. The last person to find the group was the hider for the next round.
We would play outside at night at big family gatherings in the summer, whole huge groups of cousins running all around the yard in the dark trying to find one particular person and the crowd gradually getting thinner as one by one they found him.
"Baby Lost Land". In the pool, my sibling and I would pretend to be babies who floated away from their families on the beach one day, and floated to this super advanced island society populated only by lost babies. We'd basically first pretend we were floating away on our pool floats, and then once we drifted to baby lost land, we'd kick off the walls and jet across the pool, or jump in and pretend we were going through all these secret baby security checkpoints or riding secret baby rockets or submarines. We played this from the time we were toddlers until we were 5-6 and had to move onto other pool games.
We lived near a golf course in Texas so our game involved stealing golf balls without getting caught by he marshal.
It's a two part game called cowboys and Indians
The first part is acquiring golf balls on our horses (bikes). It was a team coop situation and the enemy was the marshal. (Golf police) if anyone spotted the golf cart with a red sign, they would scream "marshal" and everyone runs away to not get caught and get In trouble.
Then once we had enough golf balls we would assign someone to be head Indian.
Still On the course, the head Indian would stand on the top of a hill, yell "indian" and throw golf balls in the air while everyone else ran down the hill.
My siblings and I would play "rock," a game that made no sense. One of us would curl up in a ball on the floor and be said "rock" while louding announcing "look! a rock! sit on it!" Another sibling would come around and sit on the rock. After a few minutes, the person who was the "rock" would suddenly yell PEEEEEEEEEEEE! and emerge back into human form and begin to chase the person who sat on them. The only way to evade capture was to turn yourself into a rock by curling into a ball. You won if you caught the person running away
In translation it wold be called 'caps'. We would find 5 beer bottle caps, then draw a square and diagonal lines of it on the pavement.
Stack thise 5 caps in the middle of the square and hit it with a ball from agrred distance. Caps are now all over the ground..
One team is guarding the square with a ball and has to hit a memeber of another team like in the dodgeball to get him out of the game, and another team is trying to put every one of those caps in the corners and in the middle of the square
My siblings and I played ‘American Flag’. Whenever one was spotted we would shout it out and get a point. It was how we passed long car rides. There was a kicker tho, if we yelled it prematurely and it wasn’t an American flag we deducted a point. It was a fantastic, but brutal game especially when it was July 4th or when we passed a car dealership. My kids and I now play this game.
We sung ‘I found a peanut’ a ton and we played the color remembering game (like the Simon electronic game).
Also, being the eldest I was always having to watch my siblings a lot. One thing I loved to do (and something they still laugh about to today) was to draw gross and funny pictures of them and slide it under a close door where they were waiting for the drawing. It was hilarious to hear their laughter at my poorly drawn pictures.
We made up a game called "shark tag".
There had to be a playground structure in order to play.
It was tag but the person who was it/the shark could not go on "land" (the playground structure). But as the floor of the structure had holes, that meant a shark could poke their finger through the floor to tag someone. I think we also allowed the shark to climb some things so they could be more of a threat.
James Bond. My brother and I would tie each other up and try to escape. It escalated. Tied to the garage door. Tied to an ATV. It culminated to me tiring my brother up and putting him in an empty tub. I turned it on and forgot about him.
Weird bench, ugly bench.. I have no f'ing clue why we called it that but basically one would lay down with their feet up for the other to"sit" on. The other would walk by and had been walking enough to need a rest (convienient). Then, the person that sat would just remain seated pretending not to know that their about to be launched across the room by this weird/ugly bench.
Man that brings back memories.. we were stupid kids.
My sister used to have two twin beds in her room pushed together. We used to pull them slightly apart, put a blanket across the crack, and then lay in it and slowly sink down to the floor. We would pretend the other was dead and have funerals for each other.
Late to this but we played what I called "Freddy Krueger". It was like hide and seek in the dark, except only 1 person hid. The group would sing the "1, 2, Freddys coming for you" song, and once they finished, they would wearily go out "looking" for Freddy. When a seeker came close to the hiding place of Freddy, they would jump out, scaring the ever living sh$% out of the seeker, and then a game or tag ensued until Freddy tagged someone. They would be the hider then on.
This will certainly be buried but i have to put this out into the universe...
We played this game where everyone would close their eyes and face a fence while the person who won the last round would hide a belt. We would the all search for the belt until one of us found it. Everyone would run back to “base” as fast as they could while the person with the belt would try to hit everyone not at base with the belt as hard as they could.
The second game is using a wooden stick about 8” to a foot long to try and stab the other person in the torso. Each person held one end and if an end got your body you were dead. We got this idea from a movie where a dude was stabbed slowly while trying to fight it.
Played a game with my brother we each had a ballon and you had to keep your ballon in the air while trying to smack your opponents ballon to the ground. Who Evers ballon hit the ground first lost.
auro99 · 1 points · Posted at 08:10:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know the name of the game anymore but it was so much fun. It was a snowboarding game on, i think it was playstation 1 (or 2). I know that i played it alot when i was younger and have great memories of it
Basically people watching and then assigning the most eccentric, ridiculous people you see to your opponent's team before they could put the person on yours.
Played mostly while in the car or watching cable access TV, so you don't feel guilty for being judgmental.
My brother and I (as well as any friends we had over) would pull ourselves along the outer edge of our pool from the inside as fast as possible and go around in circles. We called it "the pool train." Only problem was that the material jutting out from the edge was basically pulverized limestone. That combined with raisins from staying in too long was a recipe for bloody fingertips.
In middle school, me and my friend played the extreme version of Tag, " Zombies". One will be the patient zero and try to infect everybody, the game end when all are infected or the break is over. Being chased aggressively by 20'ish kids was a fun experience :3
We used to have a home run derby type game with a tennis ball and racket. Trying to bomb the ball from the edge of one back yard across the street into the opposite back yard. Whoever caught it was up to bat. If it hit the ground, that’s a point. First to x points wins
My family used to all meet up at my grandfathers cabin during the summers. Me and my 3 cousins (one closer to me in age, probably 10-12 at the time. The other two 15-16) would pull these little spear like seeds off what looked like tall grass and battle each other with them. I just remember them being about 3 inches long, super light , and having a nasty little barb on the end which stung like hell and would kind of stick in your skin when youd throw them at people. So me and my younger cousin would team up and obviously get our asses kicked by my older cousins, being older and more athletic than us as they were. Eventually i hatched a brilliant plan, getting as many as i could so i essentially had a fistfull of them, running at my oldest cousin and throwing them all at once. My aim was a bit off and i didnt mean to hit him in the side of the face. I just remember everyones shock while he sat there looking like a porcupine, while we all helped him remove them. We stopped playing that game after that incident. Good times!
The alphabet game. This is great for interstate driving as well as town driving with little kids. Look for the letter “A” in signs, then “B” and so on...
Don’t announce when you see the letters, because it’ll alert it to the others and they may see it too. First person to see the whole alphabet, in order, wins.
You could also announce the letters if kids are really little and you want to keep them engaged in the game, but I don’t think it’s as much fun.
If there’s a tie, do a tie-breaker round finding the numbers 0-9 or finding a specific word chosen by an unbiased 3rd party.
Me and a friend made up a game. Each person would stand at the other end of a basketball court. Tossing a football from end to end. If you hit back board you got a point. If you made it in the rim it was 5 points. But for the person tossing the football the other player at the other end can catch the balk bouncing off the backboard. If you caught a ball if took a point away from the other person. Footballs bounce randomly most times when hitting the back board. So it was tricky to get those.
Hide and seek but only physical contact will be count as seekand with throwing shoe attacks to whole body.
My brother always won.
eisify · 1 points · Posted at 08:42:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin sister, friends and I had a game we called "Scribble Scrabble" where we'd take a bunch of markers in one hand and scribble all over a piece of paper. We'd sing the Inspector Gadget theme song and when we finished we'd yell "switch", fling our markers into the middle and grab a fistful of new ones, then scribble all over the page again. First person to cover their paper in marker scribbles was the winner.
Country erasers. Back when I was young, we used to buy these erasers that were absolute trash, but for that game it was good.
Now the game itself. We would flick and try to roll the eraser around the table until one got on top on another. The person who flicked the eraser on top on the other got to keep both erasers. However, it was definitely funny back when certain friends didn't want to lose their erasers and when they lost the battle, they swooped their hand down and grabbed their erasers out od reach. Definitely one of my childhood games etched onto my mind.
I can't really say it's unique. But every year, the entire family would go to the beach during the summer (Christmas time for me, as I'm from New Zealand). The place we stayed at had absolutely no light pollution what so ever. So, we sat up all night, counting satellites. I have to say, watching for them all night, it was like you were constantly on some sort of drug, always thinking this star was moving, than shaking your head, only to see that it wasn't. The game was simple: Count the most satellites, and you win. I believe our record number in one night was 19? Might have been higher. It's just amazing to watch these little specs moving across the night sky. At first, seeming like they were just another star. Only to see that they were indeed moving. We managed to get near the entire extended family playing it.
All I know, is that as a kid, staying up all night with your siblings and parents, doing nothing other than being a family, and watching the satellites until dawn. Those were the best times of my life.
Turn the lights out and one person would be in the center of the room under a blanket and the rest of the kids would walk aroundthe perimeter of the room while the under-the-blanket kid tried to trip everyone. We called it “trip the person” and it was an amazing time
In elementary school I started a game - A grasshopper catching competition. During recess we would go out in the grass field beyond the playground and try to catch as many as possible before the bell rang. There were several species in varying sizes, rarities, and relative difficulty to catch which made a scoring system into reality.
The goal was obviously to get as high a score as possible. We would all head into the grass and attempt to hand capture any grasshoppers we could. Techniques involved simply chasing them down until we could block their escape with a well placed hand or foot. We would retrieve the insect and show it off to a designated scorer, at which point we would release the bug and continue on.
No points were awarded if you mangled/killed the bug.
You had your standard grasshoppers, with white or clear wings. - 1 Point
Katydids, bright green, clear wings, usually did not blend in at all. - 2 Points
Further in the deeper grass you could find 'Red wings' - Black/white mottled grasshoppers with a brilliant red wings they could fly on. They blended in really well with the dirt and would be nearly impossible to find while on the ground, had they not had a very loud and distinct wingbeat noise accompanying the flashy coloration anytime they jumped airborne. Lots of fun and challenging to pursue. - 5 points
And finally, there were the 'Black Wings'. They were locusts. Huge, solid white to yellow in color, and equipped with a set of large black wings. They were relatively easy to locate but incredibly difficult to catch - Once they jumped they tended to fly long and far beyond anywhere we could follow. Also they can bite if you did manage to catch them. Catching one was a feat worthy of fanfare, usually involving everyone gathering to have a look for themselves. A whopping 10 points to the lucky/skilled kid who got their hands on one intact.
That entertained my group of friends for the first through third grade during the normal summer/fall seasons. The fun I had seems evident by how clearly I remember all this some 20+ years later.
Enchanted Arms I played that game as a kid and I absolutely loved its story I cbf explaining the story but it was good now whenever I try looking for the game it’s on Xbox 360 so it’s gonna be a little hard to find but every game store I go to has never heard of it nor has the game in stock or whatever :(
"Anything in the World Heads". It's exactly like Celebrity Heads except, you guessed it- you can pick anything in the world. The more specific the better. My little sister and I would play this for hours in the car, in bed when we were supposed to be asleep, and anywhere in between. It's a lot of fun
In the back of my dad's Land Rover disco 3 we had 2 ps2s hard wired into the car and screens (it was janky af, and probably a fire hazard). Me and my brother used to play a game called: XG III extreme g racing, both of us had a copy and would play it on long journeys (I am British so a long journey would be 4-7 hours) non fucking stop we would sit in the car even if we were at home just playing it, no wonder we are both addicted to games today
Also we played a board game with our gran which was like snakes and ladders but you played as a badger fox frog etc.
Not sure if I can call it a "game" but me and my younger brother used to catch insects and experiment with them. Like put spiders, flies, and ants in a jar and check on them the next day. Or mix chemical products together to see if anything would happen. Grow seeds by using wet cottons, that sort of thing.
Sounds like stuff only nerds would do but we also played a lot of tag with friends outside. Good times.
When I was younger I'd spend a lot of time with my cousins and one of our favourite activities was to make potions with random herbs and plants we found in the garden. We'd also add food colouring and try to make it as tasty as possible. We'd find old bottles at second hand stores that looked like proper potion bottles and make little lables to put on the front. We'd spend what felt like hours chopping up and grinding ingredients for the perfect magic potion. I also genuinely thought some of them might work.
“Sorry sir”
The game involved two or more participants walking around in random directions in a semi confined space with their chest puffed out until you would randomly bump into each other and say “sorry sir”. Laugh, then repeat.
“Car cricket”
On long drives, the colours of the cars that drove past in the opposite direction were worth certain amounts of points, the rarer the colour, the more points they were worth; eg red = 1 point, blue = 2, silver = 3, etc. when a fairly rare colour (eg green) drove past you were out and it was the next persons turn at getting points. Person with the highest score won. Repeat for many hours.
When I was in Primary we played a game which had a mix of fielding, throwing, dodging and blocking. There would be two teams, one team would line up behind a "goal", and across the field would be a mat. The second team would spread out across the field and roughly one to two meters away from the goal would be a post where the "bowler" from the other team stood.
So let's say the Team standing behind the goal would be Team 1 and the fielding team Team 2.
The first person from Team 1 would stand in the "goal", which is basically two cones put side to side. The bowler from Team 2 would bowl/roll the ball towards the person standing at the goal. The person from Team 1 would then have to make sure the ball wouldn't cross the line, as if it did, they would be out. But you couldn't use your hands. So most of the time they would just kick the ball.
If the ball crosses the goal, you're out. But if you manage to get it away, or it doesn't go through the goal, run for your life to the mat. The mat is your safe place. Team 2 needs to get the ball, and try to hit you with it, such as throwing the ball. Once you get on the mat, you're safe, and you can't get out. But if you get hit by the ball, you're out. You can either stay on the mat or continue running back towards the goal. Entirely up to you. Once you cross the goal or stay on the safe place, the next person comes on and same thing happens.
If you decide to stay on the mat, as soon as the ball is bowled, RUN TO THE GOAL. This is very important as two people cannot stay on the mat.
This happens until three people from Team 1 get out. Then Team 1 and 2 switch around and continue playing.
There are a few ways you can get out.
The ball going past/through the goal
Getting hit by the ball
Having your ball getting caught in air (E.g when someone kicks the ball super hard, it flies up in the air and ends up getting caught)
The points system works like this.
Every time someone makes a full round, (To the mat and back again) the team is awarded three points. Every time someone gets out, you have to note how many people got out.
You can play as many rounds, just be sure to keep on switching around when three people from the "goal" team get out. In the end, tally up all the points and see who wins!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:10:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
XIII
Mystery action game with cartoony graphics. The soundtrack is one of the best in any game I've heard.
Me and my Friends would sometimes play this in the neigbourhood. It was hide and seek but instead of hiding somewhere you would ride around the area and try to make sure the seeker doesn't find you.
My dad didn't understand it at first and thought we were actually going to hide our bikes somewhere.
Kind of like tag and hide & seek combine, the ‘it’ person would have to run twice around the house and all the players would have to hide, but they’d have to try and make it back to the porch before ‘it’ finished their second lap of the house!
If ‘it’ saw you cos u didn’t hide well enough you were out and whoever was the last to get back to the porch was the new it!
So many fun summer nights spent playing this as a kid!
Game called "Make 10". Pretty sure many people have played this before. So basically where I come from carriages on trains have a 4 digit number and the game is to end up with 10 using maths (add, plus, multiply, divide, factorial, exponent) which was a way to kill ten seconds. You weren't allowed to change the order of numbers, nor put them together to make a two digit number. For instance: 7 4 2 4 would be [(7 x 4)/2] - 4 = 10.
I wasn't part of this, but when my older siblings where younger they would make, one of my brothers, and specifically him, to cover his eyes with something then put his hands behind his back and stand still while they hit him with rulers. He wasn't aloud to fight back. It was 1 vs 4.
"The worm" there were three of us growing up. So we would all lay on the couch side by side. The one on the end closest to the couch had to push the one in the middle, this would naturally be pushing the one closest to the edge as well. The one at the edge had to hang on to the one in the middle. Person in the middle was not aloud to do anything. Had to lay there stiff as a board and count to see how long it took for the one at the edge to fall. When you (the one on the edge) fell off the couch you would now take place of the "pusher" Whoever lasted on the couch the longest wins.
"Queens booty" I was the queen and was embarrassed of my flat butt. So my servants had to be my "butt" My dress was just blanket I would hold at my waist. Then my brother and sister would go under the blanket and try their best to follow me as close as they can. I would walk then run really fast or turn sharp corners quickly so they would hit the wall and fall.
"Car wash" whenever dad bought something big we used the big box as a carwash garage. We would make holes on the sides so we can stick water hose and scrubbers in as you passes through on a skateboard.
"Maid" wed fill up socks full of baby powder and beat the shit out of each other.
"SHTZAA!" If you farted and didn't say SHTZAA! Someone could punch you in the ass cheek but they HAVE to say SHARTZA! Or else that hit didn't count and now you can hit them back.
We played house many times especially with our cousins. There was a lot of screaming and abuse going on. But we loved it.
We made up a super cool game once called "one bounce" but I'm not going to share that with you because I dont have the rights.
So my family used to do a lot of road-tripping, so we made a game where we would try and find different state's license plates. We had to find as many different states as possible, so whoever found the most in the end would win. Then we added a points system.
State we were in: 1 point
States bordering the state we were in: 2 points
States not bordering the state we were in: 3 points
Alaska or Hawaii: 4 points
I made a swimming pool game kinda based off the hippo like animals at the start of Ice Age, we would kinda make a whirlpool an whoever needed up in the middle first was out, if the whirlpool got too weak anyone left would restart it an start from the outside again... Those who were out would then have a water gun to try an put off the remaining people who were trying to swim against the current... Was good fun in the summer... Although reading it now, it sounds rather strange 😂
We had a tradition, probably started long before my generation, where we would be riding in a car, and when you passed over railroad tracks or cattle guards, you had to lift your feet. Driver, passengers, everybody.
The idea was if you didn't lift your feet they got chopped off. There were no winners in this game, only people that kept their feet. Now 40 years later I think about playing this with my cousins and grandparents every time I go over one of these on a road.
It was called “ammo”. Basically 4-5 of us gather as many shoes as possible, turn lights out and hide, them sneak attack pelt each other with shoes. Whoever cried first was the loser.
Guessing first “shows” was meant to be shoes but for a second I was wondering why kids would first gather a bunch of sitcom DVDs together and start crying 😜
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:45:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two younger sisters and I would play as if we were in an RPG video game, like Final Fantasy. My sisters would pretend to be NPCs like shopkeepers, innkeepers, or my party members. I would play the main character. We used rocks as gold pieces and sticks as weapons. I made a "sheath" from a skip rope.
"Horsey" - my sisters would get into our blue plastic Fisher price wagon, and I'd tie a skip rope around my waist and tie myself to the wagon's handle in such a way that my sisters could direct me.
"Food for the poor" - I devised all sorts of games that let me weasel food out of my sisters when I wanted what they had. I'd pretend to be their pet hamster, once I made a Wheel of Fortune style game that I designed so somehow only I could win, but my favourite and the longest lasting was a game where you'd take whatever empty dish you had, hold it out and with your hand and voice shaking, cry "Foooood for the poor?" And whoever was on the receiving end had to share what they had.
"Paintgoblin's cards" - had a deck of Uno cards, didn't know how to play Uno. So I made up a game and named it after myself of course.
"Sit down and be quiet game" - my uncle used to babysit us but I don't think he likes kids that much. He'd pull out cookies and tell us to play the sit down and be quiet game. Whoever was quiet and still long enough won the cookie.
"The Amazing Rollerblader" - someone gave me a pair of rollerblades. My aforementioned uncle had a patch of cement we would ride our bikes in circles on playing "Nascar". But I used to sit my sisters down at one end of the cement, and I would put on a show for them, singing my theme song of "The amazing Rollerblader, the amazing Rollerblader" etc. I'd do sweet jumps over sticks laid out in front of me.
We played a game called flingers, it was a top of a cig packet folded into a flat rectangle and flicked off your middle and index fingers. You start with one on the ground and then you fling yours at it closest player wins, some of these guys were so good they had upwards of 3000. There were even levels of rarity, making some worth more and not to play for keeps with.
When I was younger (I think I was 11 or 12) I used to play a game at recess we names "Round around the school." We shared the building with another school and we weren't allowes to go on their playgrouns which took up the full back half of the school. During the long recess (my school had a 30 minute short recess and a long 45 minute recess, the longer one was supervised by other teachers) we would try to sneak around the school withour being caughed.
Good times.
We also had a game that we played with neighbor kids. This was during Saturday morning commercials on TV or afternoon kids tv shows. If an "emergency broadcast system" test came on, we'd run screaming from the house, jump off the porch, and land in the grass writhing in fake pain.
This got to be so much fun sometimes, that we'd do it during any commercials. Netflix kids will never experience this fun.
get two wine bottles filled with water, one on either end of the garden. each person stands next to their bottle. you'd also have a football. one person would kick the football at the wine bottle. if it fell over, both people had to get to the opposite bottle and back before the water drained from the bottle (another person keeps watch, often my younger sister). never made any sense and often neither of us won, but it was still fun.
also had another game with my dad "the senses game"
it would often be after dinner and we would play with the leftovers that me or my sister didnt eat. one person would close their eyes and you'd ask for different senses to be able to determine what the food was. so it would be like "can i smell it?" and we'd waft a carrot under dad's nose, "can i hear it?" and we'd bang it on the table. and it would finish with him asking "can i taste it?" and finally getting it right
Basically , we would draw two lines ,and one of us would have a belt. The objective is to cross to the other line while the dude tries to belt you . Pretty fun
Non-Brits if you haven't heard of Big Narstie, you have to watch this video of his childhood game "Ukabong"! It killed me! https://youtu.be/48firFVloK0
Baam99 · 1 points · Posted at 12:07:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had this game that each person chose either wood, metal, or plastic and you couldn't touch the other things, everyone had a chance to take other people out and everyone had 10 lives the more of your 'element' you touched the more stacks and 'power' you gained also after taking a person out you gained their element
sirkib · 1 points · Posted at 12:18:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm a little late to this party but my friends and I would play "sock wars". A small patch of garden was designated and littered with say, 4 rolled-up pairs of socks per person. The objective of the game was to be the last one standing. Fingertip to elbow were your "blades" which you could use to slash or stab one another, or pick up socks and hurl them. If socks or blades hit you anywhere on the body you'd have to lose that limb. So you'd often be hopping on one leg with an arm around your back and usually it degenerates into laughter pretty fast. You'd form snap alliances with friends for their socks to bombard others from afar only to be stabbed in the back. Swordfights could hurt, but usually they ended within seconds. Nobody cheated because losing limbs or dying was just as fun as winning. Good times
The offensive animal game. You would say something like “Sound like a German cow,” or “Sound like an Australian cat,” and you make that noise. Our dad would something play along with us, and or mom would just be disappointed in all of us.
I had a small crossbow that shot these suction cup arrows.
We'd take turns putting a sheet over our heads and then twirl and spin in the driveway while the other tried to shoot you in the eyeballs with the crossbow.
Friisb · 1 points · Posted at 12:44:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
LittleBigPlanet 1!!
I had a friend who did not have a playstation himself, because his parents was'nt that wealthy. So instead he came with me home after school and play.
He loved building maps and i loved playing them, so it was fun for both of us, and we could both play what we wanted (of course not at the same time, but then the other one would watch and or do something else).
We played “polockey” played on bikes with borrowed golf clubs and a tennis ball. Kind of like polo meets hockey but with no goalies. It was really fun. Kids with sting ray type bikes had a real advantage (they more maneuverable). One kid in our neighborhood was really good, he could dribble the tennis ball between his wheels as he rode. The games stopped dramatically when our dads noticed that their irons were getting destroyed! Sorry dad.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:51:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man hunt
Like hide and go seek but if you found them you get to slap them in the face
When I was little me, my grandma, my sister and my mom would walk down the road.(We were living at the country side so it was just a highway)
We had a sequence and we waited when cars came.Maybe it was my mom's turn and a BMW was driving down the highway we would say wow mom you have a nice car.(anything with 4 wheels counted)and then it was my grandma's turn and a tractor was driving.It had 4 wheels so it counted!!This was a way we had fun and spent time together.
This was 25 years ago, but I grew up on a small farm with horses, goats and chickens. The horses would have these large hippity hop shaped things as toys. So we'd take two of those, fashion a rope between them and then throw them at our split rail fence for points. But they had to wrap all the way around for a point. The top rail was worth 1 point, mid was 2 points and bottom was 3 points.
Little did we know that we had basically invented ladder ball and could have made millions.
At school I created a game called luithomy. It was basically Australian Football played with a round ball with elements of Soccer and Rugby thrown in, played on half a footy oval. We managed to get half the cohort to play for about a week.
Back in the day there was a flash game called "Sewer Run" where you'd take a offroad board (idk the name, correct me if I got it wrong) and skate through a sewer. You had power-ups and you can do tricks for extra points.
Moon ball.
Its a variation of wall ball which is a game where 3 or more people and a wall and one ball run around like idiots throwing a ball at the wall. U had 3 lives and if u dont touch the wall before someone throws the ball at it then u lose a life.
The variation was that we would play in a carpeted room and had to be on our knees. Looots of diving around and other acrobatic stunts just to touch the stupid wall or get to the ball asap.
My favorite is probably VAMPIRE TAG or KICK THE CAN! My neighborhood would play(90s kid ftw amirite?? You never see kids playing outside nowadays) Anyways Vampire Tag is one person is IT and everyone else goes and hides in the designated zone, when the vampire person comes you run for your life! IF they catch you and tag you, you are also IT along with them and you play until everyones been tagged(TURNED INTO a vampire). Best version of TAG imo, although STUCK IN the MUD was great too! Kick the Can i dont really remember the rules i think theres a team of people that guard the can and they can also send people out to tag you and if you get tagged you go to Jail... well if someone runs up and kicks the can than it frees everyone in Jail.. Its hell of alot of fun and nothing better than that sweet sound of "TING" as you kick the can and everyone hears it and goes oh FUCK JAILBREAK!!! Its alot of fun!
While driving, I look at the letters on license plates (Nova Scotia, so it goes AAA 111) and make a word using those letters in that order (FCT 014 could be "fact" "faucet" "infectious" but NOT "craft") and whoever can come up with the longest, smartest sounding word wins. It's funny to find one like YTM 966 and no on can get anything but ytterbium.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego minefield,
We would randomly lay legos on the floor and try to navigate through them without stepping on anything while wearing a blindfold.
It was a game (not sure if someone else played it) but it went like this one kid would choose a color like this "Grandpa knocks on the door and asks for a ribbon" the other kids would ask what color?. Then the kid would say the color depending on the shoes if one chooses lets say red the kids with the red shoe would have to escape the kid catching him and try to tag the place the kid said the color and the kid being chased would be the one to choose the color. The color could also be rainbow which includes all colors and all kids have to tag the wall,tree etc. I played around 1st to 3rd grade and nobody played after that.
It was a game called "firing squad" how it worked was everyome had airsoft or paintball guns except for 1 guy, the guys with guns were hunters that had to find the unarmed guy in a certain time limit. If he was hit, he would have to stand against a wall where everyone would clap the shit out of him with their guns from about 5 meters away.
Unsure of the uniqueness, but we played Kick the Can. A variant of hide n seek, played outdoors. We had a 2L pop bottle filled a bit with sand so that it stood up. Everyone lined up while the lucky person kicked the can. The person who was "it" had to get the can and bring it back to home base. Every kid caught had to race back to base. If the "it" person touched the can, the caught kid went to jail. If the other kid made it first, they could kick the can and free the other kids from jail. Everyone was tired after the game disbanded.
In my neighborhood, I created a game we'd play outside called "Tomb Robber." (Originally "Tomb Raider" until one of my friends pointed out the obvious accidental plagiarism...) It was 1 vs everyone, where one person was the "mummy" and hid an "artifact" (a ball) in a yard. The other players would wait outside the yard, not looking. Once the mummy was ready, they'd shout "enter if you dare!" and the other players would try and find the ball without getting tagged. If you were tagged, you were out permanently. If the mummy got everyone out, they'd win. If the other players got the ball out of the yard, they'd win. The mummy also had to give a riddle that hinted at where the ball was once half of the players were out.
It's a simple concept, but it led to some fun games where the team would have some close calls - people would be screaming where they found the ball, and tossing it to other players once they got it to avoid the mummy. Good times.
The floor is lava. While it might not be unique to some this also was the game that led to my first Ambulance ER visit. Ball of yarn on the floor. Shoved my sister out of the way, landed on it, jumped to next item and ball is stuck to my foot. Babysitter looks and there is a crotche needle through my foot. Wedged in bone but nothing broken. It's a memory at 4years old that is engrained in my memories! Even the Dr coming up to me with blue handled clamps that my G-pa as a plumber uses. He had to have grabbed it from the janitors closet lol.
In elementary school, my mom put a bunch of pieces of paper in a bowl and wrote a chore and the corresponding amount of money you got for it. Ex. Dust the shelves, get 20c. There were also ‘funny’ ones like do the chicken dance, get 50c. We played it as a ‘fun game’ whenever my friends came over.
Not that young, but in school we played this basket ball game called lighting. There a huge a line and each one tries to shoot the ball into the basket but if two in a row fail then both players must must and one of them has to score the winner gets to go back at the end of the line again while the other who didn't has wait for the next player to miss the shoot in order to try to get back in line.
Every year after Mardi Gras, the neighbor kids and I would set out all of our beads in my driveway and we’d trade beads with each other. We’d each have our own little area with our “shops” and if we wanted something from another shop we’d gather up some beads and go down to try to make a bargain.
Each bead was worth something different.
I think green and gold beads were just worth 1 other green or gold bead.
Purple beads were worth 2 green or gold beads.
Colors like white, pink, blue, etc were worth more but that was up to the “shop owner”.
“Special” beads also cost a lot more. We also traded stuffed animals and those kinds of things.
We were actually brutal about it lol. It was so much fun.
jdv510 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always role played since I didnt have any friends for the majority of my life.
But I did come up with a lot of fan fiction for stories I liked when I was younger. To the point even the adults that were privy to my stories thought they were good.
An example: I fell in love with naruto when it first came out. I would watch it and was fascinated with the out of this world action and superhuman abilities everyone possessed.
So I made my own character and would role play his life.
His name was Don. He came from the village hidden in the stones, but he specialized in metal ninjutsu. When he was a teenager someone from his village tried to kill him because they were afraid of his talent, so he left the village and became a shadow, surviving on whatever he could steal or kill.
Team 7 eventually runs into him during a mission, by this point Don is half mad, from starvation and trying to fight for his life as he fends off the assassins from the stone village.
They get attacked, naruto convinces kakashi to let Don travel with them back to the hidden leaf, to which Kakashi is skeptic, but relents after seeing Don collapse from exhaustion.
Eventually recovering, and his condition was brought to light, Naruto excitedly tells Don that he was being offered temporary but potentially permanent residence as a hidden leaf ninja.
Tsunade visits Don during his hospital stay and tells him the real reason he was being offered such a rare opportunity, given the fact that they were harboring a fugitive, and enemy ninja, it could lead to an all out war if word got out, was because he was dying.
Don smiles which surprises Tsunade and makes her regret him being born. He explains that his metal ninjutsu wasnt perfect. Every time he uses it, some metal works it's way into his blood and has been poisoning him ever since he was Naruto's age. The stone's equivilant of the Anbu always made sure he was never able to truly rest or recover, and the constant pressure of being attacked was driving him closer to his death.
Tsunade Pat's his head, and tells him not to worry, but he should seriously think about Naruto, since it was his idea to bring him with them back to the village.
Don and naruto become good friends, with Naruto incredibly fascinated with Don's level of ninjutsu mastery at such a young age.
Sasuke doesnt like him much, he considers Don to be too much like his brother and constantly talks down to him, even more so than Naruto.
Sakura acknowledges he is a strong asset to the team, but in her typical fangirl ways seems anything Sasuke does as better.
Kakashi quickly picks up on Don's condition, and after being told by Tsunade that he didnt have long to live. She explains that his body was too heavily saturated with iron and that his body was declining at a steady rate. Given how long he had been alone and hunted, it was only a matter of time before he would succumb to his own ninjutsu. Kakashi keeps an eye out on Don as they do some missions, much to Sasuke and Naruto's chagrin, they are little more than errand missions, but fills Don with a sense of belonging, and Kakashi feels a pang of guilt and regret, knowing that this kid would soon eventually die, and there was nothing anyone could do.
At the climax of his life, Don faced the one responsible for his multiple assassination attempte, and after a fierce battle between team 7 and Don, and the Anbu of the hidden stone village, Don half succumbs to his illness and saves team 7 from being captured.
This results in a chain reaction in Don that instantly kills him, both internally, and externally as the hidden stone finally managed to assassinate him.
Kakashi tells Naruto that they couldnt save Don, Naruto cries and Kakashi Pat's his head, as he explains Don's critical condition.
Sasuke quickly looks at Kakashi in disbelief and Kakashi confirmed what Sasuke thought.
"Don was one of the most powerful ninja of this age, probably more so than Itachi. If he had gotten the chance to live a normal life, he could have been truly something great"
Don's speciality was metal ninjutsu, he kept iron and coal in his pockets instead of ninja tools because he would smelt them using chakra.
Out of his techniques his favorites were
"Iron skin jutsu" he would coat his entire body in metal, completely insulating him from damage. (The chakra infused in the metal also protected him from being cooked inside the metal so fire type jutsu couldnt be used effectively)
"Razor wind jutsu" he would make small, needle like metal rods that he would throw, if they impacted something, they would be "released" using wind chakra to created extremely small, but razor sharp projectiles. If he landed one of these on a person, they were guaranteed to die.
"Creation: sword/shuriken/sickle/scythe jutsu" this jutsu would create weapons, I only named the ones he would use the most.
I cant remember the other jutsu he might've used since it's been a long ass time. I wrote this entirely off of memory
I have a ton more role played stories from a lot of different stories, star wars, Harry Potter, bleach, final fantasy, modern warfare,
Even made my own stories and role played those, such as Fire, Ice, Lightning and the pride and joy of my stories, Elements.
Bike Tag. My friend group created this game in the neighborhood I grew up in. So, we would all be on our bikes and one person had a newspaper still in the bag. We usually got the paper from a neighbor's driveway or something. The name of the game is just tag. One person is it and has the newspaper, you have to chase everyone around and throw the newspaper at them, if you hit them, they're it, if you miss, you have to get off your bike and get the paper back, giving those time to get away.
At school, elementary, we had this one where you jumped on the monkey bars and had a deathmatch trying to yank the other kid off the bars using only your legs. I think we called it chicken? Many kids got broken bones so it got shut down.
I know this might get some blowback, but this truly was a different time and we were little kids. But, we played a game called "smear the queer". Basically, someone would throw a football and everyone would run to it. Once someone picked the ball up, they were dubbed the queer and you had to go chase them down and viciously tackle them or whatever to get them down. The teachers finally made us change the name or we couldn't play it anymore, so we changed it to "rugby" eh close enough.
Okay last one..Aggie ball. My brother made this game up. It was like kickball meets dodgeball and a bit of baseball. So, instead of four bases like in baseball, you had 2..home plate and what would be 2nd base. The "pitcher" rolled the kickball and once you kicked it you ran for 2nd base. Defense could tag you out, hit you with the ball, or step on the bag to get you out. The purpose was to go there and back to get a point, but if you couldn't go back you had to stay on 2nd and get kicked in. Also, if you were running you could move anywhere on the playing field to avoid getting hit or tagged out. Fun game!
My cousins and I love Chalk Superhero’s. We’d trace each other’s outlines and color in what kind of super hero we wanted to be. Mine always had long blond braids that had electric currents in them so I could shock the bad guys. We’d go play in the playground and whenever a “situation” arose, we’d all run over to our drawings and lay on them to transform into the hero’s.
Me and my older brother had this blue strechy body bag, and we would put ourselves in the bag and throw ourselves down the stairs. It hurt a lot, but despite this we did it multiple times.
Lego war: we would build starships with legos, each color had meaning, red was engines, blue was heavy armor, yellow was light armor. It was more of a LARP like game... I can tell so many stories of the glories of the Rise and fall of the Red Flame, and the grand civil war, to the rise of the Blue flame, to the grand era of peace.
"Runt Ball" my highschool rugby team played this during lunch. 2 teams, open field possession based game, full tackle (we used it as skills training). The only point earned was at the 15 minutes to class bell. And the goal was which ever field line was further away when the bell rang. Get the try and hit the showers for class. It was gruesome, but I think my broken collarbone was the only significant injury before our coaches band us from playing Runt Ball ever again. We did go on to win the BC (Canada) AAA championships that year, as a single A school too. We were really good for Canada, but the All Blacks Juniors still wooped is silly when they were visiting. So only good for Canada I guess.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof ball.
It’s like tennis but played on a sloped roof instead of over a net.
Points are bad, if you get to 21 points your out.
You hit the ball up on the roof and call out someone else’s name who’s playing, then that Person must hit the ball when it rolls back down.
The way you get points is by hitting the ball and it either doenst go on the roof(1 pt) you hit the ball over the roof or in the gutter (2pts).
My friend had a really tall steep roof and it was the most fun thing we ever did in our neighboorhood.
My dad would turn off all of the lights, and my friends and I would began to shake in our boots. Then we would hear him shout in a very announcer type voice “THUNDERBALL!” As soon as we heard those words we ran and hid in terror. My dad would chase us in the dark and throw those foam dodgeballs at us very hard. You couldn’t hurt someone with them if you tried, but we were still terrified. It felt like we were Ripley hiding from the alien.
When my sister and I were kids we had some family friends who were ten years older and would babysit us. With them we would "run through the walls" - we would have to keep our eyes closed (if we opened them during the process we would be transported to another world that we could get stuck in and never see our parents again, extreme but effective).
While our eyes were closed the two older sisters would pick my sister and I up and spin us around and run with us into another room and collapse onto the floor with us. When we opened our eyes they said we had run through the walls. Couldn't get enough of that shit.
I invented a game called Road Kill (it was basically Chicken, but I didn't know at the time). Lie down in the road and wait for a car. Last person to get up wins.
idk if other people have this, but my brothers and I played "Jeep" whenever we were on a long drive somewhere. If you spotted a Jeep Wrangler, you called out "Jeep!" and youd get a point. If you saw a yellow Jeep Wrangler, youd say "Jeep McCaw!" for 2 points. There weren't any rewards for winning or anything though.
Oh God I don't know what we called it, but my sister and I would set up all of our little stuffed animals into like rose like they were little craft fair booths. And we would like to go back and forth making up what the stuffed animal was selling or doing in theur craft fair booth. And one of the stuffed animal would be the like critic and rate the booth and the thing that they were selling.
I don't know why I was so obsessed with craft fairs. I still really like them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically,we played a very fast game of catch with a box of tissues.Rules are you don't drop it and must say the brand of the tissues before throwing it to the other person or you're out.
(its stupid but here it is) Me and my friends had this game called "Love Jinx" where if someone didnt cross their fingers you would say/ scream "I love you " to them, then they had to go up to a random person and tell them they loved them
BUT : there was also this rule that if the person joined you on the "You" you couldnt talk until they said your name 4 times ( there was also a bunch of additional rules but i dont remember them)
We ended up getting our grade and the grade below us ( 7 and 6th grade) to play
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made a religion based on chilli nachos that gave superpowers to those of special worth. We would eat some nachos and then pretend to throw fire snakes at each other etc.
"Wrackles", noun, plural. As in, "Dad, can we PLEASE have a wrackle tonight??" Combination wrestling and tickling. Dad would close his eyes and we 5 kids would have to the count of 10 to scatter and hide before he roared "RATONES!!" ('Ra-TONE-ayz', because he always called us his rats) Then he'd prowl through the house looking for us, speaking loudly in menacing monologues, like, "I wonder if anyone is here in the closet!" whips closet door open. "Hmm, I guess not. What about under the BED!" He usually always knew where we were, but liked to psychologically torture us by getting closer and closer to our hiding place as we trembled in terror/delight until he unearthed us with a devilish sharky grin and dragged us, squealing and struggling, out of our hiding spot. Then he'd wrackle us mercilessly until a sibling came to the rescue with a blanket to throw over dad's head, which made him let go of his victim and wave his arms in the air with an exaggerated helpless "Aughhhhhhhh!" for ~10 seconds while we all scrambled away back into hiding.
The goal was to lure all the kids close enough as we inched forward with rescue blankets to grab a limb and capture all of us one by one; keeping all five captive with a hand around the ankle, leg pinning down a torso, etc while simultaneously wrackling everyone, for 10 seconds or more, without anyone escaping. The best part was how he would taunt us and loudly announce who he had captured, using our special pet names he had for each of us. "I've got Mordecai! I've got Muffin! Now I've got both a Mord-and-a-Muff! Come rescue them Patrootchio, IF YOU DARE!"
Me and some of the kids in my neighborhood could never agree on what to play when we were on my trampoline so I always suggested (whatever one kid wanted to do) meets (whatever I wanted to do) and that basically prevented arguments 90% of the time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It may not sound unique by the title, but just keep reading. Hide and seek in the dark.
The catch was it is in a small room. One room only, a bedroom is optimal. Have at least 4 people playing. The seeker stands outside door and everyone finds a spot in the room. The seeker wears a blindfold including the lights off. In order to find someone the seeker has to hold you for 10 seconds. The hider has the ability to do anything in there power to get away including punching.
We would play catch with about a fist sized rock, the catch was you couldn't break eye contact. So I would be staring into the soul of my brother waiting to see if I could catch it with my peripheral vision or get hit with a rock from 20-30 ft away.
My friends and I played a game called gladiator. Basically my friend had a HUGE swing set that we would climb up on with foam swords and we’d fight until someone fell off the swing. During the winter, when we couldn’t use the swing set, we’d race down a hill on sleds while sword fighting. Eventually, we learned how to stand while sledding and it started to feel like that one part of the battle of mustafar between obi wan and anakin when they’re on the lava river. It eventually got up to like twelve people fighting/racing at a time, and it was fun as FUCK.
It was called "Escape Artist". I would beg my dad to tie me up in duct tape and time me to see how long it took to get out. I remember being really excited about it at the time...
When we were kids my siblings and cousin played a game called blind man's bluff, we would go into a room that was very dark and one of us would be it, the person that was "it" would be blindfolded, circled around ten times and try to grab one of the other players, so think hide and seek mixed with tag. What made it fun was because the dark room we were playing in was big and had a bunk bed in there allowing us to climb on and quietly sneak by. Of course it's a bit redundant for us to blindfold the person when we were already in the dark, but there were a few night lights which over time allowed us to adjust our vision in the dark, so after "it" grabs a person and holds them for 3 seconds that person is it, we turn on the light adjust our vision to lights so we would have to readjust it to the darkness.
One person would bounce on a trampoline and two people would stand on opposite sides, trying to throw and hit the bouncer with a tennis ball.
The bouncer got a point for each bounce and two for each flip. Once you get hit by the ball, you're out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the playground in elementary school we would play a game of tag where you were supposed to keep your feet on the cracks in the asphalt. The playground concrete was covered in a web of these cracks so it was pretty easy to do.
Indoor golf. My brothers and my dad would all have a tennis ball, wiffle ball, bouncy ball etc. and one person would determine where the hole was. It would always be in a different room of the house. Like golf, the goal was to get your ball into the hole in as few strokes as possible. For each stroke, you could throw, roll, or "putt" (basically using your hand to simulate a putter and smacking the ball around the floor). Wherever your ball ended up, you could pick it up and throw from there for your next shot.
Surprisingly I can't remember ever breaking anything, what with throwing the balls all over the house, up/down the stairs, banking off the walls, etc.
My sister and I played 'G.A.M.E' from ages 6-10 (She was 9-13). We would spell it out whenever we talked about it. It stood for something we thought was clever at the time. I can't remember these days.
We basically sectioned off a 2x2 part of our room and built a little civilization for our toys that just kept growing as our 'story' grew. It was mostly made out of legos, lego people, polly pockets, Christmas ornaments we had stolen off the tree and snipped the ties off to use as figurines (dad got mad at that, we fucking were sneaky and did it multiple years), and a bunch of other small toys we acquired throughout the years.
When we played we would always play together and agree to put it on pause when we were done. When we would resume where we left off, we discussed the last events to make sure we were both on the same page, and remembered correctly before starting to play again.
It was a never ending story and a never ending city. It grew a little bigger than the 2x2 area we started with, but it was in a corner of our room so we couldn't spread farther than our arms could reach to the inner corner. We never destroyed our lego creations either since it was usually to fill an arc in the story, or expand on a cool idea. We had lego toys that stayed assembled for years and we just kept acquiring more until we stopped playing one day.
Sometimes my mom would drop us off at the park while she had important meetings at a bar nearby, we would spend hours just stapling bread to trees until she came back, sometimes our dad would have to come because my moms meetings were so long that she got sleepy. It’s really the small things that make childhood so wonderful.
We played "scorpion". One guy protected a strip of land that was about the middle fifth of the yard between two lines, with an 8ish foot length of rope. His job was to whip people with the rope when they tried to cross his strip to the other side. He'd get points for hitting people, and they'd get points for crossing unwhipped.
Kidnap Katie: the rules are simple, me and my sister would wait for our younger sister Katie to fall asleep, when we knew she was sound asleep we would take an emptied out duvet cover and put her inside. Then drag her around the house bellowing kidnap Katie! She enjoyed it. Mems
At primary school, me and my friends would hold onto the metal fence and slowly work our way along pretending to be pulled away by a tornado. We called it (very original) The Tornado Game.
My big brother and I basically created an RPG game that we would act out. We would have encounters in which we could use spells and items to defeat enemies and bosses. He even went so far as to write down the spells in a book for me so I would have a tome since I was the spellcaster. It was a really cool experience for me seeing as I was 4-6 years old. Really shows how great of a brother he was
So there’s this game called Paranoia that I played in high school. Basically you have to shoot another player with a nerf gun to get them “IT” Once your it you have to obviously shoot another player. But your allowed to go into houses, cars, pretty much anywhere but at school. Lol you can get shot in the middle of the night. Drive around in cars and shoot people while driving. It’s crazy except once a car flipped over. But lots of fun none the less
Yeet Yourself Down the (hardwood) Stairs: First To Cry Loses.
There were also other classics, such as Attract the Alligators in the Canal, Magnet Chucking, and Get the Lizard To Bite.
Fun times.
My brother and sister and I would play Baby Bird. We would get literally every pillow and blanket in the house that we could find, and then someone would crouch on the floor while the other two surrounded them completely with the pillows. Then the blankets would go on top of all of that. It would get damn hot in there, lol. Anyway, once the blankets were on, we’d be like, “okay baby bird, time to HATCH!!” and whoever was buried would bust out of all of the pillows and blankets. It sounds dumb but we thought it was SO FUN. We would play it over and over.
“Tree tag” but it had two variants. One is exactly as it sounds, everybody climbs into a tree and a predetermined person is “it.” That person then tries to climb quickly and tag somebody. No tag backs allowed. Was usually my brothers and some neighborhood kids. Super fun.
Second version of was everybody except who’s it climbs up a tree. No higher than 25 feet up is the limit of your climb, and you pick a spot. Once you’ve picked the spot you’re not allowed to move more than one hand and foot off of where you planted them at a time. The person below then tries to peg you with a tennis ball. Get 3 strikes and you switch places. Bounce shots only counted if it bounced once before hitting you. Basically was dodgeball in a tree.
Edit: or rollerblade tag. Was exactly what it sounds like. Had plenty of casualties, and ran into a few cars.
Edit 2: sleeping bag sliding down the stairs, mattress sliding down the stairs (hard stop with the front door), rolling down the driveway in a dryer drum, throwing all the cushions in a pile and diving in (led to stitches), trampoline loaded with balls and trying to dodge them, dodgeball on a trampoline but you use your feet to kick it (led to a broken tooth). This post is making me remember some damn good times
Me and my sister played a game called Som and Chase. It was basically a way for her to bully me but through a game so I guess that makes it more acceptable. We both had fictional characters that we pretended to be. She was Chase and I was Som (originally Sam but we talked in voices so I sounded more like Som so that stuck.) Her character was rich, thin, and healthy and my character was too obese to fit on planet earth so whenever we drew our characters, mine was just a toe coming out of the sky. My character was really poor, had 18 siblings, and covered himself with "poopy lotion" because that was his favorite scent (Like I said, my sister dictated most of the game I just went along with it.) Our characters would have all sorts of adventures, but really the game was just us drawing pictures about our made up world. My sister ended up becoming a famous illustrator so I guess she benefited from this.
Our family played thig game called the "geography game." The rules are: you say the town your in and last letter in that name the next person would have to say a geographical location starting with that letter and so on and so on. Sounds lame, but after while you get some unique town, mountain, rivers, and etc. names and stories out of it.
Yellow Tag! We had a trampoline (with no protective padding because of our dog) and we would use water and dish soap to make it slippery. One person would be "it" and the rest of the participants would stand on one of the yellow warning tags on either side of the trampoline. The contestants would try to jump and slide across the trampoline to get to the other tag while avoiding the "it" whose job it was to tag/wrestle/prevent them from reaching their goal. If you get caught you'd be it. No one died.
My friend and I played this game on the swings called Take Down. One guy would push the other guy on the swing as high and as fast as possible, and whenever ready, the guy who pushed would stand in front of the bottom of the swing and brace for impact. The goal was to get launched as far as possible. No broken bones, kinda painful, a lot of fun
I would play a game with my sister when one of us pretended to be a shark and the other the fishermen. I would get “reeled in” and then whoever was the fisherman would basically act like Steve Irwin. “Crikey, look at the size of this one”. Stupid I know but we thought it was funny
Pretty simple game. I would give my sister a piggy back ride and we would try to make it from one end of the room to the other. My little brother was down on his hands and knees and was the “bull” and would try to head-butt me in the shins till I feel over. Painful game, but one of our favorites.
No name - played on my cousins trampoline. One person is blindfolded in the middle of the trampoline, and can move in any way that doesn't involve standing ( e.g. crawling, rolling etc ) and has to catch the other people and try and tag them, while the other players run around the trampoline. Tactics included just staying completely still, or rolling around like mad.
We had this game we called Shadow Man and basically you just use a couple rooms and play tag, but the person who is it has their eyes closed. Anytime they come close to tripping on something or any other potentially dangerous thing then the others have to shout Shadow Man to warn them. It is stupidly simple but way more fun than it sounds I swear. Haha
“Wood chip gladiator” we would pick up wood chips and station on the playground and throw them at people swinging, if you hit someone, you would swing and they would join the throwers, tons of fun.
Me and my sister would turn our bikes upside down and crank the pedals as fast as we could to make the back wheel turn. The we would drop small rock on the back tire to see how far we could launch them.
My cousins and my siblings and I grew up around each other, one family was always moving out or into my grandparents house. There was a total of about 12 of us grandkids at the time. This is family from my mom's side, my mom has 2 boys and 2 girls, her oldest brother has 4 girls, and oldest sister has 4 boys, (all 12 of us are out of high school, except for 1 and that's my little brother but he's a senior. I have 3 other cousins younger than 11. My mom's older brother has 2 girls with 2 different women, and the youngest sister had 1 girl. They were either babies or not born when we hanging out.) Sorry, got off topic, anyways it was mostly 8 of us their at the time, my 4 girl cousins and my siblings and I. We had tons of games we'd play but the most memorable game was "The Grass Game" (we never really came up with a name for it), the house is on a one way street and we would be outside all the time. There was lots of patches of grass around and cars would come down often but not packed traffic, usually one car every 30 minute or even 10 it really depended, but I don't think I've ever seen 2 cars come down at the same time. Anyways the point of the game was to be touching a patch of grass before the car passed you. We never kept scores and no one won or lost, there was no outs or anything, just people saying "you suck, better luck next time." I think it was a genius idea because there was grass on both sides of the street so we'd never have to run across the street to get to safety, and this meant we stayed on the sidewalks when cars were coming. Idk sorry this dragged.
Made up a game called Fútbol-Palos. We leaned 5 small sticks against oposite walls and used a tenis ball as a soccer ball to knock them off the wall. Oh the fun my little brother and I had.
Okay im not sure if it's a real game that other people played or what But me and my sister used to play it and any searches I've done to find the name of it were fruitless.
It's a card game. Regular 52 card deck. Two players. Each person is dealt 6 stacks of 4cards face done. And the last 4 cards are placed face up in the middle. The goal is to get 6 four of a kind by swapping cards in your hand for cards in the middle.
So say one of your hands were 3 Jack's and an ace. And the other guy puts down a Jack. You put down the ace and take the jack completing 1 of your 6hands. First one to get six wins. It's really stressful and fun definitely if you know what you're doing. There's so many good strategies. I teach it to people all the time but I can never remember the name. Anyone know what I'm talking about? (I posted this on TOMT a while ago and got nothing)
We essentially took the game “dead man, dead man” and revamped it to be a bit more violent and off of a tramp.
We played in it a friend’s basement which had a ton of random stuff in and was only partially finished (some rooms were only framed out).
One person had a huge comforter draped over their head (they were the dead man).
The goal for the dead man was to catch anyone else (usually there were 4 or 5 of us running around the dead man). If he got a hold of you, he had to call out your name and then you would be it.
You didn’t want to be it, because we would often throw stuff at their head. The dead man would get desperate (because it sucker being the dead man) and would start lunging and diving at any movement they could hear. It was a well known trick to go into a room that was framed out so you could easily make noise and if the dead man dove at you, they would most like dive head first into a 2x4.
There would be 3-5 of us on a good size trampoline and everyone is standing up right inside of a sleeping bag. You hold onto the sleeping back to make sure it’s only your head sticking out.
There wasn’t much of a goal other than you are trying to leap into the air and using both legs in the sleeping bag, kick someone who is in the middle of their jump (the higher they were the more funny it was).
If you kicked them in the right spot (lower legs) they would often flip around and land on their face, because their arms are inside the sleeping bag, they can’t really catch themselves.
We stopped playing after a few times of accidentally kicking people all the way off the tramp.
My brother and I would take turns punching each other in the forehead. Whoever fell over first was the loser.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't have a lot of friends growing up so I was stuck being by myself a lot of the time. Having a wild imagination I can't think of one particular time but I know I thought up some pretty damn crazy shit. In fact I was having trouble with my alphebet in kindergarten and because my imagination was so active my mom encouraged me to make up a game to help me learn them and it helped.
Golf, but the tee would be held between a chosen child's teeth. The child given the club could either hit you in the face really fucking hard, or hit the ball. Everyone would get to do this and then another child was chosen to hold the tee. There were no points taken off or rewarded based on your choice, but the child who was hit might remember it when their turn came. It was basically a really painful trust fall.
“Blind Monkey” a game played on a playground. Eyes closed, find your opponents. First one found or first to touch the ground (monkey has to call it) loses and is the blind monkey
My father, my sisters and I would play "license plate tag," which was basically just punching someone when you saw an out of state licence plate. My father used to deliberately drive by the college near our house (plates that had Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, etc) and affectionately referred to that area as "The Thunderdome."
Back in 2012, my sister and I would race to the car (from the grocery store or wherever) and whoever got their seatbelt buckled first won a medal in the order they made it. We also forced medals on our parents sometimes, so that every so often they would join in. We actually kept track of the medals too, not gonna lie, I think I ended up winning.
We also learned different swimming strokes that we saw on TV, and would race. That’s actually how I learned the breaststroke
Games like this really are great when you can find a couple super competitive people, which we are. Also raced our bikes sometimes
i played Mr. President. Generic but fun. One person puts 2 fingers to their ear and we all catch on and do the same until there’s one person left. whoever isn’t doing it is the president and we scream get down and doggy pile him. we do it anywhere and anytime.
My friends and I would play a game called "Ginger War". It was something like a paintball war, but poorly organized and played not with paintballs, but with ginger stalks. We lived in a neighborhood surrounded by forest and pastures, and we would break up into teams and try to invade and gain control of the opposing teams home base. Players were eliminated when they were hit by a ginger stalk thrown by an opposing player and the game was over when the whole team was eliminated or they were forced from their home base.
This was something we would do at my elementary school and the circumstances had to be right.
We had this huge field and probably like once a month it would get mowed.
Whatever mower they used resulted in small piles of grass all over the field.
Recess bell would ring and we would all descend on the field to discover it was grass war day.
We would then proceed to pelt each other with grass. Nothing fancy.
Every time, more and more kids would participate in the Grass Wars.
Eventually, they turned too violent and Grass Wars were banned.
Then the mounds of grass lay untouched on the field and the veterans of the Grass Wars had to reintegrate into recess society, but we were all changed.
My sister and I used to take an empty milk jug, fill it with water, use duct tape to secure the lid, then basically throw it at each other until it got one of us soaked. I would murder my kids if I saw them doing something like that today.
“Lasso tag” — My older cousin went through a phase where he thought he was a cowboy. (He was like 16) During this time he got a lasso and just got... really good at it. One of the ways he would practice was he would get me (5 at the time) and all the neighbor kids in the front yard and tell us to run. He would then start chasing us all around with the lasso catching us each in turn and then hog-tying us. We had a blast!
The only part that wasn’t cool was if you were on the cement or in the street. You’d feel the lasso go around you and fall to your ankles. This is when he’d pull the lasso, the rope would go tight, and you’d go down. A face full of asphalt was not a blast.
Me and my friends played this game we made up. It was called "ninja floor is lava". It was floor is lava but instead, you could go on the floor. The catch? If 2 or more people saw you on the floor than you were out. And you couldn't stay on the same place for more than a minute
My three brothers and our friends would play what we called "Blamball". It's baseball really but we didn't have baseballs so we used basketballs. Everyone could hit the ball, even my youngest brother at age 5.
One time my youngest brother is pitching to me--I'm ten years older--and I just cream the basketball. It's a line drive to him bounces right off his face and flys straight up in the air. He flys back from the impact and is doing that silent cry. Good times.
Waterfall, my sister and i would play it on the carpeted stairs, one of us would be at the top, and the other would start sliding down the stairs and whoever was at the top of the stairs had to try to "save" the other one before we slid all the way down the stairs lol.
We also had a game we played with friends where we'd build stairs out of giant plastic waffleblocks and have someone sit up on top, like 5-6 feet up probably. Then the other people would kick a ball at the side of the stair structures till it collapsed. We had a lot of really weird, stupid shit we did looking back.
'Rams'. My brother and I would just run at each other and collide head first. This was invented after our parents took away our heavy wooden swords and shields they got for us at Medieval Times because we wouldn't stop bludgeoning each other.
Could you explain more? What do you mean,"2 part version of hide and seek"?
mmacto · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You first get an old can and put some rocks in it. Put the can where the “it” person is going to hide their eyes and start the countdown.Your person who’s “it” counts to 100 while the others hide. Then once they find someone they race back to the can full of rocks and kick it. If the it person gets there first, then the hider goes to jail and has to sit out. If the hider gets to can then everyone is sprung from jail. Lots of variations on the game but it can keep a whole neighbourhood of kids occupied for hours.
jzap · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
it was also the subject of a "Twilight Zone" episode.
I’m going to hell for this one. But one night my brother and I found a VHS tape of Passion of the Christ. I don’t remember how I felt watching it but I’m guessing I wasn’t too scarred by it because the next day my brother and I decided to play “Jesus”. Which literally just consisted of him and I taking turns pretend nailing each other to the cross. I do remember playing this game and I’m still weirded out that my little kid self was so casual about such a violent movie.
I made a game just called "The Game" that I played with my brother and cousin. We each had a made up character that had some different traits but their names were similar to our own. I played but also I acted mostly as a DM of sorts. I led them through dungeons and adventures, and even had a basic form of combat for them to use against the creatures I came up with. We walked around outside to simulate the travelling and acted out all of the combat. This is all before I really knew about DnD. The only real experience I think I had with role-playing was Final Fantasy.
I remember in one scenario, they were travelling by boat to get to an island for some reason. They were attacked by monsters on the way, but they were quite weak. Eventually, once I got their guard down, I had a sorceress attack them. They assumed she was weak too, so they were just attacking her with small, weak attacks. But I had her charge up a spell that took a whole turn to complete. The spell competed and the party was transported to Europe during the Second World War. These guys had magic and medieval weapons and all of the sudden they had to fight tanks and machine guns. I even put them in a weird moral dilemma when they realized they were helping the Germans, unknowing of the holocaust.
My brother and cousin were always honest with me about whether or not they liked a scenario or not, and I would try to come up with better scenarios. They always begged me to play the game but I often had to say no because it required a lot of mental energy and creativity, and I didn't always feel up to it. I kept saying no and eventually they stopped asking. I really wish I didn't let it die out when I did.
tl;dr I became a DM in an outside version of DnD before I knew what DnD was. Also I somehow incorporated time travel.
There was a giant ditch, 7ft-triangular shape, and my friends and I would take turns jumping across it. Some one would be in the middle and try to pull the others in while jimping over it. We called it "Zombies" and had a blast.
My sister and I would lay on our backs and throw a ball into the cieling fan. The goal was to hop the blades, but it rarely worked. Several things were knocked over, but nothing broken.
We played a game called “Shark” on road trips, where if you aw a semi truck that’s was like red blue or green, then you didn’t say anything and had to duck when you passed it, and whoever didn’t duck died and was out. Another rule was any other color you had to yell “SHARK” and whoever yelled Shark last got punched by everyone else.
Another game that I don’t think is so unique is punch buggy. Whereas you see a Volkeswagon Beetle of any sort you punch whoever you’re with and say “punch buggy no punch backs, safety” and this game is constantly being played.
Played with a soccer ball and a softball backstop.
Free for all game, players start by choosing turn order.
Player 2 starts by throwing the ball into play.
Starting with player 1, the rules are simple: You must touch the ball on your turn, you can only touch it once, and it has to hit the fence to be the next player's turn and you cannot touch the ball if it's not your turn and soccer rules apply for legal touching of the ball. Any violation and you are out. Round continues until one player remained. No player limit, but the biggest game I played was nine.
At times, the ball would rebound off a pole in the backstop and fly into the field, forcing the next player to chase it and either intercept it, or manage a long range kick. Bear in mind you would have to stop and kick the ball in one touch.
A fun trick was to deliberately hit an opponent with the ball to out them but it was risky, if the ball bounced off of them and didn't hit the fence, you were out.
"Out" players stood behind the backstop and were fully allowed to interfere by kicking the fence to send the ball into the field.
Harry the Skeleton. I was about 6 or 7 and my brother 4 or 5 when I made this up. It went like this: one of us had to be Harry the Skeleton and hide somewhere in the house. The other person was themselves. So if my brother was Harry the Skeleton, I had to pretend I was going through the house looking for my brother and as I opened each closet door, looked under a bed, I would say things like I wonder where "brother" went, maybe he's in the tub etc etc and the longer it took to find him I would start getting that nervous glee, because I knew I was running out of the usual hiding spots and any minute...I would find him, but I would have to pretend that it wasn't him, it was Harry the Skeleton!! Oh no! The horror! and I was absolutely terrified and I had to run to the kitchen you always had to run to the kitchen. I don't know why and stand in front of the refrigerator, you were trapped there! And Harry the Skeleton chased you to the refrigerator and would do this terrifying (LOL) skeleton dance and sing this song: I am Harry the Skeleton, I am Harry the Skeleton! Then it would be my turn to hide. We made up other games too, but this was my favorite and I got some good laughs remembering it!
In my hometown, high school athletes would have a large wooden “C” with an image of the corresponding sport painted on it(⚽️ 🏀 🏈 etc). It would be staked in the ground and displayed in the front yard of their homes. (C=first letter of our hometown’s name) my town was small enough that you didn’t have to walk too far to come across one.
One day, out of boredom(the wellspring from which all great pastimes are derived) my friends and I were in my front yard goofing around. It was summer and we had gotten out a bag of golf clubs and some practice golf ball sized whiffle balls. Now, I feel I should mention that back in the late 90’s the internet and cellphones were still in their infancy and we spent a lot of time outdoors participating in sports. So naturally, scattered around my yard there were all kinds of balls, bats, clubs and whatever else may have accumulated over the course a slow summer afternoon in a tiny Midwest town.
As we took turns taking swings, we waxed poetic and pondered the great questions that have plagued mankind since time immemorial. Which 8th grade girl has the best boobs? Did Eminem and Fred Durst really bang Christina Aguilera? What does a vagina even feel like? Is There a Mambo number 1-4? And what the heck is a “Tubthumping”?!
As we hacked and swung away those ever waning and seemingly infinite minutes of youth one of my friends took a wack at a roughly orange sized NERF ball. He sent it sailing ac
Sardines. Best played in a dark house with all the lights out.
Whoever is “it” hides. Everyone else tries and finds them in the dark. When you find them you hide with them until everyone finds them or gives up. The first person to find them gets to be “it” next time.
"spider" - we would set up a room with some obstacles and make it pitch black dark. One person has to catch the others before they are able to reach the single light switch.
In our middle school after school program we played this made up game URBAN LEGENDS
It was like basketball knockout but with a boys twist.
We would shoot free throws in a line and if someone made a shot the next person who misses had to run to the wall and call out the name of the game. The other players on the missed attempt have to chuck the ball at the wall before the player could call it out. If he didn’t make it in time the player would have to spread eagle and get a basketball thrown at him.
Three strikes your out but let me tell you getting a basketball thrown at your nuts or body as a kid and then getting yelled at by the counselors was so funny. It didn’t stops from lining up again!
We had a really large, square trampoline in our backyard as kids with no fence on it. We would play a game called extreme pickle where two kids would be on the ground on either side of the trampoline and would throw a tennis ball as the people on the trampoline ran from one corner to the other. You weren’t allowed to hit anyone standing on “base” in the corners. Received several black eyes from being beamed with a tennis ball. Miss those days.
when walking home from school, i would pretend that the cars would shoot me as they went past or something. i would pretend that the parts that had grass were like shields so if i was standing in a driveway as a car went by i lose bit if i was standing in a part that had grass i would win. there wasn’t really a penalty but it was fun in my head
Move you ashes off the road. We had this long, stretch-around couch that was up against the wall, and we'd just walk or crawl along the back in opposite directions, and when two people neared each other, they would shout, "Move you ashes off the road!" And wrestle the other off. It did end up breaking the couch though...
Well...was around 12-13.....the girls would make a chain out of gum wrappers, depending how tall you were.....when she completed it...she would come to you and say lets meet....she had to like you to do this. We had to meet in hiding.....we would kiss and play for awhile....then burn chain....then !!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😊😊
This game was stupid but I would play this with my sister and her friends (I was around 11 and they were like 9) and we made up a game called "butt tag". Basically, it played like normal tag but we had to touch each others butts and we would be safe if we covered like if we sat on a chair or pressed it against the wall. Thinking about it know, I am so happy we never got the idea to play this game outside.
We picked the half rotten veggies out of the garden, (weren't allowed to play with the good stuff) and pretended we we're post-apocalypse survivors. We gathered supplies and "food" and hiked all over the valleys surrounding my family farm in the country. We built shelters and fought off zombies.
super late- but my siblings and I played a game called Hai-tauntaun. It was essentially hide-and-seek tag on rollerblades, where only the person who was it would hide and be on the skates, and they'd try to catch the other 3 before they made it to the front door from the home base across the house. If the person who was it saw you, they'd scream "HAITAUNTAUN!!" and start rollering towards them at mach speeds.
My cousin and I would make "samuel adams coins" by smashing samuel adam's bottle caps under a big rock. Our fathers always drank sam adams, so we only ever made sam adams coins.
I played a game called 'concrete concrete, cacka cacka' with my siblings. Someone would be 'it' and would follow us round the house. We would say 'concrete concrete' to freeze them and have to get by without touching them. 'Cacka cacka' meant they could move again. We'd let them get really close before freezing them. We stopped playing because apparently cacka means shit and our mum told us off lol. Was a fun game. Someone always cheated by slowly moving when frozen to touch the person getting by.
Johnox · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:35 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called “would you bang Ke$ha?” You ask the question, show somebody a Ke$ha music video and then see if they’d bang Ke$ha or not. The results were pretty unanimous, Even caused a couple stirs between some girlfriends and their boyfriends.
My siblings and cousins and I would always play ABC scratch. Whoever's turn it was had to give another player their hand, where that player would go through the alphabet and scratch the top of their hand. Before each scratch, you had to name something that started with that letter from a category picked before the game started. Each letter was accompanied by a harder scratch in the same spot. If you couldn't handle the pain before Z, you were out. Anyone who got all the way through won. I still have the scars.
We had one called 7 dogs or something and we had to throw whatever we could find at each other, I recall one time I was winding up an attack when some kid launches a metal bar at my forehead. I had a thanos coloured lump on my forehead, I don’t remember who it was and if i could get back at them I would
It's not unique, but we'd spend literally hours playing rock paper scissors. It was actually a lot of fun because you'd eventually work out everyone elses strategy, so it turned into much more of a mind game.
The "guess what word I just spelt out on the your back" game - my sister and I would play this game when we shared a room growing up and while we were trying to fall asleep at night. We would spell out random words on each others back by using our finger as a pencil and have to guess what word was spelled out - it was both super relaxing and fun while you were trying to unwind from the day. I would always pretend to get the word wrong multiple times in a row so that she would have to re-spell it out and then I got extra relaxation time.
Ps. We shared a room - not a bed lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:51 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)*
At an after school camp i was at, a camp counselor and my friends made up a game unoriginally named "hunger games". I remember spending a solid week with my friends and the counselor creating rules for this game.
Here are the rules:
Usually about 15 to 35 players are in the game, which only dictates how long the game lasts (about 30 minutes to 2 hours)
Every ball that could be found is put in the middle of the grounds, with a few scattered in various corners and in the playground areas.
Every kid lines up equal distance around the middle area (about 150 to 200 feet, we didn't measure), and when the counselor blows a whistle, the game begins.
Everyone has 3 lives. If you get hit by a ball, you lose a life. Honor system. Die and you wait. No revives.
At around halfway, any dead players are allowed to deal one damage by touching you, but can be stunned for 1 minute by damaging.
Teaming up is allowed, but the bonds are based on nothing so friendly fire and betrayal exist. (and made me realize how much of an asshole I was)
About a quarter of the way through the game, one of 4 special items are thrown by the counselor in random areas with the notice of a whistle. These items included a vest that gave you 3 extra lives (there were also 1 extra life arm bands around the playing area), a kickball that did 3 damage a hit, a pvc pipe that acted as a melee weapon, dealing 1 damage a hit. Finally, there was a hula hoop. the hula hoop make you immortal to all attacks as long as you were actively hula hooping.
When there are only around 5 people left the area you are allowed to go to shrinks, and the counselor I mentioned joined the dead players to speed up the game. (We were 3rd graders and he was a 6 foot tall 180 pound guy).
Whoever was the last person, not team, standing won. Just bragging rights. Extremely fun.
Side note: we also created games where we mixed yugioh or pokemon cards with beyblades, used a tennis court and foam mats to essentially create a war simulation, and used two metal swings to almost kill each other (dont ask)
I have a scar near my left eye solely because of these games. 10/10
Edit: I just remembered the game we played a lot where we went to a nearby warehouse and threw exercise balls at each other in the dark. I have no clue how I never got a concussion (at that point being a 70 pound 4 foot 8 3rd grader) since I hit my head against the concrete ground maybe 10 times a day.
(Context. I am half French half English) Ok, so. When I was about 5 to 6 years I watched this show called Art Attack. And for some reason I came up with this game that took place in our bedrooms. The game was pretty much a bunch of mini games that me, my sisters, and my dad. (play fighting, imaginary games, jokes and other weird and wonderful games.) the mini games were named after the Art Attack show. I just came up with a French abbreviation for the game.
"Fart Gun"
My older brother would make machine gun noises chasing our siblings while holding me as the "fart gun." Basically, I was hoisted around by my midsection, head behind his back, butt facing forward. I tried my best to get some farts in too. It was never a long game but damn funny to chase everyone around!
I friend and I had a game called "grenader" in which one of us would stand at the bottom of a rocky hill near my house and the other would throw/ roll rocks of varying sizes down at the other from the top of the hill. The goal was to dodge the rocks for a while, then we'd switch places and continue. I'm still amazed that neither of us ever got seriously injured.
It was when we were very young so keep that in mind. My family had a chess set but for the Simpsons, and I also had the game monopoly. We would pick monopoly characters and kill eachother with the chess pieces and get money, I always beat my twin. He has still to this day never forgiven me.
Slaughter the cow - hide and go seek with a sheet over the kid who's it
Bone hittin - we'd throw a dog bone at each other in a tag fashion
Fake orange war - built forts in living room and then threw plastic oranges at each other
Baseketball - not original but was fun, used chalk to make court like in the movie
Invisible Man - a basketball game my dad showed me. Not sure if anyone else played it. All people are on team against the invisible man. Your team gets points for making shots but if you miss you must get rebound and make shot from where you caught it or invisible man got the points. If the ball hits the ground the invisible man gets points.
Another thing we would do which wasn't much of a game but we did it alot. When I would have friends sleep over we'd both pick out like ten VHS movies we wanted to watch. Then we'd trade the sets of movies and pick out one until there was just 2 left then decide what go watch.
My sister and I would pretend to be baby cheetahs. We were obsessed with nature documentaries and our favourite animal was the cheetah. We'd walk around the house on all fours etc. Pretty silly, but it always makes us laugh when we remind each other of it.
In 3rd and 4rh grade our school was on top of a big hill and at the bottom was our playground, when reses started we all stood at the top of the hill and the winner from yesterday would yell "Run!" and we would all sprint down the hill (yes there where stairs nobody used) and the first to stand on a vertebra spot (disided by yesterday's winner) on a certen playground structure won, it was crazy people falling down the hill and like 3O kids all trying to climb up one slide. Those where the good days
Shadow ninja fighting. At a friend's place, when it would go dark, we'd turn off a light and go in his trampoline and move in a way that makes it look like our shadows were fighting. We'd also make video game-style sound effects on "hit".
Yes, a huge number of unwanted actual punches were thrown at each other, but still kept playing it
Game on the pool table we called “Strike”. Using just the cue ball, the 8 ball, and our hands. Any number of players, go speedily one after the other. First person breaks by rolling the cue ball at the 8-ball to get it moving. Then next person hurriedly grabs the cue ball that’s moving around and tries to hit and knock the 8-ball (that is also moving) into one of the pockets. If you do, you give the person after you a “strike” and the round resets. You are also given a strike if the 8-ball stops before you hit it (happens more often than you think what with misses and trying to be too precise). Three strikes and you’re out until there is only one person left. Fast-paced and we’d play for hours.
My dad's old girlfriend told me she and her friends used to play in a tent in someones garden. One kid would go outside the tent and one of the kids inside would press their naked ass against the tent wall. The kid outside would have to guess which kid's butt it was just by looking at it. They were pretty young at the time, so it wasn't as creepy as it sounds.
This isnt really game but good story so me and few friends of mine were playing at our street. Some other kids came and started a fight after fight we were planinng to attack them for 3 years guess what
Me and my friend would go in garden next to our building and pretend like those plants that stuns are enemies (garden was full of them) so we would grab sticks and slap them it was hell of a fun
My friends and I made up a mini-type of game called Hot Pursuit and Seek. (sorry no clever name) The rules were we cannot announce when it happens, we made the game spontaneous, so you had to keep it to yourself. The game starts once someone tags one another and says "run and out of sight," and now we all had to escape the chaser and hide somewhere to cool down, and the best way to evade was to split up. If you were the main target for the seeker you were basically screwed unless you could outrun them. You had to hide for at least two whole minutes while you were not seen. (If you were seen hiding in less than two minutes the chase continued and you would need to evade again)
Once you were on cooldown for two minutes, you now had to make it back to home or to the meeting field. A great strategy we used was running while the seeker was out of the yard area you were hiding in, but once the seeker was back in that specified area, you had to immediately hide again. (Hiding in this time does not count to your 2 minute timer.) Once you made it back to home base, you had to give a sign that your evasion was successful and you were out of the game and achieved victory. If you were seen traveling again, you were caught and your time is up.
Was hella fun if you were not near the group before the game got started, gave you a major head start.
Kickball, but not what you'd think. We had a uprights for a football field in our elementary school playground, and the guys would gather up dozens of balls, and we would kick them back and forth over the uprights for the entire recess period.
A friend and I played a game called roof ball for a good few years in elementary/middle school. My house had a patio in the back, and a small, lower roof over the grilling area, but that was close to the other, higher parts of the roof. There were also some stairs, the roof turned, etc so it had interesting terrain features. The game was to throw a ball up onto the roof, and the other person had to catch it before it hit the ground. For every time the ball bounced on the ground, the thrower got a point. You switch throwers after a catch, aka when the ball doesn't bounce so the thrower gets no points.
We had a bunch of random rules about what areas were out of bounds etc, and it entertained us for HOURS, and was actually fairly good exercise, as well as training your spatial sense and sense of how angles work.
As a kid, my friends and I would play a game similar to hide-and-seek. The twist though was that there is a can or a bottle at the starting point. Once the seeker finds a hidden person, they both have to run towards the bottle and tap it on the ground three times. If the seeker does this, the hidden person is caught, but if the hidden person does this, they are safe. If a hidden person gets caught, the next hidden person to manage to tap the bottle would choose to yell “I come to your rescue” and who ever was caught is safe. The person with the most people caught in the end wins. It was really exhilarating and fun!
my dad and I used to play sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up it's like heads up seven up but you don't get up and the only way to win is to turn 18 and move out. super fun.
We played a game called “Bloody knee” - we would run in circle around someone who would say something like “1st hour gone by, the lamp was still on, second hour gone by(rhymes in my language)... and so on until he said THE LAMP WENT OFF! Then he-being the bloody knee-would catch everyone else while doing some demonic sounds. When he got you, you play dead and wait until the bloody knee caught everyone else. It was fun playing outside in the dark and also inside with the extra effect of actually shutting the lights off... And yeah, the name comes from the most common injury we had.
I was sitting on the edge of the sofa and falling on the floor back first. Dunno why I was doing this, but I have suspicious about my back problems >.>"
Me, my brother and my cousins use to play this game we called Hide and Tag (could’ve had a better name). So how the game worked is that we put a mattress in one room and who ever was “it” should stay in the same room as the mattress (always used one of our cousin’s lounge). And there were many entrances and exists for their living room (why we used it). So who ever was “it” is in that room right, he had to count to 10 on the mattress covering his eyes. The ones that was not it had to hide. The guy that’s “it” should basically protect the mattress. I’m realizing I’m explaining this very poorly cause I’m actually high right now. So he has to stand there and make sure that the guys that aren’t “it” should not get to the mattress.
Modes_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:28 on July 4, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a bucket full of water. We added berries, mud, stones, leaves, etc because we could. We called it bug stew. This sounds ok, but it was probably poisonous to everything. Also because we added dead bugs to it. Had the same stew for about 10 years before my dad emptied it out.
My sister and I shared a room when we were little, so we played this game similar to tag. We’d turn off all the lights in the room and the person who was ‘it’ would snort like a pig and try to find the other. We had a bunk bed, so we had a lot more places to go. I stopped playing that game when I fell head first off the top bunk onto the floor like a rag doll.
My cousin and i would get some paper shurikens, push the sofa a bit foward, and one of us would hide behind the sofa and other behind a cardboard wall we had, we'd give 7 shurikens to us and try to hit each other with the shurikens, fun times.
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 14:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made up a game called 'Todd and Robin's. I can't remember anything about it but I remember us having the coolest adventures! Boy, do i miss those days
We had a game or risk in the house. Only played it a few times the right way but man I used to love playing with those pieces. I had cheap poker chips used for money and just battled small armies against each other for hours. Each color had a different power and cost. Rolling dice to determine if a front line unit attacked, rolled other dice to see if the back lines could do anything to prevent it etc. “ enemy” units dropped money so I could build up the main army with better or more units. Good times
I convinced my cousins that a Demon Named "EWE" lived in the S"EWE"R, and to summon him, you had to stand on the manhole cover, with your feet covering the S and the R in "SEWER"... They started believing me, so I would sharpen crayons at school, and put the multi colored shavings in a tissue, and toss them in the air when they were looking down at the sewer, trying to summon E-WE. Good God I had some kind of imagination.
As a kid my sister and I played out a lot of stories with our Barbies. We would make sprawling towns for them. There’d be the home, a school, a park, sometimes a community pool, etc. That part was normal but our stories were really weird and dark. Some I remember off the top of my head:
-Barbie is now an orphan and has to take care of her younger siblings
-Kelly’s parents died and now she lives in an orphanage. But she’s especially hated and shut away in the attic.
-Barbie and family are super poor and live cramped in a mobile home. They “ate” a lot of rice and beans.
-Mean Kelly tries to hurt and sometimes kill nice Kelly in various new ways. We’d use masking tape to make casts. Nice Kelly was usually disabled or a tomboy. >.<
-Kelly is at the beach (the bathtub) when suddenly the water gets super rocky (us splashing). She’d get trapped in the water, bashed around on the rocks, and either be saved at the last minute or die.
I didn’t realize how preoccupied we were with injury and death until I got into my late teens. 🤦🏻♂️
Not sure if anyone will see this, but a friend and I invented a game called Snipe. One person have a toy pistol and would close their eyes and count to 100. The other person would go and find a place to hide with a toy rifle. The goal was to find the sniper and get close enough to shoot him before he could shoot you. It required trust and honesty, but the sniper wasn't allowed to move, so if you made the noise to "shoot" when you clearly had no shot, all you did was give away your position.
Im kind of envious of everyone here that made up these elaborate games with their siblings; my brother and I would just make up reasons to fight when we were bored
We would all go out into a fresh field of snow and make a maze of tracks with our feet and we’d start a game of tag and you had to stay on the tracks while trying to run away.
You take the glow in the dark stars you stick on the ceiling and "charge them up so they are super bright". Then everyone built a fort and turned off all of the lights. The rules were simple, throw as many as possible and avoid the bright streaks of light...
Looking back this was incredibly dangerous as we never wore eye protection. The stars were actually pretty brutal if you were hit...we always left with bloody cuts on our arms and faces...
My brother and I used to play ‘Stair Rollercoaster’ , where we’d lay our duvets down and to end over the (fairly small) stairs in our house, then the ‘rider’ would get in a sleeping bag and ‘ride’ down the stairs. It was well painful and now that I think about it probably dangerous? There was a turn in the stairs halfway down which I guess meant you couldn’t build up too much momentum though...
Well my and my brothers game was yeeting ourselves in the sofa yelling "pizza"
In our minds there was a secret door and if you yelled pizza it should've opened.
We stopped after the sofa tipped over and fell
royolo · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coinblading
We would play beyblades with quarters and if they didn’t collide last one to stop vibrating won, a ton of rules were made if the went onto the ground and were spinning lol
My brothers and I used to play Jessie James. We would stand about 20 feet from each other and take turns throwing rocks at each other’s backs.
Because Jessie James shot everyone in the back.
It stopped when I hit my brother in the back of the head and he had to go get stitches
my uncle and i used to play tickle time: we would take off our clothes, and he would tickle my lower half
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a few.
My best friend and I played a game called the "shin game" where we would take turns kicking each other in the shin.
We had another game called "nature war". This just consisted of two teams throwing anything they could find in nature , like rocks, sticks and acorns, at one another.
My personal favorite
The slave trade game. Basically my group of friends at school played rock paper scissors and loser became a slave to the winner. A slave could try and get his/her freedom once a week by challenging the master. The master could also lose all his slaves to another master if he or she lost a best 3 out of 5 to said master. The only time a master could become a slave is if she or she was challenged and had 0 slaves. There was also a limit on how often masters could challenge people and a whole set of rules. I completely shut the game down when it started becoming too overwhelming and popular. I was afraid of getting suspended. (Biracial btw) . Looking back on it. It was around 2008 or so and even back then people were waaaay less sensitive than they are now.
The most addictive game I played was World of Warcraft. Back when I was still playing it, I would get up in the morning, log in and not do anything other than play WoW the entire day. During summer break, I'd even turn my alarm on to 6am, so I had more time to play. It was insane, that game was basically my life for the better part of 3 years that felt like 10.
I kind of miss being able to get so absorbed by a game in that way, but I am also not 18 anymore and don't have the time to spend so much time on one single game.
I was always playing these sort of imaginary RPG-esque games in my head where I was whatever I wanted to be, in some imaginary world, completing quests/tasks/battles and making it up as i go. It was my favorite thing to do.
Me, my sister, and 2 cousins, used to play a war game back then. We used rubber bands as slingshots and folded paper as ammunition( we used to spend hours making these until our parents were asleep). The game begins: We split into 2 teams in the living room. Each team having different obstacles they can use to their advantage and we would use the cushions of some couches as shields. We made some rules aswell. If you got hit in the face u get a timeout for 5 minutes, 3 minutes for chest/shoulders, and 1 minute for waist down. It went on for hours and before we knew it it was dawn.
We'd wear eye goggles (but no snorkel) and we had hockey sticks and a ball at the bottom of our pool, we tried to fight over it, getting it to each side of the pool.
Another game I play sometimes is "Greasy Pig"
Me and a group of like 30 people would go into a swimming pool once a year, have a watermelon covered in vaseline (making it extremely slippery, even underwater) and we'd fight over it, trying to get it onto our team's side.
These games were always fun but greasy pig was brutal and there was always a 100% death rate.
I invented a game at a summer camp called Hobo. The name came from the idea that hobos like jumping trains. During lunch we were at a playground with a roundabout. The roundabout would be the “train” and designated people would keep it spinning (we alternated so people didn’t have to only spin). One guy, the “hobo”, would try to jump on to the spinning roundabout and throw someone off. If he succeeded, the guy thrown off would be the new hobo. The rest of us on the train would try to throw the hobo off. The playground had AstroTurf, but the counselors thought it was too unsafe after about the third day.
My uncle called it "Chocolate Thumb", he had me put one thumb in my ass, then one in my mouth, then when he said "Switch" I would switch my fingers. Loved it.
I had a game I always played with my uncle. It was really fun. He called it "what's in my pants?". We would take turns sticking a random object down our pants, and the other would have to guess what it was by feel. He was a great guy; I wonder why he never got married or had a girlfriend. He never had kids, but he loved playing with kids.
Wait a minute...
Oh. Oh, god. I think I figured out why we played some of those other games. BRB, need to barf and then call a therapist.
One of my funniest teaching moments was when the girls on the playground decided to play wall ball, excluding the boys. The game had always been played by both.
The boys wanted to play, but the girls were firm with not allowing them, so they complained to me, “The girls won’t let us play wall ball! We always let them play with our balls any time they want to!! Not fair!!!” Hey, life’s not fair!
GTA: San Andreas! It was a really complete game by the time with TONS of things to do. It had a compelling story and fun gun mechanics to play with. The "theme" in general was very interesting.
[deleted] · -21 points · Posted at 13:23:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
thehottestmeme · 19405 points · Posted at 14:17:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called camera tag.Basically hide and seek but It would have to be in the dark, and you have to have a camera. If you spot someone, you have to take a picture of them with the flash on. If they're in the picture they get caught and they're out
Chapeaux · 6938 points · Posted at 19:02:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Then someone find an old SD card full of random pictures of kids in the dark, creepy stuff.
be-targarian · 1744 points · Posted at 20:00:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Today's top comment = Tomorrow's "TIFU by finding a SD card full of creepy kid pics"
-TheDayITriedToLive- · 179 points · Posted at 23:10:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And they'd all have expressions of surprise, or be in the act of trying to run away.
Black_Phazon · 36 points · Posted at 00:26:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the opposite of a good look
Darcosuchus · 17 points · Posted at 03:56:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also the opposite of "totally not horrifying"
Baka_Tsundere_ · 36 points · Posted at 22:16:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See yall tomorrow for that!
cloudyoutside · 30 points · Posted at 03:16:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or r/nosleep
“I Found a strange SD card. I think it Might Be Haunted [Part 5]”
be-targarian · 3 points · Posted at 14:21:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah I unsubbed from that so long ago I forgot it existed.
l524k · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The stories get so uninteresting when they become a series. Search and rescue is the only good r/nosleep series I can think of.
Aquat1cz · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
NEW SD CARD FOUND SCARY
Phayze87 · 3 points · Posted at 01:02:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You're on a list now lol
BasicRedditor101 · 5 points · Posted at 23:13:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(Gone sexual)
Vapour38 · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Would you come for Ask Reddit?
ralphwiggumpolo · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or tomorrow’s r/RBI thread
totallythebadguy · 50 points · Posted at 21:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And a shadowy figure behind them... Reaching out
laurenhigs · 13 points · Posted at 22:19:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/writingprompts
TheLightPage · 5 points · Posted at 23:10:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/nosleep
StevieWonder420 · 22 points · Posted at 22:29:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahahahaha running away from the flash in the dark in full panic mode
AsianJimHalpert13 · 20 points · Posted at 22:53:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SD card? More like film roll! Am I right?!
Am...am I...old? 😞
GameOfCojones · 25 points · Posted at 00:04:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Haha. *old man voice* "In my days, we had to wait two weeks to find out who won in a game of tag!"
AsianJimHalpert13 · 5 points · Posted at 00:14:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey bud... We had one hour photos at Furr's. And to kill an hour we had the kids video membership in which you'd browse a whole bunch of crap movies for that gem in the .99 section.
GameOfCojones · 3 points · Posted at 00:17:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fancy!
bunso60 · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, most excellent!
Boggart13 · 3 points · Posted at 23:48:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sure is one fancy way of writing chalk slate, my good man.
theatomicwhale · 3 points · Posted at 00:28:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
then someone posts it to /r/Hmmm or /r/cursedimages for Maximum Karma
malteseclub · 2 points · Posted at 00:20:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The kids would be running and shielding themselves too
rydan · 2 points · Posted at 14:07:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Here you go
https://i.redd.it/53v62bd661k21.jpg
kodakopp · 1 points · Posted at 13:58:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There’s a detective somewhere trying to find a bunch of kids who aren’t lost.
Pacific_Voyager · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
TIL I'm old as fuck... When I read camera I was thinking Polaroid, then I read your SD card comment.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't be dark pics if it was indoors and the flash was on
StevieWonder420 · 15 points · Posted at 22:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just so we're clear you think it'd look like a properly lit room?
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 23:17:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Try it yourself, it does
Omartian21 · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fleeing* kids in the dark.
Kougeru · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel old just because you assumed it was a digital camera. I assume he meant a disposable Kodak lol
🎙️ antenonjohs · 4275 points · Posted at 14:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds cool!
pdwHu · 2581 points · Posted at 19:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well back in my day we would’ve had to wait a week after to see who won, until the film develops.
[deleted] · 96 points · Posted at 20:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 26 points · Posted at 20:16:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I highly doubt it is.
Ninjatam · 9 points · Posted at 20:32:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/woooosh?
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 20:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now that I think of it, you're probably right. Hopefully right at least.
Metamorphis · 5 points · Posted at 21:00:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Even if Ninjatam isn't right it's not like we'll ever know at this point.
Ninjatam · 3 points · Posted at 01:06:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
what if i've had the high ground this entire time, you just don't know it yet
Metamorphis · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:23 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
More power to you in that case! :)
_jato · 3 points · Posted at 23:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
username check
whycuthair · 2 points · Posted at 03:50:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So woosh on the woosher?
_jato · 2 points · Posted at 08:45:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Look honestly it could be any of the above. You never know on the internet.
whycuthair · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Word
Thisusername027 · 17 points · Posted at 20:35:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone else fucking hate that subreddit it’s so annoying to see everywhere especially when they do it too themselves not understanding sarcasm
LexBrew · 0 points · Posted at 21:19:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Relevant username
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean i don't see how it is tbh.
Javad0g · 44 points · Posted at 20:47:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
YOU HAD TO WAIT A WEEK?
Back in my day, after the film was exposed, it was sent by stagecoach back to the city where the photos were then developed.
Then the pictures were gone through one by one and a telegraph was sent back to us that we could only pick up once a month when we went into the Western Union office in town.
pdwHu · 33 points · Posted at 20:54:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slow down there Pepperidge Farm!
Gold3nChildr3n · 10 points · Posted at 21:00:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That actually made me laugh out loud - too perfect
Therage80p · 14 points · Posted at 21:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Pssshhh! That's nothing! Back in my day, if we wanted to play this, we had to paint a portrait because there were no cameras! And, and, we had to while walking up hill. Both ways!
GeniGeniGeni · 8 points · Posted at 21:15:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol, back in MY day, paint hadn’t even been invented yet. We carved basic images into the rock.
TwentyOnePugs · 16 points · Posted at 21:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BACK IN MY DAY I WAS A SINGLE CELL ORGANISM AND WE DIDNT HAVE CAMERAS AND WE EVOLVED
Unusually-Fast-Snail · 7 points · Posted at 21:20:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha! Back in my day, we had to make an oil painting.
Rarepep3s · 6 points · Posted at 21:08:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hi grandpa
MCG_1017 · 4 points · Posted at 21:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shake it like a Polaroid picture.
pdwHu · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sigh ...unzips
ertcha · 5 points · Posted at 23:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"You think I have money to burn? No we're not getting your silly film developed. You know how much that costs? Now put that camera down before you break it and come over here in your orange and brown outfit and flared trousers and have some artificial sweeteners".
matdave · 3 points · Posted at 21:46:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is what I was thinking. We played tag in the pitch black without cameras though!
Consiliarius · 2 points · Posted at 22:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Heh was about to say this - in my day this would have been like playing chess by mail with a penpal!
dirtycrabcakes · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was my thought too.. but then I remembered Polaroids.
pdwHu · -1 points · Posted at 23:09:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think that was a thing in most of the world. Could be wrong...
The_Anarcheologist · 2 points · Posted at 23:41:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or just be the children of a high level employee at Polaroid.
throwawayinaway · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Then find out you didn't roll it property and you have no pics.
Grillwrecka · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Would be cool with Instax™
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can remember riding my Sears 10-speed bike up to the Fotomat to pick up the pictures my Mom took on the Instamatic camera.
juuular · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
They didn’t have polaroids back then?
BMooreLuvn · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I want to upvote but 1981 upvotes is too appropriate.
GEARHEADGus · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Polaroids man.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's so funny, because my first thought was "what a waste of money."
[deleted] · 59 points · Posted at 20:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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DownWitBOP · 14 points · Posted at 20:30:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
😱!!
Krimreaper1 · 9 points · Posted at 20:17:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Be an expensive game in my early childhood, we had one time use flash cubes, until the built in flashes were common a few years later. And of course every thing was on film.
spaceman1980 · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol
UrinalPissbert · 12 points · Posted at 19:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you save that question for your cake day?
NotCybercat · 10 points · Posted at 19:58:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They didn’t, but I saved this comment for just now
UrinalPissbert · 4 points · Posted at 20:21:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing to blame. If I had an idea for a good post I’d also wait till my cake day to post it if it’s nearly there anyway
ChillyWilly256 · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day BTW.
YaBoiDankest · 2 points · Posted at 20:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
MrPorkchops55 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
Cali-Bruh · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why U have 2 green sign next... Is it new Gold Awrad? Take my silver Kind santrag
cootchiegucci23 · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy microphone day
notsoopendoor · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marioparty is cool confirmed
jenglasser · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Honestly, the sounds a little too much like the end to the Silence of the Lambs.
speen2020 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played sardines
Sandvich1015 · 0 points · Posted at 20:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
🎂
cdsherwood77 · 0 points · Posted at 21:51:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
EP1CxEMAN08 · 0 points · Posted at 22:11:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cakerophone Day!
cheesycheesling · 0 points · Posted at 05:12:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
[deleted] · -5 points · Posted at 21:13:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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cynicaesura · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imagine being this edgy
Alicorngum · 1563 points · Posted at 16:02:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the hide and seek game on Mario party for ds lol
Sunset1131 · 778 points · Posted at 16:17:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Camera shy was the best mini game, in grade 8 my group of friends and our class went on a trip that took like 10 hours and we played Mario party ds the entire time that shit was the best and we always played camera shy
Edit: once my friend got really lucky on a 35 turn game and somehow managed to steal a ton of our stars and he ended up with 43 stars
Knowee · 29 points · Posted at 20:06:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
4 player Mario party ds with my sibs and cousins is one of my best childhood memories. We loved the mini game where you had to climb the grandfather clock. I bought it for the switch but it just ain’t the same, they should’ve kept the large map design they had in the ds.
bophinator · 15 points · Posted at 20:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I do agree! I’ve loved Mario party due to the DS version and have so many memories playing it with family and friends. It only went downhill from there with all the extra items and events they added into it later :/
Potatokoke · 9 points · Posted at 21:05:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah the switch version is pretty lackluster. Haven't seen a good Marioparty since Mario Party 8 for the Wii, but the DS is still my favorite.
aeythda · 6 points · Posted at 21:00:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
camera shy was my favoriiiiteeee
thePixelgamer1903 · 5 points · Posted at 22:02:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mario party DS was great
SpaceFace5000 · 4 points · Posted at 23:14:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That honestly sounds like the best time ever
Sunset1131 · 3 points · Posted at 01:28:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was
Keyboardpaladin · 4 points · Posted at 20:32:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like a good memory.
FireMarioProductions · 2 points · Posted at 16:43:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
DK's Stone Statue with 5 Coin Star Final 5 Frenzy bonus? That can lead to crazy amounts of stars
Sunset1131 · 2 points · Posted at 16:45:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, we got that record on bowsers pinball
Quicksilver7424 · 2 points · Posted at 20:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought it was flash and dash
Salsaordie · 3 points · Posted at 05:46:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flash and dash is the one where the three players have flashlights and the other player has to avoid getting caught
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 20:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was my favourite mini game in MPDS, loved that game
BaconbitsSodommizer · 3 points · Posted at 20:51:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks for reminding me for when my siblings and I played
LecheQuemada · 3 points · Posted at 03:34:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I actually played this too irl based on that minigame
HaverchuckBill · 75 points · Posted at 19:12:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This could be a horror movie plot.
Highschool reunion. Close group of buddies play this at an after-party at a friend's old house, just like old times. Find spooky apparitions on the photos. Go back to old film photos, to find the same ghostly faces.
pairorat · 11 points · Posted at 21:44:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, it's basically the premise of the game Fatal Frame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Frame
BarackTheObama · 12 points · Posted at 21:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I‘m stealing this
WWWeast · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is a horror movie about a high school reunion on Netflix called "most likely to die"
Momnipotence · 57 points · Posted at 15:49:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was at the age for that when we only had Polaroid and Instamatic cameras, so that wouldn’t have worked. Fuck, I’m old…
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 16:02:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Momnipotence · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
😂
TheWinRock · 3 points · Posted at 21:52:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It sounds like a game for people who don't want to have to run and actually tag the person. We played "release" at night with teams and you actually had to tag the person. Though when I was playing there weren't smartphones with flash cameras
horsenbuggy · 106 points · Posted at 15:47:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uh, my parents would have killed me for wasting film.
wardrich · 111 points · Posted at 18:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOL Imagine how long this game would take if it were traditional film?
"OKAY FUCKERS, DON'T MOVE FOR THE NEXT HOUR AND A BIT. I GOTTA GET THIS BITCH DEVELOPED!"
Vaidurya · 40 points · Posted at 18:54:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nah, you'd have to be a rich kid for this to be feasible--remember Polaroids? Not cheap, but certainly quick! ... Relatively speaking.
wardrich · 8 points · Posted at 19:03:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, good point. Were Polaroids cheaper than regular cameras? I never had access to one, but I did have a regular film camera.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 19:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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wardrich · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy smokes!
SadSorbet · 3 points · Posted at 20:07:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
he was lied to its like £2-3 a photo these days for the dearest polaroids.
i can take instax minis for about 40p a pop in contrast
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:50:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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SadSorbet · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
not really? polaroid was still making film in the 90s and it wasnt $100 a pack. - it was like $10-20 a pack in the 80s... i was giving a modern comparison to what it costs because im pretty confident it was cheaper in the past when instant film was more mainstream
serotoninzero · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I mean, it wasn't $100 in the 90s for Polaroid style film either, but Polaroid themselves did stop producing it in the early 90s. Fuji continued to make compatible film. The plants that made Polaroid style/Fuji instant film slowly started to die out after digital cameras became prevalent. In 2016, the last plant selling this film closed. Up until that point, I was buying it on Amazon for roughly 90 cents a shot for my 1970s era Polaroid Land Camera 420. It was somewhere around $1-1.50 a picture in the 90s.
You're also comparing a product that was almost identical in build from when it was first produced to when the plants shutdown sixty years later to computer hardware that has gone through exponential growth in both design and manufacturing processes.
redbluegreenyellow · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was $1 a picture when I had one in the late 90s.
wardrich · 2 points · Posted at 20:27:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But how much was it in the 90's?
Kittelsen · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few hundred dubloons.
howtochoose · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But oh god if you moved in those.. All those hide and seek pics would have truly being terrifying
yParticle · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
fans developing photo while everyone stands around looking bored
GCP_17 · 85 points · Posted at 16:38:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My guess is that OP used a digital camera, and they're not old like you and I ;)
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 19:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was just about to say that if I played this game, it would take a few days before we knew who got caught. Lol. Although Polaroid woulda worked I guess...
horsenbuggy · 9 points · Posted at 18:02:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know. I just wanted to add perspective.
blargman327 · 22 points · Posted at 19:00:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I saw some guys who played something like this where they were at a convention and would try to "snipe" pictures of each other. If a picture of you was uploaded in their group chat you were out.
Zombie_fett18 · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Corridor right?
blargman327 · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep
mane_mariah · 17 points · Posted at 19:10:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play flashlight tag at night! Nothing like running around the house and woods without any adult supervision in the middle of the night!!!
MisterCrist · 12 points · Posted at 20:22:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spotlight is what we called it here in Australia
moistbutter · 3 points · Posted at 21:28:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moonlight uh
dollopy · 3 points · Posted at 09:17:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love this so much!! I was scared shitless 100% of the time but I loved it!
vicaphit · 12 points · Posted at 19:50:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played flashlight tag when I was a kid. You had to shine the player to find out who it was, then shout their name. It was much harder in the early 90s because flashlights weren't as bright as they are today.
shokalion · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlights really did use to suck.
The modern keychain LED ones that send out a blinding blast of light are just incredible in comparison when you stop and think about it.
Caelorum · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do this at scouts but we'd use a maglite. That thing cos light up a person 200m away easy. Only way you'd be able to hide was to not be in sight. (like laying under a pile of leaves)
bits_of_paper · 23 points · Posted at 19:08:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All fun and games still you take a picture of a ghost.
Cazador_64 · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Then it just becomes Fatal Frame.
bits_of_paper · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes that game scared the crap out of me.
sadorna1 · 4 points · Posted at 19:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This could lead to some very creepy shit if something else appears in the photo
RobinsGF · 6 points · Posted at 20:08:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thats a horror story in the making
Justlose_w8 · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol we didn’t have digital cameras when I was a kid so all I’m imagining is taking a picture then running to the pharmacy to get it developed then running home a couple of hours later to then realize I didn’t get Joe in the picture
Soul1traveler · 3 points · Posted at 19:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jesus christ this thread is bringing back so many memories! We used to do this all the time, so much fun. Also hide-n-seak in the dark by itself was fucking great! I always hid on top of the cat tower😂
unstablesalmon · 3 points · Posted at 19:33:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
isn’t this an old mario party mini game?
TheArts · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like tech was not this advanced when I was a kid 😂
ill_change_it_later · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used flashlights (I am of the age of film cameras) and called it POW.
CryoSage · 2 points · Posted at 19:45:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is how you discovered that demons are lurking in your house
zerdafen · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do something similar called spotlight, my friend had a giant flashlight that could flash for as long as you held the button and we would try to sneak up to them up on a deck without being spotted. Honestly your version sounds way better because we always argued whether we were actually visible
kindaberry · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played exactly the same thing, especially when we had a power outage. And yes, we too argued A LOT
sorrikkai7 · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That reminds me too much of a horror game
noahholley · 2 points · Posted at 19:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My and my friends did an iteration of this where you had to get from one end of the street to the other before getting caught by a camera. Sometimes we would do it in teams and we would walkie-talkie information to our teammates. Me and my brother even made a playbook that covered the most efficient way to get out of every situation. We would just lay in the neighbors bushes for 45 minutes at a time looking for the best time to make the next move. Good times
SkywalterDBZ · 2 points · Posted at 20:08:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy crap this was us. We used some cheap plastic cameras with no film in it. We didn't need a photo for proof, the fact that you just temporarily blinded them was enough. And we played in the PITCH dark ... like rooms with no windows, so even when people thought they knew where you were you just tried to be as silent as you could, forcing them to feel around (or one time kick a radiator so hard that I nearly peed myself laughing) before they chose to waste their 1 charge they were allowed.
3xtremeCha0s · 2 points · Posted at 20:09:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is German spotlight except a camera instead of a flashlight. Great game!
AnxiousJorge · 2 points · Posted at 20:29:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You must be younger than me. When I was a kid, my friends and I, during sleepovers, would turn off the lights and take (innocent) flash pictures of each other with disposable cameras. No idea what we'd taken pictures of until our parents picked up the developed pictures. They were generally hilarious to us, though the wait time was a real buzzkill.
augdog57 · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game sorta like this but without a camera. Whoever was it had to act like a monster to try and scare everyone
4gg_Spark · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the same game until I took a photograph of a ghost beside my friend. The friend died soon after from a illness. I followed after a few months. Now I'm a angry ghost stalking creepy reddit posts.
Butt_fairies · 5 points · Posted at 19:01:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you my brother?! We did this for like three summers. I still have the films of us making weird faces bc we were "caught"
storyofmylife92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bigfoot is the champion of this game cause the refs can never decide whether he is in the picture or not
brimds · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was there a limit on the number of pictures you could take it anything like that?
sud_evilm0nk · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Costly! Rich kids games!
Billsuckok · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg I just wrote a comment about something similar to this! But it we didn’t use a camera. Just straight up played in the dark
Burqu · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag
shortiezz · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds fun, and that cousin/friend/sibling who always cheats and say 'no you didn't tag me' would finally have to play fair!
MrBiggz01 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
*digital camera tag. If i did this as a kid we would be waiting a week for the pics to be developed. Wouldn't have friends for long...
AceBud · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is definitely a game only possible after the invention of the polaroid camera...
gentrites · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How old are you now?
GameDoge · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck, Me and my school friends did the same thing in like 4th grade
demusocin · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude me and my brother played this same game after a road trip when we had a couple extra disposable cameras. Awesome game!
DocJawbone · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg great game
animefan9999 · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We play that at my church if we have free time
joshuaacip · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m definitely next time with my friends
BestBeClownin · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played near the same thing! Dark basement and one goes upstairs while the others hide. Then their only way of getting light was the camera flash (only looking at the screen). Then look at the picture to see if you can see limbs. A lot of funny pictures came of it!
firehands10 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of flashlight tags where we would have to keep someone lit up with the flashlight for 3 seconds to tag them. Good for people that aren’t fans of running so much.
MajorPeek · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this at camp in 5th grade. Got to the point where we figured out that if you spin up the winding wheel on the disposable cameras and hit it really hard the flash would go off even without film.
ja_cko · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I want to play this right now
starduststormclouds · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is such a great idea! I used to play a variant of this when I was a kid. We called it "to play monsters". It was hide and seek in a dark room but before hiding, we would let someone in to hide somewhere as a "monster". Then that person would try to find someone and who ever was first found would be the monster on the next round. I was always very scared of this. I think the camera version would be so much more fun! Not to mention, the amount of great pictures it would yield!
tenchu11 · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like an intro to a horror movie.
ChesapeakeBai · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah I used to play that game too!!! I actually found the album that had the photos of one of our games recently, was cracking up as we’d always pull some crazy face once we knew we were caught.
taffibunni · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like Polaroid would be the perfect balance between instant gratification and anticipatory delay for this game.
Corbotron_5 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m guessing you’re younger than me, ‘cos waiting a week to pick up the developed photos would have really sucked the fun out of that game.
seatbelt-malfunction · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with our grandpas' old army gear, (camo and such) and we had flashlights tapped to air soft guns.
nitroshock45 · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a similar one where we’d hide a camera in a room and have someone search for it while it records. Then afterwards, we’d watch the footage and laugh when someone looked right at the camera and didn’t see it.
awilseh · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You must be young... when I was a kid all we had were disposable cameras.
Bowlingforwemos · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This has "cliche opening of a horror movie all over it"! Were you kids TRYING to get possessed? Lol
Edgyboi5 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I genuinely want to play this now
TheRealJasonium · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kids stay hidden for days while film is being developed
KittenOnTheRoof · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you played a real life version of Fatal Frame/Project Zero?
Rangesummer · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm stealing it
Xionizzy · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of that one part in Hotel 626 except you’re trying to find a ghost
Colley619 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds like it has potential to be extremely terrifying when a demon joins in
screwyouposeidon · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I swear there is a minigame very similar in the video game mario party ds.
driph · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The rough part was that this was in the 80s, so it always took a few days to develop the film and figure out who won. :/
JasonVoorheesthe13th · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends and siblings did a version of this but with flashlights instead of cameras
Worede · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You could make a horror story out of that.
pinksultana · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ummm yes I will begin playing this now
banditkoala · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are clearly not an 80s child.
It would take a trip to Big W and 5 days to get that shit developed :D
Lolololage · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See we played that game aswell but our Nokia 2210's never seemed to catch anyone.
thekrabbbypattty · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that sounds so fun actually
ElSeban88 · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
l've played a local multiplayer video game at a gaming event this year that was exactly that. Was pretty fun!
The_Unknown_Variable · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And that's how horror movies are inspired!
ASPEEDBUMP · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Must have sucked waiting two weeks to get the pictures back from the photo-mat... or am I dating myself?
Enigmatic_Iain · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like a fantastic addition to sniper. One person stands with a camera in the dark, everyone has to try and tag them, but if the sniper sees them and gets a photo of them the snapped person is out.
slade357 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I did something similar. You have to get a house as dark as possible then you have a hider and a finder. Hider covers their face, hands, and as much skin as possible then gets 30 seconds to hide. Finder counts out those 30 seconds in the bathroom with the lights on. Then they can come out and try looking for the hider but the catch it they only have a laser light to look for them with and they only have one gueas, similar to yours. We would just say bang though. Have never had a house empty enough and dark enough to actually play it again but man was that fun. Also we were like 18 when we played this and I'd still play it again.
Cazador_64 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So child friendly Fatal Frame then
TheMadHatterOnTea · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's a plot to a horror movie
Andres_Sosa · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What would you do if one day, someone who you didn’t recognize showed up in the picture?
FalloutFordFirearms · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the photographer guy in Saw that uses his camera flash to investigate around his dark house.
tresanus · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a very similar game called "the dark game". Pitch black basement where the person who is "it" has a pen flashlight and has to shine it on someone to get them out. The other players hid and each had three stuffed animals to throw at the player with the flashlight. It was quite honor system based and worked really well with how my cousins basement was set up stairs and furniture wise
nutmegfromtobin · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Must have some really funny photos from that game.
DesignForDummies · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just did it with flashlights. This must have been done since phones have become ubiquitous, I couldn't imagine even having a camera as a kid, let alone running around with one.
Interior_Earth_Night · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a scene like this in the first Saw movie.
Sudden_Shelter · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thats like the one fucking game from mario party for the ds
SuspiciousBiscuit · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk why but you reminded me of Fatal Frame
Legitrock · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Og Outlast
ReyJuan · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's some fatal frame shit right there
StarZod · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of that Mario Party DS minigame Camera Shy
getchimped · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like the plot of a good horror movie
orionsbelt05 · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was wondering how long it would take before someone chimes in with a game that couldn't have been played when I was a kid, making me feel old.
I'm assuming you were playing with a cheap digital camera and not a polaroid.
mykeuk · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Would be a really slow game if this was back in the day of film cameras.
00Siven · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's a mini game in a Mario party game
joelmercer · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That would of been a super expensive game when I was a kid.
“You’re out!”, “No I’m not!”, “Yes you are! Just wait a few days until my Mom gets this film developed and you’ll see!”
nepheelim · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a great plot for a scaring horror movie...
stare_at_the_sun · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like something in a horror movie
mybosspartieshard · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played that too, but it was a bitch to wait for the film to develop...
ELO628 · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s how you find out your basement is haunted 😂 👻
kintonrow · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a similar game to this. I had a film camera and I would take out the film so I could just use the flash.
My siblings and I would lock ourselves in the bathroom and kill the lights and then just like run around and flail our arms.
At random intervals I would use the flash to momentarily light up the room, allowing everyone a brief glimpse of the stupid things everyone else was doing before we went back into total darkness.
The fun came in that others could be doing anything: one foot in the toilet, or standing an inch from your face, or anything else.
It sounds dumb but I remember it being so much fun.
Guppy-Warrior · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called flashlight tag.. had to keep the light on the person for 3 seonds. (This was before digital cameras...)
Cashforcrickets · 21401 points · Posted at 13:42:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take dad's snuff can full of rocks and tape it shut. Then we all face the same way as a designated person threw the can way out in the open pasture at night. All players set out to find it and if you picked it up and made it back to the "finish line" it was a point. The rocks were audible if shaken. If you were able to tackle the runner before he crossed the line.... no point and re-throw. First to 5 wins or first to break a bone loses.
rower_not_a_shower · 7419 points · Posted at 15:12:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hmmm, I feel like there’s a story here.
Waynersnitzel · 544 points · Posted at 17:35:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I am reminded of a time when I worked in a very rural area as a park ranger. I came across a group of the local kids who played on the park and they were battered, bruised, and bleeding. Obviously concerned, I asked them if they were alright and what happened.
They had been playing Dodge Rock
“What is dodge rock,” I asked.
Dodge ball, but with rocks. Kids are tough.
mommyof4not2 · 39 points · Posted at 19:27:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodge rock= stoning each other
CaptainMorganUOR · 57 points · Posted at 18:22:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play dodge pine cone, more like pine cone war. Kids are stupid.
oOshwiggity · 32 points · Posted at 02:20:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a neighborhood with a median that was planted with chestnut trees. When they're ripening, chestnut pods are spiny af. We would be in the midian for HOURS (with cars driving by on either side, but not a ton of them or super fast) chucking these spiny things at each other working hard to leave as many gruesome marks as possible. Once my brother's friend got one stuck in his skin. We "oooooooh!" 'd for a full ten seconds that time.
We'd also play the switch game, where you find a switch (springy, long stick) and hit each other until one person was so covered in welts they had to tap out.
Or we'd pile on a bike and take off down a steep ass hill and work together to NOT die.
HOW DO KIDS REACH ADULTHOOD?
CaptainMorganUOR · 18 points · Posted at 02:45:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
They’ve evolved to live indoors.
Ricky_Bobby_67 · 14 points · Posted at 03:28:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same game as kids, I had a hell of a good time until I caught one that was extra sharp in the face. My mom wasn’t real happy either when she saw my lips, eyebrows and forehead covered in small cuts. I will give the kid credit though, he hit me dead center in the face. Nice shot.
daddy_fiasco · 10 points · Posted at 03:41:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey man, nice shot
Beardth_Degree · 2 points · Posted at 06:00:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedfilter
_Psychrazy_ · 10 points · Posted at 05:01:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A bunch of the kids in the co-op I lived in used to ffa or pick teams to play Pinecone Wars. That's literally what we called it. It was so much fun, collecting huge stashes to pelt unsuspecting enemies, climbing trees for good ambush spots, ducking through the forest to lose persuers, That game died the day my sister was sent to bring me inside and somebody blaaasted her in the face with particularly solid cone. She wasn't gonna let that one slide, no matter how much I begged her silence lol
CaptainMorganUOR · 3 points · Posted at 15:55:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Solid cones were the worst/best
360T-Posed · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey.. there’s a sub for that!
73h8l3h · 15 points · Posted at 20:46:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you can dodge a rock, you can dodge a ball
phoenix42007 · 10 points · Posted at 23:58:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a rock.
whycuthair · 8 points · Posted at 03:52:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you can dodge a dodge you can rock a ball
ALTO_HUSKY1 · 3 points · Posted at 05:16:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You can if ball dodge dodge rock you can a a
rower_not_a_shower · 26 points · Posted at 18:42:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Broke: playing dodge ball with a ball
Woke: playing dodge ball but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the ball and we’re calling it Dodge Rock
Scrumpti0us1 · 18 points · Posted at 20:07:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
More like the game where Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson chases down the kids and beats the living shit out of them. Last one alive wins.
Bdiddler420 · 8 points · Posted at 02:04:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For us it was rock sack (hackey sack) but it was quickly halted when the rock was kicked square into a girls braces
Stronghold257 · 3 points · Posted at 07:05:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the time in middle school where my neighbor and I would play “ninja” and whack each other to hell with some nerd swords. We even had a “ceremonial faceoff” and would do the whole walk-away-from-each-other duel-style thing.
ODB2 · 2 points · Posted at 03:21:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game as kids but it was called Rock Wars... We'd have two teams and start on opposite sides of the woods, set up ambushes and stuff... Guerilla warfare style.
The 10 vs 10 matches got a little... Out of hand.
Nickyjha · 2 points · Posted at 05:40:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play this in the basement with Jenga blocks. Except my little brother always tagged along, and every time he got hit in the head he'd cry and we would have to stop playing.
zelyoni · 2 points · Posted at 12:48:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still have a scar and a cataract from the 4 inch rock that missed my eyeball by 1/4 inch 30 years ago!
I cringe as even thinking about it.
I_veseensomeshit · 1 points · Posted at 14:29:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, those kids are both stupid and so cool lol
Dason37 · 5994 points · Posted at 15:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, it's just an extra rule to encourage the kids to really put their all into their tackles
Amon_Sumny · 255 points · Posted at 16:35:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/NotOP
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Vizzy1225 · 34 points · Posted at 18:27:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean, there’s plenty of porn subs, why would r/NoTop be banned?
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TitanicMan · 30 points · Posted at 19:52:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ad Company: take it down
Admins: k
Reddit: excuse me the fuck?
Admins: shut the fuck up small fry
be-targarian · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe Pinterest is an advertiser and "No To P" offended them?
mattatack0630 · 10 points · Posted at 18:18:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Becuase r/notOP is also r/noTop
jp_73 · 4 points · Posted at 21:02:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It says it was banned because it was unmoderated and if you want to take the sub over you can.
shawnev · 8 points · Posted at 16:47:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/Not_OP
lAgelastl · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/subsifellfor
SirQwacksAlot · 8 points · Posted at 17:36:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's real
PM_ME_UR_TATAAS · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/subsyoufelfor
kimchiibop · 18 points · Posted at 18:25:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Remember being a kid and loved tackling/getting tackled.
Now thinking about it gives me a headache.
Dason37 · 12 points · Posted at 18:42:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We always played two hand touch (because all our yards were small and we played in the road), I played some "organized flag football" and such... I was a tall skinny kid, I was afraid to get tackled. Then a group of people all bigger than me decided to play tackle and I got landed on by about 6 people (loose ball I was on first) and I survived. I was surprised.
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AnnieNonmouse · 2 points · Posted at 23:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This explains my need to fake karate and wrestle and swordfight everyone. Hopefully I grow out of it soon though.
hiRyan33 · 7 points · Posted at 18:22:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can imagine a kids mentality.. "Break a bone?? Do I really want to break a bone?! Fuck it!! LET'S BREAK SOME BOOONESSS"
LookInTheDog · 6 points · Posted at 17:40:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's just good game design.
Scondoro · 6 points · Posted at 17:47:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eh, that was before the Conference started imposing so many more rules. It was better back in the day, OP is right.
BuchnerFun · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's the kind of healthy developmental shit you probably don't see so much with urban/suburban kids these days. Just competitive boys will be boys shit with some imagination thrown in.
Dason37 · 5 points · Posted at 18:39:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And broken bones, don't forget the broken bones
schlonghair_dontcare · 4 points · Posted at 20:04:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As long as your crush signed the cast, it was completely worth it.
CaptainMorganUOR · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m that case, the rule should be “First to break someone’s bone wins”
Tack22 · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nah. This way it fosters a team spirit
Th3B3ach3dWhal3 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/yourenotop
Satherton · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we cant have children who are sloppy tacklers. gotta have solid fundamentals.
Rimmoruud · 0 points · Posted at 19:25:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahh, the old fashion rage quit
Kinny195 · 0 points · Posted at 19:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
armbar intensifies
hairydinglebarry · -34 points · Posted at 16:49:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game may be better suited for r/trashy
LameGuest3000 · 16 points · Posted at 17:13:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Young boys play rough all the time. Having the bone breaking rule is smart to discourage being overly rough and actually hurting someone.
doomdeath13579 · 10 points · Posted at 17:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It would be if the rule didnt reward the bone breaking.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:52:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You break your bone - you lose.
You break their bone - they lose.
It's high risk, high rewards.
LameGuest3000 · 3 points · Posted at 18:17:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's if anyone breaks any bone, the person who broke the bone loses. So regardless of if it was theirs, they would lose in the case of causing a severe injury.
SirQwacksAlot · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't you know literally everything is trashy? /s
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
..how? You just sound super ignorant/sheltered/poorly traveled here, tbh.
[deleted] · 62 points · Posted at 15:44:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
well Jeff broke a bone and he lost
that reminds me of another story, do you want to hear it too
utopian_tycoon · 28 points · Posted at 15:57:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes
[deleted] · 71 points · Posted at 16:02:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ok, this is kind of a sad one.
one time Quento broke a bone and he lost
rower_not_a_shower · 28 points · Posted at 16:31:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Noooooooooooo not Quento
abearcrime · 8 points · Posted at 15:58:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yes
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 16:03:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
here's a funny one: one time we thought Jeff broke a bone AGAIN but he didn't
he still lost
BallisticMelon20 · 8 points · Posted at 18:16:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They were trying to weed out the weaker boned filth
Yubuqq · 7 points · Posted at 18:30:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/neverbrokeabone
Javad0g · 7 points · Posted at 20:50:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember how proud I was that I broke my brother's leg when we were wrestle-rolling down a hill.
Angered my parents to no end how I would say "I did it" when people asked what happened to his leg.
Wammajammadingdong · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean they're chasing a can full of rocks and tackling each other in a field, *in the dark*. Maybe I've got unusual insight, but I kind of know the story without being told...
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:16:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well he broke both arms so...
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rower_not_a_shower · 3 points · Posted at 21:39:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like there’s some uncovered trauma there buddy 😬
emailnotverified1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just like this entire thread none of this was real. Most comments are from movies
makisupa79 · 556 points · Posted at 15:56:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "That Game." Tackle football free for all. 4 or 5 younger kids (7-9 y. o.) vs 1 or 2 bigger kids (11-12 y. o.) I was one of the little kids. No real rules except to keep the football. Young kids gang tackled the big kid and tried to strip the ball or big kid would deck the little kids and take the ball. We all loved it but it abruptly ended when my buddy ran face first into a tree and split his face open. Parents were not having it when we told them what we were playing.
RIP That Game
st1tchy · 123 points · Posted at 16:06:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was "Smear The Queer" for us.
makisupa79 · 40 points · Posted at 16:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had smeer the queer too, but that was a free for all, everyone for themselves. This had the teams and younger vs older differences.
kwizatscataract · 6 points · Posted at 18:28:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eventually a couple of the bigger kids want to mess up everyone else while letting the cool or different younger kid "win" a round. I've been an older cousin before.
_neon_reflected · 11 points · Posted at 23:55:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game eventually incorporated teams and became Rugby Union here in Australia.
NoAmountofSound · 3 points · Posted at 03:19:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this Rumble Fumble growing up. Didn’t realize it was ever called Smear the Queer until my Dad referred to it as that.
merkon · 3 points · Posted at 04:05:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah we had that, didn't realize the name was inappropriate at all until one of my friends moms asked what we were playing and was horrified by the name. It was called "Smear the guy with the football" after that.
RobertEffinReinhardt · 34 points · Posted at 20:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I read that as "The Game" and now I don't like you.
pooldoost · 8 points · Posted at 22:58:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game
towhead22 · 9 points · Posted at 20:54:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exactly my thoughts
skulltrumpetman · 4 points · Posted at 23:42:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing and lost.
niceguy_tipsfedora · 5 points · Posted at 00:21:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
lost :c
PunkleBunkFunk · 3 points · Posted at 02:45:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck, I was a champion until this moment. Goddammit
CheezNpoop · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:19 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shit I lost the game
JohnTestiCleese · 12 points · Posted at 20:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was known as “smear the queer” in my childhood circle. Different times.
Whippetgirl · 9 points · Posted at 20:29:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill the Carrier was what we called it
therealleesykate · 2 points · Posted at 00:50:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ugh I just lost the game -_-
ilikedirt · 2 points · Posted at 01:34:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that Last One Standing and as a girl who wasn’t allowed to play football at recess, lemme tell ya I tackled the holy living shit out of my bigger male cousins. SUCK IT BOYS I’LL FUCK YOU UP.
Fantastic memories :’)
OfficeTexas · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played keepaway at recess in grades 5-8. Grades 5 and 6 had recess together, ditto 7 and 8. Usually two or sometimes three of the biggest kids against everybody else (boys only). The winner was the one who gave the ball back to the recess teacher.
ciderswiller · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that game scrag, it was banned in my school after a girl broke her arm, whoops!
supermikefun · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For us it was "kill a man"
MyRottingBrain · 3 points · Posted at 22:46:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill the man with the ball
BiggestFlower · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Seems very unfair to stop you playing the game when the incident was unrelated to the nature of the game. Your friend could have run into a tree playing any game.
I_wasnt_here · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it 'Kill Ball'.
The11thWatermelon · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:57 on March 13, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I called that "Kill the carrier"
Kehgals · 794 points · Posted at 15:01:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds awesome
FUUUDGE · 25 points · Posted at 16:15:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You could do it with a whiffle ball too, especially if it's broken! Great to repurpose, all you gotta do is tape it.
jimsinspace · 28 points · Posted at 15:38:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dog Jonesy would be the fucking champ at this game.
Dabat1 · 22 points · Posted at 16:08:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Because she's good at finding things, or because she loves tackling runners?
Edit: She*
jimsinspace · 10 points · Posted at 16:24:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
She’s got super night vision and a keen sniffer.
BattleStag17 · 5 points · Posted at 16:32:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jonsey can sniff snuff from a half mile away
CazzoMagnifico · 5 points · Posted at 18:07:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, I would throw stones into the garden bushes for my uncle's dog, and the little guy never left until he found the exact stone.
Durt_Cobain · 2 points · Posted at 19:32:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Give yer balls a tug!
ticklishchinballs · 25 points · Posted at 17:04:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game where someone would stand on the hill and rip one of those nerf “whistle” footballs into the dark night sky. The people at the bottom of the hill were blinded by the floodlights coming from the house and couldn’t see the ball until it was about to hit you. Used to stand still and hold our crotches and brace for that terrifying sound of the faint whistle off in the distance that would get extremely loud once the ball was 20ft from your face. Good times.
gooptastic1996 · 32 points · Posted at 15:27:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If this ain’t the most Yee Yee shid I ever heard! You must live in my town.
Flkdnt · 36 points · Posted at 15:14:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why did your dad have a snuff can full of rocks?
Kilbourne · 67 points · Posted at 15:29:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad had a snuff can, and then it was empty. Kids took it and filled it with pebbles.
dogbin · -2 points · Posted at 21:31:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought this was siang for drugs or something and was quite confused.
PullTogether · 26 points · Posted at 15:30:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To get the kids out of the house so they would quit bugging him?
Flkdnt · 17 points · Posted at 15:32:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Total dad move right there
420BlazeIt187 · 7 points · Posted at 15:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where else is he supposed to hide his crack?
kwizatscataract · 3 points · Posted at 18:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OP grew up without a snuff dipping dad, possibly didn't grow up with a snuff dipping anyone to look up to. We shouldn't judge, rather, we should instruct that the one who hast the rattle jangle thing in their arms must be smote unto the earth.
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SunshinyJuzez · 7 points · Posted at 16:35:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Definitely played a variation of this in an old horse pasture. We called the game, "the Horn Game", where an object of choice the Horn is thrown into and away from the end zone which was the fence by the Horn-Master.
We had to start in near twilight to help everyone feel adjusted to the environment while it was getting darker each round.
The interesting parts? The usual Horn was a rubber black boot, the end zone was an active electric fence, and tackling was fair game. Same as you suggested: you get tagged you gotta whip that horn behind you blindly. Horn Master can't join the game until the Horn has been successfully found.
Royal-Pistonian · 6 points · Posted at 15:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like you could definitely develop some sneaky strategies in this game
sophware · 5 points · Posted at 16:03:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid, I would have played this regularly for years. Now that things have changed, all I can think of is Lyme.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 16:57:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Unpopular_But_Right · 7 points · Posted at 18:44:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, we played that too, all the time. We'd play in the playground while a football or some other outdoor event was going on, we could get 20+ kids together.
It was an all-ages, all-sexes (although mostly boys of course) affair, didn't matter if you were 8 or 18. Sometimes people really got smeared pretty hard, but we were country kids so we just brushed ourselves off and did it again.
joerex1418 · 4 points · Posted at 17:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds fun. I'm 22 and kinda wanna try it.
Elbiotcho · 4 points · Posted at 17:00:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would go in the garage and everyone would grab a few empty soda cans from the recycle bin. We would then turn off the lights and it was pitch dark. We would then throw cans at whatever noise we heard.
Cpt_Tripps · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh just like my family when we play spoons!
ClassyBallsack · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds really fun actually. I would love to do that if I had any friends that were willing
swaskowi · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait, do you lose the point for having one of YOUR bones broken or if you break someone ELSE'S bone.
PossibleRedditor · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes
Chizukeki · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is much better than what my husband and his brothers played in the pasture. They'd throw cow patties at each other and you better hope to God they didn't throw a "wet on top" one at you.
danimalod · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Losers always break bones.
/r/neverbrokeabone
artichokedip69 · 2 points · Posted at 17:10:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar game. I lived on a chunk of land in way west Texas, like right on the border so naturally there weren’t any green lawns out there lol but we did have a rock garden for a “backyard.” In the summer my brother and I would gather rocks from the garden, dip one in a bucket of water and throw it over our shoulder back into the garden. The goal was to find the rock you threw before the sun dried it. Sounds riveting, I know. Then one day while I was looking for my rock, my brother tossed one over his shoulder and it hit me. Cracked my head open and I actually still have a scar/small bald spot from it! After that my mom officially banned that game
DeadZeplin · 2 points · Posted at 17:41:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's pretty cool!
HeathenMama541 · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Good ole country fun
jleek9 · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this only used a glow stick! It was painfully fun!
jumpers4goaIposts · 2 points · Posted at 19:48:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck. This just reminded me of something stupid we would do in a dark field at night. A friend of mine found and bow and around 8 or 9 arrows in his grandpas garage. We used to take it out to the farmers field at night and blindly shoot it straight into the air, straight up. Whoever found the arrow got to take the next shot.
We were fucking stupid.
Rdj1984 · 2 points · Posted at 20:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Smear the Queer" when I was in grade school that was similar to this but played with a football. Grade school me, never thought about what the name meant nor did I know what a queer was, as far as I knew, a queer was a person running with a football. I remember coming home from school one day and my mom asked me what I did as recess. My answer? "Smear the queer". She busted my butt and screamed at me about how we dont do that to people. I wasn't sure what I had done wrong, so a few days later I asked her why the game was so bad. She then realized that it was a game we were playing and explained that the name of the game didn't sound nice but I could keep playing with my friends. It wasn't for 3 or 4 more years until I learned what queer meant.
sometimesIdontfail · 3 points · Posted at 16:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What's a snuff box??
Daaskison · 5 points · Posted at 16:58:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chewing tobacco can. Its a round tin that the lid comes off of. A little smaller than a hockey puck.
Google "skoll dip"
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Scrumpti0us1 · 5 points · Posted at 20:11:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
tfw my son found the porn tin
ingressLeeMajors · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unexpected 10mm?
Sinjun13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snuff and chewing tobacco are not the same thing.
Daaskison · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
True but ppl dont really inhale Tabacco nowadays (idk maybe down south). Dip/copenhagen are the closest things, but ppl dont know what that is either. So chewing tabacco is a relevant colloquialism i guess...?
Youre right. I was just trying to generally explain in modern terms. That was probably a mistake.
Gold_Puns_Girls · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played the Winter Olympics version of this game.
5 or 6 of us would be at the top of a hill with crazy carpets (sheet of plastic with handles) and someone would throw a pop can. We'd all take off and whoever stopped (got to the bottom) while holding the can and being on a carpet (could be someone else's) got a point. Full contact was encouraged.
Pattern_Is_Movement · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that is a brilliant game!
EFCpepperJack · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This actually sounds great and id like to have a pickup game this weekend
sozerotrozero · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pubg will more steps... That's what this is.
leadabae · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
snuff can?
sn3rf · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds hella fun and as a 31 year old I’m going to play it asap
Seamlesslytango · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If I weren’t worried about how sore I’d be the next day, I’d wanna play this now.
Send_Me_Tiitties · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do you look away as they throw, or watch it? That changes the game a lot.
Cashforcrickets · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would cover our ears and yell the alphabet. That way no sound clues.
SpewPewPew · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of that one time my cousins and I thought it was a good idea to play tag, but by throwing heavy rocks. I ran hard up the hill to avoid being "tagged" by a heavy rock. The slower cousin had a trip to the ER from splitting his head open.
StillReading28 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snuff can?
emmavdm1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds like Stalk the Lantern but more violent. I like it.
DontTreadOnBigfoot · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Y'all are my kin.
SR154beemerguy · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Fumblitis" -mostly kids the same age range tackling the heck out of each other.
LiquidBoob · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take our dad's snuff cans and fill it with the powder that came off sparklers. Pack them tight and tape them up add a fuse and....
CommercialMajor · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait... so you didn't want to win then?
redfiveroe · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nights were fun before the internet and cell phones.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that's fucking hardcore
Poeticspinach · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasn't that an episode of Dragon Ball?
imporia · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
OK I'm going to need some serious clarification on that last point because my first reading of it was "if your bone gets broken you lose"
DoctorMcAstronaut · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What's a snuff can? Like a designated box to keep cocaine in?
Orangebeardo · 5 points · Posted at 16:16:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No it's where you keep your dead women.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 15:43:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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Mr_Hump · 3 points · Posted at 17:35:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahh good catch
Sinjun13 · -4 points · Posted at 17:58:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you 83 years old?
ComplicatedRick · 2 points · Posted at 03:51:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's still very common. Less so than smoking but I've met many young guys that chew.
Sinjun13 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snuff and chew aren't the same thing.
acrediblesauce · -2 points · Posted at 20:17:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is a snuff can where the sex murder happens?
turdfuckinferg · 4807 points · Posted at 13:54:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a camp counselor and we play a game called “Screaming Toes” with our kids. We get in a circle and pick someone in the group’s toes to stare at. Someone counts to three and on three you look at the person whose toes you were staring at. If that person was looking at your toes too you both scream and you’re both out. The kids love it.
JimDiego · 1837 points · Posted at 15:49:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This took me too long. Each kid independently decides whose toes they will stare at.
At first, I thought "we get in a circle and pick someone in the group’s toes to stare at" meant everyone would stare at one kid's toes, which would mean nobody ever screamed and someone got to feeling reaaallly awkward.
jessnola · 40 points · Posted at 22:54:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was more or less my original interpretation.
Coolgrnmen · 8 points · Posted at 05:44:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! That’s how I read it too until I got halfway and was confused more.
bplboston17 · 3 points · Posted at 15:27:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
i thought the same thing... i was quite confused... so i guess eeryone stares at someones toes but if that person is also staring at your toes you scream??? Although with kids i guarantee it would be alot of cheating kids that say i was looking at the kid next to you or if they see you looking near them just continue to turn to the next person lol.
Asmor · 2001 points · Posted at 15:36:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I bet alumni of your camp are disproportionately likely to have a foot fetish.
DrudgingPoundage · 213 points · Posted at 16:04:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or they're scared of feet, all the screaming gave em PTSFeet
spinach4 · 29 points · Posted at 21:59:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well fetishes are usually caused by a curiosity about something that is taboo (in this case, feet are taboo cause they're seen as dirty), and this game is actually somewhat normalizing the idea of looking at toes/feet. Thus, I think that this actually lowers the chance of the kids developing a foot fetish.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:42:05 on March 12, 2019 · (Permalink)
People have fetishes for balloons and balloons are pretty normalised
spinach4 · 2 points · Posted at 00:16:17 on March 13, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah well you know what isn't normalized? Sexualizing balloons
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:47:07 on March 13, 2019 · (Permalink)
not yet anyway
mossybeard · 124 points · Posted at 16:19:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Creaming toes
Heathcliff511 · 71 points · Posted at 17:17:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh nonononono
__i0__ · 48 points · Posted at 18:10:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why would you do this
SomeInternetRando · 11 points · Posted at 20:48:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/TributeMyToes
do_pm_me_your_butt · 6 points · Posted at 21:02:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I hear the camp counselors too
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
MyBurrowOwl · 58 points · Posted at 19:20:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m firmly against kink shaming and think it’s totally wrong to judge others on their sexual preferences. But foot fetish people are the fucking worst. I’m not into feet and don’t understand how people are into them sexually, I think feet are pretty gross. It’s not for that reason that I can’t stand foot fetish people.
I hate them because it’s the only fetish I know of that the people won’t shut the hell up about and want everyone else in the god damn world to know they have a foot fetish. If you go on any “adult site” comment section you are guaranteed to see multiple comments like “We see beautiful feet plz?, SHOW FEAT, must show sexy feet now” etc. Sometimes dozens of comments demanding feet. Don’t believe me? Go check a popular GoneWild post and you are certain to see a few of those degenerates.
Lots of people make fun of furries and it does seem strange to me but at least those people aren’t in every porn comment section demanding the girl immediately put on a Llama costume.
I fucking hate feet people.
AskForMySnapchat · 37 points · Posted at 21:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Adult site? Look at any semi popular girls instagram and twitter pictures that show a hint of foot and the comment are filled with people talking about all the things they’d do to their feet and toes, ew.
PM-ME-UGLY-SELFIES · 10 points · Posted at 21:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What's your Snapchat?
AskForMySnapchat · 11 points · Posted at 21:34:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
VokulZindro
VAGINA_EMPEROR · 21 points · Posted at 23:01:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
show feet on Snapchat bb
Someguyincambria · 2 points · Posted at 23:25:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s a username
smootyman69 · 34 points · Posted at 20:33:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I DEMAND FEET.
SchizophrenicBadger · 18 points · Posted at 22:16:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That would be hilarious to see someone comment in gonewild.
"I want to see you in a Llama costume"
heythatsmysong · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Llama now!
Who_Cares99 · 24 points · Posted at 22:05:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think it’s kinda like the fallacy with vegans and homosexuals being showy with it. People who like feet probably almost never talk about it, but you only hear from the ones that do, so it seems like ALL of them do.
In reality, I think like one in ten people has a foot fetish and it’s just that you don’t ever learn about people who are lowkey with it because they are
jDSKsantos · 7 points · Posted at 21:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just think they're funny.
the_one_tony_stark · 3 points · Posted at 13:54:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Post armpits.
NTaya · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I second this so much. Feet are disgusting and gross, but I wouldn't really be mad about this kink if the fetishists weren't everywhere. Ugh.
the_one_tony_stark · 1 points · Posted at 13:53:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This camp was sponsored by nickolodeon.
🎙️ antenonjohs · 368 points · Posted at 14:32:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds fun! Decent strategy too as you have to figure out who won’t stare at you while also figuring out who will think you won’t look at them and will therefore look at you.
zOmnicyde · 14 points · Posted at 16:19:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My current college professor does this game on our camping trips but instead instead of choosing one to look at, you're looking around the circle of feet in whatever direction. Adds more randomness.
CeleryIsCold · 4 points · Posted at 18:13:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HAPPY CAKE DAY
Boviro · 3 points · Posted at 17:10:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
Simbuk · 3 points · Posted at 18:14:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unless of course your goal is to scream as soon as possible.
Gophurkey · 3 points · Posted at 23:22:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you scream and you aren't looking at the person who is looking at you, you are out. Keeps the cheating down.
Kerbaljack · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
happy cakerophone day
cheesycheesling · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
NoGoodIDNames · 35 points · Posted at 16:11:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve played a version of that in Improv class just called “screamers” where you look down at the ground, then up on three to look at someone else’s face. Eye contact means screaming.
xylitol777 · 2 points · Posted at 12:32:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I kept playing this as solo with mirror.
I always lost for some reason.
DropOff_ · 19 points · Posted at 16:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is actually a variation of one of the games i teach in a team building class! We call it "look down, look up, AH!" and participants who lock eyes have to scream for as long as they can. Whoever runs out of breath or stops screaming first is then out.
80Eight · 18 points · Posted at 17:41:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
That sounds like *something Dan Schneider would pitch for Jamie Lynn Spears to do with her friends on a new episode of Zoey 101
Blue_and_Light · 12 points · Posted at 16:29:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It gets old after about an hour with only two players, though.
duuckyy · 9 points · Posted at 17:43:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm also a camp counselor for a day camp with kids 7-12 years of age. This entire thread is giving me amazing game ideas for my kids to play during their field or arena time.
Snailgun · 7 points · Posted at 18:20:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this at my camp! But we called it "look down, look up." One summer I was sent to help at our sister camp and I wanted to drive their counselors crazy. I invented the variant of "look down, look up" known only as "looky yelly," a never-ending full time game where if you make eye contact with someone you must start screaming. Apparently teenaged Lutherans are very into this and it caught on like wildfire, and had my intended effect.
I also created "burny stabby" the same week. But that one was for counselors. Basically a fight to the death where one person had a lighter and the other a pocket knife. Burny didn't win too often unless there was fuel or aerosol cans around.
Gophurkey · 3 points · Posted at 23:27:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our never-ending game was the What Game. If someone called your name and you answered with "what," the person who called you got to name an animal you'd have to mimic. Kids got into it. And kids name some pretty excellently specific things, like "constipated camel," and "bird made of steel so he can't fly." Since it was camp, it was totally normal to do these things any time, any place, even during staff meetings. Camp is the freaking best.
amly789 · 6 points · Posted at 16:44:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a similar game but if you end up looking at someone you both start screaming and whoever stops first is out. It’s usually over pretty quickly as it’s surprisingly difficult to keep screaming while making direct eye contact with someone. It usually ended when one person starts laughing uncontrollably, but there’s always that one person who’s terrifyingly good at it.
GirlieWhirl · 4 points · Posted at 16:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This would make a good drinking game...
madvisme · 3 points · Posted at 16:51:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same game, but called it Duuuuuuuude (surfer voice). When you lost, you both shouted duuuuuuuude at each other.
the_orcastrator · 4 points · Posted at 18:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m in a college class now where we had to learn how facilitate icebreakers and camp games lol this is one of the ones we learned and was my favorite!! I’m a grown adult and screaming toes was the highlight of me week
tribewar · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing this at a camp in Connecticut years ago.
Gophurkey · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hole in the Wall?
(Shot in the dark, but I figured Connecticut is fairly small)
tribewar · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:14 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not familiar with that name. I think the camp I visited was in Colebrook if that helps at all.
nickjr9700 · 3 points · Posted at 16:37:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this on my old Rugby team fooling around after practice, but we called it “Mexican Standoff.” when you got knocked out you had to go run a lap before the next game
variazioni · 2 points · Posted at 16:27:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a camp counselor too and we do the same thing, makes me wonder if we counsel for the same chain of camps lol
turdfuckinferg · 2 points · Posted at 16:54:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
CLAM
wifeofbroccolidicks · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think I played that in college for some group bonding shit.
Except we played whoever stopped screaming first would be out.
xxxassassin · 2 points · Posted at 18:05:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah we call this Dude.
Instead of screaming we say
“Duuuuuuuude!”
Spoofspoofliz · 2 points · Posted at 00:30:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a game called “look up, look down”. Same concept, but we keep our shoes on. Less stinky that way, too.
arcangeltx · 3 points · Posted at 20:05:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
found Dan Schneider's camp counselor account
Groovy-hoovy · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
featuring Dan Schnider
jbauer_96 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this at my church youth group growing up. Sounds dumb when explained but it's actually pretty great.
DamsterDamsel · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hilarious. I love it!
a-ohhh · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this for ice breakers for random jobs/clubs/camps I was at, but you start by looking at your own toes. I hated it because I was shy and having to yell was so embarrassing!
blamelessvessel · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I work at an after school program and want to try this today! Thanks for the idea!
smoothietown · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What camp did you work at? Also loved to play this game with campers!
l-a · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Honestly I am picturing this and laughing so hard I can't breathe
CCCRUSADE · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We play this same game at my camp, but we call it "Eye Scream", such a good first day of camp let your goofiness out game.
unknownyoyo · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But how do you win if there are an even number? Could there be 2 winners?
xloondogx · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s how foot fetishes are born.
yepmek · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I’m gonna play this with my kindergarteners this week
_jato · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
see we play a similar game just with less feet. You all stand in a circle and put your heads down, someone calls "heads up", and if you end up making eye contact with the person you picked (ie if they picked you too) you both have to shout "Oh No" and you're out.
Gophurkey · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just taught that game two weeks ago at an event for fellow PhD students, including my adviser. The results were positive. Slight difference in that you stare at your own toes, then look at a person on the count of 3. If you make eye contact (you looked at the person who looked at you), you scream. First to scream stays in (and pure volume can sometimes influence the judge if you were a split second too late...)
Former counselor as well. This game is solid, and I highly recommend it for all the times you need to scream as loud as you can directly in someone's face.
hearditb0thways · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, I love that game! At my camp, we don't have an official name for it, so it usually ends up being something like, "the one where you make eye contact with someone and hope they don't make eye contact with you".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dan schneider would enjoy this game
dswizzle1999 · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We call this one 'Death by Stares' has a nice ring to it.
FriskyTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game now lives as a spirit game played between teams after games of ultimate frisbee. We don't do the screaming, but you're encouraged to act out a dramatic death. Also called "heads down, heads up".
FlamingAlpacas · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My camp had this as well. Not in Delhi are ya?
sherryandcoke · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve played something similar! We call it elephant (who knows why) and instead of looking at someone’s toes, everyone looks at another person’s face, and if you make eye contact with a person then you die a horrible fake death. We made a lot of people concerned with the level of screaming, choking, crying etc.
Laura_Borealis · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We play that game, but you pick a person to stare at, not their toes. You still scream, though!
We call it, "love is scary".
herroh7 · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve done this except eye contact!
HorrendousKnight · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar game played in theater groups I've been a part of. Everyone stands in a circle looking down. The leader counts to three, and everyone looks at someone in the circle. If you meet eyes with someone you have to act out a dramatic death, cause theater kids. We call it the death game.
gghyyghhgf · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I want to play it with strangers
intenselotad · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh shit... I learned it as "Screaming Toads" and have taught it to campers as such too... this makes more sense now...
Qkddxksthsuseks · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I've played a game like this too, but we just looked straight up at the person's eyes rather than their toes. We called it the "staring game" and it was pretty fun.
Fissio · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We do this sometimes in a group of friends, it's called "Finns at a bus stop"
Dendarri · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:53 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is silly, I bet the kids would like it.
fordtough49 · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:10 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to be a camp counselor, and we also played this game! I haven't heard of anyone else playing this
Boater58 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:22 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
This would make a great drinking game
thatlonelyasianguy · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:55 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a great one, same with Pterodactyl
blue_jeans_and_bacon · 1 points · Posted at 06:37:44 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play the same thing, except the last one to scream is out.
I taught it to my youth group students at our winter retreat. Several other counselors came running in the first round, lol.
CeleryIsCold · -3 points · Posted at 18:12:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Counselor has a foot fetish and maybe a creep
orionsbelt05 · -1 points · Posted at 21:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How can you tell who's staring at your toes if you're staring at someone's toes? We do this game, but with eye contact. Easier to tell who is instantly "out."
FriskyTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That would be the second half of the post where someone counts to three and then you look up.
StolenCamaro · 3865 points · Posted at 13:29:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play ‘color copy’ where one of us would draw a picture and the other would follow along on their paper. They’d inevitably both be shitty, but surprisingly close! It’s almost akin to those wine and painting things where 13 women down a few bottles of wine and all paint the same tree.
alfrohawk · 178 points · Posted at 18:31:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I rebut this. I'm a man. I've done this with my wife. Granted, everyone else was female. But I got to drink and be around 13 women.
callmeshamelesss · 65 points · Posted at 19:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to be an instructor and we usually had a couple men each time. It’s a great date night.
OnlyTheDogSaw · 36 points · Posted at 00:17:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did one of those wine and paint things once except it was byob, and my friend was in charge of bringing the drinks. She brought hard alcohol and some mixers and massive wine tumblers. She mixed the drinks, I only had 2, and I was so wasted... worst hangover ever!! 10/10 would do again.
Shloop_Shloop_Splat · 14 points · Posted at 00:50:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was gonna ask if this was me, but I only brought stuff for rum and coke and a metric fuck ton of snacks that I ended up sharing with the entire class. I made our drinks really strong and spent about half of the class trying to sober back up.
OnlyTheDogSaw · 9 points · Posted at 01:05:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah man I wish I was smart enough to have sobered up. I also skipped dinner and didn't bring snacks so it hit me hard!!
AviationNerd1000 · 9 points · Posted at 03:25:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And then they all sat on your dick
FakingAsAnExtrovert · 11 points · Posted at 03:54:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
no movement, no smashing, just sit
alfrohawk · 5 points · Posted at 03:59:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
They made me be the chair one.
chewbubbIegumkickass · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Off topic, but your username is awesome. I relate so hard.
alfrohawk · 2 points · Posted at 04:00:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's the closest to an orgy I'll ever be.
justatypo · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You've described my college painting class.
zangor · 128 points · Posted at 14:53:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There needs to be a mens version of this where there is just a projector connected to a laptop and speakers and like a fridge with like 350 beers. Spirits in the freezer. Everybody gets a turn to play a video thats like 10 minutes or less.
StolenCamaro · 67 points · Posted at 16:10:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mates do the same thing with smash bros on N64 and a bunch of brews. It’s my favorite day of the month, and awesome to be able to get 4 guys in their 30’s together at all
zangor · 53 points · Posted at 16:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The hell? Damn, that's the dream. The hanging out with my friends dropped off so hard after college. Sad isn't even the word to describe it. It's bleak and depressing. Just can never hang out and just have a good time like the good ol days. Once in a while I'll organize all my friends for a really good metal show. Those days are sick. Eight dollar tall boys? Fuck it. Give it to me. This is the only day I get to do this all year.
StolenCamaro · 36 points · Posted at 16:22:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The key is making the time and setting aside as a priority. There are 2 software engineers and a financial analyst who all have predictable 8-5 hours, and I block off my schedule for that time in Outlook so nobody will schedule conference calls. If you wanna make it happen, just make it happen! Im also lucky that we all live in different parts of the same city.
zangor · 16 points · Posted at 16:34:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me its just friends that are near me that can hang out. Hard to get multiple people together. So mostly, the friend that can hang out that weekend and I will drink beer or tea and watch documentaries.
Sometimes we play EDH (Magic the Gathering). (I'm extremely into all aspects of MTG)
grabberbottom · 14 points · Posted at 21:50:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We call it "super smashed bros"
mokoneko_ · 27 points · Posted at 19:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
you know I highly doubt that men aren't allowed in those groups if you really wanted to do it
SecondTalon · 20 points · Posted at 21:47:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's two different images floating around of similar scenarios where both men didn't want to be involved, but only one was shitty about it.
That is, one image has a bunch of women holding their version of the whatever and the man in the group has pretty much just painted the word NO on the canvas and that's about all he did. What a dick.
The better version of the guy who still didn't want to play along has all the women holding their version of the thing which was like flowers or something... and the dude painted a bunch of skyscrapers at the Batsignal. Sure, he didn't paint the thing but he at least got the point - no one gives a shit, you're there to paint and have a good time.
Be the second dude, is what I'm saying here.
Or just paint the damn flowers.
SeaOkra · 12 points · Posted at 01:55:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin wanted this for her birthday, but no matter what search terms we used we could NOT find one in our area. So her brother kidnapped me (he just showed up and promised me waffle house if I would come to the craft stores with him, I'm a craft nerd and have all the apps, memberships and a ton of coupons. Plus he had no idea what he needed anyway.) and we got a ton of paints, canvases and booze.
The night of the party we realized we had NO clue what to have as the "model". All the drinks were made (wine, margaritas and jello shots) chairs and easels had been obtained for all participants (there were three of those fisher price kid easels...) and yet... what the hell were we gonna paint? Oh and the birthday girl was thirty minutes away.
It ended up being a "still life" involving a taxidermied fox, some gundam statues and a vase of dead sunflowers. (How the hell did we forget to get some damn flowers? Also do you know how hard it is to find fresh flowers at 8pm in a small farm town?)
Several of the paintings included the feral cat that lives in her brother's house, because it laid on the table and hissed at us everytime we tried to move it.
My painting was abysmal (I'm a crafter, not a painter) but some of them came out surprisingly well. One was a picture of a nude woman... my great aunt painted that one, apparently from memory because she didn't have a model or anything.
The birthday girl was happy though. 10/10, would be kidnapped and assemble a shitty still life again.
selftitleddebutalbum · 6 points · Posted at 22:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Saw many of these at a brewpub I worked at. For the 15th time everyone was painting an anchor. Except for one woman in the bachelorette party. She just did her own thing and painted a massive dick. Obviously she had just as much fun and was a little more creative.
Sublime-Silence · 15 points · Posted at 22:40:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is a men's version of this it's called Warhammer 40k. Everyone builds and paints miniatures and then they fight with them. Beer and liquer is often involved.
anonmymouse · 13 points · Posted at 20:51:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
aww, I actually used to do a similar thing with a childhood friend of mine, except we'd draw something with our finger on the other person's back, and then they either had to try to draw it too, or guess what it was. it was always hilarious
Turtle_ini · 25 points · Posted at 19:17:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My kids came up with a version of this where they wrote down random adjectives and nouns on slips of paper. Someone draws a word, you add/edit whatever it is to your drawing.
At the end of the round (x number of draws), everyone shares their ridiculous work of art.
SeaOkra · 2 points · Posted at 01:57:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's amazing. I like your kids, they will do great things in life.
pletentious_asshore · 19 points · Posted at 18:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't knock wine and paint til you try it.
Zebebe · 8 points · Posted at 22:03:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I'm out drinking with my group of architect friends we play a game where someone draws a shape on a piece of paper and passes it to the right. The person on the right adds a few more shapes and passes it on again. We've gotten a lot of weird abstract drawings out of it. It's loads of fun and could probably be done with any group of people even if they aren't artistic.
Shloop_Shloop_Splat · 6 points · Posted at 00:48:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The wine and paint thing is a bit more difficult to have turn out badly, though. The instructors typically trace out a rough draft of the picture you are painting and go step by step, color by color.
The booze is just an added perk, haha.
SeaOkra · 5 points · Posted at 01:57:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This would have been useful to know before we did a DIY version for my cousin's birthday.
We had fun though.
Shloop_Shloop_Splat · 5 points · Posted at 02:04:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was painting with a twist specifically, and I know they have more "advanced" classes, so there are probably plenty of classes without the lines pre-drawn.
Marycate11 · 5 points · Posted at 20:39:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Painting with a Twist? Love that place!
leadabae · 4 points · Posted at 19:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
and then they take pictures of it and post it to facebook to look like they are some masterful painter
meowctopus · 4 points · Posted at 19:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love these things, one of my favourite date nights with my SO
AviationNerd1000 · 2 points · Posted at 03:27:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is some bored midwesterner shit
FluentinLies · 0 points · Posted at 19:28:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with my best friend too.
eachfire · 23877 points · Posted at 15:02:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sister and I created The Slug Wars. Basically, two combatants got backwards into a sleeping bag so their feet were hanging out of the head hole. Then ... you blindly battled to the death. Great times.
EDIT: it's nice to meet so many people who also served in the Slug Wars. Thank you for your service.
thecolourbleu · 2813 points · Posted at 16:14:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The name of your game just reminded me that in ~2nd grade a friend and I would spend recess with the ends of our t-shirts pulled over our knees, hopping around on our hands and feet and occasionally rolling down the grassy hill. The creatures we transformed into were dubbed "slugs" for some reason I do not know. We were strange..
Edit: Apparently this game was not as rare as I thought! You all definitely had more reasonable names for it though lol
ShmexysmGuy · 179 points · Posted at 18:50:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I helped start a cult following of about a dozen kids in 5th grade by doing this. We were called Munchkins. The Munchkins were at war with the Mini-men, 4 kids who would squat instead of putting their knees in their shirt. While we outnumbered them, they had an "exo-suit" (the ability to stand up), so neither group had a clear advantage. We put together lore and everything, 'twas lit.
Junglebushdid911 · 52 points · Posted at 19:55:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think I may have been a part of your Munchkin squad, I have specific memories of this lore
XXXSCARLXRDXXX · 26 points · Posted at 21:07:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You guys have to discuss this and get back to me im so interested
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 02:58:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Yunknow · 6 points · Posted at 03:07:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So where do I sign up?
slylilpenguin · 2 points · Posted at 06:04:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Incredible. Our "Googlie" city was perhaps less in-depth, but nevertheless structured. There was the mayor (a position held by me, the eldest among us), a police officer, and various other "jobs" where products and services could be sold using scraps of paper currency (the Coin Minter was one of the professions). Our bedroom had two bunk beds, making it ideal for constructing elaborate maze-like forts with blankets, wooden sticks fit into blocks with holes in them, and these nylon playhouses made for miniature ball-pits.
On certain "days" (the Mayor would decide when night and day occurred), the whole town would gather for the Olympics, a set of athletic challenges (or marksmanship, when Nerf guns were involved). Of course, things like running and jumping are substantially more difficult when constrained to a perpetual Gopnik squat. First, second, and third place would receive medals—aluminum can lids (from some unique product that made them dull and thus safe to play with) marked up with Sharpie.
We even had a specific art style and method of drawing Googlies, by which the Artist of the city would make his/her profits. Kirby-esque figures of famous people (Elvis, Abraham Lincoln, etc.) would be drawn and sold in the market. The more famous the subject, the higher price they would attract.
ihatepickingmyname · 1 points · Posted at 08:32:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't be sure but this all sounded very familiar to me too, although it's probably just weird coincidence in my case
1-1-19MemeBrigade · 33 points · Posted at 21:07:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If I'm being honest, sometimes the playground games at your average elementary school often have a deeper lore than most video game franchises.
lostmyselfinyourlies · 5 points · Posted at 22:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This just gave me such a flash-back. We did something similar but each team had to squat in a different way, one with legs to the side and one with legs out front. The former had better balance but the latter could move around quicker by hopping. I can't remember the names of the teams but this was such a thing one year at school!
SnailzRule · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who was the elf queen?
MrShryke · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did exactly this with the same Munchkin name for it too, crazy
Salsaordie · 1 points · Posted at 06:44:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I may have also been a part of this! Was this game eventually halted by the yard duty? Cuz ours was and that was a sad sad day
ShmexysmGuy · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hmmmm yes. Yes it was. Many good games were stopped by yard duty...
CGToste · 114 points · Posted at 17:46:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Honey, why are your shirts always so dirty?" -Your Mom, almost certainly
redvishous · 51 points · Posted at 18:45:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mom, because we were slugs. Slugs get dirty. Duh. <eyeroll at adult for not understanding>" - you after that
Ubiquitous-Toss · 45 points · Posted at 18:34:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
and stretched
RSVikingElf · 33 points · Posted at 19:00:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this game 'Midgets'. Before long a small horde of jumper-kneed ten year olds were fighting week long turf wars for iconic landmarks such as Midget Hill. After a couple of months it all subsided and I was the sole Midget left. Midget Hill was mine. But it was a hollow victory.
Kindraer · 5 points · Posted at 22:42:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Scrufflets, the trend was started by my brother and the turf wars got so vicious our school actually banned "Scrufflets", teachers would get furious if they saw anyone do it.
PajamaWarriorJoe · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Midgets too but it was much less organized and mostly involved pushing each other down hills.
CPTKO · 24 points · Posted at 18:53:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just almost lost my shit. I did the same thing around the same time except we called ourselves the ButtButts.
slylilpenguin · 17 points · Posted at 20:00:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made an account just to say that we called them Googlies
LordMemington · 12 points · Posted at 18:56:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing, but we called ourselves midgets.
ingressLeeMajors · 5 points · Posted at 19:12:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you wrestled as midgets?
LordMemington · 4 points · Posted at 19:41:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did.
woodwife · 9 points · Posted at 19:20:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were Mugwumps when we played this! Which is weird, now that I've looked up what mugwump actually means.
FalafelGaard · 6 points · Posted at 18:53:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did the same thing with a group of friends but when we were like that we called ourselves “squishies” for some unknown reason
StrawberryJamal · 6 points · Posted at 20:24:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this as a kid. My mom would always get mad at me for ruining shirts though.
thecolourbleu · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worth it!
RyWater · 6 points · Posted at 18:45:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No fuckin way I did this with my friends in elementary and we called ourselves the Minkos
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 18:48:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this dwautties
slixard · 3 points · Posted at 19:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WE DID THIS EXACT THING. We called ourselves “Puffballs” lmao
Afterfield · 3 points · Posted at 19:16:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called these transformations “Minimeople”
ChromatographicFlea · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha I definitely did the same thing in third grade with my shirt pulled over my knees. Walked around like a dweeb with my friends and thought it was so funny
BackwardsFlamingo · 3 points · Posted at 20:57:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man I completely forgot about this! Me and my friends use to do this with our school jumpers and call ourselves 'Nat Nats'
GeniGeniGeni · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called ourselves Lilliputians.
booknerdgirl4ever · 2 points · Posted at 01:37:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Look at you being all literary ;)
Muffinian · 3 points · Posted at 21:18:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude at my elementary school we started this big thing called minimode which was basically the same thing. We would all hobble around with out shirts tucked over our knees and hop around, have “sumo” style wrestling matches, and roll around all over the place. The yard duties would always nag us about it for some reason
thecolourbleu · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yard duties is a term I haven't heard in a thousand years!
justchaddles · 3 points · Posted at 21:22:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that “mini man”. Like, “hey, we should mini man down the slide”
PaulCorporations · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did that but we were "midgets".....
balancedinsanity · 2 points · Posted at 21:40:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nah, humans are strange. You're par for the course.
thecolourbleu · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you 😂
Pm_me_futaonmale · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was named midget squad for us. We would run around with our shirts over our knees bumping into people and saying excuse me.
LyricalMURDER · 2 points · Posted at 02:03:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were Shorties in my school when we did this!
Shoenbreaker · 6877 points · Posted at 17:11:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Hey Frank, want to play Night Crawlers?
Holy hell, this blew up. Whoever gave the gold, you truly are the Day Man.
Lord_Poopsicle · 944 points · Posted at 18:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night falls.... and MAGIC stirs!
The_Man_N_Black · 382 points · Posted at 19:01:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As we become!!!! The creatures of the night!
luvs_T0_spooge · 10 points · Posted at 22:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ooooo it’s stirring
InterruptingCow__Moo · 142 points · Posted at 19:04:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We NEVER play Night Crawlers any more...
Flognickin · 47 points · Posted at 21:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why don't we play Night Crawlers anymore, Frank?
I dunno Chahlie!
K_Byrd2 · 10 points · Posted at 22:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wonder if they play with worm hats on?
Gillysnote69 · 6 points · Posted at 00:55:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No no no Vurm hat
K_Byrd2 · 5 points · Posted at 00:56:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahh pardon my literacy
ASAPqtpie · 38 points · Posted at 20:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah but you said it.... You said "Night Crawlers"... Now I feel like I can't move past it...I've gotta know what that is.
TheaOchiMati · 20 points · Posted at 19:12:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played that too, but we called it Worm Colliseum 😂
Appycake · 21 points · Posted at 19:23:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I do Chawlie!
oma_lord · 14 points · Posted at 19:02:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the night calls?
Windmilloffreindship · 6 points · Posted at 19:59:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the money all the hoes and the alcohol 🌵🌵
Caedro · 23 points · Posted at 19:28:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What if we used the blankets as the dirt?
Larrypants1 · 22 points · Posted at 19:51:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No no no, it's an imagination based game!
douglas-my-dude · 14 points · Posted at 20:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Schmitty you’re out of the gang!
enjoythetrees · 8 points · Posted at 22:02:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tell people we pushed yoooouuuuu!
LumpyNuggets · 1 points · Posted at 04:38:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Adding blankets to nightcrawlers brings a whole new dynamic to the game. When we play nightcrawlers we ALWAYS use blankets.
theta_flexx · 7 points · Posted at 19:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude I’m on that episode right now
LightMagic3_14 · 6 points · Posted at 19:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No I'm watching Momo breaker!
PuppyBreath · 3 points · Posted at 23:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s spelled Nyte Krollers.
Shoenbreaker · 5 points · Posted at 23:15:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s in the Dram Bok
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:21:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How do you play that?
Elbandito78 · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well that’s what it is.
jgcy1984 · 2 points · Posted at 22:01:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it’s an imagination based game!
mitchellbs · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Came to see this, thx
kblomquist85 · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck you beat me
doctordeezmd · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The sleeping bags can be the slugs!!!
AsRealAsA7DollarBill · -1 points · Posted at 22:06:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
im watching iasip rn fuck you
frenchseller · 58 points · Posted at 16:07:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same thing! We called it Mole Tackle.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 01:59:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it green bug and once we got bored with the tackle part of it we turned it into indoor tag. The green bug was "it". We had to make a rule that you could take the bag off to cool but you had to spin around 10 times before you could tag anybody.
The sleeping bags were green.
jagoob · 3 points · Posted at 20:02:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same we called it slugbug!
spacerobot · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm Warriors for us. We didn't do it blind though, we had them on the right way then cinch the sleeping bag up to our necks so we couldn't use our arms. The goal was to knock the other person over.
This was fun until my friends little brother who always had to do what we did got hurt and our parents made us stop.
p3t3r_p4rk3r · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm Fights for us!
Willyballer · 112 points · Posted at 15:28:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s like Mad Tree, my brother would search blindly for me upside down walking around in a sleeping bag hide and seek style then if found tackle and eat you by putting my in the sleeping bag . Pretending to be an angry old tree in the night disturbed from a long slumber.
eachfire · 35 points · Posted at 15:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love Mad Tree. That's hilarious.
Thicco__Mode · 36 points · Posted at 17:09:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god we did that at “bible camp” in the cabins before we went to bed, except we called it “Worm Wars.” It was absolute chaos and still continued after I cracked my head open on a bed. Good times
explodingness · 8 points · Posted at 19:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not at Bible camp, but my childhood friends and I would call it worm wars as well
HugsForUpvotes · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why is bible camp in quotes?
Thicco__Mode · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a five day overnight camp where we had chapel for about an hour in the morning and then talk about what we learned that morning just before we went to sleep. Like 95% percent of the day we were doing stuff like riding horses or zip lining, and to me that doesn’t seem like an actual bible camp but I didn’t know what else to call it
HugsForUpvotes · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks!
Nightshade744 · 70 points · Posted at 16:52:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this at the summer camp I worked at the last few years. We would have upwards of 15 kids in their sleeping bags battling to the death in the common room. It’s been ‘banned’ (looked down upon) for years due to multiple serious injuries but it’s still kicking around. Funny enough we called it slug wars. Summer camp rocks.
sutefanideluxe · 35 points · Posted at 17:28:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do this at slumber parties. But I was the only one being a weirdo. I even knew people thought I was weird when I did it, yet every party I slipped that sleeping bag over my head and slugged around the floor.
you_like_me · 9 points · Posted at 21:36:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
gotta stay true to yourself
Jorge564 · 4 points · Posted at 21:48:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your countrymen thank you
ticklishchinballs · 21 points · Posted at 17:17:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play “sleeping bag tag” where only the person it was in the sleeping bag and had to tag someone. Like a land version of Marco Polo except for that one time when I thought I was perpendicular to the bed and confidently lunged across. I was actually next to the bed and I still remember what it feels like to literally land on your face because being blind with outstretched arms is hard to correct before impact.
PM_ME_MR_POTATO_HEAD · 2 points · Posted at 03:03:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this but simply called the game Slug. Broke Alamo once, but damned good times.
cheers_grills · 52 points · Posted at 16:24:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do a similiar stuff, but instead of fighting you put as many pillows inside the sleeping bags as possible and then were thrown out of the window on the 2nd floor.
naemtaken · 29 points · Posted at 17:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The 2nd floor? Did anybody die? I can't imagine falling ~25 foot with no way of bracing for impact was that great for you.
cheers_grills · 24 points · Posted at 17:10:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Closer to 30 feet, but they were big ass sleeping bags and there was a lot of pillows.
UK_Garce · 22 points · Posted at 18:39:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That doesnt answer if anyone died or not...
Jo_nathan · 7 points · Posted at 19:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OP actually died doing this
cheers_grills · 3 points · Posted at 19:26:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Somehow no one even got hurt.
eachfire · 25 points · Posted at 16:40:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg this is fucking crazy
seamooz · 5 points · Posted at 20:26:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOL We threw ourselves down flights of stairs in sleeping bags.
Also jumped out of moving vehicle into snow banks, bumper sledding (attach sleds to back of jeep and drive down snowy roads), sled off the roof, rode abandoned shopping carts down huge hills (yikes)
Now that I think of it, how am I still alive?
cheers_grills · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Experience.
ohyoureTHATjocelyn · 5 points · Posted at 23:25:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sister and i would kick each other down the stairs, no joke. it was honestly one of our favorite games. we called it pop tart. kids are fucking weird.
etatreklaw · 14 points · Posted at 17:21:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would do this, but throw ourselves down the stairs until we hit the wall at the bottom
Munnyfunkster · 7 points · Posted at 18:36:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would do the same although our stairs ended in a wall so we'd have to throw our pillows down first. Good times!
ohyoureTHATjocelyn · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my sister as well!
ohyoureTHATjocelyn · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
and we called it pop tart.
AlterEgoCat · 12 points · Posted at 18:02:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh we did that, but we called it Sleeping Bag. (The name could have used a bit of workshopping.)
shooterrrr · 11 points · Posted at 18:53:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a claustrophobic person... my knees shivered.
Seaturtle89 · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, this is the game of nightmares. How do they breathe in there??
PantherTheRogue · 10 points · Posted at 19:17:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is making me laugh so hard and reminds me of the time my sibling and I tried to grow wings by wrapping ourselves in sleeping bags and vowing to stay in there for 2 weeks. We both got 2 bananas and got bored after like 5 minutes and watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory instead.
We also played as caterpillars sometimes, getting in sleeping bags and playing songs through YouTube to signify what was happening, I.E. Had A Bad Day when I fell off the leaf, or Happy Happy Joy Joy when I found my way back onto the leaf. Child imagination is limitless.
eachfire · 9 points · Posted at 19:24:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes strip where they set out for the Yukon with two sandwiches apiece and Hobbes concludes their first Captain's Log with "Supplies low."
:D
PantherTheRogue · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, I ADORED Calvin and Hobbes as a kid! My mom bought me all the books and I even got away with doing a book report on the Sunday Strips edition once! I think I still have the books at my grandma's house :)
TorgOnAScooter · 17 points · Posted at 15:32:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahahaha I was trying to think of how we fought to share this here, we would play this in a pretty small room with like 4 or 5 people.
LawAndFresh · 6 points · Posted at 18:18:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I did this with pillows, your name is so much better! We called it Bed Bash lmao
eachfire · 8 points · Posted at 18:37:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BED BASH!
phrixious · 9 points · Posted at 18:50:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't understand how when we're kids we have such high pain tolerances. We would wrestle and rough-house all the time.
One game we played all the time we called "swing-o-bonkers", where we'd swing in opposite directions (on a swing set), then stick our legs straight out and turn to face each other and knock each other off. Like jeeze, how did we not break ourselves.
eachfire · 13 points · Posted at 19:10:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shortly after my thirtieth birthday I pulled my neck while tearing off a bite of a slightly stale sandwich. How the turn tables.
likecalifornia · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me giggle. Thank you for sharing.
eachfire · 2 points · Posted at 23:59:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
:)
ba_chamberlain · 7 points · Posted at 19:32:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Samurai Glow Worms!
Unfortunately, there were no samurai swords or glowing involved
eachfire · 9 points · Posted at 19:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The night I fell in love with my now-girlfriend, we were at a music festival, afterpartying at the campsite. She was as far from sober as you get, and was lying in the dirt wearing a sleeping bag like a cloak. She would periodically yell "I'M A GLOW WORM!" and open the sleeping bag wings to reveal a collection of glowsticks she had inside before closing it and giggling.
sixbux · 7 points · Posted at 19:36:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to do that on the trampoline, basically the Passchendaele of the Slug Wars.
ElderTreebeard · 7 points · Posted at 20:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my first tour. Was at a camp out with my scout patrol, and I was there leader. They told me they needed my aid in an upcoming battle. I was 15 at the time. I was too tall, so they wrapped me in three sleeping bags, so I was Slug Commando Alpha. That day I had to slay 6 of my own men.
It haunts you for the rest of your days.
eachfire · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At ease, soldier. You can rest now.
BobVance1 · 10 points · Posted at 17:10:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did something similar to this. We would roll ourselves up in blankets like burritos and race each other across the room. It got surprisingly competitive. I think we called it “The Burrito Game” or something to that effect.
is_this_a_test · 2 points · Posted at 01:47:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What line of work you in, Bob?
ishastitches · 5 points · Posted at 17:47:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a similar game- we wrapped in blankets with our arms pinned down and had to inch our way around and battle. We called it inchworm.
TheBames · 4 points · Posted at 18:30:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds a lot like night crawlers
Pooleh · 5 points · Posted at 18:53:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got trapped in a sleeping bag playing like that when I was a kid. I was ok for a sec but as soon as I realized I couldn't get out I was screaming for Mom and Dad like there was a fire lol. I'm not claustrophobic really but something about that freaked me the fuck out.
turboplanes · 5 points · Posted at 21:22:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This happened to me once, my brother just got on top of me. He was cheating and not in his bag. I was freaking out because I couldn’t move. For me it was more of the suffocation from limited fresh air than the claustrophobia.
AviatorTrainman · 5 points · Posted at 19:13:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I also served in the Slug Wars. It’s good to meet a fellow serviceperson here. I salute you.
HubKapp · 4 points · Posted at 19:31:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Angry maggots!
BearFishBG · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You're gonnae go tae tha bad place, Walter!
Skidmark666 · 6 points · Posted at 20:05:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
RIP your sister.
Chazykins · 4 points · Posted at 17:55:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that
Mox_Fox · 4 points · Posted at 17:57:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this but we called it Catepillar!
aDreamforSpring · 5 points · Posted at 19:13:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did not have a name for it, but exactly how we would play it. Thanks for that bit of nostalgia and giving it a name
Betrayedunicorn · 4 points · Posted at 19:14:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to do this with cousins, have a terrible nightmare of a time I got in head first and everyone else tried to fit in the other way and I almost suffocated stuck like a sardine the wrong way round in a writhing sleeping bag. Never again. Can remember lots of times I probably should have died as a kid up at my grandparents. Probably made us more hardy kids. I guess if I have children it would just be angry birds and minecraft parties, coupled with antivax sleeper cells I think the next generation will have a high mortality rate.
Uzmonkey · 5 points · Posted at 19:36:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think we called this "murder bags" or something similar.
chetfinnery · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Best name yet right here!
sage8910 · 5 points · Posted at 20:05:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to call this Alaskan bull worm. Good times until I got a concussion from hitting my head into the wall.
Skrillcage · 3 points · Posted at 23:02:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's funny how many different people played this and how many different names they came up with. We called it Amoeba Wars and occasionally had someone not in a sleeping bag trying to hunt all the amoebas. But usually it was just throwing our bodies into each other. Being a kid was fun.
eachfire · 2 points · Posted at 23:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've been absolutely loving these comments all day. Cheers! :)
Skrillcage · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
They've been great! So much nostalgia
BouncyMouse · 5 points · Posted at 23:29:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
YES!!! MY BROTHER AND I ALSO DID THIS!!!
bonercollexor · 3 points · Posted at 17:59:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to do something similar to this. We’d get in our sleeping bags and scoot all around the house like caterpillars. Sometimes we’d stand up and try to knock each other over.
TPberg · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
RIP u/eachfire’s sister.
lucc1111 · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit you made me remember I did this too.
Sasarai · 3 points · Posted at 18:41:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was a favourite at many scout camps I went to. We called it caterpillar fights. I fell onto my thumbs and damaged my tendons. Still get trouble 20 years later.
Kiwi57 · 3 points · Posted at 18:44:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha awesome I used to play that at sleep overs we called it wormies and someone always always got hurt. Great times indeed
pentapous · 3 points · Posted at 19:07:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a couple of my friends did this and legitimately called it the exact same name. Thanks for your service
mrmeeseeks8 · 3 points · Posted at 19:16:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey I also played slug wars! And we called it by the same name and everything!
eachfire · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you for your service.
shift1186 · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Caaaan Do!
mrmeeseeks8 · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey, I’M mr meeseeks!
prlsheen · 3 points · Posted at 19:40:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I and half our friends are decorated veterans of the Slug Wars.
Thank you for your service, comrade.
Fudgms · 3 points · Posted at 20:14:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wooooah my best friend and i did the exact same thing and called it the exact same thing.
My body hurts just thinking about it.
And_You_Like_It_Too · 3 points · Posted at 23:43:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I took the slug wars in our sleeping bags downhill skiing. We’d get in them and slide down the fucking stairs to the basement over and over. I’m 41 now, and goddamn do I have a back problem. I wonder where it started, lol.
GATHRAWN91 · 3 points · Posted at 23:44:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! My brother and I played slug wars all the time!
exmirt · 5 points · Posted at 18:36:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What if you got stuck in the sleeping bag? Just thinking about it stresses me out.
kcMasterpiece · 5 points · Posted at 19:09:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this happen to me once when nobody was in the room to help and am currently having a panic attack.
ItsNeverSunnyInCleve · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to play that when camping out in the backyard in a tent. that was such a hilarious game.
Ochre- · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing but with blankets and we called it blind wars
biulder2 · 2 points · Posted at 18:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in my house. But instead of sleeping bags, it was 1 cardboard box, and the person in the cardboard box had to catch those not in the cardboard box.
Also we did this on the landing by the staircase.......
The game then turned into sliding down the stairs in a cardboard box.
Chimp_King · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god we used to play that my brothers and I, we called it jacket potato wars, because you would get hot as shit in the sleeping bags sometimes to the point your head ached!
breadhotchilipepper · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
omg we played a version of that at my sleepovers with friends, except it would only be one person in the sleeping bag who had to “find” everyone else. we called it monster
Cichlidsaremyjam · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, this was the first thing that popped to my head and I was so sure it was going to unique. Well I was completely wrong. Love it. So many injuries.
eachfire · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This thread is giving me lots of joy.
tony_flamingo · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with friends, but we called it a Twinkie Fight!
Nooson · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahah brilliant. We called this worms.
Cowskiers · 2 points · Posted at 23:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk what it is but every time I donned the slug suit I became basically John Wick
kwerdop · 2 points · Posted at 23:32:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, you definitely didn’t invent that. I’m guessing the very first two kids with sleeping bags did.
ifiwasyouu · 2 points · Posted at 23:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends has this game but we called it squirmy wormies
half-giant · 2 points · Posted at 23:53:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whoa. Did I know you two growing up? My brother and I used to stay over at a friends place and we did this exact thing all the time. I forget what we called it but I think it was “bag battle” or something to that effect.
Sbelectric1 · 2 points · Posted at 03:00:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I called that game gumby. Because our sleeping bags were greenish like gumby. Fun times.
Xarama · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Each of you in a separate sleeping bag, right?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are replying here though.. does This mean you've won the battle? F for slug sister
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Charlie would call this Nightcrawlers
Brit-Scout · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends called this bug wars
freakinfalk · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahh.. a classic
Hellaklout · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG my brother and I did this too. We called it "Marmot-ing" because our sleeping bags were made by the brand Marmot. We didn't go backwards though, we just pulled them up over our heads and tightened them.
itsnevrogre · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played the same thing during sleepovers but we called it llama worm! 🦙
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game all the time! We also called it slugs....like late 80s early 90s.
CaptainFrosty408 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had Worm Wars in my Boy Scout troop—gather a bunch of people in one tent (size doesn't matter), zip yourself fully up in a mummy bag (head in normal spot though) and brawl.
picklerick245 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah. We called this potato sack wars. Many teeth were lost in the process
_skank_hunt42 · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that the squirmy wormy in 5th grade science camp!
fareggs · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and my friends played this while young!
We called it “Grub Worms”
ThisisJacksburntsoul · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trailer Worms we called it. We didn't even live in a trailer.
samOraytay · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i played that on Basketball trips
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah but you have to turn all the lights out
TaxiOutfit07Y1B · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sorry for the loss of your sister
dux_doukas · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I also did the same. Good fun!
tardigrades_united · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did this on a school camping trip in eight grade. At 1 am. Next to our teacher's tent. Our teacher threw his boot at our tent
edenavi · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did that too!
bigsears10 · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup did this. Turned it up a notch by pegging legos at each other
griffinfoxwood · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
lol we’d do this with our heads out and called it “alaskan death worm wrestling”
dietsierramist · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OH! My brothers and I used to play this same game but we called it "Blob". We would put blankets over our bodies and crawl around the house trying to blob each other. Good times.
walkingcarpet23 · 6783 points · Posted at 13:30:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bockey" or "Bike-hockey" even though only one person was on a bike. There were three of us, so the game was played 2v1.
The two people are on roller blades with hockey sticks and a ball (a hard plastic "street hockey" ball). The one person was on a bike.
The object of the game was to shoot the ball between the wheels of the bike. If we got it through, we got a point. If he blocked it with his foot, he got a point. We had a ~50 yard stretch of our street we'd play on. We actually used to set a timer and play for three five-minute periods.
Mstinos · 306 points · Posted at 17:28:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played "stick in the wheels" for one game. The kid on the bike thought up the game, so he got to stay on the bike. We had to chase him and if we could throw a stick in his wheels, we "got" him. Well I got him good. He faceplanted and got really angry. "why would you throw a stick in my wheels? I hate you!" He was a bit special.
defenitely_not_a_bot · 38 points · Posted at 23:36:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao
narf865 · 20 points · Posted at 02:09:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/StoriesAboutKevin
wild_stryke · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:55 on March 18, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did I just find my new favorite sub? Yes I did.
enxiongenxiong · 13 points · Posted at 03:49:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play this! We called it bike jousting. My wife and mother-in-law are afraid that I will teach this to our kids. (I will.)
Chad___Sexington · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did bikes, holding kayak paddles and lots of hockey pads (we also wrapped the paddles in foam). It was just straight up jousting. It was great!
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 02:11:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
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spaceman1980 · 9 points · Posted at 23:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahahaha
wilson648 · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a form of this. More like the person on the bike was getting balls thrown at them and sometimes the balls got caught in the wheel.
mikelisse · 116 points · Posted at 15:32:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curious if the person on the bike was wearing shin pads, at least?
My friend and I used to play "wall hockey" which was essentially just Butts Up with a hockey stick. We used a handball when playing the game, but for the penalty we would use the hard plastic street hockey ball and man we had some welts after those games.
walkingcarpet23 · 75 points · Posted at 15:34:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nope. We were young and stupid. Wore helmets but that was it.
More often than not it was us trying to get up close and shoot it through, not slapshotting. But yea he did get hit sometimes
augollio · 25 points · Posted at 21:29:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
as someone who also played this (and was the one on the bike 90% of the time) i can tell you neither shin pads nor helmets were usually worn. surprised i went as long as i did without a concussion.
RVASurfer4 · 12 points · Posted at 23:26:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hearing Butts Up for the first time since ‘05 just sent chills up my asshole
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 00:28:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
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mikelisse · 6 points · Posted at 04:53:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weird. Butts Up and Asshole are two very different games in my area (Long Island, New York). Asshole is a card came; Butts Up is a schoolyard game.
FriendlyPastor · 24 points · Posted at 20:06:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man that reminds me of my favorite highschool game fockey
It's a 2v2 on a sideways tennis half court, with hockey sticks and either a tennis ball or one of those plastic hockey training balls. The flavor of the game is destruction, both bodily and equipment. The puck is slapshot at the opposing team, who must block the puck from the score wall behind them by any means: typically with fleshy limbs or by hurling your hockey stick across the court. Half about dodging solid directed shots and half about keeping your opponents so unbalanced they can't land a solid shot, picking and choosing your battles
I'd like to imagine my imaginary Aztec ancestors smiled down upon me
[deleted] · 17 points · Posted at 16:34:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huffy Polo!
I did this too! The damage to my elbows was monumental.
onescaredotter · 15 points · Posted at 00:22:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, my mom taught us a game her and my uncle made up. It's a continuation of slug-a-bug.
Jeep wrangler - beep-a-jeep.
Police car - pop-a-cop
Motorcycle - sock-a-cycle
Boat (not kayaks) - float-a-boat
Camper (pop up or larger) - tramp-a-camper
Taxi - wax-a-taxi
Firetruck - fight-a-fire-truck
Volkswagen bus - slug-a-bus
Motorcycle cops can be worth 2 points if you call both sock-a-cycle and pop-a-cop.
Any groups of a specific vehicle where there are 4 or more is automatically ten points if you make the point call plural. Ex. If i see 4 boats in a yard or on a lake I can say float-a-boatS and get 10 points. Calling plurals negates any previous point calls out of that group of vehicles.
We've played this game on so many road trips and the points get into the hundreds. And even though my mom was always driving when we played, she still whooped our butts every single time.
I love my mom so much.
RAWR_time · 14 points · Posted at 18:53:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
somewhat related–another odd form of hockey: my friends and I would go up to our neighbor's pool with those short little knee hockey sticks and a ball or puck heavy enough so that it would to sink to the bottom of the pool, but not slide/roll around more than a foot at a time. We'd play from either side of the shallow end of the pool, and whoever could touch the puck to the other team's wall of the pool got a point. Played it all summer, had great lung capacity that year.
SpicyHat · 11 points · Posted at 20:22:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played street hockey on Rip Sticks (???) which was surprisingly fun.
Cschill17 · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yess! This was my favorite game as a kid. Trying to get a ball between the wheels on the ripstick was so fun because of how quickly you could change direction on those things
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rip stick hockey is my favorite made up game of all time.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 21:59:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG ,you just reminded me of a game we used to play that was rip-stick hockey. 2 teams with 2 players each would use hockey sticks while riding on rip-sticks (the skateboard like things you wiggle to move).
We used buckets on their sides as goals to score a tennis ball into. It was in an 3-car garage and all walls had to be open to bounce the ball off of. This caused us to use random pieces of wood and junk to block the open garage doors.
Good times
oaklandasfan10 · 2 points · Posted at 06:05:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man we played nearly the same game but the puck had to go under our board between our wheels for a goal. Talk about strong hips and legs to rip a rip stick and play hockey though
SuperHappyLazer · 3 points · Posted at 18:40:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A better version of that game is instead of the hockey aspects, you throw a stick between the wheels.
RobertLovesMemes · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oof
SlimShaney8418 · 4 points · Posted at 21:36:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah the name reminds me of Clocky. It was normal soccer except you could kick peoples ankles. Loved it
PantsIsDown · 3 points · Posted at 23:08:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “sockey” or “sock-hockey.” Which involved playing hockey in our socks on the slick tile floor in the basement.
exploding_giraffe · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had “sockey” too! Except instead of sticks and a puck, we used ping pong paddles and balls shot into laundry baskets.
TheBobolly · 3 points · Posted at 23:35:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rip stick hockey
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:00:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yesssssss
jmaham · 2 points · Posted at 21:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played hockey with ripsticks
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:01:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same. That game was the shit
ITFOWjacket · 2 points · Posted at 21:42:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha and popping a sweet wheelie is the ultimate power move
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:52:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Related: Bicycle jousting was super fun (for the winner, anyway).
vivamusulc · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a story like this. We use to play roller blade hockey, but we didnt have hockey equipment so used golf clubs and balls, we played for years without an injury until one day my brother took a big swing and hit my friend in the head and knocked him out with blood pissing everywhere. he had went to the hospital and ended up fine, save for a scar on his forehead. needless to say we didn't play after that
kdidjfnendkfkrwkowdk · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if you’re from my neighborhood but a bunch of guys used to do this at a local playground every weekend like clockwork
HlgHaslam · 2 points · Posted at 23:41:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kinda like poor man's polo
baron_von_marrone · 2 points · Posted at 00:28:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
reminds me of our Sockey. Soccer Hockey...it was just soccer with rollerblades, played on a street in front of my house that’s an incline. terribly dangerous as we were like 7 and could barely rollerblade to begin with, let alone try to kick a soccer ball on one unstable leg.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:54:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've read hockey so many times in this thread that I'll never hear it the same way again.
The_Jesus_Beast · 2 points · Posted at 03:18:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Greg Heffley? Is that you?
rex1030 · 2 points · Posted at 04:17:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game is amazing.
Oldstains · 3 points · Posted at 23:58:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers would make me lay on the sidewalk and would run over my legs with their bikes.. that was it. That was the game.
Orangebeardo · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do you mean one of these?
The sport is called field hockey or just hockey.
You guys have icehockey, but you just call it hockey.
walkingcarpet23 · 11 points · Posted at 16:32:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, it was a plastic ball we got from like Toys R Us or something. Nowhere near as hard / dense as a field hockey ball.
Where I'm at field hockey is just as popular as ice hockey depending on who you ask.
bmwrider2 · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similarly my sister and I played bike polo. A bike each and a baseball bat each and we ride around hitting a ball between two boxes as a goal
magnue · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
what happens if you do a bunny hop as it goes through? technically you've removed the goal posts.
dannybten23 · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a very similar game on skateboards. You can likely guess the name. In our game, you score by putting the bell under your brothers board, through the wheels.
marx1962 · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck the girl next door played that a lot
LtDan_29 · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstick hockey was popular in my area
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:02:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstick hockey is a great sport
louimcdo · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My first thought to the answer of this question was bike tig. My sister and I would go out on our bikes and cycle round the farm trying to catch the other person.
thuktun · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reading this makes me cringe. I broke my arm at the start of third grade playing some kind of weird ball game with me riding my bike. The front wheel hit the ball just
rightwrong and the bike went down HARD.rileygrr · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
poor kid polo
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a brilliant way to break your ankles
iammrh4ppy · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underdog. Bounce and Go under the ball. Who ever can't go under the ball loses.
Cpaid_zula · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sport of champions.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dead baby bikes, bro
Sander_Banter · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I play a similar game that we called ‘woko’. We’re all on a ripstick/wave board and all have a hockey sticks in hand. There’s one football sized bouncy ball and we have to hit each other with the ball. You get points for where you hit the others. 1 for board and legs. 2 for torso and arms. 3 for the bum. 4 for between the legs. 0 for the head.
KJClangeddin · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol! We had a game called hand-hoccer. We made goals in the street and played a version of hockey (with brooms, hockey sticks and whatever else we could come up with) mixed with soccer played with a soccer ball. You could hold it for 3 steps and throw it or kick/stick pass it but you could only score using the stick. You couldn't catch a pass thrown by hand either, only a kick or bounce off a stick. We played 10 min halves. Credit to a couple of south African brothers that moved to my neighborhood for bringing the idea to fruition.
trojanmagnumPI · 1 points · Posted at 09:56:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Between the spokes or between either wheel?
IndyDude11 · 9034 points · Posted at 13:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a thing for tournaments. I don’t know what it is, but I love brackets. I’ve read books with nothing but brackets of random shit. “Best vegetable” or “Best vacation spots” and shit like that.
On my summer breaks from school, I would stay up super late, like 6am, and I would spend my time playing this tournament game while listening to sports talk radio. Basically I would write down the names of my friends and people I knew and fill out a bracket. I’d flip a coin to see who won. The first round started as best of five and they got progressively longer, with a loser’s bracket that was best of three. When a player got enough flips in his/her favor, they would move to the next round. After a champion was crowned, I would calculate all the winning percentages by hand and use their overall records to seed them going into the next tournament. I still have notebooks full of these tournaments in my parents shed.
wynterwytch · 2635 points · Posted at 14:20:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What kind of job do you have now? Anything related to stats like this?
IndyDude11 · 2353 points · Posted at 15:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I worked in television for about 15 years. Back in school now looking to get into sports. Maybe as a tournament director somewhere?
pipsdontsqueak · 2370 points · Posted at 17:10:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Use a bracket-style tournament to decide your major. Then a second one to decide your job.
IndyDude11 · 710 points · Posted at 18:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WHY HAVE I NOT THOUGHT TO DO THIS?!?
pipsdontsqueak · 134 points · Posted at 19:04:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure. It's sort of your thing.
tdagarime · 98 points · Posted at 23:31:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HR: ‘So what made you apply to accounting?’
u/indydude11 : Well, you guys had a bye in the first round, took easy wins over pastry chef and night porter, than edged out teaching 4-3 in a best of 7 final.’
HooglaBadu · 29 points · Posted at 00:18:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can you stream it on Twitch? I really, really want to watch. Maybe with likelihood percentages and everything.
temalyen · 18 points · Posted at 00:53:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeeees, he could do a custom frame that shows information and have an update bar running across the bottom.
Ho_Fart · 8 points · Posted at 03:16:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg pleassseeee. I’d watch the fuck out of this
T618 · 7 points · Posted at 04:08:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow, u/indydude11, I think you've discovered something. I'm not that excited about it myself, but I really want to see the birth of a new genre of entertainment!
BenSomeone · 7 points · Posted at 05:22:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"It's time to play..."
Studio Audience: "Find your career!"
Kingwolfie13 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:10 on March 17, 2019 · (Permalink)
I, myself would watch this. Make it entertaining enough I may even throw some money at it.
SpaceFace5000 · 12 points · Posted at 23:17:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have fun buddy. I'm excited for you
Sirkel_ · 8 points · Posted at 00:24:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And if you’re sad that a specific one get eliminated, you can mark it with a crossed star or something to indicate that you may have liked that job.
If that made sense
ODB2 · 3 points · Posted at 03:18:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
PEPE SILVIA DOESN'T EXIST
Therubestdude · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao
rex1030 · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You might like economics and statistics.
Shirleydandrich · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
POST YOUR RESULTS DAMMIT
g64 · -10 points · Posted at 04:54:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Because if you're fucking dumb enough to feel the need to type in all caps then you're too fucking dumb to think of anything
Mohd759 · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wiggle that stick out of your ass plz
Lifeisdamning · 76 points · Posted at 17:30:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is obviously the best suggestion
ZoFarZoGood · 55 points · Posted at 18:26:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dunno... let's put this with other suggestions in like a bracket or something
IsaacEiland-Hall · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
[this, other suggestions]
Hmm. Quick, but not fun or helpful, I don't think.
ZoFarZoGood · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I luhhhh you
the-artists-wife · 17 points · Posted at 18:20:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not even into brackets and I think I need to do this...
Pseudonymnumnums · 20 points · Posted at 18:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this actually. I was a week away from the 'deadline' for choosing a major, I had like 8 that seemed interesting. So I just set up a bracket and flipped a coin. Best of 3 for pools, best of 5 for quarter, semi and finals
NerfSideLongBeach · 13 points · Posted at 18:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Which major won
Pseudonymnumnums · 29 points · Posted at 18:30:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Communications. It was such a weak major that my school dissolved it the year I left. I was the last year to get a degree in it. So that's super exciting.
jakeor45 · 14 points · Posted at 17:53:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a roommate who did this to pick his grad school.
GeorgiePorgiePuddin · 7 points · Posted at 19:21:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is some Batman Two-Face shit
FaithCPR · 4 points · Posted at 21:35:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"So, why do you want to work for X company?"
"You guys won in my job tournament"
IronBabyFists · 3 points · Posted at 21:22:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Loser's bracket decides your job?
Sounds about right
blackbrandt · 17 points · Posted at 21:41:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cool! So I’m going to be a....
flips coin
flips coin
flips coin
Medieval Lesbian dance theory major...
...with a minor in....
flips coin
flips coin
flips coin
... underwater basket weaving.... and my job is....
flips coin 15 more times
Huh. Whoever thought I’d end up as a Reddit admin?
IronBabyFists · 5 points · Posted at 22:18:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's practically playing the Sims.
Change that minor to mass communication and the job to mortician and I'll buy you a fish
GodBlessThisGhetto · 3 points · Posted at 22:32:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Major: fine arts Job: rocket scientist
RedArrow23 · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Its a junji ito story where someone lets brackets control their life
awrfyu_ · 66 points · Posted at 15:57:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Give e-sports a try, it's an insanely growing market
3kindsofsalt · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Esports buddy. The only qualifications are to be reliable, trustworthy, and good at your job.
bipolarnotsober · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wish I was that good at FIFA
StubbyK · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have you considered working for r/IndyEleven? You've got the username for it.
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 18:35:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have. I just started back at school in the fall, so I still have a bit to go, but I have been looking at internships with them, as well as the other teams in town!
Gator-Empire · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe you could make the college football playoffs fair?
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
More teams, the better, I say! All conference champions and then some at-large teams. Just like basketball, but not as large.
MiddleCourage · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Check out Jelle's Marble Runs on youtube.
LiberContrarion · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have you been introduced to the Uber M&M Breeding and Genetic Selection Program?
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Someone posted about it here, but I had no idea what it was until you posted this.
LiberContrarion · 5 points · Posted at 19:00:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just in case: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7f9dhn/mm_breeding/
killersoda · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
The_Canadian_Devil · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sound like you love math and statistics. What about sabermetrics? There's a whole industry of people who apply advanced statistical analysis to sports.
IndyDude11 · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've given thought to this, but I don't think I'm smart enough to handle all the math. I have a good handle up to Finite, but Calculus and Trig scares the shit out of me.
ShakesTheDevil · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you are looking for a soft landing to get some tournament directing experience, look into Middle/High School sports. Many districts have positions for Tournament Director for end of season tournaments.
Ax0m · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Disc Golf is always looking for TD's
ChopS2E · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn are you my long lost brother or something? Am too obsessed with brackets and can run them in my head (properly seeded, with losers) no problem. And I’m in school right now studying television and film. Weeeeiiiiird!
dirtycrabcakes · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get into E Sports.
Meester_Tweester · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You could be a tournament organizer for fighting games. Have you seen Challonge.com or Smash.gg? They have some great brackets.
whistler6576 · 444 points · Posted at 14:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Instagram model.
IndyDude11 · 79 points · Posted at 15:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha! No.
evanerfbdgcn · 5 points · Posted at 15:57:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Analyst?
ijustwantanfingname · 5 points · Posted at 16:56:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe even a cunning linguist?
__i0__ · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Instagram Statistical Model?
WENUS_envy · 7 points · Posted at 15:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Statistical analysis and data reconfiguration
QuizzicalBrow · 5 points · Posted at 16:42:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you sure he's not a Transponster?
WENUS_envy · 4 points · Posted at 16:56:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
THAT'S NOT EVEN A WORD
moltenshrimp · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You've never heard of transport monsters?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:59:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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moltenshrimp · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm guessing this is a reference to something I don't know. Is it still a whoosh in that case?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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moltenshrimp · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fair enough. I'm pretty sure I still have no idea what you were talking about, so whoosh all you want. :)
scockd · 64 points · Posted at 15:05:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll have you know he's still doing these brackets. Except now he writes them on walls with his own feces.
Flkdnt · 12 points · Posted at 15:15:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bandersnatch anyone?
CrowsFeast73 · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
He's a bookie but not about to post it for the FBI.
ImFeklhr · 2 points · Posted at 04:51:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
He runs the March Madness contest at his work. That much is for sure.
i_always_give_karma · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looks like he’s in college now
Rowtok · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably something in esports
Creepy_OldMan · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
NCAA Tournament Selection Committee
Slumph · 984 points · Posted at 14:34:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is charming, I like it. Please tell me you work in statistics now!
IndyDude11 · 579 points · Posted at 15:26:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nah. I really haven’t had any exposure to statistics outside of sports. I worked in television for a handful of years, and am now back in school looking to get into sports.
takeachillpill666 · 78 points · Posted at 17:37:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You would be considered a very valuable asset in esports. You should absolutely look into it, there are tons of high level competitive games with good money put into them.
CS:GO, DotA 2, LoL, Rocket League, just to name a few that are enormous and have bracket style tourneys.
NyanMudkip · 25 points · Posted at 19:19:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ll add Overwatch to that list. Although there’s not as many brackets
Wil_With_One_L · 11 points · Posted at 20:14:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And I’ll add Smash Bros. Quite a few brackets.
Meester_Tweester · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smash Bros. and other fighting games too
GhostFour · 12 points · Posted at 19:29:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's charming that you see him as a "statistics" guy instead of the degenerate gambler he became.
Meester_Tweester · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I took a stats class and it was nothing like tournaments
DarthHeyburt · 374 points · Posted at 14:49:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah man I thought it was just me, I'd simulate FA Cup draws from the round of 32, I'd draw the games out of the bag, then have 0-1-2-3-4-5 in the bag to simulate the scores of the games. I'd always be gutted when I drew my team as a loss.
I then started handicapping the draw for teams in higher (IRL) divisions so that when it came to draw scores the favourite only had 2-3-4-5 as potential scores so there'd need to be a real upset for the underdogs to go through. So simple but so fun.
Pitohui13 · 10 points · Posted at 16:47:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this but with dices.dice-1=goals scored.
Syggie · 3 points · Posted at 04:53:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
SAME HERE. I thought I was alone doing this. Also I kept the spreadsheet with results and would marvel at the amount of titles X team had gotten.
orangelucozade · 5 points · Posted at 18:06:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy crap. I thought I was the only weird person doing this. Thank God hahaha
killersoda · 7 points · Posted at 18:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of course there's a sub for that ...
killersoda · 2 points · Posted at 04:09:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made it earlier today.
hphphphphphphphp · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to to the same! Good times
45MonkeysInASuit · 2 points · Posted at 00:39:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
God, I write programs to do similar. Writing a program that can do things like ladder tournaments whilst keeping the games played even and avoiding the same players playing each other too often takes a fair amount of planning so makes a good little project to keep me sharp.
realladymacbeth · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I totally did the same thing, but with the "Quidditch World Cup" and dice. Would group every country in the world, plus a few territories (South Ossetia and Macau did particularly well), into regional playoffs per continent, and slooooooowly build up to the final. Sadly, I don't remember how the dice work: it all was pretty unbalanced though, since the Snitch basically turns every game.
It probably took hours but it was absolutely amazing. Couldn't explain to my family what I got out of it though.
orbittheorb · 26 points · Posted at 16:24:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG! We are the same person. My whole life, I've thought bracket style tournaments are so cool...
When I was a kid, I folded enough paper footballs for each team in the NFL and I drew little crappy designs of the logos on them. Then, I'd flick them down the hallway for distance and I'd have this giant bracket drawn up. I did this on rainy days, all the time. Interestingly, the same 2 or 3 footballs would always win. - Things I'd do to entertain myself, as an only child. lol
As an adult, I still really enjoy bracket style things. A couple years ago, I got a group of friends and we went out once a week for months, every time to a Mexican restaurant. I had a huge bracket drawn up and we faced off the Mexican restaurants based on voting and rankings. It started out, everyone thought my idea was so lame. By the end, there were farce arguments going on about which Mexican restaurant was going to win. People ended up telling me how great the idea was. :)
IndyDude11 · 10 points · Posted at 16:48:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha. That’s awesome! I also used to do the paper football thing. I would have tournament based on how many field goals I could hit with them. I would stand at one edge of my room and flick into my window as the goal. I found myself cheating for the footballs I liked though so I went back to the coin flips. Haha!
redbookbluebook · 3 points · Posted at 18:19:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm hoping you brought a giant wheeled erase board to each of your dinners with the bracket game drawn on it to facilitate the debates.
orbittheorb · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahaha I could see myself doing something that ridiculous. I didn't do that, but I did have a Facebook group, an online version of the results, and I brought official ballots for scoring to each restaurant.
Picture of the ballots --> https://i.imgur.com/Hu2ZSIo.png
The bracket -> https://www.bracketsninja.com/brackets/single/15968?fbclid=IwAR25JH4ygz6ISUDcloFQfFdAXdg0W33-sokwhXGe1Fr9rpG8QjnPZc1GMU4
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
just-a-basic-human · 20 points · Posted at 15:16:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this too, also made up whole seasons of imaginary football just to get to the end bracket haha
killersoda · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
yeah_well_you_know · 20 points · Posted at 15:22:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same for me but with sports tables. I used to create whole new countries just to make imaginary football league tables for them. I still do sometimes, to be honest.
IndyDude11 · 8 points · Posted at 16:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pen and paper for your obsession now or have you found a better way?
yeah_well_you_know · 3 points · Posted at 22:42:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Gradually switched to spreadsheets over the years. But I still have some notebooks full of stats and tables which I continue once in a while.
killersoda · 3 points · Posted at 18:50:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
ArmadilloFour · 17 points · Posted at 15:37:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God this speaks to me so much. I would turn random mundane activities ("How many times can I throw this ball at my porch steps and catch it without it hitting the ground") into full tournament brackets.
My wife can attest that I never really grew out of it. I send her brackets all the time about mundane stuff ("Which Disney movie is the best," "What is your favorite restaurant in our town"), and we're planning to use baby name brackets as our announcements when (if?) she gets pregnant.
IndyDude11 · 10 points · Posted at 16:54:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG. DO NOT DO BABY NAME BRACKETS. I did this. It did not end well. Though I guess that was more because we let friends vote and all her friends would just vote for the name she liked more.
ArmadilloFour · 7 points · Posted at 16:57:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We're planning to send it to our immediate/particularly close family only, and to take it more as a suggestion than an actual requirement.
SplitArrow · 8 points · Posted at 17:59:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sure you don't want Boaty McBoatface as a child's name?
ArmadilloFour · 6 points · Posted at 19:23:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I'm sorry, these brackets would be filled in and seeded. They don't just get to put whatever.
DougD3345 · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Understood, but as a redditor you are legally obligated to make one selection Boaty McBoatface
killersoda · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
ArmadilloFour · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll see what I can whip up later!
[deleted] · 36 points · Posted at 14:22:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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IndyDude11 · 15 points · Posted at 15:25:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worked in tv for a bit. Now looking to get into sports. I do play board games as a hobby though.
MaxLemon · 6 points · Posted at 15:38:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Neat. What kind of board games?
IndyDude11 · 4 points · Posted at 16:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hobby board games like Caverna or Scythe or Arcadia Quest. I have ~150.
redbookbluebook · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do you have any board games that stimulate your love of brackets? I can only think of puzzle games like Alchemy that had a single solution you narrow down until it's discovered. Maybe Camel Cup because it's inherently a betting game?
IndyDude11 · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Actually, no. I haven’t played those two, though CC has always peaked my interest.
Rayy1 · 15 points · Posted at 15:30:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OH SHIT I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES THIS
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:52:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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ReallyNotNeeded · 4 points · Posted at 18:21:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We should make a sub on people's brackets and creations ahahah
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Done.
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
OverlordLork · 14 points · Posted at 16:21:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with Matchbox cars! They'd race down a track made out of cardboard boxes, and then get re-seeded into the next tournament based on how they did. This one banged-up car had a bad veer to the left. If it was lucky enough to start a race on the right, it would sometime pull off a big upset by running the other car off the track.
IndyDude11 · 9 points · Posted at 16:50:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy cow. I would set up huge Hot Wheels brackets, lined up in pairs all down my living room. I would put one car in one hand, one car in another, and smash them into each other. If you landed upside down you were out. This was before the coin flips. I never made the connection between the two before now! I should have kept stats on the W/L %!
204- · 8 points · Posted at 17:37:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do something like that too! When I was supposed to be sleeping, I would instead take all my matchbox cars and "drive" them toward each other. The first to flip over lost and then I would have a "winners" pile and a "losers" pile. Then I would take all the losers and find the best of them (the wild card). Then I would find the two best from the winners and have a showdown between all three "best" cars and then crown a winner from whichever flipped over the least in 10 throws. That car would then be the starter for the next time I did it.
CourageOfOthers · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s literally a game I used to play. Exactly the same. Land upside down and you’re out. Had a matchbox fire engine that was a bit weightier and won a lot of rounds
Thekinkiestpenguin · 12 points · Posted at 16:08:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do you have Asperger's by chance? My brother does and this is totally something he has done. But stats are also his big thing. In high school I would go to open new notebooks and find he had filled them with math already. Each year he gets the sports almanac for Christmas and by dinner time he's already filled the margins with stats about the stats
IndyDude11 · 5 points · Posted at 16:52:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha. Maybe, but I’ve never been tested for it or anything. My dad used to make me make up math problems to solve myself on days I didn’t have homework from school. Might have come from that.
bigbigbreeder · 11 points · Posted at 16:56:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, are you me???
I did tournaments exactly like this, with coin flips that eventually evolved to dice rolls, with a mock football league I made using different area schools. This had to be like 4th grade, and I thought there should be a sports league for kids like with high school or college. I picked out 16 nearby schools I found in the phone book and gave them names and logos. I'd do a different tournament every day during snack break. It caught on and soon my friends were doing their own and we got in trouble for rolling dice and doing them during class, cheering if our school won. Fun times.
IndyDude11 · 4 points · Posted at 16:59:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like a blast. And reminds me of a league I started for one on one football with an all time quarterback that I created for kids in my neighborhood. Everyone picked high school team names and played as them. My dad had a pack of electric tape with different colors that teams would use as wrist bands in their school’s colors. He was pretty pissed when he went looking for it later and most of the rolls were empty haha!
killersoda · 0 points · Posted at 18:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
bigbigbreeder · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You glorious bastard
arandomher0 · 8 points · Posted at 15:31:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude! I totally used to do this as a kid as well. My tournaments would include "simulating" NBA playoffs or just a tournament of people I knew. I did coin flips, sometimes I would make other mini games like trashcan basketball idk - good stuff.
Whenever things were completely up to chance like a coinflip, I would also be biased to make my favorite team win lol
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I absolutely did the coin flip thing for March Madness when the brackets would come out. I’d watch the selection show with brackets I had hand drawn and fill them in as they were announced.
killersoda · 0 points · Posted at 18:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
Sexy_Rhino · 7 points · Posted at 15:58:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I kinda did this by smashing M and Ms together. The winning color was promised to be spared from being eaten. I usually broke this promise.
gozerthegozarian1 · 6 points · Posted at 16:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You should listen to the comedy track “Tournaments and Brackets Stuff” by Brooks Wheelan. He talks about having the same obsession, it’s hilarious!
malice_clad · 2 points · Posted at 20:23:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I listened to that album recently. First thing I thought of.
WithYouAround · 5 points · Posted at 16:14:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would simulate hockey seasons with teams I created, rolling dice to determine the scores
UtterTomFollery · 4 points · Posted at 16:09:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The odd thing was, somehow when calculating the results, they were always Normally distributed!
abbott_costello · 4 points · Posted at 16:47:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, I used to do the same thing! Except I’d fill in the bracket with different girls in my grade and use my own judgment for who moved on. I was only like 9 years old at the time.
Rotat0r710 · 5 points · Posted at 17:25:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
[][][][][][][][] There, have some brackets
rolonic · 5 points · Posted at 18:30:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
u/indydude11 you need to check out marble olympics on YouTube, I think you’ll fall in love!
IndyDude11 · 5 points · Posted at 18:41:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, what are you doing to me? I have a test to study for, but all I’m doing now is watching marbles roll down snow banks!
rolonic · 3 points · Posted at 18:45:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Good luck with your test.... haha!
JPtoony · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You would love Brantsteele.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 21:24:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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JPtoony · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Np
GCP_17 · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself and a friend of mine had a 'best of 7' 'best of 7' series in foosball. You had to win 4 games to take a series, and then you had to win four of those series to win the title. So you had to win 16 games of foosball (to 10). So first one to score 160 goals in foosball was the winner. Many drunk nights playing this.
DryAsBones · 3 points · Posted at 16:40:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the Hunger Games simulator on brantsteele.net. You should check it out, its pretty fun
IndyDude11 · 4 points · Posted at 16:44:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Absolutely will. I have really looked and looked for a computer program that would keep track of the brackets and record keeping for me. Closest is excel spreadsheets that I have made for the results. I could probably design one for the tournaments that would keep track of records too, but all those if functions might be a little tricky for my level.
Krugo1 · 2 points · Posted at 19:33:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Check out Challonge. I don't think it does multiple seasons records, but it might be up your alley. I used to do my own tournaments all the time as a kid as well
octocrylene · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Challonge is also based in Indy! Let me know if you want to stop by the office and meet the team.
ReallyNotNeeded · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've spent so many hours on that site ngl
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same here.
killersoda · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginarybrackets/
Grandmaofhurt · 3 points · Posted at 18:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like a derivative of this game would make a great r/writingprompt. Like you're playing this with random friends names and you start to find that no matter what, one friends name keeps winning. No matter how large the bracket, no matter how you chose the winner, pulling cards, pulling straws, flipping coins, throwing darts a board, etc. that one person's name was always the winner.
bfaithr · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar with my webkinz. The winner got to choose my outfit for the next day
cowboydirtydan · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would have been pretty into this, sometimes I made my own board game RPG's and had combat systems that I calculated percentages for. Never quite got on the level of math it sounds like you were doing here though.
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was simple math. Add up the wins, add up the losses, then take the W/(W+L) and get the winning percentage, then rank the teams based on that.
cowboydirtydan · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I see. Still awesome. I had in mind you calculating the chances of each round/probability of certain outcomes
jackcos · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I... still do this. I use brackets to decide my favourite songs, what film I want to watch, what game I'll play next, and if I'm really bored I'll reenact what you've just described with random teams and seedings.
Shout out to Challonge for making this easier.
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/imaginarybrackets/
monsterofagirl · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a phase I went through during my few short months of home/self schooling. I would spend a lot of my time alone doing vaguely educational activities, and I absolutely loved doing long division. I would take my mom’s phone number and divide it by 3, discard the remainder, and then do the same with the product I got, and so one and so forth until I had a number that was indivisible by 3. When I finally made it all the way, I would start over with other people’s phone numbers in our contact notebook or just make up long numbers to use. In high school I was thinking about it and I just sat down and did it with my own phone number for at least thirty minutes during a free class period I had. Very therapeutic busy work.
Your_Worship · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
People think I’m weird because I enjoy excel spreadsheets.
I’m not even a big numbers person, I just like spreadsheets.
IndyDude11 · 3 points · Posted at 18:32:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, I LOVE Excel spreadsheets. I am in a class on Excel now, and I had no idea all the neat shit they have added to it in the last decade.
Your_Worship · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exactly!
Kid_Monotone · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was and am the exact same way. I used to simulate all the NCAA Conference Tournaments using an elaborate free throw shooting method in my driveway, then make a tournament bracket. Among many other even more mundanve things. Like the Bracket of Overrated Things. Or even the Bracket of Kid_Monotone's Past Crushes
Have you read The Final Four of Everything by Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir? It's my favorite book
IndyDude11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, but I definitely will be now.
I used to play a game that my friend came up with that we called the 10 second game. I played it by myself to simulate NCAA bracket games. Highest seed is down one with ten seconds to play, but has two free throws. Then the game plays from there. So much fun, and another excuse to do brackets.
Kid_Monotone · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait and you're from Indy? are you me?
IndyDude11 · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No...but maybe you're my friend...?
Kid_Monotone · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
what part of town you from
Dcaptain23 · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing when I was younger with wwf wrestlers. I would put all their names in a hat and create tournaments. And tag team tournaments with random partners. When I figured out how to make a bracket template in excel on windows 95 and print it to fill in... I just took it to another level!
IndyDude11 · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tournaments in wrestling were always my favorite. I was one of the few who loved King of the Ring more than anything else.
hablomuchoingles · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I enjoyed doing things like this as well. It ended evolving into a football (soccer) league pyramid for a fictional country. Started out modesty, but now there's 18 levels of the pyramid, 3000+ teams, and I'm working on season 44. Teams are constantly coming in and out of the league as place names become more formulaic but also unique in a way, and not so random. I don't know why I enjoy this so much.
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 21:52:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whaaaat?? How do you keep track of all of this??
hablomuchoingles · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With Microsoft Word, carefully structured files, a website which simulates seasons, and color teams positions for next season
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 22:14:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I would very much like to go there, please."
hablomuchoingles · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://www.leaguesimulator.eu/home
It's made it so much easier than doing it myself
takethefreeway · 2 points · Posted at 21:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother were obsessed with brackets as well. We made up fake college football teams and did the coin flipping to determine who won each game. There were different ranks of teams that would skew the odds of the coin flipping. Then after a season of hundreds of coin flips, we did a conference tournament bracket for each conference, followed by a handful of bowl games that were determined by a more intensive dice rolling game. Then we handed out awards to fake players, relegated team ranks based on performance and repeated the process. We did the same for college basketball and baseball. Still have the binders under my bed. Good times.
IndyDude11 · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's pretty awesome. I had 20 players, 10 boys and 10 girls, and everyone would participate in a big tournament at the start of the season. Then the Top 16 every week would play in the regular tournaments, and someone outside the 16 would have to wait for someone else's winning percentage to come down below theirs to get a chance to play.
takethefreeway · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s funny how we had the same basic idea with different execution. Here’s another fun tournament idea that’s fun to get people involved with: we used to set up a March Madness like 64 team bracket for something like breakfast cereal, Disney movies or candy bars. Then have people vote each week until you have a champ. Those got controversial haha.
IndyDude11 · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an 80s/90s kid, it has always blew my mind how kids all had similar ideas in a time before there was much communication beyond your neighborhood friends. Like how the hell did we all know to blow into NES carts to get them to work (even though that supposedly did more harm than good)??
takethefreeway · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No kidding, it’s like there was some sort of 90s involuntarily instinct.
ConFlonMcGee · 2 points · Posted at 01:43:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow. This sound like me and my friends growing up. Must be an Indiana thing? 😂
jjjanuary · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is not something I'd find remotely interesting, but I find it extremely heartwarming that you do.
IndyDude11 · 5 points · Posted at 16:50:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha. I’m sure. I always felt like a huge geek for it. This is really the first time I’ve ever mentioned it.
wrongwestern · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the Zodiac speaking
WearyguardsBitch · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This so sounds like something my husband would do for fun.
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/imaginarybrackets/
Naturallefty · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've read this before. Doesn't you do a baseball game or something like that?
Pyrollamas · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I share your love of tournaments and all things sports standings
beadlejuice44 · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you me?
IndyDude11 · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think so.
Now I have a vision of two guys with pencils in their ears and papers in hand pointing at each other Spider-Man meme style.
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/imaginarybrackets/
BlitzMainDontHurtMe · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you a stats guy now? Are you my AP stats teacher?
davidleon957 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit. Do you happen to have any pictures of those notebooks? I'd love to see them
cnprof · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Very nice. Look up a couple tournament scheduling algorithms. If they make sense to you, welcome to math and computer science.
Edit: computer science not just science
thegame2010 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school I managed to get a graphing calculator, and I would make programs on it. One of them was a random number generator bracket creator. I would make template brackets for people for their March Madness competitions and things like that. One of them got pretty close one year.
I also tried to hold a lottery for with a different program, but not enough people played to make it worth it.
Gwompulator9000 · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure Pete Holmes had a bit about exactly this, only he'd go up to the winner in school and congratulate them, even giving them a little prize.
bourbon_and_icecubes · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do you perchance do stand up comedy?
IndyDude11 · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t, but my mom thinks I’m pretty funny.
rashonmyeed · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You must love statistics and probability
quantum_foam_finger · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think I never really grew out of this. As a kid I had a nerf hoop league (just me and teams of my imaginary teammates and opponents). I even calculated my height if my nerf hoop were a regulation 10 feet (I think I was 8 foot 3). Later I made a baseball league using a dice game and kept stats like batting average and RBI. And I did the M&M battle royale thing that many kids do - smashing them together until there's a final winner.
Nowadays I spend a bunch of time before the NCAA basketball tournament each year ranking the tournament teams with a system based on the team & coach's historical expectations and fill out my bracket that way. It managed to win my office pool last year. I also dabble in economics, researching business cycles and making comparative studies between states and countries.
I've done some statistical reporting on the job over the years, but I'm not sure I'd want to do it full time. For me it's a fun hobby that melts hours away when I find something interesting to build a statistical model of.
HeathenMama541 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is awesome!!
deusdragon · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have you ever held tournaments with Skittles or M&Ms? Try crushing them in between your fingers to see which one breaks first? I've held entire tournaments that way. It's a lot of fun, and you get to eat the broken losers.
Amoop15 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like youd love the game bracketeering from jackbox games
supafluffypants · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow that was so much like me as a kid. My parents thought I was so weird for it. That’s interesting you went into tv. I’m planning on going into the statistics or math field.
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/imaginarybrackets/
Zeran · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow. I used to do something very similar. I love tournaments too. Shit, when I was young, I use to race Chevron cars down the hallway and have a bracket system. Whoever got farther down the hallway won. Bo5 and all that too.
DonJovar · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you ever notify the winner so they could collect their well-deserved reward?
peopleater95 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit I thought I was the only one! I used to do this but with video game characters. I still sort of secretly do it.
Subject1337 · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did similar tournament structures with whatever toys I had. The most popular one for me was hot wheels jousts, where I'd hang a track between two tables, then put a hot wheel on either side, and push them down at each other. Whichever one stayed on the track after the collision won. I also did a similar thing with marbles. Beyblades were also huge for me cause I could organize tournaments with my friends and get competitive about it.
Never got so deep into the stat tracking like you, but when someone introduced me to round robins and double elimination formats my world was blown wide open.
shac_melley · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love making brackets too! That was until we made a bracket of all the hottest girls at our high school and Sarah got super pissed at us when she found out she got knocked out in the first round by Madison. Simpler times man.
pletentious_asshore · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You should be an actuary my dude.
IndyDude11 · 4 points · Posted at 18:38:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This keeps coming up in all the little tests I do to find a major. I don’t really know what it is. It’s like tables for insurance and probability and stuff, yeah?
It_is_terrifying · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I also love brackets and shit like that, and was also told to become an actuary at some point. Ended up in electronic engineering though, turns out I love dumbass circuits and shit just as much, and I still get to deal with a shitload of data and statistics.
killersoda · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not the only one, oh my god. I'm not even the biggest college basketball fan, but I will always fill out a March Madness bracket.
Alas-I-Cannot-Swim · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You would love doing CPU Smash Bros. tournaments.
mj_paints · 28722 points · Posted at 15:04:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Elevator" Someone would go into the furnace room, shut the door, and they were in the elevator. The rest of us would rearrange the family room, and bring in different props to demonstrate that we were on a different floor. We changed outfits, accents... we played this for a good year.
disqeau · 6628 points · Posted at 15:34:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is pretty hilarious and very imaginative. I'm reminded of the David S. Pumpkins skit on SNL!
[deleted] · 617 points · Posted at 17:04:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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revelator41 · 51 points · Posted at 20:18:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
100 Floors of Frights.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 20:19:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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revelator41 · 23 points · Posted at 20:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
shh bby is ok
regula_et_vita · 9 points · Posted at 00:30:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
JarlMTG · 1561 points · Posted at 15:51:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"he has a middle initial now? I am SO in the weeds with David pumpkins"!
Shockrider1 · 426 points · Posted at 17:12:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s David S Pumpkins to you!
Ferrocene_swgoh · 346 points · Posted at 17:17:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any questions?
121799Dcmbr · 381 points · Posted at 17:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
YES, SEVERAL!
xxxassassin · 65 points · Posted at 18:01:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beck Bennett is perfect in that skit. I mean him and Kyle are perfect in everything but that skit specifically.
SurpriseDragon · 52 points · Posted at 18:00:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ayyyye papi
disqeau · 20 points · Posted at 19:58:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SMACK
TheCamerasOverThere · 14 points · Posted at 19:49:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WAIT HE HAS A MIDDLE NAME NOW
unholymackerel · 3 points · Posted at 00:08:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
First of all, how dare you?!??!!
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 04:38:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
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121799Dcmbr · 4 points · Posted at 05:05:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a reference to an SNL sketch, calm tf down. We get it, you don’t like all caps. Let people live their lives instead of bashing on them for a certain typecase.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:39:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
NO
bavindicator · 69 points · Posted at 16:54:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's my own thaaang.
SciFiXhi · 84 points · Posted at 17:11:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And the skeletons?
...Are part of it.
rant404 · 24 points · Posted at 17:15:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/rS00xWnqwvI
State_of_Iowa · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blocked in my country :(
Rebornhunter · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You... you poor bastard. Im so sorry
WillBarfee · 69 points · Posted at 17:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m David Pumpkins! And I’m here. To scare the hell. Outta YOU! dancing skeletons Any questions?
ThisIsntFunnyAnymor · 43 points · Posted at 17:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How much David Pumpkins is in this?
WillBarfee · 39 points · Posted at 17:19:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
73/100 floors
remmin777 · 24 points · Posted at 18:39:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow you really went all in on David S Pumpkins
disturbed286 · 14 points · Posted at 20:07:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey look, it's 100 floors of frights, they're not all gonna be winners
TheMcSkyFarling · 39 points · Posted at 17:02:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! Several!
sjwillis · 37 points · Posted at 17:01:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I completely forgot how great that skit was
joombaga · 25 points · Posted at 17:07:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They completely missed what made it funny in the special.
__Ballin · 2 points · Posted at 05:38:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can you explain what exactly makes it so funny? It seems to be hella popular but I get nothing out of it and would like to see other people’s point of view on it to see what I’m missing out on here
Isman29 · 12 points · Posted at 17:01:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
IM DAVID PUMPKINS
Marooned6 · 29 points · Posted at 17:13:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's so random and hilarious. SNL needs to stop doing cheap political humor and invest in humor like that
nascenc3 · 35 points · Posted at 17:23:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At least, like, 73/100 skits.
Tupperwarecares · 8 points · Posted at 23:14:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They’re not all gonna be winners
hiddencountry · 19 points · Posted at 18:34:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Like Diner Lobster!
breakfast-_-t · 16 points · Posted at 19:45:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bodega Bathroom is in a similar vein and was pretty funny.
My favorite from last week had to be What's That Name.
aichudechu · 3 points · Posted at 02:52:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Many of these were skits John Mulaney wrote that were rejected 10 years ago but he held out for them to get filmed.
Zeppelanoid · 10 points · Posted at 19:26:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SNL has been doing "cheap" political humour since 1975
disqeau · 8 points · Posted at 19:59:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And it's practially writing itself these days.
birdy9221 · 7 points · Posted at 20:51:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep now it’s just called “ The News”
MikeFatz · 3 points · Posted at 21:36:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
People always forget about Kevin Roberts
NightSkye0174 · 3 points · Posted at 17:37:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too!
jjackson25 · 2 points · Posted at 02:29:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who the hell is David Pumpkins? Is he like from something?
SirRogers · 2 points · Posted at 05:03:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any questions??
anne-frankenstein · 1 points · Posted at 13:45:53 on March 29, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn, every time I'm reminded of David S. Pumpkin, I get so happy.
And scared. That's a spooky dude.
disqeau · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:55 on March 29, 2019 · (Permalink)
???ANY QUESTIONS????
ButtmanNaNaNaButtman · 1436 points · Posted at 16:35:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you didn't specify "furnace room," I'd think you were my little brother. We played "office building." There were different characters with different roles, costumes, and accents (e.g. an executive who always wore a trench coat for some reason, a janitor, a receptionist, some middle manager with a bad Mexican accent whose signature piece of clothing was an old, misshapen felt hat). Tons of intrigue. People getting framed for workplace theft. Not a lot of actual work.
redbookbluebook · 132 points · Posted at 18:09:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sound way more fun than I ever was! Such drama and detail.
underthere · 30 points · Posted at 18:56:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds like my office!
audio_shinobi · 28 points · Posted at 19:47:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You work at Dunder Mifflin?
srimotat · 3 points · Posted at 00:03:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedoffice
EvanKing · 10 points · Posted at 02:34:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/entirelyexpectedoffice
Manic_Sloth · 3 points · Posted at 20:22:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Which one wears the old felt hat?
benzarella · 7 points · Posted at 00:20:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oscar! He might not have a “bad Mexican accent” but he is Hispanic.
SillyOperator · 16 points · Posted at 20:22:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So basically The Office ported to Nickelodeon
kaenneth · 3 points · Posted at 22:12:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But MUCH BETTER
CatasterousNatterbox · 12 points · Posted at 02:36:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh, my brother and sister and I played a really similar game but we called it “City”, one of us would be like “want to play City” and next thing you know I’m wearing fake nails so I can make tappity noises on the type writer, my sister is enshrined behind the couch ready to tell fortunes, and my brother is inside the hamper looking for clues about the city’s mysterious history. We clearly had no idea what a city was actually like, those were fun days.
SneakyEnema · 3 points · Posted at 00:38:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you my older brother?!?
ButtmanNaNaNaButtman · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe? Did your older brother used to be your older sister?
SneakyEnema · 2 points · Posted at 22:45:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Quite the opposite actually...
ButtmanNaNaNaButtman · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:44 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, then maybe we’re bizarro world versions of each other!
gummybitch2 · 2 points · Posted at 00:31:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So the office?
Bells87 · 978 points · Posted at 15:34:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds adorable and super creative!
actuallyasnowleopard · 58 points · Posted at 16:58:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I also played "elevator" but it wasn't this exciting. We had a box that some play set had come in, and it was about 4 feet tall. My sister would climb on a chair and get in, and I would push it over.
benzarella · 3 points · Posted at 09:39:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I did this with my friend, too! Only we had one of those big blue Fisher Price elephant slides. We flipped it upside down and would rock it back and forth from end to end with someone inside of it, and that was “Elevator”.
I haven’t thought about it in years, so thank you for triggering this memory for me!
lebaneseblonde · 67 points · Posted at 16:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played an "elevator game" too, but it was different. We stayed in high rise condos when we went to the beach, and we'd always take a notebook and marker with us. One person gets on the elevator and picks a random floor to go to, writes the floor in the notebook and leaves it below the elevator buttons and sends it to the original floor. And then switch. I discovered recently that this is not dissimilar to the "Elevator Game" urban legend...
Xarama · 35 points · Posted at 16:47:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So let's say you start on the 5th floor. One of you takes the elevator to 11, writes 11 in the notebook, and sends the elevator + notebook back to 5. The other person goes to 2, writes 2 in the notebook, and sends it where? I feel like I'm missing a step.
PsychicSeaSlug · 24 points · Posted at 17:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After writing 2 they send it back to 11. Then 11 goes to 8 and sends it back to 2. Then 2 goes to 4 and sends it back to 8.
kukukele · 20 points · Posted at 17:40:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I embarrassingly stared at this response for 10+ minutes trying to figure out the pattern / reasoning on how the game worked and you decided which floor to go to next. I finally realized the person on 11 randomly chose to go down to 8.
PsychicSeaSlug · 5 points · Posted at 19:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha! I realize now, if I had read what i wrote posted by a different user I would have done the same thing. Hmm, if 11-8 is 3 and the square root of 4 is 2...no, thats not right. Okay, so 11 is a prime number, and 8 is a multiplier of 2..... no, that doesnt work either.
Probably should have included the phrase "person on 11 chooses a new floor, for example 8". I was just trying to be concise.
Xarama · 4 points · Posted at 17:13:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh! lol thanks, that did not compute for me.
PsychicSeaSlug · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Took me a minute too when i first read it
lebaneseblonde · 3 points · Posted at 21:29:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, you've pretty much got it, I was a little confused thinking back on it too but I think we ended up back together after each time and it would just be the other person's turn to go to a random floor and send the notebook back. Not very complex, but we were easily amused. And holding up the elevator quite a bit
Xarama · 3 points · Posted at 22:47:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
haha yeah, I was wondering what everyone else in the building thought of the kids playing in the elevators ;)
UltraChip · 23 points · Posted at 17:18:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There used to be a GMod mod that was basically this. You and your friends would hop in an elevator and would take you from floor to floor showing you random crazy shit. It was weirdly fun - everyone just hanging out and wondering what kind of nonsense was going to happen the next time the door opened.
CorndogNinja · 5 points · Posted at 19:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elevator: Source! That was fun.
UltraChip · 2 points · Posted at 00:55:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah it was fun. GMod in general was always a great time for us - I miss those days.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that's so cool. I'm going to have to look up GMod because everyone is mentioning it and I'm out of that loop.
UltraChip · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played it all the time when I was college-aged: my friends and I would spend all night on a server together just hanging out and building crazy shit. I checked it out recently and it's definitely showing its age, but it's still worth checking out if for no other reason than seeing what the state of sandbox games looked like 15ish years ago.
Recommended mods: Wiremod (lets you create electronic circuits to control your creations), spacebuild3 (mainly to add arcade-style spaceflight mechanics to the game but has the added benefit of adding life support requirements whenever you go underwater), and Advanced Duplicator (lets you save/reload objects you create)
That's assuming of course you want to play Sandbox... I'm afraid I don't really know much about the other game modes
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks for all that Info. I’m not a gamer on any level, unless you count some wii tennis, or some Ms. Pac-Man from back in the day.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think it's on roblox, been a long time since i've played it though
UltraChip · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've never played roblox
DameUnPocoDeGuap · 19 points · Posted at 15:41:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is really cute.
Kulfyr3 · 18 points · Posted at 16:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What's a furnace room? I assume the family room is the living room?
Vismungcg · 18 points · Posted at 17:14:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The room where the furnace is, usually in a basement. Sometimes it doubles as a laundry room, sometimes it's just a little closer with the furnace in it.
Omegatron9 · 12 points · Posted at 17:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think furnace in this context is the American name for a boiler.
Mkitty760 · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are correct, sir/madam!
Blippitybloppitypoo · 3 points · Posted at 22:12:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s an empty lot at 27th and Girard. Do attend.
/r/FurnaceParty
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
like a little closet with the heater for the house in it. Also had the water heater too. and the family room wasn't a proper living room, that was up stairs. this was more like a downstairs finished basement for the kids.
Bus534 · 9 points · Posted at 17:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to do this! Except we would use my moms sliding closet door, and we would make paper elevator buttons and tape them to the wall next to the door. Fun times.
__juniper · 6 points · Posted at 17:32:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like it would make a good improv game!!
jrknightmare · 5 points · Posted at 21:48:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was just thinking the same thing and now I want to bring it up to my acting buddies!
Disera · 8 points · Posted at 18:26:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called Elevator with my cousins but it was a little different. The bed was an elevator and we'd all get on it, pretending to be strangers. Then the Elevator would break and we'd be stuck. Somehow that led to us trying to save each other from falling down the elevator shaft (off the bed) into Hell.
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's pretty cool too, easy way to get kids to stay in one place!
BlakeDeadly · 2 points · Posted at 04:13:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And get them scared of Hell!
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 12:03:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That made me laugh.
garlandtograce · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played a similar game when we were young on my Mom’s childhood trundle bed at her parent’s house
TerminalReddit · 7 points · Posted at 22:08:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
you guys are overestimating the work they put into this, for most rounds it was probably like turning a chair around and bringing in a lamp and then talking in a british accent saying "welcome to the chair lamp room guvna"
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 22:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sometimes yes, but sometimes it took foreeeever. but it was worth it. felt magical.
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mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 22:09:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
wouldn't that be something!
i_suckatjavascript · 5 points · Posted at 17:18:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh shit I got sudden flashback of doing this as a kid too. Thanks for bringing up my memories.
cnprof · 4 points · Posted at 17:20:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curious: did any of you get into the business of making or assembling movie sets?
mj_paints · 3 points · Posted at 22:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
no, but I do backdrops and sets once in awhile for some local middle/elementary schools
OnePieceTwoPiece · 6 points · Posted at 17:55:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Changed outfits and accents”
That’s not just an elevator!
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess that's accurate.
yonghokim · 6 points · Posted at 22:52:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huh, we did this, but instead of elevator it was "time machine".
DiabolicalBird · 3 points · Posted at 17:23:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That reminds me of the game my brother and I would play. His closet was our spaceship and each time we opened the door we were on a different planet. Wasn't as elaborate as yours but wow you brought back memories
Jfonzy · 4 points · Posted at 17:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“One day, it was little Jimmy’s turn to go in the furnace room...”
(Cut to scene of Jimmy coming out of the furnace room to reveal an extraordinary fantasy world)
wolfs5529 · 5 points · Posted at 18:09:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I could see this being a game kids would play in a horror movie
wolfs5529 · 4 points · Posted at 18:10:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I could see this being a game kids would play in a horror movie
spinach4 · 4 points · Posted at 19:09:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a game my sister and I played where we'd shut ourselves in a tiny broom closet and tapped on a piece of paper with a keypad drawn on it to designate which year the closet would time travel to. Then we got out of the closet and would be in the year xxxx version of our house
surreptitious_musing · 3 points · Posted at 19:18:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a strong urge to try this, despite being 28...
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 22:03:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm 47... not saying I don't still play.
surreptitious_musing · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
😂😂😂
hoe4honeymustard · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
THIS is amazing
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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ElongatedTaint · 5 points · Posted at 17:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Good old elevator source
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
no, I have to research that. it sounds awesome though.
echotrain · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is amazingly clever, unfortunately I could totally see parents not being cool with it. Did you ever get in trouble for moving around the furniture?
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we lucked out, because it was the basement family room. Pretty much I was at my friend's house, she had 5 brother's and sisters, we would be left to ourselves, because we were little. Didn't even think about the repercussions, never got in trouble.
Soul1traveler · 3 points · Posted at 19:07:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god my sister and I did this! But it was the bedroom closet and I was "traveling to a parallel universe" and she would rearrange the room and swap clothes😂
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 22:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love that.
defragnz · 3 points · Posted at 19:16:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When can I come out of the elevator?, it's dark in here
2 weeks, we're renovating and painting the family room.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It honestly felt that way, sometimes.
AdamAllenthePerson · 3 points · Posted at 19:43:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
An entire year of non stop elevator? When did you go to school?
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 22:04:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
well, hmmm. Hyperbole?
open-aperture96 · 3 points · Posted at 20:00:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m an adult and I wanna play that game now. :D
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
do it!!
1-1-19MemeBrigade · 3 points · Posted at 21:09:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I turned some couches and a blanket fort into our own little village, with each person having a "house." Sometimes we'd send out hunting parties to raid the pantry for deserts, or bring back more building materials (blankets/pillows).
T'was a good time.
HonestlyCrum · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a great year!
fatdjsin · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is cool :)
naorlar · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I like this game. Going to pitch it to my nieces and nephews next time I visit.
A-IAH-HDE-CDF0 · 3 points · Posted at 21:28:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
An actual elevator pitch.
sir_winkyy · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s actually really cool! I wanna try that with my kids now haha
JTrain6319 · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like elevator source hahaha
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that seems to be the case.
aedroogo · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is fun to do with old people.
Sounique12 · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WE DID THE SAME THING
Vid-Master · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is honestly amazing and extremely creative!!
ryanwalraven · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was your childhood a Wes Anderson Movie? “The Bellhops of Maple Street 1133” perhaps?
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
noooo
Hurray_for_Candy · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm going to play this tonight when I get home!
Pattern_Is_Movement · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this!
kimchiibop · 2 points · Posted at 18:28:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors used to play this and invited me over a few times to join in. It blew my mind the first time I came out of the elevator cause I didn't know what they were up to.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
what did it look like?
kimchiibop · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:46 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a really little kid so I had genuinely thought I was in a whole different room.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:47 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s so magical, isn’t it?
kimchiibop · 2 points · Posted at 20:26:40 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pure magic.
velocirants · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't see the word "room" in "furnace room", so I just imagined a bunch of kids locking someone in a furnace and putting a sofa in front of it so they couldn't escape
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 22:01:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh gosh, that made me laugh! And then I was really happy my friends weren't mean.
BlakeDeadly · 2 points · Posted at 04:14:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shadrach, Meshach, and Joe.
Quillboy14 · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude I'm gonna tell my drama teacher to start using that as a warm-up game. It's honestly brilliant
mcnicfer · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is so cute! I think I want to do that with my kids tonight.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
so fun! this elevator goes to the theater!!
Fruitier_Loops · 2 points · Posted at 19:11:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's fucking awesome!
anotherdude17 · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is so fun lol. Makes me think of that Cosby Show episode where Theo lived in "the real world."
atharluna · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds super fun! :D
BabE_Corn · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is one long elevator ride
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar!! We called it the time machine. One of us would go in the bedroom closet and the others would “press buttons” on the outside of the closet door. Then the person would come out and we’d pretend it was whatever year we imagined
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love that so many different kids had wildly similar ideas. the imagination is such a great playspace.
Wajina_Sloth · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the Garysmod gamemod where all you do is sit in an elevator with others and the door randomly opens and you see the wackiest shit in the rooms.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm assuming this is the Gmod thing everyone is talking about. where do I find that?
Wajina_Sloth · 3 points · Posted at 22:31:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On steam theres a game Called Gary's mod, its like 10$ but goes on sale all the time, its basically a game where everyone makes their own games and hosts servers.
There are popular games like Trouble in Terrorist town, where everyone is a terrorist and there are a few traitors, the traitors goal is to kill everyone before the time runs out and the terrorist want to survive. There is also DarkRP which is basically a roleplaying game where everyone picks a job and runs their own shops but most jobs are illegal stuff like gun dealer, drug dealer, etc.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And Steam is?
Wajina_Sloth · 2 points · Posted at 22:54:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Largest online computer gaming store thing.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks. I’m not much of a gamer. Obviously.
LallaRookh · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is really cool!
friggindoge · 2 points · Posted at 23:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like improv practice
re_nonsequiturs · 2 points · Posted at 00:08:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this with a bunch of cousins at my grandparents house one year. No props though, just talking about what we were seeing on the "new floor".
purrincess_ · 4 points · Posted at 17:38:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played something similar to this. We didn’t go as far as to rearranging any furniture or anything, but we tied a small whiteboard around our neck (hanging off your neck- I honestly don’t know why we had these, but they were similar to the little mini ones your teacher would pass out in math class for group activities) and we would go into the “elevator” which was our small guest bathroom, write the number of the ‘floor’ we were on, and essentially play a game of tag. Someone couldn’t tag you unless you were on the same floor.
Dream-Baby-Dream · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What happened on the bad year
SirQwacksAlot · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy cow that must have been an expensive prize
flippingwilson · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What a cool creative and wonderful. I came here to extoll the virtues of Ball Door. I'm just gonna creep away defeated.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
if you have fun with your game, it's cool. You can play mine too! it's all good.
flippingwilson · 2 points · Posted at 23:22:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok, you make a ball out out of old plastic grocery bags. One guy stand in the doorway. They other guy gets the ball and tries to score on your door. You try to stop him. Games last about a minute.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Epic game. If you don’t play this as a child, we’re you even one? Still love pantomiming this with the HusMan.
flippingwilson · 2 points · Posted at 01:18:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was in college. Full contact, fuelled by alcohol and weed.
We played much more interesting games as children.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
College was all sorts of fun. If you enjoyed yourself why not?
GazelleTrapQueen · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did your friends go on to invent Gmod Elevator?
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't even know what that is. So, probably not.
cauliflowergnosis · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like that Marx Bros. skit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Bsl1Q4Iog
SleeplessShitposter · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I need to know more.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
French, British, Southern, Australian, and none of them good
Sesert_redneck · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was just your parents way of getting you to help rearrange the furniture.
mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Except our parents were not part of it. And we always put it back.
GhostScruffy · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
TIL that I was a boring ass kid with no imagination
mj_paints · 2 points · Posted at 00:49:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t have tv if that helps.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
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mj_paints · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, but religious.
Ramen8ion · 23437 points · Posted at 14:48:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I were convinced that his neighbour’s house has diamonds in the garden. We found a bunch of shiny diamond shaped things in their yard scattered in random places.
We used to dig up the dirt hoping no one would notice to find more of these diamonds. I think we found 10 and we split them in half. We would come back again and again looking for them.
We made a promise not to tell any other kids or our parents about them.
One day my mom found one of my ‘diamonds’ in the pocket of my trousers and asked me if she should throw it. I was shocked!!! Why would she throw away an expensive diamond??
Turns out, they were glass teardrop pieces of an old chandelier they threw away. I was so disappointed because we even planned to buy a Lamborghini with the money.
RudePrize · 3331 points · Posted at 16:15:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a "diamond" story.
As a kid, I found a diamond in the cellar. It was tiny--like the size of a gem you'd see on a ring or earring. I was excited and thought about it for a while before showing it to my parents. They told me it was just a bit of old costume jewelry or something, but I already had ideas in my idea. The diamond was going to make me rich!
To prove to them it was a diamond, the hardest substance on earth, I took it to the garage and hit it with a hammer. Whether it was a real diamond or not, the hammer disintegrated the thing. There was like no trace of it left after the strike.
TransChess · 2498 points · Posted at 16:35:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I know you were just a kid and you probably know this now, but if anyone else is curious - hardest in this sense doesn't mean impossible to break with blunt force. It means almost nothing can scratch its surface except materials with a higher level of hardness (which there aren't many, diamond is practically the top of the scale)
BlueEyedNerdGirl · 1407 points · Posted at 16:44:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks! I don't know much about diamonds at all so I was like "Yup, hammer logic checks out."
Zingaaa · 286 points · Posted at 16:56:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
But it’s still pretty hard to break a diamond with a hammer
Edit: attempt at 2:25
Tech2CPA · 26 points · Posted at 19:12:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
works with a hydraulic press too.
diamonds are forever.
https://youtu.be/fkPPkDwH9NA
nightspine · 6 points · Posted at 22:49:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bigger diamond broke through
Starflyt · 11 points · Posted at 23:06:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Part of me thinks it was because it's upside down. Also is speculation that the bigger diamond was fake.
NorahKing · 3 points · Posted at 00:03:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think part of that is because diamonds are already formed under extreme pressure from carbon, so the bonds are probably extremely strong. I don’t watch the vid but if it’s a flat cut without a point it would be like trying to crush an egg by only using a finger on each point, which is almost impossible.
BrightOppossum · 22 points · Posted at 20:23:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
theres specific angles that they shear very easily at. When setting a dimond into ring you have to be really carful not to pop the tool that flattens the prongs onto the diamond. I broke a couple when i was working as a jewler.
VaATC · 29 points · Posted at 17:02:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In case I did not miss it being mentioned I want to add a bit more. The term used for labeling resistantance to breakage is toughness.
LiteralPhilosopher · 11 points · Posted at 17:13:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mmmm ... I've always heard toughness defined as the ability to absorb energy. Resistance to breakage is closer to strength. Of course, applying either by way of impact changes things, so it's not likely to be something that can be defined in a couple words.
PTRWP · 14 points · Posted at 17:36:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Specifically, resistance to being hit with a hammer would be part of compressive strength.
Coiltoilandtrouble · 5 points · Posted at 17:50:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I found a nice forum discussion on this. From their discussion and others toughness is a resistance to breaking through energy absorption, but strength is the more generally applicable term for resistance to breakage.
globefish23 · 22 points · Posted at 17:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't incinerate your diamonds. They'll burn just like the lump of carbon they are.
Can happen to goldsmith newbies with their soldering irons, not properly cooling the metal, or accidentally touching the diamond.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 17:35:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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globefish23 · 15 points · Posted at 17:38:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Gold has a melting point of 1064°C, so obviously they need temperatures that high. Not your average electronics tin solder.
They call it 'soldering' in jewelery, not welding. At least in German.
Edit: Plenty of YouTube videos show that they are indeed using blowtorches with blue flames.
Aycoth · 2 points · Posted at 18:12:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But you dont use gold solder, you would just melt the ring if the iron was that hot
globefish23 · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apparently not: https://youtu.be/QPO-_mWjiVE
GreyICE34 · 0 points · Posted at 02:37:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What.
No, diamond has one of the highest melting points known to man. If your soldering iron isn't a puddle of liquid metal at the end, the diamond is fine. Unless you take an acetylene torch and just open up on that puppy until its floating in a bath of liquid iron, it's perfectly fine. And unless you plan on spraying oxygen on it for some reason (why?) you're not going to ignite it.
Bob_The_Avenger · 4 points · Posted at 17:17:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Upvote for "Hammer Logic"
Tack22 · 3 points · Posted at 19:03:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Best test is to try and scratch your initials into the head of the hammer.
If it scratches everything else in the world- that there is a diamond.
Grg-SK · 5 points · Posted at 17:12:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I only know this from Minecraft.
ilikeeatingbrains · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That game is full of creeps
Burgdorf · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Itd be funny if it was a real diamond and you just blasted it with your science experiment.
Turtley13 · 26 points · Posted at 16:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So he just destroyed his real diamond?
lightningbadger · 25 points · Posted at 16:56:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nah the diamond would only break along the stress lines if it were real, not shatter like glass
nolaexpat · 9 points · Posted at 18:25:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the pipe I brought back for my brother and his gf (at the time) from Amsterdam. It didn’t break if you dropped it (demonstrated to me by the salesman, who pried my hand open, finger by finger, until it dropped).
Apparently the gf wanted to prove to her friends that it was indestructible, so she took a hammer to it, and—you guessed it—destroyed the thing.
VaATC · 6 points · Posted at 17:00:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes. What diamonds have in hardness they lack in toughness; another major property that gem usage is dependent on.
mostdefinitelyinsane · 7 points · Posted at 17:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So it's possible he fucking obliterated a real diamond?
55greyant · 5 points · Posted at 17:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Diamonds (and most crystalline structures) have these things called cleavages which is the plane where it’s really easy to cut and break it. So in theory, if you hit it right, you could easily real a diamond
jokerkat · 5 points · Posted at 18:24:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, diamonds are hella brittle. The way to test if it's real or not is to try and scratch glass with it, or try to leave a scratch on it. If it's a real diamond, it can scratch glass, but cannot be scratched itself by most everyday metals and substances.
iconoclastic_idiot · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sayin rudeprize could have found a diamond as a kid and smashed it with a hammer?
IAmA_TheOneWhoKnocks · 3 points · Posted at 20:26:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve had to explain to many kids that real-life Minecraft diamond armor would probably just shatter like glass. It’s a damn shame too because I’d also love to have real-life Minecraft diamond armor.
chuiy · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you're saying there was a chance.
hereforcat · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I recently learned that in order to cut and shape gemstones, diamond burr sanding wheels are used (tiny pieces of diamond stuck to a sander). In order to shape diamonds into rings and stuff, though, jewelers have to use a different process because diamond burr doesn’t work on diamond. It blew my mind.
arisasam · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not practically, diamond is THE hardest material to date.
KiddisThyName · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/til
Adubyale · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Except*
Maracuja_Sagrado · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well but would it break with a hammer hit?
xyzzzzy · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I found a “diamond” and tried to scratch our big glass French door with it. I succeeded and no one was very happy about that. Based on your explanation it sounds like my “experiment” proved nothing.
CooperRAGE · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hardness often includes brittleness, unless certain treatments are used
GreyICE34 · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean despite them being breakable and all, if it shattered to dust with a single blow from a kid, it was almost certainly glass of some flavor. Diamond is fairly robust, although I have made that exact point before.
Jasole37 · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn you Moh! Damn you to hell!
smallstampyfeet · 0 points · Posted at 19:42:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Diamond is a 10 on the scale, 10 being the highest. But there is a newish material that's basically diamond but better. It's just produced in the same way, lots of pressure and heat, but with some variance that makes it's structure harder. Diamond Nano Rods or something
AmbitiousTrader · 28 points · Posted at 16:53:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“This diamond was going to make me rich!”
Cute kid. Diamonds resell values are horrendous. Like, 90% of the value is from what jewelry store you buy it in. A small diamond half carat is only worth $50 at a pawn shop
LegalAdviceLurker88 · 16 points · Posted at 17:54:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child of the 90's, $50 would have made me feel rich
lordtuts · 4 points · Posted at 18:48:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, even having multiple smaller diamonds that add up to a large carat won't get you anywhere near as much as a single stone of the same carat weight. Single diamonds are only really valuable if they are large.
RegretDesi · 4 points · Posted at 20:44:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks DeBeers!
Helios575 · 6 points · Posted at 17:47:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sadly diamonds tend to shatter when struck by hammers. Diamond sparkle because they have lots of cleavage planes so they can be cut in such ways that do fun things with light but that also makes them extremely vulnerable to breaking which great when you are a diamond cutter using a tool which puts the force on a single cleavage plane but bad news when you are a kid with a hammer thinking diamonds are unbreakable (though the resulting dust may still have some value)
osiris775 · 7 points · Posted at 18:37:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around 10 or 11, some kids dad brought coal to school as a show and tell item. At the end of the presentation we were each given a piece as a gift. I went home and buried mine in the back yard, cuz, well, in a few years I'm going to have a diamond and be rich.
tangled_night_sleep · 14 points · Posted at 16:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lol'd so abruptly and awkwardly that I startled both cats.
Shitty about your diamond!
GaryV83_at_Work · 6 points · Posted at 17:31:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like Xzibit got ahold of your ideas at some point.
nineball22 · 5 points · Posted at 18:47:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My diamonds were quarters. I though when a quarter said "quarter of a dollar" it meant like "quarter having the value of a dollar" not "1/4 of a dollar"
So over the whole summer I, a 6 year old kid, had been bugging my 18 year old sister to take me to toysrus because I wanted to buy some giant robot or something. I told her I had the money cause I had been finding quarter dollars all summer. So we get to the register and the cashier looks at us like were idiots and my sister was pissed. She ended up buying me the giant robot anyways but she was pissed.
python_hunter · 4 points · Posted at 17:23:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
still could've been a diamond, what a shame!
whyDidISignUp · 3 points · Posted at 18:06:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Been there
TerrestrialBird · 3 points · Posted at 19:07:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife and I considered selling a one karat diamond that her aunt gave us. We planned on buying a nice engagement ring with the monday. We took it to a couple of places and they all offered us next to nothing for it. We only considered selling it is because my wife is very petite and she thought a one karat diamond would look weird on her hand(I ended up using it for an engagement ring and it turned out beautifully!) It has a black inclusion in it and it's only obvious when you get really close to look at it. As it turns out, gold is worth much more to a jeweller than diamonds.
Keep your diamonds and sell them privately. You and the buyer will come out on top!
Jeeeeeb · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once found something like that at the beach. My stupid kid self dropped it in the car
HLCRHLCR · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If it makes you feel any better, that could've been a real diamond.
NeedsMoreTuba · 2 points · Posted at 19:36:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I found a piece of fool's gold and bit into it to see if it was real gold because that's what cartoon miners do before declaring they're rich. I broke my front tooth, so I assumed that meant it was real. I didn't know it was the opposite.
melonlollicholypop · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this bit where you still cling to your inner-child's understanding of things.
PMME_ROOMESCAPEGAMES · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I D E A C E P T I O N
Fgame · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sure it wasn't a ruby?
You sure you're not a rat?
Empathadaa · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At least you were doing an experiment to test your hypothesis that it was a diamond! That puts you ahead of many kids (and most adults).
onehourworkweek · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Showed them!
feesih0ps · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Possibly it just flew off too fast for you to see?
Blinkle · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did that when my little brother claimed that he'd found a diamond. I crushed it. I feel bad now.
Adobows · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a "diamond" story too!
There was a creepy old house at the end of our street. No one lived in it for several years, that I was aware of. Finally, a family moved in, a mother and twins, boy and girl. They were a year or two younger than me, so probably like 6 or 7.
My neighborhood friends and I were convinced they were ghosts. Super pasty, we never saw them eat, ever, and creepy in general to match their new home. Anyway, there were these two concrete pillars that were on either side of the driveway, right near the road. After the family was settled, they eventually replaced the old concrete statues (lions, I think) on top of the pillars with angels. Added to their overall creepiness... But I digress.
One day, we noticed that if angled correctly, the angels' eyes would glisten! So we got a closer look, and sure as shit, there were these little diamonds in the eye sockets. My buddy was just tall enough to reach them, so he plucked out all four of the diamonds and we giggled all the way home. Come to find, the diamonds fit perfectly in Lego hands, so we chalked that as a win.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Has it occurred to you that maybe it shot out from under the hammer and that’s why there was no trace of it? It’s still out there!!!! Go get it!!!!!
LieutenantSteel · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Diamonds are hard but not sturdy. They won’t scratch, but shatter really easily.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well see there's where you went wrong, see. You shudda taken it to your pals, Fatso and Boots so's they could eyeball it and say it's a rare gem and worth millions, see, and they know a guy who'll take it off your hands...
That was me and my little game....watching way too many gangster movies as a kid. I found a beautiful costume piece all colorful and sparkling that I just knew had rubies, sapphires, jade, emeralds, diamonds...it was worth millions. Somewhere in all that revelation I decided there had to be more where that came from. So I became an international jewel thief and skulked around the house like the mad spy...when my mom was busy, I'd slip into her room and go through her jewelry box to find more. Found some.
But the payoff was my aunt - which is where it'd come from (she let my mom borrow it). And even cooler, my aunt had these handbags that were popular for a spell - with all these jewels/gems sewn into them in beautiful, ornate shapes, animals, birds, etc. She had about 10 of them until I, international jewel thief, liberated them from her.
I got in a world of shit over it...because it was apparently just stealing and they were all upset. But in my fantasy world, I was honing my craft and getting good at snooping out, tracking down and heisting valuable gems. They wuz not amuzed. Whatsoeva. My aunt eventually gave me or bought me one of those handbags and I cherished it for years til it just fell apart and I threw it out.
I would love to find those again. They filled me with such happiness.
Halorym · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Heh... I was a sad kid, always staring at the ground. I also went to a school full of cholos that liked to fight. This meant they'd frequently break the studs in their left ears and I'd end up finding them. Still have a little bag of gems, one of which was a huge cubic zirconium chunk that was appraised at around $380.
Emebust · 4859 points · Posted at 15:55:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Bummer.
Edit: Thanks you for my first silver!
And my first gold, thank you kind strangers!
[deleted] · 6141 points · Posted at 17:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Pm-ur-butt · 484 points · Posted at 17:42:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But she said she bought it by recycling her wine bottles.
FearTheDice · 45 points · Posted at 17:55:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bigger bummer
BrotherChe · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks, O'bummer!
Brohammer_CPQ · 1 points · Posted at 10:24:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bigger drinker (that would be a lot of wine bottles to trade up for a Lambo)
SodaFixer · 13 points · Posted at 17:54:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
DAY BOW BOW
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 18:31:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 18:44:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WHO IS PEPE SILVIA?!
BigDub63 · 6 points · Posted at 19:13:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Damn kids! I had been working the Johnson’s for years!”
Csoltis · 4 points · Posted at 18:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
dat bitcoin money
even Momcoin rolls lambos
Zenpie_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Next up on r/Confessions...
johnnydonovan17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Especially when “Mom” coincidentally pulled up in her new Lambo the next day.
TheWorldConqueror · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ftfy
toastingz · 37 points · Posted at 16:30:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hummer actually.
1CEninja · 10 points · Posted at 17:13:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No no, he said Lambo. I feel like you're gonna have a hard time getting more opposite from a Lambo than a Hummer.
GameCubeLube · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What about an Obmal?
ncnotebook · 8 points · Posted at 17:01:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Summer really
SpartanMartian · 24 points · Posted at 16:46:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But I hardly know 'er
RoyceCoolidge · 8 points · Posted at 17:00:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
boom
MakeTheSaharaWet · 8 points · Posted at 16:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No Bimmer tho
Drunken_Know_Things · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
*Beemer.
felonius_thunk · 42 points · Posted at 16:10:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had what I assume is a similar style of chandelier growing up. Those dangly bits of glass wound up in more than one sack of pirate booty for sure. Or as buried treasure, which my mom was obviously thrilled about.
sagacious_1 · 40 points · Posted at 16:34:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
More like your mom lied to steal back some precious garden diamonds.
Nathd1991 · 13 points · Posted at 16:55:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
She bought a new Lamborghini coincidentally, a few days after she claimed she 'threw them away'
Ca_LuhA · 18 points · Posted at 16:38:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It reminds me of a time when me and a friend found a rock not far from my friend's house that we for some reason wanted to smash to pieces. So we go to his place, grab a big hammer, and go back. Now, my friend is in a wheelchair, so he couldn't really help with the smashing, so I set to work. Smashing this rock to pieces was not an easy task. After having made a couple of scratches on it, we are more determined than ever to break this rock. Then my friend says: "What if when we break it, a big ass diamond falls out of it?". I answer: "Wow, we would be rich!" To which he says: "Well, I will. I mean, I found the rock, we're using my tools. You'll get a cut of course, but...you know."
My determination to smash the rock was gone. We didn't argue about it or even got mad at each other about this. We just did something else instead. But remembering it now, I see that he definitely was a bit of a douche. On the other hand, we were like 11 years old.
cheesymoonshadow · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the ending of No Country for Old Men.
Avalonians · 10 points · Posted at 16:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imagine if we dumb kid found something really precious and pricey we would store it in pockets smh
cuntycunterino · 18 points · Posted at 16:12:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol. I definitely remember quite a few instances of thinking “I’m rich!” In my childhood. So disappointing every time.
AngryLurkerDude · 8 points · Posted at 16:29:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me a little house on the praire episode. The girls skip school and tore down their front door so that they could find a bunch of Fool's Gold. Island where they had fantasies of giant houses.
deckpumps_n_deldos · 6 points · Posted at 16:24:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember thinking chandeliers were made from diamonds.... so disappointed when I found out they were worthless
kudles · 7 points · Posted at 16:41:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of something my cousins and me found in my neighborhood. It was a huge, knapsack-like bag of blue crystals. We dug our hands through it and poured it into bowls. We thought we were rich until we found out it was just a bag of copper sulfate for cleaning the lake.
Dmongo · 6 points · Posted at 16:58:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I once dug a hole in our yard and started seeing pieces of bones along with a interesting looking skull. We were convinced that we had found ancient dinosaur bones and would make millions by selling them. Turns out our dig site happen to the be same place we buried one of our dogs a few years back....
Reacher-Said-Nothing · 6 points · Posted at 17:11:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad told me the other day that he and his cousin used to try and catch lizards in their florida backyard, by making a lasso out of a blade of grass, holding it, and pulling on it when a lizard foot stepped in it.
Despite never actually catching a lizard, my dad seriously believed this was possible until he was about 50, when I met his cousin, told him the story, and the cousin promptly informed both of us that "Oh I was just fuckin with ya man, you can't catch a lizard with a piece of grass!"
cheesymoonshadow · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a cousin that messed with my head when I was a kid. We believed our grandma's house was haunted. She said the color red is connected to the spirit world and if I touched something red, I would see things. Crazy thing is one time I actually saw something. It was a ball of light about 6 inches in diameter floating about 4 feet off the floor. That's the power of suggestion for you. I was maybe 6 years old.
wreckedcarzz · 5 points · Posted at 16:37:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I WOKE UP IN A NEW... disappointment?
catastic5 · 4 points · Posted at 16:34:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds 100%like something I would have done as a kid
3xTheSchwarm · 4 points · Posted at 16:50:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sucks. As a kid in the 80s I planned to retire early by selling off my California Raisins toy collection as an adult. Turns out I had vastly overrated their future value.
stephenvdz · 3 points · Posted at 17:06:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
More importantly why did they throw the chandelier all across their backyard ?
Luzifire · 3 points · Posted at 16:33:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
reality is often disappointing
mudslideme · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My FIL does this with my daughters except he uses the little glass dome pieces that some people put in vases. The older two have figured out his scheme but are going along with it for the youngest’s sake.
I think my oldest is just going along with Santa and the Easter bunny too, but I can’t exactly call her out on it.
QueenCole · 3 points · Posted at 16:57:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of the time me and my brother dug a huge hole in our backyard because we thought we'd get rich selling the clay under the top soil to art studios and the like. We were filthy. Mom made us bathe outside.
ChrisAldrin · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you me? This exact same thing happened to me! Down to my mum finding pieces of 'diamond' in my pockets.
cheesymoonshadow · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Those diamond things were artifacts of a space-time anomaly. Your timeline split on that day. I wonder which of you has the better life.
fifro · 3 points · Posted at 17:07:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My diamond turned out to be rock candy dropped on the boardwalk. Didn't know diamonds weren't supposed to be sticky.
westartedafire · 3 points · Posted at 17:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in second grade, someone was spray painting rocks gold and hiding them. They ranged from the size of quarters to pineapple sized. Only a few kids knew about it at first, but I randomly found a small one and thought I struck it rich.
That ended when two kids got in a fight over one of the bigger ones and one cracked the other over the head with it. Poor kid was a wreck when he leaned he hurt his friend over a dumb rock.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:36:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought they were going to turn out to be pieces of crystal meth or something. What a relief.
AlterEgoCat · 3 points · Posted at 17:51:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of my "diamond" story. I was probably about 6, and my parents decided it would be a good idea to go for a walk on the trail since it was such a nice day. When we got to the trail, we all piled out of the van and started our walk. I was holding my dads hand when I saw a shiny "rock", further up the trail that I absolutely NEEDED to have. I let go of my dads hand and ran over to the "rock", which was in a nice little pile of "mud", and grabbed at it. It got pushed a little deeper into the "mud" so I had to dig for it. As my dad caught up, it became more and more clear to him what I was playing in. Before he could say or do anything I managed to free the shiny rock from the pile of "mud". I ran over to mom and dad to show them my find and to my dismay they weren't very happy. It turns out the "mud pile" was actually dog poop, and the "shiny rock" was nothing more than something that the dog didn't digest. Well at least I had my gloves on.
TLDR: Played in dog poop to find a "rock".
Tapil · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just felt that pain
ElChoppa · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck, me too. Except I just found some laying around the house indee couches or something
YuviBlue · 2 points · Posted at 16:48:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Last summer I worked at a summer camp and I had two Chinese campers. They would dig up some white rocks claiming that they were quartz and that in China they're worth a lot of money, they even put some of them in their suitcases so they could take them back to China.
LeftLeftRightRight · 2 points · Posted at 16:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
jackdh · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So dodge ball but you come back in?
GenericUname · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You just need to search someone's garden for pieces of an old Lamborghini chandelier they threw away.
MoeFuka · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we had gravel in our yard there was a few bits of quartz and we thought they were diamonds. Some rocks were even partially changed into quartz
cytPandora · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This happened to me, but I found out that was just some kind of medicine to my coco, which was dying.
BitsAndBobs304 · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
May I interest you in some expensive bitcoin with which you can get your Lambos?
7h3_70m1n470r · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This isn't unique, this is Minecraft
StormTrooperQ · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anything to get the lambo money.
BillyPotion · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade school there was 'fools gold' in the dirt on the baseball diamond. You'd always see at least a few kids prospecting for gold at recess.
theJAYmaniskraykray · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wrecked my bike going off of a dirt ramp in my neighbor’s front yard. The tip of the ramp crumbled a bit and it was filled with pennies just under all of this dirt above ground. My sister and I must have carried $15 worth of pennies home before the teenager who built the ramp came outside and yelled at us. Still have no idea where all the pennies came from.
agroba4 · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Although ... maybe they where diamonds and mom just took them
Gatecrasher26 · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Theres no part of this story I don't love. Especially the "promise not to tell other kids" haha. Very well told!
bravestbug · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One man's trash
OnePieceTwoPiece · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So when at school did you have an extra step in your walk for feeling “rich”? Lol
madgerose · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg one time we were digging around in my backyard and we found a couple of coins. We were convinced there was buried treasure down there. At one point we had all four of us siblings and two neighborhood kids digging a hole in the back yard. Pretty soon we found lots of coins. Turns out my dad was dumping his loose change in our hole because he found it hilarious we were labouring away digging a hole all day for like a week. My mom was not pleased lol
Harbetzerg · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You deserve my Silver Award. Thanks for the great laugh! 😂👊
Ramen8ion · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks!
CogitoErgoScum · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE LAMBOS!!
Trippid · 2 points · Posted at 18:56:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh you just reminded me of a time when I was probably 11 when a friend and I were walking through a farmer's field that hadn't been sown yet (so it was just dirt). We were just sort of kicking small rocks and such and then I noticed something glinting in the dirt. We dug it up and it was this little box, I'd say about 3 inches across and it was very sturdy; I think it was made of metal? Either way it must have been driven over with a tractor at some point because it had been partially crushed out of shape, which meant we couldn't get the lid off, but there was a little gap that let us see inside, and there was something glimmering in there.
We were so excited about our find and made the decision that I could keep the box (it was a very shiny so 11 year old me was stoked) and she could keep whatever was inside. We decided not to tell anyone about it because we didn't want it taken away, but we had to come up with a way to open it. So we buried it again and set a rock on top of the spot where we left it and rushed back to my house to get a shovel to see if we could pry it open. When we got back to the field we immediately realized our mistake because that field was covered in rocks, and even knowing the general area that we had buried it in we never found it again.
Every time I remember that story it drives me crazy wondering what on earth we found and why it was in that field. There have been times I've debated going back to look but it's been over a decade and I imagine with how close to the surface we buried it it would have been destroyed by a tractor by now.
littlebugaboo12 · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of when my dad wanted to get the kids put of his hair that he called "treasure hunting" . He'd go to the sandbox (or to where we were playing in the sand at the beach) and throw a handful of loose change in and then get a take and mix it in. I tell ya, kids would work from dusk Till Dawn to get every penny out of that sand without a peep.
thefilthythrowaway1 · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I seriously read this whole post expecting it to be little pieces of meth and when I read your mom found one in your pocket I was like "oh God, oh no."
Leaislala · 2 points · Posted at 23:42:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha I LOVE the Lamborghini part! I'm so sad for y'all that you didn't get to buy one.
sher_lurker221b · 2 points · Posted at 01:06:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I hide a tear drop glass crystal in a girls yard that I had a crush on. Then I gave her a note/map at school- think pirate map but written in blue pen. We were in 4th grade. She never talked to me again. :-( I took the crystal from my grandfather's electrical fixture inventory- he was an back in the day-electrician. little girls name was Lisa Dunaway. She moved away and I've never seen her again.
Knightperson · 3 points · Posted at 16:29:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man but having that little kid “in rich!” Feeling must have been so exciting, these days people most often get that from MLM which is sad.
pennyslum · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have an almost identical story except It was just road salt
RagingFlower580 · 1 points · Posted at 12:28:22 on July 26, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice.
CanMan0711 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is this a metaphor for bitcoin?
Tvguy37 · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s always a Lambo
melonlollicholypop · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This line really makes this story gold! It transports me instantly back to my childhood understanding of the world.
badass4102 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha... brings back memories when I found dinosaur fossils. Found a bunch of bones, put them in my bag and showed my teacher the next day since our topics lately were dinosaurs. Turned out they were dog bones. Teacher made me wash my hands and I had to bring all my things home in a plastic bag because my backpack was supposedly full of diseases.
hcgator · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you ever get your Lamborghini?
Amaleplatypus · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dang, was this in Columbus, OH back in 1997 because I was one of the kids with you if so lmao
SmarmysPiza · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
holy shit I did the same thing! We showed my parents and they said they weren’t real diamonds. We thought they were going to steal them
lman777 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
cries crypto tears
Nevok_The_Hollowed · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rip
Thibbledorf_Pwent · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time I found “turquoise” in my front yard. Just little pieces of it. My friends and I spent days digging it up and excitedly discussing selling it. Yeah... it was old gravel from a fish tank lol.
TopMacaroon · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh man, my friend lived down the street from an old mining test shaft. We hauled up about 20 lbs of gold to his house thinking we were absolutely fucking rich. Then his dad politely explained to us how to do a fools gold test. oof.
Turbo_MechE · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I actually found two diamonds. I tested them with a few basic ones I heard about in science. I showed my mom to take to a jeweler and never heard the official results. Kinda bummed
So_Famous · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm touched that your mother asked if you wanted to keep it even though she knows it's generally worthless. Mine would've tossed that out without a second thought.
kaleighb1988 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy. Times dont change much. Something similar happened with my 7 year old last summer. He and his friends found this small safe in a field close to our house and tried to bust it open. They found these little glass pieces nearby the safe and store they were diamonds. My son was disappointed when I told him it was just glass and not diamonds because he too wanted to buy a Lamborghini.
Celeastral · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a similar story. I got some sort of medal for being an alternate in a team book contest thing. I was a dumb kid then, so I actually thought it was made of real gold. I even argued with another classmate about it. I cringe whenever I remember this memory ugh.
crepus · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not to self: hide chandelier drops around the yard and tell future kids it's rumored a stash of diamonds was hidden on the property by thieves who never managed to come back and collect it ....
woht24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A crypto dream long before crypto was.
deathbunnyy · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
lol man I've had similar memories as a child. It's like mini acid trips inflating the dumbest idea or most worthless thing into fun or royalty.
TheDanimator · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend those were chaos emeralds
buttercat · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was waiting for it to be either fertilizer or poison pellets.
ohmygodnotagainagain · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would mine gold from the street at my house. Mom finding it in my pocket on laundry day is how I found out about Monkey Gold.
ActuallyAnOctopus · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a deposit of fools gold near my cousins house. We were instantly prospectors. Lugging in big buckets of rocks to their basement, hammering away to get to the "gold" and using brushes and stuff to clean it all up. After a long weekend we had a pretty good amount of the stuff!
Hell it was so much fun I bet if I found a deposit today I'd do the same thing.
Wobbu_Char · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 7 years old, I found a "mountain" (was actually just a mound) of blue rocks at school. I thought they were precious so I took home a grocery bag full of them. The conductor of my school bus was so confused what I was doing with them but humored me and carried it to our doorstep for me.
Turns out they were renovating the fourth grade restrooms and I took home a bag of broken tiles. I was soooo devastated when my mom threw them out because they were disgusting. 😂
hooldon · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a kid in school. He found "diamonds" on his way to school. He wouldn't show us though. Finally our teacher asks him about it because everyone was talking about. She proceeded to pull piles of broken tempered glass out of his pocket.
LoremasterSTL · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of my aunts dropping change on river beaches for my mom to find while “treasure hunting”
c4lista · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my sister were little, we would go to our aunt's house, and we found "magic fairy gems". It turned out that they were just these glass pebbles that kinda reflected light and looked really neat, and she kept them in her garden, but we actually thought that she was a fairy. No one ever broke the news to us, and we never told anyone, we just kinda realized that we we're dumbasses.
Mytrixrnot4kids · 2 points · Posted at 01:22:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I knew this guy who would buy his kid a necklace or something with her name on it and when they went on a vacation, he buried it in the sand for her to find and told her that mermaids left it for her. He’d wait until they had been to the beach a couple of times and say they must have been watcning them from the water
danyxeleven · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my friends and i would always find tiny diamonds by the dumpster
but they were just bits of broken glass
obscureferences · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think our place used to have a quartz garden. It's a not exactly a ranch but that's the best word to describe it, and whoever decided to get rid of the garden ended up scattering quartz crystals all over the property, eventually being buried in the dirt from decades of rain. Well to a little kid this made crystal hunting a great hobby. I dug up everything from paper thin slivers of crystal clear as ice, to classic pointed-prism crystals the colour of cola, to giant quartz geodes that had to be shattered on the concrete to open. My favourite was a geode the colour of a dolphin that sparkled like an amphitheatre of flash photographers.
I have a chandelier story too. There was a shitty one in the ranch house that we took down and I looted all of the glass "diamonds". We were learning about pirates at school that month which ended with a treasure hunt. Each team would hide some treasure and make up a map that lead to it, then pass your maps around and go find each others treasure. Cool idea, but consider that I had a tea chest full of diamonds and someone in our group topped it up with proper chocolate coins we definitely did the next team a favour. The map we got in return was dumb and their treasure was just a dozen M&Ms wrapped in tin foil. Net loss.
Murloclover · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a stash of "diamonds" too, except my mom found all the stones/gems I had apparently ripped out of her earring posts ..
PicaRuler · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I found what I thought was a glowing moon rock. Turns out it was just a piece of hot charcoal that fell out of the bottom of the grill and rolled down the driveway. Burned the shit out of me when I picked it up.
mmepavda · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not your cousin, but I had this exact same thing happen to me as a child!! I still probably have a few of the pieces in a box somewhere too
Jlacosse6082 · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar story but what we thought were diamonds were actually sparkly white landscaping rocks lol. And I was absolutely devastated when I found out because I too had BIG plans for the money!
alleeele · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same with my childhood best friend, digging for crystals!
Durt-Grohlbain · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had the same experience with my cousin. But we thought they had magic powers or something.
dayofgreen21 · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Definitely relate to the Lamborghini thing haha
med2serve · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! When I was little I used to hang out on the roof of my mum's workplace after school. I found these beautiful golden flat rings and thought they were real gold. I used to bring all my friends and we'd find a ton of them...found out later they were electrical doodads
Frank_Hard-On · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
After watching an episode of Scooby Doo and getting a vauge idea that smuggling involved sneaking things. My brother and I decided to "smuggle" a bunch of random small engine parts out of a parents friends repair shop, my dad caught us dividing up the loot in my bedroom
RagingFlower580 · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandparents had a gravel pile in their driveway for a while. My cousins and I used to dig in it until we found clods of gravel-which we proudly dubbed diamonds. They fell apart pretty easily though, so if you got mad at someone you could stomp on their diamond pile and rid them of their wealth.
dixter_gordong · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
found the indian! no disrespect but i work with a lot of indians and the first i heard “hmm this pizza from yesterday looks bad... should i throw it?” I was like “well not at me!”
edit: In american english you would say “throw it away” or “toss it”
Nerdpuff · 5 points · Posted at 17:21:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know man, I say throw it and I'm English. I also say chuck it?
dixter_gordong · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huh, interesting. I had a suspicion it was from British English. good to know!
Spaghettiboobin · 17829 points · Posted at 13:20:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would throw a bouncy ball at the stairs and then try to be the first to track it down. This kept us busy for hours.
patoankan · 5635 points · Posted at 15:02:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know someone that did this in jail. They'd close their eyes, and flip a penny or a button somewhere into their cell and spend the next few hours crawling around trying to find it.
feed-me-tacos · 6011 points · Posted at 15:39:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh. That's... Much less heartwarming.
somedood567 · 882 points · Posted at 17:21:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not if they were a kid
matthijs_kik · 69 points · Posted at 20:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well yes, but actually no.
cungryhunt · 53 points · Posted at 19:57:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Especially if they were a kid.
inebriusmaximus · 16 points · Posted at 20:46:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
...who murdered their parents.
Koolaidguy541 · 3 points · Posted at 03:44:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
They did. Why else are they in jail?
whycuthair · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who were abusing him
[deleted] · 33 points · Posted at 19:56:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No that also makes it worse
Stagamemnon · 26 points · Posted at 21:15:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
okay, Negative Nancy. Kid's just tryin' to have a good time in there!
wisdom_of_pancakes · 4 points · Posted at 00:46:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
forget about your parents, I've hidden a nickel somewhere in this room...
DarkSideofOZ · 6 points · Posted at 20:55:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At heart
Wrest216 · 36 points · Posted at 17:59:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I let all those illegal kids know when they are seperated from their parents...
AggressiveChairs · 4 points · Posted at 22:45:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
:D
...
D:
IronBabyFists · 3 points · Posted at 21:21:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
❤
AcidBathVampire · 44 points · Posted at 19:37:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you've ever been in jail for more than a day, you'd realize that this is genius.
profanejusticecats · 12 points · Posted at 19:07:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But also a great deal sadder.
Nettie_Moore · 10 points · Posted at 19:40:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wholesome fun! And not a phone in sight!
BaffourA · 3 points · Posted at 23:28:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk the idea that you could use something like that to pass the time in jail actually sounds kinda reassuring to me.
Futher_Mocker · 3 points · Posted at 02:12:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk, seems pretty wholesome an activity for jail. It doesn't warm your heart a little knowing prisoners arent ALWAYS passing the time with hard drugs or gang violence?
K51STAR · 2 points · Posted at 22:51:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This really made me lol. Thank you.
Crossfire124 · 1435 points · Posted at 16:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I saw this documentary too. It was some guy in alcatraz solitary confinement, where he was basically locked in a box with no lights or human interaction except when they brought him food. That's how he passed time in there
rathat · 813 points · Posted at 17:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That actually sounds like it would work well to keep your brain busy
ncnotebook · 131 points · Posted at 17:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So is coming up with calculus if you never had a full high school education.
totallyanonuser · 120 points · Posted at 17:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You'd be hard pressed to find a use for calc in prison. But finding buttons?
You just became the guy who can get things from time to time
ncnotebook · 100 points · Posted at 17:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why look for a button under your bed when you can calculate the exact volume of space under the bed?
Finnegan482 · 81 points · Posted at 18:14:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beds are pretty regular in shape. You could use calculus for that, but it'd be overkill.
[deleted] · 58 points · Posted at 20:10:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Automobilie · 19 points · Posted at 21:14:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's also useful for calculating the magnetic flux at a point off center from a loop of current carrying wire. Add in some time variance and multiple coordinate systems and you've got yourself triple integral vector calculus! :D
NightGod · 7 points · Posted at 21:46:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow. I just vomited a little from reading that. Thanks for the flash-back!
Cadnee · 4 points · Posted at 21:45:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah but how much spaghetti sauce can I fit in my hat?
ncnotebook · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a fractal problem, filling a three-dimensional space with a one-dimensional object.
Wormbo2 · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah... but... how much space is under my damn bed!?!
openthemeyes · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What the fuck did I just read
Automobilie · 2 points · Posted at 07:53:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A summary of Electricity and MAGnetism (EMAG) for electrical engineering students.
ncnotebook · 23 points · Posted at 19:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So is intentionally losing a button to improve your searching skills.
SidewaysInfinity · 19 points · Posted at 21:57:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not meant to improve your searching skills, it's to give yourself something to do in solitary confinement so you don't go nuts from the isolation and lack of mental stimulus
ncnotebook · 3 points · Posted at 22:01:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel we're losing context of the above conversations the deeper we go.... But I'll play along....
That's why you should create calculus from scratch.
art4idiots · 1 points · Posted at 02:21:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or we can paint with blood and poop!
Zahndethus · 4 points · Posted at 20:03:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
what's the equation for a bed so I can integrate it?
ncnotebook · 9 points · Posted at 20:56:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean, you know how calculus works at its core. You don't need those equations. :P
Draw an outline of the bed onto the floor below.
Divide the outline into large squares. Measure the height from the center of these squares to the bottom-side of the bed. Since you have the height above each square, you can get a volume. Sum up the volumes for the total, estimated volume.
Cut all squares into 4 more squares, and repeat.
Hopefully, it'll converge towards a certain value.
-kkslider · 3 points · Posted at 22:20:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What do you use to measure with?
ncnotebook · 2 points · Posted at 22:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Get a string/thread/hair-tied-end-to-end
Draw a straight line on the floor with string
Use any small object's width as the "unit" along the ruler
Use string as measuring tape
Compare the string measurement against your ruler
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Feet
BrassPounder · 3 points · Posted at 21:12:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If it's a rectangular bed than Volume = length x width x height. Integrate with respect to any variable as long as the bounds go from 0 to that variables maximum.
Tom_Arnaud · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Need something to measure with
ncnotebook · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got you covered
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/axkvja/what_is_a_unique_game_you_played_as_a_child/ehvj86t/?context=10000
tsuwraith · 10 points · Posted at 20:18:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You'd be surprised at the endless applications to which calculus can be applied. Plus, if you're stuck in solitary confinement (essentially), all you'd have would be your mind; a powerful analysis tool could be pretty useful for constructing and evaluating things there. But short of having access to maths books, you're not likely to learn calculus by inventing it for the third time.
ncnotebook · 6 points · Posted at 22:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fourth*
Everybody forgets Archimedes...
tsuwraith · 2 points · Posted at 06:11:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not quite sure that counts. I'm incredibly impressed by what the ancient Greeks accomplished, but afaik Archimedes only improved upon some of his predecessors wrt infinitessimals, but nothing was ever formalized or generalized. Leibniz and Newton both had complete understandings of calculus and could apply them in multiple domains, which I don't think would apply to Archimedes. In the bit of googling I just did to look into it further, it seems the derivative was completely unknown to the ancient greek, but who knows how much he really understood.
no_active_ingedient · 12 points · Posted at 17:34:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
see Jakow Trachtenberg system of mathematics...
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 18:17:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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thx4thefreeparking · 4 points · Posted at 19:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alcatraz?
unholymackerel · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
it's where i learned to echolocate
Jakfolisto · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And seismic sensing
pizzasage · 9 points · Posted at 19:12:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dag, I remember that story from the tape they would give you for the Alcatraz audio tour. It made such an impression on me when I was little that I would blindfold myself and do that in my room at home. My parents thought I was nuts.
simpson227 · 5 points · Posted at 22:44:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I also saw that documentary. Think he took a button off shirt and threw it randomly in his cell. Then crawled around until he found it. In the dark. Repeatedly.
WhackTheSquirbos · 3 points · Posted at 00:50:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s horrifying.
notProfCharles · 3 points · Posted at 18:34:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I knew that sounded familiar.
pleasedothenerdful · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I assume he had to use an ass penny?
meateachother · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I saw that doc too, right before I went to Alcatraz. Something about the undertaker and hell in a cell
skulltrumpetman · 4 points · Posted at 23:45:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Like... for a tour, right?
rossy95 · 1 points · Posted at 06:43:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s also in the audio tour at Alcatraz, did it last week
Princess_King · 64 points · Posted at 16:06:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I heard they didn’t hear the button land one time and went literally crazy looking for it. Started hearing voices and seeing the face of the guy he snitched on and stuff. Turns out, it got stuck in a spider web.
maux_zaikq · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is an experience recounted during the audio-tour of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
decolored · 43 points · Posted at 15:09:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it's sad that humanity has to resort to caging each other up to accomplish some sort of righteous servitude. I wish we had a less psychologically damaging method. I hope you guys received cognitive therapy while in there, knowing one day I too could be faced with that sort of situation because of how reckless I am, it's just terrifying. Yes we should be afraid to disobey the law, but being locked up and essentially dehumanized, Idk man. I'm sorry for you and that guy, and all that go through our system.
iaccidentlytheworld · 120 points · Posted at 15:16:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but like... some people do things where they should be isolated from society. I mean what are you going to tell them, "stay here at this remote place please until you're better?" Look at the Ted Bundy's of the world.
BilboT3aBagginz · 62 points · Posted at 15:31:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They just used to send those people to Australia. True story.
BaconAnus-Hero · 31 points · Posted at 16:16:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To be fair, I vaguely recall that a lot of the prisoners that got sent to Australia to start a new colony were mostly there for stealing food. A fair few were also there on what were probably false charges. The rest were political prisoners. Which makes sense - in those days if you were found guilty of a crime and it was bad enough, they just executed you. A fun day out for the whole family. :/
I guess the only sociopaths they wanted in their new colony were the British officers lol.
StaticMeshMover · 8 points · Posted at 16:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember them but there was 11 major crimes that would get you sent to Australia and I don't think things like murder or rape were on the list.
tmagz28 · 31 points · Posted at 15:50:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We should do that again.
mydearwatson616 · 14 points · Posted at 16:53:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We do, it's called Florida.
rieuk · 15 points · Posted at 15:50:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As soon as we're able to go to Mars we'll use that capability to move all prisons off world, say, to the moon. It'll be a win-win situation
Yes the moon will be the new Australia of the solar system
KarmaChameleon89 · 7 points · Posted at 16:04:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Upside down? Non existent? Taken over by emus?
trenchknife · 3 points · Posted at 16:17:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I smell a new Sci-Fi channel miniseries...
OskEngineer · 10 points · Posted at 16:18:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yeah, let's just spend ridiculous amounts of resources to send society's rejects to space and support them. great idea. about as good as sending nuclear waste to space.
it doesn't matter how well you figure out the science. you still need collosal amounts of fuel to bring the weight of a person to space, much less the moon.
StaticMeshMover · 3 points · Posted at 16:45:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everything is relative though. Once we get to the point where we have 17 different trips to space a day it won't cost fuck all to throw a couple prisoners in with everyone else who is travelling to space. I don't think anyone was saying this will happen in our lifetimes but it does make sense once we are constantly taking people off earth anyways.
OskEngineer · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
these aren't engineering problems. these are fundamental laws of physics. there are energy costs to achieve the required velocity to escape Earth's atmosphere or reach the moon. it doesn't make sense to blow away so much of Earth's available fuel relocating people when you could just dig a hole and put them in an equivalent "moon base" box here without that expense.
the useful payload of existing space shuttles are in the range of 1% to 4%. 90% needs to be fuel. the remaining payload is the structure holding the fuel, the engines, the shuttle, etc. Typically most of that 1-4% is life support, tools, etc used to support a mission, but I'm assuming you just want a cargo hold full of coffin sized human storage pods.
for reference, to help you appreciate the issue, a can of soda is 94% soda and 6% can by mass.
if you want to send the additional ~200 lbs of naked skinny human and a few days of food, water, and air from earth to the moon if you can assume 100% of what they need to survive is sourced from the moon somehow so you don't need to bring it, you're already at like 20,000 lbs of rocket fuel.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html
KingSulley · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimately for 'space prisons' to be potentially viable, we would not only need an entirely new and sustainable fuel source, but also much better means of using such fuel as efficiently as humanly possible. Any other way and it wouldn't be commercially viable to ship prisoners to space prisons due to costs; unless they receive massive stipends from the government but I've seen more surprising things happen in the government before so..
OskEngineer · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll ignore the costs of that for arguments sake.
so ok, you've got your prisoner into space economically.... why? what is the advantage of sending someone to space and needing all of that life support over digging out a bunch of solitary confinement cells in the middle of nowhere. congrats, all your temperature, air, and shelter needs are managed pretty much for free, plus water and food are easier to manage logistics of.
StaticMeshMover · 0 points · Posted at 17:16:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Way to completely miss the point and type out an entire useless paragraph that I barley even read. It's not about the math. Everything is relative when it comes to cost.
You're completely over complicating this think of it this way, when air flight first became possible flights were INSANELY expensive. Once air travel became super common the prices dropped. Hell air travel in Europe is infinitely cheaper than north america for this exact reason, volume.
So eventually there will be so many trips bringing people into space everyday that throwing a couple convicts onto flights that aren't even full anyways will be a completely viable option. Again. It's all relative. I'm sure if you had told people you were gonna send convicts to Australia when it was first discovered people would have said the same thing. "What that's crazy why waste all the time and money on sending convicts there?" But once there were tonnes of trips going to Australia anyways it became a lot cheaper and viable to send convicts there.
Everything gets cheaper with volume and accessibility.
OskEngineer · -1 points · Posted at 17:22:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll simplify it for you.
20,000 lb of rocket fuel to send a corpse to the moon. why not bury it on Earth and save the fuel?
there are theoretical maximum efficiencies in science. we can get close to them with good science and engineering but you can't beat them. you can't "r/futurology perpetual motion machine" magic your way out of the energy cost.
StaticMeshMover · -1 points · Posted at 18:09:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God you're an idiot. It's not about the individual cost to send 200 pounds of meat into space. That's not relevant when you have hundreds of trips into space a day already that have extra room anyways.
By your logic why the fuck would we ever transport prisoners anywhere EVER. Why waste the money why not just shoot em right there and bury em RIGHT there. It's just a waste of fuel no matter how small. Just a waste of resources no matter how small. Everybody just start murdering everyone who does anything wrong cus we don't wanna waste resources on them! Ya that's clearly not how it works is it? So we need to come up with solutions that guess what? Are gonna cost money no matter fucking what
Get a fucking clue, we don't even know how we will be getting people to space in the future so your argument was fucking redundant to begin with.
OskEngineer · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
and this is the core of your misunderstanding. you seem to be under the impression that spare space to fit them is what matters, not the actual additional mass. it could be a 200 lb cube of super dense depleted uranium (~6.5" cube) it's still taking just as much EXTRA fuel to send that to the moon if you add that to someone's gym bag.
StaticMeshMover · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Again way to completely miss the point but alright have fun focusing on the smallest thing that won't be relevant in the slightest.
OskEngineer · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
you're in over your head.
StaticMeshMover · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOL ok. You can't understand simple concepts like supply vs demand but I'm in over my head? Good luck with life. It's gonna be rough for you.
majestic_elliebeth · 5 points · Posted at 16:13:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes but then you have guys who go to jail for speeding and it’s like wtf.... “here go in this box away from people so you’ll learn your lesson.”
asimplydreadfulerror · 2 points · Posted at 16:27:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who is going to jail for speeding?
majestic_elliebeth · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It happens. Not just your average everyday speeding, but reckless driving, yes.
asimplydreadfulerror · 8 points · Posted at 16:34:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's a bit disingenuous to call reckless driving, an act which is extremely hazardous to the public, "speeding." It's kind of like calling armed robbery "shoplifting."
moogie_moogie · 5 points · Posted at 16:44:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some places have harsh reckless speeding laws. Not that I'm condoning going really fast, but the consequences can be disproportionate.
https://jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-from-my-three-days-in-1613604053
majestic_elliebeth · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
VA is where said person I’m referring to ended up in jail for the weekend.
majestic_elliebeth · 0 points · Posted at 16:47:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What if they’re on a back road with no other traffic, how’s that hazardous to the public?
asimplydreadfulerror · 6 points · Posted at 17:02:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unless you have some sort of magical ability you have no way of knowing if you're going to encounter other traffic on a back road. About ten years ago I was almost killed by someone driving unreasonably fast causing them to cross into my lane around a corner on a back road with "no other traffic." If I had been a single second further along in my journey when I had reached that corner I would have been involved in a serious head-on collision.
Also, I'm really not trying to argue the merits of incarcerating anyone for any length of time for reckless driving. I believe jail/prison should be reserved for violent crimes, or serious other crimes against persons. My initial comment was simply about you calling reckless driving "speeding" which I think is intellectually dishonest and a sneaky way to try to prove a point.
majestic_elliebeth · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sorry for what happened to you.
I wasn’t intentionally being “intellectually dishonest” or sneaky, but you’re entitled to your opinion. I still think jail time for speeding down a back road is overkill. I was going 22 over before and that’s considered reckless, I don’t think that deserves time locked up.
Bossinante · 14 points · Posted at 16:02:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The problem is that the Seth Rogens and Tommy Chongs of the world are getting thrown in general pop with the Ted Bundy types, and transformed into harder criminals.
AFewStupidQuestions · 4 points · Posted at 17:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called rehabilitation instead of punishment.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug03/rehab
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/18/prison-could-be-productive/punishment-fails-rehabilitation-works
iaccidentlytheworld · 0 points · Posted at 17:28:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Listen, I'm not saying that the current prison system is adequate/ideal, but there are people who need to be isolated from the general population while they rehabilitate. I would imagine that would include isolation at some point, and maybe someone would play that "game" OP described under similar circumstances.
AFewStupidQuestions · 4 points · Posted at 17:40:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well you kind of skipped over half of OP's post. They wanted something more humane than being locked in a cage. There are other places in the world that do this already under the rehabilitative method. The people have furnished rooms, they're able to move around freely. They learn skills and trades all to prepare them for living in the outside world when their time served is over. Hell look at this vid from Norway (<1min long) in this minimum security prison. The man has his own small home. Or check out this Supermax prison (<5mins) in Norway.
And guess what? It's working. The recidivism rate is exponentially smaller.
VOZ1 · 3 points · Posted at 17:44:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my opinion, the people who need to be isolated from society are the minority of those locked up. We have so many people locked up for non-violent crimes, drug crimes, things that were definitely bad, but don’t even begin to approach the point where they can’t be a part of society. I believe even murderers and rapists and others who committed violent crimes can be rehabilitated and can return to being productive members of society. Restorative justice has a lot to offer in that regard, and simply making the punishment fit the crime would do wonders. There are so many things we can improve about our criminal justice system, and I believe reconsidering whether the very concept of prison even serves a purpose for most people convicted of a crime is one of the most important things we should do. I personally think incarceration should be reserved for the worst offenders with little to no chance of rehabilitation. The vast majority of the remaining people could be helped and punished by changing their sentence to a work project, some sort of extended community service, and all combined with counseling, therapy, that kind of thing. It’s a huge undertaking for our “tough on crime” society, but we need it desperately.
jmd- · 3 points · Posted at 16:17:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The important difference is rehabilitation versus punishment.
A lot of people out there need help, and our current prison system is not designed to provide it.
cowboydirtydan · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But so many people who haven't done anything near that, or really just need help (like drug addicts), are treated similarly.
Jacoman74undeleted · -1 points · Posted at 16:27:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gulag. Max 10 year reeducation sentence, they were held as prisoners but retained their basic human rights. At the end of the 10 year reeducation sentence prisoners we're evaluated to see if they were fit to return to society, if not, 10 years back in the gulag.
The point was reeducation and rehabilitation, not punishment like the American system.
willygmcd · 22 points · Posted at 16:04:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You think that's bad? I got arrested on a Friday before a long holiday and it was for a different county so I had wait to be transferred to the county my charges were in. Turned into 11 days before I saw the judge and was able to be released.
Why was it so bad though? I used to be a heroin addict and at the time, I had been on methadone, I was completely clean, no illegal drugs in my system, only methadone, a drug prescribed by a doctor. I get into booking and they ask about my medications. I tell him and he kinda chuckles and says you're in for a fun time, we don't give methadone to the inmates. I spent the next week in a half in pure hell. Didn't eat or drink for days, hallucinating and I think I even had a seizure. Did they check on me? Nope. Offer me an aspirin? Nope. Thankfully I had money and was able to buy some comfort meds from the other inmates.
My "crime"?... Not contacting my new probation officer after my old one changed jobs and didn't tell me.
Internet_Adventurer · 26 points · Posted at 15:18:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I understand that may be "harsh" treatment, but what else should we do to child molesters, serial rapists, terrorists, active shooters, and the like?
I mean, sure sitting in a small room kinda sucks, but it sure beats being disembowled by a heinous criminal... At least while you're in jail you don't have to deal with taxes, a mortgage, annoying bosses, dinner with the in-laws, etc. I say this partially in jest, but you have to admit that there are worse ways to be treated after you just shot up a school
hellodeveloper · 24 points · Posted at 15:40:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Personally and probably an unpopular opinion, but when a person receives multiple life sentences totaling 400-700 years, they should be given the option to take the death penalty within a year. Forcing them to sit in a cage until they die naturally is a waste of tax payers money and should be considered inhumane.
El_poopa_cabra · 22 points · Posted at 15:44:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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BTDubbzzz · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes, the “Bob Sutton treatment”
Chubby_Bunnies · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But it costs more money to put someone to death
IWannaBeATiger · 10 points · Posted at 16:17:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That wouldn't apply in this case since it's expensive because of all the appeals. If the dude is requesting the death penalty then you'd skip the appeals and go right to the death penalty.
HengaHox · 5 points · Posted at 15:59:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How is that possible?
Internet_Adventurer · 12 points · Posted at 16:02:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It does because of the amount of waiting time and additional trials needed to confirm that they are not in-fact innocent.
Not saying it's right or wrong, but yeah. It somehow amounts to more, based on the research I've seen
M4GIZARD · 4 points · Posted at 16:11:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But they‘d get the chance so that means if they accept they either don‘t want to live anymore (making it a kind of exit live option) or they weren‘t innocent and accept their faith/judgement.
Fuzz_Butt_Head · 4 points · Posted at 16:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Because their legal team appeals it for years, so the legal fees get insane
frijolita_bonita · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does it?
TheRaoster · 4 points · Posted at 15:59:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes
dfstibe · 5 points · Posted at 16:02:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But that's with the cost of all the appeals and the trials and the method of killing them. If they choose after that year to die? Give em a bullet. It doesn't cost so much anymore.
Chubby_Bunnies · 6 points · Posted at 16:03:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds really great in theory, but realistically implementing it would be very difficult.
Jon675 · 9 points · Posted at 15:43:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think its wrong to think that every criminal or person in jail is as extreme as what youre listing. You could be there for petty theft, not paying tickets, theres all sorts of non violent crimes that can put you in jail. Theres certainly violent people that need to be isolated sure, but to generalize all people in jail as violent or harmful to society is doing a disservice to everyone.
Internet_Adventurer · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, absolutely. Some are likely there for too many traffic tickets, or something similarly small. It wasn't my intention to characterize everyone in this way.
My point was just simply that there are cases where a jail sentence seems.....justified? If those qualities describe you (horribly violent, etc.), then I don't think it's as dehumanizing to put you in jail as the original comment made it out to be
AWarmHug · 14 points · Posted at 15:53:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay, but the majority of prisoners are not serial killers and rapists. We lock up a lot of people who had hard lives and turned to crime because they feel it was the only way for them to survive. Those are the people that need rehabilitation.
Internet_Adventurer · 5 points · Posted at 16:07:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Understood, of course. I just made a clarifying comment in reply to somone with a similar view to yours. I was simply saying that there are certain types of acts that warrant a prison sentence, or something similar. Not for all types of crime, but for those that are the most violent or evil
AWarmHug · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For sure, I wasn't trying to disagree with your whole comment, I definitely agree with it. Just trying to make sure we show the whole picture 👍
cup_1337 · 16 points · Posted at 15:40:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prisons should be striving to put themselves out of business by rehabilitating criminals back into productive members of society.
Yes some should never be let out, but we can still hold ourselves to higher standards in how we treat them. The US prison system is barbaric
hellodeveloper · 15 points · Posted at 15:42:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah but the shareholders. Won't somebody think of the shareholders
yadonedidwrong · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think we’ll ever reach a level in society where that level of empathy can be taught. It’s an actual miracle humanity progressed past feeding those who disgust the majority of us to hungry tigers in public. Most people can’t put themselves in a murderer, pedophiles, or rapists shoes. I could never ever be a judge and uphold those absurd laws where you hit a gavel and send the remainder of some dude’s youth into an actual cage.
decolored · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Empathy has to be nurtured to progress, either by our surrounding or our internal choices. I believe a society would flourish with empathy as the source of flow for action.
that being said, empathy is also understanding what a person goes through (objectively understanding the emotional range and response a person is subjected to) when they do things, and many people choose to do terrible things because of the way it impacts them emotionally. The psychology of human action is really intense and empathy is the root of all of the good of it.
yadonedidwrong · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’ve made it a hell of a long way. We’re like the first society ever to make so much progress on racism. We’ve progressed so much large swaths of young naive fucks think tracing our footsteps backwards might be the solution to fixing problems they have no idea were started back on that trail.
doublefeaturepicture · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this comment
FictionalLightbulb · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
got any more exciting jail games? your mans got a warrant.
NerfSideLongBeach · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Few hours to find a penny? Is their jail cell a mansion?
Dirtroads2 · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was locked up in county, this guy would release a cockroache and wait a lil bit then hunt it down
canmx120 · 2 points · Posted at 21:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If it went down the sink it could keep them bust for the rest of their sentence
Jimothy_Timkins · 2 points · Posted at 21:52:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cell mate used to play hide the shiv "oh it's in my kidney"
merv1618 · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is fascinating
Thesharksgem · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah. In Alcatraz, one of the prisoners in the guided audio tour said that he played that game while in solitary to pass the time.
baconstirfry · 8113 points · Posted at 14:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you a golden retriever by any chance?
(Also happy cake day!)
TRCGeneric · 2614 points · Posted at 15:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Silver receiver*
Edit: thank you for silver, kind soul :)
trekie4747 · 36 points · Posted at 15:42:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cake retriever
coolbeansam9 · 5 points · Posted at 17:15:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ugh reddit
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 16:09:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aww
Brolton · 4 points · Posted at 16:31:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Takes one to know one
TRCGeneric · 3 points · Posted at 16:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just received it a few minutes ago, what a coincidence :)
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:39:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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TophShit · 6 points · Posted at 19:39:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would rather be a golden retriever, they look like nothing really gets to them.
Preferably owned by a nice, childless white couple, you know, the type that would put jammies on me, pay for pet health insurance, and cook me dinner every night. That sounds like a cozy life.
gggg_man3 · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hi Ho Silver! Awaaaay!
Maxwell_Morning · 2 points · Posted at 17:51:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck..... underrated comment right here folks
TRCGeneric · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you :))
Cheebow · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a platinum retriever
EcstaticStrings · 9 points · Posted at 16:39:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Retrieve some platinum for me then.
polypeptide147 · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oof
Cheebow · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m your pet, you gotta throw it to me first.
bipolarnotsober · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice try buddy.
terralexisdumb · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now you're the silver receiver.
420BlazeIt187 · -1 points · Posted at 15:44:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a golden retriever tho
JLemke33 · 11 points · Posted at 16:10:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a reddit underachiever
EcstaticStrings · 2 points · Posted at 16:40:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does that mean you'll retrieve gold for me?
Blastbot · 6 points · Posted at 15:38:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No one on the internet knows your a dog.
wreckedcarzz · 3 points · Posted at 16:38:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doggy doggy what now?
alternatively
UwU
anudeep30 · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BARK!
Afalau · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you a dog
TheUnclescar · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looks like right now he's a silver receiver.
Kuli24 · 475 points · Posted at 14:49:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So similar to us, but we threw the bouncy ball UP the stairs and would listen for things breaking as we giggled.
KodamaBaby · 15 points · Posted at 16:55:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can definitely relate to that!
On a trip to Florida as children, someone bought my brother and I some bouncy balls (similar to these ) with a looong stretching string attached and a Velcro (sorry.. ‘hook and loop’) strap on the other end. The idea was that a child (in a large open space) fastens the strap to their wrist, throws the ball and it comes bouncing back. This was great, however, upon returning back home from the holiday, my brother and I discovered a new use..
We grew up in a house with three floors and started fixing the straps to the banister on the top floor, letting the ball dangle on its string all the way down to the lower floors of the house.. we had various games involving one of us on the top floor and one of us at the bottom with the ball.
The games usually involved something like the person in the top of the house would throw the ball down at the other one and this one had to catch the ball before it pinged back up.. Obviously, my older brother was usually the one doing the throwing and I was the one routinely being hit.. but I still found myself playing happily every time. Of course, there were many instances where we would pull on the elastic and enjoy watching the ball ping up through the house, bouncing around off walls and objects, but I’m not sure our parents approved so much.
trumpeting_in_corrid · 11 points · Posted at 15:16:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn't you get into trouble?
Kuli24 · 13 points · Posted at 15:18:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eventually we think we chipped a wooden duck when it fell off the ledge. We confessed to my parents and never threw the ball again to my knowledge. But no, we didn't get in trouble.
trumpeting_in_corrid · 14 points · Posted at 15:19:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If we ever played with a ball inside the house my mother would take it and destroy it!
Kuli24 · 9 points · Posted at 15:22:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh we had a felting ball that my dad and I used to play ball tag. Eventually I think my mom threw it out, but we're looking for another one... 20+ years later.
KJ_The_Guy · 4 points · Posted at 19:00:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MOONBALL
GhostofErik · 345 points · Posted at 14:57:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take a handful of bouncy balls, chuck them down the hall and watch them bounce around wildly while trying to dodge them. It was so much fun!
The_Mesh · 22 points · Posted at 15:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My brother and I did that in the bathroom. Cleared out all the rugs, towels, curtain, anything soft that would absorb the bounces, and then chucked the bouncy balls at all the random angles just to see where they would go. When Rocket League first released, it immediately reminded me of this.
Edit: this reminded me of another game we used to play.
Several of my friends had those large trampolines. One of my favorite activities when we were 10-12 was for a group of us (usually around 4, but occasionally we'd have up to 12 kids on it at once) to take off our shoes and put them in the middle, and then start bouncing and try to avoid getting touched by the shoes. Now, shoes on a trampoline are as unpredictable as a football during a fumble. I can't tell you how many times we bashed each other with flying elbows, fell off, and almost lost life and limb playing that game.
rabidassbaboon · 16 points · Posted at 15:58:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do the exact same thing. I'd scrounge change all week and when my mom took me to the grocery store I'd get bouncy balls out of the vending machines. I'd have 20 or so, get home, go in the bathroom, and just chuck them all at the floor at once. Then when I was around 30, I remembered that game and said "Oh, I make real money now". I went on Amazon and bought 500 bouncy balls. It was fucking glorious.
Scrumpti0us1 · 2 points · Posted at 20:15:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And what happened to the 500 balls after?
rabidassbaboon · 3 points · Posted at 20:27:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They sit in several large ziplock bags under the bathroom sink and my wife occasionally gives me shit about it.
EScott13 · 2 points · Posted at 02:12:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wish I could give silver
0530am_ · 9 points · Posted at 15:31:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school we had a small courtyard almost completely walled in that me and my mates would take as many soccer balls as possible into and then kick them as hard as possible in any direction. Painful chaos.
ROSERSTEP · 5 points · Posted at 15:33:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
*and don't forget to close the toilet lid before you play.
GhostofErik · 4 points · Posted at 15:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I can definitely see the correlation with Rocket League! That is so awesome
GaryChalmers · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school a bunch of us would line up against the wall while one person threw a baseball at us. Like dodgeball for idiots. Then someone got hurt the school put an end to it.
GhostofErik · 1 points · Posted at 02:47:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha that’s awesome! We did the same thing, but with rocks. Yeahhh the people who lived in the adjacent apartment didn’t like us. Lol
nengelsgtjunior · 334 points · Posted at 13:23:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
EarlyHemisphere · 172 points · Posted at 14:12:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There are so many people with cake days ITT
nengelsgtjunior · 236 points · Posted at 14:23:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know. I was excited to shitpost on my cake day only to see a crap ton of people also celebrating their cake day
karmagod13000 · 83 points · Posted at 14:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
just shit post anyway... its the reddit way
nengelsgtjunior · 117 points · Posted at 14:44:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is still time left
Null422 · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is always time.
clamalo · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
nengelsgtjunior · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
clamalo · 2 points · Posted at 15:54:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How are you celebrating?
nengelsgtjunior · 3 points · Posted at 15:55:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Commenting on Reddit and making bad memes while trying to get work done for uni
clamalo · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
😂😂😂
nengelsgtjunior · 3 points · Posted at 15:57:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s the life of a uni student
clamalo · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like my kind of life haha
ohmy1027 · 2 points · Posted at 15:34:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too
nengelsgtjunior · 2 points · Posted at 15:42:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
ohmy1027 · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back at-cha
clamalo · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
nengelsgtjunior · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
JohnnyAshe · 17 points · Posted at 14:23:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm getting fat just being in here because of all the cake.
karmagod13000 · 3 points · Posted at 14:43:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ya all this digital cake is giving me s stomach ache
robot4000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You were already fat, Johnny.
bence0302 · 2 points · Posted at 16:01:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
nengelsgtjunior · 2 points · Posted at 16:04:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
cheesycheesling · 2 points · Posted at 05:12:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
nengelsgtjunior · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
King_Of_Fat_Beavers · 3 points · Posted at 15:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
goldwasp602 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
nengelsgtjunior · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
ducksuck27 · 0 points · Posted at 14:44:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah happy cake day
ThatOtherGuy_CA · 0 points · Posted at 14:48:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And also with you.
Sati1984 · 20 points · Posted at 14:27:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I hope you eventually found Mr. Bouncy intact!
Spaghettiboobin · 37 points · Posted at 14:35:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man I should really watch The Wire.
Steampunkettes · 3 points · Posted at 15:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day, spaghettiboobin..
Logic_Nuke · 3 points · Posted at 15:02:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
o7 to Officer Fuzzy Dunlop
thrwyoktoday · 7 points · Posted at 15:07:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to close the bathroom door, shut the lights off, and SLAM the bouncy ball into the floor. Then you just listen and hope for the best
sirdigbykittencaesar · 6 points · Posted at 15:18:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my kids were late-elementary age, I devised a game for them that involved a bouncy ball and our long staircase to the second floor.
You'd stand at the bottom of the stairs, and throw your bouncy ball toward the top of the stairs. Each step it bounced on on the way back down was one point, which discouraged hard throwing and encouraged easy lobs. If the ball went over the top step and stayed on the landing, it was zero points.
Anyway, it was slow enough, non-destructive enough, and compelling enough (due to natural sibling rivalry) that it would occupy them for long stretches of time and keep them out of my hair on snow days, rainy days, etc.
surprisepinkmist · 7 points · Posted at 16:50:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would stand or kneel at the bottom of the stairs and throw a foam ball half or three quarters of the way up and catch it when it bounced down to me. Repeat for hours. I called it "Lonely Ball."
Chai137 · 5 points · Posted at 14:57:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg same
trafficrush · 5 points · Posted at 15:30:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do this on ice skates on the frozen pond in the backyard! Until my sister broke her leg. Then we had to wait until next winter to do it again.
Spaghettiboobin · 3 points · Posted at 15:31:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love that it didn’t stop you completely!
trafficrush · 3 points · Posted at 15:44:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of course not! :D
cubedude719 · 5 points · Posted at 16:50:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would take my collection of bouncy balls with a friend, I probably had like 30 of different sizes. We'd remove everything fragile or breakable from the small bathroom, close the toilet and then shut off the lights and just chuck them on the ground as hard as we could. It was actually pretty damn fun.
We were probably lucky we never broke the mirror. Don't think I had any of a big enough size that it wouldve been too likely though
Kyuuu21 · 4 points · Posted at 18:48:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s funny you say that. Me and a few cousins would compile all the bouncy balls we possibly could, put them in a plastic tub. We’re talking hundreds of bouncy balls. We’d assign someone to stand at the bottom of a stairwell. The people on the top of the stairs would dump the balls down the steps and watch the bouncing madness.
The one at the bottom would have to A) catch as many as possible. B.) withstand all the balls and stay on your feet.
It was such cheap entertainment and we’d laugh and laugh over something so stupid. What a thrill.
PlNKERTON · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to have a woody toy we'd drop down the stairs a and laugh at the funny ways he'd ragdoll.
chhhyeahtone · 4 points · Posted at 15:52:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would go into my empty garage and chuck a bouncy ball against the wall as hard as we could with the lights out. It was pitch black. As you can imagine, we got hit a lot
Spaghettiboobin · 3 points · Posted at 14:49:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The key was to throw it so it hit just right and rifled back at you.
0530am_ · 3 points · Posted at 15:27:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to throw a golf ball as hard as we could at a rough stone sea wall that would rebound it at a random angle, and close our eyes and hope not to get hit.
EjaculatingNarwhal · 3 points · Posted at 15:38:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/FoundTheDog
HighPriestofShiloh · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I just need to treat the 'find the keys' daily ritual like a game and I wont go insane?
Nobody1441 · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It sounds like your parents tricked you into playing fetch with one another. Lol. Still cute though
WhiteFlag84 · 3 points · Posted at 18:44:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a glow in the dark bouncy ball with irregular flat sides, so its bounce was super unpredictable. We used to turn off the lights, throw it hard against the wall and try to be the first one to catch it.
wolfboy42 · 3 points · Posted at 18:45:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of a game we used to play at my grandma's house when we couldn't go outside. My grandpa kept his work boots at the end of a hallway. There were three of us and we would each try to throw a bouncy ball into one of the work boots. It was even more fun after they got a little yappy dog who liked to chase things.
Flyzini · 3 points · Posted at 18:52:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow, just reminded me about buying 10 cent bouncy balls at the corner store. We would then throw them into traffic and watch all the fun happen
getrektbro · 3 points · Posted at 19:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother did this! Except we threw it off the front door and fought each other trying to get it. We called it silly sides because the door wasn't flat so the ball would ricochet super randomly
FrostyFeet222 · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We have an indoor pool and we would do this with a ball that would blend in with the pool sometimes it took half an hour to find the ball
saxybandgeek1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with a clear plastic water bottle in the 11ft diving well. It was the best
TOBIMIZER · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play that game by accident.
JohnBrennansCoup · 2 points · Posted at 15:32:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A lot of baseball players learned how to catch by this same method (on porch steps) since the bounce off the steps is as unpredictable as the hit off a bat.
Spaghettiboobin · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad was a high school baseball coach. Something tells me he knew what he was doing.
frenabo · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
lIlIllIlIlI · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to go in the garage and smack a whole bunch of bouncy balls around with a bat in the dark. It was pure, painful chaos.
AlienSocksAndWatches · 2 points · Posted at 15:59:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would go to the bathroom (only enclosed room with a hard floor) and throw as many bouncy balls as we could at once so they would just bounce all around the room like crazy. We always got hit by them..fun times
Also we'd have a bouncy ball war. You make a fort and then try to hit each other with bouncy balls but you can only hit someone by bouncing them off things.
Anthony__- · 2 points · Posted at 16:02:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
c a k e
ICameHereForClash · 2 points · Posted at 16:45:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Takes me back to mischievous kid moments with the exercise ball
ivanferg · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to close the door and turn the lights off in the bathroom with my lil sister and throw a bouncy ball as hard as I could randomly
Allbanned1984 · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would go into the laundry room(smallest room in the house) and just SLAM bouncey balls against the floor and then duck/cover and hope not to get hit as it zoomed around the room half a dozen times
CeleryIsCold · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy silver cake day
RefrigMike · 2 points · Posted at 18:28:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake day!
d00dle-b0b · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HAPPY CAKE DAY!
SammyGod24 · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg me and my sister used play this too
Keenaid · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we'd get all the guys in the bathroom right after lunch everyday and turn off the lights and throw a dozen bouncy balls at walls and they'd be bouncing everywhere, hitting you in the back, the head. All while we're just hysterically laughing.
ItsMichaelRay · 2 points · Posted at 19:45:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
muffinmccool · 5 points · Posted at 14:42:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
do the same thing but throw it at our door our mom hated it
rose_tyger · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same but garage door - big and echoey and really annoying to my mom
BucknChange · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this on the side of the house (brick). Spent hours playing and an equal amount of times look for the ball in the bushes.
DangerDragonGaming · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds fun! Also, happy cake day!
PizzafaceMcBride · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thats genius! I wish I had thought of a game like that.
bigpandamonium · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little I'd flip over the wooden rocking chair, crawl underneath and pretend I'd be fixing a car.
xuxebiko · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day! 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂
mercurius5 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take glow-in-the-dark bouncy balls into a nearly completely black room in the basement and chuck them at each other.
creedquabityashuitz · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad did this as a kid. The wall fell down.
LittleGoblin · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine would throw it up the stairs and try to hit us like targets as we dodged and hid behind the hallways corners on our stairway lol
beastofthefarweast · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I definitely played this game as well lol
clamalo · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
mikeylee31 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would turn the lights off in his room and shut the doors and just throw the ball as hard as we could at a wall and stand in one place hoping the ball wouldn't hit us.
bence0302 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
SemperScrotus · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you a dog?
Bananas_are_theworst · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do this at recess! We would take a bouncy ball and chuck it at the brick outside wall and a group of kids would go running after it trying to catch it. Twist on the game of ‘500’
tunnelingballsack · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I lived on a steep hill that wasn't very busy, so in the fall we used to collect fallen walnuts and roll them down the hill to see who could get them into the creek at the bottom.
BoozyMcSuds · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would turn off the light in the bathroom and chuck a bouncy ball at the wall. The two desired outcomes were that it would hit one of us or go in the toilet. We weren’t the brightest.
PTech_J · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to do that when my room got too messy. She'd toss a few quarters in my room so I had to clean up to find them all.
doggscube · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s like house ball. Throw the ball up on the roof, the one who catches it wins. Repeat.
shutts67 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take a superball, bounce it off of the sidewalk and into the roof. The gutter would make it bounce weird when it came off the roof
moondeli · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to throw one on my garage roof because it would roll back down and I could play catch with myself!
Spaghettiboobin · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Until it would catch in the gutters. We also did that with a 🎾!
bookworm009 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would block off the hallway and throw bouncy balls at each other as hard as well could.
pollorojo · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do something kinda like this with a friend. Except we'd close the door and everything and just whip it into a corner and hope it didn't hit us.
NukeML · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah those ones that are smaller than a human eyeball. It could be anywhere.
ryandunn01 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would put different objects on top of the fan blades in the room. Then turn the fan on and lay down in the room and whoever got hit was out.
HoboTheClown629 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with tennis balls on our front porch, only we called it Stoop Ball. It had baseball rules and the further it went, the more bases it was worth if it hit the ground. Teams of one or two. One team “bats” while the other attempts to catch the balls before they hit the ground. Played this intermittently for years.
Bigfatfresh · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically fetch! I love it..
Duderds · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would do this but going down water slides. One would go down and then the other would whip the bouncy ball down the slide so the slider could try to beat it and then grab it before the end. Was a blast till one time I whipped it as hard as I could and accidentally hit my friend in the eye
leadabae · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
are you and your brother golden retrievers?
Soul1traveler · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice! My sister and I would throw a handful of them into the hallway and try to get through without getting hit by them bouncing off the walls. Man this thread is really taking me back to some great times...
pcrnt8 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my best friend and i would go in our garage and absolutely chuck a super ball as hard as we could. first person to get hit by it lost. those things hurt sometimes...
StaySharpp · 18282 points · Posted at 14:53:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
“My horses.” Whenever we were on a road trip, or honestly on any sort of drive, my family would try and spot horses before anyone else did. You had to shout “MY HORSES!” and then count them. It was a running tally but no one ever really kept score once the trip finished. Whoever had the most was the winner.
There was a way to get back in the game however. If you drove past a graveyard or church cemetery, you could yell “ BURY YOUR HORSES!” and everyone who had horses would go back to zero except the one who spotted the cemetery.
It was a cutthroat game and if someone had a lot of horses (i.e. just drove past a farm and brother has 13) then the whole family would be on high alert looking for cemeteries. It was a fun way to pass the time.
I’ve unconsciously played the game in friends cars because I’m so conditioned at this point and it scared the shit out of them haha. It was dead quiet and we drove past a farm. I ain’t giving up this chance to get ahead. Got my friends playing it now and I’ll keep the tradition alive.
*EDIT - Thank you guys for the gold and silver. I had no clue that this game was so popular! We thought about playing with cows but the numbers would have been so high haha. Horses were more rare and thus everyone had to be on high alert to spot them. Good times.
Cianistarle · 1936 points · Posted at 16:32:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I absolutely love this one! Going to start playing with my family!
StaySharpp · 99 points · Posted at 16:42:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Glad I helped pass the tradition along haha.
wardrich · 69 points · Posted at 18:27:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's actually a pretty common game I think, though it's usually played with cows.
ColoneISanders · 25 points · Posted at 22:53:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Honestly it's the first I've ever heard of it, but then again my family and I didn't really play any car games
anonymousyoshi42 · 10 points · Posted at 22:55:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love it toooo! Going to start a family to play this.
genxenial · 6 points · Posted at 22:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played it with cattle. Called it cattle rhumy. Then we played it with chateaux on a trip in France. Good times had by all.
RaptorDoggo · 6 points · Posted at 22:22:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too lol
reno8a · 2 points · Posted at 16:00:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Awesome! Growing up in the 80’s my brother, cousin and I would play a similar game and call, ‘My Trans-Am’. Because you know,.. Smokey and the Bandit!
Heavy_Plough · 1278 points · Posted at 18:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Because my family lives in Wisconsin, we played a version called "Cows my side". You only score points if you are the first to shout "Cows my side!" and the cows were on your side. If they were on the other side of the vehicle, you could block the other players from scoring by saying "Cows your side!"
Cemeteries killed the cows of everyone on that side of the vehicle. You would also lose all of your cows if you claimed cows early, but they turned out to be horses or some other livestock.
1-1-19MemeBrigade · 962 points · Posted at 21:15:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And if you see a cow statue, you get one immortal cow, which was unaffected by graveyards.
This being rural Wisconsin, immortal cows are far more common than they have any right to be.
Jellyfishtacocat · 78 points · Posted at 22:00:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/brandnewsentence
Eternity_Incarnate · 21 points · Posted at 23:10:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/2brandnewsentences
BananaSlamYa · 3 points · Posted at 05:24:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/subsifellfor
opalesense · 12 points · Posted at 22:51:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You had me wondering about the cow statues until I read the second sentence... checks out.
PastCustomer · 8 points · Posted at 23:04:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
offBrandon · 7 points · Posted at 23:25:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kopp’s parking lot by Bayshore in Milwaukee has a whole herd of immortals
PressinPckl · 4 points · Posted at 23:18:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Harvard. Home of milk day. And an immortal cow now.
KickSidebottom · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does Harvard still have the Milk Day parade?
a_junebug · 3 points · Posted at 01:50:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indeed. Mark your calendar!
http://www.milkdays.com
ALTO_HUSKY1 · 5 points · Posted at 05:03:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I will MALK my calender
Empty__Jay · 3 points · Posted at 00:53:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's a giant one in Manitowoc.
JustTrustMeOnThis · 3 points · Posted at 12:26:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you'd like to add the world's largest cow to your immortal cow collection, head over to New Salem, ND for Salem Sue.
Fun fact, I lost my virginity in a car under Salem Sue's approving gaze. Classy!
whangadude · 2 points · Posted at 00:34:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The town of Morrinsville New Zealand has like 30 cow statues all painted up around the place, that'd be an instant win
cheesycheesling · 2 points · Posted at 05:15:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Immortal cows” 😂😂
a_junebug · 1 points · Posted at 01:49:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not to be out done by the Harvard, IL Milk Day festival's Hamilda!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard,_Illinois
http://aroundme.aseev.com/photo/20170621190012
hndt0036 · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife and I play this game withy Teslas. We use to live in a rural community and they were super rare. Now we’re in a larger urban area and they’re everywhere! The game is almost becoming too much to handle.
Jobadiahhh · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There are many immortal cows in poteau, OK as well.
chewbubbIegumkickass · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is hilarious. I'm going to teach it to my kids on our next road trip.
HugeDyno · 26 points · Posted at 21:19:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We play “THOSE COWS ARE MY COWS” all caps because you have to yell it as loud as you can. I’m undefeated at “THOSE COWS ARE MY COWS.”
Sidewyz · 3 points · Posted at 21:50:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looked at your username, now I want you to yell “THOSE ARE MY NASUTOCERATOPS”
HiDadImOfficer · 12 points · Posted at 23:53:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite variation of these games was "Hey Cow." You had to yell "hey cow!" whenever you passed by cows, and only the cows that turned to look at you scored you points.
The_Insomnic · 10 points · Posted at 22:33:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember seeing a heard of 300. Turns out they were BISON and I had negative cows for the rest of the game.
makeyourowndamnbeer · 6 points · Posted at 22:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minnesotan here. We play(ed) this too. The exact same game. Grew up playing it with my folks, and now I play it with my kids.
Never claim there’s a cemetery on your side, it’s up to the other side to wipe out your points.
I like the added rule of cow statues being immortal points, where cemeteries won’t erase those points.
rellimja7777 · 5 points · Posted at 01:08:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Cows" as well, with some differences: You could claim ANY cows, any side. If you claimed "CHURCH" first, your cows "got married" and had babies, i.e., doubled the number of your cows, no matter how many. If you claimed "CEMETERY" first, you could kill all any other player's cows. My son once killed several million cows at once (you could really rack up the cows on a long trip, with the babies thing).
DrThaddeusVenture · 4 points · Posted at 00:44:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife yells “HEYYYY COWWWW” out of the car window and however many cows look up, that’s how many points you get. It’s pretty adorable and I can’t wait until our kids are old enough to play.
praiseullr · 3 points · Posted at 23:13:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cows and crosses in Pittsburgh
killerthompson · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same exact game, except we called it "Cows & Cemeteries", like a bizarro world "Chutes & Ladders"
yourfriendbigkay · 2 points · Posted at 23:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our family played a similar game around Christmas time. We counted Christmas lights on your side of the road. The lights had to be outside and Christmas trees that you could see through the window didn't count. It was my fav part of Christmas lol
jay-fandoms · 2 points · Posted at 23:36:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Since I'm in PA we used to try and count all the horse and buggies that passed by, and whoever counted the most won, it was very simple mostly because I don't have any siblings.
faceless_combatant · 2 points · Posted at 23:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, we (Californian, though) play Cows on My Side. But we also upped it (as adults, since we obviously still play)—so every animal has a cow ratio. Horses are 2:1. Baby cows are 3:1. Llamas/alpacas are 5:1, etc. the rarer the animal, the more cow points they’re worth.
AptlyLux · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played with cows too!
mr_hecknition · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family played a version similar to this. We would call "Those cows are my cows!" whenever we drove by a herd of cows. "Herd" being defined as two or more cows. And if we drove past a cemetary we would say, "your cows are all dead!" Cemetaries killed the cows of everyone in the car except the person that called it.
uid_zero · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family did this as well, but we didn't block the other side of the car.
So basically my sisters would decide where to sit depending on where they were traveling.
And being at least ten years younger than all my sisters, they were out of the house when I was old enough to remember this game.
_neon_reflected · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We work this game, minus the graveyard, with Christmas lights every year. You can only pick the lit homes on your side to count them against your tally, however if the person on the other side of the car calls the lights first, you're out of luck. BUT: you can ONLY count the lights on YOUR side of the car towards your own score, once again... unless the person on the other side of the car calls it first. This game provides some GREAT sibling fights on each and every simple damn drive. Thank heavens the season is short.
noisufnoc · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
From Ohio here, my family did the cow version
cookiesrejected · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I heard about this game from a Wisconsinite whilst on a drive south down the 101. We started spotting so many hitchhikers/walkers/homeless/dirtbags that we started playing “dirtbags my side” it got pretty heated.
SomnumScriptor · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played My Cows, but instead of cemeteries, it was bales of hay. If you claimed they hay, the other cows all starved. Due to the abundance of hay, it was a fast moving game.
trees202 · 1 points · Posted at 01:49:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once preemptively excitedly pointed out some lovely sheep to my husband... Turned out to be bales of hay...
sorryighosted · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was there ever anyone in the middle seat? Did they have both sides?
didodecarthage · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the cow game exactly like this, except we added that if you pass a water tower on your side, the water saved half your cows if you come across a cemetary after it. Also I love how everyone has come up with this game independently. I honestly thought my family had come up with it.
Sparx86 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg my girl still plays this game. I actually drive past cemeteries on her side in my home town for her to lose. She’s from Boston.
Aln-met-tyr · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I learned this game from a canadian and have now introduced it to New Zealand. Itd absolutely CUTTHROAT
doctorwhom456 · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:49 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that way too! Plus, if you passed a church, all cows on that side would double.
annelinda · 54 points · Posted at 20:57:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We do this with cows and McDonald’s instead of horses and graveyards! Except the way we play, the least amount of cows wins. So we’ll see cows and say “_____ I give you these cows!” And he or she can only get rid of them at a McDonald’s.
tofusaurus_rex · 6 points · Posted at 03:57:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
McDonald’s is a cows graveyard, so it still fits.
annelinda · 2 points · Posted at 05:56:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exactly!
AtelierAndyscout · 27 points · Posted at 18:26:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this as horses, churches, and graveyards. Car was split up by side, left and right. If you spotted a horse on your side you got 5 points or 10 if it was an all white bourse. Churches on your side got 100 points. But if the enemy team spotted a graveyard on your side, you lost all your points. Since many graveyards have a church, sometimes you didn’t call the church since alerting the other team to it would ensure they’d look over to check.
iamREPTAR_runaway · 4 points · Posted at 21:05:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I like this one. We have a road trip coming up and this sounds like a fun way to pass time :)
throwawayitisone · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No lie, I had to read that 4x before I understood the play. In my defense, I just got back from a Latin restaurant where we were at a language deficit. Food was fire. So was the beer.
acherem13 · 24 points · Posted at 21:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long roadtrips I love to play the Alphabet Game. The goal is for everyone to finish the alphabet in order from A to Z by pointing to signs that start with that letter. A sign can only be claimed by one person so everyone needs to stay on high alert.
Example- "Auto Shop" , "Beldens", "Chick Fila", Dennys", ... ect.
It's everyone for themselves. It always gets interesting around "Q" and "V-Z" because those signs are definitely harder for us to find. "La Quinta" is usually a pass for Q as well as any sign that begins with "The" for the preceding letter.
wpgra1 · 19 points · Posted at 21:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same game, however certain horses got you varying points.
Our road trips generally took way longer due to disputes and my mum turning the car around to verify the horse spotted. I fucking loved that game.
monkeyjax · 40 points · Posted at 17:45:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this in my family, too! Once, we started playing on a tour bus. Some people around us overheard our game. They clearly didn't know this was a game because I heard them saying, "oh, I guess some people have never seen this many horses before!" 🤦♀️😄
Bob002 · 16 points · Posted at 19:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We call it Bury Your Horses (and still play it). One time, rolling through Oklahoma on the way back from my grandmother's funeral we drove past several hundred horses on both sides of the road. Rules are: any time we're in the car, it's game on. You can't really call the cemetaries in certain places anymore cuz you know they are there. Just played it last week, though.
AudioBugg · 16 points · Posted at 22:24:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played this in college but called it "Hey Cow!" You had to roll down your window and yell "HEY COW!!" as loud as you could. How ever many cows looked at you was how many points you got. If you drive past a cemetary everyone lost all their cows. Omg we all laughed so hard playing this on road trips.
MooseClobbler · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's awesome!
omg_for_real · 30 points · Posted at 17:05:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Better than punch buggy. No bruises, lol.
StaySharpp · 10 points · Posted at 17:06:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh no quite the opposite haha. It can turn into WWIII pretty easily.
omg_for_real · 10 points · Posted at 17:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made the mistake of teaching my kids punch buggy. I legit had to stop the car to separate them. Maybe I won’t teach them my horses.
StaySharpp · 7 points · Posted at 17:26:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s only as rough as you want it to be. My brother and I were already physical with each other. No one ever got hurt; we were just competitive.
OP_4chan · 4 points · Posted at 21:46:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have seen someone stabbed during a game of monopoly.
Any game can be violent.
jagpag · 13 points · Posted at 21:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Living in Kansas we played a similar game called "the Windmill Game". If you spotted one, you shouted "Windmill!", with an additional "-spinning!" If it happened to be turning. Stationary windmills were worth 1 point, but turning ones got you 3, and you could wait to get closer to see if it was turning or not. But, if you called a windmill that was later discovered to be a conveniently shaped tree or something else other than an actual windmill, it was -5 points. Still a cutthroat game. Pictures of windmills on billboards counted, but turbines did not
IHaveCheatsOn · 11 points · Posted at 21:53:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I play this, we would also yell "HORSE ROBBER!" whenever you saw a horse trailer on the road. (parked ones don't count) Whoever yells it first gets every other players' horses.
Sparkles58 · 10 points · Posted at 17:48:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know a family that plays this but they also do boats and water towers along with the horses. The boats being like the horses and the water towers being like the cemetery.
TheEternal · 9 points · Posted at 19:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is like pub cricket. You take it in turns (or whoever spots it first depending on the variant) to spot pub signs. You get a point for each leg the sign has. So the King George = 2 The King's Head = 0 Black Horse = 4 I want to name a pub the Millipede and Centipede just to fuck with anyone else who plays it.
littlehollah · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"the rat and parrot" would be 6?
TheEternal · 4 points · Posted at 22:08:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's the idea. There are some outlandish ones though. One time an argument was made for a wine glass to count as one leg for its stem.
voodoobiscuits · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah. I just commented about this. We did it with feet instead of legs. Paws and hoofs included. I always wanted to name my pub The Coach and Ten Thousand Horses.
OSUTechie · 9 points · Posted at 22:10:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's things like this... Most us who are around the age of 30 or older played this with our parents. This was pre-internet. So it's amazing how something like this can be so wide spread. Where did this game originate, how did it spread, etc...
throwawayitisone · 3 points · Posted at 23:22:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I appreciate that observation. Made me think. Thanks.
Kato_LeAsian · 14 points · Posted at 21:20:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just played a game very similar to this called “My Cows” on a roadtrip with my sports team. Same basic idea but slightly different: person calls “My Cows”, you can marry your cows with a church and double your cows (cows were always very inbred), and a graveyard you can kill all of one person’s cows.
I was leading with 5.5 trillion cows, the 2nd place person has a few thousand. I’m on fire. We get to the last stretch of the trip through some back country roads. Person sees a tiny ass graveyard on his side of the car. 5.5 trillion cows slaughtered.
leesafrank · 7 points · Posted at 21:18:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing this as a kid too! We played with cows tho, called the game "Cows and Graveyards", very original of us.. Virginia/Tennessee by chance?
StaySharpp · 5 points · Posted at 21:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
North Carolina actually. But my mom and her sister were the first ones to play when they were little. They grew up in rural Michigan.
GeniGeniGeni · 7 points · Posted at 21:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
YELLOW CAR!
Moosifer26 · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
YELLOW CAR!!!
LordCrun · 3 points · Posted at 06:55:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You're ALWAYS playing yellow car!
Taco2010 · 6 points · Posted at 18:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one makes me happy :) I loved road trips with my parents growing up and this will definitely be in my list of games to play when I do road trips of my own:)
Zorakas · 5 points · Posted at 19:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We play something similar to this in my family only we call it Bingo and you have to shout bingo for every yellow car you see essentially
mrlunes · 6 points · Posted at 22:43:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of ed ed and eddy when ralph and ed yelled thats horse and punched each other
StaySharpp · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I miss that show.
calculust_ · 4 points · Posted at 21:12:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We do this but with cows and we shout “YOUR COWS ARE DEAD” when we pass a graveyard. One time my sister drew a grave on a sticky note and we counted it.
bibblia · 4 points · Posted at 21:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is absolutely incredible and I’ll pass it along to the kids! Thank you, I don’t know why this is so funny to me
hotmes403 · 4 points · Posted at 21:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I play a similar game with friends, called Horse Damn.
Basically try to spot a horse first. Shout out, HORSE. The rest of the car replies with DAMN.
SentientDust · 3 points · Posted at 22:28:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's my horse! jug music intensifies
andr2eea · 3 points · Posted at 23:25:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play with my mum 'the next one is mine' with cars coming from behind us and we'd see if it was a nice car or not etc because we had to walk and couldn't really afford a car.
B0h1c4 · 6 points · Posted at 21:54:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My daughters play a similar game, only instead of looking out the window, they look at their phones. And instead of horses, they try to "heart" every single picture on Instagram until we arrive at our destination.
...actually they continue the game after we reach our destination. It's totally different now that I think about it.
KubosKube · 3 points · Posted at 21:15:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family is less than three weeks away from a very long road trip, and I am very excited to try it out!
apc67 · 3 points · Posted at 21:17:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this as "my cows" but it somehow evolved into "my zombies killed your cows". You got zombies from cemeteries. If you had zombies, the next cemetery kills cows. A cop car kills your zombies.
tr3vorw · 3 points · Posted at 21:31:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fun and common road trip game, most play with cows.
Fun Fact; It was even once seen being played in the [adult swim] cartoon The Venture Brothers. Brock and Hunter are seen playing, they switch drivers once Hunter loses all his cows due to a cemetery.
TheChance916 · 3 points · Posted at 21:46:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I’m def playing this now. Thanks man!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:47:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well this would have came in handy growing up in Kentucky.
beauhio · 3 points · Posted at 21:48:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Username checks out.
StaySharpp · 2 points · Posted at 22:05:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Always on watch. You never know when someone might call a graveyard....
Tunatail · 3 points · Posted at 21:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Best use of all caps I’ve seen in a very long time.
scmathie · 3 points · Posted at 23:11:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife used to play this when she was young. We played on a trek across the country and when driving with her sisters. I can confirm that it is cutthroat. She once called bury horse, and after a second I asked, 'Where?' She said that there was a sign that said a cemetery was up over the hill we had driven past. The lot of us came to the consensus that her horses were the only ones buried.
tyrone_pepinanjo · 3 points · Posted at 23:26:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey I used to play a version of this! With my brother and sometimes my mom, we would shout "A WINDMILL, I SAW IT FIRST". You may think that it is a way too long sentence, but we did it in Spanish (am Argentinian) so the sentence was really quick, so whoever finished the sentence first got the point. Sometimes it would scare the shit out of my dad who was driving (my mom doesn't drive) but he eventually got used to it. However like an hour after starting to play we always forgot who was winning and had to restart. We had fun on our trips to the beach :).
Chez_Rubenstein · 2 points · Posted at 21:21:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, but "my cows" and just yelled cemetery to kill everyone else's cows.
bengalegoportugues · 2 points · Posted at 21:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks for sharing we will keep the thing going :)
Mercer34 · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this but it was just calling cars we liked
MCKNIGHT26 · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't know anyone else played this game! Being from the midwest my family called it MY COW but played by the same rules!
NotClothed · 2 points · Posted at 22:03:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am really good at navigating google maps without looking. I would murder my family at this game on one trip and then retire.
dnz89 · 2 points · Posted at 22:04:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this one until we determined it was too distracting for the driver..
JesusLuvsMeYdontU · 2 points · Posted at 22:11:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just think of how many times your parents would drive by a cemetery or otherwise alter your route to equalize things.
mikerichh · 2 points · Posted at 22:11:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Awesome game thanks for sharing
An0regonian · 2 points · Posted at 22:18:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your family is awesome! Thanks for the new driving game!
decafcaramellatte · 2 points · Posted at 22:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is just genius. Totally going to start this with my kids and planning routes near cemeteries.
hughmungusrichard · 2 points · Posted at 22:29:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still play this game with my girlfriend when we go on trips lol, she never heard of it until she started dating me
DisturbedDodoBird · 2 points · Posted at 23:36:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’d be the scariest thing if my friend just shouted MY HORSES randomly lol
homeostasis555 · 2 points · Posted at 00:30:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh!!! We still play this in a different way.
Has to be at least 3 cows. Whoever sees them first you shout “my herd!” And when we see a graveyard you say “dingdong the cows are dead.”
gghyyghhgf · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are there many horses where you live ? I haven’t seen any horses in Bay Area
Celestialpoop · 2 points · Posted at 01:54:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Read somewhere it's a good idea to replace horses/cows with motorcyclists so when your kids grow up and are drivers themselves they are intrinsically more alert to them. Love the sentiment, yet to try it out..."my bike!!"...The cemetery part might be a bit morbid
Bfru04 · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know a midwesterner when
cmevans8 · 2 points · Posted at 05:16:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with cows
Quetzal00 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that with some friends in College whenever we were driving long distances. Except it was with cows and instead of cemeteries/graveyards it was water towers
all4hurricanes · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom taught me this but it was cows
all4hurricanes · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everytime you spotted a cow you would have to bury your horses
buddha0520 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to shop this same thing but were said scaboosky idk why but we did
Tobiramen · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with my dad and brother growing up, except with motorcycles
BoseVati · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still do this with cows,
"Those cows are my Cows!"
a-living-raccoon · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that sometimes but it was cows
SongRiverFlow · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you my sister? Cause we play this game but with cows and up until this point I thought we made it up
anaesthetic · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is amazing!
Freddiesgayercousin · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit we played this game all the time in highschool. I seriously thought my friend made it up until right now.
KeeksiLooLoo · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I learned that from my sister in law a few years ago and still play it on road trips!
Wiethop · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad and I did the same but it was called COWS. And it was with cows.
Jaej96 · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would do something similar when on road trips but it was whenever we saw a slug bug we would punch each other 4 times
Mrs-vegeta · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh my family plays this too! I thought it was a weird thing my grandparents made up. We call it “Horses and Graveyards”. I’m so happy someone else does this!! I sometimes play it with myself on long rides to work hahaha
pluggemr · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this as well. We called it "horse horse". We would jsut yell horse horse evertime we saw a horse. had to say horse horse multiple times if there were multiple horses
QuiteGoodSir · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
From Wisconsin, I've played with cows. However, graveyards were "banks" and could be used to save cows from getting killed, and spotting a body of water let's you kill cows.
musiclovaesp · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I want to play this now haha
josiahh123 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend's family plays this same game, except with cows!
Distend · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought all kids played this!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I PLAY THIS
TastyNinjaRYAN · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my family did that with cows
ChloeNobody · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same thing but with cows. You could only count on your side of the car and they all died at cemeteries.
branbranv · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a very similar game, but it was with cows, and we would call “COW ALERT”
Geshtar1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exact same game, but we played with cows, not horses
cant_decide_on_name_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this with cows! Although there was always a graveyard outside of town before we got to my grandparents house so whoever sat on that side of the car always lost.
Edit: I should mention that we played it differently with the graveyard. If you were sitting on the side of the car that faced the graveyard all your cows died. It worked because there was only my brother and I playing the game.
flipfloppink · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family plays a game very similar! It's just called Horses and everytime you see a horse you yell "HORSE!". We don't keep track of points at all but it's still very competitive to yell Horse first. If someone yells horse and no one else sees it, you yell "Neigh!" (pun on neigh/nay). We made it up a few years ago and play it all the time!
winkie5970 · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm in my 30s and my friends and I do this with cows on road trips.
thebrettos · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On road trips we play "American Flag". Be the first to spot it and call out "American Flag!" and you get a point. I live in the midwest and you'd be surprised at the amount of American flags on display..... Murica!!!!
MaximumSubtlety · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Luh dat. Luh dat.
ArsenalOwl · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cemetary OP, devs please nerf!
Mydogmike · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a similar game, we called it Blitz. Instead of horses we used dogs, when we'd see a dog the first one to yell Blitz got a point and if we came across a cemetery the first one to say Cemetery, you lose all your Blitzs', won. I haven't thought about that game in 30 years, thanks for the good memories.
markpoepsel · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this but with point for everything - Red barns, 10 points. White barns, 25 points. Cemetery, -25 points. Cemetery WITH Church + 50 points. Cows were 5. Horses were 10, I think.
We had to take a "side" of the car and it was left side vs. right side. Left side was disadvantaged because it was sometimes difficult to see across 4 lanes of traffic.
Also, you could call out cemeteries on the other side to make sure they deducted their points.
manda86oh5 · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We play this but with Cows. Also when you pass by a church you can "marry your horses" and double the number. It gets interesting when you pass a church with a cemetery, shit gets real!
I've gotten my friends to play it on long road trips.
chase_memes · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this but with cows
sylveradoavocado · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a similar game with my family we called the cow game. When we were in the car, the person who spotted the first cow would yell, “COW GAME.” They would be the winner for that car ride. I was pretty good at it and my little brother would always act butthurt and mopey for the rest of the drive.
hathasandey · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family did the same thing except with airplanes (Northeast US).
flynnster50 · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a similar game on church road trips, someone would yell "Hey Cows!!" And count how many looked up.
dead4seven · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds fun but it would be an all-way-tie for zero where I live pretty much every drive lol
philly_taco76ers · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would call this "roadside poker" in Pennsylvania at least from my parents
OP_Is_A_Filthy_Liar · 1412 points · Posted at 14:52:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, I remember this fondly.
When I was eight or so, my brother, I, and my best friend played "the dark man game."
It was hide-and-seek in my parents' basement with the lights out. The person looking for the other two wore a glow-in-the-dark Skeletor mask, so the two people hiding could see him, but he couldn't see us. It got really intense at times, trying to find your way in the dark and trying to be as quiet as possible. Also, my parents' basement was unfinished, so occasionally you'd bump into a nail etc. Made it extra dangerous, lol.
zigzagzil · 72 points · Posted at 15:38:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played basically this but called it the "alien game". Basement with the lights out, sometimes with teams, one or two people as the "alien" (that was hiding in the dark), and then a couple people (or more) as the "hunter" who had a nerf gun and a flashlight with a sock on it so it didn't shine much light out.
If you shot the alien before they touched you you got to be the alien, I think.
Also the basement was super old and unfinished so it was probably stupidly dangerous but lots of fun.
BioBachata · 7 points · Posted at 02:18:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this but only 1 person would be the seeker and everyone else would coordinate to tag him. No sock though to tip the balance a little toward the lonely guy with the flashlight getting charged.
Nickyjha · 4 points · Posted at 05:44:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would have nerf wars in the basement with the lights off. The attacking team would come down the stairs and rescue the "hostage" in one of the rooms, while the defenders would try to stop them.
zigzagzil · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh yeah this was a staple too. We used to set up ambushes with hostage notes and stuff, we called it the "terrorist game" (kinda dark).
XxTyraelxX · 36 points · Posted at 18:39:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha no way - I used to play this with my step kids.
They called it "Black Man" for awhile which I tried to steer them away from "Ahh the black man is going to get us!" just sounded pretty facepalm lol.
They switched to "Ghost Man."
My favorite was my step daughter had a sleepover and they were trying to "summon ghosts" in the living room or something and I could hear them saying "okay say it three times... ghost man... ghost man... ghost man" and on the third time I flipped the breakers in the house and they screamed so loud I thought the police were going to be called lol.
I had my costume on at that point and they were convinced they had summoned some crazy ghost.
Good times.
kuubi · 19 points · Posted at 23:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Germany we actually have a game called "Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann?" which translated would be something like "who is scared of the black man?" in which the children have to run away from a person, the 'black man', trying to catch them.
Personally I always imagined the catcher being a pitch black person - as in not the skin color black but just completely black as in darkness.
Kubanochoerus · 5 points · Posted at 21:39:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sound like a great step mom, that’s hilarious 😂
XxTyraelxX · 13 points · Posted at 22:13:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Step dad but thanks 🙂❤
nameless88 · 32 points · Posted at 15:52:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds dope af, I never thought about having the person who was It have a glow mask on. That sounds so menacing, haha
rabidassbaboon · 27 points · Posted at 16:14:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My older brother had a strobe light in his room so we'd sneak in there and take it out into the basement. Then we'd shut off all the lights, turn it on, and it would create something like a slow motion effect. We'd then either play tag or have pillow fights like that. It's kind of funny how useful the dark is for childhood entertainment.
kari2ten · 19 points · Posted at 18:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! We called it "the dark game" and upped the ante by forcing all players to stare directly at the overhead ceiling light for about a minute before we flipped the lights out and let everyone fumble around in the dark
seeking_hope · 2 points · Posted at 03:16:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would do this for the “seeker” but everyone else hiding didn’t. It was fun.
SeaTie · 12 points · Posted at 18:37:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hah! We had a similar game we played in my friend's garage around their giant pool table.
The person who was "it" had a broken lighter that could only throw sparks. They'd come into the room and start madly sparking and chase us around the pool table in until they tagged someone.
It was super suspenseful because you could hold off on sparking the lighter and sneak around in the dark room, get up right next to your friend and light up the room and scare the crap out of them...
noonaboona · 9 points · Posted at 19:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it murder in the dark. But if we were found they would have guess who we were so we would try to disguise ourselves by doing stuff to our hair and adding extra layers of clothes.
100GT100 · 2 points · Posted at 05:33:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep! And the murderer had a blanket over them!
sweetharriett · 6 points · Posted at 18:29:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love that it was a Skeletor mask.
skeletor_apologist · 5 points · Posted at 02:01:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
me too.
wolsel · 7 points · Posted at 19:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game like this at our grandma's house. We had a ton of plastic chairs we'd set up as a maze for one person. They had to get to the end and claim the teddy bear pr something to win. Everyone else would hide in the dark and scare them.
The last time that we played, the maze runner got clobbered by a body pillow.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:01:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the same game, but it was with an super dim electric light saber to light the seeker. Super dangerous basement, too.
NoRagrets4Me · 3 points · Posted at 18:30:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man that does sound fun!
My friends and I would play with Nerf guns in the basement with nothing but a bunch of blacklights and strobe lights on. It's was crazy! Seeing people running with strobe lights makes them look like they are teleporting really fast in one direction and it's super scary. Not to mention your can't see where you're really shooting.
dbmoelle · 3 points · Posted at 00:40:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did a variant of this as well. I had a Michael Myers mask and I was able to download the theme song and play it on repeat through an old boombox. Anyway, my brother would have his entire baseball team spend the night and I would slowly stalk them through the basement and stab them with one of those retractable plastic knives. The only way to survive was make it up the stairs. I'm pretty sure like half of them still can't watch the franchise.
TheBlueCrystals · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played something similar but we called it "Dark Room".
npaige4 · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes we called this the dark game but to even up the antics the person who was “it” would have to close their eyes and stumble around but cheating was super easy since it was also dark af
smolangery · 2 points · Posted at 19:16:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game too except everyone was "it" and we all used lightsabers that lit up. So to hit someone you'd have to turn on your lightsaber and reveal your location, which basically resulted in a bunch of sprinting attacks in a dark, unfinished basement.
grabberbottom · 2 points · Posted at 22:11:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "in the dark" where one person would go upstairs and the rest of us would set up furniture and boxes as booby traps in the basement. When we were done setting traps the one upstairs would turn off the lights and come downstairs and would try to make it to the far wall of the basement in pitch black with everyone else trying to stop them from advancing. I don't know how we didn't lose any teeth.
gghyyghhgf · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds super fun!! And scary
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:57:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What the fuck thats scary af
JJJackAttack · 2 points · Posted at 05:08:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lotta stress when you said “the dark man game” but it’s so wholesome
madhaxor · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
a game like this i played with all my cousins, basically a variation of hide and go seek, whoever the seeker was would wait upstairs while we all hid, then the lights would go off, and the seeker would have to find us in the dark, but if you scared the seeker, you were not 'it'. If the seeker scared you, you were definitely it. also, lots of rubber band gun wars
DeathandFriends · 2 points · Posted at 09:06:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
glow in the dark mask is a nice touch
Tiber11603 · 2 points · Posted at 21:23:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my little brother and a friend played something similar, but we called it "murder in the dark."
Whenthenighthascome · 2 points · Posted at 22:58:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have you ever seen Silence of the Lambs? It must be some primordial fear of shapeless things in the dark attacking you.
OP_Is_A_Filthy_Liar · 2 points · Posted at 03:10:10 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
I saw it years after we had "invented" our game, but that makes total sense from a horror perspective, the only difference being our "villain" was visible, while Jodie Foster was the protagonist and had night vision.
Delicious-Hot-Dog · 6710 points · Posted at 14:03:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grand ma had a bunch of huge novelty size balls of yarn when I was growing up. I'm talking these things had to have been like four feet in diameter with yarn as thick as my child arms. And what my grand ma would do is unravel the yarn balls and stick one of our toys in the center and then yarn the yarn ball back up nice and tight and the toss the yarns balls in the back yard. The idea was we had to get the toy out of the center, but we weren't allowed to use our hands to do it. Our hands would be tied behind our backs so we didn't cheat. We'd be out there for hours hurling our tiny bodies at these giant yarn balls trying to unravel them and get to that sweet, sweet toy in the middle and me and my sister would work together where she'd find a long branch and use her mouth to fish it down the back of my shirt and into my pants and I'd hold the branch with my butt cheeks and so with the branch sticking out, I'd kind of be like a human fork. We usually made good progress with that move, but that yarn was so heavy. Sometimes we'd succeed, sometimes we wouldn't, and when we didn't, grand ma would walk outside shaking her head in mock disappoint, grab whatever loose end there was and unravel the whole yarn ball with one clean jerk. I miss grand ma.
rfp0231 · 1086 points · Posted at 20:03:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was reading this and thinking it sounded super fun and I got to the part about the stick and just died laughing. So unexpected lol
vertical_prism · 67 points · Posted at 01:54:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was already laughing at them “hurling their tiny bodies” but the stick part almost made me choke
360T-Posed · 17 points · Posted at 05:35:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Then I got the the last sentence :,(
aboothca · 12 points · Posted at 04:33:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same here, actively dying. Peace
GhostofErik · 1385 points · Posted at 15:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is an excellent idea to keep children occupied for long periods of time! Also super fun :)
mrbubbles2 · 787 points · Posted at 16:00:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Geez, this dude really has a stick up their butt eh?
Whiskey_Baron · 459 points · Posted at 21:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yea no sense in just kicking the ball to unravel it when you can have your sister shove a stick in your ass and become a human fork...
DeDHaze · 45 points · Posted at 00:54:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/nocontext
ImperiumDrakon · 13 points · Posted at 04:04:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/evenwithcontext
doggy_lipschtick · 15 points · Posted at 00:16:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I scrolled up, down, expected him to morph into a delicious hot dog, but then he didn't...
Now I'm just trying to figure out a buns of steel joke.
Sparky400Hz · 6 points · Posted at 03:27:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well why else would your sister shove a stick in your ass?
The_DriveBy · 4 points · Posted at 05:59:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was at that moment I double checked the user name for a shittymorph.
Peedy83 · 201 points · Posted at 16:09:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait...you held a branch with your butt cheeks!?!
xool420 · 43 points · Posted at 20:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This guy, asking the real questions
horsenbuggy · 46 points · Posted at 15:46:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your grandma is a legend! I'm in awe.
LehighAce06 · 118 points · Posted at 17:40:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You lost me at "stuck a branch in my ass"
delvach · 8 points · Posted at 00:56:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Really? That always makes me swipe right.
milo_mb · 42 points · Posted at 21:32:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was already crying laughing at this image before I even got to the stick part. I'm done for.
wildair · 17 points · Posted at 21:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Seriously, I think I am going to hyperventilate, I can't stop laughing at this.
dannixxphantom · 34 points · Posted at 20:49:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My great grandma has a ton of yarn. So my brother and two cousins (much younger than me and my sister) take them and make a gigantic spiderweb in her back sitting room. The only rule is that they have to roll it all up when they're done. Occupies them for the entire day.
roachezmo · 105 points · Posted at 15:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What the fuck, mate
NotaSureThing · 26 points · Posted at 16:11:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think this is my favorite
disqeau · 72 points · Posted at 15:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is literally insane and so fucking hilarious! I hope Wes Anderson sees this and uses it in an upcoming film.
wingedbuttcrack · 35 points · Posted at 18:08:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait, why didn't you kick it around to unravel it?
Smingowashisnameo · 89 points · Posted at 19:37:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why do that when you can stick a branch in your ass and.... yeah I don’t understand what they did with the branch in the butt..
BaronRacure · 20 points · Posted at 19:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am trying to figure that out as well...
Totalityclause · 19 points · Posted at 20:49:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stuck down back of pant leg, held in place with cheeks, makes movable pointy point without hands
PleaseNinja · 5 points · Posted at 22:41:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey get off his ass
Core_Four · 4 points · Posted at 00:53:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
trying so hard not to laugh out loud at work...
SamNoche · 18 points · Posted at 19:17:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They said it was like 4 feet wide so I imagine for a small kid kicking it around would be tricky.
MadAzza · 4 points · Posted at 04:31:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And the yard could be hilly or full of obstacles, without a lot of clear pathways.
zf420 · 17 points · Posted at 20:31:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one's my favorite. The mental image of 2 young kids flopping around a yarn ball in the yard is just too good.
TheVeryHungryCocoon · 17 points · Posted at 22:13:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
uhh..
big_mama_blitz · 15 points · Posted at 20:51:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HUMAN FORK!!! This is the best story hahahaaa! I would gladly give you an award if I had any idea how to! The laughs keep coming!!
FaithCPR · 7 points · Posted at 21:41:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Usually you click the three little dots on the comment and it gives you the option to give an award
big_mama_blitz · 7 points · Posted at 21:49:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks, was on desktop!
the_human_fork · 11 points · Posted at 00:41:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
you called?
m4gpi · 13 points · Posted at 23:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game kind of similar to this at a party (adults, but would work great for kids too): the host had prepared a big ball of goodies of varying value - wrapped candy, little toys/doodads, Starbucks gift card - rolled up in a long sheet of plastic wrap. Each player “has” the ball for some length of time, like 15 or 30 seconds, and tries to unwind it. Whatever falls out during the interval is theirs. When the interval is up they have to pass it to the next player. Just finding the start of the plastic took a few rounds. It was a lot of fun, and I got a cool sequined coin purse out of it.
PotatoesAndChill · 9 points · Posted at 03:03:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have so many questions. A ball of yarn that's FOUR FEET in diameter?!?!? Wtf, they're usually like 10-15cm across. Also, the whole stick-in-ass method seems weird AF, but whatever. If it looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid.
grill-tastic · 18 points · Posted at 17:02:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you a dog?
thelovelyfelii · 5 points · Posted at 03:48:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
exactly what i was thinking
suddenimpulse01 · 14 points · Posted at 21:32:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You lost me with the space between grandma
HooglaBadu · 11 points · Posted at 00:21:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao same. I adore the writing style from start to finish.
knockout-mouse · 7 points · Posted at 01:45:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not gonna lie; halfway through I had to look and see if I was being fooled (yet again) by u/shittymorph.
mollymarie23 · 4 points · Posted at 21:40:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How old were you?
tigsfa · 6 points · Posted at 22:18:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit this mental image is incredible.
mirantelope · 5 points · Posted at 22:19:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of when I leave my dog at home and I put some of his favorite treats in a kong
noodleghoul · 5 points · Posted at 22:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this reminds me of a toy you'd make your dog
Thizzcatz · 5 points · Posted at 02:27:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yarn? Sounds like rope.
bunniswife · 9 points · Posted at 20:29:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Right.........
fizikz3 · 10 points · Posted at 22:42:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
upinflamezzz · 4 points · Posted at 03:26:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid in grammar school it was always a joy to learn Ms. Quamm was substituting your class. She would bring this nylon filled with cotton and called it hot potato. She would have us all sit on the ground and pass it around until she lifted the needle on the record player. That woman must have been like 90 back then.
nathan6969 · 3 points · Posted at 03:27:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got about halfway through this before I had to check to make sure it wasn’t a u/shittymorph post
Lil-Maece · 4 points · Posted at 04:40:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Daddy, what did you do for fun before the internet?"
"Try to unravel a giant yarn ball with my butt stick, son."
XxroroxX · 3 points · Posted at 03:33:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I read this without knowing what yarn is (second language) so I just imagined it was a thick omnikin ball and I was oh so confused... (assumed unravel was another word for deflate)
Sweet, sweet google translate... doesn't explain what the fuck that was??
OhSheGlows · 3 points · Posted at 04:33:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds like the same concept behind my dog’s toys. I love the human form/image.
_tandrews · 3 points · Posted at 05:15:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
then * yarn the yarn ball * back up nice and tight
Gulliverlived · 2 points · Posted at 23:35:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You made me snort.
sppookypotpie · 2 points · Posted at 00:40:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
that would be a great username
throaway2269 · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
100% kid me would be like nah I ain't playing your bullsbit game
ipjear · 2 points · Posted at 01:37:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
How high were you when you write this
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:44:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If this was me and my brother's we probably would have found a way to choke each other out with the yarn instead of helping each other.
bugdog · 2 points · Posted at 02:50:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh God i am ded
dairyqueenmary · 2 points · Posted at 02:55:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
thank you for cracking me up
RicksPortalGun_ · 2 points · Posted at 03:15:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grand ma died to day and this is the first time I’ve smiled with her in mind. Thank you for this, stranger.
ivarvik · 2 points · Posted at 03:32:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in upstate new York and we would go ice breaking in the winter. Basically jump up and down on small frozen ponds and streams until the ice broke. Moms would have a look of horror when the neighborhood boys went home soaking wet in the middle of winter lol.
mcm7772 · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
this fan fic
pjjiveturkey · 2 points · Posted at 04:29:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, grandmas are amazing.
IQBot42 · 2 points · Posted at 14:50:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ken M?
kwhateverdude · 4 points · Posted at 23:15:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Best one on here
Dustin_00 · 2 points · Posted at 21:34:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now that I know the backstory, I'm going to have to pass on that u/Delicious-Hot-Dog.
CockFondler · 2 points · Posted at 22:49:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uh oh.
keekeroo2 · -2 points · Posted at 02:17:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This never happened. But the story made me laugh.
Ducks_own · 294 points · Posted at 15:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our signature game was Loserball, which went like this.
wholesome fun for everyone! Unfortunately I was the youngest so I was often the loser.
dronehot · 6 points · Posted at 01:07:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played something like this at a kids house whose basement was so covered in toys you couldn’t see the ground. So we would turn off the light and just chuck toys at each other across the room using other boxes or toys for cover.
Zesto_boi · 3 points · Posted at 07:17:40 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day, man
Ducks_own · 3 points · Posted at 12:59:34 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh snap, I had no idea! Thank you muchly.
nigella · 849 points · Posted at 15:09:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Not sure how my two older brothers and I came up with the game, but I remember it being stupid, dangerous fun.
One of my older brother's bedrooms had no windows, so if we put a towel under the door to block out the light, it was essentially pitch black in the room.
We also had one of those old film cameras that had an operational flash that would work whenever you hit the shutter button.
We also had a small rubber eraser, and that's all we needed.
What we'd do is line up at one end of the pitch black room, and one of us would throw the eraser towards the bed, and at the same time another would press the flash button on the camera, which would fill the dark room in a brilliant white light for just a millisecond, just enough so we could see a freeze frame of where the eraser was in its midflight and where it might be landing on the bed. The image would be burned into our eyes as the room went dark again, and from there, and us being precocious young boys, would then begin our vicious, violent race to see who could recover the eraser first.
I think our parents finally put a stop to the game when one of my brother's misjudged his initial launch angle after the flash went off, and dove face first into a jutting corner of the wall, as blood poured from his nose all over my other brother's bed in the pitch black room while we fought over that precious eraser.
After that got shutdown, I believe we went into the living room after each grabbing a sleeping bag from the storage room, and we would each climb into one backwards, so our head was at the foot of the sleeping bag. Once we were all settled in our bags, then we began our brutal battle to the death. We called it Slugfest, and I believe there is an old VHS tape of Slugfest '93 kicking around somewhere.
Good times!
tr3vorw · 157 points · Posted at 21:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you see top comments “Slug Wars” ?
nigella · 57 points · Posted at 21:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao holy shit that's hilarious
Imakenoiseseveryday · 37 points · Posted at 17:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Epic imagery of the eraser game.
Whoru87 · 10 points · Posted at 23:13:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a very similar game with a small ball and a teenage mutant ninja turtle camera with the same type of flash
nigella · 7 points · Posted at 23:48:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wtf, I'm so surprised we weren't the only incorrigibles playing this made up game!
ElegantSwordsman · 4 points · Posted at 00:16:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds fun. My friends and I would play “Scavengers in the dark,” which was basically like tag or nerf gun fighting or real fighting in pitch darkness indoors. Tons of fun. I broke my leg against a fireplace when my friend and I twisted into each other running full speed from opposite ends of a hall.
Cessnateur · 5 points · Posted at 07:04:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Please don't just let that simmer in our heads without following up and digitizing/sharing the video.
-HD2K- · 4 points · Posted at 23:45:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that with a bouncy ball
nigella · 4 points · Posted at 23:46:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol genius; even more chaos
minorstream · 3 points · Posted at 01:38:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay wait what at that last bit
minorstream · 3 points · Posted at 01:38:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moofoooken day Jah voo
teksti-tv666 · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I want to play the rubber game so bad!
chewbubbIegumkickass · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The shit we came up with to entertain ourselves before the internet 😂
swampy_pillow · 16915 points · Posted at 13:28:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not what it sounds like but my cousin and I used to play the "underwear" game. We would go into her laundry room which was in the basement with ample room, and both of us would grab someone's used underwear from the hamper. Then we'd fight each other trying to get the underwear over the other's head. Obviously it was disgusting and had to stop when someone caught us playing it.
daughterofpat · 2149 points · Posted at 15:12:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also played the underwear game with random chonies from the apartment complex laundry room!
MerkyBowman · 328 points · Posted at 15:48:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MandadnaM · 267 points · Posted at 16:13:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another term for underwear.
MerkyBowman · 48 points · Posted at 16:14:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cool- learned something new to me.
SturgiesYrFase · 22 points · Posted at 17:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ginch is another. Like inch but with a hard G like game up front there
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 17:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why does that sound like it should be some kinda slur?
"I'm tellin ya, Cleetus, the goddamn ginches are ruinin this country! Thinkin theyre better than us, drivin around in their hatchback convertibles, drinkin spicy lemonade with their ugly dogs. It makes me sick."
Beefcake_Avatar · 13 points · Posted at 18:12:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huh huh yeeea, you tell em skeeter!
GoldFishPony · 9 points · Posted at 19:10:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ginches got nothing though on those goddamn spinnakers! They wander around like the belong here! Why can’t they just stay where they belong, out of sight back across the sea.
SturgiesYrFase · 4 points · Posted at 19:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think this is my favourite reply to any of my comments. Thanks!
cockmaster_alabaster · 4 points · Posted at 00:50:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"How the ginch stole our jobs"
runnerguy1987 · 18 points · Posted at 17:44:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to date a girl in high school who was like that. Every time she took off her pants or wore tight clothes you could aways see her "game up front there".
SturgiesYrFase · 4 points · Posted at 19:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Niiiiiice
DreHeyHer · 10 points · Posted at 17:33:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought it was "Gitch". Like "glitch" with no "L"
SturgiesYrFase · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably just regional differences
spencergriffin · 6 points · Posted at 18:05:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underwear, what's that?
MerkyBowman · 10 points · Posted at 18:12:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this man is of the deep reddit. many explorers have tried to find the floor to either his bedroom or the depth of his knowledge of anime, and have failed in both ventures.
spencergriffin · 3 points · Posted at 21:53:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
with a name like merky you know
Lazyasswarlock · 10 points · Posted at 18:58:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Never hear of underwear before, tastes very strange!
spencergriffin · 0 points · Posted at 21:51:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
you one sick puppy
sephresx · 49 points · Posted at 17:21:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's Spanish slang for underwear. We say it all the time.
daughterofpat · 10 points · Posted at 16:24:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
haha underwear
Tech_Support · 14 points · Posted at 17:25:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cholo-bronies
DFW_diego · 4 points · Posted at 17:36:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As if bronies weren’t bad enough! You had to cholo-fy them!!
that_typeofway · 14 points · Posted at 17:49:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Pronounced cho-neighs - Mexican for underwear in general, but usually referencing boxers.
Ex: Those are some sick Cheech and Chong chonies, homie. I like how you’re still saggin’ yo khaki Dickies shorts in 2019, meng.
zeagulll · 11 points · Posted at 21:16:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always thought it was "cho-knees"
4ThaLolz · 6 points · Posted at 21:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Depends on weather or not you want to use the accent. I speak spanglish and I say cho-ness with an accent but my husband who is white has always used the cho-knees pronunciation. Either way, our 3 year old laughs everytime the word is used.
that_typeofway · 2 points · Posted at 23:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It goes both ways but the chicano drawl used on the -nies makes it sound more like -neighs. Kinda like man/meng, tomato/tomatto, it’s slang so there’s some flava to it.
Btw. You seem fun.
bloviateme · 3 points · Posted at 18:35:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes, chonies, or just chones.
maceilean · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sometimes chone-chones.
bloviateme · 1 points · Posted at 14:01:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
ChonAYs too
AldoComeCaldo · 4 points · Posted at 18:00:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some people call them choninos in Spanish
MsAnnabel · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends
forrestdog2 · 12 points · Posted at 17:11:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dads name is Pat. I am sonofpat.
daughterofpat · 17 points · Posted at 17:14:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did we just become best friends?
mattysimp27 · 6 points · Posted at 17:43:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It worked for Batman and Superman
Jefflebowski25 · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/beetlejuicing
balloonninjas · 4 points · Posted at 17:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And thats how we got hepatitis!
ohmyfuckingwow · 4 points · Posted at 18:28:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Upvote for "chonies" lmao
bootle6fireworks · 3 points · Posted at 01:11:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I upvoted because of the use of chonies.
cpgoat · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god that’s even worse
sometimesiamdead · 8113 points · Posted at 15:24:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
... Jesus christ kids are gross.
Edit: I'm even a mom. I love kids. They're still gross.
skyrimemes · 222 points · Posted at 16:46:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/kidsarefuckinggross
CatCanClimb · 52 points · Posted at 17:10:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/subsifellfor
bryxy · 50 points · Posted at 17:18:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:38:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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TrafficConesUpMyAsss · 39 points · Posted at 18:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t care about the screenshot, I just want you all to know I like to shove traffic cones up my Ass
the_honeyman · 3 points · Posted at 21:44:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
...wanna get a pizza?
TrafficConesUpMyAsss · 5 points · Posted at 21:51:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wanna get gonorreah but Pizza’s good too :D
_Planeboy · -17 points · Posted at 17:47:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lemme be in the screenshoot pretty please :)
IAmA_TheOneWhoKnocks · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It should be a real sub. I’ve been saying this for years.
rebeljoy3214 · 2 points · Posted at 21:44:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Be the change you want to see in the world
IAmA_TheOneWhoKnocks · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m at work and on mobile, so it’ll have to be someone else unless I remember to do it later
BloopityBlue · 24 points · Posted at 18:07:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
seriously. kids are vile. they're cute, but they're super gross.... poop, puke, and boogars. I have a 4 year old niece and I've never been sicker in my life til she came along. she's germy and has zero issue with coughing or sneezing right in my face. ugh.
sometimesiamdead · 17 points · Posted at 18:16:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Last week my 8 week old daughter shit out the back of her diaper up to her neck. Then my 5 year old son had an accident and pooped himself. Within 5 minutes.
WHY GOD WHY
MittensMcMeow · 8 points · Posted at 18:26:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey see, monkey do
TrudieKockenlocker · 8 points · Posted at 20:07:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey pee all over you
BloopityBlue · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
dude.
Fitz_Fool · 3 points · Posted at 01:39:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man. I use to get sick like once a year. Now I have two that go to daycare and I'm getting sick often. They just go in and mash their faces with all the other snot nosed kids.
I love them but they are walking petri dishes.
WhoSmokesThaBlunts · 63 points · Posted at 17:04:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm an uncle to 6 nephews and 2 nieces.. I love them all so much, but I'm also never having kids.
chubbshubbs · 21 points · Posted at 17:15:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same I have 3 nephews and 3 nieces and while I love them I wouldnt want to be their parent lol
articulateantagonist · 4 points · Posted at 20:40:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep. I'll be the cool auntie forever and give back the children when I've tired them out.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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ChadMcRad · 8 points · Posted at 17:35:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
...Unless they have siblings or other family with kids.
QuezzyMuldoon · 3 points · Posted at 17:44:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brother had a son. Family name continues on. Wife and I are in the clear!
Vizzy1225 · 5 points · Posted at 17:48:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eh, it’s a cool concept, but that’s definitely not a reason to have kids
xCloudrunner · 20 points · Posted at 17:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The username makes a lot of sense after the edit lol
ForTheHordeKT · 15 points · Posted at 18:32:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nah I'll give you gross lol. My mom used to have one of those oldschool rubber douches you washed and reused. She kept it hanging in the shower, because that is likely where she douched. She walked in on my older stepbrother playing with that fucking thing in the tub, using the little rubber hose to blow bubbles in his bathwater and shit. Now that's disgusting.
colleanwitit · 9 points · Posted at 18:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a single part of this made me not wanna throw the fuck up. At least it was your brother and not you.
ForTheHordeKT · 7 points · Posted at 18:58:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trust me, I was probably 9 or 10 at the time which would have made him 13 or 14. Years later, I'm 35 and he is 39. We still give him shit over it LOL
colleanwitit · 4 points · Posted at 19:21:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Props to him for making it this far without a good mental breakdown. My therapist would eat this shit UP
Acc87 · 13 points · Posted at 17:39:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember some kid magazine in the early 90s having scratch'n'sniff cards with stuff like "used socks" or "armpit"..
...man things we call "gross" are just learned. We find another persons underwear gross, but have no issue sitting on the same toilet seat butt naked. We also touch door handles thousands of people may touch in a week.
prlsheen · 9 points · Posted at 19:50:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Excuse me? Is this a guy thing? Every female person I know between 5 and 85 uses a liner or hovers when not in their home environment.
vulgar-vulcan · 4 points · Posted at 21:04:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As long as there are no stain it’s all fair game
suddenlyseemoor · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Erhm, yeah, it applies to all genders for sure.
Acc87 · 2 points · Posted at 06:08:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well there's your reason public women's toilets generally are a disaster compared to the men's variant. No, men don't hover. If we need to sit we sit
prlsheen · 0 points · Posted at 22:54:10 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
How many women's toilets do you frequent, I wonder?
This seems to be oddly insular logic without supporting empiricism.
Acc87 · 1 points · Posted at 07:54:43 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I file it under common knowledge, but here, in print: http://factoverfallacy.com/info/men-women-dirtiest-bathroom/
But how did you end up in a four day old thread??
prlsheen · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:01 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
The same way you did, commenting on my comment.
CastOfKillers · 6 points · Posted at 19:05:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So fucking gross. I have two little girls and the shit I've pulled out of their mouths...
silly_gaijin · 1 points · Posted at 07:36:57 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
. . . figurative shit, I'm hoping.
CastOfKillers · 1 points · Posted at 13:31:55 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mostly...
GapDragon · 4 points · Posted at 19:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's not a single Mom on the planet who would disagree with you.
Satans_Son_Jesus · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah I know, what am I supposed to do though?
I-Am-Worthless · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you’re a mom, than you know better than most.
Iwanttoiwill · 72 points · Posted at 16:06:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin chased me around her house with her dad's jock strap and I laughed so hard I threw up.
We were in high school
TheUnrulyGentleman · 14 points · Posted at 18:09:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm in the library. This actually made me laugh out loud.
Thank you.
jda-11 · 55 points · Posted at 15:27:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It makes sense now. He wasn’t bullying me, he was just playing “underwear” without me knowing.
GaryOakTPM · 10 points · Posted at 18:39:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s “The Underwear Game”, you uncultured swine.
jda-11 · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is there by chance another game where you constantly berate each other and try to make each other feel bad about themselves? Maybe he was just playing another game.
Pr3st0ne · 42 points · Posted at 16:45:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"it's not what it sounds like but it's pretty much just as gross as what you thought"
cheesymoonshadow · 14 points · Posted at 17:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grosser
anonmymouse · 4 points · Posted at 20:46:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
lmao, that's what I was thinking too.. it was pretty much exactly what it sounded like
MoCaramel · 30 points · Posted at 16:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers did something similar as kids and we all shared the same room with my twin bros on a bunk bed and me on a twin. We would get the dirty underwear from the hamper and throw it at the fan and hope one of us doesn’t get hit. We called it underwear roulette.
vegetas_scouter · 4 points · Posted at 18:29:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this is so fucking funny to me!
MoCaramel · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
funny thing was my brother on the top bunk would get the most of the collateral and never liked it
AnEnemyStando · 20 points · Posted at 17:54:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
iknowthisischeesy · 23 points · Posted at 15:47:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is hilarious. Underwear over someone's head reminds me of monkeys. There were a lot of monkeys in our colony. One day one monkey took someone's underwear which was drying outside and wore it over its head. It was one of the most hilarious things I have seen.
Duck-of-Doom · 11 points · Posted at 17:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
are you a wild thornberry?
Cries_in_shower · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
same
ender89 · 11 points · Posted at 18:02:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Should have called it "underwar"
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 17:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You both grew up to have panty fetishes didn’t you..
ellg91 · 15 points · Posted at 15:24:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think this is the best game idea in the thread.
wormsgums · 8 points · Posted at 16:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So it is what it sounds like.
javan_hedges · 9 points · Posted at 17:08:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s exactly what it sounds like
Flgardenguy · 7 points · Posted at 17:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And thus began someone’s used underwear fetish.
Ackmiral_Adbar · 5 points · Posted at 17:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So what you mean by "It's not what it sounds like" is "It's exactly what it sounds like."
fozz179 · 6 points · Posted at 18:49:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I used to make giant pillow piles and put underwear over my head and dive into it. I remember I was pretending to be a chimney sweeper? Makes no sense, just this random very early memory I have.
Making giant pillow piles in general were one of my great passions as a young child. I would rip all the cushions off the couch and toss them into the centre of the room. Then dive into it and dig around like a mole. I wish I was small sometimes so I could still do it.
thatyawningfeeling · 5 points · Posted at 18:12:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this exact same game with one of my friends from cub scouts. One time, one of us (can’t remember whether it was me or him) flung a shot that landed the underwear on top of one of those tall halogen lamps. It started a fire, and we rushed to put it out, which resulted in flaming tighty-whities on my bedroom floor. Burned a nice hole in the carpet.
I was terrified to show my dad, but when he came in he thought it was hilarious and I was off the hook. Apparently my folks were planning to redo all the carpet shortly anyway.
goldzatfig · 4 points · Posted at 18:33:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle Derrick and I used to play the underwear game. It's exactly what it sounds like.
Mortomes · 4 points · Posted at 16:45:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's exactly what it sounds like.
JerrySanduskyVictim · 3 points · Posted at 17:56:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kinda sounds like Victoria's Secret on Black Friday
thecatfoot · 3 points · Posted at 18:00:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do this with a mitten that our cat really liked to chew on. Surprise each other by putting it in someone's face.
MalleableBasilisk · 4 points · Posted at 18:15:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hey my cousin and i used to do this too! ah, to be 24 again...
bojangles4 · 3 points · Posted at 18:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had our own underwear game. One time I found 5 pairs of white underwear in my room and they weren't mine so I put them in my brothers room. They weren't his so he put them back in my room. Neither of us knew whose they were so we took turns hiding all 5 pairs in each other's rooms and when they were found they were hidden in the other persons room.
Son_of_Mythpunk · 8 points · Posted at 17:52:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How do I delete someone else's comment
0530am_ · 3 points · Posted at 15:39:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this with nettles, trying not to get stung.
your-favorite-gurl · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looks like someone caught you during that panty raid
HintOfAreola · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After reading a few replies, I'm certain this is going to be the theme of an adult website before the day is over.
I_Am_George_Michael · 3 points · Posted at 18:22:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jealous! I wanted to play "the underwear game" with my cousin soooo soooo bad.
Hexaline · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm at work trying very hard not to laugh out loud at this
zamfire · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy cow my brother and I had the exact same game!!
Dominx · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey I'm from West Virginia too!
pinkrosemarybandit · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure what I'm more grossed out about, your user name or your story.
thebombasticdotcom · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh Lordy! My sister and I played “Bra Whip” while folding clothes. Our mothers bra had those hard metal clasps and we used to take turns lashing each other! Wtf why!!! It hurt like hell too!
Pizza_antifa · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
First stop and last stop on this thread for me.
Wow. Nice job.
::barfs::
Imprettysaxy · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played that too, except I didn't know we were playing and he'd always win.
Narwhalinspace · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"It's not what it sounds like" Ok sure
Cheshire99 · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s exactly like it sounds.
epicenter69 · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And now, he just wears his sister’s underwear willingly. Not creepy at all.
Eve6er69 · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did your parents ever wonder why you had pinkeye every other week?
SierraPapaYankee · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is almost exactly what the game “underwear” would sound like
surreptitious_musing · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
...dude what?
Thowi42 · 2 points · Posted at 20:37:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My pops and sister as kids would sneak into my grandpa's hamper, find the whitey tighteys with the biggest skid marks, turn them inside out, lay them on their parents bed like land mines, and wrestle. First one to smoosh the others face into the brown spot on the undies wins! So gross... it comes up every famy reunion, running family joke now.
anonmymouse · 2 points · Posted at 20:49:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
how many times did you guys get pinkeye before you were stopped?
Lucas_Steinwalker · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You just reminded me about how me and a group of friends used to have sleepovers at each others houses and whenever we had a sleepover at Nilesh's his grandfathers hamper of dirty underwear was a constant looming threat.
Kevvybabes · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Haha, eat shit Jane!!"
JpillsPerson · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I'm gonna play this game with my girlfriend. She will hate it.
SpeakMyName · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this EXACT game.
ModernMrsDarcy · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's kind of what it sounds like.
mmmiked19 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Name kinda checks out
LilMousepad · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roll Tide
TaylorMcCaulley · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That. Is. Hilarious
JadedGoal · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did this as a kid too. We used socks and undies from our parents. Quite gross now thinking about it but loved playing it as a kid. Lol
rifn00b · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"it's not what it sounds like"
burgbrain · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I play that now except the loser doesent get to wear them
Loganville · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like exactly what It sounds like.
sluthmongor · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just started playing this with my college roomate!
EFCpepperJack · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You lied. Its EXACTLY what it sounds like.
6NiNE9 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play the same game with our dad's poop skid underwear on Sunday mornings.
JunkZero · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is colloquially known as Underfoodle.
Rukmer · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So looking back this probably caused some kind of trauma, but it reminds me of out my aunt would chase me and her kids around the house with her thongs trying to touch us with them. Her kids loved it but it was disturbing to me (I was about 4 years older).
I_need_more_wine · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG I laughed out loud. Awesome.
friendlygaywalrus · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you my brother?
cuntsquiggle · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's exactly what it sounds like
abcdemilee_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god. This is hilarious. Thank you for the laugh, stranger.
NickDanger3di · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freud is spinning in his grave right now...
mcchickenngget · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I also played the underwear game with my cousin, although a different kind......
suddenlyseemoor · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am way less disgusted at my childhood self now that I heard that this was also someone else's "thing". We would break into our parents dirty hamper, set up stations across the room from each other, and then bombs away. We swore ourselves to a lifetime of secrecy that my child self would be humiliated to find out that I broke.
Wikeni · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My oldest brother used to do this to us, hahaha. Then one time he snuck up behind a guest at his party and took a dirty pair of my dad's underwear and stretched it across her face, pulling back so she couldn't escape easily. Once she did though and saw these tighty whities in his hand, she had some questions.
"Are they clean?"
"Are they YOURS?"
He shook his head no to both and I think she stopped visiting after that, lol.
Muffinshark19 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with socks, it was usually started by my mom then would turn into all out war over the next 15 minutes or until mom said enough.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It kinda was.
THeRUSH12 · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey my uncle and I played a game with the same name!
blooper2112 · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No that's what that sounds like.
Core_Four · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
uh kind of is
kolliflower · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to do this! My most cherished childhood photo is us with underwear on our heads. It’s good to know we weren’t the only gross children
BarfMeARiver · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You just reminded me - on laundry day while my mom folded my brother and I would put my dad's clean undies on our heads and push our faces through one of the leg holes and pretend we were nuns.
kobrakaan · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's weird I used to play that game too, but you get kicked out of the house and branded a pervert when your 45 years old 😕
openthemeyes · 0 points · Posted at 00:34:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You had your Uncle's shhlooong and Aunts crustiness rubbed all over your lips so many times, How cute...
Alex_Bublick · -2 points · Posted at 18:25:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not what it sounds like but my cousin and I used to play the "underwear" game.
Sweet home Alabama.
[deleted] · -2 points · Posted at 17:31:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wearing underwear over the head reminds me of pervert anime/manga characters. Is there any name for this action?
Raitank · -4 points · Posted at 18:13:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you know how everyone tastes like?
Reaper_of_Souls · 11676 points · Posted at 13:54:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Bomb Game". We threw a ball around and if you got hit, you had to lie on the ground for five seconds before returning to the game. My sister and I and our brother-like cousins would play this against our uncles and although I'm pretty sure if we actually kept score, we kicked their asses.
Eventually all the uncles and my dad joined in and the youngest uncle joined the "kids" team. He told us he "played The Bomb Game in high school" (my younger cousins actually believed this) and we wanted him on our team anyway because he was more like the biggest kid. It eventually became a family tradition... ah, back in the day when my family actually saw each other...
Amazingawesomator · 3546 points · Posted at 14:53:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My brother and i had a game we called "the bomb game", but yours seems much more wholesome.
My brother and i got matching "fat man" solid rubber balls shaped like the nuclear weapon of the same name.
If the other brother enters your room, the bomb was thrown directly at their scrotum. Hit=point.
We never kept score, but we passively played this background game for at least a year or two.
edit: fat boy -> fat man because i'm an idiot and forgot the bomb names.
silentpun · 1079 points · Posted at 15:11:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The second and third sentences got a little mixed and I thought I read "nuclear scrotum".
Cowsezcwak · 425 points · Posted at 16:14:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Band name
free_airfreshener · 21 points · Posted at 16:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How do you pronounce your username
Cowsezcwak · 50 points · Posted at 16:19:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cow says quack”
Don’t ask. I made it a long time ago when I was a bored middle schooler.
FlamingJesusOnaStick · 32 points · Posted at 16:26:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel you.
Cowsezcwak · 17 points · Posted at 16:26:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe there’s a support group somewhere
gggg_man3 · 14 points · Posted at 16:47:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bad usernames anonymous? I'll sign up.
PsychicSeaSlug · 17 points · Posted at 17:20:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once had a job that was doing one of those get to know eachother activities, like when sometimes everyone will bring in a baby picture taped to a board and people walk by and guess who they think everyone is.
But my boss did it with our middle school screennames written on a board and we were all guessing who we thought soccergurllll22 was or zombieboob69
It was awesome. They were all hillariously bad.
darkangel_401 · 6 points · Posted at 17:46:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now that’s a get to know each other game I can get behind. I think my first YouTube account was something like kokoblah6000
moonkeymaker127 · 3 points · Posted at 18:04:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My poptropica account was monkeymaker127
MagicNipple · 4 points · Posted at 17:48:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ll hit a meeting or two, but I’m still in denial.
DeathDestroyWorlds · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But the question is: why did none of us make new accounts?
JaysFan26 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
count me in
CelticJoe · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You could make a religion out of this
RexPythonem · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
DON'T
FlamingJesusOnaStick · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WE SHALL ALL HOLD TOGETHER IN THIS ASSEMBLY TO RECOGNIZE.
erectionofjesus · 5 points · Posted at 19:06:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No I feel you
FlamingJesusOnaStick · 3 points · Posted at 02:04:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll let you be big spoon only this time.
Emeraldis_ · 12 points · Posted at 16:38:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And here I was thinking it was something in Polish
Cowsezcwak · 3 points · Posted at 18:31:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nope, but now I know what to tell people who ask about it from now on
namelesseggroll · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or code name for bill cosby
silly_gaijin · 1 points · Posted at 08:08:55 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dammit! I knew I got here too late!
earnestsci · 15 points · Posted at 16:18:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My RADIOACTIVE condom for my NUCLEAR dong
FlamingJesusOnaStick · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stupid dildo
RealSteele · 8 points · Posted at 17:08:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Please refrain from posting my password on Reddit. Thank you.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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ClairesNairDownThere · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
M4M - Mutant seeking Mutant for rough butt play.
dread_gabebo · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
🎵Uranium peener🎵
geared4war · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasn't that one of Reagan's promises?
zackman1996 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now I know what to get you for Christmas.
Reaper_of_Souls · 18 points · Posted at 14:57:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Those are the balls we used! It only got played outside, though. My aunt would have had a heart attack.
TheLonelyHat · 13 points · Posted at 16:12:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait. Little Boy or Fat Man?
HojMcFoj · 7 points · Posted at 16:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you deaf? It was fat boy.
TheLonelyHat · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What?
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:31:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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TheLonelyHat · 3 points · Posted at 20:17:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, I'm not Jeff.
Amazingawesomator · 3 points · Posted at 16:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sorry, it was fat man
TheLonelyHat · 2 points · Posted at 20:16:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a problem! I was just curious.
smokeydevil · 10 points · Posted at 16:14:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naga-sack-i
Ryouls · 9 points · Posted at 16:09:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother played a similar game. Except he used rubber balls, big rubber bands, his fists and such. If I entered his room he would try to hit my nuts. Or if I talked. Or breathed. I never liked his games
Amazingawesomator · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
being the little brother, i was usually the one to enter his room to ask what he was doing. i was definitely on the losing end of this game, heheheheh.
Happy-Hypocrite · 3 points · Posted at 16:44:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah the classic scrotum shot. A staple of many great games played by boys!
OovooJavaC-137 · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“passively”
isaac99999999 · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's amazing.
ireallylikebeards · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm laughing my ass off at this
bonzaibooty · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In HS we had a four year rack game going. I don’t know why, it wasn’t pleasant, and the girls in our group even got in on it which wasn’t the slightest bit fair
cbcassidy14 · 2 points · Posted at 17:56:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ummmm that’s probably broken glass
samuraishogun1 · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also, why would you willingly cause pain of such magnitude to your own brother?
Amazingawesomator · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in pursuit of "fun", heh. we were a bit rowdy when we were younger.
lordg52 · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What if one walks into the other jacking off? Do they still hit the nuclear scrotum?
Amazingawesomator · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thankfully, my brother and i were quite skilled in doing what is necessary while others were unawares.
sweetalkersweetalker · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Goldbergs TV show calls this "ball ball".
3clips333 · 2 points · Posted at 00:27:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wanted to know what a "fat man" rubber ball looked liked, so i started to google it..
I then realised that I was about to hit enter on "Fat Man Balls" on my work computer, in my office.
Thanks for that.
Amazingawesomator · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
hahahaha think of it like a rubber bouncy ball, ~2" diameter. It is elongated on one side and has fins.
3clips333 · 2 points · Posted at 22:53:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah I eventually re-read what it said and saw "shaped like the nuclear weapon" and got the general gist of it haha.
That'll teach me to google without reading properly
JackTheStryker · 2 points · Posted at 03:45:39 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah fat boy is a thing in fallout. But close anyway
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/little-boy-and-fat-man
not quite :P
Amazingawesomator · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
bleh, my knowledge leaves much to be desired. thank you =P
maulidon · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a game my male classmates played in high school. If you spot a guy sitting with his legs spread, you say "Moby Dick" and then throw a marker/pen at his groin. That "Moby Dick" is all the warning you get lol.
mac-n-cheese- · 21 points · Posted at 15:09:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game with the exact same name except it had different rules. In the game I played a group of people (atleast 20) all had the assignment of being heroes while there was one bomber(thrower). The bomber would announce when bombs were coming and throw the football as high in to the air as possible. If a catch is made the day has been saved. If the bomb hits the ground everyone had to comicly fall to the ground and die like they had just been blown up. Sortof like 500.
jacksev · 13 points · Posted at 16:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family doesn’t see each other any more either. I know the feeling. :(
Griffb4ll · 12 points · Posted at 16:38:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn I miss the days when family reunions were had like every other month, now everybody is grown up and we only see each other like once a year at a Christmas party we have but other than that, zilch. I crai errytime
zwind · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Host a family reunion if you’re not to far from family! Buy a bunch of booze and just have fun!
Misplaced-Childhood · 8 points · Posted at 16:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Bomb Game - Northern Ireland Edition: Now with real semtex!
Reaper_of_Souls · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The grandfather of these men was in the IRA and blew up a car belonging to the British. That's one quarter of why I'm an American.
sinrakin · 5 points · Posted at 16:23:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, I used to play something like this with my little sister. We would get a few soccer balls, volleyballs, basketballs, whatever was lying around, and throw them on the trampoline (that had a net around it). Then we'd jump around and try to avoid touching the balls. First to get hit 5 times lost. You could bounce the balls near your feet and at another person, but it wasn't an exact science. Kinda risky, but it made the other person have to dance/ jump out of the way. Really fun game, we had a lot of great laughs doing it.
unrenewable_resource · 3 points · Posted at 17:57:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So like dodgeball, but you’re only out for five seconds?
faoltiama · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I play "The Bomb Game" but it's actually just Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes because that name is too damn long.
notMcLovin77 · 2 points · Posted at 15:44:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aww that’s kind of sweet.
FINDTHECOMPUTERROOM · 2 points · Posted at 17:35:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Daisan no bakudan
that_typeofway · 2 points · Posted at 17:58:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bombardier - we played something similar.
shac_melley · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Kids, I was captain of the varsity Bomb Game team in High School. We won states.”
oh shit he must be good
LoremasterSTL · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So... projectile freeze tag, five second rule
colocada · 4 points · Posted at 16:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a bomb game too. It was me and my little sister and brother. One of us would pretend to accidentally swallow a bomb and the other two would have to perform emergency surgery. Once the bomb was out, we threw it away from us and take cover immediately.
flyingtrucky · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But then there was a second bomb and you were hypnotized to believe you were the real boss when in fact you weren't.
colocada · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nope. Turns out, the surgeon had a bomb in them the whole time! And no one else has any surgical training! Cut then up with any thing you can get your hands on!
mikylin · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Make bomb game happen man. If not with your former family players, with your own. Precious memories.
_StanDarsh_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a similar game growing up, except we played it on a trampoline where you bounced the ball(s) towards each other. If it hit a limb that limb was "blown off" so you had to put it behind your back, hop around on one leg, etc.
newshirt · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I used to play "Thor's Hammer"
One of us would throw a frisbee at the other one. The other person's task was to throw a hammer and knock the frisbee out of the sky.
TheFrenchCommander · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy crap you just gave me the best game for me and my kids and also for me to take naps.
Wiplazh · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god, me and my friends came up with almost the exact same game! One guy would throw the ball at the other players, and you couldn't move if the thrower held the ball. If you got hit you had to lie down for 5 seconds before returning to the game, but now you were the thrower. And the other players all had sticks so they could bat the ball away.
We used a floorball so we couldn't throw or bat the ball too far away. It was so much fun and I'd be down to play it today.
PrettyNeatHuh · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play some sort of “bomb game” too. We would stand a decent distance from each other in the yard (or in the house too) and line up like we were about to have an old west draw. We would then take turns throwing a soft ball (not a softball, but a ball made of soft material) at each other. The person being thrown at wasn’t allowed to move (you just have to take the hit) and whatever body part got hit was lost. Headshots and clean chest shots won you the round. It was a quick game, but was fun when one of you was throwing with your non-dominant hand with 1 or no legs left just waiting for the loss.
bbeach88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just so you know, I play games with my nieces and nephews and I "lose" to them often.
It's obviously more fun than me crushing their spirits by winning as often as I can.
Adubyale · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a similar game called mushroom ball back in the day
jserpette95 · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a similar one called the "grenade game" we would throw a ball at each other and if you didn't catch it and it bounced off your hands you lost that limb and the grenade was live and everyone had 3 seconds to get as far away as possible, closest person blew up and was out
kjm1123490 · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Isnt it funny how when the kids grow up the family meetings suddenly stop...
Like it would be nice to see my cousins still
Zhikos · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This story is bomb
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your hitboxes were small, ofc you were winning.
dcoble · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, family reunions used to be the shit. Kick the can was our favorite game. On that side of the family out of my grandparents and their 5 children it's down to just 1 uncle, so those don't happen anymore.
EugeneMeltsner · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this on the trampoline and called it "Bombs Away". If you touch the "bomb", you got off until the next round.
jmaca90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk if you’re like me but I also miss having all my family in one geographic location. We used to have a ton of family here, probably because this is where my grandfather first arrived when he emigrated here not to long ago in the late 70s.
But eventually people moved to different cities for better jobs, cheaper cost of living, better schools, etc.
It’s no fault on them and there was no crazy big fall out.
And while we still see them, I get sad sometimes because I wonder what would happen if everyone ended up just staying in Chicago.
I envied my friends and classmates who had generations of families living in the area and had crazy huge family get together.
sleepdeprivedtechie · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I also had a "bomb game," but it was nothing like any of the ones listed here, lol! We'd load up the Perfection board and set the timer, then run and hide. First to come out and "get caught" before, or as it was exploding, died.
platnumb20 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That last part hit me in the feels... too relatable
leadabae · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't understand the rules of the game. How do you win?
Q1War26fVA · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yeah... I could've gone pro after highschool, but I just chose a different career path"
161_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You had smaller hit boxes too
cheaux · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Bomb Game" I had growing up was taking a kitchen timer and hiding it. We'd have to follow the ticking sound before it went off, or else we'd all be dead.
Now that I think about it, that's how we lost a few kitchen timers.
orionsbelt05 · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I developed a very fun game we called "Boom Ball." We had a bunch of small rubber inflatable balls (thicker than a beach ball, lighter than a dodgeball), and the goal was to get 3 or 4 balls in hand. We were small, and holding more than two of these balls was a challenge, so the game had a way of naturally balancing itself. You could throw a ball at anyone else in the game, and if you hit them, they had to drop all their balls and count out loud to 3 or 5 or something. Meanwhile, you had to scramble to pick up the balls they dropped as well as the one you threw. It was really neat because your victory condition was also your ammunition, AND a defensive strategy (you could block incoming projectiles with balls you had in hand). And again, the natural balancing mechanic was great. Once you had 3 balls in hand, it became much harder to throw one of them at an opponent, so getting that 4th ball was a challenge. If you had no balls, you could adopt a vulture strategy, circling near someone with a lot of them, waiting for them to get hit and drop the payload.
chandelizards · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This took a sad turn
shmorgas · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds of an old family tradition we have, every Fourth of July our family from the surrounding areas would get together at my Aunt’s house, we’d cookout and play board games together, then when the sunset and everyone would go to the pool and have this big tournament called “The Gator Races”. She had these inflatable alligators for the pool that everyone would race on from one end to the other, whoever won at the end of the night would be “Gator King” and we had a special WWE Championship belt that person would bring to every gathering until the next year. It was awesome.
Fixthe_Firnback · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had a bomb game. One person would stand at the top of a set of stairs (outside) and throw a soft football. The thrower had a limited count of different types of "bombs". Some bombs required to physically touch and others needed to hit the ground or hit the ground near enough. Some bombs needed to be caught and others just needed to be avoided. The goal as the thrower was to knock everyone out(figuratively).
Yotsubauniverse · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now I want to play this with my sister, nieces, and nephew in the hopes my brother in law would join.
Leaislala · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh no! I hope y'all get together soon!
Reaper_of_Souls · 2 points · Posted at 02:06:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Planning on it. We kinda need to at this point for several reasons.
never_met_her_bivore · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play “Bomb” in which we would use a timer from a game like catchphrase, start it, and have to move as much stuff from the bedroom to the living room before the bomb went off
Its_Wajeeh · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uhhh... What exatly happened?
Reaper_of_Souls · 2 points · Posted at 03:32:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Too many deaths. Almost all substance-related.
I should probably add that this is a very Irish family, and every one of the people playing this game were at least slightly drunk.
Its_Wajeeh · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Srry to hear dude.
raindead · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we played Bombs and Barriers, which is like dodgeball but we’s stand up those stiff blue wrestling mats (you know, the ones that Velcro attach to the walls). There was a “medic” in each team who you had to protect; they healed the kids hit by “bombs”, and if they were hit the game was over. We’d gang up and attack the barriers. Much strategy, v fun.
the-holy-shit · 1 points · Posted at 11:37:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we had a "bomb game" too but ours was where my dad would have his back to us and throw a rugby ball as high into the air as possible. whoever caught the ball won 2 points. whoever caught it first after landing on the ground won 1 point. coz it was a rugby ball, if it bounced it could go any direction. but if you caught it but didnt hold it high up in the air, someone else could tackle it off you. mum ended up banning it as it got pretty intense sometimes.
noholdingbackaccount · 0 points · Posted at 22:58:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played the bomb game with a digital watch timer back in elementary school. 'Terrorists team' set the countdown timer and placed the 'bomb' while the 'bomb squad' waited out of sight around the corner etc. Then the bomb squad had to come and locate the bomb and disarm it before it went off.
champagneinpapercups · 266 points · Posted at 14:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played ghost. One person is under a sheet trying to catch everyone else and all the lights are off. Usually takes place in the living room so people are jumping around on furniture......there may have been one or two concussions because of this game. Lol
SnoozleBoop · 7 points · Posted at 16:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played something similar but we called it "Blob". You had to crawl around under a blanket to catch everyone in the dark.
champagneinpapercups · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds fun! My brother and I watched that movie when we were younger and found it hilarious!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same thing! It resulted in the ghost running into the Christmas tree and it falling on top of them.
champagneinpapercups · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh no! We never broke anything but there were always a lot of bruises when you were playing as the ghost. Lol
chewablebook · 3 points · Posted at 17:59:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha! I just posted my reply of a similar game before checking comments. Only instead of a sheet, we used a sleeping bag. Guess it wasn’t as “unique” as I though.
champagneinpapercups · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like that would have been very hot lol
timmytoga · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school, my friends and I did something similar. One of us was “The Worm” and wore the sleeping bag. Everyone else tried to escape from the worms clutches in a small room with lots of furniture to run and jump on. It was fun.
stinkbuttfartbreath4 · 3 points · Posted at 20:30:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn. I thought it was just me and my sister who did this.
champagneinpapercups · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would have like 5 kids playing at once. It always ended with someone crying. Lol
fichgoony · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my sibling and I playing this game, only we called it mummy, because we wrapped the blanket all over our head. Good times
champagneinpapercups · 2 points · Posted at 20:39:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The things kids come up with to occupy their time lol
Turbo_911 · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man so glad I scrolled down to see this.
My sisters and I were playing Ghost about 25 years ago, one of them fell face first into one of her bed posts. Landed right on her front tooth, caused nerve damage, tooth turned brown and decayed, had to get a fake tooth put in eventually.
This game was deadly!
that5pcarrierbag · 4650 points · Posted at 13:04:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We used to play E.T. in the playground. We'd run about acting out scenes from the film. I had a brown parka so invariably I'd get to be the lovable alien.
Great times.
Sati1984 · 1184 points · Posted at 14:27:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Still a better game than the Atari version!
LordSoren · 620 points · Posted at 15:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Find the dump where they burried the Atari game" was a better game than the Atari game.
KeytarVillain · 9 points · Posted at 17:04:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's a documentary about this, "Atari: Game Over". The whole thing is on YouTube
zackman1996 · 11 points · Posted at 17:28:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eventually some angry nerdy-ass white boy found them.
Made a movie about it.
TGReddit25 · 4 points · Posted at 19:09:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ET for the Atari, was not a game, it was a nightmare, I have experienced an emulator of it, it's not a game.
notwest94 · 2 points · Posted at 16:39:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My college roommate managed to get up actual cartridge copy of it, and it is indeed a terrible experience that I couldn't play understand at all. Imagine my absolute dumbstruckness when my roommate invited over his brother and his brother beat it.
TGReddit25 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait, you can win?
TurquoiseLuck · -5 points · Posted at 15:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fun fact, they actually buried a load of copies of that game in the desert somewhere, I think Nevada
Erevas · 21 points · Posted at 16:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's was he is referencing
LurrrMurrrDurrr · 9 points · Posted at 16:55:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was actually New Mexico.
that5pcarrierbag · 7 points · Posted at 14:55:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an Atari but not that game. Just checked it on YouTube. Jesus wept. Yes. Yes it was much better.
XxsquirrelxX · 14 points · Posted at 15:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That game is the straw that broke the North American video game industry’s back. After being flooded with a ton of cheap, shitty games the whole market collapsed and a bunch of publishers went under. It’s the reason Nintendo was able to establish itself in the West.
RedCr4cker · 5 points · Posted at 15:36:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well, thanks to E.T. then ^
PM_TITS_OR_DONT · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fun fact: the Atari version is actually more fun to play with if you don't have an Atari.
No-BrowEntertainment · 4 points · Posted at 15:47:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I loved the movie, especially the part where the police are chasing down ET to put him in a flimsy metal cage but he falls down a fucking ravine before they can catch him
NightGod · 3 points · Posted at 21:59:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that game on the Atari. Spent HOURS and hours playing at a friend's house. Beat it once, never thought about it again until the documentary started getting hype.
I mean, it was bad, but so were most Atari games, if we're really honest.
crystalmerchant · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A great Stuff You Should Know episode about the Atari game!
"Is E.T. the Worst Video Game of All Time?"
https://player.fm/series/stuff-you-should-know-2151878/et-is-it-really-the-worst-video-game-of-all-time
Spoiler: no it's not! (Says Josh and Chuck)
tattedpiper · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watching paint dry was better than the Atari version...
Paranoid_Neckazoid · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You ever play it? It's not that bad. The idea of switching from birdseye to side on takes some getting used to.
Riptides75 · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was less disappointing than the Atari version of PacMan and it's nightmarish audio.
Dryu_nya · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm going to link this again, not because I like the game, but because it's a really interesting project.
Woodbean · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The E.T. Atari game was still a better love story than Twilight.
Axel_Sig · 24 points · Posted at 15:27:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What’s a brown Parker?
PixieFurious · 41 points · Posted at 15:31:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think they meant parka
CrispyHexagon · 6 points · Posted at 19:01:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They're from Massachusetts
that5pcarrierbag · 6 points · Posted at 15:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's a coat...big..furry hood that you could zip right up and only your face is visable. But it was my older brothers so I only my eyes could be seen. No one had a brown one tbh. Kind of thing the band Oasis would wear.
xxoczukxx · 33 points · Posted at 15:37:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i think you mean parka
that5pcarrierbag · 3 points · Posted at 15:44:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is it? Tbh it's not a word I've thought about for many a year. Thanks!
NewColor · 16 points · Posted at 16:33:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought you had a friend named Parker and he was brown
Ctf677 · 24 points · Posted at 16:25:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/boneappletea
that5pcarrierbag · -4 points · Posted at 16:32:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Harsh! 😁
FermentedPangolin · -4 points · Posted at 00:12:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not harsh, you're just an idiot
that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really. As I explained earlier I was 5 years old and never needed to use this word since. I just assumed it was the name of the company that made the garment. As is often the way in England most companies are named after people. I just thought it was Parker. But I've now edited the post. Just for you.
sral · 14 points · Posted at 15:32:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think you mean brown parka and not parker. Cuz a brown parker sounds like you own a brown guy named parker...
Strabbo · 4 points · Posted at 17:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or possibly a parking valet.
SirStrontium · 3 points · Posted at 19:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought he was talking about a brown Parker brand fountain pen that he used to imitate ET’s finger.
sral · 2 points · Posted at 01:04:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahaha that would make the story even better. A little kid with a taste for fine pens.
that5pcarrierbag · 5 points · Posted at 15:48:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imagine a brown kid called Parker in E.T.....
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that5pcarrierbag · 5 points · Posted at 15:33:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that too! Han always got to kiss Leia though!
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that5pcarrierbag · 5 points · Posted at 15:46:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the south of England so it was pretty much only white kids. The one Asian kid was always Lando! Kids are so cruel haha
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that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weirdly I've always wanted to have a gf that did that with her hair! Like, my whole life lol
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that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If I did, you'd be like "that's the kid who wants to be E.T. Phone home dickhead!"
And I'd be like......wait for it....."Ouuuuchhh"
Hurray_for_Candy · 3 points · Posted at 18:22:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you ever want to get a group together for a nostalgia game, I'm totally in.
that5pcarrierbag · 3 points · Posted at 18:33:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahhh I would totally love that!
Hurray_for_Candy · 5 points · Posted at 18:42:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm totally serious. I have these ET earrings from 1983 that I'm dying to wear.
that5pcarrierbag · 3 points · Posted at 18:51:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Woah, really? They do sound pretty cool. How would we arrange such a thing?
Hurray_for_Candy · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The internet, of course! I assume from your username you are in GB?
that5pcarrierbag · 3 points · Posted at 19:10:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, shitty ole England. And you the US of A?
Hurray_for_Candy · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nope, I am in sweet, sweet Canada, land of the moose olympics.
that5pcarrierbag · 3 points · Posted at 19:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn, sorry! I know people get upset by that. Ah the moose Olympics...just imagine....
Randygilesforpres · 3 points · Posted at 19:19:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finally some pop culture! We did that too, not ET but Charlie’s angels. We would run around the neighborhood solving crimes. Fake crimes of course. We all had Farrah hair. :)
that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't recall the girls at my school being nearly as exciting as that! Do you remember any of the "crimes" you solved?
Randygilesforpres · 2 points · Posted at 19:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was mostly “things like “who stole this” and “who murdered that” with no actual... crime victims. But we didn’t care. And when we “found” them, we would point our fingers like guns and stand together like they did in the show. Lol! We were a goofy bunch :)
that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahhh cuteness overload!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bike scene at the end was such a big deal to kids in the late 80s who were into BMX
that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twas a great movie. Start to finish.
DragonsAreLove192 · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with Clue. Especially the scene with the singing telegram. Especially in pools.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this, but with Harry Potter. We'd run around yelling "crucio!" And "expelliarmus" crucio just made the other player put his or her hands behind their backs, though. Was about 10 when the first movie came out. Still think fondly upon those days.
Juicebox-shakur · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Alien on the playground.
I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS was the Xenomorph.
I don’t know why my mom let me watch those movies in 2nd and 3rd grade, but they were awesome.
that5pcarrierbag · 3 points · Posted at 18:31:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a 16 year old son and recently I worry that I showed him films he was too young for. The main one being Clockwork Orange when he was maybe 12. Do you think it affected you in anyway? May I ask?
Juicebox-shakur · 3 points · Posted at 20:25:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watching horror movies was the least of my problems- I had a fucked up childhood in other ways that made a much more lasting impact on me than movies ever could have.
Though I don’t think A Clockwork Orange is appropriate for a 12 year old- I sincerely doubt the movie alone will cause any harm to him.
Might be a good opportunity to discuss what the word consent means though, considering some of the themes in that movie...
that5pcarrierbag · 2 points · Posted at 21:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
He's 16 now and tbh at the time I hadn't seen it for years and had forgotten most of it. He's cool though. When he can be bothered to speak to me. Typical teenager.
cassiopeia1280 · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I used to play Island of the Blue Dolphins (a book) and make my younger brother be the boy who gets killed by dogs.
that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Would he always get killed?
temisola1 · 2 points · Posted at 18:33:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sure it wasn’t just because you were ugly? /s
amusinglittleshit · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
how cute! Some kids and I played something similar
My folks' comadre had a bunch of kids (my mom & dad had baptized one of the younger kids). The lady's kids and I would remake scenes from the spanish soap opera that was on at the time, "Mari Mar". I was the protagonist, (played in the soap opera by Thalia). It was so super cool to me because their mom would give them her old clothes to play with and she would dress up in stuff like sequin short dresses and heels with matching purses DAILY, so her old clothes were stuff like that. Swanky (in my kiddy mind) dresses, short tube dresses, bright blouses with big huge shoulder pads... We would have a total blast. After Mari Mar ended on TV, we stopped playing that. I don't remember why.
Fawxhox · 2 points · Posted at 20:40:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to do that with Samurai Jack. We had those plastic toy swords you'd get at fairs (with red, blue, green or black plastic sheaths) and we'd stand on our parents bed and fight. One of us would be Samurai Jack (fun because he wins in the end) the other would be Aku and the rest of the bad guys (fun because you'd have the upper hand for most of the show).
Opt1mus_ · 2 points · Posted at 21:55:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the kids on my playground used to pretend that the big Jungle Jim thing we had was the Titanic. The lookout guy would always scream that an iceberg was spotted like 5 to 10 minutes before recess was over and we'd all act out drowning or whatever. It was kind of morbid looking back on it.
ilmalocchio · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A brown "parker"? Are you by any chance a British person trying to say "parka"?
that5pcarrierbag · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am. This has been pointed out. Apologies for 5 year old me not learning to spell the make of my overcoat. 😁
Geawiel · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember in elementary school Robotech had been on TV in the US for a short time. We'd all run around in gerwalk mode (bent over with our arms out like wings) pretending we were in it.
that5pcarrierbag · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That never made it to our screens over here in the UK or at least I've never heard of it. But reminded me that I used to pretend to be Robocop too though!
Tru-Queer · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, this just reminded me. In elementary school I accidentally saw “Child’s Play” about the killer toy doll Chucky. So my friends and I created a game called Chucky where one of us was Chucky and if he caught you he got to kill you.
showturtle · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I played a game we called E.T. Emergency. We would sit in the swings and alternate pulling the chains so that we would be swinging sideways. We would swing in the same direction until one of us would randomly yell, “ET EMERGENCY!!!” in their best ET voice. You would then need to grab onto one of the vertical swing set posts and hold yourself up- then we would both let go and slam into each other. I ate a lot of glue as a kid.
feesih0ps · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Parka?
that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes. 5 year old me didn't know the correct spelling. I thought it was the company name so just presumed it was named after some english guy. Apologies.
THX450 · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Please told me you hummed the score while playong
that5pcarrierbag · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of course!
geared4war · 0 points · Posted at 18:46:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So what I understand from this is that your family think you look like ET, the extra testicle.
that5pcarrierbag · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No. This was in the school playground. My family know nothing about this.
lizard_king0000 · 1348 points · Posted at 13:35:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play baseball in the street but with a tennis racket so we could blast the ball all over the neighborhood.
GhostofErik · 99 points · Posted at 15:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also used a tennis racket! Only because we didn’t have a bat, so we had to improvise. We also didn’t have a baseball so we used a kick ball.
[deleted] · 77 points · Posted at 15:36:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like a recipe for a snapped tennis racket lol
GhostofErik · 35 points · Posted at 15:38:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, they were fine! We had to use My dads tennis racket from like the 80’s. It was still sturdy and the strings were tight. The ball was heavy to hit, but that also kept it pretty close so the batter would have a chance to be “out” since we played on the street and our bases were close together.
TonyStark100 · 13 points · Posted at 17:52:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How about a tennis racket and a golf ball? I may have done that a couple times. Our an aluminum bat and a golf ball.
GodlyBeerGut · 14 points · Posted at 19:36:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did that with a buddy. Used aluminum bats and throwaway golf balls in a set of rolling hills.
I swear we must have jacked those things over 400 yards.
justthetipping · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do golf ball and tennis racket we could hit it two blocks over! Same with aluminum bat. I agree with the distance as well.
maffems · 3 points · Posted at 03:39:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Explains the broken windows lol
horsenbuggy · 7 points · Posted at 15:36:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played our version of stickball on the tennis court. We used a tennis ball and a variety of bats. Guys had to use actual broomsticks. Girls could use aluminum bats. Nothing more satisfying than hitting a tennis ball with an aluminum bat! Good night. Have fun finding that ball in the woods.
Orangebeardo · 6 points · Posted at 16:28:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The local windowsetters must have made a forture off your parents.
DeliriousPrincess · 3 points · Posted at 16:10:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tenni-ball!
karmagod13000 · 8 points · Posted at 14:54:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we just used a real baseball and didn all sorts of damage... lil me was rude asf
Dequat · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to use aluminum bat's and a tennis ball!
Pqouist · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love tennis baseball!
Itsgingerbitch · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of the chores my brother and I had was cleaning up the rotting fruit that fell off a tree at the back of our yard. I don’t remember if they were apples or pear or what... Anyway, one day my brother disappeared while I was picking up the mushy fruit. He came back a few minutes later with a tennis racket. He did the most hilarious sports commentary (ridiculous voice and all) while we took turns pitching these gross fruits at each other. The goal was to hit it as hard as you could with the tennis racket to make it explode. That chore became infinitely more fun.
8669974 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would do the opposite, use a tennisball with a baseball bat. We allowed pegging too for outs so it was like baseball dodgeball
speckleeyed · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a broom handle and a tennis ball
blunt-e · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah, I see you've played "sorry about your window can I have my ball back" as well. Great game!
Artantica · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived out in the country and would launch rocks with a tennis racket towards the neighbors house across the creek. Hit the house one time and freaked out and hid under my blankets for a good three hours
Marycate11 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bennis Ball! We played that so much in gym class
iswimprettyfast · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used a metal bat and the coconut sized “sky balls” that promised to bounce 70 feet in the air. Those things flew far.
brandonkiel27 · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hitting ice from the fridge with a tennis racket is fun too! Those suckers would go like 200 feet
PartyMoney87 · 2 points · Posted at 00:02:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ice from the fridge would just be water
brandonkiel27 · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No I mean ice that you get from the little dispenser on the front of the fridge that you push a cup into and it shoots out (but yea I guess it comes from the freezer but you know what I meant damnit!)
Supersnazz · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used a tennis racket and golf ball. Fucking lethal.
Itsyamatey · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wish we could have done anything like what’s been suggested.
We didn’t have enough space to play baseball, even with a tennis ball, so we played tape ball in a tiny yard.
It’s literally just a ball of tape and paper towels. To hit you have to slap the tape and no matter how hard you slapped it, it always caught air resistance and fell maybe ten feet, so it was kind of unfulfilling. Bases were about 8 feet apart.
micge · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played badminton, but eventually all the rackets broke so we used discarded frying pans from a pile behind a market. I think they'd just done a "bring your old for n% off a new one" deal.
HotCarl23HC · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tennis baseball! We did this all the time too! So many evenings where we would play until we couldn't see the ball anymore. :)
openthemeyes · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would do this with a tennis racket and instead of any balls we used stones....
hissykit · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers did this. We called it Ultimate Tennis
iamtheawesomelord · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play with tennis balls, but the bat was those small wooden ones you buy from games
Theschyisfalling · 1 points · Posted at 05:33:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me elderly, Scottish linear algebra proffesor lived on my street and would play this with his son all the time.
EarlyHemisphere · 1094 points · Posted at 13:56:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Seek in the dark. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had fun playing that with siblings/friends.
I used to have fun outwitting my brothers. We'd play in the basement, and when they came down with the flashlight to look for us and went off into a room, I'd sneak onto the stairs they came down off the start and hide there. They'd never think to look there because there's nowhere to hide on the stairs and they just cleared them when they came down. It was funny to watch them walking back and forth in front of the stairs trying to find us lol
PrinceCheddar · 199 points · Posted at 15:16:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark was good. I remember once when I hid on a windowsill. It was a tiny windowsill, hard to balance on, so I had to keep moving my feet from it to the radiator that was under it, which was even thinner and hurt my feet. I was continually swapping the feet around, holding on with my hands to the window frame, hidden by a curtain. I remember someone actually touching me through the curtain, but not actually realising I was there, and I was hidden until they basically called the game off.
grumplestiltskinnn · 19 points · Posted at 17:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yeah i once hid on the edge of a bathtub with my back to the wall and the curtains half pulled. i had to balance on one butt cheek the entire time. eventually one of my friends came in and saw my sock but assumed it was a towel. needless to say, i won that round.
Bessschug · 3 points · Posted at 19:58:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I hid in a dryer once. I was a small kid.
DeathandFriends · 1 points · Posted at 09:09:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
thats the problem with hide n seek, if you hide really well the game becomes not fun after a while because its a stale mate and you both want to just restart a new round
isabelleeve · 32 points · Posted at 15:43:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this Murder in the Dark! I was an excellent hider, but the tension of someone being very close but not finding me almost always causes me to giggle and give myself away. I still always smile when I try to bluff in games
Si1eNce1 · 10 points · Posted at 16:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our version of Murder in the Dark meant you had to run after you had been found and it turned into a game of tag for those people. Once caught you become the murderer.
rabidassbaboon · 14 points · Posted at 16:05:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend growing up had a more violent version of this. We'd be on opposite ends of his basement, shut the lights off, and "hunt" each other. We'd creep around and try to make noises to lure the other into traps. Once you figured out where the other person was, you basically just beat the shit out of them until one of you ran away and then the hunt started anew. Half the time, you'd pounce, slam into a table or something, and then the other person's laughter would give them away.
There were no real winners or objectives. Just dumbass 10 year old boys killing time.
iknowthisischeesy · 13 points · Posted at 15:52:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too. I actually wrote this in one of the replies but here I go again (copying it)
There was a time when there was a lot of power cuts in my state and duration was fixed too. So during summer vacation from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM there used to be no electricity and we decided it was absolutely the perfect time to play hide and seek. So one day we were hiding under the stairs of our Apartment, we used to keep our bikes there, when we heard something. Thought someone was messing with us. So we took a step back. After a few moments there was another sound. Now we knew no one was nearby, not wanting to get strangled by a ghost under the stairs we quickly ran out. Turned out there was a snake there. Yeah, so that stopped the hide and seek in the dark.
orange1911 · 9 points · Posted at 16:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called hide and seek in the dark outside Manhunt, made it sound cooler lol
S4ssyGir4ffe · 2 points · Posted at 23:30:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt was the BEST. We had a huge field behind the houses in our suburb, so we would go out there to play. It was like a hybrid with tag, so we had a “base” which was the neighbors house that you had to reach before being found and/or tagged. We thought we were so sneaky
orange1911 · 2 points · Posted at 23:47:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
there are a bunch of woods surrounding my neighborhood so we would go in there in pairs and hide behind rocks and under fallen trees and then when u saw someone you ran out and tackled them. So much fun.
SurprisePasta · 7 points · Posted at 15:42:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had never played this until high school. My best friend’s dad had recently gotten remarried and he and his wife would go out on dates a lot on weekends. That meant our crew of friends could go hang out alone at their house and do whatever we wanted. Instead of drinking or smoking or getting into mischief, we played hide and seek in the dark. It was awesome.
Kiwigirl80 · 8 points · Posted at 14:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this too!!
sparklezheart · 6 points · Posted at 15:39:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Great game! We would play this too, but no flashlights to find people, it all had to be in the dark.
superluke · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my family/friends group I was the only one bright enough to wear dark clothing... And toss things to make sounds in the wrong direction.
Cache_n_in · 6 points · Posted at 15:45:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a motorhome when I was a kid and we'd play this when my dad was driving at night. A few of us kids would hide in the (very small) master bedroom in the back of the coach and then the seeker would try to find us in the dark. It was funny because there were only like 5 legitimate hiding spots in that room that we just cycled through, thinking we were clever, haha.
BMac2122 · 4 points · Posted at 15:12:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I started playing this summer after our freshman year of college. That is, until I smashed my forehead off the corner of a table and had to get stitches. Got ‘em out the morning of move in day for Sophomore year though haha
Miri_tx · 3 points · Posted at 20:38:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek in the dark was the best! The best "hiding spots" were not actual hiding spots at all but shadowed spots where you could sit (in dark clothing of course) and nobody would check because they weren't actually hiding spots. I would stay hidden forever just sitting in plain "sight" this way.
Tarraddonn · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Blind Man's Bluff. We'd even pretend to move somewhere else if the person got too close, by jiggling an item or throwing something away from us
r0b710 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was about to ask if anyone else called it this
hreisc · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my country we have a variant called "Gato Mia" which translates to Meow, Cat. The seeker asks the hiders to meow and has to find them based on sound (Marco Polo but in the dark and on land? lol). No flashlights allowed though!
beanreen · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Marco Polo in our street at night, but blindfolded the seeker so they couldn't cheat. Lots of running right past them as they swing wildly.
JudgmentPenguin · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night time hide and seek was always the best. We either just played it around the whole block, or in the house we were all staying at for the night, which happened to be the biggest out of all of ours. We never played with flash lights though. Whoever was it had to go off of the very low visibility, or hope the moonlight shines in long enough to find someone.
We’d all get pretty good hiding spots, like up on the top pantry shelf, inside cabinets, and then a few times I hung on the side off the wall by holding onto the stair way, and then my best hiding place where absolutely no one could find me was just crouching down against a wall in a smaller room with nothing really beside me. It was just so dark, and no one really expected someone to just crouch out in the open like that, they always just brushed passed me to look around the couches and tables in the room.
buttaholic · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would all out on black clothes when we played hide and seek in the dark. We also didn't use flashlights. You could close a bedroom door and just stand against it and it was still hard to see you. Really fun times...you also have to be in a room with the light on while you count so your eyes dont adjust to the darkness
80Eight · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this at our Christmas Timeshare but no one got any lights. "Base" was the Christmas tree or fireplace.
Farsydi · 2 points · Posted at 17:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this with my dad! Twenty years and I still can't find him.
thegame2010 · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We usually played that around Christmas time because then one of the rooms was still lit by the tree. Then your eyes would be constantly readjusting. My dog would inevitably find someone and wouldn't leave that person alone. She bugged us all equally though, so it was still "fair"
BBWolfe011 · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in a dark basement was the best! People would set up traps like cardboard boxes or barbie dolls. We had a glow in the dark hockey mask that was super spooky and so when you hid all you could see was the mask floating.
theycallmecrack · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone play jailbreak? Basically cops/robbers at night in the neighborhood, farm, whatever. If a "cop" tags you, you go to jail (usually a porch). If a free robber tags jail and yells "jailbreak" everyone in jail runs free. If all robbers are in jail, teams switch roles for next round.
Asheweaver · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an extra lampshade lying around the house for some reason so I once put it on my head and stood really still behind my mom's chair. It took the seeker quite a while to find me haha
mutt_butt · 2 points · Posted at 19:59:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother knocked out one of my front teeth with his forehead playing this game.
hemeny123 · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I played a version of this but without the flashlights because we usually played in our bedrooms which weren't very big. To make it a little more challenging whoever was it would have to stare at the light in the hallway the entire countdown before coming into the room just to make them extra blind.
Edited some stuff so this actually made sense I hate typing on phones.
Arya_Granger · 4 points · Posted at 15:34:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do that.. I was always first to be tagged because I was so afraid of the dark that I would just start running and screaming even before I'm spotted😂😂
OrangeBracelet · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You played with a flashlight? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
EarlyHemisphere · 7 points · Posted at 15:48:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, because the seeker can still only really see where they shine their flashlight. We also wanted to be safe, and one of my brothers didn’t like the dark that much
OrangeBracelet · 3 points · Posted at 15:49:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay. Whenever i played it was in the basement so the only light was though the two windows in the foundation that weren’t blocked
EarlyHemisphere · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it sounds like it’d be more fun without a flashlight. If I ever play again I probably won’t use one.
tcoatee · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing! Only instead of waiting on the stairs watching them try to find me I went to my room and played video games. Got a decent amount of prime solo video game time that way.
ismeel125 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that exact game and had that exact strategy.
moon1811 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I also played it but we called it “La mano peluda” or the Hairy Hand in english. It was a reference to a monster that would catch you at night and hold you with its scary hairy hand, kinda like a monster under the bed. It was really fun, one time a kid even peed herself while hiding under a bed. Also the seeker had to have his eyes covered and we spin them according to their age, one spin for each year. Sorry for the grammar.
HomeForShalom · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yes!! i love hide and seek in the dark
CGToste · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was the Bathroom Dweller, when I was 8 I was better than I am now. I still play it with my younger cousins though.
Anyways I would hide under the sink, in the laundry machines, under some clothes, in a corner of the bathtub and anywhere else I could fit. I would dwell the bathroom for 3 rounds until the meta catches on that I hide in the bathroom and the next round I would hide somewhere else.
I still play it and while I'm larger and can't fit in places I used to I can still kick ass. The best feeling is finding a new spot to hide as a seeker and then using that spot as a hider. Haven't played in ~3 months though, maybe we'll play a round tonight lmao.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to do this, except we'd wear sunglasses at the same time. In the dark, with sunglasses equals totally blind.
nt96 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time my friends walked past my hiding spot, I always tried my hardest not to laugh.
UndeadBread · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did that but it was out in the woods or at a park late at night and without a flashlight.
kindarusty · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same, but pretended that the seeker was a velociraptor, complete with Jurassic Park style screeching sounds (or as close as kids could approximate). When an adult was the seeker, they were a T. rex, because they were big enough to pick you up with their "mouth arms".
It was terrifying, but fun.
Kaneharo · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark was fun till my older siblings set up an invisible tape trap and wrapped me up like a joint in some bed sheets and threw me on the couch.
musicchan · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this in a church at night with a youth group a few times and man, there is nothing like it. Hiding in the darkest shadow you can find but still technically in plain site, the emergency lights, tall ceilings with echoing sounds. It was great!
Bacon_Bitz · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I believe the name is “Murder in the Dark”.
StripesNTn · 5435 points · Posted at 13:33:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spotlight. It is basically hide and go seek, but with key differences. We would don dark clothing and/or camouflage, hide in the forest at night and then wait to be sought out/tracked by the person who was "it". Tons of fun.
southernwoodsman · 3811 points · Posted at 13:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a similar game and called it man hunt
karmagod13000 · 3633 points · Posted at 14:34:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MANHUNT now this was a good childhood game. literally took over the whole suburb
Artikay · 2230 points · Posted at 14:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time my dad took me to a church retreat for the weekend and all the kids there decided that they were going to play Manhunt in the woods at night. I was super stoked. It sounded awesome, I cant convey how hyped I was the whole trip upstate for this epic game of manhunt.
Earlier in the day we were fishing at a lake. My line kept getting hooked on a tree so I decided to walk along the edge of the lake to a better spot. I twist my foot a bit and land in this dirty ass lake filled with moss and shit.
After I go clean myself up and dont want to fish anymore so Im now playong by some monkey bars in the playground there. A kid slips and lands directly on my head. I get a concussion.
By the time night comes Im in bed with a concussion and a 105.5 fever which I assume was caused by accidentally drinking some mossy water. I did not play Manhunt that day.
To top it all off my Starfox game watch was broken from the water.
Thats my unasked for church retreat story.
karmagod13000 · 714 points · Posted at 14:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
classic church retreat
[deleted] · 277 points · Posted at 15:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Church retreats are always either really awesome or really shitty. There is no in between. Either way it's gonna be a story you tell well into adulthood.
Blu3b3Rr1 · 28 points · Posted at 15:43:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My most vivid memory of my only church retreat was waking up at 3am to the sound of my bunk mate moaning. He wasn’t even doing anything, dude was just moaning in his sleep
jmh082016 · 17 points · Posted at 16:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
First time I got high was at church camp lol
Pretty sure some of my friends lost their virginity at church camp too.
Ingrid_Boogeyman · 3 points · Posted at 20:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOL same. I smacked weed for the first time at a church retreat.
Yotsubauniverse · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got high off of paint fumes at World changers. I spent a solid 20 minutes giggling.
romulusbc · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You should treat it with more respect...
TimTraveler · 11 points · Posted at 16:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always had an awesome time on my church retreat
My mom though.... Her pastor decided to hire some guys from the local town to come in with guns and act like they were holding the place hostage. WHAT THE FUCK
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 16:20:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean, I said you'd tell the stories well into adulthood. I didn't say whether you'd be telling them to a therapist or not.
thatJainaGirl · 9 points · Posted at 15:52:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I slept with another girl for the first time on a church retreat. I've had a thing for redheads ever since.
isntaken · 3 points · Posted at 16:15:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's because you don't hear about the ones where they just go, see and conquer.
FriskyTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Classic survivorship bias.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 04:26:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well at least they didn't get molested...that would've been the classic church retreat story
wheredmyphonego · 23 points · Posted at 15:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my church camp, we would play Sardines. It's like hide and seek but there's 1 person that hides, then the rest of the group goes to look for them. WHEN you find them, you have to hide with them. First person to find them, gets to be the next to hide. You only end when everyone's there, and how do you know if everyone is there? Well you whisper a mock roll call. lol. It's challenging going out to seek with 2 or 3 friends, find them, but telling your friends no one is "over there" then losing your friends so you can double back and hide with them. This has to be played in the dark. We played dozens of times in our church when we had "lock ins" which are chaperoned sleep overs IN the church. I'm an agnostic now, not a fan of organized religion, BUT some of my BEST childhood memories are from church camp or youth group.
Roody_Goobert · 13 points · Posted at 15:27:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like you were playing Manhunt with God that day.
sometimesiamdead · 7 points · Posted at 15:23:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played manhunt at a church retreat and someone fell into a pond in the middle of the night.
MrJekyyl · 6 points · Posted at 15:23:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've been to church a total of 3 times ever. One of those times was with the youth group my friend was a part of for a "lock-in" night. Played Manhunt in the church in between the pews, through the galleries... Fun times. Church at night is extra spooky setting too
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, I also went to a lock-in with a friend's youth group. Was a pretty good time.
turtleinmybelly · 6 points · Posted at 15:58:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got a mild concussion from a giant slip n slide at church camp. Those things are obviously dangerous.
The church camps I mean. Not slip n slides. Those are fun.
omgdonerkebab · 6 points · Posted at 15:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ugggh that sucks. Back then those were awesome, I never saw anything else like it.
casualblair · 3 points · Posted at 17:09:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exact same story, but summer camp instead of church, snake instead of ankle, wasp nest instead of concussion, and calculator watch instead of starfox.
kidlightnings · 2 points · Posted at 16:15:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
church retreats are the worst/best. that's where I learned shitty stage magic, karate, and lip-syncing, and also saw a girl fall out of the top bunk and punch a hole through her lip.
Yotsubauniverse · 2 points · Posted at 23:41:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
That's the kind of thing you'd expect from a church retreat. On one trip to Gatlinburg this guy takes on a dare to taste the hottest hot sauce in the salsa store. One taste later he's barreling down several stairs to Wendy's where they gave him a frosty. (He was sick for the rest of the trip.) On another our youth minister popped his shoulder out of socket during mega relay. Another one we were building a transition house where we were painting a room. The youth minister accidentally bought the type that if you were around it enough you got high off the fumes. That caused us to get high and we were such a laughing mess that we had to take a break every 45 minutes so we could get air. And my favorite involved my church and like 4 others putting dish soap into the fountain after hearing counselors sing at the end of morning show "Don't put bubbles in the fountain!" We never got caught because we bailed before we could. Church retreats are wild.
fnixdown · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god I wanted that Starfox game watch so bad when I was a kid!
musicman827 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/pointlessstories
my_fellow_earthicans · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huh... your church retreat story barely involves any wasp stings
CuteCuteJames · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nooooo! StarFox, tho!
Lolplzhelpmeomg · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
.....that's a scarily high temp
schultz100 · 14 points · Posted at 15:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm happy to report that, in my neighborhood, the kids still play it! Every time a neighbor has a barbecue or party you can guarantee that once it gets dark the kids will all ask for flashlights to play manhunt.
Lost_And_NotFound · 10 points · Posted at 15:30:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The key difference in our game of manhunt vs hide and seek was that you were only caught if you surrendered. Basically step one find the people, step two beat them up until they surrendered and joined the hunters. Had to ensure the first hunter could beat someone up solo.
karmagod13000 · 3 points · Posted at 15:39:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
makes it a little more dangerous
Lost_And_NotFound · 3 points · Posted at 15:43:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah some could really take a beating. I was almost always one of the youngest playing so would just surrender as soon as I was caught.
TheSeaOfThySoul · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup, this was the version I remember. Really brings proper meaning to the name "Man HUNT".
coachlasso · 8 points · Posted at 15:17:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every Friday night during the summer, as soon as dinner was done, the phone would start ringing to decide where we were playing that night. One of my best memories of my tween years.
clusterlove · 13 points · Posted at 15:18:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Scotland it's affectionately known as "Hunt the Cunt".
grassman76 · 4 points · Posted at 18:05:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt...one of the best parts of a Boy Scout camping weekend. Hours of fun and it never got old. The best game I ever played though was in high school. One girl had a party at her house, she lived in front of her dad's construction company, there was 40 kids playing in a storage/junkyard at night. So many places to hide. Nobody looked for me inside the dumpster. Some high school parties involve sneaking a bottle of Jack Daniels and smoking weed. Not ours. We played manhunt and drank Iced Tea. Sometimes I wish I was 15 again.
KPC51 · 3 points · Posted at 16:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite game sometimes
HDhitch · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay but what about a good ol’ game of cops and robbers??!?
skaryk · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Jailbreak in my tiny NE Pennsylvanian town.
TheCultist · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I kept thinking of the videogame and was like "Wtf that was not child friendly at all!"
Moe_Lester12 · 2 points · Posted at 15:38:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt or sometimes called Hunt the cunt where I'm from is where the person that's it gets to beat the shit out of the people hiding until they get away or join them to be it
TheMightyMoggle · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it 007 in my hometown lol
Mediocre_Monty · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing this a TON during the summer with all the other neighborhood kids! Basically hide and go seek tag but at night. One time my sister his super well and we forgot she was playing for like 3 rounds. She was very mad that we just forgot about her lol
DoctorMcAstronaut · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We had a good sized block of woods and a park nearby. It was very simple, whoever was it had a 5 minute head start and couldn't go in anyone's house and couldn't use a bike but the hunters could.
Edit: I just remembered, when we got older, like in college, we did the same thing but at night on a golf course with paintball guns. It ended in a stand off in one of the storm shelters where one of my friends got lit up around a corner at point blank. The kid was shredded. We weren't playing at actual course so we had our guns cranked up and he took about 7 or 8 to the rib cage before he started screaming to stop. When we got back to the house he took is shirt of and was just bloody mess of purple welts.
EuCleo · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude.
Throwawayuser626 · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes, and I saw kids of all ages playing it. My older teenage cousins and their friends would play it with us. One of the boys (gee, I can’t remember his name) used to wear costume masks to scare us. It was fun.
EpicFishFingers · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MANHUNT123
NO I GOT AWAY
FUCK OFF YOU TWAT, I'VE STILL GOT HOLD OF YOU
NO YOU HAVEN'T NOT ANYMORE
runs off
Manhu-
MANHUNT 123
OwwwwwWWWUH!
k1dsmoke · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a team based version we called Ditch.
Where you had two large teams, anywhere from 6v6 up to 10v10 or more.
One team is “it” and has a base; the other team is given ample time to hide and it covered a large portion of our neighborhood with pretty natural boundary lines, probably slightly bigger than a city block but in a heavily wooded suburban setting.
The game changed teams once all players of the hiding team were captured and in jail. Members of the hiding team could free their prisoners.
Our jail was always the neighbors front porch who had large bushes and trees that created natural “secret” paths that someone could sneak to the jail and release their players.
Common strat was to send someone in to lure out the guards ditch them and another player would sneak in and tag them to free them.
Literally the most fun I’ve ever had as a kid.
rcampbell135 · 2 points · Posted at 21:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The best! We had over 20 kids take over the neighborhood. Kids would go as far as bringing face paint or wearing all white to stand against white houses. Jumping fences, hiding under cars and bushes, running through the desert (patch of grass between a few houses that seemed much larger than what it is now as a 26 yo.). What a blast
diosmuerteborracho · 2 points · Posted at 23:33:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does the "it" person put a plastic bag over the other person's head and bludgeon them until they suffocate? That's how I remember Manhunt.
poopapat320 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free!!!
karmagod13000 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
o shit nostalgia overload
FritoLaysForDays · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yessss that game was the best! Especially when played camping.
Oh_hi_doggi3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I live in a small town so whenever someone has a party theres a good chance that someone is hiding in my backyard
dezz-the-artist · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! We would designate a boundary like two blocks big and then 20 kids all scatter. At night, dressed in all black.
Vioarr · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played ghosts in the graveyard, very similar to manhunt.
justabovetheaverage · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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tommy20boy02 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once had under a trailer for an hour and nobody found me. Got bored and went to find them only to see that I'd been disqualified and they'd started another round ages ago.
Life was tough as a top level sportsman…
thegingercutie · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes!!! We used to play this for hours on end! The whole neighborhood was in on it.
El_Sherwano · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Irish man hunt, same thing but when the hunters find someone they beat them up till they give up and then they become hunters as well
ACoolerUsername · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The only time I ever played, I actually won by hiding between an above ground pool and a deck, but under the deck part so whoever shined their flashlight in could see through to the other side
R3dFiveStandingBye · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MANHUNT MANHUNT 1 2 3
Azutox · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude isnt manhunt just hide and seek
Alchemyst19 · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, that game was the best back when I was in Scouts. Four people with flashlights, twenty runners. Good times.
CheezNpoop · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:13 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
While we were in high school we would play a MASSIVE game of Manhunt with normally 80 people playing. The goal would be to go from one location to another without getting tagged, the distance was normally 3-6 miles. The runners would get a 10 minute head start with the only rule being you had to stay within bounds (usually two main streets so maybe 2 miles wide). Then the chasers would get in their cars with a driver and one person to jump out and tag runners. If you're a runner and got tagged would hop in the car and go around helping chase after people. Lots of stories came out of that game of people getting guns pulled on them when they tried to cut through someone's backyard. Great times!
MrSpindles · 643 points · Posted at 14:43:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt for us as kids meant 1 person was hunting and each person caught then became a hunter as well, until everyone was hunting the last person, who won.
One lunchtime when I was in school a group of us organised game of man hunt in the local park near the school, 5 on the first day, about 30 on the second and by day 3 there were over 100. We lived in the most eastern town in the UK and the park was woodland and public park space (see google map pic)
Here.
The roads that are cut into the cliff were the best part. You'd be tearing along being chased, leap down the wall, sprint across the road and clamber up the other side, often dodging traffic whilst doing so, I got clipped by cars more than once and having the balls/sheer stupidity to make those runs was what marked out a winner. The adrenaline rush of being chased by 4 people, making the jump into moving traffic, getting over the other side wall and leaving them in the dust was unbeatable.
lucyroesslers · 278 points · Posted at 14:59:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is how we played manhunt too. Never got THAT big of a game going. If we talked the neighborhood girls into playing we could get a game of 20 or so going. Usually more like 10-12. We made it slightly different by allowing the hunter a bicycle. If you got caught, you could either hunt on foot or if you were close by where you left it, you could hop on your bicycle too. But giving original hunter the bicycle ensured you didn't have some fat/slow hunter unable to catch anyone.
shenanigins · 29 points · Posted at 15:39:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The high school kids used to play at the local middle schools. Every once in a while, when I was in middle school, we'd have an announcement about some hooligans breaking the shingles on the roofs. Turns out, manhunt got rowdy and the high school kids were jumping from roof to roof (open campus). Unfortunately by the time I got to high school and could play, the games always fell through.
There was a bit of a difference between the way I've always heard it played and what I'm reading here though. The Hunters would always start in one spot, and the hunted, starting in another, would have to make it across without being caught. There might have been some kind of jailbreak rule too but I can't remember. Now, depending on how big the play area was, the hunted would be in cars with minimum two people. Obviously, a chaser and a driver, the chaser could only get out if they were actively chasing someone down. This would be if we were playing from one side of the neighborhood to the other or even further.
We talked a bunch about playing in college, enough people wanted to play, but the timing never worked out. Plus, someone brought up the cops not appreciating the idea. Lame. Redbull... Get on this shiet
lucyroesslers · 18 points · Posted at 16:09:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah damn that shit sounds intricate and fun as hell. I'm in my 30s and now I want to play that way!
Ours was basically reverse hide-and-seek, with the added element of the bike, and we all stopped playing sometime in our middle-school ages. We had a neighborhood basically consisting of a giant circle of like 4-5 blocks, we were given carte blanche of the neighborhood and could hide in pretty much any yard (we all knew the 2-3 houses not to go around), and all our parents trusted us to be out as long as we wanted as long as we were back by dinner. Closest we got to jumping roofs might be hiding on someone's shed or climbing a tall tree to hide, but we all knew like every hiding spot. We'd play ALL day, take a break at someones house for lunch, usually one of the moms making PB&Js.
But the idea of an older game with cars and rooftops sounds like such a missed opportunity for an awesome idea. And kids now could organize a game so much easier with social media... although probably a higher chance of someone showing up who would ruin the game.
Motoshade · 14 points · Posted at 16:32:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Yeah, I remember chasing my bro on top of this tractor trailer, him running to the end of it and just jumping off, tucking and rolling. I just watched him run off, then climbed down the side. I could never figure out how to absorb shock as well as he did.
I was super good at manhunt and I would usually follow the hunters. The key strategy is to hide where the hunter just cleared. Also if you were being chased, find the darkest corner of a house, run full blast and as soon as you turn the corner, baseball slide into the darkest shadow of the corner. The hunter will think you continued to run and will run right past you 10 feet away or less. The objective when hiding in a shadow is to not move a muscle, even hold your breath, when the hunter looks right at you, and his eyes will pass over you like you are invisible. Then run back around the corner where he just went around when he passes you. To him, it will look like you disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Twenty four hour paintball scenario game was similar in many fashions. You try to avoid the spotlights, because if you are unfortunate enough to get stuck in one near the enemy general's base, you will be lit up to high hell.
lucyroesslers · 13 points · Posted at 17:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha this whole comment is just bringing back waves of memories and making me chuckle. It was never fun like just picking a spot and hiding, so you're totally right that the hiders really became hunters of the hunter, just stalking him, trying to outwit him, wanting to come up with more unique ways to hide, and you really wanted to get spotted after a little bit because the challenge of running away and losing the hunter was always the most fun.
Never got into paintball. Didn't really have the money in our family to afford the hobby as a kid, and as an older teen when I probably could afford it, never really had the friends to do it with. Definitely a regret to not get into it a little bit.
Motoshade · 7 points · Posted at 17:27:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah man, paintball is a rich man's hobby, and I really shouldn't have gone as far as I have into it.
I am not a rich man. My clothes are 10 years old and I live in the cheapest studio in the area.
lucyroesslers · 7 points · Posted at 17:46:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only live once man. A lot of hobbies can get expensive really quick. Gamers, paintballers, artists, golfers, a lot of it can be somewhat of a hit on your pocket book or a major dent.
I play golf very seldomly, and it's a fun hobby for me 5-10x a year, almost always at a public golf course, with some hand-me-down clubs I got from my uncle... or you can be my buddy who is a member of a country club mostly for the golf, buys some sort of new clubs or equipment every year, plays probably 50-60x a year, goes to PGA Tour tournaments, etc. Same hobby, much different expense.
shenanigins · 6 points · Posted at 17:47:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So, the roof thing was a bit extreme and actually did do quite a bit of damage. Pretty dangerous too, a bunch of kids running around in the dark jumping over some serious gaps. But, I've always wanted to get a proper adult group together to play like an all night cross town game. However, the party pooper in me thinks the cops would have to be told about it ahead of time to avoid any misunderstandings. "911? Yes, a man just jumped out of a car and chased a girl down before dragging her back to the car."
I haven't seen that tag movie yet. But, in my head I picture this cross town game as a coming of age(pre mid life crisis?), buddy comedy, like Superbad. The two friends (let's be honest, I'm picturing Seth Rogan and James Franco) sit up high looking down on the finish line and the hunters waiting for the final few runners. The sky is starting to show hints of orange, there's only a few minutes left before sunrise and the end of the game, no one has won yet. The two are covered in scrapes and dirt, clearly winded from a nearly endless night of running and hiding. they're not as spry as they once were. They look at each other and with a deep sigh "let's finish this". Fade to black as 'Time' by Pink Floyd starts to play.
lucyroesslers · 6 points · Posted at 17:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha nice. Well maybe you could just not "drag them back to the car". Chasing them down and having it end with a tag might be enough.
My brother just text me a few weeks ago saying that Tag was hilarious and I need to watch it.
shenanigins · 5 points · Posted at 17:59:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've yet to hear bad things about tag. The dragging thing was just an extreme example. Probably kind of funny to chaser/runner, but horrifying for onlookers. Like the bong/bomb scene in Harold and Kumar 2, haha.
Tom_Arnaud · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well allowed cars too, any vehicle.
livezinshadowz · 25 points · Posted at 15:07:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is exactly how my friends and I played a game we dubbed “amoeba tag” during recess.
One time, the slowest person started out as “it”, and we kind of mockingly ran circles around him until the fastest kid took pity and let himself get tagged. We scattered like cockroaches after that.
rose_tyger · 4 points · Posted at 15:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We do a different version of “amoeba tag” as adults and call it the “party amoeba.” Its best done at Cons. You start with 2-3 people, go to each gathering of people or room party and get the coolest 2-3 people to leave with you until you have a large crowd, then go back to your own room and all the sudden, instant party with the neatest people from all the other parties already there. Others follow. I always get the best parties happening that way lol.
Sorry. That really had nothing to do with “tag” just that “amoeba” reminded me of doing this on a regular basis.
Moe_Lester12 · 6 points · Posted at 15:39:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt or sometimes called Hunt the cunt where I'm from is where the person that's it gets to beat the shit out of the people hiding until they get away or join them to be it
shelleyftw · 3 points · Posted at 15:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh Ness point.
I remember having fond memories of playing man hunt all round there. Never was just school based. Guessing by the sounds of you were from Denes. It was who ever would turn up after school and see where the mayhem took us.
Many a time I have jump of the one the paths without thinking, only to be horrified when I saw the drop and braced for impact.
_saranwrap · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is also how I played this, but we called it sardines. We played in the dark with flashlights and wore dark clothes. We were allowed to deceive the seekers by throwing things and changing spots. It was a nightmare.
overpowering_ligma · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This guy manhunts.
Schlongr · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, this manhunt was the best one. We live in a cul de sac with a park, so we'd have to climb fences and shit to get to the other streets, otherwise you'd have people around the proper entrance/exit of the street.
That feeling you get when you're getting chased by the whole neighbourhood is something else man
Kiiyull · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is how we played Manhunt at school as well. I also lived roughly half an hour away from you
SalzigHund · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this way and we also played with teams and there was a base. One team would hide and the other team would seek (usually with one defending the base). If the hiders made it to base on-touched they got a point.
AndreiR · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was basically what our manhunt was. Reading all these it makes me wonder.. how the fuck did we all have the same name for a somewhat similar thing? Our parents never talked about it (only tag), yet somehow, across multiple countries (UK, Canada, USA) we all had the same game despite not being able to communicate with eachother (pre internet)
MrSpindles · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Since those days I've moved around the country and there are certainly regional variations. I'm now in the midlands and got blank looks when I mentioned manhunt, round here it's all ackey 123, which doesn't sound half as fun or dangerous :)
Spooky_Potato6 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was there a goal for the people hiding? I played this and for some reason remember using a streetlight in the middle of the street as the goal. The hiders had to get there and say "manhunt one two three" while touching said pole. However if a hider was caught they'd join the seeking team. Round ends when everyone's either been caught or made it to the pole.
To decide who was it we always did "Numbers".
SquirrelTale · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of my old public school. In my last 3 years of school we organized massive games of manhunt on our playground (which had forested areas and was pretty big for a school yard- like 8 to 10 acres?) where basically all of the older grades played. It must've been around 100 people as well. They foolishly forced people who wanted to join to be the hunter, so me and my nerdy, girlish, small self was picked to be hunter for a recess and they got bored. But I was able to join! Although I wasn't good at it and didn't have many friends I still fondly remember being a part of that massive game.
I also remember in winter time (from Canada so lots of snow) people would have snow forts and create alliances and would create very massive and elaborate snow forts with the snow sleds, then have different conquering expeditions to steal others' snow blocks to build up their own and force those conquered to work for them. It was also an older-grade school-wide event. Man those years were fun.
_Californian · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
isn't that sardines
orionsbelt05 · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, Manhunt was one person hiding, everyone else looking for the one person.
The game you described, we called "Wolf Pack," because the hunter started out as one person, but the game evolved as more people were added to the "pack" and less people were part of the "hunted."
t3h_r0nz · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play it on a back alley of main street in our small town. There was a cemetary and lots of other small alleys to hide in. It got a little out of control when some kids started climbing on roofs of various houses and businesses.
Corosz · 141 points · Posted at 14:58:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh goddamn we ran all over the neighborhood playing manhunt. Through backyards, on roofs of schools, just everywhere. Makes me miss gradeschool a bit.
clumsy_tacos · 8 points · Posted at 16:03:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Read that as "grad school", and couldn't help but think wow, that must be awesome to play on a college campus...
Shloppins · 5 points · Posted at 17:28:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The worst part was? You probably played every single day up until 8th grade. First day of grade 9? Never even thought about playing it lol
Corosz · 8 points · Posted at 17:34:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
100%, we were too cool for it in 9th grade. Now though, I'm so down to run around like an idiot and play tag.
suddenlyseemoor · 3 points · Posted at 21:11:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know! I think our neighborhood gathered and played until I was in high school. So. Much. Fun. Shout out to all my manhunt players!! Great memories.
johnqevil · 115 points · Posted at 14:28:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt FTW.
ouncedicetrice · 9 points · Posted at 15:21:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ours was called Murder in the Dark. Everyone picks a folded paper from a hat all marked O except for one X. the murderer. Everyone hides but still mills around, moving from one spot to another in a dark house. The murderer kills people by firmly grabbing their shoulder. The victim screams, falls and lies in the floor til the the last player remains and wins. It was terrifying when you could hear someone scream in another part of the house. 100% would play that again if my friends weren’t so damned civilized and just wanted to drink wine and talk about their kids and politics.
DantesEdmond · 6 points · Posted at 15:35:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few years ago I was on a golfing trip with a bunch of childhood friends, and our cabins were literally on the golf course. After coming home from the bar someone had the genius idea of playing a game of manhunt on the golf course like when we were kids. It was probably 11 at night, pitch black, with 8 guys in their late 20s playing manhunt on a golf course. It was amazing we couldn’t see shit and kept falling over.
I highly recommend adult drunk manhunt
lune-lute-skimp · 4 points · Posted at 15:21:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yeah we played this too but really it was never that fun. i mean it was fun to run around suburbs at night, but aside from that - it was usually hiding for two hours and ends up being the "hunter" chasing down his or her crush in circles in a culdesac until everyone's like f this
funkyb · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Release". Manhunt but you had 2 even teams and once captured people were put in jail (usually a relatively well lit porch) and could be released if someone on your team got there and called "1-2-3 release!" Once you caught everyone the teams switched rolls.
duuckyy · 4 points · Posted at 16:44:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God I remember playing manhunt as a kid. My dad used to take me and my siblings camping with the family, as in it was his sisters campsite and she brought all of her kids, as well as her nieces and nephews that she had to take care of after her sister had passed. I was super close with this side of the family at the time and it was probably the highlight of my memories with them.
My aunt owned this one spot at a site called Steeprock in my province. I loved the place. Me and my cousins and siblings would play manhunt at night, but the problem was that we didn't have any boundaries. The upside though was that we knew the entire campsite like the back of our hands. And we especially knew the best hiding places. I was 8 at the time we started this, my siblings are all older, the youngest of the cousins was 7. So it was 7-14 year olds running around at night. Ten of us exactly. My older brothers always stayed with me to keep an eye on me, but my younger cousins siblings didn't give two shits about him because he liked to think he was 12 and tried to act like a teenager so they just let him do stuff to teach him a lesson I guess. You can imagine how this turned out.
We played this for YEARS, or at least until they sold their campsite because we stopped going. But we eventually had to make boundaries after an incident with my younger cousin. I don't remember exactly what happened. But basically my older brother was the hunter, we were all hinders. We all had flashlights and three of us had walkie-talkies (both of my brothers, and one of our cousins, they were the oldest so they had to have them for emergencies, my dad had the fourth one back at camp so the adults knew what was going on), and we made it a rule that only the hunters could use the flashlights, so if you got caught you HAD to turn it on and keep it on, and the other rule was that every so often a hunter would have to go into the middle of the open field and flash their flashlight five times to signal a "group meeting." This was basically just to see who was all caught and who needed to be found still. If one of the hunters had a walkie-talkie but weren't in the meeting when it was called, one of the other two had to ask where they were and what they were doing just to be sure. Eventually we had it so that everyone had one.
We played for a good hour one night and stopped because we thought everyone was caught. After we did the hunter count, we realized my youngest cousin wasn't with us, but EVERYONE had been found and he was the only one nobody had seen. We couldn't exactly try to ask where he was, because at this time we still only had three walkie-talkies, so we split into groups of two, my oldest sibling going on his own, and we searched for another hour doing an entire sweep of the campsite, even going as far as running along the lake shore to see if maybe he was on the beach or something. It started to get concerning after the second hour had passed and NOBODY heard from him, so one of my brothers went back to camp while my cousin contacted my dad and said he was missing. We got all of the adults involved on the hunt, even though a lot of them were drunk, and we let their dog loose so he could find the kid since it was the kids dog and they were practically attached. But we were actually terrified for this kid because he could be lost in the woods or something and nobody would know. My older brothers and cousins were angry because it was their responsibility to watch us and make sure nothing bad happened, and they were scared for something to happen to him because it would be their fault. His sister cried, his mom didn't even bother to help, she just laughed and stayed by the fire to keep drinking. It was rough. We kept calling for him and saying that the game was over and to come out of hiding. For two hours. It was getting way too dark by the time we did a third search of the campsite, and we were seriously ready to call the camp rangers to issue an actual search. The adults were going to take care of it after they put us kids to bed, so we all stood in the field discussing it. Then all of a sudden we hear faint laughter. My brother points his flashlight up in the tree he heard it coming from, and there's my stupid cousin just sitting there. Laughing. My brothers and cousins practically dragged him out of the tree and yelled at him, telling him that the game was over hours ago. According to my cousin, after we all ran off to look for him the first time we called the big group meeting during the game, he ran over and climbed into the tree because he knew nobody would look there again. Oh and he heard us saying the game was done and to come out of hiding, he found it hilarious that we were all actually worried about him and thought he died and was going to get the rangers involved. His dad practically dragged him back to camp after while talking sternly to him all the way there. The next day his dad drove him home and grounded him and we all got to stay for the next three days. We changed the rules after that incident, set strict boundaries, and my dad got us more walkie-talkies so that everyone could have one. We also made sure that if my cousin was playing, one of his siblings had to stay with him at all times. None of them disagreed. Sometimes we even left him out. Manhunt was still fun after that though.
PM_UR_UNDERBUNS_GIRL · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it man hunt as well, but we did it in our neighborhood. Looking back, our neighbors hated us.
ouncedicetrice · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our game was called Hunter. A variation on night time hide and seek but every player chooses an animal to be. The hunter had to find you AND remember what animal you were. Yelling for eg “BANG WOLF!” If they remember correctly, you’re dead.
The next generation in my family still plays this game and i join in when I can.
There’s something about being chased or chasing someone brings out primal instincts. It doesn’t matter if I’m being chased by an 8 year old, I still run like a squirrel.
forever_a10ne · 2 points · Posted at 15:14:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought this was a game that my friends and I made up back in the day. I'm glad to see it wasn't just us!
ICameHereForClash · 2 points · Posted at 16:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I play it every fourth of july with my distant friend
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MAN HUNT GOT TAKEN WAY TOO FAR AT WRESTLING CAMP. PEOPLE GOT HURT EVERY TIME. AN AMBULANCE WAS CALLED TWICE
JacksonML · 2 points · Posted at 18:59:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MANHUNT yes!! My middle school would take us on a retreat (all 6th-8th grades but it was a small school so we'd have like 90 people at most) and every year we'd play manhunt at night where we could hide in the majority of the retreat's main area. Some teachers had flashlights and were the "hunters" and some teachers stayed back in "jail". If they pointed their flashlight at you and yelled your name you had to go to jail. Once in jail they'd give you a small task (sing your abc's, do a number of jumping jacks/push ups) then you were free to go. A good number of people would end up falling or whatever but no one really cared they just got back up since they didn't want to be found. It was easily one of the best parts of the retreat.
APartyInMyPants · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Manhunt, but flashlights weren’t allowed. I lived near a large wooded area that bordered a park, so we had about 100+ acres to roam around in that had some rough dirt roads. But we usually confined it to one or a few of these sections.
Fuzzlechan · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt was great! Always played it every Friday after youth group in elementary school.
xxdcmast · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it night crawlers.
Moe_Lester12 · 2 points · Posted at 15:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Frank? Charlie? Is that you?
KinaGrace96 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same. But we called it German Spotlight
MyActualNameIsCarl · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same but called it Commandos
Creepy_OldMan · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
great game. My athletic ability peaked back then.
Dr_Bukkakee · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it jail break.
hoo_ts · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt was a great game, half a dozen kids would start at one end of the woods and a dozen kids would hide (complete darkness of course) the hidden dozen or so would eventually get caught one-by-one and join the hunt.
one rule was you weren’t allowed to leave the woods but they were damn huge; game went all evening.
Bear-Unnecessities · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hiding in your perfect spot for a few peaceful minutes until your friend suddenly comes barreling into you at full speed with the “hunters” charging behind them.
Then it comes down to who’s the faster runner.
ARatNamedClydeBarrow · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this too in the forest at the end of our street!
One time I was running from the hunter, and I knew we were coming up to the edge of a small outcropping, so I decided to jump for some reason? It was maybe 15 feet high and I definitely twisted an ankle.
Good times.
RockyroadNSDQ · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this alot as a kid, the very last time I played it I was prone on the ground at midnight on a new moon, pitch black In the woods. The hunter spotted me and started running towards me, I went to spring up and caught my foot on a root and basically threw my pronebody at him while he was running and my mouth connected with his knee, I fractured my upper jaw and knocked my two front teeth out. This was like 8 years ago (I'm young) and I still have jaw problems, fun times
Edit: but I still have my front teeth so that's a plus
Riggamortizz · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a similar game called Fugitive. Very popular movie at the time.
My-wife-hates-reddit · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played in man hunt in college. Start on opposite sides of campus. One team tries to make it to the other side while the other team drives around in cars & trucks looking for them. If you got caught then you could help the other team.
The police eventually made us stop... didn’t feel it was safe (people in backs of trucks, people sneaking around at night, etc)
nhoucky · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played man hunt while camping out in one kids neighborhood. We would split into three groups and in the middle of the night try and find the other groups. When found, we would ambush said enemy group with ball bearings and rocks shot from sling shots. Lots of fun. Parents shut down the fun when one boy lost an eye.
tunnelingballsack · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same
Mr_Wilcox · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once played Manhunt with a bunch of cousins in the swamps of Louisiana. It was a learning experience.
FatherofKhorne · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Manhunt.
Then a fucker brought a BB gun and change the game entirely.
Kkbow38 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god I remember hiding in old wooden box-thing full of spiders during a game of manhunt. I ended up winning lol
The_Grubby_One · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Manhunt, but it was... Decidedly different. It involved a lot more plastic bags, baseball bats, and shards of glass.
ratchmond · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many good memories playing manhunt! Our whole neighborhood would get involved. One time we were playing and my friend was running for her life after almost being spotted. It was nighttime, so she didn’t see a low tree stump coming up in her path. She was going so fast, she summersaulted over it and landed on her feet. I was the only one who saw. Still the coolest thing she’s done to date, over a decade of friendship later.
green_bin_coon · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did this a few times in highschool, only limits were you could hid anywhere publicly accessible in desiginited area, could not hide on moving vehicle's.
run_fast-eat_ass · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bloody Manhunt!!! Used to play this at explorers all the time! Loved it!
southernwoodsman · 2 points · Posted at 02:14:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
JimboLodisC · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man Hunt is the reason I opened this thread. We had our game stretched out across the entire neighborhood.
SendMeBettaPics · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Prison Break and Manhunt
thoticusbegonicus · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else play manhunt where you basically had to tackle someone to get them?
Sack-of-bean · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also called it hide and go dark.
canno3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers used to play that! Our mom would drop one of us off in the neighborhood and all of the neighborhood kids and us would go out looking. It was so much fun!
lonely667 · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No way, I played man hunt too. We're you in the boy scouts by any chance?
thejdaniel · 625 points · Posted at 14:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A twist on that, a few times I played a game where only one person hid. The rest would search for that one person, and when they found him, they would hide with him until everyone found him. The last person to find him had to hide for the next round. I think some people called it Sardines.
whskid2005 · 310 points · Posted at 15:15:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! Sardines because sometimes you had to all squeeze into a small area!
VD909 · 15 points · Posted at 21:26:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think our record is 11 people in a shower, when the 12th person found us he started laughing which alerted everyone else to the location.
whskid2005 · 8 points · Posted at 21:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s fantastic!
Robobvious · 12 points · Posted at 19:10:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao, I’ve never heard of this but I love it
Bigman675 · 7 points · Posted at 23:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think sardines is the reason for my anxiety of being left out of stuff. When you were a kid and you were the only one left looking for everyone else it was the loneliest feeling lol
dishie · 3 points · Posted at 14:13:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's why you gotta get gud, dude.
Seriously though, I know that pain. In 5th grade the mean girls invited me to a birthday slumber party just to have someone to laugh at. I was so excited to be included but they ended up ditching me in a dark garage and hiding from me the rest of the night. I watched Gidget and fell asleep alone. Took me literal years to forgive the birthday girl. Her brother had died (back when we were kids) so as an adult I understood she was having a rough time and the bullying was a symptom. Fuck the ringleader though, once a bitch, always a bitch.
koinu-chan_love · 3 points · Posted at 02:19:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines is the best. Especially when one person decides to play without telling anyone else. Giggle City.
duuckyy · 15 points · Posted at 16:51:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember this! We only played it once when I was a kid because I made my brothers mad. We played it in my house with my brothers and their friends. I loved hiding near my dad whenever we played hide and seek, I actually hid behind him ON his chair with a jacket over my head while he played Word of Warcraft and my siblings had to call the game quits because they couldn't find me. Long story short I loved that hiding spot and used it again when we played sardines. My brothers didn't like the game after our spot was found very quickly. I can't tell if maybe it was because they were being too noisy bumping each other trying to cram under the desk and chair, or if it was the fact that there were five kids sticking out of my Dads computer desk. Needless to say, my mother was very confused when she turned on the lights and saw a bunch of arms and legs underneath a desk while my dad payed no attention to any of it.
nameless88 · 12 points · Posted at 15:36:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, Sardines waa my jam as a kid. It's really fun when you do it in someone's house and turn all the lights out so people can get away with hiding in plain sight, too
OSCgal · 6 points · Posted at 20:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in a church youth group, we'd have overnight parties at the church and would play Sardines. Lots of hidey-holes in a church!
nameless88 · 4 points · Posted at 20:34:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That does sound like a lot of fun. It's pretty silly as an adult, too, because I can't squeeze in to spots that I could as a kid, so I have to do a lot more hiding in plain sight.
leadabae · 4 points · Posted at 19:15:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this and hide and seek a few times in my dorm in college. Good times man.
what__year_is__this · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep we played sardines too.
bookworm21765 · 3 points · Posted at 16:17:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We discovered sardines as adults. We play it a a new rented camp every year. Family tradition now
BattleStag17 · 3 points · Posted at 16:28:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I learned about Sardines from Inside No. 9
whskid2005 · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What’s that?
BattleStag17 · 4 points · Posted at 20:47:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Inside No. 9 is an ongoing British anthology show where each episode is a self-contained story. Some are dark comedies, some are dark mysteries, some are dark dramas, but all of them are very British and very well-written.
The reference is from the very first episode, where the entire thing takes place in a large wardrobe during a game of sardines. The first season is on Hulu, can't wait for the rest to come over stateside.
whskid2005 · 2 points · Posted at 21:16:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks!
chrissssmith · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines was the topic for the first episode of the excellent British show 'Inside Number 9'. It's excellent. If you are based in the UK, you can watch it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03tvm9q/inside-no-9-series-1-1-sardines
Toezap · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Loved Sardines. We would play with all the neighborhood kids.
poetrylady12 · 2 points · Posted at 22:34:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was our go-to game at teen church events, but the hiding person would tell their boyfriend/girlfriend where they were so they could have a few seconds to make out.
GingerSchnitzel · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played it at a movie theater I worked at once per year during the Christmas party. Trying to hide and not be found in the movie theater was a good time.
MagicNein · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines! Oh man I used to play that all the time!
starfeeesh_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We still play this in college in empty buildings at night!
Zane31415 · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Still play that with my youth group at church! everyone knows all the hiding spots though
ccubb15 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SARDINES!!! This was my favorite game. I have never heard of anyone else playing it.
Psych0panda2k13 · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did one similar but we would all bring our walkie talkies (there was only about 6-8 of us normally) and Our bicycles so if we were caught we could go back to whoever’s house we left them at and grab our bikes and our walkie talkies and join the hunt. Then to really spice it up the friends house would be home and it was the goal to get back to home and if they did they could sit and use their walkie talkies to fuck with us
frogsprinter · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn I forgot about sardines! We would play that at camp, and there all kinds of great hiding spots. Sometimes I miss being a kid
raindead · 1 points · Posted at 04:02:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Came to post about Sardines!! We played it in an open park with barely any tree cover and I remember cramming into low spaces in the field between small hills, and near rain drainage grates
HermioneJGranger6 · 1 points · Posted at 04:10:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines was the best! I loved that game as a kid!
Dason37 · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines was the ONLY thing my friend circle ever wanted to play. As an adult I'm super claustrophobic, I really didn't realize it as a child I guess, but whenever they would start a game I'd just go do something else. Stupid never had a girlfriend and never will me missed the chance to be smushed in a tight spot with some attractive females of my age group, but it's not surprising I shoed away from that too.
LookAtTheWhiteVan · 314 points · Posted at 14:38:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it ghosts in graveyard. Pretty much hide and seek in the dark.
scockd · 112 points · Posted at 15:02:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's what we called it too. I wonder if it's regional or generational.
gametapchunky · 51 points · Posted at 15:15:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midwest? We called it that too.
neva-electra · 36 points · Posted at 15:55:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midwest as well. Also ghosts in the graveyard.
Heuby · 25 points · Posted at 15:58:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm in the Midwest too. We called it ghost in the graveyard. One year it lasted so long that our parents called the police to find us
Johah5 · 16 points · Posted at 16:36:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midwest (Michigan) we called it ghosts in the graveyard
6harvard · 10 points · Posted at 17:01:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midwest (ohio)
We called it manhunt
Iamwetodddidtwo · 13 points · Posted at 17:35:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's funny, I'm northeast Ohio and we called it ghosts in the graveyard. I wonder if it might be based on year not location?
LookAtTheWhiteVan · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
From NC and born in '89
Johah5 · 7 points · Posted at 17:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I never liked Ohio anyway
needalife48 · 3 points · Posted at 20:34:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup, Michigan; Ghosts in the Graveyard
MMEckert · 2 points · Posted at 23:31:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup, MI here too
gangreen424 · 19 points · Posted at 16:00:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicago suburbs growing up. We had Ghosts in the Graveyard, but it was a separate game from our flashlight hide-and-seek.
Bananas_are_theworst · 10 points · Posted at 16:14:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midwest here! We called it ghost in the graveyard
juxslapme · 8 points · Posted at 16:00:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
from Pittsburgh and also called it that. Which leads me to my next question, is Pittsburgh considered east coast or midwest? depends who ya ask..
gametapchunky · 12 points · Posted at 16:12:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you ask my wife, it's east coast.
juxslapme · 11 points · Posted at 16:12:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If settled for “culturally Midwest” and “geographically Northeast”
littlebluefoxy · 2 points · Posted at 22:48:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baltimore here, also played ghosts in the graveyard. And we consider you north.
scockd · 7 points · Posted at 18:02:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, Chicago. A ton of people said Midwest too. Confirmed.
Tappyslap · 9 points · Posted at 15:15:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm 15 and live in the US, we have manhunt AND ghosts in the graveyard. Manhunt (for us) is 1 kid hunting for everyone else, while ghosts in the graveyard was all the kids hunting for one kid, but when you find him, you have to hide with him, until the last person who hasn't found him yet loses.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 15:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, Eastern US, I heard the same game called both Manhunt and Ghosts in the Graveyard.
However our version was a blend of the two you described. Starts out with 1 person searching for everyone else hiding. Whoever the searcher catches joins the searcher. Everyone hiding tries to get back to base to be safe. Once everyone is safe or caught, the next round starts with everyone safe hiding, and everyone caught searching. Once 1 hider remains, they become the searcher for the next game.
Basically just a variation, not sure where it started
nopethis · 8 points · Posted at 15:46:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah we had Ghost in A graveyard, but it was something about running through a "graveyard" and not getting caught by the kids jumping out from behind things. You had to set up a course for it, but it was a lot of fun.
BeeVoltage · 3 points · Posted at 15:56:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midwest checking in—we called this Cops and Robbers!
BioBachata · 2 points · Posted at 02:11:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same in CT
LookAtTheWhiteVan · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember our ghosts in the graveyard being more like you mentioned, come to think of it!
IamRick_Deckard · 10 points · Posted at 15:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Checking in for ghost in the graveyard.
Toezap · 9 points · Posted at 19:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Singular "Ghost in the Graveyard" here. In our version, only one person would hide and the rest of us would try to flush the "it" person from their hidey-hole and make it back to base without getting tagged. If you got tagged, you joined the "ghost" team and tried to catch the people who hadn't been tagged yet.
kangaroo2222 · 6 points · Posted at 19:40:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
we had both, but we played ghost in the grave yard on a trampoline. one person (the ghost) layed in the middle while everyone else walked in a circle and sang a chant. at the end of which. the "ghost" would "wake up" but have to keep their eyes closed and try to tag someone, who would then go on to be the new ghost.
edit: I have also played ghost in the graveyard where everyone struck a pose and switch when the ghost isn't looking. the ghost would have to catch someone moving, if they see you move your out.
nameless88 · 4 points · Posted at 15:37:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've heard it called both, I'm in Florida. Mostly Manhunt, though.
hochizo · 5 points · Posted at 17:06:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the deep south, we called it Jailbreak.
Kittykathax · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same here, northern Ontario.
runjimrun · 3 points · Posted at 18:11:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicago suburbs in the 70s. Ghost In The Graveyard.
jmel79 · 5 points · Posted at 20:20:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Texas.....I remember it being called Ghost Ghost in the Graveyard and had to yell that out when someone was spotted and everybody would haul ass back to home base.
Or something like that...its been damned near 30 years since I"ve played it.
Oztaroth · 2 points · Posted at 13:26:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same version here, from VA.
_enuma_elish · 3 points · Posted at 22:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the Graveyard from New England checking in here.
ChessieDog · 3 points · Posted at 00:30:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
that’s what it’s called in MN US
LookAtTheWhiteVan · 2 points · Posted at 21:51:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm from NC and about to be 30, if that helps..
PM_ME_FUNNY_STORIES- · 2 points · Posted at 03:13:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only one way to find out. How old are you and where do you live?
Mediocre_Monty · 6 points · Posted at 15:55:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played it that everyone counted until midnight to let the 'ghost' hide and then everyone goes searching for them and when they find them they yell "ghost in the graveyard!!" And then everyone has to get back to the starting point without getting tagged. Whoever's tagged is the 'ghost' next round.
dustbunnylurking · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ours was similar to this too!
LookAtTheWhiteVan · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yesss!!! Counting to midnight! Oh, the memories..
oliviathecf · 5 points · Posted at 15:48:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played ghosts in the graveyard as a kid in the Midwest, moved out east and played manhunt. I think it's a regional title for the game.
WaterStoryMark · 4 points · Posted at 17:15:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Illinois here. We called it hide and seek in the dark.
When it was played in a graveyard, it was ghosts in the graveyard.
Also, I think some of these are different games.
bohemian-rhaptitties · 4 points · Posted at 18:20:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood best friend’s house backed up to an actual cemetary. So, we played ghost in the graveyard in an actual graveyard for added spooky factor. Super fucked up now that I look back but damn it was fun. Edit: also from the Midwest - southern Chicago suburbs
dustbunnylurking · 3 points · Posted at 17:23:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Ghost in the Graveyard, but it wasn't flashlight tag. Everyone had to wait for one person to hide and then you had to go around the house. If the hiding "ghost" popped out before you completed one full round about the house you had to complete it before you could return to the porch to be safe, if you'd already been around the house once you could just go back to the the porch from wherever you were and be safe. If the ghost tagged you you became the ghost, if the ghost tagged no one they were it for another round. We LIVED for this game. It was awesome, and I miss it so much.
Edit: I live in the midwest
ChaiTeaAZ · 3 points · Posted at 21:01:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While playing ghost in the graveyard, we'd chant "A ghost, a ghost, we wanna see a ghost! Horse in in the pigpen, cow in the junk yard, we want to see a ghost!" I don't know what a horse or cow have to do with the game, but we always said it.
SempiternalSunsets · 2 points · Posted at 16:23:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Ghost Tag.
Tyrantdeschain19 · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it ghosts in the graveyard too!
jmel79 · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We too called it ghost in the graveyard. There would be 15+ kids playing and we'd use pretty much the entire neighborhood.
LookAtTheWhiteVan · 2 points · Posted at 21:56:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same!!
spinach4 · 2 points · Posted at 21:49:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yeah we played that in boy scouts, except we had two seekers and a home base - you went to hide, and if you could get back to home base without getting caught, you win. One seeker would seek and one would protect home base.
Oh and we weren't allowed to use flashlights, so the seeker would just be wandering around in the forest at night looking for people. It got kinda scary
ChessieDog · 2 points · Posted at 00:32:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
but you had to run to the safe point when someone was found
IKEA_samurai_sword · 2 points · Posted at 05:26:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
ah! been reading through this comment thread trying to remember what we called it..thank you
Nanojack · 312 points · Posted at 13:57:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it flashlight tag. We didn't have much of a "forest" in the suburbs, but we would play in the little woods we had and our yards in our neighborhood.
karmagod13000 · 117 points · Posted at 14:34:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this shit sounds like the beginning of a horror movie trevor i can see you behind the tree... come on man come out... trevor?!?! someone steps outs thats not trevor
Johnnywasaweirdo · 12 points · Posted at 15:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times we scared ourselves playing flashlight tag because we convinced ourselves that something like this had just happened.
sheffy4 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There’s a great r/nosleep story about flashlight tag...
VoliTheKing · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Got sauce?
Awesome0450 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think he's talking about this one https://amp-reddit-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/iedmu/a_game_of_flashlight_tag/?amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQECAEoAQ%3D%3D
Throwawayuser626 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s literally a creepypasta. It turns out to be a guy who murdered another kid.
poopellar · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's Nancy Drew!
kg123176h · 6 points · Posted at 15:06:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! I think we called it everything from flashlight tag, to manhunt, to midnight. But same thing. It was THE BEST at barbecues with 10+ kids and a huge yard.
LambdaExpressionist · 12 points · Posted at 14:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dwight?
pussifer · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same thing, but only when we went camping at Dillon Beach. The dunes were perfect for it.
snypesalot · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just replied rhe same thing, flashlight tag was lit
SempiternalSunsets · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Ghost Tag.
CarlEatshands · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we started playing flashlight tag, it was just 3 of us (5 if their younger siblings joined) and we would stay in the same spot. When my best friend moved to the neighborhood, it turned into ninja flashlight tag which meant those that weren't it sneaked through the whole neighborhood. You had to hide wisely, if you hid near a younger kid, they would get caught first a blab where they saw you run to. I miss those days.....
diastereomer · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah and now that we are adults we play fleshlight tag.
zangor · 77 points · Posted at 14:31:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn this seems like a 'game' made up to fulfill a premise in a horror film. Just walking through a dark forest at night looking for your friends.
dungeonnerd · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Monster.
Line up everyone except the “it” person. They’re not allowed to look anywhere but in front of them, nor are they allowed to talk except for roll call; the leader can look forward or backwards. If the leader sees the “monster” and can shine a light on them, the monster joins the line. If the monster can touch the person in the back of the line without getting caught, that person “dies” and becomes a monster as well. Game is over if all the monsters are caught or the leader is taken.
Leader can call for a roll call - each person says their name in order, which really adds to tension when suddenly there’s no one behind you (or when someone is there and they don’t say anything)
SpinToLose · 95 points · Posted at 14:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moonlight uh
LeafyIsNotBeefy · 45 points · Posted at 14:19:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jahmen 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
kaykicing · 3 points · Posted at 16:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LLJ 😔💙🕊️
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:11:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shubidubedipeduba moonlight uh
Wajirock · 18 points · Posted at 14:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This used to be a tradition in my highschool, but then someone got arrested while playing it.
JKorp · 25 points · Posted at 14:26:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
arrested for what though?
Wajirock · 6 points · Posted at 16:22:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Disturbing the peace". It was in a fairly well off neighborhood, and crime wasn't very common in that area.
karmagod13000 · 18 points · Posted at 14:35:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
rape murder... when spotlight goes to far
JKorp · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
jesus I thought you were Waji for a sec
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you forget trespassing is a crime
JKorp · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
momentarily, yes
but only "in the forest" for context so idk
wB68 · 8 points · Posted at 14:40:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this will date me, but we called it "Hogan's Heroes" from the TV show. Whoever was IT had to use a large flashlight, and the rest of us had to sneak up to him without being seen with the spotlight.
lord_chanka2 · 8 points · Posted at 15:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spotlight uh moonlight
gametapchunky · 3 points · Posted at 15:15:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that Ghosts in the Graveyard.
IamRick_Deckard · 3 points · Posted at 15:19:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this game Ghost in the Graveyard.
peyt1212 · 4 points · Posted at 15:35:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha we called it German spotlight, worrying name to think about now
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:27:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s what we called it- obvious, now, that it was based on the guard tower at WW2 German pow camps! I think all children play games about the current war, then after a couple decades they become dated and lose meaning, and are absorbed into games about ideas that children find more current and relevant.
We also played Vietnam- based around the field hospital.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have played same kinda game too! Though we called it "Baskervillen koira" (Baskervilles dog)
Tappyslap · 3 points · Posted at 15:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's just manhunt
RegulusMagnus · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How about this instead: our "Spotlight" could only be played at specific locations, most notably the playground at our middle school. This was a classic wooden playground, the front of which resembled a castle gate. The bridge over the gate was one of the highest points of the playground, and this is where the person who was "it" was located.
Rules:
KillerMemeStar3 · 2 points · Posted at 14:54:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played this all the time when we were kids! We would use our entire neighborhood. Rounds could take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. Was so much fun. Called it ghost in the graveyard. God I wish I was a kid again sometimes.
IronPylons · 2 points · Posted at 14:59:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would do the same thing, but from the police after we had beeing shooting cars with airsoft guns in the middle of the night.
We were not good kids.
Flannel_Channel · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did a similar version in my basement with all the lights off so it was pitch black. Hiding was hilarious coz you'd hear the seeker crashing into things constantly
Rovarin · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play two variants of hide and seek... no forests here, so it was in a neighborhood (in a Northern European, so you wouldn't get shot if you trespassed), one was called Krógva og blunda (hide and close your eyes... standard Hide and Seek where you would stay hidden until you were found) and the other was called Blikka (Canned Hide and Seek - you were supposed to have a can, that the hiders would have to get to and kick before they were found, we didn't so it was usually a wall or a lamp post or something that we had to touch).
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being your typical teen edge lords, we called it German spot light tag or slave runner lol.
Also the spot light person would set up at like a central location/deck and the runners would have to reach a middle point without being spotted/called out.
Tsar_MapleVG · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We merged spotlight and kick the can, where if you kicked a can next to the “jail”, all people caught could run off.
One of my friends had this huge yard with trees and walls and whatnot, with shared property with his uncles. Playing spotlight there was amazing
Vikram_Balaji · 2 points · Posted at 15:14:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few people were known to play this game with priests
Shoninjv · 2 points · Posted at 15:22:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This. Exactly this. Aww man, I love hide-and-seek.
snypesalot · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it flashlight tag...as you could tell we were very inventive
RHCP4Life · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This always just turned into everyone talking for hours after a few games. I miss spotlight!
bak1984 · 2 points · Posted at 15:54:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called German Spotlight when I was a kid.
GCP_17 · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we played "beam". Same concept, except for the person who was 'it' had a flashlight and if they shone it on somebody would should, "beam on [person's name]". That person was captured and the game would continue.
SatansWaffles · 2 points · Posted at 16:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds exactly like the game we called Ghost in the Graveyard
Smallbrowncows · 2 points · Posted at 16:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that Ghost in the Graveyard. I don’t think we went so far as to use dark clothing or camo, but it sounds pretty similar. Everybody but the ghost would stand at the ‘base’ and count while the ghost would hide. Then everybody would go find the ghost. As soon as anybody saw the ghost they would yell “GHOST” and everybody would run back to base. Anybody who got tagged joined the ghost for the next round. I think it was occasionally called something to the tune of bloody murder.
dikupu · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played this game as well, but we called it ghost in the graveyard. The person had to shout out “MIDNIGHT” to come find everyone
kinkyboi345 · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I called it German Spotlight.
AlphaPrism873 · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played spotlight too but we also played a game called Bedlam: We draw a circle with a 2-5 meter radius in the ground. Two teams were formed and take turns Hiding and Seeking. The hiding team would hide, the seeking team would seek. If a seeker finds and tags a hider, they escort them back towards the circle. Once every hider is in the circle the round ends... but if a hider who hasn’t been caught runs through the circle (at least a meter or 2 in was the unspoken rule) and yells bedlam, everyone who is in the circle can run free. There would usually be a seeker acting as guard so that if someone does run through they can tag everyone again. Fastest team to catch all the hiders wins. We often played out in the middle of the bush or anywhere on our block with my backyard as the “Bedlam”. We are surrounded by tons of bushland so it makes it extra challenging to play. The tactic was dark clothes and using your torch as little as possible as not to get noticed.
notsolittleliongirl · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight tag! We played this all through my childhood and even into the teenage years. We just got WAY more creative as we got older and it turned into a covert ops style game. Our rules were that once you were actually physically tagged by whoever was it, you were on their team so “it” grew exponentially.
One kid managed to climb 15 feet up a tree and he won because no one could get up there to tag him. Another kid fell in the lake, so he got tagged because my dogs started jumping in after him. Also noteworthy was the time some of us got lost in a cornfield.
wanttomaster479 · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You lived near a forest? Sounds amazing.
StripesNTn · 1 points · Posted at 08:38:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A country boy can survive! ;)
Mine and the neighbor boys family were surrounded by and adjacent to a large forested valley that formerly held a lake before the owner blew up a massive beaver dam. The valley still contained a creek that had it's origin there due to several springs bubbling up down there. Oh and it also had quicksand... Nearly lost my sister once...
jonas5577 · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played that
delirium_3 · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this as well but my friends and I would use a flashlight if you were the person “it” we called it Flashlight Tag.
scottcmu · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a dissimilar game, also called Spotlight. We would investigate sexual abuses by Catholic Church priests in Boston, and then report on it to the Boston Globe.
mccoyster · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ours was called "Release" and was played with two teams. One team was "It" while the other team hid. Whenever a kid was caught, they went to the base and had to stay on/near/touching it until everyone on the hiding team was found...OR...one of the hiding kids could sneak up to the base, touch it, yell Release, and all the caught hiding kids could run off and hide again.
There were also some rules/guidelines to prevent the seeking team from "guarding" the base too closely, but I forget the specifics.
JonnyBhoy · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this at night on camp sites when I was a kid. You caught the person by shining a light directly into their face. We called it 'Beam in the Face'.
jordynorm · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this in my home town in Nottingham, UK. We called it Run Off.
Doctor_Wookie · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey, I played this once or twice! This is the way to play hide and seek!
horsenbuggy · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our version of Kick the Can wasn't too different from this.
Scepta101 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game like that but called it “light tag” because whoever was “it” called out someone they spotted, who then got up and tried to run away. The person with the light had to then tag them, and tagged people are out
pumpumpgone · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do the same with all the kids from by neighborhood but during the day insted. We had a ''mini forest'' in our street and we would climb the trees and/or use camouflage to hide ourselves. We then turned the game into paintball later on. The only issue was that there were some gypsies that started to live there and they weren't very happy with us but at the same time our parents gave them food so they never did any harm to us. I miss living there, you could go around the streets at 4am by yourself and no one would bother you. I complain a lot about my country but its probably one of the safest in certain locations.
YourAverageCracker · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play hide in seak in a cornfield. We would have 10 or so kids and would have teams of 2 so the speaker wouldnt have to walk around the giant cornfield by themselves. It was a Ton of fun and would usually take up half the day.
Everyone_is_taken · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this in school camping. The teachers went hiding, all the camping went dark and we had to search using flashlights. When finding, we would receive a token and run away, so we wouldn't give away the position to other teams. In the end, the team with most tokens won.
HedhogsNeedLove · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this but in a large basement and pitch black darkness. Best game of my childhood.
theoryfiver · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same thing as well, but we called it German Spotlight. A small group of people had a big flashlight, and they'd have to tag you and put you in jail.
mydawgisgreen · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was when we were in high school, called it fugative. Start at the school and run across town to a park without getting caught. We had "cops" in cars and if they flashed their headlights at you. You were caught.
elementgermanium · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's just manhunt and it's awesome
HadoukenFuckinPunch · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s just manhunt that’s not uncommon at all
ImpossibleParfait · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that vampire tag. Manhunt to us was just a team hide and go seek in the dark with a safe base that was the goal of the hiders.
Adm1nX · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yesss! We called it Night Commandos.
NotCandied · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did something similar with my second cousins and called it Commando. Their dad had a big spotlight that he could attach to the top of his car. Their place was surrounded by A big field and then some trees. All us kids would run out and hide and try to get back to the house without being spotted by the adults. It turned into all of the kids teaming up against the adults. We had strategies where some would get sacrificed so others could win. What a blast!
iknowthisischeesy · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a time when there was a lot of power cuts in my state and duration was fixed too. So during summer vacation from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM there used to be no electricity and we decided it was absolutely the perfect time to play hide and seek. So one day we were hiding under the stairs of our Apartment, we used to keep our bikes there, when we heard something. Thought someone was messing with us. So we took a step back. After a few moments there was another sound. Now we knew no one was nearby, not wanting to get strangled by a ghost under the stairs we quickly ran out. Turned out there was a snake there. Yeah, so that stopped the hide and seek in the dark.
zhinn0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God I played a version of this at my grandma's. Big property, woods, ravine in the back. My cousins and I would stalk each other in the night, creeping around thinking we were spec ops or something. Of course, we'd have, in addition to the dark clothes, an absurdly bright nerf or nintendo pistol.
dinosorority · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s flashlight tag!
SomeEpicUserNameIDK · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this too, but in our neighborhood...I understand now why our neighbors didn't like us lmao
angleeeat · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do a reverse hide and seek. The "it" will hide and the rest will close their eyes and count to 20. Once the seekers find the "it", they need to hide together in the same spot. They last one to find the group is the loser. Let me tell you, it's so hard to keep quiet while the whole group is trying their best to remain hidden. We can't stop giggling. I once played this with a group of 15 people during the night at camp.
PM_MAJESTIC_PICS · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt!! Hell yes
DavidTheFrog · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
moonlight uh
creedquabityashuitz · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play sardines, one hider everyone else looks for them. When you find the hider you squeeze in the hiding spot with them until everyone finds them.
wherewulf23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in my neighborhood growing up. My trick was to always have a giant trash bag handy so I always had a hiding spot.
We also tried a variant a couple times with paintball guns. Go out into the forest on a moonless night and everyone had a flashlight taped to their gun. The trick was to have a “spotter” on your team, preferably with a big ass Maglight, and have them hide behind a tree while shining their light back and forth. Everyone else would keep their lights off making them sognificantly harder to hit.
TokiMcNoodle · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, reminds me of when the hurricanes came and the windows were boarded up shut the houses would be dark as hell and we'd play a game of pitch black hide and seek. We'd try to toss small things in the opposite side of the room to get them to go the other way. Man, I'd still play that as an adult as I think of it now.
gangreen424 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this up and down the block growing up. We called it Raid. The person that was it had to yell "Raid on" and the person's name when they found someone.
In retrospect, this kind of sounds like a police raid or something. Kind of dark for a bunch of suburban kids.
placebotwo · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this same game at scout camp, instead of spotlight, we called it 'Raid'.
jimmyjazz2000 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in high school, at a theater where we mounted plays during the summer. No supervision, just us, SO FUN!
Nas2012 · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Were we neighbors?
jokerkcco · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh we used to play this when I was a kid. We'd have so many kids playing that we'd have 5 or 6 people it just to find them. We ranged across 2 streets probably a 1/4 sq mile to a half and have a blast. Most houses were really nice about letting us play and hide. I used to climb on my roof to hide and just watch all of the flashlights bouncing around looking for people.
hippieboy92 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My super small town had a similar game a lot of teenagers would play together, the major difference being that we did it in our cars and it was called “headlight”. Whenever a cars headlight beam hit you, you were captured (only the person/people who were “it” were in their cars while everyone else was on foot). It was a lot of fun the few times I joined in to play.
cbelt3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Flashlight tag”... very popular in my neighborhood in the 60’s. Then I got a 12V battery and a million candlepower aircraft landing light rigged up. Nobody could hide from me !!!!
And then I wasn’t allowed to play any more....
BraveLittleCrockPot · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my husband was a kid he had a special-needs neighbor who “invented” this exact game and called it Schuzzbutt. Now our kids and our niece and nephew play Schuzzbutt whenever they get together.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this at summer camp, but called it "Prisoner Left to Die", and also "Zap".
One counselor would be kidnapped by the other and hidden somewhere in the woods. The campers would have to find them, but the counselors would hide in the forest and "zap" us with flashlights. If we were zapped we hand to go back to base to get a new "life" (a popsicle stick).
I loved that game! It was the one we looked forward to all week.
anhartsunny · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
inner city we called this 'chase'. intense game of hide and seek but you had to tag 'home' if spotted. Hiding in any area of backyards and old factories. The entire block was fair and we might have had a dozen kids at the hight of it. Hours of fun and many many injuries.
approachablejalapeno · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we did that too but called it eyetag. Usually walky-talkies were involved but obviously idiotic to use.
betaoptout · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is this similar to kick the can? Spent many summer nights playing it.
book81able · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a spotlight game in high school except we used the actual spotlights in the theater to track people getting to the booth.
r0zzzi · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uh moonlight
ArcticFoxBunny · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a version of hide and seek where the hiders have to jump scare the seeker when they’re found, so the seeker was kind of terrified the whole time.
kragnor · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played spotlight as a kid. Good fun.
Godofwine3eb · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this ditch. The person" it" would find you if you were found you became part of the "it" group. The last person found won. The first person found was the new "it" person.
leftie777 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a similar game called neighborhood chase. In our version, if you could make it to the Big Rock (quite literally a big rock), you were safe. As each person was found, the team began looking for the next person. Being chased through the neighborhood, in the dark, while trying to get to the rock was my summer evenings from 10-13. Really it was just a glorified version of hide-n-seek but was so much fun.
omg_for_real · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spotlight is the best! We play it as a family, all is cousins, when we are drunk and are trying to teach our kids to play lol. Our grandma was brilliant at it. We never beat her.
Stop-spasmtime · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is how I screwed up my knee! I went to hide behind a big tree that used to be there but had been chopped down and tripped on it and bashed my knee. I was too embarrassed to tell my parents so just hid it really well.
But hey, now that knee aches when it's about to rain so at least there's that.
wardrich · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends' parents used to organize late-night hide & seek games when I was a kid. They were a pretty awesome family.
rawrturts · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the same game only we called it “No ghosts are out tonight”
We spent HOURS at dusk and after dark hunting each other.
Crazybuglady · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game like this one night in college with a bunch of my friends. Got the cops called on us because someone thought we were little kids being tortured.
PieALaChode · 14028 points · Posted at 13:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play "witches". We basically made like a million poems about wishing harm on everyone we hate and would run around in the forest cursing them. We also did more wholesome stuff, like picking up twigs and leaves to put in our potion pots. The potions were also usually to curse people though.
libertarianmurse · 3534 points · Posted at 14:53:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I made a potion once mixing everything we could find in my grandfathers shed into a huge bucket. It was mostly gasoline and chalk, and we knocked the entire bucket over by accident, killing about a twenty foot stretch of bushes. He was not happy with us.
withlovesparrow · 1996 points · Posted at 14:59:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made potions with stuff in the bathroom. It was usually my moms long forgotten shampoos and lotions. But one time we found a container of hair bleach and activator and added that in and left it sealed in the conditioner bottle and it exploded and my mom put an end to all that.
XxsquirrelxX · 931 points · Posted at 15:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just don’t make the ammonia and bleach potion.
AndyGHK · 519 points · Posted at 15:34:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes, the draught of burning stink—a powerful brew.
AntManMax · 14 points · Posted at 18:41:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Potion master, I'm going into battle.
IAmA_TheOneWhoKnocks · 5 points · Posted at 20:31:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A potent and effective curse to be sure. Just take care that you don’t accidentally also fall prey to its consequences
do_pm_me_your_butt · 2 points · Posted at 21:04:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to call it cough syrup
Memeking3 · 43 points · Posted at 15:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Peggy, that's the recipe for Mustard Gas!
Mokiishi · 28 points · Posted at 15:53:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But i need your strongest potion!
theBeardedHermit · 10 points · Posted at 16:09:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I appreciate this reference.
Eugostodetortas · 10 points · Posted at 16:51:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My potions woud kill a dragon let alone a man!
tatertitzmcgee · 8 points · Posted at 16:19:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes, 4 year old me was making “bug spray” that I planned on selling to the neighbors. I noticed that when I mixed two specific chemicals it made a white cloud of what looked like smoke. I didn’t breathe it thank goodness. Still alive :)
The_Grubby_One · 8 points · Posted at 16:51:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can you prove that you're not a ghost child waiting to crawl out of someone's television screen?
F-85 · 5 points · Posted at 18:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this. Or maybe it was some combo close to this. I was doing the laundry and was just curious what kind of solution it would result in. Took a sniff to see what it smelled like. Right as I inhaled, a greenish brown fume rose up.
I ended up high for a period of time. Felt like I was fraction of my normal weight. Went to the garage and compared my hand to a spider I saw chilling under a bike seat until it started to wear off. Was fun while it lasted, but left me with a nasty headache that I slept off.
Would not recommend.
theChubbster101 · 3 points · Posted at 15:52:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nobody wants mustard on their skin
mrtwitch222 · 6 points · Posted at 16:07:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn mustard tiger
grouchy_fox · 3 points · Posted at 16:13:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To be fair, that would probably be the best one to the first commenters. A real poison/curse potion!
ZefLyfe · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't tell me how to mix my own inhalants! I know how to do inhalants.
And_You_Like_It_Too · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did that by accident, while cleaning my old apartment in the dark with the power off (I’d already moved into my new house and was trying to finish cleaning so I’d get my security deposit back). Definitely fucked my shit right up. Then I went home to my new house and got carbon monoxide poisoning from the space heater.
I started throwing up every 5 minutes, tums, pepto bismol, then clear water, and eventually dry heaving when nothing else could come up. After a few hours I called my sister who was a nurse at the time and she took me to an ER (I didn’t have insurance). I did have long hair down to my waist at the time (I’m a guy) and they just kept saying “TELL US WHAT DRUGS YOU TOOK OR WE CAN’T HELP YOU”. Over and over. I had no liquid to give for a urine test for drugs so they let me writhe around for hours until finally giving me some saline bags to rehydrate with a tylenol in it. I got a bill for $7,000. I swore they’d have to roll my dead ass in to that ER with $7k in my pocket if they were EVER gonna get it. I rode that debt out for 7 years I was so mad.
Andisaurus_rex · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom did this to make what she thought would be a “super cleaner” when I was little. -_-
KattyWompWomp · 14 points · Posted at 15:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god yes! My brother and I would spend hours in the bathroom mixing potions. Comet and Shampoo and whatnot. I'm surprised we didn't get poisoned.
Once, we made a special burial potion for a bird that our cat killed....we poured it over the bird's body out on the yard.
absquatulatte · 13 points · Posted at 15:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing with one of my friends! Except we never put the concoction in a bottle, just left it in the sink and would occasionally bring some barbies so they could bathe in it.
InjuredAtWork · 6 points · Posted at 15:44:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember this happening. hello Alex
withlovesparrow · 4 points · Posted at 18:59:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not Alex, but I’m glad to know someone else blew up a conditioner bottle with their sister 😂 makes me feel a little less dumb.
Za-lordsGuard · 6 points · Posted at 15:58:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing when I was 10! I mixed some acetone, alcohol, beans, lentils, and rice in a glass coke bottle. It exploded in the middle of the night, it sounded like the ceiling had crashed down on me, fucking terrifying.
There was glass everywhere and I had to call my mom at work so she could wake up my dad, so that he would let me vacuum it up without beating my ass. My younger sister, who I share my room with, slept through it all.
All of this happened at 2 in the morning.
withlovesparrow · 6 points · Posted at 19:00:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
... so you legit made a low tech IED? 😂
some-cleverusername · 5 points · Posted at 15:36:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahah this one made me laugh.
When I was in middle school my friends and I thought it’d be a good idea to try to give her highlights... but then our crush IM’ed me and wanted to ride bikes (what we did back in the early 00’s). We left container too long. You can imagine the rest.
Although I think that was a better ending to the story than what her hair would’ve looked like.
DifficultJellyfish · 4 points · Posted at 15:40:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I did that, too! Not blowing stuff up, but mixing together stuff in the bathroom. We usually did it in the sink because I loved how talcum powder floated on water. Good times!
randomascanbe · 4 points · Posted at 16:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TIL: My kids are witches.
EeveeAssassin · 4 points · Posted at 16:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do this, but called it "medicine making", likely because of George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl. Loved trying to find things that would make hydrogen peroxide fizz up.
majestic_elliebeth · 4 points · Posted at 16:16:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made potions with stuff in the kitchen (jelly, pepper, cheese, chocolate syrup) and then would heat it all up in the microwave. And then I’d try a bite and be disgusted.
withlovesparrow · 4 points · Posted at 19:03:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad let us watch fear factor once and we did this too! We’d each make a dish with the same ingredients (picked from the pantry together, in the name of fairness) and who ever didn’t finish their “dish” lost. I lost a lot 😂
LowRune · 4 points · Posted at 20:00:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In hindsight, I don't think you were the real loser in this situation.
Awakend13 · 4 points · Posted at 17:51:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love mixing potions like this. Sometimes we would mix them outside in this big black cauldron thing that I think was really for crawfish boils. it was my witches brew and I’d put different grasses and anything I could find from outside in it.
Endulos · 3 points · Posted at 16:36:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did that once. I made a potion by mixing together all kinds of soaps and lotions and shit, then I proceeded to slather that shit on my legs and ending up burning the shit out of my legs.
Lockwood85 · 3 points · Posted at 17:26:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was an only child, this was exactly what I'd do but instead I'd think of myself as an artist. Basically I'd take a small dasani water bottle and take anything I thought would look good in my layers of food art. I specifically remember using Hershey's chocolate syrup along with things like mayonnaise and ketchup. Very gross, but kid me thought it would look pretty. After I was done making my masterpiece, I'd reveal it to my somewhat obviously horrified mom who was trying to figure out what the hell her child just created, and put on that fake parent gratitude. Thanks for bringing back that memory!
xXYoProMamaXx · 3 points · Posted at 17:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sherrold Otter and the Chamber of Exploding Bleach
Rip_NSFW · 3 points · Posted at 18:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't put liquid toilet bowl cleaner in an aluminum bowl either.
RoastedRhino · 3 points · Posted at 22:13:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow you brought back such a memory!
I used to mix stuff in the bathroom as well, together with my brother.
One day, we put two detergents together in a glass jar, and closed it with a metal lid. It started bubbling, until the jar was so hot that you couldn't touch it. We left it on the floor, and left the bathroom. Not sure what happened next.
OobaDooba72 · 2 points · Posted at 16:02:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to do this too. When mini M&Ms were big in the 90s they came in these little plastic tubes that were the perfect size for making little potions.
Didnit at home and at a neighbor/friend's house. Then we got caught and got in trouble and had to apologize to the other parents for wasting their stuff and it sucked.
Flyingforme · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg I did this too!! We would make the sink the “cauldron” and mix all sort of shit in there. We called it the potions game.
hayduke5270 · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made potions too. It was my favorite game.
neutral-mente · 2 points · Posted at 20:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid, I kept a water bottle in the bathroom and continuously added new soaps, shampoos, etc. I was going to invent the most powerful cleaner in the world and would be rich.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For some reason I got the image of really young children pouring stuff like bubble bath into the toilet
Trytoremember987 · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I would play scientist like that. Have an almost empty bottle of shampoo and add random stuff like lotions, acne scrub, dish soap and then pour it in the dirt outside.
kurdur · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have you read George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl?
withlovesparrow · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I haven’t. I read Matilda as a kid though. I’ll have to see if our local library has it and read it with my kids. :)
awesomeCC · 424 points · Posted at 15:15:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After my siblings and I discovered you can spray Off into a citronella candle and make a sick fireball, we soon moved on to spraying Off on the bushes around the house because it was cool to watch them turn brown die right away. Dad was not pleased.
bonzaibooty · 31 points · Posted at 16:24:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
wannaseeamoose · 37 points · Posted at 16:49:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me either. I was waiting for the epic burning bushes that destroyed the neighborhood.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 04:39:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And single handedly ending the mosquito season...
VictoriaTransgirlAlt · 289 points · Posted at 15:12:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn it's that easy to make a potion of death?
Crismus · 458 points · Posted at 15:17:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deadly potions aren't all that difficult. It's making something deadly that someone would actually drink that is difficult.
ScrubQueen · 38 points · Posted at 15:29:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not if you use antifreeze
YouthfulPhotographer · 24 points · Posted at 16:23:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s my favorite cocktail mixer.
AF_Fresh · 6 points · Posted at 20:23:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean... Alcohol is actually the recommended treatment for drinking antifreeze, so I guess it's kinda alright?
ScrubQueen · 1 points · Posted at 10:48:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The more you know🌠
thebeandream · 9 points · Posted at 16:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think they are doing stuff to it now so children and animals don’t want to drink it. Something about Scooby’s law?
glglglglgl · 8 points · Posted at 19:19:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One or more of the following are often added to harmful but appearing-harmless liquids and gases - a strong scent (e.g. mains gas), a change of colour, or a bitterness agent (e.g. Nintendo Switch cards).
ScrubQueen · 2 points · Posted at 05:43:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nintendo switch cards have stuff in them so they taste bad?
glglglglgl · 3 points · Posted at 13:47:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup, they're coated with something that tastes extremely bitter, to encourage a child to spit it out if they put it in their mouth - I'm not sure what it is exactly, but my flatmate immediately licked his first Switch game to test it, and regretted it for the next fifteen minutes.
ScrubQueen · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe. I heard somewhere that if a cat walked across a puddle of antifreeze and licked its paws to clean it off that it's enough of a dose to kill it.
FleXy0 · 12 points · Posted at 16:10:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This guy ^ poisons.
EcstaticStrings · 5 points · Posted at 16:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really. It depends on how long you want their death to take.
Pays_in_snakes · 236 points · Posted at 15:18:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If your base ingredient is gasoline, yes
Big_Man_Boss_Man · 89 points · Posted at 15:22:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gasoline alone is a potion of death
BALONYPONY · 8 points · Posted at 16:03:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school a pretty hardcore wicken kid hexxed me because of a bad serve in PE volleyball. I freaked out screamed like a weirdo, stepped on his feet and punched him hyper extending his ankle. So there were both of us screaming for different reasons. He grew up to be an extremely prominent drag burlesque dancer and have taken my wife to a few of his shows. He is a really nice guy and always tell him I feel terrible about that serve. I wasn't even trying.
libertarianmurse · 7 points · Posted at 15:13:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apparently
grouchy_fox · 5 points · Posted at 16:15:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
People accidentally make chlorine gas sometimes by cleaning a toilet with both bleach and ammonia so... Yeah.
Edit: type of gas
hayduke5270 · 3 points · Posted at 18:53:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chlorine gas
grouchy_fox · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks. I had just seen 'mustard gas' in another comment and it stuck in my mind.
wawzat · 399 points · Posted at 15:29:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to do the same. My dad would find the pails and pour them on the shrubs which would eventually die. He used to joke that he had a brown thumb. Years later as an adult I let him in on it and learned there is no statute of limitations on getting mad at your kids.
In 2nd grade we made a concoction with household cleaners and pool chlorine tablets that produced a low hanging gas and made my friends nose bleed severely when he sniffed it. In 4th grade we told our science teach about it and he told us we made mustard gas.
FreshLennon · 50 points · Posted at 17:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude...
PlanktinaWishwater · 37 points · Posted at 17:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am dying. 😂
Beleynn · 66 points · Posted at 18:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So was his friend
LetSlipTheDogesOfWar · 29 points · Posted at 18:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my neighborhood friends was "that guy." He would do anything someone dated or challenged him to do. He also did many things on his own, including copious amounts of intoxicants (especially household chemicals).
We would mix random stuff together to see if it was flammable, etc.
He mixed some chlorine pellets and a handful of other things, which must have included ammonia or something. Dude was wallowing around in the snow, coughing uncontrollably for a solid half hour.
wawzat · 25 points · Posted at 19:11:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it seems we were all "that guy" in my neighborhood. It's lucky we're all still alive and not missing limbs or any of our senses. We made small explosives, shot guns and bows, played with knives, caused fires, endless wipeouts on bicycles, skateboards and mini bikes. Burned our eyebrows off, cuts, broken bones, knocked out teeth, many trips to the ER. Today I would be probably be locked up as a child terrorist.
TraipseAndTiptoe · 14 points · Posted at 20:06:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I totally dated a guy who was missing two and a half fingers on his left hand (and scars on that half of the body) for this very reason. He was arrested when it happened too, but he was a minor and since he only maimed himself they didn't do much beyond a fine and community service. He was so lucky he didn't die.
eevee188 · 12 points · Posted at 22:56:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So your dad would find a bucket of murky mystery liquid, pour it on his shrubs, his shrubs would die, then later he did it AGAIN, and he...never figured it out on his own?
wawzat · 11 points · Posted at 23:52:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad is extremely smart and he usually has his mind on about six things at once but often not the task at hand. He probably thought it was rain water and poured it out while solving simultaneous differential equations in his head. Also it was a slow gradual death for the shrubs, it wasn't like we were mixing a batch of banned chemical warfare agents on a daily basis. I suspect we might have poured some on the shrubs ourselves when we were done but I can't remember all the details.
ediblenailpolish · 15 points · Posted at 16:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn y’all were wild— my mom said I could make potions with ripped up bits of paper in our plastic Halloween cauldron, and I didn’t dare put anything else in there but those tiny squares of dumbass paper
euphwes · 14 points · Posted at 16:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Speaking of mixing stuff with gasoline, my friend somehow learned about "homemade napalm" where you dissolve styrofoam in gasoline. As it turns out, a gallon of gas can consume a surprising volume of styrofoam packing peanuts, and eventually it turns into a sort of gel-like substance.
A small dab of that on a cut-open soda can that's folded over will burn forever, it's crazy.
libertarianmurse · 14 points · Posted at 16:25:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do this too! Would literally burn forever, I remember covering it in snow and then uncovering it to find it still burning. Crazy times
PlanktinaWishwater · 12 points · Posted at 17:31:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What in the hell?
DickDastardly404 · 14 points · Posted at 18:15:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do this but in the kitchen, we’d mix all sorts of drinks and spices and powders into a cup, and then try to “trick” our parents or whichever adults were around into drinking it.
Thing is the “trick” was usually just to pour it into a coffee mug and say “hey I made you a coffee” while snickering to eachother like they wouldn’t think it was suspicious that 3 kids were involved in the process, we never normally brought them coffee out of the blue, we’d been loudly fucking around in the kitchen for an hour and somehow not notice that the cold mug full of milk, mayonnaise, ribena, gravy powder, chilli powder, baking soda and fanta wasn’t the hot cup of coffee we’d promised.
The best part was often my mum would fake drink it and pretend like it WAS coffee, and just be like “thanks guys” and completely take the wind out of our sails.
Banter.
Dr_Bukkakee · 20 points · Posted at 15:13:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You’re lucky you didn’t end making mustard gas or something.
libertarianmurse · 18 points · Posted at 16:02:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice try but I see your doctorate is in bukkake, not chemistry.
PM_ME_YOUR_BANGS_ · 7 points · Posted at 17:08:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing. I loved dexter's laboratory and i wanted my own, so I started my own "lab" in my room and had a jar of just a bunch of liquids mixed, and i'm pretty sure i peed in it too.
LegalAdviceLurker88 · 6 points · Posted at 17:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is it really a potion without bodily fluids? I think not.
trickedouttransam · 4 points · Posted at 16:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So it worked?
PheonixWeaver · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was one powerful curse potion!
snowqt · 5 points · Posted at 18:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made "perfume" in the sink once and my dad was mad because a day after the whole house still smelled like a brothel.
Kaiju_Paul · 3 points · Posted at 21:07:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to go to camp at a local college where we stayed in the dorms for the week. One year my friends & i spent the whole week collecting the most vile stuff we could think up into an empty soda bottle. It started with lots of spit & bits of food, but soon devolved into cleaning agent & presciption medicine from a bunch of different kids. At the end of the week the plan was to dump the mixture into the public toilet & leave it there. When i poured it out, though, the smell was ungodly. It was so strong & horrid that i knew it was dangerous to breathe. My eyes were stinging & it made me instantly sick. To this day I've never been around fumes that strong. I also had this sudden fear that the fumes were flammable. I flushed the toilet & ran out of there as fast as i could.
JJgalaxy · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with every product in our bathroom, then hide the bowl under my bed. It took three days for mom to figure out what the eye watering stench was. I'm lucky the family pets didn't get into it
BushWeedCornTrash · 2 points · Posted at 20:42:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We wanted to see what was inside a 9 volt battery for ingredients for a poison. So what's the best way to open a 9 volt when your 8 years old? A claw hammer. Several bashes into it, and my friend grabs his eye. He said something squirted into it. An older kid said "Oh shit, that battery acid!" So me and my friend went back to his mom, and I sand "Mrs. Blah blah, I think blahblah got battery acid in his eye." She turned around from the kitchen like "what the fuck did you say to me?" And sees her son, clutching hie eye. She kicked me out of the house while she rushed him to the hospital. He couldn't play with me for a long time. His eye was fine if you are wondering.
Christyx · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And we used to get in trouble for mixing all the koolaid packets together... mom doesn’t realize it could have been worse
ireallylikeblankets · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I, occasionally with some cousins, found our grandmothers shed with leftover things from her store. It was a "bent canned goods" store, so nothing was really going to ever happen to this stuff now, since a lot was already close to expiration when she got it or was otherwise "undesirable." So, naturally, we decided to see what was the foulest concoction we could make up. We're talking mayonnaise, pickle juice, shampoo, ebergy drinks, occasionally car fluids, whate er we could get our gands on. One of my sisters can't smell so she would laugh as we all would occasionally leave the shed for a breather. We got in a lot of trouble when they finally found out, and the defense "but we've been doing this for weeks!" certainly didn't help...
seeking_hope · 1 points · Posted at 03:06:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would mix things from the refrigerator into a cup to see who could drink it (pickle juice, hot sauce, milk, etc). It would get gross but not dangerous.
rantown · 0 points · Posted at 20:51:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of when I had a chemistry set and a friend came over and we mix the most caustic of the chemicals together. He got the idea to put it in the syringe and he inserted into back of frog trying to squeeze it and all the solution exploded back in his face! She was screaming and waving his hands in his eyes like he was a blind banshee yelling at me to get the hose! I got the hose and he ended up being okay, the Frog hopped away but he deserved something bad to happen that day!
dishie · 1 points · Posted at 14:21:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like just desserts to me.
ZebrasOfDoom · 0 points · Posted at 21:54:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If I was aware of children making a "potion" out of gasoline and chalk, the dead bushes would be a very minor thought compared to the possibility that potions are generally something you drink, and drinking gasoline is definitely not something you should do.
Either way, I probably wouldn't let you do this again.
Garfield_ · 1170 points · Posted at 15:23:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"We curse people."
"That's bad!"
"But we also pick up twigs and leaves to make potions."
"That's good!"
"The potions are also used to curse people."
"That's bad!"
"But they get their choice of toppings."
"That's good!"
"The toppings contain potassium benzoate ... That’s bad."
Edit: Thanks for the precious metals my anonymous friends.
Here is the scene I was refering to.
-FeistyRabbitSauce- · 36 points · Posted at 15:31:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can I go now?
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 16:13:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was immediately where my mind went too.
xbbdc · 11 points · Posted at 16:33:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm between Animaniacs and Hilda.
stas1 · 9 points · Posted at 20:08:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Simpsons actually
studs-n-tubes · 6 points · Posted at 18:49:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of course his long pause until the witch explains what potassium benzoate is was the funniest part of that gag!
hugs_nt_drugs · 5 points · Posted at 23:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/7fMnQAvz0ek
Is this what you were referencing?
lewdev · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh that's good.
Autopm35 · 3 points · Posted at 20:07:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is tHiS A PoKEmON Reference?
hugs_nt_drugs · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/7fMnQAvz0ek
banditkoala · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just spat Weetbix on myself.
dolorousbread · 921 points · Posted at 14:38:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made “potions” as a kid by mashing up my neighbors’ succulents between two rocks 😬
bugrit · 734 points · Posted at 14:50:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You're making /r/succulents/ sad
yhack · 1188 points · Posted at 15:08:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They can succ it
[deleted] · 127 points · Posted at 15:13:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
zing
TheSwedishStag · 5 points · Posted at 17:24:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
👉😎👉 Zoop
FINDTHECOMPUTERROOM · -1 points · Posted at 17:34:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
bazinga
FlyNathan · 8 points · Posted at 15:44:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exculent
deltarefund · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
😡
KptKrondog · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/YP-3GHC9c2Y?t=18s
cheesycheesling · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
🤣🤣
theresacreamforthat · 1 points · Posted at 09:56:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
BimboBrothel · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zoop
ngwoo · 13 points · Posted at 16:29:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If succulents didn't want to be smashed up why are they full of potion
katikaboom · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Asking the real questions
musicchan · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yay! New sub!
thefonztm · 193 points · Posted at 15:17:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I combined all the shampoos into super shampoo. It was.
PlanktinaWishwater · 14 points · Posted at 17:32:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God, I would do this all the time. Pissed my mom off real bad. As a grown woman with expensive shampoos, I get it now. Sorry, Mom.
Daeloy · 10 points · Posted at 15:21:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yessss same!
Little_Shitty · 20 points · Posted at 16:20:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mixed several soaps and shampoos, then pissed in it. Then invited my parents to try my new soap. (They did).
katikaboom · 6 points · Posted at 17:47:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god, I laughed so hard i cried a little. This is great.
Skakitty · 3 points · Posted at 18:31:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this as a kid, inspired by George’s marvellous medicine!
Ianthina · 4 points · Posted at 18:51:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once saw a commercial for a feminine wash so I mixed up all the body washes, shampoos, and conditioners and used it on my bits. I was uhhhhhh pre-k age I think, based on my memories of the house where it took place. It burned. Bad.
I wish I had just made a super shampoo and let that be that.
jstoer90 · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The super shampoo comments are making me laugh so hard.
novaspax · 4 points · Posted at 19:38:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else pour dollops of conditioner in the bathtub to watch it float around and squish the blobs apart with your fingers
NeverBeenStung · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was...
unrenewable_resource · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And it was beautiful.
UrgotMilk · 9 points · Posted at 15:21:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
POTIONMASTER! I'm going into battle and I need your strongest potion!
TheSuspiciousNarwal · 6 points · Posted at 15:50:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I did this too! but it just gave us a rash
Nomanknowsmyreddit · 4 points · Posted at 17:21:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would make “apple sauce” by hitting old apples that had fallen from my friend’s apple tree with rocks and shovels. We had a “cooking contest” too
ThePsych18 · 3 points · Posted at 16:18:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/NoContext
abstractattack · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same ..but with these peculiar leafs. Guess how many times I didn't know how I got poison ivy....way too many.
baldpatchouli · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
omg same
Ailuroapult · 20 points · Posted at 15:26:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you a woman? Having a phase of dark crafts seems to be a trend with girls. I made potions with mud, water, leaves and those kernels on the ends of long grass - they were also to curse people.
hermeown · 14 points · Posted at 18:23:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes... "phase..."
Ailuroapult · 8 points · Posted at 18:25:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know what you're talking about...there's definitely not a spellbook hidden in my bookcase. >.> <.<
Zannier · 20 points · Posted at 15:17:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ours was made from every medicine we could find in our grandma's bedroom. One of them even tasted like m&m but it was white, others smelled terrible so we didn't bother. We 'activated' it by pissing on the bottle together.
kthebakerman · 21 points · Posted at 15:34:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy kid death cocktail
PlanktinaWishwater · 6 points · Posted at 17:33:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jesus.
LiquidRitz · 6 points · Posted at 18:04:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This, too, is how religion got its start.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 15:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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generilisk · 9 points · Posted at 16:28:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was the goody two shoes played by Lindsay Lohan?
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 15:35:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What you didn't know was that you actually have been a witch this whole time. Your curses worked but since you never found your familiar who would lead you to your coven, you have just been cursing random people around the world.
PieALaChode · 4 points · Posted at 21:15:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
knew i should have taken home that seagull that ate my chicken strip
karmagod13000 · 30 points · Posted at 14:45:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
someone watched the craft when they were growing up
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 15:23:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Gehbstemmer · 2 points · Posted at 20:11:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean if Sarah's godlike witch powers didn't manifest until after puberty it's a safe bet to wait till you're a teenager just to make sure you don't have magical powers
PipBoy808 · 11 points · Posted at 15:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hubble bubble, toil and trouble,/
Fuck that attention-seeking bitch Katie and her C cups."
PikaCharlie · 9 points · Posted at 17:13:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play something similar! I would steal my mom's empty mason jars from the pantry and try to fill it with the weirdest or prettiest things I could find. My mom let me keep my pretty "potions" on a shelf over my bed, but once she found a dead fish pulled out of the lake in one of the weird ones, she always had me dump those.
I ended up being a practicing Wiccan who's fascinated by the medicinal uses of plants and things.
Maelou711 · 9 points · Posted at 15:03:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is some Scarlet Letter shit right here. Be careful, they’re coming for you.
valdezlopez · 10 points · Posted at 15:08:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As one does, of course!
IOnlyReadItAtWork · 9 points · Posted at 15:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My man going for 99 herblore already as a kid and on top of that doing it without the Grand Exchange!? Respect.
jesus-says-fuck-you · 8 points · Posted at 15:29:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah my brother and I started a religion with mainly two gods and there were hexes too. Some of them were very dark like that one where a spider would eat the guts of people we don’t like and put its eggs in their body. It was very poetic too hahaha
Usagi-skywalker · 7 points · Posted at 15:31:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man I think everyone played witches. My friends and I would go around the neighborhood collecting goods to make potions.
magnummentula · 7 points · Posted at 15:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure my girlfriend and her coven do that now...
thatJainaGirl · 6 points · Posted at 15:50:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my dad was a kid, his little brother and sister tried to make a potion to make him disappear. They mixed a bunch of stuff in a bucket and left it under his bed at night, and when they woke up and he was still there, they cried.
ChiraqBluline · 8 points · Posted at 16:01:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did potions too, me and a little girl on my block. Crushing flowers adding a bit of rubbing alcohol and spraying every animal, spirit, person we could
bad_luck_charm · 29 points · Posted at 14:36:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fucking people, right?
shenanigins · 5 points · Posted at 15:24:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What a bunch of bastards.
Noxillius · 4 points · Posted at 15:03:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's called paedophilia
lawpoop · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank God magic isn't real
Nairinn · 6 points · Posted at 16:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is really cute and evil
karmaster · 5 points · Posted at 16:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They turned me into a newt.
PieALaChode · 3 points · Posted at 21:18:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sorry man. You must have kicked a cat or something. We really liked cats, and hated cat-kickers.
OptimismByFire · 10 points · Posted at 16:17:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy
Come join our coven!
general_tictac · 5 points · Posted at 18:36:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is that role-playing or do people actually believe they're witches?
majinboom · 3 points · Posted at 18:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A bit of both I would assume. There's lots of people who believe in witchcraft and lots of people who just like the aesthetic of the whole thing.
ShiraCheshire · 5 points · Posted at 15:34:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you play it like that because that's just what witches did in your mind (like witches curse, robbers steal, sailors ride boats, etc), or did you just think cursing people would be fun?
PieALaChode · 7 points · Posted at 17:48:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we just hated a lot of people lol. didn't think witches were evil, how could we after seeing that Scooby doo movie about em?
AndySipherBull · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coupla psychos
Blueflamealchemist · 3 points · Posted at 15:40:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I did the same! We used a big planting pot as our cauldron, filled it with water, added twigs, pecans, rotten fruit, anything we could find.
hannaht633 · 4 points · Posted at 15:49:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and some neighborhood kids would also make "potions" by putting mud, leaves, etc in a bucket and stirring it around while cackling.
PieALaChode · 3 points · Posted at 21:19:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The cackling is half the fun.
SecretBattleship · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did potions with my brother and friend! We would crush berries and dirt together in a cup. We also twisted together monkey grass leaves and played Taco Bell. Oh and we played the potion game in the bathroom sometimes and would use up all of my friend’s brother’s acne products. Good thing they kept the cleaning products in another cabinet!
PeachLeech · 4 points · Posted at 16:30:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to put flower petals, crushed up shells, and other odds and ends into a bucket filled with water. To be fair it usually smelled delicious. Anything in the backyard was fair game.
deltarefund · 5 points · Posted at 16:36:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would mix foods and dare each other to eat it. I don’t think anyone ever did though!
PlanktinaWishwater · 4 points · Posted at 17:37:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too! My friend and I found the key to her parent’s camper and we’d go through the cupboards full of shelf-stable foods and open them (not so stable anymore!) and make weird, disgusting concoctions that the other person had to eat.
TheTopTierQueer · 4 points · Posted at 17:18:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes? Salem Police Department? I think I found one.
venuswasaflytrap · 3 points · Posted at 15:46:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craft_(film)
Light as a feather, stiff as a board
RedditSanity · 3 points · Posted at 16:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So AHS: Coven was based on a true story
RosieEmily · 3 points · Posted at 16:30:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I were obsessed with the book "George's Marvelous medicine" and would spend ages making "potions" in the bathroom sink.
LumberChaton · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made a whole grimoire with a pentacle we drew on the cover. We're in a region known for its witchcraft ancestry and I'm still a bit of a witch at heart...
Babsmitty · 3 points · Posted at 17:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My kids made potions.
On one occasion, my son had a scraped knee... so they made him a potion and put a leaf on it as a band aid while they said “incantations”.
That leaf was poison ivy.
PlanktinaWishwater · 3 points · Posted at 17:28:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My kind of people.
kindarusty · 3 points · Posted at 22:26:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Before a full moon, I would spend all afternoon gathering up flowers, berries, mushrooms, and interesting leaves, then would crush them all together into a paste with a couple of rocks. I then left the paste in full view of the moon, like an offering, on a large flat rock that I dug up from a creek bed.
I called it "moon food". My brothers still tease me about it, decades later. I'm honestly surprised I didn't end up poisoning myself.
Mattsasse · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This just reminds me of the South Park episode where Randy and all the men play witches.
AGjunior · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s weird af 😂😂
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is this John Mulaney?
SpankTheDevil · 2 points · Posted at 16:23:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is that you, Ice Cube?
Throwawayuser626 · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow my best friend and I did the exact same things! There was this little patch of forest we played in that had a tree stump the perfect size to sit on and I remember placing our “cauldron” (a bucket) on it and tossing leaves in. We both used sticks as wands, we were really fond of Harry Potter.
MarchKick · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would make "potions", too. We just took any condiment and seasoning we could find and mix it all together. It smelled horrible.
cardinals1996 · 2 points · Posted at 17:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“I made you a potion”
“That’s good!”
“The potion is cursed”
“That’s bad”
Cuteroid · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved playing witches as a kid. Making potions (of various cleaning products and mud) was my favourite.
One time I was using a straw to blow bubbles in my "potion" to make it look more potion-y when my little sister (who was probably 3 or 4) wanted to join in. However she hadn't quite grasped the concept and instead of blowing through the straw she sucked and drank a big mouthful of washing up liquid and dirt water and then I got banned from making potions.
TigerlilySmith · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I often used my mother's ever growing collection or bath and body lotions to mix together 'potions'. But I was a good witch and interesting smelling too.
Cryssw · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with friends also. I blame The Craft. Definitely tried the “light as a feather stiff as a board” thing a few times. Sadly, nobody floated. :(
hermeown · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But every other kid knew someone who floated, always made me so jealous. -__-
LiquidRitz · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is basically how every major Religion started.
NikolaiXPass · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahahaha this is the best entry in the post for me by a mile
matrem_ki · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I stained so many articles of clothing doing this. Sooo many wrapped up leaves full of mushed up forest-goop left in my pockets.
quirkyknitgirl · 2 points · Posted at 19:35:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, yes making potions! And also, we would do snow dances to try to get snow to come when we wanted. (We were not so aware of the cultural appropriation issue as children.)
CupcakeViking · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents' patio stones still bear a stain from an early potion (it contained a lot of old salad dressing & ointment) and there's probably a chunk of 'napalm' somewhere on the patio as well, which was styrofoam plates we melted with gasoline. Potion making was easily one of my favorite games as a kid, but we had to wait in between 'batches' for household products to expire.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this reminds me of how me and my friend drew these "ads" for "camps" usually involving child abuse. like one was "camp be quiet" for kids who couldn't be quiet so their parents could send them there. the camp was putting the kids in a giant jar and there was some sort of sound detecting alarm.
our teacher found them and didn't report it, just made is toss it. she probably just thought we were possessed by the devil or something since we didn't skip school on 6/6/06 like she told us to. wasn't even a religious school...
temalyen · 2 points · Posted at 01:02:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, me and my sister found this random bit of concrete in my neighbor's yard. We kept trying to pull it up (with help from the kid who lived next door, who was our friend.) Since we couldn't get it up, we figured it must be hiding something under it. We eventually decided we'd open it up and there'd be a slide under it. The slide would lead waaaaay down into a big cavern where a witch lived. We knew the witch would attack us as soon as she saw us, so we spent time figuring out how we'd beat the witch. We knew witches were weak vs water (as seen in The Wizard of Oz) , so we decided we were going to ride down the slide holding onto water buckets.
My mother repeatedly told us it was a concrete spill from when our neighbors had a new concrete floored patio put on their house, but we just refused to believe her. I was convinced there was something crazy under that concrete. We tried as hard as we could to pull it up but it just would not budge. We were even using primitive levers made from tree branches to try to force it up. It just wouldn't move.
It was pretty close to a tree and was eventually ripped up when the tree was removed.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:10:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend in second grade and I made a list of official witch hunters. It was the fedex guy, the water delivery guy, my mom’s secretary, and her neighbor Raymond. We’d always hide from them because we knew they knew we were witches and would turn us in
kwilpin · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Making potions in giant buckets and trying to convince each other to try them was a constant part of growing up with my cousins.
Mugsi · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The potion ingredients contain potassium benzoate.
ColourStroker · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This comment reminded me of this frogurt scene from the Simpsons:
Homer: Do you sell toys?
House of Evil Owner: We sell forbidden objects from places men fear to tread. We also sell frozen yogurt, which I call frogurt.
Homer: Well, I need something for my son’s birthday.
House of Evil Owner: Perhaps this will please the gentleman. Take this object. But beware, it carries a terrible curse.
Homer: Oh, that’s bad.
House of Evil Owner: But it comes with a free frogurt.
Homer: That’s good.
House of Evil Owner: The frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: That’s bad.
House of Evil Owner: But you get your choice of toppings.
Homer: That’s good.
House of Evil Owner: The toppings contain potassium benzoate… That’s bad.
Homer: Can I go now?
– Treehouse of Horror III (The Simpsons Season 4 – Episode 5)
*formatting
hmlns · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called witches when I was a kid too but it was completely different. You had to avoid someone who had their eyes closed by jumping around playground equipment without touching the ground. If they touched you, or if you touched the ground and they heard you, you lost. To be honest I'm not even sure why it was called witches. Once I met some kids from a different city and they played the exact same game but called it 'grounders,' which makes much more sense.
geekybadger · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did a werewolves and vampires version of this. We told people we bit them and now they were a werewolf or vampire. The people thought we were just playing but we actually had been mad at them and wanted to be a werewolf or vampire. We did not, thankfully, ever actually try to bite anyone.
hermeown · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 3rd grade, I definitely tried to help my friend with a love potion mixed in a toy "Chemical X" bottle. It was mostly spices and weird food substances. I feel bad for that kid, he got a mouthful for gross in his chocolate milk that day.
Not_Bionca · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me laugh
Blewzei · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds a lot like the beginning to the crucible.
TheMadHatterOnTea · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh we did this! But we were always good witches.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I pretebded to be witches for years longer than we should have. I now have a lot of Pagan and Wiccan friends, though!
sarahp1988 · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I were fairies. We told our little sisters that we would fly across the world at night. We told them if they ate eucalyptus leaves they could be fairies too. They did.
Petyr_Baelish · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Witches was a favorite game with my friends and me growing up too. We had a medium sized trash can my parents would put leave in, and when it was empty we'd use it for our "potions". I always especially liked playing it when it was fall, it felt like I was deriving extra special witch powers during October.
Parapraxis6 · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to make potions out of herbs and mushrooms and berries and lots of dead bugs. We would mash it all up with pond water in little tincture bottles my mom always had laying around. We would then burry these in the ground to let them steep to full potency.
This game ended when my paranoid friend told his parents that he "couldn't remember if he ate one of the poisonous mushrooms or not" which of course he didn't. Either way my parents got an angry phone call and this ended the game... we kept playing, just now we played in secret.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to make potions out of dirt, mud, and insects. Whoever lost a wrestling match had to drink it
gghyyghhgf · 1 points · Posted at 02:11:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did any of it worked ? ...
Rightinthepiehole · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
But it comes with a free frogurt. But the frogurt is also cursed.
poopellar · 2 points · Posted at 14:40:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess this is how Magic the Gathering started.
Shadow_Of_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mmmm Satan.
FreddiePeterson · 0 points · Posted at 18:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Joffrey...
Raze321 · 7740 points · Posted at 13:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We didn't really have a name for it, but when we were on the playground for recess in elementary school we would play this game where one of us would go about halfway down the tube-slide, where it's just like one big hollow tube like what you'd see at a big water park, just not as big obviously.
And then someone else would slide down as fast as they could and try to dislodge the first dude, usually he would fail. Then another would come down and try to dislodge the first two guys. Then another, until Big Mikey would come down and we would all fly out the bottom of the slide like a freshly unclogged pipe. This was because Big Mikey was like five times bigger than any of the other third graders.
Oh yeah, I think we actually called it "Clog the pipe", which sounds pretty gay now that I'm recalling it as an adult.
Edit: Glad I'm not alone
TheBomar · 1531 points · Posted at 14:54:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You better clog the pipe. Clog it good.
Henry_The_Duck · 426 points · Posted at 15:32:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ll clog your pipe, sailor. ;)
Leadfooted_mnky · 38 points · Posted at 15:54:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can I be Big Mikey?
AndyGHK · 24 points · Posted at 16:29:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only if you’re okay with coming last each time
Nathonski · 4 points · Posted at 18:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s what she said
DarkOmen597 · 11 points · Posted at 16:04:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hmmm Big Mikey 😘
ChefRoquefort · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big mikey will clear it out.
Engvar · 1144 points · Posted at 15:15:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Found a picture of you and your friends.
https://imgur.com/bqsfcZD.jpg
Raze321 · 626 points · Posted at 15:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahahahahaha nah Mikey was (and still is) a large black man
But otherwise, yeah. I like to think I was a lot like TJ but in reality I was definitely more of a Gus.
Dr_Wombo_Combo · 671 points · Posted at 15:41:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So what you’re saying is mikey was so much bigger than you and your friends because he was an adult black man
RKTHSWY · 537 points · Posted at 16:41:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So what you're saying is a large, adult black man, named Mikey, unclogged your pipe multiple times throughout your childhood
zackman1996 · 21 points · Posted at 17:32:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn.
nina_gall · 16 points · Posted at 18:04:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
YOUR COMMENT HAS BEEN GIVEN THE TITANIUM AWARD!
(because I'm broke, but I respect your comment)
jakethesnake214 · 5 points · Posted at 18:26:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/nocontext
smakinelmo · 2 points · Posted at 19:48:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
metoo
IronBabyFists · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Game"
pm-me-duck5 · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
💀
Dason37 · 43 points · Posted at 15:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's ok though, it was just Big Mikey
Raze321 · 27 points · Posted at 16:20:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahahah well he was a large black boy back then.
Now he is a large black man.
CinnaSol · 4 points · Posted at 17:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Principal Lewis?
IAmARussianTrollAMA · 7 points · Posted at 16:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://imgur.com/gallery/83UWnG3
BUCK BUCK NUMBER ONE
Bocaj1000 · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fat Albert and the Gang?
toby_ornautobey · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This popped on a few weeks ago and I realised TJ is just mini Mark Wahlburg.
musicchan · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now I'm reminded of that old Bill Cosby skit about Buck Buck and Fat Albert.
randomascanbe · 7 points · Posted at 16:08:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is exactly what my first thought was, hahahahaha.
wardrich · 6 points · Posted at 17:14:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would have been super upset if that wasn't the Recess kids. I 100% imagined Mikey when reading the post.
Sean_OR · 3 points · Posted at 16:39:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought this was going to be gay porn
bradfordmaster · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit I completely forgot this show existed and this image just brought back a rush of memories. I was just talking about shows I watched as a kid and totally forgot about this one
spoonfulofstress · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was going to be so pissed if this was a photo of anything else.
terminbee · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember anything about this except that it existed.
Engvar · 1 points · Posted at 01:09:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aww, that whomps man...
Joshads · 253 points · Posted at 14:59:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have genuine nightmares about getting stuck in tube slides... Your story has made me feel very uncomfortable!
spartagnann · 24 points · Posted at 15:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah but kids are stupidly fearless. I used to sled down a steep wooded hill in the winter and try and dodge trees on my way down. It was stupid, but it was fun, and for some reason I never worried about breaking my arm or leg or my back.
JezuzFingerz · 4 points · Posted at 18:02:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao I tried to use a skate ramp to jump a creek with a sled one time. One side of the creek was a good four feet higher than the other at a certain point, so I thought with the height and the ramp, I could clear the gap.
Well I guess me and my brilliant buddies did not secure the ramp well enough, because when I sled into the ramp it slid forward - killing my momentum. I ate shit in the creek and broke my wrist (one of four times I broke my wrists growing up).
I miss being a kid sometimes.
Raze321 · 12 points · Posted at 15:17:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We loved it. I guess none of us had claustrophobia
Spinzel · 6 points · Posted at 15:47:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It sounds like you need Big Mikey in your life... he's the RotoRooter for tube slides.
todd-bowden · 6 points · Posted at 16:03:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just get Big Mikey to unclog you.
Thekinkiestpenguin · 6 points · Posted at 16:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, same, but specifically water slide tube slide. The episode of Always Sunny at the water park is so uncomfortable to watch
Joshads · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
AIDS
leapofaith97 · 3 points · Posted at 16:05:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1562
You're welcome.
crystalmerchant · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SCP.. love it. Seems like there's one for any situation
Tybalt-Capulet · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks Marv
Dason37 · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can relate. My young daughter would want me to share in the fun of going down the slides with or after her, and I was like no way am I making it through all those twists without getting stuck.
ATLANTAdood · 2 points · Posted at 19:17:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used hang out at a local neighborhood pool that had a pretty badass slide, but unfortunately it was removed because fat kids kept getting stuck in it.
KatInDaHatizzle · 36 points · Posted at 15:23:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play something similar but we called it “ Squish the Lemon”.
We were all girls.
--_-_--__-__-- · 10 points · Posted at 17:20:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, also played "Squish the Lemon". Our version was coed (so progressive) and the goal was to just jam as many people in there as possible rather than force the bottom ones out.
58_weasels · 4 points · Posted at 17:21:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it squish the lemon too!
ncnotebook · 7 points · Posted at 17:10:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pop the cherry" but with a giant boy coming last.
BongmasterGeneral420 · 25 points · Posted at 16:20:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think your story about getting pounded by big Mikey in the third grade while playing clog the pipe sounded gay
Raze321 · 5 points · Posted at 16:20:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goddamn this got a chuckle out of me
macgabay · 19 points · Posted at 15:17:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the exact opposite of this, we would send one person to go about halfway down and then see how many other people we could in the slide without falling out.
KattyWompWomp · 5 points · Posted at 15:41:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes, we called it Toilet Monster. The first kid lives in the tube and is the monster, and the rest run by the toilet hole and try not to get touched. If you get touched, you have to live in the tube with the monster until one kid is left and that kid wins.
Same thing with the swinging bridge on the playset. That was called Swamp Monster.
PrometheusTNO · 14 points · Posted at 15:35:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh dang, my son has been coming home recently talking about all the people playing Clog at recess. One was an actual clog that a teacher had to come and pull kids out of.
livestrongbelwas · 10 points · Posted at 15:47:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an alternate version of this (had a wide metal slide, enough for 2 kids to go down side by side, no divider in the middle, just a wide piece of metal).
Instead of blocking people from going down the slide, we had to stop people from climbing up the slide. We called it American Gladiators.
So there was a gladiator at the top, and his job was to push/kick the shit out of any kid who got close to the top of the slide. If you touched the metal bar above the top of the slide (think of it as an above-the-head bar to grip while you steaded yourself before sliding down) then you became the new gladiator and got to defend the bar from 20 other 2nd graders.
It was a fascinating game because it was so brutal (the game quickly devolved into kicking the face of anyone who got close, lots of cuts, bloody noses and lost teeth) but it was also incredibly organized. As soon as someone touched the bar there was a peaceful reset where everyone got to the bottom of the slide and waited patiently for the new gladiator to take his position at the top and signal he was ready.
Kanilas · 3 points · Posted at 17:23:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had another version of this, but we took it a little further at the end.
Our game was called Sacrifice. One person had to stay at the top of the slide, and the rest of us were the monsters trying to drag the sacrifice down.
The playground looked kind of like this, focus on the tall slide and the room on the right. Our slide had a split down the middle and faced away from the rest of the playground, so we were pretty unsupervised.
Generally, the sacrifice would try to kick and push people coming up the slide back down, until they were dragged down. Sometimes though, we'd send a few people up at once, and one would make it into the room at the top.
When that happened, we swarmed. If they were still at the slide, we would grab each other like a barrel of monkeys game and drag them down into the sand, screaming. If they were in the room, we all flooded up the slide into it, and ended up forcefully ejecting them down the slide and yelling about it like a bunch of barbarians.
I think the game finally stopped when someone got hurt, because they were thrown all the way to the bottom of the slide.
Then the game turned into Lava Monster, where you could hit people with a koosh ball to get them on your side, or drag them off the playground if they got too close. You could only touch tan pieces and sand, so it meant a lot of climbing and elementary school parkour.
ZoomBoingDing · 3 points · Posted at 18:53:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our version was "Toilet monsters". All the kids climbing up were sewer monsters, and the kids trying to push them down were plungers. Great memories :D
SubzeroSubway · 9 points · Posted at 15:47:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were kids in my elementary who would do this without telling anyone and one time I went down the slide while they were clogging it and the next person slid down, and being claustrophobic, I panicked and kicked the shit out of the kids face who was clogging the slide. I hated that game...
Blacksquirrelofdeath · 5 points · Posted at 15:56:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this exact game as a kid! Except we called it ‘plug the toilet’.
We also played a similar game during winter. We had a small hill and would dig a hole at the bottom. We’d get someone to slide down first on a crazy carpet and the rest of us would slide after and try to hit them as hard as possible. It would usually end with someone crying.
Baslin242 · 4 points · Posted at 15:28:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember doing the same thing in elementary school, though we didnt have some like "Big Micky" so it would get pretty bad. It was great.
hiddenpoint · 5 points · Posted at 16:12:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school we played a similar game but didnt have a tube slide. We just had a standard metal sheet of a slide. Anyways, the first person would just sit at the end of the slide, and everyone else had to try and go down fast/hard enough to knock them off the end. I think we called it something like "squish the lemon" but I'm not 100% certain.
Good times.
MarchKick · 3 points · Posted at 16:53:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game in Elementary school called "Flush the Toilet". We just go on the curvy slide and the person behind you would say "Flush" and you just went down the slide, climbed back up the structure to the slide and get in line again. Why was this so entertaining?
Karueo · 3 points · Posted at 16:01:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a similar game in my elementary school, except we just stayed until whoever was first decided to get out.
Korb10 · 3 points · Posted at 16:24:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squish the Lemmon!!!!!
thelastmartinis · 3 points · Posted at 17:13:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this, but called it "squish the lemon."
adaptiveSol · 2 points · Posted at 15:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play the exact same game where I'm from, I'm pretty sure it had a name just can't recall it at the moment
exikon · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My back hurts reading this...
ErktheSavage · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same on the tall screw shaped slide and called it log jam.
Dpark19 · 2 points · Posted at 16:04:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i am loving all the differences in names on this post, we called this one "traffic jam"
BootyDukesMcGee · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gotta clog that pipe for Big Mikey
FlingbatMagoo · 2 points · Posted at 16:36:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too! But we called it Mommy’s Tummy.
TheRealFlowerChild · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend group called this game watermelon!
tommy20boy02 · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in primary school on a normal slide, called it Bumps
handlebartender · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You just reminded me....
I was at the Where The Wild Things Are kids entertainment place at a location (can't remember the name - Sony Metreon, perhaps?) in San Francisco, some many years ago. I was there with my son and daughter (and ex, which isn't directly relevant).
They had this spiral tunnel slide. My son was big enough to take care of himself, but I wanted my daughter to be able to safely enjoy, around kids much larger than herself. She would have been about 3 at the time.
So I went with her, mainly thinking about her safety, not my own. I sat down, placed her securely between my legs (so my back could shield her from the kids queuing up behind me) and down we went.
I quickly realized that it was a bit snug in there for an adult such as myself, and grew a bit concerned. We managed to slide down almost to the bottom, only to get stuck behind some other kid. And as you probably figured out by now, it wasn't long before at least one kid started to pile up behind me.
I started to feel anxious. I probably hollered at the kid(s) in front to get moving. I definitely felt helpless.
Finally, the kids in front got clear, and I was able to usher my daughter out, followed by my own extraction.
Yep, that was enough claustrophobic spiral tunnel sliding for one day.
Raze321 · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The image of a bunch of small children leaving a tube slide, followed by a full grown adult, is hilarious to me.
handlebartender · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was definitely one if those "I've made a huge mistake" moments.
screwyoushadowban · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too but didn't have a name for it. Someone in your circle was more creative than dozens of us.
Raze321 · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I like to think that person was me.
Inshabel · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This happened a lot at my local swimming pool.
Hey_Man_Nice_Shot · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For my friends birthday every year we would go to crappy hotel that had a sweet waterslide, and more importantly, no lifeguard. we would jam that slide so good.
spicy_ovary · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the same shit in primary school. I don’t think we ever had a name for it either. Clog the pipe works though haha
CluelessSurrealist · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy crud lol I played this game back in fifth grade. We called it traffic jam.
Photon_Torpedophile · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm picturing Big Mikey as the kid who holds up fingers and says "this many" when you ask how old he is
Raze321 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah he was/is a bit dumb to be honest but he has heart and that's what counts.
speciald0ggo · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ooooo i used to do this too, we called it “sardines” and I remember loving it
Selfix · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/gallery/vuo9k4w
physicslover69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this is elementary school! My tailbone hurts just remembering someone sliding down into my back feet first
hucow-cutie · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Heyyy I remember this game!
skutbag · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A similar version of this is how I got a couple of stitches on my head! Good times
SaphirMeer · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this exact game in elementary
TheZombieMolester · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahh yes. I played this in kindergarten/first grade I think, I believe we called it “clog the drain” tho
StinidadJames · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Legend has it kids are still piling up in that slide waiting for Big Mikey to fuck their shit up
Raze321 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am still in touch with Big Mikey, and he has only gotten bigger since those days.
sky888988 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone played this
OverAster · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play this too!
bookworm21765 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it watermelon. No clue why
Paxtin1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played something similar in 1st grade but we called it watermelon, and you would slide down the side of a straight slide and try to get the bottom guy to fall
rachelxoxoknoz · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey we played the same thing! Only for some reason someone named it "lemon squeeze."
Bonjamin55 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played something similar in elementary school as well I'm pretty sure we called it "trash compactor" though
hreisc · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would do this in real water slides at the local water park it was so fun. Some times we would knock each other out and other times we met up in the middle and slid down together. I remember one time my friend was blocking the tube but she had left out a small area under her arm opened and I slid through it as if I had been greased lol I remember our shocked "WTF!!" faces and we laugh about it to this day. Thanks for making me remember that!
SuperooImpresser · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This story has unlodged deep childhood memories. How do you guys remember all this stuff?
Raze321 · 4 points · Posted at 16:27:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The trade off is I remember useless things like this, instead of important things like anniversaries and where I put my car keys last night.
Cstpa1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yess!
Jimbothemonkey · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this at my elementary school too, great times until you're the first one getting slammed into by other kids lol
civodar · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, I used to play this game too, I completely forgot about it until now though!
Irantwomiles · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We kind of did those except we would send one down and we would all try and save that one person without them sliding all the way down.
1SweetChuck · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Buck buck number one come in!"
eeeidna · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squish the Melon! You never wanted to be the kid at the bottom, and you never wanted the kid after you to go down feet-first and smash into your back. It was generally accepted that you were supposed to throw your legs over one side and then go down. If we ran out of people, everyone except the "melon" climbed off and went again.
We'd play this at camp on a tall metal slide; there was no cover, so there was always a chance that kids would fall off.
Blindmaniacc · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I did this. We called it snot like having boogers in your nose snot but one day the teachers caught us so we would have to play in "secret".
Daddi-Senpai · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that until we almost drowned a kid. We got a good pileup going, and the water was backing up to the point that the slide was overflowing. He just wasn't tall enough.... He got trapped upside down in the slide under about 2 feet of water.
Lifeguards wouldn't let us play that anymore.
omg_for_real · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pile up!
We played it on the slide sometimes but we had these 2 bars that ran parallel, like stair railings you could slide down, one leg over each one, legs akimbo. First one down planted themselves at the bottom, and we all piled on. Once we got so many people we reached the top. Then we didn’t know how to get off so we just all sat there till the bottom person fell.
ASongOfChaosAndZen · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just called it “Bump” in my grade school. The lunch hour supervisors (non-teachers, but with power-trips, you’d think that they ran a military state how strict they were) hated it!
_Charlie_Sheen_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the game thing sorta. Had everyone go down the slide at once and get all crammed in the middle. But then we had a person at the bottom trying to climb up and grabbing at people’s feet and trying to pull them into the ground. If you got pulled into the ground you become the grabber. We did it on several slides but the most fun one was a really big spiral slide. We would basically be clinging onto the slide and each other in a tangled mess of limbs while kicking away at the person at the bottom.
We called it paper jam for some reason.
lyncs- · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this too! we had a name for it but I can't think of it
pulpmaster · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this squish the lemon
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh yes. We called that “clog in the toilet.”
reabuss · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too when I lived in Michigan, except we would slide down the side of an open top slide with our knees hanging over and then pile up until the first person got knocked off on the bottom. Looking back on it, it probably was pretty dangerous but we still had a lot of fun. It was the neighborhood kids btw, we lived in a pretty decked out apartment complex. I actually have a lot of crazy stories from there if you want me to share them!
unicornyjoke · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a similar game I used to play as a third grader but the intention was essentially to pull other people down with you. This ended when a bigger kid yanked me off the top, smashed my face in to the center pole and I lost my two, freshly permanent, front teeth. Everyone was traumatized. Good times.
LadyWallflower03 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a variation of this, only we called it "Sardines" because the goal was to see how many of us kids we could fit inside the tube slide before the poor sucker at the bottom was kicked or someone cried wanting out.
Khaleesi_dany_t · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it watermelon!
zackman1996 · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds like the dumb shit my elementary school friends Mitch, Josh, and Darryl (biggest black kid in the neighborhood, shit you not) would've done.
Kinda wished we had.
Kitchens55 · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I work at an elementary school, the 5th graders a couple years ago, played that game. Except they called it..."butt plug" ugh
Roxablah · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar to this but me and a bunch of other kids would slide down the slide at the same time and like deliberately try to get squished and uncomfortable because we thought it was funny and we laughed about it
striped_cheetah · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Loved this game! We called it “squish the lemon.” Unfortunately, this was at school, so any time the adults caught us playing this they put an end to it quickly.
cHalls · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this at my middle school too! I think it just happened by accident one day and then we turned it into a game, until kids started getting kicked in the back with hundreds of pounds of other kids piled up on them causing a lot of sore back.
hisoka88 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played this same exact game, we would all go down sideways though and you were basically shunned if you went feet first, I went full out feet first alot.
Vid-Master · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this as well, one time we all got very stuck and a few of the kids (me included) started to panic because we were getting crushed and suffocated
We stopped after that lol
WholesaleBees · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our version of this was called drain-o clog-up
Firefox9001 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait other people played this game?? I thought it was just me and my friends in elementary school
Robin_Divebomb · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called those slides “tornado slides”.
PantherTheRogue · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had a similar game, only someone would go halfway down and everyone else had to try and pull them back up, and the one in the tube acted like there was a monster pulling them down. That was ended VERY quickly though, the teachers apparently didn't have a good feeling about that one.
The boys, however, had a game more similar to yours. Us girls were more into the roleplaying, usually as wolves or horses
Im_not_Jordan · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the show recess, all the way down to big mikey
Sinoops · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha my elementary school did this too. I remember one day when some older people (probably middle schoolers, the middle and elementary school were next door) participated the slide actually broke at the top and the whole thing fell down with like 10 people in it. Someone broke their arm as well.
leadabae · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
should've called it the vending machine game
Turbo_MechE · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think we played this too! I also just had to mute myself on a conference call
alfouran · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I actually did this exact same thing in school. Our Mikey was named Devin. We got in trouble for having something crazy like 25 kids in the thing. Amazing times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes. We called this “switch bitch” for some odd reasons.
keanusmommy · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this too, but we called it “Lemon”. No clue why.
bigmike2k3 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did someone say my name?
Propulus · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Specially when you add Big Mikey was five times bigger than the rest or 3rd graders. Good thing you learn how to use a ruler properly about that time haha.
ThePoshFart · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did basically the opposite when I was a kid, there were 4 slides connected together side to side at this one playground. 4 kids sat at the top of the slide while another 4 were at the bottom and had to try and run up the slide and drag the kids at the top downwards. If the kids at the bottom managed to drag all the kids down they won.
12345brendan · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I recall playing an identical game in elementary school, then one day some weakling broke his arm so you got written up for playing it
Raze321 · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weaklings ruin it for everyone.
StorminDaCastle · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play this on regular slides with someone sitting at the end. Game was called squeeze the lemon. Just pile as many kids down the slide until the first kid falls off
Mose-Schrute- · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game like this called “watermelon” but it was on a classic slide rather than the tube kind.
Flaming_Axel · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school we called this “clog the toilet!” You just revived some hidden memories from within me
realhorrorsh0w · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do this at the water park and get yelled at.
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bturl · 562 points · Posted at 15:11:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like a terrible game!... oh shit, I am still playing that game...
Dzrd · 12 points · Posted at 17:06:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oof
WesterosiBrigand · 4 points · Posted at 20:54:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well look at mr fat cat here, with houses they can buy!
Ricky_Bobby_67 · 3 points · Posted at 03:54:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Speaking of which, this is your landlord! You owe me 3 months rent!
I don’t know what you mean, I’m enjoying this game.
GreenMike7 · 22 points · Posted at 15:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too! Me and my cousins used the private road in our summer house area and we would all play "Shops". Bikes where cars, leaves where currency, everyone had a different shop or job and would just do that for hours, buying and selling stuff, helping the leaf economy progress. Good times! That game eventually evolved into "Amusement Park" cause one of my cousins had the great idea of having an amusement park as his job. Everyone wanted to go there, no one was on the road anymore so we ditched it completely in favor of the way more fun amused park.
Yawehg · 28 points · Posted at 15:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You played The Sims.
AdeptSquirrel · 13 points · Posted at 16:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sims VR
Hug_Me_Manatee · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whippna Choba Dog!
Twelvers · 9 points · Posted at 15:58:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude we played this game too, except I always set up the game and therefore was basically the holder of all the money. So I would put out 'jobs' you could do and make 'magazines' of stuff you could buy with your money once you finished the jobs...
The jobs were all tasks you had to do specifically for me lmao; I think I may have control issues.
UndeadBread · 10 points · Posted at 19:24:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that in one of my fourth-grade classrooms, probably Social Studies. I ran the game store, renting out board games and puzzles as well as selling old toys that I no longer wanted, and I was probably one of the richest kids in the class. A buddy of mine was one of the poorest because he was the town psychiatrist and I was his only customer. And for whatever reason, the other kids were amazed that I always paid my bills in cash instead of writing checks. That somehow made them think I had even more money than I did. The teacher would sometimes introduce different scenarios and I ended up having to go to court after being accused of stealing someone's bike, so I had to hire a lawyer. That shit so much fucking fun.
We did something similar by acting out The Oregon Trail and making covered wagons out of the tables and that was a lot of fun too, but not quite on the same level as our city.
BIRDsnoozer · 7 points · Posted at 17:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and their neighbours and I would play a similar game... One person would be the mayor, another would be the police, another would be a farmer, another a market, and the rest would be citizens...
I was once jailed for tax evasion (while being the market guy) and was sentenced to drink a capful of mouthwash, and was downgraded to a citizen.
But then I started a coup and got the mayor kicked out of office.
Apokolyptyk · 3 points · Posted at 20:27:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins did something like this. We would start by gathering up random things. Toys, food, stuff found outside, whatever. Then we would all have a store and a house. We used monopoly money and plastic coins for currency and paper for checks. We would buy shit from each other and just run our business. My plan was to always gather as much of one item as possible at either the start of the game or from buying it all up from my cousins. Once I had it all I could charge any price I wanted to.
sillymerricat · 3 points · Posted at 16:22:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a scaled down version with a store. We had our own checkbooks and had to set prices and do inventory. Wish we were as elaborate as yours!
untitleXYZ · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would also play this game as a kid
WaffleSaber · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Y'all would have loved the game "Animal Crossing", this is too wholesome
pumpkin27 · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in the garage. My dad had a stop light and one of us would man it while the others drive around on tricycles and Flintstone cars etc. We each had a section that was our "house" and the rest of the garage was roads.
doggo_man · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this but in the driveway with chalk
Sad_Sheepherder · 209 points · Posted at 13:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When all three of my siblings were still young children (I'm the big brother of the family), we had a game where I'd do what was basically improv comedy for them, kinda like SNL or MadTV. They'd sit on the edge of the bed, and I'd perform using props and my imagination.
I had one bit where I'd use Mega Bloks to create a crude handgun, and pretend I'm a cop. When I'd shout "Freeze!" and draw my pistol, the gun's pieces would fly apart, leaving me with just the grip and a stunned look on my face. It slayed them every time, they'd just burst into laughter and tears.
mattleo · 25 points · Posted at 16:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I laughed thinking about a bumbling officer with a crappy gun. Good times!
lindseyangela · 4 points · Posted at 05:34:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, this got me
ohmyheckingheck_ · 3 points · Posted at 06:51:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am literally laughing out loud thinking about this
lebikiniblonde · 3 points · Posted at 08:59:22 on March 16, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is 100% what my friend's older bro would've done. Props!
[deleted] · 23921 points · Posted at 13:47:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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TEMPLEWORKER · 3723 points · Posted at 15:07:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did something similar except not with a pool. We would tie one person to a chair in a closed room in the house and everyone else would run and hide. It was hide and seek but you got the amount of time they had to get out of the chair to hide... This then got upgraded to include a Nerf gun that the "captee/finder" had to use to "kill" his captors. I recommend it
what__year_is__this · 861 points · Posted at 15:25:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds super fun.
gone_gaming · 405 points · Posted at 16:06:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds great as an adult ...
Blue_and_Light · 48 points · Posted at 16:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm down for a game. When are we playing?
Mstinos · 27 points · Posted at 17:04:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm in
elmerthecr · 18 points · Posted at 18:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If we make the seeker a soviet officer, we all can be in
lemonlimerain · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm down
gone_gaming · 20 points · Posted at 18:22:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lets think this through... Tying someone to a chair could be stepped up a notch. Cuff them to a plastic lawn chair (you know, the kind that the legs break off on if you kick it with about 4 lbs of force....) and make them count to 20. Airsoft pistol on the table 20ft away with an airhorn. Pick up the gun, hit the airhorn as a notice that its go time. Oh ... did I mention its in the woods?
I_PEE_WITH_THAT · 17 points · Posted at 18:47:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, glow in the dark paintballs would be so much cooler!
gone_gaming · 8 points · Posted at 19:38:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh thats a good call... but now we're doing it in the dark? Spooky
Blue_and_Light · 5 points · Posted at 23:34:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Good thinking. Like all great childhood games, escalation is key.
lightningbadger · 18 points · Posted at 16:39:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Upgrade it to an airsoft pistol and you've got yourself a Friday night sorted
Mstinos · 12 points · Posted at 17:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mate has 2 airsoft pistols. 1 would throw a lighter, the other one would try to shoot it out of the air. Lots of hitting eachother.
Trogdorocks · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, limited ammo. Think someone’s in the bush? Well you can catch them with a bead if you aren’t quite sure where they are, same if they’re up in a tree.
I_PEE_WITH_THAT · 9 points · Posted at 18:46:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sorry if I got a boner tying anyone up.
Astro_Sloth · 9 points · Posted at 20:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Won't work, adults tying eachother up just ends in them fucking.
ColorMe3lmo · 7 points · Posted at 22:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature
drsmith21 · 4 points · Posted at 20:44:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The best part is when you’re it: you get to take a 2hr nap in a silent, empty, pitch black room!
Theycallmemaybe · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
;)
Cries_in_shower · 6 points · Posted at 18:23:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yea but you cant die, unlike the pool version :(
zackman1996 · 2 points · Posted at 17:29:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Use a BB gun for even more fun!
bipolarnotsober · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Isn't that the same thing
zackman1996 · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nerf guns and bb guns aren't the same, no.
PM-ME-YOUR-HANDBRA · 2 points · Posted at 21:27:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What if you staple BBs to the nerf darts?
zackman1996 · 2 points · Posted at 21:58:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I like where this is going.
Continue.
Trogdorocks · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Might’ve thought this was a continuation of the airsoft suggestion thread.
Carburetors_are_evil · 55 points · Posted at 15:47:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bonus points if you had to make up a badass quote after freeing yourself.
"You have done it this time, boy! Ain't no closet gonna save ya now!"
Ur_house · 60 points · Posted at 15:59:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We once played "007 duel" it was a nerf gun fight, but you weren't allowed to pull the trigger unless you first said a one liner pun or double entendre. It was hilarious.
takeachillpill666 · 5 points · Posted at 17:38:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like so much fun. I'm gonna play that with my younger cousins next time I see them.
Ur_house · 3 points · Posted at 22:39:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is! When we did it, we spent so much time on the ground laughing there wasn't as much shooting as you'd think. It was a great ab workout!
TEMPLEWORKER · 22 points · Posted at 15:49:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Executions became a thing real fast... Point blank shots to the forehead, great times and some fights. No other way to play a childhood game
BTDubbzzz · 17 points · Posted at 16:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this except we used zip ties, blind folded them and turned the lights off and just hid a pocket knife somewhere in the room...lol.
This was with my siblings and in retrospect it was probably a bit too difficult
TEMPLEWORKER · 6 points · Posted at 16:33:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was about to add that it turned into this... Are you sure you're not one of my friends? Rope got too expensive for my dad. We always preferred it but would improvise where needed. We ended up hiding the pocket knife and the only rule was you could not secure the chair to anything (like a bed or door or anything). The captee had to be able to move around to find the pocket knife.
BTDubbzzz · 3 points · Posted at 16:34:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wish. I basically tried to do this with my siblings but they were all too young and gave up. Plus I was the only one who knew how to undo zip ties with the knife so it wasn’t exactly fair. Never got to truly play the game, just thought it up lol
Edit: we TRIED to play but it never lasted long because either they couldn’t get out or they sucked at tying me up haha
upsdidnotmeanto · 11 points · Posted at 16:05:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played something similar except we tied the person to a tree. One time we roped someone up and put them in a sleeping bag outside on the porch in the burning heat. I think he almost died. We grew up in a small village and had a couple barn and old sheds to roam around. Super fun.
Jollysatyr201 · 4 points · Posted at 15:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did almost this exact same thing.
Myatcha18 · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play the same game but we'd lock the finder in a shed (which was pretty easy to open from the inside even when locked) and the others would go hide in the garden. I remember we used the thread from a broken kite to tie someone to the chair. It really was fun
HeathenMama541 · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m going to play this with my kids, but with the new laser tag guns we just got for my youngest boys bday yesterday.
TEMPLEWORKER · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking back it was a really fun game and good time. I'm going to play with my kids too
hounds-toothy · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For my brother and I the game was in how well we typed the other person up. I would use blankets, rope, chairs, closets, bins, and more to trap him and he would see how quickly he could escape.
I was always annoyed though because he rarely gave me a turn to be trapped lol.
iLolo · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Until you get that one boy scout friend who knows how to tie you up so well that you can never get back up. Or that one weird Uncle who's really good with ropes.
PeanutButterSoda · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I tied my cousin to a pole with rope and put knives and scissors around him, just slightly out of reach. He managed to get out without using them. So if he ever becomes a magician, that's on me.
stabliu · 1 points · Posted at 01:50:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
the word you're looking for is captive
jjackson25 · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did hide and seek on a couple acres. We started out playing, whoever was it would just count. Then we got trick handcuffs somewhere. It only escalated from there. By the end whoever was it would get cuffed, blindfolded, wrapped in rope then put into the hammock on the front porch which was then laced up with more rope. At that point, there wasn't much point in counting.
We would also play Marco Polo in my pool. Silent. At night. With the lights out. Which eventually turned into everybody sneaking out of the pool leaving one person outside by himself.
slawre89 · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s like kids playing John Wick sort of
SirRogers · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm just imagining someone overhearing that out of context
"How'd you get that bruise?"
"From my brother. I locked him in a room tied to a chair and when he got out he tried to kill me haha"
Grade36_Bureaucrat · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too except we tied one of us to the vacuum with the cord and shut them in the closet! The escapee would then seek those hiding. (no nerf gun though) The game stopped when my grandmother found my youngest cousin tied up with the vacuum cord in the closet. Bummer.
Kranenborg · 1 points · Posted at 13:46:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did something similar too but if me or my siblings was napping/reading in our own bedroom the other siblings would use jump ropes to tie the door knobs shut with the other door jobs in the hallway. Essentially locking your sibling in their own room until they screamed loud enough to notify our parents downstairs. Lots of fun.
Craftingjunk · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we did something similar to this, but instead of a nerf gun it was a glock, and instead of a game it was real life
ceristo · 1794 points · Posted at 15:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Someone else on this thread was talking about how they used to play "witches". I think this is a more historically accurate version of that game.
Doublethink101 · 631 points · Posted at 15:13:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s cheating if you only weigh as much as a duck though.
Grokent · 21 points · Posted at 15:30:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's what the lawn chair is for.
JestinMask · 31 points · Posted at 16:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But is the lawn chair made of wood? Because wood also floats. So proceeding in the ways of science, that means the lawn chair also weighs the same amount as a duck.
mars_needs_socks · 22 points · Posted at 16:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I shall fetch my largest scales!
TheBames · 6 points · Posted at 18:25:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
She turned me into a newt!
ShittyDBZGuitarRiffs · 4 points · Posted at 18:47:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A newt?
callmeshamelesss · 5 points · Posted at 19:20:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It got better...
Nibodhika · 5 points · Posted at 18:39:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Obviously, because then you would be made of wood.
Efpophis · 2 points · Posted at 18:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's a fair cop.
FettyWhopper · 256 points · Posted at 15:16:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If she weighs the same as a duck, then she’s made of wood and therefore...
sumguysr · 143 points · Posted at 15:20:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A witch! She's a witch!
FettyWhopper · 54 points · Posted at 15:20:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BURN HER!!!
LegendofKirstenx · 16 points · Posted at 16:16:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
She turned me into a newt!
LiquidSoapEnthusiast · 18 points · Posted at 16:31:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A newt?!
gflame2-0 · 22 points · Posted at 16:34:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I got better...
espacito · 5 points · Posted at 19:01:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedmontypython
xTheMaster99x · 3 points · Posted at 22:15:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This whole thread is Monty Python. This is r/expectedmontypython.
sehtownguy · 9 points · Posted at 15:42:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's a fair cop
StripRip · 5 points · Posted at 17:14:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Can't argue with that one"
Hingl_McCringleberry · 5 points · Posted at 15:53:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
*very small rocks
LiquidSoapEnthusiast · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
*churches
Blorper234 · 2 points · Posted at 23:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A WITCH!
DwightAllRight · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me lol.
whyisthis_soHard · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You’re definitely a witch if your get out.
copper8061 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Witch in the well?
spartan12309 · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underrated comment
PerfectChaos33 · 1531 points · Posted at 15:04:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to put floaties on my feet in an attempt to walk on water. Always ended up with my feet on the surface while the rest of me struggled under water to get air. I liked the struggle tho
ranma1_5 · 1086 points · Posted at 15:19:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another sub is born
polak2017 · 48 points · Posted at 16:03:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/ilikedthestruggletho
EcstaticStrings · 104 points · Posted at 16:17:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think you may be misinterpreting the meaning of the term "sub" in the previous comment.
polak2017 · 44 points · Posted at 16:22:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm just joking around. I enjoy a little dominance myself.
SmeldaLegedofStink · 26 points · Posted at 18:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why hello there
Neros31 · 22 points · Posted at 18:24:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
General KeNObi
tompj99 · 11 points · Posted at 19:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are an italic one
paullyfitz · 7 points · Posted at 21:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ooh, new game! The word italics looks/sounds sort of like “Italian”, so anytime you see something written in italics you have to read it aloud Witta dee baaad Eeetalian accacente. Don’t even need any friends to play that game, and you won’t risk making any.
lemonlimerain · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
sounds like something I'd actually do tbh
polak2017 · 3 points · Posted at 20:18:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are a bound one!
dreadmontonnnnn · 3 points · Posted at 00:23:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It being both would work perfectly in this sense.
80Eight · 18 points · Posted at 17:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sub exists, it's just got a more ... to-the-point name
ShamelessKinkySub · 14 points · Posted at 16:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
wipes tear
MagicPoweredRobot · 3 points · Posted at 03:07:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know what you meant, but for a second I thought “Submarine.”
ALL_THE_WEIGHTS · 812 points · Posted at 15:15:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like this may have awoken something in you
ShamelessKinkySub · 52 points · Posted at 16:19:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For sure it did
poplarleaves · 30 points · Posted at 16:30:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Username checks out
Koog330 · 495 points · Posted at 15:18:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You were into BDSM before you even knew it.
sightlab · 55 points · Posted at 16:50:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend Justin and I liked to play cowboys and Indians when we were ~7ish, and we both REALLY liked being the tied up cowboy. "ok now do stuff to me!" It's worth noting that Justin and I are now both very gay dudes in our 40s. Not together, just both gay.
spinach4 · 17 points · Posted at 19:19:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But do you like getting tied up is the question
sightlab · 13 points · Posted at 21:17:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep. And we were talking a few years ago and it came up that he did too. “Gosh we were dreadful pervy little shits” now we’re dreadful pervy adults. What can ya do?
spinach4 · 3 points · Posted at 23:53:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice. I'm a young gay guy who likes getting tied up so that's cool lol
sightlab · 3 points · Posted at 02:37:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
ampersand38 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bound Drowning Struggle Memories
Yawehg · 86 points · Posted at 15:15:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
breath play
fists_of_curry · 19 points · Posted at 16:04:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
shit i did this too.... did you also try and "surf" a paddle board under water? you could balance for a sec and then it'd just slip out from under you?
PerfectChaos33 · 6 points · Posted at 16:38:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yuppp
nater255 · 16 points · Posted at 16:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is how fetishes are born.
mealzer · 11 points · Posted at 16:06:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing except I only did it once because I'm an idiot not a lunatic
rainbow_dduk · 9 points · Posted at 16:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would cross our ankles and flop around pretending to be mermaids. Also pretend to drown and one of us would be rescue lifeguard. At the beach I would flop around the waves crashing at the end of the day and also pretend like I was drowning while the waves beat me. Thought it was super fun. I have a princess complex if you can’t tell.
Emil120513 · 6 points · Posted at 16:32:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahaha floaties became illegal in my country for this exact reason - even with proper use, apparently kids can get stuck below the water with the floaties holding them in place.
theBeardedHermit · 6 points · Posted at 16:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of one of my favorites. I would curl up in a ball, then stick out my arms and swing them in circles so it made me do a bunch of flips underwater really fast. Then I'd stop and try to stand up quickly, usually I would still be upside down, so my legs would just shoot out of the water and then pull me over while I struggled to figure out which way was up.
It was great.
sometimesiamdead · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha my siblings and I did the same.
st1tchy · 4 points · Posted at 15:59:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to put our life vests on like diapers and jump into the pond.
luke_in_the_sky · 3 points · Posted at 18:59:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to swim with the pool cover almost closed. I almost died several times.
rvbrindle · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love doing this! And would have exactly the same end result! The game was quickly brought to an end when I miss balanced straight out of the gate and smacked my head on the edge of the pool
CastOfKillers · 12577 points · Posted at 14:23:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Jesus Christ this is so dumb and something my brothers and I would have totally done.
Edit: Neat, First silver! Thanks faceless stranger.
Edit 2: AND first gold? Aw shucks!
karmagod13000 · 7829 points · Posted at 14:45:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
haha drew lost.... just look at that loser down there points to the bottom of the pool
TortleTurtle · 6156 points · Posted at 15:22:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Elon starts laughing
Edit: thanks for my first gold!
tnuclatot · 272 points · Posted at 16:00:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait is that a real kid?
llamaAPI · 113 points · Posted at 16:53:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
laughs even harder
deliciousdave33 · 39 points · Posted at 16:22:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon musk did a meme review for pewdipie and there was a deer at the bottom of a pool and he laughed
Kickinthegonads · 57 points · Posted at 16:30:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, I just assumed he killed his kid brother.
TheKingElessar · 19 points · Posted at 16:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait, that's what that's from?! Or, in the words of Elon Musk, THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?! Why didn't I hear about it!
naliuj2525 · 14 points · Posted at 17:50:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think the vid was titled "Will Smith hosts meme review" or something
ElonMuskPaddleBoard · 5 points · Posted at 20:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes it did
falconbox · 10 points · Posted at 17:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What is a "meme review"?
deliciousdave33 · 14 points · Posted at 18:04:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A type of video that pewdipie does where he looks at memes and rates them. Mostly to kill them off. It's so stupid to explain it but the videos are pretty funny
EsQuiteMexican · -2 points · Posted at 16:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Musk
Karatespencer · 2 points · Posted at 18:36:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(Wait is that a real deer) r/woooosh
niceslay · 960 points · Posted at 15:49:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
laughs in Elon
[deleted] · 307 points · Posted at 16:02:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon reviews this meme and give it a 6 out of 10 for effort.
ArmandoPayne · 26 points · Posted at 16:44:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon doesn't like how it's a 6 and not a 10, proceeds to go on Twitter and call random people Paedophiles
CastOfKillers · 12 points · Posted at 16:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon screams out hair plugs
Nadul · 3 points · Posted at 17:55:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
7.8/10 Too much water.
Jparaly · 64 points · Posted at 16:03:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elonic laughter continues
Sgt_Spud · 16 points · Posted at 16:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
elonious joy
grey-net · 8 points · Posted at 16:15:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon laughs so hard he falls in and drowns
PETA: Elon Musk is making fun of suicide!
0_o
semi14 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ha ha ha
amntrashu · 29 points · Posted at 16:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why My dolphin not working lol
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 16:05:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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KnottyMaple · 40 points · Posted at 16:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon hosted meme review go to 18:57 for this part specifically
falconbox · 7 points · Posted at 17:56:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
idk what meme review is, but alright.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:20:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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matroxman11 · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Username relevant
starlordcahill · 27 points · Posted at 16:16:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon hosted Meme Review 👏👏 on Pewdiepie (YouTube Channel) at the end of a video titled “Will Smith Hosts Meme Review” or something like that.
Anyway, Elon Musk reviewed a photo of a deer drowned in a pool titled “my dolphin broke” or something similar, and laughed the shit off of it. I loved his reaction tbh and everyone is memeing it if they know about it.
I recommend you subscribe to Pewdiepie on YouTube and help us 9 year olds out with a war against T-series.
MiDenn · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow 9 year olds are articulating their replies really well nowadays
Shanack · 14 points · Posted at 16:15:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wait that actually happened?" Laughs Harder
Alexwentworth · 11 points · Posted at 16:03:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is this one real? Really?? Oh wow...
Lord_corgi · 5 points · Posted at 16:07:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait is this real?
PM_ME_UR_TITS_ · 5 points · Posted at 16:03:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
haha drew is a dolphin
ParallelGalaxiies · 12 points · Posted at 15:41:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would give u/TortleTurtle and u/karmagod13000 gold, but I’m too broke. Here is emoji gold instead. 🏅🏅🏅
The_Funky_Pigeon · 15 points · Posted at 16:01:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got you.
karmagod13000 · 3 points · Posted at 16:08:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
true mvp
The_Nipple_Tickler · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in his submarine
oofin_boppin · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess his brother is a deer. confirmed.
shuipz94 · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh deer
anortef · 2 points · Posted at 22:24:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have been sent to the couch to sleep thanks to not being able to stop laughing and waking my gf.
Take your gold.
TortleTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you!
NightSkye0174 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hey guys, my dolphin stopped working!”
Im_not_Jordan · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha!
charlielbell · 392 points · Posted at 15:30:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drew couldn’t get out of the chair, making him tonight’s loser
SiliconGuy12 · 6 points · Posted at 17:01:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/TonightsBigLoser
ParallelGalaxiies · 9 points · Posted at 15:41:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tonight’s Biggest loser*
Paincer · 19 points · Posted at 16:45:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it's big loser. have none of you ever seen the show
ArcAngel071 · 6 points · Posted at 17:00:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Together they're all the big loser.
droidBoy5 · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you're talking about Drew Carey yea you're true
PoiLethe · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stupid dolphin
ParallelGalaxiies · 6 points · Posted at 15:37:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahahahahahaha Look! Alex lost! we should... probably get him out of the pool now?
MandingoPants · 3 points · Posted at 17:10:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did somebody draw balls on his forehead?
That was before we knew he was dead.
We just thought he was wicked hangover.
IN YOUR FACE, Drew, in your face forever.
Tru-Queer · 2 points · Posted at 22:40:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You and I posted the same comment but yours was more accurate. Have my upvote.
MandingoPants · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am just happy we shared that same thought! (And love for Bojack, of course)
fwilliams13 · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well! At least we know he’s not a witch !
Hedgehogsm8 · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
elon musk intensifies
MLG_reddit_pro · 2 points · Posted at 18:44:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“There’s comfort at the bottom of a swimming pool” r/thefrontbottoms
the_honest_liar · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Relevant comic: http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=79
karmagod13000 · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
thats awesome
SovietMario_ · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's my name no one else is allowed to have that name wtf bro
Tru-Queer · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you draw penises on dad’s face?!?
“Yeah, but that was before we realized he’d passed. In your face, Dad! In your face forever...”
mquon775 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drew didn't follow through making him tonight's big loser!
omart3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe next time.
Oceabys · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HA HA. Wait did that actually happen? hahahaha wait did that actually happen!?
itsmeduhdoi · 1586 points · Posted at 14:43:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
forreal this sounds like so much fun to my 10 year old brain, but terrifying to my 30 year old brain that knows its about to have a child to take care of
GandalfTheHerbal · 165 points · Posted at 15:26:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Congrats!
itsmeduhdoi · 40 points · Posted at 15:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
:-D thanks!!
tthemediator · 11 points · Posted at 15:58:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a random internet person, I wish you the best!
itsmeduhdoi · 5 points · Posted at 15:59:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks! reddit's being pretty kind to me today!
Mr_Fact_Check · 5 points · Posted at 16:06:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Much of Reddit is of the opinion that kids are dumb, but wonderful. As a father myself, I agree. I hope your child is more wonderful than dumb.
itsmeduhdoi · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hahaha we can always hope!
jrabieh · 7 points · Posted at 16:21:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Plot twist, OP is planning to abduct a child
TOV_VOT · 3 points · Posted at 16:36:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
*commiserations
alexandercecil · 15 points · Posted at 16:00:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 40-year-old brain totally worried about my kids, but first thought about how much damage the chair could do to the pool liner and how much that costs to fix.
itsmeduhdoi · 5 points · Posted at 17:22:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
never owned a pool and never want to for the very reason of knowing that i would have concerns like this
grubas · 4 points · Posted at 04:49:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is exactly what 8 year old me would do. And 18 year old me would do drunk, and 28 year old me would beat my ass for thinking it.
Xarama · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just lock up the lawn chairs.
... Oh wait
Need_More_Whiskey · 2 points · Posted at 23:34:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think the game will take care of the child tbh.
itsmeduhdoi · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ouch
SafetyX · 6 points · Posted at 15:29:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Congrats!!
itsmeduhdoi · 2 points · Posted at 15:37:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you!!
ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this sounds like a ton of fun, i wish there was safe way to do this at 30+. what about replacing the water with a ball pit and a safeword?
seeking_hope · 1 points · Posted at 03:08:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Safety divers and scuba tanks?
Amir1205 · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not if you're better at the game
DryRiver345 · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Congrats!!!
itsmeduhdoi · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
haha thanks!!
poopellar · 1109 points · Posted at 14:41:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
catch22milo · 398 points · Posted at 15:00:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As long as they stay away from the drain at the bottom they're gonna be okay.
Flooberjibby · 179 points · Posted at 15:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For those who don’t know: https://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts
You’re welcome 😁
pantzareoptional · 35 points · Posted at 15:24:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my most favorite fucked up things in the world is this story. In fact, the whole book Haunted had me outwardly cringing for most of it. 10/10, have read again and again.
theBeardedHermit · 32 points · Posted at 16:15:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 9th grade English teacher suggested this to me because she saw me reading Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I went back to her class confused as to why a teacher would be allowed to suggest such a thing.
ArchiMarK · 25 points · Posted at 15:38:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Welp, that's a thing I've read now. Fucking hell...
Wingedwing · 39 points · Posted at 15:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember this classic from my childhood
catsinsweats · 15 points · Posted at 15:26:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well that was horrifying...
elephanturd · 11 points · Posted at 15:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've never read anything that made me feel so sick to my stomach before. I had to stop at the wax part.
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elephanturd · 6 points · Posted at 16:48:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Actually I went back and read the rest of it.
It took about a while though because I had to take a 10 minute break in between each sentence from that point.
MotherOfGoose · 5 points · Posted at 16:49:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man. It gets way worse.
elephanturd · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is it a true story?
MotherOfGoose · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Supposedly,
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2004/mar/24/fiction.chuckpalahniuk
-little-spoon- · 8 points · Posted at 16:29:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought this was an it’s always sunny in philadelphia reference but that was horrifying.
bonzaibooty · 7 points · Posted at 16:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Absolutely not
GelasianDyarchy · 6 points · Posted at 15:55:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah, 2012 reddit memes.
taitaofgallala · 5 points · Posted at 15:59:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah definitely read Haunted, great work. I love how he talks about people getting sick at his live readings and people fainting and gagging trying to compliment him on his work.
Live-Love-Lie · 3 points · Posted at 15:38:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought it was delta p
Gimcrackery · 3 points · Posted at 17:04:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Such an uncomfortable but riveting read... He's an incredible fucking writer.
Orangebeardo · 5 points · Posted at 16:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wtf? How can one possibly hold their breath for that essay? It would take me like 5-10 minutes to read, and I'm not a slow reader.
Orangebeardo · 2 points · Posted at 16:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the experiment. Set a stopwatch and started reading. I got to about 3/4 of the story at 7:45 before I had to stop because fuck thats disgusting.
Chandragupta · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my entire day is now cleared, thank you
jordanfromjordan · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
so is this story fake or what?
flamedarkfire · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There seems to be no mention of it in any of his bios, and in fact he apparently lived in a mobile home in his school years, which can preclude his family from having a pool.
dolphin_menace · 3 points · Posted at 22:53:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's true, just happened to a guy he met, not him.
Ajpeterson · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy fuck
NeverBeenStung · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure that was the hole in the side of the pool for water circulation, not the drain at the bottom.
Grolschisgood · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wish someone had given me a warning to not read that
gamblingman2 · 3 points · Posted at 19:46:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
....you shouldn't read that.
It's nasty.
LeaveTheMatrix · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now that is some fucked up shit.
I like it.
theycallusgoyim2 · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:24 on March 19, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuuuuccckkkk. I was not ready.
-eriksthename · 12 points · Posted at 15:44:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do not put your butt on the drain.
LameName95 · 5 points · Posted at 21:07:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks, Mac.
IWantToBeTheBoshy · 3 points · Posted at 00:36:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
She chewed through her prolapsed anus to survive!
JohanDoughnut · 3 points · Posted at 16:14:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just started reading this last night. Holy lord.
XGX787 · 3 points · Posted at 22:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fun fact regulations in most places (iirc) requires a fix to this, most commonly a long grated drain so that one person can’t cover it all, or two drains far enough apart that one person can’t reach both.
Less fun fact: you can be eviscerated by a pool drain.
therealindigomontoya · 5 points · Posted at 15:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guts
IronBabyFists · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A man of good taste, I see.
Rock2MyBeat · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/chairsunderwater
BAG1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG of course this is a sub. (Thank you for opening my eyes!)
[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 15:13:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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hydrospanner · 9 points · Posted at 15:48:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I guess kids are just that fucking stupid.
[deleted] · -4 points · Posted at 15:54:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Therandomfox · 3 points · Posted at 16:05:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At least adults don't completely lack a self-preservation instinct.
Mostly.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:07:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Therandomfox · -1 points · Posted at 16:15:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hmm... yeah you're not wrong.
hydrospanner · 2 points · Posted at 16:04:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kids being stupid doesn't imply that adults aren't. Nor vice versa.
I don't see where you're getting the idea that your point here is significant in any way in regard to the premise of kids being stupid.
It's like someone saying "buffalo wings are spicy" and here you come all "tacos are spicy too! Have you never had a taco?!"
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 16:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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hydrospanner · 4 points · Posted at 16:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think you're just too thin skinned and trying to make a big deal out of something that just isn't.
theBeardedHermit · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"attack" yeah...that's what's happening.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:56:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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theBeardedHermit · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One, it's not hatred, it's honesty.
Two, nobody has "attacked" you. At all. Your votes are even positive for this whole thread.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 17:24:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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theBeardedHermit · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, now you've gone negative. When I made the comment you had 26 upvotes on one and at least 8 on the others.
You poor thing.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 18:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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theBeardedHermit · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you say so. Have fun with your pity party.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 19:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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theBeardedHermit · 3 points · Posted at 21:39:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, definitely me bringing it up. /s
I was initially just pointing out that you're wrong. Now I'm laughing at your obvious frustration at people disagreeing with you.
Not_fbi_i_swear · 11 points · Posted at 15:41:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't participate, but my buddies and I in middle school would go to a friend's house that had a pool, and they would pour gasoline into the pool and set the surface of it on fire, then try to swim below it pretending they were survivors of a shipwreck or Nazi bombing or submarine explosion
CastOfKillers · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing like coming to the surface and breathing in flames!
i_always_give_karma · 11 points · Posted at 15:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother was the wild one. Two things I know he did was pour gas on a skateboard, lit it on fire, and then free to kickflip the flaming board; and put a blindfold on and bombed our neighborhood hill with a blindfold on into a busy street.
I don’t know how he bombed the hill with a blindfold on. I fell while bombing that hill and you could see the bone in my elbow. I slid 10 feet on pavement and even farther on grass
CastOfKillers · 2 points · Posted at 16:53:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Life's short, stunt it.
hilfigertout · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/meatcrayon
i_always_give_karma · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s a no from me dog
whatshisfaceboy · 5 points · Posted at 16:56:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I set up out trampoline next to our large oak tree... It had a nice little wood planks ladder you could climb up. This gave us the perfect angle to bounce off it into the pool, which was the game. 'Can you make it through the framework for the screens and into the pool?'
It came to an abrupt end when one of us (me) did not make it.
Spartan2470 · 4 points · Posted at 16:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just an FYI (and because you deserve to know), the account you responded to just copied and pasted part of this person's comment.
CastOfKillers · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Classic...
low_kix · 6 points · Posted at 15:51:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Were your brothers Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Devon Sawa?
CastOfKillers · 3 points · Posted at 16:54:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
No, they're not nearly that 90's hot... Or short...
cartmancakes · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I climbed onto the roof and were going to jump into the pool, but decided it was a bad idea because that was the shallow end. It wasn't a bad idea that it was kind of far away and we might not make it and the steps are right there. No, the shallow end is what made us change our minds.
hughejam · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I tried to swing across the monkey bars on a jump rope but I couldn't hold on so I tied the other end around my neck. Was about to swing when my mom came flying outside lol.
CastOfKillers · 2 points · Posted at 19:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God damn kids! I wrapped the chord from the blinds around my neck and charged at my brothers until I got snapped back. I did this over and over until my dad came to see what all the commotion was about. I did not understand his reaction at all.
christorino · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If we had a pool we would be done the same
KHeaney · 2 points · Posted at 09:59:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Makes me think of my husband and the game he and his brother used to play.
Step One: Put on hard hats
Step Two: Find bricks
Step Three: Throw bricks into the air and try to hit the other's hard hat with them.
They're so lucky that they were made to stop that game before one of them killed the other.
undercoversinner · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's true. /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid alright.
oofin_boppin · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my little brother has done this before.
temisola1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Username totally checks out
cited · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We put beanbag chairs at the bottom of stairs and jumped off the 2nd floor of the house onto them in the basement. Daily. Somehow we never got hurt.
dishie · 1 points · Posted at 14:23:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not too late, buddy.
Bribase · 125 points · Posted at 14:49:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pool Party '66
ListenAndF0rgive · 43 points · Posted at 15:08:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hmm something about this comment feels so... sinister...
FreshShades · 24 points · Posted at 16:15:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You're thinking of Backyard Bbq '98
CrispyHexagon · 4 points · Posted at 20:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hell in a Cell 1998
Bribase · 1 points · Posted at 08:55:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shakedown 1979
ilves9 · 280 points · Posted at 14:43:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I hate myself...first question that popped into my mind was "Did you win?"
Asmor · 152 points · Posted at 15:08:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, he survived. :(
microwavedpasta · 4 points · Posted at 16:51:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
F
jjabi · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/meirl
ProkofievProkofiev2 · 54 points · Posted at 15:06:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"What did it cost?"
Shakwon19 · 54 points · Posted at 15:07:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everything
UncleJessica · 8 points · Posted at 16:08:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mom's lawn chairs
dailey-cyanide-dose · -4 points · Posted at 15:14:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/UnexpectedThanos
UrgotMilk · 4 points · Posted at 15:24:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"When you play the game of Lawn Chairs, you either win, or you die."
ChanceTheRocketcar · 2 points · Posted at 16:38:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They could have been rescued after they failed and passed out.
got_mule · 41 points · Posted at 15:19:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I inadvertently did something very similar once with a bunch of friends. One friend is the rich kid of the bunch, and we are hanging at his parent's lake house. His parents are gone for the day, we are just swimming around in the lake for most of the afternoon.
We get it in our heads that one of us should put on every single life jacket that we have and then jump in the water. Think something similar to the dude wearing the multiple tuba parts that circulates on Reddit as "armor", but instead of tuba parts, it was life jackets.
I must have had on about 10-12 of them, all over my arms, shoulders, and legs.
Not only was this just a generally dumb idea in the sense that it doesn't really seem to be funny AT ALL looking back, we had put a much larger portion of the many life jackets on my legs and lower half, rather than my arms and shoulders.
This meant that when I jumped into the water, my head was what went under, as my legs floated more than my upper body. So I'm flailing around, trying desperately to take off some of the vests that just won't come off because I can barely move anyway. Luckily my friends were able to get some of them off me and turn me over long enough to push me back to land.
TL;DR: Too many life jackets will make you drown.
AvatarofSleep · 16 points · Posted at 15:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh Lord, this reminded me of a girl I played with in elementary school who would love to be tied up with jump ropes and try to escape. We did this for a while before one day I got bored, tied her up, and ran away (she still escaped, don't worry).
I wonder what she's up to these days
Brawldragon · 10 points · Posted at 16:33:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kinky
ClearSights · 4 points · Posted at 17:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Getting tied up to bedposts
Oikeus_niilo · 12 points · Posted at 16:04:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 1930's Finland, My grandfather as a kid would play a special kind of tag with his friends in the forest. Everyone would climb into trees, except for one person, and that person had an axe. They would try to jump into another tree before the person with the axe could chop down their tree.
Photon_Torpedophile · 9 points · Posted at 15:50:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you get the idea from Wild America?
Jingl3s · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My thoughts exactly!
NarcissisticNihilism · 8 points · Posted at 15:25:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the kind of shit they do in spec ops training.
Kaizenno · 7 points · Posted at 15:28:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never took it to the tying arms and legs to the chairs but we definitely had underwater tea time complete with a lawn table.
sprcow · 7 points · Posted at 15:23:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god, this reminds me of my cousin and I leaping off the top of furniture in our basement onto an old bed mattress on the cement floor. We'd take turns jumping off and then push the mattress slightly farther away and repeat. What could possibly go wrong?
doyouevenIift · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had my 7 year old cousin jumping off an entire flight of stairs into a few couch cushions. I was 13 and was trusted to watch this kid even though I was a terrible role model lol. He had so much fun though
thestoveistoasty · 6 points · Posted at 17:09:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends grandpa taught us this game called "tie up". Basically, cops and robbers but once you caught the robbers you'd tie them up to whatever nearby object you could find. Trees, docks, sheds, etc. and you'd basically have to houdini yourself out of the rope or be stuck all day/night until mom started asking questions. Probably not smart considering the frequent bear sightings in the woods. And wheelbarrows maybe weren't the best thing to tie someone into then push down a steep slope. Probably why I'm not into that whole bondage thing to be honest.
SunnyCarol · 11 points · Posted at 15:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Natural selection I guess.
BobbyRGF16 · 11 points · Posted at 15:44:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedwildamerica
low_kix · 7 points · Posted at 15:50:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had to scroll so far for this! I used to love that movie, but I guess most Redditors haven't seen it.
BobbyRGF16 · 3 points · Posted at 17:20:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was such a great movie! At least when I was growing up. Watched it not too long ago and it was way cornier than I remembered, but still gave me some great nostalgia!
low_kix · 3 points · Posted at 17:32:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Like when they sing to wild bears at the end and put them to sleep 😂
BobbyRGF16 · 3 points · Posted at 17:40:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha ya and the fart punchline at the end of the song. God that was bad. Or the kid who could fly and land a plane with nothing but some book knowledge. Whatever! It was still awesome
witherspork · 2 points · Posted at 15:59:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok cool. I was wondering where I had seen this scenario before and you guys helped. Thanks
McDeJ · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was looking for a Wild America reference!
danielstover · 36 points · Posted at 14:42:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Someone had some absentee parents!
jerichojerry · 23 points · Posted at 15:21:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before basically 2001 no parents did the modern thing of following around children above the age of maybe 4. After I finished my homework I didn't see my parents until sunset. This was common.
Serinus · 5 points · Posted at 16:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bus stop is especially weird. Now they'll be a line of parents sitting in cars at the stop until the bus gets there.
Before 2000 or so there were never any parents at the bus stop. You'd walk there and wait just with the other kids.
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Serinus · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happens in summer too. Plus, you know, back in MY day...
danielstover · 7 points · Posted at 15:22:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, I was born in 1988 - Funny enough, my Mom ran a Day-care for YEARS, but around the age of 10 she stopped. I guess she was kind of worn out watching so many kids for so long. I got away with QUITE a lot after that.
BonkeyKongCountry · 0 points · Posted at 19:27:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
salasard5 · 4 points · Posted at 15:34:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jesus how did yall survive it
tydie_n_shit · 6 points · Posted at 15:52:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother did this with duct tape lol.
You bent down and the other person would wrap your wrists and ankles together and push you in. You would give them about 30 seconds to free themselves before jumping in and pulling them up. Good times
Lemightyman · 5 points · Posted at 15:55:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So, Houdini, what are you upto these days?
Here_Come_the_Tacos · 4 points · Posted at 16:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
music from "Sinister" cues up in background
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 15:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to a play blanket caterpillar hide and seek. The amount of time everyone had to hide was however long it took you to wriggle free of a blanket cocoon constructed by the hiders. Nearly suffocated one time but honestly so much fun.
swarley_scherbatsky · 3 points · Posted at 16:16:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just had an instant panic attack reading that.
DonMendelo · 6 points · Posted at 15:09:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I once decided to dismount the stairs in very big luggages (like for long trips). I was so glad to be the designated volunteer and sat in the case with a pillow to protect from shocks. Big brothers proceeded to close the case at the top of the stairs and give it the pinch it needed so gravity could do the rest. Much fun. Nanny wasn’t happy about it
MarKaisla · 2 points · Posted at 15:31:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used laundry baskets!
howarthee · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers used sleeping bags. They tried cardboard surfing, too, but they couldn't do it.
RyanKretschmer · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I did the same thing but with weights that way you'd sink quick to the bottom. Fun game.
bigpandamonium · 3 points · Posted at 15:38:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin, little brother, and I would put blankets over our heads and jump off from the top of the bunk bed. We stopped after my cousin jumped backwards with a sheet over her head and hurt her ankle.
cashmere-plum · 3 points · Posted at 15:39:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
😳😳😳
Awesomecity2 · 3 points · Posted at 15:40:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is probably howTom Cruise trained for the Mission Impossible movies lol
IRuinYourPrompt · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Great Houdrowni
dejus · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of a Hunter S Thompson story. Him and Bill Murray were hanging out and argued about who had the best Houdini impression. So Thompson ties Murray to a chair and threw him into the pool. Luckily he was able to escape.
Manatee_Ape · 3 points · Posted at 16:00:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did something similar. We would get in a tent. And push it from the inside until it fell in the pool. Then we would have to escape.
We called it Titantic.
cardiovascularity · 3 points · Posted at 16:00:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a pool, but that's how I discovered I'm a kinky bastard.
_good_bot_ · 3 points · Posted at 16:00:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We found the Houdini's house
calicali · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did a similar game! Tied each other up in the bathtub and turned on the water. I am often surprised all 4 of us survived childhood but it was a lot of fun.
Grandaddyspookybones · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Were you fans of Wild America by chance?
IntentionalTexan · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play, "escape artist" and tie my little brother up. He always escaped. This kid on our block demanded we give him a turn. We tied him to a lamppost. After about 5 minutes we gave up watching him struggle and left. He spent all afternoon tied to the lamppost. We only found him at sunset. Sorry James.
darkmars · 3 points · Posted at 16:04:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
guave06 · 3 points · Posted at 16:04:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is one of Darwin’s favorite games too!
HanselNeedsSomeSugar · 3 points · Posted at 16:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would practice escaping from kidnappers. We had an unfinished basement and would tie each other up between the wall frames, fully tied up, blind folded and duck tape over the mouth. We’d see who could get out the fasted
I’m very glad we only had those tiny blow up pool so our “drowning” games never went further then sitting on each other for a few seconds :x
swoogi · 3 points · Posted at 16:48:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a lifeguard. My heart just paused for a moment. I know as a kid I might consider that also. But that reminds me of a time. When someone got put on a spinal board and accidentally let go off at the deep end of the pool. Poor guy was strapped in also. Thank God they got him back out quick. Also that was during training. So he just held his breath, in fear.
DifferentThrows · 3 points · Posted at 16:50:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You guys played a fucking man's game, and goddamn do I respect it
AnitaRide · 3 points · Posted at 16:51:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasn't this in wild america?
DoritoEnthusiast · 3 points · Posted at 17:07:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
how sinister
show_me_your_corgi · 5 points · Posted at 15:30:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m 23 and consider myself a grown ass adult and.....strangely enough want to try this. I’ll report back with results
foyeldagain · 2 points · Posted at 17:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'll presume we know the result if you never report back. Good luck!
ccoville · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What is dead may never die
FrostByte62 · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Always thought my parents were dumb for insisting we had supervision as children. Now I know why.
bookworm21765 · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to just tie each other to a fence and leave the tied up person alone. You a next level...
Graham_Cant_Reid · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't believe someone else did this. You aren't my brother are you? We started putting wet towels over our heads because the escape was going too well. Like a waterboarding dunk tank.
Asknicelydammit · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take an empty bucket and take turns putting our heads in it and pushing it to the bottom of the pool to see how cool it is to he able to breathe underwater.
LaurelAndHardyBoyz · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends would duct tape paving stones to his back, sink to the bottom of the pool, and use an air compressor hose to breathe. He'd just swim around down there forever.
monsterlife17 · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Even better if you throw firecrackers at the kid currently drowning
panamaniacs · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would just jump off a roof and try to get furthest from the house...
Sand__Panda · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Isn't this the intro to Gone Wild movie from the late 90s? Good movie btw.
MrSnuffle_ · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ll take that never happened for 600 Alex
flyingmops · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played something similar called "drunk man game" in the pool, we would forcefully bump into each other and hold each other down with force. Amazingly none of us actually drowned. However, I am terrified of plunging my whole head in water to this day!
WorldOwner · 2 points · Posted at 16:28:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you and your two brothers also travel across the US to film animals
e2hawkeye · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, some local teenagers stole a shopping cart and left it in our driveway. That shopping cart became one of my toys. Being fascinated with warplanes, I would use multiple belts to strap myself into the shopping cart "cockpit" and play "bail out of the burning plane".
So many times I tipped the cart over and face planted myself right on the concrete and gave myself bruises on my face. Then I'd do it again a minute later. My mother was horrified that people would think that she beat me.
Crewthief2012 · 2 points · Posted at 16:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our friends and I did something similar. Strangely enough this was our neighborhood pool and the lifeguards were ok with it.
A few years later when Fear Factor was a thing all of us swore we could easily complete the water challenges because of our training.
Godofwine3eb · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Good lord! Drowning? We used to take the bullet out of the casing and replace it with wax and shoot each other. That was dumb! But drowning?! Nope!
ChipperSnipper · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How do you even get out?????
TRTH_Avarice · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you die??
nra4ever4321 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did your brother also throw m80s in the pool while you tried to get out? Every good movie needs explosions
TocasLaFlauta · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the same spirit as bouncing on a trampoline, while tied by one leg to it and trying to dodge sticks thrown at you.
DoctorMcAstronaut · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I started reading that sentence and remembered tying each other up and timing how long it took us to escape. It never occurred to us to up the ante with a possible drowning.
YourAriness · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Are you dead?
pbradley179 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=79
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with 50 gallon garbage bags hah
Greenveins · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to put buckets over our heads and navigate through obstacle courses and If you got to close to a "swatter" they would wack you with sticks, logs, a mini baseball bat, whatever in hand. Idk how none of us walked away concussion free
srkambbs1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same except the pool part. We put duct tape on the mouth. It was our kidnapper game.
BlurJAMD · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters did this to me all the time but with arm floaties on my feet, I think they just wanted me dead though
illhxc9 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm the youngest in my family by 6 years so I was subjected to a lot. One of the games we played that I enjoyed was my siblings would tie me up as best as they could and then I'd escape. I think this started when they just wanted to tie me up so I'd leave them alone but when I escaped it became a challenge. No waterboarding though.
poopnose85 · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend did this same thing! It's kinda scary when you realize the water makes the rope swell up and now those knots are way harder to untie lol
vanekez · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a similar game but instead of furniture we used a bench press bar with all the plates and just kicked it into the pool
LINKWOLF0013 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This basically used to be a class at my alma mater:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownproofing
thisplacesucks- · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How old are you? And how in the hell have you made it that far?
TheWolverine_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Found Houndini's account
fluteitup · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
JESUS FUCK!
digitalkc · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mom and Dad used to take me to the lake all the time when I was younger. Learning to swim was easy. Getting out of the bag was the hard part.
DinoBay · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We only had a river pool to swim in growing up. But we used to pick a heavy rock ( one that could keep us weighed down), then see how far across the bottom of the pool we could walk.
fatdjsin · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Congrats you survived the hunger games!
LameSwift · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What is dead may never die.
little_shirley_beans · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Like in Wild America!! But they also had the added fun of firecrackers being thrown at them lol
cartmancakes · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I once put one of our cats on the raft and pushed it out into the pool. That was fun, and we ended up with lots of scratches.
Kush_And_Cobbler · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This hits close to home. Me and my buddies would lay out a big tarp on the pools surface and then jump onto it. It would wrap around and almost kill us every time
thutruthissomewhere · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds like Navy Seals training.
ooooale · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds bad... Did anyone ever lose?
danielriv2301 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elon Musk wants to know your location
sleepydadding · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TIL Johnny Knoxville's username.
jjpearson · 28919 points · Posted at 13:38:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We were inadvertent LARP'ers. My friend lived on a mini-farm (they had chickens, llamas, and goats) and his mom would make up ziploc bags of monopoly money and hide them all over the place. We would go out and fight imaginary bad guys and find the bags of money so we could upgrade our gear.
I was the cleric so I started with a staff which I upgraded to "silver" (duct tape on the ends) then later to metal (we hammered mountain dew cans as metal end pieces). We made suits of armor out of cardboard boxes which we upgraded similarly.
The best was the road by his house, it was the river, and whenever a car would go by it would represent some Sahags (water monsters) jumping out. So we would come flying out of the bushes and start swinging our home made weapons like crazy people. It was the early 90's in the middle of nowhere.
EDIT: Instead of answering everyone individually, TL:DR We stayed in contact through high school, I went on an epic cross country Amtrak trip when I was 16 with them, we drifted apart for about 15 years before reconnecting on Facebook. I made his mom cry "good tears" when I was able to tell her just how much she meant to me growing up.
Stotakoya · 7543 points · Posted at 14:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds awesome and epic in every aspect.
jjpearson · 6383 points · Posted at 14:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was so amazing. Especially since it was a single mom raising 4 kids and somehow not only did she make it work she provided an amazing experience.
I was crushed when they moved at the start of sixth grade. Definitely, a turning point in my childhood as I never really made friends like that again.
tokomini · 5736 points · Posted at 15:11:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of these days, you'll be leaving a restaurant and waiting to cross the road along with another couple. It'll be a little rainy, with low visibility, so when your date decides to step out into the street you'll say "watch out for the Sahags." But it will echo. The man standing next to you said the same thing to his date.
You'll turn, and he'll be holding a cardboard box shield. He'll look at you like "am I the crazy one?" But you'll smile, and unveil your cleric metal staff. You'll both drop your weapons and embrace each other, as your respective dates get in their respective cabs and instruct their respective drivers to "just go."
snypesalot · 531 points · Posted at 15:17:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But they'll only do that manly half arm grasp, where you squeeze each others elbow, anything more than that sets on a path to the gays /s
Cantalach · 320 points · Posted at 15:23:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naw, full hugs aren't gay when you haven't seen each other since you were twelve. Full hug, then manly wrist clasp then they're off to slay some Sahags!
MrMagoo22 · 82 points · Posted at 15:27:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And then later perhaps some vigorous anal sex.
Cantalach · 71 points · Posted at 15:30:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey, it isn't gay if you got your gear on.
BigWaders · 53 points · Posted at 15:49:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just a little bit of role playing bro
snypesalot · 25 points · Posted at 16:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I get to be Renley this time
28Hz · 3 points · Posted at 17:52:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have Sahags in my anus.
Please slay them.
Please.
Jebime · 2 points · Posted at 23:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Broski*
Sorry had to do it to em.
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 16:06:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Isn't actual sex if it isn't rigorous either.
Kairyuka · 11 points · Posted at 17:46:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Full hugs are never gay my dude
buttery_shame_cave · 8 points · Posted at 16:47:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah a full on tip to tip hug isn't gay if you're childhood best friends.
Hellfire965 · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
But the hug must be manly. You know. That clap eachother on the back kind that would make your armor clang. Along with a manly full bodied laugh. The kind of laugh that says “devil may care I’m going to fight that deamon”
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Cantalach · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't. I used "wrist clasp." I don't know anything about your joint applause.
HubertTempleton · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:23 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
Full hugs are immediately de-gayed by firmly patting each other's backs.
Undecided_User_Name · 7 points · Posted at 17:20:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You mean like the Spartacus arm grab?
seanmcgoldy · 4 points · Posted at 21:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Predator handshake
Zenmachine83 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
An Arnold/carl weathers bicep flex handshake is also acceptable under these circumstances.
elpilote · 14 points · Posted at 15:47:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That gave me goosebumps...
slapmasterslap · 27 points · Posted at 16:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had to check your username halfway through because I was really starting to suspect your post might start talking about The Undertaker in 1998.
neurogasm_ · 9 points · Posted at 19:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same! We’re on to you u/shittymorph.
Except when it really is him I somehow always fail to look at the username :(
thecatdaddysupreme · 11 points · Posted at 17:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shittymorph has made me paranoid because I definitely skipped to the end of this one
PunisherXXV · 9 points · Posted at 15:20:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now kiss
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 15:20:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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osuMousy · 0 points · Posted at 16:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TO
TheRandomGoat · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
PEWDIEPIE
lilynut · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was fantastic!! 👏 👏 👏
wtfunchu · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wasn't prepared to read this.
PM_ME_UR_SCARS_PLS · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is beautiful!
VanessaSoIll · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This should be in a movie.
kungfu_jesus · 6 points · Posted at 21:16:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not quite the plot, but you might enjoy this nonetheless: 'The Reward' by The Animation Workshop
VanessaSoIll · 2 points · Posted at 21:47:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this. Thank you!
mgraunk · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is this a Lifetime original?
johker216 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not with that plot unless we're missing how the two guys were scumbags.
attackonyourmom · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
😂
Wormhog · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You’re adorable.
filth_merchant · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn I could have sworn you were going to go the route of "your date was actually a secret Sahag".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made me weep
Better-be-Gryffindor · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Awww...
Scrybblyr · 1522 points · Posted at 15:06:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" -"Stand By Me"
KingKrypton · 606 points · Posted at 15:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had the opposite experience. In a class of 16 (12 girls, 4 boys) from K-6th grade i felt pretty left out. Met new friends when i was 12 and we've been a squad ever since, we're 27 now and roommates.
Drebnar · 320 points · Posted at 15:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Life is so different for each and one of us. I’m happy for you finding your squad _^
Ay-Dee-AM · 12 points · Posted at 15:42:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“And they were roommates.”
KingKrypton · 14 points · Posted at 15:43:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gahd they were roomates
FQDIS · 8 points · Posted at 15:27:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soon you will all be problematic bachelors.
tabby51260 · 4 points · Posted at 19:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a squad when we were young. Then a lot of bullcrap happened from 3rd-8th grade and we were never the same. My final straw was getting kicked off the lunch table in 8th grade so other people could sit there.
I did meet the person I'd later be best friends with in HS that day though so it kinda worked out. My real squad came together in college. Despite me having graduated, another being in ghana, one finishing up an accounting degree, and another finishing up a teaching degree we all hang out when possible and stay in touch about every day.
KingKrypton · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Everyone finds their people, I'm glad you found yours despite how long it took!
I only had one person who messed around with my ex gf while the 3 of us were living together. Not to mention he was my closest friend out of anyone. The most hetero love I've ever felt for a person, gone in a single night. The rest of my friends proved to be the truest in their support during my hard times
Edit: typo
pursuitofhappy · 9 points · Posted at 15:22:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You met the best friends you ever had when you were 12, movie quote still valid :)
KingKrypton · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fair enough haha :)
ParallelGalaxiies · 4 points · Posted at 15:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Really? I’m a guy and ever since 1st grade, almost all my friends have been girls.
KingKrypton · -1 points · Posted at 15:25:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was dubbed the "gross" one, then one boy was special needs and the other 2 could have been disney channel stars, so they got all the friends who were girls.
Shwifty_Plumbus · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Relevant at the end but the whole thing is worth it.
https://youtu.be/rImxuuD_kwM
BattleStag17 · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's me. Didn't have a damn friend in elementary or middle school, but I've been blessed with some fantastic people since then.
kunk180 · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m with you- I had one friend in elementary school. A different one friend in middle school. And then small group in high school. I’ve stuck with those guys sense. Life has pulled us a part, but whenever we’re together, no time has past. One of them became my wife, and my best friend lives next door to me. The three of us are inseparable.
LuchinBombin · 2 points · Posted at 15:52:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
27 are a lot of friends
mrspoopy_butthole · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well technically that goes along with the quote, since they’re friends you made when you were 12, but your point still stands :)
KingKrypton · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But i still have friends like when i was 12 because they're the same people, quote implies nobody does :)
Either way I'm a lucky sob to have the friends i have
jjpearson · 109 points · Posted at 15:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember reading that book in a library and just sitting there stunned at the end. King might not have good endings to books all the time but holy shit can he capture characters and experiences like no other.
jerrbear85 · 3 points · Posted at 16:21:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I immediately went to Amazon after reading this comment, and the only version they sell is Out Of Print :-(
JustinHopewell · 10 points · Posted at 17:19:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's originally part of a collection of novellas called Different Seasons, so if you were looking for just the book version of Stand By Me (called the Body), that might be why you're having trouble finding it.
Different Seasons also has the book version of Shawshank Redemption, which is probably just as good as the film.
rocketparrotlet · 5 points · Posted at 16:35:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Check your local public library! If they don't have it, you can probably request it on interlibrary loan.
pm_me_ur_tennisballs · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I also highly recommend the movie. It's great.
JustinHopewell · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember how The Body ended, but I remember the end of Stand By Me being pretty great. Then there's also Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption / The Shawshank Redemption, both of which had great endings. The last part of The Running Man (the written story) has an awesome ending too.
Seems like he knows how to end his novellas better than his full novels.
ThreeMoneyAndNoKids · 44 points · Posted at 15:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Say what you will about King, but that guy was at his best when he was writing about kids at transitionary ages.
sthomasf · 7 points · Posted at 15:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
*boys.
He does struggle sometimes with girls and women.
ThreeMoneyAndNoKids · 6 points · Posted at 16:04:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s fair, although I thought he did a good job with Bev in IT.
Alpha_Sluttlefish · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Interesting, can you explain? Bev almost made It hard for me to get through. She didn't act like any human I knew, and mostly seemed like she existed to be idolized and saved by the boys. She "saved" them by fucking them. In a group of misfits and oddballs, she still was treated as the odd one out, and the book acts like that's a good thing
ThreeMoneyAndNoKids · 0 points · Posted at 00:15:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought he did a good job of depicting her home life, namely the abuse from her father. I liked how he did the same in Gerald’s Game.
Granted, I am not a woman and was never traumatized as a child so it’s not like I can say from first hand experience what it is like, but I thought he did a good job showing the struggle and existential crisis children face when their tormentors are their own parents.
Alpha_Sluttlefish · 2 points · Posted at 02:29:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, the abusive home life worked for her character. I was just disappointed that after all that abuse, after the fucked up way her dad sexualized her, it was treated as a good thing that her friends over-sexualized her too. I'm not saying "oh let's pretend boys never sexualize girls" or "the boys should be ashamed of their sexuality," but Bev's big fight-the-evil moment was literally convincing her friends to run a train on her. At like 12. And it wasn't just that scene, she was treated so differently from the rest of the group for the whole book.
ThreeMoneyAndNoKids · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I viewed it differently. It's been a while since I read the book, but my recollection is that King never explicitly stated that she was molested or abused by her father, but it was insinuated (her mother once asks her if he touched her inappropriately, no?).
So the way I took the sewer orgy was that here is this young woman, struggling with the changes in her body, the unwanted attention it's causing from Bowers and her father, and is reclaiming it, basically saying, This is something I control and that can be a thing of beauty and love and togetherness rather than a thing of fear or horror or disgust.
She was saying to IT, You can't scare me with sex anymore. Just like how most of the other characters took what IT used to scare them and claimed ownership of it. This is how Bev did it.
Anyway, there are a number of King stories with a strong woman lead. Off the top of my head, the woman in The Gingerbread Girl and A Good Marriage are strong and determined and overcome their tormentors due to their own guile and cunning and not needing a man to step in and help. But I grant you, most of King's works involving children are focused on boys.
jimmy_d1988 · 5 points · Posted at 15:37:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ill say hes writing his best when hes describing certain nightmarish situations.
ThreeMoneyAndNoKids · 11 points · Posted at 15:43:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Right, like going through puberty.
kiefenator · 5 points · Posted at 16:36:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or pubescent tunnel-orgies.
pbjrunner · 12 points · Posted at 15:41:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when there were twelve. -Jesus."
Scrybblyr · 3 points · Posted at 15:45:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I see what you did there.
Stunnem · 3 points · Posted at 16:14:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underrated comment right there
karnyboy · 10 points · Posted at 15:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You don't know the weight of that comment until you're in your 30's
jacla2 · 5 points · Posted at 15:11:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SO PUMBA PUMBA, STAAAND!
Scrybblyr · 3 points · Posted at 15:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, the movie, not the song. :P
Edit... The movie "Stand By Me"....
jacla2 · 3 points · Posted at 15:17:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
....BYYYY MEEE! OOOH STAAND - oh... the movie.. gotcha
Scrybblyr · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh you. I knew you would obfuscate the movie to mean the Lion King if I didn't clarify!
by me, hmmmmmm stand.. hmm hmm♫
ALL_THE_WEIGHTS · 4 points · Posted at 15:12:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did not plan on feeling these emotions today
Flaming_gerbil · 3 points · Posted at 15:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All through high school I had very few friends, suffered a traumatic experience that messed me up for a long time, then another when I started college, didn't really make friends too well through college (I mean, I had a crew but after college it teetered off).
Didn't really find my swing until I was in my mid 20s, and now all the friends I've made since are really solid with me. I don't see all my friends as often as I'd like, but to my surprise on my last birthday, over 15 friends turned up to a surprise gathering (only 3 live local, 6 live at opposite ends of the country and the other 6 live overseas) which was absolutely amazing.
We went go karting and caught up like no time had passed at all. They stayed for around a week (that was hectic as I had 5 people crashing at my 2 bedroom house!).
Sometimes life starts of shitty and gets better, sometimes people 'peak' earlier in life, but whatever life throws at you, you just gotta enjoy the ride as best you can.
Scrybblyr · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I totally agree. And with so many people with so many different life circumstances, results are certainly going to vary from person to person.
Yellow_Odd_Fellow · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Such a great movie
hodfrx · 2 points · Posted at 15:29:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably the best part of the movie * I know that it’s a book too, please don’t crucify me
headrush46n2 · 2 points · Posted at 17:07:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But in real life the fat kid rarely grows up to marry Rebecca Romjin
Niranth10 · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My bestie moved away as we were entering high school. We wrote letters but those were getting less frequent. When it had been around three months since his letter, I learned of his suicide. I haven’t gotten as close to a friend ever since. That was in the mid 70s. I’m in therapy now and is still torture to me as I talk. I don’t know how my now wife did it five years later.
heavym · 2 points · Posted at 01:48:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What!! I just watched that last night die the first time in 30 years???
Scrybblyr · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I probably haven't seen it in about that long, I totally need to watch it again. Some of King's best work. Well to be fair, some of the best adaptation of his work to film. "The Dead Zone" is one of my all time favorites.
MaryTylerDintyMoore · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or The Sandlot...
yourbrotherrex · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stephen King can cut onions and scare the shit out of you with a single red baloon.
Alej915 · 469 points · Posted at 15:06:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude... My BEST friend moved away when I was in 6th grade and it crushed me beyond explanation. I didn't even get to say goodbye my mother just told me they left. That will stick with me forever. Fast forward 20 years and he's such a douchebag. Also a hard pill to swallow.
wheredmyphonego · 412 points · Posted at 15:25:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend moved from Kansas to Singapore in the middle of 8th grade. We had only been friends since 6th grade, but when we first met, we instantly clicked. I went into a depression after that and a whole myriad of issues popped up subsequently. I can pinpoint that as the turning point. I had less than a week to say my goodbyes to her. We occasionally emailed (pre 2000, btw) but we fell out of touch. We got to reconnect via facebook in our 20s. I saw that she was attending a university in Australia. She got married. I saw her pictures from getting to meet The Backstreet Boys. She was beautiful. Pure. The kindest person I've ever met to this day. She was going to school to become a veterinarian so she could help exotic animals in enclosures, preserves, zoos, etc. She died in a car accident on her way to school one day. 2 car collision. The other driver in the other car died too. A 45 year old man. Her husband contacted me via Facebook and asked me if I would deliver the news to her other friends here in the states. One of the hardest things I've had to do via social media. I still think of her fondly. I've never met anyone like her since. It's not fair.
Alej915 · 31 points · Posted at 15:27:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's terrible. At least the life she had lived was freaking amazing. Damn.
wheredmyphonego · 32 points · Posted at 15:39:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It truly was. Her mother was loving. Her father was badass. Her brother was the cliche "bother" and he grew up to be an amazing person, too. Her and her brother became closer as they got older. He was a few years younger than us. His tribute to her broke my heart. I hadn't realized how close they'd become. Sounded like they were best friends. :(
Luxtaposition · 18 points · Posted at 15:36:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
May her memory be eternal.
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 16:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never know when the bell tolls, only for whom after the fact. That's why its important to do as much good in this life as you can, regardless of crowns received in heaven or karmic debt repaid
slapmasterslap · 11 points · Posted at 16:23:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Terrible day for rain...
My condolences man.
Aynotwoo · 8 points · Posted at 18:41:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your story touched me so much that I literally want to donate to a wildlife preserve or something in her honor. That was beautiful and sad. Poetic really.
wheredmyphonego · 9 points · Posted at 18:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I'm sitting here in tears! She would have loved that. And I'm so very honored that her life and death have moved you to make a positive difference. Thank you for telling me. This warms my heart.
Aynotwoo · 8 points · Posted at 19:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll have to wait til my tax returns come back, but I'm definitely going to! If you wouldn't mind messaging me at least her first name I would love to send you a picture/confirmation or something once I do. Also, any particular organization she was partial to?
Rorroh · 2 points · Posted at 07:13:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh.. that's a story I wish I never needed to know. I'm so, so sorry for your loss. That's a beautiful eulogy.. I think I'm going to have to hug some people I know now
kingrobin · 4 points · Posted at 15:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents moved twice when I was young, just far enough apart to let me really develop some great friends. That, paired with leaving college after my first year, has really inhibited my ability to connect with people.
Alej915 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's never too late to change, it's just extremely uncomfortable. But you never know how much you can surprise yourself. Just gotta find those people you share the things you love and the the things you love to make fun of. Don't give up!
sandthefish · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I choose to believe this about a friend of mine. I moved across the country. Kept in touch every day, then one day she ghosted me. Hvent heard from her in 15 years. I hope shes just a cunt.
lydsbane · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who moved with no warning when I was twelve, and I had no idea where to find her. This was pre-social media. A couple of years ago, I found out that she had never left the county we were in, and she's deeply religious now. It's not a crime to be that way, but given that she used to chastise me for swearing when we were in middle school and now she devotes effort to putting Bible quotes on her FB page, I feel like we wouldn't have had a lasting friendship, anyway.
PoiLethe · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend left me in like 2nd grade. I got a fever that lasted for a week or two right before she was going to leave and I wasnt able to go over to her house like we planned before she moved away. Never had any best or close friends after that. (Small school, everyone already had their circle of friends). Talked to her on Facebook in our 20s and that was it.
bkcr · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What if you were the one person who would have kept him from becoming a prick? His parents messed with his trajectory.
Alej915 · 2 points · Posted at 18:31:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol the pillar of stability I am. His mom married a multi-millionaire, and that will change a person. Often not for the best. Oh well
bitey87 · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I moved away from my friends in 6th grade, didn't know to say goodbye. It was only an hour or two away, I'd see them again on a weekend trip, right? Never made friends like those 3 again. 7 or 8 years later we would connect on Facebook, catch up a little, still haven't seen them.
masturbatrix213 · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar experience but I was the one that moved away from my best friend. I only ever had just a couple friends before my bff. I was incredibly shy (now I’m incredibly shy with a touch of cringing awkwardness). But I met her in 2nd grade and she was new to the neighborhood. She even came over the day they moved in because she saw me playing the day before. “I saw a little girl here yesterday and wanted to know if she can play with me?”. We were besties since then but when we were 13/14 my single mother was no longer able to keep up the big house anymore since everyone had eventually moved out except us two. Obviously in 13 year old me’s mind, thag didn’t matter, and all I could feasibly understand was that I was being taken away from my only real friend (we also had a puppy that was SPECIFICALLY for my sister and I, but he wasn’t allowed at the apartment we eventually moved to so I lost him too). I had to go to a school an hour away from my bff starting 8th grade and that was the toughest time for me. I still never got over it and I’m in my late 20’s now. She and I never reconnected the same way again, and then she became SUPER outgoing and I never saw her outside of a club or bar. This is the only time I ever get to see her is if I drop a bunch of money I don’t have to go to HER favorite bars (nowhere near me ever) or go to some grimy club where the dudes just grab you and pull you wherever they want (HATE IT). She’s gotten so mad at me that I wouldn’t go to every single outing she wanted, and now we only speak to each other through random Facebook comments... I still haven’t accepted the fact that we used to be so in synch, and what we’d be like now if we’d stayed present in each other’s lives all that time, and I can’t accept she’s become all about what she wants to do and what she thinks is fun.
Zanki · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend moved school when I was in year two, so six/seven years old. She was in the year above but we were in the same classes and we were inseparable along with another kid. I remember going to her birthday parties, just going to her house to play, her playing at my house, her mum doing stuff with me my mum would never let me do. Just normal things like having a beef burger at McDonald's. Then it was all over. I begged my mum to let me go with her and she refused. I hated my new school (had moved to that town two years before) and after that, I didn't really have any friends and a few months later I was completely alone. The bullying got completely out of hand without my friend and her older sisters having my back and it never stopped. The only reason it stopped was because I moved away from that town to Uni. One kid from my school went to the same Uni as me and one day had his friends yelling stuff at me. I just remember stopping, looking at him and said, "seriously? Here? Why? I have never done anything to you so why?" Him and his friends stayed away after that but rumors still followed me. I was lucky I had already made friends and even though I was weird from having no friends growing up, they liked me.
When I was in high school, in year 8 (12/13 years old), we merged with another school and she we were back in the same school. One day I was standing with some kids and I saw her. I told them she was my best friend when I was very young. No one believed I was ever friends with her. They ran straight up to her and asked her. She looked at me, smiled, said she was and continued messing around with her friends. She didn't have to do that. She was cool, she was popular and I was so badly bullied I didn't even have a place socially, she could have lied, said no. She could have been mean to me but she wasn't. I hate that my mum refused to let me switch schools with her because my life would have ended up incredibly different. But my mum was an ass hole who never even tried to help stop the crap I was going through and instead blamed me and joined in. It's taken me years to get over the crap I went through growing up. I finally have a good group of friends who I see every week, sometimes multiple times, I play games with some daily, I have boyfriend who is incredibly sweet. It shouldn't have taken me until my late 20s to have these kind of social connections outside of a single relationship I was in as a student until I was 28 (I finally had a good group of friends when I was 25/26).
It's weird when your friends invite you to hang out with their friends. I'm deemed normal enough to introduce to other friends now. I've been making so many friends recently and it's to the point were I'm having a hard time fitting everyone in. I love it! I loved on new years I had to choose between different parties, I love how I can message all my friends to do things and someone will always be free to hang out.
I don't know what happened to my friend or her older sisters. Their mum died of a brain tumor. That woman was amazing and it sucked. She died thinking her husband, who was a PI, was actually a criminal because he was framed for stealing a piece of artwork he was recovering. He was cleared of all charges and so were his staff but that was a crazy thing to happen. It broke their marriage apart. I heard about all this through a secondary source. I think they had to sell their amazing house when all that crap went down.
ParallelGalaxiies · 0 points · Posted at 15:25:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My BEST friend is a girl and she has a crush on me
Alej915 · 3 points · Posted at 15:26:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Plot twist: it's your wife?
LowRune · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh woe, what a coincidence! My best friend is also this dude's wife.
Alej915 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Somewhere M. Night Shyamaylon is having an orgasmic stroke right now
ParallelGalaxiies · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No I'm thirteen... just old enough to be on reddit
Alej915 · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well then you have a goodnight.
Bosmanious · 3 points · Posted at 15:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have you remained in concat or did you never get the opportunity anymore?
jjpearson · 7 points · Posted at 15:18:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mailed back and forth with them for a few years and when I was 16 I went on an epic 2 week vacation with them. I spent a couple days at their place then we took a two week Amtrak trip across the Upper Midwest, through Seattle, down to LA where his father lived and then across to Santa Fe. It was amazing. We're Facebook friends now and we talk sometimes but we're not super close as college and life caused us to drift apart.
TheMoonstomper · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you maintain a relationship with them? I'm sure that mom would be glad to hear what you told us.
jjpearson · 3 points · Posted at 15:24:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made it through High School before losing touch for about 15 years until we reconnected on facebook. And the best part is that I also found their mom on there and was able to tell her just how much she meant to me as a kid. She told me I made her cry but they were good tears.
Neabyob · 5 points · Posted at 15:09:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This exact same thing happened to me. I did all the things you did just in a small town instead. My best friend moved away but we’ve managed to stay friends and now he’s moved back and we’re older so we’re still really good friends.
TheDownDiggity · 6 points · Posted at 15:09:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You will make friends like that again. Go out and meet people wherever you can, but let them get to know you at their own pace. Let them talk until they become interested in you.
sagey1 · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hope you find your friend again
JunBunKim · 2 points · Posted at 15:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If only my mom was like that
PikpikTurnip · 2 points · Posted at 15:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you ever reconnect?
03589 · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
if you remember his name, try finding him online
Calypsosin · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next door neighbors growing up were three girls, 1 in my class, one 2 grades below and one two grades above. We spent a lot of time together growing up. They were my best friends in every way. Their mother is my unofficial second mom.
They moved when I was about 12 or so. I've had many good friends since then, but never such a close friendship... growing up together as toddlers. Life passes you by too quickly sometimes.
ShamelessSoaDAShill · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Facebook is still available, mate
Happy hunting
crunchthenumbers01 · 2 points · Posted at 22:21:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You never have the friends like you do when your young.
duschin · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do you remember their names? Pretty much everyone has Facebook now. Let us know if you find them.
ShamelessSoaDAShill · 2 points · Posted at 15:17:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nobody ever really loses contact in this Internet Age, mate
Have you tried searching them up on Facebook?
articulateantagonist · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
10/10 mom skills.
MAGIGS · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude that’s like Stand By Me
Mackin-N-Cheese · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Except maybe for the drivers of the cars passing by.
Trogdorocks · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
ok, now this-
FlavorFlavMingler7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Supa Epic!!
Auto_Fac · 741 points · Posted at 15:05:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, this reminds me of something we did in Scouts called "Fantasy Camp" (I know...)
But it was amazing. It was a regional event in late May or early June, so you'd have a whole bunch of scout troops from a wider area show out for it, and it was a full-on medieval fantasy weekend.
They transformed the main building into a candle-lit medieval tavern, and then invited a local group of actual LARPers to act as the "monsters" for Saturday.
So we would divide into groups in our costumes and travel through the trail system around this camp (out in the boons) and occasionally encounter roving monsters who we would have to fight using a simple dice based system. If we beat them they would offer up gold or other items.
There were also roving traders with whom we could trade items. All scouts were encouraged to bring little bits and baubles from home to trade for things like Gold or character upgrades. The cool thing was that the traders would give you a better deal the more imaginative you could be with the item you were trying to trade. So marbles weren't just marbles, you had to come up with this really great story about what they are, what their purpose is, and how you came to acquire it. The better the story, the better the trade.
Along the trails there were even little make shift rest stops and "taverns" set up where people would give you quests to do or information about loot that was hidden all over the camp.
All of this ended with "The dragon fight", all teams would compete against groups of monsters for the chance to fight the dragon, and the team that fought and beat the dragon (or got the most damage before getting wiped) were crowned the victors of the weekend.
On Saturday night there was a huge feast in the main building/tavern where no forks or knives were allowed.
It sounds nerdy, but it was actually one of the highlights of my young life. It was so fun and really impressive that they always managed to pull it off.
rose_tyger · 131 points · Posted at 15:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds amazing and I want to do it as an adult!!!!
quackycoaster · 18 points · Posted at 17:23:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://www.evermore.com/ You might be interested in this place.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 18:19:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've never been sad that I don't live in Utah before this.
rose_tyger · 3 points · Posted at 18:29:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s on my list of places to visit! I’m a full time RVer so I’m hoping sometime in the next couple of years :)
quackycoaster · 10 points · Posted at 19:41:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I spent like a full minute going through my head going "Okay... I know what LARP is, I know what RP is... but what is RV in this context...is this like instead of RPing as a good guy, they RP as a villian?" Then I realized what you meant... but still took far longer than it should have.
rose_tyger · 2 points · Posted at 19:57:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me giggle out loud. Totally something I’d confuse myself over!
Mstinos · 4 points · Posted at 17:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm thirty. But where can I sign up?
Cpt_Tripps · 5 points · Posted at 18:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/larp
Maddiystic · 3 points · Posted at 17:19:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Try LARPing!! It's a ton of fun!
rose_tyger · 7 points · Posted at 18:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sweet summer child, I’ve been LARPing for well over 25 years! I just meant that particular poster’s experience :)
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 15:27:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little did you know, you guys were LARPers too!
jjpearson · 23 points · Posted at 15:16:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG. That sounds really freaking amazing. What a wonderful experience. I can't imagine how much work went into that, but those people rock for doing it.
Auto_Fac · 9 points · Posted at 16:41:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah they really do, and I imagine quite a bit went into it. This was back in like 98-2000ish but I think it had been running since the early-mid 90s.
I still have the sew-on blanket badges that you got for every camp you attended.
loanshark69 · 17 points · Posted at 16:14:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao in my scout camps we threw rocks at each other.
Opset · 9 points · Posted at 18:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And figure out ways to fuck over the overachieving troop that acted like they were in the military.
Fuck you, Troop 111, you fucking goobers.
loanshark69 · 6 points · Posted at 19:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah honestly scouts was fun and I liked the kids in my group. But the fucking scout master was so anti fun and such an asshole
wjandrea · 15 points · Posted at 17:41:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, I went to Fantasy Camp around 2004-2009! (For anyone else reading, this was in the Dartmouth region of Nova Scotia.)
I used to love it so much, the dressing up and roving around the site. And the feast was always so good. We never really played to win - just had fun. Sometimes we tried to subvert the camp, like one time we had a team that dressed up as accountants and my team dressed as gangstas. Another time we had a Venturer trading post but with a DJ booth, and we played techno and ate donairs the whole weekend.
Also I'm a Scouter now and my current troop does small-scale LARPing, like we build foam swords and do battles at camp, and Nerf wars!
Auto_Fac · 4 points · Posted at 20:27:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
YES!
Camp Harris!
That's amazing that it continued (at least) until 09!
How you liking being Scouter? Thinking of getting back into it, but find myself pretty busy these days.
wjandrea · 4 points · Posted at 20:53:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's still running actually! This year it's May 24-26.
I really like being a Scouter. It's a bit like having little cousins, and I love passing on my Scouting knowledge. My co-Scouters and I are all pretty busy too, but we at least have time for meetings and camps, plus a few hours per week for admin-type stuff. If you're too busy even for that, you could volunteer with Area to help run events like Fantasy, Alert, etc. PM me if you want to get in contact with Dartmouth Area.
Robobvious · 11 points · Posted at 19:08:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I laughed out loud when you said actual LARPers because I imagined a bunch of forty year old guys in homemade chain mail absolutely DESTROYING groups of children in physical combat XD
Glad to hear you used dice, lol.
Auto_Fac · 8 points · Posted at 19:31:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s actually almost exactly what it was like minus the physical combat.
But 40 year old guys in chainmail costumes they were!
everyonesmom2 · 5 points · Posted at 16:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow how fun.
RedsChronicles · 4 points · Posted at 17:34:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm so jealous it's unreal
pooberstein · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of weekend long airsofting games
unrequitedlove58 · 2 points · Posted at 20:19:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the best thing I've ever heard and I'm stupid jealous.
shmorgas · 2 points · Posted at 21:11:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like so much fucking fun. I’m actually really jealous.
LeaveTheMatrix · 2 points · Posted at 21:43:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This would make for a good augmented reality type game.
Journeyman351 · 138 points · Posted at 14:54:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, I did LARPing shit as a kid, too. We had our own little universe of characters and pretended they existed and we made our own gear and had arcs and shit.
rose_tyger · 43 points · Posted at 15:12:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when I was a kid, we just called it “playing pretend” hobbles off on her cane mumbling about the kids on her lawn
nopethis · 17 points · Posted at 15:34:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Right? I geuss I could call it LARPING....but we usually just called it playing.
Also, funny story: I managed to get knocked the fuck out one time since the heavy broom handle with pipe insulation had been "upgraded" with duct tape and wrapped really tight, which just made it less padded. It snapped my 'sword' in half and whalloped me on the head. I probably deserved it though.
Journeyman351 · 3 points · Posted at 16:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, I accidentally did this to a friend of mine wielding a stick that was rotted vs my freshly snapped one. Snapped his stick-sword in half and the debris flew into his eye :( no real damage, but he did have to get his eye flushed.
Demianz1 · 8 points · Posted at 15:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just called it "us blank" the blank would be whatever we would rp, sometimes is was dragon ball sometimes it was smash bros, mostly video game slash anime stuff.
Journeyman351 · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's basically what we did! But it was continuous. Like yesterday's "adventures" continued onto today type of stuff lmao.
Waterknight94 · 3 points · Posted at 20:39:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood rp was eventually adapted to be my dnd campaign years later. My players were pretty surprised by how much of the world was developed and the interconnectedness of most things. Well yeah that's what happens when you have already spent a decade buulding the world.
Journeyman351 · 3 points · Posted at 16:18:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is that cane just a crudely shaped stick you found in your backyard?
rose_tyger · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe ... I’m just pretending it’s my cane! Off my lawn! Lol
PinstripeMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In here to join the camp of "We were using our imaginations as kids, please don't fucking call it LARPing."
ONLY_COMMENTS_ON_GW · 4 points · Posted at 15:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, we never got that creative, we just grabbed sticks and beat the shit out of corn in the field out back.
pokekyo12 · 132 points · Posted at 14:53:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Awesome, my and my brother and a few friends played games like this. We called the game 'Adventurers' and my friends older brother was the game master. We roamed around the neighbourhood, woods and big fields finding items and fighting baddies!!!
mattheww · 63 points · Posted at 15:53:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Started reading this comment, thought to myself, "wow, that sounds a lot like my childhood". And then realized it was my childhood. Hi, Josh! I don't lurk on Facebook as much as I used to, but your beekeeping stuff looks rad.
I've been thinking about writing monthly update letters instead of random Facebook snippets. Probably post them there, too, but likely just ping people direct to avoid the algorithm filtering. I will include you in the first one!
jjpearson · 47 points · Posted at 16:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey! haha. Super small digital world. Yeah, your mom is seriously the best, I probably picked up my love of bees from your indoor hive and those fuzzy bumble butts. But yes, definitely include me, I enjoy vicariously following along on your crazy adventures. (Also, don't judge me too harshly, I don't play fighting games but I enjoy the shit out of Aztez, I'm just really bad at it.)
alphabet123 · 4 points · Posted at 20:15:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/u/mattheww /u/jjpearson
You guys should look into Dungeons & Dragons if you ever want to relive childhood nostalgia.
jjpearson · 6 points · Posted at 21:56:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yeah! I came to role playing fairly late (mid-20's) but I've definitely made up for it since then! I helped run an 8 person fourth edition DnD game 123 sessions. I've done some Geist and Werewolf the apocalypse, currently I'm rocking some Star Wars age of rebellion. So yes, started it young and just kept going.
vkapadia · 712 points · Posted at 15:05:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Can we..... Can we all meet up and do this?
Edit: thanks for silver!
SquatchCock · 111 points · Posted at 15:17:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword...
Jugglethe1st · 68 points · Posted at 15:25:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And my axe!
CPO_Mendez · 30 points · Posted at 15:32:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And my bow.
DoctorMcAstronaut · 39 points · Posted at 15:44:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And my duct-taped broom stick.
qwerty6556 · 19 points · Posted at 16:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And my Mtn Dew cans!
pipsdontsqueak · 7 points · Posted at 17:13:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
AND MY META!
GimliTheElephant · 3 points · Posted at 23:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And my Oliphaunt
MMMLG · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And my fake Fender Stratocaster. I can be the Bard!
Waterknight94 · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of one time when my older cousins came over when we were kids and we went outside to sword fight with sticks. When one of my cousins was struck down he bequeathed his sword excalibur to me.
Whiskeyjacks_Fiddle · 22 points · Posted at 15:25:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Use that silver to upgrade your gear.
vkapadia · 8 points · Posted at 15:28:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did. This post can now deal damage to magical creatures.
kjbenner · 6 points · Posted at 15:24:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean silver's nice, but it's no hammered mountain dew can.
vkapadia · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My post is nonmagical, but master work.
GoBuffaloes · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Silver? Meh. Upgrade that shit to Metal then we’ll talk
vkapadia · -1 points · Posted at 15:44:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Silver is a metal.
GoBuffaloes · 3 points · Posted at 16:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t knitpick with me I’m using logic from the parent comment
vkapadia · -3 points · Posted at 16:16:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's "nit"pick.
Bismothe-the-Shade · 2 points · Posted at 15:50:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, do I have news for you....
SmilingFlounder · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll volunteer to be the mom who hides the money provided I get to be proud of all of you and maybe get to wear a cool hat
vkapadia · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds good to me. Can it be real money?
SmilingFlounder · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think monopoly money is real money in Canada but I may have been misinformed
pi3b0 · 0 points · Posted at 15:43:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes.
catch22milo · 40 points · Posted at 14:55:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up across the road from a wooded valley and we used to play games like this all the time. We would set up forts in different parts of the forest and sometimes even war other kids who lived up the streets. I made so many different weapons out of things I would find down there. My favourite was under this massive willow tree. You could use part of the tree's branches as rope or twine to strengthen your fort or create a mace or all kinds of things. I haven't thought about this in forever.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 14:55:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao I wonder what those cars were thinking
jjpearson · 35 points · Posted at 15:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fortunately, it was the early 90's so probably just "WTF are a bunch of kids spazing out and jumping around in my rearview mirror for"
Penny_is_a_Bitch · 10 points · Posted at 15:44:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
and now it's "HOLY SHIT THEY'RE ON FUCKIN BATHSALTS, DRIVE BILLY DRIVE"
freeman_lambda · 3 points · Posted at 15:26:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"God dammit these heroes are always there waiting for us. Lord Sagamahag won't be pleased when we return without loot from the river"
The_0bserver · 3 points · Posted at 15:08:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably a good thing the cars didn't have AI. Maybe nowadays it might think said humans were trying to cross the road / waving due to an emergency, and then stopped the car, giving everyone a very awkward pause.
sumguysr · 4 points · Posted at 15:15:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now that's an interesting consequence of self-driving cars I hadn't considered. With no humans paying attention to the road it will be a lot harder to wave frantically to get help.
acidcheetah · 3 points · Posted at 15:25:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or just jump in front of it because you know it will stop... hopefully.
dishie · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably like, "vroom vroom beep," or something.
jerichojerry · 6 points · Posted at 15:18:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When you're a child isn't that just called "playing" or "make-believe?" Don't all little kids play like this?
Fat_Taiko · 3 points · Posted at 18:21:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yea, “pretend!” We played like this too. LARPing has rules and more actors.
PinstripeMonkey · 2 points · Posted at 20:21:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes. Feels super odd to here someone retroactively label imaginative play as a kid as LARPing.
Waterknight94 · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think it's a good thing. Takes the stigma away. It's just what everyone did as a kid. Maybe not everyone had a continuing storyline but I definitely did.
PinstripeMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Conversely, I feel like it extends the stigma to children playing, which simply feels unnecessary and odd, especially given the very deeply rooted terms that we have to describe imaginative childhood play. LARPing is a super recent term that has a pretty niche applicability. It just doesn't work that well in this context.
kcpstil · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sadly, I think video games have taken the place of a lot of imaginative play.
aggibridges · 6 points · Posted at 15:05:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds amazing! Thank you for sharing. I’d love to organize something like this for my son and his friends, do you have any tips? He’s 8!
jjpearson · 10 points · Posted at 15:13:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I don't have kids, so take this with a grain of salt for age appropriateness! Get some Easter eggs and spray paint them grey, brown, and or green. Put various amounts of monopoly money in them (5's and 10's if you want to keep it simple or singles and other various amounts if you want to help teach them math). Make a board of upgrade costs (these will be the various crafty projects you want to do) this is limited by only your imagination. You can use the ninja sock flail (put a sock inside another sock then duct tape the end to a dowel and you have a flail). Unless you want to use nerf or foam weapons be sure to stress that you don't hit real people or friends and that it's about using your imagination. Hide the eggs in various places with various difficulty, make sure to put some in crazy places. Turn them lose with your comfort level of freedom (I grew up super rural so we had a "be back by sunset" rule, otherwise we were free to roam). Good luck and have fun!
aggibridges · 3 points · Posted at 15:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, man, that sounds awesome! Thanks so much!
quackycoaster · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If it's warm enough, water balloons can cost a few "dollars" a piece for them to buy. Start them off with a very basic water pistol, and have several upgrade-able ones. Maybe get a couple of those water weapons that soak up water and explode water when they hit things. If you live by a lake, you could hit up some garage sale to find some of the old inflatable tube type toys and set them up around the lake as targets.
aggibridges · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds so freaking cool! Thanks!
karmagod13000 · 50 points · Posted at 14:40:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this shit sounds complicated... my brothers and me just played tag. a nice simple game for some simple boys
XCRunnerS · 33 points · Posted at 14:49:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sips tea simpletons!
rose_tyger · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But do you have your pinky up????
karmagod13000 · 2 points · Posted at 14:56:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
driving away in your rolls royce
Shigjetar · 3 points · Posted at 15:13:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean, that’s what LARPing is after all. I feel like it’s almost more apt to say that LARPing is just adults playing pretend.
tweak06 · 3 points · Posted at 15:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goddamn that sounds dope. And similar, in a lot of ways, to what me and my buddies played.
We were around that age, we played "boy army", which was basically just Army. We'd fight monsters inspired by DOOM or whatever video game we were into at the time.
Over the course of different campaigns we'd be 'promoted' giving us access to better weapons and "secret" parts of our military base and stuff like that. My dad even made us guns cut out of scrap wood.
We lived in the middle of nowhere, too, so we spent a ton of time in the woods.
Then, one day, my friend Kyle decided he was "too cool" for Boy Army and suicided himself (in the game) so his character could never be resurrected. After that we stopped playing. Shortly after, Kyle made different friends and stopped hanging out with us.
Fuckin' Kyle.
placebotwo · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's when Kyle started filming his new group of friends, Jeremy, Doug, and Dave.
Urcaaes · 3 points · Posted at 15:15:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ooh I did something like this with friends too. Except I live in the suburbs.
We made swords and shields (but mostly swords) out of wood and basically beat the hell out of each other, we came up with some sort of a story but in reality the last man standing was the winner.
We would take stakes from nearby construction sites, go to Home Depot, etc. but at some point we got greedy, because we took a fence board and turned it into a massive sword, but then my brother broke that over my back. So we made a stronger one out of three loooooong stakes duct taped together, with the wood spray painted white and the gold painted silver, that sucker was heavy and hurt like a bitch to get hit by.
DoctorMcAstronaut · 5 points · Posted at 15:42:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, Me and my friend did almost the exact same thing. We lived on no outlet street with a bunch of woods around it. There wasn't a lot of traffic so we would climb trees and scout cars on our walkie talkies. We beat the shit of each other with taped up broom sticks. I remember taking a set of old bicycle handlebar grips and adding them to my bo staff. It was fucking rad. We also threw rocks at each other and shot each other with bb guns and slingshots. I'm actually amazed we never lost an eye.
In retrospect the only time anyone ever got hurt to the point of medical attention was playing a game of baseball. Who would have thought? The kid wasn't even playing, he was a little brother that kept getting in the way. I still remember him coming up behind me while I was at bat and I was like "dude, you can't stand there or you're going to get hit with a metal bat." So next pitch I swing and he got hit in the face with metal bat. There was blood everywhere and he ended up needing a bunch of stitches.
Zepplin_Overlord_7 · 3 points · Posted at 15:09:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar with Pokémon, minus all the props
guywiththeface23 · 3 points · Posted at 15:23:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Final Fantasy I?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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jjpearson · 3 points · Posted at 15:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup! Super old school. What was funny is my parents wouldn't let me have any gaming consoles so I had to live vicariously through them. At one point I had them recording on VHS tapes that they would give me so I could watch, which is really really old school Twitch streams.
sisepuede4477 · 3 points · Posted at 15:38:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like South Park the stick of truth was based on you guys.
Greenveins · 3 points · Posted at 16:14:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to pretend cars were metallic dragons and would place traps in the road, although it wasn't really a trap it was just those poppers wrapped in toilet paper you get from the cheap firework stand. It would pop when a car ran over it and we would cheer as if the "bombs" sent the dragon flying away
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MinerForty-Niner · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did something very similar, except less fantasy based. We used Monopoly money to buy weapons, plots of land, build forts, etc. I somehow ended up as the builder so I’d buy plots of land from the town, clear them of all the brush and debris, mark the boundaries and then build teepees on said land before selling it to the other kids in our “town”. It was really fun although I don’t ever remember there being an objective. Just going on journeys for treasure, battling and looting, building, surviving, etc.
LRats · 2 points · Posted at 15:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I were as well. We didn't have a farm, but we were neighbors. Our houses were around the corner, but our backyards only had one yard in between. When we were kids that yard was mostly abandoned. My friend made swords out of duct tape, foam, and PVC piping.
So we had free reign of three back yards!
ivyside · 2 points · Posted at 15:37:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm in my 20s and I want to do this now
moomooland · 2 points · Posted at 15:54:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For anyone missing that key information to complete the epicness of this story, LARP is Live Action Role Playing.
DothrakAndRoll · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
JFC that was the most heart warming edit I've ever seen. Gave me frisson.
Geauxtoguy · 2 points · Posted at 16:45:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I did this growing up too (we called it playing "pretend"). He was a warlock and I was a demolition expert with an old pocket watch that I used as my "detonator". We would play outside for HOURS, and it's probably no coincidence that we eventually became obsessed with video games. We are still super close friends to this day too and I doubt I'll ever have a friend like him again
Z0mbieKitten · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, my cousin and I did something similar! We would pretend to be an adventuring party traveling the world, picking up quests and hunting monsters. I was the Archer, my "bow" was a curved stick that we eventually tied a piece of string to. My older cousin would give us missions to complete and we would run around the yard picking plants and flowers to grind up into "potions" and "fighting bandits".
Also, I'd go to my neighbor's house and play MegaMan. Essentially, we would put big empty Folgers cans on our hands to be our "blasters" and would fight imaginary enimies. When we needed to "recharge our batteries", his mom would bring us GoGurt! We had such a blast with that game!
UnabatedBasher · 2 points · Posted at 18:34:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "Ninja Fairies" with my friend, where we pretended to fight monsters with our martial arts and magic. I could use fire magic and my friend used ice, and we had a pet dragon who could use both. I had this stick that I used as a bo staff. She had this big leafy plant in her yard, which was our invisible, high-tech base. Good times. I also had a friend who I would play "The Sandbox Game" with at recess, where he would make different enemies and terrain out of sand, and I had to defeat enemies to get through a portal to the next level. Now we play DnD!
AdumLarp · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of going out into the field behind my house to fight "dragons" all the time. I would take a sword made from an old wooden broom handle I found and go fight the weeds that grew back there. Some were these tall prickly plants that grew about five feet tall or so. They were covered with spines and I'd always come home and pull a few dozen out of my arms, but they were battle wounds and I loved it. Every time I'd hit a plant it would scatter seeds everywhere as well, so they'd be back in droves a week or so later. Damn things grew like, well, weeds.
I took a friend out there, hooked him up with a sword, and we fought the dragons together. He thought I was nuts at first but by the time we left he was begging to come back and do it again later.
modern_bloodletter · 2 points · Posted at 19:54:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I did something very similar. I wish I could remember it better. It was a long time ago. Our parents had like 30-something acres of woods out in the middle of nowhere.
Both parents worked, our friends like 5 miles away. We'd either play Sega or we'd go into the woods and role-play as some magical warriors. We both had metal broomstick staves. We would "borrow" my dad's tools, including an axe, which my brother used to flatten the end of his staff into a rusty blade thing. We cut down branches from pine trees (with an axe, while in the tree.. Safe stuff) We made a very ramshackle fort, which we booby trapped with very real wire tripwires, that we made with some wire spools our mom used for gardening. Some were low, some were like chest level. We made warhammer style weapons by duct taping rocks to sticks and shit. We dug several holes to trip people... Usually near the wire lines.
We knew this little section of the woods like the back of our hand. We'd go on these epic adventures and battle monsters pretty frequently. Then we got older and stopped. Our home-made booby-traps and crude weapons are still out there I imagine. My parents no longer live there.
Good luck new owner. A couple of kids under 10 turned a random section that the 30 acres into a death trap. Hope you don't hunt.
micmea1 · 2 points · Posted at 21:13:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I never had the armor but we would get way deep into our adventures and even talk about the next "campaigns" we'd set up. We lived on a large bit of land with not many other kids nearby and no cable TV.
Took me till I was 27 years old to actually finally sit at a D&D table and realize what my childhood was missing.
HodorsGiantDick · 2 points · Posted at 21:14:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit! I did this too, only Legend of Zelda themed. Had a wooden shield painted to look like Link's shield (held on by old stapled underwear bands) and a painted wooden Master Sword.
My friend was a made up character, Link's brother "Lester".
We ruled the woods behind my house, drew maps and built dungeon "forts"...
justwannawatchdrphil · 2 points · Posted at 21:41:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I want this as a movie. I’m crying.
jsake · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar as a kid. The only problem is my friend and I called it playing "selves"....
It wasn't until much later that we realized why we'd get odd looks and laughs from parents when asked what we were up to and said "playing selves" lol
noreservations81590 · 2 points · Posted at 22:13:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins did this too. We called it "The Ogre Game". We had bases and factions and maps of the land. We also had train tracks in my Grandmas back yard so we would leave pennies on the track to smash them then initial them with "KJ" (Kenobi Joe, my cousins character the king) and use them as currency. If your character died in a fight you had to make a new character with a new name and backstory.
H010CR0N · 2 points · Posted at 22:48:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would have “Death Battles” with characters from different universes. Bionicle vs Marvel vs DC vs Dragon Ball Z etc.
_jenaraeshun · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
reached out to my childhood friend due to your post. Ive never met truer friends
jjpearson · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aww. That's so awesome. Good luck.
NextLevelShitPosting · 2 points · Posted at 23:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shit, I came here to say the same damn thing! My friends and I used to have fantasy battles with a whole rule set of different attacks and hit points. There was even a GM. I always wanted to start making actual equipment for it, but I never got around to it.
Graphiteknight60 · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers did this all day every day, all summer. Until we were way to old to be doing this and I got self conscious about it. Now I embrace my nerd and am actively looking for a DnD group to rekindle my love for role-playing
TheGardiner · 2 points · Posted at 23:35:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watch our for those Wz.Sahags and that LIT2
elizasea · 2 points · Posted at 23:52:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and two of my cousins played this game where I was a unicorn princess who had been turned into a human (no, The Last Unicorn wasn't one of my favorite movies growing up or anything), cousin E was a wolverine and cousin N was a badger. Or maybe it was the other way around. We fought bad guys and had to free my kingdom from the evil people who took it over, killed my parents, and made me human. When we'd get together over the summer, we'd discuss what happened the previous year and continue where we left off. We did this for two or three years.
MaximaSpeed · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spent my whole child hood and much of the first half of my teen years playing pretend. We would play campaigns. So it would be many, many days after school all in the same story, we just picked up where we left off. Some of the greatest campaigns are: "The Rhinestone Cowboy" which turned into the "Crystal Kid" after "Rhinestone" died, now that I think about it that whole thing was definitely a tragedy as every main character good and bad ended up dying in that one. Rhinestone, his son (the Kid), My character (Peter O'toole), and outlaw Jamie, and his brother Juamo, all died.
Anyways, also have the epic of the four Jedi knights. That one is very very long. Suffice it to say that not all four Jedi lived full lives. Two went astray while two stayed true to the Jedi. Of the two who led the Jedi 1 was killed in battle fighting against an army of Sith. Of the two Jedi who stayed true one was also killed in that same final conflict. In the end what was so interesting is that the two opposite ends of the spectrum survived. Brother number 2 was the Jedi zealot who obeyed religiously while I was the rebel who had betrayed the Jedi and even killed them in battle. I ended up retiring in exile after redeeming myself.
The final campaign is the Middle Earth adventure. That one was a huge amount of fun and surprisingly didn't end in tragedy. The cool thing about that one is that now, many years later I am DM-ing a middle earth campaign set 50 years after the events in our pretend play (for my brothers as well). The son of one of our original pretend characters is making an appearance as well as my pretend character (an elf). They will be in the position of experienced adventurers giving wisdom and assistance, preparing the current roleplaying party for its next challenge.
tylaseashell · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:19 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
You’re making me really sad that I’m an adult right now. I miss being a kid :(
optisadvantage · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
lol
idma · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yarp
rose_tyger · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That mom was AWESOME!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did similar things as a kid with my friends. We lived near some woods that didn’t have any dangerous wild life, so we would go there and pick up sticks to serve as swords and fight goblins and orcs, and bandits. Good times.
It was the mid-late 90’s.
avahz · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big props to your mom on that one
Shoninjv · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ho yes. Good time. Also the "cop" version where we would ride our huge bike (kids bicycle) to arrest imaginary baddies with our wooden guns (slightly gun-shaped wooden stick).
Chase_greddit · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was this but far inferior. We had stuck and whatever it was shaped like tad our weapon. Kinda was a battle royale. Called it stick wars
PM_BUTT_PICS · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We larped as X-Men.
I took masking tape and wrapped them around my hands with three pencil crayons taped to the back of my hands.
I was wolverine.
We ended up in some farmers field fighting a hay bale ripping it apart.
We got caught and had to go apologize to the farmer.
sohighiseehell · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
with her husband, Eustace Bagge!
Eustace: GAH!
(Sorry)
JR_Mosby · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did something similar, the difference being it was the mid to late 2000's so we had been influenced by the early Call of Duty games so we were always soldiers in WW2. I was always the medic, we built "bunkers" from sticks in the woods, and our upgrades were just gaining rank. We also had the plastic guns with orange tips that made sounds when you pulled the trigger for our weapons.
Typ1calMusic · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a lot of fun, I can imagine you in your cardboard armor running around.
pitpusherrn · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that's brilliant
Wakkadoo507 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of me and my friends' Lego town. We had a section of my family's basement dedicated to this Lego town, and each of our friends built a house and had a family/group of minifigures we claimed for ourselves. Every person had some kind of job or a business, like running a restaurant or building and testing ships/weapons. We even made copies of some class money from grade school and had an economy and everything.
KhaosElement · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am seriously envious of this experience.
sonerec725 · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit me and my friends did that kind of shit at recess
Lamprophonia · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
AAAH my buddies and I did exactly this, but sometimes we switched the setting from fantasy to sci-fi... we'd go to walmart and buy up a few super-soakers, bring em home to his dad's workshop and saw them up so they looked more like scifi guns, and wrapped em up in duct tape to make em look less neon and more sci-fi.
We'd spend 3 hours building weapons, about 20 minutes running around with them, then the next 6 hours playing Magic cards in a tree house.
TheWhiteSquirrel · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, this was absolutely me and my friends, except it was more indoors and Star Trek-themed.
NoGoodIDNames · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did your friend’s mom play Dungeons and Dragons? There’s a type of evil shark-worshiping mermen called the Sahaguin
katfooood · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks "Fugget About It", I now know what a LARPER is
a2hton · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was always so weird to me that people could stay friends for so long because my family moved so much that I never really stayed friends with people for long
Kiujy · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In case in what not intentional, your Sahags sound similar to the Sahuagins from dungeons and dragons.
Just thought that was neat.
Boz_DCFC · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude this needs to be a video game. Start a fundraiser on Steam!!
mrs_dalloway · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a similar game except it was called Not Get Seen By Cars. Everyone had 3 lives and it was game over if a passing cars headlights shined on you. Basically we had throw ourselves in ditches and gullies to avoid being seen.
We also went trick or treating on April Fool’s day, which netted us some candy because it was around Easter. One guy answered the door and said “I don’t get it” then shut it in our faces.
But my kids? My kids imaginary games blew mine out of the water, especially my eldest son. He and his brother had these intricate, involved plots and sub-plots that I never understood and most of their friends couldn’t get into. We always had enough wooden staffs in the hallway entry way to start a small fire. And one time this random guy knocked on my door and said, “you need to put that kid in theatre, he has talent.” But I’m not into whoring my kids and he didn’t want to do it, so that didn’t happen. Those kids had a lot of good times together.
Momnipotence · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
His mom sounds fucking awesome!
OutOfStamina · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Here's your tl:dr basically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW-tcUYwQnc
dbatchison · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The question is why aren’t you still doing this?
CrappyAutocorrect · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is so cool :)
madsci · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would go spider hunting, trying to kill the big brown orb weaver spiders that spun their webs at head level all over the yard. We'd decked ourselves out in our most badass gear and I was armed with a chain flail made from one of the rings from the swingset.
We found a spider by the chicken coop and I took a swing at it and it just disappeared. There was a pause of a second or two and we went from armored knights to screaming kids trying to figure out if the spider went in our hair or something.
ja-mez · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/AccidentalLARPing
RootSinister · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So wholesome
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But silver is a metal...
PTech_J · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't have a farm, but absolutely going to steal this idea when my kid is old enough.
lydsbane · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And now I have a new game to play with my son. Thank you.
jumpiejellybean · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Which one of you was Don Quixote?
PolkaAccord · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to call this "we're the guy" games.
Hooplah73 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Got half way through this and suddenly thought 'If this goes all Bridge to Terabithia on me, I'm going to start balling uncontrollably in the office.'
Glad to see it didn't :)
catamountgal · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I did something similar. We were tiger princesses (think Kajit) and we defeated all types of evil in our kingdom. Of course we also married princes.
Skyflareknight · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of something my older brother and I did when we were a lot younger. We had a 10 acre house with a field in the back yard and a large portion of the woods in that area on our property.We ended up taking our toy machine guns and ran around the woods pretending we were in the military while at war.
everyonesmom2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Great mom. Great memories.
symphonicrox · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now I'm imagining cardboard armor that has been duct taped covered with flattened mountain dew cans :D
TooMuchAdderall · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol, I used to do something similar. Childhood was awesome.
wakandanlepricaun · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doing that has probably had a massively positive effect on your brain to this day.
cowboydirtydan · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did basically the same thing to the extent of long story arcs, gear upgrades, character classes, and enemy types with my siblings growing up, though we rarely used props. At the time I thought everyone did it too.
NobilisUltima · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whether you knew it or not at the time, I'm going to go ahead and say that whoever came up with this game was some manner of huge D&D nerd (which is also what I am, for the record). "Cleric" usually wouldn't jump to mind for the average non-nerd coming up with a fantasy game over "knight" or "wizard". Even more than that, though: "Sahag" is much too close to sahuagin (also a water monster) to be coincidence. Good on them for passing on their nerdiness to you!
andylordy · 380 points · Posted at 14:17:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play tomahawk tag with a nerf foam tomahawk. It was just tag but you could throw it and nail someone with it
SeaTie · 16 points · Posted at 18:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had the same thing except with an old boxing glove. You could really generate some good power and whip that glove, let me tell you...
mattarm18 · 10 points · Posted at 20:37:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was really confused when I read that as “Tony Hawk tag”
CountDown60 · 9 points · Posted at 19:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that with a glow in the dark frisbee, in the dark.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 22:54:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I recently got my three year old her first Nerf gun. My siblings and I would have all out Nerf wars up until about five years ago. I'm talking, flipping couches for cover, countless broken mirrors and picture frames, stashing ammo (or moving found stashes) around our dad's house for months leading up to whatever family gathering.
"Going to visit dad this weekend. Gotta spend $20 on Nerf darts and duct tape them to the top of the ceiling fan that's 12 feet off the floor."
It was intense.
I'm so excited to start the tradition with her. Maybe not so crazy since she's a toddler, but.. you know..
benouttaten · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in primary/high school but with and ball we could get our hands on. Tennis balls, rugby league balls etc. I dont know if this is a country-wide name, but we called it Brandy.
aNeedForMore · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do this too! We’d usually have a couple teams of 2 or so people, sometimes we would even forgo the tag part and just sneak around wiping pine cones at each other. There were two older kids down the street who were kind of jerks and picked on everyone. My team mate and I walked around a corner one time and came upon the two older kids and before they even saw us I just cocked back and wiped the cone as hard as I could, nailed him right in the side of the face as he was turning to look at us. Probably got him in the eye a bit but I don’t know. Partner is dying on the ground laughing, pine cone face kid is tearing up, his partners looking at me like wth man? I still feel bad about it honestly. I believe that was pretty much the end of that, at least with that specific group.
KatElizaTaylor · 1 points · Posted at 07:15:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used pinecones, and the person who was "it" was just essentially a moving target. None of us had the patience to find anything else and the pine trees are abundant in my childhood neighborhood so it was all out war.
FrenchFriesOnMars · 1 points · Posted at 09:25:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time when I was in middle school, some kid threw a foam nerf tomahawk at me and it skimmed the top of my head, leaving me with a sizable cut across my scalp. Almost had to get stitches. Those things are literal weapons!! Haha
SuperMadBro · 1 points · Posted at 09:52:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You can throw it AND nail people with it?! Id love this game
Dash_and_smash · 1 points · Posted at 13:04:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's kinda like Modern Warfare 3's zombie multiplayer
BIG_RETARDED_COCK · 1 points · Posted at 13:18:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds fun as fuck
openletter8 · 366 points · Posted at 13:20:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make tiny spaceships out of Lego and give their captains elaborate backstories. For a couple years I had a friend that did this too, and our politics/storyline was epic. It was too bad my family had to move back to St. Louis. I wonder whatever happened to that kid. We lost touch as twelve year olds do.
LINKWOLF0013 · 20 points · Posted at 16:36:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
A guy I was friends with used to make really complex K'NEX guns with me and we'd play complicated spy/shooting games with them. He also ended up moving to St. Louis after 5th grade, crazy stuff! We had paper airplane golf/races one time for his birthday too, that was pretty cool.
EDIT: It was actually Louisville he moved to and I got confused. Still fun to share our stories!
openletter8 · 7 points · Posted at 16:39:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never did the K'NEX, but we did do a lot of paper airplanes too. The Library had a large study room nobody used, so we would go there and copy the planes out of the paper airplane instruction books we found.
We also build snow forts. It was Fitchburg, MA back during those nor-esters they got back in the early 90's. The snowdrifts were massive.
LINKWOLF0013 · 6 points · Posted at 18:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like a lot of fun! No snow forts for me though, a bit too far South. Reminiscing like this is fun, makes you wonder what would've happened if people hadn't moved, would you still be friends and whatnot, ya know?
DefinitelyNotThatOne · 18 points · Posted at 17:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I ended up being friends with two guys that had been carrying on the same story from their Lego universe into highschool. We all ended up working on shared Google doc files to flesh it out and make it actual fiction. Back stories, compendiums, stories that we called "movies" since we wanted the fiction to read like you were watching an action movie. It was a world where there were no governments and people lived in these giant city-sized bases, and you followed the rule of whoever ran that base. Advanced technology was involved, and eventually you find out that all these "guards" the protagonists are going thru in their adventures are just clones. Eventually the heroes find out that they had been cloned at some point. The whole thing started out so small and turned into a whole world that took over our Junior and Senior years of high school. Damn that was so much fun.
openletter8 · 6 points · Posted at 17:20:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have no doubt that we would have done the same if I hadn't moved away.
cryptologicalMystic · 3 points · Posted at 23:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can you get your friends' permission to post the link (to a non-editable copy, of course)? That sounds amazing!
Seal3824 · 6 points · Posted at 22:48:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminded me of something similar. Me and my friend had a continuous storyline involving whatever toys we could get our hands on (mostly Lego, Transformers, and those little green army men) for a few years. We'd have periods of "peace" where we'd build a ton of bases and spaceships and houses out of Lego, and then overtime wars/conflict would start with stakes ranging anywhere from "The Decepticons have teamed up with the Ninjago snakes and they're planning to kill the president" to "Aliens are planning to blow up the Earth". Everything would usually end up getting destroyed and the good guys would eventually be forced to work from ruined cities/bases before finally making a last stand against the enemies. The Earth itself ended up getting destroyed plenty of times, with it being "repaired" by either moving to another planet or time travel.
horsenbuggy · 5 points · Posted at 15:42:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was it good enough to make it a book?
openletter8 · 11 points · Posted at 15:44:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To my twelve year old self? Maybe. Nobody other that that other kid and I would have cared.
FaxCelestis · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SAME
I still have a bunch of my ships built in the garage
NerdyNord · 3 points · Posted at 22:30:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I had a complex ongoing multiverse of lego battles involving a specific Alien trying to conquer the Earth and/or universe that we made over the course of like six years.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
New Mexico?
openletter8 · 2 points · Posted at 21:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
chuuckaduuck · 2 points · Posted at 00:24:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk, this day and age....you probably could find him and see if your besties
sakura_gasaii · 2 points · Posted at 00:29:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
i had a friend like that in secondary school :') we were given a map worksheet thing in school and drew little stick people characters all over it and it ended up being like a wheres wally, after that we'd bring more maps and pictures in and make more cities and ended up having a whole book of them which we called Rubeah (Ruby and Leah) i miss that :')
mygawd · 2 points · Posted at 00:51:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, of the endless possibilities for things you could make, I always made spaceships. I guess I'm kinda like Benny from the Lego movie
IDKwhatTFimDoing168 · 2 points · Posted at 02:13:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is actually the only thing that makes me so grateful for technology. I was thrilled to see my third grade best friends request. I had to move back to my original city after only a year in hers too. I often wonder what life would be like if I weren’t able to kind of keep in touch with people I’ve met throughout my life!
TheStarM · 2 points · Posted at 03:15:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two brothers and I would build Lego spaceships and have wars by taking turns shooting marbles and each other's ships. I would make a big strong one and my brother would make a ton of little weak ones. It was so fun!
ladymagglz · 25521 points · Posted at 14:25:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
When Addy, the first black American Girl Doll came out, my friend and I became fascinated with her stories about escaping from slavery.
We would spend hours playing the “slave game,” pretending we lived on a plantation. Once her dad realized what we were doing, he helped us by giving us “real slave chores” to make our game more realistic.
Our dumbass 8-year-old selves were folding laundry and raking leaves until it was the right time in the game to flee the plantation for the Underground Railroad.
Our parents would then pack us “slave snacks” in case we got hungry on the journey. We’d be having the time of our lives munching on a dry piece of white bread, while our brothers ate dunkaroos and laughed in our faces.
EDIT: To answer some people’s question, and paint a clearer picture, my friend and I are about as white as it gets. In American Girl Doll terms, think Kirsten Larsen or Molly McIntire.
When my friend’s brother found out what we were playing, he told us we were idiots because only black people were slaves in the olden days. This had literally never occurred to me, and I remember feeling very confused and overcome with what I now know to be a sense of white guilt.
We were devastated with this plot hole in our game, but quickly found a loop hole that allowed us to continue playing for months and months: our characters weren’t always in slavery, it was their punishment after they tried to help other slaves. Also sometimes there “Freaky Friday” style mix ups, and sometimes witches made it happen. I don’t know, we were kids.
ALSO: obligatory thank you to the kind (but maybe a little racist) folks who showered me with precious metals. You will receive hand written thank you notes in the mail once I find out where you live.
katielady125 · 3613 points · Posted at 15:31:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha similarly, I used to play Cinderella and my mom would make me scrub the floors and dust. I’d get annoyed if she wasn’t mean enough.
However, once I was done with the chores she always played the fairy godmother too and let me put on one of my fancy dresses to dance in. My favorite part was she would “forget” the magic words and when I reminded her the last word was “boo” she would act startled. She is a good mom.
hpotter29 · 1322 points · Posted at 16:00:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a great time imagining your mom just wondering at her good fortune: My child wants to do chores AND wants me to be more of a disciplinarian? And all I have to do at the end is a little playtime (which is fun anyway)?
You must've been a great kid. She was certainly a great mom.
katielady125 · 189 points · Posted at 16:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha we both have our failings but I was definitely lucky to get a mom who loved spending time with me.
yourmomlurks · 28 points · Posted at 18:42:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My kids are 3 and new. I realized really quickly that the kids are who they are and they are the magical forces. Some kids make it really easy. Yesterday I got my older one a little set that is a coop, chickens, chicks, and eggs. She was running around yelling I CANT BELIEVE IT! I CANT BELIEVE IT!
bluesox · 19 points · Posted at 21:34:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/brandnewsentence
yourmomlurks · 2 points · Posted at 08:40:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey that really made my day. Thanks 🙏🏼
bluesox · 3 points · Posted at 08:59:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s the shortest one I’ve seen so far.
data_dawg · 259 points · Posted at 15:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's so cute!! Your mom sounds awesome. ❤
ChochaCacaCulo · 37 points · Posted at 16:23:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had to check your username and make sure my tween hasn't joined reddit yet. She used to LOVE this game when she was little. We'd have a fancy-dress dance afterwards too (because Cinderella always ends up at the ball!).
I wish I had thought of the fairy godmother angle, though. Your mom is incredibly sweet.
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 16:36:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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ChochaCacaCulo · 20 points · Posted at 17:00:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
She's just about 12 and so far she's cool with staying off all social media (including reddit). We've agreed that we will revisit the topic of social media when she's 13 (since most EULAs say you must be 13+).
I might just be naive, but I think we have a pretty good relationship where she doesn't need to hide things from me. There are no off-limit subjects, and I always make sure to explain WHY she has certain limits. I also try to make it clear that she's allowed to come to me if she thinks I've made an unfair rule and we'll talk it out. There have been a couple instances where she's made an argument that's reasonable enough that I've given her extra freedoms.
That all being said, I'm keeping my kids as far away as possible from reddit for as long as possible. There are some rabbit holes I've been down on here that should never exist.
katielady125 · 13 points · Posted at 16:39:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think that came from when I went as Cindy for Halloween. My parents (being theatre geeks) had to have corresponding costumes when they took me out. So my mom had perfected her Fairy Godmother bit at Halloween and just had to use it again. One of my best memories was my dad dressing up as the Scarecrow when I went as Dorothy and skipping down the street with me (even though his back hurt)
I’m sure your daughter will cherish her memories of playing Cinderella with you too.
ChochaCacaCulo · 5 points · Posted at 17:02:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It sounds like your parents gave you many wonderful memories from your childhood. They obviously love you very much :)
[deleted] · 20 points · Posted at 16:09:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wholesome af
PikaCharlie · 13 points · Posted at 17:19:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's so cute! My best friends' mom would do something similar after we all saw the musical Annie. She would put on "Hard-Knock Life," and we'd sing along to it while doing chores like scrubbing the floor and doing laundry.
Nowadays, f I need that inspiration to start cleaning, I just put on that song.
katielady125 · 10 points · Posted at 17:35:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is great! My 2 year old likes that movie. Maybe I can try my hand at playing Miss Hannigan in a couple years. To be really in character I’ll need a few flasks of gin on me... haha.
IIAnimusII · 10 points · Posted at 16:55:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm currently expecting my first child in the next 6 months.
My mother was gutted when she found out we were having a boy because she couldn't do this now. She's since changed her mind again and has gone back to the original under the guise of letting him make his own choices about being a princess
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 16:52:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is the sweetest thing I've ever read. I actually saved it so I can read it later when I'm sad.
emmak8 · 5 points · Posted at 16:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play Cinderella and tell my mom to be meaner too!! One Halloween I even dressed up as Cinderella “before the ball.”
5secondmemory · 6 points · Posted at 17:59:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 4 or 5, I asked my mom to play Cinderella and then told her I was the evil step mother and she needed to clean the house by the time I got back from school. It... did not work.
ChurchOfPainal · 10 points · Posted at 16:24:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's no way that didn't develop into a domestic servitude kink
katielady125 · 8 points · Posted at 16:33:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha man I wish I could get turned on by housework.
tangled_night_sleep · 9 points · Posted at 16:54:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg. My bf knows the fastest way to get my attention is to help out around the house.
My fav is when he cleans the grout in our bathroom floor. He soaks it in oxiclean and then sucks it up with a steam cleaner. It's magical. I always show my sincere appreciation to him afterwards.
katielady125 · 6 points · Posted at 17:09:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oooooh I see I’m just doing it wrong! I gotta be the step mother and order my husband around! Haha.
Helios321 · 3 points · Posted at 17:10:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clever, for all the shit advice on this website there are sometimes some real gems to learn from
gamerholic · 7 points · Posted at 16:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
It's pretty close to the "salve game" but instead of a fairy godmother at the end of the game its endless whips to the back while chained to a tree. :)
Edit: slave!
EcstaticStrings · 5 points · Posted at 16:36:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
salve noun \ ˈsav , ˈsäv, ˈsalv, ˈsälv\ Definition of salve
(Entry 1 of 3) 1 : an unctuous adhesive substance for application to wounds or sores 2 : a remedial or soothing influence or agency a salve to their hurt feelings
The salve game sounds a lot like "playing doctor".
ammzi · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn, that is picture perfect. What a sweetie!
BubblegumDaisies · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
#momgoals
stephj · 2 points · Posted at 00:18:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's friggin adorable
CuteCuteJames · 2 points · Posted at 03:47:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my heart
kwhateverdude · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow someone’s cutting onions in here
grapefruitorama · 12504 points · Posted at 14:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m cracking up at “real slave chores”. Smart dad!
Xisuthrus · 5698 points · Posted at 15:12:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah but can you imagine if a neighbour asked the kids why they were suddenly so well behaved and they excitedly responded "We're [Dad]'s slaves!"
DEEEPFREEZE · 2488 points · Posted at 15:17:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Directed by Larry David
popostar6745 · 583 points · Posted at 15:19:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FTFY
venuswasaflytrap · 43 points · Posted at 15:48:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
princecaviar · 18 points · Posted at 15:54:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jesus, I forgot about him. What a fucked-up man.
The_Grubby_One · 9 points · Posted at 16:41:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ScizorSci · 4 points · Posted at 22:08:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OverallNerve · 4 points · Posted at 17:58:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brought to you by the Weinstein Co.
blackmarketcarwash · 238 points · Posted at 15:31:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ba dum dun dun DOOO DO DOOOO DO DO DO DOOOO
archercolne · 14 points · Posted at 15:57:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got that immediately 😂 didn’t even have to test it out
P0k3F4n · 5 points · Posted at 16:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn’t. Help?
I was thinking Seinfeld but it’s probably not Seinfeld.
offcolorclara · 9 points · Posted at 16:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's the SVU theme
Lolworth · 3 points · Posted at 23:16:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Surb Vour Unthusiasm?
offcolorclara · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Special Victims Unit
archercolne · 3 points · Posted at 16:32:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t wanna spoil it flat out.. er.. it’s a popular meme song From a TV show
P0k3F4n · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t have the attention span to watch a TV show. Help?
eeeedlef · 5 points · Posted at 16:39:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Then how would an explanation be important to you?
P0k3F4n · 2 points · Posted at 16:41:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nobody likes to miss a joke.
ManectricBound · 3 points · Posted at 16:38:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curb your enthusiasm most likely. Both work tbh.
P0k3F4n · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you.
Raknarg · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
do Do do DOOOO do DOOOO do DOO
dweep bwomp
Gitdagreen · 8 points · Posted at 15:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just heard the theme music in my head
metaobject · 6 points · Posted at 15:55:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SVU: Slavery Victims Unit
Created by Dick Wolf
mageta621 · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you tellin' me that this dude is into little girls
with pigtailsthat do free housework?mr_arm · 3 points · Posted at 18:42:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
bom bom bom
bluesox · 2 points · Posted at 21:29:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dee-bee-da-beep ba-dee-bee-da-beep ba-deep-ba-deeeee ba-deep-ba-dee-bee-da-beep ba-dee-bee-ba-deep ba-deep WHEEP BOMP
mr_arm · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
magnificent
strawberryswisherz · 275 points · Posted at 15:25:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SVU theme DUN-DUN
Bless_all_the_knees · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the heat of the night would be good as well
TheBestTortilla · 27 points · Posted at 15:34:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FBI OPEN UP
dustinge · 36 points · Posted at 15:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FTFY
BigDaddy-69 · 4 points · Posted at 16:44:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
UwU whats this?
Just-Call-Me-J · 5 points · Posted at 17:24:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ಠ_ಠ Please don't touch me.
Techiastronamo · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
succy on ur peen
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 15:34:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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Taldarim_Highlord · 19 points · Posted at 15:47:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ALABAMA
kiekko34 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
DAD I'M COMING IN TO YOU
ChefRoquefort · 21 points · Posted at 17:15:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a friend who is mixed as well as her sister. One day they were doing yard work for their very white grandparents and decided to start singing slave spiritual songs...
spoonraker · 8 points · Posted at 17:49:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a friend whose parents were really against violent video games, so this friend would always hide the fact that he played Mortal Kombat with me from them. One day I was over at his house and we were on the internet looking up how to perform a "fatality" (a type of extremely violent finishing move in that game if you're not familiar); his mom walks in and asks what we're doing. I didn't know what the word "fatality" actually meant, and I guess I just assumed it was some kind of generic word for button combos in video games, so when she asked what we were doing online I proudly proclaimed, "We're looking up fatalities!". Instant classic facial expression from both my friend and his mom.
VeganJoy · 11 points · Posted at 15:21:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
bomdiggitybee · 6 points · Posted at 15:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sexy editorial brackets.
rapemybones · 3 points · Posted at 00:09:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah not only that, those kids might grow up with a warped sense that slavery was simply raking some leaves, and could be fun...that's not exactly great parenting on any level lol. I've seen worse though I guess.
ParallelGalaxiies · 2 points · Posted at 15:32:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is hilarious!
_Schmegeggy_ · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What is the proper usage of brackets???
sweetmojaveraiin · 2 points · Posted at 17:56:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Honestly if I had a neighbor kid tell me this and they seemed otherwise normal, I would just assume it's some dumb kid shit, I did the same exact type of stuff when I was little lol
PresidentKarma · 2 points · Posted at 19:15:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m late to the party but I had a friend who was adopted from China as a 2 year old. As grade schoolers we were doing yard work at his house when he stopped the lawn mower and told his Dad “I know why you adopted me, for slave labor”.
diastereomer · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Enslave me daddy!
JoseMa-Flores · 2 points · Posted at 23:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uh, FBI?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know exactly how that would go. I had a thing for The Brave Little Toaster as a toddler, and once I called my dad “The Master.” Very loudly. In the middle of a crowded grocery store.
NextLevelShitPosting · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You kidding? I caught on to the fact that my brother and I were just free labor by the time I was five. I'd say that's a totally normal thing to hear from a kid.
letsgoiowa · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
God dammit Naofumi
JRtheSnowman · 18 points · Posted at 15:56:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The man saw opportunity and seized that shit. Legend!
Robert_Rocks · 15 points · Posted at 15:37:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drinking coffee, chuckling while he watches from the living room window
Guns_and_Dank · 4 points · Posted at 17:08:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Windex Mantequilla, Windex.
marklarnomnomnom · 3 points · Posted at 22:27:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That guy's playing 4D chess.
triplec787 · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SirRogers · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That dad saw an opportunity he was not going to miss!
CorranH0rn · -4 points · Posted at 16:16:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/u/grapefruitorama,
Please edit your post to include the requisite "This guy Dad's" joke. The users of reddit.com have certain expectations when arriving into a comment section. Thanks in advance.
X87DV · 3 points · Posted at 16:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/u/CorranH0rn
Please edit your post to include the requisite "/s" for clarification. The users of reddit.com have certain expectations when arriving into a comment section. Thanks in advance.
adrionallama · 3063 points · Posted at 15:01:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of how when my dad was in charge of us, we always played “movie theater” aka watching a movie in silence.
theshizzler · 2836 points · Posted at 15:23:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I kept my four year old busy for almost an hour once by asking her which one of her legs was faster
myterribear · 1830 points · Posted at 15:43:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just tried this on my 3 year old. Her response was "my right leg is fast and my left leg is slow" then proceeds to run in circles. Lol
AdvicePerson · 1766 points · Posted at 15:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That kid's going places. Within a well-defined radius.
Kungfu_McNugget · 417 points · Posted at 15:57:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you're serious, that's a pretty bright 3 year old.
WelcomeToKawasicPark · 32 points · Posted at 16:24:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup, my ten year old doesn't even know his left or rights yet.
Eranaut · 91 points · Posted at 16:30:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your 10 year old is ready for political debate on Reddit, then. You should be proud
CharlieVermin · 21 points · Posted at 16:58:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does he not know, or is he just a committed centrist?
cATSup24 · 17 points · Posted at 19:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A committed centrist would argue that the left and right are the same.
BARDLover · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 22-year-old fiancé doesn’t half the time either.
Terra_Cotta_Pie · 6 points · Posted at 20:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Assuming she's running anticlockwise, that is
canmx120 · 5 points · Posted at 21:06:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only if they ran counter-clockwise
Natanael_L · 10 points · Posted at 15:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/technicallythetruth
actual_factual_bear · 5 points · Posted at 16:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
counterclockwise i hope...
sa1 · 4 points · Posted at 16:10:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
She's right if she was running in anticlockwise circles.
BCSteve · 2 points · Posted at 18:05:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If she’s running counterclockwise, she’s right!
skipben · 2 points · Posted at 04:26:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 3 and 4 year old both said that both legs were fastest and then proceeded to run in circles.
Doyouspeak · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This just made my morning 😂
AndAzraelSaid · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean, if it keeps them happy...
stephj · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh ahaha smart kid
_AxeOfKindness_ · 239 points · Posted at 15:36:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I truly believe that there are some people who are wired to parent, and some others, like myself, who just aren't. You are most definitely grade A parent material.
almizil · 10 points · Posted at 18:04:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
you're forgetting abt the third category of people who start off not being wired to do it, but learn how through hard work and effort. not everyone already is a good parent but anyone can try to be one, which is the biggest chunk of it. :)
TheWanderingScribe · 8 points · Posted at 20:33:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some people really shouldn't try tho
thundercock88 · 25 points · Posted at 15:54:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You should have a kid just to be sure
_AxeOfKindness_ · 46 points · Posted at 15:55:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm honestly not sure what could go wrong
samerige · 12 points · Posted at 15:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just give them an axe and maybe they'll live up to your name
GryfferinGirl · 23 points · Posted at 15:59:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Have two. The first one never comes out right, and you can have two chances to see if you should be a parent.
Schleckenmiester · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Practice makes perfect.
see-bees · 4 points · Posted at 15:59:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You pick it up because every kid is different and is going to have different games that work best.
Robin_Divebomb · 145 points · Posted at 15:29:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh this comment speaks to my life on such a real level! Lol
admiralfilgbo · 58 points · Posted at 15:33:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
well... which one was faster?
TurquoiseLuck · 40 points · Posted at 15:50:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
She was quadriplegic, so none really
Deaconse · 5 points · Posted at 16:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Her right one, of course, cuz her other leg was always left.
PM_ME_UR_PINEAPPLE · 6 points · Posted at 15:51:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Her middle one
EjaculatingNarwhal · 17 points · Posted at 15:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm finding some great parenting advice in this thread holy hell
theshizzler · 73 points · Posted at 15:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Not as hilarious, but I'll give you another one that I'm particularly proud of for free.
When my daughter was learning to write her alphabet she would get frustrated easily. One day she was refusing to write the letter 'A'. So I said we don't have to do this anymore let's draw a party instead. I drew a bunch of stick figure guests and asked if she could give all of the guests party hats, oh, and wouldn't it be nice if we put a stripe on the hats too?
Long story short she wrote the letter A a dozen times, then drew more guests and ended up writing the letter A about thirty times before she decided to make more elaborate decorations.
That day I nearly printed myself out a Father of the Century certificate.
EjaculatingNarwhal · 8 points · Posted at 17:01:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn pal, you don't fuck around when it comes to education huh? I'll verify that FotY certificate
horazon86 · 2 points · Posted at 19:45:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well done
upallday · 5 points · Posted at 21:18:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My current go-to is asking my daughter if she can lick her elbow. She’ll try it for at least 5 minutes. Great fun.
Xogmaster · 10 points · Posted at 15:32:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's hilarious.
5secondmemory · 9 points · Posted at 17:57:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The kids I nannies for were fond of graveyard. Everyone dies and lies in a pretend coffin on the floor without moving. Half the time they fell asleep, if they moved I got to tickle them ruthlessly.
Xisuthrus · 3 points · Posted at 23:26:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know now it was just to get us to stay still and shut up, but I unironically loved when I played that game in summer camp or kindergarten. I wasn't/am not very athletic, so games like that were the only ones I could get good at.
Chrisetmike · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was a favourite game with the scoutmasters, when we needed some peace and quiet for a few minutes. The kids loved the game too. Necer knew why lol
RNeberkenezer · 7 points · Posted at 15:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's fucking genius
UndeadBread · 5 points · Posted at 18:57:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just tried this on my 3-year-old because she's driving me crazy and she ran off to show me that her right leg is faster and her left leg is fatter. And now she won't leave me alone about what my legs are (they can't be fast or fat; they have to be something different) and she's not accepting any of my responses and she won't stop and I hate you for tricking me into this.
Bahunter22 · 4 points · Posted at 15:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fucking hell, this is a great idea. I’m just going to have to borrow this. Thanks!
razorbladecherry · 4 points · Posted at 16:53:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god. I just tried this on my 4 year old, not realizing she was in the middle of taking off her PJs. She almost fell ass over tea kettle. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
asclepius42 · 3 points · Posted at 15:45:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm using this.
skt113 · 3 points · Posted at 16:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was reading on r/confession that kids can be exhausting and annoying. Tell me what makes them worth having them.
noxxienoc · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah I'm stealing this. Hilarious!
orionescens · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many hours of adult freedom you just produced
fit4lyfe85 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit this comment just made my bday! Gonna get my 3 year old to do this today
hustl3tree5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm gonna need some more. Please help me
KarmaChameleon89 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underrated comment
midnightagenda · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are my new hero.
milllm · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just spit out my water laughing
Ianthina · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Execllebt I’m going to use this on my three year old. And then figure out variations to make it last.
Procrastinationist · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are a genius!
followthedarkrabbit · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thats amazing
AfterSchoolOrdinary · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a career nanny I just want to say I like how you think!
nopethis · 10 points · Posted at 15:39:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
haha we had the "bump on a log" game. Basically who could be silent for the longest time.....we played it a lot in the car.
mattleo · 4 points · Posted at 16:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you're really quiet, you kids can hear yourself grow!
jemidev · 5 points · Posted at 16:39:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I LOVED PLAYING THE "QUIET GAME"
My grandpa made it up and I loved it so much. I'd ask to play it in the car all the time. I was the only kid of the family so I was excited to play with the adults any chance I'd get. My grandpa would make funny faces at me and would try to get me to laugh to lose the game
catastic5 · 3 points · Posted at 16:38:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Parents recommended we the "quiet game" during dinner, movies, and car rides
RexiRoo · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our quite game growing up was called "Quaker", no idea why that name. It was good for movies, car rides, you name it. Kids or adults would just yell out "Quaker!" and the first one to talk loses.
DawnOfANewEra · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If we slept in a motel, my mother would let play a game of 'who can fall asleep first'. The winner got $20.
Smart move, mother
usernamescheckout · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At a summer camp as a kid, we played a game called “sleeping elephants.” The goal was to fall asleep first, and stay asleep for the longest. I would seriously try to win.
Skakitty · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Nan used to challenge my cousin and I to the “hold your breath the longest” game and the “stay silent the longest” I realised when I grew up it was just so she could read her book in peace lol.
ohhyouknow · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha when my dad couldn’t find the remote we would play “remote” and have to change the channel for him anytime he asked.
darkiiiie · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg this is fucking hilarious. Your dads a genius 😂
Kaicpap · 979 points · Posted at 15:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't realize the brilliance of this until I was much older, but growing up my dad would trick me into helping him do yard work by turning everything into a competition
"Let's see who can rake their half of the yard the best"
"Let's see who can pick up the most leaves and sticks"
"Let's see how fast you can clean off all these parts to the grill"
etc, etc.... props to him though - I ate it up
zippercot · 563 points · Posted at 16:01:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Competition is awesome. We used to give our daughters points for trying new foods at restaurants. "Try a Mussel, its worth 25 points. Your sister just ate an Escargot, she is 10 points ahead of you."
They both have very adventuresome palates to this day.
CeruleanMyst · 61 points · Posted at 17:03:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents did this but primarily with vegetables and called them “Veggie Points”. It worked up until I had a flash of realization that I was (roughly) ten bazillion points ahead of my brother and had nothing to show for it. But we both like vegetables so I guess that was the true reward in the end 😂
safashkan · 63 points · Posted at 16:23:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you call it an "Escargot" because if you said "snail" they wouldn't wanna try it?
zippercot · 45 points · Posted at 16:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
bingo
unaspirateur · 8 points · Posted at 19:36:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did they get anything for the points or was their reward the foods we tried aping the way?
pletentious_asshore · 5 points · Posted at 18:42:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ooo smart.
BarcodeSticker · 11 points · Posted at 17:32:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Competition is what drives most people. "let's see who can get most money/biggest house/best car" etc. Without all the social pressure people wouldn't care much about all of that.
Leaislala · 2 points · Posted at 00:24:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you. I am so trying this.
pievibes · 31 points · Posted at 15:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg yeah, when we cleaned the house my mom would tell us ‘whoever finished their chores first got to swiffer the floor!’ I think we just liked it because it squirted water but it was effective and my brother and I fought over it all the time.
pikeminnow · 22 points · Posted at 16:02:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's a good way of improving the experience all around. It's probably more fun to rake with your kids than just do it by yourself.
meltyman79 · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yup, life can be fun. Even if you are just doing chores.
Wilkerwilker · 7 points · Posted at 16:33:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As someone looking to have kids in the future. I'm going to use all these tricks on my kids.
PoiLethe · 3 points · Posted at 17:15:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hah my mom was that type of parent. I was not that type of kid. She was and still is annoyed that she cant figure out how to motivate me. But its usually really boring limited types of things like that. Or negging. The kind of "prove me wrong" type of motivation. Ah yes a sense of pride and accomplishment. Thanks mom I'd definitely rather have that than enjoy reading my book.
Eimiaj_Belial · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would do this too!
Who can pick the most rock or dirt clods out of the field
Who can weed the row the fastest.
I caught on pretty quick especially since I'd always lose lol.
LiteralPhilosopher · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I ... I don't think you're supposed to eat the leaves and grill parts, man.
PantherTheRogue · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't do much chores as kids, but we also never got an allowance. One time my grandma asked me to help her clean the yard of sticks and I said "sure, if you pay me." She then accused me of blackmailing her, which scared the shit out of me because I didn't know what it meant but it sounded scary as hell.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Listening to my ex-military friends, this is like 90% of low-level leadership. Idk the terms, but all of the guys who ran less than a dozen people have stories like this.
Astrokiwi · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Even at 2 years old, it works on my toddler when I say "show the doggy how well you brush your tooth!"
NightGod · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is your dad's name Tom?
Shintoho · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I used to have "banana races" with my dad where we would see who could eat a banana the fastest
It was years before I realised it was just a trick to get me to eat the damn things
MisterFalcon7 · 1 points · Posted at 09:44:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents did it with who can pick up the most dog poop in the backyard. We had a good sized backyard and we had a weekly chore of picking up dog shit.
They got us homemade pooper scoopers, a milk jug cut in half and a plastic bag to scoop it in.
My sister and me would look for the best dog poo scooping stick.
When ready, my parents will start it like a race, "ready, set, go" and my sister and me would race around poop scooping.
We would then place our bags on a scale we had outside.
Whoever picked the most got the pride of winning.
BowlingWithButter · 1120 points · Posted at 15:19:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me way too much of the video of the kids who took a field trip to a plantation.
Mugroid · 681 points · Posted at 15:40:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"We was singing songs and shit" fucking classic
vonMishka · 323 points · Posted at 15:37:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was just thinking the same thing. That guy is so damn funny. I laugh hard no matter how many times I hear it.
InfectWillRiseAgain · 160 points · Posted at 16:11:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's a great example of how stories evolve the more a skilled storyteller performs it
Leto_Atreides_II · 37 points · Posted at 17:56:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's kinda sad that it's affected his life and career to where he's expressed a wish for it to disappear from the internet though.
Scout816 · 20 points · Posted at 18:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elaborate? :(
Leto_Atreides_II · 44 points · Posted at 18:36:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
From what I can remember, it's just followed him through his life and I think he's a lawyer now or something? Basically he's just trying to live a normal professional life because he's not this person anymore, but people only want the meme.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 20:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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YodasMom · 4 points · Posted at 20:46:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I only went to a couple mallet parties but I remember once someone was serving everclear with animal crackers floating in it from a cooking pot. I think it was the 18 hole golf course thing, what a time
terminbee · 2 points · Posted at 00:30:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a fucking classic story.
princecaviar · 50 points · Posted at 15:56:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I fucking love that video, it's so funny. The way he tells it is amazing.
Noli420 · 42 points · Posted at 15:35:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is f-ing hilarious and I almost fell off the toilet laughing. Thanks for brightening morning!
corgibuttes · 40 points · Posted at 15:59:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God it never gets old
JourneyAfoot · 15 points · Posted at 18:46:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've always thought that the one dude losing it in the background made it so much better.
vonMishka · 4 points · Posted at 02:01:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh definitely. His laughter is contagious.
Def_Your_Duck · 11 points · Posted at 17:06:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy SHIT what a good find
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helkar · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
does he? when did he say that? and why?
masturbatrix213 · 4 points · Posted at 23:17:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I love whenever this video pops back into my life. Just showed this to my roommate and we were both in tears, this shits too good!
Revolt189 · 3 points · Posted at 22:25:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This never gets old.
Gulliverlived · 3 points · Posted at 00:19:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg, I’d forgotten this. Thank you.
crichmond77 · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roll Tide
leadabae · 0 points · Posted at 19:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this video always makes me uncomfortable, idk whether it's the angle it's filmed at or just the way the guy is talking but his face is angled up so much that it looks like he's straining to say every word he says and is talking to the ceiling...it just tires me out watching it.
Younghip · 219 points · Posted at 15:09:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would also play also play "slave" and clean the floor with toothbrushes 😂
Spinzel · 23 points · Posted at 15:35:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wonder if there are some parents out there who were constantly confused by random weird/disgusting flavors when brushing their teeth.
herbal-haze · 8 points · Posted at 16:39:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I think I did that to my dad's toothbrush. I'm going to hide mine as soon as my daughter can reach the sink.
Just-Call-Me-J · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Relevant Baby Blues comic
Krillkus · 20 points · Posted at 15:55:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
supa_powa_owa · 8 points · Posted at 15:54:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wish my kids were young and gullible enough to want to play this. My grout is disgusting.
sashabybee · 354 points · Posted at 15:09:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm trying not to laugh at this in a too-quiet doctors office. So innocent, so wrong.
AwwwMangos · 11 points · Posted at 15:35:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean, at least in the imaginary game the slaves were escaping and not toiling in servitude. I think their hearts were in the right place.
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Def_Your_Duck · 3 points · Posted at 16:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Downvote because YOU used the "word" pre.
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Def_Your_Duck · 4 points · Posted at 17:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Downvote for being alive
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Loathingcoot8 · 0 points · Posted at 18:12:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What
DankMemes2016 · 124 points · Posted at 15:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it's a better slave game then the ones my scout friends and I played for the past three years loosely based on the TV series roots.
In my defense I wanted to stop playing, but I have little influence and didn't want to be alone. The whole game stopped when the first black kid in 20 years joined our troop.
send_me_your_calm · 20 points · Posted at 15:36:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha no shit omg can you imagine
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DankMemes2016 · 8 points · Posted at 17:02:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm 15.
Loathingcoot8 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That guys stupid, and his account is proof of it.
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh fuck off, dude. Look at the whole sub of r/teenagers
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LowRune · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao dude go drink your apple juice.
IDislikeMyJob · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh get outta here with your shitty elitism. The future is now old man
Xander_504_82 · 22 points · Posted at 15:27:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I also had a slave game but it was much more sinister. We would turn a papasan chair over and put a space heater inside with sheets on top. Then one of us would get under it and the others would lift up the sheet and whip,or poke and stab the "slave" with sticks or broom handles and such.
Yeah, we were fucked up kids.
noobengland · 13 points · Posted at 15:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Great opportunity seized by dad, lol.
We played Underground Railroad in school, as a class assignment. The teacher had us carry provisions and supplies and “sneak” through the empty hallways as a group during classtime. I think I carried bologna and was not happy about getting something so lame.
IIRC, she set up some path markers and constellations set up, and had us sing “Follow the Drinking Gourd” trying to find and follow the North Star to find our way. This was like 25 years ago so I don’t remember the ending sadly.
PM-ME-YOUR-SORROWS · 14 points · Posted at 15:18:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone knows that Addy was the best American Girl.
3point14purr · 11 points · Posted at 15:44:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved that they had to have the little picture on the same page as her big picture to show how long her hair was.
ItsMeTK · 4 points · Posted at 16:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is she? I'm reading through them in order and am just about to get to Addy.
PM-ME-YOUR-SORROWS · 3 points · Posted at 16:39:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well, obviously it's subjective, but she was always my favorite growing up in the 90s.
quirkyknitgirl · 5 points · Posted at 19:39:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always loved Molly, but Addy didn't come out until I was a bit older.
I'm still so sad they stopped focusing on the historic stories.
WhiteHeather · 2 points · Posted at 03:22:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The whole franchise started to go downhill when Mattel took over from Pleasant Company, sadly :(
WhiteHeather · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Excuse me, no, Felicity is definitely the best.
Addy is pretty great too though and I totally played underground railroad with my friends when she first came out...we were all very white and it makes me cringe now, but it was very innocent at the time.
notorious98 · 13 points · Posted at 15:35:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Good stuff.
coltfan1223 · 9 points · Posted at 16:01:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember in fifth grade our elementary school did an overnight thing where all the kids were slaves trying to escape on the Underground Railroad. Was intense and scary but a good experience to have. Obviously we didn’t face the same dangers, but the experience definitely helped me get closer to understanding what it was probably like for the slaves, if only a little bit. Is it bad they I would be interested in doing something like this again as an adult? An immersive Underground Railroad simulation that isn’t watered down for kids just to try to get a better grip on what it was like. Without risking being killed.
JT420 · 9 points · Posted at 15:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck yeh dunkaroos
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is brilliant. Your dad is a smart man.
Bells87 · 5 points · Posted at 15:32:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was obsessed with American Girls too, and especially Addy's stories.
Really insensitive (but innocent), but I'd recreate her stories with my 101 Dalmatians toys.
whiiskeypapii · 6 points · Posted at 15:09:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m laughing so hard at work right now.
hatchins · 7 points · Posted at 15:35:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm reminded of when I was about 9 or 10 and would play a game with a slightly older neighborhood boy that I was a captured Native American slave girl and he was a cowboy who made me pick plants until I'd run away.
Ah, the accidental racism of our childhoods.
stonesourshadow · 4 points · Posted at 15:41:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend went through a period when she was obsessed with Cinderella. Naturally as a kid she wanted to dress up and play act as her, so her mom would give her "cinderella" chores to do the house. Had her wiping the floors and dusting lol
Azusanga · 4 points · Posted at 16:22:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh mine did not go as wholesome as you. I (white) whipped my neighbor (also white) with a jump rope. My mom made me watch as she cut it into 2 inch pieces and dumped it in the trash. We were never allowed to have jump ropes again, as this jump rope had been a cautionary toe in the water after they were previously banned due to another unrelated jump rope incident
Kehgals · 119 points · Posted at 15:02:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The 90s were a simpler time. Imagine the outrage if kids were playing something called "the slave game" now.
katielady125 · 18 points · Posted at 15:33:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was thinking of Marie Antoinette and her friends and their little peasant village in the garden that they would play in.
chanandjoeman · 10 points · Posted at 15:41:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The difference being it was a bunch of grown ups who had the resources to better the lives of the people they were emulating.
katielady125 · 6 points · Posted at 16:19:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For sure. No doubt if these kids had gotten a chance to free some slaves or help them escape they would have been all over that! Marie was just so totally unaware, she thought being a poor peasant was actually fun. Yikes!
jxd_- · 90 points · Posted at 15:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is escaping from slavery it wouldnt be bad at all if played now
spartagnann · 9 points · Posted at 15:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
People would still be outraged the parents encouraged the game and assigned "slave chores" to begin with. Which is dumb since this seems like a good teaching opportunity and sounds like it was one for the kids.
Qualityhams · 8 points · Posted at 15:40:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well it sounds super fun so the context is already inappropriate for the material.
Cyanoblamin · 5 points · Posted at 17:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I disagree. Kids are gonna have fun doing whatever it is they do. At least this way they are learning about history and social problems.
Qualityhams · 12 points · Posted at 17:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean imagine saying we’re going to play holocaust so get in this box and pretend you’re in a train headed toward the unknown. And say goodbye to your baby brother!
Fun is appropriate where it’s appropriate. If slavery is taught in a fun way you’re not setting kids up for an honest lesson about slavery at all. If their takeaway and memory of slavery is “wow that was a blast playing manhunt” then the lesson was a failure.
quirkyknitgirl · 3 points · Posted at 19:41:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think it also depends on the age of child and how much they know, and how much the parent explains.
I could totally see a younger kid who has been introduced to the holocaust and slavery in a watered down manner, because of age and how schools might approach it, starting to play a game like that. Both were definitely watered down quite a bit when I first learned about them in school - though that changed somewhat as we got older. (I grew up in the south. There was always an element of underplaying the horrors of slavery that I find appalling.)
I would hope that parents would take it as a learning opportunity, though.
Idonwatchporn · 2 points · Posted at 15:24:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unless they’re white kids, or black kids actually, in fact there would definitely be some outrage
JohnBrennansCoup · -8 points · Posted at 15:31:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I'm quite sure some regressives would be up in arms if they were white kids since white kids can never understand oppression or some shit.
mcmatt93 · 32 points · Posted at 15:40:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes let all get angry about the fictional person who might get annoyed at this made up situation.
How dare that fictional person be mad about this made up situation! They should care about real problems!
JohnBrennansCoup · -1 points · Posted at 19:38:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or you could see for yourself: https://www.campusreform.org/
RyanTheQ · 3 points · Posted at 19:14:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Based on your username, I think you're the kinda guy that gets mad at straw men every day.
JohnBrennansCoup · -2 points · Posted at 19:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't think you know what a strawman is, Q.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 15:25:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont think many people would be upset with some little kids playing a game where they try to sympathize with the struggles of people in the past.
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 15:36:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You underestimate stupid people
Cherribomb · 6 points · Posted at 16:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Really? In a time where a kid can get suspended from school for doing the pretend finger gun?
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 21:01:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of couree theres always some but I feel the whole overly-offended thing is massively overblown by people. Besides, that's just a school administration being rediculous as they tend to be.
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I see more people offended by the idea that most people wouldn't be offended than actual offended people.
fnordit · 11 points · Posted at 15:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the 90s they'd have said the exact same thing, but about the 70s. People played Imagine Outrage in the 90s, too.
Ask-About-My-Book · 13 points · Posted at 15:16:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm assuming they're black from the doll, so nobody would really care today either as long as the parents were in on it.
indieRuckus · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Here we go
Completejerry · -22 points · Posted at 15:19:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You sound triggered.
toastedstapler · 14 points · Posted at 15:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn't sound triggered to me, it was just an observation that people are a bit more sensitive about stuff like that nowadays
Completejerry · -11 points · Posted at 15:25:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay sweet
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Completejerry · -2 points · Posted at 15:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not upset.
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Completejerry · 2 points · Posted at 15:25:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nuh uh you are
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Completejerry · 6 points · Posted at 15:32:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm being reasonable you're going loko my broko
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Rioraku · 8 points · Posted at 15:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marie
0530am_ · 9 points · Posted at 15:34:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They’re MINERALS
virginal_sacrifice · 3 points · Posted at 15:37:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I called it 'Cinderella'. Difficult to play when everyone wants to be Cinderella.
I_ForgotMyOldAccount · 3 points · Posted at 15:57:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is fantastic, and I have no idea on how to share this story with other people without getting looks
maladaptivedreamer · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would have “Amish Sundays” sometimes where we weren’t allowed to use electricity and did yard work. Dads are creative.
halfdeadmoon · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I will never say the word
"Procrastinate" again; I'll never
See myself in the mirror with my eyes closed
I didn't apologize for
When I was eight and I made my younger brother
Have to be my personal slave
Kelbo5000 · 4 points · Posted at 18:00:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did a large procession
Wave their torches as my head fell in the basket
And was everybody dancing on the casket?
Now it’s over, I’m dead, and I haven’t done anything that I want.
OR I’m still aliiiive and there’s nothing I want to do~
lifeofarticsound · 4 points · Posted at 15:38:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This seemed like a game of tag that my cousins and I used to play but we would call it Immigration, half of us would be Border Patrol and the other half would be Immigrants. The reason this was the name was because my uncle lived out in the middle of nowhere and his back yard was cut by a weird fence/stone wall. I don’t know if anyone has ever seen or heard about The Stanford Experiment where they split the two group of people up into Prisoners and Prison Officers but I feel like the roles got to us, I only say this because I caught two of my cousins hog tying another one of our relatives because they caught him and had to teach him a “lesson about coming into this country illegally.” Just an FYI, we all come from first generation immigrant house holds. I’m pretty sure our parents never caught on to what we were playing since they just thought it was tag but it got bad from time to time.
tryinghealthrny · 8 points · Posted at 15:59:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
wtf 🤦🏿♀️🤦🏿♀️🤦🏿♀️!!! I’m both mad and enthused right now. This fucking world right here. 😤
PlNKERTON · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol child me would have had a blast with that. We once played this game where we were hiding in a room that we pretended was a train car, and we were escaping some bad guys. And all we had to eat was some leftover cold pizza that we'd nibble on.
Ghitit · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToqVW4n86U
Psych0matt · 2 points · Posted at 15:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“ She gets one whole bucket!”
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This is somewhat similar to a game my friends and I played on our way home from school. At elementary school back in, I dunno, early 90's, the school computer had a game called Freedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom!_(video_game)
This game was like an Oregon Trail approach for slaves escaping from the South. What we did after school was hide from all other people/cars while walking home. Sometimes this was elaborate like crawling into some bushes and other times was a simple as posting up behind a telephone pool while cars passed.
It was a fun game but more similar to some half ass hide n seek tho, the actual being a slave part wasn't that relevant but what we did was really similar to the PC game. It was all about making the route while being undetected.
mrsmagiclee · 2 points · Posted at 16:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My son and I were playing 'truth or dare' I dared him to fold the laundry. About 3 towels in he realized what I did. It was Hilarious!
masimone · 2 points · Posted at 16:22:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a Halloween Party at my uncle's house. One of the "games" was to collect as many acorns as you can. Us kids collected several pounds of acorns that all ended up in his deer bait pile.
flyingmops · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I convinced my younger sister to play Marry Popins, I would sit on our top bunk and flick my fingers, while she would run around and pick every toy up, until our room was no longer messy!
old_shart · 3 points · Posted at 15:20:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
you made me remember this video: Picking cotton on a racist fieldtrip
thewurstunicorn · 2 points · Posted at 16:00:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
twist to this story, you're Asian.
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barepines · 2 points · Posted at 23:43:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
... why racism? Seems like it might a good opportunity for them to develop some empathy.
smartalec48 · 2 points · Posted at 15:20:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weirdly wholesome?
SwingingSalmon · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“I don’t know Janet, they’re pretending they’re some slaves or some shit. Just... I’ll make them rake or something”
Insectshelf3 · 2 points · Posted at 15:49:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When you said “real slave chores” I immediately thought this was going to take a bad turn.
Nope. That is some a+ parenting.
9bikes · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Her dad deserves all the upvotes for his ingenuity.
TheRealTJ · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fucking white privilege.
uber1337h4xx0r · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like that would have cheapened the experience. I get they were commiting fraud and just making their kids do work for them, but the kids would have likely thought (for a few years, at least), "slavery ain't that bad. People were just too lazy to get work done; I look forward to more slavery work tomorrow".
Perhaps add a few exhausting chores like "dig this hole" or "cut down this small tree.... Now imagine instead of that one tree, you had to cut 10 and someone was hitting you because you were too slow"
Blargmastah · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A1 parenting.
Chratt · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is amazing
Momnipotence · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tom Sawyer FTW!
jbob133 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Parenting level over 9000
PM_ME_UR_BABYSITTER · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ha! You win. This was the best thing I’ve read this week.
BirkyTheSecond · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Upvote for Dunkaroos
Golden_FrenchFri · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is so innocent and adorable!
Bitch_Ass · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was your dad Tom Sawyer?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's all about perspective.
What treasured memories.
nOoOope48 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me smile, fking funny honestly :D loved it
CaptainMagnets · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God damn that's brilliant AND could only come around naturally
cncoleman · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the Cinderella version of this. I would scrub everything with a rag and my grandma even made me the dresses. I had a blue dress with a brown skirt, black apron and flats for the “before” and a light blue gown with little glitter glue dots for my “after”
thisplacesucks- · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/90XLNQXN_74 reminds me of this lol
MarchKick · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That honestly sounds like so much fun. Good on your parents for encouraging role playing/imagination.
holisticholes · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh. My god
Not_Bionca · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WHYYYYYY was this sooooooo funny omg
Favnigga · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm a guy and my nickname is Addy 😳
checkerboard_36 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! We watched The Little Princess too many times and played "slaves" all the time as kids. I have pictures of me and my sister raking leaves being "slaves".
lilkajj · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play something along the same lines except we were Anne Frank and her family hiding from Nazis
NarbacZif · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's actually brilliant oml
gorgossia · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this too though.
-Travis · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh snap, my sister had Addy, and when my daughter turned 5 she got Kit and Mary Ellen from her grandparents. Really well made dolls and I like the stories they tell with them.
Do not, however, waste your money on any of the accessories. We thought it would be cool to get our daughter the space discovery playset and robot dog she locked onto in the catalog for christmas, and not only were we disappointed, but my kid literally said "that's all it does" when the button on the dog simply activated a robo bark. $50 for a plastic dog with a push button bark. We figured it would have movement or something for that price. And the space playset was a $100 plastic playbench with a lab coat and two small "maker" (read fake lego) sets. She has played more with the candy dispenser keychain that she got in her stocking than either AG toy, but plays with the dolls non-stop.
crunchthenumbers01 · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok I just have to know, what was y'alls skin color?
bagelswearingsocks · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. On a related note, I had similar experience with the Molly books. I begged my mom for a beret and stole my sisters glasses and refused to eat anything but mashed beets for like two months. I never figured out how to make the beets the way Molly’s mom did; it was legitimately repulsive but I was fucking committed.
What is it about those books??
shawnee_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me laugh until tears. Thanks.
Jclew · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My daughter (8) is obsessed with her Addy doll and the stories (currently reading the birthday one). Thank you for this amazing idea!
indieRuckus · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not going to judge either way, but just for proper context... are you black or no?
i_moved_away · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how else to ask this.... are you black?God I hope so...
hecticdolphin69 · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a slave game, except different. One person was the slave and the other was the master. Basically we turned off all the lights and the slave tried to escape, if they were caught by the master the master would then proceed to beat the shit out of the slave
never_met_her_bivore · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play time-period games with my sister where we would specify “felicity time” or “molly time” and just play house/life in that era
simplerthings · 636 points · Posted at 14:00:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Island of the Blue Dolphins inspired by the book. I'd build a little hut in the living room and collect abalone from the beach (they were shoes) and fight off packs of wild dogs played by stuffed animals. I'd make sure to spend a good portion of the day staring wistfully out towards the sea and weep for my dead brother and my people. My actual brother would try to play with me but I'd be like, "NO! YOU CAN'T! YOU'RE DEAD!!"
I'd read the book every summer and get inspired to play again.
ARCoati · 42 points · Posted at 14:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha that's great! I loved that book so much as a kid. I would have enjoyed that game I was usually playing games in my head by myself anyway.
amoodymermaid · 19 points · Posted at 16:21:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh, that book captivated me too! I used to pretend to be her in the bathtub.
justkindafloating · 12 points · Posted at 17:36:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
thank you for reminding me of this book
faoltiama · 11 points · Posted at 16:52:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, I re-read that book so many times
ghostguessed · 4 points · Posted at 01:07:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same...
gujayeon · 10 points · Posted at 18:11:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a similar game based on this book! I pretended our tree house in the back yard was my hut. Same thing with the weeping for my people and isolating myself from my siblings to make it more realistic. This brought back great memories!
Ascarisahealing · 9 points · Posted at 20:38:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also liked the book. Hilarious that you didn’t let your brother play.
caitlinadian · 8 points · Posted at 20:34:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh wow i completely forgot that book existed
fridgepickle · 8 points · Posted at 20:42:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yooooo I played a similar game with my sister, but there was a little park maybe a quarter mile away from our house with a pond and cool flowers, so we’d play there. Plus there was a friendly red husky who lived in one of the yards that neighbored the park, so we called him Rontu.
FantasticShoulders · 7 points · Posted at 23:09:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I both played this, too! It spiraled into two separate games: Oshi’s Island (mine) and The Island of the Pasolmincas (hers). We both wrote “books” based off of our adventures, and have fun laughing at the cringy prose now.
Evoline17 · 6 points · Posted at 23:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's my favorite book to this damn day.
Rysona · 6 points · Posted at 23:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man I loved that book
IamSortaShy · 4 points · Posted at 01:52:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Island of the Blue Dolphins was a great book!
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 05:21:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That book was MY LIFE in third grade. I credit it with my hyper vigilance for wild dogs
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 00:34:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Great book!
Msspookytown · 3 points · Posted at 06:25:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too! Except I actually lived in the area that book takes place. Every weekend, we'd go to the beach and I'd be off building a hut and making baskets and stuff.
Megavore97 · 2 points · Posted at 06:52:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
DUDE! My teacher read this book to our class in grade 4 and I was thinking about it but couldn’t remember the name of the book.
Thanks for reminding me!
jessdb19 · 599 points · Posted at 14:29:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The wolves in the trees belong to me.
3rd/4th grade.
I had a wolf pack that lived in the forest near my school. (Keep in mind that the "forest" was a line of 5-10 short pine trees in a line). The wolf pack was my pack and they all listened to me, and the popular girls would get so mad that THEY didn't have wolves. So I'd let them "borrow" a wolf for recess in exchange for coveted silvery pencils & erasers in the shape of fruit.
Yawehg · 608 points · Posted at 15:22:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you managed a hedge fund.
TheRedLego · 8 points · Posted at 00:51:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get. Out.
Kinkypotato45 · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Take my upvote and never come back
BigCuddleBear · 135 points · Posted at 16:11:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The wolves in the trees belong to me" sounds like an under appreciated art film.
faoltiama · 46 points · Posted at 16:49:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's a book called "Tell The Wolves I'm Home". It has a distinct lack of wolves and is in fact about a girl coping with the loss of her beloved uncle/godfather and building a relationship with his "widowed" boyfriend until he too dies of AIDS.
Si1eNce1 · 16 points · Posted at 16:40:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I agree! Such a good title!
Ace_Phant0m · 60 points · Posted at 16:10:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait like slaves, or actual wolves?
Orangebeardo · 35 points · Posted at 16:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have no idea what you mean aside from actual wolves..
PartyPorpoise · 34 points · Posted at 16:42:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imaginary wolves.
NoMorePie4U · 29 points · Posted at 17:30:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imagine Dragons, but wolves
jessdb19 · 12 points · Posted at 16:45:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imaginary
Sovietnepal · 7 points · Posted at 19:55:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait, so there were actual wolves and you pretended you owned them?
jessdb19 · 10 points · Posted at 20:27:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No...imaginary...
Sovietnepal · 9 points · Posted at 20:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao I'm an idiot
jessdb19 · 10 points · Posted at 20:32:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was just a handful of short pine trees, basically like what you'd put up for some landscaping...I don't think wolves would live there. LOL
FireCache · 4 points · Posted at 22:15:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We actually had a game like this! Although eventually the boys got into it and some joined the wolves but many created this military faction where they pretended to shoot the wolves. I’m really unsure how the staff didn’t notice the middle school boys pointing sticks and making shooting noises at other students but it was the game of the year. Some of the kids still remember and it was fun while it lasted. Also for some reason me and three others made this weird factions of Sasquatches. The oldest boy convinced us we have to eat bugs to join the faction, i just pretended to eat them. But yeah even the popular girls got jealous and the “winner” would get a prize pool generally consisting of cool looking pencils.
jessdb19 · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a spider buster group from some of the wolf followers! We got rid of the big mean spiders that were inhabiting the wood playground equipment. Which meant relocating them to the metal jungle gym.
It's funny how alike games can be for kids.
TheRedLego · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Edit: I’m not the only one with questions.
jessdb19 · 2 points · Posted at 00:56:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wolves were 100% imaginary.
Because the popular girls were braindead and unimaginative, so they believed that the make believe wolves were mine and I commanded them.
cornergoddess · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait were the wolves people? Or imaginary?
jessdb19 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
imaginary
gingangguli · 300 points · Posted at 14:25:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"shake shake shampoo".
like a game of tag but instead of being "it' after getting tagged you're immobilized and have to wait until the it gets to immobilize everyone. when the last free person gets tagged everyone shouts "viva!" while raising their hand. last person to shout it becomes it.
so it's called shake shake shampoo because you have to shake your hips and run your hand through your hair as if you're shampooing it when you get tagged. being the first one to get tagged sucks because you'll have to shake your hips til the end.
headietoinfinity · 92 points · Posted at 16:11:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What in the hell 😂
gingangguli · 13 points · Posted at 19:52:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
don't knock it til you've tried it. or in our local language katok mga misis
headietoinfinity · 7 points · Posted at 19:53:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love it! Reminds me of the shampoo commercial
thecolourbleu · 41 points · Posted at 16:06:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like an interesting variation of freeze tag or candle tag!
toolsoftheincomptnt · 45 points · Posted at 17:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A flamboyant version of freeze tag, lol
gingangguli · 12 points · Posted at 18:36:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
freeze tag is boring. you just stay there and stand still awkwardly. But with shake shake shampoo you force the it to decide if the world is ready for his target's hip shaking. as for the target, freeze tag might get you weird looks from onlookers because you're standing still. but with shake shake shampoo, they get it. "ah that boy got tagged, nothing weird happening here. no reason to call the cops or the asylum on these kids". wholesome fun eh?
Nathonski · 15 points · Posted at 19:18:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends put our own spin on freeze tag and called it “toilet tag.” Basically, if you got tagged you stood still with your arm out waiting for someone other then the one who was “it” to “flush” you (push your arm down) which allowed you to move again. This went on until everyone was a toilet. Very weird now that I think of it lol.
gingangguli · 9 points · Posted at 19:50:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i love how kids around the world have a variation of freeze tag. there must be a compendium for these.
Karn180 · 13 points · Posted at 21:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, we had bridge tag. To unfreeze someone you had to crawl between their legs.
Skakitty · 6 points · Posted at 19:52:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Melting candles!
gingangguli · 7 points · Posted at 19:54:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
is this the version where you sit down when you get tagged? we call it "habulang upo" which roughly translates to "sitting down tag".
so instead of shaking our hips we just sit down. again, boring, so shake shake shampoo is the way to go.
Skakitty · 8 points · Posted at 20:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was the version where if you were tagged, you had to stay in that spot, standing, and you would slowly make wavey hand motions with your arms out sideways and gradually start crouching to the floor as if ‘melting’ - the person still untagged could save you by running under your arms, and then you were free again!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Nathonski · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think so. ): I mostly played it during recess in elementary school.
wardrich · 8 points · Posted at 18:15:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds absolutely hilarious. I bet it was a blast to play
gingangguli · 12 points · Posted at 18:31:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to play this on the streets. imagine getting tagged in the middle of the street, playing by the rules, you stay there. then a car pulls over, honks at a kid shaking his hips and scratching his head like a deranged person.
wardrich · 5 points · Posted at 18:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOL that's as hilarious as it is dangerous
gingangguli · 9 points · Posted at 19:02:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
drive around mister, I'll be here all day
laylabug · 5 points · Posted at 18:05:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
on an unrelated note- Are you any good at dancing salsa?
gingangguli · 15 points · Posted at 19:51:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
no. But I now have scoliosis. both have some "s" letters in them so that counts .
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 23:20:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had similar called “stuck in the mud”
Once tagged you were stuck in the mud, and stood let’s apart frozen in place, anyone else playing could climb through your legs under you and you were no longer stuck, once everyone was stuck, the game restarts with the last person to get tagged is “it”
TonyStark100 · 5 points · Posted at 17:56:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And that's how Shakira got her hips!
gingangguli · 5 points · Posted at 18:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
for sure. I was once excluded from playing this because my hip shaking was deemed too vulgar for public places. jk. but it was fun.
darkwolf2607 · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play similar game called ice. The 'it' was selected after a series of scissors paper rock. He would be ice and we all would be water. If ice touched water, water would freeze and would be immobilized. But if any other 'waters' touched a frozen player, he would again turn into water. The ice had to chase people and make sure no one gets unfrozen. When everybody was ice, the next 'it' was selected.
Zorakas · 370 points · Posted at 14:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In gym class occasionally we were allowed to play this game called "Line tag." Essentially, everyone would have to stay and move along the gym floor basketball/volleyball lines and the one or two people who were assigned to be it would have to run along the lines to tag people. If you were tagged, you had to sit down on the line where you were tagged, becoming a road block for other people. Loved that game.
SquirrelSanctuary · 68 points · Posted at 15:30:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Line tag was dope. I remember loving it in elementary. Our teacher had a system where every 3-4 minutes a certain line color would be “lava” and off limits until the next color was announced.
mc395686 · 68 points · Posted at 15:35:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that! We called it Pac-Man and the people who were it were the ghosts.
trevorm7294 · 10 points · Posted at 16:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, and the ghosts used hula hoops to kind of lasso the other people. It was probably not safe.
techgineer13 · 2 points · Posted at 23:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did we go to the same school?
trevorm7294 · 2 points · Posted at 01:43:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well unless your “school” was a gym/daycare, no.
mc395686 · 1 points · Posted at 02:21:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe?
Thing_On_Your_Shelf · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played that too!
maximillianaire · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same with us
novaspax · 10 points · Posted at 19:59:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my school when you got tagged you had to make a bridge with your body and you were back in if someone crawled under you
Zorakas · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Interesting!
Robobvious · 5 points · Posted at 19:34:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They totally still do this! And kids still love it, lol.
OWEN228 · 5 points · Posted at 20:05:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game in gym as well at my school they called it pac man
trevski143 · 4 points · Posted at 20:40:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would call that pacman
m0thfr0st · 4 points · Posted at 21:40:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called that Pac Man in Elementary through Middle school. It was so fun!
Woooshed_boi · 2 points · Posted at 22:33:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahhh, Hamster Tag.
Evoline17 · 2 points · Posted at 23:14:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ever play Zipper Tag?
Fuck Zipper Tag.
ABlueSpork · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you live in md?
Zorakas · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No I lived in East Tennessee
ABlueSpork · 1 points · Posted at 12:11:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
O lel
Shmitty594 · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This almost sounds like irl Pacman
TristanBerlak · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah we played that too. It was so much fun
Notumbre · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was pac man for us
urmomisdisappointed · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha played this with my students, we called it Pac Man tag
A_F_N_F · 366 points · Posted at 13:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa had a bunch of old tires in his backyard. I liked to stack em and make a Batmobile out of them. My friend and I would rule Gotham (backyard) everyday.
horsenbuggy · 17 points · Posted at 15:32:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So we moved when I was 8. We kept all the boxes, including those big wardrobe boxes. My cousin and I would build kinda big cardboard box forts in our basement for years after the move. She now has claustrophbia and can't believe that she crawled around inside boxes so much as a kid.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:58:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma has a bunch of empty yogurt cups. I used to love making little towers and houses with them when I was a kid.
Squif-17 · 762 points · Posted at 15:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play “Get Down Mr. President” with my mates every now and then.
Basically one of us would start the game by placing our hand to our ear (like we were secret service). Last one to realise is “Mr. President” and we all dogpile him.
Bugman657 · 97 points · Posted at 18:17:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I regretted teaching this game to other camp counselors.
CoffeeHamster · 57 points · Posted at 20:12:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Am camp counselor. This is my favorite game.
DonCallate · 113 points · Posted at 15:18:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm glad other people know this one. I sometimes think I was raised in a parallel, but more fun, reality because no one I talk to seems to remember it.
genuineparts · 7 points · Posted at 07:22:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cause of all the concussions.
muffinbitesforme · 50 points · Posted at 17:12:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in the HS marching band, we would play this during the 3rd quarter of football games when we had breaks! I was always terrified of being Mr. President.
Taco2010 · 27 points · Posted at 18:04:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would primarily play this in elevators because we could shove people into the corner!
pleasedonttalk2me · 20 points · Posted at 19:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like it would make a great drinking game
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 21:55:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can tell you it makes for a very fun and very painful drinking game when 7 people dogpile on one guy sitting on a bench at the bar
Roosterca · 18 points · Posted at 20:30:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same thing, except after we tackled Mr president, someone would yell "take his shoes", and we'd take his shoes while he was pinned. It was all about the shoes.
wilder782 · 2 points · Posted at 17:09:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
And if they got their shoes taken they became the "nerd"
Axem_Blue · 17 points · Posted at 19:45:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this, except it was only a few years ago at my frat house. As you can imagine, it was infinitely dangerous having 30 guys give you a flying elbow drop
SeaTie · 12 points · Posted at 18:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, that's hilarious.
justacinnimonbun · 12 points · Posted at 22:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a party at my house once. We decided to play after getting plastered. My mom didn’t know what was happening other than the fact that drunk teenagers were laughing menacingly while slowly walking towards her with our fingers to our ears. I remember getting punched in the face, but only after I hit the ground. That was a great night.
followthedarkrabbit · 5 points · Posted at 20:09:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thats brilliant. I might have to steal it and turn it into a drinking game
pwaves13 · 4 points · Posted at 22:06:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in my frat. Got crazy sometimes, especially at big meetings.
archeonz · 6 points · Posted at 08:26:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this one on the dance floor at my friend's wedding. Picture it: 20 adults, singing 'Sweet Caroline' at the top of their lungs, all with one hand to their ears, having a good time, but watching each other. Waiting for the last poor soul who wasn't paying attention to suddenly realize what was happening.
It was the ditzy girl dancing next to me. I tried to warn her because didn't think she would survive the impending dogpile. She didn't understand and then it was too late.
"GET DOWN MR. PRESIDENT!"
I did the only thing I could think of: I tackled her first. Then I braced myself for the onslaught, fully expecting to get very hurt. But they were kind, it was over in five minutes and we all got up and kept on dancing. I'm not sure she ever understood what happened.
whitewolf048 · 2 points · Posted at 23:49:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this at high school too. Surprisingly, I dont think the teachers ever caught on
koinu-chan_love · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play this game now.
cornergoddess · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn’t someone else post this before?
Squif-17 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably it’s a pretty well known game!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this with my college rugby team up until we snapped the only non-rugby playing girl's ankle.
Thing_On_Your_Shelf · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my favorite games to play too
ScizorSci · -13 points · Posted at 22:42:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So basically America right now?
The_Original_Gronkie · 360 points · Posted at 14:41:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our elementary school had a steep hill on part of the playground, so we would play a game that we invented called Best Falls.
5 or 6 guys would line up at the top of the hill, and another guy would be at the bottom of the hill. The guy at the bottom would ask the first guy at the top how he wanted to be killed. The guy at the top would say "machine gun" or "bazooka" or "hand grenade." Then the guy at the bottom would make a big show of using that weapon on the guy at the top, while the guy at the top would make a big show of getting killed and falling and rolling down the hill. Then the guy who just got killed would stand at the bottom, and the thrower would go to the top.
It was fun watching everybody leap into the air from explosions or jerk around as they were shot by multiple bullets and then roll down the hill. Everybody got the chance to be the shooter and the guy getting killed, and both were fun in their own way. We could eat up an entire recess playing Best Falls.
Beartrap125 · 29 points · Posted at 15:24:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played something exactly like this in elementary school haha. it's a miracle nobody ever got seriously injured
The_Original_Gronkie · 29 points · Posted at 15:32:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've thought about that, too. When there was an explosion, we would try to leap as high and forward as we could, getting lots of air, and it seemed like we would land about 15 feet down the hill. I dont recall anybody ever getting hurt, though, and we played it all the time (probably 2 or 3 times per week).
disqeau · 14 points · Posted at 15:31:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is awesome, I hope you all went on to drama club together.
Joel_Tarkus · 6 points · Posted at 17:37:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any particularly memorable "falls?"
The_Original_Gronkie · 29 points · Posted at 17:49:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Of course, being 4th grade boys, we tried to make them as funny and overly dramatic as possible, so there were lots of leaps, somersaults, rolls, clutching of torsos, etc. with accompanying screams, groans, and facial expressions to depict our gruesome deaths.
When the bell rang, and we had to go back inside, we would always end the game with the thrower tossing an "A-Bomb," and we would all blow up at once in a horrible bloody massacre.
edit:
I just remembered another good one. The request would be to get killed by a bow and arrow. Of course that wasn't as deadly as a gun or a bomb, so the victim would take an arrow at the top, and start staggering down the hill, sometimes falling and getting back up. The Killer would keep shooting arrows, and the victim would stagger more and more, sometimes almost reaching the Killer before he finally shot enough arrows to make the kill. This one was longer and more drawn out, but it was fun for both the Killer and the Victim.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 21:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would have loved this.
ks_Moose · 3 points · Posted at 01:27:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar story, but 4th-grade me was convinced I would grow up to be a stuntman (blame Fall Guy and Hooper) so we would re-create epic battle deaths and falls down the hill. Not really a game, but we did it for hours... Sadly no footage survives.
ChuiDuma · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a steep hill at my grandparent's house growing up, and we'd play a game where we all raced to the bottom. Usually we would end up going to fast and fall, rolling the rest of the way down. It was extra fun because you had to make sure to stop in time so you didn't fall down the hill that was at the bottom. The second one was more of a cliff and impossible to climb because it was all clay, and at the bottom of it was a road that was pretty well travelled.
🎙️ antenonjohs · 122 points · Posted at 13:44:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, it was "lego golf" that I would play in our carpeted basement. I'd make a small golf club out of legos (using one of the flatter pieces as my clubhead) and hit one of the lego tires around to different "holes." I think I used the targets from the game Hyper Dash for holes.
obscureferences · 5 points · Posted at 00:32:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Lego Town. You split the pile of pieces straight away and start building what you want from your pile, and if you wanted something from another persons pile you had to RP it. We used 2x2 white and yellow blocks as currency, and ran businesses to get more money. I had success running a cinema because we had a heap of videos and I could use the TV as the movie screen.
somethingsupersimple · 123 points · Posted at 15:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin had an awesome collection of baby dolls, and her family had an old (circa 1970) RV permanently parked next to their house. We pretended that we were pregnant (pillows stuffed in shirts, etc), and would eventually “give birth” to the baby dolls. However, we were also at the age where we thought teenagers were the coolest of cool, so the backstory was always that we were runaway pregnant teenagers who had nowhere to live other than this broken-down old RV. We thought the storyline was exciting and tragic.
...I didn’t realize until adulthood that our go-to fantasy was “trailer park”.
Retrocyber · 544 points · Posted at 14:50:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an older sister of a brother, I didn’t get the chance to be a girly girl, I became obsessed with GI Joe. So my brother and I used to play that and go on “missions” all the time, and my dads in the military so we had all kinds of army stuff to wear lol.
I’m still kind of obsessed with the Baroness.
Secretslob · 32 points · Posted at 15:30:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was in the same boat. I played a lot of GI Joe, Star Wars, video games, and went on a lot of missions. We would sometimes play with my doll stuff together, but when we did that it was usually to dress up our hamsters and put them in the dollhouse. I'm not sure it counts as playing with dolls if your dolls are rodents.
Retrocyber · 14 points · Posted at 15:47:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol hamsters are definitely better than barbies.
buddboy · 16 points · Posted at 16:06:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well for everyone of you there is my male cousin who used to play with barbies but is now in the air force
80Eight · 25 points · Posted at 17:45:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a big leap
dezz-the-artist · 12 points · Posted at 16:49:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar but me and my boy cousin would play house but with Hot Wheels. We would pick a spot and make a "house" and choose which cars would be our family. It was a more ridiculous version of barbies.
Retrocyber · 12 points · Posted at 17:13:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think you mean the movie “Cars” stole your idea. 🤔
dezz-the-artist · 7 points · Posted at 17:29:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can I super upvote?
Arnumor · 5 points · Posted at 17:58:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I all owned little armies of different GI Joe figures, and we'd play 'war' by taking turns being the only one in the room, hiding our figures in ambush positions to see who could best the others with their strategies. I had a ninja figure that was really OP against anything in melee range, so he was my ringer. If I could get him near something vital, he'd always win.
Retrocyber · 7 points · Posted at 18:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can we be battle buddies?
Arnumor · 6 points · Posted at 18:08:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How do I know it's not a double-cross designed to find out where I hid my 'chemical bomb' comprised of a glass vial with food-dyed water in it?
Did my brother put you up to this?!
Retrocyber · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t be ridiculous, now give me the location of the bomb, its for the greater good of man kind.
Arnumor · 6 points · Posted at 18:12:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay... But I should warn you, it's defended by an undefeated white ninja. Good luck!
Retrocyber · 6 points · Posted at 18:13:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But is he a match for Snake?!
Arnumor · 5 points · Posted at 18:18:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gah! My only true foe!
I feel like one of my brothers got to you first. War is hell.
Retrocyber · 5 points · Posted at 18:18:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God speed, comrade.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love you both.
Retrocyber · 2 points · Posted at 13:13:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
❤️
80Eight · 8 points · Posted at 17:45:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Having looked her up I'm kind of into her too
Retrocyber · 6 points · Posted at 17:45:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You’re not wrong. Lol
s317sv17vnv · 2 points · Posted at 02:33:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Same, but my younger brother always loved cars and anything to do with them, so we spent a lot of time building Hot Wheels racetracks and playing racing games on our Play Station (the good ol’ pre-internet days when split-screen multiplayer was way more common) I also have a vague memory of playing a Hot Wheels PC game.
Edit: I just looked up the game, it was called Stunt Track Driver
Teddy_canuck · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oooom{2
ehsteve23 · 1703 points · Posted at 13:16:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's that game everyone played in their head on car journeys, with a little character running alongside and dodging cars and other obstacles.
For me it was super mario
JRad8888 · 664 points · Posted at 14:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me my arm would become this super long chainsaw. With the windows down, I would look down my extended arm and it would chop down any weeds, trees, bushes or people it passed through.
pieforpeople · 48 points · Posted at 15:37:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
omg i did this too
TeleportingCatDog · 26 points · Posted at 16:00:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No way, same! I enjoyed chopping telephone poles especially.
AcidHappening2 · 28 points · Posted at 15:55:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I kind of clenched my teeth between obstacles and had to like open my mouth to let stuff through whenever the I lined up with something.
thebartjon · 5 points · Posted at 18:02:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shit, I did exactly the same thing. I pretended I was a lumber magnet and I was fined if I cut down a telephone pole
xenodrone · 3 points · Posted at 03:36:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do a thing where I would blink every time a shadow was across the road. It was a bit much, kinda OCD inducing and became dangerous once I started driving, so I quit playing.
mr_bigmac_101 · 12 points · Posted at 18:39:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY. for me its a laser beam instead of a chainsaw, but still my arm isnt the only one with a license to kill on car rides
PizzaScout · 19 points · Posted at 15:31:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always extended my arm with my hand flat and tried to make it hover by itself kind of like a singular plane wing attached loosely to a car
DurfCity · 8 points · Posted at 16:22:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this except replace the chainsaw with a lightsaber. My victim of choice were typically street signs and cars however.
MrMagius · 5 points · Posted at 16:11:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, but mine went all the way around the world to the other side of the car.
That and imaginary dirtbike/quad/snowmobile.
bonercollexor · 5 points · Posted at 18:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dude, me too! I’ve only ever seen people talk about the “figure jumping from place to place” thing, so I was starting to think it was just me.
EverythingOP · 3 points · Posted at 16:40:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i did this too but my chainsaw couldn't cut through the metal lamp posts so it needed to be electrified first by cutting down a wooden lamp post that had a grounding wire coming out of it
N1XT3RS · 4 points · Posted at 18:12:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this too! It went all the way around the world out of both sides of the car though, and I would "Dodge" the metal obstacles going by
bonzaibooty · 3 points · Posted at 16:40:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do something similar until the school got fed up with everyone sticking their arms out on the bus and feeding us horror stories of children getting their arms taken off by random poles and shit. After that it was the invisible man jumping over things
LovepeaceandStarTrek · 3 points · Posted at 16:52:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same but it was a knife
mrgeekXD · 3 points · Posted at 17:15:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit you too??!
BBWolfe011 · 3 points · Posted at 17:41:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, yes!
GiraffeNeckAssassin · 3 points · Posted at 17:50:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this but with cyclops' vision from xmen
luke_in_the_sky · 3 points · Posted at 19:05:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
And use the arm to grab lampposts to make curves of course.
AdumLarp · 3 points · Posted at 19:23:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lightsaber, but same in theory. Lol. I'm loving how ubiquitous these mind games on long trips are.
TimothyDRiel · 3 points · Posted at 02:46:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can’t believe how far down This is... me, it was a laser and it was connected to my toes. The trick was to cut down everything except telephone poles. I’d have to lift up above the telephone poles.
Wild_Zookeeper · 3 points · Posted at 03:04:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was a lightsaber. Cut all the grass, guardrails, etc. Never people, though.
Holioportfolioateyou · 2 points · Posted at 17:14:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GROOVY
Chapeaux · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had wolverine claw, way cooler.
what-the-muffin · 2 points · Posted at 19:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me my fingernails were super long and doing the chopping lol
turtlesteele · 2 points · Posted at 21:43:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I imagined that the windshield wipers were the chopping blades.
PineapplesHit · 2 points · Posted at 22:07:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hell yeah! I had a version that was supposed to be more like a video game though where I would "level up" and get upgrades. So early on in the car ride I'd be using a shitty axe that could only chop wooden obstacles like telephone poles in like 3 hits, but then eventually by the end it'd be upgraded to a fire sword that could cut right through metal signs.
Proxima55 · 2 points · Posted at 23:38:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me a spot on the windshield could cut through all the signposts but not marker posts. So I had to move my head around so it would manage to cut down the signs without hitting any posts.
bigdirtsand · 2 points · Posted at 01:04:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved to do that, except I had a massive extendable lightsaber. I do it when I’m bored in school sometimes and I pretend that I saw the school in half. I’m in highschool.
Dogbin005 · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a really long chainsaw too, except my game was sort of "car jousting".
Instead of a shield I'd have a laser gun and so would the person in the car coming the other way. We'd have to dodge each others laser blasts then try to wreck the others car with the chainsaw. Sometimes I'd blow them up with lasers and sometimes I'd chop them up but I always won. I'm the world champion imaginary laser/chainsaw car jouster.
cheesycheesling · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
CommercialMajor · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HAPPY CAKE DAY!
Stacks493 · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
jrock3030 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
mrfreddy7 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
zangor · 429 points · Posted at 14:46:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the 'skateboard' variety. Which I understand is one of the more popular ones.
Sir_Marchbank · 53 points · Posted at 15:23:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Somehow I never thought that anyone else did this
zangor · 36 points · Posted at 15:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It has become a fairly popular Reddit motif. Ever since someone brought it up in a giant thread, it comes up on here every now and then.
Probably originally in the 'What are some things you think only you do?' thread.
I was surprised to learn I wan't the only one that folded up a straw and put in in the back of my mouth and had saliva go into it and bite down for it all to rush out - until the folded straw got really smooth. Apparently like hundreds of people also did this.
Sir_Marchbank · 25 points · Posted at 15:27:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turns out no one is really that special
NagatoAmegakure · 10 points · Posted at 15:48:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me either tbh
rawhite37 · 27 points · Posted at 15:27:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was a dirt bike. I would launch off of those mounds in the median when there was an underpass.
HarleyRidingFag · 6 points · Posted at 15:42:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same, this one at least makes a bit of sense lol
smotheryrat · 4 points · Posted at 21:21:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i was on a bus on the way to a pop warner game doing this, and i saw a cloud of dust over a hill then this dirt bike came whipping by, right where i was imagining it, and i thought i had super powers for a second.
Son_of_Leeds · 22 points · Posted at 15:44:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah, a fellow man of culture, I see.
Assuming that "fellow man of culture" means "person who also played tons of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater".
BernieWillStillWin · 10 points · Posted at 15:19:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, I was riding a hoverboard like in back to the future
nameless88 · 10 points · Posted at 15:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same. I played a lot of Tony Hawk Pro Skater as a kid, so that's probably why, haha
zangor · 8 points · Posted at 16:08:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yea. That game is just legendary. THPS 2 for me.
nameless88 · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, dude, THPS2 was my absolute jam. I played that and 4 waaay more than the odd numbered games. Underground was sick, too 😍👌
graaahh · 8 points · Posted at 16:07:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar, my car runner was a snowboarder who would ride down the ditch like a long half pipe, jumping over driveways and stuff.
Crismus · 5 points · Posted at 16:03:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was interesting when my son told me about the skateboard thing on drives, because that's what I did too.
yours_untruly · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get my dad's business card and play "airboard" out the window with it when we were in the slow lane (facing the fields), which still isn't that safe thinking back, but it was hella fun.
thedudebangsyoshi · 2 points · Posted at 20:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a skateboard dude who also threw fireballs at all the highway signs
DrSkar · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i was always either a skateboarder or a ninja running along
justyn122 · 2 points · Posted at 22:58:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skateboard or roller blades just depended on my moods. Glad im not the only one who did this
ODB2 · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirt bike for me, but I live out in the country
FairHannah · 185 points · Posted at 15:15:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a horse that galloped alongside and jumped all the obstacles 😀
Sir_Marchbank · 45 points · Posted at 15:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh so you were the weird horse girl
sevendevilsdelilah · 13 points · Posted at 17:11:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hell yeah! I still play the horse game sometimes and I’m 30 and I own real ones.
Sir_Marchbank · 7 points · Posted at 17:13:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't lie, I'm a bit jealous that you have horses
sevendevilsdelilah · 2 points · Posted at 18:28:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They’re pretty damn cool. Expensive as hell, but I love them to death.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 23:02:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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sevendevilsdelilah · 4 points · Posted at 23:45:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well, I’m a lawyer in Texas. I board them at a boarding stable facility in town and I pay more to keep two horses there each month than I pay in rent. I chose to have a very expensive hobby. Before I was making a livable wage, there was a time I kept them with my in-laws, and before that, I was briefly living in my car and buying them and me old bread from the day-old bread store.
About eight years ago I got fired from working nights at a gas station for “stealing” the trash bread loaves we were throwing out every night so I could feed the girls.
Horse people are weird as fuck.
SpicaGenovese · 9 points · Posted at 15:45:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! A horse and a dragon.
Throwawayuser626 · 8 points · Posted at 16:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep i was a horse girl! It was always Spirit the stallion for a few years.
Lannerie · 3 points · Posted at 16:18:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too!! On long car rides my horse won every race, because as soon as a car passed us, they were out of the race. Obviously.
Them_subz · 6 points · Posted at 17:07:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God feels good to know I'm not alone ❤️
LilNightingale · 3 points · Posted at 17:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too! On the bus I always imagined I had been late and was racing on a horse to keep up and follow to school. One the occasional road trip, my steed returns, fashionably late as ever.
YumWaffle5 · 5 points · Posted at 16:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too
jjjanuary · 4 points · Posted at 16:22:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too!
leatiger · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My horse was different Pokemon, depending on the terrain.
omgreeces · 5 points · Posted at 16:37:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I imagined horses as well! I'd start with one and as our journey progressed we'd gather more and more horses as we went until I had a whole herd. I really wanted a horse.
ghost_in_the_potato · 2 points · Posted at 20:15:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too! Only sometimes if a big obstacle was there that it couldn't jump over it would turn into a pegasus briefly.
ShiraCheshire · 20 points · Posted at 15:42:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was a tiger made of water. My home town was basically a drained swamp, and it took a lot of drain ditches to keep everything from flooding when it rained. That's why the tiger was made from water, then it could run along the drain ditches by the road and go through the culverts and stuff.
Bourbon_Munch · 17 points · Posted at 16:06:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I feel like that could actually be a really neat gimmick in a platformer: the ability to turn into a liquid to access certain parts of the level or make certain types of jumps or moves. Would be pretty neat!
Tupperwarecares · 2 points · Posted at 23:44:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Splatoon
articulateantagonist · 5 points · Posted at 20:48:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a panther with shadow abilities where it could phase through things that it couldn't jump over by turning into a shadow!
ShiraCheshire · 5 points · Posted at 21:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ooh, that’s a good one!
I feel like if this was a comic book, the water tiger and shadow panther would be the obvious choice for a big budget crossover.
AkashicRecorder · 3 points · Posted at 20:30:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn, mine was just Disney's Tarzan.
FrostofHeaven · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your version is way cooler than most people's! Mine was a speeder bike from Star Wars.
John_the_Proud · 17 points · Posted at 15:50:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait, other people did this? I thought me and my ninja buddy were alone in that
poopy-weiner · 5 points · Posted at 16:57:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MINE WAS A NINJA TOO
obscureferences · 3 points · Posted at 23:21:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A ninja is the obvious and superior choice.
Cockmander · 17 points · Posted at 15:37:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
for me it was Spider Man.
DrippingWithSwagger · 7 points · Posted at 15:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Streetlight to streetlight. 🕸
MManiic · 13 points · Posted at 15:59:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I do this but find a spot on the window and move my head to make the spot 'jump' over the obstacles.
Anal_Werewolf · 3 points · Posted at 17:00:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That spot was always my rifle scope reticle.
benchley · 2 points · Posted at 22:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me too - our car had a well-placed tiny crater from a rock hitting the lower right corner of the windshield.
metarugia · 12 points · Posted at 16:06:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sonic here.
averagehenry · 4 points · Posted at 18:04:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was sonic too!
Kaity-lynnn · 10 points · Posted at 15:29:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was Michael Jackson. For a while MJ was my imaginary friend and he would run alongside my mom's van, or he'd pull up to my house in a limo when he was on the way to some Hollywood party
ehsteve23 · 10 points · Posted at 15:44:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was he going forward or Moon walking?
forknox · 3 points · Posted at 20:38:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Running after vans with children in them and then showing up at their house. I would not be surprised if it actually was MJ for real.
sirkeylord · 9 points · Posted at 15:27:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was a superhero mini-me
EurekaEleven · 9 points · Posted at 16:12:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to bet on which raindrop would move across the car window the quickest. Hours of entertainment.
our_scoop_of_soup · 10 points · Posted at 16:36:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A dot on the window was a laser beam. I would move my head up and down with one eye closed to aim it.
twoerd · 3 points · Posted at 18:46:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! Me too, I would try to keep the dot as close to the ground as possible but then dodge over signs and bushes and cars.
our_scoop_of_soup · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It never turned off so you had to be careful to not kill people.
P4perjammed · 5 points · Posted at 15:42:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was just a smaller version of myself parkouring along the buildings and posts
Meljusenr · 5 points · Posted at 15:44:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was a motorcyclist who could jump over cars, ride on top of semis, and balance their motorcycle on the barrier between the lanes.
WingedPanda77 · 2 points · Posted at 17:02:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was pretty much the same thing, except it was the mouse from the Mouse and the Motorcycle books!
TRaceR_MB · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a toy motorcycle that looked exactly like the one in those books! I held that up to my window and use that to race along oncoming traffic or just cruise the power lines
Thanks for the memories haha
Ace_Phant0m · 7 points · Posted at 15:59:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me I had a ninja that would run on power lines and jump over trees and stuff
kittypuppet · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yess! Mine would run along the lines, jump from branch to branch, and along the road.
PringleFiasco · 6 points · Posted at 15:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was my imaginary friend who was inspired by Suicune. I also imagined that she was like a guardian protecting me :,)
noice_ · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was Sly Cooper running along the telephone wires
Cozimandias · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huh, I always assumed nobody else would have done this. Man I still do
ChungusGrungusLungus · 3 points · Posted at 15:50:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
DUDE I DID THAT
and when the window was down I would fight the wind monster on the car, and just when he was about to pin my guy down, the car would stop at a light or something, and he would get sucked away.
pezman · 3 points · Posted at 15:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was a super athletic squirrel. lol
PandaLunch · 2 points · Posted at 20:31:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine too! He later turned into a flying squirrel
pezman · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahaha, mine never managed to reach that stage.
ccoville · 3 points · Posted at 15:58:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used my fingers like they were legs running and jumping over buildings like some weird finger parkour.
Sexy_Rhino · 3 points · Posted at 16:00:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dinosaur checking in.
rogerklotz47 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Always a velociraptor or t-rex
pikarai468 · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
anybody else had a grappling hook and swung on the streetlights?
lostandonpoint · 4 points · Posted at 16:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, just really long arms. And there was that moment where you’re trying to decide whether you made that swing or not
c-peg · 3 points · Posted at 16:17:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn. Mine was a scary creature who was chasing us.
JohnDoe_85 · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My young daughter just told me that she was doing this the other day, and it was such a blast finding out that we both did the same thing. For her, level one is Mario, but level two is a ballerina who could jump very far and very high. And both of them can only jump onto green things.
sadimaginaryfriend · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was a guy on a motorcycle.
JCauce · 2 points · Posted at 16:12:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was a ninja who would do flips over trees and buildings. I never told anyone I did this. I assumed I was the only one.
hellogoawaynow · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the “game” I commented too! It’s so weird how everyone did it and never told anyone until Reddit
EquestrianShadow · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, it was the Teen Titans
ismeel125 · 2 points · Posted at 16:54:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Donkey Kong Country on the gba as a kid and I was obsessed with the minecart levels, so that's what my character was.
devoidz · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spiderman. He would swing from light pole to light light pole.
spiralcut69 · 2 points · Posted at 17:04:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine had a jetpack, but the caveat was he had to fly real close to the obstacles and if he fell too far behind he'd get crushed by the window frame and said obstacles.
PoiLethe · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was a ninja elf. At night the moon got involved. Like he or she would have to battle the moon or leap from tree to tree to avoid it.
Gwompulator9000 · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, it was half Sonic, half Mega Man. Until I discovered the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games, at which point it turned into the apparently ubiquitous skater.
i_forgot_darnit · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sonic for me. Also Mega Man sometimes.
Pooglio17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was Yoshi in his cart from Mariokart 64. Sometimes Pikachu was on it with him and could jump over stuff and land back on the cart. 🤘
BABYCAKESxUNKILLABLE · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Am i the only one that imagined something between one of those big drills from the matrix and and a transformer, that would go through the dirt like a dokphin guess through water?
And of course gotta imagine where the utilities are to avoid those. It's okay if it destroys a car or three, though.
BreatheUseful · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow I did this too!
TKCoolReddit · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ye boi! I did this too
Mr_Noms · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, it was me. But I would use the objects to help me get by. Like I could grab a powerline and use it as a whip to swing from. Or signs would be spring boards. Or those white tubes with orange on the top that are sticking out of the ground everywhere would be rockets.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I never played that game, but I see it mentioned all the time like everyone did. Was I a dumb kid?
Notoday · 3 points · Posted at 18:07:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nah you just had a gameboy
TurquoiseLuck · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just played Pokemon by the glow of the streetlights
lostandonpoint · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you, I had completely forgotten I used to do this as a child
prettehkitteh · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always imagined a cheetah once I found out how fast they could run.
SemenDemon16 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was the Hulk. Every step he ran would crack the ground, no tree could stop or slow him down and any car would be thrown to the side or stomped on. Good times.
BravestCashew · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our old family car had black lines on the side windows all the way in the back, so I would use those as a template and only let myself dodge things using the lines
jbauer_96 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a nightmare .... I couldn't stop imagining the game even when k wanted to just take in scenery. I hated it... Also I get car sick if I look out the window. Luckily driving is much easier and does not have this "game".
bloodflart · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
mine was either ninja or samus, sometimes wolvering and he could slice through stuff
Smallbrowncows · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom talked about doing that with a sickle mower. I was always on skis, maybe a bike in the summer.
Real_megamike_64 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me It was a stick figure with a lightsaber and a gun.
emdafem · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No way! It was super Mario for me too!
moonyowl · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, for me it was Spyro the Dragon
tenrose · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sonic for me
olioli86 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this but I butt tilted to dodge. Lampost on the left lift left butt cheek etc. If both sides just tense cheeks. Have a decent bum and I think I might have now sussed why.
spyro86 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sonic the hedgehog
mckoond · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How about skiing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbNRepXleqc
Kunoxa · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh when on a nighttime ride you blow on the windows to make the streetlights look like fireworks
Mcfly__ · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was usually either a Gundam or Zoid
montken · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tron light cycles
Dangerjim · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was an R/C car. I didn't have much imagination as a kid.
FrankenFootz · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had captain planet. He would spin in a circle if he went though a ribbed metal drain to make the ribbed pattern you see on the things.
shootdrawwrite · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was fascinated with the parallax effect (close things go by fast, far things go by slow), so in my sci fi mind I sped up until the far things (mountains, moon) were going by as fast as the close ones.
Now we were getting somewhere.
Jaewol · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was either a ninja or a dude on a hoverboard.
yetidonut · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was this little skeleton/demon character that I imagined was me. I was an edgelord as an elementary/middle schooler
Csharp27 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was always a dude on a dirt bike for me jumping over ditches and doing tricks.
DementedMK · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a stick figure. They would jump from car to car, and depending on what kind of car they would be safe for a various time (I remember Toyota’s were 3)
mrnikstone · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
mine was “wheels can’t touch the shadows”, i live in the PNW so trees are everywhere making this a very difficult game for my brain
Demonica_PizzaScares · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me, it was a black horse jumping over everything
DoorInTheAir · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was fleeing the bad guys on horseback. Or sometimes I would be racing to fetch the town doctor.
ShralpSquad123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine would be a dude riding on the power lines with a Zipline type thing, and sometimes a snowboard.
hazahobaz · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My version was an imaginary me on a bicycle doing jumps over stuff. This was especially fun when driving next to pavements as they even have jumps and landings built in at each crossing point and at the end of driveways
Notoday · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was a werewolf that would destroy shit. The fuller the moon the more powerful he became.
sourdoughbirb · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine were evil vampires looking to kill me and my entire family... always made me nervous when we were at a stop light or in low lighting, lmao.
saggyoldman7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this but it was the kids biking from E.T..
LongDickLeukemia · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always wanted a dirt bike or a four wheeler as a kid, so I would pretend I was riding on the side of the road. It was important for me to learn where all the roads and trails were because I didn't want to get lost when Santa finally got around to bringing me my new ride.
chauncies82 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was either on a dirt bike, or super heroesque and could jump very long distances. It's amazing how simple things like that can make a long car ride tolerable at a young age
Somodo · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i had a dude being. chased by like assassins and it was super cool
alfrohawk · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was a ninja that touched the ground as little as possible. Jumped from power lines and signs and trees.
amc111 · 241 points · Posted at 13:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I had sleepovers at my house we would play a game at night that was a mix of Hide and Go Seek and Reverse Tag where one person would go hide in the yard and the other kids would go out with flashlights and try to find them. And once you found him you had to tag him. If the kid hiding couldn’t be found or he made it inside the garage he won. It used to be that he had to physically be brought down and held to the ground but we had to stop playing like that when one kid ended up with a broken nose.
thecolourbleu · 42 points · Posted at 15:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called sardines with one person hiding, the rest seeking. When you found them, you had to hide with them too! Totally thought that's where hide and go seek + reverse tag was going.
AdorableLittleFuck · 7 points · Posted at 16:21:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I USED TO LOVE SARDINES
ApocalypticStars · 7 points · Posted at 17:25:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got kicked out of a Bed, Bath, and Beyond for playing Sardines once
wardrich · 3 points · Posted at 18:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines was the shit
jaxxon · 2 points · Posted at 00:06:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Totally have done this as an adult. So fun!!
spicy_ovary · 4 points · Posted at 15:56:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play that, I think we called it “Home”. Basically you had to get to “home” without being caught/tagged. Also used to play it during the day. I guess it taught us how to sneak home at night when it came to our teenage years
DorothyGaleEsq · 3 points · Posted at 15:57:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played something similar but it was called "Big black grizzly bear". We all went out in a group with one flashlight and chanted "big black grizzly bear where are you?" Until the "bear" was found, then we had to run back to base before he got us. Then all the people the bear caught were bears the next time
xenodrone · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I posted a similar version below. Only it was a big bad wolf and little pigs chanting “who’s afraid of the big bad wolf”
DeerSlicesForApples · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds close to Ha Ha Herman that I used to play.
nickjr9700 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played this exact same game in middle school, except we split the players into 2 even teams of hiders and chasers and we used an entire suburban block, and even crossed the street sometimes. We called it “Block Chase”
DracoCharky · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have one called blocker / blocka, which usually had one (or a few) seekers and the rest hiding. If the seeker beat the hider back to the home/base/den/whatever they shouted "block X by a 123". I wonder if the house block thing is where it got it's roots.
KikiDoesMath · 230 points · Posted at 14:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Polar Bear Tag” We had a fairly shallow inflatable backyard pool (bigger than a kiddie pool). Whoever was the “polar bear” had to navigate the pool by walking on their hands and knees while trying to catch the “penguins”.
“Peanut Butter Jelly Race” Think of it as a variation of Red Light, Green Light. One person would call out “Peanut Butter” or “Jelly”. On peanut butter, the others would have to trudge around slowly as if they were stuck knee-deep in a pool of peanut butter. On jelly, they would zip around and fumble as if on a slippery, jelly-coated floor. The first one to reach the end won.
Children are weird and creative and it’s honesty the best.
cantonic · 11 points · Posted at 15:58:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That peanut butter jelly game is genius! Much more fun than red light, green light!
KikiDoesMath · 5 points · Posted at 16:21:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha, thanks! It certainly kept us entertained for plenty of carefree summers. The comical aspect was definitely the best, part (imagine small children, arms flailing dramatically as they intentionally slip and fall on the “jelly”).
AbstractMichael · 467 points · Posted at 13:00:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I put some books on the floor, and I jumped on them while trying not to touch the floor (a variant of the floor is lava)
CoupSan · 86 points · Posted at 13:39:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy fucking shit. I did the same exact thing.
karmagod13000 · 43 points · Posted at 14:53:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
maybe you two are doppelgangers
RIPtheboy · 8 points · Posted at 15:53:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dopplegamers*
SendASiren · 6 points · Posted at 16:58:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I find it amusing how excited you got over this.
If I read that someone did something similar to myself like this..i’d probably react with a “oh..heh..that’s funny.”
Meanwhile u/coupsan over here is having his mind blow.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 15:27:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
also did this same thing
rabidassbaboon · 6 points · Posted at 16:07:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers used to do that with couch cushions and we'd have to all work together passing the cushions up the line so we could make it to safety.
Bahunter22 · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My daughters are at the age now where the floor is lava and they can only walk on the grout lines of the tile. They upped the game to try and make the other lose though so it’s mostly assault at this point.
briarsrose_ · 3 points · Posted at 16:21:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah me too but with vhs tapes. Rip Wizard of Oz :/
Arya_Granger · 6 points · Posted at 15:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jumping on books!! 😮 Please tell me the poor things survived.
melindu · 3 points · Posted at 16:48:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do the same with spread out newspaper pages. When the pages ripped I imagined that the "rock" I was landing on was crumbling beneath me.
pizzaprincess1992 · 3 points · Posted at 21:30:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this, slipped on a book and cracked my head open on the corner of the fireplace and needed stitches. Still have the scar above my right eyebrow!
99problemsburner · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol, we did this same thing! We used those old school encyclopedia sets!
-eDgAR- · 667 points · Posted at 13:24:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had this old station wagon from the late 1970's throughout most of my childhood that I thought was amazing. It was big and there was so much room to play in the back. Sometimes I would put on puppet shows for the cars behind us in traffic when we stopped at a red light. As dangerous as it was for a small child to be loose in the back of station wagon without a seatbelt, I used to play an even more dangerous game sometimes.
I would lay across the top of the back seat and try to remain as stiff as possible. When my dad would brake/accelerate, the momentum would cause my body to fall either on the cushioned seat in front of me or on the the old couch cushions my dad had put in the back. I thought it was so much fun to roll and fall one way, then get back up and fall the other, and I would play this game a lot.
It wasn't until years later that I realized how dangerous that was. I was a kid just openly playing a falling game in the back of a station wagon. If we had ever gotten into any sort of accident I would've gone flying out the front or back windows and probably killed instantly. Still, I had so much playing that game.
Here's a picture of my dad and that station wagon.
Deplete1 · 163 points · Posted at 13:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a station wagon, too. I wonder if this is just 70s/80s American countryside culture.
We lived in a small valley outside of a small logging town and no one drove fast, so I think the risk wasn’t as bad as today’s fast-paced driving is.
I wasn’t allowed to play that game, as we had nothing in the back area. I just rolled around and that was fun in and of itself.
Going to town took around 30 minutes, as the roads out of the valley were windy and small and overall, my grandpa would drive slowly.
I miss that time because it always was so much anticipation — going into town meant I could eat something different like a burger from Dairy Queen or some bar food from my grandpa’s bar...
Damn, times were simpler then.
karmagod13000 · 72 points · Posted at 14:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
someone needs to invent the modern station wagon with seats that face the back window and all. tell me families wouldn't buy the shit out of that
fugue2005 · 27 points · Posted at 15:32:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know what model it was, but our family wagon had a folding rear seat in the cargo part that faced backwards, it had seatbelts and everything, so as a child you could awkwardly stare at drivers behind you The late 70s were grand
whatupmyknitta · 3 points · Posted at 20:14:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this in the late eighties/early nineties... my brothers and I used to call it the “funback seat” like it was copyrighted or something lol
I didn’t realize for years that we were just saying Fun. Back. Seat. I thought funback was one word like humpback in humpback whale 🐋🤣
karmagod13000 · 3 points · Posted at 15:39:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that sounds awesome! i wanna be a kid again
basicrejection · 11 points · Posted at 15:36:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some Tesla Model S’ and other modern station wagons still have this feature! I walked behind one the other day and was surprised to see rear facing seats.
karmagod13000 · 8 points · Posted at 15:38:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
god bless tesla
matrixdestiny · 7 points · Posted at 15:42:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not quite a station wagon, but the Tesla Model S has a 3rd row of rear facing seats intended for kids. (although, maybe only the 2013 model year?)
antmansclone · 3 points · Posted at 16:00:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Family of six here. 10/10 would buy.
karmagod13000 · 3 points · Posted at 16:08:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i want to start a family just so i can have one
antmansclone · 3 points · Posted at 16:16:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A noble goal, to be sure!
Haligirl77 · 2 points · Posted at 00:03:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Family of fighting kids. 10/10 would buy just so I don’t have to look at their faces. Does that make me a horrible mom to want to share the love with the traffic behind me? lol
antmansclone · 2 points · Posted at 00:05:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not horrible at all. I would even welcome the soundproof tinted glass that limousines have. .-)
Cache_n_in · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You can actually get an after market rear facing bench seat for the Jeep Wrangler, so it is an option!
PangPingpong · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does a rear facing seat make car sickness worse?
[deleted] · 30 points · Posted at 14:35:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretty much 70s-80s family transport was a station wagon, 80s-90s it grew taller and became a minivan, then from the millenium onwards the minivan got a little more rugged and became an SUV. But they're still basically tall station wagons.
kingofkya · 5 points · Posted at 15:17:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
they have them they just renamed them "crossovers".
rabidstoat · 7 points · Posted at 15:13:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Station wagons in the 80s for road trips were awesome! They'd put the back down and us kids would roll around in the back, unencumbered by any safety devices like 'seat belts' as we hurtled down the interstate at 70 mph.
TinderSubThrowAway · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad did that with us on road trips, except he put down some sweet shag carpeting in the entire back area for us. There was no rear facing seat, he ripped out the cushions so he could have a "trunk" to keep stuff.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:46:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One day someone will post on a future version of ask reddit what their childhood games were and it will be....video game after video game ;-/
Brawndo91 · 25 points · Posted at 14:55:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandfather had a Chevy Celebrity station wagon and we would fight over who got to sit in the "backward seat".
musicchan · 2 points · Posted at 02:01:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, one of my aunts had a station wagon with actual seats that faced backwards. This was the early 80s and I'm sure they replaced the vehicle before the 90s because my memories of that car are so fuzzy. We used to fight over who got those seats.
PristineTerror · 35 points · Posted at 14:23:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I bet your dad impregnated women by looking at them. What a champ.
karmagod13000 · 16 points · Posted at 14:38:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
station wagons were baby makers back in the day. pull up to a lake and lay down in the back... let the good times roll.
Huwbacca · 6 points · Posted at 15:55:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have seen you post pictures of your dad and that wagon, SO MANY TIMES
disqeau · 4 points · Posted at 15:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOL I love how your dad has his foot up on the Jaguar!
BECKYISHERE · 5 points · Posted at 15:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had an open bed truck with two sides of very low slats and the end usually open (down). In the 70s as a young chils I used to ride on the flat bed with nothing holding me down, just clinging onto the slats for dear life. Had I fallen into the truckbed, it was full of sand and cncrete and nails and debris from building sites, had i fallen over the side or out the back flap i would have been dead.I didn't realise till i had een an adult for many years and saw a similar truck, just how dangerous that was.
Tigergirl1975 · 5 points · Posted at 15:05:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in the back of grandpas pickup.
He also put old seats in there so that we had places to sit if we wanted. No one wanted to ride up front with him when we got to play in the back. He also threw his arm in front of us when he had to stop fast. Did it so often I do it to anyone in my front seat to this day.
0530am_ · 3 points · Posted at 15:42:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the 3 of us were in the back seats we would go limp/try and fling each other to the other side when the car went round a bend.
rabidassbaboon · 3 points · Posted at 16:10:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to do the "crazy drive" when my mom would run into the grocery store. He'd go behind the store and just swerve back and forth like crazy and we'd all fly all over the place and think it was the most insane thing ever. As an adult, I realize he was really only going maybe 10 miles an hour but as a kid, it was like being on a rollercoaster.
TheGoldenLychee · 3 points · Posted at 16:51:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember seeing you saying this on another post ages ago, still sounds like fun
dudewheresmycar420 · 3 points · Posted at 19:47:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
why do I see your username on like every thread?
EDIT: holy shit 4.5 M karma thats why
ChuiDuma · 3 points · Posted at 00:46:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle/high school my aunt and parents each had paper routes. This was in a city, so we had paper route vans. Big work vans with the back seats removed. The papers would be in bundles in the back and we'd bag them as we went, but after they were all bagged, we'd have a bunch of folded/bagged newspapers in the back that we'd toss up front for delivery as we went. Toward the end of the night, the back of the van would be mostly empty and we'd start "car surfing." We'd basically stand up in the back and try not to fall down whenever the van turned or braked. Sometimes my aunt would screw with us by slamming on the brakes and we would go flying. I'm not sure how we didn't break our necks. It was always fun, though!
athroplay · 3 points · Posted at 04:45:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s a sweet 74 or 75 chevelle wagon. Lots of those came stock with the 454, it would haul ass and suck gas. A ton of fun.
SneakSnakeSneak · 2 points · Posted at 15:20:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's a good k/d
pooberstein · 2 points · Posted at 17:51:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my dad had his Porsche gt3 (it had no back seats) I would ride everywhere in the back, don’t remember exactly what I did, but I know I had fun, except for that time he snapped out the rear end and gave me a rug burn on my cheek. I now understand why he felt so bad about letting me ride in the ‘back seat’
CountDown60 · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had a camper shell for his pickup, and he added a bed. Basically it was a board and mattress at the front of the camper, raised off the pickup bed. Suitcases went under, kids traveled on top of the mattress. It was good for naps, but you could never quite sit up.
We would yell stuff out the side windows, or sometimes shoot spitwads. Mostly it was kinda boring.
BushWeedCornTrash · 2 points · Posted at 20:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I fondly remember being in the back of a wagon and hitting a known hump on the highway to get weightless for a moment before crashing back to the floor of the car.
chandelizards · 2 points · Posted at 21:15:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In reference to the picture.
That dude fucks.
Sugadip · 2 points · Posted at 22:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You could fit so many kids in the back of those!!
xenodrone · 2 points · Posted at 03:23:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to “surf” the momentum standing in the back of my friends 15 passenger van with the back row removed.
peanutsandfuck · 74 points · Posted at 14:51:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a game my friend and I used to play at sleepovers. We had a different name for it every time, but the best name was probably "Turn All The Lights Off In The Basement And Throw Stuff At Each Other." It was a simpler time.
ibbity · 8 points · Posted at 22:42:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That reminds me of the glorious days when my sister and I had bunkbeds and would play Shove The (Stuffed) Animals Down The Side Of The Bed. Which was played collecting all the stuffed animals in the house and the person on the top bunk shoves them down the side (between the bed and the wall) while the person on the bottom throws them back up on top.
peanutsandfuck · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s awesome! Our version was more along the lines of baseballs and N64 controllers than stuffed animals (and we broke a few walls in our day), but yours sounds a lot safer!
MarchKick · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds super entertaining.
ibbity · 2 points · Posted at 02:08:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
man when I was like 5 it was the best game in town
MarchKick · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't blame you. I used to love making my stuffed animals do "tricks" (flips and stuff) off the bed. It was literally me just tossing my toys off the bed.
ZachTheInsaneOne · 70 points · Posted at 16:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in an apartment complex with about 20 other kids. We used to have and use marbles for everything. We used them as a currency and as a kind of "gambling" method (not in the traditional sense). We would play all kinds of other games like Bakugan, BeyBlade, have giant Nerf wars etc and we used marbles as a currency to pay whoever won, but we also had a special thing once a week we would do.
People would build tracks out of Lego, marble tubes, Hotwheels race track and other random building blocks and we would all come together in a flat area to put them all together. We would then use our most special marbles to race each other to the end, but there were a few twists to it. Some of the marbles were large, heavy marbles and some of them were just straight-up bouncy balls. As such, some people would build tracks that allowed shortcuts for the large marbles, some with shortcuts for small marbles, and some with huge gaps that only the bouncy balls could cross, with a winding maze for the other marbles to go through underneath.
By the time we put all the tracks together we would have set up a giant, elaborate race course that could sometimes fill up all the area we were allowed to take up (there was a corner nobody else went in, that was about 50 square feet in the back of the complex). So by the time all our marbles reached the end, we had a special rule for how we would divide them up.
The person who reached the end first would get to keep their marble and not have to pay anyone else, the second person would be given two "normal" marbles (small glass spheres with one red, one green and one blue stripe in the middle that we called "normal" because they were EVERYWHERE at the time) from everyone who wasn't first, and the third person to cross the finish line would take everyone's special marbles that were used in the race with the exception of the person in first.
Eventually, the parents of the complex started catching on to this and some of them would add more to the economy. There would be a huge Easter egg hunt around the complex, with some eggs filled with candy and some filled with marbles, as well as some special marbles here and there. We'd get new sets of marble tubes and bags of marbles for Christmas time and at birthday parties, the list goes on.
We used these marbles to buy things from each other, 2 marbles a Nerf Dart, 5 marbles a Bakugan etc. Special marbles would be worth 5-9 marbles depending on how cool they looked, large normal marbles would be worth 10, large special marbles would be 11-20 again depending on coolness, bouncy balls would be 30+. However, our young minds never took things like inflation into account, so every other holiday we all kept getting perpetually richer and richer within our own economy.
By the time I hit my teens (about 5 years after I moved in) I had a huge tub of about 5,000 marbles and a tackle box with a bunch of special marbles in it, about enough to buy a bicycle, then I moved across the country. My mom said I could only keep a few of them, so I kept about a hundred of the most special ones I had and gave the rest to my dad. He gave about half of them away when he moved too, rather than having to move an almost literal box of rocks. I don't blame him.
I... Miss having... Friends...
MssingPiece · 3 points · Posted at 23:50:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is so cool!!
ZachTheInsaneOne · 3 points · Posted at 00:11:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yo thank you
youfind1ineverycar · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You are loved, what great memories. Go out, join the Y ,volunteer!
Kyal_B05 · 1025 points · Posted at 13:08:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game we called hunger games, and we had about 15 or more people standing in a large circle out in the field of school, someone would shout 3,2,1 and everyone would run. Sometimes there would be balls in the middle and if you hit someone with a ball, they die and cut in the middle. If you touch someone, they die and if you touch each other at the same time, you both die. When there are around 3-5 people left, the dead come back and require a quick double touch to kill someone. Last one alive wins. To make this more child friendly change death to ‘out’
clamyzzz · 285 points · Posted at 14:50:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just got sticks and hit each other with them, we had rules for chopping off limbs, bleeding out, and all that. We definitely didn't try to make it more child friendly.
DankMemes2016 · 7 points · Posted at 15:17:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brandon? or are you Mitchell?
Parko385 · 25 points · Posted at 15:30:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think you’re underestimating how many of us hit each other with sticks as kids...
vplanifolia · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was plastic bats in my neighborhood.
Waterhorse816 · 3 points · Posted at 16:17:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too, but we had these things that were like two balls attached to a short strong (one on each end) that you could swing around. They had a pretty short range, but I discovered you could link them fairly easily by wrapping the strings (you didn't even have to tie them) and created these enormous 7-foot-long ropes I could swing around in circles. The game quickly arms raced to people trying to get as many things as they could to extend their ropes.
ChuiDuma · 3 points · Posted at 00:53:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I once played ninja turtles and were sword fighting with steak knives. My mother put a swift end to that one.
OneHundredKilometers · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this at my school, but the bitch of a recess monitor shut it down.
Btw we also weren’t allowed to run or hold sticks.
Wentthruurhistory · 2 points · Posted at 18:20:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn’t a lot of people play this but they called it War?
clamyzzz · 3 points · Posted at 18:32:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure, we played it a bunch of different ways though, we had regular wars where we divided into teams, we had hunger games where we had to run to get our weapons, we had one where we lived in a kingdom and played politics or straight up assassinated the king to take over. That one was the most fun. We had people come up with complex lies and manipulate people to gain power in the kingdom. I once owned the bank and taxed people so much that the kingdom became extremely poor and took over with my economic power. But the point is, our childhood mainly consisted of video games and beating each other with sticks in the woods.
Zesto_boi · 2 points · Posted at 07:24:38 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have the exact same story, Jesus
Tollas · 0 points · Posted at 16:05:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
You should watch the movie I Declare War (2012).
uggggggggggg · 146 points · Posted at 14:43:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a very similar version also called hunger games. We would fill a big bin with water balloons. Everyone started standing around the bin and we would count down. At zero everyone ran to the center and got balloons then ran to try and hide. We also had things like sleds or tennis rackets in the middle that you could use as a shield. If a water balloon hit you and popped, you were out. Last person standing wins.
trainercatlady · 2 points · Posted at 15:12:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasn't this an episode of Bob's Burgers?
uggggggggggg · 5 points · Posted at 15:21:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol yeah it was. We played this in probably 2011 or 2012 when I was in highschool and hunger games was a big deal.
1008oh · 14 points · Posted at 15:06:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I remember this! Except that we used sticks as weapons, you couldn't "kill" with your hands. I got some bad bruises from that.
duuckyy · 4 points · Posted at 17:29:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
This was anarchy when we played it at my school. And it was ALWAYS requested by us. We had a lot of stuff though. All the items were in the middle of the gym in one of the circles, obviously the cornucopia. There were five softballs, if you got hit with one you were "dead" and had to sit down where you got hit while your partner had to carry on without you. Two hoola-hoops were used as a shield. If you got hit by a ball while you had a shield, you had to drop the shield and run away but you were still up. You can't pick the shield up right after you drop it. You also cna only be considered out if you got hit by a ball. No tagging by hands. Headshots did actually count. I think there were other things too like mats and hockey sticks but I can't remember what they were used for. I think the mats were used at "walls," you just unfold it and balance it on its side to form a wall. People would barricade themselves in corners until they realized how ineffective it was to a ball. It was a shit show though. People formed bigger groups and alliances, trust was broken, some people even went as far as "killing" their partner right off the bat. It started actual arguments between friends. Everyone hated it. But god did we ever love it. Always asked for it again every time it was given as a choice of things to play. As a whole class we decided that whoever genuinely didn't like the game and tried to purposely get out was to be kept alive all game just so they could suffer the chaos that was the Hunger Games. We felt like gods playing it.
wonderbreadstick · 3 points · Posted at 15:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called hunger games, but it was different than yours. Our was basically partner tag: you were paired up with someone for the whole game, and they could “heal” you if you got tagged. Anyone could tag anyone else, there wasn’t one specific “it,” so it was very chaotic and never ended since we were all constantly getting healed.
UrgotMilk · 2 points · Posted at 15:44:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What do you mean by this?
Kyal_B05 · 2 points · Posted at 20:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was meant to say go to the middle sorry
minimumhatred · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same except we also would have different things like pool noodles as swords, pinnies as armor. Badminton birdies as poison darts .etc
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same thing! Something similar
DangerDragonGaming · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing this in school in PE. All of us we be at the walls of the gym and there were balls and there were mats to make forts. There were always like 3 alliances made by us.
meowmicksed · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man. We played a similar, tag-based game in the dark. Such jump scares, much fun.
Matt986m · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too, but without the balls and double touch
TheMoonIsFake32 · 261 points · Posted at 14:22:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Wall Ball. You throw a tennis ball against a wall and if someone else catches it your out, if you touch it twice and don't catch it your out, if it hits you and you don't touch the wall before the next throw hits it, your out.
Edit: seems like a lot of the older folks played this but with more violence/asses
Edit 2: When I played it I wasn't sure if it was a small thing only at our school or if it was pretty popular, looks like the second one. I'm having some good memories thinking about this game
Pisghettios · 26 points · Posted at 15:45:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play it at my middle school but we used a racquetball and instead of being out you’d have to stand on the wall and everybody would choose one kid (usually the one that played baseball or had the strongest arm) to nail whoever got out. If they missed you’re lucky and you keep playing, if they hit, sucks for you and you keep playing. No rules on where you could or couldn’t get hit either. If you didn’t want to stand on the wall you were out of the game for the rest of the week
Edit: added a rule
Childish_burrito · 4 points · Posted at 21:37:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this “Butt ball” where I’m from!
jakesboy2 · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we were reasonable people. you just had to run and touch the wall before you got pegged
[deleted] · -8 points · Posted at 16:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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und88 · 18 points · Posted at 16:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer was absolutely nothing like wall ball for me growing up. Smear involved a football and tackling whoever had the ball. If you intentionally dropped or threw the ball, you got hit much harder.
[deleted] · 25 points · Posted at 15:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think we had "butts up" as the name for this game in my middle school. It was a private Christian middle school however so we ended up having to call it something else when the teachers heard the name lol.
wardrich · 8 points · Posted at 18:22:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to call it Whopass (or whop butt when adults were around).
It wasn't until recently when my kids were watching an episode of Sanjay & Craig that I'd heard it referred to as "Butts Up"
Micah_Berge · 18 points · Posted at 15:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one’s a classic. Always played it at recess in elementary school until it would end up on the roof (sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose). Pretty sure at the end of the school year one year the janitor found like 20 tennis balls up there.
Dangerous_Pickle · 2 points · Posted at 23:53:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this as well. Someone would always have to sneak into the gym and swipe two tennis balls. We had a tradition; when someone threw the ball onto the roof, we'd chase them down and dog-pile on them. I was lucky enough to never land it onto the roof. At some point, new strategies were developed. For instance, people were using their hats to catch the ball, and would line up near the wall to try to quickly get people out. You also weren't allowed to catch the ball three bounces in a row and could not move while you held the ball. This was basically the only thing I did during recess in the fourth grade.
ruebleader · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “can’t move” rule was always separated the boys from the men in my grade. If you were throwing bombs you were a badass. Sometimes if it was too far out we would fake throw it and have to touch the wall before the ball.
one-long-shitpost · 8 points · Posted at 16:38:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha we did the same thing but for some reason we called it "suicide."
"Hey u guys wanna play suicide??"
🎙️ antenonjohs · 3 points · Posted at 14:29:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds fun and challenging!
Willyballer · 17 points · Posted at 15:37:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also known as “butt’s up” by the older generation Great game. Because you wouldn’t ever be out. If you were “out” they’d make you face the wall and then throw the tennis ball at your butt.
superluke · 9 points · Posted at 15:56:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was "Red ass" for us in the 80's.
Simba7 · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it peg ball. Similar rules as above, but when yoh were "out" you had to touch the wall before getting pegged with the ball as hard as possible, or else you get pegged with the ball as hard as possible.
Giellelekelke · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol still red ass in 2010-12 for me. Loved that game even played in PE but more people called it off the wall
und88 · 5 points · Posted at 16:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our executions involved everyone else getting at least one free shot at the out person.
parkerbrody30 · 3 points · Posted at 19:31:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this, but you faced forward and they threw the ball at your dick
Willyballer · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:09 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes that happened if you were out twice in a row. They’d switch you forward the second time.
Nomtam · 3 points · Posted at 19:52:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got my first concussion playing wall ball in grade 5. I was running up to touch the wall and a grade 8'er cranked me in the back of the head with the tennis ball, which proceeded to smash my forehead into the schools brick wall...good memories...
TheMoonIsFake32 · 2 points · Posted at 20:57:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy Shit That's Hardcore
scathias · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
play this with a soccer ball instead and you will understand why my school shut it down after i got nailed in the head. i didn't get a concussion though (that didn't happen until i ran down a metal slide in winter and slipped :p)
Masterofdakittens · 2 points · Posted at 16:17:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this one “ass ball” when you got hit by the ball you had to stand with your face to the wall and the others would throw the ball at your back/ass
fozz179 · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
This was a classic at my elementary school. Probably slight variations but it basically involved whipping a tennis ball at a wall. Like some kind of weird primitive form of squash.
There were a lot of great school wide elementary school games. In the winter the snow would usually get more of a icy consistency so that you could essentially make bricks out of it. I remember my grade and the grade above would build these snow forts out of these bricks and then we would try and run across to the others forts and steal bricks/destroy there fort. It got really violent, full on tackling.
People would take up defensive, offensive positions, building positions, to keep the fort fortified, there would be others off making or digging out new bricks.
Chapeaux · 2 points · Posted at 19:09:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You're out until someone else is out. Then you can go back to the game.
TheMoonIsFake32 · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot about that!
Winterstorm262 · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep I remember Wall Ball! We would throw the tennis ball on the side of the house and If someone caught it, you had to tag the wall. If you tag the wall before the player hits the wall with the ball, you were safe. If you were too late, you had to stand sideways along the wall and get pegged by a tennis ball (no headshots or groin shots). If you don't catch the ball and it hit the ground, same deal.
Christyx · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We still play wall ball as adults, apparently it’s called racketball or something like that
dadijo2002 · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not the only one kid :) I was a pro back in the day
Knolligge · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends did it with small rubber bouncy balls. Hard as hell to catch and easy to roof, it was total chaos but damn those are some good memories
XCryptoX · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played wall ball or red ass depending on how closely the teachers were watching us.
lpo33 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this but also played "extreme" wall ball, where other people were allowed to tackle you to prevent you from touching the wall.
YVRJon · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school, we had "squares" made by the wall jutting out for the width of a classroom, with similar-sized spaces in between. There was one coveted square that was two stories all the way around, and that square was the venue for a wall-ball variant game we called "reeve." The person with the ball (a tennis ball) would throw it at the "front" wall (one of the two parallel walls). If someone caught it before it bounced, the thrower was out. If it hit someone and then hit the ground, the person who was it was out. EXCEPT you could save yourself from being out by "reeving." This involved throwing the ball against the front wall so that it hit the back wall before it bounced. If it was caught after hitting the back wall but before bouncing, the thrower was out; if it hit the ground after the back wall, the thrower was saved. It was a really fun game in grades 3-6 or so.
EDIT: I wonder if they still play this game at that school. I'd go back and see, except (1) I live across the country now; and (2) I'm pretty sure I'd get put on a registry somewhere if I was watching kids at recess.
yetidonut · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school we played a game called wall ball as well, except slightly different. We'd throw a tennis ball at a wall, and then whoever gets it has to throw it from wherever they grabbed it, and if they couldn't get it all the way to the wall they were out
TheMoonIsFake32 · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had that rule but for it to happen they had to say "Wall Ball" you could move side to side and backwards though so it was like a imaginary line
Robobvious · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes, it was always dubbed ‘Off the Wall’ at my school.
print-is-dead · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played this constantly as a kid. I’m 41, and kids in the neighborhood still play. Its awesome.
UndeadBread · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I'd say most people have probably played this as kids. At my elementary school, we had a big wallball wall out on the blacktop that we used for this game. I can't remember all of the rules we used (aside from the "Poison" rule mentioned on the Wikipedia page) but I do remember that we called it Balls To The Wall at my school.
Wallball, by the way, is actually a slightly different game that uses one of those big kickballs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallball
Oh_hi_doggi3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Handball!! Loved that game
I feel like it was more violent than you described tho
Caleb032 · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s a thing that a lot of people do. I played it and it was so fun.
7_trash_dad · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this "Jail" at my old school. Instead of being out they'd send you to jail until someone called jailbreak
NormanNormalman · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine and his smart amazing black lab played their own version of Wall Ball. That dog was soooo smart, but she wouldn't play it with anyone but him. She was a really good girl, so smart and friendly and funny, and I loved to dogsit her. When she died he called to let me know cause I was so close to her.
Chloe, we still love you!
harv0930 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this all the time in fifth grade
1234didntwork · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “spread eagle”, and instead of just being “out”, you had to go up to the wall, and get “spread eagle”.
That’s where you faced the wall and put your legs and arms out and the guy who got you out stood behind the line and got to throw the ball at you as hard as they could.
It kicked ass.
scathias · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my school called it red ass i think, and we played it with a soccer ball. it ended when i got hit in the head with the balled and i bounced my head off the wall.
Jerk-Lurker · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just posted about this same game. We called it Red Ass. I forgot about the running to touch the wall if you miss part. Lol, people smashing into the wall trying to get there fast.
burritoBandito123 · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it pinners. And you would throw a ball against a wall and you had to catch it with one hand on the fly. If you dropped it then you had to run and touch the wall before someone threw it at you. Three strikes and you faced the wall and took three shots to your back.
tiamatfire · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep, we played this too, but it was called "Fumb", short for "Fumble". If you fumbled though you had to stand against the wall and try desperately to avoid being smacked by the next tennis ball, or those awfully hard balls painted red, white, and blue.
zerbs47 · 0 points · Posted at 23:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG I FUCKIN HATED THAT GAME
Arashi_Kanashimi · 128 points · Posted at 13:54:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had a brick wall in the playground, and we used to pretend we were all spies in an airplane while sitting on this brick wall. We'd execute 'manoeuvres' which were actually just us all leaning side to side, and I'd sit 'at the front' (the leftmost seat on the wall) and pretend to be the pilot. And there would be enemy spies and moles who would doublecross us, and invariably we would have to either jump out the airplane or do a crash landing. It was awesome.
Kermit-Batman · 6 points · Posted at 00:38:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol, I'm just picturing a teacher watching that :)
texensis · 65 points · Posted at 13:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few days before Christmas my siblings and I would always play a game where we would all take turns being 'presents'. This involved crawling under the Christmas tree and curling into a ball, as if we were wrapped up toys. One of us would take the role of the child running in to open the presents, but when they get to the tree we would all spring up and try to tag them. If they were tagged then they would become a 'toy' and the one who tagged them would become the child. Creepy as fuck now that I think about it and also not very creative, I still wonder what the point was?
horsenbuggy · 4 points · Posted at 15:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't celebrate Christmas but this sounds like the kind of weird game my cousins and I would have played if we did.
flicckin · 62 points · Posted at 15:04:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother (roughly 12) & my neighbours (3 boys under 13 at the time) and I (female, 9-10) would play a game where I was (in retrospect) working at a brothel.. I would be under a desk with a bed sheet covering the “entrance” and the boys would “pay” my brother to enter only for us to make loud moaning noises pretending to have sex, as the others outside would dance in a circle screaming gibberish & wearing only their underwear with my teddy bears shoved in their crotch.
Atalantius · 59 points · Posted at 16:40:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FBI? Yes, this comment over here
Insouciant_Idiot · 6 points · Posted at 23:16:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why the fuck did you start doing that? Did the creator grow up in a brothel?
flicckin · 11 points · Posted at 23:26:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No one knew what a brothel was, we were literally just making up things as it went. I mean we were pretty normal kids at the end of the day. There was another game called “centipede” I played with my school friends. You would monkey link arms (right arm usually) and the person at the front would run around dragging the other kids behind them, in doing this it built up enough momentum through 8 people that if the person at the front decided to do a sharp turn the person at the back would go flying. It was really fun. Once I was at the end of the centipede & I literally flew 7 metres & landed on my shoulder. It was dislocated. If that’s more wholesome for you lel
ScizorSci · 3 points · Posted at 23:28:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
u/MagicFart69
BurtMacklin185 · 61 points · Posted at 15:04:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Dr. Dr. Cake". A game where my young cousin would menacingly push a toy shopping cart and scream "Dr. Dr. Cake" while everyone else ran from him. He was actually very terrifying and it was like running from a villain in a horror movie.
oddlythebird · 58 points · Posted at 14:24:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I invented a game we called King King. The "King" walks in a big circle as slow and regally as possible with our parents old comforter draped over their shoulders. The other person stands in the center of this circle and waits for the signal. At some point in walking around, the King will say "King......King". The second "King" is the signal. The King begins running and the person in the center must tackle them.
crealol2 · 4 points · Posted at 15:39:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am the i am the king
greenkitty_ff · 112 points · Posted at 13:05:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pic Poc. Just throw a ball to the ground and the person in front of you grabbed it and did the same. I usually played with my grandma.
Kungfu_McNugget · 9 points · Posted at 16:56:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's kinda sweet.
kekeke923 · 4 points · Posted at 17:49:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aw I think that’s cute that you usually played with your grandma. I’m sure she loved it.
greenkitty_ff · 10 points · Posted at 18:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah. Too bad she can't play anymore. Dementia :(
TotalDesaster · 51 points · Posted at 15:00:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing "hospital" in kindergarden. Basically, one kid would lay on a bed and everyone else would try to "heal" their injuries with makeshift cures (I remember throwing marbles over the stomach would cure stomachache) before they "died". The kid pretending to be a patient decided when that would happen, which often led to arguments because we didn't want the game to end that soon.
YVRJon · 5 points · Posted at 17:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play doctor with a friend who was of the opposite gender...
dungeonnerd · 2 points · Posted at 20:22:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With real medical textbooks and a stethoscope and everything?
YVRJon · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Plastic stethoscope, yes. She had a toy doctor's kit.
dungeonnerd · 3 points · Posted at 20:44:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you have the heart to tell her she was doing it wrong?
YVRJon · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nope. Was much more interested in examining her, anyway.
nengelsgtjunior · 1286 points · Posted at 13:00:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day. My friends would play a game we called “transformers” where we picked a transformer and then just ran around doing nothing in particular
Sati1984 · 217 points · Posted at 14:25:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I hope Michael Bay paid you a ton of money for the rights, as he based the entire plot of the franchise on your game.
nengelsgtjunior · 58 points · Posted at 14:28:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well if he did pay us then I need to have a serious talk with my “friends” cause I think they might have screwed me
Demonica_PizzaScares · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!!!
nengelsgtjunior · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
iamrootnotgroot · 389 points · Posted at 13:59:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did this too - We were playing Dragon Ball instead.
I had read all the books and they only watched the TV-series. They would get furious whenever I picked a character they didn't know, because they had no idea what "abilities" my character had, so they couldn't counter it! Oh, the memories..
rhinocerosofrage · 174 points · Posted at 14:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love the idea of them trying to argue that you were making up "Buu" because "his name is stupid and why would the bad guy turn people into candy thats dumb and gay"
Or "theres no way goku has another kid named goten and he fuses with trunks? what is fusion thats not real"
EDIT: "bullshit you can't be goku AND vegeta pick one!"
iamrootnotgroot · 99 points · Posted at 14:50:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was actually Ginyu a lot.
Whenever someone was close to winning our "fights", I would just body swap and steal the "win" :-)
They definitely didn't like Majin Vegeta, though.
NargacugaRider · 12 points · Posted at 15:29:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a bit of a crush on both Jace and Android 18. I was a confused child.
... I still do.
PantherTheRogue · 4 points · Posted at 19:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GINYU FORCE RULES
sleepycharlie · 7 points · Posted at 18:19:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did this with DBZ, Sailor Moon, Digimon and Pokemon. So yeah, a group of five children ran around screaming pokemon names and acting like we were blowing bubbles or shooting fire at each other.
I can only imagine what we looked like to our parents.
karmagod13000 · 24 points · Posted at 14:31:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
you sound like the kids from stranger things
hankbaumbach · 2 points · Posted at 16:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this with X-Men back in the day.
PantherTheRogue · 2 points · Posted at 19:06:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played Pokemon, only we would make up our own Pokemon and give them disproportionately OP moves, even if the Pokemon was just a straight up dog
🎙️ antenonjohs · 75 points · Posted at 13:37:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you! You too!
JRad8888 · 49 points · Posted at 14:13:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
karmagod13000 · 7 points · Posted at 14:30:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
is it my cake day too!?
koalapants · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
NO
karmagod13000 · 3 points · Posted at 15:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh...
Tyrion5050 · 19 points · Posted at 14:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can I eat you, guys?
DeBabyDoll · 4 points · Posted at 14:56:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But you're supposed to drink and know things, not eat...
phathomthis · 4 points · Posted at 16:22:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
He's /u/Tyrion5050 he's only half Tyrion, or maybe he's only Tyrion 50% of the time. Either way, he can eat, he doesn't just have to drink and know things.
Rocketbird · 3 points · Posted at 15:28:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
/r/SuddenlyGay
poopellar · 2 points · Posted at 14:38:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sure, start with me
bends over
Bribase · 2 points · Posted at 14:46:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Puts on raincoat and goggles
shadow_hunter104 · 7 points · Posted at 14:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
nengelsgtjunior · 8 points · Posted at 14:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
hardypart · 3 points · Posted at 15:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
KM4WDK · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Y’all created accounts on the exact same day too, same year
reddit_user2312 · 16 points · Posted at 14:24:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day to you too!
nengelsgtjunior · 16 points · Posted at 14:24:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day to you too
OdysseusX · 5 points · Posted at 16:25:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spider-Man for us. Only we played as a series of villains and would run around pretending that some imaginary Spider-Man was shooting webs at us and fighting us.
"Help, I got webbed!" "OK now I'm doc ock! brrrwwwwfff my arms broke you out!" "Thanks! I'm mysterio and now only we know that we aren't falling down a cliff!" "Sweet I'll be lizard and climb across and hit him! Hya!"
Etc. This was in the 90s thanks to the Spiderman cartoon. Spider blood spider blood radioactive spider blood.
Cannibal808 · 14 points · Posted at 13:25:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I'm taking Starscream.
Nyibbut · 3 points · Posted at 15:13:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Starscream rivaled Bumblebee in greatness
Sleepy_Chipmunk · 2 points · Posted at 18:45:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MEGATRON HAS FALLEN!
superluke · 4 points · Posted at 15:50:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You had to make the transforming sound from the cartoon before you ran around for no reason.
nengelsgtjunior · 2 points · Posted at 15:53:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of course. That was one thing we had to do
BlamBitchPudding · 3 points · Posted at 15:07:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this! We called it Power Rangers.
rdmdcne · 3 points · Posted at 16:55:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school friends and I would do something similar but with Beast Wars characters! Basically Transformers though haha.
LordSoren · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was Indiana Jones. Indy and his father always running into snakes or rats.
GlitterIsLitter · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
so just like the movies !
Azebeenite · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did this too but instead of Transformers its was with the Thunder Cats
Demonica_PizzaScares · 2 points · Posted at 18:51:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
nengelsgtjunior · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
UndeadBread · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did that with Ninja Turtles (or sometimes Power Rangers) but we threw in occasional somersaults.
sposth · 2 points · Posted at 19:52:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Power rangers here
muckrucker · 2 points · Posted at 21:30:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sometimes we would switch it up and play "Ninja Turtles" instead.
Entirely different batch of character names and self-made sound effects :)
cheesycheesling · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
nengelsgtjunior · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you
Zanki · 2 points · Posted at 13:35:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played Power Rangers with two kids in my school. Olivia would be pink. Michael would be red and me, even though I was a girl, I was always green. We'd just run around the playground, not really doing much but we were Power Rangers.
Sanchobob · 5 points · Posted at 13:21:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day to you too!
RemarkableStatement5 · 0 points · Posted at 14:05:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/DoubleCakeDay is finally relevant!
karmagod13000 · 2 points · Posted at 14:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
26 subs... literally dozens
RemarkableStatement5 · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
plz subscribe to r/fictionalpsychology and r/fakemarv as well
[deleted] · 43 points · Posted at 14:17:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would create forts in the basement, 1 would be defending the fort and the 2 others would be attacking. We would use nerf guns and it was always with the lights turned off. It was probably the coolest thing ever at the time.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 459 points · Posted at 13:27:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Hall ball. Me and my brother made it up and used to play it for hours
🎙️ antenonjohs · 228 points · Posted at 13:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Could you explain the rules? That sounds interesting.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 524 points · Posted at 13:45:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would just stand at each end of a hall and throw a tennis ball at each other. if you hit the wall behind them, you got a point. it's a lot funner then it sounds, and actually sounds pretty stupid now that it's typed out lol
p.s. microphone day and cake day at the same time? congrats my friend \ (•◡•) /
🎙️ antenonjohs · 165 points · Posted at 13:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No that sounds interesting. And thank you!
karmagod13000 · 19 points · Posted at 14:50:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ya i kind of want to play right now... i wish i had a brother... or friends
Joe_Mama · 14 points · Posted at 15:08:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
....or a wall.
karmagod13000 · 8 points · Posted at 15:51:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i asked the wall and he said no
Mstinos · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And a ball
mrlittleoldmanboy · 3 points · Posted at 14:57:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
jeez that took a turn. at least you have an absurd amount of karma to keep you company
karmagod13000 · 10 points · Posted at 15:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ya let me go ask my karma if it wants to play a game... it said no
mrlittleoldmanboy · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Your karma doesn't deserve you, my friend. I'd play hall ball with you
karmagod13000 · 3 points · Posted at 15:40:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
thanks friend!
ClassyBallsack · 6 points · Posted at 16:18:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What the hell is microphone day
ImhereforAB · 12 points · Posted at 16:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think they don’t realise that’s the OP that created this thread? Somehow calling it microphone day :D made me giggle
JudgmentPenguin · 6 points · Posted at 16:57:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s either that, or a while back people were trying to convince others it’s a thing, so it could be that or a product of that. Either way I think the whole idea is funny.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 4 points · Posted at 17:04:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's me trying to confuse people and get a woooosh or two for laughs. It's working better then I expected though!
Edit: nice name by the way lmao
ClassyBallsack · 2 points · Posted at 21:47:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha thank you. (And yeah, you got me)
babygrenade · 17 points · Posted at 14:14:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played basically this same game.
karmagod13000 · 8 points · Posted at 14:51:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
copiers!
babygrenade · 4 points · Posted at 14:56:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know right, how dare they?
karmagod13000 · 5 points · Posted at 15:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TREASON!!!
Kuli24 · 15 points · Posted at 14:52:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Woah, yet another similar game. We would each sit at the ends of the hall with all doors closed. 1 box of Nerds candy behind each of us. Big pink bouncy ball was used to try and knock down the other's box of Nerds. If successful, you can eat 1 out of your own box.
Slumph · 13 points · Posted at 14:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am picturing budget squash.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 3 points · Posted at 14:36:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also had a game called "wall ball" when there wasn't a hall available. That's more like budget squash. We were good at making up games, bad at names, and bad at being original.
i_always_give_karma · 10 points · Posted at 15:29:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Daniel?
Edit: thought I may have found my brothers secret Reddit page. We played hall ball too! Looked through your history and you’re definitely him lol
mrlittleoldmanboy · 4 points · Posted at 15:36:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I promise I'm not Daniel 😂😂 this thread has convinced me that every set of brothers has invented this game
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 15:35:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What does the microphone day mean?
mrlittleoldmanboy · 5 points · Posted at 15:39:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's a not so funny joke you can say when somebody comments under their own posts and have the microphone by their name. Feel free to use it
notMcLovin77 · 5 points · Posted at 15:46:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I played this, but it was dodging a dozen balls all being aimed at your face.
Edit: I’m referring to Butts Up of course
cjdudley · 4 points · Posted at 16:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is how cricket got started.
iPissPurple · 3 points · Posted at 15:11:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's scary how I used to play the exact same game with my cousins... and we called it 'Wall Ball'
mrlittleoldmanboy · 3 points · Posted at 15:21:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also made a game called wall ball. Pretty weird.
moskan · 3 points · Posted at 15:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play more or less the same game. We would sit at each end of the wall with a soft(ish) ball and slap it back and forward, if we could hit the wall behind the other player you would score a point.
We recently had a rematch, my brother at 32 and me at 27. It was awesome! 10/10 would recommend every one to try hall ball!
pscharff · 3 points · Posted at 15:47:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm pissed you just made me google microphone day. I heard the fucking wooosh go over my head when I read the search results. Feels like I was rickrolled
mrlittleoldmanboy · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahaha, somebody already asked me what it meant. It feels good ngl
JT420 · 3 points · Posted at 15:49:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play something similar but with plush balls rather than tennis balls, we’d also have like 5 or 6 we’d use at once too. You’re right, sounds simple and mundane but that game was the fucking best.
wcpm88 · 3 points · Posted at 21:35:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played similar games, my grandparents' beach house had this loooooong hall that all the bedrooms were along. My cousins, brother, and I also played a game called "bed ball" where you essentially played tennis, but instead of a net, there was a gap between two beds, and you had to kneel the whole time.
Ah man, it was the best.
ReiceMcK · 2 points · Posted at 15:00:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can imagine you fucking launching the ball at your brother to try to get it past him, as he flails his body in the general trajectory of the ball to try and stop it
mrlittleoldmanboy · 2 points · Posted at 15:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean you pretty much just aim for the head and hope they aren't dumb enough to take the blow. but I'm not kidding when you're 2 hours in, a couple bruises is worth the win when it's against a sibling at a young age lol
Scrybblyr · 2 points · Posted at 15:09:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One friend and I did that with darts. In retrospect, I prefer your version.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yes obviously. why darts??? you'd lose an eye. that's like the worst object to use for this game 😂
Scrybblyr · 2 points · Posted at 15:20:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why darts? Because the shuriken would have made enough noise to alert parents. (And would hurt much worse.)
mrlittleoldmanboy · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When you put it like that, yeah I guess darts aren't that bad.
ThumbForke · 2 points · Posted at 15:20:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a very different hall ball. It was basically a mixture of rugby and wrestling. There's one small rugby ball, and you each have a room at opposite ends of the hall that the other player tries to touch down the ball in, at all costs.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds a lot cooler then my version. My brother has 7 years and about 50 lbs on me so I'm not sure how that would of went
IllusionEscape · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played basically the same game except we used a small foam soccer ball.
Creepy_OldMan · 2 points · Posted at 15:30:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar to this, my friends and I played Gutter Ball. This game took place in a public pool that had gutters around the side. The object of the game was to score those little squishy pool balls into the gutter and get it past the goalie.
BatFish123 · 2 points · Posted at 15:31:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey, i used to play the same game with my exs younger brother but with a football, can confirm it is actually heaps of fun
gbcr · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit, used to do this with my roommate in University. We had a long hall way in our apartment and played with a ball of duct tape, both of us played baseball and would just gun it as each other. Good times
jarmo_p · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same thing in University, but it was with a Frisbee. With concrete walls and little discretion there were a few injuries.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oof. Some of my friends and I actually tried to adapt this with a frisbee years later. A kid ended up getting nailed in the face and broke his nose. I've never seen a frisbee do so much damage
snomeister · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar to hallway hockey that me and my friends and brother would play. We always had these miniature hockey sticks and we would play with them and a ball in the hallway.
Heuby · 2 points · Posted at 16:06:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
E and my brother played this too! And it made our dog go nuts
vigilanteoftime · 2 points · Posted at 16:07:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg, I just realized me and my sister played the same game! Except there wasn't a wall at the end of our hallway, so it was just a point if it got past them.
NotJase · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sort of sounds like pong. That’s very interesting and sounds like a whole lot of fun.
Smallbrowncows · 2 points · Posted at 16:20:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in college the guys in the hall above me decided to do this, except with a soccer ball. And I think it could be carried, not just thrown. So basically ~15 adults playing football in a 4’ wide hallway. I think they had a double-decker offensive line at one point.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm just sorry they lived above you.
PM_Ur_TankTopNoBra · 2 points · Posted at 17:02:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a dad that owns the halls and walls in the house, this would really piss me off
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
But do you own the balls? Because that's half the game right there.
chotix · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh shit I played a similar variant of that but instead of a hall it was stair ball. The person on the bottom had a massive disadvantage so we balanced it by making points scored by the bottom player worth 3
imDEUSyouCUNT · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh shit, I've played that too
wardrich · 2 points · Posted at 17:51:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOL @ "Microphone Day"
Anybody OOTL, the microphone is used to distinguish who the OP is
daradv · 2 points · Posted at 18:25:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My husband played this game in college with his roommates!
falc0nsmash · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a similar game at my friends house until we hit his mum’s vintage glass bottle collection and weren’t allowed to play any more
kyogre120 · 2 points · Posted at 21:17:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Microphone just means OP
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know mate, it was supposed to be a joke to get a few wooooosh's but it's getting out of hand! 😂 I thought "microphone day" was a pretty common joke in Reddit
pwaves13 · 2 points · Posted at 22:15:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like so much fun
pumpkin27 · 2 points · Posted at 01:11:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Head Ball" at church. The 2nd floor had a balcony that wrapped around the inside of the church. Half of us would go on the balcony and the other half on the main floor. We then essentially played dodge ball but you had to aim for their heads. If you hit them they were out, if they caught it, you were out. So multi level Dodge ball I guess.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:57:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this...with pillows though. We'd take all the throw pillows off the sofa, pile them into the hall. My room was at the end of the hall so we'd shut the door, one of us would stand in front of it and the other would be at the opposite end...and we'd throw the pillows trying to hit them. If they caught it, they became the thrower. If they got hit, we'd tally up points.
Hours of fun but inevitably one of us would shatter the ceiling lights and we'd all be in trouble.
senpai_licker · 2 points · Posted at 19:55:21 on June 16, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did the same but it was on like a playground thing and there were holes on the ends and you had to get it through there
___ElJefe___ · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What is microphone day? I use reddit is fun it doesn't show cake or microphone
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's your microphone day too! Type in "I got wooooshed" to see what it does!
___ElJefe___ · 0 points · Posted at 16:09:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh ok that's super cool. I got dooouched!
mrlittleoldmanboy · 0 points · Posted at 16:13:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
😂😂 really though, when somebody comments under their own posts they have a microphone by their name. Microphone day isn't really a thing, I was just hoping I'd get a few bites.
Rookbane · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just want to point out that the microphone means it’s OP. It’s not a special day like the cake.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 0 points · Posted at 16:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/woooosh
finger guns
Rookbane · 0 points · Posted at 19:36:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or maybe you just made a stupid joke.
If everyone reading your comment tries explaining that “microphone day” isn’t a real thing, then maybe you weren’t being that funny.
mrlittleoldmanboy · -1 points · Posted at 19:43:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
finger guns intensify
Demonica_PizzaScares · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day OP!!!!
CastorrTroyyy · 11 points · Posted at 14:45:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is almost exactly like handball my friends and I would play. Almost like doubles tennis except we'd volley the rubber ball off a wall.
Creepy_OldMan · 5 points · Posted at 15:25:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played Wall Ball, which was basically us throwing a tennis ball at the side of our houses. If you dropped the ball you had to run and touch the wall before the other player could hit the wall with the ball. After 3 "outs" the loser had to bend over by the wall and we would throw the tennis balls as hard as we could at them.
Cockmander · 3 points · Posted at 15:39:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this game too. We called it Suicide. After three outs losers would get booties, we'd all chant booties booties booties and absolutely rifle those balls at them.
Creepy_OldMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I miss playing outdoors :(
mrlittleoldmanboy · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That. Sounds. Awesome. Wall ball V2.
p1xode · 2 points · Posted at 16:22:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait a minute, I thought this was my game??? Was this some kind of nationwide suburban phenomenon i had no idea about?
Creepy_OldMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe we lived in the same suburban neighborhood and played together :/
roachezmo · 2 points · Posted at 15:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Wall Ball", and it was essentially the same game. Trippy.
crackazac · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game called the same thing, but ours was a mini football game in the hallway.
Both ends of the hallways were respective goals, the other doors in the hallways could be closed, to have more surfaces to bounce the ball off, or open, and have all he’ll break loose when the ball goes into a bedroom.
My stepdad hates this game cause we kept taking paint off the walls. Even made a hole in a wall slamming a door into it. Good times.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:45:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did ball tag. All of us kids and my parents would run around throwing a ball at each other. If it hit you, you were it. If you threw the ball and it missed you had to run to it and you could take 3 steps (always try to take the biggest steps you can!) Realign and then try to hit someone with it again. So much fun diving onto the couch as the ball flies past your back hella fast. Or side stepping it perfectly. My kids have grown up playing this game and I hope it continues on down the ancestry lines.
low_key_like_thor · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My roommates and I (21/22 years old) play a game we call stair Chuck. One person stands at the top of the stairs and throws a ball down trying to hit a metal sign behind the defender at the bottom of the stairs. Timeless entertainment
ohsnowy · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a variation on this, as we had a house with a floorplan where it was possible to have a first base (dining room), second base (where the long hallway intersected with the foyer and living room), and third base (the breakfast nook in between the living room and kitchen), while home base was at the end of the long hallway between the kitchen and dining room. Hitting it all the way down the long hallway, you really hoped it would get stuck on something because getting past second was difficult. Of course, there was also the possibility of hitting it down the stairs to the daylight basement, as a stretch of the long hallway just had a pony wall separating the staircase. Exciting times.
IamAkillerKeller · 2 points · Posted at 17:28:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This ws a thing my bros and I played in the 80s/90s as well.
hounds-toothy · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family called it Roll Ball and played it at all the family functions lol
MarchKick · 2 points · Posted at 00:58:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a similar game. One person would be on the bed and could jump or move to avoid the nerf ball being thrown from the doorway. The thrower had 5 tries to hit the person on the bed.
horsenbuggy · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is like Ball Ball on the Goldbergs.
our_scoop_of_soup · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a variant of this called stair ball.
mrlittleoldmanboy · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How did that go?
our_scoop_of_soup · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The flight of stairs that led to the basement had a small landing at the top of the stairs and the bottom and a door behind each. With one person at each end we would throw a kickball back and forth trying to hit the door behind the other person. If the upstairs person hit the downstairs door they got a point. If the downstairs person. Hit the upstairs door we switched places.
shmillz123 · 39 points · Posted at 14:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings were raised by single working dad so I was left to babysit pretty frequently. Our foyer is one where you walk in and you can see up to the second floor. So the stairs are L shaped and if you were to jump from the top platform of the stairs (over the rail) you could land right in the center of my foyer. We developed a fire fighter game where we'd send down a rope/curtain/sheet and slide down it resulting in endless rug burns and sprains. We then turned it into a swing, which was awesome.
It's actually pretty funny because I was always doing random gymnastics moves and stuff and ended up growing up to be an aerial silk/hammock yoga instructor!
Asmor · 5 points · Posted at 15:37:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You have my attention.
shmillz123 · 3 points · Posted at 15:40:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha! It is also often called "anti-gravity" yoga. You do a lot of it upside down, or super high off the ground! Google it, it's awesome!
Asmor · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is this something that a fat guy who's out of shape and has no experience in yoga could do?
shmillz123 · 2 points · Posted at 01:44:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Absolutely it’s very low impact, and it’s super good for any kind of back or neck pain. I’m not sure how “fat” you’re talking. I think there is a weight limit at some point, but a good aerial arts studio typically has good support beams in the ceiling for anyone. I brought my grandmother for a class once, and she killed it!!!
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 14:20:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "water game". Me and my sister would try to be the first to spot water running down cliff sides on the interstate on long trips.
Riveting stuff!
Inkii_TheWoomy · 3 points · Posted at 06:45:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
more like rivering stuff
CastOfKillers · 46 points · Posted at 14:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game we called "kick kick." Two of us would lay on either side of the couch with our feet facing eachother then we'd put our feet together and kick back and forth gradually increasing in speed until it was just a frantic barrage of leg and nutt shots. It never ended well, nothing about it was clever, we were idiots.
Torghira · 4 points · Posted at 14:38:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game. We called it king of the couch
mattleo · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I too know this game!
cryptologicalMystic · 3 points · Posted at 00:03:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I played something similar to this that we called "kicky". You bend your legs about halfway, press the soles of your feet to the soles of the other person's feet, and then apply pressure. The objective is to get your legs completely straight and the other person's completely bent, all without taking your feet apart. Using other body parts to try and force a bend is, of course, cheating.
CastOfKillers · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also did this, but mostly just kicked the shit out of eachother.
Tooilltoochill · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I and our neighborhood friends (when we were like under 10 yo) used to play a game called rhinoceros. We would play in our carpeted living room. Each person would wear a hoodie, and would place a small pillow or folded towel on their head, and then put their hood up. Than you would get on all fours and place your forehead on the ground,effectively rendering you blind. The object was to run (fast crawl?) into someone's side, and when you got your head and shoulders under their torso, you would attempt to flip them. When you were flipped on your side or back you were out. Last man standing wins. Lmao it was the original battle royal.
MarchKick · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to do a version of this. We would line our feet up and move back and forth and bend our knees to see who could lose balance first and roll of the couch.
UnpopGuy · 43 points · Posted at 14:39:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't let the balloon touch the floor
dadijo2002 · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The most competitive game in the world tbh
UnpopGuy · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
True
icr97 · 44 points · Posted at 14:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
By far the dumbest game me and my brother ever came up with growing up was “Oxygen”. One of us would lay on the ground with a beanbag chair draped over our face and body and the other person would jump off the bed onto the beanbag chair and smother the other person’s face. The idea was to see how long you could go without breathing and when you got to the point you could breathe no more you would yell out “Oxygen! Oxygen!” hence the name o’ the game.
Arkose07 · 2 points · Posted at 02:31:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
How did some of us survive childhood?
ChemistryIsPunk · 41 points · Posted at 16:03:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Monster”. First played, by my memory, when I was four.
Usually played when Mom was out of the house, just me, my dad, and my sister. Dad would turn off all of the lights, then he would chase us around the house, growling and roaring. If we were caught, he would tickle us and drag us back to the living room.
The other kid had to reach a designated “button” (usually a metal coaster) and shout, “Pause!” so that our dad would freeze for 10 seconds, giving the captured kid a chance to run.
So many good memories of this game, I really appreciate that my dad took the time to play with us whenever he could.
freakinfalk · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a similar game called Bitty Bug! My dad would run around chasing us yelling "bitty bitty bitty bitty bitty...." and we would run and scream and hide from him. I ran into a wall once because I was so dedicated to getting away
ChemistryIsPunk · 2 points · Posted at 22:42:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Awwwww, that sounds about right :)
Knaomia · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a very similar game with my dad and young brother when we were little! Except we called ours "Barney" and the objective was to keep our stuffed Barney plushie away from the "monster" (my dad). Eventually we stopped playing because I kneed my dad in the crotch trying to stop him from tickling my brother. I honestly thought I killed my dad; he went all silent. Good times.
ChemistryIsPunk · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy, poor guy! Fortunately, nothing like that ever happened during our game.
FanngzYT · 77 points · Posted at 14:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Booty pinchers” my mom would chase my brother and I around the house and if she caught us she would pinch us lol.
Ace_Phant0m · 41 points · Posted at 16:14:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I read the name and heard the SVU sound in my head
porcelainvacation · 7 points · Posted at 16:43:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would do this while crab walking. We called it "crabs".
Holyrollerfliper12 · 6 points · Posted at 16:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait, that’s illegal.
naemtaken · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Definitely not. Pretty weird though.
NoHinAmherst · 3 points · Posted at 17:34:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Definitely do this to my kids. Pinchy bug going up the stairs to bed. Crab in the pool.
bluesky747 · 38 points · Posted at 13:34:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were kids, we used to play a game where we'd shoot root beer and see who could do it faster. I guess we must have seen people doing shots on tv or something.
We'd have our bottles of root beer, shot glasses, and then we'd pound the shot, and the first one to slam the glass back down on the table was the winner. Whoever had the most wins by the time the bottles were empty was the champion!
HeckinAmazin · 14 points · Posted at 17:02:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This reminds me of my baby sister. Years ago, around New Years, we were visiting my grandparents, quite posh people, and we were all having some champagne IIRC. Now at the time my sister was 4 y/o. So my grandmother used these little crystal sherry glasses to serve us kids champagne in, it was brilliant.
Anyway, we all toast the new year, ching-ching our glasses together, and my sister downs her little glass of champagne, slams the little glass on the table and says "Hit me again!"
My mum also just concluded "She must have seen it on TV." She loved telling that story.
bluesky747 · 3 points · Posted at 17:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahaha that's hilarious!
MikeyDude63 · 108 points · Posted at 14:52:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The penis game”played between 2 or more people in school. Take turns yelling the word penis getting increasingly louder every time whoever yells penis the loudest wins
mattleo · 25 points · Posted at 16:33:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, I also did this! Good times!
I initially thought the penis game was going to be like "penis inspection day" with the gym teacher. :(
Insanitychick · 13 points · Posted at 18:12:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know this guy who told me about how him and his friends decided to do this during sex Ed and the sex Ed teacher told them it was healthy to use the words and made the whole class scream penis.
pooberstein · 14 points · Posted at 17:58:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
They had us in the first half not gonna lie
ktfan67 · 3 points · Posted at 22:03:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our school was next to a church (and a graveyard) we used to cut through the graveyard playing this.
DrunkFrodo · 7 points · Posted at 18:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a friend that would just scream PENIS at the top of his lungs in the cafeteria , couldn't beat him
explodingness · 6 points · Posted at 19:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twas an awkward moment in college realizing not everyone played this game as kids
meowmicksed · 4 points · Posted at 18:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My group of friends did the same with... more vulgar words and phrases.
kaimanawakim · 2 points · Posted at 00:04:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In NZ we played a variation of this where we would say ‘Pukana’ and then stick our tongues out like Maori warriors in the haka
Intellectualsack · 157 points · Posted at 12:59:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this mix of Lego Ninjago and Minecraft on the playground everyday. Herobrine would attack our base and we would have to defend it from his forces with our elemental powers and our talking dog with a shapeshifting watch.
Kyal_B05 · 45 points · Posted at 13:09:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy shit sounds cool
GalacTech · 38 points · Posted at 15:25:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a former fifth grader I believe I can vibe with this.
wardrich · 44 points · Posted at 18:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck I'm so old
pwaves13 · 3 points · Posted at 22:17:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Seriously. I was getting ready to graduate high school when it came out.
wardrich · 2 points · Posted at 01:42:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think I was already in college :\
tiamatfire · 3 points · Posted at 06:09:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was married, had a long term job, and expecting a baby. Yup, feeling old.
Tucker_Bio · 3 points · Posted at 23:25:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm only twenty and that makes me feel old.
Jett_I_Knight · 5 points · Posted at 18:07:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
......damn I'm old.
Shivii22 · 29 points · Posted at 13:13:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wish I could remember what the game was called but usually it had to do with having an area of about 3 or 5 neighbors yards as base. And we had to sprint and make it to the middle one before a car would pass by depending on which way they were coming.
You had to practically face plant into the middle yard in time so the car wouldn't see you that was the gist of it. Most the time it was played when it was getting dark out. I miss those days.
Aloepaca · 4 points · Posted at 17:15:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game like that from the driveway with my brother. We called it ‘Stranger Danger.’
Lesbaru · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds like the high school version of cops and robbers. Super fun to be sneaky.
camcoyote · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drive By is what we called it
Recabilly · 35 points · Posted at 14:36:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Right now my kids and I started a new game that I think they'll grow to remember. It's where I grab them in a weird way and they try to break loose. I always come up with weird ways to hold them and they struggle and pull until they are loose and yell at me to do it again lol
They don't know it, but they are secretly being trained on how to escape a predator. If someone grabs my kids I want them to be able to kick ass and make it as hard as possible. Playing this game I've received many scratches and bites lol.
ChuiDuma · 3 points · Posted at 01:09:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a good way to teach them, but sad that it's almost necessary in today's world.
Dani-Vortex · 30 points · Posted at 14:38:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Barbie War" Basically we'd all throw barbies at the fan and then the opposing sides would take cover behind the beds with laundry baskets over our heads for shields
HisOrHerpes · 34 points · Posted at 14:51:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My whole family would play a 5 minute game of tag starting at the same time every night. Whoever was “it” at the end was it at the start of the next night!
LooksBrainsWildcard · 34 points · Posted at 15:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On road trips my father would have my siblings and I play the quiet game. That ruse lasted years before I realized he was trying to have a few moments of peace. I was not a bright child.
dadijo2002 · 3 points · Posted at 23:29:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A class I was in many years ago would play that game for fun at lunch lol
snow_bunnee · 2 points · Posted at 19:41:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my cousins and I got to play the quiet game every Sunday on the way home from church.
1n1billionAZNsay · 58 points · Posted at 14:04:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad grew up poor and he had a lot of games that he would teach us so he didn't have to buy us toys.
mother hen v fox - everyone lines up behind the hen and holds the waist of the person in front of them. The it person is the fox. It person tries to tag anyone in the line, the "hen" tries to protect the "baby chicks." The person tagged is now the fox and previous fox is now the mother hen. Repeat.
tossing marbles - draw a circle, put marbles in the circle, toss marbles to try and hit other marbles out the circle. Playing this game helped with beer ping later on.
24 - take a deck of cards. Throw down cards until you can use the cards and math functions to make 24. The game was interesting with just addition and subtraction, a real challenge when I learned multiplication and became very easy with higher level math.
obscureferences · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tossing marbles, as you have it, is the classic marble game. It works as both a game mechanic and a pot for gambling. You'd prime the pot with whatever marbles you liked the least in your collection, and try to bait the other player into knocking them out, which risks their marbles being left in the ring for you to claim or them to recover. The big marbles were ideal for smashing smaller ones out and still having enough momentum to roll safely out of the ring themselves.
Onett199X · 82 points · Posted at 14:28:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I went to Christian School and in 2nd grade we created a game at recess called "DOGS OF GOD" or D.O.G for short. We used to imagine the whole playground was the African savannah and we were anthropomorphic dogs that defended the wild animals from human poachers. We would pray to God to send us down guns from heaven and kill the poachers. After awhile, we transformed our characters into Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong because Donkey Kong Country (SNES) had just come out and we were really into that game.
"DIDDY! WATCH OUT! POACHER BEHIND YOU!"
"Dear God, send me an AK-47 in your name I pray AMEN!! RATATATATATATA BOOOOOM DEAD! I GOT EM, DONKEY!"
foopy64 · 27 points · Posted at 16:53:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is really something
mistertickles69 · 6 points · Posted at 23:00:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this, and I love you.
Bad_Speinser · 26 points · Posted at 14:00:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to kick off our shoes on the swing and the winner was who kicked it further.
TheBigChicken444 · 3 points · Posted at 17:46:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did this also. Except we were trying to hit someone with the shoes.
My friend's shoe ended up getting stuck on the roof for like a year and a half.
stouf761 · 30 points · Posted at 14:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I called it “bucking bronco”. Two of us would gang up on the third, tackle them to the ground, belly down. While pinned down, one would sit on the back of the downed sibling, facing backwards, grab the downed sibling’s feet, thumbs available to tickle the bottom of the feet. We all are very ticklish. Now that you’re sitting on the other with their feet in your hands, start tickling and see how long you can hold on, much like a bucking bronco.
astonsilicon · 30 points · Posted at 14:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play this board game called Heroes Quest, it was a fun game, but somewhere down the line we stopped playing the game with the official rules and kinda made up our own RP game. It was a blast we would sit there for hours and hours just role playing using this board game.I still think back on how much fun we had doing that.
hellenkiller_ · 24 points · Posted at 14:09:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would put on our bathing suits and stuff the top and play baywatch. One of my cousins would pretend they were drowning and we’d run with a pillow in slow motion or throw out a jump rope to pull them to safety.
DuctTapeChainsaw · 30 points · Posted at 14:31:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The kids in my neighborhood and I used to have barrel races at the abandoned furniture factory at the end of our street.
They had dozens of 55 gallon drums and a big grassy yard. We'd lay them on their side and walk on them to make them roll.
In order to make them go forward, you had to walk backwards. In order to steer you had to lean and move one side of the barrel faster than the other.
We used to race them like 50 yards.
Good lord we had fantastic balance back then.
[deleted] · 27 points · Posted at 14:32:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretending to be the raptors in Jurassic Park in the kitchen and slamming ourselves against the couch. How the fuck did we not kill ourselves.
supersonicsacha · 27 points · Posted at 15:21:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I came up with one we liked to call Walk Around the Whole House...At Night. Basically we'd wake each other up in the dead of night and sneak around the house without waking people up, then go straight back to bed. We had to walk around each room clockwise and around every table. We were weird kids.
Tytedix · 25 points · Posted at 15:51:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While I was in “big church” as a young kid, I obviously got really bored. “Big church” was essentially just the normal sermon but of course had nothing entertaining for children. Used to beg my parents to leave or just fall asleep blatantly, which apparently shamed them.
My sister is 8 years older than me and would attend “big church” with us. We would play this game where person A held their arm out, palm up. Person B would slightly graze their fingers up person A’s arm from wrist to elbow. If person A thought that person B had reached the inside of their elbow (without looking), they would squeeze their hand in a ball. Person B would stop and show where their fingers were. If person A was right, they got a point.
This game could take like 15 minutes per round, was completely silent, and made us both content for the entire 60-90 minute long service. To this day I still don’t know if my then preteen sister was just amazing at handling kids or if my parents had hypnotized her to control me in church.
Play this game enough and you become a master at both the tickler and the guesser.
PuddinOfficial · 45 points · Posted at 14:52:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played hunger games.
As a child me and my friends were very dumb. We would often fist fight for fun use sticks (and what ever else we could find) as swords and whack the hell out of each other.
As a kid I lived near a large forest as did my friends. And our game consisted of us hiking out to find a clearing preferably with a fence and picking up rocks and sticks on the way. When we found this clearing we set our "weapons" in the middle of the clearing we all stood at the far edges, we counted down from 10 to 1. At 1 we would either run and grab a weapon from the center or run to the forest to find our own. Then we tried to kill each other. But because we were dumb (and had no idea that breaking a bone in this forest could mean death) the only way to kill or get killed was to drop someone, either through stealth, sneaking up from behind them and dragging them to the ground. Or loudly, by beating the shit out of them till they fell over, despite the loud tactic's brutalness the sword fights were lit. The game ended when only one person was left "alive". Keep in mind this forest was big and we had no boundry's these games could consist of 8 hours of hiking only to have the first person you see kill you immediately.
Ahhhhh. Good times.
Sorry for spelling, I'm on mobile.
USSRvodka · 19 points · Posted at 14:49:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play “baby hair eating rhinoceros”. You’d pretend you don’t have teeth, say, “I’m a baby hair eating rhinoceros”, then pretend to eat the others hair..
help_me_im_in_pain · 23 points · Posted at 15:49:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't shame me for this but me and my sister used to tie clothes around our heads like bandanas and run around while my dad blew the leaves off the lawn. We called ourselves Nazis. Because we thought it was a cute way of saying "people with knots on the heads" like "knot-see." Boy we're we wrong on that definition.
Mzunguman · 19 points · Posted at 14:18:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On my buddy’s farm we played this game that was a combo of golf, hockey and soccer. We hit soccer balls with hockey sticks to various spots in and around his barns/yard
Gladdenaitor · 42 points · Posted at 13:54:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Forty-forty it : It was essentially a crossover between Hide & Seek and It (Tag). One person counts to 40 in the playground at base (usually a bench or pole) while others run/hide. After getting to 40 you then have to catch someone before everyone gets back to base. Base means you're safe, and if you It/Tag someone, they can pass it on to someone else until all but one person is back at base. Last one back to base who is still It/Tag counts to 40.
GhostofErik · 17 points · Posted at 15:04:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did something similar but we called it “Candle Jack.”
One person was it(Candle Jack) and would close their eyes at home base which was a large rock. Everyone else would hide and then in unison, we’d yell, “Candle Jack!” The it person would try to find someone and tag them, as we all scrambled to home base. If someone was tagged, they became Candle Jack. If no one was tagged, that person would take another turn.
Candle Jack was a malicious character from a cartoon. I can’t remember the name of the show though. Freakazoid, maybe?
wardrich · 7 points · Posted at 18:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dunno, man... Going around yelling "Candlejack" doesn't sound like a good id
misskass · 6 points · Posted at 23:14:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck, another poor soul lost to Candlejack. I thought the killings had stopped when I stopped visiting 4chan all those yea
CbandHorizontal · 5 points · Posted at 17:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It 100% was Freakazoid! I love that episode!
omg_for_real · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it hide and seek chasey, and we sometimes played gang up, where if you were caught you were it to.
rytis · 36 points · Posted at 16:02:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a TI calculator with a random number generator. So I invented this game where I was at the Olympics in a skiing competition. My downhill run would get a score between 00 and 99, so I would take graph paper and fill in the names of all the major winter olympics countries, usually 3 skiers per country. They would get 10 runs, and I would fill in the scores they got, one at a time. As you did each score, it got pretty exciting since I knew what value they would need to stay in the top 10 for a potential medal, etc. the crushing agony of a low score of 10 or below. Sometimes the 10th round would be pretty exciting to see what score they would need to win. Once in a rare while someone would need a 99 to win, and they got it! I would even fill in my name representing one of the countries, and so I had a personal stake in the results. My teachers thought I was doing some heavy duty math work, but it was all in my head having fun.
TexasPhanka · 16 points · Posted at 14:00:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mine"
We were 5 kids, and grew up on a farm, when the Sears catalog would come in, we would gather around it and flip the page real quick, then you 'won' whatever you put your finger on and said "mine" to.
CarnineMfufni · 6 points · Posted at 18:21:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to spin around with the catalog until we were good and dizzy and then drop it on the floor. Whichever side of the book you were on, you owned those items and had to trade with your siblings to own things from their side of the book. I’ve literally never heard of anyone else playing with the catalogs. Thanks for the great memory!
SKatieRo · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play with ours, too. We would turn each page and oock ainerbing from that page. You couldn't skip a page and you HAD to choose something and you HAD to say you'd use whatever it was. Man I miss that catalog!
grufferella · 2 points · Posted at 03:59:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've puzzled over "oock ainerbing" for 5 minutes, thinking maybe it was some strange Icelandic phrase that everybody knew but me... but maybe it's just a typo?
autbunout · 2 points · Posted at 06:14:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you figure it out, I'd be interested in knowing too.
SKatieRo · 1 points · Posted at 14:02:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh gosh it was "pick something " so sorry!! New phone.
grufferella · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah! Thank you for solving the mystery! 🤩
Metastatik · 18 points · Posted at 14:15:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I called it hand hockey. We would put laundry baskets sideways and we would play hockey with a soft ball and our hands would be hockey sticks.
d_baj1986 · 3 points · Posted at 17:08:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that too. Except we had the “shinny hockey” sticks.
Dead_Starks · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many hours of this with a little nerf ball. In the hallway with baskets, and on the trampoline with the edges of designated pads being goals.
beefstewforyou · 18 points · Posted at 14:36:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I pretended to be George Washington while my friend pretended to be Abraham Lincoln and we rode motorcycles and had to rescue the Easter Bunny from Ninjas.
yrtsapoelc · 18 points · Posted at 16:03:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters would play “god is falling” where we just run around the backyard and pretend that huge body parts were falling on us.
We would be darting around, looking at the sky and saying things like “Oh my god there’s his eyeball, run!”
Seriously what was wrong with us?
blandmaster24 · 17 points · Posted at 14:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark Room
It’s basically hide and seek in the dark. We would play it in a house with all the lights off and the seeker would be in a well lit area before starting. Everything is more exciting in the dark when you’re a kid.
KingWhoBoreTheSword · 3 points · Posted at 14:48:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow I thought my friends invented this game but I guess it really is just hide and seek in the dark. I tried googling "Dark Room" before to see if other people played it in their childhood but the name is so common I couldn't find anything so I just assumed one of them just made it up.
blandmaster24 · 4 points · Posted at 14:57:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m not even sure how my friends knew about it, one day we just started playing it and no questions were asked. It’s quite possible that it propagated through word of mouth, from one kid to another.
smellmygoldfinger · 17 points · Posted at 14:29:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Hide the Furbies”. We had a bunch of Fast food furbie toys, we divided them up evenly between 2 teams. One team got the basement, the other team got the living room. Both teams would hide their furbies and then the teams would switch rooms. Whichever team found all the furbies in their room first won.
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 14:52:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I’m in a car, I pretend I’m playing a rhythm game, so if I’m on the highway I’ll tap my foot for every car that passes by and if I’m driving through a normal street I’ll do the same for streets and residential driveways.
Crismus · 5 points · Posted at 16:47:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember if it's 60 mph, or 65 mph, but around that speed the lane lines become a 4/4 time. Great for many songs.
slackingagain · 19 points · Posted at 15:00:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My stepbrother and I would try to identify cars at night by their headlights and taillights alone.
We were really good at it...
ineffablejenna2 · 15 points · Posted at 16:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Threw all my friend's shoes out into her lawn then tried to find matching pairs with our eyes closed.
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 12:59:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Penny football. Btw happy cake day
🎙️ antenonjohs · 16 points · Posted at 13:38:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you!
karmagod13000 · 2 points · Posted at 14:48:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this sound painful
barbandit87 · 2 points · Posted at 23:49:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coin Rugby
dctrhu · 15 points · Posted at 14:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a 3rd storey flat, so my sister and I would take turns lying on the floor at ground level in the stairwell. The other would take our entire collection of rubber balls (which at the height of the collection contained nearly 800) and poured the whole lot down the shaft of the stairwell onto them.
If you ever played that game and came away with fewer than five bruises, you were allowed to choose what we played on the Wii when you got tired.
If you received more than ten bruises, you basically had no charges pressed against you when you called the other a dickhead in front of mum.
ThisLilOme408 · 16 points · Posted at 14:28:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think my friend and I had a name for it. But when I was 9 or so I was taking karate and after our kids class was done our parents would have theirs so we would be bored most of the time. So we put on our sparring gear and set down some mats and used the really big kicking pads (on mobile can’t find image) and charged at each other. He’d scream “Flabber Monkies” and I’d scream “Lodden Lails”.
It was easily the dumbest and most fun idiotic game I’ve ever played.
lolkdrgmailcom · 17 points · Posted at 15:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretending I have friends, still works to this day!
AbysssWalker420 · 15 points · Posted at 15:51:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My uncle, brother, and I would play a game we dubbed "Asshole". We would turn out all of the lights, choose one person who was it, and put a blanket over them so they couldn't see. We'd spin them around as to get them to lose track of their surroundings, have them count to 20, and run to hide around the room. The goal was to stay quiet and not get tagged by the Asshole. We had so much fun, thwarting rivals by stomping the floor where they were quietly hiding and then running away. Sometimes we'd move the coffee table or a chair in the path of the Asshole to make them fall. I guess that's why we called it Asshole. We were assholes, but it was so fun.
Edit: We also played a game called "The Laughing Game". You had everybody sit on the couch while one guy would go into another room and make up an idea/routine to make somebody laugh. If you laughed, you were up and had to make the rest laugh. If you couldn't make them laugh you had to sit up there until you got somebody. I recall once when my brother was taking longer than usual to make up routine, but it got us all dying. This dude came strutting out of the other room, butt naked and clutching his sac as to hide it, wearing only a pink motorcycle helmet. He walked in throwing his knees above his hips, and walked right out. I miss those days.
piggle_man · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:39 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let me guess, your uncle named that game?
AbysssWalker420 · 1 points · Posted at 07:44:46 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure; it sounds like something he'd name a game like that. Hilarious dude for sure
jeniwreni · 17 points · Posted at 14:47:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a waffler, I could talk all night, used to do her head in, so my sister used to tell me to talk to her baby finger, so I used to sit and talk to her baby finger, even called it Sarah, Sarah was a great listener but not very talkative.
Years later I had my first kid and called her Sarah, I'd completely forgotten about my old friend until my sister reminded me
gusthedanger · 15 points · Posted at 15:49:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would set up all of our action figures around the kitchen and sit in the middle of the floor. We would each grab a ruler and a bunch of rubber bands and stretch the bands over the length of the ruler to create little makeshift rubber band guns. We would take turns seeing who could shoot over the most action figures, and the winner would get a dollar from each other player. I miss being entertained for hours by simple games like that.
breadsticksforarms · 3 points · Posted at 01:13:35 on April 2, 2019 · (Permalink)
So wholesome!
Paratriad · 16 points · Posted at 16:02:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone do that thing where on a car trip you're looking out a window with a strain on it (like bird poop) and move your head around to make it dodge obstacles in the background (like poles or signs)?
snow_bunnee · 3 points · Posted at 19:44:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pick a dead bug on the windshield and make it weave in between the dotted lines. Learned that one from my dad, who is a trucker.
DankSpanking · 13 points · Posted at 14:48:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to play "baseball" by taking an empty 2L pop bottle and whacking a small pebble with it and trying to hit it over the power lines in front of our house. Since there were 3 power lines, whichever line you hit it over determined how many bases or a home run it would be
rice_crispyzz · 14 points · Posted at 16:16:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins played this game called "murder in the dark". There would be 1 murderer, 1 doctor, and the rest were civilians. All the lights in the house would be turned off. Basically, we'd draw papers out of a bag that would give each player their role (murderer, doctor, civilian) so no one would know who the murderer or doctor was at first. The murderer would tag people to kill them, and the doctors could revive people, but if the doctor was killed it was game over. To win, the doctor would have to survive until the time ran out
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 20:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game at camp! But we called it mafia :)
hinga_dinga_durgenn · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game too growing up!
kitskill · 29 points · Posted at 14:32:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this game is unique. No one I've mentioned it to had heard of it.
We called it 'Bloody Murderer'. One person hid and everyone else tried to find them. Once someone found them they would shout "Bloody Murderer" and then everyone would have to run back to the home base before the 'murderer' could catch them.
It was a lot of fun except that my friends parents got quite upset at a bunch of children skulking around their front yard screaming "Bloody Murderer". At the time I didn't know what their problem was. Looking back as an adult I'm like, "Oh...."
webfoottedone · 4 points · Posted at 17:51:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a similar game, but it was “ghost in the graveyard” best played at dusk.
g1_c1 · 52 points · Posted at 14:11:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Game
StaySharpp · 30 points · Posted at 14:55:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God damnit
chairzaird · 9 points · Posted at 18:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FUCK
TheEliteBrit · 12 points · Posted at 15:38:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
CUNT
mysterysciencekitten · 6 points · Posted at 18:30:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg. I just lost. Again.
wardrich · 4 points · Posted at 18:40:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
NOW LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 19:46:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FUCK NOT AGAIN
Snax_Attax · 3 points · Posted at 13:42:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Years-long streak, destroyed
show_me_your_corgi · 5 points · Posted at 15:34:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
F
ScrubNuggey · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SUNUVABITCH
glennglog22 · 2 points · Posted at 22:17:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God damn it, I swear I've been on a losing streak for the past several months now.
piggle_man · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:21 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sheeeeeeeit...
iLikeThisNameAlready · 13 points · Posted at 15:02:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throwaway account because I think my friends in the story know my main account.
I know the title says a game I played but this story is a game I found my friends playing.
It was a school day and me and my friends had lunch, this took place in 3rd grade I believe. I was eating my lunch and two of my friends (both of them didn't get along well) went to the bathroom. After a few minutes I also decided to go to the bathroom and right when I walked into the bathroom, I saw my two friends having a competition about who can piss the furthest. Just imagine walking in, seeing one kid pissing from the other side of the room straight into the toilet and the other kid right next to him, pissing straight on the floor while both laughing their ass off.
johnpetrie00 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Joe?
invertedparadoxxx · 13 points · Posted at 15:06:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"House"
Where we would pretend that we were adults with jobs and shit.
Also learned that girls were sexually advanced cause bed time happened quite often, like... often.
River_Tahm · 26 points · Posted at 15:48:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle bands. Pick a band and take turns using their song names like attacks, but you can only use each song once per battle. First person to run out of attacks loses.
It was a weird mix of improv and simply being able to remember a ton of songs from a band's catalog. Songs were useless if you couldn't think of some way to make them sound like an attack but also useless if you couldn't remember them.
Ex, Van Halen vs AC/DC:
"I've got a Man On A Mission to assassinate you and he can't be stopped!"
"Except by some Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap! So cheap in fact, I can afford some extra ones to kill you after I take care of this assassin!"
So forth and so on. Usually played on long hiking trails, car rides, etc.
cryptologicalMystic · 3 points · Posted at 23:45:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
From what little I know about Jojo, this sounds amazingly like Jojo.
Avbitten · 12 points · Posted at 13:57:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played hide and seek with fish. We had a 10 gallon tank with some tetras in it, and one of them had a different stripe. I would hide first and if he swam to the corner of the tank closest to me, he "found" me. Then I would close my eyes and count to ten before looking for him in the tank.
giantvoice · 12 points · Posted at 14:03:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag on BMX bikes.
We had a bunch of bike trails and jumps in the woods behind my house. Lots of crashes. If you got off your bike during the game for any reason other than a legit fall, you became the chaser. One safe space from the chaser was on the other side of a big ditch jump. Only one person ever made it.
porcelainvacation · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this, we called it Dukes of Hazzard.
PotsyWife · 11 points · Posted at 20:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma was the most beautiful, kind and adorable woman on the face of the earth. Unfortunately my grandpa controlled almost every aspect of her life, and kept her in a gilded cage.
The biggest joys of her life were here garden, her daughters, and us, the grandchildren. I was the youngest grandchild, and whenever we went over to visit, she would insist on some quiet time alone with me, to play at the bottom of the garden.
Down there, out of view of the house, we would go looking for the faeries that lived in the orchard. We would find little things that ‘the Aos Si (Irish faeries) had left for us.’ Some of the trees had tiny doors and windows that she had made, and stapled to the tree. Sometimes there would be a tiny washing line, with tiny dresses. Sometimes there would be jewellery (costume jewellery, nothing expensive - though at the tine I thought they were the finest jewels in the world), left by the faeries as a Thankyou for helping keep them safe. My favourite finds were tiny little oil paintings, my grandma was an incredibly talented artist, though sadly the outside world never really got to see her work. Obviously I didn’t know Grandma had actually painted them. And lastly, no matter what else we found, there were always feathers, left behind by faerie wings.
I always assumed that the reason we didn’t tell Grandpa about the faeries, or the treasures, was because they only wanted me and Grandma to know about them. Aos Si are often thought of as being a tad malevolent if crossed, so it made sense to my young mind. Sadly it was more that she was terrified of what he would do if he found out she was keeping secrets from him.
I treasured those memories, and the actual treasures, for many years, though a fire destroyed literally everything from my childhood when I was 17, coincidentally a year to the day after Grandma passed away. I still have a couple of bits of the jewellery, though they aren’t in great shape. But every time I see a white feather it makes me smile and think of her.
We recently discovered that my Grandma had kept meticulous diaries. Mostly filled with sadness, longing for the outside world, and the fears that my grandpa had instilled in her. But entries for days when we went down to the bottom of the garden were so joyful. Those entries were such a lovely reminder of those days.
Angela_M_Y · 3 points · Posted at 00:20:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this so much ❤️ I’m sure she is smiling on you.
PotsyWife · 4 points · Posted at 01:22:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thankyou!
I have so many lovely memories of her. She seemed like the most glamorous woman in the world to me. Whenever I stayed over, Grandpa would inevitably disappear for the evening, presumably to fritter away her family’s money. We would each have a bubble bath, then afterwords go into her dressing room, where she we sat side by side at her dressing table, her clad in one of long flowing silk robe and fluffy slippers, me in one of her shorter silk robes, with the sleeves rolled up a hundred times, in a pair of her fancy feather heeled slippers, which would constantly fall off my tiny feet. She would drink champagne, while I had apple juice in a champagne flute. She would comb my hair, precisely 100 times (I forget why, but there was a reason for that exact number), then we both did her nighttime skincare ritual together. After that, we would climb into her enormous bed, with the most beautiful pale blue silk sheets, and she would tell me stories. A lot of them about my great grandma (she was a complete badass!), her home back in Ireland, and sometimes about my mum and aunts when they were young. I would drift to sleep feeling like the luckiest little girl in the world.
In the early hours of the morning, before Grandpa woke up (they slept separately) she would wake me up so I could go into one of the guest bedrooms, before he woke up. He would have kicked seven shades of shit out of her if he found out she let me sleep in her bed.
I thought she lived such a perfect life. She lived in the lap of luxury, it wasn’t until after she died that I started to see just how sad her life was, how trapped she felt, and just how abusive her husband was. He did everything he could to keep her away from other people. She did not have even a single friend, but he constantly sabotaged any plans to visit by the rest of the family. She wasn’t even allowed to decide when she ate, or even what she ate. I so badly long to be able to hug her and tell her that she was worth so much more than that.
pastathehoagie · 12 points · Posted at 15:26:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we have to wait my friends and I play " what would you put in an inconvenience store?" To make conversation. Condoms are pinned to bulletin board, back pain medication is only on the top and bottom shelves, gas station is by appointment only, items are listed in the currency of their country of origin, tires are only sold in packs of 3, isles only have one entrance or exit.
grufferella · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is amazing!
pastathehoagie · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm going to open a franchise someday
masonthursday · 10 points · Posted at 15:53:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mr. President. It’s a game you play through the day just at random times, you need to be on your toes at all times. When one person puts their fingers to their ear like they are holding an earpiece like a secret service agent slowly everyone who notices has to do it also, and the last person left who doesn’t do it is the president, everybody at once screams “GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT!” and tackles him
[deleted] · 10 points · Posted at 15:12:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a group of people I knew in school (late middle school IIRC) played 'Jungle Ball'.
We had a miniature basketball we used on the little kids court (the rims were so low almost anyone could dunk into them) and there was no dribbling. What there was was full contact with tackling, tripping and forcefully stripping the ball out of the hands of others. No hitting, kicking or striking allowed.
Was so chaotic that we had to have our own score keepers on the sideline. No one liked score duty since it was boring as hell. Thankfully the guy who brought the ball in (see: me) was immune to score duty. Which was good because I was diminutive in comparison to most.
Lobs were worth one (shots on goal), dunks were worth two, alley-oops were worth three. There was no three point line.
A part of me misses my good ol' Jungle Ball games.
Then there was War Ball (What dodge ball is nowadays. Our definition of Dodge ball was one person on each end trying to hit people in the middle of the group). So many people taking those rubber balls to the face. One of the few times that weighing next to nothing and being tiny paid off in life. I was a chore to hit.
That and Wall Ball, but that's neither unique or rare. Everyone played Wall Ball.
jaspercapri · 3 points · Posted at 15:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jungle back sounds great. We played pretty much the same thing but inside someone's house with one of those little kids hoops. We just called it tackle basketball.
SmackofJellyfish93 · 10 points · Posted at 15:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to loosely hang naked Barbies and GI Joe's from the ceiling fan in our room and turn the settings up slowly. Then we would take cover and wait for them to fling off at us. We were 5 and 3, good times.
Imakenoiseseveryday · 3 points · Posted at 17:53:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this. It’s raining men!
jolmart87 · 9 points · Posted at 15:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Neopets vs. Jedis
Snax_Attax · 1 points · Posted at 13:48:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao
piponwa · 8 points · Posted at 15:52:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I live in Canada. Since we have a lot of snow here, our recesses at school during winter would involve everyone building forts with their own shovel. Everyone had one. When it snowed, a tractor would blow the snow from the yard in huge piles. We would make contests of what gang would make the biggest chunks of snow and transport it to their fort to incorporate it. It was great. We had little snow houses. We would build all items a kid could think of. Snow is such a great medium because you can sculpt anything in it. One other thing we would do were 2m high or higher platforms to throw ourselves off of. We would fill the bottom with fresh snow and jump down and do flips. It was great!
filthycasual92 · 8 points · Posted at 14:33:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Fat Geezer." We'd stuff our shirts with pillows and just lunge at each other until the other person fell. Sort of like pretending to be really shitty sumo wrestlers.
My sister and I also had "Messy Hair Salon" where we would pretend to be at each other's hair salon and just fuck each other's shit up. My mom would have to be on-deck to untangle our hair... and we played frequently. She loved that.
Coygon · 6 points · Posted at 14:34:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tickle Toilet Torture Time. Basically tickle the other(s) as hard as you can. First to lose control and piss themselves loses.
handleyourbaggage · 7 points · Posted at 14:41:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had two, the first was a real life monopoly type thing with candy as currency, you would buy bikes, trampolines, pieces of sidewalk, areas of grass and if someone needed to walk on an area you owned or use a toy they you had to pay you. The second was what we called hand hockey. It was in the living room, usually 2on2 or 3on3, the couch was a “net” and the opening to the stairs was the other one. We played with a hackey sack and you can only use your hands to pass and shoot, no throwing the sack, only slapping
velvetlampshade · 6 points · Posted at 15:50:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the snow in our driveway was plowed, it would create a huge snow mound that would be kind of closed off in a corner on the yard. My sister and I would pretend we were abandoned by our parents as six and nine year old children in Siberia. My older sister would take on a more motherly role, and would even have to fight off wolves attempting to infiltrate our snow mound created by digging through the snow mound from one side to the other. Sometimes we took fruit out there and pretended we had just harvested them.. again, in Siberia.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 16:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would stick his penis through a hole in the wooden shed and I'd scream and grab it.
johnpetrie00 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dunn dunn”
oneighty2 · 7 points · Posted at 17:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played something called "boom butts" either before or after we had our evening baths. We would both be naked and on our bunk beds, and charge our bare butts together. The one who fell off the bed first lost. My mom thought it was funny. My dad wasn't a fan.
picklemaintenance · 13 points · Posted at 14:32:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Kick the can"
cgautreau · 7 points · Posted at 15:36:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Unique’
cinyar · 6 points · Posted at 14:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't really translate what we called the games we played with my brother but I'll try.
"made in break-a-part" - we built demolition cars from legos and smashed them against each other until one was destroyed
"pull up & tiwst" - My younger brother would grab our bunk bed, I'd grab his feet pull him up, twist him into weird angles and let him go while he would try to spin so he lands on his feet.
I think it was a good thing our parents only allowed us one hour of video games/day (two on the weekend if our grades were good) until we were like 15.
LaCroixBinch · 7 points · Posted at 14:48:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called “Big Bessie” - which was essentially tying my sister to a blanket and having her play Bessie the horse while dragging me across the hardwood floors of our house while I played with all my toys on the blanket. I’m not sure why she ever went along with this game - it was only fun for me.
Alternately, sometimes we would play “Little Bessie”, which is the same exact game but I would tie her to a smaller blanket and bring less toys.
dirtyhappythoughts · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I might know why your sister liked that. Not sure if you wanna know.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahah i just called my sister a binch today and this game seems like something we’d totally do
cohree · 6 points · Posted at 15:10:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Danger Zones Hockey: During the winter time we’d pour water in random spots on my friends driveway and then when it froze we’d play roller hockey. You’d often get so tied up in the game you’d forget about the danger zones !
galesoflaughter · 6 points · Posted at 15:20:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This sounds so bad but me and my brothers used to play "duck it's a drive by" at night when we were supposed to be sleeping. We would gather in one persons room and look out the window, waiting for any cars to drive by. Whoever ducked down last when a car was going by was "dead".
We also used to play bones, where if you caught someone making a mistake you could collect a bone on them which was basically the ability to knock them on the head (kinda like the shape your hand makes when knocking on someone's door). We would collect these by counting each others mistakes and then randomly redeem them on each other like "man I got 30 bones on you" and the one collecting could knock on the other person's head however many times and they couldn't do anything about it.
Ah, childhood.
NoviceApproach · 3 points · Posted at 15:46:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
...I think we might have been childhood friends
NaCloride · 6 points · Posted at 15:23:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mortal Kombat News.
Me and my childhood friend would jump on his trampoline and pretend we were Mortal Kombat characters that were also news anchors. We would improv funny news stories in the world of Mortal Kombat between the story driven adventure we'd be making up and acting out. Fought many imaginary foes and bombed a fuck ton of jokes. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
grufferella · 3 points · Posted at 04:20:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Please please PLEASE tell me you now write screenplays for a living.
NaCloride · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unfortunately not for a living at the moment. That's the goal though.
grufferella · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The world needs this. If your day job isn't literally figuring out how to turn all the plastic in the ocean into a renewable, non-CO2-emitting fuel for airplanes, I don't know how you can live with yourself for denying us such glory.
NaCloride · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean I guess I could circle the story, but I think the sudden shift in tone to something comedic would be jarring and out of place. That being said I think it would work better as a YouTube series, but I have zero experience with cameras and I have a feeling it would end up with a lower production quality than I'd like. No half measures after all.
BookThief27 · 6 points · Posted at 15:36:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have loads and loads of bouncy balls. I would play a game where I would sit under the sink in the bathroom, and tip all the balls on the floor. I wouldn’t be allowed to move, and had to grab the balls closest to me and roll them to hit the other balls around until I could reach them all. The game ended when I either had all the balls, or my mum started shouting for me to get out of the bathroom.
Vhu · 5 points · Posted at 15:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had living room/dining room connected, so as a kid my siblings and I would play “The Blanket Game,” which consisted of one person getting on all 4s, draping a blanket over themselves, and blindly trying to crawl from one side of the rooms to the other while the other participants kicked the shit out of them. Still one of my favorite games.
extyn · 5 points · Posted at 15:52:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a little storage shed near the house so we would clear it of all the outdoor equipment and make it a clubhouse. Basically we'd add chairs and try to one up another by building the best household item.
The best one was a 'toilet' out of a chair that was missing a cushion and had a plastic bag under the hole. We cackled for days about it until my mom found out. Apparently, my five year old brother shat in it when we weren't looking and it just sat in the shed until someone got a whiff of it and complained.
Catsateherface5987 · 5 points · Posted at 15:52:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to wash paper towels and hang them up, pretending we were washing ghost sheets.
Also, I used to fill a baby bottle with milk or water and hang it upside down from my mom's exercise bike and pretend it was a cow and "milk" it.
csectioned · 4 points · Posted at 15:52:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sorry about being late to the party..
Poop on a stick.
Put a piece of dog poop on a stick. The one with the most poop on their jacket at the end lost.
piggle_man · 2 points · Posted at 15:59:48 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
I discovered this thread way too late and I have so many games I could've mentioned, but there was one that my brother and I played with our male cousins when we came up to visit. Gutenberg had to be played on a deer-shit-covered hillside, and the goal was to wrestle or titty-twist each other onto a pile of shit and yell GOOTENBERG if we successfully 'printed' someone.
frankmint · 4 points · Posted at 15:57:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would softly whistle in the car making my dad or mom check the windows were rolled up. I am easily entertained.
bi-bi-bye · 5 points · Posted at 16:03:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think this was our invention, but my brothers and I used to play a game called “Get down, Mr. President.” Basically, this game is never ending, and at any time someone can say the phrase “Get down, Mr. President” to restart the gameplay. When someone says that, they put their finger to their ear like they’re talking into a bluetooth earpiece and everyone else who knows about the game has to put their fingers up, too. The last person to do it gets tackled to the ground, just like what the president’s bodyguards would do in case of an emergency, I guess.
When I was a freshman and my brother was a senior, we moved schools and realized no one at our new school knew about the game. So, on the last two days of school, we taught a bunch of people who didn’t have to take finals how to play, and that’s how we spent the last two days. The game actually got banned at my school because one girl got tackled and hit the brick wall and got a concussion. Fun times
Arshion · 7 points · Posted at 16:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My oldest brother and I would play "Star Trek"
He would throw me in space jail (our parents room) and tell me there was a force field so I couldn't get out and made me watch Cops for 5 hours while my parents were at work.
Then he'd bring me plates of deli meat and cheese occasionally as rations.
......
kyooks · 7 points · Posted at 16:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blackout hide and seek. At night me and my friends would turn off all the lights, cover the windows and cover all led-lights from electronics with painters tape. Literally pitch black.
Then we would play hide and seek lol. The fun thing about it was that you couldn’t use flashlights or anything, which meant if you wanted to climb up the door frame and leverage yourself at the top so they would continuously walk under you through the door, you could lol. (That was my go-to hiding spot)
But even more hilarious is the fact that because we learned each other’s tricks we would implement tactics to try and find each other more quickly (I.e. using a broom stick to whack the top of every door frame we went under; and sometimes calling each other’s phones to try and hear the vibration or see the light from the screen)
It’s also fun because when the person is in the room with you, neither of you can see anything so you’re just listening to them stumble and feel around. Sometimes the hider will make unintended noises like farts, stomach growls, bone cracks, or sneezes, etc.)
Good times
PikaCharlie · 5 points · Posted at 17:05:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a lake, and one of my favorite games to play was Water Taxi. My friends and I would use my parents' old rowboat and row each other to and from each of my neighbor's docks. We'd do all different accents when we were picked up, and pretend we were going to New York or Dublin or wherever else we'd learned about in Geography class that week.
Now, I can make the rowing machine at the gym my bitch.
dlordjr · 6 points · Posted at 17:34:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived near the tracks that were used to film steam engine train scenes for Little House on the Prairie, and there was a water tower that they used to refill the engine.
A bunch of us kids would climb to the top of the tower, let out all but about 3 feet of water, then jump in. Once in, we would run around the edge to get the water spinning, then float around in circles on our poor man's lazy river.
The only downside was that it took the pump about an hour to get the water high enough so that we could reach the built-in ladder to climb back out.
kaleidoscopeyes17 · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is so awesome and so dangerous probably- great memory!
uncleonnephew · 5 points · Posted at 18:48:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dead Baby. Sometimes called Drowned Baby. Me, my brother, and friends would all get in the shallow end of the pool. If 5 people were playing 1 person would get into a ball, hold their breathe, and lay on the bottom of the pool. The other 4 would stomp and kick the person underwater and shout “Dead baby! Dead baby!”.
There were no winners or losers. The person submerged tried to stay under as long as possible. The people kicking tried to be the most violent. Everyone took turns.
My Mom absolutely hated the game (big surprise) and forbade is from playing. My Dad loved the game and would cheer us on.
Carl_Corey · 16 points · Posted at 14:38:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvin ball. Even if someone else played it, by nature it could never be the same!
Make the rules up as you go. Thank you Bill Watterson.
[deleted] · 13 points · Posted at 12:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pepsi Man
sparklyinside · 3 points · Posted at 19:57:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tell us more.
Brendon_Br · 2 points · Posted at 00:09:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Give us the goods
BethlehemShooter · 1 points · Posted at 02:11:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coke man.
windog · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember this game!!!
tubewatch · 14 points · Posted at 14:59:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OFFENSIVE! Read no further if you DON"T want to be OFFENDED.
"Smear the Queer" was played on elementary school playgrounds. You had one ball and whoever had the ball was to be tackled and stripped of the ball. Whoever got the ball would also be tackled. Sometimes as the mob of kids was getting close, the ball carrier would throw the ball in the air. Having the ball and running for you life was the best part. So thinking about what the game was called being the "queer," running was the best part of the game. It was just a mob of kids after one kid all recess long. You ran a lot. Girls also joined in. They were often faster than the boys.
dieselcakes · 4 points · Posted at 15:14:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also played this at my school. Called it the exact same thing. Finally in like 6th grade the principal came to our classroom (small school) and told us we couldn’t call it that anymore. We were all confused because he didn’t give an explanation. Loved that game!
tubewatch · 0 points · Posted at 18:55:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this in the 1960s.
NC_Goonie · 3 points · Posted at 15:18:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played this as well back in the 90s. Looking back as an adult, I just can’t imagine how someone initially came up with that name. Yeah, it was a different time. I’m not defending the name at all, but I honestly didn’t even know what the word meant until someone told us not to call it that.
MarKaisla · 7 points · Posted at 16:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The word queer used to mean odd or different. The guy with the ball is different from everyone else, thus he's the queer. Queer didn't have its current, specialized meaning until the late 1800s, whereas the "tackle that guy" game has been around since, well, forever. Or the name was just made up to be derogatory and hateful. I give it 50/50 odds either way.
tubewatch · 0 points · Posted at 18:53:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this in the 1960s.
tubewatch · 0 points · Posted at 18:54:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this in the 1960s.
Kittyripper · 2 points · Posted at 17:22:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Came here for this. It was all the rage in the early-mid 90s at my CA elementary school.
Cockmander · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had "Kill the Man", where we would throw a tennis ball against a large gate and whomever had the ball had to escape the mob and get to the other side of the playground. Many ripped uniforms because of this game.
Thing_On_Your_Shelf · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this too in elementary school
Flip17 · 3 points · Posted at 14:29:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stickle. What is stickle? It is a game played in an area that has many trees. Players pick up long sticks off of the ground, slam them against a tree trunk with a lot of force, thus causing them to break. The part that breaks off the stick then becomes an airborne projectile which flies in the direction of the other
combatantsplayers. First one to get hit dies.Apprentice_mage · 4 points · Posted at 14:42:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called 'Raw' which loosely translates from Pashto to 'Quietly' or 'Slowly' in English. The name came from my mum shouting at us for making too much noise whilst playing the game (it will be come apparent why a bit later on).
Before we had our house extended we had a radiator in the living room which had a pipe that hung about 1-2 cm above the floor and there was a gap of about 0.5-1 cm between the pipe and the skirting board.The pipe ran along the whole length of the radiator.
The rules of the game were very simple. Try and get a marble to land on the pipe and it to stay there (the gap was the perfect size for that). This meant you would collect all the previous marbles that were used for previous attempts. The winner was the one with all the marbles at the end or whoever had the most before my mum got very angry.
UncleTrustworthy · 4 points · Posted at 14:51:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood home had a really long living room with a tall ceiling and almost nothing in it. One year for Christmas, my brother and I got a huge set of these cardboard boxes painted up to look like bricks. We'd both take stations on opposite sides of the living room and hurl bricks at each other. After a while, we'd make defensive walls out of bricks. But we knew that every brick stacked in defense was one less brick to be used as ammunition. And then then one of us made a bad throw, that brick was forever consigned to the No-Man's Land between our forts.
This would go on for hours. Like, breakfast until lunch. And in this time period we'd only throw bricks in a frenzy maybe twice (once at the beginning and once near the end). The rest of the time was spent shoring up our defenses, occasionally lobbing a single brick.
TL;DR: At age seven, my brother and I would play Accidental WWI Trench Warfare.
Highest-Riser · 4 points · Posted at 15:05:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“PINE CONE GAME” rules- pick pine cones off the ground and whip them at each other. 3 hits and your dead. I would always come home from my friends house with cuts on my face. He had an endless pine cone supply in his front yard.
bigpandamonium · 3 points · Posted at 15:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clog the toilet.
All of us would play this game during recess in elementary school. This was when everyone was friends and there weren't any cliques yet. One person would go down the tube slide and stay at the bottom. Then the next person would slide down. Then the next, etc. We'd fill the whole slide up until the "toilet was clogged". It was super fun to do when it got cold. We'd be crammed inside the tube huddling like penguins.
carolyn_vw · 5 points · Posted at 15:42:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood best friend and I used to play a game we called “Abigail.” We would tie one apron around the two of our waists and pretend we were a Siamese twin waitress named Abigail. We’d run up and down the basement stairs tied together in this apron to take my family members’ food orders and bring them back plates of plastic pretend food. This “game” entertained us for hours on end and although we’ve lost touch as adults, every now and then we shoot each other a “Hey Abigail...” message!
thisismydayjob_ · 4 points · Posted at 15:49:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster. Growing up in the midwest... we'd run into the corn fields when it was about 6' tall, the rip off ears of corn and whip them at each other. whoever got hurt first lost. It was always fun trying to find your way out of the fields, too.
unburnt777 · 5 points · Posted at 15:51:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 5 or 6 I played a game with my dad called “eyeball crack the eyeball”
The premise was my dad hides in the closet and I run around the living room / closet hallway / kitchen and he had to jump out when I was near the closet to try to catch me. No eyeballs were ever harmed, name has absolutely nothing to do with game, kids (myself included) are fuckin nuts
ileeny12 · 5 points · Posted at 16:02:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Communion. Like in church. My friend would give me the bread.
Heidiwearsglasses · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sting Ball. We made a tennis ball sized lump of aluminum foil and would whip it at each other in a sort of tag/dodgeball style game. If you caught the Sting Ball the thrower was out. If the ball hit you (and man that shit stung) you were out. If it missed no one was out. Kids would scramble to have control of the ball and scatter when someone else picked it up.
MikHambone · 6 points · Posted at 16:03:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would pretend to be salon workers where we would make our own “products”. It was just us finding empty bottles and mixing a ton of chemicals from the bathroom and kitchen to make things like shampoo.
Later found out my mom threw out all the “nice bathroom stuff” I gave her
conspiracyeinstein · 3 points · Posted at 16:04:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cripple"
I had completely forgotten about this game until about 5 years ago when I woke up in a cold sweat.
My two older sisters and I would play this game where one was the mother, and the other sister and I were crippled children. We would "come home" crying and tell our mother that we were picked on at school for being crippled. During this, we would be dragging our legs behind us or not moving our arms the whole time. We'd tell her all of the bad things they did to us and ask why they were so mean to us. She'd comfort us and tell us sometimes kids are just mean.
I have no fucking clue where that game came from.
Imakenoiseseveryday · 3 points · Posted at 17:50:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this.
Kanajashi · 3 points · Posted at 16:14:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to play "Doggy in the middle" where we would sit on the floor and try to roll and bounce the dog's toy ball to each-other without the dog intercepting it. We had this really long kitchen island so that was the best place to play as we could bounce the ball off the cabinets or island to try and make banking shots around the dog. The game ended when the dog managed to intercept the ball a few times which led to her getting a bunch of pets and treats.
-porridgeface- · 5 points · Posted at 16:25:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Human beyblade. We were to poor to afford them so my brother used to put both of our arms on our chest and spin in circles while trying to knock each other over.
We also played pioneer which was walking in the snow to destinations like the grocery store because we didn’t have a car. We’d walk through snow banks with perfectly shovelled sidewalks available.
Atlas_Black · 4 points · Posted at 16:46:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to pretend to be spies when we were 6-8
We would go around with a note pad and toy binoculars, climbing trees and hiding in bushes and secretly watching our neighbors, keeping notes of their daily routines.
Our block was actually circled by a single street that would loop back around, and I lived in the second house from the corner, with a HUGE tree in our front yard. So we would climb it and we could see any cars coming or going down our street or around the block.
From that tree, we could see over all the houses and into almost every backyard and into people’s windows within about 6 houses in any direction.
We had pretty detailed notes, actually... In fact, our notes and some of the drawings of the things we had seen were discovered by my mom, and that’s how they discovered my friend’s parents were swingers.
... My friend stopped wanting to play spies after that gossip spread.
zalvador89 · 5 points · Posted at 16:51:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline soccer dodgeball!
On a trampoline (no net of course) with 1 ball, whoever last touched the ball when it fell of was out (and had to fetch!).
This created a risk/reward system of going hard for the guaranteed kill if you hit someone, or slow if you just wanted to make sure others touched it. The other players could bounce the ball or other players too.
logicisall · 5 points · Posted at 16:55:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game I made up with my friends when we used to drink too much on the street called angry neighbor. The rules were simple, you took the things on one person's lawn and redecorated their neighbors lawn with it. The best game we had of it was in a rich neighborhood where we chose the richest house and took all the things from every neighbor within sight (I think it was like ten houses). It took hours, their hose was ten hoses long, had many bikes on their deck, a plethora of potted plants (tore a Muscle bringing one big one over), a ton of solar lights done in a very pretty design, and a new deck chair swing. It was beautiful. I think the best part for me was imagining the conversations: "ahh Bob...wtf?" Bob: "John I really have no idea man, it was a hell of a night and I just woke up to it like this" or "ahhh bob... Wtf?" Bob: "fuck you John you never watered those plants". P.S. am an adult now and no longer drink to excess or am a little shit. Still a little proud of this one though
sqautionzukes · 5 points · Posted at 17:06:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Initial Game". Growing up in a fairly big family that took alot of road trips, me and my little brother came up with this game to help pass the time. Two letters were chosen, say "A. R." and we would all just try to come up with silly things that could stand for like "Acrobatic Rhinoceros" or "Ashtray Repairman" No points or rules or anything, just a fun way to make the ride go by quicker and to get some laughs with some wit that the whole family grew to appreciate.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 17:19:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah I remember playing this "game" called "hide in the pantry and eat pieces of dog food til my parents found me"
python_hunter · 7 points · Posted at 17:21:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sister and I played a game where we tried to sneak a booger into the front shirt pocket of a particular woman that would visit our home frequently. It was a game of stealth, like reverse pickpocketing. I'm not sure either one of us ever succeeded but I remember sometimes standing/hiding for what seemed like hours just feet away from the 'target' waiting for the perfect opportunity to slide that nose cookie into its sheath.
I think by the time we retired the game after several years the final score was 0-0 with zero close attempts. Still was a lot of fun and trained us to be stealthy and patient!
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 17:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sister and I would play Crazy 8s, but instead of playing by the right rules we would take a standard deck of cards and flip them until we reached 8 we would go absolutely bonkers for 30 seconds.
LaDiDaLuna · 4 points · Posted at 20:46:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we had art class in 5th grade, there was a water bowl in the center of the table. Whenever you washed your brush, the water would change color (obviously) so we made a game out of it. The different paint colors were different "elements" (red was dragon blood, blue was Mermaid Cove water, green was green moss, etc.) and we made potions. The sink was the "Magic Spring" and we emptied our potion into there while doing fake witch chants. It was awesome.
cpt_edge · 4 points · Posted at 20:47:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's actually rlly creative, love it
GreekYogurt_YT · 5 points · Posted at 02:18:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The naked man game. My father was always concerned whenever I mentioned it, because I also mentioned I played it in the closet with my babysitter. He was concerned this one time, and asked me to show it to him... It was operation, I just forgot the name.
Regis_Ivan · 9 points · Posted at 15:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid in the Philippines we played a ghetto IRL version of Pokemon because we were too poor to afford the actual cards or games. We'd capture spiders at home or in nearby forests, storing them in matchboxes. Then we'd fight each other's spiders by placing them on 2 opposite ends of a chop stick and poke their asses until they "fight" each other. Since we were dumb kids we never fed the spider. Fights usually resulted in one spider eating the other.
blove1150r · 29 points · Posted at 13:02:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Quest in 2D in a dungeon fighting a dragon. Atari but game name I have forgotten
__Quentin__ · 25 points · Posted at 13:47:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Adventure"
lambchopdestroyer · 2 points · Posted at 23:25:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hmm adventure was also a text based game (before computer graphics). You would have to type in commands (like moving or examining objects).
horsenbuggy · 9 points · Posted at 15:34:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boo. That's not a game you made up.
KingLubbock · 10 points · Posted at 14:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punch. I would punch my brother, we would laugh, then he would punch me, then we would laugh again. Rinse and repeat.
CastOfKillers · 5 points · Posted at 14:34:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little boys are such idiots. It's amazing any of us made it to adulthood.
KingLubbock · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know, right?
Throwawayuser626 · 2 points · Posted at 16:35:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play knuckle busters as kids. Where you punch each other in the fists.
KingLubbock · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, we called that game bloody knuckles.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger my old friends and I made guns with our hands and pretended to shoot each other. My dad got upset at me doing that and disciplined me. Also when I was younger I played DOS computer games on an emulator on my computer. Those games are SUPER old.
SusanCalvinsRBF · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ouch.
pikeminnow · 2 points · Posted at 16:48:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ow
johnsynodinos123 · 3 points · Posted at 13:39:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is catch the fly where we killed a fly with our hands
Never caught anything
foamymorningpuke · 3 points · Posted at 13:58:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would tie a ski rope to the back of the mower, and my sister and I would wear roller blades and take turns being pulled around behind the mower. This was supposed to be practice for water skiing but it was also a lot of fun on its own. He would do the same thing with the tube and that was equally fun but resulted in more injuries.
Hyzynbyrg · 3 points · Posted at 14:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sarsaparilla, don’t die!” — The first person would punt a soccer ball straight up into the sky as high as possible. The second person would attempt to shoot the ball out of the sky by firing an arrow from a bow straight up. The rule was you could only fire straight up and couldn’t release until the ball was at its peak. The last rule was run and don’t die, or else our parents will be pissed.
We broke the first rule a lot, but never the last rule!
dr_clay_hone · 3 points · Posted at 14:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game called "whiffle ball baseball fly swatter." no rhyme or reason to the name but the game itself was highly organized. Basically baseball but with a ping pong ball and a fly swatter. If you've thrown a ping pong ball you know how much curve you can put on it. Some insane sliders and eephus pitches. But smacking it with a fly swatter is without a doubt the most satisfying "thwack" you can imagine.
Tigerwoodsyaall · 4 points · Posted at 14:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a tiny indoor soccer game in our family living room. We used a small nerf basketball and the couches on either side of the room as goals. We called it Rhonaldino.
TeamOhio · 4 points · Posted at 14:38:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a time as kids where my older brother and I could lay in our bunk beds and go through pretty much the entirety of Aladdin, line by line. I'd take half the characters and he'd take the other half, and we'd perform the whole thing late into the night.
agentdanascullyfbi · 5 points · Posted at 14:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother used to put me in a big laundry bag, spin me around, and then carry me somewhere and I'd have to guess which room of the house I was in to "win".
shieldman · 5 points · Posted at 15:02:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ammo Dammo", as we called it for some reason. We had this glow-in-the-dark jump rope that we tied into a ball and set under a lamp to charge. Then after about five minutes, we turned off all of the lights in the basement (safe, i know) and the person who was "it" tried to throw the ball of jump rope at the others to get them out.
PerfectChaos33 · 4 points · Posted at 15:03:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Called it "bullet" we'd run around the basement at top speed. Not allowed to stop or hesitate. And we'd just run into each other essentially
sotis6 · 2 points · Posted at 15:14:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and SEE.
I’m sure it’s known, but to our family my oldest cousin “invented” it and all 12 of us would play these huge games.
It was hide and seek. But there was a base that everyone hiding had to get to to win the game. If you were ever SEEN, the person who is seeking would have to say “I see you (name)” and that person would be frozen. To unfreeze, another one of the hiders would have to “tag” you.
The challenge was if you got to base, you couldn’t get off to unfreeze someone. So basically to win, 11 of us would have to run to base together while the seeker was on the other side of the house.
HIGHLIGHTS: -I was seeker one time, and saw 3 people holding hands, and I called them out each individually. Their way of getting around this was that as soon as I called one of them, the others were touching them to automatically unfreeze them. So as soon as I walked away and was out of sight, all 3 of them continued running. That was a big game changer for the family.
-One time my cousin hid in a circle for an hour with all the adults just reading the paper. She was the most mature of all of us, as well as oldest (she was 16, youngest was about 5/6). No one, including the people hiding, knew where the hell she was.
-sister one time hid under a float in the pool with a snorkel. It was legendary.
Guzz15 · 5 points · Posted at 15:20:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my little sister and cousin brother used to play 'Jasusi-jaas' or in simple terms, we used to play act 'Detectives'. In this game we played characters of a make believe detective show and me being the eldest got to be the cool, advanced weaponry wielding alien leader, code name 'Number-1' while they were my human understudies, 2 and 3. We used to run around my grandma's yard solving crimes with some ad breaks in the middle. A title and ending track, and a running commentary. We also used to have concerts with title tracks from our favourite animated shows like Pokemon and Scooby doo.
That might just be the only thing I miss about my childhood. We three are still as close, if not closer.
reibeatall · 4 points · Posted at 15:48:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school, my friends and I made up a game we called Farfignugen. It was basically racquetball mixed with dodgeball. You would throw the ball at the wall and the other person would have to catch it. If they missed, they would have to run to the wall, but you could grab the ball and hit them with it. If you did then you got a point.
Racquetballs hurt.
Thethirdtoken · 4 points · Posted at 15:51:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shark", We'd pile in on the top bunk and 1 person on the bottom reaches up and tries to tag someone to be the shark. It ended up being more fun to frighten than to actually catch/tag.
StargasmSargasm · 3 points · Posted at 15:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid in Gym we played a game called Mat Ball, some called it Bloop ball. Basically it was like kickball, cept the bases were mats, and you could get a base hit, then the next guy could get a base hit, but you didn't have to move from your base. So you could have like 5 guys on first, 3 or second. If you hit a certain spot on the back wall it was a homerun, but only you went around. If you kicked the ball into a basket everyone on base got to score, or at my school we had banners and if you hit a banner everyone could score. It proved to be very competitive and caused a lot of locker room fights.
Lil_B1TCH69 · 4 points · Posted at 16:08:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and sisters and I would play “twirly-whirly” where we would hold hands and spin in a circle and let go and of you fell down you lose. When I got older I was big enough that I could spin my brother until his feet were off the ground then just chuck him across the room
Greenveins · 6 points · Posted at 16:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let's dig a gigantic hole in dad's prestine yard and fill it with water to create a mud pit and then leave it
Here_Come_the_Tacos · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rescue the Princess. This was a game we created in freshman year of high school, the object of which was to create the biggest Golden Goose chain of participants as you could, by going door to door and asking, "come rescue the princess?" The only real rules of the game were that you weren't allowed to give any explanation other than "we're rescuing the princess," and if you joined the crusade you had to wear a hat. The stupider the better.
Since the game tends to work best when no one knows what's going on but the ones who start it, we would do it in different neighborhoods and city areas where we knew other students lived. At times the crusade would grow to forty people or more- I wound up pilfering a box of costume hats from the drama department at the time, so that anyone who didn't have a stupid hat could have one. Picture forty high school students wandering the streets of a suburban community, in baseball caps and wizard hats and Darth Vader helmets and motorcycle/leatherman caps and Dr. Seuss hats and bunny ears and even less conventional things, all shouting "rescue the princess!"
People must have thought we were nuts, or the least threatening gang in the state.
shabz4747 · 6 points · Posted at 16:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Domithrows
Friends rectangular basement had a couch. Two teams of 2 or 3. One team got the couch, other team got the pillows - these you used to create a defense.
Glow in the dark dominos, held under the light for a good 5 mins to get them glowing. Lights off and dominos scattered. Try and pelt the other team with the dominos.
Everyone had those old light up indigo watches where you hold a button for a little light. Once the glow faded from the dominos you had to use your light on the floor to look for ammo, but this was dangerous as made you a target. Threw a couple tennis balls in the mix for fun too.
Geawiel · 4 points · Posted at 16:46:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We grew up in Florida and had an above ground pool. We would play silent marco polo in it. The person trying to find the others would still close their eyes, but the others would try to make as little noise as possible while still trying to avoid being tagged. We learned to listen for even the slightest noise and also follow the currents in the water.
I became good and drawing the person that was it to my current and then looping around quickly to make them think I was still going a certain way while I went around them. The current would carry a short while, but by the time they realized it I was already somewhere else. I also got really good at going underwater and resurfacing without making any noise.
wind-fleuret · 4 points · Posted at 16:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and cousins and I used to play ‘computer babies’ whenever we had sleepovers. We would bend a bunch of futons and create tunnels that acted as our rooms, and we’d sit in our ‘rooms’ and pretend to be genius babies and do things like order food on fake computers (which was always promptly delivered on a tray embedded into our futon wall), or save the world. When I think back on it, we were really just sitting inside bent futons speaking nonsense, but it was always a blast.
rmcg · 3 points · Posted at 16:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One day at primary school, we all went out at playtime and the playground was covered in this fluff. Like white, fluffy stuff. We were all excited, shouting "Candy Floss!", throwing it around and pretending we were at a fair. We all go back inside, sitting in class when I start getting reaaaally itchy, then other kids are starting to itch and turn red... turns out it was fibreglass insulation that had blown over from a building site! We were all sent home in tears, itchiest I've ever been.
Dinoscores · 4 points · Posted at 16:55:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother used to buy our silence on long car journeys. She’d pay us 10p for every motorbike we could spot, as long as we were otherwise quiet and well-behaved. We’d have a pen and a piece of paper to keep count, and at the end of the ride she’d take our paper and hand over about 50p or so, and we would use it to buy sweets or a super cheap ‘toy’.
She retired the game one day after we drove in the same direction as some sort of motorbike convention. That trip cost her over £20 and my brother threw up on the journey home from eating all the chocolate he bought with his share.
Arnvidh · 3 points · Posted at 16:57:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha you just reminded me. When me and my brother were younger we once thought it was really fun to get jars full with water, fill our mouths and spit it out on eachother outside. Kind of a weird version of tag. It was so gross to get hit but funny as hell when you hit the other. So anyway, in the laughther one of us must have mistakenly blown their nose (probably me) . When I looked at my jar that I had set down I saw a bit of snot. It was so disgusting that I immediately had to throw up. "Ewww snot!" I yelled, and my brother had the same reaction.
For some reason I ran inside to puke in the bathroom, and I do, while my brother doesn't get that far. While puking I can hear him, and my mother yells that he is projectile vomiting all over the house. So once again I just laugh my ass off at the situation and how fucked up it all was. Good times, albeit weird.
HumpieDouglas · 4 points · Posted at 16:58:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't play this as a kid but we played this when my niece was still a kid. In an Arizona election several years ago there was a guy running with the last name Doody. We'd see the signs on almost every corner. So as we would be driving around somewhere if you saw the sign you had to yell out "DOODY!" before everyone else to get points. If you saw two signs you yelled "DOUBLE DOODY!". It was a fun silly game to play for a few months with my niece when we'd go places. There were a lot of laughs over it. She got the only "TRIPLE DOODY".
About 5 years after the election my sister sent me a text. She got a picture of someone in a store wearing a Doody campaign shirt from that election. The last "DOODY" of the game lol.
wafflesandmariokart · 4 points · Posted at 16:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to spend a few weeks at my grandparents’ house each summer. Pretty much we were bored as shit. They had the type of house where everything felt fragile. White carpet/grand piano/family heirloom type. Anyway, my brother and I would play this game called “hide the bean” where one of us would hide a SINGLE COFFEE BEAN anywhere in their house and the other person would have to find it. We would switch off all day
tjn182 · 3 points · Posted at 17:03:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While not politcally correct by todays standards... we played a game called "I win"
I all began at a Ryan's Family Steakhouse near the NC Zoo in the early 90s. Anytime you went, you saw outrageously obese people there.
My dad and his brother and my 3 siblings (ages 5-11 at time) developed a simple game. Find the biggest person and quietly claim "I win". No pointing. No sudden movements to look. Only get to call it 1 time per location. Must declare "The Game is on" before anyone can call it. All you win is bragging rights.
Needless to say, my mother was appalled by the game. Yet it never stopped her from randomly blurting "I win" at the most random times in the most random places.
Our best winner would definitely be someone worth of a Lifetime documentary. My best friend was with us, and "The Game" was on. He decided to check out the smoking section (still in the 90s) and came back with a face so red - barely able to say "I win". This man sat in 2 chairs, one for each butt cheek - Sat sideways at the table - had to reach hand to side to get food and place it on the plate that sat on his belly. Dr. Mom guessed he was in the 700lb range. Needless to say, nobody has ever topped this winner to-date.
Expecting downvotes... but still - that's our unique game! We still play it to date. Mom still hates it.
Oh - random coincidence - A friend of mine in college came and sat down to me in the cafeteria one day and was like "holy shit, I win!". We had never discussed this game before. I looked around and was like - "DUDE! You know The Game!?" - "Yeah man I play it with my family!". Sure enough, he was from the same small town as my dad. Very likely that it was something the folks in the area played quite frequent.
Jenkins007 · 4 points · Posted at 17:05:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Empty Room Ball! Not a child but when I first moved into my house we didn't have any furniture other than a couple bean bags. We also didn't have a tv or internet. So we found a hackey sack and threw it around the large living room. Hours we would be at it, just shooting the shit, throwing the 'ball'. Eventually we got couches and chairs, but we would still play occasionally. One day the ball was thrown and never appeared again. That was the end of empty room ball.
KnittedBurger · 3 points · Posted at 18:35:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay, this sounds completely insane in retrospect but the most popular game at kids birthday parties in my school (like 3.-5. grade) was drug smugglers. Hear me out here.
The parents would make little baggies of different drugs like tic tacs were pills, flour was cocaine etc. Then each drug was assigned a value. Then there were a ton of Monopoly money.
Some parents And kids would be “police” and the rest of the kids would be in smuggling groups. We all started with the same amount of money, then had to run around the area to find the mom or dad who was the dealer, buy drugs, hide them on ourselves and run back to sell them to the other dealer without getting caught by police.
It took a few hours and whichever group had accumulated the most money by the end of the night won.
There were frisk searches (some other kids were police too).
And I know it sounds completely inappropriate and insane, but it was also ridiculously fun!!
You weren’t allowed to hide the drugs in your underwear and other places where it would be a big no no to search. I remember I was really really good one time because it was winter, I was wearing a dress, but also ski pants and I could hide the drugs in the fold that was made between the two 🤷♀️😬😬
Doctor_Lowenstein · 4 points · Posted at 20:53:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curbs!!! I only recently found out that it is unheard of outside of Dublin, Ireland, like, where cows n green things is. Now, the rules varied from area to area, but most commonly- two lil scrappy Dubs stood on opposite curbs, only ever on a busy enough road, throwing a football at the opposing curb with the aim of bouncing it back to your own side and catching it. If you catch it, you move forward to a marker, and go again, move closer, so on n so forth. On a suburban road. Now if they catch it and throw it at your curb, you suck and you lose at childhood or something......emm.....Factual history books tell us that it absolutely was in the 1st to 44th Olympic games, only to be given up on with the Advent of PlayStation and girls
BelowAverage_Elitist · 4 points · Posted at 20:56:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Car": a game played with neighborhood kids. You hang out on someone's front lawn and when you see a car coming by, you have to run and hide by the time it passes or you loose a life. It's pretty dumb but I had a hell of a lot of fun doing it as a kid. I also ended up have an unreasonable fear of cars driving by house for longer than I'm willing to admit.
Glmd5777 · 3 points · Posted at 21:34:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we played "Titanic" at recess. This involved getting on the swings and swinging as high as we could and then the designated captain would yell "Iceberg!" and you had to jump out of the swing no matter how high you were. Then you raced to the slide that was designated as the lifeboat. Some made it, others didn't. We lost a lot of brave souls.
l3ane · 4 points · Posted at 23:27:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fashion Satement Awards. We would all dress up in the most ridiculous outfits and video tape or as if it were some sort of beauty pageant. We had commercials and everything. My brother still has the tapes and man o man am I glad YouTube wasn't around back then.
andymacassar · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That. Is. Awesome.
mooredj565 · 4 points · Posted at 01:12:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game called "Meteor" which was effectively "trampoline dodge ball" with a few twists. We had a trampoline growing up but only ever 2 or 3 kids were ever allowed to be on it at a time for safety concerns. The game functioned as a way to cycle kids on and off without thinking of it as taking turns. There was a net around the outside walls too (or else we would have been in real trouble!) and whoever was on the outside had to toss a ball over the top of the net into the trampoline area. On the inside, if you got hit with the ball as it came down you lost 1 life point out of a total of 3. Once you lost all of your lives you had to switch with someone on the outside and the game would reset.
The special variants included that if you were touching the trampoline (not mid-bounce) when the ball hit the trampoline but nobody else then you lost a life anyway. Think of it as temporary "the floor is lava" which encouraged everyone to stay bouncing when the ball hit. Sometimes this would get multiple people too, and if multiple people lost their final life point then more people on the outside got to go into the trampoline again. This also resulting in people attempting strategic bounces like "double bouncing" which launched yourself up but the other person lost all of their strength for their current bounce and would get very high at all.
The other option was to catch the ball while you were in the air. If you threw it (still airborne at this point) and hit someone else then they would lose a life instead of you. You were also able to just throw it back outside and there would be no penalty for anyone inside.
Kids on the outside of the net would try to throw the ball in varying heights in the air in order to make it hard to determine when and where the ball would hit the trampoline. That is basically where the name originate from, waiting until the "meteor" hit and trying to avoid it. However if anyone on the outside completely missed getting the ball inside the trampoline net then everyone got all their lives back!
child-creature · 4 points · Posted at 11:14:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
MINECRAFT
chandra381 · 5 points · Posted at 14:04:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would call it Space Fort. My neighbour (my age) and I would sit and make a fucking wonder-of-the-world level architectural monstrosity out of cardboard boxes, Jenga and Duplo boxes, and pretend that it was a castle holding a kidnapped intergalactic princess in it and act out the whole plot to the rescue or siege or whatever with assorted action figures and stuffed animals. It would go on for hours and is one of my fondest memories
HamMcK · 4 points · Posted at 14:18:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if it’s unique but I grew up playing “now you see me, now you don’t”. Basically you choose a bedroom to play in and cover all the windows so it’s super dark. One person counts outside the room while the rest of the people hide, once done counting the seeker says “now you see me, now you don’t” while sticking their arm in the door and turning the light switch off. Then you have to find everyone in pitch black darkness. Tripping over things and getting hurt was pretty prevalent but still tons of fun.
alexthemale · 4 points · Posted at 14:42:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to hide/run away from my parents when we went to stores
madamnastywoman · 4 points · Posted at 14:42:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play the "night game," where we would all go in a dark room, put a blanket over someone's head, and they would have to crawl around and try to catch and pull someone under the blanket with them. If they succeeded, then the person they caught would be the next one under the blanket.
The game stopped when someone got hurt.
ZobbyRN · 4 points · Posted at 15:02:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made “bad guy soup” we would take a bucket and fill it with dirt, rocks, soap, sticks, basically anything we could find.
We would put it on our front steps so if any “bad guys” came to try to rob our house they would eat the soup and die before they could.
😂😂😂😂
We were weird kids haha
EngineersMasterPlan · 6 points · Posted at 14:19:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
nightcrawlers
DiligentDaughter · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did you incorporate blankets?
EngineersMasterPlan · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes, we used them as a sort of roaming base
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 14:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking out the car window and imagining a creature following beside us that had to travel only on telephone lines, trees, guard rails, etc. Made long trips less boring.
GrandMasterBobo · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am so glad I’m not the only one
Axialminim · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to imagine it was some kind of electricity absorbing monster.
PsycheSoldier · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always imagined it was Tak, from Tak and the Power of Juju running alongside me.
indi_guy · 20 points · Posted at 15:53:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Touch the pee pee' with my uncle.
KingNothing78 · 5 points · Posted at 19:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol!!! My dad used to put white pee on my brother while he was sleeping.
Wheresabout · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Loved that game
danielstover · 5 points · Posted at 14:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put a small stuffed animal into a roller skate and raced them on the basement floor. Set up obstacles, jumps. It was like manual Mario Cart.
Wentthruurhistory · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Most wholesome “game” itt so far.
MegaGrimer · 9 points · Posted at 13:02:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the Game.
Kosmos_Entuziast · 3 points · Posted at 17:15:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game
heyitsant · 0 points · Posted at 15:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck you!
Not sure whether to upvote or downvote now.
absolut07 · 4 points · Posted at 16:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is only downvote for this.
mattreyu · 3 points · Posted at 14:10:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game involving a narrow stairwell and one of those big yoga balls.
We'd take turns being at the bottom of the stairwell and the person at the top would throw the yoga ball down and you'd have to try and smack it back up without it ricocheting off the walls or stairs and knocking the shit out of you.
ToblemromeTBC · 3 points · Posted at 14:14:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had these heavy weighted teddy bears, you know with like sand or rocks in the bottoms.
We played dodgeball with em but we called it Kill Bear.
We quit once we broke my sisters nose.
aussie_mum · 3 points · Posted at 14:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Pearl diving". I was the ship, floating on my back, and had to obstinately remain stationary despite all the ruckus going on around me and people trying to make me get the fuck out of the way. Sadly the "storm" would eventually shift my position and drag my imaginary pearl diver to the surface and he'd die agonisingly from The Bends. Yet again.
Headstones face the west; a thousand divers lie at rest
davidddank · 3 points · Posted at 14:24:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play hide and seek, but the goal was to make the seeker jump (from surprising them). It was very fun and suspenseful.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:29:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My own inspired d&d with a really simple set of rules where we played as dragonkin
Tyrion5050 · 3 points · Posted at 14:32:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a polished small coffee table in the living room. Small size. When there were friends over, we would take coins (all the same type, about quarter size) and simultaneously hit them spinning. Whichever coin stays spinning longest wins. Hitting other coins with your coin is OK.
We had point systems, league tables. It was fun!
orangehoody · 3 points · Posted at 14:50:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and friends would ride our beanbag chairs down the flight of stairs in my living room...until my dad found out.
Coltsnizzle · 3 points · Posted at 14:57:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
during car rides if there was a smudge or speck of dirt on the window I would move my head around so that it was doing "parkour" over different obstacles outside
GeetchNixon · 3 points · Posted at 15:05:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OK so my soccer team had one kid lucky enough to own a paintball gun back when we were about 10-11 years old. There were 18 of us in total, and one paintball gun. So when we played (off the field) all together, which happened a couple of times per year, we invented a game called 'Secret Service.' Here is how it worked.
One kid would play the 'president.' The kid with the paintball gun would play the 'assassin.' All the other kids were secret service agents. The goal of the game depended upon who you were.
If you were the 'president' or part of his secret service detail, the goal was to keep the 'president' safe from point A (usually a tree house) to point B. Between A and B was usually a heavily wooded area with good cover and no shortage of great places to hide. The goal for the kid with the paintball gun was to hide in the woods, and try to put a paintball on the 'president' while he was moving between point A and point B.
To keep the 'president' safe, secret service agents could dive in front of shots, make a human shield around him, or if they were close enough (and feeling lucky) wrestle the paintball gun away from the kid playing assassin. Catch was, once you had paint on you, that was it for you that round. You fell down and played dead until it was over. So it was difficult to get the kid with the paintball gun without getting tagged.
It was weird, but so fun.
j3fangorn88 · 3 points · Posted at 15:08:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would use a graph paper to map out a battle map. Then created a list of basic military unites (soldiers, tanks, mines, ECT) and their stats and cost.
Then we would draw on the graph where we set our army up. Then took turns erasing and redrawing them as they moved or when they got into combat we would play rock paper scissors to see who won the fight.
hiyeswow · 3 points · Posted at 15:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I used to play a game called “Nine” where basically, one of us was on the floor curled in a ball and the others bounced from bed to bed. The one on the floor would then “wake up” and crawl about going “nine nine nine” etc in a creepy voice and try to catch us. It was weird.
killuminati-savage · 3 points · Posted at 15:30:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the pickle from Uncle Jim
lostseahawk · 3 points · Posted at 15:34:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When driving down the road we would play one of two games.
The “ABC Game” where we tried to spot the letters of the alphabet in order using billboards, street signs, license plates, business signs, or anything with words on it. I still get a little shot of dopamine every time I see an Antique Shop because those Q’s were always the most difficult to find.
Or my sister and I would split the road down the middle and pretend like we inherited everything we passed on our respective side of the road.
UndaddyWTF · 3 points · Posted at 15:52:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Having just discovered Choose-your-adventure books, we started writing ones of our own, and reading them to each other. That was too much work, so we started doing it paper-free. 1 game master, 1 player, just improvisation. We had ongoing campaigns that went on for months. Later I discovered actual rpgs, but we basically arrived there by ourselves.
Opienus · 3 points · Posted at 15:54:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played FF III on the SNES (FFIV) and when my parents yelled at me for playing video games for too long we made cardboard cutouts of swords and espers and played our own version of FF outside with cardboard treasure chests hidden in neighbors bushes etc.
Autistic_Elephant · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would spend hours sliding down our stairs using a mattress, fun times.
ohokayforsure · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game in elementary school where someone would sit on top of the slide while everyone else would try to push them off. No point of the game besides trying to stay at the top for as long as possible
david128wasTaken · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to race my shadow : (
wicket146 · 3 points · Posted at 16:06:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would play “switch chairs”. We usually played this at our grandparents’ house since they had a lot of seating in their living room. Basically everyone would start in a chair (each cushion on the couch counted as one chair as well). Someone would yell “switch chairs” and we all had to jump up and move to a new chair as fast as we could. Sometimes more than one person would go for the same chair so whoever got their first would get it. We would continue to yell “switch chairs” and moving around until we got bored. There were no winners or losers.
I told my high school friends about this years later and we decided to play. Surprisingly the game aged very well and we had a lot of fun. Mostly because of how stupid the game was and because of the fighting for the best chairs. My friends dad’s recliner got damaged in the process so we all chipped in and bought him a new one for Christmas.
Khaki_Steve · 3 points · Posted at 16:07:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was staying at my friend's house for the weekend while my parents were out of town. Ends up being the worst flood in my states history, and his basement ends up flooded. After we helped out and got the majority of the water out, we ended up playing baseball in the still wet and slippery tile using a broom and nerf ball. The pool table in the middle of the 'field' made for some interesting plays.
nasandre · 3 points · Posted at 16:27:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Silver, it was an adventure game where you could do special moves with your sword with mouse gestures. It was really revolutionary for the time and it gave you the sense of having control over your character.
marigoldhart · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sister and I played “red devil run” - one child would take other children on the tour of the devil’s lair (aka our yard), while someone (the red devil) hid in a bush waiting for the tour to pass by. As it did, the red devil would jump out, the tour guide would exclaim “red devil run!” and everyone would scatter and to try to avoid being tagged by the red devil- except the tour guide who was in on the whole thing. Who ever was tagged would become the red devil, the tagger would become the tour guide, and the game would start again. For the life of me I can’t remember how we came up with this- but it was our favorite game. The point of each tour was to get more and more elaborate with the descriptions of my mothers flower beds, so that the devil was always a surprise.
Edit: a word
tank-446 · 3 points · Posted at 16:46:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirt clog wars. There was a subdivision being built behind my childhood home and we used to run around throwing clumps of clay/dirt at each other, with the occasional rock. It was a blast. We eventually became more bored with that at started throwing them at the houses under construction cause the would explode on the side of the houses and make a huge mark. The workers ended up telling our parents and we had to write and hand-deliver an apology letter to the foreman.
therocker1984 · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I thought we invented a new game when we were kids. We called it puckey. It was basically hockey but with laundry baskets as goals and we used the Subway toy that was like a plastic golf club as our stick. I made a ring of tape on the floor to mark where the starting point would be, my mom was not happy. Fast forward 16 years and that house is now sold (we happen to be friends with the people that own it though) and the tape ring is still there. XD
digitalscarecrows · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sidewalk Tag". My grandparent's front yard was a rectangle split in half width wise by a straight sidewalk. One person would be "it", and could only stand on the sidewalk - not allowed to touch the grass. The other two had to run across the sidewalk as many times as possible without getting tagged. You had to keep crossing, and the person who was 'it' could tag you if they could reach you without touching the sidewalk (this includes taking running leaps at people).
collectivecoy · 3 points · Posted at 17:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm an only child and I was a pretty shy kid, so I didn't have a ton of friends. Plus we lived in a pretty rural area with no nearby neighbors from when I was born through the end of my fourth grade year. Anyway, I used to go outside and have these imaginary football games in which I was both quarterback and wide receiver. I got to be pretty adept at throwing a tight spiral to myself, catching it and then bringing myself down with a tackle.
yuhone · 3 points · Posted at 17:28:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would have monthly room sales growing up. We’d gather our unique belongings to the living room and set up a shop. We’d sell, trade, and barter our things. We’d make signs and decorate our shops to attract one another’s attention.
Everything from old clothes to our beds to trading rooms for the summer went down. We all made some pocket change and it left us feeling good.
dingletonshire · 3 points · Posted at 17:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and i used to play “GirlBoy” it was CatDog except for a boy and a girl. We’d wear sweatpants and connect our legs through the leg holes and then walk around on our arms.
Way more fucked up: me, my sister, and 2 cousins used to play “stump soccer”. You fold your arms and legs into your sleeves and pant-legs so you look like an amputee, and then we’d play soccer.
BlackRockKitty · 3 points · Posted at 19:02:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had "The Chinese Restaurant Game." The goal was to finish your entire glass of water, ice included, while at a Chinese restaurant. If a waiter came around you were not allowed to refuse a fill up. Those fuckers fill your glass every minute or so. It was fun for a kid but also stupid because we got very full on water.
Hint: The trick is to let the ice melt and then drink it all in one go ;)
TheAmazingHanowski · 3 points · Posted at 19:34:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would kick the yoga ball at each other and try to knock each other out.
The game was called Knockout
Matt_Messih · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:10 on May 14, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cool game.
aboardthemothership · 3 points · Posted at 19:59:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “Dinosaurs.” We pretended to be Brachiosauruses by getting on all fours and using one of our legs as our tails to kick each other. Whoever fell first lost. I was 3 years younger and much smaller; so this game was simply an excuse for my sister to kick the shit out of me and not get in trouble.
astralvelocity · 3 points · Posted at 20:56:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
roleplaying as cats from the Warriors series. we all had our own names like Fernpool, Tigerfur, Froststar... ran around collecting twigs and leaves for food and chasing other kids from encroaching on our territory. we were the OG furries lmao
luviosaa · 3 points · Posted at 20:59:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and i had a game where we pretended to be sisters in a large family, which I'm sure it's pretty common. The weird part of it was that the family was so large that we had about 12 pages of excel spreadsheets to keep track of things like the names and ages of our 25 siblings, the family's daily schedule, and what had previously happened in our game. Whenever we wanted to play it we had to make sure we both had all our paperwork
AppleNarf · 3 points · Posted at 21:49:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would pretend that telephone polls were obstacles in some platform and sonic or Mario or whoever would have to jump over them. this translated to me moving my eyes up and down between telephone polls for long car rides
ricardoandmortimer · 3 points · Posted at 23:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Midgets vs Giants" - in grade school during recess a (quickly expanding) group of kids would gather in the field, and half would pull their shirts over their knees and be "midgets", and the other half would remain standing.
The goal of the game was for the giants to push over the midgets, and the midgets to knock over the giants by grabbing their legs. The teachers banned it pretty quick :(.
cre8ivelaze · 3 points · Posted at 00:45:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game we called “Fwump” out in our spare bedroom. That room had a king bed and one of us would put the comforter on ourselves like a classic ghost costume, and the three of us would run around on the bed trying not to get caught by the person with the comforter on. That person definitely couldn’t see and it was hilarious and amazing every time
CorkChop · 3 points · Posted at 04:40:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer.
iamkingoftheworld · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
See it in my boobs
piraticalnerve · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Came to say that
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 12:22:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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tak1997 · 2 points · Posted at 13:43:37 on March 12, 2019 · (Permalink)
They must have seen traits of future doctors or killers:P
dangopam · 3 points · Posted at 14:16:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster trucks, my brother and I would roll on top of each other as if we were monster trucks. Sometimes we would have "special" moves, which was us just sticking our elbows out or bending our knees to hurt each other. We would be covered in mud and grass (because of course you had to play on the floor outside). My mom hated it, we would rip our clothes and just be covered in dirt.
awfflmike · 3 points · Posted at 14:31:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would tip my mattress on its side up against my bed and lay out 9 baseball cards like a baseball field.
Then I’d toss a marble in the air and try to hit it with a metal marker.
That’s how I played baseball in the house before video games.
Mithrandir37 · 3 points · Posted at 15:05:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foosketball. Greatest game I’ve ever played by far. Played it in HS football weight lifting class. It’s like basketball but with a football and you can run until you get tagged then you have to pass it. No out of bounds. Other rule is that if you throw the ball and hit behind the glass then you get 1 point. Two pointers are rare and three pointers are unicorns. Crazy fun when you have 20 football players and as you can imagine a bit rough. We had more concussions, bloody noses, black eyes, and rolled ankles than during the actual football season.
tust3p · 3 points · Posted at 07:34:48 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin made up a game we called sock ball, we would play it at my grandmas when we were bored. Think of it like baseball with only 2 bases played in a hallway. You would roll up 2 socks together into a ball. Lay down 1 sock as homeplate and lay another sock as the other base you had to run to. Basically one person would pitch the sock ball and you would have to hit it with your hand (preferably way down the hall over the pitchers head) run to the other sock and back to the home base sock before the pitcher either tagged you or threw the sock ball at you to tag you out. There were so many epic long bomb sock throws to tag the person out right before they scored, good times.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:14:25 on March 11, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger my brothers, friends, and myself would play “the stair game”
It was essentially hide and seek mixed with tag- the person who was “it” would walk down the stairs into the basement (which was big) and the entire basement would be pitch black with the windows covered and everyone would be hidden. The goal was to get to the stairs without being tagged. Whoever got caught was then “it” and if nobody got caught the person stayed “it” for the next round.
Oddly enough this was extremely fun for a very long time.
spacejam4523 · 3 points · Posted at 04:46:29 on March 12, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bit late to the party...but my grandpa and I had a game where we would turn off all the lights in the house and run around catching ghosts in Crown Royal bags.
xVoldorx · 20 points · Posted at 13:21:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Seek with my Uncle
b_ootay_ful · 13 points · Posted at 13:22:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play that game often.
Probably the same Uncle.
picklemaintenance · 12 points · Posted at 14:34:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sure you had the "best" spot.
WilliamNoonan · 11 points · Posted at 14:24:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
game - run away from your mother who wants to punish you for breaking vase
Chik0Che · 16 points · Posted at 14:22:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with my Uncle.
StaySharpp · 13 points · Posted at 14:54:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
chuckles “I’m in danger!”
Dom_Flannel_Guy · 4 points · Posted at 15:35:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Better than cave explorer
teds234 · 5 points · Posted at 15:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hol’ up
IHateNull · 7 points · Posted at 13:29:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We all grew up with Fire Emblem, so we would find really big sticks and do pretend turn based combat in my front yard. Good times.
Ashley_Fry1 · 7 points · Posted at 13:52:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Of course "Snake" in Nokia 3310
StankyBungHole · 10 points · Posted at 16:05:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle use to play tickle the private parts with me
Goatcrapp · 7 points · Posted at 14:23:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the salami
Project_MAW · 10 points · Posted at 12:59:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What are the quotations for? Makes the question kinda confusing
CrnlButtcheeks · 61 points · Posted at 13:00:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It makes it seem like something you play with your creepy uncle or youth pastor.
karmagod13000 · 6 points · Posted at 14:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ahh i see you guys like strip poker as well
CrnlButtcheeks · 7 points · Posted at 14:49:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “strip pokehim” when I was taught.
karmagod13000 · 7 points · Posted at 14:57:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncles Red grape juice made the nights so much funner... at least what i can remember before i took my nap
Project_MAW · 9 points · Posted at 13:04:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah just a bit
jaudi813 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Or if you're john kramer
🎙️ antenonjohs · 24 points · Posted at 13:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess I used the quotes to suggest a looser definition of "game." Definitely wasn't trying to refer to anything creepy, though.
Madam_Hook · 4 points · Posted at 15:07:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I totally got what you were going for. As a child as we were driving down the road, I would imagine weaving in and out through dotted line in the middle of the road. It's not actually a "game", but it's something I would do to entertain myself as a child.
horsenbuggy · 2 points · Posted at 15:39:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't worry about it. I understood what you meant.
crazydressagelady · 1 points · Posted at 04:10:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing sexual.
PinkAnigav · 4 points · Posted at 16:06:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/unnecessaryquotationmarks
karmagod13000 · 2 points · Posted at 14:46:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"why are you so confused" hes just making "sure" you know what he said "in the title"
EpicBlinkstrike187 · 2 points · Posted at 14:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apartment hallway. One person on each end sitting down. Would use backscratchers or rulers and fling bouncy balls down the hall, then other person would try to stop it from passing them. Pretty much just hockey while sitting on your butt.
I’m not sure how we didn’t get yelled at more than we did for making noise.
wiltinslowly · 2 points · Posted at 14:03:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every Saturday as kids after Gladiators finished me, my brother and sister would have our own “Gladiators” tournament. Always ended in tears - usually mine.
Andromeda321 · 2 points · Posted at 14:10:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We really liked one called shoe toss. Basically while swinging on the swing set you kick your shoe off as you swing forward to see how far you can make it go in front of the swing. Whoever’s shoe got the furthest would win.
N0_R0B0 · 2 points · Posted at 14:16:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played "catch the hand".
Every night when we went to bed, whoever was on the top bunk would hang their hand down between the bed and the wall. Whoever was on the bottom would try to catch it. That was it. Pretty simple, but playing this got us in more trouble than anything else I can remember. Almost every night was us plating the game, my mother yelling from the living room to knock it off, us continuing to play, my father storming into the room and yelling at us to knock it off or we'd be staying in our room for the next four years.
Economy_Cactus · 2 points · Posted at 14:21:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Behind my house there was a large park with a very large hill in the middle of it. The hill had a lot of trees and it was a mildly wooded park.
We would get nerf guns and a pack of candy cigarettes and set out. We would then play "army." One team would have the hill and try and scope out the other team with binoculars and spread out and communicate with walkie talkies.
The other team would try and sneak up and attack the hill team without being caught.
MegaBear3000 · 2 points · Posted at 14:27:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game called loungeball. Played with a kind of squishy foam ball maybe the size of a grapefruit, and goals were just designated areas of wall or bookcase at either end of the lounge. Could only be played sitting or kneeling; kneeling up or crouching was a foul. Grabbing the ball was completely disallowed, you had to kinda get your hand under it and flick it up in the air if you wanted to go for a slam shot. Any foul and you just hand the ball to the other player. No score limit that I can remember, game just ended when we got tired. High risk of being pelted in the face at close range. I would play either with my friend or occasionally my brother.
When over at my friend's house, it became trampoline ball. Same rules, but you could kinda bounce about. He had an inflatable plastic ball which I took to the face more often than desired.
We spent our entire childhood playing games of imagination, drawing maps for our fantasy worlds, devising backstories for Jedi knights, but this was the greatest and only sport we ever invented.
marley2012 · 2 points · Posted at 14:28:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did a lot on solo imaginative play. I had an invisible parrot forever. I never had an invisible friend. Just a parrot. And I would "carry" him around on my shoulder at home all day. And there was a special cage elevator for him to go up the stairs so he didn't have to fly.
Skakitty · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an invisible dog!
Semper-Aethereum · 2 points · Posted at 14:33:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Starfox Adventures apparently as ive never seen a post about it on reddit
beefstewforyou · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was a good game.
LolBlox56 · 2 points · Posted at 14:36:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvinball. Where the only rule is you change the rules every day.
Torghira · 2 points · Posted at 14:37:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines. Opposite of hide and seek. I have no clue if this happened outside my family but all the cousins would draw straws. Whoever was “it” had to hide. Last person to find this person was “it”
Edit: it was called sardines because you had to hide with whoever was “it”
enoughwithcats · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Came to say this as well. Fun game! More fun than hide and seek. Especially when almost everyone is found and is huddled trying to be quiet while the last person looks.
kittycatdude · 2 points · Posted at 14:37:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run and Slide. There used to be a rug in the dining room which was adjacent to the living room which also used to be carpeted so there was a wood floor in between. The rule was when my sister said a certain color, run and slide across the wood floor, and I think she had to avoid getting tagged. Good times.
We also used to play this game called Pies at my grandparents house in the backyard. The Big Bad Wolf would show up demanding a certain flavor of pie. If he guessed correctly, he chased you. If you got caught, you were the wolf. I liked making up the most ridiculous flavors so I wouldn’t have to get chased.
Aziza999 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a similar game “look how I landed”. We’d put on “slippery socks” and slide down our hallway on the wood floor. We’d crash at the end and yell “look how I landed”. Well he put his face through the glass door one day and nearly lost an eye. Pretty sure that was the last time we played that game.
kittycatdude · 2 points · Posted at 21:39:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think me and my sister's game came to a sudden stop when my parents finally told us we could get seriously injured if we slid right into the wall or something. Damn, glad your brother didn't end up losing his eye, that sounds awful. When my aunts were little they were fighting on the middle staircase that had a window on the landing. There were 2 other sets of stairs on either side of the middle one. They were fighting and broke the window on the landing and luckily didn't fall out. They laugh about it now.
turpin222 · 2 points · Posted at 14:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had bedrooms at opposite sides of the hallways and one year one of my aunts got us a huge container of tootsie rolls. I’m talking hundreds. So naturally, like any 8 year old boy, we would sit in each of our rooms with the tootsie rolls and a slingshot and try and hit each other when we peaked out the door or came out to shoot
dcthomas82 · 2 points · Posted at 14:46:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would look out the window on long drives and imagine someone running alongside the car off the road, jumping the fences, doing flips, sliding under bridges. My imaginary running friend was very fast and athletic.
excelchuckout · 2 points · Posted at 14:47:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owzthat
But we just played at school with a pencil. Passed time in boring lessons.
Iris_album · 2 points · Posted at 14:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd set up paper targets on the stairs with different point values, then took turns shooting at them with a nerf gun for a high score.
NotAtWerk · 2 points · Posted at 14:54:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On car rides I would imagine a skateboarder outside my window swerving in and out of street signs and grinding on guard rails very swiftly to pass the time
overbakedchef · 2 points · Posted at 14:54:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My SO has told me about a game he and his brother would play they named "snow-speeder crash". It's where you slide down the stairs in a laundry basket and then inevitably crash into a wall. I used to play too but we used an old camping mattress at our house, we never named the game though!
CloCat17 · 2 points · Posted at 14:57:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Pants War. My brother and I would try to pants each other. We’d stand about two feet apart, bow, and then do the biggest squat in the world (to try to prevent the other from pantsing us) and then we’d reach for the pants and try to pants each other. Anything goes, the only rule was to (obviously) not wear a belt.
dadcrew92 · 2 points · Posted at 14:58:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
British bulldog. Which was banned at my primary school. So we cunningly changed its name to "bulldog". We were sneaky bastards
mdp928 · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One sibling jumps on parents' king-sized bed, while the other sibling takes the biggest pillows and hit the jumper's legs as hard as they could to try and knock their legs out from under them. Ideally as the jumper you would jump away from the pillow when it was swinging. Automatic win if the jumper fell off the bed.
Other game: both siblings would stand near each other at the far end of the living room. One held a throw pillow while the other would sprint for the hallway. Throw the pillow at the runner as hard as you can, try to hit them before they reach the hallway. Automatic win if the runner fell and bit it after being hit.
These games and more are why our mom, recently having found out about them now that we're adults, yelled 'this is why the pillows in my house were always destroyed?!'
Hollowsong · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take turns picking Star Wars ships out of a book, each had its own point value, and we would draw them on our own pieces of construction paper on the far left or far right side of the page.
Then we would pick a few ships to draw little half-inch lines next to, representing it's shot, and put the paper together and use a ruler to draw across the pages to see if anything hit.
Starfighters had 1 or 2 hits before being destroyed, and heavier ships had more (and a few more guns) but also cost more. We'd shoot back and forth until there was a clear winner.
We used to do this stuff all the time. It kills me how I've never bothered to get into board game design now that I'm older.
zombieguts7 · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to have this giant, thick comforter and my brother and I used to wrap ourselves with either end of the comforter and try to knock one another down.
We called it blob wrestling.
otah007 · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Game
The rules are simple: if you think about The Game, you lose The Game. This is usually followed by an exclamation such as "Argh, I just thought about The Game!" which instantly causes all listeners to simultaneously lose The Game. You then all try to remember how long you've been playing, and whoever hasn't thought about The Game for the longest 'wins'. You'll probably remember it a few times over the next few weeks, starting over each time, until eventually it becomes months or years until you remember it again.
For example, I just lost The Game and I've been playing for around a month. My record is around two years, I think.
seabuckle · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All of the kids in my neighborhood basically created a whole fake city in the woods. We all had our own houses made of sticks, used rocks as currency, and everyone owned some kind of business to make money. I sold "paint" made of crushed berries and made custom fountains from old broken bottles and stuff for people's houses.
-Sumanth · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play WWE , except I win everytime.
I_Fucked_With_WuTang · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Manhunt but it had varying rules depending on how many kids we could get in the neighborhood to play.
If it was a large group and we got everyone to join we made two teams. One team would hide in the woods and the other team had to find the others. If you where found inside the woods you were taken to jail. At the jail was a football that anyone who wasnt found yet could sneak up and punt it as far as they can. This allowed for a jailbreak and everyone to escape. No one could be jailed unless the football was on the curb. If you were spotted outside of the woods you could run back into the woods and try to loose the chaser. If you got tagged while on the street then you were out for good.
If we were short on time or players we had another version that was much simpler. Everyone hides except one or two kids who go out to find everyone else. If found you now teamed up to find the remaining players.
hrrrrrrrrrrrrr · 2 points · Posted at 15:03:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My stepkids and their dad play a game called "Man-Bun," where anytime they see a man-bun they punch eachother...similar to "Slug-Bug."
stefans03 · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play a cool tower defence game. I had this oversized chess board as a kid (maybe twice the size of a regular one), and we would spend maybe 10 minutes making cool castles out of dominos on each end, then we would take turns flicking a marble at each other’s and see which one would withstand the most hits. It was super fun, and I loved seeing how the castle would break/or hold on.
cloneofarc · 2 points · Posted at 15:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a rope swing in my grandparents back yard. Me, my brother, and my cousins would play a game where one person would get on the swing and the others would have lassos and they would try to yank them off the swing. Looking back it’s a fucking miracle no one got their necks broken.
patoankan · 2 points · Posted at 15:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does anyone remember the game "steal the bacon"? We played that once on a slip&slide with a 20 lb cow tongue.
markie719 · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Alien.” The game was that the oldest ones of the group of us would be the Aliens and the younger ones would be the humans. The goal was to get from one side of the house to the other, both safe rooms had the lights on. We’d turn off all the lights in the house, then tape like pillows, magazines with the robes or beanies we wore so we didn’t get “infected” before we started. You had to get all the way across the house in total darkness without getting caught by an alien. So, usually, if you heard someone screaming, getting dragged away, you booked it across the house to the safe room.
sloopdoop · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I grew up in scouts and our dad is a pretty good handyman. He would have us look on Google for a sword/gun we liked and then trace, cut, and sand it for us. We also hosted weekly meetings at our house so we'd always get 6-8 other kids to show off our new weapons. Also built a gun rack for the few nerf guns we had. The battles were epic.
Also happy cake day OP!
HvdTillaart · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I spend WAY too much time playing Roller Coaster Tycoon. So whenever I was not at home, and saw square tiles on the floor (just like the game), I would start creating imaginary rollercoasters, strictly conform the RCT rules of segment size.
Problem is, it's been at least15 years since I last played RCT and I still friggin do this. It's an addiction.
horsenbuggy · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Animal Trainer. I do not know why. My cousins and I played it. One of us was the human animal trainer. The others were the animals, typically a variety of big cats. The trainer would have us jump thru a hula hoop (in the den, not outside) or jump over various obstacles. The one boy cousin would almost always be the lion cub named King would not have to perform but would get his head, ears and neck scratched by the trainer while lounging around. Yeah, he had it figured out.
We also did treasure hunts all over the end of the island where my cousins lived ala Romancing the Stone. One would set up the clues and map and the rest would go have an adventure. The derelict boat in the neighbor's yard was almost always referred to as "Noah's Ark."
OMG. An even older, really stupid game I played with my best friend was "Hide the Barbie." That sounds racy, but we were like 6 and 7. One of us would literally hide her Barbie dolls around the room and the other would have to find them. Basically, a live action hidden object puzzle. (Damn, I'm a moderator for the Hidden Object Games subreddit. I didn't put it together that I'd been playing HOGs for so long!) Anyway, my favorite place was to hide her up in the curtain rod area, or just somewhere near the ceiling. We were little and you'd think we couldn't get up there, but we were crafty.
pokexchespin · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a big (like 3 foot tall) Spider-Man plush. With it, we played “hit the Chinese cop” where I’d use the plush as a bat, he’d run at me, get hit by it, and run away, all the while saying shit like “mushu mustache”. Anytime I reflect on my childhood I realize I was definitely racist
someotherlady · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spoons!
It is played with a deck of cards and enough spoons for everyone, minus one spoon.
Players sit in a close circle and are delt 4 cards each.
Each player takes one card from their hand and passes it to the left at the same time. The goal is to get 4 of a kind. Once the first person gets 4 of a kind they grab a spoon. At that point every player may grab a spoon as well. Whoever doesn't get one is out for the rest of the game, kind of like musical chairs.
Sometimes the first person to grab a spoon does so quietly and the others don't notice for awhile. Stealthy players will continue passing cards while the unaware player(s) keep trying to get their 4 of a kind. They finally get it (or not) and suddenly try to get a spoon when they are all gone.
We also played this with pens in high school and called it "Pens".
themangytickler · 2 points · Posted at 15:09:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple friends and I made our own version of d&d. It was way more fun, and way easier. We even made new versions instead of just fantasy. There was a weird space-age one and a Napoleonic era one as well. Still play sometimes
fakerachel · 2 points · Posted at 15:09:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play Time Team, it's a TV show about archaeology where they'd dig up some Iron Age site and explain all the history in a fun accessible way. We mostly found rocks but one time we found part of a drainpipe.
ANDERSON_MISTER · 2 points · Posted at 15:09:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Human hunting.
During the night, a group had to run and hide in the forest and one minute later a guy, alone, had to seek for them with a torch.
We developed crazy camouflage techniques. A guy once hide in a mixed pile of horse shit and disgusting stuff. He was not found for an hour or so.
We still played this awesome scary game at 20 yo.
chey_marie · 2 points · Posted at 15:09:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was one of those infamous horse girls when I was younger, but didn’t have a horse. So, my sister and I would take saw horses our grandparents had, and use twine and horse blankets ( they used to have pack mules) and pretend like they were ponies lol. We also would make “stables” and “riding arenas” out of pine needles, just outlining the general shape they would be lol
Flyb0mb · 2 points · Posted at 15:09:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had quite a few chest boards with a lot of extra peices. I gathered up all the pieces and sorted them by color. I would then line them up like a napoleonic or civil war style linebattle and roll marbles through each line to simulate artillery. Great times
MrsLafone · 2 points · Posted at 18:29:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play this with my dad as a kid but we would use any place piece that could stand and bouncy balls instead of marbles
forensikat · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child so I had quite a few. One of the largest and most expansive "games" was more just my imagination on permanent overdrive. I used to pretend my house was a town. My room was my house, my parents' room was theirs, the bathroom was the spa, the guestroom the hotel. The stairs and hallway was the train and the living room was the movie theater. We even had a fast food place (kitchen) and sit down restaurant (dining room). And of course when I got into Pokemon, my imaginary Pikachu came to live with me and we did battle in the hall.
There was also a tennis court with no nets at the park across the street so it was basically a fenced in concrete slab I could ride my bike around. I pretended it was a never-ending highway and the "exits" led to rest stops. It's really amazing how when you're a kid, you can take what is essentially nothing and turn it into a game.
PotatoAssassiin · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We raced down our condo’s stairs in laundry baskets. The best part was the part was the position of the stairs was far from everything else so our neighbors never got angry
PeasantTsm · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jolly trolley. Basically, we had a plastic wagon, and we used to take turns being the passenger. When we were a passenger, everyone else tried creating a ride for us to go on. This usually involved telling stories, having a guy push the passenger around, and everyone else being characters in our jolly trolley experience. They almost always ended with the jolly trolley being pushed into a pool, for us to have to find a way to take it our before the next rider has a turn.
olenschiff · 2 points · Posted at 15:10:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game with my sister and cousins as a kid. we would put our shoes on a trampoline and jump around and dodge the shoes. If you got hit with one you were "out". We also played don't wake the dragon, popcorn, and this game called "Pain" where we would just wrestle.
jimthissguy · 2 points · Posted at 15:13:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid in the eighties my neighbor's Grandma loves across the street from our two houses. She had like 30 acres, mostly woods with some old abandoned buildings scattered throughout. We used to dress in camo, put on those clear plastic safety goggles from wood shop and play a game we called one pump.
We would shoot at each other with BB guns, but you could only pump it once.
Except for Frances. When you got a shot at Frances, we all pumped like 5 times. Everyone hated Frances.
SavageKinkajou · 2 points · Posted at 15:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hall soccer! Me and my friend used to play a miniature version of soccer in a wider-than average hallway. Some awesome highlights over the years we still reference today
OtterboiGamer · 2 points · Posted at 15:14:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have a best friend that shared my level of imagination and we played all sorts of "stories". Basically we'd take a property we both really liked, each created a list of characters and then played it out. Most of them were like ongoing series; we had a Jurassic Park game about a bunch of people trying to survive the Dinosaurs (we loved playing this one in the rain, heavier the better for raptor attacks); our own Beast Wars transformers game and a Long Walk (short story by Stephen King we both loved) game where we'd walk back and forth in the backyard lawn for hours slowly whittling down our character lists. There were more but those were our favorite three.
Eventually we graduated into creating our entire own story and world, we made character sheets (physical appearance info, short back story and personality) and created a fantasy story for us to play through (we even had wooden swords my dad had made us. It was like larping through a D&D campaign except we had never heard of D&D nor larping).
Eventually we grew up and drifted apart sadly but that was a big boost to what would become my life dream of becoming a writer. The fantasy one we made up is the basis of the fantasy book I'm writing and hopefully one day will publish!
khoise · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Kick The Can”. Someone would kneel down by a can, it was a coffee can, small bucket, or anything else that would work. That person would count to 50 and everyone else would hide. Once they finished counting they would start looking for the others. They would try not to stray too far from the can because they needed to protect it. If they spotted someone they would have to jump over the can and yell “over the can on “kids name”. That person was then out and had to wait for everyone else to be out. The trick was to hide in a really good spot close to the can so that when the “it” person walked far enough away you could make a break for it and kick the can before they were able to jump over it and yell “over the can” on you. We would play this game for hours everyday of summer.
Bimmy249 · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and friends would play a game called "Vampire Hunter". Played best with 4 (2 Vampires, 1 Vampire Hunter, and 1 Human). The human would hide in a pitch black room with the hunter. The 2 Vampires would then enter the room with the sole intent of turning the human. This consisted of pinning the human down and using two fingers as "fangs" to suck his blood. The Hunter's goal was to pin the vampires down and drive an imaginary stake through the heart of the vampires. In pitch black, someone always ended up getting hurt, yet all my friends wanted to do when they came over my house was play it. We still talk about it to this day and it must have been 15 years since we last played.
Husky121221 · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play this advanced hide and seek game where the seeker has to find everyone and the hiders try to sneak up behind them and tap them on the head. If they got tapped on the head, the round would end. After 7 rounds of getting tapped on the head, the seeker would have to marry an ant as punishment. I grew up in rural Bangladesh.
Awesomesweet · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a game called Boba Fett, and we’d play this with anyone who would come over to our house.
We had this massive, octagonal gymnastics foam thing with handles that you could sit inside when it was on its side (looked like a giant foam nut that would fit on a bolt). We would take a flat foam mat, and fit it through the opening, and when you did this it would look like a shitty version of Bob Fett’s Slave 1.
The goal of the game was that someone would sit in the Slave 1 on top of the horizontal foam mat, and everyone else would do their best to destroy it and knock the person out of it. Whoever was able to knock them out of the Slave 1, would get to go inside and be Boba Fett next.
We were so weak and shitty, that it was a legit struggle to knock over this massive foam device. Plus that person could do whatever they wanted to keep inside (balance with their feet, grip the handles, kick away whoever was trying to climb inside). We would do things like climb on top of it, whip balls at it (meteors), and hit it with sticks (our lightsabers). We liked to have fun.
BerdaWerd · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Stair game.
Playfield- set of stairs with cement squares leading to sidewalk. Preferably 3 squares leading to the sidewalk representing 1st and 2nd base. The sidewalk is 3rd base, and grass is a foul ball and the street is a home run.
The batting player stands at the base of the stairs, winds up and throws a tennis ball on the stairs with the goal of having it bounce back to the street.
Defensive player stands on 3rd base and has to cstch the ball before it touches the ground.
Scoring worked like baseball with a similar inning system.
Ryan739 · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I discovered that if I went out on a dry summer night and shone a flishlight around, I'd see blue and green sparks everywhere. Turns out, these were the reflections of wolf spiders' eyes. My mom and I would find a spark and follow it to look at the spider up close. We called it spider shining.
Iwouldfucklolabunny · 2 points · Posted at 15:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Spider-Man, we’d clime up the walls in the narrow basement hallway and hang parallel to the ceiling and wait for our “villain” (dad) to come past and then drop down and attack him.
TheDildosaur · 2 points · Posted at 15:18:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play D&D but irl. So instead of rolling the dice the game master ruled everything and we all acted our characters. We had made weapons and items and really pushed the role play aspect. It was really fun, but our school forbade the game because it was "too violent".
littleee · 2 points · Posted at 15:27:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my friend and I were 11 we started playing a game pretending we were witches. The intent was to trick my friend’s little sister, who was 8, that we really were witches. We made up different characters that would possess our bodies. Each character had their own voice, family, story line, etc. We created a witch academy, a language, tv shows, commercials, movies all from this witch world. We also did extravagant things to prove our powers, like climbing out of the second floor window and setting up magic tricks to make it seem like we had power. My friend’s little sister really believed we were witches and believed she was in a witch academy to become a witch. This continued for years. The story line continued to grow and her sister got married and had children in the witch world. We had an unhealthy level of control over her because she was afraid of the leader of the witch world (who would possess my body and talk through me). Her little sister became obsessed and after 3 years we were ready to end the game. We told her that the witch world was fake and at this point had to prove it was fake. She refused to believe it was fake and kept repeating, “you’re tricking me!” And was so angry. We were unable to convince her it was fake so we continued for another year. At this point she was 12 and we again tried to tell her it was fake. She didn’t believe it but we stopped playing the game and when she was a teenager she finally realized that she had been living in a false reality for years. She’s still bitter to this day.
TL;DR: My friend and I created a extravagant witch world to trick her little sister. This continued for four years and when we tried to explain “witch world” was fake she refused to believe it.
dekuscrubbin · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “ouchy butt game”
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dekuscrubbin · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks!
hnefatafl · 2 points · Posted at 15:30:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the 70's, my dad was involved in a lot of renos, and sometimes our carport became a holding place for Stuff. As kids we discovered that a sink cut-out from laminate counter tops slid really well on asphalt. So we'd sit on them and race down the hills. Or hammer nails into them and tie them behind our bikes. We caused a lot of damage to ourselves, a couple of cars, and the neighbour's house at the bottom of the hill.
Ashangu · 2 points · Posted at 15:30:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Take a broom stick and a bouncy ball, use broom stick like pool stick to hit the bouncy ball into a cup I've placed somewhere in the house.
Like a mixture of pool and golf, but with a cup, broom, and bouncy ball.
Called it spheda, named after the golf style game from dark cloud 2. Lol
Yakkahboo · 2 points · Posted at 15:30:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tiggy Football was the game we played on my schoolyard, and I havent heard anyone mention it so I'll do my best to describe the action that took place almost 20 years ago.
So, it's a game of football (soccer) with no ball. Standard tag rules apply, except the person was it was the person with the ball, so people were trying to get them.
Typical English schoolyard had a netball court painted onto it, so that was the field of play, the large D at either end was the box, and the goal was the width of the D on the by-line. (so pretty fucking wide).
2 teams, one person had the ball and you had to run through the goal. Simple. Quite impressive that we didn't break down into squabbling all the time due to tracking of the ball, it was pretty concise in fact.
Now, the best part of the game were free kicks. The game wasn't physical (we were playing on tarmac or laminate indoors so nobody wanted to go down) so we had a standard procedure of penalisation to discourage rough behavior.
When it came to the free kick, the entire team who had been awared the kick would come together and at this stage the ball would become hidden. When the free kick was taken, all the players would start moving, either attempting to mislead that they had the ball when they didn't or act inconspicuous to hide the ball when they were actually in possession. This lead to some epic moments of people sneaking through the team because the defenders were trying to coordinate who had been covered by defensive tagging or not.
Anyways, stupid game, but when you had no ball, its amazing what a group of 8 year olds would do to improvise.
Leo9ine · 2 points · Posted at 15:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game that would now no doubt be banned is something that us school kids used to play every break time back in my school days from around 1955.
All kids owned penknives and the sharper and smaller the better for the game.
On smooth patches of mud in the playground we’d mark out a square (perhaps 18” x 18” or so) and one of two players would throw his knife (or drop it point first) so that the blade would stick in the soil. Following the line of the blade the square would be cut into two with the thrower claiming his chosen half – usually the larger half.
He’d then throw his knife into the smaller half, with the line of the blade again defining a line that would cut the ‘territory’ in two – the thrower again claiming the bigger portion.
With each throw one part of the line would be erased so that the ‘land’ was added to the bigger share.
Eventually he’d miss and then the second player would have to throw his knife to stick into his smaller patch of mud (to reclaim his territory) – if he failed to stick his knife in his land then he’d lose immediately.
Once having reclaimed his portion he’d be clear to repeat the knife-throwing to regain territory and hopefully to oust his opponent, with the battle ebbing and flowing for ages sometimes. The winner was the one who cut his opponents territory into a tiny piece, too small for the opponent to successfully spear with his own knife throw.
I never remember any game reverting to bloodshed despite us all owning knives and it was a great game of skill and concentration that kept us occupied for many a school break.
Indivith · 2 points · Posted at 15:41:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to play "football soccer" when we were in elementary school during the breaks we had to play outside. Mostly during the winter though, the game was basically soccer but with could push and tackle each others since there was snow everywhere and that we thought we would be invisible or something because of it. Needless to say me and my friends never regretted our games.
PNWolf · 2 points · Posted at 15:42:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Remember when you were 6? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window, you were going to play doctor?
drift_summary · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pepperidge Farm remembers!
Hydra_fresh · 2 points · Posted at 15:42:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to put tiny candy/gum wrappers in my nostril and shoot them out really far until it got stuck one day
cohen14722 · 2 points · Posted at 15:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up Mormon, and there were always lessons at church about how the “mobs” chased the Mormons out of Missouri. My best friend and I would make elaborate scenarios where we were running and hiding around the neighborhood to escape the “mob”. My friend was not Mormon and had no idea what the “mob” was. Maybe she thought we were pretending to escape the mafia?
Edit: we to were
pucksrage · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clench my left buttcheek and then my right
ofcourseimhere · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a rural area growing up, and there were a couple other families with kids nearby. All the families had sit-on lawnmowers because we had big gardens. Everyone would drive them along the country lanes to my field, so there'd be 8ish of us and 3 mowers. We'd cut a race track in the long grass then have lawnmower races, or cut a road network and pretend we were driving cars through busy streets to run errands. We even incorporated them into a game of cops and robbers once where I was a robber in a stolen vehicle on the run and they were police cars trying to catch me. Amazing what your imagination can come up with!
wholverine2 · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate rock, paper, scissors.
Whoever won got to hit the loser/losers (respecting each hand played) in the 3 different ways. If you lost, you get either: -slapped on the wrist with two fingers for losing to scissors -slapped on the inside of your forearm for losing to paper -punched between the bicep/tricep for losing to rock. Obviously, since I played it back in high school, no one held back. We'd cut class just to play it and sometimes there were 5 at the same time. Yeah, we walked away purple and red-raw all up our arms...
H4PPYGUY · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Pokemon battles" we had in primary school where we would just shout out random moves for our "pokemon" (other kids) to do and usually ended up with one of the Pokemon getting punched by the move tackle.
USApwnKorean · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who could win the most money in the stock market with pretend money
MrPlow47 · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I used to play a game where we'd take turns hiding different dice around the house then the other would have to sneak through without breaking line of sight of the dice. If you walked in front of a die that you hadn't spotted, you took whatever value was on the face of the die in damage. We'd have a set amount of HP and if you took too much damage, your turn was over. It was super fun, super simple, and I had a blast playing it. Note - we used a full range of what I later learned were dice for D&D - D4 through D20. IIRC, my dad also had a D100 that would one-shot you if you didn't catch it first.
Tha_Funky_Homosapien · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, maybe 6 or 6, we lived at the bottom of a hill in the desert. So whenever it would rain, it would rain pretty hard and the street gutters would fill up and get a good flow to them.
Me and my brother would find small sticks and drop them into the gutter at the top of the hill and race them down the hill.
Good times.
isis1231 · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The annoying car noise game. Seeing who can make the most irritating sound. One time my mum pulled over and made me walk the rest of the way home so I guess I won?
92til--- · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I played croquet, but thru the swingset in the backyard. Lots of high chips to get the balls up into the monkey bars and thru the swings etc.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava!
ThereTheDogIsBuried · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't know if this counts cuz we were in high school, but...
Killer Golf
We did a golf unit in high school, not because we were hoity toity or anything, but because field space for PE classes was at a premium and golf putting could be practiced in the grassy medians by the parking lot. Half of our class stayed on one side of the building with it teacher, and the rest of us were trusted (why?!) to go around to the other side by ourselves. Well walking around putting whiffle balls at nothing in particular got real boring real fast, so we swapped to Killer Golf. You just hit whiffle balls at each other. If you hit someone you get a point. If you get hit you lose a point. Honor system scoring.
When even that got boring we'd switch to Golf Gardening. Hit tufts of grass with your golf club and try to get the mud and grass to stick to the side of the school. No scoring involved.
BluShirtGuy · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we played a game we called "Foot Hockey". Basically hockey rules, but with a tennis ball and we kicked it around. It was a weird amalgamation of rules and equipment from varying sports.
Goalies would don a baseball mitt, or they could use their jacket if they totally sucked. They could toss the ball if they saved it.
Middle school is when we found out not everyone plays this game, since we combined junior schools together. Then Foot Hockey took over middle school.
Some of us didn't get picked for teams (myself included), and we ended up playing Foot hockey in 2 ft. high snow in the recess fields. Turns out that that was way more fun, and the player base got split between the two games.
jimmy_d1988 · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would stay at my buddy zacs house and his big brother would watch us. so that meant we could do whatever we wanted. it was sweet.
so what we did was play the car game. his house was by this huge old church where you could run from the street and hide in its shadows pretty quickly.
the game consisted of throwing paper airplanes with taco bell packets in them at cars so hopefully ... i dunno they would run them over or something... i think it was being out at 2-4 in the morning that was the fun part.
anyways we got the police called on us i remember. we told them we were just playing around so nothing happened.
this was in 1999 2000 i think
i_am_umbrella · 2 points · Posted at 15:51:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived next door to two of my cousins so we made up all kinds of shit. A game that sticks out most is one of us would sit on the couch and throw one of those plastic quarter machine aliens somewhere onto the living room floor. The rest of us has to crawl around blindfolded until someone found it. Cannot believe there were no concussions.
MyloWilliams · 2 points · Posted at 15:55:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game we made up called assassin: there would be about 5-7 of us who played at once. We would all stand in a circle and everyone had to slap the person standing to their left.
We would agree on boundaries (usually a large playground or whatever) and everyone would get 60 seconds before starting.
Once the game starts, a natural flow would start where you're chasing somebody while running away from somebody else. If you got slapped, you would tell the slipper who your target was, and they would become their new target. If slapped you would sit out for 5-10 minutes before re entering the game and picking a random person as your new target.
It was pretty insane cardio, and the place would usually played it was at this huge 3 story wooden playground at night. There were some badass moments of jumping or climbing huge gaps to get away from somebody. In hide sight it wasn't the most safe game, but boy was it a blast.
brfoss · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a newly constructed condo. There was a 2-story pile of dirt nearby. My buddy and I would grab refrigerator boxes from the new construction, haul them up the hill, climb inside, and roll down the hill. Repeat until box demolished. Switch to next box.
Real Beavis and Butthead stuff.
Joewags116 · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the finger with my uncle.....
mike_hockenballs · 2 points · Posted at 15:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my Friends mom and I would gather up all the hangers in the house and stand at the top of the stairs and call my friend over, We would then proceed to launch all the hangers down the stairs causing an avalanche of hangers on my friend.
cray_onss · 2 points · Posted at 15:59:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone play "Town" as a kid? Our bikes were our cars, rocks were our money. Our garages in the neighborhood were stores. I specifically remember writing down speed limits on the road with chalk. It was a good time. Except for that one time I went over the speed limit and got a ticket.
Flippinwarrior21 · 2 points · Posted at 15:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school my friends and I would play a game called suicide. Basically you would throw a ball against a wall and you would have to catch it. If you dropped it everyone would start to punch you until you touched the wall.
mikecws91 · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Stress Ball. We had to throw a stress ball into one of those huge plastic pretzel jars on the floor from like 8 feet away. Scoring was baseball style—9 innings for each side, 1 point for each make, and 3 outs (misses). If the ball hit the lip but didn't go in, it didn't count as an out, unless the other player (standing behind the jar) caught it before it hit the floor.
Even as an adult, this game is impossibly hard because the opening in the jar is barely larger your average stress ball. About half of all games went to extra innings tied 0-0. Eventually we ditched extra innings in favor of a shootout where we progressively moved closer to the jar. There's nothing more embarrassing than standing right over it, dropping the ball straight down, and still missing.
ragnarok628 · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Roofball. We had a trampoline and a Nerf football, so the game was to throw the ball up onto the roof from the trampoline and try to be the one who came down with it as it feel off the roof. The roof was L-shaped, and you know how footballs take weird bounces, so there was a decent amount of randomness with where it would come down. Obviously this is a no holds barred type of situation, we're all trying to get as much air as possible so as to either reach the ball first or midair tackle the one who did. You only get the point of you can actually hang onto the ball long enough to re-establish yourself, there's no whistle to blow the play dead or whatever so just getting the ball is at most half the battle.
It was really freaking fun though
adiboi67 · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I LOVED the Splinter Cell games. Only problem was that there was this super cool multiplayer mode in the later games, but they removed it from the GameCube versions that I got. 12-year-old me didn't let this stop him so my friends and I played "Splinter cell" at my house all the time, which was basically a real life version of Spies vs Mercs from the game. The spies would 'spawn' outside my house, and would have to extract a 'package' inside the house. Obviously we had to make a bunch of tweaks to make it fair, like making there be a lot more Spies than Mercs, but it actually worked pretty well!
fullrackferg · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brother at the bottom of the stairs, me at the top. Hide from me throwing a spanner at him under a quilt. Yes... this ended exactly as you think. He had his head glued in hospital. Also used to play a game called "roofy". I know how it sounds, but it was gang up tig on empty derelict houses roofs. Once my mate fell through the roof, 1st floor and landed in the living room. Actually was unharmed. I now realiae how dangerous these games were. All we have to show for it is a few scars and wonderful memories!
AutisticBluBerry · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme wrestling on a bed. Fingers were broken
imanAholebutimfunny · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roffie Roulette
Onlyhereforthelaughs · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We called it Quiddich because we had read/watched Harry Potter, but it was really just a simplified soccer with the fences in our backyard as goals, and one of those huge walmart balls for $2.50.
Kicking over the fence was a negative point.
Onikojima · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
F-Zero
whats_the_tea_ · 2 points · Posted at 16:06:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stealing mangos from the neighbors mango tree with my brother
xPIRATE62x · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay so this one is kinda cool and I don’t know of anyone else who plays this one. So basically on any car ride if you focus your vision right, it will look like every speck on the window splits in two. What I would do is play a game where I would pick a speck and try my best for the speck to touch the air and only the air. I’d blink my eyes to “teleport” it either above or below power lines, or straight past the telephone poles. If your speck touched anything, find another and play again.
Quesora · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Horse Apple Tag in the creek. You grab those big green apple looking things and throw them at each other while running through a creek of nasty water. It was pain. It was pleasure.
xthebigbean · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would shoot a potato straight up in the air from a potato launcher and just hit the ground and lay on our bellies waiting for the potato to land. Whoever got hit, lost.
MiserableSprinkles · 2 points · Posted at 16:09:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my brother and my sister played this game where we made some fake money, devided that money equally and then called dibs on the rooms of the house. For example somebody got the living room where the tv was and called it the cinema. If you wanted to watch something you had to pay. Someone else got the kitchen, for every meal there was a "price". And so on..
We used to play it 24/7 for weeks and see who made the most money out of all. Usually it was my brother maybe because he was older.
moneysock52 · 2 points · Posted at 16:11:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get hurt or don’t get hurt, the goal of the game was to do something and see if you got hurt. I always went first
LE60Blockhead · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hug terminator. Kind of like tag but you have to hug them.
No homo
cjdudley · 2 points · Posted at 16:14:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "Car." We stood or knelt on the couch looking out the window (which was behind the couch), and if a car went by we'd yell "CAR!" and duck down so no one looking in the window could see us. Then when we thought the car had gone by, we'd pop back up and look out the window again.
Aatah69 · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At school me and my friends used to belly flop, among other things, from 8 feet up onto snow... Sometimes the snow was hard, sometimes it was soft but we sure didn't care
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The cousins and I would make a mini hotel in our grandmother’s playroom, making a triple decker bed with someone sleeping under the air hockey table, someone on top of it and me, being the eldest, on a table we’d prop on top of the hockey table (the safety here was questionable, thank god the parents rarely checked up on us). We’d make a fake currency out of sticky notes and trade the toys and teddy bears. Good days, thanks for the childhood nostalgia OP!
troc321 · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 8 brothers. We made up a game where one would stand at the bottom of the steps and the other at the top. The one at the bottom had the ball and the one at the top was the “target”. The one at the top would start on one side of the hall and call out an animal name (turtle) at which point they had to mimic the animal and cross the doorway at the tops of the steps. Upon crossing the doorway, the bottom brother’s goal was to hit the top brother with the ball- winner winner. No one ever hit the Cheetah.
bwell1211 · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Army. Basically we’d dress in full garage-sale-purchased camo gear (rag tag pieces of actual military surplus and hunting gear). Then we’d head to the woods for some epic hide and seek action
marjerbar · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In preschool, my friend and I would re-enact Alice in Wonderland. But we would only get up to the scene where she gets big and cant fit in the door. We never picked up where we left off the next and would just start over the next day.
deadwoodknots · 2 points · Posted at 16:16:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I (F) would take turns tying eachother up and trying to houdini out of it. Also we had a "slave for a day" thing where usually it was not the game itself- it was usually used as a bargaining chip. Essentially I would be my sister's bitch (getting her drinks etc) for a day for whatever reason, usually for losing a different game. Fast forward 20 years -I'm highly submissive in everything I do -.-
ediblenailpolish · 2 points · Posted at 16:19:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would play “mermaid” in the pool, which besides the obvious awful wiggly mermaid swimming we did, we also would do regular old mermaid chores like laundry, meaning we would take clothes from inside her house, get them wet in the chlorine pool, scrape them against a large decor boulder at the edge of the pool “to clean them,” all the while humming and singing “mermaid songs.”
Her mom was understandably pissed when she realized that we were destroying the family’s clothing in our imaginary lagoon.
ITS_10_PM · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growtopia, the game where I made very close friends to me even till now, had so many fun memories.
Tsquaredp · 2 points · Posted at 16:24:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doorknob Basically if you ever farted around friends and didn't call safety immediately someone else could call doorknob and you were free game to get punched, tackled, hit, whatever until you touched a doorknob.
This resulted in many fun memories. One time we were all at a friend's house sleeping on the living room floor. Early in the morning someone let out a squeeker and tried to roll over and go back to sleep. I called doorknob softly and the whole room erupted. The fart criminal tried to get up and run upstairs to the only doorknob in the house (front door) as everyone else grabbed a leg or hand or whatever and held him down and punched him for a few minutes.
Occasionally we'll all be together and someone will drop ass and get a doorknob called and a group of grown men go chasing each other around the bar or wherever.
helmet098 · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava tag on the local playground play structure.
IT person was lava immune.
It would involve a lot of running, jumping, swinging and climbing in areas you were not normally meant to be.
If you hit the ground, you were auto it.
Basically, we just chased the slow kid until he tripped and fell.
A lot of bashed shins and eating shit. Good times.
mangoglasses · 2 points · Posted at 16:25:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad bought a shed for our backyard when I was in third grade I thought that it would be a good idea to name it “Aunt Millie’s Shed” and invite my best friend over to hide and gossip amongst the lawnmower, weed clippers, and gasoline tanks.
My backyard is also lined with large rocks/boulders that had appealing, shiny “crystals” or geodes exposed in the boulders. And my shed conveniently also provided a wooden hammer and a sledgehammer.
So every day after school, my best friend and I would go outside with those hammers and pound the shit out of those boulders to gradually hack off chunks of pretty “crystals” wearing sunglasses and aprons for “protection.”
We called it “mining.” My parents called it “natural selection.”
themeatloafiest · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Along with my younger brother, my friend, and my friend's younger sister, I used to play what we called the Village Game. We'd each choose a profession, like smith or farmer, and then act out daily chores. We had an economy going too, where we'd trade our products or services to each other. So basically a somewhat medieval fantasy inspired role playing game. This was around the same time we all played Runescape together too.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This answer is gonna be buried, but that's too bad cuz my older brother and I would play the weirdest fucking "games" when we were kids. There were so many. I'll just describe two of them.
First, when we were really young (I was like 5 or 6, he's a couple years older) we would play a game he made up called "Cinnamon". Basically, how it worked is that we would sit across from each other on a couch facing one another. We would clasp hands and each of us would put our right foot into the other's crotch. We'd then pump our feet into the other person's nuts while chanting "cinnamon, cinnamon, cinnamon..." and the first person to start laughing would be the loser. I don't think Cinnamon got played too many times, actually, but I've told so many people about it that it's attained a bit of a legendary status with my friend group. One night at the bar there was a big group of us on the patio and a rousing game of Cinnamon got started amongst my coworkers. Some random stranger was watching and asked what the hell we were doing. When he heard the rules of the game he decided he wanted to play, too! It was surreal watching a bunch of fully-grown people that were supposedly adults all sitting around chanting "cinnamon" while pumping away at each other's crotches with their feet.
Another one that I remember playing quite a few times was "Catch 'em by Instinct," which was closer to an actual game than "Cinnamon" ever was. We'd play this when I was like 11 or 12. The way that Catch 'em by Instinct worked is that we would take our two gerbils (Laverne and Shirley) out of their cage and set them loose in the computer room. We'd then turn off all the lights so it was pitch black in there. Then I would crawl around on my hands and knees searching for the gerbils and try to catch them. Occasionally, if there was too much of a lull in the action, my brother would flip the light switch on just to laugh at me with my ear pressed into the ground trying to listen to where the gerbils were. I got bit a lot, but at the end of the day it was a surprisingly fun game.
Other classic games include:
"One Man to Beat... Mike Tice!", "Sorry Sir, Real Fur", "Army Dog", "Killer Grandma", "The Forest of Olivia" and many others.
tehghettosmurf · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I really want to play "Catch 'em by Instinct" sometime.
hugepolishsausage · 2 points · Posted at 16:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my two siblings used to play kickbutt on our trampoline. We'd spend hours just kicking at each other, trying to land a butt shot. Sometimes keeping score, sometimes not. Surprisingly, it only resulted in one broken arm after three years.
jaisies · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had some (albeit less violent) trampoline games too.
In the summer we’d fill up a water balloon, place it on the trampoline, and start jumping. If it burst on you, you were out. We’d continue with another water balloon until there was only one person left. The “harder” version of the game involved several balloons at once.
We also played one in which one of us would curl up into a ball in the centre of the trampoline. Everyone else would jump around you until you couldn’t hold yourself curled up anymore.
Good times.
hugepolishsausage · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh we definitely played played the second game you mentioned, I just can't remember what we called it. Trampolines were endless fun, and sweet to take naps on after I got older!
scarney996 · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasnt so much a game as a different way I used a toy. All through my elementary school we had the wooden shape block things. All the other kids I saw would just kinda stack them. I would take them and lay them flat in these giant symmetrical as possible mosaics. One time a teacher took a picture of one and hung it on the wall for the rest of the year. I was pretty proud of that lol
Hamburgra · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play ‘Tarzanning,’ where one was a movie director explaining a very difficult action set piece: now you have to swing over this ravine, then fight these crocodiles en then rescue the maiden, etc. The other was an idiotic actor playing Tarzan, who would inevitably, halfway through the course (the swing in my parents garden), mess up and feed the maiden to the crocodiles and fall into the ravine or something. The director them had a breakdown and yell about how many meters of film had been ruined.
We usually played it waiting for our parents to get the car out of the garage if we had to go somewhere, so it was a great way to pass a few minutes.
Vitholf · 2 points · Posted at 16:32:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister and I played "Henry."
I played the part of Henry, an obedient dog, while my sister was the master. I'd fetch her toys and bring her refreshments while panting and wiggling my ass like a dog.
leminadefoxx · 2 points · Posted at 16:33:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sis would mix drink (nonstop sodas) together and then pretended to die. Fun times, scared my mom coming home once tho lol
espritsoleil · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Musquatch”: basically a game of make-believe where you could be anyone from any show, movie, game, etc. and you had to commit to the character and blend the worlds of all the difference characters and play out how they would interact. It was really fun until we all got greedy and started making lists of who could play which characters... it ruined the flow of things.
PIP_SHORT · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wolverine".
It was basically tag+punching. We all pretended we had Wolverine claws, so if you punch the other buddy in the leg, they can't use the leg anymore. Punch him in the arm, he's a one-armed man. If you lose all your arms and legs you "die" and had to run to the jungle gym to be "reincarnated" so you can play again.
It was 30-ish years ago and I still remember a kid named Matthew punching REALLY hard.
goat_papi · 2 points · Posted at 16:36:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to throw rocks at each other and whoever bled was out. Last one in was the victor and nobody fucked with them.
abbott_costello · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I went to this one friend’s house (between the ages of 5-8) we’d always play this game called The Claw with his dad. Essentially we’d just run around the yard at night trying to avoid “The Claw” which was my friend’s dad who would tickle us when caught. He’d play into it the character a lot and it was possibly my favorite game at the time until I got a concussion on my friend’s 8th birthday right before the biggest Claw game yet. I never did play it after that...
Bezerka413 · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That is in the movie, "Liar, Liar" with Jim Carrey.... I do it to my niblings.
CroustiBat · 2 points · Posted at 16:42:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play "The Bomb" in my pool with my brothers and neighbors.
Everyone starts outside of the pool and jumps at the same time. You have to get out as fast as possible and tag the other players by splashing them when jumping in the pool. When tagged, a splashed player had to go in the middle of the pool where they couldn't stand and count to ten. If splashed when counting, add 10. You can put your head underwater as much as you want.
The stairs were a "safe zone" where you could get out without getting tagged (but couldn't stay there more than 5 seconds), or you could try getting out as fast a possible from one of the sides.
We got extremely good at splashing people from across the pool, jumping feet forward and hitting the water at almost a horizontal angle, kicking water in a line. We invented so many different technique to splash people in front of you, behind you, on the sides, and so many acrobatics would come out of it.
My favorite part was when 3 -4 people ended in a Mexican standoff outside of the pool until some ran like crazy and pulled the trigger. It was a really intense game we would play for hours.
Not sure my dad enjoyed topping the pool of every day though :)
isjustwrong · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can.
It was like hide and seek mixed with literally kicking a can.
Over the 4th of July week, our family would all pile into the minivan and head to the family cottage in Connecticut. Every summer we went and every summer we played kick the can. We had to make sure we had a giant can of beans or tomatoes when we showed up because that was the can we used for the whole week.
The person who was it basically counted as everyone ran and hid. If they saw someone they had to run and touch the can and call the person out. If someone ran by and kicked the can, everyone was free. The round ended when everyone was caught.
I think it was just another way to keep the kids busy and tired for an afternoon, but it worked.
Desfeek · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in a gang-infested neighborhood. The other kids and I would play "drive-by", where we would hit the deck any time a passing car would cruise past.
IlikeFOODmeLikeFOOD · 2 points · Posted at 16:46:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"hunt". One kid would be the fox, the rest of the kids would be hunters with airsoft guns. The fox would get a head start and run into the woods while the hunters tried to "kill" him. The fox was allowed to tackle hunters, set traps, and scheme with other hunters. It's amazing no one got hurt
ThePandazz · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turn off all the light in a room and fight the best you could
Herthen9903 · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fisher price great adventures castle. My god the memories
Vaedur · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our kitchen had two entrances. We’d block them with couch cushions and the four kids (with no parental supervision) would divide up all the shoes and we’d chuck them back and forth at each other ! Shoe fight!!
SlothTheHeroo · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know I’m pretty late but I have a few!
My friends had a dogeball and a trampoline with a net around it. We would throw the ball in and all start jumping. We would try to not get hit by the ball. We would also attempt to make it bounce in a way that it would attack others. You couldn’t touch it at all otherwise you were out.
My cousin and I LOVED Yu-Gi-Oh we were little during its prime. We each had multiple decks and dual disks. We would run around my grandmas house during the summer pretending we were in the shadow realm fighting off people. The worst when one of us “turned evil” and we had a dual to end it all!
On the days I was alone I would go and find a decent wand size stick and pretend I was in the Harry Potter world. I would run around my yard shouting spells and acting like I was apart of the dark lords army. My imagination used to be so big when I was younger. Now it’s just gray and dull.
These are the days I relive in my head over and over as I work my 8:30-5PM job.
moonkatt · 2 points · Posted at 16:48:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my old house we had a long hallway leading to the master bedroom and my dad used to make me an obstacle course by turning furniture over and setting things in a certain place so I’d have to run and jump over or around them as fast as I could. It was so much fun and a great way to keep an only child occupied! Good memories :)
Trainee1985 · 2 points · Posted at 16:49:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Velociraptor attack: requires 5-30 kids and a platform with a ramp
One kid is designated the 'velociraptor' (dinosaur noises non-optional). The remaining participants stand on a raised surface which must have a ramp. The velociraptor starts at the bottom of the ramp and must drag any of the victims from the platform to the bottom of the ramp. Once successful the person who is dragged off becomes the new velociraptor
moonlitshadows · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister, and my dad used to play a game we called Steamroller. We'd all lay down wherever we were and just roll over each other. It sounds dumb now, but damn was it fun.
ruderat · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cows in the Cemetery. We traveled a lot, so to keep us busy we played cows in the cemetery. Each person counts the cows on their side of the car and when you pass a cemetery on your side you start counting from zero again. Kept us occupied for hours when we were little. FYI, Wisconsin has lots of cows and a fair number of cemeteries as well.
RonnieNissan · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game Called Qari. The game worked like this
You hit a a stick of wood, that's raised on one side, with a bat to throw it in the air, them hit at again whilst being in the air as far as you can.
The a member of the competing team would have to go fine the stick, take it back to where it is whilst running and screening Qariiiiiii... At the same time.
Failing to throw the stick too far would make the team lose a point
Not being able to keep screaming Qariiii while running would also result in a lost point.
I miss this game so much
roborean · 2 points · Posted at 16:55:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m super late to the party, but oh well. Hoping someone else may come along with a similar story.
My siblings and I used to play a game we called “Monster”. We would play it outside when our parents had guests over, since it requires multiple cars to be in our driveway.
The whole premise was a game of tag, and the “Monster” was it. You stayed within the driveway looking for the other players. But the other players had the benefit of being able to look underneath the cars in order to see where the Monster was and stay away (The Monster was “too big” to be able to lay down and get back up so they weren’t allowed to see under the cars).
This lead to some crazy tactics like the Monster hiding behind the wheels of cars or holding themselves up on the back bumper so the other players couldn’t find them. Some of the best fun we had growing up was playing this silly little game.
judyclimbs · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m an only child so I played board games as both players. Sometimes I cheated a little so “I” could win. 😉
fdtc_skolar · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A variation of mumblety peg. It involved two people alternatively tossing a pocket knife into the ground (sometimes stupid close to feet). The game is mentioned in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer; Detective". Can't see parents today allowing what we did in the 1950's.
TeLoBecchi · 2 points · Posted at 16:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin sister and I would always play "that game".
It was basically just a make believe game that we would pick up and play where we last left off. We both had husbands and children and it would make supermarket and DIY store trips with our parents fun, as we would pretend we were shopping for our own "family".
We must have kept it going for years and I still remember that she had twin boys and one of them was allergic to onions. Ill have to ask her how much she remembers. We are 22 now.
xxBeatrixKiddoxx · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mermaid in the pool. Keep our feet super tight together and do the stupid dolphin flip at the top of the water and dive down deep
SilverishSilverfish · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time during dinner, a pharmaceutical ad played on the TV and when they listed off "Loose oily stools and the inability to control them" as a possible side effect, we all lost our shit laughing at it.
Since then, it became something of a game to work that phrase into conversation during dinner. Whoever got it in first was a winner, but credit was also given for the most creative use.
GunnieGraves · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Dad and I came up with a game called “slappy ball”. It involved a slightly under inflated soft bouncy ball, I think from a fisher price basketball game, and sitting cross legged in my room, slapping the ball around the room as hard as possible. The ball was very soft so nothing broke, but you weren’t allowed to get up to hit it. You could only hit from a sitting position or a lean. Eventually my brother got old enough for it to become a 3 person game and it was fucking chaos. How we never broke anything is beyond me.
DJRIPPED · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midnight Turtle
Just hide and seek the pitch black basement.
sonictrash · 2 points · Posted at 16:57:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
RULER. My cousin and I would take turns hiding army/action/cowboy/etc. figures in a bedroom without the other person looking—using rumpled blankets and any other items as hiding places. The rule was that once the room was “set,” you couldn’t change it. Then we’d use a ruler to play. A figure could go one ruler length, while a figure on horseback could go two ruler lengths, and you would take turns striking down your opponent. That’s why it was best to stay hidden. The winner was the “ruler.” I’m still impressed that a couple of 7-year-olds came up with that double entendre.
some1wholikesmemes · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would play "butt-tag". We played it on a playground installation thing (idk the word) and were not allowed to touch the ground. We made a couple stepping stones with our shoes and that was it. It made for a fun game, because when you're only allowed to tag on the behind, it becomes a lot harder, but because we couldn't touch the ground you could get trapped on the ends... It basically meant we were climbing all over the place, trying not to get tagged.
SmoulderBoulder · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There are4 siblings total, and when our parents were gone we would go into their room and play "Pigshark". 3 of us would get on the bed, turn off the lights and close all windows, and the 4th one is the "Pigshark" making snorting sounds and circling the bed on all fours or crouching in the dark trying to "get" you. Whoever is "got" is the next Pigshark. A mix between tag, hide and seek, and that crocodile teeth game.
PoonOnTheMoon314 · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to live near a farm and the farmer was a close family friend. My buddies and I would go out in the field after the hay was baled with paintball guns. Now this is when we were about 10-12 years old and the hay bales were over 6 feet tall.
The game started out with everyone but one person on bales and you had to jump from bale to bale. If you fell off the bale the person on the ground could unload the paintball gun on you until you got back up on a bale. And if you stayed on a bale for longer than 10 seconds you would get shot until you jumped to a new bale.
Many welts came about from this game.
hoytstuff · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "dog catcher." We would take the dog leash (the basic kind of thick study fabric, not a fancy retractable kind with a super thin line) and loop the length of it through the handle making a sort of lasso trap. The catcher would hide around the corner of the couch and the rest of us dogs would take turns crawling on all fours and "accidentally" step in the leash trap with a hand or foot. The catcher would try to pull the trap, tightening it. If it caught the dog's "paw," the dog would try to crawl away while the catcher tried to hog tie the dog with the rest of the leash. If you were caught, you became the new catcher.
Looking back I'm surprised no one ever broke or sprained a wrist or ankle.
iProbablyLikeYoux · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play the airplane game where we would sit on the stairs and pretend each step was our own little seat and put books and blankets and literally just sit there for hours at a time. Mad what entertains you as a kid.
Icarus649 · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma used to hide change in her yard and have us go around and dig it up. That shit was so fun
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Wars
Three or four of us 10-year olds would block out as much light as possible in the house - shut all the drapes, stack stuff up against the edges, etc... Then we would grab all the socks in the house: Dad's, sisters', brother's, mine. Over 100 paired socks were balled up and then divided between us.
Then war ensued! Literally for hours we would play hide and seek as we hurled socks at each other in the dark. Alliances were made, tables were bumped into, kids fell down stairs, balled-up socks in odd places were found by parents......
library-girl · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take baths together and put a wash cloth over our face and have the other person pour water over our face until you either started choking or passed out. I'm pretty sure this is just water boarding.
Atomsgrl · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of us would be blindfolded and the other would give a taste of something from the spice cabinet and try to guess what it was. The spices would start out tasty, but would get worse each round. It would always end when someone was forced to eat unsweetened cocoa powder.
I just remembered another one. We would put the upper half of our bodies in pillow cases (with the pillow still inside) and wrestle each other. It was quite challenging as you couldn’t see and had no use of your arms. The 1980s.
x5ian5x · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Blind Chicken". It was played on a jungle gym where the ground was lava for everyone except the person who was 'it'. Whoever was 'it' had to track down and tag someone, sort of like extreme marco polo.
Aerocity · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had a big backyard with a fair number of trees, so every time there was a group sleepover at his place we'd play "blind tag" - the tagger had to wear one of those old school sleep masks and try and tag kids who could see, but avoid the trees. Naturally, everyone else was trying to lure the blindfolded kid into the trees at a full run. It usually worked.
Genuinely amazed none of us ever got seriously injured.
liltater99 · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "amoeba man"
Basically one person had a pillowcase over their head and their movement was restricted to being on their knees. Then everyone else playing had to stop the amoeba man from winning- which he did by tackling one of the opponents of the almighty amoeba man. The amoeba man's combatants were armed with pillow cases in which they beat the amoeba man with to prevent him from winning. They won when the amoeba man gave up. It was kind of sadistic looking back haha.
We also played a game called "spooky babushka"
There was a billiards room in my parents basement which had nothing but a pool table in the middle of it and it was the first room as you entered the basement. We would turn out all the lights and I had gotten this strobe light from school so we set it on a slow setting. The 'babushka' covered themself with a blanket and would start halfway on the stairs. Then they would enter the pool room and try to tag someone who was doing their best to avoid them. If you got tagged, you became the babushka. The strobe light definitely made the game much more intense and horrifyingly funny. I damaged my parents house alot playing this one.
-Lucina · 2 points · Posted at 17:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm wrestling! We'd wear sleeping bags so that our head was where the feet go and then wrestle on the floor😂
ottoginc · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My back yard had a big ass pine tree in it, and a trampoline. Me and my neighbor buddy would go around and collect all the pine cones from the yard and cover the trampoline in them. Like, cover. 100%. We would then get on the trampoline and start jumping. The game was to avoid being struck by flying pine cones and avoid landing on any, until they we're all back on the ground. We got really good at it.
Whogivesmate · 2 points · Posted at 17:01:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tan the Pan. Me and brother competed to see who could cover the toilet bowl the most when taking a dump
funkmedance · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Went to this park camp in Daytona I think it was. The “leaders” had us play dodge frisbee with these like sturdy rubber disc. It hurt.
Unrelated note, that’s where I saw the spice girls movie for the first time.
Also a backstreet boy or maybe it was nsync showed up ther one day to play tennis. He left once all the kids ran over there.
swordlsl · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Baby Nightmare" On a trampoline, you and your siblings/friends are all babies, and you all are in your mother's stomach. You have to name and eat foods as they fall from the sky. There's not really an endgame, it's just jumping around and having fun.
frenchtoastjenkins · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Digga Digga Digga. We would remove all cushions, pillows, and blankets and place them in a choke point or confined place in the house (usually just the hallway) and then crawl around and try and get through them all. Also Suffakatie, where we would wrestle my friends sister Kate.
nasty-otter · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m cracking up at how lame this sounds, but my best friend and I used to have this game we called “popular girls”. We pretended we were college-aged girls and we would swear and “smoke” k’nex pieces behind the bookshelf in our classroom. Whenever we had to pause the game to discuss what’s going on we would say “PG out” and “PG in” to resume the game. Quite hilarious to think about! We also had british accents for some reason during the game.
SpehlingAirer · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game where wed make a custom playing stick out of popsicle sticks and essentially play hockey on the carpet on our knees using a ping pong ball as the puck. Because the "hockey sticks" were custom made from popsicle sticks they were personalized and didnt always take the same form, so on top of the game being fun it was exciting when someone revealed their new stick
creamcheeseeric · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Sock Game": me and my little brother used to play a game in our upstairs hallway where my room's doorframe and his room's door frame were on opposite ends of the hall so each doorway was a goal and we would play goalie and try to throw rolled up socks into eachother's "goals"
americandream1159 · 2 points · Posted at 17:05:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Space Van.
Also tips.
Dptwin · 2 points · Posted at 17:06:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We all pretended we were yoshis I was a red one, my brother was blue, and my other friends were the rest of the colors. It was so freaking fun. We pretened to go on missions and rescue peach etc. I miss those time :(
cavanacana · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, we would play this game call 'watermelons' on the playground. one person would sit at the end of the slide and one person would slide down and try to knock him/her off. if the person couldn't knock them off then they would stay there as another person slid down. so many of us got injured playing the game that is was banned during recess (we still played it though).
wdalphin · 2 points · Posted at 17:08:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandfather taught us two games:
Huckle buckle beanstalk. One person was "it" and they had an item that everyone knew, and they had to hide it somewhere in the room or house. Everybody else had to sit with their eyes closed until the person said they were ready. Then the person who was "it" sat and waited while everyone hunted for the item. When someone found it, they couldn't move it or reveal it's location, they just had to go back to where "it" was sitting and declare, "huckle buckle beanstalk!" The last person to find the item was the new "it".
The quiet game. He'd put pieces of paper on the floor and make us stand on them and be silent. The first person to move or make a sound lost. Decades later, I was living with my sister's family looking for work, and was riding with her and my two nephews in the car one day when they got into a big fight in the back seat. I asked them if they'd ever played the quiet game. When they said no, I said, "the first one to make a sound loses. 1, 2, 3, go!" and they shut up. My sister said, "I can't believe that worked." My grandfather was pretty clever.
phavela · 2 points · Posted at 17:12:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GoldenEye 007
collin36784 · 2 points · Posted at 17:15:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naked Superhero.
I don’t know how or why my brother and I began calling it that at the age of 3 and 5 respectively, but we just ran around (naked if that wasn’t already clear) pretending to be superheroes.
eeberington · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had a game called “Sandwich” that was played on our parents bed, where of us would put a pillow over our head, and the other would jump onto the pillow while yelling “Sandwich!”
We were little enough that it was funny more than painful, but our parents still made us quit after they walked in
paerius · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made "bets" against myself, such as "if I'm able to skip this stone across the pond first try, I'll become a billionaire."
Failed, and that's clearly whats preventing me from becoming a billionaire.
GoodTimez1661 · 2 points · Posted at 17:16:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Hunger Games”. The whole neighborhood would gather nerf weapons, tennis ball(grenades), and the prized foam axe which would kill anyone immediately. The teams were divided into big kids and little kids and each gathered weapons from the cornucopia to put in their stash. We played this game for hours during the summer.
tachyon52 · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No matter what we called the game that night, if it involved running, hiding, counting then finding and tagging someone out, you could always be safe if you reached "gool" (pronounced like ghoul). It was the safe space you had to reach where you couldn't be tagged out and lose the game. I still have no idea why we called it "gool". Some weird kid version of "goal" I guess.
Steel_Man23 · 2 points · Posted at 17:18:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof ball. My siblings and I would take like a kick ball or something and just either throw or kick the ball over the roof of our house and we’d just keep going back and forth with it.
BillHril · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my brother still play "doorknob" if you fart you have to say "safety" before someone says "doorknob", if someone says "doorknob" anyone in the room can punch you until you touch a doorknob
LadyWallflower03 · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school our playground had one of those tube slides. We would have one person block the entrance and one person block the exit at the bottom of the slide while the rest of us were crammed inside. We played this until our principal told us over the morning announcements to stop playing "that dangerous slide game".
We called the game "Sardines".
plumppeaches · 2 points · Posted at 17:20:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played this game called “Paper Pokémon” when we were in elementary school. I would draw an array of Pokémon, cut them out, and we would use them as dolls of some sort and make up our own adventures. Nowadays the hundreds of drawings are put away in a box somewhere in the house, so that right there is a ticket to nostalgia if I can find it!
Sertorian · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
So, when I was 9 or so, my buddies and I were sitting in my parents basement watching TV. We got to talking about Runescape (this was back in like 2004), and one of us said "hey, let's do Runescape in real life!"
So we ran over to our neighbors place (his backyard was all woods) and we starting acting out stuff. In modern terms, we started LARP'ing without even knowing what the hell that meant. We made up our own skills, lore, magic, political dynamics. We even had this chalk board that we wrote all our skills and stats on.
Thinking back on it now, it was pretty damn awesome. Coming home after school, ditching my backpack for a sword-like stick, and charging off to Billy's house to join my party in our next adventure. My version was called "Castle Life", and Billy's was "Medieval Madness". MM was the spiritual successor of CL and by all measures a vast improvement. I'm pretty sure I've still got the maps and books we wrote sitting somewhere at my parents house.
Good times.
ticklemyroboticbrain · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Seek with water balloons at night. There was about a dozen of us kids ranging from about 10 to 15 and we lived on a dead-end street. We split into two teams. One team had a bucket of water balloons and had to wait in the home-base house for like 5 minutes while the other team hid. There were limits on how far up the street one was allowed to hide, and only front yards and porches were allowed. Then the "it" team took their water balloons and would "sweep" up the block trying to find anyone who was hiding. If you made it past the "it" team, and back to the mailbox at the home-base without getting wet, you win. A lot of fun sneaking up and down the block trying to avoid the lights and making noises, and the inevitable dash for the box only to be thwarted at the last moment by someone "camping" near the base. Good times. Did this for many summers until the older kids grew out of it.
goatofawesomemes · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m bad at articulating words but when I was younger me and my friends had this game we played at school during recess. We called it ‘war’ and basically it was what fourth graders think real war is - we had areas on the playground that was our ‘turf’ that we fought over, we very frequently had ‘prisoners of war’ where we dragged someone from the other team to our ‘turf,’ etc.
Another game I had was that me and my friends came up with this game where we had ‘bad commercials’ - highlights included ‘playground where the gravity is reversed’ and ‘plastic surgery guaranteed to go terribly wrong’
I was a weird kid.
Thighbone_Sid · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in fourth grade we played a roleplaying game before any of us knew what roleplaying games were. We had no dice (not that we knew we were supposed to have them) so basically if the guy running the game said you succeeded, you succeeded; if he said you failed, you failed.
Because we were nine, the story was incredibly bizarre. We began as anthropomorphic squirrel mercernaries, but soon were given headbands that gave us mystical powers, transported into a dimension of stick figures and pens that could make what they drew real, became involved in wars that pitted various elements against eachother, and finally became the gods of our own elements. I remember being particularily proud of myself when I, a general in the army of fire, defeated my friend, a general in the army of light. He betrayed me and attacked me by surprise, but I routed his forces and eventually killed him in single combat.
Our game ended when it was revealed that we had been mental patients in an insane asylum the whole time. Our "game master" wanted us to keep playing, but being mental patients wasn't nearly as fun as being gods.
StubbyK · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a very large ditch in front of our house. My brother and I would run up and down it as quickly as possible without coming up to road level or falling all the way down and getting wet. Not sure how we didn't break our ankles.
angela4design · 2 points · Posted at 17:24:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Flashlight Tag”. Our house was on a dead-end street. All the kids would gather at dusk to play flashlight tag when darkness fell in the summer. Depending on how many people would show up, the property radius could be 4-6 houses. You had to shine the flashlight on the person to ‘tag’ them, since you couldn’t always access where they were. Trees, roofs, sheds, all fair game. My favorite was the roof, because you could watch the seeker, and duck behind a chimney if they were on to you.
Aoibhell · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 5, I got into the routine of making sure the sheets on my bed were perfect while I was in it. I would imagine that an alligator named Ollie would come and make sure that my sheets had no wrinkles after I tucked myself into bed. He was there to help me, because if he didn't point out wrinkles for me to fix, something very terrible was going to happen.
It started out as a personal game, and ended with a lifetime of weird OCD behaviors. Brains are weird.
Edge_of_the_Wall · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would 'Call Names'. You say a person's name (celebrity, neighbor, historical figure... whatever) and then someone else responds with a name that has something in common with the first name. Then another player says a third name that has something in common with the second name, and so on.
If anyone challenges the connection between two names, one of two things will happen: if the person being challenged makes a compelling case for the connection (e.g., Uncle Matt and D.B. Cooper [they both took the money and disappeared]; Dad and Bo Jackson [they both think they know everything]) then they get a point; if their connection is judged by the group to be crap (e.g., Ghandi and our Pakistani neighbor, or Mom and an elementary school teacher ["they both make me do homework"]) then the challenger gets a point.
Optimully · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage with uncle Johnny.
Humanoidfreak · 2 points · Posted at 17:25:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punchbuggy punch. You see a vw beetle. Punch your friend in the arm. Punchbuggy yello no returns!!
DeltaTheWolf · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I started this game when we were in middle school. What you would do is make the gun with your hand and “pew pew” at someone who is playing the game. The object is to get shots off without them noticing..scoring you a point for each “pew” you did. However many “pews” you do, they have to counter it with a “Ching” and a flat hand. Like a deflection. The game ended the very next day when one of my friends hit the score limit of 50.. Now, it’s an ongoing game for our entire lives with no score haha. We are all 25+ years of age and still do this in public.
Nyxaea · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother and cousins used to play a very in-depth camping game, we’d set up an actual tent in the hall, turn the lights off and close the curtains, and then sit around the campfire (which was the nightlight plugged into the wall) and ‘cook’ our dinner of crisps and sweets in plastic pans. We’d ‘sleep’ in the tent also go on adventures around the house, such as caving under the table and climbing the waterfall on the stairs, it was my all time favourite childhood game.
iliketurleskid · 2 points · Posted at 17:26:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took "giant pennies" which for those who don't know what they are, basically 4" metal discs made to look like a coin and rolled them across the field to each other. You had to catch the penny before it fell over or the team rolling would get a point. You could catch with your hand but most people used their ball cap to catch it. The pennies would also take crazy bounces so you had to be careful not to get hit in the face. They were also weighted differently so you could put different spins or speeds on it like you would for selecting different clubs in golf. We played with four at a time and you could either throw them all at once or one at a time. One person could throw all four or you could split them among active players. Lots of strategy but super competitive and fun.
palpatine-was-framed · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squish tire.
CampTouchThis · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Baby Game” - when i was really young, sometimes after i bathed i would ask mom to play the baby game, and she would wrap me in a towel and carry me into the living room and act like she just found a baby on our doorstep. never realized how odd that was until writing it out like that
dancindew · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watching the rain drops on the window of the car race each other.
mrsbigbutt · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ham” — my brother and I would each take one of the two couches that faced each other on opposite sides of the living room. We would get a handful of soft balls/beanbags and the object was to throw them all into the other person’s territory and leave none on your own side. I’m sure there were other rules, but the most important rule was that if you accidentally hit the other person in the head, you had to turn around and give them a free shot at nailing you in the butt with one of the beanbags. (Hence the name Ham)
niceBobJobShowVagene · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cow: I would crawl around on my hands and knees moo'ing and eating grass. I managed to get a few neighbor kids to play with me.
Stonedpapi78 · 2 points · Posted at 17:33:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A group of 10-20 kids had a large Swedish playground in our park. This is NYC too. We would play a game called Alive, we would have a group on the top of the "fort" defending while others tried to get to the top. You stayed alive by not letting the invaders drag you down. Lol. Lots of bruises playing this game
dooda73673 · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In first grade, we made up a game and called it ‘slide’; basically if you were playing, you had to expect a sliding tackle from every which way during our whole break. Went about as well as you would expect it to with the teachers, yet we did it for a whole year. Nobody got seriously injured that i can remember, somehow.
KitchenBomber · 2 points · Posted at 17:34:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my birthday parties the cake and presents would be stolen every year and my friends and I would have to go on a scavenger hunt to find them.
stitches_x · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our favorite was “Landlord”. We had these little play tents, and we made fake money that you had to earn by doing jobs in the basement (cutting money out, etc). Landlord would come around and collect taxes, policeman would arrest you if you didn’t pay your taxes.
It was fun as a kid. As an adult, it’s just a sad reality.
professional_novice · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Blown up body parts", like dodgeball but instead of being out when you got hit, you just lost the arm or leg or whatever it was. So you'd have to hop around or low crawl without using legs.
Dawnstealer · 2 points · Posted at 17:37:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wrap puppy." Basically my (older) sister would fold me into a blanket and if have to get out. Later, "ribbon" was added in the form of twine or rope.
Looking back, my asshole sister was really just tryng to literally tie me up for a while so I wouldn't bother her.
WardenJared · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school me and like 4 of my friends would play a fossil hunting game where we would go to this big tree, fill a bottle with water, pour it on the ground to make it wet, and using sticks we would dig around looking for dinosaur fossils or gems or whatever. Usually the winner was whoever found the coolest looking rock lol
never2dead1122 · 2 points · Posted at 17:39:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, probably around 7, I had this older neighbor friend who would come over and hangout. She was older and two grades above me so I thought she was cool because of that fact alone. We’d play catch, ride bikes, and she’d occasionally lock me in her garage for fun.
One day, we were hanging around the back of my house when we found these tiny little white “eggs” on the concrete. We assumed that they were worm eggs, because some of the “eggs” were longer and looked like worms, but crumbled when you touched them. We became obsessed with keeping these worm eggs alive and would water them. This went on for a while, until one day I took one of the worm eggs inside in an attempt to hatch it. I showed my Mom, very proudly, and said I was trying to hatch a worm. My mom took one look at what I had and told me that worms don’t hatch from eggs, and that the eggs were actually bird poop. Apparently I had a nest in the back gutter of my house and eggs we’d been playing with and trying to hatch was just a pile of shit.
To this day I still don’t know if my friend knew that the “eggs” were bird shit, or if she was playing the long game as a prank. Side note, I never washed my hands as a kid.
TL;DR I played with bird shit as a kid because I thought they were worm eggs.
QuantumWaffIe · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game called “Everything”.
There were no rules and you could do anything you wanted.
My younger brother usually played as an evil assassin and I would be a robot that sold muffins to people.
I don’t know what went through my 10 year old mind to get that, but that’s what happened.
PsychicSeaSlug · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made "synchronized swimming" routines in a 3 ft pool and filmed them on my dads old camcorder.
My little 5 year old brother and me 8 would make "movies" about dectetive stories complete with commercials. I was the "director" and he held the camera so there is a bunch of me making these frustrated stomp and cut signals i thought were subtle that was supposed to tell him to stop recording to switch scenes. But he was young and didnt usually catch it. So i do the exaggerated signal like three times between each scene with this hillarious look on my face.
MayaTamika · 2 points · Posted at 17:41:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Princesses-slash-Winx. (We said it that way. Not princesses/Winx. Princesses-slash-Winx)
My sister and my best friends were also sisters so the four of us spent a ton of time together as kids. We love Disney princesses and this Italian show called Winx Club, which is about fairies and a magic school and all the things little girls love. So the game was we'd pretend to be princesses by day and we were each a particular Disney princess. I was Jasmine from Aladdin. We'd get all dressed up and go out to the backyard and go on adventures and then! Trouble would strike! Our villains captured our princes! So we had to transform into fairies, and again we each had a fairy from Winx Club that we liked to be. I was Tecna. And we'd go on magical adventures to save our princes. But of course, the prince's couldn't know we were both fairies and princesses so we had to transform and hide. We also transformed to hide whenever our parents came out to check on us because obviously they couldn't know, either.
NikolitaNiko · 2 points · Posted at 17:41:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play "the ball game". Someone in the house (probably my dad because he traveled for work a lot) at some point brought home a small red stress ball. My brother and I would each be on one end of the living room, being goalkeepers, and we'd slap the ball back and forth to each other and try to get it past the other person.
Isburough · 2 points · Posted at 17:41:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
punching each other in the balls during recess. we rearranged the tables for a mosh pit-like arena, and whoever was inside was fair game, standing, or not. it. was. so. stupid.
kyle_tisdel · 2 points · Posted at 17:43:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played what we called “zombies” up until we were 18 lol. I had a pretty big house and whenever my parents were gone for the night or for the weekend or whatever, we would turn off all the lights and about five of us would go in a storage closet while one of us hid elsewhere in the house as the “zombie”. The 5 in the closet would come out and the zombie would try their best to scare the shit of them. Eventually we got more creative and started adding goals, like the zombie would hide “pages” like from the original Slender game and the people would try to find em. Later too we got an all black morph suit and the zombie would be in that... people got pretty hurt sometimes. I was the zombie once and got elbowed in the face and got a double bloody nose.
It was the best when my cousin came home in the middle of it and my friend who was the zombie thought he was one of us, ran after him and said “I’M GONNA GET YOU, FUCKER!!!”
PGxFrotang · 2 points · Posted at 17:44:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike tag, just tag but on bikes, you had to touch your tire to another persons to tag them. We had the entite neighborhood as our play area with upwards of 25 kids at times. I remember being on the elementary bus and getting so excited as we rounded the corner and my brother with the rest of the middle school kids were waiting for us few younger ones who were brave enough tocome join, just like a huge bike gang.
It got to the point where we started making our own teams and alliances. We'd go out to empty lots on the weekends and make multiple trails with dead ends and little traps where you'd kick out a stick as you rode by and an old tire or log would fall across the trail to help slow your attackers. Even got wakie talkies at one point for communication.
Things definitely could get dangerous, plenty of crashes happened, a few fist fights, one instance of a guy running into a dog that darted across the road on the steepest hill we had (knocked his front teeth out). My all time favorite was when a dude made it to be the last alive all bc he had to go take a shit in the woods. He was eventually found out and humiliated as a gang of 20 kids just stood laughing at this poor dude trying to wipe with some leaves.
Good times.
red_martinez · 2 points · Posted at 17:44:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know if collecting spiders and putting them in matchboxes and making them fight one vs one on a wooden stick is unique.
Anakinstasia · 2 points · Posted at 17:45:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a kid, but a 20 something. I've been waiting for a question where I can finally share this game. We typically play it at parties. It's called the kpop game. You only need a tv with YouTube access and a second music device. Put on a kpop playlist (the more diverse the better) and take crowd requests for any non kpop songs. We've done everything from pop rock to heavy metal. If you start the songs at the same time at least 8/10 times the songs will match up with the kpop choreography. Sometimes it takes a second or two for the music to match up. You can usually tell right away if for example it's a sad song versus an upbeat song and it won't match up. Feel free to try it on your own and you'll see what I mean. We typically play in the background of the rest of the party as people are playing beer pong and such.
itryanditryanditry · 2 points · Posted at 17:45:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russian Shit Bombs: My cousins and I would play a sort of Dodge ball game with my grandma's turd brown throw pillows. We would do this in her living room full of knick knacks. If I remember right we had to Yell shit when we threw them and if you got hit you turned into a Russian spy that smelled like shit. We didn't play this when the adults we're around for obvious reasons.
The Node Game: In highschool my friends and I would stand in a circle with no shoes or socks on and flick quarters at each other's feet. Who ever got hit and yelled out got punched. I was really good at the finger snap type flicking and had toe assassin like aim so I was always the champion. We we're really dumb kids.
turtleyhigh · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings used to make an indoor slip n' slide on our wood floor whenever our parents weren't home. It was so much fun and we would put dish soap with the water to slide faster, convinced we were helping to clean the floor. Face planted into the kitchen cabinets so many times. Our parents eventually found out by the water damage we caused.... worth it.
MaliciousBuddha · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Earthworm Jim. First game I've ever owned and man, that game was as unique as they come.
Maybe doesn't fit what you're asking but oh well.
zeusdaneus · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd play a game where there are 2 teams and we stack 7 flat stones on top of each other in the center and the teams would stand on either side and toss decides who gets to hit the stones and who catches. So one team now take a tennis ball and tries to hit the stones and also trying hit the least number of stones. Once the stones are hit, the team is supposed to come back and re-arrange them at the same time the other team takes the tennis ball and are supposed to throw it at whoever tries to re-arrange them. The players are supposed to use fake and Dodge and all these techniques. Really fun game but sometimes you would go home with a red ball print on your ass because somebody would've thrown it hard 😂
ChuckKellar · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Play 2 on 0 “NBA Jam” against air. Do countdowns of the clock. Heating up! Etc.
Dark_Akarin · 2 points · Posted at 17:47:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called ‘Raptor’. A group of us would usually play it in a small patch of woods. The game started by some one being the hunter raptor and their job was to defend a base location. Then they would close their eyes and count to 100 while the others ran and hid. If you could make it to the base you were safe, however if the raptor caught you and could hold onto you and count to ten you became a raptor as well. I spend many summers playing this in a ground of about 8, awesome memories.
MattTheWolfie · 2 points · Posted at 17:47:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Getting the black plague
levysmash · 2 points · Posted at 17:47:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whip The Cow. Someone would hide a wiffle bat while the kids wait in the alley. The first one to find the bat gets to whip the kids until they run to the pole and saw COW.
As a fat kid I didn't enjoy the game.
DatRiverRat · 2 points · Posted at 17:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids in my neighborhood used to rip all the little blue berries off of the cedar trees, then fill the barrels of our BB guns with them & go to f#ckin War ! We would split into teams. We were only allowed 10 pumps & no head shots. If you got hit you were dead. Last man standing wins the war & next time was allowed to choose his team. Thinking back.. we may have invented Air-Soft battles without even realizing it. Only we had no protection, I remember getting hit with those berries like it was yesterday lol it hurt like Hell !
Theletterz · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god this brings back memories.. Me, my younger sister and my cousins on my mothers side used to play "Pedophile". Essentially this was an enchanced version of hide and seek with the added flavor that my younger sister would pull this EXTREMELY unsettling voice pretending to be an old fat man who liked little boys walking around laughing and making gross grunts remarks..
This in our cousins house in the more rural south of Sweden. Still have vivid memories of hiding under beds absolutely terrified as she'd come into the room.. My sister is whack y'all.
Scumbukket · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cricket." We shut off all the lights in a room so it was pitch black, and someone had the rubber cricket that would glow in the dark. Everyone had to hide and be quiet, and the person with the cricket had to try and hit someone by throwing it. This brought many laughs but also some fights because it sucked getting hit in the face. There were no real winners or losers but I still laugh thinking about it.
Rockygurl106 · 2 points · Posted at 17:53:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends granddad died when we're were three. We payed a game at preschool where one person would lie on the ground and the other would look sad and then we would both get up and pretend to drink tea. The game was called funerals.
laceydabunny · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My big brother would lay down and roll up into a big blanket. I would help him get up then he would start blindly running thru the yard. I would fling my body at him and tried to knock him down. 50% of time I would succeed in knocking him down, the other 50% he would just run in a tree or the house and fall over. We called it Wild Burrito
adamt_22 · 2 points · Posted at 17:54:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At night, my friends and I would play a game called "dark shark" in the pool. Everyone was on the shallow end of the pool, except for the 'shark', who had to stay on the deep side. We'd turn off the lights outside and in the pool so it was really dark. The 'shark' could only open their eyes underwater. The point of the game was to swim as quietly and quickly as possible to the other side without getting eaten/tagged by the shark.
TakeThisification · 2 points · Posted at 17:55:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called "Roadkill." In the winter when our street was iced over, all the neighborhood kids would stand in the middle of the street and try to make it to the sidewalk without slipping when a car came. If you got hit by the car, you lost.
Bag_O_Burgers · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a variation of tag called Sharks. It was played on a jungle gym that was mostly wood surrounded by metal. The shark could only stand on metal. While everyone else had free range. If you got off the jungle gym you could only take three steps or you would "drown" and become the shark. Also if you were tagged you became the shark. We played with 10+ kids for hours.
Evys19 · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trampoline ball" we would put a ball or sometimes 2-3 in the trampoline with us and if it hit you you were out. We all just jumped around and tried to make it hit each other. Definitely some bad head bumps and injuries but it was so fun.
Another version was one person would be outside the trampoline and they would throw them inside trying to hit someone on the bounces.
Hyggemusen · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crossfire.. Such a sick game for the Playstation 1
TorGodOfHammers · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings, cousins and I would play "the blob". We put a zipped up sleeping bag over whoever was "the blob" for that round, they would then run around tackling whoever they got ahold of until they were tired and we'd switch, good times
rm45acp · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We would put one brother on the trampoline, and the other brother had to stand on the other end of the yard and try to shoot them with a BB gun. Then when they got shot they would switch places. We got caught one day by my dad.
His response was “make sure you wear goggles”
TheTransFantasy · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play “Piranha.” Basically we had a bunk bed and the one on the top bunk would put their hand through the crack in the bunk without moving it out. The other person would mangle the firsts hand as long as possible
Chaotic-Sins · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was forced to play this game with some of the new friends i made when i was 7-8 years old.We had to play Rock Paper Scissors and whoever lost had to be spanked on the ass me who has terrible luck eded up losing the most and went home with a sore ass,although i did get to spank the two guys and this one girl ass a bit i guess (not that there were four of us 3 guys and this one weird girl who i assumed as a kid was a tomboy despite having very girlish belongings) But i was still fucking pissed that i went home with a sore ass least i never played that game again i guess
DiabetesVEVO · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game were we sat in front of each other across the room and we would take turns to throw bottles at each other's balls.
1JeffyJeffJeff · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hand hockey.
My brother and I would set up nets in the basement and run around on our knees, chasing a sock-ball using our hands as ‘sticks’.
I would totally smash him with body checks too! 😂
Ah, the good ole days.
bervestormbottom · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called bad pa me and my neighbor would chase each other and pretend to be redneck father trying to kill his kids
MlLFS · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a babysitter with big massive dreadlocks and we used to try to put as many pairs of pants (underwear for non brits) on his head without him realising
ToxxicSynergy · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called "slippery snakes" with a bunch of my friends when we younger. The game was getting rags sopping wet, twisting them up, and then whipping each other as hard as we could in a pitch black room. The game was exilerating and also fear inducing. You just never knew when you were gonna get cranked by a wet rag.
cheesehuahuas · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark fighting.
We used to go into a room in an unfinished guest house behind our house, turn off the lights and basically beat the shit out of each other as a group. We didn't go too hardcore and we took a break if anyone got hurt. Sometimes we went as far as putting mattresses on the ground.
The funny thing is when we moved 1200 miles to the Midwest we found out that our new friends did basically the same thing in their basement. But they also stared at a lightbulb for a while before starting so it took longer to adjust to the darkness.
Yes we were dumb.
ComeOnYou · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blackout. Some older kids told my brother and his friend that if you jammed your thumb into someone’s butthole (with pants on) that they would black out. So you had a bunch of kids jumping on a trampoline trying to thumb each other screaming blackout.
aL_Quarter · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You take a paper and write numbers from 1 to 30 for example. The numbers must be randomly written everywhere on the paper with some space between them. Then you and your friend(or more) can start playing. You start from 1 and draw a line to the next number "2" without touching other numbers(and previous drawing lines) or making any unnecessary lines. You keep going until the loser reaches a number where he cant reach it without touching another drawn line.
Also There a game where i would take a paper then put many holes on it. Then each players pulls the paper from both sides and you gotta move the pen (while pushing it into the paper) from below, go from one side to the other. If you get to the other side without falling in one of the holes you win. Its a dumb game but i remember it a lot
Charmocha2000 · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brother and the neighbours used to play a game on the trampoline that we called night guard.
Basically, someone was chosen as a night guard and the other people were statues in a museum. When the night guard wasn’t looking, the statues could move and do whatever. If the night guard caught us moving, the statues would break and then the night guard had to drag the broken statue to the closet. The night guard could also move the unbroken statues to make silly poses or bounce on the trampoline to try to make a statue fall and giggle or move.
The game never ended as the last statue standing became the new night guard and would restart.
anu_yorker · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After school my sister and I played the "pretend something terrible happened and watch mom's response" game. It was a good time. And worked every time.
iretto_yt_wrestlegod · 2 points · Posted at 17:59:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Busta-booty. We all jump on the trampoline until someone counted down from 3. 3, 2, 1, BUSTABOOTY! At bustabooty, we would all land on our butts and whoever went the highest, would win. It was so fun
RigzDigz · 2 points · Posted at 18:00:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would arm ourselves with bottle rockets, whiffle ball bats, and use a trash can lid as a shield. We’d use the little hole at the end of the bat to hold the bottle rocket and voila! rocket launcher! We would shoot them at each other and block the shots using the trash can lid shield.
Between the two of us, we still have 4 eyeballs and 20 fingers, despite Darwin’s options on such behavior.
thepimasterv1 · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Witcher 3. Kind of a unique hidden gem tbh.
atarixe · 2 points · Posted at 18:05:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's so underrated
thostiane · 2 points · Posted at 18:05:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had 3 older brothers. All of us played 3 sports so we had blenty of “ balls”. The two oldest would put all of the balls in the back of our golf kart and chase me and the second youngest around the yard throwing them at us. Good times.
heynaynay9229 · 2 points · Posted at 18:06:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Jugmates” - we would lie on the trampoline and someone would throw a juggling ball in the air. When it lands on you, you’re not allowed to flinch. If you do, you get “juggernauted” which means you have to sit up with your hands behind your head and someone would throw the juggling ball at your stomach. If they miss, it’s called “jugsment day” and everyone then throws the juggling ball at the person that missed the shot
izzivonhamm18 · 2 points · Posted at 18:06:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my brother were “pizza” running around my aunts house and she would have to catch us and put us in the “oven” but don’t worry it was just on the coffee table, and she would have to put toppings on us by tickling us. it was torture but me and my brother loved it
wowsuchdoge_wow · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back home in India, we were really into riding our bikes fast. There was a very large tree in the neighborhood that was home to hundreds of bats that really stirred up at night. We made up a game where, at night, we ride our bikes very fast under the tree and who ever falls off due to the bat attack, they lose. They love to go for your ears so your instinct takes your hands off the bars, you freak out and go down.
In hindsight that was a horrible game, cuz Rabies.
Lauchsuppedeluxe · 2 points · Posted at 18:07:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and i played the cave explore game
smokedgoudes · 2 points · Posted at 18:08:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played "Buns to buns". you stand on opposite sides of the room with your backs to each other, lean over and put your hands on the ground as if you're preparing for downward dog but with your hands closer to your feet. and then someone does a countdown and on "one!" you walk backwards qs quickly as you can toward each other with your hands acting as a second set of feet.
Once you both get to the middle of the room, you hit each other with your butts. Your butt is your only weapon. And their butt is the only place you can hit them to make them fall over. Whoever falls over first loses. Buns to buns!
HICKFARM · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play tag on the big circular trampoline. You had to bounce on your knees and then tag someone in mid air. Or we played take down the giant with all the little kids trying to tople me onto the trampoline.
KoolLollipop · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game
coolxm · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We call it "the game" you are not allowed to think of it or your out, we play it to this day and I just lost. We never keep score but it's always fun. The fun thing is that you can pull in ppl by saying "the game" in their facinity to kill them and then you and they are out for half an hour
coolxm · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just posted this in the group chat they all got fu**ed
MeanMario · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
:(
TheSambard · 2 points · Posted at 18:10:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it JFK Assassination.
A friend of mine had a toy pedal tractor. One of us would ride the tractor waiving at an imaginary crowd pretending to be JFK, then the other one would jump out from a bush or something and "shoot" JFK (with our fingers - we didn't even have a fake gun) then take off on his bike. The one who was JFK would pretend to be dead for a few seconds to give the shooter a head start, then jump on another bike and pretend to be a cop trying to catch the assassin. Sometimes the chases would last for an hour. Once Lee Harvey Oswald was caught, we'd switch turns and let the other guy be JFK.
And yes, we knew JFK wasn't shot point-blank like Lincoln. When you're trying to entertain yourself in a small town, you made do with what you had.
shortyafter · 2 points · Posted at 18:11:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was just a one day thing, but back in kindgertan or first grade or so we did this. On our playground there was like this small log bridge. It was a bit higher at each end and hung down lower in the middle. You know, not completely horizontal, as you would expect out of a log bridge. At the highest (th eneds) it was like, I don't know, 3 or 4 feet off the ground and at the lowest point it was like just a foot and some change.
So the game was that one kid would lie directly under the bridge with his head just below the lowest point, face up. And then the rest of the kids would take turns running as hard/fast as they could across the bridge above.
We got pretty close to trampling the kid under the bridge's face, but TBH we all thought it was pretty safe. The teachers obviously didn't.
I can see why we enjoyed this, though. Just recalling it is getting me all excited and giggly.
Stupid teachers. :)
Piffweggy · 2 points · Posted at 18:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a small hole in the floor, so my brother and I used to play “golf” by hitting marbles with our hands
PM_ME_SEXY_SANDWICH · 2 points · Posted at 18:13:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably too late to get seen, but when I was in daycare (early elementary) my bff and I would play this game we made up called "Poor".
We would build a little enclosure with these big wooden blocks the center had. It was just big enough for the two of us to kneel/sit in. Im pretty sure we even built it around us to make sure it was as small as possible. We would also have saved a bit of snack or lunch in napkins and brought that in with us, usually the hot dogs from Beans & Weenies or Pigs in a Blanket day.
The active part of the game was us just sitting there, fake shivering, slowly eating our squirreled away food, moaning about how poor we were.
BoBoiBoi · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My group of friends and I would basically role play a fantasy game in which we would behave like we were all werewolves in a pack. Each full moon night we would act out a werewolf transformation and climb onto the terrace tops and howl like crazy. This would obviously trouble the entire neighborhood since we did this in the dead of night. It wasn't too soon until people actually began complaining. The problem reached the climax when one of the neighbors called the emergency services to report all the howling because they actually thought that wolves would come down and roam in the neighborhood. We soon realized what a terrible idea it was and immediately after this entire incident unfolded, we stopped playing our fantasy game. It was fun while it lasted.
losingtimeslowly · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When someone farted we would all put our thumb on our forehead. The last person to do so, ate the fart. Next thing you know, mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandpa, and grandma were doing it. Because no one wants to eat a fart.
lambeau8686 · 2 points · Posted at 18:14:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little sister used to “bungee jump” off of the top bunk of our bunk bed. We used a giant toy snake she had to wrap around our waist while one of us held the other end.
dcoble · 2 points · Posted at 18:15:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had a laser pointer that had to be plugged into the wall to work with a big power supply unit. We'd turn off all the lights and my brother and I and neighbors/friends would wear dark clothes/camo and hide out in the yard/woods... sometimes with toy guns for effect.
It was our goal to sneak closer to the house and tag one of several targets without getting hit by the laser. If the beam just passed over you it didn't count. Whoever was it (typically my dad) had to legitimately spot you, keep the dot on you and count to 3. Then you were out until everyone was caught or someone reached a target. Even if you got spotted you could hide behind something quickly and eventually the laser would have to move to protect the targets (assuming others were still alive). Then you could make a break for it or silently crawl to a new spot. It was a really really intense game as a kid.
_Relaxed · 2 points · Posted at 18:16:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would focus on a treeline while looking out of a car window. a speck on the glass became 2 specks because of my distant focus. I would pretend those 2 specks were a snowboard and the treeline was the snow and I would tilt my head left and right to "snowboad" it.
really weird now that I think about it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I really don't know why... Not me, but my best friend would play the "pedophile game" There would be the "pedophile" and then they would play as children and run from them until the "pedo" could hug them to the ground. WTF. They were like 8.
teenytinybaklava · 2 points · Posted at 18:19:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I got bored in class I’d press my fingers together and wiggle them so it felt like a wall was between them
Thegloo282 · 2 points · Posted at 18:19:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same here
basicallytfey · 2 points · Posted at 18:21:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play something where one kid would get in a box and the other kid would shut it and tip the box over and over until you wanted to stop. Looking back we could've broken our necks doing that.
basicallytfey · 2 points · Posted at 18:27:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also, my grandma had this magnifying glass and I would play detective - which consisted of me getting in peoples faces and asking them where they were on a certain date and I would write it down. I dont know what I was looking for but everyone was very annoyed.
whitestrice1995 · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indian arm wrestling. I don't know how common this really was, my Dad taught it to me, but I never saw a single kid play it besides my cousins and I that he taught.
Two people are standing up, they line the outside of each other's feet up touching. So like the full length right side of my foot would be touching the full right side of my opponents. And you both have your leg stretched out just a little bit. Then you lock hands and start. The winner is the person who gets their opponent to move their locked foot that's next to theirs. This is achieved by pulling and pushing with the arm you have locked with the teammate as well as maneuvering your body. You cannot use the other arm (free arm) at all against the opponent, but it can move obviously. You can also move your free leg if you choose.
Honestly really fun, and a bit of a workout. It's mostly a balance game.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:24:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snipe hunting.
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 18:26:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh hey, same! Nowadays I have an outlet for it, though, so i have like six conceptual graphic novels in the works 😅
YPErkXKZGQ · 2 points · Posted at 18:27:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play the "car game" with my childhood best friend and his sister during early elementary school.
Basically, we would stand out at the end of his driveway and watch for cars coming (which was itself a challenge because of the local topography) and whenever we saw one, we would try to run back to the "safe zone" (which was his garage) before the car drove past. Whenever there was a UPS truck or FedEx it was extra "dangerous" and we would have to throw open the exterior cellar doors and get into the basement, which was a farther run.
And as far as we were concerned, the four horsemen of the apocalypse were the garbage truck, the recycle truck, school buses, and the big claw truck that picks up cleared limbs. The last one especially, whenever we saw that thing we panicked and ran like wildmen because we knew it was gonna pick us up with the claw and take us away.
Good times... I fell down those basement stairs and whacked my head more times than I can count. It's a miracle I'm not even stupider than I am.
SaltyMonkeyy · 2 points · Posted at 18:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play "Ghosts." In this game, one person put the largest blanket they could find over their head, and they were the ghost. They chased the other person around and tried to tackle them. The goal was to put the blanket over their head and transfer ghostlyness. This went on until something in the room broke or we couldnt breathe anymore.
wisertime07 · 2 points · Posted at 18:32:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is probably going to come across terribly, but when we (my two sisters and I) were growing up, we had these two moron cousins.. These kid's teeth were all black, they talked in mumble, they stunk, had bad attitudes and were overall just unpleasant to be around. Whenever we'd go to my grandparent's house, we (my sisters and I) would explore all over the place, since we were poor and usually cooped up in a very small house and my grandparent's had a large house on a river, basketball court, acreage, etc.. However - whenever we'd go there, the Retard Bros would inevitably show up and just become an annoyance at whatever we happened to be doing at the time.
So.. one of us (my middle sister, I think) invented this game "Octoball". I don't remember all the specifics, but there were a variety of tasks we had to compete. From what I remember, it was sort of like playing a game of "Horse" with a basketball, but with various other obstacles - whatever we could come up with in the moment. Lots of zany rules that would change as we saw fit - but one rule we didn't budge on: if either of the two moron cousins played - regardless of what they did or didn't do, the punishment was a kick in the nuts.
It would work like this: Me - I shoot and make a basket. I'm eligible to kick anyone I choose (one of those two) in the nuts. If I miss the basket, I'm eligible to reshoot until I make it. Once I make it, one of those two is getting kicked in the nuts. If they stick around long enough to make a shot - miss it and surprise - one of us gets to kick them in the nuts. Make it and - also surprise - they shot from the wrong spot, or they were supposed to miss that basket or something.. The punishment was also a kick in the nuts. If they questioned the rules, again, they were punished with a kick to the nuts. There were other ways to inflict punishment on them too, but it always involved a swift blow to the nutsack.
Needless to say, eventually they gave up and quit playing games with us.
KenPopehat · 2 points · Posted at 18:37:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Lame Brain Choo Choo Train.
Picture this: my house was off of a cul-de-sac, halfway up a VERY steep side street. Also my driveway, from the cul-de-sac, was a very steep slope down.
So friends and I would get a big wheel, two mover's dollies, and a wagon and take them to the very top of the very steep street, and form a train, hands on shoulders to keep the train together, and then careen down the street.
The idea was to slow down in the cul-de-sac. This was impossible. An alternate idea was to steer and go down our driveway off of the cul-de-sac, which was possible but usually resulted in running into the garage door at a very high rate of speed. Usually, the train broke up upon hitting the cul-de-sac halfway down the very steep street. This was not too bad for the person on the big wheel, who could steer; moderately bad for the person in the wagon, who really couldn't steer but could lean to make the wagon head into the shrubbery; and REALLY VERY BAD for the two people on the two movers' dollies, who could neither steer nor brake, and would, on occasion, go past the cul-de-sac and hurtle down the very steep street to its terminus in a big road, where one would be either run over by a car or go off something of a cliff on the other side.
We all lived.
digiacom · 2 points · Posted at 18:38:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad was a musician, so I would just draw notes on sheet music and he would play it!
As an adult he divulged to me that my compositions were .. not always playable, so he improvised around it a lot ;)
-passing-through- · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before bed, my sister and I used to play a vending machine game together. We’d lay on our backs and look at the ceiling and imagine super realistic snacks inside of the floating machine. We’d put in our imaginary quarters and buy our imaginary snacks and we would really be able to taste every snack. It was a wonderful game we played because the more focused she and I would be on our snacks, the more realistic it felt! Whenever we were ready to go to sleep we’d buy a bottle of sleeping pills and eat them all then pass the fuck out haha
JaunDenver · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to look out the window on long road trips and pretend a motocross rider was riding along side of us in the ditch along the side of the road. Jumping over cross streets, doing tricks over culverts and stuff like that. Made the time pass more quickly.
daveosborne66 · 2 points · Posted at 18:41:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a neighborhood game that’s probably not unique, but I’ve never met anyone else who played this. We’d split into two teams, with each team starting on opposite sides of a one car detached garage. One team would throw a ball over the roof, with a ‘clean’ throw being one that bounced at least once on the roof of the other side, and the receiving team had to catch it before it touched the ground. If they did, the receiving team had to run around the garage and hit other team members with the ball before they could escape to the opposite side. If you got hit with the ball, you joined the team that hit you. The turns continued until one team had all the players.
SQLDave · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So... you were guaranteed to always end up on the winning team.
daveosborne66 · 2 points · Posted at 19:34:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indeed! Definitely cut down on bad feelings between us kids.
CUMFETTI · 2 points · Posted at 18:43:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No one will ever see this but whatever..
Me my brother and 2 of our neighbors would play this game "Who's got the babes?" when we were like 9-13.
The rules were pretty simple. Someone would have the babes. And if you tackled them to the ground, you now had the babes...
When you did have the babes you would make sure everyone knew you had the babes by kissing and grabbing multiple imaginary women. This would go on for an hour or so until we were tired or one of us got hurt.
Good times.
trashtothrowaway777 · 2 points · Posted at 18:48:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hotel lobby!! One person was the hotel clerk at the desk (which was actually just my mom's ironing board) and the rest of us would put on costumes and dress up clothes and take turns checking into the hotel in character, complete with accents and ridiculous backstories. Everyone from the really little kids, to our parents loved it and played along.
Initial_BB · 2 points · Posted at 18:49:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long car trips, my brother and I used to take turns trying to bag each other with the middle seatbelt. We would extend the belt to its longest length, hold the metal end with one hand near the door handle, calculate the trajectory by eye, then lob it in a lazy arc to try and hit the scrotal target. It's a lot harder than it sounds, with various levels of difficulty from smooth, straight highway (easier) to undulating, potholed dirt trails (lucky shot).
There was nothing quite like forcing yourself to not move as your eyes helplessly followed the projectile's path like a guillotine's blade. The relief when it missed was like the adrenaline rush of a small mammal escaping the jaws of death. The results of a successful throw were mitigated by a couple of layers of clothing, but still left you with the sudden shock of impact followed by a sick sensation that propagated up into your guts.
The perfect shot was to hit both testicles with the blade edge of the clasp and I think I only ever managed that once. A successful hit would deliver an almost orgasmic groan from the victim and a berating from mom in the front seat telling us to quit it because she wanted grandchildren. We had three kids each, so there were no ill effects from our ill-conceived game.
dlever0097 · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvin ball
Kokuei05 · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Floor is lava but we never heard of it before so it was unique to us.
frosted_potato · 2 points · Posted at 18:52:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby wars. We’d set up my friends pretty big “play room” as we called it with two big couches on opposite sides of the room. We’d have 5 minutes to build up our defenses around the couch, then we’d shut off the lights and start wailing beanie baby’s at each other. Kyle, if your out there, I’m sorry.
CleetisMcgee · 2 points · Posted at 18:57:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I used to do these too. My grandma had a large spare bedroom with a bunk bed and a queen size bed on the other side. We'd make up bunkers and what not. We had a hand full of stuffed animals that we had to ban due to hard eyeballs or just too heavy. Good times. Most battles ended with someone crying.
frosted_potato · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exactly that. Those little marble eye balls, if the catch ya in the face, not a good time. But we’d show back up every day.
Teecobug · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play 'Dont Get Swarmed' Basically, every one of my siblings and cousins would stand equa-distance from anything bad, red ant hills, wasp nest, the fun stuff. We would all slap/poke the thing with a stick, and then scatter. If you got Swarmed, you lost. If you were about to get Swarmed and then evaded or got them to get someone else, you won! Oh, what boredom can do to you....
drewst18 · 2 points · Posted at 18:53:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The throwing game. Set up two nets about 20 25 get apart from each other and you have to score by throwing the ball in the net couldn't leave your crease. It was actually incredibly fun for something so simple.
mssDMA · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this counts as a game, but my siblings and I (6 kids) used to make Geico commercials with the old fashioned camcorder that recorded on mini vhs tapes. We would make up a scripts for that "Good news! -- You can save 15% or more by switching to Geico!" scenario. The one I remember best was a spinoff from Monty Python and the Holy Grail where I was a witch about to be thrown in some water to see if I float when one of my siblings broke in with "Good news!"
"I'm not a witch?"
"No! You can save 15% or more by switching to Geico!"
Cut to me plugging my nose and jumping in the pool because I was afraid to let someone throw me in.
Pinsalinj · 2 points · Posted at 13:51:57 on March 20, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me laugh out loud. I love the idea of making your own version of commercials, and it was pretty imaginative!
eliseorelse · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend (since 5, we are STILL best friends!) and I played so many fucking weird games that we still joke and laugh about to this day.
One game was called BleepaDeDeep’s Delivery Service (no idea).
One of us would be the “driver,” and we’d scoot around on my step-nephew’s (at the time) tiny lil scoot car. The other person would be the “customer,” and you’d have to create a character (like, say, a rich old lady or something), and decide on a costume/accent etc., and then the customer would pick an object in the basement and give the driver hints about what you wanted.
So, say you picked a teddy bear, you’d be like “I’d like to order something cuddly with soft fur!” or some shit like that. Then the driver would have to scoot around on the tiny car and try to figure out what you ordered. And if you were the customer and the driver brought you the wrong thing, you’d have to act all mad and whip the thing across the basement and be like “NO, YOU FOOL! I WANTED SOMETHING BROWN!” (Even then we knew how rough it was in the service industry lol). And then the driver would have to be like, “I am so sorry ma’am! Let me fix that for you!” And continue to scoot about on the tiny car and try to pick the right object. Haha.
We also used to make all sorts of super-weird videos with my dad’s camcorder.
One of them was a talk show we called Life of the Funkalistic Girls, where we’d dress up and act like valley girls and just talk about whatever. One time, we got in a fight on camera where my bff blamed me for hitting her in the “tittie,” (we were like, 10. No titties — which I said on camera, I was like “uhhh we don’t have titties yet.” Hahaha)
We had another TV series called Cooking with Ursula and Irma, where we would just act really, really dumb and try to follow a recipe. So if the recipe said “put the flour in the bowl,” we’d just put the bag of flour in a mixing bowl, etc. lots of fun moments with our amazing videos where my dad would interrupt to ask us what we wanted for dinner, and I’d be like, “DAD SHUT UP WE’RE FILMING!”
Haha, I miss those days.
Wallace-Wellss · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would draw pictures in PictoChat, and would have wars. I would draw a castle, then he’d draw a tank destroying it. This would repeat. Kept us very entertained on long car rides.
fatgoose_21 · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roll-down-the-stairs-in-blankets. Exactly what it sounds like, when my parents were gone me and my 2 brothers would wrap ourselves in blankets, lay down, and all roll down at the same time, tumbling over each other on the way down. Sometimes we would block the stairs with couch cushions as a wall to break through.
GolfSucks · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would sit in the floor with our legs out to the side so that they would fall asleep. Then we'd try to stand up while pushing the other one over. I don't remember if anyone ever won, but it was hilarious.
JuanCarlosSantiago · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play, "Hunt the cunt and kill the bastard" It might be native to Scotland. Its just like hide and seek but violent.
purplepeopleeater333 · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One fall we played a game of “life” in the backyard. We used leaves to make thick lines of our houses like blueprints. Then, we would pick out leaves all in one color to lay out in squares and make into the furniture in our abodes.
Then we’d dress up in our mom’s old bridesmaid gowns and pretend we were living life in those leaf houses.
It was all fun and games until we killed the grass in lines and blocks and dad got mad, lol.
So we raked the leaves to the storm sewer grate and burned them - watching the smoke billow up out of the other grates up and down the street.
Good times!
aflyindog · 2 points · Posted at 19:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made a game called chubby tired, one kid was on his hands and knees and had to crawl to tag the other players. He could only run every like 30 seconds but we were bad at counting so more like every 5 seconds. Having a lawn of pines trees made this game... interesting.
QuickNEasyUserName · 2 points · Posted at 19:01:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my twin brother would smash .22 cal bullets with a hammer.....it literally sounds exactly like a ricochet from an old western movie....idk where our parents were while we did this
Vojtalalala · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Escape the room- angry dad edition
YankeeDoodleShelly · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I didn’t exactly have a game, but we had a...tradition? Routine? Idk what you would call it. But the guy that lived behind them was a turd and my cousin and I decided we were gonna revolt. Keep in mind, we are like 4-5 years old.
My uncle had a compost pile, so one day, we scoop some out and put it in a bucket. Then my cousin pees in the bucket and to add a touch of flair, we use some baby poop from his little sister. Then we cover it and let it ferment. Each day we would add more things- sand, piss, fertilizer, mud, oil, rain water, whatever and mix it. We never did much with it, because it became a game of how gross can we make it. The plan was to make a sludge to throw on his garden I guess. So we gave up that plan and moved to plan B
Plan B was, in my opinion, brilliant. My cousin and I spent days drawing dicks on 100 pieces of paper. We were almost 6 at this point, so make of that what you will. Then, we folded those pieces of paper into paper airplanes and threw them into this poor old mans yard. We did this several times until we got caught. When asked why we did it, my cousin promptly says “He’s a pecker!”
Jesus we were animals
american_edgelord · 2 points · Posted at 19:02:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my 2 brothers used Monopoly money as currency and gambled with it and shit like that. Then we'd rob each other with Nerf guns. One day we ended up in a 3 way fist fight and our mom settled it by burning all of our valuable currency 😔
freshwfantasies · 2 points · Posted at 19:05:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would poke one another as hard as possible whilst also trying to avoid being poked by the other. Usually involved lots of squealing and/or screaming and giggling too!
Sm0keTrail · 2 points · Posted at 19:10:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play a game we called "mouse trap" in their basement. We would divide into 2 teams and one would go upstairs while the other would set the traps.
We would run trip wires and set up leaning traps from the door to the back wall.
Then in pitch blackness the other team would try to get from the door to the back wall without setting off traps.
Worst I remember was a whole suitcase being swung down from the ceiling beam and knocking one of us off our feet.
I fully blame mccully culkin for this.
MindOverManter · 2 points · Posted at 19:12:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game in our parents minivan. When on long road trips we'd take the headrests out of the back seat and use them as turrets with the double prongs as barrels. We would shoot other cars behind us to keep our van safe, had a scoring system, different effects based on what color the car was. The details are lost to me, but the memory has not faded.
lcolem75 · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Balderdash (sp?)
But the unique thing was we never actually looked up how you were supposed to play it. We played it that, somebody would read a word from a random card, and everybody including the person that read the card would write down what they thought the definition of the word would be on a piece of paper and folded up and put it in a basket. (Cardholder would write the correct definition) Then the person that read the word from the card, would mix up the basket and read all of the handwritten definitions aloud, and everyone would vote on which one they thought was the correct definition. If you guessed the correct definition you were awarded 10 points, and when people picked your made up definition (believing that it was the correct definition) you were awarded five points. It was usually the first person to 200 points wins.
But to be clear, these words were rather extravagant, unusual, and very seldom read or heard outside the game.
Bunz4sale · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called Poison Ball. Basically we gathered as many types of balls as we could and put them on the trampoline. Then you had to jump around without letting any object hit you. If it did, you were out.
MeesterPoot · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother and I used to build little houses out of matchsticks, then set them on fire when they were completed.
Alibi01101 · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I assume you're a Carpenter now?
MeesterPoot · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not yet, but the night is still young!
eskim01 · 2 points · Posted at 19:14:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We came up with a variation of tag called Anaconda (chose that name right after we watched the movie by the same name) where everyone could hide, and run around a play field, with one person being "it". Then, whenever someone gets tagged, they would hold hands with last person to have been tagged so the "snake" would get longer. Usually only a lot of fun if you have 8 or more kids playing it, but it would get crazy with the "snake" sometimes trapping us around trees and situations like that. Tons of fun when the whole neighborhood got involved.
Canadianman64 · 2 points · Posted at 19:16:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Break the shell. Someone on the trampoline goes into the fetal position and people around jump until the person has to use their arms or legs because the freakout and want to stop bouncing.
There is also blind octopus, someone on the trampoline closes their eyes (or is blindfolded) and tries to find someone on the trampoline, but cant use there feet to stand and and has to grab them and pull them down
blargman327 · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drunk driver- two people are swinging aggressively. The rest have to run back and forth in front of the swing set. If you get hit and launched by the "drunk driver" you are out. Last man standing wins
pWaveShadowZone · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa had a game called “One, two, three, go.” He said him and his friends would carry a gas can out into an empty field. You’d wrap your mouth around the spout and take three huffs of gas fumes, and on the third one you hold it in and take off running as fast as you can in any direction until you black out. A few minutes later when everyone was waking back up, whoever was furthest from the gas can won the game. I can’t believe he survived his childhood, especially considering he was fighting nazi’s at age 16
ElizaRSnowden · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to pretend our trampoline was a giant frying pan and we were normal size people working in a giant restaurant. We made up new ways to make different recipes and serve them to the giants.
ethan_village · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend invented a game he lovingly named “bone stick,” (Not what it sounds like). The rules were simple, each combatant goes into the yard and finds the biggest, strongest stick they can get, then violently hit them against each other until one breaks. Whoever’s stick survives is the winner, and they have the “bone stick.”
freakingisidor · 2 points · Posted at 19:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d get my friend’s little brother to come play with us . We’d choose someone to distract him and suddenly 2 of us would go “missing”. Then once he’d get close to finding one of us. Then the one initially with him would go missing and so on and so on. He’d never find us all . Lol
Lyrkalas · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pull Off Your Sock."
In our small front entryway, about 6x6, my little brother and I would stand at opposite corners with our socks partially pulled off our feet, say with the cuff at the arch or almost at the heel.
Without using our hands we would try to completely pull each other's socks off. Whoever got both socks wins.
SAYUSAYME007 · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids in the neighborhood (white kids, black kids and asian kids) would get together in the woods and play "slaves"
A few kids were the rulers and the rest of us had to dig in the dirt. Ruler was always different so none of us felt like it was anything but fun. I dont even know what we were digging for! The ruler even had a whip of long grass to keep us working..goodtimes
kbirdamyk · 2 points · Posted at 19:19:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play, "orphans", in the forests near our houses. Basically, we would pretend we were surviving with no parents in the woods.
smoonster · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sockey" - my brother and I would put on thick socks and slide around on our parents' bedroom wood floor. There was a fire place and a closet on opposite ends we used as goals. We basically played 1 on 1 soccer while "skating" around.
There was this whole imaginary league with team jerseys made of old shirts and markers. Seasons, schedules, the whole thing.
As boys, of course, things would get rough. I honestly don't remember if we ever finished a game without a fight.
noonaboona · 2 points · Posted at 19:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder in the dark. We would turn off all the lights and the "murderer" would also be blindfolded. We would try to blend into furniture or climb up both sides of the wall. If they found any if us they would have to guess who we were and if they we were right then the other person become the murderer. If not they were it again. Lots of fun. Though we gave it a violent name it was not intentionally violent. Lol. Cousins would always look forward to playing this with us when they came over. Their parents wouldn't let us play it at their houses.
basketballwife · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the summer We used to play princess where I would lay on a towel on the storm doors to our basement and my two old sisters would feed me strawberries from the patch in the garden. That was the entirety of the game... 🤷🏼♀️
Mrs_DismalTide · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In retrospect, this game is super horrible. My sister and I used to play a game called "Tom and Jerry" with her playmobile characters and dollhouse. Essentially there were two characters, Tom who was mentally handicapped and Jerry who was his brother/caretaker. Each game we called an "incident", and usually consisted of Jerry trying to use the house as some sort of place of business (I remember a tanning salon) or just trying to exist, and Tom having an "episode" where he would scream and ruin the house (we would throw the dolls around the room and smash the dollhouse so it would come apart). Basically we would have an elaborate set-up of whatever Jerry was trying to do and then have Tom ruin it and scare any potential customers. I don't know how we came up with this.
omnicronprime · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called the game moo moo cow. At my friends house, they had a kids room in the basement. We would throw blankets all over the ground. One person who would be the cow, would cover themself in a blanket to prevent him from seeing. Then the other group of kids would grab the blankets off the floor, in away where kids were on opposite sides of the cow, and try to slingshot the cow. The other kids were, tho, only allowed to walk where the blankets were. Many of us were injured in the process. At the same house we also made up a game call pitch black, were someone would turn off the light and go looking for the other kids. But everyone was swinging there fists or feet. That eventually became, I think we called it, pearl harbor. Were one kid would turn off the lights and have to defend the light switch. Good times being young.
Kennyctv · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I made up a game called “Fat Chicken”.
We had this ninja Halloween costume that was basically just a loose black body suit. For some reason we would have whomever put the suit on and then we would stuff the suit full of pillows. Pillows down your legs, down your arms, everywhere.
Then we would push the person in the suit all around, into walls, down the stairs. Everything. And we would yell fat chicken.
I had a great childhood.
SpookyDrPepper · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Acorn war. God I haven’t thought about this in YEARS... me, my sister, and our neighbors who were brother and sister would prepare for this shit for days. We had 3-4 days to collect as many acorns as we could whenever we had time. Then when the big day came, it was all out war. Just pelting acorns at each other for however long they lasted. You weren’t safe in your own house. They hurt too... little welts all over us. If I had kids and they did that, I’d be like y’all are fucking idiots..... but it was so fun. The anticipation of it was so thrilling.
kwayne26 · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stealth Assassin - the name I made up when playing a bunch of Tenchu. But one person hid with a fake knife. Everyone else counted to 30 and then roamed the street with toy guns looking for the assassin. The Assassin would hide in the shadows and general spook the hell out of you. The goal was to assassinate everyone. It sounds dumb but we had loads of fun.
DrCrappyPants · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is like inverted tag
Double0Mogar · 2 points · Posted at 19:22:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God damnit, now you made me think about it
USSR_Knuckles · 2 points · Posted at 19:24:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Powerade. It's essentially football but with a, you guessed it, Powerade bottle full of various rocks and metal
Fffire24 · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tennaball. It was a mixture of tennis and lacrosse. You would have to bounce the ball on a tennis racket and try to score. Generally 2 vs 1 and a goalie. The goalie would have a baseball glove and a tennis racket. Man it was so much fun.
FluentinLies · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squashing machine. At school. There were two brick walls in the playground connected at right angles to each other. A child would be nominated squashee and guided to the inside corner then every other kid would pile into the corner. Like Hillsborough for kids.
angryreceptionist · 2 points · Posted at 19:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Peep wars.
Every Easter, my siblings and I would take two marshmallow Peeps, stick them with tooth-picks (to make a Peep-sized javelin or jousting stick), put them on a plate facing each other, and pop them in the microwave for 1 minute on high.
This resulted in our tiny Peep warriors blowing up like molten sugar balloons. First Peep to “pop” was the loser.
Mom and dad stopped giving us Peeps after that.
kangaroo2222 · 2 points · Posted at 19:27:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we had a game at school. (I called in sacrifice in my head, I dont know if other people did or not) there would be people swinging on the swings and everyone else would run through and try not to get hit. we would also push someone into the way and yell "sacrafice". the game was soon banned.
Thorhees · 2 points · Posted at 19:29:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carpet girl and Floor girl. We had a downstairs that consisted of both carpeting and hard tile, so my sister and I would take roles. Carpet girl couldn't touch the tile. Floor girl couldn't touch the carpet. And we went around the downstairs in circles, carrying each other, trading rides to make sure no one died. There was also Tripper, where one of us lay on the ground spread out while the other walks the circumference of the ground person, trying not get tripped. Ground person was the Tripper and had to take the other person down without getting up off the ground. Finally, there was Call Me, as inspired by The Lion King, when Pumba yells "CALL ME.... MISTER PIG." We would each take a side of a long hallway and one of us would yell "CALL ME....MISTER (animal)" and whatever the animal was, we would race to see who could make it to the other side of the hallway first while moving like that animal. If one of us said snail, you bet your asses we were squirming around on the ground trying to make it across the hallway like snails.
spinkywobbler · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long car journeys my little sister and I used to have pillow fights..... To be clear we used to each unzip a square sofa cushion and wear them with the cushion over our faces and then punch the crap out of each other. Only in the face though
Hecka_Cakey · 2 points · Posted at 19:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Commenting WAY too late so I doubt anyone will see this but:
Cars are the enemy - you stand in a yard at a safe distance from an intersection at night. If you see headlights but aren’t sure if the car will come your way, it’s code yellow. If it comes your direction, it’s code red and everyone has to run and hide from the car as fast as possible. Code green when the car is gone, repeat process.
Fencil wars - 1v1, stack two couch pillows on the floor in the middle of the living room with a stuffed owl on top. The stuffed owl is the fencil. Countdown and do battle. Not a lot of rules here, you basically just beat the shit out of each other with pillows and a stuffed owl
Hulk Hands boxing - exactly what it sounds like
ArishaSmile · 2 points · Posted at 19:36:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play Barbies with my sister but they always ended up being murder mysteries, kidnappings, and other survival stories that often ended up with a few beloved cast members dying along the journey.
Edit: also I would get super pissed at my friends when we played because everyone was always dating or pregnant or shopping and they wouldn't let me kill or kidnap anyone and make the story interesting. pff. Boring
na222 · 2 points · Posted at 19:37:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Midgies" was a popular elementary school game for us. Squat down and stretch your shirt over your knees, then, with one hand inside your shirt, use your shirt as a slingshot to launch rocks at each other. You hopped around the playground like this, hence the insensitive name of "midgies." I got lunch detention for several weeks after someone got too many rocks to their head and the game was banned.
Ytimenow · 2 points · Posted at 19:38:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, me and my brother used to play 'funny ways of sleeping'. We had to go to bed at 8pm and there was no way we would go to sleep. I was in the bottom bunk and my one year older brother was in the top. Usually we would wwf wrestle each other for an hour or so til our dad would come in and our excuse of 'im helping him make his bed' didnt work and we would have to stop. Then one of us would use our blankets, duvets, pillows and mattress to make some item or scenario for a few minutes and then say 'ready' and the other would look and see what it was and obviously crack up at how funny it was. Well, funny for a 5 year old. We made boats, planes, elephants, giant shoes the whole lot! It was absolutely ridiculous and we loved it 🤣
BearOfPlague · 2 points · Posted at 19:39:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme chess. No one knew how to play chess at all, but basically every piece had its own "special" ability (that was made up on the spot) that would kill other pieces. No body knew how to end the game so it would go until someone would use the earthquake ability and flip the board.
It was dumb but fun.
mvp2399 · 2 points · Posted at 19:40:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, all the neighbor kids and I played Grass Racing. It usually occurred while waiting for the bus in the morning at the end of my driveway. We could only play when it was raining, but we would each pick a blade of grass and place it at a starting line on the curb. The first blade to go down the storm drain was the winner.
jred250 · 2 points · Posted at 19:41:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would take handheld mirrors and place them in front of us so that looking down you would see the ceiling and not the floor. We would explore the house by "walking" on the ceiling.
tatica21 · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:10 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I did this too, my mom definitely thought we were weird :)
Your-FBl-Agent · 2 points · Posted at 19:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swat 4
Gangsta_Sammich · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sibling entirely in sleeping bag. Other drags sleeping bag with sibling. Sibling guess where they were dragged to.
nitarrific · 2 points · Posted at 19:44:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I created a game we called "Our Game". The basic concept was that we were the shape-shifting heroines in this epic story. From first grade through fifth grade, our saga unfolded every recess. Every year it got a little more intense and detailed. Our only rule was that nobody else was allowed to play Our Game. Occasionally, a friend of ours would ask to join in, so we would assign them a role, send them off on a pretend mission, and then quickly retreat to another part of the playground to continue our quest. I cannot tell you who were battling against, the name of the evil organization and villainous mastermind have been long lost from my memories, but I remember it being epic. From the outside, it probably just looked like two little girls having hushed conversations, then running and flailing wildly all while shouting code names, screaming, and making sound effects.
fraudulentbooks · 2 points · Posted at 19:47:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and i played “Annie” by reenacting the final scene when theyre on the train tracks being rescued by the helicopter. We would crawl on the edge of the of the couches and yell “PUNJAB!!!” “
PlooshPoptart · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my dad and his siblings. They lived near woods, so they would often roam around and come up with things to do, but a thing they would often do is find a fairly thin tree and have one of them climb to the top, which would weigh it down in some direction. The others would then use ropes and sticks to pull the one on top closer to the ground. Once they were satisfied, they would give one last tug and let the one on top hang for life, and they'd let the tree go, making it spring back and forth in a completely safe way that I'm sure no one was hurt from.
gomeslm · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage
BonerWizardDelux · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the shoe. It's like hide and go seek, but the hider takes their shoes off and has 1 minute to hide it in any spot they want. You then have 5 minutes to find it.
I lived in a house where we had a daycare of 10 kids, so we got pretty competitive.
One kid roofed his shoe just to win one game.
bigmike2k3 · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play "Demolition Derby" with my Little Tikes Crazy Coupe when we were young. This was a game wherein he would sit in the car, I would push it up to speed and then jump up on top and we would go full speed into the brick wall in my basement...
eharrington1 · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The kids in the neighborhood would huddle up close together, and someone would throw a lawn dart up in the air, as high as they could throw it. Then we would stay huddled together and see who got scared and would run off away from the huddle. Last one there was the bravest.
Amazingly nobody was killed. I still have a bit of a panic attack when I think back to this.
WOWSuchUsernameAmaze · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See, kids don’t need video games to have fun, something something phones are bad.
CrackersTheBigDuck · 2 points · Posted at 19:51:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called "polar girls" where we would make a school for our stuffed animals, and lived in the Arctic (dunno why it was called polar girls) and were polar bears for some reason. But the catch was we were"boy-girls", so we were girls, but could never have babies. This was not important at all to the game, but it clarified that we could date our imaginary friends (usually from cartoons) and never have to be a parent.
Now 19 years later, and I'm getting my fallopian tubes removed to become sterilized next year, so I guess I'm still playing that game.
littlemermac · 2 points · Posted at 19:55:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play “The Tripping Game” on our trampoline. One person would close their eyes and go on all fours, then proceed to try and trip the other two. Often times it would end with someone crying, because we would kick each other as hard as we could. I was the oldest and therefore had the longest legs, often resulting in me winning most games.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:04:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster in the Middle. The driveway in front of our house was monster territory, and the non monsters were in the grass on either side. We would run back and forth across the driveway trying to avoid the monster. Eventually the monster tagged somebody and it was their turn to be in the middle. Totally pointless, and apparently we played for hours.
be-targarian · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Invented a game with my brother and our two friends called "House Warz" (this was back in like 1995 or so when it wouldn't have been a huge deal) where we drew a floor plan of a house along with dotted paths and had game pieces. Random weapons were scattered throughout the house and it was a fight to the death by rolling the dice, deciding line-of-sight (with accuracy penalties for obstruction), and calculating damage/HP. Everything was done in pencil so it would be reusable the next time we hung out. Lot of arguments but totally one of the best ways to enjoy friends.
IOscarZ-YT · 2 points · Posted at 20:05:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
quake 2 on ps1, it had a story where you crash on a enemy planet and have to fight through levels to find a new ship where you kill bosses and stuff, I was 3-5 when I played it, chilldhood was grate
summernight1987 · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Crabs”. I had an open staircase at my house (the steps were each its own step only connected by the rails), so there were open gaps between the steps. One or two ppl would stay under the staircase and try to grab the ankles of the rest of the kids who would run up and down the steps quickly. If you got grabbed, you’d have to swap places with the crab/grabber. We were lucky there were no serious injuries.
HarryPotterLover5555 · 2 points · Posted at 20:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really the same, but this reminds me of a game I played with my cousins once that we called "Sharks." We placed a mattress at the bottom of their basement stairs and then 2 people sat on the second to bottom step. A 3rd person started on the mattress and they were the shark. The shark was allowed to advance one step up every move, and then had to dive back down to the mattress which was essentially the ocean. The other 2 people also got to move up 1 step after after every shark move. There was no real point to the game, except that it was fun to dive down a staircase. Once you reached the top step the shark caught you and it was another person's turn to do the diving.
summernight1987 · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol that does sound fun and slightly dangerous
HarryPotterLover5555 · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It definitely was, it's a miracle none of us broke our arms or worse haha!
juansharkrider · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cops and robbers basically like hide and go seek . We had the neighborhood to play in the cops would go hide in the corner count to a number and go look for the robbers . As a robber you would hide anywhere and run from the cops. Once you were caught you were taken back to the jail as we called it and could only be out if another robber broke you out but we always had a cop on standby so it was hard once you were caught to get out. Fun game we played for years idk if anybody else played this game I tried to explain it as best as possible
kait_o_ · 2 points · Posted at 20:06:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mattress surfing”. My brother, step brother and I got this idea off a movie. But basically we would go get the mattress off the sofa bed, put it at the top of the stairs, pile on and slide down the stairs.
At my aunties, there was also “towel surfing”. She didn’t have stairs so when we stayed at her house, she would get us a towel and lay it on the floor boards. We would all take turns to do a run up, jump on the towel and go surfing up the hallway.
Both these activities would go on for hours every time.
itsFRAAAAAAAAANK · 2 points · Posted at 20:07:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else yell out “perdido!” when they saw another car with a headlight out?
HarryPotterLover5555 · 2 points · Posted at 20:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still do this, even when I'm driving alone
northboundcentreriot · 2 points · Posted at 20:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a pine tree in my back yard and I always wanted to climb it but never did because I thought the needles would hurt.
I armor up with paintball gear and run into the tree to make a path for us to climb. Once we got to the top we didn't know what to do. We decided on taking a sled up in the tree so we could sit comfortably.
That in the end just turned into us sledding out of my pine tree.
Or we would tie a sled to the riding mower and build gnarly ramps.
k_ayers · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger sister and I used to play "whale" in the pool. One of us would get the tightest possible grip on the back of the other and then the whale would thrash around to throw them off. It was impeccable.
Nobodyofcourse · 2 points · Posted at 20:13:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shit a buncha of us just lost it thanks to this post.
mekromansah · 2 points · Posted at 20:18:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was mostly a game with myself. When it was my turn to bat in baseball, and when I actually hit it, I'd start running for the base and would think loudly or say the word "rocket" under my breath. Presumably I was invoking the speed of a rocket to my legs lol. The best part is I came up with it from my Beanie Baby named Rocket, he was a blue jay.
I do remember one time getting really into it and yelling it loudly but I either don't remember if anyone said anything or if no one noticed. Hopefully the latter lol
BoopedDoggo · 2 points · Posted at 20:21:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Extreme stairs" the first time my brother and I saw stairs in a house, we had the urge to slide down them, with nothing to brace our skin from the carpet, we had so much fun sliding down the stairs and every time we got these massive rugburns we agreed, "Worth it"
bananas2910 · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m an only child, so i used to play by myself regularly. I invented a game called the “closet game” where i just locked myself in the closet and sat there. I kind of enjoyed it actually
UniversalAdaptor · 2 points · Posted at 20:25:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had this game. I don't remember exactly what we called it, but it was something like 'food monster'. Basically we had this long tube - like toy that we could fit ourselves in, and one person would be the monster, staying in the tube and demanding food-which would be any and all random objects lying around. The food would go in the top of the tube.
I remember this mostly because my parents asked me when I was older why we would periodically stack a huge pile of random objects in the middle of the living room and this came back to me.
Itsmesherman · 2 points · Posted at 20:27:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I always had a few "Passive" games we would play, like "Get out" where, if one of us enters a room to, say grab something real quick, you quickly block the door frame and dare them to "get out".
There is also "everybody needs a headbut" where you need to say the phrase "everybody needs a headbut" before you violently headbut the other brother. "Point" if you manage to fit it into a sentance so they dont see it coming. Ex. "Bro why dont you own a salad spinner? Dont you know that everybody needs a headbut" Thud
Our sister never wanted to play with us, for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯
fneff379 · 2 points · Posted at 20:29:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every Friday as a special treat for a few years, I got to get a McDonald's Happy meal. I had hundreds of cheap little McDonald's toys, and I kept them in those bins that you get holiday popcorn (the 3 flavored kind) in. I used to dump out all the toys on the floor and play with them all at once. I called the game "Dinosaur Hoot." It usually involved a town and giant monster (a stretchable rubber rabbit toy).
machinehead933 · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm late to the party, but whatever. My friends and I invented a game we called Shlockey. It was a mix of soccer, hockey, and lacrosse.
Equipment required: 2 (or 4) little tykes hockey sticks - preferably stolen from a little brother, 1 lacrosse stick, a kickball
The game is for 3-5 players. We partly came up with this because we always had an uneven number of people over so we needed to come up with something we could all play with uneven teams - so Shlockey can be played with 3 or 5 players.
Also of note, this game can basically only be played in the backyard of my childhood home so it might be difficult to play elsewhere.
Basically 1 person was a goalie - they have the lacrosse stick. The "goal" was an outside corner of my house.
The other 2 or 4 players would be out in the field, trying to score a goal by either kicking the kickball, or hitting the kickball with the little tykes hockey sticks. A goal only counted if it flew into the goal area and bounced between both sides of the house. Also it was full contact, so you could - at any time - choose to tackle the other players to prevent them from scoring. It was also legal to throw the other players stick away, but not to use the other players stick to score your own goal.
If a goal was scored that 1 person would become the goalie, and the goalie would come out to take their place.
We would spend afternoons playing this until my friend John got tackled so hard we're pretty sure he got a concussion. Then we stopped.
jlb106 · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Death soccer. Everyone would get on a trampoline ( one with a net around it) and whoever was “it” would kick a soccer ball as hard as they could, barefoot, until they hit someone else. If you get hit, you’re it.
maeby_not · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a similar game except only two people were on the trampoline and everyone else stood at one end of the yard, each holding some kind of kickball, soccer ball, wiffle ball, etc., and on the count of three we would all run past the trampoline and hurl the balls at the jumpers and try to hit them. If you hit someone you got to take their place.
tinkerbell2319 · 2 points · Posted at 20:30:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I pushed my sister down the stairs in a laundry basket and she would yell,"wheee" we called it wheeling down the steps in a laundry basket.
ax_colleen · 2 points · Posted at 20:32:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used our fingers as dolls. Middle finger is the head, ring finger and pointer finger is the hands, and the pinky and the thumb is the feet. It was so fun back in the day.
AlwaysWrong2 · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sockball. Neighbors mom sewed up old socks into the shape of a ball and we would play backyard baseball with them without fear of breaking windows.
seriousname32 · 2 points · Posted at 20:33:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would steal my mums electric wheelchair and take turns riding it round the garden blindfolded and following the directions of the others, the garden was on two levels and our game ended when I went off the rockery and her 2 grand extremely heavy specialist wheelchair landed on top of me. Good times
tycoon248 · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
sigh we called it "Ninja Practice"
And it's exactly why some kids need supervision. There was an old car port like this https://www.homedepot.com/p/ShelterLogic-12-ft-x-28-ft-x-11-ft-Green-Steel-and-Polyethylene-Garage-without-Floor-90254-0/202719048
And it was on a gravel driveway. We would choose one "Ninja" and then he would stand at the back of the car port. Keep in mind, the back of the port is made of tarp as well. Then came the ninja training.
Each of the remaining kids would stand at the open end of the port and... gather the best "ninja stars" they could. They were rocks.
Then,one at a time, the throwers would whip a single rock at the ninja. If you missed, the sound of the rock hitting tarp was really clear. If you didnt... there would be no thud and usually yelling, crying, or , like one time, the sound of a kid faceplanting because he got hit in the temple.
We got REALLY good at throwing. A few of us got good at being the ninja. As we got older, we would choose the number of rounds before we went in. That's how many vollies you had to make it through. It was brutal. It soon became initiation-like. And I'm 100% sure the adults knew about it,bor at least had an idea because of the welts.
Most of us went on to join the baseball team. 7 years later I won a dodgeball championship with a team of our old ninjas.
Worth it.
imej97 · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play a game called hit the burrito. It was a simple game, one of us would get wrapped up in the thickest Mexican blanket we owned, then we would stand in front of the bed.
The rest of us would line up and then proceed to throttle the kid wrapped in the blanket as hard as we could onto the bed. We would all take turns, then wrap the next kid up and keep going. The first one to cry lost.
In hindsight that shit was stupid, but I remember it being stupidly fun and my siblings and I look back on it fondly!
Egomaniac247 · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Probation Game: (TL:DR warning)
I have no idea why we called it this but we'd play this in highschool.
We had a set of written rules that if you broke them and someone called "probation!" on you, you were busted......and so the punishment was that I kept an envelope full of little balled up pieces of paper, each paper had something humiliating written on it. You could get "probation" for lying, for saying certain words or phrases, etc, etc. Innocent things that if you weren't on your toes, you'd get busted. We took it to extremes too......we'd TRY to catch people in lies.....for example:
"Hey Pete, what's up"
"Nothing"
"PROBATION, lots of things are up....the ceiling is up above you, the lights, the sky"
You could choose to do what was on the 1st piece of paper you drew out of the envelope OR you could chance it and choose a 2nd one....but if you drew a 2nd one you HAD to do whatever was said on that 2nd paper.
So the "reward" being if you drew a particularly bad assignment you could get off the hook by choosing another one that might be easier.
The "risk" being you drew a worse one OR you chose one of those dastardly balled up pieces of paper that said "2x or 3x probation" meaning you had to do 2 or 3 acts.
Sounds easy enough...til you realize what we had written on the pieces of paper. MIND YOU, this was during highschool classes. It didn't matter if the teach was standing up lecturing, if the class was in the middle of a test, if a class mate was presenting, whatever you drew, you had about 30 seconds to get up and go do that act in front of everyone.
Things included:
Going to the pencil sharpener and standing with one foot in the trash can while you did it
Riding an imaginary scooter across the room to get to the pencil sharpener
Finding a way to crawl under the table beside the teachers desk and get back to your seat
Asking a particularly sassy girl in class "didn't you wear that yesterday?"
Walking to the pencil sharpener and trip and fall dramatically on the way
Knock your books and notebooks off your desk loudly.....5 times in 2 minutes
This game would be played across multiple classes with differing sets of guys in each class. Eventually the rest of the class caught on (the teachers never did) and would wait anxiously to see us make asses of ourselves.
Oh yeah and if for any reason you refused to do your punishment, everyone playing to 5 "licks" on ya.....ie punches to the arm or chest. You didn't want that.
This was all good teenage stupidity and on more than one occasion we got written up or got afternoon detention.
izzylikesdogs · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Survivors: all the neighbor kids and I made huts and lean tos in the greenbelt, right by a creek, we would start fires, roast hot dogs and marshmallows for food, make jewelry out of sticks, grass and rocks, and we even made currency out of can tabs
bootydong · 2 points · Posted at 20:34:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Racing Raindrops down the windowpane.
quartzkoi · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember that, fun time
randomyogi · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Game”. In school we played this, any time you though of “The Game” you would lose the game and had to tell everyone you knew who was playing the game that you lost, which would then make them lose because they ended up thinking of “The Game”. My longest streak was around 1 year until someone mentioned it in reddit and reminded me.
annehewitt · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure a competitive game but great fun and entertainment. In rural Hawaii, 1950's. There was a kind of legume that produced a sticky sap. We would glue the insteps of our bare feet, then stomp on tin cans and have a cacophonous dance and parade down the street till we became unglued.
July220 · 2 points · Posted at 20:35:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 7-8 years old, me and my friends used to pretend we were filming movies (mostly horror or fantasy). I always made lists of all the characters and I was usually the director, but I played a role as well. It was super fun, we would play till it was dark outside, sometimes even really film and we would often even play over weeks. This was "just" around 6 years ago, but it makes me kinda nostalgic
Tacos-and-Techno · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older cousin would play a game called “Aliens” when we were kids while babysitting.
Basically we would pretend the house was being invaded by Aliens and hide in different parts of the house until they left.
Little did I know this was an excuse for her to catch up on some sleep.
Tlali22 · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(only child here!) My dad and I would find an empty playground. One of us would close our eyes and the other would give directions for how to maneuver the playset. Kinda like that trust building exercises that people do on company retreats.
Theratpack89 · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midnight tag. There were two version: 1. We played tag in a racquetball court pitch black. You ran to catch someone and occasionally ran face first into a wall. 2. We played in a cemetery around midnight. It was fun until you ran into a stone full speed and essentially took out your legs or you ran into a homie.
lucyg4 · 2 points · Posted at 20:36:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I (F) played "men". We basically divided the living room and layed out all action figures, cars and gadgets and chose what we wanted by school yard pick. One side of the room had a table, if you chose the open side you got the pink, 2-story Barbie doll house. From there, we practically went to war and created all sorts of scenerios. As adults, when we say "remember when we played men", it sounds like we did drag or something crazy.
alphamilk69 · 2 points · Posted at 20:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sonic! Not the hedgehog but the drive through! Or drive in, if you will. My neighbor managed a sonic joint for awhile and they remodeled her store, for some reason she brought the outdoor menus home and set them up on a giant concrete slab in the back yard. My sister and I would take turns with the roller skates taking orders and delivering “food”. Such a grass salads and mud burgers.
teddyfreshtodeath · 2 points · Posted at 20:37:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, my friends and I would play "TNT" at the kickball court out in the field at school. We'd walk back and forth on a wooden bleacher seat until one of us stepped on one of the bolts holding the seat together.
The person who stepped on the bolt would yell, "It's gonna blow!" because we imagined the buttons would set off a bomb. We'd run as far away as possible, trying to run past the imaginary line we'd come up with to be the edge of the blast. If you make it past the line, you win and survive. If you don't, you're dead and we now have to come up with a way to revive you in another imaginary game.
rillydumguy · 2 points · Posted at 20:37:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
map out the squeaky and non squeaky floorboards so i could move silently through the house and scare my family members until they were desensitized and just accepted that i could be right behind them at any time. they started looking over their shoulders, sometimes i'd hear a faint "are you in here" from another room and be pleased with myself
i2enjoyboops · 2 points · Posted at 20:41:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "kill". You just ran at someone and knocked them down. Only kids that were standing in a certain patch of grass. Ah, catholic school games.
MightySchwa · 2 points · Posted at 20:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play Exterminators. We would put all the shoes we could find in a pile on the trampoline and then everyone would jump around trying to bounce the shoes off. If one of the shoes hit you, you were out and you had to jump off. It was up the everyone else to get all the shoes off. This was back in the mid-late 90's when the safety nets around tramps weren't a big thing.
coffee_now_plz_asap · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There’s this game in my culture called “Above the ground”. It’s basically tag but if you get on top of something else (a bed, chair, anything “above ground”) you can’t be tagged. It wa slots of fun lol kind of like the floor is lava infused with tag.
stackypancakes · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a family we played the “pantry game.” This involved my mom, dad, brother, and I using the random things in our pantry to make a meal. It was always fun to see what concoction we would create together. As an adult, I learned this was all because we couldn’t afford groceries for a few days and my parents made it a fun game. It’s the moments like this that make me so appreciative of my parents - covering up something negative and making it into a fun game for my brother and I.
LadyJaye_ · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spoons with a twist. So we’d play the card game spoons the same way, except we’d place the spoons at the top of the stairwell. So it was kind of crazy cuz once one person moved we all just of rushed for the stairway on the other side of the house.
Team-Mako-N7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That sounds like a great way to get injured! I know someone who broke a table diving for a spoon once.
LadyJaye_ · 2 points · Posted at 21:40:36 on March 23, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol! Ya I’m pretty sure someone accidentally caused a hole in the wall, best of times.
haylestorm · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was really little my parents would play “the hat game” with me especially on long car rides. They would take a random object and put it on there head and ask “is this a hat?” And I would scream “no that’s not a hat” and laugh for hours.
JohnTheBaptiste1 · 2 points · Posted at 20:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A lot of these answers would make excellent setups in a horror movie.
lyronia · 2 points · Posted at 20:45:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shadow Children." I played this game not only with my younger siblings, but also with the neighborhood kids.
Essentially, we would play in the front yard at night, and whenever a car came by, we would have to hide as well as we could in the shadows, pretending to be trees, shrubs, or animals.
nastynate420 · 2 points · Posted at 20:46:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my bro’s used to try to take the see saw to the moon.
chewy057 · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play torpedo football in my neighbor's pool. Basically we used one of this plastic torpedoes and you could only throw it under water to progress it like football. We did 2v2 with one length being a first down and going back would be a touchdown. Some of my best memories were created in that pool
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called Resurrection. One of us would lie down and be covered with all the pillows and blankets we could find. Then everyone else would have to sit on top the blanket pile, and the person underneath would have to attempt to stand up. Pretty messed up now that I think about it.
arczclan · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anybody else sifting through comments looking for fun games to play?
Ltrnger · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh yes! I would frequently play games of hide and seek with some children around the neighborhood. I remember one time my uncle Fish, decided he wanted to play with us so naturally we let him join.
We all circled up in the middle of the neighborhood (including Fish) and played Ro Sham Bo to see who was the seeker. It was Fish, oh boy he was excited! Fish was so excited that he told us the wining child would get to go with him to the local shop and get an ice cream
We continue to play and one by one he found us, under bushes, behind cars, even on somebody’s roof! Fish was good at seeking he found nearly all of us in 5 minuets!
It was just me and my friend Ryan left we were close to each other so we both began to giggle as Fish approached. I remember sitting there and praying he found Ryan before me! However Fish walked right up behind where I was hiding and got me!
The game ended and we all circled up again waiting for Fish to take Ryan so we could start another game! Fish and Ryan got into Fish’s beat up 1998 white Toyota Corolla and drove off. I was so happy for Ryan but also disappointed that I wasn’t the one who got an ice cream. I didn’t think much of it and continued to play with the other kids.
Fish and Ryan return maybe 20 minuets later and Ryan doesn’t look too happy. He was crying and looked a little red, he was walking hunched over and with a limp. He approached me and said nothing but he just started to limp home. I thought maybe he tripped with his ice cream because i saw some of what looked like vanilla ice cream on his face.
It’s funny that I haven’t seen Fish in years. When I asked my mom how he was doing she just brushed it off and said oh Fish is doing good! Getting the help he needs. Whatever that means.
Mumford_and_Dragons · 2 points · Posted at 20:50:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played a game called Murder in the Dark
It was only played when my Sisters Godparents kids came round, as they introduced us to it.
There would be about 8 of us in a bedroom. Try to make it as dark as possible, lights off, curtains closed etc.
The Murderer would be blindfolded, and would have to try and Catch/Murder someone in the room. The first person they caught would become the *Murderer*.
This was crazy shit when it was played as a kid, especially as you would see nothing but hear everything. And with 8 people in the room running around, grunting, screaming, falling over, pushing other in the way of the Murderer etc. And when you were caught, the Murderer wouldn't let you go. Hence the screaming and frantic rushing. Some even hid in cupboards/under desks/beds...
This was some fun shit as a kid!
Olnidy · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game I called scoop ball with rocks and snow shovels. It had a bunch a rules I made up on the spot but basically it was soccer and hockey and basketball rolled into one. I played it a few times with my friends and it was fun.
There was a Disney Channel thing you could do in the early thousands where you made up a sport and entered it on Disney Channel. Com and it might get featured on the Disney Channel. So with my older sisters help I entered the rules and everything. A few months later my world was shattered when the segment played and it was my game. Same name, same rules, everything. Except it was some kid from California and he had a whole back story of how he created the game. They took a few liberties and changed the snow shovels to cut up milk cartons and the trashcan goals into soccer goals. I was furious because it was my ideas and they stole them. I didn't understand as a kid that it was staged and now am honored they used my idea. My sister was sitting right there too as it aired and she didn't remember helping me enter the game a few months prior.
mets2175 · 2 points · Posted at 20:52:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle used to play hide the salami.
Pufferfoot · 2 points · Posted at 20:55:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played the "hiding game", we would be outside playing normal games until someone walked/drove by our yard, then we would hide as quick as possible. Jump behind a bush, roll dodge towards the corner of the house or run for any cover. It got so ingrained in me that everytime I'd hear a car in the distance I'd run for cover. To this day, I'm 31, I still sometimes get that urgency to hide if I hear a car or see people at a distance.
Gowings1984 · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played UFC in the gravel pit long before there was such a thing.
Now that I think of it I would much rather watch kids fighting eachother with no training and D-batteries in their little fists than grown up ufc.
Kolias7 · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would start taking all the toys in the house and sell them to each other for Monopoly money, we called the game "shops"
Gaumar · 2 points · Posted at 20:56:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child I would spin on my feet as fast as possible and then I would stop to see the everything around me moving. Cool times, now I know that the Earth can't spin cause it is flat and it has lost some of its magic
Nebeason · 2 points · Posted at 20:57:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Printing fantasy money (drawing on a paper), then sharing for free among local kids, gthen making a competition "who has more money", then trading with that money for candies, sega and dendy game cards, and busting the kids that make fake money because we would draw better and our money looked nicer, so it was easy to spot the fake. This lasted for about a year, I was around 5 and I remember that feeling of being capable of doing everything till now.
Another time we would build book fortresses (my grandparents have an entire library (a huge room) of books.
I was passive in this next one. I was in kindergarten ~4-5 yo. There was a sleeping hour and for some reason the girls would sneak into my bed one at a time changing every day. I have no idea why they would do that even now, but imagine my feelings of weirdness back then when I was a kid. I don't even know if this can be considered as a game.
bruh---- · 2 points · Posted at 20:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in around 5th grade, a friend and I loved to play in a giant grass patch in front of our elementary school (since that patch had all these small dirt clearings and weeds which looked like tropical plants that all together made that area seem like a miniature vietnam jungle). We'd spend some time before recess secretly building up giant fleets of paper airplanes of various designs (some for speed, others to carry "cargo" etc) so we were ready to play once recess begins.
We'd play as two opposing teams, split up the fleets into smaller groups, assign each new group to be a military "unit" or whatever and place them in different dirt clearings. The larger, stronger planes acted as cargo carriers, bombers, and rescue planes, and were loaded with small twigs and gravel (which were pretend supply drops and bombs to us) and hand-flown to other clearings. The fast planes were kept in the clearings/bases to RP fight the other team's planes (we'd throw the planes at each other as fast as we could, any two that crashed were considered "shot down").
... and damn did recess pass by quick when we were playing some crazy form of those pc milsim games
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:00:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Spy Tag". It was a normal game of capture-the-flag, but we would draw from a bucket to see who the "spy" on both teams were. The spies could not touch either flag, and nobody knew who the spies were. Their job was to keep the other team updated on where the enemy's flag was, because with this ruleset, the flag got moved around a lot. If the team being spied on correctly guessed the spy or captured the other team's flag, then they win.
It was always super fun, and we would get all the neighborhood kids to gather up on my street to play late at night.
nicolegiambs · 2 points · Posted at 21:01:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger my family and I used to take a lot of road trips. My favorite was a game where my siblings and I would each take turns using my mother’s camera flip phone and secretly (which meant just leaning into a corner of the car where no one could see your face) take the most ugliest selfie of ourselves. My mother used to play too. Then when each of us were done we’d all look at each others pictures and come to an agreement on who was the ugliest and they would win that round. Although we never kept track.
Unfortunately those photos are long gone but it’s such a fond and hilarious memory
bigscrollingguy · 2 points · Posted at 21:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This could have been a popular game for all I know idk, ANYWAY we used to play this game called Wall Ball where we chucked one racquet ball at, you guessed it, a wall in a group against one another. If someone fumbled the ball off the rebound they would have to go touch the wall before another player picked up the dropped ball and threw it at the wall. If they don’t beat the throw then the person who got them out gets a chance to beamed them in the back from a decent distance away. Light core abuse I guess.. So fun lol
aurthurallan · 2 points · Posted at 21:03:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yep played the same game in Kansas.
wimpymill · 2 points · Posted at 21:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when I was 4 my sister and I invented a game we only referred to as "the woo thing" and I have no idea how we played it but I ended up with a broken collarbone
La_Diablita_Blanca · 2 points · Posted at 21:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Commercials”: a race to see who can correctly name the company and product bring advertised.
newwowalt · 2 points · Posted at 21:09:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight tag. Best played in pitch black in a yard with plants and obstacles:
On person is "it" in center with a flashlight. Flash light person slowly turns in a circle in one direction at a continuous speed. Other players run around hiding. If flashlight person sees someone they call out who they think it is, if they correctly identified the player, that player is now "it" in the center.
Iirc we would add rules to punish the "it" person for making wild guesses, and for players who just hid in one perfect spot without moving. Game should be played with players moving hiding spot nearly everytime flashlight person rotates.
JdotAllan · 2 points · Posted at 21:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played a game we called "train fight". We would take all the cushions besides the bottom ones off the sofa and that was 'the train'.
We would take turns to be the instigator but basically you sit side by side in silence until instigator makes the first move and the goal was to push the other person off the moving 'train'. You could use arms/legs to keep yourself ON the train however once a limb touched the floor it was 'torn off' and you couldn't fight or use it for the rest of the game until you were pushed totally off the sofa onto the floor.
The game got fairly hectic with 3 or more players effectively having a royal rumble on a sofa.
Billyy405 · 2 points · Posted at 21:18:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek... alone...
MeowMixUltra · 2 points · Posted at 21:18:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My bro and I created "Wild Boar Kitty" which consisted of us trapping our kitty in a makeshift pillow fort, waiting for her to escape and then running around like psychopaths "hunting her" until we could trap her in a new makeshift pillow fort and repeat the process.
boxoreds · 2 points · Posted at 21:21:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I made a game called 'curb ball' that we played in our neighborhood where we stood on opposite sides of the street and threw various balls (mostly basketballs and mini-basketballs) across the street and tried to hit the curb on the other side.
So, I would stand on the grass on one side of the street, he was standing on the grass on the other side of the street.
I would throw a ball and try to hit the curb on his side. If I hit the curb, I would get a point. Then he would try, rinse and repeat.
A twist was that if the ball hit the curb, it was common for the ball to bounce back toward the thrower. The opponent would then run out to try and grab the ball before it crossed back over the middle line of the street. If they could get it before the middle line, the thrower got another turn.
It could also happen on the bounce-back to hit the thrower's curb(without any bounces in between) and you'd get double points.
We'd play past the streetlights coming on.
cslay1206 · 2 points · Posted at 21:27:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play a game called Kit Kit where one of us would sit in the middle of a blanket and just say kit kit over and over as one of us took the corners of the blanket and put them together. This effectively sealed the blanket around the person on the middle of the blanket saying kit kit. We would then drag the person while holding the ends together and the person in the blanket would continue to say kit kit. Then the game ended. I still don’t know the point and it makes me cringe when I think about it. I recently tried to play it with my son. He’s three and even he looked at me like I might be mentally challenged.
banestylex · 2 points · Posted at 21:31:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make leaves fight like they were action figures....
FederalSphinx73 · 2 points · Posted at 21:38:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Touching the electric fence...
Chaotic_Baptism · 2 points · Posted at 21:44:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava monster!
One person (usually an adult) would walk up and down the sidewalk, as all of us kids would jump back and forth across it. If we stepped on the cement or they touched us we had to become lava monsters and help them catch the rest of the kids. Man that was such a fun game!
ytryinthisageoflie · 2 points · Posted at 21:45:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Avoiding stepping on tile lines while walking
epichvs · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
So, you know those things that you'd throw a basketball into and it would "randomly" fall out of one the five holes? In elementary school, my friends and I would throw a basketball in there, and fight to catch it. If you caught it, you were safe. We did this until only two or three people were left. If you were unlucky enough to not catch the ball, we'd put you up against a brick wall and throw tennis balls as hard as we could at you. You could either try and avoid them because they hurt like hell, or try and catch one. If you caught a tennis ball mid air, the throwing stops and you're automatically safe from the next round. If you don't, then we just keep going until we've had enough. Totally unsafe, but it was crazy fun. We never gave it a name, surprisingly.
Edit: their->there
ElderlyWoodwind · 2 points · Posted at 21:48:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When cell phones first came out, my cousins and I used to borrow our parents’ phones to play “phone hide and go seek” at my grandparents house. We would text each other when we were about to go find everyone and would give hints if we were stuck. We would also text each other updates on who we found first. I was a very small kid (still am lol) so I was always winning.
MinionofThanos · 2 points · Posted at 21:49:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called “Big Slow”. It was just Hide n’ Seek, but when you got caught, the Seeker got to give you a wrestler’s finishing maneuver.
We were weird kids who grew up in the Stone Cold era.
Drunkinfox · 2 points · Posted at 21:49:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would find a long and short stick. Make a hole for the small stick to bridge across and use the big stick to launch the small stick. Farthest one would win
2thumbs_up_out_of2 · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is it a common thing to play “Slug Bug”? My sister and I played this: whenever you see a VW Beetle you exclaimed “Slug bug (color) punch them no tag backs” I thought it was a common game until my friend said she’d never heard of it.
geekygamergirl2081 · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid my bffs and I would use the jump ropes at recess to play "horses" and we would take turns using them like horse reigns and running around the playground. We would often get in trouble for using the jump ropes like this because it wasn't safe and we might hang ourselves. Not sure how we would hang ourselves with a jump rope around our wastes...
Zr1chris · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alright alright alright. Said it whenever we saw a Lincoln
godtradab · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bedroom turf wars at my cousins' house, most fun when their family friends (brother and sister) were over. My male cousin, the brother and I vs my female cousin and the sister.
We'd try to sneak downstairs for snacks whilst trying not to get caught in the act by enemy, and on return not let the enemy into the home room.
Once our side agreed a secret knock so i'd know if and when to open the door, and he went off on his food mission. Minutes later, i heard the secret knock, opened the door and our rivals almost broke the door down. That was so entertaining as a kid.
But there wasnt really an aim, the coup de grace would usually be writing a note and pushing it under enemy door, of a huge hand drawn butt with ridiculous acne, and often the comment "this is your bum". very controversial back then often ended in a confrontation lol.
And Dead Man. Essentially hide and seek, but one dark room. the hiders could sneak around the room as the seeker was blindfolded. Ended with being tackled if you were caught. In a room with what seemed at the time to be a huuuge 5ft tall bunk bed, and the frame had one support that was just a pole. Made for hilarious getaways from being cornered on the bunk bed. Good days.
drinkgreen · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if you call it a game but we would wait at the end of the fence to see if a car was going to turn and once we saw a turn signal we would race the car to the other end of the yard.
RumHamFightMilkDiet · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Revolutionary War. In HS, my friends and I played a lot of paintball. For this game mode, two teams lineup in a field across from each other and each team has a captain who controls what your team can do. basically your team had to walk, take a knee, shoot, and reload in unison. No one was allowed to have hoppers and each paintball had to be individually loaded. The ballsy team usually had more success.
Dankoneon81 · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag with over ripe Osage oranges or “monkey brains” as we called them. Also did the same with corn stalks after the harvest. Those were dirt grenades.
DurerBunny · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to gather up things from the yard, pinecones, rocks, leaves, sticks, grass..etc. Set them all out on the stoop in little neat piles. They were my "ingredients" which I would then methodically grind up, and mix together and claim that I was making the "cure for the common cold."
I also had a very, very complicated WORLD of imaginary friends. It was indeed a whole world. My best mate was Melvin, an alligator who wore a top hat and bowtie. We sailed ships. He was the "navigator" -- sounds like a pun, I must've known it was punny, but I took the whole thing VERY seriously. I miss sailing the open seas with Melvin...
SirSauceAnonymous · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not exactly childhood, but definitely some of my more child like years... In college we played a game called “Goofball.” The rules were basically like kickball, but with a few exceptions. There were 3 bases - first, second and home - and the ball was a beach ball. Since a beach ball flies high up in the air and floats slowly down when kicked, the batter could interfere with a fielder trying to catch it by using a pool noodle. The batter kicked the ball, ran into the field to hit the ball away from the fielders using the pool noodle, and when the ball was safely to the ground they raced to first base. Doubles were a very rare occurrence. The noodle was then given to the next batter. Sometimes it was used to defend against being pegged “out,” and other times just to smack the hell out of the people playing defense. The act of hitting the ball with the noodle was referred to as a “goof.” We called it Goofball because you looked like a damn idiot while playing - you looked like a goofball.
Oh, and beer.
Gentolie · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle told me to not talk about the games we played.
ShadowBro3 · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime we would drive to Duluth we would see who could see Lake Superior first. When you saw it you would say Tootsie.
CaptainNoskills · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
mr_gnome0105 · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers decided to grab every single trading card from yugioh, pokemon bakugan and even some weird ass lego ninjago cards.
We didn't have any particular rule so we just make them up and always argue on what cars did what. Then slowly we eventually got some pokemon theme decks and played with them instead of our made up card game.
throwaway_peen34 · 2 points · Posted at 21:51:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I would set up all of my army guys all over a coffee table. Like 100 of them. His brown guys on one side, my green guys on the other. Then we would drop bouncy balls all over them and bomb them. Basically we were playing America.
Also...sock wars. Ball them up. Take cover.
premelicious · 2 points · Posted at 21:53:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Pigeon Game. You walk close to a pigeon, just enough to make it uncomfortable... but not so close that it flies away.
noodleghoul · 2 points · Posted at 21:54:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played "magic carpet" in the pool. One person would go lay flat at the bottom of the pool and another person would stand on their back. Then the "magic carpet" tried to rise to the surface without knocking the person off.
The other game was "roadkill". Two of us would be swinging on the swings, and our sister would yell out an animal (bear! kitty! turtle!) and run/crawl in front of us. we would either 1. stop if we liked the animal or 2. slam into her. Most of the time it was a good excuse to just wallop each other with the incredible force of swing momentum.
mellisde · 2 points · Posted at 21:57:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh dang we played a game we called (roughly translated) Salami. Four people would be on a swing set, one swing each. The fifth would sit in front of the swing sets telling a story. As soon as the storyteller mentioned the world "Salami" in the story, you jumped of your swing past a line a few meters from the swings. First one to cross the line wins.
The storyteller would trick people not saying the word in full so that they jumped early sometimes, sometimes kids jumped too far into the fence next to the swings and all kinds of things. GREAT game
johnnycool1 · 2 points · Posted at 21:58:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in Upstate NY and we played this game called Strap.
What you would do is have one player hide a belt this is normally played at night and the rest of the people would search a designated area to find the belt. Once you find the belt you smack your friends until the touch saftey GHould
RekRP1 · 2 points · Posted at 21:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Running Game."
Back in middle school, during recess all the kids in the grade would play on a blacktop a little over 100ft long. A couple of friends and I came up with it one day and played it constantly after that. Rules were that 2 people would be "it" while anyone else who was playing were the "runners." All the runners had to start at one end of the blacktop and run to the other side after the "it" players finished a count down. Other kids who weren't playing were stage hazards. If a runner was tagged, they were also "it" and joined them in the middle of the blacktop for the next round. This would keep going until the last person left wins, and the first 2 who were tagged were "it" the next game.
It caught on with most of the kids in recess, so by the end of that year we had probably around 60 kids playing at a time. Things got pretty hectic at that point, lots of kids crashing into each other,etc, and the last few rounds got intense, with like 5 kids trying to outrun 55 others. Great game, great times.
dreamingpeony · 2 points · Posted at 22:02:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and cousins used to play such games.
Jumping on sofas and beds and or anything except the floor because that was supposedly some ‘lava’ we had to escape from lol.
And acting like zombies in the dark while others act as explorers who don’t want to get caught so they’d hide in places while the zombies would come for them.
rinkoid · 2 points · Posted at 22:06:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to sit in the car windows up on hot summer days seeing who could outlast the other. We were pretty bored.
gordon-cormack · 2 points · Posted at 22:08:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Hide the veiny sausage" with Father Richard Leonard
FreneticPlatypus · 2 points · Posted at 22:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sort of late to this one, but I'm pretty sure I have a game that no one here has played. This was around 6th grade, so I was maybe 12ish. A friend had a large house with two big bedrooms connected by a wide hallway and there were usually four or five us that hung out there after school.
Like a lot of these games, the "rules" sort of just evolved on their own. One kid would wear a blindfold, a full face motorcycle helmet and a heavy pillow case over the helmet... you were totally blind. The other three or four kids got old down pillows - the kind that you can hold by a corner and the rest forms a dense ball at the other end. The guy in the helmet would try to protect his nuts while everyone else tried to avoid the big handful of throwing darts that he had.
Daredizzle · 2 points · Posted at 22:21:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will long get buried but we had a blast playing this game we created.
In my neighborhood growing up, all my best friends were neighbors. We lived within one or two houses of each other in the late 90s and were around 9-12. We would take an object, something like a Nerf football or whatever and one team had to place it in the neighborhood in somewhat plain sight while the other team was in someone's house for about 15 minutes. We would then also hide a video camera aimed at the object. The other team then had a set amount of time to not only find the object, but they had to steal it without being caught by the camera. It was a ton of fun coming up with clever ways to block the act of taking it, trying to find the camera so you could get in front of it, etc. We never had a name for it and am not sure how it started, but we had tons of fun reviewing our tapes.
jwc1995 · 2 points · Posted at 22:22:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd rearrange my furniture and use it as different things. My desk became a bed, my bed became a table, my dresser became a bench, my chair became a shelf, my shelves became windowsills, my windowsill became a shelf, etc. Ended when my mother lost her shit on me for napping on top of my desk.
dabonthenibbas · 2 points · Posted at 22:23:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paw patrol racers on the PS4 for 40 euros
epicgamer17 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:41 on March 16, 2019 · (Permalink)
Greatest. Game. Ever worth the 40€ or $ or £ wherever you live
skyyisgood · 2 points · Posted at 22:25:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hump ball”
My siblings and I would try to keep an exercise ball in the air for as long as possible using only only our pelvises. I don’t remember who came up with it but I remember playing it a lot.
UpbeatWord · 2 points · Posted at 22:29:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/suspiciousquotes
besoweso29 · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I imagined that I was the last US soldier in a safe house and I was defending the house from the whole Russian military basically.
Born2fayl · 2 points · Posted at 22:31:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squid. Played in a basement with the lights out. Basically hide and seek in the pitch black.
InterplanetaryPrune · 2 points · Posted at 22:35:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Family cry. Anytime one of the children started crying (me or my two siblings) my dad would yell “FAMILY CRY” and the other kids would run into the room and fake cry. It was terrible when it happened to you, but goddamn did it feel good to mock you siblings when they were acting like brats.
selestyl · 2 points · Posted at 22:36:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I literally just called it "the game". Basically we would act as whatever characters we wanted and make up stories that put all the characters together in one place. I was James from Pokémon, my friend was Samus Aran, another friend was Link, another was Spyro the Dragon...
Who we were would change from day to day. There was never really a comprehensive story, it was just whatever we felt like doing. Maybe one day James tried to steal Spyro because he thought he was a Pokémon. Maybe another day Samus needed Link's help fighting Ridley. I remember constantly hearing/saying the phrase "Now you say [X]!" And if you were asked you'd do it. Unless it didn't fit your character. Then we'd fight about it.
We played that game from second through almost the end of sixth grade. Some friends even came over during the summer and we continued our "stories". The day my friends told me they were too old for this silly game and they wanted to spend their recesses doing other things, I cried.
I still think about it sometimes.
CornPopsLover · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yaas! Pretend games were so fun! My cousins and I would play Pokedig, a beautiful blend between Pokemon and digemon. We even made our own little books about our invented pokedigs. This whole thread is making me miss being a kid.
selestyl · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I love this!! None of us really watched Digimon or I'm sure it would have shown up in The Game. The books sound amazing!
Songs4Soulsma · 2 points · Posted at 22:38:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family owned several houses along the Ohio River on the Kentucky side. These houses used to be part of the Underground Railroad. So they had false panels in the walls that you could hide behind and hidden passages between rooms and tunnels between each house. Our hide and seek games spanned multiple houses.
I remember getting scolded once because I popped out of the wall and startled my grandma. She was cool about it later, though. Just scared in the moment. Lol.
The only rule was that you couldn’t go into the tunnel that lead to the river. That was off limits.
DonutPoweh · 2 points · Posted at 22:40:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"pets"
One child, the human pet owner, would completely own the other children who acted as the pets and got points for doing what the owner said. There was a shop where you could trade points for items and other things to meet all your pet needs.
CrispyCockroaches · 2 points · Posted at 22:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not particularly as a child, but back during my last two years of high school. My friend and I invented a variation of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" with about 11 different factors. Each time we added a new one, we had to draw a diagram to keep up with all the different combinations. Off the top of my head, some I can remember are Llama, Batman, Gun, Priest, Satan, Water, and Milk.
negativemtc · 2 points · Posted at 22:44:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dudes mom had a totally dark basement room. Turn off the lights. Everyone blind. Throw nerf football in room. Object of the game was to get the football into a plastic laundry hamper.
Strategy was go find who has the hamper. Beat the shit out of them then go hide the hamper. Then go find who has the football. Then marry the two up.
Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy!
ggsmart88 · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played a game where we got a wheel barrow and tried to make the most disgusting mixture of garden stuff we could find. Grass clippings, mud, plants, garden mulch, sometimes dog poop if we felt adventurous. And then...that was it. We just made it. Once we were done we tipped it out and did something else. It was gross for the sake of being gross.
waltervdo · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The neighborhood had a game we called "Streetlight Superman". We gathered around a streetlight at night and whenever a car approached we would pretend to beat the crap out of one of us. Sometimes the cars would stop to break up the "fight" and we'd all run away laughing our asses off.
I sometimes wonder about the people that saw the "fight" and just kept driving . . . .
EllisHibbert · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did this with a buddy once but we lived in the middle of nowwhere
marji4x · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom would play "This is My Tree" with us when we were toddlers. You touch a tree and announce "This is my tree!" - when the toddler catches up and touches the tree and claims it you move to the next tree and "This is my tree!" Again
As a toddler it was SUPER fun
gamingispower · 2 points · Posted at 22:52:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my favorite games to play in the car is padiddle. Basic rules are if you see a car that is missing a headlight you have to punch the ceiling and say padiddle. It leads to a lot of questions when I forget who I play with but it really makes you realize how many people are missing headlights.
lmfao15 · 2 points · Posted at 22:53:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa and I used to play doctor
Fade_To_Blackout · 2 points · Posted at 22:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Yellow Car game. First person to spot a yellow car gets a point.
It leads to all sorts of arguments. Does a van with seats in the back count as a car? Does a camper van? How yellow is yellow- does a kind if sickly yellow green count, and if it does, then the golden-yellow car I saw an hour and a half ago must count.....
We also now have the Avonmouth Exception- because I once won a game 56-5, as we were going on a bridge past the car terminal at Avonmouth where they unload new imported cars from ships, and there are car parks full of hundreds of cars, many yellow.
that_time_when · 2 points · Posted at 23:05:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I sat facing each other with our knees bent and the bottom of our feet flat against the others feet. The goal was to kick the other in the nuts. The risk was moving your feet to do so would make you vulnerable
Butterdreams · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We got a nurf gun, a couple bullets, and Someone who wanted to be the hunted animal. Deers, wolves and bears. Dears went down with two bullets, wolves with two but they could bite the hunter in defense, and three bullets for the bear, who could also bite the hunter. It was actually really fun to run around.
NikolaSolonik · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play a game we called Nancy Drew, where one of us would go to another room or area of our house/yard, and the other would make up a story, but you would only have the beginning of the story. The rest of it was hidden in folded notes around wherever we were playing, and each piece gave you a clue to the next one until you finished the story.
Anakin_Skywanker · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to take all the "free internet trial" cds from the mail and play ninjas. One of us would throw it at the other who would try to knock it out of the air/shatter it with a "sword" (baseball bat, play sword, sword length sticks)
sweetdayla · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Cherry Pie" (we were really into guitar hero 2) and it was basically pool tag. Everyone on deck, last one to jump into the pool was it. That person wold jump in and try to tag someone. If you got back on to the pool deck without jumping over the side into the grass you were safe. If everyone was out of the pool, the it person would stay in and try to tag our legs. Whoever was tagged on the deck COULD tag the It person back and they'd have to retag. Once someone on the deck was it, it was all back into the pool for another round. We played this for hours and hours. Excellent workout jumping over your siblings to avoid being tagged lol
dopedemon · 2 points · Posted at 23:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
One was cops n robbers. Cops on bikes, robbers on foot. Everyone had a walkie talkie, cops n robbers on different channels. Robbers got a head start to hide from cops. If spotted by a cop youd have to run n lose him again. You were caught if a cop tackled you. Caught robbers become cops. These "undercover" cops could trick robbers by not telling them they got caught and listening in on walkies. Sometimes we'd play with airsoft/nerf/water guns.
J3EL · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to come up with new rules for chess. The rooks might be catapults that could "toss" other pieces, the queen would be a space ship that could move anywhere (but not actually be able to capture anything), the pawns could move backwards, the king had 3 lives, pieces could be tagged back in by skipping your turn, captured enemy pieces could join your team, it was a lot of fun.
NUGGet3562 · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bunny and Owner."
I was an adorable little bunny.
My little brother was my owner.
Yeah, that's basically it.
themotionofenergy · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I created a game at a beach with a 6 foot long stick and as many coconuts as I could find. I erected the stick, took a number of steps away from the stick, draw a line in the sand and threw coconuts at it until it fell. Depending on how far away you threw the coconuts and how stable the stick was it could fill in a fair bit of time.
kodiakchrome · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guard! Me and my friends would put a bunch of obstacles in our friend's yard, like a trash can, bicycles, lawn chairs, etc.
One person was the guard and stood with their back facing us. They would pretend to be like a nighttime security guard, walking back and forth, and when they said "huh?" we'd have to hide behind something when they turned around. We'd take things away until there was only one person left. The winner was then the next guard.
We also added in being able to lay flat or freeze in place when there were a lot of kids playing, since each thing could only be used for cover by one person. It was super simple but super fun, especially when people tried to cheat lol.
simeon157 · 2 points · Posted at 23:14:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"kretengo" or translated from Bulgarian something like the moronlympics. The game mainly included older kids in the neighborhood torturing us in different levels (1-100 if I remember correctly). Where it would start with a pinch and ended in armtwists, kicking stomach punches and pouring water over us. Not much of a game now that I think of it...
tiredhippo · 2 points · Posted at 23:14:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Glow worm wars. You guys remember glow worms? Little soft plastic glow-in-the-dark worm shaped figures. Let em charge up in the light for a while, go into a room or basement where minimal damage can be done. Turn off all the lights. Total darkness is necessary. Proceed to whip glow worms across the room at each other. No other lights are allowed.
Pandafireball666 · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well we were young, most of our parents grew up in the 70s, and we had heard them talking about an old game called “kick the can”. Us being only 5 or 6 at the time though that sounded fun just by the name. We didn’t ask what the game was or how to play (we were all bare foot because we were summer). One of my friends grabbed a can of beans from his house and we all started kicking it to each other. We got bored quick so I came up with the idea to see who could kick the cab the farthest, I even volunteered to go first. That was a fun emergency room visit...
TruthSeekingBuffoon · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can is fun! (The real way to play 😉)
knemyer · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know the playground game "four square?" My sister and I played "2 square" on the back sidewalk. The cuts in the sidewalk make pretty decent sized "squares" and each of us would get 2 of them, so you'd end up with a 3' x 6' area each, and you could do shit you couldn't in regular 4 square, like fake out your opponent you were going to smash the hell out of it, and then barely hit so the ball would just barely go over the line. You could also hit the ball onto the edge of the sidewalk so it'd bounce real funny.
GiaBethReds · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The pushing game. RIP my sisters head
fd0263 · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play skates vs bikes. Basically my friend and I (both like 10) would ride around on our skate boards trying to throw sticks at my friend’s older brother (11) and his friends who were on bikes. Our aim was to get the sticks in their spokes while they threw their own sticks at us (and kicked us when we pissed them off enough)
smarty_trousers · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t tell mom I shot you with a bow and arrow. And of course, don’t tell mom I shot you with a BB gun...
Rubdub_Jubjub · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a trampoline, not much of a game but we would put a water sprinkler under it for a slippier surface, we stopped doing that when me and my older brother went to chest bump, he fucked up and hit my leg, promptly shooting my knee up into my chin and my bottom teeth straight through my upper lip
McViking97 · 2 points · Posted at 23:15:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well me and my cousins were young when the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake came out. We used to "play" it but the unique thing was we would use a golf club instead of a chainsaw. Instead of the regular title of the movie I was known as the North Dakota Golf Club Massacre. I would chase my cousins around in the yard with the golf club I never hit them though thankfully.
HotepHatt · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the game but I played Highassket Ball (aka 3 shot) It was a free throw game played with a nerf basketball hoop. The game was played in rounds. each player got three shots if you made your third shot you can continue in order to increase your score. if you missed after your third shot you would lose all your points. if you stop shooting before you missed your last shot you get all the points for that round and whoever had the highest number of points won the round. so many hours gone to the highassket ball
gnl1998 · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I made up this game called Abducted. One person was the victim, one was the kidnapper, and the rest were cops. As a kidnapper, you had to try to take the child without the cops getting suspicious. As a victim, you had to try to escape or get someone to help you. I guess we were some weird kids...
Chickentoride · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Escape from the Nazis” - we were either POW’s or Jews, depending on whether or not we had toy guns. The Nazi’s were usually unsuspecting parents or passers-by.
“Flying Paper Dolls” - we would spend hours carefully constructing beautiful paper dolls, then take them outside on a windy day and wait for a big gust to take them on adventures. In some circles this game may also be called “littering.”
“Narnia” - a game in which my mother would tell me to go find Narnia and then shut me in the closet.
“Cheating Uno” - similar to regular Uno, but you tried to get rid of your cards faster by hiding them in your clothing, around the room, or by sneaking them back on the pile when no one was looking. If you got caught you had to take your cards back and draw 4.
“Back to the Future Part 2” - in which I would sneak around the house trying to avoid myself.
TruthSeekingBuffoon · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You caught me by surprise there with Narnia! Thanks for the laugh!
Salty_Dame96 · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Panty Flyers"
My friend and I were bored at her house one night when I was staying over. She then goes to her dresser and takes out a pair of her panties and throws them at her ceiling fan and they go flying across the room. We played this almost every time I went to her house. It was really fun when we would have to go hunting for them after they got thrown by the fan.
jpmejia_ · 2 points · Posted at 23:16:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark Hide and Seek Duos
This was YEARS ago. In my grandfathers cabin in DR, me and my cousins (plenty of them) took the whole basement to ourselves since that’s where us kids would sleep. We split ourselves into groups of two and turned off all the lights so it would be pitch dark. whoever had to seek, would have to stand in one specific corner while everyone else hid. You can separate from your partner while hiding but not seeking. whichever team is found first is the seeker. We would literally play this the entire night. One of the moments in my life i will honestly never forget.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my step sister and our cousin played a game called worm where you would slide down the stair face first with your arms at your side. There wasn’t a winner or loser.
Another one was called the car game. Different types of cars were worth different points and we’d play it on long car rides. First to 100 points won. If you called out a car but it was wrong those points got deducted
DarkwingDuck_91 · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flour bomb wars. It’s the poor man’s paintball.
You take tissues and peel it apart so it’s 1-ply. then you take a tablespoon of flour and dump it in the middle of the tissue. Pull up the corners and sides of the tissue and wrap it with tape so it looks like a little sack. Repeat a few dozen times and then go to war with a group of friends. The flower acts as a marker like paintballs.
Bookmaster_VP · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad told me about how kids at his school would play rock tag. Exactly as it sounds. He went to a Catholic school and these kids were the delinquents. Apparently, they always played right next to the greenhouse too...
softcore_gore · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight tag: My cousins had a mansion with two staircases and a bunch of rooms, so this game was a classic. All the lights are off. One person is "it" and they have a flashlight with a narrow beam. Everyone else tries to tag them, but they can't move if they're in the beam of light. Its simple, but it was terrifying to be standing in the corner of a dark hallway with four other kids staring at you, motionless, waiting.
TruthSeekingBuffoon · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thinking about playing this gives me anxiety.
VanillaAtom · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stepdad used to take us outside to play a game called “Gay Payton Manning” where he would have one of us (his 3 step sons) snap the ball to him and have the other 2 sprint down the driveway at full speed and try not to get hit by the football while also praying that you were not the one that he decided to throw the ball at. Another adaptation was created where the two runners would instead ride bikes back and forth on the street and avoid the ball. I would always play center as I was terrified of getting hit by the ball and I also did not know how to ride a bike. As for why Peyton Manning was gay in this scenario, I still do not know to this day. But it was still loads of fun regardless.
TimeReputation · 2 points · Posted at 23:17:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The coin game. Middle school stupidity.actoss the lunch table, player one places his/her knuckles on the table (both hands, like you are hitting the table closed fisted). Player 2 gets to slide a coin flat on the table as hard as they can into your knuckles. Turns alternate after one coin slide. First to draw blood wins. Basically bloody knuckles with currency. American nickels worked best.
fireKnuckleBurn · 2 points · Posted at 23:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived on a busy road, speed limit 35, but people usually drove faster. I played this game only one day.
I would stand at the mailbox and wait until an incoming car would get to a certain point while driving closer to my house. For example: a driveway 4 houses down . I would try to sprint to and touch my front door before the car passed by my front door.
If I won, I would let the next car get a little bit closer. I liked to think if I won, I was faster than the cars.
It was all fun and games until I put my arms through the glass on the screen door. No real damage just a lot of little scars you can’t really see anymore.
monaforever · 2 points · Posted at 23:19:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Car" we usually played this at night. My house was the second house in on the block, there was a hill going down just past the end of the closest corner, and a curve a little ways down the block in the opposite direction, so you couldn't really see a car coming from either direction until it got pretty close. We would walk down to the closest corner and stand there and wait for a car to come from either direction. As soon as we saw the headlights we'd scream "car" and run back to the front porch. the goal was to make it to the porch and stand on the side that the car was coming from before the car got past us.
AnarchyMuffinTop · 2 points · Posted at 23:19:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called the "door" game.Basically,one of my comrades would be on one side of a door,while I was on the other.Whenever the opposing person opened the door(and closed it back later),the other would be in a different position or act up a weird skit every time.It was always either funny or just made you question why you bother anymore.
SunnySlope644 · 2 points · Posted at 23:19:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with my cousins in which we would have one person swing on a rope swing and the others chuck walnuts at the swinger. The person who could swing the most without falling would win.
I was playing this when i was 8 or 9. Never would I play this now.
Locknessy35 · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would sometimes hum a tune and the other had to guess where it was from. Some were songs and others were catchy tunes you hear in popular commercials
Our favorite game was using all the stuffed animals we had (we had a lot) to bury the other in. Then the one inside this pile had to get out and pretend to be a zombie coming out of a grave.
marylandroyal · 2 points · Posted at 23:20:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blob Monster - one person (the blob) was draped in a huge blue blanket and tried to envelop other people by pulling them under the blanket with them. The blob was aided by two “poops” - we would put these large L shaped brown pillows around our necks and swing the soft part onto other kids beating them down so the blob could envelop them. Hours of fun and somehow no injuries.
kolgor · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my friend we invented SKATEBALL. It's a mix between Soccer, Quidditch and Handball, but on Snakeboards and RipStiks.
S4ssyGir4ffe · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This might not be unique but we used to play mat ball, essentially kick ball but the plates were giant mats that allowed a bunch of kids to be on the same mat all at once. This meant we got to play in huge groups, so much fun!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can my teenage years count? We used to play "Fireball." We'd douse a tennis ball in gasoline, light it on fire, throw it on a trampoline, and jump around, dodging the fireball.
That was it.
Once it fell off, we would pick it up and throw it back... you had about a second to do it without burning yourself. We'd burn ourselves every so often.
Suburban teenagers, folks.
andymacassar · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If we ever had a trampoline, we would've so effing DONE that!
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 00:33:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's so much fun. It's not exactly safe, but as long as you don't sit up against the fireball and as long as you don't get gasoline on yourself, it's awesome.
andymacassar · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I want to do it right now. Damn.
nookie_egg · 2 points · Posted at 23:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crab football. Basically it's football (soccer) between 4 or 6 of you. You are lay back on your hands (think when you are doing tricep dips) and can only move sideways when you had the ball.
frankmcne · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock fight my friends and I would throw rocks at each other till someone gave up
nnic · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game in primary school, around the same time Jurassic Park came out, surprising called "Jurassic Park". It was basically a version of "it", where whoever was "it" was actually the t-rex. If you were running away from the t rex, turned a corner and stood still, the the t rex couldn't see you, and therefore not tag you.
There were a lot of disputes around if you moved or not when the t-rex was near, but it was a great game.
Oilers1970 · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but as a parent. My kids and I made up a game called “line maker”. It’s a hybrid of hide and seek and tag, with me on a bike. We have a huge park behind my house (hills, trees, bushes, etc.). I would give the kids a three minute headstart, they would go hide, then I would get on my bike with a ball (it was soft) and go looking for them. If found them I had to hit them with the ball. If I hit them with the ball, they were officially on my team and had to help me find other kids. They had to run. The game was over when we found the last kid. I was always it at the start, letting me get a lot of exercise in. We did this about three years ago for an entire summer. At one point we had 20 kids out And would sometimes head out three times a day to go and play. Good times!
datboistainy · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We loved playing “Noise Detector.” We would all be spread out on a wrestling mat in a neighbor’s basement and the Noise detector would close their eyes and sit in the middle of the mat. After chanting the noise detector jingle, the noise detector would crawl around with their eyes closed trying to tackle everyone else running around. Last one standing wins. A true classic
ApricotKing77 · 2 points · Posted at 23:27:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(Appologies for formatting I'm on mobile and bad at wroting)
Zombie tag. This isn't really a unique game but the thing that made it special was the sheer size at which we played. I went to an intermediate school just 5 and 6th grade and a group of my friends started playing just about 10 of us total. Eventually we got our whole class of 30 involved then our whole grade and eventually the 300ish kid school all playing zombie tag every day at recess. It was beutiful, the real battle royal.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 23:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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andymacassar · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's kinda... modern for a car game. And cool, because slug-bug is N/A in a world where most cars kinda look the same.
squaretundra · 2 points · Posted at 23:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sister and i didn’t have a name for it but we would lay down on our sides and take turns kicking each other as hard as we could in the vagina. i guess you could call that “unique”.
andymacassar · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's...somethin'. Uhh... yeah.
Not to be graphic but what impact(no pun intended) do you s'pose this had on your ITDs (Inner-Thigh Distance)?
Secret; it's actually a thing. Somewhere down from height, weight, stats, hair/eye color, etc., as a physical characteristic.
Pulmaozinho · 2 points · Posted at 23:29:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend of mine made a game which we called "Zing Zong", basically a very complex and bizarre version of Ping Pong (aka table tennis). You play it on a Pool table. Then you can put the pool balls on the table in any position you want, I'll explain their use later. In the game, you play with broken Ping Pong rackets (obligatory) and play it like a Ping Pong match, except you need to get the Ping Pong ball in the holes where you would normally put the Pool ones. You can also position the Pool balls on your side of the table and, if the other guy hits one of your positioned balls, you score a point. When you get the ball in you get either 5 or 10 points, can't quite recall it. And last, but definitely least, it is also obligatory to play it with a lamp right on top of the Pool table. You don't really use the white Pool ball either tbh. And that's my very complex and bizarre game for you guys. Hope you guys try to play it, we laughed a lot and sorry for this gigantic text.
Sveltefox · 2 points · Posted at 23:40:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad always played a game with my younger sister and I called "Shoot the Kangaroo". He'd sit on one side of the living room on a computer chair with a dodgeball in hand (or whatever ball we had to play with: soccer, inflated rubber, etc) and my sister and I on the other side. We would have to cross the dangerous land in front of the couch swiftly while my dad tried to "shoot" us by hitting us with the ball. It started out with us pretending to be kangaroos, hopping wildly for our lives, but as the game progressed we would choose other animals to imitate while crossing in front of the couch (ex. crawling like a turtle, wriggling like a snake, flapping hysterically like a chicken). If we made it to the other side we made it unscathed, but if hit outside the safezones we had to die dramatically. One other game I don't believe we had a name for. Basically, we would all take turns aiming and firing a "skydancer" toy (if you know what that is) at each other while the rest run for our lives.
sas_pants · 2 points · Posted at 23:41:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dog and I used to play tag with the cat. Or so that's what I told myself. Seems extra weird to say it out loud. Lmao.
mistyellen13 · 2 points · Posted at 23:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy do I have a unique one.
When my brother and I were young, our mother was a nurse who worked nights. So, my dad had to try entertain two half-tame children until bedtime. We were probably around 6 (me) and 4 (brother) when my dad came up with a game called “Penguin”.
Sounds fine, until I describe the whole layout. My father would get a white dish towel and tuck one end into his collar and the other end into his pants, to give the white front that penguins have. You could only play downstairs, so you had two living rooms, a hallway, a utility and a kitchen to utilise ( it’s a smaller square-ish house). My dad would proceed to run around after us making “bawk bawk bawk” noises, and if he caught us, the one who was caught was “out” in the utility room. The other sibling must then attempt to free the other by touching them and shouting “FREE”. The only safe space was on the bottom of the stairs, called “den” (a lot of Irish and UK people used the word den for a safe spot), where you could sit and have a breather.
The creepy thing is, the light had to be turned off, and the only light allowed was one candle on the kitchen table. So you can imagine the sounds of a man shuffling around making weird bird noises. To make it worse, my dad would do this exaggerated snuffling, acting like he could smell us out, and would chase us.
Now that I’m older I’m completely baffled that my father had the patience to play with us if this was the kinda shit we liked.
As creepy as the whole thing sounds, I actually have wonderful memories of us playing this, and of my dad catching and tickling us until we were bellowing with laughter. We used to hate when mam left for work, so in all fairness he did a good job distracting us!
tldr: dad dressed as penguin and chased us in the dark.
not_suze · 2 points · Posted at 23:46:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
THE GAME.
Dusterperson · 2 points · Posted at 23:55:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillow Polo
I still play it to a certain extent, but not as much.
Basically you wear cross country skis and try to hit a ball between two cones with foam bats.
I may sound pretty simple, but wait until you see a dozen ten year olds on skis trying to maneuver next to a ball at the same time.
Kaasbroodje15 · 2 points · Posted at 00:06:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well we didn’t have a name for it it was really good. You and you’re friends are jumping on a trampoline with all kinds of balls (anything between tennisballs and skippyballs) these balls started bouncing when you started to jump. If you got hit by a ball you were out. We even had one guy trowing the balls which bounced of the trampoline back
theinfernaldevices · 2 points · Posted at 00:07:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters, cousins and I used to play Manhunt but with Nerf guns. We would turn all the lights out & hide with one of us being the Hunter. When we found/spotted someone we would have to shoot them in order to catch them. Super fun!
SprAwsmMan · 2 points · Posted at 00:09:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spit races. Me and my brothers slept in a bunk bed together. It was wooden, and from the top bunk we'd use the columns holding the bed up to roll spit down. Whoever's spit hit the floor first won. Thinking back on this is disgusting, wondering how much spit was soaked in to our floor.
marriedahorribleman · 2 points · Posted at 00:13:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the Graveyard. In the fall and winter when the days were short there were a couple of dark hours before my parents would get home from work. My sister and I and neighborhood friends would cut off all the lights in the house and play hide and seek in the pitch dark with the seeker having a flashlight,
hawaiicouchguy · 2 points · Posted at 00:14:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike Wars While we were out riding bikes, anyone could yell bike wars and everyone had 3 seconds to prepare themselves. The only rule at that point is that you aren’t allowed to touch the floor, and that you should use whatever means possible to make the other bike riders touch the floor.
Most of the time, a person would have to put a foot to the ground, getting them out. But sometimes, something spectacularly satisfying might happen. Like kicking the front wheel of someone’s bike while going full speed. Or the occasional kamikaze where, if only 2 people were left, someone would leap from their bike in hopes of knocking the other person to the floor in a way so that the other person would touch the ground first.
Everestkid · 2 points · Posted at 00:14:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Chicken," and by God, it was stupid.
You need a swing set (our school had 4 swings per set) and at minimum, one more person than the number of swings. (i.e. we needed 5 people.)
Put people on the swings. Remaining people run from one end of the swing set to the other. Successfully doing so earns you a point. If you fall over (not necessarily get hit) you lose.
In practice, the game was to do as many runs as possible before the game got shut down by a recess supervisor.
Lucifer4311 · 2 points · Posted at 00:15:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
KickstartKenny · 2 points · Posted at 00:19:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dish Swish Squish. I've always believe my Dad invented this game, but who knows. Basically on road trips you got 1 point for spotting a satellite dish, 2 points for a Basketball Net and 3 points for a roadkill lol. Entertained us as kids that's for sure
bigfinnrider · 2 points · Posted at 00:21:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Team Kill the Carrier: There are two teams and a ball. Which ever team has the ball does whatever it can to retain possession of the ball while the other team does whatever it can to obtain the ball. When the ball changes hands the teams change roles.
Basically it was just 16 or so kids beating the shit out of each other with a field ball in the mix. I think the recess monitors hated us because they let this go on for weeks.
leschickenwings · 2 points · Posted at 00:23:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called chicken pox. We would pick crab apples off a tree in my yard and throw them into the street. Then, we’d wait for a car to come and drive over them. That was it. That was the game.
Lauren_0981 · 2 points · Posted at 00:23:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had many... My family lived on about 30 acres with my cousins, grandparents, and great grandparents. Place was full of trees and all kinds of animals. We used to have airsoft wars and play hide and seek in the dark across the property. The airsoft wars were intense. You would take your airsoft gun and run all over, searching for someone to fire at. They are still canisters of the ammo sitting around in my great grandparents old garage. We did this stuff for years. A while back, my uncle built a new house about a hundred feet from his old one and while it was being built, my brother, cousins, and I all had a free for all. We played a whole new level of hide and seek in that shell of a house. We hid in cabinets, behind sheets of cardboard, etc. I believe I still have a picture of my brother sitting in the rafters somewhere...
Beefcurtains18 · 2 points · Posted at 00:24:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad fucks me
kivine11 · 2 points · Posted at 00:24:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Concentration camp... I was around 8 at the time and my cousins and dithers would go into the basement and turn the lights off. Then me and some of my cousins (the Jews) would have to go hide while the other older ones searched for us while screaming in German accents. If one of the nazis caught you they always had to make a big show when they executed you. Good times
brook3scal0na · 2 points · Posted at 00:25:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my cousins and siblings made up a game called LIFE ALERT...based off the commercials. One kid is the "red life alert" which is the medic. And then one kid is "black life alert" which is the tagger. Everyone else is a citizen. The black life alert runs around and tags everybody. Once you're tagged u have to lay on the ground and scream HELP IVE FALLEN AND I CANT GET UP. And the red life alert will have to come to heal u. When they do that, you can get up and play again. If the black life alert tags the red life alert, then nobody can be healed and the game ends once everyone's on the floor. LOL best game ever 🤣
Ashrxven · 2 points · Posted at 00:35:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zitch dog! Used to go on road trips with my college roommate all the way to our favorite pizza place in Chicago!!
It was sadly closed down a few years later though ):
WearyUneven · 2 points · Posted at 00:36:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/unexpectedhimym
decafismysafeword · 2 points · Posted at 00:36:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “wormies.” We would go into our sleeping bags headfirst and flail around until we couldn’t breathe
BlueberrySpaetzle · 2 points · Posted at 00:36:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Mini Cooper game where everybody in my family would scream MINI COOPER every time they saw one and the first one to do so gets a point.
pelicansux · 2 points · Posted at 00:36:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Corvette" my dad and I switched up the rules of the regular game of Slugbug to Corvette instead. Since they were more rare to see.
Trash_Ninja · 2 points · Posted at 00:40:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In kindergarten we were a small group of friends and often played our favourite game: One friend lies down on the floor, while the other kids stand in line to walk over the the friend lying down, one after another. We literally stepped on said friend, until she/he couldn't bear it anymore - Then it was the next one's turn to lie down Well... we were the weird one's
KairiOliver · 2 points · Posted at 00:40:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 6 we got dozens of those little bouncy balls at this place my dad used to play pool at (one of those little family restaurants with small games). We got home and we had a MASSIVE 'Ball War'. My parents and my sister and I were all just chucking these things at each other and they were bouncing off every surface imaginable. Lasted hours. Every now and then we would start it back up, but that was the best thing we ever did imo.
Lightbulblegs · 2 points · Posted at 00:41:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wolf Pack” There were four (sometimes five) of us that played a long-running, poorly defined imaginary game from the ages of about 4-7. We would all pretend to be wolves, running around the playground and yipping back and forth to each other in order to “talk.” I was always the daddy wolf, and my friends would be the mommy or baby wolf. Sometimes they decided to be a horse that day instead, which was always fine with us.
At the start of each recess we would all run to some fairly secluded spot (under a tree, or below a plastic play-house) and have an actual conversation to determine what the adventure was for that day. It was usually about finding food, or escaping some hunters. Looking back on it, we were probably viewed as some strange kids (there was howling involved, so yeah), but we had a good time and I think we’ve all turned out pretty normal.
chelpp · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two cousins would play "Rock School" on the stoop of their front porch. One of us would be the "teacher," hiding a rock in one of our hands in front of the steps at the bottom, while the rest sat on the top step as "students." Each student took a turn guessing which hand the teacher held the rock in. If you guessed right, you'd move down a step. Whoever gets past the last step becomes the new teacher. Not that exciting but it kept us busy for a while.
nickrizzo · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my delinquent friends used to throw snowballs at cars (sometimes tennis balls if we got the urge and there was no snow). We’d hype up the kid who was about to throw one and then laugh when they missed. On the odd chance that we did hit a car we’d all start giggling and fleeing the scene expecting people to actually care and come chase us. Never happened until my dumbass friend hit my other buddies neighbors car with a tennis ball. Turns out we weren’t very well hidden and running away did nothing for us. Needless to say our parents were all pretty pissed when we each got home that night and we all had to go apologize. I miss being 12.
Mylittleboxofrages · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines!! I’m sure a lot of people played it but it’s reverse hide and seek. One person hides and everyone seeks and if you find the person, you hide with them and the last “seeker” to find everyone is IT.
kaloulou666 · 2 points · Posted at 00:42:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I had this big loft bedroom with a huge ceiling fan. And being an only child, I had a huge wooden chest filled with stuffed animals. The chest was antique, it was about the size of an adult-sized coffin. My friends and I would play this game where we would throw the stuffed animals onto the blades of the ceiling fan, and when we got as many up there as we could, we would switch the fan on. The stuffed animals would go soaring all over the room, and sometimes you would even get smacked by one. I remember getting hit by the plastic eye of one of my teddy bears, that definitely hurt. Whoever could catch the most stuffed animals before they hit the ground won the game.
HuntTilDusk · 2 points · Posted at 00:43:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Windmill game. We just would try to see who could count the most windmills. I tried it with my kids, it’s getting harder, until you get to the wind farms and then you really get going
quin_teiro · 2 points · Posted at 00:43:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Not remotely as unique as the others as we just played "Pachin Pachon School".
Basically I set up this "school", having a sign on our bedroom door, to pretend I was the tutor to my only student, my little brother. We would then spend the afternoon together in the floor while I taught him anything that I recently learnt at primary school.
I may have been 8-9 and he was 4-5, so it's not like we followed an strict curriculum. Although I pride myself on thinking about all the times he came to me asking if it wasn't time for school already. I guess he wasn't in primary school yet and he enjoyed believing I was teaching him "grown-up stuff". Even though we would ended up just drawing and painting together xD
I love that memory :)
Ah! We also loved to build "The Pyramid" by gathering almost every single Lego piece we had to stock them together creating a massive pyramid. We would always leave a tiny door (the smaller the better) to be able to look at the "treasure" safely inside. It was like a ruby on a stand from some Lego set and we could lay down on our bellies and watch it for hours while talking.
letsriot143 · 2 points · Posted at 00:44:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My game was called headlights we went to a nice neighborhood at night and anytime you seen headlights we scattered like roaches and hid behind anything we could find and when their wasnt any cars we would drive around and play hide n seek where the seeker is in the car and the hiders had to send pictures of the car through FB messenger
PUSSslayer42069 · 2 points · Posted at 00:44:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
played badminton in the backyard without a net and to get a point we had to hit eachother with the birdie. needless to say our reaction times became insane and we went on to be great players in high school
WendigoMontoya · 2 points · Posted at 00:44:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ping pong balls bounced perfectly down my grandmother's old wooden staircase. On the floor below, we set up a bunch of mason jars, baskets, buckets, small glasses, etc, with different point values. The smaller the target, the more points. You were allowed to play defense by trying to hit someone's bouncing ball with your own using an overarm toss - but you would lose your turn. We obviously named the game 'My Balls Are Always Bouncing'.
littlepinay · 2 points · Posted at 00:45:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would always play this mermaid Olympic game, where it was basically the Olympics for mermaids. You would think that it would just be that, but were sisters and we didn’t have a mother, but an evil father. We also had “boyfriends” that didn’t know were were mermaids. There was also alternate worlds we would swim into. I don’t remember a whole lot of that.
There was also this other game we would play on the trampoline where we would pretended to climb a bookshelf... yes, a bookshelf, I really don’t know what the point of that was because in the game we never made it to the top, we just kept falling off the bookshelf.
kyliebeaty · 2 points · Posted at 00:45:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Although I am an adult participant, my son insists on playing “cat toy soccer” at least once a day. He conceptualized this good time by guarding opposite doorways and kicking a small plastic cat jingle ball as violently as possible to score. It may sound simple enough, but it’s an intense sport! And the cat will appear for a celebrity shot now and again.
PacifismDabbler · 2 points · Posted at 00:45:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever it hailed outside we would put a few round chunks of hail on the baseboard heater. We called it paying the water bill. No idea why
0AflacksGiven · 2 points · Posted at 00:53:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my family played "yellow car" whenever you see a yellow car you had to tell it and let everyone else take a look at the car to make sure you weren't bluffing.
primemrip96 · 2 points · Posted at 00:53:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monsters in the Dark.
My brother and two sisters used to play this at a community club with the other kids, there was a big hall, lots of hiding places, we would turn off the lights and play a game of tag + hide and seek in the dark. It involved running into things you couldn't see, falling over and a lot of shenanigans. I think it started up when I was like 7 years old.
Cogito-Ergo-Bibo · 2 points · Posted at 00:54:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby war - basically my sister and I had a TON of beanie babies and we would split them up and basically just throw them at each other from either across the hall or from the top to the bottom of the stairs. I don't recall if there was a point to it or if it was just a way to throw things at each other without getting in trouble.
Bear_Eating_Salmon · 2 points · Posted at 00:55:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mars Rover" was a game where everybody had to get into their own sleeping bag or under a blanket. Everybody would get on a large bed and try to push the others off. The last one standing won. The higher the bed, the more fun the game.
bigdirtsand · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For a while on the playground at recess we would play tag. Except you couldn’t touch the ground. It was like a group of monkeys swinging through the jungle gym running from whoever was it. I used to be an agile little shit and at one point I had the perfect escape route. Run out and stand on a peninsula that kind of jutted out from the main area. From there, if the it person chased you down the peninsula you simply made about a 10 foot leap of faith onto the slide, and ran up back to the main area. It was pretty fun. Think “Mission Impossible Tom Cruise Freeclimb Cliff scene,” except with a jungle gym and about 10 rowdy 4th graders. Good times.
Cactus_Fish · 2 points · Posted at 00:57:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called the no-no game. My uncle would touch my no-no area, and then we switch.
QUABITY___ASSUANCE · 2 points · Posted at 00:58:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
THE FLOOR IS LAVA
graceface1031 · 2 points · Posted at 00:59:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple come to mind.
squarybuttholes · 2 points · Posted at 00:59:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
American flag! Gotta spot'm all!!! Every time we got in the car with my dad. I forgot all about that, thanks for reminding me.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older cousin tried to make potions. One time we mixed sunflower oil, ginger and catterpillar guts. When the the spider that we tested our potion on stopped moving we thought that we had invented a paralyzing poison. Last week It finally downed on me that we just fucking drowned the spider
Hpfanguy · 2 points · Posted at 01:03:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “Jurassic Park”, one kid plays the T-rex and can only catch people he has seen move, but if they can turn a corner and freeze you have to ignore them and keep running after anyone still moving. Also, if you don’t move for too long the t-rex will smell you and catch you anyway, no camping.
All while doing a “dinosaur” walk.
Last alive wins!
RogueOps · 2 points · Posted at 01:06:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ushimaka [oo-she-mak-ah]
Basically everyone would get a pillow:pillowcase. Fold the pillow in half so you can make a handle out of the rest of the case.
Everyone spreads around the room. One person turns the lights off and then everyone beats the shit out of everyone with their pillow.
Then you turn back on the lights, check for damage and then go again.
We would play for about 20 minutes before someone got hurt or pissed or broke something then we stopped.
bennypapa · 2 points · Posted at 01:06:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a ball tag game that we never named.
The "it" person stayed on the ground and they couldn't move unless someone else was on the ground or to go to the ball. The it person could tag someone else with the ball by throwing and hitting them with the ball and the person who got hit would be "it" unless the intended target caught the ball. in that case the player who caught the ball could throw it as far as they could which would give everyone else a chance to run around changing position on the various pieces of playground equipment and hiding while the "it"s back is turned.
The IT wasn't allowed to simply toss the ball to get into a better position.
As intricate as all these rules are we never named the game. We played for hours a day for years from age 6 or 7 until well into middle school when girls happened. Some of my greatest childhood friendships and memories happened playing that game.
ghetterking · 2 points · Posted at 01:07:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
english bulldog. we only played it with some para-militaric scouts, that i‘ve been part of.
(paramilitaric because we are/were (not part of them anymore, since i understand what the group stands for) trained with firearms and had many very physically demanding games, among others different types of „wars“, but that‘s for another post. we also took uniforms, marching, -music, command levels and so on dead seriously and had draconic forms of punishment for all kinds of rules. at least most of them could also double as exersize, but that just made me hate gyms and stuff and made me become a fit, but very lazy adult)
english bulldog is one of our most beloved, well known, wide spread and easy to learn and understand games, at the same time it is also the one that is the most physically demanding for the toughest and best players, while other games usually get easier the better you are at it.
the rules are simple.
you play on a 10-20 meter long stretch of land, ideally wide enough for every player to stand hand in hand without them perfectly reaching both sides at once.
you start with two teams on opposite sides, often one team is alone at first, though.
that at first smaller team‘s task is to catch every single enemy team‘s members, this is a common theme in many very similar games
caught members become part of the other team, which is also common
one team is always running and the other is always catching (duh, the most common way of playing catch)
traditionally, you have a little „conversation“ going on before every round, where the catching team first shouts something along the lines of: „who‘s afraid of the english bulldog?“ which usually gets answered by the running team with something dismissive but kids usually just shout „not us“ back. yo mom jokes are very welcome here among others.
the catch is that in comparison to most other games of catch you dont just touch someone and say „gotcha“, oh no. you have to physically stop whoever you are trying to catch and then somehow lift them up, which more often than not requires teamwork or picking smaller/weaker members first. while the running person is in air, and not a single body part is touching the floor, you have to yell: „1, 2, 3 English bulldog“. if you fail at any part of this, the running person can still try to escape.
the exact rules here are a bit imprecise, but generally you play this with friends and family, so you will look out not to injure others. that said, push/bodychecks and similar things are allowed for both teams, especially when it comes to a small running team trying to force their way through a large chain of catching people. that said, the people catching obviously also can pull, grab, pin down and obviously lift up people. kicks and punches obviously arent seen, but a person that is about to be pinned down and tries to crawl away will obviously have a lot of force in his legs, so if you suddenly pull out his legs, you totally might get kicked. you cant just turn your brain off in this game, not at all.
so to reiterate: two teams, one starts small and catches others who are just trying to escape. both start on opposite sides and try to get to the other side. before running, every side traditionally yells something at the other side, but at any rate you need some kind of sinal for everyone to start running. if a member of the running team made it to the other side (be that touching the opposite side‘s wall or getting completely over a line) he is safe until the next round. if everyone either made it to the other side, is caught or is part of the catching team, the catching team (along with their new members that they just caught) go to the other side and now the two opposite sides do the same thing again. running side gets smaller and smaller and the catching side gets larger and larger. the last person left on the running side wins, but usually you dont just give up in this situation. some people do, but with us, every single person has to be caught whatever it takes. this usually is only one more round, but (not so humble brag incoming) personally, i am very good at this game and my record is surviving around 15 rounds. at that point i wasnt fit enough to yell anything in the beginning.
to be good at this game you not only have to be strong, have great endurance and be able to almost brawl your way through 20 or more people, you also need some brains. you have to know who is strong, who is tired, where are the weak points of the catching team and how to abuse them. i remember in my record run i was too tired to accelerate into a full speed run, so after every round i would slowly climb a hill (which existed on both sides) and would let gravity help me get speed to get through the enemy lines. in the same run i also used the fences on both sides of the playing area to wall run over the enemy lines. i have never done that before but it made sense to me in that point so i did it and survived another round. sometimes you also have to pick the biggest guy to run at and in the last second drop down and slide through his legs. doesnt usually work though and you have to expect getting pinned down, but if you run fast enough and the enemy doesnt and actually even stops to be stable when he expects you to run him over, you will be very close to the other side and can crawl into safety even with a few catching people on top of you. btw in case you are being pulled to the other side of the field you can pull against that to get to safety.
one more thing: i dont generally play like that, but some people do: as long as you are on the other side of the field (in the aim) with both feet as the running team, you can pull catching team members into your aim. if you do, they become running members again. if a running person that tries to pull a catching team member falls over and/or steps outside, they can be caught by the other team and themselves can only try to escape again, so the biggest guy cant just go the first round and carry the one catching person to the other end to end the game. this rule only exists to keep catching people away from the aim and in case they are trying to pick up a crawling person very close to the aim. further, you can play with the rule that as soon as you can reach your running team member‘s hand or whatever while you are in the aim without touching the floor outside, you can also pull your teammate into safety. i never really played with this rule either, but i could see how on larger fields with larger teams this would be very interesting as this would build team mentality much more.
i have taught this game to many people, be it kids, adults, men or women, virtually everyone likes this game, some, like i, love it above everything. some people dont like getting dirty though and it is the safest when played on a large lawn, but you can also play it in a gym, it‘s just that falling hurts more and usually, having to touch a wall instead of running over a line is more dangerous, but it can be done eitherway. i have even heard about people playing it in water but you just cant do that with kids, also pinning down should be avoided. pushing, pulling and picking people up still works though, water helps a lot there. ideally, you play it on a sandy beach though, be it inside the water or not.
imanowlhoot · 2 points · Posted at 01:07:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the way home from preschool my mother and I would play a game called "up the hill and around the curve" where she would describe our route home as we went.
Pretty sure she got tired of it eventually because one time I asked to play up the hill and around the curve and she just went "UPTHEHILLANDAROUNDTHECURVEUPTHEHILLANDAROUNDTHECURVE!"
Deabarry · 2 points · Posted at 01:08:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chestnuts” Maybe some of you remember ... happens in the fall around apple season when I was growing up in Southwestern Ontario.
The chestnuts fall from the tree in a green casing and sometimes they break out. You collect them and then drill a hole in one nut with a nail. You then string a shoelace through the hole with a knot at the end to keep the nut on the string. You challenge an opponent to a match and decide who strikes first. One person puts their chestnut on the ground/dirt and the other person tries to strike that nut with theirs. Then the opponent gets a turn. When you make a strike the nut will crack and eventually break off of the shoelace - the winner is the one with intact chestnut. The idea is to keep a score of the number of wins that particular chestnut has including collection of the wins you obtain from the nut that broke open. Very much the honour system - but that is all we had back then no apps! Do you remember?
lochnacailli · 2 points · Posted at 01:08:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would have pillow fights in the dark, good times.
tossmedowntheshute · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “run-across”. My basement was really long and skinny and the steps were right at the end of the room. We would get into two teams and one team would hide in the basement with all the lights off while the other team would try to run across the room without getting tagged. Some people would get clobbered because they’d sit right in the middle of the pitch black room and someone would run right into them. Lucky we didn’t break anything but it was s o fun!
bds310 · 2 points · Posted at 01:09:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would turn the lights off in the basement and slam ping pong balls at each other throw footballs anything we could get our hands on, it was so stupid and so much fun
MrGibble · 2 points · Posted at 01:10:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
SHIT MONSTER : As kids in the 80's, we played a game called "Shit Monster".
How to play : One kid starts off as the Shit Monster, counts while the kids scatter then proceeds to chase after them.
Objective: The objective would be to turn the others into Shit Monsters too. You'd do this by catching up with them, grabbing the top of their heads and making a pumping /sucking sound effect. You were replacing their brains with shit,effectively turning them into Shit Monsters with you. The pack of Shit Monsters expanded with every kid that you caught and hunt after the regular, non-shit monster kids.
How do you win? The winner was the last player standing.
It actually was a pretty fun but crazy game. We played it in an abandoned rock crusher building in an old quarry at the edge of our town (Stony Mountain, MB, Canada) It was a restricted area but there wasn't any police in our town that would enforce the trespassers (us) to leave. In hindsight, the location was super dangerous. One of the kids, Micheal, was running full speed and ripped his belly open on a rusty, jagged metal piece. It was the first time most of us seen a deep flesh wound. You could see the fat layers, it was so deep. He had to get tetanus shots and lots of stitches.
It was way funner than games like hide and seek as you were always moving and it got progressively harder. I am not sure how it never became bigger. Maybe the name was a big factor.
Feyonce49 · 2 points · Posted at 01:10:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pony poachers. Not sure how we even knew what poachers were but it was a game a player with my brother and our neighbor. I was always the pony and they were the poachers. They chased me around the yard and if I stepped in a divots in yard they were “traps”. They came to put me in the jail if they found me in a trap.
The jail was a big pine tree in our yard that basically had an opening that you could stand inside. I would collect the tiny pine cones that grew on the tree and fill my pockets with them. Then when I was in the jail or in one of the traps I would throw a handful of pine cones in their faces and yell “pony power!!” Then I would be free to keep running around.
DuckDuckGoos3 · 2 points · Posted at 01:11:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sis is 13 years older than me, so I was a lonely kid since she moved out when I was 5. I lived in the country on a state route so no neighbors close by either. My friends became bugs and animals that came around. There was a stray cat my mom set food out for that would be a jaguar hunting me. The bees and butterflies would be fairies. I'd use chalk and draw houses with full floorplans for the pillbugs and ants in the driveway.
stievoo · 2 points · Posted at 01:12:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hugo on Pc in the 90s
hellbentmillennial · 2 points · Posted at 01:25:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my mom used to have me and my brother play the quiet game in public. whoever makes a sound first loses. neither of us wanted to lose, so people just thought my parents had the most well behaved children on the planet. really we just thought we were playing a game 🤷🏼♀️
Rabbitofwhite12 · 2 points · Posted at 01:25:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I grew up pretty poor and we didn’t really have too much to play with. One game we played was just based on whenever we did laundry. My younger sister would take the clothes from the dryer and put them in a basket. I would have the ironing board set up like a table tall enough for a small child. This would be my laundry shop. My sister would walk past and go “ding dong” to bring the basket to the “counter”. She would then tell me she had laundry that needed to be washed, folded, and ironed. I would take her basket of clothes and pretend to wash and iron and I would just fold and organize them for her. She would pick them up, put it in her basket and then organize them into her closet. Our game was just trying to make laundry fun. We did this pretty much anytime we could not play outside.
betterthanchicken · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s adorable
Komaenen · 2 points · Posted at 01:27:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodge dad's belt. Pretty self-explanatory game
Hoof_Harded · 2 points · Posted at 01:27:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dookie River: We'd lay two jumpropes on the ground leaving a gap between them. This was "Dookie River" and we'd all take turns jumping over Dookie River. Each round the jumpropes got farther apart and if you didn't make it across, you fell into Dookie River and were out. This kept me and my cousins entertained for hours at a time.
LegalDeer · 2 points · Posted at 01:28:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My brother and I would play this odd game we called "The Clam" that we came up with on long boring car rides. Basically one of us would have their hand, plam facing upward, on the car seat, the other would then have to poke that person's palm with their finger and try not to get caught by the clam. It was quite fun and kept us entertained.
At some point we upgraded the game and started using our mouths instead of the palm. Meaning one person would have their mouth open and the other would try and stick their finger in and out of there before they got bit. Looking back on this it sounds kind of gross. But we didn't care
Ryzasu · 2 points · Posted at 01:29:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trash Restaurant". I lived at a camping and they had a trash dump for metal parts. Often there would be kitchen equipment in there like a microwave, a mini barbecue or a camping stove. Me and my friend regularly visited the trash dump and took all sorts of cool things from it to put in our "kitchen". We then played as if we were a restaurant and had to serve all sorts of things to customers. Every now and then we played that a "reviewer" would visit and we had to find out who it was and make an extra good meal for them so we could potentially get Michelin stars on our restaurant.
megatronO · 2 points · Posted at 01:42:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would pretend to be homeless cats. We would make forts around the house and hide in closets. The main goal of the game was to find a warm bed and “garbage” to eat and share with our cat siblings.
hsvakr · 2 points · Posted at 01:48:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“PUNCH IT BIG BOY”
When my dad was driving me and my brother would yell this from the backseat and he would start driving semi erratically and we went fucking nuts from laughter.
charihoe · 2 points · Posted at 01:49:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Feet fight. Me and my brother used to go on the couch and touch our feet together, then we had to try and make the other person’s knees bend by pushing our feet. The person who’s knees bent first lost
dirtknapp · 2 points · Posted at 01:51:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cars. Several kids would get together on either mine, or a friend's front porch, and determine an order. When your turn came, the next car to drive down the street was your car. If it was a cool car, everyone would be jealous, and you'd feel like you really won something. If it was a crappy car, everyone would laugh at you, and you'd be ashamed.
KTOSM · 2 points · Posted at 01:52:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Hitting Game” (pronounced “hittin’ game” by my Appalachian sister and I). My grandma owns a mid century home that is basically one long hallway with bedroom doors on the sides and the master at the very end of the house. One of us would go to the master bedroom and count to 30, while the other hid in a side room in the hall. After the count was up, the sister in the master bedroom would sprint down the hall, while the sister hiding in a side room would jump out and try to hit her while she ran. Not tag; you couldn’t chase. You had to hit her AS SHE RAN BY or you missed your chance.
trinhead · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is beautiful
KTOSM · 1 points · Posted at 02:04:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you. We were heathens lol
trliggered · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
i flushed my brother's toys down the toilet with my younger cousin
SashWhitGrabby · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played USA! in the deep end of the pool we would go in pairs and see who could go to the bottom touching with our feet, while at the top saying U, then S, then A and you had to finish it with “USA”. It was a game we made up during the summer olympics and a lot of my swim team mates would play.
MMISSINGNO · 2 points · Posted at 01:54:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my twin sister used to play " Hide from the school bus "
We lived in a rural area, with only one lonely road an no other home close.
After we came from primary school and our bus dropped us, there was an other, mysterious bus that came an hour later but did not stop, turned at the end of the road and passed by our home again. ( We didn't knew, but it was the older students school bus! )
We soon created a whole myth around it and even dreaming about it, how it was an empty bus looking to steal children!
We would come from school at 3pm and play outside and having fun, until we saw the menacing yellow bus far away. It was a race to hide: jump in the recycle bin, run to the house or even dig in the snow. Even inside we would hide from the windows - don't let it see you!
Even now I can't help but smile at the though of running from a cute yellow bus. Fun times.
slack710 · 2 points · Posted at 01:55:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend in grade school invented a game on the swings called "butt service" where u go really high on the swings and hang your ass off and swing by your knees and let go and do backflips and barrel rolls and various flips and twists for points. It was really awesome and it caught on quick the teachers put a stop to it when some kid almost broke his neck
eleKtriKeel · 2 points · Posted at 01:55:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Lost.” Basically there were two teams and each team would designate a person to get lost. The other team would get this player in their car and blindfold them then drive around for like 15-30 minutes before dropping them off somewhere random. The lost player would then call their team and their team would have to find them without gps and the first team to find their lost member would win. Definitely a small country town game but I loved it
EnderGraff · 2 points · Posted at 01:55:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the "Dark game" where basically several people play Marco Polo in a dark room. But you aren't allowed to say Marco, only move around the room, blindfolded, trying to find someone in the room by hearing a footstep or a breath. It's both terrifying and exiting lol.
trinhead · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a similar game and called it "Dead Man" there was a little chant at the beginning and the person who was "it" was dead and we brought them to life then in a dark silent room they tried to find us with a blindfold on... A friend we played it with still has a chunk of bamboo in her knee from falling when she was blindfolded and landing on a basket
Notmyaccount072 · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You just lost the game
Hauntedsocks · 2 points · Posted at 02:06:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, we had a game called protect the house. Basically, we set up four different quadrants, and made house out of five hula hoops ( I know what you’re thinking, that wouldn’t work) but they weren’t really houses. They were two hula hoops leaning on each other, two more on the opposite side, and one to keep it together. Basically, you would try and protect your “house” while trying to knock over other teams houses with dodgeballs. It was fun!
studzstudderz · 2 points · Posted at 02:09:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Raining money"
My cousin and I would play a game where one of us is at the top of a spiral staircase while the other one is at the bottom. The person at the top would throw Monopoly money into the air and it would flutter down the middle of the staircase. Whomever collected the most money in mid-air won. It is a really good memory for me. We don't speak very often anymore. :(
mduff918 · 2 points · Posted at 02:10:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Bill Clinton The Frog.” I cant really remember how we got the name. This was a sleepover game. Basically, you always played it in as pitch black a room as possible, preferabley a well padded basement. Then it was basically like tag but you had to be as quiet as possible. The person who was IT would listen carefully for breathing or a noise and try and tag someone else.
MyPoorLeftHand · 2 points · Posted at 02:11:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would go out in the woods and shoot a .22 rifle straight up in the air, listen for the bullet to land and try to find it. I'm an only child, if it wasn't obvious.
Original_black · 2 points · Posted at 02:12:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Champions of chaos,miss that game
MrPickEm · 2 points · Posted at 02:12:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trip tag. My brothers are 6 and 4 years older than me. The oldest got 3 trips and the middle got 5 trips. Being the youngest I had unlimited trips.
The goal was to trip each other until it wasn't fun anymore. Shocker, after I did the first ever 720 in trip tag history, I wasn't having much fun.
Being the youngest sucks sometimes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 02:12:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trip It. Me and my siblings literally just ran around our basement trying to trip each other.
captainchild · 2 points · Posted at 02:13:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chaos ball. I would make rubber band balls which bounce very unpredictably. Me and my friends would go to this alcove at school which had 3 walls and a ceiling and a trash can in the corner, the game was 2 vs 2 with the objective was to bounce the ball off walls into the trash can but also you could bounce the ball off walls and hit your opponents to eliminate them unless they caught it.
JuliusVrooder · 2 points · Posted at 02:13:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sockey. Play full-contact soccer on a frozen pond, but you are kicking a beer bottle like a puck instead of a ball. Unlimited team sizes. Must be drunk to play.
New_spice1 · 2 points · Posted at 02:14:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the potion game with my cousins basically 1 of us would go into the kitchen and try to mix the most disgusting concoction they could think of and anything was game blenders microwaves anything the only rule was that we had to put edible stuff in it so we didn't die. While they did that we all waited in the living room for them to come out and we'd all take a sip of the drink it was terrible but i loved playing. But sadly the game was banned by the family because i made my little cousin puke.
Pusscucks · 2 points · Posted at 02:15:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll show you mine if you show me yours!!
bigby2010 · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Smear the Queer." Not a sensitive game name by today's standards, but in the 70's "Smear the Queer" was the game in my neighborhood.
Rules: 1) The football (American) gets thrown into the air to be caught by the "Queer." 2) "Queer" catches the ball, and runs as much as he can with the ball before getting "Smeared" by the onslaught of tacklers. 3) Once tackled, the "Queer" throws the ball up for the next "Queer" to take a beating.
Before the internet, fax machines, etc., "Smear the Queer" was a game that was played all across the US with the same rules, and the same bloody outcomes; day after day. Should have been an NCAA sport. I'd buy a ticket.
samiampersand · 2 points · Posted at 02:17:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but my roommate and I senior year of college made up this great game without ever speaking a word about it to each other. Our rooms were at opposite ends of a hallway, and one day we were both walking into our rooms at the same time, turned around, locked eyes, and simultaneously slammed our respective doors, ran to our closets, and grabbed the craziest combination of clothes we could find. 30 seconds later, we open our doors and are both dressed in something completely different. This would go in for 3 or 4 rounds until once of us broke and burst out laughing. We did it probably once every few weeks.
Hemphlev · 2 points · Posted at 02:23:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Toilet Tag. Regular tag except if you were tagged, you had to squat with an arm up like a toilet with a handle and the only way to get untagged was for a free person to sit on your lap, squeeze out the grossest sounding “bathroom noise” and flush your arm. Then you were free to run around again.
RubbishSpeakers · 2 points · Posted at 02:32:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t play this as a child, only cane up with it about 3 or so years ago, but it’s the exact kind of thing we would play back then; it’s called Obsy Bobsy.
We both take turns bouncing an exercise ball at each other. The ball must bounce once and no more than once, and the aim is to not let the other person catch the ball while still throwing it in their general direction - the rules are pretty half arsed, we just make up who is at fault on the spot.
One of us is Obsy and one is Bobsy, whenever the ball is thrown, the person who threw days their name (Obsy or Bobsy), and when somebody misses / doesn’t catch the ball, we both shout “Obsy Bobsy!”
We made this up when we were like 18. What the hell is wrong with us...
DarthJADERxx · 2 points · Posted at 02:36:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, cousins and I would play a game we called “Dead Head”. One person would go upstairs and hide some where with just their head hanging out (under a bed, behind curtains, in a closet). Another person would be the “tour guide”. Everyone would go upstairs with the lights turned off and the tour guide would give a tour of the “haunted house”, telling scary stories about each room with just a flash light. As they were telling the stories they would point the flash light around the room. When you spotted the “dead head”, the person hiding would scream “dead head!” And everyone would have to run back downstairs and touch the refrigerator before dead head tagged them. Rinse and repeat. Lol we were weird as fuck.
sjv5129 · 2 points · Posted at 02:46:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played one v one football where we had a small field of play (about 20 yards deep 20 yards wide) where the line of scrimage was ten yards away from a basketball hoop we would then proceed under normal rules as follows.
To gain yardage and first downs you could do rushing plays by having a three Mississippi count defensive rush like regular touch football rules and try to sneak past your defender. If you passed the basketball hoop then you would gain a first down. To pass you would simply call your cadence then drop back and try to throw the football into the scoring box of the back board to gain a first down. If the ball were to bounce off the hoop and be intercepted by your defender then it would be treated as an interception. This would continue until enough first downs were converted to score a touchdown or go for a field goal or run out of downs.
Punting would consist of lining up 20 yds from the hoop and tossing the ball towards it. For every time the ball hit any part of the hoop or backboard you would add a first down to the balance of yardage from the previous offense's drive. You could make up to four throws but could only continue to throw if your previous had hit a piece of the hoop or backboard.
Scoring was simple. You either earned enough first downs to have crossed the goal line or one of your passes made it through the hoop. This would be considered a completed pass for touchdown. A field goal could be attempted if within 4 first downs of the goal line by having your defender hike you the ball and the offender tossing it end over end towards the basket. If it hit the scoring square or went in to the basket you were considered to have a good attempt.
The game would be timed on one of the players wristwatch to have 15 min quarters. Whoever had the highest score at the end of the game would win.
We had so many great games playing this and even had seasons with schedules and game times. This game truly was a staple of our childhood and allowed us to play a team sport we loved without the team and allowed an overweight non athlete like myself to compete with a fit athlete like my friend.
erictangle · 2 points · Posted at 02:46:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find my dad
He won
Maxi100a · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is late, but back in around 2nd grade, my friends and I used to play a game we called groundhog tag. Basically, it was tag but with a “floor is lava” type rule to it where if the tagger called “groundhog” who ever was on the ground would be it. The twist to the game was that the tagger had his eyes closed. I’ll leave the speculating up to you guys, but this game is how I got my very first set of stitches on my forehead.
Chadster316 · 2 points · Posted at 02:54:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
'budda bag bash'
dairyqueenmary · 2 points · Posted at 03:01:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a bunch of cousins around the same age as me and we would play a game called "Blind Man" where someone would be blindfolded in an enclosed area, like one or two rooms, and everyone else (between 5-10 others) would hide from them. The object of the game was to be as quiet as possible, or to taunt the blind man and not get caught . if you were caught, you were the next blind man
KristinaHD · 2 points · Posted at 03:06:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hamburger: bean bag on bottom. Jump from top of stairs, belly flop onto bean bag. Place another bean bag on top of child. Another child jumps from top of stairs into second beanbag. Repeat pattern until you run out of beanbags. Or children.
ftmCharlieKelly · 2 points · Posted at 03:06:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for it but my friends and I would play a game where we'd line the floor at the bottom of my basement steps with pillows/blankets/couch cushions and then jump down the entire flight of steps. Sometimes one person would throw several rubber balls and you'd have to jump and try to catch them.
Then one day my friend Michael jumped too far and hit the door at the foot of our basement steps and we weren't allowed to play anymore. Michael was fine but he cracked the door clean in half, top to bottom.
Rontu12 · 2 points · Posted at 03:06:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play a game on long car rides: head squisher. Three of us would be sitting in the back seat. One kid (the squisher) would lean forward and one of the kids sitting next to them (the squish-ee) would stick their head between the seat and the squisher's back. The squisher would proceed to lean back and squish the squish-ee's head. There were three different levels that the squish-ee called out: soft, medium, and hard, each with a greater intensity of squishing. When your turn was over, the next kid got to have their head squished. On the "hard" setting it always felt like you were being crushed. Great memories haha. Kids will go to great lengths to entertain themselves.
IntrepidZucchini · 2 points · Posted at 03:12:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sister and I created “Pregnant Wars.”
We’d stuff a pillow under our shirts (so we looked pregnant) and then belly bump each other to push the opponent out of a designated area.
Great fun at middle school sleep overs 😂
Marsof29 · 2 points · Posted at 03:18:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“German Football” we called it: basically 2 players against a keeper. Goals can only happen if the ball is passed between the players without touching the floor. Each type of goal have point (volley 1 point, header 2 point, bicycle kick 3 points) all players started with 6 points and each time you are goalie and the other scored against you the points are taken from you count. If you attempt a goal but miss and the ball goes out of bounds is your turn to be goalie. When your point or gone someone else come in the game and you have to wait for your turn again. Hours and hours of this during the summer when we did not had enough for a 5v5. It was priceless!
HylanderUS · 2 points · Posted at 03:22:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm German and we sometimes played this in PE as a warm up :) I always liked it way better than actual soccer, not so much running...
Marsof29 · 2 points · Posted at 04:19:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cool! I’m from South America and the name was always a mystery to me so this is revelatory - I have explained the game to other friends from my city and they usually don’t know what I’m talking about so it was not spread out around here. And the less running part is always a plus hehe 🙃
HylanderUS · 2 points · Posted at 13:09:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't for the life of me remember the name of it though, sorry :D I've been trying to google it, but I'm sure we called it by some nickname in our local dialect that wouldn't make much sense in translation anyway. Was a cool game though! I actually hate soccer (yes, it wasn't easy growing up in Germany, lol), but this was something I actively looked forward to in PE. That and beach volleyball (inside, no beach :().
I guess the "not much running" aspect really wins me over :D
newfette81 · 2 points · Posted at 03:20:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called chin in your eye, elbow in your ear. It's pretty straight forward... You wrestle and the objective is to get your chin in the other persons eye while also sticking your elbow in their ear... Looking back in shocked there were no black eyes. Hahaha
shellbobaggins · 2 points · Posted at 03:28:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to take a hand mirror and hold it under my chin and pretend that I was walking on the ceilings. I did this a lot at my granny’s house, which was old and had very high ceilings so it made it quite fun and interesting to “jump over” the light fixtures and door frames.
(My apologies if someone else has done this up above but there are too many comments to read through(though I did try))
Bennybooboo226 · 2 points · Posted at 03:30:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Driving in a car I’d look out the window and pretend I’m doing parkour but I couldn’t touch the ground
mollycpocket · 2 points · Posted at 03:32:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister and I would play a “game” when we had to do our chores. We would “race” to see who would win by finishing the chores first. She always let me win and then would ask me to help her finish hers because I was obviously so much better at it than she was. I fell for it every time.
catfishtigerface · 2 points · Posted at 03:34:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roller hunt. My friend laura lived in a mansion when we were kids and my brother and i would often play at her house. She had a giant unfinished basement and in it we would play roller hunt. Basically it was roller derby and man hunt. We would rollerskate around and chase each other down like man hunt. Her father was some executive at at&t so there were thousands of boxes of phones piled all over the place. We would arrange the boxes into a racetrack and when we caught someone they would get tackled over the boxes. The lights were out and only the person who was "it" had a flashlight. This was pretty scary because there were several secret rooms and hidden passage ways in the basement which had to be about 6,000sq ft. Good times. We were around 8-10 years old.
limberacci · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to pretend to be a grizzly bear and hide somewhere in our house at night with all the lights out. Then my older brother and I would take pillows and wind up the cases really tight so we could have a weapon against the bear. We would venture out from our ‘home base’, or, the couch, and go hunt the bear. We would carefully make our way through the house to check all the dark corners and crevices, pillows at the ready. My dad was a total sound effects guy, so when we did eventually discover his hiding spot, he would come snarling and roaring out at us. With only our pillows to protect us from the beast, we would run screaming back to home base. Most of the time he’d let us make it back alright, but would sometimes catch us and ‘eat’ us with a barrage of tickles and cuddles.
He also used to strap a belt around his chest on the trampoline, get on all fours and simulate a bucking bronco for us to ride. We’d climb on his back with one hand under the belt and the other raised high like a real bull rider. Then he would buck, jump and twist and try to throw us off. Epic
SoyLolita · 2 points · Posted at 03:41:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For context: I went to catholic school in Mexico. The school was pretty big (since it was prek-12), at the foot of a mountain (but high enough to overlook the city), made out of red bright bricks, and plenty of green spaces.
After school, I had to wait a couple of hours hanging out at school before my extracurriculars started.... SO to pass the time... by bff and I created a universe that combined (1) Avatar: The Last Airbender, (2) Winx, (3) Harry Potter, etc.
Eventually other girls from different grades joined our game and it was honestly so fun. We divided the school into kingdoms (air nation, fire nation, etc), created missions, a family tree, and even a very basic imaginary language.
I was between 9-12
jmai164 · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
came close to playing doctors with some old syringes we found in the park
Thanks for saving my life mum
bmak88 · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
gaga ball, you take a few medium size foam balls with 4 or more people and try and hit them at other players below the knee with said foam balls, players have to keep balls on the ground cant pick up the ball have to slap, super fun used to play it at camp, to be good you have to move well and watch your back.
BURN1NG_1C3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing this at my church it's really fun
Peemster99 · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At one picnic, me and the neighbor kids made up a game called "hot salava" that was basically complicated volleyball where parts of the ground were lava that you couldn't touch. It was a LOT of fun but the rules were too complicated for us to remember at the next party so we were all really disappointed.
Also, not really a game (or childhood), but in high school/college, me and my friends would ritually kiss our hand and tap the roof of the car whenever going through a yellow light.
from-nibly · 2 points · Posted at 03:44:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paper wars. You draw a battle field on a piece of paper. Then you draw some "guys" on either side. Each person takes turns standing a pencil in it's tip and hold it with you finger on the eraser end and flick it to make a mark on the paper. Your have to declare if you are moving or shooting. The rest of the details we just argued about.
StonieRoo · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bus Evacuation" - big sister would help me evacuate the couch (bus), like the bus evacuation drills at school. She would just help me get down off the couch over and over again lol.
Roseroserose87 · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I went to Mexico with a friend and my family, we made a game out of all the dogs running around. We would shout “Dog Watch 1!” And the number would go up. We were on around “dog watch 30” when my friend starts stuttering and she’s like, “roof, roof! Roof Dog!” We didn’t know that some people keep their dog on the roof, so that became incorporated into the game as bonus points. Everyone was a winner because we saw sooo many dogs.
poop-buttass · 2 points · Posted at 04:15:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a real small town, but we would play "manhunt". Not a unique game, but had some.... unique moments. We would set up a perimeter of a few blocks. 1 or 2 people have to wait 10 minutes at the end of the perimeter. Everyone else takes the fuck off into the darkness (only played at dusk or night). Basically hide and seek except you weren't allowed to stop moving, and you had to be in pairs or a trio in case of odd numbers. Within the perimeter, nothing was out of bounds. Treetops, yards, sheds, ditches, dog houses, you name it. If you were spotted by the hunters, they chase you down and you're now a hunter too. It was real fun having groups of like 14 kids and watching the hunters group get bigger, or watching a team from the shadows and having them get chased so you could escape. My friend and I were undefeated. Found every hider in a single tree one time.
iififlifly · 2 points · Posted at 04:32:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "corpse and detective. " This was sometimes paired with "Dramatic Death," where we'd finger-gun murder each other and have to die realistically. You lose if you catch yourself with your arms, extra points for falling off of something or rolling spinning in the right direction with the "bullet."
Anyway, one person would be dead and the other was the detective, and under the guise of finding out how they died, they had to prove they weren't dead by making them move, laugh, smile, etc. Tickling was not allowed for obvious reasons, but touching was. The detective could move the corpses limbs about, lift their eyelids, whatever, and there was a lot of funny narration about the situation.
Similar, we played "Grand Poobah" which is where the Grand Poobah made a very dramatic speech while sitting criss-cross-applesauce. "I...am the Grand Poobah, Unamused...and Unamusing...make me laugh." This had to be said with a straight face, which got easier with practice. The other players then had to make the Grand Poobah laugh, but in this one touching was strictly forbidden. For some of us it was easy and just a matter of silly faces. Others, we had to get more creative. I remember one time I learned in really slow and creepy like, right up to my brother's ear after we'd been trying for like 5 minutes, and I just whispered "pepsi" and it set him off.
vampyreprincess · 2 points · Posted at 04:38:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No me, but my dad. He grew up in the country and a lot of his cousins lived nearnearby. They would play "tree chicken." All the kids would climb a tree, except one who would stand at the bottom and chop the tree down. Last one in the tree, even if it was falling, won. Just one of many stupid games that led to my dad having a medical file thicker than my college textbooks by age 10.
brooklynscholar · 2 points · Posted at 04:40:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Steal the bacon 🥓 - A game in 2nd grade gym class where the teacher tied a large black trash bag into a knot and had the class sit around it in a wide circle with about a 12’ radius to the “bacon” from the kids on the circumference. He would then assign each kid a number with each number having a duplicate. he would then call out a number at which point the two kids with that number assigned would run out trying to steal the bacon. This basically turned into a tug of war type thing where the winner got the bacon if they pulled the other kid back to their spot in the circle. We played this game rarely because we would get so riled up it was like cage fighting for us.
blakeusa25 · 2 points · Posted at 04:41:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BB Gun wars. We used metal trash can lids as shields.
Random_G · 2 points · Posted at 04:43:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soccer Wars. Hundreds of kids would run out of the classrooms at the recess bell. We'd empty the large metal crate of balls: basketballs, soccer balls footballs and volleyballs. We would take them out into the field and somehow, magically, just split into two large groups with about 50 feet between us. Then we would start punting the balls high into the air towards the opposing team. The kicks sounded like cannon fire. More kids would run to join. The entire school was unified at recess, all grades, both genders, loner kids and popular kids all doing the same thing voluntarily. You didn't have to be good at anything. The was no winning. You didn't have to kick or catch anything. Just dodge the cannons.
irish-ygritte · 2 points · Posted at 04:57:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Chip Game” - my best friend in elementary school and I made up this game where one person would go in the bathroom and the other would take a plain Lay’s chip and put something on it — ketchup, icing, pickle juice, horseradish. Anything was fair game except dog food. The other person had to close their eyes, eat it, and guess what it was.
kuhlease · 2 points · Posted at 05:01:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother and i would play “mercy”. you’d do something painful to other, until they said mercy. whoever lasted longer would win.
i would go first every time, and bite him until it drew blood. and the second he’d touch me i’d yell mercy.
Alpha7214 · 2 points · Posted at 05:04:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That reminds me of hand tennis or scorpion, but those circumvent the strategy of throwing just to inflict pain by having both people go pretty much at the same time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Isn’t mercy also that hand game where you have to bend the person’s hand backwards until they say mercy
kuhlease · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
that could definitely be where this started!
BuxPro · 2 points · Posted at 05:24:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Long ago, my family lived in an apartment building, on the third floor. My sister and I made up a game using the vehicles that drove past us while we where on the balcony. We would choose either circle or square. And as a vehicle drive by we would look furiously for the gas tank door, 3 in a row wins! There would be the odd ‘blank!’ But it was fun!
itchy_ankles · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A neighbor of a friend decorated their front lawn w bowling balls (hippie/college house in hippie/college town.) one night at a sleepover, around age 13, we took 5 or 6 and bowled them at bicycles and things that crashed well. Then we invented the game where we loaded them onto the backyard trampoline and everyone bounced while dodging bowling balls. I think we may have banged a toe or two but somehow no real injuries. Kids are dumb, folks!
find-stuff · 2 points · Posted at 05:30:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend that the store shopping cart was a carriage, drawn by horses and that I was a cowboy who was on an adventure out in the west.
CatStopThat · 2 points · Posted at 05:31:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in WV but my mom is Canadian so we often took trips up there in the motorhome. My brother and I would try to spot as many license plates from different states as we could. Also we would try to spot road signs with each letter in them in alphabetical order.
We also had a game called Uncle Mikey. Basically I would play as a cat and he would be my human uncle mikey and we had adventures. Offer we would try to get our cat boots in the game but she didnt care enough.
Omicra98 · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
4 way cricket, it’s really boring and you play with a larger, softer ball
sol_siler · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Salt and pepper’ - me and another kid, my brother usually, would stand on either end of the porch. One person was salt and the other person was pepper. And you would just start walking towards each other saying the thing you were over and over. You say it faster as you got closer together so eventually the word is just running together and then at some point one person says “I win!” And then that was it. They won, and you’d start over.
No, you read it right. It doesn’t make sense.
muscle_thunder · 2 points · Posted at 05:45:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Basebee" - Combination of baseball and frisbee. Pitcher would stand on the mound and throw (more like whip it as hard as possible) the frisbee towards the diamond. Batter would have to catch it or at least slap it down so it doesn't hit a designated area on the diamond: this would count as a strike. Once the batter stops the frisbee, they throw it has far has possible and then run. Pitcher also couldn't throw it above the batter's head, this would count as a ball. Two balls for missing the diamond entirely.
enimch · 2 points · Posted at 05:53:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“P. Stinky” It was basically ball tag but with this old orange ball that smelled of stinky cheese that no one wanted to touch. You’d end up waiting around for someone to come to you to avoid touching P stinky. Which subconsciously created the the rule of you couldn’t hold P stinky for more than 3 seconds.
gerberner · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A favorite game with me and my cousins was hide and seek, but with our DS’s. We would get on the pictochat and send eachother messages and clues. It was mostly used for taunting the seeker and for the hiders to communicate so it wasn’t so boring just hiding there. Also the seeker you use the connection bars as a way to tell if they were close to someone. Stronger connection = closer to a person
jackkshenshall · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when everyone in the neighbour hood was young enough to free on the weekends, We used to play a game called kick the can. Basically one person was trying to find people, and when they did said person would go to jail. Then everyone else had to try and kick a can/bottle/jug that was set up in a central/open area. If everyone was found then someone else was it, if the can was kicked successfully, everyone in jail was free to run!
There was an ants colony near the best hiding spot, so I developed an immunity to ant bites obviously.
Serenity_N_O_W_ · 2 points · Posted at 05:58:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd throw barbies over the stairwell and watch to see what funny positions they'd land in
BadMeniscus · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cat strangle.
We collected bouncy balls, like maybe 100 of them, and dumped them from the top of the stairs. Whoever collected the most balls was the winner. Couldn’t then and still couldn’t tell you why we named it cat strangle.
Dryerboy · 2 points · Posted at 06:03:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Back Game
When I was little I'd stand in front of the door with my hand on the doorknob and say "back!" (As in "I'll be back") then I'd walk out on the front porch, stand there for a few seconds, come inside and laugh my ass off.
I don't remember this, but my parents say that it used to keep me entertained for hours
Alaqabi · 2 points · Posted at 06:30:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trying to get a girlfriend.
a_female_caitian · 2 points · Posted at 06:40:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So this is a game I made that passed through my friend groups for years and was even adapted and is occasionally played to this day.
So in it's original form it was called "The TARDIS game."
In our playground, there was a tree that was a decent distance away from a bench. The bench was the starting point and one person would play a Time Lord defending the TARDIS. The other people's objective was to get to and steal the TARDIS. If the Time Lord pointed their sonic screwdriver (finger) at you and shouted "HEY!" you had to go back to the start. There were a few places where you could hide and couldn't be sent back.
The game has now been adapted for my non-Doctor Who fan friends.
The newest version is called the mum game.
Instead of a TARDIS it's just called the wall because it's... well it's a wall.
Instead of a Time Lord it's the mum.
And instead of shouting "HEY!" you have to shout "BACK TO BED" and then the name of whoever's talking and they have to go back to the ramp that's the starting point.
It's amazing that this random game I thought of in like year 4 has lasted this long.
spookypoptart · 2 points · Posted at 07:25:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
haunted house! my sister and I would decorate our hallway and take turns scaring each other going down it, not even just around Halloween Haha. we used to also pretend to yell at each other in foreign languages? or something lol
Bunky68 · 2 points · Posted at 11:00:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know if anyone else has mentioned this yet but I call it the "Sunday game". it's where you start with a word and another person responds with a word that rhymes/is a synonym/or has a relation to that word.
this is how a game would go
starting word : keyboard
player 2 : board
player 1 : bored
player 2 : boar
the game will keep going like this until someone brings the word to Sunday
edit : formatting
evanjw90 · 2 points · Posted at 11:07:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school, we would play a game called, "red light". The last one to hit the cars ceiling would need to remove an article of clothing. It was a great ice breaker.
InMyOppinion · 2 points · Posted at 11:28:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock or coconut. Dodge them both unless you want to find out which it was. They weren't really coconuts, they were palm tree seeds I think.
nostalgiaboner20 · 2 points · Posted at 11:47:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There might be a few people that knows this game so I’m gonna be surprised if a lot of people knows this game. Back when i was 7 years old my mom took me, my twin brother(TB), my older sister(OS), and my moms friends kids(one boy and two girls. Leaves a total of six kids) all down to blockbuster near where we lived near at. My mom told us that we can get a game but only enough for two games so me, TB, and the other kid that was with us found one game that made me instantly loved this one marvel character forever. It was the ps2 game The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. This game was the soul reason that made me loved marvel forever and especially made me love hulk himself. For that whole day i played that game until twelve in the morning and sadly we had to return the game the next day and i didn’t want to return it back to blockbuster. It has been thirteen years since i’ve seen that game and i managed to find one on amazon for a great price and now i cant wait next week to get it.
Jeffdk · 2 points · Posted at 11:48:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mommy where's daddy?
madformattsmith · 2 points · Posted at 11:52:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and me dad would play this game called 'bagsy' where we'd dig up the Argos catalogue, look through it, look for anything we liked the look of, then yell 'bagsy' whilst putting our hand down on the product we liked/wanted.
it was a fun way for him to figure out what I wanted for christmas when i was about 6 or 7 years old.
JonathanisLow · 2 points · Posted at 12:09:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie tip, one zombie (the chaser) hunts five survivors (hiders), survivors get two bullets one can be used as a self revive one as a taser. Last person to get found wins
ReadsStuff · 2 points · Posted at 12:22:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was like... a chess war game? We’d draw a map and draw archers and swordsmen and move them. I can’t remember how the attack rules or anything would work but it was basically an turn based strategy game.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:22:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super fast cleanup. We hated cleaning our rooms so we'd stand on our toy box and countdown from 3 and then cleanup the room as fast as possible as to avoid the monotony.
KarimKBL · 2 points · Posted at 12:43:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was like 4 or 5 me and my aunt used to play "dentist" she'd put on rubber gloves and pretend to operate on my teeth. One day i randomly asked her to touch my peepee with the glove on. I can't remember why i said that, but i remember the absolute horror on her face.
BaldCamel21 · 2 points · Posted at 12:44:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Alsos ", it's a card named after the park we used to hang out, it's a mix of UNO-Tichu-Poker with some other fucked up rules,
Best game ever played because one moment you have the best deck 1s later you lose
purplesilverstars14 · 2 points · Posted at 12:45:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play “clock,” where one person would lie on the ground and the others would run clockwise around them just in reach of their limbs. The one on the ground would try and trip the people running around.
Incredibly safe, as you can see /s
berandom1984 · 2 points · Posted at 12:52:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The saying was, if you have time for "games" you have time to weed the yard. So the "game" was called "weed fast before it gets dark"
Stvreps · 2 points · Posted at 12:53:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Colors. There would be a "tagger" in the middle of the field. They would call out a color. If you were wearing that color, you would walk across to the other side. If you didn't, you would try to run across without getting tagged. If you got tagged you were it.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:55:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Interrogation. One of us would make up a crime and interrogate the rest of our friends one by one, who would try to incriminate someone and justify themselves. At the end, they would analize the anecdotes and determine who was the criminal.
hottoastymemes · 2 points · Posted at 12:58:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the naked closet game with my uncle.
Unknownfrosty · 2 points · Posted at 13:04:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did hunger games. Everyone goes into a circle then charges at other people. You need to tag someone 10x to kill them.
growlingbear · 2 points · Posted at 13:11:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Don't tell Daddy!"
paru335 · 2 points · Posted at 13:21:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play this game called "sister sister", where 3 of us sisters would just be doing regular things together
Remfy · 2 points · Posted at 13:23:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 4th and 5th grade my friends and I almost always had "Chestnut War" after school at a local playground.
We were like 5-6 people and it was so fun. We sometimes formed factions with other people during a session and took out people with a numeral advantage.
I remember once getting hit on top of a playground tower (it didn't hurt at all), but smart me decided to fake that it hurt a lot and when one friend came to check if I was OK I threw a chestnut really hard at him. He wasn't happy at me after that and that ended that session.
Man I wish I could rewind time just a few years... 4th and 5th grade were the best.
Enihusky · 2 points · Posted at 13:41:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play wii golf, but the goal would be to lose first. We called it Flog, and every time we sent a ball sailing into the water or off the map entirely, we yelled “FLOG!”
jerman113 · 2 points · Posted at 13:43:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clothes trading with my childhood bestfriends.
mariahmariahoward83 · 1 points · Posted at 12:15:40 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
What's the mechanics of the game?
jerman113 · 1 points · Posted at 12:26:19 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Thursday night, we planned to trade clothes and that's just it. I forgot when did it start and what our reasons back then. Haha, but its addicting! I dont know if its the reason why I'm into trading now as an adult. I do crypto trading alot these past few years even now and I'm really enjoying myself. I seriously caaaaant stop.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:45:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We sword fought at night wearing football or motorcycle helmets and wiffle ball bats. That shit hurts on the back of the thighs when you're blindsided. Ah good times.
mckennamo · 2 points · Posted at 13:47:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my dad would leave for a work trip, he would hide a piece of gum around the house with a bunch of clues and put the first clue under my pillow. I always loved running around the house trying to follow the clues and find the little gift he left.
We were broke back then, and he had to work super hard to make ends meet, but he always made time for me. It makes my heart happy to think of him hiding those little pieces of paper around our house on the early mornings before he would leave, just so I could have something fun to do when I woke up.
IWouldLikeSomeChips · 2 points · Posted at 13:48:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tacos In Mexico, me and my friend always liked how people made tacos and we wanted to try to make some tacos, but, instead of meat and tortillas we used leaves and rocks. We placed rocks inside of a taco-shaped leaf and gave it to the kids in our town. We were like 6 at the time so I don't remember why we stopped, I think we bite one of our tacos and it (obviously) tasted horrible, that's when we stopped.
the_one_tony_stark · 2 points · Posted at 13:52:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For some reason we called "ice pinata". Play halo multiplayer, only use plasma grenades and warthogs and try to kill each other. You try to dodge and stick a plasma grenade to to their warthog, but they can get out in time if they see it. The ice is slippery and makes movement and driving harder. The warthogs fly up high in the air and sometimes you're launched but you also survive.
In one memorable moment someone was launched, got out of the warthog, immediately threw a plasma grenade while still in the air and got one stuck on the other player.
JuulsOnGreen · 2 points · Posted at 13:54:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boomball. You needed 8 of those fold tables, and you set them up in a hexagon on their sides. You use a dodgeball or soccer ball and have to hit the ball against the tables to keep the game going. Everyone stands in the zone and the objective of the game is to hit the ball at other players feet while they try to avoid it in a "battle royale" style of play. I worked at a summer camp and set this game up one day, and INSTANTLY kids put their phones down and hopped in the hexagon.
swordrush · 2 points · Posted at 13:59:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Candle in the Dark." Two teams, each trying to protect a candle set on opposite sides of the room. The goal is to blow out the candle of the opponent's team. While the room's lights are turned off, you can run, wrestle, virtually anything you want; however, while the room's lights are on you can't move or be caught standing. If you get caught, you're out for the rest of the game.
rydan · 2 points · Posted at 14:04:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and my cousins would lock ourselves in the hallway (it had doors on both ends and hooked around). Then we'd shut off all the lights and pretend we were blobs. And the only thing you were allowed to say was "blob". The name of the game was "Blob".
lade1rex · 2 points · Posted at 14:05:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"DS Hide and Seek". Basically just hide and seek but we would use pictochat to give hints.
DaKuASMR · 2 points · Posted at 14:12:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played with pencils. They were a family living in a package. The red, yellow and pink were girls, the rest were boys. I also put marker leads in water until they color the water. And my hands were bathing dinosaurs.
Echo_FoxTrot_123 · 2 points · Posted at 14:32:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a car game called "Ducky" with my brother when we were going on road trips. If you spotted a yellow car, you would shout "DUCKY!" but construction vehicles didn't count, and Beetles were worth 2 points.
impretty206 · 2 points · Posted at 14:36:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend rode our bikes and we acted like we were buses
Dingdongmycatisgone · 2 points · Posted at 14:41:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Slightly embarrassing, but I was an only child so I had to be very imaginative. I had a loft bed that was my "castle". I would set up a ton of stuffed animals (like 20 to 30) on the floor beside my bed, climb up top, put on a unicorn headband I had, and become the "unicorn princess of the wolf kingdom". I would delegate responsibilities and issue decrees to the citizens of my kingdom.
Edit: yes, the wolves would talk back. There wasn't a real objective of any sort, but this was the closest thing to a "game" I did.
NebariNerd71 · 2 points · Posted at 14:52:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa used to play this game called Hank Pank.
A word game it which the two words had to rhyme and you could only use one sentence to give the clue.
There were 3 variations Hank pank Hanky panky Hankity pankity
All syllables must rhyme.
I.e.
A doughnut is a hank pank -a cop shop
An athletic dwarf is a hanky panky -a sporty shorty
Cant wait to hear what you all come up with.
m-dog123 · 2 points · Posted at 14:59:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On a windy day I would let a grocery bag go in the wind and try to catch it before it got to the trees
spasticamoebas · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Troll Bowling.
My family had this really long dining room table in that front room of our house (you know, the room in every middle class house that no one ever went in). My brother and I would set up our troll dolls in a ten-pin formation, then chunk a mini basketball at them as hard as we could.
We also used the same tactic with Beanie Baby Red Rover. Keep your army hidden behind your pop-up barbie bedroom, bide time, pelt opponent with requested babe when they least expect it. Bonus points for trickery.
swaggymelon · 2 points · Posted at 15:04:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
i played a game where we act like we are cooking each other
PotatoTurtle919 · 2 points · Posted at 15:05:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any classic games but with rollerskates added into the mix. Some kid rammed into a pillar and broke his elbow.
Bratwurst44 · 2 points · Posted at 15:08:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
playing a buttfuck game. its dark, someone is the buttfucker ,if he touches you with his lower body parts ,you have to buttfuck others
it was funny
memememememememeWHY · 2 points · Posted at 15:16:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mom instead of actually watching a movie. We would try to guess lines from the movies before the actor said it.
YoungSinatra29 · 2 points · Posted at 15:21:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Definitely Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on PC. I was like 7 or 8 at the time and was having the time of my life on this game. I'm pretty sure I was terrible at it now but back then I felt like I was a pro. After I finished the story mode, I started to play online with people from all over the world, but mostly from Poland for some reason. It was like I had discovered a whole new world, I then learnt that there were kids like me in countries that I didn't even know existed playing with me. I played online for 3 years or so, but then it was just like beefing with random Polski dudes.
willwirth · 2 points · Posted at 15:22:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to say "boneyard" when we go past a graveyard/cemetery, and you have to touch the ceiling of the car until you drive past it or else you will be "haunted" it gets interesting when we come to a stop and still next to a graveyard.
Shooleam · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game, but whenever my cousin came to visit, our two and my little brother would go to our uncle's (who's the cousin's grandpa) workplace (he's a carpenter and does all the stuff in a separate building next to his house), pick up some cool looking sticks and pretend they're wands and we're wizards. The unique part was that each spell had a different symbol, which we had to "draw" in the air using the stick while also shouting its name in order to cast it.
Alwayslearning- · 2 points · Posted at 19:23:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spoons!
Everyone would sit in a circle and in the middle would be a pile of spoons, one less than the number of people in the circle. Then you would pass a two dice around the circle and if someone rolled a certain number (I’m blanking on what the numbers were, I think maybe you picked two different numbers at the beginning of each game) everyone fucking dove into the middle of the circle to get a spoon and whoever didn’t get a spoon was eliminated. 90% of the time you would end up with two people full on wrestling. This included; twisting the spoon resulting in cuts and sprained wrists, pinching the other person to make them let go, using your feet to push the other person away so they’d let go and unfortunately biting wasn’t unheard of. Oh and concussions...from a circle of kids ramming their heads together to get a spoon from a small pile.
The worst was the finale...two people and one spoon. This is where the bleeding and real injuries usually happened...with the rest of the kids jeering them on.
Oh and this was a game we learned at played at church.
Vonskii · 2 points · Posted at 22:05:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 2000's cousins and Brother would always play, "run from the robot" anytime we were all at our grandmothers house.
Basically it boiled down to someone (usually my brother) was a robot akin to the one from the movie incredibles, and the rest had to run away from him. The robot had to be on hands and feet, and could do rolls and stuff.
Looking back, it was basically just tag with extra steps lol.
danethedood · 2 points · Posted at 02:18:59 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)*
In my hometown, the High School Booster Club would stake a big wooden “C” in the front yards of all of the High School athletes. The “C” was because the name of our town began with a C, duh. They would paint the corresponding sport onto it( 🥎 🏀 🏈) to signify your participation in said sport....little did we know that such an insignificant inanimate object would change the course of our lives, nay...HISTORY forever.
The year was 1999, I was 12 and it was Summertime in my tiny Midwest town. It was a time when the Internet and cellphones were still fairly new concepts and to pass the time we would spend our days outdoors with frighteningly very little adult supervision. My friends and I were goofing around in the front yard. All the adults were at work and as the noon day Sun beat down upon us we sat on the porch like tiny bowl cut and JNCO clad Gods looking out over all creation. It was there, In those ever waning yet seemingly infinite minutes of youth, that we would wax poetic about philosophy and ponder aloud life’s greatest questions... “ Which 8th grade girl has the best boobs? “ “Is it true that Marilyn Manson had one of his ribs removed so he could blow himself? “Was there even a Mambo number 1-4?” “Seriously WTF is “Tubthumping” “WHO LET THE DOGS OUT AND WHY?!” I suppose some things are just unknowable...
I gave my Grumpy Grape Squeeze-It one last desperate squeeze as I surveyed the cul-de-sac. Our BMX bikes, a plethora of Mongoose, Huffy and even the occasional DYNO (if we allowed the douchey rich kid from down the street to join us),lay on their sides, like a herd of wild stallions napping in the shade of a mighty oak tree... Also scattered about my Father’s prided fescue, an impressive combination of balls, bats, gloves, clubs and sticks etc. we even had a mini trampoline in the driveway where we all attempted Vince Carter level acrobatics in a dunk contest...even with all of these things at our disposal and despite our best efforts, boredom eventually got the better of us. Ahhhhhhh yes, BOREDOM. The loins of creativity...from which our most cherished and beloved pastimes have been squirted into existence.
While most of us sat there rocking the fuck out to Limp Bizkits NuMetal masterpiece “3 Dollar Bill Ya’ll”, One of the guys randomly grabbed a golf club and hacked at an orange sized NERF ball for no reason. We all watched It sail across the street, a high arching and beautiful shot. Remember those wooden “C”s from the beginning of this unnecessarily long story? Well, there was one in my neighbors yard and the ball ricocheted off the inside of the “C” and bounced through the middle of it. We all immediately wanted to try our hand at the new challenge and spent the day taking turns and attempting different shots of varying difficulty. By the end of the week we were carrying around golf clubs, bats, hockey sticks, shovels and whatever else we could fit in our hand me down golf bags. We trekked all over town like it was our own personal golf course. Our town is small so A LOT of yards had a wooden “C” in them. Around every turn a new “goal” with a different challenge than the previous. It became a magnificent combination of Croquet, HORSE and we eventually added a handful of custom rules and penalties. For instance: if you won 3 holes in a row you got to make a new rule! It was probably the happiest days of my life....but as with all things that too would someday end. People started complaining about kids messing up their yards, being loud and obnoxious and hitting balls towards their homes etc...
My best friends older brother had recently come home from college and introduced him to the term “Boofing”. We all thought it was fucking HILARIOUS so we called it BOOF-BALL.
THE END
xfox21 · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:58 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball-ball. Creative name I know. Full court basketball, full contact, no dribbling, all with a soccer ball. Damn I miss that.
HumicShit · 2 points · Posted at 05:29:59 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a card game I made up. Each player gets 10 cards. The number cards represent points, and once the deck is done, whoever has the most points wins. Using a jack means that you can take 3 from the deck, using a queen means you can steal 1 card from another player, using a king means you can steal 5 cards from another player, and using an ace means you can choose 2 people, including yourself, to trade decks.
arty____ · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:33 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I, at the ages of him (5) and I (7) would develop quite a few “unique” games. The few that I remember frequently playing were:
-A game that involved us making “mailboxes” where the whole premise would be delivering endless letters of nothingness to each other, we would put on certain personas pertaining to what we felt would be a good fit at the time. Although simple and sounding somewhat boring, it was incredibly fun, and felt as though it brought us into some sort of imaginary world.
-I’m not sure if other kids did this as well but me and him would play “school” Although the thought of that now seems incredibly boring, it was a fun game that I remember playing a lot of. We would take turns being the “teacher” and “student”, essentially taking turns every other day or a simple game of rock paper scissors usually determined which would be which. (Although id always cross my fingers in hopes of being the teacher). We’d make worksheets and read books to each-other and while sounding quite boring, it was something we both equally enjoyed.
*side question I remember getting in lots of fights over board games as a child, usually ending up in one of us “rage quitting” or ruining our progress in the game. (Mixing up Monopoly money or taking all of the pieces off the checked board) I’ve always wondered if that was something that happened with other siblings, as it was a very often occurrence during the coarse of my childhood. Anybody else that had many heated arguments while playing bored games that resulted in this?
xAkumu · 2 points · Posted at 07:49:24 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to go to a park that was close enough to train tracks to hear the horn and basically you ran around the playground and if the train horned while you were touching the ground and not on playground equipment, you'd 'die'.
I frequently would hop on someone's back and doom them lol
xAkumu · 2 points · Posted at 07:55:31 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my dad would go on road trips anywhere, we'd each pick a color and had to keep count of the number of vehicles we saw with that color and whoever had a higher number wins.
bestthingyet · 2 points · Posted at 01:24:49 on March 11, 2019 · (Permalink)
During sleepovers we would take turns drawing things on each other's backs and try to guess what was being drawn
drgirafa · 2 points · Posted at 04:25:40 on March 20, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself and about 12 kids in my old neighborhood had an ongoing LARP for like 3 years. It was some weird blend of LOTR, Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, World of Warcraft, & General Medieval themes. It got pretty intense, we had wars, factions, a functioning economy, etc.
I miss those days, I think I still have my old "keyblade" somewhere.
joshstasior · 2 points · Posted at 03:28:07 on March 22, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blanket folding contest, throw up a not folded blanket, and see how folded it was when it landed
7thRombus · 2 points · Posted at 06:17:29 on April 3, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I would play a "game" we called "Lemons"
I was 15, he was 11
We had a lemon tree and a lake/dam on our farm (maybe 50-60m across).
I, with a full sized curved scythe, would knock lemons out of the tree, stab them onto the end of the scythe blade, swing the scythe around and hurl the lemons full pelt across the dam, in rapid succession.
He, laughing like a maniac, would stand on the other side of the dam and dodge the yellow meteors.
There is something very satisfying about the sound of laughter suddenly ended by a thump and subsequent screams of critric acid tears.
ItsJustLitBro · 2 points · Posted at 20:02:31 on April 26, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called ‘the country game’. Basically, there was this kid from Iraq or something (we lived in USA) and he taught us this game. Therefore, we called it the ‘country’ game because it was from his country.
How you play (from what I barely remember lmao): You start in a circle with ‘it’ in the middle holding the ball. ‘it’ counts to 5. Everyone else runs away. Then, when they reach 5, everyone stops and ‘it’ has to try to throw the ball at someone. If ‘it’ doesn’t hit you, then they will be ‘it’ the next round. If ‘it’ hits you, you get a letter and you are also it for the next round. (We decide a word before play, like PIG or COUNTRY depending on time) If you get all the letters, everyone gets to throw the ball at your stomach or face or somthn.
We also made movies with a flip camera about like war and stuff. Also we also played Ninja, but we heard that game from everyone, so I’m sure everyone knows that one lol.
cfdlboi · 4 points · Posted at 16:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
T I C K L E N U T S
obsessioncalledlove · 6 points · Posted at 16:48:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I would play 'touch the special place' he somehow always won...
DementedSpawnArts · 4 points · Posted at 14:35:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle used to tell me to take my pants off and... oh wait, that’s not unique.
Dibiddle · 4 points · Posted at 15:10:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a fantasy story I kept alive throughout my childhood until around 6th grade. I would just play in my backyard with imaginary companions and enemies. I had a broom stick I would use as a wizard staff or just a normal staff. Sometimes I was a warrior or an archer but it was still in the same universe. There would be times I would just walk around the yard while I gave exposition in my head. I miss that dibiddle.
purpldevl · 2 points · Posted at 22:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So Skyrim!
paul-mccartney- · 3 points · Posted at 15:29:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Tumbling down the stairs."
It's exactly what it sounds like. One of my brothers and I would lay face first at the top of the stairs with a blanket wrapped around us and then our other brother would push us down the stairs.
Queue bloody noses and bumped heads.
beastofthefarweast · 3 points · Posted at 16:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game called stairs. One person would start at the top of a staircase leading to the basement of my friends house (let’s call them the seeker). They would wait for like 20 seconds and then all the lights in the basement would get turned off by everyone else playing. This was usually played at night so there was no light coming from anywhere and it was pitch black. Then the seeker would stumble around in the dark and try and tag people in the basement. The goal for everyone else was to make it to the stairs without getting tagged. If you got tagged you were out.
There was a bit of strategy but since no one could see anything, it usually resulted into a shit show of puppy guarding the stairs and making barricades for the seeker to run into while stumbling around in the dark.
thefun_alsorises · 3 points · Posted at 14:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
california kickball! We would play it in middle school in massachusetts where i grew up. So pretty much the bases are those big blue mats and multiple people can be on one base at a time. But after your cross home plate you can either stop or you can keep going and head towards first. Pretty badass game a lot of fun.
🎙️ antenonjohs · 1 points · Posted at 14:30:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That’s great! I think I’ve played it before.
BobsonDugnutt3030 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
California here.
What the fuck game is this? I wanna play!
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 17:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Switch. 2 player game. We had one finger in our mouth and one in our ass. Someone would say "1, 2 ,3 switch!" and the fingers would switch.
Despacito20 · 5 points · Posted at 18:39:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1,2 switch is already a game but I never thought the sequel would be this
CAPS_L0CKED · 9 points · Posted at 17:12:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
GAME WAS CALLED STRETCH. TWO GUYS STAND FACING EACH OTHER, ONE WITH A LARGE KNIFE. GUY WITH KNIFE HAS TO THROW THE KNIFE INTO THE GROUND (BLADE IN) SOMEWHERE IN FRONT OF HIM. OTHER GUY HAS TO LIFT ONE FOOT AND PUT IT WHERE THE KNIFE IS, PICK UP THE KNIFE AND THEN DO THE SAME. WHEN YOU FELL OVER, COULDN'T REACH THE KNIFE OR FAILED TO STICK YOUR THROW YOU LOST. SURPRISINGLY NO TOES WERE EVER LOST AT THIS.
Gandolan1415 · 9 points · Posted at 17:59:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
THATS METAL AS FUCK BRO
CAPS_L0CKED · 12 points · Posted at 19:24:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GETTING DOWNVOTED. I'LL PROBABLY NEVER UNDERSTAND REDDIT. ASK FOR A UNIQUE GAME, GIVE PEOPLE YOUR STORY AND THEY HATE ON YOU.
BUT FOR YOU BUD, I HAVE ANOTHER STORY... A FRIEND OF MINE THOUGHT HE WAS A NINJA. DRESSED ALL IN BLACK, DROVE AROUND ON A 125CC DIRT BIKE WITH A SWORD, PELLET GUN, AND KNIVES STRAPPED ALL OVER HIM. THING WAS HE WAS A SUPER SWEET GUY (WE ALL WERE ACTUALLY). ONE DAY HE SEES AN OLD COUPLE STOPPED IN THEIR CAR LOOKING AT A MAP (PROBABLY LOST) SO HE RIDES OVER ON HIS BIKE AND TAPS ON THEIR WINDOW TO SEE IF HE COULD HELP. THEY LOOKED AT HIM AND THE HUSBAND JUST PLANTED THE ACCELERATOR AND THEY GTFO AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. IT NEVER EVEN REGISTERED ON MY BUDDY WHY.
HE IS A FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ADVISER WITH A GLOBAL FIRM. I'M A CONSULTANT. IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME THEN I GUESS.
Ozzy_Chenz · 3 points · Posted at 23:50:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
STOP USING ALL CAPS
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:11:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
HE IS CAPPS LOCKED
chalwar · 3 points · Posted at 02:32:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
HE IS SLAPP COCKED.
Waflstmpr · 2 points · Posted at 03:43:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
HE IS CLAPP SOCKED
lordarknes · 8 points · Posted at 13:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That game where I tell you “Happy cake day!”
🎙️ antenonjohs · 12 points · Posted at 13:39:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you!
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PubScrubRedemption · 3 points · Posted at 14:29:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Was a random PS2 game my dad and I picked out of the discount bin at Gamestop that we thought looked cool. Ended up being one of my favorites for the system; a 3rd person shooter that's like if Ratchet & Clank was played like Halo. Story and style was very cool as well; you're a robot fighting for the Droid Rebellion trying to liberate Ironstar from the regime of the evil General Corrosive and his Milbots, fighting necrotic Zombots and Demonic Morbots along the way. 10/10 would shove it up Corrosive's tail pipe again.
WryAnimalCord · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn, my PS2 broke before I beat it. I need to get the emulator and rom...
AgentTexes · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Had it on Xbox.
Wish they made a sequel with Exavolt coming back with an army of robot aliens or something like that.
And if you DM in D&D or other table top then you can get some pretty good warforged designs from the concept art.
Shady and Mr. Pockets have been in quite a few of my campaigns as recurring merchants complete with their theme.
R____I____G____H___T · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Old school Runescape
kaseydillaa · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sharks N Minnows! So basically we would all go to one side of the field in a line, and there would be one or two people in the middle. Then we would all go at once, while the people in the middle try to tag you. If you get to the other end, you’re safe. Also me and a couple people made it a personal challenge to see how slow we could make it without getting caught. (I made it halfway there in slow motion before I had to start running)
saltywhenbad · 2 points · Posted at 22:55:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My lacrosse coach had us play something like this, we have to keep a ball in our stick and people would try to hit it out and whoever won didn’t have to run
minolee91 · 2 points · Posted at 03:19:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not very unique..
kaseydillaa · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eh. I guess what made it unique for me personally, was the community feel it gave. People in ny school gave literally anyone who wanted to a fair chance and it meant a lot, coming from a kid with one, maybe two or three friends for most of my life. You know? It was all inclusive and it was some of the funnest times for kids. Seriously, about half the people at recess would be on that field. It’s just nostalgia
D3Y3 · 2 points · Posted at 20:12:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spiders and flies is what we called it. Loved it.
TriptheFlip12345678 · 2 points · Posted at 13:55:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weapon Tag. It had nothing to do with weapons. It has the same premise as Infection Tag.It had a very specific set of rules... I can only remember three.
DO NOT LIE IF YOU ARE IT. If you do, you get a 4 minute penalty.
DO NOT HIDE IN BATHROOMS OR IN OTHER GROSS PLACES. Common Sense
IF YOU DO NOT GET TAGGED AT ALL DURING RECESS, EVERYONE WHO IS TAGGED MUST GUVE GUM. I don’t know for this one.
TheGreatKeru · 2 points · Posted at 16:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game on playgrounds with a marry-go-round and a tower where one of us would go on the tower to throw rocks at guys on the marry-go-round while it was spinning as fast as possible. It was somewhat of a Russian roulette but fun.
Now that I'm recalling this it sounds insanely stupid and dangerous. It was super fun though.
Darth_Batman89 · 2 points · Posted at 16:47:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasn’t necessarily a game as much it was to pass time. But when i was a kid and we took family road trips I would pretend that the car would recharge its “energy” when there was enough tree shade to cover the highway. I’d have a little humming going on in my head representing the passing of time/distance of unshaded road and how much “energy” was left before just barely making it to the next bit of shade for charging.
SyrusDrake · 2 points · Posted at 17:21:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were about...11 or 12 or so, a friend and I were convinced that a little mound in a nearby grove was actually a barrow. So we'd spend several afternoons there, doing "archaeological excavations".
I study archaeology today. But it took me a while to get here. Looking back, I sometimes wonder why it took me so long to figure it out. And every now and then, I still wonder if that little mound really is just a modern rubble dump.
I-Am-Worthless · 2 points · Posted at 17:40:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being from Indiana, my brothers and I and a group of our friends trespassed into a corn field and made a “fort” in the middle of it by stomping down the ears. Then we would start fires and destroy shit. We also would go around throwing ears of corn at each other while running through the aisles of corn. Kinda like tag but throwing ears of corn instead.
yeeouch_seafood_soup · 2 points · Posted at 18:04:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pickle
I was basically the game that MLB players play when a stealer tries to run but gets caught between two bases.
We had two bases set ~20 ft apart, one person guarding each base; the rest of the kids were touching either base. Each guard would throw a tennis ball back and forth to each other. While the ball was in the air, or if a guard missed the ball, the players would just run back and forth from the bases. While the players were off the bases, the guards could throw the tennis ball and peg the players. Needless to say, we were ruthless when trying to peg friends.
hivszpan · 2 points · Posted at 18:50:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with my Dad. He's so good I haven't found him yet
EzraliteVII · 2 points · Posted at 18:58:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a simple sport called “Suicide” that only required a bouncing ball - roughly the size of a tennis ball - and a standard playground wall, maybe 15’ wide.
Any number of players could start. A player throws the ball at the wall, another (or the same) catches and throws again. However, if the ball hits below maybe 2’ from the ground (two cinderblocks up), they’d have to run up and tag the wall before another player recovered the ball and hit the wall with it, or they were out. Last man standing wins.
GrundleMan5000 · 2 points · Posted at 19:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called Booger Snot Snotty Guy, which was essentially Marco Polo, except you played in the basement, covered the person who was Booger Snot with a blanket so he couldnt see where he was going, then the Snotty Guys got to beat the ever living fuck out of Booger Snot with pillows until he tagged one of the snotty guys. Rather than saying Marco, Polo. You said Booger Snot and then everyone would respond Snotty Guy!.
Shit was awesome.
BoogerMcFarlandMNF · 2 points · Posted at 01:36:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
fun game
bigpurplesloppers · 2 points · Posted at 19:43:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle had this game no one else knew about. It was basically doctor and he would check my temperature and check my prostate and stuff like that
champangemodee · 2 points · Posted at 19:53:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek , dad is still hiding ...
kimmolly8 · 2 points · Posted at 19:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the penis! But don't tell Mommy!
My dad always wanted to play it with me.
bibowski · 2 points · Posted at 20:38:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide the salami" with Uncle Steve.
INFAMAS_YT · 2 points · Posted at 14:14:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in primary school we had a game called ‘sunrise’ We had a big football oval that we were allowed on on lunch break, and on a relatively cloudy day the rules would be you’re not allowed to go in the sunlight, so we would hide in the shade, and when a cloud went in front of the sun we would run to the next bit of shade while the sunlight was chasing us from behind. We got sad after realising that it hardly gets cloudy like that at lunch time :(
Laurence23Cartlidge · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So basically you said”Let’s pretend to be vampires”
Michuna · 1 points · Posted at 13:02:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with myself.
Also, happy cake day <3
urmomsgf · 1 points · Posted at 13:17:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd see who could find the most coquinas!
Auesis · 1 points · Posted at 13:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Family used to drive a lot. When I was super bored, I would focus intently at some object out the window (road sign, parked car etc.) and follow it until it left my line of sight, then pick something else and do it again. Made my eyes hurt from constantly going left/right.
Styvly · 1 points · Posted at 13:34:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the games on my Leapster
xsilr · 1 points · Posted at 13:39:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with myself...
Back2Bach · 1 points · Posted at 13:49:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would put our "erector sets" together and create monsters.
Mitt-Brave · 1 points · Posted at 14:02:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tackle Tag. It's exactly what it sounds like
Johnnadawearsglasses · 1 points · Posted at 14:04:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game of football by myself with my imaginary friend who happened to have the same first name as my Dad. I would throw long passes and try to catch them. If I caught them easily or not at all, I lost. Only fingertip / diving catches went for yards. My friend never won a single game. I really felt bad for him.
MrBananaStorm · 1 points · Posted at 14:06:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would throw a blanket down on the floor and just start fighting myself, pretending to be multiple characters from the video games I played. Sometimes I would have incredibly intricate and long dialogue with myself while playing both parties. And on occasion a character would die and I'd lay on the floor with my tongue sticking out for a few seconds.
I would do all this in the middle of the living room with my parents watching TV a few feet away.
IJustMadeThisForCS · 1 points · Posted at 14:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
animal jam
MonsterPewcat · 1 points · Posted at 14:08:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend would stand in the two lane side street he lived on and try to throw, skip, curve a frisbee past the other. Like street hockey with a frisbee- where the width of the street was the goal. We shattered a ton of frisbees skipping them off of the street.
goobered · 1 points · Posted at 14:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
General Chaos was a squad based shooter on Sega Genesis. You had a top-down view and a group of three soldiers you could cycle between to take direct control of them. I loved that game growing up, and can't think of any other game like it before or since then.
grizzlyking · 1 points · Posted at 14:11:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gogger (I think there was also another name for it), there was this 25 ft diameter ring of tires at my school and we would get all get in it and you would hit a soccer ball or kickball with your hands and if you got hit in the foot you would be out. There were probably more rules as well but that was a long time ago.
MysteriousPlatform · 1 points · Posted at 14:12:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother & I played 'The Lazy Cat Game'. Essentially we lay on the ground meowing and purring and pretending to eat whatever cats eat. Oh also one of my legs was 'broken' so I half slumped around. I'd occasionally throw in a few punches when we were having a 'cat fight'. Basically a game for lazy shits with the option of fighting with my brother if I wanted. Weird as fuck. Also 'Razor Football' - playing an extremely violent and aggressive game of football with any item that isn't a football in the living room of my grandparent's house. We spent all summer there and there wasn't a great deal so Razor Football & The Lazy Cat Game it was.
PigeonFacts · 1 points · Posted at 14:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cousins and i would stand around the pool and do dodgeball. If youre hit you jump in. It made the next rounds harder as youre now running round a pool while soaked.
Wed. Also swordfight with palm fronds. Just break one off or find one use a rock and dull the edges. Winner was whoever kept theirs in hand or whoever broke the others.
There was also an odd number of us so if we ever played yugioh thered be 1 left out. This led us to tying the other person in a chair while they tried to escape.
scenesequel · 1 points · Posted at 14:16:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a little tennis racket and some foam balls. Nobody wanted to play tennis with me, so I invented this game on the tiles in front of our house. I would hit the ball against the wall and move one row of tiles back each time I hit the ball. If I could make it all the way to the sidewalk without losing control of the ball, I won the game. I was Pete Sampras and the wall was as usually Andre Agassi.
overbread · 1 points · Posted at 14:16:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game with rules similar to baseball but with a football (football as in soccer). But each of us had a Beyblade style special ball with abilities. I drew spreadsheets for all the balls (Thunder Ball, Lava Ball, Shadow Ball, ...) and the abilities where like "Frost Ball would freeze whoever touches it first" so 2 people had to get it. Stuff like that.
thecribbles · 1 points · Posted at 14:18:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Remember Arnold Schwarzenegger's Jingle All The Way? Me and my little brother used to play TurboMan
StarDerp30 · 1 points · Posted at 14:20:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MINECRAFT
Loke_The_Champ · 1 points · Posted at 14:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played minecraft agrarian skies on the school yard
AndrewFreeman · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huckle buckle beanstock
TheStankTank · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "The Mister." My friend and I would walk onto my front porch and ring the doorbell. My little brother would come to the door and yell "what are you kids doing ringing my doorbell?!" Then we would run and he would chase us. Basically tag, but he was always it.
GP96_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:26:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoe- see how far away you could throw your shoe off your foot. Played it when we visited my uncle.
Bukkakeface · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “The Buford Blob”. Now, I have no idea where the name came from. I don’t know if it meant the blob was from a place called Buford, or if Buford was the blob’s name. I think we just liked the alliterative nature of it.
Anyway, the game was played late at night. We’d shut off all the lights and one person would drape a comforter over their head, thus making them the blob. They would then have to fumble around and try to catch the other players.
It’s amazing we didn’t break more stuff than we did.
WigglestonTheFourth · 1 points · Posted at 14:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Competitive word searching. 2 people would sit over the same word search sheet and race to find the words. Whomever found the majority was the winner. Rinse repeat.
aziom · 1 points · Posted at 14:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in a room with lights off, the game's name in English would be "Midnight Witch".
Lots of fun.
Lots of bruises and bleeding heads.
joseph_snapple1 · 1 points · Posted at 14:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gravel. At my school, it was basically king of the bridge + lava. One person was blind and would have to call gravel if they thought someone was on the ground. Also, you could push people off the bridge.
Handsomescout · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I heard of a wonderful game called monster rain, but I never had friends to play with
CrusherOfChaos · 1 points · Posted at 14:32:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did a LOT of cross country car travel, I'm taking coast to coast, and our favorite game was called "I'm An Animal." It was basically 20 Questions, but exclusive to animals. My mom still laughs at me because when I was younger, like 3 or 4, I would give the answer away by whispering, "Pretend you don't know, but does [animal] have [part]?"
Valiantheart · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two square. It is basically tennis rules played in two joined sections of the drive way with those large red bouncy dodge balls. My brother and I played that into our 30s when we had family get togethers.
herring-box-topses · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would stick those glow-in-dark stars to our foreheads with sticky-tak then turn off the lights and pretend we were aliens. We would build whole alien societies with commerce and trade. We would have to embark on a perilous quest periodically to "the light" (the bathroom with the lights on) to recharge our forehead stars and having your forehead star fall off required urgent medical attention.
chases_squirrels · 1 points · Posted at 14:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I decided we wanted to make a detective agency. So we came up with code words and would peek through blinds to watch intersections near our houses and make notes about the cars that drove by. (stuff like "11:48am Red truck coming north, turned and went east") We had notebooks with rumors about gangs that didn't exist (or at least not in our town). I don't remember doing anything else specifically as detectives, but we had fun pretending.
Skakitty · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My fiend and I once made missing posters for a cat that we made up :/ we posted them all over (with a very badly drawn black cat)
Breatnach · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On road trips, we'd divvy up the gas stations by brand (Shell, Esso, etc) and every player was given two or three brands. Every time we passed a station of said brand, the player would get a point.
I vividly remember there were heaps and heaps of gas stations until one day I got a drivers license and they all went out of business. Every time I need gas or a bathroom break, it takes me forever to find one - regardless of brand.
pmince87 · 1 points · Posted at 14:34:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought my aunt invented the airplane game where she'd make you fly
YersMacEnsie · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to cut wrestling promos as a tag team in our mirrors and make our own walk outs and “finishers”
ClerkTheK1d · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cherry Bomb” you would have a ball and you would throw it at the people playing to try to get them out, or you can go into the playground equipment but you had to have your eyes closed
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is a videogame nobody played in my school or any people i've met later in life. "Hype"! A Playmobil RPG Fantasy Game! My sister, my cousin and i played the shit out of it, but we were to young to finish it. I would pay any price to play it again with them and finish it.
dolorousbread · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dead Singers”
My younger brother and I would stand up on the edge of our parents’ water bed with our arms out, “singing” “AHHHHHHHHH” then fall backwards into the bed. Repeat.
Vivicus · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've got a few.
Recyclable baseball – we pitched various plastic goods (detergent bottles, and the like) to a batter, who would take a swing at it and run the bases. When the recyclable item was too trashed we would grab another one and keep playing.
Ramp Jam – place a crap ton of your toys on a sizable plank of wood that runs from a chair to the floor. Goal is to knock every last item off the ramp using matchbox cars. Cars that are part of the jam must be knocked off using other cars before they can be used.
Tennis Baseball – baseball on a tennis court with tennis balls and a slim bat. Alternate rules. Pitches bounce once, pitcher's poison, if the ball hits the net you're out.
justfortoukiden · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Younger brother and I used to run through our own makeshift obstacle course at home. It was really just challenges we made up like climbing up the stairs x amount of times or push ups or performing crotch chops ala WWE's DGeneration X.
It was really dumb and we always got tired as hell but we laughed so hard through it that we played so many times.
CMX4 · 1 points · Posted at 14:36:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I put ice down my underwear and would have to run around the house until it melted.
minefat · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters would play “mommy don’t go” where the “mom” would try to get to “work” by crossing the living room while the “kids” would try and grab her legs and stop her from walking. Our mom made us stop playing when my oldest sister lost her balance and tripped, hitting her head on the coffee table.
meijibiscuits · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this computer game i came across in the IT section of the departmental store when I was about 10. I think it was called 'minute man' or something (lmao). In the 15 minutes I got to play it before my parents finished fridge shopping, I remember thinking it was so freaking cool cuz i could rip lampposts off the floors and stop time. Never found it again.
soomuchcoffee · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We invented the game of "TERRIBLE MONSTER."
Whoever is taking their turn as the Terrible Monster puts a sleeping bag over their head, and stands up. It is then their job to walk around my parents' semi-finished basement trying to capture the other people.
As the Terrible Monster cannot see, they basically gets cheap shotted mercilessly and try to somehow defend themselves while on the ground.
It sounds stupid, because it is, but we had a good time.
Scpluis · 1 points · Posted at 14:38:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
O cant remember much, i was young but SEGA Dreamcast had this amazing planes/mecha/Transformer game were you would ve the Pilot and fight other players (does somebody know the name)
Tiny_Tits_McGee · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to attach a wooden board to the back of his Land Rover via a rope, my brothers and I would then sit on the board and he would drag us around a field making sharp turns trying to fling us off. More often than not this was done in a farmers field so there would be a lot of cow poo and if you were real unlucky when ejected off the board would go skidding right through one............... fun times.
nameprogress · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds horrible now as I type this. A friend and I would take an old tricyle tire, stand on our street face to face and roll it at each other. If it hit the curb that was out of bounds. First to get the tire past the goal (end of the street) would win.
IThinkIAmAProfit · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
2 games actually:
1) Sacroob - which is an arabic slang in a specific region for a Screw Driver.
We lived in a sandy/muddy area- so each kid would get their favourite screw driver from home, all pointy and ready. Somebody draws a big circle on the mud (using their sacroob) and then up to 4 people can stand inside and divide the circle with inner lines as “territories”.
The goal of the game is to conquer, and you do that by throwing your sacroob on somebody’s land but it has to stick (kinda like a dart on the ground) WITHIN the land and not touching any lines. Then you can use where your sacroob landed and draw a line that adds a new land to your territory and taking away from the enemy that you just hit. Also, you can only attack while standing within ur land. (Makes a comeback difficult and challenging, as the smaller your land, the more creative you have to be in your attacks). Yeah it was fun!
Any number of kids can play, we’d grab a fucked up rock.. not a fun smooth one, no, a 2kg pointy rock. And basically you have to throw it to your friends and they can’t drop it. You can use only one hand in a single game, left or right.
Oh, and you also can’t throw it AT your friend, cuz that’s obviously dumb and dangerous.. you have to throw it in a way where it goes up in the air and go down in a predictable way.
Yeah... i never felt more old before hhahahah
_The__Dude__ · 1 points · Posted at 14:39:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played “Milk carton” after lunch every day we would save one of those square milk cartons and play a version of hacky sack with it. Everyone would circle up and you could hit it once with your hands and as many times with any other part of your body (mostly feet). Whoever messed up and let it hit the floor was out. Last person standing wins. The rules evolved into it being super competitive over the years in high school and was ridiculous. Could have been a pro sport at that point lol
Oh also we played “Sennis” which was basically tennis and a soccer ball so you use your feet. Can kick it as many times as you want but it can only hit he ground once and you can pass it through the air to your partner as well. Super fun.
HelenatheBeagleCat21 · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “Trip” a lot. The top bunk of his bed would be a boat, plane, or car and we’d get all our stuffed animals and go on a pretend trip. Sometimes there’d be singing. We still remember a song we wrote about Antarctica.
KingOfCranes · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played something called "the ball game", which is kind of a variation of Calvinball with more strict rules. Every time you get hit with a certain ball, you have to perform a certain action until you get cured. For example, the spinning ball, the hopping ball, the singing ball, and so forth. There really wasn't a way to win, more of a way to get your friends to look stupid.
Gunjan_T · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play cricket with my father.
Johnny_C-R-E-A-M · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe not unique, but my brother and our friends would play Quidditch in the pool. It would consist of 2 vs. 2 pool basketball while a third player from each team would look for a small, transparent, object (usually a marble) that was thrown blindly to the bottom of the pool.
Sexistpicnic · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We all had decent throwing arms so we would throw little balls/hacky-sacks/etc as high up a tree as we could. The other players had to get it out of the tree by Amy means available except for throwing another object, usually amounted to climbing.
Sometimes I think about all the balls we gave up on that might’ve gone on to hit joggers and cyclists out of nowhere on a moderately windy day
lanadeljey · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube. It was honestly one of the scariest games I played and no one remembers it.
catch22milo · 1 points · Posted at 14:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I used to play this game called clown. I can't remember our exact ages but we were pretty young. We used to do a king of slapstick physical comedy where we would jokingly fall or push each other, trip over things, stuff like that. One day we were playing with my cousin in the backyard.
I don't remember what I did, but apparently I did something that got him very upset. He found a piece of glass from the side of the house, a window had broken a few weeks prior (not an installed window). He basically ran at me with the intention of stabbing me, but I wasn't aware of his intent, I thought we were still playing the game. Without thinking I pushed him and he rolled over a garbage can while simultaneously stabbing himself in the face. He absolutely freaked out, ran inside to find my mom who took him to the hospital.
The entire evening was bullshit. He got 5 stitches and a cool latex glove balloon. Me and my cousin missed indoor intramural soccer. I got in trouble for my brother stabbing himself, even though he was the only who was trying to stab me. Nowadays when this story comes up at family gatherings he tells it very differently, but my version is, definitely, the correct one.
SupportCharacter · 1 points · Posted at 14:41:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had an absurd amount of Beanie Babies and a rather large basement so one night we came up with “Beanie Dodge.” It was basically just dodgeball but with these little stuffed animals. If you flung them by the legs/ears you could really let those things fly let me tell ya, his parents ended up banning us from playing because we would end up cracking the walls with the damn things.
Good times.
Breatnach · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after... Calvin!
alcaste19 · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BALL.
My dad and I would sit on opposite ends of our very large finished basement and huck a ball at eachother and try to get it by to score points. It was just called BALL.
KingOfCranes · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play in the forest, making teepees out of twigs and branches, pretending we were mice, giving ourselves mouse names, making shrines, temples, stadiums. We would have to defend ourselves against the rats, snakes, and hawks, and just run around the woods. We even had a little shrine, where we had strings of seashells, twigs, and feathers hanging.
zangor · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Cat Taps'
I had this huge black and white plush fat cat my mom got me from Cracker Barrel for $20. It was so spherical and hilarious. So my friends and I used to get stoned and use the cat to basically play 'hacky sack'. But the catch was we could also use our hands. So it was like volleyball and hacky sack in one - with a really fat plush cat the size of a basketball.
Kalanth · 1 points · Posted at 14:42:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to do mini-vaudeville style performances with a friend in which the "audience" would spray you with a hose if they did not like your performance.
bluedinosaursocks · 1 points · Posted at 14:43:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I had a small stuffed animal with suction cups on its hands and feet. The walls at my dad's house were the glossy kind of paint, so were super smooth. We would lick each of the suction cups and each pick a wall. Then, we'd turn the ceiling fan on high and chuck the stuffed animal up there. Whoever guessed the wall it got stuck on got to chuck it next.
Ern1967 · 1 points · Posted at 14:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved sports and stats as a kid and had several games I played.
Would have a bracket of nfl teams and play war with cards to see who won. Used those little plastic helmets for each side.
Tiddlywinks olympics. Basically play the game tiddlywinks as countries with brackets.
Crayon races were another one. Would pit 2 colors against each other. Flip a coin with heads being one color and tails the other. If say green had heads and won the coin flip I’d move the green up one crayon length and keep that going to one won the race.
Lots more games like this.
Yeah I might have been a bit weird as a kid.
BeachBoysRule · 1 points · Posted at 14:43:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Orphans- We had a tree house and my sisters and I would pretend to be orphans. We had some woods in the back behind our house and we'd get some food from the woods, such as nuts and some wild onions....
I also played zoo with my youngest sister. In our basement we used, amongst other things an old couch and converted it into two cages, one for the bears and one for the dogs (we had a lot of dog stuffed animals). We used all the other stuffed animals too. We had quite a few stuffed animals, everything from standard bears, to Disney animals, to unusual animals and we made cages for all of them. For some reason, with the bears and dogs we would climb into the cages and throw them back and forth...
Higgz221 · 1 points · Posted at 14:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Maw” my brother and i would just kick the frick out of each other and called it a game.
It did start with intros “ANDDDD IN THIS CORNNERRRRRR....” so i guess it counts as organized sports.
Oxygenbubbles · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gekido
curtmack · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made up a game sort of like Magic: the Gathering, but it was played with an ordinary deck of playing cards.
Basically, face cards, tens, and aces were your "creatures." Clubs and spades were weapons and shields that you could attach to creatures, while hearts and diamonds were healing and damaging spells; the efficacy of each was determined by the number on the card. I don't remember the details of how combat worked or what the win condition was, though.
moneycomet · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bumper bikes!
XavierRenegadeAngel_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yard adventure", basically the floor is lava but in our back yard. We ended up basically just doing parkour so we changed it to "Tag". Many injuries were had.
MrBrandonius · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from the meth addicts.
whatisabrain · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weed wars. It's not like it sounds. A bunch of us discovered that if you strip a particular wild plant of it's leaves, that it made and excellent whip. This lead to us breaking down into teams and attacking one another. Our attacks were broken up only by our hunt for more 'weapons'. It was fun, but with all the threats of physical violence (and actual minor-violence), it probably shouldn't have been.
summer9816 · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The rock game. Basically like playing Barbie's outside, but everything was a rock. TV was a flat rock, car was a big rock, money was tiny rocks. We definitely had good imaginations
HutchCantClutch · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Own a cottage in the thousand islands, we’d play a game called ‘survivor’ where it was hide and seek but everyone was seeking and only one person was hiding, the goal being to survive as long as possible.
We had plenty of trails and forest around the large cottage and we were on a hillside leading to the dock. A lot of room for me and my three younger brothers to run around in. Tons of fun actually and good times back then.
aron925 · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the car my sister and I would "claim" all the businesses on our side of the car. So all the stores we passed on the left would be mine and vice versa for my sister. There was lots of "Yes! I have Friendly's and a bowling alley!" or "Hey thats unfair you have the Chuck E Cheese! ):" So sometimes deals would be made like "Ok we can both share the Chuck E Cheese and the Friendly's" type stuff lol. The dumbest thing is on the drive back obviously we we now had the other side of the street so things were reversed anyways.
We were also obsessed with the Beatles and would play house with our imaginary husbands Paul and Ringo in our imaginary homes on Penny Lane.
alohasprinting · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick Wars
I imagine everyone played some variation of this. My sister and I grew up in the boonies of the Big Island, mostly black/brown lava and no neighbors for miles. We would hike out on random property, and eventually found a place where a crevice between two hill peaks. We would gather lots of small sticks and one large stick and go on each hill peak. We'd spend the next 30 minutes throwing sticks at each other, your only defense was your large stick, or aka, your blocker.
mysteriousgunner · 1 points · Posted at 14:45:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock wars. You would have two teams and just throw rocks at each other. Stupid looking back at it but we found it fun.
Prodigy087 · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger sister always wanted to go to a Six Flags but was too scared to go on rides. So I came up with the idea to make our own. We'd play "bumper cars" and just run into each other holding pillows. I'd put her on my back and suddenly squat down really fast like a giant drop ride. I'd carry her in my arms and spin her around as fast as I could like the spinning rides.
It wasn't much, but she loved every second of it and still remembers it all those years later
will1999bill · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swedish: played with red rubber ball, kick ball in air, someone gets the ball and tries to hit other players. If you catch the ball that someone is throwing they are out until you get hit. There were varying boundaries but you couldn't go out of bounds. Similar to other games but it was fun.
Smear the queer: (hey, we were kids in the seventeen and eighties) : red rubber ball, boundaries, kick in air and whoever caught it was chased/tackled. At some point they could throw it away. The point was to evade the tackles as long as you could.
drafterman · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ZZT. I suppose you could call it a Rogue-Like, but one of the main features was that you could design your own levels and entire campaigns and even had a built in rudimentary programming language for creating custom monsters. Was very fun.
itsmeduhdoi · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"roof ball"
throw a tennis ball onto the roof of the garage, other person has to catch it, sounds easy but soon you get to trick shots off things, or slow rolls that bounce off gutters,
you miss a catch and you get a point, first person to 11 points loses, BUT if the ball gets stuck in the gutter, or you throw it over the top of the roof, you auto lose.
Tupac_Presley · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Celery Generals
We stole it from Tom Green.
You'd carefully craft a little person out of Celery and Cherry Tomatoes, held together by toothpicks, then carefully place them on the road. You'd have to make sure your General was the last one standing. If it fell over, you had to run out and move it to another spot, and if it got hit, you'd have to pour Salad Dressing over it and eat it up.
It got to the point where my younger sister continued it with her friends.
So much gravel, so much fun.
NeverLoseGuy · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would bring out dicks and bump them with each other.
JustJerbotPLAYZ · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rollercoaster tycoon gold edition
KingOfCranes · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play the "Food Trees" game, which is kind of an improvised version of tag. There would be four trees, one for "like it", "love it", "don't like it", and "never tried it". One kid, the chef, would shout out the name of a food, and the kids would run to one of the trees based on how they felt about the food. Once you reached a tree, you were safe, but before then the chef could catch you and "cook you up" (you're out).
h20rat_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend would play a game we called double spy and basically it was hide and seek but we both were the seekers and you would count how long you saw the other and when you both saw eachother the game would end and the person who the one the longest would win and wed do like best outta 5
YoLilSmolBean · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings used to play Monster.
Basically, it's tag combined with hide and seek. The monster had to search for us and when the monster found someone, they would have to chase them and try to tag them.
jlhclayton · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reinacting arguments that we saw on the street
czumly · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking out the window of a moving vehicle and imagining somebody running and jumping over obstacles to keep up with the vehicle i was in
HoodySyl · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The ‘Line Game’ : There were painted lines on the ground is wiggles and curves, we had the idea to have to play tag whilst on the lines however like trains we could not go back and could only outrun the chaser by speed or changing lines.
Diriector_Doc · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "The chasing game". I would only ever play it with my sister and 3 kids from another family. The two boys (me and the boy from the other family) would try to catch all three girls. If one of them was caught, we would bring them to the "Jail" where they would stay until one of their team members would release them by tapping them on the shoulder. The boys could only catch one girl each at a time, and once caught, the girls could not escape. Since there was no time limit, the boys would usually win because that was the only way the game could end.
The kids from this family were the only people we would ever play it with, and every time we ever met up, we would always play this very game.
DJ_The_Skeleton · 1 points · Posted at 14:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uno, but every time you get an Uno you have to role a di and what number you get is the number of cards you have to take (numbers 6, 4, and 2 don't count)
redblazingdragon · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Peg. Our class would get together in front of a wall with one tennis ball. Two people would throw it at the wall, and the first person to touch the wall got to throw it as hard as possible towards the others’ back.
mrG3orge · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play this game called “Hunters”. It was mix between hide n seek, tag, and paintball/airsoft rifles (gave us a western feel). How it worked was one person (or two, depending on how many were playing) would be the bounty hunter and everyone else the bounties. We would all be armed with either bb rifles or paintball guns and the bounties would have 40 seconds to hide. The hunters would then try to gun down the bounties in the time span of 10 mins (depends on how many playing). If the hunter was shot, they would be able to respawn. If the bounty was shot, they would be dead for 20 seconds, then join the hunters. Game ends if all bounties were killed or if bounties survived for 10 minutes
khendron · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play target golf. One kid (the target) would climb onto our monkey-bars and position himself in an awkward way that made fast movement difficult. The rest of us would start driving golf balls at him (using 3 irons) from about 150' away.
We never did manage to hit the target :\
We also one winter built a golf course (1 hole) in our basement. It was a par 4, 7-iron and 9-iron only. You had to chip out of the tool room, down the hall to the rec room—with a dog-leg to the left—then chip over the couch to the clearing in front of the TV, and then chip into the library (not really a library per se, just a room with a lot of bookshelves), and finally putt into a cup located in the closet. Blanket and cushions were used simulate the rough, sand traps, etc.
You could save a stroke by chipping right past the TV area, directly into the library. That was a tough shot, though sometimes you got a lucky bounce off the fireplace.
You'd think with all this golf related play I'd be good at golf. I'm not :\
TL;DR; played a lot of unconventional golf as a kid.
WagnersWorkshop · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to sit across the living room with our legs spread (wearing clothes) and we would take turns trying to throw a tennis ball at each others nutsacks.
No idea where that came from but there was no flinching allowed and your hands must stay on the floor when it wasn't your turn to throw.
R/Kidsarefuckingstupid
enigmabx · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guess what time daddy's coming home. No winner yet...
jordanpb_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This may sound very strange, but when me and my younger brother were little kids we’d pee at the same time and see who’s pee could last the longest the longest.
amick2311 · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play tackle football 1 on 1 in the basement but he would play on his knees and I would be on my feet cuz he was so much bigger
justrynalive · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spud. Love that game
Lankience · 1 points · Posted at 14:49:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Knee Volleyball. We had a large patch of carpet roughly 8 feet across and 10 feet long, we had two gymnastics mats that we’d lay on their sides and squeeze between the basement walls across the 8ft space so it acted as a net roughly 2.5 feet tall. At one end of the 10 ft length was the basement wall, at the other end was the back of a couch. So it’s basically a court with a net surrounded with boundaries on all 4 sides. We used a small gatorskin ball that you could hit with any part of your body.
The rules were simple. It was basically tennis, except the side walls are “in”, so the back walls are “out”. The ball can bounce once on your side, but only before you touch it, and you can also hit the ball straight out of the air. Oh, and you can hit the ball any number of times but you can’t reach across the net.
We had a blast playing this, and came up with all kinds of strategies. With your hands and the right type of ball you could generate all kinds of spin. Sometimes people would just bobble the ball to plot their next move, since you could touch it any number of times but you couldn’t hold it. In the end though the most effective types of shots were the ones that evaded your opponent. The court was just big enough that surprises shots down the line, short balls if they were playing deep, and lobs if they were hugging the net, were quite effective. Since you’re playing on your knees it’s difficult to move across the court quickly, so there was lots of diving which made it a serious scramble.
I’ve always joked saying if I get rich I would make an adult-sized knee volleyball court in my house. Though I don’t know if I’d be able to do anything about the one negative aspect of the game... we got some serious rug burns playing this game. Even wearing pants our knees got pretty fucked up in the years that we played this game.
WhackNicholson · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Gopher (or Go-for). I had a trampoline with a net and me and my friends would get inside and bounce with a big beach ball. One person on the outside would be the Gopher and we'd hit it at the gopher and he/she would hit it back into the trampoline. The goal of the Gopher was to get the ball to touch the ground inside the trampoline so they wouldn't be it anymore and the last person that touched it would become the new gopher.
zararab · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors had a trampoline and an ungodly amount of balls (basketball, soccer etc.) and we called this game the “ball game” (creative, I know). So there’s a net around the trampoline and there would be 2 people inside and 2 people outside of the trampoline. The people outside would try to throw the balls over the net and have it hit the floor, while the people inside would try and catch them. Each ball that hit the ground would be a point, we would play to 25 or so and switch sides. If you threw more than 5 balls at a time it would subtract a point. Also there was a garbage can outside the trampoline and if the people inside could shoot a basket in the can it would also subtract a point. Took up pretty much our entire summers threw middle and high school.
Elliebob96 · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and the neighbourhood kids would have "slow races": We'd go to the top of a nearby hill on our bikes, and then cycle back down. Last one to the signpost at the bottom wins. Rules: No stopping (foot on the ground means you're out). No going backwards. Stay on the road at all times (i.e not on the curb). It kept us amused for hours.
Me and my brother also played "Escape", where we'd tie each other up as best we could with whatever we could find and were timed on how quickly we could get out. My brother eventually became the forever champ when he tied me up and then put me in my closet with a doll that I was terrified of (He isn't a psychopath, he didn't know how scared of the doll I was. After that I didn't want to play anymore)
NotFromStateFarmJake · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
While driving I would mentally “collect” things on one side of the car which gave me points. The side I wasn’t collecting on lost me points. I always imagined it like shifting the tires forward on the passenger side to collect from the driver side or vice versa. Some of my ever changing rules:
Metal things were worth more. So if you’re driving on a divided highway with concrete dividers in the middle, but metal guard rails on only your side of the highway, the tires should be collecting from your side. If there were metal light poles in the middle it totally depended on the size and frequency on which side you should be collecting from. Poles and guardrail on both sides meant collecting across lanes.
I couldn’t just constantly shift sides, I had an internal feel about when it was ok to shift. Normally this was when I noticed I was about to start losing massive points.
Sometimes other cars counted, sometimes they served to block collection. So if you’re slowly passing a semi you damn well better be collecting from the other side on a blocking day.
Losing points felt disproportionate. A speed limit sign cost me more points mentally then the credit I felt earning them. Also anything on the passenger side (where my seat was as a kid) seemed to count for slightly more.
On boring stretches with nothing trees could substitute, but that’s usually just a wash on points.
Buildings never counted, they served as the boundary of what I could gather.
Edit: I might still do this while I’m a grown adult passenger sometimes.
GrandMasterBobo · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game, but when we could, my cousin and I would get a plastic or styrofoam cup, and put whatever liquids we could find. Water, lotion, soap, freaking coke if we wanted to. The point was that we made “potions”. Before any of you ask, no we didn’t drink them.
ksg1080 · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to try to kick a ball to touch every step on the stairs consecutively before I could go upstairs. If it missed the next one on the scale I had to start again from the bottom step.
I could be there for hours forgetting that I’d initially needed to go up to the bathroom.
uselesscalligraphy · 1 points · Posted at 14:51:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother were creative in comimg up with trampoline games, our favorite was "Log". The Log's job was to roll around the trampoline like a log and try to trip the other players jumping over the log. The Log could alternate their direction as frequently as they want as long as they can maintain the log posture. This was a pretty painful but fun game once you got used to tripping off trampolines and getting kicked and stepped on if you were the log.
The best part of the game though, was the orgin of "LOG". We came up with the game of long after a camping trip one summer. We went to some hill billy red neck's house that had a sign out front for firewood. He answers the door and we ask to buy some firewood. He was confused and quiet for a few seconds then says "OOOH THE LOGS". This was the most sterotypical hill billy we have ever seen, complete with a balding wife, missing teeth, and a property full of junk. "LOOOOGS" became an ongoing joke and the basis for this game.
We also had a similar game called ROLEX, which was a reference to a scene in the movie UHF. Instead of a log you were a watch. You would lay in the middle of the trampoline and use your body as the two clock hands trying to trip the other players.
Bichelamousse · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little sister used to play pretend a lot when we were kids. We would make up and characters and voices to go along with them and act like they would; the typical stuff.
What wasn’t typical is the characters we would make up. I distinctly remember one time we created this situation where I would pretend I was a wife who brought her husband to the hospital for surgery. She would be a male surgeon who purposely kills the husband during surgery so that he can make a move on the wife. As I sat down and pretended to be a grieving widow after the news came out that my husband died in surgery, she would pretend to be a handsy surgeon trying to take advantage of me in the name of comforting me while I mourned.
I really don’t know how/why we came up with this lol.
MrSpindles · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Further to a comment I'd made elsewhere, we had another unique game. A group of us at school used to go down to Ness point, the eastern most point in the UK and a 5 minute cycle from school at lunchtime.
On a stormy day the waves would crash against the sea wall and crash up in the air. We'd stand on the edge and when the wave crashed all try and dash backwards and not get soaked with stinky seawater.
Needless to say we'd often go back to school in the afternoon soaked to the skin and smelling like seaweed and on one occasion one of us got washed in by a particularly massive wave and getting him out from the slimy rocks below while the waves continued to crash was the closest I've come to seeing a friend die due to our foolishness.
AmesRae · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "alligator pit". Basically, we had a trampoline with the big net around it. Everyone playing would start with their shoes in the middle and we'd start jumping around the outside. If you got hit by a shoe, it would be like being "bit by an alligator" and you were out. Had to get off the trampoline until we were down to one person (the winner).
SausagePanda · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Theft and shrubbery
Razor3549 · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would get a hot wheels track and have it go down the stairs into a ramp and put random things down it seeing which went farthest.
ARCoati · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a few and they all resulted in minor injury everytime we played.
Monster: One person was the monster. They hid under the covers on the bed (always played on my parents' king-size bed without their knowledge) and tried to grab the other players and drag them under the covers, at which point they became the monster. You could not leave the bed or you were out and the monster could not see. It was basically extreme jumping on the bed and someone always fell off or got kicked in the head.
Blackout Tag: We would turn off all the lights in our finsihed basement and hang a thick blanket over the window so that it was pitch black. Then we just played hide-and-seek/ tag (we hid until we thought we were about to be found and then tried to run away and hide again before being tagged). Someone would always run full speed into a wall or furniture and got hurt, but it was suprisingly very fun.
Mountain Lions: Basically just the floor is lava buit you were mountian lions instead (because mountian lions can't touch the floor I guess?). Instead of being encouraged to make it accross the room though you were encouraged to climb as high as you could. It resulted in broken bookshelves and pulling down curtains. We were only allowed to play it 2-3 times before it was expressly forbidden in our household.
andreannabanana · 1 points · Posted at 14:52:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade 6 after school, my friend and I used to pretend we ran a horse barn and had horse shoes. We would set up ski poles over buckets and all kinds of obstacles and prance around her backyard jumping over the “jumps” we made. The crazy thing is that we were both in riding lessons and got to be around actual horses, but I guess we just couldn’t get enough.
K9kai · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The cow game.
Back in middle school some friends and we decided to make a game in the turf part of the play area. One person crawled on their hands and knees, and everyone else had to run around in the turf to avoid the cow (the turf was a small space so it wasn’t unfair). The cows goal was to tackle the people running around and if you were tackled you also became a cow.
This was a ton of fun and later in the week one day we had everyone playing it one recess. So about 30-40ish kids ALL came and played the game.
It got banned that day and were never able to play again.
extreme_diabetus · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to sit on the couch watching football or whatever on tv while my sister and I ran back and forth in front of him with him trying to hit us by throwing balled up socks. We called it fireball, and looking back it was probably the laziest way for him to interact with us while also watching tv.
Jupiter-oy · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tasmanian daredevil tag is what we called it. We would chase each other on our bikes and "tag" each other. To tag someone, you had to line up your front bike tire with their back tire and it would make a noise that reminded us of the Tasmanian Daredevil cartoon.
LordGreystoke · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "sparrow hawks" where the objective was for two of us to capture the family cat and bring it to the dog kennel (the "nest") without being stopped by the other person. The game evolved over time when we eventually realized that Boots probably didn't like being lugged around by a bunch of screaming children, so we replaced him with a frisbee that the "hunter" was allowed to hide anywhere on our property. But this meant that you no longer had to fight a squirming, evasive cat all the way back to the goal, so we gave the hunter an airsoft gun to tag people with in order to even it out. When you got shot you had to return to the nest before you could go looking for the frisbee again. At that point we started playing it after sundown so that the runners wouldn't get picked off from across the yard, and allowed them to surrender if they were caught at close range so you didn't get hosed with plastic bb's for picking the wrong time to cut through the garage.
fetteudugelig · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother throwing sticks at me like spears and me trying to deflect them with my own stick. Ended up with a bloodshot eye.
ALIENANAL · 1 points · Posted at 14:53:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were probably too old to be playing this made up game but anyway we called it "Nim Nims" inspired by Blair Witch Book of shadows so basically you turn all the lights off in the house, lock all the doors, block any light coming into the house and one person puts a pillow case over their head and chases everyone else while screaming NIM NIMS!
luv2belis · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Suit Larry on the Commodore 64. That 'age verification' didn't fool me.
LTDRxinS-aka-KT · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
LTDRxinS-aka-KT · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Best game of my childhood
PM_ME_USED_COUPONS · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunters vs Aliens
My cousin had this storage room full of toys. So my brother and I, along with my cousin, would “gear up” which ranged from putting on dinosaur feet which squeaked as you walk, to broken lightsabers to those xylophones with the mallet attached. We would run around his basement into all the rooms and eventually the rest of the house to protect the family from the alien intruders. The boss alien was always in the boiler room because it was really dark and scary in there.
Wrinkle_Tinkle · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’d always play “guns” which was literally just running around with a toy gun like a nerf gun, but had no darts or ammo what so ever. We’d just pretend we all saw the same invisible bad guys. Obviously that was hard. Sometimes we would play against each other without any ammo and argue for 10 minutes on whether my imaginary bullet hit you or not. Funny thing is though, we always had the bullets for the guns, we were just scared to lose them or the chance of hurting someone with them.
HollowDotZip · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
see who could climb up the stairs upside down while crawling like a spider
ImProphylactic · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cannon fodder.
twogunrosie · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monopoly Solo. Only child with two working parents and no friends my age in the neighborhood, so no one to play with. I'm not sure what the passive-aggressive deal was with my parents, but they always bought me board games. Like, who the f*** am I supposed to play this shit with?!?!?
Fortunately, I was very creative and came up with my own versions of the rules for Multi-player board games so that I could play them on my own. Don't ask me how I did it - I think I blocked out that part of my life.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to play wall ball, which essentially is you throw a tennis ball at the wall and then you/other players try to catch it. if you touch the ball but don’t catch it, you have to sprint to the wall and touch it before someone else throws the ball at the wall. you were lucky if you didn’t get pegged on the way. it was tons of fun and i could still spend hours playing it
Skinny_Beans · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Razor Scooter.
Grew up in a townhouse complex so the neighborhood kids only had one thing in common, scooters. We created a game where you'd set up two rocks on each end as goal posts, and try to kick an empty plastic bottle through them while riding scooters.
But here's the real kicker, we had nearby crab apple trees, so we would harvest some ammunition, and you were allowed to throw crab apples at each other and hit each others legs with the scooters to gain an advantage.
Nobody ever got seriously injured but man did that game produces some laughs.
I eagerly await Razor Scooters debut at the Olympic games. My townhouse complex will represent!
andreannabanana · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to jump on her trampoline and pretend we were germs in the toilet. Our goal was always to get on the toilet rim and then out of the toilet to infect people.
WalkingBenana · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Swordfight!” no, not that kind. We word pretend our whole arms where swords and swing them around trying to stab each other. If your arms/legs where stabbed, they where cut of and you could use them. You die if you get stabbed in the torso 3 times, stabbed in the back twice, and insta kills happened if you got stabbed in the head or a sneak attack of the back. If you die, you had to go and re-spawn, which would usually be where we chucked our coats. I played this regularly until I was ten, when my buddy broke my other buddy’s nose
MindbulletsDK · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline WWF. We used to have royal rumbles all the time and pull of signature moves, and all sorts of dumb shit. Especially fun when one of my friend's older brother would pretend to be Kane and come running outside and powerbomb/choke slam us since he was way taller and stronger.
spaloo19 · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in like 2nd grade my old friends and I would pretend to be characters from mario, and the playground would be bowser’s castle surrounded by lava. We never really did what any mario character would do but just sort of roleplayed as mario characters while not touching the “lava” ground. I guess that makes it a spin on “the floor is lava.”
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ice Climbers". My best friend in elementary school and I would climb the giant snowbanks during recess and one of us would pretend to fall while the other holds on to their hand so they don't die. It was very dramatic.
anonymousdude5558 · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spy world. We would take as much yarn as we could find (usually two giant rolls worth) and string them around everything in the entire house, making “lasers” everywhere. Once the entire house was covered we would have to get across it holding an object and if we touched the lasers we would “die” and have to go back and start over. My mom hated when I played this game lol
TalkativeCheese · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins had a pretty big staircase that was carpeted, so we when we visited we would bring all our blankets and stuffed animals and play a game of "avalanche" where one of us at the top of the steps would throw every blanket and stuffed animal in the house to try to knock down one of the others climbing up. It's a surprise nobody got hurt
nerdygamer2299 · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the belt. The concept is to hide belt under object. Lets kids go find the belt. When someone does find it your object is to hit kids with the belt while they run away to safety to the safe spot.
AboveAvgPotato · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had two memorable ones.
Firstly, the stairs from our main floor to the basement were quite steep, so I’d always take an old piece of carpet or something and pretend I was a bobsledder, and fly down those stairs for hours, bumping and crashing.
Secondly, my best friend at the time lived out of town in the country, and whenever we went to hang out there we would always get his dad to drive us around in his truck while we were in the bed, and we’d pretend we were surfing or flying or just whatever our imagination came up with and we’d do that for hours as well
Looking back, it’s a miracle I never seriously injured myself during my chaotic childhood
futurepa0404 · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I live in a culdasac (sp?) and my neighbors and I would play "Indian" by gathering leaves and twigs from the neighbor hood and putting them all in the island part of the court. It was like playing house but outdoors!
nitasu987 · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play balloon volleyball which is basically what it sounds, except without a net but a line on the floor usually demarcated by pillows.
slackingagain · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play manhunt in the woods at night, with full ghille suits ..... and paintball guns.
The seeker would have a spotlight and a paintball gun. The hiders would have camp and ghille suits, time, and darkness in their favor.
Oh and sometimes we brought firecrackers to "ambush" the seeker with, or to use as decoys. (light, throw as far as you can and run in the opposite direction before the seeker rounds the hill).
Get hit with a paintball, you're out.
masonboro27 · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister and two of our friends used to play “fox and turtle” in which everyone was a turtle except for the one person who was a fox and the turtles would crawl around until the fox came at which point the turtles would hide and pretend to be rocks until the fox passed by
sitdwnandhngon · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the Queer.
It was just running around with a ball for as long as you could until you got tackled. Then you tossed the ball and the closest person had to grab it and run.
It was not a very PC name, but the game was simple and fun.
karmagod13000 · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle Reemus where i tried to kneee my cousins in the but saying uncle reemus over and over
last_theater · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would tie a stuff animal to a string and swing it around over the stair railing. My dad would bat at it from below. It was kind of like playing with a cat.
funkychuck · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a form of dodgeball using a flattened volleyball, but played in a pitch black room with only a strobe light to see by. We called it "Twatfinder," and no, we didn't know what that word meant. It caused a minor stir when we first mentioned it by name to my parents.
rwil118 · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Socky. Essentially soccer with hockey sized goal at each side of the carport. Socky is played in your socks with a ball that was made of a big pair of wool socks wrapped in duct-tape. Socky includes 2 players per team, 1 goalie and 1 forward. So much fun.
mygk · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hogs of war?
Coupaholic · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents had a ton of junk in the garage when I was a kid. So when friends came round we grabbed a load of it and used it to make machines.
All the old tech or stuff with levers and switches would be how we control the "machine", and we'd use those bungee cords with hooks as power cables.
It was always fun, though I'm not sure parents enjoyed putting all the junk back afterwards.
ConnorOfAstora · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to just stand and stare in the middle of the playground, I'd get pissed if people tried to play with me cause I was daydreaming some kinda scenario and they'd ruin my focus.
I still do it sometimes, just only if I have to wait on something like a doctors appointment or something.
IMidnight_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother had this game he loved to play called "lock midnight in the dog cage and spray him with so much body spray he cant breath."
Delalcon · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Look my uncle's doing time now and I do NOT want talk about it again.
VinentPlayzCR · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hapy micropho e day!
Crunchry-Boy · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Quite Mouse
Cissyrene · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whore house.
kt0kether · 1 points · Posted at 14:56:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spy. Me and my friends would pick another random neighborhood friend to follow around and spy on without them noticing. And if they caught us we would run away and hide.
It was never organized like "okay we are going to spy on this person this time" but more of a spontaneous thing based on who wasn't with the group at the time and if we knew where they were and if we thought it would be fun to follow them around for a few hours.
Lemme tell you it's a lot more fun to do the spying than be the one getting spied on. And it would weird parents out sometimes
edit: I just remembered we would even whip out the binoculars and walkie talkies sometimes if we were really feeling it
h_ound · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Hide the peg'. Dad would hide a peg in the backyard and I would find it.
distilledwill · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Monster Chase"
We had a climbing frame which was basically a big metal frame shaped like a large cone with the top flattened off. And hanging down the middle was a long metal pole attached at the top by a chain, and at the bottom was a horizontal bit of metal which you could sit or stand on, and swing the pole around like a mad person. It would never pass safety regs nowadays, but in the 90s it was good fun.
Anyway, me and my sister used to play this game where we'd stand inside the frame (effectively like a massive cage) and fucking FLING this long metal pole around the edge of the frame causing it to bash about maniacally. If you got hit you had lost the game - and we called it monster chase.
The game usually ended in someone getting hurt tbh.
Ipmqn · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played our own form of hunger games in the park, with nerf/foam swords, Spears, tridents, maces, and bows. We also had a selection of locations to place the cornucopia every game to make things different, and his food in many places.
OrionStarr · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to imagine a man falling in the sky. He would just randomly pop into my mind sometimes, always in a tumbling freefall. Sometimes I would imagine he'd hit the ground, get up and walk around. If I was really bored I would imagine he started a whole life after his fall- got a job, wife and kids, the whole shebang.
But the ground would always fall through eventually, and he would be back to an infinite freefall. At least until I thought of him again.
polardiya · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spy vs Spy on ps2. So great.
metagloria · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sockblading.
The playing surface was a sunbathing deck near the pool at our campground. The deck was divided into quadrants. Four players would remove their socks, put on rollerblades, ball up one sock and stuff it into the other sock. This sock-whip became your weapon. Everyone skated around trying to use their whip to knock others' whips out of their hands. If you dropped the whip in your home quadrant, you could pick it up; if you dropped it anywhere else, you were out.
NeonRedHerring · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a small circular house growing up living room-dining room-kitchen-bedroom-hallway-living room.
My siblings and I played endless hours of 2 v 1 ping-pong capture-the-flag, oldest sibling vs two youngest siblings. The goal of the game wasn't just to retrieve the flag but to find it. Tag and you go to jail. Ball had to be hidden in plain sight but besides that there were no rules. Easily could take 20 minutes/half an hour of snooping around and darting back before it was ever found - let alone captured.
AstroNards · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This ones a video game but I found shadows of destiny to be pretty unique. Sort of like ground hog day
EmbertheUnusual · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a lot of those old eyewitness picture books as a kid, as well as many small plushies and plastic animal figurines. I would spend hours having my little characters interact with the pictures in the books- eating the food, putting on plays in the colosseum, the works.
IronPylons · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I somehow acquired a crappy video camera and decided to film scenes much like those found in the show Cops.
Which ended up being me running and being tackled and hurt by the biggest friend, as I was the smallest and it was fun apparently to see me be hurt.
Yea my friends were mean.
VenerableAeolist · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone that went to my elementary school played this courtesy of the best gym teacher ever, Bucky McCalister. It was called Jurassic Park. He would lay out an obstacle course the length of the gym where you couldn’t touch the ground. There were little rubber “stones”, mats, scooters to slide on and cross the “lava”. We had to go in a single file line and we needed to work together to pass the materials back and forth because there wasn’t enough to just lay everything out and walk across together. It was the greatest team building thing I’ve ever done and the most fun by far.
Bendoair · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game we didn't really name. We would glue together like 10 A4 papers and draw a map. Then everyone could get skme land and start to be a kingdom. There was a guy who managed all the "money". Basically you would get some money for the houses and other buildings you had. You could then spend the money on an army then conquer everyone. Lots of fun.
Zepidian · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would stage Pokémon battles while jumping on a trampoline. If you fell off the trampoline you were "knocked out" and the next challenger would get up. No intentional contact allowed, just make the other lose their balance while jumping.
UltimateFrisbe3 · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Power Rangers Fall Down a Hill. My friend had a steep hill next to his house with some trees and ivy on it. We would just pick different power rangers and then throw ourselves down this hill and try to dramatically tumble down this hill. That game stopped when we learned that some of that ivy was indeed poison ivy.
Fkbarclay · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The original leisure suit Larry games were fun and risque as a teenager.
LaurenKK1117 · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cruise ship. Mu sister and I had bunk beds and would drape a sheet over the top one that hung down to the bottom one to make it into a cabin.
We would also spider man up the hallway walls, one hand and foot on each side, until my mom found footprints and almost murdered us.
zygomic · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play hide and seek in the dark inside my house. We have a fairly large house and the third floor is basically one big living room that branches off into 2 rooms and a bathroom. The seeker would stay in the bathroom with the light on and count to 60 and at the end of it they would come out into the pitch black room and search for everyone.
It was fun because you could hide in plain sight and hear the seeker walk right past you. Also it got slightly dangerous because sometimes we would set up traps in front of the door like chairs or a mattress that the seeker obviously couldn't see so they would fall over the traps. We had a lot of fun playing that game haha
eri1998 · 1 points · Posted at 14:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to train dragons. We gave them names and powers and used to fight beside them wielding swords. One Halloween (we live in Australia) my mum wouldn't let us go out trick or treating. So instead, we pretended that a dragon killed my brother and we hoped someone would come by, enjoy the free acting, and give us lollies.
eri1998 · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another one that we still occasionally play is Whacko. Basically each kid takes in turn of leaving the other kids. The kids then divide some lollies into groups of 5 or 6. It can be many lollies in one pile and maybe or two in another. Whatever you want. Then you pick which pile is 'Whacko'. In agreeance, you call back the kid (usually with a lot of excited yelling). The kid then comes and starts pointing to piles of lollies. If they choose the 'Whacko' pile, everyone yells out WHACKO and that's it. No more piles. I don't even know where this comes from. My cousins and brother and I have played our whole lives. My youngest brother played for the first time last year and cleared the table. Beginners luck :)
sedging · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Allow me to introduce you to a fine game I played with my siblings.
First, your sibling lays down on their belly (preferably on a soft surface like carpet)
Second, you stand on their butt.
Third, they try to buck you off by jiggling their butt.
Endless fun. And harder than you think.
babybophop · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I would play this game where he would be a farmer and I would be a horse. We had a playhouse that had a sort of porch on the front, so my bro would section that off and it would be my stable and he lived in the house part. I would lie in hay (grass clippings) and pretend to eat it too.
Sometimes he would ride on my back and I would crawl around the garden. He would talk to me like you'd talk to a cute dog trying to hype it up, and I would neigh back. Wild times...
Also when my dad cut the grass he would make a trail in wiggly lines and loops before properly mowing, and we would set the track up with hoola hoops, skipping ropes, footballs etc to make an obstacle course.
nothocake · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When mom was not at home, big brother and I would play I-dare-you-to-eat-a-spoonful-of....
geck97 · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gold Miner Joe
billiepistol · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an only child I created an art factory, where each station was another part for the picture (drawing, colouring, signing...) And I'd create a gallery and demand money from my mum for her favourite one.
Grantmitch1 · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a jumping game. We would climb onto the side of our house, run, and jump as far as we could. We introduced garden furniture into the game. So you run and jump over a pyramid of chairs and tables. When everyone did this, the pyramid was pushed back... and back... and back... then SMASH. Someone was out. Then we rebuilt and started again.
There were no winners in this game. You always lost. You always got hurt. For some reason, we loved doing it.
TerminalMoon · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the first time I tell this story. I had a "friend" when I was a kid, we played a lot with a ball called Super Santos together at every kind of game involving a ball. Well, it was late that evening, like 7pm and it was almost dark. We had lost the ball and we couldn't play anymore, but then one of us started to spit on the other one, and the latter had to dodge. It was a gross war.
20 years late, I still think about that night.
9NEUKOLN · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my cousin played "kate & Mike" we alternated who was mike and kate, it was like a soap opera with barbies.
the_glow_ · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I pretended my hands were two fish while my grandma put her hands together and acted as if it were a shark. She would then try to catch my hands with hers. It’s one of my fondest memories of her.
aniratepanda · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Humphrey. It was a sort of hide and go seek/tag spin off invented by my sister and I. The twist was you had to get back to a base to be safe/win. The base was an old dinghy in the back yard.
There was an accompanying song. I don't know why it was called Humphrey.
This all just came flooding back to me when I saw this post. Kids are weird.
Smoke985 · 1 points · Posted at 14:58:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would put glue in each others hands and try to stick our hands together and then spin on an office chair to break it off. We just looked like idiots.
Faustenberger · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I gave my feet points while walking. My left foot got one point for each step it took, and my right got two; and each line/crack I stepped over doubled the points of that step (so if I stepped over a corner of two lines, it would be quadruple points, and so on).
I always stepped over as many lines as I could with my left foot to make up for the fact that my right got double the points. Guess I was always a sucker for the underdog stories.
GoodOlRock · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a dirt road in a very rural community. We played a game at night innocently called pull-the-snake (yes, I know). We would take an old bicycle inner tube, cut it, and tie a length of fishing line to one end of it. We would put the "snake" on one side of the road, and then hide in the woods on the other side of the road. When a car would come by, we'd start pulling the fishing line. We quickly found out that people loved killing snakes with their cars. The goal was to get the car to spend as much time as possible driving forward and backing up over the snake. It was all fun and games until someone got out of their truck to grab a gun out of the toolbox. We found that we all could run VERY fast through the woods at night.
fujiesque · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curb Ball!!! Two people stand on either side of the street and throw a ball (soccer, red rubber kickball, volleyball) One point for hitting the opposite curb. Two points if the ball rolls back across the street and hits your own curb. Three points if you ball hits opposite curb and returns to your own curb in the air. Hours of fun, till a car came along.
not_a_library · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Minus 1 Booty Shaking." It was a dancing competition show. You couldn't shake your butt though or you lost points.
JohnnyHotshot · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a version of Manhunt where you'd have a team of hunters and then the runners, the runners would go off and hide somewhere in the neighbor hood and then it was their job to make it back to "base" (usually the porch of one of our houses). It was a nighttime game because the darkness always added to it, and we'd sometimes have a jail where the runners who got tagged would go.
Morgenmorgan · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play this game called “Sit down and shut up!” back in the third or fourth grade. Basically, one of us what a teacher who would walk by, and we were supposed to try to whisper to each other behind her back. If she caught us, she just yelled “Sit down and shut up!”
I have no clue who made the game up, but we did during every recess.
Phillysean23 · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings would play floorball. You basically sat on knees and rolled the ball to the batter. And ran around the “bases” until ball was possessed by fielding team. Sofas were first and 3rd base. Under the doorframe was 2nd and the front door was home. It definitely helped with school cancellations when you <10 years old
Awesuig · 1 points · Posted at 14:59:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game called Cucaracha where we would push each other down to the ground and yell “Cucaracha!” If we were successful. It was a very violent game and I got in trouble playing it at school.
Gamogi · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only happened once because of supplies but still was really fun and needed more people.
For context, as a child I lived in a forested mountain range outside of a large city in the California Bay Area. Our house had a massive retaining wall (with it's own backstory for another day), about 25 ft (7.6m) high. Above the wall was a our backdoor deck and patio and below was this bowl shaped dirt area with a rim at the top. There was a trampoline on the rim, right under the wall.
A lot of dumbass shit was done using the wall and the trampoline. The more innocent one was that when I was cleaning my room I found 500 unused water balloons and my brother (8 years older than me) decided the best idea (it was) was to fill them with soapy water. I went down to the trampoline and he stood up top pelting me with them and they would pop on the trampoline, coating it with soap, eventually making it almost impossible to stay standing. Similarly it was done using water guns but they held no ground to the balloons.
On a completely separate occasions my brother also jumped off the retaining wall and
ontothrough the trampoline. No idea how no serious harm came from that.Tldr: Giant wall + moron kids = Stupidity
seytrym · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin had a game inspired in Indiana Jones when we were young. We were in a Hammock and try to reach each wall hook just using the strong of our arms... Kind the bridge scene of the movie...
allyally25 · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my uncle played this game called guess the body part. this is how my uncle taught me about the parts of the body. he even taught me some stuff about things between my legs
Zorakas · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another game that we would play later on in high school would be this game called "Ninja." This game often had other students from other grades participating. The idea of the game was that everyone was assigned a target to "assassinate." To assassinate someone, you were supposed to poke them in the back of the neck with two fingers WITHOUT them making eye contact with you. If you succeeded in assassinating your target before getting assassinated, they would give their target to you. The game would proceed until there was one winner left. This game could go on for weeks.
Tenesty · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make rpg games on paper and make my friends play them kinda like dungeons and dragons but for like 10 year olds
Synopia · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but lawd we had so many. My favorite was when my older brother and I randomly threw down Yu-Gi-Oh cards in the backyard and pretended to be the monsters. Then, we pretended to get sucked away to the Shadow Realm if we lost. Sometimes we mixed in WWE and Ray Mysterio and the Undertaker would be flippin heads.
FUCK YOU JONATHON I NEVER FORGOT THAT YOU STOLE MY DARK MAGICIAN AND SOLD IT TO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD KID YOU RAT BASTARD.
doitypemyname · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived at a lake house near some woods and when it was dark my Grandpa and I would pretend to hunt invading bears with flashlights
Bear_Wellington · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play what we just called the scare game. Basically reverse hide and seek. You me person would hide in the dark and we would look for them in a group. They would try to scare us. If one of us jumped, we were then it. If they went for it t and no one got scared or we spotted them before they had a chance to spook us, they went again.
One time we were playing at my house and my mom went downstairs to do some late night laundry only to be hisses at from the darkness by my buddy. She lost without even playing.
AsianBenSwolo · 1 points · Posted at 15:00:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mud chefs
PM_ME__About_YourDay · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For some reason at my elementary school, the blacktop had a 10x10 grid painted on it of 1ft squares. We had chalk to draw on the blacktop, so we'd have one person "draw" a maze by making one square a "start" and one and "end" and then on some sides of the squares, arrows to other squares. This created a bunch of different paths (often there was more than one path to the end).
Then everyone would jump around from square to square following the arrows, trying to get to the end.
Fun times.
katbonk · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play the “invisible man.”
Basically all of us would go in one room (except for one person) and shut the door. Then the person on the outside would knock, and those inside would open the door to seemingly no one standing there. The person outside would hide off to the side or something and say “it’s the invisible man!” in a weird voice, and then we would shriek and slam the door.
This eventually evolved into things like “the talking shoe,” the talking hamper,” etc. God we loved that game.
Tenchi_Cantu · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were dirt poor coming from mexico, for some reason we would fill shasta plastic bottle of water and try to smash the cap off without moving the body. It was hard until I saw my older brother do it with a fast clean whack!
We did this when we were 8-10 of age Im 33 now, from time to time I would refill a 2 litter and do this to see if I still got it. Lol
Summerclaw · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and me used to play hide and seek in Pumpkin Hill in Sonic Adventure 2. We will give hints on how the area we where (two ghost and a pumpkin) and stuff like that. It was very fun.
FionaOlwen · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a pig stuffed animal with a bow tie, our childhood friend would be on the top bunk, dangling it like a puppet. Elvis pig, as she did an Elvis voice, would say pickup lines to me and my brother would punch it. Don’t know why it was so fun..
Ghhahn · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me n my sibling n cousin used to play a game called detdor, basically meaning run fast n we wud run around a table and catch up with the one in front. The thing is the table was a small one my mates were like small so i wud always win. Also spent one afternoon trying to knock out coconuts from a tree with rocks. I was not v smart.
YakMan2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sure lots of people role played growing up (as a kid we called it "us-being-them"), but I feel like not too many role played Bucky O'Hare.
BuryMeInPitaChips · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not really a game per se, but we had something at my middle school called "fiddies," which was basically a do over on whatever you just tried (and probably failed) to do.
Like if you shot a balled up paper at the trashcan and missed, you could say "fiddies" and go again.
On the other side, you could issue a challenge to someone and say "no fiddies" and then they only have one chance to do it.
cthulhukiss · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'dead buggy' - run around on all fours like beetles randomly until you hit another kid, then you have to lay on your back, wave your legs and say 'dead buggy' 3 times before you could get up again. Totally lame, kept us entertained for hours
kit_glider · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Junky Jennifer.” My brother and I would take road trips with our grandparents every summer as kids and I had this little doll we called Junky Jennifer. We would think up new creative ways for her to die while we sat in the backseat of the car. Maybe the back of the car seat was a waterfall and she went over, fell into the water below, and was eaten by alligators. We’d take turns telling and reenacting her murders.
We grew up watching a lot of xfiles and forensic files.
Edit: spelling
SubiFan713 · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two that we played at church when I was in high school. “Spinning Wheels of Death” was an ultimate frisbee played in a basement. The two teams had 3 cones set up on opposite ends, first team to knock down the other teams cones wins. We played this with those high speed frisbees. Second was “Bloodletting”, it was a variation of Scoops which is lacrosse but with plastic handheld scoops. We would have goals set up on either end and played it like lacrosse. Only rule was “no blood no foul.”
dontdoubtit- · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood and the guys in my neighborhood would punch grown men and call it a “grown man sneak” The leader had dozens.
DoNotCOMMENTPLS · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WPW - World Piggyback Wrestling
Pretty fun game in a confined quad in school. Two pairs wrestle to pull one pair's rider off his teammate, first rider to make contact in the ground loses the game for himself and the fella who he was riding on. Could get pretty violent especially when the two guys carrying could be slamming into each other while the riders on top are grappling like crazy.
Ah good times.
DRJC190 · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunger Games.
Friend had an absolutely massive property and plenty of toy swords and other weapons. We'd set them up in a circle in the middle of a basin in his backyard and all run to get them at once. No killing for 3 minutes so we could spread out first.
At first it took forever for anyone to find each other, so we established that certain zones like "fields" or "pine trees" would become off-limits after a certain amount of time. (Think Fortnite)
Usually it was only him and I and our younger siblings, so 4-6 per game, but sometimes more people would come over too. Think our largest game was around 15 people at a birthday party. Good fun.
kmai270 · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie Babies Adventures
rajnibhani01 · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
contra me and my brother the brother of destructions :))))
roachezmo · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BIG GREEN BALL! We would stand in a circle and try to keep this giant yoga ball from touching the ground, and if you accidentally kicked it over the fence you had to go after it, throw it back over, and then hop the fence before we could kick it back out again.
Also, if it was your birthday you had to stand in the circle and just get annihilated by everybody for awhile.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gutterball. My parents sent me to military camp which, god bless their oblivious hearts, they thought it was a regular camp at a military academy campus.
The teams weren't even, you went to a side on the shallow end and someone threw a water polo ball in the center and everyone had to try and get it to the other teams' gutter. No other rules for a group of 12-14 year old boys at military camp. This meant people were punching, kicking, scratching, if it could hurt you and cause physical damage it was done. Good times, fun game, got a lot of fond memories and a light scar on my chest from having a chunk scratched off
Deusbob · 1 points · Posted at 15:02:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived way out in the country, so no neighbors and it was just me and my two brothers. We played 3 man baseball. Same general idea of baseball, but no teams. Three bases and home, but when you hit the ball (a pine cone usually) the pitcher had to tag you out and if the ball went outside the base line, that was an automatic out. Three outs and you became the pitcher. We had ghost players and elaborate rules to run the bases if the two batters were already on the base. Pretty fun.
stayathmdad · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would lay a large cup down with the opening facing away from me.
I would then roll a ping pong ball in such a way that it would have massive amounts of backspin.
I would try to roll it past the cup and get it to spin back into the cup.
I was a bored child.
cel-faded · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a few stupid games growing up.
One was called “Rolling bowling”. We would lie down on our parents bed and roll into each other. The aim was to roll over the other person.
Another was called “Bombs 2” (said in an American accent), it went like this:
We would duck down on either side of the bed and throw this little foam ball at each other like we were lobbing grenades. The goal was to hit each other, obviously.
I don’t know why we called it that... There was no “Bombs 1”.
appolo11 · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stair Golf.
We would putt from the top of 10 carpeted stairs and have a small tupperware bowl at the bottom for the hole.
By age 9, I could read the intricacies of my stairs better than Phil Mickelson.
hungryamerican · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Duck duck grey duck
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a large pond near our home and it was densely covered with trees and all of the homes near it had there backyards exposed to it but with a level difference.
Me, my brother and cousin used to sneak through them and act like we were some dudes who were on a treasure hunt and used to steal fruits from our neighbors backyard.. It was tons of fun and I still miss those days.
family_of_trees · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crutch Puddling.
My friend had a couple of pairs of old crutches and a gravel/dirt driveway that was prone to flooding in giant puddles.
We would use the crutches to vault ourselves over the puddles. Simple but surprisingly fun.
TrulyGobsmacked · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Backyard brawl.
Basically we would go the garage and choose our wepeon and then battle it out. Hits to the head we immeadiate do but, body, arm and leg shots were all on a point system. If you blocked you got a point taken away. The object of the game wasnt to hurt your opponent but out speed and stratigally maneuver. My favorite was duel tiki torches. The counter balance of the torch end made for some wild moves. Cant believe none of us ever got hurt from this one.
Rockkicka37 · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called the game "Rocks"
We threw rocks at each other.
TheJavaJive_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would always play that Mr. President game, but I know we werent the only ones. One person would put two fingers against their ear like they had a little earpiece, and as soon as someone noticed, they had to do the same. That last one to put up their hands immediately became "Mr.President". All the other people would shout "MR. PRESIDENT GET DOWN" and jump onto him in a huge pile.
Inshabel · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Erm, pillowfights in the dark, trying to be quiet as fuck, and going to town on someone when they made a noise.
Played Diablo 2 with weapons made from lego (durabillity lol)
We had a custom game mode in Goldeneye where we gave my little brother a huuuuge handicap and we had to try and kill him with 3 other people. We called it KillaMomma (don't ask me why, I have no idea)
Boexxes · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I doubt if me and my brother's were the only group of kids to play this but we called it the night game. Basically hide in seek in the dark. After it got dark, one person would stay upstairs and the others would go in the basement. We would let our eyes adjust and then the person upstairs would come downstairs and have to try and find the others. The person upstairs wouldn't be able to see well because of the light change. An extra rule, just for shits, the people hiding could throw balls at the seeker. Loads of fun and pretty scary for younger kids, especially if you have an unfinished basement.
clarity1897 · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Perfect dark! (N64)
snoop906 · 1 points · Posted at 15:03:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My brother and I always played a game in the car which we called "fantasy" or something just like this. We often drived 4 hours or more and had enough to time to play The grest thing is we only needed our speech For example I said that i am Donald Duck and he's Mario and then we just played in the World of our fantasy with two character which experienced great adventures (or we were two brothers) I miss this time No worries just our fantasy I was never again that creative even though i want to 😐
Tsentinel · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I on my birthday would play a game called, "Roogie Boogie." It was essentially hide and go seek with the caveat that the person who was it held one of my toy plastic lightsabers and constantly made jokes. Now my house was very dark at night to the point where if you had your hand in front of your face then you couldn't see it. So the person who was it made jokes and if they found you they hit you with the lightsaber (not overly aggressive but playfully). It was a fun game, you would be hiding and then hear someone in the house laugh and then heard them get smacked. Ah good times.
beefroaster · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pee sharks and lava. Swinging on monkey bars, if you fell you’d fall into pee sharks and lava. No friggen clue where me and my buddy thought that up from.
Spacemann7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the penis. With my uncle
_Ardhan_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gee whizzers was the tone of that title creepy...
H-CXWJ · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called the trampoline game. It was basically 44 home, mixed with brandy? So everyone starts at the trampoline in the middle of the yard, then someone counts, and basically if you've never played brandy it's tag but with a ball, the key difference here is that we used a very large exercise ball though.
The satisfaction of nailing someone in the head as they're sprinting back to the trampoline is incomparable.
44Hydras · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game little 9 year old me called "monkey brains". Literally you walked on the back of the couch and tried not to fall off the longest. I was not a smart one.
twoandablue · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctors and nurses.
Princeofallsayains0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and My brother use to play a game where we have to kick each other to the ground and who ever wins gets to play PS2
mobsterswithlobsters · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around 8 we came up with a game called 'Injection'. It was essentially tag except instead of tagging someone you jabbed them with a sharp stick. We agreed to stop playing it after one day, since my friend lost a chunk of his knee running away. Guess the fear of being stabbed was too good a motivator.
daddyfuckmyass · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle used to play "cave explorer" and always explored my butt with his fingers
WildJackJack · 1 points · Posted at 15:04:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play ''Sailormoon'' Where we'd have to battle each other for planet domination,
Another game was called 'Kick the can' It was fun too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “funeral” with my neighbours. Pretty much someone would lay on a pile of dirt and we would cover him or her with flowers and fake cry above them. We also had fake marriages. I still have 3 wives
tarthgregor139 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would share a can of soda, drinking and passing it along to the next person making sure there is some left for the next person. It would continue for few rounds before there is just few drops left. The last one to pass with no soda left for the next person is declared looser and greedy.
You can not believe how long a can of soda can last when you drink it till the last drop.
accidmav · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It makes me sound like a little jerk now but I used to "hunt" moths and butterflies. I'd sit on the hill in my front yard and keep an eye out for those big white moths and monarchs. When I saw the prey I would take my "gun" which was a wiffle ball bat, hold it to my shoulder, aim reeeeeallly carefully at my target, and then fire. Only firing consisted of me sprinting 30 yards yelling while trying to knock whatever it was out of the air with my bat.
Thank God for my lack of coordination, because I missed an awful lot of the time. Still, I feel bad about the ones I did "harvest".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Those Two Guys". My brother and I would play it while being driven around by our parents. We were kind of like super spies driving around our hopped up spymobile. My code name was "Cheetah"
veganchknnoodle · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would place sock on each blade of my ceiling fan then turn it on and try to dodge them. single child syndrome at its finest
CurdledART · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scooby-Doo for the Wii, it was so fun!
MikeNotBrick · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take an arrow (like from a bow and arrow) and throw it far as we could.
Or another one was when we would pick apples off our friends crab apple tree and then basically have a home run derby with them into our neighbors' back yards.
chris_505 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to step on pop cans, sideways so they cup around your feet and they would be our "quicksand shoes" it was a good time waster and fun for the moment.
pm_me_butt_stuff_rn · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many, take ur pick. Shed ball, cove ball, spring sixty, you name it we had it.
geronika · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would stack air mattresses in the back yard to use for a high jump landing pit as part of our own Olympic decathlon.
dorapolicarp · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tadpole soup. This is going to be really bad, I'm sorry for it. When I was about 4 or 5 years old my brother and I went with our parents to a lake for a short vacation. We hanged around the lake for a while and we noticed a landing net besides the cabin. We then used the landing net to gather as many tadpoles from the edge of the lake as possible, place them in a tree stub, or a log, and then mash them all together using a piece of wood or something. This was called making tadpole soup. I'm sorry again.
GazeboWarrior · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not that unique but my friends and I often played "Haunted House" which was basically tag but when a person got caught they became a zombie and joined the initial tagger until almost everyone became a zombie and chased the few remaining survivors.
We also played a variation of this which was called "Lava Zombie". This had to be played in the playground (which had sand as the ground) and one person had to become the zombie. The zombie could only stay on the sand while others escaped by climbing the monkey bars, slides, towers etc, hence the name lava zombie.
We also pretended to be transformers, like a recurring thing. I was sideswipe.
rogerthat81700 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to take our Transformers and pretend they were “in a movie”. we used to have actual plots and cool battle scenes
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ooky mouth
Rumel57 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a bunch of those stuffed monkeys with long arms with velcro on them. We would turn the monkeys into little balls and put about ten of them on the trampoline. My brother, sister and I would then get on to the trampoline and jump around. You would get five lives and for every hit from a monkey you would lose a life. If any of the monkeys busted open and was splayed out they became a bomb and any hit from them was an automatic loss. We also allowed you to catch a monkey if it bounced high enough and throw it at each other. It was a lot of fun.
hyper_snake · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a trampoline that backed up to our detached garage. We would play a baseball type game where the person on the trampoline was the defender and the person at bat would take a small ball and smack it with their hand. Depending on where the ball hit the garage was a single, double, triple, or HR. Hitting the ball over the garage was an out and if the defender stopped it it was an out. I don't know how we figured this game out, but we had a ton of playing playing that stupid game.
ptg33 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BAE Ball
Friend had a grassy hill that lead to a driveway with a basketball hoop. Had to get from the top of the hill to the bottom without getting tackled and losing the ball. Once you got to the driveway you had to get the ball in the hoop to score while defenders played regular basketball defense (no tackling). 2 on 2 was ideal. A lot of other rules etc. but that was the gist of it.
VGmaster9 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Technical Penis"
My brother and I would go at the top of your bunk bed and would carry me from top by my legs and my face is pointing towards his crotch. For some reason, I would move my chin and and down to tickle his balls.
Wackyal123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Potty pancakes. Put your coat on your head. Hold the edges out like a plane/kite... spin around until dizzy
KrentistDMD · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had been on the hunt for this game when I was a kid that I was SO PROUD to have beaten. I thought it was lost forever. But this morning I found it in a YouTube video.
It's called Alundra.
Please play it and tell me if you think it holds up. My brain remembers it as strait fire.
TishraDR · 1 points · Posted at 15:05:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the hotwheel track. Our mom used to beat us with it, so we would always try to hide it so she couldn't find it. Never, worked, she always found it.
vbnvowless · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings used to play a game we called 'crash derbys' where we would all pick our favourite ride-on toy like a scooter or truck and then just ride around our patio and smash into eachother as hard as possible. It was even better when friends would come over because we had so many ride-on cars. I don't know how mum didn't cancel the game but we used to play for hours.
tenthmuze · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kneeball.
One player at either end of the basement (about 10 feet apart), goals were the sliding glass door at one end and the liquor cabinet/doorway at the other. Players cannot leave their knees except to dive.
Each player has a serve with the same rules as volleyball, first to 11 by 2 wins.
It was played with a small, acorn squash sized indoor soccer ball hit with the hands.
The battles that were had were legendary.
tsogo111 · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Waiting for some pedo stories
mrsaftey · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chips Challenge
mossman_cometh · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game that is fairly common for Youth Groups called “Sardines”. It’s like reverse Hide and Seek. 1 person hides and then everyone else goes to look for them. As the single person is found the finders then hide with the original hider so that there is only 1 person left. Then the game starts over with that last person now being the one who gets to hide.
This was a very popular game when the group was in a large building with lots of rooms and closets to hide in.
TapoutKing666 · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My unique game was called “Grow up coddled and falsely feeling special, inherits dumpster fire of a world”
InterestingAroma · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On my bus in elementary school we played 'the game game'. Each person would pick a character from any fictional universe and fight it out in a Battle Royale completely arbitrarily and out loud. The oldest kids on the bus always picked the same Dota character (Lina?) and just beat us every time and we couldnt figure out why. Turns out when you can make things up, it's easy to win. I ever won
Karelious · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretend I'm a ninja and walk stealthily at night to 'retrieve' something from the fridge and back to my room while making the least noise possible.
plantsarefriens · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every year at Easter after dying eggs I would promply nake a nest somewhere in the hpuse and pretend I was a dog and guard the nest for a few hours like they were my babies.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghosts in the graveyard, in a graveyard. One person as it, rest run and hide behind the headstones and crypts. Goal was to hide until the seeker passed you, then get back to 'home'.
One time, I was in my favorite spot, on top a crypt behind a stone angel. Seeker was gone so I moved around the angel to climb back down. A teenage girl saw me, gasped, and I put my finger up and hushed her. She ran out of the cemetery screaming. I wonder sometimes how often she tells her 'ghost' story.
Pax-ton · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Squirmy Worms” - at sleep-over parties we would turn the lights out and put sleeping bags over our heads then run around. Sometimes I’m shocked we didn’t end up at the hospital more often.
Fernando3161 · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prince of Persia... boy whas that a hit back in the day.
JonnyB3ski · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof ball!! We had a ranch style home with a fairly low pitched roof and my brother and I would throw a ball on the roof and wait for it to come back down. You had to jump, catch the ball, and throw it back on the roof all while in the air. We'd play for hours and hours
pancake-envy · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd take turns laying on the bed; one holds a pillow over the others head until they can't breathe anymore, then we switch
Mr-Moser · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Poison balls” - We has a trampoline with a net around it and would throw 5-6 large inflatable balls in. A bunch of us would bounce around and if you got hit by a ball, you had to get out. Only rule was you couldn’t touch a ball.
GypsyJenna · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I played “Bob.” He would be Bob and I would be Bob’s friend (I didn’t have a character name) and we would do the most mundane things. Bob mows the lawn - and we’d pull up grass. Bob gets a cat, and we’d pet my cat. You get the idea.
pepperberg · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this hole in the ground that would spout water sometimes, we had no clue what it was. So, naturally,Me and friend would pretend that it was magic and we would rub it all over our faces. We later found out it was toilet water.
thetannenshatemanure · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Road trip game. Two variations. Called it “zip”. You count horses. Say zip when you see one, zip two for two, etc, with a max of five per enclosure. If you zip on a cow or anything else, you’re minus that number. I’m from Oklahoma, so it’s a fun game. The other variation is basically the same, but for hawks. It’s especially fun in the winter when there are no leaves on the trees. My daughter loves these games.
MynameisPOG · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I would visit my dad as kids, we had a game we would play with his girlfriend's kids called Steamroller. Essentially we all rolled around on the ground saying "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM ROOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" and trying to roll over one another. This would eat up at least an hour of every day.
MalzxTheTerrible · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I saw Jurassic Park at a fairly young age. It's still one of my favorite movies.
I used to have walk my dog around my parents somewhat large yard, since it wasn't fenced in and I was too young to walk him down the road away from the house. I would pretend I was John Hammond. Any chipmunks or squirrels I'd come across were dinosaurs that would have to be carefully avoided. Dumb, I know.
Slaisa · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lock and key. You play with 4+ people, its like tag but the tagged person sits down and becomes locked. The remaining people can unlock the tagged person by putting their hand on the guys head and saying "key". You can only win if you manage to lock down everyone. 1 round used to average out to 40 minutes.
The14thGender · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play a lot of unique games in our youth. My favorite was always be playing ‘the floor is lava’ while on the playground.
7uk4h · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother got this game called “Ghost and the blackman”. He put a white blanket on his head and ran after three year old me around the house. (He was 21). And he caught me, threw me on the sofa and started whispering in my ear: “Where’s the ghost? Where’s the ghoooost” followed by creepy laughs. He is now a neurosurgeon and I am doing good in school. We turned out okay 😂
edit: We’re Mexican and all our friends are black. We are not racist in any way, shape or form.
blueswan1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a fake family husband and wife lol
bbrubbo · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ping-ball, kind of a mix between table tennis and soccer, pretty fun here in Brazil but not so popular tho. the rules consists into a basic table tennis game, although we mark the ground and play with a soccer ball
SnipTheNip · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Every character in the world" which was basically larping as your favorite TV show or video game character
kitjen · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend used to put his duvet at the top of the stairs, climb inside the duvet cover, then tip ourselves down the stairs and go tumbling to the bottom. It hurt.
MasterBathingBear · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shating” as in “shoe + skating”
We would “shate” around with one rollerblade and one shoe... it was kind of like skateboarding but with the board attached to one of your feet.
TOADSTOOL__SURPRISE · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My house used to be on a large hill. And my street had two telephone poles on it, with like 150 feet distance between them.
I used to stand at the pole towards the bottom of the hill, and wait for cars to turn the corner and drive up my street
I would get like a 40 foot head start on the car, and try to beat them to the second pole by sprinting up the hill.
This was very competitive for myself for a couple of years until I became considerably faster than every car.
cgingue123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our old couch had cushions on the footrest that could be removed. They looked remarkably like old wooden sleds, but slid quite well on our carpeted stairs. We would run up the stairs and slide down for hours on end.
BaldAssCaillou · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crossfire.
You guys remember hot box? (2 bases and 2 throwers where you try and steal back and forth or get in a pickle).
Cross fire is a similar concept but the throws are perpendicular to the bases and you have to peg the runners with the tennis ball.
Also, brown bag game with babysitter. She would put weird crap (food mostly) into a brown bag and you had to guess by feeling.
captaingoatbeard · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pirates and parrots. It was a ridiculous fighting game where one person would sit on the other persons shoulders. The parrot would have to get the pirate to lose their balance and fall, while the pirate had to knock the parrot off. Over time many rules were added such as pirate could not duck head, if a pirates knee touched ground they were eliminated
FifenC0ugar · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, siblings, and I used to pretend we were super hero's or knights. my sister was/is an artist and she would draw our characters and maps for us. It made our worlds feel so real. I was looking back at them and realized how cool it was. If anyone wants to see some of the art let me know
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No pants tickle time
tunac4ptor · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Naruto with my friend for a while and we would use sticks to play the characters we didn't want to. Lots and lots of Naruto running...
FogPanda · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Duzheez." Or something like that. After the lawnmowers came and cut the field next to the playground, we'd crawl around on the ground and collect the grass left behind. The, "winner" was the one with the largest grass pile by the time we got tired of playing.
There were different types of duzhees. Electric, water, metal, ground, radiation, etc., and you picked one and made up powers to go along with it. Like, zapping others, your grass pile being protected for x duration, you could steal their grass better, and so on.
We were in late elementary school.
HulkSmashMouthGuard · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1 vs 3+ dodgeball with the thrower on the ground and 3-5 people on a trampoline trying to dodge or catch. The fact that no one ever got injured still boggles my mind.
youcouldlickthistree · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would make "potions." These concoctions were really just us combining a tiny bit if every single liquid, lotion, serum, etc we could find in the house. We never went for anything dangerous, it was usually just lotions, body sprays, soaps, etc.
Anyways, it was weird because we didn't do anything with them once we were done. I think we usually just threw them away....wtf?
MrMankookoo · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play “Caterpillar.” All we did was wrap ourselves in a blanket it to make it like a cocoon and sit there till one of us just burst out of it and yell Butterfly!
shock1918 · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Guns”. Before you could get shot for it, about 10 - 12 of us would take toy guns out in the neighborhood (parameters were about 12-15 houses on one side of the street) and we would go hide. If you saw someone from the other team, you basically called out their name and that was “shooting them”. The neighbors all knew us, so hiding in yards and under cars wasn’t an issue. If you tried this now, the police would shut it down in seconds. Grew up in Yonkers NY, a pretty big city....
kadno · 1 points · Posted at 15:07:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to put a cooler on a skateboard and ride it down the driveway. Later, we tried dragging the contraption from behind a bicycle until we'd inevitably fall out. We called it "Nashboarding"
dogsrlife123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to a play a game called “The Envelope Game” with us as kids. He’d leave a series of envelopes around the house with clues to the next envelope’s location like a treasure hunt. In the end we’d either win a smelly sock or a tamagotchi.
flackerstack1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer! One person had a ball or object, who ever had it would get tackled by a group of people until they give up the ball or object. The winner was usually the biggest or quickest person.
NewToAustinTA · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors had a massive red ant pile and my friend and I would always try to make our own "ant poison" to get rid of them. Note that a mixture of water, dirt, sand, and sticks does not kill ants.
anatraverde22 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kingdom Rush
GuardedDig2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We put a dart board on a trampoline jumped and threw darts at it. It was fun
jojoba22 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played something called "Garbage Ball". We had a whiffle bat, but no ball, so we filled a garbage bag with filler we found in the trash. Also there were only three of us so the frisbee was the home plate. Balls couldn't be hit far so gameplay was more similar to what I imagine cricket is than baseball. "Garbage Ball Champ 2001" here!
Edit: a word
JudgeDreddPresiding · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We spent a few weeks worth of afternoons making a "potion" in a five gallon bucket.
Ingredients included:
Dog feces
Human urine
Human feces
Rotten fruit
Feathers
Anything else nasty we could find
The potion turned out not to have the magical effects we though we had brewed into it
TehGoldenGod · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when I was in Boy Scouts as a middle schooler we played a few creative games.
The first that I can remember was called "Zombie Game." One person would stay on the ground and everyone else had to stand on top of a picnic table. The "zombie" on the ground had to grab people and rip them off of the table and have them fall on the ground for them to also become a zombie. That new person also had to rip people off of the table. This went on till there was one person left and they became the next first zombie. I have no idea how none of us never got seriously injured.
The other game I can remember was called "Hunger Games." It was a basic survival game where everyone started in a circle and had to tackle people to the ground, last man standing wins. If knees or hands touched the ground you would be out.
JuRoJa · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marco Polo, but inside the house with a toy sword. One person would be blindfolded, and try to hit someone with a foam sword to get them to be ''it". Lost 2 lamps before parents banned it.
mannyrmz123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice try, Hasbro!
wouldland · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Tron on our bikes and threw Frisbees at one another.
mag0802 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game with an inflatable beach ball in a medium long hallway in our house. The goal? Get the beach ball past the other.
Relatively simple, but the beach ball is very easy to catch and deflect, so scoring was rather difficult.
The name? Hall Ball, of course.
GigEm2020 · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play football and basketball on ripsticks.
Nashtymustachety · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have had auditory hallucinations my whole life. When I was a kid I called them sirens. I used to put earphones on and ear muffs and hide when it got unbearable loud. I was afraid to tell my family because I didn't want to be called crazy so I would tell them I hear sirens. I was able to play that game until I finally told my wife. She doesn't make me hide my siren game anymore.
TheTygerWorks · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Kicking Game"
My brother and I would in the fall and Winter play our version of 1-on-1 football. Field was pavement to pavement, and it started with one side punting. Other had to return it. Wherever you were tackled would become the point you had to punt from. So back and forth until someone got into their end-zone. Somehow that never ended up with any real injuries, unlike...
"The Tripping Game"
This was an inside game, where we would set up 2 bases (pillows), one of us in the middle had to trip the other trying to cross from base to base. That game ended about how you would expect, with me (younger one) tripping head first into the corner of the TV (it was one of those old CRTs with the build in cabinet under, so it wasn't going anywhere), splitting my eyebrow open, and getting a trip to my Dad's office to get stitched up (he was a doctor). The Tripping game was banned after that day.
We also were apparently not very creative in our naming as kids.
Char-Lez · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents took me everywhere, which included many trips to Denny’s. I created a variety of games hat required dice, but I never had dice with me so I improvised by flipping sugar packets. I assigned a “head” and a “tail” and viola, random numbers were in my grasp.
I know my parents saw me flipping the sugar packets because they often confiscated them for their coffee but I don’t think they ever realized what I was actually doing with them.
craylash · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my friends managed to make lego guns that shoot the smallest square lego brick with a few lego Technic pieces and a rubber band.
hurt a lot less than airsoft but on the rare chance that square hit you on the corner it definately was going to sting
bigtimejess · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play Trampoline Badminton with my dad in the summer. I would bounce on the trampoline holding my racquet, and he would be on the ground. I was such a little shit, I would hit the birdie really far away, or from left to right making him run all over the place whereas I was just having a ball and bouncing around!
Penta-Dunk · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard. Always played at night, We would all gather in one spot(usually someone’s garage) and we would all count up from one o clock to midnight with a little song while the “ghost” went and hid around the neighborhood. After the time was up, we would all leave the safe spot and look for the where the ghost was hiding. If you saw the ghost you screamed “GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD!!” And everyone ran back to the safe spot as quick as possible. If you got tagged by the ghost while running back you were either the next ghost or out. It was fun but so scary for 9 year old me.
-endjamin- · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented Rocket League.
I would set up teams of toy cars on a knock hockey board with the objective being to smash through the other cars and get your car into the goal.
wolfsuitmischief · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Hockey
Number of Players: 2
Location: Hallway of Home
Gameplay: Each Player works to swat a pair of balled up socks past the opposing player. Getting the socks behind your opponent results in a goal.
Continue to play until exhaustion, or until a sibling melee breaks out.
Greeen_Sleeeves · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would sit across from the room with our legs spread and try to hit eachother in the nuts with a hacky sack or tennis ball. I think we got it from Jackass.
NorwegianSteam · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie Baby Wars. My brother and I shared a room, and out beds were in a line against the wall so it went door, then to the right was the foot of my brothers bed, head of my brother's bed bed, head of my bead, foot of my bed, then a two foot gap from the end of my bed to the wall. I'd get in the corner and he'd get by the door, and we would just huck beanie babies at each other for indiscriminate amounts of time. Hitting someone in the face was always the primary objective, but everyone once in a while one of us would get hit in the nuts and that was the best as long as it wasn't you.
AppleSlacks · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play The Wolf and the Easter Eggs, kinda surprised it’s a thing on google actually.
honeycomas · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my siblings would take turns rolling each other up really tightly in a very large blanket and then stand the person up and watch them run around and crash into all the furniture. i think the goal was to see how long it took to break free but we rarely got that far because we couldn’t get up off the floor after we fell down.
amberlealand · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imagine kids these days, when we ask most of them MIGHT say it's a mobile/ computer/ console game 🤔
All of your stories are awesome! Will keep reading
HashIsTrending · 1 points · Posted at 15:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Someone once asked me this question and that's how I realized I'd been molested as a child lmao
jbaughb · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I played, what we called, "Roller-Wiffle-Basket" (ok, maybe the name wasn't very creative. It was basically half court basketball on rollerblades using a waffle ball and using those handheld curved wiffle ball launchers to transport and throw the ball into the hoop. Couldn't use your hands. It was way too much fun. Each element added it's own challenges. Scoring was just like basketball, but it would only end when we collapsed in laugher or fatigue.
listoften · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt, man those were the days. The thrill of being out past curfew. Not only were we hiding for the other team but as minors we were also hiding from law enforcement. The neighbor of my friend where we played had dozens of ww2 vehicles that we would always hide inside or around.
RuthZerkerGinsburg · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandparents lived in the country and had a massive backyard with lots of trees. They also had a big porch swing in the yard. My cousin and I would play a game called Funeral. We’d take turns lying on our back on the swing, hands folded on our chest and eyes closed, while the other covered us in pine needles and different types of leaves and gave a eulogy.
ralanr · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends at every recess would pretend we were mystical elemental warriors with weapons and powers fighting some evil that I’m not sure we ever found out.
My elements were fire, wind, and earth. Whenever I used wind I spoke with a fake Irish accent, and my most common earth power was punching people with a rock arm.
We got made fun of a lot.
DonSoChill · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ATTACK
Stand in a hallway against the wall, other kids one by one throw a bouncy ball at the wall and you can't move.
You win by not being hit on the rebound.
You lose if the ball hits you.
If it hits you. All the players throw a bouncy ball at the same time.
You will be hit.
Tyrannosour · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a culdesac. My brother would let me play with his friends as they played bike polo there. It was polo, played with crochet mallets, on bicycles. I don't think they actually knew the rules to polo, though.
ArletApple · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my school had this little alley way that was closed off on 3 sides. it was large enough for 4 children to comfortable run around in but not much more than that.
so I invented a game of free for all dodge ball. the trick was that the ball only counted as active once it had bounced off of at last one surface. grabbing and fumbling the ball was ok.
mjklok · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
4 of my friends each grabbed a limb and threw me up into the air as hard as they could on the oval. Second time wasn't as fun because wrists are not meant to be landed on.
BucknChange · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it the tennis game. It was a modified version of baseball but played on a long driveway with a hill.
Ideally you played with 3 players but could do it with two. The pitcher stood at the top and bounced a tennis ball down the driveway (50-60 feet). The hitter had a tennis racket at the bottom and hit it. The goal was to get to the base at the TOP of the hill before getting out.
The game favored the defense because the runner had to run up the hill to get to the base and most of the hits were pop flies. We had a rule that it had to go a certain distance to be a live ball.
The beauty of the game was the 3 people could play and just simply rotate instead of 'innings.' So we could play a 5 round game and it take 45 minutes of running, hitting and fielding. The rules were simple enough that arguments rarely broke out.
Alosier · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called Cityville. There was a mayor, and everybody else would be a merchant or worker of some sort. With Monopoly money we would buy things from each other - which we needed in game (everybody had to get some food everyday for example).
The Mayor has a small fm radio transmitters and would read the news everyday. He would act like a DM and announced that someone was sick or that someone just received a shipment of goods.
Buildings our stands and then role playing being merchant was tons of fun.
jokersmadlove · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play "cops and robbers" which was literally just chasing each other around in a circle on our trampoline. We would also play "flip the bacon" which had one person lay one their back on the trampoline, and the other would try to bounce you into flipping onto your face.
We had a lot of games we played on our trampoline.
b-hole-v-card · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to count my pieces of breakfast cereal while I was eating it and try to only scoop up even numbers.
30 something years later, guess who has OCD and is obsessed with even numbers, especially when eating?
excaligirltoo · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Whipper Snapper. One kid with a jump rope was the whipper snapper, the rest of us rode our bikes in a circle around them. The whipper snapper would try to whip the jump rope into the bike spokes to get us to fall off our bikes. Winner knocks the most kids down.
Austinatorgt · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Envirobear anyone?
kynnybunz · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters used to play ‘monsters’.
Two of us would hide with all the lights off in the living room/dining room/den. And the seeker would come from the bedroom side with the hallway light on.
If you got scared by one of the monsters, you switched and became one. Then that monster was the seeker. We would play forever and scare the shit out of each other lol. It used to get so dark and we got so creative with our hiding spots.
mattyb326 · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I made up a game we called "croquet golf". Basically it involved whacking a tennis ball across our yard with a croquet mallet and seeing how many strokes it took for us to get it to land in a random hole in the ground that was created by a big sprinkler head. We could play that shit for hours and were so sad when the grass growth filled the hole in:(
DotheUrkel · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dead Man in the Cemetery. It was like hide and seek in the house except the seeker was blindfolded and if he found someone he had to guess who it was correctly or they would be released. We played this for HOURS at sleepovers.
PortugueseBenny · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oops, sorry.
Basically we just walk up and down the hall and randomly bump into each other saying, "oops, sorrrryyy". Killed hours playing that
notmylife23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play our own version of tag in my grandparent's basement. It's a lot like the regular version, except whoever was 'it' had to run around with a blanket over their head.
Cat030599 · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to do the classic “fight giant monsters with twigs”
SpaghettDude · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a bunch of games that I’d play when I was really young, but the one that always stuck out was the spelling one. Basically, any thought I had in my head couldn’t be expressed in words, you just had to spell it out real quick. A lot of the times I never really wanted to play this game but I’m a great speller now and it no longer crosses my mind
CH2016 · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play doctors and nurses when the next door neighbour. He was 55 so he was always the doctor and I was always the patient.
Billie2goat · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball to groin: my brothers and would stand at opposite ends of the garden with a golf club, turn by turn we'd try and hit each other in the nuts with a tennis ball. Then next player would play from where the ball landed. You got minus points for hitting our old dog
Gravey9 · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Coin Hockey. You take three coins (nickels work best because of thickness and weight [Canada]) and you set them up on a smooth table in a triangle so that they all touch in the middle. Then you flick them to separate. The opponent creates a goal flat on the edge of the other side of the table with their index finger and pinky (like this |..|. ). You have to flick one coin at a time to move towards the goal but the coin must travel through the other two coins. If your coin hits another coin or falls off the table your turn ends. You get 3 flicks total, which creates some interesting shots.
rosaleef · 1 points · Posted at 15:09:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had a Harry Potter game in the trampoline. First we would pick out our wands from the forest in our back yard. Then we'd go play on the trampoline. I don't really remember any spells we used and the rules. All I remember about the rules is that if someone used stupefy on you, you had to fall on your back and bounce back up before you could cast a spell.
lester_long · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice try but my uncle said not to tell anyone about that.
browncay000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with the priest
Coast_2_Coast · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BaseGolf... our ballpark was the main upstairs room of my best friends house, only big enough for a pitcher vs batter showdown. His upstairs was open to overlook the stairs so anything above the balcony wall was a home run. The pitcher would use a wedge to chip a whiffle golf ball while the batter would sit on the coffee table and use a golf iron as his bat, with the butt end being the barrel. My friend would always try for bunt solo shot homers whereas I’d swing as fucking fast as possible. We broke a lot of stuff but damn was it so much fun.
nsims92 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw screwdrivers at each other across my nan's long garden...you got point if it stuck in the ground.
Surprisingly there was never an injury!
BigODetroit · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a child we had a forest behind our house. Deep in the woods was abandoned construction equipment. There were these large rubber gaskets that could fit 5 or 6 kids in it. The group of kids would chase 1 kid and try to catch them. The group was known as, gay retards. Hence the game was called, gay retards.
The second game was a version of hide and seek at night where the person seeking would pretend to slash your throat when you were caught. The game was called, mass murderer. The last person killed became the mass murderer for the next game
LA0811 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spy! I carried a backgammon case as my attaché and we taught ourselves a secret language, where we basically just added “ib” in front of every vowel in a word. I got surprisingly good at it and can still pull it off at a steady clip.
We lived in adjoining townhouses and had walkie talkies. I don’t recall any of our assignments. It was mostly about the tech and spycraft.
My spy name was Simona LeBona for reasons obvious to any preteen girl in 1986.
Simona LeBona would be a pretty good drag name.
slcmoney · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two best friends from like 5th grade all the way through high school would each put a knife on the trampoline and bounce them and then catch them. It’s actually really fun and we never got hurt haha went through quite a few tramps though.
JanetSnakehole73 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played a pool game we made up that we called Categories. One person would stand on the edge of the pool while everyone else stayed on one side in the pool. Each person in the pool would pick something from whatever category was chosen (i.e. fruits) and if the person standing called your choice you had to swim to the other side of the pool before the person standing could jump in and tag you. We often tried sneak tactics like going really quiet or underwater. Oftentimes just getting hurt bc someone jumped on top of someone else.
laziegoblin · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Verfstratego
BlackShyGuy68 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play a game where one person stood in front of a garage, and the other had to kick a ball past that person to hit the garage. But we were naming the kicks like Naruto moves because that's what we do we're into back then. Fun then, kinda weird now
AmazingAlieNnN · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to lock doors of cabinets with pieces of rope and rubber bands. I would get so good, my parents couldn't even untangle it and asked me to do it. I also made contraptions of rope in the car. One time I managed to create a working transportation rope around the whole car. You could attach a napkin or a small cookie and upon pulling a piece of string, it would make its way around the front and back of the car.
Edit: spelling is hard
GinGimlet · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would picture a sentence in my head (usually something someone just said in conversation) and then count to the middle space or letter. Not sure where it started but I used to do this mental calculating all the time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would play "shadow catch". We'd have a ball and toss it up in the air and the other person would have to catch it by looking its shadow only. It's pretty difficult to do.
Spinnybrook · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tagball
It’s like dodgeball but when you get hit you are it than must recover the ball and hit someone else to not be it. The best part is that this was not our outdoor game. It was chaotic and we broke more things than I could ever recall. Sliding down the stairs was necessary and one time I fell through a ceiling vent. This was also played full contact. It was incredible and I miss it.
mrbojenglz · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this is unique because we didn't invent it but my friends and I used to play American Gladiators. We set up full obstacle courses in my basement and had to run from station to station completing tasks while the gladiator stood at the end trying to hit us with tennis balls.
Barneski8819 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao..... me and my best friend Boris used to find like apples or pears etc at my house and randomly throw them at each other’s nuts. Eventually my little brother joined in on the fun. Oh man how much good produce we wasted. One time one got me with a water melon.
carpe_deez · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Throw up”. Ball gets thrown up in the air, tackle the shit out of whoever catches it. God we were stupid.
DeadKittyPool · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would make paper airplanes and throw them at a ceiling fan and watch it fly. Rinse and repeat.
YoHeadAsplode · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is dumb but it was my favorite game when I was like 4 and playing with my cousins. We would sit on the trampoline, one of us would be the "egg" and the other would be the "mama bird" and the third was the "wolf". The game started with the egg whispering a color to the mama hen and then curling up into a ball. The wolf would then say a rhyme as they bounced around the trampoline. At the end of the rhyme they guessed the color. If they got the right color, the egg would "hatch" and run away in a mini tag. If they got the color wrong, mama hen would chase them instead.
PM_ME_FEET_N_ASS · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend my bed was a tv character or monster, wrap myself up in sheets and pretend to be vored.
triplej909 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brutal ball. Me and two of my brothers grew up in a very small apartment where the three of us shared a room. We had an assortment of bouncy balls of different sizes, from golf sized to soccer ball sized. We’d just throw them super hard at each other and let them bounce around our walls and if you got hit three times you lost. We each had special attacks that the other couldn’t use. We broke so many framed pictures playing that game haha
Watcher_garden · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would stand at one end of the house and then we’d take turns running across the house and try to peg each other with grapes. Bonus points if you could dodge more than one grape per run. Even if you missed, the grape splatter on the door was satisfying.
ovegamafia · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game we played when it was dark called nightcrawlers. Lights out in the entire house. the night crawler that was "it" had to keep their eyes closed as we hid around the house they navigated their way around. you could only crawl to move, if you were tagged you became another night crawler, last man standing became the next night crawler. So much fun back in the day
karmaz69 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ding-Dong ditching lol
lllllllamb · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I can comment on this!
So my best friend and I, around age 8/9 would dress up in leotards and play a game trying to find “Foxy Loxy” so we could rescue the animals he took back his cave to eat. Foxy Loxy was a character from a children’s book called Chicken Little.
There was no... reason for the leotards. It was an excuse to wear them and do cartwheels during our travels around the neighborhood.
Also, I don’t know why my parents even let us out of the house to do that.
bobtabor · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I collected baseball cards. I would divide cards into teams and play a game of war using each player's batting average or ERA. Off-seasons, I would role play as GMs to make trades.
This might account for my love of spreadsheets. :)
SleeplessAtHome · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Climbing door frames n leaping from one to an adjacent one.
pepsiv · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in summer camp we used to play ultimate tag, which is still one of my favorite childlike games!! it was like tag, but everyone was it. if you got tagged by someone else, you had to sit down and you were out until the person who tagged you was out. alliances were made and it was really stressful when you and your friend were the last two. last person standing wins (even if they had gotten people out.)
Evaara · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Back in middle-school we invented a game called "kikflip" which became a trend for years to come in our school. It was the bane of every black leather shoes (we were in a Catholic school with required uniforms) as the game basically consisted of playing soccer using a crushed soda can "puck" along the narrow corridors and hallways. We even had mini-tournaments every week and parents lamented at the rate their children went through leather shoes. It was finally banned after almost a decade of play after one parent supposedly ratted out our "sport" to the admin. Kids really got good and creative with that game and some even learned to do fancy juggles and feints along with some almost parkour moves (the halls were really narrow so that you can brace your outstretched hands or legs on each of the pebble textured sides to form a "web" or "bungie" to more efficiently pass/block the can) so it was a real bummer when as alumni we heard that our game was finally banned for good.
catniagara · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to turn a bike upside down and spin the wheels to pretend we were making cotton candy.
HumanTorch23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, my best friend, and I had a game where we had to jump from the top of the climbing frame onto the trampoline, shouting "In your faces!" as we did so, and we had one bounce in which to try and tag someone else. If we did, they had to jump off the frame next, otherwise we had to go again.
This game was banned after I managed to land a solid flying kick to my sister's face and she somersaulted off the trampoline into a flower bed.
oo-oo-thatsmell · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sjoelen. A Dutch wooden shuffle board game about 6 ft long 2 ft wide. You slide these wood pucks. We lived in holland as a kid and played at parties and family get togethers. We moved to USA and still have it 30 years later. I will get it out for my kids soon.
BAY88 · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game called “dude ball” which was basically rugby with a basketball. We didn’t have a football so we just threw a basketball across my yard and tried to tackle the shit out of each other before the other team ran across my lawn. In retrospect, it’s amazing nobody broke anything playing, since each end zone was solid concrete.
textuality · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knifey Spoony
DownWithTheSadness · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Amanda Show had Captain Bucket Head or whatever. Just a guy with a bucket on his head. He couldnt see. My brother and I would get this translucent bucket and jam our heads into it. The one without the bucket on would beat the one with the bucket. We somehow tricked each other into putting it on countless times
AsperaAstra · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every vehicle's tyre/tire nuts all shoot imaginary lasers and the only cover is other stationary vehicles, goal was just not to get hit, had me running everywhere as a kid, even now when there's a single car approaching down the road and there's a single parked car, I struggle not to run.
symbianz107 · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Girl milk.jar
lilskon · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scooby-doo browser games, loved them
Electricorchestra · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child but whenever I or my friends and I are walking anywhere drunk I enforce the game walk one run one. It's a simple game. We walk for a block and then we jog/sprint for a block. Gets us places faster. Note we do only play it in residential areas though. Not inbetween bars.
Suhidu · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wrote the rules for Cuddle Monster
SkittleInaBottle · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Closing my eyes during car rides and watching the specks of light moving around
PrinceCheddar · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game exactly, more like a parody of a game.
Moving the salt, pepper, mustard, ketchup, whatever, on the table, in turn, in a way makes it look like you're moving pieces on a chessboard. Lots of chin stroking and pretending thinking about what your next move will be.
Also, for a while, trying to clip a clothes peg onto the back of my mother's shirt without her noticing. That was great, when she found it long after you stopped thinking about it.
PopeliusJones · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suicide. No, not what it sounds like, it was a game where you toss a tennis ball at a wall, and someone in the group tries to grab it one handed. You catch it you do the same, but touch it and miss and you gotta book it to the wall before the next person wings the ball at your back. Stupid but so much fun
The_Wandering_Balrog · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with two brothers. Lots of cousins and lots of family friends too. We were not short of unique games.
Nippy jippy you sat on the top bed of a bunk bed and put your fingers on the railing. Someone is not on the bunk bed and they have a plastic pipe and try and hit your fingers. It was agony but so much fun.
Hostage you sit in a room. It's supposed to be a bank. Somebody bursts in to rob the bank. The objective is to escape while kneeling with your hands on your head. If the robber spots you moving he shoots you.
Nincompoop basically tig but whoever was the catcher rode a scooter and shouted nincompoop
Escape convicts you had guards and prisoners. There was a chosen start and end point and the guards would patrol Inbetween these points. There were mutually agreed upon shadows and rooms that the prisoners could use to escape to the end room.
That is just a few of my favourite s. I have many many more.
east_wulf · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretend Halo using sticks and things as guns.
DOWNTOWN_jay23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would pretend to be Pokemon lol
Checks_Out___ · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blinds man bluff. Tie a (usually clean) sock around someones eyes as a blind fold, and everyone starts in the hallway with all the doors closed. First one the blind man touches Is "it". We took this to the point of spidermanning up on doorframes and walls that were close together. Long hallways are the best! Also great for indoor soccer :)
rayned0wn · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let's go outside and play freeze tag and when the baby sitter wasn't paying attention lock her out r of the house
whalebaboon · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I, starting in 4th grade, played a game called "Stripper Tag" on the trampoline. Someone would be the "stripper" aka "it" and would chase the others around the trampoline to tag someone to be the next stripper. However, the stripper had to strut while moving (like swaying your hips or doing "sexy" moves) and must talk in a sexy way too (ie. "Oooh I'm gonna getcha~, "C'mere handsome~". Some of us got too into it and would be too "sexy" aka rubbing our hands down our body or shaking our butts. We usually ended up dying in fits of laughter so not many rounds were played.
jeebus224 · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom would chase me and my sisters around the park with one hand and she called it "The Claw"
MoreMegadeth · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
An animal game where it was essentially tag, but you couldnt tag anyone higher in the food chain than you. My cousins and I used to play, the older you were the higher in the food chain you were. You were trying to stay away from your predators while trying to catch your prey. The eldest person wouldnt have any predators, my brother the wolf (he always seemed to have to have an automatic advantage when playing games) and another wouldnt have any prey, my cousin Dan the squirrel.
I forget how we kept score and such but remember it being a unique game and having a lot of fun.
P0OF · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Killa bike. We would run through the woods as my friends older brother tried to run us over with with dirt bike.
eliesharogers · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved playing super mario in my childhood.
vickiintn · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Store"...my friend and I would take turns picking things from my room (mostly just my little tchotchkes and "pretty" things) and we would sit on the floor with them and each set them up in a store-like display. We would price them and use little pieces of pretend money to take turns buying stuff from each other. No real point to the game, but I remember it fondly.
Madavotskavitch · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We invented a game called Monster. Had to be played in outside after dark or inside with all the lights turned out.
One person was the monster and would have to hide and the others had to find him. If the monster jumped out and grabbed you, you were "dead" and had to lay in the floor. You could kill the monster if you hit him on the back while he wasn't looking. So you had to outsmart him and lure him out with someone as bait.
Really fun game for scaring the shit out of your friends and/or running into things in the dark.
privatestudy · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Windmill. My dumb ass came up with this game to keep my younger sister quiet on long car rides. You literally just look for windmills and shout out once you do. Oh, except, we grew up in Texas where windmills are few and far between. So, this game started getting so competitive that our parents started playing and we would turn the car around to confirm if someone actually saw a windmill or not. -.-
All of our trips started taking at least an extra 30-45m so we could just prove yes that is a windmill, so suck it, Dad.
cgroth23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game called gorilla attack where we would set up barriers and whip toys at each other across the room. Looking back I don’t know how my parents never caught us
merazold · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I-ninja
AimlessBash · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You could only play this in the winter when they boxed in the fountain in the middle of our school yard but we used to sneak around the box pretending we are spies or something and when we caught someone on the edge or from behind we used to "take them out" which usually was a light punch. We enjoyed this and even some girls joined us so it must have been a great game.
Scrybblyr · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn't unique back then, but rock fights. Supposed to use hardened dirt clods, but invariably, a rock would be involved and sometimes it ended in tears.
Triangle_Graph · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made k'nex cars. Put beanie babies inside the car. Rolled the cars down the stairs. The goal was to engineer the safest car so the passenger didn't get launched out the car or have any parts break off. Good times.
J_steezus · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game we called Sally bounce ball. We had a soccer ball with two little pieces of rope tied to either end and we'd put it on the tramp and the rules were simple, dont get hit by the ball and hit your friends into it. Used to play for hours and would usually end up with a bruise or two. Man I miss those days
mycatbeck · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would pretend to play pokemon. We put our backpacks, baseball caps, and knee high socks on and went into the wilderness to catch our imaginary pokemon. Our pokeballs were those red and white fishing bobbers.
UpbeatLemon · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I used to dress up and play as Link from TLoZ.
We would color coordinate our shirts based on what "dungeon" we were going into. Blue if we were going in the pool, green for outside, and red for when the floor was lava.
I haven't thought about this for years, thank OP.
SunnyCarol · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would have pokemon fights but it was basically Larping. We would make pokemon costumes out if carboard, clothes, belts, etc and then wrestle "to death". We were also eachother's trainers, so we would shout encouraging things in trainer voice while we wrestled. We were 5 or 6 at the time and the animated series had just come out.
ComeOnOverAmyJade · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played funeral home. We took turns being the corpse. We would go putside and pick flowers, dress in my mother's dresses, and hold an actual funeral. We would make our siblings come and pretend tp cry. It was fun, but quite morbid in hindsight.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pillowfight Extreme”
Imagine an anime fight but with pillows
LaserQuest · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play a game called “Save the animals.” We’d scatter beanie babies throughout my basement, we’d pretend there was some kind of danger and run around grabbing beanie babies and bringing them to the safe house, which was just a large closet with blankets in it. Something about that game was comforting...feeling safe and secure from danger.
maximumquince · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Army of Feet. My brother and I (probably 4-5). One person would be at the top of the bed with legs under duvet. Second person at bottom of bed under duvet. Person at top would kick their feet hard and fast and you had to charge through to the top to win. Brutal and savage game. Also Sharks. Person 1 lays on top of sofa and holds on whilst player 2 is laying on the sofa trying to pull you into the ocean to be eaten by sharks.
SkorpionFrog · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick Wars. Run through a forest, pick up sticks, whack them against trees, try and hit other kids with broken off piece.
phunniejokey · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play what we called “the stair game”. We blacked out all the windows in the basement and everyone hid while one person went upstairs and counted. Then the person who was upstairs would come down in the pitch black and had to tag the people who were hiding while they tried to sneak to the top of the stairs without getting tagged.
We played for hours and it was insanely fun. Dang, now I wanna play the stair game.
wingedcheese · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called suislide, there was 1 person at each end of a tube slide and a person in the middle. The person in the middle of the slide had to do whatever he could to get out.
glerk · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I (she was 5years older, I was about 5-8 when we played it) tied us to eachother back to back. We pretended that our boss would come and check if we did our work but we kept falling down unable to get back up and whenever my sister made the "boss voice" we had to get up or he'd fire us if he sees us. Kept us occupied forever, man I love my sister.
another7er0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to terrorize ants with chalk. We ground the chalk hard enough to create little mounds of chalk powder that resembled an ant hill. We also tried to "colour" the ants different colours. We tried to give the ant colony a better home.
Unfortunately, all we actually did was create a colourful ant graveyard.
killaKody · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put Put Saves The Zoo
headguts · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sit in the kitchen floor and roll matchbox cars towards the threshold. Whoever gets the closest to the threshold without hitting it wins. We'd do it for an hour or two every time.
GottaCatchDemAll · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Airplane. 3-4 of the neighborhood kids and I would get on this wide porch swing and pretend it was an airplane flight. Someone would be the pilot making announcements, the swing would speed up and make huge arcs during take off, we'd even have in-flight meals. Sometimes someone would get on/off mid-flight if they were late.
Yawehg · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to go into my garage and hit pebbles with a rubber mallet.
I'm an only child.
CrazyCatGuy142 · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young there was a desert by my house and I would gather up 10+ friends and we would all go out into the desert at night. With one person “it” they had an air soft pistol and everyone else had to hide. The person who had the gun would try to hunt the others. We called this game “Predator”. It sometimes took longer than 2 hours to finish.
Gate_of_Stars · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sister and I had one called robbery, where one of us would hide a bell somewhere on our property, and the other had to steal it and get it to the well house without being seen. You had ten tries, and you’d get hints after the 3rd, 6th, and 9th times getting spotted. We’d play it for hours.
The_Goose_12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand about 10 yards apart and throw a rubber football as hard as we could at each other, if you catch it you get a point. Such a simple game kept us entertained for hours.
We also played "sock wars" its basically the same as building forts and shooting each other with nerf guns in the house but with all the lights off and you threw balled up socks at each other . My sisters enjoyed this game too.
ketimmer · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "town" in the park in our neighbourhood. There were lots of pinecones, so we used them as currency. The park had a round paved track that we could ride our bikes around. I don't remember all the jobs we had, but I do remember there was a bike sales person and a police. The police would give tickets to anyone that was biking too fast. The fine was 10 pinecones.
bzurov · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my siblings and I were younger we loved Power Rangers, so my Dad came up with a game called Deviot Freeze-ball, he would chase us around the front and backyard and try to hit us with a foam football, if you were hit you would “freeze”, and have to stay still until another sibling crawled between your legs. I swear we played this game almost every night during the summer in my childhood.
persiancookie · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The switch, my uncle told me to put one thumb in my ass and the other in my mouth and then he'd randomly say switch
Nipmak12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother was playing game we called Gorilla vs Vampires. Gorilla was using some stick like a sword and vampire was using water goose . Then we chased 1 another untill some give up or get beated up.
heck_abird · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family friend and I would play "teenagers." Essentially, we were like 8 years old and reenacted Zoey 101 episodes and shit like that.
She said to me one day "wanna play teenagers?" And I looked at her and said "we ARE teenagers now."
We never really got on after that. That game pretty much was what kept us friends.
garrettj100 · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Horse Badorties.
My Dad had built my brother and I a "clubhouse" in the garage. When I say a clubhouse I mean four walls in a cube shape, with a door cut out; no roof. But it was fine, we were already in the garage so he put a couple of chairs and a table in there and we had a clubhouse!
The game of Horse Badorties goes like this: I stand inside the clubhouse and toss the furniture over the walls to the outside. The other two or three kids playing pick up the furniture and toss it over the walls back in. The first one who loses an eye or gets concussed loses, I guess.
Our game didn't make much sense, but it was kinetic, and had a funny name, so we loved it.
galactic_0strich · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this one game my cousin and I used to play that was scary as fuck. One of us would hide and the other one would try to find you. The kicker was that it was in my parents pitch black basement and the only thing you could use to find the other was an old digital camera with the flash on. Looking back on it maybe my cousin watched saw too many times...
labibra · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would pretend that we had an imaginary boss whom we had to report to. This boss would make us do all kinds of chores around the house such as cleaning the bookshelf.
oledirtybum · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called night crawlers with my uncle Jack.
Chr3y · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids we all built bow and arrows. We set up some hay piles and bushes, each one like 500 meters apart. We played "conquer the castle". You had to shoot your arrow in the air, and hit a pile or bush. Thinking it takes fire. From like 20 meters away. Everyone had his own pile/bush to hit. Only if everyone hit the pile/bush atleast 1 out of 3 arrows, we won. Else we had to begin from anew. (The villagers could extinguish the fire) Was pretty fun tbh.
Hanginon · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I and a couple of my friends had Bows and arrows, we would stand in the back yard, shoot arrows straight up out of sight and run around looking at the sky while trying to not get killed when they came straight back down. We were about 10 years old then, nobody died.
MILE013 · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alright this was the single most intense game of all time, and it only requires one player. Basically the rule is that whenever you step on a different surface with a certain foot, you need to balance that by stepping on another surface with the other foot. For example, if you step onto blue carpet with the right foot, you should step onto wood with your left when you leave the carpeted area. You must keep a natural stride and the “charge” on either foot may not exceed 3. Good luck!
SuperVanillaBear · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play 'Mama Duck, Baby Duck' in the pool. The whole premise of the game is to prevent the Baby Duck(s) from drowning if you're the Mama Duck, and to drown as often as possible if you're a Baby Duck. Whenever Mama Duck had her back turned, the Baby Ducks would put their face in the water and blow bubbles to simulate drowning. It was Mama Duck's job to recognize that her babies were in trouble and go save the Baby Ducks.
We spent hours finding creative ways to fake drown ourselves.
Nickmi · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ogre Battle 64
MasturbationIsCool · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sibling created a game called “broom ball”
It was a mix between baseball and golf
we had approximately 10 trees in our backyard.
You would pick 3 trees
Then you would pick a corner of the yard and someone would pitch you the ball and you would hit this little plastic ball as close to the first tree you picked as you could.
From their you would putt the ball and hit all three trees in whatever order. Least amount of strokes wins.
We were pretty proud of the game.
(All of this game would be done with a broom, you could use the hard side for long putts and less accuracy and the broom side for close puts but more accuracy)
IAmNotFondOfCandles · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tornado.
Grew up in tornado alley, was obsessed with them.
If the grassy area was too wet/muddy etc., recess was held on the blacktop. There was a little white section on the corner of the blacktop that was used to park the religious Ed trailer, and that was considered “home.”
A group of 3 or 4 kids would be the “Tornadoes,” another group would be “debris” and the third group would be a family trying to make it “home” without being swept up into the tornado, or hit by swirling cars and cows.
Basically, picture a group of 15 or so kids, arms outstretched, spinning in circles and bumping into each other. HARD.
It was the best
Unfortunately, the principle banned the game within the year for being too reckless. Good times, though
michaelloda9 · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I and my two friends-twins (/u/Tinheart2137) were a huge Bionicle freaks. Through most of our kindergarten and elementary school we would fight against imaginary Bionicle enemies, both at school and outside. We would come up with our own epic scenarios, stories, enemies etc. It was a lot of fun. Now that I think of this we were just three kids beating the shit out of air from another person's point of view. And it wasn't just fighting, we were having small adventurers, basically live-action D&D. Many people probably have seen us and thought "What is wrong with those kids", old fun days... Eventually we stopped because we grew up and it became embarrassing of course. But ah, the stuff we created in our childish minds. It would certainly save Bionicle series much more than the Gen 2.
Tinheart2137 · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Much more? Gen 2 destroyed bonks even more, it wasn't even close to saving
hippoopo · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play the head game. One of us pretended we had lost out body to an accident so the other had to care for the head - like brush it's hair, feed it, tell it stories and tuck it into bed at night. Sounds so bloody boring now xD
Another game we played with our brothers too was crystal maze! If you don't know, crystal maze was/is and amazing TV show in the UK and in the 90s we were obsessed with it. You had to go through zone's and do puzzles to find a crystal. Our parents had one of this 80s/90s glass crystals so we would steal it and make each of our bedrooms (boys shared and girls shared) into a zone with puzzles and traps. It was really fun, plus our parents let us do it because we always would actually tidy up our rooms to make the puzzles better.
OceanSlim · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall ball was sorta unique. I'm sure others played it, but I'm sure there's a lot that haven't
justicedoggo · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a long basement that ran under our property, so we invented a game called “Runner” which would be played like this: As many as 5-7 people would be runners, and they would jog circles around the basement, humming as they go, enjoying their run. One person would be a driver, and they would get to push this car: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/93qrdx/red_and_yellow_little_tikes_car/ The goal of the game was to push the car around, and rapidly smash into and drive the car over as many of the bodies of the runners as possible in a 10 minutes span while they tried to dodge it. It’s amazing more of didn’t have head trauma or broken bones, cause this was only one of the many contact sports we came up with. good times.
CasaTank · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Real life pokemon with my cousin. One of us was the trainer and the other was the poke. So much run riding around as Scootermon
Pleasent_Platipus · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in high school we used to play a game we called red ass. One person would stand facing a wall while 3-4 others would try to bounce a ball off the floor into the ass of the first person, when you get a direct hit you're turn at the wall has come. Deciding who went first was always the hard part.
Lucidmike78 · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Legend of the Red Dragon (aka L.O.R.D.) Before there was the Internet, people used to call into a BBS, and if you are lucky it was a multi-line BBS where you can chat with a human. A good BBS would have 3-8 people on at once. So imagine an Internet where only 3 people can be on at once....yeah pretty terrible. L.O.R.D. was an RPG and even for someone like me who don't like RPGs, found it engaging.
tafsonworks · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sitting in my parents king size bed, and formulating all the sheets and comforters and pillows so I was captain of a Starship.
When my mom would walk in, I’d always try to blast into hyperspace, but they would always get the shot off to dismantle our ship... until the morrow.
khang_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play this game we called "hunter" where it's basically tag, but once you're tagged you become a ghost and can't tag others but can help the hunter in tagging others(for example restraining them). Most of my school started to catch along and eventually the whole park was full of my school mates playing this game.
EggHeadMagic · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two younger brothers would keep a piece of notebook paper taped to the bathroom wall next to the toilet. We would have 3 categories and each one had a column with our name. Categories were: Farts, Pee, Shit. We would tally mark each time one of these events occurred. And I would get pissed off if we were sitting at the opposite end of the house and one of my brothers farted and didn’t want to go tally.
Raevin_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a sword fighting game with sticks. One person was evil and you had to figure who it was. May have broken a finger playing that game
WaldoBoyo · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naked Eamon. My brother is named Eamon. He would get naked and chase my friends and I through the house. He did this until he was like 5. He is now 18 and we constantly make fun of him for it!
clear_monday · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in kindergarden and early grade school we would go around the neighbourhood and pick up different kinds of weeds and wild grasses. We’d then find fragments of brick and concrete blocks and grind them up into a fine powder by repeatedly rubbing them on the concrete steps leading up to our building. Each leaf would be a different type of ‘BBQ skewer’ depending on its shape and size, and we would ‘flavour’ them with seasoning (red brick powder for chili spice, etc). One of us would pretend to be the shop owner and the others would be the customers. We’d bargain and pay with other leaves or seeds. For some reason this lasted long as our go-to game. I grew up in an urbanising city in China in a comfortable but frugal household. There wasn’t much to do or play with except dirt and grasses, I guess.
Th3JeGs · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it manhunt. Get all your friends in a line, you're not allowed to turn your head/speak. Walk around the house with one person pulling the last person in line and then they're on a team, rinse and repeat until there's one person left and you all just jump him. Playing from 9pm to midnight and scaring the shit out of people was the best.
redd_crack · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma from England use to visit every summer (Lived in New Jersey) and she would buy street chalk. We’d give her like a 10 minute head start and she would draw arrows all around the neighborhood and we’d have to follow them and find her hiding. It was awesome.
EagerSleeper · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When playing video games, the main character was always the same person, just taking on a new adventure.
spautrievas · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We balled up all the socks in the house and my dad would try to pick us off throwing the socks at us as we darted between the bathroom and three bedrooms. He was suprisingly good at it considering the hallway he threw them down was only maybe 4 ft. wide. Good times. Good Dad and great family.
Kaimaxulus_the_III · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in the middle school my friends and I made up a game called where it was a mixture of tag and the floor is lava.
Meant to be played on a playground, one guy was the monster (the tagger) and the rest were avoiding him. If the monster tagged you, you would join them. The thing about the game was that the monster could run as fast as he could on the ground but if he went on a playset, he could only walk. And the other players could only be on the ground for 5 seconds before they were automatically turned. So much time was spent playing this game, I miss it!
i_just_ate · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cannibal slugs. Everyone covered themselves with a blanket and had to move around on the ground like a slug while making a specific "slug" sound: eeerrrerrrer. The goal of the game was to eat the other slugs by stealing their blanket. There were 7 kids in our family, so by the time there was a winner, they would have a ball of 6 blankets underneath them and still be trying to move like a slug. The bigger the groups, the harder it was to win.
norwegianforrestcat · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boys vs girls. Basically the girls would run around trying to punch the boys in the nuts.
SupplePigeon · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I used to play this game at night where we would take a laser pointer and hide somewhere, then the other person would seek you, but only using the reflection of the laser to guide you. It sounds kind of ridiculous typing it out, but it was really fun at the time.
EnochofPottsfield · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ant wars: we'd make volcanos out of playground sand and drop black, red and orange/black ants on top of eachother from different colonies.
There was one black ant that killed a ton of orange amd black ants that we wound up making a grave for and paying respects to later.
And no, I'm not currently a psychopath...
Also, my cousins and I used to pretend to be Powerpuff girls and "fight" against my other cousin who acted as Mojo-Jo-Jo. I was always buttercup since ahe was the most masculine.
sPaNgLeDaFx · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage with my uncle.
HeinrichTau · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played hide and seek but the people hiding could use PictoChat on their DS to talk to each other and give tips about where the seeker is so they could change hiding spots if needed
LooksLikeVespa · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "sausage in gods pan".
Basically we wrapped up in blankets, pretended to be a sausage and someone "played" god and he had to turn us to get crispy on every side.... yea, its weird.
Sachriine · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh! when you got to second grade in my school you got to go to the big kids park during lunch and there was one of these bad boys https://imgur.com/tWQUYex. In the winter it would freeze and instead of just spinning around it would move up as well (Think screw instead of wheel) and it was Most Definitely not supposed to do this but we didn't really care. Basically the game was king of the castle but the castle was spinning as fast as the strongest kid could push and the web was getting squished making it harder to hold on to as well as the bottom lifting higher off the ground the longer you stayed on without getting knocked off.
poopsackzac · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m maybe the only millennial that was given sticks and rocks to play with
catwishfish · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure of it's a game or not but a friend & I tried digging a hole to Canada behind the bushes in his front yard just to see how long it would take to get there.
goldrhyno · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a ruleless version of D&D we simply called "The Game". This was before we really knew what Dungeons and Dragons were. We would draw dots on a blank piece of paper that were our characters and just draw things and one of us would be a "DM" in the sense he dictated what happened next and crazy scenarios. We'd do everything from pilot giant robots to hunting vampires. Sounds silly but I remember hours of fun doing it.
plushyriceball · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I never really had any friends growing up, and my older brother didn't want to play with me so I would usually make up overdramatic stories using my plushies. I would make one the villain and then three other plushies had to beat them.
I would also make up stories in super mario 64 bc at that time I found out youtube was a thing (this was back in like 2006-07 so the early days) and I saw a bunch of these machinima roleplay things using the game. Admittedly I probably shouldn't have been watching those videos lmao.
Edit: Oh also I would play music on my ipod and pretend I was in an epic action scene in the backyard. Like I would be fighting dr eggman or something.
True_Dovakin · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and i had an entire adventure series over the course of several summers. It started out after we had been to the renaissance festival and gotten wood swords. One day we went to play outside; however at the time he was obsessed with this old game called Jurassic Park: Chaos Island. Basically you hatch/tame Dinos to fight for you in an RTS
So where does this come in play? I wanted to play knight but he wanted to be a dinosaur. So we merged the two. A lone knight became an unlikely ally with a velociraptor (all the dinos could talk in this) and eventually raised an army to fight the oppressive red kingdom (because red is alway the bad guy). Eventually it expanded to having dragons invade, a civil war, and a spin off. Many imaginary battles took place in our front yard.
We also would “walk home” from the mailbox (half a mile away) but would spend hours playing as Warhammer 40k armies fighting in the woods.
Foxhole_Agnostic · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naughty time. Kindertan game which involved building a "cave" out of really big wooden blocks/boxes then the boys would line up and a girl would select which boy she would take into the cave to makeout with. I was chosen a lot so it was a great game.
NC_Goonie · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife looked at me like I was crazy when I mentioned the game “Pillow Man” one time. Pillow Man was when my cousins, my brother and I would take turns lying on the floor, and the others would cover you with couch cushions, pillows, blankets, whatever and just jump on top of you, usually from whatever the highest thing they could climb in the room was.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back seat pirrhana :
During long car rides, one brother is the pirrhana, the other tries to pinch the pirrhana without getting bitten. The edge of the seat cushion is the water line, and the pirrhana can't come out of the water
Crying ensues when it gets too real.
Dad turns the car around.
WagshadowZylus · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I essentially used to play D&D with my school friends during breaks before I knew it was a thing. I called it "brain computer" and I would essentially be the DM for a story I made up, asking my friends for their choices. There was no dice rolling or any stats involved, it was just telling stories and pretending I was the computer waiting for the player's input.
In retrospect, that's really weird, but it might explain why I'm such a massive nerd now
vicariouslivin · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play that Kim possible game with the car and we would go into free roam and drive to different houses and pretend we were actually in the houses.
Bakehouse · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boot Square - a game consisting of a ball and a bunch of mates. Ball must stay in the square. Bounce once. Not touch anything other than head and leg (below the knee). You have three lives. If the ball goes out wjn you kick it you run out the side which the ball went out... Whilst being booted by your mates.
Loose all lives then you have to do the tunnel or circle. Tunnel consists of mates either side with a ball at the other end. You have to run and touch the ball whilst being kicked. Circle is created by mates. You have to exit circle whilst being kicked.
If you fall to the ground you are safe until you're back on your feet. Then it starts again.
The adrenaline whilst playing is crazy. So are the bruises...
nubthesecond · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The main game I played when i was in junior school was called all except for one. I've never heard of anyone apart from people who went to my old school who knows what it is. It's basically reverse tag where one person is 'it' and there are two teams who are trying to sprint after the person to tag them then that person is 'it'. The objective of the game is to have someone on your team be 'it' for as long as possible, you can pass the 'it' to someone on your team and some advanced tactics were you can line your team up with the person who is it behind them and they will sneakily pass it to one of the people but the other team can't see who it is. That's when everyone runs in different directions so the other team don't know who has 'it'. Dead good game and lots of fun trying to dodge past people. 10/10 would recommend
Puedd · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and all my friends would play “Squatchy” when we camped. Basically squatchy meant sasquatch and whoever was it was the sasquatch. We played at night with flashlights in big fields or in a big playground. If you got found you would be put in whatever the squatchy designated the “nest” for their turn and fellow hiders could rescue others in the nest by tapping them. The nest location was unknown to the hiders though. To win the squatchy would have to have all the hiders in their nest
FenirXIII · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i document and wrote down every single thing my mother did for some reason. I did this for hours up on hours. I was a very annoying child
michigan52 · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We came up with a sand castle version of age of empires. It involved turn based construction, army development, and army movement phases. Most of what the game involved was building as fast as you could to then be able to survive rock volleys and stomps from your opponents "giants". It was incredibly fun and I wish my imagination was still that active.
ya_boi_gibby · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyday when I was about 6 or 7 and my sister was about 4 or 5, we would decide what the "woowoo" would be. I would pretend to look in a book and see what it was for that day. It was usually lava or oatmeal. Anyway, the game was we would take the middle cushion off the couch and run across it over and over trying not to fall in the "woowoo." One day my younger sister (like 2 at the time) just sat down in the woowoo and me and my sister went crazy. We were like "no Natalie you're in the woowoo get out!" Pretty weird tbh
Ringosis · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Lots of wholesome childhood games here. Ours tended to be a bit less safe, and a lot more anti-social. We used to play soldiers in the woods...with 2.2 air rifles. I have vivid memories of lying in the branches of a tree sniping my friends as they tried to run for cover when i was about 12. No goggles, actual weapons. If you got too close to someone and they shot you you'd literally have to pull the lead pellet out of your arm. Good times.
In November the air rifles were replaced with fireworks. Roman candles were for pussies. Full size rockets fired from drain pipes straight at each others faces. We'd go out when it was pitch black, and we'd be in woods. So you could barely see anything and then suddenly everything would be lit up as a rocket flew past your face a foot away and hit someone in the stomach and then they'd pretty much just disappear into the explosion and then pitch black again. SO dangerous, but man was it spectacular.
We played ice hockey on a frozen pond, half of the fun being it wasn't entirely frozen so there was a pretty good chance if you fell you were going straight through. One of my friends once accidentally set fire to an entire field. It was genuinely an accident, but then he was trying to cook fish he'd illegally poached.
We used to play a classic Scottish game where you'd break into someones back garden, on a long row of houses and then try and run through every garden in the street without getting caught. Bonus points if you set of security lights or knocked on the windows.
We probably should have had more supervision really...
stormmavrik · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called The Black Marble at my grandparents house. We took a large jar of marbles and added a plastic bag liner so you can't see what you were grabbing. The two you didn't want to grab were the tiger's eye, along with the namesake - the black marble.
If you grabbed a tiger's eye, you had to do a dare. This ranged from sniffing a dogs butthole, to eating something gross. Use your imagination.
If you grabbed the black marble, you got credit carded. If you don't know what that means, it is essentially taking your hand and swiping at another person's butt crack.
This was of course humorous and fun, as we were small children. Generally if you saw you had the black marble, you'd throw it into the jar and just bail as fast as you could until they caught up to you, usually on the bed in the far room, on the opposite side of the house.
Between that and all the sack tapping in middle school I'm honestly shocked I was able to have a child lol.
BaileyEnergy · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played a game called "post game". Super simple game that's based on a game called "one touch" which involves kicking a football (or soccer ball) against a wall but it has to be a single kick and you each take turns, so like a footballing equivalent of squash I guess. Anyway, what could make that game x10s trickier? Using only a street name sign as the 'wall' (they look like this).
Our road was the shape of an L and the sign was on the corner, with a river behind it (over kick it and you'll become outcasted) and so this made for some really ridiculously difficult shots. As a result we all became great set piece takers purely from playing this game every day after school until it got dark and all day on the weekends. I'll never forget my friend smashing the ball from close range and the ball ended up about 35 yards down the road, obstructed by parked cars and all but you best believe I curled that sucker like prime David Beckham (seriously, even a professional footballer like Beckham would be proud of this shot - 35 yards is no joke) and when it smacked the post and made the satisfying rattle sound I ran down my road, top off, screaming like I had scored the winner in the Champions League final.
alessmaeryjane · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Team hide and seek. There was a base at the center of the play area (the back of all the apartments), and one team would hide, the other would seek. You could hide anywhere, and for one team to win, the entire opposing team had to be at the base. If you were found, you could run away, so it was also like tag. If you were touched, you were taken back to base, but other team members could go to the base to save you. We spent countless hours playing that.
bjbobbijean · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would act like we were homeless in the woods and had to scavenge and build our own house. We would steal tools, wood, and food from our grandparents. They always got so mad at us.
barflord- · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this game called “trip-o-rama.”
I made my parents sit on the couch and I would run past them in front of their legs. At any given moment, they would shoot their legs straight up and I would stumble over them and ragdoll onto the floor.
This was totally my invention and I have no idea why I liked doing it so much.
Budgetballer17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played hunger games. We would throw nerf swords,axes, and shields around the huge lawn of our friends house. We would then place rubber dodgeballs around as well but super hidden, these where power ups. The only way we could use said power ups was put them in drawstring bags we carried. Furthermore, if you got three kills you could go to the “shop”(their basement) and get an ultra weapon. That was usually a nerf GUN or nerf mini gun. Very very very fun and it got extremely competitive.
bomi3ster · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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Stinkerised · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ITT people who had a childhood.
siyuze · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "banana ball" with my little brother. One person smash a balloon towards the couch would sit on the couch and try to keep the balloon from hitting. If the balloon hit the couch or touched the floor, we'd change positions.
lovetheblazer · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and I played pretend dry cleaner. We tied a string from the top rail of our bunk bed to the door knob across the room. Then we would take turns sliding shirts and dresses on a hanger down the string while the other sibling would “clean” the clothes with a play broom. The game stopped after my mom discovered every single item of clothing from our shared closet in a crumpled pile on the floor.
BleachIsADeadMeme · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i came up with a game called "industrial pain", mainly because i thought industrial was a cool word. it mainly consisted of jumping off of playground structures in ways we dared eachother to do, like wed tell eachother to land on our hands, on our backs, do a flip, etc. the game was banned due to 3 broken bones within a week but good times up until the narcs showed up. edit: spelling
joeypirie · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstik football
It was fucking sick
jmoda · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turn off all the lights and play whats in my mouth
Ailerath · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
riccochet where theres platforms and beams you jump to and throw disks from.
TheOneEyedWolf · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Break the Ice was my favorite.
We would go down to the creek and try to break out the ice out from under each other feet. I remember once my sister had gotten my one leg soaked three or four times and I couldn't catch her at all - so finally I got the idea to jump around her in a circle really fast - she started laughing at me because I hadn't made a single hole when the part of the ice she was standing on broke and dropped straight down into three feet of freezing water.
Ah - the joys of youthful stupidity.
rowsdower03 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dont let uncle catch you in the basement.
GonzoBurger · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was very into Tremors as a young'un and got a bunch of the other kids in school to play a game that was basically "the floor is lava" but instead of lava it was graboids. There was a hill at the back of the school field that was considered high ground so it was a bunch of kids at the top and other kids who were the graboids at the bottom trying to pull the hill folks down.
Thinking back I'm not sure why anyone would need to go to the bottom of the hill but they all did, running up and down the hill like fools only to be grabbed and pulled down into oblivion.
One day someone fell all the way down the hill and broke their leg and then we weren't allowed near the hill anymore.
jane_q · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I predict I'll see at least one "doctor" or uncle-molesting joke in here.
80005000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mount and blade warband.
JulianKarlaz · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gada Gidi.
Basically, My Friends and I used to create this ball of unused cloth and socks. Its speciality? It hurts hard if it hits you. So, the game is played in an open ground. Ball is tossed high at the beginning of the game and the person who catches it will attack the nearest person with the ball. The person who gets his hands on the ball will attack the nearest person. The Cycle keeps repeating until someone starts crying out of pain or is seriously hurt. No prize for guessing, girls hated it.
lionelcheahkaien · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I tried to sell our toys to each other using imaginary money.
Vargurr · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freelancer for PC.
dayl2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the Can! Hide and seek with a foot race back to kick a can off a mat. Amazing game.
happyplace14 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it avalanche training. Basically my brother and I buried each other in snow until the person being buried started tapping their feet(that we left unburied) together frantically to signal they can’t take it any more.
Bismark202 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother took an axis and allies board, and used monopoly to build infrastructure which would correlate to how many soldiers we could buy and how many could be stationed into a given province.
14-28 · 1 points · Posted at 15:15:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prison Camp.
It was like hide and seek except there were two teams. When caught you'd have to stand at a designated point (the prison) and you could be freed by someone slamming the wall and screaming FREE DEN !
Was awesome.
tgay8587348 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and i used to play spot the spot it was fun where we would spot spots on each others body but it always ended in me getting pain while i was blindfolded.
fivedollarfiddle · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm so we had lots of animals, especially chickens. I had this game called "chicken chase" where I would chase chickens around the chicken yard and attempt to catch them with a big net that I would throw like a frisbee. It was one of those nets like you use to lower down the side of a fishing pier to retrieve fish that are too big to be brought up any other way. I would see how many chickens I could catch and lock into the roosts. It was quite fun, but our egg production went down significantly for a couple days after a good game of chicken chase.
Void_X_Rage_07 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You get 2 elemental powers. You can unlock more but its around the playground. We got all the fun kids to join in and i was the game master
HeartlessLiberal · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My fiance and her cousins used to play 'orphans' up in the attic. It was a game based on The Boxcar Children books.
Cpt_7imB · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
geoffeaton · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dibble Dabble.
Basically throwing a white wooden golf tee into a swimming pool then everyone jumps in trying to grab it. Much harder than you think.
halfdeadmoon · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Electric Dicks. It's basically Tag with immaturity cranked to eleven.
Spidermat311 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murderer.
We put names in a hat, innocent, sheriff, and murderer. We pick our card at random, and the sheriff grabs one Nerf bullet secretly from the middle of the circle. We all have Nerf gun.
It is the goal of the murderer to kill everyone by poking them, and the innocents must find out who the murderer is.
willingisnotenough · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "tones" game.
Me, my little brother, and my best friend would lay in the back of the minivan (no seatbelts, seats folded up) and each sing in one continuous note, trying to match exactly the tone and pitch of the others. That was the only goal, to blend our voices as perfectly as possible. My best friend and I (both female) once managed to make our voices MERGE into one and to this day it's one of the coolest experiences I've ever had, it's like your voice "disappears" even though you're still singing, and a ghost voice joins in.
Kudos to my mom for putting up with this game.
Xorhan · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Making "potions" from shampoo
Lily_Lackadaisy · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would dig holes in the yard where our little styrofoam ball families lived. We’d colour them with markers and give them names.
ArturoEscCha · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throwing rocks at each other with my friends 4v4
10/10 a lot of blood everytime
PhillyDilly23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play “fighting in the dark”. Basically we would hurl pillows at each other in a pitch black room while constantly chanting “we’re fighting in the dark”. Also we played “hut hut” which was a more fun way to transfer laundry from the washer to the dryer.
RusstyDog · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would wait till after dark then go out in the yard and doge car headlights as they drove by. hiding behind trees and bushes and such.
absquatulatte · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mad Dog”. I would curl up on the floor, pretending to be asleep- my friends would try and wake me up, and when they did, I would spring into action, scurrying after them on my hands and knees. I’ve been told it’s surprisingly terrifying to have someone come after your ankles like that
unbinkable · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Curb Ball” on a little single lane road with a curb on both sides. One person stood on each curb and took turns throwing a basketball at the opposite curb. If you got it to bounce back off the curb and caught it without letting it hit the ground, you got 2 points. If you hit the curb and it rolls back to you, you get 1 point. First to 21 wins.
fuqqboi_throwaway · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time my friend and I noticed there were cracks in the sidewalk so we took tape measures and put the end in the crack and pulled them all the way back and “raced” them.
ZestyWalrus · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friends and I played a game we called "Teletubby Madness". I have no idea why we called it that but that's what we called it. There was a little goofy zipline thing on the playground and the point of the game was to knock the kid on the zipline off before he got to the other side. Unfortunately one of my friends got hurt when he got knocked off and started crying. We weren't allowed to play that game anymore after that.
TooEasyAmbreezy · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I played a baseballesque game in my back yard with a ping pong paddle as a bat and a little ball you catch at Nuggets games here in Denver as a baseball. We used boxes as bases. This game of 1v1 hybrid baseball is one of my favorite childhood memories.
whitbit_m · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother is three years older than me and when I was about 4 he used to use me to play fetch. I wish I was kidding.
baronvonhawkeye · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A combination between diving and dodgeball.
When it was slow at our neighborhood pool, everyone would grab a ball; tennis ball, nerf ball, football, etc. Then someone would go and dive off the diving board while trying to avoid being hit by any balls. The first person to connect was next on the board. No balls could be thrown until you let go of the handrail and the longest streak won. We would play this for hours.
DrakeHazey · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Incoming" We would stand on opposite sides of a ravine in the forest outback and throw sticks at the team on the other side while shouting "incoming". As far as I remember nobody got hurt. Hell, I dont think anyone even got hit. Wasn't all that big of a ravine, maybe 30ft from side to side. We wouldn't be trying to nail someone, either, you would just lob a stick so it had plenty of hang time.
chris_handsen21 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naked and afraid with my uncle
2GOOD5U · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would take turns throwing a ball on a roof and if the ball bounced more than once upon returning to the ground that person was out. To increase difficulty we would start from crazy distances away, spin 20 times before throwing the ball, use a football(american), etc. Simpler times.
Jimmoop · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a set of marbles that I would give names to and had full on marble fights with different factions that are based on the color of the marble. It was great
DeliberateAsshole · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spoons
WhatsaGime · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took the game spoons (sit in circle, passing cards around with spoons in middle of table. Once you have a set of 4 of the same card, you sneakily take a spoon. When others notice you’ve got a spoon, they need to quickly grab one too. Whoever doesn’t get a spoon is out) and changed it. We used knives, and hid them around the room (sometimes we just used knives on the table too).
So when someone has a set, they run to find a knife, and then when everyone saw that, they had to run and find a knife too. Didn’t end well sometimes lmao. Normally just butter knives though.
One time we played with forks too.
teemahreed · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would chew the leaves of this really long grass bush plant so it would turn our spit green. Then we'd chase each other around the yard trying to spit on each other with our "poisonous spit"
imanuberklutz · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child, I absolutely loved musicals that starred orphans: Annie, Oliver, Anne of Green Gables (to the point that I thought orphaned children were a requirement for all musicals). Anyways, I always played orphans with any other neighborhood kid who would tolerate playing with me. We had a play house in my back yard and we'd pretend to be foraging on our own without parents. We occasionally acted out our play-parents' deaths. My favorite part was when we decided that we needed to be nomads and travel far away for some reason or another (I think I just got bored of the play house). I loved "setting up camp" and "packing" and pretending we only had a slice of bread to eat.
So basically, I liked pretending I was family-less and homeless with absolutely no notion of what those things really meant.
AmericanMcCloskey · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary, my buddies and I would bring tennis balls and sometimes use those small rubber red balls that elementary schools usually have. We'd go the handball wall things (don't know wth they're called) 2 or 3 of us would stand at the back white line with throwing balls, facing the wall. The other 4+ would be at the wall on our side. Their objective was to run to the other side of the without getting hit by us. If you get hit while running, you get to throw and the thrower becomes a runner.
We never had a name for it, I don't recall
lostmyshade · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played graveyard as kids up at our cabin. My older brother would make the headstones and I would dig the holes and fill them up and we made our poor younger sister be the hearse. We would go around and find dead animals or bugs and then younger sister would have to pick them up and bring them to the hole I dug and I’d fill it in then my brother would make a headstone for it after saying a few words. I have no idea how or why we started playing this but we eventually had a pretty big graveyard of dead things and I think we only remember it so vividly to this day because we forced our sister to be a hearse.
LittleJ1mmy · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called IRA where you'd split Into 2 groups,beaters and runners. The runners would pick a word the same length as the number of people on the team.One letter was then given to each member of the team and the runners were given time to hide.
When the beaters found a runner they would, well, beat the letter out of the runners. It was a fun game
mr_grimmex · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t really have a name for it, but my dad played it with me and my sister. Each of us would take a corner of the room, and we each set up like 10 army men. You couldn’t hide them behind furniture or anything like that. Then we took a large marble and you had to roll it at each other’s army to knock them down. Last one with a standing army man won.
Lambdatan · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would always pretend to be kings/dukes/emperors of medieval countries, managing the realm with political intrigue and outright warfare with a game master dnd style to trigger certain "events".
hertzog21 · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play this game where I was part of a all solo band... my parents recorded my first concert that will be played at my wedding.. Not one of my proudest childhood memories asking a”bitch why did you leave me”
pizzaaacaaattt · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Most made up games of my childhood were a variation on “playing house”, but instead of a regular family, we were an animal family. I used to play “birds” with these two girls at my elementary school. There was a tall girl who always wore mismatched socks that played the mama bird and the other friend and I would be the baby birds. I can’t even remember what we did... but I do remember being sad to move to a new town, sad that I would never play “birds” again, only to find my new classmates offered a similar game called “wolves”. Now I’m sure there were a lot of kids at a lot of elementary schools pretending to be animal families out there. And I hope there still are, despite all the technology we have pulling people of every age inward.
TheBelleOfTheBrawl · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to tie each other up or to different pieces of furniture, and then you’d have to escape. I’d say the only one that really got me was when I was tied to a piano bench with fishing line. Otherwise it’s not that difficult to get yourself loose, at least not when the knots have been tied by other eight year olds. I’d say we were 12 when we stopped playing.
AimlessBash · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Might not be that unique but we played it in preschool and I started it again in elementary school but basically what we did was stand on top of a balance beam they had in the yard or the garden and try to push the kid in front of you off so you‘re the last one standing. It was fun trying to take down that one kid that pushed off like four other kids before you and see who has the best balance while still being strong enough to push off the one in front of you.
Shoesquirrel · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Footbottle. We'd partially fill a two liter soda bottle with sand/gravel then play football with it. I only remember a few injuries, believe it or not.
TenMinJoe · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paper aeroplane fight, an indoor game for two players. Fold a strictly limited supply of paper aeroplanes. Divide the room in half. Take it in turns to pick items of furniture, to build a barricade with, in your half of the room. Each player has five lives. Lose a life if an aeroplane hits you. Throw the aeroplanes at your opponent, ideally from the safety of your own barricade. When you run out of ammo, you have to bravely sneak out of your barricade to gather more from the no-mans-land in the middle, risking a direct assault from your opponent!
biscuit272 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had a lot of "creativity" when it came to playing arbies. I had a Fonzie action figure and we pretended he was a child abductor and had Strawberry Shortcake dolls in his trunk. I want to say it was our Barbies goals to get him and save the Strawberry Shortcakes but I think he was just a guy that lived on our Barbie neighborhood.
Tootsnboots · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would grab sticks and stab dog poo onto the end and chase each other. We called the game "Poo on a Stick." It was a simpler time.
NewAndyy · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Ratchet & Clank in the forrest. I don’t remember exactly how we did it, but it was me, two of my classmates and a friend of my brother (she is 7 years older than me, and I was about 8 years old at the time, this was about eight years ago and we only did it one time, but it was really fun). I don’t remember the details but it was really fun, a lot of walking in the mountainside, and raining quite heavily. I miss being a kid
redfox9100 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Duck duck grey duck. . . I only know one state in the US that played this.
notnoah179 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and our friends played tag on the trampoline. The only catch was, "it" had to close their eyes and dodge the soccer balls we were throwing at them. My mom never understood.
stupidbush · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I used to stay at my grandmas place a lot, who is a former teacher. She had a huge bag of old pens that dont work anymore. We used to build roads and cities using these pens, and use more colorful ones as cars. That was fun.
MadVladPalin · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "Save the World". There would be 3-4 of us on our trampoline (with net) and we would bring in 5 different balls (football, basketball, softball etc.). You would start the game with 3 lives, and the goal was to jump around and do as much cool stuff as possible without touching any of the balls. Not sure where we came up with the name but we played that shit for years.
ChloricGoldfish · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Manhunt, where each guy (No girls were allowed to play) was given a letter, and the hunter had to find and retrieve each letter and make up the word. You were not to give out your letter unless you absolutely had to, whereas the hunter could use any means necessary.
The only rule: only make bruises where they couldn't be seen by adults.
I was in my late teens before I found out that most people played this non-violently. It turns out only my friend group used their letters as safe-words to get other kids to stop beating the absolute fuck out of them.
itsyourboicrippling · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back at my old school we played infection or zombie tag, the game would last all recess and sometimes it would include whole groups of the infected trying to find one person, I manipulated the rules so then I could take off jackets and change what I was wearing
Fractite · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 9, both me and my brother both got into Pokémon in a major way. We would play a game pretending that we were Pokémon trainers and had Pokémon and did battles with people that didn't exist, as well as each other.
ApatShe · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At school. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE at our grade played this game called 'Murderer'. It played out as one person being the murderer, and when he tagged someone the victim would join the team. Basically a large scale game of infected from COD
We used the whole school as hiding spots
S62anyone · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Intelligent qube
Dlete123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young I would always role play with my cousins and we created our own story’s, most of them now that I look at them were kinda like shonen anime because we would always have a tournament arc, a war arc and a rivalry. In the end we would always have a happy ending where all of us united together to beat the final boss.
Vvarx · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the thimble! Alright, so whenever my many cousins would come over, we would play this game, which was basically a real-life eye-spy book. Everyone would leave the room while one person would, of course, hide the thimble. You could hide it wherever in the room, but it had to be visible without moving anything (so no hiding it in drawers or under rugs). Then everyone else comes in and try to find it. They could also ask the « hider » if they were close, and the hider could respond with Cold, Warm or Hot. Whoever found it became the next hider. Fairly simple, but damn this brought back some good memories ...
713984265 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would mess with my little brother until he got angry enough to chase us and then run around the house screaming baby attack...
That and roof freeze tag which is pretty self-explanatory.
Secretslob · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Devil Barbie. My aunt passed her large Barbie collection to me when I was about 7. It included one particular Barbie that for some reason I found creepy. I just remember her eyes looking very shifty and evil, with blue eyeshadow, black cat eyeliner, and sharp, pointy black plastic eyelashes. I never wanted to play with her.
Until I invented Devil Barbie. The game consisted of hanging the creepy Barbie, naked, by her hair to a string attached to the basement ceiling. We kids would then spin the Barbie - now called Devil Barbie - and run around the basement avoiding her gaze, because if she looked at you, you died. We ran around shrieking and throwing ourselves down on the ground behind things like complete lunatics. We loved it.
thevitamin6 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood friend and I played detectives. We would go around the neighborhood finding different items laying around; a chewed up paper bag with dog hair on it, lost watch with bird shit on it etc etc. We would jot down everything about the object on a reporters notepad, inspect the object closely with magnifying glass and then find the suspect, track the suspect down and then "arrest" them. Our friendly neighborhood dog was guilty for the chewed up paper bag.
CallMeCreamPie · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think it was called octopus and we played it back in elementary school.
We would have 10 or more kids and one person would be the octopus, it was their job to tag people, and throw balls and get people out. The cool thing in this was that anyone who got tagged by the octopus became coral and they had to stand where they got downed and try to tag the remaining people without moving from their original spot. We usually played this in gym class but occasionally at a friends backyard.
I loved that game so much.
PeddoPedro · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle loved to play hide the salami with me
IamSpot89 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a version of tag called "Bloody Wolf" up a the local park after dark. Essentially one person was the "Wolf" and would go off somewhere in the park and hide. Everyone elses job was to go out and find the "Wolf", and once you found them you would scream "BLOODY WOLF" and everyone would try to race back to the starting point without getting tagged by the "Wolf".
The whole point wasn't really to play tag, but just to scare the living crap out of your friends. The "Wolf" would always hide in a spot where they couldn't be seen until someone was feet or inches away, and would then jump out and grab them. So many good memories of walking around with friends when we would turn the corner and there would be some dark bush off in the corner that NOBODY wanted to walk by. My favorite time I was hiding under some wooden stairs when my sister started walking down, and I reached through the wooden slats and grabbed her ankle while growling like a dog. To this day, it was the most bloodcurdling scream I ever heard.
No one ever walked down those stairs again, we always found another way down.
pheelka1001 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Acorns with the little twigs still on them were tanks which fought wars against the sticks. Some acorns had no twigs attached, some had 3, and some acorns were huge and/or green, so we even had some variety in our toys.
tilltonightdouspart · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We spent a lot of time in cars as kids so my sister and I came up with games to keep us from not getting bored.
First was cheering every time we saw a Mack truck and booing every time we saw a Peterbuilt. Still not sure why the hate for Peterbuilt but yeah.
Then after Hummers became a big thing we would "call" them and keep track of points. Regular Hummer was 1 point, limo Hummer was 3, dealership was 5, and if you "called" one and it wasn't, you lost 2 points.
Far better than listening to my mom's talk radio.
newtattoo11 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Captain Cat Patrol.
It was my dad taking my sister and I out around the neighbourhood, we lived in the inner city of one of Australia’s capitals. Lots of terrace houses and lots of cats roaming around.
You would get one point for every cat you sighted. You had to scream “CAT!!!!” for it to be accepted as a point. Dad would do loops around the neighbourhood blocks until it got too dark to spot the cats.
Learnt later on that it was a way for Dad to get my sister and I out of the house when mum wasn’t well. She had Schizophrenia and was a danger to us at those times. We never figured it out and loved Captain Cat Patrol.
corncob666 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to go in the pool at my house and play a game we called "The Favorites Game" One person would sit on top of the pool ladder and everyone else would be on the other side of the pool. The ladder person would come up with a fill-in-the-blank or a favorite/least-favorite question (ex: whats your favorite ice cream flavor?) Then, everyone on the other side would whisper their answers to one person who would be "The Teller" and then the teller would state all the answers including their own (if there was only 3 of us we would add in a fake answer. if more than two people had the same answer we would assign them a number to tell them apart.) The ladder person would then call out one of the answers and the person with that answer would have to try to swim to the ladder before the ladder person swam to the other side. The loser would become the new ladder person and the game would continue on like that.
It was really fun and I highly reccommend it no matter what your age is :)
rudegal_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's a cajun version of Go Fish called Makin' Groceries. The cards are all Louisiana specific (zaps chips, gumbo, beignets, etc).
abayda · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and i used to to see how many layers of t-shirts , shirts, sweaters and other various articles of clothing we could put on all at once . Good times .
gotplaid · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Jasmine and Rajah with my little sister. She was the tiger and I rode her around the house while ruling the kingdom. When she was tired, I put her in the tiger cage (an overturned laundry basket).
This was not her favorite game.
garrettj100 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pegga Megga
Run around and pick immature pine cones off the trees around the neighborhood. They're small and dense, only about 3/4" long, and pointy. Once you've got a handful, run at your friends and toss one in the air, then whack it at them with a badminton racket. Getting hit by a tiny, pointy, dense little seed going 70 mph hurts like hell. Fun game.
zKBone · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catching black widows in our back yard
HYPERBOLE_TRAIN · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poo Poo Man.
It was just tag but with a name that’s funnier.
SirKillingsworth · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It had a name I don’t remember, but it was the coolest freaking game I remember. I’d still play it nowadays if I could.
My friends and I would duct-tape pieces of pool noodle onto various things we found (things like mop handles) to make very usable but very safe swords, spears, shields, daggers, etc. We’d hold tournaments and fight with them. If your “arm got cut off” you couldn’t use that appendage anymore.
God, I miss that game.
Tat2soupRhero · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know if it would be considered a game, but when we were home alone, my siblings and I would turn the ceiling fan on break-neck speed, and then throw toys at it and laugh and the noises it made, and whoever got hit hard enough to cry lost.
xpertcommander · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and our friends came up with this game called “race-car” that we would play on our trampoline. There was this dotted circle in the middle of the trampoline that was there to show where you would get the best bounce, but for our game it served as the inner part of the “track.” We would run around the track and essentially play a game of circular tag. When we introduced the game to our buddy Austin, he added an awesome new feature. He would scream “AUSTIN POWERS!” and jump across the circle to tag someone on the opposite side of the track. Good times.
disqeau · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Oh god, these are mortifying now, but hilarious stories at our own expense always trump personal embarassment, so here goes.
My little brother and I both hate spiders. Like, a LOT. So we came up with a perfect game for arachnophobes: take an older sibling's lifelike, hairy-looking rubber tarantula and tie a long string to it. Player one holds the spider string and perches somewhere near the top of the circular staircase. Player two stands in the corner nearest the bottom of the circular staircase, a somewhat claustrophobic position. Player one then swings and lurches the spider string at player two in an effort to trap, touch, or terrorize player two with the horrifying spider. Player two convulsively tries to exit the corner as the giant spider attacks, screaming and hyperventilating. Fun!
Another 2 player game for reenforcing arachnophobia: sit on the couch with "Spiders and their Kin" spread across your laps. Take turns flipping pages; the one not turning the page has to put their hand on the picture of the biggest spider on the next page! Ha! Ha!
One more game, this one (oddly?) not related to spiders: Take an old milk carton (the waxy cardboard kind) and lay it on it's side on the tiled basement floor. Scrape the milk carton across the floor towards your opponent, make sure to make it sound really loud so your opponent screams and runs away.
The end.
Edit: just remembered another one. My little brother and older sister and I would play "Bar" in sister's room. We'd turn her dresser out from the wall so there was a little alcove behind it, and we'd take turns standing back there playing "bartender". Sister had an iridescent glass decanter (so 70's) and we'd put kool-aid in it and the bartender would pour it into some paper coke cups for the customers to drink. The customers would then get visibly inebriated and start making a scene and have to be cut off and 86'ed from the bar.
ParaplegicDucky · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and brother and I used to play a game called “Monster” at my grandma’s house many years ago. Pretty much we would all (about 6 of us) go into a spacious but not-well-lit room and turn all the lights off until it was pitch black. The only light that was allowed was a very slow-blinking strobe light from one of our phones. Because I’m the oldest, I was always elected to be the “monster” whose goal it was was to lock all the players in my “jail.” I won when I was able to get everyone in jail, but “free” players were allowed to break someone out of jail if they can get to them undetected. If I couldn’t get everyone into jail in a certain amount of time, I lost. In all honesty I had more fun scaring my cousins then actually playing the game so I always chose to lose, but it was grand seeing my cousins think they’re safe with one flash of the strobe only for me to crawl towards them in the dark and hear them scream in playful terror with the next flash.
I miss grandma’s house.
simwil96 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would hang upside down from our bunk beds. The first person to pass out would lose and the winner would get down and wake them up.
Gimble_Gobstopper · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would hold up a large quilt, leap off the couch, and slide across the table. It was the closest we could get to a magic carpet.
pleasereturnto · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn't really have a name for it, but we just tossed sticks into mud. Mind you, it was a lake sized mud puddle, deep enough to drown horses, and deep enough to go fishing when it was just a lake without mud in it.
rabidstoat · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in Florida so we had an in-ground pool, and also an inflatable 'boat' type raft that you could sit in and it had sides. I wish I could remember the 'rules' (such that they were) but we played a submarine game where one person would get underneath the overturned raft with their head above water but underneath the raft. I honestly forget what the goal of the game was, but it involved these hoop-like rings we had that sunk to the bottom of the pool, and throwing oranges (we had a huge orange grove behind us), and trying to drown each other.
We also played Dodge Rock, but I assume that others played that too. We took rocks (or sometimes oranges, which also hurt if you got pegged with them) and paced off a distance and took turns throwing them at each other, while the target tried to dodge the rocks.
Otev_vetO · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The blindfold game” My best friends brother had gigantic wooden furniture that was WAY to big for his small bedroom (a big oak loft best and 2 dressers) it was basically impossible to move in his room. We would blindfold 1 person and then then turn off the lights (I don’t know why we turned the lights off the person was blindfolded) and then we would basically run and hide from the blindfolded person in this room you could hardly move in.
If you were caught then you were the next person blindfolded.. this went on until someone got frustrated or their dad work up and yelled at us.
Disturbedfan55 · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a small simple game i remember.
There was a short hallway where me and my two other siblings had our bedrooms, at the end of that hallway started the kitchen and there was a fridge near the end, we would each take those small bouncy balls standing at the fridge, and throw them down the hallway and try to dodge them as they bounced everywhere, the more balls the more fun it was.
NovaAuroraStella · 1 points · Posted at 15:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe not really unique but....
I got a lot of cassette tapes when I was a kid that I didn’t like. I would put scotch tape over the corners so I could record over them. Then I would record myself doing my own radio show which included me introducing the songs, singing them, and then doing my own commercials. I would listen to them on the tape player that I had attached to the handle bars of my bike.
I was an only child what can I say.
grapesofap · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark tag! you wait until it's dark, and play a mix between hide and seek/tag. truly satisfying
Flamingmop · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bubonic Nunball. Kinda like four square but there was only two players and a freestyle circle in the middle where you could hold the ball and dance to gain style points (just like NBA Street). No gamebreakers however. No idea why or how my best friend and I came up with this but it was one of my childhood favorites.
whiskey_agogo · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up this dumb game called IBB (Island Bumpa Ball) which was legit just the two-square equivalent of four square.
We were camping and it was rainy and miserable ... So it was the 'island escape' for me my siblings and my cousin lol. We dragged sticks in the dirt road at the campsite to make the arena . Like it was pretty bad haha
BingPot2000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava... Oh wait.
jonhgary · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play "War" when we were kids. An imaginary game that he was a one man army versus my army of hundreds of henchman. I love him so much i would make him invincible and always let him win. Now he's 18 and im 21 and sometimes we remember those imaginary games we used to play and laugh our asses off!
gingebond · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tremors. One person who was ‘on’ wriggled around on the floor while the others had to get to the other sofa. If you were touched you was also a tremor. Last person to survive won. Never lasted long as my mother went mad for jumping on the sofas.
jack_capp · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had this game we would play where we made a family out of our toys. Hers were stuffed puppies, mine were pro-wrestling action figures. They all understood each other, too. Like it wouldn’t be just unnaturally big dogs barking at comparatively small people; like they would have real deep life talks (well, deep for a couple of pre-teens). And we didn’t even have a name for it - we just called it “our game”.
Ahh...life was so much simpler then.
repost_inception · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a study hall period in middle school and it was in our multi-use gym so we sat at these long picnic tables we used for lunch.
I got this squad rubber thing off the bottom of a table and used it for a goal.
we would bounce a bouncy ball and try to get it to stay in the square. Your points were how many bounces the ball made before going in.
dd1818 · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love turning off all the lights in my parents room and having a "stealth" pillow fight with my dad. You had to sneak around and hope you didn't give away your position, or else you would get smacked with a pillow. Or you could just take a random swing! lol thanks for putting up with my games dad!
Cholojuanito · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Grandma!"
Every time you drive over the railroad tracks or a cattle guard you have to lift your feet off the ground and say "grandma!". Whoever didn't was a grandma because we thought the vibrations would make them more wrinkley.
Still play it to this day.
MrSavvy · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can, SPUD w/ a Koosh Ball, Cops and Robbers (there was a jail guarded by someone with a huge flashlight/spotlight and if you snuck up and tagged someone from jail everybody got to escape), “war” where we had toy guns and if you had LOS on someone and made a gun noise they died, “The Floor Is Lava” outside on a swing set with monkey bars and we’d put items all over the ground and make courses to run across and someone was it and we had to not get tagged, hide n seek, freeze tag, those are the big ones off the top of my head.
deadlightStar · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Scary Game. We dont play it because it legit became a haunted game.
stop_being_ugly · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game my mom called "disappear until dinner"
Basically me and my friends and siblings would go outside and do whatever kids do outside and come home whenever we got hungry. Ride bikes, make forts, climb trees, just be kids.
DickMurdoc · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called Ghostbusters. You pick your nose, and hide it on your friend. Then, after waiting for a bit, you just say "Ghostbusters" to them and watch as they try and search for the booger. Looking back it makes me wonder what the fuck was wrong with us.
Xav-Tay-Tor-Tot · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd say it's unique in the sense, that I have never heard of it outside of my country.
It's called "Yellow car". Pretty basic: You see a yellow car, and you hit your friend across the shoulder. Reset after every yellow car. Repeat ad nauseum.
ryanmich · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would always be playing whatever sport the season called for, but sometimes in the summer we couldn't get enough people for a full baseball game. A lot of the time it'd just be my brother and our next door neighbor. So we created this game called "Pitcher-Catcher-Batter".
Getting in to pickles was always one of the most exciting parts of our baseball games, so this new creation kind of encouraged pickles to happen. We'd have home plate, then one base in the normal position of second base (behind the pitchers mound). Then you'd get three outs as a batter to get as many runs as you can, only needing to run to the one base and back. Obviously we'd always go for home and would get stuck in a pickle between the pitcher and catcher, which is where most of the fun would be.
We honestly probably had more fun growing up playing Pitcher-Catcher-Batter than we did playing actual baseball.
CaptainRoach · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our house was built around a 'T' of corridors with rooms leading off them.
My brother and I (and our friends if they were over) would sit at either end of the leg of the 'T', turn all the lights off so it was pitch black and then throw stuff at each other. Usually nerfballs but occasionally marbles.
Like the most pointless game of dodgeball ever but it was somehow hilarious fun.
Wipe_face_off_head · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to walk around with a frameless mirror wedged under my nose, with the mirror side pointed up. It made it look and feel like you were walking on the ceiling or sky. I was a latchkey kid, so I didn't have anyone around to point out how fucking dangerous this little hobby was and I'm surprised I didn't shear my stupid face clean in half.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doorknob-in a room full of our buddies,if someone farted,you yell "doorknob",then beat the shit out of them till they reach a doorknob..
amaldito · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie game. Where one main zombie hides an object (visible) all of the runners have to retrieve the object and bring it back to “base”. Only the main zombie can run, if you get tagged you become a minion zombie and can only walk. Zombie wins if everyone is tagged. Runners (that are not zombies) win if they retrieve object back to base.
Remember this game was so much fun playing in the neighborhood
YesMattRiley · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Ok it was awesome - we called it Huckle Buckle Beanstalk.
Xx_Squall_xX · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We basically LARP'd in retrospect, but we called it 'imaginary game'.
It was essentially me being a DM and emulating the Final Fantasy games we played fairly religiously. We would pick 'guns and stuff' or 'swords and stuff' and then I'd make up a story / plot / characters on the spot and away we'd go.
Half the time it included a train that got stopped by hitting [something]. I might have stolen a little from FFIX...
Shoninjv · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Being Unseen" game where we would play like ninja everywhere around the house and the garden to avoid being seen by our parents. Perpetual hide-and-seek game. 25 years ago, damn, time flies...
Abhi191094 · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only stepping on shadows
DemonEggy · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I would play Mister Box Head.
Basically, I'd put a cardboard box on his head, and hit it with sticks. I'm fairly certain that was the full extent of the game.
loopthereitis · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played "big cat". Our characters were an anthromorphic cat and lizard, we solved crimes and fought baddies in a cyberpunk type world.
BryanCalabro · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can.
CzerwonaCegla · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft
damphands · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Demo durby! Two of us would sit back to back on a wagon and ride it down the hill in my neighborhood. The person in the front would stead and the person on the back defended the wagon. Then the other 3 or 4 people would chase them on scooters and skateboards with brooms and hockey sticks as weapons to try to wreck the wagon before it got to the bottom of the hill. Lots of fun until we broke our neighbors mailbox and had to put all our money together to buy a new one.
GeneralGardner · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tripping Machines! It’s tag, but instead of the person whom is ‘it’ tagging you, they trip you. We were 6 years old...so.
villarach · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would basically LARP. We had big backyards and woods to run around in, and we would invent storylines and fight for the good of our cause. He was a swordsman (big stick as sword) and I was a wizard (big stick as magical staff).
I can't remember who the big bad guy was, but we always fought waves of his minions - invisible goblin creatures we called Nims. His swingset was our homebase, our time machine, and our rocket ship.
BaleFire77 · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kickshins, by older brother and I would go out onto the trampoline and kick each others shins until one of us gave up and jumped off... What was the point of this? Who knows
intellectualth0t · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I vividly remember my brother and I playing Kim Possible as children. I was always Kim and he was Dr Drakken (however you spell it) and we'd always re-enact the episodes, lol
paigem93 · 1 points · Posted at 15:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, my two cousins, and I would play “hobos”. We would dress up with clothes meant to go to Goodwill and play in the unfinished basement. We would “sleep” under tables and staircases and complain about being cold. Kinda fucked up now.
EmeraldRacer · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know this is going to sound super wrong but the game is called “Ebola River” basically at our school their was a play set and if you were pushed off of the play set you caught Ebola and died. Theirs a lot of other weird games I played but this was the main one.
AntoinoPisho · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Netchers. We chased our aunt with nets while she locked herself in the bathroom and we passed magazines under the door.
Accipiter290 · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one counts as unique. My cousins would come over and we'd go into the finished basement of my parents house, turn the lights off and turn blacklights on, blast whatever music we were listening to (late 90s) and set up a big basket full of rubber bouncy balls. The object of the game was simple: Fire the balls at the wall as hard as you could and try to hit everyone else with the rebound while not getting hit yourself. It was virtually impossible to aim and to avoid being hit so it was just a game of chance.
Birbfeedr · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would ride our bikes down the paths in our woods. There were some steep hills and creeks and intersecting paths. We would pretend we were Native Americans riding horses chasing buffalo or going into battle with spears (big sticks). We would collect black raspberries and make shelters/forts out of sticks and bark and rocks and have our own village. Our younger brothers would wanna play so we would make them the cowboys and we'd all chase each other all over the place, them with their plastic pistols, bandanas around their necks, and bikes.
tenceirl · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game called "bolf" which was baseball but we used a golf ball as a baseball since it went further. Problem was we did it at recess with plenty of kids playing around nearby.
Poor teacher almost had a heart attack when they saw what we were doing. Was fun though!
backreaper_nl · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a shitload of lego, and looking to do new fun things with my lego I came up with a game called "garbage man"
I would live on a garbage belt, and would have to make my house and things only of the materials (lego) that came in every time (grab a handfull of lego out of my chest). I would try to make the most out of the things I got, make the prettiest house and car etc. And could improve everytime new garbage came in.
It would be different every time, which was fun. And it would occupate me for a few hours.
zKBone · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One summer me and my brother went on an absolute massacre, we killed hundreds of bees no joke, using only tennis rackets we would prowl our back deck and kill multiple a day, we actually got pretty good at it
Alexexy · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't think this is all that unique, but my sister and I would pretty much backyard wrestle in our bedrooms.
I remember my sister's signature movie was like a top rope samoan driver called the omb-bomb and (I think) a reverse chokeslam. My finisher was the rock bottom because I didnt have the imagination of a 7 year old.
mushymeltypuppy · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animal Wars! I was obsessed with Animal Planet as a kid and knew a decent amount about a variety of animals. I kept a box and put a bunch of slips of paper in there, each with a different animal written on it. My brother would draw one slip and I'd draw another, and we'd have to behave like whatever animal we drew and FIGHT until the other person surrendered.
I was pretty faithful to the behaviors of the animal I chose, but my brother would just beat me up like normal. Haha!
YouoTheNinja · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I would play a game called "Ninja" and have two of us be guards and the other two ninjas. Guards could only walk in a designated area on the sidewalks but the ninjas could sneak anywhere, use distractions, get in trees, ect. The ninjas would need to work together to get the guards from behind. It was the coolest ever except we did get the cops called on us for sneaking around, people though we were trying to rob homes..😅
killerado · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was in high school, but it involved driving and trespassing so it was fun. Basically we’d all meet at an elementary school parking lot at night and hang out. Then to start the game there’d be “cops”, teams of 2 in cars; and runners; packs of people trying to not get tagged. The home base was a park about a 2 miles away through a neighborhood. We’d start running and if the “cops” came up on us we’d hop fences and go through back yards. The person riding shotgun would get out of the car and tag the runners, who would then become cops themselves.
It was really fun, and what made it cool was it was passed down from older groups of high schoolers. My friends and I were all too straight edge to drink while playing but I’m sure some people incorporated that.
frenchbritchick · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had a game called "10 times harder"
I would nudge or shove him, or flick him or whatever. And he returned it...But 10 times harder.
dutchees · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers.
Wladaaaaa · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Frog, Cannon Foder, shadow of the Beast 3 all on Amiga 500+.
Amazing games which doesn't exists any more on new devces.
corbz91 · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a mountainous area where the backyard was basically the jungle. My neighbors and I would create traps for each other (pits covered with leaves, branches that would hit you if triggered, etc.). In hindsight we definitely could’ve killed each other with the contraptions we came up with. But we all made it to adulthood. Well except for Tim... we don’t speak of him.
Kbouds · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sting. In elementary school, we would take a soccer ball from gym class, and at recess/lunch hour, we would kick the ball as hard as we could at each other.
There were no teams, no designated kicker. Just a pack of school aged kids simultaneously running after a ball to try kick it at other people, and also running away so you didn't get the ball kicked at you.
jonasvagn · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game where we simply walked straight forward, if we hit something we had to turn the way a bullet would've turned if it hit the object. It was always sad when you got sent a long way from the others (huge playground)
rexonym · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skateball. It involved a batter jumping on a trampoline armed with a skateboard without wheels being pitched a tennis ball and running “bases” around the yard.
Grace-I-Guess · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Kingdoms and basically we'd beat the shit out of each other with foam weapons until someone cried and left. Classic.
Axialminim · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my friends, we used to fantasise that we were either pokemon (think mystery dungeon games) or that we had an omnitrix and make up story lines on the go. Another thing was in my primary school I boarded a few nights a week and what we would play in the evening just before bed time was ‘Hulk Smash’. All the lights would be turned off, one aggressive boy would be nominated the hulk and he’d chase the others around in the dark and tackle them etc. while shouting ‘Hulk Smash’.
Meat_Skeleton · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the fall we'd rake a bunch of leaves into circles and pretend they we're bird nests and houses and play like that. Kinda lame but it was fun for us.
Akuyatsu · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had “Bottlerocket Wars” with my cousins. It’s just as dangerous as it sounds.
ashlenick · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend growing up and I would play a game similar to house but we were brother and sister. (She was a super tomboy growing up). But we called it brother and sister forever and instead of starting a new game every time we played together, we would just pick up where we left off playing. We said we were going to play it forever and I really believed that.
auntie-matter · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my primary school we played, for a while until it was banned by the teachers, a game called "shoe" which involved taking a shoe from someone's foot, and throwing it as far as you could. I remember it being really good fun.
thetasteofink00 · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a driveway of different sized tiles. There were about the same 5 tiles spread out over the whole garage. The largest tile I used to call "the big" and I used to have to make my way from the end of the driveway to my front door only stepping on "the bigs".
antiquenadine · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I invented the game “George Washington.” Essentially I had gotten a free toy in a cereal box that looked like a giant pill and had weights in the bottom, so it wobbled around. It also had a picture of Simba on it, so it must’ve been around the time Lion King 2 or Lion King 1 1/2 came out.
We put Simba on my trampoline and started jumping. The goal was to not let it hit you while it was bouncing around. The game officially started when someone yelled “George Washington!” Why we picked him I have no idea, but I do work in a history museum now, so I must’ve already subconsciously been thinking around my career path. I’m also pretty sure that Simba toy is still in my parents basement somewhere!
TheOfficeSpaceJam · 1 points · Posted at 15:19:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Safe net. One team against another. You have to get back to the net before the other team tags you. We spent HOURS playing it
Absolute__Muppet · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
When I was a kid my uncle and I played "find the hot dog". He said it was our secret game that nobody else could play so it was very unique. He would turn off all the lights, blind fold me and hide a hot dog somewhere on him. My job was to feel all over to find the hot dog. I was really good at it and always found the hot dog. Sometimes, when I would find it too easily, I could only use my mouth instead and he would put some ranch dressing on the hot dog to surprise me. It was so fun!
RagnaXI · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved playing hide and seek with my friends, not unique but what was different we would do it in a old factory that was destroyed in the war, it was huge, at least 70m wide and 4 stories high with a bunch of rooms and places to climb up and most parts of the factory were pitch black during the day.
We would play it 3v3/4v4, and we were searching for a spot to hide and then found a underground tunnel (for some reason it was full of promotional paper stacks) where you could crawl beneath and you would just hear them over us talking and searching while we were cracking up and making noises once they're further away. We came out after an hour of hiding, it was such an awesome location, it's still standing lol.
bus_error · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Choose your own direction Monopoly (that is, you could go either forward or backward with your roll of the dice).
It made it nearly impossible to collect rent, so to make up for that we allowed up to 3 hotels per property, for the rare instances when you could actually collect.
Of course, players would go back and forth over GO. To make the other end of the board interesting, we had to put $1000 on Free Parking.
There was no way anyone would go bankrupt; the only solution was to set a time limit and whoever had the most money won.
dewayneestes · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brothers and sisters would play a game called “pass out” when we lived in the Rockies. You’d crouch down then stand up straight as fast as you could and you would... pass out. Hilarious mountain family fun.
Sadly by the time I was old enough to play we relocated to a sea level home and the game didn’t work anymore.
The new house had a high staircase so instead we’d play “tip-it”. We’d lie down one on top of the other and yell tip-tip-TIPIT!!! The stack of 4 or 5 of us would all tumble down the stairs.
Being a kid in the 1970s was great fun.
sometimesiamdead · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would tie our younger sister to the lamp post outside our house and see how long it took her to escape.
Oddly enough we managed to escape detection by my parents, so this happened often.
raistliniltsiar · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shink”.
It was kinda like German hide-and-week, except the seeker had a scary mask on, and would limp around looking for people while forcibly opening and closing a pair of gardening shears, so all the hiders knew about where the seeker was was the slowly approaching sound of “Shink... SHHink... SHHHHINK...”
It drew inspiration from the video game “Clock Tower”.
impendinggrass · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were about 7/8, my friend created a game called “Fiber”.
Fiber was a monster of some sort and we would pretend to be scared of it and take all sorts of preventive measures to escape Fiber. The main and most memorable being a concoction of dirt, grass, water to make a potion that we would then drink.
thoughtpixie · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend use to play this game we called pirate, where we’d swing this flimsy (like all netting) hammock between two of my trees bath and forth, making weird noises and then pretend “the ship” was sinking and we had to climb out of the swinging hammock situation (it kind of wrapped around you like a cocoon at this point) and up the tree where we’d pretend to be staking out a new pirate empire... it was oddly very fun.
misterZalli · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nettle tag/fight. There grew some stinging nettles in my school and we thought of a fun game where you picked up a nettle and whipped others with it. Despite that we called it tag, it was more of a fight.
It was a dumb idea.
CricketMeson · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school sometimes during before school I would go to this thing called One Team and we would sometimes play this one game where one person is the monster and everyone including the monster can only move on the lines on the gym floor and the last person surviving wins. It was such a good fucking game.
VoidDrinker · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Acid Baby.
Kind of a variant of "The Floor is Lava," except the lava was my youngest brother who would chase us around and try and tag us. If he did, the acid got us and we died. Lots of laughter and screams of "ACID BABYYYY." Good memories.
lundyforlife22 · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hill tag. The yard in between my house and our neighbors formed a small horizontal hill. One person stood on the hill as others ran by trying to not be tagged. If you were tagged by the person on the hill you have to be on the hill now.
churchistheword · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bat Ball — It was essentially dodge ball using plastic balls you’d buy at the food store and you had to hit the balls with wiffle ball bats.
cairo128 · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dirt”. My brother and I just threw clumps of dirt at each other.
duckling_2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played " Moving statues". One person would close their eyes and count to ten, the rest would stand like a statue in a weird position and then the person who counted would use an imaginary remote to "play" them and the statue would do a kind of an act. When we started the acts lasted like 10 seconds but eventually we started performing complete stories that would take like 10 minutes.
ThatGuyDonut · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in 6th grade me and my friends make a boardgame, it was about 4 factions, I was the sugar faction, my friends were the animal faction, spider faction, and the monster faction. It was like chess but with 4 players and dungeons and dragon aspects in there also, the way we won was trough getting as much territory as possible, we had 4 pieces that would branch out which were the "borders" they were tied by string. At late 6th grade we dropped the whole idea since the game started becoming to complex but it was very fun when we could actually play it. I still have it today but most of the things for it are gone but some boardgame pieces are still there and remind me about that time.
meilisha · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids in my street used to play a game called curbie (probably not the spelling, but it’s not an actual word I guess?). You would stand on opposite sides of the road and throw the ball to hit the lip of the side walk, really simple but those cheap flyaway balls made it tougher.
It was safe to play near my house because very few people had cars.
Also, thought it was just a poor kids game specifically in Liverpool. Turns out kids down in Birmingham played it too!
mwaustin · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In late elementary school a few friends and I made up a game called “Jason”. It was basically tag but you could only tag in the throat. As you can imagine, a bunch of kids running around throwing karate chops at each other’s throats led to a school wide ban of the game pretty quick.
catfroman · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “Dodge and Death”. We would divide the basement into two equal-sized zones and play using a variety of soft toy balls - mostly rubbery foam or Nerf.
Basically, it was dodgeball but with a cool twist - you took “damage”. Headshots were instant death but getting hit in the arm or leg just destroyed that limb. So you could hop around or one leg or maybe be reduced to crawling if you lost both. It was fun destroying their good arm so their throws would end up being weak and aimless.
Body shots were handled in different ways - getting hit in the side or shoulder (if that arm was lost) would result in a single-limb loss of your choice. Back, stomach and groin were 2 limbs, and neck was 3. Once you lost all 4 limbs you lose. Yes, games were won by a throw with only one leg left.
You got one “catch” per round that would nullify the throw and give you one limb back of your choice. You could also deflect balls with a ball held in your hand.
Fully recommend playing it. Actually I’m gonna hit my brother up and see if he’s down...he’s 30 now and I’m 24 but fuck it. We can afford a lot of balls and I have a massive rec room at my house compared to my parents’...also carpet flooring instead of concrete sounds better for diving plays lol.
laportez · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Klonoa was crazy unique at the time. It's like a 3D sidescroller, and to this day I don't think I've ever played anything quite like it.
The_Goose_12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins would play war with bottle rockets, I played once when I was ten.... Got hit in the eye, luckily it was a dud and didn't explode, 10 yr old me was smart enough to never play again.
DogPiddle · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time i had a friend/friends over, my dad would let us play "chase". it was basically tag, but i had a large house, so at night, it was intense. My dad would go around, finding my friends and myself, and when he found one, that person would become on his side. It was so fun, yet so dangerous. Many cuts, scratches, and bruises. It was worth it tho.
RealestSharingan · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to LARP Pokémon, we would pretend to catch Pokémon and then we would battle each other pretending to be the Pokémon and run around the entire street battling. We had a point system to level them up and evolve them. We had story lines and pretend girlfriends and even homes in parts of my friends garage. Our story lines would last for weeks until all of our Pokémon were maxed out.
One time, me and my best friend cheated by saying we had battled when our other friends weren’t around. In reality we would run from one side of the living room to the other and count it as a point.
Dont_You_Dare_PM_Me · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a neighbor childhood friend that I’d play a game with. I’d find a unique looking stick, show it to her, then throw it into the woods. She’d go in and find the exact one and bring it back to me.
To clarify, yes she was human and not a dog...
retroriggs · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a house on an intersection. My siblings and I played a game called 'Trolley'. We had a couch up against our living room window. We'd sit on the back of the couch, making sure we sat inbetween window frames. That way, at night, when a car drove by heading towards the intersection, the headlights would shine through the window and make a shadow of what looked like us riding a trolley against the other wall.
yep, we were poor.
lofeiku · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when home alone, me and my brothers would let our dog out and get his dog poop in a plastic bag, and throw it at each other in the house. once they threw it in the ceiling fan (which was on) and it went f l y i n g
shonadee · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were in the car for long journeys, I’d be bored after reading my Beano comic so I’d squeeze my bum cheeks as hard as I could every time we passed a lamp post.
SpookyBong · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I’m elementary school I had a group of friends of about 10 people, we would do sleepovers on each of our birthdays or on a long weekend. We had this one friend who was all about entertaining, so she and one of our other friends would play this game called “the monster” It entailed all of us hiding in the house “during the day, and night” and the two of them would tuck their knees in their shirts and fucking sprint waddle towards you in a dimly lit hallway, You got attacked? You became the monster.
Some of the parents even participated lol
OaklandFace_LABooty · 1 points · Posted at 15:20:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would play "store" when one of us would walk around the room and choose random objects, then bring them to the 'cashier' who would then assign arbitrary prices and total them on a calculator. Then we would put all the items back and switch so we could take turns being the cashier.
EntropicPencil · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game with a broom handle. We both held on to it, and the objective was to get it out of the other person's hands, or to hurt him so badly that he just gave up.
We never tried to cause serious injuries though. We were brother after all.
Cpt_7imB · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy lace day my dude!
sandmasterblast · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would produce ice dancing shows on the tile floor by sliding in our socks, usually improvising some lyrics to "Flight of the Valkyries"
KaeAlexandria · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Bee Game. Aka The Stupid Children Game.
Basically you would get yourself one of those circular margarine containers like this. Then you would proceed outside during the sunnier months (I lived in Canada) and you would take the lid off your margarine container, turn it upside down and find yourself a good sized bee just minding it's business among the clover.
Here's where it got stupid.
You then would bring the container down on top of the bee, trapping it. Then you would raise the edge of the container a bit, but only just enough to slip the lid underneath it, not enough to let the now angry bee out. Now you have a bee trapped in a margarine container.
And here's where it got even MORE stupid.
The last phase of the bee game was to get the bee to stick to someone. You see, the reason you wanted the container to be round was so that you could move the container in rapid circles and make the bee do circles around the inside by centrifugal force. Then once the bee is disoriented enough you would open the container and rapidly launch the bee towards one of your friends. Why? Because when bees are disoriented or dizzy they cling to the first surface they hit that had traction, such as someone's clothes. Then about 50% of the time they'll try to sting you, the other half they just chill and then fall off and fly away once they are no longer dizzy.
It was the most psychopathic, horrible game. Looking back I'm amazed I avoided being stung; though other kids I played with were not so lucky. I also just don't know where we even got the idea?? I'm also sad for the bees. Bees didn't deserve that.
ThickAsianAccent · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "mama ball". It was basically wiffle ball but my mom played all time pitcher and my brother and I took turns hitting. The unique part is there was a "no crying" rule
Dragonally · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and brothers would play a modified version of hide-and-seek. We would turn off all the lights and go hide. The seeker would have a basket of rolled up socks, and in order for their find to count they would have to throw a sock at you. It was hide-and-seek dodgesock.
frostbitmistress · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family invented a game called SUATI (shut up and throw it) where we all sit in a circle and pass a ball around by throwing, hitting, kicking it. Used to be called Duster ball because we’d play inside and when the ball hit the TV it would leave a mark where it took the dust off. Then we had to move it outside and it became SUATI because I would hold onto the ball while I told a story and they got angry with me lol. We still play it to this day and it’s always a big deal to teach it to someone new.
Yeeticus-Rex · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So in primary school, we use to have this game called octopus. Theres one octopus to start with, and everybody else had to run from one side of the playground to the other, while the octopus in the middle had to try and tag you. If you got tagged, you’d join as an octopus. We had a couple of year groups playing this so ended up with about 100+ of us. Then they banned it. So we kept on changing the name of it to names like panda or stupid things like that
Faka3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made fart competitions with my brothers if we were awake around 1AM with all the lights turned off (We shared the same room, we were 3 in there) and if someone started farting, someone must imitate it, but louder-longer, if we giggled a little bit, it meant "OPEN THE GAME." and we could've go on to the point if you farted and there was no response, that means everyone's asleep.
pellucidus · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Eyelash tag" was this game where whoever was 'it' had to keep their eyes closed and try to tag someone. Simple enough, but it was in our treacherous unfinished basement and we would set traps for the person and hit them with pillows to try to knock them over. Also, the lights were off because why not.
Like a pillow fight, but someone had to keep their eyes closed and everyone ganged up on that person.
teds234 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had something called “are club” with my brother. (Yes, we knew it was grammatically ‘our club’ but we didn’t care). It was basically a mix of Star Wars and Indiana Jones and everything in between. A lot of nerf guns and sticks were used at the playground to defeat imaginary monsters and bosses. Looking back at it I had a great childhood
tastethevapor · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it the Fruit Rollup game. We used two Fruit By the Foot (don’t ask why we called it Fruit Rollup) packages and the goal was to have both snacks on the others side for at least 5 seconds. We would each start with one on our side of the couch. The couch basically divided the family room and the kitchen. The tricky part was that we also had one “neutral” person who was tasked with disrupting the game with their signature distractions.
So for a few examples, my one friend would wield a frying pan and try to smack the snack back onto the person’s side who just threw it. My distraction was to lay on the couch with a bedsheet and then pop up yelling “Spawn!” while flinging the bedsheet out as a kind of net. It got super intense and surprisingly we never broke anything.
We made up tons of dumb and fun little games as teenagers but that might have been my favorite.
Bmc00 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I would complain that we were bored, my dad would tell us to go sit on the sewer and pretend we were watching a movie. We tried it once, and it did not cure our boredom.
MakeYou_LOL · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, we made up a game that we coined: Handoccer.
As you might have guessed, it was a mix of both hand ball and soccer. You moved the ball up the field like in handball but could only score by kicking it into the net.
It was oddly so much fun.
Mostface · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Koopa Game” -basically 2 people in a trampoline, and a stuffed koopa and Mario thrown by 2 others on opposite sides like dodgeball. By catching one you could gain a life with a max of two lives.
“Giant Risk” -normal risk board game played on a G I A N T board so large we needed tunnels and spaces to stand up in the middle sections to move pieces (yes, games took weeks to complete).
“Giant Jenga” -opened cardboard salad boxes from a local grocery store taped up to make about 24 one foot by 2 foot pieces. Ladder required to play.
“Army Man Warhammer” -take bucket of army men, split evenly, give each one stats like damage, movement, range etc, and give each player a yardstick. Proceed to make any location an intense battleground.
FreshBowTie · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At recess my friend and me played the same roll play every day :D First I would go to the 'shelter' and my friend was going to be the ugliest doggo but I would choose her and buy her all the toys. Then the doggo would die in a subway accident and after that we would transform into Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable (and of course we used to sing the whole title music of Kim Possible) ... After that it would be Harry Potter and Ron Weasley and one of us would always die xD Everyday the same story... But it was always fun :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At one point our parents bought a small ballpit. After the pit expired we found a variety of games to play with the balls. Stuff like pretending they were sheep and we had to herd them from one room to the other, a factory where we rolled them down the banister, filled laundry baskets and carried them back up (occasionally dumping the entire basket at once), or just threw them at each other from behind barricades. They stung pretty good.
Fudge89 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had one of those big multicolored parachutes you would use in gym class. We used to hook the hand hooks onto the top of our houses stairwell bannisters in random order. This would sometimes create a multiple pockets we could jump into, but sometimes it wouldn’t, and you’d just drop right out the bottom and all the way down the stairs. There would be like five different potential “pockets” to choose from and it was a game of chance. Don’t know how we didn’t get seriously injured.
Camman6972 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played “At the doctors” where we all hung onto the slide at my pool and the person at the top had to push the rest of us into the pool. Lots of hurt backs that day.
official_lars30 · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nfs u2
Phantom_w0lf · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have game I played with a few friend we would basically set up sudo store fronts out side and make our own "currency" we would sell each-other toys and stuff like that it was fun and we did this every month once or twice eventually we decided to allow random people to play with us. It ended with corruption as people made their own currencies and words were exchanged so our parents stoped us from doing it again. It's nice to remember these child hood moments.
MrZerodayz · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would basically lay a variety of improvised hurdles (logs, metal fence, etc) in our backyard and then see who got over it the fastest and who touched the least hurdles. The highest of those was about 80cm high, maybe even a full meter.
Incredibly fun, even if you sometimes jumped right into a piece of metal railing.
Bloedbek · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We always played this game with the neighbourhood kids, there were about 10 of us. The game was very simple, all you needed was a ball. It was like soccer and the goal was to have possession of the ball as long as possible. Other kids who didn't have the ball had two options:
Needless to say, this was a very thrilling but painful game, we loved it.
andytdj · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 4th grade a friend and I created this whole 2001: A Space Oddessy style story on the playground where the jungle gym was our main space ship and the swing set were the fighter ships that would be launched from our "main ship." This went on for the entire school year, ending with an epic space battle at the end of the school year. We truly felt like we were these bad ass space soldiers. It was the best "game" I have ever played.
Turtle_Sensei · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Mortal Kombat until we got in trouble at school because some kid got upset that he couldn't play as Sub Zero ( my favorite and just cuz in a girl doesn't mean I couldn't be him!)
mikelisse · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a game we invented which can only be described as destruction derby meets WWF's Royal Rumble. We had the old WWF Hasbro wrestling ring and would fill the ring with every action figure we owned. Then we took this huge three foot long plastic school bus toy we had and would wheel it at the ring as hard as we possibly could. Whoever could get the most figures out of the ring would win.
hearth_stoner69 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the cannoli. Not very fun as a child. Really fun now.
Anshill3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of our neighbors had a hammock. We would lie in the hammock and hold the top closed, basically placing ourselves in a hammock cocoon. Then, two kids would go on either side of the hammock and spin that shit like a jump rope. Lots of kids fell out mid flip. Lots of kids puked of dizziness.
Great game.
Steelyarseface · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ever been snipe hunting?
janerowdy · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bomber - one person was the bomber, the others were bomb defuser type people, idk, maybe we called em cops. The Bomber would take a handful of kitchen timers, set for 3 or 4 minutes and hide them around the house, then the rest of us would try to find them. If one went off the bomber won. The bomber could not interfere with the cops, but could try to misdirect.
Mission Impossible - one (or two if we had enough) would guard a location at night, often it was a particular bush in one friend's back yard, they'd have a flashlight. The others would start on the far side of the house, and try to touch the guarded bush without being caught. If the guard shined the flashlight on you and called out your name you had to go back to start
Ghost Tag - I'm fuzzy about this one, but it was played in the woods at night without flashlight and bicycles were involved? It was not the safest
DieseljareD187 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to bullseye Womp Rats with my T-16 back home.
dasuberhammer · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I invented a game akin to Squash, against the front of our house. Service was from the edge of the front lawn, always underarm, but we used tennis rackets and balls. It was called 'Tchmong' (cher-mong), and I have no idea why. We played it summer after summer and still talk about it now at 33 and 37.
-PeterParker- · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Totally wrong and insensitive now, but me and my brother created a game called "Gay". If you lose, you gay and the loser has to crawl on all fours through the legs of all the other players while they are standing.
So, it started when me any my brother were in Atlantic City. There was this claw game that I was really good at was able to get like plush baseball sized balls. One day not knowing what to do with it I threw it on top of the awning above our door to our building that looked like this. You can't see when it's coming down because it's above your head and it makes no sound because it's plush and soft. When it came down my brother jumped in the air caught it and threw it back up in one motion like a layup. When it returned I did the same and thus, a game was born. If the ball touched the ground on your turn that was a strike. If your feet didn't get off the ground when you caught the ball that was a strike. If you threw the ball and it didn't touch the top of the awning it was a strike. 3 strikes and you "Gay". We then started adding more players and before we knew it all the kids on our block were playing this game.
izene2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin used to play this game with our fingers called one one (well directly translated from Cantonese, not even sure if this is the name)
Basically we both place our hands out with the index finger pointing out, you then use your hand and select another hand( could be yours or your opponent) and their amount of finger increases by however many your hand was when you selected it. Any hand that reaches exactly 5 finger is out of the game If both your hands are out then you lose.
So example Player 1 Left hand (1 finger) selects Player 2 Right hand of (1 finger) then player 2 right hand gets incremented by 1 and becomes 2 fingers Then it's player 2 turn
Belasius · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We came up with a game called "Alien". It was basically a reverse game of hide and seek in the dark. We had a nice finished basement with with a fairly unique layout and pool table in the middle.
One person was the "alien" and everyone else was hunters. The alien would be out in the general basement area hiding while the hunters gathered in a bedroom down there. The hunters all had weapons of some sort like nerf guns (like the ever awesome Eagle Eye with the laser sight) and they would come out into a complete pitch black basement and just move around trying to find the alien.
The alien, on the other hand, was just there to hide, make noises, and just generally scare the shit out of the hunters. I loved being the alien. Pouncing on people from the dark. Sensing their fear as I lurked just beside them unknowingly.
Really, it was just a great way for me and my brother to scare my good friend Kyle. He was always so scared and my brother (his hunter companion) would just feed his fear and it was hard not to laugh.
Kinda fucked up, but it was really fun in the 90a...
EL1CASH · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man I finally have a story! So one of my buddies as a kid grew up in a big family (like 8 kids) and they a huge house and big back yard with like 2-3 swing seats and barns and such. Well they also had the biggest dog I've still ever seen, a St Brenard named Bruno. For reference when my dad would drop me off in his Subaru Bruno would walk up and stick his head in the window... with all 4 paws still on the ground.
So the Bruno game: that backyard was equipped with an electric fence, and we would walk along the outside of the perimeter as we were stalked by this 150+ lb dog that was anxiously awaiting our attempts to breach the perimeter and make a mad dash for the swing sets. We had to come up with strategy to confuse the beast, occasionally working in tandem to achieve our goal. He was obviously a gentle giant and just loved to tackle us and rip off our winter hats... but man that was the best rush as a child! He was our Sandlot beast, and we would play this game for hours. I think he enjoyed it as much as we did.
AndromedaNyxi · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The middle of 3 kids, my sister the oldest would sit on the bed.
My younger brother and myself would sit on the floor, at each of her legs and see who was stronger and try to pull her off the bed.
I won, one time she landed on my leg and broke it.
jlynn11 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would put a ton of blankets and pillows at the bottom of the stairs and see who could jump from the highest step without getting hurt, all the while yelling “CHUCKIE CHIYA”
GHR501 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Talk to myself while playing legos pretending someone was playing with me because I had no friends.
dreamer2222 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would grab any random small object in the house and the person with the object would go hide it anyehre(could end up at the bottom of the sugar jar, back of the toilet, in a pillow case, where you dump soap for the washer, bottle of tylenol) we took however long it took to find it, used hot and cold to determine if we were close or not. I completely forgot about this part of my childhood. Thank you!! We also would shut the lights off and play tag inside once it was dark out
sharfpang · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sharp shadows.
Edges of shadows are sharp, don't step on them, don't let them slide under your feet - step over edges of shadows of roadsigns, fences or buildings, jump up when a car shadow moves under you or out. You can step on full shadow or on full light, but not on the edge.
GutterShots · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have an old futon mattress that folded in the middle, and we’d play a game called “sandwich slide” in which I would lie in the crease (never my siblings... always me damnit) and they would fold it over on top of me, and then sit on top of the “sandwich” and ride it down the stairs. I can’t remember why I kept playing.
Jupigorg · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grounders!
Everyone gets on the monkey-bars (or on a good day the entire playground) and one person is "it." They have to close their eyes and try and tag someone. At any point, they can yell out "grounders" and if anyone is touching the floor, they become "it." Otherwise you would keep going until someone was tagged, or the person that was it got injured from trying to climb around with their eyes closed.
It was a lot of fun in early grade-school, so much so that when we were in high-school we would get groups together on the weekends and play a couple rounds for old-time's sake!
felix_mateo · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did jousting on bikes, with broomstick lances and garbage can shields. Only a handful of broken bones!
Burger01 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Captain Claw
ROSERSTEP · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pies. We all sat in the "oven"(usually porch stairs) and chose a specific pie flavor that "the baker" had to guess. The baker would always have to first ask if there were any pies in the oven and we pies would not answer, however, we would then start clapping our hands and the baker would say "I hear you pies clapping in the oven!!!". Then If your flavor were guessed you would jump up and run away and the baker would try to capture you and place you in "jail". If another kid was fast enough to elude the baker she could return to the oven and pick a new flavor. The pie could also run to jail and heroically release the captured pies! None of us knew where the game originated but it was really fun until a new kid moved next door and decided to be a chicken catchatori (sic) pie and we had never heard of such a thing.
NiaC56 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As children who were in the early drop off and after school program, my friends and I were at school for 12 hours a day and had to get pretty creative. Two games we’d play after school were terrorist attack and survive the apocalypse.
I can’t really remember the rules of either (I’d their were any) but I remember rocks were grenades and sticks were guns and machetes. A lot of us got hurt and the college kids that were in charge put an end to terrorist attack.
Survive the apocalypse was pretty much us pretending the most of the population died in a nuclear war and we had to make live outside and try to start fires and try to kill what ever poor animal made its way near our playground.
They put an end to that game too. But it was pretty fun
Machoire · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I called it "achoo" like the sneeze. We would get in the same bed and when we said "achoo" one of us would bump our butts into the others, getting more and more forceful, trying to push the other off the bed.
We were like eight haha.
c-honda · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandparents lived in a log home and their junk drawer contained 2 perfectly organized containers of “junk” (bolts, washers, batteries, monopoly pieces, random small items) so me and my cousin would go to opposite ends of the house each with a junk container and we would hide the junk, places like between the gaps in the logs, on shelves, under the tv, and on my grandpa’s bald head, then we would try to find it. Most of the junk was lost forever I’m sure it’s still out there somewhere.
Danisdaman12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game when I was in first grade. It was called Capture. It was like freeze tag but there was some variation.
When you were tagged, you had to grab hold of the nearest pole on the jungle gym. You didnt have to stay frozen, just in contact with that pole until a teammate freed you from being captured. This way you could reach through the bars or down a floor level to get freed. Lots of running and jumping around the playground!
This game was super fun and everyone who played loved it, but then my teacher found out that I made a game and was not playing a safe/approved playground game and they said it was unsafe and we were not allowed to play it anymore.
Basically they said no running on the jungle gym in order to ruin about ten 6 year olds fun. Best 2 weeks of the year.
Space_Infantry · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend had this massive trampoline, so we got all the balls we could (rugby, football, tennis etc) and put them all on the trampoline. The aim if the game was to bounce all of the balls out of the trampoline and onto the grass. We would then proceed in 'levels' with more balls each time. We called this game "bowser" because of the mario-esque level progression.
RA_Carson · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to take words on packaging and signs and break them down into chunks of three. Not horrendously exciting perhaps, but I had some really rapid improvements in spelling following that.
HappyAntonym · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I "invented" extreme tic-tac-toe. It was basically a combination of tic-tac-toe and truth or dare where we made a giant 3x3 board out of branches in my back yard.
We thought it was lucky to play, so we'd play it before football games and important events. (We were both in marching band, lol.)
lousmer · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game called cheese. One person would lay on their back w their feet up. The other person would stand over them w the layer’s feet on their chest/shoulders. The person standing/leaning on the feet would then say “cheeeeeeeeese!” while reaching out for the persons ears. the object was to touch the person laying down’s ears. The legs of the person laying down were usually strong enough to hold the other person at bay so it was all about getting the person laying down to laugh enough that they couldn’t hold them back anymore.
helixxmusic · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game is called "Owens cock”. One day my friends and I were bored so we wanted to play a card game so I made one up on the spot. The first 2 cards have to be face cards to be the "nuts" the number cards are the "shaft" if you get a face card after the nuts it turns. If you get an ace your cock splits in 2. If your cock hits another one you are out. You win by having the longest cock or if everyone gets out. Also the if your name is Owen you automatically win. It’s called Owens coco because my name is Owen and I made all the rules on the spot.
MoSummoner · 1 points · Posted at 15:22:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around 9 I played hide and seek with the bigger kids but when I went to count then look for them I could never find them, I later found out they just went home whenever I wanted to play with them by “hiding”
I remember this one time I spent 2 hours on the weekends
LunchDrunk · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to put rocks in size order and use them to act out episodes of the Brady Bunch. I'm a 90s kid so no idea why I was so obsessed with the show..
Rorstaway · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would mash up different sports. So like street hockey, but with tennis rackets. Or basketball but you had to use a hockey stick to shoot.
Anyways, we'd usually play them for half an hour and then spend two hours typing out the rules on the computer.
Somehow I ended up way better at computers than sports...
NiceSasquatch · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'kick the ball against the wall'
soccer ball, a small group of kids. First person kicks the ball against the wall as hard as they can, at a bit of an angle. Next kid has to run after and kick it against the wall. If you miss the wall, you are out.
The wall at school was about 50 feet wide, we were on an asphalt surface so that ball could roll really far. Also, you could angle it to make it very hard to return the kick.
We'd also play it against a backstop, where you'd try to hit the end post (steel) part of the fencing and get a huge bounce (and/or a wicked angle).
pumpumpgone · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins made a wrestling ring out of matresses, couches and other stuff and we use to fight all the time. The ''unique'' part was that we actually had belts, gimmicks, special moves, storylines, feuds etc. After we finished fighting for a day we would schedule the whole card for the next time we meet and, unlike wwe, it wasn't scripted. If you were too tired to continue or if your opponent hit a finisher you lost, unless it was a big match in which you could kick out of a finisher depending on how tired you were. We wouldn't hurt eachother with submission moves but if you had no way of getting out of it then you had to tap out. It was pretty fun, there were some minor injuries but it all went well. At one of my cousins house we didn't have the ring so we would fight on his parents bed insted, we could climb on top of the wardrobes which were pretty tall and jump towards the bed. We ended up breaking it lmao
burgerjonathan · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to go to summer camp and we played quite a few unique games there.
One was called "Kiss Tag". It was basically freeze tag but in order to get un-frozen someone had to come and kiss you on the cheek.
There was another one called "Rambo" where all the counselors would cover their entire bodies in mud and hide in the woods guarding pieces of cloth. They were also armed with socks filled with mud. Every cabin was it's own team and we started at a central spot (acting as a home base) in the field outside the woods. The entire goal for the campers was to run into the rambo/counselor infested woods and try to grab as many cloth pieces for your team as possible then run back to home base and drop them off for your team. But, if a counselor was able to hit you with a mud sock, then you had to drop the cloth where you stood, and run back and touch home base before you could try again.
There was another one called Parlor Rugby which was one of my personal favorites! I miss those summers.
the0doctor · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My (year younger) brother and I would play what we called “Continued”. We’d gather together virtually every toy with some kind of keyboard or tech-ish vibe, and button mash as we flew through space dealing with Star Trek-ish problems.
While the name implied things picked up where they left off last time, that as almost never the case. If it was dinner time mid-planetary catastrophe... eh there’ll be more planets I’m sure.
Starlordy- · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think this is a mashup of kick the can and hide and seek?
We called it where's the wolf.
One person hides ( the wolf). Everyone else is closing eyes, counting to 50 at the base. Everyone then goes to find the wolf. Once found or if the wolf decided to try and catch you everyone ran back to base trying not to be eaten. Once eaten you also become a pack of the wolf. Last person not touched becomes the new wolf to restart the game.
Best played in a culdesac at night.
playgame38 · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the Wicket
pianoman4136 · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
powerline ball.
A lot like volleyball but you punt the soccer or volley ball over the powerline which was over a ditch. You work as a team though, trying to punt it accurately to the other person without it bouncing and them catching it in the air. Running tally for both of your scores.
Yeeticus-Rex · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called cage. In our playground, one fence looked like the side of a cage, so we used that, and there were some lines on the ground that made a sort of square shape. The aim of the game, was to push everyone out of the square, or push someone up against the cage and hold them there for 3 seconds and shout cage. It was a lot of fun
lipsmackattack · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I called it "Green Eggs and Ham". One person would be the spinner and would, one-by-one, swing the others around in circles and then let go. The player had to stay in whatever position they landed in. The spinner would then go around and tell everyone what they're position looked like they were doing. Sometimes it was yoga, surfing, etc. Then the spinner would yell action and everyone had to act out what they were told they looked like. Then the spinner said "Betty bye time" and everyone would freeze, fall to the floor, and a new spinner would be selected based on who acted best.
Looking back it's pretty basic and bizarre, but it was a blast. I also taught all my elementary school friends to play and we had games of 20+ kids sometimes.
ShakeBunny100489 · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were super young we would play "sumo" and try to push one another off the bed.
It was a bunk bed, and I lost, so now I have a neato scar though one eyebrow.
craptain_poopy · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tied one end of a rope to a metal post and the other end to a bicycle seat. We would take turns pedaling as fast as we could to see how far we could be tossed over the handlebars.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OKAY I'VE BEEN WAITING TO SHARE THIS STORY FOR SO LONG
So this wasn't me, but my stepbrothers. My stepmom was in her room on the phone with my dad, and my stepbrothers, who we'll call C and G, decided they were bored.
This is when they invented the game "Eat it or Wear it." It's exactly what it sounds like. They would find some crazy combination of food, such as fish sticks and maple syrup, and they had two options: the other person had to eat it or wear it. This game went on for several rounds before G burst into my stepmom's room and told her to record them playing Eat it or Wear it.
Her reaction was about what you'd expect.
Artisticslap · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a matriarcal kingdom led by a Pikachu queen and her spouse Leevi the Lion. All the citizens were mainly plushies, ponies and barbies, but I think every other toy belonged to the kingdom as well. We had a court system, the queen wouuld read a book of law (written by me when I was 8) and would sentence other toys to prison. Every time we played together it was part of something bigger and we'd remember what had happened earlier to each of the toys. This establishment lasted for a year or two and then puberty hit me and suddenly I thought playing with my sister was stupid :(
SgtActivityy · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to have a stuffed crash test dummy (height of a 10 yr old) in which you could take the arms, head and legs off. By the end of it we only had the head left. We would clear the living room floor and made our own hand hockey game in the living room. My net was one of the couches and his was the toy box. We played that game as much as possible and surprisingly never broke anything (as far as I remember).
CottonWitty · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to play "salad shop" and "hay shop". Salad shop consisted of picking grass and every other weird green plant in the yard putting them in piles and using big leafs as plates for the "salads" and we would just sell these salads back and forth. No we never tried to eat said salads. Hay shop was only played after the grass had been mowed we would go get rakes and rake up all the grass that was cut and divide it into equal piles and if it was wet we sold wet hay if it had time to dry then we sold dry hay back and forth to each other.
Desalzes_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I was in the car alot so I would look out the window and picture someone running along the road at the same speed of the car and wasn't allowed to look ahead, running to the rythym of a song in my head (usually something from fantasia, star wars or inuyasha) any time a sign came up they had to break the sign and I had specific ways each sign was broken, so a stopsign would be a kick or something and a yield would be a punch. If I got it right I'd get a streak going if I messed up it reset the count. I was a smart kid, good spatial memory and was really good with the piano.
My grandma got me a gameboy color sometime after that and my entire life has been downhill ever since
thejustmann · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone play the car game?
On road trips, different types of cars had different point values, and you played either to 200, or until you quit in anger.
Jeeps (specifically Wranglers) were 10 Suburbans (NOT TAHOES) were 5 All convertibles were 3 (top down was 5, but should have been more) There were others too, which I don’t remember.
The holy grail was a Coke truck for 100 (really any soft drink branded semi- we live in Atlanta so everything is Coke).
The quitting in anger would come in over arguing who called the Coke truck first.
PM_ME_MAMMARY_GLANDS · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I would take turns covering the other brother up with every cushion we could find in the house while he lied down on the sofa.
I think we might both be retarded.
Also hide and seek... in the dark.
2GOOD5U · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played this very aptly named game called "nightly ninjas" where we would throw bouncy balls as hard as we could off the wall of our unfinished basement and try to hit each other. We exclusively played during the day because we needed the sunlight but yes it did make us feel like ninjas.
SpacepopeIX · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “pendulum” where we would put one friend in the tire swing(hung horizontally), and then tape out a circle around it(like a sumo circle) and you would have to remain in the circle while trying to smash the tire swing, with the person in it, into other people to knock them out.
This was a large, real truck tire and many of us got mild concussions from this game. It was fun when you changed who was in the tire(they would just sit in the tire for weight), because smaller kids can get thrown around faster but larger kids hit with more force.
Antiraindrop41 · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Submarine. Me and My little brother hade some huge cardboardbox we got from our dad that we used to draw on and cut open windows. We later put it in the backyard where we imagend it was a submarine where we went on trips underwater
willsux123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to turn off all the lights in the house and block out any sunlight from coming in. Then we’d split into teams and try to grab the ankles of someone on the other team. We called it the night game. Was fun until 3 of us rolled down the stairs with an umbrella and punched a hole in the wall at the bottom.
hoo_ts · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
booby-trapped-hide-and-seek under cover of darkness. we three boys shared a room.
I remember we put a whole tub of die-cast metal cars above the door jam so the lot fell on my brothers head when he came through - shit was seriously heavy. I don’t know how he was never concussed.
APompousMoose · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ladder climb. Took a 14’ extension ladder, balanced it vertically and climbed as high as possible. After a few minutes of loud crashing, we realized we could move over from the concrete to the grass. Once you reached the top it would just fall over like a felled tree. Game was over when my buddy’s leg got caught in the rungs as he slammed the ground.
Yodeling_Prospector · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd crawl around pretending to be a baby. A few times, I curled in a fetal position in the pool and pretended I was in the womb.
Angu_do_Gomes · 1 points · Posted at 15:23:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Take two plastic cups, leave one upright and lay the other one down, put your index finger on the rim with the bottom of the cup pointing to the upright one, push it down and release, trying to make it land inside/on top of the other one when it bounces
Hologramtrey · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in Buffalo and there wasn’t a lot to do in the winter besides sledding and building snow forts. Wherever we were hanging out (at each other’s houses.) we usually got sentenced to time in the basement because that’s how you handle middle school aged boys invading your home. My friend invented a game called “Take it to the Body”. The game consisted of someone standing on their knees at one end of the basement while the rest of your friends also stood on their knees about 12 feet away with those blue rubber racket balls. You had to take a shot from everyone on the line, to your body, without flinching to get off the line and give someone else a try. Nothing was off limits, face, balls, chest, you wanted to hurt your friend, and they wanted to survive to hurt you.
Good times.
ventdivin · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catching scorpions in the Moroccan countryside
Admiral_Willy · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Bat Game”
Usually played in the middle of the night. The game starts with 3-5 people (gatherers) on one team in the safe house. The other 1-2 people (hunters) on the other team have a plastic bat each which are used to beat the living shit out of the gatherers if they don’t run.
While the gatherers wait in the safehouse the hunters need to place a ball anywhere they want in the play area but they also must shine a flashlight onto the ball. Both the light and the ball can be anywhere but the light must be pointing in the direction of the ball so it can be found.
Once the ball and light are set. The hunters bang on the safehouse to let the gatherers know they have 60 seconds before they can exit (usually giggling and scared shitless) while the hunters hide and wait.
The gatherers must then search for the flashlight which leads to the ball, once they get the ball back to the safehouse the game is over and the roles rotate.
The ball and light are usually placed strategically for maximum shit kicking. If you can’t escape the shitkicking you can call mercy but you have to return to the safehouse to “reset”.
Best played in sections of parks or backyards.
fnkdrspok · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Play pretend: My friend lived in a house that had dual cellar/basement heavy doors with a plot of cement in between the doors. (I think it was seperate families that had seperate basements) Well, we used to bring all of our functional car-like toys and make a makeshift spaceship inbetween the cellar doors by just sitting on that slab of cement, 3 of us in a row.
We would sit and do this for hours all the while yelling laser noises and fighting imaginary aliens trying to board our basement door ship!
deeiks · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ukapong
TraitorKratos · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sure it's not super original but during a family roadtrip when I was really young, I came up with a game I called Ham. The idea of Ham was to say words and have someone else repeat them back to you as quickly as possible. However, if you say "ham" they should not respond. I don't know why the word was ham and I was young enough to barely remember coming up with it. I do remember all the subsequent road trips where this game became a staple within our family.
SirLoin027 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't really have a name for it, but it was hide and seek/tag in a cluttered ass basement with tons of bottlenecks where you couldn't move without making noise. The seeker had a winter hat over his eyes so they could only see down to their feet to prevent tripping over stuff.
As the game evolved, people would throw pennies to cause a distraction if they were close to being caught.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
INCA (1992) on the PC
That was fun, and levels were diverse.
AudaciousTitans · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Disk golf indoors
We would take the lids of Pringle’s and toss a random item and see how long it basically took to hit item or get in vicinity of item. Shit got crazy when we combined “floor is lava mode with it” because touching lava means you have to start from square one. This game sometimes went on for hours because well..if the floor is lava lol
AudaciousTitans · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To follow up we played a game of baseball with a basketball with kick ball rules meaning you hit the basketball with a baseball you could catch it to get out or get tagged with it while running around whatever we designated as bases.
There was also monkey bar basketball where each bar had a designated point system jumpshots were 10 points dunks 5..we were poor and unsupervised best of all every sport game we made allowed for tackles and or wrestling moves on any player in scoring position
rawhite37 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hick hockey. We took croquet mallets and a kids size soccer ball and played hockey with them. It was basically just field hockey, but completely no holds barred, all hitting allowed(checking and/or swinging mallets at people). It was the source of many, many childhood fights. We eventually were banned from playing when we ruined our third set of croquet mallets.
DiscardedSlinky · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me, my brother, and my cousin would play "Mojo and Spot". Two would pretend to be dogs, and then the other would be the owner. I don't remember anything beyond this, apparently it was fun though cause we would play it all the time.
I also got one of my teeth ripped out by playing this game. I was the dog and I had a jump rope in my mouth when my brother pulled on it hard. Thankfully it was just a baby tooth, but it was Easter and there were no dentists working. It was pulled down into my gums. It was gross.
douche9000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For some reason we had like 12 unused (clean) bed mattresses. We played this game where I was in a room and designed a maze with the mattresses, once done I'd turn off app the lights so it was pitch black. Normally we had 3 to 5 people over and they would go through the maze. I often opened doors and made it much much longer by sliding the mats around. During all this I would terrorize the people in the maze by throwing pillows and crushing others between the mats.
qyteria · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when I was like 10/11, my friend had 2 of those plastic plahouses in his backyard. We had them put on opposite sides and basically played dodgeball using those as a base and also as a target. You had to defend the playhouses from getting hit, and you could throw or kick whatever balls we were using to attack.
It's a pretty basic game, but I always remember it because, for some reason, we called it 'The Santa Clause Game'. I have no idea why we called it that, but it's stuck with me forever.
jessffion · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My whole primary school used to play Celts and Romans. Basically Cops and robbers but slightly more advanced. The Celts would be making huts and pretending to cook stews etc. The Romans would be making weapons and stamping about. Then we'd all have a big fight.
Vynneve · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know sport games like skateboarding, SSX,gives points for tricks that you do?
My friend and I used to jump around doing tricks like that (grab your feet midair, stalling on rocks, etc). Nothing ever fancy cuz we were like 10. But we developed this elaborate point system and would have competitions.
alofthedead · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the board game Don't Wake Daddy came out we invented a live action version of it.....sorta.
"daddy" would stand on one side of the yard and the "kids" on the other side. Kids would scream "don't wake daddy" as loudly as possible and then had to avoid getting tagged by daddy before reaching the other side. Last person tagged was daddy next round
Game fell apart after a few plays when the obvious strat of getting caught early to not be daddy was figured out.
With tweaking it could have worked. We were always trying to innovate but we were too prone to disagreements about rules. I don't think we ever finished a game of kickball.
lpupppy288 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pool kickball. The kicker would have to kick the ball over the fence to be in play, the runner would have to retrieve the ball and tag the kicker before they ran to the diving board and swam to the other side of the pool. Good times.
Insanopatato · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't think it's too unique but in our town. All of us played "asses up" or better known as "butts up". Basically a sadistic variation of wall ball that punishes the player by forcing them to face the wall and get pegged with the ball. Definitely left some bruises.
RuuManRogue · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game where 6 people would all put their hands into a bag and pick 1 pence coins, 4 would be before the year 2000 and 2 above the year 2000. If you were pre 2k you were a "guard" and if you were post 2k you were a "tagger".
The aim was for the "taggers" to put a small sticker of a colour assigned to them on each landmark across the village, normally we would choose 6 lamposts evenly spread across the village, within 1 hour.
It sounds really simple but nobody knew who was assigned to what team so it created some really tense interactions with a lot of mind games. If a guard was to assume someone was a tagger they could tag them and exclaim they've been caught, if they were correct then that team loses unless the player unless the other tagger could tag them back into play, if they were incorrect they were to be assigned a forfeit at the end of the game which were really bad (as to discourage random guessing).
Stickers weren't allowed to be removed by the guards so once a tag had occurred then you had to try and figure out who was guarding the landmark and see if you could track them down, stalk them and see them put a sticker on to confirm they were a tagger. We even incorporated the use of telephones down the line, so you could ring a person and ask where they were to try and rendezvous at a point where you've caught a tagger but instead you were a tagger trying to get them to move from the landmark.
It got really complex but it was so fun to play for hours, we even set up our own highscores to try and beat each others times.
CanadianAnomaly · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A variation on trampoline basketball. 3 teams of 2. 2 teams on the ground trying to score on the hoop that's against the trampoline. The one team on the trampoline is hitting them with continuous and ultimate rejection. Whichever team scores gets to be on the trampoline. It was always a party.
seesarico12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would get in sleeping bags and slide down the stairs. We decided one day to do it with a rocking horse and put a hole in the wall. Sorry, mom.
TundraGhosts · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would throw an orange down a mountain while skiing and then chase the “golden snitch.” The winner got a nice frozen citrus treat and the loser ate snow.
Diabolo_Advocato · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spinach.
My brother and I loved watching Popeye growing up (early 90s)
My dad, brother, and I would play a variation hide and seek. One person was it and and the other 2 would hide. The “IT” person would guard a bowl of spinach. The object was to take a bite of spinach (we used canned like popeye) from the bowl without getting touched it. The person who gets a bite or who gets touched ends the round. If you are touched, you are it; if you failed to get a bite, you are it.
We lived in a relatively small home so all the hiding spots were easily known. But the fun came from trying to get you opponent discovered to act as a distraction while you snuck around to get a bite. We would burn through 2 or 3 cans before one of us decided we had enough.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We put fertilizer and sugar in old steel cans and set fire to it. Then run like crazy.
Imakedo · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used a pencil and paper to draw army vs army. Then we'd press the pencil tip on our units, press down on the eraser, causing the pencil to flick across the paper drawing a straight line "firing" at the other side. We'd go back and forth or until 10 hits were scored on the HQ.
impshial · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a child per se, but in high school I worked at a car wash. In the lobby was a gumball machine that dispensed super bouncy balls. When the wash was slow (no cars coming through), me and other employees, usually 4-5 of us, would sit in the break room and play what we called Bounce.
We would close the door the the breakroom (a small-ish room, about 8'x8'), each sit in a chair, and one player would take a bouncy ball and bounce it against the floor as hard as they could at an angle. It would bounce around the room and whichever player it hit first would be out, and had to leave the breakroom and close the door behind them. Then the next player would throw the ball.
Eventually, it would be down to two players, and whoever was left in the room last got to stay in the breakroom for an extra 15 mins while the other employees covered for him/her.
It was a great time-waster and helped us bond. I made some great friends there.
tanmay0097 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a unique game with my uncle, cant remember much but it used to hurt a little
wowgirlcowgirl · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a spark rock club... we stole our parents hammers, sledge and otherwise, climbed big hills and smashed rocks to see who could make the biggest sparks. There was some "purpose" like we were making an energy source or whatnot but I can't remember some 25 years later. Kids are weird man.
flowersallday · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Russian immigrants. I was the mom and a seamstress. My friend was my teenage daughter, and her little brother was my young son. We would forage for food and "cook" on our stone stove. There was a row of pine trees that acted as the main street in our pretend city. We were always trying to make ends meet. It was pretty involved.
android24601 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i don't know if kids still play this, but I remember I used to love playing tag on the parallel bars. That was soooo much fun and would usually be the culprit for us getting an earful from the teacher when we were late to getting back to class on time after recess
gretamine · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor used to have this trap door under her bedroom that led into this tiny cave room thing. We would hide in there and pretend we were living in a sewer. She was my ketchup addicted baby and i would have to run into the living room and jump over her older brother while he was playing video games on the floor to get ketchup packets for her. He would snatch me whenever i tried and throw me back on the floor and then i would have to keep trying til i got the ketchup to bring back to her
orangeintheovercast · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, my best friend and I were both obsessed with horses. So, of course, the most common game we played was "horses." We had entire stables full of imaginary horses that we would "ride" around the playground at recess (basically just holding our hands out like we had reins and galloping on two legs instead of four). Sometimes we would be horses instead, and her little sister would give us commands like "trot" or "gallop" as we scurried around her living room on all fours.
Ah, horse girls.
SkullsXXL · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baby Wrestling! Battle Royal style on my grandparents ottoman. 6 cousins enter one winner.
sssstevo · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me. Alligator, it was me and my sister on the playground and my dad would have to try and tag us through the playground (we were high up and he was on the ground) and it was like tag but he was always “it” because he was to big and old to maneuver the playground with us.
WTFunk3001 · 1 points · Posted at 15:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fatman and Blobbin. My brother was Fatman and I was Blobbin. We would stuff pillows up our shirts and act out our favorite Batman scenes (it was the 90s so this was Michael Keaton's Batman). Except, you know, we were both too fat to move properly. We made ourselves a "Batmobile" out of pillows and blankets. Good times.
jureeriggd · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blindfold tag. Get in a messy bedroom, close all the doors, black out the windows with blankets, then blindfold one person. The rest of the kids hide around the room, and the blindfolded person has to stumble about the room trying to find someone. The person found now gets the blindfold, then the process starts over. It's a game of skill and stealth.
Cruyff14 · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to sing the jeopardy song in my head and then rap over it. The longer the rap, the better the score I would give myself. Don't know how i rated it back then when i was like 10 years old, but somehow i had an ongoing jeopardy rap battle with myself.
labelside · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called German Torture.
Basically a game with 2 teams. Ones a runner and the other is the chaser. The runner team thinks of a word relating to how many are on that team. If there's 4 people, then a 4 letter word would be cool. The chasers waits a minute or 2 before looking for the runners. If the chasers find you, then they beat the shit out of you until you give them the letter. Once they get the word, they win. It was my favourite game as kid.
Willyballer · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mad Tree” basically Tag/Marco polo but it’d be late at night in the dark with all the lights off in the house and my brother would wear a sleeping bag over his body and pretend to be an angry old tree that’d be disturbed from his sleep. Once he’d find you he’d attack you and eat you by putting you in the sleeping bag.
S5C3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Buns N Thighs" (named after spongebob episode) was essentially hide n seek tag, but it was Buns N Thighs.
4Eirlys · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder in the dark. Our group was nicknamed the "Cwm Lane crew" and basically consisted of 4 families whose children all matched with age.so my oldest sister's best friend was the oldest of another family, and mu middle sister had three besties and I had two. Anyway our families would always do a meet up where us children would inevitably get bored. Wed sneak off away from the adults to play murder in the dark - for the uninitiated its like blind man's buff where you blindfold someone and spin them in a circle. They have to catch everybody us and the first to be caught because It. Anyway, we turned all the lights off and frequently armed ourselves with pillows to throw at It as well as climb on furniture. It was banned when a bookcase fell over with somebody stood onto and underneath it and when somebody lost her tooth permanently in a separate incident. After that we turned to "clubbing" where all 13 of us decided to climb o to the oldest girls bed and all jump up and down whilst "Everytime we touch" played. That bed broke into two unsurprisingly and the ceiling was later reported by the irate parents to have been shaking. Good times!
MrSheepGuy · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "lava monster" in elementary school. We had a brand new and really big (compared to the others) play-structure since the school had just placed down new temporary buildings. It was when someone was "it" (being the lava monster) would try to tag someone from the bottom of the structure. The structure went up like 5 feet so the people below would try to reach from the bottom to tag someome above. Whoever got tagged had to help the other "lava monsters" get everyone on the structure. You werent allowed to touch the ground. The "brave" but scary thing to do was go across this thin bridge (it was like 2 horizontal bars, 1 to step on to go across, and the other to hold onto. It was also filled with vertical things to show where to step) you would go across that the tagged person could easily get you at.
sash187 · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russia, circa 1990. You and a friend, or up to 4 friends. One knife. Draw a circle in some hard packed mud/dirt roughly 6-8’ in diameter. If two people, divide circle in 2 halves. First person goes. While standing, in your half of the circle, throw the knife into your opponents part of circle. Has to land blade in ground. Then, you draw a line, based on the angle the knife went in, to the outside of circle and to where it touches the original line that y’all drew when dividing the circle. Erase the portion of the dividing line, and now that is part of your land. I’d draw a pic to make more sense but the game is awesome. You have to be able to stand on your land to throw knife. You win when your opponents have no more land to stand on when throwing knife. Also, the outer circumference of the circle acts as your “sun”. So if your opponent has cut away all your land that touches the outer part of circle, you now have to throw blind. I’m on mobile so if anyone wants I can draw a picture. We played this for hours on end, small kids and grown kids.
doctor-brightsiide · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Yesterday Game!! (Because we never played it quite the same way as we had yesterday.) The core group consisted of me, my sister, and five of our friends and their siblings. We all chose a fictional character to be. At least one of us had to be someone from Harry Potter so Voldemort could open “the portal” and rip us all out of our universes and have us converge in the real world. Then we’d run around the playground and try to figure out where we were and how to get back to our own universes. Usually, we got so caught up in side quests and fighting lower-level monsters that we never actually got to fight Voldemort, but it was a ton of fun nonetheless.
_madlibs_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play “koosh paddle”
We would use a koosh ball, which was essentially a rubber ball that looked like a sea urchin, and basically play softball but with a ping pong paddle instead. We would play this in the basement and would put down pillows all over the floor as bases. You could peg the ball at the person running and there were a million different rules but it was a great game
CloudyRomance · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and our cousins/friends would play Teddy Bear Wars. We split in two teams, got on opposite ends of the room, turned off the lights, and threw stuffed animals as hard as we possible could at each other. Eventually we started upgrading to harder toys and a strobe light.
Turns out my husband played a very similar game with his brothers and cousins when he was young. It involved a strobe light and action figures which then eventually upgraded to pennies. The walls in the old play area in their mother's house are covered with little dents from the pennies. And they still refer to "The Great Penny War of '03"
DyedSun · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Suicide".
You start off with a tennis ball, anywhere between 3 - 10 players (I was in elementary school when we played it), and an open area on the side of a big building. So the way the game worked was, you would throw the tennis ball at the wall as hard as you could (usually about 10-20 ft away from the wall was standard), and when it bounced back someone would have to catch it. (It didn't matter who.) If you caught it, you would then throw it at the wall again and repeat. If the ball touched you, however, or you dropped it, you would have to run to the wall and touch it to stop being "tagged" by the ball. However, during this time, you were open to be punched the entire way to the wall by anybody playing, and also to have the tennis ball thrown at you as hard as possible. Lots of good memories with this game, next to several black eyes and bruises. (And I think a kid lost a tooth once.)
AMiniMinotaur · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was actually when we were in middle school, but my best friend had these super tiny NBA jersey replicas. There was a wooded area behind his house where we would have teams and hide the jerseys and try to find the other teams before they found ours. Amazing how that kept us busy for days until I think they got lost or we got bored.
tloutdoor · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would shoot an arrow into the woods and the first one to bring it back to where we shot it from won. Lots of running and tackling. Always a good time
madreloidpx · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
close friend lives in a vhs rental and they have tons of empty containers. we use them all like building blocks and play inside the buildings amd then proceed to use them like giant dominoes.
lonlonranchdressing · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “the Dark Game.” We would turn off all the lights in the basement and all of us would hide except 1-2 would close their eyes and wait on the stairs. When they were done counting they had to search for the other kids to tag them as “out.”
Meanwhile, all the kids hiding would have to try to make it to the stairs as “winners.” Depending on how skilled the tagger was you either booked it, or strategized your path to the safe haven.
This led to a lot of kids tripping, head on collisions and running face first into the support beams, but man did we love it. Sometimes the parents would open the door for a quick second and the light would illuminate the dangers before you, as you clambered to escape The Descent.
Kaizenno · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take a deck of cards and sit about 8 feet apart from each other and throw cards. The other person would try to catch them with only the index finger and thumb.
Basically ninja training.
TenshiPrime · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother Matt had this final fantasy strategy guide, and in it they had like a huge bestiary of monsters with beautiful artwork and little descriptions of its combat capabilities. So my brother Sam would sneak out the book and we would go into the field and make elaborate stories of revenge and adventure. Our final boss would always be a monster from the book. There was a single tree in the field that we would pretend was the monster and we would hit it with sticks and stones. Sam would climb it sometimes and attack its "weak spot" or the branches. I liked being a healer so i just would shout nice things like, "Thank you!" or "Please!" and that would heal him.
Its no wonder Sam is a DM now, he was practically born for this stuff.
WesDan · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Game”
rainey_paint · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so unique, as I've recently found out, but my sister and I used to play Warriors with our cousins whenever we would get together. We were never characters from the books. We made our own characters and always had a medicine cat, an apprentice or two, and so on. We would "hunt" and bring back "prey" (stuffed animals), collect herbs for healing (maim the landscaping in their yard) and infight for power and rank. If we had more people, I'm sure we would've had two separate clans and battled it out for dominance.
whatisredditguys · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing dead to scare my family and friends 🤦🏼♀️ I was a stupid child
ecchirhino · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “return anything”. A game we made up where we would throw “anything” at each other in rapid succession. (Pillow, sock, alarm clock, CDs, trophy’s,etc) (anything typically found in a kid’s room) The objective was to catch the item and quickly throw it back, and before they could catch the first object chuck a new object at them while shouting “return anything!” They now had to return both objects while trying to add another object. When the action sped up it was ok to not add any more objects but you lost if you let anything fall.
Brythgard · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The circle game. My family just used it to mess with each other.
For those that don't know what it is. It's the upside down ok sign you see on the internet a lot. My family has the rule where it has to be below the waist though.
Going on for around 7 years now.
Infinite_Shimp · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We Let my friend"s pitbull chase us, it always got me first because i was eating while hiding
Creepy_OldMan · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played Wall Ball, which was basically us throwing a tennis ball at the side of our houses. If you dropped the ball you had to run and touch the wall before the other player could hit the wall with the ball. After 3 "outs" the loser had to bend over by the wall and we would throw the tennis balls as hard as we could at them.
QueenAlpaca · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goats and raptors. Grandma's porch was always the "safe" pen, and it was essentially a game of tag/hide-and-seek between all the goats (tagees) and the raptor (tagger). It's literally been probably 20+ years since we played it, so I'm not sure what all the rules were.
erinaldi20 · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played “iced tea” where you would stand up, point your arms straight out (like a t-pose), and spin in a circle. I asked her why it was called iced tea, and she said called that because we were mimicking what it is like to be the spoon mixing water and iced tea mix. Very interesting.
There was also “chicken nugget” , where she would jump on my brother and start attacking him.
Oh and there was also “Aquarium” where sometimes when I would go in her room she would shut the door and say I couldn’t leave until I looked at the “aquarium” , which was her stuffed fish plush.
Edit - lastly we would play “concoction” where we would plug the drain in the sink and just dump in a bunch of stuff we would find in the bathroom cabinet. Shampoo, tooth paste, mouth wash, nail polish remover, you name it.
thats_on_me__ · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "Ten" where you played at 10 o'clock at night with a bunch of friends and a air-soft gun pistol. One person was it, and everyone else had 10 seconds to run out of the garage and as far away as possible. The objective of the game was to not get shot and if you did you were out.
This lead me breaking through a small tree my neighbors had just put up trying not to get shot!
Lily_May · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chairs.
My mom was a teacher and we’d end up bored after hours while she did stuff. My brother and I would wheel a computer chair into the hallway. One kid would sit in the chair and the other would spin the chair as violently as they could and whip in into the lockers. If you panicked, got hurt, or fell out of the chair, you lost.
TinyNerd86 · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Light tag! We had multicolored Christmas lights strung horizontally across the front of the house. We would all crouch down in the ditch (parallel to the lights) except for the chosen 'It' and each runner had an assigned color. 'It' would count down from 3 and say 'Go!' And everyone would make a mad dash for the right color Christmas light while trying not to get tagged. If you made it to your light, you were safe until the next round. We played this game year-round...
ooselfie · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a hotel game with all my action figures. But instead of a hotel, it was a blanket for my bed. I would toss the blanket and it would make these various folds - the folds represented a hotel room and the larger the fold the more expensive the room.
I would craft storylines for all the toys coming in, role-playing a bit for each interaction. Sometimes people would even get banned and kicked out.
paradiselost79 · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
By the time we told ourselves we "outgrew" all our action figures, we decided it was time to finish them. We setup a huge outdoor area with TMNT, GI Joes, etc and basically had a war. Lighter fluid, bottle rockets, rocks from 6ft away, etc. We probably destroyed what would be worth thousands of dollars now, but at the time we told ourselves they were toys for "little kids" (we were probably 14ish). Looking back makes me so sad, we spent probably a whole summer destroying various toys.
thracianii · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would pretend to "take off" my nose and then "fly" it around the room. It was a game that I played alone...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During a car ride, if it rained I'd use a raindrop as a bullseye and shoot things
KStreetFighter2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Blanket Ball". My little brothers and I would each get our favorite blankets, wrap it around ourselves and crouch on the ground in a "ball", and then try to roll over on top of each other in a big battle royal.
There weren't really and rules other than you can't come out of the blanket, but we played it all the time!
silverremedy · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Timber", where my brothers and i would stack every pillow in the house on the couch, climb on top of our tower, and tip over shouting, you guessed it, TIMBER. Sometimes one of us would be sandwiched in the mountain.
Sixsignatory · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Half rubber. Basically 3-player stickball with a grocery store rubber ball cut in half. Hours and days on end. Hit that ball hard and it gets on plane and it might sail over the neighbors house.
michaeldornsghost · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bottle game. We would take bottles from the garbage at our high school and chuck them at each other's heads. My best friend was a Tom boy at the time and I once had to awkwardly explain the bruise on her forehead when we got back to my parents. We also had Net game, where we would play tag in a batting net and the person who was it had to keep their eyes closed. The last game we had when we were younger involved us hiding in a dark room and having someone come in blindfolded to find us. We could jump over each other, run, etc, just couldn't get tagged.
savoxion · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not feeling down, just a bit tired..
Squealio · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played stuntman by rolling off the roof of our mobile home (accessed via the big tree) onto my dad's foam camp mattresses. We only played this when my parents weren't home. If they caught us up on the roof, there would have been hell to pay!
We also pretended we were KISS. Buckets for drum set. guitars made out of old wood boards. The picnic table was our stage. Eventually we became our own band, Satellite. Unfortunately, lacking both instruments and musical talent (and the fact that we were 11), we didn't get far!
shadowarcher · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have hundreds and hundreds of pokemon cards. I would set every single one up, one after the other in a huge maze around the house weaving in and out of rooms, going upstairs etc. Then we'd have a 100 sided die and each card was a tile. The goal was to get your game piece to the end. It was a completely straight line with no choices and nothing happened in the game except rolling the die and moving your pieces. Looking back it probably wasn't a very fun game for my parents but I loved it.
SaltyMcNulty · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trippin’ Turtles, one person (the turtle) is in all fours in an enclosed space. Everyone else is standing trying to get away from the turtle and if you get tripped down, you’re a turtle too! Last one standing wins and is the turtle next round.
Bunch_of_Shit · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Putt Putt
Used2Bachronic · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m sure you may have heard of this one, we used to play kick the can in the woods at night. Basically, everyone hides except for one person who is the seeker. They have to go and search for everybody hiding. If someone got caught they would go to “jail” and have to sit and wait until every one was found. The kick the can then comes into play, if the seeker is out and about then someone hiding can run up and kick the can and then everyone gets out of jail or the game ends. Depending on different rules or whatever.
Sorry for the terrible grammar
legosharkdan · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game I came up with in elementary school after I read too many cold war tactical manuals for SF and antiterrorism groups (not that I knew what half of those words were back then). Called it "Cops, Terrorists, Hostages".
My friends, brothers, and I would split up into two even teams - cops and terrorists. If we played in odd numbers, we'd have the leftovers be hostages. Usually we split up into teams of 3:3:1, sometimes 4:4:2, etc.
I had a fenced in backyard and a single gate leading into it. The terrorists would take the hostages into the backyard, hide them around it, and take up defensive positions. The cop team would try to get in and kill/arrest the terrorists and extract the hostages without killing the hostages. Hostages could attempt to smuggle weapons into the backyard and could either turn on the terrorists or the cops, whichever side they wanted.
Terrorists had 15 seconds between cop entry and when they could start executing hostages. Cops could attempt to negotiate, which led to fun chases around the neighborhood as the terrorists would try to escape.
There wasn't much else to it, throw in some nerf guns, fake handcuffs, and some kid sized tactical gear and you have a good time. To this day, any time one of us is home and hosts a party, we'll play a variant of it lol
mrmangomonkey · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would put unique twists on existing trampoline games. For example, most kids would play "poison ball" where you jump around with a soccer ball and lose lives if you touch it. For us, this got boring so we would switch the ball out for a large rock about half the size of a soccer ball. It definitely made things more interesting!
Eventually we got bored of that too and had to make things even more interesting. We had about 5 acres of empty land behind the house and it used to be riddled with Gartner snakes. They were easy to catch and didn't bite so we filled a 5 gallon bucket full of them and dumped them on the trampoline. We then proceeded to play "poison snake" lol.
We didn't know this at the time, but my mom has an extreme phobia of snakes. Years later, when that situation was brought up, she told me that she had locked herself in the basement and cried until it was over. Our poor mother! We definitely weren't bad kids, we just didn't know about her phobia!
imhiya_returns · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend used to play this f1 game on ps1 and used cheats to get tanks and blasted each for hours or used shooting to boost us but never finish the full circuit to keep playing
Red_Head_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trash People. My sister and I had our own rooms that were pretty messy and so we would cover ourselves in our toys kinda like the weird old lady in the movie Labyrinth and barter with each other. "ill trade you this shoe for that sock." etc.. we were weird kids...photo for reference.
rhythmreview · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I picked up a gamecube game at costco for like $20 in the mid 2000's. I'm blanking on the name of this game it was so obscure. I just searched on a list of all NA released GC games, and I couldn't find the damn thing. The cover had a Dr. Seuess looking character with spikey brown hair running, eyes looking up at the title of the game. I remember that vividly. I was 10, thought the cover art looked cool and thought I had found the next big game. Turns out the game was the biggest piece of shit, it didn't even function. A unique experience I had purchasing a terrible, broken game before they were readily available on Steam.
ArmyOfMemes · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This thread is just making me sad that I had no friends or siblings as a kid.
TheOneRenegadeRise · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"WIGGLE WIGGLE WIGGLE WORM!" We'd get into sleeping bags in the living room, zip them as closed as possible, and inch around the living room trying to ram into each other like Spyro did with sheep while yelling "wiggle wiggle wiggle worm".
Another game didn't have a name, but two siblings would lay on the couch with the the soles of their feet together and start chugging their feet back and forth together going "chug, chug, chug" faster and faster until..."CHUGCHUGCHUGCHUG BREAKDDOOWWWNNN!!" and then the siblings would try to kick the other one as hard as possible before the other kicked them. My brother stopped playing the train game pretty quickly, it hurt him a bit more than it did the girls. Payback, Adam.
jcweaze33 · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would play a game we called “Scooter Ball.” It is essentially soccer but while riding a razer scooter and our driveways were the goals. Good times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "running bases" which was a modified version of "tag" with baseball. You set two bases apart from each other at a predetermined distance. You place a baseman on each base (complete with glove) and throw a ball back and forth. Players have to try to run back and forth without being tagged "out"
Veursace · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't call the game generally unique, but it had some unique features that made me love it.
WarRock. It is a FPS that is heavily focused on rushing and aimoutplay. For the longest time WarRock really came down to the fact if you could do some key mechanics, bunnyjumping. It made the flow of the game much more competitive as you always had to counter a rushing bunnyjumper by using ingame sound to wrap around and flank their engage or fight them head to head.
I think the game these days have died a lot, it became a lot more invested in skins and premium due to the veteran playerbase that just can't seem to stop playing the game, theres really nothing like it's fast phase gameplay on the market. It used to have a lot of errors in the game engine due to CPU speed, making the game run "faster" if you turned your coremultiplier up.
ktkaushik · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Single goalie football/soccer.
Two teams - one goal and one goalie and no offside. People used to go crazy
SunlightFarm · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we called this game "sunkleberry": you and your friend count to ten, alternating saying each number, and then whoever is tallest wins.
Zharetmal · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in year 9 me and my friends used to walk a mile or so every night to this one random field next to a canal that had bushes and trees around it and play a game called manhunt, basically just a cross between hide-and-seek and tag, one person would be “it” and count, everyone else would hide, if you got found it began a huge chase of trying to catch the person who was hiding
lickitung_enthusiast · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vampires at Midnight. Two kids would like down on the small slide and count to 12 o'clock, while the rest of us had to lie down in the wood chips until they said 12. We would have to get up and run as fast as we could outside of the wood chips area. The vampires would jump on you and hold you down, and the only way to escape was to throw them off. I actually managed to throw one kid off of me and he immediately said, "I'M TELLING!" Fuck you Tim you little snitch.
zoidbender · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im not supposed to tell. Its a secret.
mathemusician19 · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I called it “War.” We set up toys on bins or tables in front of us and stood maybe 5 feet across from each other. The goal was to throw stuff at the other person’s “fort” and knock off their “soldiers.” We used badminton rackets as face shields.
We also played a game in the car where when a bridge was coming up you had to duck or your head got cut off and you lost. We also tried a rule where if you went over a bridge you had to lift yourself up off the seat but that didn’t stick as well.
I know we also had a bunch of other weird games, and memorably an ongoing, intricate play story with Bratz and the children from the Barbie Nutcracker set which involved the children and their parents getting in a horrible carriage accident that left the children orphaned, with the Bratz then having to adopt them...I definitely wish I had some video of us playing because we did some weird stuff. I think I lost all my creativity at age 12. :/
McBergs · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late but back when my dad lived in a farm we would have huge crab apple fights. If you don’t know what a crab apple is it’s basically a really small apple that’s super sweet/sour. we had a few trees and hundreds of apples. My brother and his friends would go against me and my friends (about 7 on each team) across a yard about 300 metres long with a light amount of trees. Since we were young they stung like a motherfucker but tons of fun. Also cake fights were pretty lit for a 8 year olds birthday.
ineffectivegoggles · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Angry Detective"
Do not remember why we called it that, but it went like this: I would be in the center of the trampoline, jumping. Other people (usually my mom's day care kids) would be closer to the edge of the trampoline. And at random, I would jump towards them to try and.. tag them I think? Or maybe just collide with them? At any rate, looking back, it sounds very dangerous. The game made perfect sense at the time, but now...
dalecookie · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ants on a stick. Put a stick in an ant hill and then run and throw it in the creek (about 100 or 200 ft away) before they climb up the stick and bite your hand.
reebokz · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bang Bang Wars. My brother and his group of guy friends, who all lived within a 5 block radius, created a game that was essentially laser tag but the guns were their fingers and the whole neighborhood was their play ground. I don't exactly remember the rules of the game and why it was so fun, but as the younger sister I was so excited when my big bro let me play.
artemis_ii · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tremors. It was a game of tag where all the lawn furniture was safe and the goal was to get to the patio because it was made of concrete and tremors can't go through concrete, based on that one scene in the movie.
Oliver_Cockburn · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to practice Bear Alerts on my grandparents farm. Keep in mind that at the time seeing a black bear in the area was extremely rare. The gist of the game was while we were out in the woods playing, if someone screamed “Bear alert!” we’d all take off running down hill toward the house and the last one there was “dead”. The difficulty came in having to dive under multiple barbed wire fences at full speed. The “dead” were usually stuck under a fence with their shirt hooked or something.
RudyCarmine · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game dubbed 'Jéan Cleau' (titled for no reason) from grades 4-9. To game is basically hacky sack but the ball is a crumpled up piece of paper and you use hands to keep it up mostly. To score simply shout "Jéan Cleau!" and spike the ball at your friends face parts. Stupid and addictive. I heard it was passed down for a couple years after us too
lalalow · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the middle of the woods so a lot of our games were pure imagination. My oldest sister would spend ALL DAY raking and drawing “roads” into the dirt driveway and dirt road. And then the next day we would all get up early and ride our bikes around the little town.
The best part was when the car was in the driveway, she’d draw a little drive-thru around the parked car and we’d “order food” from the passenger side and “pick up” on the drivers side.
Those are some of my favorite memories.
wheeldog · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played "the gambler"... we'd play poker in the basement (using my stepdad's chips & cards set) then middle of the game someone would 'cheat' and someone would 'accuse them' (point a cap gun at them) then all hell broke loose, we ran outside and jumped on our ponies and chased each other shooting cap guns at each other.
Our entire cul-de-sac would often play "witch". This happened after dark. We were bordered by deep woods... someone went way deep into the forest to hide. The rest of us would go looking. It was pretty cool except for the witch hunt overtones... I was like 12 I think. There were kids as old as 16; I am pretty sure they split off to smoke weed lol
Alexoswag82 · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clue
heyimhayleyy · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in an old farmhouse that had a rundown barn. My 3 siblings and I made it into a "Narnia" and jumped around on haybales running from all the bad creatures.
There was also a field behind the house. We would drag chairs, tea pots, toys, etc. out into the field and play maze/house in the field... Until my grandpa brought the tractor out. Then we had to race into the field and grab all our stuff before he ran it over and made it into more haybales.
Painfuldelights · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it but my brother and I would take our army men and line them up across from each other, and take turns with an orko that you put a stick into and pulled and he moved. He would then knock down the army men and whoever had the last army man standing won.
dillonsrule · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Ice Climbers" on the playground. I think the movie "Cliffhanger" had recently come out and probably was large inspiration.
We'd pretend to be climbing mountains (i.e. playground equipment) using ropes, grappling hooks etc. (all imaginary). Occasionally, a bad guy would show up and we'd have to chuck our grappling hooks at him to kill him before he could shoot us or knock us off the mountain.
jaedelasoul · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curb. the curbs in our neighborhood were angled and the games objective was to shoot the basketball, or any round ball, to the curb across the street. the ball had to hit the curb and come back toward you to be given a point. for added difficulty, or more points, you could scoot back from your curb. to win the game, no matter the score, you shot it over a car that was passing by.
BigBlackCrocs · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uh my uncle and his brothers played shotgun tag... they would be in a barn and load low grain birdshot and establish a minimum distance as to not kill each other. The one brother said “ya we were picking pellets out of our asscheeks for weeks”
Simply_a_nerd · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm 16 and theres this one that my youth group plays called "Man hunt" it usually requires at least 50 or so people and needs to be pre arranged. Basically we set up a 5-10 mile stretch of town with 15 seekers and the rest are runners. The objective of the seekers is to track down the runners (keep in mind the seekers are in cars) and the runners is to reach from the start to the finish with the seekers starting about a mile in front of the runners. Also, if you are to set up a "Man hunt" game, go somewhere with low traffic and/or get permission from your city council to set up signs making others aware that a game of Man hunt is happening and to go slower through the area (keep in mind about 90% of our games are at night so I wouldn't call it the safest)
Yeliahs · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandmother and I would play hockey in the kitchen with toy sticks and a plastic puck. Under the chairs was my goal and the doorway was my grandmothers. I would wear my slippers and slide around on the linoleum and pretend it was ice.
I also used to have a make believe barn in the backyard and paraded rainbow colored animals to my grandmother while she sat on the swing set and rated them
PositiveEmo · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MUMMY MUMMY!
it's basically tag but the person that's "it" has to walk/run like a mummy (never happened). To start you have to open the sarcophagus of the person that's it. From then on we just ran around the room doing parkour, as the game devolved to tag.
fantome_ecrivain · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Counting cars. Sitting on the front porch with my grandfather. Blue vs red. VWs vs. pickups. Northbound vs Southbound. etc.
mayorjimmy · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wallball.
Raquetball or Tennis ball. You throw the ball hard and people try and catch it on the return. If you drop it, you have to run and touch the wall before someone picks it up and nails you with it.
We didn't even keep score.
Paranoid_Neckazoid · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever your car crosses a shadow you have to clench your teeth.
523KXP · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the hunger games books got popular in my elementary school, during recess, we would play a form of tag where everyone can tag anyone, and as long as your hand touched them first, they were out; you were still in. It was fun while it lasted; it was banned from the school because we took it too far. Had a few fights over the game, and one student fell out of the top of a pine tree and ripped her arm open in a gory display.
zevthewolf · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Fantasy Forest, inspired (for absolutely no reason) by this: https://cf.geekdo-images.com/opengraph/img/y6v2HDEhvrEZGgLcYjdYqXTj7UQ=/fit-in/1200x630/pic13158.jpg
It was basically tag played after dark. One person or team would go into the (unlit) back yard and hide ("hider"). The other person or team would start on the porch and run counterclockwise around the house ("runner"). The object of the game was to evade whomever was hiding in the dark. The runner had to make it back to the porch without doubling back or getting tagged.
While the runner was in the yard, he couldn't stop moving or running and had to continue in the same direction. If you ran clockwise, you were automatically the hider next round.
If you made it back to the porch, you were safe and could run again. If you didn't, then you had to hide and wait for the roles to reverse. The runner could leave the porch whenever they wanted—they could keep the lurker waiting as long as they wanted. It was better to be the runner than the hider. The runner could hang out on the porch and do whatever. The hider had to lurk in a dark backyard and stay sharp for the runner who did not have to announce that they were running. Being the hider sucked. Being the runner was scary, but at least you weren't stuck lurking.
It was one of those games that emerged organically over time on summer nights in a house with no air conditioning. My brother and I playing with the Davis boys who lived next door. This was the mid 1980s in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Linard · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "lazy catch" and it's similar to catch but you stand still and in front of each other. And when one catches the other, you are not allowed to let go again, so it's a contest who can touch the other once more with elbows, the legs, ect.
It's actually quite interesting as you have to plan ahead and try to touch the other with as little as possible, eg jus the fingertips, so you can touch him again with the palm of the hand.
Cheel_AU · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long trips, I used to watch the telephone wires by the edge of the road, and pretend they were the vapor trails from jet fighters. So if there were four wires running along, you had 4 aircraft in a dog fight.
Then when you get to a post and one of the wires ‘disappears’, that meant the jet had been ‘shot down ‘ by one of the others.
Probably wiled away a couple of dozen hours this way.
PS this was in a time before game boys
PPS actually it wasn’t, but my folks were to poor and/or mean to buy me a game boy
XportR · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grudge, grudge, grudge.
It was like American football, but without padding, fewer rules, and played 2 against 1 in a 15x30 concrete-floored basement room with a brick fireplace on one end. You had four downs to get the ball to the fireplace while the 2 brothers tried to tackle you. Every loose ball was a fumble. Before the start of each down, the person with the ball would get in a 3-point stance and say, “Down. Set. Grudge, grudge, grudge.” Play did not start until the third ‘grudge’ was pronounced. Each score was worth one point. The game kept going until someone quit - usually crying and bleeding.
Lots of injuries, but no one ever got hospitalized.
Gravvua · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I still play it (18 now) probably started when I was like 9-10:
In movie subtitles for an example (anywhere really) I just read the word/sentence and then group up the letters into 3s, 4s or 5s.
Capital letters and õäöü (in my language) count as 2;letter A can be “invisible” if there are too many too close; ? and ! can count as one or two, depends if I need 1 or 2 letters. [k & p in my language - first letters of translation for line and dot]
Example: Dogs are cute!
My brain: Dod, gsa, rec, ute, kp..., [Then read the next sentence and continue for an eternity.]
I tried to get rid of this habit once, I started to like it so I’ve been doing it for half of my life
lilmorphinannie · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma would take me to the Southwyck Mall (in Toledo and no longer there) sometimes. We’d be in the Lion Store (like a JC Penny) in the furniture department. I’d pretend to be a sales person and try to sell rugs and couches to my grandma lol she was such a good sport, always entertaining my bullshit. I miss her dearly❤️
biggaygoaway · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game on the beach where you would draw four squares ( hence the name four squares ) with one of the top left corner for the server. The aim of the game was to become the server, basically you hit the ball up into someone else’s square where if it bounces twice their out. But you’re not allowed to smack the ball down, only up. Sounds silly but it’s so much fun. Gets really competitive especially when we played with the adults.
JackDaLad90 · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "plaster blaster" back when kids were allowed in pubs (or at least in the car park) it involved us taking it in turns to kick a football as hard as we could at a neighbouring wall to see how much render we could knock off it. Even had a game with the drunken adults who could kick a lot harder and cause more damage
toocoo · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slap the person next to you if you see an Arizona license plate. I lived in Los Angeles.
lvl20hitman · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Minecraft ofc. I played some games on my phone too, but they weren't unique. Edit: Also lego games were great
cannibalcats · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Velociraptors and guns.
In school me and my friend would be at the top of the schoolyard, one of us would be the dinosaur walking around making noises and hands in your classic velociraptor style. And the other would just be making guns, screwing on attachments making clicking noises and stuff. Can't remember if we ever did anything with said guns to the velociraptors. Good game though...
SquireTheMonarchist · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I still do this occasionally, but we would play hide and seek in specific room in the house (the room would change each round for variability) while in pitch black darkness, no flashlights or anything
But there was a catch to the game. The seeker would go in a different room to count and the hiders would put things like tables and benches and chairs in random spots before we hid, so that way the seeker had no idea what the layout of the room would be.
So many bruised knees man
also the funny part is that we'd have to be super quiet so we wouldn't wake up sleeping parents. So we'd slam our toe on the corner of the table and try not to scream while the hiders had to hold in laughter.
RockyTookALover · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play Absolutely Fabulous. We would do our hair us, put on lipstick, pretend to smoke a cigarette and call each other 'sweetie darling'.
ThatHo · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight Sergent. Played it with my uncle...
MyHeadIsMush · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Ireland we used to play a game called *** it involved 2 teams keeps in mind this is usually played in primary school so teams were usually 50+. One team was British and the other would pretend to be members of the *** . The Brittish would pick a letter and hide. Then the *** team would basically try find the other team and beat them until they gave up their letter. Obviously they would cause carnage on the playground.
callthewambulance · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I loved watching American Gladiators growing up, especially the competition where the gladiator would shoot tennis balls at the contestants as they would try to make it from cover to cover within a set course.
We re-enacted this in the largest room in our house. We used to set up couch cushions, pillows, would sometimes take our twin size mattresses off our beds, and use other random things from around the house and our bedrooms to use as cover, and the other person, instead of throwing tennis balls, we used to throw stuffed animals and beanie babies at the other person, and if you got hit you lost.
Good times were had but my parents hated it since we always made a mess.
EL1CASH · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called goofball: there was an art college we lived by that had a basketball hoop attached to a brick wall, with no space so you really couldn't do like a normal layup without hitting the wall. So we incorporated the wall and considered it in bounds. Really made for some cool passes off the wall billiards style.
urbanlulu · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister and i used to play a game called "Happy Dining"
I don't even know how old we were when this started or how it even started to begin with. But anyways, my sister would be the waiter and i was the customer. My sister would dress up as some Aunt Jemima looking character with this crazy accent; she'd called herself Gerard from Spain, and i would be some customer (i dressed up as a different person each time) who had to deal with this whack job character my sister would create. We also filmed and edited these videos, and kept them on our family computer.
I would walk down our hallway to some theme song we'd hum, and then id be seated at our dining room table and i'd be handed some menu my sister and i wrote up (literally consisting of chips and leftovers in our fridge), and id be greeted by Gerard from Spain, and then she's start acting out in weird ways and i'd have to deal with it. Like she's start throwing food at me or taking things away in mid bite, or you'd hear her in the background banging pots and pans as I'd sit there talking into the camera about how nuts my waiter is. By the end of the video and i'd be leaving our dining scene, you'd always see my dad in his housecoat in the background making tea in the kitchen or toast for himself.
Her and i did this for fun so many times. I honestly wonder if we still have those videos kicking around.
avonseahorse · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little game we liked to call "Tipsy Table" which, of course, was played by having two children stand at each end of a windsurfing long board in waist deep water and then stepping around wildly trying to knock the other kid off. It became significantly less fun as we grew up and the combined weight kids started to exceed 200lbs or so... more like sinky table at that point.
MattyRaz · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Inspired by obsessively Tony Hawk playing, when I would be in the back seat of a car, bus, etc. I would look out the window and imagine unrealistic, imaginary skateboarding lines. (i.e. grind on that power line, jump off and manual on top of the 18-wheeler, stall on the highway exit sign, that kind of stuff)
Tralan · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to wrap rocks in aluminum and I'd put them in a cardboard box and go put it in the backyard somewhere. Then I'd make a treasure map that I'd follow. I had a sword, a magic wand, and a laser gun to fight off enemies and monsters. The box of rocks was a treasure chest full of gold and jewels.
gettinshwiffty72 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
not as a child but we used to play this drinking game, I believe we made up while drinking.... called trivia. Everyone gets sits in a circle, and it goes clock wise. You get to ask a question to the circle and each person answers it out loud. At the end of everyone answering the person asking the question takes a number of chugs of beer for everyone that got the answer right. Everyone who got it wrong drinks as well. This was cool because you could have deceptive people be like oh is "E=mc2" early on so everyone says that then everyone has to drink. Also if you guarantee no one will know the answer you can say that, but if only 1 person gets it right you have to shot gun a beer, otherwise if no one gets the right answer everyone has to finish the rest of their drink.
There were other rules but that was pretty much the core rules. We had a ton of fun playing it camping, or if the beer pong table line was way to long.
bluejams · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
On long car rides we would play Mental Monopoly, Hyper Draft style. We played enough to know all the spaces, cards and prices.
- Hyper Draft style = like a snake style sports draft, we would go around and pick properties but you would get the full set so for one pick could pick all 4 railroads or both boardwalk and park place for example.
-To roll dice on your turn, you and the player on the right would countdown from 3 and then each say a number between 1 and 6. This is by far the most fun part of the game. Especially when needing/avoiding doubles while in jail or trying to avoid landing on someone 14-15 spaces away...the 'i know that he knows that i knows' thought processes are amazing.
-For chance and community chest the player to your right would think of three possible cards and tell a neutral party. Then you would pick 1, 2 or 3. Then that third party neutral party could describe the card however they wanted as long as the out come was the same. I won many an ugly contest via my little brothers. Also a fantastic time.
You just had to remember your cash count, the space you were on and your properties.
My favorite strategy was to get the light blues and then either the Oranges or Reds...or the pinks if I really had to. Then I immediately sank all of My cash into hotels on the light blues. If no one lands on the light blues right out of the gate you're pretty screwed. If you manage to get landed on by a couple players, no one else has cash to buy houses so your fairly safe and can reinvest in houses on your second monopoly for the early kill. If it gets around more then three times though...you're pretty doomed. Also you have basically no cash early on and may or may not lose on the utilities in humiliating fashion from time to time....
justanotherbad · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play “Jason”. One of our friends would don a pillow case with an eye hole in it, and dress like Jason Voorhees, Friday the Thirteenth, part 2-style. This was before the iconic hockey mask.
We’d run around the neighborhood, and he’d disappear. After a minute, we’d look around and he’d be standing next to a house like 50 ft away, just watching. We’d scream and run, he’d chase us. Repeat until everyone was caught and “killed”. He was so good, he’d scare the shit out of us. It was great.
PGtibs · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to do the 'revenge' game where one of us would randomly make a face at the other and look away and avoid their face for as long as possible(which would count as a point), this is then evened out if the other gets the oppositions attention and then making a face, through any way possible e.g. asking a question, callin their name etc. This was an ongoing game as the first to start would eventually forget however the current loser would want revenge, hence the name.
R_bubbleman_E_6 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand at opposite ends of our room. Person whos turn it was had to make a pattern of silly moves and gestures and other person had to mirror it. He were laughing all the way through it.
We usually played it around 8:30PM, that sweet apot after teletubbies and pokemons and before dinner and bed.
Twoisnoe · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Take one large plastic bag (of the kind that mattresses or new refrigerators were 'protectively wrapped' in).
Wait for a good briskly windy day.
Make holes in edge of bag for feet, hold the remainder with hands.
Get onto trampoline and try to catch the wind.
(The wind was never successful in hauling me up into the sky like some child-kite, but hey! :D )
Star-comandante · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imaginary Sonic while on road trips with the parents. Just looking outside and imagining Sonic on the highway hopping over the shadows.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played “Mechanic” where we would throw wire hangers in a laundry basket and “fix the engine” (untangle the hangers). We also had a beginner laptop where we would pretend to do job interviews.
juggmanjones · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt slapping tag. Me and a bunch of my elementary school yard friends used to have epic games of 30 plus people playing tag with a twist- you gotta smack them on the butt in order to get them “it”. No homo tho
AariaDarcia · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother would try and give us (me and my twin brother) magical powers.
He'd sing, "Walk into the hand, it'll give you magical powers, don't be afraid, just give it a try! There's no worries, just walk into the hand, I'm sure it'll be fine!" Over and over.
We'd walk our neck into his hand and he'd strangle us for a bit, then the game would end.
skankunt · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Top 3 games with the same childhood buddy at the same house. Many tears and heated battles, but far more laughs and good times. We never even kept score. Just played until we were tired or hungry.
SalmanGalactic · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would go to the trampoline and play Yu-Gi-Oh. The twist is we didn’t have actual cards and we made up charcuterie and moves by ourselves. You can guess that all of them were wildly overpowered.
baconlover696970 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot the name but my cousins, brother, and I would play cops and robbers but with a twist.
Hide and Seek but all the players, except the IT, have the goal to Tag the IT before the IT finds and "shoots" them by calling their name. If the IT miscalls one person, restart. If the It gets tagged, restart. Now my cousins including my bro and I would easily reach 15+ players so being the IT would be the worst because of 14 other players rushing to tag you. Also, being the first shot would mean youll be the next IT if the current IT would finish all the players. so basically after the first is called out, strategies like rushing in at the same time, camping behind doorways, crawling under cars to tag the It's feet, hiding behind the trailing bodies of the players called out, sacrificing a bait player for the rest to rush in, etc. fun times. My highlight was when i ghillie suited up using mud and shit like how arnie stalked the predator and I tagged the It as the last one standing.
GrandMasterZone · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t really remember what it was called but I know it was like smash bros but Spyro and crash bandicoot. It wasn’t a fighting game, it was more like a bunch of different challenges, more like Mario party now that I think about it. I know that it’s the reason my brothers friends nick name is crash (it’s because he would always choose crash so you know it kinda caught on)
TodTheTiger · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it the 'Ghost game', basically you get a oversized blanket and put it over your head making you the ghost then try and tag the other people. As you could imagine, we frequently ended the game when someone ran into/broke something (i.e. walls, bookcases, grandfather's urn).
Murda_City · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to hit lightning bugs with wiffle ball bats. By the end of the night the bat would be covered in florescent bug guts.
JakeShu · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man this game called Mad Dash Racing, it was a racing game with talking animals with a very interesting set of characters.
I loved Sid so much.
Ohhh and the music is still stuck in my head
Edit: now reading the comments i realize you meant not video game lmao
LegendOfSonic · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends made an actual fight club. We used to do tournaments where we beat the shit out of each other. It was a lot of fun and no one was seriously injured.
Jzizzle27 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends came up with a game called “dudes” we come up with dudes who had different powers like “water dude” could control water “ice dude” controls specifically ice “cool dude” he had the power to be cool...basically every little thing had a “dude” we play around coming up with battle scenes for the dudes and pretend fighting we could only be one dude a recess time to prevent one upping each other haha
crobar11 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called psycho breakout, essentially a version of infection tag but with more steps. One friend would start out as the “psycho” and could throw his hat at anyone playing to get them out (or tag them) and they would get it as well. We had almost the entire grade playing it at one point with three or four different game modes. Good times
Porkpants81 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would just put anything and everything we could in a blender and make these horrid concoctions of food, plants, charcoal, etc....
We would then take the jars of these mixes and leave them on people's doorsteps as a present.
Mathy16 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had this huge Guinness Hat. The one in the picture isn't the exact one, because I'm 99.99% sure ours was completely green, but you get the idea.
Well it was a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek, except the seeker had to wear that hat over their head so they couldn't see anything. Meanwhile, all lights and curtains would be closed so the kids hiding would also be visually impaired. We limited ourselves to the bedrooms and hallway on the second floor so nobody would destroy anything that was downstairs.
As the seeker you basically had to listen and try to grab the hiders.
In hindsight, we shouldn't have been playing this on the second floor, with the danger of falling down the stairs but nothing bad ever happened except running into doors or poking someone in the eyes.
Oconitnitsua · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bangcok. While sitting at opposite ends of the room we would hold solo cups between our knees and lean back, wed then proceeded to throw a tennis ball into the cups which would rocket to our crotch.
Staarburn · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha don’t know if others did this
At the start of a movie before character development/ trait reveal took place, we’d name a character after ourselves
We would continue to poke fun when the characters did stupid things and brag when ours did great
TurtleFriend14 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this is common but when I was younger my dad and I would play this game called buttball. We would basically just through a inflatable spiky ball at each others butts until we were tired.
aivdrawdeegreog · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an in-ground pool in our backyard. My older brothers, myself and neighborhood kids played this game called “colors.” Basically one person is about 8 feet away on the left side of the pool and the others were on the “loveseat” in the deep end on the right side. The single person picks a category (colors, car manufacturers, action figures, etc) and those sitting away from him pick their own choice and tell one another so no two people have the same answer. The single person then starts to call out their guesses (red, blue, ford, Chevy) and if he calls the one you had decided on, you had to swim across the pool to the left side (about 12-14 feet) before the Caller swims and reaches you. If you got tagged, you became the Caller and had to have a new category. I don’t know where we came up with this but it is one of my favorite memories as a kid.
We also played Curby. The sides of the pool were curved bricks. One person on each side and a basketball. The object was to throw the basketball against the opposite side just right so the ball would bounce off the brick. If it bounced correctly and landed back in the water, it was a point. If it bounced up and you or your opponent caught it (either staying outside the pool or by jumping in) it was 2 points. Goal was to get to 21 first. If it just hit the brick and plopped in the water it did not count. We eventually started adding trick shots, triple points, etc.
SquirrelSanctuary · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampboarding.
Take the trucks off a skateboard so it’s just a bare deck, take it on a trampoline and have a blast doing all the crazy tricks from Tony Hawk games without the danger of busting open your knees on concrete.
It was like skateboarding on “low gravity” mode, and it was glorious.
PunchBeard · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had an apple tree in his backyard that was pretty big and had a lot of low hanging branches that would allow us to jump from the tree onto the garage roof and vice versa. We used to play insane games of tag in his back yard using this fact. We would all scramble up the tree and then try to not get tagged by the person who was "It" by jumping in and out of the tree and on and off the garage. And being young boys we were very aggressive and would often end the session with many cuts, scrapes and bruises. As we got older we took our games of tag to the next level by playing in construction sites and abandoned buildings. And since we lived in the rust belt there were plenty of abandoned buildings to climb on and explore.
chickendoojons · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
IRA, game played by up to 20 kids around the neighbourhood or estate at once where 5/6 people are given a letter and each letter makes a up a word like “shoes” or “animal”, the remaining kids without a letter then have to chase down each person with a letter and literally jump/beat them until they give a letter, aim of the game is to find out the word. Only realising how brutal it was despite being so memorable and fun.
Parthj99 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We , school friends used to make stories about each other but in a common universe and we pretend according to our character in real life too(in school). Everyone in our class know that and like once in a month there was a story telling session where one person have to continue present story or spinoff and whole class listened to it, I must say it was really a prestigious project,lol.It seems silly but it was pretty fun.
Bells87 · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it "Stuck in Second Grade Hall" and would play it by myself on the school playground in 3rd grade.
I'd pretend that the second grade classrooms were haunted and I alone was brave enough to investigate them.
SlyHammer · 1 points · Posted at 15:28:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play “poor people” which was actually just us pretending to have to use a lantern we had found in my parents’ basement and searching through the woods for some imaginary person named Sarah. Should have been just called “olden days” or something like that.
A few years ago he asked if I remembered the game and then said “looking back, kinda messed up because my family actually was pretty poor.”
bbtgoss · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Midget wars. Crouch down so your butt is basically touching the ground. Put your shirt over your knees and legs. Your end up as a torso with feet and long arms.
Then the goal is to hop/waddle around or walk with your arms and push each other over. Last one standing wins.
Denserthancake · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watch the water droplets going doing windows and watching them race. That’s not original, but I did think they looked a little like cubby hamsters.
brockoli1010 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game back in elementary school called Cyber Surfari. It was more like a contest against other schools but one night every year we’d stay after and go on this internet treasure hunt. I don’t remember a lot of about it but it gave you clues on finding the hidden links and it was a race to see which school could find the hidden links the fastest. It was really fun. We’d bring a bunch of snacks and drinks and stay up all night trying to be the first to complete the treasure hunt.
FrenzalStark · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game called "Hot".
Basically, the aim of the game is to put as many clothes on as possible then either sit in from of a radiator or a fire and see who could last the longest in the intense heat.
sandimartinez23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Boosh ball' we called it, kinda like dodge ball but with a large exercise ball as the ball instead, with bases you had to run past, which were all in crazy far apart from each other places.
bluebullbruce · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called Kleilat. Translated it literally means clay stick. We would collect a stick or young reed next to the river put clay on the tip and proceed to launch the clay at each other. Wars were won and lost usually with one or more friends in tears. Good times
PikpikTurnip · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would make up our own "Oobi" characters and play out scenarios with them. It never really ended, and my two oldest brothers still come up with shit to this day, only its taken on a more parodical nature now, akin to YouTube poops. It's honestly hilarious. We turned Grampoo into a fucking Neo Nazi. "Ah, Chinese restaurant, lovely... but inferior!"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Granny Crossing. Carry a pillow and slowly walk across the hallway. Brother runs full speed and hits you as hard as he can and you hopefully land on the couch. Loved it every time.
tiloco · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings played Buy Sell. We took all our toys and made shops using my Yugioh cards as money. The cleanup took longer than the actual game most of the time because by the end our toys were all mixed up. Good way to kill a Sunday though
storytellerfromspace · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would lay someone down on the ground, place one of our primary school uniform sweaters over their eyes and tell this story to the person laid down about being in a field, seeing someone who you thought was your dad or an uncle or w.e, but he wasn't, he was a stranger and as you walk closer you notice he has something in his hand, it's a gun and he shoots you and kills you. Then in the story we'd explain how it was the day of your funeral, all people stood around watching the story unfold would provide sound effects such as the sound of people walking into the church (everyone would walk on the spot) and then leaving the church, chattering, the wind etc. Then you'd tell the person laid down that they were getting lowered into the ground, and we'd say 'darker, darker, Colder, colder' while the kid telling the story would press on the sweater that was covering the person's eyes on the floor. We'd do this for a couple of minutes and then the person who was laid down would take the sweater off from over their eyes, sit up and because their eyes had been pressed down on and had been in the dark for a while the world looked all washed out and fucked up and weird, we used to call that seeing the afterlife. Thinking back on it it was really fucking weird haha but we all loved doing it. I was usually the story teller and people would queue up to do it.
TrickiNicki92 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elementary school, we got a whole new playground about 4th grade. It came with tire swings. We played see who can not puke the longest. Recess right after lunch added an extra level of risk.
Basically, put a kid on the swing starfish style, belly down. Get 3 or 4 of us all clustered around and let it rip.
When the teachers caught onto that we had to switch to jack knifing off the monkey bars and breaking our wrists.
monti262002 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I went to a camp as a child, we used to put a small cow in a football pitch and we used to chase a and whip the cow to make it get into the goal and score a goal, the teams were made up of 7-8 people so you can imagine that poor cow being whipped over and over again by a bunch of kids. It was cruel and dangerous but was fun.
Mel82much · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
White Wolf and White Dog. My sister and I basically would pretend to be animals and beat each other up. Two rules: 1. No crying counts 2. No telling mom
xjmnpmx · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, on long car rides my dad would tell me that we'd play a game, I needed to stay in silence until I spotted a pink car.
I never spotted a pink car but my dad surely enjoyed his quiet time
Shermcity92 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a young child, but in early high school. A game called “Stick it or Lick it”. You and a group of friends are in a circle. You throw a stick at the ground, if it doesn’t stick in the ground you have to lick.
SFW_HARD_AT_WORK · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"killerman" was tag football without a ball. you have designated endzones, and someone is "it". once tagged the other person is it and tries to score. Stuff like that is how pro athletes get crazy spin moves and shit. also, i used to "catch raindrops" and this got me really good with hand eye coordination. if its raining, look up in the sky and catch the falling raindrops.
Churtlenater · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Broomstick wrestling.
You found a nice thick broomstick. Then you and someone else squared off with your hands both alternating on the stick. Last one holding on won and once you let go you couldn’t grab on again.
We had to stop when we broke too many, which looking back was impressive considering how sturdy they were towards the end. But it would get intense. I remember the sisters across the street wanted to join in, and as soon as their match started one of them pivoted and threw the other over her back. Of course she didn’t let go and then threw her right back. Learned they were both in judo and they taught us some of their ways.
KarbonOasis · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In like 2nd grade. Me [M] would play with my best friend [F] where we would be robbing the USA from banks
BiteTheClouds · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The song by Van Halen “Panama” was big and we saw the video all the time and loved the flying through the air on cables. We thought he was singing “Pannon Ball”. So we would lay down with our feet up and would get a sister to lay on the feet to “fly” and would toss her across the room. I’ve brought this game into my adulthood and I’ve played it with both my kids.
riddlerloh · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder Football. it was basically jackpot, but everytime the person throwing the ball ( we called him the jacker) he would stand still with his hands out and wait for someone to put the ball in his hands. you had to return the ball and anything goes. we would tackle eachother and throw things at eachother, this game would last hours. if you were the one to return the ball then you were the new jacker. parents didnt like the name, and it got pretty violent once we hit high school
Ulli17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played with friends that had a trampoline a game that had similarities to volleyball. Actually we had no name for it. There was always 1 or more kids staying outside the trampoline and trying to shoot the ball with their hands in the trampoline. Maximum 3 kids were staying in the trampoline trying to get out the ball with maximum 3 touches (like in volleyball) without the ball touching the ground of the trampoline. It was super funny :)
quintupledots915 · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were woods behind my house, so I would go out there and pretend there were these different tribes of people who lived there. I was a part of one of them and would help them out by making soups (which was literally a bucket of water with random parts of plants and leaves in it) and help them fight other tribes who were threatening to take their land. My closest sibling is almost ten years older than me, so it kept me entertained.
liamemsa · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've tried for ages to remember this "game."
When I was in elementary school, and I'm a bit older than most of you, so this would have been literally around 1991/1992, we played some sort of game in a tennis court.
It involved two teams on either side of the net. It was kind of like dodgeball, I guess, but I can't be sure. We were throwing different balls across the court at the other teams. All I remember is that there was some bonus for kicking it out of the court and over the large fence behind. But, behind the court was, like, this large downhill that had a playground at the bottom. And apparently if one of the opposing team members was actually down there and caught the ball you kicked then the other team would get a huge number of points. It was quite literally some game of Calvinball, where the rules were made up by kids, they changed all the fucking time, and I have no idea what it was.
tylervalo · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had the pokey stick. One kid would be on hos bike and the rest of us would run after him trying to throw the stick through his front spokes.
SayYesSm0ke · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mom played a game when I was little.
If I ever yelled for something in a magazine , if I started crying asking for stuff she would beat the shit out of me at home.
Thanks mom
GuyIncognit0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games come to mind but we had quite a few.
1) Wall-to-wall-ball, which wasn't really all that original and I bet similar games exist. The playfield was anything between two parallel lines that act as walls (like an alley but it didn't even have to be walls). Each player/duo stands on one side and can only move along the wall. Then you bounce a basketball to the other side, having to hit the ground once with the aim to hit the other players wall. Also you couldn't catch the ball, you had to always keep it in motion, like dribbing in basketball. It's basically a weird version of tennis.
2) Velociraptor. Someone was the raptor and had restricted peripheral vision, enforced by whatever contraption we could build. The raptor then had to patrol around and would chase the first person he'd find. Usually we played this somewhere with a lot of corners so you could lose the raptor.
HamfacePorktard · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many different iterations of Tag. TV Tag, Stuck in the Mud, Hide and Go Seek Jail Tag, one we made up called ChickenHawk. We were really good at running around.
sage_o9k · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older bro used to have "ice fights" when our parents were not home. Essentially we would get a bunch of ice made from ice trays and throw them at each other (my older bro created this game lol). We were subsequently caught maybe days after and disciplined accordingly probably due to the immense amount of water spots found across the carpet of the entire house....and probably the lack of ice we forgot to replace lol.
tab527 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “jump ball”. Had the trampoline (netted) set up on the lawn. Little tikes basketball net set up on the patio. One small rubber basketball required.
Consisted of 3 players. 2 on the trampoline. 1 outside to retrieve the ball. Said person would throw the ball into the trampoline and whoever caught it had the chance to shoot it into the basket. Make it, stay in. Loser becomes ball retriever. Miss, keep playing until someone makes it.
Wow, I miss that game. Thanks for the nostalgia.
StonedAthlete69 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock wrestling. My brother and I would wrestle in a the hallway with the objective being to take the other persons socks off. First person to have their socks fully taken off loses and you cannot pull your socks back up.
Ghitit · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My girlfriend and I would ride our bikes pretending to speak a foreign language we made up.
It was a blend of French, Russian, German, and whatever weird sounds we could reproduce that sounded good.
It was pretty hilarious.
Here's another: Same friend, we'd put sleeping bags over our heads and run around my house bumping into each other and stuff.
Once we were playing it and decided to jump onto my bed with the other person giving directions. So my friend was guiding me and she said " turn right, no, left... left a little more..." So I did exactly what she said until the end when I turned left not a little more, but a lot more and I ran and jumped and landed on my old fashioned flip-top, steel and wood school desk. God it hurt, but that didn't matter because we were laughing so much the pain was easy to ignore.
dusk27 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk what it’s called but we called it “Suicide” - probably because you must want to die to play it. It’s hand ball with a twist. You throw the ball, it bounces off the wall and if it hits you, then you gotta run and touch the wall before the other kids beat you up. If it bounces and you catch the ball, then whoever threw it has to run and touch the wall before the kids beat you up. I made the mistake once of trying to run home out of fear but it just made my trip to the wall that much further because they did catch up to me.
pooping_on_the_clock · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game in high school called "Ninja" you were supposed to sneak up on someone and knock them to the ground. The game only lasted about 4 months until someone got 3 people at once, knocking there heads together. One person was knocked out, one lost two teeth and the third got a broken nose. Kevin you are the ultimate winner, but he was also suspended from school.
Bear-Unnecessities · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, my best friend and I would play Mean Girls (before the movie came out). We’d basically act out what we thought high school was like if we were rival popular girls:
“And then I joined the cheerleading team...”
“But I pranked you by dumping slime on your uniform.”
“And then I stole your boyfriend.”
“Well then I stole your boyfriend.”
“Well then I stole him back. I’m dating them both.”
“Well the captain of the football team just told me he loved me.”
“I told him to say that. He’s tricking you. He actually loves me.”
“...I stole your spot on the cheerleading team.”
The-Creator468 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play “Kittens” where we would just follow around my older sister who was the mom kitten, on our hands and knees... I’m a guy btw. I just wanted to feel included I guess. The game really has no point except to pretend to be kittens.
hoffmanz8038 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie Baby war. We had a ridiculous amount of Beanie Babys that we didn't really care about and we would set up forts and wing them at each other. Sort of like an indoor snowball fight. It was a blast.
prothirteen · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played 'Mine' when on longer car-rides.
Basically, the idea was that you're trying to make your own city. When driving around, you take turns claiming things for your city - you need schools, hospitals, transport trucks, police cars...
It was a fun time killer!
mlozano88 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillow goalie - put pillows on our hand and feet like a hockey goalie while my brother tried to kick balls into the open closet door
Pillow Jump - Jump on the bed while someone swings a pillow at your feet trying to knock you over
Hang on the couch - 2 of us would flip the couch on the side and shake it as much as we could while 1 would hang on the side for dear life.
Hallway kickball - exactly what it sounds like.. lights were broken
Tennis baseball - get it over the church and it's a home run lol
And so many more
superbear275 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag but u have to tag someone with ur butt
ArnenLocke · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would spend hours creating a laser maze out of string and masking tape in the basement, then challenge one person (who wasn't there for the construction) to climb through it and steal something we had hidden in a little toy safe. We had a few motion sensors as well that we would place strategically to trip up the thief.
StupidLoserface · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play "the dark game" which was essentially hide and go seek.. in the dark at nighttime. We'd usually go "seek" by crawling around, but the risk of running into walls/furniture was very great. Good times though.
SpawnSnow · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Miners. There was a hill with an overhang in the forest behind the house. A lot of the rocks that you could dig out of it were quartz crystal (I assume) if you chipped away the outer layer. We were convinced we would become rich and spent hours upon hours quarrying and mining the place out and putting all of the good rocks in one pile and the shiny ones in another. We had shovels, pickaxes, brought down our sleds from winter with ropes tied to them to help with the big rocks - it was quite the operation for 2 kids.
tpfnf · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Grandson, would you like to practice driving?” My grandpa would put Crown Royal in his Coke cans and from the ages of 9-15 I would drive him if he asked because driving is fun and awesome. I didn’t put it together until I was 28. Great guy though.
PixelatedPoltergeist · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I as kids used to play polo on scooters with croquet mallets through the street. Also we played a lot of ball tag as kids idk if that’s something other people did or not.
theslyder · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I would draw "mazes" from a side-scrolling perspective with various rooms that had "traps and puzzles." Spike pits, rope swings, etc. Then we'd trade and during class try to go through each other's mazes.
scotter233 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I count my 15 year old self as a child! Hunted. It's basically hide and seek mixed with tag, but we would do it in the middle of town. Usually the area is far to big to every really find them, so there for 3 hunters and one person who would hide.
The real fun however was that the hunted had to carry a GPS device on him, the hunters could check it every 5 minutes.
The most fun ever
ShiraCheshire · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The schedule game! All the toys are set out in a dollhouse (or similar), and they all have schedules to follow and tasks to do. Usually they just moved around. Like I'd move the Barbie from the bed, to the kitchen, to the garden, to etc etc. The fun was deciding things like, do any of the Barbies want an early lunch? Does the Barbie prefer to read or go swimming in her free time?
Sometimes I'd play it with Pokemon and it would be slightly more complex. They were all part of a kingdom, each with a job. I remember there being babies, nursery workers, guards, a king/queen, advisors, etc etc. An enemy Pokemon would attack and chase off all the Pokemon it was super effective to. Then there would be holes in the Pokemon kingdom job ladder, and Pokemon would get promoted until there were no more holes. Baby Pokemon would grow up to fill the lowest ranks at the end of each 'turn', and new babies would be born. All the Pokemon were trying to become king/queen, and I was always weirdly proud of one if it got to work all the way up from baby to achieve its dream.
I absolutely loved the game. Once when I had a friend over, I wanted to play it. For hours. I didn't understand why my friend thought it was boring.
sparkyhugo · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i'm from Russia. we don't play games
givebusterahand · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my cousin would babysit us we would play “apartments”. There were four of us so two of us would be roommates and we’d have a billion playing cards each room would spend forever hiding all over their room. Then we’d go to “work” where one set of roommates were restaurant workers and the other two customers and they’d serve us weird concoctions and in the mean time one of the customers would sneak away to “break into” the other twos “house” and try and find/steal as much money (aka the playing cards) as they could
We were weird
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when me and my best friends at the time were 6-9 we really dug Calvin & Hobbes. And part of Calvinball, the game often played in the comics, was that you just make up rules as you play. And so did we, stealing all our parent's sports and outside equipment and setting it up in an obstacle course of some sort. Then we got a baseball, a very light football and a cricket ball and just started running around the course, trying to - if I remember right - hit the badminton racket in just the right way so the ball would ricochet exactly towards the king (Kubb) and knock it down. That would be one point. Another strat would be to have your ball ricochet from the racket and hit the other ball, so the player who got the king point would lose that point again and you'd get one. The one without a ball could just attempt to steal one from another player, but also had to defend his gained point by blocking other player's throws.
But that was just one point, you could gain up to 5 just on one course. But I don't know about the rules for those anymore, the one with the king and racket was by far the one we had the most fun with.
And we invented new rules every ten minutes or so, like if you had the baseball you could throw it in the air with your eyes closed and if it would hit another player or the friend's dog (who was running around having almost more fun than us) you'd get three points and could use the swatter to either use it to golf the baseball (I'm not US, how the hell should I know how to baseball?) or put it in front of an obstacle or object to maked ricochets and the like harder.
bigveinyrichard · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers.
orchi99 · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Hobbit (2003)
Jamesuber · 1 points · Posted at 15:30:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spongebob on the Gameboy, the music is engraved into my head.
YouGotTheJuice · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Steal the Bacon: Two groups of kids at opposite ends of a basketball/volley court. Object (in the case of 90s kids it was a chalkboard eraser) and each team assigns a number to each kid on the team and an moderator calls out the number a representative from each team races to grab the bacon and bring it home. If you hold the bacon and you're tagged by the opposing team you're out and return to your team and the bacon is left on the ground.
Prisoner (Dodgeball variant) Dodge ball but when you're out you go to the opposite end of the court and can come back in if you get a ball and tag someone still in play. Basically gives you the chance to be sandwiched.
Botato12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont remember very well, I was about 4 when myspace was popular. My mother let me play the featured games section. One I rember was this click and point adventure game that begins with a foriegn woman that reccieves a telegram. She has to go to some sort of mansion. A short cinematic plays and she jumps over a wall and has to remove some siccors on a cable box and gains acess to the mansion. One of the rooms have a bunch of books on a shelf with suns on them. If anyone can help me find the name of the browser game that has been on my mind for the past 5 years I would appreciate it alot.
rangerscoop · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a buddy who's family had some dough, so he could afford to be a hockey goalie and play lacrosse (this is back in the early 80s, before that equipment became more affordable). As kids, we used to sword fight with whiffle ball bats, but damn did it hurt when you got rapped on the knuckles, so we brought his lacrosse gloves into the mix. Soon came the hockey pads, then the helmets. Somewhere in that evolution, we traded those plastic bats for sawed-off hockey sticks.
Let me tell you, 14-year-old boy without a girlfriend has a lot of agression and we took that agression out on each other in his back yard. We would spend hours fighting with hockey sticks. We had a few rules: no aiming for the knees, groin, or head and neck. It was brutal. Neither of us ever broke a bone, but the bruises were deep and plentiful.
Our hobby seemed to die out once girls came into the picture. Funny how that happens...
DonnyTrumpets · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder-ball. It was basically just rugby before I knew what rugby was. Everyone vs the ball carrier.
Classic stitches!
Gubyy · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game for the swimming pool called Two in Two out.
The game involved 4 people, two people in the pool, and two out(or in) the pool. The goal was for the people in the pool to tag the people out of the pool. My pool had a fence around it so most of it was reachable from inside the pool by keeping just a foot in. There were two "safe spots" for the people out of the pool but the only way to escape those safe spots was to either leap over the people in the pool and risk being tagged or dive into the pool, swim to the other side and then get out. We spent hours running around the pool playing this game, it was so much fun.
revesvans · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
When I was a kid I used to play "gameboy" by filling a clear plastic bottle with water all the way to the top and turning it on it's side. By tilting it slightly I could get the small bubbles that formed to battle it out. I imagined they were chasing each other and ripping each other to fragments in a fight to see who could finally consume all the others and become the king.
I was an only child.
random_username1567 · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, sister, neighborhood kids, and I would play TV Tag. It’s just like regular tag, but your base is yourself. When “It” comes near you, you crouch down and yell out the name of a tv show. Then you’re safe for a period of time and “It” can’t puppy guard you. No repeat shows were allowed. I was very disappointed during school recess to discover that no one else knew this game.
cns187 · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clear Disc. Throwing blank CDs like frisbees in the driveway. It got interesting when the CDs would hit the ground and became sharp and jaded
BeyondAddiction · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play at my grandparents' farm. They had a large wooded area that we used to play Robin Hood and we called it Sherwood Forrest. But I refused to be Maid Marian.
They also had a basement that was never used with a hide-a-bed couch that we used as our pirate ship. We used to spend hours drawing up maps for objectives we had to reach in each "island" we came to. We would use throw pillows or whatever other junk was down there as obstacles.
orcalyfe · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FISH, ALGAE, CRAB! Me and my friends made it up when we were so unbelievably bored. It's like full-body thunderdome-style rock, paper, scissors
bellamakenzie · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot towel
powwowputs · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chardeemcdennis
simonthelikeable · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Macrogo! Name inspired by a mashup of mallet, croquet and golf. Essentially we put the croquet wickets long distances apart with obstacles in between and assigned pars for each 'hole'. Game continued until we broke a croquet mallet.
Miikaboi · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was a kid at my grandmas house we would have this mini bouncy ball and we would throw it down the stairs in a boot and whoever got the coolest bounce in there would win. We acted like it was a REALLY big sport we started filming interviews with winners and called in our frienda to compete in the "olympics".
DrewH31 · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Wheels grudge match. My brother and I would have a draft of our favorite and most sturdy Hot Wheels cars. Then, one by one, we would go head to head by ramming them into each other. Landing on back after impact means you're out. First to run out of cars lost. Some car legends were made and some passed too soon. RIP the 3 time underdog champ "Taxi"
synklo · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and the other kids that lived in my apartment building used to play this game. It was either called “graveyard” or “reaper” I can’t really remember.
Either way, it was basically tag. Except the person who was it was the Grimm Reaper, and all the others were ghosts who refused to be put to rest. If the reaper tagged you, you had to go into this little section enclosed by bushes. If the reaper got all the ghosts, the reaper one. But if you were a ghost, you could go into the bushes and retap your friends, freeing them from “the other side”.
Also the game had to be played at dusk.
We were kinda morbid kids. This hardly scratches the surface.
Great-Dane · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just called ours "ball. Our living room was arranged so that the center was pretty open. Each person would take up a position at an opening along the edges of this space (between two couches, in front of the hollow space under the desk). It required at least four players (three kids + 1 parent) to cover all the spaces. Every player would roll one of those bouncy balls you see in giant Wal-Mart displays into the center, and the goal was to keep the balls in the play area by hitting them away when they rolled in your direction.
The idea was to the balls rolling hectically around and play goalie. Everyone "lost" when someone let a ball past because we'd stop the game to retrieve it (sometimes we'd play until all balls were out). The game stopped when us kids became strong enough to send the balls flying instead of rolling, mostly to preserve lamps, dishes, etc.
MuffDaddyBreh · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
paintball was one of my expensive hobbies. being 11, co2 was a costly resource. me and my friends would set up bunkers in my room and pretend to play paintball... stupid game. but seemed original at the time and we had 3 days worth of fun before Corey called it gay and nobody wanted to play anymore. I miss the old days.
BaggyCondom · 1 points · Posted at 15:31:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would throw a milk crate onto the roof of our back hall (maybe 12’ high), just high enough for us to not be able to see the crate until it was close to the edge. We’d then use a basketball to try knocking it off the other’s side. Knock it off and you get a point. We called it the crate game.
Smitening · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game we simply called "monster." Gave someone a big comforter and they had to crawl around while wearing it to be the monster (and they couldn't see out of it). Got all the blankets we could find and laid them around the house, you weren't allowed to step off of them. Wait until it was night time, turn off all the lights.
Then the humans had a few minutes to place pillows strategically around the house, whenever the monster touched them he'd fall asleep for 5 seconds. Humans also had tranquilizers that would work the same as the pillows, and one antidote to save someone who had a monster bite.
However, once the monster feel asleep too many times from the pillows, or got shot with the tranquilizer, they could "evolve." Gain limited eyesight, could stand for short periods of time, etc. It was inevitable these would happen, so you tried to survive without using them for as long as you could.
If you got bit, you became a monster starting from the most basic level again. Game went on until you were the last man standing.
We used to play this every time we'd have sleepovers as little kids... Adecade later, we're adults, and we still play it from time to time. Still just as fun as it always was :D
cypekpl · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play with magic rocks on cars
MissBubbly17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was around 12 when the tv show survivor was huge. The neighborhood kids and I would create our own survivor game spanning our whole street. There were different tribes and games that would happen and we would eliminate someone. Sometimes the games went on for a whole week. We were weirdos.
Edgy20XX · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didnt have a name for it but in grade school we would have like wars between the boys and girls. There wasnt really any rules, but people would get take prisoner (normally me) and raid each others territory and shit. some times we'd just break out or what ever. I fondly remember shaw shanking my way out of the corner of the field those bitches had locked down.
mitsilplix · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would have epic spear grass fights. Each spear grass tip was a different color, and we rated them based on how much they hurt or how well they stuck to our clothes. We would pull the spears out of the grass sheath and briefly suck on them to make them stick better before throwing them at each other.
TheAfroWonder12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad played poker betting Halloween candy
PlNKERTON · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Substitute teacher. We'd stand out in the yard near the road at night. Whenever we'd see a car coming we'd yell "substitute teacher!!!" and run and hide, so the car wouldn't find us as it drive by.
I think we got the idea of a substitute teacher a her being scary from an old movie where a weird teacher comes in and is found by a student with a frog in her mouth.
Bamrak · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an annoying child my dad would always play the pulling something and doubles game on road trips. 4 wheeled vehicles pulling anything counted, as did tractor trailers with wiggle wagons. I LOVED this game because I could beat my dad at it every time we played.
I was telling my wife about the game and in the middle of a sentence it hit me like a ton of bricks. The game was a competition to keep my ass busy so I'd shut up and focus on something. Well played dad, well played.
binchlauren · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me, my sister, and my female cousin were younger, we would play wrestle with each other, while my brother and male cousin were sort of the “referees”. We called this game “girls gone wild”. When I got a little bit older, I decided to look up “girls gone wild” to see if it was a real thing, and I panicked once I saw what it actually was lol
Chopskee · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a simple game, involving my older brother, a slide, and golf balls. He rolled the golf ball up the slide, I would catch it and roll it back down. Shit got intense with a curly slide, but I did loose several teeth
SenoritoSquirrel · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with my dad. 18 years later and I still can’t find him.
squeezethecatssack · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My bro and i, "the kicking game", "the punching game" The objective was not to hurt each other but to kick hard enough that it would hurt but pull back enough for you not to get angry right away slowly it would escalate just playful fighting
DoctorMcAstronaut · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just can't believe that every single kid in the history of the world has independently invented "The Floor is Lava."
ZacHighman · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
basically it was baseball but we used slippers and instead if bats, we kicked the slipper as far as we can. baseball is basically non existent in my country afaik so i thought it was so unique back then
Starmoses · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called pickleball where a few people had to run across a yard and one guy with a football threw it at someone before they reached the other side. If you got hit you had to throw the ball. 1st person to be injured losses.
Jowtmym · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gta San Andreas
InterstellarDwellar · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game on PS1 called hogs of war. Once we got bored of that we played it in the garden with various buckets and spades and footballs, basically anything we could find that you could call a weapon. When you died you would come back next round singing “back to life back to reality”
It was good fun until inadvertently one of us smacked the other in the head with a spade and we were told to stop.
mc395686 · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava Monster.
You need a playground to do this. One person is the monster. They can’t touch the playground or else they die. Everyone else is on the playground. They each have to stand on the ground for at least 30 seconds to win. Everyone (it can be multiple people at once, and split up) must go on for 30 seconds, counting in their own. If they get tagged, they become the monster. Sorta like tag/gravel.
sage_o9k · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava...but we called it "shark infested waters" and we would act as if we were swimming when we touched the ground. There was also an imaginary time limit that fluctuated depending on who was counting before the sharks "get ya."
bluefancypants · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played fatchie farmers. I would be the fatchie and he was the farmer. He would bring me bread and water etc.
LadyDeadly · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to do this thing with my blanket where I'd be on my knees in bed and holding the blanket and then start flailing up and down with it really fast (basically head banging). It felt really fun for some weird reason. I showed it to my cousin (who slept in my room when she'd visit from out of town) and she loved doing it too and we called it "buenky fluenk". I think we were trying to sound German?
Skittles-Girl · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends were collecting napkins. Every once in a while, we would meet up and have a Miss Napkin Pageant. It was always a very fierce competition, lol.
CH666bear · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would wait until it was dark and then my dad would flick a coin into our back garden and my sister and I would scramble around searching for it. I thought he was smiling at us having fun...I think he was laughing at what idiots we were
wrud4s · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents were divorced and on the weekends my mom had me she always had to work so I would get to spend it with my grandparents. We would go out to dinner every Friday night at a sit down place. We would take the straw wrappers and squish them into little balls and then use our wrapped up silverware and play a form of hockey on the table trying to hit the straw wrapper into the other’s lap. The time waiting for food was the time limit. It was always a fun way to spend a Friday night as an 8 year old.
Allencass · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Half ball, which oddly originated in the South. I was born and raised in the Boston area.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfball
koalapants · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what it was called, but a group of kids in my cul de sac would get together after sun down and play kind of a reverse hide and go seek. One person would go hide anywhere in the cul de sac, including front yards; backyards were off limits. The group would count to 30 and spread out and try to find the hider. Once you found the person hiding, you had to hide with them. What made it really fun was the growing anxiety while you were searching and one by one your search party disappeared. The last person to find the group had to hide next.
the_one_jove · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandfather taught me how to hunt snipe. This is a nocturnal bird that's very elusive. Now this bird is so elusive that in order to get a chance to shoot it one person would be picked to be the shooter and stand in the middle of the woods while the rest of the party walked away in order to flush it out to the shooter. So, your standing there in the middle of the woods in the dark by yourself for what seems like forever. Eventually you get tired and head back to the house only to find everybody had been there since the left you alone in the woods. Of course you only fall for being the shooter once but man is fun to teach new people. Especially if they are particularly annoying.
oldmanout · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk where I got this, but I had this card board with two holes and mirrows in it, after watching a submarine movie I realised the resamblence with a periscope.
So I mounted it on a stool, covered the stool with a wool blanket and crawled under it pretending it's a "sub".
HelixR · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
At school we would play ''bloodball''/''gating'' where the goal was to kick a ball through someone's legs. When succesful, everybody was allowed to hit/kick/hurt that person until that person touched an object that made him safe, like a lamppost or pole or something. At some point, kids were getting really hurt and it was banned on school, but fuck it was so much fun. Most people that got kicked actually laughed and liked it.
We also had a really neat game during gymnastics:
Matball: Everyone is divided over two teams. Each team has its own huge tumbling mat, puts it up on its side (long edge). Then, both teams have to eliminate players from the other team by hitting players with the ball. The team that drops the tumbling mat on its flat side first loses. This is nearly impossible in the beginning because so many players can hold the mat, but in the late stage, the mat has to survive on its own while the one or two players that are left try hard to knock down the other one or block shots on their own mat. Fun addition was that players which were ''out'' were sent towards the back of the opposing team's mat where they can hit those players that hide behind the mat.
von_ripper · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called “fun-fun”.
It was just hide and seek in the dark with legos scattered throughout the house for whomever was the seeker to destroy his or her feet on.
elasso_wipe-o · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“We did this thing called female wrestling. We took our clothes off, tucked our willies between our legs and tickled each other. First person with their Weiner to pop out lost the game”
yerboiboba · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
An old friend of mine and I would write out and role play Star Wars fan fiction (this was before Disney, so we could use the EU) but then also ad lib as we went along. We'd get out the plastic light sabers, set a scene, and create the dialog (and then argue whether or not that character would actually say or do that). My favorite memory was of one where I was the apprentice to him as the master, and I turned on him in the middle of a mission (we had a very Obi-wan and Anakin vibe going but mixed in an EU story base). A lot of hurt hands and frustrating clashing creative directions, but it was fun.
pmagic7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Made up a game called speed ball with the neighbor kids. There was one trash can at each end of the yard, and we used an oversized tennis ball as the game ball. I think we played teams of three, the goal was to score in the trash can, but we would lay out jump ropes like 10 feet in front of the trash cans, and you had to either throw the ball in from behind the line or if you had a running start you could jump over the line with the ball but you had to release it before landing on the ground. No forward passes. On defense, if you tagged the player with the ball they had to stop running and get rid of the ball in 5 seconds. There were more rules but that was the gist of it. We played a tackle version as well which was a blast.
For winter games, we would make these crazy tournaments. One event would be “diving” (who could do the coolest tricks/flips off the roof into the snow). We would drag trees/big logs out of the woods and build grinding rails for our sleds in our “freestyle” events. “Bobsled” by building banks and pushing a canoe and jumping in to try to complete the course. Oh, and tube smash haha. Everyone but one person would have an inner tube and scatter down a hill, and one person would just sprint all out down the snowy hill and try not to get leveled by the people with tubes. Somebody always went flying. Good times.
jaythaprxphet · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the 90s and early 2000s, my childhood friend and I would play "advanced Nerf" in my parent's basement. We had a huge collection of Nerf guns accumulated over years of birthdays and things like that, so we would play a Nerf game similar to Counter Strike (before we knew what that was) where we would buy the guns, defenses and armor with Monopoly money.
We would place all the guns on a table nearby, and build small forts out of pillows and blankets and chairs, starting out with smaller pillows first and no weapons.
The first round involved trying to destroy each other's fort with pillows. Whoever destroyed each other's fort first won more money, while the loser won a smaller amount of money.
The second round, we would take 5 min to buy a NERF gun, bullets and buy repairs to the pillow fort.
Later rounds we'd graduate from pistols to rifles, pillows to couch cushions, and start buying armor (bicycle helmets and taping pillows to arms and chest. Worth 5 HP each!). We'd play that game for hours, and sometimes all night during sleepovers. That was a really fun time in my life and I remember it fondly.
I remember my childhood friend would win often and we'd laugh so hard because he'd stack multiple bicycle helmets and baseball caps on top of each other as he wore them to show himself "prestige-ing" and would have 6-7 things on his head. He called it his final form lol
salasard5 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prevent the balloon touching the ground
(Still play it)
tim-whale · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would take put my dirty underwear on the ceiling fan and whoever it hit would lose and have to put it back up.
Imagine the surprise on my friends faces when I tried making them play it one day
bixbyfan · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’d run into the bathroom when my big sister was in the tub and start peeing in it. When my mom gave me “the talk” years later, I freaked out because I thought she meant that peeing on a girl got her pregnant.
ASarnando · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Enderman Tag, it’s basically tag but if you look into IT’s eyes, you’re IT
FlyingDan93 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dont Laugh, Silly Story. My sister and I would play this and just tell an absurd story to get the other person to laugh.
Foxiest_Ahri_EU · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing too crazy but we used to play a game called "Beuken" which i guess would be dutch for "crushing".
Basically, all but 1 of our friends would group up in a line outwards from a wall whilst the 1 friend that's not in line would crush as hard as he could into us so we'd be sandwiched between the wall and him. 1 of our friends was pretty big and heavy so it was safe to say we were in allot of pain if it was his turn to be the crusher.
We were not the brightest of kids..
*rephrased sentence
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played a game that I sort of made up all from playing mechwarrior as a kid. We would throw the tennis ball at each other and whatever was hit, you "lost." An arm, a leg, you can't use that appendage. I think headshots or body shots were instant dead, but I don't quite remember if there was anything more to it than that.
Nach0_Business · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played freeze tag on the lines of the basketball court and called it pacman Basically pacman froze people who were then roadblocks, you couldn't pass them because you had to stay on the lines but neither could pacman so if you got a roadblock either side of you with no way for pacman to get in. You won. It meant pacman couldn't just go around freezing everyone, they had to be strategic.
darkenraja · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from cars. When my friends came over, we would wait until night time and go to the front yard. When we saw some headlights approaching from behind the crest of the small hill our street was on, we would have a few moments to try and find a place in the yard that would partially obscure us from view. It couldn’t be too obvious like hiding behind the fence or the cars in the driveway, but I remember hiding behind small bushes, lying down behind a rock or climbing the tree and hiding in the scrub and then trying to keep perfectly still. Pretty sure the cars could almost always see us, but it was a bit of a thrill anyway as little kids.
notorious98 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
You mean like the game I played with Uncle Larry?
Edit: We used to have BB gun wars where we would shoot each other with BB guns. Safety glasses/goggles were a requirement.
BAC0NxANDxEGGS · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to stage wrestling matches between pennies. Usually have some sort of tournament and let the supreme penny rule all.
avocategory · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The name of the game is Potato. In potato, all the players gather on a couch, which they pretend is the inside of a potato. They’re a famous rock band, trapped inside this potato. There’s no escaping or anything, and no exterior stimuli, just living your lives as a rock band inside that potato.
I played many, many hours of Potato in the basement during elementary school.
computer_crisps · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would settle things by playing the counting game. One of us would say a random number and the other one had to answer with a number greater than the last one by at least two but not my more than ten, without stuttering or pausing. Sounds easier than it is.
I know it sounds nerdy but we eventually had to grow out of spitting on the remote and throwing it to each other.
doowi1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I barely remember this but when I was in 6th grade or so I went to daycamp. The day was split up into activities, some of which had us spending a lot of time in the forest. During the break between activities, a couple kids sat down on some logs and began placing sticks and rocks in the dirt. Four of them began to "play" this complicated dungeon game. I honestly forget the rules but I recall acorns being player pieces, there being a minotaur you had to avoid, Medusa who would turn your player to stone for a set number of turns. I really wish I remembered how to play because I've been wanting to replay it for almost a decade.
fix-me-up · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to tie my feet together and swim in the pool ‘like mermaid’. I would ‘swim’ more like ‘limp’ away from the pool vacuum and pretend it was a shark. My parents would get mad at me for ‘almost killing myself’, so I usually did this when no one was home and when I wasn’t supposed to be in the pool. I’m lucky to be alive given all the stupid shit I would pull.
GreenMike7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends at school played Zombies. One guy started off as the zombie while the rest of us where armed humans. The zombie would try to sneak on the humans and "bite" them. If a human got bit they would lay down for some time and after that they would come back as a zombie. The humans could "shoot" the zombies with their finger guns and everyone did a great job of pretending to getting shot at and falling down, giving time for the humans to escape. Loads of fun.
Meljusenr · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My step-sister and I used to share a bedroom. We would pretend that we were orphans living in a terrible orphanage and every night we would talk to our friends in the walls and plan our escape. We pretended the hallway outside our bedroom had a laser grid we had to maneuver to get to the kitchen to steal scraps of food.
YoManImSkinnyPete · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Hobo Run on our school playground back in the day. It was basically Tackle Football, without the ball, and a mix of Cops and Robbers. There were the Hobos and the Hobo Catchers, who had to tackle the Hobos and keep them held up somewhere, while the hobos broke them out. There were alliances and betrayals and a secret team called the Money Bags team. It became a lifestyle for several months untill a girl broke her arm, or someone called someone a dirty hobo mid class, and we were forced to stop. But we’d always start back up the next year.
YoungDiscord · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm about to find out that a lot of people were touched in places by their uncle aren't I
Ekzunakka · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would run through a fairly magical-looking area of the forest near my house pretending we were fairies. We had fairy names for each other and everything. We also would harvest wild chives growing in the forest and make chains out of them - you know, in stead of flowers like normal kids.
Cyanide_Kitty_101 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game I called 'Prey.' No, not the video game. Basically, one person was the prey, and the others were predators. The predators had to catch the prey but be on all fours until pouncing, which had to be a leap up and tagging the other person. No tackling was allowed. Predators also had to spread out. The prey had to get to a a designated safe spot with no running allowed, only walking. The predators were only allowed to move at a steady crawl when the prey was not looking at them, peripheral counted enough that two close-together predators had to remain still if being watched. If looked at, the predators had to freeze in their tracks. Prey could only move forward if looking forward where they were going. So, it was kind of a strategic red light/green light and tag mix, but we all acted like animals, too.
hman1025 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shopkeeper” my bigger friend would stand in a doorway, and I’d charge him and try to get through
somehair666 · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm. There was a drainage tile that ran between our house and where the pig lots were. During the summer when I was 8-12 years old I would spend my time playing chef with the plants that grew along the tile. The unique part being that a main “ingredient” was poison hemlock.
LordDenino · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played siege with my friend in my basement. We set up forts out of like pillows and chairs and just fucking launch shit at each other. Probably the heaviest thing was a basketball. It was fucking great. The mess was bad though.
BubblyIntention · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catch the Bee. When I was in elementary school I used to catch bees in my hand to feel them flutter around and then open my hands to let them go. We had a pink flower bush that we called the bee bush because a lot of bees was always hanging around it. I didn't realize bees stung, until one of them decided to take one for the team and sting me. Lesson learned lol.
bixbyfan · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baseball with a golf ball. We called it Heads Up.
CrowDolly · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
we loved harry Harry Potter and so played a game called "filtch" we had bases set up as the houses, one spot labed the library, one the dungeon, and the rest of the area were the grounds. it was basically a modified manhunt, where filtch had a flashlight, and a stuffed cat that meowed really loud if you stepped on it. At the start, everyone hides in their house, and filtch hides his cat and an agreed upon item that you have to find. If he catches you out of your house you go to the dungeon. your housemates have to break you out and get you safely to your dorm. at the end of every round, the house that got the item gets a point. if you didn't save a housemate you lose a point, and they become filtch. whoever has the most house points by dinner time lol jk by the time you guys quit playing, wins!. we had a whole neighborhood with a community backyard and different kids play houses to work with. so much fun!
edit: when it got bigger, we added "ghosts" who would help filtch find and capture students. totally forgot about that though.
TL:DR - Offshoot and built up game of manhunt involving a harry potter theme!.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See who could shit their pants the fastest after supper. Father usually won!
Karaethon22 · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were really little, we used to go "sledding" down the stairs. The best sleds were these lap desks we had for coloring. Smooth plastic surface for writing, beanbag cushion for your lap. Flip it over and that motherfucker was built for speeding down a carpeted staircase. Of course, that only worked when we were small enough to huddle on it, but with a good shove, there was legit air time. When we outgrew the lap desks, laundry baskets were an acceptable substitute.
OprahHasMyDVDPlayer · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my friends, neighbors or siblings would play this game called bloody wolf. One person was the "bloody wolf" and would go hide somewhere in the yard at night. We had a pretty big yard and lots of trees and bushes so it made it fun. After a countdown everyone else had to split up and look for the bloody wolf and you weren't allowed to stick together, you had to split up. The goal of the bloody wolf was to tag the hunters, whether it be by sneaking up on them or getting found and chasing them. Whenever the bloody wolf was spotted, whoever spotted them would yell, "bloody wolf!!" and everyone who heard it would try to sprint back to the safe spot as the bloody wolf was casing whoever they saw, usually the mailbox out front. It was such a fun adrenaline pumping game as a kid. Playing at night made it so much better.
Bulldog553 · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings had always wanted a trampoline so when we finally got one we were very excited. We would spend hours everyday playing in the trampoline.
One day we came up with a game where one person lays on their back in the middle and tries to “tag” everyone using only their feet whilst the others try and “juke” the tagger.
This game had many childhood rules (that of course we made up on the spot) but was also very fun and reminds me of the simpler times in my life.
jebtheinfamous · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nunya
Snowbattt · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I got out of bad and removed the plug, I imagined the bathroom would explode once the bath was drained so I had to make sure I was dried up and ready before that. I knew it was bullshit, but I played that for years.
TheEnigmaniac_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and me would make an airplane course. We would build paper airplanes and take turns at different segments in a room. For example, “your plane has to touch go around the corner in order to progress”. It was the greatest fun 8 year old me would have for hours
TheDdogcheese · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finally, an opportunity to talk about the game myself and my siblings called “Trash Can”.
The game was simple. We had a large plastic trash can that had a cover that slipped on sort of like a Tupperware, so if it was put on it wouldn’t fall right off. One of us would get into the trash can, and the others would secure the lid. The others would then proceed to spin the can around, and then drag it on an intricate path around the yard/basement/house/wherever we were playing. Eventually they would stop, and the player in the can would have to guess exactly where they were, based off of an attempt to remain oriented the whole time.
Fuckin’ Trash Can. It was awesome.
themonkery · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play pokemon with my brother in the backyard. Except it wasn't pokemon, we just made up our own creatures and gave them whatever power we wanted then made up the bad guys and fights as we went. The weirdest part is that we would only ever play this on the trampoline.
ladygrey2456 · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek in the dark. Inside with the place as dark as possible (obviously lol), no one was allowed to stand. And the person who was it had a towel. When they found someone they had to wrap the towel around the other to make them ‘it’ We had so much fun crawling and crouching while trying to remain quiet.
SageBus · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stellar Conquest III (1994). Such a gem from the past.
https://www.old-games.com/download/5593/stellar-conquest-iii
Caobei · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja ThunderCats, a variation of hide and go seek played in our neighborhood. You had the powers of you character (which you were most likely assigned because the bigger kids took the adults first). We hid but could use special powers to get out of tight situations. We played over the backyards of many houses, it was the bomb.
Dom_Flannel_Guy · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After watching The Godfather, we became somewhat obsessed with Mafia antiques. For about a month, we started our own family and had training drills. (I.e. dodge rocks, scale playground, etc.) Never amounted to anything but it was definitely something.
Rasheelog · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boogle. yes boogle. you get on your knees and try and sideswipe the opponent until they fall over. We got to the point of creating a storyline involving a nationwide banning of the sport and it only occurring in underground rings. One time me and my cousin my age went up against his older brother, in one swipe he threw us both across the room. Magnificent.
Poochie88 · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were a little more grown up and had access to cars, we would play something called “hostage” you’d have two teams split up between drivers and hostages. After setting up boundaries the drivers would blindfold the hostages and drive them wherever they could given the 7 minute time limit. After making tons of unnecessary turns and dropping their hostage off, the game was to locate all your teams hostages and make it back to the home base before the other team!
SaraCoffeee · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Start tripping!
Spin in circles while staring up at the stars until a friend shined a flashlight in your face unexpectedly. It makes you fall flat on your back. Super fun!
Forgotmypasswordaww · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At (around 12years old) school Lunch we used to play "Valley of death"
In one long corridor around 25 students would line up along either side to create the valley of death. Then someone stupid or brave would step up and try to make it from one end to the other while everyone else basically beat the crap out of them.
There was a BIG guy who could get pretty close. At that age people are pretty varied in size so it could take a group of 6+ little Fellas pushing against the big guys chest just to slow him down. Throwing people over his shoulder as he went like an ogre.
So much fun. Some amounts of blood.
winterwinmau · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every summer all my cousins would gather in one house for weeks. We would gather all the cushions/pillows in the house and lay them on the floor. One person would be picked to be 'on'and would wait outside, and the rest would lay down on the make-shift bed and be covered by a thick layer of blankets of duvets. The lights would then go off and the person that was on would walk in, and jump on the mass of people and blankets with the aim of trying to make them make a noise, they'd then be out and you team up until there's only one person left. Game ended with my brother breaking an eye socket courtesy of the people's elbow. Good Times
ConcreteJungleMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tiger! We had a trampoline with a net growing up and I would pretend to be a tiger lunging at my little sister and her friends. Funnest part was leg sweeping them into oblivion.
Th3Ph3n0mnl1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shadow boxing. We literally just turned off the lights and started swinging our arms around. We stopped after one guy got a nosebleed.
mc395686 · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh one more: Pool Spoons.
It’s spoons (the card game) but with clear plastic spoons. Every spoon that is used (the ones you grab) are thrown into a pool but one. On land you play spoons; whoever gets the 4 match grabs the one spoon on the table and everyone else dives into the pool looking for the rest of the spoons till someone gets out. Clear ones work best because you can’t see them underwater.
RetardedmammalGG · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember it rather vaguely because I was playing it with my much older siblings. Well here it goes, all players hold their hands in a circle except one who is called the Demiurg. (Player was chosen by his story-telling and mimical abilities) . This player starts off by narrating the story of despicable Demiurg and finally reveals himself (Ik dumb but kids are dumb). Afterwards we had 5 secs to grab some material which was his cryptonite. (His weakness material was hidden in his story) It sounds really shitty but as a kid it really daunted me. The eery mimics and motions of this creature were just sooo disturbing.
Ufo_underwear · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play "Tornado Drop" where we'd close our eyes closed and arms stretches out and spin as fast as we could in the yard. The goal was to be the last one standing. Lots of accidental bloody noses cause we'd inevitably end up hitting one another haha.
Also, my brother and I would throw thick blankets over ourselves and walk blindly about the house. Sounds dumb, cause I guess we could've just closed our eyes but it changed the atmosphere more while also acting as a cushion in case we hit something.
Sander_Banter · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters still play it today sometimes for old times sake play a game we made called ‘woko’. We’re all on a ripstick/wave board and all have a hockey sticks in hand. There’s one football sized bouncy ball and we have to hit each other with the ball. You get points for where you hit the others. 1 for board and legs. Two for torso and arms. 3 for the bum. 4 for between the legs. Zero for the head.
Scrufflyupagus · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I used to play this game called "Foot Wars" where we'd lay down in the back of the car with our feet together and basically like... push the other person's feet towards them. I'm not really sure what the goal was. Anyway, our mom was finally like "wtf are you guys doing" and when we told her we were playing a game called Foot Wars, she said that was too violent and we needed to stop. So we changed the name to Foot Fun and continued pushing our feet for no reason.
crusty_crumpet_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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Needstohavemyname · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide and go seek tag outside but with long sticks, we called it murderer.
Or tree tag, like tag but in the trees.
Tieing one of us to the hound dog and encouraging her to run to watch the other try and keep up or get dragged.
FamuzKS · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers used to play a game we made up called shade run. When we went outside we had to find a spot with shade and when the clouds covered the sun we had to run and find another shady spot. If we couldn't find another spot before the sun came back out we was out or if the sun hit us we was out.
Kawaii_PotatoUwU · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/suspiciousquotes
Taskforce58 · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved airplanes as far back as I remember. When I was a child whenever I get in the family car (always in the back seat) I start pretending I'm a pilot going through the start up routine - turning dials, flipping switches all over the place. Even made my own sound effects of jet engines starting up. And at the time I've never even been in an airplane!
FlutestrapPhil · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to line up two parallel rows of paper towel squares on the floor with the row on the left having one more paper towel at the front. I would then put one stuffed animal on each paper towel and sit myself on the one at the front of the row on the left and pretend I was a bus driver and the stuffed animals were my passengers. The really weird thing is my mom didn't realize I was autistic until my junior year of high school.
issiautng · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had these buckets for our stuffed animals that we were big enough to fit inside. We'd take turns rolling each other down the hall in them. We called it "Washing Machine."
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My gran has a jar of cotton wool balls she uses to remove her make-up. I locked myself in her bathroom and stuck them up my asshole, because the colours appealed to me.
iknowthisischeesy · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Around end of May, when monsoon began in India, we used to run around with a bag to collect the mangoes that used to fall when the winds blew wildly and one of the rule was whoever got hit on the head with a falling mango that mango belonged to them and no one else.
During summer we used to go swimming pool. We used to divide teams in two and then one team would hide a coin, or anything small really, and the other had to find it.
We used to play hotel. Made utensils from soil and used various leaves to make different food and used to dig a trench and pour water in it and that was our Chai.
Also remember the show Legends of the Hidden Temple? We tried our best to recreate the whole thing on our roof, did a pretty job actually.
Ah, good days.
4zho · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it “Paper Armies.” I’d draw fantastical creatures on paper, color them in with color pencil, cut them out, and flatten them under a dictionary for a few hours to get them perfectly flat. Then I’d have wars between the left-facers and the right-facers, using the patterns in the rug as terrain. Because I hated creatures overlapping, ground units always fought 1v1 with a few units each for air support. At one point I cut out a dragon and dragon wing separately and stuck a pin in the connecting joints so that the wing could move. That thing was my prized possession for awhile.
MackDaddy_Khalil · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I would play this game where he would sit me on his lap and then put his thumb in my butt. Then he would show me both of his hands but I could still feel the thumb. It was a pretty fun game.
userisnottaken · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I played "Hitler". It was basically playing house except we were jews in hiding during the Holocaust.
LegendOfKhaos · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would run into walls and try to get the entire front side of my body to hit the wall at the same time, including my face
CircularPR · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I imagined a ray coming from the centre of my forehead and tried to point my head so the the ray would either hit the corner of the room or the floor (pointing your head straight down doesn't count), because then nobody could read my thoughts.
W360 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jungle Pong, it was a version of ping pong that could only be played in a large basement with a concrete floor. Basically it was regular ping pong but the ball had to bounce twice on the floor to score a point and you could hit it into the net.
fix-me-up · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I taught my friends about ‘jet riders’ where you would pleasure yourself on the jets of a pool. The name of the game probably damn near killed my parents as it came from an argument they had where my dad yelled ‘We’re raising a fucking jet rider! This needs to stop.’
AronJanet42 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends grandpa had an apple tree in his back yard, so we'd play dodgeball with apples. Dodge apple, if you will.
lunalives · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You Go This Way I Go That Way
The first floor of our house was basically laid out like a big circle. As in, you could walk in the front door, go right through the kitchen, go right again through the dining room, another right through the living room and wind up back in the front hall. There weren’t any doors separating the rooms, so my brother and I devised a game where we’d run in opposite directions and either bang into each other, or hide behind furniture/in the hall closet/at the top of the stairs and pop out and scare the other one. Then we’d start all over.
I might text my brother “You go this way I’ll go that way” and see what happens. We were like 9 and 7 the last time we played.
jworsham · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Roam the Bee”
I still don’t fully understand the game mechanics, as I was about 8-10 yrs old when me and my cousins played it.
The basic concept was freeze tag, but with a very weird back story involving a princess, knights, and a main character named Roam the Bee. I have no idea why.
chevymaliburumcake · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dinosaur. My sister and I grew up in a very rural area with about an acre of land at our disposal. Coincidentally one of our favorite movies was the Land Before Time with the "long necks" being our favorite dinosaurs.
We would go out into the woods to find the perfect dinosaur stick; a long straight branch that would resemble a neck. These dinosaurs would drink from the creek and fight each other like giraffes.
Kids are weird.
b0ingy · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie: Kinda like tag, except when you get tagged, you become another zombie. It continues this was until only 1 non-zombie is left. Then that person is the next zombie, and the game starts again. Also, the zombie hides a talisman somewhere. If found, it can be used to convert a zombie back to a person. If the talisman is found, the last zombie standing is the next zombie.
We’d also go to the mall and play “spies”. We’d pick a random person, and tail them. We were actually pretty good at it. Never got caught.
JamesWhitte · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play ‘sumos’ on the concrete netball court in our school. 2 people would stand on either side of the shooting circle, then the other kids would do a countdown “3, 2, 1.... zumooooss” and we would fight until we pushed our competitor to the floor and pinned them down for at least 5 seconds with all the kids doing countdown at the end. It was absolutely brutal.
yzRPhu · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would push each other down on the bed nearest the windowsill. Only one person ever lost, needless to say there was blood.
theoverture · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guard and Ninja.
Rules: Two person game. Nighttime. Outside. Most fun in foggy weather, or a dark cloudless night with a new moon. One person is Guard and he hides a box. Other person is ninja tries to find it without being spotted by the guard. If the guard spots the Ninja, he alerts and earns five points. If the Ninja can approach the guard without being spotted and make it within five yards, he can "kill" the guard and earn 1 point. If the Ninja finds the box, and escapes without being spotted, he earns ten points. Switch sides after either earns points. Both players typically wear all black, and the guard carries a flashlight. In retrospect we should have forced the guard to hide two things to even the game or expanded the game to include multiple ninjas, since I don't think anyone ever found the box.
Fakesighs · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game we called "Zaku Zaku" for no other reason than we were obsessed with Gundam in middle school.
It was played on a set of metal bleachers that were 5 seats high. A person would stand on the middle section. The other players would try to make it to the top and back down without being tagged by the person on the middle step. Tons of fun and only a few kids fell off the top or tripped with their face straight into a step.
WhyNotDoc · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Old AOL games, God memories.
Cozimandias · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else play Tan Ass or Fumble? Same game different name. It's kinda fucked up and might just be an English thing
Backshot14 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the neighbor guy my age used to just put nails into a 2x4 for hours.
Wasted a lot of nails and always thought we were building awesome furniture or a house, but at the end of the day it was one piece of wood with a bunch of nails.
SpaghettiNYeetballs · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone ever play "Dickass" with their uncle?
Fist_full_of_wangs · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend the grass in my yard was a city with massive towers. I would pretend objects i found were spacecraft and fly them over the city.
thiccthixx6 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would make a whole town out of chalk on my very big driveway. It had a grocery store, gas station, library, you name it. Lol! We would drive around the roads on our scooters, that was my favorite. Every time it'd rain, we'd draw it again. My dad was not happy lmao
MySlamWillJamOn · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I uses to role-play furries with super powers. I think I was a monkey that could spit bullets.
Oblivious_Meme · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just threw shit at eachother Whoever got hurt lost
RAproblems · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play "I'm in Charge" which is where you forcefully dunk the other under the water in the pool while screaming "I'm in charge!!!!". I don't know what was wrong with us,
jekke7777 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't remember the name, but there was a star wars game in the age of empires format. With several expansions, campaigns, heroes and factions. Including gungans. Fun as hell.
WelcometoHale · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
King of the Hill!
There was a large hill in our neighbors back yard, you would run up and try to be the only one on the hill.
It was 5/6 kids just throwing each other down the hill over and over.
katemonkey · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Lava Monster
It was a variation of tag. The people could only move on grass, because the sidewalk was lava, but the monster could only move on sidewalk.
So people jumped around from grass bit to grass bit, and the monster would be trying to grab them to turn them into the monster.
Or the people would accidentally step on the lava and become the monster.
Either way, you had the monster, you had the people, you had the lava, and suburban Southern California was never the same.
Toast_91 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I played this game called “what is my dad going to do while drunk this time?” Hit me? Berate me? Turn into a religious zealot for the next month? Talk about how he can get my mom back? Give me money? Break things? Talk about killing my stepdad? Say my mom is a whore? Or be super nice to me? The suspense was real.
GzusPhuckinKryst · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "monks in hoods". It was just throwing sticks and rocks at each other
RuinerOfDays777 · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A group of my close friends in middle school would stay up late so the parents were asleep and play this game where we would each try to make the worst concoction we could using ingredients from the fridge, and then at the end we each got to dare each other to do something or take a drink. Some of these ended up being made with like horseradish, soy sauce, mustard, pickle juice, etc. Pure toxic barf juice
We used to make each other eat raw eggs or worms, moon people in traffic, drink liquor and whatever else. It was really just laughing at each other's torture more than having fun lmao
Diglett_digg · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buddy had a long ass hallway with a door in the center. We’d run down as fast as we could and had a person in the doorway with a tennis ball. You’d have to hit the person running down the hallway past the doorway. Pretty tough. Miss time like this. Also threw darts at the ceiling while laying down on our backs. Not the smartest game to play.
phonlyone · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suck the priest.....
Squibblus · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Amoeba man. One of my two brothers and I would slowly walk around with a duvet covering or heads, moaning “AAAMOOEEEEEBAA MAAAAAAAANN”. The other two have to try and bring him down without being caught in Amoeba Man’s clutches.
Fenimore · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock wars. First person to get both of the others socks off wins
cgautreau · 1 points · Posted at 15:35:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sonic Unleashed
preciousray8 · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play chef. There was three of us so we had cooking shows like cook offs with one of us as judge. We would grab things like grapes, weeds, flowers any thing we could use to make up a "dish".
Grokent · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I managed to rent a nintendo game called "The Wall Street Kid". I became fascinated by the stock market and decided I'd pretend to have $10,000 and trade stocks in the newspaper.
Every morning when the newspaper came I'd ask for the stocks section and my family would wonder what the fuck was wrong with me and why I was so excited to see the stocks section.
I kept a ledger full of transactions for over a year, full of multiplications and divisions on how much I made day trading stocks.
Schaule · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This question just made me remember the game "Sven Bømwøllen". Totally forgot I ever played it until now (I was like 6 or 7 years old), didn't really know what it was about. Its basically a game about sheep intercourse.
dankdaycare · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would all gather every Saturday night at the stop sign in the middle of our neighborhood to play an intense game of manhunt. We would select who would be “it” and start counting to 100 at the stop sign. The rest of us would all the then take off all around our neighborhood and hide in backyards, under cars, in big ole bush boys, anything, you name it until they either found us or we made it back home to base. We played no puppy guarding but being kids, it still happened, all the time.
Edrondol · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark Dodgeball.
At my church there was this playroom that was chock full of toys. you could hardly walk around without stepping on something. This room was on the ground floor and had no windows. If you turned off the light it was so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
We'd all stand at the door and throw these kickball things around the room, then turn off the lights and scatter. The game was dodgeball but in complete darkness. After the initial scattering, there would be utter silence as we all tried to figure out where the other people were. Someone would make a noise (by throwing something or accidentally stepping on a toy) and the room would erupt in movement as shit flew everywhere. It was chaotic and fun and I'd probably still play it today.
1MellowFellow · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "speed bump" where we would lay down in the middle of the road until a car came and we would all scream speed bump to see if they would stop. Surprised none of us died.
Volsunga · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We inadvertently invented tabletop wargaming except with Beanie Babies and using the furniture as terrain. We made up the rules as we went along and which animals could do what. It got pretty complex at times, with cover and elevation, command morale and zones of control. Never wrote anything down, but it was basically Warhammer for ages 5-10.
mic_strangeler · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I had six brothers and we were “homeschooled” for several years although my mom and dad both worked. We would play a game we called blind mans creek. We would gang up on one brother and throw a large blanket over them like a net to catch them and then hold them under the blanket and hit them with broom sticks lol we loved it. We had another game called mouse in which if one brother was asleep someone would sprinkle shredded cheese on their stomach and make on the younger brothers eat the cheese off the stomach and if they woke up the sleeper they got blind man creeked. Pretty weird but we all had fun
gloomynebula · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would go on the trampoline, and one person would be covered with a sheet and try to grab the other person. It was all fun and games until that one clumsy friend fell off the trampoline and told the adults. We weren’t allowed to play “the mummy game” after that.
kingdommaerchen · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game was very popular when I was still in elementary. It was a childish game, typically played when you’re having a lame, boring class.
The game’s usually played between 4-5 players. So, first, everyone gets themselves a small piece of paper and write a someone else’s name, e.g. a mutual friend, a random teacher at school, X’s mum. without telling each other. After folding the paper several times to hide their writing, each player would then have to pass their paper to the person next to them in a circle.
Next, each player writes a random verb. Here, we all try to be unique and choose a silly verb like “swats”, “is licking”, “is sitting on”, “is leering at”, “is sucking”, “is ogling”. Fold, and pass the paper again.
After that, each player writes somebody else’s name but with ‘s (I don’t know the appropriate term for it so forgive me), like “Karen’s”, or even “her/his own”. Again, fold and pass the paper.
Then, each player writes a random body-part noun. And yes, you can guess what curious twelve year old kids would typically write: “ass”, “boobs” etc. Fold and pass the paper again.
Last one: add a random adverb like “incessantly”, “day and night”, “with all his/her might”, “happily”, “to his/her heart’s content” etc. Fold and pass the paper.
Each player then unfolds the paper and reads it. The resulting sentence is therefore a result of the creativity between all the players and without teamwork, wouldn’t result in a ludicrous, humorous adage!
Because our native language has a different word order to English, the third and fourth step is reversed though. This game brought super nostalgic feelings and my friends and I occassionally played it even in high school. The hardest part was when you had to suppress your laugh after reading the ridiculous content of that folded paper.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soccer with a chair
Nocrya · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and my siblings would either
a) Pretend we were a giant family (two parents and 5 kids) during World War II, my cousin would talk as if it was the news on the radio, my sister would be the mom looking over her 5 kids, we'd cuddle in huge blankets and pretend it was a cold winter
b) Run a restaurant (my grandpa had built a replica of a small house with a frying pan and kitchen), and we'd either be the waiter, the cook or the rich clients.
Thanks grandpas for those amazing times
cmills978 · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nutball: two guys sit across the room from each other or down a long hallway, legs spread wide, and lob a tennis ball at each other's crotch. The ball had to go a certain height (above your opponent's head) so you couldn't just throw a fastball at the other person's crotch. No jeans or long pants of any kind allowed, only thin basketball shorts. First guy to give up loses.
The girls in our group always wanted to play but weren't allowed because, ya know, far less pain
Domtm69 · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my cousin and my neighbour used to go down do an area that was actually a sort flood prevention thing near a stream and it had little collections of trees and bushes that you could go into. They were all separated and we used to be little villagers. One bush/tree thing by the stream was a fisherman's hut, one was a sort of black smiths with a little stump we Hammered on and another was a place for like, gear and stuff. I don't remember in detail but it was super wholesome. We used leaves as currency and long sticks to fish the "sea weed" out of stream and trade with each other.
amodia_x · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guess the color by touch. I remember impressing a lot of people by guessing the color their shirts were under their jackets.. I don't remember how often I was correct and if time has screwed the memory but I feel like I was correct the majority of times. Though my current logical mind is a uneasy by that idea.
TheTinyTim · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Art museum. My sister or I would pretend to be a sculpture and then the other would be a discerning art critic and hate the sculpture and push it over in disgust. That was it. Willingly pushing each other other.
kiwiloverbutallergic · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slobster.
Made it up at a very young age and is a bit like tag, but people join the team of the person and it becomes a manhunt near the end.
Originally made the game up as one of my friendsin pre-school used to dribble everywhere. On reflection i wasnt a nice kid.
bloodraven92 · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to hide and wait to see how long it took the adults to realize I was missing.
naughtylilmiss · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Airmail" - we wrote notes with as many swear words in as possible and then would throw them at one another...
We also built a load of 'dens' in a 30ft hedgerow... but that's pretty normal, I s'pose.
Edit: spelt a word wrong
EvilKittyBoy · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if unique but me and my cousin used to played barefoot mango wars, around 6-8 year old, basically we would walk over shattered glass, pointy rocks, nails, really hot surfaces, and trees and just whatever surface skillfully while throwing worm filled mangoes at each other; the first one to cry was the loser; we'd always end up with something stuck in our feet and we had to take it out and do first aid ourselves.
What is curious about this kind of play is that due to spending so much time barefoot the shape of the feet change; even nowadays, we both need wider shoes since the feet are somewhat more spread. I was born with slightly deformed feet, flat and skinny, but just with that play my bone structure changed and became normal and healthy saving my mom a lot of money in correction, apparently orthopedic shoes vs being barefoot, you can just fix a lot of issues just by being barefoot and let nature run its course.
carl123hobb · 1 points · Posted at 15:36:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I had this game we would play that we called "Chubby". We would take as many pillows as we could, stand at each end of a long hallway and bash into each other with a pillow protected chest bump. A lot of fun and no hospital visits!
ScorchMain6123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play a game we’re one of us had to stalk the others and “kill” each of them one by one by tagging them. You were supposed to try to stay hidden from the others and we usually played it at night so it was basically stealth tag.
hxx6 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have duplo blocks and I would draw faces of Spongebob characters on them. Then I would get a bunch of blankets and chairs and make the bikini Bottom. The weirdest part is that I aways made Larry the lobster super big.
conman1040 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dart tag. We would use a single shot foam dart gun to tag each other with and would run around the house at night in our socks with the lights off and usually a strobe light and loud music playing.
slammer0731 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We got a lot of bouncy balls and all at once threw them into a hallway acting like they were bullets while running through matrix style.
Thelonius_Spunk · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friend and I made up this game called shockers where we would both slide down the big plastic tornado slide together (which generated large amounts of static electricity) and see who could give the other the biggest static shock. Whenever we could create a visible arc of static it was the coolest thing. Good times.
ImpossibleParfait · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nutball anyone!?
selectabl · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brother and I played smash 'em up derby. One would ride down the driveway between the two cars on our crappy old scooter while the other pushed our rusty metal Tonka dump truck down the street. Point was to crash. Don't remember anyone getting seriously injured or tetanus.
Siren_of_Madness · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Instead of hide and seek, we played "Hide and Scare" - the object of which was for the hider to scare the shit out of the seeker before they found 'em.
I strongly suspect this is part of the reason I have worked in the haunted house industry for the last 23 years.....
Aycookie · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Dead Game”
It was a game only I played, and you played by lying down completely covered by blankets and pillows. And that’s it. No idea what I got out of it, but my family will never let me live it down.
ToMadeira77 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make football teams out of pens, use a marble for a ball and VHS cases for goals (in like a H shape). I had various international teams based on the colours of the pens, thicker pens tended to be in goal or defenders, midfielders were slight (used pencils mainly...BUT only short ones) and the forwards were medium-ish. It was 6 a side!
Having a rather good sense of imagination I had names for various players - most of which were completely made up; Tempastilli the Italian star striker, the scandal when he was transferred to France ooof.
kev0h · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would take two LARGE couch cushions and hold them like baseball bats. Then, our respective little brothers, obviously cousins as well, would run at us full speed, and vault off an ottoman. While they were airborne, we would swing our couch cushion baseball bats and just SMASH them mid air, often causing them to twist and tumble in the air, and then come crashing onto the remaining couch cushions we’d arrange into a sort of mat, and land in an awkward position. Amazingly, there were never any broken bones. Lots of laughs and tears though. To be a kid again...
DingleBerryCam · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would pack up two backpacks for a day and pretend to go on a Pokémon journey and would play out each gym battle that we had to face.
o0_bobbo_0o · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Head for the Hills”
My best friend and I, back when we were in 3rd-4th grade, used to play this “game” every Wednesday during lunch recess. Every Wednesday, the tornado warning sirens would test at like noon or something. It was just a few minutes after we’d be let out to play for recess in the playground ever day. It was timed perfectly when we’d reach the park. Once we got in the gate (we were typically side by side) we’d yell “head for the hills!” and we would book it across the playground and field all the way to one of the far corners. (This playground took up a whole city block. Had a track to run and such.) By the time were we’re halfway across, the siren would start. It was extremely loud because it was right on top of our school. The corner we’d run to had an extremely small “hill” for us to lay behind. The ground pretty much shlumped down into the corner of the fence . We’d lay and hide there until the sirens finished. During the sirens, we pretended that everyone else was getting sucked up into a tornado or something. Once done, we just casually got up and walked to the playground.
21 years later we are still best friends and make up some goofy shit.
DelonWright · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well we had a pretty bad hurricane one year when entire forests of trees came down. We essentially played the floor is lava, but while running across fallen trees. Must have played it for years as they never cleaned up the toppled forest. Probably some of my best childhood memories. Many injuries occurred of course.
EdgarAetheling · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BOOMERAXE
One of you has a boomerang.
The other has a plastic Halloween axe.
The court is the kitchen floor, you can open kitchen cabinets to obstruct your opponent.
The puck is the lid of a laundry detergent bottle. You hit the puck with your boomeraxe. You play in slippery socks.
It’s a full contact sport which is more about endurance than keeping score.
xxx_Tanacon · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sheep Dog & Wolf in the PS1.
I think it's called Sheep Raider in America.
Absolutely the best game ever. It's set in the Looney toons universe. You play as the Coyote, and you try to steal sheep from the Sheepdogs view, and into a designated location.
First level is quiet simple, you slingshot from one floating island into another, etc.
Last once is wild, youre in space, on the martians space ship, getting around aliens.
J still remember putting in cheat codes at certain places to get extra levels.
Damn, that was the best game ever for me.
Ampian · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when i was real little, like 4-7, my dad and i would just... throw bouncy balls up and down the stairs. My dad stood at the bottom and threw them up and I would be at the top throwing them back down. There wasn't really a point to the game... but my brother and I liked it so my dad kept doing it I guess lmao
GiftedSon33 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I used to play doctor when i was a kid, it was weird that we had to keep it a secret tho
Vaibhavchandra · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played with my life.
meaty37 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had a massive tree in the middle of his yard. It had to be like 30 feet tall and the branches spanned the entire thing.
We were bored one day and came up with a game where we would kick the ball into the tree and try and catch it when it fell out.
0 bounces: 100 1 bounce: 50 2 bounces: 25
I don’t know why we skipped 75 haha but the ball surprisingly only got stuck like 20% of the time. And we just kept playing the game throughout elementary and middle school. Eventually trying to do trick shots and kicking the ball through certain branches and whatnot.
I’m sure I’d have a lot of fun with it even today.
0530am_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game when we were around 12 where we tied an old door to the back of a quad bike. One of us drove the quad in a big lap of the field while we all tried to stay on the door and tackle each other off it
Impressive_Media · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would hide inside of my neighbour's houses and wait for them to find me.
Solarscars · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt tag. Me and my friends would play regular tag with our butts instead of hands. We thought it was funny because the person tagging people would have to run around backwords.
Pidge_The_Turtle · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother and sister would go on the trampoline and sit jump. If anybody doesn’t know what that is it’s when you jump then land on your but ok a trampoline. We called it a sump. We had sumpathons where we continuously sump, without taking a break or falling, and whoever got out first lost. We would play for hours because we were competitive. It was a big part of my childhood.
ad3420 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FINALLY I have wanted to tell someone this for so long. Me & my cousins made up a game, or should I say the older cousins. It’s called colored eggs. Basically home base was a stand up swing where 3-4 of us would cram onto and one person was the “big bad wolf” so basically the routine is the people on the swing each pick an individual color and a “family” color. The dialogue at the beginning of the game is the same starting with the big bad wolf. “Knock knock” “who’s there” “the big bad wolf” “what do you want?” “Colored eggs.” “What color?” This was always the exact same dialogue and basically if your color was called you had to make a lap around the house without the big bad wolf touching you back to home base which was the swing. Also family color meant everyone had to run. I’m pretty proud of this game.
HMS_Shorthanded · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "shit in a bucket" at my friends house. We would find a bunch of random stuff in my friends backyard, wiffle-ball bats, kickboards, toy firetruck, anything. And set up a garbage bucket at the other end of the yard, then try to toss the shit into the bucket.
Blazemoth · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have this fireworks called "canchinflines" they fly away and whistle while doing so, so, we used them as ammunition for our "Umbrella stick weapons", burnt clothes, fingers, faces. A lot of fun.
BenFoxInTheBox · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Across the street football. We lived in suburbia, and the best place to play football was just across the street. To start the game there were two teams, each on a different side of the road on a driveway. The defending team would have to kick the ball to the other side of the street, attempting to put it out of reach for the other team to catch. If the other team manages to catch it in air, whether it hits a tree or a car or anything, they are now on offense and have as many passes they want to get the ball into the end zone. There were very little boundaries established other than the end zone, so people would often run around the whole neighborhood just to get into the end zone. Often times we had teams of 4-8, so we had some pretty intense games. I remember asking my neighbor to use his yard and promptly kicking a ball into his house that knocked his picture off the wall. Good times!
bill-margera · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer
B0rgore · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't say unique but only hugely popular in the UK afaik.. British Bulldog.
This urban dictionary definition sums it up the best.
heyrak · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "hot plate" game.
Last person to take your hand off the hot plate wins.
We were like six, but our parents still laugh about it. And we only needed one trip to the E.R.
LetsRengo · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend of mine combined Risk and Monopoly into one game. It basically turned into a version of Risk with money in which you could buy additional armies or trade territories with other player.
SgtEri · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doubt this will get much attention, but in 4th grade me and a friend who was in 5th grade would always play this game called S.E.W (he made up the acronym, i made fun of him for it) it was basically a LARPING of us pretending to be heroes. we stopped playing it one day for whatever reason, but now i have the word “hero” associated with him.
purple_kats · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister, & my neighbor would pretend that we had to cut the grass with only our hands. I also liked to play teacher. We would gather all our stuffed animals up as students. Somehow we got ahold of those plastic films from those old projectors that teachers used. I loved writing on them.
high_larry_us · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pile of dirt was fuckin' Narnia. Entertainment for WEEKS.
SomeKrazyGuyUKno · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
When I was a kid there was an inordinate amount of kids playing Harry Potter and others playing Star Wars.
So basically the 4th and 5th grade classes were waving sticks around the playground making special effects noises at invisible opponents. I was one of the Star Wars-kids, I look back at these memories in horror.
But it's always good when others' cringe out-weighs your own. The real embarrassment came in when "Quidditch" was unofficially made an actual sport in gym class. Kids just ran around kicking a ball with brooms between their legs.
Us Star Wars kids looks on judging them as we swung around sticks while making lightsaber noises and pretended to use The Force on things and each other. Boy, were we the cool ones.
bucketman1986 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a spare bedroom in the basement, my sister and I would drag the mattress or and place it next to the stairs and see who could do the best jump off the stairs onto the mattress
J0NNYB0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Definitely okami den
run1t1507 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stock exchange .....can't find it anymore.
andromedat · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SPUD.? SPELLS SPUD
kirby83 · 1 points · Posted at 15:37:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soft stuff war, my bros and I would make fortresses then collect every soft toy in the house, then yell go, then just throw everything you got until you run out of ammunition. The goal to hurt each other but not too badly.
BadAtMostThings · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a really good friend throughout elementary school who had a pretty heavy amount Asperger’s Syndrome and no one else who really wanted to play with him at recess, but was really fun to make up games and play pretend with. Our main common point was videogames, so we would literally make up a game with a level structure, bosses every x number of levels, upgrades, secret powerups/abilities, etc. every couple of months for years, with one of us “playing” and the other essentially acting as a Dungeon Master. Occasionally we had others join in and we’d say it was co-op or something, or we’d have “on-rails shooter” segments on the swingsets. It was a pretty big playground (as far as I can remember, it’s probably smaller than tiny me thought it was) so we were able to do our thing without getting in other kids’ way or being made fun of too much.
I’d like to think I made a difference in his life somehow, as he seemed like a pretty troubled kid with pseudo-violent tendencies that apparently came out mostly whenever I wasn’t around or paying attention (he might’ve just been having an early “edgy” phase though, like I remember him saying that his favorite Sonic game is Shadow the Hedgehog “because it had guns and was realistic”). Last time I saw him was also the last day of elementary school from across the cafeteria, he was crying and more or less avoiding me, and I later learned he moved away that summer. I’m in college now and think about the guy every now and then, I’m sure I could find him on Facebook or something if I really tried but that just doesn’t feel right to me...
gaara66609 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play the "throw small rocks at each other" game with my friends we also had "beat each other up until someone tapped out"
Potatoprincessa · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play a game called flyswatter. My dad would chase us around the house with a rolled up newspaper and try to smack me and my brother as we pretended to be flies flying around. He never hit us hard, and sometimes instead he'd use a spray bottle full of water. Great game and many great memories!
DJ_Gregsta · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play "ready, steady, cook" every weekend together. This usually consistented of throwing crushed up crisps into baked beans, in a bowl, mixing it all up with a dash of ketchup and some melted cheese, putting it over toast and making our own variations with different flavoured crisps. So basically enhanced beans on toast.
Whenever one of our friends came over we made them take part too...until someone decided to throw yoghurt in with baked beans along with chocolate buttons. We all tasted it and yes, it was disgusting.
RyDavie15 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Xbox
thesnilbog · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a couple grade school buddies and I "invented" a game called Mighty Stupid Grizzly Bear. One person was the grizzly bear, his job was to tag the victims. If a victim was tagged they became a bear cub. The bear cubs could not tag but they would tackle/restrain victims for the grizzly bear to tag. Last victim alive won.
Turned into a big hit at my school and we'd have massive 20-30 player games going at recess. Unfortunately, it was also pretty rough game for the victims. After a few injures the teachers kibashed it. It would return from time to time for a few weeks until being kibashed again. Fun times getting gang tackled by a pack of "bear cubs" on the playground.
vrbart · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“boosh”: tag but you had to slap the other person’s butt and yell BOOSH!
ScarletRhi · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play "the crazy mountain game"
One of us would sit on our hands and knees with a duvet covering us, the other would stand on their back then the person on their hands and knees would shake about and try to get the other person to fall off.
CountingWizard · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Make paper boats, set them in a stagnant creek, and practice indirect artillery fire with railroad rocks.
HeroSparkz · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In primary school, my best friend and I would go to the back fence after it rained and find fallen branches with leaves to act as large brushes, we would sweep all of the puddles that had collected together to form a long stream of water and we called it the hoover dam
yellow52 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends all had parkas with orange lining inside. They turned them inside-out and became lifeboat men. I was the odd one out with my dark blue lining, so I was always the drowning idiot who needed rescuing.
Rapsta · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay I might sound like a cunty kid for this, and that's because for the most part I was, but my idea of fun when I was 5/6 would be to get a stool, pick apples off my neighbours tree in the front of the house, return to my house and step on them all to crush them.
10/10 entertainment.
kickit08 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slender man
Loads of kids would go run around a forest and hide from one person that was called slender man pretty much hide and seek. It a hell of a lot scarier and darker
saltywings · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get in sleeping bags and slide down the stairs. We also would add difficulty by throwing the cat in the sleeping bags with us.
bumblas · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to wrestle. None of us knew how to, neither do we know now. We did it on our parents bed half naked, had our intro songs and all that stuff they have in the WWE. It usually ended with my brother banging his head on the corner and crying. So basically he always won. Which is fucking unfair...
Sunnydoglover · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would play “beanie baby wars” where we would knock over a table or a chair for cover and chuck our huge collection of beanie baby’s at eachother. No point system or anything just hit he other person with as many as possable it was the best.
jortt · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Seek and Destroy: Hide and Seek in the pitch dark.
ScuddyOfficial · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Radiata Stories
jayheag7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend used to play bombs away, he’d lay on the floor on one side of the bed and I would lay on the other. we each had a bag of marbles and we’d hurl them over the bed at each other, it was fun until I chipped my tooth. we never played again after that....... good times
nameunknown12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend played a game called sniper where we got a sheet of paper, drew buildings and houses on it and drew little stick figures with names all over it. We would then pick three people and write them down on the back. We would take turns sniping characters on the paper and the first one to kill the other persons snipers would win. We came up with it ourselves and played it quite a bit. We thought we were geniuses.
hellogoawaynow · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game where you pretend a little man is jumping across telephone poles when you’re in the car that apparently everyone else played too and never told anyone about it
SAVETHE2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called Alto. You throw a ball up in the air and call out someones name, then they have to catch it and throw the ball in the air and call another name. If they don't catch it everyone has to run away from them and when they case the ball. When they get the ball they call alto and everyone has to stop and the person with the ball throw the ball at somebody. If it hits them they lose a life. If they miss the thrower loses a life. You have three lives and you lose them all you're out. My dad and older cousins always threw the ball so high up it would hurt to catch it and if you get hit in the face there is no way in hell you are getting back in the game.
A9RAJA9 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some ninja game on the Commodore 64 with the OG floppy disks. Another game where you were a caveman. And a summer Olympics game. I can't for the life of me remember the names of those games. :(
obsoleteformat92 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was bored on a car journey I used to try and time my blinking so that I blinked between cars, or streetlights, or both. Eventually I'd get stuck doing this, unable to blink unconsciously, and it'd give me a headache, so I'd think to myself (God knows why, I was into Beyblade at the time I guess) "3... 2... 1... let it rip... finish now" to snap myself out of it.
Father_Brown_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 6 siblings and I played “Runaway Baby.” One of us would play the babysitter, and all the others would play the kids. The babysitter would go in the closet and pretend to talk on the phone. It was the best part, hamming it up and pretending to be tacky and unobservant. Everyone would run away and hide. After the babysitter was done monologuing, they’d go out and hunt for the babies. If you made it back to your bed before getting caught, you won. I don’t remember how we determined who was the babysitter; probably whoever demanded it the most.
We had loving parents and never had babysitters, so we had to pretend to have inattentive adults raising us.
Powzor · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were quite a few, the top games:
“Weapon ball” was a game we played pretty often. It was a spin on tag/dodgeball, but with a twist. The game was limited to the space of the host’s front yard and the “weapons” were whatever sports equipment they had in their garage. There were two hand “weapons” like a hockey stick, lacrosse stick, baseball bat, etc or you could duel wield things like tennis rackets or ping-pong paddles. You could utilize your “weapon” as a shield to deflect the hit. The game would start out with one person doing the throwing and each person tagged joined the thrower. It was always fun because each house had different equipment available and a varied amount of yard space so the games were each different.
Another pretty unique one was a game involving legos. It was purely coincidence but all my neighborhood friends and I were the youngest siblings. So naturally everyone had an abundance of hand-me-down legos. We would basically do a Minecraft simulation prior to Minecraft’s existence. We would scavenge throughout the “day” with limits to what we could gather then “rest” at night for an allotted time. We’d build up our estates for different purposes, typically just to show how far we could get within the timeframe of a given day of hanging out.
Wow, I really hadn’t thought about this in a while. The rush of nostalgia is nice.
RelevantCommentary · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bug hotel. We would go outside and build little buildings by sticking twigs and leaves and rocks Into the dirt to build buildings and seeing who could attract more customers (bugs).
halfman-halfbearpig · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blob Tag!
It was hide and seek/man hunt but as each person was caught, they became part of the seeking team so the tide shifted gradually and eventually it was everybody looking for one person. It spanned several neighborhoods and sometimes we had upwards of 20 kids playing. There really wasn't a "base" and there was no "out of bounds" so it could last all day.
Mirantula · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drive by.. We would be doing whatever in the front yard, but when we saw a car coming down the street we would pretend it was coming to do a drive-by shooting and we would dive bomb into the bushes to keep from being shot. If we didn't make it to cover by the time the car drove past we were dead.
spoonfully · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the school ditch at recess during winter, we played a game which we dubbed “Donkey Kong 64”. This game did not involve video games.
Players would stand at random intervals on the slope of the ditch, and the other players would roll down the slope (“the barrels”) who we would jump over. How we didn’t smash someone’s face in IDK but it was so fucking funny thinking back on the shit we used to do lolll
supertimmygage · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this silly game called twister with my uncle, we were naked. Gosh the game was so strange...
Micah_Berge · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “Knee baseball” in our tiny basement. It was like indoor wiffle ball/baseball except you played it on your knees like knee hockey and with a squishy nerf ball and one of those tiny souvenir bats. We had to stop playing abruptly when my brother got mad after I tagged him out at home and snapped the bat over his knee.
Slobotic · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Left, right, right, left.
Tapping hands, essentially to make an endless palindromic fractal pattern that keeps growing by orders of magnitude, although that isn't how I would have described it when I was eight.
LRRL = L = L
RLLR = R
RLLR = R
LRRL = L
RLLR = R = R
LRRL = L
LRRL = L
RLLR = R
RLLR = R = R
LRRL = L
LRRL = L
RLLR = R
LRRL = L = L
RLLR = R
RLLR = R
LRRL = L
Now that entire think is a single L and I do it twice again, but reversed, and then once again back the same way again. Then that entire thing becomes one big L, and so on.
Selassie_eye · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was ~8 my family went to a renaissance fair and each got a necklace with a different colored pendant. These colors represented the “magic” elements we were given control of. Me and my cousins then spent the next year having epic magic battles. It was really fun trying to make up spells to help you beat someone. My oldest cousin had fire, and he made it very overpowered. I had “essence” which essentially made me a storm shaman.
VinceMcMan · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster rain
7StepsAheadVFX · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foot fly. We sat on swings and kicked out shoes as far as possible while seinging
andVodka · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Roll'em Ferndock"
My dad and I would stand at opposite ends of the concrete path leading from our driveway to the barn, then we would roll croquet balls down the path at each other.
There wasn't really an objective. The path was narrow so if the balls missed each other it was exciting or if they collided it was equally exciting. The only rule was you had to yell "roll em ferndock" before each roll, 5 year old me loved it!
InedibleMe · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played a game we called “Car Alert” when we were little. We would stand right next to the road and when we saw a car we would yell car alert and then run and hide behind trees and bushes and snow forts until the car went by.
Looking back we had a pretty minimal risk of being kidnapped or hit by a car. So I think I’ll pass this one on to my kids.
plopeiu · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my siblings and I were younger we played a game called “Geronimo.” Essentially we had this giant stuffed chair and we’d roll/fall down the stairs with the chair and try not to get hurt. Other games we had were “Star Wars Bowling,” “Roof and Dead,” and “Avalanche.”
Carver0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Call of dity
myaceass · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Potion/perfume making... I picked all the flowers off my moms bushes and then I put them in spray bottles and I managed to grab some beer and dumped that in and I gave it to my dad telling him it’s better than what he had because it wasn’t smelly
LupinCanis · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were kids we moved across the country twice, and my parents drove the whole trip. We would also go on long road trips to visit family who lived several states away. During these long drives we would get really bored and eventually came up with a game we called "spot the celebrity", in which we would point out drivers in passing cars and say which celebrity we thought they most closely resembled. It was a good way to pass the time, and made those long drives a little more bearable for us kids. Even our parents got into it after a while.
kuz_929 · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Spoonful of Lemon".
My younger sister and I would crawl around in the front foyer using the doorways as "goals". We would take a lemon and wooden spoons and basically play knee hockey/mini sticks with a lemon and spoons.
Winner was the first to get to "a lemon" points (11 points)
6packobeer · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played hunger games in the park Forrest with nerf swords, bows, plastic knifes etc. Also played with food and a circle plan with timers
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Club penguin
RIP club penguin
rileyjamesdoggo · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight Tag in the summers after dark. Not all that unique, but it sure was fun for jr high kids to hang out with friends in the pre internet era.
TheTableMan2034 · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made houses for lady bugs. We drew a bunch of rooms on the driveway and labeled them and then we put a few ladybugs on top and just watched them go room to room
FreeDobbyNow · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mad Dog Mcree
aWiLDMiND18 · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I invented a game called ‘Pig-a-boo’. Basically it was hide and seek, but the hiders had the goal to make it back to home base before the seeker could hit them with a small, stuffed Babe the Pig (like from the movie).
We had a descent sized house so it made it a very fun indoor game. The seeker could throw the pig at the hider or tag them with it. First person tagged or hit with the pig was the seeker next round. 100% would play as an adult.
Aregisteredusername · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was like dodgeball, but we didn’t have soft types of balls so we threw basketballs, footballs, and soccer balls. Many swollen fingers and headaches as a ten year old.
Also used to dig out roads and tunnels in the dirt around my home and playgrounds so my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars had somewhere to drive, race, and park.
dazablue · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends had a mini bike, so we would put a lawn chair on top of a Radio Flyer wagon, and then put another lawn chair on top of that. We would tie the wagon to the back of the mini bike. We would start in the garage, and the person driving the mini bike would tear out down the driveway and around the sidewalk, and the person sitting on the wagon on the lawn chairs would topple over onto the grass. I can't remember what we called the game, maybe how to be really stupid. But it sure was fun.
SuedePenguin · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in 2002 when I was 12 years old we played "Ninja" one summer. It was basically parkour before parkour was a thing, mixed with the basketball game "Horse", and our obsession with video games.
The idea was one person in the group would choose a dangerous jump, balancing act, or feat of strength in the woods outside our family cabin -- then the other boys would be challenged to emulate it. If they were up to the task then they would be awarded points and eventually "level up". Generally the highest level Ninja present would be the leader of the pack and would try to help work up the less experienced or more scared boys to his level.
YelloTrout · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yellow Car."
Anytime you saw a yellow car, be it while you were on the road or just out and about, you said/shouted, "Yellow Car!" I think it originated from yellow being my favorite color, and so i got excited when i saw a yellow car when was younger, as there are already not very many. From there, it just kind of became a thing that we did.
ihopethatdogeatsurgf · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bucking broncos. The neighbors and us would take turns being the “bronco”, which entailed eating something spicy to induce wild bucking. Then a different kid would climb onto the back of the bronco and try not to get bucked off.
Not sure how unique this is, but people look at me weird when I tell it so...
We also had a trampoline. Often times when we would be jumping, there would be a pack of mosquitos that would bug us. It stared with one mosquito, which my brother and I named “Paco”. It came to us, then went away and came back with its whole family to eat us. We started chanting “go away Paco” and made a dance, similar to what you might call flailing wildly, and would do that every time we got back on the tramp to ensure a safe playtime.
I don’t know man.
ktamkivimsh · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents wouldn’t let me have friends so I had to get creative playing on my own.
I used to build stuff without guidance. I would dismantle the radio and attempt to make a hybrid of it with something else (failed), built furniture out of scrap wood (rickety but worked), made nunchucks out of the mop handle (not bad), made hoops out of wire (got smooshed all the time), etc.
asuvalskas · 1 points · Posted at 15:39:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brothers and I were younger (me and my younger bro were about 10-11 and 7-8 respectively), we would play this game with our neighbor we called "The Game". It was essentially larping with hockey sticks and wiffle ball bats. And we would "pick a race" I.e. elves, men, dwarves. And we would form allainces and attack each others territories. Also was an excuse for my older brother and his friend to gang up on my younger brother and I. Eventually someone would get hurt and there would be crying and "going to tell mom". Was fun as hell looking back.
Nafeels · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Police and thief! This is basically our version of tag but with extra steps. Growing up in Malaysia, this game is insanely popular among us kids. So, the setup's like this:
Choosing sides Participants would huddle together and put one of their feet in the middle to form a circle. One participant would then do their own version of eenie meenie minee moe and whoever gets the end of the stick would be the police. The chosen participant removes his foot from the circle and goes to his jail/safehouse. The next player to get the end of the stick becomes the thief, and this process is repeated until all the players' are out from the huddle.
Starting the round The thieves would stay in the safehouse while the police squad stays outside the safehouse within a safe distance. The police squad then initiates a countdown of 10 seconds. If nobody bolts out from the safehouse then the entire police squad wins and the game is restarted.
You're under arrest The squad chases the fleeing thieves. To catch a thief, the police would have to latch onto them for roughly 3 seconds while muttering the countdown of 3 seconds and the phrase "You're under arrest!" If the thief escapes from your latch before the mutter is completed, it's not a valid arrest and he's still on the game. If the police completes it, however, the thief must surrender and stop fighting. The thief is then taken to a jail where some police officers would guard it.
Jailbreak If you managed to read until this part, you'll see why a lot of the kids would prefer to be thieves. The jailed thieves would hold their hands and form a human line. Those who are not arrested yet can make a pass around the station and bail those thieves by touching the hands of the jailed ones. Once they touched, all the thieves would be free and can run back to their safehouses. However, up until this point, only a certain amount of people can stay in safehouses while the rest of the thieves would have to take one for the team.
Endgame If all the thieves go into jail the police wins the round.
ElCaz · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple of my friends and I had a laser/phaser game (we would reskin it based on what we were feeling) where we would run around with our fingers pointed like guns and make laser noises. It was completely honour system based, if you got hit, you got hit and you needed to accept that.
Because it was relatively easy to hit a shot, the game was all about ambushing, sneaking, and getting around corners. It was really fun.
The best part is that when we disagreed about a shot, we would settle it with a foam sword lightsaber battle.
Those friends and I came up with lots of cool stuff. We made up a full set of rules to turn green army men into a wargame. We came up with an economy for our snow fort based on different types of snow and ice, with exchange rates and goods could be turned into commodities.
DetecJack · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sly cooper
Because of how unique to me it was
youcandoit_1234 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and i made up this game we named after a snack we used to eat on special occasions. It was this sticky rice cake our mom would fry around chinese new year. The game was that the person who was "it" would try to remove everyone (the "rice cakes") from the package so they can cook it. The rules were simple. All of us had to hide under a big blanket (the "package") and the person who was "it" would try to get us out of the blanket. Everyone huddled under the blanket would hold the ends of the blanket or try to put all their weight on it so that the person who was "it" wouldn't be able to lift it and pull us out. Such fun times lol
faithinsocity · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Need for Speed but this not unique. however When i played it was too excited. :). Thanks for reminding the old days.
luckyvonstreetz · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played 'saccing'. It's a game where you try to stick your hand as far as you can up someones ass (while wearing clothes) while he tries to shake off the other person to avoid being sacced.
Kind of fucked up, I know.
Starscreen60 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a small and rather dark park below my apartment (more like a poorly maintained garden area in hindsight) with a bunch of trees, mouldy ponds, rocks, etc.
Me and my friend (we were about 7) used to run back and forth climbing / swinging on trees, rock hopping, etc. We used to call it "Spiderman Training".
I'm 23 now but thinking back makes me smile...
memequeen1202 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would try to hide from people in stores
ThereTheDogIsBuried · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoe tag. Whenever there was an event at my church, still the kids would sneak downstairs and play while our parents partied upstairs. Game is simple: everyone puts their shoes in a giant pile in the middle of the room. One or two kids stay in the middle with the shoes while everyone else backs up against the walls. Then the wall kids run around in a giant circle as if this were a roller rink while the kids in the middle hurl shoes at them at full force. Game restarts once all the shoes have been thrown. No clue how there weren't more major injuries, more holes in the drywall, or more parents coming down to check on us and put a stop to that madness.
iscott55 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was in the car, I would wiggle my toes to "shoot" at the passing cars (wiggle toes on left foot to shoot at a car on the left, wiggle both toes to shoot at a car ahead of us)
Another one I did was inspired by Lego Star Wars. You know how you walk around and collect those studs? I would "collect studs" by stepping on those sewer covers on sidewalks.
footyfootyfootball · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When it was raining, I would have a race between two raindrops to see which one made it down the window the fastest
WeirdTexture · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well im 35 and still play it sometimes. If a friend called you fat or stupid or whatever... you could reply "ly thin or ly stupid" thereby making the comment "you are fatly thin". So the game was if you called somebody an insult you had to right away say something else so they couldn't "ly" you lol. "You're so fucking fat. Hey look a tree"
AJTwinky · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend, brother and I used to play on the trampoline all summer. You couldn’t get us off it. We had so many games we used to play on the trampoline, but I think the most unique one would have to be the cartoon hotel.
We’d play as our favourite cartoon characters and we’d all be staying at the hotel (the trampoline). We all had our own room in the hotel, which was just a portion of the trampoline. It wasn’t very exciting but we played it a lot.
PrimalPatriarch · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a 2vs2 game called Newspapers in the Dark.
It requires 20-30 rolled up newspapers and 4 pillows so everyone can have a shield. Both teams alternate picking newspapers until the pile is gone and then you go to opposite ends of the room and turn off the lights so everything is pitch black.
The goal is to hit the other team until someone yells "stop" and the lights have to be turned back on. You can start by throwing newspapers across the room but that also gives your opponents a new weapon. You can talk to your ally and strategize but then your voice will give away your position. It creates funny moments when you can hear two people in a frantic melee because a team has confused each other for their opponents. There is also an odd satisfaction from chucking a thick Sunday paper across the room and hearing it smack someone in the face. No one ever got seriously injured and there are still ink smears on the walls today to remember these old childhood battles.
GrandMoffEvers · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had created our own universe of superheroes living in their own galaxy, called “Diamond Heroes”. We wrote character lists, planets, drew what they looked like and planned out entire stories which we would then act out with each other. It’s been 10+ years since we did that stuff and we still have all the papers for it and everything.
koswatzhu · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pillars" Our house was under construction and it had this concrete basement and pillars raised at that stage. So the game play was, each player held onto a pillar and there was a catcher. The game was for the players to exchange pillars. If the catcher gets to the start or destination pillar of the two runners, ahead of them, the catcher acquires the pillar and the person without a pillar now becomes the new catcher. I invented this and it was a huge hit amongst my friends. I also had additional rules like "skip" to spice it up. And as all of these things go, it ended with me hitting my head on the concrete pillar by running too fast(blame adrenaline rush). Thinking back, it was not one of the safest games to play for a bunch of ten year olds. It was hella lot of fun though..
xhaltdestroy · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a very involved tag style game. My sister, mom and I would run in circles around the chesterfield two would have leotards (tights) on their heads and the person who was it would be wearing underwear on theirs.
The person in underwear would have to try to tag those in “leotards” while those in tights would try to escape by running faster and swirling the tights legs as some kind of screen/nunchuck defenders.
Again, in circles around the chesterfield.
markom1946 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin would face with our backs toward a cornfield. One of us would take a ball and throw it as hard as we could behind our backs. Wed wait to hear the ball hit the ground and then wed go look for it in the cornfield. Needless to say, wed lost alot of soccer balls.
nomad2585 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That asphyxiation game, where you'd breath really heavy and then choke them out until they passed out
photonator19 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you look at your side car window, there should be a little decal with manufacturing information. When I was a kid riding around in my family’s car, I would line up the decal with driveways, other cars, and buildings and pretend to “shoot”them.
AshKing15 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and I used to play a game with a cricket ball in which one player throws the ball along the ground down the ground and the other player tries to catch it before it strikes the wall which was at around 10 meters from us..kinda fielding practice 😁
emiller1227 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone else play Guitar Hero with the road lines?
Yeah, I was that kid on car rides.
HCDannyboy · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would open all the cupboards and drawers in the kitchen, crunch up some tinfoil into a small ball, and use a drum stick to try and hit the ball into different spots. Had a whole baseball game worked out for it...spice cabinet was a home run, counter was a single, etc. Good times pre-computers and cell phones :)
canoturkey · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I grew up poor and bored so we came up south a bunch of games, which is coming in oh so handy as any adult with 2 toddlers. One of my favorites was coming up with awful choreography, song parodies, and recreating an American Gladiators game where one of us would sit on our top bunk with as many sock rolls as we could gather and try to peg the other with them as they made their way through a makeshift obstacle course.
barbadizzy · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighborhood friends and I would play "Curb ball." I just assumed it was well known, but have yet to meet anyone else that played. It had essentially the same rules as baseball or kickball, but it was played in the street... and you'd throw a lacrosse ball where the curb met the street, trying to achieve that perfect angle to where the ball would hit the street, then immediately hit the curb and bounce high and far away like a baseball coming off a bat. Then you'd run the 3 bases and home plate is the spot on the curb where you throw the ball. It was really fun trying hit that perfect bounce...and also added excitement knowing that each turn had to be rushed in case a car came.
Amr5468 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played a game called "5 rocks" in this game we would get 5 rocks throw them above our hand and however stays on your hand is the points you get. "This was 16 years ago"
TheMagicSchoolTruss · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would build a wall of pillows and blankets at the top of the stairs at their house. We would then dive into the wall and tumble down the stairs in a big heap of pillows and blankets. We called it extreme stair fails and uploaded us doing it on to YouTube. Yes it still hurt like hell, and yes we all probably have brain damage from it.
JLo_074 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would pretend to be pirates on our dad's trailer. It's one of those that you can tip back by standing at the end, and let crash down by going towards the front, like a big seesaw. We would pretend we were in a big storm with giant waves making us go to the back bringing the trailer up, and then as the wave crashed, it would bring us to the front dropping the trailer down with a big clang!
The1TrueGodApophis · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pigs. If unique means it was stupid as fuck.
But my. Vintage pigs will make a killing on eBay someday!!! Lol
itsmevichet · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok, so me and a bunch of my cousins (maybe 3-4 of us total, ages 6-9, we were small) would all get under a large blanket and try to keep the people on the outside of the blanket from uncovering us.
The strategy would be to take the edges of the blanket and curl them under us to try to wrap it into the middle so that the only way for us to get uncovered was for the whole group to get rolled over.
Fun game.
XFiraga001 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would get under the couch cushions and have my sister walk up and down the couch.. Wtf.. thanks for dredging up that odd memory yo
Phat72 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Oh man, I have a great game.
Required:
1.Three sticks
2.A yard or open field
3.Friends
We would play this game loosely translated to 'sticks', we would dig a small hole enough to bridge one stick over it. There would be the so called 'thrower', who's job was to launch the stick by using a launching stick that goes under the bridged stick and just yeets that stick downfield, where a group of your friends would battle to catch the stick. If someone manages to catch the stick in the air, he/she must stop where it was caught and try to hit a point stick that is stuck upwards in the ground where the thrower is. If you hit it with the caught stick you get a point. Rinse and repeat, until someone gets to X amount of points. Gets pretty intense. Just goes to show that you could make a game out of anything really.
s00pery00per · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to fernwhack. Basically use anything as a sword to take down ferns (we have a lot of ferns.) there were fields of bad guys.... we ended up finding some fiberglass tent poles that were awesome.
benwah33 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, myself, and a couple of friends on our block would play a variation of tag that we made up on our bikes. The person that was “it” would have to ram their bike into someone else’s in order to “tag” them. You can imagine what the neighbors thought when they saw a bunch of kids outside ramming their bikes at full speed into one another for really no reason. In hindsight, it probably wasn’t the safest game to play as a kid.
Slim_504 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As teens we would play manhunt (basically tag at night with a hide and seek twist) First we would pick a home base usually a car. Then you get a 5 minute head start to hide. Once the time was up the guy who was "it" had to tag you before you could make it to the base. I'm sure this wouldn't go over well nowadays. 15 black boys running around at night.
SirSpooderman47 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
pp in bum game with uncle
reversegiraffe2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The reflex game - A group of people stand in a circle around one person with their arms across their chests. The person in the middle has a ball, and throws the ball or fakes throwing the ball at the people outside the circle at random. If a person outside the circle successfully catches the ball, he stays in the game. If they miss the ball, or flinch when the person in the middle fakes throwing it, they are out. The circle gets progressively smaller and the winner gets to be the next ball thrower.
dogfacedboy420 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle Slippyfist told me not to tell.
Moe_Lester12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a brutal game called Manhunt or sometimes called Hunt the cunt where I'm from is where the person that's it gets to beat the shit out of the people hiding until they get away or join them to be it
Crazee-gaza · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For us it was ‘Wall Ball’ as a group you bounced a tennis ball off of the schools sport hall outside wall, if you dropped it everyone would shout ‘Fumble!’ Then you had to try and race to the wall before someone else could throw the ball at it. If you weren’t fast enough you had to stand against the wall while someone pelted the tennis ball at you as hard as they could then it all started again.
Man we were weird kids.
gumbystruck · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would travel a lot for work when we were younger when my brother and I were around 8-10. But when ever he was home we would play a game my dad called “commando”
We Lived in the suburbs and we would hop our fence in the backyard at night and sneak along the sidewalk along the road. Passing cars were the enemy and we had to hide in the bushes and make sure we weren’t seen. We were dressed in all black and our goal was to make a route back to our house (which was home base) Without being seen. It was so much fun my friends would come over and and my dad would play it with us. We took different routes each time.
Then when we made it back to base we would play Need for Speed underground on our GameCube and jam every time we heard the opening sequence “TO THE WINDOW!!!!” And then we would try to beat my Dad at NFS. My dad is awesome.
AmandaKay0831 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A bedtime game my sister and I when we were small little girls used to play we called “Queenie”, and used a big pillow on our bed to kind of play lay down hide and seek with the pillow till we fell asleep giggling, haven’t thought of this in years ha!
kingevanxii · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dragon going down the stairs" Literally just trying to crawl down stairs inside of a sleeping bag. Most games ended in injuries.
Harroster · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We had one called “Elevator Tag”. It was a hide and seek-ask game we would play at this one resort in Florida that we would go down to every spring break with all of our family friends who had kids my age. The game was set in the center of the resort where all the general hotel rooms were located that was basically 12 stories of balconies in a rectangular shape. you could see all the other balconies from whatever floor you were on and then there was a ton of brush on the ground floor you can hide under. On either short side of the rectangle were elevators (four on one side, two on the other) and then there were staircases on each corner of the rectangle. The game was divided into two teams, seekers and runners, and we had a time limit for each round which was 30 minutes (if you weren’t caught in 30 minutes, you’d win). What was so fun about this game was the fact you could be getting chased and then you are able to run into an elevator at the very last second before they get you and be off to a totally random floor for the seeker to have to hunt you down again. It got very intense, especially since you could see what floor someone was on from wherever you were due to them all being balconies. Very surprised the resort staff never got mad at us.
DaMons843 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to shoot arrows up in the air and try to catch them. The fun was running around like an idiot underneath, no arrows were ever caught.
ZainaTbh · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Hide and seek in the dark but with nasty twists. My cousins and I loved to do this during family reunions or anything that brought all of us together. The house we would always gather at was my Uncle’s 2 acre plot of land. There were no rules on where you could hide, as long as you stayed outside and it was somehow accessible.
The seeker had a flash light and if it was pointed at you, you’d lose and have to help them seek others. Thing is you can move from spot to spot and sneak around. Since we were such a wide range of ages we always made sure everyone had a buddy to make sure no one got hurt or got lost. What tended to happen is the bigger kids would find an amazing hiding spot and hide their smaller “buddy” with them. They’d then leave their companion in the hiding spots as they got caught. It was always hell finding the rest of the younger kids because they were so tiny and hidden at the top of trees or in garbage cans. I remember I once hid my partner under the house. After a while all of the seekers gave up and we all increasingly became worried since we couldn’t find the last hider. Turns out the little kid had fallen asleep down there and I had to go and pull him out.
C4RL0S4576 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego battles for the Nintendo DS. Good god the memories.
Pannycakes666 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll try to keep this short.
Set up all the kitchen chairs in a circle with their backs facing each other.
Cover the backs of the chairs with blankets so as to form a circular tent.
One of us would be inside the tent, while the others would run around in a circle on the seats of the chairs.
Person in the tent can't see anything except the small spaces between the seat part and the back part of the chair (enough to see feet and ankle) had to try and grab an ankle.
When you caught someone they had to fall through the top of the blanket tent, and thus made you the new capture-er.
Falling through the tent was actually pretty harmless but one of us would always fall off the chairs and twist our ankles.
Our parents hated it.
Moe_Lester12 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone else play walk the plank or join the crew?
Rhinosaur24 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers, and neighbors and I all played a game called 'Flick 'em'. Basically we used these awesome toys from the 80's called M.U.S.C.L.E. and lined them up on a table. It was a 2 player game, and each person would take 10 of their MUSCLE Men, and make a wall. We'd flick them across the table and try to knock out the other players' MUSCLE Men.
It actually had a bit of strategy to it, similar to what you see in most multiplayer games today. You'd try to get the bulky 'tanks' (though we didn't call them that at the time) to create a wall up front. and a light guy who you could flick really hard towards the other team, and not hurt your fingers.
I'm almost 40 years old, and I want to go play Flick 'Em right now.
iLeDD · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My much older sibling invented a secret game he dubbed "the quiet challenge" and to spare the details, It was actually just molestation.
ScatteredApplause · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ups! Basically you tossed a volleyball up in the air and you could only hit it while you were jumping. Maybe not that unique now that I've typed it out.
We played another game where we cut into a tennis ball, filled it with lighter fluid, and immediately proceeded to kick it at one another. Good times. Goooood times.
AnonCaptain002 · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make rockets out of aluminum foil and matches and launch them out the window
oh_look_a_fist · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would hide from cars that drove by our house when it was dark. We'd have a look out for each direction, and when headlights were spotted, we'd rush to hide. At the bottom of a hill, behind trees, under or behind our parents cars, in the nearby creek. Really, it was to see who could find the most creative hiding spot OR be the most hidden in an open spot. Forget what we called it, but it was good fun.
TylerTolman · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take a ball and put it on the trampoline and you could play with 4 people max and the goal was to bounce the ball and hit one of the other 3 to eliminate them. Essentially it was dodgeball but you could only use your double bounce skills on a trampoline. Numerous times I took a ball to the sack at full force.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my best friend in elementary school played a game we called "super birdies" with these 2 kids we werent even friends with. it involved running around the playground pretending it was a secret base. it was very stupid.
Xayanort · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made a game out of using two sorry boards. One normal the other Disney Sorry. Had some obscure rules like three sorry pieces on the same space blocked the path and some super strange combat system was involved. You would have to draw a card from the deck and whoever had the higher card got his piece sent back to the beginning. It’s all I really remember but we did have a ton of fun playing it.
dorkheimer · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in Ireland in the 90's (Finglas, for anyone who knows Dublin) we used to play a game variously called I.R.A. or I.R.A. Bash. Basically you'd have two teams. One team had a code word. Each member had a letter of the word. The other team wound hunt them down and beat the shit out of them until they coughed up their letter.
Considering this wasn't too long after the troubles in Northern Ireland I think it's fairly bonkers we were running around pretending to torture people as little baby paramilitaries.
WearyguardsBitch · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a bio younger sister and an older brother. Growing up my dad was with a woman who had 3 sons. The younger two were roughly around my age and the oldest was a good 4 years older. We all used to go out, minus the oldest one, and play survival. My dad lived right across the road from a creek bed and we'd go out and pretend our plane crashed and we had to build our own civilization. We spent many a summer day playing and continuing the game. We explored all over that creek. My dad is no longer with her and I've dropped contact with her and her boys but those are some rare warm memories to look back on.
JohnnyAlabama · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Captain Crunch crunchling adventures and age of empires. I'd pay just to play these games once more.
teargasjohnny · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snipe hunting.
Description from wikipedia: A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch a non-existent animal called a snipe. While snipe are actual birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for an imaginary creature whose description varies.
We would take newcomers out into the woods looking for snipe. This was done in the dark. We would pretend to be looking for snipe as well, but our real intent was to lose them. Everybody had flashlights and we'd turn ours off once we were far enough away. Lost in the woods in the dark? Scared the shit out of me when I got pranked.
Edit: not sure this can be considered a game because you can only play it once.
k2wln · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played “DOOM” when I was 7))
chelefr · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
as kids in nicaragua we had this game where we gamble with coins. the rules of the game was throw the coin against a wall and whoever gets their coin closet to the wall wins and get to keep the looser coins. the coins had to be of the same value to good time !
cheezychad11 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who’s in my mouth
ChefCheryl · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably more dumb than unique but we would have rotten eggs fights. The chickens would lay eggs in the top of the barn but we didn't regularly check there for eggs. My cousins and I, when bored, would go find them and have fights. The one that stunk the most lost!
votriminh · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle would tell me to dig deep into his pockets and have me guess what are all the things that I am able to feel in there. He told me not to tell my parents though.
SugarBagels · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SACball. Baseball in the cul-de-sac where left field was a row of evergreens 30 ft tall resembling Fenway.
Unique setting, not game.
Now sideyardball was more unique. My parents have a brick house. So, the batter would be standing close to the side of the house batting facing the house. Pitcher is further back and throws ball off of house first and tries to get it to arc down in the batters zone. Batter had to hit ball off house with no bounce and run bases just like bball, but pitcher can throw and hit player with ball if not touching a base for an out.
We also played golf with tennis rackets and balls going through our neighborhood trying to get it in different kinds of holes throughout neighborhood like a drainage hood. Had a par 12 near the clubhouse which to this day has never had under a par on it.
baismal · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were 10. Dr X was a villain who would kidnap and strip you naked and torture you. We were the cool kids trying to defeat him. One time we got lost in some really deep woods trying to find dr x. We had issues.
AdressMeAsDirtyDan · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Repost
anshulkush · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sudoku is my favorite game. I always prefer to play it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WAR! We played with BB-guns and outfitted outselves with snowsuits and motorcycle helmets. Tons of fun until the a-hole new kid shows up with one of the new-fangled co2 airguns. The rest of us had red rider lever actions.
Jackattack_42 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game that we called tockey, a mix of tennis, soccer, and hockey. You would hit a tennis ball using a tennis racket in an effort to hit the ball into a hockey net. Change of possession would occur if the defender(s) stole the ball or the attacking team allowed the ball to hit the ground. Normally, we played in my front yard which had a tall tree in the middle of it which added another defender to worry about. Depending on how many people were around we would play both with and without a goalie.
Whenever the game was more than 1v1 we would rip some serious one-time shots! Broke quite a few lamps with errant shots and eventually we were smart enough to have the goalie start wearing hockey goalie pads, because the speed of the shots was no joke!
Rhienor · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing as amazing as many other ones, but I thought I'd share my own one about our game called "To be Continued"
As a kid my brother and I would grab bamboo sticks and role play, with epic storylines and roads to other dimensions with potholes of plot holes and winding journeys through realms ruled by demon kings and empresses hell-bent on destroying us for some vague reason. We would even "warm up" our bamboo handling skills by doing this zombie shooting practice which both of us remember to this day.
Never the same, it would conclude at random points when the words were said, normally by a dying old man who would beckon me closer to whisper into my ear: To Be Continued...
GeekLord3791 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown Video Game
qwertyvip · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I back in the Philippines played team tag. The game is more fun when played with more than 10 players.
If tagged, then you’ll have to hold on to team opponent’s base (i.e pole or car), form a human chain by holding hands or feet (make it as long as possible for the lasting team players).
Untagged players can try to “untag” the tagged team mates by touching the chain and then game resets back to normal.
The best feeling is the rush you get when the 2-4 taggers are chasing are you, but you’re still able to save the long human chain. Feels like you are the savior of humanity.
kerouacrimbaud · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played the "country and city game."
The premise was that we were two special ops guys who each had a unique skill set and team based on where we lived. He was from "the country" so his skills were in tracking, using natural resources, etc. and his team consisted of fellow country folk who were well-versed in that kind of stuff. I was "the city" guy so I had tech skills and a team of guys who worked with me.
We would engage in defending the US from all manner of foreign threats, mainly terrorists and WWII style enemies like Nazis or imperial Japanese forces. We would occasionally get into spats where the country and city squads would disagree on a course of action or something and would have small scale civil wars. Shit was fun.
whiskyydickk · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster in the closet. We had bunk beds. I have two siblings. We would turn off the lights. Two of us would lay in each bed and then the other would hide in the closet. Then the one in the closet would slowly creak the door open and slither out into the room. They would build anticipation and then jump on one of the beds and "scare" the kid as the monster. The person who was picked was the next monster. We played it for hours. It doesn't sound as fun now but as a kid it was a blast.
nanspajams · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I would play a game called Blind Man where one person would go around the house calling out "blind man" and the other person had to cover their eyes with their hands and try to catch the other person by following the sound of their voice.
This resulted in four-year-old me running directly into a door frame at full speed. My head swelled up like a Macy's Day parade balloon and my dad rushed me to the ER to make sure I hadn't borked my brain.
My parents asked why on Earth we thought playing a game named Blind Man was a good idea. I have no idea.
clownbird · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When riding with my parents on the highway, I would find a speck of dirt on the window. By staring at it and moving my head, I made it "ride" the power lines as we passed by them, doing tricks off the ramps and dips the lines made. If you've ever played the old intenet game Line Rider, it was sorta like that, but without the internet, but arguably more fun.
V3D4N7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was in kindergarten at the time , We had a sand pit in out school like almost as big as half of the playground, Me and my friends used to create butt stamps all over the pit in the recess almost everyday, was fun , never got caught probably if would have , we wouldn't be punished.
mygeorgeiscurious · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines. Group of you lay on some persons lawn, one person rings the doorbell. Last one to get up and run away wins.
Myth6- · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made up this game called BTH (Ball-Tag-Hide). We had a small red ball and someone was chosen to be it, and he started with the ball. He would try to hit someone with the ball as that would tag them and make them it.
It was actually really fun and it lasted through elementary school.
notMcLovin77 · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play “Matrix” with all of my friends and we would basically try to do hardcore parkour and then when we got close enough we would go into “slow-mo” more and start mock-shooting and fighting at each other and basically whoever got the first(or, being real, the coolest) shot or hit, the guy on the other team would keel over and act like they’d been shot a million times melodramatically. Eventually who shot first became an argumentative subject that we settled by throwing small stones really fast at each other while in slow-mo. One time someone threw too hard or someone new didn’t know about the stones and the recess-monitors told us we couldn’t do it anymore. I will say I also got hit pretty hard one time and started crying, but I wished we could still play.
I like to think it was “Cowboys and Indians” but with less racial overtones.
There were a million little games like that we played but I forget most of them. I suppose it isn’t exactly “unique” either lol.
negevol · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play vampire family with my friend. We were sisters that are 25.000 years old but looked young (you get older a year once in a thousand years) and we had jobs and handsome boyfriends. One of us would switch places with the boyfriend and we would hold hands, pet imaginary kittens, cooking some blood (hell yea).
We would invite our imaginary friend to our house and do vampire stuff. That was really fun.
We are still friends and meet up once in a while, I am happy that I had a friend lile her when I was a child she would never leave me alone when other bullied me lol I love her
Anemoneanemomy · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d pack a laundry basket full of blankets and pillows, then I’d stuff my brothers in and shove them down the basement stairs. Woohoo!
Theregsters · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next door neighbor and I used to play "fairies". We would wander around her backyard garden leaving little presents for them in secret places and coming back to see them gone or half eaten. We'd walk around for hours singing songs to get them to come out to play with us.
TrumpsMommy · 1 points · Posted at 15:42:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We tied a small log to a tree and hit it with a stick. The game was called “mailman” and I think we were just figuratively beating the shit out of the mailman.
Danisue7 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The opposite of the silent game: who can scream louder. My parents did not like this game.
NullNV01d · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few games at my grandparents house. One we called dark where a large room that had a pool table and ping pong table would get all the windows covered and when the lights went out you had to be the last one standing. Basically run around the room hitting each other. Another didn't have a name but we split up into two teams and one would be at one end of a field with apples and branches and whip the apples with the branches to the other end of the field to try to hit the other kids. We got hurt a lot at my grandparents. My older cousins came up with the games.
silentcremeegg · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play kerby. Two of you stand opposite each other on either side of the road and try to throw a ball off the edge of the kerb so it bounces back to you.
mgneto · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to stand up on a block of cement and pretend that it was some kind of futuristic "wardrobe" with a screen were we could pick the character we wanted to play. I always picked someone from Code Lyoko.
Then we just ran around fighting each other with our character's powers or killing imaginary monsters in a nearby alley.
taupeteal · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I spent a summer in our childhood running a pretend insurance company. We would sit in my room pretending to type on open Manila paper folders with keyboards and screens drawn on. Dressed up in the most business casual clothing pieces we had, we would use a bunch of office jargon and make commercials (without a camera) for our business, usually standing next to my mom’s car with a broken passenger side window and then running around to the driver’s side to show how we fixed it. We were just some poor kids in rural Oklahoma with big dreams of cubicles and claims.
AutisticHelpsYou · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I spent hours imagining a world of which I was dictator and adults were either slaves or dead
Bop23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we first moved to a new house, we didn't have any grass yet, just a huge lot of dirt. My step sister and I would spend hours digging trenches to shoot water down them with the hose. We also made little boats to float down our trenches to race them. This thread is making me miss the simplicity of being a kid
imatotalfreak · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rocking. Just throwing rocks at each other
meowctaz339 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school we had boy vs girl wars that lasted months. It was good sexist fun.
SirTreeTreeington · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an avid summer camper. Sessions were usually 2 weeks. A huge staple for us was rafter ball. Especially days where it was raining and we had to stay inside. There was a main dividing rafter and the ball had to touch the top and fall on the opponents side to count. You couldn't just throw it over.
magster11 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stretch out a tape measure down the hallway. Then roll marbles back and forth and see how fast we could roll them, how many at a time, etc.
Chef_boiyardee · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In our middle school we played a game we called court dom. Basically it was like giant 4 square where u volley a ball back in forth with only 2 squares and we played it on a basketball court that was surrounded by grass so it was easy to tell whats out and whats in. So there were 2 teams on each side of the court and we would play with a basket ball & the line in the middle of the court separated us. Basically the ball could only bounce twice on your side, you can’t hold the ball, you cant touch it twice in one bounce & you have to kick the ball to the other side. There were 2 teams total, each team had 1 half of the court and around 8-10 people on each team. We would all be spread out on the court. So the point of the game is to eliminate the other team. People get eliminated by fault, where say the ball bounces on your side, then off the court & it was your fault, you were eliminated for the rest of the round. It was a really fun game.
bladex70 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play bootcamp. I was the Sarge and my friends where recruits and would follow my orders which usually meant making pushups
Varondus · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique it was, but we called it "gama of square". You drew 4 squares (more like rectangles) on the ground and there was one person per rectangle. If ball hit your square and hit the ground outside of 4 squares, hit your square twice you lose a point or hit the ground outside and you were the last one to touch it you lose a point. If you lose 15 points you're out.
bkills1986 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it ‘Wooden Sticks.’ We had triangular platform built about 10 feet up secured between three trees. There was a patio chair on it that the loser from the previous round had to sit in in. From the bottom, we would hit a stick against a tree so that it would crack in half and the momentum of one of the halves would go flying towards to person on the platform. Whoever hit the person in the chair first was ‘safe’ for the next round. No one got hurt despite the great potential for injuries.
JT420 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
44 home: It could be played anywhere, you just needed some sort of a landmark called ‘home’. Everyone would hide except the person who was ‘it’. The aim of the game was to get to home, touch it and say “44 home” without being spotted, which meant you were safe and weren’t it next round. The person who was it had to look for the other players, run back to home and while touching it say something like “I see <insert name> behind the brick wall”. The last person left hiding had the option to call “44 save all” when they made it home which saved anyone who was spotted and the person who was it had to be it again.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any of those spray painted lines around road work extend forever (like lasers) and you cant step on them (like deadly lasers) so you'd have to remember where all of the ones you'd passed already were pointed and by the end of a longer stretch you had very few places you could step.
DigitalMafia · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brick wars. My brother and I would make little bases and lob red clay bricks at one another. It was fun until the day I took a brick to the side of my head and knocked me out cold at the ripe age of 8. The good ol' days. Thanks for the memories Jeremy
duggatron57 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors and I would play "Submarine" in their upstairs hallway. We would make the hallway completely dark by closing all the doors and we would set their computer screen saver to be fish swimming around.
oh_look_a_fist · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once had a rock fight with the kids across the street. Just threw rocks at each other from our yards. It was hilarious, until I got hit in the chest with the rock. But what do you expect?
Sunnysidhe · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunt the cunt. The 'cunt' had to run and hide and the rest of the squad had to track him down and give him a kicking
BeerInTheHeadlight · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called nightcrawlers. When darkness falls, we became the creatures of the night. Some people think that it would be better with blankets to use as dirt, but I've always thought that was a dumb idea.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My former friends all lived in the same rich neighborhood, with a lot of open woods space. As sophomores in high school, we were obsessed with the hunger games. The leader of the pack established a "hunger games" game, every fall, right around Thanksgiving. It was really in depth. We had tree stumps for the "starting blocks" that the hunger games people used, and made all sorts of "weapons" out of pool noodles, paper, cardboard and foam. We literally played it just like how the book went. It was honestly pretty cool and fun because we had the whole neighborhood to run around. Then we ordered pizza and watched movies after so it was great. Did not realize it was essentially larping though lol we are complete nerds.
Curiouscrispy · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poisón.
Basically 2 players jump around on a trampoline, a bunch of various balls and obstacles flying around with you. Dodging and trying to manipulate the objects to fly into your opponent.
In the middle of the trampoline was a beanie hat with a yellow nerf ball inside it. After enough bouncing the yellow ball would emerge. Players would declare “the egg has hatched!!!”. At that point you could use the beanie to throw or swat at the egg only.
It was a point based game, but if you got hit with the egg you lose automatically.
Sounds stupid as fuck when I write it out, but me and my friends (in high school) all got super cut playing all summer long out in the heat.
MrDodici · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had a trampoline in our backyard. We often would just sit down and play with a squash ball or hacky-sack hitting it in the air just try to keep it up in the air like you would with a balloon. We called it f--- up because, well, someone would always f--- up and drop it.
TheNarraytor_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Still play this game called ninja. Its where however many people you have all start in a circle and take turns doing one movement. The objective of the game is to hit the hands of the others to take that hand out of the game, and if a person lost both hands then they're out. But you can only do one move at a time (ie step forward, move an arm, or try to slap someones hand), and if someone tried to get your hand you were allowed to try and react and move your hand out of the way
TheDerpyGuy21 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still am a child and I beat both south park games
Notacherub · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rich people vs poor people. My brother and I would sit on one of our beds and our toys would be the poor people, using like ramshackle weapons and stuff and we'd fight the rich people with modern weaponry. Writing it down makes me wonder if that's where my soft spot for underdogs came from. Also my mom always made it sound like being poor was a badge of honor so that affected it.
transcendentalyouth2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an older brother and cousin who felt bad for leaving me out of games that I wasn’t interested in playing. I had A MILLION littlest pet shops and so we would play “Animals in Trucks” with my pet shops, tonka trucks, ninja turtles, Star Wars ships, etc.
We also had the KTA.... The Kitten Troup Academy with our beloved (and huge) cat, Meatball, to lead us into combat against the dogs. No dogs were hurt in the making of the KTA. This also inspired a lot of short stories.
My brother was very creative,
Vicrosecorp · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would play “Pokemon Baseball.”
We would put empty cans in the street as the bases and used lacrosse sticks as baseball bats. We had a bunch of Pokemon cards and both picked 5 at random.
The cards we chose were our line up and they decided how long we had to get to each base and what “powers” we could use to mess each other up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:43:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well my sister and I would pretend to fish for pokemon. In the front yard. Into grass. Just ended up catching a lot of grass...
MachineGrunt · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Toast or ookie cookie... Basically you and a few friends jerk off onto a piece of bread and the last to cum has to eat it all.
BellasaurusRawr · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother put our moms sewing needles in the end of our Nerf gun ammo (which were the foam darts with suction cups on the end). We basically we're shooting each other with foam darts...
Apparently one had flown in the kitchen and landed in between the cabinet and fridge. Our dad found it the next day.
Thine ass was beateth.
Peakomegaflare · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sniper. We'd have a guy with an airsoft gun try to pick us off. Wr'd take turns as the shooter. Fun times haha.
baby_shakes · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a modified version of punch bug. It involved many other cars, though. There was Cherokee Wompum (Jeep Cherokees), Tophats (Honda Elements), Saggy Ass Vans (Aztecs), and I can't even remember what else. The thing is that a lot of these cars looked similar, so if you called out "Saggy Ass Van" and punched somebody but it was actually a "Tophat" then that person was allowed to punch you back--in the ear. The worst part was that they didn't have to punch you in the ear right then. They could punch you in the ear at any point for the rest of the day. It was a living nightmare, wherein you would find yourself actually begging your friend to punch you in the ear and get it over with for god's sake.
SharkyMarkySD · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Target Practice
This was like 6-7years ago now since I’m a senior in HS so it’s still fresh in my head. My school parking lot was basically the play area for recess and gym class so we had this big area where it’s essentially just dodge ball but it’s 1 versus everyone else. They would run around and throw a ball at people, if you get hit, you’re out. Hiding in the bathroom = immediate out, headshots count as a point. When everyone is out, the first person that was out is the next thrower. You can imagine being in a group, running from a person just launching kickballs at people and knowing there’d be pain.
We’d always pick one specific friend to go first since he was a pretty athletic person and could throw more accurate and more powerful than anyone else.
Carsten, if you ever read this. It was absolutely terrifying running from you.
Jeremyvang · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had nearly 1000 hockey cards from 1989-1994, I split them up by their respective teams and would play hockey games using dice rolls to determine the success of player movement or action. (I.e. faceoffs, roll one die for each player and the higher roll wins the faceoff) only ever used a D6 as I hadn't been introduced to d&d and the various dice yet.
I didn't like to lose as most kids do so I definitely cheated alot.
pimpedchicken · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Salad (pronounce Sa-lod). Pretty much the msot violent game of kick can you can imagine. We would set a safety marker, could be a fire hydrant or pole, or any object that can be touched. A pop can would get crushed and then everyone would have to hop around with their legs spread apart (like jumping jacks). It was a free for all of trying to kick the can through the other players legs, if the can passed through your legs, then you would get swarmed and punched (no face shots) until you ran and touched the safety marker.
I remember one of my friends running home instead of going to the safety marker. In retrospect it was a pretty stupid and violent game.
PrometheusTNO · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this weird volleyball/racquetball combination with the roof of the house (sloping down toward the yard or driveway). Used a volleyball and took ordered turns hitting it up to the roof. Obvious strategy was to hit it at an angle to make your opponents have to chase and hopefully miss hit it. Played 1v1, 2v2, free for all, etc. Good times. Pro tip... Don't play on a side with a lot of windows.
nowhammystop · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bloody murderer,” kind of a different take on “Kick the can.” Takes place during the night, a bunch go out and hide then there is the person who is “it”, aka the bloody murderer. The bloody murderer goes out looking for the people hiding and when one of the hiders sees them they yell “BLOODY MURDERER” as loud as they can. Then all run to the base, typically a light pole.
May not go over as well today as it did 25 years ago.
DasBirne · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We once were at a zoo with a group of like 5-7 people. Tjere was this bird that would scream occasionally but very very loud. We agreed on a game where we would have to go to a certain point if it screams. The last one would get a "punishment"
CluelessSurrealist · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Traffic jam.
In 5th grade I made friends with some rowdy unsavory boys. I don't know why I wanted to be their friend so badly. I was a girl for which they teased me so much about and for my skin color. Eventually I gained their acceptance when I joined in on their mischief and games. One of their games was called "traffic jam". We would all gather at the playground slide and I take turns being the "jam" and the others the traffic. One kid would slip down the slide but stay seated at the bottom while all the others would slide down and slam into the back of the "jam" making up traffic jam. The goal was to kick the jam out? And the jammer had to make sure he could keep up the jam and stay seated as kids continued to pile up.
Thinking back on it, that was one incredibly stupid ass "game". We fucked up our backs for life I think and looking back I was most times the jam. Lol wth were we doing.
col_clipspringer · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the country, and with nobody really close enough to play with, my older brother and I would play "Escape Convict" with all of our dogs. The game was simple. One of us would take off running and after 5 mins the other would set chase with the dogs. The person who was able to stay gone the longest won.
jbourgeret · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dodge rock” People throw rocks at you and you dodge them. If you get hit then you have to stand with your back to the people and the person who hit you gets a free shot. The game always ended with crying.
gabnormal · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Our grandma has a weird thing for porcelain dolls and baby dolls. She had one that was a regular stuffed bunny rabbit, but with a baby face. My cousins and I used to take pictures of ourselves doing really fucked up things, like hanging it on a noose, kicking it into the air, etc. We called this game "Bunny Impact."
Also, we would sit at the top of a flight of wood stairs, and slide down on our butts while constantly telling "BUTT SLAMMER" until we hit the bottom.
orleansville · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 5 brothers and I would play a game we made up called darkness. We would go into the basement black out the windows with blankets turn out the lights and beat the shit out of each other. No teams, every man for himself but if someone was getting the upper hand we would all gang up on the person. The game would end when my father would slam his foot on the floor upstairs. A few times we’d invite friends over but they always ran away shortly after the game started.
obsceneflock · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother, our neighbor and I used to play a game we called “video game”. the premise was we were sucked into a video game world, and we all had different powers, and we just like ran around and swam in the neighbors pool and created situations for us to be in in the video game world. I remember my power was being able to turn into animals.
my brother and a different friend of his would also play “kung fu fighting” with me, which consisted of us jumping on the trampoline and hitting each other with karate chop motions and if we made contact, whichever limb was hit was sliced clean off and couldn’t be used in the next round. all while singing the song kung fu fighting. it was my favorite gave ever
bondsman333 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend had two moms and they were awesome. I remember that he didn’t have many friends over even though he was popular at school. I’m sure this had something to do with his lesbian mothers in the 90’s in an area that wasn’t very accepting of ‘non-traditional ‘ families.
Anyways they would come up with the coolest games and activities for us. Their house abutted a large woods area. They would set up these mystery/adventures for us. We’d get clues and a background story. Then we’d have to find an object or a person or something. His parents were very artistic and made us costumes and props, created forts in the woods and everything was themed perfectly.
We had an old west adventure where we had cap guns and cowboy hats. And we had to capture an outlaw who robbed a train. They had one of their theater friends play the outlaw. They even had a stage coach prop with bags of gold coins.
In the winter they set up what is basically now an escape room in their basement. Lots of clues and intricate locks and puzzles. The amount of effort that went into these games was incredible.
I’m getting all nostalgic about childhood...
gerLdsmash · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins still play. We throw what ever object we have up to the ceiling, and see who can get the closest without touching. I don't know why, but it's so satisfying when you get super close.
Macktologist · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m not sure if it was unique, but I don’t see it being played today. Anywhere from 4-10 of us neighborhood boys would get on our bikes and basically play a game of “tag” on our bikes using the entire neighborhood. My neighborhood had a main looping street with smaller loops off of that and all of those went up and back down a hill. So, lots of hills and kids flying down them and into the main neighborhood collector. We would split into teams and the goal was to find and then catch up to your opponent. It had the classical elements of a kid game where we didn’t actually tag, since we were on bikes, but had to agree you had been “tagged” once someone was close enough.
So many of us ate shit...on asphalt. It was absolute freedom at that age. No real boundaries, no cell phone to be bothered by, no direct supervision. Just us and our bikes and the ability to use the slowest streetlight to turn on as the indicator to get home.
Those “80’s movies” aren’t really too fictional when it comes to how kids got out and explored on their own. It makes me sad my son will never experience that sort of freedom. He will enjoy other things I never had, but not that raw freedom.
Luciditi89 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 9 I went to a sleepover and the girl wanted to play the “hump”game (once in her hot tub and then again on her bedroom floor) and then flash our very flat chests outside the window... all before going to bed with lesbian porn on tv. So yeah in retrospect she was probably being sexually abused - her sister was a teenager and had a boyfriend if I remember correctly. But I totally felt uncomfortable and never hung out with her again (I was nearly molested???).
Uniqueusernameyboi · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called SAG. Where we would start on one end of the field. The team on offense had either a hat, or a balled up glove. You run to the other end and if you get tagged you have to stop and pass it to a teammate. From this perspective, it seems unfair for defense but the def nose would just shadow the offense. We got busted and had to stop playing because someone pushed my friend too hard and he cut his hand on the metal fence :p
KYNCIM · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spore.
TheGoblinPopper · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dibble"
My cousins and I would play it every day over the summer. We were a short bike ride from a lake in my home town and we would go to our grandmothers house on the lake and swim most of the day. Dibble was game you played on a float.
You would find a stick, jump in hold it and swim around before letting go. If you saw the stick you yelled 'Dibble!' and dove in after it. Next person to get the stick got to dive and release it.
Thinking back I think my grandmother made it up and told us it was an ancient Native American game.
Also, keep in mind the lake was not.... super clean. Finding a brown stick was way harder than you think.
zap9219 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My big brother would make me clean up his mess before mum and dad would come in. After I had done he would dump baby powder on CARPET, that stuff was hard to clean for 6 year old me.
Overall, would play again.
Future_Bart · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My cousin, who was super hyper, and I use to play a game called "Bonkers" that we named after our favourite candy, where we would lift the matress up and hold it against the wall with our feet while laying on the box spring then let it go so that it would crash and bounce off our faces then yell "Bonkers!" and repeat till one of us would puke or get a nosebleed and quit then would be the loser. Oh the 80's!
Ghostkill221 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The silent game.
I think it's hilarious that everyone knows exactly why it's played when you are older.
spicygrandma27 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On Saturdays, my dad would have my sister and I play "Box-Dah-Hootah", something his dad did with him and his brothers. We'd get in the backseat of his car, and keep our eyes closed and covered for the entire ride. If we asked where we were going he would only answer "Box-Dah-Hootah", and we would get prizes (cider donuts and mystery bags at the dollar store) if we lasted the entire ride without peeking.
Turns out "Box-Dah-Hootah" was just my dad running errands and bringing us along to get us out of the house.
We also played a game called "Point Grave" in the church cemetary while my sister was in Sunday school. We'd take turns pointing at graves. That's it; no points, no attention to names, years, or anything. One of us would point at a grave, the other would nod and point at another, and so forth.
skimsy · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Summer breaks, my sister and I would pretend to be pokemon in the pool and do battles. We would usually be water types and moves like "water gun" would involve us spitting water from the pool at each other. "Aqua Jet" would be springing off the pool's walls underwater and ramming into each other. Good times!
Greenmaaan · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Game 1
Stand an arms length away from your opponent.
Say go.
Do whatever it takes to throw the opponent off balance. The first person to put a foot back down loses. Winner decides if they increase or decrease the gap distance by about 2 inches.
Sometimes you'd end up with one foot you picked up and would just have to make the best of it.
Sometimes I'd go full crazy, jump and grab him banking on my feet hitting the ground after his.
"Pod Racing"
Around when Star Wars Episode 1 came out, we put K'Nex together to form vehicles. We then raced them down the stairs. Speed counted, but safety did too - the K'Nex person had to stay intact.
Unoriginal
My brother and I also wrestled for literally hours on end. Not really unique, but we put a couple rules in place that helped out. He's much bigger than me, but I learned if I rubbed his leg or arm hair against the grain, he'd have to fix it right away.
CloneArmy5 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a couple of games. The first game me and my friends who lived across the street was “The Walking Dead” There would be invisible zombies we would hit with swords and nerf guns. We set up survivor outposts across the neighborhood and would fight other survivor gangs we made. On the trampoline we would play “Murder”, where one person is secretly chosen as murderer and tries to kill people without other people seeing. That was pretty hard though because the trampoline was fairly small. We also played “Movie World”, where we would choose characters from various media’s and just role played. One of the more unique games we played was “Sonic Orange Soda Zombies” One person would be Tails from Sonic the hedgehog and we would tell him to get us an orange soda, but every time he came back he would come back as a zombie and we would climb all over the play set in our backyard and run from him.
royalalt · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mums & Dads. Literally just live out family life. I was always the mum because I was/am bossy AF.
The_Konigstiger · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1.1 We killed a rat with one and fed it to a snake. The snake was fine.
2.1 We would get our friends to play as side heros. That was fun too.
A_Wild_Bellossom · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game but me and my brother had like 30+ stuffed animals. We ended up making a long and confusing narrative involving those 30+ stuffed animals. Most of the animals had pretty complicated backstories aswell.
Chratt · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little me and my brothers would make little carnivals in our basement and we would each have stupid games (races, guessing games, bean bag toss, etc.) and give away toys as prizes and play each others games. Wasn't much but being that my older brother is in college now and I'm gonna graduate soon its nice to have memories like that I guess.
NoGoodIDNames · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn’t learn this game until I was a teenager, but the friend group that I joined introduced me to a game they’d played since they were little called Blind Tag.
Basically it was tag played on a jungle gym, except that whoever was “It” couldn’t open their eyes, and no one else could touch the ground.
So instead of quickly running around, it became a slow, tense mind-game where the “It” would slowly and carefully navigate the jungle gym trying to corner someone, while the others would try to avoid him while making as little noise as possible.
I got really into it for the three or so times we played it, and now I’m so disappointed that we’re all too old to play on jungle gyms.
i_did_i_do · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Titanic. From around ages 8 to 15 I had a bunk bed, despite being an only child. A family member took me to see Titanic in theaters during that time and the topic became somewhat of an obsession. At some point the "game" started.
The top of the bed became the upper deck of the ship. The bottom bunk/floor were the frigid waters. It was my duty to rescue the multitude of stuffed animals and dolls scattered across the room. I'd turn my window AC unit on full blast, set a timer, and rush around trying to get everyone safely on board before it was too late. I could only carry one at a time, of course. I also had to use the ladder to get them up, as tossing them from the water onto the deck above was completely illogical. It frequently ended with me, surrounded by survivors, under a pile of blanks. They would notice that hypothermia was setting in and attempt to aid me by having me sip Gatorade from the bottle cap or force down a saltine cracker. We'd weep into each others arms. Speak quickly of the ones we couldn't save. The ones that would forever haunt us. Often I would notice myself slipping away. I would imagine my funeral. Who would go? Would I be deemed a hero? Who truly loved me and who would only fake it for status once I became famous for being a savior?
I was a bit dramatic.
Brenkin · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dirt Wars"
During the warmer months of one school year (I think I was in Grade 5), the entire school participated in this game called Dirt Wars. Because most of the playground was dry dirt, we would use our feet to create little lines, which we would designate as our borders, creating territories.
Before long, entire wars began to break out, with people from certain territories kicking the dirt to destroy the borders. Some territories would engulf others, until eventually there were only two large nations warring with each other over the dirt borders. I was a part of one of the nations, until I became disillusioned with the war and created my own little side-nation with some friends. We called ourselves The Barbarians.
Shit was intense.
setsunaa · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play this game we called “Fat Antonio”
We would gather all the pillows in the house and one of us would lay down and the other would stack every pillow on top of the whole body sans head for maximum cushioning.
Then we would jump on said pillow human and make phrases like “OOFA!” And “THATS A SPOCY MEATBALL!” And other Italian stereotype speak.
DarkLink457 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school at recess this kid named david would chase my group of friends on the play structure saying shit like "I want your kidneys" we all had fun but the game didn't last long
joeyl1990 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the TeaCup under the blanket.
kysnou_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and siblings would play a game we called “Carrots”.
You put every single blanket, pillow, comforter, and the like on this futon we had in my grandma’s play room
Two people hide in the blankets and try to stay in them as long as possible while the other two “farmers” try and yank you out and onto the floor. If a carrot stays in the blankets for two minutes, that carrot wins.
You didn’t win anything, you were just a winner.
It was literally four shirtless 7-10 year olds taking turns yanking each other out of a bed. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend used to steal eggs from the fridge and sit on them in a nest made of blankets and stuffed animals.
HeyItsMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think my sister came up with it. But she would sit on the floor and surround herself with all the pillows in the house. She was the "alligator" and my brother and I would try to steal all her pillows without "waking her". And if we made any noise when we went to get the pillow she would try to grab us and drag us into her little swamp. She could leave the "swamp" once we took a pillow that disconnected the circle. The objective was to get all the pillows without getting caught, I think.
KattyWompWomp · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I have two games that we played:
The first was called "Laughing Hyena" and basically, it started b/c he would chase me around the house on all fours cuz that scared the shit out of me (still does) and it made him laugh. If I was standing on a chair or the couch, I was safe.
The other game was called "Udder Ball" and we inflated a surgical glove like a balloon. It looked like an udder. The goal is to keep the udder in the air and not let it touch the ground.
Daschnozz · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Angry beaver”
1 kid had a blanket over them.
The other kids would be in a dark house and have to evade the “angry beaver”
No hiding in places the angry beaver couldn’t go. Hours of entertainment.
isabelleeve · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did other people play Downball?
ScorpioGlitch · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a game, a screensaver. Pixelvores, I believe it was called. These little blue dots would appear on your screen, "eat" the screen contents, reproduce, and eventually die.
Haven't been able to find it since.
bandgeekjello · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Roadkill”. My friends and i would stand in the middle of our street (in the suburbs, not super busy) and wait for cars to come and we would run back to the sidewalk to avoid being hit. No one ever got hurt but when i think back on it, what was the point of that game?
Thee_Ph3noM · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot the name of what we called it but my buddy had a crap ton of stuff animals in his basement, when me and my friends got bored we would all go to his house and turn all the lights off downstairs and just chuck the stuffed animals at each other in the pitch black until someone got hurt or something broke. We were a bunch of little savages.
lbjs_bunghole · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nutterball - two guys sit across from one another with their legs spread, and a referee is present to officiate.
The object of the game is to hit the opposing player in the nuts, obviously. One direct hit = one point.
Caveats: the ball HAS to be lobbed and thrown at an arch. The referee can deduce points for not doing so or for throwing the ball too hard.
Winecatstreats · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Little blind baby’ my older sister and my older neighbour would blind fold me and put me in a stroller and take me off roading around the back yard. I’d have to find my way back to the house blind folded.
It definitely sucked to be the youngest 😂.
notcorey · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I would play football by hiking it to the other person, then person with ball would get tackled by the “center.”
docmantis_toboggan · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WWE matches on my best friend's trampoline when we were about 9-10. Whenever I stayed the night, we would watch raw or smackdown and then challenge her little brother (who would also have a friend spending the night) to a tag team match. Obviously, the game wasn't around for long.
Lisp666 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some neighbor kids and I would play “the Scientist”. Which consisted of going to our respective garages and digging out bottles of every cleaner, solvent, etc. we could find. Which we’d mix together into the most terrifying concoctions. Then we’d draw on our arms with different types of markers/pens and see what mixture worked best at removing it.
It was incredibly stupid. And I’m always surprised we didn’t dissolve our arms off or die from inhaling corrosive shit that should’ve never been mixed.
We’re the exact reason they tell people to lock up their chemicals out of the reach of children. Goddamn, kids are stupid...
goldratte · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paradroid 90. Loved to play as a kid and one of my most favorite games on the Amiga 600. Never heard much nostalgia talk about it so I assume this is not widely known. Let me know if you know this game/what was your most favorite droid? I loved the nimble but quick machine gunner.
SLaw425 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from uncle larry
mercy-purple · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m sure this will get buried but my sister and I and some neighborhood kids would play a game we called “presents”. We’d make a “mailbox” out of paper plates and hang it on our bedroom door. Then we would find thing out of our rooms to gift to each other. We’d put it in the other person’s mailbox and knock on the door and take off back to our respective rooms. The better the present you have, the better you got in return. And if you were gifted a dud, you sent a dud back.
I guess we were all sweet at some point, before we turned into teenagers and fought and screamed daily!
46andtwojustahead · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents bought a new plunger one time... My brother and I spent the day chasing each other around and suctioning it into each other's stomachs and then pulling each other around the house until it popped off. It was hilarious and left very strange circles all over our bellies.
PraxusGaming · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Undie flip
RandyChimp · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to build "theme parks" and "hotels" in the garden. The theme parks were just obstacle courses, and a chair where the person had to be blindfolded while I shook it and tilted it while making noises like a rollercoaster. The hotels were just when we had big cardboard boxes from something we had just bought and I'd kit them out like a room and talk about how the business would work. People, in theory, would have been expected to sleep in a box on my lawn while my mum was the head chef. I also had a bed that was raised with a large space underneath that could crawl into and sit under. Used to pretend I had a ghost train down there with torches as flashing lights and cut out ghosts and monsters. Had to use my imagination a lot. Then I got a playstation and stopped.
RyFromTheChi · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and her friends used to play "Let's Run Away From Ryan!". I hated that game. I just wanted to hang out with my older sister, but I'm sure I was annoying as hell.
jedurham · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My cousin and I played "Cops 911" as we called it and it basically consisted of us shooting fake guns at anything and everything. As youngins in the south, pretty much every game had some fake weapon involved. This was one of out favorites though. Makes me wonder if he remembers playing it too tbh.
Also, the whole family would play "Ghost in the Graveyard" which is basically hide and go seek outside in the dark and one person is the "ghost" and has a flashlight. They had to shine you with the light and call your name to get you out. You could thwart this by running out of the light.
Lastly, there was a game called Sandman I played up until I was an adult really. You find a playground and a group of friends and play tag on the jungle gym. One person is the "Sandman" and is "it", but the catch is they have their eyes closed and can't open them until they tag someone. You could run or jump or climb however you saw fit. The one caveat was that if you touched the ground and the Sandman yelled "SANDMAN" while you were on the ground you still got "tagged". Thinking back on some of the games I played back in my late teens, shit got dangerous with people sprinting full speed with their eyes closed on a jungle gym lol
badammon · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had one of those swing sets that had a clubhouse on the bottom and top level where the slide was. We played a game called jailbreak. The guard would stay in the top clubhouse with a flash light (it was my dad's Maglite and we adjusted it so the beam was tightly focused). Then the guard would yell jailbreak and all the escapees had to sneak out from the bottom and get across the yard and touch a designated section of fence and yell that they escaped before the guard could shine the flash light on them and call out their name (if that happened they had to go back into the "cell' and try again. Obviously you had to play this game at night, but it was loads of fun.
Loesje2303 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend had a large trampoline and we had a game we played with some playing balls she had. You were not allowed to touch them, which was, as we were both jumping, quite the challenge. If it went well for some time, we’d add more balls until we were at the final level where there were 4 blue or green balls and one VERY special one, the pink ball. That was the princess. Now the other balls were the bad guys and they weren’t allowed to touch the princess. We had to save the princess, but we weren’t allowed to touch the bad guys either. Whenever either one of us would touch a bad guy, the other one would throw the ball at you, which you then had to dodge. Looking back on it, it was very complicated and almost impossible but we had loads of fun playing it.
mazda_corolla · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Belly bump. I’d stand in front of my dad, belly-to-belly.
He’d put his feet on top of mine, to stabilize me.
Arms go behind your back.
Then, try to use your belly to knock the other person over.
Lots of twisting and contorting!
RiKSh4w · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I were given a lego set as a gift at one stage. The set came with 3 figurines, a house and some vehicle thing.
We would place the lego house somewhere in our real house and then take a moment to go "hide" each others figurines in the house. The hiding wasn't really important even though we did play warmer-colder to help find them. The thing was that once we had all found our figurines, we had to get them back to the house. Or rather... they had to.
So we'd pick up our figurines and imagine they were real and tiny people. They could climb up books, slide down curtains and cords. We would make the little figurines parkour their way through the house in an attempt to be the first one back at the house.
Now, we were alone while we did this, as it was a race each person would be in a seperate room. Being in seperate rooms meant that you couldn't ensure the others weren't cheating. I'll admit there was a large amount of sportsmanship involved in needing to remain within the realms of possibility.
But to enforce this a little, after the race was completed, the first place winner had to re-enact their run for the other competitors. If you "cheated" in anyway, such as by having your figurine leap a metre into the air (a metre here being roughly 20x taller than the figurine itself) or by moving something around (you could argue that the figurine moved the object but you as a human, couldn't move anything)(IE: The figurine may have the strength to move a plastic spoon out of their way but there's no way to explain that the figurine was strong enough to shift an entire basket of clothes) then your race time was disqualified.
failure-voxel · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not exactly the most unique thing but when I was young we lived near a canal, so whenever we went by I’d grab a stick and stir the water like soup, throwing twigs and leaves and grass in pretending they were ‘ingredients’ and pretending to sip it in my cupped hands. I was a chef.
Silky-Delicious · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game where one of us would lock ourselves inside my grandparent’s laundry chute with a small flashlight while the other one threw hard plastic toys down. The goal was to hit the person in the chute as hard as you can with the toys.
fugly16 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it poopstain. It was pretty much the floor is lava but if the dogs touched you when jumping from furniture to furniture you turned into a poopstain.
jorge1213 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had knock off Heelys, the ones you had to manually engage and were on both the front and back of the shoe. We played hockey in the one car garage with a whiffle ball and the goal was simply a can that had to be knocked over.
Ripcurrentfoool · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would run around with a mini tool kit figuring out which pieces of furniture we could take all the hardware out of, yet would still stay standing.
super_cooper_15 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I have a game that has continued into our 20s where we try to sneakily poke each other on the nose.
Also road trip games. Start with a word and say another that relates to it (Toothpaste-toothbrush-hairbrush). And picking a category (places) and naming the next one starting with the last letter of the first (Canada-Alberta-Arizona)
Most importantly: Padiddle
Sardonnicus · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't tell mom about neighbor Dan and his pant-less dorito's and kool-aid parties.
saint4210 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hall Ball” - Brother and I would use the longest hallway in the house with all doors closed to smack a mini soccer ball back and forth with our hands.
Trubo_XL · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Creatures 3
That shit is way beyond just gaming, it's literally AI heaven or hell w/ science
H0000000000000000000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Warlords Battlecry III, basically the perfect mix of open world RPG with a strategy game. Really unbalanced but very fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chips challenge
coachslg · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called hide and go Fuck yourself.
cs700r · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pole to pole” was the name of the game...
We had a large trampoline with a really high quality net and pole system around it to keep reckless youths like myself from flying off the trampoline. The rules were simple. One person is “it” and the others were only “safe” if touching one of the poles. You couldn’t stay on any one pole for more than ten seconds and you had to skip at least one pole when making your mad dash. Additionally, if someone ran to your pole you had to leave it immediately.
We spent SO MANY hours playing that game as kids and it was always a blast. Some very athletic dives and dodges that could have made it on ESPN top 10 (at least in our young minds).
VeryLazyLewis · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Game" - And by acknowledging the game I just lost.
JustSambino · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you snooze you lose.
Wouldn't say its unique to be honest but it'd be basically who can throw everyone else off the bed first. The game was banned when my sister cracked her head on the side of the radiator.
The_Mesh · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Several of my friends had those large trampolines. One of my favorite activities when we were 10-12 was for a group of us (usually around 4, but occasionally we'd have up to 12 kids on it at once) to take off our shoes and put them in the middle, and then start bouncing and try to avoid getting touched by the shoes. Now, shoes on a trampoline are as unpredictable as a football during a fumble. I can't tell you how many times we bashed each other with flying elbows, fell off, and almost lost life and limb playing that game.
hannaht633 · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my neighborhood buddies would pick a color, and that color would dictate our superpower. Then we would battle each other with those powers and pick the winner arbitrarily.
One day, me and my brother were playing the same game. He would pick blue for air or red for fire, and he always declared that he had won every battle, which frustrated me to no end. I stopped in the middle of the game and said "I PICK BROWN AND THAT MEANS I CAN MAKE YOU POOP YOURSELF." He had to act like he crapped his pants every time I shouted "POOP".
We would also play Harry Potter.
pulp-fictional · 1 points · Posted at 15:46:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to sit in our bedroom doorways which were across the hall facing each other and roll hot wheels cars at each other. The goal was who could get more across in to other’s room.
Mister_4Eyes · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thrones and Bones. I quite literally stole it from the book Thrones and Bones by making a board and learning how to play via the instructions at the back of the book.
If you are curious think of it basically as a modified version of chess, where the goal of the game for one team is to get the king outta there fast and for the other team it is to take out that king.
DaveTheMonkey · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called 'Protect [insert name if person chosen] in which there were 2 teams, and one separate person, one team had to try and tackle the chosen person to the ground and the other team had to protect the chosen person, generally by attacking the attackers, the chosen person could not run and only walk.
We also had another game called red letter where you had two even teams and chose a word with the same amount of players as then amount of people in your team (Eg. If the teams are 3 Vs 3 than both teams will chose a 3 letter word), you then gave your teammates a letter of the word and once all players had a letter the aim of the game was to make the other team give you their letters and then form a word for it. This mainly required causing great amounts of pain.
Saelethil · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played "On Our Own", based on this bit of 80's family movie garbage. We pretend to be orphans running away and would live in our families trailer. I did... slightly change the movies formula by deciding that the best way for me to stop the police from chasing us was to get my toy gun and kill them all.
wagwagg · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘The gate game’ - me and my 2 older brothers would use the neighbours front gate as goals for a 1v1v1 football match. Couldn’t score if you were on the pavement because that was too close and if they ball didn’t come back down the steps whoever kicks it gets it.
Was quality fun until the selfish neighbour wants to come home and park their car in front of their own house. But that’s when you move to a different neighbours gate.
Great memories
Just_pull_harder · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee. An advanced game of tag played over multiple years.
Rules:
The trick was to wait a few months for guard to be dropped, put on sports game and wait for sudden ads before acrobatic tag and escape. Very fun!
relghadban · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I loved to play the "touch nothing game". We would scatter all of our toys around the floor and would have to race around the room without touching anything. The kicker was that we were allowed to hit each other so we would try to push each other onto our toys. Good times...
toz-cec · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Couchies I think is what it was called. Sort of king of the hill style game. When mom and dad were gone we would play this game where one brother had to defend the couch while the three other tried to take it over. Lots of kicks the the face
JodiePop · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
JAILER. It's kind of like tag plus hide-and-go-seek. Instead of one person being "it," there are two teams. On one team, everybody hides. The other team has mostly seekers, but one person is The JAILER.
If a seeker finds you, they have to catch and tag you. If you get tagged, you have to go to jail (usually our front porch). But you don't have to stay in jail. If someone else from your team tags you, you are free to run around, maybe even hide again.
But it is really hard to tag someone out of jail, because the JAILER is guarding the porch. If the jailer, or any of his team, tags your teammate who is trying to rescue you, then that teammate has to go to jail as well. The game is over when everyone from the hiding team is in jail (or if someone is hidden so well they can't be found and the JAILER team gives up).
If there is time, teams can switch roles and play again. "Bounds" are decided ahead of time. People can hide anywhere within bounds. We usually used our entire street.
This was back in the day when kids were allowed to run around the whole neighborhood and just come home for dinner. I have no idea who invented this game or even if anyone else outside our neighborhood ever played it, but it was the most fun game we ever played.
Tunnelrat96 · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What we called "Blitz" which was no rules, no teams, and no points football. Everyone was for themselves and you had to keep the ball for as long as possible while everyone else would tackle and beat the shit out of you just to get the football and be tackled and have the shit beat out of them.
jee_junior · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I played a game quite often that I haven’t played in a while so I forgot about it for the most part.
It involved me being able to not tell anyone that he touched me and did other things to me, me being the best, I won by not telling anyone.
johntheswan · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie Baby Baseball. Football. And then finally Beanie Baby Quidditch. Couldn’t tell you how the mechanics of any of it, but it was EXTREMELY competitive in my house
MichoPower · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa, uncles, and cousins were big time WWF fans. They had all the figurines, play sets, and a replica championship belt. I started wrestling when I was 8 years old and being young and cocky, I thought I could beat everyone in my family at wrestling. Including the adults! That Christmas we had a family wrestling tournament and my uncle beat everyone and won the WWF champs belt. From that point on, every Christmas we wrestled for “the belt” until I graduated high school and left for the Marines. I never won the belt in all those years!
FurkinLurkin · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend an I would pretend the house was tipped on one side and we had to climb from one end to another to get to the "top" to escape.
GUFFmaster97 · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom loves telling people how I use to play hide and seek with Jesus as a child...
failure-voxel · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older sister would also play on our trampoline and pretend we had powers and fought bad guys. Eventually she got bored so I’d play by myself, bouncing up and down and humming a theme tune, coming up with an entire frickin’ lore for this shit.
coolgirlhere · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played l”stirring and stirring my brew”. I was the oldest so I was the witch. I pretended to make a potion while chanting “stirring and stirring my brew” faster and faster while my siblings tried to crawl past me. Then I’d reach out and try to grab them and pull them in my cauldron. That’s one of the weird games.
Another one, we’d get lost in the woods and try to make it back to the house first to tell on the others. Because we weren’t supposed to go too deep in the woods.
Peanut butter sandwich - We’d take turns folding the mattress over the others and smooshing them while yelling “peanut butter sandwich”! This is the mattress on the bed we all shared.
We’d take turns hiding under the covers and holding a string tied to a stick holding up a box. The box had a piece of bread in it trying to lure out a mouse. Whoever caught the mouse got to let it loose outside where our kitty was.
We were extremely poor. We didn’t know it then and had the time of our lives.
Oh another game, baywatch granny. My parents had a waterbed. My siblings would pretend to be drowning and I would pretend to save them while bouncing them around on the bed. I would use my “granny” voice bc they thought it was hilarious. They would sing “Bayywatchhh Graaaaanyyyyy!”
barriola10 · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I played a pokemon/dragon ball game. I played as the pokemon like characters. My buddy's first one was bowser, and I would rawr and stuff. Another one I remember was named bird and unlike other creatures he could talk! My buddy would send me out to battle bad guys who were trying to take over the galaxy. I played them as well. Most of the times the battles ended with the creatures dying, but most of the times the baddy would power up in and fight in a desperate attempt to win. It was just us at first, because I was a weird guy and had no friends, but we eventually found 2 other weirdos and continued playing the game from 4th to 6 grade. Ended when I went to junior high. Dude is my best friend till this day, 17 years later. We talk about it every once in awhile. Here's to many more Levi!
pastawhore · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a neighborhood with a bunch of kids around the same age. We would all draw chalk towns on our driveways with roads and ride around them on our bikes. We could visit the “McDonalds” down the street then come to my driveway to go shopping at “the mall.”
bricklayer69 · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punt Returns: we punt the ball to one guy and he needs to get get it to the end zone w/out the rest tackling him. Not that unique but it was fun!
kokorobaby · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play house with my dad's blueprints. He once taught me how it works and what are the symbols were for. It didnt take much time for me to take over of his office and lay out a blueprint of a house so i could play house with my pencils as my dolls! (coz i always see him poking certain spots with the eraser tip)
rivigurl · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I would play “Titanic” in our pool. We would pretend to be eating dinner on our pool deck and then sit on the steps to pretend the water was coming in. Then we’d throw our patio furniture into the pool and drop a “key” in the mix and swim under water, through the chairs, and retrieve the “key”. We’d then pretend we were almost drowning and swim to the shallow end (or climb out of the deep end). At some point we had pool rafts, so we’d fight over who got to live by climbing on it first. It was pretty fun.
We also role-played as rabbits out in our yard and eat lettuce and carrots that my mom would give us.
My mom would also take us to the beach in the mornings and while she walked the shoreline, we would play in the sand pretending we were polar bears.
There are so many games we’d play, our imaginations were pretty wild.
TheGreenDerpity · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my buddies used to stick the front wheel of a razor scooter in a small hole in the sewer grate, then swing the back part around. we’d jump over it as it swung around until it hit one of our ankles.
it hurt like hell but it was still fun.
andruzi · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We couldn’t play tag at our school playground, so me and two friends made poodle , tag but instead of saying tag when we tagged each other we said poodle. We thought we were so smart. At one assembly I remember the principal saying “There will be no running on the playgrounds, no tag and especially no poodle!” It felt so awesome to know that some of the younger grades also adopted the saying, that even the principal knows.
newusername1169 · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother or sister and I would lay on the couch heads at opposite ends and put our feet together and make bicycle movements with our legs.
corran450 · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school, my friends and I devised a “Final Fantasy” card game using a standard deck of cards. I don’t remember the rules anymore, but it was better than listening to Mr. Ambrose drone on about Punnet squares...
Cyphmos · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawler
JesusXVII · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hat wars: basically ranged tag, me and my friends played it all through primary school, we played Teams or Freeforall or Wingman. You basically had to tag the other person with your hat, mostly we threw the hats though. There was a lot of strategy about the hats aerodynamics. I remember one time one of our friends brought this absolutely incredible baseball cap that had insane range. We had to ban it because it was too OP. Very good times.
flyingfishtaco · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Random Question Game.
A game a friend and I came up with while we were bored in high school one day called the random question game. Basically just go up to a random person and ask for a random object.
For e.g. see a lady walking down the street, go up to her and ask her for a bag of cement or a pencil sharpener. The more obscure the item the better. Cue look of utter bewilderment and often pure disgust.
Also works for random directions to made up places.
m_tierney · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friend and I would play a game in his backyard with a football and trampoline (with the safety netting). Backyard sloped down from the house towards the woods. One would stand in the trampoline at the bottom of the slope, the other would stand at least halfway up the slope with the football.
Person with the football wins by throwing the football into the trampoline (3 wins and you switch places). Person in the trampoline can block or catch the football to keep it from touching the trampoline surface.
Usually resulted in the thrower running up and down the hill to retrieve the blocked ball a number of times before being able to switch. Very quick way to tire ourselves out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can't remember what we used to call it, but we had a game where would all start of as weaker characters from tv shows, books or games and then battle each other. The winner would them become a stronger and stronger character, we'd go pretending to fight each other. There'd be loads of us all playing in the playground at school.
McGoogleheimer · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two siblings and I would play "copier" with our hide-a-bed sofa. With the bed folded out, someone would lie in the middle and we'd semi-fold the bed like the lid of a copier (Step 2 of this). As we got a bit older (but not more mature), the game advanced to include step 3 with the threat of step 4.
Obviously my younger brother got full-on folded into the couch like in step 4 and the game was never played again.
SlappKake · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once went to a really big boy scout convention as a kid. Up to around 100 troops came to participate in activities and there was a big bonfire and concert at the end.
Along one of the roads there was a massive line of 20-30 port-a-pottys and people would randomly walk in an out all the time. My friends and I (stupidly) invented a game where we would Sprint down the road directly in front of the restrooms as fast as we could and try not to get hit by anyone opening doors.
It was good fun until we got yelled at for being idiots.
HEADTRIPfpv · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor
Thoraxis · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would pin our barbies to the clothesline and then wheel them out at high speeds until the connector that stopped the line would smash into the pole at the end and thus some barbies would fall off the line. Eventually there would be one remaining "survivor" who would be named queen and she would get all the best clothes and get to drive the corvette.
Jamjams2016 · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the British are coming. We would stand by the road at night and if you spotted headlights from a car you yell “the British are coming!” And make a mad dash from the tree line. The last one to make it lost. Honestly it was pretty boring since we lived on a back road. We also would carve sticks and have stick wars or barricade my dog in a play house and run around the house. He would escape and catch us every time. What a smart and good doggo he was.
Kevhe4 · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zoombinis
MysteriousMrBond · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stair baseball - played on grandma and grandpa's front steps. The front steps were big old brick and stone monsters about 8 feet wide and 4-5 feet tall. You stand on the sidewalk by the road, throw your tennis ball at the the steps and then have to field the bounce off the brick walkway and lawn and throw it back to the steps.
Fielding it off the ground twice got you a guy on base, catching out of the air was a home run. Missing the ball was an out and a bad bounce up onto the porch or roof was a strike.
And that's how my cousin and I played baseball with only two people every weekend growing up.
roshamon · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I would ball up a tubesock into it's longer partner, and using a pillow as a shield, would have gladiatorial battles. If you took a shot across the face, which felt like a punch from an angry cloud, you had to fall and take the killing blow for the defeat.
My friends and I would play skully which would consist of a bottle cap filled with melted crayon wax as a game piece, and having to go flick the skully cap to a series of numbered boxes drawn in chalk on the street. If I remember correctly, if you hit someone else's cap you could hit it outside the board and they would have to start over.
AlbionBoi · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I used to put a washing basket on our heads and run around the house pretending to be a Dalek from Doctor Who...
SomeEpicUserNameIDK · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hostage hide and go seek. The hiders would blindfold and tie up the seeker somewhere in the neighborhood or greenbelt and then go hide. The amount of time it took for the seeker to get themselves untied was the amount of time they had to hide.
GuitarBoiWachTwoSet · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember I used to play “Mexican Resturant” with my sisters. (We ethnically white) we would turn an fm radio to the mariachi music and set up tables and make bean and cheese burritos. We did this many times and Mexican food is still one of my favorites
Nextte · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made like an eye symbol with our fingers and if someone looked in it's direction they could be punched.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I became very creative as children. I'm trying to recall some of the games we had made up a d two in particular stick out in my mind. There was "Jack and Mara" a couple who inexplicably kept falling pregnant. We had like 20 children and would gather all of our dolls and stuffed animals to represent them. It was an odd game. Basically we would try to do normal family stuff with all of our children while Mara kept getting pregnant.
Another we named "Big Boob Babe" or "triple B" for short. Where we would get balloons and progressively make larger and larger breasts for ourselves. Complete with the sedating and surgery parts. Then we'd have to do normal stuff with our giant boobs until one of them popped or something and we'd have to be rushed into emergency surgery for repairs.
There's a bunch more odd games like these, I just can't recall them in enough detail atm.
KewlZindre · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my cousins and some of the other kids in our street used to play Manhunt, when one got caught by the hunter he/she would then join the hunter but had the possibility of sabotaging the hunt by leading astray. Most of the time the ones who got caught didn’t sabotage, but we had to be aware that there were a possibility of this happening. The most fun was when there were loads of snow outside, cause then we could follow the tracks to find them, it was so fun backtracking through our own steps and hide in a bush or something and see the hunter follow our tracks to a deadend.
Thanks OP! You just reminded me of a lot of good childhood memories!
idreameater · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in a small town on an island, so it was all about original games, whether we made them up or they were 'town games'.
I won't mention the town games because in small town fashion, it would take anyone from there 2.2 seconds to figure out who I am behind the user.
But my cousins, my sister, and I had one we called 'Orphanage', in which our oldest cousin would adopt us orphans and we would pretend that the orphanage was coming to kidnap us back, and we'd have to find ways of escaping.
A few friends and I also had one we called the 'Mob Game', which we'd based off Cops and Robbers, but everyone was it and you had to capture and dog pile the one person who you were looking for.
We also used to play Fear Factor (like the tv show) a lot as kids. I ate a lot of weird things because of that game.
gagajm22 · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
IDT in door tag Co-op kids here breaking all the rules. You had to take the elevator past the 4th floor. 1 kid waited at the bottom before making his way up to try and catch the rest of us. Everyone else tried making it back down to the lobby without getting caught.
The amount of stairway door slams, elevators being held up and general screaming got us in trouble every day.
JorJorBinks_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Champions of Norath. I feel as though this game was completely under looked back in 2004
Phoenixdotexe · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We were a group of three friends who played some kind of DnD game when we where at school without even knowing what DnD was: one of us (the DM I guess) would tell us what was going on and we, the other two, would react accordingly, but all this in real time (running, jumping, pretending to slash enemies... etc.) across the playground. It was really fun but sadly it didn't last long.
Now, 10 years later, I have DnD so not much has changed hahaha
brieeeeeeeiiiiyyy · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bloody Mary. It’s like hide-n-seek at night but those that hide have to yell/call out Bloody Mary three times before they can change hiding spots or run for the safety.
groovy_sarz1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Telecom Game. So sad now that this game can never be played to future gens.
Or the Go To Game.
TheInspecta · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rancher was hella fun! Use CDs to create monsters. Remember using Eminem and got a Lava Golem, trained him up and achieved S rank... never had I cried so hard when he actually died at the grand age of 5 years and 7 months :(
Mr-E-Droflah · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On line scarecrow tick with the bogey monster
freddy-set-go · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My siblings and I played a game called “monster” where we turned the lights off in a narrow hall which had stairs leading to the basement. One sibling would be at the bottom of the stairs blindly swinging a foam bat while two others were on the stairs. The goal was to push the other down the stairs where they would get whacked repeatedly by this foam bat.
TheSaintSeth · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up we got to go to a giant jungle gym for recess once a week (this is around 2nd or 3rd grade). When we went it was with a couple other classes too! I invented a game that I for whatever reason called “heartbreak.” We basically played it every week with two massive teams. The way it worked was there was essentially a system of “tagging” people and eliminating them. The way that was done was by placing each hand on the other person’s shoulders, but they had to be facing away from you. So basically you were protected from the front and you could only get tagged if they got behind you, and no one was allowed to pull people off the wall or anything to force them. Which only worked because it was a massive jungle gym. So the whole objective was to route the other team to get behind them somehow to tag them. I feel like it was complex for me to come up with as a child, and also totally would be harassment as an adult haha, but friends that I knew back then still mention it 25 years or so later
Flamingonotgone · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played "sumo" when we were kids, which involved using bungee cords to strap sofa cushions to ourselves and jumping down the stairs. The first jumper would assume the sumo position, and the second jumper would lunge at them to knock them over. The "winner" was whoever made it the longest before getting hurt. I'm not sure why we kept doing it, cause we always got hurt, but once you were enveloped in those chenille sofa cushions staring down 7 steps to a tiled basement floor- you just felt invincible. Granted, we never really considered head protection....
God I miss being a kid.
ssshhhhhhhhhhhhh · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in before everyone realizes they were abused
salmix21 · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Geng, which was simple. You threw a tennis ball into the wall , if the ball didn't hit the wall first then you became target which meant whoever got the ball could throw it at you. If they missed they'd become the target.
If the ball touched you after bouncing from the wall but you didn't manage to catch it then you became a target.
You can scream "Stop" to make someone stay where they are and force them to throw the ball from that distance.
I wanna play again :( .
ThatChrisFella · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this is unique because it just boils down to "playing pretend" but we had this game called "Crimson Battles" where we'd pretend to be made up characters or characters from pop culture
Then we'd playfight around the playground with a rough story line, various alliances and pretty frequent character swaps.
myname_isben · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bullying people on their cake day
procrastimom · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 2 brothers & I played the “banana-sticker game”. When we were putting away the groceries, someone would take the sticker off of the bananas and stick it on someone else. At first it was obvious, then you’d try to put it on someone else in a sly way: pat them on the back, leave it sticky side up on their dinner chair or bed pillow. Hahaha, gotcha! Eventually, it became all out warfare, wrestling each other to the floor and pressing it onto the other person’s forehead with all of the pressure you had in your thumb, while the other person yelled and flailed. There was almost no stickiness left on it by this time, so you could say that’s why you had to bruise the person “to get it to stick”. All of the fun was gone from the “game” at this point. Eventually the battle would die down and the war would come to an end... until the next grocery day.
Lolanie · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We used to play War.
The playground by our house had gravel on the ground, and a big tower thing on one side as well as the assorted other deathtrap playground equipment. We'd split into two teams, one had to defend the high ground (tower) and the other had to storm the tower and kick out the other team.
Our weapons were rocks (remember that gravel that was everywhere?), and the storming team on the ground would get pelted with rocks from above as they stormed the tower, and the tower defenders would get pelted with rocks whenever they stood up above the wall at the top or peeked around the corners where the slide pole and slide and stuff were.
The ground team people on the front lines had to climb the slide and the ladder thing and the stairs (the three ways up) while their team members attempted to cover their advance with a hail of rocks.
We'd leave the fire pole alone as a means of escape for the high ground team, although more than one kid got pushed off the top of it when the ground team would take control of the tower. To be fair, the ground team would often get pushed off the slide, stairs and ladder, once the advance got close enough.
The ground team would take POWs if any of the tower team got separated from their team while repelling an attack, and the tower team would have to plan a rescue or the POW would have to escape (we imprisoned them in the monkey bars and would set a guard).
And we'd do this for hours, and go home covered in bruises that our parents would ask about and we'd just shrug. "I dunno, what's for dinner?"
Our ages ranged from 6-12 and there were usually 10-20 of us on any given day out there. Because we lived right next to the playground (military base, so houses and apartments everywhere) our parents would just send us outside to play unattended for hours and hours. Shockingly no one ever got seriously injured, just bumps and bruises. This was in the 80's, can you imagine trying to get away with that sort of thing today?
Bluepointed · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and best friend always used to play beyblades in the school field, we would just spin and attack each other screaming at the top of our lungs, we had a story line and everything.
TeleportingCatDog · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would consider my sibling's and my games more fatally danerous than unique; my childhood home had a backyard that steeply sloped down to a street below. There was a ditch at the bottom that we utilized as a ramp (made it super icy in the winter for maximum propulsion) and we would compete to see who could launch the farthest on a toboggan. If you made it to the driveway across the street below, legendary.
I'm sure there are other honourable mentions but this one was for sure the most memorable.
twzzlr · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
German spotlight. I’ve never heard of anyone else but the kids in my neighborhood playing it. It was basically flashlight tag, and all of us kids would run around the neighborhood playing it at night. Parents would never let their kids do that now.
kusshha · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my friend would ditch polish school on saturdays. we would get dropped off at the school but go in and hide in a stairwell or go to panera bread across the street.
sometimes we would play a game of who could slap eachothers ass, like you chase each other and just slap each others ass lol. it was only between me and my friend, both girls. we were neighbors all our life.
another game was when i was 8 or 9 years old, me and 4/5 friends (girls and boys) would hang out at someones house, then go into the bathroom with all the lights turned off. i know i was a weird child because i would be shoving people around the bathroom. i dont really know what the point of that game was, i dont think anybody was kissing in there cause we did play spin the bottle sometimes. i didnt have anger problems but for some reason i became violent in that bathroom
SalientElk · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend played a "cool im a monster now" game, but we pretended we had our own tv show, video games, youtube channel, almost 20 monsters with "unique" personalities and powers, overarching stories, and we did it for like 5 years straight. It was called 'Monster Legendaries', was a total ripoff of Monster Legends (a mobile game we used to play), pokemon and skylanders.
bugga2k18 · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dreamland! My 2 neighbors and my sister and I would would playing the trampoline, it would all start with us pretending to be sleeping. Then one person would wake up and go and get a midnight snack, generally cookies from the cookie jar. When they would open the jar they would magically get sucked into Dreamland! Then slowly the others would go to check and get sucked into the jar as well! We would then run around the trampoline acting out our "dreams" once you got hurt though you had to wake up! After everyone had gotten "hurt" in their dream, we would all sit in a circle and talk about how weird our dreams were. Then wed go back to sleep and the whole game would repeat itself. HOURS spent playing this silly game, seriously so much fun though.
MonsterHospital · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would lay on our backs and throw cut up pieces of cantaloupe at the ceiling. It would bounce off and we’d catch it in our mouth. We called it canty catch. It ruined our grandma’s ceiling.
hdorsettcase · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents wouldn't buy us a Nintendo. We had a computer and Game Boys, so they said that was enough. We used to make up the Nintendo games and act them out. We'd spend an hour walking left to right then right to left across the basement punching and kicking invisible enemies. We even did boss fights and would 'die' if we got hit enough times.
moot281 · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it was as unique to everyone else as it was to us, but my friends and I would play hide and go seek tag without any lights on in the house. It made it extra challenging because not only could you not see shit but we would close doors as we checked rooms and if you got lucky, you would witness someone run full bore right into it trying to escape. Many hilarious injuries resulted from that stupid game.
3DogsInAParka · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would get those big balls they store in nets in Target and punt them up the big ass staircase and wait for them to bounce down. I don’t exaggerate when I say we would play StairBall every day after school for hours
skarro- · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you are asking because you are an adult looking for a game for your kids to play I made one up with my daughter called “10 step tag”.
it’s tag but you take turns taking 10 steps at a time. (invented it to save energy/be lazy) your “step” can be a giant leap off something, sliding down a slide. just 10 different foot steps.
makes tag low energy 👌
lomericy · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play this game called ‘roller coaster’ where we would grab each others hair and fucking throw each other around yelling roller coaster...
MistyRegions · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marbles, also this weird toy that I cant find, it was a ring about a foot in circumstance and it had little brass washers on it, you would spin the washers and the ring at the same time and they would "fall" around the ring and you would just spin it and do tricks.
Lebaneseblonde1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark hide-and-go-seek in our pitch black basement. Well, at least I was playing that, while my older sister and her friends were playing “leave the person that’s It in the basement getting increasingly frantic and staggering around with their arms out in the dark”
mbacon40 · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pinecone tennis. We would bat a pinecone over the telephone wires in our backyard with old racquetball rackets. Our neighborhood friends would come over and we would rally for hours trying not to let the pinecone touch the ground on our side of the wire.
Looking back now I wonder what my parents thought about the fact that they would buy us nice things but we would play with pinecones instead...
justifun · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made up a game called geezer ball about kicking a rubber ball through various playground equipment.
acalacaboo · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my god, I can actually answer this one. When I was in third grade, I invented a game where we would all get on the swingset, loosen/partly untie our shoes, start swinging as hard as we can, and then launch our shoes as far as we could. Whoever got theirs the farthest won that round. The way the playground was designed, there was a really big field right next to the swingset that was hardly ever used, so there was a lot of room to play it safely. We called it "Shoe Fly" (which is a pun I'm still proud of today), and I had most of my class playing it at least sometimes. We always had one person whose job it was to make sure nobody was in the way and might get hurt by any flying shoes, and a bunch of people who were totally willing to run out and collect people's shoes afterwards so we didn't have to get dirty socks. These people would be up next. It was all weirdly organized and super fun.
We played it for the better part of a year, until one of the kindergarten teachers saw us and demanded we stop because someone might get hurt. Nobody ever did, so we did it more in secret for a while, but eventually our teachers were told to stop us from doing it and we were forced to end it.
__renzzi · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in high school we played this game called “Saliva Maze”. So there’s one guy who’ll try to catch the enemy whose feet is on the ground and you should hop on chairs every 5 seconds or you get caught. We did it in our big classroom so the distance between chairs is no joke. When caught, the guy will lick any part of your body (face preferably) and you will both hunt for the next prey until the last uncontaminated person survives. Sounds gross but this was so intense lol
rwfarran · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to cut off palm tree fronds and then cut all the needles off the base of them and make colorful duct tape handles, and then we would just beat the crap out of each other cause no matter how hard you hit each other it was just like an annoying wisp in the face. For some reason we called it Trontlet. Sometimes we would make double bladed ones like Darth Fucking Maul
PricklyChunt · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bottle Flip Flop
Basically you get a can/bottle of whatever (Water, beer, soda, etc). You place the can/bottle a place where everyone can see it. Then you have one person defending the can/bottle if it gets knocked over by the other players. The other players will have a flip flop and they will stand at a certain distance and try to knock the can/bottle over. If they miss, they have to get their flip flop back while avoiding being touch by the defender, but in order for the defender to tag the players, he/she has to put the can/bottle back up.
It gets really intense, highly reccommend when at a party.
Brub_Wooton · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would lie in the middle of the street at night hoping a car would come by and then we saw it come around the corner we would all jump up and scatter.
Victim_P · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lawn Darts - the proper way. You all stand on the grass then one person throws the dart straight up, as high as they can. Last one to run is the winner and gets to throw next.
NotCandied · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Run Around and Scream. It’s like hide and go seek in that you have a seeker and then everyone else hides. The difference is that when the seeker finds someone, that person starts screaming and running around the house. When the others hear screaming , they also start screaming and running around the house. You do that until you are laughing so hard you fall down. Then your mom kicks you out of the house and the game is over. You never get more than one round of that unfortunately. In fact, you only really get one or two rounds per house ever, so when you meet someone new - it’s a good time!
Ooer · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chair Olympics.
The first Chair Olympics game was held at school during a class where the dream happened. The history teacher was ill and substitute teacher was nowhere to be seen.
After seemingly no amount of time, someone had the idea of piling all the chairs and desks into one corner of the room whilst everyone stood at the opposite side of the room, with one person holding a bouncy ball.
The keen observers can probably see where this is going. The object of the game was simple, the ball would be thrown into the heap of twisted metal legs and the first person to retrieve it would be the winner. I am honestly not sure how no one was badly injured.
In a way, we all saw what being in a pike charge may have been like, so it wasn’t an entirely wasted lesson.
Baberaham69 · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school me and my friends started a "cut club" Essentially we would break a rock until we got a sharp edge and whoever cut themselves the deepest won. Thankfully we never got really hurt but boy was it stupid looking back.
sheepieweepie · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing 'headless men' because we saw this random music video where a girl is back to back with a giant robot, and is then chased by suits with no heads.
It was just me and another kid running around in circles.
Good times.
kermit1818 · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around nine or ten I used to have a friend who's Dad would play a game with us that quickly became a favourite amongst our friend group. The name of the game was "The Giant Green Booger Monster". And it basically involved my friend's Dad picking his nose so he had a lump on snot on his finger and chasing us around trying to smear it on you, and when this happened you were out. Kind of like Tag with a twist. The stakes felt so high as a kid as the thought of having this adult snot on you would really push you to your limit to get away. We'd climb trees, hide under decks, jump down laundry chutes, and scream as we were chased around. At one of my friend's birthday parties we begged the Dad to play one round. It was poorly timed and the rest of our parents came to pick us up as the father was chasing a bunch of kids around the house with snot on his finger. Needless to say the parents weren't super impressed, and I think that was the last time we ever played TGGBM.
TLDR: My friends dad used to chase us around with snot on his finger
MyWUCHA · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the matrix came out, I was obsessed with the concept of bullet time as a child. So what I would do is pretend that my right hand was Neo (head is index finger, thumb and middle finger are arms) and my left hand was Agent Smith. And then I would choreograph fight scenes between my hands via slowed down punches and whatnot. I even dragged some of my friends into this regretfully.
Yiink · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you know the party game mafia/werewolf, I play a version of that on a much larger scale. There’s usually 20+ players, and we talk on a forum over super long days and nights. Basically, there’s a mafia team that all knows each other, and a much larger town who has no idea who anyone is. Each day, everyone can vote on someone to lynch, and each night, mafia can choose someone to kill. We have 48 hour days and 24 hour nights, so the games can take weeks.
InThana · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i used to play a combination between tag and hide and seek with my friends that we called "verstop tikkertje(hidetag)" where you hide and run at the same time and the guy who got tagged would be the new seeker
kept us good when we were around 6-12 until we started to go into puberty
snomeister · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were so many, haha.
Super tic-tac-toe, 2 player game on a graph paper. One person is X's one is O's and whoever connects 4 in a row (maybe it was 5 I'd have to do a test run to see what works, been so long I can't remember) gets a point. You then section off the recent game by writing a line all around, and you add the point to a tally. You continue until you've basically used up the whole paper and whoever has the most points wins.
Paper Wars. 4 player game on a blank piece of paper. This game didn't have much rules and was more about being fun and creative than winning. Each person drew their own base in a corner. You would take turns, clockwise, and each turn could be used to spawn a unit, or take an action. What you did was pretty much up to your imagination, and the more gruesome you could draw your character killing another character the better. Each faction was usually based on a theme from a set universe, such as a person's theme would be FF7 so they would have Midgar as their base and spawn Cloud and Barrett, or have the Death Star and use Darth Vader and Ewoks. You would draw and erase as you went along, and we took pride in how awful the paper would appear after many periods of doodling on the one page.
Robo Wars, this was a fully fleshed out pen and paper RPG that I designed where participants would create a character page choosing from several pre-designed robots. There was a comprehensive shop where they could purchase customizable parts which would change the appearance and function of their robot. There were set single player levels designed which were inhabited by organic characters (which I had originally designed for a different RPG idea) and players would get currency by completing levels, to purchase more parts. There was then a PVP system where players could duel each other and it became very competitive. I had about 20 kids in on the game at one point, and they'd come and see me at recess to play.
starstreak91 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my friends and I invented two games. We used to get so bored waiting for the school bus in the mornings that we made a game using the lines in between concrete pieces on our neighbor’s driveway (our bus stop was the driveway of a kind neighbor). The “it” person was only allowed to travel along the lines and cracks of the driveway and he would try to tag other people running back and forth across the driveway. We also used to use the bike racks as parallel bars to jump over, and two people would start at opposite sides of the bike rack. We have to launch ourselves over the bars and run to the opposite end, launch ourselves over the bars and see who could tag the other person first. There were all sorts of rules too, where you could run in the opposite direction or have three free passes to not jump, etc.
Rellgidkrid · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calling teachers by their first names.
FNFALC2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used sharpened sticks to impale chestnuts on . We whipped them at each other, and got pretty impressive velocity. We used metal garbage can lids as shields.
We also played a game I invented called tail gunner on our bikes. The guy in the lead would try to shake off his pursuer and the other one tried to stay on his tail. Epic
PaRzIvAlRP11234 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jacket Ball, it was a game I invented to play at school where you would fold your hoodie into a mace like weapon and beat the shit out of each other
Itakethings2literal · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play blindfold noughts and crosses but in 3D so numbers 1-9 on top row 10-18 second row and 19-27 on the third. we shared a room and it was a good way to help us drop off at night. He usually won but he was a bit older and also used to do blindfold chess at the time so his concentration was better than mine.
goldeN4CER · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played "Elevator"
Player 1 would lie on the ground face up and bring their knees to their chest. Player 2 sits upon the bottom of player 1's feet and requests an arbitrary floor number. Player 1 then launches player 2 with some amount of force equal to the relative difference between the current and previous floor requested. (Things usually didn't get interesting until round 2).
It wasn't until explaining this "game" to my boss about 2 months ago that I realized this isn't a thing everyone did (I'm 30)...
theredpanda89 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around 5-6 my best friend at the time would play as adventurers. His mom would use a clothespin to fasten towels around our necks like capes and he had a ton of fake swords. We’d explore all over (his dad had a ton of tools and abandoned equipment and big metal boxes)
When his little sister got old enough she’d follow us all over trying to play too. It didn’t really work so she’d go back inside.
One time we sat on a red ant hill without realizing it. They came out and we both screamed and ran inside, the game stopped for the day after that.
Kunoxa · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the one you just lost :^)
Nissebooii · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cakeday
WD-YA7YA · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a game called "Urban Assault" published by Microsoft in 98. It was the the first 3D video game I played, it felt like it came from the future, way ahead of its time. It needs a remaster for sure
Deastrumquodvicis · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sib and I called it Beaterball, after the Quidditch position.
You take a soccer ball and two baseball bats, and use the bats to try to hit the ball along the ground through goal posts/standins. There’s a no man’s land in the middle third of the playing area to avoid hitting each other with the bats. Playing field is...I wanna say fifty feet long by maybe fifteen? Our driveway, anyway. The goal posts are standard soccer goal width apart, ish.
Game ends when you get bored or break something.
ZiggytheNinja · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game had no name when we were playing it, but as an adult I've just referred to it as "Guns." Its like rock paper scissors but more intense.
Both people tap their knees twice and make a move. You can a) reload, signified by pointing your thumbs over your shoulders. you have to reload to shoot, but you're completely vulnerable.
b) shoot, signified by making finger guns. you can only shoot as many times as you reload. if both people choose to shoot they cancel out and the game continues.
c) defend, signified by crossing your arms over your chest. If your opponent shoots when you defend, they waste a shot and you take no damage.
The first person to be shot while reloading loses. My brothers and I played it for years, being that its a much more engaging and intense version of rock paper scissors. Later on I taught to my girlfriend and its a ton of fun to play in waiting rooms and restaurants and such.
willf123 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a rural part of the uk and where lucky enough to own a field at the end of our garden. At night in the dark my older brothers would drive an old land rover round the field. One would ride shotgun with a big BB gun. Then me and my mates would all hide round the edge of the field with pistol BB guns and a saucepan was placed somewhere in the field. The winner of the game was the first man on foot to find and return the saucepan to there starting location. Also because is was dark my brothers in the car could only see you properly when the car headlights where on you so it was best played at night. Scary but was always good fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would literally just throw a ball up the stairs and watch it roll down (or if i threw it too far, i would have to get it, obviously). i don’t know why but it was entertaining to me.
witty_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my dad was remodeling our basement, the first room he finished had no windows (eventually went on to become a home theater). It was about 12’ x 14’ with one door. The only light that could come through was under the door. My friend and I would shove towels in the crack so there was no light. Then line up on opposite sides of the room. The one by the door had to protect the door knob as long as possible from being touched. If the other person got tagged, they had to start over at the opposite wall. If they touched the door knob, they won and you would switch places.
fartboyy · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodge slippers. It's like Dodge ball but it's your mum throwing slippers at you and it's fun and exciting.
Baltimore_Happenings · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Open neck. You just yelled "open neck" and then slapped someone on the back of the neck.
Threebirds1143 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play 'the birdie game' in elementary school. It was a game I made up similar to tag.
It involved a crappy piece of playground equipment as the center 'safe zone'.
It was easiest with only 3 players, one being the bird who has to keep away from the cat. Another as the cat who has to get the bird and keep away from the dog. And the last as the dog who has to get the cat and protect the bird.
If more played the animals after the dog were chosen randomly and the players chose their objective.
funkysquirrelnuggets · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game we called “Benjamin Franklin” on the trampoline. One of us would be jumping while the other person tried to hit the jumping person with a ball.
IronManHole · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not very unique but we used to play mantracker in our neighborhood. Instead of horses, two people would start out on bikes while the other 10 or so would get a one min headstart. The twist is once you hit caught, you went home and got your bike and you joined the trackers. Pair this with the huge Canadian forests we had around the neighborhood and the game would last about 8 hrs per day (would make a truce for lunch of course)
Somenormie21 · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well Micheal Jackson would invite me over when I was 7 and we would play a game where we act like animals and take off all of our clothes. He said it’s our little secret
royalalt · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wimbledon - someone(usually the oldest and strongest in the group) would hit a tennis ball as high into the sky as possible using a tennis racket and then everyone would scramble to catch it. Could let it touch the ground otherwise you’d be out, had to catch it before. It was the best when it’d go up onto a roof and the tiles would mean that you’d never know where it’d land.
restorerofjustice · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ditching the cops.
Bunch of teenagers hanging around, trying to look guilty as a cop car drives by, then turn and run like we're trying to get away. Points scored if the cop fell for it and chased us.
Small town. Dumb, overweight cops. They never caught anyone.
Acaexx · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a few imaginary games in my head when I was little:
When sitting in a car I'd picture a little dude running by my parents' car who would jump between the other cars to keep up.
When swimming, I'd pretend to be a vessel containing millions of passengers from destination to destination.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with my uncle except he was always the seeker and I was always the hider and if I lost then he got to put his willy in my bum /s
YokoMojoyo · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandad had a beach house and whenever we stayed there, my dad would let me and my sister bring a friend each. At night, we'd lock ourselves in our bedroom, turn off all the lights and played a game that was pretty much "Marco Polo", only that whoever was it had to put a pillow on its face and the others would sing "Pig Face, Pig Face" until someone was tagged.
The game was called "Pig Face". I don't really know where we got that idea from but yeah it was really fun.
IAmFern · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a Spider-man figure and some fishing line, and a whole lot of dominoes. I liked the dominoes not for the game itself, but because I liked creating long chains of them to knock over in sequence.
The game was to use the Spider-man figurine, with a 'web-line' attached to his hand, held high, and then let it go to swing into your domino chain. The person who could knock over the most dominoes in a single go won.
tandycat4 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get Out of My Yard. One kid had a broom and stayed on the sidewalk in the middle of the yard, as the other kids would dash back and forth across the sidewalk, the old angry lady would smack u with the broom. When u got hit it was your turn to be old pissy lady
BaabyBear · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play “jump my eyebrows over cars/traffic cones/street lights” by myself in the car
BadNraD · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Nightcrawlers” was a game where we would go headfirst into our sleeping bags, turn off the lights, then attempt to beat each other up while crawling around blind in the dark. The sleeping bags provided enough restriction and protection that no one usually got too hurt.
daethebae · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a little wagon and would roll down hill with me and my friends when we were 7 pretending to be knights and shit and jousting cars. I have no idea how we didnt die especially since we went downhill and crossed the streets going like 15 miles per hour
xXHomerSXx · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids we were big into splinter cell. Se we made our own home brew hide and seek called Spies and Mercs.
Mercs would have to guard an objective, whilst spies would have to infiltrate and retrieve the objective.
Loadouts Mercs- flashlights, air soft guns. Spies- mw2 night vision goggles, their deadly hands.
Artist552001 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister would float relatively far out into the lake on a boogie board, then hop off and pretend to drown. I would then go out on my boogie board and "rescue" her. Neither of us could swim well, so that could've ended poorly.
ArcticJace · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and our infinite wisdom thought it would be great to recreate the original Donkey Kong by finding the steepest hill in our woods and try to reach the top while another friend would throw sticks and push logs down to stop us
Kartchy88 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played baseketball(like the movie). It started as a joke when the movie came out, but we actually had kids come from other neighborhoods to play with us because they heard how ridiculously fun it was. We had a hoop in my backyard from the previous owners and it was filled with grass, so it was a perfect field for us to play.
TheArborphiliac · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend played 'Ventball', which was basically handball but you had to kick this small foam (like a coated nerf softball) and it had to hit this vent on the side of my house. Parents didn't really care for that, so it then evolved into 'Ricochet', which was again just handball-but-kicking, except this time we used a kickball--those pthoonk-sounding rubber ones with the little hashmarks on them--and took it to the baseball backstop behind my house. So much fun. Well, until you kicked it too high and it snagged the sharp chain-link at the top, piercing the ball and forcing us to climb up and get it, then finding something else to do.
Good times.
7heJoker · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we moved my brother and I taped together all of our moving boxes and created a box fort/tunnel system that spanned our entire 2000 sq ft basement. There were multiple rooms and secret entry ways. We even had a dead end to catch unsuspecting intruders. It was lots of fun
vampire_frying_pan · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
World war 2
ReinOfGaia · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a version of "Get your own back" where I would sit on the sofa and he would sit on my lap and I would throw him off onto the floor (gunge)
antmansclone · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ITT: Reasons I never leave my four sons unattended for too long, and reasons why parents feel the deepest dread when we realize they've been especially quiet.
Frankenstein79 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dash Galaxy escape from the asylum .....or something like that all I remember was I was a spaceman on trampolines trying to get out of a room ...... I believe he's still there bouncing his way to freedom
O1_O1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme staring contest. Me and someone I used to play with as a kid realized that if you just leave your eyes open eventually you’ll get used to the pain, so we did and I’m surprised it didn’t affect our sight.
Not-A-Niche-Username · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was something I did during car trips. I would pretend the car "jumped" over the shadows in the road, be it road signs, traffic lights, utility poles etc. Id imagine the sensation of the front wheels leaving the ground first and try and have the front wheels land again before the back wheels did, like a one-two motion, and time the "jumps" over the shadows
menboss · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goalie ball.
We would play this in narrow hallways at school with any type of ball that was around the size of a soccer ball.
2 players, one on each end about 7-15 ft apart, would try to get the ball past their opponent. The ball couldn’t go over your head and you had stay one your line while on your knees or sitting (no standing). You could throw, punch, or kick the ball.
To this day I wish I could play this game again.
juul95 · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freddy the fish. Casper the ghost. Putput (that little car). These were all Dutch games, so I dont know forsure if the games are international.
jihkr · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the second grade I used to imagine a ball bouncing around the classroom kinda like the DVD symbol bouncing around a TV screen.
It was pretty fun for me but my parents were a bit freaked out when my teacher told them what I was doing in class.
WeekendVacuum · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would take our shirts off and whip beanie babies at each other.
PurpleBucketofAIR · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jailbreak
All the kids in the neighborhood divided into two teams, hiders and seekers. We decided on a location to use as a jail, usually a front porch. The seekers waited 5 minutes in jail, and could leave 1 person guarding it.
When a hider is found, they get escorted to the jail. However, another hider can run into the jail and scream “JAILBREAK” and everyone in the jail is free, so long as the guard doesn’t catch them.
I will never forget the days when my biggest worry was where I could hide near the jail so I could break my friends out.
garmdian · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I slid down carpeted stairs for hours because it was fun and the rug burn made my chest have a tingling feeling.
LiveByThyGuN · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide and go seek in the dark
It was pretty brutal because the person seeking would wear a pillow case over their head and we would turn off all the house lights, so they couldn't see anything. We would all arm ourselves with pillows and we would be allowed to hit the seeker and put objects in front of his/her path.
He just has to touch you or hit you with a pillow to tag you. It resulted in lots of crying and SLAMMING your pillow into the seekers face or legs. Them falling over and hitting their head. All the good fun that comes with these kind of games.
IamCadenBaldwin · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Finger up the butt" and it sounds terrible. Mind you this was in a house with 4 boys. We didn't let our younger sister play for obvious reasons. You would casually go about your day and if someone came up behind you they could put their finger in yours as they shouted "Finger Up Your Butt!" You had to shout a little before you did it, and if they weren't prepared you got a point. Folding the laundry was a nightmare as anyone could sneak up on you. Good times.
oneal0625 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runescape. Buying gf 10gp.
1gramweed2gramskief · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Treeballtag. We had three trees in my yard that approximated to a triangle whoever was it” got a kickball to throw while everyone else tried to dodge. The trees were base. It was pretty fun like a pitcher trying to pick off runners but the bases were always loaded and there was no batter. It was great cause nobody won or lost and there weren’t points but we all had fun.
zeebow77 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my childhood home we had an extremely long staircase from the middle floor to the basement. My brother and I used to slide/fall down the stairs in sleeping bags and smack into the wall at the bottom to stop.
EnderGrimm · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child me and a friend of mine would basically pretend to be monsters and fight each other with magic.
Now a days I work in a warehouse and more often that not we end up playing dodgeball with bouncy balls (they can goddam hurt if throw hard enough) or catch with a elastic band we ping at each other
waifsandmendicants · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cant step on the edges of tiled floors. Hold breath during commute til a sidewalk gutter is cut off by driveway.
SadfishMelvin · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and my five siblings would play a game called Death in the dark. Basically just blocked out all of the windows and we had to find our dad in the pitch black, but he would sneak up on us and scare us. Ended up breaking the couch in half and then we weren’t allowed to play anymore
buffalolsx · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hugos House of Horrors.
bilalsadain · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The apartment where we lived had a kinda long corridor. And we had carpets all over the home including the corridor. So my sister and I divided the corridor in half and took a ping pong set and made up a game in which the object was too not let the ball stop moving in your half of the corridor. Since there were carpets, the ball would stop moving fairly easily so it was a challenge and a pretty good exercise to keep the ball from stopping. We called it "ground tennis". Lame name but fun game.
killerBerberecho · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin used to have bikes with speed counters, and near our village (a little town on the Spanish countryside) there was a ascending 2 kilometers long road that rarely saw any cars.
We spent a lot of afternoons competing to see which one achieved most speed. All of this without any protections or regard to road security regulations. Our record was 47 kilometers per hour.
I came to think we are lucky to be alive considering our hobbies.
Fluttermun · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved Spyro the Dragon so much growing up. So much that I created a dragon persona and talked my friend into creating a dragon persona and then we would run around our apartment complex pretending to be dragons and getting gems.
And then I stop and realize...I did this for Pokemon too when I was even younger. Pretended I was a Magby and waddled my little feet around the courtyard with a friend who was an Igglybuff...
Furry's start young. O_O
packardpa · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would choreograph these what we perceived as "epic battle scenes" with each other during the summer when we were home alone. We would take the legs off the side table next to the couch and "battle". We didn't swing aimlessly at each other and we never got hurt. We would add a swing and a block sequentially over the course of an hour or so until we had this long drawn out choreographed "battle" scene. We would do it over and over again until we had it perfect and could "perform" it really quickly. It was around the time Revenge of the Sith came out, so naturally we had force throws as well.
lessrburnt · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boat wars
emilyhumanoid · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my friend's house, we would tie one of us up with rope, zip into a duffle bag, throw it onto a moving treadmill, then move the bag into the closet and time how long it took you to get out?
I realize now that this wasn't the smartest of games to have played.
ZzackK2398 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would cover the floor in whatever we could find whether it be chairs, toys, boxes, you name it. We would then turn off the lights and close the blinds so it would be as close to pitch black as possible. With items scattered across the whole room (basically every inch of the floor was covered) we would try to make it to the other side in the dark without tripping over something and falling on our faces. I don’t know why we thought it was fun but at the time it was a blast.
BattleStag17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a spare spring mattress for whatever reason, so my sister and I would cram it onto the staircase to make an awesome slide
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game called 'bottle ball' or something. Looking back on it, the rules were essentially similar to rugby, with some modifications:
The 'ball' was a gatorade bottle
Forward passes were allowed, but a dropped forward pass is an immediate turnover, as in Ultimate.
The 'goalposts' were basketball hoops supported by 2 poles
The actual basketball hoop was in play, for more points than a regular 'field goal'.
It was fun, but required a very specific playing surface.
deuteranopia · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my little brother and I would get cooped up in the winter (We lived in Wisconsin and it was common to have to dig your way out of the house, otherwise, you'd just stay inside), we would play this little clue-based game that we came up with.
Essentially, one person hid an object somewhere in the house, and had to write a series of clever clues that led to it. The other person (or sometimes we had friends play with us) stayed in a separate room until the person hiding the object (usually our favorite toy) knocked on the door and presented the first clue.
We thought the clues were pretty clever, and they usually revolved around things specific to us, as kids. One of the clues might have been a math problem, and the answer might have been a number specific to an item in the house (we had this massive ceramic umbrella holder thing with the number "14" on it that we often used for this game).
We had another game we played in the summer time when we'd stay up late. We lived next to an apartment complex on one side and a cornfield on the other. So we'd grab a bunch of the neighbor kids and play "Jason Tag" in the surrounding area. It was essentially regular hide-and-go-seek/tag but the person who was "it" had to wear a Jason hockey mask and wield a prop machete. It was a lot of fun chasing other kids through a dark cornfield with a hockey mask and a plastic machete.
waltermcy0110 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
chrome://dino
kaolin224 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The house I grew up in had a huge, mostly empty basement. Ultra thin carpet, some luggage, and unused furniture. I'm 10 years old, my brother is 8.
My dad was taking the training wheels off my brother's bike, but the wrench slipped and he accidentally bent back one of his fingernails.
He howled in pain, unleashed a barrage of curse words - teaching the both of us all of them in a single crash course, with both the context and the syntax - and hurled the wheel away from him, like he was throwing a Frisbee on the ground.
It zoomed across the floor on its edge, going the entire length of the basement, and slammed into the far wall. My brother and I were stunned, and we invented a new game:
Wheelies
You sit at opposite sides of the basement, on your knees, and whip this training wheel back and forth to each other. This is an 80's era training wheel, meaning it's made of solid plastic, and heavy rubber. Nearly indestructible, and probably weighed a pound or more. It rolled fast as hell if you threw it right. The idea was to hit your opponent's wall while they tried to catch it.
The game was a blend of catch and air hockey, only your balls were the goal if you failed.
We introduced our cousins to it and it was the main event each time there were family parties. The adults would be grilling, gambling, and drinking in the yard or upstairs, and they'd keep the kids in the basement.
One of my cousins discovered that you up the ante by rolling it off your shoulder, causing it to bounce. Now you could possibly get hit in the face unless you were fast enough. Getting a bloody nose or cut lip was a badge of honor.
Then the girl cousins saw how much fun we were having and wanted to play. We told them to fuck off and they tattled on us, getting the boys in trouble. We had to let them play.
The first match was my cousin against his two sisters, the youngest of which was the one who told on us. First throw of the game and my cousin hit his snitch-ass, bitch-ass sister square in the face. Slight diagonal, bouncing throw that landed on her eye, nose, and the corner of her mouth.
Blood starts gushing from her nose and lips and she screamed bloody murder. The adults heard the ruckus and charged downstairs.
We, the boys, all got spanked and grounded, and that was the end of Wheelies.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway Football. We used to line up 2x2 up to 5x5 with linemen. Doors were left open to allow big hits into stairs/washing machine/bunk beds. I can't remember if numerous broken bones or holes in the wall was the reason we were forced to change to concrete driveway tackle football because it was somehow deemed safer.
TheSheepDuck · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my friend from school told me about "Michael Jackson Tag" he played in elementary school.
I thought it was going to be some variation of tag where you moonwalked or made Michael Jackson noises, but it was apparently just regular tag.
llamasareevil · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever a car would drive past the road beside our house, my sister and I would run like hell to a nearby tree. If either one of us didn't make it to the tree before the car drove to the end of the road, we got "rund over".
NataliaB0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I loved this one:
I wrote some made up recipes on pieces of paper and their ingredients. We had 2 minutes to memorize the recipe we got. Then I mixed up the papers with ingredients and we would have to find those from the recipe.
I hope I explained it well :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See who could fart on each other the most.
Sorry, fellas, I'm taken.
Smalk · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tackle game". Using a soccer ball, you would attempt to dribble past or run away from everyone else, who would be trying to tackle you. However, no tackle was deemed a foul, and the dirtier the tackle, the better. So many twisted ankles and bruised legs. No winners or losers, however, extremely dirty tackles would be celebrated. Teachers had to stop us when we played on grass that was completely covered in ice, as they thought it was too dangerous, which, in hindsight, it was.
NagatoAmegakure · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friends and I would play the "anything game" I believe is what we called it. Basically you could play as anyone from anything and we would run around pretending to be those people
nopethis · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will get buried, but we used to play an amazing game in our gym class. (great gym teacher in elementary school)
BLOB: basically it was tag, started with one person, but then as you tagged someone, you had to hold hands and could not let go. Slowly the "Blob" would grow to the whole class all surging after the few survivors. Games got super intense and it kept the whole group involved.
JUDGE_YOUR_TYPO · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in middle school we used to play this game called kronum. It was like basketball, soccer, and football combined. It was really just an excuse to beat the fuck out of each other.
BreatheUseful · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play “wolf and leopard” any time we were in a pool or outside. I was the wolf, she was the leopard. Basically we would crawl around on all 4s and pretend to be these animals. We would catch lizards and go on adventures. Basically doing normal stuff, but as our animal. Sounds so silly now.. but we would do this for HOURS every time we saw each other.
When we were inside we would play with our “packs”. Basically just a bunch of stuffed animals that we made into our own pack. The pack itself would take hours for us to plan on the phone.. like “who are you bringing?” “Oh, ok I’ll bring this one then since they are friends”. And they had drama, fights, adventures. My parents always loved when we show up for a 2 week trip to see family and realized I only packed stuffed animals. Haha! Good memories.
PleaseDontTellMyNan · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take a ball and throw it toward our ceiling, trying to get it the closest without touching it. Also me and my brothers would shoot each other with air soft guns on our neighborhood golf course.
Maslover51 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flash Flood! It was our favorite. My 2 sisters and I made it up. Someone would pretend to be a radio announcer and would come on the "radio" saying that there was going to be a flash flood that would flood the entire world. We'd have 30 minutes or an hour or whatever to build a waterproof house (blanket fort) for us and our children (our stuffed animals). After the flood finally hit, presumably killing off most of humanity, we'd start working on tunnels between our houses so our kids could have playdates. Sometimes we'd have to help each other swim out to catch fish for food (usually other small toys). Stuff like that.
It was the best game.
creepyrob · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Murder in the Dark”
Turn off all the lights and put sheets over the windows and get the room as dark as possible. Then beat the shit out of each other with pillows.
UnseenDane · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When our babysitter would take us to my younger brother's football practice at the park, I would play Bottle Tag with my friends there. Bottle Tag is a very simple alteration to the game of tag where you fill a Gatorade bottle with rocks, and the person that's it has to tag you with the bottle. The bottle can be thrown and the whole park was the playing field. The park was pretty large so you had to run quite a bit when you were it. There were seven or eight different jungle gyms, basketball and tennis courts, a river, and a forest that the local kids dug bike ramps throughout.
failure-voxel · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And at school, we would play a game called ‘Family Tag’ (which later was called ‘Infected’ and turned more extreme) which is just tag but if someone is It, and they tag someone else, they are still it, it’s like a last man standing kind of thing.
d0pedog · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Touch the peepee!
M4GIZARD · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
„Wandball Spiel“ I‘m from Switzerland and this translates to: „Wallball game“
My friend and I played a very weird „wall-pass“ game where we‘d habe to throw a ball at one of three walls and let it fall into a specific area. You could catch the ball mid-air and go on to speed up the game and to force mistakes. If you didn‘t hit the are or hit a different kind of wall or weird specific things that weren‘t allowed (specific rules we added playing the game). Only we 2 played that game with eachother and I never heard anyone play something similar to our game. It is kind of comparable to a weird mix of squash, handball (I don‘t know how known this sport is in the us or if it‘s even called like that lol) with weird extra self-made rules.
Edit: Added our name of the game.
Naagin_who · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kone Zaka its like cricket but with ring of a kids ring pyramid and a toy golf club handle
squidbooties · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bouncing paddle ball.
I have no idea who gave me paddles or why, but I had two paddles, a bouncy ball, and a trampoline.
The premise of the game was to literally smack the ball with the paddles while jumping on the trampoline; you get a point each time you smack the other person with the ball and you instantly lose if the ball hit you in the face. You also got points if you dodged the ball... I’m pretty sure everyone is scarred from that game mentally and physically.
alice_d_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Footstool: siblings pair up, one gets on hands and knees and becomes the footstool for the other. Having 8 kids in the family, we could do 4 pairs. The people acting as footstool try to stay as still as possible. The first to give up loses.
ojw2142 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my former best friend used to play army men. he had a small obsession with ww2 and we would spend our days regularly storming the beaches of Normandy with our wooden guns.
Jess041 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had several car games to keep us occupied. When he drove me to preschool I would count school buses. We would also claim water towers. When we were driving, the first person to see a water tower would say "my water tower!". We also liked to play a game where we tell my dad how to get home from various places.
GlitterBaiter · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cat hotel.
Its when you gather up laundry baskets and all of your cats. You put all the laundry baskets on their sides, line then with blankets, and put a cat in each one.
Then you just sit there trying to keep each cat in thief basket until you get bored.
I had some pretty tolerating cats I guess.
Silver_Yuki · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn't have siblings or cousins or friends to play with. So my imaginary friends and I made a class and we would hold lessons, have cool lunches, hang out, even get into trouble.
My mum's closet became the head teachers office where you would go if you were really bad.
We would all show off our amazing bento lunches that are parents made for us.
I even had a registration book and a star chart for the good behavior in class.
I also studied ahead so I could "teach" interesting classes on things I hadn't covered yet in school...
derka211 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get the carped soaked wet and go slide on it eith my brother for hours. Wasn t that fun for our grandmother though.
Smilingaudibly · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would play homeless, where we were homeless kids who lived his playhouse in his backyard. We pretended that "the nice people inside" let us stay in their backyard and even let us use the bathroom if we needed to.
nosg0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MiNEaCaRft
msteinka · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I invented a game we called “Dead Guy on Camel’s Back” and the idea was that you were a guy in the desert who died of thirst and now your camel had to carry you back to civilization. So one sister was the “dead guy” who would lay limp across the other sister’s (the camel’s) back. The camel sister would have to carry the limp sister’s body across the house and if the dead guy fell off the Camel’s back, you lost.
assholyolyo · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Street luge on a mountain board. When I was probably 10-11 I lived near a big hill I would lay down on a cheap mountain board which was basically a skateboard with tall trucks and bigger wheels. I rode down that hill all the time.
pyrite_ankh · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's so many ways to play it but me and my friends still play wallball 10 years later, it was just cheap and we lived in the perfect area
thehotmegan · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom thinks this one is soooo funny and it is looking back on it but at the time my brother and I took this very seriously of course.
We grew up in Florida in a house with a very long steep driveway. One day after a particularly bad storm, it flooded, creating a decent "pond" at the bottom of the driveway. Im guessing this was before proper drainage was installed in our neighborhood, bc after a bit, tadpoles began hatching and swimming.
My brother and I were obviously fascinated by this and instead of letting us play in the stagnant water, she set us up good. She brought 2 chairs to the end of the driveway and gave us sticks with string attached so we could "go fishing".
I vaguely remember sitting there like 2 old men, fishing and talking quietly (so we didn't scare the fish).
Mom says it kept us busy for hours, damn near all day, before we wised up (or got sick of playing) and just scooped the tadpoles up with some cups. She says people were driving by honking and laughing their asses up.
Smart mom. Fun day for us, peace and quiet inside the house for her.
fruitcakefriday · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mystery, or Mr Tree when adults were about, because it was a secret world they shouldn’t know about.
Basically it involved imagining hoards of skeletons of different colours trying to invade our village residential road. The severity of the situation was denoted by the colours of the skeletons - green skeletons were par, blue tough, red formidable, and white the deadliest of all. They were devious and always using backroads and shortcuts to try and REDACTED but we always saved the day, albeit sometimes at the cost of life threatening wounds including having our bones replaced by their bones and becoming possessed.
RustDeathTaxes · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WWII. My friends and I were obsessed with WWII so we would dress in khaki, olive drab, camo, etc. and find twigs that were shaped like guns (seemed to always find a MP44/Thompson stick). We would mostly play it on the playground at lunch so we'd have other things at our disposal like pinecones as grenades, musical instruments as bazookas/panzerfausts, ziploc bags as bandages, etc. The game was amazing and we had some epic battles but one day the lunch monitors came over and asked what we were playing. We told her and she proceeded to throw us all in after-school detention for being Nazis. The principal was a good guy though and just had us form a library research club where we would eat our lunch in the library and read books on WWII and then discuss them. We also wrote papers about WWII and gave them to the principal for extra credit in our classes.
Puffwad · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would find sticks. Perfect sticks. Then we would carve them, shape them and admire them for hours. Then when one of us got bored we’d break the other’s stick so we could do something else. We’d fight then go do another strange activity. Our neighborhood was odd.
bombay_girl · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Writing random words in the air. It looked confusing to someone who saw me do it, but I loved writing words, watching them form and getting carried away with them.
I still do it even now (I'm 24).
Mr_Bubbles69 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
More in highschool/ late junior high, but we would shut off all the lights and play hide and seek in the basement/ main floor of my parents house. Turned into seemingly hours of silence and then shouting.
rockhardgelatin · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "mad dogs." It was a game where my younger sibling and I, and our neighborhood friends would all get on the trampoline and throw all our shoes in the middle with the laces untied. We would bounce all around, and once you got hit by a shoe or its laces, you were "out" and had to sit on the side. Last one standing won the game. Or, if you were able to bounce all the shoes off the trampoline without getting touched, you and the rest of the survivors all won. Looking back, it was kind of dangerous, but really fun.
SupremeLifeDive · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time my parents rented a bounce house for my younger brother’s birthday. Me, my brothers, and my cousin discovered that when you unplugged the bounce house, you would have about 10 seconds to escape before it completely collapsed onto itself. We spent hours taking turns unplugging it and trying to escape before it ate us up.
klraine · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In our old house we do have long staircases, My brother and other siblings (We are 5 children) would place a foam on top of the staircase, seat on it (in order eldest to youngest) while holding each others waist and slide down the staircase. It was so much fun!!!!
Enjoyed my childhood with my sibs. 🤣
gainking · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game we played that was a form of hide and seek, we called it polish hide and seek.
The point of the game was to count to 30 at home base then try to find people, but instead of just finding them you would just have to see the person, if you seen someone you run to base tag it and say their name. So the object of the game was to hide well enough for the seeker to overlook you and make a sprint to the base before then and say your name.
I still think about this game all the time and how much fun it used to be.
penelope_pig · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents had a pond that we would swim in as kids. We had a bunch of those colorful diving rings/sticks. My friend and I would close our eyes and throw those out into the water (or have someone else throw them for us). Then we'd pretend we were mermaids and we had a whole story, but it boiled down to we had to find the diving rings and sticks because they were special treasures or something. We would spend HOURS in that pond searching for them. I'm pretty sure there are still a few in the murkier areas that we never recovered.
Langoustina · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game that we called "Leg-able." Idk why we called it that. Essentially one of us was on our knees and couldn't stand up, and the other one was able to stand and run around, and the one on their knees had to chase the standing one around the living room. Imagine the state of our knees. It was ridiculous.
cocaineandcaviar · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dizzy dinosaur: A few people (normally in a small room) spread arms out wide and start spinning until you all get real dizzy.....that's it
Jackason13524 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we had a game called "shrimp on the barbie" in which we would all hang on the monkey bars and try to use our legs to pull the others off. The last one still on the bars won. It was the original Battle Royale.
stonesourshadow · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk if it's considered unique but my family used to play hide and go seek tag in the dark.
Always played it in the middle of the night for maximum darkness. The seeker starts in the basement where a "home base" is located. No one is allowed to hide in basement, and the goal is to eventually sneak down to "home base" without getting caught. Seeker has to tag people to catch them. I ran into a folding table bc someone had moved to the middle of the room as an obstacle.
xTc_Khaos · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would wrap myself in a giant comforter, and fall down the stairs.
miscmouse · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Duct tape lawn chairs to skateboards and ride them down the steepest hill in the neighborhood at ages 10-13. We would also leave the ends of sticks in the bonfire until they were bright red coals, stand on opposite sides of my friends yard and whip them at each other in the pitch black. We called it light saber fights. 14-18 we would have fireworks fights, they were like firecrackers but they would zip around once ignited. Light it, toss it toward each other, and pray, cause the direction they'd launch was random. At 16-17 we would launch shopping carts as far as possible from the car by holding them out the window and slamming the breaks. Hide and go seek in cars was super fun. My friend was very good at getting the car off the road and into bushes and shit, need a large but distinct boundary for the neighborhood you play in.
WW4O · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This thread: The incredibly unique game of make-believe!
Also. if y'all are reading these thinking "Man that was fun, I wish I could do that again," play some DnD or any other tabletop RPG. It's the most fun you'll have with pants on.
ImmortanJoe · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My late cat who was fat, lazy, mean and every cat stereotype rolled into one was an unwitting participant in all my childhood games. When we built the Millenium Falcon out of boxes, she was perched on top in her basket sleeping, acting as R2D2. When we played He-Man, she was the Mighty Battle Cat... just sleeping, as we play-acted around her.
3xtreme0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jurassic Park. Brother in the front seat would be the raptor and I would be the human and we would take turns and try to get each other
MemePiper · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and uncle Tom would go into the closet and play the naked game ;)
Slayer7413 · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Handball", my buddy has an indoor ice rink in his basement (idk the material but you could skate on it) and we had a small rubber ball that you always see being sold in the huge bins at Walmart.
You could play whatever size teams, we usually went up to a max of 3v3s though and you had to score on hockey neta. You could use whatever part of your body to hit the ball, not allowed to catch the ball and hold it but you could catch it and throw it immediately.
The faux ice was quite slippery and we always played in socks to make it more difficult, checking was also allowed. You could make some crazy ass plays and could blast that little ball so fast that people would have sick snipes.
danielkadosh10 · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to play a game we would just go to parks around the town and find chairs and stuff like that and tey to balance it on the top of one of the slides
Reckanise · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably already mentioned but 'beat the letter'. The chasing team had to catch and beat up the running team and retrieve a letter from each member of the team by force.
At the beginning the running team agreed on a word and assigned a letter to each member of the team. If the team that was 'on' figured out the word, they win.
ObeselyMorbid · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where are you rogersimon, this is your shot
whoistobias · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is late childhood, but still counts, I was 16.
I worked at a boy scout camp and we had a waterslide. After all the campers left Saturday morning we'd have the rest of the day to Jack around and do whatever we wanted so naturally a ton of us wanted to go play at the lake with the waterslide.
We invented a game we called "bowling." If you sat in the middle of the slide correctly with your legs arched over the stream of water, it would just pass under your legs. We'd have six or so guys sit this way and link arms while 320 pound Dave came at us full force. I don't know why this was so fun as it often inflicted pain on everyone playing, even if the "pins" won. Either way, we'd line it back up and go again.
Eventually someone broke a nose and we had to stop.
NTSBusMan · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented an NFL simulation game using a standard set of D&D dice but I never finished a game because it took about five hours to play.
RavensFanVB · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Crawlers with Charlie
O0O0SH · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blink at every power line on road trips
surgeric · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings made up a game called Shark. One person would be the shark and everyone else would be a human. Basically everyone that was human would stand on this queen size bed (the boat) and the shark would have to tag you without his legs leaving the floor. Was good times aha
Also played a game where we would have 3 lychee seeds and thread them between each other.
hockeypuck1212 · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would throw random things (bouncy balls, gi joes, pens etc...) at the ceiling fan in the living room and try to dodge them when they ricocheted at full speed. I suppose if my dad ever found out he’d kill us but it was fun.
cc210920 · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play a game called “butt wars” where we would use our butts and knock each other over, last one standing wins. This caused many accidents.
ChowderAndComedyGold · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"GET DOWN Mr.PRESIDENT" last guy to get his arm up like an FBI agent receiving a call gets tackled by all. We did this everywhere and even in a stairwell. I slid down the railing because I didn't want Big Matt to put 300 pounds of doom on me.
Water_Meat · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "Moles" with our (mentally unstable) grandma.
We used to hide under the duvet covers, and she would pretend to be our paternal grandfather (She was our MATERNAL grandmother) who was "hunting moles for mole stew".
Note: Our grandfather was not a hunter and we'd never had anything CLOSE to "mole stew" before, so we have no idea where she got all these ideas from.
Anyway, she would reach under the covers and try to drag us out, and we had to try to hold the covers down so she couldn't grab us, and when she did, she used to drag us out of the room and tickle us so the other moles would hear "the mole getting killed for the stew" before she came back to grab the others.
We LOVED IT and it was the highlight of visiting her, but looking back as adults, we're constantly like "what the FUCK was that".
giantpizzas · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors and I used to play Indian. My brother dug a hole for a bike ramp in the empty lot next door to us and we used the hole as our “tee pee.” We would collect weeds to use as our firewood and flowers for our food. We would pretend to hunt the rabbits as well. Oh to be young again.
kiltedvaper · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Green Ghost. I tag game played at night where the single ghost with a flashlight gains additional ghosts by tagging and it ends when there is only one survivor left. Now play this on 5-10 acres in the woods out in the country for maximum scariness.
n7-Jutsu · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Adventure Quest.
Kotsuumo · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
more teenager, but still. Large trampoline, 5 guys bouncing on it. you take a kickball, and one guy while the the air from a bounce, calls one persons name, and airs the ball in their general direction, they have to catch it, bounce, and then repeat. bonus points for styling while catching.
MrTheFysh · 1 points · Posted at 15:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There are a few
Namely was Hunters
Where there'd be two teams, hunters and hunted, and the hunters had to find and beat up the hunted. Most of the time my big brother and his friends were the hunters. I got really good at falling out of trees.
There was also Red Alert, where we'd ding dong ditch then crawl around while annoyed neighbours tried to find us.
plyswthsquirrels · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had this game called "Lava Ball". We had this unique set up at the school were it was street that went into the middle and on each side you had a 2 story building with sidewalks. Well this game was basically you threw the ball above a certain point on the wall and you had to hit it back with your palm like handball but the goal was to hit the other team like dodge ball. It was just an excuse for 4 or 5 13 year olds to basically hit each other with tennis balls. Still had a lot of fun playing though.
GrizzlyGodfrey · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Newspaper tag! For whatever reason, everyone got the daily paper on my block growing up but no one read it. So we would collect all the papers and play tag, but to tag someone you had to peg the shit out of them with a rolled up newspaper. Such a blast.
piyochii · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I was obsessed with Naruto, so on the playground at recess I held a "ninja school" for my friends and I would teach them hand signs for jutsu and shit like that.
Omny87 · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about six or seven years old, my family and I used to live in Panama. Behind our house was this large, sloping hill with palm trees along the top, and this huge concrete gutter at the bottom that was about three feet wide and three feet deep (because of how much rain we'd get during the rainy season).
With this setup, my brother and I used to play "coconut bowling", where one person stood at the top of the hill rolling coconuts down the slope while the other stood at the bottom trying to catch them before they fell in the gutter. We played that for a couple weeks until my mom told us to stop before we hurt ourselves. We never did get hurt, which is surprising considering how heavy the coconuts were and what a klutz I was as a kid.
undergroundlux · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my younger brother would play King Cow and King Wiggles.
I was chubby growing up so i got the nickname king cow, and he was skinny so he was named king wiggles (after a worm). We over saw 13 kingdoms made up from imagination.
Kingdom #5 for example was a sub-kingdom in charge of making cars and such. So we used old cardboard boxes to build bases. Where we would store our "vehicles" aka toy cars. Which we bought in big bundles used from a thrift store for dirt cheap.
And another kingdom was in charge of keeping the place safe. So it is where we stored all our guards and troops. Aka army men figures, transformers, jets, helicopters, Spiderman and a toy jet I found at a garage sale for less than a buck.
And everyday we would build on the events of yesterday and continue the "story line". Meaning we tried to build a living imaginary world. If for example one day we said kingdom number 12 was flooded. We would spend the day outside ine a small inflated kiddie pool acting out a war with our hot wheels and such "underwater".
I remember that kingdom number 13 eventually betrayed us. And we had a HUGE civil war that spanned over days & days of toy fights. We lost a lot of fighters (hot wheels) but in the end we won.
This went on for over a year. Until one day we eventually grew out of it.
LucAnimates · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game called ‘Wa’ one person would be it and the others had to chase after them. Like tag but reverse.
We also played one called Banter 123 where you would stand against a wall and try and get to the other side from someone. If you got caught you would get beaten (pushed over)
dopamingo · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played All It at my elementary school. It’s like tag but literally everyone is it. If you tag another person they have to sit down. If you tag each other at the same time, then you play rock paper scissors and the loser sits down. This continues until one person is left standing. It was so much fun once you got a few hundred kids playing.
xkilllerkondorx · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure how to describe this. My brother and I would invent scenarios and essentially role play through them, but it was super minimalistic and never touched paper and was never acted out. Idk. We would just sit and discuss how our characters would respond to their world.
antmansclone · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure this counts as a 'game' but when I was a kid I was smaller than average. I viewed every culvert as a challenge to see if I could crawl through it.
Also, climbing to the tops of pine trees to see how far I could get them to sway, while pretending I was a pirate in the crow's nest.
Kungfu_McNugget · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Black Hole. We danced around on the trampoline and were transported to a dimensions of warlocks, wizards, vampires, pretty much whatever exotic/mythical rpg character you could think up. And later, LOTR with imaginary bows and swords, and about 7 acres of woodland to explore, plus a field or two.
YWHAGWGNWY · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lamppost racing.
Three lamp posts in a line on our street. Equal-ish distance between them. Two people stand on either side of the middle lamppost and race to the one in front of them and back and the winner is the first person to touch the middle lamppost again.
Also, bulldog. Like every lower class British child.
astrojose9 · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "the log" if directly translated.
It was basically hide and seek but with a football. The game started with someone kicking the ball and everyone hiding. The person "counting" would have to retrieve the ball and put it on the initial spot. Then he's look for the others and "catches" someone by saying the person name while touching the ball. If someone managed to kick the ball without being called out, everyone could go hide again.
treestep76 · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock wars! We would take the tops of cans of tar to make shields and throw rocks at each other. This lasted for about two weeks until someone got hit in the head w/a good size rock that split his head and needed stitches. Parents do not understand why anyone would want to play “Rock Wars!” and we were told to stop playing.
Alantsu · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got a beta of a game called Postal like 15 or 20 years ago. Within 5 minutes I smoked some meth for health, set a dog on fire which in turn attacked me and set me on fire, thus the only way to put myself out was to piss straight up in the air and gave myself a golden shower which made my character sick and vomit.
Raath · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was very young, about 7 or 8 me and my sister had this game where we would run up to drain spouts and shout "I like to go like this". We'd do it all the way home from school grabbing onto alternate pipes and the one who didn't have one at the end of the row was a loser for that round anyway. That was until one of us grabbed a spout too hard one day and pulled it off the wall. We weren't allowed to play that game anymore.
SirXenOfNos · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't get a lot of toys as a child, but my dad used to get a decent amount of cellphones from his job. Whenever he replaced one, I'd take it and tape some paper on it, and pretend it's a space ship.
Also, I used to make snake noises in my head to make myself run faster and avoid death
Geo_D · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played baseball for like 15 years. When I was younger (8ish?) I would try to catch the sunspots floating in my vision while I was out on the field.
I literally remember jumping around and darting back and forth to get them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I(M) used to play what we called the Tree Game, we played for a few years before age 10. We had a tree we could easily climb in the backyard and that was our house, so everyone had a different branch and we chose pets to have(I had squirrels) at “night time” we had to get to the tree quickly so the monsters wouldn’t get us, we also had a bartering system and could buy cars and groceries and had our own stores. It was wild!
PicooNicoo · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was part of the butter club in which me and many of my friends growing up would get magic powers if we completed tasks for eachother every day at school. Meaning you had to like create the plum potion and other dumb shit like that. The power I tried to get was the power over wind and after my initiation into the club and I accidentally got a ball on the roof, i tried blowing it down.
7 year old me thought i needed to make more plum potions and things for my friends.
PaJaMa_Penguin · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would launch cars off my porch and see which one went furthest and the "winner" moved on to the next round
Shepoopi · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and siblings and I used to play "boogie man" where all of us, primarily the younger kids, run around a really big and pitch black dark room to run away from the boogie man, which was normally an older cousin hunched over with a blanket over them as they chase us around. It would be terrifying and fun as a little kid, we'd all use eachother as bait to escape the clutches of the boogie man.
LastOfTheCamSoreys · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game called “ghosts” where you draw a face on a grocery bag or garbage bag and let it go in the yard on a windy day. Then you had to throw snowplow poles and rocks at it until you took it down
BMXnotFIX · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were kids, me and my brother had an above ground pool (it lasted maybe a year before it got taken out by a storm. In California of all places.). It was about 16 feet long by 6 feet wide and empty at the time. Me, my brother, our buddy would play a version of Smear the Queer (don't think you can still call it that) where one person would stand in the center and the other two at one end. The two would run as fast as they could and try to get to the other side. I think there was a football at some point but eventually it ended up being just two kids running full speed, inevitably getting tackled hard. There was like no room to get by because of the width and the 1/2 inch of water made it super slippery so there was like zero chance of making it across, but we played it for hours, taking turns being runner and tackler. Come to think of it, a lot of the games we came up with had a very high chance of injury. 🤷
Noromac · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and i made this weird game up. We made my little brother hide a lotion bottle in our playroom, we then had a ball of maybe like 3 huge blankets that we put a rubber bouncy ball into like a needle in a haystack. Anyways after he hid the bottle we turned off all the lights (played at nighttime) and we had to feel around for the bottle. After one found it the squirt some on their hands and rubbed it in (for proof of finding it) and made a bee line for the blankets to search for the ball. You could also sneak to the blankets to not give the general area away of where the lotion was for who still didn't find it. Anyways first one to find the ball and exit the room won! No idea how we came up with that lol.
Orangebeardo · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Living in the netherlands, one goes everywhere on a bike as a child (sometimes adult too).
My game going to school, on every downward stroke of my right pedal, I had to line it up with some feature of the road. A parked car, a dip in the pavement, a sewer grate, a road light etc.
Im sure people have been wondering why I was swinging over the bike path left and right, so I could line up the pedal haha.
BlueBlingThing · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was three I had an seven year old (only sibling) sister who didn’t much like me. She took me down to the road and taught me to play a game called ‘sardines’ where you have to lie faceup on the road pretending to be a sardine and if you hear ‘car’ shouted you have to decide if there really is one or not without looking. If you get up and run and there wasn’t a car you lose. My mum tried many times to stop my sister playing that with me. Then she eventually moved onto the bird poop sandwich game. I don’t have to explain that. But I did worship my sister who seemed very cool and worldly.
MLGDrew · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I throughout all of elementary school would play FATE in real life (if anyone doesn’t know what game that is, it’s an old PC game from Wild Tangent). Every recess we would play and almost every time we were at one another’s house we would play. Everyone thought we were crazy lmao.
what_sgood · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holocaust. Me and my friends were all Jewish if that makes it better
Shannalor · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister had a canopy bed with flimsy aluminum to hold up the canopy. She used a jump rope to tie a noose and she was going attempt to hang me. Parents walked in and saw us standing on her bed and I had a jump rope around my neck about to take a dive off the bed. I was too young to remember it, but supposedly I assured my parents it was just a game and we were having fun.
Senryakku · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
So there was this ps2 game, "rise to honor" featuring jet li. At some point you had to beat guards without being noticed, nothing crazy for a video game... but the thing is that we translated it into real life, and so with my siblings we played "guards vs ninjas".
As a guard you had to patrol around/in the house with your torchlight or w/e, and act as if everything was fine. Sometimes you could act surprised if you heard something. And obviously the ninja had to take out the guard by simply doing the famous "chop" on the neck with his hand.
It's amazing how little you need as a kid to entertain yourself.
carny666 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think it was unique, Well, our whole grade school really. So this is back in the mid 70s. We used to play a game called 'Ledgies'..
Basically the walls around the school had a portion about 7 ft up that was angled. Your job was to stand about 10-15 feet from the wall and bounce a tennis ball off of it aiming for the ledge. If you hit that ledge the ball would pop up and you'd have to run in to catch it.
Ledgies.. I am pretty sure the name had been passed down for years.
DrNinJake · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smash Bros. Brawl, 300%, Light, 4 holes in the floor of a custom stage. Welcome to hell.
Chinillion · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would chase me while I tried to shoot him with my finger gun. If he caught me, he'd sit on my belly and I'd have to use my stomach to push him off. We'd just repeat that cycle lol.
wherewulf23 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get a group of friends together and stand around a bonfire. Toss in a bottle rocket and hold still until it goes off. Person who got hit with the rocket loses. I guess it was an idiot kid’s version of Russian Roulette.
Paameoan · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Klonoa or something it was a japanese game and the main character had blue clothes and a blue hat l
PhantomFever · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a little white girl in kindergarten growing up in a poor neighborhood. Our neighbors directly to our west were a black family that had a daughter in elementary school- although to me she seemed much older bc I thought she was just so cool and mature. During the summer we would play a game I made up on the spot that I called “Birds in the Wilderness”... we would both go to opposite corners of my front yard and we would basically just try to get to my front porch before the other one. I used to think I was so fast because I would always get there before she did. Little did I know she just thought it was great fun to run right behind me screaming like a banshee while I ran for my life. We lost contact after we moved away after a two years of living there. I am forever grateful for her kindness.
thebookofcodess · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I always played a game called “zombies”. It was basically tag, but instead of passing around whoever was the chaser, you would try to infect whoever you could to join your horde. We would spend hours running around the yard hiding from each other trying not to get “infected”. We really upped it when the nerf guns and marshmallow-shooting bows got added to the game. They didn’t kill you, but you would have to freeze for like 10 seconds before running again.
We had a looooot of fun with that one!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Infected". There was one starting zombie and then all other people. If you were tagged for five seconds by a zombie, you would become infected as well. The game would end once there was nobody left, or recess was over. We even had items like med packs (revive a zombie), guns (make someone freeze for 10 seconds) and zombie serum (infect either yourself or a friend automatically) amongst others that I can't remember. Surprisingly, everyone would abide by the rules, and it was a lot if fun. We played it all of 5th and 6th grade.
LandxShark77 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and older brother taught me a game called drive back that was mostly played in the street. All you needed was a football and mailboxes/trashcans/light posts or any other things on the side of a street decently far apart as the "goal. " The object of the game was to punt or throw the football past the set goal object for a point. You weren't able to take any steps closer to the goal except for a couple steps here and there to build up a kick/throw. If the opposing team caught the ball before it hit the ground you were allowed to take 10 steps closer to get a better shot at making a point. If the ball bounces once and you caught it that was five steps. After that you had to kick/punt it from where it landed. You also weren't allowed to touch the ball after you kick it so if the football landed funny and bounced back towards you you were shit out of luck. Such a fun game that I've never seen or heard of outside of my family, though I'm sure similar games were played like that. It was a traditional to play it at Thanksgiving, my dad's family vs my aunt's. Such good times.
speedsloth · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend lived near a place with loads of these lilies called arum lillies which are a weed here in Western Australia. My friend also had a bunch of metal for some reason which we used as weapons. Some were long like swords and some were small and sharp like ninja stars. We would go out to these huge lilly plantations and pretend we were fighting off enemies. If we chopped the flower off the stalk they would count as dead and because the metal was surprisingly sharp we destroyed them pretty quickly. We all got loads of mozzie bites and cuts on our hands from the metal but it was so fun we adapted and wore clothes to cover up and gloves. In the end we had to stop because the shire ended up poisoning the remainkng lillies. The best part is we thought we would get in trouble from the shire because we killed all the lillies before they did.
Momar8 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your in a pitch black room and theres two pillows at the end of one wall. Theres one person guarding the pillows and the other people have to go get the pillows and take them to the back of the room. Also if you get tagged trying to get the pillows you have to go all the way back of the room and try again. We called it Undertaker
julia_gluey_dreyfuss · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to go to several places that were in the middle of nowhere. My brother and I would get really bored so my mom made up a game called Drown the Cows. My brother and I would each choose a side of the road and then whenever we passed cows we would estimate how many there were and that would go towards our score. However if the person on the opposite side of the road saw a lake then they would get to drown the cows and their score would go back to zero. At the end of the car ride whoever had the most cows still alive won.
Fast forward to being a teenager, my boyfriend came with us on a trip and we got bored so I suggested we play drown the cows. He gave me the blankest stare, and that was the day I learned that was not a game that everyone played on car trips.
tantaco1 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game when someone would sit on top of a slide, and another person would try to run up and grab onto them and pull them down the slide. It resulted in pants removal quite often.
Planeswalking101 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about six, my sister (7) and our next door neighbor (8) had this game we called "funny time" (real clever, I know). The foyer of our neighbor's house had tile flooring, and there were a couple of steps leading from the foyer up to the rest of the house. I was starting to play baseball at the time, so my parents bought this "ball" that had a very odd shape, so it would bounce in random directions. It was supposed to help me improve my reflexes, but I didn't use it for baseball. One of us would walk up the couple of steps, and throw the "ball" as hard as we possibly could at the ground. The other two tried not to die. We left the game behind after playing for about six months and shattering two vases.
wongoli · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
irl Pokemon, sounded fun on paper but quickly realized how dangerous and pretty much fucked up it is for a kid to do. We collected capsules and used them as poke balls and we had to capture insects in them. The idea was to just keep outdoor insects as pets, just like in the games, and it would be a cool flex if you managed to really raise and train it. We quickly stopped after my friend caught a Yellow Garden Spider. It was suffocating in the capsule because he forgot to put holes on the cap...not to mention I caught a smaller spider in a big container with soil and everything, and somehow it escaped in my room...
The problem was we didn't know crap about what the hell we were capturing and we didn't how to even take care of it, plus using our captured insects and battling them out is fucked up. If you want your kids to do irl Pokemon the right way just tell them to watch Brave Wilderness on Youtube.
ContraBeats · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I only did it once, but one time when we were visiting family me and my brother and some cousins, who had a compound bow, played a game in the dark where we would shoot an arrow straight up and listen for it to hit the ground to try and find it. None of us saw the danger in this
ImNotPiggy · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Milking the cow blindfolded
KumandSee · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game called "baby soup". He would be a baby trying to crawl into a pot of soup, and I would wrestle him and try and stop him from crawling into the soup and dying.
MtnMaiden · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing "war" card game, and "evil 10s" trump As
Schmitt-Luca17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my neighbours used to throw stones onto the roof of our houses to try and get them stuck in the gutters. Surprisingly more difficult than it sounds.
thetallgirll · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a river in rural Tennessee, and we would play "Firefighters" a lot. We would get toilet paper, sanitary pads, anything we could find, and set it on fire with camp fuel(yeah, we didn't have supervision, like ever). Then, we would make a chain to the river and pass buckets up to put out the fire, or use tent poles to beat them out. Some of them got pretty dicey, which is probably why I have to fill in my eyebrows as a 34 year old woman.
liamcolt · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kidnapping, one of us would be the kidnapper and the rest would be his victims it was bassically hide and seek tag but the tag would have you dragging the kid away from his friends to some out of sight location, it was actually kinda fun and tense
theChubbster101 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "Alien" basically obe person had this headset with blue LED lights on it and we would play in the middle of the night, it was played like hide and seek. Scared the living hell out of us when we would hear loud screeching and blue lights running towards us
Jammer313908 · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister and my cousin used to play “Its raining poop”. Which is basically running around screaming. Same with “The ghosts are coming”.
Announomoose · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Try to make a better minecraft house than blow up other people's houses if they're better until everyone else quits
CursedBlackCat · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in middle school, during lunch, about four or us would hang out in some trees near the back, which was our "fort", and we each had our own weapon of choice, namely a stick we found whose shape and durability we liked. We'd host organized and chivalrous swordfights, with a scoring system: iirc a hit on the limbs was 1 point, a hit on the torso 2 points, or something like that. First to 10 points wins. Point deductions were handed out for "unchivalrous", or dangerous actions such as hitting the face, or for hitting too hard (hits were supposed to be light taps, obviously we weren't trying to draw blood). Two of us would duel, one on one, and the other two acted as referees/scorekeepers.
I recall my "sword" had this nasty hook on the end (think of an eighth note and you get the idea of the shape of my sword), and I would use it to hook onto my opponent's sword, give it a tug to throw them off balance, and then hit them for a point. Once I mastered that move, I easily had the best record in our group. The hook even doubled as a way for me to hang it up on a tree in such a way that made it look like it was a branch that was naturally there, so even if people went poking about in our fort, no one would be able to find my weapon of choice.
Brings back memories. I still game regularly with one of our group, although I have somewhat lost contact with the other two. Now I'm tempted to go back and see if my weapon of choice is still there after all these years, although I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
1OO_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Hot." We were under the age of 10 when we invented this game.
My little brother and I took all of the blankets from the house and put them in the living room. We would lie one blanket down flat on the ground, and one of us would lay on top of it.
Then one by one the standing person would lay a blanket on top of the person laying down one by one. Pretty soon you have 10-15 blankets on top of you, and it's starting to get hot. Then you start feeling claustrophobic because it's gettibg heavy too.
Once the person under the blankets screams "HOT!" you cannot put anymore blankets on them, and then the person under the blankets has an opportunity to crawl free from the weight of 10-15 blankets.
Good times.
that_kevin_kid · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hulkskitball: a 2v2 hockey like game with no rules about contact in which the 2 goalies had hulk gloves to block chalk covered tennis balls from hitting a goal made of colored tape on a wall and the fielders have foam field hockey sticks covered in ducktape to make them harder. Starts with a face off in which a nonplayer drops the ball and starts on the second bounce. Halftime at 8 pts first to 16 wins. Official uniform: socks plus clothes Official Arenas: my friends ridiculously slick basement.
Gerbille · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of us would sit in an inflated boat in a pool. When my grandfather said "Go!" we'd try to flip it with our hands on the handholds. Then we'd have to flip it back and get in, all while being timed to see who could do it the fastest.
Emi1y_Rose · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Egg Hatch.
Me or my sisters would lay down on the couch, and my grandma would stack pillows and blankets over us, making an “eggshell” for us to break out of. Whichever sister wasn’t in the egg would pretend to be a “predator” and try to eat the egg, but our grandma would tickle anyone who got too close to the egg.
After the predator got a chance to play, we would “hatch” from the egg and then would pretend to be an animal, and it was up to everyone to guess what animal we were. For example, we’d run around on our hands and knees and bark if we decided we were puppies. (No, there were no rules about it having to be an animal that actually hatched from an egg.) We played that game forever.
Thanks for the smiles, OP!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had invented our own language. We used that when neighbors were around. They got amazed and we were amused.
lez-dykawitz · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandmother had a big dollhouse with a little doll family, a mom, a dad, a baby, a brother, and a sister. When I was six or seven, I used to play one very weird, very specific game, over and over and over again. There would be a terrible flood, that the family wouldn’t notice until the water was already filling their kitchen, where they always were when the flood started. It was rising quickly and they knew they would die if they didn’t think fast.
They would quickly clean out the fridge so they could climb inside and use it as a boat (sometimes a bed, if I was feeling adventurous, but 9/10 times, it was the fridge). They would spent a few days in the water, getting more and more graphically afraid, the kids begging for reassurance and the parents just wearily trying to give it. They’d start to run out of their meager rations. The baby was always crying. Then they’d land on an island (the coffee table) and sometimes the game would keep going, but usually... I’d kind of lose interest there. But I played the flood game ALL the time. I used to be over there at least two or three times a week and every time I was over there, I’d play the flood game at least once, sometimes more. This went on for at least a year. I had a similar scenario I would make my poor grandmother play with me, minus the dolls, substitute water for lava and a fridge for her futon.
KibaReno · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would put shoes on the ceiling fan, turn off the lights and turn it on so the shoes would hit us in the dark. The fans would look droopy and I have no idea what the hell we were thinking...
Hobo8200 · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Army. Thinking about it now we didn’t do anything that pertained towards the army, but we did run through the woods a lot in any weather condition and my oldest neighbor would give us “missions”. We actually did some crazy shit that I wouldn’t think twice about doing now
MantraOfTheMoron · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bird and Worm with my sister. one of us would get under a blanket and tuck it under as much as possible while the other would try and find a way in to give pinches.
Kaladindin · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Those are two I can remember off the top of my head.
tnegocsole · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tomba 2
Starthreads · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to sit at the top of the stairs and slide down the 20-ish stairs on our asses. We eventually got to the point where we would time it and work on shaving off time and making new record timings for the stair ass sliding competition.
SockoTheHamster · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood friend Jon came up with this game called "Slobber Man", or maybe it was "Slobba Man", I could never understand what he was fucking saying with it. The game was nothing more than yelling Slobber Man obnoxiously and then whacking each other with large pool noodles.
ChemistryIsPunk · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Aliens”. Named after the xenomorphs, first played when I was six.
As many kids as possible would pile onto whatever equipment was at the park. We’d run back and forth from invisible aliens, occasionally one kid would act like they were being dragged down a slide, and we would all dramatically try to pull them back up.
It was especially fun if one of the parents would surprise us by appearing at the bottom of the slide, dragging the kid back down.
Any kid who was dragged down to the ground, whether by an adult or because they slipped, would become an alien. This is why it was best played with a lot of kids, the game ended when only one human was left or we had to leave.
Exquisite_Derpinator · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind Man Seek. We would put a blind fold on and play tag/hide and go seek inside the house. The game ended when everyone was found but the first person found would be the next seeker.
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Cops and Robbers. This was another spin on tag/hide and go seek except it was at night time with flashlights. All the surrounding houses had kids that played with us so our boundaries stretched most of the neighborhood. There was a jail that the tagged got sent to and the game ended if all the robbers got put in jail. But, a robber can tag/break other robbers out of jail to keep the game going.
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We took a piece of rope about a foot or so long and screwed a golf ball to the end of it. We would then twirl it and launch it across the yard. The farthest thrower would get a point.
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(I can't for the life of me remember what this one was called) You had one person that was it that stood in the middle of the back yard while the others lined up on the fence. The person would pick a genre(cars, color, dogs, etc) and call out corresponding things. If your thing got called, you had to run across the yard to the other side without getting tagged.
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Smear the queer. We played this in our friends old garden after it had been tilled so it was very soft when falling. One person was it and tried to get away from everyone else there. The first person to tackle the it person, was then it. We played until we were tired or someone got hurt.
shokaku13 · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game that we called "Fan War"
We would turn on the ceiling fan to its maximum speed, then each make a paper airplane and throw it at the fan. The goal was to have your plane be totally destroyed before the other person did. We had all kinds of advanced techniques that we came up with to best destroy our planes.
LaVonrose · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvin ball.
Basically we would make up random rules just like from Calvin and Hobbes. It was awesome.
MarshMilo100 · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called "mushroom" which was just a fancy name for the quiet game.
Brewmyte · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I made up a game called Slish Slash Doo Doo. My grandmother had a long hardwood hallway with a carpet runner. If you ran fast enough and stopped on the runner you would go sliding. So we would take turns to see who could get to the end of the hallway by yelling "Slish Slash Doo Doo" and then sliding. No idea how we came up with the name cause we were maybe 6ish? We are in our 40's now and still reminisce about it.
shrimpsnap · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run into the forest and avoid bear sh*t.
For real though, I went to an elementary school right next to a forest with a creek. We played "Tarzan" which was really just us climbing anything we could find and then falling off of it. There was also this big "vine" hanging from a tree (just a bunch of young branches bunched up) where we swung from and one kid let go after swinging and fell into the creek. Very fun.
cantonic · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and his brother used to play this game called “Hot or Cold”, which consisted of then standing in the lawn while their older sister was on the porch. She’d ask “hot or cold” and they’d shout back whichever one they chose.
She’d then dump a bucket of either hot or cold water on them. That was it. Rinse and repeat. And apparently they loved this game and would play it all the time.
Memlieker · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super mario galaxy
pidojohnson · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to ride to local playgrounds with my dad on our bikes and play a game that would put us on a watchlist today. It was called “Bomber on the Loose”. My bro and I would run all around the playground to hide and then my dad would yell “bomber on the loose, bomber on the loose!” And try to hit us with a squishy Nerf football. He’d nail us with the ball and we’d laugh and laugh. He had fun trying to hit us and we’d have so much fun running and trying to avoid getting hit.
This game probably wouldn’t fly today under that moniker.
kushkhush · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this weird space car game that would be set in the future. You had to jump from side to side of a floating road and build a high score. Avoid obstacles with jumps and so. What one is it?
Edgecloser · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jazz Jackrabbit
rrro6i · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would always take turns and perform magic tricks on each other when we met. Back then there was no Internet and we didn't own any books on magic so we relied a lot on our imagination in order to try and perform the best illusion and trick the others. It was fun. Kept us busy for hours.
im_an_egg_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run away from Julian
I’m Julian
toiletpaperwizard · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with my cousins that we literally called “scare the crap out of each other”. It was basically hide and seek but it was in pitch black basements and the goal was to scare the person who was “it” the worst. Whoever scared them the least would be “it” next round. I have nightmares still of my cousin popping out from a cabinet to grab my legs as I walked by....
stephwarn · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play Spy, where we would go around the neighborhood, mostly at night when we would have sleepovers, with our "spy gear" to keep watch and uncover what lurks in the night.
We had our "base" as a blanket fort in either one of our houses we would report to if things got hairy. We would make some "tactical" gear from string and bungie cords and use the spy stuff we got from Scholastic Book Fairs lol. Oh and cheap walkie talkies.
Yeah, we felt badass at the time.
WalpoleTheNonce · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called "dropped it". You would lie on your belly on a roundabout with your head facing outwards. Someone would spin the roundabout. Then you either had a stick or bottle and drop it while the roundabout is spinning, you then had to pick up the item whilst going round and round Something tells me that this was a national British kids game?..
emmanuellera · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would arrive st school and with my friend, we would explain what we killed with a brick (we did not actually kill anything. At least not me). It was often cats. We would say how we killed it. It was weird. It lasted like a month. It was not my idea but I was going with it.
I would also play vampire with another friend. We would run around pretending we were vampire and were a very exclusive group of two. We would imagine together what we did as vampires during the weekend. That was fun
bimlay · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would swipe my aunts giant metal mixing bowls and fill them with water and play Barbie swimming pool. We’d also float random stuff down the irrigation ditches.
laceteapixie · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play dragon. One person would be in the downstairs bathroom as the dragon and the rest of us would be in the kitchen by the island. The dragon would come roaring out and start chasing us on all fours around the island. It was really fun. The other one we played was called commercials, we would put on skits for products on our front porch for all of the passerbyes to see.
juxslapme · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it didnt have a name but it was "Lets take this yankee candle and slowly turn it into a bonfire with sticks and twigs".
Honestly starting a fire has been a great life skill Ive held on to.
BassJL44 · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hall ball! One person would sit inside my sister’s room with the door open. Two others would try and run/jump/roll past the door without getting tagged by the ball thrown at us! It was so much fun!
foggy__ · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon kingdoms. Basically we had a big pile of shitty pokemon figurines from ebay and we would divide them up evenly. And then we would set up little kingdoms in different parts of our house. Then we would procceed to wage pointless wars with each other complete with alliances, betrayals, and a small hell corner for dead pokemon.
Greatest fun of my life. I have never been able to have more enjoyment out of anything ever since.
joeijh8 · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend would play "smack". We would kneel down and hit the ball to each other across the room. Like a cross between football and tennis using hands. Spent many hours playing that game
Openeyedsleep · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my buddies used to play literal war with the older kids in our neighborhood. I’m talking picking up logs and building forts by the creek that ran through our backyard, guerrilla warfare, etc. We’d break big branches off trees so they were fresh and sturdy. Then we’d peek the bark off and scrape them on the road until they were spears. I used my dad’s grinder to create a super sharp spear. I was like 7. We threw rocks and bricks at each other. Lol. Good times!
xJBr3w · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At dinner my brother and sister would play a game while eating. We would look around the room and find an object, then we would say "it starts with a __ and ends with a __.. my little sister would always pick necklace lol.
CuriousMickay · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma used to lay on the bed and tell my mom and her sisters that she was going to go fishing. My mom and aunts would start running around the bed while my grandma used a belt to "catch them" by hitting them, I assume lightly. She said they had fun for hours.
NumbOne422 · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My group of friends in 5th grade and I would play “Granny.” One person would act like senile old lady, and the others had to take care of her. Weird to think about now. Lol
Explod3 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just the tip
kittenkin · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the buildings in the neighborhood are collapsing so we must run. Literally just ran up and down the street.
Also played titanic with my barbies a lot because I watched that as a young kid
the_dark_knight_ftw · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would to forward rolls around in a circle trying to catch the person in front without getting caught by the person behind. This could last like 30 minutes, thankfully I grew out of this game when I turned 18.
MakinBaconPancakes26 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 7 I had a friend and we would pretend to be wolves. Wolves that were rock stars. I would play air guitar and she would play air drums. We would have pretend jam sessions and then pretend to hunt elk.
skorletun · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbour and I would play the "dead girl game" where one of us would lie in the middle of our street, and the other drew around her with chalk. The objective: finish being circled with chalk without getting hit by a car.
Neither of us ever got hit, and it was a 30km zone in a very safe neighbourhood so it wasn't like we were in any real danger. But boy, the thrill.
RapSkallon · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a baseball type game but with one of my grandmas’ cane and a small soda can. We called it cane ball and she’d get mad sometimes because we’d chip the paint on her canes. Anyway, my brother is now a professional baseball player about to break the big this year. I like to think playing cane ball helped haha
Deno_TheDinosaur · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much a child, but we played it in high school. The game was called Destination.
We would split up into two teams. One person from team A would drive the entirety of team B as far as they could in 5 minutes. Team B would then get out of the car and have to get back to the starting point without being found on foot by anyone from the other team.
As long as one person made it back to the starting point that was a point for their team. Which ever team had the most points by the end of summer was the winner!
comradeferrum · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "market" at school. Everyone brought little toys and stuff and put them on the desks. Then we just went around "buying" the toys we liked using paper money which we either drew ourselves or got from another game - a "company". The company produced cars, so there were car designers, sellers, etc. I was a secretary - for some reason it was considered to be a rather upscale job. Another game that I used to play was "elections" inside a herd of plastic dinosaurs. With electoral campaigns, voting and all. The dino that won the elections got "a bone of power". Also I used to make different contracts with my family and friends, and for some time I ran a "company" that collected taxes from my father drinking beer. I'm currently a law student so I guess it all makes sense now :)
xmrlazyx · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had a nanny growing up who would threaten to chop our legs off with a cleaver if we didn't listen to her and come downstairs. We would always have a race sliding down the stairs on our butts to see who would've gotten their legs chopped off first.
dbx99 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Held my breath when entering a tunnel when riding in a car
diamondladybug · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad taught my little sister and I a “unique” game that he used to play when he was young, which involved farting into a doorway, therefore creating a barrier of fart, and whoever was the next person to walk through said doorway would “collect” the fart. We spent summers farting in doorways and waiting patiently to yell, “YOU COLLECTED IT!!!” to each other or our cousins while laughing uncontrollably because whoever went through was covered in fart. Hahhaha good times..
GPTdavenelson · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Panic in the Backyard" We'd go out at night in the backyard with two teams. We'd huck those nerf footballs with the whistle as high into the air as possible and try and hit someone on the other side of the yard. The sounds were the best. Frantic running as the whistle got louder and louder and then, THUMP "Fuck!"
RussianElonMusk · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Roll tag" just a cracked skull waiting to happen. Me and my cousin would play this extremely dumb game where one person would roll on the floor while the other person jumped over them. If you accidentally hit your foot off of the person rolling, you had to roll instead. Suprisingly, neither of us got hurt despite doing this for 3-4 years, and how easy it would be to trip over or stand on the other person.
rayenattia · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's this game that i don't remember its name but desperately want to know it, it's a 2D platformer, where the hero is a cat equipped with a sword, looks like an adventurer, who is platforming and defeating enemy dogs dressed like soldiers or british royal guards or similar to that, the only voice line i remember was when a dog is just walking on the platform normally without being engaged, he stops sometimes and say "yes sir, woof woof" while saluting.
That game was so special to me, it was my first video game ever and played it day and night, too bad i forgot its name :[
I'd do anything to replay it and let the nostalgia take over my body, if anyone knows something about it feel free to share, i'd appreciate it!
-kinnikinnik- · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play "poor". We had our favorite corner of the living room where the couches made a barricade and pretend to live in that 3x3 corner. We had to fight the bad guys too and find odd jobs like shucking corn. Come to think of it, "dangerous house" made more sense.
Mongoose2121 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would build cars out of Knex and crush them together over and over again. The one who still had a rolling car left (no knex touching the ground) would win. It got more and more widely creative with learning how to armor the wheels since they were the most important part and added a key rule of repairing your vehicle between crashes with any pieces still connected, so we started building tool boxes attached to the car with pieces in it.
hokasi · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid, if I was bored while standing beside a wall and there was a ball nearby, i’d kick the ball against the wall and make up elaborate rules for the process: don’t let the ball touch the ground, roll the ball off the angled roof if there was one, etc etc. At championship levels this game got intense 😂
LifeHasNoMeaning444 · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and two other kids hung up a hammock on two trees on a hill. We'd jump on the hammock and pretend to be dying chickens. This game was called, "dying chickens."
BeurreBlanc · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"fuzzy blanket monsters". Two kids cover themselves with blankets and then run at each blindly. The goal was to pin the other.. or wrestle till someone gave up. I can't remember clearly.
Also did bear wrestling. You and a partner sit at the bottom of a small hill, the person in front has to crawl up to the top of the hill while the one behind has to wrestle and stop them. It was often violent.
Joshnads · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer... basically someone has a football and everyone else has to tackle them. Whoever tackles them gets the ball. The name didn’t really age well.
Enderdidnothingwrong · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games that my friends and I played. This was high school, so not really kids, but we are still playing these games 20 years later.
Game number one is the garnish game. Your iced tea came with a lemon on the rim? It’s go time. You have to get that lemon on someone’s shoulder without them realizing it. Then it’s just a matter of how long it stays on. It’ll either fall off when they move too much or they’ll notice. We had a ranking system that I’m sure made no sense, since none of us are military. One garnish? You were a lieutenant. Two? Now you’re a general. You got more than one on the same shoulder? Now the stars come into play. It is also necessary to salute the person garnished as often as possible without making it obvious why.
Game number two I made up because EVERYONE in my friend group, including myself, was the ackshually guy. We would correct each other on everything, no matter how minor. We were the definition of pedants. Queue the “bah” game. You say something you know is wrong with the intention of being corrected by someone in your group (I.e. man, I’m glad we got that extra day in February this year, leap years are awesome! Friend: it wasn’t a leap year, you idiot. You: BAAAAH) If they correct you, you get to yell “bah” at them. Sounds dumb, but it stopped us from being pompous asses all the time.
throwedL · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were like 6,me and my sister invented a game named "The end of the world" that consisted in spinning around yourself with closed eye, then when you spinned 15/20 times you had to reach a destination, it basically was impossible and you will always fall on your back laughing. It was like the end of the world from a drunken /high point of view xD.
I_Feel_So_Optimistic · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played “let’s pull mommy’s hair out.” It was a game we played on our bunk bed. It was basically tag, but instead of tagging we would literally grab the others hair and pull as hard as we could so there was no dispute about being out. It was top to bottom to top circular motion on the bunk bed. the one being chased was mommy. We lost gobs of hair, but it tested our agility, speed, and made us not tender headed.
We used to take turns in the swing, we would throw balls at the other in the swing the swinger would kick the ball the other had to catch it before they got to swing. The balls never lasted long, they’d pop on a sharp rock or the barbed wire fence, so we got creative. We would pull up random grass plants in gobs and we would kick those until they were ripped apart soil flying through the air.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swamp,
The swamp monster would be on the ground with all the stuffed animals, the rest of the kids would be on the bed. The kids on the bed would have to collect all the toys without the monster capturing them, because then they would become another monster.
The game ends when either all the toys are collected, or all the kids are on the ground.
Best played with 5 kids and 1 adult.
PutYaGunsOn · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Oh I had a few.
"Crash Test", where my friend and I would each build a Lego car, then push it off a table. Whoever's car broke into more pieces wins.
Playing Zelda but using lightsabers. When we were 10, my friend invited me and two other friends on a spring break trip to his aunt and uncle's summer home which was right outside a forest preserve. My other friend got us cheapo lightsabers to play with for the trip (not bootlegs, these were official, but they were the cheapo ones that didn't light up, and came with a belt clip), each of a unique color. Blue, green, red, and purple (I got purple). Since those happened to be the colors of the Four Swords Links' tunics, we pretended to be the Four Swords Links and fight imaginary enemies in the forest preserve.
Thumb Wars, Steve Oedekerk style. Inspired by his Star Wars parody "Thumb Wars" where the characters are all talking thumbs and their lightsabers are nails that grow out. You win if your nail makes contact with the front of your opponent's thumb, preferrably in a slashing motion. Just like the parody, you also have to make your own lightsaber sounds with your mouth. ("VWSSSSSH! VWAHH!")
King of the Hill, but in GoldenEye on N64. You play the Facility stage with Golden Gun selected. The Golden Gun always spawns in the bathroom, so the King of the Hill has to stay in the bathroom and protect it using the Golden Gun. The other players have to kill him to control the bathroom. ONLY the King is allowed to use the Golden Gun. If a non-king goes for the Golden Gun and kills the King, it's counted as cheating. Also, no Oddjob or Jaws, so everyone is of an even height.
We didn't really do snowball fights in grade school. Instead, we did snow wrestling, which was a hell of a lot more fun.
Not me, but my childhood friend who I really pitied more than anything. He was the slowest kid on the neighborhood when it came to racing (whether on bikes or on foot), and he wanted to feel like a winner at all times, so he would try to guilt everyone into "racing him". And by racing he meant "everyone go at the same speed and cross the finish line together so that everyone is a winner".
Grandaddyspookybones · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do you guys remember that movie, Agent Cody Banks?
I used to play a game where I ended up working for a special agency where kids were constantly at war and we had to battle. I also was obsessed with war video games and codename kids next door.
eweidenbener · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indoor baseball. Ball is rolled up socks, arms are bat, throw outs like in kickball.
It was the best game ever and I miss it dearly
thumpymcwiggles · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Street frisbee. Two vs two about 30yds apart in whatever flat straight part of the street was available.
Throw to the other side and if they are in the street and drop it, you get a point. If they are on outside of the street and catch it, they get a point. Play is null if frisbee hits ground in front of players.
First to 7 wins!
We played for hours. We’d dive into ditches and people’s yards to get to the frisbee, bomb them over each other heads. People would sit on their porches reading the paper and watch us. It was awesome.
porkchorky · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would wrestle on his top bunk, no holding back. He's 5 years older than me and has always been very tall, so I would pretty much always end up flying off the fucking bed. My mom wasnt a fan.
jackassgap · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique these games are but all the kids in my family would make up a lot of trampoline games. Our favorite to play though was "Exorcism."
One person was possessed and they would start in the center or the trampoline. Everyone else would start outside of the trampoline net with our legs going under the net so they were inside with the possessed person. One person was the priest would start the exorcism and that's when the possessed person would come alive. The possessed person then had to try to possess other people by pulling people to the center of the trampoline. Everyone else could try to save the person who got pulled in by going into the possessed area and trying to pull them back to the other side of the net. The priest had to "bless" them for them to come back alive. If the possessed person got the priest then it was game over.
Peters_lime · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runescape
-BoBaFeeT- · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BREED the video game. Tons of hype and promises that led to a broken mess of a game, but you could seamlessly fly from space to ground and back. (At a time when we were all used to Half Life 2s loading every 10 seconds.)
Cclaura616 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to like to play house in the winter in a couple of large bushes I had that were hollowed out on the inside. I’d make snow furniture and use old wood for different pieces. I’d use a bucket and shovel to make weird “food” concoctions with twigs and rocks.
Louvey · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I shared the room with my 7 year older brother. It was a relatively small narrow room with beds on both sides and a lot of shelves and cupboards over them. There were two wardrobes, large desk and two chairs as well. When I was a kid my family wasn't too well off so we never had many toys. One day my mum invented a game called 'spiderwebs'. She would give each of us one spool of thread and knot one end to some furniture in the room. Then we would spend HOURS tying thread to every single rail/handle/knob in the room and then to the webs itself until the room looked literally like it was infested with spiders. Sometimes we would try to crawl across pretending threads are laser traps. Thanks for reminding me about it.
McCrocco · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to put swimming goggles on and look under the water at the beach and stomp my feet pretending I was destroying underwater cities, the sand goes through the water really slow like explosions in movies
Viriality · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would spin as i walked around the house and bounce myself off of the walls as smoothly as possible [hallways and doorways were especially fun ]
The objective was to spin and bounce as fast as possible with the minimal amount of effort, essentially gliding
yan_ex8 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around 8, me and my older cousin would make up staged fights (with some simple storyline to justify) and then call the adults and present it to them, like theater or something. He was already starting to practice martial arts and I was really into martial arts movies back then. It was really amazing. Today, I am currently working on a flight with my 12 stepson and it's amazing, brings back many memories.
Also, at around the same time, my grandma and my aunt had a dressing table with many perfume, baby powder, facial cream and other cosmetic flasks. I would align and pile some of them so that it made the table look like a metropolis landscape, with a big pile at the center representing a great building, much taller than the rest (think something like Dubai landscape). All of this while singing the melody from an Iron Maiden song which I didn't know the lyrics to, so I replaced them with "A maior torre da cidade" which translates to "The biggest tower of the city" in Portuguese.
JerkasaurousRexx · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and myself would spell out words with my land line phone and call the person. So if the number was 666-8487, we would call them and say "Hey did you know your number spells out Mom tits?" We would then giggle like the 12 year old boys we were and hang up. Thank god for caller ID block back in the day.
DevHoward · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Beggar Girls". We used to play as homeless runaways and we'd film ourselves "stealing" food in grocery stores. We even went into a restaurant t and got the waitress to play along by taking our order before we dipped out on the check.
NotTheStig_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Actually a new one that has evolved from my 10 year old daughter’s fondness for Jeep Wranglers. It’s basically slug-bug, but we’ve changed it to Jeep-jab.
Mygn · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back then I was interested in geography and football. I loved maths too. So I'd grab a giant world map that had come with a magazine, choose a country, choose 18 cities whose name look cool enough and create an imaginary league out of these. Then simulate the matches with a draw or rolling die or playing the "bouncy ball game".
We had a sofa which was a perfectly rectangular prism and it was placed just in front of a wall which didn't have anything breakable on it. And the room that this sofa was in, was a damn big one (maybe something like 12×6 meters). I'd toss the ball from the other end of the room towards the wall behind this sofa, let it bounce once on the floor on its way back and shoot it while aiming the sofa goal. The rules were: Maximum of one bounce allowed before and after controlling the ball and shooting, no hand contact and not being too close to the sofa while controlling the ball. So, if you score a goal with the ball touching the floor 3 times, this is expected and you get 1 point. Every less bounce, you get more points meaning if you scored it without ever bouncing from floor, you get 4 points. Every team gets 10 tries each.
So I'd simulate the matches in a way I wanted that time , would make standings every week and go on until find out who the worthy one is for the Super Burundian League championship.
The thing is I was and am a big fan of Besiktas and whenever I'd play Turkish League in this game, I'd always include Besiktas in the league. But there's too much RNG in this, most of the time my Besiktas would get bad results and dwell on the midtable. To ensure its victory, I started cheating , like giving 5 more bouncing ball game tries or drawing one more time and I'd surely make it the champion.
Although i wasn't bald before, i was always a fraud one it seems.
oppyboppy · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone remember that Speedy Gonzalez game on PlayStation 1?
elcaballero · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "General" in the woods behind a cul-de-sac in our neighborhood. Whoever has the largest stick is General. The general's win conditions were to tag all of the other children out with the stick. This led to hauling ass with a giant battering ram of a rotting log at other kids. Good times.
jaspercapri · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
One summer we invented a game we played almost every day. You're on a soccer field. Everyone has a whiffleball bat. 2 vs 2. One team starts at midfield. Each player pitches the ball to themself and tries to get one hit as far as they can. Then their teammate does the same from wherever the ball landed. Two strikes per person of you don't get a hit. You're trying to hit it towards the opposing goal. Once you've each hit (or stuck out), the other team does the same in the opposite direction. So you're slowly advancing toward the other team's goal. If you hit an opponent's ball out of the air after they hit it, you get an additional swing attempt on your next turn. If you hit the ball into a goal, it's 2 points (opposing team can try to block). If you hit it past the goal line anywhere outside of the goal it's 1 point. We had a lot of fun and got some very confused looks from people walking by.
boolpies · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"casino" basically each of us would come up with a money making business and try to make the most poker chips. the person running the "casino" usually would win 😂
_baesha_ · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Do video games count? Well, I had a crappy 1gig of RAM laptop and was on the search for for low power, free, browser based games. Found this one called rushteam and got hooked. Its basically a fake CSGO but its fun as hell and had a super active community. Although basically dead today, players from 5 years ago that I remmeber spending hours playing with will sometimes pop on again and its so nostalgic.
chompychompchomp2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I started a game we dubbed "Horses and Cougars" in grade school - basically a playground-wide game of boys vs girls tag. Very popular in 4th grade.
dork_warrior · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "in the dark" or something non-descriptive like that. It was basically reverse hide and seek. In normal hide and seek. Instead of 1 person hiding, all but one person hid. It had to be placed in a pitch black environment so we always had to wait till after dark and then turn off all the lights in the basement. Everyone hides, one person counts to whatever and then stumbled around in the dark trying to find people. Last person found is now the seeker. It's really funny when you hide by standing very still in the middle of the room.
hungryhungry-hippos · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scary scary monsters.
When my parents were out, we would turn off every light in the house. My brother would put on a scary mask from Halloween and stand at the back of the yard (we had a big yard) and slowly walk towards the house, every once in a while lighting himself up with a flashlight. My other brothers and I would be trying to find a place to hide inside and freaking out. Then when he would get in the house he would act like a creepy movie character and try to find us. And when he would find us he would try to scare us as bad as he could. I remember one time one of my brothers was hiding in the bathroom closet inside the dirty laundry hamper and when he was found he was so scared he peed himself. We still make fun of him for that one.
UziWitDaHighTops · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would throw handfuls of rocks from the playground into the air and try dodging them as hell rained down on our tiny heads.
foxcatbat · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Theocracy
ericn8886 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother had a big bathroom in his bedroom - big enough for me to be in there at the same time. So any time he had to take a shit, I would come in and we would chat, but we'd call it "making plans" - if our mom called for us, I would call back from the bathroom saying, "We're making plans!"
slowpr0 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors had one of those backyard playsets with a slide, swingset, crow's nest, etc, and the perimeter was boxed in by mulch. All the neighborhood boys knew the layout by heart because it was relatively small.
We played a game we called "King of the Rock" where one person was "it", and they had to tag someone else within the perimeter to pass it on. The catch was, the person who was it had to keep their eyes closed. In order to balance it out, someone could also be tagged if the person who was it said "King of the Rock" while someone's feet were on the mulch, so we all had to get creative and touch the ground minimally. It was pretty damn creative and we definitely had a lot of fun with the game. We're all in our 20's now but we all remember that specific game fondly.
jimmyjazz2000 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played a game called "Greasy Feet," where we would pretend to need a super hero named "Greasy Feet" to come and save us. My little sister Barb, playing the role of Greasy Feet, would "fly" to our rescue. We achieved this affect by me laying on my back, feet up, and her jumping up on my feet in superman flying position, holding my hands for steadiness as I swayed her back and forth like she was flying. Then I would sort of fling Barb into my other brothers and sisters, who were either the people who needed saving, or the villains she destroyed. We would do this over and over again, creating new scenarios in which people needed to be saved: bank robbery, dam burst, guys are beating us up, etc. It was so much fun.
omfgbacon · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one I used to play in the backyard with my dad, specifically in the fall. I would run around and hide behind trees while he chased me. He would then proceed to chuck acorns at me whenever I poked out to run to another tree. Dad definitely got in a few good forehead shots, he thought this was hilarious. In retrospect, I don't think I ever knew we were about to play this game until I was suddenly running from a giant man pelting me with acorns out of nowhere. Thanks dad.
Alicorngum · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always used to play this game where me and my sister were fish. Our house was always a little decoration in the bigger aquarium that was the outdoors. We got to choose what kind of fish we were and always fought over being the “rainbow fish” because that fish was rainbow and invisible and also had every superpower ever. It was basically house but as fish.
We also used to play with pet shops as kids and had at least a couple hundred and would always set up a baseball field for them to play in but it was hard because we could never hit the tiny ball with the little bat we had lol.
kiwkumquat · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the ball game which we also called the trampoline game. You get three to five kids inside of the trampoline with the net up and one or two kids would stand on the ground outside the trampoline. The person outside was the thrower and they'd throw balls over the net strategically to try and hit someone inside the trampoline kind of like dodgeball. When they hit someone inside they get to go in and the person who got hit has to come out. The people inside would also throw the balls out once they got thrown in so there's a continuous stream.
The ball game happens to be the reason I had a broken arm half of fourth grade.
WinterSoldierAH · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Night Tag. It would be me and my 4 friends who were all around 11-12 who would run around and hide in our neighborhood. We lived in a small and safe little neighborhood where all the neighbors knew each other. Then my cousin and his friend who were about 14-15 would chase us down and find us. If they found you they would perform wrestling moves on you and you were then out, which meant go find another spot so they could hunt you down again.
Kunsain · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
had a punching bag, we took it and put our legs in it and would kick the shut out of eachother. we also played it on a trampoline so it was very dangerous. So many broken bones
MaroonMage · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play Awesome Falls at my great aunt's pool. The objective of the game was to fall into the pool in an awesome and unique way, scoring awesome points while doing so. The more awesome your fall, the more awesome points you received. At the end of the game everyone won, regardless of how many awesome points you had, because we were all awesome.
This kept us busy for hours.
Rhazior · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Actually a camp game, probably not that unique, but Reverse Hide and Seek.
One person hides, and if you find them, you sit in the same spot.
Preferable done at night.
meresymptom · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I were teenaged karate afficianados. We hung a rubber ball from a string in the garage (roughly solar plexus high) and stood on opposite sides. Object of the game was to punch or elbow the ball into the other person's face. You could only hit or block the ball with knuckles, forearm or elbow. If you touched the string it was a foul and your opponent got to start again. Used to play this for hours. We called it "elbow ball." Lots of fun.
TheCraftedBagel · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother constantly made up our own games. My favourite one was one person on the swing, the other had to hit that person with a ball. The rules were simple, you had to throw from te front and the swinging person could deflect with their feet.
SteveVerstaka · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boundaries. In short it was a variation of Dodgeball some friends and I played as we only had one proper kick/Dodgeball between us. We would decide on the boundaries of the field based on how many people were playing and decide who would start with the ball. They would go to the center and try to tag people out like in dodge ball.
If you control the ball you can pivot but you cant move around. (Except to retrieve the ball)
If you are hit you are out. The player in control of the ball can move to retrieve it and try to tag someone out from that players location.
If you catch the ball you now are in control of it and can try to tag people out. From the location of where you caught it.
If the ball leaves the boundaries it is up for grabs and everyone makes a mad dash to gain control of the ball. Upon grabbing it and returning to the playing field you have to toss it in the air to be caught by yourself. Where you catch it is where you are positioned. It CAN be intercepted.
My friends and I enjoyed it a lot. It was fast, chaotic, and who doesn't love nailing someone with a dodge ball? When I moved from the small town I spent most of my elementary years in I tried to have it catch on in the new one but to no avail.
Daimon_Bok · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend/neighbor, his little brother and I would play hockey on ripsticks, but we only had two rip sticks. The obvious solution to this problem was to put the little brother on foot by himself and then the older kids would be on a team against him.
ChiliPeppersRHot · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay so me, my brother and my sister would smack eachothers buts as a game when the sky would turn pink, like at sunset, I was the youngest so I wasn't really questioning it, I just wanted to win lmao
Evil_Knavel · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique it was but we had a variation of Chap-Door-Run we called "The Grand National" where instead of knocking on a solitary front door and running away, we tried to do the entire street,knocking on a door, jumping the fence to the next house, knocking their door. Repeated all the way down the street.
Yeah, we were absolute dicks as kids.
XENSAT · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played really dumb games like trying to jump from stairs wearing roller skates or swinging as fast as possible while standing instead of sitting then jumping off of it, whoever got injured, lost.
Darkness2190 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called dangerous Dave when I was like 5 :/ it was pretty fun
blonddry · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sisters and I would play “house,” where we’d use books to mark off little rooms in our basement and we would use our American girl dolls as kids. There were three of us, so logically, one of us would be the mom, one would be the dad, and the third would be the dog. I also recall stealing my moms bras and putting balloons in the cups and wearing them as the mom to make it more realistic.
Detectivecoolandsexy · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's this game called "meat, meat meat!"
One person shouts out different kinds of animals and objects, and the rest jump and shout "MEAT" if the thing is edible meat.
If the thing isn't meat, you're not supposed to jump. if you do, you're out. the announcer tries to get everyone out and last one standing is the winner.
It's really fun, but also kinda weird when you think about it.
Bunguin87 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game my siblings and I lovingly called "THE FOG." Really, it just stood for "the falling over game." We would kind of do like a headstand on our couch. Our legs would dangle over the back of the couch while we would be looking, upside-down, from the seat cushions. Then we'd all at once roll out of our headstands, off of the couch, and onto the floor.
We also played this game called KMA (or CMA or DMA or BMA or any other letter). Essentially, I was like a gatekeeper and my siblings (M and A) had to do a certain thing to get across (like crabwalk or jump). The reason there's so many names for it was because if they did the wrong thing, I would "kill," "crush," "destroy," "bruise," etc. them and they'd go back to start.
We also played this game called "Onion." My younger siblings would ride on my back and I'd crawl around like a horse. But this horse was very lazy and didn't usually want to go until they fed him an onion. They would just hold their hand by my mouth and say "onion" and I'd make chomping noises and galavant down the hall. I have no idea how we came up with any of these games.
St4rdel · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to create imaginary stats for my hot wheels and make them race all over my floor tiles by rolling a dice for every car.
iloveLoveLOVECats · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For long car rides my dad had my brother and I play the “u-haul game.” Whoever spotted a u-haul or Ryder truck first would win a quarter. We had so much fun and it wasn’t until adulthood I realized how genius this was of my dad!
hahahaYess · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically body slam each other
CptSimons · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would try and find a nice tree with plenty of branches and climb as high as we could. We would then proceed to hang off the highest branches and see how much weight it could take before snapping. So 2 or 3 of us would hang on a branch and bounce vigourously until it snapped. Bonus point for taking other branches out as you fell. Luckily we had no serious injuries, apart from the one time my friend knocked himself clean out as he fell. I thought he was dead, until a broken branch fell and hit him and he squeeled. Gooood times.
ColdSmokeMike · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I use to kick a soccer ball up the stairs and try to not let it reach the bottom.
makebelieveworld · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark Park - Hide and seek in the dark. Close all the curtains and turn off all the lights, stuff towels under the doors. Whoever is it has to find people in the total dark and the people hiding can move around. Usually if you are hiding yours eyes have adjusted to the dark a bit more, the person who is it, was usually in the hallway. The darker the better.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Closet court.
We had a big closet with super sturdy wood shelves my dad built. We would pull the quilts, pillows, blankets down off the shelves and make a huge ball of fluff on the floor. Then we'd sit on the shelves and act like judges and condemn someone to death by having them fall off a shelf onto the blankets. It was fun.
glamflan · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would fill a doorway with a wall of teddies (the teddies acted as bricks) and when it was completely full we would charge ourselves at the doorway. So many well spent hours.
Another one, we would get our duvets and ride them down the stairs like a toboggan - probably not that unique.
nakon14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Horizontal Man-Ball. Played on a playground, we had two teams, alternating starts with whatever we wanted to use as a ball that day. The goal was to get the ball to the other side of the playground by any means possible.
Both teams faced off at the beginning with a 3, 2, 1 countdown. On GO, both teams charged into each other at the center of the playground (usually a bouncy bridge) you had to keep the ball on the playground at first, but if it got knocked out of your hands, it was free for all, and you could go anywhere you wanted with it.
Somehow, we only sent one kid to the hospital when he got falcon-knee’d to the back of the head during a slide tackle in some grass. I have no clue how we didn’t get more hurt from it, but we were pretty much always covered in bruises from it.
micmac_paddywhack · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Loud Ball” And then later “12th man Ball”
The setup is like baseball: a pitcher, a batter and some fielders. The pitcher would throw and the batter would try and hit the ball in various places for various points (and the fielders fielded)
The differences start here.
1: we didn’t have a bat so we used some plastic pipes
2: there were several different types of balls from tennis balls to bouncy balls
3: the batter must face our house from across the street.
The name of the game was to hit the house loudly. If you hit the ball over the house you’d get a “runner on” but if you hit the house directly (and the fielders didn’t catch the Ball before or after rebound) you got a home run. The game continues until the golden snitch is caught. In this game the golden snitch is mom coming out to yell at us to knock it off/come inside. Whoever’s at bat at that time gets 20 points that don’t matter because we never actually kept score and the game is over.
Additionally: if you hit a house/car/object belonging to a neighbor it was the immediate end of your at bat no matter how hard you hit that item.
Three cleanly fielded balls and your out, switch batters.
Both halves of a bouncy ball must be caught to count as an out (they broke a lot)
Givenchygodblessya · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Road Rash
Kaliopa23 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to pretend we were really poor and living under the dining table as it was a bridge, we hide quietly as we didn't wanted to be notice because then we will be separated and taken away, part of the fun was to choose who's turn was it to sneak to the kitchen and grab some food pretending the kitchen was a supermarket and we need to steal to survive..we would play this game for hours until one of us got sick for eating a raw potato.
foreverbytheocean · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play football. With a tennis ball.
award91 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I invented “Barrowkour”. Much like Parkour but you used a wheelbarrow to grind railings and ride up walls and stuff. It was as lame as it sounds.
MarkusTheMartian · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my cousins, I would stack a pile of blankets and pillows on top of them and then jump on said person and pile. It was fun.
bagehis · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a version of hide and seek. We would play it after the sun went down (we were far enough north that it happened before dinner time), in the snow. To tag a person, you had to tackle them to the ground. As people were tagged, they also became the seekers, eventually leading to the last couple kids running for their lives as a small mob chased them, with the intent of knocking them off their feet. No small number of us probably came away with concussions from that game. Still was fun.
secretfriend- · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play Jesus getting crucified in the living room after dinner. We would all take turns being Jesus (the coveted role) and the others would be Pontius Pilot or the centurions. You have to be completely still while standing up with your arms out to the side when you were crucified. Good times.
Empeaux · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will probably get buried, but we would constantly play a game we of course referred to as "The Game". My parents had an in-ground, fenced pool in the back yard and my next-door neighbors had a trampoline with netted walls in theirs. Everyone was very friendly and they were welcome to use our pool whenever they wanted while we didn't have to ask to use their trampoline. It didn't take long before we accidentally knocked one of the inflatable balls from the pool into our neighbor's yard and it landed near the trampoline. This inspired "The Game" and we spent the next couple of hours trying to get the ball from the pool, into the trampoline netting, and back without the ball touching the ground or using our hands.
The pool and the trampoline were maybe 100 feet apart, so the common strategy was to have one person "serve" the ball from the pool into the space between the pool fence and the trampoline where most other players would be waiting. Those players would try to kick/head the ball to each other while working it to the trampoline. The top of the netting around the trampoline was probably 10 feet off the ground so the players would eventually have to lob the ball high enough to land inside the trampoline area, but not so high that it cleared the trampoline entirely (this was hard). When the ball eventually made it inside the trampoline netting there would be one or two players inside the trampoline who would have to kick/head the ball back out to the players between the pool and the trampoline who would then take the ball back and get it back into the pool. If the ball landed in the water of the pool and didn't touch the ground or the bottom of the trampoline, we win.
We eventually got good enough that we started going back and forth multiple times to see how many times we could win with a single play. The person in the pool would continue to play the ball once it came back into the fenced in area and kick/head it back out to the middle players again. It was crazy, I think we only ever got 4 wins in a play.
mrfuckhead1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little brother used to play a game with our neighbor where two people would ride an atv and the third person would try to run away after getting a head start. I remember eating shit in the mud and almost getting ran over several times.
hucow-cutie · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek in the forest with snow shoes. It was about 60 kids all let loose in acres of land in butt fuck nowhere-canada all wearing snow shoes
Pete_J · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it socker. Played with my brother and my dad. First one to take off both of the other person’s (or multiple persons’) socks wins. No other rules besides don’t damage the furniture, the walls, or the other person. Games could and would start up anywhere as soon as shoes were taken off. The game kind of died off once my brother got into wrestling and dominated but we did end up playing a round (as grown men) in a hotel room while on vacation last summer.
TheBearKat · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How many strokes of a crayon over and over again before it starts lifting off the page as a crayon skyscraper.
Aellaisbad · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catch the pickle. It was basically tag, but at the time we just discovered Dragon Ball Z and pronounced Piccolo wrong.
Poor naming, but good times.
gr8banter · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game call ‘red letter’ where a group of people would all be assigned a letter than together would make a word and the person that was it has to chase down and beat the people up to get there letter. They won when they find out what the word was
BlearyLine7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I have no idea if anyone else will know what I'm talking about but my big brother had like a big figure from A Bug's life that also (for some reason) had a motion sensor thing in it. If you moved in front of it, it'd shout 'IDENTIFY YOURSELF - WHAT KIND OF BUG ARE YOU?'
So the game was that we'd put Flik at the top of the stairs, then try to crawl up the stairs so slowly that it wouldn't trigger the sensor, we did this a lot and only won a couple of times.
theanthonyya · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn! I wish I had seen this one sooner!!!
My sister and I used to play “Tony and Sophia Jump!” (Her name was Sophia, just to be clear). Basically we would organize all of our McDonalfs Teeny Beanie Babies in little huddles on the floor, and we would jump into the world of the Beanie Babies and help them solve their problems.
This town of Beanie Babies had an inordinate amount of crime. I specifically remember that the penguin Teenie Beanie, I believe his name is Waddles, often needed help finding missing or stolen items. Usually it was a different, less adorable bird Beanie who was robbing him blind! Ah, this post brought back some fond memories.
R_Not_Alone · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blue Ball”
Yes, yes, I know what you’re all thinking but it’s nothing to do with that.
We had one of those bouncy balls you get from the giant cage in department stores, only it was like 1/4 inflated so it was small and flexible.
We lived in a culdesac with a manhood cover in the middle of it, that was both the pitchers mound and the base.
Home plate was the corner of our driveway.
We played with 4 people, 1 person pitches, one person hits, and the other 2 were in the out field.
The pitcher pitches the ball and the hitter hits it with the baseball bat, they then run from home to the man hole cover, back to home, and repeat until the ball is recovered and they’re tagged out. However many times you cross homeplate is the amount of points you got.
Once you’re tagged out the players rotate, batter goes to right field, right to left, left to pitch, pitch to hit.
The thing of the game was is that ball, when hit hard enough would become a ufo, it would stretch into an oval shape as it spun and would get some hella distance, or if the hitter knocked it straight back at the pitcher it would knock him off his feet.
NyneShadow · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in the early 2000's my friends and I played a variation of tag called Terminator. Our playing field was a kilometre radius of parks, residences, and commercial properties. We knew our way around the streets and little walkways, and at that time we all felt like it was a huge space. Basically, the person who was the Terminator would hunt down each player and basically beat the shit out of whoever they catch. The strongest kid always volunteered, and damn was he good at hunting us down.
I remember hiding behind a bush in a park when suddenly I heard rustling from a shrub behind me. I turned around and the Terminator casually stepped out with this huge grin on his face. I panicked and jumped down a drop that was about three times the height of my 10 year old self and I remember my legs buckling like a motherfucker, but I still managed to run away. I recall looking back and seeing the guy watch me, still grinning and then casually turning around to find the other kids.
I also remember watching another kid get caught and basically get his ass handed to him for maybe 5 minutes. It doesn't sound like a long time on paper, but damn it looked like torture. The kid the Terminator caught was crying his eyes out while the rest of us hauled ass.
What's weird is everyone involved remember the game fondly, even the guy that got beat up.
Synchronea · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The elementary I went to had this sloped grassy area we called the Prairie in the back of the school that they never maintained so it was overgrown to where the grass was taller than the average sixth graders. The thing about it was that there was a patch of dry land in the middle surrounded by a few more smaller patches where no grass grew. You might see where this is going.
When I was in fifth grade, I was in a friend group with three other people because we all liked Pokemon. Because of this, we'd just run around LARPing ad libbed Pokemon adventures where one person was basically the GM while the other three made choices and acted out what they'd do in whatever situation we were in.
We occasionally played in that prairie because it was a great setup for routes and we used the clearings for gyms and our base and shit. Then when we were in sixth grade, the rest of our class and some other sixth graders caught on and because we were in the middle of a part where we were camping out, the class ended up taking over our adventure and turned it into a game we called Survival Camp.
Some people were assigned as leaders that would assign other people to gather wood (stray sticks) and food (weeds and various plants) and others would pretend to cook or straighten up the clearings. Then before we went inside, everyone would sit around in the largest clearing and we'd all have a toast and pretend to eat grass. It was really fun as a kid and it went on for most of the year until we suddenly got kicked out because it turned out that poison ivy from the apartment complex next to the school had grown through the fence and one kid got into it while another kid got sick cuz he was actually eating the weeds.
At least we cleaned up that area 100x better than the school itself. Now it's an actual field that the school uses for P.E. during spring.
TL;DR My Pokemon LARPing got turned into a communist camp until it was ruined by a kid who ate grass.
MechaKlayThompson420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Game of Four”.
I had a lot of time to kill when I was a kid. I’m an only child, and my mom would take me to her job during summer vacations. I had very little to do. So I played a game similar to the old Simon Says toy. Similar because it requires balance and repetition, but much more basic in comparison because the pattern is repeating and you choose the starting pattern. The game requires you to start a pattern of four parts, then do the opposite. Then you repeat the all previous patterns again but mirrored. You continue mirroring patterns and go infinitely until you can’t remember the next “continuation of four”. It looks like this:
I usually tapped four fingers and sometimes tapped my toes and heels to help keep the pattern. I was pretty good at it, and I could usually keep going into the 14-16 set until I’d lose track. For fun I’d start the originating pattern at 4321 or 1324 or 4231. This game kept my mind stimulated through some dreadfully boring days.
Alberto-Balsalm · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Assassination.
It was basically just a glorified Treasure Hunt game we played outside where we had hand-drawn maps that gave clues to where other things were hiding in the yard.
SansSigma · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a fuckton of Pokemon plushies, so my older cousin and I used to set them up, filling the basement stairs like shelves, and we'd each start with one. We'd try to knock down as many as we could, taking turns with throws. Whatever you knocked down, could be used as ammo next throw. Whoever had the most Pokemon at the end won. Getting the big fat Togepi I had was the meta. That shit was like S tier.
anthnyduh · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid in elementary and got bored in class, I would close my eyes and squish em until I would see all the colors and patterns one sees when the squished their eyes. I would unsquish em and pretend I went to a different universe once all the colors and patterns disappeared. No wonder I got into psychedelics later on.
ParksAndImpregnation · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"cave explorer"
Sable-Knight · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blob wars.
Basically we got a mattress, which was our ring... We'd cover ourselves entirely in the blanket... And then the match was on.
A wrestling game where 2 blobs fight for domination of the mattress. Whoever gets pushed off entirely loses. The main spectacle was that we were blobs. You couldn't use extended arms or legs, no kicking or punching, just blobular movements, you had to stay fully under the blanket at all times as well.
siriuslybored · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and the occasional friends and I used to play "Dinosaur Eggs". We would play it anywhere that had lots of sand, which a couple playgrounds near us had.
The idea was that you'd mold balls or eggs out of the wet sand and then build a nest. We had to protect our eggs from getting destroyed by other kids. Whoever had eggs still in tact when we left won.
It was basically just a bunch of kids throwing sand in each other's faces.
julbull73 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall texture Rorschach stories.
Characters from the splotches on the dry wall interact.
annadromero · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
our version of American Idol! Lol we were thinking before our time.
jensen_t119 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it counts -- in 7th grade Geography? Science arts? Something -- we played a map game which included several sheets of paper that were spread on the floor, but not all at once. IIRC, we were searching for a fictional country. We'd get a new sheet of paper (or section of map) based on how we answered certain questions.
The name of this game has obviously escaped me, and annoyed me that I can't figure it out... for years now.
MomoAbuhamra · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Hands
OG_Snakeskin · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During recess, all the different classes would join forces and play "Boys vs. Girls." On opposite ends of the playground were designated places for the Boys base and the Girls base. We would all run around and capture members of the other team and take them to our base. The only way you could free your teammates was by going to the other base and tagging them without being captured yourself. The winner was the team with the most amount of prisoners at the end of recess. Winning team got bragging rights for the rest of the day.
st3class · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After my parents got a new freezer, my brother and I got the box to play with, and that thing was awesome.
We would lay it out flat and play "demolition derby". We would take Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars and fling them at the l each other as far as we could. The "winner" got to take loser's car. Whoever ran out of cars first won. We developed rules on how you had to rotate though your cars too. Fun times
Kwintin01 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend basically invented a dnd styled art game where we'd draw our own party and the monsters they'd fight, we had no clue what dnd was at the time.
korosensei87 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a huge Thomas the tank engine wooden train track set from age 3-9ish, and would build massive train track ways and create elaborate story lines using the train tracks and my sisters Polly Pockets. Some involved love, some involved pirates, some involved murder mysteries, a whole variety of things.
My-wife-hates-reddit · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Game” The object of the game is to not think about the game. If you think about the game you lose and have to announce “I just lost the game.” You win by not thinking about the game, but you can never know you’re winning because as soon as you do you’ve lost.
Also, I just lost the game.
overcomebyfumes · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a time where kids still played cowboys and Indians (although that was dying out). We played ninjas versus werewolves.
Justanothermexican29 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would sit down on opposite ends of the hallway in our house and play “roll the ball” except it was more throw the ball at each other over and over
drummel3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would sit at opposite ends of the room and throw a tennis ball at each other. The kicker here was that neither of us could flinch or make a noise or the other got a free punch
blueandazure · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called levels, where we would invent a path though the playground and the other people would have to imitate it in a series of levels, like climing around the side of the jungle gym or whatever.
heybingbong · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the community pool we played this game we called “Dibble”. You take a match stick and let it go at the bottom of the deep end. The goal of the game is to spot it as it floats back up and grab it before anyone else does. Madness usually ensues whenever someone sees it and goes for the grab, causing everyone to jump in after them. If they miss, it’s a mad dash to get out and try to find it floating at the surface.
In retrospect, it was actually kind of similar to Quidditch...
Not too long ago we played this as adults during my buddy’s wedding weekend..still a lot of fun, but we ended up with a lot more bumps and bruises.
Vizard_Rob · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle Keith just told me this story the other day about the game him and my step dad played as a kid. They just called it dog. My uncle was the dog and the game was to try and get off the lawn. My step dad and other older uncle would tackle and keep him from getting off the lawn. He never really liked the game but played because he wanted to be involved.
I_ForgotMyOldAccount · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How the hell am I gonna play all these games now as a 20 something!
FilthyFTPShitPost · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my next door neighbor would always play his Xbox 360 until we got sent outside. Then we started to replay Halo 3 and Reach campaign missions outside. We had a bunch of nerf guns and would pretend that they were different guns from the game. This probably sounds normal but it's the most unique game I played
EDIT: There is one more game that is unique too. The neighborhood kids called it Raptor. It's a mix between man hunt and tag but only in one yard. The group of people who were it would hide on one side and the runners would be on the other. The runners would pick to go clockwise or counter-clockwise. You have to do a 360 around the house, and we would play at one kids house that was really huge so it was more fun that way. There was also a game called sardines where it's like hide and seek but that isn't as unique.
La_Jolla · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walking blindfolded on a crumbled all wall surrounded by nettles wearing shorts.. if you made it to the end you were officially part of our martial arts club
ARC-Pooper · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean Patapon was pretty fucking awesome. Strategy game but using music queue's as tactics. Art style was gorgeous as well.
Man I miss my PSP.
Kossimer · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a collection of hotwheels. Each had a superpower based on its design and color. Each time we'd pick different ones until each of us had half and then they'd fight for victory.
We also used our stuffed animals to play an animal village. Our bunk beds were the terrain which lent itself well to differentiated settings or the sort of conflict caused by uneven terrain or animals being out of sight.
textual_predditor · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I would disassemble model rocket engines, crush up the fuel into a powder, then use tape to form pouches around the powder and an igniter and make bombs to blow up our toys. It's a damned miracle we didn't get hurt, but we made some mighty cool explosions. I have a videotape of them somewhere.
Edit: Just remembered another game my neighbor and I would play. We'd put a ball in the middle of our front lawn, then get on opposite sides of the lawn. At "go" we'd rush, full-force, at the ball and crash into each other. Whoever got the ball to the other person's side got the point. We'd play until one of us got hurt and went crying back inside.
God, young boys are effing stupid.
NoRunningDog · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
car dodging. we would hide in bushes and run out in front of cars at night. not waiting for them to do close enough to hit us. we just wanted to appear in the headlights of cars traveling in our wooded neighborhood at hours of the night children should not be playing.
thisusernameiscommon · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof. Ball.
tiger_ducker · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Like many families, I would get together with my out of town cousins over the summer. But instead of playing outside and getting some much needed vitamin D, like normal children, we always went down to our grandma's basement to play "Coffin".
Our grandma had a black IKEA futon in her basement that folded out into a sleeping pad, but also folded up over itself, so it could make an enclosed box. You can probably see where I'm going with this. So one of us lucky kids would get inside the futon and play the deceased, while two other kids would close up the futon, lift it up, and carry it around the room. The rest of the cousins would stand around the room playing mourners.
Meanwhile, the "deceased" kid would try to stifle their giggles in the "coffin", cause they were supposed to be, you know, dead.
PM_ME_THEM_UPTOPS · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma had this board game thing and I can't remember the name of. It was a spring loaded wooded frame with all these different sized circle pieces. You pull out one piece at a time like jenga but instead of the tower falling down the whole thing would explode in your face and smash the ever loving fuck out of your fingers.
localmemedealr · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
who’s in my mouth
ParallelGalaxiies · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thrill Points. Whenever we went to an amusement park, me and my friends would go out and try to go on as many rides as possible the scarier the better. My team consisted of the girls Noel and Alexis (mentioned in a previous post on r/teenagers) As well as another girl, I don’t need to tell u her name tho. The last 2 members on our team we’re boys. One owned the “Scrub Club” which I’ll talk about later, the other was a chill dude I met in Choir. The point is that we would snap a photo of all the rides we went on and depending on how scary or big the ride was, we would get a different amount of thrill points. Team with the most points wins. My team wins most of the time and we still play it to this day. Noel usually forces me to go on rides so we can get the win. Edit: Fixed some spelling errors
MysteriousMrBond · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We invented our own star trek rpg. My older cousin made cardboard control panels, then we'd act out space battles. I was the navigation and tactical officer, he was the captain, and my little brother was the engineer and transporter chief.
We also made cardboard phasers and ran around grandma and grandpa's house on away missions and repelling borg boarding parties.
We kept it going until we were in our early teens with the addition of a storyline where we were freelancers hired by a UFP that spanned most of the galaxy. The Kazon tribes had broken out into violence, the dominion was acting up on the border, there were borg sightings out on the fringes, and a new empire had shown up on the edge of the galaxy moving in from somewhere outside.
Peace talks with new empire were derailed by border attacks on both sides by unknown assailants, the Federation president was assassinated and replaced by his warmonger vp, then the klingons withdrew from the federation and abandoned their space, disappearing for parts unknown.
BoeJenjamin · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A buddy and I once stood on my lawn and took turns flicking a kitchen knife as high as we could into the air then getting out of the way before it came down. Kids are fucking stupid.
ASigIAm213 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everybody out here talking about priceless memories with friends and I got "bounce the ball in the air with the bat alone in the backyard".
My record is 173.
DontCryatMyFuneral · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huckle Buckle Beanstalk
YouTooShallLose · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I got home from school we would take all the pillows from around the house and make a wall of fluff at the top of the stairs. Then lean against it and fall to the bottom hoping to land on something soft lol...didn't always happen. Sometimes legs or arms would get stuck in the railing. The real game started when we heard the garage door opening - that gave us about 3 minutes to stop being injured and put all the pillows back around the house and act like nothing was going on before my mom walked in the house... Good times!
Oubbz · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid me and my bros used to wrap ourselves in duvets and jump off the stairs. Very surprised I don't have a broken back
EmanShamku · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember in the living room in the winter mostly(if it was hot a blindfold would do the job) then we used to try to find each other then the one with the least points after x rounds would try to find us(not blindfolded but searching around the house. Not unique but the memories. I remember i somehow got on top of the wardrobe. I tried doing it many times after that never once succeeded.
BioRules · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof Ball. Because of the slope of our backyard our garage roof was slightly over our 8-14 year old heads. We'd throw a soccer ball onto the roof, wait for it to roll down, then had to bounce it off our heads into the yard. We'd score points based on the items we'd hit with it, pinball style (a chair was 50 points, the fireplace was 100 points, etc etc). Spent a lot of time doing that.
claravoyance · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Blackout" where we would turn off all the lights in the house and walk around with flashlights n shit
Heuby · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also had 'ghost riding' where you rode your bike and jumped off and whoever's bike went the farthest won
Tzar627 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Isolationism.
katiethedragonlady · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play Texas Chainsaw Massacre tag at recess. If you were it, you had to chase around the other children with a pretend chainsaw. If you got caught, you had to lay down on the ground and pretend to have died horribly. The kid that made up the game watched a lot of horror films really early in life lol. He made me terrified of IT and Bloody Mary for most of my childhood.
bountyhunter205 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to count the walls of a room by "blinking at them" one at a time, and if the number was odd, I'd punish myself by holding my breath for a minute or something, and if or was even, then it was well and good, and if it was a multiple of 5, I would reward myself with a candy or whatever I could get my hands on.
Kiwisue · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers played what we called “touching game” where they would bundle up in a blanket for a while and make sure they didn’t have any openings. Then I would go and try to touch one of them by prying up the edge of a blanket or trying to go under it directly. It was a lot of fun
lol_and_behold · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a trampoline on a dock, and we would drench that fucker in slippery soap and water it down, so you almost couldnt walk properly. Then we'd throw a ball in the middle, and the game was that the one touching the ball last "had" it, so the objective was for the others to get it to bounce into the water, where they had to retrieve it in 10 seconds. As an adult, thinking of bouncing around on soap next to water freaks me out.
We had another where we would close us in in a sleeping bag from the neck down, so we had no arms to protect us, then try to jump kick the others off the trampoline. It's a miracle nobody died, although there was a lot of blood spilled.
kozmial · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to take a pack of pick-up sticks and made the outline of a maze-like "battlefield" on my carpet. Then I would place dinky cars on each side of the battlefield to be the "soldiers". My friends and I would take turns moving the dinky cars by 5cm at a time and when they touched we "battle them" by rolling dice. A little imagination can go a long way. Basically a stupidly easy tabletop miniature style game lol.
Nussy_Slayer · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unique Game Name: I Am Hunting for a Big Fat Pig
Players: 2 (ages 4 to 65+)
Equipment: None
Rules: One person is the "Hunter" and the other is a "big fat pig" (BFP). The Hunter faces forwards and the BFP stands behind the Hunter, facing the Hunters back. The Hunter begins the game by saying the words "I am hunting for a big fat pig" while walking forwards, calmly searching for the BFP.
The Hunter repeats the words, walking slowly around all the while the BFP stays as close to the back of Hunter as possible. Whenever the Hunter feels the urge, they quickly turn around saying the sacred words "...and there it is!!!" while trying to capture the BFP. Of course, the BFP starts running away when the Hunter turns around, and and an intense game of tag ensues.
When the hunter successfully captures the BFP, roles are reversed and a new round begins. Like most tag games, the game gets exponentially more exciting with fragile and breakable items around, and of course the smaller the room the more intense the hunt!
TrueGeek · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were renting a house in Cerritos, CA and it had this laser beam alarm system (this was back in the late 80s). You could see the little mount on the wall, but of course you couldn't see the actual beam. We would activate the alarm and then play limbo under the beams. The loser would end up setting off the alarm and then we'd have to deactivate it real quick before it called the cops.
One time it just wouldn't shut off. My dad (a single father of 5) had to come home from work, go up to the attic crawlspace and cut the wire to that bullhorn speaker thing which ended the game forever.
hostilecarrot · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My best friend and I invented some type of kickball game. Basically, one person (offense) would punt a kickball on the roof (of a two story house). If the other player (Defender) catches the ball before it hits the ground, it’s an out - three outs and then you switch from offense to defense. If the ball is caught, the defender cant move from where they caught the ball until the next kick. If the defender doesn’t catch the ball, it’s a point and the defender can play from anywhere they like. We played this game for years and years and I remember it being an absolute blast.
flyawaylittlebirdie · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dinosaur, where you had the egg eaters, and nesting dinosaurs. Basically keep away in prairie grass taller than you are.
Sharks and minnows, not special but we played on half an acre of laid out hay bales where the sharks were running between the rows and the minnows ran and jumped across the top.
Pokemon battle, basically 1v1 dodgeball with 3-6 people on each team and if you got hit 5x you fainted.
Yamaha516 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had this game that I’d play at my friends house that we called ‘Corners’. We went into the guest bedroom, someone was deemed “it” they got a nerf sword, turned off the lights and then said “get in your corners”. Then they would just go on a merciless beating spree.
deedozcheetoz · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older cousin used to hunt me and my younger cousins down with air soft guns while we ran around outside.
ButtFuckerMcGee · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called black magic. Basically we had a the main person who got a stick and would beat anyone with it if they saw them moving. They also choked themself for some reason. So you had to stay still while they were looking at you
oveRRated21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Antarctica. Me and my sibling gathered all the duvets from the house and put them on to a bed. Then you battled the "cold" by going under all the duvets.
daveyeah · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I had a game where we'd roll a roll of tape down his stairs and try to hit his washer. If we did it, we got a penny.
Eventually you could buy upgrades to a better thing to roll a better roll of tape or a ball to more easily hit the washer. You could then buy obstacles that made it more difficult for your opponents ball/tape to get further.
We played for hours one day, it was so much fun.
I_Invent_Stuff · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mappy land
kflognogt · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would turn off all the lights in a completely dark basement and play hide and go seek in the dark. Basically someone's is it and everyone else has 1 minute to rearrange the furniture to make it as hard as possible on the seeker. Then whoever's it has to come down and tag everyone. First person to be tagged is it next round. The hiders also get to move around and obviously have the advantage of knowing where the furniture is that round. There were so many injuries haha. I'm surprised her parents let us continue to play after one person broke their arm after doing a complete flip over a wooden rocking chair that we put right at the entrance of the basement
abroknmind · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I would climb onto the roofs of neighborhood houses. The only real objective was to reach the peak. No ladders involved, naturally, you could only use fixed objects (fence, tree, etc) to access the roof.
flonchchider · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play ”Bandy the Cripple” with my younger brothers. I would lie on the floor near a chair or sofa as though I had slumped and fallen out, and they would have to get me back into the chair or sofa. I would pretend to have no usable muscles and couldn't speak. It was completely wrong, but my brothers’ loved it.
Chocolate-Chai · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would act out movies.
One friend would even be the director & would often shout “Cut!” & walk off irritated because she’d genuinely be mad at our poor performance. Then we’d all be nervously speculating with each other what/who she was displeased with, like real actors who’s job was at risk.
If you played a male part, you had to do a manly voice. Not doing the voice would result in a lot of the angry “Cut!” moments.
We were all 7-10 years old.
MsSleepy_14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this game is played else where but in Malaysia (where I live) we play this game called pepsi cola. It's where everybody jumps back three times in a circle and then we take turns trying to touch each others foot by either sliding or leaping. You only get one try each turn.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
poop ball. my sister and i would sit on those fake plastic baby toilets and throw cat toys in. we would pretend to flush the toilet. that was the whole game. kids are stupid
poopiepuppy · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snake charmer with my step daddy.
flamingnoodles5580 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dr. Quack-Quack: you and your friends (4-5 kids preferably) would create a human pretzel, holding hands and twisting, stepping over, turning and doing any movement that would make you all tangled up. Then you call Dr. Quack Quack to figure how to untangle you. LOL
lankyblonde · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar to the yellow car game, my family played “Jeep”. The distinct grill on the front of the car made them easy to spot from far away. Jeeps are not rare like yellow cars, but that’s what makes it fun!! And it’s also easier to mistake other cars for Jeeps, so more points deducted, which makes the stakes higher! So much fun for any road trip.
breezedargon · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents had a rather large backyard when I was growing up so I would play farmer. I would wheel a wagon all around the backyard and uproot all of the small onion grass plants that grew wild. They were collected in the wagon and I would try to "sell" them to my parents. Granted, my dad wasn't too fond of this game whenever he had to mow the lawn.
HauntingHead · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sick, dead and buried. We would run around our garden with a small tennis ball or something similar throwing it at eachother, if you got hit once you were sick, then again you were dead and once you got hit the their time you were buried and therefore out. Winner was the last man standing
schubby4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to swin under the pool cover at night and race each other to the other side in pitch black water with a tied down pool cover. We would only leave it open on each end.
Ziaberri · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my sister were obsessed with Nancy Drew, so we would play "Mystery." One of us would set up a mystery, like staging a murder with a chalk outline body, or a kidnapping by hiding a baby doll, or anything else our child brains could think of. Over time we filled up a big box with various props we used, like mysterious notes and other "evidence", and we colored and decorated the box to say "MYSTERY". Whenever we were bored someone would say "let's play mystery!" And then we'd bust out that box and be occupied for the next few hours, one person creating a case and the other solving it. Sometimes we'd set things up as the other person was working on it, like run to the other side of the yard to plant evidence that wasn't there before (we lived out in the country so we had a giant yard, plus a barn and a shed to hide things in). It was actually a big component of the game to not let the person solving the mystery see you while you manipulated things behind the scenes. It was the best game ever
FritoLaysForDays · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called horsie. It had absolutely nothing to do with horses: it was where my friend and I would be playing in the yard, and I would grab her arm, and I would run as fast as I could, dragging her across the yard. It was amazing. 10/10 best game.
Vectorman1989 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My hometown has a lot of bits of art made of concrete scattered around the various housing areas. A lot of it is functional an designed to be played on, so we’d make up games. There’s ones with mazes, weird cubist things you can climb on, or hide in. There’s an interactive map with all of them here
a-lost-boy · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I hosted "Stick Wars" in our back woods. Several friends would come over to help us build forts and stuff out of downed trees and what not, on opposing sides of the creek. Divided up into 2 teams, we would gather up sticks and rocks for a set period of time (10 minutes usually, of ammo gathering) then start the war. This always lasted long enough for someone to get severely hurt and usually ended up with a stick or rock in someone's eye...
budsNhops · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blob - one person would be “it” and they would be covered with a blanket in a dark room and try to tag the others hiding or walking around them, similar to Marco Polo I guess.
Lesbaru · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After Star Wars episode one came out, our neighborhood kids group quickly centered our group play around the republic. Everyone had their own lightsaber, we used Monopoly money to reward people for missions, and younger kids were assigned as older kid’s padawan (sp?). So much fun. We even memorized Qui-Gon Jinn’s and Darth Maul’s respective death scenes. I still remember how to finish off the dual wielding Darth Mail.
islamsnek · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have been trying to find this game since forever but i'll try my best to describe it.
Its kinda like an fps but i played it near 2011 and it is basically a shooter game but with a helicopter and you don't use the mouse to do much, instead you use the WASD keys and a fire key for the bullets. The thing is I played this game for 2 years but I actually never knew what it was called, it never had a multiplayer mode and you could upgrade your helicopter as you win games, the levels get increasingly hard but my memory tells me I actually never completed the game.
I remember shooting down other planes but I forgot if I shot towers down, bad guys, or boss fights. I remember one instance where I couldn't make progress because of a white and blue color scheme helicopter that I think was the boss of the map.
This one isn't a unique game but I've never found anyone who knows what this game is.
KnownByMyName13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and an old friend use to play a game we called "James bond-a-thon". It was bonbardment(sp?) But you lost function of what ever limb was hit instead of being Out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used a bowling pin to smash the shit out of hot wheels cars.
fightgar15 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Frumious Bandersnatch aka Brazilian Dodgeball
Get one soccer ball and three people on a trampoline. Using only your feet, you have to hit someone else with the ball in a way that makes them the last person touched by the ball before it rolls or flies off of the trampoline. The last person the ball touches before falling off the trampoline gets a strike. Three strikes and you're eliminated.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At parties, keep the balloon from hitting the ground.
kidlightnings · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would pretend to be a dog all the time. Not just a dog, but, like, some weird hyper-intelligent warrior dog race. I think someone said the word "dogfight" around me, like, once, and I decided to build an identity around it. I was fixated on this for years, like, from maybe 7 to 9ish. I am so, so sorry to like every kid I played with who had to deal with this ruining every make-believe they ever foolishly invited me into.
abattlescar · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school I made up a game called assassin, which was based on the multiplayer mode of Assassin's Creed 3 and 4. We have had like 9 players and each of them drew the name of another player, the name they drew was their target. Everyone was both hunting and being hunted at the same time. They didn't know who was hunting them or even who was in the game besides themselves and the target. Everyone used a special set of gold sticky notes as "knives" so they had to use them inconspicuously. Games at first lasted one recess, but eventually started to last a week or more. There were a few variations as well, like Wolfpack with teams of 4 who could revive each other, or hide where there were like 3 assassins trying to kill everyone else.
yrrehcnahte · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin brother and I would play a game we called “Bumper Bins” where we would empty our dad’s tall plastic laundry bins, flip them upside down, decorate them, and put them over our heads to wear them over our bodies. We would then charge at each other from across the room and collide...over and over and over..
WIPackerGuy · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have stick races. There is a really slow moving man made crick behind my parent's house. If you follow it up about a mile it turns into a natural little stream. We'd start there with around 5 sticks and followed them for a few miles. There were some hills, turns, and a couple of waterfalls. You had to cross some streets it went under and relocate the sticks. It took hours. The crick was full of algae and small plant growth so there were obstacles that some sticks were better at navigating. Lots of fun. It was a good time to just shoot the shit dream up our next adventures.
Biglab · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The fam and I would take a paddle boat to the middle of the lake overload the front and fight to get to the rising end before it flipped all the way. Called it Titanic.
Moluwuchan · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played house in Minecraft, except we were also Mario and Peach (and Daisy were our daughter because idk). I often wanted a divorce and ditched my wife and daughter to build my own house.
the5souls · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We made a school-wide game called "Assassin" at our high school.
The objective was to "assassinate" one another between class periods. We assassinate by pretending to slit the other person's throat with our hands. There was no real point system, but it was more of like hide and seek, and everyone was both hiding and seeking at the same time. Who would end be the most sneaky in our friend group?
After our classes would end, we would blend in with the bustling students in the halls, staying low, and keeping a keen eye for our friends' faces in the crowds. We even began calculating each other's class schedules and figuring out which school halls the other person would or would not take. Sometimes maybe one day, or two days, or more where nothing would happen. Then I'd let my guard down for one moment and SLLLLCH. Dead. Then my friend disappears back in the crowd.
Those 5 minutes in between classes were always fun.
HeatedThreat · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My backyard connected to the two house next to me and made a giant field, and the neighbor to my right had a basketball hoop and the neighbor to the left had a play set. Both of these spaces were considered safe zones.
Basically me and like 10 other friends from the neighborhood would start at the playset and had to run across the 3 yards to the basketball court, touch the pole of the hoop, and run back to the playset. Except one friend had a giant exercise ball and would try to hit us with it. Each round would be one trip from the playset and back.
If you got hit then you became the ball person. We’d play this game from sun up until sun down. We were pretty young and small too so the big exercise ball would make for some pretty spectacular wipeouts if you could take out the legs. We called it “ball run”.
nneeiigghh · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I used to go to my grandmother's house, my cousins and me used to kick our flip flops in the air. Whoever kicked highest, won. It was simple, but fun.
oxburger15 · 1 points · Posted at 16:02:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called “swings”. We had a swing-set in the playground 4 swings wide. 4 people would be swinging while everyone else’s objective was to run from 1 side to the other. The people on the swing had the job of trying to smash into the people running. You could take the high speed approach by swing high and fast or the precise approach where you wait on the ground and swing/kick just as someone runs by. Resulted in plenty of bumps and bruises but it was a blast.
robbyb20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freddy Krugger -
Someone would lay on the ground, and the group of friends would then stand around "digging" up the body to see it and act out the whoel thing. Then once we reached a point we "saw" the body, the person laying down would rise up and it then basically turned into hide and seek and tag.
claravoyance · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When it rained, my siblings and I would rip bark off a tree and shave it into boat shapes and race the bark boats down the stream on the curb
ElOhElChapo · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would buy cellophane wrap. Like the industrial large rolls. And wrap me and my sisters up and we would compete to get out first. Usually ended in someone faceplanting and tears.
FoolsGoldDogApe · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister's Mighty Max/Polly Pocket crossover adventures. Some took place in a cute little resort. Others took place at skull mountain castle greyskull (for some reason). Polly would ride on a pony or a black mammoth creature, she wasn't fussy.
lcsthebassist · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to "Sumo Wrestle" with my brother and some of my friends. Both wrestlers would hold couch cushions on their stomachs and run into each other until someone fell down. Hilarious times.
bigjoe65 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dibble!
Take a match to the bottom of a 10' pool and place it on the bottom. Get out as fast as possible, and be the first to jump in and get it as it comes up. Varying rules on If you can push people in or splash to obscure the view.
kenzlee430 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 3rd grade at recess, my friends and I adapted tag to be butt tag. Meaning you could only tag each other on the butt. So naturally base was anywhere you could protect your butt from being tagged, like sitting flat on the ground or pressing your backside against the wall. This was super fun until the teachers found out about the game and made us stop playing.
CultureShock_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bounce Time” on the trampoline. If we had a lot of other kids over, we’d all count down from ten. Then we all jump at the same time and when we landed together, it launched us fifty feet. (that’s what it felt like anyway)
Raitug · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava monster. People would sit and dangle their legs on a slide and the lava monster had to climb the slide and try to pull someone down
manjeete · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tree Monkey
In my home town we used to this game. In this game there are a bunch of guys go up in a tree.
A chaser would go up and start chasing one of the guys. The task of the guys , up in tree, is to get away from the chaser and avoid being dead ( if the chaser touches you, you are dead).
While the chaser is looking to kill as many people, the guys have to manage coming down of tree and acquire a wooden staff. If this wooden staff is acquired and used to touch the guys up the tree, they become immune.
This goes on till all guys are dead or immune.
This game was fun and dangerous as there was a limited space to move in a tree and you could always fall down and get seriously hurt.
I miss it.
BeeJiveMentality · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Look no thumbs at church.
Hexquo2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My brother and I had neighbors roughly our age, so four of us. We would play “The LEGO Game” which was always an epic weeks long game which always started at the bin. We had absurd amounts of LEGO’s in a big bin, and on the count of three everyone would rush to find and claim different pieces and mini figures and build houses and live stories for our characters. These games would last weeks and would stay set up in our room. We had a currency system and traded and came up with elaborate stories. This was a favorite of ours for a year or two and is one of my favorite memories.
Edit: we also played Nerf zombies with my friends and my siblings. There would be about 6 of us and it would always start with three people loaded down with as much nerf guns and ammo as they could carry. The zombies would have nerf swords. If you got hit by a zombie you became another zombie. If a zombie got hit by a dart they had to run back and tag the washing machine before they could come back and try again. It always ended up in a desperate last stand of one person against five zombies with limited ammo in the living room. So much fun.
RealDutchVanDerLinde · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a boy growing up with 2 sisters we had to meet in the middle of our interests to have fun at home together. One Christmas my sisters recieved a Barbie dream house, and a digital camera. The three of us loved making videos and skits with the camera, and we came up with the idea "dollhouse murder." I would act out scenes with my sisters of many different scenarios, but they always included sex, cheating, and then murder. We would then plug the camera into the flatscreen TV to show our creation to our parents, and they were slightly mortified.
xXKingDadXx · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brothers and I would drape blankets over our bunk bed and turned the bottom bunk into a tent, we would turn the lights off and they would have their goosebumps flashlights and make it seem like they were camping. I being the oldest would then pretend to be a T- rex since this was when Jurassic Park first came out and I would then try and yank them out and they would then try and beat me up lol.
Kinda crazy how we needed pretty much nothing and we still have a blast.
jacksonionh · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eyetoy. It was like mid 200s kinect for the ps2. It was wild.
TheCowAssassin · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called Monster. When I was younger, my house was always the one all the neighborhood kids went to after school. One day, there were 6 of us and we came up with a game called Monster.
Two people would be stuck inside a prison of some sort (we used a trampoline). Two more people would be “monsters” who had to defend the people in the prison. The last two would be survivors and would have to work together to try and get past the monsters and tag the hands of the people in the prison to get them out. If you get tagged by a Monster then you have to go into the prison. If the survivors get all 4 survivors out of the prison then they win, or if the monsters get all 4 people in prison they win.
It’s quite fun as long as the monsters don’t guard the prison too much, as that kind of ruins the fun.
buzzedaldrine · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Since we're mostly raised by TV, we made a game out of commercials. First one to say what commercial is currently on air gets a point.
It gets real fun when we enjoy the actual show and forget that were actually playing so the first one to remember it gets to have an easy point.
xxwerdxx · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Smear the queer"
One ball. Loads of friends. Whoever is holding the ball is the queer and everyone runs around trying to tackle the snot out of them.
Once tackled or if they fumble, the ball is live and someone has to pick it up to keep the game going.
mkp0203 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shot arrows into the sky and tried not to get hit by them
ImprovSalesman9314 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't have any friends growing up, so I used to play both controllers in fighting games and pretend to play with someone. I never had an imaginary friend persay, at least not in the sense that it was an entity with a consistent name and personality. I would just imagine someone was there.
I finally made a bit of a friend when I was still very young. He was a talented soccer player and I couldn't play for shit, so he would imagine he was dodging and weaving between players to get the ball to me. I was the goalie. He nearly broke my nose on several occasions.
greentable01 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hitting people with my plastic golf clubs
BIG_BIKI · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With 4 siblings and a trampoline we used to have a massive fighting/wrestling tournament with special WWE kinda moves etc. We would play for hours until someone ends up crying
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I nailed two pieces of old wood in sword-like shapes and hit each others' swords until the loser's sword breaks.
kaylechips · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just lost the game.
insecurity_desk · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, we had a stairwell in my house with an enclosed landing and a sliding door. With that door closed, the landing was only about 4 feet by 4 feet, with the only open direction toward the top of the stairs. We used the stairwell to play "Sonic".
One player stood at the top of the stairs and threw small rubber bouncy balls down the stairs against the walls, causing them the ricochet all over the place at the landing. The other 3 players would stand at the bottom, and do their best to avoid getting hit. Last player standing at the bottom of the stairs won, and became the new thrower!
The only rules were that you couldn't exit the stairs, you couldn't climb the stairs past the second step, and the thrower couldn't just throw the ball directly at someone, the ball had to bounce.
strainingOnTheBowl · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made my best friend at the time play a game called “brothers.” We pretended we were brothers who shared a room. Gameplay consisted of me reading while he waited for me to get bored. We share a room, right? Gotta do your own thing sometimes!
nerd_lovers_art · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in the late 80s, my 2 older brothers, younger sister and myself created a game called monster ball. We used a soccer ball and aluminum bat. You need to bounce the ball to the batter. ,, and you could throw the ball at a runner to get them out. It was basically a combination of baseball and kickball. The "fun" part was playing with friends that hadn't played before, and them not realizing you must completely swing through, because if you didn't, the bat would recoil back and hit ya in the head. Ahhh the 80s.
Ambercapuchin · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The stick in my right hand was Darth Vader and the stick in my left was Luke. I could run around jumping off rocks and banging two sticks together for hours...
cngzhn012012 · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
cs go
DrewBigDoopa · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I back in Washington would pretend we are Greek gods. I was Neptune and he was Zeus. We would function as if we were on a council and sometimes went to war with another friend of mine who was Hades. We would play a nerf war and we would have special powers that we could use to gain an advantage but we would have to sacrifice ‘mana’. Which was literally balls my sister hid for use with numbers on them.
OP_AF · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother, on car rides, would pretend to be agents being chased by the car behind us. We'd shoot at them, and pretend to blow their tires. Always tons of fun until your neck started hurting from turning around too much.
Plz_PM_Steam_Keys · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved jumping over my trashcans idk why but I would do it all day
vzum · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a gun (like a gun with tennis balls) and i was shooting animals. Trust me it was peaceful. I played it at like age of 6.
GoodOlBoy18 · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bury basically last as long as you can underneath as many blankets, pillows, stuffed animals and bean bag chairs
CovMuayThai · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Invented numerous contact sports as a child with my friends. Bin boxing. Two people sat or stood on top of wheelie bins and slogged it out until your opponent fell off or gave in.
Blaze was another good one. Two people in opposite corners of a room. If you landed five clean shots you could execute your special move. Was quickly retired to high participant injury.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would sing the dramatic music to the Tarzan animated TV show and wrestle over plastic knives that we‘d use to murk each other „Saving Private Ryan“ style. We had a ton of fun wrestling for/executing each other with plastic cutlery, but so far no one I‘ve talked to seems to think that behavior was either normal or healthy.
Oh well lol
hootzz · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sledding year round.
We had a golf cart as a kid and tied rope from the golf cart to a sled and someone would drive the golf cart and you'd have to hold on for dear life
Dunadan_Descended · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I got an old mesh potato sack, put a soccer ball in it, knotted a rope to the top of the sack, and hung the bag by the rope from a branch of a big tree. Then we added a couple of swings to tree, each with a swing path that brought us within three or four feet of the bag. We'd start swinging while each carrying a two or three feet long stick (about the thickness of a broom handle) and attempt to knock the ball into each other by hitting the ball or flicking the rope to cause the ball to curl over the defending stick for a head or arm smack. There were remarkably few injuries.
XcrystaliteX · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would always bullshit and get me grounded but it didn't bother me because I used to create lego armies and have varying power levels of attacks on each team. I'd then roll to see which attack and where it would land. E.g rolling a 5 was me doing a swift punch in section 4. Any legos that broke were dead or injured. Entertained me for hours ^
NotaSureThing · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While swimming with friends, one of us would put a bucket over our head and have the other push us underwater and float above us while “standing” on the bucket to keep it from floating to the surface. Once underwater, I would swim up, take my friends place on top of the bucket, and he would swim down and put his head in the bucket.
toooospooky · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would go to a stream in between our houses and play sister wives. We would all be married and our littlest cousins would be our kids. We washed clothes in the river and caught frogs for food. It all seemed very normal at the time.
BaconBra2500 · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When taking a test, one of those bubble-in multiple choice ones... A= 2 points for team girls B= 1 point for team boys C= 1 point for team girls D= 2 points for team boys E= 1 point to the losing team
And I would keep a mental tally as I went through the test, and would always hope Team Girl would win. No idea where that started.
makisupa79 · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butts Up, involving a Tennis ball and garage door. You'd bounce a ball off the garage door and anyone could attempt to catch it but it had to be a one handed catch. If you dropped it or used your body to catch it, you ran to the garage door and were safe as long as your hand was on the garage door.
You'd wait for an opening (the game continued) and then try to run from the garage door past a line in the driveway. While you're running anyone can throw the ball at you, if you get hit your have a point, if the person throwing missed you they'd have to run to the garage door.
Once you had 3 points you were Butts Up and had to bend over in front of the garage door while everyone else got one throw at your ass.
Gigibop · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to see who could catch the most crickets in one recess and see who could keep them the longest without getting caught (in the classroom) (we also had a class pet lizard so it worked out)
a_dnd_guy · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would have wasp wars. We would pick a wasps nest on the house and hassle them until one or more cane after us. The goal was to swat them out of the air with a flat stick without being stung.
We invented some cardboard armor and learned the attack patterns of different types of wasps. Some send a single investigator while others send the whole squad.
Wasp wars came to an end when we had inadvertently trained them to attack people on sight and my dad was barraged after work.
JPCollectibles · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play “army men”
Lined up those old school green army men on either side of a coffee table and would flick a milk cap with our fingers to try and knock the others guys off the table. They could fall over and be ok, the only way to win was to remove all of the other pieces. We played for hours and hours.
The games got longer the smarter got. We would have a “draft” to pick our teams. There were a ton of different size guys and even a couple vehicles. I learned that if you pin a guy or two under the vehicle it won’t roll as easily. We played this until I was almost able to drive. I’d sit down and get a good game in right now if I could.
oddark · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I invented a sport called Appleball.
Two players get on a trampoline with an apple in the center. Neither player is allowed to touch the apple. You get a point if the apple falls off your half of the trampoline.
dogmorfmocion · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grew up very close to Lake Victoria. As kids we used to swim so deep into the lake that the water would be several feet above our heads - despite the fact that we knew the waters were hippos and crocodile infested - and then race each other back to the shore. Flirting with death.Every afternoon.
livens · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would tie pillows and blankets around ourselves and jump off of his roof. His house had a walkout basement so on one end it was 1 story but got higher the further back you went. Whoever could jump from the highest place won.
Also, again in his basement, we would pour trails of rubbing alcohol on the concrete floor. Then light one end and try to outrun the flame.
schubby4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play manhunt with everyone I our neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. We would all meet up at my house around 10pm on the weekends and go out in the woods with about 15 kids. We would pick a small team of 4 against everyone else. Usually two people would guard a base that everyone was trying to make it back to while 2 more people went out in the woods to try and tackle the opposing team or flush them out. You have to take them though for them to be out. We carried walkie talkies and had groups split up even on the team trying to make it to the base to see which group could get the most people back to the base.
frenchseller · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sidewalk Jump - the game originated at the bus stop in front of my house. There were two teams and the goal was to force the entirety of the other team into the concrete or other paved surface (grass was the only safe zone). If a single player was “dead” (frozen) on pavement, they could be tagged back into play, but at great peril to the tagger, as strategy dictated guarding “dead” players from the opposing team to lure in those left alive. Once an entire team was on pavement, the winner was declared and the game started over. The game started pretty innocently, but as we got older (and bigger) it got much more aggressive, with full tackles and (on a couple occasions) all-out fist fights.
perplenerples · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During family parties all of the kids would go into the empty garage, turn off the lights, and run around in a circle and try not to fall. Last person standing wins. Repeat.
Taste_the__Rainbow · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called “Lighthouse”. One person stands in the middle of a large field with a high power flashlight. They spin very fast. If they catch someone in the light they would yell their name and that person has to go back to the edge of the field.
There are lots of obstacles to hide behind and the goal of everyone else is to sneak up and tag them before your name is called.
The person spins slower and slower until someone gets to them. Whoever tags them is the lighthouse next. We would always switch coats on new players so they called the wrong name.
One time I caught my ankle on a stake line for a small tree playing this game. It shredded my skin off down to where you could see the white of my ligaments. Still scarred today. Great game!
King517 · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late at night me and my brother would sneak out of our room, when our parents were in the living room, and try to sneak past them, to the other side of the room, and then we had to sneak back to our room, if you got caught you were out.
Kyle_The_G · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
halo 3
Okkerneut · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I called it the imagination game. One piece of paper and two stick figures. The goal was to eliminate the other persons stick figure by drawing literally anything. Ironically the games could theoretically last forever because as long and you can make something up it’s legal
PartThree · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wed play full contact floor is lava
pidnull · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I shared a bed room with our twin beds each in corners. We would push our mattresses off the box spring into the gap between the beds to make a "half pipe". We would then proceed to pretend to skateboard/skate on our half pipe. I eventually kicked a hole in the wall on accident by trying to do a front flip.
your-favorite-gurl · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would make a ball of crumbled up paper, put the ceiling fan on low, and then throw the ball at it. Whoever got the ball to land on top of the fan first wins. After awhile we noticed the paper ball was too light so we put coins in the center of it to make it heavier. That lead to hours of loud, dangerous fun.
Alveolar_Anarchist · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an only child, this thread is depressing lol
firstbornunicorn131 · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play “orphanage”. I had two older girl cousins and one closer to my age. The older two would be the stronger orphans who took care of us while our “caretaker” (their mom) would take a nap. So, we would sneak into this little bathroom off of my aunts bathroom and take her nice shampoos and soaps, then go outside, squeeze far too much into a wheelbarrow with water and leaves, and proceed to make a “potion” that would make us wanted by parents seeking kids.
EpicIcyInferno · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find an empty table and put your and your friends pen on it. Take turns flicking it. First one to knock the other one off wins.
Brexit-1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There’s these covers you can get that you can put over blankets to give them a pattern. So me and my brother went inside those (with the blanket still in) and threw ourselves down the stairs, whoever went down faster won.
lexgrub · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did no one else play Drive By Shooting? Maybe its just where I grew up lol. When a car would drive by we would yell it randomly and everyone had to drop to the ground as flat as possible. This game took a terrifying turn when my best friends yard had a slug infestation. They stick to you if you land on them fyi.
rickjerrity · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called Curb-ball with my brother and some neighborhood kids. Just a tennis ball and a curb in front of someone's house. The goal is to bounce a tennis ball off one curb into the grassy lawn of the house across the street for points. Super simple and a lot of fun.
Basically one person is up to pitch. The pitcher stands in the middle of the street and throws the tennis ball at the curb, trying to get the ball to land on the lawn on the opposite side of the street (behind them). If the ball makes it to the other side, you get a point. If it doesn't make it, or someone catches it before it lands, you get an out. Each player gets 3 outs before they switch pitchers.
codewordtacobell · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister and I used to play "Breakout". We would take all the sheets and blankets in the house and wrap eachother up like mummies. Then you had to break out of it. One time playing, I was having difficulty escaping. Instead of listening to my muffled pleas for help, my brother and sister laughed at me. Eventually they made sure I didn't die. It is the reason I get a primal panic when my arms or legs are restriced for any reason. Good times.
ThatDrunkenDwarf · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have no name for it but I guess it was kind of like baseball mixed with dodgeball that me and two friends played one time. You basically went into a room and shut all the doors and whacked a bouncy ball with a baseball bat. If you get hit you lost a life and the person who got hit then got to hit the bouncy ball
We stopped playing it once I broke the light on the ceiling and my Mum yelled at us for it
FrozenFlamethrowers · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played, "hide the beanie babies."
It was an awesome game where one person would hide either 5 or 10 beanie babies In a room. The rules were simple. The beanie babies had to be partially visible and the seeker got 3 uses of getting a clue or "hot or cold". We use to hide them on ceiling fans and in bed posts. It was very fun to try and put them in plain sight places that would make my brother go insane. Such a fun game!
TanClark · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haunted house game. 1 person is it and everyone else hides with the lights off and the goal is to find each person while the people that hide also try to scare shit out of who is it
i_spill_things · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play The Initial Game. It’s like Twenty Questions, but instead of guessing an object, you are guessing someone famous based on their initials, asking yes and no questions only.
Example: DT
“Is it a politician?”
Yes.
“Is he orange?”
Yes.
Hopefully you get the idea.
I’ve since modified the rules slightly, so that now you give the initials, and the answers to the three following questions (as best you can): 1. Male or female 2. Dead or alive 3. Real or fictional
Those were always the first questions anyway, and it makes it a tad more fun.
You can use actors, politicians, musicians, athletes, cartoon characters, book characters, historical figures, the list goes on…
Let’s play!
BR - Male, real, dead.
teefour · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We broke rocks with other rocks. For hours. It was super fun. We'd also dig holes to find more very large rocks. It was all granite too, so you'd get some nice crystal formations inside once they were broken open. We then loaded the broken granite into a crappy pink sled and dragged it out to the side of the road where we tried to sell them as geodes. Sales were way down until we started offering a free rice crispy treat with the purchase of a geode, at which point they picked up slightly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A modified dodge ball. You draw a grid on the concrete and you stack flat rock in the middle of it. The captine of the ''attack'' team hit the stack of rocks with the ball and everyone runs away and hide. The attack team has to place the rocks on the grid (each rock in a square) . The ''defense'' team has to find the other team and hit each memeber with the ball (get him out of the game). Only the ''attack'' team has the right to touch the rocks. Place the rocks (win) or get all your team mates out of the game (loss).
TheDougieFresh · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play “Dante Hall” where one of us would try and return a kick (run with a football) from one end of our living room to the other, while the other tried to tackle him from his knees.
I can only hope there’s a brother duo playing Tyreek Hill rn
orochiman · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
16-17 we used to play hostage. 2 teams of 4, 1 driver, 1 navigator, and 2 hostages per team. The two hostages started with the other team in the backseat of their car, blindfolded. Both teams would drive somewhere in a 5 minute time, and drop the hostages off. The navigator would then call their teams hostages, and try to figure out where they are and tell the driver where to go. You had to get your hostages, and make it back to start before the other team
glowNdarkFish · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play bull rush. Essentially we're all a heard of bulls and we line up and rush 1 person facing the heard. His/her job is to flip one of the bulls who then takes their place. It's real fun, till you trip over one of the city's water valves sticking out of the ground and eat dirt/chip a tooth
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone laid in the grass facing up. Someone thru a soccer ball as high as they could into the air. If you moved to get out of the way you were eliminated. If you got hit then you were the thrower.
ChopandChange · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock-ball fights. We had a big bag of old socks that you take and roll up from the toe then stretch the elastic back over to make a ball. Then we'd basically have a snowball fight with them. They don't damage the walls, although you could knock over lamps and pictures. I had soooo much fun with this for a long time. Think the joy of snowball fights but with infinite ammo, not in the cold, indoors, and with very little injury potential. I think my worst was banging my head diving behind the bed.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At our house we play a game called "Chore Jar". I filled a big jar with slips of paper each labeled with a different household chore. My kids enjoy randomly selecting a chore from the jar and then completing it. The fun is starting to wear off after a few months but still getting some mileage out of the scheme.
cmc_io_news · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, I remember! It was "Super Mario Brothers", "Aladdin" and "Battle City".
itsmelizb530 · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Something called The Gorilla Game... one person would be the gorilla and everyone else would have to run from the driveway to the farthest tree in the yard and back without the gorilla getting you.
TheFernQueen · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would stack as many books as possible on my head and walk around my room while balancing them. I would keep adding more and more till my little arms couldn't or the books would fall off. After awhile it got boring so to spice things up I would pile books on my head while sitting and have to stand up, walk around, then sit down without anything falling off. The upside is I totally have great posture now and can still balance things on my head. Actually, a few years ago at a picnic with a bunch of friends, we ended up stacking whatever we could on my head. I think we got up to one and a half feet tall. Fun times.
halliebbears · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "60" in my community. We'd get atleast 10 or more kids together (my biggest game was about 25 of us), usually after dark, and we'd pick 1 person to be 'it'. This person was usually someone who was fast. Then that person counts to 60 while the rest of the kids go and hide somewhere on the block (we couldn't leave the block or else we'd disqualified.) The person then tries to find those who are hiding, those who are hiding can run after they're found. The person who is it will tag someone and say "60" and then those two are both it, they try to catch others, then theres 3 people who are it, then 4, until everybody has been tagged. The last person caught is the winner. Probably a dangerous game considering we lived in the hood and we never really kept track of how many of us played but nobody ever went missing as far as I know.
Radioactive_Bee · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this thing called the floor is rising lava. At first you could stand on anything, but then the lava world Rose Ann so you could only stand on things 10 inches above the ground, and so on until you could only stand on trees and stuff
TheTrueQuarian · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball breakers for the ps1 just look it up I can't even put it into words
HBCDresdenEsquire · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tom and Alexandria!
I have a twin sister, and we used to pretend we were Tom and Alexandria, world explorers! We would sit on the top bunk in my room (shared with my brother, 8 years older) or the top bunk in her room (shared with our sister, 7 years older) and the bed was our boat, our plane, or our bus. We would travel the world and find adventures, like Indiana Jones.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight hide and seek. We’d play it at night in the trailer court. All spots were fair game, regular hide and seek rules, but 2 people would be the searchers with flashlights. They had to flash you with flashlights in order to “find” you. And the last 2 winners would be the next searchers.
i_love_pencils · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family would play "break in".
A couple of us would go into the rec room and run strings across the room at various levels and angles. We'd tie the strings to cans of bolt and nuts from my Dad's workshop. We'd then turn out the lights and invite the first "thief" downstairs. He'd have to get across the room without hitting a string and knocking over a can.
This was in the 70's, so pre-Catherine Zeta Jones...
Clarkshark9 · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would pack soda cans full of rocks and sand and gravel. We would then take turns throwing them as high in the air as we could watch him hit the ground. The winner was the one who’s can broke open first. It would take a long time to break because we packed them so full. We would honestly spend hours doing this.
ThatChadguy · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I apologize in advance, this was back in 1980-82ish and was not politically correct at all.
We had a game called "gay man". It was a version of tag. But the twist was that the gay man had a dead sea cucumber that was pulled out of our class aquarium. He/she would chase the other kids with this 10 inch sea cucumber and if you got poked with this sea dong, you were now gay man. After the cuke started decomposing, the game evolved back into tag, but we called it gay man for years.
Simpler times.
Genius_Swaggg · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I (about 6-8 of us) used to play a game we called "Ram Ball". It was a mixture of kickball and dodgeball. Basically, we all had a kickball and would kick it as hard as we could at each other. If you got hit you were out, if it bounced off of the house, fence, tree, and hit you, you were out. It was basically just a free for all in the yard.
Needless to say we had half a dozen complaints from the neighbor about us kicking the balls at their house since we used it as a backboard sneak attack, numerous kickballs to the face, and a few bloody noses. Hella fun though!!
hanbot3000 · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “make soup.” I’d sit in a laundry hamper and my sister would pour spices on me
Flynn_lives · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
PC game—-Life and Death 2: The Brain
“Fatal injection of nitroprusside!!!”
kristy_cat · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would build a fort with blankets and chairs like normal kids but there was a twist. The fort was actually a hutch and we were guinea pigs. My gran (who ironically is afraid of animals) was our owner and fed us and played with us.
Gekthegecko · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a child, but my friends and I created a game in HS to play at the football field.
It's basically homerun derby using a tennis racket and tennis balls. A pitcher tosses the ball to the batter. Every 10 yards the ball goes from the hit is 1 point, so if you're batting from the goal line and it lands just past the 50, you get 5 points. You get three hits.
There are also three outfielders who can catch it to prevent you from getting any points OR they can let it bounce on the turf and smack it forward when it comes back up. It's actually annoyingly hard to catch the tennis ball because it tends to bounce off your hand, so I always recommend to first-timers to smack. Everyone tries to catch on the first try, and is embarrassed when it bounces out after I've warned them.
After the batter hits their three balls, the batter rotates to pitch, the pitcher rotates to the outfield, and an outfielder rotates to bat. If you have more than five people, an outfielder rotates to on-deck.
Minkxxx · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
gba frogger (i dont remember the name but it wasnt a timing one it was a platformer with worlds and levels)
profoundbadness · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I set up a "Digimon Casino" in my backyard. A lot of themed games making use of plenty of imagination. A loose fence board was littered with rocks and bits of coal, and the player had to choose between two bottle caps to slide down the board. The caps were agumon and gabumon, the rocks were evil digimon and the board was the internet highway from the movie.
Another game was a card game I effectively made up with scraps of paper. It would be 5 to 10p for each game, but you could easily earn back your winnings. Thankfully, dumb kids kept doubling down on the fence board game. Lasted about three days before folks/I got bored
SingaporeanSlaw · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We tied our "guinea pig" friend up in our group who was down to do anything up and covered him in styrofoam.. sort of like a styrofoam armor.
We then started shooting him with BB guns as target practice
lydsbane · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was fifteen, we moved into a bigger house and we were told to stay indoors one day while our parents were at work, during spring break. Most of our stuff hadn't been moved in yet, so there wasn't much to do to keep my younger sisters (aged ten, eight and six) entertained. I made up a game where we all had to climb up the stairs, but we had to take turns only going up one step at a time, and you couldn't step on one of the stairs if someone was already on it. We went in age order, so when my baby sister's turn came, we grabbed her hands and swung her up, past us and onto her designated stair. This kept all of us busy for about two hours, and there weren't that many stairs. I think we probably created new rules as we went along, too.
SMOKE-B-BOMB · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle had a game we played and he told me not to tell anyone
batsmarow · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played this game called War. Not the card game. We both had an admittedly absurd amount of beanie babies so we would use them as our army. We would go to our basement with our beanbag chairs and use them as bases and we would have to chuck the beanie babies as hard as we could and whoever hits the other behind the beanbag chair the most times with the beanie babies before we run out wins. You were allowed to hit the other player while they were throwing. It got intense.
BeoWoof325 · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother played something they called "blind tag" where the person who shall tag is blinded, this dident go for long tho cuz my brother got a concussion from falling or ran in to a wall (cant remember)
homicidalmayonnaise · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister and I were too young to read, we would sit with a mountain of picture books and "read" them by saying "Koo-cee-kay-bee-falci-hallow" over and over as fast as we could. I don't know why but it kept us highly entertained.
maestrul_dumelor · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Try with a friend to sing songs with water in your mouth. Trust me, it's worth it
734842424201 · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big boss with the hot sauce. Obstacle course race where the loser has to have a drop of hot sauce on their tongue.
eyerfing · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bowling. One sibling was the bowling ball the other sibling was the pin, and being the oldest, I of course was always the bowler. Strangely they were always more excited to do it than I was, I just felt bad about it lol
The_Odd_Ood · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When driving, I would imagine I had a really long finger nail that could cut through trees but not metal. I would slice through every tree, but had to point my finger down when coming up to a metal sign or light post to avoid losing the nail ablilities.
claptrap9372 · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Elephant poop" where we would put all of our bedding and pillows at the bottom of our stairs and jump from as high as we could into our makeshift landing area.
dorncog · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would tackle a metal trash can from a full sprint. The biggest dent wins.
FourthRain · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play Ostrich Tag at recess and it was basically like infection accept the hunter were the ones “it” and the Ostriches were the ones being chased. We’d start out by having all of the Ostriches gather on the playground equipment and then sacrifice someone to the Hunter via pushing them down the slide. We’d then all jump off the equipment and run around the fields behind our school (which were pretty big). We’d try to strategize in both sides, and at one point we almost had a quarter of our grade play it with us (which was around 40 kids).
ChaosLexifer · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvinball! Different interpretations every time considering its namesake. :-)
hightechchef · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would line up at either end of the hallway and charge each other. The goal was to reach the opposite end of the hallway. We would exclusively play this game when my parents left.
mynicknameisthis · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Half life. Best childhood ever
Phoweee31 · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play tag but pretend to be zombies and exclaim the body part we were going to consume as we were chasing them. Example: “I’m gonna eat your liverrr!!!!!” It was great. Edit: wording
Reddywhipt · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My younger brother and I used to play "Dad and Son". I was the dad and he was the son. Didn't realize how sad that was until I became a dad.
My dad bailed when I wasn't quite 3 and my brother was a newborn. He died a couple years ago. I'm 50 years old and realized at his wake that I had only spent a couple of months total out of my life in the same state as him. (I lived in SoCal, and he lived in the Miami area most of my life)
The saddest thing is my brother and I haven't talked in years outside dad's memorial. He screwed me over significantly, and even though I told him all I need to reconcile is for him to admit he screwed me, and apologize, he'd rather play the victim. He's only met his nieces and nephews maybe twice in their lives.
Take care of your kids. Model good relationships for them. Be there for them. That shit matters, and has repercussions decades later.
Happy_llama · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Woody and bullseye, mainly consisted of me holding the back of my friends coat
Mister_J_Horrible · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pump BB gun wars with a rigid honors system. If you got hit you had to announce it and where it hit you. If it hit an arm or a leg you were not allowed to use that limb for the rest of the game. Head or body hits got you "out". We all wore safety glasses, but man our moms would have been livid if they knew we did this...
Arcolyx · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game with the kids in our neighborhood called fumbleroofski. We would throw a football up on the slanted roof of our house and wait for it to roll back off. Whoever managed to catch it and make it to the end of the driveway without being brought down got a point.
Extra fun in the snow. Not as much fun when you are the smallest.
Chikensoop · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I would play "Spot the Mario". He would play Super Mario 64 and I would look away. Once he paused the game the view would zoom out out of the level and I'd have to spot Mario. I guess it was kinda like an always changing Where's Wally (Waldo, for the American folks). I would be amused and he got to play his game without me asking for a go.
SweetDick_Willy · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot peas and butter. Pretty much hide n seek but with a belt. You hide the belt then whoever finds gets to whoop everyone's ass until they reach base
SchwererKfzDiebstahl · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Join Daddy in his "meat suite"?
786Tatara · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back then, i had 2 walmart skateboards that i got for christmas (they were horrible to ride on) and these small stools to sit on. In my open driveway, we would put the stools on the crappy skateboards, sit on them, then proceed to race each other down the driveway. It was tons of fun.
MojoMastaa · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took ski poles and other long pointy sticks, threw them as high as we could straight up into the night ski, and try to not get impaled as they fell back down
YanniBonYont · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The gas game.
When filling up gas, pull the handle 100% and try and let go exactly on the dollar. Number of cents you are off is your score (ex $4.93 is 7 cents away from $5.00 - your score is 7). Person with lowest score wins.
FatDumbAmerican · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roasty Toasty. Cover siblings with all the spare blankets in the house and see who could survive the longest.
JiveBomber · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would put my brother and me in "jail" to keep us occupied so he could do drugs. "Jail" was duct taping our hands and feet together and telling us to get out. We were in preschool and thought it was the greatest thing ever.
clara0898 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would put our dad’s underwear on the fan then turn the fan on. The underwear would go flying. Dodge the “bombs” or you’re dead.
alltheprettywhoresys · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Go Seek: Marco Polo
The seeker would be blindfolded, spun around ten times then set to count to fifty.
The hiders would then somewhat hide but also grab a pillow or pillow case stuffed with stuffed animals and wait while answering the seeker’s calls of “Marco” with “Polo”. When the seeker would get close enough the hider was free to take the seeker’s head off using the cushioned weapon. This would inevitably lead to the hider being touched which is when you’d rinse and repeat.
It was a blast.
Shaburu07 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well, I'm unique and I played withself
LavaTheif · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play "the game where you cant see eachother"
Youd basically be in bed and hide under your covers and try and see the other person without them seeing you. It was actually so fun xD
universalorland0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “snail” . Basically, one person was under a blanket and had to crawl on all fours and tackle the other and drag them under the blanket. Then they would become the snail and the game would continue.
Darth_Draper · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For reasons I can't wholly remember, or even explain if I could, me and some friends from high school would audibly repeat the word "base" in any of its forms (base, baste, baseball, basis, etc.) after it was spoken. For example. "Are you going to the baseball game?" "Base. Yeah, I'll be there." There was no penalty if you didn't do it, but we all did it regardless, every time.
It got to a point where teachers and school staff would advise any speaker who came to our school to omit the word from their speeches. It was eventually an automatic detention if you did it loud enough. It even got so bad that the school and the entire staff, including and especially coaches, started to refer to baseball as "batball."
We did it so much that I still do it to this day, and, in fact, I've quietly said base after every time I've written it within this post. I honestly don't even think about it anymore.
Jasmieisme · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
From when I was tiny, up until embarrassingly recently, my brother and I played a game called 'red spells trouble' (I did not name the game). It's pretty simple, if a red car drives past you have to be hiding behind a parked car or you lose a life (there wasn't actually a penalty for this other than great shame). We played it ALL. THE. TIME. There was no escaping it, ever. I must have spent so much time over the years crouching behind random cars.
N0ra_R0ra · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Earliest memory: I remember playing with my friends yoo-hoo with a lollipop stick in my shed.....we called it the ghost game. I don't know who initiated this game but I certainly hope it wasn't me...one of my more disturbing memories
Phoenixf1zzle · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played Spy at the airports. You know someone at the airport is a spy! Your job? FIND THEM!
chazzybeats · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One day my brother and some of our friends were all extremely bored with nothing to do. My mother suggested a game of throwing cds into our garbage bin from across the backyard. This was early 2000’s so we had like a million AOL discs that we started slinging around the backyard trying to make it in the trash can.
jergin_therlax · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stare out the car window and blink every time the car is perfectly between two telephone poles/ mile markers / reflectors on the divider.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretending that someone was inhabiting my body. Freaked my brother out. I was weird. I call it method acting.
bushhooker · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game a couple friends and I invented and perfected in the first grade, then brought over to our second grade class that we ended up in together. It was called the "kicking game" and would pit two groups from two different classes against each other in a battle of wits and strength. Each team had to stand behind their respective line and try to kick the ball over the heads of the other team, with the ball remaining in bounds, so that it hit the ground on the other side. "Winning" was subjective as noone kept actual score. Many fights broke out though, culminating in an end of the year brawl where one of my best dudes socked another kid in the mouth. Claims to not remember it though
Nords · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented "dangerball".
Played on a pool table, the goal is to shove as many pool balls as you can to the other side, while the opponent does the same. Aka you want to have your side empty. Yes there were injuries, shouting, and expletives, but that was the point of Dangerball....
luf100 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to "lion fight" which was basically just us pretending to be lions and wrestling. We watched The Lion King a lot.
Theonlykd · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hand Hockey, and later, Frog hockey.
In our house, we had a hallway with the bathroom at one end and the living room at the other. I always had to defend the bathroom side and my brother always defended the living room side. We basically took turns slapping a foam ball at each other, trying to get it past each other. Later, because we got stronger and the foam ball was breaking things and crashing into mom's plants, we changed it to Frog Hockey.
We had a game where you pressed on the back of a plastic frog and it would jump into a bucket
We found out that these frogs would fly pretty well if you slapped them down the hallway. They even curved, making it more difficult to stop them.
jmh082016 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play 1 on 1 football. We came up with rules and everything. We had objects laying throughout the yard that were used as "receivers". If you could hit the object with the ball we called it a "complete pass". There were three "receivers" and the defender had no idea which one of the targets the ball would be thrown to, making interceptions very difficult, but the targets were also small which made completing a pass just as hard. A pass would move you up 10, 15, or 20 "yards" depending on which target you hit. Fun game.
IntentionalTexan · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a house that was set up in a big circle. So you could run from the kitchen to the hall into the living room and then the dining room and then back into the kitchen. We used to play, "around the kitchen" which was tag but you could only go in a circle. All wood and tile floors and you had to wear socks without shoes. Later we moved and changed the game to "around camper" witch was the same but outside and you had to stay within arm's length of our family's big RV.
Gupboi · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would make up complete adventure games with custom maps and enemies and items in our heads
Air2Jordan3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soccer Swing. My sister and I would go to our neighbors (brother and sister), they had a little swingset in between our garages. One person would roll a soccer ball and their goal was to get it past the two people on the swings. If we had all four of us playing, the 4th person would be the ball chaser if the people on the swings kicked the ball too far away. We played this game so much
convergence_limit · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom would blow up balloons and we had to hit them up into the air to keep them from hitting the floor. She called it bee-bop. It sounds really dumb but I remember having the best time and my kids absolutely love it now.
Meeper5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:07:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego was good
Chrislybaer · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Arrow Roulette. I had a long bow, we fired arrows vertical into the sky, and the waited for it to come down. Mind you, you cant really see the arrow coming down vertically against the light on a sunny day. my youngest brother almost got pierced through the foot (like 2cm beside his foot) and another friend tried to block with a self made Roman shield (the big ones). Arrow got through and stopped a hand width before his left eye. Fun times
MarioDesigns · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't have friends
ImAnEngnineere · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child but me and my older brother went to college in the same city and played Assassin. If you got a picture of the other without being seen or without the other person taking a picture of you at the same time, you successfully "killed them" (5 points) and if you got a picture of their car without being seen you successfully "tailed them" (1 point). This led to some pretty upgraded long range lenses (started my photography kick that's still going) and some very sketchy looking stalking around campus/town. Eventually our friends joined in as informants and "contract killers" and as I was friends with a ton of sorority girls (don't ask me why or how), I eventually racked up thousands of points. He lives in Korea now though and I miss him.
ImNotTemper · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend I was a bouncy ball and walk in a straight line bouncing off walls and furniture around my house and heading in the direction it would have bounced. I have really no clue why but I did this. I remember playing this on multiple occasions and i'm pretty sure I thought it was a very fun game.
lilflow88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend I was a mad scientist, when I was in the tub. I'd take a bunch of different types of soap and poor them in the water, and pretend it was potions. Gawd I miss being a kid.
dcostalis · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tapping my feet evenly. Left Right right left. Then right left left right twice. Then left right right left again. Then repeat the whole thing twice starting on the right. Then once again starting on the left.
I'm perfectly sane, thanks.
That_Deus_Ex_Girl · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my older sister played some creepy game with me where she was the head of some vaguely evil institution, and me and my little sister were children kept there. We weren't allowed to have names. My older sister also played the role of some kind of social worker(?) who came to rescue us from the evil matron lady who, I must stress, she also played. A lot to wrap my head around as a kid.
It seems like the sort of thing that would be an ongoing game, like the D&D campaigns we'd both grow up to run. But I feel like it was just one long session, and a lot of it was her explaining the setting, which must have been difficult because I don't believe either me or my little sister was older than six at the time.
She's really always been a next-level storyteller, and most of her ideas are similarly disturbing at one level or another. I've spent my entire life trying to emulate her, particularly her creepy stories which always impressed me as we grew up. The feeling is, I gather, far from mutual. She helps me with my stories, but she doesn't seem impressed by any of them. When I try to do her brand of creepy, she just thinks it comes off as gross or confusing. If she doesn't like it, I don't like it, so I keep scrapping my stories partway through. I've been writing for years, but I've never finished a novel.
But I have a good feeling about the latest attempt!
its_my_unbirthday · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend to see a guy riding a 360 mower as we were driving, he’d have to try and stay on grass as much as possible and jump the bridges
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to throw rocks in the neighborhood creek with my hoodlum friends down the street. Not pebbles, but like actually digging up the surrounding clay and sand to find proper rocks to toss and make a muddy, wet mess everywhere. Whoever could make the biggest splash was basically the guy with the biggest dick. Then we upped the ante and started aiming at each others feet to soak one another since the only way to stand near the creek was to balance on clay and rocks right next to the edge, so you were always close to the water. We were 10 and had the aim of a blind man. One friend ended up with a broken toe and I got a nasty bruised gash on my shin that got infected and took a couple months to heal.
headietoinfinity · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not necessarily a game but we would ride in laundry baskets down the stairs.
Somehow none of us got a concussion. But then again we were so poor, soooooo there's just the likelihood that we never got medical attention. Just like that time I somehow got a fishing hook stuck in my leg and mom let some random guy at our barbeque remove it with pleirs and then told me she would buy me candy if we didn't do to the hospital. Jesus Christ.
I'm a Nurse now. So if I ever have kids they might have a better chance at survival.
Bahunter22 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I were obsessed with Ariel and would take diving rings, put one around both ankles, and pretend to be mermaids in her above ground pool. We were around 7y/o at the time.
Funkyokra · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicken fighting -- hang from the jungle gym and kick each other until someone falls. Butts Up--throw ball against wall until someone bobbles it. That person runs to the wall while someone else tries to scoop on the ball one handed and peg them before they get there. If they get pegged, they have to kneel or bend over against the wall to display their buttocks while everyone else takes a turn trying to hit them with the ball. We are a community of highly skilled and emotionally traumatized infielders.
chr155 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Long ago, my brother cousin and I would play this game that we called “British Soccer”. Its essentially soccer but instead you use a beach ball and its played in a basement while Eiffel 65 blasts in the background. Many hours of fun and rug burns were had.
filamental_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would ride down grass hills in a wooden wagon Calvin and Hobbes style. Most runs ended by hitting a tree or flipping the wagon. One time I flipped, landed on the ground, and then got clobbered by the falling wagon right as I went to stand up.
StarKingUltra · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a conservative household and a delinquent older brother so my parents never let me leave the house except for school and to work at my father's failng restaurant.
With no video games, toys for my age, or friends, I played outside a lot. While doing that, I trimmed old branches from the thickets in our Alaskan backyard into "fleets of star ships" after watching Star Wars.
I know kids play with sticks and shit, but I had piles of these and they were my only real creative outlet for like 5 years. I still think back and remember some of those sticks. I had a favorite that was perfect for my hand and symmetrical. It really did look like a starship.
Parent's cleared the back acres and I went to boarding school right beforeahand, so I never got to preserve any of them.
DaLB53 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slaughterball
2 nets at either end of our backyard, 3-3 (2 field and a goalie) you had a small soccer ball and you could do ANYTHING in your power to get it in the net except touch the goalie. Defense could do anything the had to to stop you
Play in the rain/snow for added effect.
Crackasaurrex · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Frisbee tag, at one point amongst our normal tag and airsoft battles in the woods by my house with the neighbors, one of us had the great idea to throw frisbees at eachother to in an attempt to tag the other person which eventually ended us with us climbing up trees to avoid or ambush each other. Thinking back we were lucky none of us got seriously hurt.
HippoCarnage25 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Abe’s Odd World
bowserisapleb · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called ‘Karate in the Dark’
We would shut off all the lights and blackout all the windows and start throwing our limbs all over the place trying to throw punches and block them. Basically a violent Marco Polo. I can never remember how we started that game but I know it always ended in tears and someone hurt.
st1tchy · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game of tag in the dark at a birthday party once. You became it by being hit with a ball. The ball was a black Vortex football that whistled. You would just be running and hear whistling whizz by your head. It was great!
GatorGuy5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mantracker was a 2v2 game we'd play in the woods. The most unique was probably rockball though. Basically, dodgeball with rocks from a considerable distance apart.
Theonlykd · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catapult
We had jenga blocks, and would set up a tower on either side of the living room. Then we'd take more jenga blocks and make a catapult. You'd slam your hand down on the catapult and try to fling a jenga block towards your opponent's castle, trying to knock it down.
Mordanzibel · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game we made up called "Little Red Devil and the Cabbages."
One person was the little red devil and everyone else was a cabbage and if you were a cabbage you secretly picked a color and shared it with the other cabbages and then the cabbages all sat in the cabbage patch which was the porch. The little red devil had to guess colors and if you he picked your color you had to run to a series of preset points and make it back to the cabbage patch before the devil caught you or you had to be the devil.
We also played a game called "sock" with a group of friends at their grandma's house. She had a long wide hallway in the middle of the house with several doors. You could shut all these doors and it would be pitch black. The game started out that someone would toss a sock down the hallway in the pitch black and then everyone else had to find it basically blind. Eventually it morphed into hide and go seek in pitch black which was more fun.
As we got a little older, my male cousins and I would play a game called kick off returns. Everyone but one person would get in the endzone (behind the pecan tree in the front yard) and one person would kick the ball to the crowd. The object was to get the football and run all the way across the yard to the other endzone while everyone playing tried to murder you. There were no rules and several people got really hurt playing this. I cracked the vertebrae in my cousin's neck and knocked another ones front teeth out with an elbow one time. The game usually ended when too many people were beaten up to play.
Another game we liked to play was called Gates. It was like advanced red rover. One person would be the runner and everyone else playing would form a "gate" which would be us locking arms or standing shoulder to shoulder or all manner of creative poses. The object was that the runner had to plow into the "gate" and try to break through. This game was usually short because people got hurt pretty quick as well.
We also played a game called "battletops" where we would extend our arms and make fists and spin around as fast as we could, like a top, and the battle part came in where we would move towards each other as fast as we could while spinning. This never lasted more than two or three rounds.
When we were very little, my sister and I played a game called "Fatty" where we would puff our bellies out as far as we could and lean back and then run at each other full speed, smash our fat bellies together, and bounce off one another. We had to stop playing when we got older because it started to hurt too much.
PaleHorseNamedDeath · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Petscop
Philosophicalfool · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My street had a small Bamboo forest and the baby bamboo that grew there was very soft. Every year when the baby bamboo would start growing we’d put on our football gear and hop on our bikes and quite literally have jousting duels. Looking back now I honestly can’t imagine anything more fun and exciting than that.
Lathamuel · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school me and a group of around 30 kids would take one weekend each year and go stay at some place out in the middle of no where and play stuff like capture thay flag and "hunger games". Once we even rented out the biggest youth camp in the state for a whole weekend to do this.
RaidRover · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game my great grandmother invented for us. Her brother used to go on walks around downtown everyday and would stop by and drop all of the loose change he found in a dish by the door. My grandma would empty the dish every Friday while I was there and divvy up the pennies between use equally then toss the silver coins on the ground randomly in her living room which was empty except for the couch we sat on, a coffee table, and a radio in the corner next to the couch.
After the silver coins were tossed randomly we would go around sliding any coins that were on the line between tiles into whichever tile it was mostly in. If a coin seemed exactly halfway between tiles it would slide into the tile with the least coins. Coins position in the tile was where they landed.
Then we would sit on the couch and either flip or roll our pennies across the room, 10 pennies each per round. At the end of the round, whoever had the most value in a tile got to keep all of the non-pennies in the square and we would each get our pennies back for the next round. If you landed a penny ontop of a coin you immediately got that coin and could choose to reflip that penny if you wanted. We would play this until all of the coins were collected by the two of us and I could keep all the change I won.
After we had played the game for a while and I knew the value of the coins we upped the anti. Each player could choose to use up to 5 silver coins each round with the same rules as above. The catch was, you could lose the silver coins you played with if the other player ends with more value in the tile that round so it could help secure a tile but it could cost you.
I played that with my great grandma every Friday for 2 years until I moved ~12 hours away. I couldn't tell the story at her funeral without crying but I will always be thankful for her babysitting me after preschool each day and this most cherished memory. I hope to teach it to some other little kids some day.
perncil · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i’d play “stairs” with my little sister when we were 12 and 9 respectively. we’d take turns jumping off the stairs onto the ground. the goal was to jump off the highest stair. needless to say injuries were fairly common in this game.
b4ddm0nk3y · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I did royals rumbles on our futon bunk bed (bottom bunk) and called it human pudding lol.
Also had blindfolded pillow fights!
frumious88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my siblings, we would put a person in a sleeping bag, put them in a wheelbarrel and roll them out to the woods nearby. We would dump them out and have them count to 30 or so and find their way back.
BenVoc44 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game we called army boomerang.....my parents called it the twit game. Basically there would be whatever ball we could find, volleyball, dodgeball, or anything you could chuck at someone without it hurting too bad. When you had the ball you could take 3 steps then you had to throw it. Whatever body part got hit was useless and if you were hit in the head you were dead. This lead to us trying to take out each others legs so there would be 3 or 4 of us rolling around on the ground trying to avoid getting hit. So yeah we all looked like a bunch of twits.
FunkDoctaSteve · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
night raiders
camp councillors would go in the forest with glow sticks and plant them/hang them in various places then hide closely nearby with a flashlight. once they were done someone would give the campers the signal and everyone would sneak into the forest. the object of the game is to sneak up to one of the glow sticks and grab one before a councillor sees you and flashes you with a flashlight. if you got caught you were sent back to camp. and had to sit by the fire till the game was done. a good strategy was to get as close as you can without being caught. wait till the councillor spots another camper, and while the spotlight (flashlight) was on them run to the glow stick and grab it. a councillor could think your nearby and even call your name to psych you out, but unless the light touches you it doesn't count.
DeaddyRuxpin · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure it is unique but it is clearly moronic.
My friend and I used to shoot suction cup darts at my back sliding glass door. Eventually we wanted an actual target to shoot at so we took turns standing in front of the door while the other shot. Taking a suction cup to the eyeball does not feel good. This went on for most of a summer until one day my sister sees us and says “why don’t you stand on the other side of the glass door so you don’t keep getting hit by the darts.”
That idea genuinely had not dawned on us all summer.
Snowy_Ocelot · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would cut holes into our long underwear and pretend that we were cats. Except the cat that we were pretending to be peed on the bed because he was a bit sick. There for, we had covered the bed with plastic and my brother and I were upstairs peeing on the bed. For about 2 hours. Dad found out and was pissed, obviously. Man we were idiots.
Isbutteracarb___ · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to roll my brother up in a blanket and throw him off the top bunk. We called it burrito.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I actually still do this: have you ever avoided stepping on cracks/lines when you were walking?
Because I do a step further than that, since I was a kid, I've tried to keep track of the balance of how many times I've stepped over a line with each foot.
Doesn't sound too bad, just keep a tally left up 3 = step over the next 3 lines with my right foot. The problem came when I kept expanding what constituted a line. Eventually I had separate tallies for manhole covers, imaginary lines perpendicular to the front/end of parked cars, their wheels, alleyways, gates, shadows, other people, front & back of moving cars/buses, and various types of rubbish I'd inevitably step over.
I ended up getting to school with a mental tally that would look something like this:
Left: +1/-5/+2/0/+1/0/2/0
Right: -1/+5/-2/0/-1/0/2/0
Eventually, when I caught myself taking twice as long to get to school as I should, I forced myself out of the habit (mostly). These days I do catch myself doing it again when my mind wanders while walking.
speak_fast_T_T · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think this is rly common but in Kindergarden the boys and girls played this game I forgot the name of where u try to catch each other while running. Not that special yet but I had a Crush (remember that I was 3-4 or something) and I let myself get catched easily by purpose because the girls had to catch the boys and if they were successful they had to kiss the boys. That was the way to get on your crushs lips.
Back then when the world was fine...
Deaconse · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were between 10 and 15 or so, my little sister and I invented a game using badminton or tennis rackets and a badminton birdie but no net. We called it "Flutney," and I have no idea where that name came from.
It was a collaborative game, not a competitive one: the object was to continue the volley as long as possible without the birdie hitting the ground (and therefore each player had to send the birdie back over in a such a way that the other player had the easiest possible time hitting it back, not the hardest!).
Which is harder than it sounds.
Just in case one could not send the birdie back easy, one could hit it multiple times in order to gain control and tighten up one's aim before sending it back -- but only if one hit it three or more times! Hitting it twice was a "double Flutney" and counted as a miss, and it was your fault, not the other player's.
There were no boundaries, other than those of the backyard; no sides and no other rules, so no violations.
My sister and I are now within arm's length of sixty, and I still remember that game in detail. Funny world.
Holzy09 · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
S-P-Y. Not spy, otherwise the adults would figure out what we were doing. But my cousins and I would decide to spy on the parents. This meant recon missions from the basement to hear what they were talking about and plan our major missions.
All missions, recon or major, involved excessive "power ranger rolls" across doorways or rooms so we'd be sneaky and invisible. Really, these were just loud somersaults on hardwood floors. The main mission always ended up basically with us crawling under the table while the adults talked. We were so good that will we'd crawl across their feet, they didn't even know we were there! Unbelievable!
And then while under the table, we'd be mouthing S-P-Y to each other and holding a finger to our lips.
I feel like I should mention that there were usually like 7 of us doing this at a time and the oldest was probably 13.
I don't think we were smart
_Da_Vinci · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "21," a basketball game where once you score. You go to the free throw line and can shoot until you miss. The goal is to get to 21.
We also used to play smear the queer (sorry I don't know the PC term for it now) which was a football game where you try and tackle whoever has the ball.
So one day at recess we invented a combo game where it was 21 and smear the queer... On blacktop. The 80s were an interesting time.
CheckOutMyGun · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play rugrats with my cousins. I always wanted to be tommy because i wasnt a bitch...
Greblyn · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was honestly pretty recent, but earlier on in high school my two friends and I would wait until it was pitch black at night and play hide and go seek. Except the seeker pointed a semi-bright light at his face and could keep his eyes open, so he still had some ability to see but not entirely, mostly had to rely on sound and seeing odd moving shapes outside of the light. Also relied on making the hiders laugh.
Edit. Recent
TheFoggyShrew · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our back yard growing up was remarkably uniformly rectangular, so of course we plopped two soccer goals in there, small enough for 7-8 yr olds. Used to host games for the village kids there.
One day we tried to shake up the formula so my brother, a couple of friends and I developed a game we called "Rough-Rug" which was essentially a mix between rugby, American football, Olympic handball, and played on your hands and knees.
You would essentially crawl all over the field, full contact, and toss a soccer ball about trying to get it in the goals. Goal shots were not allowed to hit the ground before going in the net.
Parents eventually put a stop to it after too many burst lips.
xAusta · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to kick a soccer ball up this steep hill near my house and try to stop it from getting past me. I would kick the ball at an angle so I would have to run to save it. If the ball got past me it would count as a goal for the imaginary team I was playing against.
Mad_Hatter93 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play a game around the trampoline where one of us would jump on the trampoline, and the other 4 tried to peg them with the various balls we had. If you peg them, you take their place in the middle. We'd also play a game on the swing set with a huge red rubber ball, probably 2-3 feet in diameter. One of us would swing, and the other would try to bowl the rubber ball at the swinger, and you'd try to kick it over the house. Or if you were feeling cheeky, kick it back at the bowler. I'm amazed we never got more hurt then a few scrapes and bruises
danienguyen97 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I used to play "Mole". Our basement was usually cluttered with lots of things for storage. It was basically hide and seek in the dark. Everyone would hide and The Mole had use their senses other than sight to go find them in pitch blackness.
Robalo21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mucko... My friends brother would tie our shoe laces to each other or ourselves, and would chase us around with a hopitty-horse. Basically a huge ball with a horse head on it that weighed like 10 pounds. And he would Chuck it so hard that when it hit you it would stop and you would go flying. And if you were tied to someone who got hot you were equally screwed...The odd thing about the game is that it was happening if you wanted to play or not...
Itszenithink · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play a type of tag dodgeball soccer combo on a hill that we would play for hours. Basically someone was "it", and they'd have to try and kick a soccer ball at us up a hill, so it would roll down. If you got hit you became "it" and were the kicker, fun times.
topon3330 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Top gun: our driveway was steep, descending towards the house. We'd tie a hook behind our bikes, one end of a rope in the open garage. One of us would go down the driveway as fast as possible and the other two would pull the rope at the right moment to stop him.
I think we stopped when we pulled too early and my brother flew to the back of the garage just when our dad opened the door. Fun times
We also played village when our cousins came over for the summer . We each built a house in the forest and we all had a character: obviously the sheriff and the bad guy, the barman ... We printed Monopoly bills for money (we had an old French edition, so the lowest bill was 1000, up to 50,000 francs, which was even cooler).
mdas30 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catch the bullet. Paintball edition You won if you didn’t cry
univalveloki · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
superhero, using towels as caps
gold_blushin · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played Don't Break The Vase... which was basically just monkey in the middle with a kickball that had a huge gash down the side. We also played broom ball on roller skates. Those were the days.
ginnnnie · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Concert” one by one me and friends would get up in front of each other and pick a song to actually sing to. We would dance and dress up and make it like a real concert.
My go to Artists, were Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff and stuff like that. Haha
We held something in our hands to act like a microphone.
i_love_pencils · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would make plasticine people, put them into our Tonka trucks and roll them down the stairs. We'd then do autopsies on them and see what happened. We graduated to putting toothpicks inside their little bodies and then after the crash, we'd cut them up and look for broken toothpick bones.
Edit - none of us became doctors.
juiciijayy · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I invented our own rendition of the hunger games. Essentially we would just dump a pile of play swords, nerf guns, backpacks, etc., in the middle of my lawn and then spread out. We would count down and then rush the middle and try to grab as much shit as we could, and then disperse all over the neighborhood. If you got shot with a gun or hit with a sword or hit with a blowdart, you're out. Last man standing wins. We would play for hours on end.
TheMoistEnchilada · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would take mulch and twigs and build cities. Then fill up a watering can and drown the city and would try to see if it would stay up.
mhimy · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fusion frenzy for the original xbox
Grakwilson · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pushy off the couchy With my siblings
One of us would claim the couch, length wise, and most certainly up against the backrest. The other’s goal was to weasel and squirm between the sibling and the backrest-and push them off the couch. Pretty sweet game.
skt113 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor doctor( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Not sure if it's unique but its fun. You know exploring the patient's bod and getting punishment for it in school.
jbnagis · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suicide: throw a ball at a wall. Catch it or avoid it. If it touches you and you don't catch, you get punched untll you touch the wall.
Hide and go get it: like and seek, except when you're found, you make out or get felt up.
Used to play poker with the numbers on dollars. You lose, you lose your money.
yongbokkie · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we played "boys against girls" where basically boys and girls were shoving each other in a corner of our school playground and against the fence and you basically just had to knock people down to escape.
astepnio · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Still grinding OSRS
TheMysticalWalrus · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would jump on the trampoline while my brother tried to hit me with a football...love that dude
TexasFordTough · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played a made up game called "sisters of the valley" when we were 4 and 7. We played homeless sisters working for food and building shelter, using play food to "eat" and using random blankets and pillows we'd find around the house (which annoyed the hell out of my parents). I eventually got bored of the game after a couple years or so and got my cousin to forget about it. She's 18 now and I'm 21 and we still joke about the stunts we pulled back in the day.
barrsftw · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure
Lane311 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Top Gun", because it was the coolest movie we had seen at the time.
Imagine... A playground swing-set.
The object was to match the swinging motion of a person next to you (aka. "lock-on") and then spit on them.
So, this became a game of controlling your swing-set abilities to evade, attack, and ultimately spit on your friends.
Being 8 years old was a magical time. And, yeah, we were gross.
genericmoron913 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played shotgun. It's like to rock paper scissors but it had reload, armor, and shoot.
The first round you always had to reload. After that, you can either use armor, or shoot. You can also reload as much as you want so you can accumulate ammo and won't have to reload again after shoot and your opponent uses armor.
ReedT22 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also we used to play hide and seek and when we couldn’t find me dad he would scream “I’m in the dishwasher” for example and we would always fall for it. My favorite was “I’m in the silverware droor” memories
petra-ichor · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would throw sleeping bags on top of ourselves, stand up, then continue to throw ourselves into each other until the last person was standing. Those were the good old days.
Candy71man2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In school we would run on the grass and tackle each other. If you fell down you were out.
rico_pavo_real · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to throw those green walnuts at each other, really hard. Rocks, too.
thatguyhanzel · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava. Don't think anyone has come up with this but me and my brothers used to play avoiding touching the floor in the living room by any means necessary
MuchoGustoMeLlamo · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smeer the Queer.
jeffreywilfong · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in the supermarket aisle, I would "race" the reflections of the lights on the tile floor. there was no winning - only another light to race.
ErikJHealey · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I present to you, Pickle ball. It's a game my brother and I made up as kids. The name is sadly unrelated. The game is played as follows. It's a 1v1 game played on grass. 1 player is goalie, the other is the attacker. The goalie is played in a hockey net, and uses a broken hockey stick(one without a blade). And the attacker uses a mini stick ( small two foot stick made of plastic, used for playing hockey in hotel hallways mostly). The game starts at 5, in order for the attacker to score, they must shoot the ball (tennis or orange ball hockey ball) and have it bounce once before going in the net. If this is done successfully then the score would increase by one. If the goaltender makes a save using only the stick, the score decreases by one. If neither of these things happen then the score remains the same. If the attacker reaches 10 they win, if the score reaches 0, the goalie wins. (Sorry for formatting)!
already_bored · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Matrix Ball. Sort of a cross between dodgeball and tag. One person had a ball and had to chase the others down and hit them with it. No points, but the more dramatic or clumsy your dodging move was, the more respect or laughs you got. Was great fun, but from the outside probably looked like a bunch of dumb kids throwing a ball at each other.
Xanerex · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forget what its called bunch of neighborhood kids would play a game where one person was it and he would put his flip flops on top of a piece of metal/tin can and other players would throw their flip flops at it(one per person) at a certain distance. You can retrieve your flip flops and run back at the starting /safe zone and do it again, but if the person it tags you while his flip flop is still placed on top of the can you were it. If you threw your flip flops and knock off the flip flops without hitting the can you become it.
mmacias19 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard , it was great .
loveszeonlyway · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Missing parts dodgeball- you get hit on a limb and you cant use that part of your body anymore. Get in the heart your done for. We would have a safety spot where you could grow limbs back.
raa2035 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandparents live on ~15 acres of woods. In the late spring, massive ferns sprout from EVERYWHERE and basically cover the ground (ranging from maybe 1 ft to 4 ft tall). My cousin and I would craft “fern whackers” out of limbs with a surprising amount of engineering. Had to be the right combination of brute force and whip to cut through several at a time. We spent hours trouncing around the property waging war on ferns. The big suckers were Generals and typically got uprooted (instead of whacked) and stripped of all leaves as a special “torture.” Grandma hated the way the ferns looked so she tolerated our violent games. Plus it got us out of the house.
Jesse0016 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived on 3 1/2 acres in northern Michigan woods that backed up to another 12 acres of woods. Someone had built a tp in the back woods. We would hunt for dogman and trail him back to the tp. Lots of fun.
xylvrstar · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The 1-2-5 Game (or 1 To 5 Game). Basically we would start by spreading out and then one by one we try to eliminate each other by aiming to step on a foot of another player in 5 counts/steps (1 count = 1 step). It's especially fun when one of us had new shoes and everyone else is just dying to step on them and that person has to defend himself like his life depended on it lol
Maxatel · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play your usual bed wrestling, but whenever someone fell off of the bed, they had to run outside of the house, down the street, and touch a certain tree before the other person got to them or the tree. If they didn’t succeed, the winner would get to keep a shared copy of Black Ops 2 until the other person won. Needless to say, I only have about 10 hours of BO2 on my Xbox account. My friend most likely has over 200.
malmac12019 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would say the next driver we passed or next person on TV would be our girlfriend/boyfriend/love-partner/life-partner. We always said it the exact same way, including pronouncing the slashes. Eventually it got abbreviated to GFBFLPLP. Now we are well into our 30's and still might assign each other a GFBFLPLP.
corsair1995 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when my littler sister and I were 7 or 8 right when Pokemon came out, we would throw rocks at each others feet and tell our favorite Pokemon to attack each other.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Always used to pretend with my sister that we were the Super Mario Bros until she got bored of that one day.
She askse what I want to play and she says no as soon as a I start saying 'Super'. Instead I pretend what I meant to say was 'Soup'
The game which I invented on the spot involved us pretending to be packets of soup in our back garden (which represented a supermarket) and having to avoid being taken of the shelf by customers. I was tomato, she was minestrone.
It was only played once but I've never forgotten it
MegaDoomerX3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cannonball" We'd throw dodgeballs at eachother in an attempt to, "injure or kill," the other player. Any limb that got hit was blown off by the cannon ball and couldn't be used until the next game. If you got hit in the chest, stomach, or head you were dead and lost.
frycrunch96 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would look up spells online that would turn us into mermaids. There was one where we had to put our hands in some water and chant an incantation. I remember the next several mornings we’d run up to each other at school and talk about how we were transforming. “I woke up today and my legs were together! My tail is forming!”
We’d also abstain from drinking from the water fountains just in case water could touch us and turn us into mermaids like that show H2O, lol.
My mom used to also take us to all the beaches (live in CA) so we could try to find mermaids.
roslyns · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Barbie interrogation. Tie a Barbie to a chair and torture her to make her tell us how about how she’s alive like in Toy Story. When she didn’t, she went to my younger sister to be chewed on. Lost nearly all my barbies that way
breakone9r · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spyhunters.
When I was around 12, my folks bought me an ATV (I lived in a very rural area, next to a wooded area where I'd ride).
I had a friend in 5th and 6th grade who would come over and ride with me. We would pretend a stack of cut wood was our base, and "upgrade" my 4 wheeler with things like smoke, missiles, lasers, etc. Then ride fast through the woods "shooting" and dodging the bad guys.
Oaksbomber · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called our unique game Squirm Ball.
For this game you had to use a very special ball that was originally a dog toy. It was a yellow ball about 2.5 inches in diameter with 2 or 3 different sized spikes equally spread out around the ball. There where short little 1/4 inch spikes that covered the surface pretty densely, then some 1/2 inch spikes that where spread out over the ball as well as the 1 inch spikes on the top, bottom, and 4 around the center of the ball. These 1 inch spikes made the ball very unpredictable when hit by players.
The field was anywhere we could rig a "net" or board between the teams. This was usually made of dog/baby gates and a chair or whatever else we could find.
We usually played 2 on 2. My bother and I, our neighbor whose house we played this crazy game in, and our really good friend from down the street.
Out of bounds was predetermined and was pretty much anywhere the ball could land where it would be out of reach by any one the players and this was agreed upon by all sides before the start of the game.
You can hit the ball with any part of your body, hand, foot, head, anything, but you had to stay on your knees. This is why it is called Squirm Ball, you were constantly squirming to try and hit or spike the ball.
You can only hit the ball once in a row and each side only gets 3 hits to get the ball over the boarder/net. If the ball hits the ground on your side the other team gets a point and we played until 21. The boarder was in bounds as well as furniture in the play zone. The floor is always out.
This game would get beyond crazy and some of the plays we made were just amazing. The ball being such a weird shape and being so unpredictable made it so much fun and new each time we played. Plus we were in smallish spaces like a 10' by 20' living room with a sectional couch, piano, and fire place that we would setup in the center of which made the play field very irregular shaped. This is part of what made it so fun. The ball would be bouncing on the piano or couch and everyone would be tense while we waiting for it fall not knowing where it would go because of the weird shape.
There is still a running dispute about who won a certain championship game to this day between us. Such good memories.
Fooblat · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
It's a bit hard to describe but I would tap my toes or fingers (left right whatever) in a recursive mirroring pattern that "zooms out" to larger levels.
So it starts with R L L R (this is the archetype) Then it mirrors to L R R L to continue with the shape it goes L R R L again, and back to R L L R again. Now these 4 sets of 4 can be an archetype too.
So the next larger one starts with left, going LRRL RLLR RLLR LRRL
and repeats with the pattern, so again
LRRL RLLR RLLR LRRL
and finishes with
RLLR LRRL LRRL RLLR Which again, ends a 4 set and can become its own level.
No idea how many levels I made it without messing up, probably only 4.. 5 max.
camelchunk · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Irem skins game- snes
frankierockz · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drunken scooter- we would spin around as much as we can and try to ride our scooters
Word_Is_Bond_Yo · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "3000". Someone with a dodgeball would face a group of people and punt the ball in the air yelling a number. Whoever caught it would get the number. Whoever got to 3,000 won. Simple but room for fun and laughs.
00feyOwch · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would tie each other inside of a blanket and try to untie it and escape from the inside. Not the smartest game looking back at it.
CyberJoke · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Squish Game - The oldest sibling would lay on their belly on a bed or sofa as if they were planking, and the next oldest would do the same right on top of the older sibling. More kids were added until we fell off of the bed where we repeated the process for like 5 minutes until one of us got accidentally hurt. Idk who came up with this game or why we agreed to even play.
The Shower Game - One of us would usually be showering and the other would come in and ask the other if they wanted to play the Shower Game. Regardless of whether they agreed or not a few of us would barge into the bathroom and start dumping buckets of freezing cold water over the curtain and onto the victim, turning off the lights, or tossing empty shampoo bottles into the shower.
The Big Fat Liar Game - Inspired by that one scene from Big Fat Liar with the kid jumping onto that poor clown from a staircase a few of us would start climbing the stairs from the other side of the fence with high risk of falling off. Once we reached the top the first person would have no choice but to wait up there for the other kids to descend as climbing over the fence seemed too dangerous to us
Yeah so I guess my childhood was problematic
tolstoy425 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Storming the beaches of Normandy with my sister up the little hill from my swing set with a stick and an oversized m1 helmet.
Death_To_Disco · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to imagine that I was an inventor and try and make stuff with the old electronics, film canisters and random odds and ends in my night stand. My most disappointed "invention" was taking all the various magnetic things I had apart to make a "super" magnet that I then put in a film canister and put a long string on in hope of dredging the bottom of the 12 foot for change. I thought I would be rolling in money for snack bar snacks, but instead only got hair clips...my genius brain forgot coins aren't magnetic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Demonstar
ZillieZephyr · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom and I play this game called “Are you a German?” Basically, you hand each other a random object and ask, “Are you a German?” The recipient has to come up with a way they would kill (or incapacitate) their opponent with said object. The game goes back and forth until someone can’t think of a good way to do do the job, and the person who gave the object wins.
ConfusedPolatBear · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coinsey. One person puts their knuckles on a table, the other uses one hand (and only one hand) to flick a coin at the first's knuckles. You then switch. First to give up loses. There was a lot of bloody knuckles.
SnoopieN · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle used to play rub the pole. It wasn't fun.
Skooger · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to make paper airplanes and throw them at the ceiling fan in my family's 3-season porch.
Sometimes they would fly through unscathed, but more often than not they would get hit and fly off in another direction and we would race to catch them.
bookworm21765 · 1 points · Posted at 16:10:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aging myself..My friend and I used to play a mix of Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie. We would string lunes of thread up to random objects in her room and hide the threads. When her little sister came in she thought we were moving everything with our powers. Great fun
Mother_Of_Felines · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Brocconice”
My older sister (elementary aged at the time) found a way to get my younger sister and I to bring her snacks while she watched TV. She would pretend to be a senile old woman named “Brocconice” who talked in a crazy voice and would demand certain foods or she would bite your fingers off. Cute, I know. We found it hysterical and would spend the better part of an hour bringing her snacks as she cackled, pretended she was going to bite our fingers off, and hurled fruit snacks across the room if they were the wrong kind. Kids are weird.
ProfessorKaos_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it peggydo it was pretty much football (soccer) except if the ball gos though your legs, everyone gets to beat you up until you touch the goalpost. We weren’t the brightest kids
cuddlingghosts · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate Ninja.
zossima · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I was the child of a single mom and would spend a good deal of time at home alone in my middle and high school years while she worked her second and sometimes third jobs. This was in the late 80s/early 90s. I loved baseball and collecting cards. I also loved the game Baseball Stars on the NES. However Baseball Stars was not robust enough to satisfy my appetite for baseball statistics, and I actually (sadly) did not own it. I always played it when visiting friends who DID own it. We just could not afford it.
In particular I ended up with a complete set of 1988 Topps baseball cards. I was obsessed with stats and read all the backs of the cards, memorizing facts and stats with my ample alone time. Eventually that was not enough, so I took some duplicate cards and started designing my own cards with fictitious players, and I would make teams and lineups. Then, I would get a pencil, typically a Dixon Ticonderoga #2, and either marbles or the little blue connector pieces from Construx sets and I would "play baseball" in the living room. Left hand pitcher, right hand batter. I'd sit in one corner and things like the bar dividing the kitchen from the living room would be the left field fence, couch the right field fence, and so on. I tallied stats on legal pads. VERY realistic.
So please don't go thinking I was really keeping detailed stats. Sure I did that part some, but many times this baseball simulation I had going on mostly devolved into home run derby. WHICH WAS AWESOME. Especially when you broke a "bat". I really wish I still had the cards I made because I drew the players and modeled the backs after real cards and in retrospect it at least would have been cute to see now if not artful. Sure passed a lot of time.
PS -- Anyone else play pencil break in elementary school? A whoooole other game.
PPS -- Yes I am still a nerd.
CameronDemortez · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster rain
The_Beast178 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We used to play a game when I was a kid, can't remember what we called it but it had a name. The game was similar to hide and seek in ways but with teams.
Basically there are 2 teams with even amounts of people, and they both go off in different directions of a park, large house etc. And hide from the other team, generally trying to plan out their hiding places and strategy.
Them both teams try to hunt sown the other team while remaining hidden themselves. When someone from the other team is spotted, you immediately point your finger at them (or a toy gun if available) and yell BANG! Thus "killing" them or eliminating them from the game, while also (somewhat) revealing your location to the other team due to the loud noise. This can lead to chain reacrions of people popping out of hiding places and eliminating the person whi just yelled bang. When everyone on one team is eliminated the other team wins. Quite fun.
Some problems occur when people spot eachother at the same time and such, but usually someone said bang first.
Please let me know if anyone knows the name of this game, used to love it
coppish · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Avalanche.
You take all the pillows, blankets, couch cushions, and anything else and stack them at the top of the stairs. There are 2 people up top and 2 people below. You have to try and get to the top of the stairs while they jump onto the stuff knocking it down the stairs. Many times that game went bad, believe it or not.
caitelsa · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would play "Airplane" We would get chairs and line them up like an airplane, get sheets and use brooms and the like to cover the seats like a roof. We would pack suitcases to take as our carry on's and our older sister would make snacks and walk down the aisle as a flight attendant to give us snacks. We would always pretend that we were going to a hot country. Then once we got there, we would put everything away, grab towels, change into swimsuits and play a tropical ocean CD our mom had and pretend we were at the beach.
When you live where its winter for 8 months of the year, you try to make summer last a little longer!
Dpark19 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up (probably not, but we thought we did), a game called "alligator". there was a short three laned slide with a bar across the top, one student was the alligator and three others had to sit in each of the slides holding the bar. The alligators goal was to get a spot on the slide so they had to climb up the slide and grab a foot or leg of someone sitting, then they would have to yank them down or try and slam their legs on the sides of the slide. If a student lost their grip then the alligator got to climb up and take their place. We started this one after our football game called 'jackpot' got banned. Alligator faced the same inevitable fate and was banned. This was north western Canada around 2004-2008.
6K6L · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game on our trampoline that we called Bluetag. Our trampoline had a blue covering for the springs, and if you've ever played sharks and minnows, you have a good idea of how the game worked. Get to one blue part to another without the "it" person touching you. If he did, you became it and had to switch places. Fun game for kids!
BergenCountyJC · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Geometric Golfer on a Macintosh back during 3rd or 4th grade in the mid 90s. Loved the Einstein character you could play with. Still got the music stuck in my head.
nerdynick09 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rubber-band tag in the dark
Steid55 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm with 2 brothers and a sister. We had access to a scary amount of power tools, welders, and just about everything else we needed to cause mayhem.
We used to choose sides and fortify the barn and hog shed and have make shift wars. Best time was when my dad was given a set of golf clubs and we cut the tops off them just and then used the acetylene torch to heat them up and hammer them down into swords.
justanotherreaditacc · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend came up with a game we named 'Backyard Wars'. We would toss a bunch of random throwable objects around his fenced in backyard, start on opposite ends, and when we were ready, would run around grabbing the objects to throw at eachother. The objects included obvious things like tennis balls, basketballs, dog toys, etc... Bonus points for improvising with random things from the natural environment like sticks, walnuts, or anything else you could find.
Turned into a pretty dangerous game, and eventually we got in trouble when we tried to initiate another friend to our ways. We explained everything up front except the part where you could use literally anything you could find. Once the more dangerous things started flying around, he hopped the fence and ran home.
Nasxer · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played a game called Spoons. One at a time you'd go down to the basement and hide a colorful spoon. Once they were all hidden, everyone goes down and it's a mad dash to find someone else's spoon. The last person to find a spoon would be eliminated. Then repeat till you're down to one winner.
VeryRealPerson · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While driving in the car I would pick a dot or smudge on the window and have it jump over things that were in view outside of the car; power lines, houses, trees.
I made the dot jump over stuff by moving my head up and down.
Cdronk · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some kids play cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians. We played holocaust, taking turns at being Jews or Nazi’s. We were like 8 or 9.
graaahh · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I invented a game called Trash Bottle in high school. Our skatepark had trash cans a lot like these, with a small hole at the top and a lid that kind of sloped down towards it, but no lip around the edge to stop things from sliding off. Two of these trash cans were about 15 feet apart from each other under the shelter. So we'd take a water bottle or Gatorade bottle out of the trash, fill it halfway with water, screw the cap on, and each stand behind one of the trash cans trying to throw it in the other's trash can. It was surprisingly hard, but some of the kids got weirdly good at it.
Stoneyloner39 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to live in an apartment complex with neighborhood kids all out all day, so we got together and made up “Halloween”, where someone was Michael Myers (with a broom stick instead of large kitchen knife) and whoever was Michael Myers has to chase and kill us
GloryHoleMurderer · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two older brothers used to tie my hands and legs behind my back and leave me in the attic. They told me it was to make me a better escape artist,but the older I get I’m beginning to realize they probably just wanted me out of the way. I always found a way out though so I suppose it worked.
tallaghtmick · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Ireland we played a game called "IRA"....
2 teams, one team was the IRA who had to chase kids from the other team and literally beat a letter out of them, once all letters are retrieved you had to guess the secret word to win the game.
I can't imagine kids getting away with that anymore!
Bohman731 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would simply try to scare the shit out of each other. One of us would go into the basement with all the lights off and hide while the other person counted out loud to 60. Then you would just simply go into the basement with the light still off and walk around until the other person jumped out and screamed. Did it for hours haha.
yungchaplip · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would go to a grass field with a tennis ball and rackets, and play a game called 2 bounce. Basically, we stood about 40 yards apart, hit the ball as high as we could, then let it bounce twice and hit it back up to the other person. The only rule was that it had to bounce twice. A lot more fun than you’d think. We’d play for hours just trying to beat our high score haha
GGSoapMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Zombie Tag" Gather a group onto the trampoline. The zombie is it and must close their eyes and tag a human by tracking their bounce. The humans cannot leave the trampoline and whoever gets tagged swaps for the zombie. Shenanigans and good times follow.
tortugu88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we had sleepovers, we would play hide and seek in the dark. Our room had a bunkbed and a slide. a lot of bruises were made
Soyamanden · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a very stupid, and 'dangerous' game in our music band.
We would spin a large coin on a table, take turns flicking it with our finger so it would keep spinning, and the one who made the coin fall flat would lose.
If you lost, you had to position your knuckles flat on the table, and the guy who initially spun the coin, would flick-launch the coin into your knuckles.
Alot of techniques were developed to make this as painful as possible, and it ended up with blood on many tables, and several kids running around with severely bruised knuckles.
For some reason, the adults never caught on to it..
zuko94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played ninja. It was like hide an seek, but only one person would hide and the others would seek. The one hiding got a few nerf darts and could use them like throwing knives or use their hand to chop and “kill” the seekers. The seekers each had a nerf pistol to shoot the ninja with. It was a blast
KestrelLowing · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme croquet. No, wait. This was the 90s...
X-TREME CROQUET!!!!!
Our yard wasn't set up very well for regular croquet (my mom has a lot of gardens, etc.), and frankly, regular croquet is extremely boring.
So we'd set up the course to basically be as difficult as possible. Our mom did stop us when we put one of the wickets on the roof of the garage though...
But we regularly put the wickets so that you had to absolutely blast the ball through in order to get it through, some wickets would be in the front yard (only accessible by a slightly down sloping paved driveway), some elevated, etc.
It made croquet far more interesting!
bingboi1275 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my twin played a game called "wash wash" (idk why the hell we called it that) when we were like 5, it was basically throwing a plastic bag in the air and not making it fall down. It was really fun for our simple brains back then
H0rseShat · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple of friends and myself would often pretend to be different Pokemon. We would have battles, using the environment as our battle field and sometimes taking twigs and small pebbles and using them as different "moves". Often my sisters would try to join and we would do doubles. I remember one time we decided that the older kids, (myself and a friend) would be trainers and have my younger sisters as the "Pokemon". Not really unique but it was fun.
joelthezombie15 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this old trampoline from when I was younger that had dry rotted and was of no use but we had all these metal tube pieces laying around from taking it apart.
So my friend and I decided we were going to go drilling for oil and strike that sweet black gold.
Every day for like a week we would go outside and hammer this tube into the ground. But the thing is, we lived in Arizona where the ground may as well be concrete with how dry and hard it is. We got the tube maybe 3 inches deep before my mom found out and yelled at us and made us take it out. But then came the other problem. It was stuck. We tried soaking the ground around it for days to loosen it up, we tried tying ropes to it to remove it. Nothing made that tube budge. We tried for about a month (admittedly most of the trying was actually us playing in the mud).
That was when we were like 9. I'm 22 now and the tube is still stuck in the ground in my parents backyard.
SkeletalSavage · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind nanny. We would choose a huge room and shut off all the lights. The blind nanny was blindfolded and needed to navigate the room and try to find/feel the hiders. The hiders usually ended up hitting the blind nanny with various objects until they finally caught them.
Xylerz · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The ditches on the walk home from the bus stop where very deep and very wide, and would usually freeze over in the winter. The game was pretty much have 2 to 3 kids walk out into the ditch until one or all of us ended up walking home with wet pants.
Prodigyyyyyy · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if this was really “unique” but when I was younger I used to play an army style game where I’d make up a whole story line and play through something “campaign” styled with missions.
I was a big fan of call of duty 4 at the time and played the campaign maybe 10 times over around the time I was 7/8 years old.
My brother would hog the Xbox 360 so I would play in the basement a game where I played through all these different missions where people died, and I legitimately remember crying one time because I was so sad that one of the my squad mates died. That’s where I ended off the campaign and that’s the last of what I remember.
Man I miss my imagination.
Altnob · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically made up an entire RPG on a trampoline and did lots of GETS KNOCKED REALLY FAR BACK moves onto piles of leaves. I don't think we ever beat the last boss.
wrestlejitsu · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad was Marine Force Recon. We would play “markers” where he’d have me stand a certain way and I got different points for marking different places on the body. Didn’t realize I was learning knife fighting techniques until I was much older....
stupid_closet · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock tag. It was the dumbest game ever. The person who was “it” threw rocks at everyone until someone was hit, then that person was “it”. A group of us played in the street where someone’s dad had parked their brand new Cadillac Escalade. That dad was not happy when he had to replace his windshield. We stopped playing that game.
TLDR: kids are stupid.
EustaceChapuys · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At summer camp we played a game called scream and run. Everyone lined up or started on the same line at one end of a soccer field. One by one we ran a far as we could while screaming. You had to stop once you couldn't exhale anymore. The farthest person was claimed the victor.
beefa232 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play haunted house. One person had to leave the room while the other moved furniture, put blankets up, maybe hid, anything to make it ~spooky~. This was all pointless because the lights were then turned off, and the person waiting outside the haunted house came in. The point was to scare each other, but really we just ended up covered in bruises because we would walk into the furniture that had been moved 😂
calibungaboi · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Grandpa would bought my brothers and I ponies and we would have "poop fights" and throw horse shit at each other...
Warboy2435 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No name for it (that I remember.) Basically there was this huge wall separating a lower half and upper half of a my school. We had a really and I mean really bouncy kick ball and me and I would end up kicking it across the wall to go to the upper half. After a while 5 or 10 kids joined in and we made it a game.
LieutenantUnderpants · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to play a game with us as kids, that he now plays with my younger nieces & nephews. The game is called “silent robots” and consists of very quietly pouring water over rocks. Typically this game is played when other adults are trying to get some sleep during our large family reunions.
Milothedog11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to play tag but the twist was that you couldn’t touch the ground so we had to climb around the big jungle gym that we had. We also created some “modes” where some of the rules were changed.
rezamwehttam · 1 points · Posted at 16:11:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pinecone baseball, and pinecone dodgeball.
Pinecone baseball: much like baseball, but with a pinecone and a catch. The goal of the pitcher is to hit the guy holding the bat...the batter has to stand still and has only the bat to protect himself with. The third guy (there were three of us hellions) had to catch the pinecone after the batter hit it, or retrieve it before the pitcher did. If the batter hit the pinecone, he swapped with whoever was successful in getting the pinecone, otherwise he would swap with the outfield guy. The outfield guy became the new batter, or pitcher if he retrieved the pinecone first. The original pitcher was demoted to batter if the outfield caught the pinecone, or became the outfield guy if the batter hit the pinecone. You earned 2 points for hitting the batter, and one point for avoiding the pinecone if you're the batter.
Pinecone dodgeball. One of us climbed into the tree while the other two tried to hit the climber with pinecones. I dont really remember the objective of this game, other than to beat each other up with pinecones. Whenever the climber escaped to the ground, it would be a new person's turn to climb the tree
El_Nasty · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play games based off horror movies. We would copy 13 Ghosts and we'd pick which ghost we'd want to be, we'd also play Saw and just tie each other up and see if we can escape in two minutes. We were weird kids
arly803 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me." - one of your friends, probably.
Yimter · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suicide! Anyone else play this? Where you throw a tennis ball at a wall (for me and my brothers/friends it was our garage door) and you have to run up and touch the wall before someone else picks up the ball and throws it at the wall. And if you bobble the ball, you have to run to the wall before someone throws the ball at it. If you fail to make it to the wall three times before the ball hits the wall, you have to stand up against the wall and someone gets to whip the ball at you as hard as they can.
TheLogicalCow · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sled wars, we would line up our sleds in our backyard (it was sloped a tiny bit. Don’t recommend doing this on a big steep hill) and we would get a running start and then jump on the sled and try and wrestle each other off or “hijack” each others sleds by umping on the other persons. We were bundled up in lots of layers and the hill wasn’t too steep so we were safe. Fun game and we played for hours almost everyday.
haloglitch · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my uncle would wrestle and eventually our clothes would come off, it was weird.
ClutchWaffles · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Death Sled. One big touring style snow machine, a 4 foot by 12 foot industrial sized sled, about 8 guys. All 8 start in the sled, the driver starts moving and then mayhem begins. Driver will keep doing loops while the combatants try and throw each other off the moving sled. If you get thrown off, you try and jump back on the moving sled on the next pass. Brownie points if you could clear the entire sled like the Samoans did. Helmets were banned by year 2. At the peak, we had close to 20 guys playing. Once a year while on a huge snow machine trip up in Alaska growing up.
crookededge92 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game in the pool called PTDK aka "Push the Drowning Kid". It was basically hot potato but underwater. We had a pool at a friend's house that had a volleyball net. One person would be "the kid". The rest of us were on teams on each side of the net. The kid went into form of cannonball and held their breath as long as they could as the rest of us would push and kick the kid moving him onto the other side. Whichever side the kid came up on was the loosing team, and the other team got a point.
SaltySeaDog14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was probably pretty common since I think it was on Zoom or something, but I made a game out of a pizza box with toliet paper tubes cut in half to make tunnels. I would have a main marble which would try to get through each tube by tilting the box and every "level" I would add another marble and if those enemy marbles touched my marble i would lose. Kind of like a Pac-Man game.
Yudysseus · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During middle school years, my parents were always cool with my friends hanging out and spending the night at our apartment.
So we developed this game during the late nights of sleepover where we would: - Clear our the furniture in my room to the side - Strategically lay pillows on the ground - Wrap ourselves in a heavy blanket each - Turn the lights off - And just wail on each other, whoever we could find we would beat. It was in the dark so it was impartial. Or at least that’s what we told ourselves.
Yes we were all boys.
m0lson · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wood Chips"
Location: Playground One person is “it” and stands in the middle of the wood chips (sand or other playground "ground material") blind folded. Everyone else is on the playground equipment to start. The people that not "IT" can then go on the wood chips but if the person that’s “it” calls “Wood Chips!” while they are on the wood chips, they are then “it”.
This is the cool part. If more than one person is on the wood chips when they call “Wood Chips!”, it is settled by Rock Paper Scissors.
Too_Much3699 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hut Hut"
Me and a buddy or two on a trampoline would tackle the shit out of each other. One person was on their knees tackling and the other would run along the edge.
Another between my sisters and I would "booty bump."
You could only use your ass or hips to knock each other off the trampoline. Idk how we didn't break a hip or leg from flying off.
The same trampoline, after many years, turned into a "potato chip" and one person would stand on the lower end while another jumped off the roof of our garage and launch the other in the air.
Fun times.
Colossalq · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cut the Turkey's Toes off"
Essentially tag, but instead of tag, you had to try and smash the other peoples feet with a broom. There was bases that kept you safe for a small amount of time.
We weren't very creative, but definitely weird at naming things...
allicay · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa and i used to play “Tarzan” out in the Weeping Willow. He would lift me up to “swing” on the vines and push me on the “twisty swing” which was a toilet lid attached to a rope hanging from the tree. When we got tired, we would enjoy a snack of Tiger Paws (barbecue potato chips). He was the best. Miss you grandpa.
NaucMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can. Basically hide and seek, but it must be played at night and instead of tagging a person when you found them, you called them out of their hiding space then the two of you must race to a paint can, and if the person who was it kicked it over you were out, but if the hider jumped over it you were safe.
xXMylord · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my pastor played tickle games
SparkStorm · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had 3 elementary school friends and at point we declared different parts of the shrubbery and outdoor furniture like statues and benches a kingdom.
Each of us had one object in the corner of the playground that was our kingdom. I had the cloud kingdom which was designated by the taller shrubs next to one of those water statues
Then we would debate on diplomacy war and laws. We had to declare our populations, our land size and other information. If we wanted more population you had to get more we had to wage war to get more land so we could expand.
ultowich · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this extremely dangerous game called the “tire game”. It involves, as you may have guessed, a tire that would be rolled down the hill, a chalk pit type thing (quite steep), by the roller.
There was a tree just to the right of the main pathway that had a rope swing attached to just above the pathway. The goal was for the swinger to swing down in the direction the tire was going at the perfect time so they wouldn’t get hit by the tire, what made it dangerous was at the top of the arc it was about 3 metres above the ground. Which meant that if you were hit by the tire as it was bouncing and lost your grip you would fall off at a decent height. At the end of the slope was a jumper and two stoppers, the jumper was supposed to jump over the fast rolling tire, and the stoppers tried to hit the tire with sticks to make it stop.
The only known injuries were me who was hit and flipped over by the rolling tire as I was the jumper. And my friend’s brother who was thrown off the swing as he was hit by the tire as it hit a root. Not serious injuries but both of us were winded and they damaged our pride.
Mccolleen82 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Family of 6 kids, in the 80's. We'd pick someone to wear my mum's old, tattered fur coat, and that kid would walk around the house like a hairy zombie, chanting "hum sum a rum" in slow motion.
Once you are found by the hairy zombie person you were out of the game.
I'm not entirely sure, but I believe the chant and costume was inspired by the evil characters in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Hours of fun.
Intensemicropenis · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and sisters and I played a game where we charged at each other and jumped up and rammed each other with our shoulders as hard as we could. Somehow it was amazingly fun.
TheRealCammz · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school they was a game called ‘kiss chase’ and yes it is as bad as it sounds. Basically boys would go against girls and girls would go against boys and one gender would be ‘it’. I didn’t participate myself but I heard the game got banned for safety regulations since they tried to kiss the lips. Some parents got super mad as well since a kid kind of got assaulted while not playing the game. It was just an excuse to kiss their crushes lmao.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My imagination was incredible I would build worlds around myself depending on if i could go outside and play or if it was rainy. If i was over a friends house then we would play the ditch game. Where we would run up and down the ditch and try jumping over it doing "cool tricks".
KF5NXN · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to (and I guess still do) play a game where we would give each other “points” to do random or funny things in public. The points system was kind of like “Whose Line is it Anyway?” in the sense that it was all made up and the points don’t matter. It was always for ridiculous stuff that we’d never do, and was I guess our own ridiculous way of saying “wouldn’t it be funny if...”
MartyrSSB · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvin Ball
xX_TeAcH_Xx · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Footskit ball. Football on a basketball court essentially. A low scoring affair.
Chromosome_Cowboy · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played a game we called “Spinners” where you essentially make a T pose and just spin around hitting each other. There wasn’t really any goal other than trying to wack anybody that got close.
sonny_goliath · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother were alone in a hotel room for some wedding when we were probably 7 and 11 years old or so. Somehow we created this game called El Kabobs (some weird mishearing of “el kabong” from quick draw McGraw which was on tv lol) in which we would put our forehead on the carpet and slide across the floor on all fours and race around.
jmh082016 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I already posted one thing but there was another one... My brother and our friends use to play a game called "car crash". We would gather up all of our hot-wheels, stand on opposite ends of the pool table, then we would roll our hot-wheels across the pool table and crash them together. If your car flipped over and the other was still standing you lose. We would have 10 cars on each team and the first one to flip all of their cars over is the loser.
We slowly discovered which cars were the hardest to flip and our teams got crazy good.
McBurger · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stare out the window on car trips and imagine a super fast man running along side the road doing flips and parkour over the obstacles we drive past
kupalurk-yt · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am a child and I play this at school, you basically put your hand together with someone else’s and slap their hand till one person pussys out
shorts_onfire · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I don't have a name for it. But if I had to name it now, 'Demon Pool Children' would be very apt.
Super simple premise. We used to live in a condo with an Olympic worthy pool. One person (the Victim) basically clings on to the side of the pool and tries to hang on. The other two would grab hold of the Victim's ankles and pull him/her along the length of the pool.
All this while the three of us would be screaming and laughing at the top of our lungs.
meesterfahrenheit · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a plastic surgery game with my brother. Basically I would lay down face up on the couch and my brother would do surgery on my face. Like cut, stitch, etc but only using his hands. Basically I was just getting a face massage lol
king_jm · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother didn't know the rules of poker, so when we were 15 and 14 we made up some game called 'Bank' where we each put down some cards and the highest combined value of those cards wins, and whoever wins a round gets to choose the number of cards played next round. Also, if you get a joker card you instantly win that round. The reveals were always so intense, because we would always try and bait each other into thinking we had better cards than the other. I'm sure a similar game exists somewhere, but we thought we were geniuses playing that.
Kelcius · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"On the run", it was basically tag but over a couple blocks so we'd just run through anyone's gardens meaning you had to avoid getting caught by the homeowners and the kids who were "it" at the same time! Double adrenaline kick!
toastshop · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
put apples in shoes and leave them in the middle of the road to get hit by cars
Another good game for kids on the road is the 'rope game', you and someone else wait for a car to come, then run into the middle of the road, mime like you're picking up a rope, and then mime like you're each holding it tight on either side of the road. When the car slows down, you both win.
ColddHandss · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my younger brother would sneak out of a house without anyone seeing and try to get back in without anyone seeing
tortugu88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I slept over at my friends house, her dad would play this game called fried eyeballs and he would chase us for an hour around their house screaming he’s going to get our eyeballs
MizuiroNo · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in second grade, I invented a game I liked to call "Butterflies and Caterpillars". I have no clue what the rules were (if there were any to begin with) but half the kids would act like caterpillars and another half would act like butterflies. Whatever that meant.
It really caught on for a solid 2 days and nobody even knew how to play it
behxx · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would play “hand ball”. Basically we would sit on the ground on opposites side of the room and we’d hit this tennis ball sized squishy ball with the palm of our hand back and forth. The objective was to get a goal on the other opponents side.
Inara_Seraph · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We loved dungeon keeper as a kid, so we would carve out dungeons in the dirt and our minions would be various hot wheels. Then we'd have invading hot wheels try to fight their way to the dungeon heart. In winter we didn't use hot wheels but making dungeons was a lot more fun in the snow than the dirt. We'd also use Knex and Legos to make dungeons indoors. To clarify they were 2d dungeons, viewed from above, so a wall would just be represented by a long grey piece.
Tubbykustard · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother use to play the very first Sims a lot when we were younger. Our Uncle gave us a bin of over 5,000 pieces of Legos so we would create a capitalist game of Sims with Legos where we used monopoly money to purchase bricks, land, and vehicles. We would make money buy working jobs or owning businesses.
We started by building the city and then allowing each other to dig through the bin and keep whatever we find in the first 2 minutes. I remember I use to have a lot of Harry Potter sets which came with gems and whoever found the gems could sell them for a good amount of money.
the_taco_baron · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would see who could last in the dryer longer
cavejen · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had polio as a kid so his legs didn't work, but he had a super strong upper body as a result of walking on crutches all day.
So we (my brother and I) would play the "Arm Game" where my dad lay down on the floor and we sat on his arms, and he'd try to lift us up. When we were little it was easy, but even when we were teenagers he could lift us up (I'd guess we stopped playing it as pre teens, but sometimes for nostalgia as teenagers we'd test it out).
I imagine he would have had a killer bench press :)
rudyeet · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
fuckin Mario kart wii
areraswen · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a weeping willow in our yard and we'd gather all the litter from our yard and use the willow to catapult it into the streets.
BlueGreenReddit · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would grab a thick quilt or two and use them to slide down the steps from 2nd story to the first floor.
situations_13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Light Game” my dad and I would stand on opposite sides of the garage doors. We would take turns taking a step towards the center where the motion sensor outdoor light was mounted. Whoever made the light turn on lost.
TeMagicMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was going to name a Nintendo game not many people liked. Never mind.
Elephant_ears · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, my grandparents lived two hours away from us. We would travel to visit every other weekend. Being children, my sister and I got bored easily. We played this game we didn’t have a name for. You had to count the cows on our own sides of the car from the time we left our house until we made it to our grandparents. If I looked on my sister’s side and spotted a cemetery, then all her cows died and she would have to start over and vice versa. Whoever had the most cows at the end won. Pretty sure this was just something my dad made up.
Aslonz · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in middle school a friend and I came up with our own card game where we would draw characters on paper, come up with moves, and rules. It was pretty neat.
Edit: it was like poor people magic without mana or spells.
d_rickards · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murderball...I went to an all boys school. We had uniforms (black shoes, grey pants, blue blazer, white shirt and tie) that we had to wear at all times on campus unless we were in gym class or sports.
The side of one building had no windows, and the ground sloped upwards away from the foundation creating a quasi amphitheatre that was about 20 feet across and 30 feet deep.
We would take a tennis ball and throw it against the wall. If someone caught it before it bounced or you bounced the throw you had to run and touch the wall and the person who caught it could throw at you as hard as they wanted.
If someone intercepted your throw at the wall or the runner then you had to stand against the wall and that person got a free throw at your head.
Probably not that unique...but I just envision all the parents showing up to see us in our uniforms playing this game. The "future leaders" that we were being groomed to be were absolutely going wild trying to pick eachother off with a dirty tennis ball.
napkin21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In girl guides my friends and I developed this game we liked to call Germs. We would stand in a line and hold hands. And one person would be the head germ. They would then get to lead the line of germs and whip to line around as we all screamed “Bacteria” At some point the lead germ would yell “switch” and another person would step up to become head germ. Another aspect of the game is that loose germs would be standing around and had to avoid the germ train. If the germ train hit that person trying to avoid them they would have to join the train.
It was fun and all but it got so violet that our guiding leaders had to ban the game.
prettehkitteh · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to make up whole stories with our beanie babies, going on adventures, falling in love, getting into battles, etc. We had main characters we played with all the time (Sly, Stinky, Hissy, all of the cats) and side characters that we didn't like as much but would come in to shake things up sometimes.
jjbeanface · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trashketball.
You put a basketball in a big black trash bag and swing it around. The rest of the rules are like a mix between football and basketball. You sling toss the ball(in the bag) to a team mate and you can’t move while you have it. Other team can try to intercept, or recover fumbles. You have to get to one end of the field and catch the ball to score.
adequacyenhanced · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The 'sleeping bag game'. It was played in a small room, and the person who was 'it' had a sleeping bag on upside down so that they're completely blind and have to move slowly. They had to bounce around the room trying to tag the other people who would make noises and try to bait then evade them. It was basically a way to play Marco Polo with a tiny room and no blindfold.
OneHundredKilometers · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Super tag”
Basically tag with about 15 people, baseball bats, golf balls, and bikes. My brother’s first concussion.
lagrexx · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not exactly unique, but we used to beat the fuck out of the big family teddy bear.
DaltonH28 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Roll-uh, roll-uh. You lay a big blanket on the floor, 2 people lay down on the edge across from each other and you rolled up quickly towards each other. Whoever could roll up the most blanket eventually pulling the other person out won. Sometimes matches would go on for a half hour.
thejapanfan · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mid 80s at my primary school. The entire playground used to play a game called Steam. Boys and girls would separate into two groups, the girls would stand in front of a corner in the yard. The boys would shout STEAM!! and run into the girls, squashing about 30-40 of us into this corner with their bodies. The teachers banned it. It was basically boys rubbing their bodies against girls who were trapped against the wall. We fought back though, and I do remember enjoying playing it. It didn't end when it was banned, it kept on being played in smaller groups on the sly; that ended up being a bit scary because you didn't know it was coming until you got steamed.
weedmane · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called The Slide Game. Picture a playground with a slide similar to this. 5 or 6 of us would go to the top and attempt to go down the slide together all at once, fighting our way through, wrestling and trying to hold each other back or knock each other off over the side, with the goal of being the first one down to the bottom. There were different strategies like lining up in back and going over the top of the awning or using your leg for leverage to stop and block the slide and try to force people over the side. Even then we knew it was dumb but we had so much fun doing it. I'm in my 30's now and I still occasionally wish I could play it.
squiddles97 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and my cousins played a town game. Everyone had a job and we had money witch was some poker chips. We had a person that owned a food shop, a police officer, and a banker and some other jobs and it was a lot of fun.
SeaRaven1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid I used to play a game called “gato meow” which translates to “cat meow” (I don’t know why it’s called this). The game is essentially Marco Polo but is in a small room with all the lights turned off. With the lights off the seeker had no way of cheating if the tried to peak but also the hiders had no way of seeing where all the furniture in the room was or the other people. Which made the game 10x more fun than normal Marco Polo
mashingButtonsWildly · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is specific to Japan but their license plates are 4 digits, like 13-97.
Whenever we would drive around, wed look out for mirrors (80-08) and straights (77-77). There were also wildcards in the form of dots (..-.7) and youd call out the license plate first and hit the roof. If you did it first, everyone else either... removed a piece of clothing or youd hit them. It didnt have a name except the get naked license plate game.
Oh and I had an 80-08 license plate so everyone would call it out when they saw me
sleepingdragon80 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad's side of the family got together a lot. We were only a few hours drive apart but every labor day and fourth of July we would all go to my grandparents house and play and eat and live there for a 3 day weekend. We're talking 30 kids and 6 sets of adults. It was a blast. They have a ton of land with a little of everything from a pine Forest and a playhouse to a long grass prairie and a mowed grassy space. So of course we played Nazis. It was usually me and 3 cousins as the bad Germans vs like 15-20 good guys and they would hunt us down and capture us and tie us up in the play house where the too little ones would feed us mud pies to pretend to eat or puzzle weed spaghetti or grass tea. Was a ton of fun. Looking back everyone except me and my sister are all blue eyed and blonde haired little Aryan Master race so that lends an extra funny cast :) We also played a game over my grandpa's she'd called Annie Annie over where we split into 2 teams and stood on either side. One would get the ball and call "Annie Annie over!" And Chuck it right over the top. The other team had to catch it before it hit the ground. If they did we would switch sides. But no one would say if it was caught they would just appear around the she'd and whoever got hit by the ball thrown by the other team had to join that team. The winner was chosen by whoever had the most players at the end. If it did hit the ground they called out pig tailes and we'd know we were safe. I really like that game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had no mates to play with so I would throw a cricket ball on a wall less in width and then try to hit it with my bat. Although it sounds wierd this improved my bowling accuracy and my reaction time in batting. This was unique game I played as a child.
lifeishardasfuck · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i was poor, we had rock fights, and the floor is lava for when it was raining
freakcoder · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trip. The goal was to trip the other person. That was the whole game. We had boundaries you couldn't cross to make it harder to get away. My older brother loved this game. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
sayajii · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play dragon fights with my fingers . Middle finger finger as the head , thumb and pinky finger as wings , and rest two as legs. Lol it was fun.
Proponentofthedevil · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play this thing called “The Game” which we shortened to “T.G.”
We had a bunch of beanie babies that we played with during our adventure as Trunks and Gohan. It didn’t follow the series what so ever. It was essentially us playing Dragonball Z mixed with Pokémon (the beanie babies). It was part adventure, part comedy, part drama as this insane life unfolded. We’d play different parts for each other, like the dad or whoever. It was a saga that lasted from the time we were 7 til we were 12.
I’ve never really told anybody about it until now.
williambentoniv · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My brother and I would play this game while waiting for the bus in the mornings. In Autumn while the leaves were falling off the trees we would take turns running around collecting as many falling leaves as we could before they reached the ground. Whoever had the most when the bus got to our house won.
Windy days made it much more interesting
You_Too_Are_A_Bitch · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ditch-a-fat. Basically fruit ninja with a machete or hatchet and rotten avocados.
SubbrowserV2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game my friends, brother and I would play when we got together, we called it "lock-out" 2 people locked out of the house, every door/window locked except for 1. The people had to find the 1 unlocked entry, which changed when the people inside got bored. Lots of fun times making it to the second floor.
u_4ik · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My and my brother use to take baths together when we were three years old. We had this game where we would use our big toe and second big toe to wedge each other’s penises in between our toes and yank it as if pulling a pigs tail. Not sure why we found it so funny
bloodflart · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would sit in chairs towards each other, and we had a broken off piece of nunchaku that we would throw from across the room and try to hit the other guy in the nards
dimaswonder · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does with my uncle count?
Recycled-michael · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would lay pillows on the floor and run on them while trying not to step on the ground and in the pool we’d play “ninja warrior” (based off the original Japanese version that would play on G4) and we put floats in the pool of different sorts of shapes and sizes and try to run across the pool on top of these floats. I’m not sure how nobody got hurt in that pool.
Arnav_Motwani · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played something called ping the bed pong, basically it was like ping pong (table tennis) but the ball rolled on the bed and you could pick it up and smash it at the opponents. It seems stupid now but it was fun. We also had challenges and stuff like that
RelentlessZ · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snail mail 😂
walkingthedinosaurs · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hat head - someone had to put a bunch of felt hats over their head, down far enough to cover their eyes and feel around for the other people (my friend and sister) in a room with the lights off to tag them as the new hat head.
courtesy_flush_plz · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake 🎂 day!
life_is_a_fun_game · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
not quite a unique game, more of a past time, but when i was growing up in rural China (now residing in the UK), we used to make fishing rods out of thin tree branches, piece of string and a hook fashioned out of anything metallic, and then go worming before going fishing for anything & everything in the Yangtze River! :)
InfiniteDew · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GRAPE WARS! My brother and I would get some grapes and run around the house blasting each other with them. They didn’t hurt enough to be dangerous, but they hit just hard enough to be satisfying.
My parents hated grape wars.
RoosterCogburn18 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Torch tag was one of our favorites games, I grew up in the country and at night we would all hide around the fields and climb trees etc, the person who was it would have to shine a torch at you and then you were it, sounds lame but we had a blast, simpler times
SladerMoreLikeTator · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it A.I.D.S.
I was a mixture of soccer and dodgeball I guess? All players would stand in a circle and without using hands (soccer rules), you had to pass the ball around. After the third consecutive pass, it became a free for all. Whoever grabbed the ball would throw it at another player, or if it hit the ground, the ball was dead. If it hit the other player, they would get a letter (AIDS) and if they caught it, they lost a letter or gave you one.
LVKiller420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drinking 90210 or Drinking nhl hockey. For anyone interested on how we played, let me know and I will explain
StashKetchum · 1 points · Posted at 16:13:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and some of my friends came up with a little game called “Jumpman”. It’s help tag, but instead of just tagging the person, you had to tackle them and basically beat them up. Nothing more than a little horseplay.
SillyMisterHorse · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crock pot Land. My older sister would send myself and the younger cousins on scavenger hunts for snacks and toys (mom definitely played along). We grew up on 11 acres and half was wooded. Everything seemed a lot bigger back then. If we got distracted or frustrated my sister would "punish" us by making us run in circles or be spun on the tree swing or have to catch a frog to get back in the game. These adventures would take all and at the end we would go inside and my mom would feed us with Mac and cheese or stew... anything out of a crock pot. Hence Crock pot land.
c-rock13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play a game called “Light on lights off”.
The premise was pretty simple, we would turn the lights off and beat the shit out of each other until someone went to turn the lights on. When the lights turned on, everyone froze. Laughter would always ensue because you would see someone getting strangled, or someone being held over one of the bigger kids heads about to be thrown on the sofa.
There were no winners, but the loser was the first one to cry.
RohypnolJunkie · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"souls". My brother and I made this tracing card type game when we were kids. I don't remember many, or any, of the rules. Probably weren't many rules because we were kids.
tom_roberts_94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Step dad would kick a ball onto the roof, the four of us sibling would run around the gardens with plastic chairs and had to stop and sit when he kicked it.
When the ball rolled off the roof and bounced, if it touched you at all then you were out
milkrandom · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m sure most kids played some variation of this, but we would go into our basement, overturn furniture and other large items and place them about the room randomly. We would then split into two teams and divide all of the beanie babies we had between ourselves. After we did that the teams started on opposite ends of the room, someone turned the lights off so it was dark and we snuck around the obstacles trying to peg each other with the beanie babies. I still have my beanie babies somewhere in case the opportunity to break that game out shows itself.
bongripafart · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We used to have this game called tripper we’d play at recess in elementary school where you’d pick one person to stand in the middle of these huge sandboxes we had at our elementary school and everyone else would line up at one side of the sand box. You’d then have everyone sprint from the one side of the sandbox to the other and the person in the middle would have to try and trip people. If you got tripped, you’d have to join the original tripper and stand in the middle and be an additional tripper for the rest of the game. So every round there would be more and more trippers and the winner would be the last person un-tripped. It was a very violent game that consisted of kicking the shit out of people trying to trip them. Eventually it got banned and we couldn’t play tripper and more so we started just calling it random names until they just almost banned recess completely.
whimsy_nibba · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would go into the woods and throw logs up into the trees to see who could knock down the most branches
neenamonners · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was very little, ~4, after a bath I would hold my towel like it was wings and I would run around the house naked and screeching and insisting I was a battra-bat. There were two types of battra-bats, battra-bat B’s and battra-bat D’s. It was immensely entertaining to me and probably a pain in the ass for my parents.
As for my boyfriend, he and his friends would catch wasps in those little pokéballs that had a spring hinge and throw them at each other so wasps would pop out.
ridebikeseatfood · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers use to play this game where they would hold me hostage with their air soft guns and if I tried to leave or do anything they would shoot me. Wasn’t really a game for me but pretty sure they had a good time.
HoomanGoood · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With a friend we used to play with a tennis ball and a wood stick, we had to put goals to win. There was some basic rules inspired from soccer like corners or throw-in.
Not very unique I guess but pretty fun !
PKMNTrainerDiamond · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called parasite. It was essentially hide and seek, plus tag, plus it was in the dark. Also if you got tagged you became it as well so you kept playing until there was only one person left.
Rirordan · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a young child, whenever we were walking in a large parking lot like Walmart, my mother would hold my hand and then start yanking me around everywhere like she was constantly changing her mind on which direction she wanted to walk in. That way she kept me both entertained and safe at the same time
She never yanked me towards anyone driving, but I've definitely hit a few parked cars
FunkyFlapjax · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would each pick some of the Xmen trading cards from back in the day and fight bad guys using the powers from the cards we chose. Sort of Yu-gi-oh style, but we summoned them into ourselves.
ceasarsalz · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play the "blind game." We would blindfold each other so that there was no light entering our eyes at all, then spin each other around and pick each other up and take them somewhere in the house. Now that you are disoriented and have no idea where you are, you are given a task like "put a glass of milk in the microwave" or something to that effect. Your job was to feel around with your hands to try to figure out where you are in the house, how you are oriented, and how to get where you're going. We had gotten bored of playing hide and seek and such so it was a fun game to challenge our mind's picture of the inside of our house/the arrangement of the furniture. It started out as a very difficult game, but it did not stay that way for long. Our mind's are very good at creating new images with new sensory information.
Zeldalynn · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, my friend, and I played "Freaky Game" where we were being chased by a serial killer. We would start in a basic house set up, then have to drop everything and try to escape.
The house where I grew up was a back split, so it had a huge crawl space somewhat divided into rooms under the front of the house. There was an old twin mattress on the floor, a lamp we no longer used, pieces of leftover linoleum to cover the cement floor. Very atmospheric.
One time we were back in our crawl space hideaway and the power went out just as the serial killer was breaking in. Pitch blackness. Then my mother opened the creaky door to check on us.
We screamed.
lebrawnjames69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called shrimping season. We played it in order to get ready for shrimping season of course (none of us were going shrimping). Anyways, the entire game was we would all stand in a circle, about 7 of us, and punch the person in the arm to your right. Definitely got us ready for the toughness of shrimping.
jpdonelurkin · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carpet football with subbuteo goals & ball but with Mask action figures.
nomoreloorking · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
German spotlight. Played late at night. Group starts on one end of the yard and tries to get to the other end all while the “German Spotlight” was scanning the darkness with a flashlight at the same rate and speed side to side. Kids just running and diving into bushes and behind walls. ‘‘Twas intense.
YellowExpresso · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eat My Booty Daddy!
VonBrewskie · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"THE QUEST." It started as my friend Adam and I climbing across all of the backyard fences that were interconnected through our backyards. It was pretty great. There was all this ivy everywhere and rats lived down there. There was a semi-serious risk if you fell in. These fences went all the way from one block to another, totally interconnected, over some small hills, a couple of much taller wrought iron fences you had to climb over, and then? THOR. At a point near the other side of the block, there was a house where a "dragon" lived. Thor was a huge, beautiful Rottweiler dog. Very defensive of his home. We had to climb one of those wrought iron fences then scramble across a small patch of open ground to get to the last fence on the other side. The game was to be as quiet as possible. Sneak down, get to the fence before Thor heard you. Needless to say, there were some close shaves. It was a favorite Saturday afternoon activity.
HomeworldGem · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play cops and robbers in Halo.
hungryhungry-hippos · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon. My neighbor friends and my brother and I would pretend we had Pokemon and then would go out in the woods looking for new Pokemon. When we would find one we would try to catch it. We would also battle eachother. I found a big round Rock and pretended it was a Pokemon egg I was going to hatch.
Also, we spent a lot of time playing Lord of the Rings. Even though I'm a girl I had long blonde hair so I was always Legolas. I would find curved branches and take them home and take off all the bark and sand it for hours. Then tie a string to it and it was my bow. I also foind a kick ass grey cloak thing at the Goodwill. The boys would all find sticks to be swords. Then we would go on adventures in the woods. When I was about 13 my cloak went missing. Looking back I think my mom got rid of it because she was really worried I was a weird kid or a lesbian or something, and was always trying to force me to be more normal and popular. I wish I still had that cloak cause it was the coolest my my kids would love it. And it was perfect for hide and seek in the dark.
Ericabneri · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a baseketball league!!
yarghmatey · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My cousins and I played basement soccer, on roller skates, using an enormous bouncy ball. It was played 1 on 1, points scored by hitting the opponents wall, no catching or holding the ball. Miraculously no one was ever injured, though we would get yelled at for the noise the ball made slamming into exposed pipes!
ETA: Another game we played was "Stupid Co Pictures". We took turns playing client and artist. The client would request some sort of reasonable design or image, and the artist would draw them something ridiculous and insulting. When the client protested, the artist would berate and insult them. I have no idea what the point was, but we would be in tears laughing at our dumb drawings and mock arguments.
Orangedoge1515 · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play the “Waiter” game which involved me as a 8 year old boy dressing up in my Grandmothers clothing and getting drink orders from everyone at family gatherings...
Fear_Dulaman · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would shoot an arrow into the air and whoever could put his foot closest where it would land got a point. I can't believe we never got impaled.
Loppoli · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called Potty Pigeon on Commodore 64. The game title is pretty self-explanatory. You're a pigeon and you get points by crapping on a bunch of things (e.g. cars, people, other birds). I played this game a lot and the concept of this game still makes me smile today.
dikupu · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was in elementary school, so all involved were about 6-7.
Being so young and not understanding why boys and girls had weird feelings for each other, we invented this game where the girls chase the boys. However, the boys decided to really rub in our faces whenever we couldn’t catch them, or when we did catch them, saying “what’re you gonna do now?”
I don’t exactly know why, but the game was from then on that the girls would chase the boys and try to scratch them with their nails. Back of the neck specifically. Now my memory is a little fuzzy because this was a long time ago, but for whatever reason this was accepted by all parties, and the boys named this game “Meat Eater Puppies”.
I was the leader of the girls since I was the fastest and the first one to be playing the game, so for a few months I basked in the glow of being a leader of a 6year old army. Until one day the boys caught me and held me down against my will, and no matter how much I struggled they didn’t let go. So I bit one of them on the hand. Then finally the teachers were alerted and it all came to their attention that this game was going on. I got in trouble but not that much, and meat eater puppies was no more.
TLDR; girls chase boys, boys catch girl, girl bites boy, girls no longer chase boys.
the_mighty_moon_worm · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Screwgee ball. It was baseball, but with a kickball so we'd be able to play in our small back yard without breaking windows.
We also used to go off to the junkyard, get old mattresses, screen doors, etc. Then build forts out of them and throw dirt clods at each other. I thought this was unique, but after many conversations about it with many different people from all walks of life I am now positive this this something all young boys do, or should be doing, during their adolescence.
SrAmoeba · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a very big doll as a kid that was bigger than me at the time. One day I invited my friend over to play, we had already grown out of our doll phase but were still kids. My friend was really into makeup and decided we should make the doll pretty, so we did. But we had a lot more fun making her ugly. This went on for a long time until there was no more place in her face to draw. So we did the obvious, we started to draw on her body.
We got really wild, we stabbed her open and filled her with leaves and flowers but it kept falling out so we closed it with a menstrual pad. We stabbed her face and put a lego head in the hole to serve as a pimple, tied her legs together, tattooed her and all manner of hideous things. We were little psychos but man it was fun.
hoptimus-prime · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll consider myself a "child" as we were in college.
My friend and I developed a game called "FrisTree". The goal of the game was to throw a frisbee and try to deflect off a tree limb, trunk, branch, etc. Each successful deflection netted additional "points", but the person being thrown to had to catch it for it to count (you can see the glaring issue here lol). We never really kept track of points, it was more the thrill of how many deflections you can get in a single throw.
INF3RN1TY · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HAPPY CAKE DAY
drywrecker87 · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zoopla, basically IT but you say Zoopla instead of it
manwhowasnthere · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I had a game we just called "the Hill Game"
Guy at the top of a small hill throws a football, whoever catches it has to return it back up the hill to score - meanwhile everyone else is goin for your knees. There were some spectacular hits, and usually both parties would go ass-over-heels back down the hill, with everyone else chasing them. It didn't matter who caught the ball, it only mattered who could control it long enough to return it to the thrower at the top.
We never really kept score and nobody ever won - it was more of a framework for us to beat the shit out of eachother lol
garytyrrell · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Usually just make up little challenges for myself involving throwing balls around the house. Can I throw a tennis ball from the hallway to the kitchen without it bouncing on the hardwood? Can I "dribble" a plush ball against the wall and get from my parents' room to my room in 4 steps?
MK2Marc · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's this game in Ireland (or where I'm from at least) called Castle Reigh where 1 team would pick a number corresponding to the amount people. For example, if there was 4 people you could say 'cake' then you disperse the letters amongst the team. Then another team would beat up the number team to try and get the letters and make the word.
antonylockhart · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At school, we used to play, Dead Mans Fall
Basically the players all stood at the top of a high in the playground and one person at the foot, was the executioner. You’d have to choose a method of being killed, for example being blown up with a hand grenade, or even just falling on a banana skin. You would then try “die” in the most elaborate fashion to get down the hill. The executioner judged who was best, and the winner got to be the executioner on another round.
Mad fun
MegaDoomerX3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Blitz," was a variation on indoor football -- another game me and a friend made as kids -- that was like 1-on-1 football with wrestling rules. Essentially, you'd start out like a normal football game of offense vs. defense. The offensive player could throw the ball and catch it off the first bounce. Touchdowns were one point. No extra points. If you got tackled, you weren't down until you said you were down or tapped out. Submission holds were legal. If the ball came out of the offense's possession while on the ground it was always a fumble. I once turned my entire right shoulder black from bruising playing this game and lost like twenty pounds in a week.
RealStumbleweed · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would pretend that we had a bank. We would take all of the monopoly money and stick it up on our dining room table along with some notepads pencils paper etc. and pretend we were bankers. By the time we got it set up my mom usually needed the dining room table to serve dinner or it was time to do something else and we also found out no one wants to borrow monopoly money at usurious interest rates.
BaylisAscaris · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Running Away". Things were not so great at home so I would regularly run away and go live in the woods. The hard part was keeping warm. I learned how to identify a lot of edible plants and would stealthily plant seeds like carrots and water preexisting edible plants like wild blackberries.
Another game was to make friends with all the wild animals by paying attention to and copying their body language. It got to the point where I would go outside and be greeted with gophers, squirrels, birds, coyote, rats, and mice, depending on where I was. Nearly all the photos of me as a kid had at least one animal sitting on me. Heaven forbid we go camping where the animals were already used to humans. People would place bets on how many minutes until I was covered in squirrels or how many I would have on me at once.
How I never got bit or caught a horrible disease I have no idea.
caufield88uk · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kerby.(Scotland)
Sticky-G · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sleeping Giant”
My brother (5) and I (4) would walk on my dad’s back while he pretended to sleep and then eventually wake up and chase us around the room.
Now that I’m older I realized he invented the game to get free massages. Sneaky guy.
Arutimishia · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was this adventure Indiana Jones kinda game. I don't remember the name, but I do remember being some kind of architect kinda guy being in some Morroco kind setting. There was a snake under the bed and I had to find a hidden message in a painting in the hotel room. It had a kind of GTA 1 way of walking through the map to different parts.
Also remember having to use a docters stethoscope to open a safe and being shot at afterwards. The game then turned into this duck hunting style shooter.
If only I remember the name. For most part it had this Hopkins FBI style of graphics.
Sl4yer160 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddies and I would play Stair ball. Someone would stand with a tennis racket at the bottom of a flight of stairs, and the other player would sit in a chair at the top. The seated player would then throw a beach ball down the stairs, where the bottom had to hit it back up. We were 16
Fil0rican420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
an old apartment my family lived in (I was about 5 or 6) had these tall sliding windows about 3-4 feet above the ground. During one summer my two older sisters would tie a jump rope to me and i would jump out one of the windows and they would pull me back in. I didn't mind because I had just watched Indiana Jones for the first time and I would pretend I was Harrison Ford scaling the 3 foot wall.
Jormungandragon · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock tag.
Exactly as you think, it was a game of tag... only instead of tagging each other to pass off who was “it” we had to throw rocks at each other.
It was kind of like a stone-age equivalent to like... airsoft or paintball or something.
KorrinTheRogue · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brother, and my cousin made a card game that was kind of like Yu-Gi-Oh. It had magic cards, people, items, etc. We each took turns drawing and writing the descriptions for the cards. IIRC, a lot of them were pretty overpowered lol. There was one that was just a "super fast ball". I still have some of them in a drawer.
Foxxies · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kitchen Frisbee. Which involved throwing a Tupperware lid back and forth to eachother in the kitchen and dining room, despite glass and decorative breakables being all around. Surprisingly we never broke anything. My dad's idea, my mom hated it.
auralvance · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Ctrl+f "Gwent"
TheGabby · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Minions”. We would run screaming from our pet dogs claiming they were trying to hypnotize us and turn us into their minions. We would climb onto the trucks, into trees, whatever it took to make sure the dog never caught us. The dogs had no idea what was happening but they loved being involved in something.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I used to play the "The Worm Game". Two of us would lie on the couch, on opposite ends, facing each other. We would have a blanket covering out legs so it looked like we were one long worm laying on the couch. And then we'd throw a ball back and forth from each other but if one of us missed it we only had a few seconds to detach from the worm, because it would die. We weren't allowed to play video games as children.
scherloecke · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I'm only twenty months older than my sister, so we played together a lot. I especially remember a game we loved to play : "L'Avion" aka "The Airplane".
I used to lie on my back, knees bent and arms ready. Then she would bend over, I kept my feet on her hips, so that I could grab her arms. Then I stretched my arms and legs to the sky and my sister was supported in the air effortlessly!
Imagine a six-year-old blonde hair airplane laughing and pretending to fly under the living room chandelier. For my part, imagine kind of an overturned and exhausted, trembling chair.
leahd26 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mess.” My friend and I would ransack my brothers room and make a huge pile of everything we found in the middle of the room, blankets, books, you name it. We always topped it off with a nice potted plant. My mom soon reinstalled the baby monitors from years past; she likes to say that hearing one hint of the word “mess” followed by a giggle would send her into a panic.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I were religious persecutors at 5 y/o. My friends dad convinced us that it wasn't Cowboys vs Indians, it was Cowboys vs Laestadians. So there we were, running around with toy revolvers hunting laestadians for an entire summer.
StoneWasTaken · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play the “cell phone tower” game while driving on the freeway. Distorting a cell phone tower from a tree takes focus. It helped pass time on long drives.
9to5stormtrooper · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would take printer paper and draw roads on them in a four way grid like +. We would then draw houses and buildings on the empty spaces. If you taped the papers together you could make a whole city. We’d make cities the size of our kitchen and use our hot wheels to enact roleplay GTA style scenes and games.
Masterofdakittens · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Don’t wake the lion” there were 5 of us, 3 boys 2 girls, we grew up kinda poor and had to make our own fun, our oldest brother was always the “lion” he would lay in the middle of the floor under a blanket and we would have to run and jump over him and he would have to try and grab us. Once the lion “ate you” you were out and the last one standing was the winner.
AllTheExsInTexas · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ghost”
We would run around with a blanket over our head and essentially play blind mans tag. Whoever got captured by the “ghost” then became the ghost and so on. Mom loved it because we would all be as quiet as possible to avoid being heard by the ghost and tagged lol
PineJ · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late but my cousins and I would get sent to the basement at my grandparents house. We would close all the doors and turn out all the lights and we would play "ghost". One person is it and gets blindfolded, the others have to try and quietly navigate the dark and not get tagged. Basically Marco Polo without the water.
It was basically pitch black down there even for the ones who were hiding
flmks · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No name for it but 3-5 of you would be on a trampoline with 2-6 (depending on what difficulty level you wanted) soccer balls as well. The aim of the game is to dodge the balls whilst remaining sitting, lying or crawling. If you get hit or stand up you are eliminated and the other players remain until there is one. Super fun game. We'd have some awesome dodges, manoeuvres and tactical plays trying to make the balls hit other players.
dogsordiamonds · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Sugah, Sugah." You basically got up on the small brick retaining wall between our tiny Brooklyn front lawn and the sidewalk and grab a handful of leaves from the shrub. Then as you walk along the wall, you'd crumble them onto the grass saying, "sugah, sugah, sugah," (Brooklyn for sugar) the whole way and jump off at the end. There was always a line of kids from the block who'd play with us.
VIOLENTLYVerbs · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were 12, my best friend and I would pretend to be disabled around the house. So one of us would have no use of arms, and the other would have no use of legs. Getting up the stairs with no legs was hard, but getting food and drink with no arms was also a struggle. It was pretty fun for like an hour and a half at a time, but then we'd get too frustrated by our limitations and end the game
NoMoreMrNiceGuy20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SPUD it’s a game played with a volleyball and a couple people. Everyone starts in the middle and one person starts with the ball. They throw the ball as high as they can and call out a name of one player, can’t be same as the last person who threw it. Everyone scatters and tries to hide (plays better near a house with obstacles rather than an open field). If your name is called you wait for the ball to drop and catch it and yell SPUD and everyone who ran has to stop immediately. The called out player with the ball then tries to hit any player he feels with the ball, usually the easiest target, but sometimes it’s smart to go for whoever has the least amount of letters. If you get hit you get a letter if you as the thrower miss you get a letter. And if the thrower does hit someone they get a letter removed, so if I was at SP and hit someone I would go back to just S. Last to reach D, yes Ik funny sex joke, (SPUD) wins.
It was so much fun with a good group of friends and we played it all the time. Kinda wish I could go back to those days now that I’m thinking about it. So many hilarious moments come from this game, especially when everyone starts to pick the same person to throw and they get mad lol.
nrileys4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors and I played a game called Dodos, there was no point we just squatted down, pulled our shirts over our legs, hopped around together and historically recreated the Dodo bird.
Besides that my brothers and I invented a sport called "Jug-Ball" but I can't get into explaining it because we might want to patent it someday.
BuzzedPotato · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up by the U.S Mexico border so as a kid me and my friends would play "Border Patrol". Basically just hide and seek but the seeker got to beat the shit out of you if they found you.
KTthemajicgoat · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in the Boy Scouts still, we played a game called mission impossible. Most of the time we would play it in a forest or dark farm. There were two teams, one team had flashlights and had to defend a lantern that was sitting in a place of their choice. The other team would have to strategically capture the lantern without the flashlight team noticing. If the flashlight team shined their light on you, you had to go back to ‘base’ and start again.
We would play this game until we got bored or captured the lantern.
The winning strategy, sacrifice someone and plant another lantern by the other one. And then send another person in and take the original lantern, the ole switcheroo
Heerrnn · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know 'Nightcrawlers', from Always Sunny? Back in the 90's, me and my friend actually did that. We'd crawl head first into sleeping bags and then just crawl around. Surprising amounts of fun, I totally get Frank and Charlie, hahaha!
ThouWolfman · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer.
PickleballTrophies · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick fights. We went in the woods and threw sticks at eachother about 15 feet apart with the goal being to break the stick over the other person. Winner was whoever got hit by less sticks.
hankbaumbach · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the suburbs in a big fat Italian family where your cousins are basically like your brothers and sisters, plus I had four brothers to start with, so we were always coming up with things to do, I'll pick my two favorites.
Snarf
This game was usually played on warm Summer nights when we were not allowed to go beyond the property line of whomever's house we were at that particular evening. Everyone would stand around in a circle about arms length apart with one person lying down in the middle of the circle with their eyes closed. The person lying down would yell "snarf" for some reason and then lunge in the direction they thought a person was without using their arms or legs and if they touched you, you were the next snarfer.
Handball
We did not know there was a game called "Handball" already so we made up our own. It's played with a soft volleyball. You are only allowed to use your hands, you can pivot but you cannot move without "air dribbling" which is throwing the ball clearly above your head. You can pass to your teammates and try to advance the ball to the opponent's goalie. The goalie is not allowed to move outside the lines of the goal and they need to stay within the plane of the goal lines to a certain degree.
The object of the game is not to get the ball passed the goalie, but to hit the goalie with the ball to score a point. The goalie does their best to avoid getting hit. Head shots and nut shots were worth 3 points, everything else was worth 1. You had to throw the ball from 10-15 feet out depending on what we could use as a reference point for a line.
Good times.
silverbacksunited12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents have a big yard and growing up, me and my friend used to play a space game. The deck we had was our spaceship and we flew from planet to planet to explore and fight aliens. Our guns were old super soakers I had. Our imaginations were at an all time high as we used to almost lose battles, find treasures, and make up these amazing worlds and monsters.
Asknicelydammit · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fast forward 20 years: All my kids will be able to say is "I used to watch YouTube and play minecraft."
😶
coltfan1223 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my buds, the stupid 10 year old boys we were, used to play a game we called ricochet. In retrospect, it was a stupid name because I don’t think it really constitutes ricochet that well. It loosely does I suppose, but I’m not entirely sure it is ricochet rather than recoil. Basically we would go out in the woods and find sticks and swing them as hard as we could against other trees. This naturally would cause the stick to break, and the fragment would fly off in a seemingly random direction (at least to us, I’m sure it could be calculated based on the angle and force behind the swing as well as the shape/features of the spot struck). One time my bud swung a stick about 1/4 inch thick that broke and went flying straight into my forehead about an inch and a half from my eyeball. Had to pull it out (it actually limply lodged itself in) and bled for a decent while. Still have a backwards L shaped scar on my forehead from that. Naturally about an hour later we were back at. I was a smart kid.
TL;DR We swung sticks at trees to send projectile sticks flying, almost lost an eye.
Edit: silly spelling errors.
lifie_1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would use to play this game we liked to call 'Turtle and the Tigers'. Basically one of us would be the turtle and the others would be tigers. The turtle would curl up like a ball and make no noise and pretend to be a rock the objective of the tigers was to somehow make the rock reveal itself to be the turtle. We would sleep on the turtle, ride it and occasionally fart on its face. And when the turtle finally reveals himself he curses one of the tigers and then he becomes a turtle. Fun times.
matt98147 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not unique I’m sorry but hide n seek was WAY more fun at night with all the lights off. My brothers and me were entertained for hundreds of hours playing that
MiguelVRodrigues · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During primary school we would use any empty can as a football and try to make the "ball" pass between a players legs. When that happened we would Scream "cueca" (meaning panties, in portuguese) and kick the player until he ran away to a "safe spot", usually a lamp post or something.
kjets · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Zombies" Can only be played at night, people are split into two teams the zombies and the survivors. The base is where the survivors start and they are safe there as long as they don't leave the base. There is a "safe zone" in the middle of the field which the survivors try to reach in order to "win". The survivors turn their backs and count to 30, the zombies hide around the field and wait for the survivors to run to the safety zone. Any survivor tagged on their way to the safety zone becomes a zombie next round and the zombie who tagged them becomes a survivor. Once a survivor leaves the base they cannot run back to the base they must make it to the safety zone or die. (Also no babysitting the base)
guywithcrazyideas · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every 4th of July we would soak twenty pounds of different types of pasta and then it would go into buckets for each person. Then we would run around the yard throwing globs of pasta on each other. The whole yard would be covered and we laughed and laughed. Weird thing was, the next day all the birds took away all the pasta.
adragonthatsgay · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we went on road trips my dad had me play a game called "Count the cops" and whoever could count the most wins. I didn't realize until I was like 20 that it was so he didn't get a speeding ticket.
iSo_Cold · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Dogs and Baked Beans. One kid would hide a belt and everyone else went looking for it, while the kid who hid the belt would let you know how hot or cold you were. When the belt was found the kid who found it could whip everyone they could catch until they got back t.i base. When everyone got back to base the belt got hidden again and the cycle continued.
Lanerinsaner · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my older brother, younger brother and cousin would constantly play a made up game called Castle Bridge on the trampoline. This game went in for years. My older brother would narrate the game and what would happen and when the game ended, the next time we played would pick back up exactly where it ended.
We even kept stats on paper and my older brother would make store menus and keep track of how much gold we had. It was pretty amazing. I still vividly remember some of the “locations” and stories we would play. It was a super fun imaginative game. But got sad when the older brother slowly grew up and didn’t want to play with the three of us anymore.
CrispyBagelMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I swear there were 7 different names for it. But in elementary at least 20 kids and I would always play "Butts Up." There were these huge lone standing wooden walls at my school for kickball or tennis ball sports, one day we came up with a game, you would throw a tennis or bouncy ball as hard as you could at this wall, all the kids would stand in line and someone would have to catch the ball and throw it again at the wall. If someone attempted a catch and fumbled it they would have to sprint for the wall and smack it before another player threw the ball and hit the wall, obviously if the ball hit first you were out. If the player attempting to get you out hits you with the ball they would have to then run and touch the wall before someone else threw the ball in an attempt to get both of you out. It was honestly some of the most fun I had at that age and the recess aids hated the game because good god did we throw that ball hard and a lot of kids took one in the face. Good times.
Braydee7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Quite a few but I remember my siblings and I playing guess the song where we'd hum or whistle a tune and someone had to guess. We also would race for everything. Like when watching TV who could name what the commercial was for fastest.
mattwp73 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand on two books (one boo under each foot) on the carpet, then slide towards each other as if on skates and try to knock the other one off.
laptop1987 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My aunt had a trampoline at her house. Whenever we went over, my cousins and I would play a game where all of us would bounce around on the trampoline while a ball would bounce around freely. You'd have to dodge it or you'd get a letter; if you spelled O-U-T, you lost. If the ball would fall off the trampoline, we would all have to drop down on our butts; the last person to do it would get a letter.
KatKaneki · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soggy Biscuit
Kodiak01 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Let's see who Daddy hits first this time" ...
oofin_boppin · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school there were “two playgrounds” meaning that there was a walkway in between the playground connecting the two main buildings of the school. One side of the play ground was red and the other side was yellow. On the yellow playground there was this big tube slide everybody liked to climb on top of etc. If you ever went down the tube slide though, you became a “jelly monster” and you would infect other people and turn them into jelly. This went on for several years and i’m pretty sure to this day my friend Emma is jelly monster.
spdrv89 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The touching game. Anytime we'd gonto a clothing store id try and touch anything to conquer the world. For example if i touched a green shirt anything in the world that shade of green would be "conquered". The goal was to touch all possible color shades.
bigdaddypimpilicious · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle would play this game called "summon". I would lay down naked and he would draw stuff on me.
SaltySeaDog14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "Avalanche" where we took all the pillows and blankets and put them on the stairs. We'd then take a bean bag chair and jump on it at the top of the stairs and ride it down. The pillows and blankets would all slide down together and we'd end in a big pile at the end.
We also had "car wreck" where we'd put some beanie babies in a barby jeep grand Cherokee and push it down the stairs and see where all the "bodies" would get thrown.
The stairs were a big hit with us as kids
HutchLAD · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage with my uncle.
theoriginalsauce · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played dodgeball on bikes...with basketballs.
Basically 10 of us rode bike in a 10x30 foot fenced courtyard and threw basketballs at each other.
Good times
The_Terrierist · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I, along with a random neighbor kid or two, would put on one of our AYSO jerseys (American Youth Soccer Organization, I think) which were always bright and colorful, and then pretend our front porch was a Spaceship. The "S" stood for "Space" in this game, obviously. We'd go on "Explorer Missions" and collect samples, fight aliens, have space battles... Awesome game.
We would also put on "Skate Shows," and ask the neighborhood to give us money to basically just skate poorly back and forth in front of our house.
penatbater · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when pokemon r/y/b on gammeboy color was considered a luxury, or was banned from school, my classmates and I would play pokemon pen and paper style. Basically it worked out like the Gameboy style, where we'd have our pokemons, assign hp/dmg/lvl/Special moves, etc. Idk how we ever made it fair, but i remember electrode was the most OP coz of self destruct. It was highly addictive for a while, the entire class would bust out their papers and pencils during recess and we'd have real-life pokemon battles.
abarr69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game on the trampoline, never gave it a name but I guess you could call it “NASCAR”. We would run around the outer edge of the trampoline saying “I’m Jeff Gordon” if you were ahead of the other. Of course this devolved into us closing in the gap of the circle to the point of us just running around each other in the middle. At that point nobody knew who Jeff Gordon was, I might still be Jeff Gordon to this day. But this was the whole game, we did it for hours. But the weirdest part is you would think my family were big NASCAR fans, but no. I have never watched a NASCAR race ever even on tv, I just knew it involved cars going around a track and Jeff Gordon was a good driver. We were not the brightest of kids.
GurrenDuwang · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Virus" it was hide and seek but when you tagged someone they were it with you til there was only one person left. Sometimes you had a ball you could throw but if you were the one who threw the ball you couldn't use your hands to tag. You could also point with finger guns and ask if someone was infected because we'd often act like we were just being chased and hide with someone and then tag them. It led to a lot of intense movie moments and a ton of injuries.
CanYouFeelItNow · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Pumpkin Head"
Everyone would go into one room and close all the blinds, doors, and turn the lights out. One person was the Pumpkin Head and had to put a pillow case over their head with their arms vertically up in the case (to make them have a big head). To start the Pumpkin Head would get spun around 5 times then they would have to try to tag someone. Which was hard because your arms are stuck above your head and you can't see.....
Just to make it harder we would always tap the Pumpkin Head on the shoulders or back and push them around onto the bed or ground to mess with them. The room we would play in was the small master bedroom (12'x12') with a queen bed, two tall wardrobe like nightstands (that we would often crawl on top of). We would play with 4-8 people at a time and sustained multiple injuries from broken night stands, jumping and missing the bed, fingers into the standalone fan then jumping back into the bed frame injuring my back, and one girl even peed on the floor from laughing too hard. The Pumpkin Head also had a way to give up by finding the light switch in the room. Even if they found the light switch they would be the Pumpkin Head again.
Kind of a mean game now that I think about it but we would play for hours.
ninety7-infinity · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “disease” game. Essentially it was just regular “touch” or “tag” but whoever was “diseased” ran after the others whilst in a zombie like manner pointing ones finger and repeatedly grunting the word “diseeeeeaaaseeee”.
Whoever was touched first was now infected and had to infect the others.
Firobi · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stingers (Our form of Tag), but using a tennis ball to tag people at range, below shoulders shots only. Played in medium-large open space with the odd tree to hide.
SuperBeastJ · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tennis ball tag. It's just like regular tag, but you tag the other person by throwing a tennis ball at them and hitting them.
jjbeanface · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstick Battle.
The point of the game was to knock the other players off of their ripsticks by ramming your ripstick into theirs in strategic ways that would keep you on yours intact. Last player to fall off wins. It got very intense.
Stellargreyjay · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game we called “Ghost in the Graveyard.” It’s basically reverse hide and seek, at night. We’d go into the woods or a dark playground, pick a home base, and draw straws to see who’d be the “Ghost.” Then the group would all face away close eyes and count to 50, while the Ghost would go find a good hiding place to ambush people. Whoever you could tag, would be the ghost next. It was incredibly fun and terrifying. Our playstyles ranged from timid wanderings to kamikaze missions, diving into bushes trying to root out the Ghost. My favorite was to climb up high close to the base, wait for the group to get out into the play area and spread out, let the fear grow, and jump down and yell and attack and cause chaos. It’s a great game. Potential for injury though, especially when we got older and added tequila into the mix...
OnlyClassics · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school we called it “The Game O’ Pain” where we’d sit around in a circle, legs spread and feet touching to make like a star pattern and we’d roll a heavy ball as hard as we could towards each other’s nether regions and if you moved to block the ball you were out.
GMJizzy · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we lived with our Grandma in her big house, my sister and I would play the "Spy Game" it fluctuated between just sneaking up on Mom and Grandma or just me and sis playing a version of hide and seek where we constantly were moving from hiding spot to hiding spot with finger guns.
orinata · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd play BUTT.
Basically we'd take a racquet ball and huck it against a wall.
Here were the catches though.
you had to stop moving once you grabbed the ball.
the ball had to hit the wall before anything else.
if you didn't hit the wall, you would then have to run to touch the wall.
if you made it to the wall before someone else recovered the ball and hit the wall. You were safe.
if you didn't make it, you'd have to stand with your face to the wall, ass out. The person who was the one to throw the ball while you were running then gets to throw the ball as hard as they could at you.
the thrower only get a one chance to hit the person. If they miss game continues, if they hit, game continues.
There was no scoring. Only welts.
joeyags · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The ole classic "Where's dad?"
InitiallyAnAsshole · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vegetable soldiers. You make little vegetable stickmen with carrot and celery and tomatoes and toothpicks and then you lay them on the road and if YOURS gets rub over first then the other guy has to eat it. You can use ranch.
TheMan131505 · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The sock game. My brother and I (6 and 4 years old) would be about two meters away from a laundry basket and throw in pairs of socks as fast as we could while our dad threw them back at us.
J_hwk · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I attended a small rural elementary school, think like 50-60 kids total for K-6. Every once in a while we would all (I think it was all of us, but maybe just kids of similar age) gather in the school gym and play a game that, to the best of my recollection, we called Downy.
We would split in half and stand on opposite sides of the gym facing each other. We would number off, 1-whatever. A teacher would call two random numbers and the kids with those numbers would race to the center of the gym where they had placed a blue Downy bottle. For those unfamiliar, Downy is a laundry fabric softener, famous for its teddy bear mascot.
The object of the game was to grab the Downy bottle and return to your side of the gym without being tagged. I recall having serious face offs in the middle of that gym, afraid to make the first move and fail in front of the whole school. I also remember loving when they would announce that we were going to play.
I haven’t heard off this game being played anywhere since. We were just a bunch of poor kids from the country and this was the late 80s. I guess you make the best of what ya got.
Has anyone heard of this game, maybe by a different name?
misterhighmay · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blind catch” One blind folded person against everyone else not blind folded. The objective of the game was to catch a pillow or ball that was thrown at you by anyone. However to not be “it”. (Blind folded) one had to capture someone who wasn’t blind folded by grabbing them. This led to some impressive acts of both athleticism and down right Stupidity was fucking awesome.
Evuul · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When going on family trips we'd often get bored. A game we would play would be to try and go through the entire alphabet using just letters from road signs. Haven't heard of others doing this, so its unique as far as I know.
405freeway · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school at some point we came up with a game called "tackle ball." Turns out it was basically rugby.
At home we would turn off all the lights in the house and play "Hide-and-Go-Seek in the Dark."
PumpedUpBricks · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Feet on the chair bum on the table ball game. We played it in school at the end of the day and you had to pass it to someone that want beside you, and you couldn't say anything.
PumpedUpBricks · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
PS happy cake day.
leancuisine_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother built dragsters out of knex and would smash them into each other trying to cause maximum damage to the other persons dragster. We would routinely upgrade our dragsters to try and make them more durable/inflict more damage. We would do this for hours at a time
PublicUrinator · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ahhh the Knife game of World Domination in post soviet russia.
As kids, about 6-8 my sister and lived a happy little life in our Russian motherland. It was the late nineties but still felt very much Soviet. My sister and I loved playing outside with the other neighbourhood kids and sometimes we played the “knife game”.
You get a knife from your mama/papa, something sturdy and sharp, pick some good soil to play on, and use the knife to draw a big ass circle. Divide the circle in two (or how ever many players there are, usually no more than three) and those halves of land become YOUR LAND. You then take turns throwing the knife at each other’s land pieces in a way that the knife sticks into the ground and doesn’t fall flat, that’s a successful throw. Calculate your throw carefully because wherever the knife blade faces is the line you have to cut their slice of land, from outer circle to your initial dividing line. You have to stand on only your side of the land while you make the invading slice. If you were over ambitious and can’t reach their outer line (circumference) to finish the cut, you lose your turn and get no land. If you make it successfully then you get their land. Throw until the knife doesn’t stick in (hits a rock, bad throw, someone gets hurt, etc) and the next person has a go at cutting up your land. You have to be strategic in how you cut, how you throw and getting too greedy can be your down fall if you can’t complete a cut from your land because of your short little baby arms. You have to work around your opponent to make sure they are sanctioned off from making an easy cut of your land during their turn. Once their land is too small to safely throw a knife at while they stand on it (safety first kids) you ask them if they want to risk it of submit heir land to your invasion. If they want to submit then they step off and you have to throw the knife into their land accurately about 10 times (or whatever number we agree on, usually depends on the size of the remaining shred of land) to claim the victory.
All sorts of strategies came from this game. Standing on to hide rocks to serve as your final base so they can’t successfully land the remaining throws. Cutting out weird shapes to restrict the opponents ability be to reach and forcing them to lose a turn or make smaller cuts of your land. Distractions, scare tactics, diplomacy, etc. It was a hell of a game and I would still play it if anyone was willing to chuck a knife around in the back yard with me.
TL;DR in soviet Russian, parents give child knife and you play in dirt
J_Dawgg1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother was way younger (like 5) I would tell him that I was secretly a wizard. I told him that if he wanted to be a wizard too he would have to earn “wizard points” and he can accumulate them by doing certain things. Well everything he did involved stuff I was too lazy to do myself and he finally caught on I was only using him to do my chores. In all fairness I was only like 10
PM_ME_A10s · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball Tag:
Tag except with literally any type of throwable ball (That wouldn't cause injury).
Another one was my cousin and I would recreate the Star Wars movies with me as the main character with a plastic wiffle ball bat. He would throw fribees or plastic golf balls to to simulate blaster shots, and I would use bikes as Speeders and Ships.
etaulbee · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Horsefly Game”
We had a in-ground pool in our backyard and my sisters, the neighborhood kids and I found a brick. Horseflys would land on the AstroTurf, we would throw the brick, try to kill it and if you didn’t you would scream, jump in the pool and wait for it to calm down, land again and do it all over.
It was fun but yeah we were dumb.
DerpStar7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd imagine scaled down soldiers, tanks, and planes, and simulate battlescapes between hundreds of combatants. You can thank C&C for that.
Pygmy_Twylyte · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirt clods
You’d just throw dirt clods at a brick wall and try to get the highest mark
mateoqua · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in Oakland we played a game called “Driveby”. Whenever a car would roll down our street someone would yell driveby and everyone would have to dive behind something.
I can only imagine how confused all the drivers were when a bunch of kids went ducking and diving as they rolled by.
Archery134 · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bootball. We had a rectangle piece of lawn 4 yards by 12 yards and it was 1 on 1 football my brother and I played. We would stretch a hose across one end of the grass and you had four plays to score
ChunkyChuckles · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would make paper airplanes and color a big red dot on them so they would resemble a Japanese flag. These were kamikaze planes and we would set them on fire and throw them around the yard. I was 10, he was 6.
PM_ME_UR_G-STRING · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend who had a tub of like a billion LEGO pieces, would build things. Then we would do everything in our power to destroy the other person creation, by doing stuff like throwing it off the second floor. It became a challenge to just see who was better at building “strong” houses or spaceships or whatever we decided on. Might have played some influence on me going into engineering.
jumur · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some of my childhood friends and I liked to play Back to the Future. One of the guys had an old Science Fair Electronic Project Kit and we would slap some wires on there, grab a clock for obvious reasons, and pull down the blanket from the top bunk to cover the sides of the bottom bunk. Flip a switch, turn the hands back on the clock and boom we had traveled into the past. No one wanted to admit it didn’t work, so we all took turns pointing out things that were ‘different’ than before the time travel.
ellamenohpee · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had our own "You laugh you lose" type game when we were kids. You would stand in front of everyone and you could either say or do something to make the others laugh. 3 tries and you lose. If someone laughed they lost and had to be the comic. Pretty fun.
IfTimeCouldDie · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I were pretty crazy kids, we loved heights. We have some stairs that go go to our basement, about 20 feet from ceiling to floor, with the stairwell walls being about 3 1/2 feet apart, anyways we would kind of chimney crawl all the way to the ceiling and at the bottom of the stairs we’d have like an old mattress and a bunch of blankets piled up then we’d jump from the top of the stairwell. Insanely fun, incredibly stupid.
datacollect_ct · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Screaming Ninja's.
You stand in a circle and try to "cut" the Arma or legs off the person next to you with your arms.
You can only make 2 quick motions though with your arm and the. It has to stay where it is until your attacked. They you get a chance to react and move your arm away.
ARoseThorn · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play little house on the prairie at recess with my other two friends. We’d fight over who’d be Laura and who would be Mary. The third chill friend who didn’t read the books and was just along for the ride would always be stuck as baby Carrie
Budgearoo · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friend Jordan came up with a game, I think it was called ant trap or something I’m not sure. It was reverse tag and hide and seek, one person was it, and they hid, everyone else searched. Was pretty cool.
Edit: I forgot! Once you found the hider, you hid with them. The last one to find the hiders lost
brothertaddeus · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jump Ball" where six or so of us kids would be jumping on the trampoline and put down a soccer ball. If the ball touched you, you were out and had to get off the trampoline. If the ball landed on the ground, the people who were off could throw it at the people still jumping and if they hit someone they traded places (dodgeball rules applied, so the jumpers could catch the ball if thrown and be safe). Last person still on the trampoline won. Winner started on the ground for the next match. We'd spend hours each day playing this game, and played it for years.
Taylosaurus · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Extreme Golf"
We'd get a bunch of golf clubs for cheap at the thrift store and used tennis balls.
Not all that extreme though. There was a water meter on that little strip of grass between the sidewalk and the road where a tiny manhole cover was on top but it was a good 1ft below the grass so it was a nice natural golf hole to us kids. We'd start at all sorts of spots in the neighborhood and make our own holes and some holes had certain regulations. We'd start in my backyard and have to hit the ball on either side of the house over the fence but can't go into a neighbor's yard or the street or else it's a penalty and must reshoot. Others we'd start like 4 houses down and can only roll along the sidewalk. Another we'd start across the street but would have to pitch it over the street. One of the more "extreme" ones was starting inside this massive runoff that was in the middle of a major street right next to ours. It's like 7 ft wide and maybe 8 feet deep and just a lot of concrete. Very little sewage was present so it was easy to jump down in there and start the hole there. You'd have to smack the shit out of the ball against the concrete embankment in front of us to get it to ricochet off the one behind us and bounce onto the grass patch up top before you got to the 3 lane road in front. Then we'd have to chip it into the neighbors yard on the corner (I lived in the 2nd house) and then play from there. It was a lot of fun and we played that for years. Probably around 7 or 8 of us from the neighborhood played over quite a few years. Most of them lived on the same street and the houses that they didn't live in we went to get permission from to play off their yards. It was a lot of fun. We played soccer, kickball and baseball too. we had an old swing set (it was an old one that had that long seat for 2 or 3 people that rocked back and forth) but it rusted out so we tossed the seat and wrapped it in chicken wire and used it as a soccer net. Oh and playing hockey with sticks from the thrift store and laundry baskets. Good times
NayMarine · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
debark. I would find sticks when I was bored and outside and carefully peel the bark off them it killed time. That or when we had pecans pecan smash champs. Using only other pecans see which pecan was the strongest. Crush them together the pecan that remained un-cracked moved on to crack other until he was cracked. The losers were eaten, eventually so was the champ man I love pecans!
gaymanfucker · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 4 or 5 my brothers put a helmet and a life jacket on me and had me ride my tricycle up and down the sidewalk while they beamed me with pinecones. They were the dense skinny pinecones too, so the hurt like a son of a bitch. But I loved every second of it.
teh_proto · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to race cloud shadows down the street, trying not to get "caught" first
Sassquapadelia · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Open Bagel” with a large tube in a pool. Someone started off on the bagel (tube) and everyone else tried to do everything they could to make the person fall off the tube. Once the person was off, everyone yelled OPENN BAGELLLL and tried to claw their way into the tube.
dysenteryiscool · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
with only the supplies i have in this room, would i be able to survive if i was suddenly transported to antarctica
Despaci2x2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Try and get out of this one - Ny dad would put me in different clinches and I had to find a way to break out of the clinch
zuzumax · 1 points · Posted at 16:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No one I know knows this game.
A my name is Alice (or other A name) my husbands name is Al (or other A name) we live in (place that begins with A) and we sell (object that begins with A)
And you go through the alphabet
orbittheorb · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Grab Ass". There were usually three or four of us... As we were all jumping on a trampoline, we'd each have a inflated ball squeezed between our ankles, as we jump. No use of hand allowed....We would continually collide into one another until you could smash the ball out. Last person still holding the ball wins. Would result in a lot of violent collisions, people trying to jump over one another to avoid contact...etc. etc. We'd do this for hours. I don't know how nobody got hurt, kids must be made of rubber.
Slurp_Lord · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember in grade school I lived in a house with branches in our yard. I'd pick one up and decide it was my favorite and would stick with me for eternity (that didn't last long). Being the youngest of my siblings, I was entertained to no end pretending that stick was a magic staff and having "duels" with my sisters. We played what I called "stick fight" once, but they always said no every time I asked to play again.
cpc2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Poop". Me and my best friend started the game as old people who were pooping, but the poop always got out of control and it started to conquer the world around us. Then we had to run from it because it was like a virus that turned everything into poop. Eventually we would run out of space in the playground and we would become poop. The winner was always the poop.
... We had quite a unique imagination.
dat_gooby · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cubivor
plamdha · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would put a very large heavy blanket over one of our heads and spin the person around in a circle. We'd turn the lights off and the person had to run around and find someone without taking the blanket off.
Lots of pain running into a wall super fast.
lcgomes · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stoning. Literally just a stoning Free-for-All.
ElektroShokk · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had those big hot wheel sets where it has a motorized section that makes the cars go faster during the loop.
Well I drowned the cars in hand sanitizer and then put some on the track as well. Lit the track on fire then sent the cars on their way.
It worked as you might think, cars catch fire too and look super cool, but after the loop alcohol got everywhere and some was still in fire. Thankfully I did this outside.
Another thing I did was smash BIC lighters I found into the ground as hard as I could. Usually ends up a neat little explosion.
LiLCorn69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother, me and our two other friends would shut off all the lights in my creepy unfinished basement and we would just beat the shit out of each other, its like a moshpit
DeBoogieMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"MoonDog" - You filled a trampoline up with balls and then you and X number of friends got on, got down on all fours and closed your eyes. Somebody would say moondog and then everyone would start running around on all fours, with the objective literally being to smash into each other (with our eyes closed of course). Lmao no idea where any of this came from in our heads, kids brains can be wild.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child til i was 9 and my mom worked at a fishing lake when i was about 4 to 7ish. I would see how fast i could run around the lake, and see how many frogs i could catch in an evening. My total count was 25. I would go and find the prettiest rocks and sell them as lucky rocks for whatever change the fishermen had in their pockets, i ended up getting my ass beat by my mom over that one.
marinalindsey · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dark dark in the dark dark dark” we would go in a room and make it pitch black, usually with pillows or blankets in front of the windows. Everyone would hide and one person who have to find them in the dark. It was honestly really scary because you never knew when you were near someone. And usually we would try to scare each other.
randomginger11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The tennis ball game. It was just dodgeball with tennis balls in my back yard, me and my friends vs my brother and his friends, and they were 5 years older than us
kuery · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends, which were little than me by like 3-4 years used to play “Scream”, a game i made up that was basically one kid playing as Scream, which usually was me due to my age (and size, i’m 1’87 and 104kg, back then i was even bigger because i grew up really soon for my age) had to hunt down the other kids in the same fashion of tag, we had to wipe down the entire group to then change roles, usually the one who’d call being Scream first got to be him, even tho the kids used to choose me anyways ‘cause i added the fear factor of walking a slow pace, being unpredictable and always getting them, we played around the blocks in some streets were cars barely passed by so it made it a lot of fun.
I even used to dress as the Scream sladher dude sometimes in the carnival festivity, it was a blast.
runefar · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know what it was called but i think we pretty much played a irl of jump force
t0tallyn0tab0tbr0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shrek. Imagine manhunt, but the “it” is in hiding until they stop and roar a shrek quote at full volume. Every tagged person isn’t another shrek, they’re an onion. They can tag people to freeze them for 5 seconds, three tags on someone and they become an onion too.
pdawg43 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor murder ball. Basically dodge all but with a doctor who can revive you if they drag you back to their mat. But if doctor got hit he was dead and no one on the team can be revived.
CaptainPandawear · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors and I played a game called cat and dogs. 2 of us would be on the top of the play set throwing buckets of pebbles down, the 2 on the top were cats. (the play area had pebbles instead of grass or woodchips) while the other person had to be a dog and try to run up the slide on all fours. All while buckets of pebbles were being thrown down!
Looking back, it was insanely dirty and gross. There were so many bugs in those pebbles, not to mention how many times the person who played the dog got hit in the eyes with the pebbles. And the dog who collected the buckets of pebbles often fell off the tiny ladder trying to rush back up. We would also get yelled at for messing the pebbles up!! But we loved it!
ItsArteria · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tales of Vesperia Xbox 360. (Even though today it is remade and isn’t “unique” this game was my favorite growing up)
dimsious · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So it was me, my brother, a friend and three cousins. All guys. We'd have two teams of three. We' build a fortess made up of wood planks/logs, bins, plant pots and a whole bunch of other stuff all under this pine cone tree. We'd then collect pine cones from the ground and we'd chuck them at each other for hours lol the many bruises and bloody scratches were hilarious. Good times.
IronBarrel · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Tag at my grandma's house. My 2 cousins, brother, and myself would stay up for the new year and then play tag outside in the dark, no flashlights. My favorite time was when I climbed a tree and waited for my cousin to pass by, unsuspecting, and managed to jump down and tag him.
taperson22 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play Harry Potter as kids. But could only be the obscure characters. So it always ended up being Norbert, flich, and filchs cat.
merv1618 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played roof ball. We had a ball and tried to throw it over her roof. With limited arm strength, it was the best game ever.
tommm247 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend, who lived across the street, and I used to play ‘the corner game’. That is where we used the end of the cul-de-sac as a race track, with my front garden being the pit stop for our racing cars...erm..I mean push bikes...
I loved that game, and we played it for a lot of years.
Until it was ruined by a lady in a mini reversing into my friend and knocking him off his bike.
TheRealMouseRat · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing the "mattress game" with friends.
You start out with a vertical rolled up mattress. Then one person in inside and everyone else is outside. The people outside try to squeeze the mattress so much that the person inside can't get out, and the person inside has to try to get out.
flamus4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play a game called brakestompers. We would ride in a circle on razor scooters trying to stomp on each other’s brakes. Most of the time we just crashed into each other
ShannaBanana21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Jane and Jack”. My brother and I played this game. I think the guy’s name is Jack. We used to live in a trailer and there was this old tractor in the front yard where we mostly played there. I can’t remember if we were pretending to be married (we were young; I was maybe 9 and he was 5) or just strangers who had just met and were just going through life. I’ll definitely have to ask. It’s been so long.
markjohnstonmusic · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I charged around the house like farm animals singing at the top of our lungs, "ten times ten is a hundred", over and over and over again.
J_Kor · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my Brother used to play this game where we see who can drink the most mud water
bigfatboyo · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late but be and my friends would always play this game in the pool. One person comes up with a category I.e. food, movies, animals etc. and the other person has to say something in that category. The catch is the person who has to respond is mid jumping into the pool... so the first person has to say the category as soon as the second person leaves the ground. The second person has to answer before going underwater. Idk it was the funniest game to us seeing people freeze or them saying something really strange because it was the first thing they thought of .
tnajdzion · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BANANA POKE.
This is a car game but weve grown to play it on walks and even while watching TV.
Every yellow vehicle is a "banana poke", worth 1 point. Weve expanded to "po-po pokes" and of course the traditional "punch buggy", each also worth one point EXCEPT!!! in my town someone has A YELLOW VW BEETLE. THIS. IS. THE BANANA PUNCH. 3 POINTS. BASICALLY END GAME.
I hope at least one of you enjoys this.
panamaniacs · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chinese Chess
It's chess played on a chinese checkers board.
I have no idea how it worked, but it allowed for up to 6 people to play at a time
Gambit97 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I used to play a game we made up called "dropsies." It was essentially playing catch with a football and if the ball was "catchable" like touched their hands, but they dropped it, they had to pick it up before the other person yelled dropsies otherwise the thrower got a point. We had crazy rules we made up along the way too like if the catcher makes a style catch without dropping they get a point. It was fun
violenceandson · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Humpeth.
Sort of like 40/40 but with a load of extra rules including mandatory self-identification if you are a chaser and you receive a certain signal from one of the people being pursued. It was invented by 5 or 6 of us when we were 9 or 10 years old, and after a couple of years dozens of kids were playing it every break time. Then, our school merged with another local school, and the game died the next year. Shame.
KiNGXaV · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nighttime hide n seek!
Yeah it’s pretty much hide n seek but with a variation. We played at night with all the lights off. That isn’t the variation — this is:
We were all black kids playing this game, so we made a new rule that you had to hide in plain sight. In other words, standing in the middle of a room, corners, etc. You were allowed to move around but you weren’t allowed to hide in places that you could use as cover.
Eventually we added glowing bands (the ones you crack) for the person who was “it” because it kind of sucked running into that person and talking to them thinking it was an ally.
It was a great game for learning to control your smell, breathing and hearing.
Also being white or anything else doesn’t mean you can’t play this game, you are at a SLIGHT disadvantage though.
Tip: if you play this game, try to keep little throwable stuff in your pockets to throw off the looker.
Tip2:If you are the looker, when you stand still, you can here the breathing and you can use your glow bands as light to catch movement!
amelodyspark · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Once I took random electronics parts (my parents ran a computer repair business) and tried to build a time machine. The only part I can clearly remember is what I now know is the motor from a hard drive.
royalhawk345 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Kick Swing," a combination of swinging on a swing set and dodgeball. My dad built a small jungle gym with two swings, but there were three of us. So one person would throw balls (usually soccer or basket) at the two who were swinging. They had to kick them away because getting hit anywhere but the feet meant you got kicked off the swing.
The key is aiming at the head.
hollman1988 · 1 points · Posted at 16:18:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played ABH ball (Actual Bodily Harm) we placed a ball in the middle of the upstairs landing one person blocking each of the bedrooms and the simple task of just placing the ball behind your opponents doorway. Only rules were no biting, eye gouging and hitting ‘below the belt’. Only a few breakages of light fixtures and a lot of black eyes and bruised egos.
Canarchyst · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember mine yet...
but I think you just lost the game.
TheRealMisterFix · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I would play Hide & Seek, but in the dark. In the basement. We each had to wear these glow-in-the-dark keychains around our neck, and there was a rule that you couldn't obscure the keychain to give the catcher a fair chance.
So much fun. :)
jsinisalo · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My town had a nice park, which was right next to a small lake. In the, park, there was a football field ( for americans "soccer") where me and my friends liked to hang out on summer. One day we got bored and we came up with a nice game.
Rules:
1 We kicked five penalties each round.
2 Whoever scored the least was forced to kick the ball into the lake, as hard as he could.
3 If he didn't kick the ball hard enough we would kick him in the ass.
4 The loser had to swim to get the ball back.
deffcap · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Teddy Wrestling.
We had a teddy sized wrestling ring, wrestling names for all the cuddly toys, and theme songs. All events were based on the WWF events of the time. Plus a plush duck called Duck Tunney (that's one for the kids).
FilthyRyzeMain · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And and my best friend from K-8th grade had the same name, so we played around like we were mercenarys and said our company name was TnT (First initial of our name.) We played it like how we saw in CoD. So we would be sneaking through his woods acting like we were stealthily killing enemy soilders.
Sometimes we had friends who would join, then when we discovered airsoft guns it was game over. We chased each other for fucking hours playing around. Those were some of my favorite times of my childhood.
He grew up and went to the navy, and I work the door at Walmart, so maybe it was a little more than a game for him.
freakylol · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 5th grade, we had these duels where two kids would take turns in taking their index and middle fingers, and smack them as hard as they could onto the other kid's index and middle fingers. The duel would go on until one of the contestants gave up, usually with red/purple, quivering fingers. The other kids would stand in a circle around the duelists and cheer for them.
SpankTheDevil · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1990’s. My two older brothers and I would walk home from elementary/middle school every day. On the way, we passed the archery field that the high school used. There were always arrows that were left behind so we’d pick them up and just have them (I don’t know, okay?).
One day, my brother thought we should make a bow and practice catching the arrows out of the air as they were shot at us like in The Karate Kid. We did a pretty good job finding a strong stick that would bend and used a hooked bungee cord as the bowstring.
Started practicing by aiming up really high and having it arch down. Always be sure the sun is behind you if you’re the catcher After a while we aimed lower and lower until we were catching ones that were fired almost straight-on.
It was super dangerous and super dumb but the arrowheads were rounded, not sharp and the other kids in the neighborhood who saw it thought we were the shit.
As for those non-believers? Well.
Let’s just say I didn’t get all of my best Pokémon cards from packs. 😏
cgbehm · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would just jump around on couches and make lightsaber or blaster noises. I called it “playing imaginary”
anna_alabama · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I used to play a game in elementary school called College Students. We would pretend that my room was a dorm room and we would rent huge books from the library and read them
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a minigolf game with bakugan, wood blocks, and plastic toy soldiers. I gad to knock the soldiers off.
kevingharvey · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Celebrity telephone. My brother and I would unplug the phones and bring them into the same room, and then one of us would 'call' the other and we would pretend to be two celebrities having a chat. I have a vivid memory of him being Sean Penn and me being Madonna and neither of us realizing how gross it was to be brothers and pretend to be two people who were dating.
Derptastrophe · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Butt Fu with a neighbor of mine. We'd run at each other, jump, and turn so that our butts slammed into each other. Haven't thought about that in almost two decades...damn.
cahlima · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will get buried because I'm so late but SOCKS! Here are the rules. Find the room with the best total darkness. No shoes. Hands and knees only. Whoever steals the most socks wins. That's it. Good times. Stitches only happened once.
macaroniandsalt · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Parrot tag. We had a parrot stuffed-animal which we threw at each other, sometimes fairly hard. If you were hit, you were it.
LoverlyRails · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not my game. But so horrifying, I have to share.
I knew a girl who told me about a game she played with her twin sister as a child.
She said when she was about five years old, her sister and her played a game where they took a diaper. Pissed in it until it was absolutely soggy wet. And then threw it at each other like a volleyball. The goal was not to get hit.
Apparently, this was an indoor game.
jingles897 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The couch game" my 2 siblings and I would have to try and sit on the couch while my dad tried to block us and keep us off the couch.
My dad would have to stay on his knees but he could wrestle and grab us to keep us off the couch. And once all 3 of us kids got on the couch, we won!
Conman92 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy this is a fun one. Me and my friends used to play a game we called "SHAFTED". Its basically free for all basketball with a twist, one person has a 6ft long piece of pvc pipe and their objective is to just keep the ball from going in. Whoever scored the third basket every round became the new shafter. It wasn't really a game with a clear winner but it sure was fun.
rondelux · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle got tired of hearing us playing Marco Polo in his pool so he taught us the silent version that was called silence of the lambs. Needless to say the first time we played this game at a friends house his parents asked us to leave and it took me years to realize why.
daxe · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suikoden
thepesterman · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I broke both my arms when I was a kid, I would play a game with my mum where she 'helped me out'...
RangerGolf · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it but, it was played with me and my older brothers. We kinda just fought each other on the couch in our living room. Also every time I went down (bc I was the youngest) I would go to another room that we called the "E.R." until I got back up and joined the fight again
amoodymermaid · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the boonies. No neighbors. No streetlights. When we got to go play with friends nearby we had to be driven. Our closest friends lived on a street that got almost no traffic. We used to reenact The Wizard of Oz. I always wanted to be the lion.
My brother and I would often make a line of little green apples from our trees across our street. Sometimes we would get three rows before a car came and we laughed hysterically. I don’t know why that seemed line the most fun thing ever, but it was.
Agetrosref · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In our elementary school recess yard we had these pillar things because the yard area was below the classrooms so the pillars were for the roof, however in about half of those pillars there were little “benches” around them, forming a circle in which we could seat around the pillars, and the paint they used for them was slippery. It all started by one kid sitting down, then another sat down and tried to slide into the first kid, if the first kid fell off he’d have to try and knock the second guy off by sliding, if neither fell they were now teammates, then a third guy had to try to knock them over with a slide, so on and so forth until you had kids all around a pillar sliding in circles around it trying to knock their teammates off because there was no more space left and everyone was crammed.
SamuelRadams · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t tell dad how hung uncle Randy is
iSage · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game in my head when riding in the backseat of my dad's car where I could "capture" cool looking signs and use their powers to fight cars and change red lights and stuff. The cooler the name on the sign the more powerful, but also the harder to get. I remember Auto Zone was especially powerful for some reason...
My dad also spent a lot of time in a trophy store (he designed their pamphlets and stuff) and there were a lot of cool glass and metallic trophies, so I would play a similar game in there.
The reason the game worked is that we made the same drive so many times that I could keep track of what things were along the way and what I missed. It kept me busy during a lot of dull days, but I never got a good idea of how to navigate the city because I never paid attention to the road.
spenjo13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my cousin and i used to play a game called “check”. it was where one of us was a doctor and the other was a pregnant lady. one cousin would put her ear on the others stomach and if you heard “crackling” she was pregnant! had a lot of pregnancy scares as a 3rd grader.
Yungpleb · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"the ladder game" where my eight friends fought to get out of the pool on the tiny ladder in the deep end. If you made it past the handles you won. But it was every man for themselves and nothing was off limits. Pretty much if you didn't have a bloody/lip nose or almost drown by the time someone won then you weren't playing it right. I miss being 14.
garden_of_trees · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played "tyler and cody". We were two small girls in witness protection escaping from our evil master mind father. We traveled the world together jumping from planes into the wilderness of Iceland, Hawii, New Zeland ect. We had these balls were called "thunderbirds" or later upgraded to "firebirds" that did some really cool abilities like show hollagrams, shoot weapons, give us location on our dad, ect. She lived on a HUGE farm so we had the absolute times of our lives running around like maniacs.
I_Always_Am_Echo · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Word Game" We often played this when we were eating at the family table or out at a restaurant. Whoever is it has to look around the area for a word. It has to be a word you can read and not the name of an object. So after you find your word you have to say the first letter of it. Let's say you find something labeled "Water" you have to say "W" then the other players has to find the word you chose. If someone gets it right they get a point, if no one gets it right you reveal the word and you get a point.
20gBag · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alot of Irish kids, myself included, used to play a game called "IRA beat up".
Basically you were divided into two teams. one team (the IRA ) was given a secret word and each player on the team a letter of that word. Then they were given a headstart and would run off and hide.
The other team would then try chase and find them and would take them hostage. Their goal was to "interrogate" the IRA kids and get them to give up their secret letter. The goal was to crack the secret word. Here's the catch though. You were allowed to do anything to the kids u found, like regularly the games were just kids getting bet up.
In hindsight, not the best game. But at the time it was great craic.
FreeMeFromMySins · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trying to go to sleep in-between mom and dad yelling
fightinscot · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a game called, "Last person on Earth". Someone would lay on the very edge of our parent's bed that was pretty high and the other would try to push you off. You could use anything to knock the other person off. So tickle them, put a dirty sock in their face, kick, punch, slap and so on. It usually ended up in a huge laugh fest as one person was desperately trying to hang on to anything while the other did all they could to know you off.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let me step in here for a second! When you grow up as a poor kid, you gotta create your own fun lol!
1) we had a small metal foundry in front of our house and my dad parked his scooter in front of it. I would climb on it and act as if I am riding it, with full sounds effects of a scooter. I would have my friends climb the pillion and we would move side to side to imitate the movement of the grand prix bike riders.
2) The other game was the train game. I would start a train out of nowhere and have the neightbouhood kids join by grabbing my tee shirt from the back and keep running. This would go on for a long time till we tired out.
3) This might be really bad, but we used to steal tomatoes from street hawkers/vendors and start smashing it on walls in the neighborhood.
corduroid · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me, my neighbor, and our sisters used to play in the vacant lot next to my house a bunch. we thought it was called the bacon lot because vacant was a 6th grader word lol. one of our favorite games was one where we pretended to be terrified campers and my sister was the bwolfoose: part bear, part wolf, part moose, all murder. it was pretty much just us shrieking, running around, and getting a lot of accidental skinned knees. good times
stylizedfailure · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had this game called "noodle ball" which basically meant we went outside to pass a street hockey ball back and forth but the goal was to get the stick under the ball to lift it in the air and get as close to the others head as possible. We also didnt own helmets.
ugot2bkidding90 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had one of those giant exercise rubber balls that people can even use to sit on when at their office desks. When friends would come over, we had this made up game where we had to "crawl" on the ball, hands and knees from the loveseat in our living room to the couch (also in our living room, but with a fairly decent distance between the two). So one of us would execute this difficult task of moving forwards and yet staying on the ball while the others would throw pillows and couch cushions at them, trying to knock us off our ball, or obstruct the way so it was more difficult. If we fell off the ball for any reason, we'd lose. It was a blast!
robhutten · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Shoot Your Brother". We owned a pellet gun because it was the '70s and common sense hadn't been invented yet. Whoever was "it" would put on two or three coats and start running down the road while another brother would see how many times he could shoot you in the back with that single-shot break-barrel gun before you were out of range.
I seem to recall that my brothers would sometimes "accidentally" shoot me in the arse instead of in my well-padded back.
It was a great game.
theanondudess · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One day the game was to cross the street. Just that, cross the street. I lost cause I got hit by a car. True story.
S3CR3TN1NJA · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get the bacon.
Was played at a summer camp I went to. All cabins of boys and girls meet in a massive circle in a field. They would throw a rubber pig in the center and shout out two cabin numbers, then one member from each of those cabins had to charge into the circle, tackle and wrestle each other for the pig, until they could pull it back to the edge of the circle where their fellow cabin members stand.
Probably the most memorable game I played as a kid. Too bad they had to ban it after some kids got concussions.
PsycheSoldier · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 10-12 my friends and I used to play this game called “tackle ball” on the trampoline. Usually it would be 2v2 or the occasional 3v3. We would have a basketball and the only objective was to keep the ball in our possession for as long as possible. We never really kept score, but we somehow knew which team was winning. You can probably imagine the kind of rough housing that went on during that game.
I explicitly remember drop kicking my friend off the trampoline only for him to fly 15 feet off the side of the trampoline. His teammate retaliated by diving for my legs and making me drop the ball.
Also, unrelated, but we would put fire crackers in their great dane’s dog shit for fun (RIP Max, love you dude) and we would go in the woods and chop down trees with hammers because our parents wouldn’t let us use axes.
crumped · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved basketball and when it was raining outside me and my brother would play “rolled-up-socks-laundry-basket-ball”
kkkimchii · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle Touchy's Naked Puzzle Basement
ihatemytoe · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did dumb shit in middle school, we filled balloons with car exhaust and light them. We also found glass bottles in the woods and hit it with baseball bats and golf clubs. When we found a shopping cart we would go in the woods and push each other off the small cliff and see how far we would go.
sacarey77 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava Ball, it was invented by my brother with a mini-basketball hoop, you know, the ones that would hang on the back of a door.
-3 points: if a shot was made in the basket -1 point: if the ball hit the rim, and subsequently hit the floor -0 points: if the ball hits the rim and the defender catches it -0 points: if the ball never hits the rim at all
Misc:
(Pending edits for any rules changes, suggestions welcome)
RealEnergyEigenstate · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mike and mike... if my sister and I called each other anything apart from mike that person lost... also you had to say mike every minute .... no idea why we called it mike and mike
Jixor_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carroms
Not incredibly unique but i doubt many people on here know what it is. Great grandparents taught me it.
astrocanine · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Quake 3
TRCB8484 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played stair ball. One of us would sit at the bottom of the stairs, and the other would be at the top with the door closed behind them. Person at the bottom kept trying to hit the door, if they kept failing they could ask "mother may I move up X steps?" And the person at the top would say yes or no. You switch when you hit it. Our parents hated the game
gav989 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rollerblade high five jousting: rollerblade towards each other really fast and deliver the strongest high five possible. First to fall over loses
DaisyHotCakes · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I were obsessed with Watership Down as kids. We used to play “pretend” where we would pick a character or an animal and pretend to be them and after we saw Watership Down pretend became pretend bunnies. The fact that the story was seriously disturbing didn’t escape us even as little 4-6 y/o so the pretend bunnies always took a dark turn. My dad watched us as we’d prepare traps for each other and stopped us one time when I successfully got my dog to chase after her and she screamed bloody murder (my dog thought it was a game and wasn’t being aggressive or anything). We went back to it after he left the room as long as I pinky swore I’d not sick my cockapoo puppy on her.
Ah, good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few-
Chairball- basically rugby using a standard American football and a lawnchair for the goal.
Sockball- baseball with a tennis racket and rolled up sock for a ball, runners could be tagged out by getting hit by the ball if thrown at them
Bottle rocket war- pretty much what it sounds like
kukutheysay · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hand hockey.”
We would take a few pieces of waste paper and crumple it tightly into a little ball, and wrapped tape around it to bind it properly. We would be on our knees/sitting down (this was an indoor game) and each have a net (two pillows or something, and we would use our hands to either slap the ball hard or use finesse with our wrists. Fun game
ontopofthatrose · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chickadee - basically an international time traveling chicken that looked like my brother and I running around the living room saying we’re going to different countries. Idk it was fun at the time.
LaurelAndHardyBoyz · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to shoot fireworks at each other, but not like your typical roman candle fight. We would divide into two teams and line up in the middle of the road a couple hundred feet apart, like line infantry, and shoot mortars and keg rockets at each other.
litslens · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sneak attack”, it’s like hide and seek with all of the lights in the house turned off, weapons (nerf guns) and flashlights. A round ends once one person gets “killed” by a weapon (either touched if it was a toy sword or shot by nerf bullets). One player from each team had an instrument of some sort (like a toy flute) to signal their partner in the dark of another opponent nearby. Players can hold shields and “potions” in a backpack to heal.
ohnoitsivy · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid, in my neighborhood, we played dodgeball with a VERY overinflated exercise ball. It must have been 30-36” in diameter.
deadwoodknots · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh and then there was king of the hill- which is pretty self explanatory but we played it on piles of ice and snow the plow pushed up in parking lots. I remember on a particularily icey pile 7 year old me took a framing hammer to several spots to make hand and foot holds because my older sister could chuck me off too easily. Hammers. Ice. Parking lots. Much safety.
bottlekidzbitch · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moocowball
Don't ask why it was called that but it was basically rugby but with no teams and everyone for themselves. Played with whatever ball we could get our hands on Great way to tackle and try to hurt your fellow middle school classmates you didn't like
collectedprune · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage in toboggan
kangarooplatoon · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mummy in the Museum. We would pick a room in the house, turn off all of the lights, and hide. The “mummy” would wear a blindfold and enter the room, close the door, and try to find people. Not the most elaborate game but guaranteed to drive our parents crazy with all the screaming!
martia_larts · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At sleepovers we'd play The Gun Game. Each team takes a corner of the basement and builds blanket forts. Then we shut off all the lights and crawl around and try to infiltrate the enemy fort. If you saw someone and knew exactly who it was, you'd say "boom, gotcha Matt" and Matt would have to go back to his fort. It was so simple and somehow worked even in our small basement.
One time our friend stayed hidden for so long we we're convinced he went upstairs but he was just so deep into a closet that no one could see him.
khmrafi · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister and my cousins played this game called "Pie Man" it was very similar to tag. So one person would be the Pie Man, wearing a mitten in their left hand. They would have to hit the others on the face with the mitten. After Pie Man hit someone they could not move until someone else freed them.
It was a very fun game, until my sister fractured her toe. We had to stop playing that afterwards.
history_fanatic · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
agent usa. loved it as a child
Undrgroundqueen · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play "Decking Machine" when we were kids. We'd pull the cushions off the couch, unzip the covers and slide our arms between the cloth cover and the cushion, wearing them like shields. We would then go out to the trampoline and all be jumping like crazy, and decking eachother in mid-air. Kids would be flying everywhere. The last one to not cry was the winner.
thoroq · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends had a rented house on a lot owned by a construction company. So there would always be all sorts of big trucks, machinery, and building materials around. At night all of the workers would have gone home so we played a game we called Security Guard.
Basically, one guy would have a flashlight, while the other four or five would stand stay the opposite side of the lot from his house. Our goal would be I get to a tree right in front of his house before the one with flashlight pointed it at us and yelled our name. (He had to get our name right for it to count as a find). When people got found they usually just followed the security guard around "helping them" which usually meant making random noise to distract him. The last person found would have to be the next security guard.
There was always a lot of fun stuff to hide behind because of all of the construction equipment, but there was about fifty feet of clear driveway in front of his house so we would have to get creative near the end.>!!<
They were some real good times. About a year ago, the company tore down that house because they couldnt have a residential building on a commercial lot or something. It's sad because I have a lot of memories from that house. I still drive past the lot everyday on my way to work.
TLDR: Friends house had a lot of construction equipment, so we played a sneaky game hiding behind trucks.
pck_24 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dangerous trip to the top of the slippery mountain”. My brother and 2 friends from down the street tipped our trampoline onto its side, then soaked it with the hose to make it slippery. Contestants took a long run-up, then attempted to scramble to the top. It was superb.
letsgetthisdread · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd build a tunnel with our couch cushions—two on each side & a "roof"—crawl in, put one more cushion up to block the light, & lie in the darkness for hours pretending I was dead. :)
pjroxs245 · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mix Up Game. It was this game I would play with my elementary school friends everyday at recess. It’s simple in concept. You would play as any character from film, tv, or even books and fight bad guys, each other, or whatever other adventure we would come up with. Those were some of the happiest times in my life and I credit that love of creating stories with why I want to be an actor.
pandubear · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Find the hidden Yoshi." This is how my sister and I turned a one-player platformer game (Super Mario Sunshine) into a two-player hide and seek game: One person would hatch Yoshi and hide him somewhere on the map, and then the other would try to find him. There was a built-in timer: if Yoshi is left unattended for too long, he disappears! Good times...
titanboa54 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would jump on a trampoline and throw a bottle cap at one another and you have 3 lives. After you get hit once you have to drop yo your knees and use your knees to bounce, if you get hitting while on your knees you have to drop to your stomach and roll around.
D0z3rD04 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played red rover, 2 teams lined up facing each other the team captin would callout red rover, red rover, send (insert name here) over. Then said person would run full speed and try to break the human wall of the other team. We had to stop playing because we had 3 people break there arms.
Whiskeysneat · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to tie vines to sticks to make whips and pretend to be Xena. By myself. Nailed it.
jeremiah1119 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Destroy the invisible bad guys" was pretty great. I took a hockey stick which functioned as a scyth, bow staff, gun, and club, and I killed invisible bad guys. Once I got a little older this evolved into "Kill all the dandelions in the neighbors yard". Never said anything but he probably didn't like me much
reganomics · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'draw' was gunslinging pistol duel with sock balls.
Barfman was reverse hide and seek, one person hides and the rest count and try to find them. When the barfman was found he tries to tag someone before the finders get back to base.
Frankie_Dankie · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bigger Or Better
You start out with a penny and go door to door in your neighborhood asking if they have something bigger or better than the penny and then you trade them and go to the next house with whatever they gave you.
When I was young we worked our way up to a semi working BBQ grill, my dad wasn't happy.
nounusedusernames · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two different games:
1) McDonald’s Drive-Thru. There was a dumpster in the parking lot of our section 8 housing complex that had three walls around it. There was a small space between the wooden walls and the curb. We would take turns riding our bikes through as customers order while one kid would be taking orders on the other side of the wall. This one is pretty cringey.
2) Art Gallery. One person would be the designated artist. One person would be the buyer. The rest would be the art pieces. The artist would swing each art piece by the arms and let go. However the art pieces landed is the way they stayed. The artist would then explain to the buyer what each art piece was. The buyer then chose the piece they wanted to buy. The art piece that was chosen then became the artist. The artist then became the buyer and the buyer joined the other art pieces for the next round.
We had a lot of imagination in my neighborhood.
RedRails1917 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The "Hybrid" game
Basically we brainstormed the most eldritch and hilarious animal hybrids possible. It was great, the whole family would get in on it. We also had the "Alphabet" game where while we were driving we would make a list of things we saw in alphabetical order.
_PM_ME_YOUR_PRAYERS_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretend every car driving through our street was full of enemy gang members doing a driveby. Had to drop whatever you were doing to find cover and then pop out to fire back with your finger guns pointed sideways once the car passed.
If you were out in the open as the car passed you because you couldnt find cover in time, you pretended to get shot up and collapse.
We were Asian and half-Asian kids in an affluent suburb.
TittyBeanie · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put on a blindfold and walked around the house. Slid down the stairs in a sleeping bag. Poked dead birds with sticks.
Are these unique? I'm not sure.
jack-o-lyn · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The land game. Each section of my yard (behind the house, beside the house, the driveway, etc) was a different “land”. Happy land, sad land, mad land and so on. You had to be whatever emotion of the land you were in. Played for many hours
ianibafs · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tweeters. We all pretended we were a family of penguins and had to fight against the polar bears.
xrensa · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
glass donkey, with me and my sister. One of us would come out of the "furnace" (roll off an easy chair) as a molten glob of glass. The other one would have to form all our limbs until we turned into a donkey, which then we could ride, until the donkey broke. My sister, being 3 years older, would always take forever to form and then immediately break, because she cheated a lot.
sephipop · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to look at the badge of each car and decide if it was alive or dead - audi: dead, Peugeot: alive. If there was an animal then it's alive, if not dead.
nathanb065 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stoop Ball (because of how stoopid the game was, seriously)
Played with 3 people or more. Everyone takes a number and gathers in a circle. One person, chosen by everyone else, is in charge of throwing the ball in the air to start the game off.
let's say we have 5 players Step 1: a player is chosen. In this example, its number 2.
Step 2: 2 throws the ball in the air and everyone runs away quickly.
Step 3: as the ball is in the air, player 2 (the person who threw the ball in the air) yells out another players number.
Step 4: the player whose number was just called, has to run and grab the ball as player 2 (the person who tossed it) sprints away
Step 5: once the new number (ex. Player 4) grabs the ball, he yells "FREEZE!" Everyone must stop where they are.
Step 6: player 4 must then locate a person. They take 3 steps (jumps usually) in an attempt to get as close to another player as possible. Anyone is free game. Player 4 (the one with the ball taking the steps) then throws the ball at a frozen player. That player can pivot, jump, Drop to the ground, whatever, as long as they dont keave the area they froze in, in order to dodge the ball.
7 a: if the Dodger is hit, the player is out. Number 4 then grabs the ball, and restarts the toss.
7 b. If the Dodger successfully dodges, then number 4 runs after the ball while everyone else runs away. Once number 4 gets the ball. He yells freeze again and restarts his "three step" turn.
As the person throwing the ball, you had to find a happy balance of aim and force. If you threw the ball too hard and missed, then by the Time you got the ball back, everyone else could be a block away.
My cousins and siblings and myself spend countless summer nights playing this game
fused_shadows · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play a game that I called “Chess Hockey”. I’d use plastic chess pieces from a chess set I had, and make them play hockey against each other. I used the chess board as the field/rink, and then would use a die as the puck.
I would control both teams, so I was basically playing against myself. I distinctively remember letting whichever team was losing score so the game would be closer. I did this for years, and made my own league and would keep track of the standings and goal leaders and such.
GoEofox · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dofus. Best game ever.
mymomsaidicould69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would take turns putting lawn refuse bags over our heads and running around the yard. The other two would then throw stuff at us and trip you at random. It was dangerous and stupid and I'm surprised my parents would let us play it but I remember laughing so hard in both roles.
LeoD2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Storms. I don't remember how it started, but for many years, my cousin and I would pretend that huge storms were coming, and that we had to secure the house as best as possible.
Not only did we have the only safe haven from these storms, but we turned our 'bunkers' (my bedroom) into a child's dream. We had sweet dispensers in the ceiling, tv on every wall, and of course, no parents. All this while The Day After Tomorrow level of storms ravaged the world outside.
We did this every time we saw each other for several years, and we still reminisce about it from time to time. For clarification, I was about 3 or 4 years old, and she was about 7 or 8.
tornato8 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fight ball. Literally beat the shit outta eachother for the ball.
QStew · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
on road trips, my sister and i would play a game we called "your turn" - basically you had to do whatever you could go make the other person laugh. of course, there were some tried and true jokes or faces we'd make but as we got older it became much more difficult. at some point we both got ipods and stopped playing altogether.
virgilvandjik · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little brother used to lay on a sofa with our heads on each armrest and just kick each other and tickle each other with our feet until one fell off the sofa, either from being pushed off or just from laughter. It was fun and worked as a game until one of us got kicked in the balls. We were like 5 or 6.
No_God_Here · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game with my grandfather where we would wait until he sat down and got settled in a chair. Then we would come running out of our hiding spot and tape him to the chair. Now this isn’t regular tape. We were using duck tape so he would be there for a while. It was all in good fun and everyone had a good laugh about it including him. He was usually only wrapped up for about 5 minutes before we would go grab scissors and cut him out of it. Had some good memories doing it with my cousins.
loofde · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend in the last couple of years of primary school used to practice our aim at spear throwing by throwing them at each other. Basicly each of us would stand at one end of field and we would take turns throwing a blunted wooden "spear" at each other. Our aim got pretty good after a while so we added some extra rules, one of which was the banning of moving your feet when trying to dodge the spear and adding a plastic pipe that you could use to deflect the spear with as long as you didn't hit it too hard because that would shatter the pipe. We also tried setting the spear on fire once, pretty sure we stopped doing that after my jacket caught fire once, all in al its a bloody miracle neither of use ever got seriously injured. It was a great deal of fun tho, ahh to be young again...
AlphaPrism873 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Bedlam, a twist on Spotlight (hide and seek in the dark with torches): We draw a circle with a 2-5 meter radius in the ground. Two teams were formed and take turns Hiding and Seeking. The hiding team would hide, the seeking team would seek. If a seeker finds and tags a hider, they escort them back towards the circle. Once every hider is in the circle the round ends... but if a hider who hasn’t been caught runs through the circle (at least a meter or 2 in was the unspoken rule) and yells bedlam, everyone who is in the circle can run free. There would usually be a seeker acting as guard so that if someone does run through they can tag everyone again. Fastest team to catch all the hiders wins. We often played out in the middle of the bush or anywhere on our block with my backyard as the “Bedlam”. We are surrounded by tons of bushland so it makes it extra challenging to play. The tactic was dark clothes and using your torch as little as possible as not to get noticed.
Troker61 · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ass”
It was played on a full tennis courts with two teams of equal sizes. Every player had three letters (A-S-S). You passed the ball back and forth over the net using soccer body parts with three bounces to return the ball. If you failed to return it a player who touched the ball on the returning team had to take a letter with each player getting eliminated after they took three letters until no one was left and a team won.
It was so fucking fun.
SubServiceBot · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hoccer. My best friend at the time was really into soccer and hockey so it was basically soccer, but you could check people. I stopped talking to him a few years ago for no reason. I got sick and then just stopped talking to like everybody. Oh well
unicornkush · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i called it “spinerettes” i spun around in a circle until i fell down lmao
BiggFact · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom and I used to have ‘Socks Wars’, where after the laundry was done we would pair all of the socks, put them into 2 separate hampers, and sneak around the house looking for each other so we could bombard the opponent with socks.
Thank you for helping me remember this, it makes me happy to think about all the good memories my mom gave me.
Nuristny · 1 points · Posted at 16:21:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Literally nothing until college:( started by playing WoW!
DamnedThrice · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Playful secrets”
TwoBikeMike · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, my time to shine.
We played a game in my friends finished basement called night-beat. As you can probably imagine, all the lights were turned off and everyone spread out, then when the game started we would proceed to beat the shit out of each other until someone cried or turned the lights on. There were projectiles and blah blah blah... we had to stop because someone was getting their ass beat and started flailing around and kicked a hole in the wall causing the power to go out.
I have told this story a little more eloquently a few times and I have people cracking up every time.
Ace_Phant0m · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play “Survival Game”. At first it had no name but eventually we just made it simple and called it Survival Game. We treated it like IRL Minecraft but it devolved into garbage when we decided to just add anything anyone suggested. So we got stuff like unobtanium and rulebreakium, which could do basically anything. Later we added supersanium (like super saiyan) which you could infuse into your weapons so you could kill aliens and goku. We actually had a system for weather too.
bored-now · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin & I had a time travelling RPG that we played in front of my grandmother's house. The sidewalk was lifted in a couple of places from tree roots, and those were portals to different eras.
We saw dinosaurs, danced the waltz in the French Royal Palace, met the Greek Gods, it was so much fun.
FlailingOctopus69 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
ZephyrToad · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flipper. We had this giant hollow plastic ball, the size of a small child, that we would put on the trampoline and you had to dodge it. You could only move by doing a flip or somersault.
There was also a variation of that game we called "Mortal Combat," where my older brother's friends would throw that ball at you from off the trampoline. The rule for that game is that it ends when my youngest brother started crying.
I-Drive-The-Wee-Woo · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I had what we referred to as the "Girlfriend game." Basically, we'd just pick our favorite fictional female and play some form of house where they were our girlfriend. Some days, this included us picking what fictional male we were (young me shipped Vincent and Tifa for whatever reason) and had the occasional bout of pretend intercourse that was actually just us laying down, fully clothed, humping the ground.
In hindsight, it's a strange way to express one's budding sexuality.
ChachoDiablo · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dorks In The Dark". At night my brother an our friends would go into our room, shut the door, pull our shirts up over our heads so we couldn't see, and then basically just run around knocking into each other/things.
SaM120803 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russian Roulette
224-0-0-10 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just wanted to say that me and my brother, back in the 80's, were playing "The floor is lava" jumping from a piece of furniture to another, without any knowledge of it being known to any one els. Also we built the best fortress ever using same furniture. All of that was way before the internet boom, in a small country with a different culture.
carrotheparrot · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the train Rob we had a tricycle attached to a sled with boxes on it, basically you had to crash into the moving sled with another tricycle
TittyBeanie · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wore my friend's mum's bra and stood at the front window of her house when the bin men came.
Harleyquincey · 2 points · Posted at 16:41:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I so hope you were a big burly teenager dude when you did that.
TittyBeanie · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm going to lie and say.... Yes, you are correct. I don't want to ruin it for your.
Mullum28 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my school there was AstroTurf with netball lines and football lines. We used to play a sort of tig where you could not go onto the AstroTurf except in the D around the goals or in the center area where there were 2 sort of channels created by the netball lines and the football lines. You also weren't allowed to cross over the center line between the 2 channels.
We called it AstroTurf Tig (really inventive name I know), it was great fun.
Never heard of anywhere else playing this and doubt many other places if any did this because of the situation with the lines on the turf.
jean-valjean-ramone · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We threw grapes over our two story house to a sibling on the other side who would try to catch them in their mouth.
Rakor7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In High School I learned of Stanley Milgram, and his famous experiment, for the first time. As the older brother, I introduced my younger brother to a game I called the "Milgram game". It consisted of him lying on his back while I quizzed him on random facts. If he got a question wrong, I would push his legs into the air and towards his head like an extreme stretching exercise that got more intense the more questions he got wrong. He was mostly a willing participant and would laugh if it started to hurt so I knew when to ease up. Besides, he learned his state capitals and I got to dish out some harmless abuse.
everyonesmom2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jacks. For hours. Or Chinese jumprope.
middie-in-a-box · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play milk a cow blindfolded with my uncle. Funny thing is there was never any cows when I took off the blindfold.
YumYumChicken1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd pick a dot on the window in the car then move my head to avoid / hit stuff as we drove along with the dot.
piratazephyri · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Silent Marco Polo. Same concept as Marco Polo except you can't actually speak. So whoever is It has to close their eyes and listen for the other players, and everyone else has to evade them while trying to be as quiet as possible. It could get pretty tense. The hardest part is trying not to burst out laughing when the person who is It was right next to you and they have no idea!
jawisko · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Theft and shrubbery.
KnifeHand_InYer_Butt · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my dad's house, our bedroom was very dark (no windows). My sister and I would pile stuff on the bed across the room from the door/lightswitch with her on the bed and me in charge of the lights. The game was that she would grab stuff from the bed and chuck it at me after I turned off the lights. If I got to the bed without being hit, I won. If she hit me with an item, she won.
We had to discontinue the game after I got hit in the face with a rollerskate.
Napno · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would tie a piece of wood (really big piece, easily fit two or three kids across it) to a long rope that was dragged behind a four wheeler. Fun enough in and of itself, but eventually we took some chain and wrapped them in water hose to make grips so it was easier to stay on when going around turns. This eventually evolved into a moving king of the hill game where we would sprint after the board, leap on, and proceed to push and shove each other off of it.
The worst I got hurt was when a buddy ran in the opposite direction of the four wheeler, jumped and kneed me in the face. I had the good sense to not hold on to the grips and tumble off the back with a bloody nose.
We eventually had to stop after we were all briefly thrown off on a windy day. As the four wheeler went into the turn the board went airborne and since it was tied down it followed behind like a kite. It came crashing down into tmy friend knocking him clear off his feet and then bounced off the ground.
He ended up with a good chunk of his ribs broken and a long scar running across his chest where the corner of the board hit him.
Loads of fun, would probably not do it again.
DeanoSnips · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Acorn fights”
Used to gather acorns and huck them at each other full speed. Yes, one kid almost lost his eye.
sunugly · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always played "Rock or Dirt Clod" with myself. I'd pick up something from my driveway that was either, well, a rock or a clod of dirt. Then I'd throw it up really high in the air and it would dramatically reveal it's true identity once it hit the ground.
AphonicQueen · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall ball: You throw a tennis ball at a brick wall, and when it comes back you’re only allowed to let it bounce once in between coming off the wall and catching it. If it bounces more than once, and you threw it, then you have to run and touch the wall before someone grabs the ball and throws it too the wall. If the ball hits the wall before you do, you’re out. If you drop the ball trying to catch it, or touch the ball without catching it, you must run and touch the wall as well before someone throws you out.
Manhunt: We lived in a small town, and used to play a giant game of hide and seek with everyone. Didn’t matter if you were 8 years old, or 18, the whole town got a kick out of it. We always did it the opening night of our town carnival (when lights went out for the night you could hide in rides). We would all take head count at three separate churches. Whoever was oldest was in charge of getting the head count and reporting it to the other two churches either by cellphone, or running up to meet them. We had rules to stay within certain town lines, and never go up to the rich part of town, because they didn’t like kids running around. Never go past the main roads, and no messing around the hospital, police station, or fire department. You couldn’t hide in stores, or people’s houses. Yards were okay, as long as you had the owner’s permission. And the massive game would begin and last until daybreak. If you were found before the morning, you just went home. We always had a rule that when daylight came, you went home. It didn’t matter if you weren’t found. You don’t hide anymore, game’s over. Never have had an issue with missing kids or people getting hurt. We played it for several years, but it has since died.
trancedellic · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
There was a game I was playing on my HC 2000 where you were inside the human body fighting infections and viruses. You had to travel to the specific location with the problem and fix it. Forgot the name of the game but I really enjoyed it at the time.
I also played this: Lapte gros - in romanian:)
Ondareal · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Drive by". We used to act like passing cars were doing drive by shootings and try and run and hide behind trees. Ahhh the hood old days.
olipra · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play a “game” after school everyday where we’d collect cicadas from the trees in my backyard and keep them as pets. We needed somewhere to keep them so we’d take a drawer out of my fridge, dump the contents onto the table, put the cicadas into the drawer and back in the fridge because that was the only thing we could think of that could keep them contained. My mom would get mad at us every day because we ruined food and put bugs in her fridge, but we kept doing it.
AsleepFondant · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Seeing how long I could hold my breath underwater in the bathtub.
mobile-monster · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used lincoln logs to make structures, barriers, and used plastic cowboy and indian figures (akin to green army men) along with a measuring tape and a deck of playing cards. Was our own version of 40k as kids. Now there is a game called Maulifaux (spelling may not be correct) that is pretty damn close too what we "made up"
throwawaybciwantto · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, I went to a summer camp where we kind of had "class" schedules, except instead of classes we'd go to, we'd go to some fun (usually sports) activity. One of these was "mountain biking", I lived in the suburbs, there are not mountains, it was just biking.
We would play this one game called "Circle of Death" where we'd ride to a local park with a soccer field and use the centre circle as the ring. It was a big game of chicken on bikes. We'd all get in the circle and ride around trying to be the last person in the ring. Someone was "out" if they 1) rode out of the ring, 2) touched their foot on the ground, 3) touched someone else's bike with their body or their bike.
We'd now have 15-20 pre-teens on bikes playing a giant game of chicken. It was a lot of fun and I got pretty good and riding my bike, but in hindsight it was pretty dangerous. I can't believe they let us play this at summer camp.
Ashwood_Zone_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gutterball had a absolute blast playing that.
Basically you and a friend(s) go on opposite sides of the street with a raised gutter(curb) on both sides and use a football to then throw at the opposing persons gutter, if you make a clean hit on the top of the gutter and the ball bounces back you step out, and throw again, each hit you move closer.
However once you miss you go back to your gutter start point and other person takes their go, first to reach opposing gutter wins.
ElEffSee · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The car game. We lived on a side street in between two busy main streets, during traffic multiple cars would cut through our neighborhood to get to the other main road. The gist of the game was that you had to be in the bed of dad’s truck (or a hula hoop if dad was at work)when the car passed you or you were dead.
It was fun because cars could come from any of three places (north end of the street, south end of the street, or the street that ran parallel to ours and essentially ran right into our driveway). We would have lookouts at each spot and when they spotted a car coming they would yell “CAR!”, and everyone would run like mad to get back to the truck/hula hoop in time.
The thing is, little kids aren’t very fast. They’re definitely not faster than a car rolling a stop sign and onto our street, so we had to adopt the point rule. If you were at the south side (the longest stretch) and weren’t gonna make it, you could call out the name of someone inside the truck bed/hula hoop and point at them. If they called your name back and pointed them you had created a connection to the safe zone and you were safe. Otherwise you had to sit out for one car cycle.
Me, my sisters, and my cousins played that game all the time as kids. That, paired with memories of letting our dog loose in the neighborhood to chase and catch him, eating tangerines on the roof in summer, and building forts in the air yard of the house. Those were good days.
Kiakakash · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mermaids.” My sister and her best friend started this, and I joined in because I was the annoying younger sibling that wanted to be a part of everything.
We’d lay out this massive blue blanket on the bed, it’d trail off onto the floor, and we’d sit and pretend to be mermaids. Pretty normal, I guess. The unique part is that we’d stick our legs into pillows and use those as our tails. It was also kind of like “the floor is lava” since we could only live in “water” - we could only move if something blue was under us, like the blanket or other pillows.
We’d sit on the bed pretending to bask in sunlight, sipping on juice that mom put in plastic martini cups for us. We’d be absolute bitches to each other, and we’d try to “kill” the rudest mermaid by pushing her out of the “water.” We were all very nice and polite kids so I think this was our outlet. I remember I got pushed out pretty early so I just had to be dead for like an hour - I just started burping and saying I was decomposing. It was a lot of fun but really weird looking back on it.
Rastasputin · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So when we'd get flat pack furniture and my parents were building it, I'd get inside the box it came in and my older brother would randomly stab it with a Phillips head screwdriver. I had to not get it.
MysteriousDixieDrive · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"bag tag" a sleeping bag over the head of whoever was "it" then a mix of tag and hide and go seek. Also ninja tag in the entire neighborhood, 2 teams one hiding the other seeking at night. If more people made it back to "base" from team A they won if team B caught more people they won. Usually there were 10-12 of us and we ranged maybe 8 blocks.
Saxon2060 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bumper cars!" I thought everyone played it but in describing it to other people I've just been met with blankness/incredulity.
It's pretty simple. You fold your arms and run around at full pelt attempting to collide hard, frontally (with your folded arms), with the other players and knock them down. Last man standing is the winner.
Also, I know it's not unique so not ideal answer but surprised I haven't seen it mentioned. We played a game we called "Denio" (DEN - ee - oh? Denny-o?)
One person closes their eyes and counts at some place or object (we used a bin in the playground, for some reason) while everyone else runs off and hides. Hiding isn't really necessary though I guess.
Everyone except the person who is "it" had to get back to the beginning spot, 'den' (so the bin, in this case) and touch it and say "Denio 1 2 3 home" (iirc) and so the game ended for them, I guess they 'won'. The person who was it had to try to catch the other people by grabbing them and saying "Denio 1 2 3 caught" (iirc). Once caught, you also become a chaser.
I think really the way to actually 'win' the overall game was be the original chaser and have nobody get back to 'den' in your round.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide around the fence." Basically hide and seek, but since I lived in the country basically there weren't alot of places to hide. So 2 of us would try and find a place behind the shed, or in the ditch, or around the fence and when we saw the "tagger" we would run our asses off. First person the tagger touched would then become the tagger.
It sounds boring, but it was actually pretty damn fun. It was even more fun when you played at night and wore dark clothes. You just had to watch out for bears and snakes.
Kajayacht · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw baseball up in the air, throw baseball bat like a boomerang at the ball.
KayaXiali · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and i were weird ass children. There used to be a commercial for a lawyer that had the tag line “Larry H Parker worked for me” and our “game” was to ride our bikes down a hill by our house as fast we could screaming “PERRY H LARKER WORKED FOR MEEEE” Absolutely no idea why or why we pronounced his name like that or at all. Like I said, weird as kids and we’re weird ass adult women now too
QuestionableQuade · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, my best friend at the time would come over to my house and we would play a game we made up called "Nazi." It was basically hide and seek, except for we would turn all the lights off and cover up the windows to make the room as dark as possible.
PM_me_gay_Santa_porn · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me an a friend, both little boys, used to play “pregnancy chamber” where we would sit in a pine tree alcove in his yard and hold each other’s hands and encourage each other to push and breathe as if we were giving birth.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play 5 man soccer on a trampoline where you could only kick the balls if you jumped
fauxghouI · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i cried myself to sleep
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played several uniques "games" with my uncle
space_cadet_Ender · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tinker toys" the toys had full could move on the ground and the jungle gym but couldnt run. They chased the kids who could run but not touch the ground. Last kid not turned into a toy won
Also "tape ball" which was monkey in the middle but the monkey could play full contact. You also played with a ball of tape
TheRealMisterFix · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another thing we'd do as kids was to go out to this field and climb down the manholes into the storm sewers. We'd eat lunch down there, crawl from end to end, and just had a grand old time. Someone saw yes, though, and saved us from our stupidity, and sealed the manholes shut.
I only realized later that if it had rained suddenly, we could have easily drowned in these storm drains and nobody would have been the wiser! Ack!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played "marbles down the stairs"
Was like bowls (bowling on a green), but with marbles, our bannister handrail was a perfect fit to have marbles roll down it.
A massive marble would be rolled down first, then the opne who got closeset with small ones won.Our parents used to go mental as we dented our oak front door and smashed many marbles while playing.
aspcunning · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I always had lots of little games that would pop up from whatever we were doing. But there are two that we played depending on if we were outside out inside.
Outside, I would stand in the doorway of our tree house and he would stand on the ground facing the door. Then he would throw a bouncy ball as hard as he could to try to hit me and I would try to duck either side of the doorway to not get hit. It would leave target shaped bruises like a paintball.
Inside, we would build Lego cars and then crash them together from about 6 feet apart. The first to get the others person to fall out was the winner. But sometimes the two cars would miss and hit the other person in the legs.
Jcooney787 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m the oldest and I have a sister 2 years my junior and a bro 10 years younger. Our mom is a tiny, sweet, wholesome woman that never curses and raised us accordingly. I was a lil badass and I started the flip off game. We had to flip each other off in the presence of our mom without her noticing. Extra points if you were touching mom!
Leemour · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game where we'd blindfold a person and that person had to catch someone in the room and guess their name while holding them. If the person was guessed correctly he/she becomes the one with the blindfold. While you are not holding (while blindfolded) anyone you can call out anyone's name and they have to respond "I'm over here!".
It sounds like a fun game except that the one who was blindfolded was locked in a room with the rest and the rest could hit him with any not too hard object to avoid being caught. There was blood and cries from time to time. I forgot what we called it, but everyone wanted to play it and let out their inner rage or avange someone for something. Sometimes we'd even scream loud a "fuck you" to confuse the blindfolded person about where we are or push them into a corner or something. It was kinda fun, but, man, we were barbaric.
sethismename · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombies, we would have one person start as a zombie and have to bite other players until everyone is a zombie. This game was very against the rules at my school so we played it in secret during recess
IdleOsprey · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called ‘Snake Hotel’. If we found a snake (usually just a common garter snake), we would take it to our Snake Hotel to stay, which was a pipe sticking out of the side of our house, and we’d make up stories about what they did there.
What we didn’t realize was that this circular opening was actually connected to the furnace in the cellar. We were sending snakes into our furnace.
lblacklol · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Around the house tag.
Friend had a back patio that served as base. If you stepped off the patio you had to make 1 full lap around the house before being allowed back on base. 1 person was "it". If they tagged someone the tagged person became it. Whoever had managed the most "laps" before the "it" person tagged someone won that round.
We would play for hours during summer vacation. Like all day. start after lunch, play til dinner.
AgentSkidMarks · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would just throw sticks in the road at the bus stop and watch cars run over them. Then one day we decided to take it up a notch and just throw sticks at cars. One guy turned around so we all booked it up a tree and he just stood there at the bottom yelling at us until the bus came.
We were dumb.
Orange_Eoghan320 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yeah my me and my Dad played a game called switch before. Yeah, you put one finger in mouth and the other up your ass. When he shouts switch you switch your fingers as fast as you can."
arae9593 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bucket ball...admittedly a terrible name but we weren’t very creative back in grade 6. Basically it was a strange version of a basketball/netball/quidditch hybrid played with a tennis ball. It was played with as many people as possible. And involved throwing a tennis ball around a team on a large field. Basically you could throw it anywhere to your team but if you had the ball you weren’t allowed to move. You scored points by throwing the ball into a bucket at either end of the field. When there were more players we used to add more balls and buckets. I only have great memories of this game and it was played every recess and lunch at school. I still think about it every now and then and how fun it was
nuclearpolarfox · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I "invented" a game that was basically "the floor is lava". Only we had a pit with "black beasts of Gabon" instead of lava. The beast was supposed to roam the room slowly and attack by grabbing the hand if someone steps on a floor.
Fun fact. Much later I found out that my fantasy land of Gabon is actually a real country in Africa. oh.
One2ManyCats · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our back steps faced an intersection. The street facing north only showed a small portion of the road. My sister and I would sit on the steps and say "ok, the next car coming that way is yours." It was super funny when a beat up car would show up. We would laugh and point at each other "ha ha ha! You got an ugly car." It was bad ass when a nice car drove by. We would play fight dating "no that one is mine! No, it was my turn!" We would do this for an hour or so. It was a small intersection in a neighborhood, so the anticipation was also part of the fun.
OnePeat · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, although I'm from Germany, we were not allowed to play soccer on the yard so we invented our own game called 'Rollball'. You could only roll or hit the ball with your hands, never with your feet. Holding the ball in your hands was forbidden as well. Everything else was like in soccer. It was great and when we left elementary school we all vowed to make the game popular at our new schools. Didn't happen of course but I have great memories from playing it.
NicolasTylerDoyle · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would blink every time we passed a road sign when driving
Strider2525 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After reading some children’s book, my siblings and I came up with “The Green Eyed Monster”. My grandfather, (who has Parkinson’s, and couldn’t play many games with us) played with us everyday we visited. He would take his glasses off, and chase us around the house as we ran and hid. By now we’ve grown out of it (I’m turning 17 today), but my grandma made us all little dolls of him last Christmas. The doll had a shirt made from my grandfather’s, glasses in one hand, and green eyes to top it off. I’m hoping one day to continue the tradition if I ever have any grandchildren
bhuntin08 · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a video game called Deer Hunter... Or maybe Deer Hunter Hunt? I don't exactly remember, but the whole premise of this game was that you were this anthropomorphic cartoon deer that would hunt deer hunters. You also had these "calls" to attract hunters like, "Oh my God... THERE'S A THIRTY POINT BUCK OVER HERE!"
Outside of video games, there was always the classic "the floor is lava". We also had a thing where we pretended to uncontrollably fall down some stairs that where padded with some really thick carpet. I don't know why, but Vampire House was a thing. Pretending to be a family of vampires living together in a house, doing that vampire hiss every so often and then using decorative cups as props for when we pretended to drink blood. I really don't know wtf was wrong with us. We're all normal civilized people now.
proexwhy · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I just played every single game of tag imagineable. We played tag on bikes. Tag on rollerblades. We played one game of tag where we had one of those rubber balls that had elastic string attached to it and a wrist strap. We'd run around pelting eachother. Just so many different variations of tag.
SamSiteVX · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Gaga Ball". I have no idea where the name came from. There were 5-10 players and the aim of the game was to either hit an opponent's foot will a ball or get it through their legs. You defended yourself with your hands so any onlooker would see a bunch of tiny kids running around like deranged crabs completely hunched over screaming at eachother.
SentientKayak · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I during Spring and Summer would play outside (obviously) and whenever we conveniently found sticks in the ground in the form of an 'X' as in X marks the spot, we'd dig to see what we can find.
So many holes.
Laytonator · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I recreated Pokemon Red using Pokemon TCG cards. Would lay out a bunch of cards facedown in the shape of Pallet town, routes to other towns, stacks of cards for gyms, etc. Tried to match Pokemon encounters with their respective routes, eg Pikachu is facedown in the area where Viridian Forest should be.
I’d start with Charmander and move 1 space at a time, flipping them face-up to uncover Pokemon (battle them by flipping coins to determine what attack they used, ignore energy cards) or trainer cards (items to put in my bag). If I won, I gain exp and with enough exp, Charmander levelled up and gained some HP and attack power. If Charmander reached lv16 I replace Charmander with my Charmeleon card.
I also caught Pokemon by rolling dice, forgot the rules, I think common cards were like 4,5,6 to catch, rare or holo cards were 6 to catch.
It was so much fun and if I could find my card collection I’d totally play again as an adult.
iamravitandon · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rush from sega.. i still play that game..
FockerXC · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Get the Bitch”.
We’d have like thirty or so guys playing, and one guy would get a football and have to go hide in the neighborhood. He was the Bitch. Our goal was to find him and tackle him, then whoever got the ball next was the new Bitch. Nobody wants to be the Bitch, so it was kind of a hot potato deal once we tackled him. Generally one of the smaller guys would get left behind with the ball and have to go hide. I don’t think we ever effectively played more than like 2 rounds in a day ever. Brings back memories of bruises and black eyes.
Sultynuttz · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grounders
Basically tag, where one person is "it", and attempt to tag another player to pass the title.
It combines elements of Marco polo though, as the "it" person must close their eyes.
The game is played on a playground, and if the "it" person suspects that a player is on the ground, they can call out "groinders", to pass the "it" title.
The game was quickly banned after a friend bruised a rib, and bad to go to the hospital during recess.
Aintnolie_bibibi · 1 points · Posted at 16:23:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “peg the peep” and it was played with a trampoline and a dodgeball.
Basically one person jumped up and down on the trampoline. You had to be jumping or you’d get kicked off.
People standing around the trampoline took turns throwing the dodgeball at the jumper as hard as they could. Dodgeball rules applied. The person who effectively hit the jumper then got to be the next jumper. If the jumper caught the ball, they could pass it to whomever they wanted for the next throw.
Surprisingly, no one got critically injured. There were some absolutely fantastic dodges and catches that happened.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sometimes I'd pull out a DS and play a little sound file I had made on it, and toss it at my big brother. Then we'd slide it back and forth and try not to be the one holding it when it "Exploded". Good times.
wasshopp · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers.
CerealAtNight · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At elementary school we played a game called muff. Two of us would stand maybe 5 feet back from a soccer ball facing each other with the ball in the middle. Then on some signal we’d both charge the ball and try to kick it forward so we’d always end up at the ball around the same time kicking it from opposite directions at the same time trying to power through the other kid.
So many bruises shins. I can’t remember if we screamed muff as we kicked it either. I think we did.
sachemwarrior · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a little kid my aunt had this plastic bowling set she would set up for my sister and I to play with in a hallway. For whatever reason I would take my shirt off and declare we are playing macho bowling. I was like 6 or 7 at the time. Idk where this came from.
_Spanish_Inquistion · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bakugan shuriken. The Bakugan cards my friend had were hefty and we threw them at each other like throwing stars. We broke elbows, fingers, and toes.
meow_machine · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game to play in the car with my mom as a very young child that I called "Hospital or Cemetery". Basically, I would name a gruesome scenario in which a person was injured, for example "a person jumps off a cliff holding a bunch of balloons, but some of the balloons pop and they bounce down the cliff and land on some spikey rocks." and then scream excitedly "HOSPITAL OR CEMETERY!?" And my mother would have to guess where the person went, with four-year-old me as the ultimate judge. And then my mom, who is fucking awesome, would humor me and in turn name a fucked up scenario which would result in hospital or cemetery. We would sometimes go back and forth the whole car ride.
Didn't realize how dark this was until I was explaining this to my boss a few months ago and she said "wow what other fucked up stuff did you come up with as a kid?"
insecurity_desk · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kids at my elementary school played a game called "Crackabow"? ("Crack" like the sound a stick makes, "a bow" like what you do at the end of a performance)
It was basically dodgeball with a single ball, no lines, and the player holding the ball had some special abilities. There were sometimes teams, and sometimes every man for himself.
The game started by "cracking" the ball, meaning they spike it on the ground so it would bounce 3 times. Then whoever recovered the ball would start trying to hit other players. If the ball was caught, the thrower was out. This also applied to teammates, so passing the ball was by bounce pass only, or else you got your teammates out by accident. Headshots were illegal, I think this rule was forced on us by the teachers. But this was also used as a defensive measure, so players could deflect the ball with their head to avoid getting out.
Anyone could "crack" the ball at any time, bringing everyone back into the game. This could also happen on accident if the ball missed someone and just happened to bounce 3 times. This meant players had to work together to recover each other's throws before the ball bounced 3 times, in order to progress the game.
The game ended when a only one team or 1 player remained.
For context, this was a recess game played in Central NY around 2002-2005.
I've always been curious if anyone else played this game, or where it came from.
King-of-the-Badgers · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run away from the Quad-bike.
This was a game me and my brother came up with when we were still in primary school. My brother was on a quad-bike a fair distance behind me and when the game started I had to run to the "safe zone" at one end of the garden as he tried to run me over on the quad bike and I would duck and weave to avoid him. We didn't play it for very long as in one game I fell over and he ran me over which eventually lead to our Mum finding out due to the screaming. Didn't break anything though but I still had to go to the doctors.
JmannDriver · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirt Clod Wars.
We all lived on military bases in LA(state) so we would go outside and end up playing in the woods. The woods used to be where they did military training exercises so there were plenty of old fox holes and discarded military supplies like ammo boxes, sandbags, etc..
We were broken into groups by which street we lived on such as the Ryan streeters' and the Grove streeters'. Each street was at war with another street and the weapon of choice was clods of dirt that we would throw at each other. We would spend hours digging our fox holes deeper, digging passages between them, and camouflaging them as best we could.
I always look back on that time in my life fondly because I had no worries and I got to spend a large part of my time outside in the wilderness.
kinky_snorlax · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called “Balmania” with my step brother when we were kids. We had our imaginary friends play and it was a bit of a Harry Potter/imaginary friend mashup. We would send our imaginary friends off to hogwarts and play quidditch with them and make up all kinds of scenarios depending on the weather. In the winter we had snow fortresses, etc. We called it Balmania because that was the planet everything took place on.
Unfortunately after his dad passed away my stepbrother went to live with his grandparents and we lost contact. I’ve tried to find him on Facebook but no luck. Brandon, if you’re out there I hope you’re doing okay. I’m sorry that my mom was the evil stepmother to you. Last I heard you were playing football up north at your new school so I hope everything worked out for you and you’re happy.
Platfus · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Footy Go”. We had this 4-wall gazebo in our school yard. Each wall was an entrance to the gazebo but also acted as a goal without a net. We were kicking ball really hard and tried to score goals. Only counted if it was a ricochet from the ceiling or the floor though.
SmoothMoose420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hackey Sac volleyball
Daldric · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blob. Basically there's one guy who's the Blob and he runs around and tries to tag someone. When he does the hold hands and try to get more people. This was on a basketball court so eventually if you got enough people you could completely surround someone but the catch is that when you're that close together you can't move any farther. So you either wait him out or get the edges to back out and have the center go in etc. I loved that game.
Irksomefetor · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I liked to rub my dick on things. Like marking my territory.
litlevoice · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I use to play, "here's socks!" Essentially socko was a sock that we would have on our hand and the goal was to make each other east socko. No point really because it was just me eating a sock thanks to the size difference but if was always fun to get him back really good when he wasn't expecting it.
jeffreyjicha · 2 points · Posted at 16:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family played that too, but we called it "Mr. Socko"
Grumblesnark · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my school they had these tiny rooms for music lessons. Like so small. We used to get as many of my friends as we could in and throw a rubber egg at the walls as hard as possible and see who could get hit in the balls first. Those were the days.
About400 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I frequently played a game called "Security".
It essentially boiled down to us using a defunked rotary phone to call "Security" about ever increasing ridiculous concerns frequently about an imaginary college named "Jonny". I think we may have been working at a fictional hotel desk. (I am not sure why we found this so entertaining.)
For example: "Secuuurrriiittyyyyy!!!!! Jonny has broken into the freezer again and is eating all the ice cream!!!"
or
"Securityyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! There is an elephant in the lobby- can you send someone to take care of this please?!?!?!?"
spinorama29 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The boulder game. Anyone remember that episode of Thomas the Tank Engine where a boulder chases one of the trains down a mountain? Well that was one of my favorite episodes as a kid so I made a game out of it with one of those plastic balls that expands as it rolls. We’d run down the stairs and someone would roll the ball down and you’d try to make it down before being run over by the boulder. Fun times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the teacup in the bedsheets
ThotteryLottery · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Noodle ball. My dad and I would take pool noodles, and hit an inflateable ball around the yard. It was similar to field hockey in a way
TrustyAndTrue · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's one called 'Screenball' I haven't heard of anywhere else.
Basically you play on a baseball diamond with a tennis ball. The tennis ball is thrown at the cage(? The metal screen the catcher sits in front of). You have a set order and the preceding player determines what happens to the next:
That's it. Fairly simple but was loads of fun from grades 4-6. Man I miss childhood.
ccower2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my cousin, and his brother. Have been close our whole lives. We’re all basically bestfriends. When we were young my cousin would come up with literally on the spot little role playing games for his brother and I to play. He would always be the bad guy and he would get all these papers with the “gear” we could buy. He would tell us how much money we got from killing a new bad guy, we’d get the money and our little piece of paper would say what gear we had.
Did the gear ever make a difference? No. But my imagination at the time was enough. I would feel like a badass if my paper had enough sick items on it. I’d give anything to go back to those days.
jbmb12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Sleeping Bag Game”. One person would be inside a sleeping bag and standing up and everyone else would hit them with pillows and stuff. The objective for the person in the sleeping bag was to tackle someone and hold them for 5 seconds. If they did that successfully then the tackled person was now the one in the sleeping bag. The main objective for anyone outside the sleeping bag was to knock over and hit the person as much as possible while not getting tackled. It was quite fun needless to say unless you were in the bag.
cairoxl5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend played "sharks and octopuses( we didn't know how the plural). We would stand on a mattress pretending it was a raft. Then we'd pretend an octopus or shark was dragging us down into the deep. It was complete with dramatic rescues and promises to never let go.
football_rpg · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school (all boys, Catholic) we played nutball between classes or during study halls. You sit across from each other on the ground, anywhere from 10 to 30 feet apart, with your legs spread. Then you take turns throwing a ball trying to hit each other in the nuts. The ball was whatever we happened to have on hand, usually a tennis ball or soccer ball, but there was occasions where a lacrosse ball or football was used. Rules were simple: underhanded throws only, ball had to go above the tallest player's eyeline, and if you flinched the thrower got up to three free shots (amount varied because sometimes the free shot was allowed to be thrown normally, depending on who was playing). Winner was whoever lasted the longest before tapping out, but let's be honest, there were no real winners here.
No idea how this started, but anytime we got caught playing it, the teachers would just shake their heads and call us idiots.
leonmo · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Raccoon Ball". This was a two player game involving a plastic bowling set. Players sat at opposite ends of a hallway and used the pins to bat the ball back and forth. I can't remember what the goal was, or if we had a scoring mechanism.
Nut_Giver · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister made up our own irl harry potter video game. We had hit points and each spell had a damage amount. This was the perfect game for us as our yard was connected to our neighbors lawn, who happened to be my grandma. So we'd pick up sticks and run around this giant yard calling bullshit when someone cast avada kadavra.
Fokale · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game
Rancid47 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will be buried but "hide the box" was ours. We were usually at our grandparents during the summers who weren't exactly well off. They had a big yard with a small barn on it. Well we would take turns hiding a soda box (think 12 pack size) and the others would need to hunt it down. Riveting stuff!
Meneer_Max · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apekooien, jammer dat die nu eigenlijk niet meer mag.
PokeMemeMon · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know, maybe The Oregon Trail Game
DobbyNobby · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle played a game but I promised not to tell
OhSoManyNames · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While riding a car i used to imagine two poles extending out towards either side which i could control by flexing each of my butt cheeks. The goal was to lift the poles whenever an obstacle or a passing car went by. It passed the time, plus free butt workout!
theboddha · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bird dookie ball.
There was a dodgeball that a bird had crapped on near the trampoline. So we threw the ball on the trampoline and you couldn't let it touch you while you were jumping. Last person to not get touched wins.
We cleaned the ball but the game remained. Many hours were spent dodging that ball on the trampoline.
freeluv21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would stand on both sides of a pond and shoot arrows at one another. Not sure why we would ever think there’d be no consequences? Fun for awhile until I took one in the thigh. Still have the scar! Decided we should do something that wasn’t as dangerous so we switched to BB gun wars 🙄
laziokid · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Card-boarding or Box-boarding. We would find a square piece of cardboard and slide on the snow like a snowboard and we would build ramps and shit. No idea how I didn’t break any bones as a child...
1Fr4me · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play with “lightsabers” We didn’t use the store bought lightsabers though since we always hated fighting with those because we would actually get hurt when we hit each other. Instead we bought some PVC pipe and those pool noodles (which happened to fit together perfectly) and hit each other with those.
As the months went on a lot of kids got into it in my neighborhood. We made up a whole point system and people started making custom lightsabers with different colors and different styles, such as double light sabers (like dearth maul) and even started putting bike grips for hilts!
Later we made up a whole point system and would take rounds sparring to see who could get the most points! I always wanted to make a business selling them but after episode 3 came out the fad died.
Soccersammls · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car game - My house was in the middle of a hill so roads were about equal on both sides. My friends and I would stand outside in the middle of the lawn, and when we saw a car driving on the street we would try to run to the far side of the house relative to the car. If the car passed your body without being on the side of the house and laying down you lost.
hazeust · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jedi outcast. Best saber mechanics ever. Dark forces for life
imlieven · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby wars. Back in the day when beanie babies were popular. We had an insane amount so we would divide the basement in half, and each team built forts and barriers to hide behind. Then we would basically play dodgeball with the beanie babies.
BaconBot17 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fireball, on the trampoline there would be a ball, and if it hit u, u were out till next game
Pieskin · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game that we called "Fun". When we would go to our aunt's house there wasn't much to do, but she has a slight hill in her front yard, at the bottom of the hill was the sidewalk. It was basically king of the hill styled, everyone starts at the top of the hill and tries to throw the rest down the hill and stay at the top. We would stop playing once someone got hurt, because it was no longer "fun" when someone was crying. We played tons of dumb games as kids.
mariocova3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Don’t-let-the-ball-touch-you”
We would jump on the trampoline with a volley-ball, a basketball, and a soccer ball. DONT LET THE BALLS TOUCH YOU. We would like jump near each other and dive out of the way to get each other out.
Bergara · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I created a tag game around my swimming pool when we were kids. One person was it, but they couldn't leave the swimming pool, the others could. One end of the pool was wide enough that we could stand safely without being tagged, the other end was narrow. The challenge was to cross the pool to the narrow end and then back without being caught. The person who was it also couldn't catch you if you were underwater. There was a limit of 3 tiles where you could walk on the sides of the pool, so you don't just run to the other side.
It became so popular that the whole neighborhood knew how to play it, but it only really worked in my swimming pool. Those are some of the greatest memories I have of my childhood.
jaysontatyums · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cousins, brother and I played a bomb game using the Perfection Game by Hasbro.
The four of us would start the timer and collectively complete the puzzle then all of us run away and hide before it explodes. If it exploded before you could hide you were caught in the blast radius and died.
There was another game my brother and I played as we got older it was basically who could wrestle each other from their bedroom to the others bedroom. Our rooms were across the hall from eachother so it would be a wrestling match to see who could forcefully drag, pull and wrestle the other into their room. It also involved submission, if you tapped out you lost there was a lot of choke holds and twisting extremities.
lookingforcowdice · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents had a pool. So me and my cousin would play a game where one of us when to the front yard and hurled a football over the house, trying to get it in the pool. The other person would be standing by the pool and would try to catch it to prevent them from scoring a point. Them was the days
Mac2311 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to chuck golf balls at each other while in a swimming pool if it didn't skip on the water before it hit you it wouldn't count as a hit. Great game, too bad it never lasted that long.
Buddytroy1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
REAL REAL young me and my next door neighbor used to play “the two thing game”. You just pick two careers and jump on a trampoline pretending to do them. I was always like a Pokémon trainer and in the army, or something like that.
LurkingInferno · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got 5 seconds in the sun stare.
StormOJH · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scramble It: basically it, but played on a playground apparatus that was a tunnel made of rope, (holes just big enough to fit through it you went through the side). You weren’t allowed around the sides where the entrances to the tunnel were, and basically everyone would just slide under or climb over if the person who was up, who would be on the other side, made a move. Such a lit game, but we got told off so many times because it was ‘dangerous’ (primary school).
yeahnaabro · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Fry or Die’ whenever we got a helium balloon (birthday parties etc) we would use the static to get it to stick on the tv and then take it in turns getting electric shocks from it...
jdtrouble · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would have Homey sock fights, named after Homey the Clown from In Living Color. We would ball up socks into other socks, and then beat the crap out of each other with them.
littlebro11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in primary school about 14 years ago (while most of the other boys in our year would play football etc) me and like 10+ other friends would do team based imaginary shooting games together. We used to throw small things like twigs as ammo and large objects like bean bags as grenades. If you were close up to someone you could karate chop them to act as a knife kill. Last team alive would win.
tman777 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To pass the time when I was younger I would look out the window at the car registration plates as they went past and calculate the number I'd need to add to the plate to make 1000 before it went past. E.g. E657 6XD would be 343.
Now as an adult I'll randomly see a number plate and remember this game and curse myself for the next 5 minutes as I can't help adding numbers up to 1000.
It's the mathematical curse equivalent of consciously breathing and now I pass it on to you.......
PKMNTrainerDiamond · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called Zat Game. Essentially we would run back and forth across my cousins basement. The person who was it would have to peg the other people with kickballs or nerf bullets or things like that. It was fun but really dangerous because his basement was unfinished so there was metal beams and concrete everywhere.
OatmealStew · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ruggaball". We would line a room with mattresses we'd found and throw a ball in the middle. Then proceed to just beat the absolute shit out of each other, fighting over the ball. There was no point or time system. Just whoever seemed to have had the ball for the longest amount of time until everyone gave up was basically the winner. Drew won every. Fucking. Time. He was tough as shit.
somadandangrywhatup · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Y’all ever played kick the can? or Infected? or Time bomb? classic night games.
w3rkman · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
all my wall ball players stand up
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends and I would go one walks with his dog and basically play a verbal DnD style game that we would go back to every walk and continue. We kinda just stopped one day, but it was great.
ck2d · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Winnebago. We'd set two chairs up in front of a window and try to tell each other the most outrageous travel stories. First one to crack up lost.
guthepenguin · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drunk driver. We had a trampoline with a net and one of those big fisher price cars from when we were younger. A bunch of us would bounce the car and try to not get hit.
heavymetalandtea · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Corn Wars...
We lived on a lot in the country, surrounded by farmers fields. Every few years the crop would be corn. My two brothers and I would go out into the corn fields once it had grown tall enough that we were completely obscured and run in different directions. There was something you would yell (I forget what exactly) and everyone would have to pause and yell back. Based on this yell and the sound of a hyperactive 10 year old running recklessly through a corn field, we would pluck a corn stalk out of the ground, root ball covered in hard soil, and huck the fucker as hard and as high as we could in the general direction of a brother, with the intention of the game being to hit them.
Basically a dangerous redneck cross between Marco Polo and lawn darts.
It's lucky, looking back, that in the many years we played this we never once hit each other. The root ball and soil on our leafy green javelins probably weighed a pound or more and was most likely full of stones. If one of us took one to the skull, it could have quite possibly knocked them out or at least hurt them really bad. I cringe at the thought of taking a jagged piece of rock in the eyeball. We were 3 children, 4' tall in the middle of a 7' tall corn field that stretched on for hundreds of acres, oh, and did I mention the coyotes?
No one would have been able to find us if we were out cold. Hell, even if someone was screaming it'd probably have taken a while. But when you're 10 years old growing up n the middle of nowhere, you don't think about shit like that.
Achiral94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was growing up, my grandpa had an old game console that played ataari games. My favorite was dig dug. I loved dig dug so much that my 3rd grade friends and I developed an outside game that could be played on the lines of the basketball court. It was basically tag but the diggers could only run on the white lines and the dragon could cut through them, to tag you and make you the dragon. The number of dragons increased until all diggers were dead.
Well, I had a bad habit of not putting the dig dug disc back in the case and box when I switched it out for other games....so I broke it when I stepped on it one day. He didn't get angry, but he was disappointed I didn't take better care of the game since it was technically irreplaceable. I felt so bad about it and I remember going to school the next day and telling my friends we couldn't play the tag version of Dig Dug anymore. Since I broke the disc, I also "killed" the game...
my_third_account · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Chinese Fire Drill although it was nothing like getting out of your car and running around. It was large-scale hide and seek with a group of friends and their parents. The parents would be driving around in a van and us kids would be hiding around an area within a few blocks boundary. This was a very small town so I don’t see how this could be feasible in most places.
Nocolas · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During heavy storms, tropical storms, or hurricanes my dad, brother, and I would be in the garage and play "truth or dare" which was actually just challenging each other to run outside and touch something and run back. Like a neighbor's mailbox, or bushes, or a parked car.
OlipieTrix · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had a trampoline that we played a game we called "dodge the ball" on. We would basically throw a soccer ball or two onto the trampoline with us, and the idea was to dodge it for as long as possible as it rolled towards you constantly. Whoever was out last won. Was a lot of fun honestly, especially when we threw multiple balls into the mix.
RymalBryant · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would take a bouncy ball and hit it in the ground as hard as we could and we would try to track it down and whoever got it was the next to throw it
slghterhouse · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would pretend he had terrible (I’m assuming overly exaggerated) Tourette Syndrome. I was his caretaker and had to put him to bed, perfectly flat on his back, legs and arms straight. Tuck him in under the covers all proper like before social services showed up to monitor how well I was taking care of him.
He would flail around randomly, making it almost impossible to get it right. Never mind putting the covers on and tucking him in nicely. Things would always end up a total disaster with our whole bedroom a mess. It didn’t help that he’s 8 years older than me. Made for very heavy legs and arms.
It would end with me trying to smother him with blankets just as social services showed up and I would lose my job. Lots of laughs though.
Tw_raZ · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
6+ kids would stand in a circle and the kid in the middle of us would have a blindfold. The goal was to switch positions with other kids in the circle (not adjacent to you) but you couldnt get caught. How would you get caught? The kid with the blindfold could shout and raise the blindfold in intervals of at least 5 seconds to try to catch someone, but if they messed up 3 times in a row without getting it right once then they had to sit out and a new person went in the middle. If you got caught, you were thrown out, it was basically last 2 people standing win.
GSJacket · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "Pokémon" with my younger siblings, where they would run around the living room and I would just pelt them with super bouncy balls. The sick fucks enjoyed it more than I did.
melonhop · 1 points · Posted at 16:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animals in the dark - basement would be dark and we’d pick an animal run around and hide. Attack each other if necessary.
LuminalAstec · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "blob" my older brother get under a hunger blanket, sit in the middle of the stairs and we would have to try and get through, over,around, basically make it to the top or get thrown down. It was shocking that none of us were ever more injured.
Mendzo · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and i liked to play lego Roleplay as a child And i was basically the mayor and control the economy and value of lego weapons,buildings, etc.
skrizzzy · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this with kids when I was a camp counselor. We had a large barrel and everyone would link hands in a giant circle around the barrel. If you touched the barrel, you were out and had to leave the circle. So basically you had to drag people into the barrel or use your legs to kick them into it. The large circle would usually work together to get others out. Then the circle of people got smaller and smaller until two people had to try to drag the other person into it while everyone watched and cheered. I loved that game.
Kenso33 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A bit late to the show:
Me and my cousin would take a super bouncy ball (small), go into the bathroom, lock the door and then proceed to throw the ball with all the force our small child bodies could produce, into the wall/floor/bathtub.
The goal was to cause as much havoc and destruction as possible (mostly knocking over bottles). It was insanely fun seeing this ball bouncing EVERYWHERE with the speed of light. We got into so much trouble everytime we did this.
czanskyj · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Scout troop used to play Irish Bulldog - you start with someone in the middle, everyone else tries to run across without being tagged. You tag someone by picking them up off the ground, which usually involves tackling them to the ground first. If you're tagged, you join the person in the middle.
We also played a navigation game where we had to take a compass bearing to a point at the top of a hill, hike/run up the hill through the woods, and find the leader who was hidden there before the other teams.
Freed0m42 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im not the kiddo but the parent here, my daughter is 4 and I have her a few nights a week, when i have her we always have to play "princess games" where we reenact scenes from Disney movies usually with them playing in the background. She has dresses for each of them so dresses up and we will like dance around with her as cinderella and me as the prince or Belle and the Beast, or ill be one of the bad guys and chase her around the house. Shes OBSESSED with Beauty and the beast right now so we usually play that.
Lynneschulz · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad gave us a rubber cuboid object (not sure what it was) and called it a Maja Ball (can't explain that either). When you stood in a circle, and threw it on the ground, it flew in any direction. The object (or lack of) was to try to catch the fly Maja Ball and then throw it back onto the ground and the next person tries to catch it wherever it flies. You know I might still have my Maja Ball somewhere around here.
littlekamikazi · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called Ammunition. My siblings and I would hunker down behind one of the two twin beds in our room, and my sister would place her very large basket of stuffed animals in the middle of the room between the beds. The object of the game was to get to the basket, get as much "ammo" as you could carry, and get back to cover. After that it was basically just dodge ball with stuffed toys. We played this all the time and had tons of fun doing so. Fond memories!
brandon_f221 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a childhood game, but played as a team building exercise in high school: hotdog tag. Essentially freeze tag, but if you got tagged, you had to lay on your back and day “I’m a hotdog.” Other players could unfreeze you by laying on either side of you facing each other (the hotdog buns) and say, “you complete me.” Embarrassing at the time, hilarious looking back on it.
King_of_Actor · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was in a club called happy water with 2 other people in it in elementary school. We had a game where the first person that day to say “penis vagina buttwhisker” would be crowned “happy water.”
The happy water club also played this game in the sand box where we would walk around the outside of the sandbox. Every so often we would run across the sand box and yell “boots.”
Also, every time you talked while in happy water you had to speak with a weird speech impediment.
pumpkabo · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the Torchic, Eevee, Pikachu Hiding Game. It had nothing to do with Pokémon. My friend’s house had a row of large shrubs in the front yard. One person was the Seeker and the others would hide behind the bushes. We had numbered the bushes, and the Seeker called out a number and if someone was behind the bush they lost and became the next Seeker. I liked to spice it up by crawling quietly to a bush that had already been called out in an attempt not to get caught.
envyotcoast · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Iraqi war prisoner. A bunch of us would essentially pick straws and the three short ones had to stand on the other side of the room with pillow cases over their head facing towards the opposite wall. The big straw got to be The General. The lights were then turned off, our crimes were detailed, and the general threw a tennis ball towards one of the prisoners as hard as possible, usually at the nuts
vqmatt · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a game called, "Head Wars". Kind of like tug of war, but we would put our foreheads together and push until one of our head crossed the losing point, which was usually an imaginary line.
theravensrequiem · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost. Inverse of hide and seek. One person (The Ghost) hides while everyone counts at the base for a minute. Then everyone splits up to look for the ghost. Once the ghost is found everyone is alerted and has to get back to the base before they are tagged by the ghost. You pick the initial ghost with doggy doggy diamonds/eenie meanie/one potato/ect. If the ghost doesn't catch anyone three times in a row you draw again.
jerseyjabroni · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dont get your balls stuck on the table”
The 2 players kneel at the ball return side of the pool table. One is stripes the other solids. Take turns trying to roll your balls into the corner pockets at the other end. First one to get all their balls stuck on the table loses.
Stripes uses que ball Solids uses 8 ball
MiamiPower · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow my childhood imagination + free thinking free time = AWESOME Sauce
guywhoclimbs · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Slapping Game, for 2 players. One person rolls a dice and if the other player correctly calls out the number it lands on, he gets to slap the roller of the dice. The winner was whoever could take the most slaps without giving up.
dunkedyretvalnoed · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In school when we were about 12-14 years old, me an my friends (10 boys) played a game with two balls always the same balls, one was a fully pumped leather football, the other was a semi deflated basketball. We then played the game which had one objective to kick the ball nearest to you as hard as possible at anyone you see, so we’re just there in a little (street football field) - don’t know if it’s correct in English. And this field had walls and bars on top so the balls wouldn’t fly out. And the game as said only had one purpose, hit someone fucking hard with that ball, hit the face he’ll yeah high five from everyone but the downed kid.
And btw I know the thing about the downed kid sounds like we were bullies or smth, but we definitely were not and everyone in the game were on equal footing.
Ps. Sorry for lack of punctuations and commas, not very good at it in English.
hjonk · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snake in the grass on my wrestling team! People in the middle had to be on their hands and knees and people on the outside had to put a hand on someone in the middle. Someone on the outside would tell a story until they said “Snake in the grass.”
After that everyone on the outside would break away running, but everyone in the middle would have to crawl hands and knees and try to tackle everyone who’s running.
SnivyXiang · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite game growing up was Monopoly. I’m pretty sure it was the first board game I got for a birthday and somehow I just got hooked. But the thing about Monopoly is that it’s long. And boring. And nobody wants to play it.
So little me decided to play it all by himself. I would set up all 8 players in a corner of my bedroom and just play the game as all 8 players, making trades to give each person a monopoly, exchanging money between each of the players. And on the the frequent chance I couldn’t finish one game, I would keep playing the same game for days and days until I finally finished. Maybe not the weirdest thing, but definitely weird.
Jcooney787 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, 3 sons, and nephew play nerf wars at my moms. It’s unique because they do it in the dark and my moms house is really big and there’s lots of places to hide and then ambush. I find a quiet corner and look at my phone cuz it can last for hours! They have done this their whole lives oh and my brother is going to be 30 this year so there’s that
PseudoArab · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The group of neighbor kids would build The Machine. We'd strap a bunch of wagons, garage wheelie cart, and such together with with bungie cords, and then have someone on a bike in the front to pull it.
Oh, and Boat Races. We'd all pick 1 piece of garbage/recycling, then run the hose for a bit from someone's driveway, then race our trash boats to see who could float to the sewer grate first. I longtime winner was Alec's flintstones push pop plunger.
Garwald · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The tennis ball game, one team was in a kids cabin/tree fort that was decently sized. It had a sliding door for the slide, a trap door with a rope, windows and the front door which you could open the top or bottom halves separately. And of course the whole thing was on 10 foot stilts with a ladder going up to the front door. The defending team had such a huge advantage. The attacking team would try to get into the cabin while each team was throwing tennis balls at each other. If you got hit, there was no "out". You powered thru depending on how much hits you could take. Classic move would be to climb the ladder, lean over to the right side, hanging on a window and peg tennis balls in point blank at the defending team. Broke my Nintendo advance because I took it up into the cabin depsite mom telling me not to.
Tl;Dr 2 teams, 1 defending, peg each other will tennis balls
mahpeinahpets · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "tag" but it had a twist. The person who was "it" could run and try to catch other people, but if someone makes eye contact with them, they have to freeze until the other person looks away. This kept my sister and I busy for hours.
armageddonFatale · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were two that really come to mind, these being "the sad game" and "walking into the wind." The Sad Game was simple, I would sit on the steps of my back porch and fake cry. That was all.
The walking into the wind game would involve me, and usually my dad, trudging across the back yard as if facing heavy winds. At random intervals, we would then melodramatically pretend to be blown away, spinning back across the yard. The person who didn't get blown away would call out to the victim, trying to ensure safety and attempting to mime help in whatever way, usually involving them also being blown back across the yard.
winston420420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"the trip up game" basically tag but instead of tagging you would kick the ankles of the person who was "it" while they were running. If they fell you were now it. Used to get pretty wild with about 30 kids playing at once. Think it got banned when some kid broke his wrist
Shamscam · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived on a decently sized yard that had a mini forest in the middle of it. My Dad did ease trough and worked with a lot of aluminium so there was a stockpile of scrap aluminium, he was also an alcoholic that would throw all his bottle caps in the driveway.
So we had an ability to make weapons and armor, and even a currency we could use. So we made up this larp, where we would fight bushes and tree's with our weapons, and then we would make armor and sell them for bottle caps. I remember one time in particular, where there was this garden that was really over grown with weeds due to lots of neglect, and we were mowing it down and then we got to the center and there was one huge tree we decided was the "boss" and when we hit it a huge wasp nest became disturbed and stung the shit out of all of us. We lost that battle.
Pizzasquid13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my cousins we would play a game called snapweiner and unlike the name suggests, it was basically 2v2 knee hockey, one goalie one forward, played with a size zero soccer ball where you could only slap the ball and not carry it. We built an arena in my basement with leftover drywall sheets we had from a bathroom remodeling. It was a very physical game with everyone on their hands and knees but even wth a cement floor somehow nobody ever got seriously injured. Ive asked my cousins and nobody is sure how we came up with the namez
The_Troll_Gull · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played pretty pretty princess with my cousin because she didn’t have anyone to play with when we were kids. Eventually my brother and other cousins joined in. Nothing wrong with three dudes and a girl rocking out necklaces, rings, earrings, and a tiara
far_star · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tap-tap hide and go seek. The rules were little like hide and seek, but there were a lot of differences. One person was "it" who would count while everyone else hid. When that person was done counting he would go look for everyone else but instead of trying to tag a person that was found, his job was to run to base and call out "tap tap I see far_star hiding in the tree" (for example). If he was able to call you out before you ran to base that was the same as tagging you. If you thought you were about to be called out you could choose to run to base early in which case his job was to get to base first and call you out before you made it to base.
Playing at night seemed to be a big part of this game. I've searched on the internet and have been unable to find similar examples of a game played this way.
Sand__Panda · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shovel Ball. It was a game me and my cousin came up with. It was baseball, kickball, lawn hockey, and dodgeball. However you played with a shovel the entire time.
It was pretty dangerous looking back, but it gave us something to do.
doggscube · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play fight by the road until a car stopped and then we would run.
I have brown hair and at the time I was bigger. He’s a redhead and he could take me down in a second now.
lorealjenkins · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically a game of tag by throwing a pillow case
We called it poo poo pillow
Whoever gets hit with the poo poo pillow have to chase others and throw the pillow at
Lots of childhood memories with cousins in granpa old house. Lots of screaming, broken furnitures and vase and a whole lotta of whoopass by our parents
P1umSauce · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mermaids. My grandma had a 5 foot deep above ground pool when I was growing up. When my friends and cousins were around we would tie our ankles together, usually with a hair tie or an elastic. We’d spend hours swimming around like “mermaids”, doing mermaid tasks like holding our breath and collecting pennies from the bottom of the pool.
hugh495 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mud bomb wars.
When the wheat fields are harvested, they leave behind around 20 to 30cm of stem that's still rooted in the mud. If you grip a handful and pull it up your left with a handle with mud on the end, perfectly designed for flinging.
The loser is the one that gets covered with the most mud
oliviablunt · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During the summer me my sister and two cousins(who were sisters) would always stay at our grandmas house. My grandpa had hung this string with a fish bobber at the end of it in the garage so he knew how far to pull up in the garage. (He drove a hole in the wall a few times before thinking of it) When we would get too hot outside or it was raining we would go into the garage and hit the bobber around and would yell out random things. We coined the genius name of “Bobber Ball”. Best fun we’ve ever had.
Dallasjw · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bang" we ran around with sticks pretending they were guns... if you yelled "bang" you'd have to yell out the position and clothing of the person you are theoretically shooting at. If they were right you were considered to be shot.
Good times
PM_ME_ZoeR34 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Sleeping Game. One person is asleep and the other person has to wake them up. It went gay real fast.
GuyrimStark · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon..but not the game. My best friend and I would walk all around our neighborhood and our woods like we were ash and brock. We would use the oldschool gameboy cases as pokeballs and kind of like a dice. You would say what move you were using and throw the case and if it landed open side up you landed your move if it landed open side down the opponent dodged your attack. We used the same mechanism for catching pokemon, it was glorious.
MRod32 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide n’ seek dodgeball! It’s exactly how it sounds. A bunch of us would hide and whoever was “it” would count to 50 or whatever and they’d have a dodgeball with them. If the person who was “it” found someone hiding, they would have to peg them with a dodgeball to get them out. Dodgeball rules applied though! So if you caught the ball when it was thrown at you, you could throw it far away from whoever was “it” and run away.
Those who were hiding that made it back to where “it” was counting without being hit were safe!! Last one pegged is “it” the next round. If no one gets out then the original person is “it” again.
I’ve never heard of anyone else playing this but I could be wrong. This led to so much fun growing up and so many fun memories. We’d normally just play in and around our cul-de-sac.
mhelgy · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego car smash. By brothers (3 of us total) would for hours attempt to build the strongest car. Once we were all done with our cars we would do 1.2.3 and roll them as hard as we could head on at each other. We would do this until 1 car could still roll. Then we would restart the process and the winner could repair his car. We had a lot of fun playing that! Lol
Gnome_Chumpski · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turn your phone upside down. 👌
stfu_whale · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, cousin and I used to play a game called "cockroaches" where we'd tale these plastic golf clubs, pretend they were guns, and ran around the house killing giant invisible cockroaches. The funny thing is we never had real cockroaches in the house so I have no idea how we came up with the theme.
NboFoSho · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will probably get buried and never seen but I have a story of a game me and my older sister played that wasn’t unique, but the outcome was...
True Detective. Which is a classic every kid played... however, me and my sister played it a bit differently. Drugs were bad in a spot near our neighborhood growing up (nobody close to us was into it, there was basically just a single street a few blocks down of those druggie-houses everyone knew to steer clear from) and me and my sister got intrigued. We always wanted to go out and solve the mystery of where the drugs were hidden. Of course, we never found anything and ended up being clue after clue. So just as any other day, we packed our pockets full-stock of all mystery solving equipment and we set off to patrol “the ‘hood”. We always did a perimeter search and sometimes we would walk to the stop sign where you’d take a right to go down drug lane, but we’d never actually go down the road. It was like the Finding Nemo scene of “touching the butt”, but we would never touch the butt. However, today? We touched the butt. We decided to go down this beaten up road, but not too far. An abandoned warehouse and a giant shed were about a block down the road so we decided to not go any further. In our favor, right next to the shed was an alley way that lead to our backyard we would use as quick escape rather than going back to the stop sign and then towards home. So we begin our investigation of the abandoned warehouse, looking all over just the outside area - we couldn’t get inside. After searching around and finding nothing, I walked over to the mailbox that was used for the warehouse when it was in action, and I found an aluminum foil ball inside. Me and my sister couldn’t have been more excited for finding a potential major clue. As I start unwrapping it, tiny green leafs begin to fall out all over the ground (which I soon after learned to be marijuana, but at the time had no idea what it was because I was so young) and some lady drives by and screams at us like, “HEY! Don’t fuck with property that ain’t yours! GET OUTTA HERE!” So we drop the foil wrapping and book it down the alley straight towards home and we never played True Detective again.
TheSchnozzlnator · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still play this game called Night Crawlers. It’s like me and Frank crawling around the apartment at night.
TheUnstoppableAnus · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would turn off the lights in the school bathroom and beat the shit out of each other.
LordZephram · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Remember Chicken Invaders, the old Windows Galaga rip-off? Well, my friends and I would recreate it on the playground. The four of us would sit under a picnic table like it was a cockpit and make gun noises for the entire recess. Nobody even played as chickens, we all just sat in a row under a table going "PEW PEW PEWPEW"
Good times.
_ThereWasAnAttempt_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway had doors at each end. Used a mini hockey stick to shoot a bouncy ball at the far end, and tried to block it like a goalie upon its return. Sibling inside one of the rooms didn't really appreciate it, but, shrug
EvanlynnAlmighty · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i’m probably late, but we used to play ‘Zero-G Ball’ where would have one of these and some old plastic/metal poles from my garage. I had a big open rectangular front yard which was perfect for games. The ball would start in the middle of the yard and we’d charge at each other with the poles trying to pick up the ball. You could steal from each other, pass it to team mates, but the ultimate goal was to throw it onto the roof of my house. When it rolled off it would naturally expand and you’d get extra points if you could catch it. In retrospect a bunch of kids with metal poles running around without any protective gear was probably super dangerous but it was super fun and a great memory.
Oh_hi_doggi3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im sure other people played it but when I told my friends about it they never heard of it.
Lava Tag!
Its like hide and seek the people who hide have to hide on the jungle gym and can NOT touch the ground which is 'lava'
The seeker has their eyes closed and is allowed on the ground. They have to find someone and tag them so they can be the next lava seeker.
The hiders make a noise here and there to give the lava seeker clues.
ThisIsHowItStartss · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Revolutionaries”. Two of us were the government and two us were a famous revolutionary (I always liked to be Che and my sister was always Patrick Henry, for example). We ran around and played hide and seek with guns. I guess it was like cops and robbers. I’m pretty sure this was taught to us by my dad because he was into that kind of thing but I don’t remember.
hyperham51197 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called Death Pack. It was the pack full of death. When I was like 10-12, my older cousin who was in high school and his friends would all come down with us to our river house. Also before I explain how to play, I highly recommend this game to anyone who doesn't mind getting hurt.
We'd all stand in a circle, usually about 6-8 people. We'd begin juggling a soccer ball in between ourselves (soccer juggling, not hand juggling). Once we get to three good passes to different people without touching the ground, we'd all jump at the ball, usually tackling each other for it. The person who managed to grab the ball had to stand still, but everyone else was allowed to dodge, run away, etc. The person who grabbed it would chuck the soccer ball as hard as he could at someone, and if they got hit, they were out.
There's a few nit pick rules.
Usually games went by pretty fast if someone caught the ball. And I don't mean that the game was over fast, I just mean everything was fast paced. Get third juggle --> Someone grabs the Ball --> Throws the ball at nearest person at mach 7 --> catches ball --> throws at someones else. All happens in about a 5-10 second time span. It was always a load of fun.
The reason it's called Deathpack is because it was the pack full of death. There were a lot of parts that hurt. Such as the rolling around on the ground trying to get the ball, or sprinting away and getting pelted in the back of the head by a white comet shooting through the air. I remember multiple times where I got a bloody nose from getting hit in the face. I wouldn't mind playing it again sometime.
Wackomanic · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When a friend stayed the night, and my parents let us sleep in the living room, we used to pile the bedding at the bottom of the stairs. We played a game where we'd jump from the stairs into the bedding. Whoever could jump from the highest step without hitting the door at the bottom won. I hit the door once, and my parents shut that shit down.
raibk · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"the professor and his sidekick!" single player mode
The professor is my right hand, his sidekick my left hand. Both standing on their "feet", pointing and middle finger. They had to figure out how to get to secret places...
... like the top shelf of the cleaning cabinet or wardrobes! Climbing and helping each other out, using tools they find and so on. They also helped me through food I disliked by digging paths on the plate to create some sort of labyrinth.
Those were the times
PloxtTY · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tremors. We’d put sleeping bags on and run around chasing each other blind
AmongClovers · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would lay on my parents' bed (they had a bigger TV in their room so we hung out in there a lot) on his side, facing out. I would have to kick him in the back/legs until he fell off the bed, while he tried to stay on. If he lasted til I tired out, he won.
Surfin--Cow · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would force us to play the cringey game at dinner: 'high low's' where we basically share our high (good) and low (bad ) points of the day.
azura26 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure how much of a "game" it was, but back in elementary school me and a friend used to use magnets to go "scavenging" for iron filings by sifting the magnet through the the sand that would accumulate where the road meets the curb. By the end of the summer we would have entire Tupperware containers full of the stuff. I think it was one part a fascination with magnets, one part the thrill of basically playing Minecraft 20 years before the game existed.
nickzpollard · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little, if my Mum ever needed to go to the supermarket, and my grandmother was in the car, odds were that we'd be left behind in the car with my grandmother looking after me.
I would then take the driving seat, I would grow up, and Nanny June became 'Annabelly'. We would always be on a journey to the local caravan park (Bashley) for a holiday. We'd go on some good adventures in a stationary car in a grotty car park.
bgbtrain · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and i made up a game called Scary Wary. Our house had a very long hallway with lots of doorways in it. One of us would hide in a doorway and the other had to walk down the hallway and not yell when the other jumped out and tried to scare you. If you made it down the hallway without getting scared or yelling you got a point.
eljefe364 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swingball!!! I was in my mid to late teen years and come from a big family. Always nephews and nieces around and sometimes they needed something to do other than annoy me... So I invented Swingball! Similar to baseball, but the "batter/batters" were on the swing set and had to kick the ball while swinging. Now, since I was older and more athletic, I would time the pitches to where they could not be kicked all the time. I would time several pitches to where they would hit the kids in the face, which was a "do over". If I hit them in the torso, it was a strike. If they missed while kicking at the ball it was a strike. If they ball was kicked and caught in the air, it was an out... If they kicked a grounder, there were bases to run around, which gave me the opportunity to hurl the ball at them in hopes the timing was perfect enough to trip them up... Ball of choice was typically a volleyball... This was invented around 1984ish, and I played it with my kids when they were younger, with less face hits. To this day, it is still a topic of discussion at family gatherings...
gracierose1014 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend had a game that we both swore up and down was 100% real. It went on for years, and basically it was that we could both see spiritual creatures no one else could. There were enemies and friends, we fought battles and explored areas, we even had peace treaties with some of the enemies. It was super complicated but we kept with it and kept playing it and always insisting it was real.
hollisterrox · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodge hoe.
We only played it twice. Also, I now know what my bones (at least toe bones) look like. Wetter and whiter than you would expect.
ElephantAirplane · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Over my grade school years I came up with various games that we played during recess.
Two Towers
In this game the players are divided into teams and one player on each team is assigned as the tower. All the tower can do is stand there while players from the other team tries to roll balls at them. If a non-tower player got hit by a ball then they were dead, but their corpse could be laid on the ground in front of the tower in order to protect them.
Cheesy Ball
In this one the players are divided into two teams and stand on opposite sides of a large rectangular area. A kickball is kicked back and forth from side to side until one side fails to return the ball and it goes out of bounds. Everybody on the losing side then falls down while making a big exasperated sigh, takes a few moments to catch their breath, and then they get up, get the ball, and continue the game.
Cowchips
This one was actually a board game that used multiple chess/checkers boards as well as chess, checkers, and backgammon pieces. Each player had a board and a full set of chess pieces, arranged as usual, and the goal was to kill the other opponents kings. Chess pieces could be moved as usual and backgammon pieces were used as defense barriers. A player could use a checkers piece to launch an attack at an opponents king, either by sliding it along the board (like as when playing Bloody Knuckles) or by kicking it like a paper football.
Boardwalk
This was essentially Four Square, but instead of 4 squares arranged into a bigger square we played on the parking spots in a parking lot, all lined up in a row. The player all the way at one end was the king, next to them the queen, then jack, and so on. Rules were the same as four square, but every time someone with a higher rank than you got out everyone would slide up the totem pole one rank and the person that got out had to go all the way to the bottom, on the complete opposite side of the king, and have to try and fight their way back up to the top again.
Arowana
On the school playground there was this wooden pole that had 6 metal pole loops sticking out of it at oblique angles, 3 upper and 3 lower, that essentially formed 6 oblique hoops that were big enough to fit a ball through. So we would play 3 on 3 games where goals through the upper hoops were 3 points and the lower ones were 2 points. There was a certain radius around the pole that you had to be outside of when shooting.
Edit
Oh I almost forgot, at home I would pick empty pop cans out of the recycle bin, fill them up with water, and then wack them with my dad's golf clubs. Not really much of a game, but fun as hell on a hot summer day. My dad was not pleased with his destroyed clubs though...
Edit 2
Oh, and I didn't even tell you about the only game I still play! It's a game to make long car rides go by a bit quicker called "Things and Stuff." Whenever you see a vehicle either pulled over or just sitting there on the side of the road you either count it as "things" or "stuff." "Things" would be people doing stuff, like pulled over and on the phone, or changing a tire, or looking under the hood or whatever. "Stuff" is just things sitting there, like abandoned cars. The way you can remember the difference is "Things is people doing stuff, but stuff is just things."
crepitus8848 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I use to read and collect choose your own adventure books. When bored we would lay all books and then choose one book each turn until all are chosen. We then wrote on sheets of paper all monsters inside each books with their stats and then do a kinda of battle royale between books. Dead monsters stayed dead and surviving one had chance to heal with 6 dice. Winning books were put aside and played against other winners with their remaining team.
If my memory doesn't play tricks on me, the book Island of the Lizard King by Ian Livingstone was the one with the strongests monsters and we had to put it aside or split monsters between us otherwise it was almost a sure win.
sly_elixir · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a blind basset hound and my friend and I would play keep away from her outside. Also the ground was lava so we'd have to hop on the swingset or playhouse porch to get away from her. It was actually pretty mean I suppose.
Tom-Pendragon · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
RuneScape, still play it. Both version and as a btw and a hcimbtw and a uimbtw :)
trophicmist0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One-,Two-Three. Involved 2 or more people jumping on a trampoline, and then on the count of three jumping on your bum, depending on who landed first the other would be sent flying up in the air (that person loses)
p_giggles · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite game was "throw this ball into the fan and don't get hit by it"
versicoior · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Elastic Wars"
Back in the days, we owned these things called "moon shoes", which were essentially plastic frames covered in elastics that you'd wear on your feet to jump higher. I think it was meant to be some sort of trampoline alternative but it sucked hard.
So instead of using the shoes for their original purpose, my older brother took the elastics out and sniped my cousins and I at random moments. So we started doing the same, and eventually we started building forts out of kids toys and furniture, firing away behind our walls.
Good times
Owenn04 · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Badminton baseball
Basically someone would stand in the driveway with a badminton racquet and a pitcher would throw the birdie as high as possible. There would be 1 to 2 outsiders because it depends on how many friends you have over. Basically the cars on the streets are the bases. After your turn you would become the pitcher and would remember where you were. REMEMBER THERE WAS NO TEAMS IT WAS EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES. Anyways when you were a hitter and you hit the bird the outsiders could not move before you got to your previous spot, but they could catch it. There were a couple more rules that we probably made up on the spot but I don’t remember them
JXQX · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’d go to the bed room with my uncle, he’d blind fold me and we’d play “carrot or cucumber.” It was kinda hard to tell sometimes cause he’d put it in so much i really couldn’t taste what it was.
T3ABAGG3N · 1 points · Posted at 16:27:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wood chip. Everyone would try and hide on a playground, and whoever was “it” had to wear a blindfold and try to tag somebody. If you hear someone touch the ground, you can call “WOOD CHIP” and that person would be “it”. If you call wood chip and nobody was on the ground, however, then the “it” would have to go back to the start and everyone would has the chance to move positions
R00TT00R · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cops and Robbers. A violent game of tag where people were caught and dragged by force to " jail" (a designated wall) and robbers had to free them by tapping, without getting caught and thrown in jail.
Later banned from the playground and creatively renamed to "Runawayers and catchers" Then "Wolves and sheep"
In a whole different game of cat and mouse against the schools authority.
Gutterlord · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, best friend and I would take off our shirts and wear them as pants and run around yelling Indian pants.
paragonemerald · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everybody grabs a billiard ball. Now head to the base of a hill and chuck your billiard ball up the hill as hard as you can, everybody all at once or one at a time, doesn't matter. Then run up the hill. Whoever got their ball the farthest wins that round. Now throw them down the hill as far as you can. Same rules. Run down the hill or roll down the hill after them. Then throw 'em back up. Repeat.
It was called [Family Name] Ball.
white_andrew · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Body Ball” we had a bucket against the house and a soccer ball. The only goal was to hit the bucket with the ball, there were absolutely no other rules.
So we would basically just tackle and beat the shit out of each other trying to get the ball.
MenacingBunny · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I had a trampoline. My brother and I would play this game called "Air Gladiator". Basically you had to push the other person to the ground and you won. The kicker was the other person had to be in the air to be able to get pushed. So yeah, was super dangerous but super fun. Worth the concussion.
drdige · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with 3 brothers, 2 of them younger, and we were obsessed with trying to destroy each others genitalia. We would have names for all the different strikes, all with oddly patriotic names. The bald eagle was an attack from behind where the attacker would try to punch the victims balls from between the legs, and lift the person up with their arm. No points or structure to the game, meaning it never ended, and we were always playing. Good times...
TheSunPeeledDown · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a made up sport that was 1/4 soccer, 1/4 lacrosse, 1/4 basketball and 1/4 hockey where you’d use a baseball bat to hit a basketball into the other persons goal while they defended it. If you scored the other person then had to either make a a free throw or “bowl” the basketball into your goal for a chance to remove your point. Also we’d take sleds you use on snow during the winter and instead take them down rocky or grassy hills during the summer. I actually have videos of it way back when.
LeFistOfKhonshu · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would put our feet together while we sat down and would stretch out our dads socks. Then, we would fill the long sock with more of pur dads socks and we would spin them around and hit each other with em.
franklsw · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Houdini”
We would tie each other to pool furniture and throw each other in the pool. Then you had to untie yourself before you drowned.
There were only a few close calls. Thank god none of us where competent enough with knots.
I still get flashbacks 20 years later... what a terrible idea.
EDIT:typo
kevlarbuns · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not at all unique really, but I miss dirt clod wars.
Burlythebackstabber · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a few! In the fall we would play Witch in the graveyard. Someone, the witch, would hide under a big pile of leaves and we would all circle around it singing until we woke up the witch, who would them chase us down. The first person caught was the new witch.
We played night hide and go seek, which is kind of crazy now that I think about it. We were anywhere from 6-12 yrs old. It would be 11-12 at night and we would hide in the dark, anywhere in this 6 house area. We wore all black clothes and occasionally would paint our faces black. Then we would spend forever trying to find each other. My one neighbor was kind of crazy and would climb on roofs, or lay in the darkest spot in the street or climb really really high in trees. I think about it now and wonder why little 6 year old me was running around in the dark at midnight.
BearJaysus · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So not exactly kids, but in highschool, we played a game called "Fugitive." Basically had as many people as possible running a couple of miles through neighborhoods from a starting location to a destination. The chasers were teams if two in a car that had to find them and tag them in which case they joined the chase. Largest game we had was about 80 fugitives and 20 chasers. Was a good time. Only one kid went to the hospital.
jalapeno_jalopy · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a solo baseball game. I would stand on the sidewalk and pitch a tennis ball at the stairs in front of the house. Depending on how the Bai struck the stairs determined the outcome of the pitch. If the ball glanced off the edge of the stairs and deflected backwards or to the side, it was a ball. If the ball hit just right in inside off the step, it made a satisfying "thock!" sound, it was a strike. Often the ball hit the stairs in a way that it flew out, which was a hit: grounders, pop flys, left/right foul balls, etc. Is chase the hits and then try to throw to a vacant first base. If I figured I got the ball there fast enough, the hitter was out. Every once in a while, the ball would hit the outside corner of the step and really fly. If it crossed the street, I considered it a home run. There was enough randomness in how the ball bounced off the steps, that it almost always keep the game interesting. I played entire seasons of games out there!
Hmm, I must played by myself a lot as a kid..
Necrotron6717 · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Lava Tag" as I called it (and semi-designed it).
Run across pillows (not touching lava) and avoid getting tagged. Get powers from huge bean bags, terrain modifiers from blankets, unique items with special effects, and stuffed animals that granted significant advantages (invincibility, hide for 3 seconds, chuck a black bear at tagger to stun them for 6 seconds). Entertaining until a new couch came down to our basement and made gameplay merely impossible.
Sirjestahlot · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would grab a big pillow and pretend playing super smash melee on it. Back then we didn't have a lot of money and we got to play every once in a time when we visited our cousin that lived far away.
SilentObjection · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it at the time, but I now call it the claustrophobic game. So we would get a whole bunch of blankets and comforters and lay them out. One of us would curl up in the fetal position in the middle, and the rest of us would tuck all the blankets in around the person curled up in a ball. There was no knot tying allowed, but it was best to not have the openings of the blankets line up. Basically the goal of the person inside was to get out quickly, and the goal for everyone else was to make that as hard as possible. The restricted movement and excessive warmth really made the game interesting.
RESPEKTOR · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Snake" we took all the plastic bottles from the recycling and threw em on the trampoline. The goal was to jump around without touching the bottles.
deckpumps_n_deldos · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super late to the party but we used to play a game called Gypsy, we were all orphan cats that lived under the dining room table & had to take care of each other.
Another game we played didn’t really have a name but we were always eating smarties & Calling then our Xanax - our moms were good moms don’t judge lol - anyway we had the Talkboy & would record these soap opera type stories where the woman always eventually got beat up and we would take turns smacking a magazine against a metal pole while screaming NO STOP PLEASE ILL BE GOOD (our playroom was a refinished basement)
Now that I reflect on it, someone really should of called the cops but we were living in Queens so nobody gaf, lol
milkmilklemonaid7778 · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pickle run. We would all stick pickles in our asses and try to run a baseball diamond. If the pickle falls out, u have to take a bite. First one to home base wins
LookAcrossTheWater · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Indiana Jones". You had to stand at the back wall of the garage then hit the button for automatic door to close. As the door got close to the ground you had to run and do a dive roll underneath it. Whoever could dive roll through the smallest amount of space won.
Ionicpear · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall ball. We took a decently sized bouncy ball and we would whip it as hard as we could at the walls of the school during recess. If you got hit or if you didnt catch the ball, you would have to run and touch the wall before someone else was able to throw the ball at the wall again.
OsamaBinNoodles · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made this game up for myself and my little cousins to play whenever we were at my grandmas house. We would pretend that the dinner table was a secret spy cave and the chairs were our computers. We would then run “missions” throughout the house, often having to fight off villains in her backyard. Good times❤️
LogicalPotatos · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Calvin Ball with my cousin's sometimes.
verysmallboiaccount · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Booby traps:
My sister and I would set up stupid “traps” trying to be like home alone and Indiana Jones in our bedroom and then we would have my dad walk through the gauntlet
FognatiousQuash · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin would play a game we made up called “Sharks and Minnows.” Im sure that names been taken but our version was a little different. We would both slide down our carpeted stairs on our tummies like penguins and if the Minnow can make it to the bottom of the stairs without getting caught by the shark he wins. This was our favorite game until one day I was the shark and I caught my cousin by biting his right butt cheek and made him cry.
CitizenHuman · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not as unique as I once thought, but if there was a balloon, we would keep hitting it to keep it from hitting the ground. It got pretty competitive.
Salaundre · 1 points · Posted at 16:28:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was 16 but Pikmin was the most unique game I had played.
charlesnew1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a spitting game. There was a water fountain that we would drink from by the playground and fill our mouths with and basically play tag by spitting on people if you were "it" to tag them. We had to stay in the playground limits. The increased range and having to really dodge the spit-water was what made it really fun. Yeah, it was gross but we were young and didn't care because it was damn fun anyway.
Macialdo100 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would pretend I was like a runner game character and roll around the walls of my house.
I must admit I still do it to this day, even in public.
dusty_birdy · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my 2nd grade fellows thought we were cats and witches, in recess I've bitten and tackled more than I can remember... shameful but fun days
jellybeanmm · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The deck game. You would punt a ball of the deck. Then you would run off the deck and run around the house. Someone would have to run and get the ball and try to tag you. If you got hit by the ball, you would be the new person with the ball. The person who ran around the house the most won. (When they are not the ball person)
Samtay62 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The can game One team was on the trampoline while the other threw a ball at them. The trampoline team had to juggle the ball, you couldn’t touch the ground and hold the ball at the same time, while trying to throw a ball into a trash can
Ki1664 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
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Kcssful · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I had this game called “Hurt Woody” and we both had rag doll like Woody dolls from toy story which we would throw around constantly. We would throw them down the stairs, against furniture, and as high as we could. We were literally that mean kid from toy story.
alex8155 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
curb ball was really popular in my city when i was little.
you stand on one side of the street behind the curb and the other person does the same on the other side.
you take turns throwing a basketball at each side to try and hit the curb. the way the ball bounces off tells you if its a legit hit. it was a pretty fun game..i still see kids play it once in awhile
JeffMakesMovies · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Psycho Dog” (the origins of the name are unclear). The game started like tag with someone being “it” (the psycho dog). They would give everyone involved a 30 second head-start with their eyes covered like hide-and-seek. We would all run and hide. The trick was that instead of being tagged once you had “scratches”, like hit points in a video game. So you might only get scratches 2 or 3 times and make it away and those scratches would remain for that game. If you got scratched 5 times by the psycho dog you then became a psycho dog with them and helped them track down the remaining players till there was one person left standing.
Basically it’s a tag/hide and seek battle royale. It was such a blast to play during recess.
06_obxt · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I grew up way out in the country on about 20 acres so all we really did was play with sticks and make forts. Nothing too elaborate. A lot of role playing as G. I. Joes or medieval characters. There was a lot of wood laying around so the forts got pretty big and we had access to tools so we’d spend hours actually putting them together. Or just riding bikes, had a pretty nice bmx track going before we moved into the city when we got into our teens.
memelord_danketh · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Its a game i made and forget, it also had no name. It was a good game. Some sort of 3rth person shooter on paper
ck1994son · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mates were once talking about games we played as kids and a friend said "oh yeah did you guys ever do the thing where your mum would put you in the bin and tip you..haha"
We did not.
n0rsk · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Store Game
Basically we would each build tiny stores out of twigs rocks, etc and we would find cool stuff or services to "patent" (basically dibs). We would each start with 5-25 currency usually pennies and we would trade for good and services. My friend could build cool looking stores/houses out of twigs so he would always patent twig building, so I would always patent twigs. My other friend would patent rocks and would build a quarry in the rock drainage ditch. Another one of my friends would patent berries and make "paint" out of it. We would sit outside for hours building bigger and more elaborate stores to showcase our goods and try to amass the limited amount of currency, We would go into debt to each other which let the others foreclose on your store if all your debtors voted to.
Most of the rules we basically made up on the spot but the general idea was building a store to sell random shit we found and try to get wealthy.
Astyyria · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Evertwine". I lived in the countryside surrounded by woods and my friend lived a little ways away also with a huge expanse of woods. We used to go out into the forest and pretend we we're sister learning to fight and be warriors so when the time came for someone from another world to take us to be the heroes, we'd be ready. We fought imaginary enemies, spoke with the shadows in the woods, and created a whole fantasy world with a huge story. We always dressed up, often wearing cloaks and elaborate makeup, and spend hours upon hours in the woods.
We started carrying large sticks and sharpening them into points to stab. We learned archery and took our bows out into the woods. Eventually we got knives and real swords from yard sales or antique stores that we'd bring with us. My friend also bought a slingshot and we'd shoot down birds which we'd bring home to eat and use the feathers to make arrows. The forests were our home and we called our land Evertwine, because no matter where life took us, we'd forever be intertwined with each other and our world. This lasted from age 9 to age 17.
Usama_the_llama · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to dribble a basketball up and downstairs to see who could do it the fastest
SavegerAlex · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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menrraz · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jak 2
EjdSmith · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Adventure”
Not the most original name, but my brother and I had a sizable back yard growing up and my grandfather was a skilled craftsman so we always had loose boards and planks laying around. The goal of the game was to use pieces of wood to traverse the backyard toward our treehouse using only the boards, sticks and anything else we could find. You’d lay a piece down, travel across it, lay the next and then have to pick the last one up and hand it forward through the group to the front.
Seems pretty mundane as an adult but back in the day, it was the go-to game when we had the neighborhood kids over. I reckon most kids had a game something similar to this.
redder4546 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
40/40
trcndc · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would roleplay when we went to his house. We'd play things like "the alien game" or the "pokemon game". We were around 10 at the time, he'd be a pyromancer and I'd be an escapee lab subject with absurd power over kinetic energy and a failing intellect. Anything we could, we brought in to our game, maps from mmorpgs, to represent a space ship, legos as mechs and self-insert characters brought in from another roleplay world in legos. Sometimes it was all mental and we'd have familiars captured from places like the upper atmosphere of a gas giant. It was really fun to sketch out some of the things in this make-belief world, I'd show him and we'd just roll with it. Good times.
gamer_dad1102 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a paperboy as a kid, and got a free paper every day as part of my job. My brother and I would sit across the living room from each other, and take that folded paper, and toss it across the room and try and have it hit the non thrower in the nuts. We would do this for hours.
We were not smart. We still aren’t very smart, but we were definitely dumber as kids.
tr1p0d12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Garden Rodeo" I grew up very working class in rural New Hampshire, the 3rd of 4 boys. My folks always had a really large vegetable garden up on the back half of the property. By October, there would still be vegetables that you could not give away, can, or eat and they kind of rotted on the vine. The game was that you tied a 20 foot rope (6 meters) behind a small tractor and you laid down on your belly. Then one of the older brothers would drive the tractor in the lowest gear through the rotten tomatoes, squash, zuchinni... and we would time how long you could stay on. By the time the fun was over we would be coated in slime and mud and mom would hose us off behind the house. Good times. For the first year I typically played wearing a Canadian tuxedo, but we upped the game in year two and forced everyone to wear t-shirt and shorts. We skipped the row of raspberry bushes, but you never made it past the corn, it just hurt too much.
Calamari_Tastes_good · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 1st through 8th grade, I went to catholic school so I had to go to church on sundays and wednesday mornings. Sometimes a weeknight too.
During church, I had laser eyes. The ceiling was super tall with lights hanging down from long wires. I would cut those down and watch them smash on the ground. I'd burn through pillars and stained glass windows. Christmas and Easter were the best, so many extra things to destroy.
ThornsOriginal · 1 points · Posted at 16:29:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This has probably been done before, but me and my siblings always played a game we called "dizzy" where we just spun around really fast with our arms out and the last one to fall down won. My sister still has a scar from where she spun right into our fire pit (which was just a big rusty tire rim)
Strawberrycocoa · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if it counts as a "game", but I had a whole world of superheros that were in reality just miscellaneous junk from around the house that I repurposed into action figures. There was a whole mythos behind it: scientists had developed a compound called puttyshiite (real world item: a piece of caulking putty I found laying around) that would destabilize molecular structures when exposed to electricity (I wasn't sophisticated enough to phrase it that way as a kid, but I knew what molecules were, and I knew the puttyshiite broke them apart). This allowed puttyshiite to break apart any two or more items touching it when it became electrified, and when the electricty flow stopped the items would meld with the puttyshiite into a chimera item with new properties. My cadre of superheroes were all humans who had accidentally become merged with common objects in this manner, and became superpowered... stuff.
Speedster was a guy who got merged with his skateboard when a shipment of puttyshiite crashed and he got exposed to the stuff (real world item: a skateboard pencil sharpener). He could fly at supersonic speeds and shoot lasers from the taper on the front.
Puttywoman was one of the original scientists who developed puttyshite, who fell into a vat of the stuff and became a living blob of inert puttyshiite (real world item: more putty caulk). She had lost the ability to merge people and items but gained the ability to absorb and redirect energy into beam blasts, and since she was a blob she could deform and twist into shapes to access otherwise unreachable locations.
Ropeman was a guy who was holding a line of rope when he got exposed to puttyshiite and electricty (real world item: nylon rope). He could constrict people and slither at rapid speeds like a snake, and when he touched his head to his tail to form a loop he could turn himself into a pool of water deep enough to be a lake. This water was breathable, like liquid oxygen, and existed inside of him when he broke the loop, so he could also act as transport by having everyone dive into the pool then slithering away.
Slinknator was a guy that had been playing with a slinky on his desk when more puttyshiite happened (real world item: duh.) He was the team's strongman, possessing tremendous strength as long as he was coiled down (losing strength as he extended), and could stick either of his ends to a surface to either climb vertically like Spider-Man, or spring off it to jump great distances. He also had a ranged attack ability where he could touch his front to his back into a loop, and become basically a particle accelerator. In that form he could amplify the energy that powered him and launch a beam blast from the center, but he was immobile while charging and firing.
Cappy was a guy who had been merged with an acorn when he was napping under a tree (real world item: an acorn.) The "cap" on his head could act as a portal, and he could summon forth imaginary constructs from it to act as attack minions. Whatever he could imagine, he could summon. Basically Green Lantern, but an acorn.
The Spring Kids where three mischievous kids that joined the team at a later stage (real world item: three of those springy shoelaces they made for kids that could be threaded in to hold shoes on without needing to be tied). They were created artificially by accident when Puttywoman had Slinkinator and Ropeman allow some puttyshiite to absorb their energy then step away while she electrified it. They didn't get merged together, but the absorbed energy was enough for the puttyshiite to create coiled rope entities. The basically had Slinkinator's strength and ability to cling and leap plus Ropeman's speed, but at about half the power of the originals, and they didn't have the ability to do the water pool and beam blast moves.
Tomcat115 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock Wars! We live in Texas where it rarely ever snows, so instead we made our own game using rocks.
So, imagine snowball fights, but instead of snowballs, it was those “sand rocks” (basically loosely held together clumps of dirt and sand that exploded on impact). My brothers and I would play a “king of the hill” kind of game where we would take turns attacking and defending our little wooden playground. We stopped when one day, one of my brothers threw an actual rock instead of an aforementioned “sand rock” and hit my brother in the face. He was ok, but we decided to not to continue following that incident.
Xonadras · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would pretend we were these aliens that had super powers of whatever show we were into at the time. This went on for a couple years. There was also this massive tree, with really long vine like appendages we would go there with wooden swords and give the tree a haircut.
HeyItsChase · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spy vs Spy on xbox
I remember it being super complex unique. Probably wasnt
twoballsfloating · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I would stand at opposite ends of the road and shoot an arrow back and forth. We would try and catch it on the way down. I think my dad got more mad about us bending arrows.
L8professor · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in the Welsh valleys. Remember a game we had with a nonsense name, something like "lladddinow".
Group of players walk up to a guy with his back turned. The guy with his back turned can swivel about at any time while shouting "lladddinow!" Pretending to shoot us with his weapon of choice.
Group has to pretend to die in the most dramatic fashion.
Least dramatic death, as deemed by the gunner is eliminated.
Last man standing wins!
Zoidberg1028 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an old mini reel to reel tape recorder and we would record mock radio shows on it.
Yeahimahorse2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The fajita”
We had one of those matts that you put in the water and you can stand on, and me, my brother, and our neighbors would wrestle each other to try and wrap someone in the matt and sink it in the water.
ImGrumps · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Colored Eggs" basically it was a variation of tag.
The group consisted of a person that was "it" called The Big Bad Wolf plus the people that were trying to avoid becoming the next Big Bad Wolf (I assume that we were chickens but I can't remember.)
The group of kids would all stand together on a place that represented base and each individual person would pick a color that would represent them and as a group we'd pick one color that represented all of us.
The Big Bad Wolf's job was to guess a color and then that person with the color would have to run out passed a certain point and try and make it back to base without being touched by the wolf. Obviously more obscure colors gave us a better chance of not being guessed.
The game would start like this -
Bbw: Knock knock
Group: Whose there?
Bbw: The Big Bad Wolf
Group: What do you want?
Bbw: Colored eggs
Group: What color?
Then he'd guess a color and then keep going if he didn't guess one. If the Big Bad Wolf guessed the main color the group picked then everyone had to run! Often the wolf would then target the slowest person, as you do.
We played this at my daycare but I don't know if other people have played this or even heard of anything like it.
SapiNt · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played “nogginball.” It was played by kicking a football around like soccer and the rules changed weekly, generally to benefit myself. We tried teaching other people, but we were the only real masters of nogginball.
P7AC3B0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play "Living Room Olympics."
My parents had (still have, actually) a large sectional couch with 6 removable square cushions. My friends and I would take all the cushions off the couch, and create various "Olympic games" using them.
The Long Jump was when we put all 6 on the floor end to end, and we'd get a running start down the hallway while trying to jump as far as we could. There was no attempt to land on our feet, it was really just us jumping face first into couch cushions. The High Jump was similar; we just stacked the cushions up and tried to jump over higher stacks, toppling them in the process and landing ourselves on the floor.
Come to think of it, most of the "games" were just us jumping around and laughing at the various groans of agony we'd make when we inevitably landed on the floor. We were like 10 and Jackass had JUST come out, so naturally we recorded ourselves doing stuff like this. I don't have a VCR hooked up anymore, but I still have several tapes of my friends and I doing this kind of stuff.
FSUDaisy · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Marco Polo in the corn fields. We would all go to the center and 1 person was it. Then we would run out in all directions. It was the 80's middle of nowhere (Hale Center....literally the center of hell) nothing but fields around. Brothers wouldnt play with us girls after watching children of the corn.
Matt8992 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would "bend" the mattress. Sit on it and try to catapult each other across the room.
zwag44 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor with my uncle
giopio21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've got two! The first being what essentially escape rooms are now. My friend had a basement that wasn't finished and was filled with odds and ends. There would be about 4 of us planning out how the room looked and the different things you needed to do to "escape" while one or two of us would wait in another room. I remember one scenario where the ground was lava so you had to jump on different platforms/climb on the hanging pipes to get a key and escape. The second one was where my brother's and I would tape up a paper ball and smack it off the carpet in our hallway. The hallway was about 5 ft wide and about 30 ft long. It was essentially a soccer shootout but with a taped up paper ball and your hands. Good times.
winston420420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"beat the letter" two equal size teams. One team picked a word in secret and allocated a letter of the word to each member of the team, they then split up and hide. The seeking team had to track them down and beat the shit out of each member until they gave up their letter. Sort of like manhunt with mild torture
knives6969 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was Christmas Day and my brothers and I just got those motion detectors from “Spy Gear”.
One of us would set up the three motion sensors hidden underneath opened presents and boxes while the other two had to cross the room and reach the “boss” at the end of the room without tripping the hidden the sensors. We convinced our parents to leave the opened presents there for a week.
softcacti84 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate tennis. My younger siblings got bored playing real tennis, so I made a new version. We split up into even teams and everybody gets a tennis ball. At the count of three, everyone tries to hit their ball over to the opposite side. The goal is get all the balls on your opponents side and that ends the match. Plenty of exercise and never boring!
ninden · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm really late on this, but I love this question!
I was the second, naughty child and spent a lot of time with my nose in the corner. I created this space ship game while in there where I was a space station. I would press my forehead and body as close in to the wall as I could, creating as much darkness as possible. I would then position my hands toward the middle of my body and up against the wall, creating the airlock. I would command all sorts of missions with my hand airlock opening and closing to let the fighters or frigates or whatever in and out. It was some of my favorite alone time.
white_butterfly1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Takedown bulldog, so many broken bones.
jacket20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would hold wall hanging mirrors in front of us like a tray and look down into the mirror while walking so it looked and felt like we were walking on the ceiling and we’d have to step over the tops of door frames and walk around lights and ceiling fans. Stairs were trippy lol We never had a name for it though.
East2West21 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Around the block game. Hide and go seek but using the entire block both sides. Street is off limits. My neighbors hated us.
OneSpaghet · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Medabots GBA games as a kid. Best way to pass a childhood car ride. No guides to the games that I found to be accurate compared to observing the games themselves.
solehluna · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During summers in the 70’s, me & my best bud ‘Squid’, would save our popsicle sticks, break them in half, color & number them with magic markers, and float/race them down the curbside gutters in epic ‘America’s Cup’ style. Sometimes we goosed the current with our water hose if no one was watering their lawn. Back in those days, water was not considered something to ration.
muromega · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was a tiny kid i was probably way too into The Fast and The Furious and Gran Turismo. I would try to re-enact movie scenes and my favorite tracks of Gran Turismo in my dads backyard patio. Definently remember bringing my rug with the city and streets on it outside one time and have a huge cop chase for over an hour.
Absolutely legendary years.
shellzondabus · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can! We used to play in my friends backyard at night that had a bunch of surrounding woods. One person was “It” and the rest of the people would go hide. If you got tagged you were put in “jail”. If you managed to kick the can over everyone was freed from “jail”. We would have about 15-20 kids playing at one time. We played this even in high school when it turned into hiding with a girl you liked.
The_Russian_Empire · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers, me and my roommate get on the floor and turn off all the lights really fun when Dennis is being a bastard man!
kobomino · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snake wrestling
My uncle and I would play this game all the time. He would hide a toy snake down his underwear and screams "arrghh it's biting me!"
I have to try and pull it out before it spits the venom. I tried this game once with my dad and he said I can't see my uncle ever again.
Juiccyyyy · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mummy in a suitcase”. Basically 8-10 people in a room and one of them puts a sleeping bag over their body. The person in the bag has to avoid being tackled, and the person that makes the tackle then gets in the bag. Stupid fun!
lp0_onfire · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So, when I was in elementary school, we had this sweet wave-shaped jungle gym. It was sort of like this, but probably four times as wide, and totally free of paint.
During recess, we would take turns playing a game called "chicken fight." Two kids would free-hang from the higher portions of the bars, facing one another, and the goal was to kick the other player until they couldn't hold on anymore. Face-kicking was pretty much the only thing that was off-limits. And when I say off-limits, I mean kids pretty much just did it anyways. Fun times.
Steve5590 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “Monster Vision.”
We would go in the basement, turn off the lights so it was pitch black. The “monster” had a blanket over him and had to crawl on his hands and knees while the rest of us tried to run from one side of the room to the other. The monster had to try and grab you and take you down while you ran around. Its was always freaky trying to listen to where they might be crawling. Looking back, It’s shocking to me the monster never took a knee to the face haha.
caressyoursoul · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around 6, I would play spy by just sitting in the bush next to my house watching the neighbours and taking notes on what they were doing.
I also sat in my front yard writing down the number of cars that drove by and how many of each colour.
I was a weird child.
Liamcc99 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Piggy Game. We had a trampoline and a tree that cast a shadow on half of it. Essentially, the “pig” had to stomp the “farmer” to death before the farmer bonked them with a wiffle bat a couple times. The safe zone was the shadowy part of the trampoline; it gradually shrunk as the game went on.
-xMo · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soldier Front (SF) on ijji (a game portal website). I’ve logged a countless number of hours in between 7th-9th grade. Super fun watching montages (esp the Koreans on KSF).
Also played Gunz: The Duel & Alliance of Valiant Arms (AVA) on ijji as well. I miss those days.
jsheb121 · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a playground in elementary school and there was this rail with a handle on it that you’d hang onto and ride across on. The game we’d play was there’d be one person on each side. One person would hang on the handle and rock their body back and forth to gain momentum and then they’d fling the handle to the other side. The other person had to catch it or else they were out and someone else would take their place. The problem was the handle was metal, and this thing would go FAST. The school ended up banning the game because some kid broke his pinky trying to catch the handle.
SpiritedKaleidoscope · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to RP Avatar the last airbender but we were twin avatars, I was a primary earthbender, he was primary firebender. We played it allll the time, back when I was like 10 and he was 12, the good old days.
UWbadgers16 · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game with a foam basketball for one of those mini hoops that you can hang on a door. Basically I’d set up kneeling at the base of the stairs going to the second floor and throw the ball all the way to the top of the staircase trying to get the ball to hit between each step all the way down (where two steps meet at 90 degrees). You basically win if you can hit every step all the way down in sequence. If I had a straight staircase, I’d still play that today probably.
DrMaxwellEdison · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister left the dinner table to go outside and play, I raced after her. I played a "game" where I didn't want the screen door to shut behind her before I got to it, so I could just run straight outside.
Well, it shut just in time, my hand and the rest of me went through the glass, and I dangled in the frame by my leg for a few seconds. Thankfully all I got was a gash on my inner thigh, though it was pretty deep. Rushed to an emergency room and got stitched up. Still got a scar down there, about six inches away from the nutsack.
lotionformyelbows · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate Tag:
1 player in the middle with a pillow case over their head, trying to tag the other players.
2-4 players are armed with pillows and hit the person in the middle as hard and often as they can without getting tagged.
If you get tagged, it’s your turn in the middle. Stoppages are allowed only for crying or debilitating ball shots.
Good times!
En_lighten · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins' basement was basically in the middle of the house, meaning it had absolutely no windows at all. There were couches, chairs, even some weight equipment and stuff, and there was one stairway down to it at the end of the long, skinny room.
When we were kids (under 10), my 3 cousins and my brother and I used to play this game where one person was 'it' and would start at the top of the stairs and then we'd turn off the lights and the goal was to try and get to the top of the stairs without being tagged in the pitch blackness. It was a lot of fun, but looking back, we probably could have gotten hurt in a lot of ways. Never did, though.
LurtztheSummoner · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister ran a restaurant for stuffed animals by "cooking" and "feeding" them a mix of smaller plastic animals and toy food.
Cei1ing_Fan · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, my friends and I would get a bike pump and a blanket. We could cover the blanket over us and pump air under the blanket until we got dizzy or until we were unable to breathe. The person that lasted the longest won. Yeah, we were dumb af. I actually enjoyed it too.
halcyon_rawr · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't really have a name for this, but my sisters and I used to run if we saw a car coming down our street. There wasn't any real reason, it wasn't a safety thing. The idea was, you couldn't be touching the ground within sight of the street when the car passed. So, you could try and time a jump, or you could run to the bumper of the truck in the drive and climb on, or down the driveway and hide behind the truck, or around to the back door and sit on the stoop. I still avoid cars out of habit when I'm at my parents' house. Another one was 'Crack the Egg.' On a trampoline, the 'egg' sits in the center with their knees tucked in, arms over head. Everyone bounces around them, trying to make the person in the middle land hard enough that they can no longer hold thenselves in form. Naturally, this game eventually ended with my sister landing hard on their head, as we'd been warned would happen for years. Sister was fine, but game stopped for good.
qwertyspit · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Private school was the best, I had an hour recess on 10 acres of field and forest with little supervision.
These sound like such fun games as a kid, all I can remember besides making tree forts is a "game" called smear the queer- basically full contact hand ball (the ball holder must run or be pummeled), I had a tooth punched through my lip, and a kid dislocated a hip before adults would finally stop us.
iamhaljordan · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indoor soccer. We took a ball and pretended we we're a foosball table. You could only move side to side. Fun stuff
testreker · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shinankles. We'd balance on a curb, face eachother and try to kick each other off
LordoftheScheisse · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two people would take turns throwing a racquetball against a wall. If a player made an error, they had to stand against the wall, facing it. The thrower then got to pelt the player who made the error in the ass.
Two people stand side by side with arms wrapped around the others' neck/shoulder. We would each say "Buddy, ol' pal, ol' friend of mine" then try to trip the other one. The best way I can describe it would be full-body thumb wrestling.
Generallydontcare · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend chuck used to play "hide the soul"
ruckitup8man · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Burny Burny cut cut
PMA1898 · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the neighborhood kids went to the playground to play “Cherry Cherry.” One kid had to close their eyes and navigate the playground/jungle gym essentially blindand try to tag another kid hiding on the structure. The catch is that you couldn’t hide on the ground - you had to contort yourself to hide on a slide or ladder or bridge. If you were on the ground and the seeker yelled “Cherry Cherry,” you lost and became the new seeker.
bmorearty · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Eat the cheese.” My brother and I would each be holding a slice of American cheese at one end of the front yard. After “On your marks, get set, go!” we would race across the yard to touch the big tree. Then, while touching it, eat our cheese as fast as we could. You had to eat it all the way and swallow. Then race back to the starting point.
Years later at my wedding reception he was my best man and he had us play it in front of all the guests.
livmight · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister would hang her head over the side of the bed and i would lay on the floor. At a random time, i would reach up and tug her hair and say "ding dong dead service". Then we would switch. Thats the whole game.
We also had a fake phone on which we would prank call the president as Strawberry Shortcake (80s cartoon character) and call him a fartvillehead. He would hang up in disgust so we would call him back pretending to be someone else before revealing ourself as Strawberry Shortcake and calling him a fartvillehead.
steelheart2005 · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My and my friends played our own version of Calvin Ball. We would make up the rules as we went along.
GLITCHEDMATRIX · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dog pinata. Not what you're thinking but me and my cousin were pretty much the real life Beavis and Butthead without even trying. We did a lot of stupid shit. Everything we did involved trashing everything but one thing we got a kick out of was tying a stuffed animal at the end of a rope and toss it over the wall. The neighbor's dog then proceeds to attack it and we let it rip the doll apart in their yard then we run off giggling.
Kroxicon · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fancy fencing with bamboo.
kevpaucol · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called “Vampire Tag” where one person would be the vampire, and before the game started they would secretly pick another player to be their assistant. Everyone gets 30 seconds to run and hide. The goal for the vampire it’s to turn everyone else into vampires, which they can achieve by touching someone on the neck. Also, the vampires assistant stays a secret until the vampire verbally calls out for their help, which can make for some funny scenarios if you’re unknowingly hiding with them! Had a lot of fun playing this with all the other kids in the neighborhood growing up.
Gurdarshker · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moe (Meghan and Joe). My cousin and I made it up. Teams of two, played on your knees in the yard. Basically is was soccer with fists only. It was pretty fun diving around punching the ball
replywithfart · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car jumping. When the family would go on trips in the motor home, my little brother and I would get on the couch on our knees and face the window which was behind the couch. When a car would drive past us we would jump “over” it. We were probably 4 and 6 years old.
OdiPhobia · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During car/bus rides, I used to blink when the streetlight lined up with the edges of the windows. A highschool friend once caught me doing this on a school bus ride coming back from a day trip from the zoo and thought I was having a stroke or something lol
daha2002 · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ctrl + F: "with my uncle"
vonage91 · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Candle Tag. Once you get tagged, you stand there and slowly "melt" to the floor. If someone who is not "it" tags you in this state, you're free to continue playing. If not and you reach the ground, you're eliminated.
CaeciliusEstInPussy · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Crash testers”
Me and my neighbor would make loosely made lego spaceships or planes or etc with a pilot on them, stand on a table, and throw them on the ground and watch the “explosion”. We eventually had to stop cus It wasn’t kind on the carpet. But we’d spend hours doing that.
Edit- We also had “The Game” where we ran around with sticks in the woods and pretended to be clone troopers.
DetroitHustlesHarder · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Summer game: Dig a hole in the ground, fill it with water and sit in it.
TheGreenSleaves · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the playground when I was a kid, we had a game specifically named “aah! Don’t let me fall into the lava!” Where basically someone would see how far they could put their body on the slide without falling off into the ground (lava) and begging whoever’s around to help them up, then that person could decide their fate.
thesaunaking · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightmare! The video board game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:31:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had a long period in our childhood in which we played a game which goal was to make small car models (we had a lot of them) drive as far as we could. We used to play in my room between furniture - and we had to spin them a little bit, so that the cars could evade the couch and go the farthest. The best move was to spin the car right into the crack between the floor and balcony door, which was equally as satisfying as winning. We had a sheet of paper on which we accelerated the cars, played few 20-race seasons each day with 6-cars rosters at top popularity and I was making statistics which car is the best and shit. We got totally crazy about it.
Also, a game which we called fireball. It is a mix of table tennis and football which we played upstairs. Each played had to serve the ping-pong ball very low and try to score a goal - which was to hit the opposite wall, guarded by second player. God, it must have been annoying for parents.
dallenm_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called Vagina. One of my friends had a trampoline that had a tear in the center. Someone would stand in the hole and try to pull people in while everyone else would try to jump around and evade the center
bell_bail · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to jump on the trampoline and play “bull.” One person was on all fours and had to jump up on their knees to knock the others down. Entertained for hours.
Eggless_Hen · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"KIT KIT". In this we use to make square boxes on the floor usually with chalk of sand like an array and then we use to jump on those boxed with one leg and with each stage the difficulty use to increase and the one who use to finish it first was the winner.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My great uncle had a “game” he wanted to play once.
So he somehow convinced me when I was like maybe 11-12 to tie up my legs because he had a “game”, I thought he was gonna make me hop around the garden or some shit, idk hard to remember what I was thinking.
So anyway they’re tied, he sees them and dashed over to tie up my hands at this point I’m panicking thinking what is this mad cunt up to.
He picks me up and puts me down on the driveway which was kinda fancy it was one of them driveways that are comprised of lots of small stones, I start trying to get out of the binds, I look up and this motherfucker is getting in his car.
Before I know it he revs up his Toyota and spins the tyres, I then get bombarded with small piece of gravel and stones this goes on for about 15 seconds and all I can hear over the car is him laughing.
Through this I managed to get my legs untied and got up just as he was stopping he steps out of his car with his beer in his hand, chuckles and says, “was that fun?”, I angrily say “no” and notice the damage he’s inflicted. He then walks up to me and hands me £20 and says “you’re tough kid”.
Honestly he’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever known and has a genuinely big heart he just likes to torture people for his own amusement, which I have inherited, haha.
Bonus story:
Talking about my great uncle here again, this time with my dad. When they were young they were very close, my dad was like a little brother to my uncle.
One time my uncle would put my dad on front of his bike and said, “hey want to get some ice cream?” They went to go get some but instead my uncle went to the top of a very tall hill claiming he was taking a shortcut but instead he was going up there to ride down it as fast as he could with my dad on the front, they blast down the hill my dad says he yelled the whole way and while going down my uncle yells “THERES NO BREAKS” and laughs they eventually get to the bottom where it got really hard to control the bike and my dad went flying 20-30 metres into the distance and landed on the grass.
Save to say he never went for ice cream again with my uncle.
IronTitan12345 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I used to say dodgeball by myself. I'd place a bunch of balls (Soccer balls, basketballs, etc) on a trampoline so that when I jumped it would make them bounce around. I'd have to dodge them and if I could survive until all the balls bounced off the trampoline I won
Senor_Taco29 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the salami with the camp counselor
Korb10 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The in the dark game. One person goes and hides in the pitch black basement. The rest of the people go down and try to find the person. When they do, they quietly sit with them. It was basically the equivalent of “sardines” but in the dark. Very fun and terrifying for my young mind!
Hexardon · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played “The penny game.” I played this with the neighbourhood kids and my sister.
We had a patch of lawn beside a sidewalk, and one person would throw the penny onto the sidewalk, and the other players had to try to get the penny and put it on the sidewalk.
As you can imagine the lawn got pretty busted up but yeah. Very physical game, what with kids grabbing wash other for said penny.
yuiop777 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The tiger game. Me and two of my two older brothers played it and they were tigers and I was their owner. We would do anything from sword fighting to football. And just because I was their owner didn't mean that I was in charge. They kind of bullied me a little bit cause they thought it was more fun. Really just make believe just as tigers.
UniverseBear · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lords of the realm. Really advanced medieval strategy game for its time. You had to manage your kingdom on a turn based map. Keeping track of food production, weapons production, mining, quarrying, wood gathering and population happiness and health. You drafted armies from your population and armed them with whatever weapons you could muster, so the bigger army you had the less people you had to work. You moved the army like total war does today but when you fought it went into a real time battle with each army starting on opposite sides. You could build, upgrade and have real time siege battles. There was diplomacy and trading. It was just a real great but little heard of gem from the 90's.
nagatavasarala · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I were the last two human children beings raised with access to nature on the last natural preserve on the planet once known as Earth. Our bubble of nature was protected by a skylike dome, and all life in the dome was carefully curated. Our "parents" were artificial constructs placed there to care for us, and evidence of the "outside world" was known to be faked for our enjoyment. Our job was to enjoy and care for the last remnant of Earth. To be honest, I still play it sometimes.
Apples not falling far from the tree, my son, age 8, is a science officer on our starship. I'm the executive officer (xo, or when he's off duty, mom). Dad is the captain, and brother is the ensign. The dog is a construct. He has a biomimicry artificial arm, has trouble with the defense drone network (needs resetting almost every day), and enjoys away missions (errands) in our shuttle (the car). He's excited about our suborbital (plane trip) coming up next week to get some paleontology readings (visit grandparents in the desert). We play this almost every day and frankly, it's my favorite thing.
Edit: Word.
hagamablabla · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school there was a massive bush in our playground that was about 30 feet high. I may remember it being bigger than it really was, but it was definitely much taller than an adult. In first grade, all of us would take turns daring each other to see how far we could go into the bush before chickening out.
The summer after that, they trimmed the branches off. When I came back to school, my dumb ass realized it wasn't a bush, it was an extremely overgrown tree.
ViralRidler · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would play a game where me and my younger brother would hide under a duvet then my older brother would throw darts at any body parts showing. My mom was not impressed
Kildragoth · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Giant empty dumpster. One kid is in the dumpster, everyone else outside of it. Goal was to jump into the dumpster and climb back out before the kid inside the dumpster tagged you. If you got out without being tagged you win. If you get tagged you're now the kid in the dumpster. Game became very dangerous after they started dumping construction material...
BelugaPhoenix · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, I used to just mix a bunch of stuff into an examination glass. I added more stuff as time went on and just left it there for weeks. I’d mix like soap, hair gel, food, and other random stuff. Eventually a white moss formed and my mom threw it out.
ILikeVancouver · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the Pickle, with Pastor Dan!
WetMice · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slaves and Kings. We had a construction site across my street that was mostly bulldozed forest for new developments. With three friends, 2 of us would be slaves/miners who mined for "rare" stones and minerals (just rocks), while the other two were a king and their right hand man that got to keep all the rocks. Basically we acted the parts like characters out of Conan The Barbarian. Sounds kind of messed up for 10 year olds, but we all took turns and it was really fun.
gusgus2point0 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called bonkers. We were really little, grab couch cushions, and run into each other at top speed. It was awesome
Jakee710 · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During car trips I would pick a spot on a window with a mark or water droplet and move my head as to postion the spot. I would try to avoid big trees and pretend to cut smaller trees, it evolved as I grew and my imagination would make all the effects look epic. Now I have to focus on not hitting things :(
princealiofil · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pine cone tag. Everyone would start out with the same amount of pine cones and you would hit each other with pine cones and you would call out how many hits you have in the round.
MattyTheMatE · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marvel Overpower trading card game. Freaking loved that game. So hard to find people that have heard of it or played it. I even continued playing it with my best friend for the nostalgia factor up into my twenties. Still have my cards. I was never into comic books but its cool to see those same heros from the cards in the marvel movies today. I remember my friend telling me they were making a spiderman movie, while we were playing and being like "how will that even work. spider man shoots webs". So amazed by the CGI when it did come out but still disappointed by casting of Toby Tugboat Maguire.
splurky · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and sister and me used to play something called “blind dog” It started out by throwing blankets over ourself and trying to find some sort of hiding spot while crawling on all fours. Goal of the game was to find each other by just listening to noises we made. Some sort of Marco Polo and hide and seek combined. The fun thing was we made blind dog noises which sounded like confused high pitched cries or something.
Metallus_Cinabon · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Padiddle. My mom was tired of bunch buggy, or "SUV pinch, a variety we used to hurt each other more, so we had to play padiddle while driving. WHen you see a volkswagen beetle, you slap the roof and yell "padiddle (color of car)." On even numbered Sundays, my dad made us use "perquakey" instead.
booger_with_a_B · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HHPC, Hippity-Hop Pro Championship.
Hippity-Hops on 2 trampolines set on both sides of a chain-link fence.
We had rules but I’ve forgotten.
deepfriedpotatos · 1 points · Posted at 16:32:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a trampoline and we used to play dodgeball with the trampoline. Everyone would circle around the trampoline and try to peg the person on the trampoline with the ball. 1 point for catching a ball and your turn is over when you get hit. The way to win was to doge the soccer balls and tennis balls and try to catch the footballs
toeb94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pokémon Hide and Seek” lol.
Younger sister and I would take turns hiding a Pokémon figure of our choice, and we’d have to find them. We were around 7 and 4 when we started. Went on for a few years. Miss those days
GItPirate · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid I lived by a big river. We would ride our bikes over to that river in search of a perfect stick that would represent a sword. At sunset all the kids in the neighborhood would meet and we would have a battle royal stick fight. Boy did we fuck up our hands and bodies with bruises and cuts. The pain was temporary, the glory is forever.
chrismnola · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with 8 kids between 3 houses with only a 5-year difference between the oldest and youngest. We would often play games which span across all three of our houses.
There was this one game where one person would be 'it', and they would stand with their foot on a can or bucket in the middle of the playing area. 'It' would count and everyone would run and hide somewhere. When done counting, the object for 'it' was to get the other players out. This was done by visually seeing another player in the game, placing their foot on the can, and yelling "tap tap on (whoever they saw)" indicating they saw that person. Then the person they would call would be out and have to sit in the prison right next to the can. 'It' can go anywhere to find someone but has to have their foot on the can to call someone out. The goal of all the other players was to kick the can over while not getting caught. The round would end if the can was kicked or if 'it' got everyone out.
We called it "kick the can" but it is a bit different from the other versions of "kick the can" that I have heard of. It required the team of players to be stealthy and quick but would require 'it' to have good perseption and caution while moving too far away from the can, leaving them vunerable. Lots of fun summer nights spent playing this and arguments over 'it' actually seeing someone or not.
Lvnitlarge · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines. It’s like reverse hide and seek. 1 person hides and everyone else splits up to look for them. When you find them, you hide with them. If your playing with lots of people it can get cramped, like sardines, hence the name. The last person to find the group is the loser and must hide the next round.
I’m curious if anyone else has heard of this game.
cncoleman · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school there was a big oil stain on the blacktop in front of the playground. It was kind of shaped like a footprint so we would pretend we were tracking down Bigfoot.
SuicidalSebastion · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
House Ball. Literally just tag in a house but with a ball instead of hands.
Needless to say my parents did not like this game.
werewolf6780 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get forced to "play house" with the other kids at recess because I wasn't "social enough". I used to play 'who is most likely to be a serial killer' or 'how long before they realize that I, as the family dog, am not vaccinated & have rabies' were some of the things I used to do while playing house. This usually ended in the other kids crying to the teacher. I knew I upset them. I kept asking to not have to play with the other kids but the teacher insisted. I'm now an adult & still hate people. All through highschool I did as many solo-assignments as I could. Relying on others isn't ideal.
mrallen77 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings would have one person guard the house while everyone else tried to sneak in and steal something from the living room. The guard had to investigate sounds and would kick anyone out that they saw. It was awesome trying to find new ways in.
ItsMeTK · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pickle.
My sisters and I would play as pickles hanging on a pickle tree, thrn a farmer comes and picks them one by one and puts them in a sandwich (made of pillows).
Also in grade school the 6th graders invented a ball game to play at recess and we played it a lot. It being the 90s, they called the game Whatever.
AllettWallets · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to create shields and weapons out of household items like wood and aluminum poles. We'd wrap the end of a pole in rags and keep them there with a bunch of duct tape. Throw some hockey helmets on a beat the living daylights out of each other.
Best weapon creation: Took one of those jungle gym hanging chains with the plastic handle on the end and turned it into a chain mace. Good times.
dankeagle · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the dart game in high school. You would call somebody's name and when they looked at you, you pretended to shoot them with a blow dart. If they put their hand up to their neck when they saw you, they were safe. If you got hit someone had to come pull the dart out and then you were good.
We would hit each other from across the cafeteria, and I even played it with some of the guys when I joined the army. It's so fun!
Edit: if you got shot you had to lay down wherever you were until someone came to save you.
rossib27 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In primary school we played a variation on handball that quickly caught fire across other schools, and was banned by years end. In 5th grade my school had a wall with no windows near the back of the school and we played a game called "Peg". Instead of hitting the ball you could grab it, that way you could really throw it hard so we'd stand as far back as possible, throw the ball at the wall and watch it fly back. If the person attempting the throws the ball, touches the ball and it bounces on the ground before hitting the wall; well that person can now be "pegged" by the ball. The only way to be back in play would be to run to the wall, and tag it before the ball hit you. I remember how it started with just some people in our class then eventually the whole school was playing it, but obviously the teachers found out and it was banned. I did a quick google search and couldn't find anything on game called "peg" well.... well no schoolyard games.
ShadowsGirl9 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I once played a "game" by myself the time I found beads. I shoved one up my nostril then tried to launch it out as far across the room as I could. I got one stuck in there and mom was ticked.
YellowCurryNinja · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend lived on the same street. We also had a common "enemy" who was 1 year older than us and often bullied my best friend; he lived on the street behind us. His uncle or relative used to have a stone collection displayed on some shoe racks in his back garden, so we often sneakily stole a few and tried to sell them to strangers walking past our street.
We were about 5 years old so of course no one bought any lmao. Good times.
Mad_Orbitz · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 18, I joined the military and we would make our socks into tight balls and then duct(duck?) tape them. We would play dodge ball in between the bunks.
culdesaccolony · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family made up "The Log Game" when I was only wee for my cousin and I at family gatherings. We would start by lying down on the floor "as still and quiet as a log", and would go through rounds of competing to be the best object. So for example, an adult would say "be a banana!" and we would bend our bodies on the floor furiously trying to out-banana eachother. It would go on and on for hours of my cousin and I contorting our bodies into various fruits, objects, household appliances, anything that didn't make a noise.
I was in my late teens when I figured out it was my family's genius idea to keep the little children quiet that they got away with for far too long.
JustSomeVideoGuy · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On our way home from school sometimes my siblings and neighbors would stop by our local park. There was a row of swings and being kids we quickly came up with a game that everyone could play together on the swings. There was a row of like six swings so six people would get on and start swinging like normal. One person was left on the ground. The object of the game was for the person on the ground to run from one side of the swings to the other without getting the shit kicked out of them. Swingers could of course twist and turn to get the runner and would quickly start swinging in alternating fashion. The runner was not totally unprotected however. Since we were walking home from school the runner was able to throw their backpack at the swingers. We had a lot of fun but how no one ever got a concussion I'll never know.
Unsolicited_Spiders · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as epic or deadly as some of the stories here, but my sister and I played this game called "finger monsters". We used our hands such that the middle finger was like the "head" and the rest of the fingers were like the "legs" and the hand was like the "body" and made our hand-critters interact with each other. Sometimes they dueled, sometimes they danced, sometimes they met each other curiously, sometimes they went on adventures, sometimes they had deep philosophical conversations....
KAFKA-SLAYER-99 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle droids. Idek why we called it that but t was just me and my brother lightsaber fighting a plethora of enemies. Every day id go on wookiepedia for more dark jedi names to add in, like Nihilus, Revan, Bane
ToBeUnFOUnD · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game we called smurf in elementary school where one person would be the smurf and they had to run around the school ground, find a player, and drop their ass on the ground to make them the smurf. Anyway this big husky 7th grader runs at me (I was a pretty small ass kid, but I was fit skinny) and goes for a tackle. I'm not sure what came over me, but I grabbed one of his arms bent over and flipped this kid over my back and watched as he slammed, back first into the ground. I then ran off and bragged to all my friends while the kid complained to a teacher and exposed our game, we never played again.
I have no clue why we called it smurf. It honestly didnt make sense.
bonedead · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time I was playing "Goonies". Which was me putting a handful of pennies in my mouth and spitting them out. Then I swallowed one, told my mom, and had to go to the doctor.
NoPastaNada · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"1,2,3,4,5". My best friend and I would jump on the trampoline in unison for 5 super jumps and then fall back on our backs. One of us would end up flyyyyiiiiiinggggg through the air and my god, it was the best game ever. We literally thought we invented the best trampoline game in the world. I still think we did.
henfattig · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a yoga ball on the trampoline and would play zombie
You throw the yoga ball at the guy who plays zombie, and he has to drop to his knees and bounce on his knees. Hit him again and he would crawl. One more time and he dead.
If he touches you, you die
backpacking_babe · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Toilet Monster". You know how when you were a kid you'd sometimes get worried that you'd get sucked down the toilet or some other drain? Well we turned that nightmare into a game during recess. Everyone would pile up at the top of a big curvy tube slide (the "toilet") and one of us would be at the bottom of the tube slide (the "monster"). Then we'd alternate between jamming each other down through the top of the tube slide while the toilet monster would crawl up the tube and try to take their next victim down, and when the toilet monster would grab someone everyone at the top would stop trying to push each other down and try to help pull the trapped person up. This game often resulted in multiple friction burns, static'd hair, torn clothes and bruised knees.
Good times.
respectthet · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my wife.
Her and her older brother played a game called, “You’re not my sister.”
Apparently, it involved the brother pretending she wasn’t his sister, and then beating the shit out of her while he yelled, “You’re not my sister!”
But in that playful, sibling way.
Sounds like a blast.
jellobend · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game named “Japanese Soccer”. Each person was essentially a one man team and had his own goal to defend. The setting was everybody-versus-everybody with one ball.
It usually meant everyone ganged up on that day’s least favorite person first and lots of betrayals afterwards.
Good fun. Ah those silly days
P.S: Don’t really know if it’s actually unique or anything
Jonathananas · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie leg. (Zombie game)
It's like tag. But once you're tagged you join the taggers. Until only one is left.
-PM-Me-something- · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The pinching game. My sister mom and I were in my parents room lights completely turned off at night. My mom would have to find my sister and I and pinch us as we were trying to get away from her. Loved that game as a child
LadyDeadpool89 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The Garbage Can Game. My dad would put me into one of these garbage cans and close the lid. He would then roll me, and swing me, all over the house and outside all the while bashing me into everything and knocking me all over the place. I would then have to guess where I was and if I was right I got to get out. If I was wrong he would start all over again. Truth be told I liked to lose better.
g_hi3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:33:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get really bored during car rides, so I "developed" a game to play if I didn't have a gameboy with me:
It's like a rhythm game you play with your toes. When there's a line on the right side of your lane, hold your right toe down and the same for your left side. After some time I added some elements like lamp posts.
It was somewhat entertaining and I still do it nowadays.
BelgianBagel · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bull train. There were four of us. Three would hide underneath a blanket and run around blindly in our living room while the other would try to push them over.
Looking back on it, I don't know how any of us came out of that uninjured.
Weesill · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
naked couch. ME and my brothers would run around on our couch in our underwear with none of the cushions on the couch.
mrubuto22 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock walking. Carry big stones into a pool and walk around in the deepend
foxymoron · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Most of these originated from my little brother and me. We were the only little kids in our neighborhood up till about age 7, then a family with 10 kids moved in next door and we were able to expand our repertoire. If you want the details just ask.
The games: Slick-slack-sloker-slucks. Roll Down the Jelly Roll. Walk on the Butts. Monkey Soldier. Giant Bats and Locusts. My Name is Tina and I have Long Blonde Hair. Well You Know What You Are? Sing Song Ping Pong.
hawkeyehatton · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play "if this person were an animal, what would they be?" whenever someone walked past us in the street. The game would consist of us sussing out which animal the person resembled as they approached and then confirming it quietly between ourselves as they passed by.
No matter how inconspicuous we thought we were being, it must have been obvious what we were doing. I'm still waiting for this to happen to me as an adult to see what it's like being on the receiving end.
Getherda32 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played in 'jarabanddi' in my home near gardens
Uber_Fuller · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would have “couch races”. We had a sectional couch that had a wall right on top of half of it and the other side was free. The ceiling was low so standing on top of the couch you could touch the ceiling. You each would start on the tops of one end of the couch and had to beat the person to the other side. If you fell off, you had to go back to your own start.
PaleGrayPrincess · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it "The Game" because my creativity only goes so far. I played this alone off and on for years, though, and each game usually took several days.
First off, I'd make cards representing like 50 or 100 fictional characters and randomize them into teams of around 10 characters each. After I made a list of who was on each team, I'd shuffle the cards.
Then the fights start. I'd grab a handful of between 4 and 12 cards at a time. Characters on the same team fought together. If Kim Possible and Sid (the sloth from Ice Age) are against Tigger, Cinderella, and Fireheart (from Warrior Cats) who would win? I'd spend several minutes trying to reason it out.
Sometimes I had ways for characters to become "Leaders" (twice as strong as they usually are) and "Healers" (can sneak their teammates away instead of being captured).
Each battle is over when only one team is standing. All of their enemies become part of that team. When all the cards are gone, I reshuffle and play again. When all the characters are on the same team, it's game over.
ZAX2717 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play two games. One was called "Car Alert" where basically we would go about playing our normal games with the neighborhood kids and when a car would drive by, we would all hide. Then when the car passes we would return to whatever we were doing before. It was an unspoken thing that we were always playing Car Alert. Fun times.
Also my cousin and I would play a game called "Num Num". I think we got the name from this scene on Rugrats (Skip to ~9:50) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i4whz Where basically we would put blankets over our head and wrestle. It was fun
deltarefund · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Car”. We lived on the corner of a slightly busy residential street. At night we’d hang in the yard and when a car was coming yell “Car!” And you’d have to run and hide before they passed by. Or get down flat on the ground.
I have no idea why, there was no real way to win or lose, but we had fun with it 🤷♀️
MojoMastaa · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take ski poles and other long pointy sticks, throw them straight up into the night sky, and try not to get impaled as they came down.
menimex · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Steal the bread bun.
I was very poor, living on the streets for some of my childhood.
I used to go to this one little shop that had some small bread buns, and steal one so I could eat. The owner eventually caught on and tried to catch me in the act. Until the day he stopped trying. I think he let me win. Bless that man.
dan-o1994 · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games! First was called ghost bike, where we would push bikes with no one on them and see how long they could stay up on their own-whoever's got furthest one.
Second was much funner and called drunk driving hahaha. We would go to the top of a hill, sit in a wagon, and be pushed down the hill. The only thing we could steer with was the handle of the wagon. Never got very far, usually got hurt, and was tons of fun
norwaymamabear · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"mother may I"
One was "mother" and stood against one wall and the rest had to stand against the other wall and take turns and ask "mother may I" to cross the room. Mother would choose different "steps" you had to take, like the banana step which was where you had to lay on the floor and stretch out, and get up again where your arm reached. Or the scissor step, where you did a scissor jump. A very unfair game, the tallest kid usually won, or the one "mother" decided.
nefariosinsomniac · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game in elementary school called "Suicide."
While other kids are swinging on the swing set, we would have to try and run past them unscathed. Like between them gauntlet style. Needless to say, we're got hurt a lot.
Roflrofat · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played beamo tag every Halloween for around 12 years.
It’s pretty similar to three step, if you’ve ever played that. There is a beamo (giant nylon frisbee), and every person is trying to throw it and tag other people. Once you grab it, you can only take three steps before throwing it at someone else. If someone catches it, the thrower is down, if some gets hit, they are down. The only way to get up is catching the beamo mid throw or grabbing it and hitting someone else (from your spot on the ground). And you can’t leave the yard (unless you are retrieving the beamo.
It was all fun and games, but things got real when the metal ring inside the foam started to break through. We duct taped the edge, which wound up improving speed, so we were happy.
Ahh good times, many a bloody nose had by players (someone broke their arm once too).
BabySharkNibba · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know how common it is elsewhere, but me and my friends would play an advanced version of “ghosts in the graveyard.” For those who don’t know, basically one person hides in the night and the rest try to find him before he scares them.
Now here was our “advanced” version,
Half of the people (usually 10! I was once popular!) would hide somewhere in what was basically our neighborhood (a group of like 6 blocks right south of Midway Airport) with water guns that were filled with either pee (gross), soda, or water. other 5 would try to find them.If One of the hiders (ghosts) found one of the seekers they would spray them in the face or neck and run to hide. If the seeker found the ghost, the ghost could join the seekers
Athletic_Seafood · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my family used to play a game during car rides that we called "yellow car I win". Basically, if you see a yellow car, you say "yellow car I win". If you're the first one to say it, you get a point. But you couldn't get points for construction vehicles, school buses, motorcycles, or company vehicles. Just civilian cars.
Juri4President_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fossil fighters, it was like a Pokémon game but with revived dinosaurs. It was actually really fun!
MetaGigaZ · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Don’t Let Go’
At school, we had this huge twisty slide. At the end of the day, my friends and I would go up and pretend like we were in some sort of action movie. We did this by having one person on the slide backwards on their stomach being pulled by everyone else to make sure they didn’t fall into a pit of ‘lava’. Whenever they let go, the one on the slide would yell, “NOOOOOOOOO,” as they slid down.
It was so damn fun and I really want to do stuff like that again. But if I tried it with my friends now, I’m pretty sure we’d have to explain ourselves to a few people.
CMA3246 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how “unique” they are as I’m sure lots of people know these games quite well, but ghost in the graveyard, sardines, red rover, four square, and probably a few others I’m forgetting. My neighborhood of kids growing up just called them yard games, as in:
“Hi Mrs. Jones, can Justin come outside and play yard games with us?”
Gimcrackery · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Street seek" which was like hide and seek but all of the neighborhood kids got together and we set boundaries for hiding (only front/side yards or parks etc.), sometimes with just one "seeker" and sometimes we would play group vs. group.
supperforsusan · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fox: hide and go seek in the dark, as we improved we wore all black. Except Brian, I found his dumb ass because of his bright white socks.
We also played “the car game” where we would start on the other side of the street and when a car came we would run across the street and get 3 feet off the ground before the car reached the “finish line” from the mailbox. Must have been awesome for the people driving the cars.
hau2906 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mata Nui Online
surfdad67 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chinese eyes” we would fill water guns with vinegar and water, then run around shooting each other in the eyes, when you got someone you shouted “Chinese eyes!” And that person was out for 10 minutes.
virgonights · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pussy Four Corners
5 plays, 1 in the middle and the other for made a square. Can’t remember the exact rules but it was like musical chairs with a ball. There was scramble to get to a corner.
There was a song and it was like
Pussy for corners who has the ball Is she big or is she small
user1444 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The golden retard"
Basically me or one of my siblings would stand up on my grandma's deck as the rest ran around the yard below and the one on the deck would throw this yellow frisbee as hard as they could and try to peg one of the other siblings in the head hard enough to "go retarded".
Once hit you became the golden retard and got to throw the frisbee at others.
patelaj94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Blanket Game”
This is going to sound really weird, because it is. But basically, it would usually be a group of about 6-8 of us playing. We’d get a bunch of blankets and cover ourselves up from all angles to a point where the person who is “it” could not determine who is who underneath the blanket. Once that is done, the person being it has to come and make us laugh and use touch to gauge who each person was. Win and your turn is done, lose and you go again.
In hindsight, it was a weird game but we had lots of laughs playing it.
WillyWonkaTheFearful · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play "The Car Game." We would all stand at the end of my driveway, and when one of us saw a car approaching from either side of the road (it would curve away from my house in both directions so you couldn't see that far), we would all sprint to the end of the driveway closest to my house. In order to be safe you had to pass a line on the driveway before the car passed the driveway, otherwise you lost a life.
My mom said she was totally down with this game because we were running at top speed away from any moving cars we saw!
canklesaurusrex · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play a game called Grave Diggers. We would dig in the dirt of her parents planters and “find” treasures from the dead...
bad_thrower · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Find the Angry Scorpion" was a big part of my childhood. We usually combined it with our annual Easter egg hunt.
MooplerSurprise · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In late primary school my friend and I walked around the school track on recess with a mass of other kids. We both kept our distance with everyone else because we walked in varying paces, so we decided to make it a game. The small groups of people (2 to 5) were called packs, the medium groups (6-10) were herds, and the massive groups that had people running were called stampedes and we had to run away from them. We simultaneously had to dodge birdees (dead leaves that the wind carried), barracudas (grass root runners) and invisible Leopleurodons. It was pretty enjoyable looking back on it.
morrison2015 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would always line up passing cars with the light poles or really anything that was stationary on the ground.
Rayviin · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sniffy sticks"
Imagine playing Indiana Jones but with a magic stick that would help you "sniff" out artifacts and treasure.
DaveyJonas · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a basketball, no hoop, but a flight of stairs. I would play one on one with my friends by shooting the ball aiming for the corner edge of one of the stairs. If it hit it correctly, it would bounce back towards us and if the shooter caught the ball we'd get the point. If the defender caught it, possession would change.
Wicksnap · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paper wad baseball. I would build elaborate stadiums using books, beds, and anything that would work. Then I would throw a paper wad with one hand (no bigger than wadding up half a straw wrapper) and hit it with a pencil that was in the other. I had pages and pages of stats from each unique team. It was fun. I was a lonely kid sometimes lol
frozenplasma · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn I'm always late to the thread when I have a good answer.
I had a Lhasa Apso named Katie and she hated any air blowing in her face.
A friend and I played a game called "Sheriff Katie" where we would blow in her face to piss her off, then run away while she gave chase. The objective was to hide (or jump up on furniture) to escape the law (AKA Sheriff Katie).
I don't know why but I distinctly recall this being incredibly fun.
thatdudwithcarrots · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In kindergarden, we had a big playground. Most of it was grass so there were alot of mole holes around. We, the dumb children we were, would take sticks, stick em (no pun intended) in holes and scream MOUSE HUNT MOUSE HUNT!
Mrsteddyruxpin · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend that my hair clips were monsters....and that wash cloths in the bath were dolphins.
surfsteph · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a block with 15 older boys. So we hand a bunch of rough made up games haha. The one I remember best was called battery. The younger boys and I had to take the socks off the older boys and then hide the socks. The longer it took the older boys to find the socks, the more their "battery" would run low. When they found the sock they would recharge. We would chase then around and try to get their socks at least half off their feet because then they would lose half their battery. Good times
Radthereptile · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In High School a few of my buddies played a really stupid train game. We were not too far from train tracks and anytime we were walking around if they heard the train horn they’d scream “Train” and run full speed trying to cross the tracks before it got there. They’d do this from like 4 blocks away too. How none of them died I’ll never know.
beelzebailey · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "sun and moon" game. I was about 8, my step brother 7, and we had this dark scary basement with two pull-string lights on opposite sides around a big pole in the middle of the room. We must've been pretty bored because we just started running around turning them on and off and we eventually came up with a game with rules.
We both started at one light, then pulled and started running around the pole in circles. One of us was the sun and the other was the moon. If the moon had both lights off and ran to the pole before one was turned back on then they won, and vise versa. Eventually one of the strings broke and we had to jump even higher to grab the chain but that just made it more fun. Even if parents were pretty mad.
UpUpDnDnLRLRBA · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I invented a no-net game of street badminton. Played it for hours and hours.
OyleSlyck · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not unique, but our school playground was below sidewalk level, it had woodchips covering the ground and there was a nearby chainlink fence on top of a nearby wall, as well as a log beam, monkey bars, and a climbable fort. So as kids we combined "the floor is lava" with "tag." We would hop off the fort onto the chainlink fence, side slide across the fence and work our way toward the monkey bars, across the log beam and back onto the fort. If you fell and touched the wood chips you were "it" if you already weren't it.
Jeff3rZ · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it, but it was the most stupid thing. Me, my brother and his friend Joe would get a rubber toy snake and take turns to beat the shit out of the other two who would be protected only by an assortment of pillows and a duvet. We all got 1 minute each turn and it continued until 2/3 decided they couldn't face another beating. The only rule was that you were only allowed to have the snake if you were willing to take another beating after it...
NerdBird49 · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Middle of nowhere, South Carolina. When I was in elementary school, I had a friend who was obsessed with history and specifically the Civil War. At recess, his favorite game to play was "Civil War." We would organize ourselves into the Union and Confederacy and pretend to fight each other. Eventually, the teachers made us stop.
__Uh__Oh · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punt a football across a net. If you catch it, you also get to Punt it to the other team. If you don't, you have to throw it. Throws have to be catchable and the ball has to go across the fence or else the other team has to punt it. No point system. Kept us busy for hours.
historyisaweapon · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"You broke my favorite finger"
(ages 6-10ish)
Rules: Everyone tackles one person and jumps on top of them. After a minute of the pile, they get up and pick a new person, yelling "[person's name] broke my favorite finger!" Chase and tackle new person. Repeat until everyone has had a turn and keep going, stop when somebody cries. It destroyed clothes.
atbunda · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was in primary school we played this game that i would roughly translate to 'the butt'...we basically just ran around and had to hit other's asses as hard as we could either in teams or not...there were no winners in that game
manetis · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murderer. Everybody draws a piece of paper to get a role assigned: murderer, detective or nothing. The detective goes into a separate room and we turned off the light in the main room. It needs to be as dark as possible.
The murderer needs to "hit" an innocent to kill him then 20 second after the innocent tells that he's dead. We then turn on the light and the detective has to investigate and interview each player separately on what they did, what they heard etc to find who the murderer is.
We started doing this with my family in the hotel room during long trips. Then my cousins joined in and it quickly became a tradition.
lilzmoez · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play this game called "suicide." The game was simple. Someone throws a tennis ball at the wall and everyone tries to catch it when it bounces back. If the ball touches you and then drops to the floor, you'd have to run and touch the wall while the rest of the people would get to punch you. If you catch the ball, you are safe. No points. Just good ole punching bags
The_Moemad · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Egg” which was like monkey in the middle and dodgeball combined. Two people would stand on both ends and the monkeys were in the middle (as many people as were playing) and the end guys would whip a mini basketball at them and if they got hit they were out but if the caught the ball they would take the place of the person throwing the egg. Sometimes to trick the people in the middle you could throw the ball to the other person on the outside
jabulina · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Nazi kick.” My brother and I would to the nazi March step thing and try to kick each other. Parents cut it off after I was kicked down the steps
Valencia4eva · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Christians and Moors" I played this in Spain in elementary school. The Moors had to protect a secret word. Each Moor was the keeper of one letter of the word. For Example, if the word was "block", there would then be 5 Moors. The Christians, who numbered up to 30 kids, would then chase these Moors around the fairly giant campus and torture them until they gave up their letter.
The tortures we would dish out ranged from repeatedly dunking a kid's head into a filled up sink, ramming a boys sensitive region into a pole, rubbing a kids face in dirt, wrapping them around a pole and kicking their butt and legs (mind you, we all played soccer regularly and knew how to kick), bending a kid's arm until they either cried or gave up their letter, throwing sizable rocks and tripping people running at full speed over concrete to slow them down and so on.
We were fucking savages. And the Moors could do anything they wanted to escape capture. I remember this one kid who was pinned down by four boys, each holding one of his limbs. He then proceeded to wriggle violently and made two of the kids headbutt eachother. Sounded like a coconut hitting a hard surface.
The school made us stop after we kept returning from recess all bloodied and bruised.
massterchief · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this Tarzan game with a Tarzan action figure that could sense movement and sound. Basically, you had to touch Tarzan before he called you out. So much fun but I’m pretty sure we only played a couple of times before it broke.
Micah_L132 · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game we called SWAT ball that we thought we were going to make into a sport. We basically played soccer with this plastic ball that was hollow and had hexagons as the faces that were hollow. We had to stand on our hands and knees and you could only hit the ball not grab it. We had so much fun.
iowafarmboy2011 · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were around 4 when we invented all these
"Old man" one kid would swing as hard as they could on the swing set while another kid had to walk slowly, like an old man, in front of the kid swinging. If you got hit (spoiler alert you always got hit) by your human wreckingball friend, you had to do a lap around the back yard.
"Dinosaurs" We were obsessed with dinosaurs and watched a documentary on them from the library. We were super fascinated with the dinosaurs that butted heads like rams. So we stood on opposite sides of the room and ran full sprint at each other. Hurt like hell and we only played that came once.
"Crabapple ball" One of us would climb to the tippy top of the crab apple tree in one of our yards so that our head was sticking out the top. The rest of us would throw an array of balls (basketballs, dodgeballs, footballs) and try to knock the kid in the tree out of the tree. We succeeded a couple times.
BlondeFairey · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Dragon Game"!!! It was basically Hide and Seek/Back to Base in the dark except our dad would be "The Dragon" and he would be the protector of the Crystal in the front room. Me, my sister and my mum would be Indiana-Jones-type people and would have to sneek from our hiding place (contained only to the downstairs rooms - "The Dragon" would fly into the cave (Dad would walk downstairs so he didn't know where we hid!)) to the front room, in the dark, to the get the Crystal without being caught by "The Dragon". If you got caught, you got "eaten" and had to play dead until the end of the game. My dad would growl and snort and say silly things and I remember I used to be so scared sometimes! We played this almost every Saturday when we were kids until my mum broke her toe after being too daring climbing down from a kitchen cabinet...We don't know how she got up there either... Great question OP - brought back some amazing memories for me on this long afternoon!
Nostradomas · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the lunch table. One person puts knuckles as flush to table as they can. Person opposite puts index and middle fingertips on table. Thumb on a quarter. And fire said quarter between fingers with thumb at the persons knuckles across the table.
Switch sides so to speak. Rinse repeat.
First to bleed loses.
GodfreyRumpelsnatch · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the game, but my dad was very creative when it came to keeping me busy.
He used to make a treasure hunt for me at homr where he gave me a clue, usually a printed photo of something around the house (like the corner of a picture frame or the sandbox on the garden) and I had to figure out what it was/where it was. He'd hide another clue there and so on. Eventually I found the "treasure" which was usually just a toy I already owned or a small piece of candy. It was such a simple game and it kept me busy for hours at a time.
Caranar · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play Horse on long drives during family trips.
How do you play Horse, you ask? When you see a horse, shout HORSE as loud as you can. If you and someone else shout HORSE at the same time, you argue about who saw the horse first.
Sometimes it gets really spicy when someone shouts HORSE and it turns out to just be an alpaca.
Zairamonette · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger sister and I would play “vacuum cleaner” , we would take turns pushing each other across the carpet head first and whoever had the biggest knots/ most dirt/fuzz in their hair won. This usually resulted in massive rug burn on our faces and someone crying.
Linkawesome1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nyte Krollers
occupy_elm_st · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will be buried, but oh well. We used to play a little game called "Sack Attack" where we'd take a plush seal doll, stand in a circle, and toss it around. When a certain amount of time would run out, or someone dropped it... that person would have to stand in the center. And the person who threw it got to (with all of their might if they so chose) swing the plush seal into the balls of the dropper.
Good times.
LikeALiamOnATree · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Early 2000s, my group of friends came up with a game to play in the woods near our house. One or two people were space marines who had to wear headphones playing creepy music and static to kill sound and carry flashlights taped to water guns to kill night vision. Everyone else was aliens and hid in the woods.
Marines just had to get from one end to another without getting tagged by aliens, aliens were dead if they were sprayed. If a marine got back sprayed they were out because acid blood.
TheKillerRabbit1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The yawn game: In a public area, start to constantly yawn and see if u can make everyone in that area yawn also.
somewhatemily · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide-and-go-seek-flashlight-tag-in-the-dark was always a go to!
basically, hide and seek in the dark. if the person who was ‘it’ shone their flashlight on you, you had to book it to a “safe” zone or item, and touch it. if you made it to the safe zone without being tagged, you were now ‘it’. if you did get tagged, you had to sit down until either everyone had been tagged, or if someone ran by you and you could reach to touch them, you were back in the game and THAT person had to sit down.
sorry if that makes absolutely no sense! that was a fun part of my childhood though.
106andStark · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had one of the GI Joe or knockoff soldier toys with a parachute you would throw and watch float down to the ground.
I tried to use a plastic grocery bag and jumped off the balcony over the stairs handrail to imitate it. Only played that game one time.
puzzlefish · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Death Discs -It was basically dodge ball, but with Frisbees. If I remember correctly, it spawned from the original Tron movie.
FumbleFart · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A ball is kicked on to a Oval/Field, Everyone would chase the ball. Once someone had the ball, Everyone else had to tackle that person to the ground. Once they were on the ground everyone else would stack on top of the person. Like all great things, This game got banned from my high school after a couple broken bones.
Aubeagle24 · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play war by creating lines of soldiers using little plastic dinosaurs and army men.
Then, to determine the outcome of the battle, we would take turns rolling different sized marbles towards the opponents line. If you knocked over a soldier he was killed unless he only partially fell over, in which case he was injured.
The number and size of the marbles you could roll was determined by the remaining size and composition of your army. We played this for years, changing it up by using different surfaces (carpet vs wood) and finding new and unique figures to recruit into our armies.
The best thing was that it involved not only skill in throwing the marbles, but also strategy by recruiting and deploying your armies.
TheHelplessHero · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
G.I. Joe War was something my brother and I played when we were kids. Don’t think we gave it a proper name, but each of us had our own GI Joe ACTION figures so every now and then we would have a battle.
The rules were you had a set time (could be 5 minutes or up to an hour depending on if we were doing chores at the same time or not) where you set your Joes up. If one of my Joes had its weapon aimed at one of my brother’s Joes, and he failed to move his Joe out of the way before the set time was up, then my Joe was able to shoot his Joe. The same goes for my Joes being in the “sights” of his Joes.
Became quite the battle when my brother snuck his Sniper Joe into a plant our mom kept on top of the piano (one of those short pianos, not traditionally long and horizontal). He kept saying another of my Joes was shot and I couldn’t find the culprit. He won the battle easy when he used the tactic and that plant soon became a key point on the “living room battlefield”.
mking526 · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to rake leaves into a circle like a nest and pretend we were baby birds playing house.
Jacket_J · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drown: force the other person(s) underwater until they submit. Unfortunately someone almost (key word almost) drowned so the parents got all upity after that.
dogukanozkan · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoot eachother with blanks. It was pretty fun actually.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game called Hell. (We never said the name too loudly otherwise we'd get in trouble lol.) But basically we'd all grab pillows and then pile into this toy house at once. If you were the last one in you'd automatically have to be at the bottom next time.
Zachman97 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Get down Mr President”
Imagine this scenario playing out in middle school.
You get a big group of friends, and one person would nonchalantly place 2 fingers over one of their ears like they are listening to an ear piece. Everyone that notices the first person doing it will do the same thing. Once there’s one person left, everybody holding their fingers to their ear yells, GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT!!! And gets tackled by the other people in the group. This is super fun in places like the mall.
kingnixon2017 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage, turns out none of my friends played that with their uncles
N4T3R · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slap-Shot Regatta
sugarbearnoah · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we went to my grandparents house we would watch the only movie they owned....the 10 commandments. So we would often play "Moses" down by the creek at our house. In the movie there was a scene where the slaves would be stomping in mud and hay. So my older brother would make me and my little brother mush in the mud while he threw in reeds by the creek. Not sure why we enjoyed it so much but it was a favorite summer game.
lachancla · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I may have posted this before, but it was a game called "the dark room".
I am the oldest of a large group of siblings and cousins, and every summer we used to go to our grandparents huge old house in Meco, Spain. I was often tormenting the little ones to my own amusement, but we played this one game that is still brought up every family gathering. I honestly have no idea why they always insisted on it.
The premise was simple: black out the windows, and then everyone waits outside the room while I boobie trapped it (think home-alone style, with skateboards and marbles and buckets on doors and Legos and even kitty litter (once, but it was hilarious.)
Then I would turn off the lights and stand in the back of the room, and they had to find me whilst loudly running into everything I set up. The room was pitch black, but I had endless hours of amusement listening to them fall and knock things over.
And they always insisted on playing!
lich_boss · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle always played a game with me called hide the pickle he told me I can never tell anyone about it
The_Ninja_Beaver · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend Connor and I used to play "Ninja Warrior," which was pretty much just "The Floor is Lava" with more climbing on things and jumping between furniture. We'd make up "trials" and time each other. He was smaller, so he was always faster than me.
TwinLinds · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am a twin, so my dad would have my brother stand in front of us and put one twin on each knee. Then we would play "whack a twin", with him rising one or both knees with us on them and then my brother had to tap us to lower us down.
idkwhattotypeinhere · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandfather made up a game when I was very little, I'd translate it as 'runaway chicken', basically he would hold a kid (me, my siblings or cousins) with his legs and arms and the goal was to escape. Sometimes he would tickle us while he held us too. I was really fun
fluteitup · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved playing library!! We had bookshelves in our basement and a nice big desk. My friends and I took turns being the librarian and checking people in and out. Then we reshelved then books and did it again.
....I was a nerd then too....
Trauma-Dolll · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huffing aerosol spray, first to pass out loses.
ManToMars · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stumps: an FFA brawl but you had to keep your hands in your shirt and behind your back and you could only kneel, no standing. You were eliminated if someone got you on your back. Last man standing wins.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know what it's called, but when we were younger, my mom would have us sit with our arms on our hips. The point was for us kids to act like pots with handles. The adults would try to pick us up by the handle. If we let go, that means we would break.
Raliadose · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The scary clown game. It was essentially hide and seek tag, but the seeker was dressed as a killer clown... made things a lot scarier
ghostcat · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bread Bolus”
You take a slice of white bread and chew it without swallowing. Whoever can take it the longest is the winner.
zippygang · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends jumped in a trampoline (those big ones that have the net around as well) and threw few golf balls there and tried NOT to get hit by them. Needless to say we got hit a few times..
Vaibert · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My and my brothers had a game that I guess was called the pie game. Using our swing swing set, two people would swing and the other one would try to run past and not get hit by the swingers. When you reached the other side you would say PIE PIE in a super Mario accent(for some reason).
DrunkEwok4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my sister is really close to my cousin, who lives a three hour drive away. When she was younger, she would play hide and seek with the phone, telling what room they where in by echo
gnarssh · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turn on ceiling fan to HI. Roll a sock up into a ball. Stand under fan and toss sock upwards. Sock hits fan blade and goes flying in random direction, bouncing off walls, etc. If you catch it, you get a point. If you try to catch it and drop it or the sock hits you, you lose a point. If you are the tosser and the sock goes thru the blades untouched, you get a point (super rare). Funnest shit ever.
Retodd780 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put on life jackets and motorcycle helmets and shot at each other with BB guns
StarFoxUni · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't break the egg My sister (and sometimes my cousins) and I would go onto the trampoline. The "egg" sits in the middle of the trampoline. Then everyone else starts hopping trying to knock over the egg. We stopped pretty soon as everytime we played someone would either land on their head, do the "scorpion" when trying to catch themself, etc. Looking back, we were idiotic.
We did play a game recently while on family vacation. And we stopped because I flipped, hit my nose. I got a bloody nose (btw I have a terrible fear of blood). I rolled a bit trying to stand so the blood got onto my forehead. I didn't know that the blood was from my nose, felt the blood on my forehead, fainted again.
floofyjackaboy · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I used to play pretend all the time and as we got a little bit older and played a little more seriously we made up the “Unexpected” essentially it was playing pretend but you couldn’t talk out of the game and you had to go along with any plot that a person led too We also played dragon-wolf transformers with our friends which was exactly what it sounds like, we were dragons that could transform into wolves
SolanumMcCracken · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would go to the backyard and dig holes. I don't remember any particular motivation or rules. We'd just take shovels to the backyard and get to work. One corner of the yard was ruined.
Kids are weird.
TheKetchupG · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodgeball on a trampoline. 3 or four guys would jump and another 3 would try to pick off the jumpers with a soccer ball or volleyball. Looking back, it was a pretty dangerous game.
dinosaursrawk15 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Clue Game". The person who was "it" has to write clues and hide them around the house. Typically 8-10 clues. The last clue was directions on where to find the person that was "it" was hiding. We taught it to one of our babysitters and she plays it with her kids now.
TooMuchAdderall · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "Deadman". Aptly named. One person initially would throw a football as hard as they possibly could directly upward. Whoever caught the football would have to run from one end zone to the other, either one first. The catch is, is that from the moment you touch the football you are now the Deadman and the Deadman has about 15 other boys their age trying to take them down to the ground as violently as humanly possible.
Pretty soon the game evolved to where the ball would hit the ground instead of being caught, and we would just circle around it all the while looking each other in the eyes with primal vigor scouting out who is crazy enough to lunge for the ball and become the Deadman.
If you somehow ended up making it from endzone to endzone, nothing happened. No points. No prize. You were just allowed the relief of not getting slammed and no longer having the burden of being... The Deadman.
clashboxer · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would stand outside and throw knives high into the air, trying to get them to stick in the ground next to us.
grizzlychicken33 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme croquet.
My siblings and I would cover ourselves in padding and then proceed to hit softballs at each other with croquet mallets. Absolutely pointless and painful but fun nonetheless!
a_happy_pony · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wolf". Myself and my two brothers all shared a room as kids. We were 7, 9 and 13ish in age. Wolf was a game where you turned off all the lights and then fought in the dark. I'm talking full on fighting. Bloody noses were common. Twenty years later, my brothers and I found ourselves sharing a hotel room for some family event. As I'm in bed falling a sleep, I get slapped across my face as my older brother whispered "wolf, bitch". I was probably 30 years old. That was the last time I played Wolf.
kissarmygeneral · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this friend who was a delinquent and his parents were rarely around . They had one room in their house with 20’ ceilings and a fan right at the top. Us 4 boys used to turn the fan on and try and throw this giant chefs knife through the fan blades and into the roof . Really really stupid
Lawman182 · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Whippy-ups. It was exceptionally dumb and I’m not even sure it was possible to win. One person would stand in a central position while other players would run in a circle around them. The sole aim was for the person in the centre to try and trip up the runners by kicking their legs from under them as they circled. I’m not talking sticking their foot out to trip I’m talking full on try to kick their damn shins into the future. Bizarrely there were no real injuries and I think my shins are now completely immune to any real pain as a result of this..
Speoder · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curb ball. You stand on one side of the street and I stand on the other side and throw a large ball at the curb on the opposite side. Hit it and it bounces back into the street, get a point. Bounces from one curb back and hits the other curb and into the street, you win. Play to whatever. Hours hanging with friends doing this on lazy summer nights.
Hayaweeb · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘The hottest bet’.My cousin and I would beg on random things such as who can blink the most in 10sec(my mom would film the whole thing and rewatched it in slow-mo so that we can have a fair winner).Whoever lose gonna have to drink a shot of hot sauce(i don’t remember what kind) and then we would laugh our heart out because of the loser reaction.We play till all of us were ded ass tired and ‘collapsed ‘ on the floor.
Minnow990 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In first grade, a girl tricked me into playing a game called "pickle" during reading time... a very simple "I'll show you mine if you show me yours?"
We would pick some of the big dinosaur books that we could hide behind over in the corner of the room. Ingenious.
Yeah... eventually got caught. Principal called my parents... my mother still loves to embarrass me with that story.
ZimmeM03 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't have the greatest relationship with my siblings growing up, but we did have some fun every now and then.
One of my favorite memories was on a ski trip in Colorado, there was a small but wide stream outside of our cabin. Each person had to cross the stream by only touching rocks above the water, and the others could throw snowballs to try to knock the crosser into the water. We would play for hours without getting in a single fight (which was sadly a defining characteristic of our relationship growing up).
RazorsInMyTaco · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mates and I had a make-believe place we called "the base" which contained a money printing machine, an infinite beer dispenser and a huge room full of clothes and shoes. We all had titles in it like CEO and regional manager and it was all supposedly built beneath the playground at school and only we knew where the secret door was.
inarff · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
H a p p y c a k e d a y
jellyjeffrey · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to go outside with a shovel and try to dig up treasure. In reality I was just banging my shovel into those X’s they put into concrete sidewalks.
arkie2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think we called it "riot" or something but I'm not sure.
There was a safe zone where everyone except the person who was it would stay for a minute while the person who was it would hide. The group would then have to go find the person who was it in some amount of time, but you couldn't go back to the safe zone until you spotted the person. Right when the person was found, they had to try to catch someone running back to the safe zone. Loads of fun. Something like reverse hide and seek.
chooxy · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play with my younger brother what we very succinctly called "talking game". A spoken adventure game with no written records, so naturally the game master (see also: older brother, myself) had complete power to create bullshit situations to enrich my own character over my brother's.
Though of course not too much bullshit that my brother would rage quit.
Free_Ivory · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Border patrol. A spin on cops and robbers, except for Mexican kids. Real fun!
TheTrueBrony · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin used to have a sizeable back yard with a trampoline and plenty of sticks around so us being boys growing up playing cideo games we got inspired to use various scenarios using things borrowed from video games such as naming our weapons “force edge” and creating our own twists on the stories according to which one of us won the fights, mostly on/revolving around the trampoline.
We got hurt so many times but dang those days were fun.
burninatin · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah yes. Stick Trees it was called. We would take sticks. And then hit them on trees until they broke. Then find more sticks. The glory days...
Calvins_Angst · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Guards" My sister and I pretended we were orphans and that there were evil guards that essentially held us captive and made us work. This was an elaborate game that my sister and I played that we would incorporate into everything in life. Are we riding our bikes? It's because we have escaped and we have to go as fast as possible or else the guards would catch us and drag us back to the orphanage. Are we doing our chores? We have to make the kitchen spotless because the guards are going to come inspect and they will punish us if it isn't good enough. I would like to say that we had active imaginations, but we were just weird.
crap-abble · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but this question immediately made me think of the McElroy’s talking about “Taste My Steel”
Here is the clip from their podcast.
Lampy-Boi · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ducky Mo Mo”. I made a joke about the weird duck in Phineas and Ferb and people laughed. So, I made a game out of it. The object of the game was to hug me and talk to me. No one ever wanted to play.
umphrawk · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster rain
DUNDAUGHTA · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game called “Turtle”. We would both be under the same blanket with all the ends tucked down. We would then proceed to fart our brains out and whoever popped their head out of the blanket first, like a turtle, would lose.
Pitohui13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a Trampoline and played the "UFO" game.The rules were the following:One would stand outside and his job was to throw the ball in the trampoline.The others had to prevent it reaching the ground of the trampoline. If it reached the ground,he could go into the trampoline and whoever was most guilty of the ball reaching the ground had to be the next thrower. We had a quite large trampoline so we often played 1v4 or 1v3. Name explanation:The one was Earths last defender and had to throw a bomb(the ball) inside the ufo(we had a round trampoline with nets on the side) to prevent it from landing.
tomato_bisc · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “super hero” game. We would all spend 5-10 minutes drawing a special super hero we want to be and all their special abilities and then after that we would play fight or go on missions. It was like a kid-version of the game city of heroes but with my family
WiseKouichi · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The dead corpse". This was when we were rly small...like around 7 I guess. We would collect all blankets and pillows in the house and throw them together into the corner of the room, lower the blinds and turn off the light. One kid was chosen to be the dead corpse, lying deep in the corner under the densest part of the stack of cloth. The rest would hide within the surrounding blankets/pillows. Since we were so small, there seemed to be so much room to hide. After some time the dead corpse would emerge and search for its prey. Whoever was caught would be "eaten" and lost. I don't remember any winning condition for the prey...I think we always got eaten lol.
Astrokiid_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mulchen Lava!
In all reality it was less of a game and more of an add on. Games of freeze tag became a lot more intense when the mulch was lava
Piercebuddy · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Slimey Pigs", which was basically hide + seek mixed with tag using a Nerf gun. Dad was usually it, and my siblings and I would make him play for hours.
seagoatdiaries · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Danger” - get on the tall swings on the playground, go as high as you can, and start telling jokes. The combination of struggling to hold on during laughing and seeing everyone else do the same was the best.
12333yikes · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to build wooden bows and shoot ourselves with self made arrows from sticks and pizza boxes and call it "Hunt". Sometimes we shot the arrows through the front wheels of our bicycles with the main goal being it getting stuck in between the wheel and the other one'd just flip over the steering. Was a fun time being in Slovenia for 5 weeks straight without speaking Slovenian lol.
fullmetalfriday · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Microsoft's Fury 3
Leon_Q83 · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage with my uncle Cecil.
oldboy_alex · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always played Crash Bandicoot on the PS1
pixelprof · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Touch it and Die." We filled three old tennis balls with sand. Everybody stood in a circle and passed the balls around with nice, easy to catch underhand passes. If you lost focus of a ball coming towards you and fumbled it everybody else could open fire and launch their sand grenades at you. To escape the pelting, you had to run and touch the side of the house. After that you could return back to the circle and hopefully not fumble again.
kerchunky · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would run around the woods near our houses and pretend we were on the TV show Lost. We would climb the trees to see if we could ‘find help’ and actually filmed it a couple of times on my camera.
Lil-Tuna · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school, my friends and I would play “numbers” we would sit in a circle at lunch (around 6-8 of us) and we would all stick out our index fingers. Going clockwise, we would take turns tapping someone’s fingers, and if you got tapped, you would add the amount of fingers on the hand they hit you with to your hand. If you stuck all 5 fingers out, that hand was out, and we’d go until there was only one person left.
Uselessmanpig · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You guys are talking about all this wholesome shit, me and my best "friend" would have "fencing matches" with our 5 year old dicks... fun times
elhawiyeh · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made "temples" out of stones in the backyard and sacrificed insects to appease vengeful gods, taking make-believe to new levels of recursion.
freeworldslave · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game but my friends had a thing where if you sneezed 3 times in a row you’d get slapped in the nuts.
TheLegalMaster · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fortnite. XD jk i don't even know
fool4alifetime · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother made up a game called murder. One person would hide upstairs in the dark and 1 person at a time would go up and check a room. if the room was empty they would run back down the stairs before they got murdered. If we got into the room where the murder was and got caught they would become the murderer. Lots of screaming in that game.
FrenzyMode · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play rts in the sandbox as kids. We would use Lego minifigures from home to be our heroes and would build separate bases in the sand. Our attacks on the other bases consisted of light attacks (poking with fingers), medium attacks (using your fist), and if you upgrade enough you could use your feet (towards the end of a recess). I played Age of Empires 2 as a kid and just got so addicted to rts I guess lol.
Yung_Hibachi · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think it’s very unique but “doorknob” is one the best games & concepts of all time. Anyone can play, and you can play at any time.
Krakenpl5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know what it is called in English but in Polish we call it podchody. Its about one person hiding clues in the forest, house or the garden that are leading to a treasure (most often candies). The others are trying to find the clues reading them, solving the mysteries and finding the treasure.
Golden3ye · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide somewhere in the house when my Mom was coming home. I would make a ransom note that made it sound like I was kidnapped.
I would hide quietly to see if she would freak out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to tie together our little “driveway vehicles” with bungee cords and string, and then go down our long driveway in one big train of a vehicle as fast as we could. Those were some fun days.
husam6101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if it was that unique but my cousins and i couldn't come up with it up until way later (~10yo). It was a combination of hide and seek and catch
Not sure if "catch" has the same name in enlgish but its like tag but instead of the tagged person to start tagging, they go into "prison" and anyone else playing as the "runners" can free them up by touching their hand/low/high fiveing them
The game was basically hide and seek, until the seeker finds someone and then they would have to catch em. All the rules of catch still applied so a round would usually take quite a bit before ending and switching seekers.
N1n31nchD1ck · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wolf Tag". Played in 5 rounds across all the houses on our street (30 or so). Round 1 was either 1 or 2 people Wolves ("it") and trying to tag everyone else while everyone else was trying to get to home base to be safe. Round 2 was the original wolves plus the others who were tagged in round 1. Round 3 was the original wolves plus those tagged in Rounds 1 & 2. So and and so forth. You won by surviving (making it to home base all 5 rounds). Amazing memories.
crullah · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Pain Game" where you would start with a handful of ping pong balls and a paddle. Then turn off the lights in the room and run around trying to hit one another with the paddled balls. If you hit someone with the paddle instead, the lights came on, the offender took off their shirt and everyone got a free shot at their back from about 5 feet away. Ah, childhood.
my_severe_depression · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late but in elementary school we came up with a game called “Helen Keller”, which was pretty much marco polo but on top of the playground equipment. One kid was blindfolded and covered their ears while trying to catch the other players by feeling the vibrations when the kids moved throughout the playground.
The game was shutdown when a kid fell down a slide and broke his arm.
gdnametkn · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Invaders”. We would split our lawn, and teams, into two sides. You the threw a frisbee to the other side. If it landed you had been invaded. After 10 invasions you lost.
As we got older and still played the game we had a blast diving to catch the frisbee before it landed.
DCPirate16 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really as a child, but in High School we would play “Ball Ball”. Just as you expect, you’d sit in chairs about 10-15 feet apart and toss tennis balls at each other’s testicles.
In college our game of choice was “Keys”. You sit about 10 feet from each other with your eyes closed and hands behind your back while taking turns underhand tossing your keys at each other’s faces.
So there were no winners with our foolish games, everybody loses.
Js229 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Waves”. We had a crappy 70s futon in our basement that we would fold into a bed. Somehow it was able to tip back and forth from the couch legs to the edges of the bed /, —, \ ... so we would ride the waves until someone went flying off.
Fall_Pandora · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
One out of six of us siblings would put on as many shirts and pants as possible then lie on a bed. We would then grab as many sheets, covers, blankets, pillows, and cushion as we could find and throw those on top of the one sibling (with all the shirts and pants on). Then us and the neighborhood kids would take turns jumping from a bar stool on top of the kid lying down. Someone always ended hurt from flying off of the bed but when you're a latch key kid you find pretty inventive ways of hurting yourself and your siblings.
Holyrollerfliper12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LEGO Star Wars!
FreakyCheeseMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the neighbor girl way out in East Kentucky had a game where we presented the local stream had fish in it. We made up all sorts of insane species of fish and built little rock dams to give them places to live. There was a species of fish that turned the water into milk, another that made orange juice...
AbeRego · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two kids on the swing set, one kid with a ball on the ground. The ball kid had to try to hit the swing kids anywhere but the feet to get them out. I'm a little hazy beyond that, but I think catching the ball was also an out, and that when the ball kid got someone out they traded spots.
KingVontae · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play game called “Fat Albert”. All it actually was is football but played on your knees in one of the carpet bedrooms. My oldest cousin would take a pillow or two and stuff them inside his shirt making him resemble “Fat Albert”, the three of us would then try to reach the other side of the room with either a pass or handoff of the ball. Which of course meant our oldest cousin would just bash into you as hard as he could with his pillow stomach sending us flying. Then one day his mother walked in the room at the exact moment he blasted his little brother into the wall making a dent. That was the last time we were aloud to play Fat Albert.
onlyaftereverything · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The ball game" mix of tag and hide and go seek, always played at night where someone was it with the ball everyone got a head start to go and hide then the person with the ball would run around and try to throw it at people if it hit you, you became it and had to hit someone else with it. Lots of fun , my buddy climbed a tree and hid for an hour and no one could find him the entire time
DeadOnImpact · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, my cousin, and I would put on life jackets and throw darts at each other from across the basement. The life jackets were just thick enough to stop the darts. Shit was intense.
xanderroot · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pie in the face”. It involved me and my siblings jumping around on a trampoline and throwing a wet dishrag at each other’s faces and on a successful hit we would yell “PIE IN THE FACE!”. I don’t know.
pm_ur_wifes_nudes · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the way into Detroit for any event, my brother and I would compete to see who could count the most burned out or abandoned buildings on their side of the car.
evolutionx1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to throw rocks at each other from opposite sides of a hill so you wouldn't know when you were about to get hit. Not sure how I've made it to 31.
ArgD_279 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really original but sometimes my brother and I would celebrate our birthdays on the same day and since we lived in a very "spacious" (almost no houses and big and empty fields) neighborhood we would play a war-like game between my friends and his, with fake plastic guns and imaginary bullets, my team made a lot of bases where we hid equipment all around the neighborhood and we used binoculars to see spot them easily (~1km away), i would dress in military clothes and my team communicated with walkie-talkies
Thwerty · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the nostalgia game threads never mention this game but I thought it was popular. Jazz jackrabbit
brandonredard · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
spyro
SlipperyBanana8 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to see who could climb the highest in the tree, or the quickest up the tree and onto the garage roof. It was always made better when my little cousin wanted to play. He was afraid of heights. We'd wait until he got half way up, call for him to look down and then he'd freeze up there. We were so mean. We'd leave him up there for hours and play with his toys.
Euterpe86 · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, my family would play Snapdragon every Christmas. The adults would light cashews on fire with brandy. The kids would then try to grab the cashews from the flames and eat them (while still on fire) without getting burned.
When I told my husband about this, he didn't think it was a real game so I looked it up and sure enough. It is.)
PanicInHanoi · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It seems no one had my brother who insisted on playing his favorite game caller "You Killed My Partner" which was nothing more than him trying to get a gun away from me so he could "avenge the death of his partner". It was a real gun that had the barrel soldered shut. I got pistol-whipped a few times.
Rohri_Calhoun · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father was never very athletic or interested in playing but one game I remember playing with him when I was young was called "over the door". You find a door that opens outward and throw a ball over it. No one else I've ever talked to has played this game.
well-mannered-fish · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek tag around the whole neighbor hood on bike and skateboards.
Nyodo · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 4th grade we’d play “Kings of the Hill” during recess. Not that weird of an idea but the game itself was. On the playground we had one of those slides that were super wide and had 3 different slides in one. So we used that and we’d have a kid sit at the top of each slide and the rest would climb up and try to pull them down the slide.
The different part is that sometimes, instead of just pulling the kid’s legs so they’d slide down, kids would push them off the side of the slide and when some of them would run up they’d fall off the side.
Although dangerous, it was fun while it lasted
traitor_jr · 1 points · Posted at 16:39:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Super Checkers!” You could create any move you wanted, so long as the name and the action jived and it didn’t automatically end the game. Typically we’d only let the move happen once, to push coming up with new weird “super moves.” It was kind of the Calvinball of checkers.
Leut_Aldo_Raine · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I'm Seeking You"
We would go into my friend's basement and split up into two teams (usually 4 of us to a team). Each team would go to one end of the basement. Then we would turn out to lights and cover the windows so it was pitch black. We would start throwing random objects at each other in the dark. Not necessarily soft things like dodge-balls, mind you. There were bowling pins, baseballs and other types of heavy or solid objects.
The winning team would be revealed once all members of the opposing team were crying on the floor.
Big_Tom1777 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw a newspaper in the air in front of me run and make a kickass jumping catch and repeat! Hours of fun. In reality I looked like a kid with no friends playing catch with himself. I swear I had friends.
_----__- · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called manhunt with two teams, "hunters" and "hiders". The hiders chose a word with the same amount of letters as team members (e.g. 4 player teams would choose a 4 letter word like "game"). Each team member was assigned a letter, then they would be given a head start to run/hide from the other team. The hunters would then have to find the hiders and beat them up until they gave up their letter. The hunters then had to guess the word based on the letters they got. It usually ended in tears
Foxcat · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Pie Game". My siblings and I would throw the couch throw-pillows at each in the living room and shout out different pie names as we did. "Banana cream pie!" "Apple pie!"" Etc. The first person to repeat a pie name lost.
Oldico · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Independence War II - Edge of Chaos
The best Sci-Fi dogfight / trading simulator ever!
manwithstick · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play tag with my brother and cousins in my pawpaw's tobacco barn. The rule was that you had to stay on the second level which was just 2×6s spaced out about 6 ft apart from each other. We used to be able to run in a full sprint on those boards. One day we were playing and one of the boards broke under my little brother's foot and he fell about 10ft and landed on his back with his head about 6 inches from hitting the pointed end of an upwards-facing tractor plow. Im pretty sure that was the last time we ever played tag in the barn. Shit was eye opening.
karmacashmere · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to milk a cow blindfolded and see who was quickest.
MrsLafone · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I would set up small pieces (army men, Polly pockets, chess pieces etc...) in whatever formation we chose, across from each other on the floor in the kitchen or hallway, and bounce a bouncy ball back and for to knock over each other’s game pieces, whoever ran out of pieces first loss. Fun at any age, I still play it with my kids sometimes.
gooch-iegang · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "SAH" game, my brother is 6 and a half years older so we didn't play any games except that one, and we lowkey still do. When we go to a store, clothing, grocery, etc we basically karate chop each other and whisper "sah" that's all. The reason it's "karate chopping" is because one time he was walking in front of the cart while i was pushing, and i decided that i would ram it into his ankles and yell "SAHHHH," he fell and I got in a lot of trouble
SwegTestica7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers had these metal figurines that we would tie at the waist and connect to a fan. The fan that we used had one of those sliding switches so you could calibrate the speed of the fan. We would put on armor helmets and have lid containers as shields and however times you got hit you would lose points. I got many headaches playing that game lol.
kanible · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
By the emperor...what have they done to you, brother?
FederalDamn · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to use my bow and arrow to launch an arrow straight up into the air...and run away.
L A T C H K E Y
jojofrank · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tarzan Soccer Baseball. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like, we had a garden hose tied to a tree and a stump that we would swing off of. Two teams (all though it worked two player), kick the ball while swinging through the air and round the bases.
So many hours playing that game we came up with by ourselves (I’m sure it’s not unique, but we weren’t told it by anyone else).
lordcarnivore · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sandbox battleship. Each person builds ships out of sand about 8-10 feet from one another, usually about bread loaf size.
One large stone is selected for the game and each person stands near their ship taking turns throwing the stone and trying to destroy everyone else's ship.
If the middle of your ship was destroyed, you were out. After 10 more throws you could rebuild your ship and join in the game again.
If you could find a sandbox that wasn't used often the games could take days.
keelantw · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Balloon Match” This game requires one slightly deflated helium balloon, two people, and the widest and tallest door jam in the house. Each player (my little brother and I) stands on either side facing each other. The goal of the game is to keep the balloon from hitting the ground on your side of the door jam in 3 hits or less. The winner would serve from behind the line (no spiking was allowed on serves) if the serve hits you, it counts as a hit. First one to lose ten games loses the match. This by far caused more brawls and hurt feelings than any other game we played as kids...also didn’t help that dad would play with absolutely no mercy.
hollowsoul_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So there was this worm..... The main level (i think level 1) was inside the human brain... I really miss it
Also there was this tunnel with 3 soldiers, you play one at a time, you die, you get the second one and so on.... Usually I tried to get out of the tunnel by a ladder, i would die instantly.... I really miss it tooo
simyangyang · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't Move!
My brother and I are ticklish, so in the car my brother would have to stay still as I would pretend to "tickle" him without actually doing so. If he flinched before I actually tickle him, I win and get to actually tickle him. If I accidentally touch or tickle him, he gets to tickle me back.
rushakenyan · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Fishball (still do). I don't know how popular it is...but it's basically a mix of dodgeball, tennis, and volleyball.
The rules: you play with a volleyball on a tennis court and you get three hits like in volleyball but have to get it across the net. The ball has to bounce once before you can hit it. If it hits you before it hits the ground then you got "sniped" by the other team and it's 2 points for them. That game is awesome
futurepassedpast · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"White Eyed Monsters" My brother and I would be waiting in the car while my parents ran in to the store or whatever and anytime we saw a car coming we'd duck and hide. No score, really just one of the many stupid ways you entertain yourself at that age haha.
Lord_Derpenheim · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage with my uncle.
INvrKno · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids in my Neighborhood would get together and play a game called "Spill the Beans" which we eventually just shortened to "Spill" no idea why we called it that. Essentially it was just a version of manhunt without the chasing and jail. One person would be the seeker and the everyone else hid somewhere in the neighborhood. When the seeker saw someone they would yell "Stop or I'll shoot insert name here behind the rock or car or Bush etc etc. The goal was for the hiders to get up to the telephone poll and yell "Spill". If they succeeded the seeker had to be seeker again. I miss my neighborhood games.
Bonus: We also played a game called "Suicide" I think everyone played a version of it at some point. You throw a tennis ball at a wall and try to catch it. If you touch it but miss the ball you have to run and tag the wall before someone pegs you with the ball.
PrinceSolomom · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was I the only one who played hide the belt and hitler ?
SchuitMeister · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in the day, we played something called "busjetrap", not quite sure what to call it in english. It was like hide and seek, but with a twist.
You had one person who had to look for everyone, and a ball on a big open space. At the start, one person would kick the ball as far away as he could and everybody would scuttle to their hiding spot.
The person looking for the rest had to go get the ball and return it to it's original spot before he/she could look for the rest. During the game, the people hiding could decide to kick the ball away again, at which point the one searching had to go get it back again and so forth and so forth.
The game would end when everybody was found or when either the person looking or hiding would give up.
Nenadumis · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines That game left a lasting impression on me
nate-doggg-92 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the nickel with my uncle, but it was a secret game and I couldn't tell anyone about it
kindafunnylookin · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Speed Cushions' with my little brother. From either end of the living room, you had to whip (or 'yeet' I guess the cool kids would say nowadays) your pile of cushions (taken from the couches) in the direction of your opponent as fast as possible, while they did the same and tried to return the ones you'd thrown. The winner was the first one to have no cushions left on their side (or alternatively the loser was the first one to break something and get yelled at by our parents).
itsnotlookinggood · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called Beckon and I've always wondered if other people knew about it as I always suspected my gram made it up. It's kinda like kick the can but with waving (like a hello wave). One person is it-person. They count while everyone else hides, this is an outside game. They run around looking for people and to get somebody the it-person tags them. The tagged person goes to stand at the base. The tagged person on base will yell things like, "Beckon beckon I need a beckon." Then anyone else still not tagged can wave at them from hiding. If they see this wave, or beckon, they get to escape base. When the it-person gets everybody to base, the first person to be on base without escaping is the new it-person.
macgiollarua · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played I.R.A. like the paramilitary organisation. Basically it was like hide and seek with two teams. The team hiding chose a codeword and everybody got a letter, then everybody went out to hide. Then when somebody, or a group from the other team found you, they'd chase you down and beat you until you gave up your letter. The game was over when they could figure out the code word. Heaps of fun, dodging rocks.
thelongarm91 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and me made up a game in 5th grade called “Hold your balls”. At first only us two played it but we eventually we gad a group of about 20 other kids playing with us. Each person got one those rubber kickball balls and all you had to do was make sure no one else hit your ball out of your hand.
The only rule was that you couldn’t use your hands or feet to hit someone’s ball. You could only use your own ball. When someone dropped their ball you would chuck your ball at theirs to try and send it flying. Then they would have to chase down their ball before someone else hit it with their own.
Sometimes you got lucky and they’d miss and have to chase down their ball giving you time to pick yours up. That was it. There was no winner, just a lot of running. By the end of recess we would all be completely out of breathe, sweating like mad, and laughing like crazy.
truth-informant · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Red Star. It was a bullet-hell genre of video game originally developed for the PS2/Xbox but never got a commercial release. It was not only unique as bullet-hell game but as a game in it's own right.
The levels were constantly different styles and perspectives and point-of-view, so not only thematically changing but also changing the direction. So sometimes it would be bottom-up, right-left, diagonally, etc.
You had unique hero choices with different abilities. Very different bosses and patterns that were difficult to learn.
I originally played the PS2 demo when I worked at EB games and then later found a more developed pirated version that I played at home. It was a super fun and addictived game.
morningsdaughter · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Milk of Magnesia.
I don't know why this was allowed... The game was played with a tennis ball. Each player dug a hole in the ground in a selected area. Then the person who was it rolled the ball trying to land in that area. If the ball landed in your hole you had to grab it and throw it at any of the other players. Whoever you hit got a strike. I don't remember what happened if you missed. You probably got a strike for that also. If the ball landed in the area, but not in a hole the person who was it had to grab it and try to hit someone or they would get a strike. Each player took a turn at being it (probably defined by who got a strike that round.)
Every started with 3 strikes. (I think it was 3, part of me wants to say it was 7, but that sounds too crazy.) When you ran out of strikes, everyone went over to a wall and "stoned" you. To "stone" a player, each player subtracted the number of strikes they got from 3; that's how many times they got to throw the tennis ball at the person being stoned. So if you got 2 strikes, you only got one throw. If you got 0 strikes you got 3 throws.
After the stoning, the game started over again.
It was an odd game. I have never heard of anyone else who played it. And I can't find any information on it online anywhere.
Ader73 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I liked throwing rocks at cars because we liked the weird noise it made when they hit the car. Our parents didn’t like that game so much.
minkastu · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a city of former textile mill glory, and we learned some of the history of the mills in school. My friends in the neighborhood and I decided to put on a play which we forced all of our parents to attend, where we performed original songs about our sad lives as child laborers. As I recall one was called "Poor Little Mill Girl" and I'm sure it was a banger.
Tukestu · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ricochet!
My friend and I would set up little obstacle courses around his room, and try and bounce a ball through the course without it stopping. Too many times I'd throw a ball too hard, and it'd land in an open AC vent, or hit an eye...
barnesjam · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skating Grandma. My older sister would dress me up like an old lady and stuff pillows in my clothes to give me a large chest and butt. I’d put on roller skates and pretend to figure skate how I thought an old lady would, and say things like “my hip!”
JustTellMeTheFacts · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Called it curb ball.
Using a basketball, you stand on one side of the street, they on the other. Throw the ball different ways to hit the curb, but it has to hit the curb at a certain angle, otherwise it didn't count.
WholeMalk · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a trampoline, threw a bunch of balls on it. If any of the balls touched you when you were jumping around - you were out.
HypersensitivePeach · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carpet tag was a game my brother and i played when we were younger. We had a very thick carpet that you could make marks on, so we would "draw" a track into the carpet (basically a big circle) with starting points and bases or shortcuts. Tag with a twist! simple, but it kept us entertained for hours
crochetmeteorologist · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend that a bunch of pony beads I had were people at a boarding school.
xxailixx · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called “Bum Wiggle Bum Bum, Bum Wiggle Bum”. We’d be stood back-to-back with our arms linked. The aim of the game - start in the middle of the room, and whoever pushes the other to the opposite side of the room wins. Only rule was that I wasn’t allowed to pick her up (I’m 3 years older).
goldenprey123 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battlefield Heroes
moosesdontmoo · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
not really unique per se but i reemember staying at my cousins house all the time and we would make our own mini golf courses in his basement using all sorts of props
idrinkmiller3223 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Give the redditor karma on his cakeday.
LegitMatthew_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't have a name for it but here is how it goes.
I try to "throw" the door closed as softly as possible. So basically, I imagine a time interval from when the striker hits the strike plate to when it clicks closed.
Usually I under throw it a tad and it doesn't quite close but I've gotten pretty ggood at it over the years. A good time is probably around .5 seconds.
I still do this as an adult obviously :x
BigBodyBeef · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a family friend that had lost a hand, leaving only a nub behind. Me and my cousin were always super fascinated by it, and in turn him. Every time he came over, he said he “lost” his hand, and would have us go look for it. And by god, we spent hours looking for that damn hand.
Looking back on it, that’s a great way to get 2 kids out of your hair for a couple hours
needyneeds · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im not sure how unique this is but me and my family friends use to play Toro everytime they came over. They would lay on the hammock and try no to get thrown off by us. We stopped playing when the tree that was holding up the hammock broke.
TheMikeMarsters · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played “Star Wars” with my brother with whiffle ball bats as lightsabers in the park. 10/10 would do it again today
breebs27 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would put all of our pillows and blankets in the hallway and then put our bathing suits on and dive into the blankets to pretend we were swimming in the ocean. We even had a deep end where most of the pillows were. We didn’t have a pool and we live in a place where we get 6 months of snow, so pretending we were swimming is usually as close as we got to actually doing it.
Jcooney787 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah one more! My sons played roller wars. They would come home from school put on shoulder pads from their football days (they were 1.5 years apart and this was 3-5th grade approximately my old skates and some rollerblades I picked up at a garage sale and they would skate all over my 3 car garage and beat each other with plastic bats.
bowhunter_fta · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Piggly Wiggley" (yes, just like the grocery store).
Basically, it was the match book game of football that you played at the kitchen table.
The reason it was called Piggly Wiggly in my family was because when my uncles first played it, they used a Piggly Wiggly match book.
asmallroundkitten · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
“Jump, Jump, Sit” on the trampoline. There were four of us, and basically the premise of the game is that you get 2 jumps to get as high as you can before you jump and land on your butt on the trampoline. This results in one of the four flying high up in the air, and the other three just kinda bounce a little. I really miss the kids I used to play this with, and it’s a memory I think of often.
Edit: And “house” We would gather in a friend’s driveway with some chalk and draw the outline of our fake house, complete with “beds” and “toilets.” We’d use our scooters and pretend we were going to work, and then one of my friends’ parents let us turn their garage into a “clubhouse” where we made paper dolls and had sleepovers instead of chalking up their driveway. God this was such a trip down memory lane, thank you for asking this question.
Mike12Cali · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Billow Run- 2 teams line up on each side. One side has to get by the other side without being tagged.
Bike Tag- tag but on bikes
Ice plant wars- Throw ice plant at each other.
catastic5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and friends would pull the cushions off the couch and set them on the other side of the den (about 6ft). Bigger kids would lay back on the couch with legs up (forming a seat) and little kid would sit on their feet. The goal was to launch the smaller kids across the room to land on the cushions. Whoever made it, won. Whoever didnt had a sore bum!
littlefrog9 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sisters and I played a game called "foot in the face". It's pretty self explanatory and would be accompanied by yelling the phrase
OneNeutralJew · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was really young (2 - 4) I lived in Belgium due to my father being in the military. Everyone there spoke Flemish and Dutch, yet I barely even understood English. When I was in Pre-K a few of the Dutch kids and myself used to play the pants game. We would just walk around and pants each other most of the day. I don't know how nobody noticed and stopped us from playing but it was an extremely common game among the kids; some even played it outside of school.
jajsemjulia · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bulldoggy. 5- or 6-year-old me would get on all fours on one side of the living room, and my dad would do the same on the opposite side of the living room. He would start a count down during which we both "rev up" like I imagined bulls would do in bull fights, and on "3-2-1-bulldoggy!" we both charged and tried to knock the other over. After several rounds, I was inevitably declared the winner.
SimpleDan11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sure this will get lost, but this immediately reminded me of Bob Mortimers story about one of the games he played growing up in England. Me and my girlfriend constantly reference this.
https://youtu.be/MsuuiVzS6Js
Hkydoc · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but a co-worker’s kid (6 yo). I caught him playing “treasure hunt.” He rifles through all of the ash trays in our shopping strip that have the sand in them to find “treasures.” Then he brings them back to his gramma.
His gramma has him to collect the butts that are smokeable still and bring them back to her.
X-gon-do-it-to-em · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smash Bros brawl
beepingslag42 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After every birthday party my brother and I would take home one of the balloons. Once it had lost most of its helium we would play volleyball over the couch or a bed. There would be lots of very dramatic diving to the ground to save the balloons from touching the ground although it usually fell so slowly I think most of the diving saves were completely forced.
JthfknNiNjA · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not even sure if this what they are called but my cousins and I all visited our grandparents often. We found this “china berry” (?) tree in the backyard. We would pick them and we would have “China berry” fights. I remember just having a bucket of these small green berry shaped things and just straight chunking them at my cousins.
I often wonder how no one lost an eye. It’s crazy how oblivious we are as children to some dangerous activity.
Edit : spelling
Clash771 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and i used to love playing around with our sprinkler in the summer. We used to pretend we were in a drive by shooting when it would do that reset where it moves really fast and shoots little bits of water (or whatever you call that).
Yikes.
wtjax · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have this hill behind my friends house. We'd get a large stick, put on a jacket and launch ourselves off the edge of the hill like pole vaulting and land several feet down the hill. the dirt wasnt hard and it was super fun. At some point the hill got flattened as did the creek just behind it... it was really fun as a kid playing outside so much
jimithumbdrive · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jug ball. We discovered milk jugs had the right physical properties to replace a baseball in a 30x30 field (the back yard).
bradypotter16 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Calf Tag" - Tag where the only place you could tag another is on their calf. Once you got tagged, you got eliminated. Last one standing wins.
Harri_J · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Secret agent.
We used to pick one of our friends at random and tie them up in a chair with ropes and duct tape and have them "escape". In reality we just tied them down so we could mess with them and slap them around. Looking back on it I realize this is pretty fucked up. Also looking back on it, out of all the times we played I was never tied up.
lauralips · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scatter Dodge
thecars1979 · 1 points · Posted at 16:41:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does anyone remember Buns Up as a kid? Basically kids up against the wall bent over and someone would throw a tennis ball and try to hit one of the buns.
I just dont remember how you won?
Cooliamabeast · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would go on the trampoline and place like 5 footballs, basketballs, soccer balls whatever in the middle. Everyone would just jump around and if you touched a ball you were out. It was so much fun diving over the balls to the one safe spot on the trampoline the balls weren’t at at the moment. I miss the days where we would be on the trampoline for hours just making up all these different games. This one was one of my favorite though
porcelainvacation · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play dodgeball against a wall at school during recess, except all we had were basketballs because the 4 square balls were only allowed in a different area of the yard. Kids regularly got their hands crushed between the ball and the wall, yet nobody stopped us. 1985 was glorious.
bierjager · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a weird game with myself where the car window would “chop” all of the grass and plants on the side of the road. I even had a point system based on different types of trees and grass. I imagined a leaderboard in my head in which I sat atop of.
Bahmerman · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball-Tag. Like tag and dodgeball combined (so, mobile dodgeball?). Whoever is "It" can have 1 to 3 tennis balls (or any ball generally non-harmful). If they miss they have to retrieve the ball(s) obviously to get someone.
Person who's "It" counts (10, 20, 100, whatever you agree on), everyone else runs and hides within the designated play area. Person who's"It" hunts anyone down. They have to hit you with a ball (throw or traditional tag, ball has to make contact though), who ever it hit, is "It".
When you've been tagged, you get the ball, make a short count (or agreed upon count, I think it was 10 or 20) and then hunt your friends down.
I suppose end game is when everyone is all tired out.
No head shots was or became a rule, (it would still happened on accident). I can't remember, I think if you headshot someone it doesn't count.
How you deal with cheaters depends on your group, if I recall one friend didn't like another of mine and it became a bit vicious, we had to stop playing, ultimately I thought it was pretty fun. You'd have those dodgeball moments of intensity between the person trying to dodge and the person throwing, except they can close the gap. The worst was being caught in a corner.
We weren't all equally fast but had pretty accurate throws so I thought it was a pretty viable alternative.
I think we used to play a game called "Running Bases" too. It was like Dodgeball meets a Suicide Squeeze in Baseball. Can't remember the rules we came up with though. Two people are in the middle toss a ball, try to tag out runners, I can't remember if everyone runs or not. Looking back it was pretty vicious, probably like a National Geographic episode where a pack runs from a predator, you play smart or be fast and agile.
First two out I think took place in the middle.
Both games I remember leading to some Spiderman, or Neo/Matrix dodge moments.
Usedjagsnextleft · 2 points · Posted at 16:44:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game a lot like this but each person being chased had a tennis racket that we could deflect the balls with. I think it was meant to be like a Jedi deflecting lasers. Once we played in the garage because it was raining out and my best friend put his racket through the window. That was the end of that game. The window is still broken 20 years later
Bahmerman · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, sounds fun, sucks about the window.
lil_cucky · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wiglets" was a game I used to play with some friends who lived down my road, we'd basically just zip ourselves up in sleeping bags and roll down the stairs repeatedly.
Katholikos · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"snipe hunting". We'd sit around and carve sticks into really sharp points, then our parents would have us go hunting for snipes. We didn't know what one looked like, of course, because snipes aren't real. I didn't realize until many years later how the name played into the actual game.
primo15 · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie Tag. Not necessarily unique, but it was the game that everyone enjoyed. It was a variation of Tag and Hide n go Seek. One person would be "infected" and they would need to count to 100. The rest of the kids would need to hide from the zombie. Once the zombie finsiehd counting, the hunt was on. That person would look around the neighborhood to find kids. Once he found someone, that person would get infected and become a zombie. Then it would come down to the last man standing. The joy of running from a group of 20 zombies was like no other!
I think it was an advantage that we lived in a Trailer Park. Our park is in the shape of an 8. The top is a smaller circle, with the bottom being the larger circle. We always played in the top circle. Back in the day, the owners weren't very strict with having kids running around their yard. Memories one can never forget!
michiganisprettycool · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor friend and I played this when we were 8. I would sit on my bed (it had a thick mattress and box spring so it was at least 2.5 feet high) and then she would pull me off the edge and I would just drop straight down. We thought it was hilarious til I broke my arm. I never played that again.
BubblegumDaisies · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I pretended that if you were born in my town you could speak a secret language .
It was literally just me and my 3 years younger niece saying letters using gestures and inflection to communicate and pretending me were talking. Mostly to annoy the new neighbor kid who knocked off us my swing set because it was on "her property". ( It was not.) She also annoyed us because she said her name was really Ariel and her evil stepmom dyed her naturally red hair brown. We had seen the Little Mermaid too Stephanie.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The shit factory. We had an awesome playground at the neighborhood pool. Multiple levels, pirate wheel, springy rocker things, the works. We imagined a giant shit processing facility for all the worlds shit, but it was magical a la Willy Wonka. There was a large "main shit valve" (the pirate wheel near a tube slide) which had to be released to prevent dire consequences. There was a turbulent lake of diarrhea which we had to take the boats across (the rocket horses.) Thinking back on it, it's still funny, poop's still funny.
wtficrappedmypants · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wet wet wet = porngame movie studio And gazillionaire: still hear the voices in my head.
profoma · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called stick-bottle which was played with an empty 1 liter water bottle and any stick you could find. We would stand in a circle and try to keep the bottle in the air using only the sticks and our feet. It was an amazingly difficult game. The best bottle for the game used to be a Crystal Geyser bottle but then they changed the design of the bottle. I recommend this game still.
sterileharold · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would get bored driving in the back of the car all the time. So I played a game where an invisible line shot perpendicular to my toes towards the sidewalk and when I lifted my toes the line would lift up. The goal was to keep my toe line from touching anything other than grass or trees as they passed by. It became such a habit that I almost got into a crash when I first started driving, because I was focused on that game out of reflex. It was a very difficult habit to break and in hindsight it is quite strange.
awk_quirk · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play the portal game.
So, like, we would basically use our back door and when I touched it, he’d act like a different character from one of the cartoons we watched. His go-tos were: Mojo jo-jo, courage the cowardly dog, Ramsey’s, and the devil from cow and chicken.
I miss that game, lol. Maybe I’ll ask if we can play it again once I get home today.
Connor-Radept · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Truth or Dare" which eventually became "let's suck dick in the woods"
Quillbolt_h · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “cheese shop” on the bus.
Exclusively and always on the bus. I have no idea what the game entailed, but I remember it being the most amazing fucking game ever. Mmm, bus cheese.
LemonNitrate · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“War” a friend and I would make forts on each side of the room, then we would turn the lights off and throw toys across the room at each other. Incredibly dangerous looking back on it, but it was fun. Still have smalls dents in my walls from it.
notaverywittyname · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "sticks". Sticks entailed collecting a small pile of small to medium sized sticks, piling them on the fairly major road behind our house, and then waiting to see cars either swerve to avoid running them over, or watching the cars plow into the pile, sending sticks flying everywhere.
We were shitty kids.
mattdreas6 · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a freshman in highschool, like 15 friends and I played "the assassin game". In the morning, we would meet at a lunch table and put all our names in a hat. We would then pull a name from the hat. That name was our Target for the day and we had to poke them without them knowing. This definitely made for some paranoid days lol.
sprinkleburger · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
He had this trampoline game called “LLABA GAG” (gagaball backwards). We took a yoga ball and kicked it each other and if you got hit from the waist and above then you were out. Also if you hit the ball out of the trampoline you were out.
ahhh___ · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
spore
7screws · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my cousin had a go-cart.
we lived in a rural area, and had a huge field/woods behind the house.
we had like a quarter mile straight line path.
We used to take turns driving the go-kart as fast as we could down the path, while everyone else would hide along the path and try and pelt you with balls, basket balls, tennis balls etc. somehow know one ever got really injured.
it was fun as hell though.
TheHeroOfAllTime · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a family game called Lay-Lay that my sister made up. Basically, it was reverse hide-and-seek in the dark. Whoever was "it" would hide somewhere in the basement while the rest of us counted to 30 on the stairs and then came down to look for them. When we found the person hiding, they would jump out and chase everyone. When they caught someone, they would put their fist into that person's belly and twist it back and forth yelling "Lay-lay! Lay-lay!", and the person they caught would be "it" next. Some people were really good at hiding and the tension during that search would be unbelievable... good times.
reagor · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle touchys naked puzzle basement was full of them
leenlegion · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I enjoyed rolling toilet paper and waving it around while singing or daydreaming....
ultrOs_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy sticks with my uncle
monkey_0820 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were in our yard, the cars that drove by were filled with "aliens". You couldn't be seen by the aliens as alive or you'd be "taken", so whenever a car drove by you either had to run behind a building to avoid being seen or freeze so they would think you were a statue. There was no point to the game. But for years when cars drove by I got the urge to run.
TripleT-KA · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Saving this post so I have some fun games to play with my my nieces and nephews get a little older
trypophiliac6969 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife, who is Jewish, played “Anne Frank.” She and her sister would take turns pretending to hide in the house from a Nazi, played by the other sister.
WhooooooshFarmer · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in elementary school my friends and I developed a game we called “tetherball of death”. Basically, there’s two teams on the tetherball court who send the ball back and forth trying to hit each other. You went out if you got hit
TonyStark100 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would run around the house with the lights off, but one person had the flash from my dad's old school camera. The flash had a test button and batteries, so it was a self-contained kid-blinder. Who ever had the flash would sneak around and try to blind the other brothers until someone got hurt, which is how most of the games would end. I remember that the flash made an audible noise when it was recharging to flash again. I am pretty sure I would have some "flash" backs if I ever heard it again.
redgoldfilm · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a soccer game called “tapitas” (bottle caps in Spanish) in my apartment corridor floor, using 22 San Pellegrino style water bottle caps as players. 11 regular water bottle caps would make one team and 11 sparkling water caps (another color) would make the other team. We would position them across the field (floor), and use a token from another game as a ball. We had to press the caps with a flat beer bottle cap, so the “players” would move and hit the token. We could play for hours and create tournaments.
dazedwit · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball Kickers
Bricklesworth · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were young, we used to try to sneak through every room in the house as if they were booby trapped with laserbeams(coming from the electrical outlets), pressure-pads(patterns on rugs, etc), and roaming guards(our parents). We had to sneak through totally undetected. But our parents did not like knowing we were around them without them knowing, so they ended that game eventually. :(
This was all before we knew games like Metal Gear, etc existed or were created.
Bee_Geesus · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Running from Master Skywalker
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Batman game started in the late 80s. My grandfather took a pack of playing cards and drew a Batman symbol on one of the cards. He place the pack of cards on top of the blade of the ceiling fan and after a few spins they'd scatter all over. Whoever found the Batman card won a prize. My brother and cousins and I loved this game so much and I found out later my grandparents helped the littlest kids so they could win too.
twoseat · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Nobody can see us". Stay with me here, because the rules are pretty complicated.
We'd see how far around the block we could get without passers-by seeing us. Sometimes we'd hide behind cars, or walls.
...
That's about it really.
Staytoon · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would jump on the trampoline and yell “3, 2, 1, BLASTOFF!!!” and we would all land on the trampoline sitting down. Someone would go flying super high
MrsLafone · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom filled in our pool with dirt, our black lab liked to dig holes, my best friend and I (10 at the time) would use shovels to connect the holes and make underground tunnels to crawl through.
cannotthinkofaname59 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to play a game called "Human Jousting" we had many variations of this game, one of which was when we paired up and piggybacked each other, and then charged into another pair trying to knock the person on top off, it was great.
BrewtalDoom · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little game called 'Ding Dong Willy'. When my brother and I were kids and used to share a bath, we'd play a game where one of us would stand up with their legs apart and the other would have to slide between the legs and pull the other's penis down like ringing a church bell.
Oh, what fun!
UrbanMermaid96 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I did not have a name for this game but I remember it was the most fun I had as a kid with all 4 of my other siblings. Mom and dad were both gone early, like before the sun had come up and somehow, all 5 of us kids woke up before dawn. The oldest of us was 12 i think, which made the youngest of us 5.
In my house we had a long hallway down to the bedrooms. The hall way was straight, then at the end turned left where two other room doors were. Going down the hallway you first had the laundry room on the left, then the bathroom on the left, middle/little brother's room at the end of the hall, my room/sister's room next to mid/little bro's to the left, and then older brother's room parallel from mine/sister's room.
Since it was pitch black in the house, we decided to make someone a "monster" and they would go down the hall, choose a room and hide there to try and snatch someone. All of the doors were to remain open and lights off so that no one knew which doorway the monster would be in. The goal was to walk down the hallway, make it to very end, tap the wall between the two bedroom doors and come back without being snatched.
If you were snatched, you also became a monster and chose a doorway to hide/stand in, which obviously made it even more scary for the next person to walk down the hallway. It was fun because you were terrified, it was pitch black and you had to rely on sound and feeling. As a monster, you would want to focus on the sounds you heard as much as you could, because you could not see anyone at all.
As someone who walks down the hallway, you want to really try and control your breathing, make as little sound as possible while feeling your way down the hallway, and not get snatched lol. After a while my brothers added some objects like books and back backs in the hallways to help make the game more challenging. It was the most fun I had as a kid with my siblings all playing one game together. When the sun came up, we got ready for school and left for the bus stop on time, and never played the game again.
pkaJIMMBOI · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the 00s and early 10s. 2011 was a cursed time to be a child. I was really I into origami at the time, so I made the entire cast of angry birds out of construction paper and then played a total drama island style survivor game with my brother with the angry birds, complete with ships and an awkwardly drawn out elimination round, and all that beautifully cursed content
FuzzyGummyBear · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I had this game called “Boom Ball”.
We set up bases in the front yard like a baseball diamond. They were usually soccer balls or something.
Two person game. The batter would throw a tennis ball as far as they could and then run around the bases. The goal was to make it all the way around before the outfielder could retrieve the tennis ball and throw it at the batter.
The batter could stop at a base. This would usually result in a game of chicken where the batter would try to bait the outfielder into throwing the ball.
The batter could choose to rethrow and the process would repeat. Can’t remember if we had a 3-out system or if we switched offense/defense every out.
Dad got mad a lot because apparently it ruined the grass in the front yard.
2chainzsthirdchain · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Drop kick” Where like 6 of us would all get on a regular sized trampoline and turn it into the coliseum. We would just run around, every man for themselves and drop kick the living shit out of each other until someone got hurt enough to stop
didn’t have a name for this next one but we would all have hockey sticks and pucks and have one person on a scooter ride past us as we all payed out slapshot after slapshot at that single poor soul
Aleksandrovitch · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to jam my face into the ribbon of smoke rising off my mom’s cigarette while it sat in the ashtray just to see how long I could stand it.
smiliuxxx · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Imhotep rise up" - I actually invented this game when I was 8-9 because I was hugest fan of Mummy films. Sooo basically we went outside with a blanket, wrapped a person (Imhotep) in a blanket like a burrito, basically suffocating, throw random grasses/flowers on "Imohtep" and gathered in a circle around it. When we would start running around in a circle singing "Imohtep rise up" and "Imhotep" should start wrapping out of the blanket and start catching kids. If Imhotep catches kid, he needs to fall on ground and be dead because mummies kills people, right? 😁 So this game is basically a catching game, but with suffocating in a blanket and Mummy movies references. I lived in a small village and one summer it was a huge game every kid played. I'm really proud of my invention and would love to play it, but oh well adulthood happened 🙃
RocketRetro · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from Uncle
Derekurtis · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"master sock ball dodger" the neighborhood kids, my brother and I would take a few pairs of socks and wrap them around themselves into a ball. We would gather around the trampoline, there wouldd be at least 3 players, 1 on the trampoline and 1 on either side. The two people on the ground would stand s few meters away and try hitting the player on the trampoline with the sock ball. If you were hit you had to get off and the person who threw the ball would get on. If you survived 14 throws without being hit congratulations you are the master sock ball dodger.
Speags22 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
British bulldog! Till it was banned by the school because to many kids were getting hurt and to many fights were breaking out. Awesome fun
fostejo · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger I would often go spend nights with my grandparents. My grandpa would always wake up at 5am to walk to the post office and then drink coffee while he watched the birds at the feeder. By the time me and my grandmother woke up, he would be still sitting in the kitchen watching the birds.
We would always play this game called "Monster" where me and my grandma would say "monster, monster", and then my grandpa would get up and start making various monster noises and stomp his feet toward the room we were in. So me and my grandma would hide under the covers from the monster. He would get into the room and act suprised and search around the room for us. He would never find us until I giggled under the covers because I thought I was really hidden from him.
That little game really made me happy every morning for whatever reason. Now that my grandparents aren't around anymore, I can always think back to silly little games like that. It meant so much to me.
Godofwine3eb · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called "red out". It was inside a pole barn, it was basically extreme around the world basketball game. If you missed on an x, you had to go back one space, miss on a circle had to go back 2. We had penalty shots for various things. If the ball hit certain walls, it the ball hit the white board we kept score on, even worse if the ball knocked off the dry erase markers from the board. if you shot from the wrong spot on accident. It was called red out because you could also hit or tag other players as long as you were on your designated spot and give other players penalty shots. Tag them meant you could slap, tag with the ball or kick as long as you were on your spot. You could also do parkour type tagging , as in you could run to your spot on your turn jump and tag a player and as long as you landed on your spot You had to shoot from you gave them penalty shots. The only way to get back in the game is if you made all your penalty shots/free throws all in a row. If you missed you had to start over again on your next turn. All the tagging and penalty shots caused some anger and there were several times we would lose our shit "red out" and get ejected from the game . it was actually very fun, we kept track of records and wins for years. Rules were added to over the years and there is a lot I'm forgetting. The only way to win was to go around the world and back. Make 5 free throws in a row and the final shot was a 3 point shot from the top of the key that had to be swished, determined by the other player /judges. The only way you could win if it wasn't a swish , was it had to be a trick shot. Behind the back, bounce off the ground etc.
notathrowaway69x420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is old and will absolutely get buried but my two younger brothers and I used to play the 'cat poop game'. Our house had two staircases so you could race laps through it and was all hardwood floor so traction was questionable. We'd go through the house and shut all the doors and start the game by scaring the cat. Our dog would go mental and chase the cat.
The cat was much faster than our janky uncoordinated mutt. We would chase after the dog like Indians on the hunt or crazed devil children. The game ended when the cat shit and the dog ate it.
We were unsupervised a fair bit.
ASAP_Moisty · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fat Flanders", we were all on the trampoline with someone in the middle on their knees. They were Fat Flanders and their mission was to try and take down someone from the edge but they couldn't stand up. Led to some fun dives and a few injuries but was ultimately hilarious
The name? I have no idea why
Quantum_Compass · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the 4th grade, my friend and I invented a "Harry Potter dueling game" involving a small whiteboard, flat marbles, dry erase markers and a rudimentary grid system set in a room that we would draw.
Basically, we would each take turns moving our character (the flat marble) up to a set number of spaces, and then choose a spell to cast at each other. Each spell could destroy the drawn terrain, which we would then erase. Last wizard standing would win.
Indigo891 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the living room of my childhood home, there was a big couch with an ottoman in front of it. Me and my sister would play a game where one of us would run as fast as we could around the ottoman and the other would try to jump back and forth from the couch and ottoman without being violently bulldozed by the one running around in circles.
truck72003 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sprint up the stairs before Darth Vader who is definitely behind you catches you.
krypoVSreddit · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"we used to play sock full of quarters, purple nurple, kick the jew,"
lesyeuxbleus · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “the out game.” Played with a baseball, gloves, and as many people as you’d like. You’d attempt to throw a challenging pass to another person and if they caught it, the “batter” was out. If they didn’t, they had to throw it back to you or someone else and you or them had to catch it in order to get the “batter” out. This would continue until there were 3 outs and then I guess we’d just wash rinse repeat. Not really sure if there was even a way to win but it was fun attempting to catch the throws with dives and crazy jumps!
CrosBMcD · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
i was always playing stupid games with my friends at recess.
our version football was kicking our shoes off at each other for fun. had to get a teacher to hop a fence and grab my shoe for that one.
another thing we'd do is just spin around for 30 seconds, until we were all dizzy, and then try to knock each other over. last man standing wins.
on particularly windy days we would try sweater sailing: tossing our hoodies up in the air and watching them fly. they could get surprisingly far if they didn't get caught in the trees,
we also kinda had a full contact version of jackpot. pretty fun.
DankSpook · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play "Jackass" with a couple buddies who lived on my block in middle school, one of us would have to stand still while one of the two others would try to hit the person standing still in the balls with a football. We may have a reduced sperm count, but it's better than brain damage!
acreage7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We broke the tape reels out of old vcr tapes and rolled them down the hill. Had tournaments with the fastest tapes. Went on all summer
zbf · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Telling the neighbor how much shit his blue eyes white dragon was so that he would trade it for some bullshit 2 star card
Damnpea · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I studied Aikido as a child, so I know 1-10 in Japanese. For some daft, unknown reason when I climbed the stairs I would go "1, 2, 3, ich, ni, ich, ni.." all the way up the staircase. Always ended on ni, even if I had to jump some stairs.
I am 37 and still do this 30 years later...
megavenusaurs · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Icky sticky dry mud.” When I was ~3 I would wet a washcloth and put it on the bottom of the bathtub and jump up and down on it while changing “icky sticky dry mud” the name is the most confusing part of this
jemidev · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I loved the Quiet Game - everyone is quiet and whoever made a sound lost. I'd beg the adults to play it in the car with me.
Another car game was racing to see who could get their seatbelt and door locked first. It was something I'd always do with my mom and sometimes we'd fight to get the other unable to click in their seatbelt. As I got older and it was just automatic, we wouldn't play as much but sometimes, maybe once every six months, once we both get into the car one of us will suddenly spazz to get our seatbelt on as fast as we can, hit the door where the lock would be if it were an older car, throw our hands up in the air and yell, "I WIN!" Usually the other one is confused as hell but it brings back memories.
Also my grandpa made a game when I was so sick and had to go home from school. I was crying in the backseat with a grocery bag for when I'd have to throw up again and he made up a game where I had to list at least five words for throwing up. It distracted me, was gross, which meant it was cooler as a kid, and I stopped crying.
prime753 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game in lower school (age 10-12) called kick or kiss. The boys would try to catch the girls or vice versa. If you got caught you'd have to choose between a kick or a kiss. Started with kisses on the cheek. Ended with kisses on the lips. Guess we were all experimenting?
KngSqrlDck · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bat chuck" after playing baseball in the tennis courts we would end each game by dividing the teams on each side of the net a throwing the metal bat at each other at dusk.
Ralph-Hinkley · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I used to play hide the salami in his basement.
jacobporter329 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were creative kids grew up in a lower middle class apartment.
We used to throw tennis balls against a wall, the rules were you had to pick up the ball in one touch (if you tried to pick it up but were unsuccessful you had to run to the wall and touch it before someone threw it against the wall) you’d get 3 strikes. If you reached 3 strikes you had to stand facing against the wall at everyone who didn’t get 3 strikes gets to throw a tennis ball at you.
ChikenBBQ · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game at school called kick the fence. It did not involve kicking a fence. It involved kicking a socker ball at a chain link baseball backstop. Each player had to kick the ball at the inside of the backstop on their turn. If you miss youre out, and you have to chase the ball and bring it back. The back of the back stop didnt count, but the poles did. Originally, kicking it over the fence counted (from either side, so kicking it over from the front fucked the next guy because the either had to kick it back over or hit a pole on the back) but eventually we canned that rule in about 5th grade when we got good enough to kick it over the fence accidentally so we made it an out instead. We literalky played this game from second grade until 6th grade every recess before and after school every day and were sad in middle school when the field ad no backstops.
childroid · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I used our mom's exercise ball and tiny trampoline in the basement to create what was basically ping pong. We would bounce the ball at the trampoline, and whoever let the ball hit the ground would lose. It got intense. We called it Bounce Ball.
You can imagine my surprise when, a decade or so later, I see SpikeBall in stores. They stole our idea!!!
dezz-the-artist · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spoons: It was a game where everyone (usually four or five of us) draws a card and the person with the highest card was the Feeder and the person with the lowest card was the Eater. The Eater would be blindfolded and the Feeder would take a spoon put whatever they want on it and the Eater had to...eat it. Rules were: nothing poisonous and if you couldn't eat it you had to hold it in your mouth for 20 seconds before you can spit it out.
zoomoutalot · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Magic Towel Ride
After shower, dad would cover us (me and my brother) in towel and take us on magic towel ride so we could not see where we were going. He would put us in odd places like top of headboard, in a closet, above the refrigerator etc. We had to then come out of towel, find our location and get out of this “hard situation “ - we used to love it, always excited to know where magic towel would take us next. The moral of the game which became clear to us only later in life was to teach us that life is like a magic towel ride - sometimes it blindsides you and puts you in seemingly impossible situations and you must not panic but get out of it with patience and persistence. I play it with my boys now and they love it too.
godpasta · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played 'Monster in The Hallway' which was essentially tag but in a narrow hallway. I was always the monster and the other two would try to get passed me. We learned to climb the walls and had the best times. Then we got a pool.
Thompson_S_Sweetback · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend my swing was a portal to another planet.
makingmozzarella · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we played a game called "kick back". Two teams lined up on other sides of the basketball court and people just punted balls back and forth. It got pretty popular when a new school opened. As a kid, I thought I invented it but I probably made that up and learned it somewhere else.
rjl603 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my brother were bored, my dad used to tell us to try and 'sit on your thumb and spin round on your elbow'.
Spent alot of time trying this.
selcouth_devotee · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My school (an all girl's catholic school in a pretty shit, low income area) was a two story, except for one section which was three stories. At the top of one of the staircases, there was a door that lead to three classrooms that were typically used as storage rooms. The classrooms were dark and dingy, and teachers never felt comfortable sending us up there for some reason, even though the last week before school was typically just 'free labour week' where the kids would re-arrange the classrooms, put things into some of the other storage spaces (it was primary school, so we'd stay in the one classroom except for phys ed and extra curricular, so each teacher would get their students to move their things to whatever classroom they would be in the next schoolyear).
Looking back it was probably just because the third floor had no supervision or maintenance that the teachers didn't feel comfortable going up, but in our small religious minds there were demons and ghosts up there. Sometimes when teachers would send us on messages, we'd dare eachother to go upstairs. Even when I was 11 I was still absolutely terrified to go in. Overall nothing bad ever happened, but we'd scare ourselves shitless theorizing why we weren't allowed up.
RocketRetro · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play “Backscratcher”. We’d go in the basement, turn off the lights, and then take turns demonically chasing each other with a back scratcher. There were many boo boos.
pikmin66 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Eat the salt tacos". We competed to see how many tacos filled with salt we could eat until we vomited. Looking back, it wasn't that fun.
UnseenUniverse · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure it really counts as a game but me and my Twin + Older Brothers created Rockie World! A world where our dog Rockie ruled. Long story short he ended up ruling the universe and our stuffed animals were also involved + Rockie's doggy crushes. One of the main villians was Evil Rockie of course who had black fur instead of gold lol. There's far too much lore and honestly it's still growing. Help! Rockie will destroy us from the grave!
Cool_Like_dat · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chair soccer. My friends and I all lived beside each other. Every summer we would setup those plastic white backyard chairs as goal posts and set a weight on top so they don’t move. We’d play 3 on 3 and rule was no goalies.
C32_1JG · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t ask me how I came up with this game but my best friend and I would play this game called “birth control” on one of the slide towers at the elementary school by our house. I was the sperm and my friend was the birth control and my goal was to shove past him while he, the birth control, tried blocking me so I could go down one of the slides in order to “have babies.” Going down the left slide meant you were having a girl, the right slide meant you were having a boy.
We had a weird ass childhood but we’re still best friends 😂
5_years_experience · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to pile all types of blankets, pillows and any other type or bedding on top of the stairs. Once this wall was about 4/5 feet tall we would would pull out its base and let this mountain push us down the stairs. It was called avalanche and I'm still surprised we never broke anything.
RainRed · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a variant of tag that we would call "AIDS". Same rules as tag, except than when you tag someone you're still it. Game would go until the last one of us got tagged.
Back in the day, we used to plan in class what we would play during recess. There was this one day when the teacher got annoyed at our noisy planning session and asked us what we were talking about.
My friend glefully said : "A game. It's called AIDS ! We touch eachother to give AIDS."
We all had to go to the principal's office and he asked us to rename our game. From this point, our game was reffered as "the sick wolf".
sgtreesh37 · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid my brother and I would play the 'Nazi game'. In the 80s where we lived, streets were a lot darker than they are now, and between going to and being picked up from school, we were in the car a lot.
The Nazi game consisted of yelling 'Naziiissss!' and ducking for cover whenever beams of light washed over the car. I'm assuming the lights were supposed to be searchlights. After ducking, we played rock paper scissors with the loser being the lookout. The lookout had to slowly peek over the seat to see if we were being followed. If a car was there, you 'died', them the last person would do it solo until he also 'died'. Then we'd start over. The goal was to reach our destination 'undetected'.
Looking back, there's no way we were sophisticated enough to make this game up. We may have learned it from a cousin. Now that I think about it, that shit was pretty dark.
Namone · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to place “Apes” on the Playground. The lowest “rank” in this gang of children was a Chimpanzee. Then you could become a orangutan, gorilla, and finally silverback gorilla.
It was pretty fun and I was in it long enough I was promoted to orangutan. Then my “hazing” began - in order to maintain my new rank I had to throw rocks at the girl’s playing house not far from our turf.
I told them I wouldn’t do it. So I guess that’s good. Got kicked out, though.
DodgeHorse · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin used to put a blanket on top of the couch, then used clothespins on the blanket to form small tunnels on the surface (by bending small parts of the blanket onto itself), then dropped marbles from the top and watched them fall and move inside all the tunnels and curves and come out the other side. It was a lot of fun, and we played it even though we did have videogame consoles!
TOV_VOT · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends wrestled and fought (but not trying to knock each other out) on a 16ft trampoline for hours daily, 1v1 2v2 4v4 Everyman for themselves etc.
To win you had to make the other person/people give up/say I yield/ tap out
It was so fun, I never lost even once, not even close
TLDR; basically beat up my friends on a trampoline daily, they needed toughening up
Kennabunkport · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, probably 4 or 5 years old, every time I would go to my grandma's house she would give me a spoon and said if I dug deep enough I would eventually get to china, and after about half an hour of solo digging she would always come out and help. We never did make it, but we did get a good 6 inches deep.
fernandydandy · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, my classmates and I had “territories” all around the school yard. My best friend and I had the territory under the slide. Whichever territory had the most pinecones was seen as the powerful team. We could even steal each other’s pinecones but we all made sure to have one guard while the other went out to look for pinecones.
We even created alliances with other territories but would “double-cross” each other all the time.
strenling · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't really have a name for it, but when it was dark out, my little brother and I would play a game where we had to get across the room without being spotted by the 'searchlight' (The other person moving a flashlight repeatedly in patterns around the room) - We'd start with simple patterns like just moving left and right, then 'level up' to more intricate zigzags, swirling, reversing the pattern, etc.
You'd be able to hide behind / under furniture, and vault over anything, so long as you weren't spotted by the searchlight.
ItsNormalNC · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
In my old primary school (UK) there was a huge grassy hill in the playground for some reason. Every kid in the school would just gather at the top every break time, get in a big line and all charge down to the bottom as fast as we could without stopping for any reason
The only reason it was so fun was because every kid of every age played which meant big kids stampeding through groups of little kids, people falling over like horses on a track, it was just carnage.
The school had to ban the game in the end because people were just being trampled and after every game there’d be injured kids scattered all over the hill
It was a good feeling getting to the bottom after sprinting none stop in front of some huge older kids trying not to get steamrolled
Edit: Grammar
Tojapri · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swing Ball (not the game with a ball on a string)
5 Players.
There’s a set of 4 swings up our local park placed directly in the centre. Each player would take a swing and then the final player would get a football ⚽️.
There was no scoring as such just something fun to do.
Basic Rules:
The players on the swings would get going and have momentum and once everyone was ready the player with the ball would throw the ball at those on the swings usually starting from left to right.
One by one those swinging would have to dodge or kick the ball away. If the ball is kicked and then caught by the thrower they trade places. The person who is now throwing would start with the player to the right, continuing the line.
Extra Rules:
The park is at the top of a hill and originally we allowed any player kicking to absolutely whack that ball all the way to the bottom of the hill for a laugh. We then decided this was cruel and that any player could still do it, but gave up their rights on the swing and had to collect the ball and become the thrower.
Kicking players could attempt to hit the ball over the top bar of the swings and gain a life. This ensured that if they got hit or caught they would remain on the swings until it happened again.
Kicking players could attempt to catch the ball in their legs and collect the ball with their hands. They then pass the ball all the way down the line where the end player attempts to kick it over the top bar. If they are successful the throwing player would have to attempt ‘The Slalom’.
The Slalom:
The throwing player begins and the right hand side of the swings and must attempt to run through each swinging player without being kicked. This was basically punishment and a laugh and had no other purpose. Kids eh?
J-Todd · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I liked to "hunt ghosts" and we stapled a bunch of paper together, folded it and then every so often we filled a page with the details of a ghost we'd caught. We decided that doing that would trap the ghosts in our book. Once we filled it out, we buried it. God I hope no one opened it. They're releasing hellfire if they do. All that work we put into saving the world.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I would play this weird puppet game. I was the ventriloquist, he was the puppet. He would sit on my lap and I’d have my hand on his back pulling his shirt to make him “talk.” He would then come alive and run all weird in a puppet way at me. It truly terrified me. I don’t know why we kept playing this game. We laugh about it now, I’m actually cracking up while typing this.
mudnuka · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I used to pretend falling leaves were babies being tossed from burning buildings. Catch the most babies before the bus comes and you win.
ODB2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to do trampoline fights...
Basically mma on a trampoline, the old school kind without a net around it.
Shit was lit.
iFlipRizla · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn’t play this but I used to go to my friends house after school and he had two brothers one a year older, one a year younger.
They would play this pass out game where one of them could be sitting their playing a games console or watching a film and the other brother would come up behind them and choke them until they passed out. They all had this technique perfected and it would only take a few seconds.
They did this to each other multiple times a day for ages, funny as hell to watch, probably not great for the brain however.
Bradhp11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Considering I was a 4 year old boy, I wouldn’t have guessed that Barbie Beauty Boutique (along with any Barbie PC game) would get me potty trained.
AppleJuiceTwo · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game we called “Zelda.” We’d gather a bunch of “treasure” items, like strings of plastic beads, Monopoly money, plastic gold coins, etc., and we’d designate a shopkeeper who would go around and hide the treasure. The rest of us would run around and collect the treasure, then return to the shopkeeper who would sell us a weapon. There would always be a couple super good weapons, like nerf guns, and more not so good weapons, like swords. Once everyone had a weapon, we’d battle to the death, with the shopkeeper as referee.
Now that I’ve typed this out it doesn’t sound nearly as cool as I remember it, but we played it all the damn time and we loved it.
T_Henson · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played fire escape. The stairway in our finished basement was open on one side. We would run up the steps and jump from the highest step we could muster the courage to attempt. We would hit the ground and, stop, drop, and roll. It was 100% unsafe and one jump from half the height we were doing it from would incapacitate me for at least a month now. I did, however, feel VERY prepared for a hypothetical house fire.
Printedinusa · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor
almostaccepted · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark Cloud 2 was this incredible game that combined the world building of the sims with rogue like combat in randomly generated dungeons. What you built in your time affects the future, and your goal is to restore civilizations by creating the building blocks for their given civilization in your world. You source the parts for town building in the dungeons, invent items and weapons to fight, and very early on get a giant mech that you use to absolutely decimate giant/hard enemies. The game has a cheery kids RPG vibe to the graphics, but the amount of detail that went into the scenery is absolutely amazing.
It’s $20, and worth far more than every penny
bobthe360noscowper · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know if this is unique or not but the playground at my mosque had tar instead of mulch so we would just throw that at each other.
Kamikaze_Ninja_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had a lot of Nerf guns so we played a lot of games with them. Funnest by far was when we would turn all the lights off and one of us would hide in his house with a nerf bat. The rest of us would have to work together to find the person that’s hiding and shoot them but if you were hit by the bat you were dead.
okemasoo · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Car-ho!”... we would run around the front yard of my babysitter’s house until a car came. Then you yell “car-ho!” And all try to hide from the view of the car. If you ran out of time, the go-to move was to stand still like a statue and spit repeatedly (fountain statue, duh!)
ilovewindex409 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "murder the dumbass" at our park was a row of 6 swings. The dumbads had to run thru the 6 swings from one side to the other while the people swinging tried to kick the shit out of them. Good times
xCASINOx · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played rodney king beating because we were stupid. I dont remember who made the game up but i didnt participate. I was a watcher.
Culobi · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my school we used to play called "7". Consists in throwing a paper ball in the air and hit it with the hand counting to seven, if one got hit by the ball at seven, everyone that was playing will give one kick in the ass to the one who lost.
Yes, my school wasn't the friendliest
Sigmar_Heldenhammer · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the old country we played a game where you stand across from someone, feet as close together as you can. Then you take a knife, throw it at the ground, and wherever it lands, the other person has to put their foot there, then they go.
Kinda like twister, but with knives.
ikaracoltheart · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made a live action version of resident evil 2 for my younger brother to play. I cated out all the zombies and ammo was dotted around as little notes. I made a password protected 'door control program' on our amstrad computer which added authenticity.
AckAndCheese · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My aunt, my cousins, and I had a game that we played after school and over the summer. She watched all of us while our parents worked.
She also was extremely impatient and had a bad temper. So her creative way to release that anger was The Orange Ball Game.
We had this orange ball, maybe a little bigger than a softball, but smaller than a soccer ball, with the consistency of a heavy dodgeball or kickball. You could fire that thing.
The game was, there were bases on either side of the yard where we were safe. She would stand maybe 10 yards back from the running lane with the ball. We would run back and forth between the bases and she would try to hit us with the ball. She played softball in college and never held back with her throws.
It was hysterical and a lot of fun for some reason, to see your cousin go flying when the ball took his legs out from under him, and seeing if you could get to the other base and back without getting hit.
I think her intentions were mostly selfish but hey, we had a blast and got outside exercising so I don't really mind.
JinxOnDrugs · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super monday night combat, first moba shooter IIRC
rwtwm1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one's a little more solitary than the other games. As a big football (soccer) fan as a kid, I was as interested in the stats and possibilities in the league tables as I was on the teams themselves.
So one day on a long car journey I grabbed a notebook and a pen and wrote little numbers on folded up pieces of paper. I then came up with 12 teams divided into two leagues and played 'matches' where each team's score was just the number on the little piece of paper.
Each league had two rounds of fixtures and there was promotion and relegation between the divisions. I started to come up with little back stories, and was amazed and delighted when random chance turned an apparently woeful side into championship hopefuls.
I probably passed the odd rainy Sunday with that 'game' over a number of years.
ace-murdock · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I and our cousins used to play “spider” in which one person crouches in a ball looking downwards in the middle of a blanket, they are the spider. The other players walk around the blanket in a circle. The spider randomly reaches out to grab another players foot based on sound and tries to grab them and pull them into the blanket. If they succeed, they wrap them up in the blanket and “eat” them and they become the next spider. It was fun!
drzrdt · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the pool, we’d hold plastic baseball bats under till they filled up through the tiny hole on the top. We’d than use it to play “dodge torpedo” under water. We’d make targets too but mostly try to hit each other.
kingfool1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
He we used to play a game with my aunt “hug tag” and She tried to hug us and I don’t remember if we got caught whether we joined her team or we were frozen
But looking back me and my cousins realize how weird this was
radalab · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On really cold days at recess we would play the "warm game" underneath the jungle gym. There was this walkway that you could crawl under to get out of the wind. Then we would all sit in a circle, warm rocks under our coats and then put them in the center to 'radiate' heat back toward us. Looking back I realize that we weren't really playing anything and just trying to not freeze our asses off.
sightlab · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Starblazers": my sister and I would spin around in the yard, arms straight out, hands a'fist, eyes closed, until one of us would effectively roundhouse the other, yelling STSRBLAZERS! While the other cried over a newly bloody nose.
Somehow I usually lost.
I_Am_Coopa · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we invented a game called stomp tag. It was much like regular tag, only in order to tag someone you had to stomp on their foot. It was actually really fun because the game was all about quick footwork. But because stomping on someone's foot while running around often meant falling, the school banned it :(
9LineMed · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play the 'state game' during car rides. You would say the first letter of a geographic location (state, lake, city, country, mountain range, etc.) and the rest of the family would start naming all the locations they could think of that started with said letter. After a while, you would get help such as 'its located in the western hemisphere' or things like that. The person who finally guessed it would then say the next letter and the game would go on and on for hours.
Really made learning geography important to my brothers and I from a very young age
TropicalPriest · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my bestfriend who was my next door neighbour were really into witches/occult stuff as kids, which i believe to be the first sign we were gay. Anyways, relied heavily on make believe, and played this game where we chanted some stuff to open a portal for the spirits. They would then come through the portal, posses one of us and the other had to figure out why the spirit hadnt gone to heaven. Sometimes an evil clown spirit came through and we’d chase each other around with a saw.
Overall a solid time.
KudagFirefist · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Kick the Can, except we'd only play it after 10pm. So like a dozen kids playing hide-and-seek in the pitch dark while all dressed in black. Some of use went so far as to paint our faces.
Good times, but honestly surprised nobody got hurt as we used to play on our neighbors property where there was farm equipment, wood piles, old pallets, shallow ditches and all sorts of other shit for us to maim ourselves with.
We'd also sneak into a nearby Christmas tree lot, climb the trees and see how close to the ground we could get the tops of the trees with just our body weight. Until one snapped off and landed on top of me after I fell ~10 feet to the ground.
fcjath · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play “throw a punch” where we would take 2 boxing gloves and throw them back and forth at each other from across the room
napstablook12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sit outside for a half an hour without supervision because I’m the boss. I was like years old
jazwch01 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underwater bocceball.
We had an above ground pool. But not one of those "shitty" ones. It had deck and was much more permanent than the cheap ones. So, it had a sand bottom that was mostly smooth but there were slight imperfections throughout. This plus the natural current made for a great play field.
Under water bocce ball is played by throwing the Pallino. This is thrown with your head and arms above the water so you can place it better. The bocces are thrown with your head below water. Its a shotput style throw. Normal rules apply after that, except for touching the Pallino. In underwater bocce, you can touch.
FugaCircle · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would race to see who could get in the car first, buckle up, and lock the door. The first person to do this would yell “FIRST!!” I bet my parents had something to do with this hmmm
DeducingYourMind · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It kind of hard to explain but the playground at my school had this rounded “M” shaped monkey bar thing that you could climb on, what we would do is someone would basically go climbing up and down the bars until someone yelled “MAYDAY!” Then wherever the person was they had to stop and dangle from the bars, the people on the ground then had the goal of catching them before they fell off the bars, we called it mayday
Purple4199 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called Button Button, Who’s Got the Button. My brother and I would start out at the top of the stairs with our Grandpa standing at the bottom. He’d hold a button in one hand placed behind his back. You took turns guessing which hand the button was in. The goal was to get to the bottom first. If you guessed correctly you got to move down a stair, if you guessed wrong you had to move back up a stair. We loved it.
redstern · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in kindergarten and first grade we had our own variant of tag. It was called forklift tag. The way it was played was everyone who wasn't it had to run around with their arms out sideways, and the one who was it had to run around with their arms out forwards yelling beep beep beep the whole time. You tag someone by lifting up on their arms. The teachers hated it for some reason.
pearlpalkiagaming · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child, between 4 and 6, my father gave me a wireless xbox controller and apparently I thought I was playing a game, but it turned out it was just the T.V was on and I thought at the time that I was controlling the characters in the film. My father did something similar to my sister but just with a keyboard. He didn't do that one to me because I already had a laptop.
_phish_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a few, the first one we played at our grandparents house because they had a billiards table, and the idea is you’d take a billiards ball and roll it across the table have it bounce off the other end and get as close as possible to the edge you rolled it from. I feel like everyone played that game though if they had access to a table. The other one I remember specifically was called grandmas junkyard. Basically we would put all the rubber balls we owned on the trampoline and we’d kick em back and fourth for however long and whoever had the most balls on their side at the end lost. We did other things that were more like team games though. One of which was in the sandbox in my backyard we would build walls and channels around a castle in the corner and in the opposite corner we would put the hose, the goal was to keep that castle alive as long as possible. I like to think I had a pretty good childhood.
Sendmailtome · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sound Effects: You pick up a rock and throw it as far as you can to the next block and see what sound effects you make.
GodMonster · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my neighborhood we played brick fight. The object of brick fight is "Don't get hit with a brick." I didn't realize until I was an adult that this wasn't a normal childhood game.
We also used to have "rumbles" with the neighborhood next to mine wherein all of the kids from each neighborhood would show up to a designated parking lot at a certain time, sometimes with bats or chains, and we'd fight with each other. I realize now that this was actually mild gang warfare, but as a kid it was a blast.
Legitimate_Painting · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get down on all four, spin around and chant "saranče" (=grashopper) rythmically.
Now that I'm thinking about it, it was kinda weird, but I loved the chant and how dizzy the whole thing made me feel.
JDeeezie · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The tripping game, one person was on their knees in the middle of the trampoline, and everyone else would jump or run around the edge, if the person in the middle tripped you, you were it
IHaveSoulDoubt · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Like many kids, we played wiffle ball. The difference is we only generally had a couple of kids around to play with. So we built out our own rules that allowed us to play 1 on 1 and used a special kind of ball. The rules kept the integrity of the game fully intact and became so popular with our friends that we started having tournaments. Instead of playing an actual ballgame with two full teams, we opted for our one on one rules. It was A LOT of fun.
Also, the ball was a huge part of it. Basically it was a ball from the ballpit at McDonald's.
General idea:
Only swinging strikes, no walks. Use of ghost runners that advance with the batter. If the Fielding team has the ball and you are off base, you are out. Period. Double play: If the pitcher touches the pitcher mound before the runner touches first, the lead forced runner and batter are out.
I believe everything else was fairly consistent with regular baseball. The ball is a big deal. The ballpit balls don't have holes. They curve VERY easily. To hit a homerun, you have to hit it perfect to get it to go. A little over or under creates extreme popups and grounders. Likewise, I can throw 6 ft curveballs, screwballs, sinkers and the craziest knuckleballs you've ever seen with one.
The only draw back is the sore arm from pitching.
drkow19 · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Grand Cherokee game. Any car ride with my buddies, usually on the way to hockey practice, we would look at the cars and try to be the first to spot a Grand Cherokee. I think it was because it was a new kind of car, the SUV, and it looked so different than other cars at the time (mid 90s). A few other people have told me that they did something similar.
dangolebooman · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Whoever gits it, gits it" 2 players
You and a friend or sibling sit on your knees at the bottom of a flight of stairs. At the top of the stairs must be a closed door. One person throws the ball up the stairs and bounces it off the door. The object of the game is to catch the ball before your opponent.
"Ghosts in the graveyard" 3+ players but the more the better
Similar to hide and seek but instead of one person looking for a group of players, a group of players can either split up or stick together to find the predetermined "ghost". Once found the seeker shouts "GHOST!" and the ghost must catch at least one seeker to turn into a ghost before all the seekers make it back to base. Otherwise the seekers win the round and a new ghost is picked. If the ghost succeeds the group must now find both ghosts and attempt to make it back safely and this just goes on until everybody is converted
laksh_ayy · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chappal chor (flip flop thief) Everybody removes their footwear, which are mostly flip-flops and puts in a pile inside a circle of 1 mtr diameter. One defender has to defend this pile from other people try to steal the flipflops, the defender must stay inside the circle at all times and other people can use the stolen flip-flops to hit the flipflops in the pile. If he touches any of the thieves, the thief becomes the defender and game is reset. When the last flip-flop is taken from the pile, the defender has to run to a certain point and back while he gets bombarded with the stolen flip-flops. At this point game starts over and pile is reset.
Englandinsd · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we made up called freako. We had 3 or 4 entrances into our house, and one guy was Freako who was in the house. The other 3 or 4 had to try and sneak into the house and hide for as long as possible inside. If freako caught you you had to reset and go out front. The end result was us getting creative on how to lure freako to one entrance and sneak people in the other ones. Great freakos would lure you in and scare the shit out of you. Let you get comfy in a spot and let you think you were safe and BAM, SURPIRSE! So simple but it was amazing.
pM-me_your_Triggers · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, we had a trampoline that was in the ground. One of the games we played was basically dodgeball, but one sided. 2 or 3 people would stand in a circle around the trampoline while the rest of the people were jumping. Those on the edge would throw balls at the people in the middle. If someone on the edge missed a throw, or the ball was caught, they swapped places with the person they were throwing at
ea-cha-n · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I was really confused with new words I hear from my playmates, that I started doubting where they got those words from. And how could they come up with that word and gave that word its meaning.
From that, I started inventing words and tell them the meaning of that word and try to even use it everyday when we are playing so they would think my ‘invented words’ are real, and they should be using it too.
Lol. Not a game I guess. But something I do to my playmates without them knowing I was just straight face lying to them with my ‘new words’.
calmingmanatee · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called fumble where my brother would spike a ball down on the floor and we’d have to scramble and wrestle with each other to get it. If you held onto it for longer than ten seconds, you would win the round.
KaraWolf · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Mad Cow. There were these monster truck tires(that I now realize were probably massive tractor tires) stacked 3 on the bottom, one on top all on their sides. Someone is IT and stands on the top tire. Everyone else has to stay on the bottom three. You get touched by the person on top or they make you fall off you're it. XD there were a couple jerks that would come up and see if they could get people to fall off-the most success being if they could knock the it person off and topple several more in the process.
There was also horse and wagon which consisted of me dragging a kiddie wagon behind me by a jumprope across my hips(no hands!). At the time I could drag the wagon and 3 of the younger boys at a decent clip but if a fourth jumped on I could barely move it.
And then king of the hill. Literally. My best friend was usually the king even against the older kids and I his loyal dog. Which made me one hell of a hard to unseat player.
Idk I had a huge thing about animals as a kid :)
nstigator · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to tie our clothes in knots until it was football sized then we marked off two end zones in the living room, past the couch, across the threshold to the next room, etc. Then we essentially played football, but on our knees.
It made so much noise we couldn’t play when adults were home so it made it even better because we weren’t supposed to be doing it. The game has been passed down to kids for years now.
Reasonable_Apple · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this circle in on the blacktop where we played during recess and it had a bunch of shapes along the circle. One of us would go in the center, close their eyes and tell them to start and stop running and then call out a shape and whoever was standing on that shape got to be the next person in the center. It became a really popular game idk why.
Another game all the popular kids played was called miniman and everyone would squat and pull their shirt over their knees and waddle around under the playground equipment and basically play house.
IntMainVoidGang · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to live in west africa. My family is white. We played a variation of punch bug. See a white person? punch "white one". See a Lebanese person? punch "brown one". See a chinese person? punch "yellow one".
Shinthus · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Fart Brothers.” I have no fucking clue who came up with the name, probably myself or my little bro, but my dad would come into my brothers bedroom with us at night and gather all of our stuffed animals together with us. He would then proceed to make up stories about the stuffed animals, and at various points in the story, he would make grotesque farting noises implying that the stuffed animals were having gas problems while going about their business. My brother and I were very young, so we laughed hysterically every time he made the noises. The story usually culminated in all of us throwing the stuffed animals around and pretending they were doing acrobatics while farting. It made no sense. But we fucking loved it.
Rylinni · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little my brother's and I went to my neighbor's house all the time and they would have this huge lego bin. When we would build cool stuff we would most likely want to trade it for creations or rare pieces that were found in the bin. Eventually, a currency called ”mini-money” was formed (which happened to be the studs that were in the lego videogames). We had a free market working on a small scale. People would actually trade their Lego creations for a stack of studs knowing that someone else would be willing to take that stack of studs for a different creation. Taught me a lot about econ.
Klown1327 · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game, we never named it where myself and a few other boys would be chased around by these two girls whose goal it was to mark us on the arm with lipstick. We boys didn't really have any defense or offense to fight back, we just had to run away from them. Wed run all through our yards and stuff avoiding them as best we could. Surprisingly I was the only one of us not to get caught. Until one night. The girls were gunning for me hard, which was the first and only time in my life I've had several girls trying to get me at once. I knew this particular night I was in danger, that theyd do anything to get me, they had already gotten the other boys several times, i was the big prize. So that night I decked myself out, decided to wear football pads and a helmet, long sleeve shirt, jeans, the like. I stepped out and the girls were out in the street circling around like sharks. That's when it started, the boys came out and we all began to run, one boy fell within minutes, another not too much longer, it was just me. One of the girls called to me, I knew she was trying to trick me but she begged me to come talk to her and swore this was outside of the game. I approached and she started to talk to me about something, I dont even remember what. Then she looked over my shoulder and i realized I had fallen for the velociraptor trick from Jurassic Park. One of the other girls came from behind and pulled my helmet off and marked all over my face. It was humiliating. But then I realized, they got my face, not my arm. Technically I still got away. That was the last time we played, one of my friends got mad they got me the way they did and threw a basketball at one of the girls. Bit of an overreaction for sure
bsherlockb · 1 points · Posted at 16:47:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games in my house growing up with 7 brothers 1. Bing bang boom: basically just hand hockey with a tennis ball on your knees. We had a good room in the basement for it. Getting a slap shot to the nuts was the worst part but we all secretly aim for it.. Lol 2. Hut hut: football without the ball and we would just try to get passed each other and try not to get tackled. The older brothers would just pummel us younger brothers. Helped toughen us up a bit.
There were others but these were the big ones we played the most.
SilentxSage · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rain
askyourfather · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mummies in the Dark - we only played at night and all the lights were out. one kid was the mummy and the rest of us had to hide from them. the mummy had to try to then find us with their eyes closed (in addition to it being dark).
just hide and seek with an extra challenge now that I think about it
TMan2DMax · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played street hockey with plastic bats and a beach ball
boltorian · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My "uncle" and I used to play a game we called Paddle Ball.
My parents had gotten me a set of wooden paddles, think enlarged ping pong paddles, that came with a small rubber ball to hit back and forth. When we discovered that this wasn't all that much fun we decided to use a racquet ball instead.
We had a garage and a slightly longer and wider driveway that was on a gentle downslope to the street. The driveway had built in lines for the sides and a central line.
The rules went like this. To serve, you stood behind the middle line, and hit the ball towards the garage door, it always (not just on the serve) had to hit the ground once (and only once) before hitting the garage door, the line at the sidewalk and the sides were out, and the ball needed to bounce once (and only once) inside the makeshift court.
If you were the last person to successfully hit the ball, and have it bounce once in bounds, you got a point. You alternated next hits so you were trying to send your opponent all over the place when trying to score.
It was a blast and as I recall the rules took several hours to make up and get right so that the game felt fair.
My "uncle" was a troubled 30 something year old that my grandparents helped escape drug addiction. He came to live with my family for several years when I was younger because we all really liked him and he was on the right track. Unfortunately, after moving out on his own he eventually relapsed and the drugs and depression took over again.
He committed suicide 15 or so years ago.
I'll never forget the fun we had and how great he was with me. He was always kind and caring and constructive. He didn't have to be so patient and understanding with a maybe 12 year old me who idolized him. Miss you uncle Steve.
CaptainBritish7 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pink poo poo - ages 5-8 - we had a giant pink blanket that my brothers and I would cover ourselves with. Two people under the blanket with the edges tucked in and one person out. The person outside would try and reach under and tag someone, the people inside would try and block the person by laying on the tucked in parts. Best game ever, we just outgrew the blanket.
RollTide16-18 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister would walk around the halls of my small childhood house with a couch cushion on her head saying "do doo do doo, do doo do doo" while my other sister and I had to hide and run away. For some reason we found it incredibly fun.
elmurpharino · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a line of Norway Spruce trees in the backyard. My neighbor, brothers, and I would take a kickball and kick it as high as we could into the trees.
The long branches guided the ball down like the chip on Plinko. Whoever caught the ball got to kick it back up in the next round.
Simpler times back then...
LordTyrannid · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember in elementary school on recess, my friends and I would play what we called boing-y boing, which consisted of us running into each other at top speed and ricocheting into the fence and each other at top speed. I remember us all being so pissed when the teachers banned it
Okabe0402 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1-1 Whiffle ball league in the neighborhood.
Picture a typical suburban neighbor, square front yards creating two possible "stadiums."
Stadium 1
Home plate is at the corner of the yard next to the front door of the house.
Left field is the street and the house across the street.
Right field is the neighbors driveway and front yard.
Stadium Two
Home plate was corner of neighbors driveway and their house
Left field was our two car driveway with a tall van parked on furthest side of driveway
Right field was the neighbor across the street
A ground ball was a live ball. If the pitcher grabbed the ball before you got to first base you were out.
If the ball got past you, you had to chase it down and throw it back into the yard to stop runners from advancing. (If you hit them with the ball while advancing they we're out)
If the ball hit the street or drive way before touching grass it was an automatic out.
Runners on base only one base per base the batter made it. Single the "runner" moves one base
If there was a runner on first, you could grab the ball and hit the batter with the ball before he made it to first, it was a double play
A home run was hitting the ball over the fence of the neighbor across the street in stadium 1. Hitting it over the van in the driveway in stadium two.
While this game was only 1-1 one pitcher on batter...we had a 8 "team" league where we drafted names. And kept stats for each player.
Now up, Willie McGee (I went 2-4 with a double as willie but 0-5 as Ozzie Smith)
We had standings and statistical leaders, we finished one full 28 game season including a 4 team playoff best of 5 then best of 7 series
Started a second season but never finished
Was so much fun.
SecretGaygent128 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There used to be a pullout program in the county I grew up in and the pullout kids had a game at recess called "pinecone war." Different parts of the playground were different bases and you were either on the boys team or the girls team. At the beginning of the year, we'd divide up the bases and start and the game continued the whole year. The objective was to take over as many of the opponents bases as possible. If one team held all the bases, the game began anew. The reason it was called "Pinecone War" was because there were pinecones everywhere and they quickly became the weapon of choice. We pelted the shit out of each other with pinecones. Someone made an actual pinecone launcher at one point and that made things interesting.
Humteey · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a few friends had a game called "Zombie". One person started as the zombie and the others were soldiers. The zombie had to eat the others so that they become zombies too, but if the soldiers pointed at the zombie and made shooting sounds, the zombie would be stunned for a few seconds. Game ends when everyone is a zombie. It's basically CoD Infected, but we were kids, we didn't know about that gamemode. A lot of other kids from the school picked up and it still got played even when me and my friends went to highschool.
Killmesoftly13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it foulball. One ball. Free for all just kicking the shit out of each other.
Z0MBGiEF · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids in my apartment complex used to play "Jason."
One person would be selected to be Jason from Friday the 13th, they'd be given a Hockey Mask and a retractable fake knife and the object of the game was the kill the other kids. The complex was pretty big, with 3 floors and a lot of places to hide. The rules were simple, if you were Jason you could not run, you could only walk fast and you had to hunt all the kids down. The first person killed would be the next Jason but only after all the other kids were killed, everyone had to be traumatized to keep the integrity of the game.
After a while, all the best places where known to all the kids and hiding became really hard. There were a few good spots but they were also dead ends so if Jason decided to look there first, forget about it.
Basically it was a demented version of hide and seek, a lot of the younger cried a few times. The laundry room was a very popular place to hide for the newbies because the door could be locked from the inside however little did they know when I was Jason, because I was a fat kid, I could ram through the door and bust it open like Chunk did in the Goonies when they told him they had naked pictures of his sister so I had that going for me which was nice.
bigmac206 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game at bring family outings to Ikea where we would see who could collect most of those little pencils that had no erasers. Pencils in the stations where they were in a container were off limits. Any pencils on the floor or on furniture were fair game. We would tally up our totals at the checkout and see who won and return the pencils. This game became very competitive, even causing my brother and I to push and shove each other when we both saw a pencil at the same time.
AwkwardTraveler · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game like dodgeball in the backyard. There was two big differences in that you could run anywhere in the backyard, no sides, and when you had the ball you had to stop to throw basically the ball made you stick to the ground. If you caught the ball that person was out and you would do this until you were the last man standing.
69ingJamesFranco · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and his friends had this game where one person sat on a skateboard and would ride it down the driveway, then two other people were at the bottom corners of the driveway with skateboards and would try to roll them into the person coming down as they got to the bottom.
mongobutt · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school I came up with this hilarious idea called a “Punch Circle.”
Basically you and a group of friends form a circle and all wildly punch the center point. There are variations of course—for example: Kick Circle or Fart Circle.
(It started ironically but was so hilariously stupid, my friends and I parktook quite a bit.)
TorenDen · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I spent every summer in a village with our grandparents. They had a big house including garage.
My granddad used to leave his car unblocked inside the garage. We always slipped out there together, each one would be standing in one corner of garage and we pushed the car from one side to the other. When the grandma caught us in there she always got mad what could happen to us in there, we just ran giggling around her and laughing granddad and went to chasing the chickens. Golden Slav times
rberg89 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would mix up household cleaners etc to make bug killing potions and test them out on grasshoppers or anthills in the driveway etc to see if they worked. I later moved on to the more effective magnifying glass.
I didn't have anyone around me to play with so I had to make do. When I got to be around 14 or so I got into airguns and would hunt small birds and squirrels. I even built a suppressor out of PVC, washers for the baffles, and JB weld. I also made a target out of books etc so I could shoot in the basement if the weather was bad.
EverybodyGetsCheese · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took turns wheeling each other off the end of the dock into the BAYOU in my dad's plastic wheelbarrow. It supported my weight enough that I could paddle out into the channel a little bit. I was usually too scared to go any farther than that though.
Moggy-Man · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the other uncool kids in primary school used to stand by the football pitch where all the cool kids played football, and we would watch the seagulls and pretend we were flying them via remote control, with our hands.
btfoom15 · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Rolling the ball for scores"
In my family room, there was a large wall of cabinets along the floor and a bar opposite. With the couch and TV, there was approximately equal width of base-boards and an open area by the bar. We would use old tennis balls and try to roll them by someone defending their 'side'. In order to keep from breaking things, our dad made a rule that if the ball went up in the air, no score.
My brothers and I would play for hours, diving around the room and learning to smack the ball really hard, but keeping in on the ground.
I think my dad just wanted peace and quiet in the living room.
toastedgarbage · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Blind Cat” and was only played during big sleep over birthday parties when there were like 5+ of us.
Basically, you turn off all the lights in the house and one person is the blind cat which is the equivalent of “it” for tag. They have to have a blindfold on and move around on all fours throughout the house search blindly for the other players who were “mice”. The mice hid during a 10 second countdown but could move away after the blind cat got near them. And it’s silent except for the sputtering laughter of like 6 middle schoolers lol.
Was good to keep in check how loud we were when we played games to not piss off my parents-Although one year a girl hid on a cabinet and it came out of the wall and she fractured her wrist. Safe to say, that’s the last time we ever played.
thug_funnie · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the antenna TV set would go to static, my little sister and I would point our fingers at the screen and try to use “magic” to make it come back on. Then when it inevitably came back in tune, we’d argue over whose powers did the trick.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would throw random shit ( ladders chairs tables) into his deep ass pool and make underwater cities to swim through and around.
clhfr2016 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We "acted" out movies while we watched them. We also played where one of us was super rich and one of us was the servant. We always switched off.
McSport · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Scientist.
In hindsight we meant palaeontologists. This was after Jurassic Park came out, we were maybe 8 or 9. We would dig up big rocks to see if a dinosaur was under them. Great fun at the time. This came to an end when we dug out a concrete support for a neighbours fence.
GermanPretzel · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two older sisters would play "hide GermanPretzel" when I was about 3-4 years old. It worked just like hide and go seek, but instead of themselves hiding, they would take turns finding tiny nooks to hide me in. Some of the better hiding places were up on the top shelf of the closet, inside the fold out couch, and in the kitchen fridge
RagingNerdaholic · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My hand used to be imaginary friend. Like, it was this creature that could fly and talk and stuff.
I was wierd.
DonChibby · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had to this very wobbly rusty slide growing up. We would all get under the slide and one person would tip it over, people would try and run out of the way of the slide before it crushed them.
Smobaite · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Koosh ball. It was similar to dodgeball except you would lose limbs according to wherever you got hit, and if you list that kind you couldn't use it for the rest of the game. If you got hit in the chest or head you lost. You couldn't catch the ball as that would still count as a hit on your hand and you would lose that limb
ColourStroker · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "bar" in my basement because we had a built in bar. We would serve empty beer bottles and CD's with cassette tapes between them as burgers. The fries were this ollllld bag of popcorn. We re-used that popcorn for YEARS! We called it Yuk Yuk's but didn't know it existed at the time (90's). Or we did subconsciously...We also put on Celine Dion performances from the fireplace mantle for our "guests".
penisknuckler · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight tag. We set up a bunch of.vertical obstacles and crawled around while someone sat on a table with a flashlight. If they spotted you with the light, and could say where you were hiding, you were it.
Dicethrower · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gating.
There's a ball. You can ignore it all you want and there's no goal, but if the ball passes through your legs, everyone can kick the shit out of you until you tapped out on some arbitrary object we had assigned for that purpose.
This was not a fun game. Participation was mandatory on the schoolyard.
Orphins · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had a camper that we slept in a lot, even when we weren't camping. A game we would play was sort of like hide and seek. 3 of us would hide in the camper and 1 person would be outside with a flashlight looking in through the windows. They would move around on the outside and if their light touched you then you were out. It was sort of inspired by the movie Monster House which had a light that indicated where the house was looking, so you had to avoid it not to be seen. The camper was perfect for it because it had good hiding spots but you still needed to move around a bit if you didn't want to get caught by the person moving to the other side of the camper. I don't remember if we had a name for it, maybe it was just called Monster House. Anyway, it was great fun and easily my favorite childhood game.
YaBoySwiftty · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shrek 2
Boneykingz · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Steamroller. 5 or 6 of us on a bed one of those was the steamroller. The steamroller would lie across the bed and roll, the others would have to jump over them. First person downed by the steamroller was the next to be on.
Prcssnmn87 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a couple. There was “car attack”, where any time we saw a car coming down the street we were playing in, we had to run and hide until it passed. Behind garbage cans, bushes, parked cars, whatever, but we had to be hidden. A lot of adults probably thought we were up to no good.
Then there was “cement pies” where we would throw pillows at each other, and wherever it hit first would be “cemented” until one player could no longer move. Ideally you would just dodge a pillow, or try to get hit somewhere that was already cemented, then grab with your available hand. Also, getting hit in both hands wasn’t an automatic loss if we still had our feet, arms, or mouth in play, though feet were usually first to go. It’s a lot harder to dodge if you can’t move your feet.
CmdrNefarious · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor would put a dog collar and leash on me and walk me around the neighborhood. If I was a good dog, she fed me a cold uncooked hot dog.
_cudgel_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In gym class (mid 1980s) we played a game called "Buffalo Hunters". The teachers would select 3x kids, give them each a tiny softball-sized dodge ball. Then the rest of the kids would run in lap around the perimeter of the gym while the three "hunters" picked off the "buffalo" one by one until there were only 3 left. The surviving 3 became the hunters in the next round.
The gym teachers enjoyed this immensely, watching, laughing as kids got hit in the face/groin/where ever, while hanging just outside the gym doors smoking cigarettes.
instaluck13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in my parents car I would pick a dirty spot on the windshield, close 1 eye and move my head around as to not let the spot touch the trees or the power lines.
benzim · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd fuck my cousin lol
thewronglane · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snipe hunting. Snipes are very small, and imaginary, birds that hunt in bushes at night. So we'd take any new friends, or campers, out into the woods, hand them a sack and have them kneel behind the largest set of bushes open bag in hand. The rest of us would hike around to the other side and scare the Snipes so that they'd run right into the bag.
Of course, this could take alot of time and patience. The catcher had to hold very still and remain there until we were done. I mean this could take hours!
We had alot of fun hanging out back at camp while waiting to see how long it would take them to figure out what happened.
Zer03101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my sister, we used to make the socks like a ball and with a pillow we hit them, like baseball
tofucarnival · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scavengers.
My older siblings and cousins made it up. It was this adventure pretend game. It was always a big event when the family would get together because all of the kids wanted to play scavengers....
Except, being the youngest, no one wanted me to play. I had a specific job as the "lamp". My job was to stand perfectly still and silent with my arms over my head...... like a lamp..... So whenever we played I just had to stand in silence and watch everyone have fun right in front of me.
Cooled_Jets · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not exactly unique, but me, my cousin, and my brother would play a game of tag where my tiny baby sister was always 'it'. One game during winter, we all went upstairs to hide in the closet, and we could hear her tiny feet coming up the stairs, my cousin panicked, and slammed the door, which my middle finger had not quite made it to the other side of. It almost shut completely. I had to wear a bag over my hand for the rest of the winter to avoid the snow touching it.
ssquared94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I (along with her little sister and occasionally some other neighborhood friends) used to hang out in her front yard and play a game where as soon as a car would turn onto her road we had to completely freeze. We had to stay frozen until the car was out of sight. If I remember correctly, the entire goal of the game was to freak out the people in the car by being frozen in place. We also had a variation of the game where we would play in the front yard like normal and then as the car was driving past her house we would all fall to the ground.
WombatHats · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in my slice of California, schools spent a lot of our elementary years teaching us about the local Native American population. We often went on field trips to the nearby Spanish Missions and the local college that had replicas of their prime trading materials and furnished wigwams. They were taught in a really positive light (not the Spanish missions though, they were pretty clear about how oppressive they were to the native population.)
Basically Native Americans were the coolest thing ever so my friend Carolyn and I would play as two of them that had set off on our own to explore the mainland.
We'd build teepees from the sheddings of the huge eucalyptus tree in my yard, climb trees, and sneak into and explore the neighbor's "forest" (a half acre clump of trees).
We'd also gather and eat wild plants. Carolyn was the insanely smart child prodigy of my grade and would point out edible plants, so we'd gather up a big bunch, take them back to the teepee, and snack on them. We'd also gather up these things my siblings called "sour flowers" as dessert. They're these yellow flowers with long stems, and when you chew on the stem it's really sour, but not in a bitter way.
We're lucky we didn't poison ourselves.
this_dust · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Caveman
My best friend's parents owned the lot next door to their house that was about 2 acres. We created a community of cavemen from the neighboring kids and dogs. We were an egalitarian meritoracy with all the splendor of a budding cave-dwelling utopia. We would search the woods for animal bones to trade and form into weapons or art deco for our rock perimeter houses. Our monetary system was based on quartz and granite which were two of the most common bedrock strata around.
We played for maybe 3 years and some of the aspects of the game started to become somewhat sophisticated. For example, in the beginning we had an arena where differences would be settled with sparring but after awhile we started to mediate and hold court-I remember one of the rules was that you had to hold a decent sized rock over your head for as long as you wanted to talk.
There were factions and back door deals, enchanted weaponry, lore, and glory at stake. We were raided by older brothers and attacked with water balloon launchers and responded in kind with stones and sticks. We were barbarians, we were ten years old.
There were no limits to where the game could have gone. We were probably not ever going to get out of the stone age but I like to think that we would have if we didn't all get poison oak that one summer. I still think about playing this game.
CaptainKirk13526 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my brother and sister were younger my dad taught us the “couch game”. We would turn off all of the lights in our house and my dad would hide somewhere. We walked around our house (I’m the youngest and I was still scared if the dark so i never left my sisters side she’s the oldest and my brother was always a lone wolf.) If you get caught by my dad he would pick us up and take us the couch as a sort of jail and the only way out was to get taped by someone who hasn’t been caught. When he got all three of us in the couch he won.
The more I think about it we didn’t really have any way to win but for us it was a lot of fun. And if you have kids of your own I would highly recommend it.
KingKongYe · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would go on “spy missions” when we were at family gatherings/weddings/other events with lots of adults and basically just choose a target and spy on them for as long as we had to to clear them of suspicion (usually if they were doing mundane things that would be grounds for clearing their name).
Another game, more like a weird bit within an ordinary game that my bro and I would do, was when we got bored playing royal rumble or war with our action figures we’d assume the male dolls’ roles in my sister’s dollhouse family. I’d be gpa and my bro would be the dad. The bit was we’d convince my sister to have the mom take the kids to the beach (located down the hall in another room) and we’d completely trash the house while they were away. In imaginary reality it was a tiny elf that would hide and caused all of the ruckus but my sister would not believe the dad and gpa no matter how much they pleaded, mostly because the elf always left before the family returned. This ended in role played arguments and real life arguments when it happened over and over again.
I feel a little guilty years later cuz she just wanted her older brothers to play with her and we took advantage but hey, it was all good fun and we laugh about it now
four1996 · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother (10 years older) and I use to play this game called "Mole People". All I remember is we would hide under a blanket and say, "We are the Mole People. And we hate the light!"
sendmeyourpez · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
cut-off Frisbee. Setup two sides and throw Frisbee at each other. If you catch the Frisbee you are fine, drop it... anything it touched is not usable for the remainder of play. Game ends when one yields or you are hit in the head. My brother used to skip it off the ground and hit me in the legs.
joojian · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "aue" game. Is more like a weird rule, but whathever. If someone burps, basicaly you had to make a hangloose(🤙) on your forehead and say "aue". The guys who didn't done that got slapped. Don't know where and why this started, but I do followed the rule.
amandalmighty · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I used to play a game called “I’m Alive” where one would try to bury the other fully under blankets and pillows with no skin or limbs exposed to the air. Basically we each tried to successfully suffocate each other as children :)
Djmies · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Myst series, it was basically a point and click riddle adventure but with extravagant cutscenes with real actors and an insane well developed fantasy story. It even had its own bookseries. Pretty underrated game even now imo.
bystander007 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was in Vegas around my 15's and meet two Zach & Cody looking British twins also there on vacation. They played the "Opposite Day Game" which was them slapping the absolute shit out of each other until one gave up.
It was a weird day at the laser tag arena.
p4lm3r · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kabubu and Firey Kabubu. We did this in scouting (when no adults are around). It is like dodgeball, except you use unopened pine cones. Yes, it hurt. No, you can't catch them because the barbs rip your hand open. For 'Firey' Kabubu, you just light them on fire before throwing them.
Donut_2_Ninja · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Downhill derby dive. I lived out in the country and in our backyard about an acre back there was a canal with a pretty steep slope, maybe a 9/12 that was roughly 30 ft up. We would get boxes and attach them to a wagon in whatever way so they would be difficult to come off and we would tuck the handle under the sum' bitch and ride down the slope letting whatever happens happen. Mind you we were in an enclosed box and couldn't see anything. So flipping was a surprise, going into rocks or a tree. The only smart thing we did was wear my full face motorcycle helmet.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game called red ass.
You whip tennis balls at a wall, if you get hit by the bounce back you have to stand at the wall while the person who threw it got to whip it at you as hard as they can.
Obviously face towards the wall, this the name red ass.
x0xb0x505 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the first Tron movie came out, we made up a "disc" game. Used a frisbee to bounce off the walls of an enclosed patio. The frisbee had to hit the wall, then land in your opponents square like dodgeball. The goal was to advance thru all the players squares to the master square.
PenNam3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Evil Turkey- at night in the house with all the lights off somebody was it. They counted to 50 and had a little nerf ball. If they touched you or hit you with the ball you were frozen. You can be unfrozen from the non it players. Round ends when all players are safe(area where the it player counted) or frozen. If everyone is safe then the player is it again otherwise longest frozen player is it. So dodgeball freeze tag and hide and go seek rolled in one at night.
yeabutnobut · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hand Soccer. It's just like regular soccer except you play in my moms craft room while on your knees and you can only use your hands.
cokethesodacan · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play 'Gladiator'. In our minds we were in the arena. Reality was throw the eyes of my friends parents. Just a bunch of kids running around their backyard with plastic football helmets, bike helmets, and swinging aluminum bats at each other.
Then the argument of who got who first.
_Lenzo_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Robot Wars', like the TV show, but instead of metal the robots are made of lego. Me and my brother would design robots, with wheels, and then roll them at each other. Whoever's robot lasted the longest won.
AnyGivenDeus · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle called it the tickle game. I don't think I ever won.
drazerclaw · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin, younger brother, and I played a game called sea monster. Which had nothing to do with the sea at all. The premise was that one person was the sea monster and the others had to avoid being touched by the sea monster or they'd become the sea monster. The kicker is that we always made my brother be the sea monster and it was basically just a glorified excuse for us to run away from him.
MulkSock · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandmother would give us a ball of yarn and tell us to "make a web" as we were "little spiders". It was a blast, for cleanup we just snipped the strings.
Zakyle · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called avalanche. I played it with my best friend at his place. We would go around the house and gather every pillow and cushion we could find, then stack them all up in a precarious pile at the top of the stairs. One of us would be on the stairs waiting, while the other was on the other side of the pillow pile. The person on top would shout "Avalanche!" And throw themselves in to the pile knocking it down on to the other then we would fall down the stairs in the avalanche.
His mother was mortified when she found what we were doing. I'm still amazed neither of us got injured doing this. Kids are surprisingly resilient!
Reaper_12 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my brother and my best friend would play this game called Stalker. I was always the Stalker and in order to play it had to be pitch black. Then my brother and my friend would have a flash light and walk around our yards while I was dressed up in pure black clothes except for my silver skull mask that I’d wear. I’d basically hide in bushes or lay on the ground until they came near me and then I would pop out and tag one. Once tagged you had to stay on the ground and the other person had to come and try to tag you so you could get away. If both people got tagged the Stalker won.
I-Main-Rein · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One punch
One person was the puncher and would chase you until they punched you. If you fell or cried, you’d be the puncher.
It ends when the puncher fails three punches.
cholay808to503 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long trips across half the country to North Dakota as kids, my sister and I would play the "water in your mouth" game where we would put a little water in our mouths and try to make the other one spit it out, you had to keep your mouth open while the other person tried to make you laugh. A little "messy" but something we still will laugh about and have tried to teach her kids already!
cabalforbreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Territories. Me, neighbor kid on my left, and neighbors across the street would divide up our front yards and parking lots, grab a bunch of water balloons and sticks, and start all out war fare.
If you got hit or a balloon broke on you, you lost your territory and became confined to "no man's land" (the street). You could get back a territory by hitting someone else, but if you got hit while land-less, you were out for the whole game.
First person to four territories was deemed the winner, thus leading to many short lived alliances.
2cynical4magic · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played tag with charging bulls.
My cousins lived on a ranch and whenever we'd visit, there was so much exploring to do. We could play outside all day, feeding the chickens, brushing the horses, eating peaches and chewing on wild mint leaves. But then we'd need a little thrill so we'd go down the street where there was a pasture of bulls, or cows and bulls, I don't know, I just know they'd spend a lot of their day charging back and forth across the pasture. When the bulls were charging away from us, we'd pretend we were chasing them and run after them, but then when they'd turn around and charge us, we'd run for our lives until we made it over the fence again.
SecretGaygent128 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play "ninja" which basically was just us 8-year-olds 20ft up in a tree, attached by bungie cords and sword fighting with machetes until someone lost their balance and fell.
PhoebeMcGreedy · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Horse and pig
zoobify112 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "bed diving." My room had a hallway leading up to it, and my bed was about 5 feet in front of the door, and the door had its own little alcove so you couldnt see it when standing on the other side of my room.
Basically, the game was: one kid would be standing inside the room with a soft ball of some sort, waiting. The other kid would be waiting outside the door, and would at some point run into the room and dive onto the bed. The one standing in the room would try to peg them with the ball, and if they hit them, they'd get a point, or if they missed or the diver caught it, the diver got the point.
Really it was just an excuse to continuously run and dive onto my bed
marsala394 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Bear that I made up. It was just hide and seek but one of the hiders was secretly assigned the role of the Bear. The seeker had to tap all of the other hiders before the Bear or they lost
xlylax · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Day of the tenticle
WhyYouHating123 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The tiger game
Throw a blanket over someone so they can't see nothing then the other 3 that can see punch and kick the one that can't see untill he falls or starts to cry the one under the blanket has to some how grab and put down one of the ones that can see and whoever gets put down first then has to go under the blanket
It was our ninja training
orokami11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was fairly close with my brother's friends. We were in the same school. At the time there was a little playground in our school. While waiting for our parents, I'd be on the playground "castle" (the huge block of things with the slides, monkey bars, etc.) and the guys would be at the ground.
We played a game of if I successfully spat on them, they lost. I'm not even sure who came up with the game, but everybody had loads of gross fun.
My main issue is he's still friends with most of them to this day, and I occasionally see them. I really hope they don't remember it, but if I remember then it's only obvious that they do too! BUT I REALLY HOPE NOT.
MikeBuckets171 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game we called "Bulldog: Whoever gets off the carpet". It was literally just two boys wrestling on the floor, trying to push each other off the rug in our living room. 1st person to have a body part touch the hardwood 3 times loses. My parents hated when we played this and battles were always more intense when my mom was out running errands and it was just my dad at home.
courtface_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game we made up called "bruises." We would kick and punch the shit out of each others legs and compare bruises the next day. Who ever had the most or the biggest was the loser. I have no idea where we came up with it, but we played it until we were teenagers.
Wjack97 · 1 points · Posted at 16:50:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play the “Dark Game”. We would turn off all the lights in our room and make sure it was pitch black and then essentially play Marco Polo. A lot of falling, a lot of getting yelled at.
MaxPowerzs · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend's backyard had one of these with the exception that the slide was about twice as high. We played a game we creatively called "King" where one of the four (or whoever we had at the time) of us would sit on top of the slide and whoever was up there was king. The king had a knight to defend them and everyone else had to try to get past the knight and take the throne. Swords were sticks. Sometimes the knight would turn on the king and would basically coup them.
It was literally just an excuse to hit each other with sticks.
CoDent · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby wars. My sister and i had a massive amount of them back in the day. One of our games was to take pillows from the beds and create forts for ourselves and then split up the beanie babies as ammo. Then we would throw them at each other. I did this with friends in middle school, one of them broke their toe in battle. Shit was no joke. Good times.
Crooks-n-Nannies · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Screw driver roulette: take the biggest screwdriver you can find. Stand with a group in a circle, make eyecontact with the person across from you. Someone throws the screw driver straight up. The first person to break eyecontact or get hit is the loser. Yup, we were dumb.
Dagdagni · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Des noyaux" when we eat apricot we collect the seeds then we divide them to equal parts, everyone get their part. Then we put a colored seed away, everyone by turn through one seed to touch the colored one. The person who touched the colored one will get all the thrown seeds.
Witness_me_Karsa · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to fly around on the trampoline, jumping over each other and shit with combat rolls and whatever, playing Power Rangers and killing putties. But we never fought anything stronger. Always putties....perhaps we needed more confidence.
lonelytax · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I (12yrs apart in age) would play "Fancy Dinner" while our mum was busting her ass hours away at a job to support us. I had to make our limited food look fancy with plating and garnish and he had to set up the tv tray with a 'table cloth', pick flowers setout the cutlery and pick a movie to watch. Then we would each compliment the other on something they did that made our poor food and circumstances 'fancier' than normal.
Now that we are grown ass adults our 'fancy dinner' game has leveled up. When we get together we shop for ingredents on a limited budget and I teach him how to make a delicious inexpensive meal from scratch. It has taught him valuable skills to impress dates without breaking the bank.
_LITERALLYAUTISTIC · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pork Chop!!
Basically tag, but in the dark and when you tag someone you karate chop at the neck and yell pork chop!
We also played the basement game which was very similar to pork chop but the person 'it' has to come downstairs in the dark with a lightsaber and beat the hell out of anyone they find. Catch is , everyone can fight back with anything they find. We would flip those rolling chair plastic mats upside down so the spike side was up acting as a spike pit. Also throwing open a closet door as someone runs by was a classic stopper. Eventually got banned from playing because my buddy threw a lit roll of firecrackers at me and it smelled up the whole house.
Good times
VonButternut · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to hang out late at night a lot in the summer and when a car would come by we say "Car!" and immediately scatter to hiding spots. This was for no reason at all other than it was fun.
Nobody ever bothered us or called the cops or anything, we just fancied ourselves spys or bandits on the run.
eagleeyerattlesnake · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played Monopoly before we were really good at reading. We read "Chance" as "Change" and when we landed on it, we got one bill of every denomination.
Eazy-E-40 · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My siblings and neighbors would play a game called Get off my Property. The object of the game would be for one person, who we called the old lady, protect their property, often a tree, and they were armed with a broom. The rest of the players had to try and get to the tree and touch it. The old lady was allowed to use the broom to get other players away from the tree, which often included smacking the other players in the face with it, and all the while the old lady had the scream “Get off my property!!!" if you got hit you weren't out or anything. You just had to keep trying. And if you touched the tree you didn't win, you just kept trying to do it again.
GlobalUrination · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played the Ring Wraith game with my cousins as they lived on a massive block of land with plenty of bushland in rural Australia. Had a couple of black hooded capes that made you look like the ring wraiths out of the LOTOR movies. The idea was to play normal gang up tag but if you were a wraith you got to be sneaky in the bushland and scare the shit out of the others like in the first movie
HD-Shadowstar · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade school, my friends and I created a game called “Wall Ball”, in which 2 people would say near or against a wall, and 5 others would try and kick a kick ball, soccer ball, or whatever else we could get for recess and try and at the people on the wall, with the idea that you wanted to survive as long as you could on the wall. We spent a TON of time playing it until the lunch aids found out.
Bigbrunswick · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I would always LARP on my trampoline. It was always a mixture of RuneScape, MapleStory, or Pokemon. We would be out there for hours, just jumping in circles, swinging our NERF weapons and yelling spells. He had a sword, and I had a tomahawk. We tried again after a few years but we just couldn't do it anymore.
jehssl · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play "corner ball". We had a sofa in our gameroom that was rounded in the turn (the sofa was L shaped in a sense) and thus in the corner there were a hole. One player sits on his/her knees in the sofa while the other tries to shoot the ball in the hole. Just like in handball there were lines which you could not cross before shooting, but you were allowed to jump as long as you jumped before overstepping the line.
We spent so many hours doing this, like hundreds. It was a blast. Played it with our friends too.
tohi4ka · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SLEEPING BAG WARS. Two people would put on sleeping bags and the goal was to knock the other person down. You were blind though, no arms and limited leg movement. It was the best show for the spectators!
1leggedpuppy · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if anyone else ever played this; but my mom used to play "the scribble game" with us. Each person would take a turn making a scribble on paper and pass it on to the next who would then have to turn that scribble into a picture of something. It was really fun! I played it with my kids when they were younger as well.
HotKnifeUpAss · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The "Jump-Scare" game that I used to play with my family. The object of the game was just to scare the other person shitless. Pops didn't like the game, so was sick of my shit. And being a veteran, he wasn't fond of people purposely sneaking up on him.
The last time I played that game, I ended up in a wicked headlock with my old man screaming "NEVER.... PLAY THIS... AGAIN!"
hinga_dinga_durgenn · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Chaos". There were two teams, the cheese factory and the mouse house. Each team had a driveway as a home base and the driveways were about 75 feet apart. There was also the ‘mole’ who hid in the bushes and played on their own team alone. Everyone was equipped with two weapons such as, wiffle ball bats, tennis racquets, footballs, hockey sticks, basically any sports equipment we could find. The object was to get people out by hitting them with said weapons. If you were hit you lost a life, had to return to home base, and had to give up one weapon. Everyone started with two lives. You were also allowed to throw your weapon in attempt to hit someone far away. Last team or mole standing won the game. Added bonus: if you could catch the neighbor’s cat Jake, your team automatically won the game.
Parents banned us from playing after they caught a sister whaling on her brother with a wiffle ball bat in the middle of the street.
deedee0323 · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers shared a room with two twin beds and a space on between. Since I was oldest, it was them versus me (them on one bed, me on the other) We grabbed all the stuffed animals in the house (probably between 20-30), threw them in a pile in between the beds, and had to grab as many as we could without getting off the bed.
Then we just threw the stuffed animals as hard as we could at each other. Game ended when we got bored or something got hit with a hard part like a plastic eye or something.
creamdreammeme · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baby baby stay out. Dad was the baby. The goal was to either protect or steal the baby. He’d crawl around going “Goo Goo Gah Gah.” Between me and my brother it would inevitably end up with both of us basically attacking the baby. One time I got a little out of hand and jumped on my dad’s back, wrapping my arms around his head. My thumb went in his eye and scratched it. He had to wear an eye patch for a few weeks after that.
Ermellino · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bottle smash: played as two: take a pet bottle and partially fill it (half= easy quick game, full or almost empty= long game). In a wide place with a hard floor(asphalt best) take turns at throwing the bottle high, at the asphalt or make it slide. If the bottle completly breaks on your throw you win, small leaks don't count, unless the bottle ends up empty from the leaks, then it's a draw.
The amount of mastery and tactic it takes it's surprisingly difficult: do you try to break the bottle risking only weakening it or do a weak throw so your opponent has the same problem? Do you want to smash it on the floor or throw it high, if so, make it land on the cap or on the bottom (depends on bottle type, filled amount and damage already taken).
03114 · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My elementary school had a high wall the was the outside of our gym. We made up a game called wallball where iirc, the way you play is with two teams. You throw the ball from where you first touched it and throw it towards the wall and try to touch the wall. Someone on the other team then tries to catch or throw it to the wall. It if hit BEFORE you make it or wasn't caught up in the air, you're out. This way, it got intense at time cause your trying to not get out but also get the other team out.
Good times.
Edenaviric · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little big planet. It’s such an innovative game and I honestly adore it. Some much memories as a child it’s kinda sad to see it fade away.
PsySnaccs · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game but I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and wild briar patches grow in such a way that they are mostly hollow inside. So my cousins and I would really hollow them out and turn them into networks of tunnels and basically use them like little forts.
We also used to go down in the 'holler' and swing on vines that grew up the sides of trees. Looking back I'm surprised we made it through childhood without getting eaten by some wild animals.
bobs_creator · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play pinecone wars with my brothers and some friends in the neighborhood. It was really cool. There were some town homes being built in the neighborhood so we would play in there when the workers left.
Lichard · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Tribute Tag"
In elementary school they replaced the old style, all steel, playground with one giant jungle gym complete with little rock wall, slides, monkey bar, etc. The new playground was all connected and extended about 40ft across the play area, which was filled in with those wood sticks that made the ground "soft".
The rules of Tribute tag are as follows:
We would play this game religiously every day and talk about it during lunch (getting tighter fitting shoes, best way to pull someone down, trapping someone for their tribute, etc.) Our entire world started to revolve around this strange thing we invented.
This went on for about 2 months and by then we had a crew of about 20 kids who were all on the Tribute Tag train, but it all ended on the day that Chad joined in. I remember we all huddled up when he asked to play, and we were all cool with it AS LONG as he didn't get us in trouble (he was a little soft, but hey, we wanted to grow the sport). Of course, he got pulled down as Tribute and started to cry, and that was the end of "Tribute Tag"
Now that I'm older, I see how brutal the game was... but it was fun!!!
FewReturn2sunlitLand · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know those big plastic playhouses that are sometimes on playgrounds? The kind that's a brightly colored cube with no floor or roof and might have a slab for a bed and a few windows?
Well, we used to play "Titanic," where three or four older kids would slowly rotate the playhouse from the outside while one or two younger kids climb on the walls inside and try to stay upright. It was the best game ever and I realize now that we had a lot of trust in our older siblings. No one ever got hurt, to my knowledge.
RikaBaF27 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite game was "Dodge the Arrow." We'd go out in a big field with all the neighborhood kids where parents couldn't see us. One of the guys or I would shoot a compound bow into the air and when it came down everyone had to scatter and avoid it. It was pretty scary when the sun messed up your vision and the arrow just disappeared.
Also a game called "He-Man Dragon." We had a hallway with a balcony overlooking the living room that we tied a laundry basket to a blanket to the top of the railing and had an indoor tire swing basically. One of us would be in the basket using momentum to try and grab the others, roaring like a dragon. We would also jump off that railing onto the living room couch.
"Slip and Slide" was when we'd call our dad at work, tell him we were going to sweep and mop the floors to be nice (which he'd thank us for) then proceed to cover the kitchen and dining room floors with Dawn dish soap, soak it all with the spray-hose from the sink, and then slide around in our bathing suits. We'd then gather EVERY towel in the house to dry it up. That house had a lot of weird water damage when we moved out.
I have so many of these, we were latchkey kids! I'm surprised we never died or broke a bone. Knife Darts, Roof Tag, Ba(skate)ball, Runescape in the Woods and Blue Devil Hill were some other games we played.
Mountain_Man4 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 6 or so, a Peruvian family moved in down the street and had a son (Francisco) who was the same age as me. The mom offered to teach me Spanish on her spare time, and my parents were stoked. After a few years, Francisco had become one of my closest friends and I had a decent understanding of Spanish.
We made up a game "brothers", where we were literally just brothers who would fight crime together. We made fake enemies and would set them up around his house/yard and run around strategizing and taking out the enemies with nerf guns/squirt guns/water balloons etc... it was super fun. After I learned a bit of Spanish, we changed the name to "hermanos" and would try to play the whole game in Spanish so I could practice.
I'm forever grateful that my parents are good people and we're excited that I was getting cultural exposure as a white kid growing up in a suburban area, and that their family was so welcoming and open to teaching me about their culture.
breachofcontract · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I would sit outside watching cars pass and play a game we invented called “I Own It.” As a cool car would approach, the first one to say “I Own It” got that car.
There was no tracking our cars, or rules, or literally anything else.
dan1101 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Several. We used to jump off the roof of my single-story house, into grass. We definitely knew to tuck and roll. Somehow never broke anything.
Rock fight, we'd stand in my driveway and throw rocks at each other. Somehow we never got hurt by it, don't even remember getting hit in the face. I remember it being somehow amusing to hear the rocks whizzing by my ear.
Gumball war. At my friend's house was a big carport with a sloped metal roof. Growing around the carport were gum trees, which drop hundreds of spiky gumballs in the fall. So one of us would climb up onto the roof and the other would stay on the ground, and we'd fling gumballs at each other. I even nailed a plastic bowl onto a 2x4 like a crude handheld catapault. That roof was pretty high, luckily neither of us ever fell off.
Wacky races. At my house the gravel driveway went downhill and we had an assortment of bikes, wagons, pedal cars, and a tractor, so we'd race them down the hill. Accidents were common, especially with the tractor because it just had 2 tiny front wheels under the front of the tractor and the steering was very vague. The wheels would go CHUNK! and turn sideways, usually throwing the driver over the front of the tractor. For that reason we usually rode the tractor backwards and steered behind our back.
Flimflomzimzoom · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extratigoo. A made up word because I thought I heard that word in zathura.
The goal was kinda to whack a rock off of our deck railing with a baseball bat, and get it to roll backwards under the deck. It was completely impossible to do, but me and my friends would play it for hours.
mrpetrovz · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wizball
BenRaam · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Teddy Wars.
It was on a trampoline and we had a variety of teddies that each had a certain power that you could use if you picked them up, I can't remember them all but I know one gave you extra 'strength', one made you faster, there were about 15 different teddies and this game honestly kept us going for years, good times.
johosephatus · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The glass plate game
Zwarte_Slaaf · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
RuneScape!!
RikaBaF27 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the woods!? Yeyuh!
eazy_beaz · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Old Man In the Dark: One person would sit at the top of the basement steps and count till 30. Everyone else would hide throughout the room. After 30 seconds the “Old Man” would turn the lights off and slowly come searching for the other players. First one to make it to the steps or the last person found won that round and became the next Old Man. Occasionally we would step it up by setting up traps for the Old Man, trying to trip them in the dark. It was an absolute blast.
Spore2012 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we was 13-15 years old we played a game called 'open' short for open ribs. If you happened to be leaning ovee or hunched over or had your arms up not protecting your ribcage for any reason , anyone could yell "OPEN!" and throw an uppercut to your underarm/rib area. The game also devolved a little bit for legs where people would strike the scrotum.
ur-whack · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle got drunk on Christmas and was smoking a little extra so after his 1st 4 or 5 cigarettes I knew something had to be done. When he wasn’t looking I took his box of cigs and shoved little tin foil balls into the opening on the front.
He had no idea.
redjedi182 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On Rainy days we would play at this one kids house that was built in a big circle. We started in the hallway and just walked up the never ending inclining floors all day after school. Boring ass game but it kept us entertained. Eventually while we climbed floors we discovered dead bodies and even double of friends we left a floor below, sun game but you get a bit weird when you are isolated on the 564th floor of your friends house.
beefbobjones · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a unique twist while playing Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 (and other ps2 racing games). Rather than racing split screen, one person would leave the room, and the other (playing top screen) would hide their car somewhere on the map. We'd use a pillow case held down with a brick to cover the top screen, while the bottom screen had to find the other car.
It was hide n go seek instead of racing, and it was a lot of fun.
MrJQuinn · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have dreams at night where a clown came out of my closet and wouldn't let me wake up unless he could tickle me. So before I would go to bed at night, I always tried to remember to shut the closet so he wouldn't visit me.
solBLACK · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squeak bunny squeak. No idea where the name came from. Played in my cousin's basement. Turn off the lights so it was dark enough to just barely make out shapes. Everyone would hide (you couldn't be hiding behind something) and the person who was it walked around with a bean bag chair. They would try to make the people hiding laugh to give away where they were hiding and then go sit on them. Last person hiding won.
LuckGone · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Repelled off the balcony with dog leashes tied together like mountain climbers and jumping off the second floor landing to a pile of mattresses and pillows. I’m honestly surprised none of us died.
GravityConstantine · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The hitting game? Basically there were a group of kids and in the middle there was a soccer ball. We’d kick the ball trying to hit each other in certain areas of the body and if someone succeeds, we’d beat the shit out of the kid who got hit by the ball until he’s touched a light pole.
The kid who came up with the idea sadly passed away a few years ago of unnatural causes.
Lunaresse · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is going to get buried but I was raised with my 3 cousins and we had these games where it would kinda be like we were all a character from an mmorpg we played (Pristontale if anyone wants to know) So we would all be a character from the game, I was a Priestess and we would all have "professions" I was a potion maker and one of my cousins was a blacksmith, he made wooden weapons out of sticks at a station he built (except they were pretend make of steel of course), we would walk around the forest to find stuff for our weapons or for my potions. Or clues for my other cousin's map or a "fishing pond" for the other one. We would crush up rocks with a hammer to make a fine powder, we'd bottle it up and sprinkle it in my "potions" or on the weapons to make them "stronger". We spent hours and hours outside from the moment we woke up til it was dark out. We walked around the forest in their backyard, we had our own little treehouse, we had a little treehouse that was just not in a tree so that was our "shop". It is sincerely some of my best memories.
ldish949 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with my mom, brother, and neighborhood kids called Dark Skies. My mom was the only one who could initiate the game. It would span across the whole neighborhood but would always end inside our house. Basically hide and go seek (but you can move) with every man for himself. It ends when someone scares this shit out of someone else. Terrifying as an 8 year old.
dalton_88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little brother used to sit in the hallway between our rooms(back to our doors) with a green ball a little bigger than a softball and throw it at each other. If the ball hit your hands and you dropped it you had to take a shot to the chest. Seems so simple and stupid but there's no telling how many hours we sat in there throwing the green ball at each other
tittiye · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “the sleeping bag monster” this game involved my 12 year old self, my 11 year old cousin, my 10 year old brother, and my 9 year old cousin. We would play this game in our bed room and would put a sleeping bag over the persons head who were “it” and then trying not to get tagged by this person. So what eventually happened after getting lightly tagged got boring for us, the game turned into who could beat the shit out of the person who was it without seriously injuring them. Now that I think about it we were incredibly violent, especially when the youngest cousin was it and we could literally pick up the sleeping bag with him in it Jesus Christ
Leucosla · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Three Little Pigs”
My two cousins, sibling, and I made up this game probably around the age of 7. One person was the wolf, and the three remaining people were the little pigs. You’d lock the door to a room, turn all the lights off, and the little pigs would get to hide under blankets and pillows. The wolf had to (a) find the pigs, and then (b) guess who was underneath. If he guessed you correctly you were the new wolf.
SteveImNot · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my brothers and I would find a box big enough to fit us all in it we’d douse the whole thing in lighter fluid, all 3 sounds of us would jump in the box, and set it on fire. Last one to leave the burning box wins
AdamCoreyMoore · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Wallet Game. My dad would take out his wallet on the carpet and keep it away from my brother and I. We would try to wrestle him down to get the wallet and if we got it, we got the cash inside. We were small back then so we barely ever got it but when we did, we were buying Pokémon cards the next day.
ghne11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:52:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bottle rocket races. My cousin and I would take a bottle rocket, face it up the street, light it, and run. The goal was to make it past where the bottle rocket would fly to and explode. Surprisingly enough, this led to one of the three times I'd been on fire.
jonahmd · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee basketball. Had a little basketball net and a little rubber basketball in the basement that was too small for us, so we’d get on our knees and play basketball that way.
It was especially fun since the ball is too small to steal from people cleanly so we had rules for how hard you could bodycheck people to take the ball. They were loose rules.
burymylife · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Faceball. The pitcher throws the football at the hitter, he hits it with the bat and the pitcher has to catch it. If he does hitter is out, if not he had to grab it and chase hitter around bases and tackle him before he gets home. There were no other people around the bases, just the pitcher. I dont even think we had a point system.
trevorm7294 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve got two. 1) Laser Dog.
My friend had two Keeshond dogs, neither of which were very energetic. They would frequently lay down in the hallway upstairs, and if they looked at you, you had to die.
The other person could revive you by tapping on you, but only if the dog stops looking. Goal: make it across the hall.
2) Kid Army.
Wow this game was so awesome. We played this well into middle school even. The story was that one day, aliens came and spread a virus across Earth, killing everyone over the age of 16. Everyone who was younger than that no longer aged because we were immune somehow.
So we formed an army to fight the aliens. We made a map of the solar system, color coated for bad guys, neutral, and human owned planets, and slowly took the galaxy back over the course of years. You ranked up (up to Commander in Chief) by doing a certain number of missions.
You could do a defense mission, where you had to defend earth, a space offensive mission, a planetary offensive mission, or a recon mission. Each of my friends had different specialties.
And when you became a commander in chief, you got your own squad and the option to do missions using army guys. Each person got to use their own color of army guys.
Good times.
acsaid10percent · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Race the car to the garden. Basically walk up the long road from our garden until we see a car coming the other way. Beat the car back to the garden. Endless fun.
BeastModius · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Gun Game" My 2 brothers and I grew up in a fairly large house that was far from town. Most of our days were spent outside doing outside things unless the weather was bad. On bad weather days we would each take our own pellet gun, make pellets out of tinfoil, strip to our boxers, and run around the house shooting each other. There was a 3 pump max rule on the rifles and when that pellet hit bare skin it hurt like hell. It would leave a whelp for hours sometimes days. Never really got caught by our parents but once my brother god hit in the neck by a pellet. We couldn't hide it so we said he got stung by a scorpion.
-Principal-Vagina- · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably already buried in comments but ours was "roof ball" basically a modified baseball. We would use a stress ball wrapped in electrical tape as the ball and a whiffle ball bat. The field was laid out so that the house was the outfield fence. Hit it on the roof, home run. Hit it over the roof and you get to keep running until the other team retrieves it and gets you out. Other modifications were the obvious 'ghost runner' rule. And you could throw the ball at a runner to get them out.
Bondie_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins were roleplaying as bacteria and viruses. The house was an organism and the adults were the immune system and medicine. It was basically a spy roleplay most of the time, but it made more sence because it explained why our HQ was in the middle of the enemy base.
Notmybestusername3 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers would tie me to the chain link fence with a windbreaker with my arms out like a crusafix. They would then fill up water balloons and throw them at me. It looked like so much fun for them they would laugh and laugh and I would just cry until my mom would come untie me. Seemed like they loved that game.
jonnyb61 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Ha Ha. You lay down with your head on each other’s stomachs and add another ha for each person that lays down
Lurk_Merc · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would line the bottoms of the walls with pillows and blankets and turn the Veggie Tales up to hide the sound of us slamming each other around for hours. Full blown Greco-Roman meets WWE smackdown for like 4 hours.
cascade_olympus · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The shin kicking game.
There was no point system, and no winners. I'm sure there were several broken toes and at least one broken leg (someone brought steel toed boots to the game).
cultiv8420 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played "Back to the Future", which was basically taking turns launching each other as far as we could sitting on a wheeled office chair in our cement basement.
Skoss29 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would use pillows, stuffed animals, and blankets to make forts across the bedroom from each other and then use other things like batteries and other stuffed animals as bombs and such to blow up the other ones base and eliminate them.
tristantroup · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who can eat the fastest and get seconds while there still is some.
Atalung · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The playground at school had pea gravel covering a lot of it (it was a rural school, we had a 2 acre playground, so we're talking a lot of gravel), in 2-3rd grade we had a game where we would gather cool looking pebbles and trade them, even going so far as to denote one kind as a sort of currency. This specific kind was found more in certain areas leading to wars between groups to control those areas. That ultimately led teachers to kill it. I think I still have some of the better pebbles I had.
ZakeJR · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
duck hunt 90s video game 🎮 dog Laugh I still remember. Maybe That’s my first Childhood video console game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Guerra de paises"
Every player had to choose a country. We had five seconds to run as far as we could. Then, we all had a turn to say: I declare the war to my worst enemy, which is [insert country]. And we had to choose to make long and/or short steps to walk in direction of that country. If we were right about the steps we needed, the country we chose was out of the game.
And we did that until only remained one
lildocta · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to play a game with my sister and me called “the not fair game”. He would throw a ball into the air and then assign points randomly. For example if you caught the ball you might get 100 points but you might lose 200 points for not giving the ball back to him fast enough, and the next throw you might lose 100 for catching the ball and gain 50 for giving the ball back. Great life lesson that not everything in life is always fair and equal and provided us with hours and hours of fun as kids.
sgtsnuggle71 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Semi- two semi circles on either side of my playground. A group of people would run to either semi circle without getting caught. If you are caught you have to join the chasers.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game we called mixer.
We would basically LARP every recess. We would like "character select" when we started.
So everyone would go around and say who they were, you could be anyone, like pop culture, video games, whatever, you could be things you just describe like "I am Roman Gladiator, who uses a trident made from dragon bone.".
I think the only rule was that you couldn't be another player's selection.
Then we would go on adventures, fight stuff, talk about backstories and shit.
We had a few of these imagination games. We had another where we would play LARP primitive DND with coin flips we would play when we had more time.
I guess everyone else just saw like 4-6 kids everyday fighting invisible monsters, dodge rolling, jumping off the cement guard rail fence. A few kids came by and made fun of us every now and then, but we kept to ourselves and always played in the same spot, so we rarely got interrupted. As we got older we got into things like MTG, Yugio, handhelds, DND, etc etc. But this was always the funnest one for me, I miss it.
DougLee037 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 9 or 10 we used to draw maps and create a little rpg around it. Most of it was, get to this building, defeat the enemies, get the key, avoid the lasers, and escape. We would all sit around the same piece of paper tracing our current positions on the map with pencils. We'd act out the scenes and each map would be most complicated than the last one.
We would also fold papers and draw them as "cell phones" that could fold out to reveal a "computer" . I believe we had the idea of smart phones before they became a thing. At least we had the concept of a cell phone with a fold-out qwerty keyboard. Well before the Sidekick was ever released. As the cell phone industry started to advance I noticed similar concepts to what we came up with as kids. Except we used our "phones" for "secret agent missions". A lot of it was heavily inspired by 007 Goldeneye from the N64. But we'd remix it with Legend of Zelda, Metal Gear Solid, and other video games. We'd make the "screens" for our inventory selection which was composed of items from all of our favorite video games. Whatever item was "needed" for us to "complete our mission". We had such fun imaginations back then.
DontForgetTheFuture · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I had a game call Ghost Fall. What you would do is put a blanket over your head so you can't see anything then follow the other "ghosts" up the stairs. Then when someone yelled GHOST FALL we would fall backwards down the stairs untill we reached the bottom. In hindsight I have no idea how we didn't get multiple concussions from this game
mhmc20 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was the oldest boy in my neighborhood growing up. I usually wanted to play Pokémon or kickball but unlike my friends at school the 5-6 year old neighborhood kids wouldn’t really go for it. One day after trying (and failing) to get everyone to come watch me play sonic heroes, one of the girls suggested we play Chicken Fajita. My sister asked how to play and she responds “it’s simple!”
Step 1: Everyone say “What are we having for dinner?”
Step 2: One player (the ‘mom’) responds “Chick-Chick-Chicken Fajita!”
Step 3: Mom says “What are we having for dinner?”
Step 4: Everyone says “Chick-Chick-Chicken Fajita!”
And in neighborhood girl’s exact words, “Then you all lay down on the ground and roll and flop around like a Chicken Fajita”
I watched them play that game on a near daily basis the entire summer. It still baffles me.
hexe_py2o1 · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it 'The Pansy Tree Game'. So one of my neighbors had these tall evergreen trees that lined her fence. Maybe 10-12 trees in a row, around 20-25ft tall. We would climb the tree at one end, and try to jump tree to tree to the end, who ever fell down out of the trees lost, and was a pansy lol it was a ridiculous game, and we all always got injured really bad. No one ever made it to the end. Plus the neighbor usually noticed after awhile us falling down out of her trees and would chase us out of the yard yelling and tossing things.
Not_a_Nautilus · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in Ireland, one popular game was called "IRA". Each team would come up with a secret word, and assign one letter of that word to each teammate. Then you had to capture people from the other team and torture them to make them tell you their letter.
If no adults were around, the torture would consist of hitting the kid until they gave it up. If there were adults around, you'd tickle them instead. Not sure which was worse to be honest.
fanaticfun · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my cousin, and our family friends around my age (we are all Italian) would play this weird game we never actually had a name for. We would run around the house and one person would be “italiano” and they would yell “IM ITALIANO” then we would all have to tag them and yell “NO IM ITALIANO” and basically you would have to steal everyone else’s italiano until you had all the available italiano. No one ever lost we would just kind of play until we got tired.
Burncruiser · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Quaker's Meeting
Anal_Werewolf · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I think we just called it war. Generally two “teams” of 3-4, both sides armed with a slingshot or two (the metal type with a wrist brace and elastic bands).
We may have established bases but the point seemed to be more about pelting the absolute fuck out of enemies by slinging/throwing the pecans from the orchard we played in at each other.
Both teams did this from their own “tank”—a tractor or a small farm truck.
HockevonderBar · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mr. Freeze
Swaagstein · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Metal Arms: Glitch in the system! is a brilliant hidden gem. It blew my mind as a kid.
Cegrus · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents' house has a pool, which had a wooden fence around it when we moved in. Once my younger sister and I were old enough they tore out the fence, but didn't throw away the fencing. I eventually started cutting up the boards into sword shapes, sharpening them with a pocket knife and sanding them down. The neighbor on the other side has apple trees, and the branches hung over the fence. So we would take the sharpened wooden swords, and throw the apples at each other to cut midair. Always felt like a badass when you got a good slice
Shadow_Moon · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up watching Heracle and Xena, I remember there was one scene in the show where a giant pit to the underworld opened up. So when I was at a summer camp we would constantly dig holes to try to reach the underworld. Also when it would thunderstorm we were convinced that it was Hera getting mad and trying to punish us so we would hide.
Another game I would play was a war game, a few weeks before winter camp me and some friends would draw up very detailed battle plans to try to defeat the other kids. Nothing ever came of it, but I definitely had fun with the countless hours making plans.
_stinkyb · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grew up in Georgia, so we had thunderstorms pretty often. My 2 older sisters and I would turn off all the lights in the basement and wait for lightning. We would then try to guess how bad the thunder would be from it, based on a scale of green, yellow, red. Red being the loudest/longest. We would take turns guessing and “hide” if it was red, get behind a chair or couch if it was yellow, and do nothing for green.
Not sure how it entertained us for so long, but we did it almost every time a storm came through.
plumbplatypus14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our grandpa has a nice speedboat. When my sisters and I would go visit, we’d sit at the front of the boat with our mouths open and see who could get the driest tongue the fastest
It only got weird when we couldn’t agree on who’s was the most dry and we made our mom feel as the tie breaker.
DePoots · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "shut up game" when my parents were tired of us fighting, we played the shut up game where the first person to talk loses
Re-Misterio · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school there was a big carpet-like thing rolled up. It was firm and 3 of us could stand on it. I called the carpet thing mustang burrito and my 3 best friends were always with me, so there was someone who couldnt stand on it. Eventually someone wanted to get on it and tossed someone off. This became regular. We made the rules(if you toss someone you have to yell mustang, complicated, right?). We played it in the breaks and our classmates started to join in. In the end there were like 40 kids (from like 5 classes) who were yelling mustang...sooo a teacher stoppes it coz oooh someone might get hurt. So that was the end of it.
By the way i dont know why did i call it mutang burrito. Burrito coz it was rolled up and mustang as the horse, not the car
We secretly cobtinued playing this with my 3 friends on trunk.. only one of us could stand on it.
PERRODSTER79 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, my living room had 2 couches facing inwards toward each other with a lot of floor between them. So my friends and I would buy a bunch of glowie necklaces, turn off the lights, and use the couches as cover while we frisbeed the glow necklaces across the room in the pitch black back and forth at each other. It was ridiculously fun. One of those things that was randomly conceived out of boredom.
ryanugle · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Multiple kids get in a bed sheet. You have to close the opening as best you can.
One kid on the outside has to touch one inside. They then essentially become a ‘zombie’ and join the outside team.
Repeat till all are outside or the sheet gets ripped and you hide it under old sheets.
ZombieAutoPilot87 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nyte Krollers
allthoughtsaside · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors and I created a game called “ hit me” where one of us would stand in front of the door of my shed singing “hit me hit me hit me” and the rest of us would whip kickballs at the person singing. Whoever made the person singing fall to the ground first in pain was the winner of the game and got to become the next hit me target... looking back I’m unsure why we found this game so appealing
jonahmd · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favourite game, imagine waterskiing but instead it’s a Razor scooter tied to the back of a bike. We’d take turns being the biker or the skier. Extra points for going up on the sidewalk while the bike is on the road.
phoenixrising13 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well damn.... I just lost the game
itsyaboytheboytheone · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I me and my sisters would pretend we are ninjas and I would create like a level up system of doing little stupid things like throwing little paper throwing stars and running around the back yard it was more fun than it should have been and I hope my sisters look back at that fondly as I do
emmian · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jellies" - One person pretended to be grocery shopping, and the rest of us sat in a row, curled up, pretending to be jelly jars. The shopper would say, "What type of jelly should I pick?" and the jellies would have to say out loud what type they are in a funny or cute voice. The shopper would choose which one they liked best by putting them in their cart, and then pushing on the foreheads of the jellies they didn't want and forcing them to roll onto their backs. It should probably be noted that we played this in our yard at the top of a small hill, so we ended up rolling down the hill.
My siblings only have vague memories of this game, so it's pretty safe to say that I invented it.
waw_ash9 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I came up with this game, which we simply called "The Game". There were two teams in this game, one defending and one attacking. The objective for the attacking team was to touch the "base", which was the area under my friend's trampoline. The objective for the defending team was to protect this base by getting the attacking team out by tagging them. The boundaries were the backyard of my friend's house. The attacking team could not get tagged outside of the pre-determined boundaries but the second they stepped into the backyard/boundaries, they could get tagged out. The round ended once any member of the attacking team touched the base or the defending team tagged every member of the attacking team out.
This game required us to get strategical by jumping fences, hiding in different areas of the backyard and planning which way we were going to attack/defend. It is one of the fondest parts of my childhood and required only access to a backyard.
ireallyfknhatethis · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
snekly · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play "tower of terror" which was not a fitting name at all but that's what it was. We had a swing set that had a two seater baby swing. Our game include us fitting as many 4 year olds as we could into/on to this swing. Our record was 5. Then one of us would start twisting the swing up as tightly as we could. They would then hold on for dear life as the overloaded swing spun wildly. More often than not, at least one of the occupants would fly out during the ride only to hop back in for the next one. The game finally ended when I flew out during one of our rides and got knocked out cold after hitting the ground
mdawg2424 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Under water sea adventure!!!! So my cousin would put is in one of those huge plastic blue bins with the lids and there was a crack in ours. We pretended it was a submarine and she would pour little bits of water in the cracks while Shaking us around and narrating the sea adventure
pcmr-123 · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Sleeping Bag Game"
You had to go in a sleeping bag and your friend would have to stuff as much stuff in the bag until the person in sleeping bag said 'Stop!' I'm surprised I didn't die
Super_Marrio · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I invented a game called "Lych". It was basically a more physical version of air hockey, contested on a kitchen floor.
We used our trainers are goalposts, used some weird hybrid of a rubber ball that looked like the Snitch in Quidditch.
Competitors sit on their knees & use open palms to try & slap the "Lych" ball across the kitchen, into the opponents goal. First player to 21 wins the game.
Incredibly simple, incredibly competitive & incredibly fun. We played endless games for hours on end.
Although my cousin may argue, I regularly lay claim to be the official Lych world champion. All challengers welcome...
pancake_prototype · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have some G.I.Joe trading cards and had my own rules on how to play. I swear it made tons of sense to me, but everyone I've talked to says it made little to no sense.
Hassnibar · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was 13 and my younger siblings who were 7 and 9 decided that they were going to run across the living room infront of our 3 seat couch, while I stood by as the flank to spear them right into the fucking couch as hard as possible. Good times
aramirezomni · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would tape toothpicks to our fingers and have “Wolverine fights” it was all well and good until I sat on my moms couch with a bloody back and stained it.
SeaNilly · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I lived in east bumblefuck NYS the older kids played a game called drive to the trailer park and break into cars
My family moved us out of there before we were older kids
TheNerdiestOfAll · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Buzz-Lightyear Game” basically myself and my three siblings would jump around on mom and dads bed and we would try to throw each other off the bed. If you were falling off the bed you had to stick one arm out and slap your chest with the other to “open your wings” and you had to yell “TO INFINITY AND BEYOND” before you hit the ground. If you did, you got to get back on the bed. If you didn’t, you were out
doo138 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family grew up in the middle of know where illinois in trailers. We we're obviously all very poor lol. My cousins, brother, and sister didn't have too many toys so we would have to make up our own fun. My favorite was when we would fill a ln empty bread bag (like the bunny bread bags) with dirt and tie it shut. We would then wind up and launch it as far as it would go. Whoever launched it the furthest won. Only rule was no overhead throws. You had to wind it up and essentially lob it. Growing up poor, we had a lot of these "games".
dusanjosik · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
RuneScape.
Mry64_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game where I wished u/antenonjohs a happy cake day.
Waveyclown · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LIMBO
FeggingLomp · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blood moon, it was hide and go seek but one some one had a flashlight, you could do a full moon for 3 seconds, and you have to point it up Half moon, 2 seconds , and point it at half the room, but blood moon you get to point your light at one person hiding, wich is less than a second
CasualForkFriday · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to throw a squishy ball (filled with a shaving cream like substance) into a ceiling fan. It was a two person game. You would throw it into the fan at the direction where it would be launched at the other person. If the person caught it, it was a point. Games went to the first person to get 5 points. It was hilarious and we still play it to this day, in-fact, we had a tournament for my friend’s 17th birthday yesterday. Nothing but great memories and fun!
BeardedBushMan · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I bought a trampoline after months of saving from our paper route. Growing up I was also in love with action figures of every kind (TMNT, X-Men, etc). We made up a game where we would lay out all the action figures on the trampoline. We made a group of “good guys” who we had to protect, then only by jumping up and down we had to force the rest of the figures off the trampoline by bouncing them off. The good guys also had abilities we could use, such as the Power Slap, where you would bounce a figure up and slap them off the trampoline with your hand. The goal was to knock off all the figures expect the good guys.
I’m now 37 and my sister and a close friend still bring this game up. We had so much fun with it.
MentalMaz · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Squashy mushy" me and siblings would be on the carpet pile up on top of each other and "squash" over each other like snakes lol
viddhiryande · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made stories about the battles of my left and right hands. Originally, my left hand was "good" and my right hand was "evil", but I introduced gray morality as I got older.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During the winter, we always played “Smear the Queer” at recess. We had no idea what “queer” meant.
abeardedprincess · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had the "booty bounce game" We would start at the opposite ends of the house and slowly move backwards while shaking our butt.
When we eventually got to each other, we had to try and bump the other person with our butts as hard as possible and the first person to fall out of the formation 3 times lost.
Idk why we did this. It just seemed silly and innocent. It's a little weird lol
cash_masheen · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, there were always a lot of dirt and gravel piles in my neighborhood. My cousin came up with this game where one of us would throw rocks while the other would swat them away with a stick. Whenever you were hit, you’d switch spots. Looking back on it, I think my cousin just wanted to pick on me because I was the one with the stick most often.
Namuata · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hall ball” - a mixture of baseball and dodgeball played in the hallway of my house. My hall was shaped like a T. The top left end of the T was the opening to our living room the other end was closed off. The bottom of the T was where the master bedroom was.
The pitcher stood at the entrance to the hall and pitched to the batter at the opposite end. After you hit the ball the base was the light switch (1 point) where the pitcher was or the piano Bench (2 points) or kitchen table (3 points). The ball is never dead so if it bounces off the wall or ground and hits you you’re out the pitcher could also throw or tag you with the ball and you’re out.
On base you’re safe. The pitcher then goes to the part of the hall where the master bedroom is. They have to be an arms length from the door. The runner has to get to home base without the pitcher throwing the ball from that hallway extensión and tagging them. One out and you switch.
We never played while our parents were home.
Fruitypennies · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I showered, i would turn off the water halfway through and rub bar soap all over the bottom of my tub and pretend i was ice skating. Dangerous af i don’t know how i didn’t fall.
shuffling-through · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings would play Robot.
One of us would put a cardboard box on their head, and run around, and yell in a toneless, robotic voice, "I, AM, A, ROBOT. I, AM, A, ROBOT." And everybody else would chase them. Whoever caught the robot first would snatch the box from off their head, place it on their own head, and run around announcing themselves as a robot. It was kind of like tag, except everybody was trying to catch the player who was "it". It was kind of like Blind Man's Buff, except the robot player was trying to avoid the other players.
We weren't smart enough to put eyeholes into the cardboard box, so the robot player was liable to crashing into obstacles. I'm sure our parents tried to ban the game, but we loved it too much to stop playing.
nikkid07 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sisters and I used to lay down on the floor and see if we could shoot our giant scrunchies onto the ceiling fan blades. then, we would turn on the fan and pretend it was snowing while the scrunchies floated down around us.
CaptainSwoon · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Frozen moose poop wars. Just need a slingshot and some moose poop in the winter.
powpowpandar · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up “The Arrow Game” when I was a little kid. It was meant for car rides and every time you saw an arrow like on a road sign, you’d say “arrow” and get a point. Different colors were different points, white and black being the most common would be 1 point while more “rare” colors like yellow and red were 2 points and colors like pink were 5 points. Whenever we knew a big curve was coming up with a lot of arrows we would just yell “arrow arrow arrow!” faster and louder than the other person lol. My brother and I would get very competitive with The Arrow Game.
dotchianni · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play Slam Fingers. Someone would hold open the car door while someone else would place their fingers near the door frame. The object of the game was for the door slammer to slam the others fingers with the door. The other person's object was to not get their fingers slammed but to hold their hand there til the last possible second.
I'm not sure who lost but we all ended up inside in the air conditioner so all those broken fingers were worth it. We lived in Texas and summers were hot.
killjoywannabe · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a thing called “Piggy Monster” with my dad. I have absolutely no idea when it started or how it got that name, but it was basically my dad chasing us around the house. If he caught us, he would lift us up and tickle us and then everyone else had to come back and save the person being tickled! Once it had the name, my dad even made pig noises for us when he was chasing us. Those are some good memories.
ohyesitdoes · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm the oldest of three. We used to have a green plastic clothes hamper. Put the youngest, my brother, in it and push it down the stairs. I swear he would get out and run back up with the hamper, ready for another run.
Coobreedan · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some of the kids used to play "beat the letter", where each member of a team would have a letter of a word and the other team would have to beat them up until they said the letter so they could figure out the word.
...It didn't take long for the teachers to ban that game.
pennylane3339 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn't really a game, but we used to put on rollerblades, tie a rope to a bike, and "street ski".
Another one was "geneva". We just drew two lines on the road and stood in front of them facing each other, kicking a ball back and forth until it rolled over one of the lines. Basically, it was goalie vs goalie soccer.
TRichard3814 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme strategic Ball is a game played on a fenced in trampoline where each player starts with a certain amount of lives. If you get hit with the ball below the hips you loose a life. If you scoop or hold the ball you loose a life (hitting only).
DennisFraudman · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play slave wars. We had an even amount of white friends and black friends at the time and we would assign one black person to one white person. If you were black you fought and if you were white you just had to hope your slave won in the eyes of everyone else there. My friend Richard and I were half black so sometimes we could represent whatever side we wanted.
alonealoofandamorous · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does "doctor" with the neighbour's daughter count? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Homemade fireworks weren't the brightest idea for a teenager with access to gun powder.
theblazingkoala · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “War” We each got a nice stick, covered the ends with multi color tape in different ways so you knew who had what stick the next time you played, and beat the shit out of each other. There was no objective other than winning whatever duel you were in at the time. Also had bases, teams, made strategies. None of us were older than 10.
sirmeepy · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play a game we called "Muk" (after the Pokemon). Essentially the 'it' person would have a blanket thrown over them and they would try to capture/pull the other players underneath the blanket.
We'd mostly play on top of a big bed since we were still really small. It was a lot of fun and I remember it fondly.
pvviking123 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would take turns rolling back and forth on my bed while the other person tried to jump over the other to the other side. Many many many times I ended up falling off the bed lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to maintain our own fleets of military aircraft (I was a huge aviation buff at the time). I kept a running log of our aircrafts on an old Windows 3.11 machine. We'd get into huge arguments over trades and who owned what to the point where it'd turn into a wrestling match over the keyboard. It was extremely pointless other than to have bragging rights over our make-believe fleets.
jado9814 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember what it was called but we used to play a version of hide and seek where if you found the person hiding you would hide with them (in the same room or area if too crowded) until the last person finds the group. It was really fun playing in the dark where it's harder to see a group hiding.
lilnav851 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played something called "Tunnel In The Ball" ( should have named it the other way around but we were kids) its like dodge ball but u get 20 points if you jump over the ball like a tunnel and u get 10 points if you full toss catch the ball .
Roman-EmpireSurvived · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would gather all the big pillows in the house and stack them upon each other. Then we would pretend to be a shop that sold pillows. We had Monopoly money and everything.
irontan · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TV tag. I don't think kids play it anymore. You would draw a tv in the dirt with a stick, then it was basically hangman of a tv show. If the kid guessed they would have to run to a predefined tree, around and back, the player that picked the title to guess would chase you. Whoever got back first would pick the next title for everyone to guess.
Took my kids camping when they were much younger, they had never heard of it. Spent a lot of time as a kid playing it.
TotoByAfricans · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m not too sure if others played this game or not but we had a game we called “beat the letter”. There were two teams, each with around 5 players (team a and team b) One player from team a would think of a letter and write it down to ensure they didn’t change it. Members from team b would not know who in team a knew what the letter was and so they’d chase every member and beat them until they gave up the letter or were convinced that the player didn’t know the letter.
In hindsight, this game was pretty hectic and barely had any rules which makes me believe it was just an excuse to hit each other without consequence.
Another game we would play was the “in the dark” game with our cousins. It was essentially hide and seek but it was in one room and in the dark. The seeker also was blindfolded and was made to spin around until they were unable to walk. There were no sides and it was every man for themselves which led people to sabotage others by tossing them ruthlessly into the blind seeker. The bunk beds and the death trap cupboards on the room made it a lot more fun.
Finally, we would play house a lot but with the most plot twists. We would play a dysfunctional family and have the most absurd storylines which mostly ended up in murder or theft of a baby.
Needless to say, we were a strange family.
(Sorry bout the format Im on mobile lads)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wonder boy and pac man
Fruitsaladyum · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Disease". Literally just tag but every time you tagged someone they would say disease. Not to mention this game of tag went on during classes, and lasted from grade 4-8 with my friends. Everything went, touchbacks and all
Hoover1414 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would get a big cardboard box and one person got in while the other person got a big run up and trucked the box as hard as he could. Fun times.
Swimmerboi109 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We got bored or regular 4 square we decided to play 4 square but with soccer rules. You can’t use your hands, you can juggle for as long as you can , and the “King” ( or the person in the 4th square ) had to serve it the person diagonally to them. We even made a 2/3 rule where if the other 3 player can rule if the call was good or bad. ( if 2 of the people said overrule we played another round ) Kept us busy for hours on end, even to this day...
ashleygeee14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor, my sister, and I used to go out onto our long driveway and we would do this thing where we would take off one of our shoes like halfway and we would see who could fling their shoe the farthest and when we went to retrieve it we had to hop on one foot and whoever got their shoe first would win. We would sabotage each other by getting their shoe and throwing it further or you could cheat by just not throwing it too far. Got us into so much trouble but it never stopped us from doing it again
peachesnapricats · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my two best childhood friends, we invited a game called Queen. Took place in just a standard living room. One person would act as “the Queen”, one person would be the Joker who basically had to be creative and act out/find stuff around the room to make the Queen laugh. The last person was the Queen’s assistant who served really no huge purpose, but could give the Joker clues on how to make the Queen laugh (assistant sat next to the Queen on the couch). Once the Joker makes the Queen laugh 10 times, we would rotate, so everybody got a turn being the Queen, the Joker, and the assistant!
This really was interesting trying to find ways to make someone laugh with limited things in the room. It tested our creativity for sure :)
not_anAK · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Keppipallo. Stickball. We had a goal and wooden sticks and a ball. Many fingers were lost.
daelite · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played "flash light tag" with the neighborhood kids almost every night for years and years. There were at least 8 of us every night playing from dusk until 11-12 am. This was about from 5th grade until 9th grade for me...I was the youngest of the group. Even after that many nights we'd all sit on our front porch just BSing. During the afternoons/evening we'd all either ride bikes, play baseball or tag football.
edit: There was also a huge field of weeds by our house that we built trails through, and we played in there a lot too. I was the lucky one, I never get poison ivy.
astute_potato · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Refrigerator. There's three bases--"like it," "hate it," and "never tried it"--set in a triangle shape and a center spot. The person who's "it" stands in the center and everyone else starts at "never tried it." Then "It" calls out the name of a food and the other players have to try to get to the base that matches how they feel about that food without getting tagged to become the next "It." The game continues until everyone gets bored or, more likely, when I start accusing my brother of lying about hating almond butter when I know damn well he's never tried it, starting a fight and making our everyone else uncomfortable.
My friends taught us this game when I was about 9 I think, and my brother and I passed it on to other friends and continued to play well into our late teens/early 20s.
getoffmylawnn14 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to collect "rabbit eggs".....one day I showed my mom and she ruined the game by telling me they were rabbit shit
rdod1000 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Truck Game. My brother and I used to throw a tennis ball against the wall of our house and try to get it to land in the bed of the truck in our driveway. It had many variations and rules we developed over time, and always stayed fresh with the truck sometimes being in a slightly different spot, or having another car in the way to make bouncing it in impossible. When we eventually sold the truck, my brother and I were more sad to see the game end more so than missing the truck.
We have created many other games before and since then but nothing comes close to the truck game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shock (flash light tag to most).
Not so unique.
However, most sane people used a front porch or another landmark in the neighborhood as the “base” that you had to get to without the flashlight being shone on you.
However, we called it shock because the lamp post in our front yard had a wiring issue and would shock you anytime you touched it. Hence the name Shock.
No one seemed to care that fifteen feet away was an electrocution free front porch...the light post WAS the base.
It used to be a neighborhood affair. All the kids in the area would play, about 30 of us, and you could hide anywhere within set parameters (we had about four blocks worth of property we could hide on). It was a great time.
Cyk_531 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it shotgun. It was basically tag around my house but we used an old bb gun that didn't work. You had to be honest. Lots of arguing ensued.
Austincarrsflask · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Michael Jackson: dance in the middle of road and then run and hide as the car got close.
dotnetdr · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run around the perimeter of the outside of the house as fast as I can with a pedometer until the pedometer started to move. More fun than I could have had with other kids. Other kids on the block were mean.
Reaper4578 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this is old rickety golf cart for some reason, that barely ran but was absolutely amazing to me. So when my friend from across the street came over, we'd take turns driving it in tighter and tighter circles around our trampoline. Once you crash into one of the legs of the trampoline, your turn is up. Not sure what the goal of the game was, but it was really fun.
Awesomnuss · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Book skating. We took barb back thin books and stood on them and slid around the carpet. It was great until I sprained my left foot.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Running Man (yep, we watched far too many 18 rated films as a kids!)
Basically one kid runs away on foot, while the rest take chase on bicycles. Pretty sure some of the bikers had planks to hit the running man with, and we placed some sweet ramps around the place... I'm surprised there were never any serious injuries!
rich8n · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in El Paso, TX in the 70's and 80's, the name of the game was chinchilagua
PlatThreshMain · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Life". We lived next to a hilly desert, so the game was essentially this: collect rocks, bargain trades with the players as to how much a "house" (aka rock/bush/etc) was worth, purchase your own houses, trade with other players, and roleplay. With one of those huge drainage pools say 10'x6'x4', we used that as a bank where we would throw our spent rocks into it.
Super fun game, would recommend
RedCenobite · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pillow Pushers”. My cousin and I would get on a bed each with a pillow. We would then try to push each other off my pushing against each other with our respective pillows.
susonsjack · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play hand squash with smiley ball. We got grounded many times as the neighbors complained many times to our parents . Fun times though
fishfrogsanchez · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play the 'motorcycle game' where we'd sit on top of our old timey washer/dryer as it violently shook and made motorcycle sounds until the cycle finished.
We also used to play a game where we would take armfuls of bouncy balls into an empty room, throw them against the wall, and attempt to dodge the 20+ balls that would bounce like crazy off the walls, ceiling, furniture, etc. Unfortunately, this game came to an end when, one day, I decided to play by myself and shattered the window with a direct hit from a barrage of like 15 bouncy balls.
LuckityRabbity · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can’t remember what we called it, but since there were only two swings in our back yard and there were three of us, my brothers would play a game where two people swing and the third has to run between them. I realized later that I (the youngest) was almost always the runner. We had fun though.
stubbledchin · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm probably going to find this isn't unique at all.
In the UK the kerbs on the roadside are fairly tall and square, and on a quiet suburban road, quite close together. We used them to play "Kerby".
Mainly a two player game, each player stood on opposite kerbs and threw a football/basketball/etc at the opposite kerb. If the ball hit the kerb and bounced back you got points. You were then allowed to stand in the middle of the road and throw from there. You would keep throwing until you missed and then the other person took over. You would get extra points if the ball bounced back and you caught it, or if you caught it one handed. In fact, we added so many point variants it became impenetrable and somewhat boring to play, but I still remember the satisfaction of the ball hitting the kerb with a whack and sailing back into my hands.
Another I suspect isn't unique was something we called "Blocky". It was a sort of hide and seek, but the seeker had to get back to a designated lamppost and call "Blocky 1,2,3, you're out", while pointing at a player and describing their position. The players could avoid this by getting to the lamppost before the seeker could say the words. To be honest, I don't remember liking it that much, because there was no real reward if you made it to the post. You just had to join in seeking, and there were many arguments about calls being in-accurate and therefore not counting.
Man we were some stupid easily entertained children...
volkanize · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we played “metro” which is meter in spanish, the game basically was that if you were within a meter of the ball all the other players could kick you (but if they come to kick you they get within the meter and you tried to kick them first), but you were considered a pussy if you were too far.
daaaamngirl88 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Running from the bathroom to the fridge in under 10 seconds. It was like the Olympics. I'd throw pillows and put chairs in my way so it was like an obstacle course. I was alone a lot.
Ivy_Thornsplitter · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called, what it’s like to have friends.
We lived miles from anyone and had no TV. So I would climb to the top of trees and when the wind would blow it would bend, then SNAP back into place. Or I’d play man hunt by myself.
katemonster22 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my childhood home, our stairs were straight up off the side of the living room, and the top of the stairs was a hallway that was perpendicular to the stairs. There were four of us, and we'd split into teams of two. Two people at the top of the stairs, but standing off to the sides protected by the walls, and two people at the bottom armed with Nerf guns. The goal for the team up top was to get back and forth a certain number of times without being hit. The team at the bottom tried to shoot the team at the top. It was basically like a real life duck hunt with nerf guns.
dnick · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See who could punch each other in the arm the hardest, last one to give up wins
chewy5 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game called "Interception". Basically you throw the ball to the other person and then try to tackle them before they get to the end zone.
ThaGingaNinja11 · 1 points · Posted at 16:57:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The ball game"
My neighbor had a trampoline with one of those mesh nets around it and 5 or 6 small nerf balls (softball sized but soft foam). The game was for 1 or 2 people outside the trampoline and 2-5 inside bouncing around.
Outside teams' goal is to throw the balls inside the trampoline and try to hit the players bouncing around. Players inside need to slap the ball back to the outside team without the ball hitting the trampoline.
If a player inside makes contact with a ball that does not leave the trampoline they swap with the player who threw the ball from the outside. If a ball is caught by a player outside they swap places with whoever slapped the ball from the inside.
Basically, if you're inside the trampoline, don't get hit by a ball and don't let the outside team catch anything you slapped out. If you're outside you want to hit bouncing players or catch the balls they try to slap. The height of the cage/netting around the trampoline made the outside team throw lobs so most "outs" came from catching. It was super fast paced and kept me and the other neighborhood kids busy for hours.
ExtremeAdvertising · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we called it "The Teddy Bear Game" we had two glow in the dark care bears in our playroom in the basement.
one person, the thrower, would stand in the corner of the room next to the stairs, he or she could not leave the corner.
the rest hid and moved around in the pitch black. if it was daylight out we would cover the windows with pillows. the person would listen for moment and throw the teddy bear. everyone had three lives, we went by the honor system.
also if you were close to a bear you had to throw it back to the thrower, no exceptions, its what made the game more challenging
CheshyreCat46 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called Museum. One person was the Seller, one was the Buyer, and the rest were For Sale. The ones for sale would be spun around by the Seller then they would freeze us in random positions. Once frozen, you had to think of how you would work or what you would do when you were turned on.
Then the Buyer would watch each of us as the Seller turned us on one at a time. Whichever one the Buyer liked best would be bought and the game would start over with the Buyer becoming the Seller and the one who was bought would become the Buyer.
smussopo · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm saving this for if I ever have kids or I happen to be around kids. This games sound like so much fun.
flojo2012 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My kids play a game called “cat in the hat” they run around, one chasing the other with a stick raised in the air, saying “Cat in the hat! Cat in the Hat! Cat in the Hat!” That’s really all there is to it. It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
orange1911 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt, just hide and seek in the dark outside.
TheTodd70 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a culdesac and we used that thing for all kinds of games/fun. One game involved about 8 or 10 kids riding their bikes around the culdesac, while 2 or 3 kids would stand around the perimeter with frizbees trying to hit a bike (if you hit the kid it didn't count). If you hit a bike you got to swap places and become the bike rider. It was good for at least 30 minutes of fun, until someone got hit in the face and rode home screaming... ah good times!
VentusInfinitas · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played an odd one by myself whenever we were driving somewhere. I would clench my teeth everytime we passed a streetlight so it would end up being this weird rhythm of bite-relax-bite-relax. The goal was to hit every gap but my tired 10 year old jaw would stop after about 8 lights.
madd74 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cave Explorer
WollyGog · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
May I.
It was a strange combination of Simon Says and What's the Time Mr Wolf? Where you and some others would have to get from one side of a street to another doing different actions that one person on the other side would nominate. If you did them without saying "may I", you'd have to go back to the curb.
Also, do any Brits remember rin tin tin and red arse?
miggitymikeb · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Tremors" with sleeping bags, just like the 1990 film Tremors. One or two of us would be the "tremors" head first into the sleeping bags, heads at the bottom, crawling around trying to eat people who would have to crawl and jump on the furniture and get across the room without touching the ground.
NaomiV24 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunter: a game we created. It's a mix of tag and dodgeball and each person gets two lives. Our yard and our neighbors was fair game. Favorite game growing up.
Infamousfatty · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trip, my cousins and I would run full steam at each other and see if we could trip the person running. We were real smart and stuff
cinepheliac5000 · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an only child, I’d make the other little girls in the subdivision play Mary-Kate & Ashley with me. We’d just reenact the mysteries but fabulously. When by myself, I played Pocahontas, ripping the long branches from yucca plants and acting like all the trees were my friends.
milkyboypan · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to do this thing we called the head game. Basically we just put our foreheads against each other and whoever was able to push the other persons head over some line we set won. It was kind of like weird reverse tug of war that got really painful after 2 or three rounds.
eddyp9 · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and sisters and I, 8 kids in total, would play "heave hoo". Whereby we'd get every duvet cover in the house and pile them up at the top of the stairs. Everyone would jump on, and yell heave hoo. As we all tumbled down to the bottom of the stairs in a mass of arms, legs and duvets. Almost always ended in tears but hours of fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We always had a sort of gamemaster for all of our games to spice them up, but 'Magic tag' was always one that stood out. We'd play tag (the one where you have to crawl through the legs to free someone) and when all of the people got tagged the round was over and you'd be given points by said GM based on how you played (this would also discourage playing like a dick). There'd be a shop with powerups controlled by the gamemaster and you could buy stuff like 'freeze', you could free someone without crawling through their legs etc. You could even make suggestions for new powerups in exchange for points. Though if he didn't accept your suggestion, you couldn't buy any more until the next round. We'd use this sort of GM to spice up almost everything we played, though we always called the GM 'The Man'.
13foxhole · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sidewalk tag.
Hit__ · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Numb game"
On our trampoline there was an invisible line in the middle in which someone stood ready to tag people jumping over. You could either be tagged or land in the numb to which you'd become the person in the numb trying to tag your way out.
JCastXIV · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would always play a game called “The laughing game” at our babysitter’s house when we were kids. There wasn’t enough room on the swing set for everyone there, so the person who couldn’t get a spot on the swing set had to make someone on the swings laugh, and the first to laugh had to give their spot to the person, and thus the game continued. We played this for YEARS.
kittenalmighty1337 · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called statutes. Its where one person would be the watcher and the others where the statutes. The watcher had to watch and catch anyone who moved while the where looking. If you moved you were out. You basically just stood there while they touched you or pushed you and you couldent move
pouralaura · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were very small (3 and 7 or thereabouts, respectively), my younger brother and I would play the "spy game".
We'd start in my bedroom at the end of the house and devise a plan, which was always some form of "figure out what Mom and Dad do when we aren't in the family room with them". We'd make our way silently down the long hallway of our ranch-style home, taking cover behind doorways and doing as many silent somersaults as possible, until we got to the entryway of the room in question. We'd peer around the corner, behind the turned backs of our parents, and we'd watch them watch tv or snooze or whatever until one of them looked around or got up to do something or whatever.
For us, it was an all-afternoon affair, but I think it realistically took them about ten seconds to realize we were there on any given run, so we never heard about any secret plots or anything.
doctordyck · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game on the playground with what we called the "zipline". It was one of those things you grab on to and glide to the other side. But we would post a kid on either side and proceed to fling the handle of the zipline across at each other. If it hit the other side without you being able to catch it, making an audible ding, you lost a life. I'm fairly sure I have wrist problems due to this game but we loved it.
lordtuna_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister created our own wargame similar to warhammer but with paper cutouts and our own rules. Some battles will last for days. Good times.
Wandsauce · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
'stampede' was essentially a game of chicken with oncoming traffic. One of our friends had a high sloping driveway. We would stand across the road from it waiting for a car to come down the road, when it did we had to get to the top of the driveway before the car passed us. The twist was that the winner was whoever had the bottle to leave it as late as possible to make it and risk either not reaching the top or getting run over in the process.
We also had 'battle boarding' where we would race down the hill we lived on (in the middle of the road) sat on skateboards and basically beat the shit out of each other to try and get to the bottom first. People were shoved into parked cars, hedges, tipped over - it was great!
etceterenoughplease · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I invented a sport called "Bike Ball". He would put on his baseball glove along with a bouncy ball in-hand and I would hop on my bike. The goal of the sport was to pass the ball to the biker in the most impressive way possible. I would catch the ball with my barehands while maneuvering around on the bike. So, I had to balance and catch while he had to give reasonable throws.
This escalated in complexity despite us being young. He would send bounce passes from a distance, at high speed, or off of vertical walls. Sometimes the passes were intended to weave through my bike, sometimes they were over the shoulder. It became a true art which we will remember for years.
joeyb92 · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing tag on bicycle, but instead of tagging, you had overtake them. Luckily we lived in a quiet village, I would have been dead playing this game in a city.
padkinsone · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to "make concrete" in the garden when I was quite young. We had a set of steps from one bit of lawn to the other that were made of some kind of chalky material, that could be eroded into dust with some effort and a harder rock. I'd sit there and whittle away the step, then mix the dust with water and make it into shapes. Understandably my parents weren't happy when they saw the steps.
When I was a bit older I had a group of friends that were very outdoorsy. We used to make dens a lot, and even made some pretty dangerous bows and arrows. We had a stupid initiation to join our 'gang' called the PIT OF SHIT. Basically in one corner of the field we hung out in was a big hole filled with mud. We'd put a thin branch across it, then all urinate in the hole to make it extra unappealing. The prospective member would then have to slowly walk across the branch without falling in, while we all lobbed things at them and shouted "PIT OF SHIT". What a bunch of little bastards
sleepyzzzx · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would play Beyblade. Meaning we would spin with our hands out and run into eachother over and over. There was no win condition
InbetweentheLiners · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cops and robbers with my cousins and friends. We rode our bikes, cops goal was to knock the robbers off their bike. Shit was dumb, broke too many bikes thankfully no one got hurt and we switched to football, specifically smear the not straight person. Again we were dumb kids.
KylerCB3 · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad used to play “pull the snake”
invigibleman · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from uncle Sam
MaximumEfficiencyBoy · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids play this where I'm from but pretty sure it's only where I'm from, correct me if I'm wrong!
It's called "One Cent", basically an advanced hide and seek / tag.
One would be "it" and everybody agrees on a single lamp post. The one who's it starts counting to whatever while covering his eyes by the lamp post. Then you start searching for the others, the aim of the game if you're not it is to manage to sneak by and reach the lamp post and say loud and clear "ONE CENT FOR ME".. it sounds odd in english. However if you're it and you see someone you have to touch the lamp post and say "ONE CENT FOR X" where X is the persons name. Last one who gets caught is it for the next round.
Played this game for hours every day when I was a kid!
thestoveistoasty · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends grandpa taught us this game called "tie up". Basically, cops and robbers but once you caught the robbers you'd tie them up to whatever nearby object you could find. Trees, docks, sheds, etc. and you'd basically have to houdini yourself out of the rope or be stuck all day/night until mom started asking questions. Probably not smart considering the frequent bear sightings in the woods. And wheelbarrows maybe weren't the best thing to tie someone into then push down a steep slope. Probably why I'm not into that whole bondage thing to be honest.
BXCape · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cans. Crush some cans flat, get a ball (we preferred a basketball), stand about 20 feet (or more) in front of each person with the can placed on the ground in front of your feet and hit the other person's can with the ball. Endless fun, especially when you're grounded and can't leave the front yard...
Ivyspine · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bible adventures
aidsmann · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let's see
Game 1: We used to throw tiny rocks at cars in 5th grade. Not very unique, but pretty rare I think.
Game 2: Steal the mail out of the mailboxes of the entire street to look for money or other valuables while in elementary school. Got caught by our parents in my friends tree house which was stuffed with letters up to our ankles. They were so baffled they actually laughed, but made us go to every neighbour individually and apologize.
Game 3: We built "traps" in kindergarten, these "traps" were pieces of wood with a nail. We had to stop when one kid got actually caught by one and had to go to the hospital since the foot got pierced completely.
Game 4: Took shits in the bushes, also in Kindergarten.
Game 5: When we first got the bus tickets issued by our school, we literally just drove around the town for hours on end.
Game 6: While in first grade, my best friend and I tried to put our flaccid dicks in each others assholes and kinda rubbed along it. Was only a couple times though. Not gay btw.
Game 7: Have rock fights in elementary school, basically there was this dry riverbed and on each side stood a couple of kids and then we simply threw rocks at each other. Got stopped when I hit a kid in the head with a bag full and caused a laceration.
Game 8: Can't remember at which age exactly, however the game was a competition of who can lift the most weight with their balls. We basically tied increasingly heavier objects to our balls and stood up. I won. I still have a picture of the stretch marks on my balls somewhere. I think we got the idea from a TV show, I'm not entirely sure though.
There was probably more, but I can't remember right now so I might expand the list later on. We obviously also did normal stuff, but these things somewhat stand out in my opinion; I have no idea what other kids around the globe did though, maybe these games are actually quite common.
NeedHelpWithExcel · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is going to get buried but was the highlight of my childhood so posting it anyways
We made up a game called Curb-Ball where all you needed to play was a basketball and a street.
We would always have a ton of time to kill in the mornings waiting on the bus so this was our go to.
The rules were simple, first one to 20 points wins.
2 people each stood on one side of the street and you tried to throw the basketball and hit the curb on the other side but nothing else (like you can’t have it roll into the curb or be slightly off, 100% curb or no points)
A regular curb hit was 1 point, if the ball bounced halfway across the street back to your side after it was 2 points.
You could score 10 points by hitting the opposite curb and have the ball bounce and hit the other curb but you could score 20 and win the game instantly if you threw the ball over a car and hit the curb
Glenster118 · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were in a boarding school with very narrow old fashioned corridors. Like 2 kids could walk past each other but two adults would have to squeeze.
We'd bunch up in two groups at either end of the corridor and sprint at each other as fast as we could. First team to get someone to the other end won.
Essentially you ran into a melee where you couldn't help but kick and elbow everyone.
We had broken skulls, arms, legs, wrists, at least 10 broken fingers. I personally was knocked out at twice.
Good times.
Age range 11-18.
cramduck · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would go out and cut tunnels in the crunchy lower layers of the multi-acre bramble patch by our house. Often, there were young trees whose roots had been choked by the brambles, so I could rock them back and forth to break them out of the ground. Built up a pretty substantial "lumber" pile, but never got around to building anything.
pamdidntdeservejim · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was born and grew up in France, and I lived in the country side. I went to a very small school (about 15 students per grade) for 2 years and when I was about 9-10 years old, I "adopted" snails and put them in a shoe box. I carried them around everywhere and brought them to school with me. I made them a little habitat inside the shoe box with everything from lettuce to rocks, to grass. Unfortunately I didn't put water in the box because I didn't think about the fact that they needed it to survive. So they all died after a few days. But I was very proud of these snails and they were quiet large (they have huge snails in Europe especially during the rainy season).
lilsunflowers · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend growing up was the kid across the street from me. We would open our windows and write messages on our Doodle-Bears and throw them into each other’s yards. We had to run outside and grab it, then repeat. So much effort lol
oirvine · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marble run
benretan · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in Alabama and would often times be left with my "Granny Green", aka an old lady who lived down the street from the us during the summer.
While my parents were at work, we would run around outside and play so long as we stayed within ear shot of the porch for the lunch and dinner bell calls.
In Alabama, there is an invasive species of vine called Kudzu that grew every where that strangles all the native plant life and grows in huge patches, including all the way up some of the taller trees.
Now it being Alabama, nobody cared if we ran around with hatchets and machetes, so we would go find a Kudzu covered Hill and chop the bottoms of the vines off that were hanging from branches and braid them together.
Once braided, they were strong enough to support a child's weight. At first we played a game called "Tarzan" where we would go to the top of a hill swing out on the vines and back.
That eventually led us making up called "Bonk Bushes" that was a form of jousting. You would put on hockey pads and skate pads including a helmet and knee pads, etc.
One person would swing out a d as they swung back towards the hill, another person would swing out after them and try to slam into them and knock the other person off. If they didn't fall off immediately, you could put change and kick them until they fell.
Last person still holding onto their vine won.
Ah, good times.
rustyderps · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the mid 90s we played alot of "smear the queer" where one kid would get the ball and have to run away from the other kids. Once tackled by a queer smear-er someone else would get the ball and it would start again.
Didn't understand why my friend's mom banned it until years later.
Ajarmetta · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had like 10 people in the neighborhood. We would go and play this game shoe toss for hours like march madness style tourneys. You would go on a swing and have your shoe halfway off and the goal was who could fling your shoe the farthest. You would have 2 chances to do it simple but so much fun
TheDuke0fYork · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spud: One person throws a ball up in the air and calls a number depending on how many people are playing. The numbers are assigned by a group excluding the ball thrower before the ball is thrown so the number is at random ( ball thrower gets a number). Who’s ever number is called has to retrieve the ball and call spud at while everyone runs away. When spud is called everyone must freeze and who ever has the ball has three steps and a throw to see if they can tag another person with the ball. Who ever touched the ball last is spud (ball thrower) the next round.
Best family childhood game.
TREDOTCOM · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor.
DekuJago713 · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game we called drive-by the rules were simple, when you're playing outside if you aren't behind something like a car or tree or standing on the porch when a car passed by you 'got shot and died'. Apparently my parents weren't a huge fan of us playing it since we lived in the inner city and drive by shootings have actually occured.
Rim_World · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I vaguely remember my cousins and I playing a game with a basketball on a tennis court. We'd throw a basketball to the other side of the net like one would serve in tennis and we followed most tennis rules. Score was kept the same way.
bye-standard · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My best friend and I would look for stupid stuff to do in high school cause we went to school in very rural/backwoods IL and one day we found the crown jewel - that we still talk about today called “Deer in the Headlights”.
His parents owned a “rehab house” for men in the area that would operate a few months out of the year to help those addicted to anything get *the help they needed. One of those things was tending to a small local garden in their back yard.
One night, during the months when the house wasn’t being used, him, his brothers, and myself all went out to the house and had this idea to park their car in the middle of the two gardens with the high beams on. Imagine two gardens next to each other with a pretty wide path of grass separating them down the middle.
My buddy had a large knife in his trunk (huge knife nut) and we got the idea to just throw the knife out in front of the car into the darkness and split into teams the the fastest team to find the knife and get back to the car won. Smart right?
We kept adding to it to make it more interesting and eventually replaced the knife with a pear* (for safety reasons of course) but the best version of the game, in our opinion, was to throw this pear out into the darkness and a team would go out and try to find it. The opposing team would then throw dead/expired/ruined crab apples at the team retrieving the pear* until they got back to the car.
It was extremely fun for a bunch of bored kids in HS - we got like 30/40 people total playing and no one ever got seriously hurt. *We even found a bunch of stray kittens one night after a pretty intense game.
Edit: Punctuation & Spelling. Stupid autocorrect.
ina_popo · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up my mom never liked buying me toys to play with, so i would just use my sisters nail polish and my dads work supplies to play house or use them as dolls and puppets.
CinnaSol · 1 points · Posted at 17:00:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play firecracker tag.
Almost burned down the pasture across from grandma’s house. One of my cousins also still has a scar on the right side of his right eye too.
LZ__ · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad was a stone mason, and sometimes, when a person wanted the side if their house done with actual stones, as opposed to brick or block, he would find these huge geodes the size of your head mixed into the all the other stones. Whenever he found one, hed put it in his truck and bring it home and tell me it was a dinosaur egg. Then that evening we'd take it into the backyard and hed let me split it with a sledge hammer. I was always amazed at the Crystal's inside, if a little disappointed to not find a dinosaur inside. When I got a little bit older, and learned about fossils and some actual information about paleontology, I realized I never would find a real dinosaur egg like that, but it's probably one of my best memories of my dad.
falcopatomus · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poison ball. Takes place on a trampoline and one or more balls. Object of the game was to be the last one standing. You cannot touch the ball under any circumstance but there was a lot of jumping near the ball and attempting to fling it towards people.
Slytly_Shaun · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ummmmm... Not entirely proud of it but my first cousin and I played "Bull". We would go on all fours and ram heads like bulls having a go. It was bad enough to leave us woozy at times. I'm sure we caused some mild concussions at some point. But you'd best be believing that the top of my skull can take a beating unlike anyone's!
I think I was around 12 at the time. Should have probably known better. Luckily, we both seem to have retained most of our marbles into adulthood.
Skinnygymguy · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m pretty sure this isn’t unique... but basically my cousin and I would play this game called “Set-Up” where we would just dump all of our action figures and select from them one by one until we had our teams. After that we would set them up wherever in the house and literally just make up a story on the wing and try to fuck each other’s bases up and last action figure standing wins. This game would literally take hours to finish and we would come up with the craziest stuff with our mix of WWF, DBZ, Marvel, and DC figures
Johobus28 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play "StairBall". One person would stand anywhere on the stairs, while the other person would be at the bottom, with their back turned to the stairs. The guy on bottom would have this little foam Nerf ball, and he'd lay it up against the wall he was facing, catch it off the wall, then spin around and try to peg the guy on the stairs. Guy on the stairs could do anything to avoid it (use the banister, go full Matrix, whatever). If you hit whoever was on the stairs, you got a point. If stair guy dodges it, nothing happens. If stair guy catches it, the thrower lost a point. How we never broke a neck is beyond me
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called "slave camp" That was like a more brutal version of manhunt.
You had the slaves and slave drivers. The slavers home base was our trampoline in our big back yard, and the slaves started as captives. They had to use physical force to try and escape to the neighborhood block which was the boundary of the game.
Any captured slaves would be subjected to purple nurples and dead arms/ dead legs upon capture. Slaves also had the option of sucking up to the slavers to gain privileges and at times even rise to the rank of slaver.
Kind of messed up, but we really really just wanted to play manhunt and wrestle simultaneously. Usually the older guys would be the slavers lol.
SIrFluffsalot35 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would take turns swimming to the bottom of the pool with a toothpick, while everyone else was facing away standing on the outside of the pool. Once we returned to the surface the game would begin and everyone would have to find where the toothpick was. It was fun because not only does it take a minute for the toothpick to float back up to the top, but even when you did find it, it's so small that you'd jump in to grab it and almost inevitably lose it amongst the tidal wave of four people jumping in at the same time. We still play it today when we can get everyone together.
mac_squared · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played a game called 'Apple War'. Our little backyard in Jersey produced palm sized apples, which were perfect for throwing. We would break up into two teams and set up fortresses made of lawn chairs, tables, etc. on opposite ends of my backyard, and chuck apples at high speeds at each other.
lil-spaghetti · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Def jam fight for NY on PS2.
williad95 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm/ranch, so my friends and I used to make up lots of games in the corn fields... the most memorable was the cornstalk war.
When the corn was harvested and the stalks started dying, we’d go out and grab the cornstalks, spin them over our heads like a sling, the lob the cornstalk and hunk of mud attached to the root systems at each other.
I don’t remember the conditions for winning, but I do know that the game pretty much always ended when one of us got hit in the face by a cornstalk hurled as forcefully as a middle schooler can.
The_Dulchie · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called IRA We'd split into even teams maybe 5v5, one team would choose a 5 letter word, each member given a letter, the other team would then have to chase and catch each member and beat the letter out of the person, until they got the word.
It got rough if they thought you were lying about what your letter was
"he's lying! Punch him some more"
Good times
headrush46n2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swing dodgeball.
Sister would be on the swing, and id try to hit her with the dodgeball.
You could only throw when the swinger is coming forwards....and if they kick it away they aren't out.
It was pretty fun.
weinerdudley · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play "Boat".
We would take all the blankets, comforters, sleeping bags and such and arrange them on to our parents King Sized bed in different forts or gun turrets and use their pillows as jetskis on the floor, which was carpet, and have to go diving for "food" or to fight off bad guys. We spend hours playing on the "boat".
gaichaohuandai · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mat ball, there are 4 bases which were big mats in the 4 corners of the gym. It was like kick ball where a pitcher pitches the ball, you kick it and can get on base. Once on base you can steal at any time, you could get caught in a run down and pegged. You had to run around the bases twice then to the center to score. Once you stepped off the base you had to advance, and if the inning ended with you still on base you automatically started at first base when your team got back up to bat. We’d play with like 25 people a side and it’s end up being madness on the bases.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It is called Whomps, essentially soccer, combined with hand ball, combined with football(tackling). We made it up around the age of 8/9 and have been playing ever since(28M).
heytherepear · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the hunger games movies came out my sister and our friends decided to play something similar to the hunger games in the woods behind our grandparents house. The object of the game was to sneak up behind the other players and touch them with a stick, making them die. We would climb trees and spy on each other. It was pretty dope until I was spying on my sister and I was about to attack but was confused as to why she was squatting in the middle of a clearing exposing herself. When she left the clearing I decided to ask her why the hell she was sitting out in the open and she quickly avoided the question. Then it came to me that she took a shit in the middle of us playing the game outside on the woods. She kept telling me that she didn’t but when I threatened to go look she finally admitted it. Probably one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.
Shernandez9870 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would put sleeping bags over our heads and stand up and fight. We called it 'Pitter' because we thought we looked like caterpillars and were dumb as shit
Trialbyfuego · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to pretend the jungle gym was a sail boat and just do boat shit. Called the game "ship"
i_can_see_your_mom · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play the "dead squirrel" game with my three other siblings. One person would stand in the door frame in the dinning room. The other three would start on the other side of the living room and they were the squirrels. It was like red light green light but when it was red light you had to be upside down and legs and arms in the air to act dead. You could only crawl across the room to get to the other side and you could pull or push other out of the way. If you got caught moving or not "dead" you had to restart.
X2ZForsaken · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game in the street under a giant oak tree named it “don’t look up” One person at a time would pick an object and chuck it as high as they could into the tree and the rest of us had to stay under the tree whilst running frantically. If someone looked up they were out and if someone got hit they won. The prize was just a bunch of laughs until we started using rocks instead of sticks. Then the prize was just stitches and tears.
happy_go_lucky11 · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillow heads! My stepsister and I would play hide and seek with pillows on our heads. The person hiding had the pillow case side in front of their face and the person finding had the pillow side in front of their face. We would stumble around, knock things off tables...and break all of our parents things! But it was so much fun!!
Daddi-Senpai · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "crossfire." Essentially it was 4-way dodgeball.
We played in a basketball court, and had gator balls (those foam balls with the plastic-y covering) in the center of the court. On "GO" people would run to the center to get balls and take them back to their quadrant. The middle was no man's land where anyone could go, but you were an idiot if you stayed there. Once a team was out, their quadrant became no man's land too, allowing you more room to roam.
Standard dodgeball rules applied, except if you got a basket (from throwing the ball into the net) your whole team was "revived" and could join back in.
Lysergicassini · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"duck"
Three kids and my dad in a standard cab truck and the youngest sits on the oldests lap. Every time a car passes everyone yells "DUCK" and the youngest gets out of site.
:)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:01:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 9 siblings so we had countless games.
Tasting game: blind fold all siblings. The taste chooser would take a small spoonful of anything in the refrigerator or spice rack and feed it to each participant. Whoever could guess correctly would be a winner. Sometimes we'd do the cayenne pepper which usually resulted in us beating the shit out of the chooser.
Bang bang game: we all had various toy guns and would run around and shoot eachother which resulted in a 10 second death.
Wild race: we would use old boards and bricks and make multiple jumps and ramps down a hill. Then all jump on our bikes and race to get past the end of the property first.
Crash race: kinda like wild race but the finish line was crashing into the side of the old barn.
Cowboys and Indians: we had the toy guns for the cowboy team. They got to ride bikes and shoot at the Indian team. But if the Indians caught a cowboy they could torture them as they see fit. Like tying them to trees and leaving them and catching the rest of the cowboys when they try to rescue. I remember one sibling was tied to a tree for hours.
Freeze game: In the winter after a big snow, we would all strip down to underwear and race to grab a sled. Go down the big hill all the way to the woods. Grab a pinecone and whoever got back in the house first was winner.
Ultimate pillow fight: all siblings vs the oldest sibling at home. Anything goes. Pillows. Blankets. Smack em upside the head with a book. Use a sibling to beat the other. Throw siblings as ammo. My sister lost a tooth in this game and didn't even realize until after the game. I rememeber getting hit so hard I would see stars.
Sled train: we had tons of sleds with ropes ties to them. Each person would sit in a sled and the sled behind them would loop over their tummy. Then we would go down the big hill as fast as we could... This hill had a fence at the end of it, made of cast iron pipes. ( my dad got tired of the cows breaking through the wire) So as we are hurtling down this hill all tied together about to smash our faces in... The person in the front would roll off the sled causing a massive pileup just before the fence. Injuries were common. Rope burn everywhere. A few times the person in front wouldn't effectively cause a pileup and we hit the fence. Black eyes and bloody lips yay!
Trampoline launch: you all with trampolines know how this goes. All jump together and then sit down at the same time. The one to sit down last would get an enormous launch off the trampoline. Many many injuries.... But so much fun!
Perfect600 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had huge tree I'm my front yard growing up so my mom used to put a tennis ball in a sock and tie a rope on a tree and we would hit it for hours. All the neighborhood kids would join in too. It's not unique but I have never played it since we moved from that house
madd_maddz · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grenades.
You take all the cushions off every couch and chair and make two rough defense forts in the living room.
Then get every stuffed animal, Small pillow, dog toy we had and collect the grenades. Then we would throw them at each other. But you could only hide in base for three seconds and you had to be standing/moving the whole time. Whatever part of your body was hit by the grenade was no longer usable. So if my foot was grazed, I had to hop on one leg the rest of the game until the other person is dead.
We could also “revive” our teammates limbs. Let’s say I got hit in the head with a grenade so I’m out, but I had both legs before I was killed. And you’re still in the game but only have one leg. Now that I’m dead you can “steal” my leg to revive you’re missing limbs. But you could only do it if you are the last man standing on your team.
Flatiny · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We got a pile of sticks and leaves and threw Fun Snaps at them repeatedly, hoping to make it catch on fire. We did all this in our own garden. In case you don't know what Fun Snaps are...
gnote2minix · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game of throne...
kremenatlc · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some of those stories remind me of Michael Mcintyre's "pants down" game xD
spoonraker · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a variant of hide and go seek in which the hider actually hides the dog instead of themselves and the seeker has to find the dog. Our dog was a Bichon and he was super chill about it and never made a peep. We'd put him into the clothes hamper, the toy chests, on shelves in the closet, stuff him into a pillow case, etc. In hindsight, that dog was exceptionally well trained and socialized ; what an absolute Saint for putting up with us kids.
ChronicTheOne · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Foot on the floor". We would mount our bikes in a very tight garage full of stuff and could not touch anything. If you accelerated, you'd smash into something, touching it. If you were too slow, you'd touch the floor with your foot and lose. The idea was to be strategical and make the other player difficult to stand whilst keeping balance yourself.
Silversol99 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Michigan in the winter we would play sockey. Basically soccer with some hockey rules played on a snowed-over soccer field.
So things like knocking the ball down with your hands was legal, as was body checking. Nobody ever got hurt because we were all bundled up for the snow anyway. It was pretty fun.
rnc1119 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play hide and seek with my Polly Pockets. For all of you younger folk that only knows Polly as the larger dolls, they used to be fingernail sized. So I used to empty my moms entire bag of bird seed on the picnic table and bury my tiny Polly Pockets in it. My brother and I used to try to find them and whoever got the most, won.
mancub · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two siblings and I started a game called "Ghostman." It was like a mashup of hide-and-seek plus tag but a little more violent. We played indoors with the lights out.
One of us, the "ghost," would drape a large blanket over our heads. The blanket had to be thick enough so the ghost couldn't see through it. The ghost would lumber blindly around a room with their arms out. Their goal was to try to grab any other player. When the ghost grabbed someone else, they would become the ghost.
Meanwhile, the other players had any number of objects they could use to beat the hell out of the ghost: pillows, NERF toys, wiffle ball bats, and so on. They would sneak together around the ghost as quietly as possible to (1) avoid being grabbed, and (2) position to hit the ghost as hard as they could. The ghost would try to follow sound and movement to find them before getting absolutely clobbered.
I played this with some friends once and someone whipped a ghost across the back of the head with a pillow. He got knocked out for a few seconds, we all laughed, and kept right on playing. I'm almost 40 now, and my siblings and I still talk about how we miss this game.
bluejay0717 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "the knife game". One of us was a giant knife and would roll back and forth across the room flat like a log. The other had to jump over the knife without touching them or you would get stabbed.
mermonkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
blind darts. You put on the gorilla mask, backwards, then we spin you around till you don't know which way you are facing, then you start hucking darts wherever you are imagining the dart board to be while we all dive for cover.
Darth_Kahuna · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is going to sound bad. When I was a kid (mid to late 90s) we played an American football variation called "smear the queer". There was no sexual meaning to it; queer meant it's definition of "different". We played it when we didn't have enough to play an actual game. One kid gets the ball & the others try to tackle him, one against the others. I played it in Hawaii but when I moved to Georgia they had no idea what it was
Deft-The-Epic-Gamer · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Colone”. Its basically me and my friends playing hide and seek near a carrier column, by spinning around it. Whenever someone sees someone (there are no catchers) they both start running until someone touches someone. Then the game restarts.
FrostySausage · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Demolish Ball. My cousins and I would sit in a circle in the dark and take turns throwing a sit’n’bounce ball at each other as hard as we could. There was no goal, it was just funny hearing each other get absolutely annihilated by the monstrous rubber ball without warning. We also played with the lights on, but we wouldn’t sit in a circle in that version, we would just chase and beat the shit out of each other with the ball until someone got hurt... good times :)
gtalley10 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a game we called Sleestak after the lizard guys from the TV show Land of the Lost (yes, we're old). It basically involved each person covering their heads with a sheet, blanket, or sleeping bag and wrestling. So blind wrestling, we were way ahead of the curve for the Bird Box thing. There wasn't really any goal or "win" condition, and the game usually ended with someone smacking into the heavy coffee table we had and getting hurt or us getting yelled at by my parents.
throwaway61419 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to find bits of trash, like a piece of a picture that had blown into our yard, and make up ghost stories. A few times we managed to really freak ourselves out.
collectedanimal · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister and I had “sister-sister night” where she would create little games for us to play together outside. My favorite was when she made an obstacle course out of hula hoops; I had to jump from hoop to hoop, or she would hold one up for me to jump through, or I had to throw a ball through one. She also brought out basketballs, sidewalk chalk, bikes etc. She’s so creative and it meant the world to 7 year old me!
Captain__Daddy · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ninjas" One person would fill up a plastic bin up with the garden hose. His goal was to dump the water on the so called "ninjas" as they unmercifully beat him with pool noodles the entire time.
c3bss256 · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster tag. It was just like regular tag, but less lame because it had the word ‘monster’ in it.
Hesterlicious · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt Wars! Me and my sisters would find a pair of big stretchy pants, shove pillows in the back and pretend to be our most bootyful teachers while attempting to knock each other down with our giant butts.
ThatPie · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were around 6-8 my aunt (who is a year older than me) and I would get my uncle (who is a year younger than me) and my little sister to tickle our feet. The goal was to see who could go the longest without laughing or thrashing around and making him stop. I always won, and am now immune to tickles.
popsiclestickiest · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not unique to only me, but to a very specific state apparently. I grew up not playing "Duck, Duck, Goose" but "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck". I didn't even hear of the standard version before moving out of Minnesota, which is apparently the only place where it's a thing.
I think it's better for kids to play tho, because instead of just saying "duck duck duck, goose!" and running, you have to use different colors as you tap the heads of the circle (red duck, blue duck, orange duck etc), so it helped teach kids to remember more colors quickly, and you had to listen more closely.
MN had a state sponsored computer game company too, they made educational games that were actually fun like Number Munchers, Word Munchers, Odell Lake, they had something to do with Oregon Trail too, I forget what, but yeah, go go Minnesota.
WTNVTerezi · 1 points · Posted at 17:02:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was 9 and in e look elementary school me and my friends would play "the lion game". As far as i remember there was one spot on the playground that you had to touch abd soneone had to gaurd it. Thats about it. Idk why it was called the lion game but it was fun.
mathleticist · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anti-over: We had a couple of garages near our house where we would throw a tennisball over. If the person on the other side of the garage caught it without it bouncing first, they got 1 point.
When they had 3 points they run to the other side of the garage and the people there had to freeze in place. You then spit 3 times, jumped 3 times and hopped on one leg 3 times towards one of the contenders that were frozen.
The person who was frozen then had to make a basketball hoop with their arms and you try to throw the tennisball through. If accomplished, the frozen person (with the basketballhoopy arms) joins the other team and you restart.
This goes on until all players are on one side of the garage.
Edit: Formatting
80Eight · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Blanket wrestling". My two brothers and I would bring our blankets into the living room, each cover ourselves like a ghost, then wrestle.
It may have been for safety reasons, I'm really not sure how it came about.
whatcolorizthat · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I made up a ton of different games. We were always outside finding something new to build and play with.
One of our favorite games we dubbed "Bumper Bodies" we would bring sleeping bags onto her trampoline and climb into them feet first, then stand up and jump and try to run into each other. The object of the game was to be the last person standing. It was always really fun and amazingly we never hurt ourselves with that one.
SenatorBeers · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At a lake cottage my family used to rent me and the other kids would play "tooberball" which was basically football in inner tubes. To tackle someone you had to flip them off their tube.
SwerveDaddyFish · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SPUD
Might be a game people played, but you just bounced a kickball and called someone's name and ran away, they had to count to 4 (spell spud) as they take steps towards who they wanted to get out, dodgeball style. When the person who was 'it' bounced the ball, everyone would be already beginning to Sprint away, but if ur name was called you would have to get the ball. I changed the game though. I would just sprint towards the bouncer, and if I wasn't called, be already in full sprint opposite of where I started. People started catching on and doing the same. So every just collided in the center and that was the end of that
SquishBish · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yummy Socks". Around age 4, my dad and I would lay on a couch feet facing each other. Then we'd proceed to force our feet into each others face and yell "yummy socks!". We're weird folk.
landbeaver · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "ball in the tree". There were two big maple trees that canopied the street in front of my house. We'd take a tennis ball and gun it straight up into the branches where it would disappear into the leaves before it ping-ponged off the branches and back down. The object was to catch the ball before it bounced twice.
The alternative version of the same game was someone would throw a ball (this would use a heavier ball usually, like a basketball) as high as they could and everyone would stand still and see if it came down on anyone. The tree was optional for this game.
SethEX1204 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably a little late to the game, but my friends and I had a game called heater. We would sit on a lazy boy or some type of couch and the person would be completly wrapped in as many blankets as we could find. The goal was to make the person as hot as possible and we tried to see who could last the longest. Always ended up drenched in sweat, but overall a great time.
digbicknibba__ · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and some friends would play what we called human battle ship during recess, we would pick teams then stand in the field in a line facing the other team. The teams would take turns throwing a foot ball at each other and if you got hit you were out. If the ball was coming at you and you moved you were out. You werent allowed to protect your face or anything. First team to run out of players loses.
Cleroldas · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kingdom under fire the crusaders, is a cross strategy, rpg back and slash.
HCkc1n · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood best friend and I were convinced our grade school was ran by aliens so we spent the majority of grades 1 to 5 writing down and compiling evidence in our notebooks.
The covers of our books had S.A.R written on them as well as TOP SECRET.
You can probably guess it stood for Secret Alien Research. I’m 30 now and had forgotten all about it until reading this thread headline.
leroysolay · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boardball. Played it in my bedroom with a friend. It was quite elaborate, involving a “basket toss” plastic cesta used to fling a tennis ball at the back side of a tabletop shuffleboard set and the other person would be the goalie trying to prevent it from hitting a makeshift plywood goal. Much fun was had, many things were broken. Oh, and each player had a baseball glove to help defend.
Grin_and_barrett · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game for my younger brothers called "Barrett ball" based on "Calvin ball" but with rules. Basically the game is like tips, so you're tossing around a ball while jumping and if you drop or dont catch it in the air, youre out.
The caveat is that we played it on the trampoline, so everyone is trying launch each other off or do insane tricks in mid-air. We'd play for hours and hours after school and eventually got the whole neighborhood (only like 10 other kids) to join in and we'd set up tournaments.
DragynFiend · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We came up with a game called "Lava Maze" when all the kids of the apartment complex used to play together.
The ground in front of our lobby is tiled with those red and yellow paver blocks.
The blocks formed a pattern where the background was red and the yellow tiles formed islands and isthmuses.
So we invented the game of "Lava Maze" which was basically tag, but nobody in the game called touch the red blocks. The yellow ones were safe land. If you stepped on red, you'd be "it".
Edit:
Another, way lamer game we invented (when we were really tiny) was "Sorry Borry". We basically spun in circles with our arms outstretched and if we hit anyone else we were to say a word rhyming with sorry. If you run out of a rhyming word, you're out.
BoldGambit · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "Civilization" (Children are unaware of copyright laws) with my brother growing up.
It was a game that would take up the whole floor. Little nations made up of blocks and playsets competed for global dominance. We used Micromachines for vehicles, Risk soldiers for infantry, Calvary and cannon. We used pennies as currency and dice to decide outcomes.
There were different eras and tech levels, it was a sort of combination tabletop wargame/role playing game.
We played this from the age of 6 or 7 all the way into adulthood, the rules increased in complexity as we aged.
My brother became addicted to heroin and I wanted nothing to do with him, he never lost his love for the game, even when homeless he carried around Risk pieces and tried to convince people to play with him.
He died of an overdose before last Christmas. I made a lot of mistakes in my relationship with him, I wish more than anything we could play one more game together.
connain · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple of us kids in the neighborhood would come up with games to play that would wind up drawing in others kids nearby. I forget what we named it but we came up with an elaborate form of dodgeball with different types of "balls". Depending on how many were playing the field might be someone's yard or half the neighborhood. "Balls" consisted of:
A volleyball or soccer ball - could be used to block thrown weapons as well as being a weapon
a hard plastic throwing star with suction cups - could also be used to block but was a much smaller shield (and your hand was protected while holding it)
two smaller all-rubber thrown star toys that were at one point used as throwing weapons only but were later tied with a rope to form a bola which could be used for tripping. We were kids, we weren't great at using it as a bola. When someone managed to trip someone with it, it was an epic takedown.
A badminton birdie that had an area effect "blast" radius. It was so slow to fall and had relatively short range so it was fairly easy to get out of the way so it was sort of a sneak attack on someone who was distracted by another player. Couldn't be caught, had to be picked up. The only thing that could stop it was the volleyball provided it knocked it away far enough.
Then we usually had 2-3 other balls for general throwing. These might be a tennis ball or dense foam "baseballs", whatever was on hand that had reasonable heft for throwing but wouldn't outright kill someone. These could be caught in hand but, if dropped, you'd be out.
Rules shifted a little from time to time but generally you get the idea. Occasionally other items were added or effects shifted a little. A bunch of kids outdoors with energy meant we could play for a long time during endless, dull summer breaks.
Ntavano · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play a game called “Hurts-a-lot” we would lean a mattress or box spring against the wall and let it fall on us while we were laying on the ground haha
MarchKick · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I would have to change my sheets on my bed, I would take all the covers, pillows, and stuffed animals (I had over 40 webkinz) and lay it all out on my floor, making a soft landing. I would then just jump/launch myself onto it. I could do that for hours.
farooq_fox · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to make a ghost house kinda setup on our terrace, the terrace was big and had props laying around. We had our "men" hiding with towels on their faces, in the dark, behind the watertank with prerecorded spooky sounds on mobile, lizard and spider toys hanging from cloth hanger wires which are lowered by us when ever someone passes by.Cardboard ramp with sponge midway so the feet sinks in, etc. We used to set it up in the morning and invite friends and their friends to experience it for 2rupees. One day the kids were so scared they started yelling loudly and our landlord found it.
Chicken_Sauce · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I would go to one of my friends house we would always hide in the back of a closet and "fortify it" with shoe racks and junk and have his older brother peg toys at us to break in.
rementis · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and three or four friends played a game called Murderball. In a small bedroom we had a nerf hoop above the closed door. If you get the ball through the hoop, that's a point, play to ten. The other three or four players are allowed to take any measure to prevent you from scoring, and are allowed to obtain the ball in any way necessary. Many cuts and bruises for sure, but also hysterical.
WillingUK · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
British bulldog (before it got banned nationally) everyone aprt from one person would start at one side of the playground and have to get to the other side past whoever was 'on' in the middle. They had to stop people by any means necessary. (Rugby tackles, clotheslines, flying kicks) anyone they stopped was then 'on' with them. The more people that were on - the more dangerous it got.
nownowthethetalktalk · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had 3 red bicycles racks in the park beside our house in the 1970s The object of our game was to kick a soda can through the slats in the rack with the fewest kicks possible. It sounds kind of lame now but for ten year old me playing that game with my brother and our friends was the highlight of our day.
ColourMePretzel · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood home had the kitchen one one side, living room on the other and two open doorways connecting them on both sides. The hallway was at one end and from this doorway we would either lay down and "climb" the appliances and furniture around the circle, or we would wear our underwear and an undershirt and hold our breath and pretend to swim around the circle. My sister doesn't remember playing this but I do, vividly!
Frazzer951 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “universe” where everything we watched, cartons, tv shows, or movies were real and we could be any character or combination of characters. It was fun when I was a kid
TheMascotte78 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spot the difference. But on a lare scale.
For example: we would move/remove something from a room or the backyard and we had to guess what changed.
lordrazorvandria · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Oh man. I just had such flashbacks from when I was little. So many memories... Sorry for the wall of text. Also, not all of those were specific games but I hope you enjoy reading it anyway. I was a pretty outdoorsy kid.
Whenever my cousins visited we'd equip various "weapons" (broken handles from tools, sticks) that we'd fight "evil kings" (large Symphytum plants that grew thick like weeds behind our house) with.
They grew so thick we had mazelike paths in there, with a small area in the middle where you could rest or just chill.
Each plant was a king but where they came from or why they were evil, I don't know.
The fighting consisted of smacking the shit out of the plants while uttering our warcries and nobody cared that we did it since there were so many.
We had a creek that ran through a pipe under our driveway, which was really just a long road leading to only our house. Near the pipe there was a little area where the ground was usually dry. I built a boathouse for a toy boat out of sticks and mud there. It was neat. I also built a small dam and had to remove it eventually because water was getting close to the road, lol.
We'd (me and my sisters) spend hours walking back and forth up and down the creek, making little dams, looking at animals in the water, talking etc.
We had a large pond on our property that was always full of frog eggs and stuff. Oh, and a flock of wild ducks. Lots of entertainment for kids there. Next to the pond there was a treehouse that we'd built with the help of our mother and her then boyfriend. We spent days making concoctions out of plants and pond water. Even drank a little from some of them, as kids do.
When I wasn't with my sisters I'd walk around in the forest, my knife on my belt, and sharpen random sticks into spears and throw them at rocks and stuff. I'd also make bows out of flexible branches and string, and shoot straight sticks at things.
You might say "YOU HAD A KNIFE AS A KID, HOW OLD WERE YOU?! Well, I got my first knife at age 12-ish and was taught to respect and use it. Sorry if this somehow offends you.
There's much more as you can likely guess but that's about all I can be arsed to type on my phone.
I could write more if people are interested, I guess.
jacksonpm23 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The quotations disturb me.
Lewkiepoo · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game called “Sniper” with my friends when my parents would host parties at my house.
Essentially the goal of the game was to get from one end of the basement to the other. There was one “sniper” who sat at the far side of the basement with a flashlight. We’d turn off the lights and if you could make it from the start all the way to the end and touch the table that the sniper was on, you got to be sniper next. If they saw you and pointed the light at you, you had to start from the beginning.
We had a fairly long and open basement, so we would rearrange all of the furniture (couches, tables, large pillows, etc) to make areas in the basement that you could hide behind and crawl from cover to cover.
We also did this thing called “Kid Freak” where we would re-enact what we saw on Chris Angels “Mind Freak”. We’d tie each other up and fill a large cooler full of water and see how fast we could undo the ties and get out. At the time I never really saw it as being dangerous lol.
ForscherVerrat · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stair sledding or ghosts in the graveyard.
zombiedix · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Witches” I had a lemon tree in my front yard growing up and when my friends came over, we would pick the lemons and squeeze them into a cup which we’d then poor salt into and drink. During this 2-ingredient process, we’d say we were putting in “frog’s legs” and other random bits.
crazyflowah · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made up a game called "Shark-bait, RING OF FIRE". One person would lay upside down on an armchair and the rest of us would stand around throwing a yoga ball back and forth over top of them while they would try to grab it with their feet (and a little help from their hands). All while shouting "SHARK BAIT RING OF FIREEEE" whenever we felt like it was appropriate. Also, we were juniors and seniors in HS...
WilfredoVelludo · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Kill the sheep", someone draws a sheep in a piece of paper and the others have to draw things to kill or protect the sheep. Something like "The ninja kills the wolf so it doesn't eat the sheep".
KaiFoxy · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never made a name for it, but my sibling and I had a glow in the dark squishy ball that we'd charge under the light. Then we'd turn off the light and take turns trying to pelt eachother in the dark
originshipping · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin (3 years older than me) and I once found two pale yellow knitted hats in a drawer at our grandparents’ house, and we decided that when we wore them, she looked like a banana and I looked like a lemon. We then built a whole fake TV programme called the ‘Banana and Lemon Show’, where we would spin in a circle while holding our nan’s (crystal glass; she wasn’t too happy about it) fruit bowl, which would transport us to a mystical land (usually the garden). We, as anthropomorphic fruit, would then interview the locals of this ‘mystical place’ (usually the rhubarb, sometimes the squirrel statue). Occasionally, our older cousin (7 years older than me) would join in with a little persuasion, but he didn’t have a hat, so we just pushed his blond hair into spikes and he became ‘Pineapple’. Good times.
shangbangr66 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kickdeath and bloody ball. Kickdeath was on the swings and basically no rules try to get the other guy off the other swing. Obviously kicking punching grabbing, jumping on the other swing and kicking them down off. Bloody ball was basically dodgeball with any of the balls we used for recess. Think basketballs footballs and not like baseballs. This was in grade school so we were all a bit more resilient.
These games were invented when the teachers told us we couldn’t play tackle football.
HarryPotter551986 · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bob on your back. It was tag, except if you were "it", you had an imaginary guy named Bob on your back. You were trying to tag others to get rid of Bob, lol.
omg_for_real · 1 points · Posted at 17:03:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roll down a hill while people throw stuff at you. Like pine cones, rocks, sticks, whatever we found. If you made it to the bottom without being hit you won.
grayscalewarmth · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my neighbor would play a game called "Master". It was a game where you would basically be a servant for the other person. They would have to do anything and reply only with "Yes master". Looking back, me being male and her being female, and she was the one to come up with the game, I bet she is pretty kinky now.
imfrommitchandmurray · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Thrash”. My two brothers and I would put a small basket ball hoop at the end of a long hallway. One person would stand at the opposite end with the ball. The other two would be between the hoop and the ball holder. The game was to dunk it any way you could without getting tackled to the ground. It would get pretty violent at times, but none of use got seriously hurt.
rachiesexpants8 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Picking up dandelions and saying "momma had a baby and his head popped off!" Then popping the flower off the stem with your fingernail.
WillFerrelsRealSon · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m sixteen, and sometimes still play with my sisters. The name is Blind Zombie. I made it up and fine-tuned the rules as we played, my sister helped with a name. ( if you play, don’t play on an open trampoline, injury WILL occur. So basically have a net)
Pretty much you get on a trampoline and a player( best with 3-4 people) chooses to be the zombie first. The “zombie” closes their eyes and looks around for the other players by sound, movements( pressure from feet) or just running around. ( its fun to taunt the zombie by talking or singing) Once the “zombie” touches another person that person is blind ( they must now avoid the zombie, who is also always blind, with their eyes closed.) If they are touched again they become the zombie the next round.
There are other modes I’ve made up:
Multiple zombies: if you become a zombie the original stays in until you’ve infected everyone, or until a certain time period.
This mode doesn’t have a name, but pretty much when you are touched twice you are out and the same zombie tries to get the last people.
There is also a sudden death mode. Pretty much the players can only be touched once and then they are the zombie.
lowkeyknicksfan · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
kill the man with the ball.... it’s pretty self explanatory
Quaaraaq · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
First grade we had a fight club inside the metal dome on the playground.
alittlebluegosling · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the milk carton. Half the time we couldn't find a ball, but there was always an empty milk carton around. We'd sit on the swings and one person would throw the milk carton, the swingers would kick it, and if the thrower caught it, you switched spots.
Silverj1448 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scissors on the playground at school. All the swing sets were lined up next to each other so you’d get a person on each swing, preferably swinging down at alternate times. Then somebody would have to run straight down the middle of all of the swings attempting to time it right and not get absolutely destroyed by a kid swinging. Nobody held back either, the kids swinging would go as high and kick as hard as possible.
cryinbc · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play a game where one of us would bite a washcloth as hard as possible, and the other would try to yank the cloth out. No real way to win, game ended when my sister got one of her teeth ripped out (included root of tooth and all). Parents were very pleased with that one.
Jeezyie · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Big Head"
One of us would put one of those big bean bag cushions over our heads while laying on the ground and the other would jump onto the bean bag from the top bunk of the bed.
It was fun.
jgestenson · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and his little siblings and I would all create an economy in his basement where everyone lived on an island and needed a boat (a plastic bin) to travel off our islands. We all created jobs that everyone needed and our currency was pillows. It always started fair and equal, but then my friend and I would eventually create a monopoly and force his siblings to sell their house and boat and “drown”
Edit: we also did this in his backyard but instead of pillows we used sticks. We had a huge inflation crisis every time
tacobat42 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, cousin, and I would play "Three Ninjas" in our grandma's yard. She had a motion-activated light in her backyard, and we would try to sneak from one end to other without setting it off. This became less fun once we learned how to climb into the roof.
ibelieveintadcooper · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mustache or no mustache” When my brother and I were little, we went on a lot of long road trips so we’d try to guess if the car we were about to pass had a driver with a mustache or not. Lol.
baneofthesmurf · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and a couple kids from down the road used to play a "real world" pokemon game where we just kind of imagined new pokemon based on whatever setting we were in, for example in a pool would be water pokemon, near garden beds would be grass pokemon, etc. We also made our own cards for the pokemon we made up with move sets, hp and a picture just like the real ones. I always thought it was significantly more fun than the actual games/trading card games.
sonbon88 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play "theme park" in the back garden. Highlights of the "theme park" were the "roller coaster" where we would sit on the floor and sway side to side going 'wooooahhhhh', and my personal favorite, "polka polka". This was where either me or my brother chased the other around the garden with a broomshank we had shouting polka polka whilst trying to stab the other in the back. Yeah. Not really sure what theme park we were emulating with that one.
MrsLovettsPies · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I drew the inside of houses as cross sections on cardboard , I made around 10 of them, all very detailed and different. Then I laid them all out on the floor and imagined characters living in there and stories for them, who's friend with who, what they're doing, etc. Freaked my mum out a bit, since I was playing only in my head, but I still think it was cool. Can't remember where I got that idea from though.
Dean_Soja · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shut up and go to your room. It’s a fun game that can be played by any number of players.
TR_KingCobrah · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
It was called Murder. My buddy's parents would work all the time since they were doctors so they were never home, and the house was like 5000 sqfeet. There would be one murderer and everyone else would be blindfolded and we would try to hide around the house and try to survive. Everyone hiding would have a ball and if we we're able to hit the murderer we could take off our blindfold and would have to pretentd to kill the murderer in the back and then we would win. It was a dangerous game so many bruises and bloody noses from falling lol
We would tie someone up in see how long it took then to get out out if the closet, I wasn't too fond of it since they left me in there for over an hour one time
We would set a timer on the microwave and then the other team would barricade us in the kitchen and we would have to try to escape before the timer went off. They would also throw balls at us and if we got hit we would take 15 seconds off or if we caught the balls we would add 15 seconds.
So many sleepless and fun nights were spent over there and an even crazier thing is that our whole friend group of 10 people are still really close 15 years later
hoetted · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Kamikaze" which involved a tube sock stuffed with old socks or rags and packed tight in the toe. Then you would swing it around like a flail and try to hit the other person.
The two forms of this game were outside jousting on bikes OR in the basement with the lights turned off and windows covered with blankets so it was pitch black. You would have to sneak around and be quiet, but if you bumped into someone you would go berserker on them. You would keep hacking away at each other until someone gave up.
Sometimes someone would bump into the couch or a wall and start wailing on it when no one was even close to them.
bulletm · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
An elementary school friend and I used to play bartender. One of us would pretend to be a hopeless alcoholic and beg the bartender for a free beer. The bartender would give the other this new, "special" beer called AJ beer. A lot of lip smacking and complimenting the taste of the beer, and then ask "what's the name of this beer again?" And the bartender would delightedly scream "AJ beer! It stands for apple juice!" Then we'd chase each other around like maniacs. Kids are weird.
loucanfly · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Name: World
Requirement: A twig/stick; the outside
Okay, so what you do is find a large sandy place (easy when you grow up in the desert) and draw a large circle, about 2-3 meters wide. Divide the circle into equal parts, according to the number of players, and each players names their part a different country name (I always named mine England, cause I was all cultured and shit)
So how we played was that everyone stands on their "country", and someone (usually me cause I was the oldest) holds the stick. The stick holder has to engage the others in conversation or something, and while they're distracted, drop the stick into another "country". The minute the stick hits the sand everyone runs away from the circle, except the person whose country the stick landed in. They pick it up and yell "STOP" as quickly and as loudly as humanly possible, and everyone else has to freeze.
Now stick holder, who is also frozen, has to throw the stick at any other player, who can't flinch or move. If the stick hits the player, the stick holder gets to take a "piece" out of his "country" (which basically just means erasing the boundary line and redrawing it). If the stick holder misses though, the other guy get to take a piece out of HIS country instead. Everyone walks back to the circle, and the player that got aimed at gets to be new stick holder. This just goes on until someone eventually becomes Ruler Of The Whole World.
Now that I've typed all this out, it just sounds like a dumber version of Monopoly but damn does it bring back memories
anon120 · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in Chile in the 90s. We had no lack of games. It was a beautiful childhood. We lived in a small neighborhood and the thing to do (pre-internet) was to ride our bikes around our block. So when we were old enough to do so, I turned our little group of friends into a race team. We each had flair added to our bikes, and I setup post on one of my neighbors fences where I would collect passes that allowed my friends to do a lap around the block. I was in charge of making them and handing them out. If you were fast, you’d get extra passes which let you ride more. If you had no passes you were out of the game. If you didn’t have passes, I would make you do challenges. One challenge was going to this vacant house’s yard and steal a piece of hardware from these two pinball machines they had sitting out back. If you got it, you’d get three passes to ride. Other challenges involved touching a dog, telling me a joke that made me laugh, prank calling fandoms and doing sprints.
I put plays together. I had a trunk of costumes - tons of princess outfits. It was always the princes saving the princesses. The guys - my little brother and neighbor - would fight my next door neighbors’ dog through the fence, pretended it was a dragon. Then they would come to the window and rescue us - me and my best friend who lived next door. We also did musicals and I would teach them all dance moves lol.
I also had my own radio show - Barrel Radio. I interviewed my friends and neighbors and had contest segments, commercials and a fake studio audience. I played music and did holiday specials.
ClawdiusTheLobster · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bears”, but it was just my sister and I on the couch, feet pushed against each other, and pushing back and forth to crunch other other into a ball. Not sure why it was called Bears...
Orangulent · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sandwich" My brother and I would lay down a couch cushion as the bun, then one of us would be the meat. Other sibling gets to stack up the "sandwich" with blankets and pillows as the condiments and other sandwich fixings. Add another couch cushion as the top bun and then the sandwich maker gets to jump on the sandwich.
Amazingly, no one ever got hurt playing this, even when it devolved into "open faced sandwiches" and body slams.
Guido125 · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man... We played a crazy game as kids. Myself, my sister, and two other friends lived in a new development with lots of brand new empty houses. One day we found a finished house with the back door open. So being responsible kids, the first thing we did was "lock" the door in such a way that it looked locked/closed, but stayed open. This is where we invented the game called "bathroom".
One person was "it" and had to touch another person. If successful, that person would become it and the game would restart. Oh, and we were blindfolded. Listening was everything in this game! An extra condition was that if you made it to the bathroom, you were immune, got to yell out "bathroom" super loud, and could take off your blind fold and watch the rest of the game.
Once it was just me vs one of my friends who was it. He had isolated me in a room with his arms and legs extended far. I'd seen him do this before, so I guessed where he was, and ninja rolled through his right arm/leg, and made it to the bathroom. Everyone thought I cheated, but I didn't - it was legit. Shortly after, I got in a similar situation tried it again, but he blocked me with his leg. And that's how I broke my pinky.
ShintoStickwastaken · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watermelon ball. Required items: watermelon, pool.
Idea: watermelons are juts barely above neutrally buoyant. The goal is to touch one end of the pool with the melon and stop the other team from touching your side with the melon. Only one hand/arm can be used to handle the melon. Can only move with the melon while your head is submerged.
Always ends with a cracked melon and some slightly chlorinated melony goodness to eat.
GradyMcTracy · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a large playground climbing house at our school. A friend and me would start at the opposite end and run around it. The first one to tackle the other won.
Most times we were really equal and were just running for 10 minutes until the break was over, remembering our positions for the next break.
Lasernator · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called spud. Was a regional game in midwest i think. You start when one person throws a ball - like a dodge ball- up in the air as everyone is huddled within arm length. As throwing it he/she yells someones name and everyone else runs afap away. The person whos name was yelled waits and catches the ball and yells stop when everyone must freeze. Then the spud person gets three steps toward someone and then throws the ball at them. If they catch it then the spud person gets a letter (bad) or if they drip it then they get a letter. Yih acquire letters of s-p-u-d. The first oerson to get all the letters then has the traditional losing penalty - gonthriugh the spanking machine.
thaibobatea · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an old mattress and my siblings and I would take it and use it to slide down the stairs
oiliaN · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd drive up old logging roads until we weren't sure where we were and play a game where we tied one end of a rope into a slip knot then throw it over a tree branch, wrap it around our necks, and see how far we could pull ourselves up. Eventually you'd pass out and drop. Stupid kids.
cgmccage · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Beanie Baby Fights
My older brother and I would create forts on either side of our bedroom, one was where the two twin beds created a corner and the other had a large dresser and a bookcase.
We would then split the beanie babies evenly and get to our respective war-corners and start to throw them across the room at each other.
There was one specific beanie baby, Inch the inch worm, that was specifically deadly when hit with. My brother dented the wall behind me once with Inch. Inch therefore became the WMD of sorts and was sought after and watched for.
We would sometimes have teams, little sister and eldest brother, join us. It all ended when Inch hit the youngest, by me of course.
This was also when beanie babies were "collectibles," but little me did not care.
Edit: Formatting
Chaacaholic · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soap soccer in a bath tub... Shit was great. Cousin and I would stand on opposite ends of the tub and kick the wet soap bar past each other... Lmao
ximitzu · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One person will hide a belt while everyone closed their eyes. Later, we have to find where the belt was hidden. The person who hid it will say cold/warm/hot to hint towards location of belt. Whoever found the belt can use it to beat the other kids who where looking for it. Everyone had to run to the safe zone (touching a wall or a chair) whoever found the belt gets to hide it and the cycle repeats.
beige-sugar · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
head’s up this is gonna be really long.
from age 8 to 11 i went to this religious summer camp on a nearby island every summer. my family was never religious but it was the only summer camp near where i grew up. the highlight every year was towards the end of the week in camp the entire place (kids and camp leaders alike, probably 150 people) would participate in “Bible Smuggling.”
looking back, literally everything about this camp was culty and kinda fucked up, especially Bible Smuggling, but at the time it was the best thing ever.
Bible Smuggling was a semi-LARP game they set up where each tent (~8 children and 1 camp leader) became “missionaries” and as soon as the sun went down each group would set off at staggered times, each person hiding several “bibles” (usually small metal plates) on their person. the teams would then go on a huge journey under the premise that we were trying to spread the word of god™ to a neighbouring country which wasn’t allowed to be christian. along the way you would meet some people who supported your cause and others who tried to dissuade you. you had to talk to everyone and get clues from them about where you had to go next.
each year was slightly different but there were always some sort of high stakes task, like at one point you needed to get in a boat and let the ferry keeper take you across a bay, at another you need to hide in a barn stall with the donkeys while anti-christian government officials from the country you’re trying to sneak into do an inspection. everything was extremely serious. and all the participants are young kids. oftentimes kids would be genuinely scared or cry.
the climax of the game is when you finally reach the border. this was usually at around 1 or 2 in the morning, since the camp’s property was over 100 acres. at the border, the government officials yell at you, line you up against a wall, and search you to make sure you werent bringing any undesirable items into their country. this is the part where how well you hid your bibles at the beginning of the game really matters: if they found a bible on you, you were immediately transported into an interrogation room. where the camp leaders, aka government officials, would actually interrogate you. sometimes for upwards of half an hour. they would yell and kick chairs over and try and denounce your religion. sometimes they would be doing this as a front and actually supported christianity and after awhile would let you through to rejoin your group with all of your bibles still. sometimes they would put you in jail, automatically ejecting you from the game.
when all the teams are back, everyone reconvened at a huge fire and they gave out milk and juice and muffins and cookies, and the head facilitator of the camp would preach about the importance of spreading faith everywhere you went. such a fuckin trip hahaha. i’ll never forget it though.
TheHindenburgBaby · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever there was a large cardboard box, like a refrigerator box, thrown out on our street, all the kids would gather and we'd play knife box.
One kid would get inside and another kid would take a knife (like a butter knife, not a sharp one) and randomly stab the box with it. The kid inside would have to make sure they weren't on the side of the box that was randomly stabbed.
This was back in 79-80. Yes, we were DUMB. No, nobody ever got stabbed.
terezipynope · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catball. When me and my little sister were really young, we got a kitten. What did the 6 and 4 year olds do? Sat on our parents bed and tossed the kitten back and forth. Our dad came in after a few minutes and stopped us. I cringe thinking of it now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey Island Sword Fighting, but with different rules. The swords were cardboard tubes or sticks, and we’d face off. The first attacker would insult the defender and the defender had to respond either wittily or by rhyming. The audience would judge who won. The loser would get smacked until the audience was satisfied. Winner would get to attack again. The game ended when the tube/stick broke.
jjoe808 · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Interception" only to be played I in snow or pouring rain. 2v2 game that had most of the standard tackle football rules (played on a small patch of sidewalk / grass in front of the house). There was only room for 1 goal line play over and over.
The thing that made it unique was there was a 3rd player on defense who functioned as a "goalkeeper" and had a massive inner tube at the goal line. Instead of blocking balls he would block bodies. The goalies real objective would to see how many 10 year old boys he could make do two flips into the mud when thier quarterback hung them out to dry with a pass.
WTNVTerezi · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was young i had a trampoline and me and my friend would play a game where we stood on one foot and held the other. The goal was to ram into the other person and knock them down. We got hurt a lot but it was fun!
RecreationalSouffle · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game we called “Hallway Marco Polo” for YEARS, and everyone always wanted to play it when they came over. We had a really long narrow hallway upstairs, and we would block it off with the couch. Whoever was It got blindfolded and had to try and tag someone while everyone else had to stay quiet to avoid being tagged (idk why we called it marco polo considering there was no talking but the objectives are the same i suppose). Since the hallway was so narrow we could use both the walls to climb up above the It person’s head or jump over them since it was so hard to get around them without getting tagged. The game involved a lot of jumping and running and crashing into the walls which would shake the whole house so it wasn’t our parents’ favorite, but definitely a hit with the kids.
TripleXGamez · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a game my friends and I played that we called "Butt's Up". We would throw a tennis ball at a garage door, trying to bounce it off and hit each other. If you caught the ball you'd have to throw it from the exact point you caught it. If the ball touched you and then hit the ground (you fail to catch it) you'd have to run to the garage door and touch it before someone else picked up the ball and hit the door with it. If the ball hit before you did, you lost a life. After you had no more lives you were out and had to walk in front of the door, face it, and stick your butt out. Then each other player still in the game got a turn to throw the ball at you. We'd play multiple games for hours, even adding additional rules to encourage people to be actively going for the ball. Like if the ball passed everyone, the person standing the furthest back would have to run after it and throw it from wherever they picked it up from. Or throwing the ball at another person so you both have to run at the garage. Was pretty fun, but really dumb looking back
Jumley · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chicken”. In school, while the teacher was out of class, we would run outside of the class as far down the hall as possible without getting caught. It was a daring game, hence the name, if you “chickened out”.
bumblebitxh · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was like three i came up with "attack of the toddler" wherein i would pretty much just chase my 6 or so year old brother around the house
Kelsusaurus · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a few:
-Sardines. It's backwards hide-and-seek, where one person hides and the group seeks, but when you find the hider, you hide with them, thus packing all your friends in like sardines.
-Hitting golf balls out into the field behind our houses then be the first to find it and make it back.
-Finding frogs from the field and creek and racing them. Obligatory "no frogs were harmed". We just let em go and saw whose got back to the grass/creek the fastest.
-Horse, but on a trampoline instead of basketball. One person does a jump or trick and you must replicate or you get a letter. If you lose, you have to be the snack runner later.
Ryotaiku · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The cow game. On long road trips, spot cows and keep track of how many are on your side of the road. If you see cows on the opposite end, you can block the other person from getting them for themselves. If you see a helicopter, you lose 1/3 of your cows, and if you pass a cemetery, all your cows die.
It doesn't have to be cows either. Any other livestock you spot can count towards your score.
FreshaThanU · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is going to get lost since I’m way late but on the blacktop my friends and I used to play ‘Pokemon’ now take in mind it was absolutely nothing like the tv show. Basically the trainers called a Pokémon each into battle and they ‘play fought’ and the first Pokémon to tie the other to a pole with a jump rope wins
Tbkssom · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a lot of unique games, the most notable being the ongoing Toy War and the Elemental Babies. The Elemental Babies were a group of aliens formed by shards of the Seventh Crystal Planet that had been strewn across the galaxy when it exploded. Depending on what they landed in, the bodies that formed around them would gain a different set of “element” themed powers. They formed a crime-fighting group and went on adventures in their spaceship (the jungle gym). As of the last play session, we are currently in the beginning of the Animal arc. Crow (an alien being who looks like an anthropomorphic crow, and has crow related powers like throwing knife feathers) had just been defeated, the battle with Mosquito had just begun, and the battle with Bear was drawing nearer.
DigNity914 · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beat the flush with my piss every time id piss. Fun stuff..
sofine247 · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
River rats under the play ground at the school. It’s pretty self explanatory. Hahaha
westartedafire · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sisters and I took the adaptor plug from our electric piano and would just lick it. I think the point was to make our tongues go numb or something stupid.
I can't remember why or when we stopped, but on reflection, we are super lucky to be alive and not turned into modern art on the walls of the next room over.
Edit: Also want to add Deathball. One person has the tennis ball and has to keep it until the end of recess to win. Everyone else (ranging from my group of friends to all the boys in the grade) does whatever it takes to rip that ball from their fingers.
And I mean whatever it takes.
SushiMuncher1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my cousins would play this game where one had to throw a tennis ball as high as they can and shout an amount of money, if anyone catched it the thrower would havd to pay him the said money.... no money was ever exchanged xD
callmeDeborah · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played what we called ‘inventions’. We used to swing our friends around by the arm and then drop them and whatever shape they landed in they had to come up with an object and give a description of how it worked and what it did. We would then describe it like on The Price Is Right.
Dom0 · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I scratched grease off a door hinge and gave it to my parents because it had a sweet taste. They refused.
BadKuchiKopi · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it’s unique or not, but a game we called “Booger” which was a slight variation on neighborhood-wide outdoor hide-and-seek and involved walkee-talkees, our motorized kiddie vehicles, and binoculars.
QueenCole · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had toys growing up but some of the best games were without them. My sister and I loved playing with our dog's leash. I would attach it to the long tube attachments from the vacuum cleaner and "go fishing" off the end of our hideaway bed in the living room. Turn it around and the loop for your hand became a kind of head and it was like a prehistoric sea dinosaur.
We also used it to help dislodge loose teeth. We'd put it in our mouths and pull like a tug o' war rope (both at the same time, or the one without the loose tooth would pull with their hands). Odd kids. I also used to grab white rocks and make a nest in the backyard and sit on them, like a dinosaur.
FellBoi · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doom, i guess.
KingSulley · 1 points · Posted at 17:06:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Lobster Trap" My grand father would get on his hands and knees & start to whistle a little tune. We would run under the gaps between his arms & legs until the whistling stopped. Quickly, he would fall forward (trapping anybody underneath) and the tickling began! That was my favorite game as a kid.
maddiemae808 · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
red rover..although not as unique but defiantly funny to watch
PsychoChamploo · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would fill up water guns and hide them around the backyard. After said water guns where hid, we would meet on the trampoline before deploying into the yard again for the original battle royale.
casualblair · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Frisbee, but with lives. If you got hit, you lost a life. If you caught a frisbee, you gained a life and the other person lost one. No one was ever "out" because we never kept track but it was an interesting mechanic to add. No one knew what "Ultimate" was.
When we got bored of that it turned into "Gladiator" where if you got hit anywhere you lost the ability to lose where you got hit. It was fun to hop around with one leg and no arms trying to dodge a frisbee.
Uzanto_Retejo · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Car Game: When me or my firends heard a car coming by we would hide. After a while of okaying you genuinely get anxious about if the making sure the drivers cannot see you.
AlfenzoTheGreat · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had loads of small tot cars and about 3 sets of Jenga.
Me and my older brother would sit about 6ft or so from eachother and build small forts with the jenga.
Using the toy cars we would take it in turn to roll our cars i to eachothers houses. The first house to be knocked down was the loser. Over time you began to reinforce walls and whatnot with even more Jenga. Amazing fun.
FrenchSushi · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin would turn the sofa around in the living room and pretend we were performing in the High Jump at the Olympics.
LarryDavidsDeadUncle · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline Tag: It isn’t what it sounds, what you do is one person is it and waits in the trampoline as everyone runs away and hides around our block we all lived on. When we were ready a ball was thrown to alert who was it. After that the goal was to get in the trampoline before the person who is it can tag you. The trampoline wasn’t massive and it had a net around so it could be a bit tricky. Babysitting wasnt allowed within a vicinity to keep it fun and if you were tagged then you were also it the next round. Whoever was lastman standing won and the next game the first person tagged is it. We spent our whole childhood playing it and I wish I could go back and play one more time.
Titan___ · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
mgs1
sweigarty · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my step brothers would play a game called the “ball game”
We had a long narrow basement & the two opposite walls were the bases.
The person who was “it” was in between the two bases with the ball
The goal was to run between the two bases without getting tagged. We kept score based on how many times you ran back and forth. Shit got wild at times
B_Hopsky · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tree Knights. Somebody would go up in the tree house and try to fend off the other 3 of us with a piece of PVC pipe attached to an air compresser that would shoot pingpong/bouncy balls really hard and fast if you clamped your hand hard enough around the joint of the pipe and air compressor nozzle, and a pool noodle stuck on a broomstick. That's how I got my second ever concussion, I fell off the ladder and landed on a rock, I told my parents I fell off the shelf in the laundry room so they didn't catch on when I came to them walking screwy and had to go to the emergency room.
MajinGroot · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique it was but me and my sisters would play drive through in our mom's car, use walkie talkies as the intercom and bring the food out to the others on rollerblades or whatever. It was all fun until we put the car into neutral and it went backwards down our driveway into the neighbour's car.
AndlisOriville · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents home, before they split up, had a stable built on the property which was built for a horse obviously but my mothers horse died before she moved it in.
My father turned it into a room when where he kept an old spare bed, a heater, old paperwork and other random things.
Me and some friends, at 6 or 7 years old, would climb up on all these boxes and jump onto the mattress on the bed. We were just doing random jumps, splashes, legdrops and bouncing on the bed.
Eventually it turned into something where we'd jump from the boxes, shout some words we considered rude, like "sex", "willy", "fanny" (because of our age) and other simular words. My brother took it a step further so that when he'd jump, he'd whip his trousers down and back up in mid air while shouting "sex" and landing stomach first on the bed.
One day our Dad locked the stable door after a friend had been round. The friends mother called my parents up telling them that we were teaching her son disgusting words and encouraging him to show his pants (underwear) while jumping on a bed.
Sad times.
dirtydietcoke · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
senpai_shobhit · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunting unlimited 2009
Crashbrennan · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember what we called it, but we made up a game that I found out years later was similar to the game "groundies."
The person who was it could touch the ground, and any part of the playground structure other than the floors. The rest of the people could touch any part of the structure, but not the ground. Nobody had to have their eyes closed or anything like that.
So it involved a lot of climbing around on the side of the structure and trying to corner people on the part of the hunter, and a lot of mad dashes and diving past as the hunter was in the middle of a careful move or adjusting their grip. Which often lead to the hunter desperately trying to tag you as you went by, missing, losing their grip, and falling off the side of the structure.
It was amazing.
Stonewall_Jackson_5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called the game “buttered toast” but it has absolutely no correlation to the game. It was basically tag on bikes or scooters and whoever was it tried to throw a tennis ball at the other players. Bikes had more speed and could ride through grass but if you had a scooter you could get off and traverse environments that a bike couldn’t. So much fun. So much road rash.
CallmePadre · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister's and I would take VHS tapes and rotate picking something to watch. The one who got to pick the next time was determined by the first person to name the movie we were about to experience using only the trailers before the movie. If no one guessed right by the title screen the same person got to pick again.
Eimiaj_Belial · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Judge Eimiaj.
It was a game played with my little brother and 2 girl cousins. I would be judge and stick boxing gloves in my shirt (so I could be grown with big titties) and pass judgement on whoever happened to be defendant.
The defendant would then fight the prosecution. Sometimes resulting in black eyes, bloody noses, and crying. We would record these games too.
Yah know, sounds a lot weirder now that I see it in text....
King_Eggbert · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique this is but it was very unique among my schoolmates at the time. I'm a big fan of strategy games so to deal with boredom at school i would make my own strategy games using a4 papers a pencil and an eraser. Initially it was just a bunch of territories on a paper where you can build new things to earn more money, make armies and invade each other etc and my classmates loved it so much, i eventually updated the game by having serperate papers for battlefields, cities and even cut off stick figures for each soldier recruited to simulate a battle between classmates.
It was so popular everyone started making their own versions but they were far more simplistic, most of them devolved into just drawing territories and winning/losing those territories over throwing an eraser and see which side it lands on. I'm still happy for the fact that i started some sort of wave that lasted my entire elementary school years
nomercyvideo · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Go Hide"
If you called it out your friend(s) had five minutes to go hide somewhere in a 3 block radius, they then had to sneak past you and make it back into the house.
Those looking for you had weapons, and if they caught you, they would beat you up until you could make it back into the house.
We also had "Judge Judy Fights" Where we would watch judge judy, and then beat each other up during the commercials, but you kinda had to trick them into the fight.
My fav included going up to the window, and going, damn that girl is hot, friend jumps up to look for himself, then I grab and belt him across the legs with a toy vacuum. It did not end well as I tried to run and jump out of an open window to avoid retaliation and clip my feet on the window ledge and knocked myself out after landing on some rocks.
Oh the foolishness of youth!
PurpleGrapeJam · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is this funny game my dad and I play where he beats me
KimJongBen · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moose nugget fights every spring in Alaska. There was a magical window where the outside would be crusty but the inside was kinda soft and the explosions were a thing of shitty beauty. We walked to school and my gross brother would store them in his Goonies lunchbox on the way home in case we ran into any neighborhood rivals. Mom wasn’t too happy on the days that they didn’t get used.
GermanPretzel · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play a variant of basketball in our grandparent's pool. It was free-for-all, full contact, goaltending allowed, dragging each other under the water, full on brawl for the basket. 3 of us, occasionally 4, would play this to exhaustion in our high school days all summer. We stopped when my cousin started playing collegiate football as an offensive lineman...
mclovinmaharaja · 1 points · Posted at 17:07:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Hand Soccer. We had this soft soccer ball we would use, and play in a narrow hallway of the house. We'd get on our knees and hit the ball with our hands only, and you were only allowed to move on your hands and knees. If you got the ball to the end of the boundary, it's a goal. First to 10 points wins! It was a one on one game that was super intense, and would leave our knees super raw by the end
MetacrisisMewAlpha · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this counts but...
We had “slugworm”. One person would be covered in a duvet/blanket/sleeping bag. They were the slugworm. Then the lights are turned off. Everyone else has to avoid being caught by the slugworm. If you get “eaten” you become the new slugworm.
Difference is I was 18-21 when I played this, drunk, with drunk uni friends. We were all kids at heart and it is 100% the kind of game I’d have played as a child anyway.
saxybandgeek1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know those pool floats that have an inflated pillow and edge but the middle is mesh? My friends and I would have one of get in one and put another on top and we would parade around the pool having a "funeral procession"
Anonymousness115 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Suicide" Me and my cousin used to take action figures and try to find creative ways to "kill" them. Like tying a shoestring around their leg and the other end to a bed post and throwing them off the bed
AlarmingDance2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it knockout. We would take turns hitting each other as hard as possible in the face until one of us tapped out. It would usually be played by 2 people. but you could accommodate more
jaycombz · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My six siblings and I played the “in the dark game,” which was essentially hide and go seek in the house, but it could only be played at night and all of the lights would be turned off. A lot of injuries happened with this game.
Lolakutti · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a huge society so there were a lot of cars. Everyone would be huddled together and one person would choose a number plate in the society and the first person to find the car with the number plate would get to choose the next one. This way we also knew which car belonged to whom.
mtfromthemountain · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lemon Ball!
We had this foam lemon that was actually just a promotional product for Mentos. (1:1 lemon sized).
We used to go out to our driveway and play a game similar to basketball, but the twist was that you had the dribble the lemon into the air by tossing it over your head again and again. We had to get the lemon to certain places on the driveway, and then we could shoot the lemon into pre-determined lemon targets for different amounts of points.
There were the times when the lemon could be intercepted or fumbled. If the lemon bounced on the ground once, you could recover it with no penalty or turnover. But if it bounced more than once, it was turned over to the other player. Any lemon can also be intercepted out of the air, which encouraged long, high throws which were both more difficult to intercept, and also easier to fumble.
We spent hours perfecting our lemon balling skills until one day, we lost the lemon. The game never was the same.
Contortoise · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roadkill: Everyone in the car tries to spot road kill along the side of the road. Small animals are 2pt (squirrel size), Medium and Large animals 3pts (raccoon to deer size) are worth 3 pts. If the animal is unidentifiable, it's worth 1pt.
The first person to yell "Roadkill" and point out the carcass gets the point. If you claim roadkill and it turns out to be debris instead of a carcass, you're docked 1 pt.
The person with the most points at the end of the trip wins.
blink2020 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m not really sure if this counts as a game or if it counts as me being a total idiot, but would always think that there were snipers trained on me whenever I was in front of big windows, so I would try to make my movements as erratic to try to make them miss. Not exactly one of my proudest memories.
DoG_B1aze · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my buddy would play nut ball, you get a tennis ball sit 15ft from each other and toss the ball in the air and try to hit each other in the nuts if you got 3 hits in a row you could throw a fastball at the others nuts, then we invented a similar game with a football but with a bunch of people so 2 lines of people maybe 60ft you can only cover one area if you got hit you were out if you moved your hands while the ball was in the air you were out, we we're pretty fucking stupid back then although we got drunk and played nut ball on his kids trampoline the not too long ago.
Namesarentreal · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandparents had a motion detector in the hall. It was by the front door and I would get way on the other end, then I'd see how close to the front by crawling without setting off the motion detector.
PM_me_dank_memes__ · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You remember those hopper toys? The big inflatable rubber balls with a handle that you bounce around on? Well my sister and I had a great game involving those.
In our basement was there was a big support pole holding up the house. We also had a big thick rope that we liked to play with.
That game was this: One of us would tie the other to the pole with the rope as tight as we could. The person tied up would try to escape, while the other one of us would wail on them with the hopper as hard as we could until they wriggled free.
Great game.
IAmManMan · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Tribe Game. It was me and my two sisters. We basically threw all of our toys on the floor and then divided them up between us fairly and that was your "tribe". Most of our toys were tv and film characters so it basically became a massive crossover event, or a way to cram as many powers or concepts into a game as possible.
You could have one tribe where Pikachu and Captain Picard were in charge and they had Rito Revolto and Grizzlor as henchmen. Another tribe might have it's leader be R2-D2 and Ryan Steele but they have Godzilla and a Jurassic Park Velociraptor on their side.
Each tribe had it's own land and the games would be set up to cover the entire floorspace of one bedroom (usually mine). Most games revolved around us first discovering the other tribes and then either negotiating trade/friendships or war. Travel between the tribes lands was either done by walking, spaceship (which naturally all had "mini-beams" that would shrink the pilots down and inside them because the spaceships were all Star Trek micro-machines and the scale wouldn't work otherwise) or travel through the Stargate (a stool on it's side).
side note, I just did the math on when some of these things came out and realised I must have been about 15 at least and still playing this game with my sisters.
epicboy75 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long car rides, I would sync the radio to the cars passing by, trying to keep the beat to the number of cars. Sometimes would also use the passing lampposts to assist with the timing.
superhobo7 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Batman” we had a bad man mask and my dad would turn it backwards so his face was covered. He could see through it but would pretend to be blind and dumb and we would hide from him. And try to sneak behind him and hit him and then run away before he saw us. Looking back it makes me really appreciate everything he did for my brother and I. He would play that with us for hours.
BassMaster05 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it midnight wolf. One person who is the midnight wolf would hide and everyone looks for midnight wolf. When he is found whoever saw him yells "I FOUND THE MIDNIGHT WOLF", then the midnight wolf runs out of thier hiding spot and tries to tag the seekers while they run to a safe zone. It can get really strategic on where to hide when you have multiple midnight wolf's. Also I recommend you play at night.
sing2smoo · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would make a “circus” for roly polies.
We’d gather stuff around the backyard like a blade of grass and make it into a circle and pretend it was a Ferris wheel or like racetrack jump. We would find some roly polies and they’d usually wander off but not before we attempted to have them be part of our show.
We also used to do a similar thing of making scenes with things in the garden in hopes of catching a leprechaun.
aulpeter · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We only played when mom wasn't home. One person would hide the cordless phone somewhere in the house and then push the page phone button. Everyone else would have would search for the phone before it stopped beeping and "diffuse the bomb."
TinyStarboy · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
so you know how on school playgrounds there are the markings/drawings of the floor? sometimes they're like the lines for basketball courts, sometimes its like snakes and ladders on the floor. I'm not sure if other countries had this, but here in england that's something we had in our playground.
anyway, one of these drawings was a naughts and crosses board that kids could use chalk to play. me and my friend at the time used to pretend that if we stepped in each square in a secret pattern we'd be transported to an underground base and we'd be spies.
BadWolfHasAmelia · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were in elementary school all of my friends (think like 15 kids) would play this game similar to Pokémon. There were pirates and there were mystical creatures. I was always a griffin because griffins in this world could breathe fire. Well the pirates would have to capture the mystical creatures. (Sometimes by tackling if we didn’t have a ball to throw at one another) If you were a mystical creature and got caught you’d have to stay under the big tree until you were called upon to battle another pirates mystical creatures. It was actually super intricate for 9 year olds.
lamAsheep · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid me and my brother shared and a bed and would sleep at opposite ends of the bed. For reasons unknown, we played this game called king Arthur. The game was to kick the other guy directly in the nuts. Him being 3 years older than me give him a pretty huge advantage. Thinking about it now, I'm pretty sure he just wanted to kick me in the nuts but somehow convinced me it was a game. Ahhhh....to be a kid again.
onelostmind97 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Pac-Man" at the playground. We used the painted 4 square on the blacktop as the "template". So Pac-Man and the "ghost" kid had to stay on the lines of the painted square. Pac-Man had to use the universal arm movements for "wakka-wakka-wakka". If the Pac-Man chomped you, you were out. Hours of fun.
AmiIcepop · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SPUD. You get a kick ball and a group of kids.The first person "it" holds the ball. You pick a topic. Example; Favorite food. Everyone tells the appointed speaker all their answers (you cant allow the person "it" to hear who has what answer. The speaker than tells the person who is "it" all the answers. "It" had to pick a answer and throw the ball as high up as they can. Who ever had their answer picked has to catch the ball. Everyone,included "it" then has to haul ass away from the person whose answer was picked and is now "it". The new "it",after they catch the ball,they scream out "SPUD!!!" and everyone has to freeze whereever they are. The new "it" than has to spell out the word SPUD, taking a huge step, jump,leap with each letter. Wherever they land, they have to throw or roll the ball to the group who ran in the opposite direction. If the ball hits them,they are the new "it".
Never realized how complicated this game seemed until I just now had to type out how to play. But it was so much fun when we were kids. The older we got, the more gross and funny the topics became. I came from a neighborhood where all the kids were around the same age and we all played together, both boys and girls. There were like 15 of us, so SPUD was perfect.
LordSidewalk · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would shove ourselves into a bin of stuffed animals, and close the lid. Then we would roll the bin down the stairs. Thinking back it probably wasn't the best idea to lock ourselves in a bin with no air holes in it, but who cares the game was fun as hell.
CoolStoryBro1919 · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill the carrier. All you needed for this game was a little bit of space, a football (American), and a group of adolescent boys who didn't really understand the ramifications of hitting your head on concrete. So basically one guy would start off with the ball and everyone else had to get him to the ground and when he was down he had to let go of the ball and the next person would pick it up and the game would continue. Needless to say the game was stopped pretty much anytime a teacher or authority figure realized what was going on but we used to play it on all sorts of surfaces, twas a lot of fun.
Strk3urout · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wrestling tournaments with my friends, if you go down you're out
KansasLaura · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings used to play “Satan Stew”. We would take an old oil pan or bucket and throw trash, dirt, sticks, rocks, etc in it, put some water in it and then make one of the siblings pee in it while everyone had their backs turned, then we would mix it up and go hide and wait for Satan to come drink the poison and die. So there’s that
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine and myself would save our other friends and their families by going behind their apartment complex, and switching these giant black switches on and off. For extra protection we would do it more than once.
One time we needed to save the entire apartment complex, and checked to see if the main leasing office had one of these switches. They did. So we saved everyone by flipping them once.
It was those switches from the main office that made us realize we were just shutting the electricity off on and off. We were playing with the breakers the entire time.
I try to remember if we always flipped them back on. As an adult now, I really feel guilty that I probably made someones fresh food in their fridge go bad.
obvioustroway · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Preface: Remember those half footballs that Nerf made?
Anyway, as a bored child growing up on a farm property without all of the benefits of living on a farm, I had to entertain myself.
One the farm buildings was a 25-foot tall 'Corncrib' building. The building was white and had several doors/hatches alone it's tall side.
Using the flat football I would step back a ways and throw for one of the square windows and if it hit, and I was able catch it it would be a 10/20/30 yard pass.
catheroni · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school had a water fountain outdoor on the play field. It was a little bit off to the side so we had some privacy. A group of 3-4 of my friends would take turns and someone would fill their mouths with water and the rest of us would try our hardest to make that person laugh so hard they spit out the water onto the grass. We were weird.
gonfich · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carmageddon
Nu_Skool · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game we called “Us Guys” when we were kids. It was basically LARP using sticks as swords and pinecones as grenades, fighting trees or other objects as main villains. The yard was always broken up into different levels and we would use a trampoline as a space ship and bounce to new planets.
thwinger · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Space Ball and The Ultimate Pringle Can Lid Game.
Space Ball is a 2 player game played in our unfinished basement. Luckily, there's carpet. On either end of the basement, there is a goal. It's just the wall. The ball is one of those really cheap kid's balls. You know, the rubbery ones that fly all crazy if you hit them? Almost always have a Disney character printed on them?. The rules are pretty straightforward- you have to wear socks on your hands so you can't grab the ball. You have to hit or kick the ball and try to score on your opponent. The only other rules were you have to stay on your knees the entire time, including when defending your goal. Also if the light gets broken, the player who broke it loses.
The Ultimate Pringle Lid Game is played in hotels where the doors have a short recess. Like this. Two players each occupy one of the recesses (the ones that are farther apart). A Pringle can lid is the "ball." The lid is thrown with the intentions of it landing in the opponents little recess on either side. The defending player can only touch the lid while it's in the air. If the lid lands fully in the recess, it's 2 points. If it's across the line, but not fully, it's 1 point, and if it goes under the door, it's an automatic win. First one to 21 wins.
mypatronusisacamel · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dookie-dookie bird” put a huge feather filled blanket over your head and run around the house while attempting to tackle your sibling(s) as the dookie-dookie bird...
Spooky_Potato6 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got two here:
1) "Gaybag", literally just tig but you say "gaybag" instead. Whoever was it at the end of breaktime was gay or had the "gaybag" until the next time the game was played.
2) "The spinning game", A group of friends and I would just spin around the playground with our arms out. Nothing else that was literally it.
IceCat530 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m not sure how popular this game was but my neighborhood friends and I had this game called “Spider”. We would all go to the park and the person who was “it” had to close their eyes and count to 10 and then they had to keep their eyes closed as they tried to tag someone. The catch is that the players who were not the “spider” had to stay on the playground equipment and couldn’t touch the ground without it being a big risk. If the players did touch the ground and the person who was it yelled “Spider!” Then the person who was on the ground was the next “spider”/“it”. Anyone who was caught/touched by the “spider” was also “it” next. We all had a fun time climbing around the playground and doing what we thought was parkour.
evdaddy821 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the beginning of every gym class in elementary school, we were allowed about 10 minutes inside the gym to just do whatever we wanted with a bunch of balls, scooters, etc, before moving on the whatever sport or lesson we had that day. A couple of my buddies and I would take advantage of this chaos and we would kick a kickball high into the air just to see it potentially land on an unsuspecting person. We had to stop after the ball hit the teacher in the face.
TotallyJawsome2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate Rugby. Came up with it during a boring day at summer camp. We're all American mind you, so the rugby part of the name came from what we imagined what the rules were. Anyway, we played with one of those thick foam footballs(the NFL style one...not a soccer ball) and it was a combination of handball, real rugby where you had to bounce the ball every so often, football, basketball, and hockey. How so you wonder? We played in the school gym. With no shoes? Just socks. So you would gain what traction you could without slipping and basically had to commit to a direction because it was impossible to juke or stop mid run which is where all the passing came in. If I remember, it was 3 points if you made a basket, 2 points for a kick, and one point if you just threw the ball past the goalie. There were multicolored pads lining the walls so we sort of used it like a goal. Basically it was just a bunch of 11 year olds sprinting uncontrollably around a gymnasium with no means of stopping while trying to murder whoever held the ball. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "leaf". Never seen it played anywhere else, and i would actually love to see a adult version of it. So there is this labyrinth drawn in chalk on the ground. The walls are see thru, and "push thru" , but you step thru a wall "you're out". Each team has a small triangle in the others team room the have to step on. (you can't thru the wall". Everything before hitting is acceptable, pushing, pulling, yelling, lying.
When the game starts, everyone is facing and you can grab one and keep him locked over the wall, so your mate can run off to one of the safe zones. There's lots of strategy to it.
Here's a profesional drawing i made: https://imgur.com/a/CHTHXBv
cilvyenn · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game that I still don't know the name of to this day. It would always get some laughs. The way it worked is this: You'd ideally have four or more players, a piece of paper and pen per player. Question #1: Where did you go? Each player writes where they'd go and then fold it and pass it to the person to their right. Question #2: Who did you see? Write answer and pass to the right. Question #3: What did they say? Question #4: What did you say back? Question #5: How did it end?
Now that everyone's answers are mixed up, ask the questions again and everyone answers with the mixed up papers. Great stories happen this way.
solituderequiem · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins are all boys at that time, they liked to play Credit card. They swipe the 'imaginary' credit card which is their hand between my brother's or other cousin's ass or armpit. That was absurd
rodfermain · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gallina siega, which means blind chicken in Spanish, in our garage. We would blindfold one person and turn the lights off. The blindfolded person would the proceed to try and tag someone. The fun part was trying to avoid the random objects in the garage because it definitely was not empty. The game usually ended when someone started crying because they hit their head on a lawn mower.
heftylefty44 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is Lava
Matty_Slam · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cops and Robbers, except on bikes and the game was won when the cops rammed their bike into the robbers and knocked them off, then proceeding to jump on them and beat the crap out of them
maxk713 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to play this game where we blind folded one person (usually just made them close their eyes tbh), had them sit on a desk chair, and then we would spin them on the chair. That person had to guess when they came to a complete stop. It was hilarious watching someone sit there, thinking the world around them is spinning when really nothing is happening.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would go into the bathroom, turn off the lights, then throw a bouncy ball as hard as we could. The object was not to get hit. There were no soft surfaces in the bathroom, so it would just ricochet until it hit one of us. This was the height of entertainment when it was raining out.
im2bizzy2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were four of us, very close together. One game we loved was "mashing behind the door," where one stands behind the door, against the wall, while the others all push on the door as hard as we can. It actually felt really good.
bgrein1993 · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I never really played with other kids, but I grew up watching shows like dragon ball z. I'd run around pretending to be a z-warrior who was best friends with goku.
earth_meat · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I would play a solo game based on robotech (macross)
I would draw two fleets of ships on opposites sides of a piece of paper (using ovals or small triangles) representing the Zendrati (composed of medium sized ova ships) and the humans (small triangular fighters). Sometimes I would add the SDF-1 or really small circles for the Zendrati pods.
Then I would give each ship a shot by holding the pencil tip on the ship and flicking it (kind of like how you would flick the eraser end when playing pencil war) across the page. The bigger oval ships took 3 hits to destroy the fighters and pods only 1. The SDF-1 didn't take hits exactly, but held a second wave of fighters if the first was destroyed. Since I was flicking the pencil, I didn't have precise control over where it went some sometime I would hit the target, other times not. Sometimes I would even hit a different ship (including friendly ships - a tragedy!).
I'd then take a turn for each side until one side was gone. At first you are hitting ships with every shot (target rich environment) but later on it's not as easy. At the end of the game you have a sort of history of the fight that looks like a bunch of perma-lines from tracer shots.
5ibes · 1 points · Posted at 17:09:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot peas and butter
The game starts when the game master (usually my friends older brother) would hide a belt somewhere in the yard. After the belt is hidden he yells “hot peas and butter, come get your supper”.
When the belt is found, the person who found the belt has to beat the remaining players with it until they reach the safe zone (which is also hidden) while yelling “supper time!”
The rules are simple:
1) no whipping people with the metal end
2) Everyone mud play shirtless
3) the safe zone must be indicated by a red shirt on the ground
4) if the belt is not found within 10 minutes, the game master may retrieve the belt and beat everyone until they run home because the game master is immune to the safe zone
To this day I have no idea if this is an actual game or if it was just an excuse for my friends brother to beat us with a belt
Good times
princess_intell · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Town AKA Mafia. Someone is "it" and chooses a mafia boss and an angel. Everyone closes their eyes (except for It), the mafia boss chooses someone to kill and the angel chooses someone to save; if they choose the same person, that person stays in, if not they're out. Continue until camp counselors tell you its time for the next activity.
Rebel_Redcoat · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to sleep in my parents bedroom when I was a kid. Back then, I used to think there were ghosts in my parent's en suite bathroom who would watch out for movement and get you if they caught you moving. To combat this, I developed what I used to call "Sleeping by moves," which was a system where I would lie there and wait for my parents to move in their sleep, and time the amount of time they moved. If they moved for three seconds, that meant that I could also move for three seconds and I wouldn't be noticed.
A lot of nights I would lie there for hours without moving, or store up move time to stretch or change positions.
I have no idea how or why I started doing that.
greenrees · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The 7 shards. I just found it hilarious because it was literally a game where you'd throw a ball (bowling style) at a pile of 7 shards of rocks and floor tiles. Once the tile is hit, the team that threw the ball needs to put the pile back up while running away from the other team, which will be chasing each player with the ball trying to dodge ball them out of the game. Some times we'd be putting the last shard back on the pile and someone wacked the ball on us, destroyin everything again. The round is won either by putting the pile of shards back up or burning all players of the team that is building the pile. Sorry if it made zero sense, still a great game!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play ball with a balloon.
shokk_mokk · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My church friends and I used to play Hunger Games, which evolved into making our own weapons with sticks as the game progressed. It ended when one kid made a bow with a stick and string he found and shot an actual arrow he had lifted from his dad's garage into my forehead. The arrow was did not have and arrowhead so I was fine, but it bled a lot.
Toxic_Puddlefish · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime we went to a hotel with a pool we’d play water Pokémon, which was just an excuse to splash each other and get water in our mouths to spit at each other like water gun.
CCCPenguin · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a sweet gum tree in the back yard near a trampoline. My brothers and I would throw a bunch of the spiky ball that the tree dropped onto the trampoline and then try and push each other onto the balls. We called it "the Spike Ball Game."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/americanorchard.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/the-most-dangerous-tree-in-the-suburbs/amp/
hardstylequeenbee · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rich”. My sisters and I would dress up in our grandma’s fur coats, jewelry, and makeup, and then make our youngest sister be our servant. We’d just sit around sipping water out of what we thought were fancy glasses, and tell our little servant to scrub the floor.
I think we watched too many soap operas back then.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a great one. We called it 'the cup game.'
Basically I had a unique situation where I had a trampoline on the side of a house, but a story above there was a deck. We removed the sides to the deck so it just became a wooden platform. We decided it would be a good idea if 4 players layed face up, with their heads facing the far edge of the trampoline. When someone yelled go, we'd all get up and start battling/wrestling/double jumping and seeing who could become victorious and grab the 'cup' above the door on the wooden platform. (It was basically a royal rumble meets ladder match, oh and also the trampoline was setup on a hillside where if you fell you'd roll down the hill). It was also fun to play in the rain. A few times someone would make it to the wooden platform but would somehow get pulled away before reaching the cup, and would fall down to the trampoline level.
5coolest · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Whenever a commercial ended on TV, my feet could not be touching the ground. I would put them up on the couch or jump just as it was ending. Also, when the kids went to Dragon Land, I had to be out of sight of the TV; usually hiding behind something. Same thing when the refrigerator closed. I would swing it closed and be out of view of it by the time it finished closing.
MrJoeSmith · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pencil poppers", I think we called it. We'd each choose a pencil. One of us would hold ours out horizontally, grasping both ends. The other person would pull one end of their pencil back and then let it go, "snapping" it onto the middle of their opponent's pencil. Then if the defender's pencil survived, they would get to strike their opponent's pencil. We would go back and forth like this until one person's pencil snapped, making them the loser. We used to try things like pulling out the eraser and flattening the metal bit, in order to create a "chopper", or use jumbo size pencils, or other things. I remember one of us tried covering our pencil with nail polish and letting it dry, thinking it might make it stronger. I used to play this with my brother. In hindsight it's a pretty dumb game, but it held our interest at the time.
hot_grey_earl_tea · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slay the dragon and rescue the princess. The dragon was pillows and blankets and swords were carboard tubes
LayzieKobes · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Civil war. You divide the room into two sides. Ea h side takes their playmobile toys. We had the civil war era with the Indians too so it was very historically accurate lol. Next you would set them up on the battlefield but theu had to be visible from the other side and couldn't not be locked in or jammed inti a crack. Finally you take turns trying to kmock the men down with rubberbands. You olay 1v1. 2v2. 2v1. Anyways you want as long as each side fires the same amount of bands per round. Clean up was a bit tough.
CranjissMcBasketball · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom taught me about key numbers. If it was 5:10 in the afternoon, the key number was 2. If she paid for a $15.49 bill with a $20, the key number was 4.51. You get the idea.
It was a lot of fun, but I’ll never forget my teacher looking at me like I’m an idiot when I asked when we were gonna discuss key numbers
5amDan05 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins would come over when we were younger and my mother would make my brother and I take them down to the basement to play. We made up a game called “Oonion Union”.
It was kind of like playing tag, but the person who was the Oonion Onion, carried a stick and chanted, “Oonion Onion” over and over for no reason. The Oonion Onion also couldn’t run or even really tag anyone.
I think the point of the game was to see how long someone would put up with being the Oonion Onion and to laugh at them the entire time.
IAmTommyZombie · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play this game called "Slava" in our backyards. It was basically that old kids game lava (for those that don't know, where you have to climb around on stuff because the ground is lava), but also tag. I don't know how we came up with that goofy name, but it added a new twist to tag, and it was fun as heck!
reddit-addiction-43 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “kick the can”. basically it was tag at night with a jail. set up a coffee can by the swing (jail) and if you could kick the can before being caught your teammates that did get caught got to run free again. We played at night on the farm lots of fun.
Supersuperturnip · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We 90s kids know spin fighters, similar to bayblade or battle tops. We would play spin fighters multiple days a week, but instead of using the tops and the bowl they are supposed to fight in, we would pick one out, proudly announce which top we were, then pretend to be the tops and spin around in the yard running into each other. Pretty sure there were tears every time, but still kept coming back to it for some reason.
Pigeonbanks · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother used to pretend to be a talking dog called ‘woof woof’ and I would be his owner. I always pretended to send him to the pound where he was constantly abused. Looking back on it, it seems like it was a bit dark for a child’s game.
FWMII · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Chicken Game” think kickball with one base, but you have to kick the ball wall swinging on a swing set. Hours of fun.
dewhirst994 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a video game that I played as an early teen called ‘Thief’. Basically, you had to hide in the shadows, not get caught and get the special loot.
One summer my friends and I turned this into a game we would play every day. There were lots of jitties (or pathways between houses with lots of high bushes on each side). We would each have a long stick or “sword” in case we got into close combat. There would be two thieves and everyone else was a guard. Being a thief consisted of hiding in the bushes and trying to make your way to the loot, and being a guard consisted of walking up and down the alleyway waiting to see a thief.
I don’t know how it lasted all summer because no one ever managed to steal the treasure.
Bond_Mr_Bond · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Avalanche! We had a staircase with walls on both sides and a door at the bottom. One person started at the top and threw anything not too hard down at the others trying to climb. This meant a pile of all the house's blankets and pillows were at the bottom cushioning your soft tumble down the stairs. First to the top got to throw the stuff for the next round. Many people had their mouths covered to hide their crying from mom.
streetMD · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor.
floofiies · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother had a spinning chair by her sewing machine in the basement, me and my brother used to take turns sitting in it and then spinning each other around, sounds normal eh? However, each corner of the room had a specific meaning, and if you stopped spinning and you were facing a certain corner you had to do a certain thing. There was this one corner, near the basement door, whenever you landed on it, you had to do into the dress up box and create the stupidest outfit you could think of, my brother would always put on this one dress that was too small for him. It couldn’t even reach his knees. It cracked me up every time I saw him wearing it. There were other corners like chocolate milk corner and “sexy lady” corner. I won’t explain those tho because this is already too long.
Chirish22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and two other guys would play a game with a soft volleyball using the roof of my garage. We would go in order throwing the ball on the roof and whoever was after you would have to return the ball back on the roof without it hitting the ground. It’s hard to explain but we used to play that intensely for hours.
boogs_23 · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On really windy days my best friend and I would tie bed sheets to the belt loops on our jeans and use them as sails as we road our skateboards down the street. It was a simpler time.
The_Dread_Pirate_Rob · 1 points · Posted at 17:10:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a few games i played on car rides... one where a rain drop or dot on any glass is the center of my reticle on a sniper rifle or sometimes rocket launcher. I would mercilessly murder whole towns and laugh while making pew pew noises. My family loved this game... /s
2nd game was i had a laser or lightsaber that stretched from 1 side of the car across the world to the other side at a certain height... and as we drove anything over this height was cut in half and i had to dodge some things and I'd pretend to have some people and items jump or duck over the beam. Fun times.
El_P1mp10 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After dinner, my great grandma and my sisters use to play a game simply called "Name-Country-Animal" . My gGrandma thought randomly of a letter and we had a couple of minutes to think and write down a Name, Last Name, Country, Animal a food or whatever columns we would add. All had to start with the letter my grandma thought of. Example. Letter A: Name Ariel, Last Name: Archibald, Animal: Antelope, Country: Argentina. Great memories that I still cherish
ReallyNotToxic · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Bicycle tag....you were on a bike and you have to tag someone by hitting the wheel with your wheel or by touching them while always being on the bike
We stopped playing since parents got worried about their kid coming home bleeding
We also played in a very small area with 3-4 cars in the way
crunchyNapkin66 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
M A S H... If you know you know.
thaMagicConch · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother told me about a game he would play at his buddies house. The mom would take naps and they would take turns hiding something in her room. The other would have to find it without waking her.
DoritoEnthusiast · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my friends played a game called “peg”. it was just a game where the person who was “it” had a baseball, then tried to throw the baseball at the people who aren’t “it” if you got hit then you were “it”. Very painful
Trooper2973 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hey Cow". Living around Amish country led to many long, boring drives through the farm land, so my brother and I would put down the windows in the back seat and scream, "HEY COW!!" when passing a pasture. Every cow that would look at you counted as a point. Whoever had the most points at the end of the ride won.
eqbirvin · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived on a farm towards the end of my imagination years and we had quite a few cats and chickens that were free roam so I would have an ongoing war between the cats and the chickens. There would be different battle scenes that I set up and different commanders for the cats and chickens. Even had a cover system that I designed for the cats because they were docile enough I can pick them up and move them behind milk crates that were out in the yard. Good times
AilurusRddt · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was about 7 or 8, and my parents and my friends' parents were massive nerds, so we were exposed to Metal Gear early on. When one of my friend's family moved to a new house, we used couches and the boxes to play hide and seek. We loved it when it lasted for a couple of days.
APlaguedDoctor · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we had recess in primary school my friend group would run around and collect all the pine needles and pine cones we could find and make huge nests, then we would take turns being “mama bird” and the mama bird would sit in the middle of the nest with all the pine cone “eggs” in their lap and command the rest of us to do different tasks. Sometimes we had to get more pine needles, sometimes more pine cones, sometimes we had to entertain mama bird.
I remember at one point me and a few friends got mad because the same person was always mama bird, so we split off and made our own nest. The other mama bird got upset we left and started our own nest so he would command his remaining followers to steal our eggs and destroy the nest and make his bigger
staticbleak · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had two: one was called " to the jungle find-out" and the other was called "ele-e-phant." Both had their own theme songs.
TacoOverlord69 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Crack the egg"
Everybody is on a trampoline and on person is curled up -the egg- and then we all have to jump on the trampoline in any way, even right next to them causing them to launch. We win when the egg cracks/ uncurls.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Hero School
We would all wear "capes" (a blanket tied around our neck). One person would be the teacher. The others would sit in a line or circle. The teacher would ask a simple math question. Whoever answered correctly got to stand up and choose their power, and then walk through the imaginary "power machine". After class finished and everybody had their power, we would run around and play with our new superpowers.
This was literally some of the most fun I had with my brothers when I was like 8. I was the oldest so I would always be the teacher.
DrBesty · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mystical Ninja 2 Starring Goemon for the N64. Basically feudal Japan platformer action with giant mecha fights and the most bumping OST.
Parks_N_Rec · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 3 other siblings and I would play orphans. We would were blankets and just be sad and lonely all the time. My older sisters would find bread and give us pieces of the loaf to eat. We would sleep under the table and play with one toy. You know orphan stuff. Our parents were proud.
abhlshek · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I used to eat a lot of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, and one time they included a game with the cereal. It was Sonic type game, except it’s all the animals from Kellogg’s , I actually loved it so much!
michelle032499 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mean Mother
Three of us would play this game--two are daughters, one the mean Mother... whose job is was to beat the daughters, starve them, force then into closets. Wtf
Novelaunn · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of the games I play with my brothers and cousins when I was younger was a game we called “dwarf”, there were two opposites rooms with a corridor in the middle, with two teams. Each group have to reach the other room but the game here was that we have to move kneeling while fighting with pillows, so you have to literally cross each other from above the other kids, even sometimes my brother will take a blanket and keep everyone inside it and all his team will have to cross over you. It was fun most of the game but there will always be some crying kid or some broken thing, still we play it a lot of times.
22Redtailed22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game of hide and seek with my dad once, but I couldnt find him. Dad, where are you, it's been 10 years. please come back.
crazydaisy8134 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I was so skinny I was off the charts. I looked like a skeleton, and my grandma thought my mom was starving me. My clothes were always falling off. So my sister and I would play this game where I’d put on a pair of pants and then run around the room until they fell off at which point we’d burst into laughter. We did this over and over again for hours.
Z0di · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mattress Sliding.
take a twin mattress and find some carpeted stairs. ride that sucker down until you hit the bottom, then carry it back upstairs for another ride.
warning: damages the carpet in a small way.
NCKRDY · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Light stick” - lacrosse played on a basketball court with a larger ball
Caleb_has_arrived · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I took a piece of water hose and attached it to a metal pipe for a makeshift whip so I could defeat imaginary hordes of demons and zombies. Good times.
iman_313 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide the Salami. Don't Tell Mommy."
Uncle Rick always had the best games.
Atlusfox · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my brother playing a lot of interesting older pc games. This was back when you would access the games via dos. One was where you were a robot patrolling an abandoned space station. Most of every thing was on lock down and you had to solve puzzles to access new areas. How ever a security bot also patrolled around and if it caught you, it was instant death.
A second was a racing game where you could build your own tracks. I would often build crazy tracks or large ramps just to see the car crash.
thugg420 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Right before entering highschool we made a game called, "Ninja." We played on the football feild next to the school when it was pitch black dark outside. The ninja would be given a black hoodie to lay down anywhere in the field. Watching that person lay down brought back memories from "it" cause they would completely vanish into the dark. If you got to the other side of the field without being tagged, you win. If you got tagged, you would join the ninja.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play a game in his driveway, where one of us would take an aluminum bat, and the other would take a hockey stick, and we’d try to smack a basketball past the other one. There was a center line that we could not cross, as an intuitive safety measure.
The bat was good for a powerful blast, but the hockey stick emerged as the superior choice, due to its long reach, and the ability to scoop and throw the basketball accurately. The bat also had the unfortunate tendency to rebound off of the ball and smack the user in the head occasionally, which I recall happening to each of us at least once.
Snoke001 · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tackle tag. Pretty much tag but your it if you fell onto your back after being tackled
Thedankestmemeboi · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called don't get anally penetrated with my uncle.
basedinspoons · 1 points · Posted at 17:11:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle specifically told me not to talk about it, sorry.
hballweg · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game
The_Milkman3 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child, so I spent an amazing amount of time with a shovel digging holes in the backyard. I think I found like a marble once and I thought I was Indiana Jones
CPAyylol · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dodge poop”, my friend growing up had horses and 10 year old us thought it was fun to start fights with the dried poop laying around. Our reasoning behind it was that it was just chewed up hay so it probably isn’t that gross.. that is until you’re winning and all of a sudden you get a steamy fresh heap flung into your face/mouth. To make it even richer we played baseball so I’d say we had above average 10 year old accuracy.
CharmedInBaltimore · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Plug. My cousins and I would put someone at the bottom of the slide. That person was the plug. The the rest of us would come down the slide trying to push the plug out. We’d pile up on each other until the plug popped. But before coming down as hard as possible we would declare what kind of food we were like “I’m a hunk of beef!”.
SuperScopeSix · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would set up army men, blockades, trenches... the whole nine yards -- across the room from each other. Then we would take turns throwing one of the army men. Any opposing ones you knocked down were dead and set aside, and any blockades you knocked over were also set aside. Then you got your army man back and set it back up over on your side and it was their turn. Winner was the last army standing.
DaneLimmish · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
T-rex
It was like tag, except the person who was the T-rex had to run around with little arms and roar and snarl.
brojay · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I invented a game called “frisbennis” which was a combination of frisbee and tennis. It worked really well on a court with a cage surrounding it. You could throw it off the fense to get creative with serves.
flamefreak01 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play a version of chicken where we would take the metal tipped lawn darts and throw them straight up in the air the last one to leave the circle won the game. I very clearly remember several times for the dart would woosh right by us as neither one of us wanted to move until the very last second. They're illegal for a good reason I suppose.
Pieman893 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school my best friend and I used to find a big ol' open field, get a good run... and purposefully trip ourselves... We weren't the smartest and it's probably a contributing factor as to why my shoulder dislocates BUT we did learn how to fall properly so that's a plus I guess. We called it "The Purpose of Tripping"
jaecydak · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
football without rules, now that i think of it football with weapons would have been a better name. we played normal football but at the same time had ropes and sticks to also fight the other team
Orbit_CH3MISTRY · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I threw a blanket over my head, called myself “Friend” and played Ring Around the Rosie with my sister who is 5 years younger than me.
shazam33 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost tag
Turn off all the lights in the house/apartment and put a sheet/blanket over who is "it." Then be quiet and hope the ghost doesn't tag you!
DinkandDrunk · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take turns walking alone to the woods at night with a flashlight, where the objective was to read an entire story out of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” prior to returning. The others would wait back in the yard, which was a fair distance away from the tree line and out of site from our spot in the woods with a break in the trees. Talk about getting the hairs on your neck to rise. Even just the illustrations were enough.
justjeff375 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Landshare:
Think “Art of the Deal” for 10 year olds.
We’d pull ALL of the board games, books, magazines, toys, tools, snacks, HVAC filters, PC parts and software, art supplies, Pokémon cards, PlayStation games, instruments, nerf guns, pillows...... you get the idea ..... out of the storage room in the basement.
Step one was deciding who gets what materials to set up their store. There were some standard rules, like if you got the pc game set with 25 discs you couldn’t also have the Correl Draw 17 disc box set software (Thanks uncle Rick for all of that demo software btw!) If you got the legos you couldn’t also get the K’nex set, BUT you may be able to procure the shitty MegaBlocks if there were only two of us playing. If there were three, there might be some haggling over that one.
Next you negotiate over which blanket or set of blankets you will set up your store on. Additionally, you needed to select fixtures to display your goods. I always picked the white quilt with red and black pattern that my grandma made. Great quilt for sales by the way.. thin enough so that you could crawl around on it comfortably unlike a big heavy sleeping bag (who wants to hang out in that store??) yet dense enough that it didn’t get all bunched up. I digress. We’d pick our blankets and fixtures which consisted of the plastic bins we’d just emptied all of this stuff out of, TV trays, etc.
We’d set up shop by laying out blankets all over the basement floor and commence trade. The idea was to get the best stuff so that eventually your shop and “life” was the best. We’d negotiate, barter, haggle and probably even steal. We’d go for a bit and then shut the lights off to indicate that it was night time where we’d then enjoy the fruits of our labor and visit with one another as our shops now served dual function as our homes. Once we’d demonstrated how much fun we were having with our stuff, the lights would go back on and it was time to work again, tidy up shop, visit the surrounding businesses to pick up some more goods, analyze the markets to determine what products might be hit that day and sell, sell sell.
This would go on for a while until someone somehow would amass a much better shop/house/life than the rest. Some of the trading was to get stuff we actually wanted to play with, some of it was just moving pawns around, I think there may have been some Pokémon trading going on which added a “for keeps” dynamic.
Anyway someone would win, then it was a complete pain in the ass to clean it all up.
Apparently were some entrepreneurial little shits.
Ni7r0us0xide · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I shared a room, whenever we were sent to bed instead of counting sheep we’d go back and forth trying to describe the grossest things we could imagine, trying to one up each other, trying to paint the grossest image in each others minds.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fat man Joe.
My older sister and I would stuff my brothers clothes with pillows, extra clothing, blankets, basically any padding we could find. Then we would throw him into doors, walls, down the stairs, beat him up. Only in the padded spots though. This was our thing until my brother and I became bigger than my sister. Then she noped out.
There was also hide and go seek in the dark. Yeah I know sounds normal, except one of my buddies would always hide naked, and then surprise to the person who was seeking.
We were odd. Good times.
MrMcCringleberry · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spider! One kid closes their eyes while attempting to locate and tag the other kids on the jungle gym. If you suspect anybody is off the jungle gym and in the sand, you can call “spider” to tag them. This would often result in us making mad dashes and leaps across the sand. The meta was to sneak up real close to the person who’s it and whisper insulting things to them before turning tail and sprinting away. Also if somebody was camping we’d try to give the spider instructions on how to get to them. Embarrassingly, a large group of us played this well into high school.
polycarbonateduser · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stand on a step in the middle of staircase take a long wooden stick pretend it's oar and i am rowing a boat - with my little brother as a passenger sitting on a lower step - me singing some folk song.
TranOfMagis · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still do this.
Any time I pass under a bridge while in a car, My family and I all duck. Don’t wanna bump your head after all!
I got my friend to do it too, and he told me he subconsciously does it now too. His family looked at him when he did it once like “What are you doing?”
He just responded with, “dont worry about it.”
charlie585 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Orange Game” My cousin and I would play in the spare room and pretend to go back in time by turning on the main light, this was an orange bulb for some unknown reason. We would then both get on a pedal of the unused exercise bike and peddled as fast as we could looking at the Orange bulb. Sounds pretty boring to be honest but we made up awesome games all summer.
Shadowking78 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child, I made up things like Box Fort Wars and The Floor is Lava (Every single child probably played the latter.) I also played a game with my step brother which we called Butts. Honestly looking back on it I have no idea why we called it that. It was really just us in our birthday suits and jumping off of the top bunk bed to the floor.
Now as an adult, strangely enough, I still tend to make games up. Like getting as much stuff done as I can and having to be back inside of the kitchen before the microwave timer ends and beeps. If I'm outside of the room when it beeps, I lose.
V1p3r0206 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it newspaper wars.
We would take rolled up newspapers and clip zip ties crooked at the end so it made a sharp point. There would be two or three of these on each paper.
We then spent an hour throwing them at each other.
Why? No internet or cell phones breed dangerous activities like this. Loads of fun. Also loads of bandaids.
mlober1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot what it's called but we would go on my friend's trampoline with a grapefruit sized ball and you would have to slap it into people's feet. If the ball hit you anywhere below the knee you lost a life. People would do flips and roll over the ball it was crazy. We had tournaments that would last hours.
hicmi · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MDK2, had nightmares because of it
Vadersboy117 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Infection”. It was tag based on the Halo 3 custom game settings where one person would start off as the original zombie and they would then run around and try to tag other people. If someone else is tagged, they are now also a zombie and try to tag the remaining people. The goal is to be Last Man Standing and have like 11 people chasing after you trying to tag you.
WhatTheJunk1313 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Whoever likes me, lay on top of me." It's pretty much what it sounds like. I wanted the cute girls from my neighborhood to lay on top of me, face to face. We played al afternoon but once my parents found out, they put a stop to it.
team-ram_rod · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were 5 of us so we took baths 2-3 at a time. While we were in the bath, the others would run past the door as fast as they could while we tried to hit them with wet facewashers. Mum's least favourite game.
poop_fudge · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Knock Your Socks Off" You take turns (1 throw each) trying to get a balled-up pair of socks to land on the top of the ceiling fan. 10 pts for a successful landing, 20 pts if you knock the other person's socks off, but you only get 1 throw.
jadubbs69469 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take fold up sleeping mats and lay them on the stairs, one side was like a clothe material and the other side was some kind of plastic, plastic side up. Then we would grab sleeping bags, card board boxes, pretty much anything that would side and cruised down that bitch. Great time until my dumbass decided to use a laundry basket and give myself a little extra boost by jumping down the first few steps and ended up smashing my little sister through the fucking basement drywall. That was the last day my mother let us do that.
unsuremeeple · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stab. We would do a random draw and one person was picked as the killer. Then we would all fan out around the house/garage/barn. The killer's goal was to secretly "stab" every other person, in private, killing as many of us as possible without revealing their identity. Once you were killed, you would scream dramatically and pose in a horrific death pose, while the killer ran to hide and then faked surprise when everyone turned up to see who died. We would form alliances, and the non-killers had to unanimously pick the killer to win. Once the killer was found, we would start again. We would play for hours and hours and it went on for years.
EskimoKissess · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in an apartment complex with a patch of grass in the center and all the neighborhood kids would play there. The ages ranged from 10 to 15 and we would get either a pair of scissors or a screwdriver and try to get it to stick into the ground by throwing it. The following person would have to put their foot where it landed and so forth until a person lost their balance. We called it suicide.
lorhill · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Deathbe” (sort of like team freeze tag) it is played once a year at our huge Easter party. There are two teams the kids and the adults (often time the fathers and older brothers of the kids) adults would have footballs, frisbees, and normal and small sized dodgeballs. The kids would all start at a “base” the adults would then call out a new base somewhere in the yard (example birch tree or some sort of landmark) the base the kids would currently be on would no longer be safe after 5 seconds and they have to run to the new one. The adults would then throw the items mentioned earlier and if you were hit you were frozen and could only be unfrozen by another kid coming and picking you up. This would go on until all the kids are frozen or until the adults got tired. We layered added objectives such as moving a flag from the middle of the yard to a base.
jjrowe1232 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost and the the witch. Just one of the amazing games my brother and I played. One would wear a sheet, the ghost, and the other would hit them with a broom. I guess the point was to see if the ghost can catch the witch. Spoiler alert the ghost didnt win very much.
BossHoggsWadeBoggs1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and two cousins would get baby sat by my grandma everyday and during the summer. We grew up watching Benny Hinn(sp?), the televangelist that could heal people.
We would have one person play as Benny and two ushers on either side of the 4th person. "Benny" would come up and place his hand on the (4th)person who needed healing. They d place their hand on their forehead...making them pass out slowly backwards and the ushers would catch them.
Switch and repeat.
HyperNovaDeluxe · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with myself when i was little where my imaginary friends would draw on the wall and i had to try and figure out how to stop them. (basically it was just me drawing on the wall while verbally telling them to stop drawing on the wall)
nickahr · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor who is basically my brother and I used to play “Every Game” where we would just pretend to be different video game characters and run around our yards with sticks yelling sound effects from the smash games
We also played “Little Toys” with all of our different action figures from dragon ball Pokémon and all Nintendo characters. I saw a box of them in my closet cleaning last week and it brought on some feels
monkeyburrito411 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Eat it"
My brother, cousins, and I would rip grass off the lawn, throw it at each others faces and yell "eat it". This game was weird.
FatherBucky · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called broomball, which was basically hockey on roller blades using a broom and a golf ball. My sister made me do these tryouts before I could actually play on my own team. There were two of us playing this game, so I don't know what her backup plan was for if I didn't make the team xD
beejx · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm the youngest. My older brother and older sister invented a game called "Booger Boy" and I was always the Booger Boy. It was basically a game of tag in the house, and everything I touched turned into a giant booger that could no long be used as base.
GiandDwarf · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MMMMIIIIINNNNEEECCCRRRAAAFFFTTT
Blueeyedfire · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghetto sledding, cardboard box + dry af grass = neighbourhood past time
Sammyjz11a · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in second grade, a buddy of mine would find pine straw around the playground, and build “houses”. We would lay a perimeter and just pretend that there were walls. We went to a school that had a mock city government/ economy system, so we understood that people needed to be paid to maintain/ protect our house. So we paid other kids whatever change we had to defend/ clean our pine straw home.
Many_Fly · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would collect leaves and race them down the street gutters when it rained pretending they were boats
enriqed · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While watching TV, my siblings and I looked forward to the commercials because we kept score of who could guess the featured product/brand first.
bmcdevitt524 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend growing up had a pretty worn down trampoline that we played on all the time. There were holes in the nets and one section of the netting was sagging so much that there was essentially no barrier there. So we thought it’d be a good idea to create the “running game”. It consisted of 10 kids just running around in a circle on medium sized trampoline trying to knock each other to the ground until only one person was left standing.
No one ever got hurt, surprisingly, and I maintain it’s the best trampoline game.
communisuk · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to ring on neighbours door bells and run, so this used to work in the following manner, We used to live in a society with flats on 9 floors, each floor had 2 flats, and one of them had their entrance right next to the central staircase. If we had to ring the bell at the 9th floor (let), so we used to stop the lift at the 8th floor, half of the gang would stay in the lift to keep it open, and half of us would go up and ring the bell like 10-15 times repeatedly, and immediately run downstairs and get into the lift, after getting down, we used to sneak out from the parking located at the first floor, which had a wall above it, so no one could spot us from the balcony. A lot of people lodged complaints against this and brought it up multiple times society meetings, now they have cctv cameras on each floor, and we had to stop, btw, I’m 18 and I used to do this till last year, and I’m not ashamed of it ;)
mrwizard24 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At recess in kindergarten we played "hide and seek tag" where a seeker would have to close there eyes as everyone else hid in a small playground area and then when they oppend their eyes we would try to get the other side of the playground while the seeker tried to tag us if someone got tagged they would then be on the seekers team and we kept going untill everyone was a seeker
lindsaybethhh · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Get Off My Lawn”: One person stands up at the top of the stairs, around the corner where no one can see them, and pretends to be an old man/lady. The other players try to climb the stairs as quietly as possible, and if the “geezer” up at the top catches you, while yelling “Get off my lawn!!”, you all go back down to the bottom.
The things that entertained us before we had all of the technology kids have now.
jstucco · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hedgecore. Basically running as fast as you can and jumping into hedges.
aKiDnamedMowgli · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Beanie Baby Throw Up”
My sister and I would put all of our beanie baby’s in a pile and run in a circle, grab a bunch of them and throw them in the air, catch which ever we could, and throw them onto the couch. Rise and repeat until one beanie baby was left. This one was “out” and we played until we had a champion. Best. Game. Ever.
Matty_Slam · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one is a classic: Red Rover. For those of you who weren’t blessed with this game, it starts with two people linking arms. One person charges them and tries to break through their linked arms, if they don’t get through they have to join the chain. If they do breakthrough they go to the back of the line of people waiting to bull rush the chain of people. At my elementary school this was a teacher organized recess until some injuries got it banned.
StormZerith · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On road trips my family and I would play the "ABC Sign Game". We would look for signs that had the corresponding letter in it but one person couldn't move to the next letter until everyone had finished the letter we were on. We also couldn't use the same sign but we could use the same word on a different sign. Since we couldn't move on until everyone finished it made the game last a lot longer and it's still one of my favorite games to play while driving although since I don't live near a zoo anymore we've upgraded to where Q, X, and Z can be on license plates.
Insecure_Daniel · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
King Of The Wall
The game was wrestling, But on a wall! Basically you had to wrestle your opponent off the wall and whoever wrestled everyone else off would become the King. Really dangerous but fun at the same time
internetflowers · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “Poké World”. My cousins and I used to collect Pokémon cards when we were younger and my oldest cousin made up this game. It was like a side scroller RPG game where there were main quests and and side quests. We could pick our Pokémon, gain teammates, or socialize with other Pokémon. We would throw all of the cards on the floor and she would make the trees, bosses, background, etc out of the cards themselves (because we had sooo many cards). She was (and still is) soo imaginative and creative. It was our (or at least my) favorite pastime.
taylormadecheese · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Their was this one game where you where a deer that hunted humans
HaungryHaungryFlippo · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh Lord.. not terribly unique. We played Chicken on the playground not far off from how it is played in the pool except we played on wood chips and gravel.
For anyone unfamiliar, it is a game wherein one person rides on the shoulders of another and they attempt to throw other "riders" off of their mounts. I lucked out in that the dude I almost always paired with ended up being a 6'6" special forces dude later in life. And I am 5'9" nothing special now. It was a fantastic pairing for this game.
I remember one time we threw two people down a slide. Idk how we even got to the top...
Androxus19 · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trying to save my ass from getting whooped. Yeah, I'm Asian.
ethanlan · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillow Duels. You each start on one side of the room and you got a pillow. First person to hit the other with the pillow wins. You can throw it but once you throw it you are exposed if your enemy didnt throw it. First person to 5 wins.
IndyClear · 1 points · Posted at 17:13:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goalie Ball: in my elementary school we had a handball court right next to a hill that had a low brick wall to help support the wall. Two players, one the kicker and the other goalie. The point was to kick the handball against the handball board and try to get it past the goalie and hit the low brick wall.
It was my claim to fame as I came up with the game and they played it for years, even after i left the school.
travishummel · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time we were backpacking around the age if 10. We setup camp at 5pm with lots of sunlight left. We created this game that was a little like chess with lots and lots of rules. It boiled down to throwing rocks at other rocks. So many rules. Then the sun went down.
It turned out it was more fun to argue about the fairness of the rules than to actually play. 10/10 would play again
Whyx_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have an A frame at school. We played a game called lava sharks. Someone had to be the lava shark and drag the others through the cracks in the A frame at which point they were also a lava shark. Needless to say we got injured and it was banned quite quickly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school there was this game called fairy killers where the boys would have to poke the girls for no reason
SFishes12 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
King of the swing
McROB13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother-in-law and I made up a game called TASAEO (pronounced Tass-E-Oh), which stands for "Throw a stick at each other." It's kind of like two-person dodgeball but with a stick and less mobility.
Rules: Best played outdoors. You find a stick that is not too bulky but with enough weight to be thrown fairly accurately (≈10-15˝ long and maybe 3/8˝ thick). Two players stand an arbitrary distance apart and face each other. The goal as the thrower is to throw the stick at the opponent and hit them for points. Body shots equal one point, while head shots equal three. The other players goal is to dodge the stick without moving their feet. As a defender/dodger you may do as much wiggling/twisting as possible, but if your feet move the thrower gets a point. If you catch the stick, you get a point. A dropped catch counts as a hit for the thrower. The game is won when a player reaches a set amount of points (I think we usually went to ten).
Fabtacular1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When riding in the car, I would force perspective with regard to a spot on the window by closing one eye and then switching. This caused the spot to “jump” to the left/right.
Then I would make the spot jump over telephone poles, pedestrians, etc. as we drove.
just_some_fuckin_guy · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey wars. You’d each start on end of the monkey bars and try to get the other person to fall off. Usually just consisted of us kicking the shit out of each other.
GotStucked · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played outside with live friends.. I think thats rather unique nowadays
Ok, now I feel old
CharismaticPluto · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Started a fake club at school called the “Wilderness Club” where we walked around at recess commenting on the weather and fallen leaves. We met every Tuesday.
MATASMMMM · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wedding" it was a wedding basically we kissed......... we were 4
Drippyer · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friend and I would line up at different ends of the hallway and we would close all of the doors to bedrooms and bathroom so that it was an enclosed rectangle. Then there was this soft ball that you would blow up to inflate (I want to say it was Koosh or something) and you would have to wail it down the hallway and get it to hit the door behind the other person.
Broke a few picture frames that way....
Found a picture of the type of ball! I remember my ball being like blue or green though, not purple :/
theeyeguy84 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Escape” - my dad would contort his body into a series of loops and bridges against the wall next to the bed. My 3-year-old self would slither between them trying to get from the head of the bed to the foot without touching him. If so, his limbs would collapse into an avalanche of giggles and tickling. Good times.
butt_stuff99 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shitstick"
Some people would run around the neighborhood at night trying to hide from the 2 people in a car rolling around with a flashlight. If the spotted you with the flashlight you were out, however if you were baring your naked ass at the car prior to being spotted you were free to go another round.
tcruarceri · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind Mans Bluff. All i remember was blindfolding someone, giving them a broom stick and the game was over as soon as someone broke something of moms. I imagine the goal was to find the other players but i have no memory of that ever happening. Also What time is it Mr. Fox? and Red Light, Green Light...
salmonnigiri1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 2 sisters and I had a “game” called the “butt club” in which we would take turns pulling our pants/ underwear down in front of one of our parents with their backs turned and tried to last as long as possible before they would turn around. As they were turning around we would quickly pull our pants back up and we had a blast doing this as it involved quick reflexes. We would often do this in the kitchen while my mom was cooking or doing the dishes. None of us ever got caught by our parents with our pants off. Don’t worry we stopped after I turned like 7 years old and I’m the oldest kid.
I_TensE_I · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little my dad used to take me to the firing range. I liked it, but the most exciting part to me as a kid used to be collecting the shell casings. I would collect hundreds of them and then build race tracks and castles out of them. They were my Legos. And no I grew up in Europe.
Monkeyonfire13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Using a stop watch trying to get the timer to stop at one millisecond. Now I can feel time.
reshard27 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Shark attack."
Basically all of us would lay horizontally on our stomachs across a bed and we were only allowed to look straight ahead. The "shark" would be on the other side of the bed by our feet and would try to pull us off the bed one by one all while everyone held on for dear life. You could help save someone or you could help the shark and push the other players off, but eventually the last person the survive won the round.
CatherineConstance · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know how unique this is, but me and my cousins were really into scary stories/books/shows and especially the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. Me and two of my cousins would always read the books, the older one read them to us before we could read, and then the two of them (they were brothers) would make a "haunted house" in their room or the living room or wherever for me and their sister to go through. Shit was SO fun damn I miss it.
motioncity007 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play this game called Deadman where one person had to lay on the ground and everyone else chanted "dead man dead man come alive, come alive at the count of 5...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, come alive" and then the dead person would stand up and walk around with their eyes closed and try to find the rest of us. It was supposed to be played on the trampoline but we didn't have one so we played in the front yard. It was essentially Marco Polo minus the pool now that I think about it
imfrigginsickasfrick · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Avalanche” Cover the stairs with blankets and pillows then proceed to take turns falling down the stairs as others threw more pillows and blankets down after you.
BlueFeet9000 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play "Help! Help! The couch monster is eating me!" when we were maybe 8-10ish.
We had this couch in the basement that unfolded into a bed. Not a pull out couch or anything with a metal structure: it was basically a big long foam pallet that folded onto itself in thirds to be a couch. One of us would crouch inside the thing, under the folded couch seat, and yell the name of the game. The other would SPRINT from across the room to save them. The goal of the game was for the person in the couch to leap out at the right time so that the couch unfolded into the jumping kid's legs and clothesline them into the gaping maw of the couch monster. Biggest points went to the best flip, with credit going to the kid in the couch for the timing.
We played for at least two years, until my parents gave the couch away.
Ukimera · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother duct taped me to a poll in our driveway once and said when I got out I could tie him up and we would see who escaped the fastest. Well it wasn't a game, he just wanted a longer turn on the N64 and left me outside for 3 hours.
MortyMcSanchez · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
congolese mud wrestling
butters991 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved red rover. Hold arms with your class team as the other team holds arm. Basically one team calls out a name. The person who is called runs full speed at them. If he makes them break the arm link he picks a person to go on their team. If he couldn't he joined their team. It was great and yes alot of us were clotheslines and fell to the pavement. Why we didnt play this in the grass field who knows. The teachers let us do it. No one ever got hurt either.
Now a days, if a teacher would see this, they would probably stop it for safety reasons and console Tommy because no one called him over and he is hurt about it...
JayStar1213 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee ball got really intense. Also Sardines.
_DOLLIN_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school has pecan/walnut trees and we used to, and kids still do this, have scavenging races followed by eating contests for finding walnuts and pecans. No one stopped us coz it was enjoyed by teachers as well. We also played "lets chuck acorns at people and who ever goes unnoticed the longest wins". The later was really fun :).
boyonthemoon · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sibilings, and cousins used to play "the monster game" when we were little. Me (being the oldest) was always the monster. I would hide in the basement, make a bunch of pillow forts and setup little decoys. Then when all the little ones would come down and I would scare them and jump out and wrestle, etc.
No real goal or purpose, but we would do this for HOURS. No matter how many times I would hide and "jump scare" from the SAME spot, they would always freak out.
We're all in late teens, early twenties now and have a "shitty horror movie" tradition after Thanksgiving dinner now.
bacchus213 · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it, "Crash, Bang, Biddle, Boom"
When I was a kid, there were a few of us that would go down into the basement of our apartment building that had a poured concrete floor that was smooth and kind of slippery.
We'd wrap ourselves in pillows with bungie cords, and run and slide on blankets toward each other, with the goal of knocking one or the other over.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhman · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car crash. My friend had a trampoline with a net fence around it and we just jumped in circles and tackled the shit out of each other.
ProfessorShitDick · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hero's Hearts by Everrett Kaser Software.
Alice_In_Kingston · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and older brother came up with it. They called it "the bum game" Basically you are trying to sit on your siblings face and fart on them while they hopelessly defend with their feet XD It still gets talked about today even though we are all in our late 20s
Acquilas · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister would pretend to be passed out while myself and my younger sister would drag her to the bathroom and flush her head down the toilet. Not sure why.
tperelli · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I called it Lizzard. We would turn off all the lights in the basement and hide. The seeker would try to hunt us down while we tried to sneak to the stairs. If you made it to the top of the stairs you won. If you got caught you lost. So much fun.
yinkat · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play “Mr Fat Cats”.
We would parade around sticking our tummies out super far and seeing who could be the manliest. Along with that we would try to serve each other “ice cream” from magnolia tree buds. The Mr Fat Cats ran the whole town!
Oh and it had a certain song we would yell too. This went on from about 5 - 9 years old. Super fun.
PositiveSupercoil · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While driving in the car I’d simultaneously watch the light poles on either side of the road. The goal was to not have my head tilted in the direction of the pole as we passed it.
I’d tilt my head left to right, changing before the next pole on that side approached. If the poles were placed unevenly on both sides, my head would go left, hold there a bit, right, hold, etc., but if they were similarly spaced I’d have to quickly go right left right to dodge both on each side. If they were exactly the same I’d tilt my chin up to jump over both at the same time.
I definitely looked ridiculous tilting my head side to side, up and down, but it helped pass the time. I’m 25 and still do it. Fuck I’m weird.
kavajua · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slide Tag: grew up with a trampoline so my friends and I were on it 24/7. We'd put the sprinkler over it so it was constantly keeping the trampoline wet. We'd then slide into each other, think like a soccer tackle. There were two modes: one was traditional tag style, one person it, having to slide into others to "tag" them, the other was 3 lives each person - once you got slide into you lost a life - last person standing.
pickettbryan · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a brand new subdivision in Texas. We had a coldasack (SP?) and I used to shoot a bow and arrow almost straight up to where it would land on the other end of the coldasack. While it was in the air I would run over there and try to catch it before it landed. Last time I "played" it hit right between my legs and I never even saw it. Man I was dumb.
vijilefiji · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I used to set up 'treasure hunts' around the house (we often made those chocolate doubloons the prize). We wrote and hid cryptic clues around the house for the other person to find, incrementally leading up to the treasure. Sometimes we'd go all out with the aesthetic and crinkle/ stain the clues like old bits of treasure map. Also, we played freeze tag in the dark with a flash light as the 'tagger.'
turktastik · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GLADIATORS: At home, my sister and I would give each other ten minutes to go around the house to find armour and weapons.
My favorite set up was a Easter basket used as a face mask, I put two shin guards on my arm as armour and used a belt as a whip and a comb as a slashy knife.
We have weird scars...
At school a friend and I would use the fallen Palm fronds. The ones with the teeth and use them as swords and Halberds entirely based on what we found
Cheeriomartinez · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slapping each other really hard on the head and then saying that a fly or spider was on them. Wasn't really a game since the fly was always on me, now that I think about it.
lemonlady7 · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would gather things from our yard (leaves, twigs, berries, grass, flower petals, etc.), put them in a frisbee and pretend it was a salad and then run around with it and try to feed it to people.
molly__hatchet · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh my gosh. I was obsessed with unicorns when I was around 8 or 9. I was also an only child, so had to spend a lot of time playing alone. I used to take this foghorn my dad had (he's a sailor), put it around my neck, and gallop around our yard pretending I was a unicorn. I have a very vivid memory of blowing the foghorn dramatically in the front yard, only to see a couple who were taking a stroll down our street staring at me. I can't really tell you what the game was. I was just...a unicorn.
ResonantDeer · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Root tag! Basically you’d find a big tree where a lot of the roots were poking through the ground and play tag on them. You had to stay on the roots and you could take a 30 second timeout by holding onto the tree. It was the best when there were multiple trees to jump roots.
brianakf · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play a game in the car during road trips where one person would listen to music in headphones and lip sync and the other person would have to try to guess what song. We had other weird rules that went along with it, but my memory of those isn't as strong.
Hardcore_Will_Never_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to go down to my uncle's basement and he made me close my eyes for 10 minutes while I felt something wet and warm slide in and out of my asshole. Always wondered what that thing was lmao
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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hobbiesincludebaths · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg manhunt! I remember that one.
AverageHeathen · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I had our own talk show that we recorded into my brown Fisher Price recorder. It was called "Gross Talk" and we talked about boogers and poop and the like. I wish I still had one of the tapes.
zzzyx3 · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would lay out mats and basically have a really intense pillow fight mixed with wrestling with no mercy. We called it colosseum
Caverwoman · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would stay up late when she stayed over. My dad had a big collection of those small bar soaps from hotels, and we would wait until he went to bed, then come into the kitchen and "carve" them with with toothpicks into little people so we could play pretend. We were embarrassingly old at this point, like 13 or so.
insanecee · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will get buried... and downvoted. But in high school we would play a game called, "concentration camp". Basically, we would set up in the auditorium of our school. One person would be in the back of the auditorium manning the spotlight and everyone else would be on the stage. From there we would kill all of the lights and try to escape moving from the stage to an exit without a spotlight hitting you. If it hit you, you were captured.
coolasafool462 · 1 points · Posted at 17:15:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Chaos Crisis". Our elementary school had wood and metal playgrounds with the wide metal slides and the thick metal bar across the top. We would all stand at the bottom of the slide and then yell "Chaos Crisis!" and then fight to get to the top, no holds barred. Once you were at the top, you maintained your position by shoving and kicking everyone coming up the slide. I have no idea how you won.
This game was banned, needless to say.
staceywacey · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tackleball. My dad made this one up. We would take a handball into our back yard and throw it onto the roof. When it rolled back down, who ever caught it would have to run and touch the back fence while everyone else tried to tackle them. I don't remember there being a score keeping component, but I do remember my dad catching the ball most of the time and letting my sister and me tackle him every time. We would play for 10 or 15 minutes, however long it took for my grass allergy to start being unbearable, then we would go inside and have a snack (after I washed whatever body parts were red and itchy, usually arms, legs, neck).
Good times.
Dr_lawlz · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yume Nikki. No point to this game other than to experience it.
choppedrice · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play fun fun football and blackout hide and seek tag. fun fun football was only played in the snow, 2v2. no downs, the only thing that stopped play was out of bounds or touch down. basically us wrestling in the snow trying to get the football to the end zone. basically a mix of kill the cow and football but more violence.
blackout hide and seek tag we played at my one neighbors house when his parents went out at night. We’d turn off all the lights, try to block windows if there was light coming through and then the fun would ensue. all of us running through the house in the complete dark was a blast and as we were a rough group we’d almost always break something (vases, windows, shelves).
One other memorable one was there was a CVS near us with a huge wall thing around it because it was on the top of a hill. that year there was a huge snowstorm like 2-3 feet at least and school closed for a week so we’d go to the cvs and play the game of “who could jump from the highest place on the wall without getting hurt”
Lidbed2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we called “sock ball”. We would ball up 20 pairs of socks and stand across the room from each other. Then, one of us would get 30 seconds to throw every “sock ball” at the other. The goal was to hit the other person as many times as possible in thirty seconds while they tried to dodge the socks. This created so many arguments over whether or not the hit counted that we had to recruit my little sister to be the judge.
catacavaco · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ranca",
all the kids during recess, as many players as we could muster
one soccer ball,
no consecutive kicks allowed, you can only touch the ball once after someone else has kicked it,
if the ball hits you, all the kids will come after you and punch/hit you as hard as they can
after some time it was banned at school due to being too violent (go figure)
I'll let you guys figure out the country :)
InsaneThespian · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god this is my time.
My elementary school's playground was divided into a younger kids section and an older kids section by a big concrete building, it was the tallest building in the school and was storage for PE equipment. As soon as the bell would ring for lunch, my friends would grab our pencils, sprint across the yard towards this building, snap our pencils in half and try to throw the pieces on top of the building while shouting "Mexican Adventure!". Due to our feeble fourth grade arms this would take all of lunch. We didn't keep score, we just called it Mexican Adventure. Then we'd go back to class and make up some excuses about not having pencils. I have no idea why we did this, why it was called that, or whether I was unknowingly racist as a fourth grader. Probably best left to time.
FingerFlikenBoy · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was probabaly in first grade me and my cousins would play the "Stair Jump Game". Essentially, the game is starting at the first step of a case of stairs and jump off of that stair to the bottom of the stairs. You would move up to another stair every time you passed the previous "level" and you would keep on going until you got too scared to jump off of whatever stair you had made it to. Let's just say that this game resulted in more than a few broken ankles.
FuPA_Nat10N · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I created a game to play in my head on scantrons for standardized tests when I was in early elementary school. The premise of it is you have a character that jumps from bubble to bubble going down the column, but your character can only jump two spaces left or right (ex. from bubble a to c but not from a to d).
When you come across the issue of needing to make a large jump, you need to use a point to get across with a “super jump”. You score points by chaining 3+ jumps that are directly next to you (ex. From a to b to c =+1 pt), or from ground pounding through the bubble you’re standing on onto one underneath it (ex. a to a = +1).
As I went through different phases, my mental image of the character and their abilities have changed. When I was really into Pokémon, my character was a Pokémon trainer and the “super jumps” were me calling out my Pokémon to help me get across. So, in a way I was kind of adding DLC to it lol
I’m finishing up high-school right now, and I still play this subconsciously on all of my tests with bubble sheets
andrecht4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Changing animals
EmphaticChain · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Game". I have 2 older siblings, brother 8 years older and sister 5 years older. We would say to each other 'let's play "The Game"' so that our mom wouldn't know what we were up to...then we would go to one of the upstairs bedrooms, go to opposite corners of the room, and turn off the lights. When the lights were off you would crawl around and hit anyone you found in the darkness. Taught us a lot about sneaking and a lot about dodging flailing limbs in the night....God we were stupid. So much fun though.
elderassassin2580 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin lives in Michigan and snows a lot up there. Whenever I used to visit him in the winter I would bring all my nerf guns, and we would play “zombie winter apocolypse”. We would go to the park get four tables, flip them on their sides and basically rp a whole zombie apocolypse
TheBearJew9475 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"DeWalt" we had a mini DeWalt branded life jacket that went on a teddy bear (probably) it was heavy enough to throw it at each other so we would go out at night and played tag with it. You got hit, you were it and so on and so forth.
raxci · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walking back from school me and some of my friends played a game called "lamp post" where while walking/running in front of each other we would stop suddenly causing the guy behind to ram straight into your back. This then evolved into people shoving each other into actual lamp posts really hard
NebulaNu · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game we just called "Suits." it was like if pokemon and Gundam had a baby. I was the story teller and the npc/enemies and my friend was the hero. He would seek out enemies, defeat them and acquire a power shard. If it was of a type (grass, electric, fire, ect) he already had, it would either power up an existing power or learn a new power based on a coin flip. And new typing would earn a new power of that type. Eventually he'd gotten powerful enough to start fusing types by holding onto the shards instead of using them right away. It was such a fun way of running around during multiple summers.
mikethejust · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Machine Gun" -- basically my siblings and I would beat eachother up on the trampoline with rapid fire punches. The first to fall off or cry would lose.
Kathubodua · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will probably reveal my Reddit acct for any family member, but when the Casper the Friendly Ghost movie came out, Pizza Hut had these plastic glow-in-the-dark puppet-like toys, one of which was Casper himself.
My bedroom was in the basement, so we would remove everything breakable, shut out all light sources, get Casper all glowy, and then chuck him at each other in a blind sort of dodgeball/tag. It was pitch black, and the only thing visible in the room was Casper zipping around. It wasnt a huge room either, standard bedroom size. There were lots of black eyes and bloody noses, but we are saving Casper for the next generation. So much fun.
Seraphtacosnak · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this is a real game, but we played “blind mans bluff.”
Its basically tag in a room while the tagger is blindfolded and the others have to be quiet or else he will tag you.
Nicox37 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While on a car ride I would "activate" an imaginary laser sword attached to the door mirrors where the length of it would be the first thing the laser hits, so that I could cut stuff up while the car moved. I even had an imaginary point system where you gained points every time you were cutting something up and lost points whenever there was empty space and therefore wasting the sword's energy, so you had to have good hand-eye coordination and reflexes (I activated it clenching my right leg for right laser and my left leg for the left laser) to optimize the weapon's energy usage.
I still play it from time to time, it's pretty fun.
Gwens95 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Radio Host/ Gwens95-Talk". From when I was 4 to when I was 12, I had this super kid-friendly speaker, and it came with a microphone attached. I used to 'interview' my parents, friends, dolls, and just about anyone who was willing to put up with me. When I was 8, my dad showed me how to record on cassette tapes, and when became 10, I got a new cassette recorder (but I kept using my old one) and renamed my show "Gwens95-Talk 2.0".
In then end, I had about 6 cassettes of my 'show', but when I moved states, I can only find two.
bobs_aspergers · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stand in a circle.
Throw lawn darts straight up.
Be the last one to move.
altof · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock, paper, scissors, but with added tornado, fire, and lightning.
McBeanerton · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Duck, Duck, Grey Duck
"How it is supposed to be played" -All Minnesotans
anatoliy0813 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crash Time 3 - Highway Nights and Crash Time 4 - The Syndicate. It's a German freeroam car game. Best game ever. It also has lots of mods for it available for download and you can play up to 4 players with game controllers.
Garbagewars · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GARBAGE WARS!!! My litter sister and I were tasked with taking out the garbage. Somehow it was always piling up and so we’d usually take 2-3 bags out at a time. Now, we were easily frightened so the fact that we procrastinated until dark meant we had to do something besides just running to the trash area in our complex and back. Once into the main parking lot you’d quickly start swinging the overloaded bags of trash over your head and try to hit the other person. If garbage juice got on you it was an instant win for the opponent. The crazy thing is we both are germaphobic so it was pretty traumatic to get anything on you. 10/10 I’d still do it today.
SFWpornstar · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Monster.” You’d turn off all the lights in the house. 2 teams—monsters and humans. Imagine hide-and-seek + Left for Dead: the goal is for the humans to defeat the monsters (using nerf guns) before all the humans are turned into monsters by being tagged. Humans can barricade themselves for protection, and monsters can use household items/locations to conceal themselves (sheets, closets) from detection. The game ends when either all humans have been turned, or when all monsters have been defeated (you cannot be un-turned).
stevenmbm · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rollis-Polises.
This was in the mid/late 90s in a condominium complex when I was in grade school (7-10 years old) and had a group of about 7-8 similarly aged friends, all within about two years of each other.
We would play the usual kids games outdoors like tag and hide and seek, but one of my favorite games was this play pretend game that one of us had made up called "Rollis-pollises"
I'm guessing at the spelling since it is a made up word but the premise was that we were each "Spirits" of a different thing (i.e. Spirit of Nature, Adventure, Water, Strength, etc.) kind of like Greek gods mixed with superheroes. We were defending the world from these demon/monster/creatures called rollis-polises and also dealing with our own dramas/relationships between each other.
We would pretend that the sandbox (that later became a playground) was our home base and we made up relationships between our characters. It was the most fun I ever had in my life from such a simple thing and I've used most of my hobbies to try and achieve that high again. Still haven't quite found it...
I definitely attribute that game to my current love of Tabletop RPGs.
Abby, Gabby, Helena, Ryan, Sheena, Shawna, Evan, and anyone else I might have forgotten, if you are on Reddit and see this I'd love to get in touch.
TLDR: a make-believe game where we were all Greek God-esque super heroes defending the world from a monstrous threat.
IamASmileFace · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had this hill behind his house with a 4 to 5 foot drop down onto some grass. We then would fight on the ledge and attempt to push eachother off. We called in "Hades" because we werent allowed to say hell. We called it this because we pictured us pushing eachother off into the depths off hell.
fr0y0queen · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “Sock Ball”. We would each stuff a sock with as many socks we could find, eventually creating 2 rock hard “sock balls” that were about the size of a football. Then, since we shared a room, we would proceed to throw them at each other as hard as we possibly could. The goal was to get each other’s faces. She almost broke my window once, and I’m glad because that throw would’ve for sure broken my nose.
queenofscales · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if unique, but my cousin and I would enact the scene from The Lion King where Scar throws Mufasa from the cliff. We would take turns with who was who.
How it worked was we would sit at the top of the stairs, Mufasa kind of on the stomach, and Scar would throw Mufasa's hands in the air and then the person slid down the stairs.
NQK002 · 1 points · Posted at 17:16:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play this game we simply called 'Treasure Hunt' and had a blast. We both drew maps of the house and hid 'clues' all around, which would be marked on the map with X's. Each clue gave a hint regarding the 'Treasure', which was just a big chit, or maybe a random item. Each of us would take turns hiding all the stuff and, after exchanging the maps, searched for them together. Whoever found their respective treasure first would win, and then repeat.
Maximus125 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to bury each other under blankets and pillows on the couch then one of us will jump on the buried one and try to throw them off the couch
Surprisingly fun
pepperpuss · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everytime we went to our cabin with my family (25) members, our aunts and parents made a map and riddles and all the kids have to found clues and eventually they lead to a treasure. It was really fun
hussain123 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This guy tells a great story answering op's question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48firFVloK0
grandplans · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
not as children, but in college we played a game called "2 hand 1 hand 1 hand"
It was a catching and throwing game thatyou coupld play in a living room (Went to school in NYC, so it was tiny shitty apartments, not dorms).
The games was played with a beanie baby lady bug.
could be played with like 2 to 10 people.
the game is simple. You play catch, you miss, your're down to 1 hand, you have to only use THAT hand to catch and throw. you miss, you're down to your OTHER hand, you can only use THAT hand to catch and throw, you miss, you're out.
Now, there were lots of rules, but the most overriding one was "when in doubt, rule it out" this kept the game friendly.
The other rules were mainly made to disqualify a throw and the names are fairy self explanitory:
whipper
spiker
'tweener
it-beginser (this made it so that nobody would be eliminated on the very first throw of the game)
there were others, but you were always looking to preserve the catcher.
lots of hours spent playing this game...it was mainly to pass time, not to be super competitive.
good times.
snarkdiva · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would play Charlie's Angels. We would go out at night with flashlights and patrol our townhome complex. It had a big brick wall around it, and we would walk along the top of it and jump into the bushes if a car came by. Back then, you could get free maps from AAA, and we got one of each state and hung them in her basement. We would plan our "mission" based on the maps before going out to patrol. Jenny, wherever you are now, you were a rocking fellow Angel.
schmelk1000 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had this little lean-to roof connected to my dad's workshop. So my sister and I would take turns re-enacting the scene from the Lion King where Scar drops Mufasa into the stampede. My sister and I would throw each other off again and again. It was the best in winter cause then we'd land in fluffy snow. It was about a 7 foot drop.
choppcy088 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Teacup". My older brother and I would put one of the younger siblings in a sheet and twist the edges like a burrito then swing them back and forth singing "Teacup! Teacup! Around around you go!" Then we would spin them around. Imagine the motion of a jump rope. It was fun.
shetaron · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guns was one me and my brothers played all the time. Basically you had 3 different options, block, shoot, or reload. You start with no ammo and you can have up to 6 shots. So to play you slap your legs twice, then you pointed up to reload, cross your arms to block, or point to shoot. It's like a modified version of Concentration.
lilyluc · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I came up with "The Mist". One day there was low lying fog that moved across the ground and we decided it was following us so we came up with the idea of this possessed fog. Every time it was foggy for years we would go into survival mode thinking it was after us. We didn't believe in it but also totally did believe in it. Kid imagination is powerful. Years later I about shit myself when I read the Stephen King story, called my brother up like "WE KNEW ALL ALONG!".
FengaPappits · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime we would have a family party at my house, my cousins my brothers and myself would play a game in the basement. We would turn off all of the lights except for two black lights and a strobe light, blast some sort of high energy music like kid rock bawitdaba or some rob zombie. Then each “team” would have a bucket of neon colored bouncy balls (the small rubber type you would get out of a coin capsule machine) that we would whip at each other as hard as we could across the room. Sometimes throwing handfuls at a time so they would bounce off walls and hit the other team from different angles. There was no winning or losing. But that’s what we did, and it was a lot of fun.
James-wut · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"bye bye Benny", we started playing it just after the Mummy came out on VHS, and we took the name from the scene where Benny is thrown off the boat. The aim of the game was to make it to the top of a small grassy incline in our school playground. Once you made it there, you would then try to throw anyone else back down the hill whilst saying the iconic (to us) "bye bye Benny" line. No better way to spend a sunny lunch time than throwing your friends down a hill.
sharmouta_sageer · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ceiling fan baseball. We would roll up a pair of socks, turn the ceiling fan to its highest setting, and lob the socks up there. Bottom of the wall was a single, top was a home run. If you missed it was a strike, and if it hit the floor it was an out. Endless fun until the fan breaks, which was totally not us mom I swear.
SmallestBoiBiggestE · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to hotdog my dick in between my laptop and time how long it would take me to do the deed. My record is 17 min.
AmadeusSkada · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I'm at a family gathering and my brother is here, each time someone says a word related to pain, suffering, death even war or whatever we have to pull out the best surprise One Thousand Years of Death on the other. We don't count points but my beother's probably winning
ukelele_pancakes · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school, a small area of woods was next to the playground. This was a favorite place to play especially when it was hot. One summer, a group of us girls played with the tent caterpillars that were everywhere, building them little stick houses and pretending they were families. Too bad those tent caterpillars were damaging to the trees. :-(
PallBear · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would put my thumb and forefinger together, flat. Like the "ok" sign but not circular. So each hand was a bird with the thumb and forefinger being the beak, and the other three fingers being the crest. I would make them talk to each other, and they would talk to me too. Eventually I worked out a whole backstory where they were a brother and sister named Birdo and Birda. I guess they were imaginary friends? There was a whole alternate universe worked out. Figured out ways to modify their shape to make different expressions and everything.
jlallen0518 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when it snowed my friend’s house had these huge(to us) 2-3 foot long icicles. We broke all of the icicles off and tried to sell them to “ice companies” we found in the phone book under the word “ice”. Did this a couple of times before her mom made us stop.
FreakyDouble · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take our parents left over change jar and go into the basement and throw coins at each other. We called it penny wars. The best part is we would turn off all the lights in the basement so it would be pitch black and we would sometimes have a strobe light on the slowest setting.
SucreBleu123 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark! Exactly what it sounds like, we loved this game!! :D
Edit: if it was dark enough you could try hilarious "hiding" spots like doing a handstand along any wall, nobody would expect you in the open and your feet by their head :p
TubbyBud · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to ride my scooter on my cul de sac. I didn't always play with friends as I liked time on my own. I would pretend that each curb stone was a different country and scoot to each one pretending I was travelling the world. I still remember my neighbour asking me what I was doing, I said I'm going to Antarctica, she just laughed and watched me scoot a few curb stones down. It was a fun way to learn about new countries. I'd try to memorise the globe and maps to think of new places to go.
PhyrexianSpaghetti · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends in elementary school played "the big adventure", basically we would live an incredible adventure full of trials and made up monster fights to achieve a random goal at every play. Conveniently enough every trial was solvable with the personal skills of one of us (ie. "The only way to enter the secret dungeon is to solve the Pharaoh's riddle: what's 1234+1234?" and the kid good in math would step up and go overly excited "me! me! I'm good at math!"). At the end we would be like "omg pal, we wouldn't have done it without you"
PoOPIESCOoP329 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family would have an all out BB gun war. Our neighbors thought we were insane most likely 😂
Bohemian_Zombie · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always played Simpsons Hit and Run. I always played that game despite me being a child that didn't know a word in English.
For some reason I loved doing the same thing every time I played: Start the game as Homer, get in the pink sedan, drive to the mansion from that episode from Itchy & Scratchy's creator. Next to this mansion, there was a rocket car that I loved, so I abandon the sedan and then drive with the rocket car to the power plant, where there was a secret entrance to a human size chess inside of one of the corridors in the plant. I'd push all of the pieces to the ground and then mess around the city doing car jumps and hitting people.
I loved that game.
Fuguestate9000 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother's and I would shoot arrows straight up and then run.
Aradamis · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play the 'someone cares about me' game, but a child's imagination is a flimsy defense against the cold indifference of shallow adults.
dr_bluthgeld · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curby, or at least that's how I think it should be spelt?
Two people stand on either side of the road and throw a ball, aiming for the curb.
If it hits the curb and rolls back to whoever threw it, they get 10 points and move to the middle of the road. There they can hit the curb for an additional 5 points.
This continues until passing traffic eventually becomes an issue.
kylakitty · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I only had one close friend until about sixth grade. Before then, me and my only friendn, S, played some weird and questionable games.
One game in particular we called haunted bathroom. I think this started after we had made a muddy mess of the bathroom after playing wounded soldier outside. Basically, we personified every item in the bathroom as being possessed by a ghost: from the cabinets and the floor, to the shower mat, towels, sink, bathtub. Everything. Everything had a personality, and only the floor was nice (because it let us walk on it, of course). Every other 'person' in the bathroom was a real jerk, and would 'force' us to spend hours cleaning in the hopes of finally banishing the ghosts.
I'm sure my mom loved this game, because we really would sit in my bathroom for hours cleaning everything.
zachbooth95 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were this books about dragons, dragonology I think? I’ll edit later if I find out something different, but my buddies and I would always have my mom and dad burry the “relics” and stuff that came with the books in the snow around our suburb. We’d use the books and make up stuff about the dragons, then use ninja tools from naruto to fight the dragons and get the relics. We had a dragon leveling system and everything. In the spring when everything would melt, we’d use water guns and balloons over the ninja tools, burying the relics and tracking them down. Looking back I really appreciate what my parents did. My mom even wrote out riddles while my dad was the one who actually went out in the cold.
Mforsb · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad has a dot matrix printer when I was growing up and all the printer paper was attached to the next sheet so we used to take the paper and play fax machine. We would literally write wicked stupid stuff on the paper and someone would sit in the closet and receive the faxes from under the door. Idk why we did this but it’s funny to think about now
LydonPenta · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child, I had this bag of those different coloured plastic balls and my Dad would try to throw them at me while I jumped on the trampoline.
middle_space · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played sockball with many friends of mine. Typically consisted of a rolled up sock and a water bottle as a bat. One person would pitch and the other would hit and it was playing in my living room. The best part was that there was actually base running in my very small living room. Things broke quite often
SometimesHelpful123 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how common this game is/was, but no one I’ve told has ever heard of it before.
Game was played in a pool with two teams of 3-4. Two towels were folded and placed on either end of the pool. A watermelon is greased with vegetable oil and each team fights to carry the watermelon and place it on the opposing team’s towel. The oil made the watermelon impossible to hold and was rather difficult to predict in the water since watermelons are close to the same density of water and not quite aerodynamic.
NominalLug · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m late to the party so I’m sure this won’t get seen, but this is the only ask reddit I’ve ever seen that I thought YES, I have something perfectly horrible for this. When my cousin and I were little, we would play a game called “Sir”. My grandparents had these massive jars filled with coins, and that would be the currency for our game. I would set up “shop” behind the rocking chair (I was always Sir) and my cousin would have to do my bidding. If I thought she did well for the “days work”, I would give her some pennies. If I thought she didn’t meet my standards, I would dock her pay to almost nothing. She would cry and beg because she needed the money to feed her family, and I would tell her that wasn’t my problem and that she needed to work harder if she wanted to make something out of herself. We played this game for HOURS, every time we saw each other. Recently, I told my husband about this game and now he’s convinced I’m a sociopath control freak. Maybe!
Seraphtacosnak · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A group of kids would sit on their skateboards and go downhill and have to stay on the sidewalk while others are pushing and jetting for the end.
samesdd66 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would get Calcium Carbide, dig a whole in the ground and then we added water, then cover it with a spam can with open side on the bottom, we would lit the thing with matches through a small hole on top of the can that would be fly like a rocket up to dozen frets into the sky. See a similar impact here https://youtu.be/X8H3aH1E9ug
I_pee_in_my_wetsuit · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “sardines”. Basically reverse hide and seek, where it started out with one person hiding and everyone else looking. When one person found the hider they would have to hide with them in the same spot until everybody was squished together like sardines. The last person to find the hiding group lost.
Eltrutflow · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had the biggest bedroom as a kid so me my 3 siblings and all my cousins would go into my room, turn the lights off and close the shades and then have a free for all brawl in the darkness. Surprising no broken bones but a few close calls
hybriss099 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our name for this game sounds terrible and the explanation isn’t any better. A couple of my friends and I use to play “terrorist tag.” Basically we would ride our bike around town, trying to find each other and then crash into the other person and then they were “it.” This was like a year or so after 9/11 and we were hearing “terrorist” a lot, but were too young to really know what that meant, so our definition was someone who just crashes into things...you know...like planes into a building or bikes into other bikes. Same deal.
BriLyGan · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “tie up” where me and the neighbor girl would tie each other to this tree with a jump rope and then the other would go inside. We also ripped all the leaves off of said tree. We got in trouble for that one.
Rye_Matt · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings did so much stupid crap when we were young and the games switched up day to day. One day, we took turns getting into a box and the other two would close up the box and push it down the wooden stairs.
BobVance1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game in the pool called “Stealth.” It was basically a mix of Sharks and Minnows and Marco Polo. One person would be at the end of the pool with their eyes closed (this person is the tagger), and everyone else would be at the other end (this works best with a long pool). Everyone has to try to get to the other end of the pool without being tagged. At any point the tagger can say “Stop” and everyone else has to stop for 7 seconds. We played this for hours when I was younger.
PardonedTurkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would play “bar”. One of us would be the bartender and mix up a disgusting concoction, and the other one would shakily down said concoction.
deewillon · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older step brother and I would play "Scaring Aliens". He would just hide in our shared room and I would try to find him only to have him jump out and scream at me to scare me lol. The game went fast but oh boy was it a rush.
communistcabbage · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we didnt have a name for this, but we played this fishing game where one of us would sit on the sofa and try to pull the others, who were 'slithering' on the floor, onto the sofa. sounds stupid but it was fun to us
SquirrelTale · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm late to the party, but it seems like no one's talked about bum-smacking games, so here it goes. My sister and I (also girl, we were 12 and 7/8) would slap our thighs to initiate the bum-smack duel and stare each other down like cowboys and attempt to slap each other's butts while defending our own. Whoever successfully slapped the others' butt won and could do whatever they wanted to do (ie. get the sugar bowl). I think we mainly developed this game cuz the adults couldn't hit us, but we could hit each other.
ANTAL90 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Contact" - Me and my brother invented this game. We would stand in the garden each with a bamboo stick, one of us would hold their stick up in a fencing pose and say contact the other would bring their bamboo stick up to meet this and say back contact. At this point the game was on. You would lock eyes and try to stare the other one out until the bamboo sticks parted. As soon as 'contact' was broken the aim was simple, beat the shit out of each other until someone gave up. There was a points system which was based roughly around the fencing system - the square target that basically makes up your torso - and there was also a no face hitting rule but both would always get ignored in the end. The game resulted in some honestly horrendous welts through the years.
dad_plz_come_home · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kingdom hearts
BlooRoom · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bo Ball: it was a game where it had football rules but with baseball equipment. The QB would use a bat to hit the ball to the receiver who had on a helmet and glove. The they would run with the baseball for a touchdown. It was a stupid game and there’s a reason we don’t play it anymore
ishan0102 · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game where whenever I was being driven I’d pretend there was a dude on a skateboard riding across all the obstacles, trying to find the most accessible path without getting stuck. He would get stuck if I couldn’t find a path for him fast enough. This game got me through a ton of road trips, and looking back it’s kind of insane what I could do with my imagination.
YoBoyMikeyD · 1 points · Posted at 17:18:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee football
Kerianae · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know what we called it but we had a specific word for basicly fuel. The fuel would be anything we could sort: marbles, stringbeats,... whatever was available at the time. We would be in a spaceship and we would evade monsters and attacks and what not. To do that we needed a specific amount of fuel. So we needed to sort out the fuel and when we used the fuel it got mixed all again so we could keep using it.
goldehh_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play a game called Simba. We made up an imaginary friend together and pretended he would assign us tasks to do like crawling under chairs or hiding in the closet for a certain amount of time
I remember we also found a locket on the floor which said “simba” on it so that was pretty weird.
Also, Simba had an enemy called Morgraph and we would get toy swords and pretend to fight him but we never won lol
AeroNick · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was a game we played in our in-ground, rectangular-shaped pool involving flying karate kicks and trying not to drown. We had one of those giant (to us) 4ft beach balls that would float around on the surface of the pool. If you jumped from the edge of the pool and kicked it, it would have an initial burst of speed but would stay touching the surface of the water and slow down pretty quickly. We basically played a game of Pong this way, ideally with 2 people per long side of the pool. You’d jump, kick the ball, fall into the water, and try to get back out of the pool and up on the edge as quickly as possible to defend against kicks back at you. The goal was to make the ball hit the other team’s edge of the pool. We played this SO much and went through so many giant beach balls, because we’d eventually burst them from kicking them. It was also great exercise, given the scrambling to get up and out of the pool.
McsRn · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Teddy Bomb Wars. Im one of 6 kids and my sister and i had a huuuge teddy bear collection. So we would split into teams of three in th3 basement, build legit bases on either side of the basement---which was really large-- and then just attack eachother. And it would hurt. Beanie babies were the best to use bc you could really whip them hard.. then of course the older teddy bears that had massive marble eyes bc you could really hurt someone if you hit them right with those.
Jzahnen4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I (along with my twisted Aunt) used to play "Turtle". We would all get under a big comforter and fart. Last one out wins.
My wife sometimes laments about being an only child. Then I tell her stories like this and she feels better. ;p
Johnny_deadeyes · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Grew up in the boonies far from anyone else and had to find ways to amuse myself. Besides all sorts of questionable activities with fire, firearms, wild critters, etc, I'd play the crashed spaceship game. That's where I'd pretend to be an alien stranded on some backwater planet having to cobble together useful or fun items from old junk I found lying around.
CzarMMP · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to come over and play "The Stair Game" for hours on end. The game was literally just falling down stairs, and then trying to make it back up the stairs while everyone else was also falling down the stairs. We had like 6 people total one time, it was an absolute blast. The stairs has a thin layer of carpet on them so we thought it was safe
aBerneseMountainDog · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Location: Canadian winter, baseball diamond.
Game Setup: We would trudge through unbroken snow, creating a maze-path.
Game: Tag in the maze!
Rules: Simple, but enforced without mercy: no cheating and jumping between paths, no falling over onto the path walls, no stepping in the unbroken snow, no making new paths while a game was live. If you were caught breaking a rule, you were it.
kore351 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Woah now I’m not falling for this one again, last time I told someone about the game my uncle and I play he got taken away for a long time and I had to spend all day at the police dept.
winkil · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Muscles"
It was a "king of the hill" type of game, where we would arrange our beds to form a big ring and push each other off it.
The twist is that whomever wears a blanket would become more powerful and resistent to being pushed around, so someone wearing 3 blankets would be nearly unstoppable and so on.
It was really fun.
Kevinhighlife · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk if its a game as much as it was just us being little shits but, "Stick" ball. Basically a tree fell in a yard on the cul-de-sac and me and a friend found a perfect batting stick with a slight curve. Over the next 3 days we would stand at the end of the street and hit sticks around the cul-de-sac seeing who could hit em the furthest. We practically stripped the entire fallen tree of branches but cluttered the cul-de-sac with well over 600 branches, twigs, and sticks. Cleaning that up was hell on earth.
Brad_030 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two brooms and a soccer ball or kickball. My grandmas carport that had some steps that were about 4’ wide, with roughly 4’ of space on each side of the steps. The spaces were the goals, and me and my brother would switch off being goalie and shooter to see who could score the most points. INCOMMING CREATIVITY We called it...broomball.
kcirtapsallad · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would sit at my the counter in my grandmother’s kitchen and play “bar”. We would drink chocolate milk, speak with fake accents and pretend we were from foreign countries. We would get into it too, creating elaborate back stories for our characters. I specifically remember pretending to be an Egyptian policeman, in town visiting my long lost daughter.
I don’t know how we came up with it, but it was fun while it lasted.
moby323 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a round above-ground pool and we would play Vortex Wars.
Basically, one team in the pool would try to walk in a clockwise circle as hard as they could for 10 seconds, which would make the water spin like a cup when you stir it.
Then they would pause and the next team would try to walk for 10 seconds in the opposite direction and try to force the water to spin the other way.
When we were too exhausted to continue, whatever way the water was spinning was the winner.
DrGHandPhd · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, my brother and I would walk to school everyday so we’d make up games to make the walk more fun. The most memorable was a game where you’d have to hide behind something (tree, bush, parked car etc...) whenever a car drove by.
If you’re exposed when the car passes by you die.
JohnW60 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we play Nazis vs soviets on the playground
queer_artsy_kid · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play with trash we found in my mom's car...
davids465 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played butt tag. You would have to run up behind your "victim" and put your "weapon" (a plastic sword or something) up their butt. Damn we weird
livipup · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sometimes in Smash Bros I would pick Pikachu and my older brother would pick a human character and instead fighting I would pretend to be his pet. He brought it up in a conversation recently and he said he did it just because I liked it, but I only did it because I thought he liked it. I really just enjoyed spending time with him. I couldn't care less for that game. Fighting was more fun anyway.
leaslame · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my friends and i played Roadkill when we were young
when a car drives down the street, you have to try to race/outrun it from point A to point B (on the sidewalk, we weren’t flirting with death at 10 years old). for example, point A would be a stop sign, and point B would be my dad’s house 200 feet away. If the car passes you, you have to fall to the ground and play dead until the car gets to point B.
It was actually super morbid now that i think about it. and it actually explains a lot, considering the only friend from that group that i still talk to joined track for high school.....
alwaysadmiring · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bugs life? Was an ant living the good life fighting grasshoppers, also digger - used to play it lots with family !
Jugger-Nog · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would throw broad ripped arrows at each other, and catch them by the shaft to work on our reflexes. We also did this with hatchets..
cheetoburrito · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play pencil-and-paper asteroids.
Using pencil, draw a collection of asteroids along with two ships on different parts of the paper. Take turns to play. A turn consists of deciding to either move or shoot. To do either, place a pencil vertically, drawing side down over your ship. Apply pressure to the top of the pencil and flick using the other hand (it helps to use a somewhat dull pencil). This makes a mark indicating trajectory. If shooting, use an eraser to carve out the rock that you blasted. If moving, erase ship and relocate it to the end of the mark. Game is usually PvP. Shoot the other player to win.
tooftooftoof · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and a few friends used to play "Operation Cornish Pasty". We had a bunk bed which didn't have the slats screwed in. After removing 2/3 slats from the middle of the top bunk, we would carefully pile ourselves onto the bed then jump up and down whilst shouting the name of the game to a tune. Eventually the mattress would fall through the gap in the middle of the slats, enclosing the mattress around us like a cornish pasty.
We had a similar, less fun game called "Operation Beef Jerky" which involved spinning someone in a hammock until they couldn't escape.
TigerlilySmith · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I played spy and used a white board to draw out the layout of my house and where we suspected everyone was. We had to sneak to the kitchen, steal a smack and return without being seen. It was the same route every time but we had to play it out completely.
imgoingtotapit · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Follow the ducky tail. Id put my hand in the small of my back sticking out like a tail. I did it to get my younger brother to follow me for whatever reason (had to leave the house and he was playing with his toys; mother needed me to take him out to the car etc)
dashing-monkey · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play I woke up somewhere I didn't know and had to figure out what was happening. Like I literally sat in my house, shut my eyes, opened them and then tried to come up with strategies to find out info on where I was and how I got there.
hortenseclock · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "Go home to Jesus". My aunt would lay in her bed and pretend she was dead and my cousins and I would put makeup on her, lay a dress over her body, do her hair, put her shoes on, make sure she's got her good jewelry on, and then in goofy voices we would sing her funeral song. She would always pop up unexpectedly from her death and scare the shit out of all of us 😂😂😂
Tsadkiel · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play all sorts of games together when we were kids, but in hindsight these mostly amounted to terrorizing the local elderly residents (sorry Mr. Pickersgill...). We thought of ourselves as kind of a local "gang" and the four of us got into all sorts of trouble. Adam, who was sort of our unofficial leader, was the best (or worst, depending on your perspective) at coming up with all sorts of great ideas and plots for games and such. We mostly played pretend games, usually imagining ourselves to be things like cowboys and Indians and pirates and Atlantisans etc... And it was usually Adam who would come up with the game. I was a huge bookworm and somewhat of a stick in the mud sometimes at that age (we were all maybe 10 or 11 I think). I was that one kid who always argued about things like whether or not anchient Atlantis lasers were "fair" during these kinds of imagination games. In all honesty sometimes I wonder why the rest of them ever put up with me.
I think the best one was when Adam proposed playing "Spanish Inquisition". He told us all about it and we all agreed that it would be in the best interest of the town of we got rid of all the witches there. This involved us all trying to speak Spanish and bringing various "Spanish" things to make our Inquisition more "official". I got a pair of castanets from my aunt but I, of course, insisted they were maracas... I was also very insistent that we should be speaking Latin instead of Spanish (yeah, I really was THAT kid). Good Lord I was annoying back then... To this day I can't stand to watch home videos of myself as a child...
Anyway, we had everything we needed. We set up a dunking plank at our favorite pond and Pippin brought her younger sister to be "tortured" by us. I vaguely remember that there was an argument about it because Pippin's sister WANTED to be a witch and he had to convince her to say no so we could torture her. She eventually agreed and we set to dunking her in the pond.
Now, this was your classic English countryside pond. It was maybe a couple feet deep and covered in duckweed. We dunked her over and over and she apparently had a blast. In all honesty it was an extremely hot day and I really wished I could have gotten dunked too, but I knew it would ruin my clothing and my parents would be furious with me, so I never did. Looking back I probably should have considering how much trouble we all got in. Pippin's sister was green to the waist and her parents ended up making a round of phone calls that night. Mom made me write lines, which was her go-to punishment, but I think it was actually worth it!
The four of us are still in touch to this day! I eventually became a CPA for a large investment group, and Pippin and Brian ended up marrying and settling down where we all grew up. Adam went to school for conservation biology and eventually became a major environmental activist. He and his dog (who just won't die, I swear that thing is the oldest mut on the planet) travel the world trying to make it just a little bit better for the rest of us.
Evigilant · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt + Red light-green light. The objective was instead of "It" being the person who tags others, the others had to tag "It" without being spotted.
We'd put on our parent's cammies, put on the face paint, wait for the dead of night, "It" would get a flashlight, and then everyone would low crawl as stealthily as possible. If "It" thought they spotted you, they'd shine their light on you and try and call you out.
Marshmallowwithabs · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I went to the beach, I pretended to be a turtle. I dug a deep hole in sand close to the beach, put pebbles in it to represent eggs, and sat down in my sand nest for the rest of our trip.
I was pretty low-maintenance.
tweakalicious · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've heard of different variants of this game, so I don't know how "unique" it is, and we weren't children, but teens...but we would always play "Name the Thing." On the surface it seems like a stupid simple guessing game: one person thinks of a thing--any thing in the world. The only rule of the game is the person who is "it" HAS to say "Name the Thing," verbatim. Everyone else has to guess the thing. That's it.
Whoever is "it" has to decide which guess is closest to the original thing and explain why, but others can make points for or against any Thing, and I guess the real object is to lay out a case why the person who's IT should pick your thing.
It probably only worked because we were SO high all the time...or laying around tripping...or drunk or hungover or SOMETHING. But we fuckin loved it.
acemile0316 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play "friend." We would use any sort of adhesive we could find to attach cardboard boxes to the wall and pretend they were lockers. Then we would stand at the lockers and "pretend" we were friends talking about middle school.
lexluthor_i_am · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in 6th grade some black kids made me and some other white kids play the "reparations game." Essentially they'd bully us to pick 'cotton' in the PE field. It wasn't really cotton but some dandelion looking thing. I told them I'm Hispanic but it didn't matter I had to pay the price anyway. It was degrading but on some weird level I at least enjoyed playing with the "cooler" black kids and I'd try to pick the most cotton to impress them.
BobcaygeonStars · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my grandfather's house my mother used to play "Crack in the wall", and the object was to roll a marble 15-20ish feet from the kitchen to the end of the hallway where there was a small marble-sized gap between the floor and the drywall. Roll it too soft and the marble wouldn't make it to the wall, and roll it too hard and it would go past the drywall and you had to fish it out from behind the wall, the object being to get it so the marble would be caught perfect between the drywall and the floor. My mother was the youngest of a big, poor family and said she played it alot by herself as a kid. Taking into account the different ways the floor subtly leaned due to the age of the house I was shocked when she showed us as an adult 25+ years later that she still had the touch and got it perfectly into the crack on her 3rd try lol
theories_o · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play this game called “Blind Eating”. How it worked was we would put a mask on and reach into the fridge or pantry and we would have to eat the first thing we found. I ended up eating, uncooked canned beans, raw spaghetti, a raw onion, moldy cheese and many other assorted disgusting foods.
thelifeofpablito · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball tag. We used a smaller dodgeball and would run around our half acre yard with about 15-20 neighborhood kids and chuck the ball at each other. Free-for-all style. We eventually got a trampoline and would play tramp ball tag. It was chaos!
Big____Spoon · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family lives close to my grandma, but we have cousins who live on the other side of the country. Whenever they would visit, we would play the Sticker Game. My grandma would have a bunch of small yellow smiley face stickers and one person would take 10 and hide them around the large basement, then would call us all down. Whoever found the most stickers won and whoever found the least would hide the next bunch.
YesIamaDinosaur · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ITT: Finding out you aren't as unique as you thought
Trobeck · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a version of dodgeball called ‘stikbold’ (in danish). One ball (maybe two), free-for-all, with the lights off, and a big gym mattress in the middle of a 15x15m room. Sometimes we’d be up to 15 players - kids running, pancking in the dark. One kid dislodged his knee on a radiator, another split an eyebrow - didn’t stop us...
justkindafloating · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made up a language (he was 3.5, I was 2) that basically sounded like dolphins and we’d shout it to each other across the house then start laughing. Long story short scared the shit out of my grandparents when they visited.
paizjoy · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can. It was part of the “night games” the kids in my neighborhood would play along with things like ghost in the graveyard. My dad taught us how to play because it was a game he played as a kid. One person would be “it” and sit on one of those large silver bulk food cans in the middle of the road and cound to 30 or so. The rest of the kids would scatter and hide. Once the person was done counting they would go looking for everyone else. If they saw you, they would have to call you by name in order for you to be out. The goal for everyone hiding was to sneak into the road without being seen and kick the can. Then that person would be it and the game would start over again.
SMAZ14 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember a game we would play at our neighborhood pool either called Crocodile or Alligator Eye (I can’t remember which). Basically, the players would line up on one end of the pool against the wall, while the Alligator stood outside of the pool right behind them, facing away. The players could leave the wall anytime they want (and independently of each other), and they had to reach the other end of the pool without getting tagged. The Alligator could turn around anytime they want, but if they turned around and no one had left the wall, they had to turn back away from the pool and take one step forward. I remember that you couldn’t be tagged if you were fully underwater, but there might’ve been a few other rules that I forgot.
Andrew4Mayor · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game goes by a lot of names, but we always called it "The Paper Game."
Each person starts a story with one line and passes their paper to the left. The second person follows the first prompt with a line of their own, folds back the first person's line, and passes to the left again.
By the end of the game, you've got a story per person of disjointed, tangential, ridiculous goofs.
I mostly used it as an excuse to make my relatives say fart, barf, and toilet.
jdoe36 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play flip the bird. The goal of the game was to make the other one see it without our parents catching us, usually during family dinner or when we were all watching tv. Think scratching my head with my middle finger, picking up a cup, that sort of thing. If you saw it, you lost and it was your turn to get the other one to see yours. My mom's response after I brought it up years later: "Mmhm. y'all thought I didn't know. I saw you two flipping the bird at each other. Your mama knows everything you knuckleheads did!"
ImgurReject · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coon. My little sister had a raccoon skin hat that my brother and I would make her wear then we would have her hide while my brother and I hunt her down with our Nerf guns.
PCmasterRACE187 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game
Creationary · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would tie karate belts to our bedroom fan, and then tie stuffed animals to the other end of the belts. We’d turn the fan on full blast and run away from them!
Iamwetodddidtwo · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mufato Ball. It was a game invented while camping on my birthday when I was very little. It's mostly similar to baseball with the following changes. There are only two bases. Home plate and 1st base. It is played with a foam football and a paddle for a bat. Outs are being tagged by the ball only. The opening rule is no showing of the underwear. After that new rules are invented every year just for that years game. By the end of the game it will have turned into absolute chaos and someone with expose their underwear and the game will get called because of it. We played this every summer on my birthday for the better part of 15 years.
Dinosam · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking out the window of a car like it's a sidescroller game. Kid imagination was pretty entertaining
AlphaeisMangarae · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers.
cytPandora · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's two actually. One of them was just spying on people and hiding. The other one just happened on Christmas, because of the flashing lights. We would try to advance as much as we could between the intervals of the lights, we were also in a secret mission.
BBWolfe011 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When riding in the car, my eyes would "jump" over gaps in the grass, like streets and driveways. I also walked up/down stairs so that my feet would miss steps with hooks holding the rail up, still do that sometimes.
arm421 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shins”. A game where you and another person held on to each other by the arms and kicked each other in the shins until someone either gave up or fell down.
__defenestration_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to stuff large dog crates with blankets and pillows, one kid would climb into the center cavity, and the rest of us would heave the thing down a flight of stairs. I have no idea where the adults were, because I can't imagine this would have been sanctioned, but man was it fun.
98catss · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play “Cats.” We would pick a type of feline to be and all of our characteristics. Then we would move to opposite ends of the room, where we’d be in imaginary cages. Then we’d go, “beep beep beep” and the “cages” would open. We then went on to fight to the death to see who would be the strongest cat.
Gene_freeman · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have this slightly off brand lego which I have no idea how I came across but I used to make little x people (1 4 by 2, 1 2 by 2 in the middle and then another 4 by 2 on top) and have them star in like this big brother type show and then fight to the death in horrifying challenges.
RandomHerosan · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "loneliness" because I had a hard time making friends so I spent most of my time alone.
Being a kid can be rough.
quixomo · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime I was in the passenger seat of the car and we passed by a driveway entrance, I would pretend to lift the front wheels of the car until we passed the driveway entrance. Almost like when a horse bucks... it was weird.
Cologne17 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
PBPF (Pitch Black Pillow Fighting) - Essentially 6-8 of us friends go into the basement and grab their choice of pillow (goose feather pillow was murderous). We all picked our starting positions and someone cut the lights. From there it was usually very very silent for about 1-2min, then all the sudden you hear the first swing and it's all out war until something got broke or someone freaked out. Good times those were.
tomthebomb15 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play “Star tripping”, which involves one person spinning in a circle outside at night, looking up at the stars for 30 seconds. Then, right after they finished, someone would shine a flashlight in their eyes and they’d immediately fall on their ass, every time. It was hilarious because to this day, not a single person stayed standing up.
KaraWolf · 2 points · Posted at 17:41:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is rediculous and I kinda want to try it but my eyes holy hell that would suck hahahaha I can be blinded by a flashlight even swung in my general direction.
tomthebomb15 · 2 points · Posted at 17:52:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It definitely was ridiculous, but that was the best part! Also a helpful tip: Do it on a flat grassy surface, I’ve learned my lesson with a few rocks.
yoctometric · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors had a large outdoor trampoline with no net, so we'd play a game where one kid with a yoga ball would try to knock the others off. It was a blast, but unfortunately a state law made it illegal to not have a net around the trampoline :/
cantgetintokpop · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little Sally Walker. We all stand in a circle and chant a song while two or three people ran around inside the circle. Then they'd stop in front of a person and twerk in front of them (not required to, but it was the standard), then the person they stopped in front of would have to do the same. We were all 10-12.
Bostonboy9902 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it, but we all got ripsticks and lacrosse sticks and would try and nock each other off anyway possible. That meant sticking the lacrosse stick under the wheels or smacking each other with the sticks. It was lots of fun.
butchwookiecookies · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother's and I played a game called "fight in the dark" with these kids we were friends with (and remain friends with to this day) where we would go into the basement and black out the windows with pillows. Then someone would be the "light person". Their job was to turn the lights on and off. When the lights were off, everyone else would blindly wrestle anybody they ran into. When the light person turned on the light, everyone had to freeze in place, and the last one moving would become the light person.
We played this game from age 8 until we were in our teens and our parents told us that a bunch of boys and girls shouldn't be wrestling in the dark with each other.
shawmanic · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Slaughter the Man with the Ball":
Girls could play too, despite the the old school sexist name (we were kids in the late 50's, early 60's).
The game was simple. One kid had the ball. Everyone else tried to slaughter them, pile on them, rip the ball away. The challenge was to hold onto the ball as long as possible, by running around or just plain grit while ten other kids piled on top of you. Fun!
mattrox217 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will probably get buried but I’ve always wondered if other people do this. I’ve never talked about this before. It’s two different games that I would play with myself that we’re really similar
1) I would make drumming sounds with my teeth. Like tapping one side or another or both to mimic certain drum sounds. This is barely noticeable even if you’re looking for it and I’m pretty sure only I could hear it since it was happening in my skull.
2) when driving down the road, I would look at the lines in the side of the road and play a game where I would let my teeth touch if there was a line under me and if there wasn’t I would not let my teeth touch. You can think about it like guitar hero with only one note. If there was a dashed line ( - - - - -) I would touch my teeth every time. If it was solid, I would keep my teeth together the whole time (———-)
DrunksInSpace · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Highway passenger side-scroller jump man.
I’d stare out the window on long drives, imagining a little character running along side the vehicle, hopping up on the guardrail, jumping over road signs and ‘gators’ (or being blindsided and losing health if the signs snuck up on me). Bonus points for bouncing on roadkill.
LaconianStrategos · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played wallball with a tennis ball (sometimes 2) and allowed for pegging as an alternative to bouncing people out, but obviously if you missed you would generally get an out instead unless you hit a really lucky bounce
allwxllendswxll · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in Germany and at the time, German license plates typically had 3 digits on them.
I used to always try to do math in my head to add and subtract from each number to make the plate read “666” in my head. When i finally saw a “666” plate, the game was over.
I was rad as fuck.
TardsonFire · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I where obsessed the the dreamworld film “Spirit”. We would play a game on the trampoline called “1-2-3-SPIRIT” where we jump three times as high as we could go, then on spirit we would bum drop onto the trampoline and see how high we could go. Had nothing to do with horses and I can’t remember the reason we gave it the name, but we would play it all the time.
Another trampoline game we would play together didn’t have a name that I remember (I will ask my brother), but the rules went like this: one person went in the middle and would close their eyes. They were the hunter, and would listen and feel for the other players and try and tag them out. others would try not to get caught. The people who are not hunting could get off the trampoline, but if the hunter says that someone got off the trampoline they are out. Last one standing would get to be the next hunter. It was a game of stealth and perception.
I have so many more logged away in my memory, I’ll write out more if people are interested!
dammitjosh311 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whack dads peepee
Pscel · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister and some neighborhood friends used to play "Blind bull" where we would close all windows and turn off the lights in one room. Then the "bull" would be blindfolded and had to try to catch the other kids while on all fours. If you were caught, you would be the next bull and so on.
Surprise surprise, we broke some things and weren't allowed to do it again.
dankskunk5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Egg toss! My brother and I would wait until our parents were gone and we would bring a few eggs outside and each of us would have a turn throwing and egg as high as we could and the other had to try to catch it without breaking it.
blue_nipples · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s not really a game. We never named it either. My cousins lived near my family and my sibling and I would go over to there house to play all the time. There was a small field between our houses. The grass would end up getting very high before someone eventually mowed it out of fear that one of us would get bit by a snake. Copperheads were very common in this area. After the grass was mowed we would take it up into a large pile, and then make a giant birds nest looking thing out of it. We tried to put it in this area where three trees were growing close together so that it felt more like a real birds nest in the trees. Like I said, it wasn’t really a game but it would become our hangout spot and we would play other games inside the nest.
computer-boy · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made a game up. Stache or no Stache. As you pass cars on the highway, you profile the driver by the car he drives to predict whether they will have a mustache or not. Use anything you can to inform your answer: stickers on the car, the amount of dirt, license plate personalization.
If you are passing a truck, one will ask, "stache or no stache?". With trucks there is a large chance the man has a mustache. Women driving is a win for no one. After the guess has been said you can go further by saying full beard or some other form of facial hair. Then when you get to the car you look in their side mirror or casually glance at them through the window. You may get weird looks but thats part of the fun.
KaraWolf · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't recall the name of the game but we played something simmilar only it was about smiling. Could we get them to or not? If they won't look it didn't count.
computer-boy · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
that sounds fun, but around here I'm afraid no one smiles lol
KaraWolf · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not even when you make a stupid face? Lol
computer-boy · 2 points · Posted at 19:32:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay, maybe. When we celebrate a mustache, I think it may give them a little happiness to see everybody in the car staring and smiling, or it makes them very paranoid.
Ami_Chuu · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother were pretty creative when it came to playing since there was a pretty big age gap(10 years, I'm the younger sis). Two games pop into my mind. The first one was "Brother/sis food"which was basically one of us acting as a chef and preparing the other sibling to be some kind of dish. The second one was "X and the poop" (x being my brother's name"). I was the poop ofc, and I would climb up my bro's back, under his shirt. When the time to poop comes I would slide out slowly. We showed this one at a family meeting and they all were entertained, but my mom. She didn't really know what was happening. Ah, good times.
Tldr: Two games: bro sis cannibalism, and bro acting like he pooped me out.
Ami_Chuu · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also on the first game we used to pretend we cut each other up, and fried or boiled sounds etc. Whatever a chef would look like on tv.
cloudy_29 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I basically played bogeys, but with the word c*nt instead. (For those who don’t know you take it in turns saying the word and you have to say it louder than the other person)
Lovetospoon · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little my brother, some friends of his and I would go to his room, make it as dark as possible and we would just fight each other in the dark. That's it... That was al there is to it lmao
Jr_jr · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Legend of Dragoon
baldrete · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dark room” me and my cousins would go to a big room and turn off the lights, it was literally imposible to see. Someone would stay out for 3 min while we all hide.
CHEESE_PORKROBOT · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rain
datb1rd54 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A card game my family played called 1000watts. It's like gin rummy with wild card and the first card you get is the number of cards you get. I have taught a lot of people how to play it, and have never met anyone outside my family that has heard of it.
DuckterDoom · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Tron. Mostly it was just beating the hell out of each other with Frisbees.
_Cowdude2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to just chunk a bunch of toy cars off the arm of our couch
ryerocco · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a dodge ball baseball hybrid called The Running Back and Forth Game
yoshhash · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to ride a "zabuton"- (Japanese word for a flatter version of a mattress) down a flight of stairs like a toboggan. There were 6 of us, we often went all of us at once. Oh and there was a bend at the bottom with a window.
WAYLOGUERO · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walking to school as a kid, I would try not to be in a driveway cutout or at street level like when crossing the street when a car drove by. Hot Lava!
fatalkrouzer · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“R Zellers”
We threw a Zellers bag up in air, yelled “Our Zellers” and let the wind take it away, then we had to chase it and grab it before it hit the ground.
We were bored kids at the cottage and most bags got caught on trees.
nabayomi · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skipping every tile for fun
2in2out · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Take turns kicking a rock/bottle to whenever we were going.
xsmiley · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can.
2 teams, X amount of people, a flat crushed can, two end zones.
Objective: Kick the can between the opposing teams legs. Upon completion of successful 'goal' the losing person has to run to the opposite end zone while everyone on the opposing team beats the shit out of them as they run passed.
Rules: No headshots, no tackling, no tripping, no fighting back if you were the loser.
Literally that was the purpose, the winner was whichever team didn't give up.
Sailing2Nowhere · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I, along with a few of the neighborhood kids would play our own version of “Fear Factor”. We would do things like wade into stagnant water with thick mud, and whoever could get deepest into the muck would win. Or, we would boil seaweed and whoever went along and ate it would win.
ahyman5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boobie attack....first grade me came up with this excellent game. At my birthday party we all put two balloons up our shirts and chased eachother around. If someone chest bumps you and a boob falls, that’s one life. Last boob standing wins
rougie_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spit tag. Yup the name says it all. It ended the day I got a huge mucus ball on my face. It reeked of pure shit and I gagged all the way to the restroom. We were in 6th grade
mlollypop · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the fall, when Pa was raking all the leaves to the burn pile, I would play "Salem Witch Trials." Inevitably a Barbie or two would end up burned at the stake for their crimes.
ahp105 · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shlooba.” My dad and I would pass a football back and forth until I threw a perfectly placed spiral. When my pass was good enough, he’d yell “SHLOOBA” as loud as he could and throw the ball high in the air. I’d have to catch the ball and run past my dad. If he tackled me, he got a point, and if I made it to the gate to the backyard, I’d get a point.
Swizzizz · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if it's unique but I've never seen or heard it before some where else. The kids in the neighborhood and I would play a game called spud, every one got a number and one person would have a kickball. Everyone got in a circle around the person with the ball. Then the person with the ball would bounce it as high as they could and yell out a number. As soon as they bounced it everyone would run away from the ball except the number who was called. When the person caught the ball everyone had to stop where they were. The person with the ball would take 3 steps towards who ever they choose and then they would try and throw the ball to hit someone, you could dodge the ball u just couldnt move your feet. If you hit the person then they would.get a point, if you missed the person then you got a point. Then who ever gets the ball would bounce it. First person to get 10 points loses.
ElectricFez · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play Arctic explorers. When it was cold outside we'd choose a room, open the windows as wide as we could and turn all the fans in the room on high. Then we'd pack "provisions", mostly snack packs of gushers or Go-Gurt and juice boxes. We'd dress up in our warmest clothes and camp out in the room and pretend we we're on a mission in a frozen wasteland.
IAmNotMalaysian · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodgeball but with single shuttlecock. Field is a badminton court. If you are hit and the shuttlecock drop on the ground , you become ghost at the opponent's outer territory and help your team to throw the shuttlecock at your opponent. If you manage to catch the shuttlecock or not letting it drop on the ground, you are safe.
hobbiesincludebaths · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters would split a deck of playing cards and sling them across the room at each other like little mini frisbees all while hiding behind stuff and trying not to get hit. We also played “statue”, where one person holds completely still, and the other person moves your arms, legs, fingers, smile, eyebrows, whatever they wanted into whatever silly position that they want the “statue” to be in. Lol We also played “swiped your gobble”. Bear with me on this one. We used to call the wobbly things on a turkey’s neck a “gobble”, and the aim of the game is to slide your hand across the bottom of the other person’s chin without them being ready for it and then you yell “swiped your gobble!” Lmao. And when the game gets intense, everyone is making forced double chins or covering their neck or putting their chin in their T-shirt. 😂 I miss being a goofy ass kid.
PhoenixSST · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to roll pinecones under the tires of cars with my buddies in elementary school. Eventually some problems arose with neighbors and that had to stop.
davidbatt · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holding a mirror flat under your chin and walking around looking down. Gave the illusion that you are walking the ceiling. Still disorienting and fun as an adult
donadora · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Lump Bump” This was in the late 80’s and no parents around, as both parents worked and kids could do whatever they wanted as long as their parents had a vauge idea where you were My youngest brother would go upstairs and have a blanket he could see through over his head. He’d count to 10 and we would all hide. The house was set up so you could run through it in circle fashion, central staircase and kitchen tv room dining room all split off from center. He’d come down and chase us and if you were caught/killed by the “Lump Bump” you’d be “out” but you could help other siblings out as to where Lump Bump was in the house, as long as you didn’t give up their location For some reason it was fucking terrifying being chased around and some friends would get trampled in the mad rush to stay out of Lump bumps way. Super fun though. We used to have a sign up sheet and wait list as to which friends were allowed to come over to play for whatever day we could play it. Too many kids and it wasn’t fun or scary so there had to be a limit. Usually someone got hurt and cried, but you sucked it up because it was the ‘80’s lol
MagicSchoolBusKid · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play who can stare at the sun the longest back in 6th grade with one good friend of mine.
xBirde · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tree dodgeball, my brother and sister climb the tree and try not to get hit by the ball which I’m throwing at them. Didnt last long before my sister broke her arm
Scorpion_killa987 · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not mine but my friend came up with the most insane little "game" ever "Vampire Boy". It was a mix of hide and seek but instead of us all hiding we were trying to hunt our friend who would always try to manage to find a new and clever way to jump out and scare us, at that point it was like freeze tag until we were all "killed". My friend curled up in a ball on the top shelf of a closet (we were all little scrawny kids) and then leaped down without making a single sound and would bolt to kill us, it was a game where we were judged by endurance. Worst thing was when i was the last kid "alive" and he scared the shit out of me so hard i kicked without thinking and knocked the wind out of him. i don't mess with vampires anymore
legendaryhero97 · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fart Ball. It’s a game me and my best friend at the time made up, elementary school 2005-7ish maybe.
We never got a basketball because the “cool” kids would take it to play 2on2, so we would go down to the broken basketball goal and use a football. The object of the game was to run the ball around the other player like football, then to shoot in the goal like a basketball. Bonus points if you could squeeze out a fart and Max used to call me a cheater because I’d eat tons of chocolate (makes me gassy) and OWN him all the time on bonus points alone. Ps: it’s harder to make baskets with a football than you think. 9/10 times it just hits the rim or backboard and flies in the opposite direction and you have to chase it!
KvotheX41 · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Airball.
It started off as a handful of us and turned into the biggest event every recess for a few years. It started off simple, but politics, arguments of rules and gameplay changes really got out of hand and ruined it.
There was a rubber dodgeball that 1 person kicked into a group of people. Whoever caught the ball would take the kickers place and kick it into the group of people again. That was it, until the teams started forming. People kicking it to certain players seemed like a coincidence at first, but didn't take long until we knew what was happening. The best 3 athletes joined forces and only invited the best onto their elite team. I played for one of the better rebel squads trying to take them down, but it was difficult. Then one day I was asked to join the elite group, so of course I did (went dark side). It was really just the boys that played since it was super rough and probably 50 or so would be in the game at a time. There were many fights, arguments, injuries, tons of spectators, and friendships lost. The teachers made us stop many times due to being too rough. It was a wild time waiting for the big game every day. I felt privileged to be one of the founders of the game.
Also some cool come together moments. One kid was mentally and physically disabled, but we were able to get him into the game to catch a ball as everyone celebrated. It sort of all felt like the movie Basketball going from a few kids to becoming super popular.
TigerlilySmith · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad set up a homemade game of 'Fear Factor' during a birthday sleepover one time. Me about 8 other 10 year old girls had to eat some awful concoction of Sprite, crab meat, and pink butter (you remember that short lived trend), and do stuff like spend so long along in my dark basement which they thought was haunted, and such. We had a blast. One of my favorite memories of my dad.
UDontEvenKnowWhoIAm · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Superman for N64.. that game was.. unique..
Grimm-Bones · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game itself wasn't that unique I think, but what we called it was. When we would play fight and pretend we were fantasy characters or superheroes my cousins and I would call it "ting tanging"
Bostonboy9902 · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Took our shirts off, sprayed ourselves with the hose, and threw chalk at each other. Low budget paintball.
EqFox · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a common area where we moved to, and the kids there played a game called "Ghosts in the Graveyard", which was pretty much just reverse hide and seek. It would be everyone vs 1 person, the one person hiding and deemed the "ghost", and the goal for that person was to try and scare the life out of everyone else.
The other team would try to find the "ghost" before they got a chance to really scare everyone, a new ghost would be picked, and the game restarted.
You play at night, outdoors. We got super creative, using string n' noise to pull at branches, ipods to make scary music, and a lot of waiting to build tension.
jasminhola · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mr hanky the Christmas poo- only it was literally nothing to do with mr hanky . We all stood on the backs of the sofas and someone was in the middle of the lounge on there knees and would pull our feet off the sofa and we would keep moving from one sofa to the other and if we got caught we became mr hanky
ICUMTARANTULAS · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who can hide longest while daddy screams at mommy.
theprestoned · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were younger (I was maybe 6, and my eldest brother was 9), me and my 2 older brothers lived in a one bedroom flat. When one of us needed a pee, the other 2 inevitably also needed to pee, so we all went together. 3 kids pissing in the same pot. I thought it was great fun to direct my stream towards one of my brothers. This always descended into a full blown piss fight, which was fun to us, but looking back, it was gross.
Shurley1989 · 1 points · Posted at 17:23:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called Frasier. Not based off the TV show Frasier. It was based off some other show where the main character was named frasier and he had a dog and a friend who we actually called Frasier friend. Then we would go in the sewer. Aka under the bed I guess and do adventures. We would all fight over who got to be who and o think Frasier was a detective of some sort. Anyways it was weird looking back and none of us can remember the name of the show because we were so young.
EfficientPlane · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called Apollo where we would throw a quarter into the air on the asphalt and you couldn’t move until it landed. The goal was to hit someone in the head.
The other game we played was to ride bikes in a circle and each person would have a t shirt in their hand and the goal was to lodge the t shirt in the opposing riders bike chain and make them fall.
cyhis · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On car journeys my brother and I would play “my car” where you would spot a car and say “my car [name of car]” then that would be your car until you saw a better one and whoever had a faster car at the end of the journey would be the winner.
Kendallwithak · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made a game called "karate cat and karate dog". Basically you could pick an animal and become that but with the ability to fight with Karate or some type of skill. It always boiled down to him being a wolf and I was a fox.
bungmunch · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a deck of fish-shaped playing cards with pictures of different cat breeds on them when I was little. me and my friends would shuffle (of course via the classic "spreading them out on the floor and mixing them around with your hands" method) and deal them all out evenly and just make trade deals until we were happy with the cats we had. The highly sought-after Sphynx usually required a 3+ cat trade, and they had better be good ones.
there were also Shoe Flinging Competitions, where we would all be on the swings and kick our shoes off as far as possible. or Crazy Hair Day where we would just go in the bathroom and completely fuck our shit up and then make my parents judge who looked the most retarded.
moosekahuna · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ever heard of the Nut Mines? It’s a roleplaying game involving a giant squirrel sultan and overseer, and human slaves as they work to mine nuts that squirrels buried in winter. Few people know the origin, but it’s actually a cryptic reference to a few strips of the Dilbert comic where Dilbert uses a supercomputer and chaos theory to predict that giant squirrels take over the world and force humans to work in their nut mines. Source
Zinsurin · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the Graveyard: Kind of like hide and seek but one kid hides and the group seeks. When they find the Ghost the finder yells "Ghost in the Graveyard" and everyone runs to base. Anyone tagged becomes the ghost for the next round.
Sylxian · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 2 older brothers, a friend, and I played a game we called "Trip-a-hoy". Our childhood home had a floorplan were you could basically go through the house in a circle. The middle brother and I would run around in this circle to the living room where my oldest brother and his friend waited. Armed with pillows, kneeling on the sides of couch cushions placed on the floor.
The object, of course, was to make it through the small gauntlet without getting your ass knocked to the floor. Run around and do it again.
Occasionally we would trade positions so the oldest brother and his friend could run the gauntlet, but the size difference between the pairs meant that they were far more successful at making it through unharmed.
rhynoplaz · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had a little game we called "My turn, your turn".
I do not recommend it for anybody.
The first player would find an object such as a piece of garden hose, stick, vinyl siding, old guitar (and yes these are all things we've actually used) and hit the other player in the back with it. The other person would then take their turn and do the same thing. The rules were, if you hit the other person you must then be hit yourself. You can at any time choose not to retaliate, and at this point the game is over, but when your back is stinging and has a big red mark on, it it's really hard to turn down the opportunity to hit them back.
There wasn't really a lot to do where we lived.
Regoulatr · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the pickle with Uncle Barry. Anyone else?
oceanjoke · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not unique, but chopsticks was big throughout my childhood
DeezNewtsBruh · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but as a young adult. Gestation estimation. I'd never heard of it but a friend introduced me to it when we were on holiday. One person Google's the gestation time of an animal, and everyone has to guess the duration. The closest wins
mcCheesersm8 · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game on our trampoline. We (my brother, friends and I) put some balls on the trampoline and bounced around. The goal of the game was to let all the balls fly of the trampoline but if a ball touched you, you where out. I did this a lot and it was a lot of fun.
Ps. Sorry for the bad English. It isn't my first language.
Lacarae · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game, per se, but there was this “fad” going around in my elementary school where a kid would make these certain movements over your hands and then you would have to have your hands and arms down together and then they’ll slowly rise up without you controlling them. One girl did the trick on me and I was really amazed at how cool it was so I asked her to do it again on me. Then another girl showed up and said that if you’re a Christian and someone does the levitating hand trick more than once on you, you won’t be able to go to heaven. I was crying for the rest of PE.
reddeadretardation · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sneaks. Hide and sneak around the farm, at night. Hiders get a weak flash light. Usually one seeker for two hiders. The seekers get good flashlights.
Vespinae · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and my brother and I made up a kind of 360 degree volleyball game with our netted trampoline. There would be one team of 2 inside the trampoline and one team of 2 outside the trampoline on the ground. The outside team would try and toss the ball into the trampoline and make it touch the trampoline floor while the inside team would try and defend the floor The inside team was not allowed to catch the ball, only make hits. If the ball hit the floor, the outside team got a point and the teams would switch after 5 points or so. The inside team could remove a point by kicking the ball out of the trampoline with their foot, but if the outside team caught that ball before it hit the ground, then the outside team scored 2 points. It sounds simple, but a lot of techniques emerged like fake throws that bounced off the outside of the net, throws that hit just inside the back of the net, and passes over the trampoline. We spent many hours playing that game!
Siggitysarah · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had 2 unique games. One was called "Poof" and was played when we were really young. It involved each of us holding a pillow to our chests and running full speed at each other until we hit and fell down. The second was Duplo war, we each built bases in the recroom and used the small Duplo blocks as ammo to throw. The winner was who ever didn't bleed from a sharp corner. Our mom wasn't happy when she eventually found all the dents in the drywall after playing on and off for a year or two
anemoo · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister and I would play a game called “Bury.” Basically we would cover the other completely in blankets so that you couldn’t see them at all, then you do a sort of “excavation” on them like they were a fossil.
We also played another game called “Ugly Baby.” My older sister and I could cover my whole body with blankets except for my face which had a “flap” so that you could reveal and hide my face. My sister would then proceed to open and close the flap and when she opened it she would either go “Ewww this baby is ugly” or “Aww what a cute baby.” Thinking about it now is pretty messed up as I was always the baby.
AxusNefexus · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game of Thrones!!!
Alyssmiss · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “Ball wars” it was kind of an extreme form of dodgeball. One person would be on the trampoline while all other players hurled balls at them from the ground. We would use every ball available to us including soccer balls and basketballs. Tbh it’s one of my favorite games we played.
ashockofpink · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"American Gladiators."
Basically two kids would go on opposite ends of the monkey bars and try to kick/pull/whatever the opponent off. I fucking dominated that game 💁🏼.
BonerJams1703 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game with my younger sister and 2 cousins. It was called Hardalee Darp Harp Harp.
I would stand on the bed in my grandmothers room and march in front of the mirror while repeatedly saying Hardalee Darp Harp Harp. My sister and younger counsins would get behind me marching and repeating after me. As soon as they would come into my vision in the mirror, my job was to trip or knock them over and off the bed and they would then proceed to get back in line and the process would repeat itself. There was no real winner because the entire game consisted of me knocking them off the bed.
gaincity · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who’s in my mouth
lysistrata · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger siblings and I played a game called "mirror the ceiling". Everyone grabs a handheld mirror of some sort and places it ceiling side up under your nose. You then have to navigate the house essentially looking down on the ceiling - the floor looks like the ceiling. It's hilarious because you bump into things you can't see. You lift your legs up high to cross doorways. And so on. Loved that stupid game.
TheTeraRaptor · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play a game like "the floor is lava" but since our carpet was blue, we played a game we called "Shark". As the older sister, I was always the Shark and my brother had to hop from cushion to cushion from the couch and not step in the "water". If he did, I ate him.
We use to play a game called "Pokemon Masters" and I would pretend to be Pokemon and try to catch and use my "skills" to capture my neighbors. I was always the Pokemon.
Also played a game where I was a wizard (Gandalf was my favorite character) and would try to beat my little brother with magic as I had this cool looking cane with a massive glass ball at the end, while he tried to attack me with plastic swords...this was obviously in public and people obviously were confused. We had outfits to play the parts.
...I just realized I was always the bad guy in things. Hmm'st.
pigandbeans · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In long car rides when my sister and I got too rowdy, my mom would kill the vibe by reading out random numbers from license plates with an operation (add/subtract/multiply, etc.) and we’d have to do it.
Yes, I’m Asian.
thutruthissomewhere · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Briefly, we played the "Jurassic Park game" or "Dinosaur" game. It was like tag, and the person who was "it" was a dinosaur and tried to tag other people who then became dinosaurs.
My next door neighbor and I played the "fence" game where we would jump fences pretending to be runaways, or running from the cops.
PancakeQueen13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played what was called "The Orphan Game". It was a mix of playing school and house. I was always the "Madam", which basically meant I was a teacher and ran the orphanage that we decided we all lived at. I'd assign my friends chores while I made up quizzes and material on sheets of paper to teach to them. They had to go bake cookies or sweep the dirt off the sidewalk, or pick a bouquet of dandelions.
One time, one of the "orphans" (my sister) was being bad and refusing to listen during my math lesson, so I decided to tie her to a chair with some rope.
Xcelcius560 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Superman. It involved jumping over a small (knee high) wall with arms out forwards. It stopped when I tripped and cut my chin open...
Thamior31 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school about 9 years old I rode the school bus in the mornings, and a couple of my friends and I would sit in the back seats and play "the car shooting game." We would make finger guns and just shoot at all the cars that drove behind the bus. The tar strips they put in the road to patch up cracks were the spin out marks from the tires, and shooting signs gave us power ups or money (though I'm pretty sure we never spent the money on anything).
Played this game religiously for at least a year, and we never played if one of us three happened to be absent one day.
wpb52995 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father and I played underwater soccer. You fill a water balloon and place it in the center of the shallow end of the pool. You score by getting it to touch the opposing wall or if the other person pops the balloon. IDK if it's an original idea but it was really fun as a kid in our little pool.
eggshellspiders · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played something we called Run Then Die, where one person was "it" and they gave the cues to the rest of us. When they yelled RUN we would all take off running in various directions, but when they yelled DIE we all just had to go limp like we had died and let gravity take over. The person with the most dramatic/glorious/funniest "death" was it and got to make everybody else Run Then Die
Shrewtle · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to play a game called "festive". You used to sit down each side of a garden with legs wide open. You'd roll a ball towards eachothers balls really hard. If you hit their balls, you'd yell "Festive!". You had to take it. It was a weird one.
solar-powered-potato · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played Tartan Man with a select group of similarly retarded friends. Like Blind Man's Buff but whoever was It went fully head first into a manky old tartan sleeping bag and had to run around blind without the use of their arms trying to tackle people to the ground so they could be freed from their tartan prison and make someone else It. We played it in the top hall by the stairs. We were idiot children.
IamAkillerKeller · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a trifurcated tree behind my house that my friends and I would play 'trains' on, with a big knot coming out right at chest height we called the 'steering wheel', despite trains not having steering wheels.
That, and also our "jumping club". Which basically consisted of us kids jumping from some trails in our neighborhood down into the creek below, which was about a 10 ft drop.
AReal_Human · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not that unique, but we used to play a game we called "pang-pang". We built pistol and Guns out of lego, and then ran around pretending to shoot eachother. If you got shot you had to pretend to die. It could get really intese.
Pixel_Dust457 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my cousin would roleplay outside a lot, we had this one called Power of Time that was rather fun
Attaboy20 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brother and I used to play catch.. With an orange. Neither of us knew why, we had perfectly good balls to throw but we decided that oranges were the spheres of choice. It all came to a head one day when we were playing orange catch in the living room and accidentally clipped the chandelier, causing it to crash down between us and sending glass shards everywhere. Luckily no one got hurt, but I can't help but remember the puzzled look on my mother's face as she walked into the living room, saw both of us just surrounded by broken glass, and me holding an orange dumbfounded as to how it could've possibly happened.
loudhampster · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play hide and seek out side at night and you had to shine a flashlight on the hider to prove they were out
spoonmountain · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know about unique but me and my old best friend who I haven't talked to in years played mother and son lol when we were 8 to 10 years old.
Texavelle82 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Peer hunting." My grandparents owned a large piece of land in East Texas, full of hills, trees, and a little mini-canyon. It was a kids paradise. My grandpa, dad, and uncles had several deer blinds set up throughout the property from tree blinds, to ground blinds. Us cousins would get together and draw straws. Shortest straw was the "peer" (deer). The rest of the cousins would pick a blind for the hunt, while the "peer" was given the task of locating an item chosen at random beforehand which would be placed in the vicinity one of the blinds (it would never be the one with the cousin hunters, but you never knew which one the item was near, or which the cousins were in). The objective was to retrieve the item and return to the house without being seen. If you wandered in front of the wrong blind, you got pelted with BB's from a Red Ryder - if they were a good enough shot, that is. There were always winners and there were always losers in that game. We would do this all weekend, drawing new straws each time - once in the morning, and once in the evening until someone got shot. Once someone was shot, they were out and we moved on until we got to the last cousin standing, or our weekend ran out, whichever came first. There were usually only 3-4 of us that would play, and it was only in the off season so we wouldn't actually be killed, lol. Those were the most fun times of my entire life.
MenudoFan316 · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jack Tripper. It’s the same concept as It Tag. One person is “it” or Jack Tripper. And chases every one around trying to take their legs out from under them. If you get tripped and fall completely to the ground, then you are now Jack Tripper. Hours and hours of fun.
FluffyRainbowPoop · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game similar to the game they played in the movie "Grownups" where they shot the arrow in the air. Except in our version we took old machetes we had and threw them into the air and tried not to get hit when they fell. My parents were not too happy when they realized the reason their three sons were running around the yard screaming.
UpstairsBad · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft
randys_creme_fraiche · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it the interception game. There were two guys on the trampoline, and two guys off. The two guys off threw the football to each other, and the two guys on tried to intercept/knock the ball down. If the guys off completed a pass it was a point, if the guys on knocked it down it was one point, and if they intercepted it it was two points. First team to 20 won. It was so fucking fun.
kit48W · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
King Rat. We had a giant pile of pillows and all the couch cushions. Giant. And one throw pillow was "the cheese". You had to crawl to the top of the pile and steal the cheese, and you could only push or bite your brothers and friends. Once you got the cheese you had to take it to your "den" your room and hide it. I can't remember the rest
FIX-IT-NOW · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would pick up my sister my the feet, and my brother pwoud pick her up by the hands, and we would take her to the hallway which was about 36" wide, and swing her back and fourth into the walls. we didnt have a name for it, it kind of just went down like, "grab her hands"
Citizen51 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I switched Elementary Schools after moving in the 4th grade, the group if kids o ended up joining played Tag every day at recess. However, they didn't play regular tag they played a variant that they created called Spread. Basically, when you were tagged you were It, but the guy who tagged you stayed It as well. This would continue until only one person was left and when they were tagged the game was over. The game would start over with the person who was tagged last as the only person that was It.
In 6th grade during the stay after program (waiting for parents to pick us up after school ended) my friend and I invented "Great Balls of Fire." It was basically a mix of Floor is Lava, Dodgeball and Tag. The person that was it would stand on the wooden perimeter surrounding the playground jungle gym. They had a Dodgeball in their hands and could throw it at the other students who were confined to staying on the jungle gym, if they touched the mulch they we're considered out (because the floor is Lava). If a person was hit by the ball they were out and would join the person It on the perimeter. They could also throw the ball if they wanted. If the ball hit a part of the jungle gym (only first contact counts), that part would become lava as well and touching it would cause you to be out as well. Slowly the playing area would shrink and the surviving kids would be forced to climb on top of parts of the jungle gym to avoid platforms that had turned into lava. Last person left was the first IT in the next game. I was pretty proud of Great Balls of Fire. 2 years later I visited my old Elementary school's after school program to volunteer and get community service for my Home Mec classes and kids were still playing it and calling it the same name.
jimi_bagadonutss · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in northeastern Wisconsin. My two brothers and I lived in a very secluded wooded neighborhood that had Oak Forest surrounding it with a Creek running through the center of of it. The forest every fall turned into a Battleground the like which haven't been seen since the trench warfare in WW1. My brothers and I along with the other neighborhood kids would take our plastic sleds and cheap plastic skis and turn them into Battalion stations. Weeks prior to the battle were spent acquiring ammunition and building defensive structures and trenches. When the day of the war started the predetermined teams (mostly families with the occasionally only child on various teams) would all go to their stations and prepare for battle. What followed was a glorious welt inducing War. Handfuls of acorns were launched via plastic skis staked into the ground, pine cones were used as hand grenades and sticks within reason were used as swords. The Oakwood Wars raged on for a good 5 years of my childhood.
AnguryLittleMan · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kids in my neighborhood played Scable-tee. Basically it’s dodge ball but with frisbees. Had to be played in the street and there were bonuses for hits or catches after the frisbee had been skipped off the street.
Dankraham-Stinkin · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boom ball. It was baseball with a wiffleball bat and a little tyke basketball. When you made contact it would make a loud sound. The rules were like baseball but you could hit them with the ball and be out as well. Also if you hit it in the cornfield it would be an out not a Homerun. We loved it
Mrsmithe · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a game we called "Stick-it" in elementary school. It involved a tennis ball and a baseball backstop that was made of chain linked fence. The object was to get the tennis ball to stick in or go through the fence. You had to throw the ball from where it landed. If you could not reach the backstop from where the ball landed (couldn't let the ball bounce) or you weren't able to stick the ball after your opponent did you were out.
Nesman64 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If I was walking somewhere at night, I would pretend to be a spy in enemy territory. I would dive behind bushes or into the ditch if I saw headlights coming and sneak through town.
Myredditaccount33 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a very large park with multiple playgrounds scattered through it. my cousin and I would pretend we're time splitters like the game and run around and pretend we were the people in whatever decade it was and try to find the time crystal and warp to another playground. Obviously had to use alot of imagination but from what I remember it was great
Latebulb · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would enact tv advertisements. We would also try to make up adverts for a specific product.
WHISKEY_DELTA_6 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just threw rocks at each other. We called it the pain game.
BanMeOnceShameOnMe · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline dodgeball. One person on the ground throwing balls, everyone else on the trampoline dodging them like ninjas. If you got hit you swapped with the person on the ground. If you caught it you could throw it at airborne balls to deflect them. So much fun, so many balls over the fence
Azriial · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would go into my basement at night and turn off all the lights so it was pitch black. Then we would creep around and try to make the other one scream. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t handle doing that now as an adult.
ImThatCracker · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grandma's house had carpeted stairs going down to the basement.... walls on both side and a closed door at the bottom. We'd throw all of the cushions and pillows we could find and jump down the stairs into them... head first... flips... you name it. Sometimes on top of each other. I would NOT let my kids do this now though!
DawnOfTheDad2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw lawn darts into the air and scatter (with friends).
Leggs4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In fifth grade I started a game of infected with my friends. One person would start as the tagger and when they tag someone they also become a tagger and you just play until everyone is tagged. Eventually we got almost everyone in the grade playing it.
PikaPlayzTV · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me,my bro, and my friend lilly play a game called adventure quest. so the game goes like this: lilly has a playset and we use that as a rocket to explore the galaxy and go to different planets and walk around and find stuff and name them like: hydrolian flowers,quarion leon grass, ezain cats etc. and take them to the rocket (not the cats, lilly has like 10 outside cats and we don't bring them to the rocket). our favorite planet was pumpkin b 2 (witch had the last surviving kitten in lilly's grandma\grandpa's yard irl named pumpkin).
pumpkin 2 b was the moon of pumpkin 2 a the first planet in the pumpkin star system and we would choose characters before we played, and they would be video game characters or made up aliens and origin stories. most of my friends also played a game called cat and wolves which was 2 groups fighting(not actually fighting just like hunting each other down and pretend battle)
Marquetan · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I tried to get my mom to set up mystery scenarios like in the Encyclopedia Brown books. She was like “uh, I don’t know to do that.” So I got pissed and threw a tantrum.
KaraWolf · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja strike! More of a high school game but whatever. Everyone stands in a circle and each person gets one movement to try and hit the person next to them who is I believe allowed to move but can't move their feet. But if it's not your move you can't move so something like a jump kick could get you knocked out if you landed weird and couldn't hold it. Last person unstruck wins.
patientish · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our pantry had a sliding door so we played "elevator". The secret is, we were just using the game as a ruse to eat chocolate chips in there. SHOCKINGLY our parents knew the whole time.
FudgieBudgie · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play movie rental store! We would take our games and movies and line them up in the floor along the trim and then browse them to pick games and movies and then check them out.
OFool_Ishallgomad · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to stand in the walk-in closet, close my eyes, spin around, and try to think of the scariest thing I could. I'd open my eyes completely disoriented and a little out of breath. My mind would race with possibilities of what I might be seeing as I tried to interpret the images of the hanging coats and shirts in the closet as monsters. I usually didn't have a problem being afraid of the monsters in the closet at bedtime because of this weirdness.
i_suckatjavascript · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reading this whole thread reminds us of how we all had a childhood as kids before video games and technology were introduced to us. Such a wholesome thread.
CrackBabyBB · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this stupid game my cousins and I came up with a game which was basically tag in a small dark room and the person who was "it" would have to touch someone else. The catch was not just being in a dark room but the it person has a pair of clean boxers or some other small clothing t-shirt etc. (usually one of mine or my brother's) that have been soaked in water and they had to tag by hitting a person with it. When the "it" person hits another there was no arguing about who was hit because of the wetness of their clothes. The game we came up with initially had no wet clothes and just the dark room tag but people started cheating and arguing to who was the one who got tagged this the introduction of the wet clothing items.
vanabananafofana · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and cousins would play "hide and seek in the dark." My parents had a room just filled with stuff, they are kinda mild hoarders, and we would play in there. Someone was "it" and would wait outside of the room as everyone did their best to hide in and under stuff. Then someone would turn the lights off and signal whoever was it to come in in 30 sec, so that the messanger had time to hide back in their spot in the dark. It was an endless amount of fun until my brother sliced his foot on something metal in the dark and my parents shut it down...
Mrscrewit · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our backyard used to be a dirt lot, and my brother and I would build all sorts of things. Moats, castles, houses, factories, you name it. We spent so much time outside doing that,then the yard for finished and we couldn't anymore. (not sure If this is unique, I have no clue what other kids did because we weren't social)
Suckatpickingnames · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and I used to play "swing dance" where we would dance with each other like swing dancers on TV. She was a lot smaller than me so it was easy to pick her up and swing her around. I may have dropped her a couple times.
kapteeniankka · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Leg zombies. Basically zombie tag (where if you are hit by "it" you become "it" and the other "it" stays "it", last person alive wins) but for your touch to count you have to either get a persons shoe off or catch them by the feet so they fall. Long story short someone hit their head and the game was banned.
Note: this was during winter so the falls rarely hurt due large piles of snow but sometimes someone would fall on ice or rocks (laid out to stop slipping) and it would hurt.
McGuitarpants · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings- who can stay not “it” and remain under the radar for as long as possible.
My dad is bi-polar and was always raging mad at one of the kids for what was usually delusional rational. We would hide from him during these states.
happysum5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Chicken Game". We had about 5 people playing at a time with me, my sisters, and two friends. The game goes like this: the "Farmer" would be chosen, and would make up an excuse to walk away from the "coop" where the rest of the players would be. Once the Farmer got far enough away, all the "chickens" would get up and run to find a large rock while being chased by the Farmer. The goal was to return to the coop and sit on the rock before the Farmer tagged you. If you were tagged, you were the next Farmer. If nobody got tagged, the person with the smallest rock was the next Farmer.
AndyB16 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The food game.
My brother and I would write down all of the different edible things in the fridge and pantry on small scraps of paper, put them in a bowl and draw 3. You had to combine the 3 things and eat it without throwing up or you lose.
Squircle_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was friends with this kid whose parents had a lot of money. He lived in a mansion, had every gaming system, and had tons of fake guns and swords. when we got tired of video games we would play “For Real”. We would get a bunch of guns or swords and set off on a quest. We ran around his huge house killing imaginary enemies and making sound effects for hours! Usually the plot of our quest was a spin off of whatever game we were into at the time. Sometimes we would take it outside too; across the street was a thickly wooded area that has a coolie running through it that was perfect for adventuring. My favorite one was when this nearby house (another mansion) was under construction and was just wood walls and floors at the time, we played For Real there for an entire day on a CoD like quest. Sometimes I wish we could just go back to the good ol’ days of questing and adventuring around, but I’m old enough to know now that LARPing isn’t for me.
The-Ginger-Lily · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aah I was telling my SO about this game the other day! Me and a friend who lived down the road from my house when I was about 7-8 used to play this game we called “outtakes” We would improv a scene pretending to me filming a movie or something and we would find really funny ways of getting the scene wrong and making it an outtake. We thought we were the funniest kids ever! I used to love that game.
tx_ag18 · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play Kim Possible where we’d dress like Kim and Ron and run around the house and yard solving missions and fighting villains using “gadgets” that we made. If we were in the pool we’d play Mermaids where we’d act out imaginary scenarios but the entire time we were in the pool we were only allowed to swim like mermaids do.
SketchyPixel · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Modified foursquares,
It was like normal foursquares, except we had minigames. When somebody became the "King" (they were the longest standing without failing and getting 'out') they were allowed to chose which minigames we played by yelling it. It was a very complex set of 75+ minigames and I'm still amazed we all remembered them, to name a few:
-Hershey's
-White Chocolate
-KitKat
-Cherry bomb
-Corners
-TicTacToe
-Centers
-Scaffolds
-Countdown
-Traditional
We played this during recess and would have 20 or more people lined up waiting to play. If you want an explanation on each listed game I can give one later.
ProbablyOnAToilet · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How many times can the cat flip before landing.
katefrys · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to stand on the side edges of the tub while the water was running and wait until it filled up while chanting a song about the water (I would usually make up as I went). When it was full, I would turn the water off and get in.
blindjedi · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school we would toss coins trying to get them to land as close as possible to a line. Who ever landed their coin closest to the line would get to keep all the coins from that round. Repeat over and over until we eventually got sent to the principals office for gambling.
Team_RedRocket · 1 points · Posted at 17:27:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and i would stuff socks with other socks (sort of full metal jacket style) and blindfold each other. Then we'd spin for 10 seconds and try to find and kill one another. Needless to say there were more than one full power swing to the nuts
Im_Pronk · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Bombs. Me and my brother would take one wool sock and stuff it into the bottom of another sock and beat the hell out me each other.
Another was the scissor game. Wed lay down facing the oposite way on the couch and take turns dropping our heels into each others thighs until one quit.
elauii · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
two i can remember. we used to play "nyang nyang" which was like hide and seek in the dark with a twist. the seeker was the nyang nyang who would pretend to be a monster and crawl around on all fours just saying "nyang nyang" really quietly. utterly horrifying hearing that shit near you as you try to stay quiet and not get found. if you did get found whoever was the seeker would just bite the shit out of you until one of the other hiders could get up and run to turn on the light. at this time the nyang nyang could stop biting the first person and then go after whoever was running to turn the light on. as soon as the light was on that meant the game was over. the other game we played was just paranormal investigation where we went in my basement with the lights off and scared the shit out of ourselves pretending to be ghost hunters. we had flashlights and recording devices and we would call out to ghosts and ask to give us a sign and then freak out when we thought we caught a response
givemesomespock · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom taught me "How fast can you get me a beer from the fridge?"
Blayzovich · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "The Gun Game". Don't worry, it isn't as scary as it sounds. We would have friends come over and divide into two teams. We wore all black (including balaclava fashioned from t-shirts) and turned off every light in the house. One team would start at the front of the house and the other at the rear. The goal was to eliminate all members of the opposing team by "shooting" them without them seeing you (essentially just yelling "BANG" while pointing your finger gun at them). It was a game of stealth...so much fun. You had to be super quiet and patient...both of which not many kids had so it was the ultimate test of endurance. I miss being a kid now, thanks reddit.
seattlebouncer · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our unique game was quite simple. We'd turn off the lights, turn on a torch and it became the Ghost. Whoever had the torch would shine it around the room and we had to chase it and "catch" it by slapping the area the torch light had created a spot on. It was great fun. I'm in my thirties now and still play it with my nieces and nephews. Growing up poor in a big family definitely brought out our creativity!
julitolay · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So when I was a kid my family had this one couch that my sister and I used to play a game I now call “genital smasher” which consisted on putting our backs in each arm of the couch while facing each other and take turns to smash our genitals. As a boy, needless to say I gave up on it once we reached a certain age...
ejvanway · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would fill a barrel with blankets and climb inside and roll each other around the basement and see who got dizzy first.
Whettenun · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I would make paper airplanes and put large needles in the tips and throw them perpendicular to each other to try and stick the other one. “Dogfighting”
It’s safer than it sounds.
behns · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, my older brother and I used to play this game called “couch” when my older brother would babysit us on the weekend. All the game consisted of was my older brother lying down on the coach (and passing out) and my sister and I sitting on him pretending he was a couch and watching tv. This was literally all we’d do for hours.. and the the older I get the more I believe he was just a hungover genius
ibided · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m so late to the game but here goes:
We vacationed at a lake house in Michigan every summer with our extended family. My sister and my cousin made up a game for the shallows of the lake called bagel and toaster. One person had an inner tube and the other had a cushion from a boat seat that was square. That was the toaster. The toaster chased the bagel. Then they’d switch. Old times :)
RojiPantyComplexxx · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always invented games to scare my siblings, but a favorite was Red-Eyed Pig, where I was an evil cat their mother (also me) would lock into their bedroom and at midnight the cat would turn into the red-eyed pig and grab them in their bed. It terrified them, but they always begged to play lol
deipylos · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Godzilla:
We would spend a full week doing a miniature city on top of a big sheet of cardboard with my brothers including cars, cardboard boxes as houses and buildings (my mom got into it and bought us textured paper for walls and roofs), small pieces of wire as lampposts, delimited streets and garden areas, the whole thing. We even made people from plastiline (with their own internal organs and red poster paint as blood injected into them with a syringe). After all was done and dried, we would stomp on the mini city doing raptor noises. We also had two Godzilla toy puppets that made noises, so they would chomp on the unsuspecting civilians. After the first time, they never allowed us to do that inside the house again. So much red paint.
Lab Facility:
We would wear white lab coats and googles and we would do experiments around the house. After a while, the rooms were color coded and you had to have proper IDs to go into certain rooms, and all of us had a "private lab" you weren't allowed to enter without the special ID everyone made. It quickly devolved into factions, getting the house more and more restricted. My mom had to carry a whole bunch of security clearance cards (drawn on pieces of paper to make it look official) if she ever wanted to get anything done.
The experiments ranged from things as inane as baking soda volcanoes to "splash quotient test subjects". We would throw plastiline dolls off the balcony (which were of course filled with red paint) and then we would measure how much of a splash they made. The test subjects were also subjected to "stress tests" with various blunt objects.
We were weird kids. Now we're weird adults. The red paint was a common theme, we wouldn't sacrifice anything that had to do with realism. My poor mom had a lot of red paint to clean along the years.
hmlns · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was maybe 10 my best friend and I would play a game we called suicide. We'd get up on the playground equipment and give speeches about how depressed we were and how we couldn't go on and then jump off and pretend to die. I haven't thought about this for years but honestly... what the fuck?
Fleshlightlegs · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Streetlight Superman, which consisted of acting like we were beating the shit out of one of our friends whenever cars would drive by in the neighborhood. Then when someone would stop to help the person we were “beating up” we would all just run and laugh....very wholesome.
KnightBoulegard · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Lick the sausage in the closet’ with dad.
lilly_liver · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Statue. Me, my sister, and our nextdoor neighbour would dance around in our front yard and as soon as we saw a vehicle drive by, one of us would yell "statue!" Then we would freeze in place until the vehicle drove by.
ToLeadYouAstray · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basketbrawl. We used to have one guy who had a tennis racket who stood in front of a lowered hoop. If they could block the shot it was a point, unless it got tipped back in. Then it was a point for the team. We played this a lot.
fuckboystrikesagain · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got my entire 5th grade class into this variation of Wall Ball during recess all year long.
3 people are in play at once. You bounce a kickball off the wall, it has to bounce off the ground and you can only touch the ball while you are in the air. If you break a rule or can't get the ball to the wall or it bounces twice on your catch, you're out and someone from the line replaces you. I was surprised by how many kids were playing this game with us every day.
Yablonsky · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Single man baseball.
...If fielder catches a fly, batter OUT. Swap players
......Person who caught the ball is UP and batter is now in the field
...If the hit was a grounder, then person in the field catches it and stays where they catch it
......Batter then lays the bat down in front of them, horizontally from fielders so as to present biggest target
......Catcher then throws the ball back, from where they caught it, trying to hit the bat
.........If the ball hits the bat and bounces up and the batter catches it, then batter is safe and they continue to hit
.........If the ball hits the bat and the batter misses it or does not catch it before falling to the ground, they're OUT. Swap players
Additional Rules:
If the batter swings and strikes OUT, swap players with one that has not been up yet
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
rough_lovely · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to try and make each other pass out. We would clench our necks with our hands as tight as we could, put our heads between our knees and breathed quickly in-and-out and then stand up strait. 9 times out of 10, one of us would pass out. I distinctly remember one of my friends passing out and hitting her head on the site of my bedframe. It took longer for her to wake up that time so we decided it was probably not a good idea to continue playing. I was a fucken idiot.
CynicBlaze · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "Home Safe" where one person would be chosen as "it" and countdown while the rest hide. Once done counting the it person would search for the hiders and try to tag them, while the hiders would try and sneak their way towards "home" where the tagger was counting, if they reach the designated object they are considered "home safe" and have won, whoever gets tagged first becomes it for the next game, if no one is tagged the tagger remains the same.
iamsheena · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before there was a fence between my cousins' house and their neighbours, we would play this game with the neighbour's motion sensor on their security light in the winter. We would try to get across the yard without tripping it. When it was about to turn on, a red light would flash so every time it started to flash, we would fall to the ground and stay still until the red light stopped flashing so the light wouldn't come on. Then we would continue, trying to go faster each time.
theipodbackup · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek...in the dark.
We would play in our basement, or someone else's with all the lights turned off and no flashlight.
Hanzo__Main · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Show your pastor what your penis feel like
sensitiveinfomax · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I saw some documentary about birds and how there's no more spaces anymore for them to nest. We took that as birds don't know how to build nests.
So we made nests for birds on treetops, with grass and leaves and branches. The birds just took away the materials and used them to build their own nests.
tjapking · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called blanket monster, basically someone is inside a giant blanket and tries to “eat” the other people by swallowing them up with the blanket, and then they became a blanket monster too
SuckInSmoke · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers
uniqueUsername_1024 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, my family friends and I have a lot of these:
Duct-taped each other to chairs or poles and had to escape
Cleaned our parents’ cars
Literally dug ditches (sometimes we didn’t even bury anything in them)
Threw shit out the window to see what would happen
Tore up the yard to throw stuff into a bucket of water, then mushed it all up and poured it on the bricks in the backyard
One of us was the ruler and the others... did whatever the ruler told them to.
Russian roulette with nerf guns, from five feet away.
sonny68 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer: basically the person who is "it" held an object (usually a ball or something soft) and the rest would attack and wrestle and tackle the whoever was "it" to try and steal the ball from them. Kinda of like a rough and tumble version of keep away.
Just_pick_one · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline soccer. The goalie has to keep jumping consistently high enough that their feet come off the trampoline. Then everyone else is in a circle around the trampoline. Kicking the soccer ball over was a goal as long as the ball completely passed over the mesh and not the springs. It was surprisingly hard to score.
BroncoBlast · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and myself had this rc dozer and one of us would be in control of the rc dozer and would pick an animal. The rest of us would act like that animal and move like that animal as best we could as the controller of the dozer would try to hit us. If you got hit you were out, if you were the last man standing you would be the next dozer controller.
When ever I was in control I would pick a snake for the animal. Easiest game of my life, but I always got targeted for it.
General_Thanosi · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not super unique but, me and my friends would have to go around the playground in the most ridiculous way possible without touching the ground.
itzzyaboii · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters would play this weird ass game where someone would walk around on all fours and act like a possessed person and try to attack the other people. Basically tag but with a messed up twist and instead of being “it” you just died.
jeslyne2002 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friends would play “men in black”. So we’d pretend we’re all spies and get into all black clothing that usually came from my closet. Then when all the parents were talking in the backyard we would “spy” on them and whoever got caught was out. Our parents didn’t even notice half of the time so we’d be there for sooo long.
ogdonut · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and 8 called it "bounce and Dodge". We would have one or more balls or varying sizes on the trampoline, and jump around trying to make the balls hit the other person without touching the other person or being hit by the ball. If you got hit, then you were out.
katzenjammerr · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
?anyone else do this?
only child here....i used to wander the house holding a hand mirror and pretend i was walking on the ceiling.
epilogues · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Funeral"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite as a kid, with cousins and friends, was "dark tag". Basically we'd close the light in the basement, and one of us would have to find the others in pitch black darkness. Last one was the winner.
anxiousandexhausted · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents had a giant vanity with a mirror directly across from their bed. My brother and I would climb onto their bed and perform a variety show in front of the mirror. We had a theme song and everything.
Quiickdraw · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer Red rover
GwynbleiddSilver · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid I shared a room with two brothers, at night we played a game called "stinky sock", at bedtime we would lay in our beds and one of us would randomly throw one of our socks we wore that day in the air in the hopes it would land on one of our heads and yell stinky sock!
weewillyboo · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play worm.
It's where you get into your sleeping bag head first and then inch around the house, blind, like a worm. It was halarious.
Shrimpyo · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The car game, when on a road trip or field trip with friends or family we would choose a car either driving behind us or in front of us and we would each choose a separate car and whoever chose the car that stuck with us the longest wins.
Game that takes no skill and pure luck.
gauravshetty4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play Cricket with a shuttle cock as the ball and a toy gun as the bat.
NicholasCoffman · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"You Die" was a game me and my friend would play with my younger brother. My friend and I would pantomime fake swords and guns and anything else we could think of and "use" them on my brother then act out them failing. Swords would break on his head, bullets pointed right at him would miss, grenades would bounce back. And my brother would just sit in the center of the room with anticipation waiting for the next attack to fail, and then he'd giggle like an idiot. Didn't play it more than a dozen times but I still remember my brother's chuckle.
Vball_Fan · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Houdini Tag! Whoever was "it" would be tied up, typically to a basketball hoop pole, with bike locks and rope and would have to escape before pursuing the other players. There would be a ~10 second buffer period at the beginning before players could scramble.
CrypticMusician · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hit the Deck"
Run across the driveway from one lawn to the other and Nose diving onto the ground while yelling "Hit the deck!!" whenever a car went by.
What sucked was there was a pavement driveway where we played it.
Sqinctersayswhat · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk how unique this is but my brother and our best friends and I used to dress in full oversized military surplus gear and go hide in the woods and scream at people going for a nice walk down by the river. All best friends to this day. I guess it's not so much if a game as just kids being shitty.
One actual game was "superhero" where we would test each others reflexes and agility by throwing rocks at the superhero while they attempted to dodge.
CalydorEstalon · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Arranging sentences in my head so either the letter count or the word count, preferably BOTH, would add up to a multiple of 6 and then an additional 2.
I have no idea why, but 8 -is- my lucky number.
HeyGooogle · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking after my little sister during the summer breaks we played a game called "house". For me it was so i could play my video game (nfs underground 2) for her it was a pretend world where i would drive her places like stores or work. I was able to spend basically all day playing my game while she was occupied playing "house" lol she seemed to have a blast. I even went as far as building her a blanket fort as her house to make it a little more real.
drrhrrdrr · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a big pasture to the side of the property running along the road. The property was at the bottom of two big hills. I used to play until all hours of the night because in summer, Texas is stifling hot (even at night), going outside was fairly dangerous to a redhead, and staying in all day was boring.
I would see headlights coming over the hill long before the car came down the road, so my game was to make a mad sprint to the barn before the car crested the hill and hide behind there.
As a mostly only child, I was both infinitely bored and acutely aware of adults watching me play alone and I didn't want anyone seeing me play Star Wars at 3 am in my backyard.
I'm sure I was spotted almost half the time and I'm sure none of the neighbors had any idea why some kid went sprinting hiding every time they drove by.
UnfortunatelyMacabre · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide-n-dodge.
Pretty simple, it was hide and seek but instead of tagging a runner, you had to peg them with a ball, a-la-dodgeball.
gigglyzeus · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I R rApe. Basically extreme kiss chasing. Bunch of horny lil fuckers so we were.
walursss · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Slap the Bull” My brother and I would tag our pet dog who was a large Doberman, then run onto the couch as she chased us. Once you made it onto the couch the other player had to run out and tag the “bull” and do the same.
NoImDominican · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me but a roommate of mine told me about this. She came from a very bad neighborhood and they used to play a game called drive by. Basically when a car passed by they'd all drop to the ground and the last one up was basically shot and out of the game. Kind of morbid but seems fun
BlowmyOft · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called "Chains". My dad was a conductor of a childrens wind band orchestra (ages anywhere from 7-15) and every rehearsal day we would have some outside playtime for a good hour, so we had lots of kids play in a school yard.
Similar to tag, there was one random person that needed to catch others, except when you catch them they join you by holding hands. Eventually, there is a "chain" of 10+ kids running after a person trying to close them in. The game was fun and taught the kids teamwork and coordination, because if two different people run the opposite ways and the "chain" isnt organized, two sides of a chain will run away from each other and break the chain, resulting in time penalty due to them needing to reconnect.
Everyone felt included and a part of a team, old and young, it was also a good workout, and after we would all get back to playing our instruments in the orchestra :)
1DietCokedUpChick · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made up a song about touching butts.
zlomsocz · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jet force gemini
Iwilljudgeyou28 · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my twin brother had bunk beds.. he always had to be on the top cause I’ll roll right off in my sleep. So we started playing a game where he would stick his arm off and side and I’d try and grab it and pull him down. This lasted for weeks until i finally grabbed his arm and tossed him down 6 feet. Fun times
Anima1X · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shouted "Betelgeuse" 3 times in a dark hallway then ran around screaming in the early 1960s. Just fascinated with such a silly name for a star. I've always wondered if one of my friends grew up to write the movie
ticklishchinballs · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a whole redneck phase where we would come up with some pretty cool stuff out of boredom and whatever was laying around.
Redneck luge - a full 2x6 with skateboard wheels underneath and the deck perpendicular on top so you could steer with your feet. Stapled a sled to the top and use to pull it behind our bikes
Yard surfing - took that same sled once the luge broke and use to try to stand up on it while it was being pulled behind the 4-wheeler. Going across the driveway was sketchy.
Tire rolling - went down my neighbors really steep hill in a 200lb tractor tire that we found in the woods. Stopped doing it after we broke the 2nd mailbox.
Chicken - would stand about double the standard cornhole distance and would throw arrows across the yard at each other. If you hit someone, it was one point, if you caught the arrow, it was 2 points, and if you moved your feet (torso could move but feet had to stay planted) the other person got 3 points. Brother almost lost and eye when that idiot started using hunting arrows.
Fireball - soak a tennis ball in gasoline and kick it around
Tag - make trails in the woods and chase each other on 4-wheelers and try to peg the other person with a tennis ball to make them “it.”
ayoitscunha · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin used to have a hallway that seemed huge to us, since we were little kids, and we would get one of those small 25¢ bouncy rubber balls and we’d throw it as hard as we could against the wall and try to catch it as it bounced around. This led to the game evolving to finding a bigger room, more people, more bouncy balls, and we would even take chunks out of some of the bouncy balls so that their bounces were more unpredictable. We played this game for a while until someone got a black eye.
Piepounding · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play Indiana Jones in my backyard. It was pretty big and there were some spots with 3-5 ft drops from rocks. I would sharpen long pieces of wood with my knife and dig them into the ground. Then run off the ledge and see how many I could clear without killing myself. I'd also climb trees and try to jump from tree to tree in the woods behind the yard. I was 8 years old when I was doing this.
kit48W · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my friend and I would play French Canadian and native American. We would start in the wildlife preserve by our house really far apart and just start walking - we'd collect sumac and cool rocks and pretend we were on separate expeditions. If we saw each other we'd pretend we spoke different languages and trade and barter. He was super tan he was always the Indian I was always the pale European. We'd trade fish and make spears he'd pretend teach me how to spear hunt and we would sleep outside.
PussyGlue · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an above ground pool as a kid. Me and my friends would run on the wall pretending to be Neo and play Matrix
Schrodingers_Horse · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and cousins and I (totaling 5) would go to my grandmas basement and shut the lights off, making it pitch black. The person who was it would slowly and quietly count down from five trying to listen and figure out where people were. And at 1 they would lunge in a direction and try to tackle someone in the dark. Which resulted in either one or if they were lucky two people getting thrown to the floor. Ridiculously fun times in the dark cement floored basement
xxX42027Xxx · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
Zero-Two · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I called it black ninjas. It was tag mixed with hide and seek. It had to be played at night. Half would go hide And the others would be looking. When you were found you basically had to tackle eachother to the ground. If the person hiding won the wrestling match, they got to run off and hide agai n.
wallysaruman · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tickle uncle George” anyone? No? Aw, damn it!
Blast3rAutomatic · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha maaan this brings me back, I’m actually going to text them both after I type this and remind them.
Me and my older cousins would play a game called “warthog”. The name probably was derived from the idea of a hog tie but we were only like 10 so who knows.
Step 1: The oldest cousin (14ish) learned how to make a lasso with a rope. We would make a lasso put it in the grass, then pick grass over the rope to make it “hidden”.
Step 2: Whoever was elected “warthog” had to walk through the neck of the lasso pretending they didn’t know it was there while the other 2 people hid behind something.
Step 3: Once your foot was inside the loop the others would yank the rope tightening it around your ankle and then the fun starts. Run, kick, scream, jump, fight, anything you could do to not get tackled, held down and tied up.
It was most fun when my oldest cousin was the warthog because he was the hardest to lock down.
Minecraft_Launcher · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game called “bear hunt” with my brother and cousins and grandparents at their house. Basically hide and seek but in the garage with the lights off. They had a gold van they parked in the garage and left it unlocked so we could use it to hide in as well.
Everyone would hide except the “bear” who was allowed a flash light. Everyone should find a place to hide and the door to the house from the garage was considered base. When the person was looking around the garage for another player, if you could make it to base without being spotted then you were safe to hide next round.
We all played it for years until my cousins moved away and subsequently my grandparents as well.
It’s basically glorified tag with a base in the dark, but it was more than that to us then and honestly still means more to me now.
Fuck I hate growing up, but hey maybe if I have kids one day I can teach them too.
poopynosejoe · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger my brothers and I created “the cover game.” The person who was “it” had a massive blanket over their head so all they could do was hear where people were. It was also made difficult for the others since all the lights in the room are turned off so you can barely see the covered person. Soooo many broken household items, but damn it’s a fun game.
La_Ferg · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother who is, 5 years older than me and 8 older than my younger sister, invented a game her called "EFFORT!"
The game began when he would blow up a balloon and bat it across the living room, while my sister and I scrambled and dove all over to keep the balloon from touching the ground. Every time he swatted the balloon, he'd yell, "EFFORT!"
Whichever sister had the most rug burns whenever he got tired of playing won.
Edit: a typo
tulipsilon · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this game I used to play on the computer. it was this really weird looking guy and he was an artist or something it was all cartoon I can't remember what it's called please somebody help me
NegisteredHypercum · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would just straight up jump down the stairs. Nothing more than that.
praetorian_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runaway blindman. My friend would shut his eyes then run off as fast as he could yelling "RUNAWAY BLINDMAN". The other person would chase after yelling the same. My friend was always way better than me. When I asked him one day how he was so brave, he said he actually was squinting a little so he could see where he was going. He said that was part of the game, I thought it was cheating. It was still the most original and intense game I ever played.
RazumStar · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I didn't really like our baby sitter when we were kids so we would make his life a living hell. My personal favorite was when she had me hold some red dye in my cheeks and when we play wrestled I started wailing in pain and spitting up the dye. Poor guy felt awful
_Squeegie · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I through grade school would play basically a modified version of Cops and Robbers we called Manhunt. We'd split evenly into two teams, one team would seclude themselves in a room while the other team went to hide. After a short amount of time, the hunters would leave the post and go searching for those hidden.
The goal of the hunted was to make it back to "base" (a spot designated before the game) without getting tagged by the hunters. Likewise the hunters goal was to find and tag the hunted before they got back to base.
We never had a set in stone scoring system other than; if all the hunted were found and tagged, that team lost. We would switch sides after each round.
The best part about Manhunt, we discovered, is you could play it anywhere given enough space. Small neighborhoods just outside of town? Sure! You friend who lives in the middle of nowhere is hosting? Use the woods and cover of darkness to your advantage! The local Walmart that one friend lives near? Clothing racks make for great jump scare opportunities!
AndrogynousHobo · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Follow my car around in the exact same movements and the exact same path. It got really difficult when I started getting bigger.
hashtagfuckyou12 · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played imagination that I was an orphan, WAY too much.
PotatoWedgeAntilles · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My people have successfully kept a low profile for 200,000 years.
Roxablah · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not entirely unique, but me and my next door neighbor would play "hide n go scream" where we would take flashlights and hide around his house inside or out and whoever was seeking would scream when they found someone. My mom was usually outside smoking with his mom so they didn't really care how loud we were lol
Alpha_Calculi2 · 1 points · Posted at 17:31:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a huge pokemon fan as a kid. So when me and my parents went to a fair I got them to buy me a set of Pokemon cards(not the official one's you guys in the US play, I think).
I had no internet at the time and no one around me played or admitted to liking Pokemon so I didn't know how the hell I was supposed to play the game. So I just made up stuff. We(me and my brother) would have these "awesome" pokemon battles where we enacted attacks from the anime. It was fun as hell lol.
I eventually learned how to actually play with those cards but it was damn boring so we kept doing the other one.
w0wieee · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
spent a quarter of my childhood growing up in Ukraine on a farm before immigrating
I used to help my grandparents prepare food for winter conservation
we used to sit around laughing and singing, peeling apples and potatoes and stuff. we always competed for longest peel
stupid I know. but man do I miss those times
then I found the internet and man fuck that peeling shit lmao
cclolinger · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The adventures of Harriet Tubman and Hellen Keller.
BarbecueHernandez · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"sukka de dicka"
Takashishiful · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to jump off things and land on blankets which we then slowly put on ourselves pretending they were quicksand.
Another thing we did was very slowly crawl from one end of the house to the other and pretend we were climbing up the side of a mountain.
alosercalledsusie · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My cousin and I would play “Pokémon” on the trampoline.
We’d each choose a Pokémon and then pretend to do their moves, such as tail whip, by kicking each other.
Edit: we also played “crack the egg” on the trampoline where one person had to get into the foetal position and hold themself together while several other people jumped on the trampoline around them. If they fell out of the foetal position then the egg had been cracked and it would be someone else’s turn.
eelbarrow · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the license plate game. In California most license plates have three letters in a row. The game was to find the shortest word that used all three of those letters in the order they appeared on the plate. For example, a license plate with 7LIA675 could be solved with the word, 'liar'.
picwicca · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Booga Booga” My sister and I would stick our bellies out like we were pregnant and run and jump into each others belly yelling “Booga Booga!” Over and over again.
MetallicPeacock27 · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
From about 6-11 years old, my best friend and I pretended we were vampires, but not the normal suck blood type. Looking back now, I'm not sure why we even called ourselves vampires? We would snap our fingers and morph to another world. My friend was rather promiscuous from an early age, so in our imaginary world, she had a new bf every week, mostly famous people. Looking back, it was ridiculous, but knowing we could snap our fingers and go to this fantasy world with the guys of our dreams was enough to pass the time. Oh I almost forgot. She initiated me into this world by kicking me really hard in the crotch with her roller blades (I'm female, and she was pretty sadistic). I'm cringing now thinking back...
annoriginal · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play “Beauty make overs”. Basically we would take any ingredient that could be found in her mom’s pantry, refrigerator or cabinets and figure out a way to use it on our self to make ourselves more “beautiful“. One hot summer day we started with an egg white and oatmeal mixture for a face-mask, mayonnaise for a hair mask and cucumbers for the eyelids... after sitting out in the hot sun for over two hours... you can guess the results...to this day I still will not eat mayonnaise.
SwenKa · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Ghost in the Graveyard". It was essentially some weird tag/hide-and-seek hybrid that we played at night, usually when our families were all together for camping.
Whoever is "it" counts on the "base" while everyone else runs and hides. When "it" is done counting, they yelled "GHOST IN THE GRAVEYARD", and everyone else had to try to get back to base without them finding and tagging you.
As this was at night, and usually in not well lit areas, there were occasionally some injuries. I distinctly remember tripping over tent stakes and hitting bars on the playground I couldn't see.
damatovg7 · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it was unique at all, but it's one of my favorite memories growing up with 2 older brothers. In our house, (before our parents renovated it), our living room had a sunken in carpet. We ended up every once in a while when we were bored and just being 3 silly brothers, we would put on socks, go to the carpet, and constantly slide into each other. We would do this for at least half an hour to an hour at a time.
I know it might sound lame to some, but for us, it was very fun, especially because there was a 7 year age difference between my eldest brother and me.
INSERT_VALUE_Nerd · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my neighbor came up with a game called Derby. We collectively had a lot of Hot Wheels cars so we would make a team of about 10 cars each and sit a little bit away from each other. We would line them up in a queue line, usually putting our best ones towards the end. We would count down from 3 then on go we would push them toward the other car so they would crash. If your car flipped over completely on its back, your car was out. If it landed on its side it was a redo. If both cars land on their back it was a redo. You can't sub cars and the last man standing won.
boobsmcdooblin · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play “boogie bog.” Basically, during a family get together, we’d start at one end of the house and have to make it to the other end of the house very sneakily without anyone seeing us. If someone caught us we’d wait a few minutes and start over at the starting point.
BillyPotion · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This might be a standard game for all kids in Canada, so not sure how unique it is but here goes...
The game was called Sellad (not sure how to spell it). It was a recess game where you would crush a soda can to make it flat and then try to nutmeg other players by putting it through their legs, while they did the same to you. The twist was if it did go through your legs all the other players would be allowed to punch and hit you until you could make it to the safe space, which if it was outside was the fence, and inside was to touch a doorknob.
This game became a lot more vicious when you played as high schoolers.
kifferella · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin sister and I used to play this free form spoken fantasy/role play game. We figured out right quick that without room for character growth or improvement shit got boring fast.
Years later I tried D&D and pathfinder and found it oppressively limiting. Like... whaddaya mean there is no "formula" for the sort of thing i want to be? Let's just make it up then. No? Oh um... ok...
NegativeBath · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister, and my cousin used to play this made up game when we visited our grandparents. I have absolutely no idea how or where we got the idea for it, but I know we played it for a few years. Basically we would all take turns playing each role, one person was a burglar, one a guard dog, and one a sleeping home owner. The burglar had to sneak into the living room where the home owner and dog would be “sleeping” on the couch and try to steal as much as possible without waking up either perosn and getting caught. If the owner woke up first they weren’t allowed to touch the burglar and had to wake up the dog, only the dog was allowed to “attack” and stop the burglar. I’m sure there were other rules too and we literally spent hours at a time playing this dumb game. In retrospect I feel like it was something our parents invented to keep us entertained and from making too much noise since the entire point of it is to be as quiet as possible.
NoHinAmherst · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After eating popsicles, my cousins and I would take one stick to the raft in the lake. A person would put the stick between her toes and dive in and release. Everyone on the raft would battle for best view and if and only if you saw it, you had to yell DIBBLE DABBLE and then jump in to get it. There were some waterpoloesque fights to get it if multiple kids saw it at once. We could barely swim at the time (around 5 years of age) let alone swim with someone fighting to pull us under in 12’ of water. The popsicle stick has the perfect buoyancy — it floats, but takes forever to come to the surface.
The kid who retrieved it jumped in with it next.
Believe it or not, we were very honest when it came to staying on the raft until we actually saw/yelled, even if someone else had seen it. This surprises me a bit, thinking back.
batmansmother · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bug stomp. At our old school there were wide concrete sidewalks in the parking lot. My brother and I used to swap guarding the sidewalks from the bugs. The bugs were the other person's feet. Basically, you just tried to stomp the shit out of the other person's feet and they tried to stay on the concrete sidewalk as long as possible.
APSupernary · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a game to me, but for my family it probably constituted torture:
Basically, I would narrate my life in the third person. All of it.
"APSupernary is following the family outside"
"Now APSupernary is holding the door"
"APSupernary is putting on their seat be- APSupernary got burned by the seat buckle because cars in AZ rival the temperature of a collapsing star"
"APSupernary noticed [insert object name] passing by the car"
"APSupernary's family looks annoyed to be here"
PM_me-antijokes · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play "warrior cats" at the park. For an entire summer we were all divided into "clans" and would build camps and fight each other with sticks. The goal was to gain the most berries off a certain bush in the park because the berries were "medicine".
OliveYupHope · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Foccer Ball. It was like rugby with a soccer ball, and you could only score by kicking the soccer ball in the goal.
snoozecrooze · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Death Ball". I'm not sure how unique it was though.
Basically you would hold a tetherball at the rope's full length and stand so it just brushed the tip of your nose. Then you throw the ball as hard as you can and when it comes back around you can't flinch or react at all as it passes by your face.
An older guy did this and threw the ball hard enough that the rope stretched on the way back. We learned about centrifugal force when it smoked him across the face.
After that we always took a small step back before we swung, but it wasn't as fun anymore so the game kind of died out.
Heathcliff511 · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't ask about the name, but we used to play a game called "Chunky" where one person was as usual 'It' but whenever you tagged someone, they joined your side. But, they couldnt tag anyone, only grab hold etc. After you tagged the first guy he would have to hold a guy he caught and then you slowly built up your 'army' of sorts until you just fuckin murked the last guy. It got brutal. I mean people were fully pinned against walls hands legs and torso, slammed to the concrete floor, and lifted into the air by 5 or so people.
This is what it developed into but originally, it was just me and my weird ass friends. We'd all just watched Madagascar (ironically / not ironically) and laughed our heads off at the "Moto Moto" scene and I just sorta made the game up on the spot while walking provocatively at people like a stud singing 'I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky' and the name kinda stuck.
DepecheALaMode · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called rackle. It requires a fisher price basketball hoop, a rugby ball, and a willingness to get the shit beat out of you. The attacker(and one or 2 team mates, lateral passes only) has to make their way across the yard and dunk into the hoop. The defenders, do anything they can to stop you. Full body checks, tackles, grappling, headlocks, anything to stop the other team. If you score, defenders start at the end as attackers. If you lose possession, the new attackers must reach the end of the yard and make their way back to the hoop. It's kind of a mix between basketball, football, rugby, and MMA, played by hockey players.
We had a narrowish front lawn, so there was lots of blood from hitting the sidewalk
Voltolos646 · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think we called it the "King" game. One guy was the King and the other three were trying to overtrow him by getting him out of the room while the King tried to get the others out of the room. MY older brother won every time because he was stronger than everyoen else.
Mazetron · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Assassin” where one of my brothers was the target, another was a bodyguard, and the last was the assassin.
The assassin and bodyguard had nerf guns. The target might have a small pistol but wouldn’t have as good a gun as the other two.
The assassin would get a few minutes to hide, and then the target and bodyguard would walk into the room. The bodyguard wasn’t supposed to actively search for the assassin as part of the roleplaying, but was supposed to be ready and reasonably on the lookout. The assassin would have to wait for an opportune time to strike, but if he waited too long, the bodyguard and target would leave.
Then, once the assassin is spotted or reveals himself, the shootout commences. The target flees, the assassin tries to hit the target and/or bodyguard, and the bodyguard tries to hit the assassin. If you took one nerf dart you were supposed to go down.
After there was a conclusion, we would swap roles and play again!
Arachnocampa · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle time
Shyrex · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Papyrus. Never saw the game again.
disposablefairy · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In fifth grade we had mandatory swimming lessons. My friend and I would wait at the school entrance during recess so we would be the first to get onto the bus to the swimming pool. The supervisor (who kept us from leaving the school ground) was the only one in hearing distance. So my friend and I took each other by the hand and jumped in a circle and chanted (translated) ''We're dying , we're dying , we're still dying'' We kind of traumatized the supervisor that year.
In fourth grade I was over at a friend house and we made up songs , on was about an alcoholic relapsing. (translated) ''No, no, no , this cannot be, there he is ,Fridolin, with his bottle of wine!''
pythonmonty · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I saw this Unique Game in another sub
Mr_PS · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super dumb game but we called it Mr. Knock'm over. Basically one person would lay down on outdoor trampoline and roll around. The other people would jump over Mr. Knock'm over. Of course, if you were knocked over, you lost. It was great when there so many people on the trampoline that people would knock each other over lol
thehysteric · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know this will get buried, but it was such a fun game I have to share. My family had one of those magic seeing eye poster things framed (it was whales), and that became our portal. So my brother, cousins, and I would play Legos and then our people would go through the portal and we'd continue the game as real people. Then we'd go back through the portal and return to the Lego world. It was just a neat way of combining two different story telling games into one.
roosking · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played the ghost game, where one of us put a sheet over ourselves, turned all the lights in the house off, and the others would go hide somewhere. The person with the sheet (the ghost) had to navigate the dark house with the sheet on and find where the other kids were hiding. Once the ghost entered the hiding spot everyone would start screaming
kryspee_kreme · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play the "shoe game". Basically a hide and seek with shoes. One person would hide the other players' shoes anywhere around the house then the rest would look for them. Person to find the most shoes wins and would hide them next. We would often ask our parents help hide them in tall places (eg. ceiling fan) because we were too short to see and would spend what seemed forever to find everyone's pairs of shoes
Sadeyess · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I improvised scary stories with acting, like we were in a horror movie. Almost always about zombies. Whoever was It chased the others awkwardly and out of step like the stereotypical zombie until there was no one left alive, and it was a mix of tag and hide and seek with stories in it.
katakatt · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"kot-kot" We'd open all the windows of our neighbours house and that was our "field" then we (4 little kids) would be attacked by the big brother of our neighbour who would throw pinecones as hard as he could at us while we would try to run away. He was the only one who could go in the house so while we were sneaking around the edges of the houde, he would just randomly jump out of a window or appear on the balcony and blast us with pinecones. Mind you this HURT so we prepared by putting on knee pads and helmets and thick sweaters (although it was summer) and still ended up with bruises all over. But boy was it fun. It got your adrenaline pumping not knowing when somebody would appear out a window and attack you.
yoppibeats · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made a game called the M&M game where I would take one bag of M&M's and would put two between my index finger and thumb, stacked on top of each other. Then I'd squeeze the two M&M's together until one of them cracked. The cracked one was deemed the loser and was eaten, the M&M that survived would move on to the winners bracket to face off against the other winners of the opening round. You'd basically repeat this process until you only have one M&M left. You would then save that winning M&M and give it a name, and then the next time you get a bag of M&M's it would be the final boss in the next grand finals.
I actually convinced a few friends to play this in school and the competition was pretty hype, blue M&M's were clearly overpowered though...
TyranicDragon · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a blindfold game we called "Fish, No Shrimp." My brother, cousins, and I would lock ourselves in a room in a house, typically, it would be our grandparents' bedroom since it is pretty big. Someone "The Fish" would then be blindfolded with a belt from a robe and then spin around 10 times. Then they had to use their hearing and sense of touch to navigate around and try and catch another person from among all the other players "The Shrimps". The person who was caught would then be the next person to be blindfolded. The thing that made it harder to catch other people, however, was that the other players could make all the noise they want, hide, and hit the blindfolded person with pillows which hurt because it was typically unexpected.
Wgibbsw · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cow shit creak. In a nearby farm there was an enormous mound of compost, a mix of mud, straw and various animal shit. My brothers and our friends and I would fill our pockets with small stones and after a rainy day we'd run all over the peaks and troughs throwing stones in the shitty puddles that formed. The aim was to splash as much shitwater as possible onto your opponents. This stuff tasted bad too.
Metatronix · 1 points · Posted at 17:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m way late to the party here, but we had one we would play practically everyday in the summer.
My family had a circular (the shape is important) above ground pool that we used to basically live in for the summer months. We would play “Shark Attack” all day in the pool.
The rules were that everyone had to go around the edge of the pool and one kid was The Shark. The goal was to be the last kid standing after everyone got eaten by the shark (tagged out). You had a handful of power moves you got to use as The Shark. The Shark could yell out the name of the move and everyone would play along. You got like 2 “Shark Attacks” and 3 “Shark Fins” (but we would adjust difficulty based on the size/age of the kid playing The Shark).
The “Shark Attack” move meant that everyone would go the opposite direction around the edge of the pool. Let me tell you, with a bunch of kids creating a whirlpool, changing direction was really hard to swim against, so it would give The Shark the chance to nab somebody that couldn’t hold their own against the current.
The “Shark Fin” meant that The Shark would swim in a straight line across the the pool. Timing was of the essence here. Also The Shark couldn’t tag kids behind him and kids couldn’t swim against the current at random. So the power move was to Shark Fin and then Shark Attack after to reach the other side and everyone would come to you as they fight against the current.
Once all of The Sharks moves were used up your turn was done and it was the person leading the pack’s turn to be The Shark. But if The Shark got everyone they got to go again, unless it was an intense game and the last tagged person would be The Shark.
We would seriously play this for HOURS. ALL DAY. My siblings and myself, plus my cousins, plus friends would all play at once. It was incredible fun.
Dutchy___ · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Clog The Toilet” was a game I played in elementary school. On the playground we had one of those tubular slides and we’d get as many people as possible stuck in there before the recess supervisor walked over and told us all to get out of there. It was fun and, during the winter, made you less cold.
ryndez · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I shared a room, and at night we used to lay in the dark before bed and play "What am I scratching?" We would scratch our own bodies and the others would guess what body part it was based on the sound.
andthenitrained · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We moved into half of what was the old Manor House when I was about 8. Our bit had the huge staircase with slide-downable bannister and a square landing half way down with the stairs turning to go down parallel with the first flight. We had a lovely big black dog of indeterminate breed who was always up for shenanigans. In the bedroom I shared with my older sister our Dad had built beds against one wall with shelving separating the two beds in the middle. Our game consisted of getting the dog thoroughly over excited with her toy creeping down to the landing and throwing the toy down to the ground floor, the aim of the game was to run back up the stairs, into our room and climb up the shelves before the dog got back to us. Perfect mix of adrenaline and helpless laughter.
Please note, the dog was a happy participant and never got nippy, just wanted to bring us the toy to throw again.
Oh, and the game was called Mad Dog.
kabirthegreat · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That Alladin game on PC that I can't remember the name of.
PsychicSeaSlug · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and i were in a fight with another girl at school (not a physical fight)
So we spent afternoons making hillarious mixtapes on cassette.
That included such gems as "this vampire bat, this inhuman beast" (from cruella de vil song on a disney cd), and "you are deformed, and you are ugly" (from hunchback of notre dame song on same cd)
And "you are a poor boy from a poor family" off my dads queen cd.
These days i guess you'd call it a distrack.
Carbohydratedrat · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok. So. Forwarning. My brother loved this. It was always his idea, and he loved every second. Not gonna lie, I did too. He would jump in a sleeping bag, zip it up, and, essentially, curl up into a ball, and have me tie the top closed. I would then grab the bag, with him in it, and throw it down the stairs. We had 16 stairs. He'd thud against the landing, burst out of the sleeping bag, and run back up the stairs ready for more. We were about 6 and 8. Did it for 2 years. Tried again in highschool. He did not enjoy it anymore.
kaleidoscopeyes17 · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 11, me and all my friends would collect acorns during recess. We would then use our acorns for bartering for snacks and favors and things. This went on for a couple of weeks until our stashes, which we had buried throughout the playground and field, started getting raided by younger students- or so we thought. Sometimes I wonder if we just forgot where they were exactly or maybe if local wildlife had raided them.
wiscaaaaaaansin · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I used to play this game I came up with in my basement, which had concrete walls and floors. I stood on one side of the basement and threw a
goldgolf ball at the opposite wall. It would bounce of the wall, then off the floor, then I'd let it hit my chest and catch it after it bounced off my chest. By myself it was just a game of catching it as many times as I could. With my friend, we threw it harder to try and get it passed the other person. The game ended when we got my washing machine and cracked the plastic window.Edit: we didn't play with a solid gold ball
winkswithbotheyes · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would gather all the shoes we could find, place them on our screened in trampoline, and then get in and jump. If a shoe hit you, then you gained a point. It was like golf, except it ended when our mother would yell at us to give everyone back their shoes. I credit this game with sparking my love of gymnastics, as you had to be very acrobatic to avoid the two dozen shoes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, my siblings, and I would play this game called “sharks and surfers” where the surfers would jump back and forth between the two twins beds and the sharks would grab you mid-air and pull you to the ground. As the game progressed there would be more sharks as you got caught so it was a last-man-standing game.
It’s honestly incredible that no one got a concussion or worse. But we still laugh about the game and how stupid we were to be so careless.
Pr0bl3mChild · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would lock one another in a large wooden chest and see how long we could stay in there. You were allowed one item to keep you entertained like an action figure although it was pitch black when closed. I think the longest one of us lasted was about 3 hours before becoming completely bored.
grandpappy47 · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friends and I would play two unique games:
On the swing set we would build up momentum side-to-side so we could crash into each other or grab the chains and whiplash around wildly. Usually we would get in trouble so didn't play this often.
We would also play a balance game I made up. We would simply stand on a concrete tree planter of our choosing and try to be the last one standing. It was great because you could team up to shove somebody off, feint people into missing a shove so they would fall instead, and hop from edge to edge for recovery/positioning. I think we made it illegal to touch the tree. Lots of fun though...
Good memories. They still make me smile when I think about them. Thank you for reminding me.
Beentheresmelledthat · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pirate Treasure: had a sand box in back and parents would throw change in it every night and we had to dig up the box and find all of it. Provided hours of entertainment. Thought I was rich after a year of digging!
trina-cria · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock hockey. My dad and I would play in a hallway both of us blocking a doorway trying to get a rolled up ball of socks past the other person.
I had a childhood friend bring this up recently and how much she loved playing this game with my dad and me.
ZombieOfun · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I would put my Game Boy Color in my room to charge, go downstairs, and then walk upstairs as slow as possible so there would be enough charge for me to play some more when I got back to my room
ShyVoodoo · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “War”. Our neighbors had bushes lining both sides of the walkway to their house, the boys would be behind the bushes on one side and the girls on the other (with one of the boys for help) Then we threw rocks at each other.... I really don’t know how none of us lost an eye
dadofsometrades · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Round the world pie throwing contest.
My best mate and I would throw a virtual custard pie at morning break. We'd come back later, face the opposite way when said pie would have circumnavigated the globe and hit us in the face! We were clearly an excellent shot.
tinfoilhatsociety · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Start this off with: I’m the middle child. On both sides of my family, I was either too young to play with the older cousins or too old to play with the little ones.
My big sister and cousin are just 2/3 years older than me, so at family gatherings, I’d usually try to stick with them. They made up a game called “Pesky” where we were all squirrels, and it was my job as Pesky to go retrieve items for our nest. While I was out having a blast finding leaves and rocks, they would relocate the nest, so I’d have to find them when I came back. When I did find them, the items I had collected usually weren’t good enough and thus began the whole game again...
It wasn’t for a few years until I learned that Pesky meant annoying and they were just trying to keep me away. I still had fun though!
EMPulseKC · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I all played this, and I'm sure it's not that obscure:
"Knock-knock."
"Who's there?"
"Big Bad Wolf."
"Whaddya want?"
"Colored eggs."
"What color."
The cousin playing the Big Bad Wolf would then guess a color assigned to each kid by the Mama Hen. If the wolf guessed correctly, the kid with that color would run around our grandparents' front yard ahead of the wolf until they were safely back on the porch steps. If the wolf caught that person, they were the new wolf.
Repeat ad nauseum until tired or bored.
BIuntRoaster420 · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fumblerooski in a 3 foot wide hallway. The objective was to get to the other end of the hallway without being tackled and no other rules. We evetually had to stop after all the holes we kept putting in the walls. Tons of injuries too as we would sometimes have 4 or 5 people playing at once.
sliight · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deeter: think Marco Polo with no words in an 18 foot diameter above ground round pool. Blindfold chaser with a blacked out swim mask (oddly more scary at night) and they have to grab you to catch you. Chaser is trying to feel little motions in the water, and the two trying to stay alive have to move quietly and slowly if possible.
Worst was when the chaser was standing right above you and you're pinned to the edge underwater and your breath is starting to strain. Basically bolt for it before you drown...
Name originated from the floating chlorine dispenser. Originally you had to close eyes and leave hand on it so you could "feel" surface ripples. Ya, bit dense... We called the floater the Deeter. Name stuck, but game adapted to blacked out mask...
Played for years every summer, day and night....
Winter snow brought out an adjusted indoor version where chaser wore those glow in the dark octopus that are sticky and crawl down walls on the fingers of one hand. Crawling around in the partially finished basement in literal pitch black trying not to get caught.
Both versions when were legit terrifying at times when in pitch black. Outside underwater with cloud cover and no moon especially...
Roxablah · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom had a digital point and shoot camera that she took pictures on, and she would sit at the end of the hallway in our house that lead to the living room and my sister and I would run and jump into the camera while my mom took our picture. We usually would try to make a really silly face while we jumped so the resulting picture would be really funny, and they usually were. We would do this all day and have plenty of good laughs.
joejobella17 · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, sister, and I used to play Scary Hide, which was essentially hide and seek but in our grandma’s basement and in the dark. One of us would go upstairs and count to 100 (which as a 4-6 year old when we played it, that was a pretty huge deal for me). I wasn’t so great at hiding though; I would hide under a blanket on the couch.
We also had Dogs Don’t See Us and Adults Don’t See Us, which my cousin who is closest to me in age would play. We would crawl around and try not to be seen by our grandma or her three dogs.
My cousins and sister also would play something called Gun Shot. I wasn’t old enough to play since it was a murder mystery type game. To this day, i still don’t know anything about it and it’s been 20 years.
squarth · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle used to play this one after everyone went to bed.
PaleChubb · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The neighborhood kids and I would play this game we just called "builders". We would go into one of our basements and get as many couch cushions and pillows that we could find. We would then attempt to climb up the stairs using the cushions as platforms so we didn't touch the stairs.
At first it would start pretty organized with everyone helping each other out, but then the cushions would start to slide down the stairs and it would be a mad scramble to the top World War Z style.
khaingo · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gunz It was a game that required Extreme discipline and muscle memory because it utilized animation cancels in order to perfect techniques. It was heavily look down upon Because I was solely reliant on glitches but this high skill ceiling learning curve is what stabilized the community for so long.
To this very day I believe that gunz is one of the most heavily high Skill Games in existence because it is a combination of fighting shooting muscle memory and movement. It was clear as day when a single player could out class multiple people because of pure skill. Even if someone were to pay to win in it with a clear advantage the person with more skill more experience and more discipline would always win.
Equinsu___Ocha · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would throw pine cones at each other
liptongtea · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the top reply’s are really in-depth and imaginative games.
All Me and my friends had was game called “Butt Cancer Shark” where you snuck up behind someone while humming the jaws theme and grabbed their ass really hard.
strong9510 · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We invented several games.
The first was a game called “shark” there was a bed in the basement, that was the boat. You were safe on the boat. The shark would go hide somewhere in the basement. The rest of us were divers who would explore. The shark would jump out and try to tag us before we got back to the boat. If you were tagged, you were the shark.
Another game my dad taught us. It was called chicken base. Their were 3 of us kids and my dad who would play on saturdays after breakfast. One outfielder, a pitcher, a batter, and a catcher. Everyone was on their own team and we would cycle through, each playing a position. There was one base to the left. Hit the ball, run to the one base and home before being tagged out. If you caught a fly ball you got an extra out when it was your turn to bat. Hit it into the garden was an automatic out. Get the ball stuck in a tree was an automatic out. You could catch your own fly ball and be safe. Their were foul lines and other rules, but that was the gist of it. Great way to play baseball with only 4 people.
M00dkillajones · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
B B Britches. A group of us would agree that anyone saying a word that began with the letter b got hit non-stop until they said "B B Britches!".
NiggBot_3000 · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my brother would put our legs through the bottom corners of plastic shopping bags, pull them up and put our arms through the handles. Then we'd see who could rip the others plastic bag off fastest.
RedditfamAK · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take all the pillows from the house one used to sleep and we used to stack them on him then take all blanket and everything till he starts suffocating and gives up and comes out by just tilting it a little bit once we reached till the fan and we ran out of stuff so then we started adding people for weight in this case it was me and my brother who were short and small at that time
majorfloof · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “flag game”. In an era where not every child had an iPad or handheld gaming system my mom made up a game to keep us kids busy on road trips. Who can find the most Canadian flags on our journey to wherever we were going.
It was an awesome kids game but we still play it as adults, with WAY more rules, bets, money on the table and detailed arguments about who spotted a flag first and why they deserve the point :) fun times.
tposekany234 · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friends and I would play a game at recess we called School Factor. One kid would start by jumping off the playground or doing something relatively dangerous, and the other kids would have to copy it or do it better. We had to stop playing after one of my friends fell off the top of the swing set and broke his arm. Ah, good times.
jr410303 · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mow the lawn Rake the leaves Shut the fuck up
Ferrovir · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "eggos" where we always started out as eggs, and then hatched, levelled up by petting our faithful dogs, and going on a huge variety of adventures throughout the entire 2nd story of our house. Everything was fair game as weaponry. I used a shower curtain rod as a staff/spear, we had "safety swords", bunch of foam around a pvc rod, a couple of removable horns from a replica cow skull I had, an Andúril plate hanger decorative sword saw much use.
We fought wargals, orcs, daemons, and so many other monsters and beasts I can't even remember them all. Whenever one of us went down we could get brought back by a touch from our dog, who was always amused and followed us throughout the rooms
Actual80YrOld · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I had a game called witch school. I was the teacher and would watch a bunch of kids science shows and try to remake the at home experiments. When they came over during the weekend we’d have magic lessons where I tried to teach them how to do the experiments. Also we had a running storyline about an evil wizard trying to attack us. It always involved sending my youngest cousin into the ditch to investigate for some reason.
TooftyTV · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Posty' - Me and a friend played keepy uppies and occasionaly tried to hit a lamp post. When you did a combo and hit the post it felt awesome.
terrafirma91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Living in Ohio we had a lot of windy days. We had a game where we would make spears, arrows, bows, or whatever else and release a plastic bag in the air. The game was to stop the bag from flying away. Nothing was cooler than throwing a spear you made and direct hitting the bag out of the air. Sounds dumb but it was so fun lol. And I can count on one hand how many times he bag actually got away.
wrath-godess · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who could get the other sibling in trouble for doing the stupidest shit the most. We never kept score cause we usually all got in trouble then the next day we’d piss each other off and the game would reset. Good ol days
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the car if there was a spec if stare at it with one eye and every pole or energy line I’d go above it
darlinpurplenikirain · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We weren't kids, we were in high school, but we used to play "Quarters." You sat on opposite sides of the table and each had to spin your quarter and try to hit the other person's quarter to try to stop it from spinning while keeping yours spinning. Points for knocking theirs off the table and of course for every time you made their quarter stop.
ThatLynelYouRanFrom · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were teenagers, We played the knockout game. Now what is the knockout game? Well it is where you consentually choke out one of your friends until they are knocked out. Now we were teenage boys, so what few brain cells we had we were actively killing.
MountainLion96 · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 8(ish) and my brother 4(ish) I named our reflections in the mirror. I told my brother they were our other siblings who lived in “Neverland.” They were able to visit/play with my brother in my body, as I had the ability to “turn into” them, but our bodies couldn’t transfer worlds. I told my brother he couldn’t turn into anyone yet as he was too young, but he could get to know the different people, animals, mystical creatures, etc., by them visiting him through my body. That way, when he reached the right age he would already have some friends in the other world.
This began as an imaginary game, but ended up merging into our daily life. For 2-3 years Neverland became a “reality” to my little brother. My friends participated, as did my cousins. He had preferred characters, less favoured ones, his own “horse”, werewolf protector, unicorns, a cooler version of his older sister (my reflection), etc.
It was pretty wild.
generalst3ve · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would play as Naruto characters we made up. Our plot was way better then what Kishimoto wrote.
Edit: Oh and Digimon too.
Mr2mrcityzen · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had the army man game. We had this fireplace and the wall that held the fireplace was made out of jagged rocks and cement holding it together. We would take 5 or 6 army men each and place them on the rocks across the wall. We would agree on a distance and take turns throwing a ping pong ball at the army men to knock them off. It’s a really fun game. We had rules about catching the ball without a ground bounce etc
DSV686 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There are 2.
1st is MURDERBALL
Now this is way less dramatic than it sounds, a group stands in a circle, and volleys and bumps a Volleyball around, and if someone catches the ball, misses the ball they could have gotten but didn't try for, or knocks the ball away from the group, then has to lie in the middle. When you are in the middle people have the option to spike the ball at you, and if it hits you, you get to get up and start playing again.
The other one is Sneak.
Now my k-9 school was on a fairly large plot of land, around 20 acres IIRC. We would use the whole plot and hide, and we would have 3-4 people who would be seekers and try to find everyone else, and if you got caught, you got a point. The top 3-4 players with the least points would be the seekers in the next game or would draw straws if it were a tie. Eventually this got banned after 3 students broke their arms falling out of trees
Th4t_0n3_Fr13nd · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can Derby: fill a pop or beer can with rocks and throw them into eachother with the most devastating force until one can broke open, the last one that didn't have rocks spilling out was the winner. it was usually the less stuffed can would win but we all tried to fit as much gravel rocks as we could.
Condor1870 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Billy Goat, we’d climb up the back of the couch on opposite ends with a pillow, place the pillow on top of our heads and meet in the middle to ram each other, first one to fall off lost. Probably gave ourselves a lot of brain damage...
MeAnIntellectual_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this counts as unique but it's one of my best memories from school. We played a game called takedown bulldog, a violent variation of British bulldog where the catchers can use any means necessary to stop their opponents from reaching the finish line.
What made this unique was the setting. For some fucking stupid reason, we decided to play this on a school trip to Hampton Court Palace, which is one of the most famous Tudor buildings. On the beautiful, painstakingly maintained lawns, amongst hundreds of tourists, about 30 of us were charging around, kicking and wrestling each other. It was like the church massacre scene from Kingsman.
DOthePOLKA · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to played “sausages” with my sibs. One person would ask a question, and the other would reply with “sausages”. Every. Time. It was hilarious.
“Who comes down the chimney at Christmas?”
“Sausages!”
There’s was also lots of childish toilet humor that went along with this which made it better.
H03797 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Blindfold game" We would play this game in our dark basement where one person was blindfolded and spun in a computer chair. Everyone else would hide/quietly walk around the room and when the chair stopped spinning, the blindfolded person would stand up and try to "tag" one of the seeing players. It was a fun game that resulted in a lot of injuries.
soloChristoGlorium · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find a random series of numbers in the world. (Usually an address on a house or a building.) add up all the digits. If the sum had more than 1 digit, add those together. Repeat until you have a one digit answer left. Then try to identify possible patterns in that one digit with the one remaining digit to the house/building next to it.
connor-is-sad · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would put my baby brother in wrapped blankets into a laundry basket and throw it down some stairs
twinmama7 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this sounds so awful now, but we used to play a game called “strip and run.” yes, i was a child. we were all children, tons of us in the neighborhood. it was basically like tag except if you got tagged you had to remove an item of clothing. so naturally, before starting the game, we would all (well, at least my BFF and I) pile on layers upon layers of clothes, mid-summer in 90 degree heat just so we would have enough to take off without actually exposing ourselves by the time the game ended. looking back, i cannot believe we actually did this, who originally came up with the idea, or even what age the “older kids” who played with us were at the time. i’m fairly certain I was maybe 6 or 7 and there were kids ranging in age up to young teens. totally inappropriate now that i look back on it.
jdPetacho · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 14 we played a game in my school where me and my classmates would go around grabbing each other's butts.
When you did it, you'd get a point, and the other person would have to do it to you to tie it up. If that person didn't, you could just keep doing it to rack up points.
It didn't make any sense, and I'm sure it started when some guy wanted a way to touch the girl's butts, but we still had some fun with it
ThisIsMethBeth · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “Everybody Run From Karen.” It was tag, but no one wanted to be it so we just made Karen it all the time since she was the baby of the friend group. The game ended when Karen tagged someone. Then we’d just start it up again.
That game kept us entertained for years. It was the dumbest thing lol
Rouxster09 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my cousin's place we would have two people go downstairs and rearrange the furniture and turn off the lights then yell to the third kid upstairs that they were ready. The third person, generally me, would go downstairs and would trip up on the random brooms and buckets that were now littering the floor and the two already downstairs would then scare that person (me) as they were stumbling to make it one time around the pool table. Clean up was not so fun and now I am petrified of haunted houses.
its_bme · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would jump on my bed, and at the peak of my jump I’d bend my legs and land on my knees. So then, when I bounced on my knees, I’d snap my legs back under me.
This game was fun, until one day...
So I was going pretty fast and laughing while doing this. Next thing you know, I land on my knees and I rocket forward. Then BAM. I sink my two front teeth into the window sill at the foot of the bed. I was in shock, and then the pain set in. Man I had a headache for like an hour.
I have since moved out of the house, but if it’s not painted over, you would still see the two teeth marks where I landed.
LogMeInCoach · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Other people might have played this too but it seemed unique at the time. The object of the game was to hide from my older step brothers until my mom got home from work so I didn't get the shit beat out of me that day.
myerrrs · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Invented tons of games in grade school and into high school. One of our favorite was DMV Ball. Named such because we came up with it while waiting in a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). Sitting in chairs across from each other about 3 feet apart, you’d bounce a racquetball at the other player.
Rules:
Position: You have to sit up straight, legs back against the chair legs and knees bent at as close to 90 degree angle as possible.
Throwing: You can bounce the ball in any direction towards your opponent so long as the resulting bounce is playable to the opponent, “playable” meant no lower than the middle plane of your thighs when sitting down (thing the seem of your jeans) and no higher or farther left to right than arms length without moving feet. A kill shot was dead on center high on the knee which would bounce away from opponent. If you threw a ball outside playable area it’s a point for the other player.
Catching: You must catch the ball with only one hand and you have to throw the ball with the same hand you catch it. Bobbling is ok, trapping against body is not ok. A clean catch is not a scoring play.
Scoring: opponent doesn’t catch bounce. 1 point for you. opponent bounces ball in a non playable spot: 1 point for you. Kill shot: dead on the knee and bounces away from from opponent. 1 point for you. Games to 15, win by 2.
We once missed a flight out of LaGuardia because we were playing an intense game of DMV Ball and we weren’t sitting in our gate because it was full. Game went to 35-33. People were watching. Plane left without us.
Rikeboss · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend, my sister and I all used to run around the few connected backyards in our neighborhood and play “power rangers”. We had hockey sticks as weapons and trees and shrubs were bad guys. We destroyed almost every plant in our yards before going to a neighbors and beating the devil out of his plants. We were very young and didn’t really understand what we were doing. He came out screaming and yelling to which my dad came outside and started screaming and yelling and ultimately we ended up getting banned from the guys property. When we would play hide and seek later on, if you were ballsy enough, the best place to hide was his yard lol
DementedMK · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would make these giant piles of laundry at the top of the stairs and pretend we were arctic mountaineers as the laundry caved in and fell down on us. Our parents didn’t care as long as we were getting the dirty laundry to the basement
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I spent the whole summer of our tenth year alive in an above ground swimming pool. We created this game called "Museum". We would pretend the walls of the pool and the hole in the latter were different frames of paintings in a museum. We played as characters in different paintings and we could "jump" out of our own painting and "jump" into different paintings and join that world. But the trick was we had to be back in our frame before the security guard saw you missing from your own painting. We would play this for HOURS.
nocnox87 · 1 points · Posted at 17:36:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The priest and I used to play a game of 'hide the sausage'.
zackman1996 · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess one could call it LARPing, but at the same time.....
My friends and I would dress up in suits, tuxedos, the works. We'd arm ourselves with a myriad of toy weapons, and act out our favorite action movies.
Reservoir Dogs, James Bond, Transporter 2, Crank, Scarface, etc.
We had a lot of fun. There was a playground a 10 minute scooter ride from my place, and I had one of those fusion asphalt scooters. Things could drift corners like an S15 Silvia.
We had a lot of fun being gangsters, detectives, robbers, hitmen, cops, spies, etc.
CompMolNeuro · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gymnastick. I used to flip a small metal stick from an office chair to make it bounce uniquely for points.
Cherpyderp · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Church. My sister would put on my moms' mumu, we would make hosts out of white bread, and use grape juice for wine. Occasionally we would use a blow bunny for an alter boy.
Morgangriffin182 · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two brothers had a game called "the night robber" where we had a toy cash register. One of us would be the cashier, one would be a pretend customer and the other would be the robber, the customer had to try and protect the cashier and not let the robber get the money. The catch was that the robber had to come in with an excuse to enter the shop and was usually wearing a stupid design. Hours of fun. We also had a game later on called "poor ass" where we would replicate Jack Ass stunts, pretty basic but fun.
IntrepidNebula92 · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apple wars. We would make bunkers out of pine needles and chuck apples at each other. Another version was dirt clod wars, where we would make bunkers out of dirt piles and throw dirt clods at each other. Good times.
GODxLIKE · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
crack the egg. we would ball up into the fetal position on the trampoline as little “eggs”. then one person would try to super bounce the eggs and break them. every egg that broke then got to be a breaker and continued until all are broken. last one wins. we did have a net but you could still land on the springs. once we bounced someone outside the net.
MoreBrutalThanU · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play scream when our parents weren't home. It was pretty much hide and seek mixed with tag but with flashlights... and knives. We would chase each other holding out the knives like we were going to kill each other. Once we found someone we had to tag them for them to be dead. It was stupid thinking back on it but no one ever got hurt and we had a lot of fun.
KptnViridian · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and me would take a mattress, and try to slide down the stairs on it. Spoiler : it's not working very well
jenflu · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a rural area with a huge backyard surrounded by cornfields. There was kind of a natural fence of bushes and trees surrounding our yard separating us from the fields. Berries and fruits would grow there. We also had an old rotting tree stump by the side of the house.
I hollowed the center of the tree stump to make a bowl and would gather leaves and berries and mushrooms. Then I would chop things with sticks that I had sharpened with rocks and pretend like I had a cooking show. Still love cooking
Petitels · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We grew up on a ranch and there were 4 of us kids. 2 would get horseback with ropes. 2 would get on mini bikes. The 2 who were horseback would rope the 2 off the motorcycles. It got very western but none of us were ever really injured.
SweetBByDee · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my niece are 6 months apart in age so I grew up with her basically. At night when my parents were asleep, she and I would play "don't let it stop". We would stand across from each other in the kitchen, in almost pitch darkness, and toss various items back and forth trying to awe how long before we dropped them. Usually we started with tomatoes, moved on to bananas, then cans of beans.
newremoteg · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, my cousin, and I used to play pretend office where we would pretend to write office work on a notebook and had files and would talk to each other to write some other stuff. We would basically write lines of scribbles but there would always be a hierarchy, where my sister was the manager/boss, my cousin was below her rank, and I was the lowest. We would do this in the living room and they would be sitting next to each other all the time, in front of the tv, but I, being the lowest rank in the group, would always sit alone at the far opposite end of the living room with my aunt’s fish tank, just looking towards my sister and cousin and just be jealous of them sitting next to each other and having fun together.
Pr0bl3mChild · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Crawlers; turn off all the lights in the room at night and crawl around searching for each other.
philosophunc · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GRIM FANDANGO. the perfect mix of quirky and dark and comic and puzzles and story.
Edit: Oh you mean real life
BLU3SKU1L · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every fall the massive oak tree over our end of the street would drop massive acorns. We would collect said acorns in plastic pitchers or other containers and commence a game of war, like a very painful snowball fight. If you got hit and couldn’t handle the pain, you got a break to nurse your wounds. Everyone on the street played baseball at the time, so often times you would feel an acorn whip past your head and explode on the brick corner of the house you were hiding next to. You may be surprised to know that no one sustained eye injuries, though I can remember having a knot on my eyebrow from an unlucky dodge once.
MicahM_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “guess how long it will be for my dad to get back from the gas station” everyone’s guess fell way short and we’re still not sure when he’ll come back
hollyjacquelyn · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and a few cousins all went through a pretty big Harry Potter phase. My parents had a pool table in the basement that we would chase each other around. We would put a bunch of pillows on the ground around the table and one person would be “it” and have to whip the pillows at everyone else. If you got hit you had to drop to the ground and not move and inch until another player that isn’t “it” came and touched you with a tinker toy, aka their wand and say “stupefy” before you could get up. If whoever was it could get everyone down they won. I don’t think anyone ever won. We always had like 6 people playing it just wasn’t possible.
My sister and our cousins on our other side also used to play a game called “monster” when we were quite little. Literally every single time my one youngest cousin on this side would be the “monster” and would just chase us around. There literally was no goal. The really stupid part though, was that every single time we played we had to do this skit at the beginning. Young cousin would crouch on the ground kind of in a ball and we would put a blanket over him. Then pretend we’re hiking or something and come upon this great rock (young cousin with blanket covering him) to sit on and have take a break. One person would sit and the “rock” would stand up and growl like a monster, we’d scream and then he’d chase us around for like an hour.
ging1998 · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were about 8 and 10 years old, our cousin came over to babysit one night. We went down to the basement to show him all of our toys, but he picked up the exercise ball from our parents home gym. The game was called “damage“ and the object was to knock down the other players by throwing the exercise ball at them as hard as you can. This didn’t end well when my brother was hit so hard that he went through the basement wall. Needless to say, the cool cousin never babysat us again.
Dandypanda88 · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family was really fond of playing Spoons. My cousins and I decided the game needed to be a little more exciting so we created Extreme Spoons. The adults would hide the spoons in one spot and tell us which room of the house they were in.
Whenever someone left the table it was a scrambling mess of us kids trying to get to the room first to search for a spoon to grab. Super fun but after one cousin broke their collar bone we weren’t allowed to play anymore.
shoots_N_loaders · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would go to the woods by the neighborhood and collect sticks. Then you pick a set of trees about 15 feet apart. The goal was the break a stick on the tree and have the broken piece fly and hit your friend.
It actually made you think about type of branch and best way to break it on the tree. It also kept Band-Aid in business.
animoogles · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older cousins used to toss a whole bunch of different things into my grandma's toilet bowl when she'd watch them to make some crazy concoctions. They called it Spider Goulash for some reason
behindclosedeyelids · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stage.
My two brothers and I played a game we called stage. Two of us would sit on the couch as judges while the other would be the entertainer and preform diffrent acts. If we hated the performance we would say "GET OFF THE STAGE"! If we liked it (which was rare) we would say "TWO THUMBS UP!"
theycallmecrack · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone play jailbreak? Basically cops/robbers at night in the neighborhood, farm, whatever. If a "cop" tags you, you go to jail (usually a porch). If a robber tags base and yells "jailbreak" everyone in jail runs free. If all robbers are in jail, teams switch roles for next round.
This was around the time cell phone were becoming popular, and some kids started getting them, which basically killed the game. Would maybe get through a round or to before everyone quit. Good times though.
Jakerulezd00d · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to play "walnut wars" back in the day, which consisted of finding the fruits of a walnut tree and chucking them at each other. It would always stain your hands, clothes, anything they touched green. If you got a rotten brown one thrown at you, it would explode into stinky mush. Good times.
snoozecrooze · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One that kept us busy as young teenagers was "Moron Duels". We would all spin in circles as fast as we could for 30 seconds until someone yelled "go", and then we all tried to tackle each other to the floor and be the last standing.
99% of the time I didn't even contact anybody else before I was on my back on the floor, but there were a few good videos of a bunch of dumb kids that can barely stand, tackling each other.
VicRambo · 1 points · Posted at 17:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom would write a list of words on a paper and i would find them in the dictionary and write the definition, page number and headers for each word. I really liked that game.
murphy206 · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had some crazy games growing up.
One included all of us getting on a trampoline with one person holding a towel. The person with the towel had to try and wrap it around our legs and pull it as to knock us down. The last person standing was the winner.
The second was a crazy version of the game "tag". The person who was it had a tennis ball and chased the rest of us around the house we were playing at trying to throw the ball and hit someone. If you got hit you became the one who was it.
Both of these games could go one for hours at a time, and there were definitely some times where we got hurt. All in the name of fun :)
amethyst-golem · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I used to play a game called 'hatch the egg.' I would hunker down into a little ball, and he'd throw a blanket over me and sit on me, instructing me to be quiet (cuz eggs don't talk). He'd eventually get up and whip the blanket off of me, cooing about what a cute little chicken/duck/whatever I was.
It was super fun to me (4-5 years old), but I realized in my adult life it was a nice way for my then teenage brother to get me to shut up and sit still when he was watching me.
xbox1player · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really unique, but we would bang on people's doors & run. It was fun at the time, I look back now & I think, how pointless.
Ammoinn · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pick a speck on the windshield or window and try to follow the edge or the road or tree line with it. Kept me entertained for hours.
the_real_ramirez · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"We do beg your pardon, but we are in your garden."
beegobuzz · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would collect the offerings of the neighbor's Sweet Gum tree in the late summer/early fall. Of course, they didn't mind because the balls clogged up their mower. The neighborhood kids would gather for an all-out spikey ball dodgeball war. Casualities on all sides! It was great.
smaxup · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sombrero dodge ball. Exactly how it sounds.
Sid2987 · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still do. When the Car is passing by and its dark and the headlamp's light makes a line, you jump or your legs get cut. Makes walking fun.
i_forgot_darnit · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing the "Astronaut game" as a kid. There was this big presentation on space exploration in school one day and the leader of my friend group declared that from that day we were all astronauts. My friends and I pretended to be this team of astronauts exploring space and landing on new planets. Any person walking by us while we pretended to be reporting and collecting new findings (shiny tin cans= undiscovered metal of unknown origin, plastic wrappers= alien matter, and a lot of other stuff) became an alien whom we had to observe from a distance to figure out its life patterns for 30 minutes or so until we'd get bored and move onto our next target. Wish I kept in touch with them all still.
Tom_Scanlan · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my older sister and my two older cousins used to play 'The Horse Game' at their house. Basically there's a farmer (always played by my oldest cousin) and three horses. The horses 'stable' or base is the guest room. The farmer hides a trinket somewhere in the house. The horses have to go out and find the trinket without getting caught by the farmer. If we found the trinket before we stopped playing then we won.
SBpotomus · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, cousin, and I played a version of freeze tag that we called Geek. The Geek was the one who was "it" and had to tag the others.
Once tagged, instead of freezing, the player had to crawl like a baby and cry and try to get to the safety spot to untag themselves. If they couldn't get there in 30 seconds, they became the Geek.
Girl-From-Mars · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Radio". I had a tape recorder and a microphone and we used to record ourselves making adverts and singing songs and tell stories. We interview our parents and neighbors like we were roving reporters.
Efireball · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Run Me Over," where my sister would use a toy shopping cart to run full speed into my ankles. Unfortunately it was plastic so we had to stop when my ankles started bleeding too much.
Also, sliding down the stairs in sleeping bags. Good times.
pjb145 · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sisters and I would go outside into our big yard and do slow motion Kung fu movie fights. We live in the middle of nowhere so it wasn’t as embarrassing as it sounds.
Also, even tho we had our own rooms, we once set up two beds and a floor space in my bigger room. We made a calendar, a rotating bed schedule so we all got the bed and floor, and scheduled different ridiculous activities. My favorite being a sock war, where we would prepare by finding as many socks as possible, balling them up, and engaging in an all out dodgeball style war in the room.
Mysquito · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So me and my brother would get all our friends to play a game where we would lie down on some grass and shoot a crossbow straight up into the air and roll out of the way as it came down.
Another time, it was foggy and we made the new rule that since you could barely see the bolt you weren’t allowed to roll. I kid you not that fricking spear landed inetween my armpit.
i_hate_this_feeling · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the across-the-street neighbour used to play doctor, where we would give each other "check-ups" and "treatment", which meant we were grinding on each other for a good 30 minutes, to "make it feel good". We were about 9 or 10 years old at the time. Really awkward to think about years later.
nkzgwz · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in Singapore there was a game called 'zhat' (no idea how it's spelled but it sounds like that) which was a rock, paper, scissors sort of game that involved both hands, and used man, rock and gun instead. Basically the positions used the index and middle finger to be formed, with fingers pointing up being man, which beats fist being rock, rock beating fingers pointing at opponent being gun and gun beating man.
iMendacium · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Witness
Roxablah · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've already added to this twice but I just thought of another one lol
Me, my sister, and my next door neighbor had this game we called "dog pile" where we would just lay on top of each other on this ottoman in the living room until we fell off and crushed each other. We thought it was really funny and I don't know why
SKeptixone · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava game. Run around jumping on all furniture and if you fell off you died in Lava. Can be applied anywhere.
DicenTheReindeer · 1 points · Posted at 17:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "Poops" at sleepovers. We zip sleeping bags all the way up and run around trying to knock each other over.
First time it happened someone had a brown or green sleeping bag and we thought it looked like a giant bm.
KezefTheDead · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Quicksand" all the time. "Quicksand" consisted of jumping into a pool covered with a solar swimming pool cover(the old kind, that basically looked like bubble wrap), and trying to walk or run across before sinking.
You would almost always sink to your neck in seconds, but we enjoyed the struggle of getting out of it before dying.
Hilarious! /s
We still laugh and cringe at how this used to be our absolute favorite thing to do in the summer.
Kids, do NOT do this!
Edit: Clarification.
theylfrd · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle arena. My brothers, who were around six or seven years older than me, would just slam me down against the ground, if I was able to escape I won, if I didn’t I lost. Loved being a human punching bag at eight, always was up for it.
had0c · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I thought this was going go be like super Mario löst levels. Turned out it was a scary fiesta.
Pwntiff · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brother and cousin would play somethi g we called "whatever you like" and it was basically just pretend where we were superheroes, soldiers or Pokemon trainers - always a theme. The thing is we played just in one room by improvising the interactions between the different characters, we have switched to dnd now.
gior_no · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vampire the masquerade bloodlines thank to this buggy mess i love rpg and goth chicks
Polarize-Wonderland · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my dad would mow the lawn he would chase after us with the lawnmower. My sister went down our slide once and he almost chopped her toes off.
tkida1007 · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two I fondly remember - "Airport" and "Church".
Airport - A friend and I would grab any and all bags we could find (duffle bags, old purses, etc) and would fill them up with my toys, "packing" for our trip. Then we would drag the bags outside to our covered patio (down the driveway and next to our garage), which was the airport. What was funny was that as soon as most, if not all, of the bags were outside my friend's parents would arrive to pick them up - I remember this coincidence happening more often than not. This would leave me alone with the clean up part of it. Of course my mom would help, and she'd be furious about it.
Church - this I would play alone (only child). I would grab lots of stuffed animals (I had tons) and sit them in "aisles" on either side of my room. I would then walk to the front of the crowd as the priest and would start my sermon. Then I would pass out communion, which was any cookie or cracker that I could get my hands on. As each toy made their way up to receive communion I got to eat a cookie/cracker.
Bishop966 · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slave. Let it be known I was a little white girl going around our farm collecting things for “master.” I think I was more influenced by “Spirited Away” than the actual slave trade but it was still weird. I would also play wolf girl and I would prance around the farm in white fake fur and a knife; I’m sure you can figure out what film influenced that play too.
punkassunicorn · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Floor chess. We used to have a checkered tile floor pattern one room of the house and my brother and I had A LOT of stuffed toys when we were little. So we would line them up like chess pieces on the floor and assign them roles and special abilities like the frog could leap over other pieces and stuff like that. Of course my brother always won because he had a dragon...
kr1mson · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had a cottage that we would drive to basically every weekend. It took 2 hours one way so my sisters and I would do random shit to pass the time... One game we played was "Cows and Cemeteries."
It consisted of yelling out when you saw a field with cows in it... You then would "get" those cows. If you saw a cemetery and called it out, the other person's cows would die and they had to start over.
I honestly have no idea how it started.
Another game was to simply call out cars we liked and that would then be your car. You would try to get the best car by the end of the trip. I finally won once and for all when I "got" a Lamborghini Countach...
ZappsWorld · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fugitive"
Played with groups of around 20-30 people (usually high schoolers because cars are involved). Everyone starts off in a main, central area and are broken up into two unequal teams; usually 14 "fugitives" and 6 "catchers". The rules were that the "fugitives" had to get to a certain location multiple miles away by foot. The catchers were tasked with finding & tagging/tackling the fugitives before they reached the spot. The only difference... they could have two cars. The "fugitives" got around 5 minutes to get a head-start and make their way to the location. They could go through alleys, ditches, parks, buildings, whatever they need to do in order to stay out of the sight of the "catchers", but still get to the location.
It was so fun to play and each individual game would last multiple hours typically so we only played it once or twice a month (if that). Not gonna lie, the police were definitely called a couple times, some mailboxes were broken, and only one person ever actually got "injured", but it was damn-good fun.
WorkReddit_SendNudes · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw the neighbours mail in the creek game.
greatwaves · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knock the Cunt.
There was a tree in the field behind our terrace with a long bendy branch that you could sit on and have your feet on the ground. Someone would announce "everyone around the back for a game of Knock the Cunt!" and we'd all head to the field. The chosen one, or willing masochist, would sit on it, hold on tight, and the rest of us would shake the branch until they fell off.
Omicronic-isnt-gay · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im not sure i had any unique games but i remember lightsaber fighting with my brother on the staircase and he had to get a brace on his neck after he fell.
lilmana255 · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I don't know if it's unique, but I had never heard of it until my cousin showed me. The game was called "grounders" basically tag played on a playground where you have to stay on the equipment (the floor is lava style), if you get off the equipment and they say "grounders" you're it, likewise if your tagged you're it.
CurlierStew · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pinecone wars was my schools game. Essentially we threw pinecones at eachother. Two teams, you are out if you get hit in the face, every where else was fair game
comradenewelski · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finally! A thread I have a perfect answer for.
When we were kids and we'd go an stay at my dad's, we'd play a game called the ho run. The premise of this game was to spot as many prostitutes on our way as we could.
To clarify, my dad lives in a relatively sketch part of the city, quite close to where prostitution is tolerated (an otherwise underused industrial area), so this was a bit like i-spy
Everyone I tell this too is horrified
slardybartfast8 · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to go in the basement and give each other 10 minutes or so to build a fort. Then we’d each have a bag of like 100 rubber bands and turn the lights off. War ensued. It was hilarious and brutal. Taking a rubber band to the eye or throat in pitch black is hilarious. Really enjoyed that game.
Edit: oh damn this brought back memories of another game we’d play too. We had an open foyer to the second floor that had a little balcony. We’d set up tons of cups, plates, bowls, etc and then try to toss pennies off the balcony to land on them, like that carnival game. Fuck that was fun
darkangel_401 · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin use to push each other down the stairs in a sitting position by giving wedgies
LegendOfGrimsby · 1 points · Posted at 17:39:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All my cousins and I used to play a game called “Blob” we threw my older brother under a blanket and it was his job to crawl over to us and pull us under the blanket with him, if he was successful we were a part of the blob too. Everyone had to crawl
CheshireBuddha · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walnut War, which is exactly how it sounds: a bunch of ten year olds separating into two teams who then proceeded to chuck walnuts at each other. Many injuries were had, but we all look back on that time fondly.
brackattack12 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to be stuck at the tanning bed with our mom a few times a week. Needless to say, the lobby of a tanning salon isn't geared to children so we made up a lot of games there. The road in front of the salon had several speed-bumps. We would "grade" the cars based on how fast or slow they went over the speed-bumps. 0 being the slowest, 3 being the fastest. We wouldn't really compete against each other. It was more like us vs. the cars. We cheered for the "3's" and booed the "1's".
ClassyWhiteD · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played "Boobie Fighters". You shoved pillows in your shirt (chest area, to be specific), and then ran at each other at full speed. Indoors, outdoors, didn't matter.
RobinFox12 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a game like this called “Alpha Male.” Of course we didn’t take it seriously at all. Two people puff out and try to push each other with only their chest while screaming “I AM THE ALPHA MALE!”
skeetbuddy · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My school had a game called SOAKUM, roughly like dodgeball but not exactly.
As a bullied introvert, the nuances were lost on me.
tidderred · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend in primary school used to imitate the episodes of "super robot monkey team hyperforce go", or simply translated as monkey team, and add our own little twists and plots to it. I remember in bed just before falling asleep I would make up scenarios where I'm the character that's about to die and all others being really caring and sad around me. I liked that idea a lot, to the point of fantasizing. I sometimes wonder what that was about. Anyway, I grew out of it in like 6th grade.
HungryLumberjack101 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I class I kept hearing teachers say, "there are no stupid questions".
Its a fun game to challenge that notion by asking reasonable, yet stupid questions.
You can get away with absurd ones later in the day if you ask less stupid ones early on.
NomadicStateofMind04 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking back on it makes it terribly cringeworthy, but we played WW2 and Slaves. WW2 consisted of dividing into two teams and just running around in the woods with slingshots and nerf guns all summer trying to defeat the Nazis. Slavery was fucked up. There was an owner and everyone else were slaves and we had ground up tire as the playground’s surface so we had people collect coal (the tire pieces) and put it down the slide so we could keep our “ship” running. I’m not sure how our parents didn’t know what we played but it kept us busy for years.
tylermoberly1990 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play dandy balls and legs-a-spread and penis butt
zubatman4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up near a firehouse that would blast its horn whenever there was a fire. My neighbor and I independently convinced ourselves that we could control the horn by clapping, so we’d have clapping competitions to get the siren to go whenever we had playdates.
I think I got it more than him, but Alex would probably disagree.
EframTheRabbit · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was a game we played after school. It was called “Suicide” and basically we had a tennis ball we would throw at the wall and it would bounce and you had to catch it. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, the game was usually played by 5 or more kids and if you didn’t catch the ball you had to sprint to touch the wall. During this time, you would get punched and kicked until you touched the wall. People would also try to throw the tennis ball at you. Pretty fun times.
RobinFox12 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thought this was game was just called Wallball..? I think it’s more popular than you think.
sumner929 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but here goes.I can't remember the name of the game now but I think we called it the woods or something like that. Basically, one person comes up with a bunch of places to touch in the woods. A rusty chair that's been there forever, the tree with the big hole in the bottom, the second fence post from the gate, then return back to home base. If you touched all the points in a game, you won. Nothing fancy, usually a bag of popcorn or some candy, and bragging rights. The twist was that we played this game at night and no lights whatsoever were allowed. No cell phones, no watches, no laser pointers, flashlights, nothing and we had three people roaming the woods as "witches" who would scream and yell while roaming around the woods. If you were tagged by a witch your team was out. How we played this game for several years and no one got seriously injured, considering we're running around the woods at night time with no lights is beyond me. Sometimes I still miss playing it, it was quite fun especially being a witch and scaring the ever-loving hell out of contestants.
MIGHTYMINTY · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother and sister used to play "lights out" which consisted of turning the light off and beating each other up in the darkness.
verb833 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At summer camp (9-10 years old) we'd play this game called "crazy caterpillars." Everyone would put their sleeping bags on head first, then stand up and run into each other, trying to knock each other down. That was it. There was no real winner, but it was always fun.
cowbarn9 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister came up with the game "Filch" like the Harry Potter Character, Argus Filch.
The game was basically hide n seek in our family basement which was a big circle with the staircase in the center. Filch would do walking laps around the stairs looking for us. He could only run to check a spot if he heard a noise, so this allowed for time to hide in between laps.
The RP element to the game was that every person hiding had an 'invisibility cloak' where as long as they werent moving, Filch couldnt see them. If you got caught moving, you became the next Filch.
As we got older the game slowly became Filch cracking jokes to try and make the people hiding laugh and reveal their locations.
To this day, it is still on of my fondest childhood memories, and I still play it with my mates occasionally. Nothing wrong with a bit of childhood laughter and fun. Its even better if youre tipsy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle blindfolds you and then you have to figure out what he puts in your mouth by it’s taste.
-Ibuprofen- · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game didn’t really have a name, I guess you could call it traffic jam or something. But we used to just all pile on the slide on the playground. That’s litterally it, we just crammed as many people on the slide as possible. It was super fun back then.
RobinFox12 · 2 points · Posted at 17:49:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a similar game on one of those curly tube slides called plumber. One person goes down the slide head first on their stomach and the person behind them grabs their ankles. Then the person behind them grabs their ankles and so on. The line of kids slowly lowers them self down the slide. The object is to get the first kid to touch the ground and then for everyone to get up to the top. Everyone had keep their hands and ankles linked at all times. It was actually a great co op game that required a lot of communication.
Edit: It was also really fun when we all came tumbling down because someone in the back inevitably lost their grip.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
my mother had these really smelly disgusting vitamins and supplements of all kinds. bottles and bottles she would take regularly which she was convinced was making her more healthy. one bottle had this big nasty brown speckled multi vitamin, another had cod liver oil or some brown liquid in little plastic balls, another had white smelly pills.
Me and my friend would take turns and dare each other to see who could eat chew and swallow one of them without barfing.
antifa_sunflowerss · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “ Rock Store”. My personal favorite game. Every kid had a portion of the backyard as their store, and we each sold other people cool rocks sometimes simply as rocks but mainly disguised as something else, pet bunny, a plate, etc. We would go further and try to make a mail system using rope and baskets. and create it as a town, having different sections and we would have different spots where plants grew or the creek ran through. Very unique and we all made it up.
KerepesiTemeto · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Casualty: My brother would fight each other with cloth belts, and, the winner would be declared when the one who had enough cried out “Casualty.”
VapeForMeDaddy · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to spend hours in the woods by my house making our forts out of twigs, branches, random scrap etc, then we would hide inside them and bombard eachother with everything and anything we could find and turn into a projectile.
I think the best one I ever made included a bathtub that we randomly found in the middle of the woods (looking back thats pretty weird) but at the time it was the best defense mechanism I ever had.
We played this game often over the space of about a year until one evening we thought we saw something in the distance, heard a horrible noise and ran home faster than our legs would take us. Never went back there again.
jib661 · 1 points · Posted at 17:40:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That one where you'd cross your arms and hold your breath and have someone else pump your chest until you passed out
peoch · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodge the belt
HoboRisky · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my grandparents farm, my cousins, dad, and I would all play "Ultimate Manhunt". It was regular manhunt, except my dad chased us around on his motorcycle.
TornDugong · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer
ryno · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
yeah we played that too. never really considered what the name meant... sounds weird now.
FunkTheFreak · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Buck-buck”
Our house goes in a complete circle, meaning there is a center point and you could run in a circle around the house. We used to turn off the lights and hide. My dad would come to find us and when he found us, we would run and he would holler “buck-buck” (I guess kind of like a chicken?) and chase us around the circle until he caught us.
Looking back, it is so weird, but my brother, sister, dad, and I had so much fun doing it at the time and have fond memories of playing the game together.
Edit: when we got our second dog, she would participate in the game too!
Yellowpickle23 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We raised golden retriever puppies once. I took an empty Kemps gallon ice cream bucket, tied a rope to the handle, threw the rope over a thick tree branch, and then put the puppies inside the bucket and pulled the puppies up and down like an elevator. I called it the Magic Puppy Ride.
I was dumb.
whales-are-assholes · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every Xmas, my brother and I would push each other down the stairs.
PiggeryJokery · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Match the Bodypart to the Crewmember.
Armpit Name That Tune.
Guess Whose Botty is Sticking Through a Hole in the Curtain.
mrdewtles · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So there's these plastic baskets that basically every fishing family uses up in the Northeast. They're big malleable and orange or white commonly.
We used to use them for our laundry. But as kids we used to sit in it, and pretend to be a hermit crab. Basically a game of tag where the it person had a severe disadvantage being in the "shell".
Alolan_Exeggutor_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a developing neighborhood, so there were a lot of empty house lots around us. So me and some friends would grab small, broken planks of wood from the construction sites and used them to play "Rock ball". We essentially just went to an empty lot w these planks and tossed rocks up and saw how far we could hit them. And yes, we did hit people's house, but never broke windows or anything....good times
lilfletch72 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would pee at the same time call it sword fight when we crossed streams, we designed it to always tie because longest stream won sword fight, shortest won race, and we both get an accuracy point for not peeing on the floor.
b42thomas · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we called it Polish wrestling, which is where you try to get the other person to pin you. It’s hilarious.
Mahtomic_Gandhi · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend lived on a road with a cul-de-sac, but no one lived at the end of the road. Snowplows would push all the snow from the 1/4 mile straight road to the end of the cul-de-sac, and a giant snow pile would sit there, like 8' tall.
We'd go find sticks that looked like guns, build a fort into the giant snow bank, and defend ourselves against the Nazis (big into WWII as kids). Each car that drove down the road was an Nazi tank or personnel carrier, and one of us would keep guard for cars while the other built the fort. If a car was driving towards us, the lookout would yell "RADAR SIGHTED", and both of us would grab our stick guns and 'fire' into the enemy vehicles until they retreated (aka turned into the driveway)
It was nice because we always won, because nobody ever had a reason to get all the way to the end of the road. Lots of hours spent at the cul-de-sac as a child.
Carolus_Bex · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hugo 3D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't exactly remember the name of it, but it was a game on my dad's old PC back in the early 90s. I'm pretty sure it was played off of a five and a half inch floppy disk. You were a wizard but I think wore a blue robe. You jumped around and collected gems. if anybody could help me out with what the name of this game was I would greatly appreciate it and so would my inner child.
soda_cookie · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I shared a room growing up, and at night we would play so many games. One I remember pretty clear is seeing the passing headlights refract on the walls and ceiling and we would try to touch them.
Trollselektor · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smashed toy cars with rocks. They were our own. It didn't last long due to it being a rather expensive hobby.
kwaczek2000 · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
manic miner
umbringer · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I were CONVINCED that the alien from E.T. had an evil, dark twin that would stalk us around the house.
His name was BLACK E.T.
And my god, that thing was real to us. We’d be playing like normal kids then one of us would notice it and scream.
We would then both be pursued around the house my this invisible dark lord of the Spielberg smash hit, getting increasingly paranoid and i think once I pissed myself hiding in a closet.
Shurialvaro · 1 points · Posted at 17:41:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
S4 league, Korean cartoon TPS with a great mobility system
AstroDragon7 · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this game "Haunted house" and it was so weird. My friends and I have created 3 horror stories, where you would have different characters, with plot and climax. We would all act it out and one of us was, of course, be the ghost. At first, we used to take turns playing different roles but later some people got really good at certain roles and they would just play those one. Each time we will pick one of the three stories to play. I think we just created a theatre play without knowing it.
DoorInTheAir · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have an entire imaginary stable of horses in my head. Not unique in itself, but I would take it even further.
I set up jumps with wood from the wood pile and brooms or rakes or anything with a pole to train my jumpers, and I would do paced laps around the house to train my racers, and do laps on the bouncy trampoline to train my dressage prancers.
And no, I'm not currently a "horse girl" lol.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bartender. You would go grab a beer from the fridge for dad or his friends when they would finish the ones they were drinking.
ha1zum · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our grandparents house is at a rather busy street in a big city. Lots of cars pass by with moderately high speed every day. We watch the cars from the veranda and try to be the quickest at spotting a specific type of car that were passing by. Sometimes it’s Suzuki Jimnie game or a VW Beetle game, but most of the times it’s all about Toyota Zebra Espass.
10J18R1A · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called razorblade.
It was dodgeball but with a frisbee
BigMoses777 · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the neighborhood kids would get together and play a variety of games. The cringiest one was statues. One person would be care taker while the rest of us (8 or 9 of us all together) would pretend to be statues. No one could move or they would lose. The “care taker” would go examine the statues or “dust them” trying to make us laugh. We played this in the front yard. As an adult I now think about all the adults that would drive by and see 8-9 kids standing completely still in weird poses not moving. Creepy!
BryceSoFresh · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sure it's been posted but I'm in mobile and after looking for a few minutes (while pooping at work) I couldn't find it on his thread.
I used to walk to elementary school every day and it was about a mile (felt like 5) or so one way. I would try to race traffic to that little crack in the street, the sidewalk-crack 3 ahead of me, the little tree in that yard, etc. Doing this would prolly make me look super weird with my little spasm spurt of speed with no apparent objective.
Tbh I would always pick objectives I know I could win because you gotta start off your day with a couple of W's.
I would also kick round stones from the corner house next to mine ALL the way to school. I would then make sure I know where the rock was left so I could kick it home.
Coincidentally I would get to and from school quicker because of my hidden speed gains.
Sometimes to this day (28yo) I still try to race cars to cracks in the sidewalk.
TheMufasa · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dick Rumble”. My cousins and I were probably in the age range of 8-13 at the time. It’s basically play fighting but with nut shots only. Often times it ended up with someone crying.
Prettyswee · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For some reason, I was obsessed with digging as a kid (I think it’s because Holes was my favorite book growing up). My dad had a few acres and he would give me a shovel and a pickaxe during the summer and I’d just go out in the woods and dig these giant ass holes for no other reason than to dig a giant ass hole
mysterysciencekitten · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Fuzz.” Fuzz on bikes or Fuzz on foot. One person would be the Fuzz. The others would scatter and roam the neighborhood streets on bikes or on foot. First person sighted by the Fuzz became the new Fuzz. Kept us moving.
larrita · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when we were little, our school had a playground that was made basically out of sand and gravel. So, we'd play "castle war", which consisted of each player making a mound out of sand and gravel, about 15 to 20 yards away from each other, decorating it with whatever we'd find on the playground, and then taking turns throwing rocks at each other's "castles" (while, obviously, standing over it). When a castle was sufficiently destroyed, a winner was crowned.
It was all fun and games until one of my friends threw a rather large rock straight into my lip and split it open. I, of course, after coming home with a split lip and covered in blood, told my parents that I had fallen down a flight of stairs. They didn't seem to believe me, but we had learned our lesson and stopped playing after that.
I still have the scar and the memories. It was fun as hell.
bertcox · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Cock Rocket Football, it was a variation of Smear the Queer. It was in a pool with one of those phallic looking water torpedos. You throw it in the deep end, then everybody scrambles to find it and touch it to the shallow end of the pool. Don't get out of the pool, if somebody's dying stop killing them, and no other rules. So many innuendos, so many pants ripped off, so very very gay, except we did have a few girls that would play, and they were nastier, and meaner than we were. Pulling on a top wan't nearly as fun when you got slapped with a dildo(cock rocket) hard enough to leave a bruise.
GameplayerStu · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Teddy Tournament. A huge fighting tournament between all the stuffed animals, teddy's or stuffed toys from McDonalds with various hazards. Blue carpet was a water area, the stairs were a rocky/mountainous area and the top bunkbed was the top of a volcano, normally the final round. Came up with a bunch of abilities for characters that weren't really fighters like an Ermintrude from The Magic Roundabout teddy I got from a McDonalds Happy Meal who could use electricity from her tail lmao. A Tommy Pickles figure had the most wins I think.
NemesisKismet · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late but one summer, my school had this program to give kids a place to play and have activities and meals for any kid who wanted to show up. Didn't matter if you went to the school or not. So I ended up making friends with these two tiny Japanese girls. I was about ten with the oldest girl being about six and the youngest five.
We played "Sailor Moon" except all it was, was them calling me Usagi and they were Chibi Moon and Chibi Chibi respectively. They called me mom and hung out with me all day. I ended up going to their birthday parties and being super jealous of all there Japanese import Sailor Moon toys - all the wands and transformation pens and shit.
IDK what happened to them after that summer but I still remember them.
studboy1114 · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Purple Place for Windows
Aldormor · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to visit my aunt and uncles farm damn near every weekend when we were kids, which was a 2.5 hour drive. It was because my dad wanted us to grow up with a good relationship to our cousins.
Anyway on their farm they had an insane amount of crab apple trees, and when the time of year rolls around that they aren’t good for eating, we used to have wars.
However this isn’t your ‘normal’ crab apple war. My late grandfather had an old trailer home that he had used to live in there, and we used to get on the roof of it and whip down crab apples at each other. There were two teams. The people on the roof, and then the kids on a trampoline that was kind of set up perfectly in a little courtyard between the trees.
We had to eventually stop the game a couple years later when we realized that the roof of the old trailer home was giving out.
Anti_Venom02 · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play "Dudes". Its where one of us acted like we owned a bike shop and the other person needed a repair on their bike.
hereforthetimesuck · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Fat Man. We stood around the It person and sang Fat Man Fat Man why you so Fat? The It person would then say for breakfast I ate a horse(could be anything) and lunch I ate a bus(or whatever they made up) annnnnndddd for dinner I'm going to eat you! Everyone runs to try to find base. You pick a tree and don't know if it's base until It guy doesn't try to get you or you book it fast to the next tree if they're still coming for you. About 10 of us played this for years.
kpkelley · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kind of difficult to explain but I’ll give it a go. While on long road trips, or even just running errands around town, I would align smudges on the windows with signs/buildings/etc. as they passed by. When they were perfectly aligned, I would quickly blink as a way to pretend I was shooting them and make a ‘pew’ sound to really add to the experience. It would drive my Mom crazy hearing “pew, pew, pew” from the back seat for hours.
I also grew up to be a helicopter door gunner in the army, and so I like to think that this little game had something to do with that.
Catcherfryer · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "Simba and Nala" because we really liked the Lion King. We just crawled around like lions. Only thing is I was Nala and she was Simba (I'm a dude). She's older and therefore had to be the main character.
lt_sh1ny_s1d3s · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school I was often home without adult supervision due to having a single mom. So me and my buddies would gather at my place to smoke some devils lettuce or whatever. We created a game that involved splitting up into groups in the living room. One group for each wall and that was your side to protect. We would turn the ceiling fan on high and chuck a ping pong ball into it. Your team lost points if it hit your wall or furniture. To get points you either throw it in the fan and hit someones side or swatted the ball at another teams area before it hit the ground.
jacycat1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:42:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mr. President” Basically you go about your day but if someone put up their finger to their ear (like a secret serviceman listening to an earpiece) you also had to do it. You tried to do it stealthily so the other players had to notice on their own. The last person who obliviously didn’t have their finger to the ear becomes the president. Everyone shouts “MR. PRESIDENT” and that person gets tackled. Super fun game but it’s an all terrain sport so try not to get tackled while walking on cement.
mattie16dean · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers use to “shoulder fight”. It was hilarious. You just keep your arms on your sides and throw your shoulders around hiring each other with them. It was kinda painful but it’d make you laugh so hard you pee your pants
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called slip n slide. We would drench the entire floor with water and then slide around naked. I lived in an old ass pub at the the time, so the water began to seep through the roof/floor
Shad0wPain117 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game we called "Crazy Shoes", where we would take all of our shoes off and put them on our trampoline (with net) and we'd all bounce causing the shoes to constantly fly in different directions. If you got hit by a shoe, you were out. Last person standing wins.
Majestic_Strain · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Lava Monster" The monster would count down from 10 so the survivors can prepare. Then the monster would climb, maneuver around the playground to try and catch the survivors without touching the floor on the playground and survivors couldn't touch the actual ground as it was lava. First person touched would be the next lava monster. We played that a lot ;-;
AeolisPalus · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d whistle a song from a movie and everyone would try to guess the movie, the expansion pack was movie quotes
mrtoothpick · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my physical education class in elementary school, we used to all play this game that our coaches had made up. At least, I'm fairly certain it was their invention.
We would play it inside the gym. The way it worked is that one or two people would be "it" and would stand in the middle of the gym. The remaining 28 kids in my class would split in half and line up against opposite walls. These were the "runners". All runners would put on these flag football belts.
When the coaches blew the whistle, the people who were "it" would try to pull the flags of the runners as they ran from one side of the gym to the other. If a runner made it to the opposite wall, they were "safe". If the runner's flag got pulled, they would be "it" too but they would have to stand on their flag wherever it fell and could not move. They could only pull the flags of the other runners if they got too close.
This would go on until a final person remained. They would be allowed to be "it" or pick someone else to be "it" for the next round.
And before anyone asks, there weren't quite as many collisions as you'd expect. The real trick was to not sprint, but rather just run from and dodge whoever was "it" when they'd target you.
NateEstate · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Baby baby baseball" lol. We were not allowed to throw balls in the house, so we would play baseball on our knees, rolling the bat and ball on the floor so we would not get into trouble. Because its hard to have 4 bases in a living room, we invented a hybrid of baseball and cricket so the game would be fair for the "pitcher".
kingcuda13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little late to the party, but we used to have a string/shoe lace/etc and tie it into a large circle. Then you'd wrap it around your fingers to create two X's in the middle. Then your friend would pinch the X's and wrap it around the outside strings and raise their fingers up to have a new formation on their fingers.
You can continue the process in different ways - never knew if it ever had a name or way to do it.
bryanisinfynite · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my brother made up a game called "Pup" (pronounced poop). The way he described the game to me was that it was everything and had anything. Basically the game was just normal childhood imagination with a name. Had a lot of fun with it until we realized we couldn't really tell people to play Poop with us.
Avcooor · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"World cup"
In 2002 we invented a Battle Royale Football before Battle Royale was a thing
Each of the around 15 kids of my apartment building would choose a country to represent and one would be the only one GoalKeeper, then it was everyone against everyone game and anyone who scored a goal would be classified and left the game for the round until the last one that couldn't score would be eliminated, then all the others who scored would come back to play until there was only one and he/she would be the champion.
It was awesome
gamepro250 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When our mom wanted some quite time she would play one, two, three rock with my 2 sisters and me. The game was, mom counts to three and then we see who can pretend to be a rock for the longest time.
DoorInTheAir · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play Parent Trap! She was Annie and I was Hallie. She would do a British accent and we would practice the iconic handshake and we would dance to the soundtrack.
davidforslunds · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know how unique it actually was, but when we where younger me and my friends used to play what was either called "Zombie" or "Alien" depending on in which mood we where. In essence both game-modes where the exact same thing, which was a sort of infectious tag, in which we had to be atleast 4 players minimum but preferably more. Since the school we went to was in a very large U-shape, it acted as a perfect battleground and provided plenty of hiding spots for the game.
One of us, chosen by random, would start as the Zombie/ Alien which the other kids where supposed to avoid at all costs. If you where touched (and very often pretend bitten) by the Zombie/ Alien, then you would become on aswell. The game ended when only one survivor remained alive, which meant that although we did team up, the risk of betrayal by the others survivors where always present. The game went from a strange idea one of us had one day, to a tradition we played for years.
feliperisk · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play a game we called "stand on your butt." It's pretty self explanatory: one stands on the other's butt and tries not to fall off. Seems simple enough, but we would introduce levels of difficulty the longer they balanced on the butt. Level one was just balancing on the motionless butt, level 2 was balancing while the other person flexed their cheeks, level 3 was slowly moving the butt side to side while the other maintained balance, and so on. Not sure how we got into playing that one, or why.
sheepoverfence · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Elementary school we got in trouble for playing (american) football at recess. I can't remember if other kids complained or if it was when one kid broke his arm, but they told us we were not allowed to play football anymore, so we created our own game.
It was played inside the gymnasium. It was very similar to football, but it was played with a kickball. I don't remember all of the rules, but I remember being able to score touchdowns and score by making the ball in the basketball hoops. I think we had to dribble when running with the ball, and the walls were in bounds so you could pass the ball off the wall and have someone catch the pass. It was a lot of fun.
SkepticalAdventurer · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my older brother, and my two cousins (also brothers of equivalent ages to my brother and I) used to play a game with all the neighborhood kids called Monster. Basically, one (sometimes 2-3) people would be the “monster” hunting down the 20ish kids all hidden around the culdesac. It was pretty much hide and seek in the dark with someone chasing you down. It was terrifying and incredible.
030927 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called "Lightning Ball"
We used those hats that look like a swimming cap with Velcro on the outside. And you had a ball that stuck to it.
There were always two teams each with a person wearing a hat.
If you had the ball you had to get it on the opposing teams hat, but their team would tackle you and beat you down.
If the ball went out of bounds you had to do a sommersault throw in.
If you got your ball on their hat, you got a point of "Awesome Offense" and the other team got a point for "Decent Defense".
Every game ended in a tie and it was literally the most fun I've ever had.
datdrawingrimm · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wonder hugs. It was infection, but hugs instead of tag.
the_BlindPainter · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After watching jackass and wild boys back in the third grade, my buddies and I decided to make our own videos. We turned it into a game and would always try to out do one another. But after my friend Zach rode my bike off the top of my trailer and broke his leg, his mom took his video recorder. She had seen all of our stupid clips and showed the other parents which eventually led to the end of an era.
Thr33wolfmoon · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Barney has cooties”
No, I’m not making that shit up. My sister and I used to stay home alone when we were younger. Our younger sister had a Barney doll, and we were too old and cool to be mature about that.
When my mom would leave, we would each make a beeline for the Barney doll. The person who got it was “it”. That person would chase the other person in a game of hide-and-week and tag. When found, the person who was “it” would proceed to viciously smash the doll in the others face.
My mom would come home to us, facial rug burns and all, and not have a clue.
Chemantha · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin, sister, and I use to take turns pretending to be a witch and cook each other. We'd pretend to tie each other to something on the floor and then run back and forth into the hallways to "get spices and herbs" and run back to add it to the human stew we were making.
Gatecrasher26 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had the Dining Room Table club.
We needed a clubhouse but our house wasnt that big so we convened underneath the dining room table. Each day was assigned an activity and we would start each one with minutes from the last time. "Okay, we colored on Wednesday. We both agreed that was fun. Today is Friday. Friday is for stickers. What stickers do we have?"
We were strange but sweet.
Buzz78-78 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the eggplant
NewBullMoose · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
Bighayss · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bash-Ball. A game we made in our neighborhood that happened in whoever's front yard that wanted the "home-field advantage" that worked kinda like hockey. But also kinda not. Almost any sports equipment was allowed as long as it didn't close over the tennis ball, like a glove. Lax stick, hockey stick, tennis racquet, you name it. The goals were based off the field and side of field. Each combination of people on teams were given their own team name. And any time the ball went out of bounds whoever said bashball first got to toss the ball back in. Oh and checking/tackling is totally cool, you just have to drop your equipment first. Super fun game.
carpdoctor · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we made a game called 'scramble'. We played on half a soccer field. One person started by throwing both frisbees into the air. It was a free-for-all, you would try and get a frisbree and throw it at another player. If they got hit, you were out and had to stand in the field until the last person arrived. It ended with tons of faceshots. I think some kid was trying to teach us frisbee-football and it devolved into this. We played almost every day.
The_smartpotato · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The hottest game in middle school every week was “Slap Ass Friday” where you’d try to slap the most asses. Naturally, it was boys who made it up. Realize now that it was basically sexual assault. Realllly hope that game died.
Camille_Toe · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister would have pee races with her friend. The house we lived in had foundation damage I believe, leaving the living room floor at a slight tilt. It was hardwood.
They would stand at one end of the living room and pee and see who’s pee would get to the end of the room faster.
4rft5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I went to a hotel as a child, I’d play a game where I’d jump on the bed. That’s literally it, but I’d pretend the closet was a elevator also.
Dat37tho · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I went through a MonsterJam kick back in the late 90's so naturally we formed our own. Our main even would be seeing who could make the most durable monster truck out of K'Nex and see if it could survive a ramp jump down the flight of stairs of our two-story house. We would gauge the winner by how many pieces were lost, if it could still roll after the jump, and if my sister's Barbie dolls could survive the ride as the sole passenger.
To add a danger element to this, we basically had two time limits before we had to call it quits. First would be how soon till my younger sister figured out we stole some of her Barbie dolls and second would be when my mom finally lost her shit after hearing K'Nex clattering down the stairs.
Needless to say, these rounds never lasted long and there never any clear winner. Barbie could just never survive the ride down. Was always losing her head.
slabofmarble · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time we found my dad's glasses and we took turns putting them on (they have a really strong prescription) and jumping off his bed
that1guywhomadesense · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boneless bodies. In the car, where you just kinda go limp and let the vehicles momentum swing your boneless body all over the backseat. Loved it. I recommend jug handles for maximum effect.
Jett_I_Knight · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play 'jerk-swing' where we would tie two swings together, and swing as high as we could. Yes we fell and hurt ourselves alot.
Runningofthecats · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a trampoline growing up, and we would play this game called "mummy mummy" where one person would have their eyes closed and would have to stay on their knees and the other people would have to avoid getting tagged by the person in the middle while staying on the trampoline. There was a song with it too.
Irrelephant3883 · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sister, step brother, and I would play a game called "What are you doing up so late?!" Once it got late at night, like 10 or 11, two of us would hide in our dark bedroom. The other person would then come try to find us using a crappy little Fisher Price lantern that made cricket noises and other night time noises. When they found one of us, they would yell "what are you doing up so late?!" While we all giggled like idiots. Wash, rinse, and repeat with a new lantern bearer until we were good and proper tired and ready for bed. It was reserved for weekends since we had to stay up late to play it.
tonyfrazee · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red rover and freeze tag
lumphie · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We went on the trampoline with a bunch of balls (weirdly shaped balls for added difficulty). Then you had to jump and not get hit. Goal was to be last man standing/jumping and get all the balls off the trampoline (by jumping in the right places)
El-Frogger · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spud.
All the players would start in a huddle with one person holding the ball (usually a kickball or dodgeball type). The ball is thrown as high into the air as possible and the Thrower calls out another player’s name. Whoever’s name was called has to catch the ball while everyone else runs away from the ball. When the ball is caught, the Catcher yells “STOP” and everyone freezes. Next, the Catcher is allowed to take three steps/jumps in any direction in order to get close enough to another player and peg them with the ball. If you miss, you get a letter from the word spud and you are the new Thrower. If you hit the person, they get a letter and become the new Thrower.
Always a ton of fun with the extended family!
PoppingCandyPancake · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carpet burn jail.
Me and my siblings and cousins would build a sofa fort, then gang up on each other to throw one of us in jail (the fort) where we'd pin them down and try to give them carpet burns on their arms and legs. Sometimes one of us would retaliate against the gang and attempt to rescue the prisoner, but they invariably got arrested and carpet burned too.
There were never really any rules over whose turn it was to be ganged up on, we all did our time, although I reckon the younger ones probably did more stints in the slammer than the rest.
Kids can be so cruel.
Never really thought until now about why the adults never stopped us!
TrixTheStannard · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every Sunday me and my best friend st that time would play a game we called the Goblin game based on my obsession of that time of The Spider Wick Chronicles. The game would mostly consist of us running away from and fighting invisible goblins that either only one of us could see or we could only see at certain points. There was a safe area we would stay in which was behind the main entrancs doors and the goblins would come from a hole in the bush near the entrance of the church. We played different versions which involved superpowers or letting others join. We played this for a good two or three years.
DirtyDan0102030 · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Frozen Man. Basically it’s a game where my dad lies on the couch and takes a nap.
TrudeausPenis · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A super parkour ninja running beside the family car and leaping over shit to keep pace with us, and a super laser that shot out from the car and sliced everything up as we drove by.
tingerogsaker · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Asteroids - in winter I would pretend I was a space pilot, sitting in the head of my body which was a spaceship. My eyes were the cockpit windows, so the game was to avoid my windows getting hit by asteroids (snowflakes) while walking/jogging.
vagabondfresh · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Taping together plastic PVC pipes to look like super realistic and sometimes futuristic weapons and playing call of duty pvp at an abandoned recycling facility near Amsterdam, mind you we didn't even know what call of duty was yet
Qulwir · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were kids we would play an "elastic" game in my neighbors basement. We'd turn off all the lights, blast some music ("Another One Bites The Dust"), and try to shoot each other with elastics.
Later in high school we'd play a "guess the song" game. One person would load discs into a 5 CD changer, put it on random mode, and the others had guess the song and artist. First to guess correctly won.
ImSoDrunkThatI · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when I was ten or so, my neighbors, siblings and I would play "kick the can". Basically we'd fill a large plastic soda bottle halfway up with water and set in my backyard. One kid would guard it while the others started at the front of the house. Whoever kicked over the bottle first was the next to guard.
yodasghost3 · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would go over to our friends house when we were really young. I don't know why but I guess the mom had her youngest child nude and maybe he escaped her or whatever. The game was originally called don't let Tommy touch you (the name of her youngest child), but he was trying to play it when he was naked so the game took a darker turn from that day.
Celtic_Legend · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My back yard had 4 big sink holes in it. We would collect random junk, usually from our early childhood days like the red/yellow buggy, fisher workbenches, kiddie pools, old soccer nets, etc to make forts out of. Then we would use all our soccer, tennis, footballs, baseballs, etc to try and tag the other person. Thankfully we were keen enough only to throw at full power long distances and not to aim at the face. Imagine getting hit in the face by a baseball at full speed.
Rules: u can only throw in a fort. U can run to the other persons fort to throw it at him but good chance you get hit on the way over (this was needed because fort 1 and 4 were too far away from each other). No repairing the fort mid game. You are allowed to toss a knocked over item out of the fort. 3 strikes you are out. You can rob balls from others people forts which happened when u left ur fort to get the good balls that landed in the no mans zone. Winner gets to pick an item used to make a fort from one of the losers but all the losers can protect one item.
We’d fucking toss balls at eachs other forts for hours trying to knock down a 30lb-50lb object lmao. We’d team up and just rain balls on someone if they were too good at throwing the ball so they couldnt get a chance too. He’d hide behind his fort for what felt like half an hour. We’d throw balls at the tree branches for hours trying to break em so the net would fall out.
Yes we broke a lot of things but it was all junk we didnt use. OP combos were had. The kiddie pool propped up by the grounded punching bag was banned as a combo.
ThisIsYosh · 1 points · Posted at 17:44:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a couple of games we would play. First was "Stampy" where we would both pretend to be elephants on our parents bed, first to knock the other off the bed won.
Then we started watching That 70s Show and we started playing a game called "Ow My Eye" where we would try to get the other to say "Ow My Eye" by any means necessary. My mom hated those games.
TrueProGamer1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called farter and we started it because one day we were on a trampoline and someone farted so we all grabbed onto a pole and said your the farter and you can tag us until we let go of the pole and you can touch the pole next to you
Uzumati666 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
He man vrs My Little Pony. The ponies were minions of Skeletor, and would always win because they would gang up on He Man and shoot him with rainbows and love. Asshole ponies
ErwinAckerman · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"ant swimming pool." Fill a frisbee with water. Put in some rocks, none of them touching. Connect them with really thin blades of grass, tiny twigs, etc. Put in ants. See if the ants could make it from rock to rock. If they fell in the water let them struggle until they either made it back onto a rock or nearly drowned. Drowned ants got put on a dandelion leaf on the sidewalk until they came around. Sometimes they were burned with a magnifying glass "to dry them off." If they made it out on their own they were free to go. Ants carrying things weren't bothered. There was a rock in the center that the fastest ant got to inhabit with sugar on it. It wasn't connected to the others.
This sounds psychopathic. I promise there were no cruel intentions, my sister and I were just fascinated to watch them.
mrfadeawayjb · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game called the green mile. What it was was basically there were three guards and two prisoners and the prisoners were handcuffed and had to try to escape from the guards while wearing the handcuffs. We used to play this on a frozen lake in Michigan and it was probably in the month of March
DoorInTheAir · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I thought of another one. I would play "Free Willy". Apparently this involved tangling myself in the cord for the blinds pretending I was a whale caught in a net. I would then triumphantly escape and flee to the ocean. That's right kids. I'm the reason those warning tags are on blinds cords.
Monchk · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being one of 6 boys, we had a lot of games growing up. I think my most memorable was when we'd stuff our clothes with every pillow and blanket we could forage from the house and throw ourselves at each other. We called our game "Fat Cat" and for some reason didn't last much longer after one of us lost a tooth.
Icecat1239 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wizards”. It was hide & seek tag with a ball & a metal rod. Whoever the Wizard(Tagger) was would get this metal rod that was as tall as we were, close their and count to sixty. Everyone else would hide themselves and the ball. After sixth seconds the wizard would try to find the ball and the others. The wizard could not tag anyone until they found the ball, so even if someone was found they could rehide until the ball was found. Once the wizard has the ball, they can tag anyone with their hands, the ball, or the metal rod. If you were tagged, you can help the wizard tag others, but only using either the ball or the rod, not your hands. It was really fun.
TheDucksBack · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used the play “Orphanages”. We were all orphans in a orphanage going through some truly terrifying shit. There was murder, blackmailing, teen pregnancy etc. And to make matter even weirder all the imaginary characters not played by myself or my neighbourhood friends were Animal Crossing characters. Rolf was a bad boyfriend in that game lol.
We also played “The Gem Game”. We were in a mountain top school for martial arts and we’d have to fight on the trampoline using gems that turned us into different animals with certain skills. Was like an evolved pokemon.
And then ofc we played “The Hunger Games”. We’d all be armed with sticks and nerf crossbows or something and run around our street tryna kill each other lol
DK_JesseJames_FK · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made this super fun game we called "boogeyman." It was a modified tag and hide and seek. The game was played inside at night. The "Boogeyman" had to turn off the light. All the other kids would run around and / or hide in the complete dark, and the "boogeyman" would have to find someone, grab them, drag them to the light switch, and flip the switch on. That kid would then become the "boogeyman" and have to repeat the process.
deliciousredrum · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe not unique, but I miss hearing
Heads down thumbs up eyes shut no peeking!
We played 7up in school. It was my favourite game.
CakeBoss16 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Luke hunt. It was a game in which we would hunt our friend luke. He was much stronger and faster than us so it was kinda like being in the predator movie where he would pick us off one by one. We where considered 'dead' once we admitted uncle and if we where able to tie luke up and take him to the garage by force we would win. So luke had to either make everyone give up or let the timer run out. It was super fun but had to stop when Luke tried to climb and tree and the branch broke and he hurt his arm and was unable to play football.
AtmosphAric · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and neighbor had two we played at the local playground. One was called Colors and one was called Sand.
Colors: the playground had different colors for each part of the big set. For example: all the floors were green, the railings and monkey bars were all yellow, half the slides were green, half were yellow, etc. The person who was it could touch any color except the one chosen, the people who were not it could only touch that color. This set was huge so there were so many places to go. But it was essentially tag but with fun restrictions on people. So if the person who was it touched the color they couldn't touch, they had to restart back at the starting point and we got to move if we wanted. If we touched a color other than then one we could touch and got caught, we were it. I don't remember all the rules in detail but I loved that game.
Sand: this one was my favorite though. This was kind of like hide and go seek on a little but of steroids. So this was at the same play set. The person who was it would close their eyes and cover their ears for a bit while everyone hid on the play set. Then the person who was it had to go find them while keeping their eyes shut. There were only three rules to the game: the IT person had to keep their eyes shut, you could stand on the perimeter of the sandbox but could not leave it, and if you run/walk on the sand to get to another part and the person who is IT and hears you and yells "SAND" and caught you before you got off it, you were now it. So it was very much a game where you had to be as quiet as could be while trying to manuever around the person who was it and blind.
TheSkyFlier · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In car rides, me and my sister would compete to be the first to spot the same model of car that we were in. It got hard to distinguish who saw what first, so we started calling out the color of the car, and if it was a Jeep, what top it had, how many doors it had, and if it had a fire color.
This was all in good fun until we drove past a dealerships and there were two kids in the back yelling “Jeep! “ “Jeep!” “Jeep!” for a mile down the road.
DONTEATCARS · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play castle crashers. It took my mind of the divorce.
naturemom · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play "The Water Club." Basically, on a warmer winter day (usually the sun was out) we'd sit in the backyard with all our outdoor toys with us (plastic buckets and shovels mostly) and melt snow into water. That was it.
I've since moved across the country and got talking about childhood games with a friend. When describing The Water Club, she exclaimed that she and her sisters use to play "The Old Fashioned Water Company." Same game, different name.
TheDFR · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Hide the GI Joes” all the time. We’d take 3-6 action figures and one person would hide them either in the backyard or the rec room, or whatnot. The other person would have to find them. Sounds lame, but was so much fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was super young, I shared a bedroom with my brother and sister and I would "host parties". I would do this a couple times a month. I decorated the bedroom and played music and movies on our computer, and I would cry and uninvite people when the wouldn't show up/throw away my invitations. For example, if my sister didn't show up I would cry and cross her name out on the invitation list.
My brother and I would also make things out of my modeling clay or play dough and we would sell them for pennies. The last time we did it, we both made cardboard stands and sold items in our bedroom. I sold dinosaurs and candy and my brother sold hot dogs. We ended up just getting our own pennies and buying each other's stuff.
eliyase · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this public park which had this kid small attraction which was full of slides which looked like a ship and had this little pirate wheel thingy too,it was placed right in the centre of this sandy pit. The games name was 'Shark Attack' basically tag but whoever is on the 'ship' is safe from the catcher who is on the sand which is the water, and we would run around the sand and get back on the ship or have our leg dangling out and give the catcher a chance,, fun times
Swag-man · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bobsledding down the stairs in a laundry basket was a hell of a time as a kid.
pompzi · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foul football (soccer). Basically playing football but you can only get the ball from fouling, anything goes. Led to a lot of bruised shins
RobynRuLo · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wed have a “cooking show” My brother or I would be the “chef”, and we’d mix a bunch of random ingredients in a bowl. When we were done, the other would rate the dish, depending on how bad it smelled.
LanceJade · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure of the details as this was almost half a century ago. When I was 4, my dad and I moved from the apartment with no bedroom in DC to one with one bedroom in VA. It was in a big apartment complex, and we made friends with our upstairs neighbors.
I remember going to play with their kids in their apartment. Cathy was 7 and wanted to play checkers. Theresa was 10, and she and I wanted to play that the Germans were chasing us. It involved lots of snuggling and pretending to hide.
I don't know how we came up with the idea, but it was fun.
Some 35 years later, an online friend told me she thought we knew each other in our last life, and that I had been funneling her information from the Gestapo to give to the French Resistance. Until we were found out, and I was shot for treason.
I don't know if that really happened, nor if there was a connection to what Theresa and I played at when I was 5.
broski43 · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters used to play this game that we’d call ‘fall on people’ (we were very imaginative, I know). So one of us would lie down on our back on the couch, and another one of us would stand on the arm of it and just, kinda, flop onto the other. There was no objective. We got very hurt. Luckily nothing too bad, but a lot of bruising and crying. So, yeah... our parents didn’t really like it.
hardman_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:45:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trying to see for how long I could stop thinking. I was fascinated by how automatic thoughts were.
Kaiyde · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On a massive trampoline in my country backyard, My sister would put on a red shirt and i would chase her around on said trampoline screaming I’M THE BULL
monsterisincorrect · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played travel agents. We would build these lavish vacations and trips and pretend like people were calling to book them. We made offices and everything. So many hours spent on the fake phone!
WateryPoops · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “sawblades”. Basically we’d take the couch pillows and whip them at each other while running around. If you got hit in the arm, you lost that arm. Lose a leg if you get hit there. Lose both legs and You can no longer move from your location. First person to be decapitated or take 3 sawblades to the torso loses.
EternumVoid · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and cousins used to play a game called "Black Plush" and it consisted of us in a room with all the lights off and one person would be designated the "Black Plush". He or she would grab a plush toy, usually a teddy bear or something similar and with all the lights off in a room completely dark they had to throw the toy at someone and the person that got hit was it. It was like tag but in the complete dark and throwing shit around. We would hide or use each other as shields. Oh, and the person who was it and missed the shot had to look for the plush animal in the dark while the rest of us scrambled to hide or go to other places in the room. Good times.
Game was called Black Plush because it was dark as hell and all you saw was black until a plush animal hit you. It was crazy when played at night, literally couldn't even see my own hands.
BiddyAnn · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof Rescuers. It involved climbing onto the roofs of the farm buildings, delegating a rescuer, then pushing each other off the thin ledge that allowed us to perch on the roof arch.
Rescuers duty was to slide down in dramatic fashion, quicker than we were falling and stop us reaching the bottom of the incline and falling the 3meters to the ground. Fun times.
Grew up on a farm with minimal supervision. We had a lot of these games and worse. It's a wonder we all made it to adulthood.
henmill · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Drive-by shooting" Probably more of an interrupt to normal play than a game of its own. Any time a car drove by, all the kids playing in the front lawn would stop what they were doing and scream "drive by shooting!!!" and do their best death-by-gun shot routine. There wasn't really an objective or way to win, but all the kids loved it haha. The parents were not so amused.
Always_the_sun · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wolf tag. It was basically regular tag but if you got tagged you became a part of the wolf pack.
lefthandmckinley · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the salami
MikeOxbigg · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Homie Style Basketball" during recess. We had one of those random pieces of playground equipment where you can throw a ball into the big hole on top and it would come out of one of the four smaller holes on bottom.
It was essentially basketball with 10 man teams and no rules against tripping or hitting people so that got banned pretty fast. Then we started playing "The Trip Game" which was where all the guys lined up at the top of a steep hill and tried to avoid being tripped while sprinting down said hill. If you got tripped, you had to help fuck people up the next round.
That also got banned because when there's only one guy left to trip, he's just running through a gauntlet of 20 asshole 5th graders kicking him and trying to violently shove him down the hill and one kid busted his head on a rock.
I miss recess.
blizzard2218 · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it burglar.
Basically one person stays inside the house and hides items around the house for the other players to find.
The rest of the players have to break into the house without the person who hid the items knowing, and get all the items before they escape, they were called the owner.
The owner has to do daily tasks like, napping, cooking, reading, amd get distracted and things.
If a player is caught by the owner in his own house they get locked up in the attic and everyone has to try and free them.
So fun with like 12 people
I remember a game we played where people were coming in through the windows and the back door, at one point we had one of our friends risk themselves by saving 10 of our inprisoned guys
kalyknits · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play "brother and baby", "sister and baby", or, when we could not agree, "baby and baby". This game involved a lot of making silly noises and biting each other with covered teeth (presumably to mimic the gumming of a child). I honestly don't recall what was fun about it but we did it all the time, especially on long road trips.
SkullKid1022 · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had two games that came as a package when we were kids.... The first was called "Feet Fight." We would lay down and put our feet up against each other and the goal was to extend your own legs and force the others' legs to bend all the way. Nobody ever won, so after thirty seconds, the game would switch.
The other game was called "Die Die Die," and the goal of this game is to kick the other person as fast and as hard as you can. After thirty seconds or so, we would yell "Feet fight!" and switch back.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trampoline Ball"
Best if played with 5 or more. At most 3 people would be on the trampoline while everyone else would be standing on the ground right next to it, scattered around the outside however you wanted to be. We had a foam ball that we used and the objective was for the people on the trampoline to dodge the ball. If you got hit, you came off and the person that hit you took your place. If you were on the tramp you always had to be jumping.
For the people on the ground though you couldn't just simply throw the ball, you had to hit it like a volleyball serve where you threw it up with one hand and smacked it with the other. We played this game for hours sometimes. If someone was on for too long the players on the ground would sometimes gang up on them. You'd use different strategies to get the good dodgers off the tramp like faking you were gonna hit it so they'd take a big bounce and not be able to react or hiding the ball and kicking it each other under the trampoline so the jumpers didn't know who had it.
Good fucking times.
jamesthejabroni · 1 points · Posted at 17:46:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play "clodhopping", where we pulled up a handful of weeds and grass (with the roots and dirt still attached) and tossed it onto the roof of our family shed.
Whoever got the most clods on the roof with the loudest thumps before we got yelled at won.
We were not good kids.
lala_machina · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, cousin, and I would play “Crab Cruncher”
It’s where two of us would lie down on the ground next to one another and put our feet in the air (“the crab”). The third would then back into our feet butt first and try to wriggle their way through our feet to the ground or on top of us (“the cruncher”). The other two would try and launch the other away or into the air or whatever. It was ridiculously fun, except one time my butt landed on my sister’s nose and it bled like crazy. We played for years, and I bet if we got drunk we’d still play and we’re in our thirties now.
mysterysciencekitten · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our personal version of Spin the Bottle. No kidding. We would each write down 3 or 4 “punishments” on a slip of paper. All papers folded. We’d take turns spinning the bottle. Whomever it pointed to had to pick a slip and perform the punishment. This led to the most glorious moment of my entire childhood. My friend “A” picked the punishment: Kiss “K’s” butt (with pants on). K and A are sisters. K got on all fours. As A leaned in for the kiss, K blasted a fart in her face. Life will never be better than that moment.
know_Carcosa · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our whole neighborhood would play a game called “Bloody Wolf” at night time. It’s basically just Hide-and-go-Seek backwards. So you have one or two “Wolves” that go hide. Then all the kids go out looking for the wolf.
First person to see him yells “Bloody Wolf” as loud as they can and everyone runs back to base for safety. The wolf tries to tag as many people as possible, so next round they are Wolves too.
Gets pretty scary when you’re a kid and the last of a handful of seekers.
liamlb663 · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game where you can't think of the game, and if you think of the game you say, "i lost the game" so everyone knows
danhneb · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m sure it’s not very unique to boys that grew up in the same time as me, but my dad and I used to play “Car Crash”. We would tear apart our couches and chairs, build almost a mini fort with them, and then take all my matchbox and hot wheels and give characters to them and act out their lives. There wasn’t many crashes occurring but I always told my mom she couldn’t play because it was “too scary for girls”
MocknozzieRiver · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zeegeelas.
Ahem. My friend and I made this mythical water creature thing, and when we swam we pretended we were them. Basically, we couldn't see or talk above water, and we just did the usual role-playing type thing and made up some story that I can't remember.
Oh we also made a club where the whole class we hid from one person we didn't like behind a snowbank during recess. We'd just watch her wander around looking for us. 🤷♂️
deadline54 · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it, but my best friend in elementary/middle school had a big room in his basement with a smooth concrete floor. One person would get a hockey stick and 10 pucks and the other had to run back and forth touching the walls with both hands 3 times while barefoot. We would switch rounds and whoever got the most hits won. Lots of bruises, cuts, and sprained ankles.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punch butt: One of the older siblings (there's 5 of us) would sit on the edge of a chair and a smaller child would go stand in front of them with their back to them and the older child would put their feet close to the smaller child's butt. Then basically kick them across the room. Lol it was more of a push or a shove but if you do it too hard you can get hurt lol
nalyd8991 · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Imagine soccer, but instead of a ball you use a full disposable water bottle.
Yes we had real soccer balls, but the water bottle was way more fun
uberdreww · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm 1 of 6 kids, only girl being the youngest, and I was #4. We had so many different games ranging in stupidity.
One of my brothers and I would keep the younger siblings out of our room and we would set it up kinda like a carnival. Like tossing a beanbag into a bucket for skee ball, card games, and we even made fake money to use. We also tried setting up a miniature golf course in the backyard.
Some of the really stupid ones we did though we're to pile all the blankets at the bottom of the stairs and see who could jump from the highest step. We would also set all the blankets in a pile in the bedroom and jump off the bunk bed.
Probably one of my favorite was a game we called Head to Head, and you would get in a sleeping bag head first, we would all get our heads together in the middle of the room, and just wrestle.
Surprisingly none of us ever broke a bone though.
iiimperatrice · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to crawl around on the floor pretending to be dogs
VisualArtist808 · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The dart game ... we would pretend to shoot each other with a “poison dart” , the person has to pretend to be paralyzed until the dart was “removed” by someone. This went on well into high school. There were some rule revisions such as , Spider-Man : allows someone to pull the dart out by saying Spider-Man and aiming their hand towards you (pull the dart with web ) , and we allowed you to raise your hand in the event that you were darted, underwater and running out of breath ... we were idiots ...
kekeke923 · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We pretending like we were in a mario bros game but instead of being mario/luigi etc, we were the goombas. We would squat down and run around the backyard making random noises and that was basically it
Stiljoz · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I rode in a car, I used to imagine it had an enormous sawblade that could extend from it horizontally out over the landscape which had to be retracted to avoid metal objects and extended to cut down signs, trees, or anything wooden. I think the idea was an evil genius was trying to cut down all trees on the planet to deprive it of oxygen, but I didn't think too much about the reasoning.
Erikacoleman · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wake me up by slapping my balls.. To my girl friend 8 yo at the time.. Yeah i had.. Fetishes
Captain_Catco · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when I was in grade school I used to play this "boss fight" game with two of my neighbors.
I was always much bigger than them, so i'd always end up being the boss. I would chase them around with "special skills" that I usually lifted from movies or games I watched at the time. I clearly remember one time I tried to be a maintenance robot from system shock 2.
From there I evolved and started to play D&D
randomstardust · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline chicken with my sisters, we stopped playing once I hit puberty.. girls could no longer win.
2real2deal · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had a game called "Hey Boss"
I have no idea how we came up with it, we played it between 4-6 years old. It was played by throwing something off the bed then trying to bring it back without ever leaving the bed. This would result in hanging halfway off the bed then calling for the "boss" to help reel you in.
For little kids with no upper body or core strength, it was quite a feat for boss-man to pull you back up to safety with the treasure in hand.
mrnikstone · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
push two soccer goals 10-20 yards apart, you and a homie stand in front of each one, then you take turns either throwing a football into the opposite net, or try to save the ball from going into the net,
first to score 11 goals wins.
bhub21 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a game, but any game we played would always have the same consequence. The loser(s) would have to drink what we call a “dirty butthole”. The winner of the game would make a concoction of four different liquids to make the nastiest drink possible. When we started there were were little to no boundaries to what we could use. Condiments would often be used along with aggressively boiled milk. After having many instances where sisters or cousins would throw up after drinking it we limited it to only beverages and no preparation of said beverages (e.g. no heating). Nowadays we mostly use alcohol.
franlcie · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young, around 8, My friend and I combined windshield wiper fluid and mud into a pie we were about to eat before my mom whisked her home and me to bath.
reluctantdragon · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I found this entirely dark room and would play hide and seek in total darkness. Made it extra hard
HannahZero · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can
In the country, there was a spotlight at every house that was on throughout the night. If we stayed late at a party at someones house and everyone was inside, us kids would go outside with a can. The can would be placed under the spotlight with a guard and everyone else would go hide around the buildings. The goal was to kick the can before the guard spotted and touched you. It was funny when the dogs or cats “helped” the guard since the animal would go up to people hiding. The game ended when everyone was caught.
room-to-breathe · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to flick a piece of string maybe 3-4 long at my cat, and when they caught it, I'd quickly whip it around them several times really fast, effectively hog-tying them, yank them up off the ground for a couple seconds till they started to struggle, then drop them and let them loose. They'd always be really agitated about what just happened so they wouldn't think twice about attacking the string again, so I'd just repeat this process until I was bored.
Pumps74 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freckles
blackguyinmontana · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an outdoor cooking show. We’d gather all of our ingredients from around the house, usually dirt, grass, leaves, rocks, dandelions, pretty much anything that could be used to make a dish look more interesting. We’d take turns talking through making our dishes as if we had an audience. We kept our finished “meals” for weeks at a time resulting in multiple crusty dirt pies on my mom’s front porch.
twinsaber123 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had something we simply called "the game." We just went back and forth telling each other stories and adding to each other's stories. We would talk for an hour or two adding more and more to the same story until it was unrecognizable. If written down they would really just be awful self-insert fanfics with no coherent plot or real struggle. But they were entertaining and it was fun to see who could out embellish the other. We never told the stories to others, not that we could remember half of what we added by the time we were done, so we were never embarrassed by them.
Most of the TV shows we watched made an appearance as settings for our fantasies. This was more common with shows we both enjoyed such as Pokemon or Dragon Ball Z.
welcometobavaria · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car tag. My friend's dad owned a towing business and they had a tow yard on their property. It was tag, but the people who were not it had to stay on the vehicles. The person who was 'it' could touch the ground and be on the vehicles. Super fun, but looking back, it was super dangerous. One kid jumped down from the roof of an RV onto the windshield of another car and one of his legs went straight through. Lots of blood, but weirdly he didn't cry or anything. He just walked home down the road and the next day had a bandage around his leg and said he wasn't going to play car tag anymore.
tdcjonm · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go priest?
theminecraftdude · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with a trampoline (with a net) in my backyard and I remember 2 games I played with a few friends I had in middle school. We didnt have a name for the first one but basically we got a bunch of smaller sized balls and put them inside the trampoline. Then we would try to avoid them for as long as we could. When there are 4 or 5 kids in there it would get pretty hectic.
The other game was named "Trippo Whippo". Basically you had one person close their eyes and stay on their knees and they tried to trip everyone else who was in the trampoline by listening. Lots of time spent playing this one. I even play it with my current cousins when I can. Super fun.
tomthefear · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the countryside which meant really dark nights, and we used to play a game we called Spotlight.
A team of "guards" with torches (flashlights) would have to guard a designated point (usually a big Oak tree near my house). They weren't allowed to simply camp at the point and usually patrolled around the area in pairs.
The other team of "hiders" started at the other end of the village and would have to do their best to make their way to the point undetected. They could go solo, or in groups and the objective was to get as many people to the point as possible. If a guard spotted a hider, they had to shout their name as proof of detection meaning they couldn't really catch you if there were really far off. There were no boundaries or limits to where you could go, and it often involved crawling through fields, and sneaking down Becks to remain undetected.
Was a really fun intense game, and we were often quite strategic with our plans, creating diversions to lure guards away etc
10/10 would play again
DumpyDinkleberg · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I believe I was age 5 or 6 , I would have play dates with my neighbor at her house or mine. We didn’t play “Doctor”, wasn’t clever enough for that I guess. We played “kissin booties”. I kissed her ass and she kissed mine, that was the ‘game’... literally just a kiss on the cheek lol. My grandmother caught us doing it under a bed once and flushed us out with a flyswatter. I don’t know her any more. Swedish Jesus I haven’t thought about that cringe in a long, long time.
Heyitsadam17 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot what we called it but my siblings, my cousin, and I would all go downstairs into the basement. One person would take a dart gun and go over to the wall and count to twenty. As they went over to the wall we would turn off the lights and hide. After they counted to twenty they would then wander around the basement and try and find someone and shoot them who would then be it. Super fun game, we would all dress in black and it was so hard to find people.
Thickchesthair · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played a game we made up called cheeseheads when we were about 10. The couch in his parents basement folded out into a ground level bed, and there were 2 L-shaped pillows which we would put on our heads (corner of the pillow behind our head, 2 ends wrapped around our heads) and smash into each other trying to push each other off the bed. This would go on for hours with us laughing non stop.
He now lives about 3000km away and I miss the hell out of him.
nikkiscool · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had some kids from israel down the street. We would play a game called "fuzzy" ball. It was probly named this because these texas kids couldn't get the kids names right let alone learn games name in a foreign language.... Any how there was a kush ball. All would gather in a field or yard whom ever had the ball would throw it up and everyone would wrestle and jostle for the ball. Who ever got the ball was "it" while it you aren't allowed to move your feet while all the other kids would have 2 strategies either get far enough away to not be hit by the "it" person or to troll the "it" person into pitching at them. If you caught the ball the "it" person was out and if you were hit or dropped the ball you were out until the "it" guy was out. It led to very interesting game dynamics because the entire game could almost reset if you were able to catch the ball in a late game pitch or the feverish few seconds after the throw up pitch you would be either throwing as fast as possible to get anyone slow or unlucky enough or running for your life. So yeah I would play fuzzy ball with Israeli national kids. Ill always remember those years. Thanks for the memories Ella, Alone and Orin.... 25 years I still think about you guys.... Even though you would call Monopoly the board game Mono-poly...
Lady_Lina · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bloody Murder. I lived in a neighborhood with a lot of kids. And when it started to get dark we loved to play this. It’s like hide and seek with a twist. There’s one person who’s it, and everyone else goes to hide. If the person who’s it comes and finds you, you yell bloody murder and everyone pops out of their hiding places and runs back to home base. First person to get tagged by the murderer is it, and if no one gets tagged, the same person is it again. It was so much fun, but a little alarming to hear little kids scream bloody murder and scream the whole way back to base.
WeimSean · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take green plastic army men and set them up in two equal groups about 10 feet apart. We would then, turns shooting at each others group with a bb gun. When your last army man got knocked down you lost.
Samson1224 · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lick the butthole
ChuckKellar · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Play “500”. One kid would throw a ball over the garage to the other kids calling out a number, if you caught it you got the number called. First to 500 wins. Just don’t catch -1000!
ryno · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghosts in the Graveyard
Basically hide and seek, at night, and the ghosts (ones hiding) would have to sneak back to the ‘base’ without getting seen or tagged by the ghost hunter.
BreaksLikeWind · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kicktape....kickball played with a roll of tape instead of a ball, inside a classroom before school started.
ZePwnzerRJ · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad would each line up our own ‘teams’ of army men and then take turns tossing them at each other’s lines...
We called it; Suicide Bomber
d3hall · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings, next door neighbours and I played "Beater Ball".
It was sort of like tag, but infused with violence. The objective was to hold onto a tennis ball and run around the yard, preventing other players from obtaining the ball. But we all had sticks or plastic golf clubs that we could use to beat each other with to obtain/defend the ball.
In retrospect, I'm not sure why any of us ever wanted to be the one with the ball...
Simon559 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I would fight each other during advert breaks for the privilege of sitting on the sofa to watch TV. Whoever was sitting on the sofa when the programme restarted would be able to lounge across it (a 2 seater) until the next ad break. The loser would have to sit on the floor until the next ad break, when he could then challenge for the right to a comfy seat.
TheReggaePanda · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings used to play a game called Ongar on a trampoline. We would all bounce and try to sweep the opponents legs, if we managed to knock them over we would shout ongar! We usualy had to stop when some one got hurt. Was great fun though
anott97 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my buddies made up a game that we called "dodge the pedestrian" and basically we would lunge at my dog and get would take off and run close to us and try and juske us out. The point was to catch him when he zoomed by
onthesunnyside · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used the draw mazes. Constantly.
hongout · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Dark”
Basically, hide and seek in the dark. It would take place in a large room and we would block out all the light so it would be pitch black. Everyone would hide and one person would be “it” and have to find the others with both hiders and finder being unable to see the entire time.
It was a very efficient way of playing hide and seek without much space.
We’d mess with the finder by trying to throw things at them or making a noise at one corner and running to another corner of the room.
Fun as fuck.
laylabug · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who can yell the loudest. Definitely improved my lung capacity.
Bdillon9 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger and around 10, whenever I’d go out to eat with my family, me, and my younger brother, would play a war like game on the back of the paper kids menus. Basically whoever had the best imagination won. so first we’d draw a line half way though the paper, then we would take turns drawing with crayons one thing to beat the other person, and they would draw something that would defend against it. It would go something like, here’s my mini gun that will shoot though your base, and the other would draw something like a electric forcefield that could repel bullets. It would always end up a crazy cluster fuck of imagination on the paper, with a mix of all sorts of fantasy. We would have modern military, dragons, mages, Syfi. It was always super fun, but I don’t think we’d ever come close to finishing during the time we were out to eat.
ThePureawesomness · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I had a game we called "I've fallen and I can't get up."
It's as stupid as it sounds. My bed was against a wall, and we would slide the bed a little bit away from the wall. Then we sat on that space between the wall and the bed until the bed slid a little bit forward and we got stuck between the bed and the wall.
We would sit there like this until the bed slid far enough away that we ended up sitting on the floor after sliding all the way down. At that point, we would exclaim "I've fallen and I can't get up!" And we would wiggle out from between the wall and the bed and do it again. We did this maybe 3 times a night every time we slept over for a few months. I still laugh when I think about that.
chef_jeff_likes_meat · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
happy cake day my friend!!!
UndeadJewNoU · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beavis and butthead on the sega
NicktendoNetwork · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elmos Number Jounrey for the N64. Very well made game for preschoolers
burnettje05 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer. This was before PC dominated the day.
RagingWarCat · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This may not be unique to some but duke nukem (I’m currently 16)
NigerianPrince02 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rocks
primitivevibrations · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Fat person'. My sister and I would wrap every blanket we owned in the house around one or two people. After that we would throw the person down and repeatedly kick the fat burrito person. Sometimes even thrown down the stairs. It never mattered we were protected by this massive amount of blankets....oh those were the days.
Opandemonium · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an old shopping cart and made an course and charge kids 25cents a ride.
Imakenoiseseveryday · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Pantry Game.
At my cousins’ house there was a walk-in pantry where they stored food and household supplies. We would gather in the pantry and one person would look around for something to make the others search for. Said person could use the item’s name or some word/phrase on its packaging. As soon as the person finished the search term, she turned off the light. The others would have to blindly locate the item. Obviously this game was easier for them, as they lived there and were familiar with where things were.
Franticfap · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Joker pants.
My oldest brother would be taking a dump, my older brother would be his assistant, and i would be some rube who would wander into their lair and they would put me in the shower, which was actually a torture device that would do random stuff to me, like electrocute me, or drown me in acid. I was 5.
frito346 · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game we called minion back in middle school, it was like tag but everybody you tagged became a minion and tackled other people the ground so you can tag them as you can imagine it got a little violent.
Skakitty · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A weird car journey game I used to make up was being the ‘boss’ of the lights along the motorway- I used to scold them if they were just a red colour when all the others were bright (when they first turn on, they are an orange/red colour) or they were not turned on at all. I would “praise” the functioning lights. I was an only child.
IAmHerm · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “dark game” my younger cousin around my age, and I would turn off the lights and the bed would serve as our base. We’d then try to turn on the lights but her older brother would try to catch us in the dark to keep us from getting to them.
loudharpy · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm the only girl of 4 kids, which means I have 3 brothers and no sisters. We would play indoor football (I'm American, so not soccer). We would go to our front room, move any breakable items away from the area. My older brothers, who were taller than me and my younger brother, would be on their knees for safety reasons. It was fun
my2amdoodles · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and siblings would play he Egg Game on Easter and other family gatherings at our grandparents house. We would divide into two teams, start in different rooms, open the door and just launch plastic eggs at each other.
No rules.
No winners.
Just cousins throwing plastic eggs.
omermerG · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Seek or be seeked"
Like hide and seek, but you are not allowed to hide. You have to be out in the open and then rush to the starting point. Maybe it wouldn't make sense to city folk, because it works since me and my friends back then live in a reasonably small town, so the point is that we can just scramble everywhere in the town, but we couldn't enter any buildings, or go to one of the neighborhoods (because then the play area would be too big)
TuhTodayJr · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See how far I can launch my young brothers with my legs across the other side of the room with my legs... not the smartest group of kids
Rakonas · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not myself but this is gold https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/a356hu/the_childhood_game_of_ira/
Tonychina23 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends use to play this game called Shark.
Now I’m sure a lot of kids played this or still do. But it was life or death for us.
One of my other friends had a Dog and a pretty big backyard. He had a play ground in the middle of his backyard and we would use that as Base.
Now the reason I said it was life or Death was because his dog was mean. He didn’t like anyone but my friend. The dog name was Blackie. (All black pit bull) And so he would have toys thrown out around the yard and we had to run and go retrieve it to base while the dog chased us around barking and growling.
If things got to bad, he would always intervene to stop Blackie from really hurting us. It was a fun game.
I’ll never forget that time we were playing after school and my grandma came to pick me up because my mom and dad were at work and I was home alone and I was playing Shark with my friends and as she pulled up, I ran to the fence to climb over it to leave and Blackie bit me in the butt.
It was so much fun.
Dani2386 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pioneers, our bikes were horses and the trees were our homes. We had one tree in particular that had three levels where you could sit comfortably. Each was our bedroom. We tied a rope and basket so we can give each other stuff. It was great. Then one day we found out they were cutting the tree down. We were soo sad. Soon after that the girls I played with moved (I lived next door to an apartment building). It was all very sad for me.
morty_mothballs · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to tuck our arms into the cover of throw pillows from our mom's bed. We'd have them tucked and upright as if doing Beavis' "Cornholio" and just attack each other. No idea how we determined who would win...but man those were some epic battles.
amrasmin · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jade empire, 10/10 would play again.
Visora · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon football.
Me and my brother used to use the pokemon figures that were about an inch high on a subbuteo cloth pitch.
We would place the ball in the best line we could find on the pitch and use the pokemon to try and hit the ball into the others net. When a pokemon scored it was taken off the pitch and the first person to remove all of their pokemon won.
catnip_slip · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay late to the thread but we had many and not alot of real toys.. We took a beach ball and an old badminton net to the basement and played "wild ball" where as long as it didn't touch the floor it could bounce off any wall, thing or anyone and still be in play. That one kept us entertained for hours. We played "pets" where one was the owner and others were dogs and cats and someone always had a favorite pet and gave them cereal as treats and tried to get the others to eat actual dry cat food or sit in a closet.. Idk that one sounds weirder than I rememeber now..
We also played slave master. My parents somehow either never heard this name or never told us how fucked up it sounded. After we saw the Prince of Egypt movie we played Egyptian pharoah and slaves and we made mud bricks and attempted to build things in the yard. The slaves had fun in this one. But then we would decide to revolt and break free and it essentially turned into "cops and robbers" around the neighborhood
jesus21st · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To spit on the road before the car and wait it to slide on your spittle
maxthecat09 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Echo The Dolphin.
Trocklus · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Hallway of Death". The game was essentially trying to kill each other with a giant green yoga ball in a tiny hallway. It was so much fun.
Kidixovi · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called cucuy. It was essentially hide and seek but blind. You would stand in the middle of the room with a sheet over your head and spin in circles chanting "cucuy cucuy" and then while you spin, everyone else hides in somewhat plain sight around the room while the cucuy tries to find you. I cant remember exactly but I think we had to make noises periodically to give the cucuy hints, it was a highlight of my middle school sleepover years.
Madamlunna213 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In gym we played Midnight which was a version of tag where the one who was it was called Mr fox. They stood in the middle of the gym basically the half court line while everyone else stood up against a wall and in chorus asked "What time is it mr fox? and they would say three o'clock or 1 or 7 whatever and everyone would tale that many steps towards mr fox. At sone point they would say MIDNIGHT and everyone would run around screaming until everyone was out
RLMTGVBALL · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play restaurant with our beanie babies. We would use the beanie babies as both customers and food items, cooking them in various fancy ways. The name of the restaurant was Bok Choy and we would play it basically every week while I was growing up on saturdays. Much more wholesome than the games I would play with beanie babies -> read: full on wars.
worldofruins · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I’m not sure if it’s already mentioned here but the “Walk on the ceiling” game. Hold a mirror (the handheld ones on handles that all our moms probably had at least one of) at our chest to look at the ceiling in the mirror as we walked around. We’d have to “step over” light fixtures and stuff.
But it meant you couldn’t see what was actually in front of you on the floor. Many bruised shins were had.
GingerPixel · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Take different colored scrunchies and assign them an element. Throw them at each other and try not to get hit.
When I was really little my sister and I would draw a treasure map of my dad's workshop, hide an object, and mark X on it so the other would have to search.
Another time the house next to mine was moved, leaving pipes and some stairs. I spent a lot of time arranging a contraption to roll a ball down.
andytheg · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's a big open space at my parents house where you can look from the top floor all the way down to the basement (about 35-40 feet). When we were bored, my friends and I would take turns dumping Beanie Babies on each other. One would lay on the ground (hands over the sensitive parts) while the other would dump a Rubbermaid tub full of Beanie Babies onto the other and we'd laugh and laugh and laugh
Sdd555 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hide the sausage” with my uncle
NopeNotEvenALittle · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I can't breathe."
It's how my dad cured us of hiccups.
Clamped a hand over our mouth and nose long enough to make us panic.
In hindsight it probably sounds horrible but listen.... it worked. Lol.
XSmil3yX · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What's in your pants and can you fit in your mouth with my uncle
IDespiseTheLetterG · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play something called zombie tag. It was a pretty simple game of tag on the surface, but a few mechanics made it really intense to a fifth grade kid. We stood in a circle and randomly picked someone to be the zombie. Whoever was the zombie had to catch a human and convert him by tagging them, and then those two had to tag the rest until there were no survivors. The stipulations were that someone could only be tagged on their skin so that the slower runners had a chance to fend off the zombies and escape by shedding a jacket or pushing them to the ground. You also could not lie whether or not you were a zombie, so there was always that awful moment when you realized your best friend was dodging your questions and coming closer and closer. We had quite a bit of injuries with that game and got into slot of trouble when we played the "skins" variant but goddamn was it amazing.
sunshineandmoonshine · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play Lord of the Flies. We read it in 6th grade and we'd just go out into the woods and pretend we were stranded.
shanenahs5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s called bloody murder. There’s a base in the backyard and every person except one stands on it and counts to 30. Whenever we played, our base was either my trampoline or my friends pool. While everyone counts to 30, the one person goes to hide somewhere out in the front yard. Once they count to 30, they have to go touch the opposite side of the street and run back to the base all without getting tagged by the person hiding. If the people see the person hiding they can scream bloody murder and the person has to come out and chase them. The game gets fun when the person who’s hiding is able sneak around back into the backyard without being seen and surprise the people running back to base.
aaaaasowenyaaa · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Secret Lurkers” - my oldest cousin would draw a map of my grandparent’s house with a pathway through it. The goal was to sneak throughout that path without getting caught by the adults. If we made it we would get a badge that we cut out from construction paper (my very first one was shaped like a puzzle piece, I think I was six).
I thought I was a champ. Turns out our parents could see us the whole time. It must’ve been funny for our parents to see us crawling around acting all ninja when we were actually running into things and giggling the whole time.
SilverCommon · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Viewer Discretion Advised" pretty much involved us throwing ourselves off of high stuff, contest to see who could get highest. Idk how no one got hurt. Another favorite was setting up a step ladder in the yard when there was deep snow and leaping off.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I was big and you were small." One of us would play as a small toy and the other would just be themselves. No idea how it started but it's pretty unique!
Amazinc · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would pee at the same time and whoever was done first won
trashcat99 · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
wed all stand on one side of the street, wait for a car to drive through, and then run across the street directly in front of the car just as it was about to hit us. and then wed repeat everytime a car drove through. there really was never a "winner" though, i think the game was just dont get hit my a car or you lose.
no wonder all the adults in that neighborhood hated us. i couldnt count how many times those cars had to slam on their breaks just to miss us. its a miracle that none of us ever got hit
MasteroftheFirst · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gundam Battles.
We used robot action figures as games pieces that would wage war throughout the entire house. There were no actual rules. But when my Brothers Rx78 blasted my Zaku with a beam rifle I knew he was dead.
odinspeenbone · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd play this fun game with my dad all the time. He had his own name for it but I called it, try to hold my tears in so he doesnt beat me even more for crying while hes beating me.
SiR_EndR · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would mix different chemicals we found around the house into a spray bottle. Then we would run around outside and find insects to spray with the new concoctions and watch how they react. It was pretty cool.
ontimegreg · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Siamese twins
BIGBUMPINFTW · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a small farm with lots of apple trees on the property. Every fall the ground would be littered with rotting apples that fell from the trees, so my dad invented a game to make it fun for us kids to help get rid of the apples. We called it "Daddy Gonzales" (I have no idea why). He would take a big piece of cardboard, go out into a big empty field, and hide behind it while myself and my siblings would pelt him with rotting apples.
escapistxmission · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play, "slaps". Where one had to hit the other as hard as he could manage for 5 times in a streak, on the cheeks. After 5 slaps the other got the chance.
The game had to continue till one of us chickened out of getting beaten up.
Or our parents intervened with more beating.
I'm amazed that we followed the game sincerely because the 1st one to hit was the second one to get hit, and we never backed out.
Atleast during the 1st round.
And the slaps were really hard.
Good days.
419CBJFan · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava. I was definitely the only one to ever play it.
The_Upward_Arrow · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game in primary school where you had to colour in a lettuce and not let two colours overlap. Then you had to ride a bike down a dinosaur. It was on a floppy disk too and I can't remember the name
Rhys_Stromson · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zip Zap Zop. Two kids go back and forth saying the next one until someone messes up
grouponablanket · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I lived on a farm that had 15 acres and three greenhouses. There were also dogs, chickens, goats and horses. My friend down the road and I would constantly play like we lived in the wilderness. We'd "scavenge" for fruits and vegetables to eat for our meals. We'd also build houses next to trees with old wood (usually infested with rusty screws and nasty spiders), big blue tarps and old sheets. We'd make beds and furniture out of leaves, twigs and rope. We had the most fun adventures hiding from "wild" animals, like my sweet sheltie dog. We'd give out duties for the day like, "You go harvest tomatoes for dinner, and I'll travel to the "river" (a kiddy pool) for our weekly water!" Sometimes we'd pretend the horses were dragons we had to sneak past in the stable. We had new games every couple weeks, and that went on for like 7-8 years. They are some of the best memories I have growing up.
BaronXooper · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game we called "jumpy couch" where we just jumped on each other. Nothing more than that.
JMST19 · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was literally called "The Game". My sister and I used to have plastic toy dogs, some were Puppy In My Pocket and other were from anywhere we could find good quality plastic dog toys.
Anyways, these dogs all had their own name, voice, personality and goals. We could play this "game" for hours at a time, nearly all day. The whole point was for the dogs to live a regular life, go on adventures, fall in love etc.
We made comic books about said dogs, always refered to them like they were alive, these dogs played a massive in our lives and my sister and I became extremely close after we stopped playing
TLDR my sister and I voiced and created fictional characters based off the plastic dog they were, and basically played God with these dogs
youvecheeseditpam · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So. Driving down a motorway you have a series of lamp posts right? So I had to chew one way on my teeth to weave right and then the other to weave left. A bit like slalom skiing but with, um, teeth. And motorways.
mommommommom1000x · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played a game we called "old pacenta" (I have no recollection of why we called it that). We would dress up in our grandmas pajamas and stuff as many pillows as we could inside. We would then talk in funny hick voices and wrestle.
supercalloused · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "The Log," where you hold onto someone with dead weight and they try to get away.
so_evil · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would sit across the room from each other, either in the edges of couches or on the floor with our legs spread wide. Then we would take whatever item we had (started with a heavy ass dog bone) and lob it toward the other ones sack. Direct hits were brutal.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sisters and I came up with a game called “scrapey”. We would take a plastic spoon and scrape the bricks from around our fireplace into a bowl. Then we would fill the bowl with a bunch of other random crap: pepper, paper towel pieces, bouncy balls, etc. we would then fill the bowl with water and put it in the freezer overnight. We would get SO excited to go look at our “scrapey bowls” the next day.
Our dad kept getting angry when bowls of ice would hit him after opening the freezer every day, so he eventually limited us to one communal scrapey bowl
WTH was wrong with us
caulder_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played this super fun game where I would beat him at basketball then he would throw rocks at my head. Almost had to get stitches one time.
That boy sucked at basketball but man was he good with a pile of rocks.
BearXW · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our whole neighborhood used to have "Pinecone Wars."
We would have Nerf guns squirt guns, etc, build incredible "forts" with leaves, pinee needles, boards, and boxes. We would create teams in the same methods as one would for basketball in the neighborhood.
Pinecones were our "grenades." But it was more like dodgeballs, as we'd always leave scratches and cuts and draw blood when pelting each other.
We would use mushrooms as smoke bombs to conceal, or as "gas bombs" for an attack.
Good times. I miss them.
dinklberg1990 · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've had a glow in the dark star battles... No way that shit would fly as adult but shit was fun then
Snallbaggus · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game called "Brian Against the World." There was a kid named Brian in my neighborhood that none of us really cared for, but occasionally he would insist on hanging out with us. So we came up with this game where he was "it," and everyone else was on a team. He had a ball, and if he threw it at you and hit you with it you were now on his team. But first he would have to close his eyes and count to give us a chance to get some distance on him.
We did genuinely play a few times, but there were a couple times that while he was counting we would just run to another kid's house and hang in their basement or whatever.
hudsondr · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn’t anybody play grounders/sandman? It probably went by a million names but one person was it and they had to close their eyes and keep them closed. Then they would blindly feel their way around the play structure while all the rest of us tried to silently climb out of their way so we didn’t get touched. The best part was that if the person said the name of the game when somebody was on the ground then that person was it, so we all spent most of the game hanging off the sides of the jungle gym in strange contorted positions.
nathanspiers · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At a local church there were two magnolia trees right beside each other and half of us would go up into one tree while the other half went up the other. We would then proceed to chuck the magnolia tree seed things into the other halfs tree until someone got hit and started crying.
maxthekillbot · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in primary school, we used to play a game called 'Kick It' where it was basically just the game 'it' or 'tag' but in order to tag someone, you had to boot them in the leg
andytheg · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend's sister always wanted to play games with us so we made one up called "Killer Mermaids" where we'd sit in their hammock, pretending it was a boat, and she'd have to knock us overboard out of the hammock without touching us.
She was also so desperate to play with us that she created a "game" called "Restaurant" where she'd write up a menu and then cook for us. Best game ever.
PavelDatsyuk88 · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
powder is a nice toy, luckily noone died.
Cows_Go_Huh · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dads parents lived about 6 and a half hours out into the desert. Not much to look at on the way. We went a lot. So for me and my brother to pass the time we would play a game that never officially had a name or an official ending or score. It was what object can be beat by something else. For example, Some one picks something random, a machine gun. Ok. Well I’m the rain and made you rust. He would come back with ok, I’m the sun and evaporated the rain. Ok. I’m blah blah blah that would destroy the sun. And so on.
epictroll5 · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a boyscout we would play caterpillar. You would zip up in your sleeping bag, and just wrestle. It was amazing for multiple reasons, one big one was that my squad consisted from 2 guys and 4 girls, and I was in puberty.
eggcube · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Penny Racers for PS2. I bought the game for 3 euros at a car boot sale.
that_typeofway · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike Tag.
It’s exactly what it sounds like.
We’d have a base in the neighborhood that everyone would try to get to while “it” would try and get ya. Last person “it” loses and starts the next game as “it”.
1, 2, 3... bike tag!
ch33s3b4r · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father would prank my brother and me with tear gas. I thought it was normal until I was telling a friend about how our tolerances have increased over the years, and it turned into my friends always wanting to know what "crazy white people shit" my father has taught me growing up.
At least they know who to go to during an apocalyptic event, I guess?
pbandjamiee · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone on here ever play Kidnapped?
Usually it'd be 2 teams of 4 people, with 2 separate cars. 2 people in the backseat would be blindfolded and driven around until they were dropped off at an unknown place. When the "lost" kids figured out where they were, they had to call the other drivers (not the ones who dropped them off) and the team that picked up their kidnappees and got to the predetermined safe area first were the winners!
lawpoop · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played a game called 1 2 3 4. There were four of us.
My parents house has stairs in the middle so that you can run in a circle around the kitchen and living room.
When you play chase, running around the circle, any change of distance changes you from the chaser of the person in front of you to the chasee the person behind you. It's tons of fun. Throw in a barking, loping dog for bonus
soarincs · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zoombinis
Ken_Piffy_Jr · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skully.. Ppl from NY know what I’m talking about. Classic summer game.
ohyesgetthejoke · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called “trying to get to the oven the fastest”.
rogowcop · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a child but in High School a bunch of theater kids would go to Spencers house to play a game called Tremors. Two people would blindfold themselves and everyone else had to run from them. Once the person in the blindfold caught somebody they had to say the name of the person they thought it was if they got it right that person was out. Other people could fight the blind person to try to get their teammate free. Since we played at Spencers house it was crazy watching him be blindfolded. He would slide across the wood floor knowing exactly where everything was. He would move his head around like Daredevil trying to hear any noise from other players. Fun times. Think I also got a concussion playing this game.
denzelvalengoat · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In first grade I once played the "How many red cards can I get at school today?" I think I got 2 or 3. Told my mom, she was very mad and told me to just wait until my dad gets home from work. So once we got home, I booked it to my room and deadass hid underneath my matress until my dad got home. Fun game, def would do it again.
Chyeboi · 1 points · Posted at 17:52:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of the games my uncle made up when he used to watch us was Restaurant. We would pretend to look at a menu and order spaghetti, mash potatoes, and corn w/ kool-aid.
Fannypacksorgeebags · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I'm a grown up with two kids and we invented this game a few years back but I love playing it. We're all shite at playing tennis so instead we came up with "All Ball". We have one of those cheapy, crappy balls you buy at a beach store. We go to an empty tennis court and then start kicking, slapping, punching, flinging and any other move you want to use to get that ball over the net. The only rule is that if your opponent scores (1 point for any unreturned serve) it's their serve. We play this on summer evenings until we get kicked off the court by serious tennis players. My kids love it and it's great exercise as there's lots of running around to try to return a serve. They also love the fact that we're breaking the rules by not booking the court time and using something other than tennis balls and racquets, as per the list of 'court rules'. Fuck the rules. FUCK 'EM.
pharoah_moans · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a playground game based on the movie Tremors, we called it "tremors." One person is "it" and they had to stay in contact with the ground at all times. The rest were up in the playground equipment and could not touch the ground at all. The person who was it would go around trying to tag someone on the equipment, and if you got tagged you had to be the tremor. If you touched the ground or got tagged you would rush to get the person who was the tremor before they got back on the playground.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my friends and I were in our early teens we invented a sort of hybrid tabletop wargame/RPG out of our disparate collections of Legos, which occupied a single side room at my friend's house. It was very simple in that different pieces conveyed different abilities to the things we made.
We were heavily inspired by Warcraft. Turns out we kind of invented a game not entirely unlike Warhammer.
It was awesome. I am 36 years old now, and would absolutely play it again.
moreglue · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We called it Booty Ball. Later generations called it Wall Ball. Use a Tennis ball or racquetball. You throw the ball at the wall. On its return, try to catch and throw again. If you drop the ball at any point you have to leave it where it falls and run as fast as humanly possible to the wall and touch it before someone else throws the ball at the wall. If the ball hits the wall before you do, you’re up for target practice. Hands on the wall, legs spread, everyone gets a turn throwing the ball at you. As a guy, rebound throws sucked...
When we got to high school, we got bored one summer and started playing again. Ended up being more skilled with age and decided to play opposite handed. Sometimes one handed. Fun times. Hell, at 40, I’d still play the shit out of that game. It was tons of fun.
Edit. Just realized the word game is in quotations. Maybe my reply is not on topic. But, I’m leaving it in case anyone ever wants to try the best game ever.
maybe_kd · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Kitten and the Tornado. I don't remember the rules. It involved a lot of spinning. No actual kittens (or tornados, for that matter) were involved.
I also used to make up card games with my best friend. Her parents had tons of decks of cards so we got creative with the card games we played. I remember one called Bullfrog. I don't remember those rules either. I just remember the name and that there were 8 piles of cards.
eltalivansito · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Christmas time we’d go around the neighborhood shooting out Christmas lights with BB guns.
Do not try this at home, kids.
CaptainMuffenz · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Switch. The premise of the game was you would stick one finger up your ass and the other in your mouth and when someone said switch you would switch fingers
BastionHentai · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game called "The Worm Game".
Basically, we'd take turns getting into a sleeping bag head first. That person became the worm. Then the other kids got pillows and beat the shit out of the worm.
One time my friend was the worm and I broke his tooth when the pillow hit is head and his tooth cracked on tile.
Fun times. Felt shitty about it. We didn't play after that.
joshwolding · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one hurts to say out loud. Me and my my 2 neighbors would take turns hanging at the top of the slide with our hands while the other 2 people licked their hands to tickle them off. We were all about 5 at the time and didn’t even say no homo
that_thing_you_like · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This wasn't particularly a game, but my brother had a bunk bed at the time, that didn't have a bed in the bottom, we basically made a fort thing with a circle on the left side beneath the bed and my brother sat on a large desk area to the right and he shot me with a BB gun as I went in circles while I had my shirt off
ReetyPeety · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My need for glasses unfortunately wasn’t discovered until I was 10-11ish when I got my first pair. From a young age I can recall playing a “game” where I would be laying in bed, for example, looking at items out of place/context such as a stuffed animal or article of clothing on the floor and try to guess what it was. It was so blurry that it was challenging. Then I’d run up to get close to the item to see if I was right!
xoxoPenniferousxoxo · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were younger we used to live in a townhouse complex. My aunt, uncle and cousins lived in the same complex, on the other side. Every summer, we (my dad, my 3 siblings) would play "Super Soaker War" against my uncle and our cousin's. We would each have a Super Soaker (not sure if that's the official name if them, that's what we called them) and spent the day running around the complex on teams hunting each other with the water guns. Our house and our uncle's house were the home bases and filling stations and were always safe spots. As the summer progressed, we'd get more and more neighborhood kids joining in. Some years we would have 20-30 people on each team.
BelzenefTheDestoyer · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basement, we'd go into the our unfurnished basement, turn off all the lights and throw shit at each other until someone started screaming in pain
poopchuteluke · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock war. We got all the socks in the house, rolled them up into little balls and pretty much played dodgeball. But we could hide behind couches and chairs and it was a ton of fun.
Dingo_Canis · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played something called mafia, similar to hide and seek, but only one hide and the others seek, if you are hiding and someone find you they called all the others seekers and you should run to escape and if they catch you they smack you
jamie00803 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the Fall we used to take turns hiding under a big pile of leaves... then the other 2+ more friends would take turns hopping over the pile of leaves going in a circle and they would chant the times of the day " 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock... etc.. at midnight whoever was under the leaves would " come up from the grave" and gab whoever was skipping over them at that time. It was so freaking scary. at the time.
theomnilurk · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Pass Out Game”....
We were bored and dumb kids. And found out how to make each other pass out. And did that for fun.
germiboy · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would blindfold each other and ask trivia questions. Depending on the answer, we would get a spoonful of sugar, honey, salt or coffee
CreativeName2042 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "Beyblade." We would all spin around, and moves our arms differently (spinning, punching, chopping, etc.). First to quit lost. Our parents stopped us very quick.
My cousins would play "The Stairs Game." It was Hide and Seek, but you could only hide upstairs. The goal was for the hiders to evade the seeker, and get down to the stairs. The seeker just had to catch everyone. It was a super stressful game, and was the most fun game we played as kids.
numbermunch3r · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The only thing I can recall is a tournament style game I'd play with my Hot Wheels. I would roll them from the doorway of my room across a thick carpet landing towards a stairway. I made head to head rounds and whichever could get closest to the stairs without going over would win and move on. There were rules for cases where both cars went over, but they escape me now. I also acted out the role of announcer playing up returning champions, rivalries, strategy and such.
I remember it being a lot of fun and I don't think I ever caused too much damage.
pgabrielfreak · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school, I loved stories about how things were made. I read that glass was made from sand. We have a sandpile! My mom told us there was too much dirt and stuff in the sand and we'd have to sift it clean. My little sister and I spent an entire damned day sifting the sand pile (with a window screen, lol) and proudly took some clean sand to Mom to get her to bake it in the oven to make glass. THEN she tells us the oven won't get hot enough. We were so pissed! When she was alive we all 3 joked about that one. She was good at keeping us occupied.
Just give a kid something to do and they'll be out of your hair for hours. I preferred forts made with tables, sheets, chairs and blankets for my kids myself...still to this day I love to read and see videos about how things are made, though.
miilzyyy · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin would see what household objects make you go down the stairs the best. I still remember getting my uncle in on the game on a fold out bed and it threw him down at least 10 stairs. Ah his face when he turned around with a broken nose was priceless.
nmsv85 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
mid to late 80s in Peru, my cousins and i would play "cochebombas"; essentially "car bombs vs. victims" in which we would wait for neighbors to walk by, and then "explode" because we all got too close to the car.
for what it's worth... that timeframe was riddled with terrorism in peru and this game was essentially the american equivalent to cops and robbers.
HiebUndStichfest · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I used to simply kick and punch the shit out of each other on the trampoline.
It's pretty cool because you can throw sick looking kicks and get really cinematic. Also dodging is more intense because you can just jump past anything and not care about the landing.
I got beat up pretty good. Taught me to sustain pain more easily. Not that I'm some kind of tank now, I just used to be an absolute pussy as a kid.
Slayer_Of_Anubis · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 3rd grade every recess we would LARP as different pokemon. I don't remember much about our journeys but it was awesome
shitboxranger · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The pipe game" basically when I was a little kid my friends and I found this big pipe in the woods. The way the game went was basically someone would throw this pipe horizontally towards a line of kids. These kids would try to run and jump over the pipe mid air. As you might expect it didn't go well at all and the game kinda sucked but at the time it was the best thing ever for some reason.
merpbeforeyouderp · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball on the roof! All four of us kids would go in the front yard facing our house. My dad would throw the ball and bounce it off the roof and we had to chase and catch it. Points were awarded if you catch it.
Nostra_Damoose · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister hosted a series of tv shows with my favirote stuffed animal (the main character, the stuffed animal was named tiger, but it was actually a cougar), all my matchbox/hotwheel cars and her barbies and stuffed animals.
Awh the simpler times.
johannesBrost1337 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"dirt hockey" we basicallt made a league with 4 man teams, gathered tree branches we used for sticks and a rock for a puck and played games with 3 skaters and 1 goalie in the woods!
strongerdestiny · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Flavapulchra · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this is a Midwest game, Indiana game, or a made-up family game. In the winter we played "fox and goose". We made paths in the snow in a very large area. One person was the fox (They were it). The others were all chased by the fox. We had a safe zone. If you got off the path or were tagged by the fox, you then became the fox. Maybe we played this game because Dad was probably the best fox hunter in the country.
AmeliaJH · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to collect seashells at the beach... And then play with them like they were dolls. They had families, conflicts, and a religion with a charismatic leader.
glassbus · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two older brothers and I used to play a game on slow Sunday mornings called bums. Yep. You guessed it. We were playing bums. Our names were: Tubbs, Banana Peel, and Pencil Body. I don't remember a lot of the game but I believe blanket forts were half the point.
Aiti22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends used to spin around in a T pose like a Beyblade (Big toy at the time). I got knocked out by my friends palm smacking me on the side of the head. Yeah we were stupid.
statMMIdate · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my dad and i used to draw letters on each other’s backs and try to guess the letter hahah
rachelway82 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and sister and I used to play "pioneers", we would pile a bunch of blankets on the bed, turn the A.C. on really high, and take turns "driving the wagon." Two of us would get under the blankets while one would sit at the head of the bed jumping up and down to make it feel like we were in a horse and buggy. We also used to play "wilderness", where we would wander around the backyard collecting leaves and berries to eat. I miss having an imagination.
BrandonG1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin had a hackysack and we would take turns lined up on the wall, one person would be about 10 feet away, the we’d throw it as hard as we could at the person on the wall while the other tried to matrix dodge it. We called it ‘splat’ and tbh idk what kinda game that was it was brutal😂
musiccat25 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After playing Perfection a few times, my brother and I decided to do something else with it. We would set all the pieces up and put the board down and set the time. We would then go and hide to survive the "explosion"...it was a laugh :)
FoxieCatKaty · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to go up to my grandparent's farmhouse on the weekends.
They had a barn, a few sheds and a huge property. We liked to collect "treasures" from the sheds and barn and hide them in places around the property and hope my grandad wouldn't find them and put the "treasures" back where they belonged.
The treasures consisted of anything shiny, springs, particularly large screws, any cool-looking tools we found and candles. I applaud my grandparents for letting us play our weird, magpie-thieving game for so many years.
Pedantichrist · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Herbie, Polly, tellie.
Basically you shouted Herbie, Pilly or Tellie respectively if you saw a VW beetle, a post box or a telephone kiosk.
Rez1341 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used too play " blackout" where you go too the basement which had a couch in the far corner of a large room that comes off a hallway with some smaller rooms off it. Basically you would black out the windows and turn off the lights, everybody would then have too start at one end of the hallway and had 10 seconds too hide. the goal was too make it too the couch without getting touched. the person that was "it" also had too wear sunglasses
begaterpillar · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to choke each other out to have forced dreams. We stopped after someone had a really bad one was a wreck for a day or two. Probably wasnt the healthiest hobby...
dietcokeandwater · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During commercial breaks, we (me, my sister and my twin cousins) would guess what the commercial was for. If the logo was shown, your guess didn't count. Filled the time during commercial breaks.
Kerianae · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this too but when I was a young teenager.
AlastorWestdrop · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and his sister would, when they were around 10 years old, go to the busy country road they lived near. Speed limit was around 55MPH. There was a dip in the road where, of something was in the dip, you could not see it as you approached while driving on the road.
One of them would lay down in the dip. The other would be lookout. When a speeding car would get just close enough, the lookout would scream “LOOK OUT!!,” which was the cue for the one laying down to jump up, scream at the car, then run into the woods. Effectively scaring the shit out of the drivers.
They called it “Look Out”. I think they stopped playing when other parents were upset that they were recruiting the neighborhood kids to play...
PragmaticRift · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was like 8 or 9 I was a huuuuuge WWE fan, with two of my friends we invented a little game:
We wrote down the name of all the wrestlers and each one will pick one until there was none left. Then we will use our wrestlers to make shows and the result of the "matches" on those shows was determined by a coin toss, that was how we determined champions and such. We also had drafts and everything.
Man, those where the times.
turnover13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trash ball: you had to try to and trap a piece of trash (ie., coke can, brown paper bag, juice box) between your feet and then jump flick the trash into a garbage can. There was a point scoring system and many many rules, but that was 30+ years ago and unfortunately were not preserved for posterity’s sake.
nubycake22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play in a building site nearby to our homes a few fields over. Where the trucks had been driving through this one area over and over, it turned the field into a shallow pit of mud and water. Winter came and the whole place froze over leaving a nice ice rink to play on. We grabbed some sticks, a tennis ball, put some wellies on and played our own version of ice hockey but you could pick up the ball and kick it around too.
We often feel through the ice, but it was barely half a metre deep so you just had to play around the obstacles.
After a week or so, my mum got concerned about why we always came home soaked so we took her up to where we played. She was surprisingly OK with it all saying she was happy so long as she knew where we were
Bitch333 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I used to play "War" the card game with a couple friends at school, whoever lost a round got punched in the arm, and we would do best of 3 if you lost the best of 3 match you get 15 seconds to run as far as possible, before the winner would chase after them and punch them in the arm twice as hard as possible. Somehow the school found this okay, I don't know if people still do this, because it started with my class, and I am no longer in that school district.
Charlotte-Steele · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Darkness Game”- you all hide in a/2 bedroom in the dark, and the person who is finding everyone is blindfolded and the hiders can move about. I still play it now it’s the best
Arnumor · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I really enjoyed a sega game called Gunstar Heroes when we were kids, and there was a boss late in the game who was like a running man made out of spheres in a big spinning chamber, who'd do different attacks as he ran. We took this idea and would play the 'Running Man' game in the pool, where we'd first run in circles to get the water swirling, and then one of us(Usually me, since I was the oldest/biggest) would be the boss, and would run a circle doing scripted attacks as we went past the others, which they had to dodge, while landing attacks on the boss as they went by.
My favorite move as the boss was to reverse direction against the swirl and catch whichever person was closest behind me off-guard with a fast attack like a slide kick. Obviously, I'd hum the boss music as we played, and would speed up as I got 'hurt' more.
MonkyThrowPoop · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to make fake buck teeth out of Starburst. You bite a yellow one into 4 pieces (2 a little bigger), thin out a red or pink one out and spread it over your top teeth, and then just stick the 4 yellow pieces on with the 2 bigger ones in the middle. It helps to shape them a little like teeth, but they don’t need much. I was shocked that every person I mentioned this to as an adult had never heard of it. I thought it was a thing.
Genralkaos · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a game called “obstacle course” that in the beginning involved an actual obstacle course that our action figures had to navigate, but evolved into something else entirely, we would build a tower, maybe 2-3feet high with old oatmeal containers and small boxes and position our action figures on it , then we would take a large Tonka pick-up truck carrying one of our villainous action figures and roll it into the base of the tower. Any figures crushed by a piece of the tower were out, but if they only had an arm or leg crushed they could remain, though they couldn’t rest any weight on the damaged appendage. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were safe if the tower piece was fully resting on their shell, and there were a couple figures that couldn’t be crushed like the Thing from fantastic 4. The game was won if/when one of our figures managed to land in the back of the pick-up truck and unseat the villain
wcreamer330 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play "surfboard" in the neighbor's swimming pool. One of us would go underwater and lay on our stomach while the other one would stand on their back. The "surfboard" would then crawl around the bottom of the swimming pool until they ran out of breath or the other one fell off. It sounds dumber in hindsight...
BigBabaLou · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My nieces and I (we were about the same age) endlessly played this game where we pretended to be in a submarine. And for some reason the ocean was always... exploding. Kids...
JackionB8 · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still play this game with my 10 dice. Basically, you throw one of the dice. then you take the die's score and throw that many more dice. Add up (with the starting die) to get your score. Also, if you rolled a six, you get another die to roll. After that, you can play more rounds to try to get a higher score, since the only limit is the amount of dice you have.
Eg. Roll a 2 with first dice, the a 4 & 6 with the two you get from the first die. Then you got a 3 from the extra from rolling a six. Your round total would be 15.
My high score is 50 exactly. Rolled a 6, then (6,6,5,5,5,1,4), then (2,6) then 4 to get it.
StellarSpiff · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to take turns "fishing" from our bunk bed. We used a waistband tie from a bathrobe and would toss one end over the railing of the top bunk where the other person would be waiting on the bottom bunk with a bunch of random toys and junk. When you felt 3 tugs from the line, you would pull the string up to find out what kind of goodies you got from that cast. Sounds super boring now.
Wevanss · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wobbly Jellies”. Me and my brother used to fill condoms with water and push them around the bath tub until they popped. Hours of fun, would recommend.
Strixe · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to take turns kicking each other in the shins, with the winner being the last one standing.
Looking back there was no winners.
thethickness · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this stupid game called the car game. Us and the neighbor kids would be in our driveway and start by the street. When a car would turn onto our relatively busy street, you would have to run and hide behind one of the three cars in our driveway. If you didn't make it, you were "hit" so you were dead and out. You could shove each other and whatnot which was dumb considering we had some brick walls on both sides. We played this for like three years. It got intense at times with yelling matches of whether you got hit or not. Literally played it once at 16 for the nostalgia with friends from high school and they thought it was dumb, but fun too.
TrixTheStannard · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've already commented but there is another game that I used to play with my friends at my junior school.
Running with the theme of obsessions this one was based on a british tv show called Primevil which was based around the consept of time portals randomly apearing around the world that connected with dinosours letting them free to kill people.
This game was based on running and dodging teradactils or running from t-rexs, a simple idea that apparently people liked because at one point the group of people who played got to about 11 or 12. We would help each other run away with the aim of getting to shelter at a specific point or to renact scenes or scenarios with unique characters. This lasted for about a year or so.
There was also some scenes where someone would yell out what was happening and we would all act together running as a group or dodging as a group.
bigballerbill · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike tag. Just as the name is, ride around on bikes playing tag. It definitely got pretty aggressive
CLproton · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Fight, quiet self explanatory. We put cushions all over the room, shut off the lights, and beat the shit out of eachother.
TheBroJoey · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same thing every bored kid with 2 decks of cards did: Build elaborate defensive buildings or towns and attempt to destroy them with different ammunition from a nearby toy box or my prized lego set.
m0r0o · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I was a kid I used to play mommy and daddy with the a girl from the neighbourhood which I was into ( I was like 8 and she was 8 ). The thing is that there was always another dude that used to play with us, he was richer, prettier and he was getting to be the dad all the time and I was always the fuckn kid, more specifically I used to walk behind them while they were holding hands, those were some good fucking days
Tjgfish123 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poop on a stick. We would pick dog poop up on a stick and chase each other around.
AtotheCtotheG · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvinball.
There were no survivors.
duncecap_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back tag: just like tag except whoever is "it" is being hunted instead of hunting. Everybody who isn't "it" tries to become "it" by jumping and clinging on the back of whoever is.
cornchip · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When waiting for the bus at the neighbor’s house, we used to play “Deer.” This game consisted of us waiting at the end of the driveway until we saw a car coming up the street. The goal was to run to the opposite end of the driveway by the house and hide before the car drove past. If you were really good at the game, you would wait until the car was closer before running. If you got caught running still when the car drove past, you “died.”
We also pretended a giant fallen tree in the woods out back was a woolly mammoths we killed and had to skin (take the bark off). We even made a teepee near by to hang out.
EdHuCast · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, sister and I use to play army. We would dress in camo and play hide and seek. One difference is that we used a BB gun to tag people.
fogpie · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Half life
taliesin-ds · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to draw pirate treasure style maps of the nature around my house inclusing stuff like dragons lair etc.
Then i would plan expeditions to the supposed end spot and hope to find something.
One time i even brought a portable mini barbeque (tin foil tray kind).
But never used it, i always got tired or something after an hour and went home.
The was a lot of stuff around my house to work with though: different kinds of woods, lakes, ditches, a hilly area, swamp, sand mine, quick sand, an abandoned potato processing plant and lots of farms.
FibFrizz · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "teeter totter boat" we took both of our mattresses and put them on top of each other in the shape of a cross. then we would place pillows underneath the top mattress, so that it was almost like a top, and some on the bottom. We would attempt to get the other people to fall into the "ocean" (the floor) and whoever was still survivng won. We always did it when our parents weren't home because they didn't like us undoing our beds.
Postmortal_Pop · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For us, it was bottle dodge. We would fill 5 bottles of various sizes with random amounts of water, then we would drop one in the middle of my 3 cousins, little brother, and myself on the trampoline. We would then jump around wildly, and the oddly weighted bottle would shoot around the trampoline with an unholy hatred for the knees of small children. Every time someone gets hit, they get off and add another bottle until finally it's one person and 5 bottles in an epic bounce for survival.
jennafoo33 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my sister used to have this toy dinosaur that came out of a plastic egg. As time went by, we lost the pieces and all we had left as a stupid half of a plastic egg, which we had no use for. So we'd take turns hiding it in each other's bedrooms without telling them and see how long it took them to find it. When we did, we'd hide it again. We'd always scream and laugh when we'd be just getting something from our room and find that stupid half of a dinosaur egg hidden in our stuff.
My family played that game periodically with different stupid objects. Once we hid a McDonald's toy that was a figure of Pinnochio in Shrek. Once I worked at a movie theater and when we threw away a big cardboard sign I ripped off Matt Damon's head and we'd hide his head around the house. It would be hilarious to walk into your bedroom and Matt Damon's head is snuggled nicely on your pillow tucked in your bed. Right now we're doing a drawing of a hand doing the "OK" sign (the one where you can punch someone if you get them to look at it) and we're going all out with this. My mom brought it on our cruise to Mexico and hid it in my cabin. I sent it to her in the mail in a normal envelope.
savoxion · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Qql
orionthehunt · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fidel Castro would play a game where you ride a bike full speed into a brick wall last one standing wins
Creative_Name___ · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jerkin it
IMian91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a kid, but in high school. We played wall ball with pegs in gym. Took a racket ball and just threw it against a wall. If the ball touched you, or you dropped it, you would have to run and touch the wall. If someone picked up the ball and hit the wall before you could, you had to assume the position on the wall and the kid had a chance to hit you with the ball. We got a ton of people into it! It was scary when the baseball players started.
daradv · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary during recess, my friend and I would lay on the swing on our belly and pretend to be a caged cheetah and wolf respectively. Sometimes we would swing over and hook the chains around the pole so we were hanging with our feet off the ground.
phluff · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chicken nugget”
Started while camping in tents. As kids one of us would go into the sleeping bag upside down. Hands in each corner, they couldn’t see, and became one large chicken nugget monster. The goal was for the chicken nugget to capture someone between their arms. When you got caught, you switched and became the chicken nugget. Everyone would be really silent because the chicken nugget could only hear and feel, and would roam around hoping to feel someone. People would have to move out of the way of the chicken nugget without making noise. The moment someone ended up making noise the chicken nugget would spring into action going full on TRex trying to find the person. Impossible not to laugh so this ended up bringing the chicken nugget into full attack mode. People could try to escape the chicken nugget by pushing them away. The chicken nugget always got someone due to it being such a small space.
We would also play this game at home, but it was less safe because the chicken nugget in attack mode would swing its arms around looking for something but would often hit the corner of the bed or a wall.
Great fucking game.
Diva480 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As college kids.. we would play nut ball... you sit on the floor with your legs spread a few ppl can play. But you sit about 8-10 ft apart. Then you simply toss a racquet ball at the other guys nuts. First to puss out looses.
Captamazing438 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in the fourth grade we got a new school. So during my fourth and fifth grade years during recess if we were assigned the field we all already knew what we were playing. Throw the ball. Two teams would stand on opposite sides of the field and we’d throw a kick ball back and forth. The general rule was that the ball had to be thrown over the gap and caught. If the ball hit ground on the teams side the other team got a point. If someone caught the ball that person got a point. No body ever kept score but that’s how it was played. We’d all fight over catching the ball and who’d throw it. Lol. Two years we played this game like it was our destiny.
Sloth671 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we went over to one anothers house, me and my cousins used to play Hide and Go Seek in the dark with weapons (a.k.a. lightsabers or nunchucks or plastic swords or just branches). We use our chosen weapon to hit the shit out of whoever you found or where you think they would hide.
A whole lot of fun packed with a whole lot of bruises and broken furniture.
laika005 · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when me and my sister, god sister and god brother were like 7-9 and obsessed with Pokemon we used to play "The Lickitung Game" which was kind of like tag, but we were lickitung abd had to whip each other with our "tounges" aka these long scarves my god mom had. It was super fun but also kinda painful cause we whipped those scarves at max speed and were also usually playing indoors on hardwood floor with socks on.
redditnamesarestupid · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game called "Momma's gonna knock you out" i dont remember why we called it that though.. anyway
My sister and i would collect any sort of ball we had in the yard. From basketballs to baseballs and everything in between and put them in the middle of the trampoline. We would then start jumping up and down and do our best to avoid all the balls. If you got touched you lost. Played this all summer until my sister landed on a tennis ball and twisted her ankle and we weren't allowed to play anymore
silverxccx · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
THE CAKE GAME. Me and my friend would lay down on our stomachs on a bed and her little sister would basically sit and walk and hit us all she wanted on us until she deemed that we were baked.
SirQwacksAlot · 1 points · Posted at 17:55:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school during recess me and my friends had this "potion" brewing tree where we would mix the nastiest stuff in possible, like it was terrible. Our main ingredient was obviously pee, it was free and readily available. We mostly used various plants and rotten things we could find but every once in a while we'd poop in a paper towel and bring it out to mix in. Our greatest creation was named something like rhino pee. The game ended when our friend invited someone to the tree and peed in it in front of the person he brought so the person told on him and he got in trouble and nobody was allowed to go by the tree anymore.
CanolaIsMyHome · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"1,2,3" game on the trampoline where you just count to three then jump and sit or lay down (for the more brave). The result is one of the people getting bouced suuuuper high, my friend once hit a tree lol
Another trampoline game is crack the egg where one person would lay crunched up in a ball and the other had to bounce them around to break them open, was kind of dangerous but super fun
Aaand another one (trampoline) was called eyes, body, legs. The premise was basically youd try to tag everyone and get your body parts back while they lost whichever you choose to take. For example youd start off in the middle not being able to look or crawl around until you hit someone, when you did youd go "im going to take your eye" then youd pretend to take their eye and open one of yours. So now youre stilling rolling around but you have an eye, ect. The game ended when the person chasing has all their body parts, whoever was left over with the most limbs left wins the game
I dont think theyre exclusive to my neighborhood but a lot of kids didnt know them lol
jalba917 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “Buffalos”. My friends and I would run around the playground and pretend to be buffalos.
no_nail92 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandmother has a set of rock stairs about 12 or so of them. It is here that we played "school" or "the rock game". Stand on the ground before the first step. You take a small pebble and you do the ole.. Which hand is it in? If you get it right, you get to move up a grade. If you get it wrong you stay. The winner is whoever completes school first by getting to the top step! Best played with 3 people..2 students and 1 teacher
Corpse_Bladesmith · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof ball. Throw a ball on the roof and try to catch it before the other kids. Its much more fun when you're kid sized and you can't see over the roof, so you never know where the ball might come down.
ThatGuyWithThatH4t · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “sock grabbers” where each person would have a sock half way off their foot and we would wrestle to get the sock off the other people. Last one with a sock on their foot wins.
brazilbeefer · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deathball. We would line up along the base line of a basketball court. One person would shoot a free throw and if he made it we all had to sprint to the other side of the court before the person who made the shot got the ball and chucked it at us to get us out of the next round. It provided us with the adrenaline we all looked for.
migi777 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ghost” was played by putting a blanket over your head and tagging other people running away who would become the ghost by getting caught. Also, we wrapped each other up in blankets and tightened belts around at different sections of the body (usually four belts) and timed the person for how long it took to get out. I believe this one was called hotdog.
I got in trouble when playing this with kids I babysat once. It makes sense now, though.
faerie87 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Candy hunting. My BFF and I would look for candy in the playground. Candy that other kids dropped and has probably been stepped on a thousand times. I remember this time when we found a squished Skittle on the ground and we fought over who gets to eat it. I won; it was yummy.
I actually never got sick from this game. I think it made my stomach stronger.
Ellietoomuch · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Blob, throw a blanket over one of us and we wrestle like that..... not much to it haha
AnimZero · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I beat the shit out of trees and bushes with sticks to knock the leaves and small branches off of them. When I got older I "upgraded" my weapon to random metal rods I'd find on the side of the road. Eventually I had to use my dad's gloves because I "upgraded" to a two-handed sword (aka a 3-4ft piece of metal rebar).
I don't know what the fuck was wrong with me?
I didn't have many friends.
Penda_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would “sword fight” which meant that we would pee together in the same toilet and cross streams a bunch and the first one to stop was the loser.
Couthlessfer · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a little girl (around 2-4) I created a game with my dad. When he got home from work I would INSIST that we both had to strip to our whitey tightys (had to be white) and play "you man me man we fight" where we would wrestle. I can only assume I saw sumo wrestlers on TV. I would even spread my legs and stomp my feet like they do. I guess he put a stop to it as I got older cuz it went from cute to creepy. 🤷🏼♀️
MamaWinslow · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Early Bird Gets the Worm
TheUrbanSherpa1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
State Ball. A soccer dodgeball game on a trampoline. Basically I picked a state to represent and then u kicked a ball around a trampoline. If it hit u then u are it and have to kick the ball at the others who are trying to dodge. Whoever was it the least wins.
RobinFox12 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game called Slenderman on my property at night. Everyone else but one person stays in the house while the one person exits. They take with them 6 or 7 (depending on the number of players) plastic balls to hide on the property. Then that person goes back inside and says they’re ready. The people on the inside give that person 2 minutes to hide before coming out. When they do, the object is to find all the plastic balls and bring them back inside. The goal of the person that hid them; absolutely terrify the others. If the hiding person tagged another player, they would scream and fall to the ground, and remain there for the rest of the game. There was no time limit and the searchers didn’t have to spread out but they did anyway. It was always fun to come upon your friend lying on the ground and be like “he was here.”
DJstar22 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a bunch of kids in my middle school (12 years ago) started a WWE wrestling ring inadvertently. Our playground was AstroTurfed and in the middle was this big white circle. Me and a couple kids decided to invent a game where the goal was to be the last one in the circle. If you got rung out you can't come back in (until we added teams when more people joined). There was no punches,strikes or grabs allowed. At first it was fun as fuck and it's all we did in recess. We started getting more people to join and we started having teams and tourneys around the game. Unfortunately some people who recently joined thought it'd be more fun to actually pull off wrestling moves. They completely ruined it because people started pulling off Ray mansterios shit and spearing people amongst other shit. People started to get hurt and the teachers banned students from playing the circle altogether. Unless you were playing sports you basically had to stay away from the thing all because some asshats ruined the best recess game.
OasisGallagher · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers put these 'gore tex' (which was the name of the game funnily enough) snow gloves on and 'invented' a wrestling where you're on all fours, on the rug on floor of our living room. you got points whenever you made each other face plant and you won if you pushed each other off the rug. There were other rules but it was years ago.
bash32 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sorry but that was time when I discovered sex..
fairwesr · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made up my own alphabet and transcribed my favorite books, pretending I was writing on a scroll in a dimly lit cave.
I was a weird, home-schooled kid with an active imagination.
Cynicbats · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"TV Tag" - Someone would be the television and people would pretend to be watching a show or playing a console game (Mainly kids sitting with fake controllers making noises) - and then the "television" would randomly run, and we'd chase it down and tackle it.
In retrospect I still think it's pretty fun.
-JarJarDinks- · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The one where I had to find a stick that I’d get hit with.
jewlious_seizure · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The smelling game”
The victim would close their eyes and have to guess what the item was only by smell. Everyone took turns being the “smeller”. Sometimes the smell was perfume, sometimes the smell was our cats litter box.
LiamK518 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
penis inspection
cheese_with_cheese · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoot arrows at each other with my cousins...
They cousins live in rural Hungary and their dad, my uncle, makes traditional Hungarian war gear like bows, arrows, saddles, whips (not the kinky kind) etc. Does horseback demonstrations all the time.
We modified the arrows by wrapping the tips in this spongy material so the impact wouldn’t hurt, taped them all down rally thoroughly then took up bases either side of their huge back garden and shot at each other to see who would win. 2 teams of 2. Great fun!
YacYacYac · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school we played a game called lacrosse dodgeball which is where everyone gets a lacrosse ball and form two teams. Then the teams stand on opposite sidelines of a football field and throw the lacrosse balls at each other. When you were throwing you had to be behind the sideline but you could run out to the middle (if you dared to) to retrieve a ball.
malisquali · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Mafia” -my brother and his friends would chase my friends and I around with a pvc pipe with a pool noodle duct taped around it and beat us with it. They’d then take us and duct tape us to a chair and sprayed Axe cologne in our face. It was the free friends job to sneak in and rescue us. If the mafia got us all, we’d lose, but we could never win. My brother and his friends would refer to themselves with the Italian mobster names, Joey, Tony, Frankie, and Vinny and speak with ridiculous accents. It was thrilling.
WaterChamp55 · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we’d go to the mall or any place with tile flooring, we would try to not step on the lines. We probably looked crazy to anyone watching, hopping & tip-toeing from tile to tile
grundlegasm · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would play “spiderpig” with me and my siblings when we were small. It was basically just your standard wrestling but he was the spiderpig, which was some kind of snorting, growling creature. Every time we played, he’d pretend he was a boulder, one of us would “unwittingly” sit on him, then he’d start attacking.
My uncle would frequently stay on the pull-out bed in the living room when we were kids. In the mornings we would come out and wake him up, and he’d tie string around tootsie rolls and throw them over the foot of the bed, “fishing” for us. We loved that one!
chewablebook · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not smart at all and resulted in quite a few bumped heads, but my brothers and I played a Marco-polo-esque tag game where the person who was “it” put a sleeping bag over their head and chased the others around the house.
cmon_wtf · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would play ‘ghost on the hill’ where one person would put a blanket over them and try to find the other two completely blind. We ran into a lot of table corners and walls.
put_a_10_on_it · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Licky B Hole.
GlobalVV · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would would stuff a sock inside another sock to make a "football". We then ran around on our knees tackling each other.
goldfishofwar · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long trips at night I would guess the car that was going to overtake us by its headlights. Just something I would do to pass the time. Anorak from the start.
ReallyLily · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Graveyards and Horses". It's dumb, it's boring, and I'm pretty sure my grandmother invented to get me sister and I to shut up on rode trips. Basically you collected points by counting horses on your side of the road. If you passed a graveyard (on your side of the road), you would lose all your points. Shit got real in the back of that car I tell you what..
MoonmanChronicles · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The youngest sibling (me) would hide in the middle of a cardboard box while my brother stabbed knives into the outside of the box. The game was to not get stabbed. One of many fun games we played.
ResearchAggie15 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a really steep set of stairs in my childhood home so me, my siblings, and the neighbor kids would see who could down them the fastest in a sleeping bag. The landing was tile...we were not very smart.
halsnobordrgrl · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some of you may have played the computer game Age of Mythology before- for my brother and I, that was our game, and we played it as much as we could, whenever the parents let us on the computer.
But we loved it so much that just playing it on the computer wasn’t enough. So, we designed our own paper based version of AOM. We would tape four pieces of printer paper together and draw a map- we really like islands, so that was a pretty common one, and I was a fan of archipelago, so that also appeared a fair amount.
Once we had the map drawn, we would take a pencil and draw town centers that were unclaimed, and add trees, by globs of green marker, and gold mines, usually pink for some reason. Then, we would each choose a town center, and play the game.
I’m not really sure how we determined how much gold or wood you had, and pretty much all units, civilian and military alike, had about the same symbol. However, we had a complex key of which symbols were for which buildings, for myth units, ships and dockyard, even farms.
I don’t know how one won, but usually a conflict was trying to draw more dots than the other person in a small area and then scribbling over the other person’s dots. I don’t remember much of the rules, but sometimes when I’m cleaning at home I’ll find an old map from a paper AOM game, and I think my desk at home might have my symbolic key to say what was what.
acapture · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
room-to-breathe · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Rake javelin":
In late grade school/early junior high a friend and I invented a "game" where we'd respectively stand at the top and bottom of a hill in my backyard, about 40-50 feet apart, and throw a wood-handled metal leaf rake back and forth. This wasn't a rigid yard rake, but a leaf rake with like 30 thin gauge 20" metal 'tines' that had a tendency to whip around when suddenly stopped after a 60+ ft flight, and were sharp enough to give you a good scratch.
The trick was to catch it in an underhand swooping motion, to preserve the momentum and avoid a backlash. It was difficult but really fun. Lasted much longer than "kick the flaming can" that we really only played once before almost burning down my parents' deck.
Good times.
PiccoloPicasso · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I grew up near a creek and some dense woods. During our childhood, especially the summer months, most of our time was spent exploring the seemingly never-ending vastness of those nearby woods. Well one day we found the nearby creek and we wanted to get across to the other side without getting soaked so we decided to build a "bridge". Our "bridge" was actually more akin to a beaver dam, as we just piled sticks, rocks, anything we could find into a single spot in the creek.
Now anybody who knows anything about water knows it doesn't just stop dead in it's tracks, it's gonna reroute somewhere. So after a few hours of us piling up sticks to make our bridge, some neighborhood man came out of his house red like a cherry. "What are you boys doing?! My entire basement is flooded! I'm gonna have to call the town!" We were all kids of course, so naturally our first instinct was to run, so we did and never went back to that spot.
stevedip4 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a massive tree on my schools playground in elementary school that I tried to dig out. It got to the point that I was paying kids with the pennies that I’d take from my parents coin jar to get kids to spend their recess trying to dig out the tree with sticks. The tree never fell, but there’s still a massive dip where us first graders were digging.
ShamsterSuperHamster · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend came up with the “soup nazi” game when I was in primary school. Based off the sketch from Friends.
It basically entailed us playing with the school’s sprinkler valves which was outside, and I remember getting my only visit to the principal’s office from doing that.
DJDoomCookie13 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school had a giant map of the country painted on the asphalt. Like, the width of the school giant.
The states were outlined but not labeled. We would play a version of tag where whoever was “it” would call out a state and everyone would have to run to it before being tagged.
Calling out Alaska and Hawaii (floating out in the middle of nowhere together, as usual) or tiny states like Delaware if a large group was playing, were always kind of dick moves.
We had no idea at the time how educational it was.
JamesBongd · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rockets” in halo 1 on blood gulch. If you're in a warthog, the object is to run people over. If you're not in a car, you have rocket launchers and unlimited grenades.
Another game was "sorry" you had to keep your hands in your pockets and try to knock people over, and whenever you hit someone you had to say sorry.
Yicdeh · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger me and a buddy use to play "Knife Tree". We were both bored and didnt have much in the way of toys, so we went outside to this massive tree he had in the backyard and threw a knife in it. The objective was to hit as many branches as possible and have the knife stick in the ground when it landed. There was also a rule where if you caught the knife you stole the other persons points, even though there were no points. Surprised I still have all my fingers.
bexura · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Car! Coast is Clear!” - used to play this with my cousin ALL the time at our grandparent’s house. It involves sitting in these pink recliners in front of the living room window which faces a residential street. We would watch for cars driving by and if we say one we’d yell “Car!” and duck down behind the chairs. Then one of us would say “Coast is clear” when the car passed and we’d start over again. This was a TINY town so there was hardly any traffic. I’m really not sure why that kept us so entertained...
MalleDigga · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann.. Whos scared of the dark men.. 90s game. We played it in kindergarten (Germany). Now before you go apeshit the "dark" guy actually could be translated to shadowy obviously nothing about race whatsoever.. and as kids you weren't even in the slightest understanding of this might sounding a bit racy..
jawilli102 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bowling for Heads" it was game show where my siblings and I would line up on either side of our parents' bed, with only our heads exposed. Then we'd roll balls across the bed at each other's heads. Probably one of us was the announcer. The last one standing was the winner. Not a really fun game, but we did like the name.
Taglierini · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play “hole” in my backyard whenever I got bored. I wanted to see how far the ground went down, so everyday I’d go into my backyard and dig this hole deeper and deeper, thinking about what mysteries are down at the bottom. Some days I would find marbles or old pieces of pottery and I’d rush inside to show my mom and she’d always be so proud of me! I didn’t find out last week until I found the box I kept all of my treasures in that my mom would put all of that down there and slowly fill in the hole so I could keep playing. I loved hole, and I love my mom.
Elidios · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You remember the game bloody knuckles? You punch each others fists til one of you give up. Well my sister and I would play bloody heads. Yes bloody heads.
Joseph-King · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nobody who has heard of it is going to read this. Hell, nobody is going to read this....
VGA Planets.
This is back in the BBS days, just before the internet really took off. From what I recall, the guy who wrote it turned down all kinds of buyout offers and received death threats from people who wanted the source code.
Fantastic game, even if there were a few unintentional "features".
the-drunk-zombie · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tl;dr: Game consisted of a futuristic/superhero war game
When I was younger, my cousins lived right near a park. Like a block behind the house. Anyways I would sleepover all the time and we would always head over to the park. One day we went and started creating characters of ourselves and fought each other with powers and shit. Like I was a robot chick who was a mercenary. I had invisible powers and a huge shield of lasers. We would all climb trees and all over the the jungle gym. We would crouch in corners and pretend to shoot each other. From that day forward, we would play this game every time at the park. That was what the park was there for now.
blakcgepard · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings played a game we called “Robot”. It was a game that was sort of like tag but with extra steps:
The player that was “it” was called the Robot.
The game was played in our makeshift obstacle course.
Robot had to go at a specific speed, which was fast walking.
Players had no speed limits, they could run or slow walk.
Everyone had to keep moving at all times, no stopping.
Players could not pass each other.
Everyone has to be moving in the same direction as the robot.
Robot could change direction at any time.
Game ends when either someone is caught and becomes the new robot, or they break a rule and get disqualified.
Some rules we added later when we expanded from 3 of us to more players:
Obstacles that if you touched you would have to stop and T pose for around 3 seconds.
A safe spot allowing you to let other players or Robot to pass you. You can only stay there for 5 seconds.
Robot was allowed to take a shortcut.
That’s all the rules I can remember now. When it was the 3 of us, we just played on our beds as the obstacle course. They were placed in a way that allowed us to go in a circle from 1 bed to the next. One was higher and the other 2 were lower than it.
You could jump down from the high bed to a lower one, jump from that onto the third one over a small gap and then go back to the high bed by climbing the side, which also had a barrier for the head. So you really had to climb it.
The was this worked at first was Robot used his ability to switch direction whenever he wanted to make players go trough the harder parts of the obstacle course over and over and tire themselves out.
Then you either walk up and tag them, or, since players can’t pass each other, trap one behind the tired, slower one.
When we got our friends involved we had to change the rules a bit. First, we had to expand our obstacle course to include more ground, which just meant more climbing and jumping for everyone. We also sometimes just switched to another place which was a new obstacle course for us to mess around in.
Shortcuts were added to these obstacle courses, allowing Robot to skip the hardest parts of it. If Robot gets tired before the players, it was no fun for anyone.
A rest area was added for players. It was mostly to let others pass, but we also just used it to catch our breath for a few seconds.
Finally, a bigger course meant there were more clear areas too. So we added things like shirts or pillows on them, if you step on them you have to stop. And everyone behind you had to wait if they caught up to you. This was both a way for Robot to catch up to you and for you to catch your breath.
We used to play this instead of bedtime when our mom couldn’t hear us. But it was so long ago I might have forgotten a few things. Sorry for my grammar and/or formatting.
Cat_Cam · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played “Titanic,” in which we would lock each other in my grandparent’s Murphy bed by slowly putting the bed upright, like jack and rose holding on as the titanic slowly went upward and sank.
(We occasionally got stuck in the bed)
Diva480 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play the “push each other into people game” me and my sister in department stores would hide inside clothes racks and displays and try to push each other into unsuspecting adult shoppers. The more embarrassed the shopper the better.
Rubyleveledupp · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey balls 1 and 2 on the ps2!
albinorhino215 · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Taken
You run up to your friends, shout taken, and chop them in the throat lightly.
SupremeJib · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Cage Rage." My brothers and our friends would put on our full-cage hockey helmets and hockey gloves, clear the furniture away and proceed to beat the shit out of each other. Our dads thought it was hilarious and would always watch
HazTastic · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend used to run around trying to stand on eachothers shadows, had a blast of a time!
EyyMrJ · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Mom and Dad." It was basically just an imagination game my Brother, Sister and I would play just about every day. I cant remember how we coined it Mom and Dad, but I do remember we were always orphans; and almost always ninjas.
lexafrex · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play “slow motion fighting” so we would pretend we were beating each other up, but extremely slow and soft. It was hilarious, sound effects and everything
Wrest216 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with the creatuers that you could only see at the foot of your bed right when you wake up. At night, they watch you sleep, but you cannot see them, only FEEL them.
Anyways, i would turn out the light, race to bed, and hide under the sheets and hold my breath. If i could hold my breath for 30 seconds they would think im asleep and leave me "alone" for a while.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my schoolfriends used to play 'Big Jumps' where we'd find something really tall and then take it in turns to jump off it. It escalated a lot and eventually one of us broke an ankle, but did that stop us? Of course not. Eventually I snapped a ligament in my foot and broke a rub jumping off the roof of our art classroom and to this day remain the champion of Big Jumps. All hail me.
saddiesnow · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Levels. Basically parkour but for us kids. We’d make a “level” that involves climbing on trees, tires, jumping over and off item, rolling, climbing, etc. Once you completed the level, everyone else had to try it. If you couldn’t make it, you lost one of your three lives. We’d take turns making levels. As the numbers got higher, the levels got harder. Played it all summer long. Highest we got was 300-ish levels in a weekend.
LegionSB · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1st/2nd grade age. The playground at our elementary school had some giant tires stood upright with the bottoms buried into the ground to hold them in place, and a couple of them were in alignment with a few yards of space between them. We would act like the tires and ground between them made a half-pipe, and would run back and forth between the two tires, doing handplants and other faux skating "moves" off the tires.
We called it "school skating".
nykzero · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had 2 of those water balloon launchers that need 3 people to fire. We assembled 2 teams and stood at a good range from each other. We took turns firing a balloon at the other team. A hit earned 50 points, but a dodge earned 100. We called it water balloon chicken.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the playground while other little girls played princesses or ponies or something else cute and fun like that my friends and I were running around flapping our arms and eating leaves and pretending to be fruit bats.
forloop91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the floor is lava!!!!!!!!!!
aderaptor · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and neighbors and I would play "Beanie Baby Stores" where basically we would set up shop of all of our beanie babies then walk around using Monopoly money and buy other beanie babies from other people. The amazing part is that at the end we would trade back all of our beanie babies to the correct owner. Of all of those hundreds of little fluffy things some how we all knew exactly which ones belong to who.
if the neighbors weren't around to play, then my siblings and I would play "Beanie Baby Wars" which was just us chucking them at each other trying not to break too many household objects. Needless to say, our neighbors' toys were in much better condition than ours.
HammerMan_ · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Game.
You all just lost.
Mitch_Bxtch · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During long car rides we would play the “sign game”. Objective is find words on signs that start with A-Z and you couldn’t go onto the next one until the previous letter was found.
Pullarandy8484 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bigs vs Oompas: The bigger half of our group of friends would allow a minute for the smaller kids to hide and then we’d go find them drag them out of their hiding spaces and hold them down and slap their calves relentlessly
itzMeHK · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game... But driving into our town we would see who could spot our little hometown mountains first, they were just glorified hills. Anyway, the unique part was what wecalled them when we spotted them... They were two giant hills right next to each other, very similarly shaped and actually, "twin" is apart of their actual name. Anyway, we would shout "Titty mountain". I was quite surprised at my friends parents horror the first time I shouted it in front of them. That was also the same time I realized only my family called those hills "titty mountain"...
Mightybuu · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jump On Jessica Make Her Laugh"
So uh, basically what it sounds like. My sister is like 6 or so years older than me and when I was little and she was a teenager our form of wrestling was that I'd basically just run over and jump on her/tackle her over and over and it'd make her laugh, which would make me laugh. It'd usually start out with me running over saying "jump on Jessica make her laugh!" I was an easily amused child lol.
We'd also play restaurant, which was basically my ploy to get her to make me cheese chips.
Other times we would make pretend mail boxes and tape them outside our rooms and then make each other little cards and deliver them to each other.
Good times overall
ALiteralGraveyard · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Depends how you define “child”. When I was about 14 my friends and I invented a game called “framfrugle”. It was essentially baseball/kickball, using a half-inflated soccer ball and a golf club (drivers/woods, idk the difference, but we broke a couple). The field was as wide as the street, maybe a third or half the block long. Average suburban block length. The street was on a small hill, so the batter or whatever would be hitting slightly uphill, pitcher stood at the crest, and “outfield” was slightly downhill. It was basically a distance game. I don’t remember much about score or winning/losing but I’d guess in hindsight the runner was heavily favored
TheDreamWhisperer · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
This is silly and probably too late to be seen but my sister and I used to play a game while swimming called “dead baby”. It’s exactly what it sounds like.
One of us would be the dead baby and the other would be the rescuer. The job of the dead baby was to pretend to be a dead baby in the water, go limp, and try to sink to the bottom as much as possible while the rescuer had to try to keep the baby above water as much as possible. I don’t know why this game was so fun for us, it’s kind of like wrestling with a fish out of water because everything’s so slippery.
Looking back on it, it was super morbid and I have no idea how we came up with the idea. I’m also surprised that no one stopped us or tried to help us. Must’ve been strange to see though haha.
ETA: we always played this in public pools or our friends’ pools since we didn’t have one.
RFEngineer · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play army, and we would yell “The Russians are coming!!!” I didn’t know what the Cold War was at the time, but somehow I knew the Russians were bad.
Never__Summer · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game was called “Golubtsy” by the name of Russian dish which is basically cabbage rolls with meat. You need to roll into the blanket and lay down, much fun.
IMian91 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hackey-basket-soccer-wall ball" basically playing hackey sack with a basketball, but it was in a small room where you can bounce it off the walls too. Only allowed to use your feet
d-o-n-t · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and I would play “Products”. We would go into a Pictochat room on our Nintendo DS systems and would draw products and write little slogans for them. We would do this for hours, giggling from our separate rooms. We just were reminiscing about it today!
throwaway57373662 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and ride. Like hide and go seek but with blowjobs.
Lorik_Bot · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Medievil it was great to play that on the PlayStation 2 probably most valued gaming experience as a child.
stevenjediknight · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Last man on the club house. Its dodge ball on a wooden structure 6 feet off the ground that's about 12' by 12'. Now imagine 10 people in a 12 by 12 trying not to get hit with a ball thrown by someone on the ground. only one person ever fail off and he was fine.
XenaWolf · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Witches. Hurricane tore out some trees in our yard and we made dolls from the roots. Obviously they were super ugly so we decided they were witches.
Also there was dino island. That was the game for imagination where our older friend made up one catastrophe after another and we had to find a way to survive it. I don't think we made it even once. Her favourite setup was the toy fabric, old and unsafe, with toxic waste and explosions.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
flying underwear.
when i was about 10 or 11 i played this game with my friend and her little brother (weird i know).
one person would take whatever dollar bill was available (usually around $5 but one day i was miss moneybags cuz i has a $20 when my aunt had just given me money for easter). that one person would take that bill and hide it in 1 pair of (clean!) underwear. then you’d take 4 more pairs of underwear. while the other players closed their eyes, you’d put the pairs of underwear on each blade of the fan, 5 fan blades so 5 pairs of underwear. then you’d have the other players open their eyes, you’d turn on the fan, the underwear would fly across the room and wherever found the underwear with the money was the winner.
you never actually got to keep the money though. you just won the round.
dankz4hed · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poptropica
spprince · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game that my friend came up with called “Dire Wolves.” To be honest, I can’t remember all of the rules, but it was essentially a live RPG tag type game that was based off a book series all of my friends and I were reading. The other 4-5th graders thought we were insane.
redgingerberry · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t have a name for it really, but I guess it could be called “Shopping District”. My neighbors had this basement that looked like it had been hit by a toy-filled bomb - I mean, they were EVERYWHERE. So my brother and I would go over and we’d decide we were all shopkeepers. The oldest sister would usually run a bookstore, my brother and the middle brother would run an odds-and-ends store, the littlest sister would run a pet store, and I’d run a restaurant/grocery store. And that’s how we’d spend a few hours of every day of every summer for like three years; we’d pretend we were successful shopkeepers with vastly interesting lives and lots of Monopoly money to spend. We were actually pretty good with it, and our economy thrived. Occasionally, we’d barter with our goods - if I wanted a certain toy, maybe I’d pretend to give my friend a free “meal” - and we always got along really well while playing. That’s probably the most fond memory I have of my childhood.
tesseracts · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wasted a lot of time during recess burying coins (like, actual money) and then trying to dig them up later. Astoundingly I got friends to do this with me.
Ilot3k · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid we would take a lot of road trips and since this was in the mid nineties we had to entertain ourselves so we would play what we called “My father owns a grocery store”. The game rules are simple, whoever’s turn it is thinks of something in a grocery store and says “ My father owns a grocery store and in he sells something that starts with W.” Then everyone guesses and ask questions like “is it purple?” or “is it frozen?” Something similar to Guess Who but with a grocery store.
BEN684 · 1 points · Posted at 17:58:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dog used to play this I put my hand on his paw then and he puts his paw on my hand then he makes me pet him he always wins
itsyaboipk · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “rape” game. Basically tag but whenever the “rapist” catches someone they have to hump them
RoughRaccoon · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in grade school, my parents would get a ball and throw it into the air while my brothers, sister and I would try to catch it. Whoever caught it won but we would never keep track and do it for hours and it never got old. It's the little memories from your childhood that make you appreciate what your parents do for you
Unifos · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what we named the game, but back in middle school some classmates and I came up with a game similar to basketball but instead of a basket ball hoop we used a pull up bar that was bolted to a wall and was short enough for us to dunk on and we used a small dodge ball as a ball. It had some specific rules for how many steps you could take before you need to pass. How much points for a dunk or how much points if we threw the ball into the bar. Our P.E. Teacher/ Sports Coach saw us play this game a couple times at recess or study hall and liked the game enough to have us play it a bit for P.E. . I believe he still uses the game for his P.E. class.
mommysoffhermeda · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game as a child where I would see how long I could go without talking to anyone. I could nod or gesture but not say anything out loud. I would go for hours at a time, sometimes a day or two. My record was 3 1/2 days. I was a pretty weird kid. As an adult I wish we could all play this game, together, simultaneously.
thesockemporium · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Don't Hit the Guy"
One person would stand under the basketball hoop while everyone tried to make a basket. The goal was to make a basket but not hit the kid standing underneath. I still don't understand how the teachers never told us to stop.
Synthvation · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Below the Root
I’m a lot older than you.
sweetdread · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Star Spinner.
You grab each other's hands and spin as fast as you can. That's the whole game.
andydh96 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play "toilet tag". Basically the same as freeze tag, except instead of tagging a frozen player to unfreeze them, you have to act like they are a urinal and pretend to urinate on them.
We were 7....
jhoffman14 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to throw a golf ball at the brick wall on the side of our house as hard as I could and try to catch it with a baseball mitt. I stopped playing after I beamed myself in the forehead.
iCeleste · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my mom would take me shopping, I'd get very bored since I was 4 and couldn't buy anything lol. So she made up a game where I'd have to go find her things to put in a "soup"- she'd say something like, "Okay, now go get me carrots!" And I'd run off to a nearby rack of clothes and grab the invisible carrots underneath, bring them back and put them in the cart (which was the soup). Looking back it was pretty handy at getting me not to annoy her lol
doofmachine1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elastomania, anyone?
foam_frank · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game we called "Chainsaw frisbee" where we would throw a fabric frisbee at each other in either of our bedrooms. Whatever part of you that was hit with the frisbee was taken away. For example, if the frisbee hit your left leg, you could only use your right leg. If both your arms and legs or head we're hit, you lost. In hindsight, the name doesn't make much sense, but it was pretty fun to play.
LMAOLOLMAN998 · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fancy Pants Adventures 3 Luv the game dezign and moving mechanics
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it conker wars.
We would go outside and each have a set amount of time to collect conkers. Then we went into our playroom and each got a set ammount of time to build a fort using whatever matrrials we cpuld find. We each got one sofa to use for this. Then we suited up. I mean helmets, knee pads, elbow pads, stuffing cushions up our shirts.
The living room was split in two and the game worked kind of like dodge ball. You hide in your fort and chuck conkers at each other until you run out of conkers. Then comes the fun part. You have to venture outside the fort to collect more, while trying to not get hit.
It was all fun and games for a few weeks until the window got smashed. Never played it again but have so many fun memories from it.
Chrika · 1 points · Posted at 17:59:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had family friends who had kids the same age as my siblings and I, which led to alot of time together. My brothers and I share a slight age difference, which led to alot of rivalry of course. As guys always do, we would routinely fight each other, usually age group vs age group. To escape the wars, my friend and I would retreat to the top bunk of my bunkbed. There, we would use an arsenal of weapons to defeat the invaders, usually ending with someone screaming in pain. Now, this was the time where courage the cowardly dog was a show we loved. There was one scene with a cillian named "le quack" I believed ,and we thought he was the worst of them all. One time, as my friend and I defended against the onslaught, my older brother charged into the fray wielding one of those toys that you walk, but it had a duck at the end of it. We promptly labled him as le quack. It soon developed where 1 of us would be le quack and we would try to get into the top bunk to abduct one of our siblings. As we did this, we were beat of course, but I think that was the fun of it. This was about 15 years ago, but I always remember it to be a blast.
trystanrice · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I were big swimmers, and on holiday we would invent bizzare and creative ways of jumping in the pool all say long. We would then name each of them, the greatest of which was the "Super duper mega drive dive". Happy days.
exiteleven14 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to have a game called "Hospatimatello" which was our young minds way of saying the Ukrainian phrase (in bad english phonetic) "Hospadeh Pomelo" which my Ukrainian next door neigbours used to say in church alot-can't remember what it meant (help me out Ukrainians of Reddit-translation please). In the game, one of would lay on the ground as if deceased and we would hold a funeral for them. The other kids would sprinkle them with grass and say "Hospatimatello" over and over. Then, we would turn and walk away slowly. When one of us would utter the words: "he/she was such a good old chap" the deceased we had sprinkled grass on would rise up from the dead and chase us until he/she caught each of us. Hilarious and ridiculous all at the same time.
MinkCarStan · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called “Screaming Memeies” (pronounced Meme-ies) with my sisters. Gameplay involved pushing each other down the stairs in those big rubber storage bins.
oiderlin · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy Sticks
Octothorpe17 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a little late to the party on this one, but my friends and I created an entire sport we called “Bleek” that was a tennis/lacrosse/football type hybrid.
It was a full contact sport in which you would have to bounce a tennis ball on your racquet (basically dribbling rules from basketball) while running and try to make it to the other end of the field to score a goal. The goalie would have two racquets and the height of the goal would be determined by how high they could reach, which lead to fewer arguments than you’d expect given the difficulty of trying to avoid being tackled while also dribbling/aiming. Width of the goal was set with cones on the ground. The only real rules were the dribbling one, and that you couldn’t hit people with your racquet. I want to say it was first to 6, win by 2. It was exhausting.
I would still play this game any day in a heartbeat. Describing it does not do it justice.
k2_ninjas · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So as a kid we played “scorch” and it was basically flashlight tag. We would have one person be it and they would look for everyone (late at night) and if they saw you they had to say “scorch on (name)” if they said your name you had to go to jail where you would have to be tagged by someone else hiding to get free. If you got caught 3 times you would be it. If they say the wrong name, everyone in jail goes free and they have to wait 30 seconds before they can look again. This led to a lot of changing clothes, and I still remember one time our neighbors came out to me changing clothes with another girl my age (I’m a dude) and it was a very very awkward interaction. Highly recommend this game and still play it every once in a while with my friends. (I’m a senior in high school)
atreestump1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family is a bunch of cine-philes. So when we we hae this ongoing game where we name three movies, and/or TV shows and the others have to name the actor that was in all three.
Edit: For instance: Titan AE, Casper, The Equalizer
(Note if you name a TV show the actor has to be a recurring character, no one-off appearances)
MayorQuimBee90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I played "Super Tooth Brushers"
His mother worked for a dentist's office, so she always had brand new, colorful tooth brushes. We would essentially conduct "military operations" around the house, finding and shooting at imaginary enemies. Our grenades or bombs were mini, unopened Dove Soap bars.
Ahh, childhood
Va1ar_Morghulis · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to make popsicle stick "bombs" and randomly toss them at each other. Basically we would take 5 used clean wooden popsicle sticks and assemble them into a triangle shape (think 3 sticks coming up from the same point spread out like Wolverine claws and then 1 stick in the middle and 1 stick at the far end to form the base of the triangle). We assembled them in such a way where if you toss it, the popsicle sticks will "blow up" and pop apart upon impact with the ground or a person.
Or you could leave them on the ground as land mines for unsuspecting victims. :)
Osmea · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 3rd grade my friend and I would play kitty surgery or some similar name. As far as I can remember (this was awhile ago), we’d pretend to be anthropomorphic cat people who ran around doing surgery on other people at recess even though they weren’t playing with us.
1993 was a weird year.
livbray · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Brother and I used to play “warrior” I think it was called. Basically every Saturday afternoon we would go into the yard and beat the living shit out of each other so we would both become better fighters, I think it worked
INutBuckets · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Adventure Quest Worlds
JoeyRetroRockets · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who Can Get Their Hand Closest To The Dog Shit Without Touching It. A game I’d play with my younger brothers. I’d go first and get pretty close. As as the unsuspecting brother made his move I’d shove his hand into the pile. The major drawbacks to this game are, the only winner ever here is the older sibling and the losers tend not to want to play again - yet some do. The ones who want a rematch will demand that they go first, thinking this will change the outcome. It only speeds up their loss. And yes, I think oldest brothers are somehow programmed to be assholes.
SchwiftyDabs · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The choking game. I know, sounds bad, but in BJJ you can choke someone to a point where they are just barely conscious, feeling euphoric and kinda high. You let go the moment before they pass out and you get a nice head buzz for a couple minutes.
PM_ME_YOUR_ART_PLZ · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would lower our heads and ran full speed at each other with the goal of ramming our skulls together as hard as we could. We didn't have a game, there were no rules or any kind of winning conditions. We just fucked each other up for a while and then stopped
fuddlecupz · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My bro and I played a game that we called ‘Piggy vs Farmer’, where we’d take turns bouncing towards each other from either end of the trampoline, but one of us would be on hands and knees (the pig) and one standing (the farmer).
It was literally to see who would hurt the most when we crashed into one another. Usually a knee to the face sealed the deal.
Jillmeowz · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can, yo
BrownieBitch2k17 · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was deemed too young to play this game, but my older brothers and their friends used to play this game called "snakes". Basically it consisted of turning out all the lights in the house, and all but one person finding a place to hide - this person being the seeker. If you were a "hider", you weren't allowed to stay in one place, though. It starts out with everyone trying to be sneaky, but eventually devolves into a bunch of kids running around a pitch black house. I still don't know why they called it snakes.
Profanitizer · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zip and button game /u/gaymerupwards
gaymerupwards · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Right listen here
Chazykins · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called zombies it was exactly like tag except the people who were it had to run but like zombies and you were only mad it when you were rugby tackled. This got quite painful playing it on the tarmac school yard. It was definitely better on the grass.
perpetualpies · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique but I’ve never heard of anyone else playing it. Me and other kids in my neighborhood played this game we called SOS ball. It was normally 3v3 but could be more. We played in backyards with two small goals set up on either end, think small soccer goals. Used a small ball, bigger than a tennis ball but smaller than basketball, small enough to hold in one hand. The goal was to score on the other goal- you could run with the ball and pass it back and forth by tossing it. If you got tagged by a member of the opposing team you had to freeze and could either pass or shoot. If you went out of bounds the ball switched teams. Lots of fun.
Trail-Mix · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Raptor". The field across the street from my parents house growing up was all tall grass. We would all wait at the road while the "raptors" went out and hid in the grass. The thing was, as you walked it would make trails that people could follow. If you were careful though, you could hide in the grass without leaving trails behind. After the first few games there would be trails all over the place and nobody would know where the "raptors" were hiding. The objective was to get as far into the field as you could without the raptors getting you. If you saw a raptor, you would yell raptor and have to run back to the street. If you got caught, you became a raptor. We used to get all the neighbourhood kids playing with us so the games could go all afternoon. When the grass had grown very tall near the end of the summer, you wouldn't be able to see where your fellow humans are and it would get really freaky, which was when it was the most fun.
Xcalz · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad played a game that we called “catapult castle”. Basically my dad built a “castle” with these building blocks we had, and I would make a catapult with the remaining blocks. I would launch little blocks at it until I was satisfied with the destruction, and then it started over.
legalus · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The most dangerous game. Me amd my friends would cover one of us with a quilt so they were blind and then berate them with medicine balls and rubber snakes. Also see snake wars
LoklanZFG · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to put sleeping bags over our heads and play blind, violent tag in the basement. We had to stop after we put a hole in the drywall.
animeisfordorks · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
God this is so fucking weird and embarrassing to admit but around maybe 8 or 9 I used to take my sisters baby dolls and hang them on these little hooks on the wall and chant "sacrifice the baby in (insert color of onesie they're wearing) SACRIFICE THEM ALL!" and repeat this til I've named all the colors represented. I did it to freak my sister out bc she'd scream at me to take them down and one day my dad caught me doing it and I genuinely don't recall how that part went but I know I sure didn't do it again
Charyou-Tree · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our elementary school was in the process of tearing out and replacing the old
fundangerous playground equipment with more modern versions.One year, a new slide showed up in all its plastic glory, replacing the old metal slide. We quickly discovered that sliding down this in our winter coats generated a tremendous amount of static electricity. This escalated into having 5-10 kids standing next to the slide, rubbing their arms on it to charge up. We'd take turns going around to climb up and slide down, and everybody standing to the side would zap them the whole way down.
Heidiszerint · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I "cooked" dzsindzsa soup (dzs is a hungarian letter, we pronounce it like j) Dzsindzsa is a word i made up. It meant everything in sight . I throw it in an old pot, stir it then feed it to the chickens at my grandmothers
Elidios · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another one my family all played and still do, star light star bright. Basically one person hides while the rest count. We would all as a group go and look for the hider (aka monster) and when we found the monster or when they wanted scare us, we would all disperse and avoid getting tagged by the monster before we get back to base.
Bulky_Consideration · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Playboy planet” where we went in the backyard and humped the ground. This was like 4 or 5 so I totally didn’t grasp why this was a thing. No weird touching or anything inappropriate, just a group of boys individually humping the ground fully clothed. Not even sure there was a winner. Just something we did I guess when we were bored.
ca1wi1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the summers when I was little, my parents, my brother, and I would play the car game. We would sit on our porch and try to predict the color of the next car to drive past our house
hoesindifareacodes · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While holding a brick, we would put a garden hose in our mouth and jump in the pool so we could breath under water. Yea, it doesn't work but we kept trying.
Shaqtus_Fishington · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know how when you put a cup upside down in water, it stays full of air? Well imagine that but with a giant bucket cooler with handles, a barbell through the handles, and about 150lbs of weight attached to it to generate enough force to bring it about 3 feet from the bottom of the pool. We would see how long we could sit on the bottom huddled together under the bucket. Teenage years were simpler times..
gbeans27 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Alaska girls” We would put blankets on the floor and lay there pretending we were orphans stranded on a wooden ship in the middle of the ocean
We would make up scenarios of what was goin on and kinda act it out and then continue it out every time we had a sleepover
Also “deep girls” at the beach We would go about waist deep and try and call out a wave and decide between float jump duck or swim it to shore
Meat3PO · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretty late to the game here but oh well. My brothers and I used to stack all our pillows and blankets as high as we could at the top of our steps, and then we would dive into to wall of cushions and ride it all the way down the stairs. Sometimes we would do this for hours, and we never once had an injury due to it.
Pallakit · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was weird, but my brother and I would stand across the room from each other, western faceoff style. Then we'd start walking all dorky straight at each other, swinging our arms and saying "doo dee doo dee doo dee" in singsong voices until we ran into each other. Then we'd fall down dramatically, saying "oops sorry!" And then get back up and do it again.
Sometimes my sister would even join and there'd be 3 special children walking into each other and falling down, over and over.
I don't know why, but we had so much fun playing that dumb game.
ahembomb7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fox and geese. A winter-only version of tag where you stomp out at least one ring in the snow (two concentric rings is even more fun) with paths leading to the center. The fox tries to keep to geese from reaching the middle, and if he catches one they become a fox. Super hectic and exciting game every recess
ExplodingGoblin · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school me and some friends played a game I like to call “firing squad” where a group of people line up against a wall and the “shooter” throws a frisbee at the people. If you move you’re a pussy... it was pretty fun
Pficky · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I had elaborate fantasy games that we played on our grandparents 7 acre forested property. We ran around imagining we all had awesome fighting skills and magical powers and there were like evil gorillas who were taking over the world out to get us. Apparently we made up a fantasy version of planet of the apes. My favorite part of this though is whenever we did an action we would say "Pretend I...." rather than just saying what we were doing.
tiny_doom · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We(my two brothers and I) had a few. During the summer our Mom would lock us outside until dinner, so we had to entertain ourselves. If we weren't exploring the nearby ravine we were playing "hide and go kill" where you were playing hide and seek/ tag but the person who was "it" explained that you were really looking for their doppelganger and listed off their crimes and what they were armed with. Another one involved digging up bricks from the backyard walkway and breaking them a particular way. Whoever broke it the most got to be the "king of the garage". We used to be able to get on top of our dilapidated garage from a good climbing tree nearby
Clever_Sean · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Catch or Don't". A game where you throw an expensive/loud/fragile item to each other in various positions: overhead, behind the back, under the legs, and the only way to win is to Not Catch it. Of course that leads to a broken expensive/loud/fragile item which gets you in trouble
We were idiots.
mrpantsthekittycat · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played a game called “Can’t Cry” which was just us beating the shit out of each other to the point of concussions and stitches but if you didn’t cry, you won.
Wow this actually explains so much.
Husqvarna5 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle said I wasn't allowed to tell anyone about our game.
Minichaud · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and i use to play a stupid game, we would both sit on the bed 1m from each other, facing each other, shirtless. And the goal was to use one hand to pinch each others tits. After a while it got pretty strategic where we were both more defensive. Also there was a big part of aiming at your target, baiting etc. So dumb yet so fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"James Bond".. we'd turn all the lights off and run full force around the house trying not to run into anything. I actually got pretty good at it until one night my cousins and I were at a hotel and we tried playing. I got brave and decided to jump from one bed to the other but completely missed and smacked right into the wall.
Another was "monster mountain". We'd gather all the pillows, blankets, couch cushions, etc and pile them up into a giant mountain. Then we'd jump from the second floor balcony onto them..
Thinking about it now, I'm amazed I'm still alive.
runjimrun · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure how unique this was but it certainly wasn't taught in school.
When we were on recess all the boys would line up with some kind of ball. Rubber ball, racquet ball, tennis ball, baseball. And then we would take turns running along the back wall at school while everybody threw their ball at you. We loved doing it but I can't imagine a grade school letting kids do that now a days.
Toomuchtonic · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dogs we would all just go around barking and nothing else on all fours I don't know why but never lost entertainment value.
RobinFox12 · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I both had trampolines and an endless supply of plastic balls so you know we were up to some fun shit. The game is called “No.” 1-2 players on the trampoline and anywhere from 2-4 players on the outside. The players on the outside have a ball that they try to throw over the trampoline netting and have hit the trampoline. The object of the players on the inside is to dive around and save the ball before it hits the trampoline. You could hit the ball infinitely with any part of your body, but if you couldn’t actually hold it unless you were on the outside. It may sound easy but with only 2 kids and a huge trampoline, it got pretty intense. There were some interesting team dynamics of the players on the outside. They would pass it back and forth so the people on the inside couldn’t follow it and fake throws and such. Very fun times. We actually still play it seeing as I’m only 14.
Arkhaman · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister always played kickball in the house when our parents weren’t home. It was intense and things were broken.
1991ali · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sparo
ethan0281 · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Red Letters" . There would be two teams of as many people in your neighbourhood friend group. One team would be runners who thought of a word that had the same amount of letters as they had team members i.e. a team of 5 could use the word "crisp". Each team member would then get a letter each from the word which they had to keep secret from the other team. They would then have 60 seconds to run and hide from the other team who would chase them and ,when caught, beat them until they gave up their letter. Once everyone had given up their letter the team had to guess the word to win.
TheLivingTree18 · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play something called "biscuit ball" which had nothing to do with biscuits - it was glorified indoor hockey with a tennis ball. The end result was either someone getting hit with a stick and storming off in tears, or a leg going through the wall... good times.
trickysghost · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game we called “Hot shots golf” for some reason. No affiliation with the real got shots golf. One friend had mini sticks nets in his basement (miniature hockey nets) and we would try to throw a wooden drink coaster into the nets. They were pretty hard and we would whip them at each other to try to score. Hurt like hell when you took them in the knuckles which was pretty much every other shot. Also you had to yell hot shots golf every time you threw one.
Another game we played in gym class that was dodgeball but you could build a fort with gym mats and we had 6 kg medicine balls to throw and knock the fort down. The fort would go down right away and then we would use the medicine balls as regular dodgeballs. It didn’t count if you hit someone with one, but they certainly felt the impact. Pretty sure everyone was knocked off their feet with one at least once. The last minute or two our teacher would blow the whistle and it was a free for all; go anywhere and throw anything at anyone. We started throwing the gym mats at each other for a bit until someone’s parent complained.
Pukefeast · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers, friends and I would stand in the middle of a field and shoot an arrow from a bow straight up. Obviously the objective was to not get hit. No one ever lost, thankfully!
Kosmicpoptart · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The slipper throw. You place a slipper half way up the stairs, with a sibling sitting in the room at the top. Then, you quietly sneak up the stairs, grabbing the slipper on the way up, finishing with a quick sprint and an overarm toss of the slipper at said sibling. Then swap places. Literally hours of fun!
Chumpatrol1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "Talking Games" where we would take on various roles. Sometimes it would be a Minecraft or Pokemon themed (my sister's game), world domination/politics or military themed (my brother's game) or it would be a fantasy psychic rpg (my game). We would play for hours on end and keep track of everything on notebooks
anunwithagun · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just the tip.
DarthPhranque · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much a game, but rather a extreme form of torture. The Tickle Game.
My dad would put us to be, and threaten to tickle us in 5 minutes unless we were asleep. Obviously we couldn't sleep and he would follow through with his threat. This terrorized me endlessly. To this day I get physically violent when someone tries to tickle me.
mubear · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game where you’d hyperventilate (by breathing in and out really fast) and then run down the hall and jump at the end. I got all my siblings to try it because “it makes you feel like you’re flying.” No idea how I came up with that.
Bag_O_Burgers · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called keys on the swing sets. You had to constantly swing and throw a set of keys into the other teams area. If it stayed in their area for 10 seconds you got a point. But if you threw it out of bounds (the perimeter of the swingset) the other team got a point. When we became teens it turned into bloody keys, where you had to bounce the keys off the other team first. We stopped playing because it started to really hurt.
SaintJohnRakehell · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called Rabbit Kill. I played it with my cousins. I don't know that it had any sort of objective. Two people were the rabbits, who had multiple personality disorder consisting of "submissive, psycho and floozy" personalities. You could tell which personality was on at the time by how the rabbit made ear shapes with their hands --straight one finger ears = psycho, laid down=submissive and fingers splayed in a lazy,relaxed manner =floozy. It was the non-rabbit person's job to discipline the rabbits.
So yeah, kinda fucked up now that im having to describe it. We were not abused children.
WallaBacca89 · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid we would play “hobos”,basically we’d all get in someone’s backyard and pretend to be homeless which meant making stew, catching bugs and scrapping moss off of trees for a job. Lots of good times...
milfgagger · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Stick Game: Be outside with a group of people, pick two teams, throw sticks at each other until someone gets hurt and the game has to stop. (yes, I actually played this many times)
LICK_THE_BUTTER · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Total Darkness: 2-3 people hide in a pitch black room while someone else tries to find them. The bigger and messier the room the better.
Commando: teams are runners and chasers. starts at 11pm. goal is for runners to run on foot from one school to the next (about 5 miles typically) and they get a head start. the chasers start at the same location except they are in cars/trucks and usually carry one passenger to hop out and tag. if a runner gets tagged then they become a chaser. the runners who make it to the other school without being tagged get bragging rights. there is a lot of adrenaline and fence hopping, it freaks out the neighborhood idk how we never got shot lol.
Kn0wFriends · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blanket Wars: In a hallway, on your knees, both players advanced at each other and had to try to wrap a blanket over the opponents head. The secret password was “no-ka-la-ka-vee-sie” (we heard it in a commercial, not sure what it means... or if we were saying it correctly) it was a claustrophobic nightmare.
Zanolon77 · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little my dad would play the "Ra Ra" game. It consisted of him coming into my room at night and just opening the door a bit and saying "Raaaaaa" in a deep menacing voice. It scared the shit out of me back then lol.
99-bottlesofbeer · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called slapball. For all I remember the rules other then "volleyball the ball into the other person", it might as well be calvinball
Refugee360 · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think we had a name for it, or maybe we called it the chair game.... my memory is hazy. My cousins and I would take turns blindfolding and strapping each other to a computer chair on wheels. Then we would blast music and go on a crazy ride through the upstairs of my house. The house wasn’t huge but there were 4 bedrooms upstairs and a loft type area. We would rampage around, and sometimes tipping the chair forward or backwards and try to confuse the person as to where they were. We’d blast this Boys II Men song and when it was over, the chair person had to try to guess where they were. It was NEVER the spot they thought.
lissimcsaurus · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play "Sherlock and Holmes." We made a tent in my room out of a sheet draped over the window blind string tied to something tied to something else in order to hang up the sheet. We'd speak with horrible accents and would discover things that led to clues that would eventually prove that our dog was a villain.
We had no idea that Sherlock Holmes is one person.
Well_thatwas_random · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "life guard" in pools. One of us would "fake drown" and the other had to rescue you. But the "drowner" would always come to, "freak out", and start fighting the life guard. If you successfully got the person to the stairs/ladder then you switched roles.
Devilinthewhitecity · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Catch-a-girl, freak-a-girl" would not fly today lol.
cheeriosareok · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forget how he named it but it was a game I use to play with my uncle when mom would leave
Somodo · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hermit crab tag. there's a murderer and seekers. 1 person hides somewhere in the house while the others venture out from the couch. You and your group explore the house and when you see the murderer you gotta get back to the couch or you dead. If M gets everyone they win, if even one person makes it back then the A's win. Turn off all the lights and get a flashlight for added spooky
jaspermoon4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would shut the garage door at my neighbors house turn off all the lights ( there was no windows so total darkness) then two of us would hide and try not to make a sound as one person would have a plastic ball bat wondering around trying to find us and then beat the shit outta us.....ive got a few more if anyone likes that one each one getting worse
K00lKid · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mum set up this elaborate system of pillow forts to try and teach us about mortgages and interest and stuff. It wasn't very realistic though, because the pillow forts weren't $1,000,000 per square centimetre.
xDrakellx · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my school, we had a game called "Zap!" it was actually pretty fucked up but this was middle school.
If you don't know the games, here's the rules: You have to close someone's hand into a fist, and the only way that person can reopen their hand was to slap a girl's ass, and if you open it on your own, you were considered gay.
Me being unpopular, I was basically always "zapped" and never slapped a girls bum, so I was gay all through middle school until I finally got laid in high school (yes, it was a girl)
FatherD00m · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a young teen I started a game where two folks would take the cellophane down a pack of Marlboros about %80 of the way off. Place a penny in the middle and each player would take turns burning holes in the plastic around the penny perimeter until it fell in. It was quite popular at the den I haunted. Of course this was the Eighties and smoking was still cool.
P030P · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stairball.
Made it up like 20 years ago so the rules are a bit fuzzy. At the beginning of the turn, you throw a basketball against the outside door of a second floor apartment. The ball would bounce off, and roll down the stairs to the sidewalk. Once it reached the sidewalk, you had to kick it back up. If you managed to kick it high enough that it bounced off the door again, you got a point. If your kick was short, a lot of the time the ball would come back at you very quickly due to the angle the ball hit the stairs. You could always kick it again when it comes down as long as it didn't pass the sidewalk onto the grass or into the street. If that happened, your turn was over. Using anything above your hips(including hands) wasn't allowed.
In my 7-8 year old mind, it was going to be there next Olympic sport. It was also convenient for me because you didn't need anyone else around to play it.
saktii23 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the first and second grades, I would organize the large-scale harassment of boys on the playground, by organizing a game that I invented called, "Chase The Beatles". I think I'd seen "Help" on TV or something, and was inspired. I'd get almost all of the girls on the playground together, and we'd a pick a few different unwitting boys to be "The Beatles" and then chase them around the "hotel" (ie, the playground) screaming and shouting, "Paul! I love you! I wanna hold your hand!" and similar nonsense.
Jatlu · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Brady game. We would line up on the edge of my yard and try to get to the other side and back without my dog Brady proceeding to tackle you and try to hump everything that moved. Last one standing won, and believe me my dog could have been a safety in the nfl he took no prisoners
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Once dated my next door neighbour to stand on top of his shed in the garden and take a crap
He did.
I was scarred for life. Can still picture it coming out now.
alexgarfi · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing soccer everyone would juggle the ball and whoever drops it had to get hit once with the ball by everyone lol watch out if u hit hard make sure u don’t drop the ball next time
Taco2010 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “basket brawl” very similar to rugby however the ball was a dodgeball (rubber ball type) and two five gallon buckets on either side. The goal was to score into the buckets any way possible. There were no rules, no illegal moves, just two teams. Physical contact was constant. I distinctly remember throwing my best friend down a hill while playing. We would regularly have 5-6 people on each team, there was never a set team count because we played with who we had.
Looking back, I have no idea how we didn’t get more hurt than we did.
kookaburra1738 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Dark Game" Basically was hide and go seek in the dark. We would turn off all the lights at night and hide in one room. Then the person would have to find us in the dark. I hid under the sheet of my dad's water bed and no one could find me even with the lights on. Still proud of this 17 years later.
varga2469 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would all file into my backyard which was pretty large and fenced in and had some decent cover (a swing set, a trampoline, fireplace and stuff) and we would throw a bunch of tennis balls into the backyard and we'd all have a childs lacrosse stick and we'd pretty much play dodge ball with tennis balls using lacrosse sticks. Thinking back on it now it was chaos
strangebru · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Laugh In The Drak (because using dark was blase)
Hide and seek in a dark basement, but the seeker has to tell jokes to find the people hiding.
tmb8220 · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in Oklahoma. The summers there are unlike any I've encountered in any other state I've lived in. I was 10. I lived on a street with a ton of kids. Only keep in touch with one of them now. When the sun would set, each kid would gather their walkie talkies and try to sneak in houses to get snacks out of the pantry without getting caught. I would always get any sour candy or peanut butter crackers. Then you would have to meet a designated water well or tree. Mind you these are houses of my friends so we all knew each other and the parents. I remember those days like it was yesterday. I haven't been back there in 25 years.
Mugungo · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if its a real thing, but we played something called bug house. It was 4 person chess, two boards, two teams, and when you took a piece from your opponent, you gave it to your ally, who could then put it into their game.
this meant that the more rapidly you played, the more pieces you could give your teammate, who could overwhelm the other player by sheer number of chess pieces.
This lead to extraordinarily loud and aggressive games, to the point where an entire classroom could devolve into shouting about the game, until eventually our teachers banned it for being too rowdy. :(
STVCCI · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it block party. There would be three people jumping on the trampoline and one person outside of it and his goal was to throw it over the net on the trampoline and make it hit the bouncy part of it while the people jumping had to hit it three times before hitting it out back out of the net. Many many summers of pure fun for us.
RoskyBox · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Detroit". Literally, it was throwing coins up into a tree. No idea what the point of it was, no idea why we called it Detroit. But we played it every break time.
puff_ball · 1 points · Posted at 18:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pass time in class in middle school with a buddy by having "stick man fights". You each get one piece of paper, and you draw a comic sized box of a stick man performing some act of destruction. The whole point was to draw a response to whatever the other person drew. Anything was fair game, guns, knives, bombs, acts of nature, fortresses, shields, trebuchets, you name it.
splotch-o-brown · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I distinctly remember playing “Risk” (not the board game) with my brother.
We would toss a ball or something just far enough in front of us so it would be difficult to run and catch. Then, we’d make a dive for it while we shouted “risk!”
It made us feel like badasses. It’s like playing baseball, but only sliding into bases. We would play for hours and I have no idea how else had so much fun for so long by just hurling ourselves across rooms.
cayjah007 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The kids in my primary school used to have this game call "hunt the C*nt" where we'd choose a word give random people one letter from that word and then those lucky people would leg it. The people left behind though they were the chasers after 30 seconds they would begin to chase you down and if they caught you they would beat the shit out of you until you cracked and gave them the letter.
It was banned pretty quickly lmao.
KingSatori1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fight until somebody cries
Get 10 guys in a room
Last one to shed a tear wins
blockpasta0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh come on I just lost the game
cornypoolog · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide the crayon" This is proof that we didn't have much, but also you don't really need much to be happy.
On those rainy days, or at night when we had to come inside all of us cousins would play the game. While we also played hide and seek in the dark that was mentioned previously, there were usually 6 to 10 of us hanging around on any given summer night, and hiding spots would get used up quickly.
So we miniaturized the game, each person got a crayon or 2 and we literally hid crayons in the house. We would limit it to a room or 2 at a time. Then everyone would search at once like an Easter egg hunt. That game NEVER got old.
We would inevitably take a break around dinner time and have egg sandwiches...every night. Great times! I remember it fondly 1981 to 1988 ish, a simpler time indeed.
pickyknee · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eat the booger
andr3nz · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trying to cross the road and get to school... I can't remember the name but I know that the last level was policemen and skaters.
weamsdetty · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hermit. i had one of those pink plastic playhouses that i covered with mud and sticks. i would sit in there and whittle and pretend to be living off the grid. when the neighbor kids would come by and ask me to play, i would scream incoherently and brandish my sharpened sticks at them. hermit was a one player game
Pukefeast · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad was a hobbyist blacksmith and made a plate helmet and scythe one time. As kids my brothers and I would select one person to wear this gear, turn the lights down, put on Halloween soundtracks, and chase the others around
catzr · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Over ball” we would take a tennis ball and have a person or group of people stand on opposite sides of the house (outside). You would scream “over ball” and throw it up over and on the roll so it would roll down the other side and the people or person on that side would have to try to catch it. And it just went back and forth. No idea where it came from, but we had a blast hahah
Agent_TopHat · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my friends played this game called “Medieval” which was inspired by one of our older brothers dnd game and we got really into the style but we didn’t want to just sit down and pretend so we would go out into the woods and find sticks that looked like weapons and then pick a reason for half of us to turn evil and then beat the ever loving shit out of each other for like an hour every day. Best time of my life
me-me-buckyboi · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, two of my younger siblings, and one of my best friends would play what we later called “Project Alpha” in our preteen years.
We all created characters named after Greek letters (Beta, Gamma, etc.) and NATO phonetic alphabet letters (Bravo, Tango, etc.). Our characters were people that were kidnapped as kids to become special agents for a mysterious organization that opposed the “Vipers” who were a group of terrorists. Each of our characters had a special power specific to them (like lightning magic, phasing, etc.), and a special suit of armor with its own abilities like holograms and invisibility.
We had an actual plot, character development, all the things you’d expect in an actual story. I realize now that we were inadvertently LARPing. We played three “seasons”, which were akin to Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, all with a unique plot and style, and would do an episode every day, then once we were done playing the season finale, we would go a few months before starting back up again.
Good times.
JedGamesTV · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watch Big Narstie talk about the Ukabong game he used to play
Jebnasty · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I would pretend that we were Pokémon trainers. We both wore hats that we would turn backwards like Ash Ketchum, and we’d explore the forested area by our neighborhood while throwing pine cones at imaginary Pokémon.
We would also talk to an invisible Misty, and make sandwiches to take with us that we called, “poké sandwiches”.
ppersonaluse · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Blowing off used condoms laying on roads. Because we didn’t know what those balloon like things were used for.
vetra_tera · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played a game called "the mole" basically one person has a blanket over their body/head and crawl around trying to grab people and drag them under the blanket. That person then become "the mole". We usually played in the dark as well. I have no idea how we came up with this.
gir6 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, cousin and I would play “People’s Court.” (It had nothing to do with the actual tv show.) There was a judge, a criminal, and a witness/victim. We took turns. The witness was usually a Southern belle type woman who would tell her tale of woe about what the criminal did (it was usually burglary), then it was the criminal’s turn, who got to wear my dad’s work coat and draw a mustache on their face with eyebrow pencil and act surly, and then the judge, who would inevitably sentence the criminal to death. We had a big wooden chair in the basement that was the “electric chair.” The witness/victim would get to flip the switch, and the criminal would die a horrible violent dramatic death. I liked being the criminal the best because of the death scenes I would invent. (We were pretty sheltered kids, it’s not like we were watching violent movies or had been traumatized in any way, so I really don’t know where this game came from, but we loved it!!!)
antiquebanana · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "got it" game. Something my dad always played with me. He had always been into cars. Classics and hot rods mostly. When we saw a nice car, we would say "got it" and have to say what it was. It was a great way to share his interests that ultimately turned into my interest as well. It was simple, but I loved it.
jailbreakgame · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a modified version of Jail Break.
Now if memory serves me right, Jail Break was an ordinary tag-like game. I distinctly remember playing a "safe" version under adult supervision (Gym, Church, Camp, etc.). There would be Guards and Prisoners. The game would start with one of the prisoners in a "jail" (just a designated area). The guards would attempt to hunt down and tag the prisoners who were currently free. If a prisoner were tagged by a guard, that prisoner would then have to go and stay in the jail. But if a free prisoner ran into the jail and yelled "Jail Break" all of the current prisoners were allowed to escape and run. The game would end when all prisoners were in jail.
But like I said we played a modified version. The rules were mostly the same, with one significant twist. Everyone had weapons… Sticks, Bats, Nerf Guns, Paintball Guns, Airsoft Guns, some fools even brought BB/Pellet Guns from time to time. It was BYOW (Bring Your Own Weapon), so people brought all sorts of random items.
Furthermore, going to or remaining in prison, as a prisoner, was no longer an honor-system process. Prisoners were captured by force and held in the jail, by force. In fact, we scraped the whole "yelling 'Jail Break.'" As a prisoner, you could leave any time you wanted, but the guards, if any were nearby, would physically engage you if you left the cell. Of course, the guards would disarm the prisoners too, so the weapons would rotate around as the game was played.
We weren't savages though… While you could be physically restrained, held, dragged, etc. Kicking and Punching were disallowed, as were any attacks to the face and groin. People did get shot with various "guns" from time to time, but when you're holding a tennis racket, and the opposing side has a paintball gun, you tend to just surrender. It primarily revolved around hitting people with objects (like bats), usually on the sides of the knees. Prisoners can't run if they…you know…can't run.
Simpler times those were.
weremound · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Finger Breaker.” Our school had a pool table but for some reason, had two eight balls and two solid orange balls. We would each have either the black or the orange and we would use the other balls to slide them across the table and hit the other. Whomever got all four won.
It was called finger breaker because when youd try to protect your babies, your fingers would get hit and it was painful af.
DoubleWillingness · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play a game called 'bartender' in which one of us, blind folded, would await a cocktail mixed, by the other, from anything we could find in the kitchen. We would drink it in disgust of marmite mixed with vinegar, custard, salt, milk and god knows what else. I called it the 'marmite hammer'. Ahhh, better days.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
alladin game my fav
Bountyftw · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a sandpit in our garden. We were like 4 people most of the time and we always split in 2 groups. Two would do something else for a couple minutes before they played the guests, the other 2 would "cook" whatever they could come up with out of water, sand, parts of plants, dirt, whatever was in range. Then the guests would come back, were greeted and got served the food. After "eating" they would rate the food, service, decoration and more. It was actually insanely fun, you could get creative with the food and the kind of guests you acted as (hardhearing, rude...), literally never got old. 10 out of 10 would play again
ScotWithOne_t · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hit Wicket.
You would sit across the room from your friend facing each other with your legs spread. You would roll a ball and try to hit them in the crotch. They were not allowed to block it with their hands. Typically only played with boys.
ImUndiscoveredGyrl · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The friend game. Me and my sister would pretend that we’re not related but really close friends instead. It would make hanging out together feel more special.
Now that I’m typing this, I realize how weird this game was.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get beat daily, then I'd wondered what it is that I've done.
Beatkas · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brother and my two cousins loved to play “Tira la merda” literally “Throw the shit”, we threw dry goat poop (goats and other animal shit little balls of poop) and the first to take a “fresh” one lost if they didn’t hit one of the opponents with it. We played for 15 minutes a day and go back smelling so much of poop that one time my uncle vomited after an hug. I think I would do the same now.
My cousins lived in a farm far from any form of civilization, so there was nobody around telling us to stop. Thinking it now it was so fucking gross.
hetesunbouffon · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Metal Slug.
amygreaves · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
British bulldog we loved it was a line of kids holding hands and we would have to get past .think it got banned along with handstands and running in UK schools
amw1312 · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My entire family would play a game called “Bonk Bellies” where we would stuff our shirts with pillows or random fabrics and then run as fast as we could towards each other and leap into the other’s belly to knock the person over. Usually it was just me and my siblings but when we got our parents to play, they would knock us the f out hahaha. Now I get drunk with my friends and play Bonk Bellies to this day.
legaladviseaccount · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blinds man Bluff?
Zifork · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play the “power game” where we each had super powers and would think of increasingly ridiculous ways to fight each other using these powers. We created a whole backstory and world with currencies and planets and special items and all sorts of things. We spent more time talking about the limitations of each other’s abilities than playing the actual game, but it was so much fun.
asoue0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a field with big rocks and trees along the side of a road. We split the area in 1/2 into 2 “teams” but it was more like 2 little governments. Each one had a worshiping tree where one side prayed to George Washington and the other to Abe Lincoln. We got sharpies and drew our flags on rocks. We had a rule that if you picked flowers on the other side you legally had to start a war. We met there every single day for a whole summer.
shayeyetuh · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Banjo kazooie
HeroesAndaVillain · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the Queer.
It was unique and have no idea how that was allowed to go on.
he-likes-24 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and i had a name for this game (won't divulge 'cause yeah haha) and it was a bit like a cartoon, as in we would have an opening song, a closing song, and a "come back for the next episode!".
Anyway, we were two sisters who were also witches, and had all sorts of powers (one of which was called " lose weight!" And, obviously, made us 'lose weight' - it's really rather sad). We could turn into mermaids, animals, and we both had boyfriends and could eat everything we wanted. We fought off evil witches by singing against them, and there were other mermaids we were friends with (one of them was called Coco and she was really slutty).
We played until we were like 10 hahaha. I miss her. I love her to bits (my friend, not the slutty mermaid haha). Also, we took inspiration from w.i.t.c.h., mew mew, sugar sugar, pretty cure and my mermaid melody (a few cartoons we loved watching when we were little).
kinny4000 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Attack Mack" was a game that involved beating my brother while he sat on a chair until the inevitable point where he tapped out. His name was mack, and he always suggested to play it.
hah_you_wish · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and I would have “bra and undie” parties, lol. We’d basically get into our little training bras and underwear, then pretend we were sexy motherfuckers and have a lit dance party with some music. It was a lot funner at the time than it sounds!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "roll playing games" but really it was just a choose your own adventure story made up on th espot by the "dungeon master." There were no dice or stats to keep track of, just "You come across a fork in the hallway. Do you go left or right?" then the story would progress from there. It was pretty damn fun.
DogKaRain · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to live in a house with a big garden , he would take the water hose and make a puddle. I then had to build a 'Kingdom' around the puddle with the wet earth. We gave ourself about 10 minutes of time then he would put the hose into the puddle and open it. I had to defend my mud kingdom against the water by building walls or digging up a hole for the water. We would take turns and whoever survived the longest would win.
tanktankjeep · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime we were waiting in the car for my parents me and my siblings would take turns drawing with our fingers on eachothers backs and the person being drawn on guessed what they were drawing.
E-Bay_it · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Bucket Boy”. This involved my cousin and I putting a bucket on our head in the pool and going under water and pretending to be scuba divers.
EttaHellig · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played an game I would call “give me a ticket to anywhere”. I don’t know how we came up with this but one of us would have a carrot and a peeler. The others would ask for “tickets” to exotic places. Like one would go up to them and say: “One ticket to Madagaskar” And he would slice a piece of the carrot and give it to you. Then you eat it and that’s it. Very low budget travel :D We would play this all day long. It’s fascinating how easily entertained kids are..
fireglz · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cocomoball.
Played on a netted trampoline with three people. Each person has 2 segments of net as their goal to defend. There is a single tennis ball in the center of the trampoline to start. You cannot grab the ball. All slapping and hitting.
You're not allowed be attacked in your goal but if you make a play on the ball in the center you're fair game. Full contact. First to 21 wins, must win by 2.
Garrett, Zach, miss you homies.
BuchnerFun · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my younger sister used to play "kick." Not very unique I guess.
Basically we'd sit on opposite ends of the couch and just kick the shit out of each others feet, shins, and thighs. I had a few years on her but she had the advantage of not having testicles.
Needless to say my parents threw the kibosh on "kick" pretty quickly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "germs" game. It started when one siblings would roll around on the floor. They were the "germ", for some reason. You had to hop over or otherwise avoid getting touched by the "germ" (they couldn't reach out, they could only roll) or else you'd become one. It's all fun and games until someone jumps on a face, but the real fun kicks in when you're the only human left!
jarzbent · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thrones
CasualManfly · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play twist and pull with my uncle but it stopped when my dad found out once
grimchemical · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "The Game" - Every household on our block had one of those torpedo footballs with the whistles and the tail on it. The setup, get an initial volunteer to be the 'Name Caller'. The Name Caller hurls the football as high as possible while everyone scatters as far as possible. Thing is, the Name Caller would call someone out BEFORE the ball hit the ground again (usually as close to the ground as possible). That person has to get the ball and when they did they yelled STOP! Everyone stopped dead in their tracks, an amazing honor system us kids had.
The new "Throwers" job is to now hit someone with the ball. If you get hit, you're out. Bounces don't count. Catches don't count, no penalty.
It usually turned into a game of 8-10 boys on the verge of sprinting as fast as possible in any direction but trying to time it so that if they are the one called out no one else gets too far away to hit. Only a few of us were any sort of 'athletic' so this game could go for hours due to no one being able to hit anyone.
It was a blast and I'm visiting my brother-in-law in April, him and my sister have an awesome group of grown-up kid friends and I'm going to try to get this going again. It's been decades.
shedoesitalltho · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Try and survive the trauma or die"
uiuiuoh · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made this trail in the woods for this game we played for a couple years around Halloween, at night of course. We would take turns where one or the other would run down the trail and after a few minutes the other would follow (just walking) until the first one jumped out and scared the shit out of [you].
imbex · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in Chicago in the late 80s early 90s. I dressed up as Saddam Hussein and had the neighbor kids be my footsoldiers and steal food and toys for me. I'm a white girl...
cantpassgo · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Spotlight".
One person would stand at the top of our jungle gym with a flashlight and everyone would have to hide at an agreed upon distance; you could however hide wherever you want. Then, in the dark, you would have to make your way towards the jungle gym without the person who was it shining the spotlight on you.
The person who was it would have to say the person's name or else it didn't count.
newt109 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I made rock hotels. We would draw elaborate hotels with chalk and then our pet rocks would live in them. It was really fun and a good memory to have now!
TheWonderfulWoody · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tree-ball. When we were kids, my neighborhood best friend and I made up a game where we’d stand under a large tree with a big canopy of leaves (presumably during the spring/summer). We would then throw a tennis ball up into the tree’s canopy, where we could no longer see it, and compete to see who could run after it and catch it as it came rattling and banging down through the branches, usually in a totally different spot due to all the deflections.
stormy_llewellyn · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived on a street where cornfields backed up to our back yards. In the winter, snow would drift across the fields and pile up in the back yards resembling a bit of a snow ramp. Typically, we would get a good coating of ice on top of it and then it became the winter slip 'n slide. We would all bundle up and everyone would take turns getting a running start and you would slide as far as you could on your stomach. We marked how far we went and the person who slid the furthest got nothing except the sweet sweet pride of knowing they slid further than everyone else. I'm freezing cold just thinking back.
Stokes1993 · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin used to go to my grans in school holidays we used to play 'Bad crashes' razz toy cars into each other as hard as possible and watch chaos and extreme wall damage ensue.
Also who could smash the spaghetti into most pieces via a fan was also a laugh.
escapetheory · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to take my bike and ride it around my school after dark. No hands. Through tight spaces, all the way around the building.
I did this whilst talking through imaginary Pokemon battles I was having in my head, using new, mostly unoriginal, creatures I'd made up (Rockomon, Mew Three etc.)
Kept me busy for hours on end.
blablablaudia · 1 points · Posted at 18:06:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sister and I would play "Taco Fairies" where we'd just wrap ourselves in blankets and run around the house pretending we were jumping over lettuce and tomatoes.
scarciti · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played a game called Hungy Chungy where we shoved pillows in our shirts and ran at each other We had another one called pillow head where my brother would put a pillow on his head and try to find my sister and I. My parents stoped letting us play that one when my brother fell down the stairs
WellDressedLobster · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some stupid game called mushburger (not sure how we came up with that one). From what I remember, one person would lay on their back on the bed and hold up a really big heavy pillow we had. The other kid would then jump on the pillow and try to weigh it down or whatever until the person’s arms or legs gave out and it crushed them lmao. If that sounds painful it’s worse when the person under the pillow would fucking launch you across the room! Needless to say we played this many times.
onavlis · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy, never thought I'd get to share these gems.
The first game my brother and I played was "pinches"... Here is how it goes.
Step 1. Each person gently pinches the others cheeks, between the thumb and index finger
Step 2. Count to 3
Step 3. Pinch the ever living shit out of those cheeks, first person to let go loses.
We would also play "battle pong". Just like regular ping pong, save for the fact that after every point scored, the loser would have to turn around and lift up his shirt while the other got to take a shot with the ping pong ball. And boy when you connect... the slap sound was insanely gratifying.
Holy shit we were stupid.
EdgyLikeACircle · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend lived in a tiny little hamlet with a communal collection of wheelie bins, about 16 each recycling and regular household waste bins. We used to play in them, scavenge boxes and random junk from them, hide in them and jump out at people/each other... it was mental and we probably looked like right weird little urchins, spending extended hours playing in bins, but we loved it haha. We would also take stuff that we'd found and go and knock on our neighbors doors and try and sell them the stuff so we could get money for sweets XD. Good times lol.
gthatch2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Blob”
We cleared out our large playroom, by moving everything to the edges of the room. We also covered all hard objects with any pillow and blankets we could find for safety.
One player was The Blob. They had a large dark blanket. The other players were just people. The goal was for The Blob to capture/eat another player by wrestling them to the ground and covering them with the blanket. Whoever got eaten was the next Blob.....the catch, the lights were off and every player starred at the lights prior to turning the lights off, this made sure everyone had a hard time seeing.
Anodracs · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I pretended to be vampires and werewolves. This was a long, long time before Twilight was ever published.
My favorite game at recess was finding a quiet, out of the way spot so I could read in peace.
TheBionicLiver · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Star Wars ping pong. It was a table tennis/action figure/red rover style game. My brother would line up the Empire figures on his side of the table while I lined up the Rebellion figures on mine. We would then take turns serving the ball attempting to knock down one of the figures on the other side. The ball had to bounce once on both sides before striking a figure. If you knocked a figure over, they came to your side. The games took incredibly long to finish but they were always epic!
Mohammedmmd786 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'pitu'. What we did is that we piled up 7 rocks on top of each other. Then we stood 3 meters back and with a tennis ball, the first guy to knock over the pile of rocks with only 1 bounce of the ball was 'it'. What he had to do was stand still with the ball and throw it at the rest of us whilst we tried to pile up the rocks again. If he hit someone, they had to join his team but they could not move with the ball.
Chewitt321 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much "game" as sport. I think I had visions of an Olympic championship in it, it was also my first answer to the question "what do you want to be when you grow up?"
And for years my answer was always "The man who slides down stairs on cushions". It was that enjoyable as an activity I had career plans aged 3.
Foxyboi14 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with my dad and my older brother called "one nose". One of us (usually my dad) would wear a hoodie with the draw string pulled completely so the only thing visible was the nose. Without being able to see, the 'one nose' would wander around the room slowly trying to corner and catch the other two. My brother and I would always try to hide under or behind objects that would be almost impossible for an adult to reach, and as you can imagine this lead to more than one minor injury. But it was so much fun to sneak around hiding from the 'one nose', and if we got caught then we would have to switch and become the new 'one nose'.
atarixe · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I would play a game called "dont tell your parents"
barbiebruise · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a very strange something in between ‘dance moms’ & ‘fight club’.
UnicornOfMagic · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Sinking Ship. Everyone gets on the playground/swingset and one person would kick a soccer ball at the swing set. Any part hit starts sinking and you have to get off it and must remain off it for the rest of the game. If you try to sit on that part or don't get off in time you are out. Getting kicked in the face means you're out instantly. Simulates pirate ship getting shot at I guess?
the_Durzo_blint48 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, my brother and I just straight up beat eachother with sticks. We thought we were Link
HemluckMcGee · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Toothpaste. We would try to cram as many kids as we could into a small tube slide until it was one kid too many and we all tumbled out
TechnoLogicPC · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late, but ours was "Battle Royale"
This was that time in the early 2000s where every kid in the neighborhood had a Ripstik. So naturally, what group activity is there but for us to all ride around in the driveway and try to knock each other off!
There were surprisingly few injuries.
Honestly for a good few months we did everything on Ripstiks, just from riding over to each other's houses to play Smash Bros and 007, to playing full length basketball games.
We could never quite get the Ripstik to function properly in the pool, but I'm not opposed to trying again now as an adult.
Them was some dang good times...
K9Corgi · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "floor hockey", which consisted of flinging balls of socks (and even a Bulbasaur plushie) at the couch. The world before the internet was a grand ol' time.
deysiy · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to collect empty vaccine bottles pretend I was a cook add plants water and sugar and drink it. I ended up with a severe allergic reaction almost killed myself thanks to my concoctions.
m-a-k-o · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin used to play “fighter pilots” on the swings. We used to stand up on the swing and swing really hard. And then “eject” by jumping off. Fun days.
questioillustro · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "animal" game. While in the car, particularly on long drives, you get points for yelling "I got those /that (insert animal). " Point value varies based on rarity, white horses were 5 points for example. Most animals were 1 point, groups counted as a unit. Very rare animals were an automatic win. It was a very contentious game, with rules that had to be made up on the fly at times.
F3RNyx · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow My father had it hidden and I played it anyways 🔥😂👌
quincy777 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One kid stands on the arm of the sofa, other laying on the floor with their mouth open. The taller kid then aims and drop magnets into the other kids mouth. Not surprisingly, eventually dad had to come to the rescue for a choking kid and the game was shelved forever. Instead of the Heimlich, instinct took over and dad dangled the choker by the ankles, but it worked perfectly somehow.
jckarena · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does anyone remember playing Brute force on the ogrinal xbox sooooo goooood
Billquisha · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but my office plays jollyballs (a hard-hitting mixture of ping pong and volleyball). We even have official documentation like good little developers: https://github.com/ai-invent/jolly-balls
Ka_Tinka884 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would tie our little brother to saw horses, chairs, whatever and time how long it would take him to get out. Or we would get bored and wander away and he'd be stuck for an hour or two.
ScaryThePirate · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "You're on a fixed income" which was a phrase our grandfather often said and we didn't know what it meant. It involved one of us pinning the other on the arms of the couch with our legs while the other tried to escape. We would constant proclaim that the one trapped was "on a fixed income" until they escaped and we would swap places.
charlesjc1324 · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and sister used to wing me by my arms and legs and I used to love it. It ended once I dislocated one of my shoulder but whatever. We also used to play a game where we would roll each other up in blankets real tight and squirm around.
HumanoidParanoid · 1 points · Posted at 18:07:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wawawa, an activity moreso where my sister and I, in our onesies, would slide down our carpeted staircase on our tush. Loads of fun as kids, not so fun as anything older than 6
CeleryIsCold · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Giving people hugs randomly. Happy cake day
SquishyDogs · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and i used to play a game called "bad touch"
thefirecrest · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Narnia has just came out when I was like 8. And that was when I had just moved into my grandmothers house. My game was taking my cousins to explore the huge closet blocked off by boxes up in the unused master bedroom, because it was a magical adventure. My baby brother was stuck as lookout.
MasticatingMastodon · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Touchdown run. The yard was a football field and one person had the ball. Score by getting to the new zone, then you try to make it back across.
Typically 2 or 3 tacklers vs 1 runner. Defenders had special abilities. While we'd normally tackle with not much force, you could perform an action and tackle the harder. For example, you could be Reggie White and do a cross on your chest, point at the runner, say " I'm praying for you" then put all your weight into a hard tackle.
Basically my friends and I invented the perk system for modern games.
Sforzando09 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mommom and I would throw bouncy balls in the kitchen sink. Of course they would bounce out, but we would keep trying until we got all of them to stay in the sink.
TheHarami82 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"the dog game". My little sister and I played a lot of roleplay esque games, and our favorite one was the dog game. It started by wrapping me in a blanket burrito style and then I'd emerge in full dog form, and she was my granny owner. I went full dog mode and would run around on all fours, bark, pant, the whole shebang.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We had this game called “rio rio” (I’m sure some of my siblings would spell this differently). One person is the “rio rio”—basically, they are the steamroller making an ambulance-type noise, which noise is where the name of the game comes from. The rio rio has to roll around on the floor making the siren sound. Everyone else has to jump over the rio rio when as it rolls under them, and whoever falls or trips on the rio rio has to be the new rio rio. I consider this to be the funniest of our games, given the built-in punishment for falling is to know you’ll soon be fallen on.
thatgoodfeelin · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At around midnight 10+ kids (older middle school kids, younger highschool kids) we would basically play cops and robbers but called it "Fugitive" at an elementry school that was in our neighborhood. There were two cops and the rest were fugitives. The whole school were the boundaries. When the game was concluded and two people were found everyone would yell out "MERRY CHRISTMAS" because that was the code word that two people were found and that round was over. We took ownership of the school and made sure people didnt fuck up the place, we wanted to keep the place to play. The night janitor was even cool about it, he could have called the cops. it grew to about 20 of us and it became out of hand, until one day someone decided a pogo stick would be good through a window and in a class room. that kid became a fugitive irl and ruined it for everyone. but damn it was fun running around that place.
lovequeen10 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a friend who had a above ground pool and it was getting old so they drained it and there were tears in the walls of the above ground pool. So my friend, my sister and I would go into the wall and crawl around as my friends brother stabs the wall with a knife. It was fucking fun as a child but when I think of it now it was really dangerous. The brother wasn’t crazy we were all young and stupid
Shadowwvv · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It has a German name but we would go on the playground on one of this huge climbing things with tunnels and slides. One person had to cover their eyes while the others climbed on it and he needed to search for us with closed eyes. Obviously, there were dead ends. The hiders could also walk on the ground and go up on another side if they were in a dead end, but if the person searching heard, because the ground was made of these wooden pieces then he could call it and they were also caught. It was a ton of fun but I fell down with my eyes closed a few times.
sklars · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Rat Game": all 5 of us siblings would go into our basement and dress in all black, turn off the lights and cover the stairs with a sheet so no light came in at all. In complete darkness, one of us would be "The Rat" and the other 4 would hide. Then "The Rat" would crawl around as fast as they could and try to find the rest of us. It was terrifying. See also, the "Witch Game". Same concept except "The Witch" is covered in a blanket.
SelectHomework · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pooga. It’s a combination of pool and Gaga. People hit the ball across a pool table with their hands. If their wrists touch the ball, they’re out! If their hands/wrists raise over the pool table, they’re out!
nicolax10 · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 14 we used to play Kiwi. What a game!
Is a two teams game. You have to draw a 3x3 box with chalk on the pavement and make a pile of 9 bottle caps in the center. A member of one of the teams have to destroy the pile with a ball. When he does, the game starts. The other team have to throw the ball to each member of the other team and kill them while they try to put each bottle cap in the 9 spaces.
Very exciting.
AlediVillarosa · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I posted this before on some other thread last week, but it answers perfectly to this question actually:
In elementary school, we (as the entire student body) created and maintained for 2 months an entire and fairly complex parallel economic system during recess based on pine nuts as a currency. The more I’ve thought about it in the recent years, the more I realize we effectively operated like mobster clans. Without getting into details, there were territorial wars, hotel construction, racketeering, fraud, fake currency manufacturing and all kinds of schemes and shady deals going on. It grew so out of hand that the school administration had to get involved, banned entry to the Pinewood until winter, confiscated our huge hay reserves (hay was our main building material and akin to our economy’s crude oil or timber) and emptied our weapon caches, putting a brutal end to our neo-capitalist experiments. After that we went back to playing soccer and never talked about it.
M_R_Hellcat · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t have a name for it, but we used to get inside the outside garbage can with the lid down and roll each other around. My skin crawls thinking about it.
Fizzy_Sm0ke · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends at primary school (about 7 years old) played a game called 'tub tag'.
We found it hilarious that Tub backwards was butt so we played the old fashioned game of tag, but could only tag eachother by hitting eachother on the 'butt'.
We were questionable children, and the amount of arguments that sparked up about what counts as your butt or not.
poopoojerryterry · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would bounce half a dozen eggs on the trampoline between 4 kids. If you got hit by an egg, you had to go to the walnut tree and try to catch one of the fallen walnuts on fire. We were never caught, or their parents didn't care
fxxth · 1 points · Posted at 18:08:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “animal tag.” The person who was it would act like a predator, and the people who were being chased had to act like other animals that it would eat it the wild. I mainly remember playing with the person who’s it as a lion, and others would be an elephant, antelope, zebra, giraffe, etc. Noises, movements and all.
tehutika · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For one summer, my cousins and I played “Torture Chamber”. It involves climbing over the backyard swing set and draping yourself over it in various strange and uncomfortable ways, then wailing about the horrible fate that awaited you if you “fell”. For example, if you “fell” down the slide, it was covered in razor blades and a vat of alcohol was at the bottom. We spent hours trying to outdo each other, including everything from grenades to vicious animals to dynamite. It was a lot of fun, and definitely had an effect on my...sexual interests...when I grew up.
DeathofaNotion · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played "Ruth"...
It was just me throwing a ball on my house's roof and making the ball return to the roof using only my head.
ForeverAloneUntilIWasn't
Brian1zvx · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"League".
Basically we played soccer with one goal and everyone was on one team except the keeper. There was a tree that marked the last defender for offside and if we hit it wide or the goalkeeper cleared the ball a certain distance the team would change.
The game had to be played at match pace as if there were defenders but we were all always attacking. Games would be timed between the two "teams" and a league table was tracked.
clumpychicken · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play 'Dirty Goose' when we were kids. Whenever it was pouring rain, we'd go outside and run around. Whoever went inside first lost. We weren't the brightest kids growing up...
makotosolo · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Only played it once, but little sister and I used to try and close the bathroom door on each other (I was about 5, she was 4). She gets the idea to put her fingers under the hinges. I felt the door let up and slammed it shut. I saw blood and opened the door. She stood there wide eyed watching the blood pour down her hand. I went and layed down in the bathtub and plugged my ears. Mom came running and sister started bawling. Doctors said her fingernails would never come back and that her fingertips would be permanently disfigured, but luckily, everything healed perfectly. We didn't play that game ever again.
baritoneninja · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pine cone wars.
MrBoo843 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to draw a scene on a piece of paper, it always had a hero and usually some monsters or puzzle or just a boss. I then acted as gamemaster, ruling what happenned when a friend playing the hero announced an action. It always involved modifying the drawing (adding a health bar, some blood, or changing the monster because he evolved to another form). It wasn't until many years later that I would be introduced to Dungeons and Dragons and I do pretty much the same thing (albeit more complex and less improvised) almost every weekend.
mattefresh · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad used to play a game called "boy shut the hell up while im watching tv". Wasn't a very fun game
LoudMusic · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to play the "Strange and Unusual" game with us on road trips. If you could spot something (outside the vehicle - siblings don't count!) that was deemed "strange and unusual" you would get a candy. It kept the kids settled and observant of their surroundings for hours at a time.
Anyakins · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it amnesia. We would throw a sheet over the top of the swing set and would sit on the glider and swing back and forth and hope nobody found us.
Only1Skrybe · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag.
But with knives.
Thor_Thunderstone · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soggy biscuit
yeaphatband · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While walking home from school I'd grab a handful of gravel then pretend I was a B2 bomber, dropping individual rocks onto targets without breaking stride.
SonofCu · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My aunt was a upholster, so at my cousins house we always had access to dozens of cushions to fuel our games. Two that come to mind are "Elephants of Oz" (no idea how we came up with that name) where 1 defender tried to hold off whatever room was deemed Oz against 2 others. Basically use cushions as weapons and shields and pummel each other with them. #2 was Avalanche!! which involved stacking up every cushion we could get at the top of some very steep stairs and running a rope from the cushion that held it all together, then screaming Avalanche and pulling the rope while you tried to be the first to the top of the stairway. Surprising we had some incidents that lead to stiches, but no broken bones.
itstartswithani · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had one of those red&yellow Little Tikes cars when we were kids, but the roof had broken off so it was just the red bottom half with an open top. We called it the 'CollerRoaster'. Basically we would take it in turns with one of us sitting inside and 2 people would run as fast as they could pushing us around the garden until we crashed or fell over. Loads of fun. Always stands out in my memory.
NMJ87 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
PoolAddict41 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombies!! No not call of duty. My neighborhood friends would all come down to my house on a nice warm day, I had a play scape in the back yard that was "home" or the safe zone. I had a ton of Nerf guns, and who ever was zombie had to wear the Velcro vest. Zombies had to grab and pretend to bite the others to turn them into zombies. The longer without getting someone, the faster they'd be able to run. You could only stay at base for 2 minutes. It was a blast.
PaulTancred · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soulblade for the PS1. Loved it but noone seems to know about it
misterbroom12 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called "Break In" with my brother and family friends throughout the summer. Our friends house has a wooden fence around their backyard that is accessible on 3 sides, without having to trespass on someone else's property. One team would defend the pool's diving board while the other attempted to break in to the backyard and sit on the diving board without being tagged.
Timinator1400 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a rescue heroes toy that when you pushed a button it would call out a random natural disaster. My friend and I would play a game where if it called out "Volcano" we had to run up the stairs of the basement as fast as we could. No winners or losers. We were weird.
herobean28 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers were 100% the nerdiest kids you’d ever met, by far the geekiest in our neighborhood. We loved superheroes and would binge watch anime together all the time, which fed into our obsession with superpowers and Yu-Gi-Oh, so we invented our own card game. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was pretty much the coolest thing we’d ever made with our own hands. On the spot we’d invent superheroes with their own unique power sets, weaknesses, names, and abilities, and we’d make cards for them and ‘dual’. As I mentioned, we were young, so we constantly made up rules and powers during games so either one of us could win (usually me) and it wasn’t balanced at all, but it was still fun to see who could come up w the most creative solution to win. But the real fun came when we took it to the streets and got all of our neighborhood friends involved. We basically larped our own made up card game and flexed over all of our friends by having the most powerful characters and abilities and dominating the competition. I had the time of my life, and my brothers did too. I would give anything to go back
AManInBlack2019 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick wars.
Me and a bunch of the kids would go out and find sticks. Carve them, heat them in a fire until they "harden" and go fight.
If you gave up, you lost your stick. If your stick broke, you lost.
10 of us at a time. It's a miracle no one lost an eye. We beat the crap out of each other...we quickly started wearing gloves and thick clothes.
I had a sweet stick with this curve not unlike a bayonette. I would hook the opponents swing, trap it, and direct it to the ground, then step on their stick....either breaking it or making them let go. I was pretty good.
laur1396 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I invented a game called “Lumpy” where one person (Lumpy) had to go inside of a sleeping bag and sit in the middle of the room and try to catch everyone in the room. Everyone who was not Lumpy had to be completely silent and try to knock Lumpy over without getting caught. If Lumpy grabbed you, you became the new Lumpy.
It was super fun until one day I was Lumpy and instead of everyone trying to knock me over, they all left the room and left me there trying to grab at empty air. It lasted about five minutes before I figured it out and cried to my mom. That was the day Lumpy died :/
canadianzombie2017 · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called "ouchie". Run at a wall, whoever said ouchie first lost the game.
We were interesting kids
dogmeatoohaha · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "TV" on road trips. My mom would randomly yell click and we'd have to "change channels" by stopping whatever we were saying/doing and starting a different scene. Worked really well if fights started in the car or if we started getting fussy about being bored.
My sister was really good at it because she would start doing infomercials for stuff: yelling "BILLY MAYS HERE WITH OXYCLEAN SEE HOW WELL IT GETS YOUR STAINS OUT" and start throwing water around the car. Mum would say click again and she'd switch to Shamwow talking about getting the water out by "beating it out like I beat that hooker." It would go on for hours and we'd all be rolling by the end of it.
poopy-weiner · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my me and my brother were about 4 and 6 we would jump on my grandma's bed. The headboard was high enough for us to sit on it, and we would sit on it and shout "MY KING CHAIR" and whoever wasn't sitting there, threw the other person down onto the bed, face first.
Hard_Rr · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child, I got into dinosaurs pretty heavily, the Brachiosaurus being one of my favorites. I would simply make my fingers all point down the same way except my middle finger, I would lift my middle finger up more so it would look like a neck&head with legs. I would make it (run) In the grocery store on top of the fruits and meat sections(poking holes in all the wrapped meats) and at the mall, in the car I would have my dinosaur with me always. Anywhere where there was a surface I’d role play my hand as that Brachiosaurus. I soon realized people thought I was giving the middle finger and bash my mom for teaching me such things, but she would laugh and continue on about her day. She’d even paint a smile on my middle finger just so my Dino had a face. I had a simple childhood :)
Vurondotron · 1 points · Posted at 18:09:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide & Seek in the dark. I think it's called Manhunt. But I remember playing that when I was a kid.
Stellaheystella · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents house is on a golf course just off the 14th hole. When we were kids we would sit in the yard the weekend and wait for players to hit balls over and then ask us to return them. We had a bucket we collected balls in during the rest of the week and whenever that happened we would try to throw as many balls over as possible instead of just their ball. Were we little jerks? Yes. Was it fun? Absolutely.
We also used to dump said bucket into the deep end of our pool and see who could collect them the fastest and get them back into the bucket.
nikenotnikey · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Beating up in the dark’. We would switch all the lights off and beat the shit out each other, making teams to plan how to attack, and then if anyone got hurt, someone would try to find the light (quite hard) and we would take a break. A lot of fun. We also used to throw pillows and make forts using pillows and blankets on the beds.
Mordymordy · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Korea, we’d play this game where you put your hands together and form a finger gun and poke each other’s buttholes with clothes on. It would be funny and embarrassing and as weird as it was, even my mom played this game with me...
DeaconOTR · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play "Knock Down Guys" We would each select 10 Star Wars or GI Joe's or He-Men and sit across the room from each other. After strategically standing them up we would take a Lincoln Log and try to knock them down. First one to knock them all down, won. Freaking HOURS of enjoyment.
Another one was simply called "The Game". We took a Hacky Sack and sat across the room from each other and just tossed it to one another. The point was not to make it impossible to catch but to catch it in the "Coolest" way. You got 'Cool Points' for the coolest catches. It was better with 3 or more players.
Kewl_Kaleo · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Hit the deck We’d take plastic beaded necklaces and throw them in the ceiling fan and shout “hit the deck!). Some games started when least expected.
fernando_flores927 · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find My Dad
gaydotaer · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't really have a name for it but sometimes me and my brother would play a game along my uncle where we watched porn and the goal was not to get to get an erection. The first one who did got spanked.
THawk108 · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I would play a game called "Mages VS Knights". Basically I would be the mage wielding this old book about natural disasters. I would have to avoid being slashed by my brothers foam sword (my dad made it using a PVC pipe and a pool noodle). After finding a natural disaster I liked, I would have to shoot my arm out, yell my "spell" and "shoot it" (throwing a pinecone). If my brother was hit by the pinecone, he would lose health. My brother would be able to deflect them with his sword and dodge and all this stuff. Super fun. He won most of the time due to my aim and his tiny body haha.
I played this when I was around 10 and my brother being 5.
It was super fun. Probably the main reason I love mages and warlocks.
My family never really got into video games until around a year ago. So im not sure what sparked the idea for this. But I wont complain.
Now my brother excels in Archery while I excel in throwing blades and Kendo. We still cosplay all medieval themed here and there when practicing.
We really have grown...
Y2kurly · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alan Jackson Ball. My brother and I would take cassette tapes and hit them with a rod/baseball bat, in a similar way you would a baseball. The spools inside would go flying once the tape cracked open like a pinata, and whoever hit the furthest one won.
Ap_Cr · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Touch with my uncle
Chatsnap · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Children’s prison. At my uncles house they had the type of stairs that come to flat spot then rotate. We would sit in the on the flat spot and put our legs through the stair balusters and they would tie our shoe laces together thus locking us in children’s prison. They provided us paper and crayons so we could “write” a letter to governor for clemency. All we had to do was scribble and boom we were granted clemency. Good times
xXsuperguyXx · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I ninja
joaovitoraec · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pangya. Loved that shit.
DrJohnsonTHC · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not necessarily unique, but my family used to tell us as kids that the bird called a Snipe can understand english and would come to you if you called them. So they gave us all paper bags and sent us "snipe hunting" all day. We lived on a ranch, and we were too young to realize these birds weren't coming lol (especially after my uncle pretended to catch one with his hand in the bag)
poopy-weiner · 1 points · Posted at 18:10:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game where one of us would stand in a full-body mirror and pretend to be an actor or a talk show host and the other would come up from behind and kill me some creative way, pretending to be a robber or assassin
odinskind · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play the rock game every morning as we waited for the school bus. Basically, we'd stand about 30 feet apart and take turns throwing rocks at each others face. We lived on a gravel road but these were medium sized stones and not pebbles. We played this "game" until one morning my brother blasted me in the stomach with a particularly large rock. As he laughed at me I put some heat on one and blasted him right in his shit eating grin. I busted out one of his front teeth. He ran up to me and said "Odinskind I think I chipped a tooth" I confirmed it was just chipped as he was spitting out blood and bits of tooth and we got on the bus. I contemplated running away from home that afternoon when he wasn't on the bus, and considered jumping out of the moving vehicle when the bus rounded my neighborhood and I saw my dad waiting for me on the front porch. That was the last time we played the rock game.
bonercollexor · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were lucky enough to have a swimming pool when I was 11-13 and my sister was 6-8. One day our parents got in to swim with us and Dad did a weird cannonball where he left one leg out and straight. He called it the “Nestea Plunge” (I think that’s what it was) but my sister and I misheard it as “Nasty Klunge” and it became our favorite thing to do in the pool.
Cpt-Shimp · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I've got an animal in my mind". simple car game or time occupying game. think of an animal. then the others have to guess it with only yes or no questions. winner takes next round. hours of fun. mafe a little song for it too
anumberofnames · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "salade". Schoolyard game. A group of kids take a crushed can and kick it around. If the can goes through someone's legs, everyone kicks that kid until they touch the safe spot (usually a pole or a wall or something close by). It got banned in my middle school cause we were playing and it went through this one kids legs and he refused to accept that it did so everyone kept kicking him. I remember feeling really bad for him but the rules were rules so we all just kept going. He was right next to the pole and we were all yelling "just touch the pole!" But he wouldn't and kept saying "it didn't go through!". It was bad. The bell rang and we all went into class except for the kid who just laid there. He ended up coming back to class 20 minutes later and when he did an announcement went over the PA saying that game was never to be played ever again. He never told who was playing the game which I really respect, but to this day I feel horrible for how it all went down.
apbagwel · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For a while we played a game we called 'bongo ball,' which was kind of a variant on dodgeball. One person would hold a drum (which we called a bongo, but was actually a djembe) held up against their side with their arm. Everyone else, usually 4-8 others, formed a line in front of them, about 6-8 feet away. We'd have one dodgeball, and throw it as hard as we could at the 'bongo', bouncing it back at us at high speed, with the 'bongo' holder maneuvering the drum to try to hit people. If you got hit without catching it, you were out, and if you hit the bongo boy anywhere but on the drum, you were also out. It is surprisingly fun, the ball is always going fast, it's kind of hard to predict where it's going to bounce to, but the bongo boy has a surprising amount of control over it with practice.
ninjack890 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
PickMe: me and my friends used to pick a character from a game or show we liked. We would combine the stories from each and then just imagine everything else with nerf guns or sticks as swords. Not very unique but some of my best childhood memories
jpeghoward · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in gymnastics, we had some weird games. But one that stood out to me was one called “Natural Disaster”. Basically, we all ran in a circle until one of our coaches yelled out a natural disaster. For fire, we had to throw ourselves to the ground and roll around (stop, drop, and roll). For flood, we had to jump on to one of the mats that were out on the floor. For tornado, we had to get under the mats. Then thunder was added in, where we had to sit on the ground and pound on it, making the sound of thunder. Basically, the last person to do said action would be out, and we would go until there was a winner. I always thought it looked funny to watch these kids literally throw themselves to the ground. (sorry if the formatting is weird, i’m on mobile)
KatieShabs · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder in the dark. One person would be the “murderer” which entailed being blindfolded and then searching for the other players. The room would be dark, and the other players would sneak around the blindfolded person trying not to get caught. First person caught is the “murderer” next time.
charely6 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a made up game called "evil birds" there weren't exactly rules it was more of us running around playing like fantasy pretend. Presumably the original bad guys on our made up world were the evil birds.
merlinzpantz · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play war; we set up 2 doll houses across the room from each other and strategically placed a bunch of little green army men in the windows, on the roof, etc. Then we chucked marbles across the room at each others’ houses to see who could knock all the others’ army dudes out first. I’m surprised neither of us lost an eye
Lordx856 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in a smallish neighborhood where all the kids knew each other. Anytime a hurricane would come all our houses would lose some shingles off the roof. We would sometimes take the shingles and meet up in someones backyard to play 'dodgeball' with them. It was like dodgeball with lots of cuts and bruises. It hurt a lot and looking back i'm surprised none of us got diseases and died tbh.
Toffeemade · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"IT" for keeps. We'd get a bit of dog shit on a stick and the IT would chase the others around with it. Everyone ran fast.
It was not the best school it must be said..
yourewatermelonface · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FIND A HOLE. One person would hide under a blanket and basically try to make an impenetrable seal and the other would thusly try to find a hole. It's awkward when a little kid is begging an older sibling to find a hole though...
MotherGooseBro · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We road tripped a lot when I was growing up. I always had the back seat in the minivan, and I would play a game where I would pick a dot/spot on the window and try to move my head to keep that spot above the power lines on the side of the road, or the horizon if there were mountains. Just a weird way to pass the time
dballs442 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On family road trips we would hold our breath over state lines for good luck. Me and my sister still do it to this day
fuzzballjenkins · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Grudgen.
My older sister or brother would be the knight, and the king\queen, They would make me be The Grudgen. I was wrapped in a big blanket and had to try and force my way past the knight to touch the king or queen, was basically an excuse for them to physically abuse me, but in a good-nature sibling kind of way.
rebecca91099 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide and go seek tag
sarcasticpool · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make cars and bikes by stacking, and arranging pillows in a specific order, and then ride(literally just sit between pillows and make "vroom vroom" noises) it for hours.
thebrownfungus · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when i was bored in class i would roll up super tiny pieces of a sticky note and try to flick them a certain distance across my desk
Ianthina · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play “Story”. We’d go back and forth making up stories about our favorite imaginary lands- usually pokemon 😂
thehobbitfreak · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Quick hands' -- basically me and my older brothers and father would have a ball, it could be any ball really, and the point of the game was to throw it at someone and have them miss it. So you'd have to do it without looking at them most the time, and you'd have to verbally say 'quick hands' when you were doing it. Often the verbal portion wouldn't be said unless it was just a random point in the day someone was doing it.
Piqued_a_Pack · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Night Mummy'. One person laid on the ground with their arms crossed like a mummy. The rest of us walked in a circle around them chanting 'one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, ect'. Once the chanting reached the night time hours, the mummy would jump up and chase us down. If you got tagged you became a mummy and helped tag until only one survivor was left, they got to be the mummy next round. Bonus creepy points for circle chanting children if played after dark.
randomq17 · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I would slide action figures (the ones that had joints everywhere were the best) up the playset slide and see where and how they'd land. Points went to the best "poses" or flips and shit.
lawpoop · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played a game called Soapy Soapy Roll. After our bath was over and the water drained out, we would soap up the back of the tub so we could sit on the ledge and slide down into the tub.
Then laughingly we would get out and dry off.
Except, we didn't get the soap off of our butts and it would dry and chafe our butts. Then we would walk around all day scratching them, and our parents wondered what was going on. They went over wiping properly and how to wash your butt in the bath. We explained we already knew all that and were doing it. "Then why are you all scratching your butts?" "because they are itching !"
Then the caught us doing Soapy Soapy Roll and figured it out. So they told us to stop. But we cried and argued with them, because it was so much fun, like a water park. Then they told us fine, but we had to rinse our butts afterwards, unless we wanted a rash.
So then thereafter, baths included several rounds of Soapy Soapy Roll and rinsing off, before we finally got out and dried off.
thespitspot · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would throw twizzlers at each other in the dark at sleepovers. it’s hurts more than you would think.
RagingFinn · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called we called “flatball” with a bunch of neighborhood friends.
The objective of the game was to get the flatball from the other team and return it to the home base. Usually somebody’s house or just some spot to run to.
There were 2 teams with 6 players on each team.
My personal favorite role was the assassins. They were basically the offense for the game and each team had 2 of them. They each had a “sword” or two if we could find enough. Swords were just wiffle ball bats or plastic lightsabers. Assassins had to hunt down and kill the runner . A kill counted as a hit above the waist and not on the arm. If a hunter was killed, they were frozen until a medic comes to save them. Once the opposing teams runner was killed the game isn’t over, your teams runner had to get their flatball from them and return it.
The next role is the runner. They held the flatball and was basically the entire objective of the game. They held some type of ball (usually a flatball which is a ball that can be pressed into a frisbee type thing) and would try and avoid the other team. The runner was the only one who could touch the flatball. Once the runner was killed they had to give up the flatball to the other teams runner if they ask for it. Once a flatball makes it back to a base the game is over. If a runner is killed he can be revived by a medic. The medic just needs to tag them. Runners can also hide the flatball but it was risky because if the other teams runner found it the game was basically over.
The medic was a pretty boring role usually given to a younger sibling who was just happy to be involved. Their job was to run around and save killed people. They had a sword but only one and couldn’t kill the runner. They saved people by tagging them. If a medic is killed they come back to life after 1 minute
The final role was the guards. Their job was to protect the runner and the flatball. There were 2 on each team and usually stayed by the runners side unless there was trouble. Each guard get one sword. If a guard is killed the come back to life in 10 seconds.
This game was great because it involved some pretty epic sword battles, and the only way for the runner to get the other teams ball was usually to put themselves in danger of being killed as well.
Thanks for reading!
jjrandy · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"shovel ball" was a game my brothers and I would play. We used plastic beach shovels to scoop up and throw balls (soccer, tennis, whatever we had laying around). We'd score points by hitting the balls into goals at the ends of the field. We basically invented our own version of lacrosse.
TheOneTrueKall · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used too sit crossed legged and than “walk” on our knees and pseudo sumo wrestle
Raiderboy105 · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played "100 Monkeys". It was basically a gladiator simulator where one of us was the "gladiator" and the other was one of 100 monkeys, each with their own unique trait, like "Electro Monkey", or "Ninja Monkey", with each power dictating how the monkey attacked. The gladiator had to take down 100 monkeys to win.
WcCannons · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what we called it but here is the gist:
We use the center circle on the soccer fiels as zone 1, we drew a matching circle with spray paint (a teacher helped) about 70 feet away.
2 people on each team, 2 hacky sacs. Team 1 started with both hacky sacs and they throw 1st. The objective is to make the hackey sack drop inside the circle. You can throw both at 1 person, split the throw, fake throws, throw low/high, etc.
The whole objective is to get the hacky sac to hit the ground in the opposing circle.
The defensive team's only job is to catch the thrown hacky sac or let it fall out of bounds. If you hit a hacky sack but do not catch it and it lands out of the circle, it's a point for the throwibg team. 1 point per successful throw, 1st team to 21.
That was it.
We spent about 2 years at lunch in good weather running tournaments in our class.
headbutt · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy sticks
Busted_D · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long car rides, add "anal" before the name of every car we could think of (e.g. Anal Explorer). Ford gave us some real gems for this.
zismahname · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A pretty simple game I played in the scouts was called Stretch. You and another person would stand behind a line while using a sharpened stick or tent stake to throw into the ground. If the stick stuck into the ground the other person would have to stretch out one of their feet to the stick and they would have their turn. This would go on until someone fell over or couldn't stretch far enough to the stick.
LawAndFresh · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Helicopter". We would start at opposite sides of the lawn and start run/spinning at each other with our arms outstretched like helicopter blades. First person to fall lost. Great way to bruise the fuck out of your arms
Neatwill · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play ‘the rugby tackle game’. We’d lay pillows all over the floor and one of us would have to try and get out of the room without being thrown to the floor. Good times.
dogsandtulips · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played something called "The Bogeyman". At family gatherings during holidays or birthdays, we would act sneaky and try to sneak past our family members sitting at the dinner table without them seeing us. Like go under the tables and try to ninja cross without hitting anyone's legs or feet. If we got caught, we lost. As I got older, I realized that family members would pretend not to see us so we would be satisfied with our game. I just remembered this when I read this question!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Superman. I would sit on my friends feet and he would push as hard as he could. I would sail through the air until I landed on pillows or the bed. We’d take turns sitting on each other’s feet and pushed as hard as we could until I was pushed so hard that I flew passed the bed and soared head first into a corner of the wall that stuck out. I split my head open exposing the bone. That was an unexpected trip to the ER that night. We were 6 years old.
Edit: missed a word
nmartin_2016 · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in 3rd-5th grade, I used to play "Poison Ball" with my friends after school. The game would start with a Koosh ball, the Poison ball, being thrown into the air and everybody scatters. If a player is holding the poison ball, they can't move but must try to throw and hit another player. If you get hit with the poison ball, you're out and get back in when the person who got you out gets hit with the ball or a throw made by whoever got you out is caught by another player who is still in. Last player standing wins.
KurnOnThaKob · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were about 11 or 12, me and a bunch of friends would play a game we called Border Patrol. We would wait until night, and there was a nearby golf course that a had a very wooded area with a creek running through it.
The Canadians started off on one side of the creek and the border patrol would be on another. We came up with a bunch of specific side rules, but ultimately the goal was for the Canadians to get within a certain location on the other side of the creek before getting shot by the border patrol with an air soft gun. The ratio of people was typically about 2 Canadians for every 1 border patrol. It was actually an incredibly fun game.
CookieDeville · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a pool game with my friends. Person #1 jumps off of the diving board and while their feet are leaving the board person #2 would shout out either pencil, cannonball, dive, or twist. Person #1 would then need to perform that jump, midair, before hitting the water.
Dive was only pulled out in serious situations. It was always embarrassing to watch as well as attempt.
i33SoDA · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prince of Persia - Warrior Within
that1tallguy · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Tickle Monster." My dad would go into the living room and pretend to go to sleep. My siblings and I would place the magic hat (a dark blue beanie) on his head then sing God Bless America to wake the tickle monster up.... then he would tickle the crap out of us and act a fool unless we ripped his hat back off. He would "fall back asleep" if we did that. Was honestly so much fun.
0spore13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sinnet, or early on in it's creation "Platyball" as a Phineas and Ferb tribute.
You had racquetball rackets, a tennis ball, and a long driveway. It was played like hockey but with 2 players only and you couldn't cross the halfway point. Tennis ball not allowed to go above the knees of players (hard to do with the rackets). To score points you had to hit our garage or the fence to the backyard.
We had a league for this in the neighborhood and once had a competition with about 20 kids. It was actually a surprisingly well put together, simple game for something made up by 6-10 year olds.
studabakerhawk · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can Derbys
We'd fill aluminum cans with dirt, wrap them in "armour" and roll them across the street at one another. The goal was to knock the dirt out of your opponents can.
It was deeper than it sounds. The cans needed to be tough, heavy and fast rolling. Those three things tended to fight against one another and every can was a little engineering project.
Armour was mainly tape. Sometimes tissues, paper or plastic bags. Tar was highly prized.
GaliotheGreat · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't say it was a game but more of being idiot elementary kids at the time learning about sex education. After we learned about Sex Ed in 3rd or 4th grade one of those. Anyways for a while we were like Seth. We were drawing d***s and T*Ts. when the teach would start heading our way. We changed those drawing into something else. And we kept doing that as kids. Im sure the teacher knew but that was one unique weird ass shit we did as kids learnign about sex ed lol
The_Underdoge · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play “Run away from my sister.” She was several years younger than us so we would run away from her, following the same route around the house every time.
Yeah, my parents didn’t like that one.
cactiiiiiii · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game called “Protect the President”. The president was a football that we would sit on the grass and we would take turns being President Football’s body guard. The other would attempt to get to and grab Mr. President while being blocked by the body guard. Unfortunately I was much smaller and younger than my brother so I made both a terrible body guard and hit man.
bobsmirnoff86 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game at school that was named "schmeee".
Essentially there was a poorly constructed AstroTurf mound with various wooden climbing apparatus connected and the whole thing was surrounded by wood chips.
One person was "it" and it was there job to push, throw, bundle people into the woodchips, making them also "it". Last man standing won.
Absolutely no rules and friction burns, cuts, bruises, splinters, concussion, serious neck or spinal trauma and ruined clothing were all acceptable outcomes.
AbsentGlare · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents made up a game for Valentines Day. They wanted to give us candy so they made a game out of it. They made series of maybe 4 or 5 riddles in the form of small four-line rhyming poems each hidden with a bag of candy all over the house, where each connected to the next. When we were really young, they were easy like they’d hide them in the washing machine and the clue would be that it was where our clothes get cleaned. I think a few times we really had a hard time and they gave us extra hints to nudge us in the right direction.
At some point we became ungrateful teenagers and they stopped doing it. But it was fun.
Epitact · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Brother and I always played "Ant-Gladiator" he came up with the idea. Utake a pot from the garden a bunch of black and red ants and a little big of dirt and put it all together and separate the ants give them different kinds of leaves and declare one ant (usually the fattest) as the queen. They would start fighting each other and when one team overpowered the other or the queen died u lost. U could intervene only a little bit but most of the time u watched and screamed at them to defend the right side and so on. My brother always took the red ants and they almost always won. It was strange looking back on it that we had so much fun building an ant empire forcing them to war and would watch them decimate each other.
AggressiveDogLicks · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "Mummy". We would collect as many blankets and pillows as we could without our parents noticing. One of us would lie on the bed and the other would pile everything on top layer by layer until the Mummy freaked out and then had to try to rise from the tomb.
I do not know why this was fun.
7palms · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When it rained, we would have ‘stick races’ in the gutter. Entertained ourselves for hours
walknasty16 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hotel Under the Bed" The bedsheet for my parents bed were slightly too big for mattress so my two siblings and I would crawl around between the mattress and sheets. Our dog would be jumping around on top nipping at us. No idea how we got the name though.
gfhei · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would alway love to play 'wolf pack'. One person would start on one side of a gym and the rest would be on the other. The one was the wolf and had to tag everyone else and anyone he tagged would join his team. Like sharks and minnows but on land.
There was a few variations that we'd play but I don't really remember them
swim_shady · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"SHAMPOOPOO"! Everyone lays on the floor, back up, shoulder to shoulder and the person on then end yells "SHAMPOOPOO" then rolls over every until they get to the end.
electronicQuality · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes-No game.
When someone says yes or no, all others are allowed to punch him until he says some stupid long sentence like "my cousin lives in new York and he likes basketball" to be freed.
I played it for years. You can also add other forbidden words like numbers or names. Best game ever because the stupid people get punched by the intelligent.
dtocci1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick wars. As the name implies, me and my siblings/friends would just grab massive sticks and have fights with them. Looking back it might not have been the safest idea but god damn was it fun
arottenmango · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bionicle games, my brother and I had chapters and character deaths, my team vs his vs usually a third party where we’d team up
Obestity · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my friend's house, there were two ropes with handles hanging on his big tree, so the game was we would swing and try to kick the other off the ropes into the mud below. It was a pretty brutal game. We knocked each other out many a time
TheseSpookyBones · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Mulberry Club There was a big Mulberry bush out on the playground, and when it started producing, the Mulberry Club formed. There was a leader whose job it was to choose new members, and crush up the mulberries with two rocks and draw "tattoos" on members with the juice.
Nonmembers were not allowed to sit under the bush but had to be allowed to join if they could touch it (because then the berries had 'chosen them'). Basically we started a cult in second grade
shanenahs5 · 1 points · Posted at 18:13:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called titanic where we would get my friends giant dog house and we would both get in and jump in the pool with it. It would sink, fill up with water, and the person in the back of the dog house would either have to break open the dog house or push the person in front out.
8laq · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Threw a ball at a wall and jumped over it the next person would catch it and do the same. Great workout for a 10 year old.
ShaddapDH · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played some dumb games. Like "you could've gotten seriously hurt" dumb.
The neighborhood where I grew up had a lot of pretty good sized hills. We all usually hung out at or near my friend's house. He lived on one of said hills and at the bottom was a 4 way stop. We thought it'd be great to race down the hill on whatever we had available, but bikes were not allowed. Scooters, skateboards, wagons, big wheels, we had a little bit of everything. We drew a chalk line at his driveway and then whoever crossed the stop sign first won the race. We had more than a few cars screech to stop or honk at us as we flew across the intersection without even attempting to slow down.
Same friend. After he moved across the county, we didn't see each other as much. But we still played dumb games when we did. BB gun wars were fun. His new house had some property so we'd go back into the trees and shoot at each other (adding his brother in too). That stopped after I had a BB plink me between the eyes. I remember watching it fly threw the air and hit right on the bridge of my nose between my eyes. Another half inch either direction and it would've been a trip to the ER and possibly blindness in an eye.
Then on July 4th, his stepdad would buy unbelievable amounts of fireworks. And not the cheap Walmart crap, but legit fireworks. We'd then setup shop on opposite ends of the yard and have a bottle rocket and Roman candle fight. Kept us busy for hours as we'd try to flank each other. Literally hundreds of bottle rockets shot at each other. Granted, bottle rockets don't have much of a charge but our ears were usually ringing by the time we were done from all the squeels and pops next to our heads.
Slogged through many filthy creeks with who knows what floating in the water. Went swimming in creeks like that too. How we didn't end up sick is beyond me.
I miss that guy.
WeeBabySeamus · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think we had a name for it but my cousins and I would play a game where I was a limo driver and they were the rich people I was driving.
I would always turn it into a James Bond / action sequence where I was the driver trying to outrun the bad guys and my guy cousin would start shooting back at them. Game would devolve into a weird spy shootout after that
Touch_Of_Red · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, our driveway was made up of three large squares, so my buddy and I would get a kickball and play essentially "tennis-soccer". Similar rules to tennis, you got one bounce and then had to send it over to the other person's square, but like soccer you couldn't use your hands.
amazingwaffles123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play this game where we would hit balloons into the air, and we would try not to let them touch the ground. We said there were spikes on the ground, and there were babies in the balloons. We said if the balloon hit the ground, the balloon would pop and the babies would die. We had an interesting childhood.
Zucchini-Lale · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Turtle Shell” we had one of those furniture pieces where it has that big cushion that’s shaped like a shell. We’d take that cushion, go into the backyard and whoever had the cushion over them would walk along the back wall of the backyard while the others on the porch would throw rocks at them
realisrare42 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Loaded” PS1 it even came on the demo disk...
GrandeDon · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young maybe around pre-school age, me and my friends would collect BB's at a Japanese park looking for the most unique BB and compare to determine whose was the best. At the time we would call those BB's "baby balls." I still have a glass containing all the BB's I collected from the park.
AdamLea · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my first year of comprehensive school a group of us created 'The Game'. This was were there was a designated thrower and then the rest would have a minute grab any bedding and sofa cushions they could find and all try to cover themselves up on the sleeping room floor. In this time the thrower would find, usually a toy or plastic ornament to try and break through the layers and hit the people under the fort. We were around 12/13 at the time so it would usually take one direct hit to skin for a player to go out. The winner was the designated thrower in the next round.
WookieeCakes · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and his friend from up the street would play R.A.P. which stands for run away from Pat. I'm Pat.
-skawt- · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddies and made a game up which we deemed Cambodian Roof Ball. My pool was in the back yard with a two story garage directly next to the pool. We would throw a golf ball on the roof and effectively beat the shit out of each other trying to catch the ball. If no one caught it, we continued beating the shit out of each other under water until someone comes up with the ball. The “point” for possessing the ball? You get to throw the ball on the roof. Fun times.
dingusfunk · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At family gatherings me and my family played "let's spy on the parents" where we would sneak up on the adults and see how close we could get before they noticed. It was fun as shit and that's what got me into stealth videogames
Amyishida · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Totally thought this was a normal elementary game until I told friends and they all looked at me weird. It's now known as the "stripping game".
I grew up during the time when rhymes/chants were popular at recess time. So everyone stood in a circle, and you would say the rhyme:
"Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupidier, girls got to college to get more knowledge"
And other variations. As you sing the chant, you'll hop on the spot where you either cross your legs, or had them shoulder-width apart.
When the chant ends, if your legs are shoulder-width apart, you have to throw in an article of clothing into the centre. If your legs are crossed, you are safe or you get to retrieve an article of clothing you tossed into the centre previously.
We thought it was so fun and people would come to school with 3 pairs of socks, or during winter time, it was 2 pairs of mittens, etc. Eventually the teachers caught on and banned the game saying it is dangerous because we can all catch a cold. Now that I'm older, they probably were just really weirded out we were playing a stripping game.
twobrosracing2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I finally have a story to tell! We didn’t have a name for it but it was our own version of hide and seek. Whoever was the seeker would bend over and breath deeply for a bit then they would sit up very quickly and we would squeeze their neck right below the jawline. Of course they passed out and we would turn all the lights off and run to hide. Whenever said person finally woke up in a pitch black room/house they would eventually remember to come find us.
I realize now that I’m older this was an awfully stupid game to play and we’re lucky that nothing serious happened.
sasmandem · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers, we liked to turn the lights off and roll around like worms on the floor
triotone · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chase the pinecone. First we find a pinecone. Then one person throws the pinecone. First person yo the pinecone must pick it up and throw it again. This shoudl loop until tge pinecone is destroyed or a child is hit by a car.
DarkNunn · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “camouflage” the person who was the seeker would turn away from the group of kids who were also playing, then the others would hide where they had to be able to see the seeker but try and be hidden. After like 10 seconds or so the seeker would turn around and if they saw somebody, they would say “I see something [color of the clothes the person you see is wearing]!” We played this in elementary so I don’t know if other people played it too but it was a blast.
AuwliyaDeKip · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chocolaterie, it was a game about traclveling around the globe discovering choclate recipes and making choclate and dealing with big companies it was ok for a 6 y old and very fun
And also some hotwheels racing simulator thingy
Edit: just found out they werent talking about digital games
AustinAustin · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school a group of friends and I would play a game we named "Hostage". You would divide into two teams and each team would take a member of the opposing team hostage. The hostage would then be blind folded and driven to a random part of town and kicked out of the car with only a cell phone in hand.
After the hostages were dropped off they would then have to call their team and try to direct them to their location. This was pre-smart phone days and you were restricted from using GPS if your phone happened to have it. So you were basically just relying on street signs and describing your environment to lead your team to you. Which ever team recovered their hostage and returned home first won the round.
Fortunately, this never put anyone in any dangerous situations. Though one time a girl did get dropped off on the outskirts of town and got somewhat chased by a pitbull. Unsurprisingly, I think that was the last time she played with us. The game usually ran without a hitch, but on a couple occasions teams had to be directed to where to pick up their hostage because they couldn't find them without the other team's help.
mieggoispreggo · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played "Titanic" for hours. Basically it involved the swings and the slides at our school, on of us would hang down from the slide for example, then another would grab their leg, then another would grab the first one's arm, then another would grab the second's leg, etc, until there were about 20 people on the slides or swings, all hanging on to each other. First person to let go died and everyone they let go died with them. Happy days.
CollectionOfElectron · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to get our sleeping bags on the trampoline. They were made of a really slidy material so we tended to fall over every five seconds, but when we weren't rolling around we pretended to be letterboxes.
Realm_Walker · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a modified version of hide and seek. Same basic rules, but either the searcher or hider had to scare the other, so things like jumping out at the searcher from your hiding spot was allowed if you thought it would work. First person who screamed (or if someone was found otherwise) lost or was out.
anakalypse · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Solitaire: align 9 in a circle. Starting with the top card, count clockwise the amount it reads (J=11, Q=-1, K=-2, A=1). If you land on a face-up card, you must discard and replace with another card face-down & continue counting clockwise with the amount you just discarded. If it's face-down, flip it to face-up and count to the amount it reads clockwise. The object is to have all 9 cards face-up, so the only way to win is to have 8 cards face-up and to land your last count on the last remaining face-down card.
Played this ALL the time when I couldn't sleep.
Dubberthon · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We simply called it "The Ball Game". You played on a swing set with a mini four square ball. The swing set would consist of 2 swings and monkey bars going across the top to which the swings were connected. Two people would swing while the rest tried to throw the ball through the monkey bars and hit the swinger. If you got hit you were out and the thrower took your spot on the swing. The swingers, however, were able to block shots as well as kick/hit the ball away as far away from the swing set as possible. The person who picked up the ball had to throw it from where they stood, resulting in some epic shots.
Hours and hour of fun.
Ninemilli23 · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing a game called “Splintercell” like the game it’s named after.
My cousin, younger brother and I would go to family parties and hide within all the cars after knocking on the front door. Then we would hide and shit like in splintercell.
Difference between this and ding dong dashing is that my cousin and I used to “interrogate” my younger brother by punching him etc like he was a bad guy.
The more I think about it, the more I laugh. Good times.
One time my cousins dad was trying to find us so we all slid under a car and just watched his feet walk by. Holy shit it scared us so much but it was the best feeling hiding from people.
But, then we would get in hella trouble cos when we get back, there will be like dirt or whatever on us from laying down on the road.
Thinking about it now, we could’ve gotten ran over or whatever when we were younger. My brother nearly did from skateboarding but that’s a different story.
Ninemilli23 · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also used to play a game where we would keep punching each other’s fists until one person backed out.
My friends and I in high school used to punch each other’s knees instead of our balls. Weirdly enough, I suffered from a knee injury a few days ago and it affected me playing basketball today. As I’m writing this, I think that knee game is why my knees are really bad these days.
AbductingTacos1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My gym teacher and I played hide the penis
bigbrainmove · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a gymnasium where the game we played was like sharks and minnows but with dodgeballs. We called it “hopbox”, I still don’t why, lol. If you were hit with the ball then you’d switch places with the person trying to hunt down the other players. You had to run to each side of the court to be “safe.”
nwrcj90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava
inshane_in_the_brain · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idr what it was called but it was like battleship but with paper. Each player got half a sheet of paper. Using the same sheet, you'd draw your spaceships and shield generators.
Players would take turns drawing a dot (in pencil) on your own side relative to where you want the shot to land on the other players field. You then fold the paper in half and trace over your dot on the backside, transferring the graphite to their side of the paper, resulting in a hit or a miss.
Take out the shields, take out the home base and win. How many hits, how many ships and shields etc was determined before play. It could get gnarly with generators inside other shields etc.
Pretty creative and strategic for some middle school kids.
Bugman657 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to get in sleeping bags and tie bike chains around the end and such, and then try to escape. It was honestly a stupid game.
grassman76 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Citgo Says Go!", a simon says type of bicycle drag race. Citgo is an American gas station chain that used that phrase as a slogan in the early/mid 90s. 2 kids start from a dead stop, the "announcer" would yell "Citgo says Go!", and we'd take off and race to a chalk line drawn across the street. Once you got to the line, you slammed on the breaks and left a skid mark. The quickest to the line, longest skid mark, and closest skid mark start to the finish line all got 1 point. Minus 2 points if your skid mark started before the line. But if the announcer didn't say Citgo, and only said go, and you went, it was minus 4 points. So you would be negative for the round. There were multiple races, and a bracket playoff.
gsbadj · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Free the Belgian was what we called it. Two teams, at least 7 players per team, optimally. Typically played outdoors.
The game started like Hide and Seek, i.e. one team has a designated amount of time to find hiding places. After the amount of time elapses, the other team comes to find and capture those who have hidden. To capture an opponent, you grab the opponent and yell “one, two, three, man for me” while holding him/her.
The captured player then must go peacefully to a designated area where he/she is held captive, sort of like a jail, typically an area 5 by 5 feet. The jail area is guarded by a member of the seeking team who has to stand within 3 feet of the edge of the jail. If the captives grab and then drag the guard inside the jail, the captives all go free and must be recaptured. The captives could link arms to extend their reach, provided one prisoner’s foot remained inside the jail at all times. Play continues until all are captured.
The last prisoner to be found does not have to go voluntarily. He/she gets to resist, and the seeking team must physically throw him/her into the jail. This can get violent. Once the seekers get the last captive into the jail, they win. However, bear in mind that, as the seekers are trying to throw the last prisoner into the jail, they invariably come very close to the edge of the jail and are then prone to being pulled into the jail by the prisoners, which, in turn, sets all the prisoners free and the game continues until all are recaptured and thrown in.
It was a good excuse for a brawl.
Flerp6969 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would wear a giant motorcycle helmet on our heads and ram eachother with it. You would always have to try and take the helmet away from the person and put it on your head so that you can ram into the other person. We stopped playing one day because one kid in our group lost his two front teeth.
Hugetraxts · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother drew an entire town on 3 different giant canvases and we would divide the hot wheels and play town. It was great fun. We had restaurants, grocery store, clothing stores, houses. We even had an exterminator. Except what I didn't know until years later is that it wasn't a spider, it was a terribly drawn stripper. I was blown away by this revelation.
haynes03 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would tape flashlights to the blades on his ceiling fan. We would turn off the lights. put the fan on the highest setting, and take cover. It looked cool as shit until the flashlights started flying across the room.
The_Dorito_Muncher · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
There used to be a huge log in our backyard. Me and my sister would pretend that it was a canoe, our flying dragon, etc. Eventually, we moved, and both the log and the tree next to are gone now.
LOL56789 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Pine Cone” game where you would swing on a swing and dodge the pine cones our friends were throwing. If you got hit you’d get off the swing and trade with them. If you caught it you’d stay on and be able to throw it back at them.
Punchingbloodclots · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play bite the skin on the inside of my cheek anytime the B pillar of our minivan alined with a dotted line on the road.
And now I have almost a compulsive behaviour where I bite the inside of my mouth.
Great.
MrMrRubic · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"playing with fire 2"
nicola36631 · 1 points · Posted at 18:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Digimom world 1 for sure.
beejers30 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Statues. My sister and I would take turns in the backyard freezing in some pose like a statue. The other would come up and press a “button” and the statue would start talking and telling some made up story. No idea why we did it, but played it all the time.
Illegally-_-Blonde · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pinecone wars”.
So there was a playground of a local elementary school that had all sorts of equipment, including one of those large wooden ships. It was built on a very uneven landscape, with hills and trenches, and even custom playground stuff built into them. After school in 4th grade, I’d get with a group of maybe 20 kids, and we’d go to war. But this wasn’t like normal child war games. This was extreme. We were separated into two clans, “The Brutal Army” and “The Rebellion” with specific roles. I was the assistant fencer of the Brutal Army and sparring apprentice. Our base was the wooden ship and the Rebellion’s was the trenches, where we participated in literal trench warfare. Our territory was divided between the two halves of the very large playground (more than an acre), which extended to a nearby park through a small patch of woods.
When we went to battle, we’d throw pinecones and various rocks at the other team, as well as use large sword-size sticks to spar. The objective was to hurt and not get hurt. There was real pain and real injuries, but they were all part of the game.
Like some weird ritual, every day after school we’d all meet and continue our seemingly endless war, and sometimes we’d take prisoners into the woods. One torture method we used was what my friend Ryan, head fencer, called “The Extreme Dragon Tailwhip” where we’d strap the poor kid into the baby swing and twist it up all the way. Then, we’d swing it as hard as possible and RUN. It usually ended in vomiting. This could be repeated with the tire swing for the more extreme “Tasmanian Devil”, in which I was once propelled nearly 180 degrees around the swing set and almost fell out during my “training”.
Interestingly enough, our games came to an end when some crotchety old lady yelled at Ryan for bringing his authentic fencing swords to one of our battles, and informed all the other parents that these games were no longer acceptable on these playgrounds.
devildunkard · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gym class in the 80s we played "Smear-The-Queer". This was not a game the kids just came up with, this was from the gym teachers. It was basically tag, but the one that was it would hold a flag. The we all had to tackle the queer. Pretty fucked up when I think back on it.
SlytherinAhri · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I are irish twins, he's slightly younger and always followed me around, wanted to do whatever I was doing and believed every single word of anything I told him, no matter how outlandish. Anyway, one time when we were probably 6 my grandpa gave us a bunch of his old hats, and we both really loved one in particular. Being the more dominant sibling, I staked claim to it. At some point, I wanted something from him and he told me if I gave him the hat, he'd agree. Then I had an idea. What if I kept this up; getting him to agree to do things for me or give me things that he doesn't want to share...but I never give him the hat.
And so it began.
The phrases "...or no hat" and "...or no hat?" are permanently engrained into my brain because of how many times they were said. I can't remember any specific time I used the tactic, but it was never for anything serious at all. Like if we wanted to roleplay something and we both wanted to be the same character, I'd use it. I think the most evil I'd used my power for was to bribe him into getting something we obviously weren't supposed to have, like candy or something from a top shelf.
matfalko · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Italy we used to collect any kind of trading cards (Pokémon, Football Champions, Magic..) and one way to “trade” them was this game we played during breaks or after school and we used to call it “rischione” (it translates to “big risky”, sort of). It was like gambling for kids, but actually resembling those illegal underground gambling coves.
Basically, it consisted in launching a card from something elevated (like a garden bench) and try and hit your opponent’s card that he previously launched on ground. If your card ended on your opponent’s one you won the card he gambled. It was a really competitive thing with referees and crowd that were assisting to these matches.
cascadegaming · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I had one we called "Shootout" where we would divide a room in half, set up an array of those plastic army men, and then try to be the first to knock them all down by shooting from the opposite side.
We even tried to mix it up by adding ping pong balls as artillery that you could use 3 times per game. Also a red plastic firefighter and a blue police officer that acted as "captains". If your captain got shot, you lost the game immediately, so we had to hide them super well.
I played it with a kid I was babysitting the other day and it's still super fun. Doesn't take a lot of prep and the rules can be switched around if need be.
whoFKNKares · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can. A combo of hide and seek, tag and baseball.
geekybadger · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My first friend liked to play a jumping game where you would pile all the stuffed animals on the other person and then leap onto the pile like it was a pile of leaves. The pile would keep the buried person safe.
I still don't know why someone had to be on the bottom of the pile though.
anoxy · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder. Turn off all the lights and everyone hides, and then one person crawls around in pitch black trying to catch and “murder” people. We had a super dark basement with basically no light pollution and it was so intense.
Mason610 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up this game with my friend called the “run out game.” One person would sit in the living room on the floor while the person went back into the bedrooms and moved items, opens doors, turned switches off and on, walked around the room, etc. Then the person would run out and tackle the other person. After that, you would take the other person back and show them the exact things you moved, touched, opened, etc.
Weird game looking back, but we had fun
anderbobeau · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom would get my sisters and I to play a game called “Dead Man’s Float” in the pool. Whoever could float and look the most dead was the winner.
blackzach66 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sponge tag. During the summer at our family lake house we’d all swim to the raft in the middle of the lake and play tag with a sponge!
lwestiel · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage, my neighbour never let my parents play though 🤔
nvgirl36 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “head sandwich”. One of us would lay on the couch, put a pillow on our head, and the other would sit on it. Whoever lasted longer under the pillow won.
cortnymarie · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and I would play “Ice World”. We would hole up in a closet with blankets and a flash light and pretend everything outside was freezing cold. We would stay safe and sound and imagine the terrible cold outside.
Muzer0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For a while when I was a kid, I loved the whole thing about spies and gadgets and so on. Ended up getting bought a bunch of toys relating to that, but by far the coolest were these sensors, I guess they were infrared or something, that were wireless and basically detected anything crossing their beam. There was then a base station that picked up signals sent from these sensors whenever they were activated. The set came with three of them, so we would have a game where one of us would set them all up in imaginative places in a room, then the others would take it in turns to go into the room and try to find them and deactivate them (there was an on/off switch on the back) without tripping them (if you approached them from the back you could usually hold them still and flick the switch without the beam being triggered).
In terms of silly kids' games that didn't involve actual equipment, I'm sure we had some, just none are coming to mind right now.
MonaSavesTheDayAgain · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would wait in our street and whenever a car came we would run as fast as we could to the next street sign to be "safe". We called the cars "storm" and would basically be trying to evade the storm by going to safe zones / those street signs.
WynterSkies · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had two play tents for kids and a million of my plushies. There was a Disney princess tent, and a Cars tent. We seperated my plushies into boys and girls, I was the boys counsellor and she was the girls, and we had them do activities and stuff. We scheduled a whole day around it and called it "Camp Couples."
SovietMario_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game we call "Shia"
For those who haven't heard it, there's a song about Shia LaBeouf being a cannibal in the woods and a guy running from him. It's honestly hilarious.
So me and my friends in middle school made up a game. Assuming we were all obsessed with hitting each other with foam swords, we used those.
"Shia" was the villain of the game, he gets any weapon of his choice and you have to hit him 5 times to bring him down. Then we had the other guy, the "survivor", he gets no weapons and has to run from Shia. It's my personal favorite assuming I'm absolute ass at fighting anyone. Then we had two "guards." The guards were there to protect the survivor and keep Shia away. They each got a sword.
The game was made when we were all 12 or 13 and we played it way more back then, but we're all 16 now and we still play it occasionally. Since it's creation we've attempted countless other games in the same format. It's honestly a great time
YOUNGJOCISRELEVANT · 1 points · Posted at 18:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Throw the Bottle” fill an empty water bottle with rocks, crush it, stand on the manhole in the middle of the street, and have someone slide it down the street. The person who is “it” must run after the bottle and bring it back to the manhole. Everyone else runs down the street (within bounds) and hide behind cars and electric boxes. The “it” person must say “tap tap tap, (while tapping the bottle) I see Thomas behind the red Hyundai!” If Thomas is indeed behind the red Hyundai then he is sent to jail. This goes on until everyone is sent to jail and then the first person caught is “it” next round. The “it” person can run around and try to find out where everybody is, but must run back to the bottle and “tap tap tap” to catch people. While he is off base, anyone can run up to the bottle and throw it down the street to free those who are in jail. Lotta fights broke out after freeing the jailed people. Lottaaaaaa fights. Rounds can take a long time and he who is “it” will get real bitter having to catch everyone again
RealGsDontSleep · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Changing numbers to letters and letters to numbers. Finding patterns in numbers/names.
jezs_girl · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
These are the most memorable from my childhood.
Hopple Him: Maybe not the most unique thing in the world but the name was memorable. My cousin and I would climb up on the back of our grandparents’ futon and bounce onto the couch seats while screaming “Hopple Him!” Not sure where the name even came from.
Kill Bob: My sister and I had a Barbie punch buggy and dolls of Linguine and Collette from Ratatouille. We would set Linguine up standing on the edge of the coffee table, put Collette in the punch buggy, and roll the car as fast as we could into Linguine. Then we’d see how far we could get him to go when he got hit.
Food: In which my sister would pretend to be a small animal that snuck into a restaurant (aka our room). I was the chef trying to cook her. The closet was the pot of boiling water and she would try to sneak away while my back was turned so I’d have to go chase her and carry her back. To anyone who thinks this was just me bullying my kid sister, this was her idea and she would pester me to play.
Hamel: My friend and I couldn’t decide whether we wanted to be horses or camels so we made up a game called Hamel where we were horse-camel hybrids. The whole object of the game was just to sit on each other while the other person crawled around the carpet on all fours. Lotta rugburn involved.
PaulReubensIsAHero · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jump the gay kid after school and beat it with sticks. The winner would put their dick in his mouth and snap a selfie
FlamboyantGiColor · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if it’s unique because my mom grew up in another country or if it’s unique because of how absolutely dirt poor she was but when she was a kid (and when I was a kid, even though we weren’t as bad off as she was growing up) played a game where you hit your thumb on something, then index, then index and middle, then index, middle, and pinkie, then start over again getting faster and faster. No one I’ve ever met has heard of this “game”.
AnnArchist · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throwing a tennis ball off the roof and having the opponent catch it. fun game really.
Mycellanious · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"3 Blind Mice"
My two brothers and I would turn off all the lights and move around in the dark
"Poison Ball"
Like a cross between dodgeball and freeze tag with a single rubber ball.
Vasllui · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know how unique this is but you know the soccer goal and the area around it? Me and my friends used to play a game where 4 or 5 guys where inside the area and one kid was outside. The game was that the kid outside had to enter the goal while the rest had to stop him by pure force like if it waañs rugby. It was pretty awesome, altought we got hurt a lot
beamo1220 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would setup plastic bowling pins in 2 connected rooms with each of us having a room as our territory. We would then have round plastic ice cream bucket lids that we used to try to knock over the other person's pins with out getting hit by the "Frisbees". That was a lot of fun.
Frierguy · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in government housing cuz my parents were poor. Standard for a kid growing up in Alabama. Lived next to my friend angelo in these apartments. We'd always play baseball in the parking lot with a tennis ball or just kick ball with some other kids. But every now and then wed go over to one of the sides of the apartments with the tennis ball and play a form of wall ball, but our objective was to hit the single brick that was a wildly different Color than the rest. I miss my bud, haven't talked to him in what seems like 10 years.
sadgirlintheworld · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer... feel bad about that game now that I am an adult. It was basically tackling someone and calling them “queer”.
anynamesleft · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rag tag - chunk of styrofoam in a sock thrown at one another while swimming / hiding on a boat dock. Miss it to this day.
urbex_prov · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reading all of these just makes me realize just how much I miss my childhood and makes me wish I didn’t grow up so fast...
stinkfingerdeluxe420 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster rain
jessew16 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pee pee peakaboo was fun
sleepyplatipus · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school was in this huge property, a beautiful park full of trees and safely surrounded by walls and gates. The way our school worked we were there from 8 to 16.30, but the gates closed around 18. So basically every day we spent some time playing after the end of classes.
I was in a group with my 3 best friends and we were kind of the more wild girls of the class, playing games considered more “boyish” (don’t agree with this view but you get my point). We would be spies and our secret bases were in some selected trees or other hidden places, we built our reserve of little berries and sticks to use in battles against the bad guys, AKA the boys. We would try to steal each other’s bases and weapons... it was a lot of fun.
Taquitoninja4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Egg bomb"... My family had a restaurant, and pretty much i spent most of my time there. My sister and I used to play with the cooks and waiters this game during down time, I guess it's a take on hot potato.
You take and egg and go around doing your stuff. When in "tossing ranger" you would shout to any employee or family member "egg bomb" and toss the egg at them. Whoever let the egg fall would have to clean it up. It could be at any time, in the middle of a convo, while taking an order, cleaning, etc. The point was to catch the other players distracted. Some times immediately, sometimes the egg holder would wait an hour or so...
There where some common sense rules, like it had to be "catchable" no hard throws , the other person had to be facing you; away from the oven/stove, away from other clients, etc.
Everybody was on edge all the time. (the cooks always had an advantage on everybody else, as they would immediately notice when an egg was missing). You couldn't trust anyone at noon or closing time. Even years after we grew up and stopped going to the restaurant everyday, the staff kept playing. No idea where the game came from.
AirsGaming · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game but close enough, my best friend and I at the time were practically inseparable, we formed a secret organization known as AV, we build bases all of the place and even made our own weapons. He lived in the woods so we would always build cool shelters and have fires, this one time we actually forged spears from long metal pipes, not sure the whole forging actually worked but all the banging of metal eventually made a dent and we were so proud lol, I remember it like it was yesterday.
GreenBull92 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I played a game I made myself when I would get bored, it was called "3 Flips".
You simutaneously flipped three quarters stacked on top of each other from your thumb until you got them all to land on heads and then you won.
I eventually made it 2 player, so myself and someone else would see who would get the quarters to all flip heads first.
It comes as no surprise to me that I'm just realizing why I like probability, percentages, and proportions so much in mathematics.
theopinionateddude · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Home Alone. Basically me and a friend would set up traps in the backyard for each other to fall prey to. It was mostly play acting out various injuries.
604desi · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bander Killa [monkey on a leash] - played in open field, group of 5 or more. You draw a circle on the ground and put a leash/rope on an anchor in the middle of the circle. Everyone takes off their shoes & slippers and piles them next to the anchor, in middle of the circle. One person has to hold that leash and protect those shoes & slippers, & is not allowed to step outside the circle. Rest of the group has to steal those shoes/slippers, the monkey has to protect them and try to tag the people trying to steal. If someone gets tagged before all the shoes are stolen, that person becomes the monkey and the game starts all over again. If all the shoes have been taken out of the circle and stolen, the monkey has to run to a pre-determined location, while rest of the group tries to hit him with the shoes & slippers.
TheC2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tackle football... but in a back alley with no grass. It was 2 points for making someone cry. Also where I broke my first bone.
emojimjitsu · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called 'Silent Eliminator' to be played in our cousin's pool. It was basically Marco polo, but no call and response. Start with one person being 'it' and they counted underwater for ten seconds, then came up but had to keep their eyes closed and move through the water trying to tag someone. If you were tagged you joined the person who was it, counted underwater and continued until you had a pool of blind people fishing for the last slippery winner. My brothers and I are in our thirties now but we still play whenever we're swimming, and because our uncle and my nephew play, it is a multi generational game now.
Cocainebicepz · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a child living in NYC a friend and I would steal fresh fruit and vegetables from the front of bodegas. We would then take the produce to a busy 6 lane road and try to roll them under the wheels of moving cars. If your piece of produce didn’t get run over, you had to run across the road, pick it up, and try again.
This is how I almost got killed by an 18-wheeler, all for a potato.
jaydownzz · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers used to play a game called pickle. There would be two bases at either end of our yard those were the safe spots. 4 people would run back and fourth between the safe spots. One person would be in the middle of the safe zones with a tennis ball. His job was to peg the tennis ball at the runners as hard as he could. There were no points or objective besides not getting hit.
VictoryTheScreech · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 4 siblings, but only one of my brothers did this with me. When I was about, 7 (he was 10 at the time) We used to lay on the couch opposite from each other, we put our feet together and started pedaling. As we pedaled, we would repeat “I know hes awake, I know hes awake.” As we said it, we’d pedal faster and faster until its fast enough. Then we’d put one foot in each others face and make goofy noises while wiggling our toes. I have no idea where we got it from, but it was kind of our thing and it was fun.
Liciniaan · 1 points · Posted at 18:18:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “rock game”. The playground at my public school had tiny pebbles surrounding the playground and we would have one person on the ground whipping rocks at the others on the playground. Last one standing wins
TheDjTanner · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played 'how big can I make this fire before i can put it out" and burned down several acres of forest.
Oops
Veganproteincookie · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and would used pillows, blankets and cushions from the couch and play adventure games.
Example a pillow could be a shield or a really heavy boulder.
Blanket could be anything from a whip to some form of magic.
Etc etc. acting was involved.
If I had to name it now, it would be low budget indoor LARPing.
KerberusIV · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Team tag. One person was designated "it". Everyone they tagged a person, they too became "it". The game devolved into about 15 people running down the fastest among us til he was tagged. The new round began when the last person was tagged and they started the new round as "it".
OBNurseScarlett · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, sister, and I played Mop when we were at our grandparents' house. My Granma had this short mop - it was like a miniature version of an old school cotton mop with a wooden handle, probably 2 feet long. I really don't recall ever seeing her use it and the cotton mop-head was always clean, so I'm not sure what purpose it served.
Anyway, when we'd all be at her house, we'd grab the mop and play Mop. Mop was actually a game of tag, and the person who was It had the mop and had to tag someone else with the mop. That's it.
If we couldn't play outside, we'd play Scare. We'd split into 2 groups - my oldest cousin and I against my youngest cousin and my sister. One group would count in the laundry room and the other group would go hide somewhere. The counters would then try to find the 2 that had hidden, and the 2 that had hidden would do their best to scare the other 2 by jumping out from a closet, grabbing their feet from under the bed, etc.
So we played typical children's games of Tag and Hide & Seek, but we changed their names. Because kid thought processes.
wheregoodideasgotodi · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That was both better and worse than what I was expecting.
FeanorNoldor · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't know if it's a game per se, but whenever I was at a bus which was like every single day, I would look out the window and imagine Wargreymon (my fav Digimon) destroying every car I saw. His backstory is that he hates pollution by cars and somehow his family got killed by such pollution, fuck knows how but he wanted revenge.
AgentMahou · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had a game called "Attack of the Blind Slugs from Mars." One person would put a sleeping back upside down over their head and then had to walk around and try to tackle everyone else while they all beat the shit out of the slug with pillows.
This went on until someone got hurt, usually the slug, and then someone else became the slug.
cryptologicalMystic · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I One A Bug", which I used to play a lot with my little brother. Basically, person 1 says "I one a bug", person 2 says "I two a bug", and so on until someone says "I eight a bug", at which point everyone else goes "EEEEWWWWWW!"
Suitable for 2-3 players, up until your players realize that (a) player 2 always loses and/or (b) start getting wise with fractions, decimals, numbers above 8, etc. Obviously we haven't actually completed a game in years and years, but sometimes one of us will try and start one, which inevitably leads to a draw.
Djdez17 · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids with my 2 brothers one would stand at the bottom of the stairs and the other would be at the top and we would chuck any type of ball at each other
CptShuckle · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ghost rider” ..jumping off our bicycle and trying to hit other kids on bicycles. Whoever got hit, had to try to hit the next or something similar.
FunnyQueer · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to take a deck of cards and use them to create a slasher movie in my head. I'm bad at explaining things but I'll try my best.
I would pick out seven cards and lay them in a line. I would make up names and personalities and stuff and assign one to each card.
Then I would take six black cards and one red card. I would stack them face down and shuffle them up. each personality card got a card from the deck and whoever got the red card was the victim of the round. I would imagine a violent death for them, and repeat the process until there was one left.
With the last one I would take four black cards and two red ones. I'd mix them up and if the card I drew was red, there were no survivors but if it was blank they were safe and got away.
Does this make sense?
RemmizA · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In order to figure out which game to play when we were stumped, my sister, cousin and I would sit in a circle and play “Sum”. We would put lay our heads down in front of us and think of something to do. When you had an idea you would sit up and once we’re all sitting up we would share our ideas and whoever had the best we would play that! Sounds simple and dumb but it was fun when we were 10 to play SUM.
rooohooo · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "hide the hickory" during youth group parties at a friend's house, which was located on a large plot of land. Basically, one person would hide a hickory switch somewhere on the property and then everyone would search for it. Once it was found, the goal was to sneak around and hit as many people as possible before they got back to base... We would play for hours 🤣🤣
Apezkin · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the other kids in the neighborhood used to play a game called "Dimitri tag".
You guys know Dimitri from Sly 2 and the way he walks? One of us would be Dimitri and they had to walk around the playground like Dimitri and hunt the other kids. It also had the same type of spotting mechanic as in Sly, as in the Dimitri didn't see through walls and had to stop for a sec before turning around. The Dimitri was allowed to run only when spotting another kid and would have to start walking again if they lost their line of sight of the fleeing kid.
We enjoyed it a lit, but of course disagreements regarding the rules were common, so we started to write an actual rule book. But it was never finished because we grew too old. :(
ZURA-JANAI-KATSURA- · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fapping
Tinyhousetruckpdx · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chips challenge was pretty unique
SirMeso · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would throw pairs of shoes in a sleeping bag.
We would take turns jumping into the sleeping bag as the other held it up from the top bunk, and try to find matching pairs of shoes
PL2285 · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My girlfriend and her sister played "people." Like a woke version of house, they just pretended to be random people, not like mom or dad, but just regular people out there in the world.
MikeTate77 · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were so many, but this one's the easiest to grasp:
We called it "sucker". You got a cheap plastic beach bucket and put it on the ground. Every man for himself. Everybody tries to kick the bucket. If the bucket gets stuck on your foot, you get a point. The game is over when the bucket is in two or more shattered pieces. The real flavor of the game was that you were allowed to absolutely clobber/run somebody over as long as you yelled "sucker!" as you were doing it. Because games need rules. :)
the_one_with_no_face · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I were inspired by "whose line is it anyway?" So we named our version "categories" where we'd come up with a concept for short skits and we'd then we would judge how funny the other person's skits were.
AtelierAndyscout · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The shoe game. On a trip to Switzerland with our ski team, we went on a hike near the village we were staying at one day. There was a big grassy area and somehow all of us kids and our ski coach started trying to remove each other’s shoes. A lot of wrestling around and stuff. It was pretty fun at the time and I think we played it a few more times on other ski trips, though we rarely found a place where you could wrestle around as much without getting hurt. That grassy patch was incredibly soft.
TheBames · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game we called "running bases" in elementary school. We'd have 2-3 guys in the middle by the pitchers mound and would have to run from home to second without getting pegged with a tennis ball. It eventually became who can hit the weird kids the hardest with the ball until it was shut down by the monitors. After that we played Red Rover but that also got shut down when a girl got clotheslined into a backflip. Then we played wall ball which was what it sounded like but if you touched the ball and didn't pick it up you had to run and touch the wall before someone could peg you with the ball. That too became hit the weird kids as hard as you can and it was banned as well.
Maniac_99z · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whiffle ball! On the roof 2 points, over the roof 3, on the porch roof 1. First to 30, lawn chair calls the strikes. 35 now, I'd love to still play.
NoRagrets4Me · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WAGON WARS!
Racing friends down big hills riding in those red wooden or metal radio flyer wagons doing everything you can to take out the other racers.
As you and your friends race down the hill the people not steering the wagons will throw various objects at the other racing teams or hit them with sticks.
This game got so far out of hand the summer we started. We all wore helmets and knee and elbow pads but throwing rocks and full water bottles at each other you get hurt. At one point we had those single action pump BB guns and we're using those and airsoft guns then we started getting shields (trash can lids) soon after.
We continued to try and one up the others offensive game and defenses.
It was the best game ever!
It all ended sadly after I used my seat in the back I was sitting on and chucked it in front of second place as they closed in on us.
My seat was a cinder block.
Took their front axel and ripped it right off and they flipped up in the air like that semi truck in The Dark Knight movie.
One needed stitches, the other broke their collar bone.
Best of times.
thisshitisgenius · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fireball". We went to tennis courts at night, rolled a tennis ball through a puddle of flaming gasoline, and hit it at each other with tennis racquets and/or hockey sticks. You got points if you lit someone else on fire -- 1 point if they blocked the shot and got hit with flaming drops of gasoline, 2 points for a direct hit.
reectwan · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young me and my nephew used to play on the PlayStation 2, however we used to believe that if it could see us that's why the game failed to start.. So we would run around the room to try and hide from it.. The crazy part is that it worked the games loaded when we did that.
SpyMonkey3D · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not that exceptional or unique:
jefou · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my uncle used to play a fun game in which he pins me to the ground and beat the shit out of me It was fun
king_john651 · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids in my year group at school would play this game called Behind Enemy Lines where you are on a defined field of two teams. On the opposing teams side you can get tagged and you have to wait where you got tagged for someone to pull you back past the centre line. The aim is to bring a cone back past the line without the enemy team being able to recover it, you can't kick, pass, or do anything except placing it on the ground for the next person to get it.
There aren't many sports I enjoy playing but if there were to be an ameture club opened I'd join fast
Adultmanchild · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a pre teen all of the town kids, there were about 12 of us, would play “captain howdy” with the 30 something year old mentally handicapped guy that was for some reason always around. The game was basically manhunt/tag with the older guy being “captain howdy” who was always the seeker. Weird part is when he caught us he would take us back to the base and simulate sodomy and general sexual abuse until another player could tag us out of the base without being tagged themselves. As I’m typing this I’m fully grasping how completely wild it is but umm, yea. That’s my contribution
stormcaller_op · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Prostate exam” my 1st grade teacher performed a prostate exam, it was epic!
jokerkat · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jurassic Park. One of us would be a T-Rex, another one or two velociraptors, everyone else was a gallimimus. Then we'd chase the gallimimus ppl. If T-Rex got them first, the velociraptor(s) would then fight the T-Rex for the kill (if younger kids joined, it'd be a tickle fight. If it was all older kids, slap fight cuz we were dumb). Vice versa worked too. Sometimes, all predators would work together to corner and"kill" a whole group of prey, then fight for the pile of dead. If you were caught prey, you just played dead on the ground. Living prey would run around screaming bloody murder about their dead herdmate until the predators went back to hunting again.
Aliens vs Predator. A fucked up game of hide and seek where we all hid, then tried to find each other and fight to the death for a win. The group would be separated as evenly as possible. One side is Xenomorphs, the other side is Yautja. Each side would seek the other, sometimes working in pairs. To win a kill, Yautja had to tap the Xenomorphs on the head (ppl tended to slap, but hey, kids are kids), Xenomorphs had to tap Yautja on the chest. If tapped, Xenos had to scream loudly and and go to the "Ship" and play dead, Yautja had to yell "Pauk de le!" and go to the "Nest" to play dead. First team to kill all opponents won. Ship and Nest were next to each other so ppl could see how many teammates were left alive. Did we act beheaded or like we had chestbursters? You bet your ass we did. Whoever had the most kills on each team, or who was oldest, tended to be team captain and got to pick their teammates.
Another was archeologist. We had a huge boulder mostly buried in the playground at school, and we'd just sit there digging it up with sticks and paint brushes stolen from the art room.
Cavemen Tribe Wars. We had a huge three tiered climbing structure with monkey bars, a slide, pole, and climbing net, made out of wood on the playground at school. Underneath, it was hollow, so we made that our "Cave". Basically we gathered berries, walnuts, seed pods, etc and would bring it to the tribal shaman to mash up with mud to smear on our skin, talking gibberish and just acting like cavemen. We also hunted toads and frogs, bringing them to the cave to be hailed as a totem. We carried big sticks, and walked around grunting like idiots. Other kids caught on, and made their own tribes, with their own totems and customs, staking out at other playground structures or on the soccer field by the goal. All was peaceful until the Plains Tribe (soccer field kids) attacked and tried to steal our totem, nuts, and berry mud. That started mass tribe wars that went on for weeks. We'd Don war paint, wear jackets like fur around our waists, and have tribal ceremonies before going into battle. As tribes were beaten in battle, they assimilated to the winning tribe and the winners territory expanded, all loot kept in the safe place with armed guard. Plains tribe fell first, even though they cast the first stone, to Cave Tribe. Tire Tribe made an alliance with Cave Tribe, and traded pillbugs for help guarding their loot so they could take on Swing Tribe. Tire Tribe won. The alliance continued, and both Cave Tribe and Tire Tribe worked together with their expanded territory to take out Tree Tribe (they set up shop by a giant black walnut tree), winning and splitting the loot evenly, sharing the land as a trade hub of sorts. Hill Tribe tried to sneak attack Cave Tribe, but were quickly out done by sheer numbers and force. All the while, Rope Tribe and Shed Tribe were duking it out for weeks, never conceding defeat. Cave Tribe tried to broker a peace treaty between the two, since they were so close to Cave Tribe, but it didn't work, so they called on Tire Tribe and together, took out Roe Tribe then Shed Tribe. After the war, the Tire Tribe, wanting to play on the slide, assimilated to Cave Tribe, and peace reigned over the playground for the rest of the semester. The teachers had no fucking clue what we were doing or why we'd return with mud, berry juice, and walnut husk juice all over our skin after recess and after school care when waiting for pick up.
The 90s were wild, man. Elementary school kids are weird af. We all just made up these games with no adult supervision, and the teachers tended to be clueless as to why everyone was screaming and running around all the time. Ngl, we tended to take the factions we played as back to the classroom to continue the hunt/war/whatever. I miss those days.
Henrys-BS-TV · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play a game where we would pretend to run an ice cream company, and would try to come up with the weirdest and least appetizing flavors we could. If I played it now, I'd come up with cum, heroin and communism, which is an empty bowl
EFCpepperJack · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shaving cream on the ceiling fan blades and turn it on full blast trying to dodge it....and also throwing things like a peeled orange into it (2 different twists) lolol
mr_gazoo · 1 points · Posted at 18:20:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in El Salvador, and we used to play a game called Numerito (little number). If you mentioned any number while talking, anyone could yell "numerito" and that person would get to give you the same number of punches on the arm as the number you mentioned. The punches were not that hard unless the number was only 1 or 2. It really made you think about saying numbers out loud. We had a lot of fun playing this stupid game.
SlowTyperr · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Explore with my Uncle. Good 'ol anatomy
BicameralProf · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Try to guess how drunk daddy is when he comes home from work. So much fun.
ChubbyFasAss · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide From Uncle John
happyhealthybaby · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I couldn’t step on cracks in the sidewalk - but also I couldn’t be in a driveway when a car drove by, or else the “radiation wave” from the car would kill me.
I played this game well into college and finally stopped because I realized it was stressing me out.
IntriguedPlatypus · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"THE Ball Game"
Before basketball practice in high school, a group of about 10 of us would regularly play dodgeball with a single ball in the locker room.
The twist? We eliminated all sources of light-- under the doors, the glowing red exit sign, everything. At the beginning of the game, someone would turn off the lights and peg the ball off the lockers so it would bounce off somewhere in the room.
Now in pitch black darkness, you have a choice: do I try to go after the ball where I heard it hit, or do I find a hiding place and try to wait it out?
If you find the ball, you do everything you can to get somebody to make a noise, and then you peg that shit as hard as you can in the direction of that sound. If you're hiding, you stay as still as possible and wait for your chance to take the offensive. If you get hit by the ball you're out. We added a bunch of additional rules over the years for dealing with special situations, but that's the basics of the game.
It played out like a horror movie-- minutes of tense silence followed by unexpected firefights that typically ended up with 3 or 4 people out of the game. After probably hundreds of games, it's easily some of the best and most tense fun I've ever had playing a game.
jlololo · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would put on a giant t shirt, sit on either end of a hallway, put the shirt over our knees to create a trampoline-like surface, and slingshot coins at each other. First person with a black eye loses
caseythequesadilla · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the “bag” game. My brothers and I would climb into the woods next to our house to find sticks, then we would bring out a plastic grocery bag. We would place the plastic bag in the middle of the yard and split into teams. After that, we would play with the same rules as soccer.
mattatack0630 · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with a large family of 8. We had lots of games like this. One of my favorite was the “rolly game” where someone would essentially roll around on the carpet and try to run into the others like a bull. It works better with less space and more people 👌🏻
blahteeb · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Duck, Duck, Gray Duck.
RoxyFurious · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I excitedly told my friend once that my favourite game as a child was taking a bunch of my fake plastic food, putting it in a blanket, tying it up and putting it on a stick. Then I'd put on a tv show with a lot of nature backgrounds on and pretend I was wandering around that wilderness, just living off the land. I'd open a can of beans for lunch, eat it right from the can, and drink my milk from a tin mug.
"hobo," my friend said "you were playing hobo."
Huh. guess so.
all_for_the_comments · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to "fish" for our small dog. You take a rope and tie it to a stick. Then you use a sock as "bait" on the end of our string. While on a bed you get the dog to bite then proceed to pull the dog up on the bed (boat).
sluthmongor · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle used to make me grab my ankles close my eyes
iaendn · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child growing up so I generally played alone and my favorite game was throwing a tennis ball over the roof from one house to the other to see if 1. I could make it and 2. If I could run to the other side in time to catch it
plexxonic · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer.
Whoever holds the ball is the queer.
Make it to either end of the yard: 1 point.
Throw the ball because you're scared of being tackled: -2 points.
If you get tackled, you release the ball and someone else has to pick it up.
AK_ing47 · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Light Cat Dark Cat
This was my favorite game for years with my best friend as a kid. Absolutely terrified my sister but was a blast for us.
Basically I(Light Cat) would be in one corner of the room & my friend (Dark Cat) would be in the other corner. My sister would sit at the light switch & would flip it on & off. When it was on/light , I would crawl on all-fours (because we’re cats) as fast as I could to try to tag her where she stood, but when she flipped it off/dark, I would have to retreat to my corner & my friend the Dark Cat would run out. It would always inevitably end with my sister flipping it as fast as she could & squealing since we would get so close & our cat intensity would get a bit too intense.
I think it goes without saying that we both desperately wanted a cat...
pupila1017 · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a game called "gatomia" (gAh-toe-mia) ...idk im guessing because cat in spanish is 'gato'.. Anyways we would turn off the lights in my room and cover the windows so itd be pitched black and we would all hide. One chosen person would walk around the room ( still in the dark) and try and find someone through touch. When they did the person would have to meow and the chosen one would have to guess who it was. If they guess correctly than that person was now it, and if it was wrong than we would all unhide turn on the lights than turn them off again and rehide, and they woulf contuine to be it untill they guess someone correct....
CollectandRun · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would have piles of stuff (plates, magazines, remote controls, vaccums) from each room of our grandmas house and have a "draft" to see who got each item.
PossiblyArab · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would all line up on the top of a paved hill on scooters, whoever made it the farthest won, but you aren’t allowed to push your scooter. You are allowed to kick others, throw objects, and if you get knocked off chase others down. It was a grand time
CredibleCriminal · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kabadee- we used to have two opposing lines of us linked by our arms. One person would take a turn at touching someone on the opposing line before running back to there line. The linked line being touched would swivel around to try and make the retreat harder and once someone was touched the line breaks and sprints after them to try to tackle them before they reach their line
AlfaDragonX · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
as a kid my “fire truck” obsession for me was for some reason, garbage trucks. The game was to call bingo whenever we saw a garbage truck, whoever had more bongos at the end of the day could get ice cream or candy I miss the simpler times
b_reetz · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While in the car an imaginary figure would be running with the car, but only keeping to the grass near the sidewalk. As soon as there was no way to get to the next bit of grass without touching the pavement, I lost
L00SHKIN · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck...I lost the game...
Scoons · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Am one of three siblings. One of us would lie in the middle of the road in front of our house, the other two would take up positions monitoring the road, one monitoring each direction. When a car was coming, the monitor from that direction would shout "car," and the one in the road had a couple of options: 1) Get up immediately; 2) Wait until the car got closer, then get up; 3) Stay there. The monitors could call out whether or not there was actually a car coming; it was essentially a game of trust. The sibling who got up closest to the oncoming car was the winner. If you got up and there was no car, you lost. If you didn't get up and the car had to swerve to avoid hitting you, everybody won. Bonus points if they angrily honked their horn.
DINNERman_Official · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would take our great grandmother's cane and lay it across the arm of the couch. Then we would bound up and down on it, singing "seesaw imagine" over and over again.
MrJoeKing · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One person hides somewhere downstairs, while the others have to find the balls to make way down the stairs, the person downstairs though has to jump out and touch one of the others, lights have to be off though.
Riksor · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wrog wrog." Someone had to crawl on all fours while wearing night vision goggles, which made you Wrog Wrog. Wrog Wrog had to grab someone's ankles and then they too were Wrog Wrog.
gwtvulpixtattoo · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Post Apocalyptic Harry Potter...
Im_open_dak · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BB Gun fights in the Texas summer heat. 100+ degrees out, wearing winter coats and 4 pairs of jeans.
NOSHOOTINGINTHEFACE!!!!!!
clairem2113 · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play “do you like” with my mum, I play it now with my daughter. Basically you lie down and the other person asks things like “do you like olives, do you like cheese” etc. If the answer is yes you’re fine, if it’s no you get tickled. Eventually when you run out of ideas you just finish it with “do you like being tickled” it always ends with a tickle. Brings back really good memories 😊
DreadPiratesRobert · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sisters would play "Wild horses rake while mean people be mean", where they would be the wild horses raking (they hold the rake behind them as they ran around) and pretend people were being mean to them.
They could only play this when we visited family because where we live there was no need to rake, so we didn't have any rakes.
genuinely_insincere · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cross your ankles in the pool and your shadow looks like a mermaid/merman. Someone goes underwater and the other person rides on their back like a surfboard. Practice doing handspring's in the pool attends you'll eventually be able to do them on land.
tmpett_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "bad owner" - a game where one person is the dog and the other person is a bad owner. We essentially role played animal abuse haha
Zanssy · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rollover tips” with my cousins (tips is tag in AUS). It was a variation of tag where you had to do a lap around the clothesline in the backyard and then do a somersault to be safe from being it.
stasnee · 1 points · Posted at 18:22:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
purple pee game. my sister friend and me used to play this game called the purple pee u had to stand in a square with a line in the middle and pass a giant purple exercise ball back and forth it had to bounce once within the opponents boundary and the object of the game was to try to make the other person miss the ball leading to you scoring a point.
Timjustchillin · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers were into wrestling when we were kids and had Royal Rumbles on our couch. You had to come in flickering the lights on and off, singing the entrance music of who you were.
My dad got involved once and it was awesome. He kept Rock Bottoming all of us off the couch and we had to team up to get him off
kylew1985 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We blew up cow turds with black cats.
janusasaurusrex · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
🎶If you step on a crack you'll fall and break your back 🎶 - while walking on the sidewalk of course
CuttsAndBruises · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I'm not sure how unique it was but my friends and I used to play a game called "Ibba-Lobba-In" which basically consisted of one person counting to 60 with their eyes closed against a predesignated base object (usually a tree or post) whilst everyone else hid from sight. After the 60 seconds were up, the hunter would go looking for the hiders and if one were spotted then it'd be a race between to the two to run back to the base and shout either "Ibba-Lobba-In!" or "Ibba-Lobba-Out <insert name of hider>!".
The first person caught would be the hunter on the next round. If you made it back before the hunter then you made it through.
Good times. Ibba-Lobba-In.
selfassuredcarnivore · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go Kiss. If you got found, you got kissed. Of course at that age, and 35 or so years ago, that was more “gross!” than “woohoo!”.
tinybeany · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to blow up boxes of balloons and let them go out of our bathroom window. We would watch them deflate and fall on our neighbors balcony. Later did we realize the balloons were boxes of condoms from his parents drawer.
razerman98 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in the day when my family had a good size trampoline with netting running up it, my brothers and I would put as many balls as we could on it (basket balls, soccer balls, etc) and jump on the trampoline. If one of the balls touched you, you were out. Last one standing wins. I should note I have 5 brothers so there was often sabotage but still one of the best games Iv played.
philter · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Living in the north lands of Minnesota there's always lots of winter snow. And we had a couple of old rusty sleds (snowmobiles) . Being the idiot kids we were, we would don our safety helmets and take turns driving as fast as we could in a straight line while the others would throw snowballs and ice chunks trying to knock the driver off. You weren't allowed to steer to avoid anything because that would make it too easy. Our parents made us stop after my cousin got knocked out and had a huge gash down the side of his face.
The other game we played was to pull a plastic toboggan behind the sled and build ice ramps. We'd pull each other over them trying to dump the people off of the toboggan. That game lasted longer. But someone broke a finger and we had to stop.
KellyFromMcDanks · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Zombie”. You’d take five cans of food and hide them on the main floor and second floor of the house. The main player would start in the basement while the other players, or “Zombies” hid in these rooms, lights out and all. The main player had to collect all five cans of food and safely return to the basement while using only their flashlight. It was so much fun!
Cucubert · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would play the "what would you do if" game on long road trips. We'd just make up crazy situations and ask what the other would do if it happened to them. It got to the point that we had "what would you do if" meme responses such as "I would sell it to a circus" "Well what if right when you were selling it to the circus a golden eagle swooped in and flew away with it?"
uga4life84 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rain
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chimichanga” i didn’t know what a chimichanga was but i knew it was fun to say so me and a friend would toss and kick this big inflatable ball around while yelling CHIMICHANGA!!!
caseythequesadilla · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“ankle biters” My cousins and I would set up a mattress on the floor leading to another one on a bed frame. There would be one runner & the others would be the “biters”. The runner would run down the mattress and hope that the biters would not catch our ankles and trip us.
6NiNE9 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"SNAP!" No equipment needed. Just two people able to make four faces: straight face, smiley face, sad face and silly/monster face. You turn your head away from each other and immediately turn back with one of those faces. If your faces match, the person that yells "SNAP!!" first, wins. It's surprisingly fun and gets more hysterical the older, or higher, you are.
thsisbail2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called the blanket game in a friend's basement. Basically one person who was "it" was covered in a big blanket/ comforter and had to catch one of the other plays, and by catch you had to wrap them in a bear hug so they couldn't get out. The catch was the people who were not under the blanket were able to push you around and climb on furniture.
jsuave7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not entirely unique but my cousins and I knew just about all the kids in the neighborhood. So on occasion we’d have a mass plastic sword duel, like 8v8s. Each with swords of our choosing from our favorite universes. Nerf guns were allowed as secondaries as well. Closest I’ve ever been to war.
UK_Garce · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I are about 3 years apart and we have 2 cousins right about the same age. When i was about 11 my cousin who was older and i would go upstairs in the house and open one of the windows while our younger siblings were outside and could see us at the window. We would them throw firecrackers down at them as they would try to dodge them.
Needless to say but our moms were not very happy with us even though all four of us were having the time of our lives.
lilone_mg · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get Down Mr. President. Essentially "nose-goes" but you touch your ear like you have an earpiece in. Last to notice is the President, and gets tackled by all players
wizardly-cosmodius · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasn't really a game but my cousin and sister would dare me to throw myself into the walls at school as hard as I could. Brick walls. Surprisingly never broke a bone to my knowledge but it definitely hurt when I'd slam my head into the bricks.
I won't say I was any stupider than the average kid, cause I wasn't, I was just really angry and chose a lot of harmful outlets for it. And I was a weird kid.
On the bright side, they were really entertained. Sometimes I attracted other kids to laugh at my pain too.
HudieHu · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this stock market board game, and destroy my entire family as a ten year old. 13 years latter I am a finance student in college, trying to work with investments soon.
RedHotRevolvers · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little I spent a lot of time at my much wealthier aunt & uncles house. They had this enormous basement that we were pretty much always playing in. In the basement alone there was a bar, a separate workout room, a bathroom, and a separate rec room, just to give you an idea of the space. We came up with this game where one person would be picked as the "monster" and the rest of us had to make it from one side of the basement to the other to grab some random toy or "artifact" without getting tagged by the monster.
The twist was that you could only move on all fours, and we had to do it with all of the lights off in the basement, which effectively made it nearly pitch-black in there with the exception of just a hint of light peeking from a tiny frosted glass window on one wall of the basement. We would set up cushions and pillows as obstacles, and built a sort of "lair" for the artifact to be in. The "monster" would have to defend his lair using pretty much only sound and touch. There was only just barely enough light to make out the silhouettes of other people depending on how close they were to the tiny window's light. If the monster tagged someone, they'd be put in jail (a closet) and could only be let out of jail if someone came and got them out. If the person didn't get rescued from jail, they'd become the monster the next game. Sometimes we would do two monsters at once to make it harder. My strategy was always to hide out in the darkest corner of the room and throw random objects at the monster to distract them or throw them off, which I guess was 100% legal in this game. Oh, and if you were the monster, growling and roaring was also mandatory for the role.
I also definitely recall bumping my head constantly on walls and tables, and getting rug burn all over my knees. Ah, good times.
Indie_uk · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a corner garden (3 gardens) with rose bushes in the front and a tight crawl space. Used to pretend I was being hunted by the alien from Alien. I hate horror movies..
strothatynhe · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Came up with ‘The Swing Game’ at around age 10 - 12. At our local playground we had swing with 2 seats right next to each other. The game required 4 players.
2 players on the swing 1 player on a few meters behind the swing 1 player a few meters in front of the swing
The 2 players on the swing were required to swing as high and fast as they could. The 2 players on the ground took turns trying to hit 1 of the 2 swingers by kicking a football (soccer ball) at them.
You were allowed to ‘deflect’ the hit by kicking back the ball with your feet or having it hit the back of your seat.
If you got hit anywhere else, you’re out. The player who got the hit now gets to use the swing.
The game actually became really popular among the kids at our local playground. Looking back at it I have a hard time understanding what the incentive was. If you were good at kicking the ball and timing your shot, you were actually more likely to have to sit on the swing and risk being hit in the face (which happened quite often, with sometimes people even falling from the seat full speed)
I guess we’re just openly sadistic like that as kids. 🙃
Joe109885 · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn’t necessarily a game but for fun we would explore abandoned houses and buildings in our neighborhood (there was quite a lot).
Also we one time got a huge group together and explored our local abandoned “insane asylum”. Lots of creepy stories of that place, it was a shit show back in the day, and to sneak into it there are tunnels you climb into about half a mile away from the building and the work your way into the old facility,
This place was fucking huge, dirty, and heroin needles were pretty common, but it was pretty bad ass, one of the creepiest places I’ve ever been. Unfortunately they finally ended up tearing down part of it/remodeling and building college dorms.
wolfgeist · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This seems like the perfect place for Ullillillia's "lights out marbles". Though he was a bit different from most kids...
https://youtu.be/tZs8pdjUUv0
jimm · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Immovable Movable Lump. One brother under a blanket, the other tackled him from outside, trying to move the lump.
Rubarb_the_destroyer · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock paper scissors slap. It’s essentially the same game but if you loose you get slapped as hard as the person can. For bonus the winner would lick their hands to make the slap worse
Lukefairs · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shrubs and robbery
darth_dochter · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"tongue to tongue". Basically my sisters and I made some nasty game where we pointed out our tongues and got closer so they'd touch. First one to move away loses.
If I think about it now, that was some weird shit my grandparents had to witness.
Mantisword · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok, so when we moved into our house, the backyard had a basic wooden playset with a couple of swings. We also had a playset from our old house, so my dad brought it over to the new house and connected the two playsets. This left use with 4 swings, in sets of 2, facing each other.
Then, on one of my birthdays, my aunt got me a huge, blown up "soccer ball" that was light enough to be kicked at a young child and not really cause any damage.
We created Soccer-Swing. It was a four-player game where you would be on a swing and try to get the ball past your opponents, and we loved it. We probably played it every day for multiple consecutive summers.
God I miss those days
shermenaze · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Kadawa" was the terror of children and teachers alike.
You drew a circle in the sand, and someone stood inside. He was 'it'. All the other kids stood around waiting. When the kid in the circle stepped out, he was only allowed to hop around on one foot. His aim was to touch one of the other kids. When he did, everyone ran to the kid who was touched and kicked him while he frantically ran to the circle, which was a safe zone.
Now here's the kicker.
If anyone who was not it, touched the circle they'd become it. If the former 'it' kid realized this, they are allowed to run around normally, but sometimes a kid would fake touching the circle and start hopping around on one leg from the direction of the circle, toward the unsuspecting kid. When the kid who is still it dropped his second leg to the ground, everyone would rush to kick him. Or, some random kid would actually step in the circle and grab an unsuspecting kid, which everyone would subsequently kick.
Kids who owned Timberland shoes were the apex predetors and were worshipped as kings.
anguskhans · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Equipment tag. Pretty much the game "the floor is lava" combined with tag. Played on the most dangerous jungle gym the 60's had to offer without being very well maintained for 30 years. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i had two siblings who were younger than me so I was always the leader,everyday we would invent a game and name it a random animal name.
The best one that I still remember clearly was the 'lone wolf' basically theres a store owner and a security guard and a thief,for the store we used a broken bike that we layed on its side as a desk,and a toy laptop for the cash holder.
Both the thief and security guard used nerf guns and since our house was pretty big,you were able to easily hide from the other guy,we would play this game for hours since when the thief got caught,he would bribe the security guard by offering to split the money after the heist,you were even able to take over the store and owning it,thus the store owner becoming the thief trying to take over his store again,which would lead to a war folding out in our home.untill our father comes in and tells us to tidy all the mess we caused.damn i miss those days
Smokey_Britches · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play this game we made up called "Arson". Its not what it sounds like. So we would wait until it was late at night, like 2 in the morning type of late. We would sneak into the garage and get a water bottle full of gasoline. Once we had that we would go outside and find a neighbors mailbox or garbage can or something of the like and douse it in gas and light it on fire. Then we would run away laughing like maniacs. We played that for awhile until we realized how much teouble we could get into and that it was a real dick move...
Okay, maybe it's exactly what it sounds like.
thewildryanoceros · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So we weren’t kids, but teenagers. When driving and pulling up to a red light, my sister and I would see if we could wait for the change without ever stopping, so we’d roll really slowly to avoid coming to a full stop.
curtcurtcurt · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game we called "Fatman". We would use this huge sleeping bag and stuff it full of blankets and pillows so it wouldn't hurt when you were tackled, and try to make it across the room. Surprisingly hard to run and get back up too, but we didn't have a Super Nintendo, so what else were we supposed to do?
hitemwiththeol1-2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played this game called “Indiana Jones.” It essentially was just an obstacle course we made in the garage. But the kicker was that when you started, you pressed the garage door button. So you had to do the obstacle course as fast as you could and then dive under the garage door before it closed. We also had someone roll a big yoga ball behind you :)
sillytidings · 1 points · Posted at 18:24:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the thimble, our mum would hide one of those sewing thimbles, and the first one to find it out of me and my siblings would win. These things were tiny, it kept us busy for ages. And sometimes our mum would do the hot or cold thing where she would say either warm-hot for the closer you were or cold to frezing the further you went.
BirdIsTheWorldTruly · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game where one person would be the thrower and the rest would be up against a wall, the thrower would have a ball and close their eyes and spin around, once they had spun around like 20 times the people on the wall would yell to let the thrower know which way to face. Then the thrower would throw the ball as hard as they could at the place they thought the other people were. It was a fun game but a lot of bruises came from it, and a few baby teeth a falling out, but definitely a good memory.
Ziptex223 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it European weiner. We played it at the pool, and basically you would pick an object to be the European Weiner(normally a ball or floatie) and whoever had it was winning. The object was to get the European Weiner by whatever means possible, and alliances and betrayals were totally cool(like helping someone get the weiner so you could take it from them after).
Broke my brother's nose once doing a flying kick to his face from outside the pool, good times. Don't remember why we named it that but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Terryr29 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me but my friend played the basement with his uncle not sure what it was i’m 12 now
JocundXarxes · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to run around in a mash-up of Halo and Elder Scrolls stuff. Just swung swords and shot nerfguns at imaginary shit in the woods, collaborated as an entire cast of made up dudes (and Master chief) throwing spells around and fighting demons.
I've vastly reorganized it all into the basis of books I'm writing at the moment, so I never really stopped playing. And he followed it into an acting career he's chasing so I guess neither of us stopped - that's the first time I've actually thought of it that way. Huh.
smiley_facee · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw bugs into spider webs
drunkmaster_flex · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Kettle Ball" we would all huddle up around a nerf ball each with one hand on the ball. One was designated the "kettle caller" and would count down from a pre-determined number while everyone else ran in all directions, once the countdown ended everyone had to remain stationary with the exception of a pivot foot. The kettle caller would then attempt to bean another player with the ball who would then become the next kettle caller. Why it was deemed "Kettle Ball" is still beyond me but we would have fun for hours this way.
Ghost_Agent61 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lode Runner
oh_sorry · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Rambola. There was a really long floor at our house in a summer camp in Norway. One guy runs through the entire floor and kicks the other one in the balls as hard as possible. If you could still stand up, it was your turn. The winner is the one who drops first.
Retrospectively, i dont think the game is fun anymore.
from_this_to_nukes · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wormy. Me and my sister would try to push each other off of the edge of the bed without using our arms; most fun game ever.
Maurex96 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in this apartment where everyone in the building had access to our private park and football pitch, there was also a nice spacious area on the ground floor, I invented this game translated to "Nobody can see us" this game had 7 series (I can't explain how but I did one day call it Nobody can see us 2 etc.)
Essentially it was about 3-7 of us kids, hiding from every neighbour that came home, this game is so stupid it's hard to understand yet it was so fun. It involved rolling around on the floor, crouch walking, sneaking etc., there was no way of winning, you only lose if you get caught. Until one day my friend decided he would slide tackle the main door (has 4 glasses) and ended up breaking the window and having his leg stuck and cut on the glass, from that day onwards this game ceased to exist
PIEB0Y1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I would make "goals" and go on our knees and throw a small rubber ball and try to score on each other. It was always my favorite game to play after dinner on Friday's.
Diflicated · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game at my camp called "One Touch One Bounce." We'd form a circle and kick a volleyball to each other, almost like a soccer juggling circle. You can't use your hands, and the ball has to touch the ground once before the next person touches it. Each person only gets one touch, so if someone gives you a bad bounce, tough shit. If you mess up, you get a letter that would spell some word, and then once you get all the letters, you'd be out. We kept playing until a certain number of people were out, then they'd line up facing a wall. Everyone still in got one penalty kick at the people on the wall, and then we'd start over. Tons of fun.
HendyOnline · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we played a game called "Ditto" (yeah, like the Pokémon).
The rules were like this:
Two teams played against each other, each of which had a "king". The team that managed to clap three times on the head of the opposing king while saying "Ditto" three times won. The teams were allowed to do anything in order to defend their king, so it ended up being a biiiig brawl.
phatmanrunning · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nutball, me and a friend would take this exercise device that was two big red balls attached by a rubber cord, stretch it out between us, and take turns letting go and aiming at each others nuts.
sunnysideup2323 · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in the sticks of west Texas so I would build a teepee in the yard, would go “explore” my family’s ranch, play in the mud when it rained, when it really rained I would get a kiddie pool and float down our driveway, play in the cow’s water tanks...I was a tomboy.
Jaboyyt · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Duck duck grey duck.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would pull thorns off of a rose bush, lick the back of them and put a bunch on our noses in a row and pretend we were dinosaurs. We did this until we were 16 lol
bonercollexor · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remembered another one! My sister and I used to wrestle each other and our dad in the living room fairly often. The area of carpet in front of the fireplace became known as the “wrestle spot!” and if any of the three of us were sitting there it was free game to tackle em and play.
One day I’m coming down the hall and see Dad sitting there in front of the fireplace, back to me. I get an evil grin, and run as fast and hard as I can and boom! I knocked him over. I’m laughing my butt off, because hey, I finally got him! Except it wasn’t my dad.
I don’t remember that exact circumstances, but that day we had one of my dads coworkers over. They were both white-tan Army guys who wore the same kinds of clothes and had the same haircut. My 8 year old eyes couldn’t tell the difference between the two of them from the back.
So imagine, you’re sitting at a work buddy’s house, minding your business when suddenly a cackling gremlin knocks you over out of nowhere. I was mortified when I realized “your not my dad!”. All the adults thought it was hilarious.
Legally_Pumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 18:25:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game with my siblings where we would write 'butthole' or 'poopy face' on a peice of paper and then put some tape on it. If you got the note succsessfuly stuck on you without noticing you became the 'butthole' or 'poopy face' and had to stick it on somebody else. Our parents did not approve.
hoogafanter · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Captain Chocolate Man. It was basically tag but if you were "it" you were Captain Chocolate Man. You then had to sit on somebody and fart on them, relieving you of your chocolate duties and now that person is Captain Chocolate Man. Not only was this hilarious for obvious reasons, but the pacing is what made it the best game ever. Since you can't fart on command, your next tag could be in 5 minutes or next week...
SaltyFryYuna1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play tag but in two teams: One twam is the policeman the other is the robbers and once a policenan catches a robber he would beat the absolute heck of that robber and then they would become a policeman. Truly a cruel game which our parents approve. :))
StoneRoses19 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During recess at my elementary school in the early 90's, a group of us would play "Chucky". One kid would wear a crown of red paper hair who was Chucky, and somebody would be Andy. The object of the game was to take Andy by the hand away from Chucky to a safe zone, usually under a slide. You had to hold Andy by the hand to the safe zone to win, and Chucky would be constantly guarding Andy. If Chucky tagged you, you were dead.
icecreamkony2012 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would take turns rolling one of us into a giant blanket, find a random object, beat the sibling in the blanket with said object, and then they would guess what they were being beat with.
pigeonshark · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So like this is gonna sound real weird, but me and my friends would play in the drainage ditches around our my house and a neighbor's. My lawn had a drain with a grate surrounded by brick at the corner, so we would sit on top of it and pretend it was a stove. We would fill buckets with water and grass and leaves and shit and make "stew" and other "foods" and play restaurant. Sometimes we would use the neighbor's lawn, which had a corner that was just a concrete opening and water would pool in front and make kind of a "lake" and "islands" of the cement that wasn't wet. We would jump from island to island and kind of play tag in a really small circle like that. We sometimes pretended it was a hotel or that a mayor was over there. And because the drains connected under the road, we could talk to each other through the tunnels if we were on different lawns. And then another neighbor's ditch was always flooded, so it make a small pond, so we would pretend to buy water there and other plants and stuff as if it were a store. So we would almost make a small town at the intersection of my street with a restaurant, a store, and a hotel/town hall.
dontworryaboutitdm · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would all go out into the woods at night. One person would be blind folded they where the wolf. The others where villagers.
Villagers hide and when they could see the moon they would howl. The wolf would run and tackle the howlers and eat them.
ambivalentways · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a game as such, but my nephew (he’s a year older than me, my brother is ooooold) and I used to write little notes to each other whenever he stayed over and made little post boxes next to our beds. We thought we were so cool.
mydogisarhino · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To fall asleep, id do somersaults from the head of my bed to the foot and back again. I figured if i was dizzy id sleep faster.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put firecrackers in rounded mud clumps. Let them dry. Would light and toss my homemade hand grenades...
Hippydippy420 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad made up a game where he’d drive us around in my mom’s Cadillac on summer nights and we’d stick our heads out of the sunroof and whoever caught the biggest bug in their mouth was the winner.
Angel_Lafisques · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot potato, played with a ball of rags soaked in kerosene all night then lit on fire. It was a family new years eve tradition of some family friends. Surprisingly, we weren't injured, other than a bit of arm hair and the stench of kerosene the next day.
whimsical_pixels · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up so many games as a kid, but 2 immediately came to mind.
I used to do this thing where I'd toss a blanket up in the air, and however it fell to the ground, I created a house with rooms and hallways from the wrinkles. I'd toss in whatever toys or objects I wanted to fill the "house" with, and play for hours. I used to do a similar thing on a larger scale with some girls I played with while our brothers had baseball practice. There was this field nearby with tall overgrown grass, and we each flatten one part to create our room, and then made paths to connect them.
And when I was swimming during the summer, I was obsessed with this game where I would pretend all of the tiles in my pool were buttons that would create any object I wanted. I had them all sorted into categories like toys, food, vehicles, etc and would swim for hours pretending I had anything in the world.
It sounds like I didn't have toys 😂I did, but I don't remember them as much as the stuff I imagined.
ChackOfficial · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and one of my friends invented a game called "RUB".
It was basically a version of PIG with basketball except with a rubber band. We each took shots trying to call out what we were trying to do around my house: land the rubber band on this box, hit this object from this spot, etc.
We eventually stopped playing it after we thought about what it meant to ask: "Hey Brian, want to RUB?"
Vyper91 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much a child but when we were like 13/14 on the playground we used to play "Gay Bottle" - you'd kick a bottle around at each other and whoever got hit was "gay" and had to kick it to someone else.
As soon as the bell rang for class the last "gay" person was permanently "gay".
Always makes me laugh to remember what a pointless, kinda offensive but impeccably juvenile game it was.
Agent00Melon · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two best friends and I would play “Puppy World” during recess all throughout elementary school. I can’t remember very much of it anymore, but we would climb through the monkey bars and up a ladder to get to puppy world, and when we were there we would play with the puppies. We had boundless imagination.
There was even an entire arc we did where we got trapped in the Evil Puppy World, and we had to get out to save the puppies in the regular Puppy World.
NoPickles18 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, my mom, sister, and me used to play a game out in our yard called the bumblebee. My mom would be "the bumblebee" and stand on one side of the yard while me and my sister stood on the other side. We would have to try and get past my mom and run to the designated safe zone behind her. We had a signature move called "the jedi split" where I would run to one side of the yard and my sister would run to the opposite side and then both run full sprint to the safe zone so my mom didn't know which one to go after (Obviously she could have probably caught us both, but she let us have our fun). It was so much fun and we played it all the time. Next time I'm home from college I'll see if my mom and sister want to play a few games of it 😂😂
camokilla1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Command + F "uncle"... phew
OMGitstheBFT · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sniper. There was a huge alley that let into a lighly wooded area behind our houses, and the YMCA play ground on the other side of that. It was basically reverse hide and seek with toy guns. One person would hide, the others would go looking for him. No teams, and if you got shot, you had to go back to base.
Jaques_Strappe · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guess the penis
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the cap gun broke you just destroyed your hearing with a roll of caps and a hammer.
TheGreatGreenDragon · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Olympics " Me and my buddy would start at the bottom of his carpet stairs with a stuffed animal and would essentially beat the shit out of each other until the winner emerged at the top of the stairs with the stuffed animal in hand. We called it that because it started while the 2000 Sydney Olympics was on in the background.
olmek · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Bet on Shoes' - put a big pile of shoes on the trampoline, place your bets on which ones would survive, and start jumping like crazy until only one remains
Adversely_Possessed · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Spot the cop”
dad would give my brother and I a nickel or a dime every time we saw a cop before he did while he was driving.
PROS: not a lot of tickets in adult life CONS: realizing your dad did it to have spotters while he drank and drove everywhere.
bleakerthanbreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a buddy would always get booted off video games by his parents after a solid day and a half. Reasonable. So we’d go to the backyard and come up with some type of soccer-style game with special rules. Different every time. Like you get one shot on the opponents goal 20ft away but only with a left hand throw while balancing on your right leg. Or you can do whatever you want to score but you only get two total steps and the defender can only block if they only touch the ball with a stick. It would eventually devolve into wrestling frantically trying to just get the ball through the endzone to say you won. Inspired in no small way by calvin-ball.
bertcha88 · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I got bored of “punch bug”, so we came up with “yellow car slap”.
The rules were simple. You see a yellow car, you slap the person next to you. Yellow truck? You get slapped twice.
Even to this day, as adults, we still play without thinking about it. It’s just become a reflex at this point.
yaahhhssss · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would make a nest out of blankets on a bed and my older sister was the mom bird or lion depending on the day and me and my younger brother were the babies, also thought ufc type wrestling with home made outfits on our parents bed and the “draw on back game” were unique but as I get older I’ve learned they are pretty common lol
mary_widdow · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder Darts was a game explained to me by a friend. You take lawn darts and throw them straight up in the air and then run away to avoid being hit.
Sept21st · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two kids. One on either side of very busy street at night. Lots of traffic. High visibility. As cars drive by, each kid pretends to pull a rope so that drivers think you’re pulling a rope. They stop. We run away laughing. Aside from that it was barbies or hide and seek.
ConorWatmough · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play night crawlers a lot
gnapster · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Is it edible?
When I was in high school, I was given two very hungry step brothers. They drove me crazy, getting into my snack stashes (among other things), and I soon found out their obsession with black olives was as great as mine.
I would take labels of cans and replace them with other labels of vegetables or take the label completely off and tell them it was ground up ants. They were around 6 and 7, so it worked for awhile. Occasionally, my mom would reach into the back of the pantry for those lima beans and get a surprise, but since I could eat those olives every day, nothing was ever wasted. (I labeled the original cans with a marker rather than put the olive label back on them).
edit: It was like the hunger games in that house. My family never seemed to make enough food for two adults, a teenager and two growing boys. You had to put enough food on your plate to fill you up, but not so much that you looked selfish, because otherwise, it was a race to finish and run to the kitchen to see if there was a second helping left in the pan.
callieally · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Attack Jack” was exactly what the name was. My cousins and I are all around the same age, so playing this game with them was a lot of fun. I don’t remember much, but I know there were two teams: Jack and Julia. General Julia would send her team to... you guessed it: Attack Jack. Jack’s team had to defend him. It was a lot of fun but I don’t exactly remember why.
Smokabi · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Booger Wall. Whenever I went over to my cousin's house, we would pick our nose every so often and wipe it on this pink wall in her room. Some offerings were invisible, others were bloody from our incessant mining. Her mom eventually noticed when I was over one day and became LIVID.
Lonewolf_drak · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Orange fights. I live in Florida and there were orange trees every where. So in the alley we would hurl oranges at each other like snowballs.
ZoFarZoGood · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sit in the car during a hot summer day and see whoever could last the longest.
zoomy942 · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide n go see in the dark. Get the cars out of the garage and shut the garage door. Play hide n go seek in the pitch black garage. Every spot in the entire garage is a hiding place. You could stand perfectly still and the seeker could walk right past you and if they don't hear you breath they won't find you. So many fun times playing that as a kid.
ChaosCore · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were stealing sometimes severed arms from morgue and played soccer with them...
No, I am not proud, but I guess it was kinda unique :S
shadydee22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha oh here we go. So my neighbours parents used to fight ALOT. I was best friends with their son and we decided to play a game of 'Brian and Denise' it was basically us playing them, throwing plastic plates and arguing at one another. Except one day, we decided to put on a show of our game to both of our parents. The look on their faces was amazing.
cohesion2012 · 1 points · Posted at 18:27:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poop ball. You take a ball, rub it in dog poop, and chase down anyone in sight.
NeonWolfie31 · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in sixth grade my friends and I would play something we called "marking".It consisted of us setting our crotches on top of someone else's stuff. If something was marked you get to have it. The game escalated over the weeks and we started marking body parts of the participants. The difference was that if you were marked you couldn't move that part until you were unmarked. If by some miracle your head was marked you could not palay until the next day. We used to do this in school. Teachers didn't care a dime. By the way we all said no homo
KimmiNinja · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn't really have a name for it but my brothers and I played a game where each of us would take a side in front of the house and start walking in opposite directions on the sidewalk. Whenever a car entered our view the person would yell out "Car!" and both parties have to out run and make it back to the garage. If the car passes you and you didn't make it you "died". Worked better in our quiet suburban neighborhood. You couldn't stop walking until someone yells for a car so everyone would walk as slow a a possible.
pressST4RT · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play "Pac-Man" on the trampoline. Basically, you'd get a couple of soccer balls on the trampoline so they would bounce with you and you'd have to dodge them. If you got hit by one, you had to get off the trampoline and the last person left wins.
We started coming up with all sorts of crazy strategies like double-bouncing a ball towards each other. It was a blast.
FinalGamb1t · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "Naseem Hameed" with my bigger brother. It's basically boxing with t-shirts as gloves, and of course an orange in the mouth. We stopped as soon as we broke my mother's big mirror.
avragepersonon · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cops and robbers with no rules. My little brother was a robber on a bike and he was getting away so I took my shoelace off, tied a rock on each end and threw it at his bike. It warped around chain and frame and he went flying.
vikkokoro · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to slide down the stairs in a sleeping bag. She used to make me be in the bottom of the bag which made it fun because I couldn't see up until I got old enough to realize I could get seriously hurt.
DarthMares · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think everyone played this game but to us it was pretty unique. We played the lava game in a rock garden we had in the front yard. There was curb around the rocks and there was huge lava rocks that we would jump from to and fro, same thing with the curb. We try to knock each other off the curb or the big rocks and it hurt like hell to fall on the little rocks but it was fun. You would re-spawn on the biggest rock and just got at it again.
Pingammor · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reverse tag: if you're it you have a mob of 20 people running behind you at full speed trying to tag you
ZipitKat · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd play "laser tag"
We would invite over any friends that were down and once night fell, we would dress head to toe in black. Everyone got a flashlight and a team then we would hide around the neighborhood and play. Entertainment for hours. Man, I miss that.
Pick-Up_Line_Loser · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im way late but did anyone play a game called rollar bat? Its baseball but after the batter hits the ball they put the tip of the bat on the ground making a goal that the catcher had to roll the ball through?
itsnotgage5 · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well me and my uncle would go into the bathroom
Tai_Perette · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Harder
My_Name_IsGod · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Game"
We used to play this game in middle school. It's a mental game where you avoid thinking about The Game. Thinking about The Game results in a loss and you have to announce your loss to everyone around you.
Everyone reading this just lost The Game... I'm sorry.
dudemanjapan · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The penis game - we would take turns saying penis, each time saying it louder than the other, until one of our parents heard. The person who could say it the loudest without getting their ass beat is the winner!
Jesster02 · 1 points · Posted at 18:28:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock tag. It was like normal tag but tag each other with rocks.
_livss_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I humped the floor, enough said...
dandanmuffinman · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gorgon: this is played at night in large community halls with all the lights off or outside at night. 1 person is the gorgon and starts the game by taking apart a flashlight and hiding all the pieces (batteries, bulb, lens, case) throughout the play area in plain sight. Once the game starts the Gorgon will lurk the area searching for the players. It's the players job is to search the area and recover all the flashlight pieces. If a player is tagged by the Gorgon they are turned to stone and cannot move from their spot. The only way a player can be free again is if a player with a piece of the flashlight un-freezes them. Once all pieces are collected they must assemble the flashlight and hunt the Gorgon. Once the light hits the Gorgon he is slain.
Extra rules: players are safe on stairs to avoid people falling down stairs in the dark. They must continue in the direction they are going and the Gorgon can give them a slight headstart if he's being generous.
ShakerGER · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Claw" you play a gray cat pirate i was only 3 years old and needed to play with my brother in oder to use the entire keyboard
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Heart of Darkness. This game was very great.
Ofitus21 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple of friends and I created a game with bottle caps when we were 9 years old. It would be a battle in an arena (usually a square painted on the ground), and each of us had 8 bottle caps in our teams. The goal was to take (on turns) your opponent's bottle caps out of said arena, with the winner being the one with bottle caps still on the arena. There were other rules regarding what happens if the bottle cap goes upside down (get an extra turn), how to change the bottle cap you were using (allowed you to defend with the rest of bottle caps of your team as you could only eliminate the bottle cap your rival selected) It was so much fun, and pretty much everyone at school started playing during breaks. Even teachers were curious about it. Not only that, but after school we'd go to bars all around Madrid asking them to give us bottle caps as we started to collect them. Great times
gearsguy03 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Called it the “Elevator Game” . Ever in a cruise ship or a hotel with multiple sections of elevators? Then everybody go inside 1 of them except for 1 person, and the person has to try and catch us using the flights of stairs. Its more fun if the elevators are see-through so you can taunt your opponent as they use every muscle in their body to catch the elevator. Very fun game, 10/10
Crimson_talon · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a game I loved playing with my mom. We’d draw a circle with tape, and in it we’d put marbles. Then we get like five or so marbles each for ourselves, and then we’d walk away a distance and take turns flicking or rolling our marbles into the circle trying to knock them out. Then we got to keep the marbles we knocked out, and in the end the winner would be the person with the most marbles. Keep in mind I was a child so when I rolled my marbles I’d be lucky to knock out one or two so these games went on for a while lol
JO74561 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ghost Tours." Cousins and my family got together. We'd then separate into two 'ghosts/monsters' who would hide somewhere in the yard. The rest would be led by the tour guide as they told ghost stories around the yard, stopping at stupid shit and saying how someone died there or something. Then at a certain stop, after they told a really scary story, the monsters would jump out and would have to tag as many people as they could. Everyone else would try to make it to a predetermined safe zone.
Was so fun late at night with my cousins that were 5+ years older than us.
PillDevastationCurve · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and i called it mortal kombat 101. We st9od facing another like a fighting game. Picked our favorite wrestler or dbz character and best the shit out of each other
AngryYelpReviewer · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let it Roll Back to the Edge of the Bump. It involved rolling backwards down the driveway and tricycles. There was a bump... That's all I remember - I was very yojng. Would appreciate some creative comments reminding me of what it was or what it could have been...
ConcertinaTerpsichor · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull”
Based on a 70s TV ad where a large bull (presumably drunk off his ass) came bursting into a bar or nightclub and destroyed everything, in lurid red-lit chaos.
We would, apropos of nothing, suddenly scream “Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull!” and put our index fingers pointing out at our temples, and run around furiously trying to smash each other down.
murraykate · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The mattress game: my sisters and I would take two twin mattresses and lay them over the stairs and slide down it over and over. One of the best memories, it sounds so simple now but was hours of fun
zettabeast · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played throw pine cones at each other
OrionFyre · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not exactly as kid kids, but as me and my best friend got older we started this spelling game.
The rules were simple.
0: only one pen, a scorepad, and a mutually chosen dictionary as reference. The pen and paper are for scorekeeping only. Nothing else may be written down or recorded in any fashion anywhere by any means. The dictionary must be closed unless a challenge cannot be mutually resolved. This is a memory and recall game
1: The winner of the previous round decides who goes first.
2: Each turn you say a letter
3: The letter you say MUST have the possibility of making up a non-proper 4-letter or longer word as part of the sequence thus far
4: when it is your turn, you may challenge one of two challenges: 4a:You may challenge the opponent's previously played letter if you believe they have actually spelled a word. 4b:You may challenge the opponents letter if you believe the letter choice does not eventually construct a valid word, or if you believe they don't know a word that would be valid to the sequence.
5: Challenge resolution 5a: If you challenged them on having spelled a word and they in fact did spell one, they lose the challenge and the round. If the sequence so far does not in fact spell a word, then you have lost the challenge and the round. The winner of this challenge gains 2 points 5b: If you challenged the sequence validity and whether it could possibly spell a word, the opponent must defend and list at least one word that starts with the sequence thus far. If they can produce one from their own knowledge without looking at the dictionary they will win the challenge and the round. If they are unable to come up with a word, even if one exists and is known to you, they lose the challenge and the round. The winner of this challenge recieves 3 points.
6: When it is your turn you may forfeit the round if you cannot think of a valid play that does not result in you spelling a word. To forfeit say the word that would cause you to lose. If it is a valid word for the sequence you lose 1 point. If it is invalid you lose 2.
7: the game ends when someone reaches 21 point or more.
For example I might start by say "C".
You could say "A" because "CA" is the start to many english words of legth >4.
I might then say "T" bringing the sequence to "CAT". Cat is the internet's favorite word, but its only 3 letters, and still remains the start to many >4 letter words like "catastrophe" so the round continues.
If you then say "S" you have spelled "CATS" and you will lose if I challenge you. If I do challenge, you would lose and I could gain 2 points.
But the smarter move on my part #might# be to play "U" for "CATSUP" hoping that you aren't familiar with the word and try to challenge me for validity. If you do challenge me I would then get 3 points. But the risk on my part is your favorite Simpsons episode might be where Mister Burns is confused in the grocery store deciding between ketchup and catsup. In this case you would then be able to forfeit only a single point advantage to me instead of 2 or 3.
Why I love this game You're not just playing with your own vocabulary. You're making a series of wagers about your opponent's vocabularly weighted against yours.
There's all sorts of things to keep track of, is the word we're spelling towards going to end on my turn? If so, where can I push it away from that word onto another one that ends on your turn. Do you the opponent even know how to spell the end of this word? Should I go for the three points and challenge you on a valid word that fits the sequence and risk giving those 3 points to you?
Diva480 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played “ the blanket game” one of my siblings or I would stand in the middle of the room with a blanket over their head, much like Marco Polo trying to find the other people in the room, with the twist being you dodged and attacked the person while referencing 90’s pop culture. Like yelling John elway and tackling the person, James Bond and doing a summersault into their legs. Get caught and you go under the blanket. Just watch out for coffee tables and lamps
TinCup06 · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof ball. Preferably with a second story and a football because it made it unpredictable/more challenging to catch. If the ball touched the ground, it became a dead ball and re-throw. Last person to score becomes the thrower. Throw the ball on to the roof and a sea of kids wait to try and catch it and run back to the side walk for the point without being tackled. Yes, getting tackled on pavement was a frequent occurence. It was a mix of smear the queer and 5,000. If you don't know what 5,000 was. Just throw a ball in the air with and a group of kids try to catch it when the thrower called out a random number of points. Eventually making enough catches to equal 5,000 points.
DunciRunci · 1 points · Posted at 18:29:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my 'gang' and the popular kid in schools 'gang' used to play a game called Romans and Celts when I was like 10 which basically just involved us kicking the shit out of each other and they always had double the amount of people because the leader was more popular:(
AryanshIsCool · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm a kid so I don't know if this counts but
We play a game in which we basically create the map of a country or a place on a page . We would divide it in territories and every kid would be given some territories .
Then we attacked other territories , form alliances with friends and do other tactical stuff .
The way we decided how we won or not was by throwing dice and deciding who gets the better roll .
Or there is a game called 'Odd-Eve' in which we have set rules and we use some gestures to score points , basically search it up cuz it's way too long to explain .
If u are ever bored I would suggest playing this with your friends . Great time killer .
dendari · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bush tag. Get yet minds out of the gutter.
We played tag but you couldn't touch the ground or at least stay on specific paths, except for the person who was it. We played on the playground climbing all over the equipment, we played on the roof of my garage (you could jump from the garage to the neighbors house or on to a fence, and we played on top of some bushes and hedges.
The only injury was when I was surprised while standing on the roof and just jumped without looking. I had to jump out to clear the fence, but forgot about the power line. I hit that with the bridge or my nose and fell flat on my back. Just had the wind knocked out of me.
My brother broke his arm, but that wasn't tag that was just jumping off the roof on to a mattress.
PoliticalMalevolence · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost my best friend a few months ago. We played a game called cone-ball once. It's basically soccer free kick, but you're throwing a frisbee between a slightly wider frame (we used pine cones to delineate). The object is just to hit the frisbee in flight. You can use your arms for one point, or hit it with a pine cone for two.
dry-rocks · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, my brother, and I used to stay up past when our parents went to sleep to "raid the fridge." We would literally sneak downstairs, grab some food, and bring it back up into our rooms. It was so so sweet and was good practice for when I started stealing my parents alcohol with friends :)
Yukito_097 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would pretend we were velocirpators...
TheLostSeaBiscuit · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Jews vs Germans”
As fucked up as it sounds we thought it was the best game we’ve ever created when we were little kids. The game was essentially hide n seek/infection. If there were say 10 of us playing 2 people would be the “Germans” then the rest would be the Jews. The Jews had to hide in groups until they were seen, then they could scatter. If you got caught (tagged) by a German you were now on the German team and had to find the Jews. Last Jew alive wins.
TheSorge · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So in elementary school they made us play recorders in music class, as every elementary school does for some reason. I do not envy elementary level music teachers, those are some of the worst sounds in the world. Anyways, at recess we'd put them between our legs and run around trying to poke each other with them.
Andan1987 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beat the idiot. Sister and i would play this. One person gets a blanket or comforter over their head and body and the other person hits them with a hanger or stick. The person with the blanket on em blindly seeks the other in a “tag” sort of way. If you got tagged you then became the idiot and switched roles.
Succ678 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take a screw driver and take turns throwing it in the front yard. Wherever it landed we would have to stand there. One of us landed it in dog poop.
DeathByVoid · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I once acquired a super hefty bouncy ball, that was pretty painful to get hit by. Our school had these small wet rooms at the end of most halls that were probably four feet by six feet across. We’d enter as a group, and continuously throw the ball at the walls as hard as we could while trying our best not to be the one to get beamed in the head by it. Kids are stupid.
redopinion209 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Tour of Duty" (all girls, for what it's worth.) The game mostly consisted of the bossy neighbor girl telling me I had to walk into the blackberry bushes to prove I was a good soldier. I also had to pee in a bucket with a BBQ grill on top.
We played it more than once.
Pwnhub37 · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hiding my dad's keys when he was already late for work. I thought It was the funniest thing to watch his expression after he found them in a random place ex. Fridge.
r1bb1tTheFrog · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Bam."
We played in a room facing each other, with our backs against the wall, on our knees. One of us would start by "kicking off" a soccer ball. We had to to volley the ball back and forth three times in order for it to be in play. At this point, we would hit the ball with our forearms, fists, and feet, back and forth, trying to pass the opponent and hit the wall behind him.
First player to 21 won.
We played for hours until our forearms were beat red. We might have bled for this game too.
rutabagapie · 1 points · Posted at 18:30:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would play "going to the grocery store, bye!" My house was arranged around a big staircase so that you could run in a circle around it. We'd run in opposite directions and when we met each other we'd yell, "going to the grocery store, bye!" ....and then we'd keep running. And that was the game.
samplemax · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandparents had a fun weird card game called Mille Bornes
The premise of Mille Bornes is that the players are in a road race. Each race—or hand—is 1000 miles (or kilometers) long. For two- or three-player games the goal is shortened to 700, with an option for the first player to complete that distance to declare an extension to 1000 miles. Mille Bornes is played with a special deck of cards. There are hazard, remedy, safety, and distance cards. Each hazard is corrected by a corresponding remedy, and can be prevented from happening in the first place by a corresponding safety. The target distance is reached by playing distance cards.
_katec_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blind dog” We played this on our trampoline. The designated blind dog player was blind folded and had to stay on hands and knees while trying to tag another player.
We also payed a version of dodgeball with one of those giant exercise balls. Two people were on the trampoline trying to dodge throws from the players on the ground.
thetristanp · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to dumb all kinds of balls on my trampoline and try not to get hit by them, if you did you lost the limb that got hit.
petechamp · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice try Hasbro
SonUnforseenByFrodo · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost hunt: turn off all the lights in the house and then hide. One person stares at a lamp for a few minutes while we hide and then tried to find someone. They are completely blind and everyone makes ghost noises and slightly touch them or blow near their hand or face
KaelinF · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to hide underneath my bed and we would speak a random set of numbers, saying they were spells. When we left the bed my family would all act like they were different people or creatures from some magical land. This went on until my parents pretended to not know who I was and I freaked out actually thinking I was in a parallel universe. Refused to go under the bed again haha
Randomhero204 · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Aliens”
I’ve seen it around now but the kids call it “mantracker”
I grew up in a townhousing complex with lots of low income families and ever Saturday night all the kids in the area would come out to play. I’m talking like 40-50 kids sometimes. The boundaries would be the whole complex (about 2 city blocks) and we wouldn’t have to cross any streets.
It was an insane game of tag/hide and seek.
super_bitch_face · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade 3, I would go to my best friends house down the block. Her mom would be working and her older brother who should've been watching us, would actually be in his room the entire time. When it would rain, we would play our caveman game called "Ogg & Oong". We would run around in storms, rolling around in puddles, collecting sticks for our fire. Then, after we would have enough sticks and were freezing from being soaking wet, we would start fires in her backyard, right beside her house. (We were cavepeople but we still somehow had access to lighters). When asked, we "had no idea who would be stupid enough to start fires beside the house".
Papa_Stalin_1917 · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Id tell you, but my uncle made me promise to keep it a secret
pair0fpants · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock factory. We'd grind different rocks into powder and trade.
GoldenArcher823 · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a Demo CD copy of the computer game Caesar II. I played through the demo scenario for probably hundreds of hours. It didn't really matter to me that it was always the same map and problems, because it was just the amount of content that I needed to be immersed and I tried dozens of different city configurations for maximum efficacy.
TarAldarion · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Dark Game. When our parents left the house two of my brothers and I would turn off all the lights, everything so that it was pitch dark in the house. It was way out in the countryside so it was actually pitch dark. We would then crawl around silently through the whole house until you found somebody else and would give them a good whack and try and get away without retaliation into the darkness, to repeat it again after people re positioned.
Another was a game where one of us sat against a wall which was the goals and they were the keeper, they threw a tennis ball against the far walls door and it would bounce back. If the keeper hit the doorknob of the door on the far wall they got a point, however when the ball bounced back the other one or two people could try and take a shot after the first bounce on the keep, if it got past him and hit the wall they got a point. It was awesome.
A third that may be more common is that one of us would choose how the others died in turn and we would all act it out, with the chooser awarding the best acted death a point.
paIVcakes · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WWF Soccer. It was a combination of the wrestling we'd seen on television and 2 on 2 soccer in my neighbor's back yard
notProfCharles · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle Pong. Basically 2 shirtless brothers hitting ping pong balls as hard as they could at each other from about 6’ away...
SeizureProcedure115 · 1 points · Posted at 18:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark Orbit, the original from WildTangent. I haven't seen it in like 17 years
obscuredamage · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would walk around in a circle to Get Down by Backstreet Boys, and every time the song said “get down” we would touch the ground.
trumpet · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike Tig.
Started out in our childhood, on BMX bikes, at the village hall car park. Then we got into motorbikes - Honda 90s, so not ridiculously fast - and started playing it with whole gangs of players in the woods. (Helmets? Nah, we won't need them...)
Somewhere through the years it progressed to Quad Tig, and for a while we had a variation called Trike Tig which was extra fun - three wheeled ATVs have a tendancy to fall over hilariously if you turn too fast.
We stopped doing Car Tig quite swiftly. It was, in retrospect, a poor idea.
Boeijen666 · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was probably 7 or 8 when me and the kid down the road used to throw our he-man figures at powerlines trying to get them stuck. And then we would try and get them down.
Dont ask me why we did it. It was a shitload of fun though
RedneckRafter · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a bunch of the kids around town would get together in a big open field down the street from our houses. We would bring a beach ball and the objective was to not let it hit the ground. There was no prize or point system. From the amount of broken bones you would have thought there was. I miss being young and clueless to the world.
abi_rose13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So whenever me and my brothers got bored we would just scream out AVALANCHE and then we would all pile on top of the sofa and roll off all together. In the end we were all crying because we never learnt that every time we would do it we would bash our heads on a wall
LizzyMcFly · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Celery Commandos. We made little dudes out of celery stalks (just split them to make arms and legs). We put them on the road to see whose would get run over last.
SalemWitchBurial · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had a long staircase in our house growing up and me and my sister would throw thin, hard covered book at each other, someone at the top of the stairs and someone at the bottom of the stairs. That game didn't last long after we both took several hits to both eyes lol
mostlyforporn · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my bestie would get out the plastic set of bowling pins, a ball, and a designated spot on the floor. Then one person would stand with the ball on the spot amd close their eyes. The other would hide the plastic pins (usually like 10) somewhere around the basement where the other COULD hit them with the ball without moving from the spot but would have to look for them.
And that was it, you cant move from your spot and you gotta toss the ball around trying to find/knock over the pins. I miss it i want to make a vidyagame out of it haha
HarleyDennis · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “war” with our bb guns. 3 pump max. Mark had a temper, and would always cheat by exceeding the three pump max. Surprised no one ever lost an eye.
We also played “ditch”. The idea was to barrel down the gravel hill/driveway that was about 70 yards long on your bike. Then you’d have to jump off your bike at the end, without crashing into the stand of trees at the bottom of the hill. Whoever got closest to the trees, won. We did variations where we would draw a line that you had to ditch your bike at, and whoever landed the furthest away from the ditch point, won. We had lots of road rash, and 30 years later, every one of us still has at least one piece of gravel trapped under their skin somewhere.
AnEpicHibiscus · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hah! I forgot all about this, but when me and my best friend were like 10 we’d throw any and all random floaties, pool noodles, balls, toys into the swimming pool and run around the edge as fast as we could to make the center of the water cyclone everything together, while shouting ”STIR THE SOUP!” like our lives depended on it. Once everything was flowing fast we’d stop and ride the current. It was our favorite thing to do whenever she’d come over.
Lebowski36 · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Supernova' was the first complex game I played when I was 6 years old :D
https://youtu.be/H66PlhZG4EU
Thanks to my grandfather I could play it on an old dos pc around 1997. This was my introduction to PC's. Today I work as technical support and in my free time I like to play around with my Raspi 3. Next project raspiblitz lighting node💪
sapphic-sunshine · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The lion game.
You would start with one “lion” and they’d run around on all fours trying to tag everyone else running away on two legs. Each person tagged would become a lion as well and the last kid standing won!
RANG3R401 · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(own horses) me and my older brother would go into the horse field and make a random bet. And the first one to catch and ride the horse without any saddle or anything won. My mom loved it because it kept us outside so she could do anything she had to do
coddiwomplek · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I babysat kids that played “Timothy McVeigh” and “Tornado” sometime they combined them together....needless to say, we lived in Oklahoma.
vwato · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older sister/cousins used to play a catching game where we would throw a tennis ball onto the roof tiles, of which would cause the ball to randomly appear from the gutter edge and you had to catch it before the other player/s caught it. This got competitive very fast and resulted in a fair few hard tackles in order to deney someone other than you getting the ball
SnapcasterWizard · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid we had a trampoline in our back yard, our favorite game we would play was called "Bombscile" (who knows how we named it). A few people would stand on the trampoline and everyone else would try to throw all sorts of various balls in the air and have them land on the trampoline. They had to go at least above the heads of those on the trampoline to count. The kids on the trampoline had to keep the balls from landing by catching, kicking, hitting then off.
spacekitty313 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Nasty Food Game. You could put a mixture of anything from the refrigerator and pantry into a spoon and the other person had to eat it. You got a point if they vomited. We got super creative. It was a brutal game
I_PEE_WITH_THAT · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play what I called Velociraptor, Jurassic Park had just come out and I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I'd hunch over, tuck my arms up so I had little dinosaur arms, and chase other kids around the playground at recess. I'd yell "VELOCIRAPTOR!" and start the hunt, I'd chase kids until I was exhausted and sweating. The principal later told me to stop because the other kids didn't like it but I never picked up on it because I was an only child and I lived in a rural community who took longer than other kids to pick up on social cues. My parents made no real attempt to socialize me, the school thought I was autistic for years.
NogginClontith2005 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Touching body parts with my uncle
alienbrainman · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game as kids we called “Live, Die, or be a Vegetable”. Pretty much, we would tie our hands and feet and throw each other into the deep end of the pool and try and escape. One or two other kids would be in the water for assistance if anything went wrong... as of two 10 year olds can save another from drowning. Genius right? Thankfully no one ever got injured or died. What were we thinking? For a time, we would even tie dumbbells on to sink is down to the bottom. Fun times. I think I might start it up again once summer rolls around.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to walk around holding a mirror upwards and looking down at it, pretending our house was upside down and we were walking on the ceiling.
MrEousTranger · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brothers an I would have one of those bouncy balls with the handle and I being the biggest one would swing it at them and send them flying.
We were outside and on the grass so no one ever got hurt
iloveprettyladies · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle's special game, but he said I'm not allowed to tell anybody.
TheseBonesAlone · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trip Master" was me and my siblings game. Played on a trampoline. One person is it and has to stay in the middle of the trampoline on all fours. Then they have to trip another person to make them it. No idea how none of us broke a bone.
redditmakesmegiggle · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Herbie's and police on road trips. Herbie's were 2 points. Police were 1 point. With lights on 2 points. If you called one out in the distance and turned out to be a false call out you lost the points. Herbie's bus was 3 points. Any of these on a flatbed being towed was automatic win and we would start over! Simple yet effective way to pass time. We had so much fun playing it we would play no matter where we went and how long the trip was.
Wailka · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would run around the house switching the TVs to the static setting with the volume all the way up. First one to get caught by my angry father loses.
wackwithpoobrain · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We got one of those big fuzzy hats you get at a fair and we had my sister put it on, which covered her eyes, and she had to play tag with it on. As soon as we started we all ran and hid and she ran full force into the corner of the house and fell back like in a cartoon.
surecharley · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s possible we didn’t make these up on our own but I have a couple.
Me and my cousins used to play a game we called the “New World” where we would walk through imaginary portals outside and explore uncharted land. (literally just our backyard) One of us would often get “stuck” in certain portals have to get the others to help us back.
We also used to stand in front of the picture frames at my grandmas house and pretend to jump in them. We would just stand there but explain what we were doing inside the picture. Ex. There was a picture of a river on the side of a mountain. We would “jump in” and talk to Indians.
We had pretty solid imaginations I guess.
Cozy_Owee · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my best friends was a girl that lived across the street named Amy. We would spend our summers at each others houses. I didn't have much as a kid, so when she was over we usually played pretend in the back yard playing with our pets. We had a game where we would "build a house" out of mud, various bricks, and sticks and we would play house. We acted like we were married and had kids and I would cook dinner and she would go to work or vice versa.
But. Neither of us played "husband". We were just two wives.
Yeaaaaaaaah, I'm a lesbian. IDK what happened to Amy. But she proved useful in my coming out against the "no signs" defense lol
discgolfjoshsoccer · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played the "Trip Game". In the rec room there was a fireplace and a loveseat at opposite ends of the room, those were the bases. One tried to go back and forth as many times as possible. The other assumed a crabwalk position and used only legs to trip the opponent. We played this game ALOT. We injured ourselves as much as you'd expect.
okkCon · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Toilet Tag, which was pretty much some kind of variant of freeze tag. If you got caught by the toilet bandit you had to stand still. In order to save you, someone who hadn’t been caught yet had to sit on your knees and pretend to flush, along with a FWOOOOOSH sound.
2fatcats31017 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid we invented “Slug Races.” We’d dig around our back yards looking for the best slug, then we’d draw a race track in chalk on the driveway and race our slimy contenders! We each had a stick and could nudge our respective slug back into their lane if they started to cross a chalk line. These races usually took a while, and thinking back I feel a little bad for the slugs. Although the spiders from our “Spider Fights” definitely had it worse, as their matches were to the death :(
carburyharry · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Trampoline Game" We had a trampoline in my cousins back garden that didn't have a safety net. Everyone would get on the trampoline except one person. The person on the ground would throw the ball onto the trampoline and everyone on it could use any part below the waist (feet, legs etc) to keep the ball off the trampoline. If it touched the trampoline then the person who was closest to it had to get off and join the person on the ground. This would go on until everyone out with the last person being the winner. The fun from this came from having so many people on the trampoline that it was hard to walk and the soft landing of it meant trickshots were encouraged.
LoudType · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roadrash
Stellar1557 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party.
We played "Spoke the tire". We would build bicycles out of the bicycle scrap pile (long story) and ride them down the big ass dirt/rock driveway while people stood at the bottom with big sticks to try and throw them through the spokes of your tire.
We usually aimed for the back tire only, which grinds you to a stop, but every now and then you would go sailing when your front tire got "spoked".
airy52 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would get on my rectangular trampoline with nets keeping you from going over, one person would put a pillow case over their head so they can't see and would crawl around trying grab the other player/s. You could try to be quiet and sneak by on the rails or do a big jump to cross to hide on another rail. Or life urself up a little on the net and hope he doesn't notice you.
deepspacebisexuals · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favourite game to play as a child was 'drug store' where i pretended to run a drug ring with all my barbies and stuffed animals. I'd give them all ripped up pieces of paper with fake drug names written on them, then i'd make them 'smoke' it or 'consume' it. Strange. Especially seeing as nobody around me as a child was doing drugs. I think I just picked it up from playing GTA at a young age.
NoXmates · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elta. The rules are simple, using couch pillows run at eachother as fast as you can untill someone falls over. Then repeatedly hit eachother with the pillows untill someone conceeds by shouting elta. The game usually ended with tears rather than someone shouting elta though.
jake-the-dawg04 · 1 points · Posted at 18:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a pond near us and we would chase my dad with cattails
binch1234 · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball of awesome. It started with a simple game of football but it quickly devolved into full contact free for all. You were allowed to have a team of two and whoever had the ball at the end of recess won. It was banned very fast bcz it was deemed too violent but we played anyways bcz we were lil badasses
ZucchiniMiss · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I used to play “Cheetah Detective” on the playground.
Basically, we imagined that cheetahs had been kidnapped from the local zoo by someone in the fashion industry (Cruella DeVille style). We’d have to run around finding clues in order to save the day.
This would usually take place over a couple of days. We’d spend the first recess of the day planting clues in various places for us to “find” as we acted out the story.
It was a great time, even though the other kids thought we were weird. I still think about Katie often.
Mortiferalgia · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play "Dig A Tunnel". My parents had a huge, heavy rug in their room that we would burrow under and make a network of kid-sized tunnels we'd then hang out in. We'd frequently bring in toys and treasures from around the house too, to make it more like a little burrow. The pattern of tunnels would change each game for variety.
In hindsight, the amount of dirt, dust, and other nasty things we were marinating in under there probably weren't worth the fun of the game.
gsdagaw91 · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kiss the pp
FuCuck · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “No pants” game with my uncle
pywacketish · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Relesio, it was a cross between hide and seek and tag. You'd count while others hid, I'd you were found you had to race back to the count point. Beat the counter and you were released and shouted Relesio!
FreddieZeRobot · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pickle.
Rules of the game:
There are two bases a fair distance from each other(have to be stationary, we used primarily a tree and a telephone pole)
One person starts as the pickle, and has something to throw (really anything that isn't knives)
If you aren't the pickle, you taunt the pickle, running between bases. If you get hit by the Pickle's thrown object, you are now the pickle.
If you are touching a base, getting hit by the pickle doesn't count. ONE EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE:
If you are a scaredy-pants wimp and are overstaying your welcome on one base, the pickle can point at you and count to ten from halfway between both bases. If you do not leave the base by ten, the pickle then has every right to hit you until you touch the other base.
This game was best played with about 5-6 people in a very large yard.
sjogga90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "Dodge the log". My preschool was located next to a forest. As such, the schoolyard consisted mostly of grass surrounded by a fence and then trees.
In one area, along the edge of the school yard, there was a fairly steep hill. Me, or one of my friends, would roll this rather heavy piece of timber up the hill. The rest of us would lie down at random spots around halfway up this hill. At the count of three, whoever sat with the log at the top would release it. The people laying in the hill then had to roll away from it.
We did this for about a week, then Carl failed to roll away and got hit in the head. He survived without any major injuries, but our teachers banned the game.
iDeadLight · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Family. Think of it you get the jist.
xpinchx · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forget what it's called, but it works best in a field on a dark night. One person looks up at the stars and spins around until they're dizzy. Everyone else tries to run away while carrying a flashlight.
fichgoony · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take a mattress and flatten it on the basement flight of stairs. One person would chase the rest of us from the furthest end of the basement and we would all run and try and climb the mattress and make it to the landing. Last person to make it was the tiger (person chasing us) in the next round.
Was so much fun, I remember climbing and someone pulling my leg forcing me to slide down to the bottom.
_katethegr8 · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t break the sugar bowl. You would say “don’t break the sugar bowl starting... now!” And the first one to talk loses. Pretty sure my parents did it just to shut us up and I regularly play it with my preschool class and they love it.
doggfaced · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you’re in a room where helium balloons are losing gas and dropping, you can play a game where all the kids run around and hit them so they go back toward the ceiling. The aim, of course, is to keep the balloons from touching the floor. We called it “cobbler” for no real reason. When the first ballon hits the ground, you all lose and Cthulhu comes to claim his prize.
_JackTheBlumpkinKing · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I use to pretend the cars coming down the road were about to pull a drive-by on the house and we had to rush down our driveway and get behind the car before they passed. I know it sounds bad but I remember it being fun lol
Marc_Elliot · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my childhood friend used to play 'rivers' basically when it rained and collected at the side of the road we would watch it flow down the street into the grate. We loved this game so much that even when it was sunny we would pour a bottle of water out on the street to see how far it got.
EpicFishFingers · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just played "kick your slippers off"
We had a garden with a swing set, which had two swings side by side and this weird glider thing (we called it a glider because it had a bit of shitty plastic at the top called a glide guard to protect your fingers from the mechanism. It was like a two seater swing)
And we'd go out after school in slippers, one swing each, and try and kick our slippers off, mid swing, and get them as far as we could.
Once we got to around age 10 we could both hit the house and had perfected the art of slipper kicking so it lost its charm. Asking the next door neighbour if we could have our ball back was awkward enough - asking for slippers back was worse.
Brie_Niche · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bat tag. My best friend and I ran around the house and chased each other with baseball bats. We had a habit of trying to hit each other as hard as would could.
LemonAssJuice · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the Bucket - hide and seek tag but the seeker sits on a bucket to count and then must both guard the bucket and tag everyone. Everyone else works together to kick the bucket. My uncle came up with it at a get together one year.
Slashcat2000 · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess its not too unique, but Hide and Seek in the dark.
I had a large basement, someone would go upstairs to count and turn the stair lights off on the way down. No flash lights were used, and the use of traps (moving chairs into the hallway for example) were common. The table was the caught area, and if someone hiding could sneak to you and tag you, you were free to hide again. Also hiding under the table was allowed.
We have a pillar in the center of the basement, I once won a round by just walking around it. I have a friend that got into our wood pile and had a winter jacket over them, for 20 minutes I looked and couldn't find them. We got creative, it was a lot of fun.
spacey_stacy · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This thread is just making me sad smile. I didn’t have siblings to do dumb shit with
Keasbeysknight · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait for dad to come back...
ThePaulBunyanTrophy · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games I played as a kid in Korea... I no longer remember the names but they went like this... First is a land capture have you played on the dirt ground. You draw up a large rectangular area and you and your friends each take a corner. Each person then draws a quarter circle the size of his palm and makes it his base. Then you find a pebble you can flick with your fingers. You then have 3 tries to get the pebble back to your base, drawing line each time. If you bring it back, then you capture the land. If not, the lines are erased. If you cross out of bounds or cross into other people's land, you die. At the end, you compare the captured land size and the biggest is the winner. This is a game you can play with literally nothing. You can even play it by yourself. Our moms were not fans of the game because we usually came home filthy.
The next game was played on a paper. Any paper but something at least a standard notebook size. You draw a map of a country (Korea was popular obviously) and recreate the mountain ranges as well as major rivers. Each side gets a set number of military units like planes, tanks, soldiers, artillery, etc and you take turns placing them on the map by drawing them. To advance the units, you stand a pencil on the unit and gently hold the eraser end with your finger tip. Then you tilt it toward you until the lead end slides forward. Whatever is drawn on the map is how far that unit moved and/or attacked. Some of the rules are that tanks and the infantry cannot cross the mountains and the planes have to return to a point behind your foremost ground units, etc. If your capital is hit (just once or several times as per house rule) you lose. This is a game requiring not only fine motor control but a good grasp of tactics and strategy. Plus you get pretty familiar with the geographical features of the map you select. And you just need a piece of paper and a pencil.
I'm not sure if these are still played in Korea. We really only played these because most of us had nothing else. It was in the 70's and while Korea was bouncing back, we still didn't have most of the luxuries that kids these days are used to.
airholder · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my cousin and I were about 11 or 12 our parents let us just hang out together at her house during the summer when they were at work. We played a game we called “sticks” which was just us lighting sticks on fire in her basement.
We mentioned it once at a family dinner and my aunt about lost her mind. We were t allowed to play sticks anymore after that.
Javeyn · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"parking lot ball"
Get a McDonald's ball pit ball (or 3), and get you and 3 of your friends together in a parking lot at night and find 3 empty spots under a street light. Divide into teams of 2.
The game plays like ping pong. Each team stays in their parking spot, trying to kick the ball over the farthest line of the opposing teams parking spot. The middle spot is the war zone, where both teams may enter and try to snag the ball (feet only). You may not enter an opposing teams parking spot.
It's way more fun that it should be.
meltingparadiso · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “All Out War”. One of my friends had a finished basement that served as a playroom. During All Out War someone would turn out the lights and we all throw toys, balls, markers, whatever was close at hand at each other. It was like dodge ball but you never know what will hit you or from what angle. There was no winning this game but I think we all lost a bit of our humanity.
lscarl · 1 points · Posted at 18:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd call it "weed" was basically like dark rp from gmod lol. Cops and robbers, would use leaves and stuff for drugs and airsoft guns and random stuff. We'd just roleplay around the house or area, was a lot of fun lol. I guess that's what you get from video games haha.
randelll · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I don't know what we called it, but my guy friends and I would sit in a circle with our legs spread, couldn't move, and took turns lobbing things, whatever we had at the time, a tennis ball, football, etc, into the air to try to hit each other in the nuts. You couldn't straight-up beam someone in the balls. Whatever you threw had to have some arc, so we'd lob things high into the air and it was always funny watching the victim's face knowing he's about to get wrecked lol. It was also more of like a pain tolerance game where you kept playing until you couldn't handle it anymore. We let a girl play with us once and that was a huge mistake.
requireddosae · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad is kind of a "tough guy" and he always wanted me to be one as well. When I was a kid, probably 8 or so, my dad and I would work in the backyard and garden together and we used to compete to see who could catch the most wasps barehanded. I would always lose cause his hands were so callused that he didn't feel the stings like I did.
As I got older I learned that this was kind of strange after telling some friends about it.
SlurpySlurpdoge · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play hide n' seek with a ball. When the seeker found you he had to hit you with the ball. The first person to be eliminated was going to be the seeker. Also, the seeker had 5 minutes to find you.
exaviyur · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slapper. My brother, sister and I would all stick our arms out to the sides and spin in circles, trying to stay away from each other and only ever let our hands slap each other. I think you lost if you fell down or slammed into something.
xc3peat · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick wars. We would go into the woods and collect solid twigs or branches that were small enough to throw well but big enough to hurt or count as a sword. We’d divide the sticks up picking 1 by 1 like a draft then split into two teams of 2-3. Each team took one side of the yard and then the chaos began when someone said 3-2-1-MARIO! I can only imagine what my friends parents were thinking when they saw their adolescent children whipping sticks at each other and screaming bloOdy war caries lol. If you got hit you weren’t out. If you bled you weren’t out. Only when you said “I surrender” did the game end.
GizmosArrow · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Popcorn on the trampoline. Everyone would line up their shoes in the middle of the tramp. Then, on the count of 3, everyone would jump to make the shoes “pop.” The goal was to get all the shoes off the edge without getting hit by any of them. If you got hit, you’d get off the tramp and wait until the game was over. Haven’t played in forever!
lDaedalusl · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Battle Ball" could be played with only 2 people, but like all games is fun with more. Determine an "end zone" line that you have to pass to win. Then have the previous winner throw a football as hard as they can away from the line. Everyone else tries to catch the ball, but whomever gets it now becomes the target. Everyone else tries to tackle them/beat them up in any way possible so they dont cross the line.
Best fun you'll ever have getting a ton of bruises!
LuckyCandy7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Floor Is Lava but with 10-step immunity and also only barefoot.
Basically I could step anywhere barefoot for 10 steps before I would lose the game. Socks or shoes were invincibility and rugs on the floor and basically anything that's not the main part of the floor were considered safe zones.
I kept this up for like at least ten years all through elementary school and middle school without losing once but then I stopped after I realized it was kind of dumb to try making giant steps everywhere and jump on pieces of furniture when my family wasn't watching.
MoJoeILoveAmerica · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dodge Golf”
snoopyeeebee · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag freeze type game played in a snow maze.
Stofers · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Commander Keen
kwizatscataract · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roman candle/bottle rocket fights aren't a thing? No bb-gun + garbage can lid fights? While I do enjoy the creativity of some of the other posts, I am disappointed to see some activities overlooked by others.
Triptcip · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it the "Wall Ball" game but perhaps there is another name for it...
You play with a tennis ball and a flat vertical wall.
The idea is to throw the ball against the wall but it would have to bounce of the ground first and then hit the wall. It could only bounce of the ground once and then the wall once.
If somebody caught it straight of the wall, on the full, the thrower would be out.
Relativey simple game and I'm surprised I have never meet anybody outside of my friend zone that played it.
Please tell me you've heard of it and have a better name?
EntireCommunistUnion · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finding The Will To Live - The Telltale Game Series
CHERNO-B1LL · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I.R.A. (Yes that I.R.A)
Basically a game that was a mix of chasing, and extraordinary rendition. Named after the Irish Republican Army who were at the height of their activity during the troubles in Ireland in the 80's and early 90's.
You had two teams one was the I.R.A the other was the R.U.C. (Royal Ulster Constabulary, cunts, no one wanted to be them but they doled out the beatings). The I.R.A. team picked a word the same amount of letters as the number of players on their team. You then got time to split up, run, and hide while the "oppressors" posseed up and made a plan. They would either come for you as a whole group, or split up into hunting parties of 2 or 3. After that anything went.
Their mission was to track you down and kick the ever loving shite out of you until you broke and give up your letter. People had different rules here but we could; fight back, lie, escape, barter, whatever you wanted really but the only thing you couldn't do was give up your letter without taking at least a bit of a kicking or you were forever branded a snitch and your own team would batter you if they found out (Red Arse was often the forfeit, a secondary game I'll get into after).
Being allowed lie meant the other team had to hold you in case the word didn't make sense. This made it more tactical as they could let you go and hunt at full strength but if they didn't trust you they had to devote manpower to guarding you. This is where the mind games set in.
To win, teams took turns as the RA and whoever held out their word the longest, won. Games would go on for a whole day sometimes within a set boundary of fields, streets, lanes and estates.
Bonus: Red Arse is a game where you kick a football at your friend's arse. Usually it was the forfeit for the loser of any multitude of other ball games but it worked equally well as a punishment. One free penalty style shot for every, no restriction on power, ideally with a rough worn leather ball. If you move or look around, the shooter gets another go. More often than not not everyone missed but usually one sneaky fuck would run up and blast it up your hole out of his hand.
LukePhilips21 · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Created a game we called bomb island. We had a large trampoline with pretty good springs and a protective meshing that made it practically impossible to bounce out. We would fill the trampoline with all of the balls in the house (This was a lot). Then everyone playing would get in and start bouncing. If a ball hit you then you lost. Lots of fun
Killerman927 · 1 points · Posted at 18:36:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would build cars with those large mega blocks. Make them big, small, fat, etc. But they had wheels and could be pushed. I unfortunately can't remember the name of said game, but we essentially built these cars and smashed them together. Whoevers car held up the best after a few smashes won. Got in trouble for that game very often, but it was so much fun we just kept doing it.
eillettobba · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played coffin racing, we lived on the top of a hill and had skateboards, one day our parents bought some flat pack furniture which was around the size and shape of a coffin. There were a few boxes and we would race one another whilst inside the box and on the skateboard. We almost got hit a couple of times by cars but it was a good adrenaline rush!
JuniorSeniorTrainee · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Player one leaves the kitchen. Player two does things. Player one comes back and has to drink whatever is on the table.
It was a dumb game with no winners. A lump of mayonnaise at the bottom of a glass of coke is not as good as it sounds.
BenStillerthanyou · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much a game as it was a ritual. My friends and I in high school used to do this thing where we'd take the newspaper into my driveway and set it on fire, then dance around it in our underwear. Lots of laughs from that. Usually played around 2 a.m.
mindputtee · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gosh this thread is making me miss being a kid who could just run around in the woods playing made up games.
Toadster3911 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spiders on the ground.
The dumbest game ever. There is a person who is “it” and in the sand part of the play ground and not on the play structure itself. This person has their eyes closed... yes I know this is not wise. The the others are on top of the play structures trying not to get tagged by the person who is it. These people are the “spiders”. If one of the spiders drops down to the sand to move from structure to structure, the person who is it can call out “spiders on the ground?” The spiders then have to say yes or no ( telling the truth). If no one is on the ground then the it person continues on as usual. If they say yes, the it person can then open their eyes and chase the individual that is on the ground.... I nearly broke my nose running straight into a play ground pole. I’m an idiot.
leadkern · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snowhenge:
We'd build a large donut-shaped fort made out of snow in the middle of an adjoining field. One kid would stand inside the middle as defender, with the goal of everyone else to get inside. The person in the middle would defend as much as possible as all the other kids would team up and plan ways to get inside. I can remember diving headfirst over this 3-4ft high wall (depending on our age) and getting repelled back at the last second. Was exhausting but so fun.
TheArchitect_7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Rescue Squad". It was always so cold getting out of the bath, the siblings would see you leaving the warm comfort of the bathroom and run to cover you with blankets so that you would stay cozy.
xGibs99 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would trap a bee in empty water bottles and put a slight amount of water in with them. Then we would shake them around for a while before emptying the bottle over one of those outside fans, shredding the bee.
i_Go_Stewie · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my friend were 6-8 years old, we were huge Star Wars fans. I had one of those Nerf Bows and a telescopic plastic light saber. We would go in my mom’s backyard and take turns shooting the Nerf bow at each other while the other person tried to deflect the arrow with the lightsaber. Awesome sound effects included.
schmidly89 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Called it "I love a parade." We would take turns lying on our backs while, usually, my two brothers and stepdad would take turns walking on and over my stomach while saying I love a parade every time you step on the stomach
Bilboteabaggins00 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games we would play.
My brother and I would get a long white socks then stuff another set of balled up socks inside. We'd grab a pillow as a shield and then start trying to hit each other with the socks. Kinda like a medieval mace.
The other game my siblings and I played was stuffed animal war. Set up 2 bases and toss beanie babies and other stuffed animals at each other.
BluegrassTechie · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Barfs Tale
viva_la_viva · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my parents' TV broke they got rid of it, so the entertainment center had an empty space big enough for a kid to sit in. My 3 siblings and I would take turns being the "TV" and act out different programs. The siblings on the couch would "change the channel" so the TV-kid would have to start doing something new. Sometimes they would change it to the Spanish channel so we would say gibberish and pretend we knew the language.
EclipsePanther · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably too late lol Me and a friend used to play "Adventure." We had some super wild imaginations and would run around the play ground at recesses imagining different scenarios. The most memorable one was the submarine with the sea creature that we pretended broke a hole in the sub and made a nest. Neither of us will ever forget when I said "holy crap there's a hole in the wall!" We were like 8, and "crap" was apparently a bad word so it was really funny. We laughed nonstop the rest of the day lol.
We also imagined that the hopscotch lines painted on the black top were our houses and each square was a room.
Also, bark pizzas. We made a whole bakery out of using different shades of bark (wetter bark was darker so we used that as cheese toppings or chocolate frosting on cakes) and eventually got a couple other classmates to join us and set up a menu and everything.
"Stupid News" was one game we made up that we got really invested in. We pretended we were on a live audience news cast and would write scripts and have people from the audience join in talk shows.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha “ghost game” we would throw a blanket over a player and about 2 to 3 others would run away and defend their self against the ghost. Usually ended up in someone just tackling the ghost 😂
xoash1029 · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to compete to see who could jump down the most steps of our staircase. It was fun until one day I jumped down 7 steps and injured my big toe.
Azel_dagger · 1 points · Posted at 18:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The name of our game is called Intense. In the playground of our apartment building we have a rectangular space to run around. There's a tagger in the middle of the ground and all the players have to run across from one side of the wall to the other. We set up safe zones in each end where the players much reach. The tagger has to try to tag as many people during each round. 1 round consists of going from one side of the wall to the other then run back without getting tagged. If you do get tagged you are out for the round and must wait next round at the starting point. Once you are tagged twice or 3 times if we agreed you deserve a slight handicap, you are the new tagger. When there is a new tagger, all old tags are forgiven and you start fresh.
ExplorerII16570 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rain
gabriellereign · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Once my dad let my brother and I use mouse traps in a dodge ball type of game, with a couple of our friends. We were maybe 10 years old.
Mantequilla_Stotch · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just lost "The Game"
Theskullcracker · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played hide the rat. We had a fake rat that we would hide in various places. When you found it, you had to hide it. The object was to see who could get the finder to scream.
We still play it with my kids. Currently- the rat is in our chest freezer.
Troik253 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In kindergarten we used to play “Get in my Belly!”.
It was basically just tag but you had to hug the person and yell the phrase.
rohnit15 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay so this is pretty dark and weird, now that I think of it. So I was born in Mumbai, India and there train accidents were pretty common, you know people getting hit while crossing tracks and stuff. So I remember a man died in an accident when I was around 6. We heard of that incident and my neighbor and I used to play the train accident. Where one of us is the guy trying to cross the rails and other one is a train and has to smash the guy crossing.
Um... What was I thinking!
heckdemon · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this modified game of red light green light I'd play with my babysitters. I'd yell out a color like orange or blue and it would be something like hop on one foot or crawl instead of just running or walking, I always changed it up
jmspinafore · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would roll up magazines and newspapers and wrap them up in different colors of duct tape to make clubs. Then we'd chase each other around the house and beat each other with them.
Shroomantha · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee Ball!! My sisters and I (one on one each time) would stand a few blocks of sidewalk away from each other in my dads front yard with a kickball or basketball. With the right amount of air in the basketball we could have it go flying! We would pass the ball back and forth with our knee, having it bounce one time before the other player could use their knee to pass it back. We had to keep it straight so it would stay on the side walk and once we got really good we would be able to stand much farther away and have it sail to each other.
lazlosf · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins went to the beach and marked the sand to represent buildings like drugstore, hospital, mall etc.
Then we grabbed leaves and used them as money. Every cousin (which were at least 12) had their especific job at our “city” and I was the baker :D
MiGSRK · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine who lived just down the road played a game called “Jet Wars”. We were basically these Navy Seals/Army Ranger pilots who were engaged in the worldwide conflict that had creatively been named Jet Wars. We pretty much just ran around acting as though we were piloting our badass fighter jets, periodically having to land and take out enemies in trees or underground where our jets couldn’t reach.
My favorite concept to come out of that game was “air brakes”. For when the jets had to stop. In mid air. And just... stay there, as though parked.
We were 8, OK?
chicletism · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rigor mortis. You would sneak up on your victim and wrap yourself around them yelling rigor mortis and you had to get out of their grip. Another one we liked to play was hide the body. Someone pretends to be dead and you hide the body, pretty self explanatory I guess.
sethbballin · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother my adopted aunt and me all pretended like we were ninjas with elemental powers and fighting dark ninjas and I always told them it was just a game but they told me it was real and I was the youngest so I believed it even though none of us ever showed any signs of having powers except my brother claimed he summoned the thunderstorm we had back then
Louka2211 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The sleeping game , I played it with my mother every day of my childhood . It is a game where u basically she reads a story and I ......zzz
smallseb · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
THE FLOOR IS LAVA crossover World Wrestling Federation (basically the The Undertaker Vs. Hulk Hogan)
K3lTrav · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a passenger in the car I used to tap and/or hold down my feet to match the two oncoming yellow dashes/straight lines in the middle of the road guitar hero style
enforcetheworld · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a game called "Prisoner" in elementary school, played on a volleyball court with a volleyball. You had two teams on either side and the object was to throw the volleyball over the net to the other side without touching the net (ball or your body) and not have the other team catch it.
If the other team caught the ball, you were out, or a prisoner, and would stand off the court to the side. If you threw it and it touched them but they didn't catch it. They were out. If one of your teammates was a prisoner but you caught a ball the other team threw, they came back in. This continued until all members of a team were out.
It used to get pretty epic when your entire team was prisoners and you finally, finally caught the ball they'd ALL get to come back in. So many memories about this game but I've never heard of anyone playing it other than people who went to my school.
LoopholeTravel · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"King of the Circle" - Draw a circle in the dirt around a group of guys. Count to three, and start shoving. Last one in the circle, without a broken bone wins.
Variant - "King of the Dirt Pile" - Same idea, except we all started atop a huge pile of dirt that was going to be used for re-surfacing a local baseball field. Lots of tumbling down the hill. Hard to understand how someone wasn't seriously injured.
LittleChurch · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “rugby soccer” having little grasp of the rules of either rugby or soccer. Basically this was a three person game of soccer with only one goal, wherein the goalie defended against both other players. The two playing for points could not touch the ball with hands, but tackles, trips, and virtually all forms of assholery were otherwise permitted.
Winner was first to ten or last to cry/give up. Loser rotated to goalie position. Play continued until everyone was sick of being beat up. I don’t remember ever keeping track of an overall winner for the day.
KingNothing71 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Murderer". We went to the third floor of our house and everyone got a card. Each card corresponded to a role with different abilities - the doctor could heal people, the detective could turn the lights on for two seconds at a time, the sheriff was the only person who could take down the murderer, etc. Whoever got the ace was the murderer, then we turned the lights off and everyone tried to hide while the murderer tried to "kill" everyone by slowly knocking them down to the ground. It was super fun, some of my funniest memories are from playing that game, such as my brother climbing out the window onto a small ledge that connected to a bathroom and performing a crazy sneak attack on one of our friends.
le_bauser · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young (like age 3-6) we lived close to some very good family friends of ours, so our parents took turns watching the other's kids so the other parents could have a night out. The other kids (my brother, and then our 3 friends who were siblings to each other) and I played a game that was like tag, except the seeker had to have a blanket over their head. I don't remember what we named it but it was basically like marco polo without the "marco" and "polo" calls.
Anyways, there was one night we were playing and I became the seeker. At that time, I was like 4 or 5, so my face was right at windowsill height in our house. You can probably see where this is going. I was running around chasing people (blindly) with a blanket over my head, and I smack my head on a windowsill.
Blood everywhere, parents of our friends have to come pick them up, 3 am hospital visit, etc. Yeah, in retrospect, it wasn't a very smart game.
TL;DR: played a blind seeker tag game when I was little and I ran into a windowsill and split my head open
Ryleth88 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Pokemon at summer camp. One of us would be the trainer and the other dozen of us would pretend to be Pokemon.
This was about the time the first movie came out, so we all had either a toy pokeball that would open up or the case for the gold Pokemon plaques that came from Burger King.
As I recall you could attack the person that was the trainer, but you were on his side if he hit you and the pokeball opened. Ah, nostalgia.
13rennon · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game but when riding in the car I would always pretend I was on a dirt bike riding beside us. I would pretend to hit the ditches and use them as jumps or see how long I could wheelie between hydro poles.... I still find myself doing it now and I’m 30.
wibblywobbly420 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We tied two GT's (they are the toboggans on three skis with steering wheels) on 15 ft ropes to the back of a snow mobile. Then we would ride around the the field trying to push/pull/ram/throw the other other person off their GT. Jumping on the other person's GT and throwing them off was fair game and if we were lucky there would be big drifts along the fence line we could try and ram the outside person off of. If you managed to hold on and pull yourself back onto your GT you were safe.
We had rules in place for safety such as no faster than 40kph, everyone wears helmets with face masks, and if we had a fourth person they would sit backwards on the snow mobile to let the driver know right away when someone falls off.
PantherTheRogue · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you've ever heard of the book series Warrior Cats, my friends roleplayed as our OCs and we would go to the forest/field nearby as it was the perfect setting. We followed all the rules and even split up and played by ourselves because we were all part of different 'clans'. One time when my friend got hurt we even tried to use the herbs from the book, which resulted in me rubbing moss on my friend's open wound.
I also played a form of tag called Wallaby's with my sibling and neighbor where you had to jump like a Wallaby and pretend you're eating grass or whatever, and another person would play as the hunter. You had to sneak up on the Wallaby and the other player couldn't move if you didn't make any noise (which was almost impossible). If the Wallaby saw you, they could hop to the safe zone (grandma's garden) and the hunter had their own safe zone (grandma's OTHER garden) that mostly just served as a place for me to pout, since I fucking sucked at the game. We aren't Australian, by the way, and I have no idea why we chose Wallaby as the animal.
jibur · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Improv was what we called it. It's two players, player 1 gives you scenarios to choose from, we did zombies, aliens, or monsters mostly. Player 2 basically plays themselves in the imagination improv world as player 1 guides them through the game world. It's basically a no dice DND with little actual plot. But it's a big time waster if you have a good story teller for player 1
simosez · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punt Return!
My brother and I used to play this game in out backyard with our neighbors. Split into two teams, one would punt the football to the other and you had to make it to the "end zone" before getting tackled. If you got downed you would then punt it to the other team. Rinse and repeat! I remember having a blast with this game changing and creating different rules each time we played outside the base game.
christmaspencil · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “tongue or finger”, which now sounds WAY dirtier than it was. Player 1 closed their eyes and player 2 would touch player 1’s arm with either their tongue or finger. Player 1 had to guess which. We used a wet finger or dry tongue to confuse them. Spent whole mornings playing that game.
rbarton812 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was like 8 or 9, the girl next door (well, 3 houses down; the less said about her the better), her brother and I would play a game called SPUD. A lot of kids probably played it, but I feel like it's not considered a traditional game.
It's like Freeze Tag and Dodgeball rolled into one, but instead of chasing each other like maniacs, everyone freezes in place after the ball is recovered during play, and the person with the ball has only 4 steps (for each letter in SPUD) to reach a target and try and hit them with the ball without it being caught.
SkellOfTheSouth · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddies and I played this “game” called shining. We would tell our parents we were having a sleepover and head to my buddies house with backpacks full of camo clothes, ghillie suits, flash lights, etc and wait till it got dark. We had a spot in the woods about 400 feet from the road. We would hide and wait for cars To pass by then shine flash lights at them, and we would do this game for 5-6 hours sometimes. It was a harmless game IMO, we were very far from the road but close enough that we thought it would at least freak people out. We played this game at the age of 14-16.
One night, we shined a cop on accident. We had rules to not shine or fuck with cops, because that could mean bad news. We thought it was a taxi, so we jumped up and got especially “shiny” to the vehicle, and to our horror the reflective stickers read “SHERIFF” on the side. About one second later an incredibly bright light shined back at us, and we freaked. We had escape plans, and even a map setup of the neighborhood and different escape routes we could use. We sprinted away and the Deputy turned his lights on in pursuit, I ran to a nearby house and hid in a mulch bed, and my friends (3 others) all ran different ways. I distinctly remember one friend who CLIMBED A TREE.
About an hour later, I hear my buddy yelling for me, but he is walking with 2 Deputies. He kept saying it was ok to come out, so about 10 minutes later I came out after I heard my other friends over by the other cops. Apparently they were already coming to investigate the disturbance we were causing, and knew they were right when we ended up doing it to them😂they asked us what we were doing and we told them flashlight tag, which they believed. They said what we did wasn’t technically illegal, but it was a gray area so they spooked us by saying they’d charge us if caught again. The icing on the cake was they told my buddies mom, and we never shined again because crossing her meant you would most definitely get snatched up.
I definitely do not recommend shining these days, we did it over a decade ago, someone may think you’re a domestic terrorist now haha.
ssuurr33 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived in a new apartment complex where a lot of young couples bought apartments, so we had lots of kids as families grew.
Anyway, we would go to the staircase, sit in different stairs while one would go to top floor with a glow in the dark bouncy ball, the we would take our hats off, the kid on the top floor would throw the ball as hard as he could and we would wait, if the ball ended up inside the hat of someone, that someone would win.
We would also play tag, in the staircase, in the dark, but we eventually stopped when one of the kids decided to fall down from the second floor... After that we would just play soccer or something outside.
andyboo3792 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I was on a family road trip, to entertain myself I would add up every single number I saw. The numbers ended up pretty big.
My parents were really anti-gadgets (phones, DS, anything a normal child could entertain themselves with)
easiest-easy · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to have a pail full of bouncy balls. We would go into the bathroom and shut off all the lights, everyone grabs a handful of bouncy balls and starts throwing them! Very terrifying!
mbrock21 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school, my friends and I would get in a circle in a field and throw our phones at each other full speed and you had to try and catch each other phones.
Pomp567 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I used to play a game called "kammo", finnish for dread or horror. My childhood home had a basement with a longish corridor and a random hobby/storage room at the end. We would take turns waiting at the top of the stairs while the rest of us hid within the various cabinets and coat racks in the hallway and the room. When the hiders were ready the lights would be turned off and the one waiting would have to get to the 'end' without getting spooked while the hiders were trying to scare them. As we got older the game evolved with us and eventually it wasn't anymore about getting scared but instead about just taking the one down and beating them with various (usually soft) toys and things.
xc3peat · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“WASHING MACHINE” me and my brother shared a room as kids and we had this game where we’d put our underwear on our heads and socks on our hands and then take these two mouse stuffed animals that had Velcro hands and we’d pretend they were scuba tanks. We would gather all our stuffed animals and through them behind the headboard of one of our beds. Then one would have to dive off the bed into the “water” (blue carpet” and retrieve all the animals. Don’t ask me why it was called washing machine it just made sense to us lol.
AnthropologicalRuby · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For whatever reason my sister and I loved to annoy my dad. The fastest way to do that was playing the “Two Things” game, only rule was you had to see two of something and say “Two ____ you’re it!” So it’d be, “Two cars you’re it!” “Two trees you’re it!” Back and forth for probably only 5 minutes before he’d yell at us. We’re both in our twenties and still do it to this day lol
XXVIITH · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if it ever had a name but my friends and I would just choke each other out until someone tapped out or almost turned purple. Which usually was the case because we pretended to be such tough shits.
It really worried our teachers because we actually had someone pass out on us.
funkybudha · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I played a game called “donkey” where I would get on his back and he would do everything he could to get me off. Smashing me into things, spinning like a madman, pull some WWE moves, anything. If we were in the pool while we were playing he would lowkey try to drown me. Sounds like I was just getting my ass kicked but it was actually insanely fun
RP_KeepTrucking · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get tracing paper and a map book. I loved tracing the borders of nations on the map and then colouring them in. Was part the attraction of the multi coloured continent at the end but also knowing capital cities. Did this for a good couple of years from around 5 or 6
DaRush · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved to build forts with my friends we all had great ideas on where things should go until i realized i had to do all the work because my friends were make believe, they were awesome though!
HamburgerJames · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Champion of Upstairs.”
Every night when our mom sent us to bed, my little brother and I would race upstairs, climbing over each other, holding legs, pushing and clawing to be the first one to the top. The one that made it first was named “Champion of Upstairs.”
The best part about losing is that the next night you had a shot at the title.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wii Sports resort.
eternalguardian · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mirror - We would take a handheld or half length mirror and hold it while we looked into it and pretended to walk on the ceiling. Stepping over the doorways as we went.
gatito12345 · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn’t really a game, just a really weird thing my best friend and I would do when we were kids. My house used to have a small walk in pantry with a path down the middle and shelving on either side. For some reason, that was me and my friend’s favorite place to hang out for a while. We would lay down on the ground under the shelves, snack on dry spaghetti noodles and powdered sugar, and make plans to live in there during our summer break. My dad would walk in while he was making dinner and just be like “oh, hey girls”, grab what he needed, and shut the door back behind him. I crack up thinking about it now because....why?!
sugarsox · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crackers and Cheese ; sofa cushions are crackers, one kid is cheese. All other kid(s) pile on top yelling CRACKERS AND CHEEEEEEEEEEEEESE.
YouHadMeAtAloe · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to “drown” box elder bugs in a cup of water until they stopped moving. Then I would give them mini bug cpr and blow on them til they woke back up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:39:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In New Zealand the fire hydrants are under ground and have a yellow cover over them with the letters FH printed on them. So when we would be out walking, the first person to see one and stand on it got a "free hit", which meant they got to punch someone in the group of their choice.
Happy-Dogma · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if totally unique but.
"Karoom"
It's essentially a version of hide and seek with a football (soccer).
There is one seeker and all the others need to hide. At the start of the game someone (other than the first seeker) kicks the football from of the ground as far as possible. At this moment everyone scatters and hides whilst the seeker goes to collect the ball and being it back to the base/prison.
The seeker then wonders around until s/he sees one of the "hiders" as soon as s/he does, the seeker must run back to the ball as fast as possible and shout the name of the person they saw once they have made contact with the ball. That person is officially caught and sent to prison (next to the ball).
This continues until everyone is caught or until some or one of the remaining players manages to sneak behind the seeker and kick the ball shouting "KAROOOOM" whilst doing so. This will in turn free all the players that were prisoners and the game restarts.
Note we would usually impose a limit of "Karoom" so that the seeker isn't eternally stuck as the seeker.
DoomRide007 · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who could stay out side the longest while it was bellow 0 without gloves. We took turns cutting a thick broken branch with my fathers saw. We ended up calling it a draw when both of our fingers froze locked. Had to soak them in hot watch(felt like some one was cutting my joints off). Ended up forcing them closed and I am not joking you could hear the ice breaking in my joints when I did it. Hurt like a son of a gun. We had been 10 at the time.
FeelThe_Byrne · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, our friends from our cul-de-sac, and I would play “Powers”. We would each control a different element, like fire or electricity and would each have a “weapon” we used, such as a staff or a sword. For weapons,We would regularly use rakes and broken broom sticks as weapons and run around our neighborhood playing. I don’t think people would let their kids do this now...
Proxik · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tied a big fat metal nuts at both ends of a short rope or cord and then made our little brother run while we were throwing these onto him in order to tie his legs since he was an ostrich and we were australian bushmans
Grimbattalia · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The camel game with my siblings. We would go into the basement, split the siblings into two teams of three, and put a blanket over our heads. Then we would rush at each other while blinded by the blanket. Whichever team knocks the other over, or reaches the opposite wall first, wins. When we really wanted to step it up, we played "the camel game in the dark" with no lights on
phantomdickpic · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "pregnancy game". We would have open person lay down on the bed and put a bunch of blankets and pillows on their stomach. Then one of us would go in between the blankets and pillows and stay there. The third person would pretend to be delivering the baby, and in this process the second person would pop their head out and yell "supriiiseeee". We would all die laughing as the person popped out. Just to let you know we were all guys playing this game.
Bozzie0 · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok, this might sound weird, but when I saw the question, I couldn't resist.
Me and my friend used to play a game we called 'Ossenstaartensoep', or 'oxtail soup' - but I guess it works better in Dutch. We would run around the house (outside), trying to see the other one first. Whoever saw the other one first, yelled 'Ossenstaartensoep' as loudly as possible and won that round. We didn't even keep score, we just proceeded to literally roll on the floor laughing our asses off every time. Ok, maybe not literally for that last part. That's it, that's the whole game. Kept us busy for hours on several afternoons.
Told you it was weird, but somehow this is a really fond memory for me.
Reba_Cluckentire · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and aunt used to make me play possum when they babysat me. You lie down under a blanket in a dark room and if you talk, you loose the game. Looking back, this was just a way to force me to take a nap.
EvChemical · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play "vet"; we would line up our stuffed animals and dolls on the couch and play Dr.Mario on the SNES. If we won the level, the patient survived. If we got a game over, the stuffed animal was tossed behind the couch and we heelped the next one.
We weren't very good at Dr. Mario unfortunately...
holisticholes · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Feet feet” me and my sister would sit on opposite ends of the couches and join feet and kick the others legs in until one gave out. So much fun
Jrottin2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the slide game. fat kid sits at bottom. roughly 50 kids pile onto the slide until everyone is stuck and in pain. the end.
MrBroccoli89 · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof tennis, though it would probably be closer to racket ball. We'd play in the driveway. Use the garage roof (3 stall). It slooped to the front and back. Simple game one person hits it up the other person has to hit it back before it hit the ground. Has to land in the drive way for point for sender otherwise receiver gets poiny. The sender could hit it again to recover if they send it over the roof or to far off the edge towards grass. Made for some fast moving through the garage to the backyard to try and save. Almost never worked but when it did it was awesome.
J0lteoff · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle (1 year older than me) had this Spiderman toy that would ride around on a little motorcycle with a working headlight. We used to turn all the lights off in the room, cover the window, and turn the toy on so it'd drive around and turn randomly while shining the headlight on stuff. We had to try not to get spotted by the light. That game got intense
Boppinlok · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sumo Volleyball
boi120 · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fancy pants
rivulus_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the go-to game i played with my brothers was the last letter game. loser had to dress up in an old mr potato head halloween costume for a day if they lost.
for context, we played this game while in line for theme park rides, waiting for tables at restaurants, and on long car rides. our parents forced us to take it off for family pictures for christmas cards and stuff but there’s probably at least one candid of each of us looking grumpy in a mr potato head suit at the beach somewhere in storage.
BowlingBong · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game called “fingers” basically we made little people with our index and middle fingers and went on adventures. Almost daily for years—“you wanna play fingers?”
Yeah we didn’t have any toys so we had to get creative.
DeafVendetta · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Lap Tag. Basically, half the people sit in a big circle with their legs spread. The other half pick someone and sit between their legs. One person doesn't have a partner, and they get to call the names of 2 kids in the inner "lap" circle. They have to crawl and fight their way to be the first to the kid without a lap partner, and the people behind them have to do ANYTHING to prevent that. We broke a few noses and got some black eyes doing this, because anything means anything...
hyejuswife · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “flashlight sock murderer” in the winter when it’s really dark. Me and my brothers gathered all of our friend, neighbors and possibly even cousins to play this. One counts and everyone else hides outside. Everyone had a flashlight but you didn’t want to be found so we just fell down and stayed scared. The one had to find the others and “kill” them by hitting them in the head with these wool socks. It was awesome. Still would play this.
fashion_nyc_123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to fill our socks with the giant jar of pennies and slide around the house in our money feet
megantology · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I would play a game we called "Power Pillow". It was like a pillow fight, only more brutal. There was ONE pillow which we had to fight each other for. Whoever had the power pillow would then get to mercilessly beat the snot the other, while they tried to retrieve the pillow.
Also, my grandma had a pool. We would toss her garden hose in there and turn it on. It had one of those old, heavy metal nozzles with crazy strong water pressure causing it to snake in and out of the water. Whoever got hit was the loser. That things would leave serious bruises.
lnFamousAsian · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called night sounds in our pool at night. Basically put, one person was in the middle and had their eyes closed. They'd then proceed to dunk their head underwater and count to 10 as everyone splashed around to find a place to "hide" if you will. Then after the person in the middle finished counting theyd have to keep their eyes closed but then attempt to find and catch everyone in the pool. Keep in mind to be caught you had to physically be held on to, not just tagged. Once one person was caught by the seeker, theyd then have to close their eyes as well and both would return to the middle to start a new round. Basically it always ends up that a bunch of people are trying to find one person in the end and it ends up getting reallll intense haha
Kyler-y · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would place plastic bags over our heads and then fist fight. First to get knocked out over lack of oxygen or a knockout blow, would lose.
flaminyong · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Are you okay man”, up until I was about 8-9 me and my brother would crash into each each other on tricycles, and then say “are you okay man”.
sarcasmandsmiles · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My three siblings and I used to play the fan game. It consisted of us loading clothes (dirty or clean, who knows) on to the blades of the fan in my room. We’d then flip the fan on and run across the room, trying not to get hit by the flying clothes. Sometimes we’d use storage container lids as shields. My room was a huge mess when I was little (almost guarantee it’s worse than you’re imagining) so it doubled as a bit of an obstacle course, too.
Thicc_Milky · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little brother had this game called KOE! (which translates to cow). The goal was to simply make the other not stand. Pushing each other on the floor or on the sofa, while shouting KOE at the top of your lungs. Great times.
ILOVEbleach2k17 · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pancake, created by me. I would roll on the bed or a trampoline trying to hit and knock down my sister. She would have to jump around or over me. If I touched her, she would have to lie down so I could roll over her entire body, there by making her a pancake.
KinOuttaHer · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pat ball and crossfire. One played in the road, the other whilst taking a piss.
Gelby4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Black magic"
Essentially tag mixed with hide and go seek. It has to be on a playground, and the tagger was on the ground turned around with eyes closed, counting to start. Once the game started, everyone else has to be on the equipment. The tagger can only have their eyes open when on the ground, but if they touch/climb on the equipment, they must close their eyes. Once the tagger touches someone, they're it. If at any time someone else is on the ground, like to reach a different section of playground equipment, and the tagger yells "black magic" then they are automatically it as well.
xxWyatt1xx · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor
pifftingPig · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I usually stole some coons from my sister to play "dropsies". That game required us to each get one coin and keep the other coins in the "bank". When it was your turn to go, you had to flip or throw you coin at the other persons coin, and if you flipped it over, you would get one coin from the bank. As soon as the banks empty, the person with the most coins win.
votebluein2018plz · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played hide the sausage with my uncle before all my friends started doing it with theirs
rockrchick21 · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finally I have a good story to share!
My two brothers and I made up a game we called "Papi". Before I explain the game here is some background. So growing up, my family lived in the basement of my great-grandpa's house. My dad (or Papi as we call him) always worked graveyard shifts so in the mornings after my mom left for work, my two brothers and I would go up into the main house where my great-grandpa would take care of us till my dad got up.
Every morning after he woke up, he would call us like this, "rockrchick21, brother1, brother2! Come down!" We would have to go down to the basement where he'd have us make our beds, brush our teeth, yadda yadda. If we didn't go down right away, we got in trouble. Now, my dad has a very thick accent and if you know him, you can recognize his voice immediately.
So the game went like this. One of us was "Papi" and would start in a room separate from the other two would pretend to be playing with toys. "Papi" would yell with their best impression of my dad's accent, "rockrchick21, brother1, brother2! Come down!" to which the other two would respond "No!" At this point "Papi would be angy and say "I'm going to count to 3 and if you're not down here, I will come up there and give you a spanking!" the two kids would run and try to hide and then "Papi" would have to come find us at which point we would pick a new "Papi" and start again. It's a silly game but the kicker is that we got REALLY good at his accent.
So one day, one of my brothers and I were playing with toys and we hear the infamous "rockrchick21, brother1, brother2! Come down!" We think its our other brother so we giggle and yell "No!" then comes my dad's super heavy accent screaming "WHAATTT??!" from the basement. My dad moved so fast it was like he teleported from the basement to the room we were in. Needless to say we each got spankings from my dad and he still knows nothing about this game.
hypetoyz · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buddies and i would play pillow fort with bunk beds, kinda like space invade. 1 person on the top bunk, rest of us on the ground with our forts.
DonkeZ44 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 2 or 3 my sister, my friend and I had a game where we would sit in one of those big lawn chair beds that fold up and we would jump out while it closed and whoever got caught lost. This lasted until one New Year’s Day where my pinky finger got caught in the hinge and had the end cut off...
Acehuds · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We ran around on all fours at recess in a large field, pretending to be wolves. We all had wolf names (I remember arguing with another ‘member’ over which one of us got to use ‘silver’ in their name) We would snack on the white ends of onion grass and even build our own ‘dens’. We also had battles and had designated ranks in our clan.
I’m pretty sure this ‘game’ was inspired by the ‘Warrior Cats’ books, except we liked wolves better.
theoriginaljedi9 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fluffball. We would 1v1 on a netted trampoline and the game was similar to a mix of Hockey and Handball. Pretty fun until we got rug burn all over our legs and arms
kingbuttshit · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was actually a game my roommate and I invented when we were stuck at the house with the flu at age 18.
The game was Spingball. It was a combination of soccer, ping pong, and baseball.
One person would stand in the kitchen and pitch a ping pong ball into the living room and over home plate where the other was waiting. The guy waiting would try to kick it, but only if it was going to be a strike. If it wasn’t, don’t kick. If it was a strike and you didn’t kick, the pitcher got a point.
Anyways, once the ball is kicked and in the air, it’s fair game. There was a linoleum-carpet line from the kitchen to the living room that split the playing field in half. If the ball touches the ground on the carpet side (kicker’s half) or is caught by the pitcher, the pitcher gets a point. If the ball touches the ground on the linoleum side (pitcher’s half) or the kicker catches it, the kicker gets a point.
It doesn’t matter if the ball bounces off a table or wall or whatever, it’s fair game until it hits the ground or is caught.
We had a whole rulebook typed up at one point and a logo made lol. I miss Spingball.
Bloopyman123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Protect the sacred cheese ball-
On a beach you would make a little castle with a little sand ball in it. You would do it as the tide started to rise, and then see how long you could keep the sacred cheese ball safe. You could build walls, moats, and whatever to keep it safe.
Scruffums · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My old best buddy and I used to play a game called 'Avalanche'. We'd make a giant pile of blankets, pillows, and other soft objects then one of us would stand at the top and run into said pile and try to push it all down the stairs while the other one tried to stop the avalanche. The stairwell was enclosed on both sides because obviously an open stairwell wouldn't be a very good idea, lol.
We didn't really play with a winner or loser we just played it because it was fun to throw yourself down a stairwell and not get hurt that bad hahahah
xc3peat · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wormy wars” any time we had a sleep over this game would happen. Everyone would put their sleeping bags over there heads so we couldn’t see a thing and then it was just an all out brawl. We always had to watch out for this one kid who would just lay flat on the ground rolling back and forth taking everyone’s legs out. We called him the steam roller.
burntreynolds33 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I came up with a game using a shuttlecock and badminton rackets. There are 2 players in a field with “end zones” on each side. The game starts with the shuttlecock at midfield and whoever is decided to go first, scoops it off the ground with the racket. As long as it is in the air, you take turns hitting it back and forth, trying to advance to your end zone. Once it hits the ground, you alternate who starts the play by scooping it off the ground. It was surprisingly a lot more fun than we ever expected.
kadeomatic · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would calculate how many of me it would take to touch the ceiling in a room I was in.
RemmizA · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and the neighbor kids and I would play the “garage game”. Someone would wait outside while the others would find a hiding spot inside the garage and then turn off the lights. It was pitch black in there, no windows. We would then yell for the person to come in and find us all in the dark. Kind of like hide and seek but much better in a pitch black garage.
Paul8377294 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend used to stare at the sub for a little bit and then look away and we’d see patches of colors around the place and then we’d name the colors and sometimes we saw the same colors. Good times
chloooay · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two older brothers and I had three separate rooms with all doors facing each other. We all had a bunch of stuffed animals, and we would play a game called Room Wars where would would just chuck the shit out of all the stuffed animals at each other. Everyone starts with three lives. If you caught a stuffed animal that was thrown at you, you gain a life. But if you get hit three times you were out, and you sat in the middle of the three rooms where they could just pelt you with stuffed animals or you could catch or grab a stuffed animal to return to the game. There were many other rules, like jumping rooms and crazy ways to regain lives and stuff that I barely remember. We would play this game for hours and it would take just as long to clean up.
Maxtubular · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a_avicado · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game called keep-up. When we had balloons from a party or something, instead of popping them, we would play together to hit the balloon in an attempt to keep it from hitting the ground. Basically like volleyball with no points. But we'd play all over the house, diving on the couch, avoiding lamps and such. It is easier the newer the balloon. After days the balloons relative weight would be higher so it would drop much faster. Maybe the only game my brother and I played where we cooperated and worked together. Good memories.
Zecuel · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in elementary, I and a friend had this fun game where during recess we'd squat down and pretend we were Lada's. We'd even make car sounds with our mouths and pretend we were holding the steering wheels, occasionally crashing into each other and ending up on our 'sides', kind of likes turtles on their backs. We were both childish and loved cars so it was a great combination
Dr_Killjoy18 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I used to dump out all my little sisters stuffed animals (and there were a lot). We would then divide them between the 2 of us and each select an animal and then toss the animals into the air at one another till they collided. Whichever animal hit the ground first was the loser and was eliminated. The winner would then face the next contestant. We named each animal before the duel, and of course the last standing animal was the winner. Funnily enough, this started in the back seat of my dad's car during a long drive with oranges. Each oranges name was Octavius (the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on).
Stoigenfroigen · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Other person (usually big sister) would put a big blanket over her head and arms, try to encapsulate me inside, while exclaiming "BLAAANNKKEETTT!" Usually on top of our 2 story bed. I once fell from the top, on to my back and went to the hospital. Nothing severe thankfully.
BlindChowder · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battleship. We took plastic bottle tops, put them in puddles and threw rocks at them. It usually ended up in a rock war. Also "hunters request". It was just tag in the dark.
afkvelazco · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I used to play the blindfold game
slayerx1779 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
It was a solo game, but as people drove me around, I would flip a mental switch whenever I passed certain things on the road.
Watch a car go by? Up. Another car? Down. Up. Down. Up... Down.
My brothers and I also had stuffed animal fights where we'd set up forts out of pillows and blankets, and then throw stuffed animals at each other (we always lost every nerf dart we got, so this was our substitute).
darryljean · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bit late but whenever I was a kid I spent countless hours trying to find “perfect word”.
The perfect word had to a) have 12 letters and b) contain every vowel, preferably including y used a vowel.
Why 12, you ask? Because it’s small enough to be a reasonable amount of letters for a word to contain, but had a lot of factors (1.2,3,4,6,12).
I couldn’t cheat (no google), but my mom tried to help a few times.
I never did find the word, but I did grow my vocabulary a lot. I also didn’t have many friends growing up
Mattblanksdragfan · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I made up this game called sacrifice.
It was played on the bed or a couch. The goal was to throw/push each other off and say that you had sacrificed them. The last person won the game and was basically blessed.
kangaruu13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “over the house game” one person goes to the front yard and throws a football over the house, two teams in the back yard wait for the ball and try to get it to the patio by any means necessary. No forward passes was the only rule. Dog piles and concussions were common. Typically played this game after a good snowfall so that tackling each other didn’t hurt as much.
PullMePee · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in the day with my mates...
We would all stand around in a circle and light a firework, first one to run away was ‘gay’
chubs11 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game we just called the "scissor game". My dad would lay flat on his back but with his legs spread like open scissors. You had to hop into the center of his legs and hop to the other side for a point. The catch is that my dad would attempt to trip us by closing his legs when we hopped into the middle. Played that for hours. Now that im older I'm sure my dad played it with us to tire us out for bed time.
The other one was "snakes in the dark". Which was pretty much hide and seek in a completely dark basement. So you had to find people by touch and sound.
ElMoncho · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "La Patadita" loosely translated means "The Little Kick". 2+ players to play. You would throw a baseball size ball and bounce it of the wall. If it hit you on rebound and you didn't catch it, everybody would turn on you and kick you until you ran to safety (touch the wall). If you caught the ball, then everyone kicks the thrower until he or she reached safety. Simpler times. 😀
Dr-Geber · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Need for speed series. Lotus. Italia’90
_FXR_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This should probably be in r/confession...but when me and my friends were 15 and wanted a drinking game we all went to the pet store and picked out a beta fish. My buddy took his dads massive glass patron bottle that was a decoration and we filled it with water and threw all the fish in waiting for them to fight and the shots to commence...about 4 hours went by and we all just started drinking anyways and when we woke up the next morning it was one fish with only one fin still bobbing around in a pool of blood. 10 years later we still bring it up and realize how fucked that was lol
ReuelerLRB · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slaps. It’s like tips but if you did a bad throw or dropped the ball you got a hard slap of the arm and then that’s was an S. Next was two slaps, face slap, pimp slap, then either double pimp slap or slapped on the arm by everyone playing the game. Then you were eliminated. Much fun
Ray_0402 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play tag with a Nerf gun and only one bullet. if someone missed they would have to track down the bullet or if you got shot you would have to find the bullet then go find someone.
weaselspit2000 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clog the Toilet. The first person slides part way down one of those high sided spiral slides and braces themselves as best they can. The rest of the kids slides down one at a time as fast as possible to try to dislodge the "clog". There's a lot of pushing and shoving until the clog finally breaks free and ends up at the bottom of a pile of kids at the bottom of the slide. Repeat. No points system, just the prestige of holding out for as long as possible against the abuse of the uncloggers. Fun times.
emm__jackson · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend used to play a game called "death letter".
Someone chose a letter, others had to offer suggestions of what that was until someone guessed correctly.
No prizes and no consequences but its addictive as hell.
Fragile_Entity · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Nautilus for the shell shape. Draw that on the ground in chalk about 10ft across (larger is perfectly acceptable!) Then draw hopscotch sized spaces starting at the center going out. The middle is finish, the outermost space is start, if you make it to the inside, you get to mark a space as yours. If you eff up, you don't. People will try to make like 4 spaces in a row, so don't eff up too many times! It's kind of like hopscotch mixed with tic tac toe except the spaces you mark as yours become rest spaces for only you.
ellblaek · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my name's lester and when i was young my dad and little brother would play this game called "let's break our lester" which consisted of my dad swinging my brother at me like a bat
bahlgren342 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My step-father and I played a game called “ouch” with the dog.
We’d run around the living room table, having the dog chase us, first to say ouch lost.
She only “bit” when playing and egging her on, otherwise she would never bite anyone, she was such a good dog. I miss her.
As I got older, I realize this was probably a bad game with egging on a dog like this.
Flabbergash · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play a game called COME
It sounds super weird like but it was ok. We had bb guns and we used to hide in the house, shout "come!" and then the other brother had to find the other and we would shoot eachother
Sounded super weird when I brought it up in the best man speech lmao
clay1227 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played the Monongahela death worm, were one person would get in to a sleeping bag and they would have to swing there body and try to pin the other person down. We would play this on the trampoline and it was awesome.
doctor827 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Achilles. We would be in the pool and would be in the shallow end. Goal was to take the other persons fett and rise them above the water.
atejada13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Down in the basement of the apartment building I lived at in New York my friends and I would stand on opposite ends, turn off the lights and rush to the other side to flip the switch back on while throwing haymakers
baby-in-the-humidor · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school, there was (and it's still there, actually) a caterpillar shaped jungle gym thing to climb on. The head had two stalks to grand and was big enough for a second grader to stand on. It was maybe 5 feet off the ground. My two best friends and I played this game where we pretended we were in an airplane or on top of a building and had no reason to live. We would yell "Goodbye, cruel world!" and jump off the caterpillars head.
keyconcher · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suywicide, dodge ball, using the sewage pump house as a backdrop.
OhKayAlready · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played “walking carpet.” It was like Marco polo but on dry ground, usually inside, hence “walking.” We would drape a rug or blanket over ourselves to make sure we weren’t peeking, hence “carpet.”
StuffIsayfor500Alex · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get naked, steal cigarettes, climb a tree and smoke em while someone screams from down below.
Not kidding that's what I did in the 80's growing up in the country.
D4qEjQMVQaVJ · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
...I didn’t win but there’s Reddit in hell.
WhatTheFung · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Booby Trap/hide and go seek. My friend and I would rig a room in the basement with traps i.e. items on top of doors, micro machines on the floors, taped openings, tripping hazards etc. then we would hide. His older brother would then enter the dark room trying to find us, all while avoiding the traps. We would all take turns setting up the room. It was Home Alone, before the movie existed.
Crab819 · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “Tupple.” I used to live in an apartment complex when I was younger and everyone would come out and play, we had our own group of 10 ish and we’d regularly play soccer or football or whatever. Some Indian kid moves in and teaches us this revolutionary game (I specifically mentioned Indian because I think it’s an Indian game.) it’s similar to hide and seek. There’s a box drawn with chalk on the wall and the seeker (sometimes more than 1) has to count a minute facing the wall while everyone hides. If the seeker sees someone they must run to the wall and call out the hiders name as they touch the box, once you get everyone, you win. For the hiders to win, you just need one person to touch the box before the seeker gets them. (Which was pretty hard to do.) There we’re limitations on how far the hiders could go and also how much the seeker actually has to seek instead of camping out by the box. When the seeker calls the name out, they have to get the name right or else the round starts over. This made it fun to strategize as I would hide behind a car enough to reveal my shoes and switch shoes with someone else to confuse the seeker and mess up my name. Tons of fun in an apartment complex, none of the parents would care about you hiding behind their car or in their apartment hallways, sometimes they’d even help. I do miss those days, whenever you were bored you could go outside and always have someone to play with
hollielaurax · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play a game called “sniff power”. When we lost something, eg. A Barbie shoe, we thought we could sniff it out if we focused really hard on it. We would sniff all around the room and eventually find whatever we had lost. Took me a long while to realise we couldn’t sniff the lost items out but by sniffing all over the room we were in fact searching everywhere it could be haha. We were dumb kids, and I am definitely still a dumb adult.
MaestroManiac · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stairbox derby. About as it sounds. we started with sleeping bag races but by the age of 8 we had mastered calculus and found ways to deploy ourselves down the steps in hampers, baskets, cardboard boxes (thats a bad one, the walls cave in and you roll, not slide) etc. My brother and I are grown adults now and in hindsight, we share one regret; we should of really went with pillows in our hampers and boxes.
MrkRudy · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Oreo. Everyone ride bikes around the cul-de-sac, the thrower would stand in the middle. The object was to hit one of the riders’ bikes with a dodgeball. You could deflect the ball, but if you were hit you had to drop your bike on the side and you were the thrower. Occasionally people would fall when hit, but not too often. It’s a fun game if there are a lot of kids to play with. Me, 4 siblings, and other neighbors played for years before growing out of it
LintPlastic · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Under the blanket. One person would hide underneath the blanket and then all of the lights were all turned off. Everyone else would hide and the person under the blanket had to Fumble around in the dark trying to find everyone else. It sounds kind of dumb (it was) but it could be quite horrifying because you couldn't see anything and then the next thing you knew is someone grabbing you and you're suffocating because of a blanket.
pephen · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it's unique, but when I was around 7, me and my tween brother created this game where both of us would go to opposite ends of the hall and the door or wall behind us was the goal.
We had a small stuffed ball and we couldn't stand, just kneel and we could only play with our hands, but weren't allowed to grab the ball. We had to roll the ball and slap it to shoot or roll it and toss it in the air and then shoot. We also couldn't go to the opponent's half.
To kick off, you had to roll the ball towards you, lift it high like in Tennis and before shooting you'd say "Ball in the air... it's on!!!"
Ah the memories...
SAFSMAN · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older brother would play a game called "afro wars". We would put these beenbags that were 5 times bigger that our heads on top of our heads, pretending that they were afros. And we had to knock the other persons afro off with your own afro. The beenbag had to stay on your head at all times. Once your afro touched the floor or came off your head you lost, walls were okay. I would always lose because i was 7 and could barely carry it. But recently we had a afro war and it went for about 20 minutes since we could both carry it and wouldnt give up. I still lost.
Turbosauce1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to be such a loner, and still kind of am, so I didn’t have a lot of friends to play with when I was little. When I was in the car while it was raining( and I lived in Vancouver so it rained A LOT), I would track the beads of water going backwards on the side window, pick one, and race my bead of water against all the other beads of water. Then the race would end and I would keep a tally in my head of how many of the races I won or lost vs. nature.
PennerFan2222 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had 5 friends and I play "possum" where we'd go up into a tree on a beautiful summer night with 100 beers and a bottle of vodka, and we'd drink and reminisce about stories and what not, and we'd drink until we would fall out. When you fall you pull up a chair and relax at the bottom. It was only like a 6 foot fall so no one really got badly hurt. Winner kept the remaining booze. Never lasted longer than a few hours but it was so fun.
mintim4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stuff animal wars. We literally just grabbed all our stuffed animals, got behind couches and threw the shit out of them at each other.
maximillianaire · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called the dark turtle. In it a child would hide behind a wall on their hands and knees , all the lights would be turned off and the objective would be to make it past the kid with out them touching you, they would jump out when you walked past and it was the most exhilarating thing ever lol
Reedrbwear · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Called it Stilts. Based on a Pinky and the Brain episode, we would have 1 person pull a shirt over their knees and waddle around the house like that trying to catch everyone else, meanwhile yelling invectives and taunts in a caricature Southern accent.
thatskyguy · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game with my siblings called "Dodge". They threw stuff at me and I tried to Dodge it. I thought I was faster than I was and they got to throw frisbees, tennis balls, oranges and figs at me.
Mom did not appreciate the intricacies of dodge
biGGie_Z · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Acorn Wars. My neighbor, his brother, and my brother would have these acorn battles where we would peg each other with acorns! Good times.
Steph2145 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drs with my uncle Jim. But if I told my mom I lose the game. Need less to say I never lost.
Adinabambina12 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nobody played TAG or HOPSCOTCH?? 🤔
PRVTHXR · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer
greyham0707 · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a game called Top Hat. It was a PC game probably late 80’s or early 90’s I can’t really seem to find any info on it or any videos of it but I remember I couldn’t get passed the first 2 levels. Also The Adventures of Willy Beamish was a classic in my book
Badasslemons · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little back story to start, This only really happened during a yearly party on my uncles property. It was a large property on a river that is big enough to sail/boat/fish/crab/wakeboard/ect, two elderly people lived on the property and were relatives but the way they were related is lost to me now. They were both obesse and had trouble getting around the large and quite hillish property, so opted to buy 2 golf carts to move around the property. During the party they would sit with the rest of the party goers until they would ask one of us to drive them back up ect.
Now to the game: The property was quite large with the house being smack dab in the center with two crab apple tree on opposing sides. The golf carts were two seaters which could easily fit 3 in the front and another 2-3 kids hanging off the back or sides. Because of the property being on a river like I explained before there were about 60 life jackets of all sizes for nearly any occassion. So two teams of roughly 4-5 kids on golf carts, with the life jackets used as cart armour and shields. Then we drove around and pelted crab apples at each othere (just the right weight to get a great welt if you got hit right, which was the goal) we counted visable welts as points. We did this for about 3 years until a kid who was previously to young to play got hit and started crying and we were told not to play again >.> (his mom even made him play...)
We also used these crab apples in a baseball like game where once hit all the peices had to be collected to get the person out before they got home.
jcdmja · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game called “hanging by a tendon”. We would take socks that had been paired up and folded into a ball, and then throw them at each other like soft snowballs. Whenever they hit, you had to yell “hanging by a tendon”, and then the aforementioned hit appendage would be floppy and useless. Side note: this was sometimes played with underwear on our head as we pretended the underwear were army helmets.
pagglesnuss · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Night Stick". The goal of the game was to be the last man standing. We played in my half finished basement. Each person would start under a light in one quadrant of the basement (picture staircase in middle of floor with walls splitting it into 2 separate rooms). Each person had an 8 foot long cardboard dowel as their weapon. To start everyone would look up at their light and spin around for 15 seconds. Once the countdown was done a fifth person would hit the lights, emerging you into total darkness. And I mean total darkness. We made sure to cover every little light source. Dark enough where even after 15 minutes in the dark your eyes would not adjust and it would still be pitch black.
The goal of the game was just to hit/touch other people with your dowel before you got hit. Games would go on for 45 minutes sometimes.
Other rules we implemented were "UAV" where if there were only 2 people left and it was dragging, someone who was already out could call out "UAV" and the two people left had to say "beep" within 3 seconds. And we also had a sudden death/rematch component. This only happened if there was a dispute on who got who first or if a game was interrupted (someone walking downstairs and turning on the lights). Basically the 2 people would stand about 15 feet apart under 2 lights and start the same way but it would immediately devolve into you swinging the dowel as hard as you could in front of you. That was actually how we broke the dowels and the eventual downfall of the game.
SchickiAUT · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The ship" The bed was the ship and up to 4 people fought in it and tried to kick off others. The game lasted until someone cried. memories...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an elementary school friend who would make board games. The one I remember was a recreation of Riverdale as the board and there were player cards for all the characters. All her games played rpg style.
2pfrannce · 1 points · Posted at 18:44:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am the oldest of three. Once when my middle brother and I (probably 7 and 5)!were upset at the youngest (2.5 ish) we played a game called “moving blanket”. We would cover ourselves with a large throw blanket (it was kind of a tight fit but we would curl up and it worked since we were so small) and inch around the house slowly moving his toys or throwing things at him (or at least that was the plan, we were too chickenshit to do anything that could get us in trouble with my mom). The idea was if we moved very slowly no one would notice. Eventually we started doing this more often, taking things from my mom or just moving around the house “secretly”. We were fooling no one, and I kinda knew that, but it was still tons of fun.
Another one I played with my middle brother was “robber and baby”. This was just us taking turns trying to pick each other up and carry the other somewhere while not waking up my parents (all three of us shared a room when we visited my grandparents, she had a trundle bed and a cot and we were young enough not to care).
The last one I remember didn’t really have a name but again it was when we were sharing my a room at my grandmas. My middle brother and I once tried to undress my little brother when he was sleeping. I realize that sounds really creepy like we were molesting him so let me clarify. We were probably 6 and 4 and it wasn’t sexual at all. The goal was to “mess with him” and see how far we could go before he woke up (it was only socks because we were afraid he’d wake up and we’d get in trouble for waking him up and because at 1.5 he was still pretty heavy for us to try and pick up) and have everyone confused when he woke up in only his diaper. But we only got to take off his socks and I’m sure no one even noticed because they could’ve just come off if he was rolling around as he slept so it wasn’t a very good “prank”.
We were weird kids.
pzzy69 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would collect crab apples that would fall from the tree in our front yard & throw them on the road & watch cars run them over. We did this for hours on end.
chillylemonwater · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play a game called “Shamu”. Basically one person would get in an inflatable pool and try to make giant waves using our momentum and hitting the sides of the pool. The goal was to get the biggest “splash zone” and get the other sister wet from far distances. Bonus points if you jumped and did tricks in the water.
elevenherbs · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Peasant. We’d hide behind the couch and eat bread.
unknown_gypsy · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Super duper tackle tag” as the name implies, it was tag where the it person has to tackle people to not be it. The fun part was the game was played at night in a grid of 4x5 yards (as in property) Imagine 4 or 5 kids hopping your fences and yelling while trying to tackle each other, our neighbours must have hated us.
Sirerdrick64 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tests.”
These involved highly dangerous activities for elementary aged kids to be involved in.
One of the best was waking around the outside framing of a tall two story houses and across openings that had 20+ falls down to the center of the house.
Another great one was running over thin ice.
The goal was to not fall through or to get less wet than the others.
Every time we ended up with our boots as swimming pools.
Pure Michigan!
shac_melley · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Watermelon ball. Get in the shallow end of the pool with a volleyball, two teams face each other on opposite ends. If your team can place the ball on the outside of the pool on your opponents end of the pool (with firm control), it’s a point. If you get tackled/dunked while possessing the ball, it’s a turnover. Very violent, very fun.
Bdsand94 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a bunch of different games in our backyard swimming pool. One of the most prevalent was like a version of water basketball mixed with water polo. We would set chairs on both sides of the deep end,(about 8ft) trying to either set a volleyball on top(2pts) or toss it through the legs(1pt). First to 10 pts win. Sometimes my dad would jump in and my brother and I would team up for a 2vs1. We played this almost everyday during the summer and it’s truly one of my most precious childhood memories.
NellaNave · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Chicken Fight" 2 people, you had to crouch down and put your arms behide your back and attempt to knock the other person over using just your shoulders and head. I am still the chicken champion to this day.
Boognish84 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tie and seek. The 'seeker' would be tied up and the 'hiders' would have as long as it took the seeker to free himself from the knots to go find somewhere to hide.
hphphphphphphphp · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played my own solitaire version of Battleships. I placed some empty shells ln the water surface and let them drift 10-15 meters away, then bombarded them with small rocks. Made me feel super powerful. Could do that for hours.
Introduced it to my 8 y/o nephew last summer with great success. And gotta admit, still found it entertaining (im 30 now).
J_quel_in · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called 1000. Which essentially was a group activity, one kid stood at the top of a hill with a soccer ball/ kick ball/ football and threw it at the kids at the bottom, yelling a number, surprise box, jackpot or bankruptcy. Everyone scrambled to catch the ball, in hopes they could get 1000 points, which would then make them the new announcer/ ball handler.
This game, amongst many many other games, was something that occupied our time really well! I miss being young and running around the yard.
_JustHereToScroll · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a unique game - not necessarily a unique “game”.
Anywho, growing up, we always had the game “Parcheesi” in our living room! My household played every holiday, game night, etc. when I was growing up and still to this day.
It’s the “American version” of an Indian game called Pachisi, I believe. So, while it may not be unique to all - it seems as if 0 of my friends had ever seen or heard of it!
I’m from a small town in southwest VA if that matters.
Edit: Typo
Murkwater · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Roller bat" 3 people 1 batter 1 pitcher and 1 outfielder. Played on a paved road. Pitcher pitches the ball so it's easy to connect with, batter crushes it as hard as they can, and then the bat is placed horizontally on the ground so that the wide end is facing the pitcher. If the ball is caught in the batter is out, if not the outfielder and the pitcher have to work together to get the ball as close to the bat as possible, this is difficult because you get one throw and two steps. The picture then must bowl the baseball at the bat if it hits the bat the batter is out, if not he or she scores a homerun AKA one point. Repeat this process until the batter gets one out. Rotate positions, and repeat until everybody is bored or hungry then compare scores.
whitetrash1999 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had this game that we used to play on the trampoline. Basically, we would put a soccer ball on the trampoline, and then jump simultaneously for three bounces. On the third bounce, we’d send the soccer ball flying, and if you were able to catch it while you were in mid-air and land on the trampoline, then you got a point. Probably the funnest game I’ve ever played and we only stopped when my sister broke her foot because of the game...good times
joeleg96 · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young my dad, sister, and I would fill up Tupperware with ice. We would then run around the house trying to shove the ice down each other’s shirts or pants. It was a fun and innocent game up until my sister ran into a telescope and her nose started bleeding. That was the last time we played.
Delusional_highs · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t have a name for it, but my pals and I used to throw a good dozen or so balls into a trampoline, and try to survive the longest by not getting hit by any of the balls. The balls are lava essentially.
chahud · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a nice trampoline as a child. Me and my next door neighbor (and best friend) at the time played lots of games on it. I clearly remember having intense imaginary Pokémon battles on it. I miss those simpler times
mateodos · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's like "Around the World" but the second person had another basketball and attempted to block the shot by throwing it at the other ball. We made up a bunch of small rules to go along but they always changed and we never remembered. Fun stuff.
TheMightyIrishman · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my back yard there used to be a 2 person swing. Basically 2 seats that faced other, supported by 4 ropes on the rest of the swing set. My cousin and I used to play "homerun". One person would throw an inflatable ball at it while the other would swing as hard as they could in the swing. Depending on the ball, you could launch one pretty far. Any ball hit over the fence into the neighbors yard was a point, but if the pitcher cought the ball, the batter would be out. 3 outs per person then you'd reverse roles.
Basically, it was baseball but with a swing and no bases.
-spookyxghost- · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t remember what it was called, but one person was dead. Everyone else would walk around them in a circle and use “magic” to try to resurrect them. The dead person would wake up randomly and try to catch someone before they all ran to home base. The person that was caught would then become to the dead person. Kind of like a weird, morbid version of Duck Duck Goose.
Gaming_On_Potato · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played RPG rock paper scissor. TEchnically, we will draw in paper 2 hp around 10 bars for each others, then doing the normal rock paper scissor, for every win, you illustrate how to do dmg to opponent by doodle, which will cost 1 hp bar, or save it by call it cast, and only can use another casted ability next win if only you win 2 in a row, and do 3 bar dmg.
SlimsantaHD · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rust
atxislander · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mano negra, put a sheet over your head in a dark room and play hide and seek...
Puerto Rico
_joeybagOdonuts_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would have intense pillow fights in the dark. We’d cover the blinds to ensure maximum darkness. These are heavy feather pillows we’re talking about. One of the cousins (always the same one) would get hurt, start crying and that’s when we’d stop. We called it stinky cheese....you had to say stinky cheese to signal you were ready then everyone just got to swinging.
ChemicalExperiment · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had tons of stuffed animals as a kid, and we would play this game we just called "pushing the stuffed animals down the stairs." (We were not very creative children.) The idea was we would push the some 30-40 stuffed animals we had between us down the stairs all at once, and watch them fall. Through all the chaos of them going down, many would get stuck somewhere on the steps, while most of them fell down to the very bottom. We would then carefully make out way down the stairs, dodging the stuffed animals that didn't make their way down, then throw the ones that did fall to the bottom back up. We would then push the ones we had at the top back down again, aiming to knock over as many of the ones trapped in the stairs as possible. We would repeat this for hours, with the goal of having them all fall to the bottom. Good times.
ChicagoFan22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play “ raft wars” every year we go to Florida for spring break at my grandparents house and they have a pool. We would each get a pool noodle and a raft. The goal was to get the other person off of their raft by any means... the game usually ended in tears.
plokool · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few come to mind. The oldest was "School." Either my sister or I would sit on the lowest stair, representing kindergarten. The other would ask progressively harder questions to move up the stairs and graduate. At the top of the stairs was "college" where the only question was "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Hard question then, and in actual college.
Next was "Tony Tiger Ball." We had a soccer ball that we sent away for from a box of Frosted Flakes. The basement had a lot of stuff in it but a path went all the way around. We marked off goal lines in a segment of the path and would try to kick the ball past each other. A lot of fun, kind of disastrous for our toes and the surrounding basement junk.
The last one worked as a substitute for hide and seek when we got too big to effectively hide anywhere inside. My sister had a bunch of stuffed monkeys, so we would alternate rooms and hide them for the other to find. I remember coming up with some great hiding places. And I realize writing this out that these were all indoor games. We did go outside, it was just cold a lot of the year and I'm afraid of wasps.
groupwhere · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cribbage
B_Schwag · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin lived in the middle of a cul-de-sac, we'd ride our bikes to the end of the street and wait for a car a half a block away to turn down the street towards the mouth of the cul-de-sac, once it turned we'd ride like hell back to his drive way. If you made it to the driveway before the car crossed the street you'd stay in the game, if not you were eliminated and had to wait till the next game.
PM_PICS_OF_ME_NAKED · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naked hide and seek with Uncle Pete.
Aaaaand then I read the comments and realize I'm only the 500th person to make that joke in this post.
chanhwa · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was called war. We drew a huge circle and divided it up, then player with the stick would call war on someone and they would try to hit said person. If they were hit then that person would claim as much of that person's plot as their arms can reach( you drew from your area into theirs)
Cmaaak47 · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maplestory
daizedandconfused_ · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play checkpoint - you take something inflatable like a yoga ball or blow up crocodile and put a headtorch underneath so it glowed in the dark. Everyone hides in the bushes and someone is on, you had to manage to run up to the checkpoint and throw yourself threw the air yelling checkpoint whilst trying not be caught by the person who was on.
We had to stop playing when I broke my dads rib by running into him in an attempt to slide through his legs and avoid capture
NopeyWan · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and her sister used to play ‘ africans’ as kids, where you tie your dolly to your back with a scarf and carried objects like the laundry basket on their heads.. and looked for water.
Obviously so many things wrong here!
Mistes · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school had several interconnected pieces of playground equipment. Instead of racing "inside" and use the slides and stairs, we would climb around the outside of the playground equipment and "race" from one end to the other by climbing the playground facade.
Big_Boyd · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a wee scamp I used to play this game where my dad would lie on his back and I would run and use him like a platform to vault on to the bed.
We stopped playing that game when I didn’t get enough clearance and split my lip open on the bedframe.
Just_An_Architect · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drawing game I played with a friend in elementary. Two fighters with jet packs would put the other in near death scenarios. Other person gets out of the death scenario and puts the other in another near death scene. All drawn cartoon style with its own frame. Kind of like spy vs. spy.
Anudeep21 · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played kingdom game. The rooms were considered as respective kingdoms and we use the things in our room to trade if the other doesn't agree the war is inevitable( not physical fight,can be sneaking and stealing the things we need). The politics of making friendship with other kingdom. I wonder how we had so much time to execute our plans properly.
callyour_bell · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and two buddies got a refrigerator box, decorated it and reinforced it with tape, threw somebody inside, taped it up, threw them on the trampoline and then bounced them to hell and back. We called it “the mewzak.” I honestly have no idea why anymore.
Safe? No... But absolutely exhilarating.
turbolag95 · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Come to Court. It was like hide and seek, except if you got found you had to follow the finder around until they found everyone. The finder had to keep track of everyone they had found and make sure they were all accounted for. This meant that you could sneak away after being found and hide again. But, if you were found 3 times, you became the new finder. Also, the finder has to say, "Come to court turbolag95!" when they find you. If they get your name wrong, you get to run free and go hide again, and it doesn't count as being found.
We played this well into the early hours of the morning sometimes.
WindyWilly0905 · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crocodile Kitchen - I was the crocodile, the two kids I babysat were thieves getting into my kitchen. I’d chomp them up and throw them into the “lagoon” then restart 55,000 times in a row
IndomitableCorgi · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Vault of Circles”
Several people start running around one target person in circles, loudly chanting “VAULT OF CIRCLES! VAULT OF CIRCLES!” Then we would all suddenly leap and tackle the shit out of them.
“Game” might be a strong word
BarbDwyer · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to tie a string between my bookcase to the window and then tie our barbie dolls to it. We'd pretend to be evil giants who kidnapped the dolls (we'd probably been playing escape games with them outside), having them dangle above "lava pits" or "shark tanks". We'd usually make one of the dolls decide who'd get to live or die, it was all very dramatic.
The last game we ever played with our bigger dolls was tying them to these long sticks we found almost like bait on a fishing rod. We'd swing them around on the ground and in the dirt making them crash into each other, we called it "gladiators". It stopped when one of the dolls heads came of, so we put it in a pond to scare our friends in the winter when the water froze.
Call_Me_Habibi · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game.
paleochris · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I created something called The Shadow Game... In essence, one person had to try trampling and stomping on someone else's shadow, all the while avoiding his own shadow being trampled on.
bigfootandcoffee · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin created a clue game for her sister and I. She would write punny clues and hints on tiny pieces of paper, fold them up and hide them. The clues and hints led us to the next clue and at the end there would be some kind of prize like candy. This kept us occupied for about 30 minutes.
rubyreddorothy · 1 points · Posted at 18:46:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I were really into playing catch on the beach one year. So much so that we decided to invent our own baseball like game, but without bats? I just remember we had 7 bases and one of them was "snack".
jackbutler666 · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I created our own unique version of “Calvin Ball”. We tried to follow it according to the books, but regardless it was fun playing a game in the yard with essentially no rules.
Divereth · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Three Eyes Boy on NES. Couldn't find that game for next 15 years after playing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25gducQOXSg
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother (2 years older) and our 2 childhood friends (brother and sister;2 years older and 1 year younger than me) would play this game called: Austin World (that’s me).
The game would go that I would always be a shopkeeper, or “park concession stand” guy. Then they would pretend to be normal customers before playfully(?) beating me up. It was more of just beating me with pillows and chasing me around our basement to be honest. I can’t remember if I had fun, but I definitely played it more than once.
Another “game” was running around my basement and jumping over couches while blasting Sum41 and Three Days Grace pretending we were part of the Naruto universe. My brother was always Sasuke, with his emo, ~11 year old self.
Zachlegendz · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
XCrowGaming · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it barracade, and the rules went as follows, humans were able to move pieces of wood to block themselves in a room but the "zombies" could not, and if you got tagged by a zombie, you became a zombie.
The was an old park across the street from my grandmother's house and in the park was a huge three story wooden labyrinth type thing and since it was old the were a bunch of boards that fell off and we would use them for the game, it was probably one of the best memories I have. Nothing was funner than having a group of like four other people hiding out on a room thinking they found the sweet spot and you tag one through the cracks and all of the sudden they're all out
WuggernautTwitch · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would go on the trampoline with 5 or 6 stuffed animals that were about our size and WWE wrestle them all. Most of the moves were powerslams, chokeslams and ddts. Occasionally the stuffed animals would land some nice closelines or bodyslams, but we always kept our titles as the undefeated tag team champions.
Doctor_Cat_MD · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"no no uncle" my uncle would try to sneak up on me and if I noticed him in time I would say no no uncle and I would win, but if I didn't notice him he would rape me.
ThumbinThroughIt · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hocker. You could use anything you want as a stick (lacrosse stick, hockey stick, tennis racket, pillow, dart gun, blanket). Its pretty much full contact hockey on cement floors. Growing up with 3 brothers was cool.
SQLDave · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does high school count? One the routes home include a downhill, winding, gravel road of probably a mile (given how long ago, that means it could have really been anywhere between 1/4 mile and 3 miles). My friend and I would play game where we'd start at the top and put the car in neutral and coast down the hill. The goal was to make the trip with as little braking as possible, preferably none. IIRC, we'd reach speeds of 30-35MPH
PRO: I learned a lot about skid control and rounding corners efficiently.
CON: My car's transmission died a very premature death.
DarthVaderhosen · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game that we didnt really name when I was a child where my brother and I would pretend we were researchers in this mystical world that you couldnt see and we hunted down and studied mythological and horror-esc creatures. We had a little booklet we both wrote in that had thousands of pages of mythical creatures and what later devolved into creepypasta and SCPs (plus some of our own made up stuff).
Now that I think about it, it probably was because our grandmother was deep Irish and told us about the Fae and stuff, while also our grandfather (other side) was fully Native American and told us stories of the tribe's worst monsters. It just evolved into us being people studying these forgotten monsters and writing a book on them all.
efrankDC · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swords and Sandals 2
johnnycansing · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smash tennis, my brother and i would go to a tennis court and just try to hit each other with the ball. It was more technical than it sounds thought, we had rules, positions and different scores depending on which part of the body we hitted.
roseykerria · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend used to put a bunch of things like leaves and flowers and seeds into this huge puddle in the middle of the parking lot of my apartment complex and call it soup. We would use leaves as spoons and pretend to drink it while stirring it with sticks, not sure if we actually consumed any or not... We also used to grab handfuls of mud out of a mud pit and sculpt things on the pavement with them. so many dicks...
sonicthahedgehog · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Crying Game. My neighbors and I would sit in a circle in my front yard and recount sad memories of saying goodbye to family pets and such.... with the end goal of making ourselves/each other. I play a similar game now, only it's called therapy.
NearlyHeadlessNich · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Turkey Tag". My friends had a tether ball with rope that had broken off the pole. The person who was "it" would swing it around like a lasso before bashing you, and once you were hit you were frozen until someone came to your rescue. Eventually we got my friends dad to join, and he was referred to as the BFT - the Big Fucking Turkey. Total inhilation.
"Green Goblin" The designated goblin would go hide somewhere outside from our friends house to the house at the end of the block, only on one side of the street. Could be in a tree, could be in someone's yard, trespassing didnt cross our minds. Then all the rest of us playing would slowly make our way down the block looking for the goblin. Once the goblin was spotted OR someone had passed them unnoticed, they were free to come out and tag someone. You were only safe by running back and making it to the original house without being tagged.
"Ghost" Played in the upstairs hallway, all the doors closed and a rope going in front of the stairs (as if that would help). The "ghost" puts a comforter over themselves and all the lights get turned off. They have to roam down the hall trying to catch people and get a point after holding on to someone for three seconds. Then you switch and the one you caught is the ghost. This brutal game resulted in mostly injuries and crying ending the game, as the narrow hallway required the rest of us to barrel down the hallway and mow the ghost over so as not to be grabbed. Once grabbed, kicking was fair game. Sometimes we would try to balance on multiple doorknobs to stay off the ground. My brother fell down those stairs once. That was my favorite game.
"Clubs" We took those plastic kids golf clubs and boomerang-threw them at each others ankles. You had to jump to avoid them. First one to cry lost.
"Apples" we used to sit in my neighbors apple tree and throw the rotten apples at a cars tires just as they were passing so the apple would explode when run over. Wed also sit up there with a whoopie cushion and use it when someone walked by. The looks of surprise and confusion were worth it.
So so many more, looking back I can say I had an imaginative childhood.
pshawny · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle use to play the "This is our little secret" game.
badgernamedbaker · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We bought a pool table at uni and made a game called ‘pocket’. Essentially you play with two balls and have to slap them into the opposing players pockets, think hockey with your hands. Lots of bruised hands, lots of bruised egos
Ryoohki166 · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"come on cars".
We had a really long driveway and we'd stand at the end of the drive. When on coming cars were spotted approaching our driveway, we'd run to touch the bumper of our parents car before the oncoming car would cross our drive.
Lame game, but we were homeschooled and we didn't get out much
EvanPearTree · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I would re-enact mini-games from the first Mario Party game in the back yard with my sister. We created unique rules for each mini-game, for example the one where you had to jump on Piranha Pants, we would pick certain weeds and see who could get the most in a set amount of time. We had a Nickelodeon slime hourglass as a timer.
big_boi_gappy · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would fill balloons with water and freeze it, then we would make snow bowling pins. It was less of bowling, and more like kids throwing a sphere of ice at snow dick structures.
huertaverde · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would sit at the top of the basement steps with all our barbies and other dolls. At the bottom of the steps was a baby gate we had set up. We use to throw them as hard as we could down the steps. Extra points if the head got stuck in the gate, and decapitated the doll.
Im pretty sure my mom was just relieved we outgrew the barbies.
dabblegizmo · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know that we ever named it, but my sister and I spent hours on end making our own water ride. We flipped an igloo dog house upside down and filled it up with water. One person would sit inside. The other person would spin the doghouse around the yard while still holding the water hose and spraying the other person with water. Best time ever.
Devo43evo · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would go 4-wheeling in a huge open field at one of our friends’ farms. But each 4-wheeler would have two people on it, one to drive and one behind him to shoot (paintball). We would all drive around in circles as fast as we could and shoot each other. We called it “Jousting”. So fun. But so painful. Paintballs hurt a lot more when you’re adding the speed of the 4-wheeler to the shot.
Bardivan · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Katamari Damacy!!!!!! and you can relive the joy with the new HD remaster of the first game on Switch
TeqhZem · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to stand on the arms of the couch and fall down onto the cushions. This would go on until someone rolled off and hit the table. We called it "Fun Time Falls".
AIexanderClamBell · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock golf. Just get a bucket and roll up socks, take turns using your house as a sock golf course.
Pharreal87 · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soccer golf.
My dog dug a whole in our yard that a soccer ball would go into (the ball still stuck out above ground). There was only 1 whole but 9 Tee-off locations around the yard.
You kicked the ball, the rest was played just like golf.
We eventually made it an 18 "hole" course, the 18th Tee was 2 blocks away.
Fun times
RellikGaming · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Warriors, toontown, squirrels, and pokemon
My elementary school class was a bunch of nerds. I was in a "magnet" program, meaning the district pulled together all the smartest 30 kids and shoved them in a class, replacing kids as they moved out. Funnily, most of us are stoners and still fairly smart (me being the exception as an academically lazy musician). Anyways
Being the nerds we where, many of the kids obsessed over various forms of media. Lots of kids played yugioh, made up games based off of books or video games, etc. I mostly played with the non magnet kids and this one less nerdy chick playing kickball or basketball or whatever. But the unique games where wild
Warriors led to lots of injuries. Warriors, if you dont know, is a book series based off of cats that fight or some shit. So, they pretended to be cats and claw at eachother and made their own names and role played.
Pokemon was kinda fun, but got old. You just kinda yelled the names of different moves and eventually the judge decided who "won". Basically the same concept as Toontown.
But squirrels. Oh boy. Kids would throw acorns,tackle each other, full on hit people as hard as they could,etc. The one time I played a kid kicked me in the face and chipped one of my front teeth (it was a permanant tooth at that point), another time the psycho girl brought a knife,etc.
Oh and another game I forgot. Memes. Kids had different clans like "pwnd" and "rekt" and "epic" and just yelled the words at eachother until someone got annoyed and quit.
Shit was wild
QuietDragonLad2000 · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called "Fork and Carl".
It springs from a story our parents told us that when they were growing up, their was a creepy old hobo who lived in the sewers of their neighborhood called Fork. One of my parent's friends, Carl, made the mistake of walking by the sewer at night, so Fork threw an old doll at his head. I doubt how realistic this story is, but it delighted us kids to hear. So to play the game, we would choose the roles we would play (my sister usually took the role of "Fork"). The one playing Fork would have to hide in the closet with a doll of choice. The player being Carl would then pretend to casually walk by the closet, and "Fork" would then have to try to throw the doll at the Carl player before they walked out of range of throwing. My sister had impressive aim, so the game usually concluded with me getting a doll to the face and her inevitable victory.
nytfrost · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The great scrunchie war. So 90's.
Jakespank83 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I were really into Morrowind, so we tried to play it in real life in some woods in the neighborhood. We would gather berries to use as currency, and built wooden shelters for shops. Also, we peed on snowballs to use as soul gems for enchanting.
NaturalFries · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Awww man this brings back memories. Me and my crew used to play the Finger Game, there's probably another name for it but whatever.
Anyway the point of the game was to knock out your opponent's hands by putting them over 5 fingers. It's pretty simple but was a lot of fun. Both of you start with 1 finger on each hand, you can hit yourself, your opponent, or if one of your hands is knocked out and you have an even number you can split, so if you had 4 fingers on one hand you could split to 2 fingers on 2 hands. Eventually one of us found a way to win the game every time (as long as you went first) so we had to change the rules to exactly 5 fingers to knock out, anything excess would just carry over (so if you hit them to 6 you hit them to 1), this led to some very lengthy and intense matches on in the cafeteria and it used to get real intense on trips while on the bus (one lil bastard actually fought someone over it).
The game was pretty awesome and after the rule change required a surprising amount of strategy. It was the one game we could bring literally anywhere.
defiancy · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it the Chair game. Basically you'd set up a dungeon crawl around the house with enemies (action figures etc), weapons (Nerf gun usually), key cards, treasure and the works.
The key was you were on rails, and restricted to the rolling office chair. The pusher was also the DM, so he'd/she'd setup encounters in rooms and move the player around.
This is how we entertained ourselves on long weekends when my father was out of town.
Oyounes · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would line up like soldiers and our uncle would try to make us laugh until one person was remaining. Usually using toys or sound effects. It sounds dumb now but that shit was the most hilarious thing ever I swear. Once he got out the squeaky chicken it was all over
Grandpa_yeet · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
mEtAl GeAr
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would get a pair of socks and roll them up into a ball, this was the grenade.
Then we would split the room in half and choose our side. The room was usually full of furniture and toys and other random objects we refused to clean up.
Then we would throw the sock to one side and start the countdown from 5 to 1 and the person on the other side had to get the "grenade" and toss it to the other side before it exploded. But you couldn't hold onto it for more than a second. As soon as it got through the halfway mark the timer started again.
You keep going and trying to get it somewhere difficult for the other person to get to so it would explode on their side and give you a point.
It was fun until we got bigger and the rooms got smaller.
thewisefrog416 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play the finger game Which is great because we were girls We would mix together weird foods and textures and have to figure out what it was we would be dipping our fingers into
We would also put on light shows
And play blindfold tag
We were way cool
doXXymoXXy · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage
cowsrock1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "duty free shopping". We'd line items up on the stairs and buy and sell them. Yes, we grew up traveling quite a bit and northwest airlines was pretty persistent with their duty free shopping advertising
SirChuckster · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game where we went into my friends cul-de-sac on our bikes, have one person not on a bike in the middle that threw a football and of you fell off of your bike or the ball hit your wheel, you were out. We had a few broken bones as a result of that game. Good times, though.
Fredde1909 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Who can stay longer on train tracks...."
I almost dided.
TeddysTheName · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scribble guess, we would get whiteboards and markers and someone would try to draw a picture with their eyes closed, and who ever guessed what it was they would get a point. And it would go around clockwise for who when next to draw. If you got ten points, you would win. Good times.
nheimstreet · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m late so this will probably get buried but man, this reminded my of a game my sister and our two friends used to play as kids! We called it “Olden Days” as it basically consisted of us taking any useful props into the backyard during summer days to pretend we were roughing it, you guessed it, in back in the “olden days”. “Olden days” also typically had a supernatural/magic component to to it as we were becoming fans of Harry Potter at the time, so not only were we 4 girls pretending to be women living in medieval times, we were also witches/wizards. Oh also the hose spigot was our dairy cow named Bessy.
As you’re probably beginning to see, we were imaginative and did not half-ass ANY of this game. This typically involved quite a bit of preparation, usually lasting about 1.5 hours, in which we scoured the house for any and every item that could possibly fit the theme and dragged them out to our big maple tree in my Mom’s back yard. This also usually included a stack of books that were going to be our recipe and spell books (duh). However, being the idiots we were we often chose to smuggle out the brand new (and not cheap) Harry Potter books. Now, like I said, this set up usually took 1-2 hours on average, so by the time we got out there and started playing in the hot summer sun we usually lasted a max of 30-45 minutes, at which point we would come in to the house “just to cool down” and then never go back out to clean up the plethora of household items we brought out there.
This is where my mom got really mad...as for those brand new Harry Potter books? Well multiple times we ended up leaving them out there for days during which time it rained heavily, and the books were ruined. Pretty sure we did this with multiple brand new books. Finally mom banned our cherished game of olden days, to this day I have no idea how she found the patience to not kill us!
Bonus story: The big Maple tree we played by was quite a trek (at least to us) from our house, so it was really frustrating having to go to the bathroom mid game. However, not far from the tree was a row of shrubs/bushes at the time. I informed my older sister that I had to go to the bathroom and would try to hurry back. However, my lovely older sister gave me quite a convincing speech about how if all I had to do was pee, I should just go squat in the bushes so as not to interrupt the game, not to mention people pee outside camping all the time, so it’s no big deal. At first I resisted, honestly. But she was a master of manipulation to my younger self and finally after clarifying that this would be our secret and Mom would never know, I hesitantly walked over to that bush, squatted, and peed. And by god, I didn’t even have my pants fully pulled up before that evil traitor went sprinting into the house screaming about how I just randomly popped a squat and peed in a bush. Through tears of shame, humiliation and betrayal I fumbled through the story while my sister laughed hysterically and my mom tried desperately not to lose it too. Fortunately for me (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I had 2 witnesses, our two best friends who witnessed the entire saga so I ended up avoiding trouble. But that day is the day I realized you can’t trust anyone and sisterhood means nothing 😂
xSandwichesforallx · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a whack of siblings and we would play this game called "hunkabunka beanstalk" Someone would take an item and hide it in a room and the other players would search for it and when you found it you would yell out "hunkabunka beanstalk". Thats it!
bcfromky · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm Buying That Car!
My sister and I used to travel from Kentucky to Pennsylvania to spend the summer with our dad. On the drive up, we'll would take turns saying, "I'm buying that car", whenever we met a card or passed a car that we liked. It helped pass the time during an eight hour drive.
Incessence · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a completely contrived game but a creative variation I think. My brother and I loved baseball... But it's hard to play 1 on 1, so we made up our own version. We had a pretty nice flat field that had a creek in left to center field, acting as one wall, and some woods in right to center field acting as the other. We setup bases and a pitching mound, then took an old piece of plywood and spray painted a small square on it to serve as a strike zone (the plywood being the "catcher").
So here's what we did:
My bro had an epic baseball card collection. We would sit down for a few hours combing through it and making our 10-12 player teams with those cards, kind of like Magic the Gathering or something. We would also draft up our batting order, flip for home field advantage, etc. Usually we got fully decked out in our cleats and stuff.
Standard rules applied for pitching. Except if a "runner" (I'll get there) was on base and you missed the plywood (catcher) then it counted as a wild pitch and the runner was granted a base. There were no stolen bases otherwise.
When the ball was hit the pitcher had to go chase it down, when they reached the ball one of two things happened. The actual runner (the batter) could choose to stay at the base as you would in baseball, or they could keep running and either be chased down or... As they approached home if you threw the ball and hit the plywood before the runner got there then they were out.
If the batter chose to remain at a base then they were granted a ghost runner, who would advance the same number of bases as the batter when the ball was hit.
Hitting the ball over the creek or in the woods was a home run.
Some changes we eventually made were using a tennis ball so we could hit the runner with it (like kickball), using a softball bat (which is thinner), and home runs only occurring if you ran them out (I.e. only "inside the park" home runs). The reason for that last one is because my brother was an incredible ball player - but he was a tall, lumbering first baseman. He could hit. I on the other hand was small and fast - I usually got singles and stolen bases (IRL), but I had a cannon for an arm probably thanks to this silly game. Anywho point being I could typically run down the ball and fire it into the plywood (or into my brother) before he could round the bases, and I became a decent pitcher, so it balanced out.
Anyway, it was just a lot of fun because we tracked the stats for each game then would go over it after... "Chipper Jones went 2/4 with a homer and 2 RBIs".. I mean he didn't, it was just us, but it was fun to pretend. Honestly I attribute endless warm days playing 1 on 1 baseball with my brother for my whole skill set, which served me well by the time I was a senior.
Tricky_IsHere · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
War" with all the neighbors and our toy guns/wooden guns
TheGrind54 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Join us" one my friends and I made up during break in primary school. It started as just the 4 of us but then it gained popularity through the rest of our year group (small rural school so only 19) and a few boys in the year below. Was a lot of fun with the higher numbers. Basically tig but you run round saying "Join us", to catch people you have to get them to the ground. Once someone is caught they are also a catcher.
My friends and I were sort of the innovators of the playground so there were loads more but this one was the most memorable
TheGrind54 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was actually another one, think we called it squash ups or something. Basically a more painful variation of hammers and nails (first person goes down the slide facing the correct way and sits at the bottom, next person goes down backwards so they sit back to back, next person goes down feet first so they are foot to foot with the previous person, repeat until person at the bottom cannot take the weight, classic Scottish/British playground game). Well our variation started exactly the same but after the first person the next people go down sideways facing left or right (alternating for each person) so you can fit more people on this making it harder
Aldorria · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dick-sabers. Didn’t see my uncle anymore after the sleepover.
peanutwaterfall · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basecervooball. A combination of baseball, soccer, volleyball, and handball/football. Two teams, one goal. Scores start at 12 and each time you get the ball in that goal, your score knocks down by 1. The first team to get to zero wins.
twitchosx · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess it's not "unique" but..... "Guns". You know, the neighborhood kids all get out their toy guns and then we run around yelling at each other that "I shot you" and then he says "no I shot you first" and it was basically hide and go seek with arguments.
destineehicks92 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I lived in Alaska. In the winter we used to stand under trees after a fresh snow fall and hit it with a big rock/tree branch/shovel so all the snow would fall on top of us. We also used to play tag on our snow machines (mobiles) around the block by throwing a ball to tag the opponents. Good times 🙃
NotAnyOrdinaryPsycho · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played this game called FOUR! You’d start by grabbing a bat, hitting in on the ground 4 times, spinning around with your head pressed to the base of the bat, then running off to a certain part of the yard, running back, and hitting a ball that was on the ground with your bat. Then you’d yell, “FOUR!” There were no winners.
JarlaxleForPresident · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this big ditch near some woods that had steep walls but not perfectly straight up and down. We'd play tag on them. It was like tag while rock climbing because you'd have to grab tree roots and hand holds and stuff. And if you slipped, instead of falling to your death, you'd just slide down and get your feet in the creek
SandyH6 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can't remember the name of the game but basically there were two teams. One team had a word with the same amount of letters as team mates and their objective was to make sure the other team doesn't get there letters. If caught by an opposing team member it normally resulted in getting hit (a lot) till you gave up your letter. If the team got all the letters they won and then the teams would normally be switched about. Scottish children for you
Simpfur · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Awesome Catch” (creative name I know)
One person throws a ball onto a bed/mat/pool/etc. and the other dives and catches it. Entertained my brother and I for hours at a time.
Discussionnerd · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played the bunny game, we would jump on her trampoline and every time a car drove past on the road we’d lay down as fast as we could so they couldn’t “shot us” (there was a fence there so that apparently blocked them from killing us) and if we didn’t get Down fast enough/got “shot” another player would have to get “bunny food” from the phone line pole thing that was right next to the tramp and feed it to the dead/hurt bunny to save them.
We played this every single time we were on the trampoline for years, I should probably mention that road these “hunter” cars drove on was somewhat busy because it was in between two schools
mcauli19 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Challenge HIN.
Two guys would hold hands arm wrestle handshake style. They would then try to hit the other in the nuts with their free hand. Challenge Hit In the Nuts, or Challenge H.I.N. for short.
mamatwosie · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bend forward and grab your calves or ankles and walk backwards to "butt battle" each other. First to let go of their leg or fall loses.
Gornashk · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some kids played cops and robbers. I had a suitcase for some reason, so I filled it with monopoly money and baggies of flower and we played cops and drug dealers.
Seepee86 · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick. 3-6 players. Played in the dark, outside.
First choose a weighty stick. Then all stand in a circle facing each other with enough space in the middle to hold the stick out, then throw it up as high and as straight as you could. No obvious aiming allowed..... Just as hard as you could, straight up.
All players then MUST keep eye contact and not flinch whilst the stick hurtles back down to earth. This was the most important rule.
If it falls outside the circle missing everyone, mass relief from all players and increase in tension. Move on to the next person and repeat.
If someone eventually did get clonked on the head, everybody would fall about laughing hysterically whilst they writhed on the floor in agony.
In the event of a self clonking! Everyone would just fall to bits laughing themselves stupid whilst the self clonker writhed on the floor in both agony, and shame.
Game ends usually after a serious injury of some kind.
Carawayy · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Smash Brothers Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube
Jkravec1996 · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pajama Sam
Phife__Dawg · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stuffed animal hide and seek.
We had a shit load of beanie babies. I spent a few minutes hiding 20+ animals, and my younger brother had to find all of them. With no sense of inventory, we found almost all of the animals. 20 min later, Ma smelled something burning, and we realized quickly that there was one animal not found. The lobster beanie baby was hidden In the lamp right on the light bulb. Impeccable hiding spot, so good that it damn near burned the house down.
americancreeper · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Look at the Dead Body. Someone would lay down on the ground, eyes closed. Everyone would circle chanting in a sing-song voice "Look at the dead body. Look at the dead body." The person would get up when they were good and ready, and with their eyes closed, they would chase the others until they caught someone. We were 5-7 years old.
Nogodsnomasters · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In our neighborhood, we invented a game called "In the Mother's Stomach." We pretended we were fetuses (though we didn't use that word) playing around. Using our kid logic, we could roam around the body quite a bit. The swing set, for instance, was the lungs. We would have coughing fits whenever someone said the mom was smoking, and we would gleefully jump up with open mouths whenever the mom drank soda pop. The point of the game was to escape the wrath of the brain (always played by the eldest participating kid.) We were weird.
bigedthebad · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was take those big paper cash register receipt rolls and unroll them. Then roll them back up and do it again
SippycupStudios · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Super Fumble Football (based on the super fumble cheat code from the NFL Blitz 20-03 game) where if you got tackled you had to drop the football, so there really were no downs. We also had 3 exercise balls on the “field” that we used for rolling past each other to avoid being tackled. If someone hit an exercise ball at you and it hit you, you also had to fumble the ball.
Another game we played was a trampoline goalkeeping soccer game (I’ll have to explain). We used to have a play set in our yard that used to have a slide and various swings, but all the swings and the slide broke so they were all removed, leaving a big metal frame that we could use as a tall goal. We pulled the trampoline right up against it. The goalkeeper was on the trampoline and the shooters were on the ground. There were two smaller holes in the play set that counted as 3 pointers that were about 3x3 feet. Winner got the most goals/pts.
xSinful · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kerby. Played with two people - stand at either side of a (hopefully quiet) road facing each other. Each player takes turns to hit the kerb, if you hit it you got a point, if you missed it was the other person's turn. If you hit it and caught the ball you'd go into the middle of the road and take as many turns as possible hitting the kerb until you missed.
Manhunt was a big one too. We'd play it in equal teams with a home base in which the running team could free any captured players.
yokoohhno · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game when we were walking on the street where we tried to split groups of people up who were walking towards us by walking between them. It had a very complicated points system where splitting a big group up was worth the least points and splitting a couple walking hand in hand was the most points, you also lost points if anyone ran into you. We still play it sometimes now as adults.
Mellymel75 · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called gum torture. Basically one person got held down while another person takes the chewed gum out of their mouth and tries to touch the person that is being held down with it.
lindythetendy · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chase for the ball”. Clear out some room in the house(on carpet preferably). One person sits in a chair on one side of the open area and throws a ball (about the size of a golf ball) and two people battle to get the ball back to the person that threw the ball. The person that threw the ball holds a cup and in order to win one of the people chasing for the ball must get the ball in cup. It was basically a mix of wrestling, football, and basketball - an absolute blast.
Flyzini · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blanket beatings. Wait for a friend to walk in - cut the lights- throw blanket over top of them ( protection guys)-proceed to drop bombs on them.
wilber-guy · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin had a large play horse that you were able to sit on. It was really stiff but fairly light. We use to take ten or so jumping ropes and pretend to haul the horse up a large set of stairs by standing on the top and having one cousin tie the ropes to the horse. We would create all these methods for keeping the horse from swinging or hitting into the walls. Played it all summer long.
Ghosta_V1 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im very late but im going to shate anyways. My twin brother and I had these stuffes horses called chunky horses. We used to grab those stuffed animals, get inside of a box with them, and race down the stairs, it was called chunky horse races. We even used sharpies and drew all over our boxes. I think my brothers had a portrait of his horse at the front, and flames down the side.
Y4M33Nyt · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft
AdhesiveMessage · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family would carry around quarters and every time we saw a bouncy ball machine, we'd get a few. At home we had a basket on the kitchen counter FULL of bouncy balls. At any random time the inspiration struck, someone would grab a handful and start throwing them at everyone else. This would trigger an all-out war.
It didn't matter if mom was cooking dinner, dad was working on a delicate construction project, or people were trying to watch a movie in the living room.. everyone dropped what they were doing, grabbed as many bouncy balls as they could and took cover under the nearest furniture.
emmyyogurt · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would build “hotels” for worms out of little sticks and stuff, but then i would squish them and feed them to ants. i realize now how fucked up and weird that is, but i’ce grown up to be a fairly normal adult
IkeyJesus · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Neverhood
izzysimmonss · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kidnap! You would have 2 teams starting at the home base. Each team would take a car and two blindfolded people from the other team and have exactly 10 minutes to drive as far as possible and drop the blindfolded people off somewhere they wouldn’t recognize. They are only allowed to use their phone to call their team members to come pick them up when they figure out where they are. First team back to base wins.
ShadesShandoo5 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor
bearscoat · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother (8 years older than me) would play “Runaway Pillow” with me. He’d trap me against the floor somehow and pretend to sleep on me, making big exaggerated snores and whatnot. It was my job to wiggle free and run away. He’d give me a few seconds head start while pretending to wake up.
Dumplin97 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk if it was really considered a game, I guess more of an operation. During the 5th grade me and my friends would steal spoons from the lunch line. So that when we went outside we would make our way to the baseball field and start digging a hole to China. Each day one person was on guard duty in case a teacher or monitor stopped us. One person always had to recruit more people for the operation too. So we'd grab a couple extra spoons every day for more people to join. I think the furthest we got was probably like 2ft which for a 5th grader is an amazing feat. Only thing that sucked was everyday they would fill the hole back up with all the dirt we took out. 😅
GunnerNexus · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Try not to cry when other kids at school laugh at my injured head, it’s a really an emotional game
b_dy · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played Ball Tag.
Tag but with a ball and just two rules. If you got hit in the face you weren’t it and if you caught the ball thrown at you you wouldn’t be tagged. We would play this for hours.
Mike-From-Work · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red card football, where basically there were 0 fouls so we just punched and tackled each other for the ball and someone usually wouldn’t have the ball for more than 10 seconds. We were stupid
gresh88 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eyeball squyball. You sit upside down in the recliner and someone tilts it almost all the way over shaking it until you either fall out or say, “EYEBALL SQUYBALL EYEBALL SQUYBALL!!”
SirPanticus · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we played a playground game involving at least 30 kids. It was called Raptors vs. Penguins vs. Humans. We all split in to these 3 factions and then battled. It made no sense but it was fun lol.
greasyitalian19 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can. A form of hide and seek where everyone would go off and hide and the one person would stay at the can (usually an old dog food can) and count to a certain amount of time (usually 30 seconds). Then that person would go out and search for everyone and when they found someone it’d be a race back to the can. If the person who was spotted gets to the can and kicks it before the searcher calls out where they spotted the person then everyone that was previously captured is freed. If not then they are put into “jail”. Once all hiders are captured a new round is started.
minigolflasthole · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it fireball. Two or more people would jump on the trampoline with a basketball and you couldn't let it touch you while you were jumping.
Snoopy20111 · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My boy scout troop's scoutmaster had some land which was a field by a creek and had a steep slope going into the creekbed. We played a game called Desmond with that space and a football.
One team would start in the creekbed yell "Desmooond!" and chuck the ball up over the side as hard as possible. They would then start climbing up and run to find the ball, while the other team tried to stop them in a freeze-tag sorta way. The defending team won if they froze every attacker (though attackers were safe in the creekbed), and the attackers won if they managed to get the ball back to the creek, with dubious rules on how they could do so.
It was one of the most unique games I ever played, in the sense that it wouldn't work really anywhere else. I'm sure somebody could have gotten seriously hurt, but it never happened and we had lots of fun doing it.
Dr-Green-Treez · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can
Vesalii · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kung Fu tag. It was like regular tag, but you had to kick or punch each other. Teachers didn't like that game.
RantSomeWhere · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “bitchslap game” that a friend of mine and me invented. Two people fight. They are only allowed to slap the opponents cheek and only in slow-motion so that the opponent had a chance to defend himself (in slow motion as well). Whoever scores the most successful slaps, wins.
We were indeed stupid.
AdumLarp · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I made up a couple few games that I would either play with my brother, some neighbors, or else the kids at school. Two that stand out are a form of Flashlight Tag I called Monster Tag, and a game of Dodge Ball played up against a wall.
For Monster Tag one person had a flashlight and everyone else played as monsters. The monster's job was to sneak up on and "get" the person with the flashlight. The person with the flashlight's job was to avoid being gotten by the monsters and survive for a set amount of time. If they shined their light on a monster then the monster would have to run and hide, but they had to be facing the monster and looking right at them or it didn't count. No waving the light beam willy nilly around in hopes of hitting a monster. That one was usually played outside, and was a lot of fun to play while camping in the woods.
For Wall-Ball Dodge-Ball a group of kids would be lined up against a wall, with the stipulation that you have to always be in contact with the wall. Another kid would be facing them with a ball. Once the game starts ball kid starts throwing the ball, dodge ball style. The other kids have to avoid the ball and stay in contact with the wall at all times. If they either get hit by the ball, or else lose contact with the wall, then they are out. Instead of going and sitting off to the side though, they pick up a ball and start throwing it. Eventually you'll have several kids throwing balls and only a few or one kid trying to avoid them while running up and down the wall, or rolling back and forth across the wall. And every ball that misses bounces right back into the waiting hands of a thrower. That one was a favorite and caught on around the school pretty quick.
There was also a game of street ball my brother and I would play with an old volleyball I found. It was pretty akin to Calvinball, in that we made it up as we went along. Good times. And then a giant game of four square with multiple people per square. Probably a couple more. Usually had a lot of kids playing my games and all claiming credit for them as well. That's fine, we were all having fun and that's all that mattered.
Damn I miss being a kid sometimes.
Dantheinfant · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snood!
Mygoogolplexthname · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play with dandelions like other kids played with conkers. I would hit the two against each other until one would finally be 'decapitated'. They would wrestler type names (only lamer) like Mike Spike or Jimmy Bash. I remember introducing the game to my friend, and there was one 'character' that survived over ten games and he became our favourite so I put another dandelion stem through his to double his strength and keep him alive. I then remember going home and drawing mini comics of these characters. I was a weird and lonely child who just wanted wrestling toys!
RaptorPotractor · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Picadilly", it was created by my older cousin. Basically we would all sit on a chair round the dining table and one person was chosen to go under the table. Then everyone sitting round the table would attempt to touch the person under the table on the nose/mouth with their foot ( shoes off but socks on ) all the time the sitters would slowly chant "Picadilly, Picadilly, Picadilly".
At the point that one of us touched the person under the table on the nose/mouth with our foot the person touching would sing "Sockinary sockinary juice".
Good times.
BM_character · 1 points · Posted at 18:50:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play "animals" in which we would pretend to be animals just to have an excuse to beat the crap out of each other. One time we were rhinos and just kept headbutting each to the point where our moms thought we may have got a concussion, once they found out we were good we pretended to be leopards and started to scratch and bite each other. After that my cousin went home, supposed to be an all day play date turned into 30 minutes mfw I was a stupid kid. Fyi we did this until I was like 10.
blaziken8x · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swing-set dodge ball. Basically two people are on the swings, the others try to hit you with the ball, if they hit you, they take your place on the swing. And from your knees down is a safe area, that you can use to protect yourself from the ball. Also, the people throwing the ball are not allowed to throw hard. lol
cot-hocoa · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family bought a new fridge when I was younger, so I had the bright idea to take the huge fridge box and strap it on a skateboard. My friends and I would take turns getting inside of the box and roll down a hill, off a makeshift ramp, into a bunch of trees at the end of the hill. We didn't have any logic behind it obviously but uhhh, yeah, fun times.
voicelessvelarstop · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slugs!
We'd roll out the sleeping bags and drag ourselves around the basement moaning "SLUUUGGSSSS", since that is clearly the sound a slug makes. We'd make slug piles, do slug dancing and have slug races. When we had a greater player to sleeping bag ratio, one person would go around with a white 'salt' blanket and cover a slug, who would then have to act out a horrible death. The 'dead' slug would shed their slug body and trade with the salty player.
Colonel-Fur-Berger · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coffee talk on the playground. Interviewing our friends
mirrmirr24 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I only played this once bc my dad was pissed when he found out. With each of us on the other side of the hallway, we’d throw plastic hangers at each other. Of course they’d hurt if you got hit and we were throwing them so hard they’d break on impact with the wall. I don’t know why we thought this was a good idea but it was a lot of fun
86Zeus · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chores. It was a game my parents made up. It's pretty self-explanatory.
raydogxyz · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game we called “fat boys”. We’d take t-shirts from our dad stuff the shirts with as many pillows as possible and then run full speed at each other. Whoever was knocked over lost that round. Sometimes they’d be so stuffed that if we got knocked over we’d get stuck like a turtle on its back!
scII-H · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Azure Dreams on PS1
SeraldoBabalu · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock fights. Empty your sock drawer, roll those mofos up and have a showdown.
Edit: not punching each other. Throwing them like snowballs.
closetgeekshow · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Bat Ball
Requirements:
Each player stands at opposite ends of the court. One person serves the basketball by hitting it with the bat. Points are scored by getting the ball passed the opposing player.
Play continues until your bones and joints are in agony from the shock of hitting a basketball with a bat repeatedly. Or when you go to swing at the ball and take out a tail light on a car and get grounded (thus ended the final match ever played of this dumb game).
It's basically pong with people. I don't even want to imagine how much I damaged by body playing it.
Edit (remembered more)
Helen Keller
It's Marco Polo but you don't say "Marco" or "Polo".
Grenade Dodge
Whip pinecones at your friends.
jahzhanz · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to play bicycle chasey (tag for Americans) . you basically just get chased by the person who is it, who has to clip you on the back wheel (or anywhere really). we played it on an island that has no cars but thousands of bikes. it was easy to recruit other kids. yes, it always ended with injury.
joey_8312 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You made me lose the game FUCK
crg339 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the teacup in the bedsheets with my aunt Rhita
UnmixedGametes · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Football using two pennies as goal mouths and little balls of mercury as balls.
namffauk · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game called buffalo with my dad and older sister. we would stay on the furniture which was safe away from our dad or the "buffalo" who would get on his hands and knees and chase us if we tried to get from one couch to another
snocopolis · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my two cousins, sister, and I used to play the "Jeepers Creepers" game in the backseat of my aunt or my mom's SUV, which involved three of us going under a large comforter and the last one trying to break in while making noises to frighten everyone inside the sheet. you win if you can get in, and everyone inside tried their best to hold the sheet shut with hands, feet, whatever lol. it was thrilling and terrifying and so so much fun!
mattyshaman234 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two for yalls. The first was a 1 on 1 basketball game called overtime. The overtime period was 60 seconds, and each possession was up to 10 seconds. Your possession ended after the shot attempt hit the ground, or your 10 seconds was up. If you were losing, you could foul to send them to the line and hope they missed their free throws. If the score was tied at the end of the 60 seconds, then you went to another 30 second overtime. A lot of the time, it wasn't even about winning. It was more fun to see how many overtimes/game-tying shots we could get.
The second game, called rebound, was a bit simpler. Throw a football on the roof, and see who can catch it before it hits the ground. Since the ball would bounce all over the place, and you couldn't see it until it was falling to the ground, it made the game a little more evenly matched for short people like me. We never came up with any rules, so nobody actually won. But man, we would laugh our asses off playing that game.
vampedvixen · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember one day I found a whole bunch of plates my mother was going to donate. So I made the big plates the Mom and Dad plates and the little plates the Baby plate. And then I played with them like they were dolls, but they were Plate Family. I was a weird child. I literally could personify anything!
DrBarbotage · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The water game. About 5 kids with Dixie cups stand in a line catching the trickle from the faucet until the cup is full. Drink the water, run to the back. First person to let the water hit the sink loses. Last person standing wins.
YoshiCudders · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Both children hang on the monkey bars from opposite sides and attempt to kick and knock the other off. It worked for about one week before teachers caught on.
maximo22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LEGO smashup derby. We made LEGO cars that were as tough and durable as possible and then smashed them together as fast as possible. One of us would hold a car in each hand and hold our arms as far apart as we could and roll them together as fast as we could. The last car that could still roll was the winner. They rarely shattered on the first smash, so we had to have many smash-heats. The only thing that could be done between smashes was tires could be re-inserted into the blocks. Otherwise we couldn’t smush the pieces back together or anything. We made all sorts of weird attachments on the front of the cars that were designed to crack the other car apart. There was a cheating scandal though. We had to outlaw LEGO-licking. By licking the LEGOs you could create a small amount of suction that held them together. After that we watched each other closely. Amazingly, we rarely broke any of the LEGO blocks.
Okin_Boredson · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really "unique", we just played hide and seek without lights at night, and other version was basic wrestling at night, and you guessed it, lights off
urbanrooster07 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
lolol I forgot about this! my mom use to drop me off at my grannies house an they was all ways some other kids there, we all use to play this game call tickel party. we all get in the floor in this big ball an start tickel every body an my granma an her bf was the refs. we all get in the floor an start tickel an if you quit or you piss you get out of the ball an my granma or her bf get to tickel you were you pee from. The last one in the ball gets to tickel my granma or her bf were they pee from.
StardustedDaisies · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my elementary school gym class, we played "mission impossible." Two team leaders went first and the rest of us followed. It went like this: the floor is lava and you have to go back to the start if you touched it. We'd have objects to step on but not enough to cover the whole way so we'd have to move objects around from the back. Whichever team reached the other side first won. Ah, good times.
Eat-More-Goats · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My brothers and I grew up on the Nueces River in south TX, a gorgeous limestone rock bottomed river with crystal clear water. We played this game at the river which we called “Pogi”, where you have two teams, around 2-4 people per team, with each team having possession of 1 side of the river. You start with two large rocks (around 1ft diameter) placed underwater in the middle of a deep and/or wide section of river. The object of the game is to get both rocks to your teams’ side of the river, and no other rules... Chaos typically ensues and leads to underwater brawls. Usually the strategy is switch off the “swimmers” and the “defenders”, with the defenders on the opposite teams bank keeping the rock away or trying to steal.
It’s exhausting just thinking about it actually!
Lee__Roberts · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father and I used to play "cow poker." I grew up in a rural area and all it was is when you pass a cow pasture that is on your side of the car you count how many cows there are and add them to your total. Whoever has the most at the end is the winner. You could substitute cow for anything really. "Mailbox poker" requires much more focus.
beeweenis · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother made up a game called "moose". We would get down on our knees and put our hands up palms facing forward fingers spread (emulating a moose rack) and violently headbutt each other. Now, looking back, I see it was a great excuse to make be cry without being responsible because I agreed to the terms of the game. Older brothers are assholes.
Hellaklout · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who can catch the most frogs, butterflies, rollie pollies, or snails.
alas_strychnine · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play this game with my Nana’s egg timer, or as we called it, the bomb. It was in the shape of a pear, ugly thing really. We’d take all our toys and scatter them around the house, then set the timer and hide it in the cupboard under the stairs. We’d scream and shout and save all the toys from the ‘bomb’ by taking them in to my Nana’s bedroom and hide them under her covers. She hid it from us when the game got too much (the noise must have been horrendous with 4 five year olds screaming and a random egg timer going off too). She died a few years later, and when going through her things, there was that egg timer, just sitting in her bedside table.
AdequateGatsbys · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the “game game” when trying to figure out what video game we were going to play. We would put out all of our games and eliminate one from the running each time, until we got to the last game. Sometimes we would do 2/3 or 3 times and pick the best of the top 3
Capt-_-Anxiety · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek in the dark
jpflanno · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I created a game called ‘Bomb Voyage’, where you got them out by throwing balls on to a trampoline. You had to knock the balls off midair and not let them hit the floor, otherwise you were out - absolute cracker.
dexino12345- · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well me and my sister used to play some kind of roleplay in call of duty 4. We pretended we had a restaurant and an hotel in the map "crash". Thinking about it now was very boring all I did was snipe her from my roof because she refused to fight... Such a strange childhood I had
3rik0007 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother uses to take our dads white stuff and shove our faces in it it gave us a really good feeling after it to this day I still dont know what it is
mcbitching · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would find one or two large fans and create caves out of blankets (which were held up by the wind from the fans). We would then just sit in the wind caves. The whole point of the game was to see who could last the longest in the cold. It was a kind of a survival challenge, but it was never actually that cold so we just played until we got bored and left.
INeedADart · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Contact basketball.
Negative_Clank · 2 points · Posted at 18:54:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the Cosby show they called it tackle hoops
Shineplasma64 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkeyfighting.
My brother and I would cover our faces with our off-hand, then stick our other arm through the gap between the elbow +chest and make a fist.
We would then proceed to hit each other repeatedly - as hard as we could manage with impaired vision.
Can't remember what the objective was to be perfectly honest. We used to play this game in the middle of the grocery store and it annoyed the hell out of Mom.
We were (usually) laughing our asses off as we beat the shit out of each other, so we got some funny looks but nobody ever tried to stop us.
Can't remember why it was called monkeyfighting.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Privateaccount84 · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Whip each other with licorice."
My parents would occasionally buy long pieces of red licorice, and my brother and I would take turns whipping each other with them. This would usually result in welts, and occasionally blood (if the licorice was stale).
Giantballzachs · 1 points · Posted at 18:52:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
Joos_Toos · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two childhood friends used to play a game called “malakai bug” malakai was the name of one of my friends (they were both brothers, he was younger) and the game was similar to the floor is lava but he... WAS the lava. Basically he was on the floor and he would try to reach us on the couch and we’d try to run to another piece of furniture before he got us and honestly it was one of the best times of my life.
RitchieRC · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends used to play “ buzzee”, basically we would all agree on a location like a bin or a telephone pole and everyone except the catchers, (usually two or three) would run away for around a minute. The neighbourhood we would play it in was very dense with lots of paths and alleyways leading on to different streets. The aim was to make it back to the chosen location without getting caught, once you reached the location you would wait for others to also get to the place. If caught, you would join the catchers. Usually we would agree on if you were in the first 2-3 caught you would be it for next round. The games would sometimes last for hours because people would remember all the routes.
One time me and my friend, we’ll call him James, were hiding in someone’s garden behind a shed for like a solid 2 hours, we eventually came out of hiding to realise everyone was searching for us and not just the people playing from the start, my other friends had “recruited” like 20 other people in my year. We ran as fast as we could and managed to get right next to the spot, however there was like 5 guys guarding it. We sadly never made it.
raramente · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
31!
Is similar to hide and seek but has a twist!
The guy searching counts (usually to 31) / starts from a spot! He then has to find everyone. If he finds someone he has to come back to the spot and yell out his name.
However, if the guy hiding gets back to the spot and yells out his name instead he gets to "hop" away from that location until the guy searching touches him (he can run at normal pace).
After everyone is found / gets back to the spot. The guy that was searching needs to piggy back everyone that ran away from the location the point he touched them back to spot.
It gives the guy hiding a goal, the hopping makes that no one is able to run very far away and him carrying everyone gets a nice laugh in the end!
DougFlootieson · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor. With my uncle..
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to put a cup somewhere in the house in any position(except upside down) and crumpled up a paper into a ball and play “Paper Golf” Just keep flicking the paper ball till you make it
Nuggets_McFlop · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I came up with the Rufus game. There were two sets of stairs to the deck. The goal was to run up one of the stairs than run to the CENTER of the deck and jump off getting as many laps as possible. The twist is that my German Sheppard, Rufus would try to catch us. And he was never done when you were. So you’d have to run and jump on the trampoline to avoid being bitten. Few injuries from that one.
NotDownWthDaDickness · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 4 year old son and I play a game where he comes over and loudly whispers in my ear “time to fart on mommy” and we see which one of us can sneak up and fake fart on my wife’s head first. He typically wins because he just yells kamikaze and basically jumps on her head while farting.
formalicja · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my friend once told me she and her twin brother played a game where you were thinking of a sentence and squeezing each other's hand as many times as there were syllables in the sentence (meaning that you were supposed to squeeze the hand 3 times if you wanted to say "I love you"). This were the only rules and they had it right 90% of time.
mikeh617 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ante-I-Over. Where two teams stand on either side of a building. You then trow a ball over the building, and if the other team catches it they chase you one lap around the building and try to hit you with the ball. Oh and if you screwed up on your throw and weren't able to get the ball over the roof then you would have to yell out "Pigs Tail!" Anyone else play a variation of this game?
blacktowel818 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
happy cake day
extralemonsplease · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we would come home from a drive to dinner, a family outing, etc, my sister and I would play a game we called "C4" (Idk, I guess we thought we were cool secret agents and didn't want our parents to know what our game was). The game must be initiated while still in the car and one of us would look at the other right as we were parking and say "C4"!. Then we would rush inside to our separate rooms and change our clothes as fast as we could and put on our pajamas. Once finished changing, you had to run and stand at the entrance to your room and yell "done!" to win. I often lost because I would take the time to hang/fold my clothes and put them away while she would just throw hers on the ground.
Not the most exciting game ever, but I do get a kick out of the codename now!
froggynight42 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle use to play countries, it was kinda like risk but it was in the front yard and life size. We also use to sing the entire game in opera. I was probably around 8 at the time and my uncle has since passed away so it's one of the best memories I have of him.
urukehu · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is going to sound really bougie but we had a game called "Poor People".
We basically would pretend we were peasants living in the woods, we even had costumes with long skirts and aprons. Our playhouse was our home. Other than that it was usual kid stuff - running away from our dogs (who were inexplicably the bad guys), making mud pies etc.
My sisters and I played it heaps but I every time it comes up I get hassled quite a lot by my husband for how snobby it sounds!
Cub3nsis · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Penis inspection
MarqNiffler · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up when video games like Zork, Ultima, and King's Quest were just getting going.
My friends and I loved those games, so during recess we would play a game we called "Maps".
One player would draw a map, and keep it and guide the other players through it by giving them choices. The map maker would tell the other players what they saw, or heard, like "Your'e in a jungle, and you hear a waterfall to your left, you can go north, or West" or "You see a monster up ahead, but it looks like he's sleeping".
And then the players would say "I want to climb the tree", or "I want to look underwater", etc.
the only real goal was to get o the "end" of the maps, but players almost never did because we'd make them way too complicated for anyone to solve.
We had no idea what RPGS were, and had only heard of D&D as a scary devil worshiping game.
BananaHomunculus · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rumble in the dark. Wait till night time cancel out all lights and beat whoever you find
joesav19 · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shitflinger
My dad made it a game to see who could fling more dog poo over the fence. I eventually realized he'd let me win and I'd clean the poop out of the yard for him.
Crooshalll · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme luge
Basically we found anything with wheels (skateboards, powerwheels etc) and would ride down our street which is a giant hill. The objective of the game was to use sticks, baseballs, and kicks to battle each other while riding down the street and knock each other off/make them crash. Last one standing wins.
hokiegal85 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure this is unique, but we always loved to play ‘Mother May I?’
armcie · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "60 ticks". There was a goalkeeper. He counted to 60 in his head (with the last 10 seconds being counted out loud). Everyone else was trying to score goals off a volley - someone else kicked the ball in the air and if you kicked it before it bounced and scored a goal, the keeper had to restart his count. If the keeper caught the ball then the kicker became the goalkeeper. If no goals were scored at the end of the count then the last person to touch the ball became goal keeper.
I was shit at it.
FactoryV4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Toe”. Basically wrestling battle that ends when you can subdue your opponent by grabbing the big toe.
Hellbender2004 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if anyone from India still remembers this, but I used to play “shoe bite” in with my friends.
screenager90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played 'Cat & Mouse'. One would go under the bed duvet, 'Cat', and you had to catch the mouse who was on top of it. Was a lot more brutal than it seems.
quarrelsomecow · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
broom wars. we each held onto a broomstick (or any stick) from opposite sides, hands shoulder length apart and near the others hands. if you let go you lose.
me and my brother were incredibly good at this. i remember once him pulling back slightly so id adjust my weight and then he used the momentum to swing under/between my legs... so i had to somersault over it... he won this round because i then had a weak inverted grip, and he twisted to victory.
i got into wrestling to be better at broom wars.
GoofyPanda · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brothers and our friends would play Nask inspired by the first Harry Potter movie with Nask(the norwegian version of Filch) where one guy would go around pretending to be Filch looking for the others. What made it so fun was that it agreed that the one who played Nask would have to intentionally suck at actually catching us, just give chase if he caught a glimpse while simulatenously spouting lines from the book/movie plus improvisations in Filch's voice. One of my brother's Filch impression is 10/10 so we'd usually have him play Filch. We played this shit for years!
Nscafati · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play this game we called “Spiders and the Buggies” which was a reverse version of hide in seek in the dark. One person would hide in the basement in pitch black darkness and everyone else would start on the stairs and have to make a trip around the basement (it was one giant loop). If you were tagged by the person hiding you would help them grab other people until there was only one person left.
knoblockandroll · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Screw the Driver”
We took a flat headed screw driver and threw it as high and hard as we could, and whoever got it the highest and made it land point down, sticking in the ground, sticking as straight up and down as possible, won.
We threw it from one side of our yard to the other, across our drive way, with a group of people on each side. How nobody got shanked is beyond me....
AnotherLolAnon · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Oregon trail. I tied our red wagon to my bike and made my sisters get in the wagon with all kinds of camping gear. Then I rode with them down the street to a neighbor's house ("Oregon").
We also played "Duck Lazy Pond." Our neighbors had a huge pot hole at the end of their driveway. When it rained and filled up with water we we get long sticks and fish leaves out from it.
Finally I remember making dolls out of sticks. I gave them hair from the streamers my sister had on her bike handle bars and either drew or carved a face on.
between22rivers · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play jump rope with myself. This involves tying a rope to the gate and letting myself jump in.
I would also routinely play Sorry or Clue by myself. Just acting like I was multiple people and taking turns with myself and rooting for myself to win. It was a weird time.
Well_Read_Redneck · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to periodically boobytrap areas of my house to see how long it would take for someone to trigger one of my traps, and who it would be.
Best time was about a week and a half, getting my older sister.
Styckles · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Instead of "The Floor is Lava" my sister and I played "The Scrubbies are Coming" as in the Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaning products. If you touched the floor the scrubbies were gonna get you and scrub you clean.
pork_N_chop · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I used to play a game with Necco wafers where we’d put one in our mouth and whoever could keep the candy in their mouth the longest without it breaking wins.
Fixed_Beans · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played the "Tennis Game". It was basically just baseball with a tennis racket and ball. The amount of home runs was sick... the neighbors roof still has marks to this day.
WWWallace71 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bionicle football and Crash cards.
First one me and my dad used to line up on opposite ends of a hallway, and have one of our teams bionicles 'kick' the ball towards the opponents goal. Think turn based xcom style where you have to think about few moves in advance and block the angle and line of sight to the goal with one Bionicle and advance with the others. If the ball tapped an opponents player the possession swapped. Could have used anything but I had a ton of bionicles (the full original set of 20)
Crash cards was more simple. Lay out a bunch of face down cards and have maybe 5 or 6 face up at random. Then get about fifteen cars (I usually used model NASCARs because it was the early 2000s and it was still good then), and for each car you would roll two dice and move them forward based on what you rolled. If you landed on one of the face up cards you'd have to roll again. If you rolled the number on the card (say 8), then you were safe. If not then that car crashed. First car to make it across the line won. Often did it in teams with my dad so it was competitive but fun.
Thanks for this question OP, really reminded me how good my childhood was and how creative my Dad was.
Sausagelinks22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand next to each other and kick each other in the shins and then wait a day or two and push each other’s bruises
dkreak · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway Football... We literally would play 2v2 in the hallway. Walls were TDs... only issue was the hallway is big enough for a grown adult to stand shoulder to shoulder... so we could barely fit 2 kids wide. Made it easier to bump the receiver at the line...
Until my friend put a nail threw his knee when he dove and got push into the door frame
I_Am_The_JMart · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddies and I played a game in middle school called "nut ball." We would face each other, legs spread, and sit about 15-20 feet apart. The game was played with a tennis ball. The rules were simple. The ball had to bounce once (before hitting the other guy) and the objective was to hit the other guy in the nuts. The loser was whoever quit first/couldn't take another hit in the nuts.
Looking back, that was a pretty stupid game to play.
BookMeat · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take Jenga blocks and make bases and artillery with the blocks. Like trebuchet type shit. We just sit there hurtling wooden blocks at each other’s faces trying to knock down the bases. Our mothers did not approve. Good times, good times
Bac2Zac · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstick wars. We played with 3 tiers of combat. Stick only combat, light contact and full contact. It was the original battle royal of 12 or so neighborhood kids and we all either got ripsticks for Christmas or we threw our extra Christmas money in the pot to buy community ones for those of us who couldn't afford them or just didn't get one for Christmas.
The goal was pretty simple, be the last one on a moving ripsticks without leaving the circular culdesac.
Stick only combat meant your only weapon was smashing your board against other people. It was pretty universally loved.
Light contact meant you could push or shove but no punching or hitting.
Full contact was pretty unregulated. Punch push hit, whatever you wanted was allowed but we usually tried to break these up by weight and everyone had to wear wristguards.
It was a good time.
Plusultramomo · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Halloween Harry
LemonSquaresButRound · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stuntman Ignition loved it as a child and when it became backwards compatible I played it alot again
youdubdub · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In fourth grade, Mrs. Bennett had the students each create a game for gym class. I created a jousting game using two mustache brooms with pillows duct taped to the ends, and each combatant wore a hockey helmet while pushed at one another on the square plastic gym "scooter" carts. Everyone lived.
Lincoln_Elisheba · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, our friend and I, would tie each other up on our front lawn with cheap plastic dollar store skipping ropes (they were harder to pull the knots out of than the good quality rope ones because the plastic would bind instead of slipping). The idea was to tie someone up the best so that they couldn't escape. I remember my mother back then saying something about it being kinky, but we had no idea what she meant.
thebestlomgboi · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gym sharks, we had people who would run around the ground around the floor, and they had to tap whoever was on top to become one of the floor dwellers, this game stopped because the teachers stopped ot after i got hit in the face by the tire swing :/
itsspeltlynndee · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark. One person would go out of the room, we'd shut the lights off and hide. Literally anywhere. Once the person would come in, the people who were hiding were allowed to throw toys and stuffed animals at them to throw them off.
maggie_reeroo · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy flashback!
'Sticky Poo'
We lived rurally and had vast expanses of moorland to play on. On summer nights we would carefully select a good bamboo cane from the gardens (those things that are supports for growing plants). Then go play on the hill where we would pierce dry pieces of sheep/cow poop with our canes and run around dodging and flinging the poop at each other. We got points for hitting others and points for good dodges.
Simple times, good times.
CMN3532 · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to throw soda cans at the ground and see who could get it higher
CTStudd · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What do people do with all their dyed eggs on Easter? Our family has the solution.
Knock Eggs. Everyone in my family would decorate and dye a dozen eggs sometime before Easter, usually done as a family. We would put the eggs in the refrigerator and on Easter after lunch we would all get together and take turns knocking the pointier end of the eggs together to see which one would crack. Usually one person would hold their egg and the other would attempt to 'knock' or crack the other person's.
Rinse and repeat in an unofficial tournament style until there is one egg left and you are crowned the winner for the year. Been doing it since I can remember, and now I do it with my family. Never ran into anyone else who does this.
Zanedewayne · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game we called "Snap" different variations of one personw with a ball on the ground, trying to make the people on the trampoline take their spot. Whether it was basically dodgeball, or volleyball snap. We got creative and added catapult and leaf snap. Catapult, you lay on your back and deflect the ball with your feet. Leaf, you drop on the floor when the ball is up in the air. If you get hit then you take the throwers spot and now you're it.
biglado · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mate used to throw a tennis ball at each other’s testicles to see who would chicken out first.
I didn’t back down.
Still yet to find out if I can have children.
zarzak · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "kick the ball across the street game". Its exactly what it sounds like. :)
JGWillikers · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"What's for Supper?" Where we rummaged the cabinets because we were in poverty and couldn't eat to sustain every night
DrRemoray · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hathi😂
dahero64 · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I had a game in which one player had a ball and the other had a jump rope tied like a lasso and the whole objection was for the guy with the lasso to tie up the ball holder before they could run to the other side of the room with the ball. We called the game rodeo and I couldn't tell you how we came up with it besides the fact it was an excuse to beat the shit out of each other.
Bioticmiya · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dancing in front of mom's door at bedtime and running
shynoraa · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would buy a pack of M&Ms or Skittles, open the package and then separate by colors. Those were the teams. Then a series of rounds would commence where I would pick one of each color, close my eyes, and shake them about in my hands as if I was about to roll dice. I would then pick one and eat it with my eyes still closed. I would do this until there was only one color left and they would be deemed the winner. I always secretly hoped the underdog would win but always maintained my sense of justice required in any game of chance. I wouldn’t eat the winner.
StandingOnThe · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night ball - like hide and go seek tag, but with a glow in the dark bouncy ball. Played indoors in a pitch black largish room. Seeker counts to 100 with ears covered and eyes closed in the dark while hiders sneak into place. Seeker has a small flashlight to charge the glow ball in their hand while counting. Seeker has to hit any hider with the glow ball to change to a new seeker. Hiders can move around in the dark and are encouraged to to help the seeker locate hiders.
Sweater - stand 5ft apart from someone and try to throw a sweater past them without throwing it too high above them or off to the side out of range
Claustrophobia - Friend and I took turns underneath a twin bunk bed that had open support ends like a hollow rectangle. Other person would use whatever pillows and blankets around the house to pack the other under the bed against the wall as tightly as possible. Then they spotted as you slowly tried to wiggle and push through all the debris to get out without freaking out.
cromation · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom and sister convinced me to play the stinky feet game. They both basically just put their rank ass feet in my face and made me see whose was worse. I was the only loser in that game.
bestestname · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game called The Monster. It was basically catch but you had to touch them three times, and the runners had a one time powerup of stopping the monster for 3 seconds. You also had to "shoot" at the monster as much as possible, so tou had to stay near that player.
Notoday · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We had a crap ton of Playmobil when I was a kid-- medieval knights and pirates and Vikings and such. We would pick a character and together form a village. My brother devised a whole economic system where we each had jobs and could collect resources to exchange. The miner could sell ore to the blacksmith who could forge it into weapons and tools to sell. The carpenter could sell you furniture or build you a house. Sometimes shit would happen like Vikings might kidnap a villager and we'd have to rescue her, or we'd receive word that an invading army was on the way and we needed to prepare. It was all very imaginative! Good times.
I still remember the day I got out the playmobil, set it up and realized I didn't know how to play with it... my cherished childhood toys were just pieces of plastic that I didn't have the imagination to bring to life anymore. I had grown up.
ABS0LVE · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my friends and I were around 9-10, we had a game called "Pedophile" (we had no clue what the word meant at the time) where we'd go down into my 2 friends' basement (they were brothers), turn off the lights, and basically play blind hide and seek. We'd have to poke the hiders to signal that we found them (to avoid from other close hiders from running away).
wilkins348 · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever riding in the car and looking out the backseat window I would imagine myself skateboarding alongside the road and jumping over objects/grinding fence posts
MumblingMinotaur · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t have a specific name for it, but one of my best friends lived in a gated community that was very heavily planted and even had a island of sorts in the center that was full of greenery.
We would dress up in fatigues and try to sneak from one end to the other without any of the residents spotting us and introduce special challenges along the way.
I’m sure we weren’t as stealthy as we thought sometimes but it was so much fun.
WebberVonBerouf · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Coconut Man"
Me and my sister would take a brown blanket and play RPS for who goes first. Then the winner of RPS would get rapped in the brown blanket and curl up in a ball repeating "Coconut man is who I am". Aaand that was the whole game, weird shit I know
Silaries · 1 points · Posted at 18:55:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Wirbelwind" ( German for Tornado ) my sister and I would grab onto a pole of our clothesline with one hand and spin around it fast, trying to catch the other
Seanannigans14 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a nice flat hand rail going down our basement stairs. My brother and I would make these crazy lego creations and have a competition to see who could build the sturdiest lego contraption ans make it down the rail
LydRay18 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s called “the Game” you think of the game you lose the game. Shit I just lost the game.
DSii1983 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play “interior decorators” and we would beg our parents to take us to Home Depot so we could take paint chips and wallpaper samples for our game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother an I often played a game called “Lego War” which basically included any combination of figures designed to kill the others with powers we make up. Lets just say I always won.
The-L-aughingman · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this game we'd play when I was like 12~ called hide and grind. The Girls would hide while the boys would find them. Once found, the finder would thusly be ground on.
Grinding: to move one's ass around the crotch area of another's.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bloddy knuckles, with a hair comb
Dica92 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A version a dodgeball where you have a one person on the ground throwing and everyone else dodging while jumping on a trampoline
FarewellCoolReason · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was bum-off. Stand back-to-back on a bench, balance beam or playground rail and proceed to knock your opponent off using only your butt. The home version involved standing on the ark of the couch so my butt would be at equal height to the posterior of my father and involved him launching my tiny frame across the sofa in gales of laughter.
10/10 would recommend.
DontUDare · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I back then used to play Tree Tag. We played in a small area with about 6-10 trees in our elementary school. Just like regular tag, someone was "it" and had to tag someone else. The twist was that if you were touching a tree you can't be tagged, but you can only hold onto a tree for a certain amount of time before you have to start running to hold onto another one. We played this for the entirety of our fifth grade.
christopholiss · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A miniature version of baseball that usually took place in an unfurnished basement. We thought that using pillows as bases would make it safer. Turns out pillows were a tripping hazard.
BangB00mShr00m · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was like 5-7, I would always have "picnics". These picnics would consist of me taking all of the tubberware/food storage containers we had at the time and lining them up in rows in the living room. That's it, then I would just stare at my accomplishment. That was my game, and yes, I was an only child lol.
ghostofburtreynolds · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Space Taxi
Jayizraw · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and some friends would turn off all the lights in the basement so it was pitch black(basement underground, minimal windows). Than proceed to grab whatever we could and throw, swing, lunge with said item we found. Loser was the one who turns on a light because to much pain. Lol good times, lots of broken chairs and misc.
occasional_raccoon · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The youngest of us would run back and forth while the rest of us stood on the top of a levee and tried to hit him with paint ball and/or air soft guns. We didn’t have a name for it, but the youngest would chose the winner when we were bored.
Evergreen_Night · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "The imagination Game" and we had to tell the most riviting story and make a boring room as interesting as possible. The more lost in story others became the more likely you were to win. Lol.
ReibekuchenRalf · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tony Hawk‘s Underground 2 was the shit!
Firefox9001 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an elaborately tall playground that we would play a game called don’t fall on. The one that was it would have to have their eyes closed. While everyone else had to hide. The twist was how small the playground was in terms of surface area though. So you had to hang under walkways, over the person that was it, or even on top of the roof. The spots got better every time due to all of the easy ones being found. We called it “red hot lava” because if the person who was it shouted red hot lava while you were on the mulch you were it.
lostfourtime · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pig Mania. You rolled two tiny pig figurines instead of dice, and you got points based on how they landed. They were rolled out of a can called the pig sty, and you kept score on the pig pad using your pig pen.
cfxyz4 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing "pinball" while riding in the back of a boat. When in motion, the boat is tilted back, creating a slope. We would lay down and use our arms as flippers to push a tennis ball up the course, and put obstacles in the way
michaelnpdx · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid growing up in the 80s/90s with very little parental supervision my cousins and I had so many different games.
Throwing a tennis ball and trying to hit power lines. Each hit was a point and first to 21 wins.
Throwing a tennis ball onto the roof of the house and trying to get it to roll into the cinderblocks which lined the flowerbed in the front of the house. The first one to do it wins.
Dousing ourselves in lighter fluid and running into the house in flames to terrify our grandma -- Figuring out scoring for this one was a little bit difficult because there really were no winners, along with...
Soaking the sponge like material from a mattress that was thrown away in gas, lighting it, and playing soccer. Nobody ever scored because it would instantly catch your shoe on fire when you kicked it.
Trying to find various plants around the neighborhood and down by the creek that tasted like different foods.
Walking down the street barefoot in the summer wasn't really a game, but it's something that was an annual rite of passage during summer vacation. By the time we got to the creek at the end of the road nothing felt better than dipping our feet in.
Prolonged battles of throwing various objects at one another.. Dirt clod wars, cherry wars, un-ripened prune wars, sock wars, stick wars.
This wasn't necessarily a game, but when the house across the street got condemned and there was a notice that it was to be demolished we did it with our bats before the city had a chance to get equipment out there.
We convinced some kids who lived across a field that we were ghosts and if we heard them playing outside we'd emerge through some bushes and haunt them. We had elaborate backstories... my personal story was that I fell out of a hot air balloon and was impaled by a piece of rusty rebar that was scattered across the field separating our houses.
There are so many more. Looking back, especially with children, I am appalled at the dumb things that we did. We're really lucky that we were never seriously injured... well, we were never physically injured from our "games" but the prolonged apathy from the adults in our lives are just the gift that keeps on giving on the mental front.
Tbone5711 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bicycle/Lacrosse/Polo Jousting. I grew up with a gravel road, two of us would be on bikes with those cheap lacrosse sticks you get from Kmart. You'd ride your bikes at each other while trying to pick rocks up with the lacrosse sticks and chuck them at the other person's wheels. You couldn't hit the person with the rocks or any other part of your body, or run into them with your bike. First one to fall lost.
Who_wife_is_on_myD · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage
TheRake26 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Twinkle Toes". Twinkle Toes was the evil cousin of the Tooth fairy. We had a very long rope swing in our backyard that granted a large range to move about. The game was essentially tag but you had to stay within the range of the swing. The combination of the restricted space and the idea of being chased by an evil fairy made it exhilarating yet terrifying. Ahh childhood.
bjackilly · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As far as I know the only people who ever played this game went to my elementary school.
We used to play a game called 'ledge', that mimicked baseball. There was a small 45 degree angle, 2 inch wide feature on the side of an old building at our school (the annex), that made this game possible. Each team would take turns at bat, slamming the ball off the thin ledge, while the other team waited in 'the field', an area between two buildings. If the other team caught the ball mid-air, that was an out, if the ball made it to the ground it was a single base hit, if it bounced twice that was a double, if it made it to the other building and made contact, that was a triple, and if you managed to hit the French room windows directly, that was a homer. You would just keep track of who was on each base, no actual running.
It was the best. Has anyone else played anything similar to this? We would usually play with tennis balls, and learned the lesson that you can't use a lacrosse ball, or you will eventually break one of the French room's windows.
Sconed2thabone · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I were gifted bathrobes for Christmas. He was 12, me at 8. We took the belts off and we'd take turns tying each other up and seeing who could make the better knot and leave the other in the bedroom till the got out.
Doctordoom55 · 1 points · Posted at 18:56:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Away on a trip at school, my friends and I invented the “Caterpillar Fighting game”. Everyone gets inside a sleeping bag and hops around trying to knock everyone over and not fall down. Was fun until this weird kid got involved and punched me in the face.
Good times :)
skeletonkyle · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Belly wars. In the pool you would start on one end and it was a 1v1 whoever got their belly touched first lost, you could curl into a ball for 10 seconds total every round and be invulnerable
bearbluesblue · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Making my uncles snake hard. Wait...
SnoopysAdviser · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tennis-Soccer
Played on a regular neighborhood street.
Take two old tennis rackets (the wood kind) and cut out the strings, this is your racket. A slightly-deflated soccer (futbol) ball fits perfectly in the frame.
2 players take up residence in the street, 50-100 feet away from each other.
Player 1, with the ball, loads the ball into racket, then flings ball at opponent. Goal is to throw ball past player 2.
Player 2 must use his racket to stop the ball from passing player 2.
The sidewalk or street edges are out of bounds.
Both payers keep flinging the ball back and forth until someone scores, first player to 10 wins!
Iron_Potato · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Matrix Fighting. Someone was “the one” and everyone else were agents who attacked “the one” in an onslaught. While “the one” could take any amount of hits, agents could be taken down with a good punch. The combat was imitation, the punches and kicks were not intended to actually hurt. Sometimes we actually had songs from the OST such as “Burly Brawl” playing the background.
Both roles were fun. Being an agent allowed you to react to blows in a overdramatic fashion. The “one often” got creative and integrated something like a pool noodle or pillow into their fighting style.
Saf22 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Neighborhood Game. One team was in the backyard on offense, another in the front on defense. The goal was to get as many team members to touch the garage without being tagged by the defenders.
arielgolf · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Everything you throw i eat" was the game i played with my little brother when he ate, it was my way if getting extra food
BigBrandyy · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indiana Jones walk. We'd walk on the planks of wood surroundijg the garden and try not to gala ok the way to the end
tenderboob · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin sister and I would play a "game" before bathtime that we lovingly called Wormies. But really it was us just naked rubbing our bellies together because it felt nice.
SourBogBubbleBX3 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lazer finger. While on car rides, My finger could cut any objects in s straight line off my finger tip. Visualizing the destructive power.
solipsisticxsophist · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Running around a tree, repeatedly. By myself. I was so lonely in kindergarten.
dmjr333 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bonkwikwi Ball
birds_for_eyes · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I didn't have many kids my age to play with. So I played a lot of games in the backyard by myself. My two favorite were James Bond and Bug Hospital. For James Bond I would get in the hammock and face down towards the ground, pretending I was scaling between two high-rise buildings. I would imagine that the lines of ants along the ground where innocent civilians, unaware of a villain trying to blow up their City. I was their only hope. Sometimes I would save the day, but other times I fell to my untimely death.
Bug Hospital was a little more cheerful; I would regularly fish out the drowning bugs from the pool, and relocate them into little cubicles I made in a shoebox. I would try to revive them in different ways. Sometimes they would perk back up. Sometimes the tape I used to keep them on their little hospital beds contributed to their demise. Either way, so many fun times as a kid.
MrSeanaldReagan · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it but we used to go up into the mountains dressed in Halloween costumes and fight with lightsabers. It got pretty involved, we even had 2 or 3 "secret bases" which were just bushes with openings in the middle. One even had a mattress and an old office chair/desk in it that people threw away.
We also used to poke tarantulas with sticks until they chased us, that was a lot of fun too
regularbrett · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would pick a funny word and then go through the names of shows on the DirecTV guide replacing one word in the title with the chosen word.
Eg: “Wheel of Dick” instead of “Wheel of Fortune”
TpyoWritr · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dark Ninja"
It was hide and seek if the house but we covered up EVERY single light source so that it was done in pitch darkness.
Sean-Mcgregor · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My bro and i used to “play” MMA with eachother
asdfqwerzzz2 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my 2nd grade friends spent a month's worth of recess time trying to make concrete with sand and gravel. We even did research online to see how concrete was made
TomClancyRainbowDix · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man I have a ton of these. We played tower game where you stacked people and cushions alternating until it got too high and fell over and whoever was on top would typically hit an end table. We also played cellar dweller where our one older, much strongerfriend would hide in the basement In pitch black. Then we would go in with no aim until he strategically subdued and executed all of us.
256610006Aa · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made up an imaginary land called “Harminia” (also what we called the game)
To get to the land you had to wear a ring made by my friend’s grandfather who gave us all one. You had to shine it at the sun and then crawl through a tire swing to get there.
Once we were all there, we had wands or swords and an element (fire, water, earth, wind) and would battle dragons and collect fairies. We even drew up a map of all the different sections of my back yard (it was 3 acres with a LOT of wooded areas)
catthedd · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had many large battles with giant-sized tinkertoy swords and trash can lid shields. Bonus - you could throw the shield if you wanted, like a frisbee.
mvtt_st0ne · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had a backyard with a lot of low hanging trees bushes and brush all around. 2 teams. Team 1 would take Team 2's shoes and hide it somewhere in the brush. It was up to the other team to get the shoe back in their side of the yard. Basically captured the flag but with shoes. Pretty stupid but we were bored
Santos_L_Halper · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The eraser game. We had a white board eraser where the goal was to place it on someone's person or with their belongings. If you were stuck with the eraser on Friday after school you had to buy chips and soda for when we played Smash Brothers or something that night. If you got caught giving it to someone you had to take it back.
Played it for all of my senior year. It was great.
CrabbierBull391 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i used to play a game w/ my uncle it was called uncle’s pp in my booty
Geriatricchicken · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A rock-city building game where my brother and I would make cities out of rocks, then, we'd destroy each other's cities by kicking the shit out of eachother.
drglitz · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My younger cousin and I were obsessed with NES castlevania games when we were kids, so we'd play Castlevania pretend a lot. Specifically one of us would be the Vampire Slayer and the other would be the random towns folk and monsters. While the lights were on it was daytime, and the Vampire Slayer could explore the town and buy items and get clues as to where the various dracula body parts were hidden. (various key items that were hidden around the house beforehand) and when the lights went out? We'd yell "WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT FOR A CURSE". That's when the monsters came out and tried to tag and damage the vampire killer, who had three paper hearts and had to give one up every time they were hit. If the vampire killer found all five hidden items they fought dracula and pretty much auto-won the game.
Bonus: the nighttime monster always sung the song until they turned the lights on again https://youtu.be/-HUwLA57paU
Plantsrgr8 · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Last hit baggy beans.
My dad made it up. You hit someone and shout " last hit baggy beans for 2 hours". The time is up to the person doing the hitting. You can't hit someone why you've been last hit baggy beaned. You have to hope the other forgot and get them when possible. Many times we all would be running through the house screaming trying not to be caught. 6 people playing this game at once, it got violent on occasion but it was hella fun. Can't wait to play this with my nieces and nephews one day.
ElMuchoDingDong · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick Tag. Pretty much tag but only getting to trade who's "it" by trying to harm your friends with the best kick you can supply. Rules, only 1. Kick has to be done hip down otherwise you gotta kick again! Yes groin shots allowed! Yes you will be running full speed away from the person who's it and if unlucky enough to get clipped from behind.... Well let's just say you know what grass taste like.
P.S. We played this during recess our 5th and 6th grade years. Only got threatened to get suspended about once a month. Also somehow none of us ever got severly hurt which is just amazing to me.
chimmydongas · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but a friend of mine used to play “blind doggy” with his older brothers. They would sell it as a fun game everyone would enjoy when in reality they just made him get down on all fours, would cover him in a blanket so he couldn’t see, then they would just beat the shit out of him.
It was a lot funnier the first time I heard about it than actually having to type it out, but he did fall for it multiple times.
ZoinkBoinkYoink · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would launch rubber bands across the room behind the teachers back, and kept score. minus 5 points if you got caught, minus 25 points if you ratted the other out. We called it rubber band tag.
Brizigda · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would hold our hands behind our backs and ram into each other.
TotallyDanza · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood friend and I use to play city girl and country girl and we would make her little sister do things in order to become a city girl. The one time she made her poop into a cinder block. I wasn’t around for that one, I saw it later on though. I don’t think she ever became a city girl.
ThrowawayBox9000 · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a sidewalk in front of one of my childhood homes that a kid had previously made somewhat deep impressions of their hands and feet in when it was being poured, and I liked to sit there and pack mud into them and try to get them out in one piece
althea_alethia · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Klippie skool" (pebble school), I can't find anything about this online, so I am not 100% sure it was unique.
Quite simple, you need at least 3 friends, a nice staircase (more than 10 steps), and a small pebble (small enough to hide in someones hand).
1 person is the teacher, the rest is the students. The teacher needs to swich the pebble in their hands and then let the students choose which hand it was, when you guessed correctly you can go to the next grade. If you graduate you get to be the teacher.
My cousin once stopped us playing this, because I was winning, he was a sore loser.
masterjesse · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend played "grenades" it was a game where we took cover on either side of our basements and just hurl toys and other objects at each other until someone wanted to stop.
screamphilling · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Sesame Street game on Atari when I was 3 or 4. Not super unique but it shows my age as an elder millennial. I can say I played PC games as a child. And House of Games on Windows 95. Those were the days
el_frexicano · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Game"? Like at church camp?
Logieman · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this really thick furry hat when I was a kid with the bits that hang over your ears with the tassles. My friends and I made up a game like tag where I'd chuck the hat at them and if they got hit, they would help me catch everyone else. But they didn't get the hat. The hat was mine.
JeanLousieFinch · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I went to Catholic school (not allowed to bring toys outside to recess) - roughly 3rd grade, my best friend and I played with small crayon stubs, as if they were little action figures. We were caught eventually.
mungoo · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pencil people. Played it in school when we had the desks with storage inside, so we could sort of hide them. I made clothes out of paper for the pencil people and they just lived out their lives in our desks.
egyptianspacedog · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a 16ft trampoline in our back garden and would play a game called "Dodge The Ball", where we'd put 1-4 foot(soccer)balls on the trampoline and jump around avoiding them.
It ended up being quite the "art", as we developed ways of firing the balls at each other by letting them roll between our feet and bouncing in a certain way.
We also created the WTWF (which of course later got rebranded as 'WTWE').
FeculantReport · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a roof that was low enough and slanted enough we used to play a handball like game, literally played that same game there on that wall and roof for 20+ years until my parents moved.
paul77724 · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skate 3
Iangator · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad once took me on a 'snipe hunt' - which is basically when the parent takes a kid on an imaginary hunt. But of course he was my dad and I was like 10, so I believed him.
This is how wikipedia describes it:
A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch a non-existent animal called a snipe. While snipe are actual birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for an imaginary creature whose description varies.
The target of the prank is led to an outdoor spot and given instructions for catching the snipe; these often include waiting in the dark and holding an empty bag or making noises to attract the creature. The others involved in the prank then leave the newcomer alone in the woods to discover the joke. As an American rite of passage, snipe hunting is often associated with summer camps and groups such as the Boy Scouts.
sharktoothache · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One I made up for driving in the car was "bump or shadow". Basically you just look to the road ahead, and guess if the mark coming up was a shadow or a bump. It was harder than it sounds. And it's still kind of entertaining to occupy myself while on the way home
username_of_the_pee · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played dirt Claud wars.
So it's important to note we live in the hardcore desert.
We would dig two holes that were fairly near each other. Then we would throw clumps of dirt and rocks at each other using out holes as bunkers.
Puppinbake · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sure it's not unique but my two brothers and I played Human Bowling. Two of us stood at the end of the bed, the other laid down and rolled into us, trying to knock us over.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game where on person lied under a blanket at the bottom of the stairs, and the other person would jump from the top, do a jeff hardy flip and land on the person in the blanket. Whoever got a serious injury first lost.
smarmy_marmy · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my brother and a bunch of cousins, we once sat and made dozens and dozens of paper darts. These mean suckers can be chucked at painful-enough speed over a couple dozen feet or so, and they can be stacked together so when thrown together they spread out shotgun style.
It's this design: https://youtu.be/hIcskYEjyqg
Then we took them outside, split into teams across the street, and proceeded to barrage each other with handfuls of darts. The street was no-man's-land (weren't allowed to throw darts FROM there, but could still be hit) but darts would slowly gather there, so to get more ammo you had to dash out and gather up what you could while dodging the short-range fire from the enemy curb.
Anarchocommunism · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime there's a tile pattern I would just have it jump around in the same pattern the Knight piece does in chess, I try to create patterns with it. Still do it to this day.
aneal021 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Wikipedia game. Played all through highschool, it was funny cause teachers weren't able to prevent us from using wikipedia lol
We were a group of 8-14 guys, one person would pick any random thing. Could be anything.
You start by clicking random article and first person to find the chosen thing (USING ONLY LINKS stemming from that 1st random article) would win and get to pick the next thing to lookup.
Good times, landing on USA Wiki page usually meant you had a good chance of winning.
HeroDanTV · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I grew up on a farm, and one day we went into the woods and found an old railroad crossing and an old stop sign. It was winter, so we came up with the bright idea to tie the signs behind our ATV, we took turns riding the sign in the snow. The game was called “Stop It”, and the goal was to knock the person on the sign off into the snow. So dangerous, but so fun!
motleyguts · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grew up on an acre and a half, mostly all hill except for a flat portion in the front by the road. This was one of those state roads, no local fire or police. There were a lot of accidents just up from us, so it was popular to have large decorative boulders in the area for cars to smash into, instead of the homes themselves.
Anyway, we had a bunch of those and the game was basically running behind them for cover. You couldn't have a car pass you outside of cover or you lost "points". You also earned extra style points for how you got behind the cover, like slides and somersaults.
IHuckForses12 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called "Roadkill" on a homemade slip'n slide with my older brother and his friends. There'd be a "deer" that stands or kneels on the tarp and everyone else tries to take the "deer" out while sliding down. I got a few scrapes and bruises from that game
brandnamenerd · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play "well well well" which was essentially tug of war, and the loser would have to pretend to be someone. The victor would say something like, "well well well, who do we have here? It's ---- [person a kid knows]"
It was lame and a way to kill time when we were locked out in the hallway. I often was the loser, as the younger sibling, and was often George Washington, because kids don't know a lot of people
someonemeech · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At our school camps we would have gladiatorial fights everyone in their sleeping bag and jumping off bunks into a pile of other people. It hurt like heck but it was fun.
TanithArmoured · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Take a sock, shove other socks into it, fight brothers with socks like slightly softer mourning star until someone cries
Wow we were dicks
Aetropolos · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Egg Game.
We took a giant cushion and layered it over with all the blankets we could carry, largest and heaviest on the bottom. Someone would sit in the middle and the other person would tuck each blanket over them until they were a giant blanket egg. Then the person inside would try to escape.
Best escape time without rolling off the cushion won.
It was dark, it was hot, it was hard to breathe. We had to have a safe word.
As an adult I have issues with things covering my face and I think I just finally realized why....
lil_suprises · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Racing raindrops down the side of a car window. The best was when you got a couple good horizontal racers.
rhymes_with_chicken · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We couldn’t play this game often. In fact I think we played once.
We took all of my buddy’s plastic models he’d built over the years—planes and cars, you know the type that come in a revell box and must be glued together with cement. Each model was about the size of a shoe. We took all of those in the back yard—a lush forest type space with a wooden deck and copious dry leaves. And, we had realistic role play war. And, by realistic I mean we went in his garage and got the gasoline container and some spread paint and other assorted aerosols for “flame throwers”.
We’d pour gasoline in to whatever voids we could find in the models and light it with the long barbecue grill lighter and buck them at each other. This was all pretty harmless. We had Dick VanDyke’s stop drop and roll burned in to our memories. Everything was going along well enough. But, I needed something climactic. So, I put about 1/2” of gasoline in the bottom of a glass soda bottle I found laying around and “invented” afterburners the F-16 I was about to launch.
The jet was already flaming a bit (you did have to be careful with spillage or the flames would get on you before you could ever throw the model. But, after I released the plane, I whipped out my secret weapon—the bottle of fuel—and flung the open end toward the airborne jet. Fuel sprayed out everywhere. Not exactly the effect I was after. Flaming fuel was now all over the wooden deck; the dry, baked, summer leaves—the wooden fence; the trees; and, well I suppose the model, too.
My friend yelled at me “what the hell are you doing??‽!!”
No time to really address that. It was obvious. Time to start stamping. And we stamped. We stamped the deck; the leaves; we hoses down the trees. Everything was out. There was a large scorch mark on the deck, though—and the aroma of a forest fire.
We hosed down the deck and leaves and came up with a plan to scatter leaves on the deck to hide our shame before either of his parents returned home from work. And, it was working. It was all working beautifully until his next door neighbor peered over the fence. “What are you both doing over here?”
If we’d had any game face at all we’d have gotten away with it. But, our guilty look was unmistakable. I got sent home by the neighbor lady. I tucked my tail and skittered away, happy not to have to endure the lecture my buddy got.
When I got home, my mom asked what we did that day. “Oh, we accidentally caught john’s fence and deck on fire. But we got it out.”
I guess my mom was used to my shit. That was the last I heard of it. Poor John got grounded for a month and his 13th birthday party cancelled (the following week). Sorry John.
peircles · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark: booby trap, we also referred to it as HD:booby trap. It started out as us and a few neighbors playing hide and go seek in our small bedroom with the lights out, but our room was so unbelievably messy and had natural booby traps we just rolled with it. One person would leave the room giving the others the count of 100 to set up traps and decoys and then we would turn the lights out. They would come in and try to find everyone before someone could sneak to the door and turn the lights on.
phrosty20 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Combat raquetball. We're pretty fortunate nobody lost an eye, actually.
fon1138 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had one NES to share with each other and for a few years we had a cousin of ours come by every weekend. We would all play that thing for hours and we loved having our cousin over so we did our best to not fight.
We developed a system so that we could play together fairly. We would each get one turn, that turn would be over if you passed a level, or if you died. We called it "Level by level, life by life".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“What’s in the cup?”
I’ve always loved drinking water and as a child I had the bad habit of leaving my cup unattended (which is pretty normal considering it’s in your own home but whatever.) Once I would remember it, I would go ahead and grab my cup and proceed to quenching my thirst. Every single time my brother was around, he would put a random ingredient in there and would jump out of nowhere and ask “what’s in the cup?” Realizing the water tasted really weird I would just look down in my mortified. He would only put food ingredients ( thank higher entity). One time though I didn’t taste anything and I didn’t see anything and he asked me what’s in the cup? :/
Gotta thank the guy tho, Once I got into high school, I stopped drinking drinks that were left unattended
Ciertocarentin · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
a game that really had no name but for the sake of conversation, I'll call "Volley".
A friend of mine and I used to play ping pong on a table my dad had put in our attic. We were "alright" (for early teens), on par with most other kids, but really weren't all that good, and we got bored so decided to play a game of trying to keep the volley going as long as possible, using the basic rule of playing the ball correctly (ie one bounce per side) as if we were "really" playing a game of ping pong. We purposely avoided "winning the volley to keep it going, to improve our abilities... Eventually, by doing that and increasing our speed of play, introducing increasing amounts of English and aggression, we both became very good.
We did the same with tennis for a while but then we discovered girls and that took a quick dive into the deep.
Haven't even picked up a paddle in twenty years. I think my "special" one is still up in my attic packed up in a box somewhere.
Oh...and kick fights with my older brother when I was a preteen. Not sure why but I always lost badly.
AlexBtz64 · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
More as a teen, but memories of Assassin's creed II still give me chills...
jigglybitches · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek but 'it' is on a 4-wheeler that he uses to tag you. We played in a field with just a few medium height spruce trees for cover. That was the most unique, the stupidest was knife toss. We'd spread out far and catapult throw this 8 in., heavy, steel blade knife at each other. The goal was to catch it, which never happened in all the times we played. We did see some pretty spectacular close calls though.
ExtraGloves · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butts Up was a great schoolyard game especially since i was a pitcher.
makomako1329 · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play “roofball” which was that me and my friends would throw a ball onto the roof and another has to catch it from the roof. The goal was to throw the ball so that the other person would not catch it. A lot of running occurred.
pogtheawesome · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marco Polo but on land. Find a big open field and whoever's it puts a hoodie on backwards or puts their shirt over their head and then you play it just like marco polo. It works because as long as noone runs off the field, following the sound of everyone's voice will keep you from hitting any obstacles
Being completely blind and running at a full sprint is an exhilarating feeling, let me tell you
artisanpoop · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would use old shoe boxes and tape them up. Put a beanie baby in them and tie a long string to our bikes and have chariot races around our neighbors or hood.
seh0016 · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play this game called "Bag the Nematode". Was basically one-sided dodgeball where one person stood on bleachers against a wall, and had to dodge a barrage of balls while not falling through the bleachers. We'd scream things like "bag him!" and "get that Nematode" even though they made ZERO sense.
Randevu_Ron · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dark room" we would turn off the lights on our bedroom (my brother and I) and would whail on each other with pillows.
Pikachu_smasher · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball tag. So basically, at recess, the first 5 minutes is just regular tag with a tennis ball or something. If you get hit by it you’re it. After the first 5 minutes (we can tell because a bell rings every 5 minutes during our recess) it becomes infection. Whoever was last it was it for infection, and tries to get everyone out. When they get someone, the other person joins the infected, but they still use the same ball. We also had a lot of unique strategies like poker, where you stand behind the fence (our school had metal fences) and just sit there. It almost always worked if there was only 1 person, and it worked most of the time when there was multiple. So yeah.
Nevok_The_Hollowed · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Arrow roulette. We all got bows and shot arrows up in the air, the goal was not to get hit (obviously).
Ultimate_Waifu · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were initials carved into trees and every recess my friends and I tried to solve the "mystery of the carvings" where we had to solve the mystery before the owner of the initials dies
soupghost · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midnight Ninjas.
It was essentially hide and go seek tag except nobody knew who was it, when you got tagged you had to sit down and not move, and you couldn’t talk to anyone.
Played late at night, caused lots of paranoia and was very fun as it really got adrenaline flowing any time someone started to come towards you.
MilkyTheDopeman · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends n I used to throw rocks at each other... for fun, fun until I got hit in the neck n then the head n needed stitches lol
RSeidel · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh! Okay me and my sister would make our friends play “spy” (we weren’t creative with names). Where there would be two teams that would both hide an object of their choice. Then our bedrooms would be our headquarters and the teams would try to sneak around the house and find the other teams object and get it back to their headquarters first. If you were split up from your team and outnumbered by the other team you could get “kidnapped” (if they got you back to their headquarters) and would have to give one hint of where your object was hidden. Basically more intense hide and seek.
gnarcotics1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game we called "Exhibit" where we were on a trampoline, we had to stay on our hands and knees/couldn't get on our feet. On opposite ends of the tramp, there were stickers that were pretty much the the tramp "rules" like nobody under a certain age ect. These stickers were the "goals". There was a soccer ball and we would just ram into each other to try to get from one side of the trampoline and have the ball hit the sticker. That would be 1 point.
Eventually, my brother had a friend come over and we introduced him to the game, and it got a lot more competitive. Instead of just 1 vs 1 ramming into each other to get to the other side, it turned into a mini 2 v 2 wrestling match and it lost the fun.
teloniusbang · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shark
in our pool, 1 guy was the shark, he had his eyes closed under water und all people who are playing diving around. nobody allowed to touch the shark,,
Videogamerjoe16 · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anybody ever Play “Kick the Can”?
Mariesophia · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I only played it with my older sister. It was called "Boobie Catcher". I would basically run up to her and flip one of her boobs screaming "Boobie Catcher"! When I got older and got boobs too she started doing it back. Now when the family gets together we play every once in a while.
urfalump · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "people and alligators" at playgrounds growing up. I was a variant of tag where the person who was "it" was the alligator trying to tag or "eat" the people. Simple rules: the alligator could only climb onto the playground equipment from 2 specific spots, but could get off and slide back on the ground or "water" from anywhere. The people were backwards from that, there were only two specific spots to jump down into the "water" but they could climb up on the equipment from any direction. We played this at multiple parks and it was always a favorite!
dgm42 · 1 points · Posted at 19:00:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Can Can. It was a version of cricket.
You set a tin can on the ground and one player tried to knock it over with a baseball while the other defended it with a baseball bat.
_dont_tread_on_me_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Get the ball in the hoop.” It’s basketball, but the only rules are that you can’t tackle, eye gouge, punch, or try to hurt someone. Want to hold the basketball in both hands and protect it like a football as you truck your friend? Go for it. The real issue is when my friend learned how to use a lasso. He was amazing with that. He’d grab you from across the way, immobilizing you, then punch the ball from your hands.
When it would snow, we’d play the snow version called “trash ball.” We would set a trash bin (the large type you’d take to the curb every week) in the middle of his yard that’s 1.5 ft deep in snow and kick the entirely flat football in any direction. After that, the only rule is no maiming and no moving the trash bin. The deep snow meant that full on-tackling and wrestling was totally okay. After someone scored, we’d sprint back to the hot tub because we were only wearing swim trunks.
ItsRaptor · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LEGO Star Wars
Shini428 · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a trampoline and a large amount of golf balls that we scavenged from a creek near a golf course. We then decided to put them all on the trampoline and bounce around while dodging them. There was a net that kept them all in but we would get more competitive to get the others “out” by throwing golf balls at each other.
It was the good old days.
ScubaNinja · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me my brother and our buddies LOVED that battle bots show, so we decided to have our own version. we each made our own "bot" out of a box, and added things like knives and scissors and whatever else the fuck we could, and then added a string to the top. we would hang them off the balcony/stairs and swing them at eachother until one of us won... my parents were not so happy with all the dings and chips and holes on the walls n wherever else, but god damn was it fun!
ISaidThatOnPurpose · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Genie ball"
We had a plush-bodied Aladdin Genie with a hard plastic head.
My older brother found a way to tie his arms and legs around his body to create a ball.
We 4 brothers ran around the house throwing it at eachother.
The goal was to aim for each others head.
Stasticially more often, the soft plush part of the ball would hit you and you can pick it up and try your best to hit them.
But sometimes.....sometimes the hard plastic head would sink into your skull, and you wouldnt just be out of the game by the rules, you would be out because you got really really hurt.
Commander_Vills · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Klonoa was my shit
Some1smarter · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock wars. It was basically warfare, but all the weapons were pairs of socks.
Puppinbake · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Barney Football"
Basically, my older brother and I were a little bit too old to watch Barney, but my younger brother still watched it and had a stuffed Barney doll that he loved. So my older brother and I would try to keep it away from him, throwing it over his head. If you dunked it in the garbage can, it was a touchdown. If you made a touchdown, feel free to make another one, and do it over and over and over.
memorea · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Dark Game" - my step sisters, brother, and I would turn off all the lights at night, block all sources of light until we could see absolutely NOTHING... then we would walk around with our hands stretched out and knock into each other, shove each other, throw things at each other. It was a lot of fun. We got in trouble for it and I think we only played it twice.
moogular · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played a game called "Houdini" when I was younger, which consisted of zipping me up in a sleeping bag and tying it shut and then shoving me in some unknown corner of the house (I was the youngest, bear in mind). There were no spaces that were off limits... I was put in the attic with the hatch closed, the cabinet underneath the sink, the washer in the laundry room, etc.
Escaped from most of em, except for the attic. My mom heard slightly worried screaming from the ceiling about an hour and a half later and my brother and sister remembered they had put me in the attic. Needless to say, we weren't allowed to play that game anymore.
i-heart-carbs · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to stuff plastic bags with newspaper, then tie them off and draw faces on them to make ghosts. Then we would hang the ghosts from the fan blades, turn the fan on high, and try to run across the room with out getting hit by the ghosts!
Anonymusk · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Real Boxing" We would pout large cardboard boxes over our bodies and bang into each other with the goal being to destroy the other person's box while maintaining the integrity of your own.
freakinfalk · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have quite a few but here are my two favorite.
I'm the oldest of 4 kids, and I also have about 15 younger cousins. My siblings and I used to play a game called "Lockout" where there are 2 teams. One team is in the house and the other outside. The team outside had only one key to the house, and they had to do their best to sneak into the house unnoticed while the others on their team would distract the players in the house by pretending to have to key at other doors. Meanwhile the players in the house are doing their best to make sure every single door stayed locked. Also, you didn't have to enter through the doors, you could climb through windows! The objective was just to get one player inside.
Second, my cousins and I have a family tradition of the game "faceball." It started with a nerf football and wooden stick and eventually grew to a real football with an aluminum bat. Basically it's baseball except we played it on our grandpa's front lawn. We made up rules such as no leading off, if you get pegged you're out, and if the ball is in the pitcher's hand before you make it to first you're out. We still play it every time we get together!
Ericfyre · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play Kung fu with my webkinz.
LegendaryMorten · 1 points · Posted at 19:01:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this war in the woods by running around, hiding and throwing firecrackers at each other. Of course without any safety equipment. There were firecrackers constantly going off, most intense game I’ve ever played. Parents were not happy when we came back with clothes full of holes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this thing called "Egg". You had a rugby ball, a start line that was the same as the finish line and the ball planted like 50m away.
Now, you had to go, grab the ball and get back to the finish line. Buuuut... It was also a deatmatch. No rules. Everything goes. Tackles, punches, kicks, biting... We were fucking savages at 11 years old...
copper8061 · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While my big sister played with barbies and dressing them ,I would take a barbie,put her on my plastic horse. Have Jim West doll and ken gather round her. Put a noose on her neck and hang her. Yes,I was a young girl and no,I did not turn out to be a serial killer.
ooohhh-my-pusi · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I created animal tag. Basically one person was a zookeeper and everyone else got to choose which animal they wanted to be. The zookeeper carried a dog leash and used the looped rope end to whip the animals, once whipped you were taken to jail (zoo) which was the city waste bins creating a gate against our grandparents garage. Based on your pick your animal would have special abilities. For instance a gorrila had the ability to catch the whip. If caught they could run away and live another day. My grandparents yard had a bridge that went across a little Creek and the bridge could only be used by flying animals and adjacent to the bridge were large stepping bricks that lead from one grass plot to another and the bricks were regarded as water and only flying and swimming animals could cross those. If the zookeeper wanted to cross the bridge they had to pretend to get into a hot air balloon and walk really slow to get to the other side and likewise for the water except it was a boat.
Some other things animals could do: Cheetahs, jaguars and other dexterous animals could crawl over the trash bins out of jail but just once per game. (Flying animals not allowed to escape being that they could enter parts of the area others couldn't [Bridges and water]) Alongside that, a gorrila, rhino or other brute strength animals could open the gate and let ALL the animals free but just once as well.
Lots of other possibilities too.
We also used to play a game where one person would get the house key and we would lock them outside. They would have to find a way into the house through one of the several locked doors, windows or dog door without us noticing.
(I grew up around 7 cousins who would all get dropped off at my grandparents house from the school bus awaiting their parents to get off work.)
Sorry for format on mobile.
Steapie · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Ghost in the Graveyard" outside. It was like a mixture of tag and hide and seek. The living person would go into the "graveyard" (any place, usually the backyard) and the "ghosts" would be hiding. As the living person came closer, the ghosts would jump out from their hiding place and try to tag them before making it out of the graveyard. Loved this game.
MrMeltJr · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A few friends and I did what could probably best be described as extremely low budget medieval reenactment.
We did the normal stuff like get scrap wood and make it into swords and stuff. But we'd also make spears and lances out of PVC pipe, we'd take stiff wire fencing, bend it back on itself and then wrap it in duct tape to make armor and shields. The wire was stiff enough to be difficult to bend by hand, so we use mallets to shape it and that let us pretend we were forging stuff.
It started with just 3 of us, but at our height we had about 10 other kids with us. We still made most of the stuff but we had some big, awesome battles.
TRKHuck78 · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game in our neighborhood that was a variation of “kick the can” for those who grew up in the 70’s - 80’s. Our variation was called IP or Intense Paranoia. Similar to KTC - one team would hide while the other would begin hunting 5 minutes later. The main diff from KTC was that if you were spotted hiding you had to be physically tagged rather than someone spotting you an calling you out. Once tagged you would sit on the front steps of whatever house was “base” that night. Unlike KTC where everyone would be freed of someone kicked the can in the front yard. But in IP in order to free the teammates from the base. Each teammate needed to be tagged back in. Making the rescues that much harder. The game itself would happen over an entire neighborhood at night.
BridgetC · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm 1 of 5 children. We had several made up games but I'll just give this one as an example.
My little brother was very strong for his age and had a lot of pent up frustration. We channeled this into a game inspired in some parts by one of our favorite shows - The Crocodile Hunter (miss u steve). This game was called "Wild Pig". My little brother was the designated wild pig. And we as siblings would try to rope him as he'd thrash about, kick us, and send us actually flying across the room. We had one of those afghan blankets in camo colors which was the perfect looking net to use to try to tangle him up. It was fun and there were many injuries.
TheCyanNinja · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played “crazy taxi”. We had one of those plastic toy cars with a roof that you can sit in and push around or move with your feet. We were both slightly too big to fit but the premise was one of us squished into the car and the other pushed the car around like a maniac. The aim was to get the driver to submit. Naturally it involved a lot of ramming into the wall and flipping it on the roof. Looking back I’m amazed there were never any injuries.
hecasselm · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
hytrdE · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A cool indie game called the Witcher 3. Not many people have heard of it but it was a real hidden gem
XavierBananaglassVI · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to play this game with my mom where he moved out and she would have to drop me off to his house every weekend without talking to each other.
moshi311 · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and sister used to play "Sharks and Lifeguards" when I was about 3 or 4. It would be played on a living room couch and consist of one older sibling being the shark and the other the lifeguard. The shark's job was to grab me and drag me to their 'lair' and the lifeguard would be there to protect me and stop the shark from dragging me off. Naturally this terrified me, but it was also a blast. Occasionally our golden retriever would join in as a shark and lick me to death :)
TL;DR tug of war between my older brother and sister with me as the rope
NewBraLikeDnD · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood friends and I would play Super Smash Bros on pen and paper in school. Stick figures served as the characters, and we would use characters from other games as well. It served our imaginations well until we developed actually drawing abilities.
omgsorre · 1 points · Posted at 19:02:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rocket Jockey.
trillxyblxssing · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where's My Father?
Wait for father to come back from the store no matter how long it takes.
AquamanMakesMeWet · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to make us put our heel to our batt and then tie our legs that way. She called it “amputee”.
oppaibanzai · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE BABYYY
Anonymousse42 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninjas. My bff,her brother and I would take (clean) laundry and wear their moms undies on our faces and stuff one sock in a tube sock then chase each other for hours in the basement.
We had to stop when her mom saw all the socks super stretched out. She never saw us with her underwear,thank god.
Peelpar · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ESPIONAGE:
One of my best friends growing up had a dope basement with multiple rooms and no windows. One of these rooms was huge and this was the hangout zone whenever he had sleep overs.
In this game, one team would wait outside the room while the other team rearranged the room however they wanted and found hiding spots. The hiding team would then set a timer for like 3-5 minutes, turn off the lights, get in position and call “READY!” The outside team then enters and shuts the door. They have the allotted time to find the hidden players in the dark. Once the timer goes off members of the hiding team have to make it to the doorknob.
Basically hide and seek in a small area from a bunch of Metal Gear Solid fans.
thee-chum · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to have full on rock fights...we were too poor for nerf guns or airsoft.so played with rocks with nothing but a hoodie for head protection...only rule was no rocks bigger than a baseball lol
6ivlucario · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One game we played in the car was the sweet and sour game. The two of us would smile at the car next to us. If they smiled back they were sweet, if they didnt then they were sour.
Bob002 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This only happened one time, but my friend and I /u/andy-johnson one time started throwing some little plush balls at some sort of empty 12 pack container. You had to be behind a certain line (from the kitchen to living room) before you could throw. We only had one each and two of these empty boxes. We had to have played that for HOURS. I know were started early early in the morning (like 2 or 3) and played it until the sun came up.
TheYorkshireTom · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide the cucumber" with uncle John. He always used to hide it in the same place though...
Olegjo · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At primary school we used to be on the swings while one or two people were in the group d throwing soft balls at the ones on the swings. If they hit, they got to swap.
Bullet25 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Dad had a game called "The Belt Game" whoever stayed quite the longest didn't get hit with his belt.
He never actually hit any of us but it was still a fucked up "game".
Skill1137 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I believe they called it Star Tipping.
Played at night, usually outside. Make someone spin in a circle while looking upwards and shining a flashlight in their face. Let them go for about a minute, then remove the flash light and tell them to run. They faceplant every time.
jcev99 · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline wwe deathmatch
Mmmonsta · 1 points · Posted at 19:03:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to go “sledding” on the stairs. We’d grab pillows and blankets and sit on them and tie ourselves into a little “sled” and rode down the stairs.
The house we grew up it had a little decorative space next to the stairs. It was kind of like a balcony but for like a statue or plant or something. It was a little square area with the banister on three sides. We used to build forts and play there.
For a kid that grew up playing on steps, it’s kind of incredible how often I fall up and down flights of stairs as an adult.
username4206942069 · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother play “prison rules”, or phone check. Basically, one of us yells one of the phrases and we pretend to stab each other with shanks. First one who gets 10 stabs in wins.
iowaguy09 · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every fall we would rake the leaves into a huge pile in my best friend's back yard with his two brothers then play two on two football. You could pass forward, backwards and as many times as you want. Diving into the leaf pile was a touchdown, but if you got tackled the other team would get the ball.
My best friend's dad would offer to "officiate" (drink beer in a lawn chair and watch) since we just raked his entire yard for free. We thought it was a great deal.
alycenri · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were little my little sister and I would do Roll Out battles. We would tuck in our arms and roll across the bed at one another repeatedly. You win each encounter by managing to be the one to roll over the top of the other. The game ends in hysterical tears and laughter and exhausted breathe.
What a pleasant memory this post have brought me, lol.
mermando · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind man’s bluff...but instead of calling out so the blindfolded person could find you, we threw things. My mom made us stop playing after I dislocated my shoulder! Good times.
teaqualizer · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
FosterTheFool · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Use to play this "game" with my brother. Would wonder out into the woods and find a large dead tree. We'd grab the base of the tree and shake the everloving shit out of it until the top fell off and came crashing down to the ground. The idea here was that when we hear the crack of the falling tree top, we'd take off running. If you didn't die, you won the game.
In retrospect, I'm surprised the two of us made it to adulthood.
tortillachipdip · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Radio Chair: One sat with crossed legs, usually my brother, and held his arms in front of him like armrests. I sat on his legs, my back facing his front, and then press the 'station buttons': his fingers. he then pretended to be different radio stations, depending on the buttons I pressed
novaspax · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played this game (cant remember what we called it but there was a name) where wed put a bunch of different kinds of balls or toy wheels or whatever the fuck would bounce around on the trampoline. Then everyone gets on and jumps and if something bounces and touches you, youre out. There were fights about the honor rule for sure.
ChockHarden · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stoop Ball Baseball
Played in an urban area where all the houses had brick or concrete front steps. Players aged 8-12.
Take a blue handball and throw it at the steps. Players in the street and sidewalk try to catch it before it hit the ground. Hitting the parked cars on your side of the street was a single. Street was a double. Opposite sidewalk was a triple. Opposite houses was a home run. If other players catch the ball its an out, etc.
Trick was to try to hit the front edge of a step just right to get a perfect bounce for a homerun.
frankthedank123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Halo reach
OhBestThing · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The balloon game! Played with one other friend in my parents master bedroom, was very simple but addicting: had to keep up a balloon no matter the cost. Smack it as hard as you can upwards/outwards, and the other person had to get to it and keep it aloft. You can imagine how the first few are easy, but there are epic saves to be made as the game progresses.
Gryphondork · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were supposed to be going to sleep every night, my little brother and I would watch the lava lamp on our bedside table. I would always choose the bottom as my home base and my brother would have the top as his home base by default. As the bubbles formed and bounced from each side, we would narrate a war story that coincided with the collision of the bubbles.
I would “win the war” every night because the bigger bubbles originated from the bottom and smaller bubbles were refracted from the top. I always told him that the bottom bubbles were more powerful because I was the older sibling. I’ve never told him our nightly war was rigged the whole time.
PotcakeDog · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We podcasted in the late 80s before there were podcasts. Me and a friend would talk for hours on topics we liked into mics that weren’t hooked up to anything. We did this for years lol.
Lewbie · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Long hill in the village, starting at the top and running through everyone's back gardens, hopping fences and all that, till you get to the bottom. We called it the Grand National.
afropuff33 · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother came up with a game for me and the neighborhood kids called “wall dodgeball” let me explain the rules 1. All kids like against wooden fence. 2. The “it” person(9 out of 10 times it was my mother) would stand in front of everyone with the ball. 3. It person would then try to pelt you with dodgeball and many times until either someone caught it or we got bored. 4. Of someone caught it they were the it person 5. You could only move side to side you can not leave the fence
Peelpar · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would each act out three characters from films and television we liked (a lot of Allen Grants, Indiana Jones, and Luke Skywalkers). Then based on the performance we would pick character one, two, or three for the other. Then we went on a make believe adventure together as those two characters.
snail-boy · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ok so like whenever i was bored in class i would stare up at the ceiling, and you know those ceilings that every school has? id imagine theyre a checkerboard and try and move my eyes from one end to the other diagonally while avoiding lights and stuff. its stupid as shit but it passed the time.
Bobo_234 · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementrary school, my brother and some friends played this game called black sheep. We assigned one person to be covered by a black blanket, then we all went into a dark hallway and the person under the blanket had to tackle everyone else who was in the hallway. After the everybody had been tackled the last person do have been tackled became the next black sheep. Really wierd, but was one of the most fun things that I remember doing as a child.
93dsamson · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skeleton Wars. Where my sister, bother, and I basically had the most epic, continuous LARP session of all time spanning approx. 5 years of my childhood.
Xdsin · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played "The Borg Game". We would hide laser challenge guns around the house and we would strap three laser vests to a person who would play as the borg.
Everyone would start out with a laser challlenge gun. You were not allowed to reload the gun. The borg person was not allowed to run.
If they caught you, you died. If they caught someone and put their hand on their type of laser challenge weapons, they were "adapted" to the gun and the players running couldnt use it any more.
The object of the game was to hit all vests until they all said "you are dead!" To stop the borg. You would try to find guns so you had enough shots to kill the borg while the borg was slowly adapting and taking options away.
PedroFaitFaux · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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forty6and2sdmf · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers.
TheFlyingSatan · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this horror themed biscuit commercial game that used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. I haven't been able to find any references to it online so I'm kinda halfway doubting whether its something I dreamt, a horror biscuit game just sounds so bizarre.
Speaking of games only half remembered, there's another game from the same period of my life I'm also wondering whether I'm making up. You're controlling an anthropomorphic yellow helicopter and have to make it through a dark cave full of enemies.
If any of these ring a bell, don't hesitate to let me know, it's kinda bugging me whether these actually exist
Rlkendrick · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older sister used to play a game called Waaah-Boosh, we would stand on the arm of the couch and just faceplant just missing the other arm.....fun times
DeliciousConfections · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend I was the queen of a country. I’d dress up in this cleopatra costume my mom has that was basically a gold dress and cape. I had a notebook with all “regions” in my kingdom. I had carefully written about the industry in each region and demographics. When I learned about pie charts in school I added those too. Then I would lock myself in the closet alone, with my costume and notebook and pretend to be hearing complaints and solving issues for my imaginary citizens.
PandaDown · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the “car game”. Not really sure exactly how it originated but we would hang out near the street in our front yard or neighbors yard. Then when a car would come we would have to hide from it. Then it escalated to us trying to scare people driving by. I have a full blown ghillie suit that kind of looks like a cross between Bigfoot and a sea monster. We decided to hide near the road until the headlights were close enough to illuminate us, but just barely. Then we would run like hell across the road and back into the shadows or out of sight. Not sure how convincing it ever was but 12 year old me likes to think I Made at least one person question their sanity.
aaanon5402 · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to put rocks inside of socks and ride our bikes and throw the rocks at each other’s wheels trying to get the other person to eat shit. Hahahahaha
We also tied a rolling chair to the back of a lawn mower and drove that up and down the street with the other riding it.
Oh and we used to play “123 JUMP” where we had to do a trick on the trampoline and then get tf out of the way in under 3 seconds or the other person would hit you with their trick lmao
Candlecakes · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pigs in the dark
joethebro96 · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Granny Fight - We both put our wrists to our chest and jump up and down slapping each other. Our hands represented floppy elderly breasts.
HighwayToThe________ · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've got a bunch of sibblings and my dad worked the night shift so we had to spend most our time outside so he could sleep. My favorite game we made was a city based around a rock currency. We had a banker, a police man, a tow truck, and an insurance agent. We all started the game with a certain amount of rocks and the bank would provide interest. We would have to bike around the yard to get to and from each others buisness. If we wrecked, the economy was stimulated. The tow man would be paid to "repair" the bike while the policeman would stop traffic. If the person who wrecked had been paying their insurance they would get a lump sum of rocks. However, some of us who disliked our jobs would make behind the scenes deals. The tow truck driver may promise the policeman a free repair so long as they split the insurance payout. Or sometimes we would deposit rocks we found on the ground into the bank. The game would generally end when the currency was hyperinflated and insurance fraud and corruption ran rampant. Who knew that kids less than 10 years old could so effectively simulate real world economies.
Randompeg · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play "Scream".
One of us would wear a Scream mask and wield a fake, push-in knife. Whoever got stabbed first became the new Scream.
It was horrifyingly scary. Especially in the winter when the moon was bright.
We were about 11/12 years old. Madness.
kurthecat · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend's dad was a basketball coach and had a ton of basketballs in the basement. We'd turn off all the lights, hide behind furniture and just start chucking balls at each other until someone got a bloody nose or something. Boys are dumb.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Literally just hiding from every helicopter.
kidgenius · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play a tag sort of game in my grandparents living room, but each couch or chair was a safe zone. Running back and forth diving from one couch to the other. We naturally called it “couch to couch to couch to couch”.
thisISbutter517 · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ditch jumping. My sister I jumped over the ditch in front of our house.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster ball. Played in the driveway. It’s essentially just baseball, but you have a tennis racket and the pitcher bounces a kickball to you and you hit it with the racket. You have to go around the bases but can’t stop. No singles or doubles or triples. If you get hit with the dodgeball by the pitcher before you get around you’re out. Also hitting it over the roof of the garage was a homerun but you CAN play the ball off of the roof.
It made for exciting times waiting for the ball to come down while you know the hitter is booking it around the bases.
allweatherwarlock · 1 points · Posted at 19:05:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My one best friend through grade school and her siblings had a TON of Lego. They had a huge house built out of it, one storey, no roof, about 5 feet by 7 feet on the floor.
Me and 2 best friends loved "Lego Serial Killer," where we'd make a cast of characters with backstories, then one of us would dismember them (except 1) and hide them all over the house and the other 2 had to find the bodies, reassemble them correctly, and find the murderer, who would be the only one still whole.
Michelangelo7777777 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Balloon tennis - we would move the sofa in the middle of the room as a net and play tennis with a balloon as the ball and our hands as a racket, made for some funny moments hitting my siblings in the face in close proximity with a balloon!
rozcatenator · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played The Animal Game. One person would lay down on the couch, and the other one would be the animal running around on top of them. The person on the couch had to say what kind of animal the other one was, but it had to be either good or bad. For example, a good cat might purr and cuddle, and a good bird would chirp and sit nicely. A bad cat would claw and bite, and a bad bird would peck and try to violently make a nest. You could pick more than one good animal in a row, but you eventually HAD to pick a bad animal. It was mostly just an excuse to beat on each other, but we played it all the time.
DaNotChosen1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to own a ton of hot wheels and hot wheels “businesses” (gas station, hospital, etc). My cousins and I would make fake paper money and each have our own businesses and play with the cars and use the fake money. I also had one of those rugs that had roads and stuff on it for cases.
DJO_1988 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jewels in the Attic.
Role playing board game in which you had to combat all sorts of magical creatures in different rooms of your house. Sound familiar to anyone else?
ekcunni · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this weird combat game where you had to 'walk' on your knees by holding your ankles behind you and try to knock each other over. It's obviously unsteady, so it's balance and timing and speed. If you sort of shuffle along faster, you can gain speed to knock someone over. But they might brace for it a bit and you could fall over, or they might try to get out of the way last second and then you're going too fast without the impact you were expecting and might lose your balance, etc.
There were 4 of us, and you all just go at once, it's basically a free-for-all.
snoobiez · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One person would be one a swing and the other person would pitch- as in kickball- a giant exercise ball at the swinger and they would try to kick it. Instead of jumping off the swing and running bases, landmarks you kicked it further than determined what base you were on. We called it Hanupa-nupa. Extra points to the pitcher if they rolled it under the swinger and made them bounce off the swing.
th3beerman · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball on the roof game. The rules are throw the ball on the roof and the person who can grab the ball when it rolls off gets the point and they get to throw next. This game does not work with flat roofs.
Pinecone wars. Build forts, then throw pinecones at one another. Best after a rainfall, the pinecones turn into little rocks.
CanadaPal · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maplestory as a kid was the most fun game for me. What made it unique was the interactions I had, no game have come close to that.
SticksGod · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with my sister and our friends and our Australian Shepherd/Border Collie dog Buddy. Since Buddy was a herding dog, he loved chasing little kids and rounding them up. We had this plastic playhouse we would jump on top of and then run across our deck and jump into a tree while Buddy chased us and tried to nip our heels. We would spend hours playing this game, bolting back and forth between the play house and the tree. The last kid up would usually get caught by Buddy and make him very pleased.
EternalPhi · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would walk around my neighbourhood complex after dark. There was a pool and playground that was surrounded on all sides by the houses in the complex but the inner portion wasn't very well lit. We would walk around all sneaky, trying to be silent, then one of us would yell out "ITS THE FUCKING BEAST" and we would all scatter, run through people's yards at top speed as if we were trying to evade some weird monster, and all meet up back at my house to do it again.
Winterssavant · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One I remember was trying so hard to figure out the rules of Calvin Ball. But my sis and I could never agree on the damn bases.
windowseatvantage · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school had no playground equipment at all just the woods. So we would play house by taking pine straw and create the blueprint for the house, serve breakfast/lunch from a honeysuckle bush and use the stuff off tree bark as eyeshadow.
Karaokeville · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dark Game”
We would turn all the lights off in a large room with lots of furniture and basically play hide and seek but you had to crawl. It was quite thrilling when the seeker was skilled.
boostboi · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had one called "try not to get molested by my PE teacher"
wilkins348 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would throw a heavy chair from the poolside into the deep end of the pool. Then we would jump in and sit on the chair at the bottom of the pool. I still don't see the point of it but it was fun
rickbaue · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a large unfinished, windowless basement with lots of boxes stacked around. We were really into a PC game called Thief: The Dark Project and tried to reproduce the effect of gaurds going on rounds with lamps while friends tried to steal jewels and such.
We hid items around the basement with different values and had two gaurds patrol holding candle lamps, while thieves, armed with tiny flashlights, darted about trying to grab the loot and not get caught. If a gaurds tagged you, you're dead.
It was so fun to be gaurds or theives. As a gaurd, you'd walk around your merry way and one second there's a candlestick and the next second it's gone without a trace. As theives, you can chill as gaurds wander by and even knock out gaurds if you're very daring.
If you attempt to knock out a gaurd and fail, the alarm goes off and gaurds automatically win. A knock out was simply tapping the gaurd on the shoulder unaware. The gaurd had to silently collapse and blow out their light.
Soooo scary being in the basement in the dark, thieves abound, occasional whispers all around you, and then your partner disappears...
sylver_stag · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played my own little version of Breakout on walls I would see, especially when I was dragged to church 3 times a week. If I was really bored, I would let the 'ball' go around corners, making for some difficult lines to 'predict.'
I wonder why I did so well at geometry.
renzomf87 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Velociraptors. Some of us would be at the top of a slope (humans) and the other group would be on the bottom (velociraptors). The game consisted on the velociraptors grabing humans by the ancle and draging them to the bottom, where you became a velociraptor too. Good times.
hdpq · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer.
So inappropriate today.
Chat_Room_Jesus · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters played the air port game we just pretend we are our parents and fight about who gets what in the divorce and who had to pay child support that month good times
RapTVCalifornia · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made paper money and bought things in my imagination.
Bohemus_1313 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would hold combs like knives and have pretend knife fights
FiFTyFooTFoX · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tube Tag. We were a generation behind at the Family Reunions, but whoever was "It" had to go butt first into one of those circular pool-raft doughnut things. Everyone else had to stay in the water, but we could dive, push off the edges, kick the tube away or flip it, etc.
Pretty close to drowning many times when someone would dive under the raft guy, and then push off the wall to escape, only to have someone else defensively kick the raft guy in the same direction the underwater guy went.
Such lulz
whoppityboppity · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We, we only did this once, but me and my sister was at my grandma's place and we were bored. Then we had an idea. You see, grandma had this miniature golf course game. We put a few different pieces together until we were saitisfied with the results. Then, we went outside to capture a few different snails. We put them on the now-race-course and watched to see which snail would win.
No one did. Snails aren't very good at staying on track.
We also liked to put different ant spieces into an arena and watch them fight. Now I feel bad for the ants. Sorry ants. :(
Ghostgrey14 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We basically played rock paper scissors and the winner gets to make a move like punch kick etc with their chosen character. Basically jump force turned into pokemon with the chance of infinite turns. Fun with groups till you cant even get a turn in
mrs_peeps · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squirrel chase. I'd pretend to sweep up the porch while my then bff would try to sneak past me. I'd then chase her with my broom until she ran away. I'd then go back to sweeping the porch. Rinse and repeat. If she got past me, I'd then become the squirrel. Rinse and repeat. So many summer hours dedicated to this game.
MattMan2k17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't really play it exactly, but in grade school the kids in my class played this game called "run away from Matt" so if I got close to them/talk to them or wanted to join them in an activity, the game would start and they would look at me and yell...you guessed it! RUN AWAY FROM MATT!
Ah Elementary School, such good times
qck11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blanket game. Basically playing tag in someone's basement with the lights off, while the person that's it has to wear a blanket over them while they walk around. Not much running if you don't want your head cracked open.
jafaralkafar · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Follow the dog. Kind of like hide and seek but the person who is it, the dog, has to spot and call out the name of the person he finds. Then those who are caught have to follow the dog for the rest of the game. If the other people playing are sneaky enough they can tag the followers and release them. So the dog has to spot hiders and also watch the line following him.
dryoyo · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being a low income to low middle class child in a suburb slowly converting from farm land, we lived a block away from my elementary school. The school had large baseball diammond backstops that went straight up very simular to these. I would take tube socks, fill them with a few handfulls dirt, and throw the Sock Ball over the backstop again and again. More than once I lost the sock due to getting stuck at the upper part of the fence and it would stay there until a significant weather event blew it down. I eventually ran out of socks and had to tell my step mom what I was doing with them. I had to pick up recylables for a week to pay for more socks.
sadcatmeowwoof · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my mum used to take me shopping at New Look I used to find price tags and receipts, stand on the top floor and try to drop them on people's heads. What a little asshole I was xD
fourthings · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did this in our late teens. We'd stand at the top of grafton Street, the busiest pedestrian shopping street in Dublin. Skateboards in hand we'd throw a bouncy ball full force at the ground in front of us so it would bounce all over the place hitting shop fronts and often people. Then we'd skate full speed after it, if you catch it you just throw it harder. You lose if you hit someone or get arrested or whatever
Pilifa · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would walk down the hall over and over again pretending to be either an old lady or a bad guy shooter and my older brother would be in the room watching and he'd either have to shoot me down before I shoot him or not shoot if I wasn't the bad guy. Sounds really stupid now that I think about it.
playdohnt · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“T-Rex tag”, inspired by Jurassic park. Basically just a normal game of tag but as long as whoever was “it” (the T-Rex) didn’t see you when you stopped moving, they weren’t allowed to tag you as long as you stayed perfectly still.
Bonus game: “Monster Ball” on the trampoline - one with a net works a bit better. Get as many different balls as you’d like (nothing you wouldn’t feel comfortable using in dodgeball), and probably way too many children on the trampoline. If a ball touches you you’re out. Last kid standing wins.
cat_fox · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our local tv station had a "Hitchcock Week". The 3:30 move M-F would be a Hitchcock movie. The day after The Birds played, we all re-enacted the birds attack scenes from the movie. Imagine dozens of children with arms outstretched screeching as loud as they can, chasing the child victims to try to peck them. Good memories.
a_seventh_knot · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother and I built lego bunkers that contained a little a little lego guy then threw batteries at each others bunker with the goal being to knock the little guy out.
D cells were "nukes"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Boxxing with Two X’s”. You cut arm holes and a hole to see out of a large moving box. You place the box on a hill skateboard at the top of a hill, give yourself som good pushes and then close the box and fly down the hill. It was the funnest shit you could ever imagine, probably not safe but we didn’t care.
AlphaMagno · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game we called juggernaut. When I was a kid I had a long, flat sled with handles on both ends. The juggernaut would take the “riot shield” and put his arm through the strap and he’d have a nerf sword in his other hand. We had nerf guns and somehow thought we could beat the juggernaut. Whoever it was would just chase us all around my dark basement beating the shit out of the nerf kids.
adistancerunner · 1 points · Posted at 19:07:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made up this game we’d play on the trampoline called “Save the King”. Basically we would put 15-30 tennis balls along with 1-5 plastic balls on the trampoline. The goal was to bounce the tennis balls (bad guys) off the trampoline by jumping while trying to keep the plastic balls (good guys) on. It was actually a lot of fun diving around trying to save the plastic balls from falling off while sending the tennis balls into oblivion with a double jump.
shesgoneagain72 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Solid Gold was a TV show that came on Saturday nights when I was a kid and they had Solid Gold Dancers that would dance to the top 10 songs of that week and I used to snag my mother's high heels and drape sheer curtains around me and pretend to be a solid gold dancer...I am in my forties and I might still do it to this day, minus the curtains 😁
gobbledygookary · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin were babysat by our grandma every summer. We used to play a "game" where we'd sit on the sidewalk and wave at every car the drove by. For every wave we got back we'd cheer and run inside to get our prize, a cookie. We could do this for 6 hours straight and be perfectly content.
DrBucket · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Avalanche". I had steps with a landing that would do a u turn half way up/down. So we would get every pillow and blanket we could find and stack them up In a wall at the landing and the top of the steps and have on person try to get to the top while getting pelted with pillows and wrapped up in blankets. We had some living room pillows that were so dense like medicine balls. THOSE were the nukes lol.
pizzasage · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to build snow forts and have snowball fights. But because I'm 5 years older than she is, it didn't seem fair for me to just pelt her with snowballs. Plus, that game wouldn't last long since she would get frustrated and go inside (or I'd get in trouble). So we came up with a solution:
We would each make a fort, and man the fort with 10 small snowmen (two regular size snowballs stacked on top of one another with twigs for arms). The rule was that the snowman's head had to stick up above the top of the wall, but other than that, you could build the fort and arrange the snowmen however you want. We would then take turns throwing snowballs at each others' fort. I had to stand behind my fort since I was older, and my sister stood in front of hers to throw. On your turn, you got one snowball for every 3 snowmen left in your fort, rounded up, and your goal was to eliminate the other player's snowmen. Play continued until one player ran out of snowmen.
It worked pretty well.
Eramance · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I created "Ooorgge". We had a long rope tied to the base of a tree. We would take turns standing split legged over it whilst the other ran with the other end so it would straighten, whipping up into the standing brothers nutsack.
The name comes from the sound one makes when this happens to them.
willmerr92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighborhood friend group created a game called "ghost" where one person was covered in 3 to 5 heavy covers and had to walk around blind trying to tag the others. The real fun came as the person who weren't it would throw pillows, yoga balls and any other object at the it person. The game most likely caused many undiagnosed concussions.
plantyshay · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Land of Magitivity! My oldest brother made it. We "entered" the land of Magitivity by jumping through a moving hula hoop. Once inside we had fantastical adventures and battles alongside our animal companions. Mine was some sort of a bat hybrid, I think mixed with a tiny deer but I don't quite remember. Anyway, it was a fun game that kept us outside for hours and the only game that we all played nicely together.
rinc · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade school during the longest break we played Alien. There was one alien and all the rest were civilians. It was like tag, except to tag someone the alien had to hold his hand over someone's face for a few seconds. Then the tagged person also became an alien. If there was at least one civilian at the end of the break, civilians won. Now that I think about it, it didn't make much sense, but it was so much fun. In time we also developed ranks for kids that survived more games. The highest honor was to be called Ripley.
CiggyBones · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you take a bunch of those army guys, make two teams, and set them up across from each other. Then you take one of those cheap knock off Nerf pistols and stand behind your team. Taking turns shooting and aiming for the other teams army guys. Last man standing wins.
Rimbles1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blanket Monster” one person would have be covered with a blanket and the remaining players would have to try and evade the person as they swipe and try to “kill” the other players. Extra points for minimal noise made.
etha33 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"House ball" we would throw a ball on the roof and had to guess where it was coming down and try and catch it before it hit the ground. We played this for years.
EnemyLiquidated · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Survive
Protomeathian · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad got a plastic 50 gallon oil drum for some reason and had cut the top off so it was open. Us kids stuffed blankets and pillows in it and rolled down the hill in the backyard all day long. That was a blast.
ishdotcom · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the cousins would get in a room. Block all the windows making sure NO LIGHT got in.
Rules: no snitching if you 'lost'
Turn off the lights and, start swinging. It was the punching room. Someone always cried but never snitched. We were ages 7-12. There was no mercy until the lights came back on.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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tgrizzly · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol! You never broke the washing machine ?
mexiricanpower · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game we called "chicken". One of us was the farmer and armed with a Daisy BB Gun and the rest were chickens. The " farmer" would shoot the chickens to have for dinner. We never landed a shot on each other but it was a thrill shooting and dodging BBs.
Swole_Monkey · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some variation of soccer
You had one goalie (which was decided by whoever didn’t manage to hit the crossbar)
And the other players had to jugle the ball with each other and then try to get it in as stylish as possible. (Had diffrent points for different goals, for example header, 2 points volley kick 5 and so on)
If the ball touched the ground last person to touch was switched into goalie position.
Or if the goalie caught it he had to touch a goal post with the ball while all the other players could run away.
Once touched they had to stop and then the goalie had 3 jumps and could then throw the ball at players, whoever got hit switched into the goal.
Plus the goalie gained the points of whatever shot he cought. (Cought Header, gained 2 points)
Every goalie started with 20 points if they went down to 0 they had to stand backwards and everyone playing could kick the ball at them full force from relatively close range.
Loosing meant hella pain but we would still play it all day long.
blackspacetwinkie · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I at school would throw a stick up in a tree and stand still hoping we wouldnt get hit when it comes down. Whoever got hit by the stick would be out.
QibbyDon786 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was me and my sister. So we were both kinda scared of the dark (Kinda still am not gonna lie) and what we'd do is after we brushed our teeth, we'd rush back to our room and jump into the bed. The person who was last (normally me) had to turn off the light and navigate through a room in the dark to their own bed.
Also we'd announce what we'd be dreaming about just before we went to bed
fullback133 · 1 points · Posted at 19:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played ice climbers. Basically we had a large playset in our backyard and we would regularly get ice or snow storms. we would get a hammer each and we would have to knock all the ice and snow off the fort without touching the ground once. It means climbing the icy monkey bars and going across the section that held up the swings with ice on it and knocking it off
it was always very fun
13offline · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tetris XD
tgrizzly · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to rearrange people lawn furnishings in my neighborhood to mess with everyone. Great fun. Especially when Christmas came around because there was a ton of Santa’s and reindeer to pose.
PM_ME_UR_TRIBULATION · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Statue. One person would stand in the kitchen and pretend to be a statue. The other person would try to catch the statue moving or doing anything not statue-ish. The statue would see how much movement they could get away without getting caught.
Another: Fore. We would take plastic sports equipment (bats or hockey sticks or whatever) and throw them as high in the air as possible while screaming "Fore" like golf.
mrsfeatherb0tt0m · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm really embarrassed about this and don't fault me because I was a young kid and didn't know better. My brother and I would play "Rodney King". One of us was a cop and one was Rodney King. While riding scooters, the cop would pull over Rodney and then after a few seconds start beating him with a pillow.
Just typing this out, it sounds crazy. Obviously we heard about it from the news and it was a big deal but we didn't understand what was the significance of it.
Jimbob15515 · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad delivered milk for the local dairy so we always had a metric fuckton of plastic milk crates around. We would build forts out of milk crates and plywood and take turns throwing basketballs and soccer balls at each other's forts to try to knock them down on one another. It ended after my cousin took a milk crate to the face
Evoslip · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would collect snails around the yard. Then pile all the snails we collected. We'd put some lighter fluids and lit them up.
The shells would pop out, like bullets.
I feel terrible about that now.
camus_karamazov · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brother and I would play snes or PlayStation games against each other while saving saliva in our mouths. By the end of the game we’d have chipmunk cheeks full of spit. Winner gets to spit on the loser.
It also involved contagious laughter and accidentally letting a flood of spit onto your own shirt, or smushing the other’s cheeks to try to get them to release their spit on themselves so they can’t spit on you. So fun. So gross.
youllregreddit · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Golf-hockey.
My grandmother dug a bunch of holes in our yard and put solo cups in there because I loved mini-golf as a kid.
We couldn’t afford golf clubs so my friend brought over her older brother’s hockey sticks and we played with them and old golf balls we found.
Sounds weird but it was so much fun!
NicLikesDogs · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On road trips, we were allowed to scream in the car when crossing bridges (over water only). The best was when we went to Florida and went across the Seven Mile Bridge.
fostde18 · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It started in daycare and went up until first grade but me and a few other guys would play this game with a bunch of girls and we'd split up into the boy team and the girl team. There objective was to chase us down and try to restrain us then kiss us. They won the game once they kissed all of us. Back then tho I didn't care about kissing girls and was just focused on the win.
Traveler_33 · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roll the ball
JestersKing · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family had “tire toss” growing up. We took an old bike tire and some broom sticks and tossed the tire back and forth using the sticks. Hands were against the rules.
There wasn’t a point system, we just threw a tire around and tried not to get hit in the face.
Augustine92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Metroid
Hend0hyeah · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school, our group of friends had a game called "Commando". Kind of like a suburban version of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie "Running Man".
This is best played after-dark, when no ones out.
Basically you get 10-20 kids to one location in town, usually a parking lot. This is now Point A. You need a few cars. 3-5 is best. Then the owners of the cars, pick one other person to drive with them. This group of cars and passengers are the "Hunters". The rest of the kids are on foot. They are the "Runners". Then everyone agrees on a Point B. Its usually 2-3 miles away. The game starts and the "Hunters" have to drive to Point B. As soon as they get to point B, they can begin the hunt.
The goal is to get as many Runners to point B as possible.
Needless to say this get out of hand pretty quick. Hunters coasting through neighbor hoods with their lights off, looking to tag Runners. If you get tagged, you join that car and begin Hunting.
I've had some of my most heart pounding "The Deadliest Game" type situations playing Commando. Love it!
IceColdKofi · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mates would put a mattress on the floor and chuck a small foam ball into the centre. The first person to leave the mattress fully was the victor. It would usually start with a massive dog pile and one or two people waiting on the edges in case the ball squirmed out.
street_raat · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poison ball was always a fun PE game
jennacow3 · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm in the 80's and all my cousins lived within a mile or 2 of me. Usually 12-13 of us would all play in the summer at the farm. We made a zip line from one side of the barn to the other.....didn't go well. Built giant forts in our Hay loft and then sleep up there at night and bats would fly over. Built several tree houses, played hotel in a old grain barn. We would build furn. out of boxes and creates and make people check in at the front desk and stay in the small grain rooms. We also had a pond with a dock and we would have swimming races across the pond along with building cardboard boats to race. Winter we would drive a small tractor out on the frozen pond ( my dad and uncle would checked ice safety) and build snow forts and hockey tourn. We once played cowboy and Indians building a life size Teepee in the back yard. We started a fire in it and it ended up burning down!!! We would ride our bikes for hours all over the back roads. To this day we all still get together at the farm and camp for the 4th of July and have Boat Races out of boxes...... Disclaimer: None of us were gravely injured, mentally scared or contaminated by dirt.
Mehekoro · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister and I created this game called "retardanation" where one of us are a monster that can only be killed if it's slapped in the butt. The other two would have to avoid the "monster" and jump between the two twin beds that were in the room. Sometimes we would use foam swords to snack from range. We were really weird kids.
Tvas12 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Acorn wars -
Me and a few friends would gather acorns from a nearby tree and strategically place them in the road and wait for cars to go by.
The acorns were our soldiers and if they survived or weren’t ran over they would move up in military style rankings
ishixa · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kid chameleon
kellylmno · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings made up the game "turkey-vulture". Basically one person is the Turkey-Vulture and everyone else has to take turns trying to dodge them while running to a room, grabbing an object, then running back to home base (mom and dad's bed). Lots of tears were shed over that game.
fckingfisher · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in 4th & 5th grade we played Tidal Wave
we had a big blue gymnastics tumbling mat, and 2 or so people would lay on the mat on their backs, using their feet to push the end of the mat, 2 or so others standing with the end of the mat, trying to crush & fold the ones on the ground...like a tidal wave.
it was mildly dangerous & may have caused an argument or 2 but fun as shit
Wynnja · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cousin and I would make "magical" weapons out of sticks and everyday shop items and we would wander around outside and fight invisible monsters. We would even level up and keep track of our stats. Oh, and we also wrote each other "encrypted" letters so the girls wouldn't find out what we were talking about.
Potato_on_alcohol · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run from the priest
tacosdemaria · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spy. My dad owned a construction company and we would see how long we could remain on properties moving around from point to point without being seen by the workers. We got really good at moving around on scaffolding and climbing onto roofs and ducking under decks.
Actually still sounds really fun.
Adarain · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We went to the hill next to our house and dug up bones. There were a lot of bones. Lifestock, it seemed, we sent one in once and it got determined to be from a sheep. Most pieces were tiny, the largest things we ever found were an entire lower jawbone, and something like an elbow (nearly sperical bone). That one promptly rolled down the hill and we couldn't find it anymore :(
Also, my grandfather used to run a printing store, and he had tons of leftover paper. Incuding a lot of huge ones. No one had larger paper airplanes than me and my friends. And we lived right next to said hill, which was the perfect place to launch them from!
othgrrl · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Suffocation"
Not quite as grim as it sounds. We took the sofa cushions off and then one person would lay on the bottom bit of the sofa. The cushions were then put back on top of that person and then anything else that could be found that would go on there and then the other people (usually my best friend and the time and my younger brother) would climb on top of all the other stuff. Sometimes jump. Person at the bottom just had to last as long as possible.
Also sliding down the stairs head first on our bellies. Haha.
JayTrim · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gladiator.
We put football helmets, grabbed trash can lids, and had some wood poles from old brooms and stuff and used to beat eachother up, oh and we'd duct-tape a pillow around us.
Good times.
string_of_hearts · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to find tree branches and chase each other around hitting each other with them. I guess there game was "try to be fast enough to not be hit" I was a great sprinter and dodger
Armach01 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would throw rocks at a wall and see who could throw their rock closest to the wall without actually hitting it. If you hit the wall you lose.
corn12341234 · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
pretend to be teenage mutant ninja turtles
j0ecean · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Star flyers and put put
schmidttingthebed · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played a game called sticky cake. We were little people who were shrunk, like in honey I shrunk the kids. And we were stuck in a giant bowl of cake batter (I guess that was the sticky cake). So this is how you play: you get all the blankets in the house, throw them on the floor. Then you roll around in the blankets and pretend they’re drowning you and yell “STICKY CAAAAKE”. Repeat until you are tired
NeonGKayak · 1 points · Posted at 19:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would create Kinex people/robots. Then we’d split the room in half and place them in random spots. We’d then take turns throwing a hackysack or some kind of weighted ball at them. The goal was to knock them over but they’d explode in the process.
setandreflect · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wasp jar. My brother would catch a wasp in a jar, shake the jar, take the lid off and lock me in a room with it.... Come to think of it that wasn't really a game at all. Hey!
pennycenturie · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took a toy (working) microphone and pretended it was a camera broadcasting strip teases and other miscellaneous pornography to imaginary boys. I was 5. The girl who came up with it was 6 or 7. I taught the game to another girl, my age, she told her mom, and my mom came to me and explained if I wanted to play that with the one older girl or whoever else likes the game that was fine but some people don’t like games like that, and most importantly, I was not allowed to put the microphone inside of my vagina because there was dirt on it, even though I couldn’t see the dirt.
droopymcool · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rocket Rides.
Someone chokes you out and just as you’re passing out the same person knees you in the groin. I never played but supposedly it made you see stars and kids were fuckin lining up for that shit in 4th/5th grade
melliferaman · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take 10 second rides in the clothes dryer
s3t4_234 · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle touched me and I tried not to scream
Supergeeman · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doggy doggy thumb butt
magicmikejones · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I created a lot of games. One of them was “Stinky Sock”
When we played stinky sock, we just threw clothes at each other and shouted the name of the article of clothing, prefixed by the word “stinky”
So when we threw a shirt: “STINKY SHIRT!” Or a bra: “STINKY BRA!”
ThugMcMuffin · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sister and i had a game called poopdeck where we would dress in full sweatsuits, hoods and all, and slide around on the tile floor while my dad tried to hit us with a rather robust rc car.
Savage_Dumbass · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mosh ball.....it was free for all full body contact basketball
moshywilly · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my brother were little kids, my grandmother (who lives across the country) was in her early 60s, so she had ability to run slowly. We played this game called Disco when she was around, and when she was not around, we would play it with our neighbors. She probably was the one who invented the game. It was a game where we would turn on our brand new multi rotational disco ball in the dark and it was a tag game. We would run around chanting "Disco disco disco!" as we would run. Weird. As a child, my brother invented altered versions of children's games that exist.
ninja_shmoo · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and i had a game we called "Jimmys". Whenever it rained we would go to a window, typically the big patio doors, and pick raindrops at random that had collected enough water to start running down the window. That would be your "Jimmy". You would then cheer your "Jimmy" on until it reached the bottom of the window. I think there was a slight competitive edge to it but it was mostly random and an excuse to shout.
udevine · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy so many. One was called shopping cart. We had a small yellow fake cart. So basically someone would sit in the cart and we would run it into things trying to get the kid in the cart to fly out. Me and my siblings also love this game where we made a pile of pillows on top of one of us and each person tried to jump onto them from the highest step. First of all, somehow we never got hurt as kids and also being the youngest of four I was always the one picked!
friendlygaywalrus · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t have a name for it, but we’d unravel a bunch of yarn and tie it/wind it between every piece of furniture in the house. Then we’d return late at night to navigate through like we were burglars dodging laser beams in a museum. This went on until, of course, my dad got tangled up in our lasers
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A lot of people probably did this, but I would "baptize" my younger siblings at the beach or hotel pools.
Oh, and we'd play "drowning person saved by 10 year old lifeguard"
ol_Mugiwara_lo · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growtopia. 4000hours down the drain
alexanderjazz_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Build-a-bear-ville
HugeMood · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game per say, but on long roadtrips my sister and I would spot roadkill off to the side and everytime we spotted an animal everyone in the car had to say one feature we liked about ourself. Still play it to this day.
Lycanator · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh god, I know exactly what mine was. My 2 brothers and I had a trampoline as kids. One of us would be the "dee-de-dee". I believe it was a joke that Carlos Mencia told a long time ago (before everything was pc). But anyway, whoever was the "dee-de dee" would roll back and forth from one side of the trampoline to the other and you had to jump over them. If your feet touched them, you would have to be the dee de dee. Super bad game but it was fun. Sometimes we would fall off the trampoline and sometimes get stepped on accidentally but that's kids for you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my sister played this game called charlie sheen, we would take medicine cups and one person would be charlie sheen and the other person was the bartender. you had to drink the most shots of whatever the person who was the bartender mixed up for you. it was disgusting.
norams · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "James Bonds" with some family friends kids. My littlest sister got tied up and put in the closet and a few good guys had to rescue her, dodging and throwing any ball or pillow we could find.
DBAinBama · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a NASCAR board game that was given to the family at some point. It was old when I found it. I was maybe 8 at the time. The rules were pretty simple, three lanes in the circuit, roll a dice and move that many places, if you land in a certain spot you pull a card and get some kind of penalty.
I ran all 16 cars that came with the game through 3 seasons of 8 20 lap races each complete with qualifying rounds, point systems, and championships. In tye third season I heard about cars being in teams in the real world and incorporated that.
I kept track of all of this in a notebook. My parents had no idea what I was doing. They came across the notebook a few years back (20 years after) and I explained it to them.
Ghost-horse · 1 points · Posted at 19:11:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lay down a piece of laminated particle board. Run over the board with your BMX, and apply full strength on the brake just as your rear wheel is on the board, locking up your rear wheel. Rear wheel drags the particle board along, sliding and skidding uncontrollably. Skid and slide as long as possible. Release brake when about to fall. Take turns with other neighborhood kids. Longest distance wins.
AMillionBattles · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played this game called poker, which wasn’t actual poker but was more like a tickling game except poking. I always lost.
kelcyno · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 6 siblings and my mom would take us to the store together to run errands (think K-mart late 90's). We would try to see who could walk at the back of the group with an odd object and see how long we could get away with it before someone (a stranger or other patron) told mom on us. My brother would always win by dragging a rake behind us or wearing women's underwear on his head at the back of the group (he was 6/7 at the time).
CameRae_123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball Jump. My sisters and I would have a really big blue bouncy ball and would put it on our trampoline. Then we’d have to jump and try not to touch the ball, if you did touch it, then you need to sit down and try to throw the ball to hit another player to get back in. But you only have three throws a game.
mfdarri · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Windowball. You would try to throw a tennis ball into the second story window of a house while somebody was in the window trying to prevent it from getting in the window. If you managed to get the ball in, you got to go up into the room and defend the window. I spent many, many summer days playing this with my friends as a kid
disgruntledbeaver2 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Four legged animal"
My sister and I came up with this game on long car rides with our parents. There was a ton of farm land on the way to many of our destinations. We grew up in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, if you saw an animal that had four legs on your side of the car you counted it as one point. Passing a cow pasture was ideal, but you would see the occasional dog or cat as well. If you passed a church with a graveyard you had to "bury" your animals and start at back at 0. The person with the most points at the destination won.
RadDadRyRy · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
trampoline wars... 2 teams of 2 would have and all out wrestling match and try to push the other team off the trampoline and the last person (team) standing won
xMyAnacondaDoes · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would fill an empty milk jug with water and tie it to the rope on the flag pole in our front yard. Then, we would spin the jug around and attempt to hit it was a baseball bat. The rope would wind around the pole, so we could only spin it so much. The person who broke it usually got wet and it was an oddly fun summer game.
bartymanelaflare · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bed crawler. Someone would climb underneath a fitted sheet and chase around the person on top of the sheet. It didn’t really work unless it was on a king sized mattress.. Usually the person underneath would keep saying bed crawler as they tried to get the other person. Really fun times hahaha:)
GnastyGnorcc · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This probably isn't as unique as others. But when I was younger my friends and I would play Tremors. Basically like the floor is lava game, but we were outside and anything that was grass, dirt or sand wasn't safe, like in the movie. We would try to get to places like the garage, deck, swing set, etc. and get "supplies" and "guns" to kill the monster before it ate us. The best part is I had one of those little Power Wheels Barbie Jeep, we would ride around in it and try to kill the monster while it chased us.
SignificantAmbiguity · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play “walk the lugie” in second grade at school. We would tie a rope around someone’s neck and walk them around the baseball diamond on their hands and knees. We had to stop because a teacher thought we were playing slavery and took us to the principals office. Didn’t help that she walked over while it was out black friends turn to get walked. We were dumb not racist, getting walked was the best part.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Doctor"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would each create a bunker out of couch cushions and pillows. We then would lob television remotes and video game controllers, really anything we could use as a projectile.
Well one time before thanksgiving we played bunker and i being the older brother tossed the big direct tv remote and it went directly into my little sisters eye hole she had made to watch the incoming artillery. Well basically gave her the biggest black eye i have ever seen days before a big family holiday. We were not allowed to play bunker anymore.
HippestSlowbro · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Panda is Nigh. Me and my cousin would go out in terrible storms by the beach and toss a ball around, but there was a catch. We used traffic cones to catch and throw the ball. Why? Because we could. Good ole warm spring storms.
sodaextraiceplease · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Count the vanes in the ac grate. Run your finger quickly across a random ac vent and see who could count the closest to the actual number of vanes based purely on sound.
thechrisof86 · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Jurassic Park with our family dogs as the "raptors". You throw the tennis ball for them, then while they look for it you run the opposite direction, once they realize you're running away the chase begins..
S4ve- · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a variation of hide and seek, where one person would hide and the rest searched for the guy. When you found the one person hiding, you had to hide with him in the same place.
Often ended with 6 to 8 people in a bathtub or under the same bed. Fun times!
BeachCop · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone's in the pool. Take a clear 2 liter soda bottle, preferably with a white cap. Remove the label and fill with water. Everyone stands at the pool stairs facing outwards. Someone throws the bottle over their head behind them. You wait a few seconds for the water to settle and you all turn and go searching for the bottle which is now almost invisible. Often times you wouldn't find it until you accidentally kicked it or swam into it. Anyway, you get the bottle and battle or sneak your way back to the stairs with it. This is your base and if you make it there, you're safe - in theory. Repeat as necessary.
BackgroundRelative · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my buddy would beam each other with beanie babies while trying to dodge them by ducking behind opposite ends of my bed
A_King_Is_Born_Now · 1 points · Posted at 19:12:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings played deadliest sibling where you would put a blanket on the floor, choose some stuffed animals and go to town on each other, first person to quit or be knocked off the blanket lost
qwazokm · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bavarian beavers. Move all the chairs away from the dinner table, two of us went under the table, two ran around the table. The ones under the table made loops with dog leashes to trap the beavers. The beavers were required to step in the loop on each pass. You had to time it perfectly to catch or not be caught.
When my mom found out about the game, she's told us that Bavaria was the name of a real place, and I remember thinking "obviously, that's why we used it."
No idea why we were beavers from Bavaria though.
CzLittle · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and 3/4 of my class would play hide & seek on bikes. We lived in a medium sized village so we would zoom through the streets,we usually had 1m to hide. It was fun. I flew over the handlebars twice.
HoneybeeNectarine · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WALL BALL. My five siblings and I would throw a tennis ball on the side of the house in the driveway, it would hit the ground, someone else would catch and throw it at the wall, etc. If you tried to catch it and failed or got hit by it, you had to run and touch the side of the house before someone pegged you with the ball or you were "out".
If you broke one of the many "rules" you had to suffer through a "butts up" which was where you stood on the wall with your pants down far enough so your buttcheeks were out, and whoever called you out for breaking the rule could stand at a dedicated line in the driveway and try to hit your ass with the tennis ball.
I'm the youngest, so I inevitably had the most butt cheek welts. Good times.
Smoothynobutt · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
May not be very unique, but my cousin and I would play knee football in his basement. It’s basically football, just on your knees. I remember it being pretty fun
JohnCandyCrush · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess it was around the time I was 6. We had a playhouse in the backyard and the neighbor girl next door, who was the same age, and I, used to play the 'privates' game. I would drop my drawers and show her my little JohnCandyCrush and she would drop hers and show me... well, her 'hole'. I used to tell her not to worry, her pee pee would pop out soon enough. It brought about such a rush, knowing and not-knowing what we were doing was 'wrong'.
rosaliedebeil · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played blind cows. Basically we sat hands and feet on the trampoline and just jumped around bumping into eachother
thatonedude917 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play a game called "lights out" idk who made it up but whenever me and my sister came over we would wait till it dark outside so light couldn't shine through the curtains and turn off all the lights but some times the younger kids got scared so we would have him go upstairs and play on someones phone
nonnomn · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a guess the temperature game when we would be driving home. Our local bank displays the temp and who ever guessed the closest got a Starbucks.
kmn19999 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jumper". I would carry my mattress from my room in the basement to the bottom of the stairs, climb up the side of the stairs (the side without the railing), and see how high I could climb and jump onto the mattress. Rinse and repeat.
LD_Zebra_Cake · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends I created this game called curbball. We would each stand on the other side of the road in front of a curb. We used a basketball and you would try to hit the curb(harder then it seems). You would get 10 points if you hit the curb. You then walked up halfway and would try to hit the curb. Every time you hit it from the halfway mark you get 5 points. If you missed, it’s your opponents turn. You could actually win the whole thing by hitting curb to curb. I’ve done it 4 times in my entire curveball career. Pretty fun game if you ask me. If you were on the final shot we would always do trick shots to make it more fun.
lozberipie · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to make an indoor treasure hunt for each other, where we placed hidden notes around the house and set up little puzzles and riddles, which when solved, will eventually lead you to some "valuable" treasure. Ah, the good times...
screechsnap · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played War. Each player took a "base" and fortified it with like, laundry baskets and stuff. I liked to use the top bunk. The kitchen was Switzerland. Players would have to go on stealth missions there for snacks. We all kept highly dramatic journals. Then we would prepare for battle in which we would beat the shit out of the opposing team's fort with brooms and other household items. The goal was to steal pieces of the fort to break it down. Then we all signed a treaty and shared our snack rations.
Also, we played virtual house on Goldeneye for the N64.
Asells · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Googanot- hide and seek in complete black darkness. We used to set up traps and shit too. Good times.
Huge-Euge · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play the "Moon" game with my brother. Basically don't get seen or caught until you are in position and ready to "moon". Nothing like catching him off-guard looking straight at your bare buttcrack. Sometimes waiting a few minutes silent until someone "loses".
Magikwack · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, we used to play a game similar to dodgeball where a bunch of kids would have their backs to the wall, and one person would throw a bouncy ball at them. It was between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball. If you got hit, you were out. There was no fighting back. Just execution style
You-need-a-big-one · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hahah. Ok.
So we (siblings) would have a bowl of cereal. And we would play “se caí o no se caí” Basically “will it fall or will it not.”
The end where you hold the spoon would be on the rim of bowl. You lift the “ladle part at a 40- 80 degree angle. Then before you let it go, the other would guess whether it would fall into the milk or if you had enough cereal where the spoon would stay on top. . .
Things got serious the more cereal you ate.
Yeah... we were Poor.
Firestyle001 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We wanted to have a snowball fight; but the snow had melted. We filled up beer cans with rocks and threw them at each other. I got stitches.
atomicspacekitty · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The baby game”. My younger sister would pretend to put my brother and I to bed and as soon as she walked out we would make a lot of noise and she would come in pretending to be an enraged mother and beat us for not going to sleep...sounds fucked up now that I write it out but we had fun! 😂
JarlFurlong89 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play ‘shop’ where we’d each set up a business and visit eacgother. My sister ran a jewellers. My cousin ran a bank. I ran a pretend school and my best friend, who ran the post office, would send me threatening letters.
ksa10 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
cave explorer
annikap5 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next door neighbor and I used to play some stupid games but this one is by far the worst. We called it octopus. The “octopus” would hold one jump rope in each hand and spin as fast as they could in a circle, whipping the jump ropes around. The other players, or the “fish” would try to push the octopus to the ground without getting whipped by the jumprope. One time the jumprope whipped me so hard that it actually broke skin. I can’t get over how dumb this game was or how it was fun for anyone involved
j_rek · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Troll- me and all my friends would turn the lights off and someone was the ‘troll.’ The troll would have to scare everyone and the first person to tap out or scream would be the next troll. Quite a few punches were thrown and bruises were had, but it was so much fun. We played it for years into our teens.
malignant_narcissism · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a lot of Hide-And-Go-Fuck-Yourself. Still do today!
katmk24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In first grade all of the girls in my class sat together at lunch and whoever had fruit snacks/gummy candy would participate in these fights (I don't remember if we had a specific name for it). We would each take out a fruit snack or gummy bear and make them fight each other and the one that lost got eaten. We would do this one v one until they were all eaten. I have no idea how we decided who won but I remember just giggling all throughout lunch at our fruit snack battles.
Pachuko_pinyata · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grit my teeth and bite down on the side where there is a lamppost when I’m in the car.
My dentist hates me.
After he told me to stop doing that I started breathing when one went by instead.
My littlest sister and I used to beg Mum to fill bowls of water and put them on a mat on the floor so we could be dogs.
koletEJ · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends invented " Dot". Basically if you stand you say dot and when you sit you say dot. If you don't say dot, we would poke with the index finger and yell dot. It was really fun when people in school caught on to it. Basically a well known game with a weird word and breaking fingers !
Nex_Level · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would pretend our bed was a small lifeboat and we were in a massive storm at sea. We would spend hours saving one another after someone would fall off. Thinking about it now makes me want to play again, 30 something years later.
beaujangled · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poooped off rafters in a barn into a bucket and made poop stew.
jacinth1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made up a game we called "Tracks". Basically it requires freshly fallen, largely undisturbed snow. We usually played this game in the evening/night when it was dark out. The first person would start making tracks that weaved through the neighbourhood and around trees and in other zig zag patterns. They could also do snow angels or rolled down a hill or run so that the tracks were far apart. After about a minute, the second person would walk through the tracks as closely as possible to the original "tracks". Sounds really lame but we had a lot of fun doing this.
memeking2120 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to play "zombie" were one person was a zombie and the rest of us would just beat that person with sticks. Looking back at it, it was just bullying
DBRL2018 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child so when I wasn’t dressing up my VERY patient cats, I was playing a solo game I made up called “Caveman”. I would pretend I was a caveman that had been frozen in ice all these years and just “woke up” in my bed. I recognized nothing, had no language and I was very freaked out and also inquisitive. Picking things up and smelling them, pretending to eat my cats, run down stairs and make noises at my mom and pull her hair, hit my dad, never explaining the game to them. I still have an urge to play this when I’m home for the holidays and have too much vodka.
mightybrain2070 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slide down the stairs....on our butts.
It hurt a lot but it was fun
780feind · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Woosh woosh."
A kid from the neighbourhood invited me over to his treehouse to play woosh woosh. I was probably 10 years old and he was a bit younger. Anyways i agree and we ride our bikes over to his place, climb up in the tree house and he proceeds to show me how to play.
This kid (jayden) then starts lighting the (already charred) nylon rope on fire of the swing that hangs down from a higher branch out of his tree house window.
As the flame builds the molten nylon starts dripping down to the ground; "woosh-woosh" "wooosh-wooooosh"
Long story short it got out of hand and the kid burned down his own god damn treehouse and i learned what "woosh woosh" was.
cubedsealard · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick it up. My neighbors grandma would force us to go outside and we just threw stuff Into a tree and tried to get it out with a broom.
j_phill21 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play backyard baseball on the golf course we lived on. In the fairway on the 14th hole we figured out that the drain grated and yardage markers lined up almost perfectly as a diamond.
In the springs when we weren’t actually playing baseball, we’d be out there almost every day after school playing a pickup game. Far out in left field was the rough that was used as the fence line for us. When golfers would tee it up we’d quickly pack everything up and move to the side to let them pass. Every once in a while, the drunker ones would stop for an at bat.
Had some of the best times of my life out there with those guys just playing ball. I’ve lost touch with most of them by now but man those were the days. It may not be as “unique” as some of these stories, but we were damn proud of that field.
Bonus game: We’d also use the abnormally long teebox on that same hole as our football field in the fall.
iChrome222 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t have a name for it, but my siblings and I used to stack VHS tapes and dvd cases on the ceiling fan and turn the lights off. Then everyone would stand somewhere in the room and when they were ready, a designated person would turn on the fan. Basically the goal was to avoid getting hit. There wasn’t really any winners, and thankfully nothing ever got broken
LordWeebTrash · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and some friends made a game with a very immature name called dont poop your pants. It was a very very simplified version of dnd where up to 6 players were placed in a battlefield with the goal of being the first ones to the toilet. Each player had 20 hp and could think of any weapon they wanted and rolled to see if they got it. A 1 would be something shitty compared to what you wanted and a 6 would be a superior version of what you wanted. You attack and you can inflict up to 6 points of damage to a player and if you run out of health, you "shit your pants and die". Its concept is extremely dumb, but it's still fun as shit
zcbjm4321 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oley Oley octenfree
Phannydantom175 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called grab bag. We would find anything we thought would be disgusting to eat and put in in a trash bag. We'd take turns pulling out the items and eating them. We weren't the smartest, but I think it helped my immune system by eating all of those rotten foods.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunt the cunt. There would be 2 teams made up of folk from around our housing scheme and each team would have a word they had to keep secret. The teams would then attempt to beat the word from each other.
Alibi01101 · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For a little while my siblings and I would play our own recreation of slender the eight pages in our basement. You couldn't really lose the game but it was a lot of fun. We would turn all the lights off and hide four or so pages around the basement then one of us would put on this stupid mirror mask thing that was tough to see through, grab a flashlight, and hunt down the pages while the others tried to scare you. With the lights off and that mask on you could only see what the flashlight illuminated. I can't remember why the game stopped. I'm pretty sure the mask broke or we ran out of good places to hide the pages.
pWaveShadowZone · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used the play “battlewood”. Battlewood was the name of the local pool and we’d pretend someone’s bed was a swimming pool and pretend to be swimming in it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao kind of dark but I had a babysitter who would love to play “husband and wife” with me.
Went on for a few years but it was my favorite game to play. Explains a lot of character traits I have as an adult
StonedBySnake · 1 points · Posted at 19:14:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zanzarah the hidden portal
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lights out pillow fight - everything gets broken but it’s a good five minutes
Nugs0153 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Yellow Car game.
Basically Slug Bug, but with yellow cars.
Yellow school buses during non-transit school hours were 2 punches
Yellow firetrucks were 3 punchs
legalos50 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dune 2000
oiuw0tm8 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing like a relaxing game of Nutball on a hot day at summer camp
Legs spread, lob a lacrosse ball and try to hit your opponent in the jewels. Blocking resulted in a free shot penalty, where your opponent got to chuck it overhand as hard as he could while everyone else in the cabin held your hands down.
Randyh524 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The water game. My sister and I would spray water all over the cement in the back yard and try to make it across without touching the wet spots on the floor. We also had the sure bottle game which one of us would hide a sure deodorant bottle around the house while the other would try to find it. Good times.
therealrjw · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Quiet Game - my mother and her friend would tell me and my friend to lay down on the floor and to not talk or move and whoever stayed like that the longest would win. I don't really recall what we won, but I do remember trying to win!
Dimension_Cat · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad is asleep. Someone would play as Dad and lie down on a couch or a chair with a towel over their head while keeping guard of an object such as a lightsaber or ball. The Dad can “wake up” and take the towel off their head, if they see one of the kids in the same room/area their in, the kid is grounded and can no longer play. The kids have to try to steal the object without waking up Dad. My friends and I also added in a nerf gun that the Dad can only use when asleep. If a kid is hit with a nerf dart they are also out. The winner of the game has to play as Dad.
surreptitious_musing · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game with my brother where we'd draw weapons and monsters and act out fighting the monsters using the weapons. My proudest moment was when I drew a monster so well my brother decided to keep it so he could show it to his friends claiming he drew it.
DenOnel · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played king of the corner. Whoever could sit in the corner was the king and you could do whatever you want to get in the corner.
Vaultboymademan · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The card game "lost heir". Whenever I mention it, nobody has ever heard of it, I honestly thought my family created custom cards or something. It's basically euchre with four cities and 7 ranks, including a good boy and a bad boy.
leighplusthree · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I would spend time with my grandfather we had a game where we would try and guess the color of the car that would pass the house next. First one to ten correct would get a dollar. He’s been gone for 16 years now and I catch myself playing when I sit outside by myself.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my bone-head friends used to hang out in some woods near the neighborhood. There was a train track that ran through it. We would have one of us go up to the tracks (which weren't visible through the dense brush) and start lobbing rocks into the trees where we were. We couldn't see them coming, but we had to dodge them as he randomly threw them towards us. Needless to say, many concussions and busted faces came of this game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stoopball
bubba5287 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Atmosfear. It was a game you put a vhs in and played along.
CryptoGuy321 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if we made this up as kids. If it's not a real sport it should be anyways. We called it "War Ball." It was a combination of dodge ball and baseball. We would stand across the street and throw those miniature kickballs at each other. Much more power than real dodge balls and hurt much worse. Rules were same as dodge ball except you had 3 lives.
mdboys09 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We set up "obstacle courses" in the basement and turned the lights off (it was the same path every time) then hide and try to scare them
stinkbuttfartbreath4 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost. One person would cover themselves in a sheet and try to find the other hidden people...
switchplayer18 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Antelope. We live on a military base and the block was about a quarter mile long. All the houses were duplexes with the same design and yard space. All the kids from the area would come to our block with their bikes. One kid was the hunter and had a nerf football. Everyone else was the antelope herd and took off on bikes around the block. If the hunter could hit someone with the nerf then they swapped places and the person became the new hunter. As the hunter, you had to balance getting the easy target/crappy bike vs laying a trap for the kid with the 10 speed. Way too many hours spent playing this.
abrads · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called Clifford based on the cartoon Clifford the big red dog. We had a little tent setup in our basement and all the lights would be off. One person would be Clifford, they had to try and scare the shit out of everyone in the tent. Good times.
kwithtin4 · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The works.” Basically, I would give my sister a back massage, back scratch, a foot massage and a head massage. And she would allow me to sleep on the floor of her bedroom so I wouldn’t have to sleep in my own bedroom alone. I was a tad bit scared of being alone and she graciously allowed me the opportunity not to. For a small fee.
HawtyQuail · 1 points · Posted at 19:15:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I were about 4 or 5 when we would play a game called Master and Slave. I had to do everything she said, or I'd be spanked.
Nezzie · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad's side of the family is decently big. My 3 aunts had 3 kids each, so when my brother and I were kids, we'd play with them when we visited. One of the games we played is one of us were picked at random to be the seed of a flower, then that person would curl up in a ball and lay on the floor. Everyone else would lay all the blankets and pillows we could find on top of them. We all would then "water" and "take care" of the seed. The person acting as the seed would then slowly stick an arm or leg out over time, since you know... It takes time for a flower to grow. Eventually the person that was acting as the seed would stand all the way up, signifying they were a fully grown flower. Then, the flower would pick the next person to be the seed, and the process would repeat until we got bored of it. Honestly, looking back on it, it sounds boring as fuck, but we actually had fun with it. Not sure how we even managed to do 1 round, let alone the 5 to 10 rounds we'd do when we played it. Maybe it was the suspense of wondering when the person would decide to sprout? I dunno.
TidoDorrito · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two older sisters and I used to play “Run Son, Run!” It basically consisted of one of my sisters pretending that they were my adopted mother and the other sister pretending to be my biological mother that escaped from a mental institution. The biological mother was always trying to take me back and they would fight it out all while my adopted mom screamed “Run son, Run!”
fr0896 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Please help! I've been trying to find this game since like 11, I'm 25. Played when I was probably 8 or 9 yo. Basically it's a turn based game played with AI. It's like monopoly with squares and buildings on them, except the buildings are companies in which you buy shares and rise up the corporate ladder. All I remember was it was fun but I can't find it for the life of me.
LifeOfTy98 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Duck, Duck, Grey Duck!
fhdjdikdjd · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know what it’s called in English but there is that one game that’s popular in the Arab world , you grap a Pen and a paper , make a table and split it for those things , name of a human , name of an animal , name of a country (some times cities are allowed) , name of an Innominate object and the name of a plant , you pick a letter and find things that start with that letter , if the you answered with something no one else answered you get 10 points , if other people had the same answer for example multiple people had Rachel as a name then everyone with the same answer gets 5 points , game ends when you run out of letters or everyone gets board
Bootswiththafurrrrr · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shbroom. Like floor hockey but with a shovel, broom and a basketball in the garage.
Anonymou5Ahmad · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Mario galaxy Super smash flash edition Wii sports Mario kart Mw2
jazzehcakes · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My big sister and I used to "shoot aliens." Basically finger guns and "pew pew pew" sounds at every green street sign. But when we would drive home late at night we had to target the alien mother base. It was the Wells Fargo building that was lit up green. Good times.
ls100px · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i played hide n seek with my uncle but a little diferent if he find out where i was he would rape me ihaha jk
TheaOchiMati · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and his brother played "Avalanche". They'd take a sheet and put most of it on a tall surface like a top bunk or a counter with a little of the sheet hanging off. Then they'd get all of their hardest toys and put them on top of the sheet on the surface... and then get right under it and pull it on to themselves. Top tier game.
iamguineapig · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't call it unique but it's called "Molkky", it's a version of Finnish skittles. It uses 12 wooden dowels and a wooden ball used to knock down the dowels. I sort of forgot the rest of it. It's a fun game for large groups and family reunion/get together, like outdoor bowling. 10/10 would recommend.
Cj_a621 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our favorite game was “Slap ball” which entailed two people standing on opposite sides of the living room and we would slap a small rubber ball at each other attempting to block it from hitting the wall. If it hit the wall, the person who’s wall was hit was out and we would move to the next game. HOURS were spent fighting over how the bracket should work because we had an uneven amount of people...
dasfiddler · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would set up 2 laundry baskets in the carpeted upstairs hallway and play “hand hockey” on our knees with a racquetball. Basically you’re just flying around on your knees swiping at the ball, trying to score in the other person’s “goal” (the laundry basket). It was a lot of fun.
RealMattDaBatt · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made a game called Spytag. It was basically hide and seek tag but everyone is a tagger and if you tag someone they join your team. The game ends when everyone has been tagged by the same team. I think we called it spy tag because it was full of lies and betrayal of who was on whose team but it was fun and lasted for hours and best played at night.
defprog · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ours was the "squiggle game". First person draws a random line or shape on a piece of paper, and the other person has to turn it into something by drawing in the rest of an image. It's actually still fun. Not really a way to win other than to have the most seamless integration into a drawing so you can't tell it was just a random squiggle to begin with.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play this game called geriatrics as kids. One of us would be the caretaker and the other would be the geriatric. The geriatric would constantly scream for morphine and the caretaker's goal was to divert his attention. It always spiralled into madness as the geriatric would grow more impatient with the caretaker's diversions. Hobbling around screaming "MORPHINE I NEED MY MORPHINE!!" and throwing shit around. Eventually ended in being scolded by a parent of how inappropriate the game was for children.
Another was called Mystery Curry, where we would take turns adding unknown ingredients into a bowl until someone either refused to have a taste or vomited. These ingredients included anything in the kitchen. Common ingredients would be baking soda, condiments, assorted spices, etc. You weren't allowed to see what your opponent/s put in and if you could guess what they added you could skip your tasting for that round. Very disgusting.
These were both about elementary school age...good times ..
hamstersar · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "stinky socks monster". Basically the way it worked was one player was the monster who would be tethered to something in the middle of the room like a table. They had to stay in contact with the table at all times, if they tag another player they would be added to the monster and start to form a long chain. The game ended when the last player was tagged and became the new monster for the next round. To discourage hiding out of range if you tag the monster and avoid getting tagged yourself (say by tagging a person in the middle of the chain who doesn't have a free hand) you get a completely meaningless point. Also, if the chain ever broke anywhere then everyone from he break to the end was released and went back to being runners again.
We still play to this day with my cousins at my grandparents' pool. They have one of those rope floaties that goes across and is the perfect tether. The pool is great because you can go under the monster who can try and make a chain hand-to-foot for extra length. 10/10 game.
NefariousFiend · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A mate and I made up a card game when we were 10. I can still remember the rules and it's a genuinely good card game, with several strategies to win and mess with your opponent. I'm not gunna say the rules cos I'm gunna actually try and make some money from it... Fuck knows how tho.
earthbound_misfit42 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play a game similar to tag one would be a pregnant refugee seeking political asylum and the other would be the border agent. We would section of routes to the base and it would restraint one arm each and basically have a beat down till you reached safety touching base. Lol we weren't very old and it was in the 90's, before the PC police show up we had little understanding of the hard ships people in that situation faced. No way mean any down play or humor in the what people in this situation face. We were ignorant kids lol
thefantasyplonker · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sudeki on Xbox 360! Surely someone else remembers this game?
Smarifyrur · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think this is a well known game under another name But me and two friends played Pluto. You kicked the ball at a wall and try to hit the others with the ball as it returns, if you dont hit anyone, the next one kicks it against the wall, and if you hit one person he gets a letter; "P" you are "in" the game as long as you dont get hit 5 times and have all the letters p, l, u, t, o. The game is played to the last man standing. We played it for years!
burnedoutthrowaway63 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was five or six, I would imagine a doctor coming to my bedside and telling me I had a horrible incurable disease, and I would die very soon. I’d feel a tingle of relief down my spine, and then I could finally fall asleep.
I didn’t realize what “playing doctor” normally meant until I was in my late 20s.
IllUpvoteEverything · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball game was played on a trampoline. Someone was "it" and would stand on the ground and throw the ball at the players on the trampoline. If you got hit you were it. Alicia and McKenzie cheated once, the jerks.
Monster was pretty much the same except you didn't have a ball and you tagged the person on the trampoline.
Gutterball was played at the public pool. You'd get those splashballs and throw them at the pool's gutter which was a concave gutter/canal that ran around the pool's edge and filtered the water. That game was a blast.
The gutter at the pool looked a little like this;
http://hydrologicblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/gutter4.jpg
Sir_coopsalot17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vollyball with birthday balloons that were filled up by mouth
gimme_the_light · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Titty Twist Challenge. You and an opponent each secure a two finger grasp on the other's nipple (just one nipple on each person). On the count of three, you both pinch and twist as hard as you can. If you pull away, you lose the game. However, if your hand slips off your opponent without them pulling away, then you also lose the game.
Good times.
blonde_esquire · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a second floor banister that overlooked the living room. My sister and I would tie my dad's ties together and Tarzan swing from one piece of furniture to the next.
Stargazer1919 · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Little House On The Prairie. My friends and I would go outside and pretend to be pioneers. We would bring our dolls with us and pretend to have twigs and leaves and stuff for food.
Once I was playing this game in my living room. I took 4 chairs, 2 side by side facing the other two side by side. I put a big sheet over all 4 chairs, so it was a tent. I put our long and narrow coffee table at one end of it. This setup was the "covered wagon." I put some snacks, blankets, and my dolls in the "wagon." I took my two dogs and put their leashes on them, and I sat down on the coffee table. I pretended the leashes were reins and the dogs were the horses. "Giddy up!" I said to the dogs, and flicked their leashes. The two of them were basset hounds, and they yawned and fell asleep on the floor.
Business-is-Boomin · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "buck buck." I have no idea why it was called this. Picture row homes in Philly. Steps leading up to the front door, a kid would stand facing the door and count to 25. Everybody would hide in various areas within their field of view like behind cars, trash cans etc. They they'd have to say "Buck buck I see Freddy hiding behind the black station wagon." They'd have to get the name and location right for the person to give themselves up. So if Jimmy was hiding there, the person had to keep guessing. First one found was it next round.
dis_ABLED · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid, I discovered that you could kind of trick your body into feeling motion where there was none. I say kind of because the sensation is muted compared to reality, but it was there. In any case, I was able to teach a friend the trick too.
The holy Grail was making yourself feel a full rotation, like a backflip or something, while sitting still. We would sit for thirty minutes or more, in silence, trying to trick ourselves into feeling a flip.
I'm sure my parents appreciated that dumb "game" of ours.
georgieboo · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "Snozzle" which was basically peanuts, where 2 players interlock fingers and pretty much bend and twist the other players fingers until 1 person gives up.
But in Snozzle you grabbed each others noses, it was really stupid and we always ended up with bruises. We kept playing it though so we obviously didn't have a lot else to do growing up. Fun times.
lucentcb · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I pretended to be "kid cops" and fought crime in the yard. But somehow, over the course of the summer, there was corruption in the kid force and the kid cops became the bad guys that we were on the run from. And they had laser eyes.
e8itdaddy · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played ‘get naked as quick as possible’ with my uncle a lot
DancingDingette · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Feet Fight" - two people lay on their backs knees slightly bent feet together. You then push. Whoever's knees a straight first wins. This either happened with the other person's knees all the way bent or the other person pushed back.
DancingDingette · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If both sets of legs are fully extended it's a foul and both of you lose.
TheOriginalCasual · 1 points · Posted at 19:16:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle jim used to play a "game" where i would milk a cow blindfolded. Not sure how it was a game but he fixed my boredom.
CuirassCat · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a solo game where I would round up flocks of seagulls or pigeons and try to move them in a group. If they worked out what I was doing they would fly away. I spent a lot of time doing this at the beach but my siblings always intentionally scared the birds away and said I was being weird.
MegasaurusX · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to have this elaborate pretend game in the basement where we were woodchucks or beavers (I forget which) and we traded sawdust for goods/services like snacks, chores, whatever. We had a whole sawdust-based economy. Denominations were different-sized coffee cans. We'd scoop up the sawdust from my dad's projects into the cans, then stash them away.
It took us more than a decade to find out that our dad had invented this whole thing to avoid having to sweep up sawdust when he was doing woodworking projects in the basement.
He confessed when the family sold the house because on move-out he found a Maxwell coffee can full of sawdust hidden in the basement and he had to explain why he was nostalgia-crying.
irockpeople1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play ball dodge. We would pile a bunch of balls of various shapes (footballs, soccerballs, ect.) On a trampoline. We would count down and then start jumping, trying to dodge the balls in the middle as they started going wild around it.
If you got hit three times, you were out. If all the balls fell of, we would jump down, pile them in the middle and start again.
I miss being a kid.
jerelio · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would sit across the room with our legs spread apart and we’d try and hit each other in the balls with a ball (usually the size of an orange). Sometimes an orange if we didn’t have a ball. Much simpler times.
Ushakiran911 · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used basically take my dad's used playing cards and use them as money. We used to roleplay stories typically involving begging and kidnapping. The game used to be shitty but was fun. Good times . All we did was mostly count the money. One gets kidnapped and the other counts the ransom, math practice.
lbecbuc · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Staring from the Toilet"
Starting from the toilet, we would run up the hallway to my moms room and jump/somersault on to her bed. Naturally, we yelled STARTING FROM THE TOILET while we were doing this.
Also, my mom would play Baba Bouey with us (thanks, Howard Stern). She would sit on the floor and my brother and I would run around her in a circle and she would try to catch us. The song she would sing went "baba bouey, baba bouey, ba ba ba ba bouey. If I catch you you'll be bouey'd. Ba ba ba ba bouey.
What a bunch of fuckin weirdos.
dkcarpio · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Videgame - Voodoo Vince on the og xbox and Spore on the computer
chchchcheetah · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were little my brother and I used to play our made up game we called "Porcupine Butt." One of us would crawl around on all fours as the "porcupine" and the other would try to sit on them. And if you were able to sit on the porcupines back, you won.
Nevermind that later on we realized that you wouldn't WANT to sit on a porcupine. It was apparently more fun to try and sit on the back of the other person crawling around than trying to get your imaginary porcupine back/quills into someone's tush.
...childhood's a helluva drug
rpbjj · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
OMG THE FROG GAME
My older brother and I shared a room for a couple years when we were little.
One person points their finger close to the other's mouth. The second person tries to really quickly reach their tongue out and lick the other's finger, and the person with the finger out tries to pull it away before they can lick it.
So like a weird version of hot hands but with your tongue.
Honestly hilarious because it's really a lose lose situation- you either lick someone or get licked
cjc2072 · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad created this game for my family and our friends called B.O.B. that we would play at our annual summer trips to Red River, New Mexico.
Basically the whole idea of the game was that you would choose “Brains” or “Brawns” and draw a card from the stack you chose that would contain a random challenge. The challenges in the “brains” stack contained challenges ranging from math to spelling to logic questions that were probably easy but seemed hard at the time. The challenges in the “brawns” categories got creative as we were right up against the woods and a shin high stream that was probably close to 45 deg F. So they ranged anywhere from stand in the stream for 30 secs to climb a tree to push ups and sit ups.
If you successfully completed your challenge then you moved up on the game board which was some map from a random board game like “life”.
My sister and I were the youngest at around 7 or 8 and the oldest kids went up to 17 so the game scaled really well and made time fly when we had nothing else to do.
brmarley1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brother Are You There?
Party game for kids. Two people lie blindfolded on a (carpeted) floor, heads facing each other, grasping each other's outstretched left hand. In the right hand, a good sized rolled up newspaper, maybe several pages for young kids, the whole Sunday Times for adults who don't mind a solid thwack. Taking turns, one calls out "Brother (or sister) are you there?" The other person responds and then rolls around in any direction while still clasping left hands. The questioner gets to deliver one blindfolded hit with the rolled up paper. Sometimes you get a good hit to the head, sometimes through subterfuge you can disguise your location a bit. Alternate, while the other kids stand around and jeer or cheer. Trade with next two kids. Ah, good times when you're poor and only have a discarded newspaper for party toys.
Gingerpants1517 · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to throw whole walnuts at each other while jumping on a trampoline covered in soybeans and acorns. The acorns would stab us with their sharp little ends and the walnuts would obviously bruise. We usually played early summer too, before they got soft and peeled open. Country life is something else, man.
inflictedcorn · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Infection, you would be "infected" and chase others and actually bite them to infect them.
Crash cars, with my shitty Hot Wheels (not my good ones), you would sit across from each other in the room and launch the cars against eachother as hard as you could and they would crash (or sometimes hit the other person)
CivilWrongsMovement · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Penis Game - Pretty standard penis game that most juvenile boys/men play, only ours had a twist. My three older brothers and I shared a room with our Dad when we visited him every other weekend. We would lay there at night and see who could get away with saying 'penis' the loudest without waking up Dad. Whoever woke him up, lost. We played a modified version of this when we were at our Mom's house where we'd yell 'Fire!' Always a lot of fun
surreptitious_musing · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh! Also used to play hide and seek with some friends, and because 2 of the girls were the daughters of a super, we could go literally anywhere in the apartment building, and use the cameras in the back to find where everyone was hiding.
zerowastecutie · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fable and Morrowind on the Xbox I spent my whole summer exploring the open world and completed the games. One of my favourite childhood memories. I also enjoyed the customizability of the characters. Earning evil or good points was also a unique gaming feature.
Turbo_MechE · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Star tipping. You all stood in a circle around one person in the middle. The middle person would stair at the sky and spin really fast. Then the circle would yell stop and shine bright flashlights at the person and typically they fell. If not they had to run
JohnBakedBoy · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In highschool my circle of friends invented a game coined curveball loosely based on the flash game.
2 players to a team and played on a street.
Our one friend lived on street that always constantly had cars parked on each side, even to this day it's hard to find a spot. The playing field was 2 cars parked on either side of the street to another 2 cars parked on either side of the street. We tried to use cars that had their mirrors slightly lined up.
We decided on a middle point/half court and the 2 cars mirrors were used as the goal line. The ball we used was a rubber kids ball(the kind that when hit with non kid strength it would curve and fly in seemingly random directions).
One team would serve by kicking from a point between half court and the goal line. The other team had 3 hits to get the ball back to the other side of the half court. Repeat until a team had a hit that passed the goal line (2 car mirrors). First team to 7 points wins, have to win by 2 points. If you fail to get the ball across halfway or hit it more than 3 times the other team got a serve.
We had about 15-20 team tournament when the game took over, ended up breaking a car mirror which caused the beginning of the end of curveball.
MeowthThatsRite · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game where we would have to try weapons on ourselves and go through "airport security". One person would go and dress up in some of the crazy costume stuff we had and then try to hide our toy guns, knifes ect. On their person and the others would have to search them. If you got through with a weapon your won.
Sounds kinda crazy now, but it was harmless fun.
not-the-popo · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played a game we called FlockerKnocker. We cleared all of the furniture in the living room to sides giving us a large play area. There were decorative pots on either side of the room that were the goals. The ball was some type of foam core wrapped in tons of duct tape. The game was to get the ball to rest on top of the pot, because the ball was too large to fit in the opening! There were no other rules and the game was a death match brawl. I miss the days of FlockerKnocker.
fuckfeardrinkbeer · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fast and the Furious.
We used Monopoly money to bet on races with hot wheels cars.
We would catapult them on the ground to see which one got the furthest. The furthest always won.
JakoSouls · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Football
TehPurpleMenace · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My cousins and I would play a hybrid version of hide and seek and tag where if you found someone hiding, they'd take off running to try escaping and you had to tackle them to the ground if you caught them and be taken to "jail" to wait out the rest of the game; if the person could escape, get somewhere inaccessible (like up a tree, under a car, etc), or manage to be the last one not found, you'd win.
I was a scrawny little girl with two big burly boy cousins and one very tall, strong girl cousin, so I got my ass kicked playing this game pretty often until I learned that I was a born sprinter and was the only one skinny enough to cram myself into weird places they couldn't reach me or think of looking, like between chain link fences and sheds or in duffel bags.
Our Grandma made us stop playing this when I got stuck about 25 feet up a tree in her yard and had to get our Grandpa to come rescue me with a ladder lol
panzek · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
See how many pillows it takes to fully withstand the force of a 150 pound child jumping on another child from an elevated couch. Dont know why we plates this but it was fun.
Unco_Slam · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag, but I change or add another rule every two minutes.
Yes, I was that kid.
towlie_time · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters & younger cousins used to play a game called “Freeze” - essentially ball tag. But with a hakisack. When the person that is “it” throws the ball, other players are allowed to move / run freely, when “it” gets the ball they shout freeze & no one can move! So many great memories playing this
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rollout; my brother would furiously roll back and forth on the bed while I attempted to jump over him
soccer10chivas · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game...
thesportymitre · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would wait until the trampoline iced over in the winter, then we would set the trampoline up near our garage.
We’d then jump from the roof of the garage onto the trampoline and if you fell, which happened more often than not, everyone would scream: “SLIPPERY JOE! BAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH”
The last noise is intended as kind of a hockey buzzer. And slippery joe was said like Chris Farley would say it, if that makes any sense.
Good times.
TheRaido · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did all kinds of algebraic calculations with the notation on the hymn (actually just psalm) board in church
McCainDestroysTrump · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Star Control 2
Sarcastic-Prick · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During the Saturday morning cartoon commercial break my brother and I would go into the bathroom, close the door, turn off the light, and hit each other.
smilbandit · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my son created a game he called levels. could never understand how to play, seemed to have constantly changing rules, only constant was that i was almost definitely going to lose.
Bawlze · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our game was called dodge bear. It came from playing dodge ball in the house and not being allowed to throw a ball in the house after we broke several things. So we got all of our soft teddy bears and made dodge bear. Mom allowed us to play for months before the hard nose of a teddy bear broke a glass. That was the end of dodge bear.
zerowastecutie · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to spend hours playing fusion frenzy with my mom on the Xbox as well. It’s a bunch of mini games that you try to win like an obstacle course or bumper karts.
notandy82 · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I always had some sort of dueling game going on with what I would assume were standard rules. If you get hit in the arm, you lose that arm, hit in the leg, you have to hop on the other leg. We usually used rolled up newspapers, foam noodles, or other sword type implements. Our favorite version though, was pitching wedges and whiffle golf balls. You really end up at a disadvantage once you start losing limbs, but I do have a pretty decent short game thanks to it.
NotDarthPlagueis · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game in our semi-small town called "run from the cops"
That's it, pretty self explanatory, we would run through yards, hop fences, whatever it took to get away. Being 12 years old or so, didn't have much to really be scared of.
Also, we would put up literal walls of toilet paper across the road via two adjacent telephone poles...
jugo2004 · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dads peepee in my butt
jmarsh642 · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but my wife and I have a unique game we play. We call it the "Car Game" but it could more accurately be called the "IMDB Game" because we invented it to play during long card rides.
One person names an actor in a movie say "Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump." The next person has to name another actor that was in Forrest Gump and another movie they were in - without repeating any previous answers. (Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump are now taken)
The second person could say "Robin Wright in Princess Bride"
and on and on. The point of the game was to see how long a string we could create without repeats or stumping the other person.
It leads to a lot of "I forgot he/she was in that movie!"
concept2creation · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is gonna get buried because I am late to the show, but I wonder if anyone else played 'Butts Up'. A game where my sister and I would run full speed at each other backwards and see who could knock each other over with our butts. We had rules about how/when you could launch yourself from the stairs etc. It became so complex we made a rule book.
affirmationhood · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we simply called, “bridge”. We would be on opposite ends of the couch and with our legs form sort of a bridge that would connect our feet together. Once connected, we would then aim to kick each other in the balls. Could never imagine wanting to play that now
TheCoochofMarlaHooch · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animal heroes! We would choose our animals and then fight using our super powers. Usually ended in crying.
bobafelty · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pheasant...one person is the hunter, the other kids are the pheasants. You have to hide behind furniture, and then pop up for a couple seconds when the hunter shouts out. Hunter has to chuck a shuttlecock and hit the pheasant to kill the bird. Then all the birds scatter and get to hide again. Combo hide and seek + dodge ball basically. Play in an entire house or large backyard with shrubs.
Dodgeball bowling...Regular dodgeball, but there is a hockey net with bowling pins set up inside. Team has to not only get the other team out like regular dodgeball, but also roll the big rubber ball to knock down the pins. One person acts as goalie. If the goalie blocks the roll, the other team loses someone (same as if knocked out). Teams are much larger, at least 10-15 people each side. It's madness.
Kylearean · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in nowhere Oklahoma, and my great grandmother had a patch of bamboo that was growing out in front of her house. So every time we would go out there to visit the folks, my cousins and I would raid the bamboo, and make these bamboo swords. And we would just beat the shit out of each other with them, we’d end up coming back inside all bloody and scratched.
We used metal garbage can lids as shields, Sometimes we’d get a splinter in the eye.
As we got older, we started getting BB guns, then we would go around shooting each other with those instead. Around the Fourth of July we had to shoot each other with bottle rockets and Roman candles.
It was all good fun, my cousins still talk about it. Those of us with a remaining good eye, can give a little wink to our kids when we’re telling these stories.
Ihavebadreddit · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had about 30 vacant acres behind our house.
I played with rocks, and tracked rabbits and deer. There was a family of raccoons I would constantly harass by trying to crawl into their den. I only got in once because they weren't home that afternoon. Promptly fell asleep because I was sleepy I guess? The raccoons came home and I never tried climbing in there again.. they got mad and blocked the hole. I came home scratched up and my mom made me go get shots.
the best game was hit branches with a stick to knock leaves off it though.. I played that for hours and hours and hours.
Had siblings and friends and toys, just preferred the woods and pestering raccoons.
acgates · 1 points · Posted at 19:19:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every year during our Thanksgiving get together, my cousins and I would take turns going through a "haunted house." We would turn off the lights and just try to scare the everliving shit out of each other. Those were the days
jking206 · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to put “In the Hall of the Mountain King” on the turntable and pretend that the music made me evil. My three younger siblings had to try to get past me and take the needle off the record to end my “possession.” I always started off slowly in the beginning, but was made faster and more powerful as the music went on. If they got caught trying to get past me (getting tagged) they were “dead,” and the others had to keep going until either I got them all or they stopped the song.
T0MBST0N3 · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Over-the-house tennis.
AustenAllinPowers · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goober Tag.
Some friends and I came up with it in the third grade at recess. The rules were quite simple: if you were a guy you had to tag a girl, if you were a girl you had to tag a guy...with your goober. The game was actually a huge hit and before we knew it half the school was running around at recess thrusting their pelvises at eachother. Needless to say, it did not take long for the teachers/chaperones to notice. They were not happy and eventually the game was traced back to my friend group. The school then contacted all of our parents and held conferences. We were all threatened with suspension and told that we needed counseling. My two friends parents were all pretty religious so they took it quite seriously and the three of us were no longer "allowed" to hangout, which was a pretty tough blow.. but more inportantly I had gotten to tag Keena D with my goober (I always went for her) and it was totally worth it..
candeelandfun · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Newspaper baseball. We collected the old rolled newspapers in the neighborhood and used them as the ball. You had to throw them at the runner to get them out.
Nap_Nap · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The gay game” 4 of us would get on the trampoline and just jump like crazy. Boost each other, steal each other’s bounce and stuff. If you fall twice and any part of your body touches the trampoline besides knees below, you would be called gay for the rest of the day. I understand how offensive the name was now that I’m older :/
Xbxbxb123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve been waiting for a chance to tell this story, I don’t remember all of it but I can try to answer questions about it
To put it simply, my friend and I believed pretty much every work of fiction (like video games we played, books we read) that we liked was real, and we went on generic youth adventure novel style adventures with the characters, like saving the multiverse from Minecraft herobrine teaming up with the demon king Gannon. There was super Mario galaxy in there somewhere too. We kept up this game for at least 5 years.
TheWaxMann · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was at school, we would play a game called "face ball". We would take a few coins and roll them up in a ball with tinfoil, then sit at opposite ends of the table and take it in turns throwing the ball at each other's face. If you flinched or moved at all then you lost your next turn. Keep going until one person gives up.
CreateTheRush · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We us d to build forts our of blankets and couch cushions and have Nerf gun wars for hours
the-details · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Murderball' Two teams at opposite ends try to retrieve a ball in the center and bring it back to their 'goal' by any means. ~ There were a few torn shirts playing that one.
LegoLesion · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to catch animals, it was kinda fucked now that I think ab it we once caught a bat with a butterfly net though and that was the highlight of the year.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Turkey there is a game called "long donkey". There are two teams composed of the donkey and the jumpers. The aim is for the jumpers to topple over the donkey which is formed by the opposing team members bending over to create a "human centipede" like structure where your head would be placed in the crotch of the person in front of you. The game usually ends when someone gets seriously hurt. Search Uzun Esek If curious.
PaxSicarius · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Herdy Gurdy. Really unique game I got with the PS2. All about herding different kinds of fantasy animals. Had a lot of cool characters and environments. Wish I beat it.
ArianrhodSeesYou · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it deer and hunter. There was a rectangular field between some houses and a parking lot. Maybe 50 feet by 20 feet. We'd stand in the middle and the "hunter" would throw a ball in the air. Usually some sort of nerf ball. Everyone else scatters to an end of the field. We'd then have to run back and forth from end to end. If nobody was running the hunter could declare a "release" after a 5 second count and everyone had to run. If you got hit with the ball you were the hunter. We'd play this for hours until the street lights came on.
There was also a pool in my neighborhood. Nothing fancy but it had a 10 foot deep end. We'd play a similar game there called "off my wall". Now I think the kids call it shark attack. There is someone who is "it" usually new players were it. And everyone would stand on the wall on one side of the deep end. They then had to swim across the pool without getting tagged. This was and still is the motivation for kids in the neighborhood to learn how to swim. There are 3 or 4 year olds that push themselves to learn how to swim so they can play in the deep end. Usually it takes them until they are 5 or 6 to swim along the bottom. But we'd help each other out distracting the person who is it and making human chains across the pool to help the little ones.
dealtraino123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Football golf or footgolf.
My neighbors had a huge backyard with a treehouse, trampoline, above ground pool deck etc.
We would pick a target you had to throw the football at or into. The far targets were par 4 and everything else par 3 or 2.
Jeremy or John if you find this, I'm down to play another round.
pseudotumorgal · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin played “Spyg” (pronounced like fig with a soft g). It was us spying on people. We thought we were super clever by adding a g on it and NOBODY WOULD KNOW. I think we even had a notebook that said “Spyg” where we would take notes about our family members activities. It basically involved us probably not very subtly hiding around corners and doors watching our parents cook dinner and watch tv. Try to spy on our older brothers playing/hanging out. Oh, we even got hand held mirrors to hold around corners to see like real spies would. And we just giggled the whole time.
We’re both around 30 now and at family stuff will occasionally mention our covert Spyg days.
FumbleGrumble · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother used to narrate text based role playing games to me on long car trips. My favorite was “Huntermans Frenzy”. He is 8 years older than me, and. I was between 6 and 10 at the time. He would just make up an RPG to keep me entertained.
He would start off something like this, “You were in the forest. You have two throwing knives, and a canteen half full of water. You can go north south east or west. You hear the sound of flowing water to the east. You can see mountains in the far off distance to the north. What do you want to do?”
I would pick a direction and start exploring. He would just make stuff up as we went along, creating a narrative that my little mind was completely sucked into. I would get hungry and thirsty and tired. I would trap or kill small game and sell the skins at the trading post. I could buy better weapons and gear with the money that I sold my pelts and meat for. I would get parasites and have to buy medicine. He came up with all sorts of stuff. He would mentally keep track of my inventory, how much water I had, how much ammunition. He would keep a pretty good map in his head as well. It was a pretty simple grid, I could only ever go in the four cardinal directions. That made it easier to keep track of.
When I got too much gear, or he got bored of playing he would kill me off. Typically he would trap me somewhere where I couldn’t get out and a bear would kill me. Or he would twist my words and make me die by accident. For example: I would wake up after having spent the night in a tree and he would ask which direction I wanted to go. He would then tell me that I “walked west” but I was still up in the tree so I fell and died. I would get livid but eventually accept. that he just wanted to be done
It was a really fun game, and it managed to entertain my parents in the front seat as well.
unpredictablecrow · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up the older kids in our neighborhood taught us something called the Password game where one team comes up with a secret word and the other chases down and tortures the first team until they reveal said word. Looking back, I see how messed up that was and I’m glad we stopped after a few of us ended up crying...
Send-Me-ur-nudies · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would bring a basket of shoes out to the trampoline, and then jump around with them trying not to get hit with them.
Another game was one my cousin called cherry bomb where one of us would curl up in a ball on the trampoline and the other would try and bounce you high enough or close enough to the edge to let go of your legs and stop yourself from getting hurt... we were really bored...
joebasaurus · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 5 and my brother was 4, we played a game we called bumpity-bump, in which you sit at the top of our stairs, and pull yourself along with your feet so that you fall to the next step. We used the staircase exclusively this way for quite a while.
Several months later, my mom broke her leg when she tripped and fell down the stairs, and we immediately started cracking jokes about her terrible bumpity-bump technique. Needless to say, she banned the game after that.
JosephIsBestJojo3 · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark. I can probably guess it isn't that unique but I don't have a lot of that interesting things about my early childhood
BillMurraysTesticle · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary and middle school we played a very politcally incorrect game called "Smear the Queer." Basically, one poor kid would have the ball and the rest of the gang would try and tackle them. The next kid picks up the ball from under the dog pile and the process repeats. There was no way to win and no rules other than tackle the kid with the ball. Many, many injuries happened at recess.
scotty845 · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
whoever could swim the farthest out in the ocean and get sand from the bottom
Chief_Chill · 1 points · Posted at 19:20:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 3 almost 4 year old made a game called Old Captain America (me, I assume)/New Captain America (him).
We both get shields and chase each other around the house, the New Captain America chooses the route, and we smash shields (gently).
It's quite fun and he LOVES IT! I will do anything for his smiles.
therimidalv · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I played 'Bulbasaur' where in which we'd get on all fours, say "Bulbasaur!" and hit heads for a few times till it hurt too much to continue. Fun times!
NoodleEnthusiast · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines!
Like hide and seek, but only one kid hides and everyone else seeks. When you find the hider, you have to join them in their hiding place. Last seeker to find the group is the loser, and they have to hide first next time.
My favourite was when I climbed up my dad's desk and hid up on top of an enormous storage cabinet. In retrospect, that probably wasn't a safe spot for 5 kids to be sitting...
Framical · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
6th grade me and 3 others created what we called "Coatball". Premis is to get the coat to your partner while on swings. It's lined up every other one and you swing.....throw a coat...try to intercept.... Played this glorious game all recess all year.
noel_ekman · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game where around 3 am when you got tired of playing video games or watching movies at a sleepover, you would toss tennis balls at each other’s nutsacks from across the room. If you flinched, the thrower got to pelt the flincher as hard as he could with the tennis ball.
Or the urinal challenge. Start peeing at a urinal and back up to see how far you could make it.
ChakalakaChicken · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rain
Parblack · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends were quite fucked up as kids. We would always play this silly game called the “The challenge of the 1000 punches”, we would throw a rock as hard as we could to the ground and then whoever’s rock remained the most complete with the fewest amount of pebbles from the fall would have to either be punched by 2 people each 500 times at the bench or submit to crazy challenges like walking around in underwear or play tag with like a super heavy backpack. That game always hurt, but it was super fun though.
GitRightStik · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the mid 90's:
After every Wednesday evening church service, the boys roughly 8-15 years old would gather in the parking lot. Two end zones were designated. A football was tossed into the air, and the battle began. Whoever caught the ball was "the queer" and became the target of punches, kicks, clotheslines, grappling, and pushing. His goal was to stiff arm, sprint, jump, and dodge all of us, while trying to carry the football to the endzone.
The game was called Smear the Queer.
Yeah, good times at your average church. /s
woodsbre · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were asshole kids and it was long ago. But we used to dress all in black and throw tennis balls at cars passing on the highway. When they would chase us we would hide.
AmeliaKitsune · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play Hollywood and use an old camcorder to "make movies" which we wrote the script to or would make up on the fly. We did fake accents, even had a knife/ sword fight a couple times (horribly dangerous in hind sight, we used real blades, albeit not hella sharp). We were in middle school. I would probably literally die of embarrassment if anyone ever found those tapes. I'm 30 now, she's 28? and a psychologist, both of us are parents. We were not cool. Good news/bad news, no one will ever find them because 3/4 of her immediate family are dead or in prison for the death. Yeah.. that's really just bad news.
LightBear76 · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother and I used to do "jump on the bed and punch each other", yeah that wasn't too good.
The_Spooder_Matt · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Everything" basically my friends and I played around as anything you wanted to be, such as Indiana Jones, but you could be Yoda as well because why not?
DaoFerret · 1 points · Posted at 19:21:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a young kid with older siblings, I would bug them to play. One would usually agree, but he got to pick the game. We usually ended up playing “library”.
Playing “library” is simple. We both get books (he was usually in the middle of reading his already), and then we sit next to each other and pretend we are in a library reading.
This usually kept me busy for a little while till I got bored and wanted a different game, but he would usually at least get to a stopping point/the end of a chapter instead of just stopping right where he was. :)
DayOfTheWedNes · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blindfold tag. With 10-15 people at like 10 or 11 PM, we would all go to the same floor of a house, blindfold one person and make them chase everyone else in the dark. Essentially hide and seek, but in the dark in a super cramped floor with every person either running and hiding or trying to push other people to the blindfolded person.
WereJayzen · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Prisoners Base in our street, where we split into two teams, designated two driveways as ‘bases’ and then ran around trying to tag each other. If you got tagged you were a prisoner and you had to go to the other teams base to wait for one of your teammates to rescue you. To rescue a teammate, you had to grab their hand and both run together to your teams base.
Later on this evolved to include, at various times, ball-tag, snowballs, rollerblades, bikes, bike jousting, obstacle courses and a ten second hiding countdown. I don’t remember every rule, just the basic ones.
man2112 · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called backstop was big at my elementary school. As far as I know it was unique to our school.
It was played on a baseball/kickball field using a soccer ball. Instead of kicking from the home plate towards the outfield, you'd kick from the bases towards the backstop.
I don't remember all of the rules, but the goal was to get the soccer ball over the top of the backstop.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We made "cakes" out of dirt, leafs and branches .. we got payed and still got to keep them (great business model!)
LaminateAbyss90 · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stuff pillows into our pajama pants and shirts when we were kids. We would then run at each other and bounce off each other.
One time I bounced into the wall and knocked THE LAST PAIR of connected deer antlers my dad had from hunting. It broke in half, separating the two. My dad was sad for a while after that.
Alpinestarhero · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin brother and I invented a game called “escape from beditz” which was based upon a tv programme called “escape from colditz”. We shared a bedroom when we were young, and in this game you had to sneak out of bed and make your way in silence to the other person bed and grab them. It was a fun game, but it did end up with us both paranoid. A few times we both escaped and ended up at the others bed at the same time, megalolz
bigpancakeguy · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play “Shark” in their pool. One person is in the water (The Shark). Everyone else is outside the pool, and the goal is to get from one side of the pool to the other without the shark touching you. If the shark touches you, they’re allowed out and now you’re the shark.
There are only a few rules:
The Shark’s goal is to tag you by any means necessary. They’re allowed to reach out of the pool as long as their legs stay in the water.
Boundaries must be set on each end of the pool for where you’re allowed to enter or exit the pool. The non-sharks must enter the water en route to the other side of the pool.
Once a non-shark touches water, they must cross to the other side. You are not allowed to exit from the side you entered.
There is no specified time limit, tag limit, or jump limit. The game is over whenever everybody decides they’re done. However, the player who had the most consecutive pool crossings without being tagged during the game is the winner.
Sonner08 · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played something called the "don't touch green game," which was as simple as it sounds. All 3 of our houses had big open yards with tons of grass, but also a lot of trees, rock beds, fencing, etc. The goal of the game was to make it all the way from one destination to the another without ever touching the color green. We would play for hours. Man I miss being a kid.
Some honorable mentions for other games we made up were "baseball dodgeball" and "golfing with pinecones,"
And although I wouldn't necessarily call this a game, we would go into one of our parents' garages and mix together all sorts of chemicals, cleaners, and paints in order to make "potions." This was very dangerous in hindsight but luckily we weren't quite stupid enough to drink them.
Tfolla · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “kingdoms” there were two teams in two separate rooms, and you made rules that everyone had to obey while in these rooms. If you broke a rule, you would be kicked out. Some rules we would be “you can only enter the room with your right foot first” or “you cannot go more than 15 seconds without talking.” You would send people in one by one to try and figure out the other kingdoms rules. Each on had three. First one to figure out all the rules first wins.
zyralux17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Evil zone!
bythebeardz · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a 6 foot metal blow dart gun that came with about 20 stun darts that were just plastic balls that would leave welts. We would play wii bowling and the loser would take a stun dart to the butt from across the room.
KingNothing78 · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pellet gun wars!!!
QueenOfTheCorns · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Left-orange. Stand in a circle tossing an orange across to different people (we had an orange tree and an excess of oranges in the summer). You can only use your left hand and you MUST throw it however you caught it so if you caught it in a really awkward position in your hand you couldn't readjust. You had to throw overhand and you couldn't throw to the same person who tossed it to you.
There was also "pee ball" which was basically hockey played indoors with brooms and a rubber ball (like the kind used for 4-square) and laundry baskets as goals. It's called pee ball because as the younger sister I didnt get my older (middle school aged) sister to play with me that often and while we were creating the game I had to pee really bad but I was scared that if I went to the bathroom my sister wouldnt want to hang out anymore when I got back so I decided as long as we were having fun, I wouldnt go pee. Well something happened that made me laugh REALLY hard and I peed my pants. Then we called it pee ball from then on.
We also had a bouncy ball collection and when we got bored we would go into the bathroom, close the toilet seat and dump them all out at once. It was just fun to have them bouncing off of everything and hitting us. We probably had like 200 of them.
Rapsod · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game of Little Aliens as we called it .....cousin and me played it every time he came to my house... we would crawl below chairs and hide under the table or behind couch and so on and on without our parents seeing us sneaking around the house like theifs in the night :D
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle would play thus game called switch. It’s where you take one of your fingers, and put it in you mouth. And then take the other one, and put it in your asshole. And when my uncle would say “Switch!” You’d switch your fingers
superjaberwocky · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Corners. It was a version of eight ball my friends and I invented to play in his basement. You must sink all your solids or stripes and then hit the eight ball into a certain pocket — pretty standard base for our rule variations.
Start at the diamonds nearest the corner pockets on a pool table. Draw imaginary lines out 90 degrees to form a square area around the pocket. This is a corner. Along with the two dots out near the middle of the table, these are the areas where balls-in-hand can be placed after a foul.
Commit a foul and you must pull one or more of your own already-sunk balls out and place it in either a corner or on the dots. What is a foul? Hitting someone else's ball first. Scratching of all sorts. Hitting a called ball into a non-called pocket. Knocking a ball or balls off the table. Etc. You could stack fouls so that it's possible to commit a double or triple or more, pulling out a ball for each foul.
Why would you want to pull out the balls you've already sunk? Because each player must sink the eight ball in a corner pocket that they designate at the beginning of the game (not the same one as your opponent). You can use your fouled balls to strategically block your opponent, making it harder for them to make their shot or making it impossible for them to complete the shot without fouling somehow.
(My favorite variation allowed that if an opponent knocked a ball off the table and you caught it and tossed it back onto the table before it hit the floor, you negated their foul. It became your turn and you played the table however it landed after your save. In one set of games we played, it had to be a diving save onto cushions around the pool table.)
MiniBley · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother always played ”trampball”. We put a bunch of soccer-/american football balls, small and large, on the trampoline then we started jumping. You had three lives and lost one each time it hit you above the waist. The most fun part was when a ball bounced up and you did like a Bruce-Lee kung-fu kick mid-air to hit eachother. Hands down the most fun I had as a kid, so many memories.
primofilly59 · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Why” is a game we still play today, its where we run house to house (or anyone) and say something so obscure, to make people ask “why”? The person with the most “why”s wins.
branwinstead · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to throw our mattresses and blankets (and supplies of course) in the hallway, turn all the lights off, and pretend the end of the world had come. (90s)
HiQualityItemsRicky · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family would split into teams of two or three, we each get 20 minutes to build a Lego houses/castles/etc. and had to stick a set number of guys in the windows or around the building so they were visible, then all Hell would break loose as we hucked 4 x 4 bricks at each other's buildings. Last team with Lego guys standing wins.
We also put blankets behind the buildings to avoid losing Legos.
farare_end · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Avalanche. One person sits at the top of the slide with theur legs hanging down, everyone gathers around them. One person runs up the slide and grabs the person sitting's legs, trying to pull them down. The person sitting can only grab onto other people to prevent being pulled down, and they can also only hold onto other people. If the person is pulled down, many others fall with them, thus creating an "avalanche" of people.
It was banned at my elementary school.
Spartan1278 · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Halo: Combat Evolved
PabloSeshcobar · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had sword fights with knives we taped to the end of branches. Whoever has the short branch ended up just running for their lives. Really a surprise none of my 36 classmates got injured seriously
TERRIBLENAME1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I created a game we called “Tennis Hockey”. There was a section of my backyard that was ~20 feet wide and ~40 feet long. The fence post divided the 20 foot ends into thirds and we designated the middle of the thirds as the goal. Each player had to stay on their half of the yard with a tennis racquet. We would take turns hitting a tennis ball as hard as possible trying to score it past the opposing player, who is now standing in the goal. We played this for a good 3 or 4 summers before my dad got tired of us turning his backyard into mud. My favorite rule that we made in this game was play it where it lies. So if the opposing player got a bad hit or the ball took a nice bounce your save/ the fence (and the ball was still on your half), you could essentially cut the field in half.
BonkeyKongCountry · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines
It's like hide and seek, except one person hides, and everyone else seeks. If you find the person hiding, you get into their hiding place with them. The game continues until all but one player is packed (like sardines) into the hiding place. Then everyone explodes out when the last person discovers them.
RoZe_SABIAN56 · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I created a Tag bootleg called Snake Features.
It was the exact same as Tag except you would say ‘Snake Features!’ Everyone thought this was original, and played it. When I told them it was the same as Tag, the trend stopped. Me and my friend still played it though.
We then invented a game called Under the Mistletoe. Everyone made fun of us because it had a ‘gay name.’ Thinking about it today, it kind of did. The aim was whoever was it/on had to bring others into the little hut we had and they’d be on with whoever was on first.
Firetripper · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, 'Democracy'.
MetalGearSlayer · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Force Game” in middle school. I folded a piece of small piece of paper 90 degrees so it could sit up and an other kid and I flailed our hands around towards it with the goal of pushing it over the edge of each others side of the table, pretending we where using The Force to push it.
The winner, obviously was whoever was able to push the paper off the edge opposite to them.
No turns or anything, you just hoped the wind you were creating was stronger than your opponents.
The result was an arm workout that looked nothing like a Force battle between Jedi but instead two kids trying desperately and constantly to slap a piece of paper but stopping within an inch of doing so.
I wish I wasn’t so late to this thread because this one of the first times I’ve got a good answer for an AskReddit.
aleqxander · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I climbed up in the top of thin trees, so high until they started bending and then "riding" them to the ground. A lot of trees died in the process
starryeyedwisdom · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father bad up this ridiculous game called the "black scorpion". He would sit on the floor and chase me with his big toe and pinch me. I remember being terrified of being caught but would be laughing so hard my stomach hurt.
farmeroftomatoes · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little my friend came up with this game called "Rip-a-Dick" it was essentially tag but to get someone else 'in' you'd have to tug on their wang through their pants.
As you can imagine the teachers caught wind of our game and encouraged us to play the more conventional tag from there on out.
hannibalwang · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Masturbation. A lot.
Loading_no_name · 1 points · Posted at 19:23:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called "my uncle"
ariphron · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Life. Then I gave up
seizereason · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would like play American Gladiators. My siblings and I would break out nerf guns, balls etc and make elaborate challenge courses in the basement. You know, like in the show.
One person would be the Gladiator protecting the targets you had to take out and another is the challenger trying to finish the course without getting hit.
Tons of fun and one hell of a way to make a mess/epic pillow fort.
Also off the wall, which was essentially baseball in our pool where certain areas were base hits on up to home run. For instance if you hit the buckle on the far end it was a home run but putting it out on the side is an out and you have to go get it.
MindMausoleum · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lobbing rocks at each other playing a backward game of "pokemon" but with dragons, where after throwing the rock we'd describe our ridiculous looking dragons in detail and then shout about whatever they were doing.
Also digging in a pit of broken glass to find whole glass bottles to use for potion??? shit???
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My memories of Crash Bandicoot will remain with me forever! Loved that game
Scissors_Poop · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beyond late for this but my niece and I (I’m four years older than her) used to play “the toilet game.”
We’d each take turns being the “toilet” and the person “using the toilet” would just make fart noises.
(Toilet position would be on your back with your legs up, person using toilet would sit on your feet).
We were weird kids.
dhtdhy · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You've probably never heard of this one, but we used to pretend the floor was lava. I know, crazy.
dex11772 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crap. I lost the game.
bolson1717 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The original PIKMEN! Unreal game!!
gignonno · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, too many... a few highlights:
Leaf Catching - running around trying to catch blowing leaves as they fall off trees. Much harder than it initially appears
Staircase Races - slip on a sleeping bag or hop in a cardboard box and slide down the stairs, hopefully without breaking anything
Little Red Chariots of Fire - hop into a wagon with a pair of boxing gloves, race to the bottom of the hill while attempting to unseat your competition
Commercial Guessing - during commercial breaks, be the first to name the product or service being advertised for each commercial. No points if declared after the name or logo appears in the ad.
Diving Catches - attempt to make a full-extension diving grab on a football tossed gently toward the couch. Similarly, wall-climb catches practiced against the backyard fence.
There were many others I can’t remember atm. We made up a lot of rules.
Pole666 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a first pc game for me and I'm in love with videogames since then. The supaplex it's name is! Have you played it? I think I will download it right now :)
Jrsully92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Taz”Me and my 4 sisters used to love this game. We had these taz the Tasmanian devil slippers, and we could only play at night. Our living room and dining room were connected so we had a good amount of space and it had really dark curtains. You had to crawl around the room in the pitch black and who ever had the slippers on was “it”. So many stubbed toes and fingers and knots on the head trying to get away, but a memory we all love to look back on.
Quibbleflux · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in my elementary school there were two concrete slabs outside the emergency exits of the gym and a space between them that was empty. This whole thing occupied half the playground, with there rest of your elementary school equipment occupying the other half.
At recess and during lunch there was an always ongoing game that we all referred to as "Boys vs Girls" even though the sides ended up being arbitrary (and a third side that flew no country's flag popped up from time to time).
The goal was to grab someone from the opposing team and drag them to your team's concrete slab. If they touched it, they were now on your team and had to help drag other people to your slab without getting dragged away themselves.
We're talking most of the school here, probably a hundred kids trying to drag each other to and fro. Surprisingly no one ever got seriously hurt.
meekinheritance_2112 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All of our games were centered around the old trampoline with exposed springs and no safety net. For one game we played, one person would lay with their feet facing the springs while everyone else lined up around the edge. Then we'd all take turns trying to get past the person laying down without getting kicked off.
On really hot days we'd all grab a sandwich bag and stand at the refrigerator to fill them with ice, then we'd run outside to dump them onto the trampoline. We'd go back and forth until there was enough to cover the whole surface, then we'd all get on and start jumping as hard as we could to create a flurry of flying ice and slipping hazards. I don't know how I made it through childhood without serious injuries.
_NoTimeNoLady_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One Summer my parents and my bff parents decided to go on a boat trip as our vacation. Our boat was wooden but theirs was made of steel. It was a hot summer, so we invented our own Sauna: My friend, her little sister and I dressed in bikini pants, crouched into the hot bow of the ship and closed it of with blankets and pillows. We spent a good portion of our vacation under deck, while our parents just checked from time to time that none of us had collapsed.
CleeClee1827 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game we called “Crash.” We would stuff couch pillows in our shirts and run at each other full speed from opposite sides of the room. We also invented a game called “Snakes” where we had to crawl-race around the house without using our arms and legs
MadeMeMeh · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man hunt.
About 4 or 5 people to hunt each runner. We would choose a safe location or 2. Then each of the runners would hide at the outside of the field/area and try to sneak back to that location. There was also an option to hide forever but there was a condition. I don't remember the specifics but it was something like snagging a flag or something. So it forced you back towards the open areas temporarily and it forced the hunters away from the safe spots.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/trashy
Shitty ball.
The game was played in a quadrangle at school that encompassed a garden full of dog shit. A basketball was selected and rolled through dog shit. A player who was ‘the shitty king’ has to kick the ball at the rest of the players, designating them the ‘shitty king’ if they hit them , players would taunt the ‘shitty king’ and +rep would be earned jumping over or in front of the ball as the ‘shitty king’ is dribbling the ball along the ground.
The game ended at the lunch bell, whoever was the ‘shitty king’ was then taunted as smelling like shit for the next full day, until the next lunchtime.
The parents of the creator of this game were both highly paid doctors working in Psychiatric medicine
vactu · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow.
Lady_Airam · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to place bets on raindrops with pennies with my brother. I was broke quick
carsareathing · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with my uncle called hide the hog. I'm not supposed to tell anyone.
jugsmacguyver · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fart race. Stand at one end of the hallway and you can take one step for each fart you do.
My friends mum made us stop when she realised we were so competitive that someone was going to shit themselves.
GhostFour · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a bat and ball game that was set up without scoring or running bases. You can play with as few as 3 people but more made it easier/more fun. It was stick ball so no gloves were needed. Pitcher, batter, catcher, and as many in/outfielders as wanted. The batter hit the pitched ball and the fielders (including pitcher and catcher) had to catch or field the ball cleanly before the ball came to a complete stop. If you fumbled or bobbled the ball at all, or if the ball bounced off you at all, the batter continued his at bat. If a fielder caught or fielded the ball cleanly, it was their turn to bat. It was a way to play "baseball" without enough players to cover the bases. Plus we rotated through everybody pretty quick so everyone got to hit which is obviously the fun part. It also built soft hands which helped later as we grew up and started playing organized sports.
tshelburne02 · 1 points · Posted at 19:24:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Find the Something” It was my grandpa who showed us this. Basically we would choose several objects (dice, market, chapstick, etc.) Then we would take turns hiding them around the house while the rest of us waited in a room. After the “hider” hid all the objects, we all searched for them. It was actually quite entertaining as some objects blended in better than others.
ThatTallBlindGuy · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roly Poly Olly. At the foot of the bed you put a bunch of blankets and pillows. The other person rolls from the top of the bed and onto the person who's laying at the foot of the bed with a pillow on top of them. I have no idea how we found this fun but it's some of my fondest memories. We had to play 'safe' games because I have a heart condition haha.
Kaiju_Beatdown · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tremors” based on the movie with the worm monsters. It was played on a trampoline and the kid playing the monster would lay down in the middle with their eyes closed. The other kids would run around the monster and the kid playing the monster would try to grab someone using the vibrations. Then the captured kid would be “it”.
SomeSloth1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother and I played a game where she would say two related things like red and blue. There was no questions or any context to help us get it right. It was just guessing. When ever I would get it right she would say "DING DING DING" and I would run around our couch. Then repeat. I have no idea why I loved it so much be we played it for hours.
Lurd67 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gruntz. It was my shit
ThePoonCoon · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would have "slug races". Basically, we would find slugs in our yard and put them on these huge boulders in our landscaping and line them up at the bottom. We put obstacles down (sticks and leaves) and whichever one got to the top first won. To make it more interesting we would roll rocks down at the slugs which would often cause fatalities. The slugs that died in the slug races will forever be remembered.
error_424 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I always made up sports to play when we were younger. The only one that was banned by my parents was called "Charge!".
Charge was pretty simple. Two players, two metal baseball bats, two pop-up soccer nets, and a Nerf football. Each player stood in his half and you took turns hitting the football at the other's net. If the ball went in, it was worth a point. The reason for the name was that if a player yelled "Charge!", they didn't have to stay in their half for the next 10 seconds.
The inaugural game of Charge was short and ended 0-0. I charged, swung my bat, missed the football, and broke my brother's shin all within a minute of the game starting. I maintain that he forfeit and I'm still undefeated.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I couldn’t afford viable YugiOh decks so we made our own cards. Hand drawn, attack defense and special rules
Simpler times
syndus · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle Touchie's Naked Puzzle Basement
CCIRMAJOR26 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me my dad and my brother would go out in the yard and play kickball with a yoga ball that was shaped like an egg it was kind of an oval. We called it eggball
ZanyButterFist · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy.. me and my brother used to play a game where we would put our foreheads together and push as hard as we could against the other persons forehead and try to get them to slip off. The loser is obviously the first to slide off.
katttail · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had "Dont wake daddy" which was strictly played on Saturday mornings before 1pm. A competition in between my brother and I to see who can stay the quietest so my dad could sleep in one day out of the week.
I'd forgotten about it until we found a time capsule from elementary school that asked what my favorite game was. I think it was my favorite game because I always won
pr0fofEfficiency · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends at school and I (about 15 of us) played this game we called "Tornado" every day at recess. The title was pretty irrelevant. It was basically tag, except the person who was "It" had to stay on the ground and the rest of us had to run around on top of the playground equipment. The person who was "It" had to lunge, jump, and reach for us through the floor and bars of the equipment while we couldn't touch the ground or we'd lose!
My brothers and I played "The chase game" where we ran in circles around the house chasing each other. It sounds so simple but it was fun and scary, especially when one of us would hide in the bushes!
gildedstrife · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I really loved toy cars growing up.
My parents knew this and got me a box full of those miniature cars. These and and a cheap plastic horsewagon from a fair were my absolute favourites. The rest of the family, however, insisted on getting me barbies.
One day when I was racing my cars (arranging them in lines and smacking them to see which one would go the farthest) my grandfather peeks in and comments how I'm not playing with the barbies he got me, basically guilting me into play with them in front of him. I put one of the barbies he got me on my beloved horsewagon and take it for a ride around the living room sofa.
He's pacified and goes back to the kitchen to talk with my parents. The horsewagon tips over and the barbie falls off. I bend down to put it away but decide to put it back in the wagon. It's now an ambulance taking the poor near death barbie to the hospital. I do more laps around the sofa and the wagon tips over again, barbie falls over. She's dead, the wagon is now a herst. More laps, another accident, a new tragedy.
By the time my grandfather leaves he's thoroughly satisfied that I've finally taken a liking to the barbies. My parents let me know it's ok for me to stop playing with the dolls and I tell them I will, right after I finish my 20+ car pile up tragedy.
Every now and then I'd catch my parents on the phone telling my grandfather "Yes, she still plays with the dolls. Uhuh, she was just playing with them the other day."
They just didn't tell him that whenever I decided to play with said barbies it involved them dieing a horrible death of some sorts during a car accident.
MuddyLarry · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would hold a mirror flat, facing the reflective side up at the ceiling. Then I would look down into the mirror and pretend I was walking on the ceiling, stepping over door frames and ceiling fans.
lurker512879 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my friends and I would spend hours building our futuristic laser guns out of PVC parts and then hide in his dads covered boat shooting bad guys, like we were navy seals or something. This was the next logical thing to do after Legos and Micromachines were no longer the thing to do... all of this ended when they got an N64 tho.
thecodeslayer · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this flash finders.
Vektor666 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knights of the dinner table, that's where the knights ride bicycles around in a circle around merlin who gets to chuck giant clamshells at the riders. Everyone wanted to be merlin and it usually ended with an injury during the first round
ZaktheNinja105 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
TheGoldenPissPot · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game where we would arm up with metal poles and throw a hub cup vertically along the ground at each other. The idea was to "happy Gilmore" that fucker until it couldn't roll any more. Shin pads were introduced later for obvious reasons.
Berserk_NOR · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The game is called Myth and is from Bungie pre halo days. Its a uber scary RTS( at least for a child used to Mario on the original NES) with no building mechanic. All you need is these epic soundtracks. Unbelievably as it is. People still play it online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hTgvNsqb9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phB8uHX73Ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgIbU_8joHM
Edit: oh.. that kind of game..
l3eginning2T4lk · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had our rooms directly across from one another. Most nights we would play "funny face". Whoever made the funniest face, resulting in one of us laughing first, would win. There was no structure, just us trying to twist and distort our faces enough to get a really good one out.
The best was when one of us would laugh so hard we would wind up farting, which as you can imagine, really added to the laughing fit.
vetrexo · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zone of the enders
BeyondTheFears · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sweep the dirt.
Take broom, take patch of dirt, sweep until you hit ground as hard as cement. Grats, you have a floor.
It wasn't until college I realized we were poor as fuck.
stutzman247 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hostage or name differently in other areas of the country. I was taught this in Indiana from cousins and brought it to VA.
2 teams of 2-3 people. One person from each was the "hostage." They would be blind folded at HOME BASE and be switched to the opposing teams car. You would drive that blindfolded person around town in the permitted zone(15 mins/ 5 mile radius of home base) and drop them off in a random place when the time limit is over.
The blindfolded teammate would have to call his team and direct them where he is by the description of area or roads. Street signs were cheating unless truly lost. The first team back to home base with their "hostage" team mate wins the game.
First time I played this was in my cousins area. My brother and I were the hostages and I shit you not, I was dropped off in the middle of the swamp/cornfields of Indiana. No houses, no sign of life for a while. I tried to keep track of turns but after 5 mins of donuts through corn fields.. I was screwed. My team lost as they had no idea where I could of been. I was 1000 yards behind home base but was mind fucked.
Sorry2Say22 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where do I begin:
Bottle cap races: Run a hose down the side of the road and see whose bottle cap gets to the sewer first.
Polar Bear Fights: Each player picks a bear and an arena (top of the Eiffel Tower, for example), then we just wrestled on all fours.
Travel Channel: Put a giant blanket around ourselves and run around the house pretending to be traveling the world.
Insurance: If our parents went to a fed ex and brought us, one of us would be an insurance agent and the other would be a customer.
Dino boy/girl: One of us would be a soldier and the other one would send the soldier back in time to fight dinosaurs for some reason.
Rich kid/girl: Pretending to be super rich and famous. This one had a comprehensive lore including a family tree, history, and incorporation of world events and celebrities.
The2ndWorst-guy · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play timebomb.
Not as bad as it sounds now..
Basicly we would knock a random door. As occupant if they had the time.
If they had a watch they would tell you the time and bid you a good day.
If they did not have a watch they would go into another room to check a clock for you (early 90s).
Whilst they check the clock you would run into the home and scream TIMEBOMB!..waving your arms around like a bird or something.
Then proceed to dart out of the home away like a spaz...
Good memories
skeaton92 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cats and rats,. 1 or 2 cats started out, and had to tag the rats trying to go from the rat house to the refrigerator on opposite sides of the recess yard. Once tagged a rat became a cat. The rats had to get to the refrigerator, retrieve "the cheese" and run back to the rat house. We signified if a rat had the cheese by running with 1 hand in the air shaping a C. Good times.
Diedwithacleanblade · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would shut all the lights off and play “who’s in my mouth”
BDHYoda · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Group of friends and I thought it was a good idea about once a week to play "conquerer"
We would walk down the street and chant "The kids, united, we'll never be divided!"
The amount of embarrassing dirty looks from neighbors kills me today
Bagelstein · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Civil War". This game essentially consisted of us picking up small rocks and hucking at em one side vs the other. The best part was the local park with a hill that we called "Bunker Hill" where it was basically everyone vs 1 to hold the hill. You lost when you could handle getting hit with rocks any more.
Yak47 · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smeer the Queer
One person had the football and everyone else tried to tackle them. No rules, no boundaries, and all the fun.
Another_libation · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dillywackers”. We would roll up newspapers super tight, and then wrap them in duct tape, then we’d fight like gladiators in the colosseum. Tons of bruises, and one broken nose (friends little brother). This one time our friend who lived his childhood by some ninja Jedi code (whatever the fuck that meant) wanted all of us to fight him at once. 3 v 1 with one kid filming on an old school camera. All is going well and the ninja is holding his own and then all of a sudden we get surrounded by cops from every direction, guns drawn and all. Turns out someone called and said some kids were beating an old man with bats. We showed them the footage, they gave us shit, we took the fight to someone’s backyard. Good times.
AurianFisher · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay, so basically we were all ducks and the last one to glide was the loser and had to give their stash over to the winners. The only problem was that we had no wings...
Lucky we got caught by my friend's mum before we broke our spine from jumping off of the roof of our house.
Don't ask how we got up there in the first place even God doesn't know.
Tromp9 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The throwing game" where we'd cover one sibling in as many pillows, blankets and cushions as possible and throw things at the lumpy pile just to ask "did you feel that?"
ElChapoC-137 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I hope someone still sees this. Me and my friends played a game called worms. We would throw a bunch of blankets on the floor of my friends bedroom and then me and him would hide under all the blankets. His little brother would then climb on top of his bunk bed and jump off onto all the blankets and try to land on us. If he hit us he got a point, if he missed we got the point. There was a lot of crying involved in that game
boombostic573 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Ice-block”, it was a ultimate frisbee/halfcourt hockey played on a tennis court. You would. Throw the frisbee to each other and have to get it to the other side of the court and then throw the frisbee back into the tennis net for points. I think it was 2 or 3 points if it went under the net, 1 point if it hit the net and zero points if it goes over the net.
rabidbadger6 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knife - we would each hold our left arm behind our back and face each other - the goal was to touch the opponents chest or stomach with your fist like you were holding a knife, or force the opponent out of the designated area we would duel in - if you got “stabbed” you had to do the most dramatic theatrical death you could
gertrude420 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When it was dark and thunder outside,we would gather in someone's house,turn off the lights (in whole house) and play hide and seek. A lot of misfortunate accidents, slipping,falling, crying , but it was fun as hell!
Banana2swimmer · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Renegade", you needed a ball, a trampoline and a timer. Timer is set to 3 minutes. Last one to touch the ball when the 3 minutes was up lost. You had to stay in the trampoline unless the ball went out. Last one to touch the ball when it went out had to go and get it, so the main strategy was to hit the ball off someones head and have it travel the farthest outside the trampoline. Once someone pegged the ball so hard at someones head it traveled two yards over!
IsItAlwaysOr94 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Belchy.” You take a pool noodle (the kind with a tube of air through the middle of it), put some water in it, and then both contestants place one end in their respective mouths. It then becomes a battle of lung strength and breath control as both parties attempt to blow the water in the tube into the other’s mouth. It’s named after the sounds you make when you lose.
It was SO much fun.
MrKetz · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take the giant lego's bucket and each design a fort with a lego man hidden inside who was the "king". Once making it as strong as possible, we would take them outside and take turns launching baseballs at each others fort. First to break down the fort and knock out the opposing kings wins.
wretch5150 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
indoor balloon football
EmeraldJaneWW · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freeze tag, with numerous variations:
Cartoon freeze tag, Cereal freeze tag, etc. it was harder than it sounds, if we repeated an already given answer, we were basically tagged out then, too.
It was the first mental multitasking game I recall playing.
blu-the-hedgie · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey wars at recess me and my 3 friends would always hang out in like a monkey bar dome thing and one day we were swinging and kicking each other and thought what if we had to hold on and hang however we like as long as only 2 limbs were touching the bars we then had to get the other person to touch the ground. We got every guy in our grade to play. We even made classes like one of my friends would hang by his legs and if you faced him you had to too. Me and my friends ruled that game no one ever could beat us the we decided let’s face each other I faced leg hanging guy we made it to where we did it our way so I didn’t have to hang by my legs. I wrapped my legs around him and I swung backwards cause gravity/ momentum and he came with me. He landed right in his head. Needless to say that game was banned. Give us a break none of us had ever lost so we didn’t think this would happen.
falc0nsmash · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We live near a beach and used to make houses as sand pits with built up walls. About 10 of us would spend most of our summer holidays at the beach and would build a town, each have jobs and use pieces of fishing net rope as cash
Runnaway_tire · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was a videogame, Leisure suit Larry on Win95. To play the game you needed to answer some questions to make sure you are "old enough". So at the age of 6 i was asking my parents these questions http://www.classicgaming.cc/pc/leisure-suit-larry/age-quiz
Meffed_Up · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom took away our nerf guns and other "weapons" when my brothers and I were quite young. In place, we would go outside and find the best sticks we could find and have "stick wars" where we would pretty much imagine we were Jedi's or Medieval knights engaging in battle.
If your stick broke, you lost. My mom hated the game, but it was super fun!
isit420yetplz · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my cousins and I used to play a game called 'Runaway Maxi'. It was like hide and seek/tip. we would be chilling till someone yells runaway maxi and we would all run away from our cousin Max.
NickAtHootsuite · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Werewolf. Me and my brothers would shut all the blinds and turn off all the lights so that our basement floor was pretty much pitch black. Then, the designated werewolf would go hide and the others would have to go downstairs and "explore" until they found the werewolf. Then they'd have to race back to the light upstairs before they go tackled otherwise they were it. It's been close to 20 years but we still laugh about that game.
timcard1988throw · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The one game I remember that blew my mind the most, was Psy Ops: The Mind-gate Conspiracy. The way that this game slowly let you learn Psychic abilities and use them in combat and puzzles was AMAZING. I remember that the controls for telekinesis and other abilities were so fluid and intuitive that it was so much fun. But I may have just been a little kid and not knowing better. I have not played it since then. I may need to change that.
Mickleloaf · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Living
Albatronics99 · 1 points · Posted at 19:27:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two:
Arm War: three friends would sit in a row. The middle friend let their arms go completely limp. The other two friends each grab an arm and try to hit each other with it. The middle friend gets most of the bruises.
Lounge Ball: A finite amount of bean bag juggling balls were put in the lounge. You grabbed what you could, then the evening commenced. At any point from that moment on it was completely within bounds to throw a ball as hard as humanly possible at another player. Faces were 100% in play.
It simultaneously ruined and made the night, casually trying to watch TV while living in mortal fear of a black eye shot, and trying desperately to remember how much ammo everybody has.
Everybody hated it... and played it every single night.
thetruthseer · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Throwgoal”
With three different kinds of balls and Tupperware bins behind us, me and my brother would act as goalies against each other throwing foam balls as hard as we could. The different balls had different score values, god that was fun.
ThanksForTheBuildUp · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I had this spy toy that had 6 little laser gadgets. The gadgets would shoot an invisible laser, and if anything crosses the laser it would beep. Basically used to secure doorways from parents and let kids know when someone has crossed the laser line.
We used to these and have one person go and hide them in the giant room at there parents’ house. The others would then have to make it from one side of the room to the other without tripping any of the lasers. We had a rule that if you spot the laser, it is out of the game. This prevented anyone from building an impossible wall of lasers.
This led to a lot of climbing on furnitures, jumping from one place to another, ducking, diving. Just imagine on of those heist movie scenes where the robber is dodging a room full of lasers.
To this day, if I had those lasers, this would still be a great game as an adult.
EDIT: Looks like it’s a game now, so I’m not unique :(
Zombiefoetus · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little sister would get our church directory, then one of us would have to close their eyes and point their finger. They would then start singing “ I wanna squeeze your buuuuuuuns, I wanna squeeze your buuuuuuns”. To the tune of The Beatles - I want to hold your hand. The other person then got to take the other patrons finger and point it and whoever the picked out of the directory. You would open your eyes in terror as you sung about bun squeezing to a person that was... how can I put this delicately... not exactly a runway model.
Kidzrallright · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock War: Once. Vietnam War on a military base, kids left to run wild. Some genius younger teens decide all the kids need to have a rock war. We all collected rocks for days and put them at two ends of large field. Divided into two equally sized/aged groups. Everyone picks up one rock a rushes to middle and throws---The end. Cuts, lumps, bruises, crying, shrieking. Dad asked about bruise on sister and large knot on forehead, got answer and cracked up laughing. He wasn't worried about a repeat game.
UhDoubleUpUhUh · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a variant of "20 questions" we called "logic puzzles". There's a large index-card version called "Crack the Case" and a series of books called "Lateral Thinking Puzzles" that take their inspiration from it.
It would usually start with a cryptic story that one person would share, and the rest of the players had to ask yes/no questions to get to "the rest of the story".
For example, one lead in was:
"A woman jumps, the phone rings, a woman screams, a woman dies."
In that case, the solution was that a plague or war or whatever wipes out humanity, and the one survivor - a woman - spends months trying to find people, at one point dialing every number she can. In desperation, she climbs to the top of a large building and jumps off - and right after committing physically to the jump, the phone in the room she was in rings and she screams in frustration and regret, dying when she hits the pavement below.
Another one was:
"Bill leaves home to go on a short trip. On the way back home, he sees to his shock that there is a masked man waiting for him. So instead of going home, he goes to a safe place."
In this case, Bill is the baserunner in a baseball game, and the man with the mask is the catcher - who has the ball, which Bill sees when he rounds third base on his way back, so instead of going to home base, he heads back to third.
There's a million of them, some really dark (and usually illogically so), some quite mundane. It's more fun with more people.
BigcatTV · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fortnite
cheeeze50 · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called Carrots and bumper. Go figure out. One kid acting as 'bumper ' was rolling on himself onto the ground on a carpet area trying to squish other kids called carrots.
HeWhoCreeps · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Exaggeration. My siblings and I would push all of our beds together to form a big wrestling mat, and then play fight on top of them. However, it was all about the falls. A light slap on the shoulder had better result in a sideflip onto the other bed or you were doing it wrong. Great game, although after a few heads hit the wall or floor that one was over.
jmlee236 · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I spent our summers at our grandparents house. There we would take turns battling the pool monster - the automatic pool cleaner. As young kids it actually kinda scared us at first, but once we got used to it the battle got to be more fun.
jayclevexe · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game in elementary school where I would draw a bunch of Star Wars ships and we would take turns shooting (tossing a pencil) at them. If the pencil marked a ship I'd erase a chunk and draw in battle damage. Study Hall in the 4th grade was pretty fun.
Hotlikessauce69 · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am positive there's different versions of this game played amongst lots of different friend groups but we used to play "Flashlight Tag"
About 8-12 of us kids would pick 1-2 people to be "it". You'd get a flashlight and have to count to 100.
While the taggers would do that everyone would go hide. We played with the neighbors next door so usually we had a lot of good hiding spots. The only rule was that we couldn't go inside because we'd bother the parents.
We'd all hide and when the taggers were done counting, they'd look for us, and have to tag us with the light, and yell the name of who they got to confirm the find.
If you got caught, you'd go to jail. You could be freed if someone who hadn't been caught yet comes to jail and tags everyone free.
It sounds really simple, but we'd get really into it, and develope strategy. Eventually we would form teams and modify rules for different types of "Flashlight Tag" .
At one point we had people hiding in the roof of a garage, squeezing in between really tight walls, and in bushes that probably had lots of bugs in them that had lots of diseases. (Lots of ticks and mosquitoes in the area)
It was a blast. We'd always play on Monday nights after the community bingo game. It was a small summer town and our flashlight tag game caught on.
There was one summer where most of the neighborhood kids had their clique of friends playing.
We'd eventually get tired and then hang out in the "kids room" we had in one of the houses and order pizza.
I miss those days.
cornandcandy · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to take laundry to fill in the steps and put each other either in a laundry basket or a suitcase and push each other down the stairs.
It sounds dangerous and abusive, it was dangerous but fun. Did get hurt a few times but worth it. We’re ages 27-35 now and we can still contort our 5’8-6’2 bodies into suitcases, and my brother can still managed to get into a dryer.
envelopepusher · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I grew up in the 70s. My dad was a tech guy and he brought home a hand-held/portable tape recorder with microphone. My sister and I would take turns, one of us pretending to be a celebrity or imaginary scary character (Dracula/The Warewolf/Bride of Frankenstein) and the other one would "interview" the celebrity/scary character and we would record the entire interview. We would also record the dog barking and play it back at her. That was so much fun, mom would take the recorder away from us and hide it, but we always found it.
Asadhandwrittenbook · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a trampoline growing up, and my siblings and I would play a game we called “Zappzapp”. It was basically tag but the person who was It had to roll around on the trampoline and shock someone else.
stripybaby · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our house had a long hallway. My sister and I would close any attaching doors and get couch cushions and pillows to help block out light. We would turn off the light and throw balls at each other in the dark. We thought this was hilarious.
iwonderifisnormal · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
not me but my kid slog shots his buggers to see how far they go
anntilathehun · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SPOOKY WOO!!!!!
Spooky Woo is an honor-based game where, essentially, you turn out all the lights and play hide and seek.
THE TWIST?? All of the hiders are trying to scare the seeker. If you successfully scare the seeker, he or she is honor-bound to call out "SPOOKY WOO!"
If the seeker finds you but is scared, you stay put and/or try to sneakily find a new spot after the seeker moves on. If the seeker finds you without getting scared, you must join the seeker.
Pungwen · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me Andy sister would sit on top of the counch thing and whenever a car went by we would fall down it lasted like a 1 month but it was fun
liberatedbatman · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would ride my bike around the street increasing my speed every lap. My friend would use nerf guns to try to shoot me, if he shot me 8 times he won. After 10 laps and he didn’t hit me 8 times we would switch. We were smart and tried not to knock each other off our bikes.
gelatinous_poot · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was an outdoor basketball court that had 3 nets. 2 were at opposite ends so you could play full court and 1 on the sideline. The goal was to make a basket once in each net not but once you touched it you couldn't touch it again until the team moved to the next basket....and your feet couldn't be on the ground while you possessed the ball.
That was 25 years ago and we still talk about how hard it was to play.
doomrabbits · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to pile pillows and blankets and cushions and chairs on his basement stairs and make like, tunnels. We would crawl around in there and call it “mole holes”.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play a really dangerous version of hide and seek. We would make the person who was it stand upstairs in the light and we would all hide in the basement with the lights off in the pitch black. But the catch was that we had 5 minutes to make an obstacle course and booby traps for the person who was it to walk into. We would make walls of plastic boxes, put legos and marbles on the floor, and move all of the furniture around. The person who was it wouldn't be able to see anything and would wander around blind trying to avoid all of obstacles and find us. We eventually had to stop playing because our parents found out and deemed it too dangerous haha. It was so much fun while it lasted though!
knucklebags77 · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In fifth grade we played "Rodney King"... We would select one kid to start running who would be eventually caught and beaten until he yelled "stop" multiple times.
SterlingJGC · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SPUD.
You have 5 bean bags. Stand at one end of the yard and throw the bean bags away from you. Going further and further away each toss.
Then everyone else had to jump on each bean bag as they spelled out the word (S - P - U- D - Period!) and get to the other side.
The goal was to throw them in zig-zags or random places, or close to a tree etc. and make it as difficult as possible to get through.
Blackwiz109 · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sting pong. Like ping pong but every time you lose a point you have to take your shirt off, turn around, and give your opponent a chance to smack the ping pong ball as hard as they can at your back. Really fun!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Same game. Different name. Alpha Worm. TROOP 50!
invoIuntaryjazzhands · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I pretended to be ceiling-walkers by holding a hand mirror facing up so it looked like we had to step over ceiling fans and light fixtures. The game eventually got restricted to the first floor after my brother dropped his mirror down the stairs and almost went down with it. I just realized as I typed that what a mess it must have been to clean up a shattered mirror after it bounced down a full flight of stairs. I'm surprised the game wasn't banned altogether. Sorry, mom!
We also used to wrap tons of glow in the dark string across our bedrooms so when you turned out the light it looked like a laser security system, then we'd try to get across the room without getting killed by the lasers.
LJrrtt · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I created a game called Jewel Thief in which we pretended that we'd stolen some precious jewels and the "police" were after us. Our dogs were the police, but they never caught us, and there was no point 😂 But it was fun
superjaberwocky · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Second post in this thread. This one may perhaps be more in the "game" (in quotation marks) spirit.
As a further preface: I was an only child. Also, most of my "games" involved rocks.
duke150 · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my brother played beet eachother with a lightsaber but we only had one so we got the wooden spoon and fought
cornandcandy · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would have a contest to name all the places in our hometown every time our parents drove through it, we weren’t allowed to say the name of it until it was visible, and mom and dad decided what points went to whom
QueenSpicy · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know that typical outdoor patio set? The "glass" one that just wasn't quite transparent, like you would see for a shower? Take the foot rest parts of that, and put a blanket over the sides and back, forming a goal. Now all you need is a tennis ball. You could only use your hand in a karate chopping motion or you feet (you weren't allowed to pick it up or stand up) to try and score while remaining on the ground. Don't even know how that game started with my brother, but we used to play it all the time. I think we called it Pong 2000.
Either that or when we were even younger we would just play Pokemon. Pretend to be a different Pokemon and have "duels" with each other using the abilities they could learn. No one ever wanted to be the Pokemon Trainer, and it definitely wasn't played as often once someone chose to be Machamp and Seismic Toss/Submission were used a little too literally.
despanuevo · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I used to play “rape tag” during recess at school. It was normal tag, except you had to dry hump the person to tag them. Not my proudest childhood memory...
katiem50 · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d put rocks on the trampoline and bounce around to try and avoid them.
sunlightbender · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Home, Garden, River, Ocean, Sea, in which we had one person pretend to be the crocodile and the rest of us had to jump down the stairs onto a certain stair deemed as Home, Garden, River, Ocean, Sea.
We had three mini-games. Whenever we were at sea, we could either play Follow Me Crocodile where we followed the crocodile along until he turned around at which point we had to run back to home and if we didn’t make it and get caught, we became the next crocodile.
Then we had 101 Dragons, where we had to stand on stepping stones and step our foot into the grass 101 times while the crocodile would try to step on our foot and if he caught us we’d win.
Finally, we had Crocodile Graveyard where we had 10 seconds to run and hide, and then the crocodile came running to find us. We couldn’t move until he called out ‘Graveyard’ when he saw us and then we all had to try and run back to home.
All in all, a pretty fun game we spent hours playing.
BroadwayBully · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"rock wars" at the local elementary school. we were in high school we just chilled at the local school after hours. one team got the top of the steps and park, the other got the parking lot and dumpsters with a basketball court in between that served as no mans land. we would throw rocks at each other until we got bored or somebody got hurt. we did this over a hundred times with only 2 injuries. both were head injuries involving staples one was from a brick and one was from a milk crate, we were huge idiots.
matrem_ki · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Camel game. We'd put two chairs together, sometimes covering ourselves with a blanket fort, to make a "camel" and spend hours pretending to be lost in the desert. We had a toy laptop that we would pretend could generate any item we typed into it. No idea how that kept us at entertained as it did but those are some if my favorite childhood memories.
Bonus: Burrito toss. Older kid would wrap us little ones up in a sheet like a burrito, grab the ends and spin us around before tossing us onto a bed or couch. Amazing that we never broke any bones with that one.
D3dshotCalamity · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our schools football field and baseball field were separated by a steep hill, probably 15-20 high at a 30° angle.
My friends and I had a game we called Stuntman. We would stand on the top of the hill, and stage a fight that ends with one throwing the other down the hill. The other kids would judge not just the fight, but also the tumble down the hill. There was no winner, just grass stains and skinned knees.
PM-me-ur-fav-songs · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Leaf catching game. When me and my cousins would get together at our grandparents house for thanksgiving or other holidays we would all go outside and wait for leaves to be blown off the trees and we would try to see who could catch the most! Sounds lame but it was a lot of fun and an important part of family tradition!
MisssOrange · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Save the Pinecones! We would play in my friend's yard and collect the pinecones on the ground that fell from the pine trees. We'd put them in baskets and act like they were babies. We were weird girls.
Edit: a letter
borkfrens · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I traveled EVERYWHERE by bike. We grew up in a trailer park and the only thing I ever remember doing was biking around. I lived on a pretty quiet dead end street and my friends and I would take chalk and draw roads, stores, parking spots, and little houses for ourselves. We'd drive our bikes around like they were cars, and pretend that we had jobs and homes. It was honestly really cute.
soiled_hands · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure I would call it a game but, I used to use a pencil eraser and randomly select a page in the TV guide (I'm old 44). Then erase parts of the celebrities face and draw in my own. My parents and grandparents hated it (or loved it, I'm not sure). It was the best feeling in the world when they found it. Just look at their face and they know it. "Dammit he got us again!" My grandparents had 3 channels they could reliably use so, I would mess up every show they could get in the TV guide. Also, yeah pick up and fiddle around with shit they had on the coffee table. I loved small pranks with the grandparent. Its a good feeling. Or just Rando collages from Junk mail. I still do that today
OMA_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had my GI joes and I used to make football teams with them.
They moved by standing them up right then laying them down in the direction they wanted to take them in. You moved your whole on the offense first then defense moved on hike then it was like chess, where each team moved two pieces a turn.
To throw the ball you would hold a marble between two fingers (preferably the middle and ring fingers) and use your other hand to flick it to the wide receiver.
In a tackling situation it would activate only when a defensive player touches a player with the ball via the movement process i explained above, Then we would run 5 “simulations”
For the simulations, we would pick a pose for our tackler and the player with the ball and toss them into each other, if the ball carrier looks like he got his cheeks smacked 3 out of the 5 times we simulated the tackles, it was counted as a tackle. And if the bell carrier was smacked 5 times it’s a fumble and depending on the direction of the tackle we would move the ball 2-3 inches that direction.
Anyone within moving distance of the fumbled ball would be assigned a coin to toss. Heads means you got it tails would mean you missed. We would keep running the tosses until only one person that gets heads is left. If everyone missed we threw the ball 2-3 inches away from the last tails tosser. And check to see who is within reach and run the tosses again.
I was a weirdo and nobody would play it with me but my older brother.
tdasnowman · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the fence. We'd take a soccer ball or dodge ball and kick it at a base ball back stop. Each of the poles were worth point's the hair the pole the higher the point value. We played to like 500 or 1000. If you missed the front of the backstop with your kick you lost. This meant there was a lot of value in hitting the poles and making the ball rocket out to the field. Also some risk taking in going high hitting the top crossbar and putting the opponent in a no win situation. There was one backstop with a few missing panels on the overhang so it was possible to come back from a over the backstop.
Ghoox2 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand on the edge of the stairs in the pool and try to push each other into the deep end. The goal is to stay on the edge of the stairs, without actually just standing all the way in, last man standing wins.
yankin · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicken rabies. The person who had rabies had to bite someone else to pass it on. Like tag, but with biting.
ShooterDiarrhea · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it. But what my brothers and I used to do was one person would go into the room, hide one of those glow in the dark animal figures, then he would turn off the lights and climb the top bunk with a teeny tiny flashlight. One by one we would slowly creep into the room and try to find the toy that he hid while avoiding his tiny searchlight and make it out without him spotting us.
gingerbread_bitch · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made a game called “pillowball” and it was basically a two person game of softball. The bat was a pillow and the ball was a beach ball.
FoxxieSnow · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Land Before Time... When I was in primary school I used to hang out with the younger kids and nursery school kids, sort of like a mentor/monitor type of thing. Used to play this game that was only loosely based on the movie. Basically I'd be the mama pterodactyl and they'd be my babies and we'd fly around, flapping our arms, and when the Sharptooth came they'd have to fly back to me!
Thing is I only vaguely remember doing this. My sister, who used to be one of the baby pterodactyls, remembers it vividly as something she loved when in school.
Orangecup05 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Death Square.
Death Square was actually the front yard at my parents house. My brothers and I had a rule that we could do anything at all to eachother in that square without repercussion outside of that square -but you both had to be in it in order for it to be okay...
So, that included a lot of things: ambushing eachother with water balloons, breaking eachothers belongings, throwing rocks at eachother, kicking eachother in the balls, fist fights... There was an almost immediate escalation in violence. But nobody ratted to mom and dad. It went like this from elementary school until the end of high school. Other kids would fight eachother in our front yard too. Good thing mom and dad didn't get home from work until 6:30ish, lol
clubinseal · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Raptor Hunter. A night game with one hunter who had a nerf gun, and the rest raptors.
Maxthemilkman · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I distinctly remember my brother and I playing Harry Potter, where we just found some good-looking sticks from the woods and ran around shouting "Expelliarmus!" and shit at each other.
I also remember we would play a game called "The Life" where we would just make-pretend different scenario variations on our life that would be waaay cooler than reality.
We'd be like,
"What if we lived in a mansion that had a Grapette fountain we could swim in and drink from?!"
"Yeah, that'd be cool, but what if we had that and also real lightsabers?!!"
And on, and on...
ohlordyalmostdead · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sea Hunt. My bro and i slither on our bellies under every table or chair pretending we were Lloyd Bridges.
Jeb-Kush · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Human bowling. You'd have all your friends sit up with a pillow in front of them, legs over a bed and then one person would take another pillow and run into them trying to knock down as many "pins" as possible. One time we played it on the bottom of a bunk bed and I dove head first into the metal frame of the top bunk and next I remember I was looking up at the ceiling and confused on my back . Don't play human bowling on beds with top bunks. Otherwise it's pretty fun
charlottedhouse · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Feet Feet.
Me and my brother would lay down, feet facing towards each other. We put our feet together and would push them back and forth as fast as we could while chanting “Feet, feet, feet, feet!”
There was no winner. We just did it as fast as we could until someone messed up and then we’d laugh ourselves silly.
TheStarshipCat · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squirrels. My sister and I pretended to be the mayors/restaurant owners of a made-up town full of animals similar to animal crossing. We also invented television and the covered wagon. We technically were squirrels but I don't think we ever even thought of ourselves as them. We have a rival town of chipmunks, too. We also taught at the ninja academy on the trampoline.
sataniccinnamon · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play “ballheads “. These imaginary people with circular heads and small bodies, kind of like those characters in those emo “I made you a cookie but I eated it” cartoons from the 00’s. Then one of us would be the princess ballhead, and the others had to kill her to dethrone her and become the new princess. The only way to kill one another was to touch the other’s stomach.
goldeng00se_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game on the play ground called Nunny. Basically we would choose the girl we didn't like (looking back this was very fucked up) and she would chase us making the sign of the cross and yelling choir songs. We would scream in horror and run as fast as we can. Fun at the time but I don't think I would play it again lol.
psdao1102 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played bike tag. You ride bikes in a subdivision, if you could see them for 10 seconds straight you shout their name and tag them (honor rules).
That said once I was doing this and looking behind me, and ~ second 8 i hit a stationary car and hurt my balls quite bad.... so like dont do that.
slytherindg · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe not quite a child, but in high school, my friends and I used to play a game we called kidnapped, which I didn’t realize was weird until I moved out of my hometown and told others about it. Essentially you would get two (or more) teams of people, and one or two people from each team would be “kidnapped” by the other team. This meant that they were blindfolded, but in the back of a car. There would be a predetermined time limit (usually 30-60 minutes) and each team of kidnappers would take their victim(s) to to some remote location that would be hard to identify. Once time was up, the kidnapers would let the victims out of the vehicle, at which point the victims would call their team members in the vehicle that dropped off the victims of the opposing team. They would have to determine where they were, and the rest of the team would have to find them, pick them up, and return to base. Whoever returned first was the winner. The part that made this truly fun was that this was before people had GPS in their phones and none of my friends had GPS devices, so it really came down to your navigational skills and how well you knew the area. Looking back, it was probably pretty unsafe, but it was a lot of fun, and we never had any safety issues.
PM_Me_Pussy_Pics__ · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would build “towers” with wooden blocks and basically play Jenga to see which tower stood the longest.
TheEternal · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am a twin and so I shared my room with my brother and a very large cushion. Add a bunk bed and it didn't take long for us to decide to jump onto said pillow from the top bunk. To create a sense of danger we would climb inside our duvets and both do it at the same time. Ended with the odd near suffocation.
Still safer than the game where we used a sports bow to fire an arrow straight up in the air and then dodge at the last second.
PhantomGiovanni666 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my two triplet brothers used to take baths together we would play a game called "find the soapy soap" and wed search through the bubbles in the bathwater pretending to look for soap until one would grab the others package real hard while the one getting grabbed would yell "thats not the soapy soap!!" And we would all start laughing our asses off
Destroyer1102 · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game with swings where we would use the swings to attack each other. The names varied but always had the word swing in the title of a video game. I believe it was originally called "Swing Kombat X". There were normal attacks, charged attacks, kick attacks, hand attacks, grab attacks, and they each had a name. Usually made up weird names or used pokemon attack names and even had signature moves that your opponent couldn't use. The winner was the one who didn't forfeit. It was kind of rough.
SergeantGroosh · 1 points · Posted at 19:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stella Ella ola clap clap clap singing es chiko chiiiiko chiko chiko cracker Jack, es chiko chiko baloooow balloooowww I gotta blow my nose so 1 2 3 4 5!
Skwiberelli97 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to crack goldfish crackers in half long wise and scoop dirt into them for “Special Seasoning”
yawhoserious · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "Baseball" with my baseball cards. I'd pick two teams of all stars or actually just one team against another...last the cards out in their positions to make a field, set up books for a home run fence...then flick the cards from home plate...if they landed on a card, it was an out, if they landed freely in the infield our outfield in front of outfielders, it was a single...opposite field singles allowed runners to advance two bases...his over the outfielders were doubles, leaning against the outfield wall was a triple, over the wall was a home run. Three fouls was a strikeout. I kept stats for different teams had a 7 run maximum inning rule...out was my rainy day game of games!!
goblin-cock · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called Annie Annie basically one person get possessed by saying this phrase “Annie Annie in my body” however many times it takes, once possessed you have to chase everyone and if you catch them you get to beat the shit out of them. It was fun.
PuxyTuxy · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie!!! We'd designate a person as zombie, and hide in our van. The zombie would then chase us slow for a lil while before they could run. Basically tag but with some acting
musiclover1072 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play a game we called ‘Pokémon.’ Basically it was like a game of catch but before we threw the ball, the person would call out a Pokémon move and if you didn’t catch it, then the ‘attack’ hit you. We started with 10 hp and each attack would cause 2 point damage unless you were used any of the special moves.
The special moves included: - hyper solar ice beam - which killed you instantly - poison earthquake - which if you caught without yelling protect first would cause 5 point damage - any poison move (poison fang, toxic, etc.) - that, like poison earthquake, which if you caught without yelling protect first, would cause 3 point damage
Gaskard · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fog tag. Played at school early in the morning with hella gross of people not playing so you could be near them but couldn't be distinguished. Very thick fog was always necessary
pendletone · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The North Pole.” During the summer vacations, my cousins and I would visit our grandparents and sleep at their house. Tthere, we would play a game we call “The North Pole.” A night, right before bedtime, we would gather around the airconditioner and build a makeshift tent (e.g. bedsheets over pillows & chairs) and place it so that the cold air blows inside the tent. We would put the aircon to its coldest setting, then we would challenge ourselves to sleep through the night inside it. Basically, we’re just kids imagining arctic climate in a tropical country.
IllegalChimpanzee · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play what we called Another One Bites the Dust. We have a relatively long driveway with a couple curves that’s on a downhill slope. It was three people at a time and we’d race tricycles and scooters down the hill and whoever got to the bottom first won. But the main goal was to try and cause as much carnage as we could to each other on the way down by hitting each other. The other was Dress Up Star Wars (big Star Wars geek). We’d just grab a bunch of costume stuff to try and develop a Star Wars disguise and then pretended recliners were space ships and used Lincoln logs as lightsaber handles. Good times
CartimanduaRose · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother an I used to hide in a bush in our front garden and throw berries at the lady opposite, who we hated for always shouting at us to be careful of her fuscias. There was a complicated points system. One day we heard her come to the door and complain about this to mum. Mum explained to her that, because we only saw her in gardening gloves, I was convinced that she was a witch from the Roald Dahl book, and that we thought we were protecting the neighbourhood children. She didn't see the funny side of this.
Moanguspickard · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Instead of tug war with ropes, my bro and i used our heads to push other out of the ring. We get on all 4, place heads, and push.
Heads and neck really hurt and once heads scrape each other, the ears can be damaged and hurt like a mofo. Was fun.
brigidsbollix · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoe wars- me and my brothers would just fuck shoes at each other until someone cried..
DcWhm_05 · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait a minute
danandhall · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and 3 male friends (who are related) used to break rotten sticks against trees to see how far they'd fly. The kid's stick that flew the farthest had the biggest penis. Their female cousin did it once and holds the record to this day...
GenericHam · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wreaking Ball” - it’s played on a swing set with 3 swings. The two people sitting on the side swings hold onto the frame of the swing set. The middle swing is the wreaking ball who makes their swing go in a big circle and try and knock the other people off. Last person holding on wins.
Gaulannia · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play "Fruit Store", everyone picked a different fruit and that would be their name. One would be the customer and that person would go to shop and guess the name of the fruits in the store, they earned one kick for every wrong fruit name they'd say. Then, the customer would say something like "I want 8 kilos of apple" and the person that picked the apple name would need to pass a test eight time to save themselves and to give the customer eight little slaps in their wrists with two fingers -Don't know what's it called in English, sorry!-
Good times, no one would ever pick passion fruit hah~
ImaGuppy · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I loved playing Bull Rider in the pool. My younger brother was bigger than my sister and I by the time I was about 10, so he would play the Bull and my sister and I the riders, and my brother would do his best to buck us off his shoulders. He would send us flying sometimes but the water cushioned our falls.
JeSuisLeGrandMuzzy · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, cousins, friends, and I would have this game we called "Red Eye".
Basically, Red Eye was an evil villain who lived in our basement, and the only way one could defeat Red Eye would be to traverse from the top of the basement stairs down to the basement then reach a trophy we had staged at the opposite side of the room.
The only thing though was that while you're trying to cross the basement, everybody else would be throwing anything and everything we could at you while totally in the dark. It first started with just pillows and stuffed animals, then people started throwing rubber toys, then plastic toys, then anything and everything you could get your hands on. The game was over either when you reached the other side OR someone started crying "STOP STOP STOP!!!".
Also if someone screamed "THERE'S RED EYE!!!" then everyone would have to try to run up the basement stairs at the same time to escape Red Eye. The last one up lost. Many injuries falling down the stairs.
alittleblueboy · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I went to my neighbor's church quite often for special events and one of the games I remember playing when I was very little was one that I think was called Flashlight Tag where one person would hold a flashlight on top of a hill and everyone else would either try to not get caught in a time period or reach the top of the hill to tag the flashlight holder (I was like 4 when i played it, sorry the details are off).
Another game we played was where we threw a kickball around a circle and the third person to grab it would throw it up in the air and the person to catch it would try to dodgeball throw the ball at someone else, and if the ball hit them before it touched the ground they were out. I played it with like 4 17 year olds and my two neighbors when I was 12 so I was always out first, lol. I don't know why these church games were so much fun but they were.
Edit: Oh yeah! My friends and I would always divide up the stuffed animals of whoever's house we were in and make them create little towns with a mayor (mine was always a golden retriever stuffed animal) and have debates with the other town and mayor. I had a bunk bed growing up, so I'd usually be on the top bunk and send my citizens down to my friend to have debates with them.
hadriavincere · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 4 oldest cousins and I used to scramble onto a trampoline and put basketballs, volleyballs and whatever on there too.
The balls are poisoned and if it touches you, you’re dead.
commence jumping chaos
miketugboat · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I fenced, with our forearms/hand straightened into a "foil" of sorts. First to strike the others torso three times won. The game usually started when the first person struck their first point by surprise
horton_hears_a_homie · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fetch the arrow! My older brother would shoot an arrow high into the air and my younger brother and I would take off running to see who could get it first. No, we didn't wait for it to hit the ground. We were not smart children.
Also one time we tied a rope to a tree a ways up and tied the other end to a four wheeler. Then we grabbed onto the rope and my dad would drive the four wheeler forward and we'd go into the air a little bit. Then he'd let off the gas and roll back a little and we'd get off. But one time by brother and my cousin let go at the same time and I flew about 20 feet in the air, so we stopped playing that game!
whitekidspaz · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spread eagle, wall ball with a punishment basically. If you were the person who had to go onto the wall for dropping the ball then you faced the walls and spread out and put your toes and noes against the wall with your hands against the wall and then one person gets to peg you just not in the back of the head. Game continues after, was tons of fun and made wall ball a little more interesting
neccoguy21 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play this game when we were on road trips. If there were rows of farm land on both sides of the car, and they were whizzing past real fast making it look like long legs running, we were then "in a race". Whoever had the "faster legs" would be "in the lead", but whoever's side ended first was the "winner".
I thought about this game we used to play forever. I asked her about it when we were in our 20s, "Hey, remember that game...?" and she laughed and said "no". She's four years older than me so I guess I just made the whole damn thing up. 🤷
iwonderifisnormal · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i used to play "witch" make a little fire and throw whatever meds or objects i had found around to see color changes sparks etc... slightly pyromanic
hotboy9000 · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage with my Uncle Jimmy
Madformustangs · 1 points · Posted at 19:32:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Acorn wars. We gathered those golf ball sized acorns and beat each other with them. Me and my older cousins did this all the time and it was actually really a lot of fun.
luhzon89 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the soy sauce
Odenseye08 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine and my brother bedrooms had a small hallway/ stair landing space out side the doors. We would shut the lights off shut the doors and throw bouncy balls as hard as we could . The object was to not get hit... everyone lost. My other favourite was bike jousting. Wear hockey equipment and try to spear the other guy off his bike with a hockey stick. I don’t think anyone really won that game either
novaspax · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade school for a whole year this one game was rampant on the playground. There was a little hillside sloping off of the field, and people would build little nests with rocks inside in all the little potholes and grassy crannies. There were different groups that would constantly get into battles and destroy each others nests or steal the eggs. Everyone wanted to be in on the game. My younger siblings went to the same grade school after id aged out and at one point they banned all made up games.
tscoerr · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hit the deck: not very complicated or imaginative, but me (the youngest brother) and my older brother would stand at the end of the hallway, and my oldest brother would sprint down the hallway, and he would scream “HIT THE DECK” and then he would either jump high and try and tackle us or dive low and try to tackle us and we would have to jump over him or dunk under him. Resulted in numerous injuries.
billythekid825 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it’s unique but my grandparents live in a cul deck sac and every big holiday our family all gets together at their house. Once all we all get there we would go grab a empty coffee can and place it on the manhole cover in the middle of the street. One person would count by the can and everyone else would go hide, once the count down was over everyone would have to try and kick the can without being tagged to be safe. My parents played it, we played it, and now my kids play it. Game- kick the can
mw3298 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would stare at cracks on the windshield and try to get it to hit other cars on long road trips.
gertrude420 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play CHEF TIMES by the river. Instead of making mudcakes, we used to make big sticks and catch the garbage bags from the river, unpack them and play with the food leftovers from the cans. One time we tried to pull out the broken stove , it would have been awesome,but it was too heavy for us x) You see kids doing recycling without nayone informing them about it.
We also used to collect insects,especially ants and put them in handmade boats (those chicken packages) and would let them float down the river,daydreaming how they would depart in some city we never been to. Also we used to write historically inspired letters, put them in bottles (like we spent hours to make up the stoires) and let them float down the river. Oh the river,I miss it.
seedpod02 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock, played with the kids toddler age to about 4:
Adult sits on the floor, legs straight, feet apart, hand holding toes. Then, while adult maintains that position throughout, kids try and tip the person over, turn then around, wangle them across the room, climb and jump on them, make a tent of them with a sheet and whatever else they decided
suckulentsuckle · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tickle Chase.
Doubt it’s unique but it was just an excuse for me and my friend to tickle each other lol
clurrburrticus · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play hide-and-seek in my grandma's basement. We modified it so the hidden would try to scare the seeker. All the lights were kept off and the seeker only had a flashlight.
Gunhaver4077 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Fugitive. One person, "The Fugitive" , was given the worst nerf gun we had with only the ammo it could carry (usually 3 darts) and a 5-10 minute head start to go hide in the woods. Then the rest of us paired up to go hunt them down. The hunters were not allowed to fire first, could only be in teams of two, and were not allowed to be in sight of each other intentionally. If they ran into each other, that was fine, but they couldn't follow each other around. The Fugitive's mission was to get back home, past the hunters. They could hide and sneak past, or they could hunt and take out the hunters. They got to keep any better guns and all the ammo from anyone they took out. Only one pair was allowed to be left guarding home.
DcWhm_05 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt but with nerf guns. The hunted get a head start and then the hunters go after them with nerf guns. If you’re shot you’re out, but if you can sneak up on the hunters you can ‘maul’ them and then they’re out.
obese_niece · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really an interesting game, but an ode to the stupidity of children and their true pain tolerance. My older sister of 4 years and I would play the game I Have More Hair Than You. It consisted of one of us running past the other and tearing out a chunk of hair from the unsuspecting donor, placing the hair on top of our head, and then saying, "I have more hair than you." Sometimes this would end up in us cornering eachother and rapidly tearing each others hair out and putting it on our heads chanting, "I have more hair than you." The game was declared over when we would become tired.
munchkin04 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to play a game called “Hollywood”. We’d pretend we’d be best friends, we’d pick out fake names and such and first we’d pack our bags, party outfit etc etc. Then we’d travel on the “plane” (living room couch) and then we’d go pick out our hotel room in our luxurious hotel (one of the bedrooms). One of the activities was putting our stuffed dogs in the living room window and going outside on our deck and passing by the “shop” window and saying “oh my god! oh my god! I want that dog!” and we’d “buy” them. All of our luxurious parties we went to. We played this all the time.
Please tell me I wasn’t the only one
apontela · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a hammock in the yard. One used to lay there, and hold on as thight as possible while the other used to shake the hammock with all their might until the strength ran out, or the one in the hammock would fall
It was really funny, and surprisevely, we never broke anything hahah (other than ourselves of course)
brocktavius · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my mom was pregnant, she was incredibly sensitive to smells.
Being the little shit heads we were, we'd play "time the smell yell". We'd open some food in the kitchen and see how long it took my mom to yell about the stink from down the hall in her room.
tmfg420 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It didn't have a name but we would slap a balloon back and forth across a coffee table trying to have it hit the ground on the opponents side. Way harder to actually have it hit the ground than it sounds. I can remember some epic volleys.
thedogz11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jurassic Park!
I think it was third grade, we’d all take turns being velociraptors and chasing each other around. We were fuckin nerds Jesus Christ.
heffman11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:33:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to build little sandbag forts made of rolled mud and clay. Then put different types of ants in them and watch them fight.
Vyserria · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cafe Rhinoceros". My best friend and I had a cafe to serve drinks only. Drinks were made with watercolor; orange juice with orange, peach juice with orange and white, kiwi juice with green, coke with black, etc. We even used an old phone to pick up orders. We would do this all day long in summer out on the balcony of our house. When we got tired, we would fill a portable pool, make drinks and pretend to enjoy them in there.
Fortunately none of us was stupid enough to actually drink those, so yay!
Sundy91 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad helped me with this. When I was bored with friends he told us we could run laps while pulling out ears as hard as we could. We even created a whole point system of how red our ears got and how fast you could run a course.
Nueamin · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Devils and Angels. One person would be the devil and everyone else was an angel. Each side had its own base for safety (patio stairs) The angels would tease the devil until he chased them. If the devil caught any angels before they got to heaven (their safe base) they became fallen angels and helped the devil catch angels. If angels caught a fallen angel away from the safe space and without the devil interfering they would hold their hands above their head and say "pray, pray pray..." over and over while bringing them back to heaven. If they successfully reach heaven with the fallen angel then they become an angel again. I guess in this game the devil could win but angels never turn the devil.
MyNameIsntKathy · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “the dark game”. We would blindfold whoever was It (and then turn off the lights to ensure no cheating) and everyone else would find a hiding spot around the room. Then It would blindly try and feel around the room trying to find you. You were allowed to try and move out of their way but you had to try and be quiet so they couldn’t hear you. Sometimes if It was coming near you we would throw things at each other to try and make a distraction. I really miss that game actually
MormonBikeRiding · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to go into the neighbouring farm and out our brother in the bullpen with this young bull and see if we could get it to chase him cause our school uniform was red but we'd wear blue...
Joe_Jeep · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I invented at least 4 different war games similar to the precursors to D&D. I can't remember all the rules but we had a bunch of knight and archer toys and had an entire D6 based combat system. Hit points, accuracy, the whole 9 yards.
We also had a similar one with Legos representing war ships and forts that was simply called "the game" that took up half my bedroom for a month. Coasts were marked with bakery string with islands made from random debris.
The latter caused a lot of confusion when the game that you just lost became a thing in school.
Kmcgr577 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad, brother and I would play “Draw a line and finish it” on the back of paper menus at restaurants. We played it for years and now there’s a Bob Ross game exactly like it. We had a family game night during the super bowl and played it. Brought back some good memories.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stuffed Animal Wars & Belly Bumpers. I usually played with my younger sister or if friends came over. Stuffed Animals Wars is straight forward. We would divide our stuffed animals evenly (better if you got stuffed animals w/ hard plastic eyes, hurts your opponent more) and make little forts and throw them at each other. Belly Bumpers we would hold couch cushions over our belly and then run full speed at one another trying to knock your opponent down.
Philestor · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would stand in a circle get a medicine ball and we would throw it at each other as hard and as fast as we could without dropping it
Warmoon · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father created the game. He called it "running." We would go to the golf course nearby our home at night time and break up into two teams. Think of it as a combination of hide and seek and Marco Polo. Team one would run out into the golf course while Team 2 counted to for 2 minutes. We could then howl, The Hiding team would have to respond if they were far away by howling back. If you howl and the other team did not respond that meant you were close enough that it was now a game of Hide and Seek.
adriellealways · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother loved metal gear solid, so one day we collected various "weapons" (nerf guns and pool noodles, maybe?) along with round sleds for shields, turned out all the lights, and killed each other repeatedly. Definitely the most fun I ever had with my brother.
danny686 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crash test dummy, we'd take all the couch cushions and squeeze them into a doorway as tight as they'd go then throw ourselves into them until we smashed through to the other side. Then rebuild and do it again.
AcidBathVampire · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would hang out in the pool, one person in the shallow end and the rest waiting in the deep end, and the shallow end guy would throw a ball into the deep end. Deep enders would fight for the ball, and shallow end guy waited ten seconds before jumping into the melee. The goal was to place the ball squarely on the deck of the shallow end with both hands. There were only 3 of us so it worked out pretty well, but anybody we showed the game to would always try to circumvent the rules, so we stopped showing people how to play. It was a lot of fun and a good workout too.
Vilyda · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would gather piles of pine cones behind some massive rocks in our neighborhood. Then we would do a count down and hurl them at each other. Pinecones are really sharp tho, so we always ended up kind of injured. We also sled down a big hill that was covered in pine needles. We are from the south so it never snowed so dead pine needles were the most slippery thing around. We called it pine needle sledding because creativity.
Djeter998 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play Haunted House in her absement. We would spend hours making a spooky scene and make her sosters walk through it so we could jump out and scare them.
AzorackSkywalker · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to get a fan in the hallway, get a blanket, and point the fan towards me as I hid under the blanket. Then I pretended I was in action movies or something. I don’t know what about being under a blanket in high winds makes me think I’m in action movies, but it worked.
Miygo · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pictochat hide and seek. My friends and I would get on Pictochat for the Nintendo DS. One person would be the seeker, and the rest would hide. Pictochat showed how strong your wireless connection was to other people, so when the connection got stronger we knew we were getting closer! The hiders would also give hints or taunt the seeker.
trackday · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lie to my step-dad to keep from getting a whoop'in. No whoop, I won. Whoop, I lost.
lven17 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings (brother and a sister) loved wipeout the show so we would take like chairs and did like a little parkour event sequences ( we incorporated like pillows to make u slip and shit like that) from time to time.
lioninn22 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The penguin and the fires, it's basically trash with powerups for my slower sister
osiris_avatar · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played "mallet ball" basically it started out as tetherball with croquet mallets, but when they were found to be too flimsy we moved up to maul handles. you discover a lot about yourself and your friends when you are in a 10' circle swinging a yard of hickory like mad men.
VillhelmSupreme · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know how unique this is, but my siblings and I would tie dish rags around our hands and wail on each other as if we were MMA fighters.
DrCrappyPants · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "sledding" which consisted of going down a hill in our backyard using saucer sleds, the issue was however that we were doing this in the summer.
After we broke the plastic sleds and my dad yelled at us we substituted the red wagon that we had to carry things around in. we basically use the wagon as a go-kart and would roll down the hilland the person who went the fastest won. The issue was that only way to stop would be to tip over the wagon.
This game lasted a while and tell my mom looked out the window and afternoon and caught us sledding down the hill in the wagon straight towards the barb wire fence at the bottom of the hilland then tipping ourselves over about two feet from the fence.
We were forbidden to play that game after she caught us. (She also yelled at us for a while)
WizardKing25 · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I created “The Flip Game”. One person would run towards the other, jump up into the air, then the other person would sort of tackle their feet forcing the airborne lad to flip over and crash to the floor..
We’d take turns flipping each other over and that was about it. Not sure what spurred this great idea but glad I can live to tell the tale.
thisbmeeee · 1 points · Posted at 19:34:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called 'put down the cards' and only my dad and I could play it. I have no idea how to play it now, just a fun game my dad and I made up I guess.
redCasObserver · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"3 Points" In the street, the field of play was the curbs as sidelines, the rubber/tar they poured between sections of the concrete road were the goal lines. And we just happened to have our mail box and a neighbor's mailbox pretty darn equal lengths away from the two goal lines. This gave us about 25 yards of field length, with about 7 yards deep of an end zone. Both players started on their own goal lines. Game was: throw, kick, spin, sling a football and make it touch the concrete inside the other person's end zone. Kinda like a 1 v 1 onside kick drill, but you could throw it or whatever. Ball touching inside the end zone gave you 2 points. If it touched your opponent first, and then touched inside the end zone, 3 points. First one to 9 wins.
davidsweet44 · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called "catch-a-leg". One of us would have to crawl on the ground with our eyes closed and the other would have to walk around them. If your leg was caught then you lost then you switched spots and did it again.
Jpizle3 · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the Queer. Classic.
jawnnyp · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play crab apple tag. Basically we just whipped crab apples at each other. One day this got boring so we started weaponizing the apples even further by sticking thorns in them. Blood was shed. Pretty sure not many 7-10 year olds were playing that game.
Thoupp · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hiding from my uncle
enineci · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we called Swiggle. We would stand on my dad's bed and one of us would hold the TV remote above our heads. The other would violently shake the other one's arm until the remote flew out of their hand.
Once the remote flew out, the game was on. We could tackle, pull or shove each other to the ground. The first one to retrieve the remote and make it fully back onto the bed won that round.
BONUS:
My much younger brothers used to play this game they called "Taggo". It's basically reverse hide and seek.
One of them would hide somewhere in the house while the other counted. The counter would then start seeking the hider until they found them. Once found, the hider had to tag the counter before the counter made it back to base.
invoIuntaryjazzhands · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played Taggo, except we called it Bloody Wolf! They had a big house with woods out back, so we'd get all the neighborhood kids together - there were usually like 10-15 of us, and we always played after sundown. One person was the Bloody Wolf and would go hide while everyone else counted at "base" (the porch). Then everyone would go look for the Bloody Wolf, and once someone found them, they'd scream "Bloody Wolf!" and everyone would try to get back to base without getting tagged. Whoever the Bloody Wolf tagged was the next Bloody Wolf.
JaycieJaybird · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yet
Advocate_Of_Chaos · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Reaper”
Living out in the country surrounded by darkness, my brother and I would venture into the stone cold basement of our mothers house.
It was like hide and seek, but in the dark, and wholly reliant on your stealth abilities.
It was fun as hell.
Queen_ona_Bean · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play a game where we would hide a belt in our living room and then play “hot and cold” till the person eventually found the belt.
Once the person found the belt they would then chase the other person and try to whip them with it. The game ended when the person being whipped reached a safe spot which was usually a chair our couch established before.
Why we thought this was a good game I have no idea.
Moanguspickard · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and siblings would get into a big room at night. Shut off the lights and hide. The 1 person has to enter the dark room, and find us using his hands and only assisted with laser pointer. The laser gave almost no light but was important for the immersion. Also. It scared the ones in hiding if it landed on them. The tension of laser being on you not knowing if the seeker knows you are there.
I know how movie sniper lasers feel now.
Sipsipsubidibao · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That vampire doctor game i played with my 4 years older(F) niece apparently since she played with me it is just a "game".
mmazing · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom made up "sock wars".
Two kids get on a bed and whoever is able to remove the other person's socks wins.
zgroh96 · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trick the Mommys. Running around and thinking it was the funniest thing ever when our moms didn't realize us. I don't even remember playing tricks on them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played fucking SmackDown xD
isityea · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play a game, very similar to spike ball, except we used bouncy balls on tarmac.
You could only let the ball bounce once and the aim of the game was to keep it going as long as possible, bouncing the ball as high as possible, we didn't try and win or anything it was just endurance. Probably some of the best cardio I've ever done!
ivys-revenge · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would give me the belt and I would whoop everyone (I was the youngest but I was fast)
nisemono0 · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
flowfordayz13 · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ladleball, Croquet Ball and Sly Jacker.
Ladleball, is exactly what it sounds like. Lacrosse with Ladles and the ball is a raquetball ball. When our kitchen was being redone there was so much open space my little sister and I were bored and used the counter top as one goal and the door to the porch as the other and we would just bounce the ball and try and catch it in the ladle and score goals. But ladles are very difficult to catch a ball in and throw properly. It was a fun one.
Slyjacker- Around this time Jak and Daxter came out and i loved the game and wanted to do cool jumps like Jak. So in our basement my mom had a decent size workout trampoline. Along with that she had the giant blowup exercise balls. So one person would jump on the trampoline and the other person or two would chuck the ball as hard as possible at the person trying to knock them down.
Croquet Ball, the most recent game. Involves a pool, a X-Factor ramp, and a croquet set. The ramp was set at the edge of the pool and the object was to launch the croquet balls across the pool. If you got it across the pool it was 10 points and in the pool points were based off distance, Furthest got 5, then 4 then 3, etc. Put a few dents in the pool house with that one.
spacesmitten · 1 points · Posted at 19:35:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
alligator and mouse. One person uses their pointer finger and moves around on the table pretending to be the mouse while the other person uses their hand with all fingers together to create the top of the alligators mouth and trys to catch the 'mouse'.
kind of like a rudimentary version of hungry hungry hippos that kept me busy when i was 3 sitting at a table on ferry rides with my mom.
ganikus · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two older brothers were baby sitting me (I was 6 or 7) and gave me an origami box, they told me if I opened it I would disappear, of course I opened it. They proceeded to pretend like I wasn’t there with comments like “did you hear something? Must have been the wind” this went on for 6 hours or so. When our parents got home I had probably been sobbing for 3 hours and had accepted that I had been cast into the void for eternity. In the middle of drowning in my immense regret for opening that cursed box my mom and dad walked through the door and I cried out to them “can you see me!?”
That was a pretty fun unique game for my brothers.
Gecko603 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Who’s chasing who?” Me and my siblings would run endlessly in circle as fast as we could trying to catch up to the other one, all chanting “Who’s chasing who!” The fun came from arguing if you were chasing them or if you were being chased. It wasn’t till years later I realized we didn’t invent it, it was my parents brilliant idea to keeping us sugar high kids occupied when they couldn’t bother to deal with us.
akg720 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I would play Slug. One of us would stand with our feet inside the corner of a fitted sheet while the other two wrapped us up in it ending with the opposite corner wrapped over our head. Then we’d shove them over and watch them try to get out of it.
three6hunter · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I played "strob light wars" turned off all the lights, cranked the music and basically threw pillows or shot nerf guns all while a strob light was going off.
mynipplescutglass · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roman candle battles. If you were a kewl kid you would time it with a dope "expecto patronus" scream and light another kids face on fire with magic.
samwiselefaive · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bill Clinton’s head.
Was a game where we had to stay on our hands and knees and keep a balloon from touching the ground. If it hit the ground Bill Clinton would tax the people. If the tax got to 10%, we would lose.
HellsSnack · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game I called Birdie that I played all the time with my twin. Basically, we each had a pair of scissors and pretend they were a pair of birds, with the blades as beaks. We’d try to make little nests with sticks and rocks for the eggs. We’d chop up little plants and weeds we found around the yard and collect little piles of seeds. I loved the game. My sister didn’t. Looking back, it probably wasn’t the safest having 7 year olds run around with scissors, but we always kept them pointed at the ground when we walked or ran so I guess we knew the basics of safety. And aside from a few paper cuts here and there, we never got hurt.
ChunkYards · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "cards". I had a huge box of cards; x-men cards, magic cards, baseball cards miscellaneous playing cards etc and the game was essentially me and my step-dad drawing from the box and comparing them in a go fish manner and talking about which one would win in a fight.
Kream_Filled_Jesus · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lots of kids in my family, we played a game called "_______ beats us up!" Where we would jump on the bed and let the youngest would pretend to karate style beat us up while we would dramatically fall and shout lol
rippednbuff · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jahungabee!
SpeechImped · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique this is, but whenever we went on vacation my cousins and I would play Elevator Tag. It’s tag, but across an entire hotel and you had to elevators unless stairs were the only way to not get caught.
The security guards did not like us.
toocontent · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had long couch cushion tear off the couch. It was about 5 ft long with a split in the middle. We put the cushion on our head and swing it around as fast as possible. The other people would charge towards it and get hit to the ground. It was called Suicide Granny.
YourMoms_A_Throwaway · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game that we called "track". We only played it at my grandma's house. Basically you would designate 4 points on the street usually something like a street lamp or a tree. And the point was to run around those places forming a track.
One person was it and they would have to count (I think the number you counted to changed. Something like: 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 10, 15, etc on a loop). Everyone would run around the track while the person counted and then when he got to the number he would look up and everyone was supposed to be hidden. If he saw anyone he would have to say like "I see ___ behind the green car" if he was right then that person had to walk back to base. First one to run around the whole track won.
If you ran too fast and made too much noise you were easy to find. So it took skill. Especially with the changing counting times. Obviously this works best with a lot of people. You might see some legs but not sure who they belong to for example.
Gnat5000 · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would try to put on as many shirts as we possibly could, stuff pillows underneath them, and then sumo wrestle each other
biggdaddyMartin · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gravey train. We used to get a group of kids together ride our bikes as fast as we could. While all riding together and we would just try to knock each other off our bikes
saltybrunette · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone ever play Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK)? It was a massive multiplayer online game developed by Walt Disney Parks. I used to wait till my sister got her share of computer time, and then played for hours. So addictive and so fun.
brahkulay · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would throw rocks at me.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ride daddy’s stick
goochpatch · 1 points · Posted at 19:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We read about this game in a book called “jackass leap frog.” I don’t remember what the game was about but we thought the name was funny. We created our own game called “jackass leapfrog to the extreme.” Essentially the game went like this: we headed to the basement and one at a time we would put a blanket on our head, spin around for 30 seconds, then sprint as fast as we could in whatever direction we happened to be facing. Countless times we were clotheslined by the backside of the staircase.
stillslim · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played big ball in the alley. It's baseball but with a kick ball and you can throw it at the person to get them out
Onox674 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played puffle assassinations. Basically, one person stood at the top of a flight of stairs whilst the others all adopted static positions on the level below. The person at the top then had 30 seconds to hit everyone with puffle pillows (the ones in club penguin). It was ridiculous but pu-full of fun.
dippynme · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sweet or Sour. We would call out to random people on the street and see whether their reaction was sweet or sour.
DistantShadow · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We have a game in Sweden that is kinda like baseball, but not really. It's called Brännboll (Burn ball). My friends and I added tackling to this. So when the hitman was running, the other team was allowed to tackle them. Lots of people got hurt, but it was fun
TrashN00bJesus · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Color Game” When my brothers and I were younger we had a pool in out backyard. Any time neighbors or friends came over to swim we would play The Color Game.
It consists of one person on one side of the pool and the rest on the other side. The one person would say a category (ex: colors) and then list out as many colors as there are people on the other side. The one person would then go under water and count to 10 while the other kids would choose their color out of the ones the one kid said.
After the one kid comes back up he would say a color and would have to swim race that person who chose it. Whoever touched the other side of the pool first wins the round, and the loser becomes the new category chooser.
One of the best games I played during summer, still play it from time to time if we go somewhere with a pool.
oVermilionx · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to sit at opposite ends of the kitchen. You would sit perfectly still with your mouth open as far as possible. Then we took it in turns trying to throw dog treats into eachothers mouths. If you got the treat into the others mouth then they had to go hug dad. Hours of fun
charmlessman1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was the oldest, followed by my sister, then my brother.
We used to play a game called Yikes! when I was about 10, she was 7 and he was 4.
Basically the game consisted of running away from my brother, and when you'd run into a room with him in it, you yelled, "YIKES!", turn around, and run the other direction.
We LOVED PLAYING IT.
But my mother thought it was mean to my brother, so she made us stop.
sKe7ch03 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unique game we played was similar to the slug war post in sleeping bags. Except we would roll ourselves down the bloody stairs lol. There was no real winner or objective but it was fun as hell.
Also not to unique but in grade school we played A LOT of "hot ass". The object was to throw a tennis ball at the school wall and whoever caught the ball after it bounced had to throw it from where they caught it. If it was below a line or didn't hit the wall, you would have to run and touch the wall before someone else picked up the missed throw and hits you with it. If you manage to miss your throw AND get tagged by a player youd lose a life. If you lost all your lives youd have to stand against the wall and accept your "hot ass" which was hands over your head and each player threw they're harder throw at your back/ass. Good times
Hislovelysub83 · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uh kick the can...?
iammyownworstemily · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this game called “slappy stove” where whenever I saw the hot light on the stove i would slam my hand on a random burner. I only did it a few times and never got burned
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would flex my leg muscle as we went by a car or a road sign or something
dmgb · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cut hand and face holes out of fridge boxes. Stand inside cut up fridge boxes. Run full speed at one another, usually with a pile of leaves in the middle to fall into.
We called it Box Wars.
And yes, we were from an impoverished neighborhood.
YoasterToaster · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Majora's Mask.
dammit_yasmeen · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I would play “Indians” in our backyard. This consisted of makings teepees, fishing rods, and spears out of foxtails and weeping willows. We’d also divide the yard in half and have raids on each others territory. One person got the half with our swing set, and the other had all the recourses. We based a lot of our ‘village’ on a book we read in second grade called Roxaboxen. Definitely the good ol days.
rosegoldquartz · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play peacock. We would stuff our ass crack with branches in our pants and make a nest of pine cone eggs in the woods and the neighbor boy would try to steal our eggs while we would make what we hoped were peacock sounds and chase him off. My ass still itches thinking about it. But it was fun.
LunaTehNox · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would play “Sleeping Dragon” with my sister and I when we were very small. He would lay on the couch and pretend to be asleep, and she and I would sneak around the couch, trying not to wake him. If we did, he’d grab us and start tickling until we sang him back to “sleep”
xombae · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oh man I had completely blocked this game out of my head until now. It was called the Pole Game.
My friend has a square post in the middle of their basement living room. The idea was one person clung into the pole for dear life while the other people tried to pry them off of the pole. Hours of entertainment.
That friend I'm fairly certain had add or ADHD looking back on it so hanging at her house was always wild. She had this gold fish from the carnival that had lived for like 10 years in only an inch of water somehow, and would tear apart any other fish put into the tank. They called it Fatty, and my friend would tell us Fatty Stories where she'd put on a voice and pretend to be the fish and for hours tell us these crazy stories about what the evil fish had done. Kind of wholesome tbh, interesting how we came up with shit before electronics were super popular.
Not trying to be that anti - tech person, kids today are also very creative, just in a different way. Being from a small farm town with no where to hang out and before videogames were super popular, we had to come up with some crazy shit. We'd hang out in the towns only laundromat because it was the only place to go.
We also used to play real life Neopets. My friend and I had little sisters that were the same age so we'd dress them up as our pets, set up shops and pretend to shop there. We'd make the little sisters set up shops too but their shops would be doing up favors like making us lunch or giving us back rubs.
ripcurrent · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
High kicks. My buddy Teddy and I would run at each other, probably from like maybe 10' away, and just jump and kick at each other. We were probably in grade 3. Anyway, we were roughly the same height so we'd normally bounce off one another. But sometimes, you'd get someone in the chest and they'd go flying. That was fun.
EmptyStare · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was grade 5, outside by the main recess door was a long cemented porch about two and half feet tall with no safety rail where the stairs weren't.
The game was called "It from the Pit". After playing dukes or pulling shoes we would determine who started as "It". That person would stand on the ground beside the porch ledge and try to drag "safe people" completely on to the pavement below making them a new member of "It's" team. The kids on the porch would often try to help their teammates getting pulled down to the pavement by pulling on the arms while the people in the pit were pulling the legs.
Eventually the winner is the last person standing on the porch.. it certainly had a fight club or battle royale feel to it looking back at it haha
Many kids were hurt over the course of the months of the games creation. Kids would lose grip of their teammates and they would slip and they crashinto the pavement. The game was banned shortly after those incidents
septaphus · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game in dark basements with little to no light where everyone save one person would hide like in hide and seek. Then they would go around trying to tag people who would join the brood of seekers. Last one hiding wins. This may seem like a silly version of hide and seek but it was far more entertaining because in darkness you could move around and a lot of times evade the seeker.
Neoshenlong · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Piranhas". My elementary school took us to an open unused but we'll kept lot filled with grass and even a little hill and a playground. There was also a little wall, around a meter and a half from the ground, which was a perfect size for an 8 yo to play. A group of kids were the piranhas standing below the wall, the other were the swimmers standing on top of the wall. The piranhas jumped and tried to grab the swimmers and make them fall.
The most amazing part of this is how, even though we played the game for at least 4 years, no accident happened aside from a few dirty or damaged clothes. Nowadays I wouldn't let kids do that, I would be worried about their heads when falling from the wall, things like that.
yohan12345 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Halo combat evolved and rise of nation
RuralNinja7 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remembered playing Over the Hedge on the OG Xbox. So many good memories from that game. It had great graphics and great mechanics for its time.
Dispie021 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animal Jam.
mnja1296 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a game with my older brother called Bouncy Ball. My brother would sit on the bed and I'd be standing on the other side of the room (we had a small room so there wasn't that much distance). The goal of the game was to bounce a ball back and forth between us and for it to bounce on the side of the opponent. Fun times.
Yettigetter · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Last Tag... Just before we were leaving from a family visit.. My Uncle would reach into our vehicle tag one of us and say last tag. Then the game was on.. We would make our dad open our car door and chase one of them and do the same... It got crazy... So funny such memories...
progress-looms · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lock-On: Basically a Air Force style dog fight on bikes. Two teams. Can be played one-on-one as well. Players ride bikes around the neighborhood, basically on a search and destroy mission. If an enemy is spotted, the goal is to tail them hard, scream "lock-on" when within striking distance, and rub tires until they crashed or surrendered. Good times.
taljalzalitl · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bee wars. You would get a jar and a lid and find the biggest honey bee and fight them. Not very nice. Sticks basically beat each other with stick. My bro was twice the size of me and my sister and he would always win. No wonder it's the game he would always pick. Can u tell we lived out in the country...
rachjo1024 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would try to reenact “Tightrope Treachery” from Mario Party in the pool by having one person try to walk across the pool rope while the other person shakes it back and forth to try and get the person to fall off.
DannyWachinsky · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a couple but my fondest memories are of "Monster". I, my sister and my friends would get in an enclosed room. One person would go under a blanket and try to catch someone by tackling them to the ground, making them the monster. Needless to say we got yelled at a lot for playing but it was always worth it.
mini6ulrich66 · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger cousin once played catch with me and a brick. I wasn't aware I was playing at the time.
eatMyCokkNiggee · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother play this game where you get a point for touching the other person's dick and if I get tired of holding my brother who is constantly trying his level best both from his hands and legs to touch my dick, the game abruptly ends as it's a very tiring game.
mornon · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two cousins and I played haunted house. We would turn off the lights in a room, and one person was the ghost, one was the tour guide and one was the one being frightened. So stupid and fun to our grade school selves with nothing better to do.
infinite-tonkotsu · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stealth Tag. Growing up I had a pretty big backyard that was basically a micro forest. My brother and my best friend worked out this game that was basically an intense combination of hide and seek and tag. We would wait til dark, and then turn on the floodlights over the back porch so the first 10% of the backyard was lit and the rest had pretty harsh shadows. The players who hid could wear whatever we wanted, so usually lots of camo and dirt on our faces. Whoever was seeking would get two tennis balls per hider.
The goal for the hiders was to conceal themselves as well as possible during a courtesy period of 30 seconds, then make it back to the back porch without getting tagged by a tennis ball. The seeker would try to find us and tag us, obviously, so the preferred strategy was to hide really well somewhere relatively near the back porch and wait for the seeker to walk too far away to easily tag you. Because of the lights though, the closer you were to the porch the harder it was to hide. Whoever made it to the deck last was the seeker for the next round, so there was a ticking clock element to it too. Super fun, but you need the right environment.
Cloud38386 · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t call it anything but my house was right off of a busy main road. When cars or trucks passed we would have to hide behind an object of some sort to not get “hit” by the car. If you were “hit” one of your three live we’re taken away.
johnny841984 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did the same thing, but we must hide to not get hit by the lights of the cars 😅
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monday to Sunday stair jumps at Diliman Prep School
Yukazaka · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego GTA. We built a mini city with different typed of shops like a gun vendor and roads and such, and we would start our rampage. The star system was also present and judging from your actions it would raise the amount of cops and other military. Weird thing was we were super humble about it even on just a young age like at some point we would just accept that now our lego character has no way to survive and is now considered dead. I don't know what the rules were accurately but I remember the survival was hard. good times.
LilMaeo · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Y’all remember...
miniclip?
hoppsd · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I called our swing set the "exercise aquatic center". Despite the name there was no water or anything on the swing set. We would just sit at the top of the slide by the swings and pretend we were fighting aliens or driving to a new Earth.
Goman018 · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers.
John_And3rson · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snorky. Don’t ask how the name came to be but when I was little we imagined my dad as a monster and you would get under a blanket, crawl on his knees and chase us around the house. It was fun and once he caught us, he consumed us under the blanket as we were dying of laughter.
Ginger_Underlord · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the dark game... our basement play room was shaped like a long skinny rectangle. We would cover the one small window in the basement and turn off the lights. One person runs back and forth through the pitch black room and tries not to get captured/dragged down by the pair hiding somewhere in the course. Now that I’ve written this, I just realized this is probably why I still need to turn on the lights to walk through any basement.
JP_HACK · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lion and deer.
You had to be on all fours. One person was the deer. The other was the lion. The lion must catch the deer.
Simple game. Like tag but on the floor.
BaconMcNippleTit · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Elementary school, our home room teachers always had us write in our own personal diaries. My friends and I played an altered version of “keep away” with a specific person’s diary. Keep it away long enough and you’ll find out shit about that person.
blacka13 · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Worm. Everyone goes in to a sleeping bag headfirst and you crawl around like an inchworm and try not to run into anyone else.
PotatochipHighway · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had two.
The first was "Shipwrecked" and the scenario was that we got stranded on a desert island. We had to find supplies in the wreckage (a.k.a the shed) and then build a shelter, create inventions that would be beneficial to our survival, scavenge for food (lemonade mostly) etc. We then basically played make believe Swiss Family Robinson style, with pirates and storms and various other scenes that took place in our island camp.
The second, we would take a big pile of socks, all in varying styles and sizes and textures, separate them from their pair, mix them up, put on a blindfold, and then match as many of them with their correct half in 1 minute. However many you got matched correctly would count as a point.
abcdemilee_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, my parents had a pull out couch and we’d always use it for sleepovers. One of the games we’d play during said sleepovers was folding someone up inside of the pull out couch and seeing how far we could push the “fold out” part in until the victim screamed to be let out. Inevitably, one night (and the last time we ever played the game) we couldn’t pull the couch back out and the person squished inside was left screaming for a solid two minutes or so. Eventually we got them out, but it was a terrifying experience to think that your friend is going to suffocate to death and it’ll be your own fault. That was probably 20 years ago and we still laugh about it to this day.
FloppySlapshot · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
FOOT DOWN. Neighbors and I (4-5 of us) would ride our bikes around a chalk drawn circle. Point of the game is to be the last person who didn't have to put their foot down to catch themselves. It involved kicking and ramming into the other competitors back tire.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late to this but here you go OP.
There was a fairly steep bit of hill we'd ride our bikes down.
You could get to where you were hauling ass on a bicycle real quick.
The game was that one of us would try to go flying down that hill before the rest of us were able to throw sticks into the spokes of the wheels and make the rider eat it.
It wasn't safe at all.
Bonus if you got it in the front wheel, they tumbled over, and broke their face.
Kids are resilient.
We're all still alive btw.
HorseCooker · 1 points · Posted at 19:39:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Simpsons : Hit and Run , on the gamecube 😍
allisonapplesauce · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game where one of us would hide a stuffed animal somewhere in the house, and then hide somewhere else with pillows, nerf guns and other “obstacles”. The other person would have to find the stuffed animal and make it back to the basement before getting beaten half to death with a throw pillow. We had to stop when I lost two toenails and a chunk of my big toe.
xPain_4 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my Dad would play who could unbox the most pill boxes.Didnt really know what was the purpose but it was pretty fun.
nataliyatsenko · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school me and my friends would play "line tag". It was a variation of tag, where you would run along the lines of a basketball court. You couldn't hop lines or reach across to tag a person, you had to be beside them. It would suck when there were a few people on the same line beside each other, and the tagged person would be right behind you. You couldn't skip around people, so you would know when you're fucked.
Keebs- · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I (along with anyone else we could convince to play) would sit under a large thick blanket and poke the fog machine through the bottom, then seal off all openings on the bottom and let the fog flow. Whoever could stay under the longest won. In reality we all lost because you'd come out of there overheated, painfully coughing and temporarily blind.
inznayz · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
wasn't really a game but my step brother and i would take turns resetting 4 digit combination locks and see how long it would take for the other to unlock it. somehow we were able to get it unlocked several times a night laying in our twin sized beds watching Elimidate.1 2 3 4 ... ELIMIDATE! strange times.
Lmoje · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I played kick the can, but with completely different rules than the normal hockey one. It was hide and go seek where everyone hiding had to get to the home base and kick the can, while yelling “Kick the can!”, before the seeker spotted them and said their name. If the seeker said the wrong name, the hidee could keep running. Shirts and sweaters were exchanged plenty
Pylitic · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont think we ever had a name for it, or if we did I cant remember. But me and my brother would sit in laundry baskets at opposite ends of the hallway. Quite simply, the first to reach the opposite end won. Of course with a solid 10-15 minute war once we met in the middle which only a few times resulted in actual punches and a fight lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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muslimmmm · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Then don’t.
colantor · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game with my brothers and cousin we called bonk. No idea if we came up with it or not, but I never played in school. Basically its tag in the house only instead of tagging someone with your hand you had to hit them in the head with a ball. It was a kinda firm ball a little bigger than a softball. Headshots were the only thing that counted.
CaptainKingChampion · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This happened in middle school.
Step One: My best friend and I would tie pillows/cushions to our torsos (front and back) using belts and duct tape.
Step Two: Go to his back yard where the huge trampoline was.
Step Three: We weren't allowed to stop jumping. While jumping, do whatever we could to launch them off the trampoline. Stealing jumps were fair game.
Not sure how we decided this, but you had to jump at the opponent backward. This meant if you missed, you'd basically keep going and land on the rocks that landscaped the back yard. The goal was to make your best friend land on those fuckers.
We eventually solved this problem by stuffing them in extra large shirts from the thrift store and getting the take and dirt on those.
She took us out for pizza because she was impressed we came up with a good solution instead of lying or doing it the way we started!
Somehow we NEVER got hurt playing this game, which we played at least twice a week for 2 entire school years.
The only time either of us got hurt on the trampoline was when we tried doing flips and landed on the edge where the springs and bar meet.
BitCthulhu · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well... When I was about 7 or 8 we had a game called "knights." This was not what you'd think it was. This was not fighting with stick swords.
A friend asked me if I wanted to play and I said yes. We went to this park area where we both picked out the biggest rocks we could carry. The object was to find cover behind a tree or a trash can or a corner of a house. The other kid was basically their own trebuchet who would hurl it in your direction.
After one person had thrown their rock the other would throw theirs. So on and so forth. I threw mine first and he ducked around the corner of this maintenance shack. Then he threw his.
I managed to duck behind a trashcan. However the rock smacked the lid and bounced enough to fall off and hit me on top of head. So after I came to i was taken to the ER and had 3 "staples" in my head.
My mom made sure we never played that game again...
cobraking84 · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TINY TOTS FOOTBALL
Dr_Daaardvark · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would go into a back room of ours and go into the adjacent bathroom and turn on all the lights and stay in there for a minute r so to adjust our eyes. Then the other person would go into a complete dark room and hide/stand somewhere. The other (first) person would then stand at the door way in the dark room (lights are off now) and try to find the other person without moving around. Not very exciting but it was basically a test of if you can see in “pitch black”
ammcaferty · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to tell make up stories about Bert and Ernie before bed, they always got into trouble...
Jaychen1337 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek, except for doing the hiding or seeking, we would hide objects in rooms
aesiwek · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game, more like a long running prank. One year when I was younger, Costco had a ridiculous sale on lettuce, but you had to buy a lot of it. My mom figured she would just get like 6 heads of lettuce and split it with her mom. My grandparents came over for dinner that night & turns out my grandma had seen the same sale, had the same idea, and she brought my mom 3 more heads of lettuce. We all laughed about it and they left with their lettuce (so we thought.) It wasn’t until after they were gone, when we were almost finished cleaning up, that we discovered the 3 heads of lettuce my grandma had stashed under the table. The next week we went to dinner at their house. As my parents were bringing things inside, they had me run around the side of the house and hide 4 heads of lettuce in their outside refrigerator. After that, it was war. We always bought at least one extra head of lettuce every time we went shopping, and we had family meetings trying to figure out the most creative ways and places to leave the lettuce. If the hidden lettuce was found before we left the other persons house, you had to take it back. It We would try to recruit cousins (who lived with my grandparents) and other family members to be moles for our team. That game lasted for over a year, and lettuce just became kind of a huge inside joke for us. I now own a lettuce shaped candle holder, and a lettuce coffee mug.
I ate so much salad that year.
BaronDaLeppu · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
”Spying” xD it was a pretty boring game in the longrun but there were 3 or more teams (the more the better) consisting of 2 players and basically we would spy on eachother until two teams wonder into eachother becoming one team xD sounds pretty boring but my neighbor had a massive property like forests and hills. Probably the reason why it was so fun but wouldnt do it anymore.
jigander · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play an adding game - where we were sitting in the car and would have to add the digits on a license plate as fast as possible. Fastest was the winner .... My kids and I play it now.
TheArts · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we had a game where a group of 4 sat ontop of a slide with their legs on the slide. The person that was "it" had to run up the slide and pull one person down. That person would become it.
There was a lot of falling off slides and being kicked. Good times.
classicdogshape · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school me and my friends would set up a random line on a sheet of paper and we’d attempt to make it work into an actual drawing. I don’t don’t think it was all my idea but I don’t remember where it came from.
ParkourSloth · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play this game called “Touch to Touch”. You grabbed something like a dodgeball or soccer ball and you put it on the ground. You couldn’t pick up or throw the ball up only slap it around and roll it. The objective was to slap the ball hard enough to hit the other players legs with the ball. If the ball made contact with your legs you were out. It was the ultimate playground battle royale. So the people without the ball were either running away from the person with the ball or going on offensive blocking their legs with their arms to intercept the person with the ball. If you were playing with other athletic kids this game got really serious. Would definitely still play this.
Defender_of_TheSauce · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play Ripstick Wars on our sidewalk occasionally with our friends and cousins. Basically, ripsticks are these boards with two wheels and you can ride them kind of like a skateboard along with the ability to make sharper turns. So my brother and I decided to turn it into a competition and we fought in a small square. The object of the game was to smash into the opponent and make them fall off their board or the square. Pushing with hands was not allowed and you were only able to visciously slam your board into one another while maintaining balance. This continued for three rounds and injuries were not uncommon.
Welplace7 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would always play "red eye" what is red eye? I dont know. It just sounded cool and we always said "lets play red eye" but it was a different game everytime because we did not invent any rules. But damn did it sound cool to my 4 year old ears.
bryndalyn15 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “Final Destination 4” and it consisted of taping a cardboard box to a skateboard and then putting someone (normally me) in said box. Then someone would run and push the skateboard while chanting “Final Destination 4, Final Destination 4...” and once they let go everyone would throw rocks at the person in the box.
Note: The box was not taped shut.
Gunnershuman · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The punting and kicking game. Divided backyard in half with one player on each side. You gain points by punting and or kicking the ball from your side, past the defender and into the opposing fence. Can only punt (or drop kick) if you caught the ball from another player’s attack. Different scores for certain potions of the fence. As the players (mainly club soccer athletes) got older, it got far more intense.
Shan_Tu · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crash and Packs, or something like that. Me and my brother would fling toy cars toward each other. Can't remember the rules exactly, but I think that whichever one flipped the other won.
AClubOfLosers · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At 6 or 7 ish, my two girlfriends and I would stuff oranges down into our shirts to simulate boobs, the go knocking on neighbors doors asking to visit them. Our dumb asses went into complete strangers homes. With orange breasts. To visit them. I would go ballistic if my children even humored an idea like this...
We would occasionally repeat the orange routine, but add pom poms, knock on doors and charge .50 for us to do a cheer for them.
hail2442 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What time is it Mr.Wolf and Red Rover.
why_you_bully_me1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played how many rocks can you fit in your mouth before you spit them out. Its simple, all you do is get rocks and stuff it in your mouth and whoever fits the most rocks in their mouth without spitting them out wins $10 we washed the rocks of course, we didn’t eat dirty rocks.
r1ckm4n · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock full-a quarters?
layers_of_onions · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would go to war at the park. We had a pay phone near us so we would tear off pages, fill them with sand and throw the “granades” through the air so it would rain sand, at the playground itself so try would have an exploding effect, or at each other cus it would hurt lmao. We always made sure other kids weren’t involved cus we’re not dicks.
Glarfenshmart · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older sister would push each other around on a rolling horse seat. The catch was my older sister always got to ride the horse.
ndrwwlf · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If our backpacks were heavy enough after school my old best friend and I would play Turtle. Basically wrestle each other until one of us got down on the ground. Then that person would become the turtle (the heavy backpack becomes the shell) and it would be difficult to get up.
redpatchedsox · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was the only kid who played golf in my group of friends. We used to play alot of street hockey so one day I started a game i called Hockey Golf. We used our hockey sticks and tennis ball but the hole was usually a pole or some random thing and we'd make a 9 hole course by taking turns picking the next hole. It actually caught on pretty good for a couple months.
Costco_Tamales · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had “Jaws” on the playground as kids. My best friend and I created it and got the whole recess population to play. It starts with one kid being jaws and as soon as he tags another kid the other kid also becomes a shark. Sharks have to stay on the woodchips and the people have to survive by running away and climbing up slides and stuff. The shark could touch you by any means necessary, like reaching through the holes to get your feet and jumping to tag the kid hanging off the side. There comes a point when everyone is just surrounding the last person and the are climbing on top of each other to reach him.
TotalConartist · 1 points · Posted at 19:41:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played Broomball; our driveway had two even halves with a slit between that we used as a divider and where we drew the chalk. The game was hitting one of those super big bouncy balls from Walmart back and forth with brooms to score it into the goal, which was either the garage door or the street behind us, depending on what side you were standing on. My sister and I and a couple of neighborhood kids used to play this game a lot until I came inches from knocking an elderly woman off her bike one day and the game was banned.
ahhhhhhh0024 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins had a stupid amount of bouncy balls, and a hallway that when you shut all the doors became an enclosed space. So we would shut them all, each take five bouncy balls and try to hit each other. You had to bounce it off of a wall first then hit someone for it to count. Played this ALL the time, until we got a dog and we were afraid she’d eat the bouncy balls.
Bigcarts · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A cage rage. When spending time between hockey games in minor hockey, teammates would put their helmet and gloves on and fight. Creating a tournament. Yes its canadian
Shpannit · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would run back and forth and my brother would kick a ball at me to try and hit me. Sometimes I’d be on a bike or a scooter.
It doesn’t sound like I would have fun but I actually did!
Also sometimes if one of us was sat on the toilet, we’d have the door open and the other one would run past making funny faces and try to make them laugh
thistlethatch · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it blobs. We would each get a blanket and drape it over ourselves, then proceed to crawl around the house without looking. I got stuck under the dinner table a few times and man, it would hurt your elbows after a while, especially on the wooden floors.
Mulms · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was the first time my dad was alone with us for a week.
Now that I think about it, he was clearly anxious about it. He had to entertain my little brother (5y), my little sister (3y) and I, who was 10 at the time. My parents didn’t like to just put us in front of the TV, the challenge was finding an activity we would all like.
Well, that’s why he made it up, on the spot, the first night. It was called the “pink elephant” game. We’d be sitting in a circle and when our turn came, we had to come up with a challenge for others to do. Like, walk like a baby around the table 3 times or something similar. It was pretty much obstacle courses.
We played that literally every night. We loved it. It had no end, or pretty much any rules but it didn’t matter. We were just happy to be playing with our dad.
zabruki · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mattress sledding. It is exactly what it sounds like. We would ride our mattresses down the stairs only to inevitably get stuck and tumble down the rest of the stairs into a giant pile of pillows and blankets.
ombra666 · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a lot of 'robot wars' fights with robots made of Lego technic. We builded secretly our robot to be the strongest and simply launched them one versus the other. After few rounds, the 'robot' with less gaps between pieces would win.
Being flipped over would have given the victory to the opponent. So we soon started to build robots which could go upside down.
We played for hours, just stopping to apply modifications or build a new model.
God, they were just Legos but we engeenered and builded some almost impossible to destroy models
GuyWithTriangle · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my parents weren't home my brother and I would go into their room, cover the floor with pillows and spare mattresses, stand on opposite sides of the room and hold the 2 biggest pillows up over our faces and run at each other at full speed
EvaporatedLight · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will be the most unique, and when I say unique I mean common.
My older brothers would relentlessly tease and beat the crap out of me to entertain themselves and friends.
Zorakas · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Awesome 👍🏻
ohmygodnotagainagain · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pee Wee (name not relevant to the game) - we had like an acre or more, long back yard that sloped down. One person would stand on the deck at the house at night with a flashlight and try to find everyone else in the yard. If you were the one hiding you would use stealth and cunning like a ninja, to try and make your way undetected to the base of the deck. If you made it unnoticed, you could hide again next turn. It was a blast to play. Very good memories of playing that with friends during summer nights, in the country.
Another game we played when we were a bit older was called Stickle. We’d be out in the woods and someone would yell, “STICKLE!!!” Everyone would scatter and try to find a dead branch on the ground. You’d take the branch and smash it against a tree in the direction of one of you friends and try to get the shrapnel to him them. Sometimes this would evolve into whole fortresses being built and the game lasting for hours.
There were more too, I just can’t remember them at the moment.
CobaltSpartan · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little I always had stuff like COD or just gun related but I had that one awesome game and it was Skyrim always thought it was one of the only games without guns so I thought it was kinda unique.
PointyPants · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek except the seeker had a blanket over your head and you were called the ghost. This was strictly indoors and was limited to 1 floor.
metal_puppy · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Santoliya. You had two teams, a ball made out of cloth, and seven flat pieces of earthenware or marvel or stones anything. Team A had to knock the stack down first, and then rebuild it while team B had to hit the player(s) from team A trying to rebuild it. Team B could pass the ball amongst themselves but the player holding the ball couldn't run so he had to try to hit the players from team A while standing still. The game lasted till team A could rebuild the stack and yell 'San San santoliya' or till team B could hit all the players from team A and remove them from the game. To this day I have not met adult who knew what this game. I look like an idiot everytime I mention it.
And 'oonch neech' ( high/low) I have no idea what even was this game or how does one play it. I'm half convinced that both these games were a figment of my imagination.
libelouslibellue · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 8 my family lived in a townhouse with a basement that had a lot of junk in it. I would take my little brother down there and make him sit in a giant cardboard box with me. I called this game “Anne Frank”...my brother was Anne Frank, I was Margot, the cardboard box was the cattlecar taking us to Bergen-Belsen. I hope he doesn’t remember...
Urfslam · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin loved playing “cook the baby”
lingeringwinter · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
trampoline football.
the black stuff is the goal. you score your go in goal.
best game in the world.
TheSwagonborn · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
so there's a small rubber ball, you sit on your knees (hurts now that i'm older) and smack it with your hand. you can't grab it, but you can do so fucking much with it because it's bouncy that crazy plays occured and everyone was styling. i think at some point we ruled that gks have to pounce in order to make a save, because sitting still was too easy in door-sized goals and because a pouncing gk makes every play more epic.
soviman1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would come over to my house and we would play hide and seek...in the dark...with "traps" setup throughout the room. The loser was the one who got bloody first.
RoninJak · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie Tag. Instead of transferring "it" to the tagged they "infected" the tagged. By the end only one person was left and we played with all the kids in my neighborhood so you were running from like 20-30 kids. Once you were the last man standing a safe zone was available and if you made it there you were extracted by helicopter (won). Almost no one ever won but my brother was a fucking ninja and was able to quite a lot. The safe zone was the big kennel we locked the dogs up in sometimes and it had a roof so it could be quite hard to get in the only gate. It was fantastic though. We played well into our teens.
KoolKarmaKollector · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a few games we invented on the trampoline. One that sticks in my mind is "bug and tower", where one person would be the "bug" and crawl around the edge of the trampoline, and the other person was the "tower". The "tower" would try to fall onto the bug, and the bug had to bounce out of the way
The other game was "mud baths", where one person would sit on the sofa and kick the other person from behind so they went flying across the room
Gonza-iwnl- · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Age of empires, still play it. Best shit ever.
infinitestaairs · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play tag with a twist, the person who was it had a sleeping bag over thier entire body. Basically just running around into walls Lmao. A little bit more fun than that my friends and I would take the pieces that people would use as players in monopoly, hat car etc, all 6 and hide them throughout the house and the other person had to find them.
APailOfCheese · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and would play bubble fish. The bubble fish would be in the basement in the dark while everyone else was on the stairs. The bubble fish would try to drag people into the dark and everyone would have to come save them.
BAMAN0899 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family and my dads best friends family would often go on holiday to a camping spot near a river. My ‘uncle’ would take me and his daughter on a canoe to go treasure hunting. He’d find a sand bank and tell us there’s chocolate bars hidden somewhere in the sand. He would have gone there before and buried chocolate bars in the sand. It was so much fun to dig in the sand and find chocolate at the end.
outcastedyt · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if it is unique,but from what I understand it's not that common.
So, a group of my friends and myself would play a game that we called "murder in the dark".
The way this worked was there were 3 different roles: the murderer, the detective, and the citizen. The role that you got was determined by drawing labeled papers from a hat, and no one is supposed to see what role you got for the game to work.
With all of the lights off the murderer is supposed to "kill" all of the other players by touching them and saying "you're dead". If this happened to you you had to lay on the ground where they killed you, and you had to be silent and were not allowed to move.
The job for the citizens and detective is to find the dead bodies and when you do you yell murder on the dark. When this happens all of the lights go on and the living people meet up to guess who the murderer was. The detective gets priority unless they are dead then it goes to majority vote.
The murderer wins by either killing everyone or not being guessed when a dead body is found. The citizens and detective win by spotting a murder happening or guessing the murderer.
marsaz · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in elementary school some friends and i started this foot stomping tournament style game. Basically to get a point you had to step on the other person’s foot, but there was a limited gameplay area so no running for your life. We had rankings and shit and the adrenaline rush you’d get when someone missed your foot by a hair was wild.
vemenist · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "baby game"... my brother, sister and I are STILL PLAYING THE GAME! As children we decided we were going to play a game where we were babies that grew up... but we decided to never quit the game and just keep playing it for the rest of our lives. Every few years one of us remembers it and reminds each other that we are all in fact, still playing the baby game.
ppptraining · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sweet N Low. You take turns at a restaurant and try to get the sweet n low packet as close to the edge as possible without falling off. If it stops on the edge the other person had to eat the packet. But if yours when over, you had to eat it. Good times with my brothers.
CricCracCroc · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Correct me if this isn't unique! Us grade school kids came up with a modification of standard Tag. It was called "vampire". The one that was "it" at the start of the game was Dracula. If you fall into Dracula's grasp, you become a vampire too and now try to tag the living runners. It was great because the last kids to become vampires always had a really stressful time, having 10-15 vampires on their tail.
We originally tried a variation where the secondary vamps had to hold the runners down and wait for Dracula to turn them, but that ended up with too many fights and hurt feelings 😅
AlwaysIvan · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game: GINGIVITIS Players: Myself and a cousin Ages: Started @ age 6. Lasted 5 years Rules: Try to do a sneaky sneaky and get your naked big toe into the other persons mouth. When your big toe is in their mouth you have to say GINGIVITIS in a British accent.(we are from the USA) Example: My cousin is yawning while laying on the floor and i do the sneaky sneaky and come up from the side and slide my big toe in his mouth. While toe is in mouth i say “GINGIVITIS” in a British accent.
Not making this up 👍
TwilightZone-_- · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stink Finger where one of us would put on a blind fold and out our finger in the cats bear cave and let the bears out into the forest. The winner earns the inheritance of fathers college funds. The losers would have to make octopus wiener dogs with ketchup and mustard for the eyes
underwear11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "the game of death". We had one of those hard rubber disks you skip on the water in the pool. Teams of 2 on each side of the pool. Goal was to skip the disk across the water and get it passed the other team and hit the wall. First team to 10 wins. It was call the game of death cause whoever was in the deep end was treading water while this disk that could knock your teeth out was thrown at your floating head. It was half playing defense and half survival.
Lil8yearold · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had "Smash and Crash" a tounament where we would crash hotwheels until they flipped over or broke and if that happened they were out.
Mooch07 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ours was called “Turn the lights off and throw the glowing bouncy balls at each other as hard as possible” It was fun!
SmartBeast · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd bring all of my toy guns out to the back yard and plan my base defenses. I'd have full conversations with all the other characters that were in it. Most of the time I was an international arms dealer from the future who sold guns to all the different governments. I'd craft a weapon from the future and sell it to them. Spent 100s of hours selling billions of dollars worth of weaponry and was the most powerful man in the world.
I was a lonely child.
cloud7strife · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
More as teenagers, my friends and I played the "wait until they're not looking and hit them in the balls" game.
NerdRageShow · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The one you just lost by thinking about it
Kingangus39 · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when ninjago was a new thing, everyone in 2nd grade would go into the field and spin with their arms out trying to hit each other. It ended after someone ended up getting a bloody nose.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘The ghost game’. Probably a bit similar to something like murder in the dark, but the tagger had to wear a blanket over their heads and to tag the person you had to hug them. I have physical scars from that game, we’ve lost a projector screen because of it and put a hole in the couch and wall.
thespecialpoint · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a game I still play today which only requires a pencil, a paper, and some creativity. The game is called Doodle Wars, and it is a turn based game centered around 2 sides, you and your opponent. There is a line on the paper to represent the floor, and a line to represent an impenetrable wall. This wall is unbreakable, no matter what, and this fact is one of the only rules in the game.
The objective is to draw something to get to the other side of the wall and destroy everything else on the other side, by any means necessary. By any means necessary, I mean ANYTHING. You can draw whatever you want, whether it be a robot, an army, a city, or something extremely dumb, like a shoe. The game ends when one person has clearly won, or in a truce.
The only recommendation is that when playing, try to be creative, because this game is super easy to win. All you have to do is create something like a nuclear bomb that destroys everything, and you win. The best games I’ve had while playing are the games where stupid, absurd things happen. Remember the shoe I mentioned earlier? I won the game with that. This game is extremely fun, and I’ve been playing it for years.
If you want to play doodle wars with a friend, here is the template. By the end of the game, the paper should look like this. I know, it looks insane.
elboltonero · 1 points · Posted at 19:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rain
1stLtObvious · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our house had a back porch about ten feet high. My siblings and I would put a thin blanket or sheet on the ground below to be a "cushion", then jump from the porch to the blanket, landing whichever way. It's amazing we never broke anything.
Mythe0ry · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nancy Drew. We only seemed to do it in the winter, when the snow was also covered in a layer of ice, so your feet would crunch down into it. I remember that the trees were people, and they all had names. No idea where the Nancy Drew part came in, lol.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm saving this post, for when my son is older. These are all amazing.
rudwurer · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, cousin and I used to run a home shopping channel out of our grandmother's walk in closet, a business enterprise which would last several years. I, being the youngest at 5 years old or so when this all started manned the phone lines from a stepping stool I used as a desk, using a extra telephone which was kept in the closet. I took orders and checked if items were available with the on air talent. My sister and my cousin (4 years my senior) were the on air talent and also in charge of finding the various products we sold from inside the closet. This closet was glorious by the way. filled with shoes and evening wear from the 60s, 70s, 80s AND 90s. Grandma kept her tools and general junk in there as well as upcoming Christmas presents. Oh, the curtain rods and windshield wipers we sold out of that closet...
BigTex419 · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Oops, I'm sorry"
We used to purposefully trip each other and then say "oops, I'm sorry" and that was the whole game and we played every day.
Children are evil.
RBXOfficial · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my second oldest brother came up with a game called “Kill Nick Jr.” I remember inspiring it from an odd dream I had nine years ago where characters from the channel came out of TV screens and wanted to kill me. We ended up using sticks from outside as weapons, like shotguns and my personal favorite: swords. We don’t play it anymore since we’ve grown up, but it still left a memory as to how unethically creative I was growing up.
Bad_At_Creating_Name · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play ba(skate)ball. It was just playing basketball on roller skates. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up and this kept me entertained for hours in my backyard growing up. We had about a half court with a basketball hoop and I didn't think practicing regular basketball was hard enough for me haha
2Pugs2Furious · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Midnight Rotunderies' with my brother and grandpa when we were little. It was basically flashlight tag but my grandpa would wear a halloween mask and he would walk around the yard roaring trying to 'find' us.
NauticalEntombment · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Extreme Skateboarding" We had a creepy, dark, spider-infested crawl space underneath our laundry chute in the basement. My two sisters and I would "gear up" by adorning our full winter snow suits and jackets. Mittens, cap, scarf, and boots. Then, one of us would sit cross-legged on a skateboard and get hooked up to the "retrieval device" aka: three jump ropes tied together and then around the skater's waist. Then we would push the skater down the length of the basement, and let 'em roll as fast as possible into the spidey hole. We would then drag them out backwards with the jump rope device. We played this game for quite a few months, until we realized the house was super haunted and moved out. Fun times, though!
Cor_the_Tyrannosaur · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played violenceball. We used the little red ball ripped of a paddle board thing. The objective was violence so you'd throw the ball at each other and then fight for posession of it. We envisioned a real life version that used ball bearings and had a league full of preteen toilet humor team names like "butt thunder".
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tgwinford · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fumble Rumble Rumble
Massive pile of blankets and pillows on the floor. Take a small ball (like no bigger than a tennis ball) and put it in the pile and start mixing everything up. Then everyone starts with a hand on the wall, one person yells "Fumble Rumble Rumble" and everyone converges on the pile. First person to get the ball to the wall wins. So, it turns into a massive pillow fight meets needle in a haystack.
Billsuckok · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark. It’s exactly what it sounds like. We would turn of all the lights at night so it was pitch black and we would play hide and seek. It was extra fun because you could hide out in the open, as long as you were out of arms reach. We stopped when a friend visited for the first time (didn’t know the layout of the place) and hit her head on a corner. She had to get a bunch of stitches...
Errahs · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
used to play a game with a neighborhood friend where we would ride our bikes up and down our road and toss a football back and forth while riding. soon as we reached the stop sign, it was a "touchdown" (3 points). turn back around and continue. if we dropped the ball, it was minus a point.
later we got a few more friends to join in.. chaos heightened as in order for the defense to stop offense from scoring, we had to ram our bikes into each other... on the pavement.. we transitioned to the field behind our houses and played a little more aggressively.
good, simpler times.. I miss them dearly
arvinakbaa · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad has this game we used to play when I was younger where you would get walnuts that are still in their shells and role them down this cushion and if you hit the other walnuts on the ground they would be yours. At the end of the game the person with the most walnuts wins and then we would crack the walnuts and eat them so everybody wins. I’m not sure if this is a game they played in Iran or my dad just created but it was fun
SF_CrawNik · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with the neighborhood friends were we'd hide a close pin. One person would hide it, then everyone else would find it. We played at the same kids house because he had a pretty good size yard. You'd get points for finding it, or a point if everyone gave up. The rules were fairly lose, didn't really have a time limit or point limit. Just til we got bored. It just had to be visible and reachable from standing on the ground (because one kid was an asshole and kept hiding it up a big ass tree). You'd get 3 clues and/or a hot and cold meter. Most places involved putting it on a hedge, under the trampoline, in a short tree and on the fence.
BrokeEggs_NoOmlette · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mr Elliot's Arm Pits" middle school science teacher Mr. Elliot was notorious for his pit stains resulting in a ton of inside jokes between my best friend Ange and I. In the summer we put one of those oscillating sprinklers on or near her trampoline then would jump while dramatically trying to dodge getting sprayed by "Mr Elliot's Arm Pits" .
No, the gross name wasn't necessary to have fun jumping on a trampoline in a sprinkler. BUT it definitely helped make a game out of an already enjoyable activity by defining a clear objective.
PedroJG · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game in recess in which we had to step on the other players' feet to survive.
It was kinda like a battle royale but stepping on the rest of the players to eliminate them.
I'd encourage you to try it out, it's actually super fun!
BoomGaming360 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I started this thing in kindergarten when whenever I walk, I had to step on one tile, skip the next one, and step on the one after that.
atharluna · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 1st and 2nd grade one of our favorite games was Treasure Hunt. We would choose items to bury around our school grounds (they were pretty big). Then our favorite part was to make treasure maps. It was usually 3 of us that would take care of that. We would draw different areas (sort of what Minecraft does). We would even make them look old by crumpling them up with sand and tear little bits in the edges.
We would have copies of them in a small binder to keep track of what and where something was buried. (Some were more difficult than others)
Then we would bury them in different areas and our friends would have to find the treasure maps before finding the treasure. One teacher liked what we did and donated small "chests" to bury the treasure.
I don't think our teacher thought showing us the Goonies would have that big of an impact, lol.
kmbell333 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and brother invented the game “the riding of the bull”, which involved one person standing up with their legs spread far apart on a bed and the other quickly crawling underneath their legs on the mattress. The goal of the one standing was to drop down and land on top of the “bull”, and the goal of the “bull” was to make it to the other side safely. We played this for years.
ImperatorPC · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The shoe kicking contest. My brothers and friends would swing on our swing set as kids and kick off our shoes and see who could kick it the furthest. I had these rubber rain boots that would always go super far. Thanks for reminding me of this.
harmananimations · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played a game called "building falls down", where we used a big mattress that we slept on as children, we put the mattress vertical against the wall so it'd fall onto us. We would run and try to escape and not get hit by the falling mattress while also trying to push the other siblings under to get hit. The loser got hit
It was a fun game, 10/10 would play again if a big enough mattress could be found
MrBanditFleshpound · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bathtub-blade. Based on beyblade but we actually used some materials from Beyblade toys itself and metal-made fragments that we adjusted to our game. Of course battleground was the bathtub that someone threw away because he was pissed at Soccer team for losing Champion's League.
In the end,all our Bathtub-bladers were damaged beyond recognition(and further use)
wubwub789 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On holidays with my family, my brother and I shared a tent to sleep. I think we where both between 7-10 years old.
We had some stuff in the tent laying around like a torch, walkman etc.
So we made the candy grabber machine game. One arm was the grabber itself, other arm was the remote control of the grabber, fingers where buttons. We alternate each other each time. One of us was the candy grabber and other one can pick up stuff with the grabber machine haha.
dudewheresmycar420 · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother and I made a game we called extreme ping pong.
Its basically just ping pong, but when you get scored on you take your shirt off, turn around, and the other person gets to serve a pong ball at your back as hard as they can.
a lot of the games we played were like this tbh
Ceegull · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a trampoline growing up, and three younger brothers. Us and the neighborhood kids played a game called Kill the Man with the Ball. Basically exactly what it sounds like. We had a football, we'd do a tip off like at the start of a basketball game. If you caught that ball, you'd have 5-7 other kids literally trying to tear you limb from limb to get it from you. It was fun until my buddy's buck teeth went through my brothers cheek and my mom had to miss work to take him to get stitches.
oksnariel · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two friends and i would go in my friends basement and one of us would sit in a spinny desk chair and the other would spin them around. After a few spins the person would then get up from the chair and try and run to the door while the third person hits them with a bean bag and knock them to the ground. We LOVED this game and would play it for hours.
merquaria · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My old neighbors and I played Trampoline Ninja, where one of us would be on the ground hurling bouncy balls at the rest of us who’d have to jump to dodge them, if you got hit you had to throw next. It was a blast.
icequeen3333333 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Election Day” basically infection but when someone became a “trump” (the votes were in and he had one as they would win most of the time) you had to yell “GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT” if you were nearby
brh8451 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in grade school my Dad, brother, and I would play a game that we had developed over the months of breaking in the new huge basement we had in our new home.
We would go into said basement and throw a ball around and the rules were simple:
Ohmysmut · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I shared a room and before we went to sleep we’d play this game called “faffy” named after the dragon from Dave the Barbarian..and all we would do is put the word “faffy” in front of an object. Like “faffy donuts” and we’d go back and forth til we fell asleep. We were like 4 and 6.
canokr01 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby game, we would go down in the basement with the lights off and chuck beanie babies at each other.
z0mbiemechanic · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "hot box". There were two bases about 15-20 yards apart. One person with whatever kind of ball we could find, would stand between both bases but back a few feet and toss the ball into the air. Ball person's goal was to trick people into running so they could hit one of them and make them it. Then the person hit became the ball thrower.
I don't know how unique it was, but I had never seen anyone else play it.
babycakes729 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would play "Monster" with my brother and I. He'd pretend to be this gangly monster and it was up to me and my brother to fight him and take him down. Really just ended with him tickling us and flinging us on the couch lmao.
Now I'm sad that there was a last "Monster" game and we never realized it! Probably when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade.
denijah5 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my kids were little, we would play “Wonder Pets” in the pool. It consisted of me pushing them around on a floaty mat while singing the theme song to the cartoon Wonder Pets. Those were sweet times. My oldest is going to college in the fall. I’m really going to miss that kid.
HumongousFungus123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I made up a game called ‘hillbilly hug’. We basically fought to the death on the trampoline while talking like hillbillies.
Softspoken02 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure about unique, but my cousins and I played this dumbass game where you had to go tgrough the alphabet and name something that started with that letter. (So, like, Cities would be A "Atlanta" B "Boise" and so on)
If you couldn't think of anything, or it took you more than 10 seconds to answer. you had to punch yourself in the dick
SamNoche · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a kid but in high school my friends and I loved to play “Red Herring”. To play we’d pick a room in whatever friends house we were at. That would be the scene of the crime. We each draw a slip of paper with our role. There’s four roles you could be: detective, murderer, red herring, and victim. There would be one detective, one murderer, one red herring, and the rest were victims. Once everyone knew their roles we would turn off the lights. The detective wood wait by the light switch. Everyone bumbled around trying to shake someone’s hand. The murderer would “kill” the person by scratching the palm of their hand. The person who had their palm scratched would then have to dramatically scream and die. As soon as the detective heard the scream they had to flip on the light switch. To not get caught the murderer would usually try to step away from the victim as quickly as possible so as not to raise suspicion. If the detective has a feeling they knew who did it they would guess. If they were right the murderer is “arrested” and the game starts over. The red herrings job was to “die” without having actually been killed by the murderer to throw off any noted pattern (like who was seemed to always be by the victim when they lights came on). If the murderer lasted till the end and was the last one standing they defeated the detective. We’d change up some of the finer details but overall that’s how we played it. I loved that game so much.
SimpleWolfie · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finally, a place to share this. In middle school, my friends and I played something we called "The Dart Game." The premise is that you call someone's name and when they look over you make a gesture of blowing a blow-dart at them. If you got darted, then you would have to fall and go completely limp (no matter the situation) until someone "pulled the dart out." People would fall down stairs, off ladders, pretty much anywhere as long as we stayed dedicated to the Game. Obviously this doesn't apply to life-threatening situations but it was still great all the same.
the_frikin_pope · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wouldn't really call it a game but me and my cousins would take a hammer and smash the brakes off of those small battery operated jeeps that toddlers can drive around and we would race them down hills and do drifts and hit ramps and try not to die.
TheLicc · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play with out Pokemon cards by sliding them across the table at each other. The card that ended up on top of the other would win. This resulted in plenty of bent cards. She eventually lost interest in Pokemon cards when I figured out the actual way to play with them lol
richie74wells · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend of mine would play various games to do with blankets, one where you have to be wrapped up tightly and try escape, another one was where we were each wrapped in a blanket and it was basically a race to see who could get to the other side of the room without leaving the blanket
perplexedonion · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Brawl ball.’ Played on a basketball court. Only rule is to get the ball in the basket. Our VP ended up banning the game, even though there were no serious injuries.
IWillDrinkToThat · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy sticks
out_of_all_loops · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played what could translate to "heist". One would set up a room, with a "safe" to break into without tripping any alarms. We would make motion sensor "laser emitters" out of lego pieces, "circuits" around closet lids, etc.
Then the thief would go in with the "tools" like cables (piece of string), "night vision goggles", try to spot the sensors and avoid them. You would "inspect" suspicious things and the other person would say if the inspection revealed anything. If there were pressure sensors on the floor, you'd have to deal with "floor is lava" factor, which was fun. If there were lasers, you'd have to do spider around them while the other one was watching if you touch any rays.
When you open the safe, you'd have to switch the "diamond" with its fake. Then the challenge would be leave everything as you found it to not raise suspicion.
So it was basically an RPG game we invented before we even knew what RPG was. It was pretty fun.
elsieburgers · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Foxes"
We were secret agent foxes, my friend had a big forest with a creek behind his house, and we would pretend we were spies on the run from the government for being..sentient foxes, among other things. Also we had British accents. (We lived in midwest USA)
isaacqntn · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “the dark game”
Essentially we’d make an obstacle course in our basement, and have one person be “it.” That person would hold a rope that was made from a blanket and try to tag the people with it by swinging it around. We’d turn the lights completely off so it’s pitch black, and the other players would have to get from one side of the room to the other, without getting tagged.
What were we thinking..,
Grayskis · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was really young I loved the magic tree house series, the adventures, the puzzles etc. I wanted to go on crazy adventures like them. But, as you’d expect, from an 8 year old, I didn’t have the chance to find a magic treehouse. Instead I would go hide beer from our fridge around the neighborhood, draw a detailed map of all the “areas” we’d have to cross, like crocodile swamp and the Phoenix volcano. I would then go grab my mom and/or dad and say I know where some treasure is but we have to go on an adventure. I would then lead them on the “journey”, pointing out each location, letting them read the map, and being a tour guide of this imaginary world I created. When we would get to the hiding place, they would look around, grab the beer, and drink it on the walk back.
BeefSteak12 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would see who could hang off the couch the most. We never made a name for it. We just kinda did it between commercials.
neuralgoo · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played with bottle caps. I had hundreds of bottle caps and I created "soccer teams", with sprite vs. fanta (and coke were the keepers. If you push down on a button with the bottle caps you can make the button move, so that was the equivalent of the kicking. I had goal posts made out of empty yogurt bottles.
I would create a world cup bracket between different soda teams and would play against myself.
When I moved countries my mom made me throw all my bottle caps away (I'm pretty sure I was close to 1000), and 13 years later I still don't forgive her.
LadyLuna21 · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Don't you dare let go" a game my sister and I created when I was like 5 and she was 3. Basically, one of us would grab onto a solid object (closed door, railing, large furniture) with one hand, then grab the other person by their hand and lean. Felt like you were defying gravity as you just hung towards the ground, at the same time telling the person holding both of you up "don't you dare let go" and preparing to fall at the same time.
Then eventually they would let go and tumble into a heap on the floor. Pretty sure it ended after playing hanging over the staircase and I being larger landed on her wrong.
HeidelCraft · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock wars. Family would crawl on the ground and you need to get the socks off everyone else. Last one with a sock on would win.
shtocker · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger sister and I had a game we'd play in the car called "That's Where You Live" which, as the title suggests, involved simply pointing at things and saying "hey, you see that bin over there? That's where you live". We found it hilarious, and the worse the place would be to live, the funnier it was.
I'm now twenty two and honestly, we sometimes still play it.
CitizenWoot · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a DOS game called 'Gorillas.exe' that was on my old comp. It had a destructible skyline or random height skyscrapers, and to King Kong style gorillas on opposite sides. The 'game play' was turn based where you set the angle and force to throw your explosive banana, with the goal being to be the first gorilla to explode your opponent. The strategy was going over or through, but in the end the 'meta' became the high lob with insane force numbers. It's amazing how such a simple game was so entertaining.
thatsthetiket · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad was a huge fan of UHF, so when I was little and my dad did "upsy-daisy" with me, he would always say "Are you psyched? Are you ready to fly? Fly foofie, fly!"
runransam · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would turn the lights on and off upstairs from the bottom of the stairwell at grandmas house and make thunder noises and pretend we were in a storm. And that’s imagination kids
averageinternetgirl · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 2.
In one, there would be an assigned person to play "the cow". The cow would then go to sleep, and everyone else would have to drag the cow around the room on a blanket, trying not to wake it. When the cow "woke up", it would be an angry cow, and would try to tag us as we all ran away from it. The person who got tagged would be the next cow.
I did this with my best friend in kindergarten and 1st grade (so like 5-7 years old) and every recess we would go under the bushes and get the same big rock that was there. We pretended it was an egg, and would spend the entire recess gathering grass and flowers to surround the rock to make a nest for it. Day after day, over and over again. Nothing ever changed in the game.
Puddles118 · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom told me she used to play "Hot Dogs" with her brother and sisters. They all used to lay on the floor next to each other, like a pack of hot dogs emptied into the pan...then start 'cooking' by rolling around and squealing like a hot dog would. Thats it.
JDChinch · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad, brother , sister and I invented a game we called "Steamroller". One person would lay on the floor with room behind their head on one side and room behind their feet on the other. The remaining people would be one on side of the steamroller and have to run across without getting touched by the rolling steamroller. If you got tagged, you became the steamroller.
Smilepotato · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"zombies" basically tag but you have to touch person with stick. You have no idea how proud I was that I came up with this game.
drrtydan · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would take baseball cards and make individual piles by team one player at a time. As the teams would get a card they would race ahead of the other team one space. Had a gigantic “track” that I would make on the basement floor. Did it for hours. Don’t remember how one team would “win”
crazysexyfriday81 · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No name to the game but simple rules, hands behind your back and then try to bite the shit out of each other. With a quick twist shoulders became a dangerous weapon to the face (mouth and lips took a beating in particular)...Ahh the good ol' days
cynicalsylvester · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd "fish." Essentially got a string/rope, tied it to a clothes hanger, threw a bunch of random shit on the ground, climbed to the top of the bunk bed, and started trying to reel it in.
It was a mess.
elconejorojo · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boobeleboo: the art of standing at the end of the driveway (at night) watching for oncoming cars, holding out until the last second possible to sprint and hide from said oncoming car behind all the junk in the garage.
I was easily entertained. Still am.
Unspeakablepadfooy · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Dinosaurs! We had this fucking huge pile of sand in my backyard when I was little and my friends and I would bury “eggs” (baseballs or whatever ball shaped items we could find) and we would roam around and try to steal each other’s eggs. It was really very fun!
Edit: Just remembered camp zenith! One year I went and the entire camp played blow darts. It was like 500 kids walking around with our hands to our throats and the dedication when hit was unreal. People fell into gravel, got carpet burns, and spilled their food doing this. Counselors played too, straggling along behind their groups to un-paralyze people.
sawdummy · 1 points · Posted at 19:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Break it up
Me or my brother would leave a turd in the toilet for the other as a surprise to "break it up" by pissing on it.
Yeah.
fucksilvershadow · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend bounced on a trampoline and pretended we went into tubes that turned us into animals. Im surprisingly not a furry now.
mak_0308 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my mum
TheGingerAvenger95 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Golckey. It was a mixture of golf and hockey. It was standard rules of hockey, but with golf clubs and golf balls used on a large field. Tackling was a must so you always had to watch out. We played until I took a 9 iron to the face, which put a gash next to my right eye and chipped off some bone. It was all around a good time
brighttiara · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twist and Drag. Take the water hose, wrap it around your friend’s ankles and have others drag them through the yard.
napoleonette19 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Karate Ballet. You do ballet twirls and try to kick your sister in the process. A great way to get out anger and then blame it on just trying to win the game.
shalaura · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had a computer game where you you played as a deer and you hunted rednecks and had calls like "free red nugget tickets" It was called deer avenger
unicorm123 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an avid explorer of the outdoors, I managed to collect a bunch of pillbugs (which I kept in a plastic container filled with moss and other critter comforts for the little guys) and encouraged a friend to do the same. During weekend play dates, we would hold pillbug races, and pit similarly sized pillbugs against each other and watch them run from one end of the carpet to the other. It was exhilarating for six year old me, especially since I always ended up winning.
1johhnyboy · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:24 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
I did something similar. We had a large sandbox that was perfect for building obstacle courses for pillbugs. What interesting little creatures!
GForce1975 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boingidiongidiongkingkong -- I was the oldest of 5..the game was we took all the sofa cushions off, pillows, comforters...i, as the biggest, would lie down on the bare sofa and the kids would stack all the pillows and cushions on top..
They would say "boingidiongidiongkingkong! " and I would explode up and they would fly up, surfing as the cushions and pillows exploded out.
birdcafe · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would pretend to be homeless children traversing the country on our own (when i was 7ish and she was 5ish). We would take cans of soup from our cupboard and wrap a blanket around them and carry them around in the blanket like a sack. We would travel from room to room in our house to “camp out” and pretend to sleep for the night, eat our soup, and then move to the next room.
I have no idea for sure where we got this from, but I’m guessing I was inspired by the homeless train-hopping characters from the Kit (American Girl Doll) books (set in the 1930s).
Idk why our parents weren’t more concerned that we thought homelessness was fun?? I still have fond memories though!
Mogandersson · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd play hide and seek but with a twist, all the hiders would pile into a room and push the door shut and the seekers would try to barge open the door. This went on until one day a fairly large seeker managed to slam the door off its hinges and crushed a bunch of us, after which we never played that style of hide and seek again(after some a harsh telling off and a trip to the hospital).
janufa01 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings used to play “intruder”. My brother, being the oldest, would be the intruder while me and my two sisters would be the one players. We would hide in a location around the house, usually a small room or closet, and wait until our brother found us. When he found us we would try to keep him out of the room for as long as possible(imagine three small kids trying to hold a door shut against a teen). The game got pretty wild sometimes and occasionally ended with an injury or broken door.
ambayyyctzen · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we had these big blue cushions, that we proudly called "Buttshitstones" and put them on our big staircase. then we sit on the remaining buttshitstones and slid down the stairs. and sometimes we put the stones on the lower end of the smaller staircase and jumped on them from upstairs.
and there also was that house somewhere in the village that had lion statues on their fence, and we were convinced that that was where the president of the village lived. i can't really remember this myself and my parents told me about it, so i don't know where that house is and who lives there.
MaDoge1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother lived in the same room when we were kids and we would each build our own fortress around our beds. When we're done, we would both wear construction helmets and start throwing each other with wooden bricks. Good times!
Porkechop · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
slender, it consisted about the videogame but slender could move and it was always one of us(usually me because i am tall af) well every time someone got killed that person became a proxy, it was 20 minutes where you must hide or you got eyefcked , you survived if the bell ringed and you got to the class, campers werent allowed lol
remarkablynormal · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play the Log game. One person would lie on the bed and roll around like a log, and the other person had to jump over. The log's goal was to make the other person fall. And that's how I got my first black eye
DocN1ck · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was pretty common for my family and a bunch of other neighbors would go on a trip somewhere as a kid and one of the best things all the kids would play at the hotel was creatively named the Hotel Game where we'd split up into two teams to basically play a giant game of tag across the hotel. One team was "it" while the others tried to catch them and the only rules were no going in rooms, it was made even better one year when my family prepared for it and brought along some walkie talkies so we could split up and still talk to each other. We chased each other for hours until the hotel staff would make us stop from to many noise complaints. It worked best at hotels that were outdoors where you could see the across to try and see the other team, otherwise it's just a guessing game on where they're at.
AllUpInYaAllDay · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an uncle who would play "kick the ball for a dollar"
But way it's played is that he would kick the ball and whomever brought it back got the dollar.
As you can imagine it turned bloody really fast.
Then me wanting to be the cool uncle tried to do it with my 3 nephews.. after the 2nd time of beating each other up they decided sharing the pot would be easier than killing each other.... dont say they're not smarter, bc man we never figured that out
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique it is but I made my barbies have sex with each other.
Mindcomputing · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide a belt, one players who is on would hide the belt and specify a safe zone such as a small area by the swing or a tree and then all other player would have to keep their eyes shut til the player hid the leather belt. Then he would start to count down from 10 and then every would scramble to look for the belt. Frist finder would whip frigging everyone until each player is in the safe zone....
Please don't judge me it was a cruel game and I got it with the metal side once and cried for a bit..
In Germany early 90's
mmeddlingkids · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played conjoined twins. We'd hide half our bodies under a blanket and pretend we were conjoined, just flailing around under a blanket.
miclowgunman · 1 points · Posted at 19:49:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it Attack of the Killer Chickens. You put your elbows in your sleeve holes with your hands in your shirt to make wings. One or two people were It. If you got tagged you turned into a vampire chicken too. Anyone not a chicken by the end of recess won.
CraftyCheerio · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is going to get buried, but we played something called "The Everything Game". Basically, you could do whatever you want, play whatever you want, but no props were allowed. You had to use your imagination for everything.
My mom did daycare at our house and it was essentially a "clever" way of making sure the other kids didn't make a giant mess because they never had to clean anything up, we always did once they went home. It wasn't a perfect system, but hey it would work for an hour or two!
Theadorableduckling · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bonvoyodge : (keeping the rules private because it's special) but basically..one ball... catch + dodgeball. Only with the entire family. Head shot is a default, crotch shot is an automatic (shameful) out.
RebelScvm · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "Extreme Tennis" by myself, I would kick a beach ball up my stair case then wait for it to roll back down so I could kick/punch it back up. I watched a lot of Naruto and wanted to work on my ninja moves.
beaverbait · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played "Dead Body". One person lies on the trampoline, you sing a song about a dead body "Dead body! Dead body! ghoulie ghoulie ghoulie rum sum sum!" Then the person lying down tires to grab your ankles while you try to jump away. If you get grabbed you are the dead body. I am sure there were other versions of this, or we were just messed up kids.
_Komodo_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Smash Bash"
A game where me and my older brother (by 4 years) would legit just fight each other. There wasn't any special rules or twists or anything, it was just full on fighting. We've matured now but those days when we were like 7 and 11 years old were the best lmao.
smm523 · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carpet monster.
jushatch · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lipton, we would use the lid of a Lipton can and throw it like a frisbee at each other in the family room. Like tag in when you got hit with the Lipton kid you were “it” and it was your turn to throw
216Sunny · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play boggie school. Had a boggie church and everything. My sister use to make us eat our boggie as well. We were 7 at the time.
4jess4 · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called Ultimate Chaos. It began with me and my brother at one end of the corridor with all of my dads juggling equipment. My dad would then start crawling on his hands and knees towards us from the other end of the corridor and we would try and keep him at bay by chucking the juggling equipment at him.
saintfed · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Theft & Shrubbery
cayyleigh · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play Scare Fest.
We would turn all of the lights off in the basement and one person who was ‘it’ would wait upstairs. Then that person would come down and try to find everyone, but everyone hiding is trying to scare you and jump out at you. The person who scared you the most would be ‘it’ next.
Definitely made for some good scares!
SuperBrentindo · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers.
CodeMagick · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play "banana". We would hangout in the street in front of my house which is right at a small neighborhood "T" intersection where cars could travel in 3 different directions. When we would see a car coming our direction we'd yell "headlights!" and run and hide wherever we could so the car wouldn't see us when they drove by. If the car turned down another street before it drove by us, we'd say "banana" and come out of hiding and wait for another one. If you didn't make it to a hiding place before the car drove by or got obviously close enough to have seen you, you lost that round. We didn't really keep score, we just played until we were tied of playing or until someone obviously lost so much that the game was just over lol.
P.S. - Before all the "omg that was so dangerous"; yes, it probably was, but this was also 20 years ago and in a small residential area where cars would slowly turn onto the street so we had ample time to see them coming from a couple hundred yards away in any direction.
plumbermat · 1 points · Posted at 19:50:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my two brothers and I would stand face to face, stretch our arms out to where our hands were at the others elbow. The object of the game was to not move your feet, with only slapping the others hands. A hard push might knock him, but if he avoided the contact, you were moving your feet forward. Lots of fakes, trying to get them to lose there balance. Good times.
shabadabadabada · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before LARPing was a thing, my pals and I would hit each other with sticks in the forest.
portofly94 · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I loved to play video games together. When we were at my grandma's house, we were never allowed to play games and were always told to go outside. So we'd find a cool group of tree roots that looked like a bench with bushes all around, and we'd pretend to play video games with each other. we'd talk through what we were doing. I remember it being almost as fun as the real thing =)
EternalAlchemoose · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played „Curse of the Aztecs“. It was a story driven adventure with a lot of cool puzzles, cocoa-beans as payment and a big conspiracy about poisoned water and regicide. I learned a lot about the culture aswell! Great memories!
TheNaniganor · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always played "The Tripping Game" with my sister where she would sit on the couch and I would run back and forth and she would trip me. I would try to stay upright but slammed into the entertainment center every time.
My best friend and I used to play "Don't Wake the Parents" where we would put our pillows and blanket in the hallway right outside her (pretty aggressive tbh) parent's door and then try to stifle our laughter enough to not get into serious trouble.
Kiyriel · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was bored in church with no toys so I used both hands to create people and have wild adventures in the back of the bench where the books are kept.
baldmannbob · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lawn darts catch, shoot the arrow as high as possible and try to get it to land right beside you.
naman_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fatty crougar, it was just tag but the fattest person was it at first and they would get a stick to help them tag other. Really messed up game but still fun.
alex0and0rah · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I lived a town apart but would always talk on the phone as kids. We would play hide and seek on the phone. Basically we’d hide somewhere and try to guess where we were lol.
Bigb2226 · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d take all our action figures and put them on the trampoline and bounce as hard as we could until there was only one toy left who was declared the champion. Not only was it fun to see the champion but you had to dodge the toys with hard plastic tips, like all our dragon ball z toys? Yeah try landing on super Saiyan 3 Goku he was notorious for that. Then we’d take them all and throw them at an overhead power line that ran from the telephone pole to our house and try to get them stuck. The first toy to get hooked on the power line was the champion of that game. (I lost many legends to the roof of our house trying to hit that power line. RIP WWE Diesel and Yokozuna.)
olaf524 · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The stare at the sun game always hurt but was a power play if you won.
bchafes · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Together or Apart”: At lunch or dinner, we’d turn around and hide something like an apple slice or piece of cheese and maybe break apart. Then we hold it tightly on both ends and turn back and ask “together or apart” and the other kids had to guess if there was a fine crack running through it (therefore apart) or if it was still a whole (therefore together). So exciting. :)
Johno_22 · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1) Flick football. Me and my dad would kneel down either side of a room, a radiator was one goal and the sofa the other, and we would use a little spongey ball and hit it with our hands and try to score in the other person's goal. The term "flick" came from a special move where you flicked the ball up with your hand and then hit it whilst it was in the air. You couldn't throw the ball, only hit it with the hand like volleyball. Great fun
2) Not sure if this is unique or not but at school we played a game called Run Outs. You split into two teams of any size and each team had a "home" - we used two litter bins either end of the playground. You had to get to the other teams home and touch it, and the other team could stop you by any means possible. So like rugby or American football without a ball. Needless to say it got banned at school fairly quickly
microwavedcashew · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I created my own character for myself within the universe of Avatar: the Last Airbender. Thing is, I played alone, so it consisted of me talking to imaginary characters and ‘bending’ what was around me- namely, sticks, rocks, mud, kicking the air, the works. Still love the show deeply
sposth · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this fun game where 5 of us boys would jerk of to see who finished first and last. First one won. Last one lost.
Looking back this was very stupid of me since I can only last a minute now. But I was a winner back then.
onurh · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knight Online
flordemaga · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, we would pretend-play Legend of Zelda. The catch is only like two kids ever knew what LoZ was (not including me), and also no one knew the characters other than Link and Zelda. So one boy would be Link, one girl would be Zelda, and the rest would be Zelda’s cousin, Zelda’s sister, Link’s brother, Link’s cousin, etc.; or the bad guys. It was just essentially a very elaborate “save the good guys from the bad guys” with LoZ related names lol
owthatHz · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “ouch” basically we beat the living shit out of each other and the first person to say “ouch” or “ow” lost
stooble · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad brought some industrial ball bearings home from work. Big steel things about an inch across. My sister and I played “danger marbles” with furious speed on my mum’s nice parquet floor. It ended pretty much as you’d expect, but we kept at it for years.
I painted that room recently and found so many marble divots in the skirting!
upornicorn · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My kid used to play "throw dirt in hair" with the pos neighbor across the street. No suprise this older, bigger crotch goblin was the creator and reigning neighborhood champion of said game, the only objective being throwing dirt on the heads of smaller kids. I'm not letting my kid off the hook here either as "throw dirt in hair" evolved to "throw rock at head". My kid came home bleeding and after his explanation of his wound, I was concerned that he might not process the necessary critical thinking skill required for survival.
MANDALORIAN_WHISKEY · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If any of my siblings are on reddit, they'll know this immediately.
We called it bonsai. It started with the person being "it" just shooting everyone as they ran down the house (open floorplan), and whoever "died" the best was picked to be "it". It later morphed into "it" walking into a bar scene (one of our bedrooms), and just blasting everyone away.
We watched waaaaaaaay too many movies as kids lol
mydogisobese · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my grandmas house she had a motion sensor for a light in the room me & my cousins stayed in so we tried to sneak out of the room without the light turning on. We’d do everything from army crawling to climbing on top of the wardrobe to get out.
Regg_Da_Veg · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Throw the ball over the wire” it’s as enthralling as it sounds. Growing up poor just means that imagination and the woods or a ball and a telephone wire is all it took to keep us busy and happy.
spymaster1020 · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beast. A mix of tag and hide n seek usually played at night in a large, forested, backyard.
dogdogdogsquirrel · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were these large round tube-like things chained to the chain link fence at the edge of the field for my school; I think they must have been storage containers or something. They were large enough to sit on, so whenever it was too muddy to play in the grass, my friends and I would sit on the containers and we’d take turns telling jokes in front of the group while they rocked back and forth on the container. If someone laughed or slid off the container, they lost that round and it would be their turn to go up and tell jokes.
No, I am not practicing improv or stand up as an adult.
thecatteam · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My yard was a dense forest with trails and various landmarks (benches, a shed, etc.). There were also flags on long branches as some kind of art installation put there by the house's previous owner. The neighborhood kids and I would split up the yard into various "countries," each with a home base and flag. We'd send diplomatic messages to each other and try to steal each other's flags. Our weapons were the sticky weeds that grew in summer. We'd prick it and throw it at each other.
Sovietnepal · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I play a couple with my younger brother, here are some
Shopkeep Essentially you use the chairs and other misc furniture like boxes and toyboxes and take all of our old toys and sell them to rest of the family
We also play whatever game we were just playing but in real life and in an alternate reality where we were soldiers/guards/etc
zedgy81 · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Leg cricket Like baseball with four bases no bat just a football you could be caught out run out or if you kicked it in someones garden you was out. Nothing at all like cricket.
Mikeyoyo · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Shoe Game. At either playgrounds or backyard playsets, we'd hop on the swings and just see who could fling their shoes the furthest. You'd have two attempts (two feet = two shoes, ofc). If you break a window, you lose.
The hard part was if you were on a playground and flung your shoe really far, walking barefoot across wood chips wasnt that great but you won that round of Shoe Game soooo.
CuredImages · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always used to move my head to “fly” specks of dust over the tree line on car rides
mrmrmrj · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Net Man. Take a large comforter or blanket, drape it over one person. Everyone has to be on their hands and knees and confined to a specific space. Better if the room has obstacles like beds, chairs, etc. The "Net Man" then tries to capture someone by enveloping them. Probably should have called it Blob but my brothers and I did not know about that concept at the time, circa 1976.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Penny tornado Wars.
CheeseOnChrist · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play 'the power game' where I was earth (the coolest because I could speak to animals) my oldest cousin charis was water and then abi was air and them two could could merge and make a combined power of ice Then me and my cousin Harry (his 'power' was fire) could combine...sort of lol and there were fire demons,water demons, air demons (they were invisble) and earth demons that were the strongest and all the demons were after me because I was really strong
We also had a game called I think it was either the troll or crocodile game where we would basically hide a 'key' (which was hiden by the troll or crocodile and you needed it to rescue the person taken hostahe before they were cooked and eaten) and one person would be taken hostage by the crocodile or troll or something and the troll or crocodile would be asleep under the sl8de which we would have to climb over (going UP the slide DOWN the stairs) without making a sound because if you did the troll or crocodile would awaken and chase everyone
TheLustyThrowaway · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The pushing game. You put your feet against the others, count down, and try to push the others feet to their chest. Many a face was accidentally kicked.
murppie · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know others have played too, but my little brother and I enjoyed the hell out of sting pong. I was a bit too good at ping pong so we upped the ante. You play shirtless and the other persons body is fair play. And the ball leaves Mark's if you hit them hard enough:)
RealKorkin · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had a very simple game we used to play (admittedly this was also mildly dangerous, but that's the best kind). So, we both had to walk in to school together, and to pass the time, we invented Stick Wars.
Each person would pick up a stick that they found while walking, then you'd attack the other person's stick with your own until one broke. The person that had their stick break then had to find a new one, and this repeated. An absolute blast to play, though we did occasionally whack each other's fingers.
Toy-Beaver · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Johnny crack corn" the it person would be blind folded. The object was to hide from the it person in the room. If the it person grabbed you for 3 seconds you were now it. Oddly during the course of playing this we managed to play in our underwear because we found out clothes make too much noise and give away your position. And the fun was trying to be quiet, as we know, this and being a kid do not mix... Also as a caveat, you could hit or throw things at the it person to distract them from where you really were.
ThermiteMan · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and our friends used to play a different version of infected at our local pool. Instead of just tagging to infect people, you'd actually have to bite them (Obviously not hard). The was no way for the survivors to win, only to be the last one infected. Looking back at it now that was pretty weird, but still fun, and I'd definitely play it again.
randomuser12324 · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In North Carolina there was a game we played called drunk driving where we would drink an entire bottle of water and ride go karts from a steep driveway down into another step driveway at top speed and ram the karts into our neighbors’ garage
K-Graff · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sugar, salt or pepper.
My oldest sister would grab us by our forearms and spin around before releasing us so we would tumble around. If you chose sugar she would do a slow spin and release, salt would be middle speed and pepper would be full throttle. Once your tumble came to a standstill you had to keep your position untill everyone had been thrown.
blackpersonofreddit · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents bedroom was on the first floor and my two siblings rooms were upstairs. Don't know if it's a game but we'd all jump on the floor until mom and dad woke up if they weren't up.
Thestylishbuffalo · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weasel Wars, me and my brother would just pretend we were weasels and the government would try to destroy us.
kollekter · 1 points · Posted at 19:52:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wall ball”. Middle school-era, 10-14 years old or so. At recess or afternoon waiting on buses, about 20-30 kids outside stood facing the brick two story wall of the gym. One kid would zing a tennis ball or pink rubber ball at the wall as hard as he could. If the ball hit you after the bounce, you had to run to the wall and tag it before whoever managed to catch the ball could hit you in h back with it. If you caught it clean, you got to throw it at the wall to start the pain all over again. Played it daily for the three years I was there, teachers thought kids writhing in pain with welts was funny, I guess.
Jay-Storm · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The other kids and I that lived on a pothole ridden dirt road in the swamps of Florida would play tag, but instead of tagging by touching with your hands, you’d tag someone by spitting on them. Personally though, my favorite game was “Throw pine cones at each other until you bleed and pretend they’re grenades”
Flamingindian_74 · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the hole
SirBackspace · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my mate used pretend to shoot at things from the balcony pretending they were Brits (later germans) boarding the ship. It was fun.
CatchtheFeBurr · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Wolf". We would walk really slowly out to the edge of the woods and stand there, then someone would yell wolf and we would all run screaming back to the house, only to slowly walk back out and do it again.
Side note: there are no wolves where I live.
AlexIsACoolGuyISwear · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I would play "it mine".
What we would do was grab one of those big yoga balls or space hopper and wrestle for its posesion, all while screaming "But it mINE", "no, IT MINE", "BUT IT MINE", and so on and so forth- progressively getting louder until we got tired or an adult told us to shut up
Kazakiii · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reverse Hide and Seek , not sure if this was a real game but it was basically hide and seek at night within our neighborhood (1 block radius). The objective is to have one person hide (can move around whenever they want), they have a 2 minute head start and the rest of the group will be the seekers who start searching after 2 minutes with light sources (flashlight/phone/etc). Once you find the hider, you hide with them and follow them around until the last seeker finds the group of hiders. They're the loser who has to search without any light sources next round. First person to find the hider becomes the hider for the next round.
ridersofrohan456 · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I had a game called “Ghost Down”. One of us used to cover ourselves with a thin blanket (usually me) and the other person trying to bring them down :D
It was fun until I threw my brother into what I thought was a couch. It was a table :(
cachefille · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this just brought back a memory i haven't thought about in at least 15 years. my brother and i used to have this game called "dead octopus." we could be doing anything; eating dinner, brushing our teeth, running around outside, but if one of us yelled "PLAY DEAD OCTOPUS" we both had to drop to the floor in the weirdest pose we could manage.
i hope he remembers that.
22taylor22 · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play tremors. We would grab nerf guns and other weapons and run around killing graboids, until they evolved.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and brother played Kabonkers, they filled up one of our dads atherosclerosis socks with other socks and beat the crap out of each other. This was inspired by In Living Color’s Homey the Clown
Hellenic_91 · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Border Patrol. My neighborhood was all Mexican except my neighbor and I. We used to have "border guards" stand in the middle of the street (mostly me). If you were "an illegal" you had to run past them across a line and not get tagged. As a kid, you think you're just playing a different version of tag.
UrbanAshke · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child me and my two older sisters played "The taste game" The rules are simple enough, be blindfolded and guess what you have just been fed.
I would give them mushed banana, strawberries, maybe a bit of orange peel. I got given bath salts, those little plasticy bath balls with the soap inside, vinegar, spoon full of flour. Of course if I didn't play they'd just beat me up, 4 and 2 years older I was only little too.
Older sisters sucked, so many other stories too
Datgirlmiley · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
.... the biting game.... cousin was a biter when she was like 3. it was tag but instead if she tagged you... she was allowed to bite you... couches were our safe place. (which they had 4 cause they had 3 sitting rooms)
mel1ssamayxx · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know what we called it or if it is even considered a game, but my sisters and I played this game where they’d lie on their stomachs on the trampoline and I’d either have to (literally forced to by them, youngest child syndrome) jump on their backs or roll on top of them.
Writing this has made me realise that was fucked. I was literally forced to jump on my sister’s backs.
Fin2K · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in a sack
GrindinMolcajete · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a very agricultural-based town in CA with lots of immigrant families from Mexico. During recess, we'd play "La Migra." It was essentially tag, except that the person that was "it" was an ICE agent (colloquially known as La Migra) and their goal was to capture all the players and put them in a pre-designated holding area.
I was in grad school when it dawned on me that shit was fucked up, and this was not a staple to people's childhoods elsewhere.
-Cosmocrat- · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister and I were really little we made up our own game called Bad Meat. Basically one of us would curl up in a ball on top of a couch cushion (representing a bread slice), and before the other sibling could put the other 'bread' on top, I would roll away while my sister shouts "BAD MEAT!". ah, simpler times....
VirtualPoolBoy · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We can’t be the only ones who did this, but...
We played “the floor is lava” but with one of us as the “hot lava monster” who only moved on the floor on all fours.
rahtin · 1 points · Posted at 19:53:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster rain.
Kezchenko · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Inner Space. You picked a space ship and flew around the file directories on your PC protecting your files from Viruses.
Pyraminxstars · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time I would go past a house and there was a line in parallel with me I would put my teeth together. For example, a side of the house or fence or something lol. It's really weird
iansch243 · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the other neighborhood kids used to ride our bikes following each other around the neighborhood, acting like we were a commuter train. We would make a stopping noise at every spot in the neighborhood and let people get on our off. We went in circles for hours, probably freaked out a few neighbors.
2nd-1776 · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next door neighbor is a year older than me, sometimes we weren't allowed to play in the same yard. We made a game called "kick it over the fence" it's what it sounds like we would kick a basketball over the fence to each other. The trees were pretty old so we would try to get it to hit the branches. We played that for a few years. Thanks for reminding me <3
jjbutts · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline Ball. One kid on the trampoline must dodge the ball thrown by the two people on the ground. Basically, dodgeball on a trampoline. It was amazing and I'd give anything to play it again and not kill myself in the process.
7armedspider · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would have a collection of pens, bottles, etc that were interesting shapes and would create epic sagas by using one as an arm, then reversed it was a blast of energy....I guess this sounds weird out loud, but it was like a totem from which my imagination would create the rest of the character, sceme, etc.
I was/am a lonely child. Ty video games
technokrat233 · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Ball.. basically kickball with a baseball bat
Shmeizer · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin had a fairly big house so he had two staircases going up to the second floor. So every Thanksgiving or Christmas we would play Alligator. One person would be at the bottom floor while the rest were upstairs trying to escape.
BoobieLuvrBoi · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a little late to the party but here’s mine.
My cousins and I at family gatherings play a game called “Hunk Drick”.
Basically we pretended to be alcoholics and make fun of our drunk parents. We’d get sodas, margarita salt, and limes. Pretending to take drinks, slur our words, and fall over while walking.
followthedarkrabbit · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "go jump in the garbage bin". The 'king and queen' would shout at the two jesters to 'go jump in the garbage bin'. The jesters would then dress like they jumped in the garbage bin (peg leaves to their hair and clothes etc). It they made the king and queen laugh, they won and got to swap roles, if not, they had to go jump in the garbage bin again. "Did you laugh?" "No! Go jump in the garbage bin!"
Kaiser_Dan · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but my brother, Dad, and I played 'Danbi', the name derived from Bambi. My dad and brother would hunt me with nerf guns like I was a deer... It was a ton of fun
yo229no · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for it but I used to live I. Townhouses (townhouses are kind of like apartments but they are full 2 story houses + basement) but all of them are connect to make a big long building. Anyways the "backyard" was just a large field and a lot of parking. But at either ends of the field were 2 trees (4 in total) they kind of made goal posts for soccer. Anyways we would have one or 2 people stand on each end (depended on the number of people playing and how many balls we had) and everyone else stood between them. It was kind of like Doge ball but only a few people could throw the balls and the rest had to Doge them
NoWonderlandd · 1 points · Posted at 19:54:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fishing with magnets and dowel rods behind our couch
quotth · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game called 'Pictures'. One person would pick a topic (i.e. an animal, an emotion, activity, etc) and the rest would have to pose as a picture. The winner (decided by the person choosing the topic) would get to pick a new one. Quite good fun in the mid '90s
sookia · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My wife and her cousins used to live in a rough part of town. They would play "drive by" Whenever a car drove by they would hit the deck, last one down was dead. Game went on until only one person was left.
Lawlish · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghosts in the Graveyard. So I played this with my brothers and neighbors. My front door was home base, and one person had to face the door and count to like 30. All of us would hide somewhere around the street or on the side of houses, and the boundaries were no more than one house away, so Home Base was always in the middle. The person who counted had to find and tag somebody in order to become one of the Ghosts in the Graveyard. If you ran to the door before you got tagged, you were safe.
bennett11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"GROISE!" Played on the trampoline with two or more people. One person stood in the middle and swung a rope, with a flip flop tied to the end, in circles about waist high. The other participants would have to go under or over the flip flop with out being struck by it. If you got hit, you went into the middle. Also the person in the middle, "The Groiser," had to shout "GROISE," prior to commencing the spin cycle.
LifeOfWily · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd run around the outside of the trampoline, with one person on their front in the middle of it trying to grab our ankles and drag us down. Damn, those were the days.
reverend_nacho · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called BB Butchers. At a sleepover anyone who says a word starting with “B” gets punched in the arm until they say BB Butchers three times.
TateM7321 · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the Graveyard. Whoever is "it"(the ghost) goes and hides while everyone else counts. Once the count down is finished the group splits up to find "the ghost" if you see the ghost you have to yell ghost in the graveyard and run to "base" before the ghost gets you. The point of the game is to stay away and untagged by the ghost, or if you are the ghost - to tag a player before they see you. We lived on a big ranch in Texas and would play in the dark. Some nights it was dark enough to just lay on the ground and wait for someone to walk by to tag them.
ruttin_mudders · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hanger hockey. My buddy had a plush soccer ball that was a little bigger than a softball. We would set up in his basement and hit it at each other with plastic hangers.
natejo87 · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play “hurricane” basically one kid on the two person swing holding onto the bottom part of the swing. Then we wold spin the swing up as high as we could then we would let go once they are as twisted up as possible.
This sent the person holding on into a uncontrolled spin that got faster and faster. Whoever was able to hold on the longest wins and whoever got thrown off onto the ground and started crying lost.
How we didn’t hit our heads on the wooden support beam on the swing set is beyond me. Statistically at least one of us should be dead.
mathaiser · 1 points · Posted at 19:55:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I rode on the bus to school, looking out the window, I would stare passed the vertical steel casement of the window and would find that I could see the next feature/object/street sign/whatever in one eye before the other could see it.
I would try to See objects with one eye, and then manually switch to the other just to see if I could “beat” the object in view as the bus drove. It now allows me to choose which eye I look with at will, but had the added consequence that I now see double everywhere I go.
I have no idea if that is based in science, but I see two images always when both eyes are open. One image only when one eye is closed.
This game made me have headaches and sometimes makes my brain feel like it hurts. So weird.
thecrustypigeon · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when i was in third grade the neighbor and i used to throw rocks at each other for fun. Typical little boy antics. One time though, my little brother was meddling around and ended up getting his head split in the crossfire. I was then told the only thing i could play with for a month was a potato. So for the next month i would get a fork and a potato and then throw the potato in the air and catch it on the fork. Not particularly fun but i had to make due.
Turtus_ · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends with a few people in the year above used to play a game called “Beat the letter”. I joined in a few times but didn’t like it all that much.
It was basically man hunt with two teams. Each team had to create a word with the length being the amount of people on that team and designate a letter to each person.
A team won the game if they could guess the other teams word by physically beating up the people on the other team until they told you their letter.
It was a pretty messed up game for kids but it was fun the few times I joined. I stuck to the generic man hunt tho. Way less pain but still more fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spotlight. It was basically hide and seek, but at night. Whoever was “it” got a flashlight and anyone who got the light shined on them went to “jail,” which was the space between our house and the bushes. A free player could spring people from jail by tagging them without getting caught. Once everyone was in jail, a new “it” was chosen. The whole block was in bounds, and all the kids in the entire neighborhood would play.
Taldeaux · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
2nd grade, my friend and I made a game called Baby Go Poopoo. Its was basically us taking turns pretending to poop for a good minute and running away from it before it exploded after 10 seconds. We would dive on the ground and everything. Fun times
God_Legend · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I created a game called DoucheBall. Because it was so dumb we felt like douches I guess. Anyway. We all laid on the floor forming a circle in the middle with a decent amount of space maybe 3-6 feet of space from one person to the person across from them. Next we would get an exercise ball, like a BOSU ball and one person would start with it between their feet/legs. Then basically we would start tossing it around to each other, only using feet and legs. No hands/arms were allowed and it was allowed to hit your torso and head. It was never allowed to touch the floor. It was honestly a really good workout. We would change up other rules like if you were the last to touch it when it went out (tosser or receiver) you were out of the game, we would have team matches as well.
seagulldreams · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bellyache” You hold as many throw pillows as possible in front of you then run and bodyslam each other. I was at a distinct disadvantage as the youngest (read:accident) child.
billypilgrim08 · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Intenseball.
Born of boredom, Intenseball is a combination of volleyball, ping-pong, and dodgeball. It should be played in a room narrow enough to utilize the walls as part of the court.
Basically, you create a neutral space in the middle of a room about two feet wide, and mark it off with painter's tape. Place a stool in the middle of the neutral space, and two chairs facing the stool. This gives players something to aim for, to mix up the trajectories of their shots.
So a player starts with the ball in hand, and can "juggle" twice (similar to volleyball) with their hands or their feet before they need to send the ball into the other player's court, which must be done with the player's foot (you can't handball it over to the other side). Shots need to clear the height of the stool in order to be considered valid (so no bullshit low shots). You score if the other player hits a ball that strikes the ceiling, or if the ball hits the other player's floor. You can use the walls or any other people / objects that are in the play area, excepting the ceiling.
Seriously, based on this vague description, try it sometime. We played the shit out of it.
bocthesock · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called IRA. Split into 2 teams of 4 or 5. Team A was chasing and had to try catch team B after a 2 min head start or whatever. Team B, before running away had to come up with a word and assign a letter to each team member.
Whenever a member of Team A caught someone from Team B, they were to beat them up with no fighting back (but could still try run away) until the letter was given up.
Goal was to eventually get all the letters and guess the word and then teams swap roles. This game was so much fun.
argnsoccer · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two. One is the Animorphs game on the trampoline. Essentially it merged animorpjs and pokemon on a trampoline and the idea was to get a person to fall by using a set of abilities (start out with one and its your animal) and then you get a new ability (max of 4) every time you won a round, but it had to be a skill your animal would use. The other game was just called "The Talking Game". I was essentially a DM with a made up game of light and dark magic and i had the whole story down along with armor upgrades (grass, wood, bronze, iron, silver, diamond, magic, mud). Light summoners got to summon new creatures on even levels and black could summon on odd levels (e.g. rat at lvl 1 for black and mouse at lvl 1 for white) white was weaker early game but stronger late and black was vice versa. Some people got really far and they would just come up to me at recess or before school and just say talking game. Hardest part was remembering where everyon was at and not spoiling new cities and zones
Nomtam · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foursquare. Essentially four 2'x2' squares on the concrete. Then 4 people, each with a square, would try and bounce the ball (think rubber kickball) into another's square. You got out if you caught or held the ball, or if someone bounced the ball into your square and you couldn't bounce it into another's square. There was always a line of kids waiting to get into the next available square.
uchi--mata · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
well, me and my uncle...
nyclaurco · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my cousin and i played “the carrot club”. we’d go into our grandma’s basement “to watch tv”, but really, we smuggled carrots down there. that was part of the game, to secretly get the carrots down there. then we would place a baby carrot in our mouths and try to fling/spit the carrot out as far as possible. the one who spit it the farthest won.
NopeNopeNope__ · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make dolls houses out of shoe boxes/cardboard boxes and decorate the houses with items I'd cut out of the Argos catalogue (a big retailer here in the UK). And stick them into the houses with glue. I could pick anything from the catalogues, the most expensive things and pretend it was mine. I always loved when the catlouge we had went out of date, it meant mum went to get a new one and I could have the old one.
Seph_Allen · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in the country in Tennessee. We played a game like paintball war, but instead of paintball guns, we had tennis racquets and instead of paintballs, the ammo was either those pointy Sweetgum tree balls, or (more often) crab apples. The rotten crabapples made more of a mess, but the fresh ones hurt more. Bottle rockets and smoke bombs left over from Independence Day occasionally made it to the weapons stockpile in late summer.
Trippyolo · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Viva piñata
cupidslazydart · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad told me when I was 3 or 4 I used to put my Barbies in their car and say: "'Let's go to the beach.' PRETEND SHE DIED."
mama_goo · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to sew our fingers together, using the dry cuticle bits. Then we'd open our fingers real fast and rip out the stitches. I think it was a pretty weird game.
TheTrueSource · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I came up with a game called miraculous catch. The idea was that we would throw each other a ball and you would get points for making the catch look really amazing. So basically diving for it and falling down a lot. One unfortunate side affect of playing it is that afterwards whenever I would catch a ball in baseball or football I would instinctively fall. Or maybe I just really sucked at catching balls.
Vddisco · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Bushwhack. Big hunter family, and my cousins, siblings, and I would play at family reunions. Our fathers would get decked out in camo and hide on the property. We would walk around with flashlights and try to find them before they jumped out and scared us. They would periodically laugh in a scary way.
cream-soda03 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dyke. My family is fucked up and my brother made the name up. Basically, one person would stand in a line in the middle of the yard. The rest would try to get by. If you get caught, you’re on the line and you’re a dyke. Like sharks and minnows, but morally questionable.
Beaverbrown55 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play tag with empty hug jug containers. It was real simple. Drink the juice down, and then use the empty bottle to throw at your opponent in a game of tag. If the bottle hit you, you were it. It's different now that we are adults and play it with empty corona bottles.
assin18 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings would pile up sofas seats and jump on top and we'd groove around riding the seats left from right. We called it the Tornado game.
Jezoreczek · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GTA, but the cars were paper cutouts painted with crayons
bigdduckenergy · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played “cow tiger” with my sister and her friend, my sister was the cow and her friend was the tiger. I choose which one to ride as my whip.
inthebrush0990 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 10 my dad and I started playing a special game of hide and seek where he gets an eight
year head start. He must played a lot with his other family because I cant find him.
blackrose14 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There’s a scene in the Phantom Menace where Qui Gon yells at Anakin to drop because Darth Maul or one of his drones was flying over his head, and for some reason, my siblings and I thought that was hilarious. So we made up the game “Anakin Drop” on the trampoline where you jump as high as you can, and my oldest brother would always be the one to yell out Anakin.... DROP and the last persons butt to hit the tramp was the loser. It was our favorite game for a looong time.
Konacchi · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing handball (also known as punchball) where you hit a ball at a tall wall, but instead with ping pong paddles and balls because a table was too expensive.
CooterPooter6969 · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animal Crossing LARPing
Sydard · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "skydivers".
You start at one end of the playground and run full pelt at a wall at the other end.
First guy to die, loses.
ToastyProductions · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dodge the Ball” One player is on a trampoline and the other player is on the ground with a dodgeball. If the player on the trampoline gets hit, the players switch places.
UncleRotelle · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Shoe Kendo, I would use an old broom handle and my brother would use the handle and metal rod from an old umbrella. We would run around the yard sword fighting and flinging old shoes that no longer fit at each other to score points that we didn't keep track of. It was incredibly fun but also sometimes painful, nothing like getting hit in the face with an old shoe to put a damper on the game temporarily.
We also had another one that didn't have a name but involved running at each other with a big yellow ball and trying to bowl each other over with the ball. Kids make up some weird games.
allysonrainbow · 1 points · Posted at 19:57:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin brother and I would play this game called couch off.
One would lay on the couch, and the other person would get a running start and try to push the other off. If you managed to push them off, you won. If you couldn’t, they’d win.
tmadiso1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and me would hold mirrors to our nose and pretend we were walking on the ceiling
thats-nuts · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm a little late to the party, but my sister and I would play "escape room" which involved taking turns to design an elaborate escape puzzle for the other who would be have one hand handcuffed to a heavy item of furniture and they had to find the key to the cuffs and get out. It might be as simple as leaving the keys in plain sight but out of reach, then the escapee would have to find an object near them long enough to fetch the key.
Now I think about I think we were essentially budding jigsaw killers.
speighty118 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play a game called “Sock Wars”. Basically we would be either side of my parents bed kneeled down and we would throw pairs of socks across the bed at each other. No rules just carnage 😂 this was often on laundry day when they were on the bed ready to put away.
MillennialMushroom · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hogs of war anyone?
glutenfreethenipple · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Feet Fight” was a barbaric game my older sister and I played for YEARS. Almost every time we played, one of us would end up in tears. We would sit on either end of the couch and face each other with the bottoms of our feet touching so that both our legs were bent at a 90 degree angle. Then we would count down, “three, two, one, FEET FIGHT!” We would push our feet towards one another as hard as we could while keeping the bottoms of our feet together. The goal was to be the first person to straighten your legs and cause your opponent to bend theirs into a submissive, squat-like pose. Kind of like a thumb war with your legs. Being the super competitive younger brother, I would get really into it, sometimes so much so that our legs would slip and we would end up slamming our feet into one another’s junk. That, or it would be a draw with both of our legs straightened and pointing towards the ceiling to create a flesh teepee.
BlazeLikeMeteors · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Scare". Basically, one person would wait on the main floor of the house while everyone else would set up the basement as an obstacle course that the person had to get through successfully in the dark without getting injured or scared. This would usually involve putting slime on the railings, putting trip wires (yarn) across doorways, playing scary music or sounds, hanging wet wash cloths from the ceiling, etc.
It wasn't safe, but it was fun. We usually got all of our friends to play when they came over. Eventually neighborhood kids would ask to come over to play.
Just--Reddit · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I and our neighborhood friends would play "guns". My my dad made these wooden "guns" out of scrap wood and we'd run around the neighborhood either free for all or teams. When you saw an enemy you would yell out "bang bang i got you Josh!" And then he would be dead for 30 seconds or so.
Fun times... untill the inevitable "Nuh uhh, you couldn't see me!"
jamesmess · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our Church youth group used to go on camping trips with father. He’d always hide candy under his robe and we’d have to find it with our mouths. Father was such a jokester.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play the “dead” game when I was little. For fun I’d just play dead, not even to scare people. I just liked being dead in different positions for some reason. The most memorable incident was when mom had run me a bath and when she cane in to do her makeup she found me twisted and completely submerged in the water. Scared the hell out of her, strangely she wasn’t that thrilled as I explained that I wasn’t actually dead lol
run_fast-eat_ass · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure just how unique this game was, but of everyone I know, nobody else played a game like it.
You start off with a group of say 10 people (could be more or less, it didn't really matter); you add everyone into a group-chat (we used whatsapp). You split the group into a team of 3 and a team of 7. The team of 7, the letters, quietly think of a seven letter word and assign a letter to each of them. Then, they have two or so minutes to run around school and hide.
Once the two minutes are over, the team of three, the hunters, start hunting. They have to find a letter, and then beat the living shit out of them until they gave up their letter.
Because we only had a short lunchtime at school, every 10 minutes, we restricted the play area. It went from, entire school, then only outside, then only the playground areas. This notice was sent out into the group-chat to ensure everyone knew as well as what letters had been found. Once a letter is found, they join the hunters but they cannot reveal the other letters. We often only had one letter team member know the entire word and the rest only knew their own letters to avoid cheating.
Once all the letters have been found and beaten the shit out of, the hunters have to figure out the word (see, it's educational, Anagrams and shit).
Oh and officially the letters can only run and block (so they can't throw punches back) but if it was a particularly big letter team member, nobody was going to say they couldn't.
If lunchtime is over and the word has not been made, the letters win.
We called it "Beat the Letter".
MatrixDrive · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Video game but... I used to play The Italian Job game, loved it because it's my favourite movie (The original)
a_wizard_skull · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “shield”- we gathered up every pillow or thick quilt, every bit of padding in the house we could find. Then one of us would sit in a big upholstered chair and have it all piled on.
The one of us not covered in padding would take a running start and jump kick the pile as hard as they could. It never hurt and was pretty fun
MixMasterHusker · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jackpot"
Get a ball (We used a Nerf football)
Set a max value (1000 is good)
The thrower would lob the ball high in the air toward the group of catchers while calling out a value (100, 500, 700, Jackpot!). Whoever catches the ball gets that value and adds it to their total. Once a catcher's total reaches the max value, they become the thrower, and everyone's totals reset.
SirFancyPantsBrock · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Toilet Monster. My elementary school had tractor tires bolted together to make a 2 by 3 rectangle (each square had 6 tires). 1 or 2 kids would go into the interior of the Tire rectangle while the rest stood on the top of the tires. The kids inside the tires would try to grab the kids on tops feet and "drag them under". Last kid to get grabbed won. It was a great game to play as a child, The main problem of that game was the spaces between the tires or perfectly sized to get your foot stuck in and twister break your ankle.
open-aperture96 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school, my friends and I created a game called Fate, essentially a storytelling game where one person would be “Fate” making up a story about the other person, who could chose their own adventure based on the choices given to them by “Fate” until the “Fate” person decides to end the story. It was fun to be as wacky as possible. :)
Adrock24 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Koosh War. A friend of the fam, kids were my brother and my age. youngest had a 30+ koosh ball collection. Rules were simple, huck koosh balls at each other as hard as possible, until someone cries.
joleary747 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made Crossbows and Catapults a cooperative game. For those not familiar, this is a game where you build blocks around your castle to protect it. Then you take turns launching little disks from rubberband powered catapults or crossbows.
Usually you play against each other, and whoever knocks down the other's castle first wins. But my friend and I pooled our games together (we both had multiple sets), and would make a single gigantic fortress. It would take an hour to build our fortress, then we would analyze its weak spots and strong spots, then unleash hell on it. It could take another hour to bring it down.
We're both engineers now.
plorto · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my old neighborhood, all of the kids, including myself and my younger brother, lived Pokémon. We were all in elementary school at the time and were filled to the brim with energy, and one of our favorite pass-times was playing tag. One version of tag we had was virus tag, where one person starts as “it” and every person tagged by “it” also becomes “it”. So we thought, “why not combine that with Pokémon?” So, the rules of this game were essentially the same, except the person who was “it” was the “Pokémon trainer”, and had a poke ball. They used it to tag the runners, or Pokémon, in this game. The trainer got to start with one Pokémon, who would help to “corral” the other Pokémon, but couldn’t actually tag them. The last Pokémon to be caught got to be the trainer next round. We went through a couple of those toy poke balls collectively, they weren’t really meant to be thrown around, or at people, to be fair.
cmurphgarv · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was at my school but I haven't been able to find anyone else who played it so I think it might have been something one of our teachers made up. It was called "Octopus" and it was like tag, except if the person who was "it" got you, you became part of their octopus arm until only one person was left. Usually, instead of saying that person won, they were surrounded by the octopus arm of children and absorbed. It was insanely fun and, upon reflection, sounds almost cultish. But I remember loving it as a kid. I also sort of remember that there were ways to get tagged, but not become part of the arm in which case you temporarily became seaweed and couldn't run for a few seconds. The bigger the arm got, the worse time they had catching people because they had to move like a human wave and weren't very fast. It was a blast.
UnderCoverOfDanknezz · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called sardines. Basically reverse hide and seek. Everyone is a seeker except for one hider who goes out and hides. Then the seekers split up to go find the hider and when one of seekers finds them they pack into the hiding spot with them like sardines. Last seeker to find the hiding spot loses.
Neptune_QR · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called “Clothesline” where two of us would occupy the playground swings while the third would try to run through the two swing sets without getting kicked in the stomach.
It got really fun when we added a hose and flooded the playset with mud.
amarajune · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “baby tito” which was basically just glorified “doctor” but my sister got to do whatever she wanted to me because I was the patient and her favorite was the “surgical procedure” where she would twist a tissue to a small point and then shove it up my nose to make me sneeze.. it was my least favorite but it was her absolute fav
augbar38 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does “zombies ate my neighbors” for super Nintendo count? God I used to love that game
begravadlax · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to put an air rifle and a box of ammo by the corner of our house. We'd start off running towards it and while one of us would have to load the rifle and shoot, the other one would try to escape around the next corner. It was truly a simpler time.
SheSeemedNice · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would spin around in a circle while yelling, "Get me out of here." I have no idea how that started.
gasgawds11 · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to always play a game call turtle wars. So, basically you have to cover your face with a mask or something and something that covered you so you looked like a turtle. I would always put a box on my body and cut leg and arm holes and a michael myers mask and you would have to only tackle each other and it was a thing that kept me and my family occupied for hours!
Bookwormjunkie · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the game! 'Scream'. My sister and family friends would go into our basement, turn off all the lights. Our basement was attached to the unfinished part and there was a huge hole (big enough for a kid to climb through) between the rooms. One person would be the 'demon'. The rest of us would quietly try to run and hide, hoping the demon wouldn't get us. The hole made it extra-fun as an escape route. Essentially hide and seek + marco polo in one.
Anther game I'd play with my sister: if we had a new friend come over, we'd trick them by pretending I was an identical twin. Quite literally, I'd run upstairs to change outfits every 5 minutes and pretend to be a different person.
Edit: one more I thought of. There was this doll website where you can give 1 of the four models a makeover. My sister would choose one to give a makeover, and I'd have to guess which model she originally picked.
Harbnger · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mechanized assault and exploration
WeirderQuark · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "The game without rules", though in actual fact there were plenty of rules. Any number of people would play. Everyone would start out drawing themselves on a piece of paper, and then you would all take turns drawing either (1) how you would kill other people (eg giant sword, laser death ray, meteor from space) or (2) how you would defend from someone else's attack (eg giant shield, invisibility potion, bunker). You could only draw one thing, so you had to get creative if you wanted to dodge someone else's attack and launch one of your own ("I build a heatwave ray that blasts heat in all directions around me that melts your ice missiles and burns you to death"). No one could die from an attack until the attackers next turn, so everyone had a chance to defend every attack. It can only be played with people who are willing to accept defeat to an exceptionally funny or clever attack, and works best with a large odd number of people around to vote on if a defense would actually work against an attack.
You don't erase anything, just keep adding to the picture, so eventually the paper gets covered in cool/funny little doodles.
cjtarp · 1 points · Posted at 19:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game in the pool where you each hold one end of a pool noodle underwater. Someone else would count to three and on three you would each blow into the end of the pool noodle and whoever got a mouth full of water was the loser. You could also counter attack by just pointing your end at the other person as they blow water in to their own face.
Spicy-Jimbo · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day❤️
flubbrt · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my primary school (ages 5-11) we used to play a game called linky. Linky was banned pretty quickly at school.
Basically it was your usual game of tag but when you were tagged you had to join hands with the one who was 'it' and you were both 'it'. You continue tagging people and the line of people 'it' grows and grows. Sounds pretty mundane right? Wrong. I have vivid memories of tiny 5 year old me being pulled so hard from each side in the middle of a linky death trap. People would be running and dragging the lifeless corpses of their fallen comrades across the playground.
35batshenge · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runescape
BogollyWaffles · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In college, we made up a game where we’d stand in a circle, then have someone get in the middle. They would then close their eyes and spin. Someone in the circle would then poke them. As soon as they feel the poke, they can open their eyes, and try to identify the one who poked them. If they guess right, the one who poked them is the new spinner. Guess wrong, and they do it again.
Sounds dumb, but it can get pretty fun.
1Fresh_Water · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "tag" with my dad, and when my little sister was born later she was part of it too. It basically consisted of pony riding around on his back and general rough-housing. Using him as a jungle gym and such. Probably ending on the bed surrounded by stuffed animals reading a book and an eventual nap.
-Thourne- · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek but everyone had nerf guns and/or foam swords. If you got found you had to duel. Winning the duel meant you got to go hide again, losing meant you became a seeker.
PonyboyJake · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Grounders" on a set of monkey bars. The person who was it had to blindfold themselves and try and tag the other people who were on the monkeys bars - whoever got tagged was then it.
The people on the monkey bars werent allowed to touch the ground or they became it. So it involved a lot of dangerous moves to avoid getting tagged
inhaleinformation · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick can. You have a can, and a stick. Each player gets a turn, and makes up 1 rule for the next player. There is no better game, VR can suck stick cans dick
flav0rgrenade · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sibling created a deeply intricate game revolving around our baseball cards cuz we thought it was dumb to just look at them. It was basically all luck and each dice roll was coordinated to a different action. We would have huge tryouts to get our teams set up and then play for hours on end.
Cheeseballers21 · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does anyone remember playing slime sports? It was a simplistic game where you took control of a semi-circle made of slime and you used the arrow keys to move and hit a ball. There was a variety of sports but the most prominent were slime soccer and slime volleyball. I believe the game was on miniclip or addicting games, but it originated on its own site that I don’t think schists anymore. I guarantee you can still play it. In elementary school the me and other kids would have tournaments on the class computer. Good times.
papaolvid4do · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alone
erinkp36 · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I were children of the 80s. We watched wrestling all the time. And back then it was big so it was on a lot. We were watching women wrestling one day and it was a match between a heavy set woman named Judy Martin and another woman who was very skinny but we didn’t catch her name. We just called her the skinny lady. After that we played a wrestling game called Judy Martin and the Skinny Lady. He always made me play Judy Martin. I was a tiny 4 yr old and he was an overweight 7 yr old.
lisaweasley · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall ball. We tossed a tennis ball against the side of the house and tried to make it hit other children on the bounce back. If you caught it, awesome, if you hit your cousin-even better. We didn’t keep points, and most of the time was spent chasing the tennis ball now that I think about it.
AEIOU_occasionallyY · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Am I the only one who used to have tea parties at the bottom of the pool?
KittenFajita · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was like 14-15 and my little brother was 9-10, we’d take these scarves that my grandma made and tie them around our heads like ninja bandanas and sprint around the front yard throwing rocks at one another as hard as possible. Good times.
Also, same time period, my step brother that was about my age and myself put my little brother in every jacket we could find and pushed him down this big ole hill in the backyard.
foogly84 · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Outside
flashpile · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
relevant story from big narstie
Crocobian · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deathmatch. Tag, but everyone is it, getting tagged means your out for the round, and you can only tag someone's back. No standing against walls tho, gotta be accessible.
ScytheGabriel · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During recess standing against a wall and dodging a ball being kicked at us. The only rule was you had to stick close to the wall. Getting hit in the face would slam the back of you head into the wall. Also the wall was made of cinder blocks, so yeah.
I_have_Rockstar_Hair · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple!
Fog Frisbee. Created by my dad, I believe, when we were up in the mountains in an empty little lot by a lodge. It was almost like a Marco-Polo game at one point the cloud was so thick. There’s nothing like the thrill of not knowing if you’re about to get smacked by a frisbee or be able to catch it in time!
The other was just weird. My sisters and I would take a blanket, spread it out, and one of us would roll up tightly in it, head covered, arms tight to your sides, and see how long we could stand the constriction feeling before freaking out and unrolling.
pixelated-parsnips · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played what we called "The Game" up until before I started middle school. We would pretend to be superheroes or TV characters going about daily life, fighting villains (and we would play the villains too), and interacting with characters from completely different franchises. The most important rules of The Game were these:
Every time you do something in character, you have to say "pretend." Ex. "Pretend I kick Doc Ock off the building"
The Game stops when any adults come into the room, and continues when they leave. When they ask what you're doing, you say "nothing"
N0ahplause · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knuckles ?
mollymuppet78 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
6 year old me played Dr. BumBum with my cousin Alan (he was 6 months younger). I was the nurse, he was the doctor. As the name implies, there was a lot of bum interaction.
Not sure if it is a coincidence, but turns out he is gay and muchos loves bums.
conquererofweb · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin would try to pass the rooms without seen to other guests in the house . I called it “seen to no one game”
Bison80 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "running baseball" one person started at the pitchers mound with a nerf ball of some sort. You had to run around the bases and only got a point when you made it home. Only 2 people per base and you could run in either direction but only score the traditional way you round the bases. If you're hit, you become the pitcher. We would play first to 10.
whattocallmyself · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the first one I thought of, probably because game is in quotes: We called the game "Do whatever you want" and it was basically taking turns groping each other and dry humping. Good times.
Dunclette · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and an old friend played wasp hunting. This involved going up and down our street smacking the bushes outside everyone's houses with bamboo canes to scare all the wasps out. We then proceeded to try and kill as many as we could with the canes by swinging at them. It was a miracle we never got stung!
captainfactoid386 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It sounds really dumb, but we played something called mailman, and we would slide stuff animals in the slit between the bunkbeds
plasmah77 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot peas and butter. Fill a wiffle ball bat with newspapers and yell Hot Peas & Butter! The chase a person and beat him to Oblivion!
crumbcreator · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For 2 years of my life I grew up in this really big house with multiple staircases and 4 levels. My younger brother and I would be mountain climbers. We use ice scrapers as ice picks, and anything that looked like a rope as ropes. We would pack snacks in bags and each had water bottles. At each level of the house we would set up camp. From the 3rd floor to the 4th floor we'd wear painting masks to pretend we needed oxygen.
federal38 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when my grandma moved out of the house she lived in and retired after 70+ years of work, my brother, sister and I used to go to the top of her stairs (3 story house), and just glide down the stairs without any clothes on. Then when we got to the bottom floor we would scream "Help!" relentlessly until inevitably my grandma or my dad would scream "Can you please shut up?!"
Good times.
GreenGlassDrgn · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the body.
Basically spending lots of time on long drives through, and to, rural areas, looking for ideal places that others might hide a corpse.
Maybe reading Silence of the Lambs isnt for 9 year olds.
thenamesfuckels · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family and I had a game we loved to play on road trips called Baseball (not the actual sport). The original basis of the game was to name baseball players in a specific way. The person that started it had to name a player whose first letter of his first name started with an A and whatever the first letter of their last name was, that had to be the first letter of the first name for the next player.
Example -
Player 1: Alex Rodriguez
Player 2: Randy Johnson
Player 3: John Smoltz
etc.
If you couldn't think of one, you got a strike and 3 strikes you're out.
We modified it later on to include any "famous" person. To be considered famous, 3 out of 5 people had to know who it was without looking it up.
It made time fly on long road trips
prdebevec · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pogs *Slammers” Baby
ResponsibleGarlic · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ll consider this a game under the Whose Line premise that the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. My friend had one of those big fold up mattress cots in her hallway closet as a kid and we would take turns trying to fit our bodies into it and then turn around and get back out. We called it “The Butt”
Edit: It was tight.
GDTooper · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our school was like in 3 different houses.
One of em was where was PE class and other.
When we finished school, there was a park, we put our bags down, and we played "Slenderman" (Yes, dumb name). There was a Slenderman. You had 30 seconds to hide near the hose where was PE. We hidden in trees, followed slenderman is sneaky mode, other stuff.
If the slenderman saw you, you had to freeze for 3 seconds. The slenderman needed to touch you 2 times, and you are a slenderman too.
When only one guy remains. He/she wins.
milk5829 · 1 points · Posted at 20:01:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would go to the lake and spend hours throwing a medium to large rock in the air and trying to hit it with a second smaller rock. Super entertaining and surprisingly difficult. I still enjoy doing it from time to time but usually give up after a couple tries
ametca · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I made up a game called "Big Butt". This was a game played on the trampoline, and one person was designated as the Big Butt. The Big Butt would have to try and push everyone else off the trampoline using only their butt. Some of those flying butt shoves really had force behind them.
chocolatemilky-way · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well in brake at school we would run away from the dark patches made by clouds. We would play another game in the meantime but if anyone saw a "wave" everyone bolted to the farthest fence
kandipye191 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hits-a-tag was the name of the game we made up to play at recess. It’s a combination of kickball, dodgeball, and freeze tag. The game starts with a kicker who kicks the ball really really high into the air. As the ball is in the air, everyone runs around to get into an ideal position, either to catch the ball or to get as far away from the ball as possible depending on your gameplay strategy. Once the ball is caught, everyone must freeze in place. The catcher then can move 3 steps in any direction and try to “tag out” another player by throwing the ball. If a person gets tagged by the ball, they are out, but they are allowed to try to dodge it or catch it. If the person catches the ball, the thrower is out and a new round starts with the ball being kicked high into the air. If the thrower misses, the person closest to where the ball lands gets to kick the ball to start a new round. Repeat until there is one kid standing at that kid is the king/queen and gets bragging rights until the next recess. Damn that game was so fun.
Jonelololol · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vacation- we ate a ton of candy and RC. Then would blast the song Vacation and turn off all the lights. Then you just grabbed and threw what ever items you could grab across the room at one another. Often was cans of RC, pillows, books, and action figures. Also it’s very dark and you’re running around into furniture.
Game ended when the song was over and the wed compare who got hurt. Everyone wins.
teodorattt · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to play a game named "Bear". Basically we stood up on a bed and when one of us said "Now!", we ran in circles on the bed shouting "Bear! Bear! Bear!" continuously until one of us fell. The one remaining up on the bed won.
FraughtQuill · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wasn't allowed "screen time" very often. And I loved Minecraft, so I made a little paper version of the game and played that. I made and played TONS of paper games.
EthiczGradient · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made a unique language for my gang. We actually communicated for over 3 years
i_like2fly · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So me and my step sister...
Cheese_Pancakes · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother came up with several games which I realized years later were not in my best interest to play.
One such game had me sitting on the floor indian style (or criss-cross applesauce if you like) with a blanket draped over my head, making a little tent. He would then stand outside of it and tell me to "dodge the lasers" before beginning to piss all over the blanket. After about a second of sustained piss, the stream would break through the blanket and hit me every time. I played this game a lot with him because I trusted him and thought it was great fun. As I got older I realized it was just an excuse for him to piss on his brother because it was always played in my bedroom, with my blanket, and it was never my turn to "shoot lasers" at him. My parents thought I had a bed wetting problem because of this game.
There were other, slightly less disgusting, but equally unfair games we played. There was one where he put on several layers of jackets, heavy pants, elbow and knee pads, etc., handed me a cheap children's jump rope and told me "defend yourself". I'd wail away on him with the jump rope as he slowly walked toward me. Nothing phased him. Once he got himself within range, he threw an elbow at me (with the hard plastic elbow pad) and gave me my first ever bloody nose.
I could literally go on for hours about the weird ass games we used to play. There were other interesting ones that weren't designed solely to torture me, but I've already written enough. I can add in more later if there is any interest.
samwys3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego shops. We built lego shops and stocked them with all sorts of lego items, hats armour capes, boats, horses etc. However the economy was based off "hands" as a currency. You could tell if someone was a slave or a free citizen by whether they had hands or not.
kilbyeet · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indoor cricket
hpchef · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pencil drop. Essentially darts on a vertical axis instead of horizontal. Played while sitting in a desk with the 4 ring bullseye on the floor.
brx017 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Ball. The a pair of Dad's old super long tube socks rolled tightly and tucked in themselves as a ball slightly larger than a baseball. Then we'd basically play outside in the grass, a cross between netless beach volleyball and ping pong. You had to hit it in bounds, although there were no markers to indicate the playing area. You couldn't catch it, you could only slap it. You could play off of one bounce, but if it bounced twice they got a point. I think we played to 50 usually, win by two points. I don't think you could score off of the serve, so you wanted to get a good volley going. I think we alternated servers every 5 points.
Roux319 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m late to this but I used to play a game called “fart monster” growing up. Basically my dog ruined the grass in my yard and there was mostly dirt. The fart monster would basically pick up handfuls of dirt and throw it at the other people playing. The dirt being a visual representation of a fart. I don’t really remember the point or rules of the game but I do remember we loved it ended up recruiting a lot of neighborhood kids to play. My parents also hated this game with a passion.
jigmojo · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hit the Deck!" was just us standing at the edge of our lawn by a road, which was at the top of a small hill, and if we ever saw a car come by, we'd scream Hit the Deck! and sprint down the hill and lay down like we were hiding from bad guys. We did that for hours, passed it down to all our young family members until we moved away. Nobody has a good Hit the Deck hill right now...
HotWa5a61 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play "Burrito." We would put a blanket down on the stairs and hold it at the top edge with our hands and feet while lying parallel to the stairs. Then we would roll down and see how far we could make it into the basement while still wrapped tightly in the blanket.
Shibboleeth · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two Touch, we used to play it using soccer balls or the red play ground balls. You had two kicks to get the ball from where it laid to touch (ricochet off of) inside the backstop of the baseball field.
Hitting the metal poles instead of the chainlink would send way more energy back into the ball and you could knock it across the baseball field.
I've never been able to find anyplace except one small elementary school in California where this was played. I tried sharing it at a couple of other schools, but I wasn't popular enough to get it to catch on.
Flamingoez88 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Digger. My sister and I would take every pillow and blanket in the house, pile them on my parents bed then dig through in a race to the other side. Played it until I was in my late teens
littlehollah · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play hide and go seek but instead of counting before seeking the hiders would tie up the seeker with bedsheets. They could start seeking once they got untied.
BunnyTown77 · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mario IRL. We chased someone (Bowser in game) around and when we caught up to them, we tackled them. Teachers banned that game
StealUrBacon · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Homework.
DatGuyTy · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ours was kinda lame compared to the rest of these, and it didn’t have a name, but we would get on the swings during recess in elementary school, and jump off while doing some sort of dance move. There was a panel of three judges who judged on different categories, which were height, the dance move, and quality of the landing. It stopped whenever someone got hurt usually.
unravleddonut · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day and I played jacks. Useless game
YesToThis · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sticky Tree. The undeveloped corner lot in our neighborhood was filled with trees. We had a game that involved an ever-changing set of rules, but always included one tree being designated the “sticky tree” which became the safety area during the game.
didiJhb · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played grown up games
weeb_roll_82 · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BOB - Ball Over Barn
One guy on one side, another guy on the other. Both have baseball bats or tennis rackets or golf clubs or whatever. Just hit balls over the barn back and forth to each other all afternoon. For about 50 years now it's been the go-to game to play whenever everybody gathers up at the farm. My father played it, I played it, my nieces and nephews play it, and the barn is dented to absolute shit. Also, everybody's pretty decent at baseball.
Bubble Wars
Two or more players holding giant inflatable rubber balls on a trampoline try to wreck each other. Usually done in a tournament style. Nobody but me seemed to understand that the key to winning isn't running harder into the opponent -- it's to squat down and get your ball underneath the enemy's ball, then lift up. You just get pushed down into the trampoline, but they have nowhere to go but up, up, and away. It's a miracle nobody ever broke a bone.
basegodwurd · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hand baseball with cards, marker and bottlecap.
RealisticTowel · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I created this complex game before online games of this kind were an option. My friend and I started this little world on paper that began as a way to collect pictures of horsies and give them names and pretend like they were real. Then we would enter them in races. And then it started to grow in popularity.
So we gave people currencies and jobs. Someone handled the selling and care of the horses. You got a beginning amount of cash and had to earn more. Someone kept track of all the finances. I would draw up floor plans for people to “buy” homes and barns from. Someone became a vet. Etc. you had to contribute somehow and keep track of your money. You couldn’t go rogue and design your own house or create your own horse. It had to be within the community.
It was like an established horse trade, guild-run, mobbish world that the other original creator and I ran. I also tended to be very controlling and bossy back then. So eventually girls got pissed off by all my rules.
It was really fun while it lasted though!
Now I’m realizing it’s basically like DnD or other RPGs. Which i play now as an adult.
Slumpig · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curby. Probably more popular than I think it is. You stand either side of the road and throw a ball to hit the curb and come back. If it comes back to you without hitting the ground, 2 points. If it rolls back, 1 point. Great fun.
JohnnySmallHands · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The scare game.
We’d go in my mom’s basement with all the windows blocked to make it pitch black. We had to walk through the basement while the other two players would wait in the dark to jump out and scare you. Even when you knew it was coming it was still terrifying. Lots of fun though.
mylifestypo · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Billy Hatcher, who knew a game about eggs and chickens could be so fun and memorable!
willcbab · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I created a game we called Mommy Ticklecrackers. It was a fairly simple game-one of us was Mommy Ticklecrackers, the old woman who loved her cat a little too much, and one of us would be Kitty, the stubborn cat who would not eat anything Mommy Ticklecrackers prepared. We'd argue for a few minutes about the imaginary food and then beat the shit out of each other.
gokufighther · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a lot of dark cloud and dark cloud 2. Early 2k me was a happy boi
Captain_Crux · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is probably a little late to answer, but my brother and I loved fighting with sticks. So much so that after watching a television series called "Last Man Standing" (or something like that) I built something from the show for us. The show operated like a reality show where people get "voted off", but was a little different. These people went all around the world and learned the fighting styles of the natives in different countries. Then they all competed. Whoever did the worst left the show.
There was one episode where they were somewhere in Africa (I don't remember which country exactly) and they fought with these sticks and shields. They looks relatively simple to build so I went to Lowes, bought the supplies, and made legit fighting sets.
The sword was pretty much just a dowel rod with a handle (maybe an inch or inch and a half thick) with some foam wrapped around the end (to lessen the damage when you were hit with it). It was around 3 feet long or so. The shield was a long dowel rod (same thickness) that was pretty much the height of your body. In the middle of the dowel was the actual "shield" portion attached to the dowel and behind the shield was where the handle was so your hand was protected.
We would go out in the front yard (along with all of our friends) and beat the tar out of each other and we had SO MUCH FUN!!! Minimal injury thanks to the foam and the shield, but it was incredibly intense. We would have bracketed tournaments with varying rules. The looks we got when cars would drive by were priceless. I can only assume they saw us and likened it to "Lord of the flies".
poopinmyfacex3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marble blast ultra and 13 years later they made a SQL called marble it up that came out a few months ago but it’s not on Xbox yet 😞
Gerkit · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got grounded a lot as a kid. So I spent quite a few days held up in my room in the basement. (That's not the game.) I decided one weekend to create an entire football league. With paper footballs. The bed posts being the goal. Created all the names of teams and kept stats. Did my best to 'Kick' without bias. Had playoffs and a champion. Did a few seasons.
AdddeH · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In kindergarten we used to play a game called “The Swing Axe,” where four people used the swings in the playground to mimic the motion of swinging axes. The rest of us had to pass through the swings from one side to the other to win. The game was less dangerous than it sounds like as we didn’t use full force on the swings.
Elliotp123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called 'hunt the cunt' that we played in primary school. The rules were that everyone starts on one side of the playground and one persons name is shouted out, this person became the cunt, it was there job not to get tackled to the ground in a set time.
OnyxWatchG · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin made up a game call school (Very original I know), except that anytime that we refused to play with her, she called the cops on us. Good times..
funkanthropic · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Dad used to play this game called, "pretend I give a shit". I'm not sure who won, but I certainly always lost.
CaptainMcDope · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Temple Run: based on the mobile game we used to play: you’d run down a staircase ( preferably spiraling) and the other person would throw down a yoga ball. The yoga ball would roll down after you, and if it hit you, you lost
Thy_Inventor · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So growing up, my neighbor and best friend had a big trampoline, we played so many games on it.. but I think my favorite one was where we gathered as many bouncy balls as possible between the two of us, and then bounce around on the tramp with them trying to dodge them all Matrix-style for as long as possible. Bonus points for bouncing in just the right way to fling a bouncy ball at your friend’s face. >:3 This got intense, yo.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
HUNGER GAMES Each kid would pick an invisible weapon and fight to the death. If you git hit with an invisible weapon, you would have to sit for 10 seconds. We had a 20 person game at one point lol.
Redoarblack · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called Capital Cities. Our father would grab out a world atlas and call out a country. My three siblings and I would then proceed to yell out the capital city.
Super fun game and so many great memories!
Lemmy00T · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would throw a baseball bat at each other and we would have to catch it.
The idea was to catch it with one hand outstretched to avoid getting hit in the face by the spinning bat.
We eventually tried the same thing with an axe, but we decided it was to dangerous.
techackz · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midtown Madness 1 & 2. Played that game for over 20 years without ever getting bored. Loved it so much how I could just drive around a city.
hhhnnnnnggggggg · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marble wars..
The board was the Mario paint mouse pad turned upside down.
You would pick a color of marbles, give them a race and backstory or whatever and have them 'battle'. They would hit each other and knock each other out the "ring". Last marble color remaining wins
Boltbacker83 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gyromite.
hotfudgecarwashdream · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tee”. Pool game. Friends stand around pool while one person jumps in pool with a golf tee between their toes. After jumper swims away, bystanders wait till they see the tee float up. Then they jump in screaming “Tee!!!” Whoever grabs it first wins. Best to have a light grey tee or blue, and have jumper splash water. Super fun
andrewbaums · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
gaga. bounce on a trampoline and hit a kickball with your hand. if you get hit below the knee you are out.
AndersonW4lker · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the bottle , 2 L coke bottle full of rocks placed in an open location one team hides and the other searches for them and has to tip them then they are captured, the remaining people can release their team mates from goal by kicking the bottle over and then they run away and hide again.
wasting-youuth · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to both be in dance classes. I was in a Jazz/Hip-hop class, and my younger sister was in ballet. In our spare time, we used to listen to our favorite song at that time (whatever it may have been) and choreograph our own dance routines for the song. We would practice a single dance for weeks, and then on a weekend, we'd show our entire family the routine. As we got older, it became less dance routines and more singing performances for special occasions. This continued for probably a solid 3 or 4 years.
run_fast-eat_ass · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Quite recently (too recent to not be embarrassing smh), I was on a school trip and we were all sent to our dorms early for fucking about. We were bored as fuck and the internet was down. Then someone goes "ha I got a bunch of porn downloaded".
We proceeded to play guess the pornstar/porno.
I'm ashamed.
Sunny_and_dazed · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play mermaids in the pool or orphan Annie out of the pool. We usually played orphan Annie in high spaces (in the dress up cabinets or in the crawl space under the deck).
DrunkenDude123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Blob. You and your friends are in a dark room, and one person is “it” and covers themselves with a bed comforter while crawling around.
The goal is the blob (the person that’s “it” under the comforter) has to find and pull the other player under the comforter to become free. Whoever gets pulled in is the next Blob.
Was hella fun until my cousin was the blob and launched himself head-first into a door.
PRO_M_OCEAN · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Blue Monster" - My family played this game where we (the children) would all hide under a single large blanket, and an adult would be the Monster by circling the blanket on their hands and knees waiting for a little foot or hand to pop out from the edge of the blanket. If the monster tagged you, you became the monster and the adult would then hide under the blanket continuing the game. We called it "Blue Monster" because the blanket we always used was the biggest blue blanket we could find.
Metalbumfart26 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would play "shocky-shocky" roll around on the trampoline until youve built enough static shock the other person.Both get shocked in the process but still so much fun.
TrapsAreGreat2020 · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love flash games online, specifically room escape games, may be part of the reason I love doing escape rooms as an adult.
Shoobiedoobiedood · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball tag with a tennis ball prolly not to unique but basically hid n seek w a tennis ball
jonesocnosis · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called DOA and that stood for Dead On Arrival. I would try to fit onto a couch ottoman that was on wheels and hold on tight, my friend would wildly push it around the basement pretending to be an out of control ambulance with me as the dying victim on rout to a hospital. His goal was to injur me by hitting walls or spinning me, or getting me to go flying off. and we would role play the drama of the crazy paramedic and his patient, I remember the him doing the siren sounds. This was a very dangerous game for 8 year olds, and thinking about it now, it reminds me of the Jackass tv show how they crash into things riding shopping carts.
BoxeBoxeBoxe · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "run and hide" with my mostly blind step sister. We would run into a room and "hide" which really meant standing in a corner or behind the bed and when she came in the room we would run out and try not to get tagged. It seems way more mean now.....
EvilSeabass · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Crawlers, we crawl around like worms at night. Sometimes we go under the bed to mine minerals.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would roll billard balls at wach other's fingers on the pool table.
We would also play sock wars at sleep overs. Basically we have a bunch of sock bundles and play dodge ball with them in a dark house at night. Two teams at a time.
LesnarsBattleScream · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to visit the church a lot as a child. A few times I played "How to milk a cow blindfolded" with the local vicar, always won!
CitricBaron · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why do I find this disturbing?
SirMaQ · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme ping pong. My cousin and I would smack a ping pong ball as hard as we can. I'm talking sore arm after each hit hard and we'd get points if we hit it back to the other person. We the switched a golf ball if ended in a tie.
thomasellam · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodgeball tig, it’s tig just you throw a ball to tig someone and you could catch a ball to become ‘immune’ from the ball
Hvalot · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my dad went to Venice, we bought one of those masks which looked unbelievably scary. Then me and my two younger cousins would play a horrifying game. We would hide a can of pepsi in the house, crank up a music box, turn off all the lights, and give them small flaslights. I took on the mask and wandered around the house, and if I heard them or saw their light I would chase them. If the music box stopped I would turn on the light and chase them. If they found the pepsi they won.
Xaom64 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Worm"
One person headfirst into a sleeping bag, then they have to tag someone who is not in a sleeping bag. This game got surprisingly violent very quickly
midrangemonroe · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our favorite game growing up was a trampoline game where you tried to throw a ball and get it to bounce off your friend and out of the net of the trampoline. Then they would have to go out of the trampoline and throw it back it and get it to land on the base of the trampoline. The people on the trampoline would try to smack it back out before it hits the ground. Enough failed attempts and the person outside the trampoline would be kicked out. We called it Knockout. Good times.
umphtramp · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father kept us and our cousins busy with two games that were super entertaining and cheap!
First game, we would sit on the bottom stair and he would take a quarter and shake it in his hand and each kid would get a turn calling heads or tails. If you got it right, you moved up a stair. If you got it wrong, you moved down a stair. First to the top stair won.
Second game, my dad would hold a dollar and you would hold your index finger and thumb hovering around the dollar. He wouldn't tell you when he was going to let it go, but if you caught it you got to keep it.
He kept us entertained and engaged for a good portion of the time so our family could spend time together!
squeevey · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember being at summer camp, and one of our counselors told us of a game, I think he called it Magic Squares (it didn't make sense in the game).
The idea was that you are stuck in a cave and are trying to get out. The other player is the "god". You give commands, and then the god has to enact another command to keep you trapped.
The main rule was that you can't directly negate the previous command.
Anyone know of this? I think that the counselor's name was Mark.
chronicoverdose001 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in middle school all the kids in the neighbor hood would come over and play band hero and guitar hero with someone on drums, 2 guitarists, and a singer. I know it’s not that unique but you don’t see that that much now a days and it was just an amazing memory .
Someidot · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the sidewalk, we would set a bottle cap on a crack, and use a dodge ball to move it to the other person's square in the sidewalk. I'm an expert at this game, fite me
psxpetey · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pushing down dead trees.
Unique game tree switching Climb tall skinny trees and bend towards the next tree.
We had about 6 acres of these. Record time was 4.5 hours couldn’t even grip a cup afterwards
logan825 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would cover my sister in blankets and then I would spin with a foam roller in my back hitting her once per rotation. If I got dizzy and fell I’d lose if she could outlast me till I fell she won.
flippywilson · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Gouge the Clown" wherein I would sit on a twisted up swing and spin while my older sister jabbed at me with a sharp stick. Hours of fun... for her.
Intellectualtoaster · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy 1st cake day!!!
SonicFriendZone · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Mortal Kombat” where my sister and I would push each other on the hardwood floor in socks while listening to the theme song. It was like a slippery tug of war thing. Kinda dangerous, in hindsight lol.
Purdybirdy · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wow, you all are creative. One of my favorite “games” growing up was watching rain drops race down a car window.
sushitrash69 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time I'd go on a road trip, I'd look out the window and imagine a motorbike speeding and jumping on the terrain next to me
TheCopperLady · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had one called the silly game where one of us had to bear crawl on the floor without bending our elbows or knees while the other tried to make us laugh so we would collapse in the floor.
hady215 · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Doge the frying pan " the days I managed to avoid it I have some really great memories of
AneurinF · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just lost the game...
great_____name · 1 points · Posted at 20:05:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not unique but there was a steep hill outside my house, used to grab cardboard crates (like the fruit ones) from behind our shop and slide down the hill in them, good times.
vomitandthrowaway · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd wrap a scarf around my neck and keep wrapping until I ran out of air, then tried to get it off before I passed out. I was an idiot kid.
DenisMDguy · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk if its unique but it was bf heroes,sad thing ea deleted it
carl_garage · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much I was a child, but maybe around seventeen I shared a room with a good friend of mine. We often played a sort of word association game where the goal was to say "Dale Earnhardt Jr." This had to be linked with an easily explainable and reasonable degree of association. You could also lose by saying the same word or phrase twice.
BestBeClownin · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pitch ball.
Basically football in the yard that doesn’t stop until someone scores.
Teams start on either end and one chucks the ball. Once fielded they must score on the other side.
Can pitch whenever, must be backwards. Fumbles and picks happen all the time, which were the best part.
If tagged, must stop and pitch before ten seconds is up.
yesthisisaname12 · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suffocation: me and my brother would wrap each other in a blanket, then wrap and tuck other blankets and sheets around one another pile all our stuffed toys on top and the aim was to break free.
Isekai_litrpg · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers grew up in isolation and ended up in some Lord of the flies situations as a result. One game of our creation was called "blind man's bluff" one of us is blindfolded and given a stick. The remaining were allowed to try to sneak up on the blindfolded one and either slap or push the blindfolded one. The blindfolded one is allowed to try to beat someone sneaking up on him with the stick. Game ended when someone got seriously hurt or when we got bored.
Kevnos · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called balloon. It takes 3 people and a bunk bed. We would take the cover of my blanket to put whoever was lightest in it. We then dangle that person from the top of the bunk bed and proceed to pull him up. There was no real no real winner in the end, but it was fun.
killerchimp12 · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fusion Frenzy anybody?
Unikal_The_Unikorn · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my neighbours created a game called "the number plate game" where we would have find the letters a-z in the second position if the car. We player it while driving to school, it was so much fun.
kiingman · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nutshot. I wasn't exactly a "child" but I was 15 and a freshman in high school. Two teams would line up on each side of the classroom, go full spread eagle facing each each other, and try and smash each other's nuts with a plastic water bottle... all while the teacher was on his phone fully well knowing what we were doing.
Safe to say some of us won't be having kids in the future.
BFYTW_AHOLE · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer in PE. It was 1986 and totally acceptable. My how times have changed what with all these overly sensitive feelings and shit.
smaug777000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play football, and then periodically we played this minigame called "argue about the rules for an hour"
Zamboniqueen · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the winter, we’d search for the biggest icicles we could find and then bury them in the snow underneath some big pine trees. We’d then go on an “expedition” to uncover the fossils of the famous giant monsters that were prophesied to have lived many millennia ago. Spoiler alert: we were the BEST archeologists. We always found those bones.
Spaghetti_Asker · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lccockey. A cross between lacrosse and hockey. It was played with wiffle balls and those plastic scoops that elementary schools have. Sone jerkass stole the idea and claimed that he had come up with it, but it was fun as hell.
karmandillo · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my parents used to have a made up language called "Păsăreasca" which would translate to Bird Language and basically in a word you had to add after each vowel "p"+that vowel and if the word ended in a consonant you also added "p". Example: hamburger would become hapambupurgeperp; and yes, they did this in their heads, on the spot
smyttiej · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Elementary school the gum balls that fell from trees counted as currency. Green ones were worth more because they were more rare. We voted for a king who would sit on top of the slide. He stored the gumballs below the slide. Kids would have to gather them and bring them to him. Sometimes he awarded kids gum balls for random shit. Some kids would try to hide them from the king. The king would simply pay someone to go and steal them. We made an entire economy lol
CollinTC7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played ripstick soccer. So you know this ripsticks that were popular a few years back? They're like a skateboard that you twist to go. But we would set up two goals on either end of our drive way and we would play soccer while riding these things. Dribbling was very cool to do with them and you can whip the back of it hit the ball for a shot.
Sometimes we would shake it up a bit and allow pushing and ramming boards, so things would get interesting quick!
Very fun game that I would recommend to anyone that owns one of these boards and a soccer ball!
TheGotoReputation · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Halo 3 odst
PixelSpy · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we threw rocks at each other and the first one with a serious injury was the loser.
Umdron · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we called "Chicken". You would stand with your legs about shoulder width apart facing each other about 4 feet apart. We would throw a knife and stick it in the ground between the other one's feet. It had to stick in the ground to count. When it stuck, they would move their foot in to where the knife stuck and then it was their turn. Your feet would get gradually closer together until they're only an inch or two apart. The first one to hit the other person's foot loses. Ironically the one that got hit in the foot with a knife was the winner.
We also played a variation called splits where you start the same, but throw the knife on the outside of their feet. Same rules apply, they move their foot to where the knife stuck. You ended up with your feet really far apart trying to do the splits. First one to fall down loses.
notabigtruck · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy invented a game called "Swing Kick." (The name could use some work, but he was like, six.)
Basically, it's kickball, but the "batter" is on a swing, and you have to pitch it to him so he can kick the ball on his upswing.
Mostly, we just tried to boot it over the fence. Base-running wound up being fairly confusing, since most of the time, there were only like 2-4 of us playing.
On second thought, this game might be terrible.
annaedamame · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played something called “Cat-Dog” (inspired by the nickelodean show) where it is like leg wrestling.
We would lay on our backs on the sofa, one head on each opposite end and start off by touching the bottom of our feet together and equally knees bent.
Then we would shout “go!” and see who would be the first to push the other sibling’s leg all the way back until the other’s legs were fully straight and knees locked.
sweetboiiiii · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well my female friend and I played this one game where we would basically just act like we were an adult couple and do our normal stuff like work and so on. Only that we "lived" in a world where you usually are complete naked and just outside put on underwear. We were around 4 that time and my dad still teases me with that 13 years later. We actually called it "playing nude" btw.
techackz · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in Pakistan, the kids played a game called Monkey with a rope
Basically everyone takes their shoes off and piles them up around a bolt in the ground. The bolt is tied to a rope that the 'monkey' holds. That's as far as the money can go while holding the rope. Everyone else has to take all the shoes back from the monkey without getting tagged. If no one is tagged, and all the shoes have been collected then the monkey has to run because he is attacked with all the collected shoes. So whoever collects the most shoes gets the most throws. And it really sucks for whoever is the monkey.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a cousin would play "bonyun ball" where it's basically football in a basement and we had to throw the football in a laundry basket and yell "bonyun!". That was always fun.
Abetz27 · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had this game which was similar to the Mayan Ball game from The Road to El Dorado. Our front entry way has walls on either side and has a potted plant holders which was attached to the wall and had a hole on the side like the goals in the movie. We used a small squishy soccer ball and you could only use your hands if you hit it with an open palm. Everything else to hit it in was fair game. We could never score that many points, so it was usually first to 1 or 2.
novaspax · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of the best games I got to play with a lot of kids was our version of "cops and robbers". It was basically spotlight tag (play in the dark, finders have flashlights) but with 2 teams and the goal was to make it into a specific room in the house without getting caught. The room could not be directly guarded, so it was basically hiding for your life, developing a strategy to sneak into the house and then a mad dash for the finish line. Very high energy, in hindsight the combo of night tag with a personal way to win was a great combo.
thru_dangers_untold · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blood pool. Both players start with 3 pool balls in each hand. After saying "3,2,1 Dommelsch" both players roll all of the balls at the center of the pool table as hard as they can. With pool balls flying everywhere, you keep grabbing another ball and rolling it across the table as fast as you can until all of the pool balls are in the pockets or on the floor. Then that's it. If you bleed, you lose I guess.
Milhouse_is_a_meme · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We filled large plastic soda bottles with water and threw them at the gutter. The winner is the one that broke first.
Also buying lighters in bulk and throwing them at brick walls so they'd explode.
impossiber · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gorilla. Biggest guy in the group has to close his and and yell "touch my chest!" Once you touch his chest, the gorilla can chase you around the house with his eyes closed and wrestle you to the ground. That's pretty much the whole game.
i_like2fly · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In all seriousness, we would just race around the playground. This was a tradition that had consistently been passed down at that school for several decades. It’s happened so much over the years that there’s dips from the wear from our shoes. We’d run 5 laps around the playground set. I always won.
hillsa14 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Kick the Can." Basically there would be an empty can (probably a beer can) in the middle of clearing with a goalie, everyone would run around and hide in bushes and try to kick the can, the goalie could catch them and they would have to go back to the boundaries, whoever kicked the can would be the new goalie. Wherever the can landed after being kicked was the new spot for it to stay, and it was most fun played on the dark! Some areas my friends lived in had tons of kids, so sometimes it got pretty crazy in the middle of a soccer field.
Ah good memories.
fisheypixels · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mini trampoline behind the couch. Pillows, cushions, and bean bags on the opposite side of the couch. Running start, trampoline over the couch, pose mid-air while shouting the pose. Hope you dont land on the couch, or overshoot and knock the TV on you.
Good times until my parents saw us bail and shit that shit down
ScoutRobin · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Reenacting Spongebob scenes and episodes on the playground in preschool with majority of the class, best times.
MyLittleRapidash · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "crack the egg" on the trampoline. One person would sit with their arms and legs crossed, and everyone else would jump around them trying to launch them enough that they unfurled their limbs to prevent dying on the edge of the trampoline.
Nakatsukasa · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I have this really old Acer desktop pc in my home, we have no internet plug in it and only a few default windows game, some classic rts like the cossacks and starcraft, red alert (that were all mysteriously uninstalled for reasons unknown), disney games like platform game version of Hercules and lion kings etc
But there's one game that leave a lasting impression on me:
So I got bored of most of the game I have on the computer, and start opening randoms apps hoping one of them is a game, then I found one.
The game is called Drug Lord 2, as the name implies u play as a drug dealer and try to make lots of money in the span of 50 days (I hate the time limit thou)
The game is entirely text base and the UI design is just the default applet design u would expect in windows xp.
Basically, I have to buy drugs that has a moving price, check other cities drug price and fly to the ones with a higher price for the drugs I brought and sell it there. From time to time you will encounter enemies ranging from rats to airport security and have a turn base combat(you can buy weapons from some dealer).
I was sucked into the game half of the reason because it is the first time I played a simulation game and the other half is because I'm sick of doing gauntlet run with Hercules. I got a note book and borrow my mother's calculator and go full Asian Drug lord mode doing all thenmaths and calculations to get the highest profit in 50 days possible -- then made an unbearable high score due to a bug.
That year I grew more interests in maths and got a better score, I was 9. A few years later, I will learn how to type in english by getting addict to runescape.
Last year, out of boredom, I actually take some time and give it a search on google and actually found the game again, if you're interested in some old school trading sim, I'd definitely recommend this game.
TL;DR Drug trading simulation game make me study maths
mikwhat · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Huckle buckle beanstalk" at my grandparents' house all the time as kids. We had a toy rabbit, about 6" tall (the specific toy was unimportant). We would take turns hiding it somewhere in the room with the only requirement that at least half of the rabbit had to be plainly in view without touching or moving any other objects. Everyone would go look for the rabbit and once you saw it you had to shout "Huckle buckle beanstalk" and then go sit down and wait for everyone else to do the same or give up. Then the first person who eyed the rabbit retrieved it (to prove they actually saw it) and took their turn hiding it.
budw1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Extreme Wars". turn all the lights off, blankets over the windows, make it pitch black in the room. 3,2,1 GO!!! everyone just blindly throwing whatever they find. i remember VHS tapes were one of the more common things thrown. yes, we broke A LOT of stuff. yes, we got hurt (nothing serious though).
puckbeaverton · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to see how many marbles I could cram into my foreskin.
kinda_a_rapist · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drink the stuff under the sink
Snowflake_Smasher86 · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before bed and after my evening bath, I used to run around the house with no clothes on to get rid of all of my energy before I slept.
My parents called it the "nudey runaround"
pineapplemoon_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this game 'the 1000'. It was the ultimate fun game for me and my sister. We would get prepared for the battle like real fighters (bandanas and stuff), pick a pillow as a weapon and go into our parents room, on the master bed and fight! We had rules though. No hair pulling! The only rule. After a long time we would get out exhausted with nail marks on our skin and smiles on our faces... Doesn't sound any fun or civil but we would laugh throughout the whole game. We enjoyed fake fights very much. Mom would usually caught us and woop our asses but we loved it and even plan our next 'the 1000' game in secret.
AnarchyLime · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm late to this party, but the memories are too fond not to share. I actually have 2 games, and I didn't see them mentioned.
"Candy wrapper game" We would take a a wrapper from a hard candy, like one found on a dinner mint, flatten as best as we could, and drop it from as high a location as we could muster on a playground. The goal was for someone to catch it before it hot the ground. The wrinkles, light weight, and slightest of breezes would have it flipping all over. A good breeze could carry it across the playground. If you caught the paper you were the next thrower.
"Pencil Shooter" On rainy days, all players would father around a piece of paper. Each player makes a small circle around the edge. In turn, players would use one finger on the eraser and the pencil tip on their dot, and lean their finger to a side forcing the pencil to fall in a direction. The resulting line on the paper would be your move, and your new dot at the end of the line. The goal was to strike a line through your opponents dot in order to "kill" them. Last kid standing wins.
dmacaptiv · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and I would climb up onto our fence and walk from backyard to backyard along it at night (everyone's fences were connected). Our neighbors next door had a huge play structure with a swing so we'd hop down into their yard to swing on it trying not to be detected. Our other neighbors had pet birds outside and we'd hop down to play with them. Our parents had no idea we were doing this. When one of us wanted to play, we'd ask the other "do you want to go to Chucky Cheese's?" That was our code word. We taught our other sister how do climb and balance when she was old enough, and then I grew up and got too heavy for the fence to support me :(
DividendOdyssey · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lemmings
FloofyRaptor · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dinosaur tail. I invented it in primary school when I was around 5.
Basically everyone had to hold on to the coat or jumper of the person in front, in sort of a giant conga line. The lead person would have to run around dragging the line of people behind them, speeding up, slowing down and changing direction in an attempt to make someone let go and break the tail. The person who lets go becomes the person at the front of the line, and the game continues until everyone is bored or the teacher watching the playground shouted at us for 'breaking' our coats.
Nearly 20 years later I went to pick my friends daughter up from the same primary school. What were they playing in the playground? Dinosaur tail! I was very surprised!
Thopterthallid · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played a game we called "buddies". The narrative was that we were friends who lived together and worked together.
We'd start our "day" by pretend waking up, going to work, working, bringing all the money to our secret bank accounts, (we were secretly rich and going to surprise our poor families with a bunch of money all at once), we'd then watch a scary movie on the gas meter, and go to sleep.
Perhaps the most unique thing about the buddies was that we shared dreams. So after watching a pretend scary movie on the gas meter, we'd have pretend scary dreams in the back yard.
Then we'd wake up for work.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
IRA manhunt
One team is provos, the other's paras
The provos come up with a word and each person on their team is given a letter
The paras Hunt them down and beat the letters out of them
NYTinman28 · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard...whoever is "it" hides somewhere in a cemetary, unknown to everyone but one person(the guide). The guide then walks the group of players around as if in a tour group, making up fake back stories for the names on the tombstones until they come to whoever is it, who then jumps out and scares everyone and chases them back to base. Whoever gets caught is the next one to be it, and the person who was it becomes the guide for the next round.
landofgay · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It never really had a name but my parents call it "hello hello", basically we'd be walking somewhere and I'd trail behind them a bit and then kinda jog up next to them and go "hello! I'm just on a jog!" and pretend like we were strangers. I remember doing this a lot. (I was like 3/4/5 something like that)
rwilkz · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foot wrestling. 2 opponents lie on their backs, knees bent, soles of the feet touching. Ideally on a 3 person couch so the armrests can act as bolstered. Using only your feet you have to push the other persons feet down til they are bent up like a pretzel. You win.
trinitrotolulene · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably unique now, was played in school yards years ago. https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/mumbley-peg/
joshkirk1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How many lizards can you catch, get to bite your ear, and hang there at once
oodsigma · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother's and I used to play this weird booby trap game. We'd set up one of our bedrooms to be a maze of trip wires, proximity mines, alarms, and imaginary lasers, then hide something as a piece of treasure that we needed to get, without setting off the traps.
The thing is, the other person has to leave the room so they don't see you set the traps. And they could be made from anything and when set off the "defender" would just make a loud fail buzzer sound. So a random action figure you didn't set up could suddenly have lasers coming out of its eyes just because you noticed he stepped in front of it. My dumb ass 6 year old self didn't think of that, but there's no way of knowing how much my older brothers cheated.
RingOfFryer · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Socketball. It was basically just people making a goal post out of their arms and others trying to throw or kick a ball through it. It was dumb, but of course our school eventually had it banned
Sandvich1015 · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad is currently in the military, so eventually, I got to live in Okinawa, Japan. The area I lived in was next to a cul-de-sac of houses so there were plenty of other kids there as well. And the curfew was a lot later(Like midnight), since the crime rate was very low. So we would play a game called “Manhunt.” So there were two teams of players, one team hid, and the other would seek them out and tag them. Once the person was tagged, they would have to go inside the center of the cul-de-sac where they would either wait until the end of the game, or until another player from their team tagged them so they could escape. Now that I think about it, it’s a lot more like Cops and robbers, but I’m just glad I was able to play it with before I devolved into spending my time online.
bohofromblacklagoon · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child and wasn't allowed to make friends with kids in the neighborhood. But I had tons of movies, so I would put one on, pick a character, and sort of shadowcast to my empty bedroom. Costumes would often be involved. It was like playing with imaginary friends but with sound effects.
linehp_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called “you decide game” and it was basically just make up an OC (that wasn’t a term we knew back then) and pretend to be that person.
Okay maybe it wasn’t so unique, but it was fun and the backstories of some of the characters would get pretty deep.
cacagween · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some friends and I would put on carpet skates, which are these shoe attachments that made them really slippery on carpets, then we would slide around my basement with exercising balls and have wars. Surprisingly no one got hurt
MartMario12 · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bubble Trouble
mrbangerman · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our game at school was affectionally known as 'Mugbee'. It was a cross between rugby and mugging (not traditionally known as a sport). Basically played with a football and you had to hold onto it as long as you could without ending up in hospital. If you didnt possess the ball, your objective was to get it off the person who did using any method at your disposal. No teams, just individual players. Sometimes we would have 100s of kids playing every lunch break. The person who held the ball for the longest amount of time was considered the champion for that session. Speed and evasive agility were the key traits required. The look of fear on some kids faces when the ball spilled out to them and they realised they were about to get gang tackled was priceless. Good times.
Uglybitchenergy · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters would make "soft dirt" by putting dirt into a sifter or we would play restaurant and make tacos out of leaves and sticks. We were poor lol.
Sjf715 · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvinball...eh, just messing. I could never figure out the rules.
avgsuperhero · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who can drink the most. We almost died.
Patch0uliprincess · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two that come to mind. One was “grenade”; a friend of mine had this small plastic bowling set and we would sit at each end of her small hallway, close all the doors, and then just whip the pins and balls at each other, the balls being the grenades because they hurt like all hell. The other one didn’t have a name as far as I remember, but four friends and I would turn the lights off, one person goes on each end of the bed, and then you all run at each other and try to knock each other off the bed. I ended up once chipping my friends tooth by accidentally kicking her in the face.
CTConnor · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Final Fantasy Tactics on the DS.. dude that shit was so challenging but fun trying to get all your favorite characters leveled up and evolved!!! Absolutely loved it and it remains one of my fondest childhood memory’s!
ManHandz20 · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bruise Lee. It was me basically beating up my sisters with karate. Lol
Masalar · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Abusive Pokemon trainer. My brother and cousin would be Pokemon and I'd be a bad trainer. I'd tell them to do stupid things, pick "fights" with Pokemon they had no chance of beating, and had this soft, stuffed something (I'm really not sure what it was) that I'd hit them with.
phylosophy · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The creativity you guys have. We just rode our sleds down the stairs and pooped outside in big cardboard boxes.
Mishaloli · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rub the peepee
1happylife · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would have me hide on the floor of the front seat of the car (in the 70's before seat belts were mandatory) and drive me around the city until I lost all sense of direction and location. Then I'd get back in the passenger seat and it would be up to me to give directions to get home.
Kalalyn · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little sister and I played "ninja granny" growing up. She would ride her scooter to the "crosswalk" where I, the granny, would slowly hobble across the street. Once I got close enough to her, I would become a ninja and attack her. It was basically just a way to fight her without getting into trouble. She thought it was hilarious.
alittleoffset · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games come to mind: Independence Day - Basically a dodge-ball war where you had to take out each other with balls. One of us was the "mothership" and they had to be protected by the "Alien" team.
The other was "Hot Lava and Devil Man" it was pretty much a LARP game we played as kids that had drama and one on one "fighting" with make shift weapons and "powers" you had to fight your way up the chain to get to Hot Lava and Devil Man.
barebottombureaucrat · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Galactic Gladiators
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just lined up, pulled our pants down and tried to see who could piss the furthest. The taller kids had an obvious range advantage so we made them piss on ther knees to make it fair. There was one girl in our little neighborhood group who sometimes hung out with us. One time she stabbed a small hole in the cap of her disposable plastic water bottle, stuck it between her thighs and squeezed on it to force a stream out of the cap end. Good times.
We were only like 7-10 years old so don't judge us too harshly
Razor98566 · 1 points · Posted at 20:10:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does Quake 3 as a kid in second grade count? I mean I'm pretty sure I was the only one playing that
Dgnslyr · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Modified Wall Ball.
Group of guys would pelt a tennis ball at the wall and a different guy would try to catch it. If he fumbled it or if a ball touched someone, they would have to run and tag the wall otherwise players would pelt them as hard as they could with the tennis ball.
Kboner9099 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I called it beach. He would roll a set of shuffleboard discs (X=8) down our hill, while I would stand with a shuffleboard poll trying to block them before they made it to the beach. If any of them made it all the way down to the wall and fell on the beach, he would win. If not, I would.
Then he would yell BEACH BEACH BEACH and 8 yr old me would start to cry. Classic.
aarswft · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mega-Tennis. Our school had a 4 court set up, 2 in each fenced in area, side by side. So we would play where one set of 2 courts was a side, and the 15' fence between the areas was the net. You got 2 bounces as opposed to one. It was exhausting.
D3Y3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Spiderman" I... don't wanna talk about it.
WamBamThankYouClam · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bullies and Nerds. The bullies were on the ground with dodgeballs, and the nerds were on the trampoline dodging the bullies.
Felt like we were in the Matrix lol
D18 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grew up going to church every Sunday. A bunch of bored kids around my age made up a sort of turn-based tag game. To start, everyone started bunched up together in the middle of the gym, then jump outward to get some space from each other. You were allowed to move each foot once on your turn. You would basically take a giant step, pivot on that foot, and giant step your other foot. Then you'd wait for your next turn. You'd usually end up almost in the splits because you'd reach so far to make the most of your movement. You could get someone out by stepping on their foot, or by getting them to move when it wasn't their turn. If someone was going to step on your foot you could use your turn immediately, but it would forfeit your next turn.
When we made up the game we asked "Should we give it a name?" and one of the kids said "How 'bout no?" and then for years we'd all go play How 'Bout No.
Adassai_nova · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the elementary school, my friend and I were really into horses and riding (both if us still are, to be fair), so we would gather up a bunch if pine needles and make tiny jumping courses and then gallop around jumping over them. It was pretty fucking lame
The_Diggs · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Someone would place a toothpick at the bottom of the pool and let it slowly rise to the top. Everyone had to wait outside and once the toothpick was spotted they would try to grab it as they dove in (you were not allowed to grab it once you were already in the water, if you missed you had to get back out and try to dive for it again). Whoever caught it gets a point and is the next to place the toothpick at the bottom of the pool.
established2000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chinese fight me and my older sister would beat each other and first one to cry lost
astralpoppy · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother used to use different colored 1x1 legos as classes and we'd do turn based fantasy combat on the big flat pieces
greyseal494 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was 10 when Kennedy was assassinated. My brothers and I played a game where two of us would play Secret Service agents, one would play the President, and one would play the assassin. The agents would escort the Prez from the rear bathroom down the hall to the bedroom and the assassin would try to jump out and shoot the Prez before being stopped by the SS agents. This had to be pretty unique.
SmackEntitled · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school my friends and I played “Murder Ball.”
It was basically “butts-up” but with a raquet ball. A raquet ball is a thick rubber ball a little bigger than a golfball
If you touch the ball without catching it, you had to run and tag the wall but someone else could pick up the ball peg you touched the wall.
When it started going around school, a lot of people wanted to play. We told all the newbies that in order to play there was an initiation.
The initiation was: you stand nose to the wall and i crow-hop through the rubber ball as hard as i can into your back. Most of them didnt know i was a baseball pitcher at the time. Most kids didnt keep playing.
Overall fun game though. Lots of bruises
NatureLovingArtFreak · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad was Charlie Force Recon, Marine Corps. so you can imagine he was pretty hardcore. He was openly vocal about his pride as "A KILLER!!!"
So when we were wee lads (my younger brother and I), dad would play 'camoflage' with a pellet gun pumped "...only three times" which of course was a lie because I would get snapped on my ass painfully when he would find us from a distance.
We were required to dress in child sized combat fatigues and boonies and we got 5-10 minutes to apply natural foliage to our camo and hide. Dad would play the "Patrolling Enemy" and would saunter into the 5 acre forest/field that was on our property and talk loudly like he was with other soldiers. He would impersonate chinese communists, russian communists, and of course Marines. If he thought he saw us he would "put a round through em" (bb).
The goal though was to "kill" him. He supplied us with rubber kbars, and if we could legitimately sneak up on him and stab his vital areas then we got McDonalds. Sometimes one of us would try to stab dad, and he would swing around with the muzzle of his bb gun at us. He would scream."GET DOWN MAGGOT ON THE GROUND NOW HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD MAGGOT LAY DOW LAY DOWN LAY DOWN.....DON'T SPEAK YOU PUKE STAY DOWN!!!!!!"
Then dad would point the bb rifle at the one of us that was caught, and then he would imitate a nazi german accent and begin "leveraging human assets" against the survivor..."YOU HAVE ZTHREE ZECONDS TO APPEAR, OR I VILL KILL YOUR BRUDER...ZREE...TU...VUN...." snap..goes the bb gun and brother is "dead". Then I would lose because I lost my partner.
But sometimes we got the kill, and successfully ambushed dad and took him out silent and deadly, tale his rifle, then execute the mission. "The mission", was to then hide the body, so we would cover him with branches and grass, then we had to proceed to a designated position behind our house. From there, dad had stapled paper plates with orange highlighter to several places across the backyard. The backyard was several acres and had quite a few old growth evergreens, it was beautiful.
We had binoculars and we would identify together the targets, and then we had to find a path and remain hidden from view to get to within bb range. Dad would at this point be a referee and had a steel whistle on a leather strap around his neck. He would judge our movements and blow the whistle if we didnt worm flat enough to the ground or were too obvious in our movements and we would have to go back and try again.
Once we successfully moved to bb range, we would then have to hit the target with one of us playing spotter with the binoculars. Each target was worth a dollar. So in an afternoon we could get McDonalds and earn a few bucks doing it.
I really miss my dad.
adamm09 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bunt baseball. In my garage we set up a minibasbeball field. It was 1v1 and you could only bunt. It went through alterations of rules like how hard you can throw. When we got heated we would pitch as fast as we could and try and bunt off that. And then you would peg someone to get them out. There was nothing better then the adrenaline from getting a bunt and try not to get pegged
Meagz0341 · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Break-away: My brother and I would get 5 minutes to collect as many suitable sticks as possible. When the 5 minutes were up we would then take the sticks and hit them against trees causing the end piece to fly off in the other competitors direction. This game resulted in many cuts and a lot of matrix like near misses.
orekero · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The sock game”
Basically we all put on 3 pairs of socks and got on our hands and knees. We moved the furniture so there would be a big open space, then we would crawl around and try to pull each other’s socks off. But you had to grab them one at a time. Last one standing wins!
Theonetruebrian · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play “The Pickle Game” with my Uncle. I know, I know, sounds worse than it is lol.
Premise is that my uncle is a shopkeeper and we want pickles. He has none and when he is eventually forced to tell us that, we would all hop over whatever was being used as the store counter and attack him. So basically we were just trying to beat him up but had the tension of having to wait for him to say “we are all out of pickles” but before he did he would come up with as many things that start w a P and are found in grocery stores as he could.
“I’m very sorry but we’re all out of pistachios” “Are you deaf old man, we said we want pickles!” “Ahh I’m sorry, but as it turns out we have no more pumpkins in stock” and on and on. Was great fun, until we got too big to actually play that vicious game. 😂 I have very fond memories of this game.
GeneralMaint · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me with my younger brother and sister used to play a game we called The Flintstones. If you remember the opening theme song you see Fred when he gets to work and a bird "punches" Fred's timecard by biting it. One of us would be in the bedroom closet and someone would stick one of my dad's baseball cards from his childhood collection through one of the slits on the closet door so the other one could bite it. Looking back now we could have been sitting on a gold mine of 60's baseball cards but we were dumbass kids. Our father wasn't impressed
linedshot · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my grandmas house we would build bunkers at each end of the hallway using foam fold-up beds. All my cousins and I balled our socks up and had sock wars, throwing them at each other until we were worn out. Great fun.
FloppyDriver · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Covered ourselves in a blanket in a wheelbarrow and we would wheel eachother the area and the other person would have to guess where we were. Sometimes we would wheel the wheelbarrow into some strangers house and take off and the other person would get out and realize they were in a strange backyard.
emmytee · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trying to fly"
Involves the use of cardboard and tape to create winger, rotored or other suits, then jumping off a chair, flapping wildly, then arguing for hours about whether "it worked a bit".
naes2000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but in our 20's a group of us would use our cars and play hide and seek. 1 car would hide, and the other 5 vehicles would seek. We used busy streets for the boundaries and every 20 minutes the hides would call the seekers with clues.
Wave57 · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bash Cars.
This game was the shit, me and my brothers would collect all of our hot wheels and line them up. We would take two cars and bash them against each other until one car flipped over, either fully upside down or on it's side. Of both cars flipped it was a rematch, if one flipped on it's side, and the other on it's back, the car flipped on it's side would win. We did this for hours, and would have a huge tournament for it. When we went through it, the losers would get lined up for the next one, so there definitely was a seeding element of sorts.
We had to ban a couple cars eventually, cause they would always win. One that comes to mind wasn't even a hot wheels car but it was a mini Flinstones car, that was bulky as hell. Nothing was going to stop that behemoth. Fred had strong legs let me tell you. Literally undefeated.
Ouisch · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One memorable summer the city was paving a couple of roads near the end of our subdivision (the roads had previously been gravel, and prior to this we had great fun hiding in the ditches). There were huge piles of soil/sand all over the place at the construction intersection (they were also installing a sewer system, hence the huge amount of dirt dug out), and on weekends (or after 5PM on weekdays; basically any time after all the workers had left) a bunch of us kids would take our bikes (pretty much thick-tired basic Schwins, although I remember two kids that had those fancy 5-speed rides) and push them up to the top of each dirt hill. Then we'd try to stay seated as we skidded this way and that downhill. Of course we often lost control and fell of our bikes and rolled down the rest of the way. I remember coming home covered in filth and Mom asking "What in the world have you been up to?!!" "Nothing," I'd reply innocently. At that time Cedar Point, the giant amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, (about a three hour drive from our locale in Detroit) had recently opened and was advertised heavily on TV. None of us had been there, but we christened our private little amusement area "Dirt Point". That was our rallying cry that summer - "Hey, I'll meet you at Dirt Point!!"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dolphins
bellijos · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway soccer with a tennis ball. Stand at both ends of a hallway and try to get the ball past the other persons doorway.
Played with siblings and friends growing up and may or may not squeeze in a game or two every now and then for nostalgia purposes.
Angelfishfan · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jungle Warrior."
It's pretty much tag, but when you tag a person; instead of them chasing you, you have to beat each other up. I used to love playing that at recess. Even though each game ended with the teacher yelling at us.
xX_bitch_Xx · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my younger sister and i had a creek behind our house. we'd make a habit of trekking as far down the creek as we could, and she was always curious about the flora and fauna we found. so, being the responsible older sister i was, i pretended to be some kind of expert and told her about all the plants and animals, usually with names i had made up. "ah yes, those are the common water-walker bugs... the dog-hair grass..." etc. etc. it went well until my sister thought the cloud moss was really pretty and we brought a bucket down and filled my mom's bathtub with it. that put a stop to things pretty quickly. (p.s. i was like 10 don't judge)
BitterFaithlessness · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play catch the flag, but with one of us in place of the flag, and no clear playing field so we could just run anywhere and hide with whoever was the “flag”. Really only played it once or twice, since it ended in us dislocating our youngest cousins shoulder and a hospital trip.
wummbat · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mario kart
RezzeTV · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game.
PM_Me_Shaved_Puss · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paper war.
We would each draw a fortress on opposite sides of a sheet of paper with cannons. then attempt to "shoot" the opponents cannons to win. Shooting was accomplished by standing your pencil on it's tip, putting the point of the pencil on your own cannon and then with one finger on the eraser, pushing the pencil down. if the pencil mark traveled all the way to the opposing cannon it was destroyed.
LT71 · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike tag basically we bust crashed bikes into each other only thing is you could throw stuff and hit each other as well
southpaw14mj · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called flamingo. A childhood friend made it up. Kind of complicated. The basic idea was that you had to throw a tennis ball into a small inflatable pool to score. The thrower had three tennis balls and can only throw one at a time underhand. The goalie had to retrieve the balls and throw them back from where they landed. The goalie also had one of those hand held jai Lai ball thrower things as a goalie stick. The basic premise was that you would have to end up making ridiculous diving saves because you had to run back to defend the pool after throwing the ball.
jamesloney92 · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SCOCCER! - not a typo. My sister and i would ride our scooters around a basketball court at the local school, kicking a soccer ball with our free leg.
EmerqldRod · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stupid game me and my siblings made up. I remember we even made a guide for the game and rules. I can't remember exactly how the game goes, but I'll try my best to remember. I played this with both of my siblings at my grandma's house, who has quite a big property with a bunch of walls, a couple of sheds with small pathways between them and a bunch of obstacles. All three of us all had a base, quite far from each other. The base was a marked part, that we marked before we started playing. On your base there was a box, with I think four pairs of your own shoes, at the start of the game. There also had to be an empty box on your base. You were allowed to take one shoe of the other person at a time. If you were on their property with one of their shoes, and they saw you, the person had to say something and you have to drop it. If you weren't on the other person's property, that person was allowed to run after you, and tag you to get that person's shoe back. When you got to your own base with someone else's shoe, you had to put it in the empty box. You weren't allowed to take out your own shoe out of someone else's "empty box", but you were allowed to take the other person's shoe. You were allowed to make agreements behind other peoples back, for distracting or something, and even just screw them over by making a double agreement or something. I am probably forgetting a lot of rules, but it was quite fun to play. It took about 30 minutes per round. Now that I write it,bit sounds quite boring, but back then it was really fun though. I have always wondered if there is a game like this that already exists...
Thenightmancumeth · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Taped a pair is scissors to the ceiling fan then everyone hid behind furniture and turned the fan on. My mom hated us. The scissors embedded themselves into the wall and pictures and stuff. We were terrible kids.
Xyver · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play ninja tag on the playground. It was a variation of grounders (whoever's it has their eyes closed, the people running away can't touch the floor and can only touch the playground), but we all cheated at grounders too much so we changed the rules.
Everyone has their eyes open, noone can touch the ground. If you're it and touch the ground, freeze for 5 sec, and everyone else can touch the ground while you're frozen. If you're not it and touch the ground, freeze for 10 sec
We played this for a long time... Well into our teenage years, we'd even drive around to find the best playgrounds for it.
Ryman2211 · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, and step brother who are both 4 years older than me would play a game back when I was about 2. I still remember most of it, we called it "Spy." Not sure why but my sister was a mage and I was melee. We had a lot of props so it was really easy to get immersed in the imagine. My step brother would role as the moderator. He played as the quest guide, enimies, you name it. When I think about "childhood", Spy is the first thing I think about. It was great, we used anything and everything we could inside and outside. The sad part was when they grew out of playing with me about five years later but im suprised it went that long. I truly miss childhood.
chickenwitch · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Who can be the quietest" now I realise it was a way that my family would get my siblings and I to be quiet. Didn't really work, most of the time the game would end in arguments over who really was the quietest.
AHappyLittleSlut · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister made up a game called "Snake in the Grass". We all stood in a circle while someone told a story. At any time in the story they said the words snake in the grass, we all broke into a game of tag. Whoever the story teller caught was the next person to make up a story.
StingRaie13 · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine and I would play "Frebreze Tag" where we would each be armed with a bottle of frebreze and turn the lights off. When we would locate the other in the hallway, we would then spray the crap out of each other. By the end of it, we smelled incredible but were just as damp.
Winner was decided based on whose clothes were dryer.
SixshooteR32 · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Serbia... there were no rules.
bsmilf · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would wrap ourselves in a comforter and then roll down our stairs. Not so much a game but we did it
LockDad854 · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any kinda smudge on the windshield was the crosshairs in my fighter jet/mom's '94 Cavalier
brainboru · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Toejam and Earl
AstronASMR · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our whole family played verbal DnD we spread it around the school until almost anyone in our village knew about it.
pikapipikatchu · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sibling and I used to take newspaper ads from our house and deliver them to our neighbor's front doors to share the savings. It seemed like we were the only house with papers always on our front door so I had the brilliant idea to share the wealth. Sorry neighbors.
CaptSzat · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
School Handball. Not European handball but any NZ or Aus will know what it is. Pretty much the rules are different at every school I’ve ever been at, making it pretty unique.
Eg. The ball can bounce threw you square on one bounce and if it goes into someone else’s square with out you touching it, it’s fine and the game continues as if you hit in their square.
Also using footballs and feet instead of a handball and hands.
TallBlake · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Space Station Silicon Valley.
I have get to meet another peraon who played it as a kid.
KevinAdr · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After it snowed we would arrive early at school and make a maze in the snow. Then we could play tag inside the maze we made. If it didn't snow more we would end up making huge mazes throughout the days and play with 20 to 30 kids at a time.
lifeofcarll · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When our mom wasn’t home my sister and I would take a twin mattress and ride it down the stairs, tug back up and do it all over again. Fun stuff until you hear the garage door open and frantically try to put the mattress back in place before she gets in the house.
LordRandall10 · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two twin brother and I used to put up two hot wheels race tracks side by side and race two cars down at the same time. The winner would move on until we had the fastest car champion. We had around 100 matchbox cars and we would do this over and over again.
lizzygoochmang · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poison
5-cus · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I plus several neighborhood kids would play sort of a modified version of baseball in our backyard, except the batter was swinging on our swing set and the ball was a giant 4 ft inflatable rubber ball that the pitcher would lob at the swinger who would kick it. The kicker would have to vault off the swing after the kick and run to the end of our yard and back before the opposing team hit them with the ball. We had so much fun with this we played it multiple years in a row.
wackojacko666 · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hay wars. At my primary school we used to go onto the field and grab all the recently chopped grass that was long and looked like hay. Kids would generally team up and make clans were they would stand the hay to build walls or make igloos out of it. The game grew very fast until nearly every on sun the school was playing and it got very violent t with kids charging each others bases and stealing the now limited hay. This would go on until someone got hurt and then we had to stop. Until the grass was mowed again ...
redrumrobert · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mattress Races! We would literally take the mattress from our beds and ride them down the stairs!
dippynme · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey Champ. We would hang on the monkey bars and face to face and with only the use of our legs we would try to pull the other person off of the bars. Not always a peaceful game..
Lemonscouldblemonade · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Switchem. Youd put 1 finger in ur ass and one in your mouth and switch em
bbbbizza · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to have blanket fights. We would cover ourselves with full size blankets and wrestle until we were sweating. Kinda gross but tons of fun!
International_Power · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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wesleyrobertsimpson · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Nook when we were real young. Essentially, our older Brother sat in the corner of his bed (corner of the room too) and we piled all the pillows and cushions in the house in the corner his bed was pointed in
When our brother said "Nook" my sister and I would rush onto the bed to remove as many pillows as possible. No holds barred.
If you get knocked off, you're out until it's over. If we both end up on the floor, our brother won. If we got all the pillows off the bes, we won.
The best time was when my brother and I were having a tug 'O war with the last cushion on the bed, (he held one corner in his hands, I held another corner in my teeth) and we pulled so hard it burst open. I fell off as a result, but I count it as a win.
nietzscheman · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers... ... it’s exactly what it sounds like — Charlie Kelly
Gus_Da_Suss · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How far will it go
TunedMassDamsel · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called Pegball. It’s played in the pool with two to three people and four balls and it’s essentially pool-based dodgeball with an elaborate points-for-hits system, so you’re basically aiming at the other person’s face.
Sad Nose
megabatsyblue · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary we played soccer with a tennis ball, because we were not allowed to play with the regular size ball
asgervitus · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Badass ICE cream
Feyrbrand59 · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister came up with a game called Tag Tag. It was pretty simple, when you're on a trampoline, usually the round ones, they typically have tags that were on the spring guards on either end. The point of the game was for one person to be "it" and the other people would have to try to go back and forth from one tag on the trampoline to the other without getting tagged by the person that was it. It could only really be played with three or more people though, as the trampoline was not really big enough to get away from anyone for too long.
cyclone8888 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game called "barricade". We had a play room with tons of mattresses which connected to the family room by a long narrow corridor with a door at the end. There were two teams and the defenders tried to block or the door with mattresses and defend it from the attackers making it into the room. We had some great 4v4s, but the door began to detach from the wall and we broke off the door handle from one side so we were banned from playing it.
Ascendic92 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Def Jam Fight for New York😂💯
erdtirdmans · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
This might be too much of an actual game but: Lightball
There was a streetlight out front on a pole maybe 25 feet tall. Stand under the light and take turns throwing a tennis ball up at it. The scoring varied, but it was usually something like 1 point for hitting the wires. 2 for getting it between the low and high wires without touching them. 5 points for hitting the light sconce itself. 10 and the game ends if you hit the sconce and the light goes out (if the light comes back on within a minute or so, the game resumes and it's only the same 5 points)
We'd play for hours. Or minutes. All depended on the athletes that showed up that night.
imFailjitsu · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played this as an adult while drinking. Very fun, also easy to get hurt
rudbek-of-rudbek · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Special places with my uncle
angeliswastaken · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rapture
BushWeedCornTrash · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend was the youngest of an uper-middle class family in the suburbs. He lived at the top of the hill, and the bottom of the hill was a forested dead end. So it basically our private racetrack. This kid had a ton of things with wheels. There were those Tyke Cars, radio flyer wagons, some crazy 6 wheel bus thing with a steering wheel coming out the top, assorted scooters, bicycles and tricycles. Some of them were modified by previous generations for speed. Wheels and tires and bearings from other things. It was our own gravity drawstring. At the bottom of the hill, the road stopped and there was a metal barricade and pine trees behind that. So, not OSHA approved.
LimpFox · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really unique... But running the local stormwater drains. Roughly 1km long in 2 different directions. Now they're locked up behind steel cages so kids of today don't get to experience the joy of toying with death-by-drowning.
sarz37 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
kick the can
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late to the thread but me and my sister used to get inside a box and roll down the stairs inside it. Supised we didn't end up with any broken bones lol. We also used to ride pillows down the stairs, and sleds down the basement stairs.
zachtidwell14 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So me and my brothers, me being the youngest, would play wiffle ball in the backyard. I didn't want to play as much as they did so we played "Pin Zach down to the ground and threaten to spit on him unless he plays."
Clid51 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek tag, but you had a ball you could throw to tag someone. The safe spot you were trying to reach as a hider was our friends open garage. We’d play for HOURS since in Vegas the light pollution keeps it bright without the sun.
Berry_Boogle · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a neighborhood with a ton of kids (like 15 kids but it felt like 45) all around the same age in the 90's. I remember when inflatable furniture was popular, and every kid in the neighborhood had a different version of the inflatable chair. There was a hole between the seat and the back of the chair that we would squeeze our torso through so the seat of the chair would cover the front of our body. Then we would 'Sumo Wrestle' aka run at each other at high speeds and bounce off each other. We did it for about a week, and then some kid lost, cried, and told his mom he got hurt (he didn't though) and we had to stop. We revamped the game temporarily when everyone got Sock-em-boppers. I miss the 90's
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bowling for Feet"
I was super creative with names in 4th grade (9-10 years old).
Grab a kickball or dodgeball. Get a really long swingset. Fill the swings, put 1 kid on each end of the swingset. Roll the ball down the middle so it would go under each individual swing if they were still. Whichever swinger touches it as it goes by has to give up their swing to the person who rolled it and is now rolling it. Goal of the game is to stay in a swing as long as you can (until recess is over).
Fucking teachers made us stop playing it. Don't know why, it was fun as shit.
facktality · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played spear wars at the age of like 12 for about 30 minutes before parents dident think is was a good idee to throw long sharpened sticks at each other.
Cujo818 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called sock golf in our house... basically you get a big bowl (popcorn bowl) and each of my family members would take turns placing where you put the bowl anywhere in the house. Then the same person would choose where you start from. The person would could throw their socks into the bowl in the least amount of throws would win the round and get to pick the next spot. Loved that game.
coleks777 · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called capture the fleece. The basic premise was to capture a shirt. My cousin(who was older and just playing along) would act like a monster and we’d have to sneak into the room he was in without “waking him up” and take the fleece
Bruhstoise · 1 points · Posted at 20:15:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a lot of Pokémon as a kid so my friends and I liked this Pokémon named corphish and in my friends house his living room connected to his kitchen in one side and the area where his front door was located on the other side, and we’d play the “Corphish game” when we got really bored and essentially there’s a corphish, with two pillows, one in each hand, and the goal of the other players was to run from kitchen to door area without getting hit, no point system, no outs or resets, if you get smacked by the corphish you just eat it and keep going and hope they don’t get you with the other hand.
Troy532 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game in middle school that we called nazi frisbee (not proud of that name but 14 year old me thought it was funny)
Basically dodgeball played with frisbees on an open field. If you had a frisbee, you couldn't walk or run (you got three steps if you caught it)
If a frisbee hit a player or was dropped, the player lost the part of the body it last touched. Getting hit in the back, chest, or head resulted in death. Lower torso lost both legs. Winner was the last person left with at least one limb.
Games would devolve into a bunch of preteens angrily flinging frisbees at each other with their non-dominant hands while hopping on one foot.
It was great fun. We played just about every weekend from 7th grade up through 12th.
MISPWOSO · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1 time around 8 years old played house with a male and female neighbor, in said game the other 2 were married and played legit house but then she would come over to where I was and we would just make out the whole time. Is it normal to be that young and have pretend affairs? Lol
conner_1108 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ring around the penis
noelskum27 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cotton knocking , tie rope to ppls door and hide behind a car and Chap the door then chuckle when they look bewildered when nobody is there
motoxscrub · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Living Room Football: Played on your knees and a pillow for protection Same rules apply as regular football but only four downs to score. Goal-line stances were intense!
allute · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if it classifies as a game, but there was something we did in grade school where you'd sit across from a partner, holding hands with your arms crossed and theirs straight. The person holding your hands would have you close your eyes and picture a hallway with many doors of various colors and sizes. You'd continue exploring doors. There would be recurring characters that several people swear to have seen including a teacher who would torture you and write an F on the black board in your blood. I kept seeing a clown who would pull hankercheifs out his pocket, set them on fire and throw them on you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide the sausage with my uncle
ColoradoPunch420 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to stand on the armrest of our couch (long couch) and throw the cushions at each other to see who would fall off the arm rest first.
Damion1000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m a twin. We called it dogshit. Barefoot on the grass out back. Hands on each other’s shoulders facing each other. And then used to try push each other to step in dog shit.... we never did. But was hilarious.
Koyrion · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A driving game. It was on the ps1 and it was about stealing cars and you could walk and run and that's all I remember.
Rand0mPenguin · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would save up 2 liter soda bottles and on New Year’s eve we would go into the basement, form teams, and chuck them at each.
tangocharlie2010 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In gym class we played Gatorball. It was like soccer, but you could flip the ball up, with your feet, to a teammate, and they could carry it.
You tried to get the ball into small soccer goals. 1pt for a throw into the net 2 pt for a kick 3 pt for an alley oop to a teammate 4 pts for a header
It was the shit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend my family cared and was involved in my life. It was a fun game.
LepardVenum · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike Jousting.
A friend and I would bring our bikes and giant pointy sticks to an open field then go to opposite ends, yell go! Then try to out chicken each other while throwing our spears at the opponent's spokes.
Foxfox105 · 1 points · Posted at 20:16:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Cow Game” Basically you get on someone’s back and they run around on all fours and try to buck you off.
loligiusz1980 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A clock it want fun tho my mum sead that i have to puch the arm of a clock every 60 sec a dot
Ma3zer · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "piggly wiggly". When we went to family parties the adults had a room for coats and the kids would lay the coats on the floor. All of us would hide under the coats except one person who is the "it person". The "it person" would wait outside the room while everyone hid under the coats and then would come in and touch the top of the coat. If you were laying under that part of the coat you discreetly had to say "piggly wiggly" and the "it person" would have one guess to figure out who it was. If they were wrong they would keep playing but if they were right you would switch places.
Jvarsity2002 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called ball tag, where, in my grandmothers circular basement, we would run around and throw a yoga ball at each other to tag whoever got hit. This was when we were all around 7-12, so the ball was pretty much 3/4 of our heights.
spkuantke23 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chip chip golf. Started it in 5th grade with some buddies. Might have been done before, but same concept as putt putt but we would use buckets and random things to chip over. Really helped my short game.
CandiceJewel · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family lived kind of in the middle of no where so when we turned off all the lights it would be pitch black in the living room. My mom, brother, sister and I would empty out the room and then turn all the lights off. We would crawl around the room and attack each other blindly with blankets and pillows. Sometimes a car would drive by outside and light the living room up and we would all go running at each other. The game only ended when someone got hurt and started crying hahahaha. Sometimes our dogs would join in. My mom still talks about how much fun she had playing that game with us.
Drummerchef91 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother and step brother used to play a game we called “Mini Fighters”. We had a loft conversion so the room was pretty big. The game was that you had to be in a crouched or kneeling position at all times and you could only hop or roll to move. We built large forts out of pillows and other bedroom furniture that we hid behind and then we had to “fight” by throwing bean bags and other soft objects at each other like grenades. If you got hit then the other fighter could attempt to destroy your base however there was always 3 of us so this was difficult not to get hit before you got to the other base. We had lots of fun playing this game though I don’t think my dad always approved as we’d bang on the floor a lot as we hopped and rolled around!
R_Carr · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to throw a football onto my roof and then try to catch it when it bounced off at a weird angle. Why yes, I was an only child.
SirGamesalot7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ditch tag.
There was a large ditch in between 2 septic fields in our rural ontarian ementery school. Thr object of the game was pretty simple, it was tag. We would run from one side of the ditch to the other while the person who was 'it' had to stay in the ditch. Once you were tagged you went into the ditch and the other person became a runner again.
We spiced it up with taunts, such as singing the bill nye theme song while walking slowly accross, or standing in the ditch and acting as bait so others could cross safely.
Ahhh, those were the days.
MoonLiteNite · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Custom version of battleship. You could legally move the ships and had certain requirements and stuff
knuckles2112 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spin the bottle, twister, truth or dare.
Mr_Magpie · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a massive tub of pennies, so we filled slings and socks with those pennies and shot/hit each other
Yes it was insane. Yes it hurt. I'm amazed we didn't go to hospital.
theonlyleedon · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would throw rocks at eachother. First one to quit loses.
Gregorio1108 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little late but I have to share, Me and my sister would play doctor but it involved blowing into each other’s eye while holding it open. Why? I have no fucking clue
Human_Brains · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“What’s in the toilet roll?” When Me or my mum were in the bath, one of us would hide something from the bathroom inside of the tube bit of the toilet roll, whoever was guessing would have to look around the bathroom and guess what it was. A bit like eye spy I guess except you’re trying to figure what is now missing from your view.
Lorali · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game which we called ‘the spastic game’. I’m not sure where the name came from though. So what we would do, is after we’d been put to bed we would both sneak out and see how close we could get to the adults without being seen or heard. They were usually at the dining table playing cards. Of course we’d get caught, yelled at and told to get to bed. Rinse and repeat until we got smacked.
Crockwerk · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone mentioned Cave Explorer?
FuzzyFuzzzz · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Wormies” stand in a sleeping bag, arms inside. Ram into each other to knock your opponent over. We did a 1v1 bracket. Last one standing wins Wormies
SunflowerSeedOfEvil · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this in the playground on recess at a young age. Basically it was guys versus girls. The guys found one of the girls. If they tagged her she would end up in the homebase, which was one of four or five series of foundational poles under the playground. She'd have to stay at the homebase touching one of the poles. Only another girl could free the captured girl or girls by retagging them in the homebase. But the homebase was guarded by one or two guys so they would run the risk of getting tagged themselves.
evenmonkeys · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Kick the Can. You setup a coffee can somewhere in the yard and take turns kicking a soccer ball at it. After each kick, if it wasn't hit, you'd kick the ball from where the ball stopped last. Each time you knocked over the can, you got a point.
Hemwick93 · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a nice cliff i the forest by our school when I was young, so every recess we ran out there, grabbed our signature sticks and re-imagined the defence of Helms cliff. We were almost 20 kids doing this every time we got a break!
OctoyeetTraveler · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt Bumpers. Start at the top of stairs sitting down. Slide down a stair, when your butt hits the next stair, scream "BUTT BUMPERS!" repeat until you hit the bottom and crack your ass.
darkside0ftherainb0w · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I loved grabbing random items around the house and performing full on infomercials for them. We also loved recording super weird talk shows on tape cassettes.
tallskinnyvanilla · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shark, shark look out for shark"
Basically a hybrid of the "floor is lava" and tag.
Nullini · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oldschool.runescape.com
DarkDirigibleTitan · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red light, green light.
No, wait, hear me out on this! It wasn’t just red light, green light— we had yellow light, which meant you had to walk heel-toe to the signaller. And blue light, which meant the police were coming, so hit the deck. And disco light, which meant surprise dance party. And orange light, which meant the sun was burning your eyes. And black light, which meant night time so go to sleep. And purple light, and polka dot light, and pink light... I don’t remember what they did, and I have no idea how many other lights I’m forgetting, but we kids were lining up to play this.
WerkbuchFuerJungen · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
pantoffelfussball
snicklefritz_15 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my family would have bonfires in our backyard and we would invite the neighborhood kids over as well. We would play this game called “Green Eyes” and it would start with a scary urban legend about a monster with green eyes. One person is Green Eyes and has to hide somewhere in the front or backyard. There was a designated “safe zone” and at the beginning of the game everyone who isn’t green eyes would turn their backs and count out loud, and we always counted in this style “one o clock, two o clock, three o clock rock, five o clock, six o clock, seven o clock rock, all the way to midnight and we would all yell “midnight!” Then it was up to everyone to split up and find green eyes. If green eyes is found you’re supposed to yell “Green Eyes!” Then you run back to the safe zone before they can tag you, the first person caught is green eyes. Us kids LOVED this game, our parents however hateddd it cuz of the yelling and screaming all night, so much fun though!!
chuntone · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Does conkers bad fur day count?
BrightOppossum · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rufus the Retarded Rabbit. You get a sheet drapped over you and you spin in a cricle, as you spinning somone throws a pingpong ball into the room. You then get on your hands and knees and crawl around trying to find the ball. Meanwhile 3 to 4 other people are mercilessly wailing on you with pillows. It doesnt sound that bad but once the pillows fluff gets compressed into the bottoms it starts getting bad. one friend got a concussion, and i cracked a wall with my body after 3 people hit me in the side at the same time. Literally threw me into the wall. I dont remember anyone ever winning this.
bladderbunch · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the pain game. we had a trampoline and everyone who was playing got on it. you could throw no punches, kick no kicks, but if you said ow, you had to get off. anything else was fair game. noogies, indian burns, fish hooks, knuckles dug into ribs. i'm not sure how long we played that game, either in terms of single games or how long we realized that we were idiots for playing, but it left a significant mark on my psyche.
we played trampoline dodgeball too.
SquishyButStrong · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Y'all are so much more wholesome than me.
My friends and I would play "Houdini" wherein I'd get tied up with all my karate belts and then have to escape. I had a bunk bed with a ladder that was great for that game. One friend also used two laundry baskets to make a cage. And I vaguely remember being tied to the bed itself.
This might explain my adult... proclivities.
datbitchyouknow · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I shared a bedroom and when we couldn't fall asleep we'd play tag with flashlights on the ceiling. The AC intake vent was base and the lights chased eachother around the room.
AwesomeAdam825 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Freddy Krueger. One person, Freddy Krueger, would wear a mask. (Not that scary but we were young so we thought it was). We were in complete darkness and could only use a dim flashlight. Freddy would tag everyone, and the last person left won. The main thing about it was that in the dark it was super scary, especially when we were in my cousins basement. We would try to run away or throw pillows at Freddy to stop him. If you hid, Freddy would probably find you because there was no noises except those made by the players.
tristynjoshua · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spiro the dragon
bubblegummustard · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Make the biggest slide in town as fast and slippy as possible (water, mud, dish soap) then go down it and try to fly over the playground fence at the bottom. The one time someone achieved it he got wedged under a parked car, damaging it and himself.
Fr0gnutts · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I used to play a game in my basement hallway. One person rode a skateboard down the hallway and the other had one of those giant bouncy ball things with the handle that you hop around on. The person with the ball was tasked with knocking the skateboarder off by any means. If the skateboarder made it through, they won.
S33KER01 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Apple wars" on bamboo sticks, as kids we put apples(they were kinda small) on long bamboo sticks that were really flexible, then we swung the bamboo at each other and the apple would come flying off, and they would hit really hard sometimes.
littlekidlover77 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play something like Marco Polo at night on playground sets at local parks, and you couldn’t touch the ground.
Juddins · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Recreate levels from platformers in my brain and play them in my head The levels were so much harder in my head
Dalekmasher99 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin played what we called “dark room” we would turn the light off and close the door and just battle to the death with pillows and blankets. Good times
WWWWWH92 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play nightworms, and I'm always reminded of it anytime nightcrawlers from IASIP is mentioned.
Whoever is 'it' puts a sleeping bag over their head. Lights off and everyone else has a flashlight. The nightworm has to tackle someone with a flashlight, and then that person becomes the nightworm.
lylahpapaya · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blob. On long car rides with my friends we’d take curl up into balls and roll into each other on curvy roads.
Yes we wore seatbelts, but we just let gravity do its thing.
We also pretended to be mermaids a lot and tried to convince people we were actually mermaids, casted spells, etc. :’)
dripss0 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this big and wide metal/aluminium slide in our school, and at the top there were a bar above the entrance so you would have to sit down when you went down it.
So what we did was that like 6 or 7 of us would hang from the bar so our body up to our chest were resting on the slide and 1 guy would take of his shoes (socks on metal is slippery) and he would try to run up the slide and grab our legs and try to knock us down the slide pretty much, played it for house every day.
Zodiac1183 · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Black Ops 2 ofcourse!
applepieSA · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made up a game based on tgat Sea bear episode of Spongebob. One kid was a sea bear and the other were Patrick, Spongebob, Squidward. You had to run around for a bit then get in to circle to not be caught. Later we added other rules like you yell out speed or sheild the sea bear could not touch you. I can't remember the other new rules we added but I remember one day a teacher came and asked us what we were doing and kid named Josh A. explained it to the teacher and I will not forget the absolute confused face she made after being told about our game
meneiny · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing with matches and setting newspapers on fire for fun. Started a fire in the kitchen. Stopped being fun.
DavyShipps · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to get into sleeping bags and push each other down the steps. Sometimes multiple people in one bag. None of us ever broke a bone somehow
Jammygamer2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was in high school me and my 4 friends used to player a game called Tank Trouble 2. But we had a problem of there only being able to have 2 players playing at once so we then found a website called Scratch where we found that a user created their own version. We found that is was very similar and it allowed 3 players but we wanted 4. i went on to code in a 4th player and added 12 powers to games original 3 and made the games map 6 times larger.
after this the game would get supper competive and i added some very OP power ups such as the nuke so the balance things out force shield power ups would also spawn which would shield a player from the nuke blast
StonedPA · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and I played "shrimp or no shrimp". We used to love popcorn shrimp and I convinced him that not every shrine actually had a shrimp in it. So we would guess if there was actually shrimp and then take a bite and see. Sometimes I got away with eating the shrimp out so it was only breaded crumb so I could win.
caroline_andthecity · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother (older than me by 10 years) and I would play “run to the chair.”
He would turn to me and say, “run to the chair!” I would run, and would throw a nerf ball at me.
And .... uh. That’s the game.
whatsername_09 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shovel ball was a good one. We had the head of a shovel who’s handle had broken off in the middle and used it like a baseball bat with some random little inflatable ball. We used a few permanent things like the tool shed and a specific tree as bases. They were nowhere close to being in a square though haha. We played it all the time until the shovel was lost one winter :(
hanny242 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play a “game” called run from the cars. We would stand out in the middle of a fairly residential street in a super hero pose waiting for cars to come. The street had three stop signs before our house, each stop sign had an alert. The first was a green alert, the second yellow, and the third which was about 50 yards away was a red alert. When a red alert was issued we ran from the car into the bushes in our front yard.
fokdatsheet · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SMITH (8+ players, 5th grade & under) — One person starts out as Agent Smith while the others have a minute head start to hide. After a minute, Agent Smith will start hunting you down and try to Smith you by sticking their hand in your stomach or back uninterrupted for three seconds: “One, two, three, SMITH!”
If you get Smithed, your job is to hunt everyone else down and Smith them. Last one to get Smithed wins. Grabbing and light tackling is allowed (it’s the slippery fuckers who get away the most).
Needless to say, it got banned pretty quickly, but it was one of the most fun playground games we played.
TurncoatWizard · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huckle Buckle Beanstalk- My father would hide a small item (thimble-sized or so) in one room while my little brother and I would wait patiently in another. When he was finished, we would enter the room and proceed to try and locate the item. Once found, the person who found the item proclaims “Huckle Buckle Beanstalk”.
To this day I don’t know why, or what that phrase means. I have the internet, I’ve just never thought of looking it up until seeing this post. Thanks for the jog down memory lane, OP.
batineacids · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to clench my bum cheeks whenever I got to a lamppost whilst in the car idk if that was just me thou
Thresss · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sandman. Basically tag on a play structure but the person who's it is blindfolded. Many bones were broken over the years.
deusvult27 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cs go
brickmaster32000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At camp we used to play a game called knife foot. The idea is everyone stands in a rough circle. Then one person takes a knife/sharpened stick and chucks it at the ground near someones foot. If it sticks and is within one knife/stick length of their foot they need to put their foot in that spot. It is then their turn to throw. Last one standing wins.
DoubleTripleQQQQQQ · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Building LEGO cars and crashing them on the hardwood floor of the living room. Last LEGO guy to stay in the car wins
bobthegodly · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends played a game called sack of potatoes. Where you would sneak up on a sibling and drop the family potato stash on them. They had a lot of hospital visits due to sack of potatoes.
ToTC_Eric · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ice plant tag. We would rip ice plants out of the ground and throw them at each other. If you got hit, you’d have to freeze in place.
AtrusOfDni · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I called it "Dangerous Dave" (after the computer game which we were also fans of). It was basically extreme follow the leader with climbing all over things and using the jungle gym at school in ways you normally wouldn't. You lost if the leader did a stunt and you weren't able to follow (like if you fell off or something), and the leader switched if he fell while attempting something difficult.
Jonny7x7x · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stegales:
At a local lake there was a little platform leading into the water for people to jump in. We stood in a circle on the Plattform passing a soccer ball to each other. When it hit the water the last person to touch it hat to jump in and fetch it. You could also jump in and try and kick it away. So if you had to get the ball you had to be quick. To get the ball out of the water you had to throw it up and it had to touch the platform. The other players would stand at the edge trying to kick it back into the water before it landed.
Played that every day in the summer with my friends! Such a great time going to the lake right after school.
mp111 · 1 points · Posted at 20:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot peas and butter.
1 person goes off to an area and hides a belt, 10-20 kids goes and tries to find it. First person to find it gets to whip anyone they catch as they run back to the “base”.
First time I played this, I had no idea what we were looking for of why we were looking for it. I was like 7-8.
YT_Howesenberg · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my buddy would play mystery sandwich, during a sleepover, we would go down into the kithen and blindly (lights off) grab condiments from the cupboard and whatever we got we had to put it between bread and eat it. Some truly disgusting yet funny times.
terribletoiny · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The rolling game!
Someone rolls on the floor and others try to jump over you
SXOSXO · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn't all that "unique" in that a lots of kids in NYC played it back then, but we would play this game called "suicide" using a handball. We didn't even need to be on the handball court to play it, just needed a flat wall and some open space. One person would throw the ball at the wall as hard as possible, and when it bounced back, everyone had to avoid being touched by it, or try and catch it instead. If the ball touched you, whether by grazing you or if you failed to catch it, then you had to run to the wall and touch it as fast as possible to be "safe." Anyone touched by the ball became a target, and everyone else could grab the ball and pelt them before they got to the wall. Worst part is if you got hit before you got to the wall, then you'd have to stand against the wall facing it, and everyone got a turn to pelt you as hard as they could with the ball. It was an equally sadist and masochist game.
faceWIABonfire77 · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long drives (which we had a lot of) my sister and I would play this game..
-Close your eyes, and open your mouth. The other person has to put their finger in your mouth (operation style) and try to avoid the other sibling from chomping down on the others finger.
We’re a weird family.
sausageoption · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Break glass bottles in the crick and try not to fall on them
american-coffee · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next door neighbors and I played “Dragon Blood.” Which was essentially a live action rpg where we imagined NPCs and fought them off by ourselves with sticks and wooden swords in the yard and pretended to gain xp and level up. We’d make up abilities and spells and such. My parents were strongly religious and thought that dragons were of the devil, so naturally I felt very edgy playing a game with “dragon” in the name.
I think we kept playing that game every day for at least a year.
Firework_Fox · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still play this game with my brother and uncle where we come up with acronyms for the letter on a license plate of any car we see on the road.
For example. UKCT 946 (Completely random) would be something like "Under Kangaroo Castle Tiles"
kingpbs · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to wait until I had to poop, would go to the bathroom, and would sit on the toilet and then time myself on how long I could hold it. it was torture, but hitting 6 minutes felt amazing.
anonymouslyspoken111 · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and friend's siblings tied long dog leashes around me and my friend's waist and let us fight until they felt we were being too rough and pull us apart. They'd make bets in who'd win.
We had too much free time.
Paulster83 · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Fat Camp’
My best friend and I in Elementary School would wait for our parents to pick us up at 3:00pm. The front of our school had a nice grass area to run around in.
Well, in the winter we somehow both ended up owning the same coat. My coat was red and his was orange and they were the puffiest winter coat you can imagine. We literally look like we were severely obese children with them on.
We came up with the Fat Camp game with these coats. We would just run around in slow motion and fall over and make groaning noises. It is a fond memory for me.
BigDogProductions · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the Willie. With cousins.
Onyo_420 · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I played a game called “The human Caterpillar” basically we just went in a sleeping bag and did a parkour through the moving like a caterpillar, and at the finish there were a lot of pillows and if you got to the finish you had to jump out of the sleeping bag and as much pillows as you could. After the other person got there you did a pillow fight until someone gave up.
We also made a house of cushions, pillows and blankets on the sofa and just chilled there a whole day...
crabbylove · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lizard earrings. I would catch lizards and let them bite my earlobes. Then they would just dangle there like earrings till they got bored and dropped off. yes, I walked around with lizards hanging from my ears. Please note: no lizards were harmed by me.
MultiGamerClub · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many games, but so difficult to remember.
DovahkinQueen · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Eraser buddies," our erasers were sentient friends and would play recess games with us.
twaytway93 · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cat game. Grandma was crazy cat lady and had 9 cats roaming around a 5 bedroom house. You won the game by entering every area of the house (bedrooms, kitchen, patio, etc) without being seen by a cat. If seen you would need to restart. Would require some creativity time to time, like throwing something to distract a cat so you could advance to new area.
novafern · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Old Pappy."
I would dress up as an old man and pretend to put my brother to bed at "pappy's house" then go sit in the living room. The goal (I think?) was for him to escape without me "seeing" him, because I was pretending to be such a slow old senile man. And I'd feel around and ask if it was him getting out of bed. Then.. I'd just.. put him back to bed.
I was an 11 year old girl. My brother was like 7.
lovelytrees3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Dark Game". One sibling (who was "It") would count to 50 in the bedroom at the end of the hall with the Nerf gun. The other two would hide in the house. Basically Hide-N-Seek tag with foam balls. Plot twist: All of the lights were out, and downstairs was off-limits (parents would watch their stories down there).
SO. MUCH. FUN.
loganmorganml1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played food critic with my twin sister. Basically I came downstairs and didn’t feel like making myself lunch. I looked at her and said: “Want to play a game? I’m a food critic and this is your restaurant. You have to try and make me something delicious so I don’t shut you down”
Proceeded to demand her menu (basically anything an 11 year old could make) and make up “fractions” for her poor food etiquette, hospitality, and restaurant atmosphere. All in good fun though, played that game for a couple years before she realized I just wanted someone to make me food.
lolrightythen · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worms 2 demooooo! Feb98 version with online play. Had a whole ladder going on
MagicalKartWizard · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game we'd play at recess on the swings. We'd swing at each other and try to knock the other kid off. It was good fun until a small girl tried to play and got the wind knocked out of her.
flamingo_buddy · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
trench. my dad and i had a gravel driveway, and trench originated there. we made little mounds of gravel with our hands about two feet apart and then put toothpick sized twigs in the mounds. the sticks were soldiers and the mounds were trenches, of course. then we would toss pieces of gravel at each other’s trench and try to knock the soldiers down. last man standing wins!
fuffybug · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made a game called hide and seek soccer. The game starts with everyone gathered around the ball and someone kicks it and the seeker has to retrieve the ball and place it back, well everyone hide. And if the seeker sees you they have to try and tag you and if they manage to tag you, you have to wait by the ball but if you manage to kick the ball, before they tag you, they have to stop and retrive the ball again. If you have not been found you can go and kick the ball to "free" the people who have been found. -As much as i loved this game, i hated it as well.-
GerryAttric · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to stand a fair distance away from each other on the lawn and take turns throwing darts at each other. Whoever moved lost the game.
When I was a young boy, sharing a bedroom with my brother, at bedtime we would play guessing games like 'Name That Tune' or just take turns guessing what TV character the other was trying to imitate.
Now my brother is an asshole.
Ryyah615 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can’t believe no one (I have seen) has said heads up 7 up. Classroom of kids. 7 kids go to the front of the class. The rest of the kids would put their heads down on our desks. The 7 would then pick a person and tap them on the shoulder then return to the front of the room. The people who were tapped had to guess who tapped them. If you were right you got go up front and that person sat down.
rhonda70 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Backwards chutes and ladders. You'd start at the end instead of the beginning.
jellyteeth21 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Launching pebbles with a tenis racket :loved the sound of rocks on roofs. We would also launch small patatoes by sticking them into the end of willow stick
viki_fel · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Animal rescue” When a friend would come over, i’d take out all of my stuffed animals and each of us would pick an equal number of pets. Then in turns one of us stays in the room while the other goes around and hides the stuffed animals around the house. Then each one had to find the other’s pets and rescue them. Unfortunately i was the only one who actually enjoyed this game while all my friends got bored..
Kn0wmad1c · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game I called "card baseball". I divided a stack of my baseball cards into two teams. I took the home team and spread them out into their listed positions (I had two center fielders, though, left center and right center). Then I would take the visitor team, and "pitch" a penny. I would swing the card and hit the penny out to the field. If it went in the air and landed on any card, despite the bounce, it was an out. If it rolled over any infielder, it was an out. If it rolled over any outfielder, it was a single. If it landed in the infield without touching a card, it was a single. If it landed in the outfield in front of the outfielders, it was a single. If it landed well passed the outfielders, it was a double.
This occupied so much of my pre-snes free time.
alliesatwar · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played this game called “What If I Died On You?” You basically lie on top of the other person and make your body limp and heavy and they have to get out from under your dead weight.
:)
thebig3on3 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For years I played a game I had dubbed handsketball - played on my garage hoop until we moved from that home. The rules got semi-complex, so I'll do my best to summarize. It involved slapping or throwing a handball against my garage or towards the basketball hoop above the garage. I received points for getting the ball in the basket - more points depending on where i was standing and if it was slapped in or dunked in(towards my later teenage years - hoop measured 9 ft 2). A possession started from about twenty feet from the hoop(edge of my driveway) at a marked line. The ball could be tossed or slapped in the hoop or against the garage - if the ball goes in the hoop points are awarded, but the possession is still alive and I had to make it behind the line in x dribbles/bounces depending on what level i was on. If a basket seemed unlikely based on the angle throwing or slapping against the garage would reset the bounce count, but did not reward any points. If the ball bounced more than x times a point would be deducted and possession was dead. There was no running with the ball and if you attempted to catch it and dropped it a point was deducted and the possession was dead. I designated levels of 20 or 30 point intervals at which point I would have one less bounce/dribble to reset possession or score a basket up until the point where I only had 1 bounce/dribble to make it back to the starting point and do it again. If my score dropped 5 points at any given time I would have the option to either quit - which hurts my OCD, or do 15 pushups or 30 crunches. Been years since I played this game and miss it - had gotten both me and my dad into great shape - which we are both no longer in.
Dexonwest · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I built castles using different books making walls. And used chess figures as soldiers. Made some sort of resources for my people to get to build more walls and buildings. I really enjoyed the process of planning. Sometimes I invited my friend and we built two castles in such a way and had sort of wars between our kingdoms. I guess it was the most interesting experience of chess in my life. The childhood was so beautiful omg
Trixux · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two childhood friends and I would walk into the forest next to my house and try to find little trees. If the trees matched your height that meant it was an omen that you were going to die.
I made this "game" more fun, by having the older sister stall her younger sister and snapping the trees to be the height of the little sister. One day in particular, after doing this to every tree we came across, we convinced the little sister that this was more than an omen. It was a FACT she was going to die. Scared her so bad she ran home crying while we laughed our evil little asses off. Her mom was furious at the bigger sister though, so we had to stop playing this game.
chelsooooooh · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wind Monster When a breeze came through, you have to run and sit in a "fairy circle", circle of mushrooms in the grass. Last one in, gets caught by the Wind Monster and dies.
redlink1155 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my twin sister used to use blankets as sleds and slide down our carpeted stairs when were around 7-9 ish. We then brought my little 3 year old brother into it, sliding down with him in tow. Sooooo many rug burns were acquired. Sleeping bags were the fastest by a long shot by the way in case anyone wants to try it out.
FuFuego · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night boxing: we closed the door in our room and all windows and also switched off the lights, complete darkness and then we started to fight.... man that was soooo fun
emmaroast · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play “rollercoaster” which was us just throwing each other down the stairs in laundry baskets. Amazing we turned out as normal as we did after that one.
Cousin_SadBoy · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The pen game! Basically, my two friends and I each had a designated pen, and the person who possessed the most pens by the end of the game won. The pens could never leave school gounds and games lasted one school quarter each.
Pens were acquired by any means necessary, from pick-pocketing to straight ripping them from each other's hands. One epic school mass in the last week of school all 3 changed possession 3 times. Multiple detentions were received during the festivities and the game only lasted one year because they never put us 3 in the same homeroom again, lol.
FilthyAnimaL8 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the 90's as kids, we played a game called 'Nemesis.' if you have played the video game 'Resident Evil 3' you know where this is headed. It was night time outdoor hide and go seek. We didn't work much on the rules though. Once you got caught, you just got the shit beat out of you and the nemesis would move on after. Different times lol.
69ThisIsItChief69 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the salami
OsamaBinBallin6969 · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
foot wars. you put your feet against the other person's and try to see who can outpush the other person's legs
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy Sticks™️
PictoZach · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apex Legends is a pretty weird game I played as a kid
gorkt · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Many days as a kid, when I first got up in the morning, I would pretend that I was a time traveler who came from 200 years ago and woke up in present day. I would take a shower, marveling at the water flowing out of the ceiling, be amazed at the electricity and the plumbing, in awe of all of the strange clothes that were given to me to wear. I would go to the kitchen and be astonished at the food etc....
Truth: I still play this game in my head sometimes, just as an exercise in gratitude and perspective.
ucantcontrolmyheart · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when i would hang out with my sister, and my cousin, we would specifically find channels on commercial breaks, mute the tv, and just overdub with the dumbest shit. this led to us doing the same with our favorite movies, and basically seeing who could make everyone laugh the most.
(i think that’s why i love youtube channels like Jaboodydubs and BinkieMcFartnuggets so much; knowing other people did/do the same thing blew my mind)
nosc-bry · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a treehoouse game that we would play at my friends house. There were two teams. The people on the ground vs the people in the treehoouse ( was actually pretty high up and a legit tree house). The ground team would try to get grenades (pinecones) into the tree base. The people in the tree house had to swat them away. Still have clear memories of it and pinecones to the face.
nay1184 · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cow pat frisbee- when we would take our dog for a walk up the common my dad used to pick up the dry cow pats and chuck them at me and my sisters like a Frisbee lol
Kittensmeow10 · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would go on the swing set while our babysitter swung a plastic skipping rope around. We would have to dodge it with our feet or get whipped in the ankle. Looking back, I’m surprised she let us play that.
chronicenigma · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark tag. Basically cover all windows in your house with sheets, turn off all lights and play hide and go seek at night.
BirdLawOfficeESQ · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was over a friends house around 1995 and we were playing this first person sword fighting game on his PC. It was extremely immersive as in it was literally first person. I can’t remember the name nor can I find any information it. I’ve also asked me friend about it and he, too, remembers who it was innovative for the time but can’t remember the name of where to find it.
LadyWithAHarp · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Elevator Tag”
I grew up going to conventions. So, sometimes I would play tag in the hotel with my sister and whatever other kids I could rope into it.
Requirements: two elevators (bare minimum!) preferably two or more banks of elevators spaced away from each other.
Rules: run to an elevator, go to a random floor. Dash to a different elevator, and repeat. (If there are more than one bank of elevators, you have to run down the hall to a different bank of elevators.). If you get tagged you’re out!
vicroll91 · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember taking a glass from the cupboard, shutting it, and trying to get the glass to the water dispenser on the fridge before the cupboard closed. I was easily amused.
CCDestroyer · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were little, my brother and I used to sit in our dad's old La-Z-Boy recliner and pretend the arm rests had remote control buttons to do... something. What, I can't remember. Whatever our childlike imaginations could dream up, I guess. It was called "Clowny Clown", and no, I can't fucking explain it, either! 😂
NinjutsuStyle · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big ball - you stand in a circle with like 4 - 8 people and try to keep one of those exercise balls in the air
Disclaimer: we did this in our early 20s but A:I'm very immature and B:I needed a place to spread the word about big ball
ABReee · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically at age 3 and 4/5 me and my bro lived on top of a hill in South Africa in an enclosed area and we used to roll big ass rocks down a hill and one of us would have to dodge them on the way down. I could have died many many times but I was too stupid to realize that I was being an idiot
jobbus · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d play ram bam ball. You’d take a half deflated basketball and kick it as hard as possible into a group of friends. If you’d get hit, it would hurt like crazy, but you’d be the next kicker. Was awesome!
ayofjay · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "town" where we would spend hours drawing a town with chalk all over the driveway and there would be roads and stoplights but there were only three of us so we all had one job forever. Our neighbor was the used scooter salesman. I was the mailman and my brother was the town bum. That's all we needed. We would play for days until it rained and washed the chalk away.
thirty_three_tacos · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Survivor” - climbed up in a tree and the last one to leave the tree is the survivor
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
When i was really young, me (8) and my brother (9) had made up this math game that when sometimes we where on a store, we would try to hide stuff under our coats/shirts/pockets and when we got home, whoever got the items totaling more would win. It was years until we realize this was a big no no. Thankfully we never got caught cause of our innocent baby faces 😀
gflint000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a gym teacher that created a game called Slam Ball. It was a wierd combo of rugby with obstacles and random sports balls. It was awesome being able to form tackle people in the middle of the gym and not get in trouble!
Hobbitlad · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Dragonball Z. It was like a real life rpg where training gave you levels and skills and we would pretend to fight enemies. Mostly, the training consisted of actual training like pushups, lifting, running. I played with my older brother all the time.
Demonicfire66 · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pick em' up and bust em'- all of us would get on the trampoline and bounce a football in the center. Then, whoever grabbed it had to fight off the endless onslaught of everyone trying to tackle them and take the ball. Whoever could last the longest would win. It usually lasted until someone flew off the trampoline.
JunKriid1711 · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to always have animal crackers as a snack so I made them fight and whatever cracker broke lost, got to be honest I think the fights were rigged it’s like whatever animals I liked won, weird right? Also when I was in kindergarten and this is super cringy during recess I used to pretend I was some like video game hero and have like a laser sword except it was a sword with a laser interior not a sword made out of lasers and run around attacking imaginary bosses. People must have thought I was retarded but it was fun somehow
Parthanaax · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
King of the big (5 foot by 5 foot) ottoman
Lavapool · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a Playground game called “Whatever you want to play”. You basically just picked any character you wanted to be and then everyone would create fun scenarios to act out involving all the chosen characters.
NYRangers1313 · 2 points · Posted at 20:37:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did that. It was kind of like Super Smash bros with our imaginations. Except in the late 90s everyone would pick Ninja Turtles, Mortal Kombat characters, Beetleborgs, Power Rangers, Spiderman, Batman, etc.
In the early 2000s almost everyone wanted to be Goku or Vegeta.
attikol · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dragon ball z fighting on trampoline
19_LadyScarlet_90 · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Remember the cartoon show, "Gargoyles"? My siblings, a childhood friend of mine (who I unfortunately no longer speak to 😔) and I made up our own gargoyles & pretended to be them in the universe from the TV show. Our stage? The trampoline in the front yard lol. Ah, good times....
Xavi5612 · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play tag with a tennis ball. You wing the tennis ball at each other as hard as you can while running around the playground.
JM062696 · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably way too late to post this but my friends and I used to play a game we called “Dark Tag”, basically tag but only to be played late on a cool autumn night. Hiding and stealth was always an advantage, and we used my best friends yard, his neighbours yard, and their neighbours yard which all connected by holes in the fences. Nostalgia.
Lukebehindyou · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and i would turn off all the lights in our bedroom and close the door. Then take glow in the dark bouncy balls and throw them at the wall as hard as we could and try not to get hit. It was awesome watching a little green lights fly by at super speed. Hurt like a bitch though. Then we started using non glow in the dark balls. And thats how my brother got to wear an eye patch all summer.
r2d2havananights · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My daughter (2.5 years old) plays a game where when anyone tickles her she screams GIMME BACK MY DICKADAHS, escapes, and holds out her hands. She follows you around until you pretend to barf into your hands, give the fake barf to her, and then she eats the imaginary dickadahs barf. She then laughs hysterically and moves on. It took months of toddler frustration and blindly guessing what she wanted until she finally showed us what she wanted to do to get her dickadahs back. Now she takes her 3 month old sister’s dickadahs on the reg and laughs yelling I ATE YOUR DICKADAHS as she runs through the house.
AvengeThe90s · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder The Man With The Ball; basically dodgeball, but if you said "SpongeBob SquarePants" backwards ("pants square bob sponge") before you got hit, the person with the ball had to let you go and hit someone else
Schocz · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my friends just destroyed a window by accident cuz we played baseball in the street
Heemsah · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would have kick fights. We’d be on either end of the couch and just kick the crap out off each other. And when mom sent us outside, we’d kick each other in the shins as hard as we could. Repeatedly. We were not the smartest kids in the neighborhood.
Acuiasa · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called Dodgeball. But we didn’t divide everyone into 2 teams, we ran away and played free for all.
Without eliminations.
It never ended unless people got bored or tired.
laerie · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to take all the cushions and pillows off the couches and chairs in our living room and would create an obstacle course type thing where you had to jump from pillow to pillow but couldn’t touch the floor. After telling friends about this game years later, they said they also played “the floor is lava”. We called it doot dot deet dot. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
nurseadeleigh · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to have to go to the hospital all of the time because she had cancer, so my dad and I would play zoo keeper in the waiting room. Basically he was the zoo keeper and I was a lion and he moved the chairs around to create a “cage” for me. And whenever he turned his back I had to try and get out of the cage without making a sound or being noticed. Most of the time the other kids in the waiting area would join in and it was a fun distraction from what was going on with my mom.
TheSpoonieQueen · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bonkers”. My friend and I would use a bouncy 4 square ball and hit it back and fourth with our heads. Probably why I’m lowkey messed up 😅
jatctt · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played drive-by. We would be just merrily playing in the front yard and if a car happend to drive by you had to duck behind a tree/bush/car. If you didn't get there before the car was in front of the house you were shot and were out. None of us ever initiated the start of a game....it was just ongoing. I'm sure the neighbors thought we were weird AF.
pumped-up-tits · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Circle game”.
Basically flashlight tag. The seeker kid stood in the middle of the court of our neighborhood with a flashlight, and wasn’t allowed to leave the street. The rest of the kids in the surrounding yards had to make it all the way around the court without being spotted. If spotted, the seeker had to call you out by name and where you were hiding.
We used to get the whole neighborhood to play, and everyone would dress up in black and sometimes put eye black on. Really got into it.
Lucariowolf2196 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uhh.. Rez ball I think they called it, basically American football or gridion using no equipment, and rocks as end goals.
Elmothepresident · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made legos that were made to fit along our bannisters and raced them down the stairs where they would suffer generally catastrophic damage. They also did a fair bit of damage to the bannisters.
KingBenj · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Driveway Sprint” basically a hybrid of gang-up tag and racing to a finish line. All you need is 3+ players and a house with a driveway. One person was ‘it’ and would run to one side of the house and count down from 10. The objective for the racers was to run in a complete loop around the house and make it to the other side of the driveway which served as a finish line—if tagged on the way over you would join the person it. You could run in either direction around the house but since it was gang-up tag, everyone was encouraged to make it around before the opposite side of the house became swarmed with kids that were it.
It has the perfect balance between dodging/sprint skills and blind luck—once every 10 rounds one of the littler kids would sneak passed for a surprise victory.
fillwern01 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend down the block had a massive pine tree and it would drop HUNDREDS of pinecones. We would use bats, tennis rackets, basically anything that we could and try to hit them through two power lines by his house. They were probably 30-40 feet in the air and the gap was relatively small so it was a real challenge. The game came to an abrupt stop one day when on my backswing I railed him in the lip with a metal bat.
kemosabe19 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big kitty, little kitty. I think it was an excuse for my older brother to wrestle and torture me.
Duvenz · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No rules basketball - Basically football where your goal was to get the ball in the net. On top of that we played with 3 people
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a neighbor that just moved in and taught all the boys on our dead end street a game called “Hot Cakes and butter don’t smack your mother” easily one of the most terrifying and fun games we had. The game only took place in the darkness of night and there was no real out of bounds (neighbors backyards were not restricted)The rules were 1 ref (person who didn’t participate in the round) would hide a belt or other object from all the players , the objective for the players was to find the belt or object first then pretty much just beat the shit out of every other player until they ran to the safe zone (usually the front porch or up a tree) the player who found the belt/object in the previous round would be the next rounds ref. Something about hurting each other (to an extent) and escaping w/out getting hurt was extremely entertaining Btw the name had no correlation with the rules it was just really funny for us to say
jinkies872 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play tag, but the person who was "it" was head first in a blue sleeping bag. Can't see, breathing was limited and you had to tag someone without breaking anything in the room. The other players were to treat the ground as lava.
I_AM_MEAT15 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One game we played was kick the can. You kicked a can down the hill and everyone ran. The person who was it ran and grabbed the can and set it back up. They then started hunting for people. If you saw someone you would run to the can and say "123 I see Dave ". You were then caught and it. But if Dave knew they were seen you could try and beat them to the can and kick it back down the hill to be saved. Lots of slide tackles to try and save yourself.
steelyMcdan_theman · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my best friends neighbors lived on a huge hill, on which we would play the bag game. Essentially everyone would get grocery store bags and stand at the top of the hill. Who ever could catch the biggest gust of wind and have their bag fly the furthest would win. Our parents all loved it too because running to retrieve our bags was great exercise.
TurtleTreeFish · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m primary school, me and my friend got really bored and was trying to imagine things to do. So in our primary playground there was these logs you could stand on, all lined up from one side of the playgound to the other side. There was also semi-circles of logs attached to this log line, the logs were tiny you could only stand on one with one foot.
So me and my friend invented this ‘game’ of who could stay on the logs the longest. You could battle to try push the other person off and even if they got pushed off, they had to stand on the floor for 10 seconds, then get back on the logs. So no one actually won it. What I loved about it was after a few days we had my whole class playing it and we all enjoyed it, until the teachers banned us from playing it because of health and safety.
MagickalMama_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my god sister would play “sisters” we were sister witches with hot boyfriends who battled evil beings. We both had “day jobs” and would use the old battleship cases as laptops.
walk333 · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roofies- we’d throw a soccer ball on the roof and wait for it to roll down and then we’d try to kick it back on the roof.
Our parents probably thought it was hilarious that we called it roofies
ConserveTheWorld · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Pokemon Trading Game. Because APPARENTLY, I was the only one in the entire world who actually knew the rules and wanted to play with people. But they only collected :(
But at least the game boy games were good.
notparishilton · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Booby traps. My parents hated it in theory.. I can see why lol.
Basically we had a large basement with kids stuff and some couches. We would have one person chosen to sit upstairs. The rest of the players would go downstairs and make the basement a mess of booby traps. Toys over the floor, couch cushions covering all the steps on the stairs, coffee table in the middle, etc. Players in the basement turn off all the lights and call the upstairs player down to come find them. Upstairs player has to find everyone without falling down from the traps! We’d play this for hours. Very fun looking back. Not very safe.
Also in the basement theme- turning off all the lights and running around holding couch cushions, bumping into each other. I’m nostalgic af right now
Syako · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shadow tag. You tag someone by stepping on their shadow. No hiding in shade allowed.
carlossymond · 1 points · Posted at 20:24:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dam Dam Duppp!
rlev · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it “quick-up pick-up”
Being a small child, I hated cleaning my room (like most do), but I loved when my room was clean and tidy, so I’d rationalize it by cleaning AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. Sometimes I’d set a timer.
Then my mom would come in and vacuum and make my bed and it was the best.
Now I’m 23 and I still clean my room as fast as possible to get it out of the way and done quicker haha.
r_s_s · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
World court tennis
Ok, so I know it’s a “real” game, but I’ve literally never met anyone else who’s heard of it, let alone played it. Turbo grafix game.
Imagine your standard fantasy rpg. Meet the king, quest to save the realm, cruise around town to gear up. Now imagine that every random encounter on the world map is a full, 3-round tennis match. Also if you lose you go all the way back to the first town.
Never made it to the next town, but god I loved that game
thejaytheory · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide and go get it"
chuva426227 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gosh I had so many, but Hide and Tag was my favorite and the one we used less, sadly. It was basically a hide and seek game, until you actually found the person hiding. Then, it became a tag game, where now you have to catch the person you found or ignore them and look for the rest. The kid you tagged also had to "tag along" to find the rest, so now you've got a helper. That ment that if one kid was way too fast, you could just build an army and then tag them. The last one to be found or tagged, won. It was really fun.
WarriorSushi · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a game I remember playing on Windows, where you are a penguin and you run through this maze or just a normal map don't remember clearly. It was way back in early 2000's I have been trying to find it's name forever. With no success.
TheDyingSouls · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My group of friends and I had a game called metal monster. We would all stand on a jungle gym, we had a huge one. One person would be the monster and could only hang onto the sides or just be on some form of metal on the set. Everyone else had to simply run around him on the jungle gym. The person running couldn’t go to the ground though (no metal there duh) but if the monster did get you they were it. Just a spin off of tag but it kept us going for hours
Atance · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was tag, but you tagged the other person by touching them with your penis. Played when I was 5. Never understood why the 8 year old thought it was wierd.
emilyf7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friends and I would spend all of recess under the jungle gym being owls. It was basically playing families but we were a family of owls. We played this from kindergarten to probably 2nd grade 🙈
Sinbadsaba · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tootie Fighters. For obvious reasons, this was a game that my brothers and I played. Basically, two fighters enter a ring to combat each other, but the objective is to hold each other’s tit for a whole 10 seconds, if you’re disrupted and lose grip of one of the tits before 10 seconds, you must continue battling until both tits have been defeated by counting to 10 while holding on to the tits of your enemy. Good times!
soymlk · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
big booty! you would take a big exercise ball, have someone sit on it, and everyone else would take turns running up and trying to kick the ball out from underneath them. resulted in a few injuries, lots of second grade fun
psipedro · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game
dieseltrain2000 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I adapted the game of bloody knuckles, putting our foreheads together and trying to headbutt the other person... aka bloody foreheads
p1xeljunk1e · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillow battle.. you throw a pillow at each other. Now my parents had these flat leather pretty heavy pillows. The point of the game was that whichever body part you hit, the opponent couldn’t use that body part anymore. Hit a leg, it’s gone, gotta play the rest of the game on one leg. Hit your good arm? Too bad, throw with your bad one. The real bonus was hitting someone in the eyes. Oh the amount of lamps etc that got broken by flying pillows :)
TheDinkleberg · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father was a meat man so we always had dry ice at hand. We used to put chunks in the down stairs sinks and let a good 3 to 4 foot deep " fog " form. We played Monster. One lurked under the shadows, and dragged people down. Everyone else just had to survive.
vgonz123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a game that me and the neighborhood kids used to play as a kid named free-for-all. It was essentially an augmented game of hide and seek. One person who was "it" would close their eyes and count to 30 under the light pole close to my house. Everyone else would run and hide anywhere around the block. Then, once the person finished counting, the hunt was on.
Once they began searching, the goal was to find everyone before someone made it to the pole and yelled free-for-all. When the person found someone, they would have to sprint back to the pole and tell "TAP TAP ____" with the blank being the name of the person you found while pointing to where they are. If you said the wrong name you would be it again and the game would start over. If you found everyone the first person you found would then be it.
The game evolved a lot over the years we played it, with us developing different strategies and methods to win. Hiding close so when the person who was it went out searching we could stealthily make it to the light pole and get free-for-all, hiding in trees and making it down and sprinting back before whoever was it did, hiding in spots where it became a sprinting match because they'd have to get super close to see you. We made so many memories playing this game as a kid and it made up such a huge part of my childhood
WBANA · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a toddler, my mom and I had a game called the “fire hydrant game.” I would point out fire hydrants we passed while driving, and my mom would act surprised and say something like “well there can’t be another fire hydrant!” I don’t know if it’s necessarily “unique,” but it’s a fond memory from when I was young.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my cousin's and I used to play what we called yard dart chicken. Each of us had one yard dart and a "shield" (metal trashcan lid) to catch it with. We'd throw the dart as far up into the air as we could towards each other and then try to catch the darts with our shields. Teens like us are why yard darts got banned in the US back in the late 80's (though we were playing with them in the late 90's early 00's) but fortunately neither one of our dumbass' got hurt though there where a few times our hands nearly got impaled because our shields weren't thick enough.
clutchheimer · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was a game I played after graduating high school, so not a child per se, but still young and a long time ago (for me). My friends liked to hang out at Dennys quite a bit, because it was a pretty small town and we were often up very late. Here is our stupid, yet somehow engaging, game.
First, ask the server for a bunch of creamer. Works best if you have ordered coffee, but it isnt required. Then two combatants sit opposite one another at the table. Each takes their fork, turns it upside down, places it so the end of the handle is in contact with their chest, and points the teeth (not sure the actual name of them) toward their opponent. Whoever starts grabs a creamer and throws it at the fork, wrapper side facing the opponent.
The object is to get the creamer to hit the fork just right, causing the teeth to pierce the lid. This, of course, covers the losers shirt with creamer. Quite a satisfying victory, and worth many a belly laugh.
This game is surprisingly challenging. Getting the creamer to go at a high enough speed to pierce, while also being accurate in such a cramped space, is not a simple as it seems at first. It might be best to implement some other rules, such as the elbow of the thrower must remain in contact with the table at all times, but this isnt required.
Bonus is that any mess you make gets all over the players, so it doesnt cause any extra work for the server to clean up.
Childish? Yes. Fun. Fo Sho
Fishbomber_4 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slippery snakes with my uncle
haleyek · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to post but my sister and I would play the line game. She world draw some sort of line on a paper then I would and on and on it didn’t have to be a line, or could be a squiggle or whatever. But you couldn’t pick up the pencil and it couldn’t be more than one line at once. At the end we’d usually have a picture of something.
gavlar20 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a game I played as a kid, but I game I play with my kids.
My daughter has a WiFi enabled Go-Pro knock off. When we go out, we'll take turns in hiding it and using just the image you can see on the phone screen you have to try and find the camera.
Only once had a issue where the camera fell into a river, but it was in its water proof case
on_the_nightshift · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get molested by the babysitter!
settledownhoney · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tanks on AddictingGames
MosiJ · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In primary school my friends and I would play this game called dangerzone. We had these monkey bars that were in a kind of arch shape and the aim of the game was to run through the “danger zone” while people on the side were swinging back and forth trying to knock you over.
hopscans · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I invented a game called Mag Bag, a hybrid between Marco Polo, Hide and Seek, and a plain good beating from your closest relatives:
One person crawled around in a sleeping bag (their game-required protective layer) yelling “MAG,” with the others responding “BAG” from their hiding spots. Like any good game, Mag Bag was of course played in total darkness. So you’ve got your Marco Polo and you’ve got your Hide and Seek. Good family fun.
Here’s the kicker: when the crawler got too close, your options were to get tagged and switch places (not an option), or to beat the living shit out of them with whatever inanimate object you could find. That alphabet puzzle map? Ninja stars. VHS tapes on the shelf? Knock them all off and firebomb the kid. Couch cushions were weapons of battery. Stuffed animals weren’t your friend when you were getting pelted by those plastic noses.
Eventually, Mag Bag became a sort of hazing ritual for the younger cousins, because they could never win. That lasted until my step-brother (the youngest member of the family at the time) had enough and told the adults. And that was that.
RIP Mag Bag.
nvtiv · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt yank
shinitakunai · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It didn’t had a name but every christmas here on spain the TV was 70% spot of toys for kids. We played this game where we would choose who would get the next spot. Like:
-“You get next one”.
An Audi spot -“Nice I get a a car! Now you get next”.
A barbie spot. -“Oh damn”.
Side0fRanch · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the public pool we'd play a game where someone would stand in the water with their legs in an upside down v shape with their eyes closed, and the other person would have to try to swim through without being noticed to win. You slammed your legs shut if you felt them/the water from them swimming move.
jhonsdon · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play “time bomb” with my older brothers, basically they held me underwater till I run out of breath and thrash around a bunch.
aaramoix · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slip n slide but in the shower. Either me or my sister would stand on the sides of the tub to change the water temp for the other sibling to slide back and forth in the tub.
Surfeross · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dr Jones” - I used a screen door that automatically closed to make narrow escapes out of. I would open the door, then get out a stick of gum, put it in my mouth, then run out of the door before it closed. I kept increasing the sticks of gum from 2 to 3. That was a horrific mistake. I went face first through the glass window of the door (because it’s was the early 80s before everyone used plexiglass).
When my parents found me, they thought my lip was gone and looked for it in the floor. About 50 stitches later - I only have a minor scar on my bottom lip.
That’s how you play Dr Jones!
Corbotron_5 · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twat’Em. We’d duct tape pillows to our body’s and beat the crap out of each other on a trampoline. I’m surprised it never caught on.
mattinsula · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Lava Ball” 3 or so of us would get on a trampoline with a basketball (the lava ball) and avoid it without jumping off. If the lava ball touched you, you became a mutant and essentially acted as a sentient lava ball and tried to tag the others, and they could also leave the trampoline and throw the lava ball. The last one standing wins
theangryduck1234 · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oof
The ball goes in the middle of the yard Everyone starts on the edge of the yard You must kick the ball at other people to take a life away from them. If they catch the ball they get a life and you lose one. It’s called oof because roblox (We’re still kids)
broke_n_struggle_n · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and our friends came up with the Baseball Card game. We would draft player cards to form a whole team. We would have little balled up pieces of paper that we would pitch to each other. You would hit it with the baseball card that was up to bat. The other team had a pitcher and a fielder. If the ball hit the card, you were out. If it hit the ground, you had to throw it with the card to the base trying go get the batter out, just like baseball. It sounds silly but it was a blast.
BombVoyagewasFramed · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Garage ball- we would close the garage without lights (no cars) and whoever was “it” had to go into the house and count to 20 while everybody hid then they came into the garage with a glow in the dark ball and throw it as hard as they could in any given direction hoping to peg somebody. It was nerve wracking when you were hiding cause you never knew if they were going to decide to wing it right at you. Good times
FWFOS11 · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1 player would have a blanket over then and would say marco
Player 2 would have to respond saying polo
Then the first player to drop the other one to the ground wins and you would have to switch.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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Alpinian · 2 points · Posted at 20:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
What the fuck is wrong with you
TrippEvans · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we visited my cousins, the two boys would team up against the two girls, and we'd try to inflitrate the front porch at night. The defenders would have flashlights and would have to tag the attackers. It was basically like a stealth version of tag
mub · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sloggs!
If you notice someone fart you can shout "Sloggs", then everyone is allowed to punch the farter until they get bored, or the farter manages to can name 3 pubs then whistle (14year olds can't name pubs so we just said "Butcher, baker, candlestick maker, cat, dog, <Whistle>")
If someone calls "sloggs" on you but you can prove it was someone else, you get to call "False Sloggs" and start punching them instead, as above.
If you fart and say "Saves" before anyone can shout "Sloggs", you are safe. Punching someone who says "Saves" is False Sloggs, and a punching is to be expected.
usually the punching was aimed at the upper arms or legs, nothing that shows visible bruising.
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.....I was still saying "Saves" until my mid 30's.
dryspaghet · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called “dragon” with my friends where we held each other’s hands and the one in front would run around and everyone else would have to try and hold on. Yeah, I almost got a concussion from playing it.
ilivedownyourroad · 1 points · Posted at 20:26:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother hunted me with a real gun and shot at me. After I was shot my parents took away the gun and the authorities took away my brother.
kevinxb · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would ride the big plastic top from our toy bin down the stairs like a sled
LoganTheDuck · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Amoeba quest, you put a blanket over yourself and on all fours like an amoeba so you cant see. You start in the same place and you have to get to a room or spot in the house before the other person without taking off the blanket. You could attack the other person to slow them down and whoever got o the spot first won. Again you cant look outside the blanket so you had to feel around yourself and move slowly to find where you are in the house. Was a lot of fun when we moved to a new house and didnt know the entire place yet
sdawg1331 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the dizzy game. spin in circles till you get dizzy. parents cancelled it after i went to the hospital to get stitches in my lip
thinkinghertz · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not unique per se, but we would play a 4-6 block radius “manhunt.” We would go into peoples yards, backyards, tree houses, hide in bushes, under their porch no where was off limits except hiding inside an actual house or business. We would play this every Friday night and sometimes 30 plus people would show up and it was insane! Games could last for hours!
LouieBeef · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play therapist where everyone would make up a horrible life problem and the therapist would have to solve it. Usually by awarding ridiculous amounts of money.
ltwljyv · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing
The_Reapers_Judge · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my brother and his friend would get a stack of playing cards and throw them at each other and try to paper cut the other person. We would also play quarters where you bounce a quarter in a shot glass but I stead of alcohol we would have a bunch of different juices and liquids in them. It was disgusting!
YouBoughtaUsedLion · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ghost in the Graveyard"
Everyone starts on the front porch after dark. One person is chosen to be the first ghost and runs off to hide.
After the round starts, everyone must get from the front porch to the "base" (trampoline) in the very back of the backyard. If the ghost tags you, you are out.
The catch is that you aren't allowed to touch the base until someone sees the ghost and yells "ghost in the Graveyard!" Until then, everyone is stuck looking for the ghost.
Everyone who was tagged out in that round now joins the ghost for round 2, so there are progressively more and more ghosts until only 1 person- the winner -remains.
We'd always meet and strategize before each round, who's going to run fast to try to bait the ghost or who's going to sneak around the other side of the house etc. As ghosts we laid some pretty diabolical traps.
jimwing · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game named traffic. There was one guy who was the police officer and the other ones were riding their bikes. The officers task was to set up rules and the others had to obey these laws. You had to drive at a certain speed and set you indicators (your arms). If you did everything the officer was Just walking around if not He would chase you and tried to get you off your bike. When he caught someone He took the Bike and the next one was officer
Bawlsmints · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We used to play a game called "Take a Swig". We would get a empty two liter bottle of soda fill it half way with a gross concoction (usually have a vinegar, vanilla creamer, horseradish base) , and throw it to the person next to you.
So you try to throw it high but a catchable pass (If you kept throwing shitty passes usually a 3 strike rule you have to take a swig) and if they drop it you take a swig.
Loads of fun would still play today!
Tayo2810 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if unique, but me and my siblings hid in a duvet cover and pretended it was a spaceship. The goal was to get from are bedroom to the downstairs living room. I now have claustraphobia
SirCaptObvious · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it, but back when I was a kid we had this particular playset.
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1990images/activitygym.jpg
We found that if you took off the slide, it left you with a cube and a bunch of things to hang on to. We would select one person to be the "flipper" and the rest of the kids had to find something to hold on to while the playset was repeatedly flipped like a giant die.
Last one holding on wins.
gaspitsjesse · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friends and I developed games when Jackass was at its peak.
We invented Crash Cans and Napalm Soccer.
Crash Cans involved two gladiators and their respective drivers. The gladiators would hop in to the trash can (one with wheels) and then be squared off and rammed in to one another on the open street.
Napalm soccer involved homemade napalm in a coffee can being lit on fire. The can would then be kicked and down the street until someone "scored". (no one ever scored)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bell game.... I grew up in a restaurant, and when it was empty me, my sister and friends would play the bell game. Basically you all have to go and hide in the restaurant except for the person who controls the bell. Then the bell person rings the bell and goes looking for everyone. Those who are hiding have to then get to the bell and ring it, then dive over the sofa!
Grey565 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"stick wars" I know creative, the idea two teams in a near by woodland. Often played around a hill. Find large sticks and throw them full force at the opposing team. First team to back out lost. Games often lasted till blood was drawn or someone legit was knocked out. Mostly due to it turning in to "small log wars".
bramblywinethethird · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampsketball: Full contact basketball on a round trampoline with a moveable basketball hoop placed so the hoop hangs over the trampoline. Surprised no one broke any bones.
Also, different 1v1 game, forget what it was called. Set up two hockey nets about 20 meters apart and had to throw a tennis ball into the net. Couldn't pass halfway line.
WolfGang555 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me neighbor and I played a game we called the pegging game where we have a tennis ball each and the first person to “peg” the other with the ball wins. Basically dodgeball with no boundaries (my front and back yard) and only 1 ball each. Fun times back in the day
squire002 · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the snake in the waterhole with my uncle
goatcream · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Between me and my two brothers, we only had two bikes. So we made a game where two of the brothers would take the bikes, and race down the hill near our house. The kicker was that the third brother would wait at the finish line with an old broomstick. The “winner” would get the broomstick through their spokes, throwing them from the bike.
We all three have scars.
AlphaMailHD · 1 points · Posted at 20:27:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slenderman. My basement was split into 2 different segments by stairs. The survivors would sit on a couch/bed with a flashlight and one person would be slenderman. The survivors could use their flashlight every 5-10 seconds for a couple seconds. The whole point of the game was to scare the people on the bed.
We also played Five Nights at Freddie’s in that basement. We’d setup phones and tablets and connect them all into a Skype call. One person would be in the room watching the cameras and telling another person when to shut the door.
Good times
kawavulcan97 · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "corn mongoling". No idea where the name came from. You go down by the feed store, there are always tons of dry ears of corn that fell off a truck. You collect a bunch of them. The feed store is next to the river. You go up on the bridge with the corn ears and try to hit shit floating down the river. Points were awarded based on size of item hit, huge bonus if said item was alive (ie duck, goose, or person fishing).
It's probably the best example I have of what growing up in a small town is like.
Likesosmart · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger sister and I would play “dolphin trainer” - basically she was the dolphin in the pool and I was the trainer from the side who would throw sinkers for her to get and tell her tricks to perform. Sometimes we put on shows for an imaginary audience.
NoMaans · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure it's well known and not our own thing but, Release. Used to gather all the kids in the neighborhood and play at least once a week. Epic fucking games. We had a huge rock wall that surrounded a tennis court in one of the parks we used to use as a base. Kids could scale the wall in a chase, dip around the top and jump off the lower parts to continue on. Damn I miss that!
the_sixth_beatle · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played this game where the bed would be the 'goal'. One of us would have to bounce the ball on one of the ball and try to head the ball on the bed. The other would try to save it. Yep, he was the goalkeeper of the senior soccer team and I of the junior!
ZucchiniMiss · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BASKET BASHERS!!!
We’d put the “portrait mode” laundry baskets over our heads and run at each other from across the room, trying to knock each other over.
Insanely fun and dangerous. Many bruises were had. Maybe some concussions.
Faceoff_One · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby wars. We had tons of them, probably 40 or so. We’d divide them and set up a little battle station maybe 10-15 ft apart and let em rip. Was a blast, until you got blasted in the face.
bombbodyguard · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cool car / Dweeb Car. While driving, first to spot a “cool car” got a point. Cool car were usually expensive luxury cars. Had to call out what type of car it was. Got pretty good at learning all car models and etc. If you got it wrong and it was a dweeb car, you lost a point. Made car rides not so bad.
typosaurio · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ace of Spades
FMAEdwardElric · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Grenade" basically my friends and I had a bunch of old toys, like plastic bowling pins, an old plastic castle, even baseballs. We would each take turns picking walls and defenses and then our weapons. We would build two or three bases about 30 feet apart, then just throw shit as hard as we could with the goal of hitting the other person and destroying their base.
itsyouraccount · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock baseball. My brother and I would take those little souvenir baseball bats and hit sock balls. Then we’d run around the living room for the bases and would have ghost runners.
Home runs were when you could hit above the fireplace. So many broken picture frames.
PoppaPickle · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends on my lacrosse team and I in high school made a game called 'flow'
It was pretty much hackysack but with lacrosse sticks and a lacrosse ball.
The object was to not take any momentum out of the ball, just use its motion to redirect it to a other person in the circle...
Basically a little game of catch but all your movements and how you tossed to ball to the next player had to 'flow' nicely
I wish it could say it helped my team get better but I think they liked playing it more than the actual sport
robdm · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You have one or a few balloons in the living room. Your aim is to swat them to your opponents opposite wall for a goal. We called it bop-bam...
jynxie17 · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think with tablets and the internet all this is lost.. the imagination. I’m afraid for my kids.. sad
nb051697 · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Dodge the bamboo man”
Not sure how it all got started, but there was a grassy island in the cul-de-sac with a mailbox and a few trees (probably only 10 yards across both ways) which became the playing area. And one day we found a giant bamboo shoot, but not like the slender ones you’re thinking of. It was probably 2 feet wide X 3 feet long and had some decent weight to it. Basically it was tag with this bamboo log as an extension of your body (you could throw it, swing it, etc), touching it meant you were out and last one in got to be bamboo man next round. Soon all the neighborhood kids joined in, and lemme tell you it was hilarious, 70 lb children stood no chance against the bamboo log. Lots of injuries but lots of fun
muffycabbage101 · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I created the game “Director” that we would play on the playground in elementary school. Basically, one person would be assigned the Director, and they would call for scenes for us to shoot. They would often be disaster scenes, like asteroids coming or a sinking ship. Then we would act it out, and the director would add certain parameters or twists and we would react accordingly.
We also made a less PC game called “Suicide Bomber”. Basically we would line up along the wall with our eyes closed, and one person would start. They would tap the bomber in the shoulder, then yell for everyone to run. The aim of the game for the bomber was to get close to someone and “explode”, so everyone was full of paranoia running away from each other. The person who was blown up would then pick the next bomber and so forth. Sometimes we would get spicy and pick two or three bombers to shake things up.
Redcheval · 1 points · Posted at 20:28:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Velociraptors!
When we were out with our parents at big box stores or walking around outside my sister and I would ask each other, if there were velociraptors here, Jurassic Park style, how would you try to hide or escape? Extra tough because they are super fast and can jump really high.
This also works with zombies, with different considerations.
MamaCass0504 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would ride our sheep
xTlrxPrototype · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russian Roulette with my brother. I won.
pearsonbradley2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with my sister and two younger cousins in the same house. I was the oldest and we were all about 2 years apart. We made up this game called Dragons looking back now it was probably weird to watch us out on the trampoline jumping around screaming. Essentially we all started out as an egg and the others would jump around us until we "cracked" and after that basically we jumped around and attacked each other. Randomly we would evolve to the next level. More than anything it was jumping on a trampoline with narration.
Jazzyute22 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but I remember in elementary we would play "fence soccer." You would take turns kicking a soccer ball against a chain link back stop and you would win by either kicking the ball over the top of the fence or you would graze the side pole and have the ball go way off to the side it behind it because they would have to hit the front of the fence. You couldn't use hands obviously but the younger grades started cheating by using "wristies." They would catch it with their wrists so they could easily drop kick it over the fence.
traylblayzer · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad played this game called “cow jumping over the moon” not sure how it started but my brother and I would run around the bed and my dad would try to catch us by jumping to the side of the bed we were on
aweb93 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Before web 2.0, my Dad used talk about this 'Warload' game. The internet hadn't come far enough along to look it up. We're taking like Windows 98, CompuServe dail-up stuff. He was able to find an old rebrand called "Apocalypse" though. He drew up the rules from memory, and a map of Europe. We used a combination of game pieces from Apocalypse, and other games. Dad even find polished black rocks to designate dead areas on the map. He still has all of it in his basement. We need to get a game going.
http://classicwarlord.com/
It's like risk, but with nuclear weapons.
rynpaige · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in a small apartment, but we had a long narrow hallway basically connecting all the rooms in the apt.
I would get out my baseball cards and randomly pick cards until two "teams" with each position filled were assembled.
I would ball up a piece of loose leaf paper....sit on my knees on one side of the hallway, toss the "ball" in the air and slap it as hard as I could down the hall. Hits the wall? Foul ball....passes the first door on a fly (single).....passes the bathroom door (double).....gets to my bedroom door (triple).....hits my parents door at the end of the hall (HR).
Kept a "book".....stats, team records, etc....playoffs were intense.
Kind of depressing that some of my best childhood memories are slapping a piece of paper down a hall by myself...but I was having a blast at the time!
uderu · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A kids game called CITY - STATE...you call out a letter and then BTW all players you have to write the answer starting with that letter in the categories... Like one counts the alphabet, another stops her/him... Shouting out the letter starts the game: B: city: Boston, country or state: Belgium, animal:bear, color:blue, instrument: bugle..... Who finishes first counts to 10 and stops the game. CHOOSE YOUR OWN CATEGORIES AND have fun! 😊👍
SpaceballsTheCereal · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, my brother and I made up a game called “Chocolate”. Basically you just have someone lay down on the floor and cover them with every couch cushion and pillow you can find and then jump off said couches and body slam the shit out of the mound of cushions. Chocolate was a fun game.
xeoneux · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends nearby and I used to play this really stupid game called 'ghodi ghodi' where 'ghodi' literally means a mare. Suppose we had 8 players, a team of 4 lined up bent like a horse from a pole to form a chain. All heads and backs facing down, no bending the knees and hands tightly holding the waist of the person in front of you. Then the other team members, one by one, used to run and climb the formed chain. If the chain broke somehow, second team would win and if the players on top fell down, first team would win. There were just too many injuries involved but nothing stopped us back then. I still can't answer, why?
doubleb89 · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During winter time we used to build a slide in our staircase. We would fill out the whole staircase with matresses and afterwards step in some of those big paper bags you get from supermarkets with two wholes on the bottom for our legs. Then we slided the whole freaking day. :D
nomasterc · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Psychic guess who. The standard game of guess who is played, except when you are asked a question such as "does the person have a hat?" You had to remain motionless and silent while trying to project your answer to the other player . They then flip down the tiles they think are correct. This game is rarely won by anyone but it can be fin to play (later the name of the game was changed to jedi guess who?)
wildrunning · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I back in middle school played “Sirius.” Which was taking all of the music channels on satellite tv, hiding the info, and whoever could correctly guess the artist or song title got points.
Those skills have paved the way for bar trivia several years later.
NameIdeas · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Might not be too unique and I imagine others played it.
"Kill the man with the ball" or "Smear the queer"
There were nosidelines, no endzone, no points. It was just a group or kids and a football. The football got tossed high in the sky and someone, for some damn reason, would grab it. The objective was for everyone to tackle the person who had the ball. The guy who had the ball merely had to avoid everyone else.
Made no damn sense, but it was fun
BaltimoresJandro · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Load Runner.
aidsmary · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One sided dodgeball, all the kids and cousins lined against the wall. Then my dad would peg us with a ball. If you caught it or it landed on the ground then you politely returned it to him.... oh my god this was child abuse 😮
captainabbydail · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play "bull and matador" with anyone that was near me. I would put my index fingers up by my head as horns, paw my foot on the ground, and then charge, whether they were ready or not. I was a weird kid hahaha
gothknight · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to make cars/planes out of hay and pretend to race or go on adventures. My grand papa should have one bale out. We could make a club house out of it
cyberinsomniac · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddies and I played a version of King of the Hill - only on a four wheeler pulling a sled behind it, at nighttime in the dark, around my friend’s farm, in the winter on the snow and ice. We would hide in the ditches, behind barns or trees, etc., then try to overtake the driver and gain control of the four wheeler. Usually that meant jumping on the sled then pulling yourself up to the speeding four wheeler where a struggle ensued for four wheeler dominance. Good times!
boomdigger · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up the youngest girl to three older brothers. We had heaps of games that would ultimately end with me in tears but one of them was a spin off of ‘play dead’ whereby I would have to lie on the floor as still as possible and if my brothers saw me move at all they got to kick me.
RustJigsaw · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A secret game with an uncle who called it Cave Explorers
Zadsta · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kids in the culdesac and I would play this game called deer. Basically you lie down in the road and when a car comes the last person to get up wins. Wasn’t long until parents found out and banned us from it.
aaronitallout · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played 3 on 3 basketball while on a netted trampoline. Affectionately called it "Murderball"
ironmeghan8585 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and i had a "drive through" drug dealing station. I have no idea where we got the idea from....we used monopoly money and grass as pot, scraped off drywall as coke.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two sisters, growing up two of us would share a bedroom. Both of the bedrooms were directly across the hall from each other. The bedrooms carpet was green and the hallway carpet was blue.
Whenever we were put on timeout and were confined to our rooms we decided to play this game where we pretended the hallway was the river and the bedrooms were land. One person would be in the hallway and would be “it”. The other two people would have to try and jump from bedroom to bedroom, not stepping on the blue carpet or the ‘river’ and especially not getting touched by the person in the hallway. It gave us SUCH an adrenaline rush. I can still feel the adrenaline just thinking about this game :)
ClimbingCactus · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 3rd grade I was new to school and had trouble figuring out what to play at recess. I always wanted to play with one of the classroom balls but by the time I got to the opposite end of the room where they were stored all the good balls would be gone. There was one semi-deflates dodgeball that couldn't hold its air. One day I decided that air or not, I would play with that ball. So I took it a created a game involving throwing this quasi-flat dodgeball up and over a telephone wire and then players on the other team and other side of the telephone wire catching the ball to prevent point scoring. It's a little odd but throwing that near flat dodgeball could be more fun than throwing a properly inflated one. After a couple of weeks the game I had invented became so popular that other kids started taking the flat dodgeball and I wound up being able to play with some of the normal balls since demand for the flat ball was so high. 3rd grade was a fun year, also the year I ran a science goggle repair service for the school and became rich in kudos (schools version of kid incentive money you could trade for candy or special privileges).
Gryfth · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to go into the garage with the door shut and lights off to play tag. Basically you can’t see shit. The garage is empty so the only thing we could do was face plant a wall but after awhile you learned where those were. I think the worst thing that happened was when Robert (it’s always fucking Robert) lost his cool and straight up punched our youngest cousin in the jaw thinking it was me. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm and I made my own obstacle course.
We had to get from the upstairs roof of the house to the upper barn across the way without touching the ground. Whoever failed this was stuck washing the dishes by our grandma’s exacting specifications.
I wish I had pictures. It was really fun.
SpeltWithAVer · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kinda late to the post but here's mine. It was called "stick wars" and was quite simple. You get hit by a "stick" you lose a point. You hit somebody with a "stick" and you gain a point. Deflecting a stick midair with another stick gained a point as well. Only throwing sticks allowed i.e. no melee to reduce possibility of maiming. No further rules.
When I was 11 I was playing such game and turned my back to search for a good deflecting stick for too long. I turned around just in time to see a 2 by 4 makeshift javelin of a "stick" before it hit me up and to the right of my eye. I hit the ground like a sandbag and proceeded to hobble home and try and tell my mum I "fell over" even while splinters still remained in the bulbus bleeding lump right at the front of my head.
Still got that lump 7 years later.
Zergeok · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I came up with Avalanche. We would stack everything that wasn't too heavy to move onto our basement stairs and try to climb up and over it. There was no purer a spike of childhood adrenaline than cresting a peak of couch cushions only to realize the accumulated detritus beneath you really wanted to be at the bottom of the stairs like right that moment. Endless Mufasa reenactments ensured.
lbz2012 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm wars. My brother and I would stand across from each other and put sleeping bags (zipped up) over our heads. Then we would basically charge each other and wrestle as worms.....I loved it, it sounds strange.
wendyrx37 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "bakery" - making 'cookies' outta mud.. We'd sprinkle grass seeds on top & let them dry in the sun.. Some of them looked like irl cookies.. We took one to dad once & to this day I don't know if he knew what it was or not.. Because he took a great big bite of it & then spit it out. Lmao.. Knowing dad he probably knew what we were up to.. But who knows. Lol not necessarily unique but fun to remember.
faRawrie · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We use to play a game with our preacher called "hide the sin stick." He seemed to like it but it wasn't fun for us.
EndgineerOmegaplugg · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Heart of Darkness
asparagus19 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what we called it, but one Christmas me and my two older brothers got giant bean bags. 1 each. And then we would pretend they were airplanes, and try and throw each other out if theirs. It didn't count if you were holding onto the edge, so the game would go on for hours. Switching 'airplanes', jumping ontop of each other. Good times.
Another one we used to play was 'foot tag' (not sure if we made it to or if it's a real thing) but, two people would try and get from the living room to a bedroom, without touching the ground. We had stairs in our house, but it was still pretty easy (pillows, beanbags, slippers etc) but my brother's would ALWAYS make me be it, and I don't think I ever got them 😂
Klemans1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Brother, Sister and I just kind of beat the shit out of each other. You guys' families sound great!
Shadiris · 1 points · Posted at 20:30:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "Beanie baby lineup." Essentially, we took our giant bags of beanie babies and lined them up in our rooms - this would take the form of a huge spiral - then would go to the start of the line and shuffle each one forward by a few "steps", one at a time.
The goal was to make it down the stairs, out the back door, down the porch steps and to the slide, but I made my beanie babies take such tiny steps that I would be exhausted before getting anywhere close.
Naturally, my little brother would cheat and run straight to the slide with his beanie babies.
Bonus game: we also threw our beanie babies as hard as we could into the sky and tried to hit the flag in our back yard with them.
TexasForever_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I played “sneak”. Our grandpa would always be in his library reading or watching tv and we would always try to sneak in and out without him noticing or try to scare him by spinning the globe, knocking books off the shelves, or something. He always caught us but sometimes he would play along and we got a huge kick out of it.
RompeChocha · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dunno if it's been said, but, Mercy.
foraging_ferret · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twin World on the Acorn Archimedes (unique in that it was only available for RISC OS, AFAIK).
TalktotheJITB · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Play dead.
sweetalkersweetalker · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "restaurant" where we'd make decorations for the table and bring out the fancy cups/plates/silverware and fold napkins into swans and shit. We made menus on the computer and printed them out with fancy descriptions of the delicious food.
The food was our leftovers.
I still do this for my kids!
TheWholeShenanigan · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school we would play this space game where we take a giant sheet of white paper and draw planets, spaceships, etc. and then have them go to war with each other. Derek always had to have the most powerful species, and he always ruled the universe and was invincible.
DrothReloaded · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shadowrun on Sega Genesis. Still one of my most favorite games ever.
NicElTaco · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No uncle games?
dannyjdruce · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother created our own game on our trampoline that was a combination of rugby, football (soccer), wrestling, and a bunch of rules that we followed religiously. In hindsight i'm amazed at how well we followed the rules. It was so complicated that it would be impossible to explain to anyone else, even our parents conldnt comprehend what we were doing. This is a great question, thanks for bringing back the memories. If anyonr wants me to attempt to explain it I will gladly try to do so.
Toolazy2work · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tennis-Baseball.
My house was slightly raised on a hill, overlooking the house across the street (on a cul de sac) from us. So we used a tennis rack and ball and there was a pitcher, 1 fielder and a batter. If you hit it over the house, it was a home run, hit the roof, it’s a double. Anything else was fair play. My driveway was the infield, so the bottom of my driveway was second base. Not super Madeup but definitely unique.
PrinceHabeebo69 · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
metal gear 3 boiii
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the "swing game." we had a bunch of neighborhood friends come over and two of us would get on the swing set. the others would stand in a line just outside of swing range wearing baseball hats. the swingers would have to kick off the baseball hats by kicking the brim of the hat, then when you kicked off a hat you got off the swing. the game ended when bobby got kicked in the nose and started fountaining blood and our parents banned the game. the best part was that bobby never even wore a hat.
Likesosmart · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was more a game for me. But for a long period of time (years) I would sporadically enter my sisters room under a blanket when she was trying to go to sleep and pretend that I was Harry Potter under my invisibility cloak. Except I would be yelling annoying things from under the cloak. Still cracks me up thinking about it.
tartarsauceinapan · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents had lightsabers so me and my brother would recreate scenes from star wars. We got hurt a lot.
dlsco · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tic tac toe around I go if I miss I burn down this!
YoBuckStopsHere · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bang
The leader calls out something and the players have to perform until the leader says BANG in which you must act out a death related to that subject.
iBlameMeToo · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I played a game where we would build a LEGO “fortress” and see who could take the least damage from 5 throws of a metal ball. The only rule was you couldn’t build just a square solid building because that thing is indestructible.
This all ended after we broke my lamp from a bad bounce. We were probably 9 or 10 at the time
Mr_Feathers · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played " Ball Tag" during recess, which was a combination of tag, dodgeball, and hide-n-seek.
The tagger of the new game was always the last one it from the previous match, or we decided by rock-paper-scissors. The tagger would count to 10 while the rest of the players disperse across the playground to hide.
You could sneak around from place to place, but if you were found by the tagger, they'd chase you to the edges of the playground to get you. Forcing you to either try and lose them, or find other players to draw their attention. If you were tagged, you had to count to 10 before you could tag anyone. Also you could only dodge the ball. Catching and deflecting were against the rules and led to the violator becoming the new tagger.
The ball was live except during the 10 count when the tagged player became it. You could tag someone however you wanted. Throw it, kick it, roll it, ricochet it, bounce it, etc. But the preferred method was sneaking up on your target and touching them. This was to keep us from hitting other kids at recess.
The level of intensity of this game was like the chase scene from the beginning of the bond movie Casino Royal.
Orangezforus · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played a game called roadkill, we had 4 kids on swings and we tried to run through them. Every kid was awarded points if they got someone and the kids who were running got awarded points for getting across, or getting thrown the farthest. we never really kept track of points besides them being arbitrary numbers but it was fun to see people laughing and smiling at getting fifteen or so points
paperbackburner · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Wall Ball, sport of Kings, Queens, and the unhinged.
Equipment List - 1x standard racquetball ball - 1x large wall, preferably gymnasium size - 1x first aid kit
Every player for themselves, no teams.
The ball is thrown toward the wall fromthe location of pickup by any player. Movement allowed and encouraged, no official positions exist. If the ball touches you at any point, the next surface it must touch is the wall.
If a throw fails to reach the wall, or a player is struck by a rebounding ball, they must sprint toward the wall and touch it. During this time, all players are free to intercept the ball and strike the running player with it. This, however, counts as touching the ball and not impacting the wall, thus requiring the player who impacted the runner to sprint for the wall themselves.
Players of skill are allowed and encouraged to time a ricochet to impact a runner as they arrive.
Anyone who purposefully strikes an ineligible player is subject to one free shot from the player struck, with no wall touch penalty. Repeat offenders are subject to firing squad, in which the offender must face the wall, hands at their sides, and allow each player one penalty-free strike.
There are no points tallied, nor is there a winner. The point of the game is the game.
jamo20 · 1 points · Posted at 20:31:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm hella late, but in summer camp when I was younger we would play "handball," which, iirc, is an actual game, but ours had nothing to do with the real sport, and was something my friends and I came up with on a whim one day. We'd play on a soccer field with two even teams, each with a goalie and however many others joined us. The ball was a soccer ball, but you ran around carrying it in your hands and had to throw it into the goal to score. There was no stopping/resetting, so it was a super active game, and after a score the goalie would just pass it back into the field of play. If you had the ball you were free to be tackled or have the ball stolen from you. There was a lot of passing involved too, but if the ball was intercepted it was fairly risky that they'd have a whole open field to run down and then try to get it past the goalie one on one. Pretty much everyone would be running all around the field the whole time trying to get open or attempting to get close enough to the goal to score. Not sure how much of this makes sense, but god damn did I have a lot of good times playing that game!
If there's any questions about other rules/procedures, I'd be happy to try and answer!
MarkZuckerbergsButt · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lick cement. Ask me if you want to know more.
jerbaws · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bennis” a game I made in my street where we play tennis rules but with a football (soccer in freedom units). That was fun.
Nutball was a risky game where you sit across a floor from your opponent (usually my wee brother) and sit leg spread hands by your side. The other person has to bounce the ball on the floor once and the try to land on your nuts. If you block you lose the point. If you miss your throw the opponent takes their turn. Repeat until a decided winning point like 5/10. It was hilarious and scary at the same time.
Timing myself to do a shop on roller blades or my bike run was another game.
I have lots of silly games I played but those came to me quickly when I read the question. Good times
avo1021 · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a game that didn't have any name, but we called it the Fingers Game. You and the other player held out your pointer fingers to begin. You would tap one of your fingers to the other person's, who would change their fingers to show the total. The point of the game was to get the fingers to add up to five and then that hand would be out. It was really fun and addicting as elementary kids.
brenda_san · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pique-esconde do terror ,basicamente, uma pessoa (entre eu e minha irmã) era escolhida para ser o caçador e ele parava e contava até 10 nesse momento a presa tinha que andar em algum lugar em torno da minha casa (do lado de fora) aí o caçador tinha que sair correndo atrás da presa e dar um susto nela ,sempre acabava com nós duas caindo no chão de tanto rir.
Quemedo · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(I think) my dad made a card game called "good morning my lady, good morning my Lord".
You get a standard deck of cards and distribute to everyone playing. You can't look at your cards. In clockwise direction, each players puts a cards at the center of the table. If the following cards show up: Ace - everyone puta your handle at the pile of cards, the last one to do so gets the pile and add to his cards.
7 - players needs to whistle. The one who can't takes the pile of cards.
Jack - everyone needs to salute. If not, or if make any other movement, take the cards. Queen - everyone says "good morning my lady". If not (or if says something that is not the phrase) take the cards. King - same as queen but "my Lord".
The first one without any cards in their hand wins. When everyone gets the hang of it and goes faster, it gets funnier and funnier. Me and my family played so much that we would use 4 decks of cards or else it would end the game before anyone would miss and get more cards from the pile.
boom_michael_scarn · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called Little Munchkins where you turned the lights off put a comforter over you an crawled around to find other people.
You had to poke them in the eye to win.
DontMindMeJPB · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well, we had this game we called 'Slender'. We had one kid as 'the Slender' and he had to catch the rest of us. Whoever he caught had to help him. It doesnt sound fun yet, but believe me, playing this game after midnight in a big ass garden was pretty fucking terryfing.
Kafshak · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game Strife is very under rated imo. I really liked it, but don't see people talk about it at all.
Thaxtonnn · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m sure this isn’t that unique but the amount of fun we had makes me feel okay posting. We called it: trodge ball. All you need is a trampoline and all of the balls (of any kind) you own.
Two people in the ‘middle’ would be on the trampoline. Then (we usually had 3 throwers) the throwers would be anywhere around the outside of the trampoline (being across from each other or evenly distributed works best) with the collection of balls. Then the people in the middle would be jumping and it’s just dodgeball from there.
I honestly don’t know if this explanation does the fun factor justice but we never had so much fun in our lives. There was nothing better than timing your throw perfectly when they hit the trampoline so they’re just floating and helplessly watching the mini basketball you just laser beamed to a perfect nutshot (sorry I’m reverting back to a 10 year old boy). The best part is I don’t know which was more fun, being a dodger or a thrower.
Note: we never set a minimum distance from the trampoline to throw, but if you have a dickhead friend who would walk up and throw from 2 feet away I could see that being an issue.
M9Bazooka · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game with my sister where we stuff our mouths with grapes one at a time and see who could hold the maximum amount without chewing them. Fun times😊
Thunderclown21 · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called Constructor back in 1997. I City builder with gang warfare. Very hard but fun
MissJunie · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Count Your Outs" - played with a frisbee and any number of kids. If a person caught your throw, that was an out for you. If the frisbee hit a person, or they touched it trying to catch it, it was an out on them. Ten outs and you had to go through the "rickets".
J0nnyGreenGiant · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i know i'm late to the party, but me and my brother would tie two pieces of string from our parents room down to the second floor in the living room and we would take turns zip lining all of our action figures so they would collide in mid air. Who's ever action figure got knocked off and " fell to their death " was the loser. ( Leonardo vs Cobra Commander, Hulk Hogan vs the black power ranger etc etc ) We called it Aerial Wars.
buddyfelix · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bury and punch. Get all the blankets and pillows couch cushions and bury a sibling. Then jump/punch and roughhouse etc. It was funny because we couldn't feel it at all. But writing this now it sounds really dysfunctional.
ssashero · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Broken Mirror 2 I guess, in playstation one
abbiestherrm · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eraser rugby. Everyone who played was female. We would throw an eraser and then tackle each other...
fleksaaja · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We went to sit on a ring with the squad and grabbed next guys dick, first one to get boner gets of the game. Softest dick wins.
DogblockBernie · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if this is related, but I kinda invented a sport. It’s called Throwball. It’s a combination of football, basketball, and handball.
kcrh0157 · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played 52-Card-Pickup-Tag. The target would carry around a deck of cards and “spray” them at someone and if that person was hit, they’d have to pick up all the cards before they could start chasing other players. My parents are still finding cards in vents around the house 15 years later.
deepcutAforce · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I collected Bryer horse models. We played with them almost like you would a Barbie, they had relationships and dramas and family and all these personalities and stuff...I think we had them put on a play like it was a school play one time. They were horses but our normal toys
WolfmanTrevel · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My house growing up was basically a big circle with rooms all along the outside, we would have a haunting game with 1 person walking through and 3 trying to jump scare them. It was really fun and we had to get back to starting room to be safe. Sometimes with big groups we had it so one person had the flashlight and the remainers could be picked off.
We also had freeze tag in a bar parking lots so all of our ideas weren't so bright.
jarednards · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is mayonnaise.
MustrumRidculy · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drakan II 3D graphics game where you are a strong woman who can fight with swords who partners up with a fire breathing dragon!!! You slay these giant creatures (some version of Orcs) with your sword and elemental arrows to save your brother. You can ride the dragon around too! SO COOL. And this game was in the 90’s.
ConoRiot · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game with my grampa (Pop) called ‘Hurley Burley’ where he would chant this Gaelic song and we’d have to guess how many fingers he was holding up.
We had no idea what he was saying only that we had to guess the fingers. If we got it wrong we could go again if we got it right he tickled us.
The tension that would build up as you kept guessing wrong was on par with watching the last 2 minutes of your team in a championship game.
cplbutthurt · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to do something like tag, but it was in the pitch black basement and we played with nerf guns that had “laser” attachments.
Basically had to move as quietly as possible and search with the laser. If found you had to shoot. Hit, they’re out. Miss, you better find your fucking dart.
It_is_Mason · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I and our friends were really into ninjas and all that sneaky stuff back in the day. We had a pool so we invented a game just like Marco Polo but without saying “Marco” or “Polo” to find each other. We called it Silence. Whoever was “it” had to just use their hearing to find someone else. We even spray painted a pair of underwater goggles all black so there was no cheating. It was actually way more fun than it sounds.
B0nerJams08 · 1 points · Posted at 20:33:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I use to be stuck at school an hour early every morning since my mom was a teacher. Same with my friend. Basically the game consisted of taking the ball out of an old school mouse and playing air hockey on a table in the library except we used ourhands instead of those red things. Which is why we ways had bruises all over our hands... Kids are fucking stupid 😂
BushWeedCornTrash · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a "hide and go seek" type of game that I doubt they will ever do in today's age. I was in a boyscout camp, and there was a camp wide hide and go seek game, counselors looking for hiding campers. It was the 80s, Rambo was big, and actually I read some manuals on camouflage because my best friends dad was in the army and had a crate full of manuals and shit. Many kids climbed trees and went to the obvious spots (hollow logs, rocks, etc. some of us knew the terrain intimately) I went maybe 20 feet from where we started, behind a stacked stone retaining wall making a dry path over a sometimes muddy trench. I laid right in the mud and leaves, and smeared it on my arms, legs and face. I scooped up leaf litter and covered myself with it and laid face down wedged between the rocks and the ground.
They weren't looking for someone so close, and never expected someone would lie in a dirty drainage ditch and spread mud all over themselves. So I won. There was no prize, a bunch of us "won" and most of them looked like me. That was the only time my camouflage obsession in gradeschool helped me in life.
Lil-hanzo · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called bean. We had sleeping bags over ourselves and we would play Marco Polo or go down a flight of stairs head first
quartzkoi · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sandwich? Just consisted of me and my cousins laying on each other, identifying as certain parts of a sandwich.
Kinda weird looking back.
CrabManFuckDude · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what we called it but I'm pretty sure if you're British, chances are you would remember it. The game was that two lines of people stand opposite each other at a pretty substantial distance. A few people would be in the middle and you'd have to run from your side to the opposite side. If one of the people in the middle caught you, They'd deck you. It was absolutely brutal but It was a great way to pass the time until teachers told us to stop.
nlreed · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This made me smile remembering "Santa Clause Bump in the Wall". A simple game between my brother and I of standing up on your bed at night, pretending to be Santa Clause (which involved saying things like "Ooh I'm Santa Clause!! I'm just walking..") then bump into the wall and fall back on the bed! Much hilarity! No idea where it came from, why we chose Santa or even remotely why it was funny but it's a cute memory! :)
Chocolataye · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Life
Limmy-G · 1 points · Posted at 20:34:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A bit late to this but my little brother and I played with toy cars a lot when we were younger (like hotwheels) and there were 2 games we used to play a lot.
First one I think we called "Crash". Having a hard time wording this properly but you know how you can kinda 'throw' a hotwheel along the ground so that it looks like it's driving on its own for a sec? Well we'd run a tournament with all our hotwheels where we'd have 2 cars and kinda 'throw' them so that they drove into each other. We'd keep doing that until one of the cars was upright and one of the cars was tipped over, either on its side or upside down. The winning car would advance to the next round while the loser was eliminated. Winner at the end would get a tally mark (with pencil) on the underside to show how many times they won the tournament.
The other game we played, I don't remember what it was called, but there was like a little toy car structure with like garages and a ramp/slide on the top with a helicopter pad. We used to roll the cars down the ramp/slide and if the car tipped over, it was eliminated. Kept doing that until we had a winner, which like the other game, had a tally mark added to the underside.
We still have those toy cars and you can see all the chipped paint on the cars from playing Crash so much, some of them have damage to the wheels or pieces that broke off. Some real MacGyver work on some of them; I remember one car has a bandaid across the top and another one has scotch tape wrapped around it. You can still see the tally marks on the undersides of the cars too. Geez what a nostalgia trip I just went on.
MasterTurtle32 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A unique game I played as a child was any minigame in Mario party ds because they were cool especially the barbecue one because I like barbecues
escapestrategy · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At a big retreat one weekend, the weather was terrible and we were in this massive old really creepy house. With not much to do (sometimes we played DS, but not everyone had one), we made up something we called the Whistle Game (because the original item was a whistle). One person had to be "it" and started with a whistle. We would all begin to move around the second floor of the house, which was basically a massive circle, and "it" would pass the whistle off to someone else, who then became "it". They would pass it to another person, and another, and another, and so on. The rest of us would try to catch "it" WHILE they were holding the whistle. An unspoken rule was that if you had just passed the whistle off, you couldn't immediately yell who you had passed it to, because that would have made the game a lot less fun.
It was derived from a game we called "the apple game" which we played in a much larger range (a city block) except there was only one "it" and it was essentially hide and seek except "it" could run and we had to actually get them instead of just finding them.
CrabManFuckDude · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what we called it but I'm pretty sure if you're British, chances are you would remember it. The game was that two lines of people stand opposite each other at a pretty substantial distance. A few people would be in the middle and you'd have to run from your side to the opposite side. If one of the people in the middle caught you, They'd deck you. It was absolutely brutal but It was a great way to pass the time until teachers told us to stop.
davidirl95 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I cannot remember the name but a mech game on ps2 that plays kinda like xcom, I remember it being awesome
Ajaxl · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother created the upstairs downstairs game. One person stands at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom. Then a ball is thrown up/down towards a target area defended by the other player. Points for hitting the target. Oh and the person upstairs has a target either side to defend to counteract the added difficulty of throwing upstairs versus downstairs. We still play it sometimes and we are now 22 and 16.
The_Tertinator · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Neither a child nor unique but one game we play at my woodcraft group (basically british hippie scouts) is ratchet screwdriver where you sit in a circle with your legs spread out and someone sitting in between them facing away, there's a person standing in the middle who will say a colour or item of clothing or hair colour etc. and everyone who that applies to sitting in the inner circle will try to touch the top of their head whilst the person behind them will try to wrestle them stop them from doing so. Most fun I ever had
Lane_Farias · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would get in the game room, turn off the lights, and grab a flashlight to shine around the room. The goal is to have the other go from point a to point b without having the light land on you, which acts as the security camera.
sir-mc-chode-toes · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Think of open gates but everyone is in sleeping bags crawling everywhere
hearse83 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Holy hell, where to start.
In elementary school, me and a friend sold tickets to a lottery. The prize was different every day. Some days it'd be 4 Gobstoppers. Maybe it'd be a pack of Runts. It might be a pencil. Perhaps half an eraser. You never knew! $0.25 to enter! Eventually we were given shit by the teacher for promoting 'gambling.'
But, by far, the most fucked up one was STRIP CLUB. This was with my babysitter's kids that we'd see every day after school. Some point in the summer, in their playhouse, we decided this was an actual game. Kids running around in bathing suits all summer come up with some weird shit, man.
atl_trailrunner · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played a game called Buck Buck. Two teams with 5 or 6 each. One team, the bases, would link arms and legs and bend at the hip, creating a base for the jumpers to land on. The jumpers goal was the land as hard on the bases as possible to get the bases to fall and hit the ground. I don’t know how none of us got hurt because we were in like high school at the time and not small.
squillwill · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Does this make you nervous”
McGooForty2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run Around The Block
I lived on a loop - a circular street like a racetrack with houses both on the outside and in the middle of the loop. Maybe 40 houses total.
We’d play with 4+ kids with 2 of those being the ‘finders’ on bicycles. The rest of the players were hiders/runners and played on foot. The goal of the game was for the runners to make a complete loop around the block without being spotted by the finders on bikes. We’d start at one persons house - that house also being the finish line. The runners all traveled in the same direction around the block and got a head start (maybe 30 secs?) before the finders could take off on bikes.
The finders could only travel in opposite directions around the block and could not turn around or come to a complete stop. The runners could hide anywhere in the front yard of homes. Could not enter homes or go into back yards. To catch a runner, the finders simply had to call out the runner’s name and the location they were hiding. But this could only be done while the runner was still ‘in front’ of the finder (relative to the direction that particular finder was allowed to travel). Once the finder passed the runner on their path around the block, the runner could then reveal themselves without fear of being caught by that finder.
So it became a game of coordination between the 2 finders. If they passed up a runner traveling in the opposite direction, the runner could take off looking to make it as far as possible before coming upon the other finder who would be traveling in the same direction. So the finder would race around the block on their bike and let the other finder know who they most recently saw and where.
Meloneuscx · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I still play this. Basically at night when it was pitch black we would play a game of hide and seek tag where two+ people run to the far end of the yard (it was pretty big) and have to get back to the porch without being tagged. The seeker would get a really powerful spotlight flashlight.
maklito · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"cool car" me and my twin brother on car journeys would look our the window, as the name suggests, when we saw a cool car we'd go apeshit and scream "cool car!" If the other agrees that the automobile is in fact a "cool car" the person gets a point. Most points wins
CrabManFuckDude · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember what we called it but I'm pretty sure if you're British, chances are you would remember it. The game was that two lines of people stand opposite each other at a pretty substantial distance. A few people would be in the middle and you'd have to run from your side to the opposite side. If one of the people in the middle caught you, They'd deck you. It was absolutely brutal but It was a great way to pass the time until teachers told us to stop.
gackzile · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The 5 Point Game.
One person stands on the outside of the trampoline (as kids we only had ones that had a net surrounding it) with a football and your goal is to throw the ball over the net and hit the trampoline floor. The person inside the trampoline just tries to catch it. If the ball hits the floor of the trampoline the thrower gets a point and you switch positions at 5 points.
Later we would add different rules when it got too easy for the catcher, stuff like only diving catches or only 1 handed catches. It was a fun game and entertained us for hours and hours.
readysetnothanks · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had two that come to mind.
Criminal- my brother and I grew up living in hotels. He was two years younger and so a bit slower. I would give him a two second head start to reach our room at the end of the hallway. Then I, the police, would have to tackle the fugitive criminal before he reached the room. There was lots of yelling, "Stop, police!" People loved us.
Don't fall, bitch - we also played a game where one person would jump on the bed and the other would grab the ends of one or two pillows. Then you would try to knock the legs out from under the jumper. The jumper would try to alter his jump pattern to make you miss completely in which case you get a point. We would trade off whenever you get knocked over. The only time we broke something was when we told a friend about it who insisted on playing. He smashed a light off the wall like a total amateur.
cuccubear · 1 points · Posted at 20:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jeez, there were so many...
Voices of the Sea - basically we ran around the yard trying to steal a string of fake pearls from the birdbath.
Kidnappers - If we were playing in the front yard, and someone drove by or walked by, we would yell, "Kidnappers!" and run and hide.
Scream Hide-and-Go-Seek - Regular HNGS, but when you were found, you had to scream at the top of your lungs and run away. (I'm sure our parents loved that one.)
MDizzleee · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made a game up with the kids that grew up in my grandmas neighborhood and it was called firecracker. You play firecracker at a playground and one person is it they have their eyes closed and they are trying to find the other kids who are hanging off the jungle gym or whatever, the kids who aren’t it have to be veeeerrry quite and they can’t touch the ground if one of them does and the person that’s it yells “firecracker!” Every body has to freeze where they are and if you’re on the ground then you’re it!! It was a really fun game and no one got hurt surprisingly lol.
jonnymuffin · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "gecko". It was a version tag that starts with one "gecko Hunter" and they have to hold onto one of the players for 10 seconds to turn them into a gecko Hunter as well. It then goes on until a herd of kids is chasing the last gecko and dog pile until he gets held onto for 10 seconds.
chadio3814 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh shit, I swear I thought this would never be told until I have kids. My brother and I as well as some of the neighborhood would play this when we were growing up. This game happens to use the Skyball manufactured toy, and by no means am I trying to give them free advertisement or anything, but it's a good ball.
Contrary to my earlier statement of trying to not give free advertisement, we named this game Skyball... Think what you'd like about that, but think about basketball, baseball, or football ok.. Its normal if you think about it. This is a game where you throw the ball onto the roof. Best played with 3 players but you can add or subtract. Each player starts with 3 lives. I think youngest always goes first. They throw the ball onto the roof, and call the name of a player before the ball hits the roof. That player must catch the ball before it hits the driveway. If you do then it is your turn and you can throw the ball and take your turn as well. If you miss the ball however, you lose a life. Even if you lose a life, OR lose your last life, you still throw the ball. (Its wonderful to take another life with you on your last breath). When you lose all your lives, you are out of the game, but get to start the next game when you are the first loser.
That's the main premise, but there are lots of technicalities, and those are here.
There are many different situation that happen when a ball is thrown towards the roof. (Towards being the key word). You can: Throw the ball over the roof resulting in a loss of one life, and you have to retrieve it.
Throw the ball into the garage below the roof resulting in a do-over, but if it happens again, you lose a life.
Throw the ball into the ground, thus missing the house entirely.. This happens when you are trying to go for a quick play where you just touch the edge of the gutter and it take one bounce on and one right off. This is a strategy used when an opponent is far from the roof. They dont have much time to run to the ball. Like the previous rule, you get a redo. If it happens again, you lose a life.
Throw the ball, hit the roof, but then when it rolls off, it hits the grass. The thrower loses a life in this case. Hitting line is ruled by whoever is most convincing, but you can call a redo. That's what we usually did.
Throw the ball without calling an opponent's name out.. This is frowned upon and results in a redo. You can essentially do this as much as you want, but then you're just throwing a ball to yourself and you look dumb.
Admittedly, it's a pretty silly game, but if you want strategy, this is the section for it. These are in order from least to most effective.
Throwing the ball and waiting until just before the ball hits the roof. Almost always there is enough time for the opponent to realize they have to catch it and react.
Putting spin on the ball is cool but doesnt move the ball much.
Rolling the ball isnt bad because it has the tendency to roll off the roof and hit the gutter in such a way that it pops it into the air, chipping it over the player that assumes it will simply drop. This is a lucky occurrence and helpful.
Throwing it very close to the top of the house without going over is ok because this gives the ball decent speed, but it's too risky, you can easily throw it over, resulting in a loss of your own life for almost no reward.
Throwing the ball so that it comes very close to the grass, but then hits the driveway. Unfortunately, against most players, this will not dupe them into thinking that it will hit the grass because it is almost always worth it to just grab the ball AND this maneuver is quite hard to pull off confidently. So it's not a great tactic and is not very often seen performed on purpose.
Throwing the ball straight up and just clipping the gutter. This is the fastest way to get the ball to hit the driveway. Thus used on people that are waiting far away from the roof. And preferably the slower opponents. You also get the jump when catching the ball in that position. If you catch the ball at a normal distance and then walk or run towards the front of the roof, it's always smart to follow that person in case they call your name. The person that does this cannot throw it in a way that sends it far from the roof, so almost always should you be close, rather than far.
The best tactic by far is as follows. And just as well the most difficult. Admittedly this makes me lose lives as an adult against younger people, but that's life I guess. This is where you get such a good throw that takes only one bounce on the roof, about the middle way up and then the second bounce is extremely hard to tell where it will land. There are two options for the second bounce if done right. The first being that it will hit the edge of the roof (the gutter) and go relatively far. The second being that it just misses the edge and goes straight to the ground. This is strong because as the catcher, you will not be fast enough to cover both options. If you think it will hit the edge and stand far away, but it misses the edge and goes straight to the ground, if done right, you will be too far away to catch that. Alternatively, if you think it will miss, but then hits, it is often too far for you to run and catch it. Words Of Wisdom: The best way to defend against this is to assume it is going to miss the gutter. This is because if it does hit the gutter, it will be in the air again, so you technically have more time to catch it, but not always.
And that's Skyball, it's a pretty good game and entirely original. Ask me anything you want about it.
Ascarisahealing · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a tape recorder with a mike, and we used to make up stories that we would record, and we would wander about the house/backyard trying to figure out how best to create the sounds to match the story. Was pretty fun. Wish I still had the tapes. I should ask him if he remembers doing this.
levavo4 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pepsi Man.
blutsch813 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When Fight Club was released we made our own version without some of the violence to prevent injuries. No face hits in a “ring” of 3 people and if you were knocked out of bounds you were out of the game. Last one in was the winner. Some bumps and bruises but I think it helped my little brother build toughness. He later went on to have the confidence to join the Army.
LukeSkii · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend used to have a massive box of costumes in the basement, and every time I was over, me and my friends would do a “fashion show” A.K.A. Dressing up in the strangest combinations of attire we could manage. We would dress in the basement, and then once everyone was ready, walk upstairs to the adults, who would judge us on a scale of 10. Whoever had the most points would win a fruit roll-up.
jrobjr123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
3 games stuck out the most.
Bruiseball - in a small, unfinished room, 4 to 6 people are sitting down. There are 2 juggling balls in play, and if at any point you are in "possession" of both of them then you are out, last Man standing wins. Basically you just pelt your friends with juggling balls.
Lacrosse basketball - on a basketball court, two teams of 3. 2 people on each team have tennis rackets, 1 person with a lacrosse stick. You play with a tennis ball. Lacrosse stick player has applied basketball "traveling" rules
And my personal favorite: Pop up - on a designated court (in my case, my front yard) you have 2 sides with teams of 3. Each person has 3 lives. Use a handball or a tennis ball. You MUST throw above the porch roof height, if not, that's an out. If the ball lands closest to you in bounds, that's an out. If you throw the ball and it lands out of bounds, that's an out. Game goes on until all players lose all of their lives. You can also optionally give a life to someone who has lost all of this lives. It's honestly a game with a pretty solid mesh of athleticism, strategy, and trickery. The unique layout of my yard and the quirks of the different sides makes things interesting as well. One side has more tree and the chimney so there's more "out of bounds" but there's also more ground to cover. A 2-1 meta developed where the person on your team with the fastest reaction time sat in front. The person in the far back sat behind a portion of the house so they have to have sweet hands as they are getting the highest pop up throws. The last person is kind of in limbo and covers the remaining ground.
BrennerOax · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school at recess we’d swing sideways on the swings and try to hit each other. We called it swing wars. We thought it would be such a success that we wanted to call the President and have him make swing wars a real, recognized sport.
childishgabeno · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to stand in the bottom of an empty grain silo and throw rocks up the side as far as we could. The game was to not be the one who gets hit by the rock as it came hurtling back to earth
PinkFloydTheWall1979 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go pee!
katzey · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
cave explorer with my dad
breden619 · 1 points · Posted at 20:36:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We set the backyard up with lawn furniture and two flags. Split the neighborhood kids in two teams. Then dumped every nerf football or devices that could be hurled at an injury inducing rate in the mix. If you got hit you were out. If you caught a projectile the thrower was out.
First one to hit everyone or get the flag one. I never knew lawn furniture could be a lifesaver
Sammy_G123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tennis baseball. In the basement of my cottage my cousins and we would take a medium size exercise ball, have a jumprope in on the group as the net and the goal was to, well, play tennis with these plastic baseball bats. It was fun because the balls were always a little deflated along with the two bats being the "power bat" and the "skinny bat". one was pretty big for my 7 year old hands and with the other you could get more spin. We would have tournaments for hours and hours on end.
engininja99 · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a house with a large multi-room basement, that was as big of a floor plan as the rest of the house and was half exposed (the land outside sloped from front to back. All the rooms were connected in a circle except for one that only had one way in and out. All of the rooms were pretty big.
One very bored night in high school, my friends and I got the idea to black out the windows and turn off all the lights, and play freeze tag in the dark... except instead of just touching someone, you mercilessly whack them with what was formerly a toy blowgun. So you have anywhere from 6 to 10 people, standing as perfectly and silently still as they can in the pitch black darkness of my basement, listening as the person who was “it” saunters towards or away from them, guiding themselves mostly by touch and the blow gun but also somewhat by sound (if someone tried to scurry away or find a new hiding spot). Sudden discoveries and chases would leave you hiding and trying to catch your breathe as quietly as possible. Traps were set (a giant snow tube wedged in one of the doors, couch cushions scattered in major running spots) and cries of adolescent horror and glee were yelped. It quite literally felt like being in the recent horror movie “Don’t Breathe.”
Anyway, the game became known as “the stick game,” and my parents absolutely despised it... I can’t imagine why.
Dahric · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game. And you just lost.
NoMeaning6 · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I came up with a game called "finger butt" me and your mom would play it alot
HowlanderStereo · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swinging statues. A bunch of kids would get together in my front yard and one person was the swinger and one person was the guesser. The swinger would proceed to take each person by the hands/wrists and swing them in a circle (swinger stayed planted while swingee was swung until their legs were in the air). The swinger would then let go and the swingee had to freeze however they landed. They then had to decide what they were, based on the pose they were frozen into. They whispered to the swinger what they were and then once all the kids had been swung and frozen the guesser had to go around and guess what they were.
You could boop someone on the nose so they could act out what they were for a moment but you had to quickly turn them off by tapping them on the back. If you didn't turn them off in time they could escape and run around to each statue and boop them on the nose to free them. Once booped and free they all can start running around booping noses. If you can't shut them all off you lose and you're out. But if you guess what everyone was correctly with no one escaping, you became the swinger in the next round. The game was played until there was one statue left standing which could take hours. It was my favorite game!
TrailMixKing17 · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we got our trampoline for the first time it came with this safety net around it like every trampoline, but we make this game where you had to score points by throwing a dodge ball over top and hit the trampoline. It was so much fun to play and my siblings and I all got back pain from jumping so much
cxnflict · 1 points · Posted at 20:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters used to find as many balls as we could (Basketballs, Baseballs, tennisballs, etc) and put them all on the trampoline. If you got touched by a ball you lost 1 of your 3 lives. Last one standing wins. Eventually all the neighborhood kids were playing it with us.
Maroon5Sugar · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Foot War”
On a 3 seat couch my sister and I would lay on the couch with our back/neck against opposing arm rests. We would line up our feet so they were touching similar to how you would do patty cake with your hands. Then on the count of 3 all hell would break loose and you’d try and crunch the others legs up into their chest or until they tapped out. Played it for years until we got too strong and broke the arm rest lol
fork_and_beans · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandmother told me about fire balling. You make a baseball sized ball by stitching together scrap fabric. Soak this ball in lantern oil and set it on fire while tossing it around at night. It's fun and dangerous.
starfeeesh_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood best friend and I were obsessed with the movie 'A Little Princess.' We created this game where we played the poor, orphaned princesses who were forced to work and do horrible chores all day long. Her mom played Miss Minchin and we would get her to order us around and give us really hard chores, like organizing the closets and cleaning out the fridge (we were like, six). We'd also beg her to be really mean and yell at us for not doing the chores right and we'd get upset if she wasn't rude enough. Looking back, I have no idea how this was our favorite game, but her mom probably loved it.
believe666 · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up on a farm and there was a group of us 12-14 years old. We would ride quads & dirtbikes and play tag. The rules were you had to touch the person (not just the ATV) before someone else was considered “it”
storminem · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a few friends had a game called burnout, (just like the video games). We would ride down this big hill sitting on our skateboards and race to the bottom and push each other off. Lots of pain, lots of fun and lots of pain.
theFinesser00 · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dog would sit at the bottom of the stairs and me and my dad would be at the top and when we called him he would chase us up the stairs and we had to run down the hallway and jump on the bed before he caught us.
the_epic_juicebox · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I used to own a small white board along with many different colored markers. We played a game which you could call an RPG. What we did was draw a small grid on the lower right and lower left corners of the white board, which represented our inventories. Our "characters" were stick men we drew and we could use swords and magic and all the crazy stuff. If we wanted to move our characters more then 20 cm away from them then we would erase the original and draw another stick figure in another position and location. So, of course, many of our attacks consisted of kamehamehas, rocket launchers, space-warping sword slashes.. Etc We would always fight against giant monsters or "bosses" if you will. Everytime we defeated one we could loot coins from them. In the upper left corner we drew a shop guy with a counter in front of him, that's where we would go to buy more weapons/armor. We loved playing that everyday, it was so fun. It was however, pretty tiresome to keep erasing "frames" and drawing new scenes every 3-4 seconds lol
ChaiTeaAZ · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would set up a mini Olympics athletic field in our house. We'd put masking tape on the floor for a "standing long jump", tip a wagon, a kitchen chair, folding chairs on their sides for hurdle races, frizbees as a discus, a pool noodle as a javelin, etc. We had so much fun trying to best our own records and beat each other.
Icyveins86 · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if it's a game exactly but my brother and I would hide the leftover biscuits from dinner, the Pillsbury ones in a tube, and once they got nice and hard we'd throw them at each other.
Tonywhitecorn · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to turn off the lights turn the ceiling fan on max and let anything and everything fly at it
msandygriffith · 1 points · Posted at 20:38:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor...
noobie_69 · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to look in the mirror and throw a ball at the wall at my back and catch it just by looking at the mirror. Fun game.
meatfacepete · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fumble" at school.
Take a big flat wall and 5+ people and a tennis ball. Random player starts by throwing the ball at the wall so it bounces back. Anybody can go for the ball to grab it and throw it back at the wall, but if someone touches the ball and "fumbles" it, a player near to him has to shout "FUMBLE!", grab the ball, and bounce the ball off the wall before the fumbler can run up and touch the wall.
If the fumbler touches the wall first they're off scott-free, but if the other player hits the wall with the ball first, they get a free throw at the fumblers back while they stand facing the wall, firing squad style.
Great fun in high school.
StompyTheBear · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will get buried. I’m very late. The sunglass game. We played every weekend night. Basically man hunt but the person who was “it” had to wear sunglasses. I lived in a. Really quiet neighborhood so the neighbors let us run through their yards. Many sprained ankles, scars, black eyes and a few broken bones. Mostly laughs though.
uwu-mela · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Infection. These kids made it up I guess and it was super fun!
mikesside · 1 points · Posted at 20:39:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had 2 that were similar to the classic punch buggy game. Kids like punching other kids right?
Paco In a Tow Truck: Identical to the punch buggy game but for non flatbed Tow Trucks currently towing a car. Derived from a buddy who yelled at a Spanish driver in a tow truck “hey paco move your fu#%ing tow truck while he was blocking our street football game. “Paco” preceded to get out and punch him in the face 1 time and left. We just laughed at our buddy for being a racist asshole while he cried.
Name Game: Everyone had a nickname and if you used the persons real name you got punched until you said their nickname. Good luck trying to remember nicknames like Big Mac, Mr Potato Head, Hot Sauce, Slow Jeremy, Goldie Locks and Stumpy Grumpy while your buddies punch repeatedly.
thejasoncao · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“City” - everyday we would change roles and be different people abiding the laws like we thought the world worked, like you get put into the hole the moment you are put into jail.
Macks_Imilian · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my household, I had 9 siblings, making ten of us total. When we were young, we would play a game we called "Mr. Boxy Box" where someone would put a box over their head or big enough around their body and then basically get beaten up by the younger siblings. It stopped when I was 6 because my oldest brother 10 years my senior accidentally flung me across the room by swinging his body at me when he was covered by a refrigerator box.
sweetnibletsmiley · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have no idea where the idea for it came from but my cousins and sisters and I all came up with a game we called “old cripple lady” where someone would be the old cripple lady and have to dress up and knock on the door and come in saying they want their payday cash loan. Then the players would have to say no! And sometimes be mean about it and she would say curse you or I’ll get you! Then we’d turn off all the lights and have a home base being the bed. Whoever was designated the old cripple lady would have 30 seconds to hide somewhere in the house and then the players would leave one or two at a time and try to find her hiding spot without getting tagged. You’d have to run back to base to be safe but if you got tagged then you turn into the old cripple lady and it starts all over again! It was so much fun I’m gonna try and get them all to play it again even though we’re all almost in our twenties now.
lila24582 · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A primary school friend of mine always wanted to play a game where we pretended to be horses that were in some way abused by their owner. She was weirdly obsessed with the thought of abused horses that needed rescuing and made up different versions of this game every time we had a play date. After a few times I just said no to this game because I didn't want to pretend to be a sick horse anymore.
Sence · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind chicken, basically you locked a bunch of people in a room, blindfolded one person while the others threw balled up socks at them. If the blind chicken caught somebody, they became the blind chicken.
It was basically just an excuse to pelt your friends in the balls with a sock ball.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor games
rexsoro · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a few of my friends back in middle school made up a game, I had forgotten the name of it and had introduced it to some of my other friends where we subsequently name it “the game”. It was always played on a playground and there were hiders and a seeker. The hiders has to stay on the play set and avoid the seeker without touching the ground while the seeker had to navigate the play set with their eyes closed trying to tag someone. We eventually realized that the seeker would always peek unintentionally so that they wouldn’t hit something or fall off, so we decided to add in blindfolds for the seeker. The game resulted in a lot parkour and climbing as well as many bruised shins from missing jumps.
jacobpederson · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dividing up the blocks and army men, building forts at the top and bottom of the stairs, then taking turns bombing each others forts with the "little bricks." Objective: Knock over all the enemies army guys! Hours of fun for all (except anybody that needed to go upstairs).
anduril_ekahi · 1 points · Posted at 20:40:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Office Worms!
My stepbrother and I used to crawl under our bed (which was full of misc boxes and items) and “dig” tunnels through them and called ourselves Office Worms, holding important meetings and high stakes dealings in said exclusive tunnel systems
ihatepasswords89 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game that involved a ball, holes in the ground running and tagging. I have no idea the name and it was fun a hell
acts541 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Investors" growing up. We each started with an amount of money and would ride our bikes around and auction of people's homes. We never really got far enough into to crown a winner, but it was fun pretending to buy houses.
Lukerestofname · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would play soccer. But the goal was a 4 foot by 4 foot bucket,with holes in the bottom so the ball would come back out, 10 feet up in the air. As an added level of difficulty the ball can only bounce on the grown once before it has to be touched by a player. If it bounces more then once the run is over and you start the game over again. Our record was 32.
Lukerestofname · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Best played with 3 or 4 people.
Woggul · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Noughts and crosses.
You draw two overlapping snad-timer shapes on paper, and you need to invade the squares. you start at opposite ends of the board.
the 4 corners and middle are "Super Positions" where you need the surrounding spaces to be taken to take them. (noughts and crosses can be on the same position except the "super positions".) Whoever gets the most Super Positions wins the game.
fadetoblack123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
DOCTOR
zillamaster55 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buck Buck How Many Hands Up
LWheaton · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would go into the plastic playhouse in the backyard and pretend to be two people just going about their day until SUDDENLY a TORNADO struck (which involved a lot of pushing up on the roof to spin it and throwing ourselves into walls). Terrified screams / enough collapse of the house to require reassembly was encouraged.
pgwnd · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark, it was hide and seek, except in pure darkness
Narwahl_Whisperer · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have a pretty long walk home from school, and there were lots of beer bottles on the side of the road. I would kick a bottle, and occasionally, I would try to crush it by stomping on it.
Beangut666 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we named super cyber ball that was basically us kicking a giant bouncy ball around the kitchen as hard as we could until we broke something. My mom had tons of knick knacks everywhere so the real game was waiting to see if she noticed that something was missing.
hugeness101 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to sit cross legged on the living room floor and have a ballon filled with air and try to make it land on the other persons side it was a one on one thing myself against my brother but I guess you can play with multiple people. Just can’t let the ballon fall on your side. Simple yet hours of fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
kitty combat we would fight each other in a arena style thing
lovestar28 · 1 points · Posted at 20:41:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play this game where we would place glow in the dark stars all around the house and then turn all the lights off. We would then race to try to collect as many stars as possible until they were gone and whoever collected the most stars would win. Remember always having a blast playing this as a kid and still brings back some fond memories.
MrBananaz · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with a football.
One guy looks foreveryone, if he finds them, he has to run to where the ball was placed, touch the ball and say the name, that person is out.
However, if you're spotted, or have the chance, you can run and kick the ball before the guy looking calls you out.
If you kick it, you save everyone and they they can hide until the ball is back in position, basically if you shoot likecrap, not enough time to hide.
Liamds52 · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game
bunniswife · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kissing tag. We were in Grade Three or Four at the time. There were two groups, boys and girls. If the boys were "IT" they had to chase the girls and tag them. If they tagged you, you had to kiss the tagger. A big old oak tree was home free and you had to run around the entire house before you could go to the tree and it was a BIG ass yard.
MarkILL64 · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Catch and bull - When you tag someone, you had to dry-hump them.
Catch and karate - When you tag someone, you had to beat them up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I spent way to long making rules for a war game based on fictional countries with fictional continents drawn out of staples together graph paper and we would have mock battles or "mini games" which were mostly rounds of others games we liked, such as paintball, halo, tag, foot races, and all, sorts of sports, that would decide who won or lost a fight. Some of the "mini games" with too many points made the game too complicated to play becuase instead of one country winning and taking the area or losing we started to try to factor in how bad of a loss the "mini game" was and that made people argue about which "mini game" to play becuase some had higher costs dependinng how much you won or lost by. The game very quickly feel apart but the maps we drew were neat and I spent a lot of time populating it with fantasy creatures and then used it for a DND game a few years later.
So, unique but not coherent for a game, lol.
belenb · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game has no winners or losers. It’s called IFG (imaginary family game). you would need fake food, babydoll, and decorate your bedroom as a house. The best part is your celeb crush is your IFG spouse. I was OBSESSED with playing house, baby dolls, playhouses, dollhouses etc. the reason why it’s called IFG is because you can have as many imaginary kids as you want. To make it more “realistic” I created blogs of what happened with throughout the day. It was a blast.
TheRealDannyBoi · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd play a game called Kaos. (chaos) you start with a blank piece of paper and take turns drawing shapes. Passing it back n forth until you fill the page. It kept me and my brother very entertained through very boring church services
HorseBadgerEngage · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sssh, don't tell anybody or I'll hurt you"
Johnny_PK · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this huge boulder in the front of our house on one side and the other side the drive way. Me and my uncle who was only a few years apart as kids created a racing game. We would race to the boulder tag it and run back but you had to say pineapples or banana depending on how we felt some days we cha nged the word. I always lost lmao i would fall laughing once i reached the rock.
i-wan-comit-ropeneck · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft.
hybridsone1993 · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Driveby when cars would drive passed our house we'd yell drive by and dive on the grass or into bushes whatever was around
omgipeedmypants · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played an elaborate game of tag called “monkey jail” where jail was this bench swing with this cheesy wooden monkey cutout nailed to the tree above it at my great aunts house.
mfgk1912 · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I shared a room and our beds were across the room from each other. Whenever we'd get a balloon, we'd play this game where we'd lay on our backs on our own beds and try to kick the balloon across the room to one another, only using our feet.
kblomquist85 · 1 points · Posted at 20:42:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers. It's exactly what it sounds like
QUILLOPS · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as creative as the other ones. But my brothers and I would grab giant comforter blankets (the fat ones you use in winter) drape then over ourselves (like ghosts) so that we couldn’t see. Then we would try and knock each their off the bed, but you couldn’t fall off on your own either because then you lose. Since we couldn’t see where our opponent was we fell off a lot. Led to a lotttt of injuries lol.
aclausjr · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play night crawlers in bed all the time
Schmendrick-_- · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called "Water of Life" that was based on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where he had to drink from the Holy Grail.
We would each hide upstairs in a room with a dixie cup of water inside of it. The "seeker" would choose a room and, without looking around the room, would drink from the "grail." If someone was hiding in the room, he had drank the "water of life;" if not... well, we all know what happened then...
CatastrophicDonut · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play blind man's bluff but with a twist.. the game would be played as normal but the "blind man" would be equipped with a BB gun! So instead of us getting caught we got pelted with BB pellets..
BeingTotallyCereal · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A tennis ball. An empty five gallon water cooler jug. Home run derby. That sucker would thwack the jug with a satisfying THOOM and fly 200 feet away. Made us feel like superheroes.
benreddit468 · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to all pick video game characters and then make up storys with them, eventually i made up a character called "everything man" that had any video game power he wanted, but everyone thought it was OP so i stopped being him lol
Kaiju_Paul · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mexican Bobsled". Our group of friends would all ride down a hill sitting on skateboards armed with broomhandles, trashcan lids, etc. We'd beat the crap out of eachother Mad Max style, and whoever made it to the bottom of the hill won.
JradBones · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jazz JackRabbit
kermitfighter · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pull worms apart for fun
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
bike tag. we’d ride around on bikes and tag each other. wow that was dangerous and people got hurt.
aoyfas · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hit the pole". Lol, the projects I grew up in had these huge electric poles. Lmfao, we were in an Extremely low income housing; your rent was based on income. Ours was $10 a month. No toys to play with; but tons of kids. The "It" person(s); usually 2 people: would block the pole; everyone else would try to hit it.
.....that's it.
Lmfao
Edit. Spelling
horseruth · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I at recess would crouch (so like if you put you knees in your t-shirt except we didn't do that) being Eggs and do things like that, like race and go down the slide
Chris_Nash · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
PIG. It's like super pool, but much better for groups.
All you need is a yellow ball, a purple ball, a pool table and 2+ players. If 50 people play, you all circle the table and find a line in it. 2 people stand around the table to start, with both balls on either side. The one who starts takes the yellow ball in their hand and attempts to hit the purple ball in 3 tries. If they miss all 3, they get a letter towards PIG.
Once the yellow ball hits the purple ball, the game really begins. The player has successfully touched balls (c'mon guys) and has completed a turn without getting a letter. The next in line must grab the yellow ball WHEREVER it goes after the contact (except for fouls) and hit the purple ball. However, you must always be on the other half of the table than the purple ball is on. If the purple ball goes into a hole when someone hits it, the NEXT person in line gets a letter. This is what helps change the game when only a few remain. If the purple ball STOPS moving (spinning is moving) then whoever's turn it was gets a letter. Naturally, there's a lot of throwing and running around involved so plan safety accordingly. Some fish and their tank have already seen their last days.
If anyone finds cheap methods of beating the system, abusing physics, or otherwise making the game full of cheese, they are prone to be categorized as "Trent rules", after the man who started them all.
mozam123 · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our all time favorite was Sock Wars. All of my brothers played AYSO soccer every year, which resulted in mounds of knee socks. A new color each year. We would roll all of them up to donut shapes, leaving the foot part unrolled so we could swing them like a sling. Then we made pillow forts and off to war! Soft but deadly accurate projectiles!
maririm · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Climbing trees in old Jewish cemetery.
what_hole · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SLUR, or SLUUUURRR.
After the sound that Iron Knuckles make in Legend of Zelda: OOT
Take a big freakin exercise ball and just slam it as hard as you can at the other person.
redditghosty11 · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it circus kids.
It was just me and my sis throwing eachother sideways.
fun times
celebi82 · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this counts as a game per se, but my friends and I used to babysit other kids webkinz on the playground. You could find us underneath the biggest oak tree at the back of the playground.
cheesy_wosits · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this mobile game of Sherk carting I used to play on my original iPod. This might not what you are asking
johnydazzles27s · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot exactly how to play it, but in elementary school my friends and I invented a game called dotball using a bouncy ball and either a tennis court or volleyball court. It was pretty fun and I think we even got other kids to play it.
peanutbutterpandapuf · 1 points · Posted at 20:44:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I had a game called "Skunk." Whenever someone wanted to play they had to yell, "Not the skunk!" and lay down on the floor. The spots you wanted to lay down on were the sides and if you weren't quick enough, you'd have to lay down in the middle who is then the Skunk. The Skunk had to lay there until the other two people roll over them once each, and then after everyone just rolls from side to side of the room and you had to try to roll over the other people.
LallaRookh · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our uncle taught us, or possibly made up, a game called Guaragh that was a kind of tag/hide-and-seek combo played outdoors. The game leader would disassemble a flashlight into pieces (batteries, body, lamp). The game leader would then call each player forward one at a time. Some players would receive a piece of the flashlight. Another player would be "tapped" as the Guaragh. Other players would receive nothing.
All players then scatter and hide. The players' goal is to find all the pieces of the flashlight and assemble it before caught by the Guaragh. The Guaragh's goal is to find all the hidden players and tag them (at which point they're out and the Guaragh can confiscate any flashlight pieces). Either the Guaragh wins because the flashlight can't be assembled or the players win by shining the flashlight on the Guaragh.
We'd play in the cornfields surrounding our house with dozens of cousins. It was pretty much mayhem.
IllogicalBrit · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mum and her brother and sister apparently played a game called catch a poopoo when they lived on a farm where they'd throw sundried cow poop at each other like a snowball fight
sowee · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my bother and father would turn off all the lights on the house and then would take turns hiding in the dark until found. It was very fun
Fawxhox · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was more when we were 12-13 when the internet was kind of a new thing (at least for us), but me and my friends used to play a game we just called chicken where we'd take turns each showing a minute of a video, and whoever couldn't watch the whole thing would be out. The videos ranged from super cringey or annoying, to gross porn (scat or gay porn (surprise, guess who's gay)) to really graphic shit we definitely shouldn't have been watching (microwaving cats, beheading videos and live births)
It's a surprise we didn't end up more fucked up honestly.
salsapancake · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretending to be a werewolf and attacking my friends xD They eventually added on tying me to a table as part of it. Basically they would have to catch me then restrain me while trying not to sustain injuries. ... I was a weird kid.
mast3rrhyn0 · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja. We had a big sleep over and around 11pm we turned off all the lights in the house. It had to be pitch black, there was no vision needed in a game of ninja. Now think about the game like hide and seek, except you can't see anything. And when you find someone, you don't tag them, instead you beat the hell out of each other. This game had many ways to play. Everyone looking for one person, one person looking for everyone, half the people looking for the other half. The greatest part of this game was how often you would end up fighting the wrong people. It always became a free for all in the end. You knew the teams when the lights were on, but as soon as they went off you were very alone and had no idea if a sound was from a team mate or an enemy. They had the same suspicions. Here are 2 of my favorite stories.
TLDR; Lights out, hide and seek, kill.
RayRedditJr · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirty Sock Wars...Rules of the game are simple...1. Collect every dirty sock in the house...the stinkier the better. 2. Roll each sock into a ball and divide socks into two equal piles. 3. Divide bedroom with a rope and drape a sheet over it...for best results use your sisters skipping rope and tie one end to bed post and other end to drawer. 4. Sit on the floor opposite eachother and prepare for battle. 5. Lock & Load. Whip socks in rapid succession and try to ricochet off walls, doors and celing for bonus points. Direct head shots rewards shooter with 5 free socks from other side. The winner is the one who gets rid of all their socks first. For best results play in the dark. For ages 8+ WARNING: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE TO FISH TANKS, LAMPS, TVs, PICTURE FRAMES OR ANY OTHER BREAKABLE ITEM AS A DIRECT RESULT OF PLAYING THIS GAME. PLAYING THIS GAME MAY ALSO RESULT IN GROUNDING, FRIENDS BEING SENT HOME EARLY, ROOM SMELLING LIKE YOUR DADs WORK BOOTS AND/OR EAR SCREECHING PROFANITY FROM YOUR MOTHER OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.
annabellle · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I put on the "Kid's Circus" on our playset in our back yard. We had made tickets, practiced routines, and our family acted as the audience. So much fun!
kingpenbank · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play a game of catch, i can't remember if it had a specific name now.
We would throw the ball to each other and if you didn't catch it you lost a "life". First life you would have to go on one knee. Lose a second life and you're now on both knees.
Drop another catch and you could only catch or throw with you weaker hand. Lose your fourth life and you shut one eye.
Losing your fifth life means both eyes are now shut. Don't catch one more and you lose.
You would gain a life back by taking a catch.
You would also lose a life if you threw a wayward throw that wasn't remotely catchable.
Mystiic_Madness · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Grounders" A game of tag played on a playground with a rock/gravel base.
All people that are not it must stay on the playground at all times. The person that's it is allowed to have their eyes open on the ground but once they get on the playground they have to shut them. When the it person is on the playground with their eyes closed and hears someone step on the ground (rock/gravel) they call "grounders" and are allowed to open their eyes and spot someone instantly tagging them in the process.
P.s. the typical way of choosing someone to be it was by running to the playground at recess and having the last one be it.
Ansie0607 · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Toilet, basically two teams, if you touch someone in the other team they became a toilet and if your whole team was caught (usually 3/4 people) then you would become the poop fest, only way to win was te de-toilet you friends by sitting on their squatting lap, making a poop noise, flushing their handle a.k.a extended arm and then they were free to play further. Good times with a lot of laughs.
ChasmQuaker · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would put toys out throughout the living room, then scoot around on cushions(used as canoes) collecting them and bringing them back to our own couches (resembling ships) then use the toys in a "cave." Me, being the oldest, won every time
Memesaretakingover · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sky is the limit" basically you wear a sandal whoever throws it the highest using his foot wins
zeemstar · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d eat ants, more ants=more points.
cpt_edge · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red letter - basically, there's 2 teams. Hunters and runners.
Runner team makes a word with the same amount of letters as team members and each is given a letter from said word.
Hunters track down the runners and get the letters from each of them... by any means necessary (typically, beating the snot out of them until they give it up)
... that was actually pretty dark wtf
sneakhyperion · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had a trampoline with a net and a basketball goal. we would play a game where one bounces on the trampoline with a basketball inside the net. the other person would run around the trampoline trying to punch the basketball through the net to hit the one on the trampoline. If you got hit you get a chance to make a long shot to get that life back. We would play this for hours
OnTheOtherEnd · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play what we called “ball game” in which there was 3-4 people on the trampoline and the person in would have to hit you with the ball.
The rules we came up with made it really stratigraphy though, as you had to make it bounce first on the trampoline or it didn’t count, you could head the ball away and f it went down the hill and past the fence you could do a long through to try and hit someone and they couldn’t move but they had sometime to move into a good spot.
We would form alliances where we would through it at our partners head and they could hit it into someone else, or they would roll it to them and they could head the ball on the ground or bounce the ball at someone.
If someone rolled it the closest person had to do something risky like bounce it up or have the balls to not move.
gahwhatsmyusername · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play “match of the century” in our driveway. It was kinda like tennis. We’d use racquets, balls and a makeshift net. The difference was we’d also do the commentary and we’d make up crazy things about each other. One gems frequently mentioned was, “gahwhatsmyusername has always been insanely jealous of her sister’s innate playing ability after losing her two legs in a dog walking accident.”
Also, neighborhood kids would come over to play hide and seek in our basement. We’d turn the lights off and the seeker had to keep their eyes closed. Many bumps and bruises.
gibgod · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to throw a ball up the stairs, it would then slowly bounce down the steps and I had one chance to volley it right up the stairs (without touching the steps) so it hit the chest of drawers on the landing and then start bouncing back down the steps again, ad infinitum. Hours of fun. I was an only child.
T-Rex_Turds · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Neighborhood friends and I used to play this game we called “go to my becom”. It was essentially just hide and seek, but when you found someone you would say “go to my becom” person hiding would go there but you could watch out for others still hiding to give you a thumbs up. If you got one, you could then run and hide again as long as the seeker wasn’t looking at you. We had boundaries on where we could go to make it a little easier on the seeker, but the game could still go on for quite awhile.
StormriderX8 · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my younger sister took turns to slide down the stairs using a thin single mattress as a ‘magic carpet’
dumbassporchdick · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a mix of volleyball, dodgeball, and soccer. It got super vicious but it was so much fun. We’re all in our late 20’s now and we played the game at our annual family picnic and it was brutal. I can’t believe we would play as kids.
aerialpoler · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game at my grandmother's house which we just called "nanny's game"
We'd write out categories like countries, flowers, colours, animals, musicians, actors, etc. Whatever we could think of.
Then someone would choose a letter and we'd all write down something for each category beginning with that letter.
If someone else had the same word as you, you got 5 points, and if you were the only one with that word you got 10 points. 0 if you couldn't think of anything.
Team-Mako-N7 · 2 points · Posted at 20:48:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's a real game! I think it's Scattergories?
aerialpoler · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Never heard of it! This was 15-20 years ago mind
Team-Mako-N7 · 2 points · Posted at 20:57:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure when Scattergories came out. I played it at a friend's house in high school, about 12 years ago, maybe. It almost seems silly to have paid for it, though, since you can make it so easily yourself!
I remember the rules being slightly different. If you came up with the same thing as someone else, neither of you got points, so it encouraged people to come up with crazier ideas.
sasquatchyetti · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Treeball. It's basically baseball in the woods with trees for bases and sticks for bats and a racquetball instead of a baseball. The unpredictable flight of the ball makes the game of baseball fun.
haullor · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it the "night crawlers" or "night watchers" I would shut the lights of. Then pretend someone is coming in if they see me awake, and not asleep. They would try to "kill" me I had to run and turn on the lights as fast as I could before I die. But usually I pretended to be asleep, kinda messed up now that I think about it.
DonScribble · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had an above ground pool. We also had a metal bat we used to beat the heck out of trees with. The metal bat was all jagged and sharp from years of bashing trees. The game was, someone would stand outside the pool and throw the bat at the person in the pool. The person in the pool had to duck.
I lost. 30 years later I still have the scar above my lip.
flipaflip · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my fams played a game called "undercovers"
we would fill the floor of a room with blankets and pillows and everyone hides under the blankets in any arrangement.
one person who is designated the searcher, has to grab onto somebodys appendage and determine who the person is. if they are correct they swap, otherwise 3 tries and you rearrange the room.
billybishop4242 · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idiot ball.
Sort of a one sided walleyball using my family house roof. Kinda volleyball but with a ridiculously slow pace due to the ball disappearing onto the roof and reappearing somewhere somewhat unexpected. Insults and distractions were bonuses. Over the peak of the roof was a foul and you had to run around the house to get it as punishment.
Ideal game for drinking and being drunk at 17.
When baseketball the movie came out we were pretty jazzed at how close to idiotball it was.
Basically the same game but with the “HORSE basketball” part replaced by lame volleyball.
catapilladick · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor
NotNeebRellium · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my four friends would play “Mr. President” where we all put our fingers up to their ears and whoever did it last was the ‘president’ and the rest were the ‘CIA’ and the CIAs job was to tackle the president to the ground no matter what. If that sounds dangerous you’re right. We shattered many a phone playing this game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Messiah
sithlordmaster181 · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called “let’s hide in the closet together and not tell mommy” with my uncle.
OldMimicry · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apple wars. My friends, Parents had a small apple orchard, it was a team sport. Basically you got yourself a pointy stick, collected some apple ammo, stuck one of them on the stick and whipped it at your enemies. Bonus points, for super mushy apple sauce strikes and sneak attacks.
Raptrr0 · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sex
fredfifty · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where my sham-battle folks at?
Inolongerhavefingers · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a game we call "fechadinha" and the objective is to make your friends fall from their bicycles by stopping in front of them, if you touch the ground you lose, we normally played 4 people at the same time in decently open areas but needless to say it was a little dangerous.
Rosco21 · 1 points · Posted at 20:47:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Spy Game
Me and my cousin would try to make it from one side of grandma and grandpa's house to the other without being seen. So when she got married a couple years ago we of course played it at her wedding xD
MagycChan · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called:
I have a knife
That's right.
Basically, it's tag but with "weapons"
Derryck1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gunz: The Duel.
Gothnuns · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No idea how it started, but my older brother and I would play a game we called “Fox in the Road.” I would lie down in the road, and he would charge at me as fast as he could on his bike. When he passed a certain spot, he’d yell “FOX IN THE ROAD!!” which was my cue to attempt to get up and out of the way before he could run me over.
I usually didn’t make it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Racketgoal" basically just tennis (1 on 1) but you are trying to score a goal, which was usually a doorway.
windybuff · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chex Quest
ExpertTrash · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Booty chase”.... my dad would bend over and look through his legs and chase me and my siblings around the house like that. If he caught us he would tickle us. It was so fun as a kid but probably not as fun for my dad when we would tell other adults that we loved playing booty chase with dad 😂
Schurke8112 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Helping my parents to climax
godsgreen · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One person stands on one end of a trampoline. On the other side there are two people throwing many different kinds of balls at the person jumping and trying to dodge it. Caused lots of nosebleeds but it was fun.
JackoLFC08 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother used to set up grids of faced-down Pokemon cards in my basement (where we played games), I had a deck of my own and so did he.
I also had a bucket of Duplo's and I would throw a Duplo on the grid so it would land on a single card. He would flip the card and I would flip the top card of my deck and would battle it with my card (we had our own rules for battle which I forget now).
Eventually when I built up enough cards I would challenge the Pokemon master (him). It was my favorite game to play even though I could never beat him.
PixelNation789 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this game I played with my friends. It was called everybody's it and the basics we're that if you tag someone you had to sit down and if that person got tagged you would get back up and some games would last for hours at a time because of this
-learningcurve · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man! A post to finally pull me out of my lurking. So when I was a younger, my parents were members a of a club that had a huge campground and pool. All the kids would get together at the pool for "tarbaby." After a race across the width of the deep end, the loser was designated "it." Then "it" would have to jump in and tag all of the other players who started each round on the opposite end of the pool; as players were tagged, they joined the "it" team. "It" could swim any direction but backwards, and the other players could jump in whenever they wanted, and climb back out for that matter. But if they were standing on their side of the pool when the first "it" person touched it, they were tagged too. Bit of a mouthful, hope I described that clearly enough. As we got older, our plays got more creative. Great times
coiniac · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At about 12 years old my best friend and I had one set of boxing gloves for the two of us. We are both right handed. So, we'd box each other with one glove and take turns wearing the right hand.
Every once in a while one of us would land a good shot and then we'd roll around on the floor laughing at the fate of the recipient of the punch.
Boys...
hunnybear100 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sleeping Beauty" We lay down and dont talk. Whoever "wakes up" first loses. I made this game up, because even as a kid I didn't like playing with kids. And yes, I'm an only child.
Schmedly87 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our family room had a sofa and another big chair a few feet (3-ish) away from each other, so 7 year old me would try to cleanly leap between them. I scared the bejeezus out of my grandma doing it, whoops.
fhroggy · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my friends played Garry’s Mod we’d build an arena and choose a gun to use and one person would have the bomb. There were two bomb sites and it would take 40 sec to blow up and 5 sec to defuse. If you had the bomb and were killed, the person who killed you would get the bomb. Great fun.
GaimanitePkat · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would round up all the toys we had of a particular type and invent stories and plotlines for them.
His Matchbox cars starred in mystery stories or "big race" stories where we would race them two at a time on a plastic racetrack toy. The main characters were a lime green Miata named Lima, and a teal Ford Escort named Bluegrass.
The plastic frogs and snakes left over from his nature-themed birthday party usually just had various social problems within their amphibious/reptilian community.
Stuffed dogs and cat beanie babies/misc plushes were patients in a vet clinic/shelter. The karaoke machine that switched a blue screen on and off was the high-tech vet computer that scanned the animals for problems and microchips. Lite Brite pegs were magical pet food.
Webkinz toys had soap opera plotlines, basically. At one point my dad gave us an old computer monitor that he had no use for (it was for a computer that could only run AOL) and that was the animals' computer. I made and printed out fake website homepages that we would tape over the screen. One of them was a website for romantic advice and chatting, which the slutty French raccoon would use to meet men. My dad saw that particular one taped to the monitor one day and got really pissed off because he thought I had visited and printed out an actual website homepage for getting romantic advice and meeting singles/divorcees/widows.
Our Playmobil toys (we had lots) were part of the most complex game. The game was called "Scene", because I had had Playmobil toys since I was four and I called playing with them "playing scene" for some reason.
In Scene, a crew of pirates met three sisters, got married, and they all gained magical powers when they were visited by a giant iridescent marble. Their powers were element-based and represented by different color marbles (green for earth, blue for water, clear for air, red for fire, rainbow for "energy", yellow for light). The pirate leader and the oldest sister became "king" and "queen" and had the strongest powers. They all landed on a magical island where their powers grew even stronger and each marble actually became sentient.
Over time various other people/animals were washed onto the island, and at one point the island was under siege by another evil pirate crew led by a sexy woman. The powers were basically used to Care Bear Stare the evil pirates into goodness, but the woman pirate still had a nasty streak in her and tried to seduce the king away from his wife several times and was successful at one point. Eventually we started playing on a table that didn't have a ridge on the edges, so we couldn't use the marbles anymore, so the king and queen absorbed most of the elemental abilities and other people just sort of had minor powers like telekinesis or talking to animals.
I think at the end we had something like 75 figurines, each with their own personality, name, backstory, and ability - and those were just the human figures. We played that game for probably eight years. My parents still give me Playmobil figures for Christmas and birthdays even though I don't even live at home and haven't played "Scene" with my brother since I was maybe sixteen. My next birthday is my 23rd and I bet I'm getting at least one mystery figure packet. I don't even have room for them anymore and all of the ones we actually played with are still at my parents' house.
wilzymikey · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Matrix Path of Neo. A basic level to level revision of the films. It was also created by the Wachowski. I'm not a gamer in any respect. Movies on the other hand are my life. There iare references in the game to other films and certain levels based on films like Drunken Master and Vertigo. Also the ending boss battle is awesome with a immersive levelling up system. Really great game.
TOMMY-SALAMI42 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a game we called “The Dark Game”. We would turn off the lights in the garage and everyone but the person who was It, would go hide. The person would walk around with a flashlight and if they heard a noise would turn on the flashlight, and if they found a person then that person would be it. This went on for a year or so until my heavier set friend decided to sit on top of the hood of my dads beloved car and left a nice dent
Smerek007 · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games.
First was a game with my brothers we would play at a tennis court with two courts next to each other. You get on either side of one of the courts so the net is not in your way. The goal is to throw a frisbee and hit the fence behind your opponent.
Second game can be played on a normal tennis court or volleyball court. Goal is to land a frisbee within the bounds of your opponents court. For a tennis net to make it fair, if your throwing from the front field you have to land in the backfield.
lemonstraps · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game called “hurt time” (stupid name but it’s fitting) we would take a sock full of marbles s or various hard objects and put the end over the ceiling fan, we would turn the fan on high and the faster the fan started spinning the sock would start getting pulled off the ceiling fan blade. eventually coming off the fan and flying at a random direction. There were 2 pillows in the room to use as “shields” but roughly five kids so you would battle for pillows to hide before the death sock of marbles came down and gave you a concussion... the joys of childhood.
fetchitup · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme Freeze Tag
Just like regular freeze tag, one person starts as "it" and freezes the other players when they tag them. Players can only be unfrozen when tagged by a player who is not "it". Here's where it gets different.
Once unfrozen, that player now has hypothermia and must return to home base as fast as possible. If they are tagged by the "it" person before returning to home base they are now also "it", thus increasing the number of people who can freeze other players. The last person standing wins.
katiekate678 · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not my story but my dad’s - he and his four brothers played a game called Hatchet in the Dark. The one who was “it” would put a pair of underwear on their head, turn off the lights, and then wildly swing a hatchet through the air with the goal of hitting someone. The room they played in didn’t have a window, so it was pitch black. It’s a wonder any of them survived, but hey, the 60s were a wild time.
LosSoloLobos · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The ground is lava. Transverse the jungle gym without touching the ground or else you die.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played watch the chicken nuggets burn in the oven while mommy leaves me alone to go get mall food.
Wrfhfpwns · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pelt
thomhollyer · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In our living room when I was young we had two large sofas that faced each other on opposite sides of the room. When I was about 12/13, and my sister 6/7, I would sit on the sofa almost laying with my legs tucked against my chest, and she would rest her butt on my feet. Simultaneously she would do a little jump and I would kick my legs as hard as I could, launching her across the room onto the other sofa. The spectacle of her absolutely flying across the room and the sheer joy it gave her meant we would play it for hours on end.
diegodeluxe · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Peas & Butter: One person hides a belt in a general area while the others have their eyes closed or in another room.
Once the belt is hidden, everyone goes around looking for the belt and the person who hid it indicates whether they are hot or cold (close or far).
Whoever finds the belt gets who whoop everyone else until they get back to home base and gets to hide the belt next.
KingSryup · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game called zombie and it had to be played at night with little visability. So this is one zombie and you had to tag everyone else making everyone zombies.
TheRealCosmic · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school, me and and a couple of friends started playing a slightly different version of tag. We would choose one person, usually one of the winners of the previous day, to be “it” at the beginning of our recess period. If you were it, then you would have to go tag someone by holding them down for 3 seconds straight, meaning that, if someone were held down, they could try to break free (this got a bit rough occasionally) If you succeeded, though, then they were also “it.” Repeat until the end of recess, when we would reconvene and find out who won by surviving the entire 25-35~ minutes. At first, it started out as a small group, but, as the year went on, we would choose to add other kids who wanted to join in or were curious. We had so many kids at one point that some teachers held a brief meeting in our social studies classes, in which they told us we had to stop playing the game because it was too rough.
I’m assuming they also didn’t like the fact that we called the game “Herpes.”
Bababooey1818 · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lawn dart chicken
Hackzorer · 1 points · Posted at 20:49:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used walkie talkies or my grandparents’ intercom system to guide each other to a certain room. The goal was that one person would close their eyes and listen while the other person would guide them to the room they gave the orders from. “Take three steps forward and then turn 90 degrees right” etc
Yungafbruh · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play our own version of tag/infection/hide and seek in the locker room at our school.
The locker room was really big, it had two bathrooms with stalls, a decently sized shower room and two locker sections.
So we’d go down with between 6 to 10 of us and shut off all of the lights, choose somebody to be it and then everyone else hid. If you got found you could run. The way you got tagged though was whoever was “It” would have a bunch of lacrosse balls and he would whip em at you.
If you got hit you were also it and got your own lacrosse balls.
Good clean fun.
WrxDad2018 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Car game” my dad and mom where pretty big car people and my dad had just bought a 97 Subaru and I was obsessed with the look and every time I saw one and yelled “daddy’s car”( I was 8) I got to the point that we made a game with points and rules and even added cars like “mommy’s car” and “grandad and grandma car”. -had to be same year to year model. -had to be with someone else who is playing the game to verify your points. -if you called a car out and it was not the right car minus one point. -dealerships and the cars we own don’t count.
I’m older and have a 5 year old and now she plays the same game with me and my wife. One car is different a concrete mixer.. her favorite looking car lol.
BattleChickenQ · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A buddy had one of those giant exercise balls, but with a handle. Kind of like Randy Marsh's ballsack. We would line up two couches facing each other covered with pillows, then run at each other and bounce off at full speed. Pretty fun, pretty destructive.
pizzaprincess1992 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play beanie baby war. We would set up forts with pillows and blankets on both ends of the hallway and split the beanie babies up evenly. We would start throwing them as hard as we could at each other while protecting ourselves with our forts. Honestly I don’t remember how it ends. I think either one of us got hurt to the point that we had to stop or one of us just hoarded all the beanie babies and that’s how you won. Seriously it was so much fun
death_temptress · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins made up a game called "vampire" where whoever was the vampire had to lay down and everyone circled them chanting "vampire vampire please wake up". After the chant was finished the vampire would have 60 seconds they counted down and everyone else had to hide in a pitch black room. If the vampire found you first you were it next round.
Lots of stubbed toes.
cojack16 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father was a division 1 wrestling coach. We had a wrestling mat in the (fairly small) garage and the walls were also covered in wrestling mat padding (my family never uses the garage for cars, a practice I continue today in my own house).
My sister and I created a 1 vs 1 game sorta like baseball Home run derby in there. It was full of weird rules and quirks. We used a mini bat (like you get at minor league stadiums). The ball was a squishy ball that was easy to hit but wouldn’t hurt anyone if it came back to the pitcher.
No one ran the bases. You batted next to the garage door and faced the opposite side. If you hit the ball into the upper part of the opposite wall (not covered by the wrestling mat), it was a home run. It wasn’t that easy to do. If you managed to hit the ball into the wall and back onto the ground, you’d count it as a single and keep going. We’d keep track of who was on base, just for fun sometimes.
You could get “out” by striking out, hitting the ball against the wall and then having it be caught by the pitcher, hitting the ball directly into the pitcher (whereupon they’d throw it to the imaginary 1st baseman and you’d be out), hitting a ground ball that rolled to the opposite wall and up (the mat there was too long so it curled up and made the ball roll into the air) and then having that be caught before it landed, pop flys, etc. A pop fly could legit be a ball that was hit into the side wall, then the opposite wall, then caught. It was madness.
We almost didn’t really keep score. It was understood that hitting was the most fun but it was also fun/comical to try to get outs since the squishy ball would careen randomly around the small room. I remember playing this game with some friends also and had a blast with it until we took the mat out years later.
VTCHannibal · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slime monster. It's basically hide and go seek for the first but until somebody is "found". The seeker then yells "slime monster" and everybody runs to a predetermined safety point, we used a porch. You are it if you get tagged
Gazzarr71 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Penny in the Pot" all the time - my aunt taught it to me. Essentially, you take a penny, clench it in your butt cheeks, walk over to a pot, aim, squat and 'drop' the penny in the pot. Each round the pot gets smaller, so you might start with a bowl and work your way down to a shot glass. This used to be highly competitive, with sudden death rounds and everything.
My crowning achievement was a 5p coin in a wine bottle. I used to play this while I was 7, I'm 29 now and it's still one of my favourite games, it was introduced to flatmates at Uni and colleagues at work and has always goes down well... Once people have got over the weirdness of holding coins in your butt, obviously... Alcohol optional but definitely recommended for adults.
StopWithThePopUps · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can. Baseball with a can you would kick. You would be "out" if someone threw the can at you and hit you.
SirPebble1217 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A playground game we used to call, "Groundies." it was a mix of hide and seek de tag. Everyone would be on a jungle gym(or playground equipment), and hide in any spot. Then the person who was "it" would stand still with their eyes closed until everyone shouted, "ready." Then the person who was "it" sought out everyone and attempted to tag them, all while their eyes are closed. The other players can move around and escape from the blind assailant as much as they want, but if the person who is it yells "Groundies", anyone who is touching the ground and not on the jungle gym is automatically out.
Diehard8611 · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Juice". We'd all stand on the curb of the road and everytime a yellow car started down the road, someone would yell "JUICE" and everyone had to touch a house door (one of ours) to avoid elimination.
Xsardis · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me and my cousin played something we called "spadanka", it basically means "falling game" in polish.
We would stack big, hard couch pillows (the ones that go on the back of the couch) on couch, on top of each other, in the least stable way we could find. We would get the height to about 1.5 meter (5 feet). Than we would climb onto them, trying to balance and not fall, role playing as pirates on a ship.
After losing balance (sometimes intentionally), we would fall off the couch, screaming, pretending sharks are eating us. When only one of us fell, we would try to help, but the "waves" were always too much, so the second person always "died" too. Sometimes we would of course intentionally make other person fall and only pretend to help them.
It was fun, we always played it for hours when we had seen each other (4-5 times a year). We didn't grow out of it, but our grandma moved and sold the house, and we didn't have the couch to play on anymore.
dabolot · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fortnite B A T T L E
Royale
today-not-tomorrow · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two games. They’re both awesome, one on one format basketball games I played with my brothers on a Little Tikes basketball hoop growing up (can also be applied to regular hoops but the ideas were generated on a mini hoop):
1) “10-5”
— Coin flip performed for ball. — A player shoots from a predetermined distance, moderately far away (a particular section of baseboard in our basement was the PERFECT distance), while the other player tries to tip in missed shots. — Tips must be done mid air off of misses. (as you can imagine, this this can involve significant subjective judgment at times) — If the initial shot is made, the shooter gets the ball back and shoots again until they miss. (there can be a scenario where the score is 10-0 to 0-0 after one turn (i.e. first shooter makes his first 10 baskets)) — If the initial shot is missed, whether or not the miss is tipped in by the tipping player, it becomes the tipping player’s turn and the same sequence repeats. ***IMPORTANT NOTE to the above statement: a miss MUST hit the rim to change turns. — First player to 10 made shots and 5 tips wins.
2) “30-second games”
— Coin flip performed for ball. — Ball is inbounded to one player and a verbal countdown from 30 starts. — Player with the ball dribbles and shoots where they please (typically 3-pointers are taken early on in the game) — Same scoring denominations as used in regular basketball (predetermined 3-pointers count as 3 points, all other field goals count as 2, free throws are 1) — Defender can play defense to distract but NO blocks or steals. The shooter’s shooting mechanics must be unaffected, or else it’s a foul. (e.g. defender can block shooter’s vision or focus in any way as long as there is no contact) — All fouls result in free throws depending on value of shot (same as regular basketball) and a stoppage of the verbal clock. — If the flight of the shot is affected by the defender, accidentally or not, its treated as goaltending and the verbal clock is stopped until the ball is inbounded by other player. — Clock continues to run for all makes and misses. — 8 second shot clock at all times, violation results in a turnover. (there have seriously been times where one player gets ahead big early and forgets to shoot while they waste time lol) — 1 timeout per player in regulation. — If ties after regulation, overtime is a 15-second with all of the same rules except 4 second shot clock.
Typing out the rules of 30-second game definitely doesn’t do it justice in terms of how fun it was lol. A lot of what made it so fun was the verbal clock and different strategies (e.g. intentional fouls late in the game, determining when to take layups instead of three pointers when ahead, things along that line). Similar kinds of things exist in 10-5 strategy wise (if you get to 10 made shots quickly, “good misses” where the other player can’t make an easy tip are important to keep your lead, tip strategies, etc).. Additionally, there were tons of obstacles to consider based on the layout out our basement (low ceiling, close wall on the right side of the hoop, stuff like that). These were particularly important considerations for 10-5 so we had some additional rules that wouldn’t apply to everyone.
We made up tons of creative games like that, but those two are the best of the best. All the memories typing this out. So fun.
Morejazzplease · 1 points · Posted at 20:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play "lightshow". My brother an I would get flashlights, glow sticks, blinky lights and glow in the dark stars and "display" them all over our room. We would tie them to the fan, tape them to the walls, etc. We would then invite our parents to come to the show. We would all get into our room, close the door and turn the lights off. Then my brother an I would turn on all the lights and perform.....
Lightshow was over when one time our grand finale involved breaking a glow stick and spraying the liquid all over the room.... opps.
HyperDoodle · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would shut our door to our downstairs and fill it with pillows and blankets. We would then jump down the stairs or over the banister onto the blankets and stairs.
one_eyed_pirate_dog · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sleepy Cheeks
One person pretended to be asleep and the other had to wake them. One you woke up, you lost. It started off with gentle pats on the face and escalated to fish hooking, slapping or just whatever it took to get the other person to respond, thus, "waking" and losing.
DrumsnGames · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play a game called "sacrifice" in elementary school where one person would sit at the top of the slide and everyone else would have to pull him/her down.
thelynx42 · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know I'm late to this party but I thought I'd share my childhood game.
My cousins and friends played this game we called "Seamus" and the rules were simple: You had your players against everybody else. The players decided on the "Seamus word" to listen for. Something not terribly common or uncommon, words like eat or run or went, etc.
If a non-player said this word, the first person to shout "Seamus" got a point, and if they could managed to shout "Darby McGraw" You'd get 2 points. However, if you were a player and YOU said the forbidden word, you lost 2 points. When a non-player figures out what's happening, the players pick a new word.
This was wonderful for pretty much any boring event. School trips, family gatherings, church services. I miss that game.
Enigmatic_Iain · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Spade Tennis.
“Tennis” with two spades and a golf ball.
Also gangup tag. One person is it, they tag someone. Both people are it. Repeat until nobody is left uncaught. You can hide, you can bluff, you can run faster than the rest; It doesn’t matter in the slightest if there’s twenty people doing a pincer attack on you.
TURCtheTEXAN · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, my cousins and I would play “Ding Door Piss.” It has the same premise as ding door ditch but after you ring the bell you’re supposed to whip your member out and start pissing on the door. You had to finish before the door was answered or you lost. We primarily played at night as not to be seen very easily or at all.
Then when older, my friends and I played “Car Tag.” To start off, no we did not vandalize cars. It was a game of hide and seek, I know the name is deceiving, in cars. We would play in at least 3 teams of 2-4 people. Boundaries would be set by roads/highways that would be about 1-2 miles by 1-2 miles. The hider team would get 5-10 minutes to go somewhere and hide/park. Once there they were not allowed to move. After that they gave hints through a group text. They had to coded (ie: if by a local sleeping research center a hint might be “we’ll snore while we wait for you to find where we lie”). We would limit the number of hints to 3-5 given every 5 minutes. If you found them with a hint given you won and could hide next, but if no one found them within the hint limit the hiders had to say where they were, without giving the address, and the first one to find them won and could hide next. Whenever I described this to anyone else I had to say that this was a very rich white kids game.
Clorrien · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 1st grade me and my best friend were digging under the slides and stuff. My friends put her finger under the bottom part and she called her finger "Mr. Wormy" and we would play games with him. Not really that unique.
Team-Mako-N7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I invented a game called "Dizzy Doctor" where one person would stand in the middle of the room and spin as fast as they can. The other person would try to grab them and put them down in a chair. We would chant "Dizzy doctor" over and over while spinning. No, I can't explain where the "Doctor" part of the name comes from.
My cousins and I would also play a game called "Hide the book" which is pretty much how it sounds. One person would hide this old pocket planner of my grandfather's around the house and everyone else would look for it. We'd use "hot" and "cold" to denote whether you were getting closer or further from the book.
Muzzlims · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself and all my friends had ripsticks growing up. For those that are unfamiliar, a rip stick is kinda like a skateboard, with only two wheels, so you have to rock side to side in order to move, turn, gain speed, etc. We would take the ripsticks and smash them into each other, in attempts to make the other person fall off. If you fell off 3 times you were out. It was like real life Mario kart battle mode minus the mystery boxes.
4gg_Spark · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone here played "Sink my Battle Shit"?
0gh0st0 · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we saw a school bus we punched each other
Sonnyboy1990 · 1 points · Posted at 20:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pick A Death".
We all stood on a garden wall and one person on the ground. That person pointed at each player one by one and asked "pick a death".
You then choose how you died. (Machine gun, bazooka, crossbow, the Goldeneye etc) and they killed you with that weapon. Aim of the game was to die as dramatically as you could to your chosen weapon while jumping off the wall.
That's it. No winner, no loser. Just jumping off a wall in style.
ismynamebrent · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my cousin and I would stay at our grandparents’ house, we would often go swimming. They had those little “backswimmer” bugs in their pool and my cousin and I would fish them out with a net and give them drunk driving tests (no, really). One of us would be the cop and the other would be the voice of the bug. The cop would ask the bug if they had been drinking, the bug would say no, then the cop would ask the bug to breathe in and breathe out. At some point during the test, whoever was the bug would give a ridiculous, raspy breath, which would confirm they were drunk (somehow). The cop would then take the net and fling the bug angrily back into the pool.
As cops, I guess we weren’t so much concerned with actual justice as we were with displaying our anger at drunk driving pool bugs.
budsofbasil420 · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Butt ball"
Tennis ball or raquet ball Find a wall
More than 2 but as many people can join Stand 10-20 yds from wall and bounce the ball back. Catch with only one hand and throw with the same (ie catch with left throw with left)
If you drop the ball or miss the wall or catch/fumble with 2 hands you must run to the wall and touch it before someone picks it up and hits either you or the wall. Called an "Out"
After 3 "outs" you can can stand in front of the wall and catch one that is being tossed to rejoin the game. If the ball hits you again or you drop it, you sit out until next match.
You may get hit with the ball and catch it with one hand before it bounces for a fair catch.
You must always hit the wall without a bounce no matter how far you are. If someone is in front and blocks it or drops the rejoin catch you must still run and toch the wall.
If you are standing in front of the wall you may block the ball to make someone else run.
The only time you dont have to run to the wall is if you hit the wall without a bounce after a fair catch or if someone is in front of the wall and makes a fair catch to rejoin off a ball you tossed.
Tips
You dont have to toss it back to yourself you can catch an opponent who may not be ready by bouncing at an angle towards said opponent
You can build a team by helping others back in the game or purposefully eliminating others. This is not a team game though there can only be one winner in the end.
If a dog steals the ball in the middle of a match the owner of said dog must retrieve or automatic 3 outs if ball is immediately replaced. If not replaced then 3 day ban ensues for said dog owner. (This has happened more than enough times to make the rule. With some entertaining dog chasing. More cardio)
Have fun.
jaseofbass7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play this game called “Crash”. We’d go on the opposite side of the living room and literally just run into each other. Not the most sophisticated game but kept us entertained. We eventually graduated to “Crash: Stair edition” where we took a card board box, got in closed it up and pushed each other down the stairs. That was a revelation when that came along.
ethantheidiot · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play Mario kart and the winner got to shoot the loser with a bb gun. I still have scars from it.
Torino888 · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a lot of "Tummy Sticks" with my uncle.
TheMadHatterOnTea · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Titanic. One of us was Jack and the other was Rose and we'd have to save each other from various playground equipment.
Menogoodatsex · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "touch tongues" basically chicken with tongues because it was gross.
2ndChanceAtLife · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball in the Hall, epic brown paper bag jumping contest, our own secret language, and blindly knowing all the names to our massive matchbox car collection by touch.
overratedblob · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind Man Fold
Basically my 4 siblings and I would take turns putting on a blind fold in a dark room and beating the shit out of each other with pillows. When the blind man tagged someone, they were the next victim. Ended in tears 8/10 times. Usually mine. Ah, memories.
geesus_way · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom and dad called it “beat the child” I fucking loved it when I was a child. Basically I’d go on the bed and my parents would hit me with pillows.
EnXigma · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made a game where you have to hit a pole with a ball from about 20m away, the first to hit the pole would go into the next round, it was honestly so much fun for how simple it was. It was also quite funny thinking back that the pole said no ball games
emericanblazerr · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make a click sound indicating +1$ every time the part of road our car was on was covered by a shadow. If you click while the cars over sunlight covered road, you loose all your money!!
extreme39speed · 1 points · Posted at 20:52:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played dirtball. It's 2 teams trying to put then keep a basketball in a milk crate for 3 seconds. Full contact tackling. Usually 3 or 4 kids up a team. Usually played late at night so a full moon made it better
faberly · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend of mine and I used to play “the spring roll”. It consisted it one of us rolling up in the blankets of my parents’ bed. The other would catch the “spring roll” once it got to the end of the bed so that the person inside wouldn’t hit its head or get harmed. Then they would put the “spring roll” back up on the bed and the person inside would unroll. Then the roles would change.
It was really simple but immensely entertaining. My mother of course hated this game because we would ruin her bed, so after a few days of playing we were never allowed to play again.
Almachh · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play this game called ‘tiger.’ We’d stand on all fours on each side of the room. At the count of three, we’d run to the middle and start wrestling. She once kicked my tooth out and I swallowed it.
Spydude99999999 · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was as a row of planters that were either circular or ovalish. It was basically tag, but you couldn't be more than 2 feet from the planters. It was more strategic than regular tag, and we had loads of other rules, but we played for like 4 years at recess, so it was complex.
snackbackslackr · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was lonely I would explain the modern technology in my home to my imaginary friend Abraham Lincoln.
Totschlag · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it bases. You'd set up 3 bases similar to baseball, home plate, first base, and second base. The pitcher would pitch a Racquet ball, and the batter would swing a tennis racket.
Our house, which was 2 stories tall and really wide, would be about 100ft in front of home plate. Bounces off the house were in play, and catching a ball off the house was still an out, even if it rolled off the roof. Anything over the house was a Home run. If a hit didn't get out of the infield before bouncing it was an out.
Batters get 5 strikes (because a racket is hard to swing), and strikes were called if the pitch hit a lawn chair behind the plate. Only 3 balls per walk. The idea was to get the ball in play and ricocheting off the house as much as possible, because the house had a few angles to play with!
You'd play in teams of 3, so the pitcher would usually cover whatever base they wanted, with 2 outfielders ready to field ricochets.
Game was an absolute blast! I want to play it still to this day!
simplegoatherder · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Most of my games with my brothers revolved around the stairs
One that we never named was when one of us would be at the top and slide down head first and the other would run up and we'd slam into each other with make believe rasengans/chidoris
Then there was stair soccer where we would take a ball usually those almost basketball sized colored plastic balls you'd by from the grocery store and we would fucking whip them at each other up and down the stairs. Basically if you could block the ball and send it back or catch it then it stays in but if it gets behind you the other person got a point.
This made for lots of injuries but it was a great time nonetheless.
a_bigass_spoon · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
this isnt related but happy cake day
Poptartfortrade · 1 points · Posted at 20:53:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twisted System. We would stuff a backpack full of books and tie a rope to it. We would stand in a circle and try to jump over the rope as one person swung the backpack around. Game usually kept going until someone got hurt. Got to make your own fun
Andres_Sosa · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mean it wasn’t super unique, but my cousins and sibling used to go “Grass Sledding” in their yard. Their backyard had a HUGE slope and we used to take both sleds, medium sized TONKA trucks, and makeshift sleds and zoom down the hill. It was a lots of fun and came with complimentary cuts, bruises, and scoldings from our parents for doing something so reckless.
IKingdom · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friend and I would throw things into his tree in his back yard and try to get them stuck. And then we would throw other things at the stuck things to try and get them un-stuck.
Garnetsareunderrated · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends have a trampoline and we used to place a ball on it and jump around it. We had five “lives” and every time the ball touched you, you lost a life. When your five lives were up, you were out (but could still jump). I was the master at that game.
Arachnatron · 1 points · Posted at 20:54:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw a glass bottle or hard, clear plastic cup in the pool, then try to find it.
copenhogan · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family would go on hikes almost every weekend. I would play this game I imagined in my head called “Kirby” (I think I had a Kirby game on my game boy advance) where I would basically jump around from tree stumps and avoid puddles. Picking up sticks and seeing animals gave me different power-ups. Kindly, my mom would play with me. Gosh I was a weird kid.
ZombieRedditer9188 · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played apocalypse, where one person was a 'zombie' which others have to survive as long as possible or escape, (Pretty hard) while everyone has a Nerf pistol with five bullets. That's all. It was quite fun with multiple people.
someboiontheinternet · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mates at school created ‘Helicopter’. Basically, at the start of break time, you were allowed to borrow a skipping rope to play with for the length of the break. Naturally, the first thing we did with it was to spin it around and get people to jump over it when it came around. You were failed to jump, you were out.
jilly_is_funderful · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cat Scratcher. I dont know why it was called that. I was the cat because I was the smallest. I was 3-4 years old and I was pretty into animals. My brother was some sort of bad guy/villain. Our friend was the damsel in distress. I dont remember much beyond that. I would perch on my dresser and make hissing noises. Was I an attack cat? Did I even scratch anything? Who knows.
Also, not really a game but my brother and i had quite a few stuffed animals between us, most were mine. But they all had really intricate personalities. Some of them met their fates at the points of our scissors. Memorably, I had a lamb(possible a stuffed Lambchop) named Sheep. Sheep was the most evil, villainous creature our young brains could conjure up. Eventually, we executed her and removed the scented thingy in her. I dont know why you would make a scented stuffed animal, but okay.
Heyo1322 · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called Crazy Monster. Someone or the “monster” would hide, and then you’d try to find them. Once the monster was found, everyone who was looking had to run back to a designated base (usually a bed that was considered a “safety” zone) before the monster caught you! This was a really fun game with my parents. It felt like a Scooby-Doo episode.
_scattered_mind · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Magnet fishing. Where I had a magnet attached to a string onto a pencil, I’ll then scatter a bunch of paper clips on the floor while sitting on the couch. I was a broke mother fucker so I had to be creative.
Cookie-Wizard · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hit The Switch”
I still play this with friends when they come round:
This can only be played in a fairly large room that has one light switch, is completely dark and has some furniture here and there (chairs, sofa etc.). One person guards the light switch while a team of 2+ people have to creep around in pitch black and try to hit the light switch. If the guard touches you, you’re out. The “attackers” can make distractions or slither along the floor and duck behind furniture, the only objective is to hit the switch.
Yes, I know, the guard could just stay in one place, but if multiple people sneak up on him in pitch black, it’s kinda hard to get them all. It’s all about strategy.
peayness · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When traveling on road trips me and my brother would play the cow counting game. The person on the left counts the cows on the left side of the road, the person on the right counts them on the right. If you pass a church your points double, but if you pass a cemetery your points drop bsck to zero
viperfreak964 · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you read the title of this post, you already lost the game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a mini basketball hoop and me and my brother would basically have full contact wrestling basketball. It was pretty dope.
JonBeans22 · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
imnotgay_mom · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
cave man. We basically assumed the role of countries and different spots of land were your country. We battled with various items and had to forage for food
itsallinthehipz · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Horsey Branco- my two older brothers would pretend to be horses and my sister and I would get on each ones back and the two pairs of horses and their riders would fight to the death. Edit: also the horses would try “buck” and throw us off of them
StellarLime911 · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I created so many stupid games. One of the first was called Turnip. The goal was for the two of us to tap everybody’s shoulder without being seen. (Don’t know why we called it Turnip.) We made like 10 more weird games and... the home movies. Don’t get me started on those bizarre home movies.
wolfoflies · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Water swat. One dude is the shooter and has a the hose and has to shoot down the swat team for as long as they can. The swat team was given wiffle ball bats and had to hit the shooter. The swat team also had sleds to use a shields. If you were a swat officer you had to go back to the garage then go back to fighting the shooter. It was fun times.
OJChan · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called “anything”. essentially we chose fictional characters and fought each other. Eventually it just turned into who can remember the strongest character.
Here’s a list of banned characters:
Chuck Norris God Goku Full Power Superman and anybody on that tier of power
obnoxiousbmbastard · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I basically created a freeze tag game crossed with a few other games(I don’t want to get into it) So basically at recess this game started getting popular and with more people came more arguments and they’d always come to me. Eventually, I “appointed” a few friends as second and third in command and my “cabinet” grew from there. People got very pissed off that they were at the bottom of the hierarchy and it really made a large portion of my grade hate each other for a time. Soon, we realized that the game had shifted from a fun game of tag to a brutal political bloodbath. The game broke off into two factions, both trying to rally students to play their game. Despite a few weeks of certain defeat, my side won in the end. This story has always been really cool to me because it shows that age doesn’t play a factor in power and tension. I think the game started in 2nd grade and finally ended at the beginning of fifth grade.
RADIOKALI · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game similar to handball. I don't recall who made up the rules, but the gist of it was this: You had a handball (blue rubber ball) and you would throw it against the church wall, the ball would need to bounce once and then anyone could catch it and throw it against the side of the church again. The trick was throwing hard enough to bean someone with the bounce or make it un-catchable. If a someone dropped the ball, then then they had to run as fast as they could and touch the side of the church. On their way to the wall, they would be getting punched. The longer you took or if you tried to "dodge" and take a roundabout way, the more punches would be thrown at you. I think someone once mentioned "prison rules". This was played at Holy Cross Middle School (in South Central LA). Good times.
Jerdom · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this game at our local pool we called Shark. Basically one person is the Shark, and the others need to escape shark. The shark can only move while under water. Whichever part of the body the shark touched would be rendered useless. For example, if you touched the arms or the swimmer, they could only use their legs to swim. Touching the body or head would mean the swimmer is out. I would always go for both legs and arms :)
Mologna_ · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to take all of our Beanie Babies (easily 300+) and line them all up throughout the house in a snake/winding fashion.
I would then move this line through the house - I would move the first one approximately 1 foot forward, then move the next, and the next....
I would crawl around the floor moving these beanie babies for hours.
Jay_FP · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slaughterball. Basically the same premise as dodgeball, but my friends and I were about 3 feet tall at the time, and my much older cousin (who came up with it) was about 6'3". Usually ended in a trip to the store to replace a popped ball.
jackswift7 · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doubt it's unique but I haven't heard of it outside of my experience with it.
Elimination. From what I can remember we were divided into 2 teams on a vollyball court. Using an old red dodge ball one person on team A would chunk the ball over the net to team B. If person on Team B touched the ball but did not catch it and let it hit the ground they were eliminated and sent to the side lines. Throws continued until only members from one team remained.
I'm still fuzzy on any other details.
Radgeta · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to jump off my neighbor's metal shed and do combat rolls. Goal was to see how many rolls I could do with natural momentum.
One summer I got too fat and the roof caved in.
Krafticus · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and our friend played a game I think we called Kneeling Sumo. Basically you walk around on your knees and hold your feet behind you while trying to knock the other players over by leaving into them. I recommend playing on a thick carpet.
denyolo · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spyro
TotesritZ · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a game we made up called Buses and Trains.
Basically one of us would sprint flat out down our hallway and the other would attempt to cross the hallway between two doorways without getting smashed.
serenablack · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blob. Basically hide'n'seek in the dark but the person who was "the blob" had a blanket over them so they were completely without sight. We had a version we played in the pool with a pair of goggles that had duct tape over the lens. Many injuries as a result of blindly running into furniture.
lifealert247 · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t let the ballon drop on the floor!
sunnynights_darkdays · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this is a game, but we would definitely enjoy it. We would have a siblings' court. I have a huge family so it worked out pretty well. My oldest brother was usually the judge and depending on who was voicing the "legal" complaint, the attorney and prosecutor would differ.
One time someone stole my lightsaber and I was absolutely positive it was my brother A. We had two witnesses come to the stand and state that they saw him do it. He had no alibi and only one very stinky character witness, my little sister who was a toddler at the time.
Big brother A was found guilty and sentenced to death by dog pile. Turns out my very own lawyer, big sister M, was actually the culprit and everyone knew it. They just wanted to rile me up.
StrongBuffaloAss69 · 1 points · Posted at 20:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called BOFA
TheArchangel99 · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think it’s unique to just me, but where I grew up Man Hunt was huge.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blind Man’s Bluff” It’s like hide and seal but the seeker wears a blind fold and you turn the lights out and play it at night. There were broken noses.
1nv1ctvs · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hodgeball. Was a cross between soccer and dodge ball. Standard soccer rules, except you could pick the ball up if you weren't moving throw the ball at the other team to make them "out" (like dodgeball).
The name comes from the last name of one of the kids who was always targeted, even by his own team.
loop-cat · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger sister and I would play “the drinking game”.
We would play with several stuffed animals and make them talk or dance, etc. until “nighttime” where the bigger stuffed animals would go to sleep. This is where the two smallest stuffed animals would wake up and have to sneak around the other stuffed animals, adventure through the living room and to the fridge where they would sneak a can of soda and drink it.
We played this for a couple years until I learned what drinking games are. I insisted on changing the name but kept calling it the “drinking game”.
TLDR: Essentially we played with stuffed animals so we can get drink a soda.
Visual_Discord · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the first Harry Potter movie came out we played our own form of Quidditch that consist of me,my brother and sister and the kids in our cul de sac on bikes trying to kick a soccer ball to the goal. We had two little tikes car for the younger players to be beaters/goalies and everyone else was on bikes. I want to say it was pretty much soccer on wheels except more painful, just thinking about it gives me pain on my knees and shins from the kicking and the bike pedals. We played a few rounds that summer before the pain got to us.
jabroni3469 · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “elevator game”. Parents and family friends’ parents invested in a new construction condo at a beach town. Construction stopped during winter, but our parents would still visit there as their units were complete and they wanted to get them ready. There were two different buildings, each half built, but had fully functioning elevators. 4 of us would run around the construction hiding in different crevices in two different teams. Sometimes you could see someone in the other building but by the time you got there they’d be gone. But being that the entire beach town was desolate in the winter it was creepy and cool to sneak around there.
ThatDudesDude · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We sat on our iPhones and tablets and didn’t play games or talk to each other!
OneTapSIap · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Zombies"
Typically played when camping in the woods. Basically a glorified hide and seek, tag.
AnotherMAWG · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played 'giant clam' with our beds. We would prop the top mattress against the wall and one of us would climb on top. The other kids would lay on the bottom mattress and wait for the brother on top to push away from the wall and have that mattress fall on them. They would then change into pearls. The person on the top mattress usually got flung into the wall or radiator.
We were weird.
antwan_blaze · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(preface: i am mexican) in elementary school I made up a playground game called Border Patrol which basically was just a violent version of tag. One team was the Border Patrol and the other was the Illegal immigrants. The whole gist of it was to pretty much just tackle the other team if you were border patrol. but the kicker was that when we played i made the white kids the immigrants and all the minorities were border patrol and we’d pretty much just beat up white kids but they thought it was so fun hahahaha. funny enough when faculty caught on, it was a couple of the white kids that got in trouble.
dannixxphantom · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the game, but my sister and I were weird kids so I have to share some of our games.
Nu-nu: a hide and seek game where one hides while the other closes their eyes. When the hidee is ready, they shout "nu-nu!" And the game is on. The seeker can call out for another nu-nu to help zone in on the hider. We got really good at throwing our voices. The game was always the best when we were in a new house for the first night (we moved a lot).
Sleeping bag battles: played with our cousin who was the same age as us. We'd put sleeping bags on head-first and beat the shit out of each other. There were three of us so one could referee/push us into each other. Expanded to include obstacle courses as well.
Soap floor: my parents had some friends over including my mom's cousin (mother of previously mentioned cousin, that's what we called her kid anyway) and her husband. While the adults did boring shit upstairs, we stole a few cookie tins and took them to our basement playroom. My dad had a big workshop with smooth, sealed cement floors next to the playroom, so we soaped it up, soaked it, and were sliding around on it. Clothes created too much drag, so we stripped to.our underwear. Parents found us hours later and just kinda let it happen for a little longer.
Mini games: my sister and I have a series of minigames we have been playing for years. Playing "QWOP" requires one to shout "QWOP" at the other in any location/setting. The other must mimic a bad round of the internet game, QWOP. We also do the 👌 game, but instead of punches, the other must do awkward squats while placing opposite hands on knees. We also discreetly flip each other off in all situations as creatively as we can.
shmough · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runaway. Basically impromptu tag. We'd be hanging out and someone would randomly dash off and we'd try to chase him down.
Anon9854 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dink Smallwood 😊
delegatefate · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marble Blast Gold.
DNAK-MEMEZ · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg you just reminded me of bicycle tag!
Everyone playing would bring their bike, and pair off into teams of two. It was essentially doubles tag on bikes. The entire local college campus was our playground. Because we were playing in such a large area, you wouldn't always have perfect information about who was it. So you could call/text people, play psychological mind games to trick people into thinking you were it, set up diversions. It was a ton of fun!
Kyle-2 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it perfect midnight. My friend had a big house and we would turn the lights off and throw plastic ninja stuff at each other. It was actually kinda scary lol
colorswitch · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a huge swing in a park near me that could fit like 4 people. 4-5 people would get in it and 2 people would help us swing. Now the name of the game was plane. We basically tried to swing the swing really high and while we were doing that some of out other friends would roleplay as flight attendants and captains. We would bring snacks and splash glasses on each other saying it was turbulance. We also roleplayed as other passengers from exotic places and such. At one point the “passengers” started winning lotteries and getting special promotions. It was a lot of fun
msnyder87 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
New Years Eve, we had a tradition where we would have an all-out royal rumble. My 2 cousins lived with us, so there was a total of 5 boys. Fun times.
BRAD_JUJU · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1990-1994 My friend and I would take G.I. Joes AF from hasbro and lay down on the floor of my room to battle.
We would lay head top to head top touching which was a rule.
Then we would toss the figures up in the air as high as the ceiling but if it touched it and deflected back you were allow to block.
The trick was to make the toss so that it would hit your friend in the face but it was high risk high reward you both had to sit there and take shots till you honed in.
If the person flinched you got to dead arm them.
Sometimes we had to settle arguments outside so we would do it with pretty much anything throwable.
basketballwife · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents are divorced so we used to travel a lot after my dad moved 3 hours away. We would play a game about spotting wildlife- $1 for a deer or group of deer, $5 possum, $10 fox, $50 for a hot air ballon, $100 for a blue whale... amazingly my sister saw a hot air ballon once, she was so excited. No one ever saw a blue whale though...
dear_zara · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably any skater did this... In the car I would kinda finger skate on the stuff going by in the window. Grinding benches flipping sets etc. Made 10x more fun with a tech deck.
Hailthanos23 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dragon Island,
My cousin and I were stranded on a remote island with dragons. Our “plane” had crashed on this island and we were alone. We had to set up a fort and fight dragons. We did this everywhere, we just moved our fort.
FangTheHedgebat · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Barney the Tiger! My younger brother and I for whatever reason decided that was a cool name for a game. Anyways, it's more of a LARP session tbh.
My brother would be Barney the Tiger, and I would switch between the zookeeper/tiger owner? and the zoogoers. He would attack anyone that wasn't the owner, and try to escape his "cage", and only the owner could calm him down.
We would build more and more elaborate cages for Barney so that he couldn't escape, until it eventually devolved into a game of secret hideout. (Our hideouts were cool, we put kitchen chairs sideways and arranged them into maze-like positions, and pulled out couch cushions and covered the entire thing with blankets, so it was like a labyrinth in there (at least, that's what I remember, lmao.)) Good times.
Ausemere · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot what it was named back then but basically all you needed was a ball and something static, a reference, that could be touched (a tree, a street lamp, etc). Let's call it Death Soccer or something.
You'd try to pass the ball between the other peoples' legs (it's a free-for-all). If someone got the ball passed between their legs they would be beaten by everyone else until they touched the point of reference. It wasn't as violent as you are probably thinking, but it was very much a "retarded white boy" game.
NerdoftheRoundTable · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We stole the idea of Calvin Ball from Calvin and Hobbes and we had some epic games and battles of creativity with the rules in constant flux during the game.
imjusthere4catpics · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play the “Barter Game”. We’d both have a pad of a paper and pen. Then we’d both write something down and reveal, and that’s what we were giving each other. She’s always would give me a car or something equally awesome. I’d give her a bag of broken glass. I loves this game... she did not.
la_hanz · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Stupid Land where we would just spin in my father’s office chair (which we weren’t allowed to do) and say the word stupid (which we also weren’t allowed to do). We didn’t know what it meant but we figured that it must be great if we weren’t allowed to say it.
atticusgames7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my brother and the two neighbor kids would sit on our trampoline and pelt each other in the nuts with a plastic ball. Wasn't smart, but was fun
spency_c · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Davy Crockett ball. Don’t ask how we got the name, but basically you get 3 handballs, put them on a netted trampoline, and try to not let the balls touch you. If you hit, you had to go to the hospital and wait 10 seconds to be healed, but if you got hit while being healed you were out.
CyberJay03 · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can.
b00st23 · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved the show “wipeout” at a kid, so me and my sister set up plastic chairs facing our opposite way, and ran on them till we “wiped-out”
catsarepeopleforever · 1 points · Posted at 21:00:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a pool game. It was first made for very small pools. We called it "Shark". The "it" person was the shark. The shark had to keep their eyes closed, and needed to touch someone else to get a kill. The catch was the shark's head had to be completely submerged for a tag to count. Basically Marco Polo, but with no call outs and your head has to be submerged. The game became about sharpening your other senses to locate people in the water. And instead of just flailing in their direction, you'd want to go underwater and kick off the side very quickly in the direction you think people are before they can get out of the way. If you wanted to play dirty as a people, you could splash or throw something in someone else's direction to lure the shark toward them. The smaller the pool, the more intense the game is.
queenhippolytas · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom, aunts, and their cousins used to throw pomegranates at each other as a game
t_ane1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would make a fort made out of pillows and blankets then put our dog in the fort and she if she can escape
santaismysavior · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I made up a game called "Bat to Bat". We were able to use the trees, bushes and the side of my house as goal posts, and if you stood between them then it was like standing in a goal around the size of a soccer net.
The rules were simple, we each had a baseball bat and a baseball glove. The "swinger" would hit a tennis ball as hard as he could towards, the other person, with the hope of getting it past him while between the "goal posts" to score. It had to be within reach of someone jumping with the bat extended, if it was higher than that then it didn't count. If they scored, they got a point.
The other person obviously tried to stop the ball, and they had a point system too. Stopping it with your body was one point, catching it with your glove was two points, hitting it out of the air with your bat was three points, and hitting it out of the air with your bat and into the other person's goal was four points.
So it was kind of like a mix of baseball, tennis, and soccer. Tbh I'd still play it today, it was a lot of fun. We always used to play "for" whoever our crushes at the time were, like gladiators lol
dukeystyle · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers, the neighborhood kids, and I had a game we called the city game. We would take all of our toys, action figures, cars, lego people, etc and dump them in a huge pile on the floor. We would then do a “fantasy draft” picking out one toy at a time. Once you had all your toys you claimed a room in the house to build your city. We would then take about 30 minutes to build our “cities.” After they were complete we ran the cities. Sometimes there was diplomacy, but mainly we “bombed” each other by building LEGO “missiles” and throwing them at the other cities. Alliances were formed, alliances were broken, people yelled at each other, and eventually someone would get really mad and we would all just go outside and play on the trampoline.
On mobile so please forgive any formatting or grammatical errors.
TheShadyPowerPlayer · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd play stretch. Nothing fancy, but my schools playground was just a field of dirt. Basically, you place four sticks at the same distance from eachother, so you'll have 3 gaps, and you jump across only touching any of the gaps once. And you stretch it out. I guess you can figure out how you win this. There were a lot of falls.
thatgingerkay · 1 points · Posted at 21:01:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll show you mine if you show me yours😉
Cerathil · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up this game called "Only 4." It's exactly like Hide-and-Seek, but when you have five or more kids and want to exclude some of them out of the game.
thoushallnotpass33 · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and my dad would play "wolfey". It was basically hide and seek but we would turn off all the lights in the house! It was scary so the adrenaline was always pumping but if it was my dad hiding (which was everyone's favorite) he would scare us and then tickle us. No real winner just getting scared and having a laugh.
My mom would hate it because it basically meant an hour of screaming... She made us stop playing because we kind of started getting scared of the dark Hahaha
i_want_a_nap · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my sister we're little we would play a game called supercats. We we're time traveling secret agents who would go back in time to protect the time line. We could also turn into cats. We were super cool. We had back stories and a logo and everything. Every time we were somewhere with a play set (especially the play places at McDonald's) we would designate what was our time machine and save the world over and over. Normally we were saving it from the Nazis because they were the only major badguys we knew about.
We played supercats for years and it's one of my fondest memories from my childhood. When my sister left for college she gave me a hand drawn comic book of the adventures of the supercats and it was amazing.
meatyman55555 · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The skivvy game. A skivvy being a type of shirt, although we just used a sleeveless shirt.
Anyway it was a game I played with my dad when I was like 3-5 and I apparently loved it. The basic premise was that I would run up and down our hallway and my dad would throw “skivvys” at me and if I caught them I would throw them back at him as hard as I could (which wasn’t very hard for a 3-5 year old) and I would be laughing the entire time. I would beg to play the skivvy game and then we would play until I tired out or ran into something.
ihatethesidebar · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would struggle to cross each other's arms against the chest, like an X. It was pretty violent and not very creative, fun though.
sethmc52 · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Motorstorm franchise I love that game and sometimes still play it
xzvoids · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 6th grade me and a bunch of my friends played a game where one person stood on top of this little hill we had by our school and a bunch of people would stand at the bottom and the person on top would throw rocks as high in the air as they could and if you caught the rock you became thrower but if you got hit with it you were out. Good times.
tacosasf · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to have rocks war at recess, consisting of like dodge ball, but with rocks, and there was no definite sides
emilyjr93 · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eye spy
Jordanlovesdogs · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
rape
ZephixVI · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play the “Slug bug” game. For those who don’t know the way you play is that whenever you see a Volkswagen Beetle you yell out “slug bug” and punch another person playing in the arm.
We got the too inpatient for that so the game quickly devolved into us punching each other whenever we saw any Volkswagen.
Trips to see family in The Netherlands was just a non-stop sequence of us wailing on each other.
Epickiller10 · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle tom had a gew games he always wanted to play when he came over but made me promise not to tell anyone
PanFiluta · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to play something my uncle always jokingly called "hide the sausage". funny, this is the first time I remembered in 20 years, no one has actually asked me this question before!
mocajava · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No idea where the name for the game came from but in elementary and middle school all the kids at lunch played "Smear the Queer" meaning more the weird kid not gay but not sure since it was 15+ years ago.
The game basically consisted of someone throwing/kicking a football or soccer ball into the air in a large field. Someone would grab it and then it was a free for all. The object of the game was to hold onto the ball as long as possible with no rules. Once the person with the ball goes down it is then relaunched into the air and the next round begins.
Had a friend in middle school who was a squirrely guy and he could hd onto the ball forever. That was u till he had a leg broken at which point our school made sure to post a yard supervisor in the field to stop the game from happening.
ittybittyacorn · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Werewolf. It’s basically tag, but I was always it and started out tied to a chair. It...it became a thing.
SpartacusIsACoolName · 1 points · Posted at 21:03:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother played a game I called "slippy bippy" basically we covered the kitchen floor in soap and or oil and slid into each other as hard as we could, some injuries ensued. We would do our best to clean up the floor before our mother got home but the floor would remain slippery for a while
candyspace · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my teens my brother and I played a game called flags. We lived rural and we drove around stealing the farm flags that farmers use to tell trucks to stop at their farm to pick up bobby calves. Anyways we would find the longest straight road and the aim of the game was to hold the flag out the window and see how fast you can get before the flag rips off due. This was a stupid unique game. My top speed was 167kms and I still hold the record over my brother haha.
dippydip3 · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy Sticks
el_noche · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game called wipe wipe where it was pretty much tag but with baby wipes... almost a guarantee either me or my little sister would end up eating shit and crying
notatiger1212 · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the “border patrol” game in my best friend’s backyard pool.
Basically everyone would have to start in the deep end and make it out of the shallow-end steps- having to cross the rope in the middle on the way. The game started with one “border patrol” person who was It and their job was to tackle/drag/dunk/drown/throw the people trying to make it to the steps back across the rope into the deep end. When you got thrown over/under the rope back into the deep end (including your fingers or legs or arms grabbing the rope), you joined the border patrol for the next round to try to throw everyone else across the rope.
It was a vicious and dangerous take on sharks and minnows that left a lot of my friends with claw marks, scrapes, bruises, rope burn, cuts, and even ligature marks on the neck by the end. The rope in his pool stretched over the years to the point where we had to retie it a few times a summer. We justified it because a few of us were lifeguards but someone definitely could have drowned in the process. We still play it once a summer when we all come back from college.
lokie65 · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pee dodge ball.
Armedion · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we had three extra kinds of tags me and my friends when we were young. One we called temple tag. It was basically a game of tag where you could only run on squares that incircled the pavement. If you tried too take shortcuts by running outside the squares you were punished, but only if someone saw it. If someone saw it they could say "tag youre it!" and they would have too go too where they were going and count too 10. But beware, because that could indeed also turn to the opposite aswell, as your friends could also just as much as you, tag a non tagger and then he would be the next one too tag. Very hard too explain but easy when youre doing it lol
The second is called sand tag, which is basically the same. But this time you were running around on low walls surrounding the sand of the places where kids played. Same rules aswell.
But the most interesting one we called were snow tag (we werent very good at names lol. Anywho there you made your own paths in the snow where you could only run and you could set stops and other things ^
PemaleBacon · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suck the snake
Xicsukin · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother's used to recreate scenes from movies and games. We would recite everything said and every action done, even if one of us needed the toilet, we would take our scene into the bathroom and continues whatever nonsense we were up to.
OpenFaceBreadSammich · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tron Disk.
At its core it was a battle royale dodgeball game with frisbees. It hurt sometimes but was some of the best times I had with friends growing up.
logan5156 · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "avalanche" which consisted of putting a bunch of pillows at the bottom of the stairs then either going down in a laundry bin or just jumping.
WrongAnswerFriend · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike jousting, get on bicycles, get something that resembles a lance (swingball poles were popular) ride as fast as you can at each other
TheWolfOfMehico · 1 points · Posted at 21:04:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Car Number”. This is hard to explain so I’ll try my best. We lived in an apartment complex so there were naturally many parked cars. The parking spaces were under all the buildings and the space was very dense. Basically, the person who was “it” had to give out the last four numbers of any license plate. Everyone else had to find that specific car without getting tagged. The catch was that you had to be touching a car at all times, if you weren’t, then you could be tagged and out. You could also touch someone who was touching a car, therefore giving you the ability to make a chain (which was dope, been in a 6 person chain before). If you made it to the car you were safe, otherwise the first person tagged would become “it” in the next round.
aggressensitive · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up my sister and I always had a pool at either of our family’s houses (parents divorced). We would also always have a change jar. We’d take a huge handful of change and throw it into the pool, wait until they sink, and race to collect. The person with the most amount monetarily would win the round.
Note: rinse and dry change off when done with pool shenanigans
Abdou17 · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TITUNES on SIGA games
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ducking. Named after those stone ducks in peoples yards as decoration. 2 groups pick their bases and load it with interesting stuff you find in neighborhood yards. After an hour you meet and everyone decides which team found cooler shit. The winning team decides which houses yard you put everything on. All ducks face the front door. As kids our favorite part was to watch everyone in the neighborhood walk there the next morning and collect their things back.
thekata00 · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Avoid the uncle.
OfficeTexas · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but in my college dorm a bunch of us would play wall tennis. We would take a light sponge rubber ball, and hit it above a certain line on the wall about 5 feet high. Then we had to get out of the way and let the other guy hit it, again above the same line, without letting it hit the floor. You had to hit with your open hand or closed fist, not grip it.
codyspenis · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played something we called bike tag. There was a tagger and runners. The taggers goal was to graze the back tire of the runners bike. High speed chases were the scariest thing I've ever done 10/10 would do it again.
Treesru101 · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game in our cul-de-sac called German Sausage. Basically, of the seven or so of us one would stand in the middle of the cul-de-sac with a large bouncy ball, and would yell out the name of a random person they were trying to hit with the ball. The person in the middle would throw the ball as high as they could, and when they caught it again the game would start, with everyone else trying to help the ball-person hit their target while the target ran like hell. Good times.
RyuugaDota · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boats. In middle school my friends and I would take the little red plastic spreader for the cheese and crackers we got sent on our lunch and cut them into unique shapes on warm winter days. When recess came we would go to the top of the driveway for the bus and find a little stream of melt water and drop our little red boats into the water and follow them to the finish line, grabbing them just before they went into the sewer grate. Overall I would say it was probably a good 100m course or so.
It was super fun because the melt water created little channels through the snow and ice and there was an element of suspense waiting to see if your boat would come out at all, and if it did what place you'd be in.
momobuttmunch · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made a game called charge to the spinach. We'd put on full sets of plastic armor, face each other from across the room, and charge full speed at each other while screaming "charge to the spinach!". I don't think either of us actually won because we both always ended up on the floor after running into each other.
Albafika · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a buddy, being the older ones of the group, convinced the younger kids that Pokemon were real and that we had some, but could only use them at a specific island we can warp to anytime. But, to gain such privilege, they had to overcome some trials. The hardest was being spilt a liquid we had stored in a Pokeball toy (Liquid, IIRC, was of gross stuff like car grease, dirty water, and some due milk/juices) over their head, and they had to endure it for 5 hours. Game ended when the grandma of the only kid that went this far was passing by and smelt his scent. He lasted 3 hours. I'll never forget this, Pedrito.
Brettjigga · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my step brother created a basketball game called 42. You shoot 2 3's from the 5 spots around the 3 point line. You make it it's worth 2 points. While you opponent or opponents have a chance to "tip" it in. They get three "tip" trys per shot . if they make the tip they get 1 point and person shooting loses 1. Game ends with 1st to 42
JustSomeTop · 1 points · Posted at 21:05:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Being straight”
AzulAzureBlue · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called chaos tag which is tag but with Rock Paper Scissors if you let you would go down and when the person who got you goes down you get back up. :/ it never ended
PlasmaLink · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One person would have to respond to every question with a preset response (usually something like "my dick") and everyone else asked questions to try and make them laugh.
NovaBorg42 · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play " Let's go to rehab". We would set up chairs like a car and drive to this super fun vacation place. It had a pool, playground, all the cartoons a kid could want, and our mom was there, and we were always happy....
In reality we were always told by our grandma that thats where our Mom was, but we never knew what it actually was or why.
NeonFaceee · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made up a a game called hide and chase where basically if the seeker found the hider he has to go after him and catch him.
flare_ps · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Purble Place only the real ones know
zsayin123 · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I played this game called “In the Bun”.
We’d gather our blankets and pillows and would toss them on our parents king size bed in a nice large pile, also known as the Bun. Then we’d take turns being caught in the Bun while the other two would dive in trying to save the one caught. In the end we’d save one, while one other person gets caught, and the game would start over. There was a song we sang as we played to.
Amarady · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "pillow man." One of us would put a pillow over our heads and chase the other around the room until they were caught.
danza37 · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the sausage
saphb · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Steal dad’s hat off his head and put it in the freezer
XxBlackRosesxX · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicken but with a country twist. As a kid whenever I was with my country friends we would take teen recurve bows and stand about a foot apart facing eachother. Each one of us would take turns loading an arrow and shooting it as straight up as we could; whoever moved was considered a chicken. When we got into our early teens we added a twist. Whoever caught the arrow was considered a legend. I had an arrow come so close to hitting me it ripped my zipper off my pants.
Cherry_Bomb27 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is this game I used to play as a kid with my cousin. It didn't really have a name. We would both pretend we're characters from a video game or anime and play fight. Also sometimes we played games within video games lol.
Another one I could think of was I used to play freeze tag all the time with my school friends and there was this other game where you'd have to run, and there would be one person chasing everyone and one you got caught you got put in jail. The only way you got free was if another player broke you out by opening the door when the person chasing everyone wasn't nearby. If that person was too slow they risked getting caught and being put in jail too. The game only ended one everyone was in jail. Needless to say, the person catching everyone rarely won
TheCubbyMan · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my favorite games I played was moorhuhn kart it was a German rip off of Mario kart but I remember it being super fun
Limabeankilla89 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two of my friends and i used to see who could ejaculate the farthest.
Alpha1998 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark tag. Pitch black in the basement.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor friend and I had a game we called “bunt ball” where the “pitcher” would soft toss a tennis ball down some brick stairs in her backyard, and the “bunter” would bunt the ball off the stairs. The pitcher then had to get the ball and tag the pitchers mound (a rubber softball base), or else hit the batter with the ball, as they ran around the side of the stairs to try and get home safe. It was pretty fun, although falling down those brick stairs was rough.
nepheelim · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “policemen and a criminal”. Like a game of tag, but all over our little town. We “hunted” one of our friends until he got cought. Sometimes we used walkie talkies to report any sightings of said “criminal”. When he got cought, someone else took his place.
Was very fun
radioactivekrypton · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zonehunt.
Half the people are Zone-protectors, half the people are runners.
Everyone starts in the anti zone and you have to try and get to the main zone. You can either be sneaky or just leg it.
Also there is zoneoff. Basically the same thing but people have to get to the other teams zone. first team with all their people in the other zone wins.
vwinner · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mario teaches typing, there was also this awesome detective game that play a Mozart song and has tons of clues, and word puzzles, also Normality
tylerduchare · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vortex tag. We ran around trying to hit eachother with those vortex footballs. If you were "it", you had the vortex.
KingDrakn · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game simply known as "The game" (originally finger wars) it was basically DnD except the gm was GOD and we didn't have a board (it used to be played with our fingers acting as stickfigures of the characters hence the old name) The only thing I remember really clearly how one time I threw an axe down a dragons throat. Good times.
dsmscubaa · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
created up this sport when i was a bit younger. i had a two car garage with both having their own garage door. we have two goals but you can have like 4 people play but it’s basically broom hockey. but there was a line you had to cross back over if you were trying to score otherwise the goal wouldn’t count. it’s hard to explain but it was so much fun
Mrbond404 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
King of the bed. In the morning me and my brother would just push one another out of the bed. Last one on was the king
jazzer2914 · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called catapiller when I was little with my sister one person would lay on a huge blanket at the edge with their head out and the other person would roll them up. Usually it was easy to get out but sometimes it was pretty hard.😊 it was fun at the time I guess
james_harushi · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Destroy my dad's ribs (aka wrestling but it's better to say that)
charliemander23_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Scocer” (Scooter soccer) Me and some friends down the street would ride our razor scooters, kicking a soccer ball down the road with our other foot. The big white stop sign lines at the end of the streets were goals. Good times
csjobeck · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Sorry for the long story, but I feel that I need to share one of my most fond vacation memories from my childhood.
TLDR at the bottom
Background: Southern france, around 2001. I was 10 years old. My family and I was spending summer vacation camping in a caravan for 3 weeks, at this campsite, that were placed at the bottom of some hills, some parts were steep and rocky and not that safe. There were about 20-25 children involved.
This game went on for most of the time we were there, but it seemed like much longer :)
The game involved into this small children run society in the hills. The currency was cool looking rocks. We built small bungalows houses from bamboo, tied with willow leaves and covered with larger leaves. There was an active economy, with a working bank and a workforce with different jobs: Stone-finder: Important position, stonefinders went out to find the best looking stones, to fund the economy and spending of the bank. You got paid stones, but less than what you found, obviously (yeah, tax system)
Material-finder would gather materials for houses. Paid less than stone finders, as it was an easy job.
Builder / engineer: engineer was usually the older kids, that were smart enough to figure out how to build stuff and teach the more sump workers. Engineers were paid more.
Axe-maker: take sticks, willow and sharp axe like rocks and make a weapon. Get paid.
Guard / soldier - protect the colony, defeat rival colony (late-game thing)
So we started gathering materials, all was collected to a central bank - conveniently run by me - effectively making me the king.
Find resources or build, get paid in rocks - pay tax or deposit rocks to the bank for storage. Save up, buy a house, which you paid me for, I would then pay the workers.
This game kept going until we had a small colony of like 3-4 small bungalows. We then started having people that didn’t wanna gather and contribute, but still wanted to play in the game - so we made even smaller bungalows, that were prison cells - which is where the guard job started - guard the prisoners for their sentence - which could be smaller periods of time at a time.
Kids didn’t wanna go to prison for not contributing, so they tried to steal from the vault - now guards needed to be posted at the bank - securing that no one would steal.
In the late-game, a faction of 5-6 kids broke off from the colony and wanted to start their own. As we all lived at the same campsite, gossip walked and I got word, that they were colluding to steal stones from my colony, to kickstart their own. At that point, we had a very large collection of “cool rocks” which often also meant axe-head type rocks, as a I loved those and kids were paid a lot for those. So the area was effectively vacuumed for any weapons-quality stones.
With the recent gossip news, I mobilized all people to axe making duty - and we made some cool looking primitive axes.
I had to end the rival colony, once for all.
We teamed up as an army, one of the kids knew where they wanted to set up camp and we stormed them. With massively superior weapons, resources and numbers, we convinced the kids to disband their colony and join us, and we’re given some cools jobs - alternatively I would’ve ordered for their already scarce resources to be seized.
The kids joined us, we played the remaining time of the vacation and all ended well - with some great memories.
You might think “where’s your parents?”, it was a strict kids only zone and the parents respected that - they were kids free most of the day, from morning until evening, only interrupted at lunch. So they probably enjoyed being able to get tipsy without kids disturbing them all the time.
Though, my mom wouldn’t have let me play, if she knew, that our base was placed basically near the edge of a pretty steep rock side of the hill, that could’ve been ouchie to tumble down from. But no casualties.
So that’s the way I effectively became a dictator at 10 years old.
TLDR: Became king at 10 yo of children-run stone-funded colony, evolved to dictator / warlord to fight rival kid-colony.
deadhighofficial · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with my brother where we were trapped in a whale. We had a theme song and everything.
fantasyBorn · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Denga Paani. Anyone from India?
gmasterson · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beehive. My brother and I would load up a bunch of toys in a pile at opposite ends of a trailer home (or some other similar big structure) and your job was to defend and steal other items. It’s was a bit of a tag game, so if you were tagged on the way there you had to go back and wait for a certain amount of time before you could start again and if you got tagged going back to your hive you had to drop what you had in hands. Fun stuff!
TomkinHD · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Club penguin. Nothing like it
stihl_046 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who could suck the milk from the tube with your eyes closed.
Ratnest · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Buffalo. It involed ghost rideing a bike (pushing it so it rides by itself) down the street and then other kids would have sticks "spears" and try and throw them into the spokes. If you do then you become the bike pusher. The bike would usually fly into the air if you made it into the front spoke.
berzerk781 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school we played a game called suicide, it involved a tennis ball and a brick wall, pretty much we would throw the ball back and forth against the wall to each other. If you dropped the ball or had been touched by the ball and it hits the ground you had to run and touch the wall or someone would whip the ball at you. There were no rules on where to hit, getting whipped by a tennis ball In the face did not feel good..
SnowBlossom12 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a game called "scary noises in the night"! I had to think of a scary noise and so did the other kid, and then we both had to say which of the 2 noises we would rather hear if we had to choose between them late at night.
OneTrueGrizzly · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay so it was this game called "Camoflague" where a teacher ( or kid ) stands in the middle of an open field. They cannot move from their spot. If they cant find anybody, the yelled out "Camoflague!" In this case, everybody has to leave their cover and tap the the person in the field on the back in a certain time. An example being: Round 1 = 60 seconds. Round 2 = 50 seconds. Round three = 45 seconds. All the way till 5 seconds, thats where you stay counting at. Its fun
KriKriHD · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play "spy on the grown-ups". It was about hiding somewhere in the hallways and not being seen by anyone of the grown ups.
iwannalaff · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Green Boogar Tag - We had a green bean looking plush toy with a helicopter hat on and goofy buck tooth grin. We’d run around my friends mansion throwing it at each other every New Years. If you were hit you were It. If you were It when the clock struck New Years you were Green Boogar for the rest of the year.
sickfool · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would spin each other around by our feet on hard would floors. I accidentally cracked his head open.
Daryan1456 · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man tracker kinda like the tv show but the trackers had bikes and the finish point was only 2 miles far.
sweetlife97 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister, and a cousin had these cheap ikea chairs and the seat part broke off of all them so all that was left was the wheels and a base. We took other chairs, (like these but for indoors): Chair and we put them on top of the base (similar to this one) swivel chair base and we’d take pool cues and push ourselves around the pool table pretending like it was a drive through. So stupid but so much fun. I’m surprised we never broke the pool cues or got caught tearing up the pool table!
EmbarrassedReference · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play this game as kids where we would put our index finger in between eachothers front teeth, and then in smal incriments the other sister would slowly bite down harder and harder on the other sisters finger until we couldnt take it anymore. Usually would end with bruises on our fingers and a few tears and there was never a winner or a loser lol. Just a dumb thing we did, like all the time.
Chonksaway · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I actually still play this game.
Myself and my sister (started at about ages 8 and 5) would try to be the first to say '1,2,3 BANG' whilst pointing a finger gun at the other. You have one chance each day to be the first and it resets at midnight.
This has lead to multiple occasions of me bursting into my sister's room as a teenager at 12:01 to wake her up and do it.
You don't win anything other than the satisfaction of having remembered and getting it in fast enough before the other realises and shouts it as you faster.
I love that we still, to this day, play this game and we are both adults now.
aug66matt · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend were super obsessed with Call of Duty (Specifically BO1 Zombies) back in first and second grade during recess we played a game where we were in zombies with other kids where every game we would have 6 zombies and 2 survivors and to kill the zombies we would punch each other. No one told a teacher until this one other kid who played with us punched another kid in the face instead of the gut or arms like we normally would, the kid got a bloody nose and we were no longer allowed to play it.
transposedminds · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad always made sure I did my chores - even if I had a friend over. So I had to wash the dishes, and I told my friend we could make it into a game and she could help me. I was sergeant dish wash and she was lieutenant towel dry.
flannelandcurls · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ambulance! Which basically entailed my dad making a siren sound, carrying me to the car, and putting me in the trunk. Then I laid in the trunk until I used the emergency handle to get out.
AverageJoe5555 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deerfield - At my 2 room country school house in South Dakota.
We'd divide the school grounds in half & one teacher would lead one group & the other teacher would lead the other. (Groups consisted evenly of all ages in 1st through 8th grade - so ages 6 through about 13) The object was to steal into each other's territory & retrieve certain objects at the back of their area without getting caught. Those who were caught had to join the other side. We'd play this game for days at lunch time, if not weeks. The group who got everyone & all of the other sides objects won, but keep in mind that each side was constantly also stealing their people back throughout the course of the whole game.
cmsleep · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up we had a large group of families who would all go camping together on weekends every summer.
One summer us younger kids came up with a game we called shoeball. All it required was a pair of shoes and a tennis ball.
One of the campgrounds we frequented had a big flat field. So we'd put one shoe at either end of the field and split into teams. The goal was to get the ball into the other team's shoe. It was basically football except, in my opinion, harder and without rules.
I got my very first black eye playing shoeball. It was one of the most fun things I did as a kid.
fkrebs · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We watched Steve Irwin all the time and play "Crocodile Hunter" one would be the Hunter with a blanket as a net and the other would be the Crocodile, then we'd switch roles
TheDivine_MissN · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After Mrs. Doubtfire came out, my friends and I had a game where we took turns interviewing new nannies. We pulled names out of the newspaper.
tandm7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before July when firecrackers we're plentiful we'd open a small soup or tomato paste can on one end, and punch a small hole with a screwdriver in the center of the other end. Jam a firecracker down in the hole and stand the can in a tray of water. Neighborhood kids would gather with sticks and bats, golf clubs what ever's available. When lit the pressure from the cracker would send the can up like a rocket and spray water around the tray. We'd then all try and hit the can out of the air as it came down. Turns out looking straight up and wildly swinging sticks and bats causes many many injuries and eventually some pissed off mom's missing cans, pans and bake ware. But the game went on for years.
dbh444 · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ohhh good times. Other than "Royal Rumble" over the back of the couch the game that sticks out the most was one we played in our friend's rectangular finished basement. I'm sure it was much smaller than it seemed at the time but essentially it was a mix of hockey and indoor soccer. We had a set of those mini plastic golf clubs, 2 on 2, all players on their knees with goals on each side. Instead of a puck you had tiny plastic ball and it was all out from there. Best sleepover game we ever played, would go into the wee hours of the morning and wake up with plenty of rugburns on the knees.
DecsionX · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play guess the advert because everyone fucking hates adverts we decided to make it competitive can only get the point if you say the brand before it comes up on the advert.
Schusterrrr · 1 points · Posted at 21:09:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made up a game called “Pie”: One person is the customer, One person is the door/cashier, 2+ are the pies
The pies pick a flavor (most of the time they were gross). The customer knocks on the door and chooses a pie. The door says “That will be x dollars”. The pie that was chosen gets the x amount to run from the customer. If the pie makes it back to the store (safe zone), then the customer has to be the customer again. If the pie got caught, they become the customer.
So pretty much tag, but not everyone gets to play lol.
DannilCBFTW · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1 2 3 block. One person would count at a tree and every one else would run and hide. Once that person reached 100 he would look for everyone. The people hiding would have to run to the tree and say “1 2 3 I saved myself,” but if the seeker saw you, he would run to the tree and say “1 2 3 block X.” The last person had the chance to save everybody by saying “1 2 3 I saved myself and the world.” Then next round if he saved the world, the same guy is it, or it was the first one found if no one saved the world.
zoee-png · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Find the boy/girl” it was pretty much marco polo except you could only feel around and you were blindfolded (instead of just having your eyes closed). I fell down the stairs quite a few times doing this. Its a miracle i’m still alive
tesclapios · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to draw some sort of small blob on a big sheet of paper with my brother. We each had a blob. Turn by turn, you draw a way of attacking the other blob, or a way of defending it. There are litterally no rules regarding what weapons can be used, so we got pretty creative a lot of the time (ie killer dolphins, mario coming out of a tube and jumping on the head of an army or robot ants that eat metal). Good times.
avg_ahuacatl · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cinto escondido "hidden belt" Basically 1 person got to hide a belt somewhere around the house while everyone else waits at base. Once hidden everyone else would come out to search for the belt, whoever finds it gets to hit the rest as they try to make it back to base. Base was safe zone.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle use to play proctologist with me. He would examine my rectum with his special tool and pretend it was time to get my annual colon screening
suuperdaave · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a lake lot that had a road going around the neighborhood in a huge oval with lots of trees on both sides.
We played a game called "Drive Bys" where we would have snipers with paintball guns waiting to ambush drivers with shooters riding shotgun in gocarts. Oh, I miss those good old days.
chandelizards · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, cousin and I played the “Amelia Bedelia Game”. We would turn the lights off at night when it was pitch black and whip my sisters Amelia Bedelia books around at each other as hard as possible. You had to yell “Amelia Bedelia” as you threw it giving away your position and becoming the next target. I was born deaf in one ear and had terrible echolocation abilities. I still to this day have no idea what that book series is about.
Connect_The_Thots · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Whack Game", 1-3 people would pull long weeds and then the others would run away. We played it in a wide area of our city with a lot of nooks and crannies. Whoever got caught was whacked until they could run away. It didn't hurt too much, just a really hard sting.
I was usually the whacker because fuck that lmao
cucumber_waters · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t want to go into details, but something that changed my overall recollection of my childhood when I found out my cousin came out as a lesbian.
Beepolai · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brutal Ball.
There are no rules and no winners, only temporary holders of the ball who will be pummeled by whoever does not have the ball. Repeat until too injured to continue.
ThanosDoesDaSnap · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little thing I like to call sex. I was 5 when I list my virginity. It was with my mommy.
SneakySloth88 · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red ass/ donkey. Throw tennis ball at wall and hope it hits the ground, if so you are safe. If not the catcher has to throw the ball at you BEFORE you get to the wall. If you get hit three times you get red assed. You stand facing the wall, a player stands 5m away and gets three throws. Number of players, unlimited.
thechelle218 · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All of the kids in the neighborhood would throw pine cones at each other. They were hand grenades and wherever they hit you, that limb was gone. Of course, if it hit you in the head or torso, auto dead.
But the result was most of us hopping on one leg with one arm behind our backs trying to throw pine cones and dodging the ones coming at us
chewamba · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pimp pong. It was just ping pong but using hands as paddles. You got double points if you got a really loud smack sound. We had an ultimate version were you could play it off anything as long as it hit the other side of the table in one bounce. We also had bike polo with baseball bats. Oh and those torpedo pool toys. We would make a field goal with thumbs together, index fingers up, one side of the shallow end to the other. That one was really hard, but we got pretty good at it. It was like throwing big darts at matrix speed.
squiddlysquid · 1 points · Posted at 21:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Avatar” after the movie with blue people came out. We would run around our neighborhood park and all the kids had sharp sticks and we would forage for leaves to cook with. And we would braid our hair and make believe we could connect with those dragon lizard things in the movie.
cdgal38382 · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poop monster. It was basically Tag, but whoever was "it" had a stick dipped in dog poop, making them the poop monster. They then had to tag the other kids with the poopy stick. If you got tagged, you were the next poop monster.
We were a pretty gross group of kids...
nomadiccraft · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "the labours of Hercules" with my friends. I was Zeus (I know that's not how the myth goes) and I would send my friends on scavenger hunts like "find me the hardest stick you can find" or "bring me the neighbour's dog".
After a while we got into little fights about why I should be the one giving the orders and not them.
m2benjamin · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nudist Love Boat in my closet with the boy next door. I still laugh when I think about it.
unicorndragons88 · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My husband played "Yellow Car" with his siblings. Every yellow car spotted on a road trip was worth a point if you said "yellow car". Only exceptions were car lots. If you saw and claimed a yellow Cadillac, you won the game permanently.
xenobork · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not unique but it was a sort of hide n’ go seek I’d play with me cousins where it’s pretty such the same rules except that there is one person that is “bad luck” and if you found that person that round was over and that person would have to go back and count again. It was really weird but whatever.
ScrewLxgic · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dead alive. Basically if stairs had an odd number of steps I’m dead, if it had an even number of steps I’m alive. I knew the result going into the game bc I went up and down the same stairs pretty often :/
DirtPiranha · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja hide and seek was a lot of fun. Play at night with the house as dark as possible. Everyone wears black, whoever is ‘it’ gets a flashlight. Some of the worst and ‘in plain sight’ of hiding spots become excellent.
Redditer0505 · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard. The "ghost" hides while the other players count for one minute on a designated base. After the minute is up all of the players try to locate the "ghost" and once you find or spot that player you have to yell "ghost in the graveyard" before running back to the base. The ghost attempts to tag players to add more ghost and you start a new round after players makes it to the base. As the rounds go on it's virtually impossible not to be tagged because your out numbered. Great game for strategy and it was fun whether you were a ghost or searching for the ghost. Would have 15+ kids in my neighborhood playing this for hours. Also was a great excuse to stay up until 2 am playing outside.
killafrancis · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my cousin and I were little, we would play the poisonous mushroom game. He had a field next to his house full of wild mushrooms growing. The goal was to pick them up and chuck it at each other. Bonus points if you got it in their mouth. They tasted awful. I love mushrooms now.
eivnxxikkiyfg · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstik hockey. Ripstik is like a skateboard type thing that was popular when I was a kid. Exactly like it sounds, played in a driveway, we would set up bricks or whatever was laying around as goals, play with brooms as hockey sticks and a crushed soda can as a puck. We only played 1v1 because there were only two of us but we played that for hours and hours on end. No rules except you have to be on the ripstik to touch the puck, unless you javelinned the broom to block a shot. Body checks and throwing the broom under each others wheels is full send. Calvinball esque, we had a whole system of penalties and scoring that involved taking sips of ginger ale and then running around the house before the other could make 6 laps around the goals. Even more fun when played in the rain, ripstik hockey was responsible for the demise of countless brooms in my childhood.
FamoouseYT · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Human jousting, there were 2 "horses" who would give a piggy back to the jouster and the aim of the game was to knock the other jouster off, or for the horse to fall over completely so both jousters are trying to push each other off while the horse either helps by knocking into them or focusing on staying upright
blerbafurr · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know if this is a unique game, but basically we would look for words on signs that start with a then b and so on until we completed the alphabet. X still haunts me to this day.
ThereIsNoUsername- · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to go in to my grandma's laundry room, lock the door with the key, then throw the key out the window and then yell for help.
I dont know why we did it. I was 5 and just doing what my older cousins did
sflo0 · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ass smash" - We would jump on the trampoline and try to knock each other off it by bumping our butts into each other. We were fairly young and my Cousin was about a foot taller than us and always won.
stecimi · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I came up with a game we called "Crazy Monkey". It was basically like tag, but whoever was 'it' had to move around acting like a crazy monkey.
BunnyJones140 · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would take turns making "magic stink drinks" for each other. Basically we would take absolutely disgusting food items and mix them up in a cup and try to guess what were in them! No spit allowed though.
thaye-1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa made up this game called “switch”. Basically the premiss of the game was you had one thumb in your mouth, and your other thumb up your pooper and when he said go, you switched them. Super fun. Can’t wait to show it to all my friends!!
_skot · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Over the House" Played with a group where we would throw a ball over the roof. If someone on the other side caught it then they would run around back to the throwers side and try to hit someone with the ball. If they did, the person would have to return with them back to the catchers side.
YourMomSaidICould · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stairball.
My brother stood at the top of the stairs and I stood at the bottom. The game consisted of him whipping a soccerball or dodgeball at me as hard as he could and me using a paddle to hit it away before getting hit.
hair_brained_scheme · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we came up with a game simply called, “Tackle.” No point system. No time frame. Just tackling each other into the ground. It was glorious. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more alive. And with the resilience of a 9 year old, you just got right back up and back to tackling. It must be what the battlefields of Valhalla are like.
Silktrocity · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pretend to make potion by stirring up my bowl of ice cream to the point it was liquid and then i'd refreeze it.
Diplexrenn · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me my brother and my neighbor played a game that we called boosiee and pretty much it was either a ffa or 1v1 where we got 2 yoga balls and held them in front of you and tried to ram the other person off their feet.
Tyreyes32 · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I used to play Nightcrawlers
HunkyPunkTeenApe · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a tape recorder and I would record radio theater. I remember my brother and I making up radio He-Man episodes with the figures we owned.
ohlongjohnson1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called Blackout, and we could only play it at night.
Basically it was hide and seek but in a giant garage filled with stuff, and you had 5 minutes to move things around and hide in them. Meanwhile, the person who was the seeker had to stand inside the house and stare at a light with one eye covered, and the other staring at the light. Once our time was up, he would walk into the pitch black garage and uncover his eye and cover the other, which gave him almost like a “temporary” night vision.
Tbh that game was super hard and every round lasted longer than you would expect. Definitely a game I miss being able to play.
HerbDoll · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandad had a snooker table and I always remember one game me and my cousins thought would be fun. It was to hide behind the front garden hedge and poke the snooker cues through it when people walked past to scare them. My nan went mad when she found us, glad we didn’t hurt anyone, still makes me laugh though!
Naomiprettylady · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would play dolls/sims but with school supplies. The rubber was a baby, shortest pencil was another sibling, the pen was a dad, but all the other pencils were mom, aunt, uncle and cousins. We could sometimes add other characters as compass (the evil guy). We used to play it at school during breaks, useless to say my classmates thought we were weird.
kuhli099 · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kinda late. We called it grenade, because we were all jumping on the trampoline, and we had to throw a hat back and fourth without dropping it, but you would have crazy throws that had to be possible to catch to count. Oh if it stopped everyone does, but whoever dropped it lost.
Azuris-Bane · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So this is kinda different from what’s been said but mine is a video game. Aside from the usual games on the ps2 one game sticks out in my memory is “Gregory Horror Show”. If I’m being honest, the game kinda messed me up as bit. It was demented and as a child it was very scary- still is kinda scary when I look back at it now. For a game with a 12+ rating, it definitely pushed the boundaries.
Pollyporkchop · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and her sister played a game where someone would cover their eyes and another person would feed them something and they had to guess what it was. Often it was something mixed with ketchup but sometimes it was anchovies mixed with mayonnaise.
lucky_Lola · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Babies in mommy's belly who eventually got birthed. It sounds super boring when I've typed it out, but you CAN'T knock it till you've tried it. My understanding of anatomy was awful at 7,so fighting off imaginary turds (my friend's 4 year old bratty sister who we were forced to play with and we couldn't stand her so we always found clever ways to do fucked up shit while being nice) and kicking mommy's belly a hard as we could would literally keep us occupied for hours. We just laid on the floor and threw a blanket over is to act as a make shift prego belly. .l Also kinda gross, but oddly normal, we would play family and hump each other fully clothed. One person would be mommy, then one played daddy, and another would be kid and more would be kid, if there was more.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide by the forest and get in trouble. it’s a real nerve racker!
watchin_workaholics · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Acid Monster. It’s a derivative of the Floor is Lava game.
We would turn off all the lights. One of us would be the monster and lay low to the floor. The other one tries to stay on the bed as the acid monster tries to pull you off the bed into the lava.
jasontimmermans33 · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called “the dog gets run over by a car” basically I crawled along my trampoline while my oldest brother tackled the shit out of me lol
Augupton · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Falling Lessons” My sister annoyed the hell out of me as a kid, so I made up a game where I’d basically just push her off the porch/stairs/anywhere she might get hurt, and she had to try and land on her feet. “In case you ever fall irl”.
I brainwashed her into begging me to play a game I invented to bully her. We laugh about it now, but damn I was cold and she was gullible
skully1013 · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The name of the game is chicken 3 or more people ride bikes in a big street square you could do more then 1 square depending on hiw many people there are. The goal is to keep riding your bike slowly and not touch the ground with your foot if you went out of bounds your out if you stop moving and your foot touches the ground your out and thats it basicaly just keep riding for as long as possible and try to get other people out of bounds or to stop moving.
Sophieyoshii · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play avatar with my older brother He would yell "earth!" And throw a pillow at me or yell "air!" And throw a blanket at me. These were full force throws that knocked me down. I had such a nice brother 🤣
optiberius · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red rocket..... Er, I mean red rover
Djdanny90999 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Called moose moose moose
You run back and forth and yell moose 3 times
jayqwalin · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie bag wars. The second floor of my house is set up so that there are two hallways across from each other and then a big space inbetween. We would fortify each end with pillows and blankets and then gather all of our beanie babies. We would then let out a battle cry and start whipping beanie bags at the other side like an indoor snowball fight.
It was always scary peaking over the bannister to see a beanie bag whipping towards your face.
Lamecreature118 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So my sister would basically push me down while i would say "what a wonderful dayyyy" idk why but we would do this for like 3 hours straight then i would go play on my ps2
YuseiFudoYuGiOh · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a little lifted platform on our playground in primary school and played 'ghost'. Where someone was ghost and had to get the others off the platform but it was just really an excuse to push and pull each other. It could tear a freindship apart.
tobyinaroom · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Four Wheeler tag around a farm yard. It was quite dangerous but surprisingly no one ever got hurt. A few rules kept it sorta balanced.
The person who was 'it' drove the four wheeler but could only tag people by getting off.
They had to stay within 30-40 ft of the four wheeler. The other players could go wherever they wanted.
Nothing more exciting than being chased by a four wheeler across open ground.
eilatan0808 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I play the cow game. Basically when you are in the car mostly on a road trip, and if you spot a cow in the act of sitting down or standing up you get a point! You can earn two points if you spot cows having sex as well! Points are kept by yourself and you just keep adding up over time! I’m at like 14 😂
Theycallitaids · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy. The name of the game was "Masochistomy" (It's fun for you and me!) Three player game in my buddies room where two of us would wait in the hall while the third stacked evrything he could in the bedroom into a giant obstacle/tower random mess of hockey sticks and office chairs and lots of painful things. When it was time to start the stacker would place a glow stick in the room and turn off all the lights. Lights out in the hallway and he opens the door and the other two would charge to be the first to get the glowstick (unaware of the painful configuration of crap everywhere). You get the glowstick first? You get to set up the traps next round. I recall the pain and confusion like it was yesterday.
OxxiMorronica · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played junebug police. We had a terrible junebug population. We lived out in the country and the ground at night would almost be solid junebugs. So we'd go out there hootin and hollerin stomping the bugs, acting like they were criminals and trying to get away. Holy shit we were demented. LMAO
bwaronek · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tripper” - one or two people lay flat in the the hallway and the rest must run through the hallway without getting tripped, if you were tripped you had to replace the person laying on the ground
Lehmann108 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trash can lids as shields and BB guns as weapons. We’d go in the woods and have wars! Our parents had no idea.
SexiMexi209 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Presidents - if we were in a group of four or more of us, one of us would slyly put their finger up to their ear (like the secret service). Last person to notice and put their finger to their ear is the president, which follows with all the secret service yelling “ GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT!!” and we tackle them. We did this at parties. in class, at prom. Fun stuff
ProperGrammarBitch · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to climb in our dogs big plastic crate and close the door. Then we would roll it around the room as rough as we could. We also used to get into those little red and yellow little tikes cars and push it down the big hill in our yard. We always flipped over multiple times. We weren't the smartest kids but it was fun.
RockeyeMK20 · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buck-Buck. You need about 20 kids that don't mind getting hurt. Divide into two teams, one team lines up near a tree, they all grab each others waists and bend over forming a human centipede. The guy nearest the tree bends over and hugs the tree. The other team, one at a time, runs up behind them and leaps onto their backs, and attempts to climb along the line to touch the tree while the human centipede attempts to buck him off. The teams switch once everyone has been bucked off. First group to break the centipede wins.
Well, turns out there is a Wikipedia article about it - so I guess not unique back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_buck
thearkofthecovenantt · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spider wars. My grandpa used to make these ‘cells’ using cardboard, he made a 10 x 10 cm box and inside had like 9 miniature boxes that were 3 x 3 cm. Then he would go to the garden and get 9 different spiders, put them in each of their cells in the box. Just caught them with his bloody hand. Now mind you we live in Australia, you don’t just go looking for SPIDERS in the garden- 90% they are somewhat poisonous lol!
Then he would get a 30 cm wooden dowel rod, and place 2 of those 9 spiders on the rod on each end, and then we would watch as they meet each other in the middle and BATTLE. It was absolutely epic!!!!!!!!
Another story is my studio, an extra miniature house in my back yard that was always empty apart from clothing boxes we didn’t bother unpacking. The studio was levelled up so you could see from the window my house and the street. My sister and I used to play imaginary, use the studio for different situations like a spaceship that we were flying, or a haunted house, or a stranded island. It felt so real and the best times in my life haha.
ohthatadam · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pool Noodle Sword Fights In A Basement With Overhead Lighting And A Low Ceiling" we broke the light more than once as you can expect from the name.
aaronkumar94 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We created a game called 'the humming game'. One person hums a song and the other player guesses the song that they are humming
BearerBear · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school banned tag, so we invented “taco”. You could only play on a sunny day. It was tag, essentially, but you knew you were tagged if the shadow of your hand overlapped with the shadow of the person you’re trying to get. It made the game a lot harder but more fun, and we technically couldn’t get in trouble for it. If you got tagged, you’d yell “TACO!” instead.
VeganZom · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play "The Elevator Game".
Basically, there were levels (starting points) that you had to run from into an elevator to touch the back wall, then you had to press the open door button before the door closes all the way. If it closed you'd have to ride the elevator completely up and down back to our floor by yourself. BUT. You weren't allowed to start running until the door started to close. If you hit the door and stopped it from closing as entering the elevator, you lost that round and had to stay at your level. You only move onto the next level when you successfully complete one.
The starting points varied from... Right in front. The closest wall. Around the corner. Laying down on your back. Laying down but upside down. etc...
We also had another game called "Chair Monster" But, that's a story for another time.
I miss these games.
killtocuretokill · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cover my face and arms with fake blood and run to the nearest camp counselor, then another kid and I would lie about being attacked by animals.
Meowiano · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play a game called, “when’s dad coming home?” Technically no ones won yet so it’s anyone’s game now.
ulfgoatrider · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play real life Bow Man in middle school, after the old flash computer game.
Basically two people would stand on opposite ends of a field with those dinky little kid's recurve bows, and shoot practice tip arrows in the air and try to angle them to land on your opponent.
You could pivot so that the arrow only hit your foot, but if you jumped out of the way entirely, it was an automatic win for your opponent.
If you caught or swatted the arrow before it hit you, you won.
mellew518 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was really young my friend and I played a game called "Punch the Boobies." Her parents had these drapes that would inflate when the window was open because of the wind coming in. Then we'd jump on the bed and punch the drapes and say "punch the boobies!"
sman2196 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bashee ball we called it. My family moved into a bigger house when I was younger and we had this empty side room it was large and a perfect rectangle with carpeting, a perfect arena for my brother and my favorite game. All it takes is two players a soft foam ball with some weight to it and two opposing walls easy enough. The winner was first one to 5 with only one score board. Meaning if I score 3 times and my brother scores 2 the total score would be 1 in my favor. Bashee ball can be played utilizing every body part except gripping with fingers only open palm slaps leg kicks body blocks, 0trick shots all allowed. Each player defends their wall pre measured of course and the ball hitting the wall yields a point for the shooting player. Played this game as much as we could I vividly remember rug burns on my knees after particularly long matches.
yayo6969 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I only had one bike so we used to play a game where he would ride around in circles really fast and I would try to catch up and throw a big stick in between his front tire spokes. Made for some great front flips
remck1234 · 1 points · Posted at 21:15:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to catch bees using two cups and then we would shake the cups up and drop them on the ground and run.
pderf · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find Granddaddy’s Penis. We hated that game.
dasundanc3kidd · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "the box game" involving a plastic chest used for storing pool toys being pushed into the pool with a participant inside it. The box consistented of a floor, four walls and a top that all snapped together. The box gradually filled with water as the remaining participants did whatever they could to sink the box faster. When the boxed participant could no longer hold their breath, they would break out of the box by kicking out the walls or whatever and swim to the surface. We would play this consistently for hours at a time. I have no idea why, but it was ridiculously fun.
RosarioAcuna · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Murderer” where you asked an adult to pick one murderer and made alliances to try to figure out who the murderer was so you could do a citizens arrest.
Sometimes someone would team up with the murderer to kill all the other people.
I made it up because I loved horror movies and I really used to get into it with my cousins but now that I look back into it I was a total psycho.
valkyrie445 · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play ‘rocks’ in the summer in Utah. ‘Rocks’ could mean several things. The main definition of rocks was a game where one person would take a turn seeing how long they could go without laughing and the other person, along with anyone else who happened to be passing by, tried to make them laugh. I would time the person trying not to laugh using the timer on my watch. Never got too good at that one.
Another ‘rocks’ game was where we would go around outside and draw crude dicks on the rocks in the yard. I suppose it was a small form of rebellion in mormon town. That was pretty much all there was to it.
The third kind of ‘rocks,’ which only happened once, was a little stranger. One day, we were out on the swingset, and I made a joke about my friend being pregnant. She sort of... went with it, and put a rock under her dress where a baby would be. I pretended to be the nurse at the hospital and she ‘gave birth’ to the rock by dropping it out of her skirt into my hands. Then, of course, I had to have my own rock baby, so I followed suit. The labor was very realistic- a fair amount of screaming was involved. When we both had our infants, we ran inside to use markers to draw faces on them. When we opened the front door, there was a very disquieted family touring our boarding school that had seen the whole thing staring at us uncomfortably. I maintain that that only made the whole thing ten times funnier. We continued our game, much to the head of house’s chagrin.
Yes, boarding school. You heard me. How old were we in this story? High school. I went to a small, strict Utah boarding school where we weren’t allowed phones. There were no boys. You made your own fun. And we did.
protagonized · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Honestly played this well into my teenage years, "Heavy Hammers". Clasp both hands together and swing them around as if you're holding an extremely heavy hammer. So it would be slow to lift and if you swung and missed your opponent the momentum would send you flying.
Doyouwantaspoon · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my sister were really young my dad would play this game with us in the pool called "gimme some space" which was kind of like silent Marco Polo. My dad would keep his eyes closed, relying only on his hearing, and would try to chase us down and dunk us under the water. He'd be yelling "Gimme some spaaace!" And we'd squeal and frantically try to swim away, but our laughs and splashing would let him dial in our location and he would get us. He would get us.
Goodtoseeyouwallenby · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings would all play “house”, except each of us would choose a profession. My brother- the vet. My sister- the banker. My other sister - the teacher. And I ran the restaurant.
Strangely convenient that playing “house” always began with me making all my older siblings sandwiches.
randy2501 · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would get sewing thread and make the bedroom into a giant cobweb, using every door, knob, bunk bed board, drawer handle to wrap the string around.
tomhow10 · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game. It was two people throwing two glass bottles in the air trying to get them to smash against each other.
The bottles ranged from a large cider bottle to 2lt wine bottle.
This whilst normally drinking at the same time on a golf course. One game lasted for two hours cause we just couldn't get them to smash.
dragoncatcher · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this counts as a game, but my sister and I would speak in a fake made up language and pretend we understood exactly everything the other person was saying.
josh96827 · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to collect those small bouncy balls that you get at the store next to the 25 cent gum ball machines. My parent's house has a very narrow hallway so my brother and I would throw the ball with a lot of force against the wall so it would bounce back and forth quickly, and then we would run through and try to avoid being hit. We would pretend it was a laser and that we were trying to dodge the beam. I failed plenty and got many bloody noses from this.
AptlyLux · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a giant rope swing with a seat that we tied a long electrical cable to and hoisted some poor kid up as high as possible. Then we all let go so they could take a massive swing. Whoever got the highest without chickening out won. We peaked at about 50 ft in the air. It was decidedly dangerous.
lovekillseveryone · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it suicide but it was just off the wall. Where you ship the ball at the kid who touched the ball before he gets to the wall.
ii_Toxiccc_ii · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tucksies....
You tuck your dick in between your legs so your in that position and whoever wins in a game of Gladiator gets a point.
However, if you untuck your dick you lose a point....
__areyoume__ · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my family were on a road trip we would choose a lorry company and count how many we could find in either direction. The winner is the one with the most points. It would make motorways much less dull! Eddie Stobart for me (bonus point if I could see the name written on the door)
ohthatadam · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone ever play "Yellow Car?" Everytime you see a yellow car you call it out and the first person to call it gets a point. But if you see a yellow Hummer that's like the golden snitch, it automatically wins you the game unless someone else sees another yellow Hummer later. They cancel each other out and you go back to your previous points.
chicagobrews · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Assuming people know of kick the can.
TasteTheRaimbow · 1 points · Posted at 21:16:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Predator, one of us would wear gloves and these big wonky boots with my dad’s big coat. That person was “the predator”, it was basically like hide and seek tag.
Once the predator tagged everyone we’d restart.
It was actually really hard to run in all of the gear, but a lot of fun
Naomiprettylady · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom told me a story of how she and my uncle used to put a piece of road and put it under their grandmother sheets, when grandmother would go to sleep, they would pull on the road, so the poor lady would get scared it was a snake or smth and would jump up from the bed, while they told be giggling behind the sofa
wraith825 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two huge houses were being constructed at the same time on even bigger adjacent lots in the neighborhood. As a result, the lot(s) had a bunch of dirt hills about 8-10 ft tall scattered throughout in a sort of grid pattern. So we, the neighborhood kids, played Tremors (based on the movie).
I'm pretty sure the game exists as another name, but that's what we knew and based it off. It starts with one person being it (or a tremor worm) and those who weren't had to go from one end of the lot to the other (approx. 150 yds if I recall) at a designated pile (using one of those surveyor flags we'd find). The dirt piles were the safe zone, meaning you can't be tagged on there and whoever was the worm stayed below. If you were tagged you became a tremor worm too. Winning was easy at first since all you had to do was overwhelm that one person right away. But soon we added rules like starting on one particular hill first and moving one hill column at a time (i.e. you can't just sprint from the start to the finish). Things got harder when a few worms would defend the last hill. It was fun for a summer until they actually used the dirt and leveled the whole place.
_Briest_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom had an in home day care. If the kids were being particularly obnoxious I would play “catch the fairy” with them. You know how you can get your cat to chase a laser pointer? Okay we’ll instead of a laser pointer it was a flash light and instead of a cat it was children.
jesusbuiltdapyramids · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother and sister made up a game called statue power rangers. I think they would just play power rangers, like any normal kids in the 90's, but if anyone walked in they would just pretend to be statues. I didn't understand it then and still dont.
cliquefren · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Similar to "the floor is lava" my brother and I played this game called "the floor is water." We'd throw blankets and cushions on the floor and pretend to be drifting on a raft out to sea.
Also, whenever my mom brought clean laundry upstairs from the laundry room (which was in our basement), she'd ask us to take the laundry baskets back downstairs. So for fun my brother and I would pretend there was one of those test crash dummies in the basket and push it down the stairs. Unfortunately we couldn't play that game anymore after my parents had the basement finished, because they didn't want the paint on the walls to get scratched up.
fluroflash · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play "get off my lawn." Our Nannu always used run garage sales and we would take items and place them on the lawn. Then one of us would act as a grumpy old man and chase away the others trying to steal items. Those were the days 😀
Whalwing · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Cousin and I were huge fans of dinosaurs and loved playing Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. Her and I built cages and acted like we were the dinosaurs in the game.
ASmooty1986 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tackle Home Run Derby. Nuff said
Alkalannar · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Assassin.
Everyone got a string with one bead, and the name of a target. Someone else had yours.
If you weren't in a safe spot, or in a group of at least X, your killer could come up, touch you (back, shoulder, arm, what have you), and say "[Person]! You're dead!" In which case they get all your beads and the name of your current target.
Safe areas get restricted as time goes on, and the bodyguard requirement increases.
StreamRoyale · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our game was called pickle. We had a long hallway in the upstairs of our house, and in the middle was a skylight that extended to the third floor. One person would stand in the skylight and chuck a tennis ball up to it. As he threw it up, people on either sides of the hallway would run and try to switch sides. If the man in the middle pegged you with the ball as you were running you were out.
I miss it.
Lukelegend74 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "ghost" with my younger brother and his friends, basically we used to put a bed cover on top of a designated person and they had to find us in the room by using their hands, however the other people may beat up said ghost, with kicks, pushes or strangling, it was a really fun game imo, and yes we did get hurt a lot, but it was fun. As soon as the ghost had a firm hold on person A, person A then had to play as the ghost, rinse and repeat till everyone had bruises (we also used to have a punching bag that we used to pull up and SLAM into the ghost) 😂
TinderSubThrowAway · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jason" - Tag/Hide and Seek, except the person who was Jason had a selection of a large plastic ax, plastic fake chainsaw, and plastic machete he had to hit you with and "kill" you for you to be out.
"Sharks and Minnows" - One shark in the middle and everyone lines up on one side as a minnow, then ran to the other. When the shark touched you, you became "seaweed" where you were touched. Then if you were seaweed and touched a minnow they became seaweed as well. Last minnow wins.
"Blob tag" - One person is it, and every time they touch someone they become part of the blob, there is a restricted play area, but you try to make everyone part of the blob, and last person not in the blob wins.
"Camo Tag" - not tag in the true sense. The person who was it would have to stand in a 3ft circle. One person was the judge/spotter. Everyone would start touching the circle area. The person who was it would close their eyes and count to 30. While they are counting loud enough for everyone to hear, everyone scatters off in different directions and hides when the person counting is done. The person who is it then opens their eyes and looks around, if they can spot you and call you out. Then you're out. They need to identify you in some way though, like "Person with a red hat behind the large pine tree.", this is where the judge/spotter comes in to play, they judge whether the person actually sees someone or not. Once they are done looking around, they again close their eyes and count to 10 and everyone is required to move closer to the person in the circle. Rinse, repeat. Winner is the person who tags the person who is it while they are counting.
"Kick the Can" - I think everyone knows this one.
"Flashlight/Laser Tag" - Not the actual game laser tag you could buy though, this was played at night with either a flashlight or laser pointer, where we ran around the neighborhood and whoever was "it" had a flashlight(with a tight beam) or laser pointed and if you were hit with it, you had to go back to jail which was usually someone's driveway.
"Rock Baseball" - one of our dumber games, literally someone just throwing small rocks towards someone and they hit em with an aluminum bat. Still surprised no one ever got their eye taken out.
"Jousting" - Us on our bikes with brooms, jousting and trying to knock each other off the other bike. We wore catchers gear, hockey gloves, and hockey helmets with a face shield so we wouldn't poke our eyes out.
"Bees" - We'd find a bee/wasp/hornet nest and throw rocks at it until the bees came out to chase us, and we would run from them and eventually jump into the pond or someone's pool with all our clothes and shoes on, then go home soaked. We upped the anti a bit when we got older and shot bottle rockets at the hives instead of throwing rocks. We got stung a lot, but never stopped us.
"Tip It" - This was literally two groups of kids throwing a ball or frisbee back and forth, if it was caught, then it was thrown back. However, if it wasn't caught then there was a judge who decided if it was a bad throw, or a drop, and either the person who did the bad throw was out, or the person who tried to catch it and didn't was out. The tip it part comes in when the frisbee is thrown, if the other team "tips" the frisbee(meaning they hit it up into the air) and then they catch it, or someone else catches it, then the person who threw it was out. Last person standing wins.
"Football or baseball toss" - similar to tip it but with a football or baseball, only difference was just a plain catch put someone out and a drop put someone out, no tipping of anything.
Tat_24 · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember the exact name right now (something like grenader or bullet). We had one of those nerf footballs with the tail that whistled and one person would be it and would have to throw it as hard as possible and hit someone for them to be it. If you caught it you had 5 seconds to throw it back at them if you hit them you get 10 seconds to run away. Headshots and Nutshots were encouraged.
musiq_fiend · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall Ball
Nazathan · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and i would take all of our toys and section the basement in half. We would station our toys around our respective side, with the intention of eliminating the opposing toys, or finding our way into the "base" of the other toys. We used our imagination to determine how far each toy could move per turn. Attacking and landing hits was rock paper scissors based and blah blah it was super fun
Mcgeemd · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddy and I played a soccer style game using ping pong balls and shoe horns. We laid out a soccer field on the living room floor and couldn’t pass midfield. You had to use the shoehorn for dribbling and shooting. Shoe boxes for goals. Good times.
seechelsearun · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had several acres with nothing on it but some old barns and a pond, and we’d play Nomads. We’d gather junk, pine straw, sticks, and anything else we’d find around in blankets rolled up on our backs. We would just walk around and “scavenge”, pretending to explore new territories. There was no driving force to the game, just imagination.
DankArcane · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blind knights”
We would make a circle out of cushions etc. about 6m in diameter. Two blind-folded Knights would sit in the circle and the arbiter (a parent) would throw two rolled blankets into the circle, knights had to find one and hit the opponent three times.
superstoned26 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murderball. We had this play gym that had wooden monkey bars pretty low to the ground. The objective was to get one of those small foam dodge balls through the monkey bars. It consisted of two teams and the defending team would use ANY means necessary to prevent the offense from scoring. I remember one day my buddy straight up hooked another buddy in the face and knocked him out cold to prevent him from scoring. The game did not stop and the defending team ended scoring. Fun times
orionsbelt05 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had an elaborate world that we inhabited with our large collection of stuffed animals and other toys. We would play different stories much like an "episode" of a TV show, but we always ended up playing our favorite "episodes" over and over again instead of thinking up new ones.
ohthatadam · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Snaps" - a game where you throw and catch an imaginary ball by snapping your fingers to throw and catch. Weird how people could get upset when you dont throw them a ball that never existed but it happens.
realseal7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime it snowed, my sister and I played this game called the lost ice. We would search our backyard for this so called "lost ice" like Indiana Jones. We were basically looking for cool looking ice. The snow that melted off our window air conditioner dripped and froze and made some pretty cool ice below.
shortguynumber1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this really cool game where my mom would dress up like herself and act like a fucking bitch all the time. (I love you bo burnham)
JoeyHengen · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gaga ball, a pit with a ball and you get other people in the pit out by kicking the ball at there feet only.
Chowderhead1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snakey snakey - one girl on either end of a jump rope, they'd shake it around on the road like a snake. They also had an agreed upon keyword that the other players had to guess when they jumped over the moving snake. If you guess right, you win.
I was 3 or 4 and my sister and I were playing with twins down the street. The twins were notoriously "bad". One of the "twits" as we called them whispered in my ear that the keyword was "fuck". I said "I'm not allowed to say that". My sister says "oooh what is it?!?! I promise I won't tell mom!" I whispered it in her ear, she immediately runs and tells mom and I get my mouth washed out with soap.
Heytherestrangerr · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall brawl, like wall ball but....
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:18:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Glover!
McVaxius · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Dad used to play this game we called the "Run Game" with my 4 sibilings and I.
In our childhood home, the basement was essentially a long hall way and at the end of the hall way there was a opening to the right that led into an office area.
The objective of the game was to run to the end of the hall and go through the opening into the office before getting hit by ball my dad threw at us while we ran away from him. If you were to make it around the corner into the office without getting hit, you would win, and proceed to the next round for another run, and you were eliminated if you got hit.
Sometime we got drilled pretty bad, to the point we faceplanted from getting hit from behind by the ball, but we loved it. We would play for hours. I'm sure my parents loved it because it wore us out pretty good. Simple game, but I have a lot of good memories from it.
dyank69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
About 25 years ago, we played a game we called Indian Ball. The street was the field. The ball was a whiffle ball that had been covered in electrical or duct tape. The bat was either a whiffle ball bat or a tennis racket. Batter hits the ball, then lays the bat/racket in front of them, lengthwise. If the ball is caught in the air, that's an out. From wherever the ball is retrieved, the fielder rolls the ball back to the batter in an attempt to hit the bat/racket.
The batter, meanwhile, has to try to catch the ball off the ricochet when it hits the bat/racket. If the batter fails to catch it, the fielder becomes the batter, the fielders rotate, and the batter becomes the furthest fielder. A third out also results in a batter/fielder switch. We usually played with 2 or 3 players, occasionally 4 or more.
RobertLovesMemes · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shockey. Hockey, but instead of a puck, its just a dogs fecal matter.
biggerdogthanguessed · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I created this game we called sword fight. Basically, you’d hold your middle and index fingers out, and when the game started, everyone would run around trying to “stab” other people. If someone tapped you on the arm, you’d lose that arm and have to only use the other one. If someone tapped your leg, you’d have to hop around on one foot. If all four of your limbs were tapped, or someone tapped you on the stomach, you were out. The last one alive won.
umbrellabomb · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Faceball’ : you and a friend stand a predetermined distance apart and take turns throwing a ball at each other’s faces. As a target you must stand completely still or the thrower gets a point. As a thrower you get 1 point for either hitting the face (and only the face) or making the target move. First to ten wins. A squishy ball works best but I’ve played with balls where flinching was definitely the better option. Try it. It gets pretty intense.
Puns_n_R0ses · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I would play this game called “Categories.” Here’s how to play: a designated person in the pool deep-end would yell a generic category such as “tree,” for example, to a person who has just hopped off the diving board. That person would have to provide a sub-category in response — such as “maple” — in mid-air before they hit the water. You get a point if you can get the word out before you hit the water and lose points if you can’t. It was absolutely adapted from the drinking game “Kings” and I am just realizing this now as an adult.
fullnamedateofbirth · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin sister and I played ‘the ugly sock’ game. We weren’t children but had bedroom doors opposite one another, separated by a metre or so. We argued over who this particularly ugly green pair of socks belonged to, both denied ownership. Each of us would toss the pair of socks back into the others room when they weren’t looking. Soon we were each standing in our doorways like goalies, trying to throw the socks into the others room, and bat the socks away if they came near. This was actually heaps of fun and we ended up keeping the socks specifically for the game. You’d hear the soft ‘plop’ of the socks landing on your bedroom carpet, and you knew the game was on!
Mymanagerisadick · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game with my cousins called ninja which was basically a mash up between hide and go seek and tag... we’d turn all the lights off and move all the fragile things and the person who was it would still have to wear a blindfold. I got many bruises and scrapes playing but god it was fun lol
Hajitabeebus · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Squishy".
Basically, it starts as dodgeball or piggy in the middle. Then, the loser lies down. All of us (maximum was 8) will then stack up on top of them in order of lowest to highest points.
I don't think any of us realized how weird it looked. The scrawny kid of the bunch usually was at the bottom, and us occasionally flattening him helped him become the hulking giant he is today.
ollie_rat · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a bar (like, for alcohol) in our house that the previous owners had built. When we were like 11 and 9, my sister and I would spend hours playing “bar” where one of us was the bartender and the other one pretended to be a man who has had a rough day. “The man” would complain about his job and his wife while the “bartender” served him drinks, usually shots. “The man” would sling back shots (of water) and get increasingly drunk and start slurring words and stumbling around the room. “The bartender” would start by trying to cut him off, but then would feel so bad for him they’d continue to serve him. “The man” would get increasingly drunk and belligerent, eventually getting into a bar fight or falling asleep at the bar. Then we would switch places and would do it all again. It was our favorite game until my mom said we weren’t allowed to play it because it “was too weird.” Remember, we were both little girls playing this game. We didn’t have any alcoholics in the family - just active imaginations.
jaypee35 · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I started playing this whiffle ball game when it was pouring rain. Somehow it was the only game we played that was actually fair (he’s 8 years older than me). Anyways we would play in our driveway with a wooden bat that was so heavy I could barely swing it (he would hit lefty as well). Then it was just 1 on 1 whiffle ball with us sliding all over the place and chucking balls at each other. He would’ve beat me every time but you could only run so fast when it was pouring and the driveway was slick. So many good memories and close call injuries from this beautiful mess of a game. That was 10+ years ago and still to this day when it starts to really dump rain I think about finding my brother to go play this game.
ChompyChomp · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Penny Wars! My brother and I made up a game one summer where we would each slide a penny on the floor and try to get it into certain areas marked out with tape. It started out just like a simple game of shuffleboard but the "unique" twist was that whoever won got to add a new rule that would be part of the game for all future matches.
By the end of the summer we frantically spinning around, speaking in rhymes, punching each other on the arm if they used a word containing the letter 'e' slinging handfuls of change across the house.
sassyjordo · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “This or That.” Essentially, we would sit down with an old Sears catalogue (or similar) and take turns with one person picking two things out from the items on a page and the other choosing between them and explaining their choice. Honestly, it was just a poor-kid’s version of window shopping but adding a forced-choice aspect to it.
GeniGeniGeni · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Great. I just lost the game.
grufferella · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother & I were little enough, we played "Wild Ponies". Basically, my mom & dad would crawl around on the living room floor on their hands & knees, with my brother & I each riding one of them like a pony. The goal of the game was, of course, to knock the other kid off their pony, but it was complicated by the fact that you couldn't control where the ponies felt like going, and at any moment they might whinny & rear up so you had to hang on tight just to not fall off.
My best friend also invented a bizarre game that involved shutting my brother inside the laundry chute (it had a door you could close from the basement), and then we would collect all the stuffed animals, pillows, couch cushions, etc from around the house, and throw them down the chute until he was completely buried, & then we would open the door & he would come tumbling out in a landslide of stuffed stuff. To be honest, I think he got the better part of the deal.
Weirdest of all, my dad invented a game around the fact that my mom was kinda OCD and used tons of bleach on his undershirts, so after a few months of wear, the fabric would basically start to disintegrate. When the holes started getting big enough that he couldn't justify keeping it in rotation, he would put in on before bedtime, and stride around pretending to be a giant ogre (he was 6'6", which helped) while my brother and I tried to jump up and rip the shirt off him until it had been reduced to shreds. One time he was left with just the collar around his neck. It was a pretty amazing game.
evergreener_328 · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play “imagination” by myself a lot as a kind. “Imagination” meant creating family dramas using household objects. Sometimes included dolls or figurines, but most often it meant playing with whatever was available-crayons, rocks,or toiletries. My favorite was using the toiletries in my grandparents bathroom, where I would monopolize the bathroom for hours creating dramatic tales of complex family dynamics and love using shaving cream cans, deodorant, shower gel, and hair curlers. My mom was always horrified that I would dominate my grandparent’s bathroom for hours when guests were over bc they had a whole chest full of toys for us to play with, but I just wanted the toiletries!
YaBoiRocroi · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yellow car.
Basically, if you spotted a yellow car before somebody else, you could punch him.
Chevyrider69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Avoid the priest or get touched...we use to avoid them at all cost because we could get our selves off just fine without them....what’s odd is society still approves of that game because of how many churches there are...interesting
devils-advocates · 1 points · Posted at 21:19:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Infected. It was any basic tag game expect it was at dusk and though the night (until we had to come in.) One person would start as the infected or "zombie" and screech at the top of their lungs terrifyingly as they chased the others. You had no "weapons" and could only hide and run hoping for the best. Once you were bitten (tagged) you were now one too and had to hunt the others until only one was left. You could work together or alone but all zombies worked as a group. They'd yell as loud as they could when they found someone and then you were swarmed by the rest. Quite freaky thinking about it now. Lots of others joined in and there weren't rules on how far you could really go. We'd climb trees or get on anything just to stay "alive" but now we realized that others played somewhat similar things.
NervousEmployee · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The fishling game.
My cousins, brother, and I would play this game where we each set up a shop. I was really little so I only vaguely remember it, but I remember my older cousin always had me help with her shop, which was the fish shop (fish were actually pillows). She’d send me with money to the other shops (located in different rooms of the house) to buy things and bring them back to her. I remember my brother running the kitchen shop, which is where you got food. We used fake money and were basically kids learning how to spend, save, and make money using our own game. Not sure exactly where the title came from.
carl892002 · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doo Doo ball, which is basically tag and dodgeball, its a Hawai’i thing
rotatingmonster · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bull fights. My cousin would ride around on his bike in the yard and run all of the younger cousins over. It was horrifying and nobody else got to be the bull.
jacksonfire13 · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my neighborhood (So Cal) we used to play a game that called "Tape". The game was played at night and involved about three of four delinquent kids placing 3 foot length pieces of duct tape on a residential street with the sticky side facing up. Kids scramble and hide in the bushes when headlights approach. Unwitting drivers, drive over duct tape which sticks to the tires and then thrashes around inside the wheel wells as if the car has a flat tire. The driver stops the car, gets out, inspects the situation, removes the tape, curses at the delinquents giggling in the bushes. Driver gets back and drives away only to hit another section of tape 100 yards down the street. This is usually when the real game or the chase begins. Irate drivers would sometimes chase us on foot, over wall, through backyards, but we knew every escape route in the neighborhood. Good times.
WildPidg3y · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a game on the playground, I'm pretty sure we called it "sneaky." Consisted of drafting two teams to fight over a racquetball. the team that didn't have it would Chase and tackle whoever did on the other team in an attempt to secure it for their team. Passing to teammates was allowed. Played in winter so it was a lot of tackling each other into snow piles.
In the warm months we played "wall soccer." Again, two teams. Center line drawn between school building and the edge of the blacktop, which was up a short slope. Hundreds of kids would take part in this at a time, all types of balls were fair game. The side on the slope would try to throw or kick balls into the wall of the building, one point per ball. The other team would try to kick or throw them onto the grass, point per ball. Blocking of any kind was allowed, as long as you didn't pass the center line. A few kids would try to keep score, game may last for days. So fun haha
Luckycats717 · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Invention Sunday. Basically just forcing my brother to sit in my room with a bunch of gadgets/wires/LEGO until we both invented something. As the name suggests, this happened each Sunday. I’m not sure he loved it as much as me...
RiteTrNClyde · 1 points · Posted at 21:20:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and brother had a game called “asshole” where we’d throw a ball back and forth and when you caught it you had to think of the worst names possible to call the other person. If you blanked, you lost. It always began with “Asshole”.
Mrp00pybutth01e · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie tag. Basically someone started as the tagger (the zombie), so every person they tagged also because a tagger. The people who are still "alive" (those not tagged), had the ability to make a gun with their hands and shoot a tagger if they got to close. This wouldn't actually do anything except the tagger had to stop chasing for 30 seconds. You only have 3 "bullets" so you'd have to conserve them until absolutely necessary.
It was a fun game I played when i was in primary school, it got really intense if you were the last person running from 20 kids trying to tag you
bryyantt · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the Queer; we put on football pads and helmet and tried to peg each other in the head with a teather ball, it wasn't the kind of game where there were winners or losers, just a bunch of guys dicking around, I miss being a kid.
Schmuckey · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer
Bjazzy81 · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag on Super Mario Kart for SNES. Just running into each other on the maps after someone was designated as “it”. No weapons just your own driving skills. :) It was teh awsumz.
oscuse · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Horse, horse, horse, GRAVEYARD !!!! buried your horses.
Superstickfight · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Raptor Tag”
We thought it was raptors that could only see movement. And so basically the “Raptor” could only yah players who were moving. They had to get from one end of the room without being eaten.
We didn’t know this game existed already
joshonthenet · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite was called peeing in the corner of my room. I’ve held the high score for 30+ years now
teekettle13 · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends, my brothers, my brother's friends and myself would all play Lord of the Rings after the movies came out. We would roam around the neighborhood with miscellaneous weapons made of sticks. Would do everything in our power to avoid the road (Black Riders) and racking up orc kill counts that dwarfed Gimli's and Legola's counts. Would spend hours after school and on the weekends protecting Middle Earth.
We also would throw butter knives in the air and try to get them to stick in the grass. We would awarded scored for how straight up and down it landed or how many times you could get it in a row. That eventually turned into us getting throwing knives and throwing them at a target (as we were told it would be safer)
InlandHarp · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hi-ho cherry-o
JSavvycat · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Poor people" was what we called it. Eating leaves off all the neighborhood bushes was what it was.
magentathecat · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play 'extreme ping pong' when we had big sleepovers. One whole pack of ping pong balls, anything you can hit with, (books, dustpan, cookie sheet) a couple of bases to hide behind, and every man for himself. I don't remember how the points system worked but it's safe to say you were out if you got hit in the eye.
Calavera1234 · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the carrot
bencanfield · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had some fun ones. He'd roll up all our blankets and form a giant ball. It'd probably weigh like 20lbs. My sister and I would jump around on the bed and he'd throw it at us. It was called blanket bomb.
Another bed one was my sister and I would lay under the covers and my dad would stalk around the edge of the bed silently. Then reach under the covers and grab our legs and thrash us around like a shark eating a seal. Rinse, repeat.
One I really liked was my aunt would make a dozen or more cards with icons of various things in the house (dishwasher, laundry, basement stairs, attic door, backyard shed, lawnmower, etc) and then create a chain where we'd have to go and follow the "clues" to find whatever was at the end. Super simple, but real fun!
Yourtime · 1 points · Posted at 21:21:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
„Hofball“ it was basically tennis but with your hands and a bigger plastic ball, you had to be careful with your arm, because you hit the ball with your wrist. The field was bit smaller, but the rules were similar to tennis, was quite exhausting but was really fun to play. The floor was usually concrete
InlandHarp · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can
NervousEmployee · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin, sister, and I came up with this game we’d play at family holidays where we’d go to different dimensions/lands using my uncles computer cabinet.
I remember one part where I pretended to be the evil version of myself from another dimension, and the other two had to pretend like they were the evil versions as well to trick me or something. It was all imaginative, kids fun
SlashyYT · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game you say? We would tape all the light switches shut and crawl on the floor with out making any noise. The seeker had to look for us by making small steps and look around the house. We all had to do the roles in total dark too. Me and my friends had a couple of small injuries, but it would be fun to scare the seeker. I would usually be the "worm" (hider) ._.
kevingerards · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goblins gonna get ya. But it turned out to be a really old french game of tag that made kids run as fast as they can in the dark. You can Google the rules. It's dangerous and fun.
Flangepacket · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Squares.
I’m not sure how unique but I went to a boarding school that had a concrete courtyard on the grounds all divided up into squares. The player limit was however many people you had or if you ran out of squares to go around. The squares were pretty big, but I was pretty small so who knows? You all had a square each and stood in it, then you’d hit a tennis ball with the flat of your hand so it bounced in your square first and then into someone else’s, that person did the same, if you failed to hit the ball into your square and then onto someone else’s, you’re out. Some kids got really good at this game, getting all low shots and ‘skimming’ and shit. Useless talent :) had it developed into a sport....oh, edit; if the ball hit you anywhere other than the flat of your hand, also out, loser.
goldenphoenix1492 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big mother truckers. Wasn’t a game I made or anything but it WAS the funnest computer game out there
Eldar33 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guitar hero 3. Also I played that game with gamepad cause i didnt have enough money for guitar gamepad and i walkthrough the whole playlist on hard difficulty
PaintedDeath · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If I remember the events correctly, someone introduced me to a "paintball" game you would play with a piece of paper a d a pen. You would fold the paper, and each person would use the cap of a pen as a size rule to draw five little barriers, and then draw 4 little circles representing their pieces, then we would take turns, and on your turn you could move and shoot each of your pieces. Each piece could move the length of your thumb from the knuckle, and you would "shoot" by standing the pen straight up on your piece, and sort of press down and flick the pen in the direction you wanted them to shoot. If you practiced a lot you could get some pretty good range, but it gave a chance at a miss, and you obvioulsly couldn't shoot through barriers. You would just x out pieces as they moved.
I ended up expanding the rules a bit, such as having snipers would could shoot twice, the second shot coming from where the first shot ended, but they couldn't move and shoot in the same turn, and a couple of other types of pieces. Was pretty fun, and we'd play it in school all the time.
audi83 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back during the depression me and my friends would play a game we called switch. We’d stick a finger in our mouth and another in our ass hole and then we’d scream “switch” and switch the two fingers
qcpunky · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Deadly Critters" was a tag game I came up with while my neighbors and I were bored. I picked up some nice rocks, putted them into a nest we made with sticks and leaves and other people would try to steal the deadly critter's eggs. One kid was the Deadly Critter and his job was to guard his nest, run after the other kids and try to stole back his eggs. If the deadly critter touched you, you were dead. We added apple juice as a revival serum and few others rules and perks over the years. We loved that game.
snick45 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers. It's exactly how it sounds.
pdunson57 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My child started a family game when she was about 2. She would always call out “water tower” when she saw a water tower. This turned into all 3 of us trying to call it first. Then on drives around our area and on long road trips we call them out and keep track. It’s a fun way to pass the time. Sadly, where we live now has no water towers, but has a lot of small waterfalls we try to spot instead!!!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know if this was already said, but my dad taught us to look at car license plates and try to find math equations in the numbers. Like if the plate ended with “734”, we could say “7-3=4”. Every equation we found was a point, double points if there were two kinds of equation in one (ex. “818” can be either “8x1=8” or “8/1=8”). We weren’t allowed to shout it out, but we did keep an honor code for who said what and if the other person could see or not. Kept us super busy during long car rides.
Chuckles__Norris · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My priest had a game where we went into the back room
ObligatoryStory · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Four or five years ago my brother and I were making jokes about delayed reactions. We then began to punch eachother, but wait a few seconds before saying “ouch”. As the game continued, there were longer intervals of time before each reaction. We are still playing the game. I ouched last week, but before that, the last time I ouched was maybe June of last year (as soon as we ouch we get punched again)
csaron92 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game,my father thought us, the name would be somewhat like "division". You need only two squares to play on land. You both start with one square and you start with a knife. You stand on your territory only and need to drop the knife on your opponent's half in a way that the angle of the knife sets a line which bites off as much as possible. After your turn erase the original divisior line and draw the new based on the knife-drip. It's your opponent's turn. The game is on till one doesn't have enough space to stand on.
pixel_light · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On a road trip shout "HEY COOOOW!!" when driving past a farm. Count the amount of cows that look.
Luckycats717 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another one was “dramatic stacks.” Basically just falling over/stacking it in the most impressive way without actually hurting yourself. Typically involved a trampoline
geolynd · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Peanut butter and jelly: one person goes between two mattresses and tries to escape as the other two jump up and down on the top mattress.
Smash that bug: one person is the bug, the other two do all that is in their power to smash the “bug” to the floor - belly had to be touching the ground. Oh, and you sing “smash that, smash that bug” to the tune of macho man.
Beer maggots: dad would throw all his empty beer cans on the kitchen floor and yell for us to come in to stomp the “beer maggots” (beer cans).
It was the 90s ...
themogul504 · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu
PrettyBogan · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The ‘Guess what?’ Game My brother and I used to share a room as kids and when we where very young we would spend our nights playing the very simple yet some how addicting game
One persons would start by saying “guess what!?” Then the other would reply with “what?” Back to the first person with a “I forgot” and then it would repeat, changing role each time in till one of us got bored
alyisdead · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and cousins would play hide and seek in the dark, originally we played it outside at night during the summer, like ridiculously late, until my mom made us stop and told us to play inside so we’d turn the lights off and play; I wish I could remember how the hell we thought that stupid shit up
wutangl4n · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin drew up a map with different climates and areas filled with forests and trails beaches and mountains. You’d roll a di and continue on the path until one of his Pokémon cards would jump out and you’d have to duel it. Essentially a Pokémon nintendo game but on paper. Kept us busy for hours.
Rikku92 · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Green Ghost was my and my older brothers jam as kids! You'd play only at night, and it was basically backwards hide-and-seek. But the person who was it would go hide, while everyone else had to count (like a clock I should specify lol.) Once you counted to midnight, then everyone would split up on the whole block to try and find the "Green Ghost".
When you found them, you had to shout out the games name, so everyone who heard it had to run back to safe as quick as they could before they'd get tagged by the one who is it. Lots of special memories as a kid with that one! I always appreciated my brother letting me play with him and his friends.
fuqurmouf · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I had a game we played at bath time called "weinies under water" , I wish I was making this up, but our penis' were essentially scuba divers and we would attack them (each our own) with toy sharks and dinosaurs.. we were very young and it wasn't sexual in any way.. just strange..
Mythrann · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had "Pinecone wars". Where we ran through the woods throwing pinecones at eachother. We also had sticks to try and deflect pinecones and would stickfight if we got close to eachother. Many bloody knuckles and bruises. We were like 8 years old. Our parents were always a little worried but didn't mind since we had a lot of fun.
nono_baddog · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know those Little Tikes Elephant Slides? My sister and I used to flip that bad boy over, sit in the top part and fling each other as hard as we could backward and forward. It was like a poor man’s version of those Viking ships you ride at the county fair.
GazelleTrapQueen · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh I have been waiting for this opportunity for years. My memory is fuzzy but here's the general gist:
Back in primary school there were these two girls who CONSTANTLY harassed me and my friends. They would come up to us all the time and say "hiya dudes" (which is what we eventually named them) And so we came up with a plan; we hung around in this little area outside a door with the idea being that we were safe from the hiya dudes as long as we were in this area (we were kids don't think about it too hard) they eventually got bored of us but for some reason this area became the centre of a game we would play for the rest of our primary school life: Harmony.
As far as I remember, the story is that we're all there to be safe from the hiya dudes but we also really want to leave. One person every round is selected as some sort of protector, in charge with making sure we stay there. They would go out into the playground to "find food" and from there it became a variation of hide and seek, where the rest would run and hide while the protector thingy person had to find us and violently drag us back to harmony against our will.
And that was about it. I have no idea why it was such a big thing for us but even now we still bring it up occasionally. (By we I mean the one primary school friend I have left)
Grimhammer00 · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Devil dice. Ps1. For a dice matching game it had 100s of unlockables. Some NSFW.
You have a cute devil standing on dice...as he walks the dice flip.
aMoosingTiger · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Rural Surfing" but a better name would have been "The Ground Is Lava." On our 10 acres woods overgrown with privet, yaupon, and other large bushes/small trees, we would climb up one of them to start and see how far out we could get without touching the ground. Curiously, we never played the inside version.
yummyyummypowwidge · 1 points · Posted at 21:23:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to fill garbage bags with clothing and beat each other with them. I ended up going mouth-first into the counter at one point. Great fun!
philbahz · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play Megaton Seagull. Anytime we can across a lawn or field, one of us would put our arms out like a bird soaring and yell out, “xx megaton seagull” (xx being a number) and tackle the other. The number of megatons the seagull was determined how hard the tackle was. Loved that game!
Not exactly sure how we came up with the game but we used to play a card game called, “Thermonuclear War”. I guess we mashed it with seeing seagulls on a walk one day...
Th3BlackLotus · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Ghosts in the Graveyard, which, with a quick Google search I just realized ISN'T unique. We were playing it before the internet was a thing really, so how it spread, is beyond me.
aerinour · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Power Bands. Basically it was game when slap bracelets were a thing and we all (like 6 people) had different pictures or designs on some slapbracelets that offered different powers such as super strength, super speed, laser vision. I don't exactly remember how the rules went but I'm almost certain they changed every time that we played LOL
Juuni28 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my siblings would lie on a bed while we place layer upon layer of blankets on top of said sibling until they couldn’t breathe, in which case they had to muster the strength to push off all the blankets and escape. Pretty fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called "The Traveler" back in 3rd grade.
Basically, we would go to this area past the playground and do roleplay. However, in order to start the game, we would all meditate in a circle, holding hands. Whoever would see the place we needed to travel to in their mind, was the person who was the Traveler, and the other players were his/her companions.
Pretty great game until creepy shit started happening when we didn't end the game.
cylonraiderr · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide the salami
provokedpack73 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LOLO is one of the more unique games I played as I child it was a puzzle game on the wii
melz69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Raised in a doomsday cult. We would play games that would involve us being pressured into giving up our religion. We would also prepare ourselves for any types of torture by discussing what was the worst we could imagine. I was around 9/10. Thanks mom and dad for telling us the Armageddon could come at any minute
Skyfreak101 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game called "Monkey Wars". Two people would enter the monkey bars from opposite sides and try and kick each other off. It was fun until the school banned it.
LoloSmee · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So, this is a game I played by myself in the car. I would watch the side of the road and clench my butt cheeks when there was grass, curb, etc. and un-clench when there was a break (driveway, intersection, etc). Essentially, if it was flat I could relax, otherwise I clenched. It was enough to keep me preoccupied for little rides in the city. I never told anyone about that, but it’s my special little game.
slavefootluver · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This shall be my new camping game
KcChiefs_Mahomes · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the Walmart game. If you see a Walmart truck you yelled "Walmart". If it ends up not being a Walmart truck you get a negative point and you can go negative in points. Some rules are if it's a Walmart truck and only the cab not the trailer is Walmart it's two points. The game ends when the car has reached it's next destination, even if that's to stop and get gas. No points rewarded if the Walmart truck is in a Walmart or Sams club parking lot. Your mind will be blown at the number of trucks on the highways.
Muffinshark19 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines, hide and seek but instead one person hides and everyone else looks for them, if you find them, you hide with them until the last person finds you.
ninjaflur · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game of hide the pickle with Uncle Frank. He said i was the winner every time.
Jess734 · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pin My Sheep"A silent game of hide and seek where there was a designated sheep's pin the seeker would send everyone s/he found hiding. The catch was anyone hiding could free the sheep by making eye contact and a hand gesture to free them all. The seeker would then have to go find the missing sheep again. S/he won when all were collected. One of my best memories!
Gdinez · 1 points · Posted at 21:24:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Popcorn” five of my cousins and I would load a trampoline with a ton of balls. Soccer, basketballs and jump around and whoever got touched would be out. When a ball would bounce off the people who were eliminated would throw them back in. Loads of fun. Miss being a kid.
stoutowl · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kapusta! Someone stands at the top of the stairs and tries to wing a ball by someone at the bottom
Llovani2240 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We made up a game where we draw up our own cards, shaved down a pencil to use as a die and we rolled a number 1-6 and our character's cards had corresponding attacks. Whoever's HP drops to 0 loses. It's kinda like DnD with the character cards but it's sorta like a Pokemon battle. We all try to keep it balanced with light/heavy attacks and buffs and spells too. Lemme know if you wanna learn the game since we played this in class/lunch until we figured out that we could bring our games.
GrelltheGormless · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Not THAT doctor!"
We would chase one another with a metal tool of some kind while the other screamed "No, not THAT doctor!" This happened way too many times, and we liked it way too much to not consider it a game.
"Kick The Kids"
My aunt or big sister would hold a couch cushion against her feet. We (the kids) would run full force at the cushion. At the moment of impact, the person holding the cushion would kick and we'd go flying into air, soaring majestically.
Those were the good days.
brandonkiel27 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tensies” Basically my dad and brothers and I would take turns throwing a tennis ball or racket ball onto our slanted roof from the driveway and the goal was to try to have it bounce a certain number of times. First 1 bounce then 2 then 3 etc. if you did it correctly you got to go again until you messed up and the next person would go. It was pretty great.
RamenJunkie · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I played a game called "Runaway Snake". This involved one person running from one driveway across the yard to the neighbor's driveway while dragging a jumprope or regular rope and going "Run Away Snake" over and over in a singy tune.
Other players had to grab the snake before they made it.
Sad_Mep · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would hide in a box whenever my nana was at my house, then start making animal noises. She would guess what animal I am, and when she got it right, she would have to take care of me as that’s animal. (I swear I’m not a furry)
PacmanNZ100 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillow fight in the dark with pillow cases on head so you absolutely cant see.
So tactical trying to make noise in a way that doesnt give away your position.
Brother ran full speed face first into a wardrobe at one point. Not sure why he was running.
germanbini · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late 1960's, early 1970's, my friends and I would play a game we called "Statue Maker" - one person would swing the other kid around until they landed/stopped in a certain position. Then the person who swung that kid around, or another kid, would go to the "statue" and press various "buttons" on them (i.e. their nose), or move their arm/whatever, so they would move or do something silly.
trittybang5678 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
CatchBall
Older brother at bottom of steps, out of eyesight. Me at the end of upstairs hallway. Older brother chucks Nerf ball as hard as he can and I try to catch it...classic older brother tactic to pelt little brother over and over lol
Hotshot
My brother and I on our knees at opposite ends of long hallway try to chuck a tennis ball past each other with at least one bounce. He always got the end with a door frame that acted like goal posts....
elitesense · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"trapped on the boat" where bed = boat and like say a table at the other side of the room is an island with treasure (stuff on the table)
So basically use our imagination to get across the room without touching the ground. That could be using string to throw and grapple or have smaller boats (cardboard box for example) that would be transport around.
Silly kid thing but it was the first thing that came to mind reading the question.
marfachglothach · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to play a game we dubbed "I'll mace you good" (yes after the simpsons) where I made a home made mace with a ball of paper on the end of some rope attached to a stick. So we'd wait till it was dark then go to the woods and I'd chase her around shouting the name of the game (never intending to hit her) she would run away laughing her ass off. Dunno why she enjoyed it so much but eh it was some quality bonding
tracer1952 · 1 points · Posted at 21:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grew up as a boy in Texas in the redneck era of the 50's and 60's - 1. Rock fights,(these were potentially lethal when Brad, the local fat kid who weighed 185 in the 5th grade let loose of a half pound piece of jagged flint at your head from 10 or 15 yards. Our parents knew that it happened occasionally, but it was just like; "Oh well, boys will be boys.") 2. BB gun wars ( Red Ryder BB guns essentially just "lobbed" bb's so it wasn't anywhere near as potentially fatal as the rock fights with Brad) 3. Jumping off the roof, or jumping out of trees. (For some reason at this particular juncture in history, all boys from that era determined that leaping from heights was a novel idea. You might be imagining flights from maybe 6-8 feet, which was generally the case, but sometimes these would be from 12 -16 feet, in response to a dare with a pretty girl present. This probably coincided with the "Man of Steel", (Superman) appearing for the first time on TV .Ironically Steve Reeves, the first Superman, killed himself.) 4. Catching horny toads/wasps or yellow jackets. (we would catch the wasps, honeybees and yellow jackets in a jar by holding it upside down over one or more of them. At one point I fumbled the jar freeing about 16 of them one me and my best friend. I have been bitten over 800,000 times in my life.) tracer
SoccerBoyJunior · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway Broom Hockey
Unused_Nickname · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never gave this game a name, but my brother and I were couting straw bales when we were going on the Autobahn. Here in Germany there were (or still is?) two types of straw bales, cylindrical and cuboid. Each one of use would pick a type of straw bale and that would be our army. Then we would count any straw bale of our type and who had the greater number won. Fun times.
avg_ahuacatl · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also hoyitos or little holes. All players get to dig a whole big enough for a tennis ball to fit...2-3 inches apart from each other in a straight line. We'll call that home..... Then you have base or safe zone is about 20-30 yards away from home.
Players take turns to try to roll the ball from 10yds away into any hole except for theirs. Once the ball lands in a whole, who's ever it is sprints to get the ball and tries to tag (hit with the ball) anyone else, as they're running towards base (where they can't be tagged). The point of the game is to make it back home without getting tagged. While you wait at base whoever is IT tosses the ball in the air at different heights giving you a chance to tun back home. You get tagged you switch roles until everyone makes it back home.
Batstronaut · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Milsim-style Nerf Gun battles around my neighborhood.
Me and some of the other kids around the military base housing would go all out. We'd bring out 3 and sometimes 5 nerf guns, per person, out to one of the playgrounds. There were playgrounds with equipment scattered around the area and we developed strategies for defense and offense of these playgrounds or territory. There were rules mainly just saying no deliberate injuring of other kids, be mindful of other people (adults and kids not involved) and we had fun.
One time we orchestrated a large scale assault on one of the playgrounds which was held by some other kids across the road. There was grass and trees, some landscaping berms with bushes, road, and grass with the enemy park ahead. There was one team that went head-on with heavier weapons, while me and 5 other kids moved around the residential streets to flank the objective with some sniper rifles. We took the territory, and by one rule we came up with, they had to retreat back to another point.
Those were good days. I still have some of the nerf guns. This was back in 2011 or so. I'm 18 now.
not_wadud92 · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Competitive catch.
Two teams either side, one on side there was an elevated walkway around 3 foot off the ground and the other a play bridge, same distance from the ground.
Rules were: 1. Every player must take it in turns to throw 2. You must throw UP and towards the enemy team, enemy team can call foul if they do not feel ball was played high enough 3. Ball must go past the midway point, you can throw and catch from anywhere up to the midway point, ball MUST stay within the confines of the play area including the elevated level 4. Enemy team can request a rethrow if a foul ball is played, it is up to them if they continue or request a replay 5. A catch can be made on a foul ball, a catch can be made on a rebound as long as it doesn't touch the floor 6. Enemy catches your ball (before it bounces) you are out 7. Players that are out are restricted to the elevated level on their side and cannot throw (players that are in are still allowed on elevated level) 8. Players that are out can catch a ball, if they do they they are back in and the thrower becomes out 9. You can nominate a team mate to throw a ball for you on the condition you take their next throw 10. You can nominate a guest player (a player not on either team) to throw one ball for you with no foul 11. You only get to come back into the game once, on your second out you are removed from play 12. Game ends when all players on one side are out, or until the bell rings, in which case the team with the least players out/removed from play wins
The game started as just playing catch in turns, then we decided todo catch a ball and the other guy is out. Certain people dominated in this iteration. So we refined rules over the course of maybe a year taking inspiration from baseball and (our form of) dodgeball. In hindsight we did an amazing job at balancing and making the game fair for everyone
rubywscummer · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends made up a game called "3 second reaction" where we'd say something and we would go around our circle clockwise (sometimes anti-clockwise) whilst they had three seconds to say their reaction. Whoever went beyond 3 seconds or didn't say anything in the 3 seconds lost! I was known as the "Founder" whilst they were known as the "Co-founders"
CautiousAtmosphere · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to play math "games" with me when I was younger, around 5 or 6 - just an hour of straight up arithmetic questions every night before bed that she managed to convince me was really fucking fun.
Im_A_Canadian_Eh · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother in law tells tale of a game from his elementary school playground that sounds both fun and gruesome. The game was called "Shellac". Kids stood in a circle with a tennis ball in the middle and kicked it around trying to shoot it through each other's legs. If kicked through another players legs, the scorer gets one 'shin slide' on the loser, where they take their heel and slide it down the losers shin as hard as they could. Play then resumes until another goal. Players exit the circle when they cannot take the pain inflicted.
zAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would pretend to host our own tv show.
snopuppy · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My step-brother an I would play this game where he would say something REALLY mean. I would then go and tell on him. The best part would be when our parents would leave he would beat the snot outta me. Good times.... goooooood times.
galuniper · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tree to tree. We’d find a copse of sapling evergreens and climb up and attempt to travel as far as we could by swinging back and forth and grabbing the next tree and transferring over.
We get home covered in sap and bruises. It was brilliant!
michjock · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On roadtrips we'd count how many people in passing cars were wearing glasses. If you passed a car with no glasses you went back to zero
The-Real-LEGOJEDI01 · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and his Boy Scout troop (back In the 70s-80s) would play a game called “hide the belt” and “Jake Jake the rattlesnake,” both of which were very violent. in Hide the belt you would take the buckle off of a Boy Scout belt and you would hide it. The first to find the belt would then beat everyone with it. All my dad has to say about it was that, “you would hope they grabbed the end with the metal tip.” And for Jake Jake the rattlesnake they would get two kids and put blindfolds on them. Then they would hand one a bucket and one a stick. The kid with the bucket would hit the bucket and the kid with the stick would beat him with it. Good times.
Reizen6 · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play what we called “Maps.” It was basically dungeons and dragons but without rules. One person would draw a medieval style map and imagine a Lord of the Rings/Skyrim style world. In play the creator of the map was the “narrator” and would tell the players what was going on so that they could react within the game. The narrator would also voice npc characters as well as record your character’s items and sometimes keep a skill tree and spell list. We would get really into it, and draw huge 2” • 3” maps with full npc, town, and biome profiles and unique weapons, plants, and creatures. We would sit for hours playing each other’s maps.
We also had a combat system. When players were in combat the narrator would describe the opponent’s attack and then count down from five on one hand. If the player couldn’t come up with a counter in five seconds they would sustain an injury which was recorded on their player profile until they healed. If the player countered the attack they were usually aloud a five count to launch their own attack. For this part we would sometimes use a die to decide how successful the attack was, but other times we would just leave it up to the narrator.
We played futuresque Star Wars themed maps but weren’t as fun because gun fight were impossible to narrate and maps would either have to be made per planet or not be detailed.
Rickrossthaboss32 · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “hog tie” we’d play at recess. We’d basically find the biggest kid (out of our friends) and place hula hoops over him and try to hold him there with the hula hoops while he’d thrash around like a wild animal trying to escape. There’d usually be about 4 of us or so holding him back with the hula hoops and it wasn’t uncommon for them to break and dwindle our numbers. Our operations got shut down quick by teachers but if we could get a 10 minute game in we’d be happy.
Looking back on it it seems cruel but we’d all be laughing in tears including the “hog”.
Psycholonob · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Killerbats. It was basically kiss chase, except all the girls put their hands in their coat pockets and flipped them over their heads and screeched “Karr killerbats karr”. And instead of kissing you’d “get them” and they’d be dead.
The safe spot when the girls were being chased was a single block of concrete that we all had to try and balance on at once.
I asked for bat wings instead of fairy wings for christmas so that I could be the best.
Kaiju_Paul · 1 points · Posted at 21:26:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In college we made up a game called "yellevator". When my roomates & i were on an elevator we would literally scream until just before the doors opened at the end of the ride. Then we'd act like nothing happened.
ino420 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja gaiden
Womak2034 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play “Town”. There were about five of us and we would each pick a specific job. I was always the farmer, my cousin Brian was always the general store manager, my cousin Kenny was always the army general (because every town has a military base), my cousin Jeff was the fisherman, and Eric owned the airport/ hospital (because every town also has an airport). We would live out a few days in the town, trade resources with each other and whatnot, use action figures and blocks to setup houses and different buildings, it was a great time. There was never an end to it, so we would usually just have monsters or zombies come and attack and we would live out the rest of the game fighting for survival pillaging neighboring houses for supplies and trying to recruit survivors to our team. I would always try to heroically sacrifice myself in some way. Good times.
Cr3ated · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother , sister and I created a game that we just called dominos. At my grandparent’s house there was this long stretch of hard wood floor with small steps on each side of the stretch.
We would get their dominos out, split them up and then we would build little houses with the dominos. Then we would pick one domino and fling it all the way across this long stretch of hard wood floor to try and destroy the cool little houses we made.
It would slide across the floor and crash into the domino houses. Whoever destroyed the whole “town” or base first won! It was super fun.
darkskysavage · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy sticks
aceofhearts12 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 3 I would play with my rock and shell collection as if they were dolls.
dc6758 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister and I were about 9 and 10 we used to play this game called “who am I”. One person would play a ghost who forgot who they were after death so they would chase whoever else was playing while screaming “who am I!!! Who am iiiiiiii!!!!!!”. It was pretty spooky and a lot of fun lol
Mantholle · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bâza - I think this is probably pretty common everywhere, but I've never seen educated and high-class kids play it and I've only heard about it in Romanian.
Basically, someone stands against a wall covering their eyes and one person out of a group of people punches the shoulder of the person against the wall. The guy who was hit has to guess who hit him, if he doesn't get it right, he has to be punched again. If he guesses the person who punched him correctly, that person becomes the guy who gets punched. Game ends when someone fucking dies or gets their shoulder dislocated.
Ghandi903 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Ball Game.
This was a game we played at my barn. It was a combination of dodgeball and hide-n-seek. The person who was “it” had to count by 5s to three hundred. The other players (minimum of three other players - 4 total) split up and tried to hide. We played rounds of 3.
The object is for whoever is “it” to find the people hiding, once found, peg the person hiding with a ball. The person hiding had to try to dodge the ball, then the race was on! The person hiding has to make it to “home base” before being hit.
It got the be really fun when the people hiding sort of worked together. This would mess with the “it” person. Lots of strategy was involved.
We also had boundaries so that it kept the game in a relatively small space.
DatTardisDoh · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"wompus" is the greatest game I've ever played in my entire life.
We had a swing set with an attached "castle" portion that kinda looked like this except without the fancy stuff on the right side. We had a football (the wompball) that the dropper dropped from the ledge that borders the swinging area. After the dropper dropped the ball, the swinger had to try and kick it. After the ball is kicked, the thrower and dropper had to chase after the ball. After the ball is retrieved, they had to throw it into a goalpost formed by two trees in the yard. After one round was completed, the dropper and kicker switched positions.
This game was not only overly complicated after the rulers we're finalized, but it also took about 30 minutes per game due to the crazy scoring that I completely forget. Again, this is the greatest game I've ever played.
Jimothythegreen · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this ‘game’ while in the car where I lead my eye-line over the top of objects as they went by. I was sort of imagining some kind of character running and jumping across telephone wires, roofs, other cars, ect.
StandardSpaceCat · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shopping Cart Killer!"
This was a version of tag that involved a toy shopping cart. Whoever was "it" had to ram someone with the shopping cart. It was pretty scary but super fun. We always played it when my cousins were over, and there was a particular Summer where that was THE game we played. I remember jumping from couch to couch and running as fast as I could while my cousin or brother chased me yelling "Shopping Cart Killer!!!!!"
My mom told me that she would just let us go downstairs and be nuts. Someone got hurt every single time but it was never serious.
We also played "Strobe Light Tag". My dad had a legit strobe light that you could set to flash at 10 second to 1/50 second intervals. It was the most startling thing when whoever was "it" suddenly appeared right in front of you when they were all the way across the room just moments before. Super fun.
Wingbit88 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child and didn't have to many friends so I would set up a game of monopoly with all eight pieces and play. The difference was I would make personalities for each of the pieces and give them a reason why they were investing and selling properties. I would kind of make a story out of it.
MommaBear000 · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, cousins and I would all play a game called Hunter. One of us would be "it" and would blindfold ourselves with a scarf, then we grabbed a sword (really, a plastic dagger from an old halloween costume). Then we'd listen for the others, and hunt them down using only our ears to guide us. I was the best at tracking them down, but I was never great at lunging for the attack because I was afraid of hitting a chair or something. It was great fun and everybody loved it.
muckiefryer · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would hang from the jungle gym and kick each other last one still hanging wins
wedgiewoo · 1 points · Posted at 21:27:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lander for the acorn pc
dawnjawn · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Long Live the King.”
It’s exactly what it sounds like. My brother and I would recreate Mufasa’s death scene on our stairway.
One of us would be Scar and the other Mufasa. So Scar would sit at the top of the stairs while Mufasa would army crawl up the stairs quoting lines from the movie or singing the sad tune or whatever. Once Mufasa got up the stairs, Scar would throw their hands down onto the tops of the other’s hands and shout “LONG LIVE THE KING!” And then whoever was Mufasa would let go of the top stair, yell, and slide down the stairs on their stomach. We’d take turns being one or the other, and we could play this for HOURS. It was right after it came out, so I was about 4 or 5 and my brother was 6 or 7.
Mind you, I cry every time I watch The Lion King, so I have no idea what possessed me to trivialize this as a small child. I feel like a monster.
Qwixotik · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t touch the lava!! Floor is lava. Furniture is safe. Gotta keep moving. Rules may be changed as game continues to be more advantageous to myself in the event I run out of furniture.
frenglish2 · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt's-up: You'd throw a tennis ball against a wall and someone would try to catch it. If they fumbled the ball or it hit them then hit the ground or somehow missed the ball they had to run and touch the wall before someone else grabbed the ball and threw it against the wall. If you didn't make it, you were BUTTS-UP!!! You'd have to go to the wall and bend over while all the other players had a chance to throw the ball at your butt from a set distance.
strongerdestiny · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
👍👍
userxnotxfound · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle used to play a unique game with me. Turns out it wasn't a game at all.
itsyaboijames2304 · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this game me and my friends played during recess. On the playground, there was one big painted square. The rules were simple: you run and bump into each other until you're knocked out of the square. You weren't allowed to push each other, only run and bump into each other.
littleblueorchid · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Using tree leaves in a bucket and add water to mush it up and water the plants with say water. In my head I thought it was better for the tree that way.
RedGeckoChainsaw · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were a couple. One was called Zombies. Over the span of a few houses on various street that we lived in were places we could enter. If an adult or zombie (kid similar to being it in tagged) talked to you or the zombie kid saw you, you were now a zombie. With this game nothing was off limits besides parents bedrooms. This one time a kid pushed this other kids brother off their "fort" (pushed over garbage bins) and so the kid whos brother was pushed got mad and led a write over the fort, where the all became zombies after being yelled at by the neighbors.
One was a variation on tag where instead of counting everyone would shout "ready!" once they hid. After everyone achieved perfect hiding spot then the seeker could seek. Alot of times this was played either in the early moring, 7-8 am ish, or 10 pm ish on weekends or around 7 pm on weekdays.
One was a game on road trips where someone would say the name of a place, such a nation, ocean, state, continent, city, wherever really just not street or place (Disney, Orlando Internation Airport etc) specific. Then you take the last letter of that word and find another word that starts with that letter. Each word could also only be used once. Ex: "Kyiv" "Vancouver" "Russia" "Argentina" "Amsterdam"
Getting stuck into an endless loop of A's is frequent.
Alien_Guard · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play a game called dun da (creative name!). It's a pool game so you need to be in a pool, but it's were one plays as a shark and him/her will go to someone and try to dunk them into the water (not random people). When they go above water to breathe, they have to close their eyes.
PeopleDies · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car crash which was a where someone get in one of those foot powered cars for kids, another pushes the car to speed that you can't get with our feet and ride down a big hill or something and see if you make it to the bottom or crash.
Skellyhell2 · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "Car Dive" There was a 2 way road going past my street, and in my street there was a small (15×30 metre) patch of grass, with a small (maybe 3m high) hill on the side of the grass away from the road. The game consisted of standing at the roads edge and looking both ways for cars. When a car was coming we had to run towards the hill, and dive down the other side, into cover, before the car drove past us. No one was ever "out" even if they were too slow to make it to safety, but it was good fun
TheCaveMonk333y · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Secret agent: Me and my little brother and would take shoelaces and string them up all over mine and my brothers bedroom (lasers). Then we would put an item (treasure) in the center of our room. The object was to sneak in through the vent which was the top bunk on our bunk bed and “extract” the treasure without getting caught. One of us would be the owner of the treasure and they would set up the lasers and other obstacles, one person would be the hacker (honestly this person didn’t do anything unless the agent got caught then they would try for the treasure) and the third person would be the agent. Their job was to sneak in and get the treasure. We played this till I was a junior in high school lol
dontry90 · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day OP!
melancholymelanie · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played "Shadow walkers". We'd dress up in dark clothes and hide in the bushes, then challenge each other to reach specific destinations without being seen by the teenagers hanging out in the park playing basketball. We took it very seriously and everyone had their own carefully designed shadow walker outfits that we were always improving.
Fun times.
Katalyst95 · 1 points · Posted at 21:28:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play a game called ‘Odds’.
Basically you would call out your friend for talking shit in a sense. If a friend were to say, ‘I do mid-winter swims, the water isn’t even that cold’, you’d then turn and say, ‘odds on you stripping down and going for a swim then’. If the friend really doesn’t care about the cold, they’ll say something like 1 in 5 or 1 in 10. At that point you count down from 3 and both spit out a number between 1 & 5 (or whatever the odds are) at the same time - if you both say the same number, then ol’ mate is going for a swim. The only catch is - whoever asks on odds, must also play the same odds. So, while you are trying to catch your mate out and make them go for a mid-winter swim, it could backfire and end with you swimming instead. My mates and I still play to this day just with more at stake
zuxa · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drawing abstract things. We played this in a group of four colleagues in primary school. Someone named the abstract thing like: love, habit, chance, fear, etc and then we draw it, each on a separate piece of paper. At the end we compared the drawings and discuss. Nice times.
exce1s1or · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little brother used to play a game we called "Kick Box", basically if we ever had an empty 12 pack soda box we'd kick it back and forth across the house and the first one to bust a whole in it was the loser. We we're very bored kids now that I look back at it
nickatsmi · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja owls. I was an odd child
Xiphiax · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called Predator. Basically hide and seek in the dark with the Predator wearing ski goggles and using a laser pointer as his only source of light.
nursingthr0w · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I, ~16-17, when driving to the beach and passing a ton of farms, would open one or both sides of our miniman sliding doors and yell as loud as we could "HEYYYY COWWWWW!!!!" at cows on both sides of the highway/freeway when we passed them. Whichever team got the most cows to look their way won the round. Oftentimes, one would stick their head out over the pavement "for an obvious advantage."
We were not smart.
We called this game...oh shoot I can't remember.
Sometimes other drivers and their passengers would give us weird looks, probably because they thought we were calling them names.
Also oftentimes, one would pee out the side of the minivan with the door open while going 60 mph, with other dudes in the back of the van. We REALLY were not smart.
layla_llama · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At recess my friends and I played four-square to the death which means instead of getting out you get pull a punishment from a hood and they were very bad
efemd · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I truly wondered for years if anyone else knew but, Safety/Doorknob.
You had to say “safety” after farting or burping in order to keep yourself safe. People around you try to say “doorknob” before you can say safety and hit you in the shoulder until you touch a doorknob.
My friends and i used to play alot while in school in Ohio. Took it to back to Turkey, we’d beat the shit out of people if we caught them.
curiosity1628537 · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nintendo 64, Shadowman, 007, Banjo Kazooi, Turok, super Mario. :)) Best Games
portapottypantyraid · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm late but, my cousin and I loved "whack a' toe" Which was like whack a mole but with our 70 y/o uncles toes.
Needless to say he didnt love that one
super7up · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor.
catalyctic · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made up this game called “Nightmare”. Basically you build a small fort out of lawn and foldable chairs. There’s one person that has a soccer ball and has to destroy the fort with the soccer ball by kicking it hard at the fort. It was actually a little dangerous but we didn’t care. The point was to hit everyone with the ball so they’re out.
Another one was called “Dropkick”. My house is the last one in the row of houses. This means there’s a fence that separates my backyard and a small road. There’s teams on either side of the fence. You have to dropkick the ball over the fence and the other team has to catch it to earn a point. Sometimes we dropkicked it too hard and it went in the neighbour’s backyard.
The last one doesn’t have a name but my friend and I would get our scooters and would ride to random difference places in the neighbourhood and then try to find each other after 5-10 minutes
xxDamnationxx · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mexi Ball - Uncle learned the game from a bunch of southern Californian Mexicans:
Dig small ball sized holes dependent on the amount of players. Each person is designated a hole. You take a ball(we would ball up socks and tape them over and over until it was SOLID, or use a tennis ball or racquetball) and each player rotates their turn to roll it. Whatever hole it lands in the person runs up to the hole/ball and grabs it. The others all run the opposite direction, where there is a designated line(maybe 100ish feet away). The one with the ball then turns around and tries to hit as many people as they can with the ball before the rest of the people can cross back over the side with the holes. Each person hit with the ball puts a rock in their hole. If they don’t hit anyone at all, they put a rock in their hole. First player to 5 or 10 rocks is out and their hole is filled. Last man standing wins.
It was so fun. Some people would intentionally roll it into their hole if they were confident. Or everyone would try to roll it into the slow guys hole because if he missed he wouldn’t be able to recover. Some people target the best player with the ball to try to take them out first.
The best part was when the ball would be rolling and hit a bump and go in a different hole so the first guy out is the one who was screwed over by a bumpy yard.
JibbyX · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If any of my friends swears someone starts a countdown and at the end everyone hits the table and says "ding." The goal is not to get dinged. It started out as a joke but they actually stopped swearing.
imcold-idc · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and a bunch of other kids from the neighborhood were playing football when someone said the word sack as in to tackle someone. we thought it was quite funny so we made it into a game. one person stands in the middle and yells sack. one by one we run at the person and try to tackle them onto the ground. if you are tackled to the ground the next person takes a turn. this continues until the person gets tackled or everyone is too tired to play or it gets dark. most kids parents banned their kids from playing. we had to come up with different ways to play because we ended up getting bruises. that’s the type of shit we played
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night tag. Which is tag during the night. We weren't very creative.
big-dump69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school my friends and I made a game called “dog fight” which was essentially us just beating each other up and we were confused when people called the school about seeing us in the playground. (Added fun fact: we were all scrawny pre-pubescent girls that wore outfits like Jojo Siwa)
Melapelantodosalv · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandmother had a chain hanging in her shop, I use to put it on my neck to suffocate me, I remember I liked the tingling sensation on my throat and my head went numb, I took it off when I couldn't breathe anymore, one day my mom (she couldn't see me) went to wake me up cause I was passing out, I was a normal kid and didn't do it to hurt myself or anything I just liked the sensation and to pretend I was in a boat that was sinking, not knowing what I was doing
BakinYT · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
video game?
obviously minecraft,i enjoyed those old times building and stuff..
RL Game?
well there was a funny game that we played and in this game everyone says a word to make a story,me and my friends made funny ones like:
Me:Once
Mark:Upon
Will:A
Me:time
Mark:A
Will:Boy
Me:Played
Mark:minecraft
Will:BUT
Me:his
Mark:Dad
Will:Slapped
Me:Him
Mark:And
Will:Told
Me:him
Mark:to
Will:Go
Me:With
Mark:him
Will:To
Me:The
Mark:Beach
Will:and
Me:They
Mark:Drowned
Will:While
Me:Drinking
Mark:Beer.
guccigangpeppa · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So when i was in kindergarden we would play this game and everybody had to join it, and it was like tag but the limb you were tagged on you couldn't use for the rest of the game. People kept tagging peoples legs so they that to jump on one foot towards them...
ReaperZod · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kinda boring, but my dad and I had this little bakery that we'd go to after he picked me up from school. It was next to a parking lot, and had these big windows so you could watch the cars pass through. The game we played was, in alternating turns, whichever car passed by, that was the car he'd buy me when I graduated high school, or the car I'd buy him when he'd retire. The rules were expanded so if you got a car you didn't like, you could toss that one out and gamble it all on the next car, but that was the one you'd have to keep for the next two turns. The game would end whenever we finished what we were eating and left, and was the source of many heated arguments through mouths stuffed with cookies over who was stuck with the Jeep and who got to walk away with a fresh Prius.
PrincessRoguey · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Keetirenzo - my cousin, sister and I pretended to be shibito (zombies from the Forbidden Siren games). Two of us had to follow exact routines round the house (in the dark) whilst the other person tried to sneak past us. If you saw them you scared the shit out of them.
That and pretending to be sligs from Abes Odyssey. The slig would be in the back garden and “abe” would sneak round the side of the house and try to possess them by tapping their shoulder unnoticed.
kattella · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bubble gum in a dish. Entertained us half wits for hours
New_Order11 · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's sad that i only thought of video games until i read the comments like "ooh actual games... right"
SomePrussianMan · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pirate, we were the best pirates in the world!
blewf · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dark darkness." Super complicated game. My cousins and I would arm ourselves with pillows, close the door, turn off the lights, and then beat the shit out of each other.
Some one always got hurt and we were banned from playing.
kylkartz21 · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this is "unique" but my familiy would play the alphabet game on roadtrips when my younger brother and I were little. Basically someone had to come up with a word that started with "a" and then the next person had to come up with a word that started with "b" and so on.
I remember one trip my my mom brother and I were visting my great aunt in north carolina. We were driving somewhere with her while playing the alphabet game. It gets to the letter "p" and my brother very loudly says "PENIS!" My mom was bright red, but thankfully my great aunt just laughed it off.
DoctahZoidberg · 1 points · Posted at 21:30:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
10 steps around the house.
Basically it's red light/green light, but no one calls out red/green. So you start at one corner of the house, behind you in the back yard is where the caller/target/person your trying to reach is. You get 10 free steps around the house, so you had to really leap if you wanted to make the best use of it. After your 10 steps, if the target/caller/whatever sees you move, they call you out and you have to restart. The object was to get to the caller and tag them out. Did I mention they're supposed to hide? So you also don't know if they're looking or not so sometimes you have to move verrrrrrrrry sloooooowly. And if you're the caller its on the honor system that you're not just watching all the time, but its pretty easy to tell when someone is doing that Jordan.
Alternatively you make your hiding spot a little more obvious, or red light/green light it so people do know when you're looking.
spumanoo · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"hunt the cushion in the dark"
chamomomile · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
tdlr; tag
we werent that young, but my friends and i created a game called “its my turn on the xbox”
to play, you grab your pants or shorts or whatever, pull it as high as you can. someone is the mother, and the others are the kids. when you start, player 1 yells “its my turn on the xbox” and then player 2 yells “no me!” then player 3 goes “no double me!” and so on so forth. after that, the kids run at the mom. the objective of the mom is to survive, and the kids try to touch mom.
PizzaPirate93 · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was obsessed with trying to make The PowerPuff Girls. I lured my siblings/friends into it. I found a substitute for Chemical X. Some kind of strong smelling cleaner in a small unlabelled bottle I stole from my grandpa lol. I also plotted with my best friend from school to sneak out at night and go to Halloween Town, from the Disney movie.
sapipulani · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Atomic leaves”. Me and my friends had a constant game going on, where anytime we where outside together, if a leaf fell from a tree it was an “atomic bomb”. Basically anytime you spotted a leaf falling you’d stop what ever other game you where playing to run for your life and hit the deck.
thatG_evanP · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had spiral staircases growing up and my younger brother and I (~5 & 7 y/o at the time) came up with a game where the object was for one of us to get to the top of the stairs while the other one tried to prevent it. I know this sounds bad from the start but we were kids. Anyway, I volunteered to try to make it up first since I was older. So I start up the stairs and what's the first thing I see flying at me? A fucking dart! Not a plastic dart, a real metal one. Somehow I dodged the first one but then he threw another one and it was heading right for my face! Somehow I got my hand up in time and it stuck right in the palm of my hand. Of course I lost my shit and my Mom had to pull the dart out. Last time we played that game.
localhermanos · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“FIFA street” in school basically a soccer game but the main objective is to hurt the other team with outrageous tackles and wwe moves No one was safe and also got in big trouble and hurt but it was worth it
exiledinrussia · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Walking on the ceiling". I would put a mirror under my chin, look down and walk.
zulwe · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would put on our thermal underwear and pretend that it was chainmail, then put on our bathrobes and pretend that they were tunics,.
Then we would get our school rulers, and two clothes pins to make a hilt, and shove them into our belts as if they were bodkins.
We would then get our pillows to be shields, and a pair of tube socks to make into morning stars. We'd roll up one sock and put it into the other and would make a wicked weapon!
Ah! The combat!
jvmecanix · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Legend of dragoon ps1
Hyrulewinters · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hallway hockey. We had a bunch of these tiny plastic hockey sticks (about a foot and bit long) and my brother and I would sit at either end of a hallway. We'd slam the dense nerf ball we had back and for with little regard to walls, floors, or safety in general. There weren't really nets, just the walls behind us. Many welts were earned in those games.
WastedPresident · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
T. rex football. Playing catch and pickup games using only your forearms and body rotation. Gets a lot of good laughs bc of how stupid it looks but I have great memories
joeanthony93 · 1 points · Posted at 21:31:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suicide ball . There’s rules but the main premise is if someone catches the handball without it bouncing you get to peg the guy who threw it before he runs back and touches the wall which was usually someone’s garage door lol
DeadSaints81 · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this wall ball. I got in a zone where you could hear the ball whistle when thrown. Damn fun game till the school thought it was too violent. Hell we used to play tackle football without gear. More durable then today's kids I think.
joeanthony93 · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha yeah it’s funny how the same game can have so many different names . It’s def regional . I’m from Nyc and that’s what “we” called it out here
DiscoDude9001 · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Psycho. Me, my brother, and my 2 cousins would hide somewhere in our grandparents house at night, with no lights on. Our uncle would try to find us, and when he did, he would carry us into the laundry room and one of us would try to save the captured guy. It was scary, but fun. Once we got older, our uncle couldn't pick us up anymore, and he became more busy with life to play with us. Btw my uncle is NOT a pedophile, I know the way I worded it would make it sound like it, but we'd always ask our uncle to play, but like I said, most of the time he was too busy.
adarbyshire · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punk ball!
This game consisted of several pizzas being ordered and eaten while we decided teams which ranged from two a side to eighteen a side or there abouts but it can go up and up. The empty pizza boxes became goal squares I guess (we never bothered properly naming them). Whoever owned a ball and had it with them would hoof it into the air and then it was a free for all to grab that ball and stick it on the pizza box of the opposing team. You couldn't pass it but if someone was trying to claw it out of your hands your team could grab you to try and counter it and so on. If the ball went under a car, in a pond etc the game continued. There were no boundaries and no real rules ever discussed.
As this was a game played by mates it never got too rough aside from being dragged along the tar mac, no major injuries were had but damn do I miss that game and those summer days.
Satiaemo · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tartarus Hole the game where you had to be king of the tube slide. Basically at school whoever could stay in the this certain spot in the tube slide while everyone else tried to be king. It was pretty much war, if you were king of the slide you were king of the school. Sadly it got banned 😞
AwesomeName7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our driveway was long and steep. So me and my brother (3 years younger than me) would get on our 2 man sled during the winter. One of us would have back and we would pretend we were like the snow speeders on Hoth. If we made it down the whole driveway we killed an ATAT, if not we crashed. We did this for hours. When I realized my brother liked when we crashed, despite it not happening very often, I decided I would, using my 9 y/o brain, point us in a direction that would have us crash, or shake the sled so we lost balance and feel over.
tr3vorw · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did someone mention the car game “Slug Bug, What Color?” yet?
Thsfknguy · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bb gun war. 6 or 7 of us kids and play war with bb guns. We were fucking dumb kids My little brother had a bb stucj in his temple and i had one stuck in my thigh. We had a rule of only 2 pumps so it wouldnt get "too painful" .
e-day0 · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Traffic Jam off a Cliff”two people would go on the monkey bars at each end, meet at the middle and try grapple each other off with feet, hands whatever. Last on the monkey-bars wins.
sweetjPDX · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We collected iron from the soil with magnets. Whomever had the most iron flakes at the end of the day, was the winner. We all had Tupperware to hold our flakes and different magnets. Crazy.
Xpenz · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Looking for the lowest license plate number on car rides. Don't know how license plates in the UK and America work but I guess finding a 10 or below is quite a rare occurrence.
(In EU)
SluffAndRuff · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The lead game! Basically we made teams and threw pieces of broken lead (off of normal/colored pencils) at each other. Different colors stunned the person you hit for a certain period of time and the goal was to get the entire opposing team stunned.
Ended up becoming a class-wide, never-ending game. We played during recess but also during class. People broke colored pencils intentionally, then stored the pieces of lead in specially made containers. We formed extensive plans and schemes to win. Got banned after a kid got hit in the eye... good memories
claw106 · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Leo Steel
CoonBearIII · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was 10 or so me and my brothers friends would play "Ewok Rugby" where we would put blankets on and just smash into each other. Leading to a concussion and chipped teeth.
AvailableElephant · 1 points · Posted at 21:32:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little, my brother and I both really liked cars. So we created a game where you basically call dibs on a car by saying "BB I get to have that car NEA (no exchanges allowed)" and they'd get put into an imaginary garage. Whoever says it first wins the car, so we would have to say the phrase super fast to the point where it doesn't sound like itself anymore. There is no real winner and no end to the game. You just get bragging rights for a little while when you see a really cool car. I still play it all the time even when I'm by myself. My imaginary collection is probably worth trillions of dollars :D
briguy1313 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turtle. You crawl on a bed on your hands and knees with a pillow on your back as your shell. That’s it. That’s the game.
Ibn87 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up Bob the Barbarian. Whoever was Bob had a large blanket placed over them and fought everyone else in the room, there wasn't a real objective everyone just beat the shit out of each other while laughing lol
el-shine · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long drives and when the gameboy died, I would pretend I had a bazooka and shoot at passing cars.
ekkopop · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Raining rocks. We would grab a handful of gravel, throw that shit straight up and run out of the way. I don't think we really had a scoring system. We would just play until someone got hurt or we got bored.
Yeah, we were poor.
Spelling edit.
Creeees1858 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a trampoline when I was growing up and spent hours inventing new games that would last a week or until we got bored. One of those games was called poop. One person would become a log and roll around proclaiming “poo” and the rest of us would jump over him. It’s safe to say poop didn’t last more than a few hours.
t67443 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rancher
Wisestfish · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No unique but BB bridges all day
snopuppy · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else play Red Rover? It was where you had a BUNCH of freinds, like a good 15-20 and you would be on teams. Whoever was voted team leader would then take turns picking from the rest. Then the 2 teams would stand hand in hand across a field from each other. One team would yell "Red Rover Red Rover, send (insert name of opposing team member) right over." That person would charge as hard as they could at the opposite line. Either they got the other team to break hands or the hands held tight. If they broke the other teams line, they would go back to their original team, if they failed they would then be on the opposite team. Do this until no no one is left on one team.
I only remember playing it a handful of times because you needed A LOT of friends, but it was an amazing amount of fun, even in my older years.
ESgoldfinger · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Impossibile Mission, Commodore 64. It was mind-blowing.
Nelmsc · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made a "game" about washing the kitchen floor. We hated doing it as kids, so we decided to turn it into the floor washing game. We would poured warm, soapy water on the floor and would slide our bodies across it to wash it. No dirty mop. Just our whole bodies. The floor was much cleaner and we had fun.
lividbishop · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a bunch of girls used to play 'kissing tag'.
boozinnomad · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in a dark basement. But you had to shoot them with a nerve gun. The hiders got one bullet to stall the seeker temporarily and make their escape.
Deutscherwurster · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We put bleach in a pipe, each of us had to blow as strong as possible from each extermisties to not ingest it
We were young and very much dumb 🤪
schmeeel · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Arsenic Sisters. When we were kids my sister and I would play this game with the next door neighbor sisters who were close in age. Basically it was like a make-believe/make-up-as-you-go game where different stuff happened all the time, but the main thing that stayed the same was that the older sister pair would somehow murder us with arsenic and we the younger pair would die dramatically and haunt them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
LEGO Generals Risk.
You have to own Risk and Lego Minifigures. Set up Risk as normal, with each of you picking a Minifig as your general. Jarjar Binks minifig sits off the side of the board on the table, in one of the clear containers that held an army. A specific minifig we call Bob the Whale-Sitter sits on the whale drawing on the board.
Take your turns as normal, but every time you attack, your general faces the territory you are attacking. When you are fine your turn, your general sits in the last territory you attacked from or moved armies to.
This is where it changes gameplay. If a general is on a territory that is lost in a battle...the winning general has fake Lego buttsex with the losing general and the losing general is placed back on the board at the owner's next turn as usual. Three times being anally raped got you a visit to Bob. Three times with abib meant you were bad at protecting your holes and had to go "sit" with Jarjar Under Glass.
It changes the game a little. We invented it when we were around 13/14 and continue to play that style nearly 20 years later. Friends love it
PYH: PROTECT. YOUR. HOLES.
butbut402 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I at around 5&4 y/o had a game with our neighbors called "Dead bird". We thought of them like our second grandparents. The objective was one person was the bird and the other two were hunters. The person playing the bird would run around pretending they're flying and making bird noises, while the hunters fired and shot "the bird". The bird would then be picked up and brought to a little backyard bench a few feet away that they'd be "brought back to life" by tickling. My sister and I were always the bird and we played as long as we could. They were so sweet and you could tell they both expressed genuine love for us. I still visit them to this day (I'm 27 now), but the husband is very forgetful lately. Really hope he sticks around long as possible though. He's 96 now.
fernapple · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bat rock” with my sister. We’d throw our enormous collection of bouncy balls down the stairs, with one of us waiting at the bottom with half of one of those plastic Easter eggs. We’d use the Easter egg half to bat the balls back onto the step, trying to keep them from bouncing down the hallway. We’d do this for hours.
Discopants13 · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Someone I know made up the Jeep game to keep his kids quiet on car rides. He's a huge Jeep Wrangler fan so the idea is to looks for Jeep Wranglers or Hummers (idk why). If you see one, you have to yell "Jeep!" And describe it to claim it if it's not clear which one you're talking about. Or point to it. Whichever makes it clear. If you're not sure if a Jeep has been claimed, you can say"Jeep! Did anyone call the red one behind us?". If yes, no point to you but also no penalty.
So if you're driving past a parking lot and there are a lot of cars and you spot a Jeep it would go something like this:
You: Jeep! Blue hard top Passenger: Ok, Jeep red down first row
Points are only accrued if the car is on and everyone is buckled in (cuz this was made for kids).
One point per Jeep or Hummer 3. +2 for Hummer H2s +3 for Hummer 1 +3 for Hummer limo +1 point if any of the above are stingbee yellow
So a stingbee yellow H2 limo would be 6 points. If you call a Jeep and the vehicle is NOT a Jeep you lose a point unless you correct yourself before someone calls you out on it.
Whoever has the most points at the end of the trip wins.
all4hurricanes · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many, one was called booger ball. A bunch (actually just two) people would be on the swings and one kid would be the booger monster and would throw a kickball over their head and try to hit them. Once you were hit three times you became the booger monster.
And gaga ball, you get a big inflatable ball and bounce it around the room. If it hit you below the waist you are it and have to try and hit others with the ball. If you are it when the song is over (an ABBA CD is playing in the background) then you lose.
The_Kashman · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends made up a game we called Rough ball. One person was "On" and threw a tennis ball. The others beat the shit out of each other to get the tennis ball and return it,then they were on. Was fun
Livid_Narwhal · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I have a couple good ones.
When I was a kid, in the rainy Pacific NW, I would get home from school around 3 and would play outside. We had a larger property in our neighborhood and an awesome yard that had grass, a blueberry patch, some big doug firs, and more. The yard had several different "levels" with low easy-to-maintain, shrubbery for landscaping.
It was the fucking TITS.
When no one else wanted to play with me in the frequent rain storms, I would take the lid from my turtle sandbox, and fucking SLIDE down a steep 20' shrub-covered hill over and over again. It was the best, you guys.
Also another fun game me and a buddy invented and played on many occasions was called "smash n crash". Basically two or more friends would take a lego dude and build a badass vehicle around him, also from legos, and we would sit on opposite ends of a hardwood floor hallway, then hurl the vehicles at each other over and over.Pieces of plastic shrapnel shooting off in every direction making that super satisfying plink sound as the pieces hit the ground.
The last "vehicle" that had successfully protected its driver was declared the winner.
Over time the game evolved into an elaborate physics game, where you no longer needed to protect the whole body, just the head. We started to build ironclad protective bricks of plastic with a head suspended in the middle like some fucked up ancient ritualistic tomb. It was a great game of skill and precision. Good times.
Adepressedcatfishx · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yarks- (played on trampoline) one player starts out the the yark and us to stay on their stomachs crawling around trying to tag others and make them yarks. The last person alive would get attacked by all the yarks while they screamed “FEAST FEAST FEAST”
ICantHearYoo · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Raptor:call of the shadows This awesome shoot em up where you play as a plane scrolling over a war torn city or something. Just the midi soundtrack is so nostalgic
lukgoek · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play RPG's IRL
Tewtea · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I see VAG. Lol we used to think it was hilarious when license plates had letters that read like funny/bad words, we called it I see vag because in our province for a while all veteran plates started with VAG so was pretty common to see.
rippinkitten18 · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Strip poker. Everyone was much older then me.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt Versus Belly. Played by my sister and me when we were like, 5 and 7. One bares their butt, the other bares their belly, you make them touch, and whoever goes 'wtf no this is too weird and also tickles' loses
Consibl · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Willy Wars.
notamillionants · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make up games in my neighborhood and with my church. The one’s that I remember are 1) The Running Man and 2) Vampire.
1) The Running Man: This was basically reverse tag were the person who was it was chased by every other person. Required a large space and lots of slow kids. When someone got him they became it and then were chased by everyone. There were other rules too, but I don’t remember them and they were area specific. Yes, I named this after the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie.
2) Vampire: this game was sort of like hide and go seek. One player would count at the home base then all other people would run away. The count was like 5 seconds though so people couldn’t go far. Then the “vampire” would yell ‘stop’ and everyone had to freeze. Then the vampire would try to find at least one person while blind(eyes closed). The other players were allowed to shout to help him or whatever they wanted really but couldn’t move. Person caught was the new vampire. My favorite part about this game was about 15 years after I had stopped playing this game( age like 12-13ish ) I came back to the neighborhood to visit my parents and I saw a whole group of new kids in the neighborhood who were still playing “vampire”.
IrishTerror · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The belt game - 1 person goes into a dark room and hides a belt, once hidden every one else playing enters (again dark room no lights, shades down) every one looks for the belt and if you find it you are allowed to whip anyone in the room until they run out the door. The only rule you have to hold onto the metal buckle and once you are out of the room you can't get hit with the belt. We would play this with my cousins I remember being so excited when I found the belt you would remain calm and quiet and then stand in front of the door and whip everyone you could. Then once everyone is out the room the person who found the belt would go back in the room and hide it for round # 2 The game would end once a grown up would scream "What the hell is going on down there you better stop it before you get in trouble"
browne_eye_girl · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend used to play "power rangers" Buy putting on extreme sport protection equipment. Our imagination ran wild 😂😂
diba_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was in high school but a friend of mine created a really fun game you can play with other people on a pool table. No pool sticks, just a cue ball and a solid ball.
The objective is to knock out your opponents that you're playing against (everybody has three strikes). The idea was similar to a game of pool - you hit the solid ball with the cue ball into a pocket by rolling the cue at the other ball. You play in clockwise order. The trick is you can only throw the cue sideways and forwards in order to hit the solid ball, not backwards.
If a player before you knocks the ball into a corner then you lose a strike. If the solid ball stops rolling before you can hit it to keep it moving, you lose a strike. This results in players dashing around the table trying to get an angle on the solid ball so they can hit it legally with the cue ball. Gets really fun when you're drinking
Funny story was, my freshmen year of college I was on the football team and I showed it to some team mates in pre-season before any of the other students arrived on campus and my team mates started playing it with other people and it spread and I think one of the dorms actually had a tournament, they named it "X-Ball", as I didn't have a name for it myself
Mitochondrion14 · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swarm Assault, a RTS game where you control bugs with guns and destroy stuff
MrsEffingRochester · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Duck”. We used to go on a lot of long car journeys when we were little as half our family lived in Scotland and the other half in Wales (we were in England). So on the motorway, any time we went under a bridge we had to shout “Duck!” and duck down in our seats. If we didn’t, we had to say “owwww” and rub our heads.
That was the entirety of the game. I don’t know why it kept us so amused.
EmeraldKnight999 · 1 points · Posted at 21:34:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Still a child. Three words. Dragon. Ball. Super. Final Flashed my sister and she flew. Never played again.
fireykingeyboye · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I lived in Japan for about 5 years as young kids (we are from America and our dad is a marine). Why we didn't learn the language is beyond me, but that made for some lonely 5 years, where we couldn't really make friends. We came up with this game, I can't remember what it was called, but it was revolutionary to us at the time. It's basically where there are two teams, one with me and my brother, and one with 15 super muscular guys. One of us would pretend to tackle the guys and fight them off, while the other took a plastic bag to hit the tree stump at the other side of the yard. We would also make up plays, play sushi restaurant in our stairwell with wind up sushi toys, etc.
It was fun
bobsimusmaximus · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "roller-hockey"
You have roller blades, a hurl(ey), and a golf ball.. same rules as ice hockey..
Protective gear was optional as let's be honest if you wear safety gear you're gonna get targeted and get the shit kicked out of you
Mr_Iron_Oxide · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I shared a bunk bed. We'd play a game called "Ship." The bunkbed was the ship and we'd go diving off it in search of treasure. The treasure was usually toys that we kept in a toy box under the bunk bed.
Shania2000 · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called the “vampire” game, where we turned off all the lights and one person would be outside the bedroom while the others were under the quilt. The “vampire” would then come in the room and jump on top of the blankets and then if the person managed to grab someone from under the covers they became the vampire. We had to stop playing it though because my cousin threw a wooden chair at us and almost knocked a glass vase down on top of me.
candlename · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The snail speed game. A game me and my sister came up with when we were kids. This was whenever we were in the car. You start with having a snail pulling the car. Then you can upgrade depends on what signs and buildings you pass by. Horses, unicorns, eagles whatever (some companies had these as logos). P signs were bombs you could throw at other cars. Bus stop signs means your car got bigger or smaller depends on the color of the sign. There was a rule for every single sign. Stop/hold signs means you lost everything and had to start over, though you could collect shovels (arrows signs) and if you had at least 4 (1 for each wheel) you could dig under the sign thus avoid them.
After the car drive we would (typically on vacation) press the button on the car that opens up the back of the car. This was to "Save the game". Lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor. With my uncle.
Banapple247 · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before I got Yu-Gi-Oh cards I played with a normal deck of cards. Basically we'd remove the Q, K and J, got 50 LP and do what was kind of like poker. Higher card could kill lower cards, Ace killed all but 2 and Joker cleared the field.
ahkiikwe · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game that was essentially the opposite of hide and seek and combined tag. One person hides and the others fan out and try and find them, if the it person was found then the person had to chase the others and tag them before the others got back to a safe base.
This was played in a heavily wooded area that had only one street light per three mile area. It was absolute madness and guerilla style stealth tactics were learned at a young age because scaring the pants off your teenage cousins was worth the beating they gave you after.
yackob234 · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends made a game called Deer. Basically it was hide and seek in my basement with all the lights off, but the seeker got a foam sword and needed to "slaughter" all of the deer. The deers had pillows as defence tools and could revive others if they happened to walk by a fallolen comrade. The game ended once the hunter slaughtered all the deer. Since it was so dark, you could choose to hide in plain sight as it was the perfect level of darkness where you cant see anything but outlines. Another thing is that my basements a oval, so you have the option of hypothetically just playing tag instead.
bullintheheather · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Having game in quotes really makes this question sound sinister :p
HobbesTech · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother were commonly forced into playing "soccer" with our sister.
This soccer, however, consisted of her putting on our cleats and kicking our shins repeatedly. Mother never actually saw that part, so we couldn't get her to stop our sister. This also meant we would get in trouble if we tried to stop her because she would cry, as our other thought she wasn't doing anything wrong.
Thus, whenever she wanted, she would come up to us in our cleats and go "sohkhrr?" before kicking the crap out of our shins.
Fun times
toilet_scum · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play laser maze and find a ball of yarn and then you just thread around the room like a laser maze and try to get to the other side first.
ThatRisk · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Handball". No, not the actual popular sport, but kind of like four square? We had a court that was basically the size of a badminton court, and we had a line in the middle. We had a tennis ball, and we played in doubles or singles. The ball had to bounce once on your side, and make it to the other side. You could only touch the ball once, or else you were out. If the ball bounced twice on your side, you were out. If it didn't touch your side at all, it was a "direct", and you were out. If it touched the line in the middle, it would be a Line-A (now that I think of it I think we were trying to pronounce Linear? Line?) and we would replay the round. If you got out, there were plenty of people waiting in line to take your spot.
cclautti · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"running bases" me, my brother and 2 cousins played. 2 bases, in a straight line, 2 caught, 2 ran. you had to run from one base to the next without getting pegged in the back with a tennis ball. no score, no reason, just battle bruises.
StEeZy_SyNtH · 1 points · Posted at 21:36:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Greased Watermelon. You cover a watermelon in Crisco and throw it into the lake. Everyone runs into the lake to retrieve it and you have to bring it to the shore for a point. You can also cover yourself in Crisco if you choose. It is always slipping and sliding and usually changes hands quite a bit. You keep playing until some inevitably drops it while on the beach.
armyhe05 · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I had a basket that was pretty big, it was white. In the winter me and my friends played a game were on was in the basket. We had to be in a pretty big place to play. Then you would try to see the basket moving, and you would take a picture. It was really boring now that I think of it.
skoorie · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t have a name for it, but my son now calls it the bug game. You start by telling some elaborate story about an outing, and end with:
“on the way out the door I spotted this gross bug on the ground. I looked at the clerk and said “I won it!” “
The idea is the person you are telling the story to says “I two it” and you say “I threw it!” And it goes back and forth like that until someone says “I eight it!” At this point he story teller will say “ew! You eat bugs?!”
It’s tame, and maybe a bit lame, but I loved it as a kid and now my son can’t get enough of it and he always wants to be the one to eat the big/disgusting thing in the story.
DeepFriedKale · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child for the first ten years of my life, parents were divorced and lived 5 hours apart, so I spent 10 hours of every other weekend in the car. I started “Blink”, and I would find a spot of dirt on the window and whenever it passed through something specific I would blink. I still catch myself playing sometimes when I’m in the passenger seat!
semp19 · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Congestipated” (congested+constipated). My apartment building had just gotten a new slide (twirly slide) and they forgot to put a piece in so it had an immediate drop (not smooth) so someone would sit at the bottom of the slide, blocking the exit. Everyone else would throw themselves down the slide as hard as they could to try and knock the person out. Even after they fixed the slide we continued to play it. This game mostly resulted in people getting hurt but it was fun.
theyareallsowitty · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“LEGO SMASH” - you take a small object that is “the prize” and build around it with LEGO until you’ve made a big brick of LEGO with the prize inside. Then you slide your brick across the floor and attack the opponents brick by smashing them together. The person who can smash the opponents brick apart to get the prize while keeping their LEGO brick intact wins.
jrose5133 · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curvy Derby. Basically my brother and I would over exaggerate the turns in a curvy road and slam into each other when we went around a turn after shouting 'curvy derby'.
nosyIT · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lifted my feet off the floor of the car whenever we passed telephone poles, fantasizing leaping over them like a super hero.
polaroidlesbian · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I live in the Midwest. In elementary school we played a sort of spin on king of the hill. We had to protect our “ice fortresses” (actually just big mounds of ice and snow). We were brutal. Knocking kids off, throwing around ice chunks, tackling people. And that stuff was rock solid, thinking back on it now it could have gone horribly wrong. The teachers put an end to it pretty quickly. We weren’t allowed to play on the ice/snow mounds after that.
amerikanss · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Tag!
Basically you roll a pair of socks into a ball, and then you chase people around the house trying to hit them with the socks. If you get them, then they’re it and they have to try and get someone else.
justalittlebleh · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a game called “Poisonlips.” One of us would be Poisonlips and had to try and kiss the other one on the lips. Then the person who was kissed would become Poisonlips. It was basically tag but with kissing.
ChainChompsky · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turtle Tag!
Normal playground tag except you couldn't touch the ground and had to climb around on the sprawling, connected playground equipment. If you made it back to where Shredder [who was "it"] first started you earned a Turtle Blimp and could run across the ground once. Good times.
Pasttuesday · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made up a game called sub wars. Each team is designated one “sub” and the other players are “torpedoes”. If a torpedo tags the enemy sub, the torpedos team wins. If a torpedo tags a torpedo, you both explode and have to return to your own sub to be tagged back in, or we called it refueling.
nastyboiiiii · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would put on a pair of ankle socks, then long socks, then low cut socks. We would wrestle, but we could only use our forearms and hands on the sock. The whole point was just to get the socks off. I think it evolved from the Indian leg wrestling you do in boy scouts
alex-bold · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would bring an exercise ball on the trampoline and basically beat each other to death with it.
lovethenewtaste · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd kneel down in a doorway and bounce one of those high bounce balls against the opposite wall and then be a goalie and try to stop the ball from going through the door.
I was an only child and lived in the middle of nowhere...
killamf · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably late to the party but in middle school (6 to 8th grade) we played a game called elbow ball. During breaks in our spanish class we took the ball out of the mouse and gathered around a round table with our hands together and elbows out. We would hit the ball and people and try to get it passed them. Last man standing won.
curvychick37 · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One friend and I used to play "midget football". It was just us on our knees playing football in the hallway.
d0ctorCREEP · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle would blindfold me and put things with different flavors on it. And i guess the flavor.
werekitty93 · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Dinosaur Game"
You're in the car running from dinosaurs. The cars behind you are different types. Smaller ones are fast and bitey, bigger ones are the t-rexes, mini vans were herbivores. It was super fun.
Stagamemnon · 1 points · Posted at 21:38:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I grew up in a cul-de-sac with 8 other boys. Our next-door neighbors, a family with 3 of the boys, had a hammock with its own stand, so you could move it around the yard. We played a game on it called "River Rapids."
As many of us as possible would pile onto the hammock, and then the older boys would start shaking and tipping the hammock, like we were boating down a rough river. We'd do our best to enmesh ourselves to the hammock, or to each other if need be, but the combined weight of us all would eventually get the side-to-side swinging momentum out of control and the hammock bed would eventually swing perpendicular (or further) to the ground, and we'd all fall off.
Everybody gets smushed when a pile of children falls to the ground. You just hoped you weren't the first to fall off, especially as a younger kid. I distinctly remember being fully smashed by a kid 5 years my senior falling shoulder-first into my chest. I also remember the sound a child's head makes (including my own) when it connects with the metal bar directly below. That's usually when the game would end for the day. surprisingly no concussions or broken bones ever resulted from our glorious tom-foolery.
liquidsmurf · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My whole neighborhood would get into a game called "Manhunt". We would wait until it got dark and basically play hide and seek but everybody but one person seeking, with tag at the end. instead of touching the person you had to get the person down and hold them there until they gave up. It was a blast, many injuries were had and names were called, but we always played for a few years.
ardieehch · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline Dodgeball. We'd have two people on the ol' backyard trampoline and two people on the ground. The people on the ground have a couple soft, plush balls and run around the trampoline throwing the balls at the people on trampoline as the people on the trampoline do their best to jump/flip/dive to avoid the balls. When you hit someone with a ball you switch places. It was a blast.
P. S trampoline
xxkickassjackxx · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This isn’t mine but my girlfriend played foxes. In foxes you waited for it to snow and you walked out specific paths and made circles in the snow that were “safe zones”. One of her siblings would be the fox and you all had to stay in the pre-chosen paths and try to not get caught and become the Fox.
timbitxd · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but slender tag.
Inspired by the vast amount of horror media set in dark woods, the game is played at night, preferably in a patch of forest.
It is basically the same as manhunt, however those who are "it" have to hold a lit flashlight at all times and are not allowed to directly cover it.
The objective is to emerge the last man not caught.
ImmortalGazelle · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family and I played a kind of reverse hide and seek. One person would hide and then everyone else would leave a bedroom that was designated the safe room. If you found the person hiding you would shout a pass phrase something like “Peanut Butter!” and then you had to run back to the bedroom and touch the bed without being tagged by the person hiding, if you were tagged you hid next.
jackspicerii · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i "invented" one: we set/draw an small square space on the ground and then everyone, but one person remains inside that space. Everyone inside the space is safe, but has to leave it one by one, and run at least 100m then come back. The person on the outside has to catch that person, that was inside the space, when they leave to run.
If the "catcher" grabs you, you are the new "catcher". If not the "catcher" try to catch the next person.
i was 8 when i "invented" this.
sleepyteapot · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my family did long car drives, (like the time we moved two states over) I was in charge of keeping my kid sister from fussing. One trip I was totally out of ideas, so I started saying every single word i could think of starting with the letter “A”. Then B, and C, etc. The game was to get every word possible, and the person who gets more wins. The weird thing was, it was actually fun. My parents chimed in too, and my little sister was completely occupied trying to “out-word” me. By the time we got to our new house a few days later, we were doing the letter “r.”
Orangensaft_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In one house we had a huge shower that one u lucky participant would go into with blankets and pillows. The other players would then throw bouncy balls at the walls really hard to create a death room.
M3tri · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, my family used to camp at a campgrounds every weekend throughout the summer. Right beside the campgrounds was a radio tower. Whenever my dad and I were going to the campgrounds we would watch for the tower to come up over the hill. Whoever said "I see the tower!" first won!
erivatus · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played "No Touchy." The idea was that, if you touched the other person, even accidentally, you lost. So you'd get lots of stopping abruptly in front of people while walking, standing directly outside car doors, etc.
This evolved into Super No Touchy, the goal of which was to be the first person to touch the bottom of the other person's foot. Not sure where the name came from, but this one was mostly just waiting for the other person to forget you were playing and tagging them while they were asleep on the couch.
SpoopyNJW · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wood play a twisted game of snowball fights, but there were no rules so we would throw them with rocks/ice in them,shove ice down our backs and usually we would stop when someone got hurt.
Tryly · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins would play a game called spies/secret agents. We all go into a room and set up our 2 iPods to film from a certain angle. Then, who ever was sitting out has to try to get from one side of the room to the other without getting seen in the cameras. Really fun game that we made up .
tacotime_69 · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bike game. Essentially it was tag(or tig as we called it) but with two teams, one riding bikes are the runners, the others on foot are the chasers. So when someone on foot managed to tag someone on a bike the tagger would get the bike, get a 20 seconds headstart and then would become a runner and the person that wa tagged becomes a chaser. We played it around a one area that was large enough to make it challenging but small enough so that it wasn’t impossible. Every single day after school, it was the most fun man.
Zappa64 · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chicken Noodle Soup.”
Bear with me.
Me and my siblings would walk down our street pretending to wear stripper heels, holding empty bindles and shout at oncoming cars whether or not they wanted chicken noodle soup. At that point, (since it was New York and drivers there don’t give a damn what’s in front of them) we would just run away before they hit us.
We only played in the middle of the night, so in retrospect it was pretty dangerous lol
Tl;dr “high-heeled hooker chicken”
Another fun one was “Sacrifice,” where we left our stuffed animals in the street to get run over. R.I.P. to all my beanie babies.
LooseScrew95 · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SOS! game. First one to spot SOS! sign on road shouted SOS.
ThatRisk · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"PIGS". I think it's a popular British game, but not sure. Anyways, we would find a wall, and kick a football against the wall. You had one touch to get it to touch the wall, and then it was the next person's turn. It keeps going around until someone kicks the ball twice or fails to get the ball to hit the wall. If you failed you would get a letter, e.g: P, and when you got 4 letters (PIGS) you would lose. Punishment was getting "Redassed", Loser had to bend over facing the wall, and everyone who played would get one chance to shoot the ball at their ass. Fun times.
DennRN · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but we had a really fun game called pirate ship.
Setup: Go to a park with a sand box and a wide metal slide (usually built on the side of what’s supposed to be a ship). Player 1 = Captain (defender) All other players = Pirates (attackers)
The captain takes a single handful of sand from the sandbox in a cupped hand and tries to get as much of it as to the top of the slide as he/she can.
Game play: Once the captain is at the top of the slide, the pirates try to board the ship by running up the slide.
The captain rations the sand to the best of his/her ability while trying to keep a trickle flowing down the slide to make it impossible to get enough traction for the pirates to get up the slide.
The first pirate to successfully board the ship is crowned the new captain and a new round starts.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game for my siblings called around the world. Basically, they went around cleaning the different rooms of the house and I’d say we’re going to a different country for each room. I’m not sure how cleaning for into the country, but my parents were very happy to come back to a clean house 😂.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drakengard. Yeah, I shouldn't have done it.
TheDarkeningGamer · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
smokinbluejays · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister copied the premise of trading spaces on hgtv with our animal crossing accounts
augustramon · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played base-hand-kick-ball. There were five bases including the corner of a wall sticking out, the lamp, the Corner of a couch, and a newspaper for home plate. This was played in out very small living room with a yellow rubber ball from Walmart, and we swung our arms as bats. We used to play for hours and hours, and we ruined every window blind in the room. There were so many different little rules we made, but we also knew all of them at the time. Too many to remember but it was basically a combination of baseball, handball, and kickball. Great memories!
DerrayProductions · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jewel Thief: We had a motion detector that in our house that shined in three colors depending on the motion it detected: green, yellow, and red. My dad would place a football at the top of the stairs. What we had to do was make it up the stairs snag the football and make it back without making the motion detector turn red. If it turned red, you were out and the next person went. The person who could touch the football to home base first wins. Home base was just a random piece of furniture my dad would pick depending on how hard we wanted to make it.
Tootsgaloots · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play a game on road trips that entailed the artist drawing one of the other two without looking at the paper. They couldn't close their eyes, because they had to see the face of the person they were drawing, but they had to shield their own drawing from view. The results were always pretty funny. At least to us kids.
LadyJaybird · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would act out the fight scenes from Buffy. We had the Buffy/Faith fight down pretty well. I always made her be Faith so I could “stab” her in the stomach.
My cousin lived in a literal mansion so all of the kids would come over for family events and play hide and seek. An unoriginal game but the size of the house and all the secret doors made it interesting.
When I was on road trips I would put my headphones on and imagine myself on a horse or motorcycle next to the car. So the horse would be running along the road in the grass and through the trees. I tried to be as realistic as possible reacting to bridges, etc.
Illestbillis · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't step on the lava!!
DannyDevitoIsMyDad · 1 points · Posted at 21:41:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight tag. During the summers at night my brothers and I would play with other neighborhood kids. You would hide around the couple houses that we lived in and someone was "it" and tagged someone by flashing their light on you
Overwraught0202 · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to live in a city with one singular tall building that you could see from miles away. When driving home from out of town, the first person to spot it and shout the tower's name won. My mum nearly crashed one when my dad, brother and I all yelled it at the same time
Badabadahotkeys · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Whac a frisbee" cue all of us little kids finding a stick or a broom or anything long to play deffense or offense. Now the object of the game is to throw the frisbee across the street (suburban neighborhood not too much car traffic) and land said frisbee into the neighbors yard. One team would try and hit the frisbee out of the air. Teams would then have to throw from where the frisbee landef. Games stopped when the neighbor noticed us tearing up his lawn.
parensugtard · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called "i win" where id take a deck of cards and the rules would change so i could win. I was really good at it
suzerain17 · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt Boompers. Brother and I would stand heel to heel, back to back and try to get the other off balance. You'd thrust your butt backwards as hard as you could. I quickly gained advantage as I grew to be a fatass.
Rodentlove · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom and I would play the "U Haul" game any time we drove in a car together. Whoever spotted the U Haul first won, but it had to be on the weekend. However, as time went on, our definition of "weekend" became looser and looser 😂 Also, we added in rules like if we were at the "airport intersection" and saw a plane flying above within the markers, we won too.
Francescerous · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would lay on our backs with our legs bent and the soles of our feet together, and would then have to wrestle the others feet to the ground to win, we called it 'foot wars'.
Joshawarrior · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play “golf” but we’d throw wiffle balls and aim for sprinkler holes on neighbor’s lawns.
Tootsgaloots · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MASH obituary, too. You play MASH per normal, then use the answers to write the obituary of the person. That one was always good for a few laughs.
the_chilean · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stunts 4D driving simulator, a DOS-based racing game with horrible graphics that let you create your own tracks. I would spend complete days making those tracks. The game fit in a 1.44mb diskette. The music is forever stuck in my brain.
rediscov409 · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weird kindergarten game where the girls tried to kiss the boys ( cuz cooties or whatever). If you were kissed you lost. It was a weird form of tag...
I won...
0dinious · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot wheels races where you made race tracks by moving toys, furniture, etc. around and moved your toy car by flicking it with a finger
Legallydead111 · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oni by Bungie and Take-Two
melsellsbells · 1 points · Posted at 21:42:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark you're it / hide and seek in dark
Basically me and my sister would cover the windows in our room and turn off the lights. One would hide the other would have a scarf over their eyes and try to find the one hiding.
It's very fun and we brought it to school and did it during pe. we took out a lot of pe stuff where you can hide and Once it's all done we turn off the lights, cover the windows and the game starts. whoever gets caught becomes teammate with the one who's it. So In the end there's one person hiding from everyone else. Super fun game and it was fun finding new hiding spots everyone was so creative.
uberyeets1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forget what it was called but some game involving kung fu, an old fan, and, a ball.
aq_36n · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mayday!" Where you ride your bike into a pine tree while yelling "Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!"
TonyMontanasSon · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played colour tag in elementary school. If you were “it” you could not touch the ground or the platforms of the playground. If you were “not it” you couldn’t touch the ground. It was really fun and it got really competitive.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a slumber party game called “Tractors” and whoever yelled it first at bedtime rolled over onto the other people.
Synyzy · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
First one to shout "Tractor!" whenever you saw a tractor won.
Karaoke_Jesus · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
52 pickup
miramango58 · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
alice and wonderland tag
InsaneDane · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Padiddle, a.k.a. Sex Points. When driving, if you spot a car with a headlight out, you slap the roof of the car and call "Padiddle." Whoever gets the most points wins. During teenage years, the game morphed to Sex-Points, which was basically Strip Padiddle.
RachelDesha · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Our own version of Hide and Seek (in the Dark).
The person that was the “seeker” had to be blindfolded and everyone would hide around a room in the dark. When “the seeker” finally found a “hider” they had to guess who that person was by name without taking off their blindfold. If they got it right the “hider” would become the new “seeker” but if they guessed incorrectly, the game would continue for additional rounds until the “seeker” guessed correctly and a “hider” would become the new “seeker”.
Also we’d make the room pitch black so there was no chance of cheating.
I’d play this game with my cousins at Thanksgiving as a child and we absolutely loved it. It was our very own creation and we’re still proud of it all these years later.
dwc29 · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids my brother and played "surf board" whenever we were in a pool. one goes down and "lies" on their stomach at the bottom of a shallow pool and the other "surfs" on their back while the "surfboard" tries to shake the "surfer" off... lol
ds9anderon · 1 points · Posted at 21:43:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can Ghost in the Graveyard
OG_Gaspar · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings use to play "hide and seek in the dark" which consisted of us playing hide and seek outside our apartments late at night and when the seeker would tag someone they'd become a zombie and would have to help find the remaining people .
drgnfly369 · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Haunted House”, I was always the “narrator”/ghosts of the place. My cousins would “inherit” a house, which was just our backyard, and we would play as them moving and living in the house. I lived in a place where our parents put their cars inside the backyard. So the cars were the “walls” of the mansion. I would narrate, or direct actually, what would happen, and my cousins would react accordingly. Like hearing a voice or seeing someone walking down the “hallways” and they would act surprised. It was fun and always our go to game. Especially since we were really into horror movies.
KennyEvol · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember the first year of high school they took away the football and anything we wanted to play with during recess because kids were getting injured. Eventually I found a plank about 2 feet long and 2 inches wide. I started throwing it in the air and trying to catch it. A couple of friends and more people started to try it. We spent the entire time throwing a stick in the air. Good times. They eventually got after us and took our stick away. He never had a chance.
Obant · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had two. "Up-up" and "Trippers & Strippers"
Trippers was brutal. we usually played during the fall when you could load up on an extra sweater for padding. A friend had a corner lot with a thin side yard. Each end was a goal. One team would have to run a ball to the other side, while the other did anything they could to bring him down, including full tackles, leg kicks, ect. If the running team scored, the other team would have to remove an article of clothing. Usually a shoe, sock, or sweater. It wasn't a smart game... it usually ended when someone got hurt.
The other, Up-up, was played with a ball. Anything from a dodge ball to a hacky sack. Everyone would stand in a circle, someone would throw the ball as high as they could, call out someone's name, and everyone else would have to scatter. If the name person caught the ball, they could throw it up and call someone else's name. If the named person dropped the ball, theyd have to retrieve it and yell freeze soon as they had it. Everyone else would have to stop moving completely, then the ball holder would have to try and hit them. If they did, that person got a strike, and everyone would unfreeze and get into a circle again. If they missed, the thrower would get the strike. Three and you're out until, last one in is the winner.
warvext · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eat dirt
joeallen049 · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers and sisters played stick wars we would find sticks about 3 feet long and maybe a inch or so thick couldn’t be to big and We would whack a tree with the last 6 or so inches of the stick with some practice you could get it to break of and go spinning at a really high rate of speed we would aim at each other and it would usually end when someone got hurt
graidar5 · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curb-ball: we lived on a set of row houses with curbs on both sides of the street. During the day, in the summer, no cars were around and we'd bounce a tennis ball off the curb, and the other person would be the fielder. We'd have set lines, like past the defender hitting the other curb was a single, over the curb but before the sidewalk was a double, over the hedge line was a home run etc... We tired ourselves out throwing a tennis ball at the curb when we couldn't get actual games going. Best two player game ever.
busyidiot5000 · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fuck the step dad secretly"
ThiccDaddyB · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While we didn’t play it that often, myself and one to two other friends played a game we called “sit-ball”.
Basically, the object of the game was to get a playground ball into a goal guarded by another player, all while sitting or basically doing a slav squat. There were “lives”, or hitpoints I guess you could call them, that we had and if they hit zero you would lose. There were some other rules and procedures but that’s the gist of it. Hope you find it as interesting as we did lol
Vote4Calvin · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much when I was young but right about the time I got my driver's license my friends and I started playing the "Volvo" game, which another friend of mine had invented but we added some rules and made it our own.
Basically the premise was when you saw a Volvo you would shout "Volvo" and get a point. If you mistakenly called Volvo on something else you lost a point. However there were a bunch of random rules too, like Volvo semi trucks are worth 2 points and Volvo construction equipment was 3. Orange Honda Elements were good for a point or 3 points if you were in a state's capital city.
Our friend Ryland's Mom had a Volvo with the vanity plate "DR ANNI". So if you saw her puttering around town you had to yell "DOCTOR ANNIE" at the top of your lungs out the window at her and you would automatically win. She got yelled at a lot. One time our friend Stephen was working in a dealership garage and she came in for an oil change so he snapped a pic of himself changing the oil in the Dr. Anni Volvo and was considered a local hero.
The game phased itself out. There don't seem to be as many Volvos on the road anymore and the new ones don't stand it cause they aren't boxy.
pistachiosandstuff · 1 points · Posted at 21:44:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pilot”
The game was played on a trampoline. One person was the pilot, and the other three people were “toys” being transported abroad. The people who played the toys had to lie down in the middle of the trampoline, shoulder to shoulder, and not make a single movement or sound. The “pilot” would pretend to fly the plane at the side of the trampoline, and would have his back turned on the toys. If the pilot felt any movement from the toys (it’s very easy to make a trampoline move) or heard a giggle or sigh, he/she was then allowed to kick and hit the toys (hard) until they stopped moving or laughing or screaming.
It was actually quite funny for us back then because the pilot was usually one of the brother/sister duos and would always pick on their sibling the most. It got pretty abusive lol.
In hindsight, this game is absolutely terrible. But for some reason we thought it was sooo funny.
torturedatnight · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put a whole bunch of rocks on a trampoline and jumped as hard as we could. The winner got hit by the least rocks. It's also a convenient way to destroy a lawnmower in the future.
Sir-White-Knight · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back alley turn off all the lights and beat the shit out of each other lots of broken stuff
iTooNumb · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
CACTUS! in the car my family and I would yell out if we saw a cactus. Whoever found the most won.
godpoker · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No real name for it but when on a car journey with my friends as a late teenager we used to shout "jogger, 10 points" when we saw someone out jogging. Never kept scores or anything but it was just fun to see other people's faces drop when they missed out on the 10 meaningless points.
Manucapo · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ambush.
Like a reverse hide and seek where the goal is to ambush the people looking for you. By basically jumping behind them and shouting ambush at them.
Also the "dinosaur game".
A pool game where one person was a dinosaur and had to chase and tag everyone else.
The twist is the game was divided into two timed phases. During the day the dinosaur could just freely chase everyone but at night, he could only "see you" if you made noises. Which basically meant the dinosaur kid had to go around and try to make people laugh by making silly faces and or actions so he could see them and catch them.
TheJollyDabber · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Joshia's dragons" we'd each have our own elemental power and use it to fight either each other or whatever imaginary enemy we could come up with, typically dragons. Man I miss being 8...
Werewolfhugger · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Brumble”. Imagine a baseball, dodgeball hybrid played with a broom. There were only two bases and the pitcher had to remain sitting at all times. Each time you ran between the bases was worth 1 point. You got to keep running between bases until you got pegged with the ball (which was actually a kickball).
StEeZy_SyNtH · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also, Bouncy Ball Mayhem. Basically my friends and I would ride around on our bikes in a cul-de-sac and pass a bouncy ball but you can’t get off your bike or stop. And we did everything to stay by those rules which resulted in several crashes but also some very memorable moments.
haloo12345 · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
on car rides we would play "the alphabet game". during long car rides you had to try to find each letter of the alphabet in order somewhere outside the car (meaning bringing books didn't count). so we were always on the lookout for signs or license plates with different letters.
Q was the hardest to find but there was a town with a q in it's name about 2/3 of the way to my grandmas house. so it quickly grew into try to be up to Q by the time we hit there.
RD2party · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played "return to antartica" (there was never an original "going to Antarctica" either). Essentially we pretended to be orphans trapped in Antarctica. We sat on my bed all day and the good sea wench (our mom) would bring us what we called "fish grenades" which was actually just uncooked oatmeal in an old coffee can. We made her bring us that to eat. We played this game often
Randor0423 · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Othello
Stagamemnon · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We invented a game called "butt hairs"
Our neighbors had a nice wooden swing-set in their back yard. It had a couple swings with monkey bars above them, a climbing tower on one side, and a rope swing on the other.
It was basically just a "lava" game, but the premise was that the swing set was a giants' hairy butt crack, and the ground was the toilet water. We were all "cling-ons," pieces of poop clinging to the hairs" and we did our best to move from butt-hair to butt-hair, while also trying to forcefully remove other people from the butt, kicking or shoving them off the butt and into the toilet water (wood-chip-covered ground) below.
Lots of laughs. Lots of splinters.
KaizoBloc · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will probably won't be noticed by many, nor is it quite in the spirit of the question. But I got to play a cancelled PS1 game called Thrill Kill, 4 player death match game with excessive violence. Hugely controversial at the time. So much so that it was never released, but I got a bootleg copy of it.
It was mediocre by current standards, but the novelty of playing an ultra violent unreleased game wasn't lost on young me.
thickwonga · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i used to play this weird game with my uncle when i was young
it was a weird game
TMcedric · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Musical chair. This is the first battle royale game I played in my life.
DownSyndromeAbortion · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me but a few Republican kids I went to school with. They’d guess how much black people would sell for on the open market (in slavery times). Some were built for labor so their value increased while others were suitable to lay with (women). It was so Republican lol
Kagger911 · 0 points · Posted at 21:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When did Republican become the definition of racist lol?
curi0us_kiwi · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I had an ongoing "game" that wasn't actually fun at all and was taken super seriously for no reason. The first person dressed and ready to go in the morning got the front seat in the minivan for the 4 minute ride to school, and I had to "win" everyday or I was pretty much plotting the systematic destruction of my brothers' lives. So I used to SLEEP in my school uniform and said I'd brushed my hair and teeth when I hadn't, to ensure my continued victory. I would subsequently endure tireless bullying about my unkempt appearance and terrible hygiene at school... But somehow that 4 minute ride of glory was totally worth all the tears and low self esteem. It was initially more of an incentive my mom put into action to get us going in the morning, but it also extended to after school daily as well, and the three of us siblings had a contest to see who could call out the name of our neighborhood first, upon the entrance sign coming into view... Then once we pulled into the driveway, we raced to see who could touch the front door first. This meant all of our seat belts were clicking off two houses before ours, and the van doors were rolling open before the car was even stopped. It's understandable that we were this competitive though because if we won, the prize was literally nothing.
Typical_Trystan · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tetris
thrmldrct · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whippee. In elementary school, we had a bucket full of chalk, jump ropes, basketballs, and other recess stuff. Whoever wanted to play lined up at the door after lunch, and when they let us into the courtyard we all raced to the bucket. Whoever secured the longest jump rope with the most beads still attached was the whipper, everyone else playing was a whippee. The whipper chased the whippees with the jump rope, pretty simple. If the whippee could snatch the rope mid-whip and yank it from the whippers hands, they would be the new whipper. I guess winning would mean being the whipper for the entire recess period.
Eschue7 · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tagaroo. All the kids in the neighborhood would come over to our house that had a huge yard. We would take all of the kick balls, footballs, soccer balls etc and throw them all over the yard. My dad would then try and peg all of us kids as we ran around the yard and hiding behind trees and other things. If you got hit you went to jail and could be tagged out to be freed by another person. Game ended when dad had beamed every kid an no one was free.
Mu99az · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Socks
Get a football sock each and pack it full of other socks at the end. That’s your weapon. Pull the blackout blinds so it’s pitch black and start swinging at each other. Sometimes added a strobe light
JazzyCereal · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the mulch covered ground of the playground of year 4-6, (3rd to 5th grade) my friends and I played "Knights and Horses". It was simple, yet brutal. People got in pairs of 2. One of them (the "Knight") would climb on the other person's (the "Horse") back like they were getting a piggyback ride. Each pair of knight and horse would run around and attempt to knock the knight off the horse in any way possible. It got really violent. I think this one kid broke his arm doing it and the teachers tried to ban the game.
Chrismass81 · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Rodney King". Some of us were Rodney's,some of us were cops. The cops would Chace the Rodney's around, then we'd beat the shit out of eachother! Played it everyday for like a year! P.s. I'm from a small town in Canada! Lol!!
LarleneLumpkin · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bit late so probably get buried but me and my friends used to come up with lots of "make-believe" games that would expand and turn into an epic series with plot twists and cliff hangers. My favourite was probably this game me and my friend played where we were talking dogs living in this world run by talking animals. I was a male dog called Dodger who was really clumsy and stupid and always getting into trouble and I lived next door to a female dog (played by my friend) called Candy. Dodger was in love with Candy but was always making a full of himself infront of her so it never worked out. It really does sound like such a stupid pretense but we got so much mileage out of this game with reoccurring extra characters played by us (like Dodgers shy younger brother who started dating Candy much to Dodgers annoyance and was subsequently killed off because of this) and had special "episodes" where Dodger and Candy would go on holiday to these exotic countries and meet other animals they'd never come across before. I loved it. Best memor of my childhood.
superzenki · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game we called “Push and Pull Back” where it was literally one of us pushing the other (playfully) to see how close they could get to the wall without hitting, then we’d pull back at the last second.
We were playing near the corner of a wall, and it was my sister pushing me. One of my earliest memories was being pushed towards the wall, passing out, and waking up in the hospital after receiving stitches. I have no idea how much time passed, but I can still point out the stitch wound on my forehead today. And that was definitely the last time we played that game.
tdsigmon96 · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a bunch of my buddies used to play a "game" where we all stood in a circle and one of us would shoot a an arrow (bow wasnt that powerful ~30lb draw weight IRRC) straight up in the air. If you stayed still you won, bail and you lose your dignity.
This was "typically" "not" done right next to our homes...
Merica-fuckyeah · 1 points · Posted at 21:46:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played sardines. One kid hides and everyone tries to find them. When you came by the hidden person. You hide with them. The last person to find the group is the next one “it”. Always a challenge to find the hidden person but not let on you know so you can slip away and join them.
Shadowbros_proOG · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rapey uncle (I’m joking)
SomethinWildlyClever · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy sticks
justwannawatchdrphil · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little late to the conversation, but my older sister and I had two fun games. One was “Kim possible” where we’d both have to go on missions and battle different bad guys. We played it on the trampoline. One person at a time. One of us would have to jump in the center circle that was drawn on the trampoline. This meant you’d teleported to a new level. The other person had to gather various objects from inside the house like teddy bears and plastic bowls and such. You’d have to jump and bounce the object then punch it out of the trampoline to defeat it. But you couldn’t touch it with any other part of your body other than your fist or you’d be defeated. The final boss was the other sister who would come out and fight you. Basically until someone was too exhausted from jumping.
Our other game was much more arbitrary. We had a deck of cards with dogs on them. We called the game “K9 yes” and we had to each present a card and then both decide which was cuter. The winner got to tally the corresponding number to their score. It was awesome when you had a cute dog with a high number. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
TAG on rollerblades.
Iamthewalrusgod101 · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game we called "magic fencing". In which we would battle it out with imaginary medieval style weapons e.g. Bows, swords, shields. There would be teams and each team would start the other side of the playground. There would be no go zones called "lava" that people would have jump across. At one point we had two massive teams. From the teachers eyes they saw 2 teams of 30 children run screaming at each other having some medieval battle whilst making the sound effects and screaming "heal me!", or "avoid the lava".... Fuck it was fun
WalkingSilentz · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself and my two best friends were at the top of our class when we were around 10 years old, we got our work done faster than most kids, and our teacher would mark and then let us go out for lunch early. So we'd have about 10-15 minutes more than other kids usually.
We started a game called "Spies" where you had to run to the end of the school field, we'd meet in our 'secret' tree base, and we'd choose our Pokemon for the mission. Our mission was usually to spy on things in the playground and report back at the end of lunch. Didn't really have any specific objectives mind you.
Until we watched this video series in class, I remember some of it pretty clearly but I don't remember what it was called. I think it was a BBC-produced series? A mix of real people and CGI/puppet creatures was involved, and basically the world was falling apart or slowly dying. There was a dragon who'd tell the kids what to do, and each week we'd include the mission into our lunch missions.
Then one day we noticed the trees in the forest were 'bleeding', and we started to think the world was actually dying. Each lunch for a few months we'd scrape sap off of trees and do 'experiments' to work out what it was. We spent way more time out of school together, our parents would always ask what we were up to and the response would be "Saving the world". They laughed it off but we continued on.
One day though, we came back and the sap was no longer there. We believed we saved the world.
The year after we were in different classes, and the year after we were at different schools. We don't speak anymore, but there's no adventure quite like saving the world with your friends!
Mattveex025 · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played tennis without a bet and called it “Ball-Ball”
Pinestachio · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mention this on here a lot for some reason. "Salad" Super violent game.
You play with a soda bottle half filled with water acting as a makeshift soccer ball. There are no teams, every man for themselves. The aim is to kick the bottle through anyone else's legs when both feet are touching the ground. When that happens everyone that was playing jumps in and starts wailing on the person until they reach a goal that was designated beforehand, like a door or backpack on one side of the field. The faster they make it the less they get beat up.
Some people would purposely trip someone so everyone would get more punches in.
Saw a guy get jump kicked right in the chest straight into a door once. Just started spectating intead of playing every day after seeing that.
insertcaffeine · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Needle Rabies. The whole first grade class played. At first, only one person would have the Needle Rabies, like the person who's "it" in a game of tag. They'd tag someone. That person would then have the Needle Rabies and there would be two people tagging. They'd tag and tag until the entire class had the Needle Rabies. Then we'd all be dead and the game would be over.
xBlenderman · 1 points · Posted at 21:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One player would stand at the top of the stairs, and another at the bottom. Our stairs had a ceiling, and a wall at the top, so the lower person scored by bouncing a racquetball off the back wall, and back down the stairs, and the upper person gained points by stopping it.
We had pictures going down that stairway... they died bravely
foxi44 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I got to high school and my family was on the way to go camping I made up a game that every time we went over a cattle guard someone shouted "cattle guard" then everyone had to find a screw, touch it with a finger, then lift their feet off the floor until we passed over the guard. I have no idea how I came up with this, but some of us still play this as adults.
BeeGucciShades · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique but water sumo wrestling. Try to get the other person to touch their feet on the deep side of the pool or make them tap out by literally drowning them. No holds barred and no rules. My best friend and I nearly killed each other countless times.
k3lpi3 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called heat leeches with friends. For context, my country is very cold in the winter and we were woefully underdressed, so the coldest and least dressed of us would chase each other round to hug them and "leech their heat" to keep themselves warm for a while. It probably saved us from hypothermia not by stealing heat but by running from the leech.
Sirpoosalot · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played, "Tenni Ball". It is basically street golf.
We all lived in the same neighborhood/elementary school area. A lot of my friends grew up playing golf so it was only a matter of time until it evolved into something like this. Everyone would have a tennis racket and a tennis ball. We started play from one of our house's front yard. The goal/pin/hole would be one of those blue postal mailbox drop off boxes that you can find on random streets. In our little neighborhood we had about 3-4 of these.
We would then smack our tennis balls down streets and over houses to try and get to the hole in the fewest shots. Some holes would be to land the ball on a specific step of a friends front stairs, etc. The average par would end up being about 8 strokes, maybe.
Amazingly, in all the summers we played this, we never broke a window or really bothered any homeowners. Really brings me back and I would love to play this again with everyone from back home.
Holdin_McNeal · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sticks vs rocks. One day you’re stick one day you’re rock. The object is to throw your kind at the opponent. You couldn’t wait to wake up and be rock that day.
Rick_Eli · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the quarter. My uncle would give me a quarter and tell me to hide it and he would try to find it. It was fun until he made me start hiding it in my pants.
WhenTheBeatKICK · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So you’ll be driving through places that were blown out by dynamite for the highway to be built through it. You see dirt hills and a lot of times there would be exposed rock, we’d call them “cliffs,” but it was really just exposed rock that was blasted away. Me and my brothers would be in the backseat “claiming” these cliffs as our own. If we spotted them first we’d yell “mine!” And then that one was yours, lol. Our parents probably hated us yelling “mine mine mine” from the backseat
daytoremembers · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a version of ‘house’ but it was ‘When a Stranger Calls’ (the movie from like the mid 2000’s) and we’d act the whole movie out and take turns getting to be the one who says “the stranger is calling from inside the house. INSIDE THE HOUSE.”
Letrix_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calling cars
Idea was if you saw a cool car or one you liked you had to say”I CALL THAT CAR” and no one else could “call it”. Basically you owned the car if you called it and no one could call it if you called it.
Nahz27 · 1 points · Posted at 21:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ToeJam & Earl
SweetieBird82 · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Almost lost an eye playing our version Richie Rich's Kidapult.
Our living room in my parent's house has always been set up in a U with couches and at a time we had a fold out couch on one of the sides. We were 4 kids total.
We would unfold the couch, 3 of us would lay on our backs with our legs up as springs and the 4th would fold the couch back over forming a 📦. Then they would jump over the top, being catapulted by the human springs inside to the couch across the room.
Miscalculating that landing put an end to our game. Considering I was the oldest and supposed to be watching my 3 brothers, I told my mom I slipped on the rug when she saw the gash on the corner of my right eye. Next day the rug was gone.
aliengerm1 · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Best friend and I had a card game. Lots of cards in the deck (it wasn't a standard deck, I dont recall exactly what it was... I suspect one could make a standard deck work too as long as you have 4 of each kind.)
Both of us would have half the deck, in our hands, face down. Start putting down cards 1 by 1, until a match occurs. Then it was a race. Use the card in your hand to cover the match (both). See if there's a new match. Cover that match. (If both of you are going for the same match, the one on bottom wins, the other pulls back his/her card for the next try.)
Whoever runs out of cards first, wins.
It was good plain slap dash chaos fun, but it ruins the cards (which is probably why we didn't use a regular deck) since collisions inevitably occurred.
Ps: yes, the honor system is involved as there's really no time to verify your opponent's actions. I never cheated.
Sproozie · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
CARS. Omg cars was the best Rules are simple UK rules BTW Mini Cooper +1 Single bus +1 Double decker +2 Firetrucks or ambulances +5 Motorbikes +1 Yellow cars (yellow is my favourite color) +1 Any Lambo Ferrari Porsche (Sports cars in general) +10 2 categories - add both of them up and double the point total. (Firetrucks and Ambulances are excluded from this.) My brother and I would have a notepad and pen to tally up and because we sat net to each other in the back of the car we always keep check. Sometimes my dad would drive us round to a mink cooper dealership and goodness we were allowed max 20 points At the end of the journey most points win.
OrangeRealname · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game didn't have a name, but it was basically hide and seek. The hiders would each have some sort of melee weapon, a toy machete for example. The seeker would have a nerf gun that was generally loaded with the same amount of darts as the hiders (In larger groups the seeker would be given extra darts in a larger magazine, or a side arm to overcome zerg tactics). The seeker's job was to shoot ever hider. The hider's jobs were to hit the seeker.
antisocialbydesign · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Nicotine” — I grew up being completely anti-smoking because school told me so, so when I was eight, and I saw my neighbour smoking, I would get in my bike and ride past him singing the nicotine song, and would only leave when he started throwing shit at me.
xElectro17 · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Spider". I usually played it in living room or hall. I took a spool of strings and tied pieces of furniture together to create a spider's web that spanned across the whole room. When my web was finished I sat underneath and tried to catch family members that got to close.
KittySky · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon Special. Basically I had a whole fanfic verse in my head and I wanted to play it with pokemon cards. My sisters hated it tho
wavykamekun420 · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game directly translated to Belty (riempje in dutch)
So it worked like this:
Everybody in the neighborhood got together at the playground. One person hid the belt in my street. As soon as someone has found the belt, they can hit anyone as hard as they can with the belt while they run until they’re back at the safe spot (the playground).
Not even making this shit up, I was about 9 years old, and there were kids between 8 and 17 years old playing this game all together, sometimes even the older guys played with us.
It was kind of a painful game, but what else are you supposed to play as a little boy? 😫
_Amazing_lol_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made a war game, we had a name but it’s been long forgotten. Basically, I had a few hundred plastic army soldiers (green, purple, tan, barf green) and his carpet had a pattern of small squares over the entire thing. There were different classes as shown by the way the army guy was standing or the weapons he was holding. Snipers, scouts, captains, and foot soldiers. We later added artillery into the game when we agreed on how it would work, basically longer range snipers. Each class has a movement stat, and range stat, later we added dice to the game for a chance to miss the target, snipers had the least chance to miss. You had a certain number of soldiers you could move per turn. Captains had no weapons, they were just objective pieces to capture. You won by complete elimination or capturing the enemy captain(s). We played this for many years, had printed rules in a laminated binder and everything, even got my friends to play it with us.
NateNMaxsRobot · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s in rural Minnesota. We lived like way-the-fuck-out in the country. Nearest neighbor a mile away. We made up lots of games, but one of the stupidest but most fun games was The Water Game. Usually it was me, my two younger bros, a few of our cousins and my best friend. We lived in a big rambler with a finished basement. The game would start in the basement kitchen because it was the furthest place from the front door on the main floor. Each of us would fill our mouths with cold water, and then with small intervals of time between kids, we’d each make our way silently thru the lower level of the house, up the staircase, thru the main level of the house and then out the front door. No running allowed. The goal was to be the kid who didn’t spit his or her mouthful of water out until they made it out the front door and to our sidewalk. The best strategy was to be the first or second kid to fill his or her mouth, then very stealthily hide somewhere to silently surprise the other kids with a huge but obviously silent scare so they’d spit their entire mouthful of water out in the house somewhere. You couldn’t tickle your opponents, but somehow causing them to laugh and spit could be achieved however. My standard techniques were short comedy routines such as:
When we first made the game up, we’d used Koolaid but later switched it to plain old water because stickiness. I assumed my mom had no idea what we were doing because she was always out in the garden. Turns out she knew, but was thankful we weren’t bugging her or beating the crap out of each other per usual. I’m the oldest; the only girl.
stalinclaus_1944 · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Am I supposed to know who that is?
rubyl0ve · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mum used to hide around the house with a wet flannel. My brother and I would run around the house in excitement waiting for her to pop out and hit us round the head with a wet flannel.
wouldy · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's an Ethiopian card game called "Injera" I learned when I was younger. You take a full deck of playing cards and spread them in a big circle. Then you put 4 cards in the center and each player takes a turn pulling from the circle of cards. You draw a card and match it with one of the cards in the center. They can be an exact match or the product of addition or subtraction. If there's no match the player puts their card in the center. If you get a match you keep drawing cards. You can also steal from the top of your opponents stash if you have the same card. The the most cards at the end wins!
Jerry_wrecks · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek but at night we would use a flashlight to find each other in the woods.
SarcasticSpam · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade 7 at a camp,the dorms had long narrow halways with a bunch of rooms on the left and right of the hallway. The hallways were around 5 feet wide. A bunch of people (myself included) made a game called murslugs(idk what we were thinking) it invloved two teams were a group of 6 people were in sleeping bags and the other were a group of runners (idk like 8-9 people) who were trying to reach the other end of the hallway without getting tackled, no one could agree what was considered tackled s what ended up happening was people in sleeping bags would comletely grand slam people into the ground then hop ontop of them. Fun times...
Nellisir · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I went to a small private school for 7th & 8th grade, and once a year at the annual reunion/get-together/meeting we'd play a game called Barn Door. People were broken up into teams of 4-5 people. The captain of each team had a flashlight, and the director of the school had one of those mega-flashlights/spotlights. They'd hang a metal garbage can lid from a big pine tree that stood in the middle of the lawn. Each team had a designated starting location, and the director stayed near the tree. At dusk we'd go out to our location and wait for the school bell to start the game.
The object was to sneak back and hit the barn door without getting caught. You were caught if another captain or the director of the school shone the flashlight on you AND called out your name. Once you hit the barn door you'd yell out "BARN DOOR", and then go in and have cider & donuts. Team that got the most barn doors won.
It was a LONG sprint to that lid.
raspberrt · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Scare me or not". It was like hide and go seek except the object of the game was to scare the seeker. The seeker then got to choose who scared them best and then that person would become the seeker.
Quazlefock · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tampon wars.
You’d each soak a tampon in water or some other liquid, hold the string and then take turns hitting the other person in the face with it.
First person to cry, bleed or break their string lost.
Xdtoaster · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if its unique or not, but my siblings and our cousins used to play a game called crayons where there would be a tagger in the middle and everyone else was runners. Before the game started we the runners would decide who got what color or alternatively multiple people could be a color. Once when the target said your color you ran to the other side and if you got tagged you would help the tagger.
therealvisual · 1 points · Posted at 21:51:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rocks. We had two bases across a gravel yard and threw rocks at each other. We were not smart.
HookLogan · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from dad in impossibly small spaces, while utterly terrified, to avoid a beating.
ItIsOutofMyHands · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure how unique this is, but my siblings and I played Easter Egg Hunt all year round. We would take the empty plastic Easter eggs and take turns hiding them for each other. We thought it was so fun, it didn't matter that they were empty!
Baconoid_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I used to play the License Plate game on road trips. You couldn't call plates from the state you were in unless you had first called an out-of-state plate.
somestonerkiddo · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Douche cone. Basically you’re in the forest with your friends (for whatever reason- we were hiking when we made this up) and you wear your hat backwards (to look like a douche lmao), find a Pinecone, and throw it AS HARD AS YOU CAN at the other person. There is no winning to douchecone.
the_grassynol · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take a marker pole? It was used to mark pipes and lines and stuff. Idk the actual name of the thing but it was like a red/orange wood pole that we would swing into the air and try to stick in the ground. You'd be judged on how it stuck in the ground on a scale of 0-10. 0 being no stick at all and 10 being straight up. It would be like the first to 50 or something.
melanistickoala · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “battle of the tsunamis” where we would ride on waves(or rip sticks, whichever brand you had) and would try to hit the other off of their wave. It got to the point where we would eventually use the hose or broom stick and either throw them in front of the other’s wheel or at the back of their board to try to get them down lol
Pinestachio · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom had this game as a kid with her siblings. They'd catch a bunch of bees in a matchbox and then close the whole house up when their parents were at work, open the box and run away from the bees. Not sure how anyone "won" that game...
spenny75 · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play the shin game on the bus ride home. Basically we would try and crush each other's shins into the seat in front of us. You had to be sneaky to get your foot behind your opponent when they least expected. It was a very stupid and painful game.
-Kley- · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Table tag. We’d go to a park shelter where there were bunches of picnic tables and play tag where you couldn’t touch the ground. I don’t know how we made it through those games without broken bones.
Blade runner. Same park. They have swing sets with like 8 swings, side by side. Put kids swinging (violently at times) on all 8 swings and someone has to run through like a gauntlet. For some reason, it was desired to be the ‘runner’.
Shoe flinging contest. Same park, same swings. Loosen up a show while swinging and fling it forward as far as possible.
666Hellmaster · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I use to play hide and seek but the catch is everything had to be off to the point where you couldn't see anything, basically having to hide from and having to find the other person blind. I still think the game is fun, you rely on touch and sound.
idontlikegaysordarks · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Spy Kids” the computer game.
LesLeaf · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to have a bunk bed, I was up top and he was below me. When we were too awake or just didn’t want to sleep, we’d throw stuffed animals up and down to each other, trying to hit each other or seeing who could make who laugh (since our parents room was literally directly next to ours) and sometimes they’d hit our ceiling fan or we’d get too loud and have to pretend to be asleep. Some of my best memories are in tat bunk bed.
Jerry_wrecks · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Broom hockey it's like hockey but we would use brooms and a tennis ball then use our backpacks as goals
tamed_tree_hugger · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Judder Man” was basically hide n seek but with a twist. You’d have to play at night and have the whole house to play with because it adds tension. The seeker would dramatically play out part of a script from https://youtu.be/1TUOPeNJCK8 Once the drama scene was over, everyone would scat to it and hide and wait and pray they were the last ones found because once you were found, the seeker or “Judderman” has free reign to beat yo ass with a stick. It was funny at the time, okay.
Jehrich314 · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Red Ball game" This is a two for one because over the course of a few years we wound up with two different games that went by the same name. We had one of those red plastic-y inflatable balls that you find in the big cages at walmart or target (I always find it hard to describe them exactly.) This one was about two feet in diameter or maybe slightly smaller.
It was essentially free-for-all dodgeball with one ball and you had to hit the other person in the head. We played in the basement with a couch in the middle of a relatively open room. You could hit them with the ball while holding it in your hand, whack-a-mole style, or you could throw it (hard) like a dodgeball.
Eventually we bought a ping pong table that sat in the room so in order to still have a game we played ping pong with the red ball. You throw the ball at the other side and the other person has to catch it before a double bounce or before it hits the ground or walls. You pretty much just stand on opposite sides of the table whipping the ball at one another off the surface.
Haven't thought about those games in a long time :)
josususu · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well these aren’t games but some things we would do is grab this foldable table we had and slide down our stair case into a pile of pillows that we would put against the wall; we called it “Crash Course”. Another thing we used to do is take all of our sofa pillows, stack them on top of each other and just throw ourselves off, praying that the fall was perfect and the pillows would land in a domino sort of effect to cushion our fall cause if not, our asses were GONE. Finally, we used to have this spray called “DUSTRAP” and spray it across an entire section of our floor and just slide through it. When we would run out we used oil though. 😂😂😂
JJPPPYT · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Chinese molester. Yup, that was a thing.
rcampbell135 · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and cousins would play manhunt in my grandmas basement. It was pitch black and we would set up a trap for whoever was it to trip over when they got to the bottom of the stairs. The best was when they would trip over that old school riding horse with springs on it. They would yell cursing us out while the horse squeaked back and forth. Everyone would be giggling while trying to remain as silent as possible. It was great.
Also my three brothers and I would have slipper wars. We would get as many soft slippers as we could and have 2v2 battles whipping the slippers at one another from across the room.
AKRN47 · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red Bull. One person rode on this wicked rinky dink mini bike wearing a full face red helmet trying to run over the other "players." Everyone else would throw various objects including basketballs, lacrosse sticks, and pretty much anything you could get your hands on trying to knock the "bull" over. There really was no winners the game just ended when someone needed to go to the E.R. Or she protective services showed up.
carathia · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Penis inspection day
BX-02BLODIA · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my recess time in elementary school, me and a friend didin't play a game, we acted out our own TV show. Every recess break would be an episode.
CalebCrawdadd · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SPUD!! Anyone else ever played this before? I never hear anyone talk about it.
MenInABush · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
bridge tag
5ilvrtongue · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and sister and I would take turns dragging each other by our feet, face down, along our long, highly polished, hardwood hallway because if we got the speed just right our foreheads would bump ever so slightly with a fun thudding sound and feeling.
PenguinMamah · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Picture tag/hide-and-seek.
Everyone joins a group chat, some people get chosen as the hunters and the rest goes to hide. Every x minutes every person or group have to send a selfie that reveals some hint to their location, and then the hunters try to figure out where people are. Once we played it in PE, and shit was bonkers since everyone tried their hardest. A friend of mine once played it with his friends, and he laid in a ditch filled with nettles for like 40 minutes because he sent a picture of a field every time and they couldn't figure out which field it was. Meanwhile he heard hunters running by every once in a while and people screaming when the hunters caught up to them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was an apple tree in the corner of our front yard and many of it's branches hung over the road. We would climb up it and stand on the limbs. When kids rode their bikes or cars drove underneath it we'd shake the branches making apples fall on them. They were small apples so no harm was ever done. But the foliage of the tree was so thick we were easily able to hide in it, laughing.
Also, from the same house. There was an ice cream truck that often drove the neighborhood. We found endless humor in yelling at to stop then running away and hiding. We would even be inside our house and yell "STOP", and then duck below the window. I bet that driver came to hate us for wasting so much of his time.
smbeck · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I played "shark" in our pool. Two of us would be on a full sized air mattress on the water and one of us would wear goggles and go under the mattress. Whoever was the shark would stay under the air mattress for a bit and then pop up and try to scare/surprise the people on the raft and knock someone into the water. If you fell in you became the shark if the shark was able to catch you, the original shark then went on the mattress.
cadair27 · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in elementary school, we used to have people swinging as fast as the could on the swing set, and then the others would try and run through them without getting hit.
More than a few people went flying.
PDenver · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zambergoonish
We'd all be in bed before sleeping, usually all piled into the biggest bed. Then my dad would give us each a letter of Zambergoonish in order and a category. So for example, someone would get "Z" and would have to name, say, 2 countries beginning with Z. If they couldn't get them, someone else would get a chance to steal the point. You go through all the letters and make up different categories and questions for each one. Whoever has the most points, wins.
dudett106 · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Rumblety Buck" (sp?)
Run your fingers across players back singing
"Rumblety, rumblety, rumblety buck. How many fingers do I hold up?"
Places random # of fingertips on players back (out of sight).
Player guesses.
Two scenarios:
1 - ___ you said, and ___ there were, so my friend you have good luck! [Receives kiss on the head]
2 - ___ you said, and ___ there were, so my friend you have bad luck! [Receives slap on the head]
Gadburn · 1 points · Posted at 21:53:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beat down - Took our couch cushions and whatever pillows we could find and just beat each other down on the trampoline. Some of those pillows felt like they had a lot more than foam or fabric in them might've got a concussion once.
Slide home - another trampoline game where one person was it and they started in the middle while the other players had to slide to another pad at least 2 spots away from where they were while avoiding getting tagged.
emililou · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This post title triggered me
orang-man · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle Dan's special tickles
spin182 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would each lay up one end of the lounge with our heads agains the arm rest so we were locked in. Then wrestle with our feet and try to kick each other in the nuts. Not smart kids
curiesity73 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Secret service - a team of x amount of kids had to escort the president around the neighborhood before the assassin could get him - this was right after the attempted assignation of Reagan
iced_milk · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My group of friends in high school had a couple of weird games. Our favorite was one we would play when eating together. If someone was eating a sandwich or burger and they took a bite and then set it down without putting something on top of it (napkin, chip, French fry etc.) the first person to notice could punch your sandwich and you’d lose the game.
Another was “the game”. If you think about the game you lose the game. We’d be hanging out and then someone would say “the game” and we’d all think about it and lose lol
Turkle77 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game me and my friend would play in fifth grade was called Whack-A-Sack. I had this tennis ball sack in my shed that we would fill with tennis balls (usually two for the fun of it), hang it up on a tree branch in my backyard, and whack it with planks from a bench we had taken apart. We played this many a times but the last time we played was when I accidentally whacked my friend on the tooth. He was alright but it pulled the energy out of the game.
SkyWhiskers · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The cup of water game. Stand back to back, each with a (plastic or paper) cup of water in hand. Both throw the cup of water upwards. Last one to run and not get wet wins.
4hobbies · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It didn't have a name. The point is to find "69" on license plates.
One of the last days of school 8th grade we were walking to some bowling place(6 kids in the class). There was a girl in the class who couldn't attend school for the last week of school, so it was her last day. Funny thing is she was known for laughing whenever someone mentioned 69. So we played the game. And one block later, we see the taxi literally labeled "69".
xisnotx · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
in kenya there's a game we played as children called "chobo ua". its a soccer game. chobo translates as "nutmeg" and "ua" means kill. so basically, if you nutmeg a guy, everyone playing is allowed to kick/hit/otherwise kill the person who has been nutmegged until he (or rarely she) touches base.
stupid game but we had fun with it. yes, plenty of fights broke out during the game...all part of the fun. basically a game teaching you how to defend in soccer...
xisnotx · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we also had such classics as "no bendings" which meant that if you were caught bending you were allowed to get your butt kicked...literally...
"pax" which meant if you were caught not having your fingers crossed (pax..which meant pause) then you were allowed to be slapped by anyone also playing...
in our own family, we had a game where we'd try to predict the next line of any show/movie we were currently watching...and if you got it right you'd get a point. i guess you'd call the game "one point for me"...because if you got the next line correct, you'd shout "one point for me!" of which nobody knew how many points they actually had..
we also played the circle game from malcolm in the middle...not unique but fun (not really) non the less...
Dingleberry320 · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a game where one of us would sit in my moms truck and the other one would have to tag them before they closed door closed to keep from being tagged..... yeah I went to the emergency room after I sent finger got smashed.
itsallabigshow · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uhm I had one of those carpets with the roads and buildings on them. Had a friend chase and catch me to then wrap me in it, cook me, cut me and eat me. Involved chopping the carpet to chop me into smaller pieces and I believe sitting/walking over it to process me or whatever.
What I also really liked to do when I was older than the cook me me (with one friend only really because they had a house with a guest bedroom in the basement) was to do some "torture" stuff. Now that I think of it a lot of it was straight up bdsm shit. Like pegs on ears, nose, lips, nipples, hitting with a stick on the bare ass but also lying on the super cold stones with bare skin (back/stomach) with the lights turned off and touching the radiator until it hurt at which part the game started and we had to endure the pain until we either didn't feel anything anymore or couldn't hold it.
For the first game I was like 5-7 or something, I think in the younger region of that. The other one something like 8-10. I don't exactly know why I did it umi) I just remember that I enjoyed the shit out of it.
kmgenius · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game called forks and mallows with my brother. It consisted of jumping on beds on opposites sides of the room and rapidly throwing a box of plastic forks and a bag of marshmallows back and forth. It got very intense at moments. If you stopped jumping, held for too long, or dropped the bag or box, you'd lose a point.
piratesarelikereally · 1 points · Posted at 21:55:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock war. Used to get empty bottles, then fill em with pebbles that lined the playground and just go in
CypherWulf · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played wall ball/butt ball.
Equipment: Racquet or tennis ball, wall, preferably brick or concrete, with a flat hard surface in front of it. 2 or more players, ideally at least 4.
Rules: If you're holding the ball, you throw it at the wall. The other players attempt to catch the ball before it stops bouncing. If it comes to a rest, then the player of the thrower's choice gets a penalty throw (described below).
If you touch the ball but don't catch it before it hits the ground, you get a penalty throw, given by the person who does catch the ball after you touched it.
Penalty throw: When you receive a penalty throw, you must put both hands on the wall and duck your head. The thrower then throws the ball at your butt. Flinching or ducking results in another penalty throw. Missing or hitting above the shoulder blades results in the thrower receiving a penalty throw.
lemgandi · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paper Darts ( http://tomshiro.org/pdart ). Way fun, only a little dangerous.
MegaHashes · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Cars can’t see us’
When I was very young, my best friend and I would duck behind and between parked cars whenever we saw or heard a car coming down our street. We would hide next to the tires, so they couldn’t see our feet, and sometimes pan around the cars to keep the driving cars on the opposite side of the vehicle.
Kratargon · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers loved Zorro as a kid (we watched the originals at grandpa’s), so we made up a game where we would pretend to have whips and whip our arms at things as we drove. Whipping things gave us materials, and we would ‘craft’ items, like better whips or a gun, that had special powers, or a higher durability, or similar. In hindsight, it was interesting to watch our interests shift over time: Later on, ‘endgame’ was getting the resources to craft an Iron Man suit.
I loved creating many complicated games as a child... this one just struck me as the most unusual or unique.
MommyNeedsaVodka · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm late to the party so this will probably get buried, but we used to do "taste test". We would mix weird shit from the fridge together and the other person would have to taste it. My sister mixed coffee creamer, Tabasco, and I think pickle juice together , that was the one that I actually swallowed and made myself throw up!
Bipolar_Charizard · 1 points · Posted at 21:56:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm seeing a lot or imaginative and fun games people must of had a blast playing. All me and my friends did back in the day was have rock fights. Yea, we took positions and whipped pebbles at each other.
lilgothique · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Police versus Groundhogs"
In a roadtrip, you count every groundhog/police you see and compare the number at the end to see which one wins
(I'm from Quebec, Canada)
onecupcoconut · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After a rain we would race cigarette butts down the water in the gutter of our street. Pretty gross in retrospect haha
EathanS2k · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a game that goes by many rules and variations but what we called it was "Catch the Cunt" (Scottish) and the way we played it was you split into 2 teams and one made up a word and the other had to chase them down and beat each letter of the word out of the running team. I received a fair few bruises and gave a fair few back, loved the game.
Exemlot · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blackout. Everyone gets in a room, closes the blinds, towel under the door, lights off. Whatever you can do to make it almost impossible to see.
Then, one person is 'it'. It basically freeze tag in the dark but everyone is trying to turn the light switch back on.
My family used to play it when we were kids. My brother's and I shared one big room. Lots of things to hide under and corners to lurk in while you waited for you chance to sneak to the switch
hober64 · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Chuck Norris. We played it in my backyard which had a decent sized deck that was raised enough to crawl around under. One person was Chuck Norris and would hide while everyone else went inside and spun around for 30 seconds. Everyone would then come outside and look for Chuck Norris, and the first one who spotted him would yell CHUCK NORRIS and everyone would try to run back inside the house before they got caught. The idea was if you spotted him first and got away you got to be Chuck Norris, but anyone who got caught was out. It was surprisingly fun and I have some great memories from playing that game as a kid.
brosidean · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mat ball. Kickball in the gym but if you hit the ceiling you were out and the only way to hit a "homerun" was to hit the hanging sports banners right near the ceiling. The bases were large black floor mats on each corner of a basketball court. You could have multiple people on a mat and the way to score was do a full circuit around the court.
TheSourPatchKing · 1 points · Posted at 21:57:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really unique but myself group of friends will have a pillow fight in the dark in the basement. So the only sounds you would really hear is someone hitting another person or running into a support pole giving away their position. It was fun but suspenseful.
TitaniumTurbine · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a game we called “dodge dog”. It was basically dodgeball, except on your side of the playing area you could build a furniture fort to hide behind, and there was only one ball which was in the form of a heavy life sized toy dog.
throwawayinaway · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hold my breath and swim under the pool cover the length of the pool. If I survived, I won.
LoCh0_xX · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
whenever I was riding in a car or bus, I would look out the window and focus on individual patches of grass (i.e. a stretch that covered the front of a house, and the actual front lawn of that house, with a sidewalk in between the grass--aka a typical suburban neighborhood or houses off the main road). I would then imagine a ball bouncing between patches, never landing in the same patch more than once and always moving. Sometimes I imagined a worm going underground beneath the sidewalk and then leaping above the sidewalk to reach the next patch of grass. I don't know if any of that made sense but I always played that game in my head as a kid.
laskman · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Blender. You would hold one hand of another person and then spin around faster and faster. Eventually, the centrifugal force would throw someone to the ground. This person lost.
stormwaterwitch · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Spotlight tag in the Theater in High school.
Everyone sits on the stage and two people man the large Theater spotlights on either side of the sound booth. They turn off the lights and use the spotlights to try and find people before the spot lighters get tagged.
Caleb032 · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game that we played on the trampoline called “don’t touch the shoes”. It’s pretty self explanatory. We’d throw a tone of shoes in a trampoline and we’ll...try not to touch them. It got so much fun because my neighbors joined and there was a ton of them. It was so hectic.
g00dGr1ef · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and clap. After the conjuring came out this game was like a hightened hide and seek that was somehow demonic only because you couldn’t help but remember that one scene from the movie.
TheSadSalsa · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster under the bed. One person is it and they have to be under the bed and try to drag people under. If you were dragged under your the monster. People on the bed are allowed to help the grabbed person. It must have been fun but I remember getting hurt from people pulling your limbs. Also stopped playing once I almost got seriously hurt. My old mattress was on an old metal base with these like Bungie elastic things across it. That sat on-top of the bed frame. I was under the bed on my back pushing up on the mattress/base and my two cousins are on the bed. I dislodged the metal base from the frame and had to tell at them to get off before my legs have out otherwise I would have received a big metal bar on my neck.
pineprika · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"If I don't reach that tree before the car, I'll die"
reaches tree first, goes to next tree
loses against car "DAMN IT"
acct_removed · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The floor is lava”
oColt45 · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Handball. My sister and I would sit on our knees hitting a soccer ball back and forth on our trampoline.
SucksAtFortnite5280 · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my little brother and I were around Nerf age, we would play Arms Dealer. I, being the older one, had a shop full to the brim of all the foam-projectile weaponry you could want, and my brother would have to carry out various assassinations for me in order to get better guns. It all went tits-up when he had all the guns, though.
Distend · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to get into fake arguments and pretend to be censoring our own cuss words (i.e. go to pause you pause -ing *pause). The goal was to make it as convincing as possible to our parents that we were cussing without ever doing it lol
DinguBingu · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the pokemon tcg, but nobody actually knew how to play so it was basically just making up rules
OptimisticNihilistt · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kindof a cruel game but whenever my friend and I were out in the marshlands (sc coast) we would battle fiddler crabs. We would hold our champion one at a time such that it is able to clamp down it’s big ass claw on the other. We would take turns until one gets crushed. Probably not the most ethical game but probably better than cock fighting lol
Card_Rogue · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I loved playing "Murder in the Dark" with my cousins. The game involved one tagger, who waited outside of any room that could be made dark (often it was a bedroom with closed blinds at night).
All the other people would then hide in various places around the room. When everyone was hidden, someone would shout "ready!', and the "murderer" would come in and try to "kill" everyone by tagging them - this was obviously much harder because they couldn't see anything.
What made this game even more fun was that when the players were "murdered" they would scream really loudly, and when it's pitch black and silent and I heard a scream I'd jump a mile.
deuceilinca · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to pretend to be spies and sneak around our grandmas house trying to go unnoticed. We were never caught! Wasnt till 30 years later that I realized we didnt win our game. They were simply ignoring us.
rangascientist · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend from childhood and myself made up a game called "crockey". It was a mix between croquet and hockey and it basically involved us using croquet mallets to smash the rock hard croquet balls at each other. I'm retrospect I don't know how neither of us got seriously injured. That shit was so fucking dangerous.
reegeestein · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Survivor” I grew up in a forested area, my brother and I would pack “survival packs” with food, water, books, etc and then leave the house at the same time. Whoever could build the best lean-to from fronds and branches and successfully stay out of the house the longest won.
Once we played on a day it was supposed to rain and our lean-tos were waterproof until a point (mine moreso)! I remember that once his started leaking he camped out in mine because he didn’t want to lose the game lol
Mora71 · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid we played the lincence plate game. White Maine for example the game was all about spotting white plates it was pretty fun.
Hella_adorable · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family road trip game was you had to cross your fingers every time you saw a white horse. You could uncross them if you saw a black dog.
In primary school for like almost a year my friends and I would play “Lizzie” I honestly can’t remember at all what we’d do all that it was always a wild ride. “Lizzie” was a wooden pole at the back of the school that was a robot in the game.
ericnathan811 · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Airport Security. Here me out ok?
So there's two teams of two (there was four of us kids in the family) two are security guards, the others are bombers. They had to sneak a bomb (usually some little toy or something random) past our security spot. They would get as much time as they wanted to upstairs to prepare, dressing up and hiding it in there clothes or baggage or whatever. They didn't have to even bring the "bomb" if they wanted to. Then they would go down the stairs and the security team would question them or search them if anything seemed off. But you could only search if you really believed they had it. The bombers win if they get the bomb past, or if they get searched and don't have a bomb. The security wins if they find it.
sweetmoistboy · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tickle Monster”-We would play it at night and our dad would be the tickle monster. We would turn all the lights off in the house except for one room which was the base. He would hide and we’d have to go find him and when we found him he would scare and tickle us until we were able to escape. If we did escape he’d chase us back to the room. It was pretty fun but like there was no way to win. It was just a cycle of getting jumpscared and tickled over and over again.
dchuey · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister and I were really young (maybe 4 and 6, or 5 and 7) we used to visit our grandma for the summers. We had to share a bed at night and we used to play this game where we would take turns 'drawing' a picture on each other's backs with our index finger.
Which ever of us was the canvas had three chances to guess what the other was drawing. This went on until one of us dozed off or grandma got frustrated by the constant whispered giggles and told us to go sleep.
We also used to get in tomato fights at times late in the growing season. Other times we'd catch a praying mantis and feed it grasshoppers or catch buckets of crawfish in the nearby creek.
My grandma passed away a few months ago and I haven't really thought about my childhood summers at her place until reading this thread. Funny how the brain works sometimes.
calcteacher · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
count Volkswagen beetles vs trucks on the highway. my brother and I picked sides and started counting.
v1ct0r326 · 1 points · Posted at 22:00:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this little mechanical pocket game. When you pulled the lever 4 sections with different robots drawn on them spun around. One of the robots was rather skinny. There was an old abandoned house in our neighborhood. My friend and I decided that the house was the residence of the ghost of Old Man Bones. We would ride our bicycles to a point near the house and pull the lever on the game. If the pieces stopped and assembled the skinny robot we would freak out and say Old Man Bones was home and take off on our bikes as fast as we could around the block back to the starting point and spin again. If it was any other robot or hodgepodge when we pulled the lever, we would ride slowly around the block to give him a chance to get home from wherever imaginary ghosts go when not being stalked by a pair of 8 year olds.
Kagger911 · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Burnball, you throw the ball which is a tennis ball. It bounces back by the time the ball bounces back and some catches it you have to touch the wall. If you fumble the ball. It means you still touched it so you have to run to the wall. Reason being that if you don't touch the wall in time and get hit before by someone else. You'd be put on the wall arms behind the neck and you'd have everyone playing beam the ball at you. And if they missed then they get hit by the one that was supposed to be hit. Meaning a lot of tricks went into this. See, we played with the side of the school which was two stories high. Well, if you were skilled enough you could hit the top and you have enough time. Most of the time it was just baseball players, we loved it. Slamming the ball into the wall inches away from it to make it richochet as fast as possible towards the legs of someone else so they have to run. We got so good at this with a tennis ball we could jump out of bounds in basketball and throw it backwards towards the defence's legs making it out on them. Ah, memories.
ItsBMAN11 · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The colour game! Whenever my family drove, we would pick a different colour semi truck and count whenever we would see a truck in that colour. I would always cherry pick white, because it was the most common.
TheRiddickles · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Boulder"!
Basically as kids we watched Raiders of the Lost Ark and wanted to run away from the big boulder in the first temple.
You had to wait by our mailbox and when a car came you had to run along the sidewalk and tag the next mailbox before the car passed alongside you.
wetbeard88 · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Houdini". My dad would tie me up, upside down hanging from a tree and leave me there.
m0thwings · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
im gonna call it 'lights on, lights off'. we had a decently long hallway with a light switch on either side, and would have one of us at the end of it.
the other would turn the lights on and off and the one in the hallway would try and make their walk as creepy as possible but only when th lkights were off, like a stop motion kids horror game.
lukey7up · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wouldn’t call it unique but as a child, I used to play Mums and Dads with a girl. We both knew each other from our mothers who were best friends so we grew up together. Her brother used to be our ‘child’ and we would tell him to go to bed as me and his sister kissed and hugged, we were both young (10 years old if I remember correctly)
To this day we are happily engaged and are expecting our first child, due on the 21st August this year:)
CrumpsRAWR · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jade Cacoon, it was amazing, I loved it, I miss it :(
The0nion · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our family made up a game called "soccer tag". One person was "it". They had to kick the ball around, chasing the other players until they hit one with the ball. It is a surprisingly fun game!
prong-fastner · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At family dinners a selected person would have to close their eyes. Then one person takes something off the table and then the person who closed their eyes would have to guess what was removed. Alternating guesser and grabber.
byestanleyloveyou · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The best game EVER!!! THE BALL GAME! My dad would sit at the bottom of the stairs with a bowl and would put varying amounts of money in the bowl for each round. Just coins, or a buck here and there. My brothers and I would sit at the top of the stairs and take turns rolling the ball down the stairs. First one to get it in the bowl wins the money! I play it with my kids now. Good memories.
AnimateOnionSkin · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Prizes”
Back when movie theatres would have a series of still slides before the trailers; usually for local businesses. One person at a time working our way down the row we would ‘win’ whatever image was being shown on the screen. The next person would win what was shown on the next slide etc and compare who collected the best prizes at the end from fruit to a fleet of sailing boats to an entire city.
ayoitsjo · 1 points · Posted at 22:01:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretty sure it's not unique but damn this post because I just lost the game
FatHandNoticer · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shitspoon. A card game started by some friends and I that is now played by over 1,000 people locally
TheBlueLake · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tiger" It was aimed at 3 or more players. One person, the "tiger" pretends to sleep on a bench. The other 2 must circle around the bench and return to the designated 'home' without waking the tiger. If the tiger wakes, you run to home. If you're caught by the tiger, you are eaten and become the next tiger. Used to love this game, and it became much more fun with more than 4 players.
GroundedVindaloop · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my childhood friends would play wolves. we'd build a fort out of pillows and pretended to be a family of wolves and crawl around.
lilbbsteve · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Guess who“ at bedtime using people my sister and I both knew “Moms closet game” where we turned out the lights and hid in a walk in closet while someone who was blindfolded looked for us. “Hoboville” our VERY intricate village in the woods
And then there was the summer we set up a card table in the basement and played canasta every day.
picks- · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up, we had this one room in my house that had no furniture or anything in it. My sister and I referred to this room as the "blank room." We would go into this room and play a bunch of made up games. The one that I remember the most was a game where we would pretend to be random creatures and battle each other. She was always a fire ring tailed lemur and I was a huge, metal knight.
HidingFromMy_Gf · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used his two lacrosse sticks (without heads on them) to beat the fuck out of the plants and trees in his yard and pretend we were samurai brothers
Proteinmax · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mum pretty much raised me by herself as my dad is high functioning autistic and wasn’t a great dad.
When I was super little I used to hate brushing my teeth, so my mum used to do it with me, after I’d cleaned them I’d drink some water so my cheeks were full up.
My mum used to repeatedly chant “swallow it, swallow it, swallow it.” And I used to either swallow it or pretend to swallow it.
Then my mum being a hard nut used to squeeze my cheeks so (if I had water in my mouth) i used to squirt the water out my mouth.
Looking back at it, probably a bit weird, but I’d give my life for that woman.
BarbequeFred · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hardcore Belly-Boarding.” My brother and our friend and I were in elementary school back in the WWF “attitude era” when wrestlers like The Rock, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Mankind were at the pinnacle of their careers. There used to be “Hardcore” matches where wrestlers could use an assortment of random weapons, really any blunt object they could find, IIRC.
Our apartment complex had these long, straight driveways. We would spread out weapons all over the driveway, lie flat on our stomach on skateboards at the top, and, using our hands to paddle, race to the bottom. Anything goes in between, as long as you stayed on your board and on your belly.
Edit: repeated myself
chillig8 · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Age5 the neighbor girl and I would play a game we call go to the beach. We would take off all our clothes and jump off the picnic table in the backyard. No idea why we called it that but it was fun
ShelteredRockV · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
That moment you realize your childhood was pretty dang boring compared to others. The most unique game I played was one where we had imaginary pet cats that would do anything we told them to do, and they could fly. Essentially magical cats. We constantly tried to one up each other on what our cats could do. Oh and then there was our version of the alphabet game while riding in the car (had to be the first letter of a word, can't use the same sign twice and others had to find a different one, no license plates except for x which still had to be the first letter, etc), first one to z wins. No prizes or anything, just bragging rights.
Edit: spelling on mobile is hard
314land · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fishing. Grandma would be on the sofa and the kids would be “swimming” around on the floor. She’d cast her line and hook one of us. Reel us in onto her lap. Then she’d clean, cut, and prep us to eat for dinner.
Hopefound · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The falldown game. You go to a dark beach on a night with no Moon and stand around the "player" in a tight circle. One person rapidly strobes a flashlight in the players face while they stare up into and past it at the stars. Everyone else rapidly spins the player in a circle for 20-30 seconds while counting up loudly. At the agreed upon maximum number the player is told to "RUN!!!!!" and is guided in a direct generally free of obstruction or ocean. The player sprints as fast as they can in that direction, dizzy as hell and totally blinded, until they slam into the ground usually without realizing they are falling. Being that dizzy eliminates the falling sensation for more people so it seems as though you are running in a straight line and WHAM the ground smacks you in the face out of nowhere.
The person who wins is the person who runs the farthest though the real winners are the people who watch as a dizzy drunken idiot eats sand while running at full speed.
Agent_Morgan · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bad Darts"
My friend and I were a fan of 007 James Bond and guns. We were both agents (007 & 006) and we'd sneak around doing objectives. One of us would get "Shot" but a special kind of tranquilizer dart that would make us become the enemy (villain's side). The other agent wouldn't realise this when completing the objective when suddenly he turns against you. You must then try and pursuade and convince the converted agent that they're on your side, try and wear off the effect, a deathmatch (depending on the circumstance) or even the good guy surrenders. Playing out different situations.
Probably makes no sense as I can't really explain it but as a kid, this was so fun haha.
GlassPage · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock Wars. My dad used to have a lot of socks, and when the laundry was done me, my brother, my mom and my dad would get in teams. We would fold a bunch of them and and take cover behind the bed while trying to hit the other team. A simple game but it used to make us giggle for hours.
Subtitles_Required · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the game, but my siblings and I would play "Bury 'Em."
What you'd do is find a ton of blankets and lay them out flat one on top of the other, smaller ones on top. Then a person would sit cross-legged in the center of the blankets and would have the blankets tied up over their head with loose "knots". They would have to undo the blankets just by rolling around on the floor, no help from anyone else.
I think this is where I became claustrophobic.
snicks55 · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thor ball.
Step one, the hero : Get a sword and a metal garbage can lid for a shield. Wave the sword and talk a lot of shit.
Step two, the flying hammers: Across the yard your opponents will hurl croquet mallets at you using the clothes line as a giant sling shot.
We would fight over who's turn it was to be the Hero.
The clothes line sling shot made the mallets lob across the yard in a slow arch. The kid with the sword was very rarely hit. Most of the time we were laughing so hard we could barely play. Sadly it was discovered why the clothes line was stretched out and the game was nixed by a parent who came home early. As an adult I remember they were mad about the laundry line not the danger of the game. curious.
BroncoJohns1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My next family game night is going to be lit! thanks OP!
amandamack1981 · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines- Hide and seek, but when you find them, you hide with them, so eventually you have a bunch of people packed in an area hiding. Sucked when you were the last to find them, got very quiet suddenly lol. Used to play this in a large church during sleepovers.
brandonmarkb · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Backdraft (the movie had come out and was a big thing). We’d each have a blanket we were responsible for saving. We’d hide someone else’s blanket in my parents’ basement, then we’d go pretend to be sleeping like firefighters.
My parents had a basketball game in the basement like the arcades that would count down from 60 with the first shot made. Someone would go make a basket and we’d all scramble “awake” and go try and find our hidden blanket and make it back to the bottom of the stairs before the basketball game timer buzzed.
Anyone who didn’t make it was caught in the backdraft with the victim they were trying to save.
RuManCam86 · 1 points · Posted at 22:03:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we went with our parents to stay at our grandparent's house for a week, my sister and I would inevitably get bored and invent new ways to entertain ourselves. We used to challenge each other to 'missions' which involved sneaking around the house without being seen by an adult, and retrieving a specific item from a specific room. E.g 'go into the living room and bring back one of the cushions off an armchair without an adult noticing you'. Upon return to base (our bedroom) there would be a quiz set by the 'mission control' with questions about the room that the 'agent' was sent into. E.g how many ornamental plates are there in the display cabinet? If you were spotted by an adult, or worse, spoken to, your mission was failed and you had to return to base immediately and it would then be the other kid's turn. We literally spent days on end playing this. The adults must've thought we were well weird!
TiittySprinkles · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play hide and seek with the seeker wearing a pair tanning goggles.
Led to some pretty amazing "in plain sight" hiding spots because the lenses in those things are a similar shade to welding goggles.
Legoman718 · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t Let The Balloon Touch The Ground (pretty self explanatory)
Its_just_maggie · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mom used to play this game called "tractor, trailer, or truck". Whenever we were driving around, we'd yell whichever vehicle we saw before the other person could. You win if you have the most before we got home.
cowlad · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pombies”. Cod WAW original zombies with a Water bottle full of vodka. After every round you take a swig and pass it around. Some nights lasted longer than others. If you died on like round 8 or earlier and had to start over thats when you were fucked.
nin3ball · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings would play a game in which we shut the blinds to a room and turned the lights off so that it was too dark to see. Then we would run around singing 'common sense, common sense' over and over for about 30 seconds until someone managed to turn the lights back on. I guess the goal was to survive without getting a concussion or losing teeth.
We were aged like 5-10 when we played this, I don't know who or how we came up with that shit
js3456 · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a friend from Germany who taught me this game so maybe this is a well-known game there...but anyway, it was called the chocolate game. The way it worked: everyone sits on the floor in a circle and there is a chocolate bar wrapped up in several layers of paper and tied with string in the center. The first person to start has to put on a jacket, hat, scarf and mittens, pick up a fork and knife and try to open the chocolate bar and eat it! While one person is doing this the other people in the circle are rolling a six sided dice trying to roll a six, once someone does (roll a six) the person who was trying to open the package has to give the new person all of the clothes etc. to put on. The game ends when someone finally gets to the chocolate and bites into it. It sounds simple, but this game was really fun! Plus...chocolate
KevTheHumanoid · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game with the 50 states quarters back when I was a kid. I would flip all 50 quarters in quick succession onto the ground then take the ones that landed on tails out and re-flip only the ones that landed on hands. I would do this for as many rounds as needed until there was only one quarter left and I deemed that quarter/state the winner. I'm pretty sure I even kept track of which states won the most times in a notebook I had. I made up a lot of probability games and games of chance when I was younger but this is the only one that I still remember the rules I made for it. My older brother found one of my notebooks when he was staying in the basement at my mom's house for a little while a few years back and drunkenly called me to tell me he thought I was a genius and needed to go to the casino with him. I'm not sure what he saw but I know most of the stuff in those notebooks doesn't even make sense to me anymore even though I came up with it.
atomheart89 · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shin Kickers. My brothers and I just ran round the garden kicking each other until the other two gave in. My dad found it hilarious, my mam not so much.
blind_squash · 1 points · Posted at 22:04:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the cussing game in 1st grade. I don’t remember the exact rules but like... I guess the worse the curse, you were it? I don’t know. I just remember running around at recess cussing at each other and occasionally being “it”
Kushmaster420xBlazer · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clam digger
Celestial1043 · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were very young, my twin sister and I played a game called "Cow." I was always the farmer and she was always the cow. How the game worked was she would eat grass and I would pat her on the head and say "Good cow." And that was the entire game.
AGentleRange · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Timing daddy on his trips to the store. The game is still going til this day, should be back soon with my Doritos.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
How long can I hold my poop in
Dreamiekid · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played basically dodge ball in trees. One person would be it. We all climb the trees and hide in a good spot. The person would throw the ball over the trees and whoever get hit are it.
Some might say? Why not throw it directly? Cause the tree was nice and grown. No bald spots.
mcchunx · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder in the dark.
ValorToMe · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my stepsister used to take a glow in the dark frisbee into the cellar with the lights off and so how long we could last until we got scared and ran out:
deber8 · 1 points · Posted at 22:05:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m pretty sure it’s a pretty common game, but we used to play spoto in the car. If you saw a yellow car and you were the first to call it, you would get to punch everyone once in the car. By the end of a long road trip our arms would be hurting a lot
throwaway3479845 · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called Target Practice. We had a big backyard and one person would stand on the back porch while the others would go out into the yard about 80-100 feet away. The person on the porch was the shooter, and they received a package of bottle rockets they could use to try to hit one of the other kids running in the yard. If you got hit with a bottle rocket, you were out and had to be the shooter the next round. The person who survived the most consecutive rounds won. It was a lot of fun when we got a big group of kids in the neighborhood to play.
OMyThatsSaucey · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play "Knife Fight". The game started by yelling "KNIFE FIGHT!" and then grabbing a close, non-lethal weapon and attempting to stab the other to death. The caveat was that there was only 1 'knife' allowed. So you have to fight for the 'knife' and usually it was the TV remote. Imagine the scene in Saving Private Ryan in the end when the german and the american are fighting over the knife and the german slowly eases the knife into dude's chest. It was just like that, but non-lethal.
noumew · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I created "Kangaroo Jump Spy". You put both legs in one pyjama leg and hopped around the house trying to get as close to your parents without being noticed. When you were spotted you had to hop away as fast as you can (bonus points for tripping the other person up so they got caught first).
MakeThemHearYou917 · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretended I was my British twin for a week. I wrote her name on tests I had that week, changed my handwriting, and my hair. I am an only child from the Northeast US.
NoLongerABystander · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slant ball, where you threw/hit a bouncy ball on top of the garage again and again. I guess I was playing catch with myself.
Alltimelolo · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slight cheat here, but my friends and I played this in college and not as kids. The cafeteria to our dorm had these huge spiraling staircases to and from the entrance and exit. We all had ID cards used for our meal swipes with our pictures and names on them. When we were leaving the cafeteria we would stand at the top and then throw our IDs down the staircase. Whoever landed their ID card closest to or on the last step won. If more than one person landed on the last step, tie breaker would be whoever’s ID landed picture-side up. Automatic failure for anyone who chucked their ID to the ground level. We called this game “disCARD.” And it was awesome.
CarterCoupons · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pic Poc.
SidewaysInfinity · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight Tag. The defending kid would have one of my grandparents' big boxy flashlights and try to stop the others from reaching the "safe zone." If the light was shining on you, you had to stop moving and the defender could tag you to force you to go back to the starting position. Once all but one runner made it to the safe zone, they won and the kid who didn't make it got to have the flashlight.
Obviously it was impossible to actually stop most of them from making it, so we scored the game based on how long it took to lose using a stopwatch
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mait.
Two teams. Medium sized rectangle drawn in the sand.
The object of the team members on the outside (OT) is to tag players from the inside team (IT) and run out of the box, effectively eliminating the tagged player. Eliminating an IT player gives you a free respawn for the OT.
Object of the IT is to stop the tagging OT players from escaping the box after they enter and wrestling them to the ground and roughhousing with them until they submit by yelling Mait. Succeeding give one of their eliminated team members a respawn.
Basically OT tagging players usually go in alone for quick tags and escapes. But when caught, they get dog piled and torchured by the IT. This involved strangulation, limb submissions, and blows to the genitals.
We played this as kids at school in the middle east and we were told it was an Indian game. I feel we changed a rule or two if it is a real game. Would love to know what the legitimate rules are.
savilikesmemes · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball on roof. We had a tiled roof so if you threw a tennis ball up there, it would bounce around and you would have no idea where it would fall. First person to catch it wins. Super fun 10/10 recommend
cardboard_ramen · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would talk to myself in gibberish and wait to see how long it took for an adult to say something. The goal was the fastest response possible. Yes I know, I was a strange child.
MLGiraffe7 · 1 points · Posted at 22:06:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So when I was little my sister and I would help my mom pick tomatoes. We were in charge of picking off the horn worms (anyone with tomatoes will know how tedious this can be). So I convinced my sister that picking the worms off and throwing them into the woods was a fun game and I did none of the work and my sister was convinced she was getting a good deal.
TRUMP_IS_TRAITOR · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
German.
It was hide and seek. But we called it German.
breaking-bard · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didnt have a name for it, but basically me and my younger cousin would start at one end of the driveway, while our older brothers (about 4 years apart), would stand on either side of the driveway. We would sprint to make it to the end of the driveway before they could hit us with whatever balls we had on hand. Footballs, basketballs, and sometimes golf balls, (we grew up on a golf course), were thrown at the head every time. If we were hit, they get a point, if we make it to the end, we get a point. We were always the ones running :( don’t even get me started on the stick battles....
voretime · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend at the time used to make ‘potions’. That’s normal but we used some really weird things like spit sometimes. We’d also make it red and splash it all over her shower wall to make it look like a crime scene. We’d spend HOURS in there just doing fucking weird shit we weren’t allowed to. We probably put cleaning products in them too. We also used to ‘drown’ the bath toys in the mix. It was weird.
Slayin_Savage · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We always played the “car game” each different car was worth a different amount of points like a PT cruiser would be be 2 a limo 7 an oddly colored car would be 5 old fashioned would be 6. Person with the most points win.
jackcharlesh · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sisters used to put kitchen gloves on our feet and hop on top of the dustbins and pretend to be monkeys at the zoo.
ChuiDuma · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ankylosaurus and T-Rex." We used to play it in the car. One of us would punch the other (the ankylosaurus) and the other would "bite" by making jaws out of both hands (the T-Rex). I don't think there was really a way to win. It was mostly an excuse to beat on each other. It drove my parents crazy, and one time got us kicked out of the car to walk home in the dark Wyoming night.
noreservations81590 · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in the car I would look out the window and pretend there was a little skateboarder "riding" the lines/signs/mailboxes/buildings and such on the side of the road.
TastyBleach · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pick a number then keep doubling it to fall asleep.
Nerdiant · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this is an original game or not, but I searched for it on Google and I couldn't find it so I assume it's unique. To play roller coaster, all the kids who wanted to play (the more, the better) would join hands and run as fast as the could down the hill. They would run in a line with the kid in front leading sort of the way a roller coaster has its seats arranged (the ones without rows). The goal was to run in the most erratic and fast way possible and make it similar to a real roller coaster. Often they would be going so fast that kids would lose grip and fall and become really dizzy. It was fun and sometimes resulted in injury.
breddit_gravalicious · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
death race. we would armour ourselves and our gocarts and try to knock each other over or destroy the other's gocart. We had lots of great short, steep hills to work with.
Jeff had an awesome gocart his grandfather made. It had a steering wheel and was made to look like a jeep.
I had four wheels, two axles, and a lot of tools. I tried to make a gocart that would take out jeff's jeep, but never could. I made bumpers, spiked roll bars out of 2x4's and nails. One time I rear-ended the jeep with my spiked front bumper and got stuck to the back of it. Jeff just steered away and drove off with my bumper.
Octavarium-8 · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aero gauge, best racing game ever
POCKALEELEE · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stonk.
np3est8x · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm a hunter and I have a magnifying glass and I'm hunting for ants.
billybobpoopants · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad used to play hide the sausage with me.
Yer_boi_miki · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I swear to god me and my friends thought we invented the infection tag game. We played it before it was popular at our school and got lots of people involved, we had plenty of memories from the games we played and we were so confident we thought of the idea first. Those were the days
KhabaLox · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We somehow got a hold of reams and reams of scratch paper, so whenever we had a fire in the fireplace we'd play Burning Airport.
FlyingWalrusPants · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvinball.
JKLThe3rd · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid and we took long car trips, my family and I would play "Ding Dong". A Ding is a yellow car worth 1 point, a Dong is a motorcycle worth 1 point, and a Ding Dong is a yellow motorcycle worth 20 points. We'd get ridiculously competitive about it, especially driving by car lots. Easily provided hours of entertainment.
BlocksAreGreat · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd play Butts Up where one person had a soccer ball and everyone else would line up and bend over holding their ankles, butts facing the kicker. The kicker would then kick the ball, trying to hit everyone else's butts. If they knocked you over, they won. If you stayed up, you won.
PuzzleheadedBee · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle used to come over to my house during the summer. We would play this very cool game where he was the security at the airport and I was transporting drugs. He would put his gloves on and my butt felt really weird for sometime. My mom always cried when I told her about our game. Still dont know what the game is, highly reccomend it when playing with your children/younger siblings.
Raymx3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gym teacher used to take the tallest boys in the class to his office for special “fun time” while us shorter boys and girls had to wait in the gym. Always wanted to play but never got to since ima wee lad. Oh welll.
CristontheKingsize · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game in the driveway, sort of like Monkey in the Middle, only instead of trying to steal the ball the person in the middle (who we called the dementor, I guess we really liked Harry Potter back then) would try to get the person being passed the ball to mess up. And instead of playing catch, the outside people were passing a volleyball
inthelittletravis · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
War. The primary school field had a large tree with space underneath a root at one end, and a hollow bush against a fence at the other. Boys against girls, each team would try to take prisoners, who would then have to go to the other teams base; and free your imprisoned teammates, but getting all the way into the enemy base without being taken prisoner.
mari_arty · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kingdoms!! Me and my friend made it up in middle school. It requires a chess board and we didn’t know how to play chess so we created our own game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:08:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play a game called “dead raccoon on the doorstep” Basically one person would lay on their back, and the other person would walk out the imaginary door. Then they would make up a reason to go back into the house. One time when I was the dead raccoon. My brother stepped on me and said “time to go to work.” And then he turned around, stepped on me again and said “oops I forgot my keys.” He then “grabbed his keys” and headed out the door, stepping on me again. Then he turned around and said “oops. I forgot to kiss my wife goodbye.” So, he turned around stepped on me again, “Kissed his wife,” and “headed to work again.” We went back and forth making up excuses to go back into the house. Eventually we traded off and my brother was the raccoon and I walked all over him. Crazy stuff.
1BoiledCabbage · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, friend and I would play "Poke'Body" where we'd fold the paper 3 ways and each of us had to draw either the head, torso or legs of a Pokemon and write the names in the corner. Each of us would rotate on drawing each section that we were gonna draw (so like, me-head, friend-torso, sis-feet then sis-head, me-torso, friend-feet and so on.)
The weirdest thing we came up with was Diglett -head, Poliwrath-body and Ponyta-legs. Those were good times.
awesomeisthename · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rolly Poley”
Played on the trampoline, one person is it, and tries to make the other people on the trampoline fall down while the person who’s “it” can only crawl
dun6661 · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any Bounce. You play with a tennis ball and baseball bat. The rule would be you’d hit the ball and as long as the person caught it on a catch and didn’t juggle it, it would be their turn to hit and you would take their position. There was an abandoned parking lot on my street and all the kids from our street would get together and play it like almost every day.
ImperialZippo · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would take a kickball, and throw it across the street in an attempt to get a good hit on the curb. If you hit it just right the ball would come flying back. Each success was 1 point, first to 10 wins. If a car came and you could throw the ball over the car and bounce it back you won automatically. Called it curbball.
kc954 · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
B b butcher
anonymous2178900 · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone ever throw an apple core at a family member with a little rhyme attached, or is that something that my family came up with?
RU5TR3D · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where I used to live my friends and I played this game which I can't remember. The person who is "it" has their eyes closed and is trying to get the others. This is played on a playground and if you are touching the ground at all and the tagger notices they can say some phrase (I don't remember, it was the name of the game.) then that person was it. I would pull crazy stunts to avoid the tagger like hanging off of stuff while not touching the ground.
ThSprtn117 · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The greatest sport ever made, me and my friends came up with, called Tennis Hockey. It's basically exactly what it sounds like, you've got 2 hockey goals, typically you have 3v3 with a goalie and you play with tennis rackets and a ball instead of sticks and a puck. And you had to dribble the ball with your racket, similar rules to basketball dribbling. We had offsides, and other penalties like hockey does, oh and the goalie wore baseball catcher shin guards so they could slide easier on the concrete. Played it at least once a week all through highschool.
memem3l · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my mum was doing the hoovering, my brother and I would pretend that it was a huge force sucking us towards it like some kind of vacuum... Anyway we’d grab hold of staircase bannisters, objects, eachother, whatever to try and stop us from being sucked away. We didn’t always get along but I remember this game pretty fondly.
Brooke197500 · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I live in a house that is on the outside of a square grass patch with a path to walk to your car and houses. When I was about 6 me and 4 other kids in the street played a game we called 'don't die' (very creative I know) Basically one kid would stand in the middle of the grass square (usually the oldest one there) while the rest of us ran to different sides of the square on the path. The aim was to do 3 laps of the square and then touch the street light next to the main road. The person in the middle would cover their eyes and while they did we would book it. Once the person in the middle removed their hands to look you had to duck down and not move and if you did you were out and had to stand in 'jail' which was a really tall wall that separated out street from the 'rich' houses. It was basically that on repeat until someone won.
KnowHowSeeker · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“La inmigración” I don’t know if this game is common with first or second generation Hispanic kids but it goes like this. You would have a group of kids who are “La migra” their jobs is to prevent the other group of kids from reaching their side of the “border” (usually some sort of physical line like a creek or wooden fence). “La migra” would do this by either wrestling the kid to the ground and if they get stuck and can’t escape they would get stuck at “prison” (pretty much time out) for a few minutes. If you make it to the other side of the “border” and “la migra” can’t catch you, you win. The game stops either whenever the kids get tired of running everywhere or everyone who isn’t part of “la migra” gets over or people decide to start over. Because the unnamed group gets smaller as time goes on, it gets harder for you get over because “la migra” has more resources to catch you so it’s a common strategy early game to mass cross and hope you don’t caught. The game is also crazy racist, whenever I invited some of my white friends over the other kids automatically made them part of “la migra”.
It’s pretty much cops and robbers except some of the rules are different and it’s a reenactment of adults crossing the Mexican American border.
manda86oh5 · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We created a game with the metal parallel bars on the play ground it was like tag but you had one person on each end and they had to catch up with the other person and lap them, when you got to the end of the bars you had to vault yourself over the bars so if you had short legs you usually lost.
CorporalCrash · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike tag. Pretty self explanatory, same rules as tag but on bikes. It had different variations, one where there would be only one "it," another where infection rules would apply. We had a lot of collisions and crashes but it was a fun time killer.
DieselDoggo7056 · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I accidentally started playing a sex rpg when I was like 8...
Silverwisp7 · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We noticed there’s an arrow between the E and the X in FedEx, so every time we saw a FedEx truck or mailbox we’d call out “FedEx, see the arrow!” There were supposedly points, but nobody really kept track anyway. That was a fun game.
sad_emoji · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wasn't a child when we did this, unless 17/18 counts as childhood.
My ex used to have a huge 4 story house that was sorta given to us as her parents bought a new place. Instead of wild parties and stuff we thought we'd throw dinner parties followed by Hide and Seek.
We closed all the curtains (blackout) and flipped all the light switch fuses, plunging the house into total, pitch black darkness. Normal hide and seek rules applied, pool room was the 'out' room. The only light allowed was from a lighter or your phone screen, no full fledged lights allowed. It was incredible. I had a black friend who was so dark skinned that he was only visible under the strict light conditions with his eyes open or if he smiled, i always hid behind him (I'm 6'2 and he was like 6'5)
Crustyhotdog · 1 points · Posted at 22:10:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock Climbing in my house.
I would lie on the floor on my side, and push off walls with my feet like i was jumping off the ground. I would grab ledges, or the corners of walls, and just climb everywhere. I also cleaned the floors, which was a bonus.
SpiteAspect · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m not sure how unique it is but in elementary school PE class we played grenade dodge ball, it was like regular dodgeball except when you got hit in say the arm you lost that arm, if you caught it you lost both hands and had to try and kick them at people, if you lost all 4 limbs or got hit in the face or chest you were dead.
Tigerkat145 · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jade Cocoon for sure
OaIei · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Throat game".
You would stick your hand down your throat as far as you could, and whoever could go further won.
It was fun up until I threw up watermelon all over my backpack on the way to school :)
Nasicus · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Caravan Game, played in the car, usually on the motorway.
If you saw a caravan, you had to blow a raspberry. If you saw a caravan being towed by a 4x4, that was two. If you saw a caravan being towed by a 4x4 that had broken down that was 3 raspberries and so on and so forth.
There wasn't really score being kept, and dad would make up new point values for each new caravan related situation we came across. Think the highest point worth we got to was for a Caravan being towed by a 4x4 that was broken down and on fire and the caravan was also upside down.
Daft game really, but kept us kids amused looking out the windows for caravans, and relatively quiet save for the occasional flurry of raspberries from the back seats.
RotthBelemuse · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my 2 brothers used to play moles, the youngest 2 of us would get under the duvet and move around while the eldest brother tried to whack us like whack a mole. Looking back he was just breathing the shit out of us.
BuyMoreKush · 1 points · Posted at 22:11:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Never really had a name for but in the house I grew up with we had about an acres worth of back yard with a swing set all the way at the end. Me and my cousins would swing as high and fast as we could. Once we reached maximum speed we would half take off our shoe and see who could kick them the farthest. Arc speed and timing all came into play. Best we did was landed one near the house by the pool area.
bolshiabarmalay · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Old Sow"
establish the number of players, 2 - infinity, and dig a small hole in the ground for all except one. Smash a coke can to use as a puck. Everybody has their own stick, the player without a hole for their stick is "it" and tries to knock the puck into a hole. The point of the game is to keep your stick in your hole and not allow the puck to end up in your hole. If the puck makes it to your hole you are "it." Any player can take over a vacant hole by putting their stick in it, forcing the player contesting "it" by knocking the puck away (as far as you care to) to scramble to an open hole before "it" can. Think of duck duck goose with weapons.
There were many bruised shins and broken sticks.
WholemealBean · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curby! You stand on opposite sides of the road and throw a football at the curb. If it bounces back you get a point, if you can catch it without bouncing you get 2!
beepbop2018 · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to hang beanie babies from my bedroom window on the 3rd floor using the film (?) from old tape cassettes. Can’t quite remember the point other than it was fun. Often my parents would watch as this poor things would be lowered past the window in the living room (2nd floor). I would then try wined them back up...
LorLuk · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 5-6 Pokémon had just come out, me and my cousin (who I lived with at the time due to family reasons) made out own Pokémon game where we would make a ring (most of the time it was a bed because it was soft) pick what Pokémon we wanted to be and wrestle using Pokémon attacks. We invented how to make the pokemon moves realistic (to us as a child at least) the battles were choreographed so we'd practise how the battles would go and what out moves were and to make sure we both remembered what to do we used to call out our attacks, for example if you used sandscreen you had to thow a blanket over the other person to blind them and they had to attack under the blanket for one move, tackle was a soft shoulder tackle and you had to fake falling back, and our favourite pikachu's Thunderbolt we had to call it out and the other person pretend to be shocked ect, all of that was done whilst on all fours as we quickly found out that standing up we'd end up falling off the bed or being tackled off it, needless to say there were a few accidents but we always kept playing.
To this day I remember most of the moves we used to do and the fun we used to have, we still have a laugh about it now and again, the thing he didnt/doesn't know is those memories were the best of a bad childhood and I'll always love him and see him as my brother for that dispite the petty arguments and fights we've had down the road.
borkfast · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A childhood friend and I had a brilliant game we used to play called "Crashbox". In essence, two players each picked the same number of Hot Wheels cars (or similar generic toy cars) as their team. The players would sit facing each other on the floor, usually about 5-10 feet apart. Further away was more difficult but also better, due to the way the game was played.
We took a single car and wound up, pushing the cars back and forth to count down from 3. On "go", we would hurl the cars as fast as we dared at each other, with the aim being to crash the cars somewhere in the middle. In the best case scenario, the cars would collide and go flying off in different directions. The aim of the game was seeing how the cars fared post-collision; your car was deemed "out" if it landed upside down when it finished its tumble. Obviously if your car could no longer roll on its wheels it was also eliminated.
The best cars to play this game were divided into two types: the ramps and the heavies. If you picked a car that was extremely close to the ground and/or tapered, you could often make the other person's car fly without worrying about your own car. On the other hand, if the goal was pure destruction, you picked one of the older/heaver cars with a higher proportion of metal or a bigger body. After all, smashing the other car (or your opponent's legs) usually spelled victory.
Basically, this was two dumb kids throwing metal cars at each other. There weren't too many scars (because we were either gentle and accurate or vicious and inaccurate) but we caused our fair share of damage. On at least one occasion in my garage we hit a soda can and exploded it all over the place, which was fun to clean up before anybody say. I didn't envy the baseboards in either of our houses either. Still, the game was 11/10 considering the tubs of cars we had at our disposal from older relatives, and I'd play it again in a heartbeat.
eagle_smesh · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Soccer golf' in our farm. It is what it sounds like. Lob a soccer ball into a big hole we dug.
SherlockMarbles · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my sister and I were staying at my grandmother's house we would play Superheroes. There were two beds in one room and these represented the tops of high-rise buildings. Then each of us would take a bed and declare our superhero name (which changed with every round especially if our persona was defeated). We would then battle to the death, diving from skyscraper to skyscraper, ducking and weaving and using every trick in the book to cause our nemesis to fall to their untimely demise. In reality, we were simply calling each other names as we shoved each other around.
Games of Superheroes were highly frowned upon after I landed too enthusiastically on the camp bed and broke several of the slats.
SherlockMarbles · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also had a game called Figgy Pudding. One person would lie very still on the bed and the other would jump on the bed singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" (because reasons?). The aim of the game was to jump right next to the other person but not to jump on the other person.
A similar game was Oink (yeah, I don't know why we called it that either). One person would lie in the bed under the covers. The other person would stand at the top of the bed just above the player's head and then attempt to jump the full length of that person's height, landing with feet on either side of the person's feet. For some reason we would shout OINK really loudly as we were doing it. The aim of the game was again, to get as close to the other person as possible without actually jumping on them.
SherlockMarbles · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
And then there was the game of Camera in the Dark. One person had the camera and the other had to try and do the worst poses they could find, while the one with the camera tried to catch them off-guard.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Lava Monster" I'm pretty sure everyone has played a variation of this game at least once, but it is essentially tag, but every time you tag someone, they join you to tag everyone else. So it's essentially a battle royale. We used to play on a jungle gym and I can't tell you how many 8 year olds ran head first into a pole.
stefepaul · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe not do unique: SPIT. Great card game!
aNemia1337 · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prince
Sketchedddd · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a few, gosh this is going to be embarrassing to travel back to:
- In preeschool, I used to play 'peter pan' with my group of friends
- In about third grade, all the girls used to play 'monster high' where we would use chalk to design rooms. We actually still hang out together for the most part (I'm in tenth grade now)
But the game I remember most was from kindergarten, where my group would play 'scooby doo'. The group was me, my twin brother, and three other friends (two of which are still friends of mine). I was always Velma.
aubtaub64 · 1 points · Posted at 22:12:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a modified game of the floor is lava in which me and a friend would use a small blanket and 2 pillows to maneuver through our house, upstairs and then back down again, without touching the ground. And then once that friend stopped talking to me, I played with action figures and moved my little knickknacks around in my room to create dens and houses and castles and such. and then I got into minecraft
Dank_Weeb76 · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Super Mario 64 - I played it on the Nintendo DS whe I was 5 so nearly 2 decades later in 2010, my parents got it for me on christmas, it was my first electrical device and what got my love for video games started. at the time I couldn't get past the 2nd level which i think was the bomb run level (i'm not sure) and when I couldn't beat the level I would NEVER Get bored of just swimming in the water underneath the drawbridge and trying to get to the tip of the castle, I wanted to go back about 2-4 years ago but the game chip was sold and my DS didn't work, but over the years I evolved to playing the Original XBox, the the Wii, Xbox 360, then the 3DS XL and now the Xbox one (which I got for my 12th birthday 2 years ago) and I owe everything to Nintendo and hopefully in the future I can turn my hobby into a career.
Note - sorry for the grammar, i'm in music class and i'm trying to finish as quickly as possible and have a great day
BFravo · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember playing this game once with a family of really tough boys that were like brothers to me my two sisters and brother. We were in the boys back yard and it was a really dark night, you couldn’t see in front of you. The game was we all sat in a circle and I don’t know who went first but someone took their sneaker and used the lace like a mace and flung the shoe around their head and let go... it would hit someone and the sound of them crying out in pain in the dark was hilarious. We’d all get a good laugh and then who ever got hit got to throw next. Lol ridiculous... I remember getting hit and the dark getting lit up with the stars it created in my eyes.
Tijain_Jyunichi · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a time, during a really bad winter, that a square section of my bedroom roof fell. So there was this GIANT whole in my room and it just got invaded with moths. So my cousin and I got our water guns and waged war against them.
Took ages and one even rammed into eye. Looking back I don't fell good about it. Can't say I want to go through that again.
qtwusidbbd · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
u/tottim
bush84 · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to take a pair of socks each, put one sock inside the other to make a kind of sock mace then proceed to beat the fuck out of eachother with them. Those were the days
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle gets the Weiner
honeybakedhammie · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game that came in a box of captain crunch and you raised a crunch berry. It would skate board too.
StepwiseSauce9 · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played SHS (See it, Hear it, Smell it) When waiting for the bus to come in the morning my sisters and I would see who could see the bus first, hear it first, and smell it first. When you got all three you had to shout out “SHS, I win!”
Skrimps · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt. There is drivers and people who hide, we played around our town. People would hide in trees, behind dumpsters, anywhere really.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle gets the Weiner
theonefuckedupchick · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hinka Laka” was the game me, my brother, and best friend played as kids. Weird as fuck game. One person was the hinka laka and the two others had to avoid them. The hinka laka would slowly walk up the stairs with their back turned to us and a broom or fireplace poker (dangerous af now that I think about it) in their hand and say “hinka laka hinka laka hinka laka hink”. While they were doing that you had to try and sneak up behind them and touch them before they turned around. If they turned around you had to run and get into a safe zone which was on any couch or in the kitchen. The hinka laka would chase you with the fireplace poker or broom and try to tag you. We never used the poker or broom to tag each other, I think it was just for intimidation. This was our favorite game, and probably most unique, by far.
sssaint · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lacrosseketball.
Basketball with lacrosse sticks/lacrosse ball. I had these shitty plastic lacrosse sticks with a little catch so the ball wouldn’t fall out. Stupid fun and mad respect for long shots. Usually played 1v1 with my best friend in his driveway.
chodanutz · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In college, my friends and I invented a game called Chalky Ball. It was a 2 person game sort of like racquetball, but using a ping pong ball and paddle. First person would serve the ball, which was hitting it against a chalk board and the opponent would have to return after it hit off the board and bounced on the floor. As we got into it more, we made specific rules like if you were able to knock a piece of chalk off the chalkboard, it was an automatic win. But if you were able to knock the squeeze bottle, that was dangling off the edge of the chalkboard, off and have it hit the floor, it was an automatic win, plus the other person had to buy you a burrito. But if you missed and hit the ball down the stairs next to the chalkboard, it was an automatic loss and you had to walk down a shitload of stairs to go get the ball. Damn do i miss Chalky Ball!
dramatic_iron · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time our parents left we would pull out the guest "mattresses" (basically cheap foam) and put our sleeping bags on them for a slick surface and then use them to cover the stairs. We'd pile pillows to fill in the gaps and even would make a safe landing pad at the bottom. Then we'd get in another sleeping back and slide down. Good times.
One time we put a hole in the wall and so we moved a poster to cover it (in the foyer and low on the wall, very conspicuous). My parents didn't find out about it until they moved a few years ago.
Niklaus_506th · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play knock-a-door-run (or ding dong ditch depending on where you are from) but instead of running away we would just stand there when the person opened the door completely silently, blankly staring. Winner was one who got the angriest/funniest reaction or who stayed there so long they just close the door in your face.
iTeoti · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sillow.” The gist of it was get two big pillows, run at each other full speed, whoever falls over first loses.
It was fun.
Louisianaflavor · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called “Gigalo” when I was a kid. I didn’t know what a gigalo was, but that didn’t stop me.
YepYouRedditRight2 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“War”
Basically LARP without weapons
emu5088 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school I played "leopard and sloth." I'd be the sloth and he would be the leopard. I would try to escape extremely slowly in vain and he would catch me and devour me. Every time. Dont know why I always agreed to it haha
moyno85 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hide the snake” with Uncle Greg
moonderss · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mrs. Corn, my older sister played a crazy, wacky teacher that chased my cousins and I around. Some of my fondest memories were making up weird characters to play with my cousins.
Ynotnasty · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
DO NOT TRY THIS!!! Growing up with little supervision in the inner city we would tape a nail to a bullet cartridge so the point was on the primer. Sometimes required a washer or quarter taped to the nail head. Meet up in the ally and throw the thing in the air and run. If the bullet fires and no one gets hit you win!
Sacbf · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A website, I think, had a town on it and there was different buildings, one where you could create a mixed up monster thing and another one where you could create cakes or follow orders given and you make those cakes. I used to play it with nothing else to do. Those were the best days, always quiet and peaceful.
(this is all I remember.)
coolranchdoritodust · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tornado. Everyone jumps around the trampoline in a circle mimicking a tornado. We all die. We “wake up,” in heaven, and the mission is to earn our angel wings so we can fly. The kid who jumps the highest gets their wings.
IceDemon31983647 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baseball with a football... You throw the football and play baseball the same except you can peg... A ball would be a throw to the person that was out of reach and a strike would be if you didn't catch it while in reach.
ShapeUpOrShivOut · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Bury". If you were sure that no parents were going to be around for a while and me and my sister would grab every blanket, pillow and bed sheet in the house. Then one person with lie on the bed while the other covered them with every piece of fabric we could. then time how long it would take to make your way out.
Vicpbkiller1994 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runescape
welldonedickhead · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foot wars. Me and my brother would sit on either end of the sofa facing each other with a cushion between our feet (knees bent).... First person to force the cushion away wins a point.
That and that old classic the yes no game
Larrybud75 · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah. We called it “feet fight”.
oldskoollondon · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't believe no ones mentioned Doctors and Nurses..
dymbob · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shag A Pole" Probably more bullying than anything else, but the older boys would, mid-game of whatever else we were playing, gang up on one particular younger kid and hold each of their limbs. The victim would then have their genitals repeatedly rammed into the nearest pole or tree while everybody else cheered and chanted SHAG A POLE! SHAG A POLE! Glasgow is a crazy city.
terrama · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, me and my best friend had some fucked up games as kids.
"The Mummy." When we were going down some rather creepy place or alley, one of us would scream " THE MUMMY" from the top of their lungs. And then we would run for our lives until we couldn't run anymore. Presumably my friend watched The Mummy at some point and as a child less than 10 years old, it scared the shit out of him.
"The giggle monster." I tried to literally translate it from the German fantasy name "Das Kichermonster", which is essentially the same game as above, just with "the giggle monster" instead of the mummy.
"Ball fight." Us and some friends played a variation of soccer and football, with the only goal being: get the ball, keep the ball. There were no rules except for no spitting.
"Dark fight." The same as ball fight, just in the dark and without the ball. Does it make sense? No it doesn't, and it never did.
"Bollocks throwing." We would sit in a room across each other and open our legs. Then we'd try to throw a tennis ball into each other's private parts. I hope we're still going to be able to have kids some day.
Consiliarius · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If "child" encompasses late teens, at uni some of my rock climbing mates and I used to play Hot Cars in the summer and Cold Cars in the winter on our way to/from the climbing wall or site.
Hot Cars: keep the windows up, sunroof closed, fan heater to full. First to open a window or turn the A/C on is buying the first round
Cold Cars: windows down, sunroof open (in proper cold weather) or in milder cold weather, windows shut but A/C on full chill. First to turn the heat up is... Well, you get the idea.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
AlPhAbEt PaRk
slowpotato22 · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yellow car" is a fun car game to play with family, friends and anyone else on a road trip. It goes like this:
If you see any non commercial vehicle with yellow color you call out "yellow car!". First person with a set number of points wins (normally we play to 10).
Standard cars and SUVs = 1pt. Jeep 4x4 = 5pt. Motorcycle / scooter = 10pt.
AlrightRealNice · 1 points · Posted at 22:15:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game called “Q” where two people would swing back and forth at opposite times and then when I said “Q!” We’d grab hands and swing wildly everywhere. It was very fun.
noelletea · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to have us play “sleepy girls” where for ten minutes we’d do things pretending to be sleepy. “Oh pretend to cook like you’re sleepy” “Run in place like a sleepy girl” It always ended in a nap 🤦🏾♀️😂
Errinaya1212 · 1 points · Posted at 22:16:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up something called "oops I lost my glasses." One person pretended to drop their glasses, close their eyes, and feel around the room for someone. Whoever got touched was the person who had to lose their glasses next. The people who were being chased after had to stay in one room, but they were able to throw things at the person who had their eyes closed to throw them off their trail.
BiskeLaV · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You draw a circle with a knife, and divide it by number of players. Each player had a knife and the goal was to throw it into the ground and cut off a piece of another players ground. The trick was, you had to successfully stand in your land to throw the knife. So if you were losing hard, you'd be balancing on one foot on your tippy toes.
erikstarck · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Killed the coolest”. Basically you were supposed to fall down (on sand) from some part of a playground you could climb up on when being “shot” by another kid. The one who fell down in the most extraordinarily cool way won. Bonus if you did not hurt yourself (too much). Think old western movie, someone falling down a house. That’s how you were supposed to be “killed”.
DeeDeeDeer · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doritos tag
There would be two teams and a bag of chips. Usually Doritos because it’s what my mom always bought. One team would start out with the bag, and the other would turn around and count so they could get away. The goal was to eat as many Doritos as you could before the other team tagged you. If you got tagged you had to handover the bag and let them run away. Whoever finished the entire bag first won.
One time I was playing with my friend, and my sister and her friend were on the other team. They ran upstairs and locked themselves in the barn and ate all of them. We got so pissed we returned with rubber band guns and shot them down when they presented the empty bag. Needless to say, that was the last time we played that game with them.
Red_Noir · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brother, and my friend played night crawlers bofore we ever saw iasip, we would make the room pitch black and then just fuck around with each other
DannyGull · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my younger brother created a mini universe. A whole cast of characters in different worlds.
If I remember correctly there was Persilick, Diabolic, rockman and a few more 'good guys' that I can't recall anymore. They fought against, Grinder and various monstrous species. We acted out every character, changed our voices, our stance and behaviour. The whole shabang.
Thinking back it would've mostly been recreations of kung fu movies, power rangers, Doctor who etc.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would stand apart with about 200 ft of space between us. Each of us would be wearing a paintball mask. One of us would have a paintball gun. We would shoot at each other and dodge the paintballs. If you got hit in the mask, it was game over for you. Very fun, very painful.
samjam- · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Trapped” which was played in a dark basement. Started in an enclosed room with two exits- a regular door and a square hole that opened into a closet that also started off shut. The It person shut the door and the closet door, everyone else inside. Goal was to make it to the safe zone- the stairs without being caught. Some strategy involved being multiple exits and places to hide outside the starting room. But the last person left was usually sacrificial and rarely also made it. Oh and lots of injuries involved due to metal pipes that inevitably were run into in the darkness and adrenaline fueled escape attempts. Good memories.
thatonefilmguy · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super late to the party, but my brother, cousins and I created Gockey. It was essentially a similar idea to hockey, but used one of those mini soccer balls, golf clubs instead of hockey sticks, was played in the dirt field beside the house and used two over turned water troughs that weren’t being used for life stock. The closest to hockey we could get when we were young and was a blast, minus the fact that it really jacked up my dad’s golf clubs... Haven’t thought about it in years though haha.
alonzoramon · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jet Set Radio Future for the O.G. XBOX. It was such a dynamic open-world game that involved graffiti-spraying inline skating teens in Tokyo and you compete with rival skating gangs either to race them or out-spray them in order to dominate parts of Tokyo. It's such an amazing game and the graphics were phenomenal with soaring skyscrapers and being able to navigate through different parts of Futuristic Tokyo and and the OST was top-notch which was mainly electronica, hip-hop, and sample-pop music and one of the best soundtracks I ever heard.
Best childhood ever
Hmblcf · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ballcycle, you play football (soccer, not that other rugby-like game) but on a bike.
It is GREAT, and nobody got hurt
Mbrr1214 · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up I was younger than my brother and much smaller than he and my cousin. We loved to play a bunch of different games but the best game by far was “Gnome Football” which was played in my basement. 2v1 both of them versus me. To make up for the size and coordination difference and the lack of size in my basement they would play on their knees and I wouldn’t, the best part was that if I escaped them once it didn’t matter because getting from one wall to the other was only 3 yards, so I had to turn back and re-enter the war zone. I don’t quite remember the rest of the format and rules exactly but it worked out really well and was a great time. Surprisingly we received little to no injuries and only broke 1 window from a successful field goal.
ccjaeger · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I live out in the country and we would play a game called Hostage late at night. There were two teams and you started at the home base (usually the Waffle House). Each team would have 10 min to take one hostage from the other team blindfolded and take them to a random location. This could be a farm, a random parking garage, the middle of nowhere, anywhere you could get in 10 min. Once the hostage was dropped off, they had to count to 20, then they could take off the blindfold, figure out where they were and find a way to contact their team to pick them up. First team back to the home base wins.
It was so fun but also so dangerous. The fact that none of us were hurt, kidnapped or murdered after being repeatedly dropped off in fields, alone, with no form of communication is a miracle. But it was still lots of fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:17:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the swing sets we would have people swinging back and forth, and the rest of us would try and run underneath them without getting nailed. Many bloody noses were witnessed.
Pinestachio · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game at school called "Catching". Basically extreme catch. You'd stand on opposite sides of a field with a tennis ball and throw it like Deku threw that ball at practice in BNHA to the other side of the field. Groups of at least 3 people on each side so there was a better chance at catching it. Then whoever caught it would toss it back as quickly as they could trying to get the other team to miss a catch.
Tarias678 · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"In the name of the King"
We had a golden retriever and whenever we went for walks with her I'd chase her in the field and try to catch her by just diving after her while shouting "in the name of the king".
Rarely got her...
Dangercritter · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So there are these bugs called Chicken Chockers, which are the larva of Tiger Beetles IIRC. They look like a nightmare fusion between a worm, a grub, with the face of a Stag Bertle. They can be extremely aggressive, but you have to fish one out. You had to find a Chicken Choker hole. (Its just a hole with no mound) and the top of a pine needle down there (make sure there is only one pine). Then let go and wait for it to wiggle. Once it wiggles, pull it out SUPER FAST and youve fished yourself a chicken choker.
We made arenas, seeing what animal would survive the aggression if the Chicken Choker. I do realize now that this is wrong.
But christ those things were ruthless.
Sudsy_Saruman · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called the cow game. My brother and I each had our side of the road and you would count cows on that side. Who ever had the most cows at the end of the drive won. If you saw a military base or missile silo you could nuke the other persons cows.
Popsical_Pete · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fighting in the Dark". We would block all the windows in the basement and search around until we found each other. No punching in the face or anything, but everything else was pretty much fair game. This continued right until early highschool...
stabinthedark_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played brick fight. We would build opposing forts out of cardboard or other scrap materials and stockpile bricks in each fort. Then we would hurl bricks trying to break down the other fort and hit our opponent. Lots of fun but I dont know how we survived childhood.
We also played calvinball which was pretty fun, I recommend it.
Zaarath · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All those bullshitty games on tiny CDs that came with cereal where the whole point was to fly a plane trough a terribly designed world to a circle or whatever
Snowballing on windows 97 if you remember
Heroes of might and magic 3, later 4
Caesar 3 and Pharaoh
Simcity 3000
Oh boy
evileyeball · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Around 1994 so about 5 years prior to the launch of super smash Bros for N64 my brothers and I used to run around the yard pretending to be video game characters fighting eachother. We would pick whatever we wanted from whatever game and just pretend to beat on one another.
Leonardo, megaman, Mario, Fox, yoshi,
Imagine our surprise when we saw the first smash trailer.
vexeling · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roadkill game. Be the first to identify roadkill on a car trip, you get points. Something like a squirrel would be 3 points. Raccoon, 5. Dog, 15 but you're a monster for calling it. Deer were like 30 or something ridiculous. Everything was double if you were the one to hit it, but not if you did it on purpose. (This was added as consolation because no one likes hitting an animal)
The only person to ever get banned from the roadkill game was my best friend's oldest brother, who hit a horse and totalled his truck. Friend was a Horse Girl and since we invented it we agreed all his points were invalid from now on lmao
petuniasweetpea · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before Pictionary, we played a ridiculously funny game called Dictionary. The player in charge found a really obscure word and all other players wrote out a definition. The most believed, if incorrect, won the round. Word Eg, Snip snap snorem, Nizam. BONUS: Learned lots of obscure words and how to lie convincingly!
kylienw19 · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You'd say "has has has" unexpectedly to a friend and unless they responded with "down kitty" fast enough, you'd bite them.
yamsnz · 1 points · Posted at 22:18:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My son is 8 and he invented “abc Pokémon” where we have to take turns naming a Pokémon for each letter of the alphabet.
It got too easy with all the generations so now we play “abc Pokémon water types” or “abc Pokémon Johore region”
I know a lot of Pokémon for a middle aged women
rezzyk · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Concentration.. which I talked to friends who went to different elementary schools in my same town and they ha no idea what I meant
http://www.scaryforkids.com/concentrate/
Captain0Fucks · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Never named it but we would punt the top of a football (American) so it would roll on the ground and it could take a huge bounce at any second. You had to not let the ball get passed you. Ruined a couple good footballs playing this.
mocha820 · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game with my older sister we dubbed "suke-it the sock-it" where we would throw socks at the ceiling fan, if you got one on top of the fan blades it would spin it around for a couple seconds before launching it to a random place in the room. There was no real winner or loser, but we competed to see who could have the socks land in the funniest places. Lost a lot of socks that way. Worth it. Nothing makes a kid laugh harder than a sock launched from a fan into a fish bowl.
haxanwitchcraft · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister, cousin and I were kids we used to play the SEAL GAME, as in the animal seal. Both my cousin and I pretended to be seals and therefore we could only crawl in the ground or move around by bouncing in the floor like a seal without being able to use our hands.
My sister who was the only human had to take care of the seals so she would cook imaginary seal food and throw blankets over us so that we could fall asleep etc. We even folded a mattress into a U shape and pretended that was the seal cave so we would crawl in there.
Sounds silly but I was one of the funnest things we ever did together.
Velxin · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play in “Dreamworld” with my friends during elementary school. It was basically a real life rpg with kingdoms, races, currency and quests all within our playground. I was the “Dragon King of Cinder” and my friend was a dragon. It was fun going on adventures and switching roles so it was more immersive. Eventually we got alot of people to play with us and had a blast doing so
tucci007 · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we played 'ledgies' at a local public school in the summers of my youth c. ages 5 to 10; you'd get a sponge or india rubber ball and bounce it off the wall of the school. The brick walls had a thick concrete kind of 'baseboard' at the bottom which ran around the whole school up to around 2 feet or so, which had a really wide sort of ledge at the top with around a 45 deg angle. So the goal was to hit this ledge and the ball, instead of hitting the ground as it returned to you from a bounce off the brick wall above, would fly up straight at you and you had to catch it. You'd get one point for each catch. You'd do it head to head against another kid and first to 10 won. Also, you could stand on the ledge, with our little kid feet, and hold on with your fingers in the gaps between the bricks; so this game was to see how far around the school you could go without falling off. That ledge was all we had but we had fun with it.
DoctorPail · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I played this game with my friend where one of us would get under the bed sheets, place all of pillows, and sometimes ourselves, on top of them. We then had to see how quickly we could get out.
sitchblap3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man-hunt. All the boys would split in half and one side would hide the other half would search military style. We had walkie talkies and everything. Losers would have to sneak snacks to the winners house for the sleep-over.
Family all grew up together in the same neighborhood so we had no boundaries.
Beckasin · 1 points · Posted at 22:19:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Sims golf demo
BartenderTRFG2015 · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Show me where the bad man touched you Game!"!???
thevinylbarber · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a very excitable cocker spaniel who would jump on anyone who moved too quickly. He and I would set up a baby gate in the doorway to our kitchen and strip down to our underwear. We would then bolt to the gate, pushing each other along the way, finally jumping over it. Whoever didn't have claw marks all down their legs was the winner.
ThePenguinTux · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pirate Baseball Not me but a game I made up with my kids and the neighborhood kids.
I was the pitcher in the swimming pool with a splash ball and the kids took turns batting with a Noodle Float. When they hit the ball, they had to swim to the far side of the pool before I could retrieve the ball and tag them. If they could get to the other side the next kid had a chance to bat them home (again they had to swim back to where the "home plate" was before I could tag them with the ball).
I lost almost every game, but we played almost every week for a whole summer.
xDeadxMemex · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made a game called Survival. It was sort of like "battle royale" tag where someone was it and the other people had 30 seconds to run and whoever got tagged was also it. Last person standing won.
RumoredReality · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Final fantasy blitzball irl
Someone played on a circular trampoline with nets and prevented the ball from landing inside.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gladiator. My brother and I would duel with pool noodles and whoever didn’t tap out would be the winner. Always ended in a fight.
jackcharlesh · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two sisters used to play a game where I (would have been about 4 at the time, and I’m a male) was a little girl named Alice, and my sisters were horses. They’d borrow my mum and dads dressing gowns, and use the belts as tails. They’d gallop around the house and I’d have to try and pull their tails off. Once I had pulled their tails off, they’d turn into a pile of flowers until the other sister could come and turn them back into a horse. (Or if I turned them both into flowers, then I’d win the game)
We also had a game called ‘Sacré bleu’ where we would get a magnifying glass and look at random objects in the house and say ‘sacré bleu’
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called windmill! We would go on long trips and whenever you saw one you had to yell it “WINDMILL” whoever had the most by the end of the trip won
Dukeofrory · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I read the title thinking video games but realised it wasn't from everyone's comments. My sister and I modified the board game mouse trap and called our version mouse friend where we would help the mice get around the board and avoid the traps
NerdyNord · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister , my cousin, and I played "Sealard". It was just a funny word my sister made up when she was like four or five and it became the name of a mythical creature we created. We laughed about it all day and without really meaning to created a game were one person is the creature chasing the other two. The person playing the creature is covered in a blanket and runs around trying to attack the others without really being able to see. Once you got bored of being under the blanket you would try to wrap up one of the others in the blanket and they would become the monster. We used other props that we found in the battle to make it more interesting, and mostly just ran around laughing and yelling nonsense. Over the years we created a rich tapestry of convoluted backstory to the monster involving demons, mad scientists, prophecies, time travel, and alternate dimensions. It was weird.
4evrMAGA · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dookie dark. Complete dark room and throw dodgeballs trying to hit each other.
toadbuster · 1 points · Posted at 22:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Munch's Oddyssey was my favorite. Such an under rated game.
WhenYouHitYourToe · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "vangbalspelleke" (or as we retardedly called it "vangspalbelleke"), which basically means "catch-ball-game".
The game was played with one guy (my bro or me) on the trampoline and we had a small, foldable goal (TheKage from Kipsta). Our garden was fairly long, but it wasn't al that broad, so we didn't have that many options.
The setup was basically, when you walk into the garden; the goal facing the opposite way of you, then about 10 meters of free/defenders space, then a line, which split the garden in a zone before the goal and a zone just in front of the the trampoline, and then came the trampoline.
Anyway, the guy outside the trampoline threw the ball over the net surrounding it (yes, it proved useful on many other occasions) and the guy inside had to try and catch it without dropping it to the trampoline-floor. When he didn't catch it, the thrower got the ball back. However, if he managed to catch it properly, he got the chance to shoot the target (goal) at the other end of the garden. The thrower outside had to prevent the ball from going into the net, but he could only cross the line to the defensive zone when the catcher had grasped the ball. So it was basically a sprint versus the ball.
When the catcher scored, point for him and unlucky for the thrower. After a game of 6 minutes we changed positions and when we each did one of each (or two sometimes), we looked who scored the most points, obviously, won.
Would've been more practical probably if we did put the trampoline on the other side, because I can confirm, the window that overlooked the garden still had round spots on it even on the day we sold the house. Good times never come back...
Aevc · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for this game but I had a glow in the dark plastic machete that had been part of a Halloween costume. We would turn off all the lights in the house and one person would start with the machete. Everyone else would hide and whenever we thought we saw someone we would throw the machete at them and it was basically glow in the dark dodgeball it was really fun but we weren’t allowed to play anymore after breaking some stuff throwing the machete around.
svezia · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marbles
L0st1nFutur3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fir-cone war our school area was riddled with trees. Every break we created 2 groups with about 15 people each. The Girls would go around and gather Fir-cones and bring them to a secret camp. The boys would split up in small groups attacking the enemys groups and taking the gatherers hostage. It would mostly be small skirmishes but if one team manages to have most of the fir-cones they would attack the enemy camp forcing them to relocate. If all the gatheres were taken and one team was dominating the other they won.
maggzillla · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘My baby’. My brother and I (we’re both boys) were probably 4 and 6 respectively, still sharing baths. In the bath. You get a flannel wet. Each hold one end in your mouth and proceed to have tug of war using your teeth, whilst shouting ‘my baby!’. It’s kind of mega messed up and strange to think about this now. I’m 24. Should maybe have a game of it sometime.
Merouac · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game. The idea of the game is to forget the game but you get points (that you don’t tally) for reminding others about the game, starting the game again. The longer you could go without mentioning the game before somebody els mentions it the better. Literally did this for years. Months would pass, we’d be going about our business when one of us would stop mid sentence, look into the distance and whisper “the game”. you’d be surprised the reaction it used to get.
Locus12 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made a game called "it" were one person would go on the floor and spin a quarter and the other would sit in a chair and try to drop a penny on it
Natedukes · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had 2 siblings similar ages growing up. We all drove in the car together often. My dad tricked us into putting our seatbelts on and not arguing about seats by saying “first one to put their seatbelt on, touch the roof and say ‘finished’ gets to sit in the front seat next time we are in the car.” 2 door car. Competition was fierce if you were in the back.
keepscrollingbuddy · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fortnite
Blu_Ace · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still do, but when I'm on car rides, the poles of landlines would be kind of like checkpoints. The cars in between the poles would be like obstacles, and in order to jump over them you would have to blink.
My parents thought I had some eye problem.
Kalenwiser · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a smelly kid, so we would play “stink tag,” which was basically me chasing everyone around as a toddler when I needed a shit. Either I’m just a really smart kid and didn’t care , or I was completely oblivious to why we would play it
delilahdumptruck · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made sure there was a large enough clearing in the living room for me to march in a big circle, and make sure that I had my nightgown on. Once it was time to play, I would pull the skirt of the gown over my head and imagine I was a giant running muffin person, or the "muffin man". I would march in the circle with the dress covering my face and I would inaccurately sing the muffin man song while doing so, and after a few round of it my little sister would throw herself on the floor (she was the log) and trip me over.
JPSkatez · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play Rollie pollie. You tuck your knees into your shirt and try to roll from point A to point B
zolone22 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our fun game growing up was called scuttlebutt! Four or five people would be swinging on the swings at different intervals and you would have to run through with out getting hit. Definitely not the smartest game to play.
imnottouchingyou1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played kick cricket! We had a long Hall so one would stand at one end and bowl a tennis ball to the person at the other end who then had to kick the ball and run from end to end as many times as they could before getting out. Good times
Billitpro · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Joust we would get pillows and tape them on broom handles and go at each other first on our bicycles but later on our mini-bikes and go carts.
And not that unique but also dirt bomb wars in the sump until someone broke their nose and we all got in trouble.
matrixrory · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not so much a unique game but when you were playing tag to decide who was IT first we had stupid songs to figure like "ip,dip, dog, shit, fucking bastard, silly got, you are not it." I don't know if this is a well known thing but there were loads of these stupid rhymes that I can't remember
AGumball123 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No touchey touchey It’s not what you think...
swannygod · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SpongeBob SquarePants Atlantis squarepantis
A surprisingly good ds game.
KytheGuy95 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"kowabunga!" We piled every cushion from every couch in the house in our sunken living room, and proceeded to sprint down the hall and jump into them while yelling "KOWABUNGAAAAA" as loud as we could. It was sweet
spike11552 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SUBSPACE - Continuum
EmilUeberall · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SpyFox! Found it in my Kellogs Cereal Box as a Child. No installation, just point&click. And cool Mini Games. Loved it
PiusAntoninus · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Real time Risk. I Drew a fantasy or real world map which I divided into regions where 1 was controlled by a player. These maps where huge and we played it with 5 to 6 people. Everyone was also free to chose their own faction. It was turn based which meant that each player could attack a neighbouring region which was either controlled by another player or an "npc" faction. We fought the Battle with wooden swords or bows if it was medieval based and bb Guns when it was a modern war. It was really fun and I feel nostalgic thinking about it.
Invisible421 · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We created a game called spinny. We would lock arms and each face alternate directions. We would proceed to spin as fast as we could. We would get very dizzy and fall over. It was great.
We also played jaws on an open back deck. We would scream "JAWS GOT CHRIS" and throw them off the back deck. It was rough, but fun.
UltraSack · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Yellow Car Game
The names pretty self explanatory, you get a point for every yellow car you see, and you have to shout yellow car.
There were 2 main rules. 1, if you see the same car twice in 5 minutes (drive up and down a road looking for a parking space) it only counted once. 2, first to 100 wins.
However, yellow cars are very rare - so you need more equally rare cars to gain points, here's a list of cars, their points and what you said to win them.
Yellow car - "Yellow Car" - 1 point Soft Top- "Soft Top" - 1 point Mini Cooper - "Mini Pinch" - 1 point Union Jack Roofed Mini - "Mini Union" - 2 points Same model car as you - "Snap" - 2 points Same model car as you and same colour - "Double Snap" - 5 points Same model car as you and same colour and year - "Snaperoo" - 10 points Any classic car - "Classic" - 10 points Any super car - "Vroom" - 50 points
You could also mix cars. So, for example, if you saw a classic mini cooper in yellow with a union jack, you would say "Classic Yellow Mini Union Pinch" and get 13 points.
There were optional actions too, where you would pinch the person next to you for a mini pinch - and slap someone on the arm gently for a yellow car - but it could be dangerous so we stopped playing with those rules.
It was a very fun game and made long journeys much more enjoyable. Plus it has the added benefit of teaching children to look out for stuff on the road when they do learn to drive.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bowling". 1 person would be the ball and the rest if us would have to stand in a bowling pin formation. The ball would have to roll and try to knock the pins down. Fun, but painful.
TheBoonkOfMormon · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my old friend used to make commercials for stupid crap that the other one picked and act them out. We had a lot of fun selling whatever we could think up. I miss him, man
bryanisbored · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my dad told me he used to play hide the belt with his brothers. also they would get boxes or something to use as a sled and slide down big hills that had a lot of dry pine leaves and stuff. its really slippery, i went hiking there once and slipped.
rincewinds_dad_bod · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Garage ball, rules every changing, it needed a kick ball and a garage to kick it into with the door open
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Monkey Feet." It required our empty dining room, and one pair of cotton winter gloves. My siblings and I would go head to head, each sibling with a glove on their right foot, and we'd try our best to wrestle the other glove off of the other's foot. We'd end up covered in sweat and mild rug burns, but it was super fun.
FieryAlex · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I Am Still Kinda A Child And I Will Be Playing Iroh Pai Sho From Avatar The Last Airbender In A Week With My Dad After Constantly Winning In Checkers :)
unknownuser23 · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “curb ball” in England. Each person would stand on the curb across from each other then throw a basket ball to the opposite curb. The goal was to hit the edge of the curb and make the ball bounce back to you, then you’d run and catch it trying each time to get closer to the other curb. Once you reached the curb on the other side you’d get a point, the other player would go to the other side and start again. We played for hours even making a team version where we’d divide everyone to each curb and when the whole team got across you’d win or get a point, that depended on when it got dark and the game was over.
lemonadeshotgun · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it reverse.
We’d pull the couch out and essentially just run in a circle trying to tag someone. Naturally people want to be behind whoever is it, because they presumably run the fastest and there’s no way you can get tagged if you’re behind the tagger, which is where the reverse part comes in.
Once a round, whoever is it can tell “Reverse!” And the circle begins moving in the opposite direction. Whenever someone is tagged, the circle also switches direction.
We also used to play “The Blob” usually in a dark room. One of us would be under the covers and we’d be the blob. The goal was to eat other people and they grab a blanket and become added to the blob.
It’s a nice feeling knowing I, as the older sibling, introduced/invented the two games that marked mine and my siblings childhood so well.
rebel_nature · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Binocular Hide & Seek. You hide somewhere in the house/backyard, but the person seeking can only look through binoculars.
Komalandorinha · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Making mud pies in my friends garden. No we didn't eat them.
stupid-sexy-solaire · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
pitler someone was pitler and would try to make the other smell your armpit
KeeksTx · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Close all the doors in the hallway, put our heads inside pillow cases, pillow in front of our faces, run around bumping into each other until someone got hurt and cried.
Bouaiben · 1 points · Posted at 22:22:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
when we where kids my friends use to bring a leaf of bread put it on the floor then we all gathered around it then the last that came on the toast had to eat it
bryanwhatsyoursecret · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find my dad it was such a fun game I’m still playing it
Mr_Sneb · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play horse with a deck chair under water. Set a trick for example loop the deck chair 4 times then do a kickflip . As you can imagine got ridiculous after a while the tricks you would have to set
Boristhespaceman · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I liked to fill blankets with stuffed animals, crawl inside it, and then roll down the staircase.
CaribouBeans · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister created this Game called "BALL- GO" and the premise of the game was i stood on top of the bed and she would stand on the floor and kick a physio ball at me as hard as she could.. I didn't see that this was just an excuse to kick the thing at me until years later
BananaWalker · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers (and friends) would play “Cat’s Meow”. Essentially we had a finished basement that we’d all go down into that was a maze of furniture and poles. One person would get blindfolded and they had to try and run around and tag anyone else in the basement. Here’s the catch - anyone without a blindfold on could hit/beat the person who was blindfolded with pillows and other semi reasonable stuff that wouldn’t kill them, but we got really creative. We had a pool table and we’d often lure the blindfolded person to the end and then two people (one on either side of the pool table) would run with a blanket stretched like a rope across the table and just absolutely demolish them with a clothesline. Many people got hurt but it was awesome and as long as no one told the parents we were good, we all suffered a bit.
If the person with the blindfold on actually tagged someone then the tagged person had to “Meow” like a cat out loud. If the tagged could identify who it was then the blindfold changed to that person.
Those were the days.
baby2bat · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
E.t organizer. It had games and helped keep your hectic schedule on check as a kid. It was on my game boy advance
Fenr-i-r · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car cricket - on a road trip, count all the cars you pass, until you pass a red one. The number of cars you passed is your score, and then the next person in the car is in. Highest score wins.
haccthaplanet · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor, and mom and dad...
LogicWX · 1 points · Posted at 22:23:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school, we would play this game we called "Pinned", where basically there were two teams- guys and girls, and then each team would take turns trying to pin the opposite sex against playground equipment or the fence. Thinking back to it, there was no winning and it seems a little raunchy
Redhotcollins · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Hocker. Full contact soccer using a smashed coke can as a puck. Played on a cement basketball court with trash cans as the goals.
char_67 · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played naked and afraid with my uncle. It was like hide and seek, but I was naked and if I lost I got raped
existentialhissyfit · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother & I used to have drawing contests; I was always the judge (cause I'm older & wiser, duh!). No matter how hard he worked on his drawing, I was always the winner. I'd critique/dismantle his art, pointing out every flaw, then comparing it to how amazing mine was. He cried pretty much every time. I was basically a huge asshole as a kid, always making that particular brother cry
Sam_Paige25 · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cars go by" So when my brother and I were too young for closing the bathroom door, the bathroom with a door in the middle of our upstairs hall was the spot for "cars go by". Whoever was on the toilet would watch the other pretend to be various crazy drivers going by/running down the hall. In retrospect it's super weird and embarrassing, but at the time it was fun to act silly/watch someone be silly. And I guess laughter helped move things along for whoever was on the toilet.
rowurboat · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
popcorn races. my siblings and i would line up the same number of popcorns on the table and then see who could mouth-hoover their line up the fastest.
platz604 · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids in the neighborhood had a cap gun. We'd have major cap gun shootouts... Was also a pretty rough area to live in to..
Kagaro · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Willy cruncher. We just ran up to each other and smashed with a our palm then clamped down and crushed the victims willy while yelling "willy cruncher"
koopaboopa · 1 points · Posted at 22:24:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Turkey". Whenever I went to my grandparent's house for holidays I would beg to play this game. I was the hunter looking for a turkey for dinner and one of my lucky relatives got to be my turkey. I would choose my bird by pretending to shoot them with my hunting rifle and they would fall out of their chair onto the floor. Then, I would "carve" them up and get them ready for dinner.
I have no idea how this started but it was played at least once per holiday for longer than I would like to admit.
Charlie_Brodie · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lines
Our playground at primary school has one corner that had been repeatedly painted over (never sure why). It resulted in a tangled mess of lines, some straight, some curved that all overlapped each other.
I basically made a game of tag, but you had to walk down a line, you could only change lines at a point where two crossed and you could only tag someone on the same line as you, so you have maneuver carefully to try and avoid getting tagged.
So you had a bunch of 4th graders doing lines in the playground.
Apparently other grades were still playing it after I left so I felt pretty proud that I started a new thing.
krkojzla · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bomberman 😏😏😏
TheDkone · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a game, but a 'toy' that I had. I was probably 8 or so and my dad bought me a replica cannon at a flea market which probably date back to the 50's. It came with chemicals that you packed into the barrel and was ignited at the other end. This thing legit went off with a fiery boom every time. It was terrifying and awesome at the same time.
MoatEel · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, I have a bunch, but here are a few of the best:
The first is my favorite, and I still 'play' it all the time. I call it the texture game. Basically you look at something and imagine what it will feel like, then feel it to find out if you imagined the feeling correctly. Simple, but can surprise you! This game definitely changed after I was old enough to start trying mind altering substances. You start being wrong a lot more.
We used to play a lot of games on the trampoline. We had a giant bucket of golf balls that we would dump out and then jump around until only one was left. We split up the golf balls between us like teams and tried to get ours to be the winner by jumping near the other balls and hope that you dont come down hard on one straight to the arch of your foot.
Another good one was the dance competition called "are you a diva or are you having a seizure"... and if the dance was deemed to suck, everyone else would yell SEIZUH! SEIZUH! (Basically seizure in a Boston accent). Ahhhh good times.
smiggster01 · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called ‘Werewolf’, a younger kid would pretend to be a werewolf and we’d basicly just throw him around and repeatedly throw him into hedges. Its weird to think about now because we used to be pretty harsh throwing him around, but we all loved it
AsneakyKitten · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played roller blades basketball. It was 21 on roller blades with no outs and no fouls. How we didn't die or break anything is beyond me.
wordsandfigments · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snake Mongoose! You and a sibling kneel facing each other, hands clasped behind your back. One of you is the snake, and has to hiss. The other is the mongoose, and has to make mongoose noises. (I still don't know what those are; mostly I just made aggressive phlegmy noises.) Then you try to knock the other one over. Generally this has to be done by hooking them with your neck. Or, if you're my sister, by wildly throwing your entire body at your opponent. Whomever ends up on top wins.
See also: Flinger. You get on the swings and fling your shoes as far as you can. Bonus points for getting them on the roof of the house. Flinger pro-tip: if it's muddy, remember to bring an extra pair of shoes for the retrieval process.
A_Moving_Targets_Boo · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yellow car. There wasn’t really a running score, but if you spotted a yellow car you got one point. A yellow bus 2 points. A yellow plane/helicopter 5-10 points.
hollywoodchillin · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jousting with plastic lightsabers on bikes and scooters. I was the champion of my neighborhood!
hexine2 · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i used my box of yu gi oh cards to invent a sort of dungeons and dragon's game where the monsters my characters would fight and the scenarios that happened were randomly chosen by which of my cards I drew
i think it would actually sell quite well, get on that konami
wifabot · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would try to get lost in our house. One person would be blindfolded, and spin around until their guesses as to their direction were confirmed as completely wrong by the sighted person, and they'd decide you were ready. Then, crawling, they would try to find the door.
The best part of the game was constructing the room in your mind, because you'd go the direction you thought was correct, and find furniture in completely bizarre places, and the room would look suddenly completely strange in your mind's eye. The round was over when you figured out where you were, and made it to the door.
Vasko_de_Gama · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wiffle Ball Golf - it was basically dodge ball of sorts except everyone had a golf club (real one) and a plastic wiffle ball that you would hit at the other players to try and get them out. If you got hit with a ball you would be out. If you missed someone you would run after your ball to take aim at the next person. It hurt like crazy if you were close and nailed. Honestly not sure how no one got seriously hurt or that we were allowed to do this given all the swinging golf clubs... We were probably like 9-10 years old - it was a blast.
TrueInsomnik · 1 points · Posted at 22:25:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillow fort making, me and my bro would make forts, then try to destroy the others fort. I really enjoyed that. Nother game we play, and kinda still do, is Cruise Ship Hide in Seek. You go to a section of the cruise ship with walkie talkies , and give himts to the other. Side note - The Casino js a great place to hide
Cheerio13 · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Levitation. We had three families of kids who would get together for entire weekends. The eight of us kids would levitate each other, especially the big boys. The person to be levitated would lie on his back on the floor, eyes closed, and everyone would sit around him with two fingers from each hand under the edge of his body. One of us would sit at his head and tell a tale of his death. After the story ended we would all take turns saying, "and then he died." The story teller would remind the body to be "light as a feather, stiff as a board." Then we would lift him up. Over our heads. With two fingers. Effortlessly. We did this countless times.
MadLibz · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My middle brother and I used to play this game called "Tommy loses". Tommy is our youngest brother.
First I'd say "I Win.", then the middle brother would say "I Win." and we'd both say together, "Tommy loses." . If Tommy happened to say "I win." we'd both look at him and say "No, Tommy, you lose."
This went on for years. Tommy is now a plumber who enjoys the company of men. Still not sure if our games affected him.
HawaiianHybrid · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your team. When you are out and about with someone, you pick and choose another person you see and say "Your team." The goal of the game is to make the other persons team worse than yours. It is a mean spirited game.
bluefoodforpercy · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pigwidgeon Ball: we’d jump on the trampoline with various sizes of balls. Then we would pretend the balls were owls from Harry Potter. The small ones would be Pigwidgeon, the bigger ones Hedwig, ones that went in odd directions were Errol. If you got hit by an “owl” you were out. I have no idea why we came up with that particular idea, but we thought it was hilarious and fun
AnneAuthor · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Furbies Hide! ~a game my siblings and I made up.
While in Home Depot or Lowe's, this involved walking around the store until one of us said "Furbies hide!" And then we'd all disappear into the shelves until the person who called the alert would say "Furbies safe!". Our parents hated this game.
gloat611 · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The blob, you hide under a blanket or sheet and crawl around blindly trying to 'eat' people. If you got caught then you were part of the blob.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Canadian Dodge Ball". It's very different from dodge ball though.
There's one ball, and only one player can hold it at a time. Once they have the ball they have to freeze in place, and they can either try to throw it at someone (below the face) to make them "out", or they can try to pass it to someone by bouncing the ball against the ground. However, if someone catches the ball before it touches the ground, the person who threw the ball is out. Once one player remains the game is over.
It's pretty fun, but I haven't played it in nearly a decade.
i_boof_juul_pods · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a game called slimy cat where I would dump my mother’s olive oil on our cat and then chase it around naked trying to catch it, and if I caught it I got to fuck it
JacKyxLuma · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost Recon Phantoms RIP
Edit: Also, my best friend and I always played like if it was a Diablo in real life, it was awesome, sticks and invisible enemies, we've had everything.
Gerefa · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beanie baby olympics anyone???
astnla · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Geometry Wars 2! Not that many people knew of this game and it’s really sad because the game is gorgeous. It was supposed to represent more of a retro shooter like Galaga, except with a modern twist. The game is still 2-D but a lot less 8-bit. It takes place within a square / more rectangular shape, and the enemies spawn randomly in corners, or various places within the screen. It’s very flashy, and has bright beautiful vivid colors. It’s also got party play (local). Honesty it’s one of the most beautiful, fun, laidback but interesting games I’ve ever played.
The one game mode that really intrigued me was “Pacifism.” It relied on killing the enemies by passing through gates rather than killing them by shooting. This one is the second most challenging one in my opinion and I hold a record of almost 900 million to this day.
There are other game modes like “Waves.” This game mode has enemies that go in a straight line, back and forth on the screen and it’s usually a row coming from the top or bottom/left or right. The spawning increases rapidly overtime.
Another favorite is “King.” This one includes circles on the map that allow the player to shoot while inside of them. Each circle lasts about 5 seconds, then you have to hop to another one while avoiding them while you’re on the move. The circle acts sort of as a haven but you have to move quick when the circle shrinks and disappear otherwise you’ll run into an enemy and die.
Last one of my favorites is “Sequence.” This one is one the most difficult ones but fun if you have a party (make sure the party is good because you all share the same amount of lives.) In sequence, you’re fighting through 4 rows of 5 levels (20 total) of enemies spawning while also dealing with a timer, so you have to kill the enemies quickly in each round before the timer runs out. It’s usually easy with the first phase of the round, but after you kill the starter enemies, more spawn and you have to quickly kill the second phase of enemies. The game gets harder and harder as you progress but you have 3 lives, and earn more lives after a certain amount of points. I’m pretty sure it’s every 200,000 points.
Overall, the game is a very well thought out game with a total of 6 game types. I just narrowed it down my favorite 4/6. I still have yet to find someone to disappoint with this game. It’s very addicting, fun, rage filling, and beautiful with the graphics. I strongly recommend, or even looking it up just to see how it is. It’s a very fun game, and is also backwards compatible on Xbox One! Just remember it’s Geometry Wars 2: Retro Evolved. Not GO1, GO3. GO2!!!!
Aelis_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were young, my sister and I would play a game we called Crocodile Chase. We'd gather every pillow in the house and design a course for each of us from one side of the house to the other, then hop from one pillow to the other on one leg until we made it all the way across, normally to jump onto the couch or a bed, or, when we felt particularly adventurous, we'd have built a fort out of chairs and blankets that was our safe house. You could only stay on a pillow for 5 seconds though, and of course, if you stepped off, you were eaten by crocodiles.
TKLeader · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Banjo Tooie
lax_wheat_42 · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Stag" my sister would chase me around our house with a knife. We had multiple entrances to rooms so it was quite fun
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play take grandma's knee gel, where when she's asleep we'd prick her knees with pins and steal the gel that came out
--BMO-- · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Friend of mine made up a game called ‘Waterproof Dogs’, intrigued I asked what the rules were and it turns out he just ripped off stuck in the mud.
SuddenTerrible_Haiku · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punch bug is one a lot of people know, but no one know's "18-wheeler (loury) willy."
If we saw an 18-wheeler on the road, we could give someone nearby a wet willy. This, for the few who don't know, is the act of wetting your finger with spit and then sticking in someone's ear.
It started as many fights between my siblings and me as you can imagine
fakearies1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and i had a game whenever we went out. We would spot fashion faux pas and score points for it. Eg. Sandles with socks, 10 points etc. The worse the faux pas, the higher the points. I dont exactly remember what's the rest but it included jeans with flip flops etc.
No my bro is not gay. We are not fashionistas. We only spot very obvious fashion disasters like a walking christmas trees. It wasnt like we could pick out the minute ones like " that top doesnt match that skirt." At the end of the day we would tabulate the score.
Pennachini19 · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Ball...We would go into a friends basement and turn all of the lights off. It was pitch black and then we would throw balls around the room trying to hit each other. It was carnage. Besides being blasted by a ball at any moments notice there were also the obstacles, like chairs and walls, that you would run into.
nonoyesnonoyes · 1 points · Posted at 22:27:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would all about 5/6 of us would hide under the duvet making sure there's no gaps and then one person would be the monster. The lights would be switched off they had to try to get their hands under the duvet and drag someone out. It was terrifying, but probably the best game ever as a child.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Others may have done this, but we loved playing hide and seek with Pictochat on our Nintendo DS's. We would ask for clues to find each other by typing messages on our DS. I figured out that I can find people by looking at how good my connection was, the better it was, the closer I was to them. Guess you can say I'm pro.
fenn2b · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sacrifice,” how it was played was my older siblings on the swing set, and then myself and my two younger siblings walk in front of the swing set, without changing speed, while chanting “sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice!” There were no winners to this game. We would just try not to get kicked by the older siblings on the swing.
IchthysdeKilt · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I recall building an elaborate city out of mud, dirt, and rocks and then, realizing I would never feel proud if it, demolished it before anyone else could see it. I don't think I ever told anyone before, and still have never really felt pride in anything.
On a cheerier note, when I did have some other kids to play with, we realized that we all liked batting but not really any other aspect of baseball, so we'd take turns pitching crab apples instead of baseballs. A little smaller and harder to hit, but really satisfying when they exploded and no chasing after them.
daho123 · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
South Texas raised. We used to have speargrass battles in the fields. We also would play rock castle war, since our school had that white gravel everywhere instead of grass. We built mounds and makeshift forts out of small sticks and then we would take turns throwing on rocks at a time trying to knock down all sticks/ walls
Revnard · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kicking game, where we'd kick eachother's feet under the table during lunch or dinner.
sharks_have_knees · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkey catcher. It was sorta like sharks and minnows. Basically, you and about five others would run around the yard trying not to get caught by the monkey catcher (he would catch you by throwing a hula hoop over your head) until a certain amount of time was over, then you could run onto the porch and be safe. It was fun, and a lot harder and longer than sharks and minnows for the catcher.
JiveTurkey1983 · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On our way home from visiting family, once we got to a certain point on the highway, my parents, sister and I would try to guess if we had any messages on the answering machine when we got home, and if so, how many? We could tell right away when we came in because our answering machine back then would blink once if there was one message and twice if there were two or more.
It was a simpler time.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard. A nightime version of hide and seek. Olle olle oxen free. First time I saw that in a movie, I screamed. I think it was What's eating Gilbert Grape. or is it Whose? I forget.
Jarmstrong606 · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
^my dad and I played hide and seek. He's so good at it. He's been hiding for 15 years.
greffedufois · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had imaginary horses that I road around. My friend and I both played this game all the time during recess. Basically we just wandered around with our hands out like we were holding reins. Oddly enough neither of us had ridden a horse outside of those little pony rings.
My favorite horse was Sky, a dapple gray mare. Had a new one pretty much daily but she was my favorite.
BeepBeepHonkHonky · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends used to play “scoops” in our elementary school. Two players on either side of a large box line with plastic scoops trying to score at least one of three plastic balls. Nobody ever used the scoops or that area (which was meant for jump rope) so we could always play there.
HipHopAphrodite · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know i'm already too late but me but we called it the note game. It was like hide and seek with riddles. Me and my brother almost exclusively played it when we visited our cousins. 2 teams of 2 people but it really doesn't matter. One team hides but they have to give you a note with a riddle. Could be anything that leads you to a picture frame, fridge, cabinet, etc. And there they would find another note. And they just had to keep deciphering notes until they found us.
overtly-Grrl · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game called “Butt Bounce” that my siblings and I played on our trampoline. What we did was chose one person who was ‘It’ and we would circle around them as we began bouncing. This person would also bounce simultaneously. On the count of three the person in the middle was to jump as high as they can and land on their butt in the middle of the circle. The goal the rest of us had was to exchange our simultaneous bouncing momentum to the ‘It’ person to make them surpass the six foot netting around our trampoline.We exchanged the momentum by bouncing at full force in the trampoline as the ‘It’ person hit the ground. Once you did that you would switch out the ‘It’ person.
Looking back on it, this game was so dangerous but extremely fun. Once my, at the time, second youngest sister(13) was ‘It’ and she went over the net. Thankfully she went over only a bit and was able to hang on to the net. It was crazy times xD
The_Real_Beale · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends when I was little created a game called “point.” The premise of the game was there was two teams, each team armed with whatever form of toy guns we could find, and you had to yell point whenever you had aimed at someone. At that exact moment everyone had to freeze, then someone would have to take the gun from the frozen “pointer”, and at the exact angle it was pointed and move it all the way to the person to see if the barrel had hit the person. Depending on where you got shot determined wether you were dead or if you couldn’t use a limb because it was shot. Spent many hours playing this game since we would lose our nerf bullets, in minutes, if we tried to have a nerf war.
Sean_k123 · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my family bought a plastic pool and noodles and we would put water in the middle of the noodles and blow on each end until someone would get a mouthful of water usually choking because you were usually inhaling when you lost
LadyDemon · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called "Murder". It was like a weird mix between Hide and Seek and Tag and Clue.
You drew papers from a hat, not showing anyone your paper, and whoever had the x was the murderer. Then the game began. Everyone would just split up and wander around the area. The person who was the murderer would "murder" a person by giving a person two chops on the back. The person would then lie down and wait to be found. When the victim was found, the person who found them would call out "Murder!" And everyone would convene to figure out who did it. The victim obviously was dead and had to remain silent. When there was a majority agreement on who the murder was, the person being accused would reveal if they were the murderer or not. If they were, game ended and a new game could begin. If they weren't the murderer, the accused were considered dead and another round would commence without those that were dead. The goal for the murderer was to last until they were the very last person alive. If you want to know, you were only supposed to murder one person per round, however if the group was particularly large, we'd allow 2-3 per round if the murderer could get away with it.
It was a fun game with large groups of people because it would sometimes go on for a long af time.
fluffygrenade · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother got inside our duvet covers and fought each other when me were young, thinking that it was like a hamster ball but in hine sight we were just chucking haymakers at each other and pushing each other into walls with only a slight restriction of the sheets.
greffedufois · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had imaginary horses that I road around. My friend and I both played this game all the time during recess. Basically we just wandered around with our hands out like we were holding reins. Oddly enough neither of us had ridden a horse outside of those little pony rings.
My favorite horse was Sky, a dapple gray mare. Had a new one pretty much daily but she was my favorite.
assimetricna · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
so, one time around the age of 10, my bestie and i created a game called “Tam Tam” which can be translated with “Boom Boom”. anyway, it was similar to hide and seek. we all split in two groups and after the countdown RAN the opposite ways. the objective of the game was to hide and then look for the players from the opposite team. (we had a judge to make sure nobody was peeking while running) once u find them, u call out their name and “shoot” them with an imaginary gun and they are out. the team that shoots all the players from the opposite team wins. it was incredibly entertaining to play.
licursi14 · 1 points · Posted at 22:28:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SOCK WARS!!!! Pretty much wrestling, with the objective to take the other persons socks off. It was awesome. My sister and I started doing it right before I started to get stronger than her so it was really a limited time thing.
shaye442 · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Monster”
My brother and I would turn out all the lights at night and walk around the house in the dark while our dad was hiding. The soul purpose was for him to eventually pop out and scream/grab us to scare the shit out of us but we loved it.
Mom was not a fan of this game. And me and my brother fucked our selves up occasionally on the corners of furniture. The things we enjoyed as kids.
SnakPak_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Roll and Kick"
Ended up being kickball, but we invented kickball. Pheasant block '95.
nashobagoat · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murderball.
2 cars, 4 idiot teenagers, 10 tennis balls, school parking lot.
In teams of two (driver plus ball collector).
Scatter the tennis balls around the parking lot, then drive around while your friend dangles out the passenger door to pick them up - most balls wins.
SoulRedemption · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hand ball, with two small sqaures and rules similar to tennis but no net. Two player game
bluecartoons · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother has this trike that came with a drift function and we would do one of 3 things after school.
I would chase his on a scooter until the scooter was hooked into the axle on his trike or one of us fell over and got hurt.
We would create dirt piles and then lay plywood on them just to see how much airtime we could get on the trike.
One of us would stand on the back of the trike and see how long we could wheelie for. This happened very rarely because one time we hit a ginormous crack in the concrete and it send us flying upside down, and we both got concussions. This was in 4th grade for me and 2nd for him.
tradal · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
front mission 3 or suikoden 3
probably not the answer people are looking for. damn good games. unique too.
Tizzybell · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I think it was just called Spider and Flies, and it used to be a really popular game with my class for years. We had a basketball court with only yellow and white lines, and Spiders were only allowed on one specific colour (can’t remember which) and Flies were only allowed on the other colour. This made it interesting as you could cross into different territories and potentially be caught. It was rely just a fancy game of Line Tag but it was so much fun!
xZora · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle Jack used to share a room with me when I was a kid. He always liked to pal around and get nuts. He always used to take pictures of me with his disposable camera, which I thought was a little weird (he still uses that disposable camera to take pictures for his website).
The strangest part though was that he hid a hard drive under the floorboards at my mom's house.. I don't know the significance, he's a lawyer now so he must have his reasons.
kimchiMushrromBurger · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hockey soccer. It's like soccer but the goals are smaller and you can be very rough. This was a summertime recess activity in Canada.
rovert6 · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On road trips, we always played the Alphabet Game. Basically, you start with A, and you find any signs/words that started with A. Then you move to B, and so on. On the extra hard ones like X and Z, we would allow a license plate only if it started with that letter. Always a great game to play even alone to try and pass the time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I was riding with someone (IE not driving) I would "skate" between the divider lines with my eyesight and try to weave between them all. Solo "game" I'd play.
Suuuuuper uncool now and once my parents found out about it, the game was over forever, but my uncle played this game with me we called target practice. He would drink and drive and let me throw the bottles out the window and try to hit power poles/trees on the back roads we would take. Also, the "don't lie to your parents it's bad. But if they don't ASK don't TELL."
I very vividly remember hitting tree dead on and being a mite upset it didn't explode like I thought it would.
JCMNika · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek tag in a big house
AtarSt1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play “time travel” games. We would get in a cardboard box, get out, and then he would call me stupid whenever I talked.
AtarSt1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I assume we were supposed to be in a different time period, but it looked pretty similar to me ngl
visuallymessy · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It’s definitely too late but growing up my twin brother and I had two older brothers who always exposed us to the cool shit all the older kids were into so one of earlier influences we had was Dragon Ball Z. Not only was the fighting cool but the continuous storyline and the style which boils down to a number of things. So basically we made our own characters with different backstories and a general plot line and basic continuity. Us playing this was basically us pretending we had our own anime and it revolves heavily around fighting. The two main characters of the series were Marmaduke, an Iraqi Wookie who’s owner (Marmaduke was originally a Dog) was a baby named “Owner”. They’re both really powerful fighters and one of the main antagonists is Marmaduke’s brother “Gingerious” who hated Marmaduke and wants to kill him. I should mention that the series heavily revolves around comedy, in some ways it was more comedic but ultra violence was sort of our thing. Owner’s main antagonist is “Yakov Shlomo” a Jewish baby who was rivals with Owner for reasons unknown
Steeljuicy · 1 points · Posted at 22:29:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Voodoo Vince lol
ReadingPhoenix · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't grow up in a religious family but I had to go to Sunday school anyways - I also had to go to mass every Sunday morning. I got so used to mass being the same every single time that's I'd get back home and recreate it with plushies- word for word. As an adult I am not sure if I am scared of that or not.
maharajah_or_majong · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Potato" with our cousins whenever we were at our grandparents house.
Players: 2+
Equipment: Hills Hoist (rotary clothesline for the non-Australians)
Instructions: In opposing pairs, you each take up position on either side of the clothesline pole, with one hand on the pole.
To commence playing, each person begins moving around the pole in the same direction, with their hand remaining on the pole at all times. At the same time, both players are chanting:
"One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Five potato, six potato, seven potato, MORE!"
After screaming the word MORE as loud as you can, both players must let go of the clothesline and run to the pre-determined finish line. For us, it was the green house about 10 metres away.
Spinning around in a tight circle before the run to the finish line meant you were dizzy, so someone was always either running off sideways, falling over, colliding with the other player etc.
Hard mode expansion: Play on an irregular surface / incline.
boofy007 · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Moo” Whenever we went on a road trip into the country in Australia , my sister and I would play a game called “moo” where anytime we saw cows in a field , we had to yell out the window “HEY COWS” and whoever had the most cows turn to look by the end of the trip won
ScaredofAsiangirls · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This only happened once understandably.
Me and my brother were about 6 and 8 sharing a room. He had a glass of water and he had put his knees up under the duvet. He poured the water over his knees and the water trickled down like rivers frome the top. Before you know it we had run back and forth from the bathroom 20 times pouring glasses of water down our beds and had completely soaked both the mattresses and the duvets.
We slept in sleeping bags for the next few weeks until they dried. One of my favourite memories
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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ObviouslyDonald · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a developing neighborhood (like it was a corn field before houses went up) and my brothers, other boys in the neighborhood would all get together with snowmobile helmets / paintball masks and we would go to the new houses being built and have dirt clump fights where the number of teams was decided by the number of dirt hills there were.
This resulted in a ton of bruises.
Griff-Man17 · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game, but the precursor to a game. Did any one else in primary school start games by marching around the play ground shouting "WHO WANTS TO PLAY STUCK IN THE MUD" (Or whatever) until you collect a huge gang, all linked by the arms, shouting the same thing until its time to start playing the game? How did that get decided any way?
abagofchips2791 · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“How long can I stay completely covered underneath by bed sheets before I suffocate.”
Bathtubskipper · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a few as young children... there was several instances where we would steal my dad's underwear and wear it on our heads pretending to be sumo wrestlers and we would waddle in front of each other and basically attempt to charge the other person over. Unfortunately for my father this game was played both inside and outside unbeknownst to him.
The other game was a bathtub game where my sister would boot me out of the tub for insubordination and I would have to fetch a funnel from the kitchen to wear as a cap to get back in. Part of goal was to both find the funnel and avoid getting caught.
Purpleboo2 · 1 points · Posted at 22:30:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tacky Lights - Me and my dad used to drive about at Christmas looking for tacky lights
Eaglewolf13 · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the 9yr olds: FORTNITE!!
MajorOooooof · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called man-hunt.
It consisted of a large group of people (usually around 20 people) and they would all try and search for a person or several people over a large area such as woods or really built up area (pretty much where you lived) and if the person is found they would be able to run until touched and held so they couldn't go.
It would get veryyyyyyy hectic.
Fried_Willy · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grease The Frying Pan Essentially, it was a modified tag game. The person who was “it” would turn around and hide their eyes while someone rubbed circles on their back saying, “Grease, grease the frying pan. Who shall crack the egg?” Then someone would punch the “it” person on the back. The “it” person then gave the “punishment”, which was largely based on how confident you were about who punched you. For example: Highly Confident- Run around the house 10 times, do 20 push-ups, count to 100. Low Confidence- Count to 10 Mississippi slowly. If the “it” person judged correctly, the puncher was now “it” and had to carry out the punishment before beginning to search. An incorrect guess meant they remained it and had to complete the punishment before searching. All hiding had to return to the base, which of course could be changed in the punishment description phase, without being tagged by whomever was “it”. Repeat over and over until someone’s mom called you in. Best played at night with those much slower and smaller than you. Summer was the best!
SueloSanos · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would hold my arm out the window and pretend it’s a giant chainsaw that could only cut through wood and metal or concrete would make it breakdown. So I had hop over signs and lampposts but would chop down power lines and mail boxes.
ItsGettingStrangeLou · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Knee Football"
So, we would play football on our knees in the living room. Big brother would play QB and you would just "run" on your knees playing football.
chilari · 1 points · Posted at 22:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dade was this game my brother and sister and I played when we were very small. The dining room had two doors, each opening onto an L shaped corridor. We'd run around this loop. Whoever was Dade (it) would chase the other two. They'd shout "Dade" upon catching them to tag in whoever they caught - or to change direction. So hearing Dade might mean someone had been tagged OR it might mean you had to run the other way but unless you felt yourself being tagged or saw it you didn't know which. My brother was the youngest and still a toddler so he was mostly Dade. The strategy was to never get too close behind anyone else incase suddenly they called Dade and they caught you.
Mum hated it.
Truth_Universal · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Categories Game". Basically any occasion my family needed to find some way to occupy itself in the face of unstructured waiting time, this game would inevitably get suggested. The premise is pretty straight forward--you'd pick a category, say movies, animals, cities, historical figures etc., and you'd go around the circle and answer the question; there wasn't an agreed upon amount of time, but eventually someone would just blurt out an obnoxious buzzer noise to signal your humiliation. The catch was every round you'd have to answer the question going down the alphabet, i.e. the first round answers had to begin with A, second round B, third C and so forth. We'd usually just agree to skip hard letters such as X, Q and Z but not always. No one kept score and there were no winners; however, hours on road-trips and waiting for dinner at restaurants were occupied from this, and we still play it from time to time when we're all together.
bethzx · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
didn’t really had a name for it but on long car journeys we used to play a game using pubs that are named after animals, whoever spotted the pub first got that pub and however many legs the animal the pub was named after would be the points u get, e.g. “the iron horse” would be 4 points for 4 legs. Whoever had the most points at the end of the car journey won
Tod_Vom_Himmel · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers played Star wars on the beach at my grandma's cottage has kids, we would find flat rocks preferably triangular to be Star destroyers and big round ones to be rebel cruisers we had a stick to measure movement of each ship per turn and then you whipped rocks at each other's ships until they shattered, and I honestly can't believe we made it to adulthood with all of our eyes
PS I have no idea what the movement mechanic added to the game whatsoever we literally just chuck rocks at each other's rock ships as hard as you could
fishgutsd · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know I'm late, but I have one!
It was called "No Touching" (odd name, but we were kids) and what we would do is build an obstacle full of random objects like brooms, buckets, tables, etc. and we would place some random item at the back of the obstacle course. The goal was to get through the obstacle course, grab the item, and head back all without (you guessed it) not touching anything else.
It was pretty fun since you get to feel like a spy going through laser alarms in some spy movie (probably what inspired it).
esidaraplas · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pick up and throw. More of a sub game within a game of wiffle ball. When I ball gets picked up by the pitcher they have an opportunity to throw another pitch from wherever they pick up the ball.
midsummerlight · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Balloon.” Perfect in a little bedroom when there is nothing to do and you are a child. Maybe this game is too dumb to describe here but it was really fun when we couldn’t go outside. Two people. One balloon. Each person allowed to hit only once. Object to keep balloon in the air. So when it was your turn to hit the balloon, you obviously hit it away from the person so they couldn’t get it. Then there was the 3 foot rule. If balloon is at 3 foot level, you are not allowed to hit it downward. Hours and hours and hours of fun. Intense cardio. I’m 67 and I just played it with my 15-year-old grandson and now he always wants me to play. Every day I hear, “let’s play Balloon.”
kyrah096 · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend thought was funny to role play horror movies at night... She was 2 years older than me, so of course she was always the moster/killer and I was the victim... I still can't watch the movies we roleplayed and till a few years a go I was still afraid of the dark 😭😭😭
punkassterisk · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didnt have a name for it but my neighbor and i woukd fill a plastic bottle about half way with sand and stand in the street about opposite of eachother. The goal was to throw the bottle sliding it across the street and the other person had to stop it with their feet only. If they got it past you they got a point.
On the flipside my nephew that i tutor and babysot taught me a weord game he calls "you just got megged!" After some soccer player or whatever. Theres a small ball and you play inside. The goal is to kick it between the others legs. Doesnt count if you onock it between your own legs.
Gone4Holiday · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play guns with my younger brother and a two friends from the neighborhood. We would stay up late and play at night with all the lights turned off in the house and it was essentially tag/hide and seek.
redfiveroe · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I, maybe 10 of us all together, would gather in my mawmaw's extra bedroom while our parents played cards on Friday nights. Between Atari matches, we'd decide to shut the lights off. Couldn't see shit. Everyone would just start swinging. Well, some us hid as best we could. The rest went for blood. Usually ended when someone would start crying, interrupting the adults card game, and we'd all get in trouble. Great times.
mattdpeterson · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swim whale Swim. Two houses with an empty lot (nice, mowed yard) between them. The houses were safe and there was 1 "Shark" in the middle. Shark yells swim whale swim and everyone has to run.. shark tries to catch them. Get caught.. you're the whale.
OnTheRocksWithSalt · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, gosh. Late to the party, but we called it “soft floor”. We took all the cushions off the couches and all the mattresses off the beds. We turned off the lights, and turned on a strobe light, and beat the shit out of each other with pillows. My mom actually bought about a dozen extra glass covers for the light fixtures because we broke them so often.
shhhushnow · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Purple car!
The rules are simple, first one to see a purple car & then shout "purple car" gets points (number unknown). I've been playing for a good 30 years now and these days it usually ends with a discussion about shades of purple and maroon controversy.
r_aperson · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i remember a game called stomp that i played with friends in my school you basicly you had to say STOMP¡ and stomp into someones feet and it was really really stoopid and we would get detention for playing it. worth it tho
snailcunt · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played it as teenagers. Death Ball. It was like if kickball & dodgeball had a drunk child, but we used those big yoga balls, instead of kickballs or dodgeballs.
spankmemes_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Park the cars. We would park these hot wheel cars in random places, and I had to go to the hospital after my friend parked one in my anal cavity
SnakebitGames · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a small child my father would make his hands into spiders that I would have to crush to kill. It was called The Spider Game. I play a similar game with my dog now - I don’t have any kids - but when I was in second grade I wrote the paper a description of the game and it was published for Father’a Day. My old man still has the clipping framed on his wall.
Gropeymountain · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get away from uncle.
maestrosabe · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up my cousins had this large book that had different board games on it. It had a space cut out for the pieces and dice. I barely remember this thing and i have never been able to find one. I think each "page" had a different board and theme. No one in my family remembers this thing. #mandela effect
whatscrakalakin · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Heavy shoe. As soon as my dad got home, my brother and I would latch on to his ankles and have him try to walk around like that. Now that I think about it this was really mean of us...
greenbreadseduction · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rape”
Wait a minute
nickmills33 · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mainly games with my cousins at my grandparents due to lack of child friendly things, so we had to use our imagination. Monster in the dark and crocodiles were personal favourites.
Monster in the dark consisted of one of us crawling around my grandparents stupidly big entrance hallway with all the curtains shut so it was blackout. The non monsters were on the stairs and the aim of the game was to run around the hallway and get back to the stairs without being tackled by the monster.
Crocodile used more props. The "crocodile" lay between two twin beds about 2 foot apart and tried to pull the non crocodiles down into the gap as they jumped back and forth across the beds.
We used to play for hours at family parties and looking back I'm amazed no one was ever hurt!
Balloon tennis was a favourite with my siblings. when balls were banned indoors in my house we used to split the living room in half with cushions and bat a balloon back and forth over the "net". Used to hit rallies of thousands.
ftwpurplebelt · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill! Neighbor hood game of hide and seek that covered about a square mile. 30 -40 players 1 person is “it”. If you are found “it” gets to punch you as hard as the can. Then there are 2 people that are “it”, and the next person gets hit twice.... Last person usually hid until everyone just goes home.
productive_lazyness · 1 points · Posted at 22:33:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pencils. I still have scars...
also, smear the queer
quantumofennui · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Squash"
The apartment my brother and I grew up in had a long central hallway with a door at one end that had 9 or twelve little glass panes in it. We would stack those multicolored cardboard bricks up in the middle of the hallway like a wall almost 6 feet high and stand on either side so we couldn't see one another. Then we'd take turns swinging a bean bag chair in a circle before releasing it to come crashing through the wall as fast as possible with the intention of "squashing" the other person while they tried to dodge it.
This stopped when my younger brother got hit and fell backwards, cracking one of the glass panes in the door with the back of his head. He was fine, but our parents were pissed.
Would play again.
baabaaaam · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Kellogg's jumpnrun PC game. It was fantastic. And not easy at all.
cg27288 · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Burn. Bunch of kids throwing a tennis ball at you. Good times.
Syphurion · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game on our rectangular trampoline that we called the four corners.
2-4 players would all hop onto the trampoline together. 1 person would be in the middle while the others all picked a corner. The goal was for the people in the corners to try and get across to one of the other corners without being touched by the person in the middle. They also had to go to a corner that was empty so more players actually made it difficult and needed more cooperation between the corners players to make big moves. Preferably the trampoline would be wet at this time as well making it even harder to stick a landing yet also making sliding plays more viable.
Was a fun game we played all the time in the summer with our neighbors.
VikingBus · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball Tag is what we played. It’s basically dodgeball with a trampoline. You have one person on the ground with a soccer ball and everyone else on the trampoline. The person on the ground can’t move with the ball in their hands and they try and peg someone and then they’re it. If someone catches it they can toss it anywhere but if the person on the ground catches it the person who threw it is now it. I’m younger than all my brothers and so I got pegged a lot.
TheLadyZerg · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a sizable collection of the McDonalds beanie babies and a Tarzan treehouse playset. I used to pretend my beanie babies were in a club and the treehouse was their clubhouse. I would celebrate their birthdays by making a piece of toast with jam on it as the cake. They'd play games and go on adventures and stuff.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would get a group of people and go to the local pool. There we split into 2 groups. We would use all of the pool noodles to weave together and create battle ships. These were impressive.. We were able to sit inside of the "hull". We would then stock up on the pool basket balls and go to war in our battleships and try to obliterate the other team.. Our pool has since gotten strict about pool noodle usage..
Smurfaloid · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing what could only be called 'Sumo'.
You stuff as many pillows as possible into your clothing and start bouncing off of each other.
Last one standing wins, also to up the ante we had blind Sumo where you'd do all that and have sleeping bag on you over your head so you can't see.
willfulCatholic · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Asherons Call
BlackWindowLightRoom · 1 points · Posted at 22:34:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Burn house
sam4246 · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go Peek.
The person who's IT watches you hide, but after 30 seconds of hiding, they put on a blindfold and need to tag the people hiding. The people hiding are allowed to move as they please. We also restricted it to two rooms and the hallway that joined them so it was at least possible for the person it to find you.
Real_Sea_Witch · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mountain climbing. Tied two skipping ropes together and tied that to the top of the stair railing. Then we would “climb the mountain” .
chased_by_bees · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scream in the barrel. Surfing game. Everything is super echoey in there.
Soupp_ · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkeys! We would take all the cushions off the back of our sofa and put them on the floor and then, because the sofa was against the wall, we’d run along the edges of it trying to grab and throw each other off. Last one on was the winner.
Novapophis · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a shareware game called "Find Felix" that i couldnt find for years. It was a dos text entry instead of point and click adventure. I searched for years, and eventually got a response from one of the original devs who responded to my necropost kn abandonia years later. We couldnt recover the game in the state it was in, because noone had that architecture anymore. So.... thats one that i played that probably noone other than share ware people that bought floppies at midwestern computer conventions had played.
fosters10 · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a young teenager, we used to play drum and bass hide and seek. It worked on a similar basis that others have suggested. All the lights in the house would be turned off(preferably we would play at night time), we would play eerie electronic drum and bass so loud that you would feel the vibration through the house. Then the seeker would use the torch on there phone to go off searching. My favourite place to hide was always wardrobes, it was always a shock for the finder when they pushed aside some shirts to find a face staring back at them.
Armillow · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm, Basically it's a camping game for night when It's kinda cold, and everyone or everyone but one is in a sleeping bag, and you have some people stand up, and try to grab people, and put their heads in your sleeping bag hole, while they knock you over any way possible. It was great fun and we usually ended with the winner laying on top of all the exhausted losers.
entchilllada · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I had a block of wood that my dad cut in half. We painted matching sides for every side of our blocks. Each side when matched, took us into different worlds. Was a fun, creative game as a young kid. We didn't know we were essentially just roleplaying haha.
chulobou · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can anyone tell me if you know the name of a game about wizards with diferent elements? Its a 2d platform Game. Thanks =)
StandStillForMe · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a game, but I would watch raindrops on my dad’s car window and whichever raindrop touches of the window “wins.”
TheFlyArchaeopteryx · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moss wars! We grew up near a creek so we would find good sticks to fling moss on (we could fling some moss 25 yards with a good stick). A group of 3 would get on either side of the creek and we would just go at it
CornPopsLover · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We saw the movie Christine about the killer car, so we started playing a game where one of us was Christine. Everyone else would start in the basement and had to make it to the third floor on top of the bunk bed. Whoever was "it" could only get you if you were on the ground. As the older sibling, I always made my little sister be Christine haha
mrdoodle123 · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide the penny" We played it in the living room, maybe 5 of us. One person had to hide a penny somewhere while the other 4 closed their eyes. It had to be visible, like on the clock on the mantle piece. Then the hider would sit down while the others would lurk around looking for it, but the thing is, when you found it, you just sat down, but you had to be tricky when you found it, like if you saw it, and then bolted for a chair, everyone else would know to look at the last place you looked. We loved that game.
crazybabyblisshead · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family and I during the tv ad breaks would play a game where we’d have to guess what brand or company the ad was about. Everyone would just be yelling at the top of their lungs to get their answer heard and it was the most chaotic but also fun thing ever to kill time during the advertisements.
Frost4Zero · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I would play hide and seek but he would seek my cheeks and hide inside
NimbleOSRS · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
RuneScape
Redpoltergeist · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In India we played “utting, baiting” in school, basically if one of your mate forgets to tell you baiting while sitting down or utting when he stood up people who he is playing would bang his back literally by punching on the person’s back and remind him that he forgot to tell others.
its_meKnightSwolaire · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Jet” was a game I played with my brother who had a bunk bed with me. We played when we were around 5 and 7.
When we went to bed we really just assumed the roles of fighter pilots. We both took to the make believe skies and relayed what we did and saw to each other in that military style. Sometimes we would see action. Like my bro could suddenly proclaim “bogey on my six!” And I would shoot them down. I’ve been shot down a few times but always ejected safely.
Fun game. Later on I realized we were just playing a make believe version of Ace Combat
HexiiReddit · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My game was called fonkersonker. I would wrestle with pillows while doing dance moves. It really wasn’t something I could win but I had so much fun with my dad.
pepsiigiirl · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game my siblings and I all used to play was a game we called “Black Cat”. It was essentially tag, but we would play it at night after my parents had gone into their room and we would shut off every single light in the house except their room. However, even the tiniest bit of light creeping under their door could give away the black cat, so we would stuff towels under their door. The objective of the game was to run back and forth between the front door of the house and the back door without getting caught by the black cat, we had to do this until the black cat tagged us. Who was the black cat? The unlucky person who got to be “it” was someone who dressed in all black everything, including an old ski mask we had. The black cat was practically invisible in the dark and it was always a thrill having to run away from someone you can’t see. Playing in the dark ended with some bumps and bruises, but it was one of the most fun games we created.
brithael · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
knee wars. You'd have to hold your feet with your hands and run around on your knees. Then you tried to knock each other over.
Amazingly no serious injuries. You basically built up a lot of speed to charge someone with your head..
Tee-Hee-Wee · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava
tangledlettuce · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a variant of tag but we just called it "Mother Medusa." Basically, everyone including the person who was it couldn't touch the floor and we all had to scramble on top of furniture. Having a large basement with lots of tables and couches made this game a blast for all of us!
Justin41698 · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I just beat the shit out of each other. You guys are creative
lobbo · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pooey girl. Every time my youngest sister had poo in her nappy myself and my other sister would have to run away while pooey girl chased us
DEV_astated · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My elementary school recess group played Territory Tag, a variation of Tag where we split the entirety of the playground into half (or thirds, sometimes kids decided to form a third team). Our goal was to defend the territory from invasion by the other side. We had Team Hill and Team Playground. The Rocks were the designated “jail” for anyone that got caught outside of their territory. We had legit wars and shit. Good times.
chocolate_star · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin 2ould lay on opposite ends of the bed and toss a pillow at each other, but we'd use our feet instead of our hands.
thoticusbegonicus · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
German spotlight. You have one or two free people and a spotter with a flashlight. Everyone else tails the spotter in a line. If you are in the spotters light and he calls your name you go into the line. The free people had to free the prisoners to win. Ended up in some crazy shit. Had to rename it for a few years because we learned what the game actually was about
ResidentWeenie · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"cheese" me and my sister would create obstacles (all included not touching the ground so we'd be climbing on things) around our backyard and we'd have to go through them in a certain order.
"cops and robbers" one of us was a cop and the other was a robber in jail, the cop would go on a donut run and while that happened the robber escaped and went to go hide. The cop would then have to find the robber. If the robber was found they would have to run until being caught and getting thrown back to jail
Astabar · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Which Colour Car? As a kid, my parents, my cousin, and I would spend a week every summer at my grandpa's ranch. It was about a 5 hour drive from my house, and after the first 2 hours of driving, the roads became very quiet since we had left the main cities. Once we reached a rural stretch of highway, we would begin the game. Each person got to guess the colour of the next oncoming car to come around the bend, if they were correct, they got a point. No extra points for make/model. Asides my dad, none of us knew our cars well. I loved this game because it was only happened for few minutes every so often, so it never became a hassle to play. Just a nice way to pass the time on-top of talking and listening to music.
bhfiewacwrecg · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was very young, I would put out my finger in a circle, than have another finger completely straight, have them far apart and then try to get the finger in the hole, obviously I didn’t know what it meant, but I think it’s pretty funny to think about. Also, happy cake day!
Waffleboard15 · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play wall ball. It was normally played with a tennis ball in front of a large, flat wall. You'd casually bounce the ball off the wall to each other and catch it. If you dropped it while trying to catch someone else's throw, you'd have to run and touch the wall before someone else grabbed the ball and hit you with it. If they hit you with it before you made it to the wall, they'd get a point. Bonus points for huge welts on the other person when you beaned it at them.
Justbeth82 · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend of mine used to put a bunch of pennies on a ceiling fan in her moms bedroom. One person would be hiding under the blanket while the other one turned the fan on then ran to the bed and got under the covers and all the pennies would fall on us lol.
OlDropTop · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turn off the lights and guess who is in my mouth
realgangstuff · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some of yall strange lmao
sunflowerkoko · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
so you know how people say number 1 for pee, number 2 for poo? well we took it a few steps further. somehow we made to 1111, where piss n shit n other is coming out of every pore and crevice of your body. pretty nasty. i know. you can judge my family now
realgangstuff · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bro wtf
Bobbyboucher0218 · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe too late to post, but my brother and our friends used to play this secret agent game. One person would tape laser pointers (always on) around our house when it was dark. The other person (secret agent) has to try to successfully cross this laser maze. The secret agent was given a spray bottle with a limited amount of sprays to reveal this laser. We used to have around 10 laser pointers so it got pretty intense sometimes.
theCHAMPdotcom · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not unique but “kick the can”.
VirgilCummings · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “butt ball” ...its basically red A with a soccer ball and you just kick it against the wall rather than throwing a tennis ball...and the one who lost had to stand facing the wall and each person got to shoot the soccer ball at them as hard as they want. From a decent distance back of course. Was tons of fun and a great workout.
xJacon · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Violent Volleyball: everyone (4 or more people) is in a circle and one in the middle sitting or crouching, you hit it around the circle 3 or more times and then you spike it in the middle. If it hits them, nothing happens. If you miss, you’re in the circle. If you miss hitting the ball and it’s clearly your fault, you’re in the middle. If after the third hit the person in the middle catches the ball, everyone is out of the circle except for the last person who touched it. Play until there’s one person left standing and then repeat
craigathan · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
SF here. We used to play "Kick the Can" in Golden Gate Park. The object was simple. You set up a can in a clearing. Everyone would scatter except for one person who had to protect the can. If you were able to get to the can and kick before you were tagged, or more often tackled with supreme aggression you would win the game once you got to 5. If you got tackled or tagged then you would go to jail. If someone kicked the can when you were in jail, then you were free to go and try again. If everyone wound up in jail, then the can protector won. We would all eany meany miney moe to see who would be the guard. Fun times. Lots of black eyes, skinned knees and bruises.
oddball2194 · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made up quite a lot of games when we were kids. Most of them are long forgotten but one in particular sticks in my mind.
We would take off the cushions from the sofas and grab spare pillows and spread them out around the room in 'stations'. There always had to be 7 stations because each one represented a continent.
Now, I have no recollection of what 7 year old me thought happened in other countries, but the game was that we had to jump around and land on the continents 1 at a time and pretend to eat typical food, speak the languages (which was obviously gibberish) and if one of us was 'on' Europe, the other might be 'on' Australasia and have to pretend to be asleep because of the time difference. Was weird af but kept us entertained on Sunday afternoons.
Rekka1212 · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
i remember when tenchu dropoed for ps1 it blew my mind. then came metal gear but tenchu was first
Georgieboi83 · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bean shooters.
Obb89 · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game called "Everlot" in which we grabbed every item in the garage (hockey sticks, foot balls, literally anything) and threw them at each other in order to get them out. Each team stood on opposing sides of the drive way and threw objects until someone either A. got knocked out by a hard object or B. started crying. I miss the glory days :,)
eddyburgers · 1 points · Posted at 22:38:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd shove maybe 4 of us into a sleeping bag and then slide down the stairs as fast as we could.
CarbonatedSoup · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I passed a streetlight while riding in a car I would click my teeth together and try to count them all
xerxes501 · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play various games where you threw things at each other, typically boys. There were minor rules like stay on your side, but other than that it’s play at your own risk. These games ended when someone was too injured to continue.
One such game was during our 6th grade trip to Washington DC. I was in a room or 4 boys that had those adjoining doors to another room of 4 boys in one hotel we stayed at. I brought a ton of glow sticks with me for the trip and we decided to have a glow stick fight one night. We had to stay on the beds in our rooms and fling those sticks through the open door to try and hit the other players. We ended up with quite a few welts. That game ended when one player took a glow stick in the mouth and it exploded getting that glowing goo inside his mouth.
Another time, during Thanksgiving, a bunch of boys and cousins were throwing around toy ninja stars at each other in my basement with the lights out. That game ended when someone’s hand was broken underneath the leg of a heaven chair.
TheTrueYako · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play this really weird game. We would play it in my bedroom which must have been about 10 feet by 10 feet, with my bed pushed to one side. All the lights off, door closed, and my room had no windows. One person would stand with his back against the door and throw a tennis ball into the room, and then everyone would search for it and try to put it in a bucket across the room from the door to earn a point, after which the lights would come on, the scorer would go to the door, close the lights when everyone was ready, and the whole thing would repeat. Game was full contact. It didn't have a name and I'm not actually sure if the person throwing the ball shut the lights off immediately after throwing the ball or if the lights were off when he threw.
We used to play this in our early teens, usually with about 4 players.
EvisceratedInFiction · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GaGa Ball. An awesome game at my camp where you stay in a circle of benches and try to hit other people’s legs with a ball using your arms. So you end up hanging down like a gorilla protecting your legs and swinging around. Tons of fun.
GrRr912 · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was in Bob's Burgers.
EvisceratedInFiction · 2 points · Posted at 22:43:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg turns out it’s Israeli! Why have I never googled this before. One of the oldest full time members of my camp was from Israel.
EvisceratedInFiction · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Really? I’ve never watched it before. I always thought it originated at my camp, but maybe not!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Saying stuff"- choosing a random topic e.g. cars and just going around in turn saying brands until there was one person left
sunflowerservant · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Moley”. We piled up loads of blankets and duvets on a bed and tucked our little sausage dogs within the various layers. We would also bury ourselves in the covers. The game consisted of blindly writhing around in the bundle of blankets like moles, trying to find the dogs. Ireland in the early 90s - what a time to be alive...
jdacirque · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played house like normal kids, except we laid out giant quilts on the ground to represent our individual apartments and we called it “House-House-BaLouse” so it rhymed... and we would use my moms office supplies to go to an office and answer phones as if we worked there.
Ubaar · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for it but me and some friends used to go to the dollar store and buy foam swords, all get on the trampoline and just whip eachother with the swords until we collapsed. The last person standing won.
Kindly_Phrase · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Wet Kleenex” game. The person who was “it” has a wet kleexnex in their hands. My sisters and I would turn off the lights, crawl on the floor, and if the person who was “it” touched you with the wet Kleenex you became “it”..
Essentially tag in the dark and instead of getting tapped by a hand you got tapped by a wet Kleenex
brewbearbear · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vacuum tag
Wylieco3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swing death trap
Basically you get the swings going full speed with kids on them and you have to run through them and not get hit. You don’t win anything, and you don’t loose anything. Everyone would take their turn !
gorbal · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to pretend to kill each other and whoever the killer thought acted out the best death scene got to be the killer next.
FlimFlamInTheFling · 1 points · Posted at 22:39:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two of them: one called "Pick-Up Sticks" and the other called "Pah-Diddle!". the first game was not really a game and, with hindsight, was my brother fucking with me by grabbing a bucket of Lincoln Logs and throwing them on the ground and telling me to clean them up; the faster I picked them up the "more I would be a winner". Second game was a game of reflex played exclusively in the car. Whenever a car with only one working headlight, it was a race for the first kid to slap the roof of the car and yell "Pah-Diddle!". Whoever managed to slap the roof and yell the word first won. As you can imagine, it got on my parents' nerves real quick.
sinforjesus · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind Chicken.
The game was a set on the jungle gym at a public park. The “Blind Chicken” would have their eyes closed and needed to find one person to tag on the jungle gym. Players could hide, as well as run from the “blind chicken”. the Ground was fair game as well, but if you were on the ground and the “blind chicken” said “GROUND!” you were now the blind chicken. Really fun game i played with the rest of the neighborhood kids at the park.
Sinker23 · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played "Black Ninjas". We were in a secret clan of ninjas called the black ninjas, who were top ranked of all the clans. We would go out and fight the other colored ninjas (brown, green and our rivals red ninjas)
We had it mapped out a lot. We were a part of the clan and we all had code names. I was Tuffy and my brother was Punch.
Our leader (master) was white tiger along with a lot of other imaginary ninja clan members. Tank, White Bear, Brown Bear, Genie, Taz, and Donatello. Along with some others I can't remember at the moment.
We would play in the outside, if any car went by that would be a "tank" and we would have to hide before it saw us.
We'd find some good sized sticks to be throwing knives. Then we'd head into the woods behind our house. One of us would hide two litre pop bottles around and the other would have find them and take 'em out with the throwing knives.
We had countless storylines that went on. Whether one of us was getting captured or all the other ninja clans were banding together to take us out.
When Pokemon Gold and silver came out, we thought it'd be cool if there were ninjas out there who were better and stronger than us. Alas the Gold and Silver ninja clans were born. We got our asses kicked a lot in those days. Yeah,... Good times.
snorlaxmom666 · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I used to live in the boonies on 10 acres of land with a mile long driveway. I had to use my imagination a lot, but it helped to have such a great backyard. My cousin and I used to play this game called “Lanes” where we would go down my driveway and pretend we were in some sort of endless shopping mall. We would pretend there were stores all up and down the driveway, and I would swear I could visualize each store. We had endless money, of course. My favorite store was the glitter gel pen store.
Also, I don’t know if this counts, but in elementary school I ran an imaginary friend adoption agency. I even had competitors, eventually.
Jaeflash · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played "rocket ship' with the cat. I would set up pillows in a "U" shape as the command module, then grab the cat and throw a sheet or blanket over the pillows with us under it inside the U. Then we would blast off, with me rocking and shaking the cat until we got into orbit.
Things would calm down until a comet, asteroid belt, or alien attack made things rough again. I'd basically shake, roll, and tumble all around with the cat until he had enough and bolted for it. No, he did not like it and was not patient at all. That was the fun, trying to hold on to him as long as possible through it all. Despite this, he still slept on my bed every night. I didn't do it all the time either, maybe one a month or every other month or so, just when the feeling hit me.
YoutubeRewind2024 · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Yellow."
While you're driving, if you see a yellow car, you call it out and get a point. Most points at the end of the drive wins. Still play it to this day.
(Busses, taxis, and construction equipment don't count)
glitterfuzz · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made up a version of pool called "Wussy" which amounted to sliding the balls back and forth against the table with your hands and trying not to let them hit the other side or to slow down, while you run back and forth around the table.
Also, good luck not slamming the balls into your fingers or jamming them between the ball and the side of the table. Hence the name.
thestoveistoasty · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can’t wait to ask this question in 20 years and see the most upvoted answer as “Fortnite”
CrotchWolf · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When Mario Kart 64 came out me and my brother had 7 Mario kart tracks all over the neighborhood. These included tracks that went through neighbors properties, up and down driveways and through the baseball diamond at the nearby FOP park. The largest stretched 3 blocks to the neghborhood Dairy Mart and back.
artcank · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buns-up
MayanMan2012 · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pro-Ball! Soccer on razor scooters
Twice the pain and half the coordination
glennglog22 · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in my last two years of elementary school, while riding home on the bus, I was friends with this Arabic kid and we'd play a game we called "SL" (Swordmen's Labrynth) which he and one of his friends came up with, but I kinda bastardized it to be a bit more comedic. It wasn't as much game as it was roleplay.
The premise is that we were in an airplane with tons of people and some monster murdered us and the airplane crashed into an island. We then woke up with the monster and a bunch of people dead, and us in robotic bodies, and then we made that island into an independent city country thing and called it Liberty City (Not to be confused with the one in GTA IV, this was a bunch of years before it.)
The first bit of the plot was the only serious portion of it and the rest of the time, a bunch of funny stuff ensued like replacing our personality cores with ferrets, making us act like ferrets, prank calling the emergency numbers of various countries, calling my friend's child's cake a deformed penis (He roleplayed having a wife and two kids,) ect.
It had many funny moments that I can't now remember off the top of my head at the moment, but what I can certainly remember is that this bitch ass bus assistant would rain on our damn parade and claim that we're being too loud and separate us, even though she hypocritically screamed from the back of the bus to converse with the driver. I hated her.
Also, happy cake day, I'm also celebrating my own!
rottenfigs · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Get Godzilla”.
Me and my two older brothers would make a bunch of paper airplanes then take turns playing Godzilla by running around the apartment, making Godzilla sounds. The other two would try to hit Godzilla with paper planes. If you got hit 3 (or maybe it was 5?) times, your turn was up and someone else would be Godzilla.
CZEWerter · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hide and Clap". Basically like hide and seek except the seeker has a blindfold on and the hiders have 5 claps each. If the seeker asks a specific hider to clap, he has to. As a seeker, you would have to navigate your way towards the claps you heard. If you touched anybody, they were out. The first person you found/touched as a seeker would be a seeker in the next round. The hiders would have 1 minute to find a spot to hide, they were not allowed to move from that spot until the seeker either found them or gave up. If the hider clapped 5 times, and still wasn't found he won.
AllPurposeNerd · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I built this weird hybrid of skiball and cornhole out of K'nex, which is to say I built a tower with holes in it and if you tossed a beanbag into one of the holes, it'd roll out the bottom. There really wasn't anything more to it. I taped piece of paper over the holes with scores, but there was never much of a game to it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Stare at the sun” during long car rides
barefootjs · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
40-40 it - I know it was called different things depending where in England you lived so may be known by different names
bottledliquid · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "saw" game. Me and my brother would be in the living room battling with pillows. We played with the edges of the pillow being chainsaw blades, so if you threw it at someone and it hit their arm you gotta act as if it was severed off. Or if we one of us got pinned down and our neck got hit, obviously you died and had to "respawn". Looking back and typing this ya might think we were messed up kids but it was very fun and time consuming haha good times man, good times.
CrushMode · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roll the bat. One person with a baseball bat would stand at one end of the street (in my case it was the end of a cul-de-sac) and get pitched a tennis ball. Fielders would be behind the pitcher and get the ball when hit and the batter then has to lay the bat on the ground. The idea for the fielder was to roll the tennis ball and hit the barrel of the bat. The ball then pops up and the batter has to catch the ball otherwise the fielder who rolls it gets to bat. To give the fielders a better chance at hitting the barrel, the batter could lift up the bat and the fielders could run closer to the bat as long as the bat was not touching the ground. Spent many many many hours playing this one, and got the neighborhood hooked! Fun times
twilightprinc3ss · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have absolutely no idea why we called it this, but in third or fourth grade my friends and I played a game we called "white weiner." On our playground there was one of those crawl-through tunnels, and it had the little ovals cut into it for air circulation/light. The tunnel was just close enough to the ground that we could reach into the holes. So the purpose of "white weiner" was that two people were outside the tunnel while two or three were inside. The ones on the outside tried to tag the ones on the inside by reaching through the holes. If you got tagged you had to yell white weiner and you switched places with the one who tagged you. White weiner.
Sometimes I wonder if someone in that friend group knew about glory holes.
belliegirl2 · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grew up on a sailboat. We had seaweed fights and when storms were bad we had jelly fish fights. Nothing like a dead jellyfish to the face.
coran14 · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Corkonian brutally!
We start at the top of a grass hill. Kick a rugby ball down a hill and run after it. Everyone against each other only rules were no head smacks of ball shots, whoever brought the ball back to the top of the hill won.
Bisonratte · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Brother and I used to play a game where one of us whisteled a note and the other whisteled another note and so on, we would try to find a song, so we both had to think what song the other is thinking about and had to improvize, its fun!
Ward_Craft · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Your team.
a_smol_bean1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a falling out with my best friend when I was 7 and didn't talk to her for a few months. During that time, I was a very awkward kid so I had no other friends. So I made up a game where I was always being followed by little imaginary monsters or goblin type creatures whose main goal was to trip me over, whilst I would do my best to outsmart them and discover their secrets. Turns out, being the weird kid who mutters to themself about little tripping monsters whilst alone in the playground is an excellent way of making friends, because one day a random boy asked me what I was doing. I told him, very seriously, "I'm trying to outsmart the little monsters that trip me." And from that day forward, we were a team, investigating the tripping goblins and trying to foil their treacherous plans.
John_cCmndhd · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is
lavainsufficiently graboid resistant.mattamerikuh · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Imaginary football.” Basically tag football but we didn’t have a ball because we were at church.
ggrrcc12 · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Capture the glow stick.
My cousins and I would play this game with all of our parents. We had a huge house, and it was pitch black at night. We would wait while our parents hid glow sticks all over the house, and then proceeded to hide behind couches, etc, to scare us. The premise of the game: you and your team (my cousins) must collect all of the glow sticks from around the house. If you get captured by a parent, you’re out.
Our parents were the type of people to scare the crap out of us, so all of a sudden you hear one of your cousins scream bloody murder from another room and you’re just like... “oh shit”.
Priapust · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were kids me and my next door neighbor and his brother played the “Cover Game”.
We would close the door to his bedroom, and blindfold one person (normally with multiple pillow cases and a bandana) and they would be “it”. They went into the closet and counted to 30 then came out and tried to tag people. It was great because once they are close to you, you could skinny up and hide or try to athletically and sneakily get past and away before they tagged you.
We still recall “highlights” of people diving away through someone’s legs or flipping off the desk over them onto the bed to make a great escape.
Things did break and injuries did occur, but we must of played it regularly for a couple years.
maneatingrabbit · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game doesn't have a name that I know of. When I was riding in the car as a kid, if we passed a cemetery, you had to hold your breath and say rabbit over and over in your head until you saw a white house (churches didn't count). Then you could breath and say bunny. I lived in the middle of nowhere so there were a lot of close calls where I almost passed out. I did this as an adult until about 7 yrs ago when I moved to a town where I had to pass a VERY long cemetary with 2 traffic lights on a regular basis. I have no idea where I learned it from and no one else in my family did it.
MVPSnacker · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a role play game where we were all Yoshis and had to beat Darth Maul from Star Wars. Darth Maul oppressed the Yoshis, but we fought back. There were also light sabers and guns from Star Wars.
zerothousand · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would take handfuls of gravel and toss them as high as i could in the air and try to dodge them without moving too far.
axelcuda · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called Fly Billy Fly. The first thing to do is to find a big hill. Step two is too run from the top and jump. The goal is to tumble down the hill in the most creative way possible. Do tricks, go fast.
Yes, I actually played this in elementary school. And no, no one else would play with me. Apparently I'm too extreme
LombardBombardment · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My sister and I used to play a game we invented for our Hotwheels toy cars. We called it "Carreterita Roja" (Little Red Road).
Our mother had a short but rather large, square table that was decorated with a single, narrow, black line along the edges of its surface, like a frame of sorts, that would serve as the race track. The width of this "frame" was roughly equal to the width of three hotwheels placed right next to each other.
Set up: We woud both take turns choosing a car from our shared collection to make up our "teams" which usually were comprised of five cars, though it sometimes varied. We would then assign a turn number to each of our cars (1-5 kinda like Worms Battlegrounds). Finally, we would each place our starting cars one next to the other at one of the "track's" corners.
The Goal: Be the first to complete two laps around the track with all 5 cars.
The Rules: This was a turn-based game. In each turn, players had to give a single boost with their hand to one of their cars. The further the car got without falling off the table or going off the track, the more successful the turn. Similar to golf, the players would boost their cars form their latest location during the car's next turn. Each corner of the table functioned as a checkpoint. If a car fell or went off track (at least 1 wheel had to be touching the track by the time the car stopped moving), it would be returned to the last corner it touched before going off track. If a car went off track because another car collisioned against it, both cars would be returned to the last corner they passed, regardless of the car's team.
This last rule made the game especially exciting: you had to be really careful with the amount of force you put into each boost. To much and you may risk hitting a car a in front of you and sending it off track, to little and your opponent would gain advantage on you. Additionally, we would both abuse this rule in moments of desperation and turn our own cars into Kamikazes: Given the right circumstances, a single well aimed boost to one of your cars could send two of your opponents cars off track along with yours, reducing your opponents advantage over you.
To this day, it still remains my favourite game from my childhood. :)
charliebirdmin · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called wild stallion. We lived in a city where it could snow up to your roof. We’d let my neighbours black lab chase us around the yard then toboggan off the roof of one of our houses. If the dog got you then the wild stallion tagged you out. Only three wrists were broken. Winnipeg amiright
BigFletch24 · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
NASCAR rumble BEST GAME EVER
teaandviolets · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Prisoner's Base. My cousins and I played at our grammar school and it became our family game played at all our family get togethers. It's an old game and I've never met anyone else who plays it, but it's a ton of fun with a good sized group of active people. It's like a game of team Tag, with home bases and "tagged" people being put in prison and having to be tagged back out by a team member. When we played there was a lot of strategy involved in terms of decoys, fakes, group rushing, sacrificing a slower runner to release a faster one, finding ways to use the terrain to your advantage, etc.
http://www.sandragulland.com/the-game-of-hope-how-to-play-prisoners-base/
DnA915 · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We came up with a game where we made tunnels out of carload boxes and played tag inside... Innocent enough right? But the twist was that the person who was it, was on the outside, and they had a metal baseball bat. It was incredibly fun to try and escape once they heard you move. We were so stupid we didn't realize how bad it would have been if we got tagged in the head.
Dirk76Diggler · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava but I played it alone and I was always Tommy Lee Jones. It’s not unique but definitely weird.
frogji · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a version of kickball where we pitched the ball to someone on the swings. The momentum from swinging would make our kicks crazy powerful and the ball would blast across the entire playground.
MissSteakVegetarian · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my sister and i played "cow and rock" one was the cow, the other the rock. the "cow" would push the "rock" around the house with her head. there was no point to this game what so ever. and we played it all the time.
Alj6616 · 1 points · Posted at 22:43:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends had this game called monster in the dark! We would turn all the lights off in the house and get flashlights. One person would be the monster and we would search for them as they would hide. Usually we would use a flashlight to help look for them. If they found us they would jump out and try to scare us, and chase us trying to tag us. We we got tagged then we were the monsters, and they were one of the searchers. We usually had a saferoom like the bathroom, where the lights would be on. The monster couldnt go into the saferoom so we would usually go there and wait for them to hide again.
AMAGaming · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Champions or Norrath or return to Arms were AAMAZING! :)
Whos_Beth · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother an I used to play this toilet guard game at my nan’s house (at her house, the toilet was right in front of you as you got to the top of the stairs, which is where we were located during this game)
Basically we would sit there, and just guard the toilet ? Sometimes we’d make up passwords, sometimes we’d just forget to stop people going to the only toilet, but every time we would always block our grandad from going into it (sorry tedward).
My older cousin also got my nan this weird like talking doll thing that would say “adult” things like “i’d like to take you home with me” and other not really funny funny pickup lines etc; but still hilarious to 9 year olds who are just working out what stuff like sex is. He became apart of the toilet guard crew
honestly i have 0 idea as to why this was entertaining or even a game as such but oh my god the amount of hours wasted just sitting on the stairs in front of the bathroom
k6plays · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to use a popsicle stick as a baseball bat for my GI Joes so they could play baseball on my desk. I’d wad up a tiny piece of paper and let the Joes take turns at bat. I made a little field and everything...I was 8 and the internet didn’t exist yet.
BadBillington · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pylon Ball. It was like hockey but the stick was one of those tall orange pylons without the base. The goals were also pylons but with the base. The ball was a volleyball or soccer ball. You were allowed to throw your pylon at the ball to avoid a goal. You could also hit someone's pylon with yours and, if you knocked it out of their hands, you could try to kick it away for a power play. If they didn't have a pylon, they couldn't interact with the ball at all. We had several teams in the neighborhood.
Popcap101z · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from my dads belt
Yoshifico · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wall ball
theoknem · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
2-Tap - soccer-type game I played a long while ago. There was a goal in one corner of the front yard with maybe a 5m x 3m area coned off. The game was usually two-player, where one person was the goalie and another was the player. The goalie started with the ball and threw the ball out anywhere onto the street, on the condition that it had to bounce in the coned area first. When it stopped, the player then had two kicks of the ball (hence 2-Tap) to get it back into the goal. If the ball went into the coned area on the first kick, the player wasn't allowed a second. If the player missed the goal, the goalie threw the ball again; if they scored, they swapped places with the goalie. My brothers and I played this game for hours on end on weekends, was a good time.
Captm_obvious · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Random objects game. Like paper scissors rock but the object you could be wasn't limited to paper, scissors or rock. But then you had to justify why your object beats the other persons object
broakaf · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother’s a housekeeper so growing up, sometimes I would go to work with her and had nothing to do other than sit quietly in whatever room she was in. I would give names to her cleaning supplies and treat them like dolls. So the Windex, Pledge and the rest were like dolls. I couldn’t touch them either so I would just stare at them and give them backstories and hear them “talk” in my head.
innatepoi · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hall Ball": we made a big ball of tape and would basically play hockey with our hands in a long hallway.
"Ripstik Wars": my friend and I would try to drop pool noodles in front of each other's ripstiks to stop the shells and make the other fall off. We got really good at balancing and turning on a dime!
misterchainz · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
👏 runescape
Sillydccomic · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game in the car where I would tap my foot when we passed a street light - left or right depending on switch side it was on. It was as if I was jumping across from one to the other in giant leaps.
xxchar69xx · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The 3 little pigs let aunt nana kiss me in my No no parts .
midsummerlight · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two girls late at night when we are supposed to be in bed. It was a sleepover. Objective of game was to put on every single item of clothing on, layered endlessly, in my closet and drawers. And I had a lot of clothes…
We ended up in a standing position with our arms stuck straight out. Then we would laugh until we cried. We started to take pictures of the outcome over the years. This started at about age 7 and went to age 13 or 14.
It all ended when my friend turned 16 and got a car… so much for a childhood fun.
Teddylina · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, my two cousins and I would go "ghost hunting" at our grandparents house. Each of us would have a notepad or paper to note down any "irregularities" and then we would walk around the house to every room and check if anything had been moved by "ghosts". As I got older I made sure I was walking in the back of the line so I could move something without the others noticing. Then when we got to the moved object the others would freak out about it moving and they were SURE that there were ghosts. The only reason I moved things was because if we never found anything, the others wouldn't play the game anymore. Their surprised faces was just a bonus. I was a manipulative little bastard.
Owlerr · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game when I was younger where you'd scream "BALL TAP" and then hit someone in the balls. That's literally fucking it. The worst part was, you couldn't even opt out of this game. Nor did many of us even opt in. Fuck middle school.
ctorx · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a rural and dry area of California. Every summer we had to clear defensive fire space around the house. My father was a firefighter so we did much more than the requirement. My older brother would use the weed eater to knock down the weeds and I would rake them into piles. It was hot, boring and exhausting, so as a kid, to make it more enjoyable I created a game in my mind, that raking was an Olympic event. I put more style into it, found enthusiasm and the time flew by.
Sieghild · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finding my friends during recess haha
gxnld · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk if anyone else played this, but my sister, cousin, and I would play sandwich where like the pillows would act as the bread and one of us would be an ingredient in the sandwich.
Picture a pillow, a 4-8 year old on their stomach on top, and then the other two running around getting blankets and other soft things that we'd call more ingredients to put on top (I distinctly remember calling a blue blanket blueberry sauce). After we think we were satisfied with our creation, we would put the matching pillow to the first one one top and then load ourselves on top and then after laughing for who knows how long, restart with someone else's turn to be an ingredient.
Ahh memories
trashmouth · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'll be floored if anyone sees this at this point, but I used to play a made up dodgeball like game for trampolines with nets. The rules were simple, regular dodgeball, but instead of being out when someone catches the ball or hits you, you just jump into the air and on to your back, and throw any balls you had up into the air. When you caught a ball, you would yell "1/2/3 catch," and at 3 catch, everyone else had to fall back and relinquish their ammo. We just played with any random ball we found that wouldn't hurt too badly, so some were better than others. The game became largely based on controlling the good ones.
There was no way to win, but it was freaking intense, and we'd play for hours. There was barely enough space to throw usually, so our younger siblings were able to compete on the same level as everyone else. It was great.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Meow Bloop" A piece of playground equipment had a ramp to get to a small clearing with a slide on the other side. Those at the bottom were fishes (hence the bloop sounds) and those at the top were cats (hence the meow). Fishes were trying to get to the top to become cats, cats were trying to keep the fish away and stay as cats. It ended up getting banned when it started getting pretty nasty and kids were getting hurt/bloody/injured.
Edit: There were a lot of others. Ah to be a bored kid again with no video games in mid 90s suburbia.
Elbow jousting. Just as it sounds. Stick your arm through your tee shirt so your elbow is sticking out and then run at one another. I'm surprised there were no broken bones.
Pillow face: We'd sit maybe a foot or two apart and chuck pillows at each other's faces. It didn't hurt but if the force knocked you over, you lost a point.
W00KIEL0VER · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goon and Poop Monster. For Goon, one of you goes face first into a sleeping bag and then stands upright and enveloped in sleeping bag while the other kids run around and hit you. The Goon wildly jumps in whichever direction to “tag” a new “Goon.” Kinda like a human piñata that has the ability to attack back. Poop monster was similar to The Floor Is Lava, except we’d push each other off of furniture onto the floor and once fallen, you are the poop monster and you can grab other kids and throw them into the poop also.
CooperRAGE · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
You know those velcro ball and pad for your hand toys you could get? Well my brother and I would use a firm-ish rubber ball instead and seat it back and forth trying not to let it hit the floor. And that's how the clock in the living room got broke. Mom was pissed
marylandemt · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Toilet ball!!!
My extended family would go to weekly dinners at various restaurants. If they had a machine selling bouncy balls, my cousin and I would get a few.
After dinner, everyone would go back to my grandparents house. My cousin and I would go to their upstairs bathroom, stand in the bathtub, and toss the balls into the toilet. Of course, we’d then reach into the toilet to retrieve them and toss them again.
The game would end when the balls would inevitably go deep into the toilet and we could no longer reach them.
There was no scoring system to this game, and iirc, the goal was to get the balls to disappear into the drain hole.
How my grandparents plumbing system didn’t get completely fucked after dozens of bouncy balls is beyond me.
Falling_Music_Stands · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Throw Block.”
When I was between 4 and 6, my dad and I would play “throw block,” which consisted of him sitting on a couch in the living room, throwing stuffed-building-blocks for babies into a tiny rocking chair in the corner (he had to have super good aim to reach it!), and me, running around trying to hit it away from the chair. Even if he was super close to landing the block in that tiny chair, I’d throw the block back and say “not even close!!!” To be honest, it was actually a super fun way for him to get all the energy out of me before bed.
We even had a song that went with the game.
LNate93 · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The pope's little toe. My dad would think of some random noun and so would I, and that was the game, we'd compete to see who could be more random.
Edit: blueberry pancakes was a go to example for me.
acidSlumber · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we used to play "Kill the guy with the ball". It was sort of a cross between tag and rugby. No points were scored. At some point, while being chased towards certain death (in our minds), you got someone else to take the ball and then the hunt was on again. I think it was the adrenaline of being chased and knowing there was some kind of pain awaiting you if you weren't fast or agile enough. The worst injuries were scraped knees and elbows.
Ur_house · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Legs" You'd get on a trampoline and kick each other with your legs till the other players didn't want to play anymore. That's it. The rules were simple, and perfect. Because of the way the trampoline works, you can't kick that hard a the ground underneath you gives out, absorbing some of the energy. You were allowed to block with your arms, but attacks could only be from legs. Technically quick hard kicks were the most damaging, but we usually went for dramatic both foot flying leap kicks because they were so fun. Believe it or not, it wasn't that violent. There were few injuries and most games ended with us lying on the ground laughing so much we could hardly breathe. The only real injuries happened from ring-outs, which like head attacks, were not encouraged.
BorednSword · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Evidently my brother and I were the only two people to ever play Cubivore. It was on the GameCube and we always rented it from Blockbuster every weekend. In hindsight we should’ve just kept it when Blockbuster shut down.
It was a top notch game, but whenever I mention it NO ONE ever knows what I’m talking about. They seriously need a sequel or remastered.
three_of_clubs · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother was terrified of germs, and I managed to convince him I was holding an invisible paint pot of germs and would brush the floor around him, causing him to freak out massively. I could paint an invisible line of germs in front of his bedroom door and he wouldn't cross over it, I even painted an invisible circle around him once and he wouldn't move from the spot. We were very young and I have since apologised for being such an arsehole :-t
sygyzy0 · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curb ball, or "curve ball" as we used to call it. Two kids stand on either side of the street that has a curb and you take whatever ball you have, preferably a basket ball and throw the ball across the street attempting to hit the curb in front of your friend in order to get the ball to come back to you which counts as a point, if you throw it over a car you get 2 points, and you can go to whoever gets how many points first wins.
Axptheta · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buckle up.
So when we were younger my friends and I would always try to create fun games to play, probably because Nickelodeon had that show about kids making up their own unique sports.
After a few failed attempts we called it a day on creating games and went to my swing set. Boys being boys, we had two kids swinging and one of our friends decides to mess with one of the kids swinging and starts to swing his arms near his feet to mess him up. On the first attempt he clipped my buddy’s foot and his shoe went flying.
This birthed the great game of “Shoe Swing Fling”. You got three attempts. You would swing as high and fast as possible with one shoe half on, and at the correct time fling it as far as possible. Longest shot is deemed the winner.
We got into this game. We crafted a championship belt and had tournaments for it and all. This is such a stupid, random, fond memory I have of growing up. The simplest things are often the best!
CrushMode · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The arrow game. Stand outside in the backyard, one person with a bow and arrow shoots it straight up. The game was to hide and not get hit. That was a good one until we accidentally started landing them in people's yards. Seemed like a death threat so we stopped that one, lol
sweetbeans76 · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Age 9, living with mom in an apartment complex that had a lot of other single moms and their kids who were my age or younger. I was tall for that age and someone had a long red "Radio Flyer" wagon.
There was a pretty steep grassy slope at the end of the driveway. I would turn the handle around as my steering rod and pile one or two kids on the back. We would haul ass down the hill and sometimes wipe out at the bottom in a fit of laughter. We loved it and had so much fun until one of the kids' moms found out and told us to stop.
KevinHeaven87 · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The incredible machine
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I screamed and ran around while people chased me saying "don't run little boi."
kimjongev · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Doo Doo” 💩 - as many kids as we had were in on it. You tagged the youngest and smallest person and they were the Doo Doo, everyone ran from them screaming as the Doo Doo desperately tried to tag someone to take away the taint. 💩
just_alyssa · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Monster" kinda like reverse hide and go seek/Tag.
We had a partially developed basement for many years(walls framed but no drywall on them). Whenever my parents would have people over the kids were always sent to the basement to stay out of the way.
One person would be the Monster and the rest would hang out on the stairs for a few miniutes.
The Monster would go hide somewhere in the dark basement after the few minutes were up everyone who was hanging on the stairs (usually 5 or 6 people) whould go into the basement and look for the Monster. Once the Monster was found it was a race to get back to the safety of the stairs.
If the Monster caught you, you would be the next monster.
This was played after the sun went down with no lights on. Only some light through the windows from the street lights.
umbrasolaris · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid I had a book of arts and crafts, and it has a whole section on face painting, with pictures of boys and girls with their faces painted as animals and witches and monsters. I used to lie on the ground with the book, imagining that if I pressed my face against the face of the kid in the book, the face paint would transfer to my face, magically transforming me into a bear or a vampire or whatever. Then I'd go on some fantastical adventure, and if I needed different powers, I'd rub my face on a different page.
I spent a lot of time doing this, to the point where my parents started withholding the book from me until I did my work, letting me play with it for a while as a reward. Im not sure I ever explained my game to them, and my fascination with the staring at children's faces confused them more than a little.
ta-1298284 · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stairball.
Lived in an apartment with friends, it was two stories, one carpeted stairwell. I think it had 13 steps.
Take a few foosballs, stand at bottom of stairs, and toss them up the stairs from the ground floor in an underhand, lobbing motion. The goal is to get the foosball to land (and stay) on the last step before reaching the top floor. Because it’s the 13th stair, you get 13 points. If it hits and rolls down to the 8th stair before stopping, you get 8 points. Most of the time if it starts rolling down the stairs it goes all the way to the bottom and you get zero points. If you throw too high and the ball goes up to the second floor (above the top stair), you get zero points.
We played for hours.
wildirishhawk · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Scooter-Soccer. Exactly what is sounds like. 3 v. 3 games until we were called home for dinner.
Game0fLife · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There is a game that my brother and I called “western fencing”. My uncle taught it to us when we were 12 or younger, basically you put one hand behind your back and use the another hand to hit other people’s head, feet (below the knee), and the hand that you put behind your back. Every time you lower your body to hit other people’s feet, your head expose for the attack and vice visa. It’s an interesting game, ahhh, good old time...
averagedickdude · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the bus ride, I would pretend a snowboarder or a skateboarder was travelling besides us and would have to jump mail boxes and tricks using the ditches and stuff.
uwujgyeon · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure how unique it is but as a kid, my siblings and cousins would play a game we called "cops and robbers" basically a more intense version of hide and seek. Two people would be the cop, and the rest were robbers. You had to run and hide from the cops. Once you got caught, you went to jail. Basically you had to sit out the rest of the game until everyone was caught or a another robber you broke you out or prison, a cop you always be on "duty" to prevent this. What made it different was that we only played at night, outside and the method of catching people. You had to hold them down for more than 10 seconds for them to be caught, if they could break free from you, you had to go catch them again. Someone always got hurt but what you expect when 15 kids are running around at night with only one flashlight and basically wrestling each other.
Matt_Rizzi · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can't remember a name for it but basically two people stand in a circle drawn in the dirt. Then a line is drawn through the middle so you each have a half.
Now using a dagger you take turns throwing the dagger in your opponents half whilst standing on your side. (thankfully your opponent doesn't have to stand in the circle when you throw ;) )
From where the dagger landed, and is standing, you draw a line from the edge of the circle to another line in the dirt, erasing the old line and taking over that part of the circle. You continue like this until one of you no longer is able to stand in their area while trying to draw a line.
This was in the 80's in Sweden.
xSwarzey · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Force Em Back.
We were a pretty big group of friends who lived around the same area and played for the same football club. When the footy posts went back up for the season, we'd go down, split into two teams and stand on the 40m line so there was a 20m difference between the two teams (rugby football field). Kick the ball back and forth as high as you could, catch it and you advance 10m, drop it and lose 10m. Force them back to the goal line and then kick a field goal to win.
On training days it was our warm up to the warm up. We'd be so buggered from playing that we'd die when we had to do laps to start training, especially in March when its still warm and we're unfit fucks.
gideon_thomas · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dynamite!! We would make a line in the middle of the yard, split into teams, and then throw balls to the other teams side as fast as we could and whoever had more when the timer ended lost. It was intense. Lots of screaming.
stefannxD · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The blindfold game. Basically one person blind folds themselves and has to catch someone who will be blindfolded next. Everybody else gets to beat the shit out of him with pillows, no head or crotch shots
anyeyeball · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After high school basketball practice, we played a game that toughened us up physically. We called it just Extreme Basketball. Usually 1-on-1 or 2-on-2, and the only thing different is that fouling was allowed! Almost anything goes, except no fists.
Remarkably, no one got hurt badly. Mostly just bruises. It encouraged you to keep moving away from the defenders, and helped you finish your shot in real games so we got a lot of 3-point plays.
Gingerstamp · 1 points · Posted at 22:48:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Long term hide and seek. That’s what my dad said it was called when I was younger. He did warn me he was a professional
jukeboxromeo- · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bath time with daddy...
ThatDudeInNavyBlue · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bear paper nuclear war! Basically on each side of the room you had forts of pillows with teddy bears on them. Each person would have a turn to throw a paper ball to the teddy bear. First one to knock them all down explodes the fort
aqua_kiwi · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Instead of playing “hold up the bridge” when driving under a bridge, my family would “duck under the bridge” bcause my parents told us that’s how dad got his bald spot - because he didn’t duck under the bridges as a child. We all totally believed it.
FinnFischer · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eraser wars. I would use pencil and paper, draw forts and use my eraser to create defenders and attackers (the little pink eraser filings). As they attacked fortifications, I would erase them- this also functioned as the arrival of reinforcements.
scout1081 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom would clean and save styrofoam trays from meat and stuff and I would cut them up into little pieces and use it for dirt for my toy loaders and dump trucks.
heybmorefish · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we all played a game called Watergravel. It was sort of like tag. Somebody was It, and everyone else kind of walked around the playground area - on the ground, not on the jungle gym. The person who was It would then yell "watergravel" and everyone else would have to book it onto the jungle gym structure. You could only be caught if you were still on the ground. If you are on the jungle gym you were safe.
GameyRouge38 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, I went on a lot of road trips with my church, and we would always go on these big white vans for up to 8 hours. Anyways, we would get bored on these vans, so me and my church friends came up with a game called “glasses or no glasses” basically, when our van was about to pass someone, we would have to guess whether or not the person was wearing glasses (any type of glasses) based solely on the car they were driving. If you were right you got one point, however, if you were wrong you’d lose 5 points, and the winner got first dibs on what bed they wanted when we arrived at where we were staying. It was a really fun game and would always make the drive go faster. I recommend you try it.
Lotuszx3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Corn Dog (Beach Game) - Just like a hacky sack circle but with a volleyball. You get in a circle with a group of friends. Toss the volleyball to someone and who ever causes it to fall or hits it out of the circle has to run into the water. Then come back outside of the circle and roll around in the sand until you look like a corn dog. You have to be a corn dog until there is a winner. Then everyone runs and jumps into the ocean and start over when we get out.
Plut00 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor, I am not even lying when really young me and my cousins would play this, this was stereotypical Doctor on how they just touched you, considering they were older I was practically molested
Croy_Bo · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad and me played cave explorer
sjc16 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Name that Filthy animial" Was on a road trip with parents, parents friends and their kids (minivan days..) and we were looking out the window at the people driving around us naming what animal we thought they looked like. Hours and hours of entertainment. The parents even joined us.
Hartwurm · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oobleck or "who-blek." It was a bunch of 3rd grade boys at school and when you walked past a buddy, you'd punch them in the balls and yell "Oobleck!"
Immature, yes. Fun, yes. Did it affect our sperm count as adults? Probably ...
TheWillRogers · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weird combination of football and soccer. Turns out it was basically Ultimate with a football.
brockthonyhamptano · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
damn, my childhood was boring
grantcoolguy · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In grade school I made up this game that a lot of us would play if we had indoor recess. It was called “Jenga Wars”.
2 players would take half of a jenga set, and each build a fort about 8 feet away using the pieces. One piece would be selected from each fort as the “king piece” and would be stood straight up.
Each player would take turns sliding one Jenga piece on the floor at a time at the other persons fort in an attempt to knock down the opposing king. First person to knock the opponent’s king piece down wins! Lots of interesting strategies!
harox200 · 1 points · Posted at 22:49:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Secret Agent Man. You’d run from one kid’s house to the next at night in all camo ducking into bushes and hiding behind trees while cars pass. If you’re “seen” you have to start over from the beginning.
Jubjub0527 · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad taught my sister and me a card game that he called fish, but it wasn’t go fish. It was basically a modified version of Uno using a regular deck of cards. It’s still a fun game to play with a large group if you’re like me and don’t know how to play spades or hearts.
hoe4honeymustard · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
idk if we made this up ?? or if this is literally a popular game with a different title or something?? but anyway me and all the kids on my street used to play a game at bonfires we called Tour Guide. we would pick a base (usually the steps at our front door) and a tour guide and a monster. everyone would chill at base while the tour guide and monster went to go find a hiding spot for the monster. we played this shit late at night and tried to make it as spooky as possible. after the monster was in a hiding spot, the tour guide would come back to the group to give us a tour. they would lead us around places,, pointing out random things,, and eventually one of those things would be the monster's hiding spot. the monster would jump out and chase everyone back to base. who ever the monster tagged was the monster next. obvi you were safe once you got to base. it was basically just a game where we tried to spook each other out with jumpscares and it was 11/10 fun times
Woonters · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was a seriously childish one but 'Yucky Pasta Salad'. All i was was saying what you would make a pasta salad with, but with increasingly more disgusting items. Honestly i have no idea how this kept me so entertained and it probably ended up almost the same game every time, the only thing it does now is put me off ever eating pasta salads
thedustbringer · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Purple car.
Similar to "slug bug" but we would pick an uncommon color.
I now play this with my SO but with kisses as the prize for spotting the car
TheCaptMAgic · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did this thing we called "Butt boarding", we would sit at the top of my friends driveway that sloped towards the dead end road, and try and make it down the driveway of our other friends house across the street that sloped down hill from across the street on skateboards or scooters. It was fun.
DragonTheArtist · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dragonsong Okay it's like hide and seek but stranger. So me and my friends went into a dark area, house, backyard. Etc. Anyways, we would pick the 'dragon' aka whoever is it. They would pick a song and then everyone else would pick and animal and hide. The 'dragon' would play the song and have to find people for the how long the song lasts. If they find the person they yell "(whatever animal they chose) Is on fire!" Then that person would play dead. If they did find everyone before the song ended, the last person found was it. If they didn't. The people not found would grab some object and pretend it's a sword and chase the 'dragon' while a song played if they were caught they couldn't play got 2 rounds. If they didn't during the time of the song, the person farthest would be it.
Honestly it was a fun game, strange but fun.
realblush · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really as a child (I was 12-15), but with children, "The Sleeping Game". I lay down, try to sleep and up to 3 kids jump on my back and I do as if I was shocked. They looooved it.
10 years later and I have insane back problems. Most of the nights I cannot even sleep without waking up from pain.
rab_flashman · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a village with tons of children. Every weekend we played a village wide game called 'Tribes' where we effectively created our own feudal society.
Every game went on from the last, we had kings and lords and merchants and even peasants who would go into the field and pick long grass to trade in as taxes.
Occasionally a group woukd splinter off and form a new tribe and we'd have huge wars which we fought with sticks.
quitchyerbellyakin · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Foo-dog. There was a rather sizable, shallow portion of our pool with a drop off that lead into the deep end. Standing up as a child, the water came up to about your waist. The object of the game was to physically push, throw, or knock the other contestants into the deep end. Last person standing was awarded the honor of "Foo-dog." I have no clue where we even got the name from.
fish_slapping · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretended we each had talismans from Jackie Chan’s Adventures. The whole living room became a battle field, we’d throw the talismans (checkers pieces) to each other when we needed super strength to fight the couch or super speed to run away from the TV.... good times. Innocent times.
JackTheTwig · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
how long can u not get the belt for, basically u had to do something bad or mean and then hide in a place and see how long it takes for you family to find you, my record was 3 days
xhoranx · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wagon Derby”. My friend and I would put our siblings in each of our plastic wagons, push them forward at running speed with the handles, slam them bumper to bumper, and whichever sibling yanked the other out of their wagon won.
Iperovic · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone would buy a little car like hotwheeles or matchbox, we would draw a giant race track and set it up with "traps" like spikes, pitfalls, and road blocks...you put the cars at the start, every player has 3 "pushes" per turn, you have to push the car with your finger 3 times, avoid traps, other players + not fall out of the marked race tracks...
lorecki · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Orphanage. My friend and I would tie each other to trees in the woods, pretending the orphanage owner was punishing us. We sat out there for hours. It was super messed up
MicahLacroix · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon, except it was four lads crawling about along the side of a railway track shouting Pokemon names repeatedly.
7 hours that went on for. Eesh.
JimboS1ic3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swapping out gram gram’s pain medication with tic tacs
fahrenheit1221 · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After the movie Twister came out a friend and I would ride around our neighborhood on our bikes "chasing tornadoes." We took turns being lead. Leader would kind of meander duck duck goose style and then out of nowhere say "F4 get Dororthy # ready!" We would then go off onto random hidden dirt trails in the woods to make the climax more thrilling. One of us would sometimes "crash" and a dramatic "go on without me!" type scene would play out.
I grew up in West Virginia. If you've played Fallout 76 you can see why I had to develop such an imagination before the age of 8.
jodescott1 · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to turn all of the lights off and have someone get pushed around on the computer chair in different directions of the house, pretending it was a ghost train. It would be the best if there were more people as they could hide and jump out a various points.
smeggysmeg · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Taking sentences spoken by others and tapping out the syllables on my fingers in sequence, then mentally editing the sentence so that the number of syllables is divisible by 5 and would land on the last finger.
SwingsetPilot · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I and some of our friends used to play a game we dubbed “Missile”. We lived in the country near a highway so at night we’d all run around the yard until a car appeared on the highway. Someone would yell “missile!” and everyone had to hit the dirt and avoid being seen. There wasn’t really a winner because we had no way of knowing if the driver saw us but it was fun nonetheless
Sir_Flagrant · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game that was BASICALLY the floor is lava, but we had this AMAZING wooden park to crawl around and climb around. It kept us busy enough to where we were old enough to walk to the park, but probably;y too old to be playing in the park.
kittypetter09 · 1 points · Posted at 22:51:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Backyardigans math fun
heyitsthatguygoddamn · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doesn't really count, but we played this game called fish out of water constantly in our late teens early twenties for this frantic period of two years. You go to a playground after dark, and someone's "it". They count to 10 and try to tag everyone else, but they also have to keep their eyes closed the whole time. Everyone else is not allowed to touch the sand/woodchips/whatever, they have to stay on the playground structure/climb around on it etc. Whoever gets tagged first loses and becomes it for the next round.
It works best with small, claustrophobic playgrounds, where there's a high rate of turnover.
We would get there at like 8-9pm and stay there until 2 in the morning, just like 5-6 grown ass adults at playground. We wouldn't even keep score. Once the game gets going and people get into it time just starts evaporating and before you know it you're all sweaty and it's late as fuck.
Every summer, spring break, Christmas, and Thanksgiving when everyone was home from college we would put games together, it was super nice
i_p_i · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but...
"Ghost, ghost, where's the ghost?"
Basically modified hide and seek where the hiders were all ghosts and the seeker would wander around asking "ghost, ghost, where's the ghost?" and whatever ghost was in hearing distance HAD to respond by saying "Boo" in at least a speaking voice (no whispering) or by banging/knocking on a wall or door nearby. Any discovered ghosts would "haunt" the seeker by following them around and interfering with the seeking whenever possible but could only do so by whisper or lightly tapping things.
Game to be played at night with all the light out. Seeker gets a flashlight, ghosts get nothing.
Keejyi · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freddi Fish 2. Not 1 or 3, just 2. I’d spend hours not progressing the story, just messing around with the blackboard and being a goof.
Salzberger · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my parents got a good sized cardboard box to play with, we'd cut a hole in the bottom and make it look like a TV. Then my sister and I would take turns to be the watcher and the TV. Basically the watcher would just yell out what they were changing the channel to, "News! Family Matters! Captain Planet!" and the person "in" the TV would have to act out whatever they said. When you run out of ideas, swap over. It was actually a lot of fun.
s_sekowski · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doesnt really have a name.
If you spot a smart car, thats 1point If you spot a Volkswagen Beetle (buggy), thats 2 points If you spot a mini cooper, thats 3 points If you spot a fiat 500, thats 4 points If you spot a hummer, thats 5 points
If you see a police car, thats -1 point for whoever you choose.
We recently added Tesla and Limousine, which are both 10 points
I guess all those cars are semi rare.
Satherton · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof Ball!
My mother had a really large front yard but it was all slanted and loads of tree roots so it was always hard to play any ball games in that yard. buuuut the house had a nice slopped roof. So we took that to our advantage. You take a soccer ball an you play with about 3-5 people and the goal of the game is to throw the ball up on the roof and when it would run back down the next person in line would have to push the ball back up on the roof. AN you had to be in mid air to touch the ball and put it back up. No catching and waiting you had to be athletic and leave your feet. That game was fast an mean. Your trying to eliminate the other players of the game until your the last one standing. So your trying your best to make it very hard for the other person to make it to the ball in time to jump catch and then toss it back up on the roof all in one motion. My friends would do the dreaded gutter check shot once in a while. Which basically was like spiking it in volley ball into the gutter. An it counted because it was part of the roof. it was nearly un beatable if you were not ready for it or fast enough. Only other rule was if the ball feel off the side of the house and not directly in the field of play "which was the drive way area and the front slop of the roof it was out of bounds and the game had to be restarted but the person who toss it out of bounds was out for that round.
God roof ball was fun. Im glad i thought it up. I miss being a kid sometimes.
jaspering · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm super late to this! But my brother and I used to make "wine," where we took berries from the bushes around our house (many of which were absolutely toxic), and we'd crush them with a rock, and strain the juice out with water into a huge jug, then stick it in the shed that was left untouched the whole time we loved in that area. The poison water was left there at least a year to ferment, and we'd take it out and sniff it. Good thing we were at least smart enough not to drink it.
jewstefani · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Driving passed random people and dad shouting out the car "hey kids its uncle garry wave to uncle garry" and having this poor bloke awkwardly wave back not having a clue on whats going on ..
Great times
LilTrashDoot · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Avoid my uncle
squirrel_slayer3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Legend of lagai I think that’s how it was spelt it was for reg play station and was a killer game lost it in a move and never was able to find it again
federalsalad · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
DUTCH BLITZ! I Grew up in very rural western PA with a very large quaker and amish population. I'm not either of those things but in the amish grocery stores they sell this card game and its absolutely a really fun time. Sort've like a canasta variation.
Treat your self to some new after dinner fun and pick up Dutch Blitz on amazon.
FinnFischer · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paper RPG battles. My brother and I would use a piece of paper, and draw out a battlefield in the background. Than privately, we would draw out a fighter/creature on one end of the paper. After we would cover our Fighter with a different piece of paper while the other drew theirs on the opposite end. After we finished we would take turns "attacking" each others creation! (the attacks would take place with pencil/eraser)
Bullet-Wolf · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Antarctica' During sleepover we would crank the AC to max and make it super cold in the room, hiding in our sleeping bags or pillow fort as if we were dealing with a blizzard and peeping out to
bagecka · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Colored eggs. It was a call back game. You’d choose your “color” then line up even facing each other, red rover style. Then one side would start: “What do you want?” “Colored eggs.” “What color?” Then the starting team chose and all those colored eggs go to the other side. Repeat. Team with most eggs wins. It would usually end in an argument over changing your color after you got picked. Played in grade-school in Texas in the 90s. Haven’t thought about it in years.
antianiala · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we’re in a hallway with multiple elevators, we always try to guess which one will come first. Works the best when there aren’t those signs that say which level the elevators are on. In present tense because despite the fact that my brother and I are both adults, we still play this game whenever we’re together.
Simplyeyc69 · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirt bike tag. You had to "touch" someone with the dirt bike to make them "it".
PracticalSpinach · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made up this game called shark in the dark when we were little. It's pretty intense tbh.
Basically it's like hide and seek but in a pitch black room also the seeker is called the shark. However, instead of just finding them you have to slap them or jump on them.
The last rule of the game is the first round must start organically so if you're at a sleepover about to fall asleep or everyone is watching a movie together the self chosen shark can just start attacking people.
This game was always the best thing ever until one fateful day when we were playing shark in the dark. I was hiding with my very sweet friend under the bed and I wanted her to get caught because I heard the shark coming so I tickled so she would laugh or something.
Bad. Idea. She's a swimmer and also we were in a dark tight space... she punched me in the nose hard. and that was the day shark in the dark died.
MissPiggysTiara · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister used to play this game where she would lock me in a plastic storage bin and make all my siblings sit on top of it. And then kick it and yell at me when I cried and panicked saying I was ruining their fun. And wouldn't let me out until my parents got home and then would threaten me so I wouldn't tell them what she did...that was pretty unique.
mizupman24 · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bull bull was the name of the game. Someone would get on all fours and act as the "bull bull" and we would all have to run from one end of a room or a backyard to another to "avoid the bull bull" and if you were caught, you were now the "bull bull". 98% of the time, no one would be caught by the "bull bull" because it was absolutely useless and we were mostly bipedal, but every time someone was caught, everyone I played with was thrilled. Endless hours of fun.
secretbetta · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a game I played with my mom waiting to pick up my dad every week he came home from work. We would write random numbers from 1-999 on a sheet of paper in random places with a pencil and then have two different colored pens, one for each player. You have to circle the numbers in order, one after another with your pen and at the end, count up who has the most points. I’m pretty sure my mom always let me win but it was still fun as we waited for my dad’s train to come.
BizarreBoi05 · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok so there were at least 8 kids in our neighborhood, including my brother and I, and we had a huge neighborhood that was more of a series of connected houses and no backyards, just grass in between the complexes. The game we played was called Runner. The was 1-2 Runners (depending on how old the Runners were) and the rest were people called Hunters. The Runners had 30-60 seconds to run to anywhere on the opposite side of the neighborhood before the Hunters would chase them down, either with nerf guns or by hand. The Runner had to get to the objective, which is where the started running, before they were eliminated by Hunters. I was the reigning champion with the most objectives captured and the longest run time on non-capture runs. It was fun.
myrunce · 1 points · Posted at 22:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins, brother, and I would play a game where we would keep tapping a person (like tagging someone, but repeatedly) when going up stairs in my house. The only way to stop it is if you yelled “Timeout I’m not playing I quit!” On the stairs. We would play this game so much when we were little we would continue to do it on any flight of stairs. We started this game when I was 4. We still continue to play this game now and I’m 27.
baycityvince · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soggy muffin. Google it.
Sugadip · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party but I have a couple.
In the winter the boys would bumper-ski, which was after a snowfall then waiting until a car or truck passed by on the street then the guys would grab on and slide for a block or so then let go.
Door-ball in the summer. In the school yard there was a door and we marked the strike zone. You only needed a batter, catcher and outfielder.
Banner_Hammer · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 4-5 and began going to pre-kinder, I always cried on the way there. My mom made up a game to count school buses we saw on the way to the school (it was a relatively long drive). It helped me take of my mind of the trip and saved me the tears till she dropped me off lol.
NICOandth49ers · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drive Thru. My mom would take the screen out of the kitchen window and my siblings and I would "order" our lunch through the window.
LtJosephus · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"dark ball v. Light ball" essentially its freeze tag mixed with dogeball, the goal is to take everyone down in a free for all.
not_my_mother · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but my kids. They are obsessed with magic in forests so they love to go hiking and tell us imaginative stories about the lore that happened there. See that crooked, fallen giant tree? It's an old giant called a Faulkner and it was charging after the gnomes over there (pointing at some bulby rocks). The Faulkner cast a spell to freeze the gnomes so he could catch and eat them. But before he could reach him the fairies that disguise themselves as those flowers over there swarmed and tripped him. He cut that path through the trees as he fell to his death and has lain there ever since. The fairies have feasted on his bark-like skin for centuries.... These 7 and 9 year old girls need to write a book. They are so good that I hang on the stories they tell. And they are usually interactive (look out, there is a sleeping x over there. Tip toe through so we don't disturb it's hibernation)
cubeicetray · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mummies in the Dark. Someone is blindfolded and waits outside a room while the rest of us 'hide' they come in and have to feel their way around. We can move around the room if we choose. Once the blindfolded person males contact with someone they are allowed to touch them for a little but not the head and they have to guess who it is. If they guess wrong the person who was 'caught' is allowed to relocate themselves. The first correct guess leads to that person becoming the mummy.
offthestep · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we had a game called “off the step” in elementary school. it was a mix of baseball and off the wall. we had a small cement yard adjacent to the monkey bars, and a short 4-5’ fence enclosing it.
during recess, we would use a tennis ball and see how far we could bounce it off the edge of the step. if it made it to the fence it was a double. over the fence it was a homer. fouls when you missed the edge and pop flies left you open to easy outs. ypu wpuld rotate ‘batters’ and after 3 outs and the next team was up.
great game. if you ever find a good step with a short fence 15’ back, grab a tennis ball and give it a try.
AllWork-NoPlay · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate the-floor-is-alligators. Begin on the top bunk, jump down onto the toybox, climb onto the dresser, swing across the bedroom door to the closet door, then swing back around to the bed.
Those door handles never did give out.
cyberdog_318 · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There are several that I would play but the one I still continue to play with my wife now is "The License plate game". Growing up my family would always drive across the country to visit family for holidays and whatnot and wedd would try to drive the whole way without stopping at a hotel. My dad has sleep apnea so he almost always falls asleep especially while driving so this game was a way to keep him up and alert while driving. The rules for the game are pretty much whenever you start a roadtrip you look at the other cars license plate. Whenever you see a license plate from a state no one else has seen you have to tell it out and tap the other player. If you tap someone and the state has already been named by either yourself or the other player then your partner gets to tap you twice. It's a pretty fun game and you start to recognize license plates more and the yelling/tapping/trying to remember whether you saw that once state 10hrs into your drive helps you from falling asleep. Also you can only really play this game with the driver and whoever's shotgun, mostly because they can see infront of them while driving and it's also hard to tap someone in the backseat.
InverseCosecant · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Moose Tracks"
My entire family still does it to this day. I don't exactly remember how it started, but the idea is that every time someone says "moose tracks" (the ice cream flavor), everyone has to put a closed fist on their chin. The last person to do it loses, though there are no consequences except that the rest of us ridicule them.
My parents, my two siblings, and I have done this for so long that it's become instinctive. This has caused some embarrassment when I'm not with my family and someone says "moose tracks," because I will have my fist on my chin before I even know what I'm doing, earning me some weird looks from whomever I'm with at the time.
I don't really care though. I'd rather look stupid than lose the game.
juliebriggs · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called “hey cow” whenever we were in the car. It’s extremely simple, every time you pass cows you roll down your window and shout “HEY COW” as loud as possible. You get points for every cow that looks at you.
My husband and I play this game together now that I am an adult, and it’s even more fun to play with him!
jchall3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:54:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At recess we would play a very bastardized version of (American) football.
Basically, for any given 45 minute recess session the following would happen:
Sam and Alex were team captains and all time-QB. Why? Because they were the two most popular kids at school.
Sam would get first pick, Jarred, and Alex would get two picks and the ball.
They would then each pick teams which usually resulted in about 25 kids per side- give or take on how energetic the weird kids were that day.
Ryan would then pick which direction each team would go- into the sun or not. Ryan would either be picked 2nd or last depending on how sunny it was. Why did he get to pick direction? Because he brought the football.
There was a line of scrimmage, of which only Sam or Alex (the QBs) had to stay behind. For everyone else (receivers, dbs, linemen) it was a free-for-all. Anyone could run pre-snap including the QB.
Each team had 4 downs to score, no first downs.
Jarred was the ref (hence his first overall draft status and Alex's two pick compensation). Any penalty he called would result in yardage and a replay of down. Why Jarred? Cause he was super nice and anyone disagreeing was a dick.
The game played out as follows:
The QB would run around (staying behind the line), while his receivers would also run around. The linemen would chase the QB but could not tag him until the ball was "snapped." Once the QB spotted a an open receiver he would loudly yell "hut" which "snapped" the ball. At this point, the QB could be tagged after "3 seconds." These 3 seconds were counted as quickly as possible by the defense (usually by slurring down "mississipi" into a 3/10 a second pronunciation). The QB would then throw the ball. Once caught/intercepted normal two-hand touch football presumed. If dropped, the ball was moved back to the line of scrimmage and the next down attempted.
This would continue until either Alex's team scored or threw an interception (Keeping in mind Alex's team goes first). If Alex failed to score on 4th down, then Jarred would call a penalty, move the ball up, and attempt 4th down again.
Sam, would then get the ball and get exactly four tries to score. If Sam's team turned the ball over on downs Alex's team got the ball. Jarred did not call penalties if Sam's team had the ball. In 2 1/2 school years of play, Sam's team never once attempted a 4th down- having scored or intercepted on one of the first 3 downs. Sam's team would usually only face a 3rd down about once a month- and it was common for them to go a whole recess session with no 2nd, 3rd, or 4th downs, essentially scoring on every play via one long Hail Mary.
Score was kept by counting interceptions since there were only two outcomes on any given "drive": a pick or an interception of which an interception was less common thus easier to remember.
In 2 1/2 years of play, Sam's team never once trailed when the "5 minutes left" recess bell rang.
Upon hearing the bell, regardless of who had the ball Sam's team would offer double, triple, quadruple, ect or nothing to Alex's team. If Alex's team accepted, then Sam's team would get the ball at the 50 (the big tree) and if they scored, they won, if they failed to score, then the game would be tied 0-0 (since it was a double or nothing offer). This meant that regardless of the day's action, there were only two outcomes: Sam's team winning or Sam's team tying.
We played every non-rainy day in 3rd, 4th, and the first half of 5th grade.
Sam's team won or drew every single game- except for one: a legendary pick-six by a 3'8" undersized midget of a girl who could probably run a 4.20 forty. Sam's team loudly argued with Jarred (one of their own team-members) that Callie had stepped out of bounds as she left everyone in a cloud of dust. Keep in mind, at no point in the 2 1/2 years of play had an out of bounds ever been established.
The argument was so loud and so intense that the teachers banned the game for the remainder of the year- hence why we only played the first half of 5th grade. Sam never played football again at any level- including high school despite being an outstanding QB with a cannon of an arm. The division within the grade of "Sam's team" and "Alex's team" was so deep that when middle school football started we lost every single game in 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. Not until varsity football in the 10th grade were amends made.
Callie's touchdown is still talked about today.
djcrewscontrol · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played tag on four wheelers (ATVs). My cousin would drive in front of me and I would speed up and tail him. Rule was you had to touch one ATV to another or your hand had to touch the person. I don't know how we never really hurt ourselves but we loved that game.
GamingWithAlan · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger and I had a play date with my best friend we made up a game called Z-Tag. We both had 2 balls and the seeker had a nerf gun. So the seeker will count to 20 and go to find the hider. But the lights were off and the way the seeker got the hider(s) our is by shooting them with a nerf dart. You had 10+amount of players of darts. But if the seeker got hit in the head by a ball and he/she doesn’t deflect it with their own ball or dodge it the seeker has to let one of the captured hiders back in the game and they can’t seek for a minute.
MrKLR · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fart Lady. Great name, I know, but it was when I was like 8. Basically my sister and I would lay on our parents bed with a blanket balled up at our feet. Then we would yell "Fart Lady!" And we'd have to get completely covered in the blanket before a 5 second count down or we were "gassed"
mildrizzle · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wish I could find it. It was from the Leeds library, around 1996, on a floppy disc. It was an RTS game similar to Warcraft. It was 2D and had pixel style art.
I’ve tried finding it through Wikipedia and old RTS games to no avail :(
OriginalMonsieur · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game that I made up called "So Safe." Basically, the premise was that we were all at a camp and one person was a serial killer. Before every round, we'd determine who the camp director was, and then everyone would draw coins from a hat. If someone got a certain coin, they were the serial killer. This meant that anyone could be the killer, even the camp director. Then, the camp director would make up reasons for everyone to split up, such as "you need to go get firewood," and "we'll stay here and set up the tent." When you split up, you couldn't return to the central "camp" area until you would've realistically gathered firewood. While gone, however, the killer could shank someone with their thumb (making a thumbs-up was considered to be a knife), and the victim could choose whether or not to scream and die loudly. You couldn't make a knife if you were not the killer, and you couldn't scream if you weren't dead, however you could lie still on the floor if you wanted to add confusion. If anyone saw the killer murder someone, they had to yell "911!" and the camp would win. However, if the camp director said it was midnight, everyone had to squeeze under a large blanket in the middle of the room, with the exception of the killer. By this point, everyone would know who the killer was, since the killer wasn't under the "tent," and they'd try to hold down the blanket edges while the killer attempted to reach underneath and "stab" people. Generally, there were so many people that the blanket wouldn't hold them all, so we'd see a lot of cutthroat hijinks, like pushing someone outside of the tent. Great times, it was a real adrenaline-booster. Oh yeah, and we played it in the dark.
01029838291 · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Commando. Have about 6 people while camping, basically a "team" of 4 people have to make it from point A (designated start area) to point B (campsite) while the other two people are on quads/dirt bikes looking for you. Best to play at night when it's hard to see and you need flashlights. You'd drop all the runners off at the start point then go back to camp and wait a few minutes then the 2 seekers would take off on the quad and try to find everyone before they got back. Only rule was you had to stay within 50ft of the trail/road so the people on quads could actually find you.
You can play in the city too. We used to do from one high school to the other within certain streets for the boundary. Those were bigger games, 20 seekers in cars and about 50 runners.
AslanSutu · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well there's this game not unique to me but unique in Turkey. It's a game where the more the merrier. One guy starts with the ball and everyone else in close proximity. He throws the ball straight up and yells another player's name. Now that person is trying to catch the ball as fast as they can while everyone else tries to get away as fast a they can.
As soon as the ball is caught everyone stops and then the guy with the ball tries to hit someone. So kinda like a standstill dogeball shot. If successful the new person is it, if not the same person is it again.
Xxramie · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but as suburban teenagers with nothing to do past sunset we would play a game called "kidnap".
Kidnap consisted of two teams of four; a driver, a navigator, and two victims- one vehicle per team. Since the game was played at night, teams would park in a well lit area (usually a Meijer or movie theater, but really anywhere that was off a main road) to plot their drop points. Drop points were unusual places your teammates knew of, ranging from creepy dirt roads in the middle of BFE to dead end streets in ritzy subdivisions. The only rule of drop points was they had to be within an X mile radius of the starting point. (After all, we were teenagers and gas money wasn't cheap).
Each team had three minutes to decide on a drop point before the victims were blindfolded and exchanged. Knowing the opposing team's victims knew where your teammates were being taken, navigators would try to interrogate victims on the way to the drop point. However, his main goal was to distract them. Loud music, bantering, obnoxious questions- anything to take the victim's attention off the road and focus it on him. Drivers would also play along by making odd twists and turns in case the victims were trying to navigate the route inside their heads.
Once D+N were satisfied the victims were lost, the driver parked at the drop point. Here the victims took off their blindfolds and were each given a flashlight and a pocket knife. The driver then made sure the GPS on victim's phones was off before kicking them out of the car and booking it to find their teammates. Victims then had to race to the nearest landmark or intersection, call their own navigator, and let them know where they were. The first team to find their victims and make it back to the starting point won.
Side Note: Everyone loved playing victim. Imagine being dropped off in the dark with no idea which direction to head. Adrenaline kicks in and both of you really need to work together to find your way to.... anything. It was rare victims knew what street they were on, let alone what city they were in, so if the drop point was too overwhelming they were allowed to turn on their GPS. And trust me, some drop-points were fucking overwhelming.
Amasero · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
31.
You get three cards, and your goal is to get 31 or think you have the highest number between 0-31.
You knock, everyone has one more turn left besides you, then you show your hand.
If you are the lowest number you lose a life.
We used 10 dollars. So everyone got two lives. 5$ per life. If you lose you fold your 10 dollar bill in half to show you have only half a life.
Normally we would play with two decks because we had like 15--20people playing. I was like 8-12 during this time. lol I won so much money like twice.
Really fun game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor had a long drive way that my brother and I used to go down with bikes or whatever was around. Eventually I learned that I could tape a folding chair onto a skateboard and have a blast. Obviously it was hard to balance on and we wiped out many times. Fun as heck though and I thought I was a genius for thinking of it.
mcook5 · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lords of Magic
weirdmountain · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a church up the street from our house, and my brother and I used to just use this church and the yard surrounding it as a playground. The church had a square landing that was almost like a patio out front with large columns in the corners, and a metal railing that lined the edges. We used to play "Cat's Eye", based on the part of the movie with the story "The Ledge", where the guy had to walk around the high ledge on the outside of the building, along the outside edge of the church's patio. Because our mom definitely let us watch Cat's Eye) when we were waaaay too young to be watching that.
TheRetroVideogamers · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with two best friends, so as a group of three, we had to make ways for games to be even with an odd number.
The one we played the most was Automatic QB. One guy was the QB, the others switched between WR and CB after every throw. A catch was worth 1, INT worth 2. First to 5 got to be QB, next round
eskrstps · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trap or horror rooms. 1 person would sit outside the room while the others set traps, for example i would tie toys to a string, tie that to the handle and with the powers of my 10yo engineering skills make it so that when the person enters the toys drop on them. Another thing, idk if it counts but we used to take toy cars apart, leaving just wheels and the plate then make them out of clay (or whatever the squishy plasticy kids substance is called) and send them down a ramp towards "cities" made out of common house objects. The point was to make them crash and then be excited about the dents and everything. The car thats destroyed the most wins. The exciting part was taking off the damaged parts and recreating them after. If i remember correctly we were greatly inspired by flatout hah
drgnfly369 · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the side of our garage there were some stacks of plywood leaning against it in a way that we could slide down on them. At the time a neighbor friend, my brothers and myself would play that we were on the last hour of the titanic, and slid down as if we were the unfortunate people on the ship. It was around the time that the movie came out. Lol
CluelessChicka · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not much of a game, but a very loving memory. We have a cottage in the woods that's 20 minutes away. My cousins and I spent every moment we could in those woods. We had a "tree house" (read just a huge tree with a bunch of branches on which we sat). Of course, we had the stake out tree and everything else that goes with a house. It was our little secret layer and we had secret meetings and even a secret alphabet. Our missions were very important. A small crew equipped with hand made bows and arrows, fighting for our haven. Mainly fighting of the imaginary enemies, but every once in a while we had a real mission, like investigating the illegal dump yard not far away. Or stealing from our moms the seads for our own garden in the woods, or replanting the forest when the grown-ups fucked up and cut down a bunch of trees.
dcgood · 1 points · Posted at 22:56:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee football. Played a lot of knee football in my basement (carpeted) as a kid. My friends would come over and we'd move everything to the side with 2 or 3 players on each team had a good 40 ft. Because of the open floor olan. Played to the rules as well as we knew. No forward passes, hike the ball, full contact, no Mississippi rush and a lot of knee burns. Touch the ball to the teams wall to receive points. Played this well into middle school. Loved it.
Calsaadi · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to larp in a way. A friend of mine had what we would call "the game" and he would have us go on quests and fight enemies. We would even level up and gain new abilities as we went along. This went from elementary school into early middle school before we stopped. But it was a hell of a lot of fun. We would play it any time we were together with our group. And it was a continuous quest (we never started over) the whole time.
TisteSimeon · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man finally I have a great story for one of these and I'm way too late but meh.
This is the dumbest, most ridiculous thing and when my brothers and I speak about it now none of us can work out why the heck we did something so stupid...
So I grew up as one of five boys all quite close in age and we had an old Bedford Midi minibus to get around. In the back of the minibus were some bench type seats that faced each other.
My parents always encouraged us to be creative in long journeys to keep us entertained and not end up arguing. One of the games we came up with (for some reason) was where we decided that we had to stay silent and try to make each other make some noise.
We sat facing each other with our legs stretched out in between the legs of the brother opposite, the heels of our feet resting just next to the testicles of the other.
The basic rule was if you made a sound you got your gonads squished. That was it. We all sat in apprehensive silence trying not to giggle and it all eventually ended up in a bit of a free for all melee in the back of the vehicle until mum or dad yelled at us.
Good times!
mlm777 · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “crocodile” which involved running around the perimeter of an area rug as fast as we could. The first person who got tired, dizzy, or fell over was eaten by the imaginary crocodile in the middle of the rug.
its_a_joke_normie · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"animal game" where you spot animals. That's it. I always won.
RizzleBot · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle Tennis. Like tennis but you score by pegging the other player with the ball.
SlingAndStone · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
After all THAT?!?!
My brothers and I used to play a game where we threw a hot wheels car on the roof of our house. If it rolled all the way down to the ground and landed wheels down we'd all look at each other, put our hands up in the air and exclaim, "After all THAT?!?!"
IWillFindUinRealLife · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a BIG oak tree that would drop thousands of acorns. The acorns would fall into the patio area. My father gave my brother and I a 5 gallon bucket and we would walk around collecting the best acorns.
This process would take more than an hour as we always wanted to pick the best acorns. The acorns that had been chewed by squirrels or cracked when hitting the ground were no good to us.
Once we had our buckets full of acorns, we each got 1 walnut. This was like a ‘nuke’. Anyway, the game was simple. Two shirtless kids running around pelting each other with acorns until our skin was covered in red spots. We had one walnut to throw but you only had one chance to throw it, it was usually saved until the end.
My dad also liked this game because we basically just cleaned up all the acorns from our patio one by one. Kept us busy and cleaned. What’s not to love?
lybiert · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “real life”. I would buy the kitchen and charge everyone for food and drinks and my sister would buy the bathroom and charge everyone to pee. She was always terribly upset that no one would use the bathroom.
bong_dude_brah · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to shoot hoops in the driveway, while role playing a Star Wars character in my head. I would fabricate scenes and voice aloud all the dialogue while tearing it up in my driveway with a basketball. When you think of a kid playing basketball by themselves and they say things like “and he shoots, and he scores” to narrate what they’re doing, it’s like the same thing only I was blowing up the Death Star or dueling Vader in my mind. Either that or I was a WCW wrestler in my mind. It’s just that basketball was my mode of acting those things out.
Seriously about the most formative activity I ever had. I was really good at basketball as a result, but mostly only play as a mental release and chill activity rather than competing.
Lipsovertits · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "sneak past the alarm system". We had an alarm system with a motion sensor that lit up whenever it was triggered, even when it wasn't on... so we'd try to avoid it and make an entire lap around the house while always keeping an eye on it. Whoever triggered it lost a life, and we had 3 lives. Sometimes we also played with collective lives to work together to make it the full lap. Sneakiness and acrobatics ensued... eventually we made it all the way through the house multiple times, using exploits like the sun hitting the floor or someone having recently moved a big chair to a convenient location. It was also great dusting, so the parents kept letting us. It's amazing what 6 year olds with too much time can do.
Dinaplays · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
MOTAS, mystery of time and space. Escape the room flashgame. Was amazing, but sadly the developer seem to have stopped hosting the game.
Semen_Werewolf_72 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Secret time with uncle tickle. It was great game. Id hide and if he found me he would .... O wait I was molested...
AslanSutu · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a game called butts up played with a tennis ball and a wall that we played in the suburbs of Chicago. Dunno about the rest so I don't know if it is unique. Though would love it if someone knows that game and could refresh the rules for.me
fatguyswagger · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's this game my uncle and I used to pl--
You know what don't worry about it
trx450 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apparently I used to be a talkative child and my mom always wanted to play the silent game because of it.
The premise of the game was simple, don’t talk and who ever speaks again first loses. (I lost every time)
FuckinToothFairy · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were kids, with my brother we would play « slow-mo fight ». It’s exactly as it sounds : two kids punching and kicking each other in slow motion mode, sounds effects and deeper voices included. I would never won, because the bastard would cheat and tickle the hell out of me. But it was fun.
Mentos25 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In church, there would be this sign that showed which hymns would be sung. I summed up the numbers in each column to get a winner. The 1's usually won, and the 100's were the heavy underdog.
Also, I cut out the NFL logos on the back of a cereal or fruit snacks box and a deck of cards and would play "war" and have tournaments. I even started keeping track of the winners each "season".
ParticularDish · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Counter strike irl with actual bb guns. One team has their shirts off wrapped on their heads. All over the streets of Philippines. Best at night. Sometimes my team would open a concrete manhole and shoot all the cockroaches in it
zuzima161 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and i would play a variation of dodgeball but each person had a nerf dart we would throw like knives while we wore those sticky nerf vests. We would sometimes put steel bearings in the darts to give them weight to throw farther.
We called it ninja tag
Quin_Wohl · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad, sister and I played “the bug game”.
Me and my sister would hide, and my dad would rub around the house trying to catch us. When he did, he would tickle the shit out of you.
steel_304 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spongebob: The Movie PS2 version
slothtrop6 · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Someone I once knew described a game he called "Batman". He and his friends would run around dark alley ways searching for one another. When someone spotted another guy, they'd stretch their arms out and run straight at them, closing the distance as the other runs away, then try to smack them hard. Rinse and repeat.
This sounds both petrifying and fun.
jackobeach · 1 points · Posted at 22:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played a game we called knee ball. We played 2v2 and occasionally 3v3. The court was in a carpeted bonus room and was around 25ft by 12ft. There were two goals each team with one they defend and one they try to score in. All players had to have at least one knee on the carpet at all times. We used a nerf basketball that was a little bit bigger than a tennis ball. You weren't allowed to grab the ball and had to use your hands almost as sticks. You could scoop it up for an aerial shot but weren't allowed to have it in the scoop position for more than a split second. There was one goalie/defender and either one or two offensive players. We had a goalie box which allowed the goalie to grab the ball if they wished. We had penalty shots that were taken from the middle if a rule was ever broken. If a team hit the ball out of bounds, the ball would be given to the goal keeper from the opposing team. Knee burns were common but damn I miss it
asMarce · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t remember how we got the name but “Captain Purple Pants”, essentially it’s hide in the seek in the dark but the hiders have pillows. If the seeker finds you you have a chance to get away by hitting them so hard with the pillow that you blur their sense of what’s around them. Lots of fun nights ending with someone getting angry, good times
becauseiliketoupvote · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Batman"
This was a card game. We both pick cards. We then both pick Batman characters. I always get to be Batman (this was the most important rule). Batman always wins.
My family didn't like to play that one with me.
This isn't as good as when I tried to set the deck for crazy 8s with my grandpa. He was very pleased as I accidentally dealt him all the 2s and 8s. My family definitely made me play that one.
illiterate_fart · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would go into this fantasy world where I was in an ancient civilization and act out hunter/gatherer scenario's, I even created my own meal called "chimchip"which consisted of mashed beans.
In reality, I was really just riding my scooter on my grandparents driveway talking to myself.
arnimarl · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jumping over shadows with the car.
Whenever we were driving somewhere I would pretend that none of the car tyres could touch the shadows made by the trees. In my mind I would jump the shadows with the car, or lift a tyre or two off the ground to avoid touching the shadows. Endless entertainment!
junebug831 · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide The Belt
It was a game of hot and cold until someone found the belt. Whoever found the belt can up anybody until the got to the safe base
Greasy_Hat · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Avalanche"- my brother and I would pile as many pillows, blankets, and sheets as we could find at the top of the stairs. We then would pull the heap down on top of us causing us to fall down the stairs. Clean up was a bitch. Needless to say, this was a game only played when mom wasn't home
jayfraytay · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Objects. Player one collects household objects and throws them over the 2nd story balcony in “random” manner. Player(s) 2, 3, and 4 lay on the ground below. Last one to move wins!!
TristenCalcifer · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bornonthefifth · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Specs on the car window. Move your head up and down to make them fly over trees and such. Being a kid is great
Thicc_Bish · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Tide Pod Challenge".
So what you do is you get 2 Tide Pods and eat them. Then 30 minutes later (this is where the fun comes) you DIE!
thymetosleep · 1 points · Posted at 22:59:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
GringyGecko · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a few friends had a game that never officially was given a name, but we always called it "The Red Dress". It was usually played in a large open area. One person had a large stick, and a blindfold on. Everyone else had to run around trying not to get "caught" by the blindfolded person. And by caught i mean hit by the stick. If I remember correctly, it was based off of an obscure goosebumps-esqe TV show or something, where someone tried stealing from a blindperson in one of the episodes. In retrospect, it probably wasn't the safest game...
Edit: the show was called "The Haunting Hour" and funny enough the episode it was taken from was also called The Red Dress
Nosomancer · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother was a shift worker, and Dad (who was the stay-at-home parent) had the policy that he didn't care what me and my sister did in our room, as long as we didn't wake Mum. This led to some...interesting games.
The two I remember most were a game where we scattered pieces of paper over the carpet, turned off the lights, and ran around in the dark until we slipped over. The other was a game where we would simply put a pillow over our faces and run face-first into the wall.
I have no idea what the point of these games was, other than just seeing what would happen.
worldcitizencane · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nobody played "doctor"?
HarveyDent-was-wrong · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Taxi." My dad has 65 acres of land where he used to raise cattle. Whenever we were kids, he bought my little brother and I a two-seater go-kart that we would ride in the pasture whenever we would stay at his house. One day I came up with this game called taxi where one of us would drive through the pasture and try to splatter as much cow poop as possible on the passenger. After the passenger was completely covered in cow poop, the driver would leave the other person at the farthest point away from the house. The driver then was supposed to loop around and trade spots with the passenger. The trick was: every time we played, I was the driver. Most of the time I just left my brother stranded there.
Supercan49 · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Conkers Bad Fur Day. I see people who’ve played it on the internet but NEVER in person. And I travel a whole bunch bc of job benefits.
gcwardii · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends and I played Penguin People.
When we had a sleepover at my house, we would take one of my dad's old English Leather cologne bottles and fill it with a mixture of all the liquid personal care products in the bathroom.
This was then the potion we, as spies, were tasked with protecting from the Penguin People. Sometimes my friend and I would be the Penguin People, trying to avoid capture by the police.
We made all kinds of props that were clues the game, like letters, newspapers, police lineups, and stuff like that.
I haven't thought about that in decades! Thanks for reminding me!
SkiNasty · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Toonsi" This game was a game made out of sheer boredom in the late 80's. Me and my cousins made this "game". Being between the ages 12-7. First, all participants enter the room. Second, all participants grab a blanket, and cover thier body focused on the head so they couldn't see. Third, position away from all participants. And lastly, "Toonsi" begins as soon as the lights were switched off where then EVERYONE beats the living crap out of each other till they gave up. The one that doesn't give up is claimed the winner.
Granted we didn't know why we covered our heads AND turned the lights off. But it was to discourage targeting. Though being family, we knew who was who, lol.
Shluappa · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brian?
SkiNasty · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No, but funny enuf that is one of my cousins.
Shluappa · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would do the same thing but I didn't know if it ever had a name.
SkiNasty · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now that's funny, lol. We thought we were the only messed up kids around. I think we named it "Toonsi" being inspired by Mario 3 toonooki, but who really knows that the best I could deduce, lol.
cheesegreater_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nice try /r/gameideas
DoodleCard · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this pebbled driveway as a kid. I was (and still am) fascinated by pebbles/rocks. I would bring different stones into the house from the front drive and put them in my "rock collection". It wasn't a until a few years ago (now in my mid twenties) that mum told me she would be constantly taking the rocks from the "collection" and put them back outside in the drive.
Apparently she did this for years and I never noticed. I probably bought all the same ones back too.
frankems · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Some friends and I played this game called blades of doom. We would have two people swing on the swing seat and everyone else had to make it from one side to the other. We would have characters we would do as we crossed. Like one kid would play an old guy looking for his cat. If someone would be swinging at him he would scream the cats name and dive to the ground before being hit by the swinger. It’s weird looking back but was so fun.
Striper014 · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Claw. 2D side scroller. Extremely challenging for a 10 year old
Zanyystar · 1 points · Posted at 23:00:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
we had a pool and a hot tub in our backyard. We also had this plastic motorized seal that would swim. The pool was freezing cold, so we were all in the hot tub. One of us decided that we should play a game, where we turn the seal on and try and avoid it. If you got touched by the seal, you need to jump into the pool (we called the pool "Antarctica", and we described it as if you get touched, you get a ticket to Antarctica) and swim from the stairs to the ladder (one side to another)
I actually ended up getting used to the freezing hell that was the pool, so I stayed in it the pool and watch them play, we all had fun
tross2411 · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoe game - every kid in the neighborhood meets up at a trampoline. Everyone takes there shoes off and throws them in the middle of the trampoline. Everyone gets on the trampoline and starts jumping. Object of the game, dodge the flying shoes, if you get tagged by a shoe you have to get off the trampoline and have to retrieve shoes that have bounced off.
DannieJ312 · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if it’s unique, but I never heard of it before my husband’s family. They always played “graveyard graveyard you’re buried” while on trips. The goal is to find as many animals as you could and as you passed a graveyard, you say the above phrase. Whoever get buried (the ones that didn’t say it first) also lost their entire animal count. I’ve never liked the game so I’ve never played it.
We just play the ABC game now, which I think everyone knows. Look for the letters of the alphabet in order as you are going on a trip. Whoever gets to Z first, is the winner.
YaoMingBingBing · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rise of nations
TheVortigauntMan · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if we had a name for it but me and my brother used to take off our duvet covers, wrap ourselves in them to the point we couldn't see through them and try to find each other around the house. When we did find each other we'd fuck one another up till the other fleed.
TheRealClyde · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a game called charlie the unicorn which was a card game with dice played during lunch time. basically me and my 3 friends pretended to know how to play a game and one other person is trying to learn how the game goes but the 4 us would continue making up random rules. we started to remember certairules over others and started keeping a notebook filles with random ass rules. it was a time killer.
mrjman3465 · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called bloody murder. There were 3 roles, the first was 1-5 murderers depending how many were playing. Second 1-2 cops. Then everyone remaining (the majority) were townspeople. The goal of the murderer is to find and touch all of the townspeople before the cops find and touch all of the murderers. Every time you got murdered you had to let out a blood curling scream so everyone knew someone had died. Best played in a large wooded area in the dark.
Second game didn't have a name but was primarily played at night during a camp out. You have two or three people guarding the camp. And everyone else has to try and enter the camp undected by the guards. Those who get caught have to be guards for the next round.
AJaredDavis · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In high school my girlfriend and I would play "kissbug." It was just like slugbug but instead of hitting you would kiss.
ftwpurplebelt · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game on a short dirt track with a go-cart and 4-6 players on foot. Person in the go cart carried a football and wore a hat. The goal of the game was to steal the hat off the person driving the go cart so you got to drive. If you were hit with the football you got a strike, 3 strikes and you were out of the game. Lots of running around. Track was tight so the driver had to slow way down. Just dumb fun.
ewesername · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not my childhood, but my son. Somehow he decided when it's just guys we take off our shirts and throw them at each other. He used to get really excited when my daughter and wife would leave so we could 'throw our shirts'. Then it would usually devolve into superhero wrestling... as it does.
KuLTGaming · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sproutball. Every game would start with 6 balls, 3 on each side. If you get hit, you're out. If you catch someone else's ball, your out. It is very similar to Dodgeball but out P.E teacher doesn't want us to get hurt, so he used soft, smaller balls instead.
MilowMylotic · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shrek Superslam... Xbox 360
LiveFreeDieRepeat · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
With my brother upstairs, I’d use (toy) wooden blocks to build fortified castles in the corner our basement and hide 20 (toy) standing army men inside and behind them. Then my brother come down and would whip 5 blocks from the opposite corner at the castles as hard as he could, then we’d count how many men were still standing. Next it was his turn to build and my turn to throw.
The game required a combination of defensive building skills, throwing accuracy, strategic deception and luck, kind of fort building and the milk bottle carnival game meets Stratego. We would play for hours on a rainy day.
BestLemonadeNA · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
game called "moppet" played with my twin brother when we were very young, 2-3 years old. etymology unknown. (my mom says we had our own language with many incomprehensible words)
as far as I can remember we just ran as fast as we could and threw ourselves into the couch.
TheBlackBear · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Gun Game"
Everyone gets a toy gun. One person hides in the house while the "team" waits a minute in a closed room. When the minute is up the team has to clear the house.
Rules are, you basically get a line of sight on someone and yell bang. They're dead.
It's really simple and there's a bit of judgement call involved but it's really fun. No health, no lives, just peaking around every corner terrified the bad guy is right there ready to one-shot you. If you die you have to lie there until the round is over.
wheydrian · 1 points · Posted at 23:02:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blind Chicken”
This twisted version of tag I came up with. We would blindfold someone who was it and hide in an area of the room.
We would make sounds to alert who was it or just mess with them by touching them before they tagged us. We’d even put stuff along their walking path. We had some very intense games hahaha
tearose45 · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Violent tag. I played it with my close friends in elementary school. There was a huge wooden train which was home base, and we’d run around trying to catch each other. If someone got to home base, you could pull and pry them off of it and they would be it. So we’d crawl around on top of it and the teachers got so mad when they caught us playing
walletsalt · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
um... basically there was a game my sis and i did where we would strip then see who could do the most physical activity.
don't ask
DolphinBiscuits · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this is really a 'game' but once in a blue moon, on the playground in our school, dozens of kids would get on a different side of this bridge that was in the middle of the structure. Someone would yell "STAMPEDE!" and we would just...run at each other. This would continue for about 5 minutes straight before teachers are able to stop it. It was like a war zone
Catastrophe_xxvi · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a jurrasic park raptor vs. Humans game.
For christmas we got a set of laser tag. A couple guns and couple things you wore on your chest. Problem was that we didn't have enough for the kids in the neighborhood. So the hunters each got a gun and the raptors wore the chests. If a raptor tagged you once you were out. The chests allowed for 3 hits before you were out.
Funny part was that the sun triggered the vests. However, running like a raptor hunched over made it really hard to hit you in the front.
sugarsneeeze · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sometime in early elementary I had an older friend show me how to draw very crude and simple anime styled fox people. She drew me my own original character to own, called Hardison. A bit later, we went over Bridge to Terabithia in class, and as an assignment, had to make our own imagionary world. I took Hardison and put him into the world of Golith (Go-lie-ith). He had a little sister, there was a princess, a whole lore... I wrote history books and drew art, and spent every single day playing outside as Hardison with my wooden sword and imagioning things. Later in elementary, a good friend and I played that game every single day at recess way back in the playground.
Oh, also in elementary we had The Village. Nearly every kid in our school was playing at the time. Our school yard was surrounded with a tree line, so we all climbed under the trees and made 'homes'. Pinecones were money, and people made buisnesses selling things like crushed plants that smelled good, sticks, and the rare and expensive potato. After a bit one girl brought monopoly money and the economy switched- There was a smaller supply and very little people accepted pinecones anymore, and a lot of the rich now had nothing. It got worse when the girl who introduced the white mans money needed it back because her mom got mad. Her mom then complaned to the school and a few kids were found off school grounds digging potatoes in the field so The Village was totally shut down.
mrsworser · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had an empty laptop box from my dad’s work laptop. It could unfold open and still stay standing up on the floor, with a plastic handle at the top. You guys, I made this shit my doomsday prep box. It contained:
I was 6. I would open it every day and ponder how I was so clever and was prepared to survive.
Don_Cheech · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “Morpheus”
This was when limewire, kazzaa, Napster were big. There was another one called Morpheus. As a 10 year old me and my friend would download random videos of monkeys smelling their own poop and fainting... guys getting hit in the head with shovels ... and I think some cky clips where people just did crazy shit. Definitely a lot of crazy and stupid stunt videos.So we would go do dumb shit. Like jump off of sheds ... and yell “Morpheus!” While doing it.
Yea it sounds retarded but damn we had fun
BMWdriversAreCucks · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a self made "rpg" with my siblings, using acorns as characters and taking turns attacking. One swing of the hammer or one stab of a screwdriver, then it's the other person's turn. Acorn Wars.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick you in the nuts.
Then it's your turn.
(South Park anyone?)
mimid0t · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Making a cake”. Basically, one kid would curl up on the couch/chair, and the others would proceed to layer every blanket and pillow over them. When this was finished, the other kids would climb atop the heap, and the person inside would try to get out.
UnderwaterFiring · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boom Boom Bang Bang. You get on swing, swing, then other kids throw large objects to be kicked
CapitanCar1os · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bird game. For extremely boring car trips only. Basically, when you see a bird you yell “bird”. And then you win.
StarDusJR · 1 points · Posted at 23:03:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if this is unique but when I was in elementary school there was a map of the US painted on the ground. There were four groups of states that were colored either red, blue, green, or yellow.
So my friends made up a game called “States”. You have to pick one of the four colors and whichever color was chosen we could only step on states of that color. Once we started, we had to push each other off the states. It was really fun because it involved a lot of physical action, but we all agreed to not take it too far.
It was all fun and games until we were banned from playing it :(
ZychoFission · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play a game where one person would draw on one half of a folded piece of paper, without the 2nd person looking. Then, they'd mark the spots where the lines crossed over to the other half of the paper and the 2nd person continued the drawing, without knowing what the first drew at all.
The results were ridiculous drawings such as an alien head with a giant human leg coming out where the neck should be.
gcwardii · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My middle-school classmates and I played Kreem-o Scheem-o at recess in winter. It was kind of a cross between keep-away, tackle football, and king of the hill. It had to be played in winter, on the snow that piled up from plowing the playground.
As you would expect, much blood was shed.
vhexs · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I played his own version of hide and seek. I haven't found him yet...
Renyard-III · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
KILL. It’s a mixture of soccer, dodgeball, rugby, and horse. Basically you get a ring of people and dribble the soccer ball. After 5 dribbles with no person going twice in a row you have to catch the ball and throw it at someone. If they get hit they get a letter from the word kill. If the thrower misses nothing happens. But if you tackle the thrower before they throw the ball then the thrower gets a letter. Spell the whole word kill and you’re out.
senseidelicious · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Rock battle' we went to a playground with a big sandpit, and you guessed it, started throwing small rocks at each other until someone started crying. Ot was usually 2 teams consisting of most kids in our neighbourhood which was a immigrant housing area, so we didnt have money for 'normal' games.
Kyle_VW-YT · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the way to my local Six flags we would play who saw it first, all the game was is the first person to see the theme park.
The funny part is one day when I was about 6 and my brother was 4 i made a deal with him that I would check the left side of the road (were the six flags was) and he would check the right. So of coarse I win the game and then the little shit starts crying because “I didn’t get to see it” and it’s been an inside joke ever since.
Mayitachan · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remembered in my childhood school we played a game called “bad mama” which consisted in a kid playing “the mama” and she would torment the other kids to show she was evil, the one who tormented the worst was the winner.
ld1x · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At the super illegal home daycare I went to, we had a game that we called “Dark Game Trap”. It was essentially hide and seek, in the dark, and we set “traps” to try and slow down/hurt the seeker. This included trip wires, moving furniture around to new spots, items that would fall on you etc. I’m honestly surprised that nobody died...
learyOfReality · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As high school kids, we played a game called “Zonk” which was a complicated dice game involving bong hits. It was awesome. - (sent with my index finger on my nose). I was probably more mature at 11 than 16 btw.
bpeters513 · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my buddies and I spent a majority of our childhood running around our backyards in a world of our own, racing super motorcycles and fighting bad guys, aliens, monsters, robots ... basically the saviors of the universe. I guess from an outside perspective we looked pretty rediculous as his mom dubbed our game "IOWA" (idiots out wandering around)
IamJmJ3478 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played apple basketball when we were kids and actually had apples in the house. We’d prop open the refrigerator door with the produce drawer and sit at the other end of the kitchen and try and get a basket. Needless to say if you missed, the apples would break apart and apple chunks flew everywhere. We laughed until we cried and then had to clean up before mom got home. Years later she found unidentifiable chunks on top of the kitchen cabinets. No idea what those could have been.
smithers215 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game with Michael Jackson to see who could put their clothes back on the fastest
kbreu12 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The blanket game”. Essentially, one person had to put a blanket over themselves in an already pretty dark room and were under the blanket until they tagged someone(kind of like land-based Marco Polo). Those who were trying to avoid being touched were mostly silent but would sometimes make stupid noises/hurl insults or throw things at the person under the blanket. A lot of minor injuries occurred in this game, and in a recent adult revisiting of this game in a double bed hotel room, my brother (not under the blanket) hit his head on the ground and got a concussion. It’s a great game!
TheFrodo · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother had a game called "check if I'm dead." It was pretty self explanatory.
TGabc · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find my dad
opalesense · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Snub. My best friend would come over and after dark we would sneak out to the edge of my grandparents property that was on a road that inetersected on one side with a main road and with the highway on the other. We would stand at the edge of their property in the dark and as soon as a car turned onto the road, we would full-sprint away and dive down into the shadowy arborvitae to hide. We would do this for hours. Occasionally a car would stop because the sight of two girls sprinting in a field at night had to be kinda spooky, but we were never caught.
mensweardog1 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if teenage years count as “childhood” but this game sure was fun for almost 5 years.
We called it “Spy” and our setting would be our school campus at night. We’d get a large group of at least 6 and would split up into teams. The goal was to sneak around campus being as stealthy as possible (parkour and climbing was also encouraged) so as not to be seen by other teams “patrolling.”
The inspiration for the game was metal gear solid or splinter cell, whichever stealth action game lol.
The rules changed every time we played to add complexity and endgame rules. Once we had a friend act as a sort of game master and he would leave clues for teams to solve an Easter egg hunt. He would also text false information or tips to opposing teams to cause conflict on the field.
It had a sense of danger too, as we’d be hiding in bushes stalking another team or sprinting and jumping fences to avoid getting caught. (Once while jumping a fence my foot got caught and I face planting, my team mate dragged me to the bushes to keep me from being seen LOL)
The game was so much fun, even if it was a little against the rules (campus locked at night) and now at 23 my friends and I still reminisce and tell stories about our favorite moments.
Mula811 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when Five Nights at Freddy’swas still a thing. My friend had a computer and an ip camera, so they used to act as the “cameras”and we would play five nights at Freddy’s. It sounds stupid now but back then we had so much fun. Preferably played in the dark.
FantasticShoulders · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late, but I have to talk about The Imitation Game!!
It stemmed from a subset of Try Not To Laugh, and ended up being its own, more important thing. Setting it up and playing are the simplest things in the world. First, give each player a sheet of paper. Tell them to write as many characters/celebrities as possible down, while breaking the paper into little slips. Put the paper slips in a container (ours was my brother’s homemade Minecraft chest), and you’re all set!
To play, you grab a slip, read it, hopefully know the character (if not, draw again), and then you have to do your very best imitation of that character. You can’t say the name of the character, and using quotes from the source material is discouraged. When you have a 14-year-old girl trying to imitate Gilbert Gottfried, that’s when you know you’re playing a good round. Whoever guesses the character goes next. It’s so fun, and I wish my siblings would still be down for it!!
Dooolay · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shark" it was a mix between dodge ball,chasing and tip-the-can.
If you were the shark then you'd count to 100 when everyone would go hide around the housing estate. Then you had to try find them but instead of catching them you had to hit them with the ball. Once you're hit you become the shark and the other person has a few seconds to sprint away.
Everyone who wasn't the shark had to first hide and then stealthly (or not in a lot of cases) try make it to the home base (standing on a wall) without being hit by the shark. The loser was whoever ended up as the shark when everyone is on the wall.
What made it frustrating as hell for the shark was people would jump down from the wall and taunt the shark to hit them, distracting them so someone else could make a break for it. If you lost you started the next game as the shark so a bad run could be killer!
pweeephraim · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
pirates of dark water. if touched the ground (on bed) you lost.
commonsensicalities · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one doesn't really have a name, but it's basically like a geography game. Any place in the world goes, but you can't repeat a place somebody has said. For example, let's say that somebody started the game with, "France." You would have to find a place in the world that starts with the letter E, like "England." (Which is a part of the United Kingdom, so it works.) If anybody repeats, (say that the next person said "Delaware," and then the person after that said "England" again) that person would be out. There are no winners, just losers. I always had some pretty creative places, because we traveled a lot, and I'm a nerd.
bendth3sky · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a large family, and being the oldest I got to come up with all sorts of entertaining things for me my siblings to get up to. We all really liked Star Wars growing up, and this one sticks out to me:
K'NEX Pod Racing: You chose a small plush toy character to be your racer (mine was usually those little Yoshi or Mario dolls), and you built them a Pod Racer out of K'NEX. Once everyone was done building, the race would start. We would set up a course in the backyard (it was usually full of obstacles and treachery). The rules were simple, you ran the race with the Pod Racer in your hand, flying it around the course to the finish. The stuffed toy pilot had to stay in the cockpit in order for you to win. Bashing (of pod-to-pod) was allowed, and if your racer got destroyed you were out. We played this game all the time. It was fun because it encouraged everyone to build something creative but sturdy, and then a foot race at the end. Good for mind and body.
sylas69 · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Color game: played in a pool, one player thinks of a color and then holds the other player in their arms. The other player has to guess what color, and every wrong guess results in them being dunked backwards into the water. When they get it right they get to flip the other person in the water and dunk them.
IAmTheAccident · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I made up a lot of games as children, all under the brand "Brod Star" (our last name starts with Brod-). We had a theme song/commercial jingle for any new game or idea with the lyrics "Brod Star Mall has done it again!" repeated a few times.
We had, first, the Brod Star Mall, where each room of the house would be a different store and one of the siblings would be the shopkeeper. These could be toy stores, grocery stores, book stores, clothing stores, or anything else we could come up with.
We all watched the anime Fushigi Yuugi and held a Brod Star Fushigi Yuugi con, complete with vendors selling Tasuki tessen fans (that was me) and my sister cosplaying as Hotohori.
We had Brod Star Wrestling, for which we would all beat the shit out of each other in pairs until one person gave up. No real rules, no limits to what moves were allowed, no time limit. Pure violence.
We had Brod Star Restaurant where the only menu items were whatever we were having for dinner and, if you didn't want that, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, along with a small selection of drink like water, water with ice, and milk.
Even now with all of us in our 30s, every once in awhile when one of us has some new idea, the others will sing the Brod Star Mall theme song/commercial jingle.
JustTryMeNow · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/rule34
TakeCover86 · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cheers to the Martian chug-a-lug!” It was basically a tea-party my sister and I would play. Except aliens were involved. And you had to say that before every drink. I can’t remember how we came up with it.
Sad_UM_Lions_Fan · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ohhhhh, yikes.
"Concentration camp"
My friend Adel and I would make my brothers and their friends lie face down in our (carpeted) basement - they had to escape. If we caught them trying to move, we'd beat them with PVC pipe covered in 1/4 inch of foam that my dad made for us instead of buying those nerf swords. Those things hurt.
wtfchicago2019 · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im sure it's been said somewhere already but we used to play kick the can whenever we go together as a family (which I should note is huge, if my math is accurate around 20 kids). the game would be at night and a can was placed on a hard surface such as a patio or driveway and someone was picked to be 'it' and they had to count to 50 while everyone else hid. Once they got to 50 they had to start looking for kids to tag, but the challenge was to stay close enough to the can to prevent anybody running up and kicking it over before they were tagged. Had so much fun with this game and super challenging to win
Spider-Mike23 · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my buddy wanted to invent a new game as kids. We didnt have much resources. So we the first things we found. A basketball, and a shovel. Cue the name "shovel ball" person shoots a free throw, person with shovel stands under net with shovel just barely under rim, shovel person trys to block ball scoring in. It they score then shooter gets 2pts, and sides switch. If shovel person successfully blocks, they have torun to the top of a big dirt pile my dad on the lawn, and back, jumpin and touching the net or touching pole if to short. The shooter has to run and retrieve their missed shot and dodgeball hit the shovel runner successfully for a chance to try scoring and negating side switch.... shooter couldnt move till it clearly a missed shot, and shovel blocker cant block the rim by tilting at angles, breaking rule resulted in a free 3 pts to opponent to make cheating seem fruitless. We were 12.
ValenciaDaJuceOrange · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play spy with a YakBak.
We would sneak up to the adults, record their conversation on the YakBak, then take it to a room and listen to it. We would try to understand what was said in the horrible recording and write it down.
soSickugh · 1 points · Posted at 23:06:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Billy Release, a version of hide and seek where the seeker puts each hider they find on a "base", usually a front porch. If someone who hasn't yet been tagged could get to the base, step on it and yell "Billy Release!', all the prisoners were set free to hide again. Meaning the seeker had to find hiders and guard the base too. Really fun!
prettymomma420 · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad made up a game called “Horse Bunk Beak” - it was basically Calvin ball. The rules changed arbitrarily and we all would fight about who was actually winning. It was a lot of fun though and it makes for some great memories to reflect on. My siblings and I are all grown up now and we have a new niece in the family. I can’t wait for her to get old enough to learn how to play.
SemperVenari · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
IRA vs SAS
Two teams in the woods, preferably on a cloudy night.
Hunting each other with torches, if you get caught in a torch beam you're dead. So the trick was not to be walking around with your torch on because you'll be spotted, only switch it on when you think you're on target.
When I think about it now I don't know how someone didn't die
cksyder · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Anti-I-Over
And it looks like Wikipedia has the full set of rules, so no need to explain.
Used to play it on a small garden shed between hour house and our neighbors house.
Ante Over - Wikipedia
Dank_Canadian · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Closet" Me and all my friends would run and hide in my buddies mom's walk in closet to hide from the biggest guy. Then our biggest friend comes in with the lights off and starts swinging and kicking and beating up everyone in the dark.
secondary-spine · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to talk to my best friend in kindergarten/first couple grades on the telephone. We would get our mom's cookbooks and read the titles of recipes we thought sounded really good! I also remember we would take an object and hit another object with it and we would have to guess what was being hit or what we were hitting with. Sounds so silly but I always wonder if she remembers playing these games.
XoloMom · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"garage sale" like other kids play "store"... We went to a lot of garage sales and flea markets in the 70's & 80's, lol!
thinklikeamtn · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Basketman" ... my sis and I would overturn a small wicker basket and place it on top of our little bro's head, who would then proceed to run around the house trying to catch us. So basically tag, except for my brother was always it and that a basket was involved. Looking back, I'm just glad we didn't call him "the wicker man"
le-chacal · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Knife in the Dark" was a game that could only be played during the winter when it gets dark at 4:30 pm. My sister and I turned off all the lights, shut the blinds, and cranked up the radio or John Mayer's Room For Squares album. We had a fake rubber knife from Disney World's Epcot and a toy cap pistol. The knife wielder was given a minute to hide in the house had to creep up on the gunman and stab them. It all was great fun.
zooksoup · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my friends house we would play a game called "Beanie Baby Wars", back in the heyday of beanie babies. We would dump all the beanie babies in his hallway and throw them at each other. But if you got hit in a limb you would lose the use of that limb, hit in the crotch you would lose both legs, and would only die if hit in the head or chest, which after you would reset to normal after 5 seconds. There were times where we would have no arms or legs, and would just lie their throwing beanie babies with our teeth hoping for a quick painless death. Surprisingly no picture frames were broken.
His dad also had a lot of yoga balls, so being smart 8 year-olds, we decided to try our hand at sumo wrestling using the balls as our stomachs on his trampoline (one without a safety net). The game only lasted one round, when we charged at each other, and me being the smaller of the two few 5 feet of the trampoline flat onto my back. Luckily I was not hurt, but we accidentally learned about Newtons Laws of motion that day.
Quercas · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
hall ball
the end of the hall was a solid wood door and there were two rooms on one side of the hall and one room on the other.
All the kids would run from doorway to doorway and the adults would stand down the hall and throw tennis balls at us.
All our aunts and uncles were in a softball team together.
it was good times
NeogeneRiot · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure what it was called but it was sort of like tag but over a few blocks (if your not in america, suburbs use a grid system for streets so like a few streets in each direction and each street was a block) but we had small numbers taped to your back and front and if the person can call the number on you your also it trying to get close enough to people to call there number but rules were no covering up numbers and no going more then like 5 blocks it was really fun especially at dark using a flashlight.
SteveJones313 · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"What do you want to be killed by?"
It needed a minimum of four people to play, with one person serving as the judge. It was an improv game where the judge would as "what do you want to be killed by?" and you had to come up with the most unique/creative method of dying and then act it out. The key was to make it as entertaining and hilarious as possible.
The judge would pick the winner and then that person would become the new judge for the next round.
Gina4462 · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hold onto your tongue and try to say, " My uncle works on a ship and picks up apples."
TheKvothe96 · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends (3 in total) used to play in the schoolyard to be spies/firefighters/summo fighters/bomb defusers/vikings/... We didnt like football. G friend purpose and planned the battles/scenes/weapons and me and J friend did them.
Usually my J friend cried because he wasnt the winner or got the weapon he wanted. XD
Also once we got caught be the enemy (the gurls) and played to be fathers. Drink tea and have babies....
From 6 years old to... 13?
Dadoknez · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My very first game I've ever bought back in 1998 was Dungeon Keeper.
I played that game so much it was never enough for me. The original CD broke inside the computer from so much spinning one night. Took me years later to find it online and with mods and maps added i started my childhood all over again.
A game I will most probably never find something as unique as it was back then.
CuntyMcFartflaps · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We briefly played an unnamed game as friends on camping trips, but stopped when we realised the destructive power of what we had created.
Two teams of 3-10 people stand maybe 30 feet apart from the other. In a field. In the countryside. At night. It's pitch black, and the aim of the game is simply to throw one of the objects at hand, and hit a member of the other team. You have a choice of objects:
4x small light-up balls - you can see them, but you can't hear them
2x Nerf howlers- you can hear them, but you can't see them
1x Football - you can't hear it, and you can't see it, but my god can you feel it.
Ultimately, I guess we remixed Dodgeball a little bit, broke a couple of noses, caused a concussion or two, and all quietly agreed to never play it again. Could have just dropped the football, in hindsight.
ChingChongKingKong1 · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ride to china" Essentially i would go on a piggy-back ride on my brother while covering his eyes. The challenge was to get to the other sofa without falling over. Now this part, makes very little sense so bare with me; We would pretend that the floor was lava, yet my brother pretended to be a giant robot able to withstand the lava. I guess we called it ride to China because at the age of 6 we had no clue what China was like so we assumed it had volcanos and giant robots?
Another game was called "marmalader" where me and my bro would just run away from the vacuum cleaner. Pretty sure we pretended it was marmalader andcwe did know the real name, but I can't remember how stupid I was back then...
mvpmets00 · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hacky Sack Tag. It was literally tag outside running around our neighborhood but with a hacky sack that we would throw at each other. You got hit then you were it. Best part is we would nail people at very close range, it didn't feel good. Fun times though!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pacman
Fssh02 · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
'fling yourself down the stairs'. Pretty much what it says on the tin. BUT, one day we went to some Scottish friend's house, who's kids we were mates with. We introduced them to the game, so now there were 6 of us flinging ourselves down the stairs of a 3 story building with curves in the stairs and everything. It felt like 900CC Rainbow road, with pillows as items. There were pillows and projectiles everywhere. We had to stop because one of their lame kids smacked their head on a laundry bucket at the bottom of the stairs, and my lame brother hit me and hurt his arm. We got a pretty bad roasting and their parents didn't see mine for a good few months after that. Come to think of it, I don't remember the exact name of the game we played. It was a long time ago...
Lothspell · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It would be easier if I showed you on a doll
UnevenDwarf · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game.
aby_baby · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Slow learner". The game involved laying side by side on the trampoline and throwing a tennis ball up into the air and you were not allow to move until it struck an individual or the trampoline. The object of the game was to cause the most pain by balancing precision and peak velocity of your throw. Boys were able to cover their goods. If you dodged a ball then everyone got to "nicely" punch you. If you threw the ball off the trampoline you had to go get it and then lay furthest from the middle.
cramdangler · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little brother and I made up a game called “ball game” You would both start on a trampoline with a net. One player throws it up and if the opposing player can’t catch it, a point would go to the thrower. If you managed to catch it and throw it back into the air it’s now worth 2 points, which can go back and forth up to 5 points. Play to 20. You throw it out of the net no points and you have to retrieve it. We played way to many rounds of this.
We also played basketgolf; start at different “tee boxes” from around the yard, and hit a mini basketball with a bat into a trampoline with net. Count strokes on each hole and add em up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:08:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
On a trampoline we used to play a game we called "steamroller". One person would roll around the tramp trying to knock anyone down, if you fell over and were rolled over by the person you were out. Game was fun asf.
x3Joel · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little Fighter 2
AndrewPlaysPiano · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend in 2nd/3rd grade and I used to have, between the two of us, about six or seven toy swords. A shiny gold plastic broadsword, a wooden one-handed knight sword, one of those flimsy hollow plastic katanas with a sheath, a he-man looking thing that normally made sounds and lit up (though the batteries were long dead and we never bothered to replace them), you know, just a bunch of different toy swords you'd get over the years of visiting toy stores and county fairs and amusement parks or whatever.
Anyway we somehow decided one day to just scatter them across our lawns and put on rollerblades, and skate around the streets duelling each other all day. We eventually came up with powers or attributes for all the swords - this one can shoot a beam, or this one can push people away like you were using the Force, etc.
Some of them were meant to counteract others, and none was the "best". Every time one of us would start to gain the upper hand the other would skate and dive into the grass to grab for the countersword and fight back all dramatically (picture a "hurt" wrestler reaching dramatically for his tag team partner while being submission-held. It looked a lot like that).
The game never had a name, I don't think, but typing the word Countersword right now felt just right somehow, so I'm gonna call it that from now on.
TheBelgianHorde · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fail-drawing
I'd draw something (usually a pokémon), my sister would try to replicate my drawing, then I'd replicate her drawing and so on until it was completely unrecognisable.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I were obsessed with Final Fantasy IX so we would go outside and pretend to be in an RPG with turn based combat and level ups. Different sticks would be different weapons and stuff. And while the enemies were just imaginary, the bosses were things like large trees, cars, gas tanks, etc.
theseaprince · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would pretend to be Lara Croft and go in my back yard to do parkour and had a fake plastic gun when I was 5. Yes, I’m gay.
Infinitewizdumb · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tin can relivio...Can't remember all of the rules. Basically it's a game of tag where you put a crushed soda can in a circle on the ground, and if you tag someone while the can is in the circle then they are "it". If you tag someone but see that the can is out of the circle then you are still "it". You have to put the can back in the circle then go try to tag someone again. I think when someone throws the can out of the circle you have to yell tin can relivio. It was fun
anizwerg · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "mum, can I have some bread with butter" (we were not great with names). One kid would play the witch, one the mum and the remaining children would be her children. So everyone had a certain role. The children would ask the mum, one by one, if he/she could have some bread with butter and the mum would send him/her into the "basement" to get butter. In the basement would wait the witch to "scare" the child. When each child had been to the basement, the children and the mum would take each others hands and dance in a circle singing translated into English something like: "The clock stroke one, but the witch didn't come", "The clock stroke two..." and so on. The witch had then to jump out of the "basement" and catch a new witch.
Let me know, if you know this game. I think it's so weird and it even had a song.
ObjectiveMedicine · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Peeing into hungry hippos' mouths.
teddicallaway · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to play yellow car on road trips. It was really simple. Count up all the yellow cars you see and if you see a yellow hummer and yell out "yellow hummer!" You win and the game restarts.
Pixforyou · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ollie Ollie oxen free” when you couldn’t find someone during hide n seek. That meant everyone had to come out and the game restarted. You didn’t always play with OOOF, but I’ve never heard anyone else say it!
corgamuffin · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t remember this specifically, but my mom likes to tell the story about how she checked on me and my neighbor outside playing a game called “mom doesn’t like us so she locks us in the closet” basically we drew a square “closet” with chalk and would take turns ordering the other one in.
My mom said she was just waiting for a visit from DCFS after he went home and told his mom about it
note: I was never locked in a closet or even remotely abused, and as far as I know neither was he. We just made up some weird shit.
radicalleem · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swing A Ling. Growing up me and my brother lived in Downtown Myrtle Beach(Ghetto as hell), but we lived near a children's park. Often whenever we would play there we would stand on opposite sides of the swing and take turns throwing the swings at each other. The first one to either back up or get hit lost. By the end of my 5th grade summer, half the neighborhood participated in taking volleys.
Iamoscarrrh · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha Haha halo!
invalidsquircle · 1 points · Posted at 23:09:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines is a good one. Hide and seek but one person hides and everyone seeks. Once you find them then you have to hide with them.
Played it a couple years ago (I'm 27) with my cousins where 7 of us where squatting in the walk in shower for about 20 minutes while our 10 year old cousin was looking.
Buttchuckle · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the winkie , I'ma just leave it at that .
pappabosley · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have a name for it, but it was basically a modified game of tag where we would rake the leaves in the yard into a maze (just lines marking walls, we didn't have 3m high piles) and you couldn't tag people over a wall.
Starburned · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I loved Hot Wheels as children. But we didn't just race them, we created a complex society with them. Disputes among them were settle with races. My car, Serpentine, ruled alongside my sister's car, Jet. The first ladies with Americana and Tonka. (Americana was an off-brand car with an American flag on it, and Tonka was a Tonka truck.) We had a big collection of cars, so we rotated some of the citizens, but there were at least 10 main citizens we kept around. As well as the mundane, everyday things, our cars dealt with things like food shortages and political unrest.
Also Cup Wars, which was just us putting plastic or paper cups on our fists and hitting them together until one of our cups was destroyed and the other emerged victorious.
sebrebc · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Who's penis is it now?"
NKHdad · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I invented "The Game" in high school. It basically combines football, soccer, rugby, hockey and handball into one sport.
Rule 1: It can ONLY be played in inclement, snowy weather (so as to equalize athletic abilities). Rule 2: You have to dress like an idiot. Socks over shoes, hooded sweatshirt on backwards, etc. Rule 3: No slide tackling (due to multiple injuries) Rule 4: You have to bounce the ball (typically a semi-flat soccer ball) Rule 5: You can only score a goal with a kick or a header. Rule 6: You can tackle/hold anyone at any time.
There are more game play rules but it is AWESOME. I'm 36 and still yearn to play every time it snows.
TakesOne2KnowOne · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not unique, but I recently realized how ridiculously stupid "follow the leader" is. It's more a test of loyalty than a game.
"alright, timmy stepped in the puddle, now we all have to step in the puddle."
cathef · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
if there was a full set of stairs - we played school. Needed to have at least 3 ppl. One was teacher, others were students. Students started on lowest stair "kindergarten". Teacher would hide a penny in one of her hands. Each student got a turn. If you guessed right you moved up a "grade" which was one stair step higher. If you guessed the wrong hand, you "failed" and had to stay on the same stair step. First one to "graduate" or reach the top stair won.
CockatriceWright · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not one that I played, because I knew it was bad and I was a good kid (which only meant I wouldn't actively participate), but my sister had a game called Beat The Donkey. You throw a shoe at the donkey and then retrieve the shoe before the donkey gets to it. The "donkey" was the front door. So really it just consisted of repeatedly throwing a shoe at the door. From inside the house, of course.
So... I don't personally remember this part, but my parents have recounted the time they were woken up by a mysterious thumping sound that repeated every few seconds. They came into the living room to see what it was, and saw my brother and me innocently watching TV while our sister was in the same room just throwing a shoe at the door.
AnarchyMuffinTop · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This definitely isn't that creative,
but when my little brother first joined school,he got a bag that also included a pack of colored foam letters and numbers.
We would then play this hide-n'-seek esque game,where someone waited in a room while we hid the letters and numbers in wacky places.Then,they would try to find them all.There were logic puzzles,jackpots,criteria, and everything then.
So basically a scavenger hunt,I guess.I TOLD you it wasn't that creative.
confettiqueen · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game called 'Martini' - basically, we'd pretend to be drunk rich white women, at age like, 7. Think what a 8 year old would think real housewives is.
readergal_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to play this game we called sandwich. It involved A LOT of pillows.
We had to get on my parents bed to play this game (because where else are you gonna find pillows??). She would lay face down on bed designating herself as a piece of bread. I would then pile on pillow after pillow, saying things like "This is a piece of lettuce" -plop the pillow down on top of her- "this a slice of tomato" -plop!- "This is a slice of cheese" -plop!-
This would continue with like like salami, pickles, onions, mustard, mayo, Turkey, cheese, ham- basically if we had ever seen in a sandwich, it had a pillow. We'd name condiments until I ran out of pillows to lay on top of her. (Sometimes I got a little aggressive with the plopping, and it turned into sort of a one-way multiple pillow fight, where the other person doesn't fight back- sounded more like a -whumph!-)
At this point, there is anywhere between 10-15 pillows on top of my little sister. You can't physically see her body anymore. With this many pillows, they were stacked so high, that I had to do this sort of running jump/leap thing to even be able to be the "top bread slice". I would basically try to smush her into the bed with her giggling and laughing throughout this entire process! In order to smush her, of course I'd have to wiggle around and try to make the pillows fall. After the sandwich collapsed, we'd switch places and do it all over again.
Only_a_dog · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
German Torture
Two teams - one was the Germans, the other wasn't.
If you weren't a German, you and your team had to come up with a secret word that had the same amount of letters as the team had members (e.g. if there's 5 people on the team you had to think of a 5 letter word) then each teammate was designated one of the letters and everyone ran away.
After counting down, the Germans would then come and find the other team and beat the letters out of them. If they succeeded in finding everyone and getting the letters from them, they then had to work out what the word was to win.
Great fun.
lostinsanity556 · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Appoarch the watch tower. I grew up in rural America. We had this old feed hopper that would only hold half a dozen bushels of corn that we didnt use anymore. Think bucket on legs, about 12ft tell and just the right size hopper to hold a person safely.
At dusk one of my brothers or would crawl up it with a flashlight. Their goal was to spot the other approaching players and then use the flashlight to "tag" them.
The catch was that between the house and the watch tower was just open flat grass yard. So the approaching players would crawl slowly across the yard. If you moved to quickly you were easily spotted. But you needed to move fast since it was a race against the others.
So the game relied on night vision and the color of cloths. Less then a hand full of times someone actually reached the tower, so it was also a "best of" contest.
I wore black hoodie one time and my brothers couldn't see me even though I was a few feet away. Scared them good.
whyamihere94 · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play that I was at Charles Xavier’s academy but I was actually going to classes and acting them out (movies dont show the kids going to class much). Also there was a cafeteria in the school with unlimited Chick-fil-A.
readergal_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gotta have that chick-fil-a!
pinkmoonmilk · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Grandma surprise" My best friend and her younger brother would raid the fridge and cabinets for anything we could find and try and make the grossest tasting drink. Anything edible goes. We would then trade drinks and taste each of them. Whoever throws up first loses.
driedkiwi3 · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play “make the king or queen laugh” and one person sat on the couch and the rest of us were court jesters and we would have to do whatever we could to make the person sitting down laugh. If they didn’t, the next jester would try but if they did, the jester became the king/queen and the other person would become a jester. I was the littlest one in the family and I always felt so cool making my older boy cousins laugh.
Septixcake · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my (back then) friend world pretend that we were magic Cats that had to save the world. I know it sounds stupid but it was a lot of fun
Shy_Cryptic · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rayman 3: hoodlum havoc, spyro a heros tail
owonado · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Childhood
ddnut80 · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I held a pillow behind my head with both hands and bounced around like an idiot. It was called ‘plastic bunny.’ I was 4.
CloudLanding · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a type of horror tag with nerf guns.
The rounds would be generally short and the seeker would have to cover his face with one of those scary ghost masks. Imagine the grim reaper and we would hold like scythe too. Those of us who were being chased each had a nerf gun with one bullet in it and were not allowed to hide in the house, only sneak and run when necessary. So with the lights all turned off, the seeker would have to know when to make loud scary screeching noises and when to be quiet in order to scare us players and catch us. You know those scenes in movies where the monster is on the ass of the protagonist less than arms reach from catching him, well that’s the purpose of this game. To capture that feeling. And it was so fun and terrifying. This would lead to seriously high adrenaline moments where we’d run through the little hallways in the house fearing for our lives. It was such a blast. We’d shove past each other to escape the monster. The one bullet in the nerf gun would be used to to make the monster fall for 5 seconds and allow us to run. But eventually the monster would always win since each player had a Single bullet to use for the whole game. I still remember one of my friends would make us stop sometimes because it was so scary and blood pumping. But we all had so much fun.
bleakbox · 1 points · Posted at 23:12:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
underwater fistfights
DenTheRedditBoi7 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I Actually still play this one. I call it "Kingdom War." Basically you start with a castle, a wall, and a scout on a horse. You draw them on paper. Each player chooses a color. You outline everything you draw on your kingdom with that color. To severely dumb it down it's Clash of Clans on paper. First person who's castle to he destroyed loses. However, even after months, there has yet to be a loser and there are two alliances in the game. I even wrote a book taking place in the fantasy world the game takes place in. What was supposed to be a game me and my cousin were gonna play once did we were bored turned into an ongoing game months later and a book.
SlimeBroSam · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t remember what the game was but there was this one game we’re these monster like creatures chased after you and you had to avoid them. I remember it being like a big city you could run around in and t was on a pc disk. This was like 2006... man I’d love to find that game again lol.
meatpiesurprise · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play "Where's daddy" with the old man? He was very good at it and always won. 30 year champion
kingleviathan29 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In primary school my friends and I would play "Mr whippy" It was basically tag but we used a long sturdy leaf (flax) or a branch, to 'whip' the other people, that's how you got in
swagrag108 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play “don’t let the balls touch you” where you went on a trampoline (net required) with about 5?or more balls and just jumped around trying not to touch a ball, if you touched a ball you would have to roll into a ball and let the bounces move you and other people would try to avoid you
cornelius307 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happiness, man do I miss that game.
KallMeKobalt · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was bored in the car as a kid I would always look out the window and watch the cars go by. I would tap my foot whenever I thought we were at the exact middle of two cars. It got hard when you were out in the middle of nowhere and cars were more sparse.
I would also do this with trees/lamp posts sometimes.
KrspyMemez · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “football biking” it consisted of one or more people attempting to drill someone in the face with said football or make them fall of the bike somehow. It may seem dangerous but it was hilarious and funny for me and my friends.
92ishalfwayto99 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gutter ball we called it. My cousins house was on a slight hill with a curve to the left. We would have one person at the top with a golf ball and the other had to make traps or barricades in the gutter to stop the golf ball getting to the bottom. We would just keep swapping, taking turns who built and who had the ball. Was actually fun.
beehoonjohnson · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lompat Getah
Two people hold up a rope and each person takes a turn trying to pass a certain stage (there are variations on the stages). Ex. you pass level one then the next person gets a chance to pass level one. If you mess up, you have to wait your turn to try again and stay at that stage until you pass. First person to get through all the stages wins.
In Malaysia, the rope is often made with rubber bands since food often comes wrapped up in banana leaves and rubber bands so this is easy to do.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ms&u=https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lompat_getah&prev=search
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMGaBak5fw8
beehoonjohnson · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also this rubber band game where you try to flip your eraser onto your opponents. I think I had every country of eraser.
https://hype.my/2014/32154/10-malaysian-childhood-games-we-love-sometimes-miss/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GOKOZjIPTg
catchmeiimfalliing · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Stumps."
At this weird gifted school i went to once a week they had this new-age "outdoor classroom" thing out front. It was ten large tree stumps in a circle with a stone bench in tbe middle. We called the bench "the Sacrificial Altar" (we were about 12).
At recess we would get 2 dodgeballs or soccer balls and there were 14 people in our class. 10 people on stumps, 2 on the altar, and 2 suckers on the ground. People on the stumps would throw the balls around at each other, and you had to catch the ball or you had to get off the stump. The people in the middle were easiest to hit so you didn't want to be there.
The kids on the ground are in charge of refereeing and going to get the ball when it rolls away. If someone got thrown off the stump you could try to steal the stump, whether to fuck someone else up, get off the ground, or get to a better position than the altar.
TL;DR: we had a game of switching places and hitting each other with dodgeballs that didn't have an end, but had very specific rules.
themoottt · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play bomby sockers. We'd stick two pairs of socks into a sock and wail on each other with them. Great times.
catdude142 · 1 points · Posted at 23:13:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sewer fishing.
We put a bolt on a long string, lowered it down the hole in the manhole cover and tried to snag stuff on it.
No, we didn't touch the string.
Extra points for colored toilet paper!
AFoolishClown · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marvel Rise of the Imperfects, to me that is a great fighting game that has never been like any other I've played. It was fun its story weird but I loved that, all the new characters that no one has done anything with. If you don't know it follows an alien invasion which leaves most Marvel Super heros dead, so new heros are created to fight the heros that have been taken over by the aliens. You do play as some of the Marvel heros. Anyway this was 2005, way before superheros were cool and back when I was still interested. One of my favorite PS2 games. I was 5
Sakores · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During recess my friends and I made up a game called "Sacrifice" where we'd all gang up and try to push the "victim" (they were in on it beforehand though) all the way down the slide, while they tried to break through the wall we inevitably made with our bodies. Mainly worked because our slide set had this bar on the top you could grip onto....surprised no one got hurt lol
SaINtropy · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to tie each other up as much as we could to a chair (think belts, robe ties, shoelaces, christmas tree tinsel, all of the above, whatever) and see how fast we could get out.
No, I do not have a BDSM kink as an adult. He does, tho.
1itt1ewing · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Afraid of Everyone at my Nanny (Grandmother) and Grampy's house. They owned a three story historical home with 17 rooms and two mudrooms. With a set of stairs at the front of the house and another set at the back.
My cousins and I used to use one of the two mudrooms as a home base(starship bridge) of sorts. We'd meet in this bridge to press all kind of imaginary buttons of a space ship and plan voyages.
The whole idea of the game was that we'd start at the base and plot out missions that lead us throughout the house. During these adventures, we had to stay stealthy and not let anyone see us (hence the name Afraid of Everyone.) After we completed our missions, we'd head back to the bridge to report our findings and start plotting out new missions.
Gosh I'm still a little nerd, and this sounds fun to me LOL
*edit typo
ChiefMet31 · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Padidle. One head light cars coming. Had to yell it out and touch the roof of the car first.
Dcoll132 · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
40 Winks for the PS1, no one played it I believe
savicmirna · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The christening" - my cousins and I would chase each other with a bucket/bottle of water and try to "christen one another with holy water". In reality it was just throwing water in someone's face for hours. Good times! No pagans left behind.
username_been_taken · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My old school had a playground with a fence right by the road, and we watched for cars from one end and ran from them. Good times
wingsfan64 · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "kick it over the fence game"
In elementary school we would grab as many of the recess balls as we could after lunch and go over to the baseball field. We'd split up, half of us on each side of the tall backstop, and punt the balls back and forth. It was cool to catch a ball that came over, but there weren't any points or anything like that. Just constant kicking and running
-chrisandrews- · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played some math game with a water droplet. I have such fond memories of it but I can't remember what it was called.
friggindoge · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Invisible Men" we would flail around pretending to beat up an endless stream of invisible men. It would end when we got tired and the one who imagined they beat up the most would win.
guudetama · 1 points · Posted at 23:14:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother, sister, and i would play what we called "karate king" for some reason. basically we would grab pillows and hold them like shields, then body slam each other as hard as we could and if we knocked a person down then we became the karate king, then in order to become king you have to knock the king down. i have no idea how we decided who actually won.
gutsusa123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this with my friends, we used to call it "buttkick" You walking and chilling around until someone sneaks behind you and kicks your ass with just as much strength he wants to, unless you manage to "counter strike"him. Just do a spining movement to wich almosta always end with your fellow agressor being kicked in the ass or hips
ravespiderman · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“No daddy No” I forget what movie it was but me and my cousins saw a movie where one scene was someone talking on the phone to another guy and over the phone you heard “NO DADDY NO” and then the sound of the kid getting hit,
So we pretty played hide n go seek in the dark but whoever was searching had a wooden plan and would pretty much just swing it around trying to find people and if you got hit they wouldn’t stop until you said “no daddy no” It was some great times back then
dustofstarzzz · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My personal spy game at around age 7 or 8. We were "spies" but the only object was to get from one room to the other without anybody seeing us. It was so thrilling. We'd sneak through the whole house and outside near the pool and have goals of getting from one area to the other with our make believe spy gadgets. One time we pretended to my mom that my friend had gone home and the goal was to get her all the way back into my room. I set up a chain of stuffed animals to hide behind. We failed! 😂
DankQuasar · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "night ball", in which a team threw a ball over a house to the other side, and that team had to get the ball back to where it was thrown from. You couldn't be sure which way they'd go, and it inevitably ended after 10 minutes or less when someone would get hurt, because there was a lot of tackling. One friend's house was ideal for it, as you can't fully run around most houses...
RichEklund · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark. Exactly like hide and seek, but in a pitch black basement. 😃 We would put blankets over the windows to ensure it was pitch black.
Dragnskull · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mustang"
Me and my friends in highschool created this game, its essentially slugbug, but with mustangs. this was early 2000's and you could easily count 50 mustangs in a 15 minute drive. everyone would keep their eyes peeled for a mustang to appear because if you didn't, your arm was going to be hurting by end of the trip, we didn't go light on each other (sometimes).
We made a twist- "banana mustang", if you found a yellow mustang it was worth 2 punches.
mus_maximus · 1 points · Posted at 23:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game of "Guys" started off simply enough: me and my brother would dump out our bins full of toys and action figures, arrange them in lines, and have epic battles. The problem is, this inevitably devolved into arguing. My brother would take all the "good" figures, like the full team of Power Rangers, while I would make up bullshit "powers" for mine, like suddenly Princess Leia could blow up the planet.
Through an infinite amount of afternoons spent yelling at each other, we eventually managed to cobble together a primitive, action-figure-based wargame, complete with home countries and statistics. Most of this has been lost to time, as we never wrote it down, but it was necessary at the time. Dramatically so.
Also, we never came up with a better name than "Guys".
dankmeister64 · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knockdown wrestle. My dad would sit in the floor and we would run at him and knock him down
Jaxgirl227 · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thank you for this question. I don’t want to post my specific “game”, but I just spent a delightful 1/2 hour reminiscing with my sister. 💕
sniper459 · 1 points · Posted at 23:16:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Never had a name, but my sister and I would play a game whereby one person sausage rolled up and down the bed. The other would have to jump over them. You could swap direction at any point while rolling. Aim was to trip the other one up. Passed the time till our parents yelled for jumped on the bed.
Funny story we broke the mattress so bad that one night a spring burst through and punctured my dad buttock, resulting in a trip to minor injuries 😂.
Also who can forget the weekend, where you head to a store gran a box, and slide down the stairs in it. Hours of fun and no ever got hurt somehow!
razerzej · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
While a passenger in a moving car: the moon jumps over the telephone poles.
SlappyTheDestroya · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ya boy played ultimate spiderman. Theres no game like it
bonesy42 · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy Sticks
tgags123HD · 1 points · Posted at 23:17:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if other people play this as well, but the "blow dart game." We used to play it at summer camp. How it worked was if you made eye contact with someone, and put your hand up to your mouth a blew (like you were blowing a blow dart) they had to sit down for 10 seconds. If you anticipated it coming, you could block it by covering your throat with your hand. The point of the game was to get the best and most creative blow dart "kills" that you could. It's kind of similar to the "Circle Game" now that I think about it. I've been working at a different summer camp the past 3 years, and I've tried to introduce it to the other counselors and play with them, but it never really catches on :/
Galaxyisnotgay1 · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the chromosome
ZeemTheDream · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the pickle with my uncle
gabe_lynch · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it wasn’t really a game, but when we were little me, my sister, and our friends would have races going down the stairs sitting on/in a pillow (picture sitting on top of a pillow but with your legs actually IN the case part). So, my best friend and i were racing, and needless to say, there was an injury. my friend was riding the pillow, flying down the stairs. But, at one of the last steps, he tried stopping himself by shoving his feet down into one of the stairs, but momentum had already built up, causing him to fly foreword headfirst towards the ground at the bottom. he tried breaking the fall using his arms, which, of course, broke one of his arms... i still remember him holding it up to show us and seeing his (sideways) “S” shaped forearm. good times lol
CesspoolWorld · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if there’s another name for this game, but we called it mongaloo. It was a form of tag. You play on a four square court. The defenders had to stay on the lines. 1 person can move on the middle line horizontally, 1 on the back horizontally. And the tapper vertically up the middle line. The other team tries to get their people all the way across and back without getting tagged. It could expand to multiple squares. That was tons of fun.
megamartinicus · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Half Life
natehad01 · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hi Q.
SteveSellers72 · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I live in the US so as a kid I used to play a game called “school shooter” and the first person to point out the school shooter got a point.
Wild_Knight · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
British bulldog. Curby.
boat-dog · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called twisty ones
tranquillian1 · 1 points · Posted at 23:18:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A playground game that had apparently been played for years by previous "generations" and as far as I know, unique, but I'd like to be told otherwise! UK primary school.
Game was called Yoggit. Team game, two teams of varying amounts of boys/girls. Object of the game was to throw (yog) a tennis ball as hard as you could from behind the "baseline" of your side of the playground over to the opposite side in the aim of it being fast enough/far enough/accurate that nobody on the other team would manage to catch it from behind their baseline. The distance you threw from was agreed on based on how good a thrower you were. I happened to be among the best of the lads, me and my mate Robert, had to throw from an extra 3ft behind the baseline. Without meaning to be sexist it was often the case that the girls would be let forwards up to the halfway line to throw, apart from Jemma Hall who could throw "as good as a lad"... Extra points given for a one handed catch.
Played it most break times when I wasn't busy trading Pogs or competitive flick-frisbeeing my collection of Smartie lids epic distances with just a flick of my index & middle finger... Anyone else do that? My dad showed me how to with milk bottle caps when I was little but smartie caps were brill for it, get some arm power behind them and they fly for huge distances.
Chrisstorey · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let me introduce you to “Midnight Madness” my three brothers and I would sneak down to the garage at midnight, turn off all lights and start throwing punches at who ever you you could find. Got to the point where we blind folded each other during the day just to play. Which turned into us just having fight club with the neighborhood.
Pineapplebuffet · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
EHT extreme house tennis it wasn’t really tennis at all
FunaxOn · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Color cars” we would play it in the, well, car. Everyone playing would choose a car color, and count how many times they see a car of that color until the game ends or until we reach the destination.
If you choose black, gray, or white, you were gonna win.
McLovinsFakeID · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pass the Pigs
hudson593--- · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava Monster, the person who was it got to pick two colours on the playground and they could only touch those colours (you couldn't choose the base colours of the playground), and you would have to tag everyone.
Stacks493 · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
Brickman274 · 1 points · Posted at 23:19:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Lego City adventures" I grew up as a single child with my mom working most of the time. After hw, getting tired of playing mario kart 64 for the 1K time.... I would use the city of Legos I built to mame stories that would last about a week. They would go from Bionicles wreaking havok Transformers style, to Spider-Man saving people, to local crime vs police. I never wrote anything down, but I would keep things in place while I thought about where to with the story. I would sound a bit crazy talking for the characters, but it would pass the time pretty well. I rarely had friends over and my cousins wouldn't like playing with them as I did, plus I didn't like their inputs at the time (I was/am? an asshole), but man wraping the story up was always fun.
svjeepgurl · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up somewhere where we got a lot of snow. We would trampled down paths in our backyard that could get waist high. Then we would put our hands inside our snow pants, get our jackets on, and run around trying to knock each other over. Lots of fun.
cacarrizales · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Floop game. Basically, we always though that the guy Floop from "Spy Kids" looked weird, so we would play a modified version of tag in the back yard where one of us would become Floop and chase the others around the yard until they were tagged.
beferney · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game we called Sardines.
We played in my friend’s basement during sleepovers. It’s basically the opposite of hide-and-seek. Turn off all the lights and one person hides. Everyone else has to find them. You’re walking around in pitch black trying not to bump into something, talking to your friends.
When you do find the person you don’t say anything, just be quiet and hide with them. The other people realize you’ve stopped talking, so they try to remember where they last heard you and try to find both of you... all until there’s one person alone and everyone else is hiding.
XHyp3rX · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pajama Sam.
m1cr0wave · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not really a child at my 20's but i still remember "Fate: Gates of Dawn" which was pretty unique. It was some kind of RPG with cities and dungeons and wilderness, being the 'good old days' there was no map, except the one you'd draw yourself during your journey. You could have like 4 parties of 7 characters and move them around independantly. For some tasks/quests/riddles you'd need multiple parties to e.g. open some door in dungeon.
Was great back then, i think it was for Amiga.
wikipedia link
ronniewhitedx · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad use to put me in a cardboard box and picked me up emulating the experience of flying through the air. Idk kinda weird thinking back on it.
yousonuva · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will never be seen but
Stuffed Animal Dodgeball
Me and my brother would dissect one half of a room with an invisible line in the center that you couldn't cross. At the back of each of our side would be lined with a formation of stuffed animal ammo. Taking turns, you grab a fluffy and run up to the line and throw your shot at your opponent while on defense you ran as far back as you could in order to dodge the attack.
If you catch the attacking shot, you get to return that shot plus your regular attempt.
rhm54 · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock School - One person was chosen as the "teacher" while all the other kids sat on the bottom step. The teacher would hold their hands behind their back and put a rock into either their right or left hand. Then they would hold both hands in front of them and let the class guess where the rock was. The students who choose correctly went up a step and a grade level. This who chose wrong stayed put. The one who graduated first was the new teacher.
souredmilks · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was in a friends car with her and her family, and a yellow car passed us on the road. my friend yelled banana and I was utterly confused- her and her family would look out for yellow cars and if you spot one you’d yell banana and get a point. it was fun, and I began joining in and also playing the game with my other friends.
There was also this game I played with my cousins called ‘murder in the dark’- basically it was extreme form of hide & seek, in the dark, with no safety base. get caught, you’re a murder as well, you just have to be the last person hiding and you win.
melyscariad · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this game that I would play in the car as a child while we were driving places. I would pretend that there was a swinging tarzan like character and I would watch it swing from branches to streetlights and signs, creating it's path in the fast moving world. It seemed so real to me at the time, imagination is a crazy thing.
leaveitinutah · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “The Crocodile Game” on the stairs to our basement. The stairs led to a hallway, but you had to round a corner to get to the main living room in the basement - the hallway basically teed at the end of the stairs.
One sibling would be designated The Crocodile, and they weren’t allowed to crawl higher than the fourth step up from the bottom of the stairs. Above that was safe for the other players. The Crocodile would round the corner and hide in the basement living room while the rest of us crept down, one stair at a time, hearts pounding, and at the perfect moment the Crocodile would jump out from behind the wall and try to tag people before they could reach safety.
The suspense we’d experience when the crocodile would wait until you had your nose clear around the corner of the living room wall...
Sack-of-bean · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My moms favorite film is twister and I used to watch it with her a lot so my friends and I made a game out of it. Basically, every time it was even slightly windy out we had to run as fast as possible to grab onto a fence or part of the playground so we wouldn’t be blown away. If we didn’t get to something quick enough then you had to spin in circles as fast as possible till you fell over because the ‘twister’ had you. Then after the wind stopped we would all sigh and say “we’re in the eye of the storm”.
enriqed · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in grade school, I had an ESP game with a much older kid on the school bus. One of us would think of a shape (square, circle, or triangle) and the other would have to guess what the shape was.
This would happen whenever we encountered each other on school grounds or the bus. His ESP was hit or miss, but I always guessed correctly. He couldn't believe my mental powers and I, on the other hand, was pretty proud of myself.
Years later, I dawned on me that he may have just been humoring me.
TheBostonDParty · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Acorn fights. Collected an entire wheelbarrow full of acorns and whipped them at each other.
IceFury4real · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin used to look out the window and see who could spot a dinosaur first.
We never did.....
1forNo2forYes · 1 points · Posted at 23:21:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wire ball”
Two person game. One baseball and a set of power lines. Lowest wire is a single, next wire is a double, next is triple, and top is home run. If you miss the wire and the player on the other side catches the ball it’s an OUT. If you miss and they don’t catch it is a “strike”. If you hit the wire and they catch the ball it’s an out. Hit the wire and they miss the ball you player is on that base.
LeonneRose · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind alligator or blind old man. You had to hide in the closet with a blind fold for about thirty seconds while everyone else hid. You could only catch someone by grabbing them. The difference between old man and alligator was you had to be on all fours if you were an alligator. Additionally my little sister and most of her friends are thespians so you could expect a lot of "get off mah lawn" in funny accents or a bunch of growling.
Dramacydal-21 · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crash Twinsanity is dope
spirit_starfox · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Name That Band" while driving with my dad. His truck didnt have a tape deck or cd player so whenever a song came on the radio the first person to be able to name the band who played the song got a point. Whoever had the most points at the end of the drive won. Short or long drives it was something we always played. We all got pretty good at recognizing songs/bands with in the first couple notes.
Qwaga · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would play feet fight, except not where you push your feet together. No, we would get into the position like we were going to, except we would just kick each other. No groin hits and no using hands. Everything else is fair game.
JustSomeRamblings · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would be the ones to pick up our dog's poop in the back yard - we'd do this once every two weeks or so, and so there would usually be a bit to pick up, and we had to search for it.
One day, we were bored. We decided to take the plastic bags of poop and see how far across the yard we could skip the bags. This ultimately led to the bags ripping, and we couldn't double our work, so the game then became seeing how high we could fling the plastic grocery bags of poop.
We have trees.
When the first bags got stuck up there, we decided to fling some more up there, to try to knock them down. Didn't work. In fact, the exact opposite happened - the tree had more ornaments now!
Our house is on a hill, and our back yard faces the direction one comes up the hill. One weekend, on our way back from church, my brother and I were playing in the back seat, and my dad says, "What the hell is in the tree?"
We go silent.
Eventually, they get it out of us. We got sent to our room, to "think about what we'd done." We found out later that my dad had sent us to our room and he had gone to his because he had to laugh so hard.
Keddycat · 1 points · Posted at 23:22:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived in the countryside and we had a field next to our house and the grass would grow tall. My sister and I would make paths by crawling through the grass and make little bases. The field was big enough for us to make quite a network.
rschwa · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I made up a game that we literally named Pain and Misery.
He had a trampoline with a net around it. I’d sit in the middle with a bucket of tennis balls and throw the tennis balls at him as hard as I could.
That was it.
Icedearth6408 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A childhood friend that lived in my same apartment complex, and myself made a d20 system turned base combat game with Star Wars action figures. It was an Empire vs Rebellion thing. This was back in the late 90s when the Kenner line was reborn.
Essentially we assigned various stats to each figure, vehicle, and ship and had DnD like modifiers for d20 rolls. For damage we used d12 for ships, d10 for heroes (Vader, Han, etc), d8s for vehicles, d6 and d4s for infantry depending on weaponry. It was truly fun and a game we played all the time. We would always get excited with each new line of toys and would spend our allowance money on them.
We of course would act out the battles with the action figures too.
Trackgirl123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play "Helicopter." We would hold hands, spin around in a circle as fast as we can and then just let go. We would do this outside in our front yard. I'm sure our neighbors thought we were just dumb. 10/10, would reccomend.
dirkofdirges · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would shout directly into each others ears until they went all tingly. Like reverse ASMR. Neither of us has hearing damage as far as I know.
Also, a friend and I would play "Mountain Lion Hunting" which involved us stalking his 2 cats and trapping them in bags or boxes. They quickly learned to hide when I came over, which only made the game more engaging.
TheBearDew · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle used to play a game with me but I’d rather not talk about it...
sataniksantah · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made my own board game using my baseball cards. I would make my own teams and set up the baseball field. I would used tiny balled up paper for a baseball and pitch it to my batter, and hit the ball with their card. I would move the carts around the bases depending on the hits For some reason my dream team always won. Probably because I'm a genius.
MjMartin897 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Crawlers. It's exactly what it sounds like. But no blankets.
Navalniy2018 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
a fuckin "SAS" game about iranian embassy
EvenGayerWombat · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock Roulette. You gather a bunch of rocks, throw them into the air, then run around in circles hoping not to get hit.
Also blackjack but with new rules made up as we went along. Resulted in things like getting stuck in old potato salad and not being able to do anything for a bit and having to chase a mailman to get a lottery card.
hazymeeger · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goldilocks — at least this is what I called it! It’s basically an intense version of hide and seek. In one spot of the house, there’s a “base” (let’s say a big bean bag). One person is seeking, everyone else hides. You have to make it to the base without being touched and can’t hide within a certain vicinity of the base. If you’re the last person to get touched, you’re the seeker the next round! We’d shut off every single light in the house and play this as a family, or with friends. We’ve even still played it as adults and my nieces/nephews all love it.
Probably isn’t exceptionally unique, but it felt like it was to us.
liahkim3 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child so I would get bored. Sometimes I would throw a ball as hard as I could at a wall and try to catch it. Also, I would try to spy on people without them knowing it.
niceboy4431 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scrolling through to see if anyone has said Earthbound...
whalesandwine · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if it was unique but we played cricket 🏏 on road trips. On coming traffic was the “ball”. Each car that past was one run, a truck was 6. ( if I remember) and a red car meant you were out. Kept us entertained for hours.
Oxolomew · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"People and Cars Can't See Us". I know the name could be a lot better, but hey we were 9.
I live in a place that gets a fair amount of snow. Every few years, we get a few good 12"+ storms. After the snow plows would come by there would be large banks of snow on the sides of the neighborhood roads. We started by just laying behind them any time we heard a car or saw a person. Soon we got the idea to dig trenches or cavities behind these snow banks so we could hide even better.
The first month or so, it was just my yard and my friends yard. After a month of walking up and down the block in our snow gear we wanted more. That's when we started digging trenches in our friends yards.
Soon enough we were walking, running, jumping, hiding and laying in the snow throughout the neighborhood and even in the nearby community college parking lots.
Sometimes we would just lay in the snow long after the car or person had passed just talking about whatever kids talk about. We would laugh or even occasionally be silent just staring up at Midwest winter's sky.
There was no score, there was no winner. It was simply about just running around the neighborhood not caring about cold or snow just for a thrill and some companionship.
Edit: spelling
133112 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
At 4-5, my sister and another kindergartener would show each other their butts on the school bus.
Greenfingers9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My ex and her cousin played a game they called “TRAP” and it consisted of putting things such as army men, nails, bottle caps, etc. on the stairs and then turning the lights off and waiting for the older cousin to walk down said stairs.
altheaton · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but my brother and I would hold an annual "Peep Jousting" tournament around Easter time. Two peeps, each with a toothpick stuck in them, would be placed on opposite ends of a plate and put in the microwave. First peep to get stabbed by expanding onto the opponent's pick loses.
bennnyb3 · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would all stand around a ceiling fan and throw a ping pong ball into it, making it shoot off in different directions. We each had 3 lives and if the ball hit you, you would lose 1. If you managed to catch the ball then you could take a life off another player.
Last one standing wins and gets to throw the ball at everyone else’s bare skinned back.
skttrbrain1984 · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“You guys wanna play bottle game?”
Run around in the yard throwing an empty 2 liter bottle at each other as a game of tag.
DebateSquad · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goat. Basically like Octopus except the person in the middle is the "Goat" and everybody else is on a team against them. The team had to survive a specific number of rounds to win. If you got caught by the Goat once you got a "Curse" which wasn't very bad and would only affect you for the next round (e.g. hop on one foot for the next round of you're out). The second time you got caught you were given a "Deal". You could take it or be out. "Deals" were much worse. They had to have a trigger effect (e.g. when this person does this, this happens or do this), the impact of the trigger had to affect the entire non-Goat team that did not exceed four rounds (e.g. everyone must run backwards for four rounds) and the person receiving the "Deal" must not tell their team what it was or the Goat would win. Most people would just decide to be out after being caught a second time because being caught a third time would trigger a "Council". Once a "Council" was triggered, the person receiving the "Council" would remain in and everybody left on their team would be out. A "council" must be taken. Fourth time a player was caught they were out (which would logically give the Goat a victory because in order to be caught a fourth time you would have to be the last person in). The non-Goat team would try to keep as many players as possible because in the final round all the people who were out would join the Goat's team and win if the Goat won. If you were caught in the final round, you were out no matter what. My friends and I had multiple variations of this game but we eventually settled on these rules.
tallformyheight1976 · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"That's your girlfriend"
It was a teenage game between my best friend, his older sister, and I. The first one to see someone really unattractive got to call out "that's your girlfriend", and won until the next ugly person came along.
100aliens · 1 points · Posted at 23:24:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friends and I would have spinning contests during lunch/recess, everyone would start spinning around and whoever kept spinning around the longest without stopping or falling over would win haha
Nemrodh · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
from 16 plus me and my friends played a game called T-hunting.... >.>
Itz_rice · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstik+Hockey legit what you do is you play hockey on the ripstiks. The goal is where the bar is in between the to places where your feet go
BrogsDude · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the salami in the dark.
alwaysonthedamnphone · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I used to play a game where we used crayons as characters. They were all named after their color.
ProbablyTooLate2 · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runescape
IAmYanni12 · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The shaddow game. We would jump in a circle around the trampoline and jump over other people's shadows. If you landed on a shadow you're out. The strategy was to get others to land on your shadow by moving when they were in the air.
kiteska · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hentai games
robotco · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"No Warning"
3 or more friends sit in a circle around a room and pass a throw a felt marker around. there were penalties for dropping the marker, but i don't recall them now. the crux of the game was that at any point after one full revolution, the thrower could shout "No warning!" and chuck the marker as fast as he could at someone's face. penalties for the thrower if the catcher caught it. there was a whole tonne of rules involving singing and hitting or other things.
"Squared Box"
this was essentially just an imagination exercise. took one piece of paper and drew a line so it's divided in half. the first person has to draw something, then the second has to draw something in response to what the first drew. sometimes the drawings fought, sometimes they just went and had dinner or off to bed or something.
ActuallyPurple · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"If I were a ninja" in the car. Jumping from streetlights to the top of the buildings in the horizon, because that's what ninjas do.
Fire_x_Ice · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my little brother used to play "Zoids" where we would each ride our bikes and road rash style kick eachother while we were pedaling for all we were worth trying to dismount the other. We would also try to throw sticks at each others wheels too, it resulted in a lot of bloody knees and a few scrapes and bruises. And my bike being totaled by bent spokes and a busted handlebar. After one of us were dismounted we would proclaim ourselves the winner.
Zoids was a japaneese anime that was kind of big at the time.
SleeplessShitposter · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Before I ever realized you could "extend" songs, whenever I would go to my grandma's house I would try to sing the Scooby Doo theme or the Imperial March for as long as I could without finishing it. Actually challenging when you're not musically aware in the slightest as a kid.
kysaleea · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Green Sign”. When on the highway me and my biological father would try to find all of the green signs before the other, hence the name. There was no real point system, you just had to find the sign first. One of the nicest memories I have of him.
wreck3d · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother were competitive growing up so in the pool I would get on my brother's shoulders then he would ask me a trivia question and if I got it wrong he would slam me into the water. We switched places and tried to see who could stay up the longest.
jonaskall · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Narnia, the first one, on ps2. And over the hedge on ps2
Jellybotemi · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ping Pong Wars”. Basically, we would all take a paddle at shoot ping pong balls at each other until they can’t handle the pain and then they’re out.
Roger-Fedoraer · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had these spy sensors that triggered an alarm when you passed in front of them. We made a game where you had two teams. One team hid the sensors through the house and the other team had to make it from one end of the house to the other without setting the alarms off.
TorgoTheWhite · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sam and Bob"
Me and my brother would play this. It was pretty much any other game, such as cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers, but one of us would be named Sam, and the other would be named Bob.
Neither of us are actually named Sam or Bob
hovopotter · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game we invented in grade school called Freeze Man. It started as a way to keep warm during breaks in winter (just keep moving but if you stop moving you're 'frozen' and can't move until another player tags you) but over time we developed many different versions of it until we settled on Freeze Man 6.
In Freeze Man 6 there was a certain person who runs around and tries to tag people. If you're tagged, you have to stand still until another player tags you again to free you.
The third time this happens, you lose all your 'lives' and have to join the taggers team. The game ended when all but one person was on the taggers team.
When the game ended, everyone gathered around the original tagger in a circle. The original tagger then had to close his eyes, spin around and randomly point to a new person who was going to be the tagger next round.
We played this basically every break for at least 3 or 4 years.
GungHough · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Medusa. If the "It" person looked you in the eye, you had to freeze. I don't remember how it ends, I'm still sitting here waiting to get unfrozen. Also, we played magic carpet rides for hours on end. Lot's of blankets on the floor and anything in the house that could move was on our magic carpets along for the ride. We also had these large round moving containers and we would roll around in the basement and bang into each other, or play chase. I remember lots of squished fingers.
Yotsubauniverse · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my twin sister and I watched Dragon Tales when it got to the part where Emmy and Max would wish on the Dragon Scale we'd dive behind the arm chair because we pretended it was a nuclear bomb.
JeezusChrise · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just saw a road trip game so adding on to that, we would try to predict certain number or letter in the license plate in front our car
reklaw28 · 1 points · Posted at 23:26:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate freeze tag The tagger is given a ball called the nuke if you get hit by the ball you become a tagger
If the tagger hits someone or drops the ball the ball is given to the people who aren't the tagger
The goal is for the tagger to make everyone a tagger
All other freeze tag rules apply
pizzaredditor · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lucky bone. I never really understood it so when the other part of the bone was on my hand, I would instantly (and propositally) break it out.
djinagrujic · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bud Redhead - The Time Chase 🤗
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle night fever. Every saturday at 3 a.m.
E_l_T_i_g_r_e · 1 points · Posted at 23:27:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"broom ball" - essentially soccer but instead of a soccer ball it was a dodge ball and instead of kicking the ball you wacked it with a broomstick. 2v2 and usually ended in full on broomstick swinging battles or our moms screaming at us for bending their broomsticks.
harv0930 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family and I and I assume many other people play "The Game." It's a very simple game and the one rule is: You can't remember The Game exists. This gets very competitive at random moments especially when one person remembers and says it out loud. Once everyone remembers, everyone has lost and The Game resets. My record is 3 years and while explaining this I lost a 3 week streak.
gigiwoodzy · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played belly bumper boys. Basically just wore oversized shirts and stuffed them with pillows and blankets and sumo wrestled. We sang “two belly bumper boys are round on the outside, round on the outside” Inspired by Eminem.
ACM_ONE · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I created a game called, “ one in a million” we would take basketball cards or playing cards and sit on the floor in a room and we would pick a direction and start flinging cards, first I’d go then he’d go. No winners. But if your card got stuck in the blinds or landed somewhere odd, we both would high five and scream “one in a million!”
Destructias_Warlord · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Train - we had those tiny twist car toys as kids. We'd tie them up together and ride as if we were a train.
CuteGerman · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to make potions and spells when we were little. Totally thought it was normal.
Viktor_Quaid · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm the youngest of 4 in my family. My and one of my elder brothers used to play a game called Catapult when I was about 5 years old, for the record he is 8 years older than me.
He would lie on his back and lift his legs up, you would sit on his feet to become the cannonball. He would then outstretch one arm towards me, in which I pulled his arm and he would launch me. We would usually put a bunch of lounge cushions and blankets to land on. There was one time he launched me so hard that I went through one of our windows head first and I fractured my skull.
McYeety · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "how many times can I cum on your mom's pussy"
RedMoFo47 · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cindy go get it. My best friend and I would kick a soccer ball and his youngest sibling, Cindy would go get the ball. We would make up some scoring system and tell her she was winning. 20 years later we try to play this game still but she has caught on when we ask for another beer now.
AimlessGrace · 1 points · Posted at 23:28:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cops and Hobos” it’s not that unique cuz it was basically cops and robbers but with chicken wings.
skinnysam411 · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
True American
HitchhikingCats · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Has anyone mentioned "doorknob?"
wingedmurasaki · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well one friend and I played a game we called Bonkers were we'd shut off the lights in her finished basement, turn around until we got dizzy and then try to find each other by running full tilt at the noise of the other person until we crashed into each other. I am honestly shocked we never broke anything.
Another game that was played at our house (because we had a wooded property) was Mummy Tag. Take an old bedsheet and completely wrap up the person to be It. Spin them around until dizzy and then RUN. You had until the person disentangled themselves to run and hide. So basically like hide and seek but with a variable time frame for hiding.
Mocorn · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As the oldest brother with five siblings I created a game called "the inner sanctum". You would wait until dark one night when our parents were out, locate the main breaker and without warning you turn off all the electricity in the house. Panicked screams would be heard throughout the house and the game was on! The objective of the game would be for the survivors to gang up and form a little tribe. They would equip themselves with pots and pans, sticks and blankets and slowly venture out towards darkness in hunt for the mighty breaker that would bring them light again. This breaker would naturally be found in the darkest parts of the house "the inner sanctum". This meant that I, "the monster in the darkness" could see their shadowy outlines as they inched their way through the pitch black landscape. I would equip myself with wet napkins that I placed on their faces with great care as the bravest of them reached my domains. Bonus points for whispering in their ears and make scary noises right next to them.
If complete mental breakdown occurred I would sometimes turn the light back on and join the crowd as if nothing had happened, but they all knew.
Trolivia · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
« Blink wink » my sister and I were bored on a long flight one time as kids so we came up with a painfully simple game where one player starts the cycle by saying « blink » or « wink ». The other player then does the action while responding with the other command. This goes back and forth until someone screws up by blinking when they should have winked or vice versa, or saying the wrong command. Streaks and speed are the only real goals
We’re adults now and still play
coleopterology · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play “Black Magic” on the playground in elementary school. It was sort of like tag, only the tagger had to keep their eyes closed and the people running away had to stay on the playground equipment at all times. The tagger felt their way blindly around the playground while the runners tried to silently avoid the tagger while not stepping or falling off the playground. If the tagger thought they heard someone touch the ground, they could call out “Black Magic” and whoever was on the ground was now the new tagger. We played this game for years.
DevonLarratt · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had this wooded area by his house and we would all hide there at night while a person with a flashlight tried to spot us before we could run to a safe spot. I forget what we called it.
1234didntwork · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
BMX Top Gun.
My friend and I rode down to a church parking lot on our bikes and pretended to be maverick and a bogey and we’d try to get behind the other, lock on, and fire missiles.
It was rad.
whitesocksflipflops · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I ... went on a boy scout trip from Virginia to Alaska. When I was 12. In a converted school bus. Everyone fell asleep, every single day, except for the driver who didn't like us talking to him, and me.
So to keep myself occupied as we traveled across the great, very very boring plains of the USA and Canada, I took to clicking my teeth with the white lines in the road, sort pretending i was super mario hopping along.
If i hit a line i sang the little 8-bit mario death song and started over.
That's it. That's my game. Cool huh?
Edited words
Zdravstvuyte94 · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego Battles,
This game was on the DS and was by far the most strategic heavy game I had ever played at the time. Playing local games with my friends via bluetooth in school was honestly some of my most treasured moments.
thatgermansnail · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bull fight". My sister and I used to go to opposite ends of the stadium (the lounge) on our hands and knees. We would then paw the ground with our 'hooves' making bull noises before proceeding to charge head first into one another and battle it out until the other opponent conceded.
FeralSparky · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buy as many packs of gum as you can with our food stamps kids so mommy can have the change.
She then bought drugs and cigarettes and we were non the wiser.
For those who dont know, foodstamps used to be a paper currency you would get booklets of every month.
romangio12 · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike tag. My little sister got pretty hurt so mama made us stop. Fun while it lasted tho.
gecko215059 · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played dog fights which was basically us just kicking each other of our bikes
romangio12 · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Haha nice. Ours was someone runs behind the bike tries to snatch us off. Buttttt my sister grabbed the back tire. Her arm went straight into the bike. Got stuck. Skinned her arm. U can imagine the rest. My mom was pissed.
gecko215059 · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I fall off once and broke my knee cap had to hable home, still let us play it Haha
romangio12 · 2 points · Posted at 00:45:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol awesome. Every kid should break something at some point. It's a right of passage.
gecko215059 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
True Haha I just have a fucked knee at 21 but I've been injured by being stupid in a ton of ways Haha
romangio12 · 2 points · Posted at 01:00:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lol I feel u there
gecko215059 · 1 points · Posted at 01:08:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes Haha how was the worst you got hurt
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Body harvest n64
lickmyconspiracyhole · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play survivor with some kids on my street with our Ripstiks on the common road: you had to try and knock people off their boards.
Accidents and crying we're not uncommon, but that didn't deter us from implementing this concept with bikes. Needless to say, this didn't turn out well and we stopped playing the game after a bad injury and an extremely angry mother happened...
CheeseBrick · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game didn't have a title growing up, but as an adult I now refer to it as "don't make noise, the landlord is knocking". We were poor growing up, so if the landlord came knocking we automatically started playing this.
dchen05 · 1 points · Posted at 23:30:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Trying to go undetected by my dad as he mowed the lawn. He had a big loud walk behind mower, and used earphones to block the noise. This and the fact that he was walking back and forth across our big lawn made him the perfect sentry. I would make maps of the yard and try to plan the whole thing out. I would try to get to various points in the lawn. Inside the swingset, behind the big tree, scurry along the rock wall, circle behind the shed. Honestly laying down super still behind an embankment while a this massive chomping machinery came a within a few feet was the most exhilarating thing.
I'd also try to plant tennis balls and soft dog toys in his path (this was prob dangerous, I don't think he liked this part) When the mower ran over the tennis balls it would make an awesome sound and shoot out of the mower at a zillion miles per hour which was epic. This usually put him on high alert and intensified getting caught even more.
The best part is my dad and I never discussed this game. I just started doing it and whenever he'd spot me he'd make finger guns and yell at me as I would run like a maniac.
I also played this game with my a friend and even brought it to his house with his dad (he had a much bigger yard, lots of map variation) great times
leafdeity · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play a game we called 'Swing Ball'. One of us would get on a swing, and the others would toss a ball at them. The objective was to kick the ball as high and as far as you could whilst swinging.
ColdHardTits · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
lego racers 2
my favorite
Qwaga · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older brother played mind computers. We would imagine are brains were computers and we would play games on them and stuff. Then one day my then 12 year old brother got mad at me and told 6 year old me "Mind computers are actually real I just made them up!" and I cried. I don't know why I cried
¯\_㋡_/¯.
penguinmartim · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I used to play “wedding” where we’d marry our stuffed animals, and go on a honeymoon. Then we played adventure cats. Now that I think about it, it was like Warrior cats
shamls · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We built a new house when I was 7 or so and we had to live in a rental house for about 2 months after we sold our original house. The rental house had a creepy basement that was just one big room plus a tiny bathroom. There were nails sticking out of the walls and a pile of rags in the corner. There were some weird drawers under the stairs that were body sized so we would go inside one, slide it shut, and change one thing about our appearance and the others would have to guess.
TheFalseDimitryi · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game of checkers called “4 kings” where we both just started off with 4 kings.
southernwilliwaw · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Granny used to encourage us to play Funeral, where she would lie on the couch with eyes closed and her arms crossed over her chest while we filed past her saying funny things about the “dead” person. I was a mother myself by the time I figured out she was doing it so she could rest for a minute.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sis and i played steam roller. Basically 1 kid rolls back and forth on a bee and the other has to jump over them. If you get steamrolled then ur thr new steamroller and then the other kid gets to jump on the bed.
Skolmanicfan · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Footsketball. 2 teams of 2 each play within their 3 point lines in an indoor or outdoor basketball court (2 hoops is important, and preferably indoors)
One team is on offense and the other is on defense. 1 offense player throws a football within their 3 point line towards the other basket. Between you and your partner, you get 4 downs in each turn.
Offense can score in 3 ways. An extra point is worth 1 point and is successful if it hits the backboard only. A field goal is worth 3 if you hit the rim. A touchdown is worth 7 if you make it.
HOWEVER, if the defender catches the ball off the backboard, rim, or off the wall (or past the hoop if outside) then it results in an interception and 2 points are rewards to the defense. This makes for playing defense a lot of fun as you get to try to catch a deflection (or airballs if you play outdoors)
Outside, our strategy would be for one player to stand behind the hoop to catch easy interceptions and have one facing the hoop to catch defections off the board or rim.
We usually played to a certain number of points, say 50. This game was much better than any game our gym teacher wanted us to play.
cm_fanelli · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“My little moving target” I would chase my little brother around the yard, with a giant 3ft bouncy ball. I would launch it at him while he ran away.
JayJLeas · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alphabet Signs:
We would go on two and a half hour long road trips every holidays, so we would play this in the car on the way. You basically just go through the alphabet and try to find a word on a sign, building or car that started with that letter. It was semi-cooperative, since the whole car shared the alphabet, but it was still competitive as to who got the word first. The words you found had to be real words (not abbreviations or jumbled letters from license plates, although if the license plate spelled a real word you could use that), but place names counted, and for X you could do eX (like exit), since it was practically impossible otherwise.
I still play in my head on trips and aim to see if I can get all the way through before I reach my destination.
nichellelv · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go get 😂😂
micahentwistle · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstick Jousting
We had these long hallways in my elementary school, so we would hop on ripsticks and grab broomsticks. It would be one on one. Everyone else would watch in awe as the two kids crashed into each other hammer eachother with brooms. (there were a few bets involved)
Needless to say there were a lot of injuries, broken broomsticks and angry teachers/parents.
ticktockFUCK · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Tantrum". It was basically your standard Monopoly game, except 15 minutes in my little brother would throw and fit and accuse one of us of cheating, or flip the board because he cheated and was called out on it.
sonomatopoeia · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
(happy cake day btw!)
Me and my sister used to play this game with a bean sack. I couldn't possibly remember the name because it was nearly 10 years ago, but we would bounce the bean bag from hand to hand, smacking it up in the air and hit it over, like a game of tennis. It was so much fun, until the day we broke a glass vase in the living room when we played it there. It wasn't long after our parents banned us from playing it!
It's possibly one of my fondest memories of her, because as we grow into adulthood there's less of our childhood antics. Maybe it's because she's maturing faster than I am to be honest.
GeriatricHeartbreak · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the mailman would play Glowworms in my treehouse.
lpet · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a thing called 'joust' - once yearly event in high school where we'd get drunk and have a jousting competition with bicycles and hockey sticks. It was actually a big event by grade twelve, lots of people, bonfires etc. Was fun.
When I was younger my friends and I made magic potions by just adding anything we saw in the house, kitchen, washroom and putting it in a jar. It was fun to make different potions. Just have been a nightmare for cleanup.
Cibiii · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super late but why not.
Literal translation would be The Blind King. It is similiar to hide n seek, but the Person seeking has to keep his eyes closed. While searching for others. On a wooden castle. Which eventually had to be taken down due to health precautions. I wonder how i never fell through the hole in the floor.
Zozzenator · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid, my friends and I rarely played the usual playground games. We did, however, come up with characters and stories and act them out during break and lunch time at school. We would improvise loads of stories and even come to school the next day and discuss what new things about our characters we'd come up with, backstories and abilities.
After a while we'd switch to other "games" and start again, but we'd still come back to the old ones from time to time.
I guess it explains why I took an interest in writing and acting in later life.
yollyDick · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
WWE trump cards
Takan_123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The quiet game
pumpkinspicebooty · 1 points · Posted at 23:33:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tomato". It was reverse hide and seek. One person hid, while everyone else looked for the person hiding. If you found them, you had to quietly hide with them without anyone noticing. If you're the last one to find them, you hide the next round. I have no clue why we called it "tomato".
chyko9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blind Monster Open Water. My dad would close his eyes in a pool so he couldn't see us, and my sister and I would try to move around in the pool without him noticing, lunging toward us and grabbing us. It takes a fair amount of stealth, especially in small pools. One fun aspect is splashing or throwing objects to distract the Blind Monster (i.e., my dad) from where you really are. Only works in pools with no one else in them or else awkward situations of my dad grabbing random people occurs. Honestly, I'm 22 and we still play it now whenever the family gets together, it's tons of fun!
zook54 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mumbly peg. Two boys, one jackknife.
Aaron_D0ctor · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Monster" was a game we played in my neighbors backyard. My neighbor was 3 years younger than me and an only child. I consider him a second brother and we would play outside together year round for as long as I can remember. We had a couple of other neighborhood friends and I have two sisters.
We usually would have at least 4 people over at a time and my neighbor, being any only child, had tons of toys, especially balls (dodgeballs, foam footballs, real footballs). My neighbor also had a very nice playset area. Pretty spacious and mulched.
So one day we had 5 people over. Myself, my neighbor, little sister, and two neighborhood friends. And we went into my neighbors garage and threw every single ball he had to the back playset, throwing them at each other as any 13 year old would. Once all the balls we could find were out, (about 15) we scrambled to the back and talked about play dodgeball but teams wouldn't be fair given the odd number.
So we made up a game. The game was that all but one of the players had to stay in the mulched playground area. The other single player was the "monster" and could roam about the lawn as he pleased. The balls were then given to the monster and the monster began throwing, trying to hit everyone in the mulched area. From then on out it was like a 1v4 dodgeball with lopsided boundaries. The playset is obviously confining to begin with and with 4 people, it was cramped. The Monster got the whole lawn to roam. The playset had nice cover but in order to get a good angle to throw, they had to stand on the edge of the mulch.
The game was super fun and surprisingly well balanced for the two sides. We played this game constantly during the summer, coming up with variations as we went along but always went back to the original.
wreckedjohnsons · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the hot dog with my uncle Carl
Eirian84 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I got an inflatable beach ball from a "concert" one time. It wasn't even that big, about the width of my tiny shoulders. But we had massively steep stairs (if you've ever been in a Victorian Era house, that was the type of stair grade we had) with an enclosed staircase. I'd stand at the bottom of the stairs for hours basically playing one-man volleyball with this thing, batting it up the stairs, waiting for it to bounce and come back before hitting it back up. I was absolutely gutted when it finally got a puncture hole in it and died a noble death.
Claxton916 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pinball Wizard. During summers I was in a program through school where we'd do fun activities and shit and one of the counselor guys would chuck a bouncyball as hard as he could in the gymnasium. It was an elementary gym so it was the size of a basketball court plus 2 or 3 feet and had no bleachers so it was a box and the 2 hoops. The bouncy ball would bounce on everything and 15+ kids would chase it down. Fun times.
enitefis · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Conker fights, I don't know if this is a unique game or not though.
We would pick up conkers and tie them to a string, then we would take turns in wacking our opponent's conker as hard as we can. Last conker standing wins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmCuLrkyXB8
sneakybeans2 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beat off without getting caught by mom.
EddHadley · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline Rugby, as it sounds we used to have one of those large circular trampolines in our garden as kids and used to play 2v2 rugby on it. Being tackled mid air off the trampoline and falling to the ground hurt... A lot. Obviously there wasn't a safety net around it 15 or so years ago.
I grew up on a farm and this was one of the safer games.
CBJFAN38 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ball tag” played on my hockey rink we’d basically shoot dodge balls at each other with our sticks while on the rink. Pretty simple
cookeie · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wamp. Pronounced wahmp, this was a variation of tag where the “it” person had to keep their eyes closed or was blindfolded and had to try and tag people. But, if they heard someone on the actual ground around the playground, they would yell out wamp and if anyone was on the ground they were the new it person.
Couchrider99 · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game which we called "Indiana Jones". This game was spurred from our love of the movies and specifically the scene where Indiana Jones has to run from the boulder in the tight hall way. I had an old trundle bed in the corner of my room and my brother and I would pull the extra bed out and but a ton of bouncy balls at one end of the cavity created underneath the bed. The goal was for one of us to climb under neath the bed and pick the right ball and crawl out while the other would slowly push back in the spare bed kind of like a closing hallway which would squish you.
WormRepublic · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a couple of friends built a badass lego city in school, and we kept playing with it every recess. We had names and traits and backstories for most of the characters, and it was so much fun. I really miss the way I could get so into something.
Then when the semester was over, the teachers wanted us to disassemble everything, so at the start of the semester we always had to pretend the lego people had had to evacuate the old city and reestablish a new one.
God, those were the fucking days. These days I'm just a depressed mess :(
ealwardt · 1 points · Posted at 23:34:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game we made up called “Horse.” (We were like 8,6, and 5 yrs old at the time.) But one person was the “horse” and they had to crawl around on all fours while the other two tried to put a blanket over them and wrestled the “horse” to the ground. In reality it’s a game we made up to beat the living hell out of each other.
PrettyCreative · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I at the bus stop on rainy days would pick out the best blade of grass we could find. The water rushing on the curb into the runoff drain was a perfect "mini river" with "rapids" that ran for about 100 feet. Obviously whichever blade of grass made it into the drain first won.
BuisnessAsUsual123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents introduced my brother and I to carrot crunching competitions, which I only recently realized were just a way to get us to eat carrots.
aprildean · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The HA-HA game. Everyone lies on the floor with their heads on each other's bellies. One person starts with a "HA!" (which bounces the person's head that's on his belly). The next person goes "HA! HA!" and it keeps going until everyone's heads are bouncing and everyone is laughing uncontrollably.
atypicalmelody · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monte’s Maze
GandhiOnFire · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Wood chips. Get a group and go to a playground. Someone was "It" and had to try and catch others while blindfolded. Could yell wood chips to get someone out if on wood chips. 30s cooldown on calling wood chips. Very fun.. Very brutal..
aquinastick · 1 points · Posted at 23:35:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Glow Stick Challenge
Teams of 2 or 3 would line up about 50 yards apart in the street. Playing at night in a neighborhood there'd be no cars. The goal was to knock over a standing glow stick in the other team's end zone by skidding other glow sticks along the ground. Like skipping a stone.
You couldn't move on offense, only on defense. You could attempt to block the skidding stick with your feet and run to it, but not when you were throwing.
We'd play for hours, but poor high school burnouts would run out of money to buy more glow sticks
JediAcademyBaseball · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would go to the side of our house (two floors with a steeply pitched roof) and throw the ball on the roof and have it roll back down. The goal was to get as close to the top as possible without going over. Hitting the top shingle was 10 points, the next row was 9 and so on down to zero. If the ball hit the chimney on the roll down and bounced left (toward the vast majority of the house), no bonus. If it hit the chimney and bounced right and didn't fall off the front edge, double points. If you threw it over the roof or it rolled off the front edge, no more turns. You get five throws and you only get your points if you catch it. Yelling distractions is 100% allowed, but no physical interference. Loser has to run around the house five times.
SteveMailman · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Call of duty Modern Warfare 😤
jaxxon · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Uni Wars” a bunch of friends on unicycles. We played on grass. Basically shoving or pulling each other over. Last one still riding won. Soooo fun.
Also unicycle basketball, but that’s pretty common in unicycling circles.
mblacke · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Celery generals. Me and my little brother would build stick men out of celery and toothpicks with cherry tomato heads. Then you go up the street a bit from a traffic light and trade generals with your partner. Wait until the light turns red and you both run out placing each others said generals in a position you hope they get run over. Whoever’s general gets run over by a vehicle first has to wait until the light tunes read again and run out and eat it off the ashfault with a fork. If you want to play on easy mode a Quick shot of salad dressing is optional.
hassan1800 · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beyond good and evil, Best game ever!
anonomnomo · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play tube wars. We would go on the trampoline and wrap ourselves up in blankets with our arms at our sides and legs together then get my friends sister to wrap tape around us so we couldn’t move. We would then try and knock each other over. First to fall off loses
jrich9704 · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for it, but my friend lived on a circular street, so we would ride our bikes around it in a race. The catch is that we would be holding table legs (we had our own table legs spray painted to our desire) and we had to shove the leg into the spokes of the person next to you. We went through many wheels in that phase in our lives. And casts.
Mayutshayut · 1 points · Posted at 23:36:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play “hide the switch”. Bear with me – -All the kids go inside, except the person hiding the switch(A long, thin, flexible but sturdy stick that our parents would traditionally use for “corrective measures”). -A person hides the switch in a very clever place while no one is looking. Once hidden, the people come back outside to search for the switch. -The person that hid the switch would say “you’re getting warmer, or you’re getting colder” to indicate how close someone is to the switch. -The catch is, the person that hid the switch does not say this to any person in particular. It is just a statement made to the crowd of people hunting for the switch.🧐 -The person that finds the switch got to grab it, and whip the ever living daylights out of everybody standing around them as they fled and pled for mercy. -The person that found the switch was then able to hide the switch the next time. This gave them the luxury of knowing where to place them selves so as to not be close to the person that finds the switch. — this was before the Internet FWIW
puppyisloud · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This isn't from childhood but my husband and grown daughter had to take a 13 hour drive across the prairies in the winter. To break the bordom they made up a game they called, Road Kill or Truck Tire. They would guess which it was on the side of the road. They had a great time.
whitewolf048 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
A couple of my favourites were 44 Home and Sardines. I dunno how well known they are but basically in 44 home you get one person to count to 44 near an object while everyone hides, then everyone has to try and touch the object without getting tagged by the person who's in.
Sardines is like a twist on hide and go seek, where one person hides and everyone has to find them. The catch is, whenever you find the person you have to hide in the same place with them, until the hiding spot becomes packed like sardines.
veldridge · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play beach ball tennis, but instead of a net we used the picnic table in the front lawn. Basic rules of tennis but with those nice giant beach balls. Eventually we lost them, and started using a volleyball (renamed it volleyball tennis), and that's when we started breaking things. Was still super fun though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle always used to play the "get naked" game with me. You know, the one only uncles can play with you. He said I shouldn't tell anyone though lmao
SeanabonzaLive · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the salami with my uncle
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and my cousins when visiting our grandmother, used to play a game called "Dead Man" where someone (usually me, because I was the youngest before my other cousins were born) would play "dead man" and lay on the floor with their eyes closed. The rest of the kids would walk around "dead man" in a circle and chant "dead man, dead man, come alive. Til we could to number 5. 1,2,3,4,5!" And then scatter. Dead man would walk around with their eyes closed and try to find someone. If you got touched my dead man first, you were dead man for the next round.
I remember very vividly trying to catch my cousin who I knew was on my grandma's staircase and opening my eyes just in time to see myself slam face first into the steps.
tbag403 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
the game
SizzleMcStewfry · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Who licked me?" great memories
RainbowEffingDash · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lay down on a couch opposite ends and kick each other in the balls. ... Weenie wars
iwillhavethat · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roofter. Kind of like pepper, but with a tennis ball. We lived in a duplex, and the neighboring duplex was very close, maybe 20-30 feet from roofline to roofline, with a yard in between.
The goal was to throw the tennis ball with a trajectory so that it would bounce off of the roof into the air, and come back down into the yard. If the other person caught it, it was a strike. If it hit the ground, it was a hit. If you were skilled enough to bounce the ball from the target roof to the opposite roof, that was a home run.
That was our go-to if we didn't have enough kids for stickball in the street.
M00glemuffins · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
When I was in boy scouts we came up with this game we called 'Thicket'. This was only played once it got dark. Wherever we were camping we would designate some central circle or square marked out with sticks that the person who was 'it' would stand in with a flashlight. At the start of the game we'd all be there around the circle and the person who was 'it' would close their eyes and count to 50 or something (it varied) while everyone would find a place to hide. When the counting was done the person in the circle would try to use the flashlight to find people without leaving the circle and call them out. If you were found you were 'out'. If he couldn't find anyone or ran out of people he could see he would again close his eyes and count to 40 and the people hiding had to move in closer. The process repeated again 30, 20, 10 each time you would have to get more and more creative as you got closer to the circle to find a good hiding spot so you wouldn't get seen. Whoever survived to the end and was the closest, or managed to actually get all the way up to the circle somehow without being caught was 'it' the next round.
It was like a red light green light but with the added night factor and hiding. And since you knew you had to get closer each time you would have to decide whether you wanted to head out quite a ways away and have more potential spots or only stay close by but have a narrower range of potential options as the rounds went by. There were some pretty great spots people would come up with. One time one of the troop members came prepared and brought a fuckin camo jacket and pants and literally laid flat on the ground among some leaves nearly right next to the circle and didn't get caught somehow. I miss those days.
Allnightpony318 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Booda booda booda... daaaaa while standing at the the head of the bead with my brother, facing the wall, and pushing yourself off the wall onto the bed while yelling the daaaaaaa I’ll the way through the fall
cowman1890 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"manhunt" basically hide and seek and when you get caught you become a seeker. Difference is we played on a housing estate with a park and lots of bushes at night.
JohnQx25 · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Crab apple baseball” basically we had a bunch of apples that would fall in the backyard and use them to play home run derby. The bigger the smash/spray the better the hit.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:37:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Encarta! Virtual tours (pre Google maps), interactive articles with video/audio clips, pictures of indigenous tribe women, nude renaissance paintings! 3rd-6th grade was Rad! There was no internet then. I did plenty of "research" on that game. I had a huge interest in art and world culture. 😉😉
MrNeatGuy39 · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the Can. It was fun.
rSharp- · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family and I would try to guess the amount of cars (train) there were when we stopped at a railroad track
chyko9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
There's also the Smyrna game. Because there's a town somewhere in the Jersey/Delaware area called Smyrna, my family would try to come up with every single possible town name with "Smyrna" in it before we got to my grandparents' house in Delaware. Options range from "Smyrna Village" to "Smyrna Heights" to "Smyrna Elderly Development." If you repeat a Smyrna, you're out.
ILLYNPAYNE0911 · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would take turns laying under all the blankets and pillows in the house, the others would stand outside and hit the blanket covered person with a belt as hard as they could 5x , we would also use jeans my mom hung up to dry and called it "pantsing" lmao
Captain-cootchie · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get down me president. Put your hand to your ears like secret service if you’re last you get tackled so you can survive
EddHadley · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jousting, inspired by watching a knights tale my brother's and I would use the farm drive, two lines of concrete separated by a grass strip as a jousting run.
We'd kit up in old motorcycle helmets, stuffed cushions inside our jumpers or whatever other body protection that could be found, got the biggest stick we could carry, mounted our bicycles and had at it.
Tharp922 · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Top Gun" right after the movie came out. I was 9 years old and lived in a neighborhood that was a loop. There were probably 30 kids on the "block". We would use our bikes and ride around having "dog fights". We put baseball cards in our spokes, held by clothespins, to get the "blap" "blap" sound of an engine. The goal was to be able to get behind another bike and slightly turn your front wheel into their back wheel, which was a "hit". Needles to say there were a lot of crashes, whether from avoiding the person behind you, or because when you "hit" their back tire, your front tire would bounce off and cause the handle bar and front tire to violently spin the other way, causing you to go straight to the ground! Good times growing up in the 1980's. We would play until the street lights came on!
Don_Vito_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it black-white basically one person was chasing everyone else and had to catch them all.
The twist is that there were pathes of black concrete between buildings which provided huge shortcuts and escape routes without which it's nigh impossible to win.
If one spotted someone on "black" they could announce it and he would lose.
Both sides could do that but it's the only way to win for those running away aside from the chaser giving up.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ah, let's see.... I remember playing this weird game where we grabbed each others arms and swung one another around until the other person let go, fell, or was seriously injured. Not exactly the safest, but it was legend!
Wafflebringer · 1 points · Posted at 23:38:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played the magic game. It was basically dnd without dice, just your imagination and a narrator. Didnt even know dnd was a thing back then. I was always the one asked to be in charge of it. Anyone else have something like this?
bigkayz2 · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:19 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy sticks
Its_Paradox · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my step brothers went outside with our Nintendo DS, then we would join a pictochat channel and 2 of us would hide while 1 was searching. We had to describe our locations where we were hiding in the pictochat channel with drawings.
It was pretty fun
chyko9 · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone want to play Night Crawlers?
heydrun · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I spent our summers at the local swimming pool. One of our games there was guessing what song the other sibling was singing under water.
Gairloch · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to take a paper clip and bend it into a tiny grappling hook and pretend I was a tiny person trying to get around the room using it.
Electrify-7 · 1 points · Posted at 23:39:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Damn this is gonna get buried but oh well. My senior year of high school my friends and I watched fight club. We then came up with sock wrestling. One on one matches with only one objective: take the opponents sock off. Only one was needed. We did this randomly and whenever someone looked like they were about to fall asleep.
QuantumPhyZ · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Checkers. The lower version of chess, but still fun I guess.
eddieschlag · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstik hockey.. nuff said
cjoy31 · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my son and daughter were 3-4yo, they made up a game on the swing set they called In the Crocs. The kid swinging tried to kick their sibling standing in front of them (but ostensibly just out of reach). Bonus points were granted if they hoofed the other really hard in the groin area (yes, I was a bad mom sitting on the lawn chair letting them assault each other like this). When I questioned if the name of the game was because of their footwear (they usually wore crocs at the time), they both agreed it was not. It was because they said the area to aim for (pointing to their crotches) was called that.
EyDogEy · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called " Old lady and the hot water hat". I have absolutely no idea why we called it that. But basically we would take a pitcher and fill it up with the hottest water that the spigot would give us and then take a wash rag and try and shoot it into the pitcher. If you made it into the pitcher then the other person had to get it out. It was a ridiculous game and I have no idea why our mom let us play it but we had fun.
Dsham · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate Destruction. Lights off. All of us huddled in the middle of the room. One person is the beast that will slowly pick us off...if we let him. Eventually it turns into a real free to play battle royale with no loot boxes.
Talon_08 · 1 points · Posted at 23:40:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I created a lot of games one of our favorites was called "spells" we all loved Hardy Potter so we all created our own wands from sticks in the forest behind our house and would fight with spells from Harry Potter. Each spell had a something you had to do. For example expelliarmus (a disarming spell) we have to throw are wands and launch backwards, Or "eat slugs" (pretty obvious) we would have to pretend to vomit slugs for 10 seconds. We also included the spell avada kedavra (killing curse) you would have to lay down dead for 20 seconds but if you used that spell you most likely get ganged up on. We included almost every spell. Oh the good'ol days.....
Dankestmemelord · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:00 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Spooky in the Dark”
It’s basically hide and seek, but at night with the lights off.
Archoir · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a game called "ball 10/10". Two players both start with 10 points. You both stand on either side of the street where one will throw a ball across. If the other person doesn't catch it they'd lose a point andere the other would gain one. So the score would go 10/10 - 9/11 - 8/12 and so on. The goal was to get to 0/20. Which would often take a while because it could go from 1/19 to 19/1 and back sometimes.
Vanilla_7hund3r97 · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
1$ zombie game
towalkaroadofruin · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trip - the Game. Basically, my brothers and I would get on the trampoline and attempt to trip each other. Eventually, this evolved into using long tube socks stuffed at the end with balled-up socks as makeshift whip/flail/bolas to catch others by the ankle/leg and yank their legs out from under them.
WhooooooooooAmI · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ugh. So many... My sisters and I played a game called "Werewolf" when my parents left the house at night.
Essentially you would turn off all the lights except maybe 2 or 3. The goal was to get from room to room turning on lights to stay out of the reach of the Werewolf (only ever played by my older sister). But you had to turn off any small lights you turned on to get to the next spot. The Werewolf couldn't go in the light so my older sister was just kinda lurking in the darkness the whole time and would bite you if she caught you to turn you into a werewolf too.
Parents got alot of calls from concerned neighbors who heard lots of screaming and yelling coming from our place at night when all the lights were off. There was no way to win this game either, I think my sister just liked to bite us..
We also played a "game" called "Spooky Woods" which was literally just my older sister and i grabbing my little sister by her hands and feet, throwing her in a closet and telling her ghosts were in there for her while flickering the lights and screaming.....
We were fucked up children with dark imaginations. I realize this.
OK_but_like_why · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bumper Cars” - starting on the opposite side of the living room from my sister, we spun in circles as fast as we could for 10 seconds, then ran at each other full force until one of us fell over and lost. As you can imagine, one of us was usually successful on the first try if we didn’t fall over under our own power on the way there.
There was a variation that required us to hold hands while spinning together in a circle, but that was mostly abandoned after I dislocated stuff and subjected my parents to some child abuse-ish questions from the doctor.
Surprisingly, we’re both still mostly functioning normally.
myredditaccountimade · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
fishing pole, a pole made out of loom bands and we would have to try and collect whatever items were downstairs, the person with the most items would choose our next game.
Countries, every room was a different country with different habitats and laws. There would be forts, police, tourists - everything. It was ideal for when a guest was over.
D0madew · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ripstik Soccer
Saw some iterations of this on YouTube, but my youth group made the first organized ripstik soccer league. Wed play on a wooden basketball court in the gym of our church. The goals were four legged chairs, seven feet apart. The object of the game was to put the ball (volleyball) in the goal with the one's ripstik. It was legal to use any razor brand board, but traditionally the game was three on three, everyone riding the standard board. If you fell off, you'd have to run back to your end where the loading zones were shuffle boards in the corners. If someone was benched before you fell off, they'd take your place.
This shit was intense, believe it or not. Lots of people got hurt without lasting injuries. I was actually the first person to break a bone playing it when someone checked my board out from under me. I loved it though. Wed normally play first team to 7, but I could see it being professional and playing with periods, like in hockey. My youth group made an extensive manual for the rules to the game, and surprisingly, even our youngest players got the hang of it. I seriously wished this caught on with more people, because it's just that competitive. It's definitely strange from afar, but once you can ride fast enough and you know the rules, the game begins to fly by.
I only get to play it whenever I'm in town and the youth group is active, which isn't often. But I always look forward to breaking a sweat over my favorite made up sport.
NickDanger1080 · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shadows.
While riding in the car I would clench my butt whenever we drove over a shadow. Simple, stupid, but kept me from getting too bored on car rides.
talentedbus · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tonka firefighter a friend truck game by atari
StumpyCake · 1 points · Posted at 23:41:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Popcorn. Everyone puts their shoes in the middle of a trampoline and jumps without letting the shoes touch them. Last man standing wins.
kittycatttttmeow · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poke and stack random things on meth head/alcoholic dad until he would finally wake up from a binge, just to have all this stuff piled on him oddly. When he got up he was always so confused but we thought it was funny.
Beth_Allie · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My entire neighborhood growing up used to play a game called "silent" at the neighborhood pool. The pool had a diving board that went about 5 feet above the pool deck, one kid would stand on the board and try to listen for other kids swimming across. If they saw a kid swimming they could dive in a tag them. It no one was going across they had to move further down the board. Fun times.
SpeedyParalyzedSloth · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play "Draw your kidnapper" where one person would describe the "person" who kidnapped you while the other one had to try to recreate it. This obviously turned into very strange looking individuals!
We would also do an adaptation where one person would start and draw the head, the next person could draw one feature (like one eye, or one ear, hair, etc.) , and then it would go back and forth until we deemed the creature done.
We spent hours doing this and now I have introduced it to my young sister-in-law to keep her entertained during long car rides.
Lighter67 · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blood train. 20 people one is running in circles in the edge of the trampoline and everyone is in the middle. If the person running the edge or the “train” hit u you had to lay flat and die. You had to unzip and unhook door to trampoline and you lived but couldn’t be hit. You can shove people into the “train” and the the “train had to stay at the same place. I actually made game in unity inspired by this called bloodstainz n trains. Pretty fun little game
Tequila100 · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day! And I used to play soccer with a bike, it was really dangerous but I was stupid in that way. So basically we would hit the ball with our tires and sometimes kick with our feet while on the bike, you had to be moving though.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skittles vs skittles colors and other games where different colored candies were various nations at war lol
_Dreamer · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I use to look out the car window and use my two fingers to grind a skateboard along the power lines in my imagination. Being a child in the back seat my vantage point was often only the sky and power lines through the window.
Rookie_Slime · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alright, back in the 90s there was a windows game called Demolition Derby or somesuch. My friends and I, being intelligent 8-10 year olds, recreated the game going downhill on bicycles. It was fun. I got good at ditching my bike before hitting the ground.
talkingbird264 · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play lay away 😂
Burritos_ByMussolini · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game
Kazozo · 1 points · Posted at 23:42:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would stick our fingers up our butts and chase and force the other one to smell it.
poophy · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mental tic-tac-toe. Assign each square a number and play in your head. Me and my brother did this on long car rides. I think that this was my dad's idea. I'm not sure if he was trying to teach us something or just keep us busy.
zerbs47 · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok so this is extremely weird and you’re probably thinking if she did this as a child, what is she like now? and the answer is I’m a weird person. Ok so here I go:
When I couldn’t go to sleep I would take my bed sheet and put my feet on the edge of it, and put my feet in the air, then I would grab both corners of the sheet and try to see which hand could climb the edge of my sheet to reach my foot first. If you don’t understand then idk what to tell you
Bman2U · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess it's not really a game but we used to race popsicle sticks down the curb whenever it rained
Stressmonster · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothings. My sister at the time (now my brother) and I didn’t have real money for bets or challenges so we came up with Nothings. We went as far to allot ourselves certain amount of “Nothings” we earned each week and bet with them. We got into massive fights over this too when we thought the other was cheap or just to see who had more money. Our mom couldn’t stop laughing the day she found out we did this as we were arguing in the backseat. But any game we played we bet Nothings. We jokingly do now just because.
-SuperTrooper- · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boat game. On road trips, you spot a boat you call it and it's 1 point. A boat dealership is 5 points. If you call a boat and it turns out not to be a boat, you lose a point.
Born of boredom but we figured it was just about the perfect item that isn't too frequent but it's common enough to stay on your toes.
Pykor · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Winter - Indoor Knee Football.... In the living room, 1 on 1, me vs my bro... 3 rules (1) Ball must cross line b/4 shoulder hits ground. (2) No Sleeper Hold (3) Know power elbow to the thigh.
Summer - Shallow End Pool Soccer.. In shallow end of pool, 1 on 1, me vs my bro... 3 rules (2) ball must hit side of pool. (2) Feet only. (3) No drowning.
Fall - Earl Baby - Line up 3 boxes, one of which has a kid inside. Earl (as in Campbell), is once of the other kids, he would not know where the 1 kid was hidden. Kid would yell "Earl Baby" while running right through the box of his choice.
Fun times....
chootoi · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twin sister, me, and our older sister (18 months older) played two games in the yard. One was "crash-up smash-up derby, in which we ran full speed at each other with the sole goal of trying to knock the shit out of each other. We also played "Tron," which consisted of throwing multiple frisbees at each other as hard as we could. Kinda like dodgeball, but with injury as the goal.
We also made Buckhorn "salads" in a paint tray frequently and pretended to be eating fancy food. Yeah, we might have been poor now that I think back on it.
kingdomphil · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older brother always played „pain soccer“. Normal rules except the first one who cries automatically loses... I lost everytime and we played it till I was about 12yo
hellerinahandbasket · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “cheese go cheese stop”. In my completely dark and under-built basement, all friends but one would hide in and one friend would close their eyes and blindly gripe around for us. Hiders are free to move, but the finder has a certain amount of “cheese stop”s and “cheese go”s that force hiders to either freeze for 10 seconds or change hiding places. Seekers cannot call “cheese stop” in the middle of a “cheese go”. Hiders are encouraged to throw things at the seeker. Fun times, rather unsafe.
cabracrazy · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I played "Secret Agents" We would spy on the other neighbors and our families and correspond via encoded notes that we left in a pile of bricks between our houses. We each had a decoding circle to read and respond to the note. We fabricated the schemes of a bad guy we called "Ogle" (I think this name came from a Lego villain, back before there were TV shows and movies) and come up with adventures to thwart his plans of world domination.
SnipeyMG · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called sticks. You know when you take a stick and smack it against a tree and the end flys off into the distance? Well we did this and if you got hit with the piece that broke off you were out. It was usually a group of 5 of us. Made for some good times.
We also used to have bb guns fights.... good times in the countryside of Pa
old5spice · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Helicopter conkors on gta 4. Basically you both get into a seperate helicopter and bash into eachother until there is only one helicopter standing.
RedWildLlama · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm car wash, I came up with it because worms were too dirty. I dug the through the ground putting worms into a bucket and convinced my friend to clean them, with her mouth. Then I put them back in the ground.
paintmetheskyxx · 1 points · Posted at 23:43:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
During the holiday season, we often would take long car rides in my mom’s ‘99 dodge caravan to a relative’s house for Christmas or NYE. To pass the time, me and my brother would sit opposite to each other and count the houses that had their Christmas lights up. The game was simple- the side that had the most lights would win.
Of course their were disagreements of what’s constituted as Christmas “lights”. Usually nativity scenes with a single light on, were thrown out.
AwesomeMee63 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw the lunch pal across the room
shnooni · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game with my best friend called "Killer". We lived in a land called "Barefoot Land" because it was the 90s and our parents did NOT give a single f if we wore shoes outside. The killer (usually my friend) would kidnap me and throw me in a room with another girl "he" kidnapped.
That's about as dark as it got, because the other girl's brain had been removed and filled with yogurt and we called her "yogurt brain". She was a mess.
42Pockets · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kwan-tsu
We would literally throw each other down a hill.
Rules: - Help throw your friends down a hill and yell, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!" - As you roll down the hill you were supposed to yell, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!" -Then get up and yell, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!" -Then climb the hill and help throw your other friends down the hill while yelling, "KWAN-TSU!!!!!"
It was a simpler time. :-)
Acquiesce67 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Motocross Madness 2
TheDemonBunny · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throwing a ball of wasted up tape at each other genitals....towards the end of said games it got lit on fire for added excitement
r3n4m3 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Didn’t have a name for it, but all my friends and brothers and stuff would get into a dark room with an electric wheel chair. The wheelchair had a little green light on it so you could see it. One person would be in wheel chair while everyone else would try to sneak around the room avoiding getting ran over. When the wheelchair would miss a person, it would go right into the dry wall.... parents where pissed... was super fun tho!
Pramble · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Dog Man:
The "hot dog man" would go wait behind the shed. Then everyone else would sing "Hot dog man! Hot dog man!" outside the front of the shed. Then the hot dog man would run out from behind the shed and try to get someone before they made it to the safe zone.
I'm sure there's a repressed memory that helps explain where it came from.
rustury · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Digger
11ollopA · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Crunchy Game” it was basically 20 questions except you had to ask questions until you got the correct answer... hours of fun!
Pitviper88 · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play Hide and go seek with cars. We would have a group of us. 2 people per vehicle. The car that was it would sit at the front of this neighbor and the others would go hide in the neighbor hood. When you found someone you would flash your lights to "tag them"
BeeKeepr920 · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played ‘sticks.’ You grab 3 sticks and put them on the sidewalk about a foot-length apart. The first kid would step in the first gap, step in the second gap, then leap as far as they could with their third step. The last stick would then be moved behind their last foot.
Next kid went the other way and moved the other last stick behind their foot and so on. If you fall or can’t jump over all the sticks, you’re out.
It was fun!
humancartograph · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:18 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Colored Eggs." I know we didn't invent it, but I don't know anyone else who ever played it. Basically the "it" person or chaser was referred to as the Big Bad Wolf, and everyone else was a Pig. All the pigs would have to choose a color. Of course, when you are young you choose red or blue or something normal, but as we got older we went deeper down the Crayola well, choosing colors like rope, periwinkle, or burnt sienna. There was a dialogue between the Big Bad Wolf and the Pigs:
Big Bad Wolf: Knock knock
Pigs: Who's there?
Big Bad Wolf: the Big Bad Wolf
Pigs: What do you want?
Big Bad Wolf: Colored Eggs
Pigs: What color?
Big Bad Wolf: ___(insert color here)_
Then if the Wolf chose your color, you had to race around an obstacle course back to the home position. The Wolf would try to catch you, duck-duck-goose style. If you were caught, you were the Wolf next time.
It was a lot of fun, and since we played in my grandfather's basement, as we got older, it got more dangerous that you would hit your head on low hanging ductwork!
thechort7 · 2 points · Posted at 09:09:47 on March 29, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh damn!
Super late to this thread but just had to point out that we played this exact same game at my grandparents house when I was a kid, but this was in Sudan. It honestly never occurred to me that people played it outside of Sudan. The only difference between your version and ours was that instead of the big bad wolf and the pigs it was just a generic wolf and chickens, but the script was exactly the same (except in Arabic instead of English).
humancartograph · 2 points · Posted at 12:52:34 on March 29, 2019 · (Permalink)
That's truly awesome. Mine was in middle Kentucky in the southeastern USA. Much respect to you my Sudanese brother. And always choose Periwinkle.
pattyporker · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zork and a game where you set up oil rigs then earth quakes happen and earn points based on good spots basically.
Scogginator · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The one that my uncle told me I couldn’t tell anyone about.
Nonchalant_Badger · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jak&Dakster
heeroyuwee · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scooter Soccer! It was like soccer, but you played it on your Razor Scooter or equivalent scooter. You could use the scooter itself to block and hit balls away, but you could only move via scooter. So, if you got off to block a shot with the scooter you couldn't move anywhere.
Lots of ankles were destroyed flailing those things around.
chimichanga146 · 1 points · Posted at 23:45:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Donald Duck Commodore C 64
smalltalk10 · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We called it 'S.O.S box' and played it when we were kids on a road trip along the motorway or dual carriageway. Simply, who ever was able to spot the sos phone box on the side of the motor way first would get a point and first to 5 won. Where we live they are little orange poles with a phone box connected to the top and you probably would see one every mile or two along the motorway. God it was so much fun, if you ever remotely saw Orange in the distance everyone would start to shout out 'I see it, I see it'!
bunso60 · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother invented Russian Guard, a take on Kick the Can, where if you were captured, you could escape and hide again. The entire neighborhood played that game every night one summer.
Benji013 · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghosts in the graveyard. Basically 2 "ghosts" try and capture everyone else. People can be released by tagging the captured peeps. We played out in the country in the dark on a 3 acre yard with trees and Barb wire fences. I personally was stopped full out sprint by the Barb with fence on two occasions. Tons of fun.
Silky_Johnson7 · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the salami with Grandpa
MAWP---MAWP · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Winking game" its was a game we played with large groups of kids. So simple but so fun. So you get a deck of cards and made sure to put in 1 or 2 jokers depending on how big the group was. Everyone gets a card and whoever gets the joker(s) was the "killer". To kill all you had to do was wink at a person looking at you and once the person sees you wink they drop to the floor "dead" and can't move or talk. Killers can't kill each other and anyone can guess who the killer is but if they guess wrong they die. The fun part is everyone has to blink at some point so people would guess someone blinking and that person shows their card and if its not a joker the guesser died. So we would all get crazy with blinking a lot but you could throw in a wink or literally wink at 3 people real fast and kids just drop to the floor. The tension would rise more and more and if one killer survived or if it was just the killer and 1 person the killers won and if the killer(s) were found everyone else wins. Everyone can talk the whole time (besides the dead) but you had to announce your guess. So it also threw in some strategies to. So say one killer could oust the other make other kids take a guess for him. Like say "Jane Doe has to be the killer" but he can't guess but everyone will start to eye that person and find out its true. That way no one would suspect that person was the killer while he kills everyone. It was super fun.
smushisquishi · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Gorilla” me and my brother would get on a make-shift raft in our pool and see if who could sink it first. Super weird, not sure how we got the name, but so much fun as an 8 year old
etc18 · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "snake in the river" while waiting for the school bus.
One person was the snake and had to stay on the sidewalk. Everyone else tries to cross the "river" either by jumping, or crossing on the cracks.
If the snake tags you before you get across, you join the snake trying to tag others. Last one caught is the winner!
marissacool · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Martha Washington.
My sister and I used to play this game all the time, and everyone pretty much wins (if you have long hair).
Here is what you need:
Here is what you do:
And that's it. Everyone wins.
curiousdryad · 1 points · Posted at 23:46:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin were the oldest out of the church kids, we were all obsessed with dragon ball z. So I was pretty much king of the garage and would set up tournament battles between 5-10 year olds. And they would fight each other to impress us. Lmao!
Szyz · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I invented a game called "world on fire" where the ground was lava and you had to get from A to B without touching the ground.
WonderfulPleasure · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I got so bored of playing teacher and student that we decided to play church. My sister was the priest and I would just sit there as she read the Bible. I would then grab bread, make little balls and that was communion. Yep, you guessed it, we were catholic.
cal-nomen-official · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deadly Creatures, a game on the Wii. You start off playing as a tarantula, fight a scorpion at the end of the first level, play as that scorpion in the second level, and then go back to the tarantula. It switches every other level and was superbly fun. You fight bugs and other small creatures in a cool desert setting
Baltibugger · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rolling down a hill in a barrel
Iceingninekills · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Angie game. We had a noon hour supervisor named Angie that you’d try and not get spotted by. If you tagged her without her seeing you then you got a popsicle the next day.
IAmMyOwnLaw · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Teletubbies"
One person plays the teletubby, and the rest people who run from him/her. The teletubby's job is to catch the others and consume them (basically tag them). They do this by chasing them around, but if they start to sing the teletubby theme tune and rock from side to side, whoever can see them must advance towards them as if hypnotized, get to within 3 metres, at which point the teletubby ends their song and can chase them.
There is a safe area, called "home." This was a small hill with a large tree growing on it. However, the teletubby can sneak into home through the "TV"(which was an area by the base of the tree) and sing their song there (in home). However if they don't successfully catch anyone whilst singing their song, they must finish the song before they can leave the TV.
The teletubby never won, and we got bored of this needlessly complex game within weeks.
shinnith · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
If anyone remembers the show “mantracker” it was that but with 2007 flip phones and clues and shit
CMND_Jernavy · 1 points · Posted at 23:47:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stupid Invaders.
dontcallmechelly · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I like to play guess the elevator when i go somewhere that has multiple elevators. You press the up/down button, and guess which elevator is the one that will arrive first. Its a lot of fun to play when there is more than 2 elevators.
CptGreedy · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two brothers and I created a game called "pool shark". My oldest brother James would play the shark by straddling a pool floaty and guarding the surface while my other brother Tyler and I tried to dive to the bottom and collect dive sticks. If the shark grabs you before you can exit the pool you lose a life and have to drop your stick. Each diver got 3 lives.
I have vivid memories of my oldest brother James grabbing me by the foot as I was frantically trying to exit the pool and dragging me back into the water screaming.
I'm guessing this is where my intense phobia of sharks comes from.
GOOD GAME!
ashleylibby · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers.
iFuckingLoveBoston · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monkeyball. Basketball with no fouls or out of bounds. You could grab and tackle...no punches to the face or fighting. Dribbling was optional.
AirMike12 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know if it’s unique but “Knee Football”. Play in an open carpeted room where you could only crawl on your knees and you were down when your elbows touched the floor. You couldn’t only throw the ball too. My knees will always bare the rug burns scars and I was even knocked unconscious once.
mrmadness79 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being the oldest of the family I played a little game called “Harass the hell outta my little bros”. Still play it at 40.
Shagwan257 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:30 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tropical piss forests" me and a friend in year 5 (aged 9-10) used to climb trees at our school during the lunchtime break and once at the top we would piss out of it back to back, we ate the same things everyday and we always got out at the same time. The last day we played this was a doozy, I was given 25p by my parents so bought an extra biscuit and my friend ran out of the hall before me (we didn't go to the toilet for the most of the day so we were always busting) I must've got out of the hall about 2-5 mins later as I reach the school field that I see him up the end of it climbing the tree already.
So as I get to the tree he's already started his stream, so I'm climbing up the tree getting pissed on, anyway, as I near the top (30ft tree) I grab a wet branch and my foot hits a wet branch and I slipped backwards. Now I couldn't see the ground all I could see was this stream of urine hitting my face, my friend and the clouds. As I hit the ground I landed more on my neck than anything and I know I hit the ground twice (I bounced...) So I'm completely out of it wondering what the hell has just happened, not sure which way is up. I get up to realise that I'm about 2ft away from a chainlink fence and 3ft away from falling down a hill into a boggy stream that I've seen multiple items disappear into the mud.
Now a dinnerlady was walking up the field as she had seen me run out and had invariably seen the whole debacle, screamed at me, "GET BACK IN SCHOOL" as I had fallen on the wrong side of the fence and was now outside the school so technically playing hooky...I spent the rest of the day unsure of what went on and my teachers describe me to my mother as having been "very quiet" and "we don't know whats come over him." Thus is the story of the day I suffered an untreated concusion by falling out of a tree covered in piss.
rifaccount · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
ITT: uncles touching no-no squares.
"That's my no-no square, don't touch me there."
7hriv3 · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers.
Frank knows
-politik- · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Doctor"
SelinaRidewell · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
McDonald's used to have these round disc shaped ice cubes when I was a kid.
For some reason, my cousin and I would drink our sodas and then take turns being a priest. We would hand out the disc ice as if it were a communion wafer. We called this game "the body of christ"
philgabrielpeter · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline RPGs. I played final fantasy and my brother would watch. Then when we wanted to play together I would write a story, essentially being his dungeon master, and we’d take turns fighting on the trampoline. We had foam swords.
I remember one of the moves i would use against him was spiral cut from FFX (Tidus’s first overdrive). One time I kicked him in the face with it. Good shit.
floormopthews · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pony car” in the car my family would play a game that we were to yell pony car every time we saw a mustang on the road ( an actual car not just a horse) we still play it to this day
BasiRMQ · 1 points · Posted at 23:48:49 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battlefield vietnam
Fsmhrtpid · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is way too late and it’s going to get buried.
But the game was called “blah!”
Basically one kid would put his or her head inside a pillow with the pillowcase still on so you’ve got a pillow in front of your face and you can’t see.
You then have to catch one of the other kids like in the game “tag” but your only way of doing so is to run around and yell ”blah!!” And dive at where you think they are to catch them.
If you miss, the pillow on your head guards your face from smashing into the ground.
We were about 7-12 years old and this was in about 1992.
swagmasterjesus · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deadliest warrior. Basically we got a bunch of sticks and beat the crap out of each other.
ifuxkedupwhatdoido · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve asked everyone I know and no one has ever heard of the game Glover. It’s a glove that moves around on a ball but it’s always on an adventure going into different worlds similar to Mario64 but just a glove.
rufcob · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:45 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
To this day me and my friends still play ping volley.
In a ping pong table, there will be two players per team. The serve is your normal ping pong serve, but after that it turns into something more like volleyball.
The ball has to bounce once on the table after each turn and it can also bounce once more anywhere else. Each team has 3 non consecutive touches per turn just like in volleyball. Blocks with any part of the body are allowed and don't count as a touch.
It's harder to score with your own serve so "breaks" are highly valuable.
We still get together once a year and have a competition in which this is one of other made up sports we play.
fsbulldog24 · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played what we called "Nut Shot". My brother and I lined up two yardwaste barrels about 50 feet apart. We would stand behind the barrels and then throw a Nerf vortex football back and forth. Your objective was to throw the football in the barrel. Your opponent wasn't allowed to move, catch, or block ball. So the real objective was to hit your brother in the nuts with a football. I am the much more athletic brother, so I thoroughly enjoyed the game lol
Chicken_Giblets · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Windmill spotting
Every holidays we would drive up to my grandparents' property to stay with them and on the way if you were the first to spot a windmill we would get some tiny teddies (the little chocolate biscuit thing). Sometimes a debate would ensue if the windmill was without blades or not, if it really counted as a "proper" windmill or not
1un4r7285 · 1 points · Posted at 23:49:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
see how long it takes me to bite my brother
No1YouKnow42 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:04 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dammit...I just lost the game due to this title
Zeewulfeh · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ultimate Croquet. And yes, it included gates and wickets in trees.
Cheddar14 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had a game called “Witch’s Pot” where one person would be the witch and the others would be her minions (there is a total of four of us). The witch tells the minions to fetch X number of ingredients to make a potion that would turn them into whatever animal the witch wants and the minions race around the house to go find ingredients that have something in common with that animal (for example you could bring a book if the animal was an owl because they are wise or a penny for an ant because they are small) and bring them back to the witch but you have to bring your ingredients back one at a time. Once somebody has all the ingredients the witch calls everyone to the pot but if they have an ingredient in their hand they have to put it back where they found it. The minion then explains all the ingredients to the witch and why they are related to the animal and if the witch accepts the reasons for all the ingredient then they put them all in a bucket and dump them on the minion’s head (which turns them into that animal). If the witch doesn’t accept any of the ingredients then they throw those at the minion and the minion must put them back before they continue finding new ingredients while all the other minions scatter to continue finding ingredients until someone has enough for the potion again.
BellaMac · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My Dad and I would play 'The Loop' on the trampoline, not much to the game except that one of use would be 'The Loop' who would try and roll around and make contact with the other player, when you did they were out.
Another one we would do was 'Sack of Potatoes', where Dad would pretend we were a sack of potatoes and try to put us in our aga stove no matter how much we protested that we weren't in fact a sack of potatoes.
Another one was pool based, the leader would chant 'Chitty chitty bang bang pop bang _____' and then name something like volcano or ballerina and everyone else would have to do a handstand and act it out with their legs. The leader then picked whoever had done the best reenactment.
dickdackduck · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to play a game with me when I was really little when my friends came over called “tumbleweeds” we had these weird ornaments in our living room that were basically just like a light hollow ball made of twisted sticks, she must’ve got them from homesense or some other store, and basically the person who was it would try to hit the runners with the tumbleweeds but the trick was that you could only roll it on the ground (like a tumbleweed) I spent a lot of fun times in my house playing that
kasmackity · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Booties Up". Basically like Off the, Suicide, or Aces, it involves bouncing a tennis ball off the wall, except when you lose you have to stand against the wall while everybody else tries to wail that tennis ball at your ass cheeks.
MercyRawrs · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Game it’s a game that you’re always playing and you loose if you think about The Game. so how you win is by forgetting about it essentially. when you think of it you have to say “I lost the game” out loud therefore making everyone else who plays the game also lose. I think it’s mostly a theatre kid game but it was fun
leoncatman · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twist the Sock - 2 player game
One person lays on their back and sticks one foot in the air. The other person grabs the end of the sock and runs in circles thereby twisting the sock and spinning the person on the ground in circles.
There was really no point other than to have fun. No points, no way to win or lose. We tried to get the sock twisted to the point of coming off the foot without pulling it off the foot.
Martha - multi player game
Someone was selected to be "Martha" the babysitter who was napping on the couch and not to be disturbed. Other players would sneak into the livingroom and slap, yell at, or otherwise irritate Martha. Martha would wake up and chase everyone. Again, no other rules or really winning or losing, just chasing each other around and being crazy. Actually, it might have been like a tag thing and if she caught you then you had to be Martha. Would have to ask one of my siblings if they remember cause its been a few years since we last played, like 40ish.
Nobody Takes Mugsy's Picture - 2 player cause nobody liked it except my sister and me
One person is Mugsy, the other person has a pretend camera. Person with pretend camera chases Mugsy and pretends to take his picture. Mugsy keeps yelling "nobody takes Mugsy's picture" and that's the game. I loved that game.
wonderland_dreams · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the spoon. Me and my older cousin would hide a little yellow spoon in my Nan’s house. That shit got competitive lol
xXBaylifeXx · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark Tag. It's just tag, but in a house with all of the lights off. Our house had a pretty circular flow so it worked well and there were plenty of furniture and things to hide behind. The dirtiest trick was to hide behind the kitchen counter and lay out a blanket on the hardwood floor, and then when the Tagger came running through the kitchen they'd step on it and WHOOSH...you yank that blanket so hard from under their feet they have permanent brain damage.
bean-dip21 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zapper
TheLazerBear · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I invented "Brawl Ball" one summer as an outlet for our desire to throw and swing things at each other. Each person chooses a "Striker", often a plastic wiffleball bat, Nerf sword, or tennis racket. There are a selection of different soft "BallsBombs" like Nerf footballs, tennis balls, and kickballs. Each is assigned a different power: the orange Nerf football was a "Flash Bomb" - if you saw it hit a surface or it hit you, you had to close your eyes for 3 seconds. The tennis ball was a "Sticky Bomb" if you get hit with it the person who hits you counts to 5 aloud, and you must retrieve the tennis ball before the countdown ends and hit someone else with it, restarting the countdown with you as the counter. If you can't hit another player before the five seconds are up, you die. We had other various types of BallBombs, like one that roots anyone hit with it for five seconds, and another that makes you switch your Striker to your off hand. The only way you can use the BallBombs is to pick it up, touch it to the base of your Striker's pommel and say "Uplink" aloud. You must do this each time you get a new BallBomb, as it serves as warning to the other players. There is also a large rubber ball named The Ball of Death. Being touched anywhere on your body by it is an instant death, so players hit it at one another with their Strikers (like a Bludger from Harry Potter). How to win: players can only be defeated by touching them anywhere on their bodies but their heads/groins with a Striker or anywhere with The Ball of Death. Certain BallBombs could kill as well. The goal is to do this without hurting them (though the only penalty for injury is your friends getting pissed). Players defend themselves from BallBombs and Strikers with their own Striker. When two players' Strikers touch, either/both may declare "Duel" aloud. All play stops, the field is cleared of BallBombs and The Ball of Death, and the two have a duel with only their Strikers. First touch wins (minus head/groin), and the other players not in the duel serve as judges. The victor has the option to claim the Striker of his opponent, or a BallBomb of his choice before play resumes. Anyone defeated drops any equipped Strikers or BallBombs and goes to the respawn zone off to the side. They must wait a full minute before re-entering the Brawl. If killed by The Ball of Death, they wait 2 minutes instead (great for a drink break). Once only two people are left alive, they have a duel to decide the champion.
ManowarVin · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ball-Stretch"
Me and my neighbor as kids around 12ish came across a knife in his garden. Now this can also be played with a screwdriver or anything else that can be flung into the ground as well.
You stand facing one another, with feet together. Now in either hand you take the knife and you whip it into the dirt. You do this from standing height and with a "throwing knife" style. Like grip it by handle or blade, whatever your throwing knife preference is. If the knife blade doesn't stick into the ground, you fucked up and it's now your opponent's turn. If it sticks, your opponent must now move one leg to the knife. He then picks up the knife from that spot and it's his turn.
You don't want to get overzealous and try throwing the knife 5 feet away thinking you will win, you will most likely not stick it. Usually a foot or two at a time. Also, missing first and then stretching out your leg after your opponent sticks one now gives you a further range to possibly beat him right way. Sometimes when your opponent is stretched out (where the name of the game came from lol) you can then switch hands to change the direction for an easy win. You win when your opponent can no longer move a leg any further to reach a stuck knife. Both feet must stay planted at either the beginning point or where a knife stuck til the end.
cas_17 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Balloon Bop!” Whenever there was a leftover balloon lying around the house from a friend’s birthday party or whatever, and it didn’t float anymore, you just had to pass it around between you and your siblings and keep it in the air as long as you can. You can use any body part but the balloon can’t touch the ground or furniture. It was kind of a team effort but at the same time a contest to hit it hard so the other person messed up haha, kept us occupied for quite a while...
YetYetAnotherPerson · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvinball?
No. That's not unique at all
Jackisking1 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor doctor fix my bum
alexmartini721 · 1 points · Posted at 23:50:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Street surfing- tie a rope to the back of a bike and have someone pedal while a second kid holds onto the opposite end of the rope while sitting on a skateboard. Fucking fun but also idiotic
KeatonTS · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Toy wars. We had bunk beds. Hung blankets on them from top to bottom as "shields" to hide behind and just pelted each other with random toys. First one who had their "shield" knocked down lost. It was a painful game.
cxrze · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"creeper" it's tag but when you tag someone you have to either chose to hold there arm and help or stand still until someone untagged touches you so you can move (Name inspired by Minecraft)
DJSexualChocolate · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child for a bit. Got creative. If you press down on a sideways plastic soda cap you can get it to shoot/roll forward, and the spin makes it slide and turn. Basically like drifting a bottle cap.
I started building obstacle courses and learning to drift the bottle caps with accuracy. I had some cousins come over and I introduced them to it. We played for hours.
Spacecadet1421 · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ripstick wars” usually played 1v1 but could be played in teams each person has a broom stick with no head. You poke at the wheels of the other players ripstick to knock them off. Once you knock a player off you ride to the “gong” (basketball pole) and hit it with your broomstick to confirm the point. If the person you knocked off rings the gong the point doesn’t count. We stopped playing the game after the broomstick ricocheted off the gong straight into my forehead.
hachaymachete · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Abes Odyssey
greenplasticman · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bouncing dot. While your parents drive, you focus your eyes on a speck of dirt on the window of the car. As the car moves you have to move your head around to make it bounce over all trees, buildings, etc. If you hit something, you die. Telephone poles or streetlights count, but strung wires don't (but you get bonus points for going across the wire and tracing the downward arc and back up). You are allowed to effect the hit box by changing eye focus.
cypeo · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Crocodile." Basically Marco Polo but with complete silence. The "Crocodile" is it and has to find someone in the pool using just the sound of breathing or water. When they catch someone they have to guess the person correctly to win.
It's a real adrenaline rush to almost get caught, splashing around wildly and try to lose the Crocodile by slipping back into the water quietly
F1tnessFanat1c · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure what everyone calls this, but we called in Manhunt.
When the street lights came on we would meet at the bottom of the hill and form two teams. Oldest kids were captains. One team would hide and the other team would find. Front yards only. No trash cans or private property. Trees allowed as long as it was within the reach of the smallest person playing. Our map was two square blocks.
The other team always waited in beanies backyard on the trampoline. When we started getting older it’s where we would sneak one of our parents smokes in before the game. You were supposed to count to 300. We never counted... not my teams anyway. You leave beanies and if you see someone you had to tag them with both hands to capture them. If someone from the hiding team made is back to the trampoline they would win. No camping the trampoline... no camping that house at all. If all the holders are found they lose. No jail or goo. None of that sissy shit. You get found and get tagged... you are dead. You have to walk back to beanies trampoline and wait underneath it until the games over.
cjr71244 · 1 points · Posted at 23:51:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would get rolls of toilet paper from construction site port-o-lets, soak them in gas or kerosene and light them on fire and kick them around the street at night. Kinda like flaming soccer.
We lived in a rural neighborhood.
Sometimes the roll would roll out so there was a nice line of fire down the street.
One time it went under a car, luckily a brave kid got it out.
COHERG · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents basement used to be unfinished. A few of my friends and I would divide into even teams opposite of each other. We would then turn off the lights and throw tennis balls and try and hit each other. If you were hit, you were out. We had a bunch of old furniture that were used as shields and such. Couple bloody noses and black eyes but it was a fun game.
toomuchthauce · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:17 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek but it’s exclusively with my dad. He takes the game super seriously though, he hasnt showed himself in 15 years! Im still looking for him wish me luck!
PartyKrill · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:26 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bb bridges
indieRuckus · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Lot of trampoline games. Here are the ones I remember in no order: (Keep in mind that this was before the days of having nets around trampolines. This was a bare naked tramp.)
Toilet Bowl: The trampoline was a toilet with the spring/padding area being the rim. One person was the turd goblin who would try to wrestle people into the middle of the bowl and then scramble over and "flush" the person before they could get back to the rim. To "flush", the turd goblin must touch that "tag thing" with warnings on it that was sewn to the edge of the nylon. Now the flushed person is the new goblin.
Don't Touch the Toys: Action figures and other junk are put on the trampoline. Everyone tries not to touch any of the random bouncing objects on the trampoline until it's all bounced off. You have to exit the trampoline until the game is over if you get touched. Good for pulling "sick Matrix moves". Added insanity if the badminton net was up and we moved the trampoline to be under it.
Trip: One person was the tripper and had to crawl (no standing allowed) around the trampoline trying to trip or otherwise knock people over. If the tripper caused the other person's knees, hands or back/ass to touch the trampoline, they were the new tripper.
Dodgeball: This was the favorite. Rules are similar to the usual, but there is only one person off the trampoline trying to hit people with a ball. Whoever they hit has to be the new thrower. If you catch it it doesn't count. Also you could "save" your friend by catching it for them, but we probably shouldn't have had that rule because it only encouraged favoritism. It probably should have caused an added punishment to the person hit if someone else caught the ball.
JacknSundrop · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wonder Woman. Both me and my cousin were boys.
marsattackz94 · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, I spent a lot of time in Maine visiting my cousins. As this was before the Internet was big there and it was pretty rural, there was fuck all to do there. We decided to make up a game called Orphanage, which we took pretty seriously tbh. We made up entire back stories surrounding our “characters” and I even remember learning some French from an old English to French dictionary to really provide some “real ness” 😂 anyways, we would sweep the porch as our chores and make up lessons, jewelry making (which was just tying together bits of grass and flowers), and one day we had a brilliant idea to start a soap making company at our “orphanage”, or my great grandmothers side porch. We all secretly gathered all the bar soap and hand soaps we knew wouldn’t be missed, a few buckets, and flowers. We made such a mess on the porch with our “concoctions” and our families got so pissed about the missing soap we had to stop playing imaginative games for a while lol.
iamawesomesaurus · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister would play this game where she would punch or kick me in the balls then go cry to our parents that I was being mean to her. Then she would laugh while they hit me.
Margalolala · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:48 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my two sisters played Roy rogers and dale Evans. I got to be trigger.
TeamShadowWind · 1 points · Posted at 23:52:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Under the Futon". One of my oldest brother's exes had this really high-strung cat. My little sister and I would lean our faces over the side so that they were upside down, looking straight under the futon to where the cat was waiting on the other end. Sometimes we'd have to try and get her attention, most times she noticed us right away, and began charging up at our faces. We'd lift our heads right at the last second, then move so our heads were hanging over the opposite side of the futon, so the cat would run back to where she was. We kept this up for several rounds. Kids are so easily entertained. I still wonder what would have happened had I not lifted my head.
jayjayhardly · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shark in the dark.” Not sure how unique it was. It was basically hide and seek at night in our basement with the lights turned out. It was pitch black down there... and our basement was unfinished and filled with everything from extra wood and storage boxes to my dad’s tools and lawn equipment. So the game was about finding someone and also not getting hurt. The bravest kids would go in the crawl space underneath the stairs.
aintnojiveturkey53 · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Full Throttle
CamHC · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I loved to play something we called "The Shoe Game", where everyone takes off their shoes and lays on their stomach hanging over the edge of a merry-go-round. Then everyone does their best to hide the shoes under/around the merry-go-round, but still within reachable distance. Another person pushes the merry-go-round as fast as possible and you had to grab as many shoes as you can. Loser has to push the next round.
LukeC_123 · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Daily Jog”, which happened once per week at grandmother’s house, where we gathered for Sunday brunch after church. Three kids running in a giant circle around the center pedestal in an unfinished basement for as long as possible. Record was around 30 minutes.
aporter4444 · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The tripping game.... We just renamed smear the queer cuz teachers didn't like that... Then as slightly more of an adult, leisure pong... Basically 1v1 beer pong on a coffee table while sitting.. Bounces only and we'd make a net with spent cans
livinope · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had "Voccer" which was a mixture of volleyball and soccer. We'd play on a trampoline and it was basically a keepy uppy game where you could use your arms (but not hands for some reason) and legs. There were two teams and we'd have an imaginary line and if the ball fell on your side you'd have to take a player off the trampoline.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Leaf game: In Autumn when walking home from school, if you saw a leaf you had to think of the word leaf.
I'm pretty sure I had some sort of word association O.C.D. because what 8 year old walls home thinking leaf leaf leaf leaf.
Better-be-Gryffindor · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All this thread is doing is making me realize how much I wish I had friends or siblings growing up.
We moved a lot in the Navy, and I'm an only child so I never really had anyone to play with. Some of the neighborhood kids would get together when I lived in Puerto Rico, and we'd box sled down our neighbors yard, that was a steep hill.
Since none of us had seen snow at all, it was the closest thing to sledding we could get. It was fun! The bigger kids would use trash cans and roll down. (I was 6-10 at this point)
Umm... I did a lot of LARPing myself. Which was basically just me dressing up and using whatever props I had, and then pretending I had people around, and I'd act out scenes I'd made up from some of my favorite books.
I was writing fanfiction before I knew what it was, lol.
God, I spent all my childhood reading/writing...I was quite boring.
steelcityfanatic · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:28 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
German Spy... played at night it was like hide and seek with a flashlight outside. Everyone would run and hide around a particular house and would have to make it back to base without getting caught. The person with the light would have to shine it on the person and call them by the correct name in order for them to be caught. A lot of debate occured on whether or not the light beam was actually on the person, they called the name of the right person, etc... also, fuck the guy that camped by the “base” (front porch) and didn’t give anyone a chance to actually make it there.
mona5850 · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Aladdin on Sega
sircornersnipes · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:50 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Crossfire’ or ‘Stick game’
Came up with this one in high school, so we were barely still children. Basically you head into your area woods with a group of four friends and find a small tossing stick, approximately .5’’ in diameter and 14’’ long for each pair of teammates. Game is 2 v 2. You’ll get with your partner and start tossing the stick back and forth, catching with one or two hands and quickly tossing it back to your partner, who is standing appropriately 15 feet across from you , and the other pair is doing the same with their respective stick perpendicular to you and your partner, creating a cross 4 style of gameplay. This is where it gets fun and gets its name... the goal is to get to 21 points, scoring a point each time you or your partner catch the stick. To prevent the other team from reaching 21, you can try and hit the other teams stick out of the air with your stick mid-air, initiating a ‘crossfire’ in which if both sticks fall to the ground, both teams go back to 0. If you catch your stick after a crossfire and the other team drops it, you stay at your number and they drop to 0. And if you both catch it after a crossfire then you both stay at your number and winner is still at 21. I spent hours in the woods playing crossfire with the homies...
LaClutch · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play this game. Where you would take a hand put index to thumb like the nice emoji or whatever one that is. You'd do it on both hands and then flip them so the index and thumb make an eye hole and the 3 other fingers are down your face if someone looked at you or if someone saw you. They had to stop what they were doing and lay on the floor/ground. You could block it by doing the same thing with one hand right side up.
not_a_moogle · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this at school and I don't remember what it's called,but you get a group of friends and play essentially '500', which itself is someone is throwing a football up in the air,yelling a number, and everyone trys to catch it for points. Person to 500 points becomes the new thrower, and repeat until recess ends.
For some reason we didn't have a football, so we take a tennis ball, someone is throwing it at a brick wall and everyone has to catch it off the bounce.
The difference is if someone drops the tennis ball, they must run to the wall to become safe and until they do the primary objective is to hit the person who dropped it.
We played this at school so the punched weren't too hard and we couldn't pin them or anything, just lightly tap them.
gasbreather420 · 1 points · Posted at 23:54:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go find dad
lazilyslacking · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run from Sundance.
Sundance was our golden retriever. We would close one back gate forcing her to run out the other side of the back yard. By the time she looped around the house we would all be hiding. The first person she licked and/or knocked over was the loser.
veggiekittykelly · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was growing up I made up a game called, "Disney Mix-Ups" to play with the other kids that my babysitter watched, and her biological children.
You could choose any Disney character you wanted to pretend to be and mix up the characteristics of other Disney characters. It could be part of their wardrobe, magical abilities, weapons, animal side kicks, etc.
It was a lot of fun and great to play outside just using your imagination.
paulswenso · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
All the kids on my street and I invented “Rope Tag”. We got a six foot rope and tied half of it into a giant knot so it looked like a mace. We would run around playing tag, hopping over fences, hiding under bushes while the person who was it would throw the giant rope mace and try to hit one of us. If you got hit, you were it. Played for hours, it was awesome.
GentlemanPirate13 · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a young Scout, I learned a game called "I can see the moon in the spoon". Works like this:
Pass around a spoon in a circle. Everybody will of course claim to see the moon in the spoon, but only those who fulfil certain secret criteria would be "actually" able to- they're told by the person who started the game whether they can or not.
The criteria? You'll only be able to see the moon if you say "thank you" when you receive the spoon. But it will take a while for everyone to figure that out, especially with kids.
Great way to teach the magic word, though.
Bismuthie · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
This game didn't seem weird when my friend and I played it back when we were 5.
So basically we would take pillows (the larger the better), stuff it in front of our shirts, and pretend that we were pregnant woman about to give birth. We would sometimes take turns "acting it out" as in slowly pulling the pillows out and whaling.
We just found pregnant women funny at the time I guess, didn't understand the nature of it all
EmotionalTangerine · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When the Nintendo DS came out we used to play hide and seek using pictochat and you knew you were getting close to someone when they showed up on your chat room.
We called it DS hide and seek.
Bowlehh · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father and I played a points gane based on cars, the scoring as follows. Yellow Car/Mini-1 point Yellow Mini - 2 points Orange car - 3 points Orange mini- 4 points Limos- 10 points
Obviously you count up your points and at the end of the journey, whoever has the most points wins.
We also played a game using number plates, where one player would state a number such as 16. The first player to spot a number plate which numbers added to that total would win a point, and then repeat...
Good times
GOMLpenguin · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go home! Super fun game we would play at my friends house. It was essentially a mix of hide and seek and tag. 1 person was “it” and they had to close their eyes for a minute on the deck in the backyard. Everyone else had to run and hide somewhere on street or in the yard and the goal was to stealthily get back to the deck without being caught. If you got caught you had no choice but to run and try to get around whoever was it. Sometimes we would switch it up and say if you get caught you had to help whoever was it by trapping the other players but only the person who was it could get them out. Super fun game! Have some great childhood memories playing it.
chewitt1995 · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We labeled it “the jumping bean.” We would stack up every pillow from our large couches until it was about, 9-10ft tall. One of us would stand on the counter and jump on the pillows and ride them down. We were weird man.
purplejojo1 · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oregon trail
dazed_out · 1 points · Posted at 23:55:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Left for Dead, one kid becomes the zombie and the rest are survivors, the zombie tags a person and then they also become a zombie, the only way a game can be over is if there are a few survivors that survive and are able to hide for a long time or if everyone eventually becomes a zombie.
docrings · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)*
60's playground game called "Foursquare"... Batting a ball and trying to eliminate someone out of their square (drawn with chalk on the cement...) And the next person in the waiting queue moves in, while the reigning champion (and the other two) keep their square for the next round.
Outlaw25 · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:11 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Flashlight Tag"
Hint- was not actually tag
Started back in elementary school, The game was essentially hide-and-seek with a base, played at night. The game consisted of two roles- one seeker and at least two hiders. The seeker starts on the base, generally a deck or other easily discernable location with boundaries (the most common for us was between the boundary lines in the center of a shuffleboard court built in the middle of a yard). The seeker closes their eyes and counts to 20. During this time, known as the "prep phase," the hiders must come up with a place to hide within running distance of the base, but not in sight of the seeker. After the prep phase, the "action phase" begins. During this phase, the seeker turns on a flashlight and begins to hunt his prey. If you get flashed by the light (and the seeker acknowledges you in doing so), you're out. If you can ninja your way onto the base without getting flashed, you're safe. First person to get flashed is automatically seeker in the next round. Rounds generally go ad infinitum until it's time for bed or enough people quit.
This game led to a very healthy metagame, with all sorts of strategies and smaller rules getting used over the years. Almost immediately camping the base was banned. The seeker's job is to seek, get seeking! Soon after was the 20 foot rule- hiders must hide no shorter than 20 feet from the base or wait at least a minute before moving into the base.
Over time, people got smarter playing the game. Everyone knew the land pretty much blindfolded, so more creative and well-tested strategies were used. No longer was it simply hiding where you wont be found, instead it was about routes, cycles, shadow management, fake shines (placing the light in the opposite direction of where you're looking, providing a trap for any unsuspecting hider thinking your back is turned), and above all else, timing. Nothing was more satisfying than sneaking onto the base while the seeker was distracted shining some other poor soul.
This game and variations are still played by us to this day - I'm 18
googoogaipan · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scoots and booties! Under a short stone bridge’s arch, you have two teams of two. You attempt to kick a soccer ball and hit the other team’s wall, then get the ball to bounce back to you so you can kick again, trying to hit their wall once more. That is the only way to score. You wouldn’t believe how many almost broken fingers and toes we had from diving into the wall to stop the ball.
lukethepukewilson · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cheek Darts
wearing clothes, jam a penny in your butt crack. hold it in place with just your cheeks while you walk across the room. try to drop the penny into a bowl on the ground to win.
KappaCritic · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:27 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't say it's "unique" but I'd still like to share. Basically when we were younger me, my friends, and my brother would play a game where we would choose 1-3 characters (from video games, tv shows, movies, etc.) and we'd basically "play fight" with eachother until one person won. It was one of my favorite "games" growing up.
Basically smash bros (I didn't know about Smash at the time) but with more characters.
xpercipio · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
kick the can. i cant remember exactly how it went. a bottle full of sand or rocks in the middle of the yard. i think one person was a tagger and others had to grab the can and take it to a safe spot, or kick it idk.
lxnarratorxl · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Orange Ball on the Roof. It was 2 man team sport.
mochasaur · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pokemon"
Step 1. Pretend you are a pokemon
Step 2. Slam into each other.
M_Shoe · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"King and son." My friend isahia and I used to play this when we were maybe 7 years old. There was really no point to the game other than one of us telling the other to do stupid things like "climb that tree" or "roll in that pile of leaves." Its funny though, because at the time I was obsessed with indiana jones and my parents got me a fake whip... (Not really fake but it wasnt 800$ real leather..20$ maybe) Us kids being innocent and immune to racism would be yelling at the other to do whatever we said while fake whipping them as well. I still think about what is must of looked like to passer bys seeing this. Especially when I was king and he was son. Me being white, him being black. :/
wowoall · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to just dig and dig and dig. We found bones once pretty far down in a hole (maybe 15 or 20 feet or whatever) Also we used to climb the trees in our yard and play jumberjack and cut the tree branches off. Why my parents were ok with this I have no idea.
Another fun one, we played car tag. Each of us had 2 to 4 people in the car with a neon light in the back window. Rules were you had to stay within the city limits and you flashed your lights at the person if you saw them and they were it. All had walkie talkies and stuff. Good times. Yes gas was only 1 a gallon when we were playing.
ParrotBeret · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would each put on a pair of my dad's sweatpants and a sweatshirt and then stuff-stuff-stuff them with clothes and then like...bounce into each other? Like big squishy people bouncing off each other.
Rizzen024 · 1 points · Posted at 23:56:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Forgot what we named it but I was at a school that had another right beside it in Fort mcmurray. The park at the other school was way better so we played there. Object of the game was to get from one side of the park to the other without touching the platforms or the ground so it was kind of a floor is lava climbing game and got pretty dangerous at times cause you had to climb over the roof parts that werent meant to be climbed on. Once you got to the winning platform you had to run to the start platform to win. Its funny because a year later kids from that school were playing it and even called it by name and i dont remember showing anyone how to play but my friend might have. I remember telling one of the kids hey i invented that game and he was like ya right lol
jeffreyr117 · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:09 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie tag was the best thing in middle school. One person started as a zombie who could tag people. Everyone that was “it” became a zombie and the last person not a zombie won!! So fun, i always ended up in a group of survivors lol.
lyssabrittany · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play the alphabet game to pass time in the car. You would have to spot the letter on a passing number plate and call it out before someone else did. The goal was to get through the alphabet before anyone else. We also used to memorise the phone numbers of businesses we drove past often and then when we drove past them, would have to close our eyes and try and say it out loud. Or we would have to add up the numbers in the phone number before we passed it.
EricAlvin · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a bunch of these to play with my little brother when we were younger.
"Which Book", played mostly before going to sleep, basically one person chooses a world to play out (Ex. Fantasy or GI Joes or Superheroes etc. ) Then the other person makes up the world and characters, and the first person plays as their own character in that world (usually it is just yourself). I was surprised and happy to learn about DnD when I got older.
"Monster Containment" - One person is the "Monster", and they have points they can use to pick powers. Everyone else is a guard with toy guns. It's contained in an area of the back yard with an imaginary door. They do tests with the monster, until it breaks free and tries to kill everyone.
"Prison" - Kind of a reverse of the last one. One person is the warden, and they choose a few upgrades for their imaginary prison in the back yard. Everyone else is a prisoner, each with some sort of specialty (Ex. Thief picks door locks). Prisoners want to escape or comply long enough to get let out on good behavior.
Those were just a few of them, we made up a bunch.
gottadogharley · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:24 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was 12 to 14 yo my dad got me a 44 yo tutor for math and english. She showed me a game that is still my fav to this very day. I never get tired of playing hide the penis. She had another game she taught me aswell. She called it caress the clit. Still enjoyable to this very day. I just had to branch out and find other players. My dad paid her every week for a few years but my grades never improved. He told me my grades didnt improve because i didnt give a fuck. Truth was i gave to many fucks.
dls14a · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:29 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played grape factory where we would ride on my grandma's stationary bike and eat grapes...
Not too innovative
tessythorn · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Mummy, mummy, I’m in your tomb’ - our bastardisation of blind man’s bluff, but we’d entomb someone in a sled first, and wrap them in toilet roll (much to my parents’ chagrin) and THEN release them
Unsurprisingly, we were injury prone in that game.
We also used to ‘play’ Prince of Persia on the trampoline, which mostly consisted of chasing each other round the trampoline and pretending to be able to do parkour.
Then there was the orphan game...
Aquatiq_ · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Super Mario RPG"
Very small and largely underrated game with only 1.47 million copies sold world wide. However that number made it the third highest-selling game in Japan in 1996.
This game goes into a deep adventure, the aim of the game WAS to defeat bowser... until he ends up joining your team to defeat the bosses to gain Bowsers castle back after being taken over by the big boss Smithy & his nasty (and very dumb) team of enemies. The main objective of the game is to restore the the star road and gain back bowsers castle, but there's small adventures you can go on along the way as you go along such as Mallow's adventure to gain back the stolen coin.
For anyone who's played this game you'll understand what i'm talking about, this game was an amazing game, and you can actually emulate it for free, so for anyone with an SNES Emulator I recommend it. It's an amazing experience, with an amazingly good but sad ending :( <3
SuperKamiGuruuuu · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game where one person has to ride a bike around the neighborhood and all the other kids would throw rocks. I’m surprised an adult didn’t step in to stop us
reluctant_adult · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I counted road kill on a road trip for fun once.
fuckmyautocorrect · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play the "touch tongues" game. We would touch tongues together and it'd taste bad so we would go EEEEEEW.
now a days I look back on it and cringe because I was making out with my brother before we ever knew it.
ROLL TIDE
hedgehogsdilemma0 · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I walked around the 5meters deep hole in my garden and the game was if I fall into it I die. I lately told my dad about this and even tho 15 years has passed he still got mad.
0202inferno · 1 points · Posted at 23:57:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bit of an odd one, but I would make Wooden Swords out of whatever scrap wood I could get my hands on. Me and my friends would beat the hell out of eachother with them but thats the normal part. However what I figured out was playing Basketball as we fought.
You couldn't touch the ball with your hands, just with your weapon. The only time you could grab the ball was to shoot. If you got hit in the arm or leg you lost that limb. If you get hit in the chest then you have to wait three seconds to jump back in.
fscottnaruto · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a bunch of baseball cards and had to find a way to split them in half along a material line, starting with easy things like pitchers and position players, all the way down to heights, places of birth, specific stats, etc. I couldnt reuse a distinguishing feature.... Then I had a black pitcher and a white pitcher who were pretty much the same in every way remaining except one. I sat there on the carpet for what felt like a long time, separting them and seeing how it felt, bringin them back, staring at them, trying to find a creative way. I think in the end I left them together.
MarineroDelMar · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh boy, so many!
One game where we had mini frisbees, (originally from a set of frisbee golf, and the goal was to throw and hit my younger brother with the frisbee from far away (+1 point). Most points win, and we played as a family/neighbors' family.
Another game where we would draw chalk intersections & retail all over our driveway and would take our bikes/scooters/rollerblades and play pretend city.
Another game I played with my brother was with stuffed animals. We would alternate farting on these poor creatures, and seeing how bad theyd smell afterwards...There was no way to win the game.
amazinghorse24 · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play this game with our neighborhood: Blindmans Bluff. You find a big jungle gym and someone is "It". They would have to play with their eyes closed and try to tag the other kids without seeing them. You had to stay on the jungle gym the whole time, but if you were "it/the blindman" and you thought someone was on the ground, you could yell "fish out of water" and open your eyes. If you were right that person was "it" next. I fondly remember hanging off the jungle gym, or standing on a post by a bridge and jumping over the person and running away before they could catch me. It was a bit dangerous, but a lot of fun.
My dad taught us a rainy day game, never really had a name for it. We had a bunch of small dinosaur figures as well as army men and cowboy men (you know, the little green stand up action figures). You separate the figures into two piles, sit on opposite ends of a hallway and line up as many figures from your pile as you want. You get a racquet ball or big bouncy ball and you took turns trying to knock down the other players figures. If you knocked them down you added them to your pile. It took a long time to get the other person out, there was a lot of back and forth. It's a fun game and I'd still probably play it now as a 28 year old.
Welcome2Nellyville · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cats 'n Mice We would wake my aunt up crazy early on a couch bed mattress when she' d come to visit, and we'd hide under the mattress, and she'd swat at us and grab us and give us a hug if she got us.
Cosibo Like bloody knuckles, mixed with dice. Class trip, we were visiting Costa Rica which has some large bronze coins and we thought they were gold (these are like quarters) so we made up a game where one spins and the other tries to either keep it spinning by swiping it with one finger, or tries to pick it up with their thumbs. I forget the exacts but you'd lose coins or get your knuckles blasted by a gold dubloon. Making our own gambling game and having big gold coins was very appealing as a kid, and we treasured those hard-won quaters. I highly reccomend encouraging your children to play for money, and play gambling games early.
blastoman334 · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deathbroom - stand like 30 feet from each other and take turns throwing a broom, handle first, at each other. You could cover your balls and move your head if it was going directly at your face.
Only played a handful of times but was memorable.
the_slate · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:44 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hose ball. One of my close friends has a older brother with developmental disabilities and like to yell the word hose and call people hoses. One day, we took a foam/nerf ball and used some wrapping paper cardboard centers as “hose” sticks and set up doors at the end of the hallway as goals. It was like hockey, except you played on your knees with the hose ball and the hose sticks. It was grand. Hose!
ruebleader · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a high schooler my buddy and I would play the “IMDB” game. You start with a movie and name a random 2nd movie. You have to use actors, directors, writers etc in the least amount of moves to get from movie 1 to movie 2. We later added alcohol into the mix. Fun times.
bridiacuaird · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:54 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Harry Potter obsessed, my sisters and I invented this “quidditch” game which incorporated three players, a ball, and a trampoline. Person on the trampoline would have to dodge the ball. Was pretty fun actually! Would do again.
Seelengst · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Resident Tag.
Simply put. It was infection Tag (with one person turning more and more other players also it), but the first it person had the special ability to evolve based off of RE3s (just released) Nemesis and other monsters
The goal of the It person was to make everyone it.
The goal of the other players was to rip flags off of the it person enough times to 'kill' them.
5 tags for level 1-2.
10 more Tags for level 2-3.
15 for 3-4.
It only takes 1 tag to turn another person it.
Every level the it person would grow an extra set of skills (level 1 you can only walk, level 2 flashlight tag etc).
The players tagged would become zombies. Who could only walk, but could also make people it. Only taking 10 tags to be out permanently.
It was weirdly complex. But we played it every summer. Basically just a reason to smack each other.
SleekKillaKing · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:01 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Blind Man's Bluff"
I don't remember the exact first time I played, but I was definitely young.
The game would have to be played in a close to dark as possible. Usually at night with all the lights in the house or room turned off. One person was to be "blind", either by trusting they would not peak or by blind folding them.
Whoever else was playing had less than 20 seconds to hide or get somewhere away from them. Then.. The "blind man" would have to hunt down someone and grab them. The other people could simply hide or run. Whoever was grabbed first lost and then they became the "blind man".
Played quite a bit of "Man Hunt" as well since we lived by woods.
enderflight · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Locked my sister in our room by just shutting the door. She was too little to reach/open the door, so she would stay there. I don’t remember the context of the game, but it was a game alright—I remember getting really angry when she started to be able to open doors and would come out (I think the game entailed me putting her in the room then walking away or something) and follow me. I would be all like, “[Sister]! Get back in the room, you’re not supposed to be out!” all self-righteously like I wasn’t trying to trap her in a room. I don’t think it was super malicious—although I remember a hint of it.
The other ‘game’ I remember was one we would play with all our MLP figures—we had this dollhouse, and all these ponies and brushes and whatever, and would play with them in the dollhouse. Now, there were rooms that we liked more than others, and so there was always a fight for who got what room. We’d both say things like ‘if my pony doesn’t get this [insert room, brush, bow, you name it], I’m going to ignore you for the rest of my life!’ Which ended up being like ten minutes, tops. We didn’t hit each other or anything, maybe wrestled and took stuff away, but most of our threats entailed ignoring the other for some set amount of time or having the ponies fight each other or something. We’re both iffy on the details. Some incident would happen at least once a week. I’m pretty bossy, so I was usually the instigator. Tbh I’m surprised my mother didn’t break it up, but we pretty much always made up and, again, it wasn’t like we were hitting each other.
I will say that our relationship is perfectly fine, lol. I don’t think I traumatized her too much except when I accidentally hurt her (I’ve always been the sibling that’s like ‘don’t tell Mom’ when the other starts crying lmao) or forced her to go out on the roof with me or else she wouldn’t be able to watch Air Bud with me on our 3DS when family was over. We’ve always gotten along well so long as we’re not in each other’s hair all the time. She’s great.
Urquix · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sonic 06
probablycolbub · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:32 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Horses in the dark"
My siblings and I sort of just went into our basement, set up a big ol mattress, grabbed some pillows to use as "horses" and "rode" around on them and jumped on each other like Mario does to Goombas. It was good fun until my sister dislocated her elbow and ended up going to the hospital. We never played it much after that.
jpfrank6 · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Being homeschooled me and my siblings had a lot of time at home to come up with dangerous ways to have fun, and we had a lot, but two stand out in particular.
Me and my brothers were big into Harry Potter, and so naturally we invented our own form of quidditch. except we played on ripsticks instead of brooms, because obviously. It was essentially just basketball on wheels, and we most certainly should have worn helmets, but of course we didn’t.
before it got renovated, we had a rickety old deck that had a long straight part (think like a bowling lane kinda) and then at the end it opened up to an area with a roof thag it had 2 of those big hanging hammock/chairs with smaller bits for your feet. Two of us would put on roller skates, and two of us would tie up the main part of the chairs and just swing around on the foot stool bit, which was about the size of a standard playground swing, but with only one connection point. Then the roller skaters would get up some speed on the “runway” and hurtle into the zone where the swingers could reach us, and the goal was to get to the back of the big area and back (past the swings) without the swingers being able to knock us down. The real fun part of this was that our deck was about 12-16 feet off the ground (steep back yard) and was not in good shape, so when we streaked past the swings and slammed into the railing to stop ourselves, the railing would lean out, and sometimes pieces of wood would just fall off. It’s a miracle we didn’t die.
DustyShadow · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:40 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock ball. Like baseball or kickball but you hit or "sock" the ball with the top of your fist. Never met anyone who played it in elementary school like we did.
ClippedAtTheHip · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the party, but I’ve got a few of these from my teenage years that were stupid/fun:
“Activity Hour” (aka Murder Ball) - dodge ball but with soccer balls, frisbees, tennis balls, etc (nothing that could do serious damage, though, like baseballs or lacrosse balls).
How to play:
Divide the crew into two teams, one on each side of the yard. Following the rules of Dodge Ball, proceed to throw every ball or frisbee or whatever at your opponents until one side wins. Bonus: “the double” - if you could hit a person twice, (ie: by throwing a soccer ball high in the air for them to try and catch and then a second person wings a frisbee at them and hits them causing them to lose focus on the soccer ball and they get hit by the soccer ball as well) they lose an additional player on their team.
“Driveway Bowling” (Ok, so we only played this one once or twice, as it requires using a bowling ball you no longer have use for/stealing a bowling ball or two from the bowling alley).
How to play:
Procure bowling ball(s). Find a driveway that is flat or has a slight decline going to the street. Quiet, suburban neighborhoods work best. Set up make shift pins (2 liter soda bottles filled with water work) across from the driveway entrance on opposite side of street - a street with a curb is recommended to stop the ball from rolling too far. Make sure there are no houses across from the driveway/alley you’ve designated. Make a chalk line in the driveway from which to bowl. Try and bowl 10 frames without the bowling ball shattering.
fufooo · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Referee". Used to play this when I was a young kid (7-9ish) with 3 others. One would be a referee and hide in an elevated wardrobe, and after some time (up to the referee, it ranges between 5 seconds up to a minute or whatever) the referee would burst out screaming 'Stop! What's your excuse?' and the others would freeze in motion.
During those few seconds of the referee hiding, we'd have to grab any random props/toys from around the room and create the most random stories as our 'excuse'.
The referee determines the winner from the funniest story.
And example of an excuse; if I grabbed a doll or figurine I'd say something like "I was farming in my fields when suddenly this doll grew out of my plant."
Till this day I'm still good friends with them, but we have no idea how we created this game...
agaribay1010 · 1 points · Posted at 23:59:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As an excuse to punch each other my sister and I made a game called “Chicken Noodle Soup” where we would hit each other as hard as possible and sing “Chicken noodle soup soup chicken noodle soup soup”. First person to make a sound out of pain lost.
StewofPuppies · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Valkyrie Profile 1 and 2. To this day the only games to even get a semblance of similarity to it are MOBILE games like Brave Frontier or the collaboration those guys did with Final Fantasy to do FF Brave Exvius. VP 1 to this day remains one of the best JRPG I have played. The only other game that comes in close competition is Chrono Trigger. VP 1 has a lot of bad voice acting but a lot of the voice actors are also reminiscent because they were the voice actors to the old school Pokemon anime. You will hear Brock, Misty, Ash/Ash's mom's voice actor frequently voicing a lot of the characters.
This game came out for the Playstation.
80sTan · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
American Ball. A game that consisted of maniacally throwing, punting, kicking, tossing, and flinging every ball in existence. This includes whiffle balls, tennis balls, baseballs, footballs, frisbees, soccer (eurobroball- as we called it), basketballs, foam screaming nerf lawn dart (the american choice), and I believe a dog toy actually. We were 14. We were young, dumb and American.
realrx7 · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can - concept is pretty simple. Can only be played at night. Take any old aluminum can and stick it outside in a central location. One person counts to 50 while everyone goes and hides. Once the person is done counting, everyone that is hiding can then try to kick the can. If the “searcher” spots you and jumps over the can before you kick it, you are out. Once you are out you become a “searcher”. Sounds kind of lame, but we played this all the time as kids.
mydarlingdivine · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Context: my older brother and I are 3 years apart, my younger brother is 6 years younger than me/9 years younger than my older brother. We used to love playing hide and go seek. Except we didn’t hide ourselves.. we took turns hiding our younger brother (who was barely older than an infant). One time my older brother hid him in a dresser drawer. Ahhh good times..
slapchopchap · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “din-jee” Set up was a soccer goal at the top of hill in my friends back yard. we would then use hockey sticks to try and slap /pass/ shoot a basket ball up to the goal, where there would be a defender with a lacrosse stick and unnesesary safety gear lol
HazeInut · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
in school i liked to play "if i step on the black tile i fucking die"
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:00:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marco puncho Like Marco polo but more violent. Also hide and go punch Punch scotch And red rover, punch some cunt.
andymacassar · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bag Ball". It has all the same rules as dodgeball (ball handling-wise) except it's 2-player.
Standing on your knees at either end of a 20' long "court"(ideally, shag-carpeted), each player in turn attempts to 'bag' the other without the target player catching, prior to it reaching the ground. Any miss is a simple no-score.
The court itself features two barriers spaced ~4' apart, behind and between which each player kneels.
The one oddity is that if -when thrown- the ball should (for whatever reason, other than hitting the target-player and landing uncaught) bounce into the neutral zone; then, whomever should sprint-crawl and grab it first has the next turn.
The ball? Tightly crumpled newsprint ~ the size of a lacrosse ball- held together with -HUH!- white lacrosse tape. Games are to 21. You must merely win by 1. BTW; no body part is off-target, the bag ball itself is canvas-textured and it can effin hurt.
No special equipment except jeans and tees, I suppose. You really don't want to be scurrying hyper-fast on hands and bare knees for very long.
Kids of lesser means in wealthy towns come up with some stupid shit. But I would SO play right now, if I could reserve my parent's old living room, circa 1979. And challenge my brother to a rematch. I think that last throw was bullshit.
dls14a · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would rip the heads off of barbies and throw them on the ceiling fan and wait until our mother turned on the fan on a hot day
Cut3ball · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Poor girls” my family was already kinda poor but my friends and I used to play out in a shed in our backyard. We would basically sweep the shed and play house. But playing house like we lived in a shed outside lol.
mmilthomasn · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ditch ‘em. Basically a massive hide and seek game all the kids in the neighborhood played at dusk, until after dark. Everyone hid and as a seeker found you, you joined the team of seekers. Long summer evenings kids from about 8 to 14 would play, until you had to go in. It spanned blocks and blocks of neighborhood.
We also played ghost in the graveyard when we were in 3rd-6th grade. It involved counting and running around outside a house.
Long summer evenings outside we’re the best! Thanks for reminding me of fun times, when we would roam all day and night without supervision.
jmun9 · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bratz Dress Up, Get Down, and Be a Bratz Superstar! Randomly chose this game at my local swap meet, and it was the best $5 spent. This is like a ‘dance dance revolution’ type of game except with bratz. There were 5 different girls to choose from Jade, Meygan, Sasha, Yasmin, and Cloe. My personal favorites were Sasha and Jade, anyone else play this game? Also who was your favorite girl? The music was the best part though!
Frizzle23 · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mighty Midgets. It was a game an old friend of mine made up. We both had younger brothers the same age, so at their soccer games we would play. We would usually make the goal half the distance in between the posts of a chain link fence. Basically it's just penalty kicks but you have to play from your knees and you could score off rebounds. It was an excuse to dive around, make crazy saves, and not have to watch our little brothers.
BunningsM8 · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On road trips I used to imagine a Tarzan like character who would run along side the road and swing and keep up, the catch was he wasn't allowed to touch the ground or go out of frame in the window. Kept me entertained for hours
Pretty sure this is how I discovered I had ADHD
ZyeCS · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Road Rage" in 1st grade. About 10 of us would ride our bikes around the neighborhood, and each have a bunch of sticks.
We would try to get the sticks in the front tire of each other's bikes, last man standing wins.
Lasted about a month until Anthony broke his arm and we all got told off.
thebobmannh · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a "game" every time we were at a pool where you could jump in. It was more of a silly vaudville act than a game, but basically we would pretend to be walking into a room and "Charlie" was supposed to have fixed a water leak, or turned off the water, and we would step in and "splash". No idea why it so amused us but I very vivid remember doing this a LOT.
Lil-Bar-of-Soap · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We turned the jungle gym upside down and played "topsy turvy"
Norabderdro · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I played a frisbe game with my brother. The frisbe was made out of soft fabric with a sand fill around it. The point of the game was to hit the frisbe with a wooden stick for 1 point and if you could hit it back to the other player mid air still spinning that was worth 2 points. Good times.
Col_Butternubs · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a tube slide at my elementary school and we played this game where we would try to get as many people in the tube at once. We would cram like 12 kids in that slide
piperk05 · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger sister and I played this game called "Puppy" for 4 or 5 years when we were little. My sister would act like the name suggests, a puppy. I remember building forts/kennels and telling her to do tricks. It was a fun game, although it sounds a bit weird.
Hopipotamus · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Might not be unique, but if we smelled a skunk during a road trip we would start counting like: “I 1 it, I 2 it...” and whoever said “I 8 it” lost.
stefonbiggs · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Yellow car” every time we saw a yellow vehicle and said “yellow car (or if it were a truck you would say truck) I win” we would get one point and whoever had the most points in the day won.
TakenAksis · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mission to the Moon was a game where you would take maybe five random objects, such as a yardstick or a traffic cone, and get from point A to point B by making a path where you would take the back object and move it to the front. You would play this with a team of 4 or 5 kids and race to the end
Katharinelk · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moat monster
ComicalMemer · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The who can take more NyQuil Pm I don't remember much though
robot14562 · 1 points · Posted at 00:03:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shaboodal My sister and I played a game I made up called Shaboodal. It was basically Simon says but instead of Simon it was shaboodal and at random intervals we would yell wiggle like a noodle when you’re doing the Shaboodal. Think squidwards dancing scenes and imagine 2 8 year olds try to replicate it.
We thought it was so fun and played it all the time during our vacations
Cychet · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Roll off the bed". Literally me and my siblings would cover ourselves in blankets and pillows and just roll off the bed simultaneously. We also had another one we called "ball time" where we'd just stand in a hallway and bounce a rubber ball to each other. We were bored as shit growing up.
AndrysThorngage · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animal wrestling. My big brother and I would select an animal and a power. For example, if I said I was a cheetah he would have to let me have a three step head start or if I said I was a spider I could shoot a web to restrain him for three seconds. We would then proceed to beat the shit out of each other. Good times.
Ericb31415 · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played “four corners” it’s a game where you are on a tennis court and you have a person in each of the 4 corners. The goal of the game is to keep the tennis ball in motion and for it to not stop. (It can bounce as many times as you want it just can not stop moving) once it stops moving in your corner you are out and then the remaining players keep playing till there is one winner
Claireon · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin was the king of games when he babysat me and my siblings as a kid, but our favorite was a game called Alien. He would just walk us around the house, point at random things, scream “LOOK IT’S AN ALIEN” and we’d have to shoot it with nerf guns. I don’t know why it was so fun, but I have amazing memories associated with that game. I’ve actually tried playing it with kids I babysit now, and it’s always a big hit.
FlipDaLinguistics · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Planet Blupi, i remember spending hours playing that game.
sagekolarik · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Garbage Chute. Everyone went down the playground slide at the exact same time, causing a huge buildup of people getting stuck! When you finally got to the bottom, you had to climb your way back to the top with everyone still slowly trying to reach the bottom. My school shut that down real fast, but I'd totally play that again in a heartbeat.
thehappydwarf · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Yo Homies” or “Border Patrol” as we called it. Basically in middleschool my friends and I used to play airsoft with really high end, powerful, fully automatic replica airsoft guns and one of us lived on a plantation with a SHITLOAD of land so we’d always play at his place. Anyway, when the sun would go down, we’d establish a “border” which was a line cutting through his land and we’d divide into 2 teams; 4 of us were border patrol (and rode around on a gator) and the rest were the ‘mexicans’ who were only allowed to wear underwear. The goal pf course was to get from one side of the plantation to the other without being riddled witj bb’s going 400+ fps by the border patrol. Super politically incorrect but SOOO much fun
Lovsaphira9 · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a game called 'tiger' that was played on a trampoline for boundaries. Basically, one person would lay in the center and one person would jump near them to "aggravate" the tiger. The tiger would start chasing after each person until he caught someone. We had 3 'play deads' which we would flop on the floor and stick our tongue out where they would come by acknowledge the use of that and run after another individual... Was a bit of fun with a small group for me growing up
captobvious575 · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Harley or not. I’ve had many motorcycles and hence many close calls on motorcycles. So we created the game Harley or not. The kids call out motorcycles when we see one, this equals 1 point. If it’s a Harley they get an extra point. There’s really no end to the game and score keeping is almost irrelevant but my hope is that my kids learn to look for motorcycles on the road when they are old enough to drive, plus I was really tired of the fighting with each other when they saw slug bugs.
Needyouradvice93 · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the remote.
I used to always hide the remote. I'd swap in dead batteries. Turn the volume up all before turning the TV off. Delete all of their TiVoed programs and fill the TiVoe up with infomercials. Spit on the TV. That kind of thing.
EqualClassic · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin invented a game where we will blindfold the "it" and he/she will tag us while blindfolded.
MoniqueCalculon · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One kid would have to climb into this giant yard waste rolly bin with a locking lid. Our group would lock him or her in there, roll them to a mystery spot and make them guess where they were. Then we would unlock it and run away - they had to count to 100 before getting out and then drag the bin all the way back to home base. If they guessed wrong they had to go back in the bin again.
Occasionally, we’d forego the mystery journey and just push the bin down a big hill for a crash landing (lid locked for this).
I would describe these ‘games’ as pointless, dumb and dangerous - so, basically, perfect kid activities
its_ion · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Godzilla - stepbrother came up with it and my little sister and I would play it (little sister and I were about 9 and 7, stepbro was about 15). One person would be at the top with sleeping bags, pillows, anything soft but heavy works. "Godzilla" would throw the pillows and stuff at the other two who were trying to pull them down to the bottom of the stairs.
yopanic · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Wheels 😂
sweetmotherofodin · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just want to say that I learned I wasn't crazy or as unique as thought after browsing the r/threekings subreddit.
We started playing the game back in the 90s. Doors to the Mind. That's exactly what it was called back then too. Dark room, friend to guide you, have to say a stupid little prayer thing, they guide you through the doors of your mind and hopefully you don't die.
This was back before I was allowed to browse the internet and we were only 9/10 years old, so we had heard about it from a friend, who learned it from another friend, whose brother played it and learned it from some other boy at school, etc. It was even being played when I moved an hour away from that town a couple years later in 2002/2003. We played it at recess. We would get inside a huge tire (the ones they put on the playgrounds to climb on) and cover ourselves with jackets. One person would guide us, we would be too creeped out to continue or the teacher would yell at us.
I did research it when I was a few years older and the only thing I ever found on it was that it was a game witches played (couldn't find the link ever again if I tried). So until I found that subreddit a few years ago I thought it was just some dumb game the kids in town made up.
rocketbuddy101 · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The name of the game was sock. I have two brothers and two of us would gang up on the other and plug his nose so he had to breath out of his mouth. One of us would take off our dirty sock and shove it in their mouth. There was no way to win, we would just shove dirty socks in each other’s mouths
smilesandotherthings · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers. You crawl around in the night like worms.
Daneosaurus · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Whomp” or “Whompy Cushion”. My older brothers had my younger brother and I wear pillowcases over or torsos and heads with the pillow still in it, face first. We would run blindly into each other at full speed. Whoever falls down first loses.
Alawliet · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stop and party! The person who was "it " would close their eyes, while everyone else hid. After counting, the person was it, would search for the rest, if they saw them, they would point at them with finger guns and say "Stop". The people who were hiding are supposed to get behind the person who was it and tap their back. If they did, they have to yell party and dance.
Tilez1 · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game created by fellow elementary schoolers called “Krocker”. It’s a combination of Karate and Soccer (Or football). There is nothing more to the story than lots of people were injured.
LackinColor · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tony Hawk's The Poor Underground"
Whenever you are in the car you stare out the side windows and control an avatar doing tricks on what you see outside the window. I would mess up whenever I would see a fire hydrant.
outside_hitter_man · 1 points · Posted at 00:06:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tree hung over the trampoline. We'd throw a sock up on a high branch and see who could grab the sock first. Mid-air tackling was allowed so that got a bit dangerous. We called it "Capture the Sock".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a game called whose bike keeps going the longest once you hop off (imaginative, I know). It basically involved building up speed and then hopping off our bikes at a point, and then watching as our bikes kept going till they dropped, last one standing won.
10_02 · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cops and robbers”, but no rules and the robber was sprayed with nasal spray.
jhatchet · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not mine, but my wife told me about her’s, called “hey cow”. When you drive by cows on the road, you roll down your window and scream “hey cow” at the cows. Whatever number of cows look up at you is how many points you get. I don’t know if it’s fun for children, but I’ll confirm that it’s fun as an adult.
GageCo · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother had a game he would play where he would pee in the trash can.
Before we knew about this though, my mom could not figure out who was doing it we would sit at the dinner table and she would ask him "Do you pee in the toilet?" and he would always so no. One day though we are having dinner and he starts telling us about this game he plays where he tries to pee in the trash can. Turns out to him having a game where you pee in the trash can and peeing in the trash can are different things
succulentxlady · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot what it was called, but a group of five of us who all grew up on the same street would play a game of essentially tag. One of our friends was always “it” and he’d flip his eyelids inside out at the beginning of the game, and then act like a creepy monster. We’d have to hide from him. Nothing really happened when you got caught, no one else was ever “it”. But it was always fun and a lil creepy. He did a great job playing a zombie like monster.
dmuller98 · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game is “Ninja”!
Everyone gets in a circle, puts their palms together and says “1..2..3..ninja!” Which is when everyone strikes a fight pose. The object is to slap the other players hand to get it out. If attacking, you can only make one swift motion. If dodging you can only make one Swift motion. The turn order goes whichever way you decide, and you can attack whoever. You’re out when both of your hands have been slapped, wrists don’t count
This game is more fun with more people for sure(:
insatiableevil · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would get on each other’s back like a piggy back ride and then hit the other person with similar setup with fists or legs. The last person standing was the winner.
PsychedelicDemon · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this little toy monkey named 'Caesar' one person would hide him and whoever found him took his picture on a Polaroid and post it on a little bulletin board and a mark on a whiteboard, whoever found him hid him again, whoever hid Caesar the best i.e. if no one found him within the week won. we still play to this day.
MeanMustacheMan · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man, me and my childhood friend used to play a game called "Combination" where we would make up a crossover storyline between two fictional characters we liked, where he would be Sora from Kingdom Hearts and I would be Link or something and we'd pretend to be those characters and "battle" each other. Those were good times. :')
untranslatable · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Making as many triangles as possibility between points on objects outside the car window as I rode. Triangles always had to use a side of the previous triangles, so the end grouped area shape was continuous. I was a weird kid.
alk47 · 1 points · Posted at 00:07:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dizzy boxing: each competitor sits on an office chair or is taped to a rotating clothes line and is spun for 30 seconds or so. Then they beat the shit out of each other until they regain their balance.
Fapologist · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
aa1issaa · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a varianton hide and seek at night called SCARE. Played indoors, turning off all the lights, player who did not scream wins. The trick was to hide well enough that no one could sneak up on you. Rounds never lasted long as no one could handle the anticipation while in complete darkness.
reignwoman · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors and I used to play "Bug City". We used to gather up old aluminum cans and old sour cream containers to make them "skyscrapers" for the aforementioned bugs. We'd make little signs for the bugs and tape them to the containers, like Potato Peter's Pizza and Mosquito Mike's (there were no mosquitos).
The populus was primarily potato bugs that we'd roll up into balls and act out various bank robbery scenarios (the robbers were usually worms and slugs would be salted on sight).
Another one we'd play was "Rat King" where we'd run around the woods riding brooms pretending to be shapeshifting warriors. My best friend's little brother was the evil Rat King that wanted to turn the world into his rat subjects. He rode a giant, you guessed it- rat and we'd have imaginary Narnia-mosque battle scenes in a clearing.
sandmaster64 · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Goblin" a form of tag. The person who is it is The Goblin. The Goblin can only tag another player by throwing a soccer cone (light and with holes so even if you throw it hard it won't go very far or hurt you.)
Now here's the extra fun part- because the goblin can only tag you with a thrown cone. So if they have thrown all their cones, you are immune to getting tagged, so you can kick the cones, throw them at the Goblin, taunt the goblin etc.
Mauldrich · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a neighborhood nighttime game we called "Prison". A boundary was set about 6 houses x 2 houses. A specific driveway tile of concrete was designated the prison. There were 2 teams. 1 team would lay face-down on the prison tile and count to 100 or so while the other team went and hid. It was basically hide and seek. But when you found someone you took them to prison. Remaining hidden people could run out of hiding and tag a person in prison to free them and the could hide again. This meant a prison guard was preferred but you could still free people if you were fast. Fun game.
AdamShed · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Threw dirt clodes at each other over a pond, hurt like a mother when you got one in the head.
EatsPeanutButter · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would play “Florida” when we were maybe 3-7 years old. We would dress our dolls and then spend a good hour packing their bags for Florida. We would haggle and argue over who got the best items of clothing. This was usually the entire game, although occasionally we would arrange the kitchen chairs in two rows and pretend it was an airplane. We never actually arrived in “Florida” or anything. And yes, we were little Jews in NYC.
OhKittyNo · 1 points · Posted at 00:08:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I used to play this game we called mermaid Soccer where it was exactly like normal Soccer but we would have to kick with both feet. We fell over a lot but it was still really fun!!!
Then at one point we got a trampoline which made mermaid Soccer so much easier and a lot more fun!
david-krappenhitzz · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids we used to play a game whose name I don't remember but in that there would be 2 teams with 5 minimum 5 players on each team. A circle would be made and a handkerchief would be kept within the circle and taking the circle as a centre point both the teams would stand 10 metres apart ( the teams would stand behind a line drawn in front of them ). Each player would be given a random number ( 1-5 if there are 5 players on each side ). A referee will be standing at the centre point and name a random number (1-5 depending the number of players in each team )
The person from both the team having that number would run to the centre point and try to pick up the handkerchief without the opponent touching them anywhere on the body ( mainly head,back or hands ) which is counted as out and a point for the opponent.
So it would be depended on two things either you are very quick that as soon as your number is called you pick up the handkerchief and run towards your own team or you don't go for the handkerchief and let your opponent pick it up and touch them on the body before they go back to their own team and cross the line and get a point.
Extremely fun game to play as a kid.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Essentially, it was box car racing. Except that it was makeshift rafts with wheels, wagons, and when we got a bit older, using bikes but no braking allowed and you pedalled until anything was ineffective. The one to not crash into anything (almost always me except the one incident) won. I think the worst thing to happen was a kid crashing on a utility post and skidding into a person's cactus plant. Usually the person that crashed just got a few scrapes and bruises. But on that particular day, we decided to go to a different street to avoid risking another leg full of spikes.
lalajean719 · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Barbie 90210" I lived across the hall from my best friend "Amy" when I was in 4th grade and she was in fifth. We had about 25 Barbies between us, which we played with every day. In addition to that, Amy and I (to be honest; it was 90% Amy and 10% me) would publish a gossip magazine about this Barbie world. There was an advice section, "they're just like us" photos, gossip about the hottest new couple, advertising for the local mall. It was legit. Amy watched a lot of 90210 with her older sister, which is likely where she got the ideas from.
Watobird · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know I this is really late but... There was a game we played called "big or small" where someone would draw the other person but over exaggerating the features. The person drawing would ask a question like "big or small?" Or "long or short?" And if you wanted to spice it up ask "yes or no?", and draw a part of the body really big or small, etc. The person answering would never get to see the drawing until it was finished. They always ended up looking really funny. Recommend for when you are bored.
louisesiuol · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Amazon which was advanced tag for a playground where there were 3 people who were "it" 2 were the alligators and couldn't leave the wood chips and one was the lion and couldn't leave the jungle gym. 10/10 would recommend!
Hawkmek · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the Queer. Might not go over well in society today though.
TheLeener · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We use to play a game called “Statue”. You would have the kids that played the statues and then there was a seller and a buyer. The buyer would come up to each statue and the buyer would give a brief description. Then the seller would push the statue’s belly button, which would turn the statue “on”. The statue would try to be as wild and crazy as possible to entice the seller. To turn the statue off, you would have to press the statue’a belly button again. At the very end, it was up to the buyer to decide which statue he or she liked the best. Whichever one was picked won!
jerk_office · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE MENTION "DEVILED EGGS!!"
Okay. You and your friends sit on a porch. The game master gives everyone a color.
When they call out two colors, players have to race immediately to a preappointed location. The loser has to become the new game master, and the previous master adopts the previous color.
You keep going until you get confused or tired and decided to play freeze tag or some form of house.
Kiteman24 · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battlefield 2
FlawlessSpaniard · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Ball Game”
2-6 people swing on a swing set. 1 person kicks a ball at them and has to hit their body. Swingers can defend themselves by kicking the ball. If you get hit, you and the kicker trade places. There were other variations and rule changes involved.
Lawrence108 · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animal ball
You bounced the ball and couldn't travel like basketball. Got tackled like rugby and football. Played it with a soccer ball. And scored by throwing the ball in a hockey net.
Unique_Name1 · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When in the car looking out the window, I would use specs of dirt, bug guts or bird crap as a little platformer/Mario. I would bob my head up and down to make it "jump" or collect points by going over street lights, letter boxes or cars.
Please tell me someone else did this!
Joyfullyjoyfulsalad · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I had a couple of these, one was a weird tag variation, another was basically the bird box challenge, and the last was some weird camping thing?
The tag variation was made up buy sister after we watched a Lego Harry Potter video. It was tag except you had to shout "Bother!" when you tagged somebody and if they were touching a wall they were safe.
We called the bird box thing "Sorry" (y'know, like the board game because we were such original children). Rules were that you had to walk around with your eyes closed and when you ran into something or somebody you had to apologize and head in the opposite direction.
I'm not sure how unique this last one is, but my sister and I would pretend we were hikers going camping and some signs were mixed up which caused us to become lost. One sign (pointing out the front door) said "Monster Forest" and was supposed to be full of monsters, the other sign (pointing out back) said "Camp Ground" and was where we wanted to go. Well, apparently, somebody switched the signs and the front yard was the actual camp ground and the backyard was the Monster Forest™. Once outside, we would pretend we'd been camping for a couple of days before noticing that we were in the wrong place. The king of monsters (a tree root that was shaped kind of like a hand) was called "Skeleton Hand" and he protected us from the other monsters (just imaginary things we'd run away from) while trying to get us out to the actual camp ground.
These games took up 99% of our free time
Cleeth · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm sad that I'm late to the party here.
My friends and I held onto every bicycle tire tube that ever got a puncture. Eventually we had an abundance and we would stand at either side of our court (arena) with a number of tire tubes slung over our shoulders like fucking belt ammo.
We'd proceed to throw them at each other at full force, first to 3 wins. Or in the case of something beyond a 1v1, 3 hits and your out.
I suppose it was a budget type of dodge ball.
Scoretrotzchille · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fallout 3
NotoriousJJG · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Seek in the dark in basements.
Two people would hide in the basement and then the seeker would turn the lights off and go downstairs and try to find the other two. I remember just trying not to laugh when someone was right next to you tripping and banging into everything but they didn't know it.
cascadiababe · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Pantry Game" -- my brothers and I would cram ourselves into the (quite small) pantry and dare/force each other to consume either nasty concoctions or shots of pure ingredients (salt, vanilla, "butter seasoning", etc,).
Dragonoid96 · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dungeon siege. Still the best gaming experience I have ever had, including the multiplayer (zonematch). I loved it.
yut0kun · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game called hunter where we would assign each other animals with different abilities that would affect how fast we could run or if we could jump and climb. It was basically just over glorified tag.
zboogiee · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play basketball on ripsticks!!! Probably the most fun game we ever made up.
madeyemoodies · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dixie’s Diner. I was a waitress for my baby sisters. I used bark as plates and made salads out of wildflowers and weeds. My husband loves to poke fun when my sisters come over now.
Sisters: Hey, we’re coming over. Husband: Dixie’s diner, open for business!
suckmytoes27 · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play shark, we’d throw all of our shoes on the floor, run to the couch with one person being the shark (they stay on the floor) the object was to get all the shoes without the shark getting you. The only way the shark could get you was if you were on the floor. So naturally you used the furniture to get around. The hard part was getting the shoes that were far away from furniture.
Trollinthedungeon392 · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hack attack, literally football (soccer) in rugby posts (all we had) and simply everyone kicking the shit out of each other. Up the England
chamochi · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My five cousins and I all grew up together. We'd all sit next to each other on chairs outside. One person would go into a room and decide how they would make us laugh. When they were ready they'd sing out and everyone outside would take a sip of water and hold it in their mouth. First person to laugh and spit out all the water was the loser and the next person to make everyone else laugh
easilyeasy · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Same punch," kinda like "slug bug," or "sock-eye." Whenever your driving around or running errands, whenever you see a car that is the same model as yours, you punch the person next to you. Not unique, but different from the norm
thekatzpajamas92 · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Name five cereals. When I was in elementary school, whenever we were in an elevator with a group of kids, (I grew up in NYC, so this was basically every time we went to someone’s house) someone would shout “name five cereals” at which point everyone in the elevator would pick a target to give a purple nurple to, the stipulation being that you had to name five cereals before the winner of the nurple draw had to let go. It was a serious game of honor, obviously losing the nurple draw could easily be nullified by just pulling out of reach of the winner of the nurple draw, so we instituted a rule where you weren’t allowed to move and if you did you had to name ten cereals. It’s amazing the speed at which the contents of the cereal aisle flee your mind under duress.
feelinlikepinacolada · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Wolf
I'm one of six kids so we had so many different games we would play!
We use to have this big trampoline in our backyard. One of us was the designated wolf who had to attack the village people. Another one of us would be designated 'the town' where everyone had to sleep at night (just be touching the town while the wolf slept.) Once daylight broke the towns people had to go out and collect water from the edges of the trampoline by touching the sides then running back and giving to the town. The wolfs job was to tackle and take the towns people to his/her cave.
My little sister was a very good wolf who scared the living daylights out of all of us. It was actually really fun.
hamiltonscale · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would line up at the diving board with two people in the pool, and we’d walk to the edge and they’d “shoot” us...then we would dramatically fall into the pool, dying spaghetti western style.
bigrigtraveler · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my parents were shampooing the carpet they would move everything from the living room into the dining room and when this happened I would pretend it was a jungle and try to come around/under/through everything
PhrasingBoome · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Star wats parody game and animaniacs game on PC. They were just chock full of fart and burp jokes.
DeathPony07 · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dad would sit in the recliner and use a mini hockey stick to shoot a squishy ball at me. I was the goalie. The goal was the space between the wall unit and the wall. I eventually played goalie in a roller hockey league as a teenager.
Mr_B0X · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when I was in middle school, my best friends across the street from me would play "Rock Wars"... They had a huge back yard with a cattle pen. It was this big ol open area with a barn off to the side and with being in the hillcountry, it was surrounded by rocks. Well this incredibly stupid game involved each of us taking a corner and rocks. We had 3 rocks of whichever size we chose and we would lob them at each other like playing idiot battleship... It went on for like a week before it came to an abrupt stop when one of the youngest brothers got hit with a fist sized rock from about 30 yards away. Had to go to the hospital and grt stitches just above the eyebrow... It was nasty. We never played that game again. Now that I think about it, this is probably the dumbest game I've ever played in my life... After Anthem of course.
lakethepondling · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 8 or 10, my grandparents lived in this 3 story house, and my cousins and I would visit often, usually playing in my grandparents' bedroom upstairs since they kept the toys up there. One thing that they had up there was a massive plush dog (About 4-6 feet long) that was super light (Maybe weighed 2 pounds.) Anywho, my cousins and I got the idea that we could sit on the dog, grip the long floppy ears and ride it down the carpeted stairs to the landing. Good times. No one got hurt, fortunately.
mylurkerdaysaregone · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One time I broke both my arms and played some games with my mom.
Ga_x · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The sausage game. Take a blanket and all the belts you can find. Roll your sibling in the blanket. Tie them up around the arms, legs, knees, shoulders with the belts. You’ve made a sausage. Sit the sausage on a desk chair ( one that turns) and turn them as much as you can. Their goal is to catch you.
The funniest is that our play room was on the top floor of the appartement and we had a spiral staircase. Good times.
jed-i-knight42 · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My buddies and I re-enacted wars with our nerf guns
CipherDrake · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would get any available can, then group up. One guy is it, and those who aren't take turns hitting the can with flip-flops. When we miss, we are forced to stay with our flip-flops until the can gets hit, or we manage to sneak past the guy who is it. When we manage to hit the can, the it guy must go after the can and put it up first, then he can tag us. Whoever gets tagged becomes it for the next round.
Carbodryhate · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend's family had a couple of really unique ones, bit the best was the Sleeping Bag game. On the night of a slumber party, one person would be "it" and leave the room while everyone else changed sleeping bags (or didn't) and would cover themselves completely. I think the rules were that you couldn't touch, but you could get real close and make noises, trying to make someone laugh and recognize them that way. Shit got real creative sometimes because, since one person was "it," there was always one empty sleeping bag. So sometimes, they would fill the empty sleeping bag with pillows and one person would slide their sleeping bag very close to the pillow filles empty one and stick their hand under it and mimic the motions of breathing. I won't lie, they got me with that move once, it was executed brilliantly.
Cpen · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would run from the shade. On overcast days, where it was constantly going from cloudy to sunny very quickly, we would all gather under the shade of a tree. Then when it went from sunny to cloudy, we would start to book it to the next tree because the clouds would cause shade to look like it was chasing us and consuming all the light. Whoever got caught died and would try to slow our path from getting to the next tree.
carnapyz · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cherry Bobs. Played it in grade school in Australia in the 1950's. There were several versions of the game, all played with cleaned and dried out cherry pits. The most popular game consisted of a player building a small pyramid of sand, maybe four inches high, then making a small indentation in the top. He would then stand with his heels against the pyramid and jump outwards as far as he could, and draw a line at that point. That was where another player could come along, stand at the line, and try to lob a cherry bob into the indentation at the top of the pyramid. The player with the pyramid would have placed 'odds' on the success of the player lobbing into the hole based on its size. If it was a small hole and the lobber got one in, he would maybe get six or seven cherry bobs in return. If he missed, you kept his cherry bob. There were many players with little pyramids (this was in the schoolyard at lunchtime) so you had to have a competitive offering to get someone to toss.
SufficientGirth · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it ‘the pole game’. It was played on a trampoline, and was a mini-rugby/american football game. One guy was the tackler, two were the attackers. Aim of the game was to touch the rugby ball off the base of a chosen pole on the trampoline. 1 ‘play’ consisted of one person trucking the ball across the trampoline and trying to beat the tackler. The next play was the second attacker doing the same from wherever the first attacker made it to. You had 5 plays to make it to the pole!
Thanks for bringing back some great memories!
hammyhamm · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grapefruit wars.
We had a huge white grapefruit tree and also hated grapefruit. We would collect them and would play a back and fourth king of the hill with rotting grapefruit as missiles.
pigs-eye · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Crusher" was a game me and my brothers used to play where one person laid down on a cushionless couch and we piled everything possible on them. Couch cushions, pillows, blankets, books, chairs, people, anything we could find. After we we done, the person had to try to get out. Honestly, sounds kinda terrifying now...
We also played "Tripper" in our basement which had three couches in each corner of the room. One person had to run from one couch to the other without getting tripped. One person was the tripper and had to crawl around on their hands and knees trying to trip people. If a person fell they became the new tripper.
beefboi_parkinglot · 1 points · Posted at 00:12:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 5th or 6th grade, my friends and I would play a game called “Fidel” in my buddy’s pool. One person was Fidel Castro, the diving board was Cuba, and the opposite end of the pool was Florida. Everyone would start off on the diving board end with those floaty pool mats (“mattresses”), and the Fidel would start in the middle of the pool. Everyone would then try to swim across the pool on their mats to “Florida” without the Fidel pulling them off. If Fidel got you, you would become a Fidel as well. If you got to the other side safely, however, you won.
In retrospect, a somewhat questionable game for kids to play, but it certainly aligned with the times.
_pixie_cut_climber · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I had a sophisticated system set up where we gambled with gold buttons over a Rummy tournament while we pretended to be Captain Hook's pirates and sipped water that we dubbed "rum".
fiduciaryatlarge · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scrub up. Baseball, where you start at right field then after each out go around the field to end up at catcher then bat until you make an out.
Runnermann · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We found some lawn darts from when one of our dads were young. Us neighborhood kids would stand in a circle, facing outward, with one person tossing it as high in the air as possible. If you were the first one to run you were a chickenshit, the worst possible title for a kid that age.
Ronnie was the first to run one day and he took it in the dome and he's talked slower (and a little funny) ever since.
Unwalked · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if this counts but when I was 13-14 (a couple years before road saftey classes) my dad and I played the game 'mortercyle' where if you saw a mortercyle on the road you got 5 points. Now that I'm older and learning to drive Im greatful as hell that my dad taught me that game. I've never not seen a mortercyle on the road.
kvanzanten · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Monster Game. We'd turn all the lights off in the house and my dad would hide somewhere with a nerf gun. My three older siblings and I would tip toe around the house looking for him, and when we did, he'd pop out and shoot us with the nerf gun and we'd all run away screaming. It was our favorite game.
Lifeorbeth · 1 points · Posted at 00:13:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shark. You'd have one person under a trampoline with a hose and everyone else on top. The "shark" would try to spray people through the trampoline. Kinda like tag but much more fun.
timmycosh · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oddworld was fucking amazing!
Jack jazz rabbit was lit too
GTA SA as well
Handles907 · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I did a weird variant of charades. Except you didn't guess what they were doing. You had to try not to laugh while they did the silliest thing they can think of. Whoever laughed would have to take the persons place and try to get the rest of us to laugh.
Naterpotato · 1 points · Posted at 00:14:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jackie Chan Move" My best friend and I were big fans of Jackie Chan. His movies and especially the cartoon. The game mostly consisted of yelling "Jackie Chan move!" and then karate chopping his older brother.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game where whoever had the ball would be beaten by the other players. There was no good side to possessing the ball.
waxxx65 · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basketball court soccer with a tennis ball
Mattdog_99 · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball and Wall. My local REC grounds had a wall that separates it from the street that had lighting ,so in the nights you could sit with your back to the wall and be all but invisible to someone a few meters away. So everyone would pick a spot on this section of wall and then one person would boot a football or rugby ball (depending on what we had played earlier) as hard as they could to see if they could hit someone (we weren't very smart kids) if you were hit then you would come off the wall and join the kicker. Last man standing wins. and yes it did really hurt.
DrFartBox · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Seat Belt Race!" It's exactly what it sounds like - a race to see who could get their seat belt on the fastest. It only lasted a few seconds, but 8 yr old FartBox lived for this game.
Lorettooooooooo · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Touch-ass, basically tag but we had to touch the ass of the other kid and yell "touch ass". No other rule, literally that was the only rule. Girls played too.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer...
Which by today's standards would be bigoted and prejudice... Funny and best thing about it is... None of us knew it even knew what a queer was..we just knew they had the ball and needed a good tackling.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a hallway in our house with two arches at the ends. I took a sock and I played this stupid game. Here are the rules if you’re curious. You’d start at one end of the hallway with the sock. You had multiple ways to score from their. You could throw the sock to the other end of the hallway and run down and tap it in with your hand, one point. You’re not allowed to throw it in. For two points, you throw the ball up and tap it hard into the end of the hallway.
ChefMarcus11 · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would take our shoes off and put them on the trampoline, then we'd jump around trying not to let the shoes touch us as they bounced. If you got touched, you were out.
wewillallbetrees · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Protect your nuts"
Two lines of people "red rover" style. 1 football. Each line lines up with their hands behind their backs. One person from one line hurls the ball towards the other line. If you stand your ground and get hit by the ball you stay in. If your hands block the ball, usually specifically protecting your nuts, you leave the line. Proof that r/kidsarefuckingstupid
rbremer50 · 1 points · Posted at 00:15:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Buttered Blue Beans—- There was a home base and a hiding area. one individual would hide a belt while all others were at home base. The hider then would call the other players to the hiding area and all would search while the hider would guide by saying “warmer or colder” until someone found the belt. The finder would the yell “Hot buttered blue beans” and then chase the other players back to base while being able to hit them with the belt (below the waist). The finder would then get to hide the belt. It was great fun and no one got really hurt.
Merasty24 · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boot hockey,
During the hockey games where the men played, the kids would play on the side of the bleachers, and we would use a crushed can and two garbage bins as a goal. You scored if you heard the cling.... good times
LucS2K · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Pillow tower”
My sister and I would play this game where we take turns and would stack pillows on top of each other. The point was to stack the pillows and cover the person so much to where they couldn’t breath and were practically buried in pillows.
Patch31300 · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Future cop: l.a.p.d especially as it had a two player tower defence pvp game. Amazing ps1 game
amabwey · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wheelbarrow wrestling. In teams of two one person pics up the other persons feet and you go against another team. Whoever gets dropped first loses.
classall1989 · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Who’s mouth am I in”
arctic-aqua · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two Base. It was like baseball, but with two teams of 2 and two home plates.. One team would bat and one team would pitch/back-catch. If you got a hit you just run back and forth to count runs. One out and you switch. We played with a tennis ball and you could get someone out by throwing the ball at them or catching it after one bounce on a hit or strike.
missingmybeans · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Burritos! My brothers and I would take turns tightly wrapping each other up in a few layers of blankets like a burrito to see who could out the quickest. It was awesome. I'm considering introducing it to my husband if he doesn't think it's crazy.
K-Dog142 · 1 points · Posted at 00:16:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I had this game we liked to call “animal shoe catch”. Whenever he came over, we would grab my smallest stuffed animals and a shoe and would sit at the stairs. One of us was at the top, the other was downstairs. We would put a stuffed animal in the shoe and send it down the railing. The person at the bottom would catch the shoe and throw it back up, leaving the stuffed animal with them. When all the stuffed animals were downstairs, they would be thrown back and you had to try to grab them all.
The best part was when someone would get hit in the face because the other three the shoe too fast
Superswarmer · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my group not friends would play this game (imagatively called "the game" by us) where is was just tag, on a playset/playground, however the seeker had to keep his eyes closed and the hiders couldn't touch the ground, touch the ground (and get caught) you're out, open your eyes, restart your count. Pretty fun, relatively dangerous yes... But who cares
aoravecz87 · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had two games we used to play.
First game was we would go into our bathroom put away any breakables and just throw bouncy balls into the tub and see how many things it would bounce off! We may have gotten hit a few times and I have no idea how we didn’t break anything. Lol
The other thing we used to do was booby trap a different spot of the house. ( our baby sitter used to let us do this, she rocked 😂) We’d put slippery stuff on the floor, put up Saran warp etc, then we had to walk through each other’s traps.
No winner for either game. Just a good time. Lol
*edit for spelling
clockworkrobotic · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not me, but according to my dad, when my aunt (his sister) was a kid she'd play the "tidying up game". This consisted of her running around the perimeter of a room singing "running round the room, running round the room, see a toy, pick it up and put it away!", at which point she'd do exactly that until the room was tidy. As far as I'm aware this wasn't something their parents made up to trick her into tidying. It's just a thing she did.
DeltaHex106 · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This really old nitendo game boy color game called Lucky Luke. It was about this cowboy going on these missions in the Wild West where he encounters various obstacles and enemies and even native Americans. It was a really fun game and gets very interesting as the game goes.
WrestlingProjections · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hockey with Curtain Rods and a paper ball 😂😂😂
Beign_yay · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Belly Bomp”
We would put pillows in our shirts, yell “BELLY BOMP-BOMP-BOMP!”and then slam into each other. The person left standing was the victor.
whyareyoulkkethis · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother and i would play hide and seek in the one room, and to be night time. Rules: one would have time to hide with light, the seeker would slighty open door and turn off light and try to find hider in the dark.
the room had a double bed a couple of wardrobes and tv cabinet, was pretty funny when we couldn't find one another when we hid under the pillows on the bed.
my brother was on top of a cabinet, he couldn't get down once. good times
octopusdouchebag · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play a game called Assassinate the President.
Basically it consisted of one of us pretending to shoot the president (who no one played, we just pretended they waisted) and the other one would be the body guard who would get to jump in front and dive onto the couch. No idea where we got this idea, I guess we just wanted an excuse to jump onto the couch... we brought it up to our mom recently who didn’t remember it and all she said was “God you two are fucking weird.”
EatsPeanutButter · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remembered another — I invented a pool game called Poncha Ka Wancha when I was about 7 or 8 and all the kids at my pool club played it for the rest of the summer.
First off, the name was “Native American for ‘shark catches fish’” 🤦🏻♀️ — I pretended it was an ancient Native American game because kids are weird.
So, the rules.
We all started out on one side of the shallow end of the pool. One person was the shark and the rest were fish. The fish has to swim from one shallow end to the other shallow end to be “safe.” The shark had to try and tag them out.
The catch was that the shark had to stay above water and could only tag body parts that were out of the water. The fish would stay under for as long as possible and try to come up for air only when the shark wasn’t beside them. And the shark would stalk victims and wait for a stray arm or leg to come above the water, or for someone to come up for breath.
It was actually a really fun game! I should’ve claimed it as my invention instead of giving it the weird name. Cool thing was, someone told me they used to play it as a kid a couple of states over, so it traveled! They used the name and everything. Not sure if they believed that I invented it.
paranoid_numb · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gods & Titans. Me and my friends would split in half, half of us were the gods and the other half were the titans. We would come up with different powers and try to win the war against the opposite group. It was kind of an exotic game because we would also invent backup stories for each character; for example, one godess and a titan were secretly dating, so the titan tried to help the gods win the war.
Jackaronny · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Alphabet". Whenever we would take long road trips as a family my brother and I would play this game called Aplhabet. Basically it was a race to see who could go through the alphabet the fastest by finding the letters on signs. Billboards, road signs, store signs, almost any kind of sign. So for example for the letter "A" you would have to find a sign with the letter "A" in the word (Ex: C"A"R PARTS HERE). It passed the time especially when we were on the interstate and their weren't a lot of signs.
plapped · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wheelbarrow stunts. Bounce wheelbarrows over rocks, turn it vertical, stand on it. We used to race them through an obsticle course too. Bored summers.
mcp_truth · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Koolies.
It was Pokemon but IRL and you could "catch" characters from any major show like one piece, Digimon, Yugi Moto, ect. We had a great imagination.
One friend was a player and the dungeon master equivalent.
mcp_truth · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My team was great I had Knuckles
Anonymous2401 · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I genuinely don't know if it's a common thing, but I've always played punchbuggy with my dad. If you see a Volkswagen Beetle, punch the other person. You see a Kombi, you punch them twice.
wavesandroots · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Hurricane”. We’d gather supplies and make “food” out of dirt, pine needles, and whatever else. Stockpile everything in the outdoor playset my cousins had then hunker down while “riding out the storm”... Grew up in Florida if that wasn’t obvious.
oliverdamon · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Club Penguin.
PlottyTheAnimator · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One weird game I remember playing with my younger brother was simply called "Germball". We had one of those jelly toy balls with the little feelers all over it, and it was kinda like dodgeball. If it hit you, you caught germs and lost the round. Don't remember what the stopping point was but before we both had video games to play, it was a good time killer.
Generalrossa · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Abe's Oddesy. Nothing beats the dark, unique and weird feel of Oddworld as a child that's never seen anything like it.
xyphanite · 1 points · Posted at 00:18:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to put electrical tape around playing cards and have card throwing wars. Those things were lethal.
stegg88 · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coombie
As a child playing football it was just me and my dad. So yiu make the goals and then one person crosses it in and the other has to score on the volley.
If it goes in you geg a point. If it's not on the volley or it's a miss the goal posts get a point.
I preferred it to football and spent lots of quality time with my dad
supergolum · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
We played a game we called "red car".
My friends house was on a pretty busy street (I'd say maybe averaging 5 cars / minute). She had a tree and a lamppost on her frontyard that were maybe 15 feet apart.
The rules were simple. If the passing car was red, you had to be touching the lamp post as the car passed or you lost one of your lives.
If the car was any other color, you had to touch the tree as the car was passing.
The game got more and more difficult as the night was setting in because you could only see the color for sure when the car was much closer.
We eventually added a new rule where if you wanted an extra life, you could sprint to the stop sign (which was about 150 feet away) and come back. If you made it back before any car passed the house, you got your life.
Looking back, that was a pretty fun game! Lots of exercice too!!
Edit: Now that I think about it, we called the game "Red danger". It sounds way more badass that way!
snazzymustache · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"BEAT!" One of my best buddies and I had a standing game called "BEAT!" - there were only two players - my buddy Andy and I. We would take turns being the aggressor and defender - though turns would sometimes be weeks apart, and when the game began was always a surprise. The person who was "it" could yell the word "beat" at any time/in any situation -- then they would count down from 5 to 1.
Meaning, you had 5 seconds to find something to defend yourself with before being attacked with God knows what.
Home Depot was always a particularly noisy place to play this game. Oddly, Toys R Us was the only place that kicked us out for playing it.
shelbyrosesalvaggio · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lighting roman candles and having roman candle stick "fights". Never quite understood the point or rules to this game other than to try and hit the other person aka my two older bros and a sister.
JAYBEEHABS · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crab soccer Walk like a crab only, throw or kick Dodgeball into street hockey net ( with a goalie, who can only sit)
A teacher started it in my grade school and it just blew up, to the point where we actually had yearly draft! The 8th graders were captains and were allowed to draft 1 eith grader, 2 seventh, 3 sixes ect...there was a legit League with playoffs ( winners got to play teachers team in from of the whole school) and even Someone who tracked goals! So there was a scoring race!
even to this day, when I run into someone that went to the school, we usually end up talking about it.
katydid767 · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bink. Your goal is to hit another person with a couch cushion. If you get hit, whichever limb they hit is binked and you can’t use it for 10 seconds. If you’re hit in the head you are dead for 10 seconds and everyone gets to whale on you.
Most of our games revolved around hitting each other with couch cushions,now that I think about it
Edit: you also shout “Bink!” every time you hit someone. I have no idea where my parents were when we were doing this, because my mom hated violent games and my dad hated noisy kids
pebble255 · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego Loco. It was a sandbox railroad lego game. Never heard about it on Reddit since I got here.
aiai250 · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Half life🙂😂
Hace_XVIII · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game my cousin and I used to play was called "My car!" Basically when a car you like drove past, first one to say “my car” gets to claim it.
I still want my fucking tricked out Mitsubishi Eclipse
Bubonic_Batt · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were really into baseball in my neighborhood. We played a game called “half yard game” which was basically like volleyball but with baseball gloves and a baseball.
We split the backyard into two sides and the “net” was an imaginary line about the height of the one story house which would mandate You’d throw the ball at ample height to make it possible for the other team to have a chance of catching it before it hit the ground.
Their objective was to catch the ball before it hit the ground. It usually produced a lot of sweet diving catches and some no look surprise throws.
Usually played 2 v 2 or 1 v 1. Though occasionally had larger games. We scaled the size of the court based on the amount of players. Had a decent sized back yard.
TheNorwegianGuy · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Icy Hands". We had a skating rink close by, which had a hockey layout on the floor. We wanted to play, but nobody had hockey equipment, so we used a bottle crate from the nearby supermarket. We played with 4 people teams and the goal was to get the crate into the half circles at the ends of the field, ya'know, the ones who marked the goal area.
It was hella fun, and some random people joined us even.
sekantbrekfast · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wish I wasn't so late to the party... I am the oldest of 4 brothers. 2nd oldest and I used to play "escape" with younger two. We'd take various items, usually a sleeping bag over their head, my karate belts, and plastic toy handcuffs, and tie them up. They'd then be placed in the closet, or tied to a chair or bunk beds. It typically took them about 15 minutes to escape; we were good at our part of the game. If it took longer, we'd go in and get them before they started yelling so we wouldn't get in trouble. It was never mean spirited; they always agreed to play, and I guess it never occurred to them to have us older ones be the escapees. We thought it was a riot, but I'm sure they only enjoyed the initial phase of the tie up.
The_Drunk_Unicorn · 1 points · Posted at 00:20:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not that weird I think but we played Celebrities. So I start with Heath Ledger which has the initials HL. So the next person would have to name a celebrity that starts with L. So like, Liv Tyler. Then the next person could say Tina Turner and the direction reverses and goes back to player 2.
Zulubo · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hup. A surprisingly intricate game. One kid with a giant bamboo pole marches in circles around a house chanting “Hup. Hup. Hup huppity hup.” A flag sits in the backyard, and the goal for the rest of us is to get the flag around the house past the hupper to the front sidewalk. If the hupper sees you, he can chase you and hit you with his stick, and then you’re out. Otherwise, he has to keep circling the house in the same direction. You have to avoid the hupper by listening to his chanting and carefully staying around the corner from him at all times.
Many strategies emerged, such as sneaking in from the alley, hiding in the garage, etc.
I think it should be a professional sport
Tayl100 · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Brother and I had sock wars. Ball up your socks, throw them at each other. Eventually we started using more strict rules, like how you have to throw it in a stylish way. He started putting pebbles in his socks, and Mom put her foot down then. I would guess that's mostly because she was tired of unballing our socks though.
Beelzabub · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "rag-out." The goal was to sit on a skate board and make it to the end of a sloping driveway. On either side of the driveway, the rest of the gang would be waiting with towels with a knot in the end. Their job was to swing the towels under the wheels of the skateboard. If you successfully snagged the skateboard, you would get to ride down the driveway. The goal was bragging rights to the number of times successfully completed, which was accomplished through a combination of swerving and speed.
theloralae7 · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Marco" - and no, not Marco Polo.
Essentially, hide and seek in the dark. Two teams, one would wait at the top of the basement stairs. When the other team was hidden they screamed "MARCO". The team at the stairs turned the lights off and navigated a dark basement to try find the other people.
The more we played, the more creative we got. We would trash the basement by making "obstacles" for the team to stumble over, and in return they would exaggerate their tripping and try to get those hiding to laugh.
As a 12/13 year old, I always chose to be on the team with a Male family friend of the same age. We would both hide in the closet and taught each other how to make out.
Fun times.
JuviaSerrano · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up my cousins and my siblings played “Code Lyoko” . Yes it’s referencing that French cartoon show on Cartoon Network . Anyways , it was pretty simple , everyone picked the character of their choice each round . We had a tree as a base and 2 electric boxes as the enemy territory . We would then chose the enemy amongst us and try to attack their Electric boxes . Yeah .... it wasn’t a good idea cuz those boxes zapped us . The more scars the better the odds that we were draining the enemy . It was greatly stupid . The only way to end it was if one of decided they got fried too much . Then we’d wrap it up with a love story by proclaiming our love to the tree 🌲, ( the base) .
kelseydorks · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family played “Padiddle” (which I believe is a northern US thing) You yell “padiddle!” when you see a car with a headlight out. 2 points. -2 points for false calls (motorcycles). No one ever kept track so I don’t know why we had a point system.
Nan_The_Man · 1 points · Posted at 00:21:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We just called it our "Adventure".
We'd pick up a stick each - one of us two, me a broomstick, another a sword-length one - and just... Make up an epic, basically.
In the end, we'd all each basically become gods; one of creation, another of destruction and me basically a terminator-style cowboy version of Death, keeping the two in balance as they fought out their differences. While we'd had a lot of similar sorts of "games", this was the only one we ever ended up continuing and finishing. It took the span of months, starting from us just... Kinda being kids at a small town, and working up from there.
I still recall one detail I came up with that became a recurring thing too, a sort of "doom forest" wherein very few things lived - aside from these "birds", of sorts. They had metallic, drill-shaped beaks, no legs nor feathers, and just kind of a doughy vaguely bird-shaped body that mushed around the branches they perched at. If I recall, they were actually insects of some kind. Anyhow, there were also smaller, long-legged and pitch black birds in the forest that would instantly fly off if they spotted you - and their noise was comparable to that of a motorcycle revving up. This of course resulted in the birds rising into a massive swirling flock above the forest, first dark from them blocking out the sun and then suddenly turning silver as they just turned downwards and barreled into the woods, spinning at such high speeds they annihilated pretty much everything there and dying. "Suicide bird", I guess was their name, fittingly. For some reason they made a howl kind of like a falling plane when they dropped.
There were also big lumbering plant creatures that regrew the woods within a matter of days - kind of like goobbues from Final Fantasy, growing seedlings atop their back and replanting them all around. "Gardeners" of sorts.
There's much more to it, but sadly it's all lost to the ages and my poor memory.
Possumcucumber · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called “Floods” that we used to play - the basic premise was that a group of people (this could be a family, a sports team, random groups like a royal family, criminals or people making a movie etc) would have a nap and when they woke up the whole world had flooded and only the bed they were on was floating. So then we all had to stay (four or 5 of is) crammed on a single bed while all kinds of drama, fighting, shark attacks took place. If you fell off you were out of the game (and I guess drowned).
TuxedoTease · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play “Aliens” as a way for my mom to keep us occupied in cold Canadian winters. She would take the cushions off our couch and block out all the light in our basement. In the pitch dark one of us would be the “alien” and have to hunt the others who wandered around the dark holding on to each other.
If the alien was good he would slowly pick off the kid at the back of the chain and cover the mouth so they couldn’t scream. Once he got you, you would join him in hunting the others.
Probably the scariest and funnest game to play, and we would be down there for hours. By the end of it, there would be bruises and broken stuff from smashing into things but mom preferred that to playing video games constantly.
deck65 · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Killball”
Remove the protective tarp from the giant trampoline. Then remove a spring from both sides directly across from the other. 2 vs 2. The object of the game was to dunk a football through the “goal”. No holds barred. Game was up to 21 or until someone got injured.
Frysken · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
See how long I can rot away in my own insecurities and not bother anyone else with them.
Nah, but to answer your question: on the title screen of DVD's, you'd have an area that shows you where you're clicking (I.e. you'd have the Play button highlighted if you have it selected) be a certain color, then when you select it, it changes the color for a second before switching over to the designated screen. We (my family and I) would guess what color it would change before clicking it and we would see who's right. It's very competitive when you add money into it, especially during a Family Matters/Full House marathon.
We also like to look at different license plates and see where they're from. Mainly on long road trips.
DuskAndSummer · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used rocks and a drain. The drain cover had little holes all over it and it was positioned for 360 degree access. There was one goalie who had to protect all sides. We would rally up as many rocks as possible and begin. Whoever was able to sink enough rocks through the drain wins. The kicker was that the goalie changed if they were able to trap the rock flat under their foot. So if your rock was trapped, you had to quickly switch and defend the goal until you caught someone else's. No name for it, just good memories.
Tankr · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Late to the party, but my brother and I had a game where the rectangular basement was split into two sides, the we would grab every pillow, cushion, and sleeping bag we could find and divide them between our sides. We would then proceed to pummel each other by whipping the objects across the room trying to knock the opponents projectiles out if the air or attempting to render the other unconscious. The victor was crowned when all of the objects were on the enemy's side.
Also trampoline foot-tag: tag your opponent's feet with your foot to not be 'it'
Alternatively, trampoline ball-tag: gather all the balls you can find and kick them around in the trampoline, whoever gets hit is 'it'.
Soda pop! (No idea where the name came from) take your socks off, stuff one inside the other and have basically a snowball fight with smelly socks.
One of our more dangerous ones was to crawl into sleeping bags and slide down the stairs basically blindfolded. That one stopped when my little brother caught a foot on a step and stopped sliding since he was more tumbling down the stairs at that point.
We had a 55 gallon drum in our backyard and we would have contests to see who could walk the farthest backwards on the drum which would then move forwards!
In elementary school we had the fifty states painted on our outdoor basketball court and we would play 'state tag'. One person would be 'it' , everyone else would stand on a single state and then the person who was 'it' would call out another state and everyone would have to run to that state and try not to get tagged. The problem became since we were only 7 or so at the time so we didn't know all the states in arguments would ensue about what state you were actually standing on.
We used to have soccer balls on strings that were meant for practicing kicking, however we used them to play "the Spider-Man game" where we would basically just lasso the other person by the legs as they tried running away.
Growing up in Michigan we had no shortage of snow, so we would pile up as much snow as we could into a mound and then hollow it out to make an igloo. We would then stay outside in blizzard conditions to simulate "surviving" in the frozen tundra.
JKibbs · 1 points · Posted at 00:22:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
High Point. You’d take a soda can and go around the circle karate chopping it with your hand at the “highest point” until the can broke in half. This would typically be played in the last seat of the bus and left us with bloodied up hands...
Pepper_Lunch · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
FROZEN SEAT! If you yell that while sitting on a chair, no one else can take your “spot”. I’m not sure what prevented some kid from just sitting there anyways. Everyone just respected the unspoken rules of frozen seat.
fabulously-frizzy · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made up a game called scooter ball. It was kind of like a combination of soccer and hockey, but you’d be on razor scooters. The objective was to get a really small squishy stress ball into the goal (which was a wheelbarrow). the biggest catch of the game was that we played on our driveway which is at a slant and allowing the ball to go into the street meant you lost.
Paniaguapo · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Running bases! It involves sidewalks leading from your house into a street sidewalk, a ball and 2 teams(4 people).
Essentially one teammate has a ball, and is on their sidewalk step and you throw it to the other team on theirs.
The goal of the game is for the "runners" to run to the other step before the ball gets to the other side and get tagged out. You had to be fast.
Just picture actual baseball and the runner trying not to get tagged out between bases. We would play till sundown. Lived in inner city and we somehow all knew how to play this
generalsleephenson · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Color Car! When driving on family trips, each person picks a color and when you spot a car of that color, you get a point! Fun!
del_chapo · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill the Cow
20 4th graders vs 1 4th grader who has the ball. Tackle the person who has the ball. First one who touches the ball after it’s dropped becomes the cow. Full contact...
skiddy-steve · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cowboys and abos. The eighties were a simpler time
parsnippeddler · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my older brother and I were small (say he was 8 and I was 6), we created a game one summer, which, in hindsight, has to be the most ridiculous game for a road trip, but we loved it. Game titled Bunyip. Name of the game: watch for overpasses while driving down interstate, sit on edge of built-in bed in a big, black Ford van, and be flat on your back when going under overpass. As you became prone, you had to call out “bunyip”. Whoever stayed upright longest, but was still prone under the “bunyip”, won. We created this game driving across Nebraska—not a plethora of overpasses, as I recall. Who knows how or why we came up with this game....or named it Bunyip, as those surely aren’t found in Nebraska. My brother is 44 and I am 42 and we (and our parents) still reference bunyips, of the overpass variety.
OrangeRecliner · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Car Tag.” We would run to a location in the yard and wait for a car to pass, where we would then run to touch the house before it reached us. If you were too slow, you were “kidnapped.”
Pakyul · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's probably way too late in this thread for this to gain traction, but I've got two.
The first was called "Choo-Choo Train". I'd sit on the window sill in the living room on the second floor and slide back and forth going "Choo-choo!!" One time, the windows were open with the screens in. I fell out and was dangling by my legs hanging upside down. My older brother ran over and held my legs while yelling for our mom and they got me back in.
The other game didn't have a name because we only played it once. I ran around shooting a pencil out of my mouth at my brother and he tried to deflect it and hit me in the face with a Mickey Mouse pillow. I know what you're thinking, but I'm not insane. I made sure to only put the eraser end in my mouth, because the tip was pointy. The eraser end wasn't pointy, but it was at some point erased flat so the metal edges of the ferrule were even with the rubber. It scraped my throat a bit when my brother inevitably got in a solid hit, but I turned out okay.
thisguyoverhere77 · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soccer-ball.
Two teams of two. It was like baseball but with a soccer ball. Basically we pitched a soccer ball as hard as we could at the batter who had a standard aluminum bat. We stopped after I check swung at a pitch and hit the ball causing the bat to fling right back into my face.
lemonlimerain · 1 points · Posted at 00:23:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
It's one I still play to this day: "Yellow Car"
My best friend and I were in the car with my mom once when she commented on how yellow cars are so rare, but once you start counting there are much more than you realize. So we made a game of finding the suckers.
Works like this: Each person guesses how many yellow cars will be spotted by the end of the car trip. Upon seeing one, you have to be the first to shout "Yellow car!" and you get a point (Schoolbuses, cars that are multicolored, and any cars that are promoting a company or business logo on the side do not count). The winner is the person whose guess at the beginning was the closest to the total amount of yellow cars seen. If there is a tie, the person who spotted the most cars becomes the winner.
It's not the most exciting game on Earth, but it's intended as a game that can be put on the backburner while you chat about whatever. It does feel pretty cool being the first to see several yellow cars in a row, though. I usually end up winning.
PornKingOfChicago · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the neighborhood kids would usually play tag or ball tag. I know that is not unique, but it was the basis of a game we came up with.
We would also play manhunt... at night... in s very large graveyard... if you’re not familiar with manhunt, it’s basically reverse tag. Instead of one person trying to tag any of the other player’s, it was all other players trying to track down one person. If you caught them, you’re the next one to be hunted....
But that also was not our unique game...
My friends and I grew up in horror movies, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Prescott, Alien, etc...
So we came up with a game that incorporated tag/manhunt with “horror” characters.
All I remember was, there were two teams... the heroes and the villains (the “horror” characters).
The horror characters had unique abilities you could use to catch the heroes.
The Predator could turn invisible. The way we played that was, if Predator got within sight (you both saw each other) they would shout “You can’t see me” and you would have to act like they weren’t there... you couldn’t run from them, but you could walk quickly, but once you broke line of sight (turning a corner) you could run away...
I think Freddy Krueger had an ability where a hero had to spin in a circle for 3 seconds before they could run.
Another villain had a ball (ranged attack) they could use to “tag” someone.
Someone else could “mute” a hero so they couldn’t yell or warn their friends for x amount of time.
If you were a hero, you went to “jail” (someone’s front porch). The game ended when all heroes were caught (or we got bored). The other heroes could rescue their friends by tagging them back in, but there was usually a villain guard hiding near by.
rregan915 · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Death Run" was a favorite in our Boy Scout troop. Everyone stood spread out at one end of a soccer field, with one person designated the Death Runner. After a countdown from 3, everyone started running. The Death Runner tried to make it to the other side of the field, and everyone else tried to tackle him before he did so. If you tackled the Death Runner, you were the next one. If the runner made it to the other side of the field, they chose the next one. Repeat.
I-Eat-Donuts · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother was around 10 years older than my sister and I (twins) and there was this game we always loved to play: one person had a nerf gun, while the rest of the players had nothing. There was a nerf stockpile that the “hunter” protected. The two “innocents” had to get to the stockpile and kill the hunter. Both sides goal is to kill the enemy team.
porkchopunited · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apple tag. When the apple tree was fruiting you take an apple and whoever is it has to throw apples till they hit someone
k33gibeat · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Inne inni over? Not sure how to spell. You throw a ball of some sort (tennis ball racket ball etc.) over the house and if the other team caught it the throwing team had to then run to the side of the team with the ball without getting tagged. Seems boring but was very fun
yugogrl2000 · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is slightly embarrassing because I was like...4 years old, but I used to play a game I called "lappy" (not sure why) that involved sitting on the rim of the bathtub farthest from the faucet during bathtime and sliding on my bare butt down, into the tub just as most of the water was drained. The residual water made a splash akin to when a car runs through a puddle on the side of the road and sprays water. It was glorious and I loved sliding down the tub. So yeah. At aome point my legs grew too long to do this anymore and it was a sad day.
a_mccarthy13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to sit on a big rock in a garden next to my grandparents house and tally cars going by. We would have notepads and pens, we would make tally charts with how many cars of each colour drove past. We were about 8 & 6 years old, respectively, and would do this for hours.
Dnkndbb · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Easter egg wars. My little brother and I would set up pillow forts on opposite ends of the hallway and then throw empty plastic easter eggs at each other. Lots of fun and they don't really hurt. Plus they pop open with a good thwack.
olie2405 · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ditch. It was a neighborhood game of group hide/seek plus tag. The boundaries were the neighborhood line. Last person not found/tagged that made it back to base won. It was played after dark with flashlights. Some nights the game went on all night.
Sir_Merrington_IV · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Slobber" Basically tag but you'd tackle the person down to the floor and then they would become a slobber too, last person alive wins and becomes the first slobber next round! Was really popular in middle school as we had a gardens area so it became part hide and seek too. Oh and the slobbers had sort of a call that was just a slobbering sound
A_Sadistic_Squirrel · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would get the lids off power aid and juice bottles. The lids had to be sturdy, not flimsy. Once appropriate lids were aqquired, we would stand anywhere from 5-30m away from the bin and have a contest of flicking them in. Sort of putting it between your rude finger/thumb.
You had to count in rain, wind etc.. Obviously the further away the harder it got, but oh boy the feeling of landing a small lid in a bin 30m away gives you a massive erection. We played every recess and lunch.
RobinFox12 · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can we all take a minute to appreciate the moment everyone has gone through with their siblings/friends where someone goes: "Let's make it so that ____." Everyone does this when working out their own game rules.
Justsaiyan219 · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never really named it but one of us would go on our hands and knees and the other two of us had to pass him, worked until my brother gashed his forehead on the big 9 on the fire station we played in front of.
Pile-of-garbage2 · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school we had a “game “ thing at recess were 2 people would spin a rope and people went under it. There was about 25 or so kids going under and that’s it.
spittin_squawk · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Dark Game.” It was essentially hide and seek, but set in a closed room with all of the lights off. Any window curtain was closed, any cable box with lights was covered up, and thresholds were blocked by towels or pillows so that the room was pitch black.
It would start with the person who was “it” by the light switch, and everyone waiting somewhat close by. When they turned off the lights, everyone else scattered quietly. Confined in a single room, it doesn’t seem like it would take too long to find someone.
But here’s where it got interesting: everyone was armed with pillows. When a person was found, they were beaten senseless, and anyone who followed the sounds of screams joined the fight, which lasted until we were all worn out and breathless, and someone turned on the light again to reset.
The person first found was “it” the next round.
blahful · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Going To California. Family and friends would sit around in a circle. Each person would say, "When I go to California, I'm going to bring [item]." Each person brings a different type of item. Examples: one person brings a toothbush. Another brings a t shirt and so on. After everyone picks an item, the person who goes first then says, "When I get to California, I'm going to [use item]" and everyone in the circle says they will do the same thing with the item they brought.
Example: first person says, "I'm going to brush my teeth with my toothbrush." Second person says, "I'm going to brush my teeth with my t shirt." And so on.
Senator_Ahn · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game called "the floor is lava"
Kermac · 1 points · Posted at 00:26:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
500 (this was THE game back at my primary school) Game is played on a basket ball court. 2 teams of however many players on either side. 1 tennis ball. 100 points if you hit the back board. 200 points if you hit the ring. 500 points if you hit the pole. You can throw the ball from within your teams quarter. Catch the ball with 2 hands/catch the ball after juggling it = shot from half court Catch the ball with 1 hand on a rebound = free shot from 3 quarter court Catch the ball with 1 hand = 5 steps inside of the opposition teams quarter all while the whole team is trying to push you as far back as possible (shit got super physical)
Hobash · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crocolfball.....It was played with a croquet mallet and a softball. But you had to get the ball in a hole like golf. The course was our backyard the hole was a sewer drain. Twas dope.
alifaraz21 · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find me now.
A unique twist on hide and seek.
One person hides 2 or more find him. Before hiding he leaves a recorded message in a tape recorder about his whereabouts. The hints are supposed to be subtle and intriguing. Because of the hints tht radius is much larger about 500 metres. Could also do this with objects. Me and my siblings used to play it, we would find it eldest brother in or around the house. After listening to his recording first. It was the most thrilling and intense experience I've ever had.
PoopYourPoopOnMyPoop · 1 points · Posted at 00:27:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tahitian Treat.
Yes, named after the drink.
Simple game really. Get a piece of foil, ball it up. Stalk prey, jump from the shadows, throw foil ball at target and yell 'TAHITIAN TREAT!' Flee.
CreepyMosquitoEater · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The only this i can think of is that me and my mates would throw bouncy balls at the side of passing trains and try to catch them and throw again (our afterschool club thing was right next to some tracks in a small town). We would wait for the trains to come and then see how many times we could get a bounce before they went by.
lucky_harms458 · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My summer camp had a game called 'reach the beach'. There wasnt actually a beach, no one knew why we called it that. There was a 12 foot wooden tower in the woods with team buckets at the bottom. It was in a clearing, and a counselor stood on top with a spotlight and megaphone. The other counselors would be in the woods wearing camouflage and have flashlights. All of us campers (7th grade - 12th grade) would try to make it through the woods undetected and place their team tickets in the corresponding bucket. The team with the most tickets won. If you were spotted by a counselor you had to give up your ticket and try to get a new one. It was awesome, a ton of fun, and everyone took it super super seriously. Good times
Mr-Bagels · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the Queer. May be a fairly popular game, but you'd get a ball, and whatever kid had it got chased down and tackled by all the other kids until they dropped the ball. Then whoever was brave enough to pick the ball up again would run and get tackled by everyone.
eatmyasspls · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
POWDER GAME
RoughCarrot · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shake, spit, or slap” - I was a younger brother to my sister, and when I was about 5 and she about 9, we “played” this “game”. It was simple, she would tackle me to the ground, sit on my chest, and let me pick one of the three: shake, spit, or slap. Shake resulted in her bouncing on top of me a couple times making it difficult to breathe. Spit is where she would hawk a loogie on my face, and slap is where she would slap me on the cheek. Once it was done she would get up, and that was the game. Dumb 5-year-old me eventually chose each of them thinking one couldn’t be worse than the other. Boy, was spit disgusting.
LordStigness · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swing-a-Man.
Hold each other in a line and run around like a chicken with your head cut off until one of you hurts yourself.
Best played either on a asphalt yard or in a crowded space
pbr3000 · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid growing up in a college town, we'd play Memorial Stadium Tag (MST). It was hide and seek in a football stadium. We'd usually play for the first half and then watch the second half. I remember jumping from ramp to ramp and they were a good 70 feet off the ground.
Fiereflight · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dog soccer. I played it with my friend who moved away. We would go upstairs, get in our knees, and smack a inflatable soccer ball around into each other’s goals. We would take take on different roles, like “British doggie.” Fun times.
jodo_swaginz · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called "Throw Up" with my brother. We would be on a trampoline and throw a ball up as far as we could, and the person to catch it won. We hit our heads a few times because we looked up at the ball instead of where we were going.
Pojinator89 · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Making my fingers run and jump over obstacles on the outside of the car on long car trips.
xxxtanacon · 1 points · Posted at 00:28:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underwear massage party with my babysitter and uncle
vitoanz · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my family would be driving somewhere, I’d flex my right buttcheek when we passed a house on the right, and then I’d do the same for the left. Always imagined hitting a target as we drove by. Still do it to this day! lol
darthvaderismykid · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made up a game called "Uniboob and the Hairy Lagoon". It was basically just hide and seek, but it was in the dark and you had a rubber ball (like the ones you can get in toy stores). The person with the ball is the Uniboob and the seeker. The person hiding is the Hairy Lagoon.
I don't remember the specifics, but the Uniboob would have to throw the ball at the Hairy Lagoon in order to win. And the Hairy Lagoon would have to say a phrase once they were hit. I don't remember the phrase.
That game was a lot of fun.
Brennanvg11 · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Life” basically an RPG game but where you talked instead in the car. You were given choices and you had to make the right one. There was a zombie mode a classic one, military and etc.
psychedtrip2001 · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Can’t remember the name but basically someone would tie our hands to each side of a swing and we had to start swinging. We then had 30seconds to free our hands. At the 30second mark we had to jump off.
First time i played it one of my hands got stuck and I jerked backwards. I ended up having to go to hospital for a dislocated shoulder.
I didn’t play it again.
TheRealJayQualin · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ishmael.
This legendary game was founded in 2015 and lasted two years.
The ball, a golf ball had Ishmael written on it.
The game.
All boys would get into a circle. Players competing could vary from 5 to 25. No girls allowed. Once the ring was formed no one could interrupt.
The Ishmael master would start, throwing the ball to another player in the ring. The ball has to bounce ounce before being caught by said player. It is up to the catcher to commit. If he goes for it and misses the catch. He is out. If the thrower is clearly off target and no one makes the catch there is a democratic vote between all players in the ring on who should be eliminated. The thrower, or the player who was destined to catch.
If the vote fails. Sudden death occurs. This involves all players creating a hallway where at one end the Ishmael master, and at the other, the challenging player. A distance of 10 strides between the two players. Silence falls onto the courtyard as tensity increases. The master, choses when to throw and at what speed. The ball must still bounce ounce before being caught. If caught by the challenger he stays in. If he misses, disqualified.
Process of elimination until two players are left. Sudden death is formed for the finals. And the remaining two players continue the game. Each time the ball is caught the players take a step back, slowly increasing the distance until one fails to catch.
The champion of the game becomes the new master.
MyDogsmyGuru · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ludo. Google it. It’s awesome. And asking we drew a stick ice cream on the ground and did it hopping strategy game😬
Redpanda248 · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
liero was hella fun back in the day... worms but on steroids
JeeroyLenkins4 · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard
Wachvris · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The X. Me and my cousin would pee together and create an X shape, whoever stops peeing first loses.
typically_right · 1 points · Posted at 00:29:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The grudge..
One of my “brothers” made the grudge sound PERFECTLY and it scared the shit out of all of us.
So there was like 8 of us hiding from him in pitch black darkness. We’d be hiding ing crazy places around the house (ex. On top of a closet, under the spare room floor board, behind the sink, or in the attic) and no one could see because it was legit pure darkness and he would just walk around each room slowly and make the grudge noise.. As he draws closet he would get louder, somehow he just knew were we always were and suddenly all of us are hauling ass out of the room because if he touches you, you cant play any longer because you’ve been ghosted and once that happened you couldn’t play until the next game, one game usually lasted about an hour and a half so at younger ages that felt like forever!! So you’d be forced to sit with the parents while we continued
Hands down the best game ive ever played! But theres also our avatar game where we controlled the elements and our parents went along with it and bought us dope ass clothes and water guns or whatever we needed for our character so that was pretty dope!
Pumpkinbeanz · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Animal Game." We came up with several variants but ultimately the game was an adult would call an animal name out, and us kids would act it out. Adult would pick a favorite impression, then call out a different animal, continue until bored.
TheEnglishPotatoe123 · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Balence. My nan had an old water butt that we would stand on and try not to fall off.
hidesawell · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Home Alone" one person waited at the top of the basement stairs while everyone else makes a mess of the basement to booby trap the robber. Then we would hide and turn off all the lights. So basically hide and seek in the dark while someone is stumbling around tripping over upside down furniture.
buttonupbanana · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I game called "darktooth beaver". Basically we'd turn all the lights off in the house at night, and one person would be the darktooth beaver. It was basically hide and seek in the pitch black. My brother had really giant teeth and he was the original "darktooth beaver".
CouriousRookie · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you breathe u die
GayMaryPoppins · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this counts as a game or not, but sometimes I would approach my brother and ask him to wrap me like a mummy. I would proceed to lay in the middle of the living room and pretended I was in an ancient Egyptian tomb. I think my intent was that I wanted to scare my mom or dad. But I always heckin' fell asleep before I could scare anyone.
McDavidClan · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crazy baseball: A combination of baseball and dodgeball one person was the pitcher and everyone else was the base runners. One base runner threw out the ball as far as they could and all the base runners en masse would start running the 5 bases in order as quickly as they could. The pitcher would retrieve the ball and race back to try to hit the runners with the ball, if the runners were on base they were safe, but when they were in between bases they could be hit with the ball. Every time the base runners would round all five bases and made it to home, the runner would yell amount the amount of times the had scored. If the pitcher was able to hit a runner three times, t He runner was out and the runner would become the new pitcher.
SpoonROoF · 1 points · Posted at 00:30:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rodeo Clown”. One of my friends had a trampoline and one of those toy cars for little kids to drive in, so we would have put the car on the trampoline and have one person sit in the car while everybody jumped around them. The goal was to flip them over without touching them, and tbh it was kinda dangerous because you could fall off the trampoline and really hurt yourself. Still fun tho.
Moby_Maize · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I also had this game that I called "Snapple Pong." I would take two Snapple bottle caps and tape them together to form a makeshift hockey puck. I got a friend and then we played air hockey with the puck. I still have one of the pucks.
weebx2 · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school for "recess" we would just go into our gym. So me and my friends would always play "ball tag", it's not that unique, but basically its just tag but instead of touching you would get a basketball thrown at you. We also played "get the ball" also not that uniqe but we would just run around in groups and try to get the basketball, you could tackle,hide it, or pass.
Good Times
Laikathespaceface · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carrying home small pieces of ice and snow in my pockets. I don't know please don't ask.
undercover_ghost · 1 points · Posted at 00:31:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to each make a spaceship from Lego and take turns throwing a tennis ball at them, if yours broke first you lost
AnimatronicSuperman · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cave explorer
Jr6153 · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the car, I would look at speck on a window, and using perspective, I would move my head around to make it look like it was moving across the outside environment
eagleeyeview · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Lucy, a game of catch with balled up dirty socks. Whoever dropped the sock had to take a big wiff
fuckstatefarmimjake · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
RAMBO!
2 teams: Runners on foot and Chasers in cars. Runners get from point A to B without getting caught by the people in cars, usually a couple miles through town. Always ended up Running from the cops and going through people’s back yards. The cops loved to play! Seriously.
RosetteSmith · 1 points · Posted at 00:32:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I see an American flag, beautiful!"
My brother and I used to have an ongoing competition where the first one of us to see an American flag while driving around would yell "I see an American flag, I win!" Since we passed the same few flags on nearly every car ride, we would shove each other out of the way in an effort to be the first one to lay eyes on it. If we both started the phrase at the same time, the first one to finish saying it would "win".
Naturally this drove our mom up the wall. She eventually forbid us from playing the game, saying that we should instead comment "I see an American flag... beautiful!" Being good, obedient kids, we said that from thereon out... "I see an American flag, beautiful!" The game stayed, only the phrase changed. And mom couldn't prevent us from playing, because we were obeying her, too!
Good times.
churtothechur · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sprinting man, will be driving when I was a kid and I would use my fingers to make a man run along the fences and roofs going past.
bethbooks07 · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the Glowstick.
My brother and I would go out on the porch for a while and my parents would turn off all the lights and hide a Glowstick somewhere incredibly difficult to locate in the house. We had to stumble around in the dark looking while my parents occasionally shouted “warmer!” or “colder!”
It was absolutely my favorite game as a child. Unfortunately I made the mistake of bringing it up as an adult and my parents almost died laughing. Apparently they were taking the opportunity to play their own version of “hide the Glowstick” while we were out on the porch waiting.
zombeejoker · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my friend had knee surgery he was going through rehab and needed something slow but would help him move with his knee so we invented "doomball" Basically it was played inside with an very under inflated balloon. The object was to pass the ball to the next person and you could use anything but your hands and you only had 3 hits to pass it. It really helped him with his eye-hand coordination and helped him stay up on his knee for extended periods.
CaptainMcSpankFace · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to make bets with Satan about taking my soul if I missed at throwing something, or I'd pretend to sell my soul for hella money or something.
I always thought if I meant it hard enough, he would appear and speak to me or make the contract, and that if I held my end, or missed my shot, or saw the money, or whatever, it would be sealed.
It was from when I'd see South Park and Simpsons, and I think it was on Looney Tunes as well.
letmerunwithscissors · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Too many to think of.
My main one would probably be ghosts in the graveyard.
It was hide and seek basically, but kicked up a notch.
Not only did you have to play it when it was pitch black, it was outside and in an open area.
You had to be dead silent and there were no flashlights.
If you were caught and started running you had to run through the backyard and towards a rock on the front lawn.
if you got caught you were then a ghost who had to find the rest of the players
LostCalendar · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freedom Fighters on the PS2
TJR25 · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On ATV off-road fury 2 (video game for PS2) we would hook up 2 to 4 controllers and we would all go into explore mode and play “tag”. If you were it, you had to try to run into the other people to tag them. If you ran into the infamous wall at the edge of the map that sent you flying, you would become it. Made for a lot of fun.
whatruboi · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two siblings and I would play predator and prey, where one person was a predator animal, like a lion, and the other two were prey, a zebra or a rabbit. The predator had to “kill” the other two, (tag them) and once tagged, you became a predator.
Oneblowfish · 1 points · Posted at 00:33:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
DeafMoth · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yellow car. A yellow car was one point (never trucks), punch-buggy’s were two, and yellow punch-buggy’s were three and you were allowed to hit someone.
JackScrews · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’d wear a pair of socks that for whatever reason my childhood dog loved to rip off my feet, then I’d run around the house and jump on elevated surfaces while she tried to get the socks.
Litty_McGritty · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to climb into one of those metal 55 gallon drums and roll down a hill in our front yard to measure who could walk the best while dizzy. Was pretty fun till my brother rolled too far and instead of stopping he slammed into a tree and gave himself a concussion.
batterycat · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know if this is unique because I have no idea who pitched this idea. “Mr. President”
Game must have minimum of 3 players. One person is elected “Mr. President.” Then half of the people become “Assassins,” and the other half are the “Secret Service.”
It’s basically tag, but you’re only going for the President. When the Secret Service sees the Assassin, they have to shout “GET DOWN MISTER PRESIDENT” and tag the assassin before they can reach the president. The President can’t tag, he has to rely on his Secret Service for protection. The Secret Service is immune to Assassins. If an assassin is tagged they have to go back to the designated “start” location for a minute. The game goes on indefinitely until the President is successfully tagged. Usually the assassin who tagged the President is the one who becomes the new President. Occasionally a mock election is held though, to make it more interesting.
Naturally strategies began forming, such as placing the president on the highest point of the jungle gym and placing a guard at every entrance. Some opted for the “hide and seek” strategy. They hid the President and only interfered when assassins got too close to locating the President. However, some people went full agro... The President would be in plain sight, and every time an assassin appeared, they would all tackle the assassin at once.
The teachers tried to enforce rules at first. They banned tackling entirely. Eventually they banned the game because the “Secret Service” would gang up on assassins 4 to 1, all piled on, which resulted in multiple sprained ankles and bloody noses. Now that I’m older and I think about it, the game is kind of messed up. Also, the scrawny kids always ended up the assassins. Poor kids.
Alanah_K2559 · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Steamroller'. My brother, sister and I would play this game, one person would be picked (usually my brother since he was the tallest and oldest) and you'd have to roll flat on the trampoline from one end to the other, and my sister and I would have to jump over him. He'd increase his speed, eventually knocking either my sister or I, or both of use over. We'd play this game for hours on end. Sucks that we're older now and don't usually play these types of games anymore, but it was fine while it lasted
colebwilliams · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Judge”. During dinner me and other kids would all sit around the table and pick one person two be the judge and two people to the be prosecutor and defendant. The prosecutor would try to make the funniest case he could and the defender would try to make the funniest defense. The judge and the other people deciding would rule guilty or not, and that was how the next judge was chosen. It was a hilarious game and we still talk about it today.
FairAndSquare101 · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“ Shoot the Ghost!” When me and my cousins got together when we were little we would always make up silly games! Shoot the Ghost was based on how we wanted to be Police Women and shoot the “ Bad Guys”. The target of the game was to Shoot the Ghost and to not let them escape “Ghost Jail” where they were prisoners! I will never forgot this game especially since my team won most of them! 👻
CptLoken · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car Tag.
In high school, in our boring town, we would meet up and set a play area. Then each car was given a walkie-talkie. One car would head off and hide, checking in with a clue every 15 minutes, while the others scoured the play area trying to find it.
The best motivation to catch the car first? You'd now get to go and hide your car in the dark somewhere, usually with your girlfriend, and only have to check in every 15 minutes.
More than a few times, I'd roll up on a car I recognized and not see anyone sitting upright.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Golden Corral” my big brother would throw a random object across the room, and whoever got it first won.. he would throw me around all the way to the random item. No clue why he called it Golden Corral.
iqnux · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Five stones (only Singaporeans will get this)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mermaid/seahorse/washing machine: Played in the pool. I would give my older sister a quarter and in exchange, she would piggyback me in the pool as one of the aforementioned. She’d do neat tricks and go underwater too. Washing machine was her spinning around fast.
Rock and Roll Danger: one person was the Witch and had to set up an obstacle course, and the other skateboarded through it. Extra points if you collected any live toads along the way
Secret Sisters: tie our bedsheets to our bedpost and rappel down the side of our house, or jump back and forth onto the neighbors flat lower roof.
Models: buy a disposable camera and model
fizzleman11 · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Crawlers
mechanicalwife · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I made up a gamecalled "Beetle-bugs" -a mix of tag and the floor is lava.
1 person was the Beetle-bug and crawled around and chomped their teeth. The other players had to hop on the furniture and couldn't get down unless they shouted "Beetle-bugs! Beetle-bugs!" When the players got down, the "Beetle-bug" had to speedcrawl to tag people. We also had throw pillow ammo we could use only if we yelled, "Exterminator!!!!" If they got tagged, they became Beetle-bugs too. Last one not tagged won the game and had to start the next game the Beetle- bug.
Twoslot · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Easy prey in the corner:
My parents had a large basement living room. One person sat at the foot of the stairs outside the room with the door closed. Everyone in the basement found a hiding spot. We would call "OK" and then the hunter would turn off the light, and come in (it got pitch black). You're not allowed to move, and the first person found was the new hunter. After a while we modified the game to setting up booby traps or completely rearranging furniture to thwart the hunter's plans, and if you heard them getting close to someone else you could shout "easy prey in the corner!" or by the bathroom, etc. Basically you try to throw off their sense of space a la Marco polo.
Cookiiwhore · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Monsters”
When me and my younger cousin were children, riding in the car we’d sit on our knees and look back at the cars behind us. This was a game played at night so the headlights looked like bright monster eyes!
The way to play was to cover our eyes and scream “GO AWAY MONSTERS!” And when we uncovered there always seemed to be less.
mikemin1234 · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dealers choice . Best game I've ever played
CusCustheCrocodile · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brother, and cousin made up the this game called "The American Cheetah". I would portray as the cheetah everytime and my brother and cousin would play as the hunters(?) I would hide and they would have to try and kill me (with nerf guns) and the "cheetah" would have to dodge the bullets and kill them both. Its like hide and seek but not. Strange game.
eastboundyogi · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Padiddle! You would slap the roof and say padiddle everytime you saw a car with a out of commission headlight!
pogo484 · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to throw election signs as frisbee's
A-Bi-Furry-Cat · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm a little late, but my brothers and I used to "Joust". All four of us were and still are obsessed with high fantasy and whatnot. We had a long, straight, driveway that we would ride our bikes down and attack each other with wooden swords that we made or bought from Renaissance Festivals.
cannedgoats · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure I would classify it as a game, but, my childhood best friend and I would ride our scooters from point A to Point B. While riding, we would try to produce as much saliva as we can and hold it in our mouths without spitting. When we reached point B, we would spit out our stock pile of saliva to see who’s was bigger.
Another game which did not last very long was hitting rocks with a tennis racket into the street. To avoid suspicion, we hit the rocks from a tennis court (sly us). We would play tennis until a car came by. We made sure that we had a stockpile of rocks at hand to direct at the car. From what I recall, this stopped after the second outing when we hit a car with people that knew my childhood best friend. Not sure the damage it did. I do not think it broke a window or shattered anything.
I think we may have had an obsession with rock throwing to be honest. One time I remember we were making a game of attempting to throw rocks into the neighbor across the street’s mailbox. After about 2 hours, his dad came out of the house and yelled at us pretty good. We were definitely assholes.
bon__bon · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “concoction”. You roll a dice and whatever number it lands on is the number of ingredients you are allowed to pull from the fridge. Then you mix them together (without the taster seeing) and the other person has to drink it. Then the taster tries to guess what you used. It was never pleasant.
Jasper-2001 · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called ‘windmill’, whenever we saw a windmill on a road trip through the countryside, the first person to call ‘windmill’ would get a point. We played this game for around 10 years and added other items to the game such as Australian flags and animals pooping
kellmeaboutit · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little, me and my brother used to play “Bicycle.” We would lie on separate ends of the couch, put our feet together, and pedal like we were on an actual bike. We would pretend to go up a hill, down a hill, start to pedal too fast, and crash. We did the exact same thing every time.
PeachyPesco · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Mimiqueens." We basically did a slav squat and either walked or hopped around like that, only saying "mimi." To my recollection there was no goal lmao
McJakey · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At school, we had this game with our scientific calculators. Press 0 and then =, then press Ans and +1 then the equals sign continuously. We would have races to 100, 1000, even 10000. We made this game up when we were doing somr Physics exercises
the_pantsmith · 1 points · Posted at 00:36:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pillowman. One person would be the “Pillowman” and put their head in a pillowcase with the pillow sitting vertically on their face. This was so they couldn’t see and also so they had protection. The “Pillow Masters” would both have pillows (whoever had the tempurpedic was the one we feared the most) and their goal was to just beat the Pillowman senseless. The only rules were you have to hit with a pillow, you have wait five seconds between each hit on the Pillowman (although we’d usually wait longer to catch him by surprise), and the Pillowman has to keep moving. Everything was fair game but the face was the best target since it was the most satisfying to hit and it was protected.
To add an extra level we could turn off the lights and block out every window so it was pitch black. Sometimes turning off the lights could cause the Pillow Masters to turn on each other and give the Pillowman a place to hide. That game is the reason I can say my brother clotheslined me with a tempurpedic and I’ll always love it because of that
Also we performed a ritual and spun the pillow man around before each game so he was dizzy. Best time to strike
Trumpsmells · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Putting as many stuffed animals as possible in our sweatpants
20acres · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tumble down the stairs
We would shove one kid in the bottom of a sleeping bag and then another kid inside the sleeping bag on top of the first one. The top was was able to see a bit and then we would push off and roll down the staircase tumbling over and over. Many injuries ensued but it was a neighborhood hit!
ilikeairheads789 · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game isn't extremely unusual but back in 5th grade I was in love with the TV show Survivor. So at lunch I would be the host while 5 of my friends would vote each other out and at the end vote for the winner, that's it. But then one day one of my friends started calling everybody rude nicknames, so one day another one of my friends was so fed up with it that he told the teacher. The teacher proceeded to tell the principal the Principal told the vice-principal who then talked to my friend to tell him everything he wrote down. he was sent to lunch detention for a week and the teacher lectured the whole class on how to be nice to each other, and then at the very end of her lecture she specifically said "AND NO MORE SURVIVOR!" and everyone just started staring at me. So yeah, that was a weird game I played as a kid.
madix666 · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Tornado” my brother and I would walk down the sidewalk and when we would spot a car we would try to hide so they couldn’t see us when they drove past!
Miteh · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh man. Here goes.
So growing up me and my sister used to play this game called astronaut. Basically we had a dresser inside of a walk in closet, and it created this crawl space in the back of the closet.
So we would climb on top of the dresser and use belts to tie around our waist and then attach the end to the bar that you hang shirts off of. And we would hang off the bar and go head first into the crawl space taking turns trying to retrieve items among the rubble.
We also played another “haunted house” game where she would get into a laundry hamper full of blankets for padding and then a blanket over top to make it dark. And then I’d drag the hamper around the house like a ride and try and scare her and make weird animal noises and stuff. It got to the point where I’d play an old Halloween tape in the background and drag the hamper downstairs and stuff.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:37:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play this one called safety. Whenever you fart, you have to say safety quickly. If someone says doorknob that person gets to punch you until you touch a doorknob. If someone says six all round, everyone in the room gets to punch you six times. Sometimes, like on a camping trip you get absutely wrecked since there are no door knobs, or in a room of heaps of people, you'd cop heaps! There were a few other rules but I can't quite remember them all
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was an ongoing game by the way, so in the middle of the shops, at church, playing sport, or at school, wherever you where it didn't matter. I think we just all grew up and forgot about it
domolazarus · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mini ninjas
soberone23 · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock fights while behind wooden skids
SuckThisRichard · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play Army Men II religiously. So many good memories playing that game, it helped me through my elementary school, middle school and even part of high school. When I build my very own pc that's a game I am buying and I highly recommend it to anyone.
ZMK13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma made up a game “everything with feather flies.” She would name different animals and if they fly we’d have put our hands up otherwise you had to keep them down. If you messed up you had to give her an item of yours and at the end you had to “buy it out” using a talent of yours like playing a piano or dancing. She made sure we had fun while also making sure we practiced whatever we took interest in at the moment.
hypernovapulsar · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
While playing alone, we had hot wheels and track with the parts to make a ramp (ramp and clamp for the starting point), so I would find a decent space to launch the cars. I remember giving many of them nicknames (probably 2-3 dozen total cars). Tumbling counted for length. Unsurprisingly, the same few cars always won.
Also with my brothers, we had wooden children's blocks and a nice long wooden floor. We would stack them in random configurations, and roll a tennis ball from one end trying to knock them down. Each individual block counted as a point.
KickHodorInTheBalls · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother called it Go Outside And Play. We weren't allowed back in the house for 3 hours. Rules were pretty simplistic.
jotadeo · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bears and people"
I don't remember it well as I was the youngest, but my cousin made it up and it was a game that was what I can describe as some sort of a group hide-n-seek/tag game. The bears would find and/or chase the people and would "eat" them if they caught them.
I feel like it may have been more complex than this, but this is all I can really recall.
Karscher · 1 points · Posted at 00:38:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Furby Ball." It was basically a full-contact baseball game played on 5 bases ran in a pentagram formation. It was originally named because we used a Furby as a ball, but it was short-lived. We later stuffed a Pikachu plushy with a softball and wrapped the whole thing in duct tape. That became our official ball and after a few years of adding duct tape every time a seam split, the Unholy Wad was able to function as a ball by itself without needing the softball core. The name was eventually changed to Pentaball since we never played with a real Furby since our first game. I found out later in life that that name was also taken by some other, probably lamer sport.
Each base was a 1.5' length of PVC pipe stabbed into the ground with a small orange cone on top and we marked a 10' radius from each base. This was a "base zone" and the baseman was not allowed to leave that zone. You capture a base by either knocking the cone off the base pole or by removing the baseman from the base zone. If at any point you were struck with the Unholy Wad (either tagged or pelted), you were out. The bases were ran in a pentagon pattern to create the longest path between two bases for a runner to run as well as creating points where several runners will intersect paths, possibly slamming into each other or creating choke points for the outfield team to attack. It was also to be edge lords. Outfield players were a non-contact position and you were not allowed to attack them if you were running the bases. The only real combat rule was that you were not allowed to ram people with your head. Some players wanted to wear helmets and eventually started trying to weaponize them.
Surprisingly, the only injury sustained in this game was a single concussion. One of our helmet wearers ran bases for the first time without a helmet and caught the Unholy Wad square in the back of the head from like four feet away. We did almost impale one of our team captains on a base pole once.
BlackJack070786 · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I would wait at the end of my parents driveway for cars to come down the road. We would then race back to the other end where a basketball pole stood. The first to touch the pole would win, unless the other person could get to it before the car crossed. The goal was to be the last person to leave the part near the road, but still be able to touch the pole before the vehicle crossed the driveway. We did this using our feet, skateboards, scooters, rollerblades, and bicycles. Whatever we both had on that day. For those wondering; my parent's driveway is around 100-150 feel (~33-50 meters) long.
BlackNight0wl · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Momo
Tumama787 · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t step on the last step on the ladders
lululobster11 · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousin played “surgery.” You cut a hole in a garbage bag filled with water and try to see it back up with minimal water leakage. It was weird, but we loved it
th3_brendawg · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid we would see who could do a series of feats of strength on the jungle gym in our backyards. We strives for the coolest tricks and fastest times. It was pretty fun.
PatsFan88 · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rundown Barn. Spot a rundown barn first? That's a point.
Really rundown barn? 2 points.
Random rundown barn? (middle of nowhere where no barn should be) 3 points.
Yes I might have lived in Iowa growing up.
sonyahowse · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deck tennis... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_tennis
Chody__ · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
sxcamaro · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two games. One was Sputnick. Tossed a volleyball against the ground while standing in a circle and ran waiting for it to hit the ground. Person closest to Sputnick had to grab the ball and yell KGB. Then toss the ball at the someone. If they caught it KGB lose one point. If they move or get hit KGB gets one point. If you fell you became KGB agent for next round. First to 5 wins.
We also played serial killer. You got two knives (popsicle sticks) to fend off killer. Game was played in dark or with a hide and seek aspect. If serial killer finds you, you give up a popsicle stick. After two, you were dead and would be displayed on the floor or a couch/chair. Parents were quite disturbed at this game.
dollarsandindecents · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "boys vs girls" at recess in my little private Lutheran elementary school. It was just 22 7 year olds, divided by gender running at each other at top speed in a field and beating the shit out of one another. No one stopped that, oddly enough. That was okay but pokemon cards were banned lol. It was a blast.
djbabybenzzz · 1 points · Posted at 00:39:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger, every time my family went out to dinner we played "the game", this game we created. There is one storyteller and everyone else is guessers. All of the guessers whisper a word into the storyteller's ear and then the storyteller has to make up a story that includes all of the words in it. Once the storyteller finishes telling the story, then all the guessers have to guess what word each person picked and whoever's word is guessed last wins. As I got older, the better the words became and now it is this huge family thing that we sometimes still do. ;)
Kynsia · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Black-and-white tag. Played this with the neighbourhood kids untill I was thirteen or so :)
We had this wooden play house with a slide, pole and several (probably dangerous) ways to climb over, in, and under. Under this house were those black rubber tiles that are meant to prevent broken bones and scrapes, and the normal stone tiles were white. The person who was it was not allowed on the black tiles, only on the house and the white tiles. The other players were allowed on the house and the black tiles, but not the normal tiles, so they couldn't leave.
Getting from the surrounding tiles to the house required some acrobatics, but there were no spots where you couldn't be reached, so everyone was constantly on the move.
kurtymckurt · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The kicking game! We each start with a dodgeball but can only use our feet like soccer. Then you run around and try not to get hit by someone else’s ball that’s kicked at you. We did it in a large field with only an outer boundary. Sometimes we had to instill a no guarding rule.
Raptor5dino · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we were at my Nan's place there wasn't much to do, so my half brother came up with this game for him, me and my cousin to play and pass the time
One of us would be blindfolded and sit in a chair at the end of the room, while the other two scattered little toys all over the floor but would have to leave a clear path the the other side of the room. Once that was done, the person who was blindfolded had to try and reach the other side of the room without treading on any toys. If they succeeded, they got to take the blindfold off and swap with whoever layed out the clear path if that makes sense
All in all not a very complex game but it sure kept us busy
Ilike_turtlz_720 · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek in the dark. Sounds simple but we took it to another level. We would tape over every light, clock, anything. You couldnt see an inch in front of your face. We played at like midnight and another objective was to avoid waking up my friends parents. We would have like 6 people over and all play. We would send one person to a room across the house and all hide. While we hid, we rearranged furniture to get in the seeker's way. And the seeker had to physically stop the people hiding g from reaching base, tagging wasnt enough. We would hide in plain sight, spider climb up hallways and just sit there.
Overeazie · 1 points · Posted at 00:40:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"hide in the confession booth, from the pastor"
etm105 · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"TRON" - we loved the original 80's movie as a kids. It was pretty much dodge ball but with frisbees. If you hit your opponent with a frisbee they were "out", if you caught the frisbee the thrower was out
SilentSound · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would put coins into socks and throw the sock in the air. Everyone would face the sky, and whoever got hit in the face was out, and lost, in many ways.
We would fold each other up inside of pull out sleeper sofa, and leave each other there. Whoever lasted the longest won.
Also, we would tree-dive. We would climb our grandma's pine tree with football gear on and freefall into a bush ~15' below.
I don't know how we survived.
Starbuckeroo13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made up a game called monster. We would play in each other's basements. One person was the monster who would wait upstairs until we all hid and turned the lights off. The "monster" would have a blanket or blindfold on them and would have to come downstairs in the dark with their eyes covered and the first person to get tagged was the monster next. The catch was that the kids hiding could move around and attack the monster. Once I had a heavy wooden chair thrown at me while I was still coming down the steps. I still have a scar behind my ear from it hitting me all those years ago.
Tmacuga · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The swing game. We had a swing set growing up, and of course, being boys, we made a gauntlet out of the thing. Three people would be swinging, while one ran back and forth until he got obliterated by an oncoming body. Timing was the strategy to winning, at least until those swinging started to aim for you. The game was intense, fun, and it was a great bonding time for my brothers and I, especially when someone got hurt and we had to convince them not to tell mom.
AttilaTheBuns · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would make up games all the time to play with my brothers. Alot of it was either entirely based off of or literally was supposed to be stuff from tv and movies. An example was that I made a game where we all had watches from Ben-10 and imagine stuff based on that, but I was teaching them how to use their powers and stuff like that. I even made an overarching meta game where all of the games were made by a game company I owned.
jlxc77 · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Fleedle Deedle” my brother and I would stand on one end of the room and throw a ball to the other end, the first one to stand up with the ball and yell fleedle deedle would win. There was absolutely no rules. tackling, hair pulling, yanking the ball from each others hands, everything was fair game, it was essentially an excuse to kick the shit out of each other
IGottaPeeConstantly · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would put dress-up dresses on and choreograph our own dance number. This involved a baton we had as well as standing on furniture and myself picking up my little sister and spinning her around. We did this for many other songs as well. However, we played this one the most often.
150Dgr · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ve only been a Redditor for a month or so. (I’m old) Never would’ve imagined such a broad entertaining bunch of responses from a simple question. Plenty of “unique” games that I’ve never heard of and I thought me and my pals had some good unique ones. Lol...
pakepake · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used large syringes (no needles obviously)from my Mom’s work at a Veterinarian hospital to spray each other. The ones for horses were particularly large and had quite the range. You were it or out if you got sprayed.
lilasketching · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay so my cousins, long before we became distant, would play this game called Zombies. The premise basically the Walking Dead with pillows as the weapons. Some of us would be the attackers and have pillows and shit and we had bunk beds, so we were situated there. The other cousins would be the zombies and they would be outside the room and they would enter the room and the rest of us would beat the shit out of them with pillows. And that was it, not too interesting but you can probably imagine all the shit we broke because of this game, including the entire ceiling fan, a television, a lamp, and a younger's cousins pinky. Our parents would get pissed at all of us whenever we played, but we always had a great time trying to "kill" each other with pillows. Sure this is not the most out there game, but it definitely reminded me of good times and probably the last time my cousins and I actually bonded. Now we all basically hate each other so...
RazerRamona · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nature stick...think drink ball but with tree limbs being thrown across a small stream in the middle of the forest
ditheca · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
sock bomb wars
joordllowie · 1 points · Posted at 00:42:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my mates used to play a game on skates where we would chase each other up and down the street and try hook each others feet and smack each other with hockey sticks.
We also tried jousting on our bikes as well.
Yep...
RossPerotVan · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vietnam..... my brother would tie me up and then torture me by covering me with fire ants or plants I was allergic too.
Chesha18 · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicken Nugget Fighting. You put a pillowcase over your head and fight.
cart0 · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soggy biscuit
nut2341 · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
ice tag.
Ice tag was whenever you were running from a certain someone, who had bags of ice, and if you were caught, you had to get the bags of ice dumped on you.
nytoT · 1 points · Posted at 00:43:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm from Panama and we played a game called "Tun Tun Calavera". The game was based on turning all the lights off and leaving the room completely dark. The seeker had to cover his eyes and look for everyone based on sounds. Also you could hit the seeker and even drop him. It was very fun.
somehealthcareworker · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “team hide and seek” at large family gatherings.
It’s basically like regular hide and seek expect teams of two would go hide together. It was a lot fun actually.
The exception being when my uncle and I would team up, and he’d show me his penis.
cforero143 · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had to escape my dad’s beatings
clean_room · 1 points · Posted at 00:44:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide Father McLellan's penis.
FredMcRek · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cel damage were the shit.
_Jedha · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I loved to play “Who can get naked quicker” in the basment when I was a kid!
Stickguy1234 · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was kinda weird. It was a hide and seek kinda game that me and my dad would play when mom was at work. basically I would hide, and dad would try and find me. I could move and stuff too, and he would tell me where he was by yelling for me. I lost when he would find me and beat me with jumper cables. Honestly most of the time I would lose, but he was having a good time so that's really the magic of it :)
mmwadusay · 1 points · Posted at 00:45:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "pooey pooey pooey pooey wee" while on car rides. My parents used it as a way to get all the random stuff in our heads(mostly sweat words) out before we got to our destination. We would go around the car coming up with the dirtiest songs we could come up with, always ending the song with "pooey pooey pooey pooey wee". My sister always won and she still has the dirtiest mind of all of us. Also we were very well behaved kids outside of the car.
DoobDoobington · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Always imagined my finger was like a super fast guy running outside the car. Jumping over people and shit. Man i miss being a kid!
dilldpickle · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“In the dark game”
One person with pillow, however many other siblings sneaking around trying to turn on the light and not get hammered with said pillow.
sye1337 · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gotcha Force, still hop on to play to this day for nostalgia
Seanrocks30 · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
World Of Zoo for the original WII
KagamiRyuunosuke · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my neighborhood, specifically in our cul-de-sac, me, my brother, and the rest of the neighbor kids would all get together to play games in the summer. One in particular was called "7 steps". Pretty much, one person would get chosen to be "it". The rest of us had to go back to our porch. The people on the porch would have to loop around the house once and make it back to the porch to win. We got 7 free steps from the porch, hence the name.
The person who was it would have to try to catch thr people who were running around the house and yell "out!" When they saw them move. The person who was it would have to see the person running's feet move in order for them to be out. Prett6 much it was a game of strategy. Be clever when chosing your path aroubd the house, and be as quiet as possible.
Man, I really miss those days. I'm a senior in high school now and I still remember those times like it wad yesterday. Unfortunately the neighborhood kids stopped coming around after the summer succeeding 8th grade. That was the last year we did anything together. Oh well. Just part of growing older!
pumpkin27 · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played dentist. One person would eat some hard candy in the "waiting room" and then go to sit in the recliner and the other one would scrap the candy pieces out of their teeth with a crochet hook.
nananadani · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have heaps of my Aunty's leftover yarn and when it was raining in winter, me and my brother would wrap all of the yarn between the stair railings, windows, and door knobs to recreate the scenes in action movies where the spies bend around the lasers. It was so much fun.
Tuckertcs · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played zombie tag.
One person, the zombie, would hide a bunch of nerf guns around the house while the survivors hid in our bathroom. Once the guns were hidden the zombie grabbed a lightsaber. The survivors then ran around the house to find guns. Once someone found a gun the zombie was let loose and had to tough survivors with the lightsaber or stick to infect them and they in turn would grab a stick. The survivors had to shoot the zombie to stun him (stand still) for ten seconds while they ran away. The zombie wins if he infects all the survivors. The survivors win if they find all the guns.
Needless to say we lost a lot of darts around the house and dented the walls a few times. The fun was worth it though. Also once I tripped over my dog and fell down the stairs. (Yes he was fine and don’t worry about me)
MikulkaCS · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trying to figure out what games my mom is playing with me... fuckin bullshit.
bunso60 · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jump Out and Scare You! How could I forget! My ex and I and our kids made this up one night. We played hide and seek just a regular game in the house. When the kids were It, my ex and I hid in a bedroom. We could hear them out in the house rummaging around and peeking behind doors and such trying to find us. When they got close to the close the bedroom door we jumped out and scared them! So it evolved that night into a game in the dark, and whoever was It had to find everybody who was hidden in the dark and if the It person walked past you, you could jump out and scare them anytime you wanted to.
We played it when the kids were really young, but we also had a great game of it after they were all in adulthood, and we closed off the basement and shut off the lights and they went nuts. Well, me too. It is a really fun game.
Staplehousen · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tigers and helicopters. It was as awesome as it sounds.
LineChatter · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Catch of the Century." Me and my friend would throw a Nerf ball and try to make amazing tip/dive catches and the best one was....Catch of the Century. Until the next one.
Cauzix · 1 points · Posted at 00:46:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Peen ball" I know mature right? Also was mentioned as "puus ball". Consisted of all the boys gathering in a circle (usually 6+ boys, best around 9-10). The goal was to be the last in the game. The (valleyball) ball was thrown hard into the middle initiating a high bounce. You would attempt to hit the ball or "snipe" (kinda an areal) someone with the ball anywhere under the knees down to their feet or in between/through their legs(a meg). If this happens the person who got shinned(hit on shins) or megged is out till next game. This contenues till 4 people are left. When four people are left, the playing field is shrunken.. making it harder to avoid getting hit. (Stepping out of bounds resulted in something called “hip down” which was where you got out if u got hit from hip or lower insted of knees.) This would contenue till there was 2 people left. At two peole left there was the finals The finals were really specific and odd so sorry if i explain bad. The two people had to crouch down and could not move. A bystander would drop the ball in the middle of the two and whoever could smack the ball onto the other feet first won the whole game.
The game consisted of a lot of specific rules like You couldn't touch the ball with two hands at same time You can have ball touching you hand for more than a second at time (to prevent grabbing rather than hitting or slapping) If you hit someone's croch or head, you become "shoulders down" or "hip down" depending on how bad the hit was. If you hit the ball far from the playfield, YOU have to get it not the closest person
If someone was megged they also got laughed at by everyone because it's super hard to meg people by slapping the ball between their legs
Most people in the game, if they were good or smart, hunched over and gaurded their legs with their arms ready to hit the ball away.
I loved that game so much and won't forget playing it with all my guys at school.
Sorry if I explained the game bad, I enjoyed typing this as that game was played for hours at a time on late nights in the streets or at school after lunch and it makes me smile to think back on it. Thanks for anyone still reading!!
Phaylevyce · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The guy game" was larping before we knew what larping was, i was about 6 or 7 back in 2000 to 2001 time period and we would all pick a "guy" who would typically be a favorite character of ours like Cloud from Final fantasy or Blade, sonic, mario, kirby, ken, barbie, etc... And we would just be silly dramatic kids "role playing" our characters incredibly inaccurately. This was only us and the two neighbor kids who would participate but we had a blast lol
That_Doctor · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put my friends into a locked (acid?) barrel, the blue ones with a black cover and a lock, locked them up real good and rolled them down stairs all over the small town and a lot of other places because we could. Parents never knew, I have later told them and they were angry at young me.
Doctor_Poptart · 1 points · Posted at 00:47:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Surprisingly there’s not a lot to do in deserts in California. My friends and I have always done traditional things out here like running around the desert with airsoft guns shooting each other. That one gets fun at night. Also riding dirt bikes is HUGE out here.
Edit: I ALSO JUST REMEMBERED. Some days me and my older brother would get every pillow and cushion in the house and make a big wall of pillows. We’d jump through this wall and whoever jumped furthest through it won. My brother always won because he was 11 years older than me....
xYike · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BELT - it’s like hide and seek combined with tag?
Step 1) get dads leather belt Step 2) define a play area and base (back yard, big tree over there is base) Step 3) one person hides the belt in the back yard while all others cover their eyes Step 4) kids disperse, looking for belt Step 5) belt is found by player who grabs it and chases all other players, whipping them with belt, until they reach safety by touching base
Simple. Stupid. Unsafe.
zoeyinthestacks · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Helicopter Game.”
I had one of those trees in my front yard that produced the “helicopter” seeds that would fall from the tree.
We’d throw tennis balls to dislodge the helicopters and it was a competition to see who could catch the most helicopters. Literally the whole block played. Even the teens.
It infuriated my father as he then had to clean up all of the dislodged “helicopters.”
manalishi92 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
DON'T CLIMB IN THROUGH THE WINDOW
Right, so you push 2 couches together to form the 'house', player one hides in the 'house' while player 2 tries to sneak into the 'house' through the 'window'. Just as player 2 allllmost manages to successfully sneak through the 'window' player 1 jumps up and screams "DON'T CLIMB IN THROUGH THE WINDOW" in a demented northern voice.
That's it. Player 2 looses every time.
I only ever played this with one friend, Jack, but we played it regularly. Boxing day of Christmas 2018 we hosted a highly anticipated 21st anniversary game of 'DON'T CLIMB IN THROUGH THE WINDOW', we are both 26 years old now. Jack won the reunion game.
Jack was always better at "DON'T CLIMB IN THROUGH THE WINDOW" than i was and continues to perform better than me in his broader life now we're adults.
schaefer001 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid I went to the horse races with my dad almost every weekend. I made up a horse racing game from a monopoly game. Keep records and
Docshop · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gernonimo,
At my elementary school we had a very steep hill on the edge of our yard. We were allowed onto the hill but we could only sit, nothing else.
We decided that we should try and play a sort of football game on this hill that we called Gernonimo
It was an easy game with simple rules, there was one ball. Your goal was to have the ball and get the ball by any means.
Kids were getting tackled and dragged down this hill, tossed down desperately clinging to the ball trying to keep it safe.
The game got shut down after a few rounds but we'd occasionally play it when we got bored. Stopped play it for good after a kid broke his collar bone
your_local_loli · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were in the car and and we didn’t have our DS’s me and my cousin would count all the American flags on our side of the road (because there was SO many of them) and try to see who ended up with the most by the time we got to where we needed to be.
Starbuckeroo13 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not even really a game but my one friend had a room that was basically a tiny cinder block storage area. We would collect the bouncy balls you got from the quarter machines and throw like 25 bouncy balls as hard as possible off the walls. Last person standing won. In retrospect I think we all won because none of us ever lost an eye.
ValkenWoad · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers.
BlueOzean · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any Clonk fans here? Most nostalgic childhood game I can imagine 😪
-shreddit- · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dead Fred
This was a fairly irresponsible game and we were chased many times down the road by aggrieved drivers. We'd fill long sleeve clothes with newspaper and arrange it to look like a body. We'd then proceed to hide it on a blind corner and hide behind a nearby fence. So many cars would come screeching to a halt. Their emotions would change dramatically once they realised they'd been duped
PencilFork7 · 1 points · Posted at 00:48:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
T-Ball Wars.
I had a long narrow basement me and my friends would play this game in. We would have about a dozen or so tennis balls scattered about the basment and we'd divide the room in half. Various shelves, chairs, tables, etc. provided cover. The length of the room was about 40ft so to make it interesting we always played in complete darkness. We could use flashlights to find "ammo" but if you didn't keep track of the enemy munitions you would just be giving away your position and get beamed immediately. The win condition was survive.
Then there was also Deck Dodgeball and Bamboo Sticks which are stories for another day.
SMASHING-BOXES · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every man for himself “football”. We called the game smear the queer. Basically when we got on the grass field someone would throw the ball and everyone would run to pick it up. Who ever had the ball would try to run away from everyone who was playing. When you got tackled you just gave the ball away to whoever wanted it. There weren’t really points just bragging rights. We would mostly play this game at school in the early 90’s. School staff would always try and stop us because kids were getting laid out and missing school.
Rainnv7 · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “funniest girl in America”. One person would have to do something funny and whoever laughed lost and was up next. The people guessing would be on the swings and the person trying to be funny would be in front of the swings just enough to where they wouldn’t get hit. I normally won a lot of the time haha.
Also played this games at my friends house where we were xmen but got to choose our own superpowers.
After Halloween I would set up a candy shop in the living room and have my siblings and parents buy candy from me lol
temalyen · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hand animals. My father and me would pretend our hands were various animals. A loose fist with the middle finger extended slightly for a nose represente dany kind of small animal. Hamster, guinea pig, mouse, etc. Four fingers straight down and middle finger out for a dog, horse, cow, etc.
The unique thing about this we had various named animals with traits and story lines. For instance, there was Fussy Duck who compulsively cleaned things up and would quack in extreme annoyance when there was a mess around. Eventually, Fussy Duck got married to a female Fussy Duck and started getting lazy and didn't clean things up. They eventually had a baby duck named Baby Alfonso duck, who was a member of the "Baby Alfonso Club" which was populated by animals named Baby Alphonso. (Baby Alphonso skunk, Baby Alfonso chipmunk, etc.) There were also the Boysens, who were small rodents about the size of a guinea pig. There were only 5 left in the world and they each were from a different country with a trait reflecting that country. In 2019 terms, the traits we gave them would probably be considered racist. But this was in the 80s and it didn't seem racist then.
We had an entire continuity in existence. It was super fun and I played it way later (into my mid teens) than I usually admit. Even into my twenties (my father died when I was 25), he'd occasionally randomly make Fussy Duck appear and scold me about something. I always felt like Fussy Duck was his favorite.
It was a fun game and one I sort of revived with an ex-girlfriend because she thought it sounded adorable. New animals were created for that, except for Fussy Duck. Fussy Duck will always exist if I play this game.
solarflarepolarbear · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Little Lost Girl” - I would hide under a blanket and my mom would find me and “save me”, take me to the kitchen and give me a snack.
lehcarrodan · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play dogs in the snow. Literally just pretend we were dogs, walk around on all 4s, lift a leg to pretend to pee on things, play fight, try to sniff butts. It was all kinds of fun!
bast58 · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The British are Coming" - Based on the TV series Daniel Boone with Fess Parker. OK, here goes, My grandparent's house had a downstairs that was awesome. It had a laundry room/mud room/plant room. Plus a billiard room. Add on a two car garage. Then add in an throwback den with a fireplace decorated vintage 1950's Early American. We played in the den. The point of the game was to sneak up the stairs to Mam-maw's pantry and grab some cookies or cake or whatever was yummy there, and there was always something yummy there and get it back down the stairs to the den for us to enjoy. The code word for adults almost catching us was "The British are coming". If any of my cousins are on Reddit, I will immediately know, since I made up this game. If ya'll are here, I love you all.
kodiaktreethree · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sleeping bag monster. Wait until night, turn off all the lights in the basement and cover the windows to make it as dark as possible. The monster is just what it sounds like, a kid with a sleeping bag over their body. The monster had to catch and pin a person to get out of the sleeping bag. We broke a lot of stuff, to say the least.
iWanttoKillaMan · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and two friends played an absolutely insane Need For Speed/Grand Theft Auto-Type game for a literal year in a backyard. It started off with all of us having like 3-4 Hot Wheels in our "houses." If you entered someone's house you could steal their car, ideally their fastest car, IF you left a car behind for the one you stole. Thus, having bad cars was advantageous for this swapping mechanism. If you were caught, you gave up a car for free, if you made it back to your house without them noticing you now had a new car for yourself.
We were obsessed with the Fast & Furious franchise so naturally we raced. Races were down by sliding down the slide the fastest and winning prizes. We put a ruler in front of the cars and moved it for an equal start. Winning a race could earn you other cars, or money. Money was so, so important. There was a bidding system where we would purchase hot wheels in an auction, this was over 10 years ago and we talk about it today we probably stopped because of winter or something.
Luxeray27 · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot dog, I would sit in the chair we had underneath our steps and my little brother and sister would come running at me. I had a pillow that acted as a hotdog bun and I would catch them in it, making a hotdog.
Bobobib · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
This game was not safe at all, but it was super fun.
I played a game with friends and my little brother where we got on scooters and rammed each other. We called this game “Ramming” and to invite someone to play with you, the lingo that you would use is “want to Ram?” Or “want to play Ram?” The guy or girl who falls off loses. We didn’t have any scooters that were the same so we had a tournament set up and what i can only describe as a “pick and ban” phase to choose the scooters to use. There are many different play styles and very different scooters to use. For instance, the sparky scooter was a scooter that could spin really fast and was low to the ground. I used this on primarily because I could use he spinning to knock lighter players off their feet. The most widely selected scooters were the battery powered one because it had a heavy base because of the battery and had large tires so it and both of these things just destroyed my sparky scooter thing (we called it the 360 when I rode it because I could spin it 360 degrees and everyone else couldn’t) I would spin and ram into the battery scooter but it wouldn’t budge, and if I didn’t fall off, the other player would just move away a little and wait for me to ram it again until I did fall off. The scooter that countered that one is this one that we had that the rider would get to move forward by shifting your weight from your front foot to your back foot. countered the battery scooter because it couldn’t move backwards for some reason. If the battery scooter rammed it head on, (Don’t worry we limited the speed for the battery powered ramming) then it would not budge. The reason that this specifically countered the battery scooter is because the battery scooter could not turn without doing a little Austin powers thing, so when it’s looking to ram you, it can’t turn, which means that the shifting scooter player can predict the angle that the battery scooter was coming from and meet it head on. The 360 destroys this scooter though because you could be looking as if you are going to hit from one angle but then completely swap and spin the other way and swipe him off his scooter. I can go on about this for days but there was a Rock Paper Scissors game going on with our six scooters. Much like in super smash bros, there are neutral matchups, bad matchups, and good matchups, but those were the three main scooters. He other scooters were back pocket picks if your favorite got banned for that round during the pick ban phase. This game obviously did not start out this complex or physical, but over the two years we played it, (almost every day) it got more strategic and the ramming got harder and faster. The game ended, not because of a injury, although there were many, but because the sparky got demolished in a collision with the battery scooter. It was completely unusable and it was my favorite. The whole seat was cracked and fell off the scooter entirely. One of the back wheels got bent. I was crying for a long time over my loss and there was not counter for the shifting scooter after the 360 got wrecked. I couldn’t even ask for a new one because all of our parents banned it over time even though we still played it. When I lost that scooter, it felt like I was losing a part of me lol. Like your car getting totaled that you spent years modding or something. The game may not have been safe, but it was worth the scrapes and sprains because it was thought provoking to think of strategies with each of the scooter’s unique traits. (This one scooter had separated front wheel like a bicycle so I picked it after the 360 was banned and did a wheelie and swung at the opponent’s handlebars and she lets go of the handlebars and immediately fell because it’s a scooter.) and it was super fun to get those big collisions that happened every once and a while.
Edit: I realized I went over the “meta” and strategy without going over too much tactics or stories from the actual matches. Basically any concrete was fair game, driveways and all. Everyone would watch and cheer on whoever they wanted to win for varied reasons. We ended up needing a referee because humans are terrible. So the person who is deemed least biased would be ref. This ref would not bet any items or money or food, would not be best friends with or related to either contestant, etc. we ended up making a little boundary liner that limited the players that wanted to camp with the low rider and battery scooter. (Forgot to mention that this scooter was named the “gas bike” although it was electric and not a bike at all.) The pick and ban phase was not there at the beginning, but it the way it worked was that I would flip a coin with my opponent, lets call him Fido, and I get heads. That means I go first. I would either pick a scooter or ban a scooter. If I picked a scooter then Fido would just pick whatever counters my scooter, but if I banned a scooter Fido would just pick a scooter that doesn’t have too many counters other than the scooter I banned. If Fido didn’t want to pick for some idiotic reason, he could ban another scooter and then it’s my turn again. Everyone has their strategies to get their perfect scooter, but if you did the same thing twice people would catch on to your schemes. This was incredibly fun and kept the game fresh. I live in southern USA btw so there are no seasons and it is outside temperatures year round.
EdIIt: dont ask me how old I was I have no idea it was just mid elementary school. You try and pin point when you started watching Spongebob. That’s probably not possible at least for me.
I’m definitely putting too much work into this post, but it was fun to write about and I guess I’ll copy it for future posts lol.
wai-wai-waitaminute · 1 points · Posted at 00:50:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented this game in second grade where I got an exclusive pack of kids from my class and we would “swim” around the playground as fish and go on missions to save the others if they were “stuck in the seaweed” or “drowning”. the game eventually became so popular that one girl asked me if she could play with us and I told her no because I already had a good 10 people playing there was not enough space on the platform we usually stood on. she got mad and told the teacher.so it got banned.
neonponies · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played straight legs. You saw who could go the longest not bending your legs. We were wild.
ActiveAdvice001 · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandmother made a life size red and green power ranger out of rights and stuffed up newspaper which had elastic strap at the neck hand and ankles. We wore them and had very intense fights
hiddenhighway · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play follow the girl across the street for hours, she would tie a jump rope around my wrist and walk me around her playhouse. We also had swing races on the set in her backyard and see who could get closest to the powerline. And playing spider where you get on an upended seesaw thing with a pole in the middle that hangs down from the structure with legs crossed and you take turns pumping each other.
LordPylar · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not a “game” per se, but me and my brothers played the “imagination game”. In it, we each had a race of creatures that formed kingdoms, had civil wars, forged alliances, and broke them. We would have massive battles (with pretend ships and armies of course) and would basically take turns narrating what was happening and even having in character dialogue with each other. We basically created a HUGE universe with many different Gods, places, and history. Every session was cannon in this universe, and we played it for about 9-10 years. Every now and then today, I still think about my race. College has changed things a lot and I don’t think about it nearly as often, maybe 4-5 times a month. My little brother wants to write a book about it, and I think his creativity stemmed from the game. Our mom banned video games in our home until i was like 14 so we had to make due with outside and our imaginations.
xaine85 · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Naughty children." Me and my 3 siblings would take turns into who was the parent while the other 3 would get into bed. They would then sneak out, then the "parent" would randomly come running in. Whoever was caught out of bed was the next "parent".
Sounds corny, but it kept us entertained for ages (this was in the 70's).
Ludwigofthepotatoppl · 1 points · Posted at 00:51:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Assassin. Our older brother was the assassin, we would build a fort of couch cushions, and one of us would be the target, the ambassador of Norway. It went pretty much how you think it would.
RomyRome47 · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played punch buggy except with Canada Goose jackets. Whenever we walked past one of the stores, it turned into a full on boxing match. I’ve now kept the tradition alive with my gf, so the game lives on.
Luddebr0r · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends call this absolutely brilliant game pungboll. Translates to nutsack-ball. This game is guaranteed to get you jacked up on adrenaline and at the same time bring out the best of laughs and truest of joy with your closest friends. It also shows who really is the champion around.
All you need is anything roughly the size of a tennis ball. A tennis ball also happens to be the perfect item for the job because it is light enough to not (completely) destroy either you, your friends or anything in proximity when thrown.
The game is very simple. You and your friend(s) sit at an agreeable distance. Around 4m away is normal. You then sit with your legs apart wide open, facing each other. Now you take turns and throw the ball at each others nutsacks.
Rules should be fair, agreeable and made up with each others, followings are guide-lines:
Wear lose clothing, otherwise there can't be suffering and the game loses its purpose.
When throwing the ball, you should have a fixed and steady elbow using only your lower arm to throw so the throws are under the same conditions of force and aim.
You shouldn't move/jerk because you're afraid the ball might hit you. If you do, you're weak. And if a ball were to score perfectly and you don't take the pain the game intended to give you, you're frowned upon and there should at least be a another throw.
You lose not by getting hit, but by chickening out.
The champion is the last man standing due to low pain threshold and outstanding aim. A true champion.
ARCS2010 · 1 points · Posted at 00:52:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hyperspace This one is long so buckle up
Materials: 3 brave people Ripsticks for each Concrete play area
The game: there is a pirate, who attempts to wrestle off the merchant. However, the warrior stands in his way. The game continues until the pirate wrestles the merchant off of his ripstick.
The twist: there are two areas to play: regular space and hyperspace. To transition, players must go to a spot and shout "HYPERSPACE" or "NORMAL SPACE". Preferably they grab a pole or something to do this. Note that you do NOT have to transition in this spot. The pirate has the ability to descend back into normal space at any time and taking anyone he touches with him. This makes for a great opportunity to win, as the warrior is forced to go to the transition spot.
Safety: if you successfully wrestle somebody off of their ripstick, HOLD THEM. Hold them up so that they dont crack their head against the concrete. This system has failed my friends and I only once in the past 10 years. Also learn how to ride a ripstick well before playing this game.
iIIusiox · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Real-life RuneScape back in 2007 when I was just 10 years old with my cousins.
We literally recreated RuneScape in my gigantic backyard. Around the Spring of 2008, I used my Border Collie and Jack Russel puppy as my summoner pets and had a 99 summoning cape to show my "awesomeness" of being a Master Summoner.
We played that every Spring and Summer for the past 4 years until high school came. Everything pretty much changed after that. It was about 10 of us playing and then we kind of went on our separate ways during school time. Because I was the football linebacker jock, had cousins in geek clubs, tennis, badminton, volleyball, basketball, etc. Had about 20+ cousins and they had their cousins from their other parents side of the family in the same high school.
Eventually around Junior year, I became depressed since I was given a pacemaker and so a whole bunch of us played Real-Life RuneScape to cheer me up. Now I'm 21 and everyone has their own lives. I hate growing up... Wish everything was still the same :((
AwesomeTyler809 · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tell me when to jump. One person closed their eyes and ran at something and the other told them when to jump. There were tears. Lots of tears
Gawdampuddinpop · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Scare the bear, like hide and seek but you jumped out and scared the shit out of sibling; also haunted house, which was my niece and sister go visit our haunted house and one of the attractions would be real and would chase the visitors
Haaaaartford · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this one game called "hide the soul" with one of my old toys. I don't really remember much about it but I haven't heard of anyone else playing it so I'm claiming it as unique.
FooFighter0234 · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is a glorious thread.
ferocitanium · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I made up our own cheap version of “escape the room” before that was even a thing (that we knew of at least.) One of us would draw a fantasy underground cavern with all sorts of objects like a bridge over a stream, vines hanging down, rocks, etc. Then we would write down “the way out.” The other one would have to guess the actions it took.
We got more and more creative with it. For example, my sister came up with one where I had to jump up and down on the bridge to break it and use the wood to repair a broken ladder with a hammer I found hidden in a shrub.
thelongleggedfly · 1 points · Posted at 00:53:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
First of all, my sisters and I would build a hard-packed sand castle/mound in the backyard. We'd carefully dig out a labrynth (to our minds) of tunnels originating from one central hole in the top of the sand mound, and ending in a number of exit holes around the base.
We would then spend a period of time hunting for and catching skinks and lizards from the garden. We'd place them inside those empty lego carriers with the slide lids in the shade to keep them secure. Once we had at least one each, we'd let them go so they'd race into the hole at the top of the sand hill. Whoever's lizard shot out of the bottom first was the winner.
Yes this sounds terrible, but we never made any lizards run the gauntlet twice, and they all ran free back into the grass on exiting the hill. (Dad figured a sand patch was as good as any sand pit, so no walls to encumber them :p).
stevienotwonder · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
While in the car, id pick a speck of dirt on my window, and I’d pretend it was doing an obstacle course. I’d “jump” over street lights, fences, other cars, etc.
wido711 · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Beat the Bees”
There was a path through a wooded corner lot near our house. We would ride our bikes through this path. It wasn’t a wide path and frankly was much of a path at all. One year we found ground hornets on the path we had made that summer. So we threw a bunch of rocks at it until there was a big swarm above the nest. We would then ride a bike as fast as we could past it and the rest would watch. The idea was that if you rode fast and far enough, they would stop chasing you and return to swarm above the nest. It was all fun and games until Mike hit his handlebars on a tree and crashed. He wasn’t far enough away. He lost “Beat the bees” that day. We went home and resumed that game later. I have no idea how many times we played it that summer. Only one casualty that I can remember. Occasionally it would be a sting here or there. We’d shrug it off and keep playing. Mike never played again, he only watched.
sillybillyhillbilly · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play the "screamy game" on my Granny's farm with my siblings. It was an amalgamation of tag and hide and seek. The seeker was on a bike and the rest of us would hide. The reason we called it the "screamy game" was because when you were found, you had to make a break for it and you had to scream while you were being chased. If the seeker caught you (they usually did), you were out and you became the seeker on the bike. Made for some short pursuits as we would run out of breath screaming so much. It was a dumb game but it lasted a few years.
Ay_Yo_Vertigo · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would play the "run and slide" game. We took a sock and folded it into a ball and threw it across the house trying to tag the person out before they slid and made it to base, one at the end of a hallway the other in front of a gas fireplace. I'm sure you can guess why we stopped playing that game.
xAsceticy · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run from my Uncle, he was really good at it.
SpaceCaseSixtyTen · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Peter popup pirate game with my uncle. I didn't like that game very much :(
Trayfern75 · 1 points · Posted at 00:54:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the thimble and button button
acornstu · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Insaneaquarium.
I also scored a pop every day for a mobth several times by betting friends i could spank them at minesweeper.
Pullmystrings12345 · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombie. I had a book about surviving the zombie apocalypse. If I had the book I would answer random trivia questions and if I answered it correctly,the questioner would get the book and repeat. Whoever had the book by the end of the recess won
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
probably not that unique but it’s fun so i’ll post it anyways. me and my friends would sometimes have combined sleepovers with my friend’s younger sister and her friends at their house and we would all play Hide & Go Seek ~In The Dark~ in her house or sometimes outside. no flashlights. just complete darkness, and every light in the house had to be turned off or covered up. the neighbors hated it. just a bunch of 11-15 year old girls screaming and laughing all night. good times.
sher_lurker221b · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skateboard wars. Basically tag football/rugby, but you used a skate board. You were allowed to throw/kick your skateboard into another person with the ball to knock them off. We wore helmets and pads and even mouth pieces and shoulder pads. But... It's all fun and games until someone breaks their tail bone. Me. It was the only place I wasn't wearing a pad. You would know that Mr. Murphy was the league commissioner.
gomegantron · 1 points · Posted at 00:55:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Raptor tag. It was tag just with dinosaur noises.
avisfeather14 · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pente. It’s the best.
beean0nymo0us · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Woodchips. On a playground one person would close their eyes and be it. They had to fumble around and on the playground until they tagged someone. If someone was running on the woodchips and the one who was it yelled “woodchips” while they were in the woodchips they had to be it. The game was intense and many a toes were stunned wandering aimlessly into slides. Another name for it was sand or really any ground surface we played it on.
ProfessorDog_PhD · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Let me tell you about "The Car Game".
You choose two houses on the same side of the street and each of their letterboxes marks a safe zone. It is preferred you pick two neighbouring house's letterboxes so you would run 1 house length but adjust for difficulty.
The goal of the game is to be the last person to be able to reach the opposite letterbox of which a car is coming from. If a car came east, you would run to the west house's letter box. And visa versa.
The real challenge comes when the common occurance of cars coming both ways and cars driving one after another in the late game where both people are exhausted for running letterbox to letterbox for hours.
ItsIvanHere · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So me and my dad used to play this game called “Son go in your room your mom and I have to talk”. Later that evening I heard my my mom and dad yelling and usually dad would win
bizhigh · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pickle. No idea how we came up with the game or name...but two people would stand about 50' apart. They would toss a ball between each other. They were essentially the base. The object was to run back and forth without being pegged with the ball. Normally either a tennis ball or baseball. Obviously we were trying to inflict pain..so you didnt want to get hit.
lostmau5 · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On birthdays, we'd say "no utensils" on the birthday cake and see who could finish it first.
coobear6 · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we drove to Mexico my family would play "count the dead dogs!" Basically you had to count how many dead dogs were at the side of the road. Our record was 47.
sir_automobili · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide from your ADOAF
Subgal_UK · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Penguin races” me and brother live in a house with a long thin hallway that has laminate flooring. When we were younger we used to put both of our legs into a pair of pj bottoms so we could barely walk properly and then put on slippery socks. We would face each other down the hallway, pushing and knocking each other over and sliding about. It was so funny
McRockEye · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
DWEEP.
BigTribeCallQuestFan · 1 points · Posted at 00:56:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to go to a friends house after school when we were about 11-13, our friends were about 11 and 14. They had rooms directly across from each other with a hallway in the middle of the rooms. We got in teams of 2 and used to throw everything in each room at each other through the hallway, literally every stuffed animal, article of clothing, book, etc.. Their mom came home so mad everyday and eventually shut it down. Best 2 weeks of my life lol
ColinORielly · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I lived in a section of our neighborhood that was a circle with houses on the inside and out (so the houses made an (0) shape) and this game involved at least 5 people with up to 20 sometimes. Usually played at night, we called it zombie island, it was a game of infection tag where one person started out it and each person tagged joined him. The last person alive got to choose the next person to be the first zombie. The catch was that if you stepped onto the street, you became a zombie, and zombies could run on the streets as well as yards. The first zombie would count to 20 as we all ran for our lives and split up usually into groups of 2 or 3 with our friends to go hide. The circle had about 20 houses on the inside so games would be 45 min+ sometimes. Only some of the backyards were fenced in in the middle of the circle, with trees and brush in the middle, so we would also run through backyards and climb trees. We played thiw game so much we had names for areas of the circle like Death Valley and codes for everything
lemonlimerain · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I already commented here but I just remembered a MUCH COOLER GAME I created with my younger cousin called "Sea Monsters"
At my grandparents house, the upstairs living room had a giant bin of toys and there was a pile of blankets on a table that we would sleep on if we spent the night. The thickest one was sleeping bag material and would start as our base island. We each started with a toy gun and had a few items on our base to start off; for instance, we had a paper shredder toy thing that we pretended was an oven and a plastic drum that we pretended was a water pitcher. The carpet around us was poisonous water and you couldn't be touching it with any part of ypur body for more than three seconds or you die, drop whatever you're holding, and start over at the base. Every so often, the imaginary "sea monsters" would show up and we had to kill them; sometimes we'd pretend that one bit our leg or arm and then we couldn't use that limb for the next few minutes. The reward for killing the sea monsters was getting to add islands (blankets) and rocks (chairs, some had wheels) to the surrounding water to be able to access more places and expand our base, as well as getting more stuff from the toy bin (but you had to put down blankets or roll a chair over to get to it first!) Orange lawn cones were water filters which would allow us to drink the surrounding water to stay alive, or if we could get to the waterfall (stairs) without touching the carpet, we could get drinking water and catch fish there (the stairs and the tile floor at the bottom of the stairs were considered freshwater that we could touch). There was really no way to win the game, you just keep building up your base and killing the sea monsters and adding areas and rules to the game as you go along (ie. picking up a random toy and saying "we could use this as a [instert item here]"). Really anything goes as long as you're not so strong that the sea monsters become an irrelevant threat; they become more dangerous as the game goes on, which makes inventing more weapons really fun. We had older cousins that would ask to play as sea monsters, but we always refused because they either didn't play according to our rules ("Sea monsters can't walk on land! Go back on the carpet and get on all fours!") or they'd be really OP and say they killed us permanently (when we clearly established our respawn rule!)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russian roulette ....
With nerf guns
kj-98 · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock snowballs I come from a family with 8 kids and we had this big basket of like 200 pairs of socks.
It got cumbersome for my foster mom to always match them so she got us to do it. Like once or twice a year in a big batch. Essentially the goal was to be fast and match as many socks as possible because once you where done that was your snowball amo and we'd have a sock now all fight.
EuCleo · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I created a game called bocce frog.
I had been given some sticky toy poison dart frogs for Christmas.
In this two-person game, first we rolled a puck out onto the floor. This was the target. Then we took turns throwing frogs at the target. We each had three. The person with the closest frog scored a point. If I had two frogs closer than your closest frog, I had a point for each. If I had three frogs closer than your closest frog, I got three points. You get the idea.
If one of us chose to bounce a frog off the ceiling, instead of throwing it just directly onto the floor, that frog was worth double points.
Finally, after all of the frogs, but before the score was tallied, we each got to roll a tennis ball at the frogs. Any frogs that we hit with the tennis ball changed sides. If I hit your frog, it was now my frog. But if I accidentally hit my frog, it became yours.
KomaForceFive · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I basically had a fight club, we would fight each other pretending to be different fictional or made up characters and would sometimes loop our friends into it.
Christendo__ · 1 points · Posted at 00:57:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my friends came over for the night, we would wait until it got dark, then go into the basement. Once everyone was in a different position, one person would turn off the lights, rendering the entire area pitch-black. Once that happened, we would try to find each other and attack. We called it Night Fight. Because we couldn't see, you had no idea when you would bump into someone and start brawling it out, trying to be quiet so the others wouldn't find you and attack while you were distracted. The rounds would last about 15 minutes each until someone got hurt enough to warrant a break. Somehow we never had anything too bad happen, worst injury was a long scrape down someone's back from being thrown against a shelf.
moonchild2561 · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
War - with BB guns. The rules were: 1) person had to be at least 50 feet away. 2) NO shots above the upper chest. A neck or head shot was a penalty, as was a violation of rule #1. A penalty resulted in the offended party getting a free shot from 25 feet away into the backside of the offender. Needless to say, nobody wanted a penalty.
addyrobs · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hunt the cunt. And Alarlio
Dazanofoey · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
See what brother can punch the other the hardest. It was quite difficult being 2 years younger than my brother
theultimateexcalibur · 1 points · Posted at 00:58:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That lead drawing thing, Naruto: game from 2007?, Free Realms, Super cow,
bakerbakerover · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't think we ever had a name for it, but we would ride double on a bike while blind folded and try to guess where we ended up. One person would sit on the cross bar and steer and the other would sit on the seat and peddle.
vladhed · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fireball. Literally we doused a tennis ball with gasoline and set it on fire and kicked it around the local (empty) wading pool.
1two3four5seven · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game was just called "The Rosie game" because it involves our dog, Rosie. So Rosie is a heeler, which is a herding dog, This means when we ran, she bit our ankles. See where we're going? We had this little playground you could climb and then there's a slide. This is the rules: No walking, you have to climb the stairs or climbing wall to go down the slide, if Rosie knocks you down you lose one of three lives. I would get a friend or two, and then my brother, and we would take Rosie outside. We would hook her up to one of those leashes that goes in the ground, and then get her in the yard. Now you count down, and when you reach 0, you run. Climb up the climbing wall or stairs, go down the slide, and run back without being knocked over, and then repeat until somebody falls down from Rosie 3 times.
MichaelTyson05 · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played twister with my family.
I couldn't stand for a week.
Underwaterbob · 1 points · Posted at 00:59:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Kick the Bucket" It's a bit hard to describe, so bear with me.
One kid is "it". They have to stay on the front of the house and are not allowed past invisible lines parallel with the sides of the house. With them is the "bucket". Not always a bucket, but something that sits on the ground and is kicked. Every one else starts at the back of the house and is free to roam where they will.
The object of the game is for one of the kids who is not "it" to kick the bucket. If "it" sees you, he kicks the bucket, calls out your name and where you are and then you have to join them stuck at the front of the house. If someone manages to kick the bucket without being seen, or after being seen before "it" manages to kick the bucket, then everyone who was captured is free and they have the time to run out of sight again. If "it" captures everyone, they choose a new "it".
What really made it fun was my friend's house where we would play was big and had a huge yard all around it with all kinds of hiding places like junked cars and ditches. Also, when "it" would walk away from the bucket to check around corners, there were some mad scrambles to kick the bucket before they turned around. We'd waste entire days doing this.
mcflyhi · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Hostage Exchange”
2 groups, in 2 separate vehicles would exchange 1 member of the party to each other, and then blindfold that “hostage”
You then had 20 minutes to drive your blindfolded hostage as far as you could from the “rendezvous”
At the 20 minute mark, you remove the blindfold and drop off your hostage at the craziest place you could find; It’s now a race to retrieve your team member that was taken hostage by the other car!!!
The first car to retrieve their team member and bring them back to the “rendezvous” was the winner!
It was so much fun being the hostage trying to figure out where in the hell you’ve just been dropped off, then trying to explain to your friends over the phone how to come get you.
philipexposure · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a large mound of dirt in a field by my house. We (kids in the neighborhood) started calling it the desert island. We would place some treasure (whatever we had at hand that day) on top of the mound and took turns seeing who could get it the fastest. We built on the rules and challenges. It turned into an obstacle course were you had to collect the treasures in a specific order. There was also kids on the ground that would throw balls at the runner. If the runner was hit they had to kneel for five seconds. We had referees to make sure the runner was following the rulers and time keepers to keep track of everyone's time. We took it so seriously. Things got so heated one day when someone wanted to carry a bag with them to hold the treasures on their run. Half of the kid said this was unfair because part of the challenge was holding all the treasures on your run. It got really ugly that day. It was such a great time. It was a sad day when they developed the lot and removed the mound.
captainfatastic · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school, my friends and I created a game we called Slap Happy.
The players would stand in a circle. Whoever started would turn to the person next to them and slap them. Then that person would slap the next person down. The slap traveled the circle until everybody except one person quit.
We had some things like reversals, double slaps, back hand, double back hand, etc. These were used randomly and without clear reason. We had an unspoken rule to just not be dicks about it.
In our biggest game (10+ willing participants), the final three were myself, my cousin and my best friend. All three of us were too stubborn to concede. The game was ended prematurely when a recess monitor broke us up. Apparently, slapping your peers at school is frowned upon.
boogalu72 · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fris-tennis
2v2 Using a frisbee on a tennis court. it has the same scoring and basic rules as tennis (ie where the serve has to end up) with some variations do to the frisbee
-once the frisbee was caught you could only pivot on one foot. Have to get rid of frisbee within 3 seconds of catching it
-pump fakes are allowed
-couldn’t throw the frisbee in a downward motion so no spiking it if your were at the net
-your feet had to be within the white lines on the court when you caught the frisbee
Feel like I’m forgetting some of the rules but it was an absolute blast to play and absolutely wore you out. May have to hit some of the guys up to bring it back this summer.
khaoszr · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Dodge. Hide and seek with normal rules, but we also had a dodgeball to 'tag' our targets.
Limbo78 · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Soviet Russia Ice Farmers". We had this pool where it froze over one night so in the morning I went out with my cousin and two sisters to play this game. There was no objective but I played a prisoner with one my younger sisters and my older sister and cousin were our masters. We used sticks as ice pics and we were screamed at to hurry up by my sister and cousin and we just tried to extract as much ice as we could from the pool. It was a one time game but it sure did pass some time.
HGSenpaii · 1 points · Posted at 01:00:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Street games,(Unique cuase most children my age play video games) Since we are filipinos living in the province we got wide streets just for us, We mostly play "Patintero", "Tumbang preso", "Bente uno" and much more. I'm 13 now if you ask
carsonrae · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spike Ball. You threw a ball onto a trampoline & then took the hose and covered the trampoline in water. We would then all get onto the trampoline (5-6 of us aging 6- 15) and bounce. If you got touched by the ball, you were out. It was so fucking hard especially with the water. My sister slipped and broke her ankle and we were no longer allowed water on the trampoline :(
PlzNotTakenUsername · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "anime/cartoon" with my friends.
The game was basically a "live-action" rpg where we just made up a character and a scenario using only our imagination. There was no barriers and no references but the movies and tv shows we used to watch and games we used to play (we had never played rpg at the time). There was a period when we were doing that every week or so and it would go on for hours... on the ground floor of 30 floors residencial buildings. I can only wonder what the adults who saw 12 years old kids laying "unconscious" on the floor while the others went away to have a "fight" thought about it lol.
Looking back, I think it was a very good use of imagination and creativity when colsoles and pc games were not very popular.
hobbitinterrupted · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have three siblings, and the four of us are all close in age, so we were always quite misbehaved growing up (and had no censorship from our parents). The strongest memory I have of us bonding is when we created a game together called, "Did you change your plans?"
You start the game by making up a story about future plans. Then, someone else asks, "Did you change your plans?" and you had to come up with a reason why you had to change your plans, and the reason ALWAYS HAD to involve queefing. No matter what your plans were, you had to change them because of queefing.
We came up with elaborate, creative stories for hours on a nightly basis, and even wrote each other letters about how we had to change our plans due to queefing. My eldest sibling was 10. My youngest was 5. I still don't know how we came up with this game.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When waiting in restaurants my mother used to play a game with me and my brother. She would draw a head shape, and we would each take turns filling in the face with wild eyes, ears, etc and seeing what kind of monsters we’d end up with in the end. I wish we kept some of the final drawings, they were interesting to say the least
Crazyjosh81 · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft haha
itsmeurbrothr · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red rocket with my dog
gamerjamesReddit · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
By the time my family got their second car, we started to see it everywhere. We saw it on the road, in the background of our shows, I guess it was a popular model. Until we got our next car once it died, we would always point at a car when it was the same model as ours and shout the type of car it was before anyone else did.
morado718 · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Disks of death! At night when we were kids and would have sleep overs my dad would go somewhere in the house to hide and we'd have to go find him. Except the entire house is pitch black and he jumps out and scares the living shit out of you and the goal is to throw paper plates like frisbees and hit him but we just run off screaming. So fun great memories lol
its_really_ronni · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Game?” Idk about that....It was fun but really weird so don’t judge. So it was kinda like a murderer game. And whoever was it had to sit in a dark closet and have their mouth taped shut and their hands tied. The others had to hide around the house while the person that was it had to try and untie themselves. So I specifically remember me being it this one time. I was untying myself and I got out like 20 minutes later. I found the other kids (my cousins that loved the game) and they helped me find our uncle. So after we found him we couldn’t find our aunt and her friend (who we soon found out were hiding in my garage) Hear me out, if was a fun frickin game. But we stopped playing after we started walking over to our other aunts house freaking out bc we couldn’t find our aunt and her friend. :(
dbauchd · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Base Dodge- Baseball with a dodgeball. In order to get a base runner out you have to hit them with the dodge ball. If the base runner catches the ball they score a point.
ravenrcft · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to love playing in my sandbox in the backyard but just setting up army men and pretend battles got boring. I decided to ramp it up a bit with filling the sandbox with water and making it a challenge to save as much of sandbox as possible before it overflowed with water. There were left over wood pieces from a backyard deck and we would use those to create dikes, dams, and whatever else to hold back the rising water. If you built them too high without a strong enough base, it would fail. Losing that side of the sand box.
It was loads of fun up until my Mother would yell at us for wasting water. Which I never understood since we had a well and the water was pretty much going back to which it came.
snort_bleach_503 · 1 points · Posted at 01:02:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Black out" ruff game of "hide and go seek" you have seeker everyone hides. its at night the lights are off once you find some one you wrestle and ruff them up then "you" and "seeker" go find the next person and same thing needless to say dont be the last to be found youll be sore hope your not in a game of ten peeps lol
HavocSerpentine · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 2008 i stumbled apon a game called RuneScape. It was a quite simplistically kept MMORPG which didnt restrict you to one combat style but instead let you switch around from being a mager to a ranger or a melee warrior. Also there where plenty more skills such as mining or woodcutting that you could train. The maximum level of any skill was 99; the creator of the game doubted that any player would reach that level because the required xp you would need to level up was exponentially growing as you progressed, meaning that on average you would have to spend 100's of hours to get to the maximum level of just one out of 26 skills. It turned out though that dedicated players would take on this grind and so a small comunity of real hardcore players had arisen. 11 years later, the game still exists, And I still play it whenever I have any spare time. Its become a part of my life by now. There is something intriguing to this game that can’t be explained. I never found a game that comes even close to this level of perfection.
BLupas · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in elementary school, one of my friends used to not like playing tag because he never wanted to be it, and most of my friends agreed with this, so I came up with a game that I called "elemental freeze tag". The game would work best with multiples of 3, but could be done as long as there were at least three people playing. Each team would be assigned one of three elements - fire, water, or grass - and they would chase each other accordingly: fire would chase grass, grass would chase water, and water would chase fire. This way everyone was both "it" while also running from the person who was "it". After that it essentially became freeze tag unless there weren't 6 people playing, in which case the person who was tagged would be frozen for about 10 seconds. I sadly, however, came up with this a little late, so we didn't get the chance to play it much, but it was fun while it lasted.
ShiroTori · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I just randomly came up with a game where we'd hide on opposite ends of our parents' bed and throw stuffed animals like grenades at each other. The "unique" part of the game was that one of us would shout "MAUDE" and the other would shout "ARADIA" in roaring voices as we were throwing something. If you got hit you had to make a goofy scream and the other player would get a point. We switched who was "Maude" and who was "Aradia" each time we played.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to shove a ton of goldfish in our DVD player, which would break it
ToastOnBeanz · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spyhunters
bootle6fireworks · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So my brother, my father and I would grab a tennis ball and then sit Indian style in a circle about 10 ft away from each other. Or if the room was big enough, in couches and chairs. We would then lob the ball at each other, trying to hit each other in the balls. You wouldn’t get points for hitting balls tho. You’d get a point if your toss was mid air and the recipient started laughing because he could tell it was on target. You could only catch it if it was going to completely miss your body, otherwise you let it hit you. You’d let it hit your face or stomach but once in a while, upon release, you’d realize it was going to hit its mark and you’d laugh and then catch it so it didn’t hit you in the sack. If you didn’t want to give the opponent a point, you’d let it reach the destination like a man.
TL;DR we were broke so we would try to hit each other in the balls with a tennis ball
C00lnerd22 · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
Tazsilva · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Don't tell mommy"
OtterMelonLikesUwU · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my family goes on road trips we pass by cows or horses sometimes so we yell "Honk moo!" My brother and I would argue over who said it first.
SirRamen2000 · 1 points · Posted at 01:03:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poopball. It involved my friends throwing a yoga ball at me while I was on a jungle gym.
TheJamesG · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cheslyn House. On the way home from football (I played 5 times a week) and when you saw the sign to this Manor House now a museum you had to shout CHESLYN HOUSE. I never won but always pretended I didn’t hear dad say it first
drjallz · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man.
So apparently we were full of imagination.
We often pretended we were either homeless or stranded in the woods (nearby small forest) & build forts. I mean elaborate forts out of branches and logs.
We would play fairies and try to catch fairies for literally HOURS down by a nearby creek.
Dinosaurs. You played on a playground & someone could either be a T-Rex or a Velociraptor, & they had to stay on the sand. The kids had to try and get past the dinosaur. The kids would be on the playground trying to get down and across to other parts without being eaten (touched) by the dino. Then they became the dino.
Don’t wake daddy. In middle school we had a long set of steps that had a longer step in the middle. Someone would stand on it with their eyes closed and we had to run past without them touching us. Super dangerous, always fun.
We played ‘Spies’ and would meet every day at the side of the school for months on end with matching notebooks writing about stuff.
We played orphanage a lot and pretended we were abandoned. Your standard house games as well.
We recorded radio shows a lot. We counted the alphabet out on license plates on road trips. In order.
We used a flight simulator to pretend we were pilots for a loooong time. We made libraries with barcodes and check out systems. We set up pretend movie theatres in our homes.
But our all time big one - was Barbies. Barbies did it all and more let me tell you.
Man being a kid was kinda neat.
kuro_sama_2 · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I called it "kit kat kit" because that was my favorite candy (still is but that's beside the point). You could role play any character from any thing you wanted. I made it to avoid fights between my brothers and me. They could be a transformer/power ranger/whatever and I could be whatever I wanted (mainly Naruto characters).
Spee21 · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Laser Pointer Game”
In my parents house we had a ginormous crawl space (900 sq feet) that was filled with our old toys, old TVs, or whatever my parents hoarded. The game was simple, an abbreviated version of hide and seek with a laser pointer. The person who was searching for others would just have a laser pointer as a flash light and catch people if they flashed the beaming laser on them.
shethinksmydatassexy · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game called 'big dumb animal' where one of us would cover ourselves with a blanket and then crawl around and run into things while the other one just watched and laughed.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
get candy when the candy man touch my peepee
UberLurk · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tree King", we would all get up in a tree that wasn't too high and spread out. Then we would yell GO! and try and knock each other out of the tree. Last person still in the tree wins.
Koetotine · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Keittiöpallo, kitchen ball. There is a goalie, who guards this certain recess under the counter in my friend's parents' kitchen, and another player who sits in front of the back of their couch.
The another-player then tries to get a floorball to the goal. I don't really remember if you would throw the ball, or use your hands as rackets or flippers.
Was fun until the friend, who was at the time unnecessarily violent sometimes, would throw the ball way too hard and it would hurt.
Stand_User · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a game called “Bull” a very dangerous game Indeed. So my friend brought an exercise ball and we used to run at each other and ram them. The goal was to be the last one standing. You could get eliminated by getting thrown out of the trampoline or tapping. And everyone would take turns being the bull.
_insertjokehere_ · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Christmas Lights! During the christmas season whoever saw Christmas lights while riding in the car had to shout "Christmas lights!" first. We would keep score, with no real goal in mind. I have 7 siblings so it was very competitive and included a lot of rules about whose window you could look out of. My mom now tells us it was the game she hated most.
MercenaryArtistDude · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Drive-by" Basically, this game was always being played in the background. Say you're shooting hoops in your friend's driveway, and a you see a car coming down the street. The game was to quickly try to hide from the car before it reached us. If you didn't find a hiding spot in time, you were "dead". Played this between the ages of 10-14/15-ish. It wasn't until later on in life that I realized we were just practicing for the real thing because we lived in a slightly "hood" area.
kamakazi451 · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont remember the name, but a few friends and I would go about 20 feet away from each other, turn around, & run at each other as fast as we could, & try to trip each other, Prince & repeat, whoever fell first lost
RacinGolfer · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Maze". It's not what you think. It's actually a game where you bring out a paper and a pen and draw different genres of games like side-scrolling, 2d RPGs, and actual Mazes then you let other people try it out. It's kind of like the flash games on the browser but you control the player by drawing lines as the player's navogator
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Sleep tickling”. My uncle would tickle me when I was asleep. Haven’t played since I was a little kid
Kelseyb · 1 points · Posted at 01:06:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crazy bags. When it was really windy, my parents would send my brother and me outside with grocery bags and string and let us "fly" the bags. We thought it was great. My parents are geniuses.
LexaMaridia · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a pretty weird lonely kid, so my best friend was my imagination. Inanimate objects became characters in a bigger story I couldn’t make sense of. My left hand was a brother, the right a sister. They argued a lot, but in the end they were friends again. They go on crazy adventures.
Under my desk was a cubby hole where we stored tools. In first grade the scissors were friends, and they ate the paper. I would cut little pieces out, and have them have ‘jobs’ one worked as a pencil ‘sharpener,’ shaving off the edge to show lead. Sometimes the pencil would fight the scissors, and eventually became ‘real’ too.
When I got into trouble with other kids, they’d send me to eat lunch alone in this small room. All by my self, and come and retrieve me when lunch was over.
I pretended mashed potatoes were snowy mountains or monsters, and that the peas were people fighting to cross it.
Yep...
TelUrMama2Pageme · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spreading my cheeks for Michael Jackson.
Winter-Coffin · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crotch Ninja
Its Ninja, a game where you can gather in a circle and take turns making a single pose. After everyone makes their starting pose, they try to use their next turns to try to touch the person next to them. In a single movement, with the target allowed to move out of the way. If you get touched by the other person, youre out.
Crotch Ninja adds the difficulty of having to hop and pelvic thrust into your target in order to get them out.
This was traditionally played at New Years in my best friends cul-de-sac with all our friends from high school.
Bing_Tang_Sun · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Mr. President." Kind of like nose-goes, everyone just starts putting a finger into their ear like they have a headphone in there. Those people are the secret service. Last person to put their finger in their ear is the president, and they needs to be tackled in order to protect them from bullets.
bellacoldbrew · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Omg. These are golden.
FarmgirlFangirl · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Downhill derby!!! We had a big hill going from grandmas house to the garden, and a bunch of little pedal cars and ride on toys. My two older cousins and my sister and I would just fling ourselves down the hill and hope we didn’t die it was awesome.
In the winter we’d tie a rope to the back of our snowmobile and just whip each other around into snow drifts and haybales on sleds or just chunks of plastic. Good times.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Claim Game”
When on the road with your family, each person gets to claim one car they see on the road for the duration of that day with the intent of seeing who can “claim” the best car by the end of the day. Whoever claims the best car wins, with “best” being determined by a majority vote in your vehicle. Generally speaking expensive sports cars are where the money is at, but unique, funny looking vehicles can sometimes win depending on the group you’re with.
iLiveInAHologram · 1 points · Posted at 01:08:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Set ups”, “imagine if”, Barbie rescue, lion pride, reindeer (I loved Rudolph), Pokémon rescue, traffic jam
DaBigShank · 1 points · Posted at 01:09:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Choreographed fighting. My friends and I would throw punches and kicks at each other while reacting to them and taking the hits in slow motion
rellimja7777 · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Roller Bike" during the height of the original roller derby craze. Next-door uncle had an oval concrete driveway. All able neighbor kids got on their bikes and rolled around the oval, with some now-unremembered method of "winning". After a good number of injuries and busted bikes, the neighborhood parents collectively called a halt to this amazingly fun and dangerous game!
EricEmrey · 1 points · Posted at 01:10:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Still nowadays me and my mom while going on trips play this game called Baywatch, the object of the game is to find as many yellow cars you can on the roadways that are not buses. Each time you say Baywatch before someone else does you get a point first to 15 wins. But, if you call Baywatch on a bus or not yellow car it is -2 points, At one point my mother got so pissed at me for beating her she banned Baywatch in the car
docnotoncod · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Oops, I'm not allowed to say that."
Guy in my head who is not allowed to say "Oops, I'm not allowed to say that." So he says that over and over and over again whenever I felt like thinking about him. I can still see his face.
MRjamesPotty · 1 points · Posted at 01:11:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother would hold my hands beside my head, then I would have to guess what hand he would hit me with. If I was right I wouldn’t get hit if I was wrong I would. If I was right three times in a row it was my turn to hit him. Lol it was a game of honesty and trust.
Tangled_Paper_ · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bounce the cap"
You would start on a sidewalk with the lines in it, grab a basketball and a soda bottle cap.
Put the cap at the center of on of the lines and then 2 people stand on opposite ends of the cap behind each of there own lines of the sidewalk.
OK| •| |OK.
Bad example but that is essentially what it would look like. One person on each side behind the lines and the cap on the middle line, then you try to move the cap with the basketball across your opponent's line, first one to do so wins.
TyeDieGuy · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think we ever named it. Or maybe I was too young to remember. Basically we would play 1v1 with one person on each side of a power line that also had a light pole over the line. You would take turns throwing the football, the nerf kind that whistles and was connected to a stick with a tail. If you threw it over and the other person missed it you get a point. There were mailbox boundaries. You would want to hit the power line so that it would drop too hard to catch. We played this at the same line every night for years and year first person to spell bomb loses. That’s it the name was bomber. We sometimes played 2v2 as well.
human8ure · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pirate Stomach Pump!
My brother and I used to play this game we made up. One of us is lying down and choking on an imaginary gold coin. The other performs some CPR pumps on the other's chest until he spits the coin out. The first one catches the coin mid-air and yells "Yaaarrrr!", tries to bend it with his teeth to verify its goldenness, and in the business of bringing it close to his mouth gets it stuck in his throat. Reverse roles, repeat forever.
Aliendude3799 · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Freeze/Zap Tag: like freeze tag but there is an extra mode you had where you got Tazed. So basically when you tagged someone you had to say out loud which one you wanted to use on that particular person, and if you didn't they became the tagger. When you are tazed you have to lay down in a plank-like position making it harder for the person to get away, however when in the forest it made it harder to see.
ilikecows7 · 1 points · Posted at 01:12:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me and my cousins visited our grandparents for Christmas we would jump on couches and avoid the floor because the floor is lava or sharks can’t remember exactly
LuckyCyber24 · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t let the balloon touch the floor
NotWorriedABunch · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played rocket tag. We'd put pop bottle rockets into paper towel rolls, light them and shoot them at each other. If you were hit, you were out. It hurt like a BITCH to get hit but we loved it. Once, a local friend had an out of town visitor who ended up with a bunch of burns on his neck. They looked like hickeys to the host mom and she freaked out. He went with the hickey story so we wouldn't get busted. Being a preteen in the 80s was the best!
lion_vs_tuna · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wipeout" - literally played the song Wipeout on a record player over and over while playing.
Anyway, my older brother would try to hit us with a dodgeball. If he hit you, you had to play dead where you were hit unless another kid could get to you and touch you - resurrecting you. The only way the game could end is by my brother killing everyone with the ball without anyone resurrecting. We broke so many things in that basement lol.
romangio12 · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Split my forehead open. 13 stitches. I'm a 5'3" woman. At the time 130 lbs. Guy slammed my head into a wall!! Pretty deep. Concussion and all that. As far as injuries from anything fun? Fractured ribs falling out of a tree.
Yoyosten · 1 points · Posted at 01:13:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can (common game unique twist). In the summer when corn was highest we'd sometimes take a can out into a cornfield and find a large bare patch of dirt which is a low spot where water collects in the spring rains and prevents growth. We'd set the can down in the middle and played roshambo to determine who was "it". Idk if you've ever played kick the can, but doing it in a cornfield is tough...
So many factors come into play: The weather - Clowdy=Easier to hide
The rows - Looking down a row you can see for a long way, across rows maybe a few yards
Sound - You're in a corn field. You can sneak all you want, but when you make the commitment to bolt for the can you'd better be fast because everyone and their mother is gonna hear it.
Sense of direction - Corn is well over your head, its easy to get turned around and lose track of where you are. I once got lost and had to use the sun and knowledge of which way the corn was planted in this field to find my way back. Had I been wrong I'd have walked a half mile before stepping out.
It can be so fun and scary at the same time.
Carl-n-Gary · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Steal the frosting out of the pantry and eat it all in my bed.
Beautybaes · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would pick a number like 7, then watch cars pass buy, the seventh car would be yours. Then start over and say like 2, then the second car would be your new car.
whitesocksflipflops · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Dukes of Hazzard with the kids that lived in the yard behind our house. This was 82, 83ish. Obviously. I was about 7 or 8.
I was always Bo and the neighbor's daughter was Daisy. We would run and hide from my brother, Boss Hogg, and her brother Roscoe P Coltrane, and usually wound up in a closet hiding and making out until the "cops" got near and we'd have to make a break for it.
XxgirraffezzxX · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game in the pool similar to marco polo but no marco or polo and your eyes can be open underwater. This is best played in the dark.
If somebody sneaks out of water people can tell the hunter that they are and he will yell fish out of water. If their thighs are out of water they are it. If the person hunting wrofully yells "fish out of water they have to wait 10 seconds.
No sacrafise type of stuff and the hunter has 5 seconds to hear where people are and breathe
DanielTheCoolKid · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had this thing called the “annual bag run” in like 4th grade. WhAt we basically did was tie the rope things on your bags together, form a straight line and run down a steep ass hill. Looking back that shit was mad dangerous and the fact none of us got hurt is a miracle.
teerude · 1 points · Posted at 01:14:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car fishing. String up a pop can to a fishing line and you sit in lawn chairs with a cooler and cast them out to the street. Reel em in and try to get a car to run it over.
KoralGirl24 · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run around the house like maniacs until someone gets hurt
xcamie · 1 points · Posted at 01:15:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
there was this really fun game me and my dad played where he would get drunk and then he would beat me. i miss it
lost_pastrysnatch · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the best thread ever! So many ideas to share with my kids
theredheather · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had a bunk bed that we could reach the fan from. We would put Hot Wheels cars on top of the fan blades and then turned the fan on. Sometimes the challenge was to see whose car flew the furthest and other times it was to who could hold on the longest. Our parents did not appreciate.
tallcappy · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghosts in the Graveyard
My cousins and I played this all the time at my grandma's before we, you know, eventually grew up and didn't talk to each other because family is weird.
To play, pick one person to be the Ghost and put a blanket over them. They would stay upstairs while the rest of the group hides. When everyone is ready, the lights are turned off and the blanket-covered Ghost tries to find them. You're out if the ghost catches you in the blanket. You win if no one finds you. The first one found is the next ghost.
z-skeet-on-your-feet · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Honkers" Yes I know it doesn't sound so kid friendly but hear me out.
When on trips to Maine, My family (mainly me and the cousins) would make weird faces, type on our phones, air drop messages, or even act out honking a truck horn towards truck drivers to get them to pull the lever to honk or whatever, I'm not sure that's how they honk in cartoons. All from the car window, of course. By the end of our 8 hour minimum drive we count how many honks we got over the period of time while driving and always tried to beat a highscore each trip. We also have a similar game which is pretty dangerous but funny (this game is one for short cars not trucks.) We call the game "Funny face" cliché name, duh. How we would play, is that whoever got the driver in the lane next to us on the highway to look over when we made funny faces, got a point. And each weird look you get from a driver you add up the points depending on how many passengers of that car. At the end of the drive, we would see who got the most points and who ever won got a cupcake.
tynara · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember play a game in a Samsung old cellphone orange screen was kind lara Croft theme I don’t remember the name
FrenulumFrietkoten · 1 points · Posted at 01:16:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would do alternate history roleplays with my friends. I remember one when LBJ became a tyrant because my character won the election. He also invaded Canada and took over all the eastern provinces. And George Wallace ran too and split the Southern states off as a New Confederacy. Then I went back and convinced the Western states and the Prairies of Canada to hold a convention and split off as the Co-operative States of America. The 3 countries fought from 1964 to 1968, until they all united to get a Chinese-backed regime out of Hawaii.
bcm3152 · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rip-stick soccer
RockStar25 · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the belt.
It was a mix of "hot and cold" and base. One person would hide a belt somewhere in the vicinity while everyone else starts off at base. Everyone would then go search for the belt and the hider tells people when they are hot (close) or cold (far). The belt finder then gets to chase everyone and whip them before they get back to base. Then the finder becomes the hider.
novaprice · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gridz. It was a fun Mac game where you build humanoid robots that either destroy each other, destroy your enemy's bases, or help build your base. The bigger you base the faster you get points and more points get get you more bots. Hell of a game. I think you can still get it somewhere out there....
KraftyKat320 · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"it was the goosey"
Ok, so this is still something we sometimes do, but my cousins dog had a favorite squeaky toy we called the goosey. So one day, she made up a story about how the goosey is always following her around and quacking whenever it wants. Later that day she farted, and yelled "IT WAS THE GOOSEY!" and thus a tradition was born
VioletandPink · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I used to always love to kick a bouncy ball over the power lines at the road where I live and I did this for years.I would simply kick the ball over the power line,go get it from wherever it landed,then kick it back over the power line.There was no danger of ever hitting a car because I live in an area so rural that you can go to sleep lying in the road at night and feel safe that nobody will drive by before you wake up at dawn,so my parents didn't really care.
Edit:I just remembered that a few times in first grade(only twice) I played tick tac toe by myself.I would take the first turn then I would close my eyes and blindly mark another spot as the opposing player and whichever spot I marked in or whichever one the mark was closest to I would count as "my oppositions choice".I lost one game to my "competitor" and won one game as well. It got boring fast.
ogtiberius · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was around 12, my brother(2 years younger than I am) and my dad would play the "interception game". Football is very prominent in our family line so its conception immediately stuck with us.
The jist of it is, my dad and the two of us would alternate being on offense or defense, and the person on offense would "huddle" with my dad and figure out a passing route. Dad says hike, person on offense runs the route and the person on defense has to try to stop them from catching the ball, or try to intercept it. A catch on the offense was a point, a blocked pass by the defense was a point, and an interception on defense was two points. To win you had to be left with two points more than your opponent with a round of redemption.
We started by going to 20 points, then 30, then 50, and from then on it was just until everyone decided to be done. The highest score I can recollect was my brother beating me 224 to 222. That game took almost an hour and a half and it was probably the best Thanksgiving of my life.
midnight8992 · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zhubal and No-look
Zhubal is basically a game based in negative reinforcement that is similar to an adult version of 4 square. Although if you call it that you get a penalty. I. An only describe it as the best game ever invented. Another key rule is that you can't be told how to play.. You learn by doing and unintentionally breaking the rules and receiving penalties.
No-look is a game where a group of people stand in a circle and bounce a ball to each other. Primary rule is not looking at the person it is passed to....like a no look pass in basketball. The must bounce once and be catchable. Points are bad and if you drop the pass thrown to you, you get a point. The goal of the game is not to lose. If you lose, you are crowned the Dingus....
zimzumpogotwig · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made a roller coaster by lining a rubbermaid tote with blankets and pillows and would throw each other down the stairs...with the lid on of course because you know, safety.
ranting_atheist · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, there's lots.
-The "no thumb game." See if you can go a whole day without using your thumbs for anything or else you lose.
-"Giggle closet." In my bedroom there was a walk-in closet you could hide in. Take turns sneaking out and trying not to be spotted by the adults of the house. For some reason this was insanely funny, so we'd end up having to cut off the sneaking early to go hide and giggle in the closet. Pretty sure my parents spotted us every time.
-"Dark tag." Best played at night. Pull all the blinds shut in a room and close the door so everything is pitch black. The person who is "it" has to grope around and try to touch someone and then that person is "it." It was kind of dangerous since it's best played when you don't move things out of the way so the "it" person gets confused and trips over things. Those hiding are free to move around but must be careful to not make any noise. With just a bedroom to hide in, it's a really enclosed space so you have to be sneaky. My favorite thing to do was toss something across the room that made a noise to distract who was "It" so I was free to find a new hiding place. Parents put a stop to the game when they found out about it. We weren't happy.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"You-know-what"
CthulhuJankinx · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pin hockey. We played in a empty cafeteria. Each player gets a row type area ( like the layout of a foosball table, and is equipped with a bowling pin ( all we had at the time but interesting to use) and the goal is to hit a wiffle ball hard enough across the floor to hit the opposite wall. First team to 17 wins, 8 players a team. It was weird as fuck but we played it all the time, I just was always curious how it would be played professionally, bc we used plastic pins and a wiffle ball
Beard_Science6614 · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would take Matchbox cars and sit on opposite sides of the kitchen floor. We would then slide them across the floor with the intention of having them collide. If they crashed and your car did not land on its wheels it had to be removed from your pile. When they did not collide the cars were returned to their respective players. Cars had to go in order.
We would select 10 cars each (we had our favorites) one at a time. So many fights but such a great time.
VandulfTheRed · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not that intricate, but me and my siblings had a netted trampoline, and would have "knock out contests" which involved that weird double jump technique and seeing who could drop kick the others into submission
Tashrex · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Slugs”. When we were too pent up but couldn’t be thrown outside we would play this game. We would go to the basement, turn off the lights, get in sleeping bags and fight as slugs. Basically limbless battling. Get the rage out with minimal damage. We also would climb and leap off of very rickety furniture (collapsible variety) just for hoots.
endakis1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
All I can remember clearly is playing what we called Mini Olympics with a bunch of different games we came up with.. me, my younger brother, a girl my age and her younger sister who was my little brother's age. Our mum's were friends. We awarded gold, silver and bronze but the youngest girl always came 4th, so we assigned 'pearl' as 4th.
thebigsmart13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
calvinball from calvin and hobbes but in real life. actually pretty fun.
Apollyon077 · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “Marker Game.” A popular game I played with my classmates in later elementary and early middle school. Everyone in the class was given an NFL team (because that was easy and got the guys hyped to participate), as well as a few close friends in other classes. In tournament style, starting with group stage, and moving to a bracket, players would have a crayola market that represented their team. I then held all the markers out between two hands (making an “H” shape with them), and then, with my eyes closed, would drop markers one by one until one remained. The last standing got a point. First to 10 advanced. Played it while there was free time in class.
It became very competitive, and my desk would often be surrounded by classmates when matches went on. The teachers actually stopped class most years for the championships.
Rycan420 · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not for the feint of heart... find a SMALL foyer or entryway with doors that close on both sides to to make a small room... take a hand ball (the blue ones, not real hand balls) and just wing as fast as you can into a wall... First to take a shot that makes them give up (usually the eye, throat or crotch) is the loser.
ThatJamOnToast · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my family would drive to my grandma’s house, my dad would point at a car on the highway and I would name the brand of car it was, Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota, etc.I don’t know why I was so fascinated by car brands, but it kept me entertained.
cornflakesforlif · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Threw grandmas precious flour all over the ground outside to pretend its snowing. Mixing flour and eggs and giving it to chickens.
hrg_rva · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would very meticulously set up our armies in his basement. Rows upon rows of army men, all in various strategic formations on either side of the room. It took FOREVER. Next we'd carefully divide a bunch of small lincoln log pieces between us equally, before making our way back to our side of the room. Then we'd hurl our lincoln log pieces at each other's troops, sending them flying into the air and all over the room.
Made a huge mess, but it kept us entertained!
unicornsatemyfeet · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The game". The one that if you are playing it, you just lost.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretending not to be upset about being yelled and screamed at all the time for absolutely no reason.
PopLockNFart · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Crutch Game" In our laundry area the dirty clothes would just be in piles all over the floor. My brother and I would take turns using one of the crutches to fling socks and underwear or whatever nastiest piece of laundry we could find at each other. The person getting the item flung at them was not allowed to move or take off any items that land on them.
panne_lara · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well me & my sister used to put a bunch of pennies in a play milk jug, and we would take turns pouring them all into our mouth, then putting them back in the milk jug. We'd just pass it back and forth in a car ride.
claireface15 · 1 points · Posted at 01:22:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The pancake game. Me or my brother would lie on the sofa and then the other one would lay across the top of the seats and roll off, thereby squashing the original like a pancake! It hurt, but was so much fun!
thedrewprint · 1 points · Posted at 01:23:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I created “bunt-a-ball” a hockey-baseball hybrid played with wiffle ball bats and a tennis ball. It was awesome.
Filthnificent · 1 points · Posted at 01:23:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends in school made up this game that we called "Stump".
It was basically hide and seek tag, with a bit of that game "predator and prey" or whatever you call it. There was also a safe zone, it was this giant tree stump in the middle of a forest, situated in a small clearing.
Game started out with 1 person that would be "it" (they usually volunteered) The rest of the class would run into the forest and hide. The person would then run into the forest and try to tag as many of us as he could. If tagged you would go back to the stump and sit down(so everyone knew you were tagged) to wait for the next round(which would be around 5 minutes if the person couldn't tag everyone)
Now the people that get tagged are technically out, but will come back in the next round as tagged as well if there was anyone left that hadn't been tagged.
You could run to the stump while the people who were "it" were out trying to tag people, and this would mean you were "safe" and would not be "it" for the next round.
The game was hilarious cause people eventually started evolving it, and would leave someone "it" to guard the stump, so we would hide in groups and all charge in and hopefully confuse/outmaneuver the person.
It took us 2 rounds to catch this 1 kid as a whole class(20somethingvs1), he was so fast. If he was it usually you couldn't do shit but try to jump over bushes and run around trees to get away from him.
It ended up being played by the whole school for a few years. Not sure about anymore.
clam-chowder-lover · 1 points · Posted at 01:23:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tackle Basketball
Me and my friends would go on a trampoline and play free for all basketball and there were no rules.
I got a black eye from getting kneed in the face
catskann64 · 1 points · Posted at 01:23:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fiends w/o a face, little animals.
GMCKKCMG · 1 points · Posted at 01:23:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So, first, let me state that my school was full of crazy psycos. We used to play these things called the gullible games, because the jocks people would tell gullible nerds that the gullible games were fun and harmless. Anyways, they were a series of games that were just "beat each other up for 5 minutes". For example, gullible bumper cars, we would constantly body check each other for 5 minutes, which would sound harmless, but mind you, these were grade 5 jocks against grade 1 gullible nerds, so there were some HUGE bruises. And gullible tree, where we would spin around and around a tree as fast as we could and try to pull each other into the tree. Gullible wall, the grade 1 nerds would form a wall and the jocks would try to push them down. New ones were thought of all the time, and people would get hurt all the time. So now you get a sense of what I mean by "crazy psycos".
athendofthedock · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dominos and army men.
Dominos used to build forts and/or bunkers. Then we would strategically place little green plastic army men in and around the fortifications. Each side would get a certain number of dominos to used as bombs, this depending on size and scope of battle. Both sides of the room had to use a certain amount of room too, you couldn’t just arbitrarily put a fort on shelve for example. And, each person had to use all bombs and once an army man was hit he was taken off the field. The person with the most men when all the bombs were used up at the end, won.
Good times! And every once in a while a stray domino would come close to taking an eye out...
hyperpuppy64 · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember what we called it and it isn't all that unique, but my friends and I used to block out all the light in his large finished basement and then play hide and seek in the pitch darkness. You had to get to the stairs where the seekers start without them tagging you or you getting hurt so alot of it was just based on sound, which was dope.
tonylark79 · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
3RD grade, the game was "ONE MAN KILL". We had a sloping grassy hill at our elementary and all the boys ran around knocking each other down. If you were knocked down it counted as a kill, you stayed down or risked wandering to the sidelines. "Larry" had either been held back twice or started school late and was a beast so it was actually played to see who got second place because nobody beat Larry. We played everyday all year that year.
XXxboiixXX · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fossil fighters. I Loved
DinosaursVivosaursSpikeHolton · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger. My cousins, sister and I made up this game called "oops"
This game was played on a trampoline
the whole premise of the game was to make someone fall over or off the trampoline. If you did manage you would say oops and if you fall you are out. this goes until there is one person who hasnt fallen
looking back on this. I'm really glad no one got seriously hurt when we played this.
gantz32 · 1 points · Posted at 01:25:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to pay house with neighbor girl, Sure was fun, but im pretty sure i got screwed mentally
TheNoob91 · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont think its unique but heres how it went. Only to be played at night, this game was like hide n seek tag. One person would count at one of the kids' trampolines whilst we all went and hid. After the seeker leaves, its the objective of the hiders to make it to the trampoline without being caught. I always lost cuz i didnt like the dark and the hiders always took a route all the way around the block just to get to someone's backyard and hop the fence to get to the trampoline.
Gendo_boy · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to “can cars”. Which is where you you tie two empty pop cans together with fishing string. We’d then stretch then two cans across the street at an intersection and put the cans in bushes that are across the street from each other (so it suspends the fishing line in mid air.). When a car comes it would catch the fishing line and drag the pop cans down the street. Cars all over town were clanking!!
celiacgalactic · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
trampoline ball! every ball in the yard would go on the trampoline and you had to jump around and avoid touching any of the balls. if you got hit you had three lives and then you were out
bignuut · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Putting my cousins penis in my mouth
Zombie4141 · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
RBI baseball NES. The song will never leave my head.
Pandafiish · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I played a game called "bear." It was kinda like a mix of hide and seek and tag at the same time. We'd set an object as the starting point (normally a tree or something easy to reach out and touch). Then, one person would start as the bear and count to a number based on how many people were there and what everyone agreed on, while everyone else hid. The objective was for everyone hiding to get back to the original object and touch it without the bear tagging them. The bear, then, of course was trying to get as many people as they could before they touched the object. After everyone had either been tagged or touched the tree or whatever then everyone who had been tagged by the bear would join the bear's team and everyone who made it back got to hide again. You would go until everyone had become a bear, so if you had like 10+ people playing it would get really hard to be in the last like 3 hiders. Then after everyone is a bear you can play again and choose a new starting bear.
LostInGA · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gosh. It’s a toss up between playing “baseball” with a big stick and a pine cone in the middle of the road or shoving Cheetos up our noses (one in each nostril) and seeing who could blow theirs out and have them travel the furthest distance.
I-am-Jacks- · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Goggy on a stick" Grew up on 40 acres in the middle of nowhere with 3 brothers. Lots of cows, no video games and bad TV reception. The game, goggy on a stick, involved finding the best stick (fun in itself), stabbing it into a cow patty and then chasing one of your siblings with it. Hours of fun for the whole family.
Vi0let4Evah · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Dead Weight" one of you would lay on the floor on the side of the bead, you let your body go completely limp. The other person would try to lift you up and get your lump body on the bed. I grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania, there wasn't much to do during the winter.
Humane-Human · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My oldest sister played grumpy guts with us, her younger siblings.
When ever someone was grumpy we would play grumpy guts, I do t remember the rules, but the grumpy guts would be made fun of outside and people would dance and sing around them to try to make them laugh and feel silly.
It always helped me to stop feeling grumpy <3
DehDani · 2 points · Posted at 01:35:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I hope this doesn't sound condescending because I think it's absolutely adorable, but....the saying is actually "Grumpy Gus". Any chance child-you misheard it and had it wrong all these years?
Humane-Human · 2 points · Posted at 01:37:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t know, try asking six year old me?
armh1313 · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a significant amount of time in which every bathroom in my home had potpourri in it, and every time I went pee I would throw some potpourri in the toilet and pretend I was brewing a potion/casting a spell.
Pillow blanket slide. My brother and I would gather up nearly every single pillow in the house and line the staircase with them, and then slide down. My adult self is now ASTOUNDED that neither of us injured ourselves during this shit.
alienvagina51 · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not telling, he made me promise not to tell
ThisMeansN0thing · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mermaids and Pool Sharks. We would bind our feet and pretend to be mermaids swimming in the pool, trying to evade the invisible pool sharks. The catch is that they are only invisible up until the moment their jaws open wide just before they eat you.
I’m still afraid to swim in a deep pool alone. Never know where those fuckers are lurking.
Trips-Over-Tail · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Defender.
One player had a tennis racket, one or more other players had balls. Tennis balls, I suppose, but not always. The defender had to stand in the same spot and protect themselves from thrown balls with the racket. If they touched you you swapped out. We didn't develop a scoring system.
Trap_Lord_Steiger · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball tag! I had a large basement and a few of my best friends would come over to spend the night. When it got dark enough so no light came in through the windows we would arrange the furniture in random obstacle patterns. One person would be "it" stand by the stairs with a glow in the dark ball that was just charged by the lit wall light. "It" person would turn off the light and then count to 20. You had to hide and take cover and BE QUIET because when they were done they had to use sound to find you. Goal was other players reach the stairs and say safe without getting pegged by the ball. We literally played this until the end of high school. Scariest plays happened when my friend who pitched varsity baseball was "it" lol.
holein2stu · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Death ball: We would have early morning track meets that required us to be at the High School before sunrise. We would hand out 50 tennis balls and everyone would move to positions all over the gym. We would turn the lights on for three seconds and then turn the lights off. You then threw balls as hard as you could toward where you thought everyone was. I just remember trying to see in the dark, then getting hit right in the eye with a tennis ball which would make your eye see sparks. Hilarious
worstwerewolf · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
russian hide n seek. it’s hardcore mode hide n seek, because if the seeker sees you, you lose.
you have to find your way back to base without being spotted. the seeker is a little ways from base on lookout, but cannot move.
DehDani · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I've never heard of this!!
My neighbors and I would play reverse hide-and-seek where one person would hide and the rest would try to find them. If you found the person, you would have to hide with them....whether there was space or not.
_chef_boi_r_d · 1 points · Posted at 01:30:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school pe, wed play crotch bowling. We’d set up the pins normally, but someone would sit behind the pins with their legs open. It was pretty fun... and painful. It’s funny how our coach didn’t even care.
bettyal · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doesn't have a name, but I would climb a tree and try to spit on brother. He would use a rhubarb leaf to shield himself. We would "play" until the rhubarb leaf was too torn to use as a shield.
My brother loved it and my parents thought it was hilarious.
Norse_By_North_West · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was 5 at the time, my cousin was 5,my sister was 8. They were brown hair, brown eyes, I was very blonde, blue eyed. We had a mini trike (banned now) atv. I would chase them down and run them over...the thing was light so it didn't hurt. It was our take on cowboys and Indians, my sister called it Nazis and Jews.
I didn't find out until my teens just how bad this was
allnormiesmustdie101 · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who can make the loudest female orgasm sound, I played it with my friend when I was twelve and we paid each other $5 to see who won. it was fricking hilarious when my teacher got angry.
anunwithagun · 1 points · Posted at 01:31:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swords. With our dicks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know this is going to sound strange and no one is going to believe me, but my twin brother and I used to play a game when we were really young that I cannot, to this day, fully understand. I know that we were under 8 years old because my grandmother was still alive - this was prior to foster care. We would stand facing each other then put our hands on each other's shoulder and then stare into each other's eyes with total, 100%, quiet, concentration. The idea was to not get distracted keep our eyes locked and aim to (this is the weird part) weaken the other person by literally draining his strength or energy - or him draining mine. There was a road in front of our house, one way I could get an edge was to wait for a car to go by and watch for him to get distracted and quickly glance at the car. The second I saw his eyes move to look at the car I knew that he was not concentrating and he knew that I knew it and that was the turning point. After that 'slip' we were no longer equally matched, I felt stronger and he would feel weaker, he was now on defense and I was on offense - for lack of better words. Once I knew that I had him I would start to stand on my toes to be a little taller than him while pressing down on his shoulders with my hands. If I stared hard enough, as I pressed down he would begin to physically lose his strength and I could feel it, I could feel his strength leaving him... His legs would start to shake and he would eventually fall to the ground laughing and totally helpless. It would take several minutes to 'recharge' and regain strength to do it again and we could do it multiple times in a day. It didn't always work, we had to both be in the right state of mind for it to happen. If one or both of us wasn't fully in it nothing would happen and we'd try again some other day when we got bored. He could just as easily get me to fall if I wasn't able to concentrate too. I remember feeling like he completely zapped me of all energy, I was helpless to stop him once he gained that advantage; as long as he kept his focus it was like being so tiered you couldn't move. It wasn't a bad feeling, it was fun for us. Most of the time we were laughing so hard just laying there in the grass, one of us temporarily paralyzed, staring up at the clouds. It wasn't weird back then but now I look back and it's just friggin strange and I still do not understand it. We talk about it, but both of us 'know better' now, we are responsible adults and it just sounds silly when we bring it up. I honestly believe that we could not repeat it again because we have been told, taught and conditioned to know that things like that just don't happen - but it did happen. I gave up all social media except Reddit, and the one thing I do to justify this account is to periodically erase my account and start over. I could care less about the "karma" and the constant popularity contest, I'm telling you this really happened and this account will be erased soon, take that for what it's worth. I told several people about this and every time I do I get the same quiet concerned look.
Gbrawler · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game we made up called Hand-Ball. It was played my old square trampoline with a net. In the game we had a volley ball and we had to be on our knees, then we sat opposite sides from each other, the point of the game was to hit the ball into the others side of the net. We pulled off crazy moves and techniques, especially cause you couldn’t throw the ball, you had to hit it.
Volker1998 · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every year on Christmas, my sister and cousin would play the “Santa game” where two would pretend to be sleeping and the other would be Santa. Santa always had to sneak into the room and place the presents and the others would have to wake up and try to catch him in the act. Santa always had to run and hide and try not to get caught.
MrJeromeParker · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walking to school via a winding sidewalk/road whenever we heard or saw a car coming, we had to run to the nearest driveway before the car reached us. Entertained us and we got plenty of exercise before school
nummakayne · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘The Uncle Anwar Dance’
Sometime in the early 90s, my parents threw a memorable New Year’s Eve party. Mostly family (aunts and uncles and some family friends). Maybe 10 families and their kids so around 20-25 adults and 15-20 kids. Everyone was having a good time and it was my first time seeing all the ‘old people’ dance. Also, this was in Saudi Arabia and most of the people there had never had alcohol but it looked like everyone was role-playing being drunk. I have pictures of my uncles all drinking juice but posing as if drunk, exaggerated facial expressions and all. Was a blast for a sober NYE party.
One thing that stood out as ‘peculiar’ was Uncle Anwar. Uncle Anwar was a quiet man - he only ever seemed to enjoy taking about IBM vs Apple. It’s hard to recall any specific character traits. Except the party.
He spent most of his time on the dance floor standing in the corner (facing it), arms straight out with his hands planted firmly on the wall and just kept, uh, guess you can call it side-stepping.
Both feet in the middle > left foot to the left > right foot to the left > pause > right foot back to the middle > left foot back to the middle > repeat in the other direction.
He did that for so long that everyone present couldn’t help but notice it. For the next decade or two, it became a game for us. Every few months, we’d all be in a room and suddenly someone would shout ‘Uncle Anwar Dance!’ and everyone would grab a corner, do the dance for like 10 seconds and laugh.
Yeah, that’s the whole game.
YouAreSoul · 1 points · Posted at 01:32:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Once played "I'll hold it, you chop it."
ReddityJim · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turn the bik upside down, spin the wheel as fast as you can and stop it with your teeth. There was no purpose, nor intelligence but it made a cool sound if you held your teeth on it.... Don't judge me.
Abbeygurl4 · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Brother brother” I would pretend I was a boy and was my brothers brother instead of sister lol so basically I was a tomboy
karmayla · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At Christmas time, my three siblings and I played the "color game," which was picking an ornament on the tree and describing it in only its colors and then the others had to pick which ornament was described. According to my mom, her and her siblings played it as well.
that_one_salty_guy · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had a pool game to play if it was a public pool with one of those safety rails on the steps. We'd take turns locking our arms around the rail and the other would do their best to wrestle you away from the rail. Quite fun, probably dangerous
Tabby528 · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take clear plastic Reynolds cooking bag and see who could catch the most June bugs and Japanese beetles as they flew around the yard.
Snowisgodnut · 1 points · Posted at 01:34:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle was really big on playing doctor. Though there werent any medicine involved and he just kept sticking his finger in random places to check my temperature
datskank11 · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play competitive blindfolded popsicle sucking with my uncle
Jerk-Lurker · 1 points · Posted at 01:35:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Following Information Is Not Suitable for Kids
*even thought it was originally invented by kids
At my elementary school, most of us liked playing rough-and-tumble games that to outsiders probably looked like semi-evil chaos. Most of them were invented by us. We would play Piggyback Wars “king of the hill” style. With each two-kid piggyback team having to fight their way to the top of the melee mountain (small hill).
Another one was Red Ass where you took turns throwing an Indian rubber ball at a wall with the next player in the sequence being required to catch it after one bounce on the ground. If it bounced twice or you missed your catch, you had to stand at the wall while the previous player got to pitch the ball at your ass. Those balls were really dense and rebounded off the wall really fast making it pretty intense, you usually ended up with back welts if you didn’t catch it. It was good pitching practice for baseball.
But by far the most fun and exhilarating game we played was called Trip Tag. This game was like a reverse tag where the player that was “It” would be chased by all the other players and they would try to trip him. Now, it sounds like a really mean game and you’re thinking ‘poor kid’, but this is where the fairness angle comes in. The person to trip the one who is “It” is now “It” and now everyone chases him. If you wanted to trip you would have to be willing to get tripped. There were also rule changes after people got hurt including no upsweep kicks and no soccer style slide tackles. Another rule was no fake falls. If it wasn’t a good trip, you’re still “It”.
This was all from 7-9 year olds. We made rules, we had very few injuries and we burned a billion calories every recess. Good times...
That was just the stuff I remember from elementary school around 1985-1988. I don’t think we would have gotten away with any of this nowadays. If I get enough interest, I might be willing to divulge the mayhem games we came up with in my teen years.
lawrdofaim · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Rolling Thunder," one or more people would lie down on a bed or any soft surface, and one or more people would be standing up. The goal of the ones lying down is to touch the ones standing by rolling around fast enough, the goal of the standing players is not to get touched by the rolling thunder. It's best played on a bed because it's a tight space which makes it harder for the standing players. Man, all the times we rolled off the bed though . . . ouch.
KingKrantz · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Kick Ball Swing"
When I was 5 my mother would throw a giant rubber ball or a kick ball at me while I was swinging & I'd kick it across the yard. I'd get her to do it maybe 5 times before she gave up though.
bcap10 · 1 points · Posted at 01:36:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "monster" on the trampoline. We had a net around our trampoline and whenever the cousins or a few friends would come over we would hop on.
One player would volunteer to be the monster. From that point, the monster was not allowed to open their eyes. The monster flailed and dived in all directions with the goal of taging anyone. The other players could try to sneak around and dodge the monster, or they could team up and simultaneously bounce the monster if they were feeling lucky.
Plenty of bruises, one ripped net, and lots of fun resulted from our shenanigans.
barahayan · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to immitate a warfare using those tiny green soldiers. We used to throw a soldier to an enemy one to determine who's going to fall. The first one to lose all of his soldiers will face defeattttt
Rebikbok · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played this game we made up called "Zap!". It was pretty much lazer tag (before we even knew what lazer tag was) mixed with hide and seek. We used our hands aimed as guns and whoever shouted "ZAP!" first got the point, then you had to immediately turn around, run away and start the next round. Out house was two story and had 3 sets of possible staircases to go up and down. It was a good game.
wuzamatterforyou · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Punch, kick, and throw. It's kickball but you can punch it like a volleyball serve or throw it.
Wh1teBo1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike tag. Everyone is on a bike and to tag another person you need to hit or rub your front tire on the persons back tire (this is how my older sister got stitches on her chin) fun game tho
latinjones · 1 points · Posted at 01:37:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played this game where we made these paddles with duct tape and cardboard and then smacked a ball around on the floor and tried to hit each other. This was like 6 kids in a basement with cardboard, duct tape, and some kind of nerf ball, making shit up as they went along. I don’t think we even had a name for it.
Ryzasu · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The lava lake bionicle game". This one started out with us making custom bionicles. I lived on a camping with a big swimming pool which for most parts of the year never had other people swimming in it. One day we acted as if we were the bionicles at the swimming pool, which was now a lava lake with tons of different monsters that we had to discover. Each time we played we would draw all the new monsters that we found. I still have the drawings somewhere. We had an imaginary "lab" in which we kept all the monsters, did experiments on them and research.
Over time we extended this way further than just the lava lake. The camping was now a gigantic island with all kinds of stuff (a jungle, the lava lake desert, a huge ice/snow area, etc). Each area had their own monsters. We also came up with tons of different magic birds that fly over the sky every now and then, which cause certain effects like changing the weather.
We eventually added a huge amount of lore and explained the life cycles of many monsters in great detail.
Although we played many different roleplays, this one was definitely the biggest and lasted over 2 years.
01123581321AhFuckIt · 1 points · Posted at 01:38:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big Booty.
ia_nyc · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hostage" - 2 teams of 5, in two cars. Each car would switch 2 people (the hostages) and have 20 mins to drop them off at the side of the road in or outside of town. Then, you have to race to find your own team members who were taken hostage and return them to the set starting point before the other team does
kristenul · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to road trip a lot as a kid & I came up with “first name last name game” (clever I know) where someone says the first name of a celebrity & whoever gets the last name correctly first wins & gets to go next. We even had a “people we personally know” version.
Also, not sure who came up with this one, but my brother & I used to each take the opposite ends of the (same) blanket & wrap ourselves so only our backs were covered & when we said “GO” we had to spin & wrap ourselves really fast & see who had more of the blanket wrapped around them till there was no blanket left & we’d usually end up falling over. Called it “2 headed” cause we were wrapped in the same blanket so it looked like one big body with 2 heads. Not sure if I explained that well enough but that game was too much fun.
Solomons_Apostle · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
so when I was ''little'' say 15ish my babysitter and I would play ''cops n robbers'' the cop would tie up the robber, the robber would pretend to fight back, the cop would ''silence'' the robber, I was the cop, she was the robber, it got kinky fast
BePositiveDontWhine · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stratego anybody?
BMooreLuvn · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I spent a decent amount of time at this one friend's house and we would make a fort in the living room and pretend that we were unborn baby pigs inside the mom pig's stomach. We would build pretend video game controllers and toys in his room then bring them out to the living room and the mom pig would swallow then for us to play with inside her belly. So so weird yet innocent at the same time.
Rebikbok · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played this game called "The last melon" where we would put as many balls and toys on the trampoline as possible, one would be a protector, the other would be the attack. The idea was to bounce all of the toys off in a limited time. When the last toy/ball was left you had to yell "THE LASSSST MELON!" (like in Ice Age) or you didn't win when it fell off (like uno).
2weird2care · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know I’m late but whoever could name the song had control of the radio.
So it was kinda neat Shazam- but for 2004
Treblebass2222 · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hiding the poop sock from mom
weaselbiscuit · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Timber”. Big bed, one person stands next to the bed blindfolded, other person stays crouched on the bed. The standing person yells “timber” and throws them self on the bed trying to land on the other person using their ears to hear where they are, crouching person tries to avoid being landed on. Many injuries were sustained playing this game.
algeraist · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock wars, stacking the mattress outside and jumping off the roof on to them and soaping up the tiles for good old slip and slide.
Needless to say my parents both worked...
Hindraous · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play game with my little brother, I'd act out a different character/monster and he'd have to hit me in my nose for me to change into something else. I play this with my kids now.
AntibioticOintment · 1 points · Posted at 01:40:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
... my older siblings would play a fucked up version of tag where they would exclaim one of us has AIDS and then the person who was deemed to have AIDS had to infected another sibling by touching them to get rid of it.
Sharkymoto · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we used to fight in lunch break at school. we had an archway with benches on either side, so we sat there and fought, we didnt punch in our faces but we kinda did "showmatches". it was a weird mix of mma, wwe, tekken and fight club. it was awesome because it was fun and nobody got seriously hurt.
SxyStnr · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Toes" In the dark, all the girl cousins would lie on their backs in a row, covered with a blanket from head to ankles.
The one cousin counting would then have to feel the toes to guess who's feet belonged to who.
It was important not to giggle or else you'd give yourself away! Lol
thelaziestvegan · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played a version of survivor. It would involve us like eating sticks, building huts and pretending we were stuck on an island. No joke- the end of this game was when I was 8 and he was 7. He got kicked off the island and I pushed him off the roof of our house (yes I know this sounds terrible) and he broke both wrists, double casts. Survivor is now banned from my parents house, but damn did we have fun,
leddyzz · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost in the graveyard. Whoever was “it” had to countdown while everyone else hid. Then you had to go looking for them. Basically it was outdoor hide and seek, except once the ghost left the base, you would make a run for it. Once you made it to bass, you had to shout “Olly Olly oxen free!”
ZackWarning · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would play this game with our dog, Douglas, at the time. We called it “The Douglas Game”
We would take some bologna or other lunch meat and run around the house and hide. Whenever he would find us, he’d get the treat.
We’ve kept the game going on through all the dogs we’ve had throughout our life. Never changed the name, cause it was always Douglas’ game
CognitivelyDecent · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The bird game. First person to see a bird and say bird, wins.
Durfee · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two words: Rock wars
Bonzi232 · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle ships. I stand on top of the embankment of the river armed with a pile of bricks, my brother at the river edge tossing logs in the river and I throw the bricks at the logs. It ended with a brick hitting my brother's head, requiring 6 stitches.
lousygibblitjuice · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A little game called manhunt. The hunter would have a machete, and everyone else would be running around like a chiccen with it's head cut off if hunted. Mexico really was a trippy place.
Jtsfour · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
If you throw a clear glass marble into a swimming pool it becomes invisible
Just throw is it blindly then keep diving to find it
Soupseason · 1 points · Posted at 01:41:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would play F-Zero on the Super Nintendo with me as a kid. I sucked, so instead of trying to win races, we would try to make the coolest looking crash. I'd jump off the track, crash into other cars, etc. So while everyone else called it "F-Zero", I called it "Car Crash".
Infamousx13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play a lot of unique games and normal games with a unique twist to it.
A little background: I lived in an apartment with my family most of my life. And the kids in the other apartments and I would play in the corridors (cuz somehow the building had long and big ones).
Coming back to the games, normal games like dodgeball? We called it Monster dodgeball. Idea? One person is chosen to be the "denner", guy who got the ball. Everyone else became the victims and the rest of it is as usual. Guy/girl who got it gets out. But here comes the scary part. To add to the fear factor of the game, we switched off all the lights of the floor we played on. Good times
One of the more unique games we played was 'Wild West'; an RPG where each player had a role akin to the Wild West stereotypes. I played the titular role of the Doc, the quack doctor of the swamp. I reprised the role countless times, despite me not being part of the action between the sheriffs and outlaws.
I don't remember much of my childhood, but all I know is that these games had given quite a bit of color to my otherwise uneventful childhood. I still meet up with my old pals every year, and I do look forward to meeting them soon.
Good times...
titofucks · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just climbed and jumped off a bunch of stuff. I didn’t have friends.
dledo1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:42:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Psycho killer - one person would be the killer and Chase all the neighborhood kids around the yard. I saw all the r-rated movies young so I pulled the Michael Myers run when they couldnt see me but pull up real slow and creepy on the other side.
pickled-pecker · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crab apple wars under the huge crab apple tree behind my house as a kid.Fuck they hurt .
pascal_the_bear · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Water balloon baseball.
Played with two people. One person hits the water balloon with a plastic bat. If it breaks, home run. If it doesn’t break, the pitcher has to chase down the water balloon and hit the batter with it to get them out.
SirEarlBigtitsXXVII · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "chili"..
Two opponents would lock hands together like they're about to arm wrestle, and then proceed to dig their fingernails into their opponent's hand until one of them succumbs to the pain.
Nobody could beat me at chili.
TheEpicRs · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For every nice car we saw, we'd call out, "dibs! " and that car would be yours. Turns out that led into a career for me, I'm now a qualified mechanic
slim_jo_robinowitz · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Trapdoor spider": my dad would cover himself in a large blanket and my sister and I would run around and he would grab us under the blanket like a trapdoor spider does and we would become part of the spider until we captured the other sibling. Twas a blast.
CapableSpinach · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run around the house, played constantly with my cousins. Think tag, but if you're It, you can only run one direction around the house and the rest of the people can only run the opposite direction around the house.
ArsentiyRu · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ну, это была ГТА Вайс Сити So, it was GTA Vice City
Impossibrewww · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Assfight". My brother and I would go on our arms and legs like a dog and run into each other backwards. Yes its as retarded as it sounds.
Merica-First · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cheetahs and Gazelles” A viscous form of tag where the cheetah gets to claw, bite, tackle, and try to kill the gazelle while the gazelle runs for its life......
yashchaiwala · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Little fighter 2 , it was included in digit magazine's playware and upto 4people could play it at once on the same keyboard.
SofaKingStewPit · 1 points · Posted at 01:43:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My younger brother an I had a collection of matchbox cars and we created a game called "Smash Up Derby" where we would basically smash the cars into each other and if the car got knocked over, it was out. The loser was the one who lost all of their cars first. The best cars were the ones with the low fronts and the heavier vehicles. You had to move the car with your thumb from the last position it was in...you couldn't move it. We also played a game with plastic mini soldiers and tanks. We would position them on a field in battle mode (the snipers were hard to hit)...we would shoot rubber bands from the opposite side to knock over the soldiers. We also used a limited number of rubber balls as special bombs. My brother was/is 15 months younger than me. We were much closer as kids but not so much any more.
Rancel21342 · 1 points · Posted at 01:44:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up we had 3 peach trees in the back yard. Most years my father didn’t use any pesticides or fertilizer and just let them be. So we would get a few good peaches every year, but most would start to shrivel and just fall off the tree.
We would fill milk crates up with fallen peaches, most just starting to turn, go out into the street and play baseball, or rather “peachball”.
Kids from the neighborhood would all come over for peach ball and we would all inevitably be covered in peach bits and a huge mess out in the street. Not sure if it was the peach fuzz but I remember being so itchy by the end from, almost like fiberglass itch from all the peach guts covering us.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:44:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tenny-ball. A tennis/volleyball hybrid played on a tennis court with a kickball.
Fire hydrant! My siblings and I would yell out every time we passed one in the car. It really annoyed the shit out of my dad. He has literally screamed profanities at us for it. We still did it.
Michael___Braun · 1 points · Posted at 01:44:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of us siblings would be the "mom" and put us to bed. We would have to sneak out of the room while the "mom" continued doing whatever. If we got caught, they beat the living shot out of us.
rbaron1973 · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Little House on the Prairie" I always had to be blind Mary, because I was a little drama bitch.
Error774 · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Night fighting". Game involves as many participants as you want.
First find all the old magazines, newspapers, in your house. Roll them up and tape it tightly shut - wouldn't do to have anyone's weapon unrolling in the middle of combat. Everybody gets a rolled up, taped shut newspaper.
Second make blindfolds out of anything to hand - long socks, dads' ties, etc, all but one person must wear a blindfold. The person who isn't wearing a blindfold is the target.
Third; you play at night. Make the house as dark as possible, close every curtain, turn off every light. All participants start in a room of their choice. The 'target' (the non-blindfolded person) must attempt to whack the heck out of any blindfolded person without themselves getting whacked. While the 'target' would try and bait the blindfolded players into wailing on each other.
Of course you could call out, make noise, and try and make deals. But the point of the 'target' is to cause as much chaos without getting whacked to the point of calling uncle.
I'll never forget nearly breaking some knuckles on a fridge after getting tapped in the balls by a short player who had ducked down and swung luckily into me. Brings back the memories of good times.
emilysilve78 · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "keezatango" it's when you stand on the ladder of the backyard monkey bars, grab ahold of the outside ring (of the hanging rings), push off the ladder, swing a semi circle on the ring and grab the monkey bars with only your legs. Then release the ring, hang upside down, release your legs and "land" gracefully. The landing was always the hardest, until the day a bolt cover fell off and the exposed bolt jammed into the side of my knee, exposing bone. Good times.
GeebusNZ · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was known simply as "That Game." So, we had a dug-in swimming pool which was a real half-assed job done by the people who lived there previously. As a result, no matter what we did, it was perpetually murky with algae (it was rough concrete in a lot of places so we could never get it entirely clean). Anyhow, my siblings and any friends who would come and visit would play a game which we called That Game. The rules were: No opening your eyes above-water, and when you catch someone (had to be more than just a touch) and named them correctly, they would then be 'it.' It was great fun, trying to keep as silent as possible when they were up for air, quickly getting away when they went under near you, or when you were the one looking, seeing a jet of bubbles as someone narrowly escaped.
TasteGoodie · 1 points · Posted at 01:45:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bees or Meat Eating Eagles...wed basically run around screaming like we were being stung or eaten alive. Screaming bloody murder. You won only if someone stopped and asked if you were okay... or tried to help.
ModifiedHighandTight · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mother would pretend not to know who I was or where she was. She would yell at me to get out of her house or that she'd call the police on me for abducting her. She'd chase me around too.
iPiddle · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bonks Adventure on the Turbographics 16
retiredialectshikers · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school my friends and I would play "red alert" during recess. It was basically hide-and-go-seek tag but anywhere you dared go.
We'd hide in empty rooms, storage closet, or lay down in the fields.
Whoever was "it" often would stay it for days.
A couple times teachers almost caught us. My friend and I we're hiding in the band room and a teacher came in and we just held still until she left. So you were half hiding from your friends, half from the teachers.
Pericles2020 · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Choobies”. My lil’ sis and I would play when she was really young. We would build a fort out of blankets and pretend we were creatures that had to stay warm or we would die.
I still throw a blanket it on her sometimes and scream CHOOBIES! I’m 34 and she’s 26
ohrynh · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Graal Online Classic!
if anyone else played it, what was your name, what guild were you in and how many hours?
SamaelAcost · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock wars, we would throw rocks at each other, if you got hit you were out. Good times. We dug trenches and filled them with "ammo" (rocks) and built walls and forts, one team started on the tracks witch were uphill and had unlimited rocks, the other team had the trenches and the forts and the objective was for the team on the fort side to take the tracks. Lots of stitches came from this game :))😂
Alien_Girl12 · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Guess the Culprit”: My sisters and I would take turns thinking of a “culprit” (could be a cartoon character, celebrity, friend from school, etc.) and one person had to be the sketch artist and draw the features of the culprit as we described them. The sketch artist would then have to guess who the culprit is based on their sketch, and would only show us their sketch after either a) correctly guessing the culprit, or b) giving up. We would spend HOURS doing this and it never got old. The best part of the game was how simultaneously shitty, hilarious and somehow accurate the sketches were
banananose_III · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Elementary school, my only friend and I would stand at the top of the jungle gym and play 'sports announcer'. We would watch the other kids playing during recess and put on accents while we commentated on the game going on. Normally soccer. We'd put on our horrible British or South American accents and loudly call out what was happening during the game. The highlight of this game was when someone would score and we'd be able to shout in our horrible South American accent "gooooaaalllll!!" We got weird looks from the other kids.
HellaHotLancelot · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man, reading all this stuff makes me wish to be a kid and have friends and sleepovers and just goof off
eatingismyvirtue · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would make powerpuff girls by mixing sugar, spices, and flowers and stuff. We knew we’d never make them because we didn’t have any chemical X.
The funnest part was when we’d take the gross, colorful mush that was leftover and pretend we were throwing up behind our neighbors shed in their backyard.
Ryzasu · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Army duel". This was one of the later games me and my friend played before growing out of the role-playing phase.
The game starts with both players standing on either side of a "battlefield" (an area of like 4 meters. But in our game it would be like 1km across). We first decided on what the battlefield looked like (water, forest, etc).
Then both of us had to choose a certain typing for our "army". For example a dragon army, a tree ent/nature army. A fire army. A golem army, etc.
And then we had to explain how we positioned our armies on the battlefield (for example, 300 archers on the right flank supported by one giant, 3 giants in the middle supported by 20 semi-giants, a dragon on each side of the field, and stuff like that). We were also allowed to have 5 "spells". A spell would be something like summoning a meteorite or a tornado, or healing/strengthening a certain area of your army. But many different spells were possible.
Once the setup was done each of us would take turns to explain steps that our army would take. For example, let the 300 archers on the right flank attack the giant.
Each player had an imaginary "wall" at their feet. The goal of the game was to destroy that wall. Which was only possible when most of the opponent's army was taken down.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little bro used to be pretty small at like 7 or 8, either really blond hair and we had just gotten a yellow lab puppy.
She took to him as a litter mate and would play fight and play fight him like a sibling.
We used to go out on our back deck, and he would run as fast as he could, and I would let our dog at him to see how far he could make it before she would take him down lol.
I miss that dog.
thisgirleyeknow · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Beetle juice! my friend and I were obsessed with the movie and would look for pincher bugs and beetles in her grandmas garden to smash up with flower petals and water and then drink it in hopes of summoning beetle juice! Don’t know where we got the idea that it would work. Given we were 7 or 8, but I still gag thinking about it today.
jpreston2005 · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I used to play on a grouping of rocks outside of our home...
It was a stylized retaining wall with huge rocks dotting the angled landscape.
We played a different version of "shark and minnow's," which we called "T-rex, velociraptor"
We would start on opposite ends of this wall of rock, and SPRINT towards each other, one trying to tag the other, and the other trying to avoid being tagged.
We both, even while we played this, knew how dangerous it was, and yet we still did it, ALL THE TIME.
kinda_cringe · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jaws unlesshed
Priceiswr0ng · 1 points · Posted at 01:47:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play the fan game. We would turn on the ceiling fan and set up targets on the wall and take turns throwing a ping pong ball into the the fan (sometimes other things) and see who can hit the target first.
Kek_Commando98 · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would hide in bushes and shoot nerf guns at cars, run away and hide whenever they stopped to find us. Winner was the one that hit the most cars.
TearfulTurtles · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Broomball. Duct tape ball in the middle, plastic tables standing on their sides forming an arena. Two tables forming the goalposts. Four brooms, four players, 2 teams. No rules.
Highest score wins.
Most matches would end with someone being hockey-checked into the bleachers
OriginsOfSymmetry · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a bit older than a kid when I played it but I've never forgot it for some reason. The game is called Space Station Silicon Valley and was on the N64. You played as a microchip that could take command of living things in each world. Spent so much time playing that game just messing around.
baste_artist · 1 points · Posted at 01:48:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretty embarrassing to admit, but my friends and I somehow developed a game called "Bone Tag". It was the same concept as tag, except you had to dry hump your opponent for them to become "it".
ImAutismBoii · 1 points · Posted at 01:49:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The license plate game. You as a team try to find all 50 states plates.
PhagueS · 1 points · Posted at 01:49:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In vietnam, I'd play this game where a group of people would circle around a charred pot from cooking with fire (this was in the countryside), play rock, paper, scissor, and who ever looses, gets a mark from everyone in that circle by the charcoal from the bottom of the pot
sher_lurker221b · 1 points · Posted at 01:50:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played traffic jam as kids at school. 2 groups of boys entered into the two separate ends on monkey bars. You had to stop the other group of kids from getting to your side. If you tried to climb out, you were allowed to push that kid down to the ground.
cannavacciuolo420 · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soldier of Fortune on the PlayStation 2
Keagana · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stupid thingy majiggy, basically when I was around 5 years old my cousin and I would play slots on the computer and every time we didn’t get 3 sevens we would yell “stupid thingy majiggy” and pretend to be mad but we laughed so hard every time we would say it
Abirdamongmen1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two teams of two across my parents king sized bed. We used rolled up socks as projectiles. If you got hit you crawled on the bed and was in prison. Your team or the other team could save you. Remember playing it with the babysitter she actually got really interested it too
astoneta · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play TETO like a lot.
itsjessforshort · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "herbalist." My sibling and I lived on the edge of the neighborhood and our only childhood friends were the two kids next door. Their backyard was bigger than ours, and no matter what season it was we'd go in their backyard and play.
Herbalist was weird because it had a class system: there was the "chocolate" farmer, who used a child's rake to rake up dirt and sort it into different colors. Then there was the pie maker, who traded the chocolate farmer pies in exchange for dirt, the main ingredient in pies. The pie maker also traded with the herbalist to get different decorative berries, acorns, sticks, etc. for the pies. According to my sibling the next job was hot cocoa maker, which was prob lower-middle class right above farmer. They made mud to go with the pies.
The herbalist, the highest class worker, got to sit in a child's play house and organize all the different berries and leaves in this little fishing tackle box. The pie maker gave pies to the herbalist and the herbalist deconstructed them. I was oldest, and there was nothing so satisfying as shoving yourself into that grimy toddler-sized playhouse and getting to smugly accept the products of everyone else's hard labor because you had what they needed.
The younger the sibling, the more lower class they were and I feel like we all just accepted it? I don't know if it was the sibling hierarchy or what, but I only remember switching roles a few times. We'd sit out there for 4+ hours multiple times a day. This is a 90s kid childhood that also involved the Sims, Playstations and Razor scooters, so it's not like we were broke. We just really liked pretending to be this little functioning society.
We also once held a funeral parade for a dead cardinal with sparklers and a song.
Halo_Chief117 · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
SwampDonkey6908 · 1 points · Posted at 01:51:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called "charge". It's a game based on DBZ, SF and a liitle bit of yu yu hakusho w/ a mix of hand clap games. The game can be played between 2-(x) amount of players. I believe the max that we got was around 20. It was crazy. The mechanic is to eliminate your opponent by attacking them w/ 3 different attacks (lvl 1-3 while directing it to the person that you want to eliminate)
There are 6 moves in game. 1) the charge move. You gain one power charge. It is done like when you see DBZ charge their ki energy. Can only have a max of 3. 2)block, can block level 1 and 2 attacks. Its done by crossing both arms around your chest/face. No energy charge cost. 3) the energy mirror. This move will able to reflect ALL energy blast except the lv2 attack, thus eliminating the player that attacked you. Form a triangle w/ both hands to do the move. Requires 1 energy charge. 4) the hadouken, requires 1 charge. Should be self explanatory, hadouken your opponent. Can be reflected and blocked. 5) under hand blast. Requires 2 energy charges. Can break/go pass through the mirror move. Blockable. To perform the move, put 1 hand on your wrist with the other hand palm up, then blast away. 6) The spirit gun, requires 3 charges. Unblockable. Can be reflected. Gesture a gun with your hand and fire away.
A higher attack will always win and it both attacks are at the same level, it will be negated.
Edit: spellcheck
ScareMeYT · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run around the bed (and a variation in the dark) When I was a kid, my dad would chase me and my brother around the bed, pretty self explanatory. We had to avoid him, he had to catch us. All that stood between us was the bed.
Donnadonedoneit · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go get it..
EchoingHex · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to imagine on long trips that the car jumped over all the shadows. Not exactly a game, but it kept me entertained.
52375 · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
An old pc 3d game of a toy green soldier doing toy green soldiers things... It was pretty awrsome i cant remember the name of It
s317sv17vnv · 1 points · Posted at 01:52:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played License Plate Bingo. On road trips we would keep an eye out for license plates from different states. When you saw a new state, you could call it and everyone got to check it off if they had it on their Bingo cards. The “free space” was whatever state the trip began in.
To keep the game fair, each of us provided a list of 24 additional states we thought we were most likely to see, but somebody else got to decide how those states got arranged on your card. That way, for example, one couldn’t gain an advantage by having New York (free space), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland all in the same row during a drive from New York to DC, or be at a disadvantage because a random selection somehow only gave you everything west of the Mississippi. (I suppose if you wanted to, you could add a condition or rule here and there eg. you can only call a plate outside of proximity to its home state, or that your list of states cannot include any you will be traveling through.) It definitely got us kids to study our maps before any vacations.
I don’t think we ever determined that whoever was the first to get five in a row would actually win anything aside from bragging rights, but one time we decided everyone wins because we saw a Hawaii plate while on the mainland.
BulletForcer97 · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Catch the titties”
Pandelein · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Irish Warthogs. It was our version of British Bulldogs, except we played it on a steep hill. One side would try to get up the hill, while the other team got one chance to run down and annihilate as many kids as possible. Amazingly, nobody ever got hurt too badly.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pool noodles electrical, and dict taped to shit.. then all out war between the 12 something kids on our street.
SanFranRosa · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was born in 1998 and my brother and I played Game Boy games and played alot of Super Mario Bros. That was the most unique game we have ever played as kids
PierceAvalon · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure if this is unique, but I'd draw an unfinished shape on a paper, and the other person would finish the drawing into something new. (i.e I'd draw a circle, expecting it to turn out as a face, but then the other person would turn it into a globe)
kris10185 · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Shoeball!" My friend and would each throw a flip flop into the tree until it got stuck. We would then throw the other flip flop at it to try and hit it and make it fall down. If that got stuck too accidentally, we would have to find other things to throw at both of them. You won when nothing was stuck in the tree that you threw up there.
DanaldTrumo · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played BaGolf in the street. Metal bat and a golf ball. You lost if you didn’t hit it as far as the other person or if you were “pitching (tossing)” and got pegged you lost LOL
newposteronreddit · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roblox and Minecraft. For some reason I don't have Fortnite
Edit : Why not fortnite? cause i am not an epic gamer
MessiahDisciple · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a game called zip, zap, marble orchard. Each player had their own score and each word has a meaning and a point value associated with each it. Zip stood for dog; counts as 1 point. Zap is horse; counts as 2 points. Marble orchard(archard if using southeastern u.s. dialect lol) is a graveyard; counts as 3 points. Game went until one of us would reach 21 points or the trip was over. They say my great grandpa made the game up on a road trip with my dad. Who knows. But it was a fun game!
BTDxDG · 1 points · Posted at 01:54:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super Monkey Ball 2
Does it could take if I never played it? I could never get the disc to load in my gamecube
31November · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play in the melted road tar...
jnich2424 · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "Zip". It involved looking for deer and horses while in the car. If you saw a deer and were the first to say zip you got 10 points for each deer that was visible. You had to count them out and tally your points. If someone counted more, or caught you over counting they could take those points. With horses it was 5 points each. If you said zip on a cow however, that was a deduction. You lost 5 points for every cow that is visible.
It was dumb, but a fun way to pass the time on road trips as kids. Our dad always kicked our asses though since he has the eyes of a hawk. Plus he did that while driving too.
psychedelich8 · 1 points · Posted at 01:55:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Crash Bandicot
slickslynn · 1 points · Posted at 01:56:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play ‘the game.’ One of us would be using the restroom and the other would slide a pen and paper under the door with a line or shape drawn. Then we’d add on to it switching back and forth until we declared it to be complete.
Also, we weren’t children; we’re grown women and it’s a really fun fame.
src670 · 1 points · Posted at 01:56:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BB gun tag....three pumps only
swaggaliciouskk · 1 points · Posted at 01:56:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every time our bus in school passed a cemetery, we would hold our breath to avoid being haunted by the undead that would recognize us as not one of their own...stupid, I know.
sithdude24 · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The one you just lost.
DurrT · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Game
I hope I broke some multi-year streaks here
SpeakerOfDeath · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh shiat hope I'm not late on this one. In my family my brothers would lift one end of our rectangular table by putting books or something underneath, surround the edges with music tapes, put some obstacles in the middle and we had ourselves a homemade analogic pinball. We'd use a glass or metal marble and other two music tapes (inside their holding boxes of course) as the pad to hit the marble. It was fun...ah good times when you are but a child and then you grow up and learn...things...
saturnhillinger · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My three younger cousins and I would spend days during our summer break building mazes out of sheets and blankets on the clothesline in our back yard and then play tag inside them. If you broke through a wall you had to fix the maze and you became ‘it’
salalii · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spit war and roof club
FSRevolution · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft
djsquidnasty · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As soon as recess started we would get a jump rope and as many balls as we could. We would stretch the rope out as a boundary line, split into two teams on either side, then start kicking balls up in the air. The goal was to catch them before they hit the ground and kick them back over. Every ball that hit the ground on the other side was a point for your team, however no one actually kept score so it was just a bunch of kids kicking balls into the air for thirty minutes. This went on all year
hevitorian · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Grand Theft Auto spiderman" so basically back in my PS2 times I bought a disk from a tent that sold PS2 games really cheap so I came through a game labeld GTA spiderman I bought it for 2 dollars and it was basically GTA San Andreas but CJ had a spiderman skin
mythmaniak · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Brick toss” we’d throw a brick in the air and whoever ran/covered their head last won
thesav2341 · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game, and all of you lost.
bryceb1115 · 1 points · Posted at 01:58:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a trampoline in our backyard and me and all my friends would play what we called “the ball game”. Basically one person would be outside the trampoline and throw a ball up into the trampoline and everyone else inside would have to try to catch it. If you dropped it you were out and you had to leave the trampoline and go throw balls in with the person who started out. What made it interesting was that once u caught the ball you had to throw it back out and not let the kids on the outside catch it. We had a smaller backyard so you had to try and fake them out so they couldn’t run over and catch it. We had a bunch of other rules that made it interesting but I honestly can’t remember them all lol. We used to play this for hours on end over the summer.
5MaddDClawWisdom0 · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:47 on June 27, 2019 · (Permalink)
hmm very cool
grimecity1 · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Run chicken run" my older brother came up with this game. He took a ladder and sat on top with a basket of tennis balls while my sister and I ran around the bottom of the ladder. He would shout run chicken run and we would do laps while he tried to hit us. It was thrilling to try and escape
kangarang11 · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I got a game. It’s called work hard so my kids can go to college
BBT-DRK-AEE · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That reminds me of squish the lemon! It was an open slide, one of those metal ones that burns you in the summer. The first person would slide all the way down and sit at the bottom. The second person would slide down with her feet over the side until she slammed into the person at the bottom. Repeat until you could no longer fit any lore kids on the slide. By the end the people in the middle were getting absolutely squished and the person at the bottom was trying desperately not to fall off. It was a blast but I’m not sure what our goal of the game was.
charuhh · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called this game British Bulldog. No idea why. We were all born and raised in California.
My cousins, sister, and I would go in a room and turn off the lights. The British Bulldog had to put a blanket over their head, and everyone else was tasked with trying to get past them, in a pretty small room with lots of furniture obstacles. There were different techniques. Crawl at such a slow pace under many obstacles that the Bulldog could not detect you, make a bold lightening speed attempt, hang back and wait for others to create a diversion, etc. If you were captured, you became the new British Bulldog, which was a dreaded fate.
One time, my cousin and I were attempting a team work system, in which he was supposed to launch me over the Bulldog. Instead, he accidentally shoved me into the back of a chair, slicing my lip open. Blood everywhere. Our parents banned the game after that, which made it even more coveted and legendary.
Anyway, my cousin felt terrible and gave me his Tamagotchi, so it was worth it. I’m 33 now and still have a scar on my lip.
Player1YT · 2 points · Posted at 02:04:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played it to as s kid! I’m from Canada, it’s unusual
notaWhiteWalker · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cricket".. a game to play on car trips. Every car that passes you in the OPPOSITE direction equals one, however, every yellow or red car means game over for you. Highest number is the winner. I find myself playing in my mind when i go for drives just because im so used to playing it.
BartenderAng107 · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if anyone mention this with a different name but me and my ex used to play “pedidle”. When driving in the car if you drive past someone with a head light out whoever punched the roof of the car and yelled “Pedidle!” First the other person to strip naked. It was fun in the beginning of our summer love but once the winter came we just switched it to a point system lol.
pollyolivias · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Bush-babies'. My school had a big wigwam tunnel made from willow branches that had loads of different tunnels and rooms, and my group of friends took it over and we'd hop around in the squat position like frogs and dig at the dirt and called ourselves 'bush-babies'. We had this whole family dynamic, with like the king bush-baby and if you wanted to join the game you had to tasks like go collect grass or keep guard.
Wishenzey · 1 points · Posted at 01:59:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fort Building" As a kid I despised my sister and anytime it snowed a lot, I'd have her go outside and build a 'fort' by crawling into a big snow bank. Once she was decently far enough in, I'd pack the snow behind her and left her in there until I felt she had a sufficient 'punishment'. Yes, I was a horrible child but to be fair I was only about 7 at the time and she was 3.
ChasingGeek · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My great grandma would play "hide the thimble" in which she would hide a thimble around her house to get me off her back for a bit 😂
earthlys · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back then and still to this day, I play “Guitar Hero” in the car. Basically I’m sat in the passenger seat, clenching my buttcheeks in sync with the lanes on the road like it’s Guitar Hero.
Infinite_Link · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Land Marco Polo, it usually ended in a fight between those who played it regarding the rules
bropacalypse1 · 1 points · Posted at 02:01:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didnt have a nane for it but my parents had one they found fun. They would so how small of a box they can stuff me in without air holes and how long it takes for me to pass out as they heavily taped the box and kicked it around. Got to big for it though....
bitofaspaz · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sibs and I played “AHHHH!” You’d walk around a preset path in the house, and two of us would be hiding somewhere, waiting to jump out at you and scream “AHHHHH!” After a couple of rounds, my dad would inevitably come downstairs and yell (in a thick Polish accent) what the hell are you kids doing???
easy-bartender · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Destined to biff” My family would play this game on the ski lift. You’d each pick a really wobbly beginner skier and if your skier biffed by the time they passed your chair you won and you had to yell, “DESTINED. TO. BIFF!” loud enough for the person to hear.
We played this game a ton because my parents were ski patrollers.
mbatgirl · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Butt’s Up” kind of like wall ball, played against a garage. If the ball was thrown so that it hit the crack between the door and the cement, the person who threw it had to run/touch the wall before someone else threw the ball on the wall. If you got there first, you were safe. If the ball got there first, you’d have to stand facing the garage while everyone else threw the ball at your butt.
SaltySpitoonReg · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister had two unique ones.
-Either me/my sister would go in the bedroom and one would stay in the living room. The bedroom person would tell "I'm fainting for my sweet love" and the living room person would attempt to run into the room and catch the other before they fell backwards on the bed.
Honestly have no idea where this game came from
jconcep90 · 1 points · Posted at 02:02:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Titanic” in the pool whenever it was cold. All I remember was dramatically drifting away underwater while my sister whispered “Jack...come back...Jack.”
dianadi- · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Know I a little late, but my brothers and I played this 2v2 game called Gorilla, which consists of two players wearing boxing gloves on all fours (the Gorillas) and the other two (younger) brothers were trying to fetch an idol which was usually a stuffed animal or football.. anything goes from stopping the idol fetchers from retrieving the sacred relic, we also played versions of this without light, very dim lighting.. that was just one of our cacothic activities our poor parents became fimilar with.. some great times with out a doubt.
pennlacey · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
You all are creative. We just played “Don’t touch the floor” and “Popcorn”— get a bunch of stuffed animals onto a blanket; we’d pick up the ends of the blanket and repeatedly toss the stuffed animals into the air. The last toy left on the blanket won. It was the toys that were competing with each other. We’d have championship games in which the overall winner would go into retirement afterwards.
someliztaylor · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played POISON which was a mix of horse, four square and freeze. You shoot the basketball, then if you make the shot you have to get the ball before the second bounce, if you get three in a row then everyone else has to freeze where they stand and you can roll the ball between someone’s legs, if you make it they are out. So the opponents want to be far away. Trick is if you don’t make your shot then the next opponent in line has to get the ball before the second bounce as well. SO, you can throw the ball really far and your opponent has to get the ball before the second bounce or they have to shoot from where it lands.
indreams4er · 1 points · Posted at 02:04:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Peanut butter quicksand and when we went to the beach house we made mushy cabushy,Or kabushy. Never had to spell it but it was just soap and sand.
MacIsBetter101 · 1 points · Posted at 02:04:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Call it, A game where you collect cars by saying "I call it" I ended up with 1,569 white vans, and I even still play it today with friends,
T_Noctambulist · 1 points · Posted at 02:04:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cliff fighting.
There was a big clay cliff above a beach near our house. we'd each take two screwdrivers and start digging handholds to climb up. Once we got some height we either tried to get above someone and dig out a chunk to drop on them and make them fall or come up below them and dig out their footholds. Just grabbing someone was cheating.
INeedWatr · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
legsmetcaff · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Attack of the Giant Potatoes." No real rules or purpose... we would just put pillowcases over our heads (with the pillows in them still) and run around the house screaming "Attack of the giant potatoes!!!!"
We also had a wrestling federation called "The Bacon Brothers and Sister" (I was the sister). Good times! :)
POTATOGUPPY · 1 points · Posted at 02:05:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drunkenly coming home and beating your wife simulator
Nikarg06 · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The special Hide-and-seek. So, those who hide, had to go to specific places, and the seekers, when they find the hiders, they get punished. Yeah, not dramatic.
jetexe · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have two, actually. Not sure if they’re actually unique however.
In sixth grade, we had several tetherball “courts” in our school field. Me and my friends got bored of it so we decided to change the rules a bit. Basically, one person is the it and has to stay out of the circle around the tetherball. They could reach inside with their hands but that was it. As the it you could also swing the ball around and try to hit people with it.If you got hit, you became it. Simple. We had to stop because.. well... take a guess.
The second is something that might not be unique but there were these 2 raised platforms in the school field-they were 20 feet apart. We created this game called “islands” where it was basically tag, but the islands were the safe zone. You also had to stay in the area around the islands.
BiPolaPolarBear · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run up the stairs as fast as I can at night before the monster behind me fucking mails me
duArschgeige · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the pickle
FeelsFN · 1 points · Posted at 02:06:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
back in my day i slap boxed kids fo fun some kid got knocked out in the school bathroom and we didn't know what to do
DaShadowNose · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Amoeba Man.... it was basically a way to cause my younger sibling pain and strike fear into her heart. She is 3 years younger. I read Garfield in elementary school and he was at the core of the character; I would cover myself in a blanket/sleeping bag, and move about the house like a one celled organism. Slowly and menacingly silent. And when I happened upon another unsuspecting life form I proceeded to ‘eat’ it. Eating consisted of me dragging my little sister, kicking and screaming through my cell wall into the dark recesses only to be, expelled and hunted again. Sigh.... good times , good times...
ArtificialDonut · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wait for dad to get home. I’m still winning and it’s been 7 years.
rayrayrayray · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Carpet Hand hockey, on all 4s. One of your hands became a stick and played with a small ball. My brother and I would play for hours. We also shredded the knees to most of our pants.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from mom's drunk boyfriend. Pretty self explanatory. Trees worked the best.
Player1YT · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played a game called kick the can, basically there is one person who is protecting the can and looking for people but they need to stay about 30-20 feet from it and the other people hide, when the person so is protecting isn’t looking, everyone else, or one person will try to kick the can.
Simple
atqy · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember as a kid in school I played a game called "Chucky" with my friends, we went to the playground and there were 2 walls, parallel to each other, so then we would all go next to one of the walls and one kid had to stand in the middle of the field, the objective was that we had to reach the other wall without getting caught by the kid in the middle, if you got caught, you had to join the "Catchers". It was pretty fun and I still have good memories of it.
never_met_her_bivore · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I shared a room and when we would clean, the 3 kids and my dad would end with a clean room and play Balloon Ball, in which teams sat on opposite beds across the room and hit the balloon back and forth trying to hit the opponents’ bed
AccommodativeGhost · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child I wanted to play Rabid Rabbits and my dad got me "The Rub Rabbits". Here's the plot of the game: this guy wants to get some, but the girl he's interested in is avoiding him, so he just chases that ass whatever it takes. Was it appropriate for my age? No. Was it a great fucking game? Hell yeah.
bmarz187 · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I played a game called run big bun. It was essentially tag. You had someone designated as the "It" person and the others were buns. We ran around until one of the buns got caught.
The other game I played with my friends was broom ball. It was basketball but one person on each team had a broom that they could use to block, swat or push the other team or ball with.
Renorico · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Streetlight flybatting. Similar to fly fishing but you catch bats. Looking back it was pretty cruel, but times were different in the 70s.
bobsasexyman · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My husband said that him and his cousin used to put tube socks on the blades of a ceiling fan. Then they would turn the fan on, and try to catch the flying socks before the hit the ground.
elfmaiden4 · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightmare Ned. Fuck that game was creepy and had amazing music! Such a cool ass game.
dwhite1023 · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Button button who’s got the button... we’d sit on the bottom stair while one person stood at the bottom with a button in one of their hands behind their back... if you guessed the right hand you’d move up a step... first one to the top wins!
conquestical · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lacquerball
I’m going to describe it really poorly but it was baseball with lacrosse sticks, only three bases, and no pitcher. The ball had to be a little beanbag ball, and instead of tagging someone out you had to hit them with the ball. We also played on a hill for ~extra danger~
bigken79 · 1 points · Posted at 02:08:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We couldn’t afford traditional “games and toys” so my mom would always be sure to cut holes in my pockets. So I had something to play with.
ZealousidealStage1 · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Me, my brother and my sister used to make up these really fun games when we were young. One of them is this game we called "Roll Jump". It was a game that when 1 person rolls, the other 2 jumped. Exactly what it sounds like, but when you trip over the person that is rolling is out and trade places. I am 14 and still remember that game LOL.
youhoo1234 · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would set up Christmas play each year, complete with little tickets for our family members and songs.
One year we decided to make a haunted house instead. We stung yarn across the stairway and then covered it with blankets. You had to crawl up the stairs where we'd placed old pictures and led tea lights. It was super fun for us, but not so much for our grandparents...
spazticbrown · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played “the alphabet game” on long drives. We would start at letter A, and using billboards, call out a word that contains that letter, all the way to Z. We weren’t allowed to use the same word for two letters (can’t use “Ball” for A and B) can’t use road signs, or license plates. The game would usually gridlock at Q, V, X, Z where it would get really tense.
HumanTrashhhhh · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents and I developed a game called "Draw Off". The idea of the game was for each player to draw a picture combining 3 nouns. Each noun would be chosen by a different player and could be anything, as crazy as it gets. Some of our best examples are: (Apple, toaster, car, giraffe) / (Hotdog, fish, lightbulb, bow) / (Snake, heart, goggles, disco ball). Everyone playing at the time would spend up to 20 minutes drawing line art of the chosen nouns without looking at the other players' drawings. The winner was the person who combined the nouns in the most creative/funny way.
Now looking back on the game, it was such a fun way to spark creativity into me at a young age. Such fond memories :)
wackarnold420 · 1 points · Posted at 02:09:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my next door neighbor used to play this game called hide the banana.
bigd10199501 · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Snow bash” whenever it snowed a lot we would assemble 2 teams of 5-10 and we would line up on each side of a field and then just go at it. If you got tackled or knocked down you had to run back to your starting side before you could jump back in. If all of your team was “out” at the same time you’re team lost.
morosebae · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Eureka” Our pool had a slide and you had to go down the slide, catch a ball, and shout Eureka. That was it. That was all you had to do and you got a point.
Dri3333 · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Ghost in the dark” my cousins and I would turn off all the lights in a room/bedroom and play tag but with the lights off and a sheet over the person who was”tagging” everyone else. Not sure why we felt then need to add the sheet on top of the already dark room but its was an awesome game. One of the last times we played left my cousin and I scarred. Fun story to tell
nekoace · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oddworld i think its called u can fart in it its great
TurtleBoy756 · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Poopis oopis scooby doo
duckofooto · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tombi or Tomba on ps1. Loved it as a kid and then tried to track it down for nostalgic purposes only to realise it's now worth a small fortune lol! Maybe I'll get lucky and find one someday.
swampyankee22 · 1 points · Posted at 02:10:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had aimball, where we'd have to throw a plush ball between stair banisters ... the higher up, the more points, but most points were awarded for successfully tossing it through the four-inch gap between the bottom pillar and the first banister.
We'd play this rpg mode, where my sister would have to work her way up the ranks college bball style. All the characters but hers were Pokemon, each specie having its own team. The final four would usually be Mews, Mewtwos, Pikachus, and of course, my sister.
mostlybadopinions · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trip
One person was it and stood in the middle of the yard. Everyone else had to run as fast as they could from one end to the other without getting tripped by the guy in the middle. If you got tripped, you joined the guy in the middle, and everyone kept running back and forth till there was only one left.
Cursed_lurker · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sounds fun, especially when near a curb.
I CALL NOT BEING IN THE MIDDLE.
averyboringbunnymom · 1 points · Posted at 02:12:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
iPet!!! The OG “VR”
Edit: Damn. Though we were talking about video games lmao
officialcarrot · 1 points · Posted at 02:13:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Differentiate
Raistlin1313 · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maniac Mansion
A Boy and his Blob
robthestars · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember what we called it, but two (or more I guess) people had sheets of paper and one person would draw a part of a creature and describe it, for example: a torso that is an oven. The other person would then draw that, then add something to it, until the creature thing was complete.
Inevitably they would both look absolutely terrible but it was a fun time
NotLukesFather · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
when i was growing up in the Philippines we had thousands of different spiders (varying from docile to super poisonous), we would either catch them in the wild, or there would be a neighborhood spider broker that would wheel around a tower about waist high, with little slots to fit a matchbox in them. inside the matchboxes would be different spider species. every saturday, the spider broker would make his rounds/kids would go hunt for spiders, and meet up at the bodega like store in front of my house where they sold bbq on a stick and, after eating the bbq, would put both of the spiders on either ends of the stick and force them to fight eachother. its like pokemon meets hunger games in the phillipine ghettos after a midafternoon snack. fuck i miss it.
sschae81 · 1 points · Posted at 02:14:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers came up with a game called “Jump Ball”. It was like dodge ball but involved a trampoline, soccer ball and no hands. It’s a miracle none of us broke our necks.
RealAgeOfEmpires101 · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok ok, i used to pretend i was mario and two of my friends were sonic and a peach in a crossover in where we would fight any evil that was on the move and it was our job as unlikely allies to save the world and we would run around the school like idiots doing power rangers moves and poses while fighting imaginary bad guys...
anxiouscamper · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would put a basketball on the trampoline and keep dodging it as it would roll back to us.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Magnus Tennis. Tennis with oversized Badminton rackets. No net, and a ping pong ball. There are some more complicated rules but it was really invented just so you could put crazy spin on the ball.
DuxFortis · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I went to america for 6 months to a house that had 2 stairwells, and 3 floors, we played a game we called hug monster where we had 20 seconds to hide and then the person who was it forst would try to find you, if you were found you would try to escape, which was sometimes possible with two staircases, and if you were caught there would be two seekers, you had to hug someone to tag them, we would play wiht our mother and litterally scream and scare our neighbors sometimes, and it was so scary for some reason, but so much fun. cant really play anymore bc with one stairwell you get easily cornered at the top floor
NeverPulledOut · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anybody remember Kick the Can?
involutes · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
War soccer. It was like soccer except there were no rules and you can tackle or "attack" people.
xxoxox33 · 1 points · Posted at 02:15:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super late to the game, but- orphans! We lived in the mountains, and used to pretend that our parents abandoned us in the woods to fend for ourselves. We'd build little houses and stock wild berries and roots. Odd kids.
Kemerd · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would match the tone of random objects perfectly, moslty vacuum cleaners, because we thought the sound it made when the two frequencies were perfectly aligned was cool.
Pretty sure that's why I have perfect pitch as an adult, lmao.
mercury_mandate · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up with 2 sisters so we had shoes everywhere. Like dozens, even as kids. We had a big trampoline and we would pile all these shoes on it and start jumping. Rule was dont let the shoes touch you or you were out.
JAM-026 · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The tripping game” we would run in circles around our kitchen/living room and not to jump over the “trippers” leg. It was a really fun game, until, my brother broke is arm.
Shockingly, we were not allowed to play the game anymore.
tenphes31 · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I had a game we called "Slappy-Wag". Played in a pool, teams would try to score on an opponents goal. Goalies were in tubes and could use hands and feet to try and stop a score, but could not leave the tube. The rest of the team would swim to get the ball. Once they got it, they could not move, and could only advance the ball by slapping it while treading water. Once the ball was touched, non-goalies could not move, but could try a diving block after the ball was hit.
LieutenantLeroy · 1 points · Posted at 02:16:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In fifth grade my friends and I played a game on a play structure with a slide with a roof thing on top (Most of the slide was exposed, just the start of the slide had the roof). The roof of the slide was a throne and the goal was to shove the person on the throne off it, down the slide, and seat yourself on the throne in their place.
Edit: it was called Lemur King (I have no idea why)
victato · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I asked almost this exact question a year ago and got like 2 comments. It really is all about timing...
nogoodatgwent · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Jellyfish - blop", basically my siblings and I would dress in our mums petticoat skirts, wore the waist over our shoulders and ran around the garden chanting "jellyfish blop, jellyfish blop"
siint · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Street Fighter is one then unique.
AntoniusMN · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd buy the oversized plastic balls at walmart/target for $3.99 or so, and play a volleyball hybrid on our garage roof called garage ball.
We'd play either 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 with neighbors. Many summers of fun with tournaments and everything.
vAbstractz · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother came up with a game called Everything Everything. We set up rules like how many characters you have and their abilities on a point system. Ex if you choose a human it would be 1 point, but if you choose iron man it would cost more. We'd make ourselves teams and then go on an "adventure" with one guy as a judge who would decide what would happen. Similar to DnD but we had never heard of that before. Somehow my brother always won in the end no matter what we did even though he was never the judge.
CountSockula222 · 1 points · Posted at 02:17:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
ultima 8 on computer. the different types and methods of magic was unique af and inspired
Smitty272727 · 1 points · Posted at 02:18:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wishing people a happy cake day on reddit
SirProfessorChaos · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t remember. I woke up in the attic of Neverland...
krocks95 · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically Sally. Add all put two fingers each under a girl and shed levitate
GoldGringo · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"BUCK- BUCK"
Two team of 8-10 people from a chain pressed against a tree as the anchor. The team locks their heads and arms between each others legs, forming a chain of the team members.
Hold strong!
The other team takes turns running and jumping onto the chain and tries to break it. As the team piles up o. The chain, hold on for dear life! First person to touch the ground loses!
Points add up and you take turns, frist team to 3 points wins.
Vivid_- · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Had a bunch of toy cars, at least 100. It was pretty simple, you would grab two cars and roll them at each other, whichever one stayed on it’s wheels was the winner.(even though I would give my favorite car multiple tries until it won). keep repeating until all the cars were done.
damagedtrash · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
First: I went to sleep-away summer camp and they would play this game called bombadeer where the counselors literally would swing tune socks full of flour (I think) at campers and if you got hit you had to freeze and wait for one of the “nurse” counselors to unfreeze you. Til then you were free to be whacked by flour. Second: my best friends sister played a few games with us when we were little. She was like the ultimate babysitter. One was colored eggs where everyone picked a color and stood a good distance behind her. It was done like red light green light where if she called your color you could move forward towards her but if she turned and caught you moving you had to go back to start. The goal was to be the first to tag her. The second was called children soup and she did it when we were really young. We’d sit in a circle and she would stir an imaginary pot and start adding imaginary ingredients. At some point she would say “I think I’ll add some CHILDREN!” and we all had to run and if she caught us we were added to the soup and out. This continued until only one person was left. Now I really miss being 7! Thanks guys, appreciate it.
Wingingthisshit · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
u/rogersimon10
christyjacques · 1 points · Posted at 02:19:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Crawlers
JuliusVrooder · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Full Contact X. Everything me and my brothers did together was full contact, with an elaborate point system. Our faves were skiing, and bike races.
Strawberrylove_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids, my cousins, brother, and I would go in the back room and basically play tag but we would turn the lights off and blast Mindless self indulgence.
melter0fmetal · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were younger, we used to play "Butler." But of course, since he is 6 years my senior, I was always the butler. He named me Flosty and would make me get him food, drinks, etc. I never caught on until I was older that he was just making me do things for him because he was lazy lol. I didn't care though because I got to hang with my big bro
iEatLifeForBreakfast · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
See how long you could hold your breath, my brother was explaining this game to his friends in fifth grade (he's the older brother) when he held his breath to long to impress his crush, he fell and hit his head on the ground so hard it gave a sicking crunch. Blood everywhere and a concussion for a week. We didn't play that ever again.
Cici_Ayy · 1 points · Posted at 02:20:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger and my church had a church van, I, along with all the other kids in the van, made uo our own "dibs" game, with the cars we passed. If we see a cool car, first person to call "dibs!" Would "own" the car. Of course, we'd often "trade" cars, and try to collect the best ones. Soon, it evolved to include cool houses we would see, and a regular "dibs" turned into "Called the (insert details on car or house here)" so others couldn't take it from you. It soon also evoled to where everyone had 2 "snatches" a day, so if someone called dibs on a house or car you wanted, you could "snatch" it away, but they could also "snach" it back. Then, kids started teaming up, combining the cars and houses they owned, to become the owners with the best stuff. We would develop our own secret signs to signal when we saw a cool car that others missed, so that we knew we had it and they couldn't snatch it. Mine specifically was me holding up four fingers and saying "TMNT" (I was obsessed with the show at the time) it was fun. Those kids eventually stopped coming to the church, yet years later (it was when I was 8, I'm now 16) I still mentally play the game. I have a habit of double blinking at cool cars and houses I see, I physically can't help it. I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop tbh, but yeah, it was a fun game.
dream_amora55 · 1 points · Posted at 02:21:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play "Red Hands," but smack each other across the face.
akemp11 · 1 points · Posted at 02:21:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my brother and I were kids we’d play explorers on this huge snow pile in our backyard. I was Ferdinand Magellan and my brother was Christopher Columbus. We pretended that the snow was icebergs and we were on ships racing around the world ... twas before we realize that good ole Christopher sucks BALLS
dino_erotica · 1 points · Posted at 02:21:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spoons and Kick the bucket, we was poor.
Innova2 · 1 points · Posted at 02:21:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Football golf for days. Literally golf with a football around the neighborhood hitting trees.
seeyoumatane · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bouncing Rubber band/elastic band off a wall with my siblings. If you rubber band would fall on the other’s, you would take those bands as yours.
The thing back then was to have a bunch of rubber bands to make a rope.
Megalo85 · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lived on a small country one lane road in the mountains. We used to wait until we could see a car and then run and try to hide before it got to us. We jumped in the creek or under bridges or behind trees. It was a fun game.
smellydiper · 1 points · Posted at 02:22:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger I loved on a coldeesack (idk how to spell it) and wed used to play this game called "Deer and Lion". It was a game where you would hide in the tall grass at the end of the road witch you would crouch down and hide. It was like tag but you had to pin them down to get them out.
flyting1881 · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cul de sac. It's French.
smellydiper · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thanks
stressedmama85 · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had two porch swings and we used to play seated soccer kicking a ball between the porch swings as if they were goals. LOL we did it for HOURS.
TheWayIAm313 · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not the most unique, but my step dad built 3 wooden shelves above my bed. In the middle, I took some books and stacked them up next to each other, leaving about 8 inches of empty space between them. This acted as a basketball rim. I then took a stress ball and would shoot around and “dunk”.
Also, used to make my WWF action figures play football games.
I was obsessed with action figures. It was a weird feeling outgrowing that phase. I distinctly remember trying to hold on to it, but the intrigue/imagination just wasn’t there anymore.
dodgeball_hero · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The swinging game. All through elementary and middle school my friend and I would leap from the playground swings and have our other friend catch us bridal style. We had names for each, and held practices. We fell backwards, lept in various ways and distances, and looking back it was SUPER dangerous. And my friend was strong as shit to catch us (we were all girls).
Puppetmaster12212 · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thef where I actually was forced to steal something.
TwistyTurret · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My grandad worked for a large dairy and so we had tons of milk crates around. We would stack them to build a drive thru window and then some of us would drive thru with our tricycles and bicycles and order food. The restaurant owner would gather different ingredients like different types of leaves, different soil types like sand, garden soil, rocks, etc, and then then cook whatever dish the customer ordered and deliver it through the window. My favorite was a mud pie sandwich with dogwood leaves as the bun and a dandelion garnish.
Masoncharles · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Purble Palace
the9thpawn_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’d make my mom make up a musical/story/song about one of my dolls getting injured by my infinite imaginary dragons out to ruin my life.
Tuloom · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flay ball it's like hacky sack with a balloon
jediknightcopal · 1 points · Posted at 02:23:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a combination of Library/a game we named after the Nickelodeon show ‘Wild & Crazy Kids’. My sister and I would lean all our books on the stairs like they were on shelves in the library, and pretend to browse them and check them out. When we were done, the game changed to ‘Wild & Crazy Kids’, and we would start at the top and knock all the books down the stairs as fast as we could.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huckle Buckle Berry. I am the youngest of 10. My parents worked ALL. THE TIME. My dad was an OTR truck driver and my mom woroed at 3 different hospitals. I grew up in the early 90s. I had two sisters that were closest to me in age(4 and 5 years older) so we hung out alot. Well.... They were stuck with me. We played huckle buckle berry. We lived in a pretty big house and the premise of the game was to get a piece of aluminum foil fold it up about the size of a individual unwrapped gum wrapper and hide it. A piece of it had to be visible from its hiding place. No matter how small. And then whoever found it got to hide it next
KingSloth16 · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game was called "Avalanche". My family had a staircase surrounded by high walls. The bottom of the stair had a doorway. We would secure multiple blankets at the upper level over the top opening of the staircase and then load them up with pillows and stuffed animals. Teams of two would be placed below the canopy and then the load would be dropped on them. Escaping from the payload was intense. Sometimes it took minutes because the force of everything falling onto you would knock you off your feet and turn you upside down as you fell down. We competed for best escape time. Opening the door at the bottom of the stair served as an emergency relief - we kept our youngest sibling outside to act as a safety.
closetofar · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The everything game You can be whoever you want be wherever you want and do anything you want
justthatoboist · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whatever book was popular at the time (The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.) my best friend and I would act it out, assuming the roles of our own characters and adding a lot of plot twists. I do a lot of creative writing now and credit that early exposure.
IIGeranimoII · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played hide and go seek but in teams of 4 or more each. We would be all around the culdesac.
TheJellyBean77 · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Escaping Sing Sing'
We would take turns crawling all the way under the bed against the wall and then the others would stuff whatever things we had in the room like pillows and blankets and books or whatever under the bed.
Then we would time the person to see how long it took them to escape from under the bed. Fastest time won the round. It was always a challenge to see who could pack the stuff under the best to keep people in.
Liz_Bloodbathory · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cops and robbers where we would catch the robber, have a trial, and then try to break out of jail.
TreyRyan3 · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unwanted Kitten: My parents would put me in a sack and toss me in a lake or river then drive away. I would escape the sack and swim to shore, then find my way home. If I got home within 7 days, they lost and would try again the next day. It was really fun until I turned 5, then they couldn’t find a large enough sack.
FFloridaMann · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What’s in the box with uncle at night. You just pull the stretchy tube in the box to make uncle laugh
galaxy_defender_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to shut all the doors in the hallway, so the whole area was closed off, stand at each end and throw bouncy balls at eachother while trying to dodge them all bouncy around. It made a god awful noise but we loved it!
Xxbooradley990 · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to have us ball up socks and play basketball using a garbage can as a basket.
AlexSmirnoff · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://www.rbth.com/arts/2014/05/10/9_soviet_childrens_yard_games_36415.html
grumpypumpkins · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I mostly watched, played maybe once or twice, but my brothers would play a game on the trampoline they called old Garfunkel where you stand on one leg, hold the other foot, and try and get the other person to fall down any way possible. Pushing, punching, jump kicking... so many bruises.
Hanyallua · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure a lot of people have done this, but it's that "slide game" where people would go down the slide first facing forward and staying there then backwards, then forwards , feet to feet, back to back, the cycle never ends.... intensity varies on the size and shape of the slide of course
Until we eventually got bored or if some weak ass little shit complained about their back or legs hurting
Mods_are_gay42069 · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Zombie tag/Infection.”
It was basically like it sounds, you tag someone and they join you, trying to tag the people that aren’t “infected” yet.
Though, in 4th grade, we all thought it would be a great idea to tackle people to the ground to tag someone. This went on for some time until a teacher saw it and made us not tackle each other anymore.
saltybummhole · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BULLDOG.
As a child in elementary school my friends and I would play this during recess and/or after football practice. Keep in mind that in my middle school located in Mexico, we did not have any playground games or anything... rather than a square courtyard. The game consisted in getting all the guys from our grade to participate. Once all gathered we would do a nose goes and the last one ruled was considered the “bulldog”. He alone would stand in the middle of the courtyard as everyone else would go and line up at one of the ends; the point was to get to the other side without being not only tackled but literally bought down to the ground at any cost. So as 10 kids would run across the concrete courtyard charging towards the other side- the bulldog needed to fuck someone up and bring them down so they would be tagged and now the 2 bulldogs have the goal of bringing everyone else trying to run down. Last standing wins.
I remember friends getting broken arms and noses. We would tackle slide and try to trip them. Shot was insane for 4th graders.
Standardeviation2 · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my cousins house he use to have a junk shed. In that shed was an old radio. My cousin and I would put on head phones and pretend to be air traffic controllers for hours and that old radio was our control board and radar. Rarely did we even pretend there was an emergency. We would literally just tell fictional pilots wind conditions.
Beer508 · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it bike pickle but basically it was kids lined up on either side of a wide street with tennis balls and other balls in hand then one or more kids would ride their bike through the firing squads. It was basically dodge ball on a bike. Some kids got really messed up but we all had our turn either throwing or riding.
dragoblaster666 · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played pee on the devil:) we would dig a hole with rebar my dad had in the back yard and....
zucchinisaurus · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "murderer." The rules were that you could only play at night (in order the boost the scare factor) ! and all the lights in the house had to be turned off. All but one person would hide around the dark house and the designated seeker, or murderer, would have to find them one by one. "Basically hide and seek," you think to yourself. Ah yes, but when the murderer found someone, they would tap them in the shoulder and very softly whisper in their ear "you're murdered." Naturally this resulted in a ripple-effect of screams from people throughout the house as we heard each other start shrieking. Fun times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Runescape
jacklolok · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The " Find the imaginary dragon " Game.
seekhim · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Neocron. Anarchy Online
OutlawJoseyMeow · 1 points · Posted at 02:26:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Run Around the Rock One way my dad entertained the my two siblings and I on Saturdays that my mom worked was Run Around the Rock. My dad would crouch down in the middle of the living room while the three of us ran around him chanting "run around the rock". Suddenly, he'd reach out, grab one of us, and start tickling. One of my fondest childhood memories
MATG66 · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pie die
Chazzy-69-Poop · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would have full on WWE wrestling matches with pillows on my trampoline. The only way I could ever be a Hardy Boy.
inspector_callahan · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would tie a long rope to a stuffed animal, place it on the opposite side of the street, hide in the bushes, then pull it toward us as cars drove by. Then we would watch their reactions as they ran it over.
Osum888 · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
cry
diamond_sourpatchkid · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chocolate Milk Monster.
I have an older brother (well two but just this one Sheldon, 9 years) older, when he was in high school ish and I was 7-8-9 ish I would ask him to play this game. It was a bit of a benefit for him. I laid out this big comforter out in the living room and I had to make a tall glass of Chocolate milk and put it in the middle of the blanket then hide. Eventually, and he would take his time while I basically sat hiding and watching the blanket. He eventually drank the chocolate milk, and it would "put him to sleep" and he would fake fall asleep on the blanket. My job then became: completely covering him with the blanket. I had to cover him entirely or else I lost. I almost always lost. lol
I had to sneak to the blanket and slowly start folding it towards his lying body and as soon as I was a bit too loud he would wake up and attack and fight back. Of course I never "won" because according to him he had his toes out one time or his hand was sticking out. As a young baby sister I apprecited him playing with me while older and it was the funnest game.
vidusic · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins played a game called "sandwich". At the time, we had a few air mattresses around out house and we would blow them all up. Then, one person would lay on the floor while we piled on the air mattresses and then proceeded to jump on them. We counted times it took for people to scream for air, escape, moms, bathrooms, etc.
extremez3r0 · 1 points · Posted at 02:27:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The GAME.
MRXTYLES · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
MINECRAFT
jpitelka2 · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A long time ago my sister, a friend, and me would play a game where we would throw my clean underwear into my bedroom fan which would fling it around the room. If you were hit by the underwear you lost. 😂
baberahamlincolnx · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hoccer sockey, or sockey hoccer, a combination of soccer and hockey me, my brother, and the 4 neighbors would play in our basement
Breehound · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Quad game”. My grandma had a few acres of field for her horse. Lots of different terrain. Thick bush, open field, jumps for the quads, sawdust hills, spruce forest, birch forest, a treehouse. We used to play in groups of 5 or 6 with our neighbour friends where two people would be on the quads chasing the people on foot. Very dangerous. Very very very fun.
ThayPastaGuy · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one time, me and my twin brother would play "FakeOut", where we pretend to be dead and see if our parents fall for it. Adam was amazing at it. One day, he pretended he overdosed on prescription drugs. It was so convincing, my parents started crying. They were so convinced, they actually buried him in a proper coffin. I bet he's having a good old laugh down there. Boy, he really faked them out, huh?
nauticalelliott · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister always tells me now about how when we were young, I’d walk around outside mumbling to myself, and she would come out and asked if she could play with me. Apparently I always told her that I was “playing by myself”. My whole life I’ve really struggled with maladaptive daydreaming, my current medication helps but it’s still something I do a ton, but looking back at it that must’ve seem just batshit.
jakesboy2 · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Finally man. Truth. Die. Spy. Me and my cousin ran a covert highly effective spy operation. Imagine like a rogue kind of mercenary group in a star wars type universe. 2 main factions were red and blue (never came up with names for them). Most people were synths but we were a 100% human group with some dope ass synth weapons. We would help blue in the war against red (pretty much the empire). To this day as a grown ass man when i’m in the shower i still pretend it’s a ship taking off for a mission or ill turn a corner with the strap and take out the group of synths in the room before they can even blink.
Rosehawka · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The animal game. Basically 20 questions with animals the only category. One person thought up an animal and everyone else had to guess it by asking yes/ No questions But no limit on questions. Usually started with "does it have 4 legs?" Etc.
I remembered this game recently when i was thinking of my ridiculous general knowledge on the subject of animals...
There weren't many times when someone didn't guess the animal.
Edit: usually a car game on one out the many long car trips we went on. Played to break up I Spy rounds etc.
theBonesae · 1 points · Posted at 02:28:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Break the stick. Hit a stick against a tree and try to hit your friend with the bit that breaks off
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lawn Dart Chicken. Until my friend impaled his prosthetic leg with one.
Mutant80 · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took empty air rifles and fired blasts of air at wasp nests, then tried not to get stung.
Shinjuku_shogun · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One day while visiting my grandparents in another city, I convinced my older brother to "Sumo Wrestle" with me in the room that we used to stay in. We stripped down to our tighty whities and made the ring out of our clothes. We then pulled our tighty whities up the crack of our asses and proceeded to sumo wrestle by slapping each others chests until one of us fell out of the ring. The end.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where's mom's dick. Nobody wins.
guesswho132 · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot potato but instead of a potato we used a caned sausage.....unique enough???
Hotdamncoffee · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My 5 siblings and I played this game where our dad would get under a blanket at one end of the living room and then we had to try and run past him from couch to couch and try not to get snagged from beast of the depths. Once he had an ankle he would drag us screeching into the tickle dungeon for a few seconds before regurgitating us gasping for air, crawling back to the safety of the couch.
Rinse and repeat.
Great times.
flyting1881 · 1 points · Posted at 02:29:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Hearse Surfing.
So my stepdad was a funeral director (and generally weird as fuck) and he would let me and my friends crawl in the back of one of the hearses.
We'd sit up by the window on our butts and wrap our arms around our knees. Then he'd floor it across the parking lot and the momentum would send us flying backwards.
Hearses have rollers on the inside to help put the caskets in, so if you sat just right you would slide a solid 8 feet before slamming into the back door. Then he'd hit the breaks and we'd slide back up.
I imagine it sounded something like WHEEEEE - THUNK! WHEEEEEEE-THUNK!
Sometimes he would (try to) do donuts in the hearse with us in the back. That was fun.
DWARFintheNORTH · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drip, drip, drop. The summer camp version of duck duck goose where whoever is it has a plastic cup of water and they either sprinkle a drop on someone’s head or dump the whole thing and run around. Never heard any of my friends play it.
___CREAM___ · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im not sure you can call this a game, but it was fun as hell for some reason.
When I was a youngin around 7, my group of friends and I asked our "crazy" neighbor to paint our bike helmets green.
Green helmet crew, naturally
The neighbor suggested we start to practice hiding in plane site "for the war"
We agreed and spent the next few summers hiding in people's bushes trying to scare them.
We would jump out and yell "Green helmet crew!!!"
The good ol' days.
soiledsanchez · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called round the house terror, it had two variants. The first was indoors how it originally started, we took my uncles army socks and stuffed them with more socks to get them heavy, we would then run around the house whipping them at each other.
The second version of it came as we got older and I’m sure weary of breaking things in the house. This version was outdoors and we took little footballs that they used to throw out at the high school games along with things like nerf footballs and the like and would run around the house throwing them as hard as we could at each other.
maxjmad · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One rule table tennis. Aim of the game was to keep the rally going as long as possible with the only rule being the ball cant touch the floor. Ball could obviously be hit as many times as you like and it made for hectic setup shots and plenty of rebounds off body parts and objects in the house. Points would last minutes and games would last hours with no real winner but everyone who played!
HellsHammer07 · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I used to have beanie baby wars, at some point in my childhood my family and I started collecting beanie babies at one point we had a huge bin filled with them I'd say like 25 gallon or something close to that, well the game was that we turned off the light of one of our rooms and hurl them at each other until someone quit(or parents yelled for us to stop) those hard plastic eyes or noses could sting and left a couple welts in my childhood, such a great memory that I dont think about too often.
tobleronezone · 1 points · Posted at 02:30:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called orphan. One child is rolled up in the carpet and starts to quietly cry in the rolled up carpet. Other child or parent walks by and pretends to discover the orphan rolled up in the carpet by first hearing the crying and then unrolling the carpet. Start over.
jebadiah77 · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I used to play what was essentially racquetball in his garage, the only thing was it was FULL of random shit. the ball would fly randomly around the room smashing into things. 2x points for breaking glass. Haven't played a more satisfying game yet.
nononocory · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cabeza. You run up to a friend, jump up in the air and with both hands grab his/her head and cram it into your crotch while screaming ‘CABEZA!’ Lol 90’s we’re lit
DKuroi · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to roll down the stairs inside duvet sheet gilled with pillows. Looking back that was crazy dangerous , but we were bored.
9NEUKOLN · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
space benji.
tobys_dick_cheez · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A babysitter once taught us to "sled" down our stairs. We live in Florida, so this was amazing. We started with pillowcases and eventually upgraded to a twin size mattress. We "sledded" those stairs until my parents ripped the carpets off and turned them into woord floors. I have carpet stairs now and definitely want to teach my kids!
goblin_welder · 1 points · Posted at 02:31:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in early grade school, we created a game called Monkey Wrestling. Basically it was between two people wearing their bike helmets. You try to touch the other person’s helmet. You get a point if you do. You get a strike if you touch the person face. First to five points wins.
the_duke51 · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young my grandfather and I would go fishing all the time and be being all of about 8 years old would get bored. So eventually I would just throw a stick into the lake and start throwing rocks at it to try and hit it. This obviously scared all the fish away and my grandfather would get frustrated but loved seeing me so entertained. Fast forward 16 years and I was deployed to Japan walking on the beach with my buddies and I decided to show them my game stick rock. So I threw a stick out into the ocean and started hucking rocks at it. My friends laughed at me and called me a hick, until I gave them a rock to throw. Before we knew it there were 4 big grown ass men throwing rocks at a stick in Japan.
Indeeditismetao · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to (and still play) Final Fantasy XI with my dad, i've never found a game that I enjoy as much as it.
enjoyingmyinsanity · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When driving on I-95 through North Carolina there are the signs for south of the border camp ground. You have to call out south of the border every time you see one to get a point. Negative points if it was not actually a billboard for south of the border. There are at least 30 of them. My parents and I have played this game my whole life. I usually win.
xstrokax · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You play a game of ring around the rosey, and then its last man standing wins, you have to knock everyone else over without leaving the yard. Obviously was in like 6th grade or something.
halfamook · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was in a Boy Scout troop of like 15 kids, the church we had our meetings at had a huge area of wooded land behind. After our meeting we’d play a game of MANHUNT. Three out of the 15 of us would be the “hunters” and the rest of us would hide. We had about 5 minutes to find a good spot, and could relocate if we felt we were going to be caught. The hunters would travel in a group and if they found someone they’d give them the biggest wedgie, basically ripping their underwear out of their pants. The game lasted about an hour and then we’d all laugh and go home. We did this for about 6 months until one of the new kids parents complained and we were forced to stop.
Whereiswagkidsplash · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Closet stick
jcoooooooool · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would hold literal wrestling matches on my trampoline when I️ was in elementary school. Like full on tournaments and whoever won always had mad respect after. By the way we are girls lol
Ra_Zahr · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play Commie Hunting range with my brothers. Pretend to hunt down commies in the range and bring back their tongues or something. You're only allowed to bag 3 of the animals during the season though.
seekAr · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At night I would pretend giant table saws would come trim the sides of my bed while I slept so I would make sure I slept in the very center. I would pile all my stuffed dolls and animals around me so that if I rolled over, one of my flock would be sacrificed to save me. Even my beloved Cabbage Patch preemies ... they all had a bigger calling as Saw Fodder.
I was probably Henry VIII in a former life.
EmmyMarie1993 · 1 points · Posted at 02:32:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and myself would play Star Wars on a fallen tree, they were two and five years older than me and being the youngest and the only girl I had to play princess Laia, sit on the stump and wait to be rescued. They wouldn't even give me a "weapon."
Mundo_Official · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and ho seek in the dark. We didnt have phones and flashlights and stuff. Just in the basement, no lights. Everyone had 10 seconds and lights go off. Shit it was so fckin dark
vagkws · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my cousins used to play alot what we called "Nintendo hide n seek" . basically we used the pictorchat of the DS to send messages with hints or draw something that we could see . We had to find the other person and understand all the clues they given us to win. The are in which we played was pretty big and cluttered so it was a really fun experience
starvinchevy · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sumo wrestler. We would put on XL shirts (as tiny 8-year-old girls) and stuff them with a bunch of pillows. Then we’d count to three and run at each other to send the opponent flying. Whoever’s still standing wins!
ryanh128 · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Calvin ball
BestInClassOnReddit · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably Mickey Mouse Magic Wands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=455cF3skeE8
Athire5 · 1 points · Posted at 02:33:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Two words: Bike Jousting.
Bikes, broomsticks, and as much speed as you can throw at your opponent
redheadedrebelle · 1 points · Posted at 02:34:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in a twelve unit townhouse style complex. In the parking lot there was a faucet that would drain downhill. The parking lot being rather large, we would create a river with the water and ride our bikes through it singing songs we would make up on the spot. We would do this until an adult came along and stopped us. Usually citing water bills or some nonsense. Looking back, I have to scoff. It was subsided housing and non of us had to pay the water. Just rent and electric.
bigbythebigbadwolf · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play Star Wars but fight each other with curtain rods as lightsabers. Made for painful playing but it was fun.
Mars746 · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandma would play a game with me called mamot. Where she would grab my arm swinging it back and forth saying mamot over and over again until she said MAMOT and I would have to stop myself from slapping me.
InterGamer · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
NDS or Natural Disaster Survival, the real life adaption I made on the school playground. It is based off a Roblox gamemode by the same name.
The “disaster master” would call a disaster, and we would have to respond accordingly (i.e. flood means get to high ground, earthquake means get to low ground, tornado/wildfire means get away from a specific area, etc) and whoever didn’t make it in time would be out.
Some friends and I made a school-wide competition for NDS that would apparently be the most played recess game in years, attracting almost 150 people one day.
It got banned after a fistfight broke out over the high ground.
saltysnatch · 1 points · Posted at 02:35:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we were at a red light in traffic, whoever could say “green” first after the light changes....... super exciting childhood
sofiawithanf · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever there was a trampoline (with side netting) around, my friends and I would play a game called "dead boy/dead girl" where one person would lie down with their eyes closed and their arms crossed while the others would jump around them singing "dead boy/girl, dead boy/girl, come alive on the count to 5, 1 2 3 4 5" and then that person would blindly jump/run around the trampoline trying to tag someone. Once you were tagged you became the dead person.
Lunarp00 · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was an only child so I was by myself a lot. I liked pretending that I was a well respected artisan living in a kingdom. Like I was the worlds best maker of flower crowns which must be meticulously sourced and crafted and were very important to the kingdom I lived in.
vickriz · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Parent now of adult children, but when our boys were little we played a game called "cheetah." This was simply rolling fresh fruit (usually grapes, but anything smallish that would roll was fair game) across the kitchen floor, The boys would be on their knees and would have to chase the fruit to eat it. Double healthy - fresh fruit and exercise!
Zaps_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:36:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baseball, but bases were just 4 objects in a diamond shape, the bat was anything we could swing, and the ball was whatever wouldn't break everything around. Me and my little brother (4yrs younger) would do this whenever we were bored and stuck somewhere. Our most creative combo was pillows for bases, the top part of a Swiffer handle as a bat, and a pair of tightly balled up socks as a ball. I'm studying computer science now, but he just started opening day for his top 10 JUCO baseball team, and will be playing D1 baseball next season, so I guess it worked.
Nutteralex-Gaming · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would use paintball barrels to shoot reusable paintballs as high velocity spitballs in one of our friends basement.
One of his younger brothers got hit in the eye and I dont think we were allowed to play anymore.
OverallHeart · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know if I can mention a video game, but Steppenwolf the X Creature Project.
Such a hidden gem of a free online game with a wonderful story.
kenacethemenny · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
(Early 2000's) The asian kids in my elementary school invented this game called "Line Tag". I say invented because my 4th grade teacher remarked how it was the first time he's ever seen the game played. All you needed for the game was the Four Square squares. On our blacktop, we had a bunch of Four Squares going down in a row.
So you basically have two teams: "Defenders" and "Runners". Each Four Square square could have three Defenders, one for each line, laterally. Defenders have to keep their feet on the lateral line. The Defender's captain was on the first lateral line and could also go down vertically on the center line to create like a half-swastika defense line. The Defender's captain can go further down the imaginary vertical line in between the Four Square squares if there were more than 3 Defenders.
Runners would start behind the Defender's captain. Once the Runner's captain slap the Defender's captain's hand, the game would start. The Runners have to jive and juke the Defenders until they get past the last Defender. The Runners have to keep at least one foot in the Four Square.
Any Defender that "tags" a Runner gets that Runner out. The game was all about catching the opposing team off-guard.
If you're having trouble imagining the game, just think of a 2D version of Ender's Game battle arena. The enemy's gate is down, so the speak.
Runners that get past the last Defender have to come all the way back to the start. This is where it gets fun, because the Defenders' attention is split between the Runners infront of them and behind them. This is where the Defender's captain half-swastika defense comes in. His vertical line makes and breaks the defense line, since the other Defenders can only move laterally on their own line.
The game ends if the Defenders tag all the Runners out. The Runners win if at least one Runner makes it to the end and back to the start. Even so, we still play out the remaining Runners to see how many more can make it.
I haven't visited my elementary school since then. I doubt the game's legacy lasted, but I would be pretty happy if I saw a bunch of kids playing line tag now. I wouldn't mind playing again.
Flamyblade217 · 1 points · Posted at 02:37:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
WallBall - There was a 10m brick wall on slightly raised ground at my primary school. We would get kids to line up and maintain contact with the wall while others would line up at the end of the raised ground and throw/kick balls (soccer or rugby balls) at them. If you got hit you were out.
Issame1 · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Maybe a bit late but my siblings and I used to play "blind mans touch". One person was blindfolded and the others would all run around a small room as the blindfolded one listens and chases after the other. Good times.
seinfeldyadayada · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would have major food fights with specific foods. For example - did you know that you can shoot corn if you press a cooked kernel between your fingers and the inside shoots out?
Also, we’d cut up hot dogs and throw them at the ceiling straight up so that little wet circle marks would be on the ceiling. Best game ever.
Edit: *on the ceiling
denstolenjeep · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BB Gun Wars: around 10 boys, 7-10 years old, running around the neighborhood shooting each other with BB guns... every man for himself, "Purge"-style. The only ones that ever teamed together were the twins. I remember hiding my swollen knuckle from my parents for weeks, I didn't want to stop playing! Great times, and somehow we all still have our eyes!
elliotbox · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Any time I was at a sleep over with my best friend we would go around in our sleeping bags and pretend to be dinosaurs. We called it little sluggers for some reason. Essentially you had to crawl around and complete different objectives in your sleeping bag.
atina713 · 1 points · Posted at 02:38:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I use to try to see how many things I could think about at one time, so I would sing a song, count & try to hold a conversation. It came in handy the other day while listening to music & doing yoga.
DocLeWolfe · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag...but with automobiles.
How do you tag someone? You run into them of course! (we had rollbars attached to the front like cops do).
We used junkyard cars
Boozerbear213 · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family play guess the check Everytime we go out to eat, every now and then we get winners and it makes the kids really happy.
Hjhhjk · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and his brother always got packs of gum in their christmas stockings so they liked to play “how much of this can we fit in our mouths before we choke”
llama_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and sneak
(Best played outside) One person counts with their eyes closed and everyone runs and hides.
When they open them the objective is for everyone else to subtly sneak up on the person who counted.
But if the person notices them sneaking and is able to tag them they are out. The person who successfully sneaks up and tags the person who counted wins.
The game is played until either someone tags that person or the person who counted is able to tag everybody out.
ExpoMarkerOK · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Nermal” We would get on the middle of the street and bash the other player with our side and shoulders first one to fall lost.
Unclemickstomb · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can recall two "games" I played with my older siblings. The first one we would tie the toe ends of our socks together (while wearing them) then make our way down the staircase. The second was a game we literally called "Smother". We would willingly lay down and let the the other sibling press a pillow over our face. The winner was whoever stayed under the longest without struggling. There were others but those are the two I remember the most. Maybe my older sister was trying to kill me I don't know.
icemann0 · 1 points · Posted at 02:39:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
China Ball Wars. Slingshots and China Balls were our Airsoft with more FPS and bruising
Jmoney627 · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents had one of the sprinkler attachments that sprayed upwards like a wall. Me and my brother would jump threw the wall into a different dimension, place, time period etc etc...
atka6371 · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Lava Monster” - Basically one person would be the “lava monster” and stay on the lava (ground) trying to catch us runners like tag. The catch was the runners weren’t allowed on the floor. So we would be running on top of the couch, hopping from furniture to furniture. Anything to help us stay afloat. If we stepped or fell into the lava or the lava monster tagged us, we would become his or her minions and try to get the rest of the runners until one person was left. Kept us kids at family parties busy forever! Adults would get upset though lol.
nelzwillz · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my grandma stayed over at my house for a few weeks because she had just gotten surgery, me and my sister would play "crockey" or "crutch hockey." We would use her crutches as hockey sticks and put socks on the end caps so they wouldn't get scratched. We'd play around the house for what felt like hours it was so much fun.
peacetricia · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my neighborhood we would play lightning bug tag. You catch a lightning bug and smoosh the light on someone’s shirt. They have to catch another lightning bug and smoosh it on someone else’s shirt before the light on their own shirt goes out. Disgusting in many ways, I know.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:40:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my child hood friends would take empty trash cans and throw them at each other. So funny
Tallerhalf · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my cousins was always breaking his arm and when we played Wallball our friends would tease him about throwing like a "pussy" so I made it to where everybody had to throw with their week arm we called the game Pussyball
1Legalthrowaway1111 · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "lions in a tree" It was us pretending to be....lions in a tree. I also played this game by myself called "OCD". Its when I would run up the hill and if I ran up in time to knock on the door, my whole family wouldnt go to hell. The funnest part about that game was that it never had any official timing system only whatever my mind told me was fast enough. This resulted in me running up the hill over and over for about 20 or so ish minutes.
rivighi1201 · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bash basketball it was a simple game there were six of us no team if you had the ball try and shoot a hoop while the others could stop you just about anyway they wanted with the use of weapons. Another one we had was throwing a cricket ball as hard as we could at each other over a 15m to 20m distance
ChronoTriggerHappy · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Princess Di and the butler. I would dress up in princess clothes and tied a wagon to a tricycle and my friend Danielle would drive me up and down the drive way. Sometimes he would drive recklessly and I'd have to be like "Belvedere SLOW DOWN or I'll find another butler!". Other times my brothers would pretend to be cops and pull us over and I would give them autographs. Then the Dianna passed away in a car accident and I never got in that wagon again.
jd3marco · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think we had a name for this game, except maybe “Guns”. We brought out very realistic looking plastic weaponry (orange caps were around but we had the old stuff and removed caps when necessary. This would have definitely gotten us killed by r/badcopnodonut cops if we we were of darker complexion).
We divided into teams and laid in wait for the others. Sort of like hide and seek or paintball with no projectiles. Somehow, it worked out. It was generally agreed when one person “got” the other or if both died in a shootout.
I think the game ended when we lost interest or the team that was hiding made it to “home base”.
TL;DR: We wandered the streets with realistic toy guns, likely scared neighbors and never had a problem. Thanks white privilege!
Princess__Redditor · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Leaf Creatures” it was a lovely game, I miss playing it haha, we entirely made it up :) it was kinda deep too
hinakura · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Murder mystery with barbies. I loved using the mini-pool to murder someone? OH! I also used the big pink car. Those times...
I also liked to climb trees and pretend they were airplanes with my sister as my copilot!! We were like monkeys because we never fell down haha.
pajamboree · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
so me and my sister would play barbie clue. I would murder a barbie, decide who did it, the motive, and create characters for my sister the detective to interview. She would have detective barbie and her partner come to my barbie’s ranch (i loved horses as a kid so it was always a ranch and the suspects lived in the barbie dream house on the property) located in our window sear and interview the suspects. It was literally csi for a 5 and 9 year old. There was intrigued, romance, money hungry land developers, warrants etc. We’re pretty sure it’s from our mom always watching crime shows when she thought we were busy playing lol
dangit1590 · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
when I'm at the church they would play a game called repent your sins next to the priest huehuehue
TheRoosel · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where’s the willy.. I’d play it with my uncle... oh god
Sweatsock_Pimp · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I used to play one-on-one football in our hall. We made up our own theme song (a la Monday Night Football) and would turn on lights in the rooms just off the hallway in synch with our theme.
rekuiem1289 · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play metal gear solid, where one person would be the guard who had a timy cone of vision and the other eas snake and you had to get from one side of the tiny new york apartment to the other. Whoever played the gaurd got to go "what was that noise?" to change up their patrol route or also "whose footprints are these!?"
Stiltzofbwc · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Graph paper, a pencil, and some dice, to play a RTS-type war game with my cousins in the 80's. We had ships, planes, tanks. Had a ton of rules I can't remember... you fired at opponents by flicking the pencil as your "shot" - there was a dice rolling aspect and resources as well...
idkyuhyun · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Abalone
Nuf-Said · 1 points · Posted at 02:43:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bottle caps. We would draw a bottle cap court with chalk on the ground on our small street. It was a series of boxes in a square that were numbered from 1 to 15. Everyone started at one. the object was to go in order from one to fifteen by flicking the caps with your finger. After reaching fifteen, you were poison. Then you would try to hit your opponent’s bottle cap with yours. If you did they were out of the game. Years later I learned to play croquet. Rules were almost exactly the same, except with mallets and wooden balls instead of bottle caps.
moorea12 · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would stay up late at night in our shared room and play “movie outtakes” where we would just act out outtakes, like someone falling and then laughing.
fo-real-tho · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball tag It’s basically tag but the person that’s it has to hit the other players with the ball to tag them. Yes bounces count.
mbwelch20 · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know this isn’t a game but
When I was a kid especially around 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, instead of paying attention in class I spend a large amount of time drawing out small stick men in battle in ridiculous scenarios, and constantly adding to it as if it was a shifting and changing battle on one sheet of paper.
gh8lkdshds · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huggyleg. We (being a group of kids like elementary middle school age, 2 to each family and there were like 4 families that would play) would lock the door in one of our parents master bedrooms, and the lights would be off, and somehow whenever we played it was evening so the light coming through the closed curtains wasn't too strong but you could still sorta seen.The person who was "it" would have to hug the other kids legs. If you caught on and held on for a few seconds, then they too became it. It ended when it went down to the last person, and then they would be the winner.
As weird as it was, we only played this game about 4 or 5 times but we'd play it for like 3 hours each time.
DL6 · 1 points · Posted at 02:44:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag, on bikes, using Nerf guns, and handheld CB radios.
limitlesstk · 1 points · Posted at 02:45:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “pigs in nests”. We sat inside boxes peen tending to be well, pigs in nests, crawled in to the bathroom to lick up water with our tongues.
TacoJohn19 · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Here's a game we all played once as a kid. Spinning violently in place making everyone in the room noxious and losing all coordination for a minute, Good times
Wild_Zookeeper · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh wow, there were a bunch.
Looking back, we sure played some dumb games, most of which were probably my ideas.
Wild_Zookeeper · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh, I forgot: when we had a long drive, we played detective. We were on the trail of some criminals and the way to catch them was to find clues in the signs, license plates, etc. we passed.
Meester_Tweester · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I liked watching game shows as a kid (reality TV was booming in the 2000’s) so I would have an imaginary show with imaginary contestants and have them do challenges to get points and at the end of the season someone would win.
OutlawGunslinger · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We’d turn off all the lights in the garage and spin around in the middle then try to find the door in the pitch black.
Ya-Dikobraz · 1 points · Posted at 02:46:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
People are probably going to tell me everyone played this game, but we had pocket knives as kids (70-80's) and would go out to play. We would draw a circle in the sand/ earth and take turns throwing one knife in it. The point is where the knife lands you draw a line from one end of the circle, through where the knife landed (only if it stuck in the ground, otherwise it's lose a turn) to the other side. Then the biggest half of the circle is "yours". We take turns doing this until the whole circle is claimed and count who has the largest area.
slento · 1 points · Posted at 02:47:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and his brother had the cool house where a bunch of kids would be there all weekend hanging out in the basement or playing outside. We had one game where the object was to make your opponent's head touch any surface. You have people backed into corners while someone else had their palm on the kid's face trying to force it into one wall or the other. we would have giant tournament brackets of upwards of 15 people.
Simplath · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So many but one that stands out is lazer pee. It was just me and my friend pretending we could pee lazers and "kill" one another. There was also a detective game where a squirrel or " Mr. Squirreley " would give us people to hunt down and catch. We wpuld run aroud the park throwing pinecones at the "enemy" and using sticks as walkey talkies .
butters091 · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roofie roofie one bounce. My dad would throw a soccer ball off of our slanted roof and you'd have to catch it before it bounced more than once.
ayr1n_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sword fighting in real life... some crusading but without the death
SnowShimmer150 · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There were two games I remember playing with my siblings, the one I'll focus on was called slender and the point of the game was to tag whoever was it, and then you become it
Whooever was "It" walked around the house with a flash light and had to flick it on if they thought someone was there, and if someone was hiding they couldn't tag you until whoever was "it" walked around again, but, to make it fair, the person who was "It" could only use the flashlight three times in a row while walking so if they wasted them it became a free for all between all the stalkers
I don't think it was unique but we played aggressive trampoline Dodge ball with our own special rules and variations of dodgeball like king, someone stood in the middle and someone else would guard them from the ball, the king wasn't supposed to move out of a circle we made but the guard could shove them
We had some pretty intense games during the summer, I miss all my siblings but they're in college now I'm home alone
Jasole37 · 1 points · Posted at 02:48:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was 2 and my sister was 3, she used to take me to the bathroom to play "hair salon".
She would climb up on the counter and get my dad's comb (he has had this comb for 45 years now)
Then she would dunk the comb in the toilet and brush my hair with it.
Or that time we played "mudslide". Mudslide involved pouring a bottle of chocolate syrup down the stairs. I was 3, she was 4.
babesburgers · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Counting cows. On long trips when you passed cows you had to count as many as you could. When you passed a graveyard you lost them and had to start over...
rlgies · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game we called “One-O-Cat”. It was base ball for only three people. We live out in the country but I also had 7 brothers and 5 sisters. A lot of fun
JackTradeComics · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Barney chase us”!!! Just our golden retriever Barney running after us in the backyard lol good times
TheTabnScroll · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curb Ball : players stand on each side of the street. With standard red rubber ball take turns throwing at the opposite curb. If you hit curb and it bounces back on the ground, 1 point. If it hits curb, bounces up, if you catch it with foot on the street, 2 points.. if you catch it without having to step in the street 4 points. ( This makes it fun as on close ones you're reaching over as far as you can trying to keep your balance and not step into the street)
GaryLifts · 1 points · Posted at 02:50:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I shared a room with my younger siblings growing up. Whenever we had to clean the room, to get out of doing my share I would build a fort called a "fun house" which was essentially just a duvet tent with my SNES and Megadrive setup underneath. I would then charge admission to my sibling in the form of them cleaning up toys. I got so much more mileage out of that than I should have.
mymustang44 · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't remember what we called it, but when I was younger, me and a friend would place little army men or just small figures on larger toys like doll houses and toy garages, then we would take turns trying to knock the figurines over by throwing pennies. The first person to knock the others person's figurines over wins. It took years to figure out that you could just throw the pennies really hard.
AlRedux · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to close my eyes and go 'aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' because I thought it would tell me something important.
echoesofwonder · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister (who is hard of hearing) and I would play this game where we would creep towards the road from our front porch. We would keep going until we saw a car and then we would run back to the porch for safety. The first one back being the winner.
It wasn’t until my sister was in her twenties that she realized I could hear the cars way before we saw them, hence, I always won.
Guardiancomplex · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
PlungerBall
ipark88 · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid we invented a game called flop saucer where you would sit on a trampoline with 3-4 people in a circle and roll a quarter around the outside, shifting your weight to keep the quarter circling around the outside of the players as long as possible. No real way to win or score points, just a collaborative challenge.
jazzmonkmustache · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Black Squares.
My parents’ kitchen floor had that classic black and white checkered square patterned linoleum.
To play Black Squares, you walk on just your toes or heels, on only the black squares. Extra points given for moving ridiculously between squares by leaping large distances or pirouetting, stepping quickly sideways, lifting your knees comically high etc. (no scores are officially recorded at any point). Periodically you should stop, hold your hands at chest height with limp wrists, rear your head back and screech like a velociraptor. Repeat.
We played this well into our 20s.
Just installed new black and white checkered linoleum in my new kitchen. Immediately played Black Squares.
CypherWight07 · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was eight I gathered up all of my military themed toys and started coming up with a rules set for offensive and defensive power, cover, damage types, etc. The collection consisted of action figures, transformers, army men, micro machines, hotwheels, and the like. At first I used tinker toys to make forts for them, but soon got bored and took the action outside. Dug up a huge patch of the yard about three feet deep, made crevices and caves in the cliff face of the hole, and piled up the dirt in the middle of the hole to make hills, valleys, and earth works. Had a blast with it until my parents went out back one day and saw their perfect suburban lawn demolished with my toys still set up mid-battle while I took a break for a snack. Got grounded for a month for that one.
Ever since then I have been obsessed with tabletop game design, but never got an opportunity to really pursue it. Instead I paint minis and come up with mods for wargames to fix balance issues and make the game more enjoyable. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much interest in these sorts of mods where I live, so most of them have gone un-played.
cjtripp1025 · 1 points · Posted at 02:52:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up next to a horse racing track in New York, they had a very large playing lot. On Saturday nights that parking lot was FULL. we played the "license plate game". We'd ride through the lot on our bikes pick out a car, go back and relay the plate number to the others who would have a time limit to come back with the color and make of the car. Dumb, I know but a fun way to blow a Saturday night as a 10 year old.
Br00talzebra37 · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game.
Winterometer · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back when rip-sticks started getting popular in new Zealand we would have a destruction derby before school started out on the concrete basketball court. For those unfamiliar a rip stick is a skate board but with two fully roating wheels. One wheel at the back and one at the front. Where the board was in a figure 8 type shape. In order to make them move you would have to wiggle your back leg and the board would accelerate. As you can imagine it was very easy to fall off. So us kids decided it was a good idea to rip-stick around the courtyard and try and knock each other off the rip stick, using the rip stick only to whip the back of whoevers board you could come up against. It was pretty damn fun IF you didn't fall off and scrape your knees.
ArcficMonkeys · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shark! In elementary school, a group of kids would sit on the very top of a wide slide and another kid would be the shark, the shark had to run up the slide and try to pull as many kids as they could from the "boat". Fun times.
SirChibbi · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Monkey man" which was basically tag at night but the monkey man couldn't run and the other people couldn't hide unless the monkey man was in line of sight.
Best was one time I was monkey man hiding under a bench swing thing and grabbed a girls leg as she walked near causing her to piss her pants.
rainbowkey · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The laundromat game" - My Mom invented a card game similar to Go Fish that taught addition and subtraction
blackjackgabbiani · 1 points · Posted at 02:54:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a knotted tree in our side yard but the knot had a hole in it that always had gunk in it. My sister and I called it "soup and stew" and would go out and stir it every so often.
Diolaneiuma2156 · 1 points · Posted at 02:54:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Horsey Horsey Neigh Neigh” It was where you sit on someones back as they crawl around the room like a horse. The objective was to try not to let the horse make you fall off. It was like a mechanical bull ride, but with people. Me and my brother loved this game and we would take turns being the rider. My brother always made me be the horse but it was fun.
ajh6288 · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Extreme darts.
eskimogerman · 1 points · Posted at 02:55:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We found a 6 foot long leather whip one day, Indiana Jones had just come out, so of course we all wanted to be like him. But being dumb 8-10 year old kids, the coolest thing we came up with was to use it to play tag. I’m sure a lot of people ( adults) had a WTF? moment driving along and seeing 5 or 6 little kids running down the street laughing hysterically, with 1 kid, always crying, waving a 6 foot bull whip in the air chasing the other kids.
Yup, getting tagged with a leather whip fucking hurts. A lot. But tagging one of your friends between the shoulder blades with a whip? Satisfying beyond words. The newly tagged person almost always ended up on the ground, in a ball crying. Walk up them, drop the whip on them and say, “ your it”.
I think we played that game for most of the summer until a responsible adult took the whip away from us.
FertilizingMushrooms · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our family always had a one month vacation over summer, and my sister and I along with two of our cousins came up with the idea to set up a sprinkler so it sprayed warm water on to a giant trampoline, and at night we liked to play “everyone closes their eyes and we all wrestle on the slippery trampoline in the dark”
Other summer pastimes included “pretend to be a cult of short hooded trolls making a child sacrifice to scare to pizza guy” and a fun little cooking game where we baked pancakes made from the first things we saw. If the dog wouldn’t eat it, you won.
madus80 · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just the tip and hide the pickle.
charles_martel34 · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BB gun wars. We shot each other with bb guns and no eye pro. No parental supervision. Pure awesomeness.
cleancutPunk · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My parents used to have us play "the ghost game." You can only play at night and when I was very young we would play in teams. We would turn out all the lights in the house and otherwise make sure it was as dark as possible. One person gets to be "it" and while they stay in the only lit room/area of the house all the teams would slip into the darkness and hide. Whoever was it would then go through the house, no lights/flashlights, looking for the hidden teams. The teams would hide (they were able to move spots, but they have to stay together) and try to scare "it" before being found. If you manage to scare "it," the ghosts win. If you're found before spooking "it," then "it" wins.
kasperthecat777 · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this game at my daycare.
We played a game called sock wrestling where we would wrestle to get the other players socks off..
Once when i played i stepped on a tac
Orionslady · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Rock N Roll”
Two people lay on their stomachs on the back of the couch face to face and grab each others elbows. Object is to rock and roll the other person off the couch before they got you. Loser is first one to fall. So much fun.
OKsammich · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad had me and my siblings do "the Dance of Pain" before he beat us. Fun game.
SeaBear-Atlas · 1 points · Posted at 02:57:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mates and I called this game "Slope Shot". We played by having one person be the shooter and the others being the runners. The shooters job was to shoot a regulation hockey puck at the others while they ran over several snow mounds of varying heights. Thankfully no one got domed by a frozen hockey puck but we did get some good sized welts over the years.
La_Belle_Epoque311 · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did a lot of play acting growing up, basically LARPing without realizing it. When the movie Holes came out, my cousin had just recently gotten a pool in their backyard. We dug holes for fun in the pile of dirt. Spent a whole summer digging holes, sitting in the holes, we even put little fire places in them and attempted to make popcorn. We also went through a phase of each of us acting as a character from Final Fantasy VII. Harry Potter. Blitzball in the pool from like we were in Final Fantasy X.
denatured_enzyme_ · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every Sunday my family and I would go to my grandmother's house for family dinner. This was a requirement set by her, and my siblings and I really didn't want it, since we were not very close to that side of the family. We dreaded every single visit. However, there was one bright side: she owned a lot of umbrellas. Like, more than necessary for an old lady and her old husband living alone. Like, I'm talking 3 drawers full of umbrellas, and then some more. I have no idea why she had so many. Anyway, since my cousins had to be there as well and they were always as bored as I was, we used the umbrellas to make tents and pretended to be camping under them. My grandmother would scold us for playing with the umbrellas (she's fun at parties) but we would just ignore her and we would try to see who could make the biggest umbrella tent. Sometimes we made one gigantic one to accommodate everyone. It was especially fun when it was actually raining, because we would sit inside our umbrella tents and listen to the rain.
DeathSlyce · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play catch with my dad, except I would throw the ball and it would hit the wall because he isn't there
DR4GON_H4CK3R · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I were really into music, we would even compete on who knew the better music in a certain genre/theme. We would grab a judge and ask them for a genre of music or a situation in which you would play a song. Of course, this game became unfair when my brother got a girlfriend because he would always grab her to be the judge.
We still play, but with other things like anime ops and video game bosses.
BigBake33 · 1 points · Posted at 02:58:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a big yard in the woods, and my mom would hide clues on paper all around outside and in the house. We had a little play toy chest that it would eventually lead up to. Most of the time all that was in it was a toy she had taken from my room but I loved that game.
itdoesmatterdoesntit · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I made a large wooden square, backed with 2x4s. It was probably 4ft x 4ft. The game was soccer, but basketball style — 21. Had to take the ball back, and offense nor defense could get closer than 5 ft to the goal. Such a fun game. Worked awesome for accuracy and wasted a ton of time.
Anon888810020 · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would sit in the middle of the floor while my sisters and I would run around him in a circle. The objective of the game was to not get caught, because you would be tickled! Then you were released and kept running around. I haven’t played it in years but I sure miss it.
darkwolf2607 · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "chain". One of the person was selected after a tournament of rock paper scissors. He/she would then try to chase and catch others. Whoever was caught had to hold his hand. As people were caught, a long chain was formed making it easier to corner remaining people in the ground while making it difficult to chase them.
The first person caught would have to start the game again. We tried to catch the fast runners early so as to end the game quickly. Fun times :)
dairyqueenmary · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cumquat tag". Me and my twin brother must have been about 8 years old when we invented this game, and calling it this because we thought the fruit sounded funny. One of us would be an old man, and the other was a kid who had to hide from the old man. had nothing to do with cumquats. there were a few safe zones where you couldnt get "caught"
darthmarigolde · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I would play a game where we would read the last name on a tombstone and guess the first names of the people on the other side.
16bitSamurai · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle had a fun game called “Hide the pickle”
jazzisaurus · 1 points · Posted at 02:59:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to take all of the cushions off the couch and all the pillows in the house we could find, and make a huge pile of them in the middle of the living room. then one kid would stand with their back turned to the cushion/pillow pile, and another kid would stand on the opposite end of the room facing them. both would be holding a cushion in front of their chest. the kid on the other side of the room would run and jump into the standing kid, launching him/her into the giant pile of fluff! we would all rotate and take turns.
RandyFord · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
ITT The only unique comment here is the guy playing with his Grandma’s balls
HermioneJGranger6 · 1 points · Posted at 03:00:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I made a game when we were little that we called "Dodge Dakota" (apparently our dad had a Dodge Dakota (car) when we first made the game, I don't really remember). The whole thing started when we would have "sleepovers" in my brothers' room, and we would line up, looking out the window and have to hide whenever a car came past. Eventually it evoloved to us running around outside and having to hide whenever a car came by or we would die. An elaborate system of points developed, cousins, neighbors, and friends were taught the game, and more and more rules were created. Now, just over 10 years since we first created the game, I barely remember what the original rules were, or if the original game even had rules at all, because so many rules (or, as my brother called them, "barely even suggestions") have been added, changed or removed.
69_tom_69 · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I used to have "jenga wars". You start by splitting a jenga set 50:50 with your opponent. Next, place your 'flag' (vertical jenga block) at opposite sides, about 6 feet apart. The objective is to knock over the opponents flag. With your remaining blocks, you either build walls for your flag or launchers. Launchers are 2, 3, or 4 jenga blocks laid flat and stacked on top of each other. To launch, lay another jenga block against the long side of the stack, and smash that block with your fist. The stacked blocks will fly forwards faster than you might expect.
Players need to decide if they want lots of launchers and not a lot of walls, or lots of walls and only a few launchers. After the first round of fire, rebuild your arsenal and try again. First person to knock over the other flag wins.
Did that make any sense?
paulhernandez05 · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my church when we were bored we had a 3 v 2 one day and it was a whole day waiting for my parents to leave whilst me, my brother and a friend were throwing rocks at 2 others who would fight back. Once The boy on the other team tried tossing a massive rock and he was stopped by an adult passing by. We had vents we hid in and would pop out and ambush them with the rocks. It was really dangerous and I am surprised no cars were broken.
audreyzoesch · 1 points · Posted at 03:01:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to hang out in my garage and pretend that I was a pioneer. I did a lot of fake cooking over fake campfires. My grandma also made playhouse/kitchen areas for my cousin and I in a couple of the different houses she lived in. We would make food out of mud and plants. My family really likes food 😂
theinvaderzimm · 1 points · Posted at 03:02:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
CALVIN-BALL!
jermzo · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the can. Or war with neighborhood kids with bb guns.
timthetoolmantooth · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Annie Annie Over. Normally played with a nerf ball or some sort of softer ball and a detached garage. Two teams. However many neighbor kids and cousins are present divided by 2 is the amount of players on each team.
One team starts with the ball and they yell Annie Annie Over and throw the ball to the other side. If no one on the other team catches it then the catching team throws it back over yelling Annie Annie over. If one of the people does catch the ball then their objective is to come around one of the sides of the house and throw the ball at one of the people on the other team.
Not sure how points were scored or if anyone wins but it kept us busy as hell for years.
urmotherisurdad · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shoot each other.
Yea, its self explanatory
xx_brian_xx0 · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chicken but with anything we found toys pieces of wood different sport balls you can be hit as many times but if you flinched you lost. A lot of kids were injured but no one got in trouble because if you told you faced a punishment witch was stand still facing away from us and we got to hit you any way we pleased. The game would be played at anytime. Oh do I miss the good old days. Freaking out about someone trying to hit me or actually being hit at anytime.
KianaW135 · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
During road trips my family would go through the alphabet naming as many musical artists/groups as we could in order until we couldn't think of any. Not sure we ever made it to Z (Ex. A me: Avril Lavigne mom: ABBA dad: Adam Levine then back around)
crazzydogmom · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
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humble_walker · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jousting. Family members and I used to get raging boners and charge each other in the basement. Parents too drunk to notice
Orangeraza · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were pretty poor in my neck of the woods. I had a bat from when i played tee ball. We also had a basketball but no goal to shoot at. So we started playing “baseketball”. Had all the bases and we used ghost runners since it was usually 2v2 all the time.
bearnakedrabies · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Heist...my brother and I were bored at my grandma's. We had a lot of yarn and jingle bells. The deal was you'd hang a bell from yarn across the room. 1 at a time the next person had to not ring the bells and grab something on a stool and leave without ringing a bell. Whoever had a success/fail got a point and had to beat their own system.
RogueBonsai · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Glow I the dark game. My brother had this glow in the dark wolf mask. We lived in the country so our basement would get almost pitch black. One person wears the mask and the other people have to try to hide. It's super scary. The mask gives off just enough light that the person wearing it could see a couple inches in front of them. If you saw the masked person coming, you have to try to move from your hiding spot before getting caught.
TheCrakp0t · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Risk (with Jacob)
It was the same board game, except my cousin couldn't stand to lose, and would slap us pretty hard across the face if he lost.
So we got good at making it look like he beat us without being too obvious.
simpleflareon · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Death Ball. Basically, its a trampoline game my friends played on. There is a ball that rolls around it and who ever touches it is dead. The last person remaining wins the game. That, is what I consider a true battle royal game.
Trumpious · 1 points · Posted at 03:04:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our backyard had a playset with 3 swings. One person would be the designated thrower/referee, the other 3 would swing. While swinging, you could tell the thrower "Now!" and they would toss a soccer ball near your feet. You would usually have them throw it when you were back in the swing so you could swing into the kick. There were 5 checkpoints in the yard and if the ball landed passed one of them, it was that number of points (1,2,3,4,5), similar to how there are lines on a football field. If you kicked it and it rolled all the way and hit the fence, it was 7 points, over the fence in the air was 10. First one to 30 would win so games lasted 20-30 minutes each.
sexyboobooboo · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would draw a battle scene on a sheet of paper. I would win some battles. Lose some others! Got more ideas as I grew older and then I stopped one day. Shit, I want to now make a new game.
BigmicD · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Couldn't afford live fireworks so we'd pick up used ones and put on a show by throwing them in the air while making sound effects. We called it trailer park fireworks show even though we weren't in the trailer park. Now that I've said it out loud it's even sadder than I remember.
Brutal_Noodle_Doodle · 1 points · Posted at 03:05:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
‘Garage-tag’ it what it came to be known as. One person stayed inside and counted to 30, while the others hid in the garage. On top of things, in boxes, smashed into the shelves, it didn’t matter. Once the person who was ‘it’ was done counting they walked into the garage backwards, and shut the lights off.
Let the fun begin.
We would toss dog food around to make small noises and distract the person searching if they came too close, set up booby traps, you name it. A friend of mine once just stood dead center in the garage and was never found because everyone has to navigate by the walls, lest they trip over something.
Edit: if you were about to get caught, the general rule of thumb would be to scream at them when they were close enough to smell the garlic bread in your breath.
jamarhondalol · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Elite beat agents
cotton-mongo · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
FYI: You can get stem cells from your own fat cells. No one dies!
TotoroFurry · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wenis ball. It sounds weird but me and my brother had a hallway in our house, that had two sides to it, and at the end was a drop down into either the living room or dining room. The ball looked like an American football, and bounced like a reflex ball. It was basically football but you could use roughness like you played rugby’s. You tried to score touchdowns or punts. Touch down is when you get into the opposite room, and a punt us where you throw it or kick it into the room. Touchdown worth 5 points, punt worth 2-
spencertron · 1 points · Posted at 03:08:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Converto-ball”
3 players. One thrower, one volleyer and one kicker. You need a mini soccer ball, a low wall and some outdoor space.
The thrower throws it to the volleyer, the volleyer volley-balls it to the kicker and the kicker kicks it over the wall. Then you run and go find the ball.
Here’s the exact place we played. https://imgur.com/a/BN4Ww
The finding part is more fun than it sounds because the field was full of tall wheat
diddywc · 1 points · Posted at 03:08:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take a nerf football and start from the end of the dining room. If you were on offense, the goal was to touch the ball to the three seater couch at the end of the living room. If you were on defense, you'd start off in the living room, and it was basically kill the man with the ball. Do anything you can to stop the other person from getting the ball to the couch - basically a 1-on-1 goal line stand.
witty0985 · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nutball. 2 guys stand about 15 feet apart and bounce a tennis ball at the other dudes nuts. (Fully clothed, because I know someone will ask) If he flinches, free shot with the tennis ball as hard as you can. First guy to drop to his knees loses. Played this in high school constantly.
chikoot · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two sisters and I came up with a music- themed road trip game where two of us would challenge whoever was "it" to name a song with an unusual word or phrase in it. No ad jingles allowed, had to be a legit artist song. Bonus points if you came up with a different song from the one the challenger was thinking of. If you got stumped, the challenger became "it".
I remember this one time, my youngest sister challenged me with "a burrito" and naturally I ended up giving in. She started proudly singing one of Jim Croce's hits and before I could set her straight and tell her he was singing "Operator", my middle sister pipes in to confidently correct her, stating: "Nuh-uh, he says 'arboretum'... duh!"
There I am: teenaged, incredulous at their stupidity, and all sorts of righteously indignant... meanwhile my mother (driving), had to pull the car off the road to finish laughing.
Good times!
TwilightSaiyan · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Fishing". Buddies of mine, my brother and I would throw this giant plush fish in the center of the room, jump off the couch, and fight each other for it
alephnulleris · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my siblings and I, and occasionally a friend, would go outside and pick flowers. We would then take those flowers upstairs and tie them to a string, and throw them behind our beds like we were fishing. We made up an under-the-bed monster called a “dun dun dun death” that was basically an evil rat, and pretended to try to catch them.
mckohaznj · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot Butter and Blue Beans! One person hides a belt or paddle, perhaps a spatula, while the rest would try to find it. Whomever finds the object would yell "HOT BUTTER AND BLUE BEANS!!" which would invoke terror because the person who finds it gets to run around hitting anyone with said item!!! I was one of the youngest siblings/cousin, and a girl. That war cry meant get to moms lap asap!
cam_barker_4_norris · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
See how fast you can make the white stuff come out of uncle’s pee pee
gipappep · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I play this game called Log, where you play on a bed. Since one side of the bed had pillows, and was elevated, you rolled a dice, whoever got the highest number would get to start on the pillow side. 1 person lays horizontally on the head of the bed, and the other at the end. And you just roll around and whoever rolls on top of the other first wins. You weren't allowed to use your hands, so it was really hard. So far, we've broken 2 lamps and 12 vases.
cmbugby · 1 points · Posted at 03:10:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Red Rover was huge at my house. Also PHASE 10. And don’t forget thee ubiquitous “jump off the top bunk and see if you survive “ game. Or the “someone be a lookout while I climb up the wall in the hallway” game.
Rom my personal favorite, the “let’s play spaceship while we lay on a blanket in the back of the Pinto station wagon” game. That game could only be played at night.
irew2376 · 1 points · Posted at 03:10:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn't necessarily a 'game' but I had this thought stuck in my head that I could not get out of my bed (or anyone else's bed, for that matter) if there was a number four on the clock. So if I woke up at 8:40, I would have to wait until 8:50 to get out of bed. If it was 10:04, I would wait until 10:05. It was the same for getting off or onto couches. No idea why I did that, but it lasted from when I was four or five until age eight.
moviesviewer · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my best friend and I played who can find the most alive worm game in 2nd grade
tradethatheartofgold · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would put golf balls on the trampoline and jump to dodge them form hitting our feet. We called it “dodge the asteroid.” It’s still one of my favorite things
Asking4Afren · 1 points · Posted at 03:11:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot and cold
Berkemeier · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Y’all ever hear of Zitchdog?
Ifyouaintcav · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Way late but I have to get in here
When I was in my sleep over prime (5th to 8th grade) we had a number of bracket elimination games. Losses always resulted in punishment.
Well, it so happened that my mom had a Southern themed clay pot in the basement that was large enough to sit on. Since my parents basement was limited on airflow, this became “the [fart] Pot.” Have to fart, fart in the “the pot” and put the giant coffee table book back on top to avoid hot boxing your friends.
When you put anywhere from three to five 11-14 year old boys in a confinded space with pizza and soda, and you will get enough methane to effect a regional climate.
The rules stated that if you lost a game you were to remove the book and take an inward nose drag that was at least 2 seconds long...if you lost a championship you had to take a second breath through your mouth...you know, because you had to eat shit.
Most of us are functional adults now
metalflygon08 · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Raining Rocks
We'd all grab a handful of gravel, count up "1, 2, 3" then hurl them into the air yelling "Raining Rocks!"
We were smart enough to not look up, and the gravel didn't do any damage to us, just felt nice.
Mellonhead58 · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Jimmy Neutron PC game. If you’ve played it you know the one.
flippantenthusiast11 · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Roosball”- played in a squash court. Similar rules to street handball but you can use any of the four walls and can set basketball screens on opposing players. Also, must be played in socks.
Lynzahai · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spheda....gamers know.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
RuneScape
Meillem · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother's room was in the middle of a long, straight hallway upstairs. We used to get our dad to sit/lay in his doorway where we had piled an ammunition of our entire stuffed animal collection (which was no joke). Then, we'd run back and forth down the hall as he tried to take us down with the stuffies when we passed the doorway.
dylanator87 · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother would play a game called uncle Matt and son ( my uncle was named matt) and one of us would pretend to be my uncle and the other would be the son.
yanksman88 · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad used to tell me we were going to play hide and seek when I was bugging him. Spoiler alert, he wasn't the one hiding.
molly-b-millions · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My little brother and I were born in the 80’s. Our (much older brother) was in the military during the Gulf War and our parents didn’t really hide the news from us so our games were awfully inappropriate.
We played “prisoners of war” which was like tag except the players (POWs) started up in the branches of our tree and the person who was “it” was called Saddam Hussein. The objective was to get out of the tree and past the property line without Saddam Hussein whacking you with a stick. The stick could be launched javelin style at you too and Saddam Hussein would announce “smart bomb!” It was almost impossible to win without someone getting hit so there was a lot of shrieking “sacrifice yourself!!!!” and running in the opposite direction. I can only imagine what the adults in our world thought.
Cloud_Strifu · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my country we could buy tiny boxes of mini Pokémon figures. They’re mostly made of rubber or something. The vendor was a guy that stayed outside of our primary school pretty much everyday after school. So basically the aim of the game was to start one foot away from each other and drop the Pokemon on the floor. Then the trainer can take turns throwing the Pokemon at the other one hoping to hit it. Hitting it meant you won and got to take one of their Pokemon. Another version of it, rather than hitting the Pokemon instead you’d want to be close enough to the Pokemon that your thumb and pinky can touch both Pokemon. It was a pretty cool game that me and my entire school did. I had 2 tupperwares worth of pokemon
buildingonadream · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would convince my next door neighbor bestie that I knew how to make face masks. We would mix up All Kinds of random crap in her kitchen and do "masks".
JonnyTsunami135 · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
paragon
KaoticShadow · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game like cops and robbers, but the cops got bikes and were a smaller crew. We all knew the neighborhood fairly well so we would set boundaries. Bike crew couldn't get off the bikes unless they had biked into a park or something and couldn't get to where you were on one. Everyone else had either rollerblades or just ran.
It's crazy to think about how much distance we covered in such short periods of time. The whole game would last a few hours while everyone got caught. AFter the first hour, the guys not on bikes would have a hard time running another couple kms so it wasn't so bad haha
nopesff · 1 points · Posted at 03:14:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Doctor “😏
chasegg · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For the life of me I can’t remember how this started, but every time my Mom would curse (fuck, shit, etc...) my Sister and I got to yell “Shitfire!”, at the top of our lungs whenever we wanted once and then it was used up until she cursed in front of us again. Some of the funniest results = Scared some mall cops with it, yelled it from the car window at a passing rollerblader who turned back to look and then lost balance and fell, yelled it at a stop light at the next car over who was obnoxiously playing loud music.
Abiknits · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huckle buckle beanstalk, goes back a few generation, nobody else that I know has heard of it...
So the premise of the game is that someone gets chosen to hide a thimble (could be another small object, but for us it was my great grandmother's thimble), everyone else leaves the room, and there thimble is hidden... You can put it anywhere, but it must be in plain sight, not underneath something, or in a drawer or anything like that. Once the thimble is hidden everyone comes back and starts looking.
After you've spotted the thimble it's best to be kind of non challant about it and pretend to keep looking, then you sing huckle buckle beanstalk... And sit down. Everyone keeps looking until everyone has found it.... Hints can be given, warmer/colder. The first person to find the thimble gets to be the hider on the next round.
I was super bummed that my little brother got the huckle buckle beanstalk thimble after my grandmother passed.
lexi8251 · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played a game called sticks. Where we would go on a walk in each of us would pick up a stick. Then we will put hit each other’s sticks with our own stick. Whoever’s stick broke first, lost. The winner was king of the sticks. My sister always lost this game. Until one day she won. She brought the Winning stick all the way home. I convinced her to let me hold it after much begging. Then, I promptly broke the stick over my knee. She cried. I was 26. She was 22. If you’re reading this. Sorry Kate.
DirtyMoney6OH · 1 points · Posted at 03:15:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor
twistedtank · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Got it, dropped it.
Everyone would lay belly down on the park merry-go-round with our heads and arms hanging over the edge. We would usually use someone's shoe or a old can and we would take turns picking up and dropping said item while spinning in circles and yelling "got it" or "dropped it". There was no point to the game but it was fun. Things were so much simpler before we all got online game systems and phones.
iampawankr · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I miss my childhood days when i was very fond of playing games in PlayStation 2 and 3
The games were awesome one of my favourite game was GTA(Grand Theft Auto)
OneTouchOneBounce · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game that we called "apple wars"
I lived on a large plot of land that consisted mostly of fields. To begin we designated two teams, each team was comprised of a four wheeler with an attached trailer. For each team there was a driver on the four wheeler and one to two "throwers" in the trailer. Everyone wore helmets (not all of them had face protection, it was first come first serve) and the people in the trailer often scavenged pillows as makeshift shields . When the game began, we would drive to the nearest apple tree at the edge of the field (while maintaining a safe distance from the other team) and shake the crap out of the tree to try get as many apples to fall into the trailer as our "ammunition". Once the trailer was full, or the other team began to approach, everyone manned their positions and the war began. Both teams blasted around the field frantically trying to get the better angle. The driver's sole job was to maneuver the vehicle to try and give the throwers a target, while trying to dodge the incoming apples. The throwers on the other hand would absolutely pelt their friends on the other team with apples. This lead to some pretty cool long shots, chases, drive-bys and moments where the driver was left completely vulnerable, with the throwers in the trailer hiding behind their garbage couch cushions. Each team had to keep an eye on their ammunition, or risk getting caught empty handed. The game never had breaks, and each team would have to refill at apple trees on the fly. The game went on until either everyone was too sore to continue, or just too tired. In all my time of playing apple wars, no one ever got injured, other than a few bruises. Either way it was some of the most fun I've ever had.
alloutofbubblegum00 · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from “daddy”
truth_seeker6 · 1 points · Posted at 03:16:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Butt ball. Played during 5, 6, & 7th grades. Basically one person in a group of friends throws a racquetball (or tennis ball if you're feeling particularly sadistic) against a wall. When it comes back, you have to catch it using one hand if it comes towards you or in your vicinity. You have one bounce. No running away from it or your "up."
If you try to avoid catching it or miss it, then you're "up" and have to go and kneel in a prostrate position as small as you can against the wall, i.e., make your butt (the target) as small as possible.
Then, everyone else stands at about foul-line distance and gets to throw that ball as hard as possible at your ass.
I think it's this game which is why I'm such a great catch. And I have the welts on my ass to prove it.
staywoke_5739 · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alright so a little background I grew up in rural northwest Pennsylvania. The first "game" I can remember was called kids out alone , me and my two cousins would spend pretty much every day in the woods pretending we were orphans living in the forest. Not really a game but we called it that for some reason lol I think it was influenced by the box car kids books. Then fast forward to boy scouts and we would have "stick wars" were we would go into the woods in two separate five to eight man teams and literally just hurl sticks at each other in a mock battle until one side gave up or was outnumbered due to injury. Idk how this was allowed to happen and I can't believe no one was permanently blinded or maimed haha it was finally outlawed when a kid took the sharp end of a stick to the mouth and peirced his lip. Pre teen boys are savage af what can I say. Then we had BB gun wars with the "one pump" rule cause ya know... saftey. Then we got a paintball gun and had a game called fugitive were everyone had paintball guns except the fugitive who got a five minute head start into the woods and had to "escape" back to base. This was usually played in the dark but sometimes during daylight. I could go on but you get the idea. Kids are rough if you're gonna be dumb you gotta be tough.
Frank_Hard-On · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I had an ongoing imaginary game that went on for years. We were each super heros I had the power of fire and he had the power of ice. We decided that red jewels/crystals/glass/basically anything remotely cool and also red represented my power and anything blue represented my brothers power. The idea was to collect as many of these things as we could to "power up" so we could fight each other in an epic showdown. We would walk around the jewlery section of the mall pointing at various rings and necklaces and saying "I call that one" for multiple years for a showdown that never came
Sjh145 · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Larry the Lounge Lizard. At age 8.
slightHiker · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played “dip to the golden rod” so we were all huge gamers in highscool. So naturally we stayed up late and gamed hard. My friends live all in the same neighborhood and the same street lol but a few blocks apart. We would bounce back and fourth between the three houses. But this one friend had the setup for us lol, the finished basement with surround sound, all the game systems, fridge, couches, chairs, bathroom, and it was a circle. So three rooms and lead into another one in a big circle. etc etc the works. So we stayed over there a lot, during the dry period of gaming or overload of gaming. We would take a break and play dip to the golden rod. The basically took a glow in the dark sleeve for the WII remote. And one person was to place the remote sleeve somewhere in this basement. This person was the “it” person, the rest would be on the stairs waiting. You could only see a very very very small part of the baseman’s from the stairs. So after the “it” person places this golden road. We turned off the lights to make it pitch black in the basement, even filled in the windows with pillows or blankets. The people on the stairs had a mission then. It was to get the golden road back to the stairs, without being tackled by the “it” person lol. Once you’re tackled and held for Three seconds you’re out. This fucking game was so much fun, other kids in the neighborhood heard about it and wanted to come over and play lol. Eventually had like 10 kids in the basement playing this game every weekend lol the person who got it back to top of the stairs was now the it person for the next round. I miss those simple times
schoolboyp22 · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Grandpa’s Knife”. We had two teams stand on opposite sides of the yard and we chucked an old rusty fillet knife into the air at the other team and tried to stay still for as long as you could. Very similar to arrow roulette. No winners, only losers.
KevinAnniPadda · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Alley Oop! It's basketball, but you can't touch the ball and the ground at the same time.
bobatsfight · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play a game called Beckons Wanted. Which after a google search says it exists but doesn’t explain the rules.
So this is from memory from 25 years ago.
One person or a small team is “It” or the guard and the game would start like hide and seek. Except we’d play across an entire suburban block. The guard counts and all the prisoners would run away and hide.
The guards would go look for the prisoners and sometimes we’d play “I see (persons name)” or tag them and they would be caught. That person would then be escorted back to jail.
When the prisoner gets back to jail they start shouting “Beckons wanted”! Luring other escaped prisoners to set them free.
An escapee would then be motivated to tag the person in jail. The prisoner would look for someone on their team to come back to base. They would then “beckon” them if the coast was clear.
If the guards catch all the escaped prisoners they win. If they give up, the prisoners win.
In hindsight it was a very broken game and easy to cheat. But we played it a lot over many summers.
KeepItM3ll0 · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played pokemon red fire when i was 5 that was when i fell in love with pokemon right there and then
PenguinoCon · 1 points · Posted at 03:18:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in the car I'd add up the numbers on the display and see if I could make them end in a 5 or a 0. If the number was over a threshold of 5 or 0 I couldn't subtract below that. (E.g. 8 can't go below 5 ). I was bored in the car a lot
olsSpunky · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In Junior School we had a game called 'Grab a cock and pull it ' . Took it in turns with the girls chasing each other round the a playground. Obviously us boys didn't have much to grab of the girls anatomy but it was fun trying. We still cringe about it 40 years later
hestiens · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game we simply called "shoe fling." We'd get going really high on the swings at the park, and then see who could fling their shoe the farthest. We always had to wear shoes with laces -- no fair if one of us was wearing slip-ons. Part of the game was being able to get the shoe off your foot and in flinging position without dropping it, all while swinging.
After we got really good, we set up targets to hit. Had a few close calls with almost hitting other folks at the park, but that never deterred us.
RomanLamb · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Used to play a game called "Forrest." I would stand in a field with my brothers on both sides and shout "RUN, FORREST, RUN!" over and over again while they ran.
_Lotte__ · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lost the game
xenodrone · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Early nineties games (ie not safe/PC):
Smear The Queer (I know right?) I think this was widespread, but if you aren’t familiar, from what I recall of playing with the older kids at the age of 6... everyone stood in a group and threw a football up in the air. For some (unknown and psychotic reason which you’ll soon see) everyone tried to catch the ball. By catching the ball, one became “the queer” and everyone would scream “smear the queer!!!” And proceed to chase and tackle the person with the ball until everyone involved was piled on top. I assumed the queer would then throw the ball for the next round.
I never caught or wanted to catch the ball. Even at 6, this seemed like a terrible and terrifying game.
Close Call (I think this may have been localized and invented in my neighborhood): We would ride our bikes in circles up and down the street and try to get as close as possible to the back tire of someone else, and bump tires without crashing. When contact was made, the person in the rear would say “close call!”
Some other games that my brother and I created:
Big Bad Wolf: This is actually a really good game, especially with a group of younger, preteen kids. Think Hide-and-seek except whoever is “It” aka the wolf, hides. Also it’s a night game only. This game needs the darkness in order to be enjoyed as intended. The group, or little pigs after giving time for the wolf to hide, begin chanting “who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf. Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf.” As they wander around in the darkness trying to prove to themselves that they aren’t afraid of the wolf. As time passes and when exploring the dark corners of the play area, the true motive of the game is realized as the “little pigs” grow increasingly anxious, the fear drawing the group closer and closer together, their voices quivering more and more as they peer around each new corner until they pass close enough to the wolf that he springs out with a growl and grabs the nearest little pig as they scatter back to base. The wolf doesn’t give much chase and typically only grabs one little pig. Once the remaining pigs are back to the base, the wolf and captured pigs (who are now wolves) hide again and the game continues until their are no more little pigs left. I remember the growing anticipation/fear of the wolf’s surprise becoming increasingly exhilarating as the number of little pigs dwindled one by one. It’s basically a game of jump scares. You know it’s coming, but not when or from where.
The last that I’ll mention was one of my favorites. It was called ManHunt. I don’t really know if my brother actually liked this game or if he would just humor me when I wanted to play it. It’s good for two-three players and several, preferably wooded acres of land, and lots of time. One person “hides”, though not in one spot and the other person(or two) try to find them and prevent them from reaching a specified area. The hunted person is basically just on the run through the wilderness. There’s basically no boundaries. Take the longest route possible, through the thickest most difficult terrain available. The Hunter would take the high ground and use the Hunted’s absence as an opportunity to get into a position to ambush the Hunted when they emerged and made a break for the safety zone. If I recall correctly, the Hunter didn’t necessarily have to physically catch the Hunted, just spot him and be in close proximity. This game was heavily inspired by films such as The Fugitive and Rambo. And is probably more fun as the Hunted, if you want to practice moving through different wooded areas while avoiding detection at all costs. I would usually be pretty dirty and bloody by the end of the round.
After writing all of this I realized I haven’t read any other comments yet. I hope I read the question right and this is what we’re doing lol.
crafty_scorpio86 · 1 points · Posted at 03:19:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our game was "slasher flick" we all had paper bits in a hat we all had to draw. One paper said "killer" and rest rest were "victim" no one could say what they were then we all shut the lights off and hide. Then the person who was the killer had to find us. If the killer tagged you you had to lie down and wait out the game. Last person found was the winner. We were ten when we came up with this. Clearly watched too many horror movies
floorboard715 · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle goober (strange name i know) would always want to play a game called snuggle monster at night when i stayed over. Idk but he changed the name to tummy sticks years later. After that it was hide the weenie, something about it would help me poop after bigger adult meals. He wad a weird guy
Stefairyy · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This wasn’t my game but one passed onto me from a friend. We were also teens - it was called Where You At. You needed at least three cars to play. One car would go hide at a spot in town and text 2 or 3 clues about the location to the other two cars. Then you would have to try to drive and find the hidden car.
Another dumb game we started playing as teens we called Walmart - basically you just play it while hanging out or driving around. There are two rules. You can’t say anyone’s name and you can’t curse, if you do (and someone catches you) you call Walmart. At the beginning of the game it’s decided how many Walmart’s you have (or really chances) really hard to remember if you are playing this for hours along side drinking or what have you. The very first time we played the prize was chicken nuggets. Every now and then we play Walmart for old times sake
cookiepockets82 · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play a game called "Look, a bus". The whole point of the game was to be the first to shout "look a bus" when you saw a bus. No one kept score, ever.
pedun42 · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I invented a game called "Bitch" when I was maybe 12 and he was 10.
In my basement, we had a dart board on the wall nearby the pool table. Each player would get one dart and jog around the pool table and throw it while rounding the final corner toward the dart board. You continued jogging towards the dart you threw and grabbed it out of the board (or wall) to then start another lap around the pool table. While you were getting just out of the way, the other player was doing the same thing, and making a running throw at the board while you were just getting out of the way.
Essentially, the game was running in circles while throwing darts near the other person. It was called "Bitch" because after every throw, you had to say "Bitch" after every throw. Usually in an exasperated tone if you got the wall or didn't get a bullseye, but you would shout "Bitch!" excitedly if you did somehow managed to get a bullseye. You would then keep track of how many bitches you got.
We invented this game at like 3 in the morning and played for hours because we had way too much energy and thought swearing was the funniest thing. There were multiple times when a dart flew inches from my head. Super fun.
Math-Is-Nice · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a lot of quests. I distinctly remember collecting Star Bits but they were wooden pieces of a puzzle and we were saving the sun and earth. Our older cousin helped and indulged our imaginations. I know this was pretty common but it was so much fun.
tycon48 · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was my name tag i was always it even if i tagged my brother wait that might have just been teasing me not a game
Itsgingerbitch · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play “Survivor”. Our airplane crash landed in the back yard and we had to build shelter and collect food and stay alive. I think our young brains got the TV shows “Lost” and “Survivor” confused with each other.
TrappyBronson · 1 points · Posted at 03:21:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid my friends and I made up a game called “waist or higher”. Basically we put 3-4 soccer balls/dodgeballs on a trampoline and the only rule was that you couldn’t get touched by a ball above the waist or else you were “out” and had to go run around the yard 5 times. Although we couldn’t throw the balls at each other because that would have violated the rule, we could, and did, kick them at each other as hard as possible. We spent hours playing this game and it was honestly one of the most memorable parts of my childhood. I miss those days.
Kayaian · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my uncle played this one game that was fun. He said nobody else could play tho
ohlawdjesus123 · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in a car I would blink my eyes every time I thought the car fit between pavement crack lines that went across the road.
apparentlyimaj · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
so basically my uncle taught me this game called switch....
PoorZushi · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't play it as kids, but in recent years my friends and I made up a road trip game called "Damn, Daniel!" after that stupid video from a few years back. Basically, we try to notice white vans before the others, declaring "Damn, Daniel!" when you do. When you reach three wothout your atreak being interrupted, you declare "Back at it again with the white vans!" and receive a point. It's so dumb, but we have, like, official rules typed up and everything.
deadtornado · 1 points · Posted at 03:22:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sorry, this one is kind of long. Okay. I have a story with this one, and it still annoys me to this day. In 5th grade, me and my group of friends wanted to find something to do at recess. We wanted a new game. So one day, we came up with this one game. We called it “Knife Party”. All of us (at first 5/6 people) would stand in a circle, decently spaced apart. Then, on a count of 3, we would all run at each other and “cut” each other’s arms and legs off. To do that, you just run up to them and pretend to slice at one of their arms or legs. When you lose an arm or leg, you can no longer use that. So if someone sliced at my right arm (not with any real knives, just to clarify) then I wouldn’t be able to use it. You cannot kill someone (again, pretending) until both of their arms and legs are gone. Eventually this one kid made paper knifes for everyone, but there were no sharp edges or anything, so it can’t hurt anyone unless you use too much force or something and end up punching them by accident. By this time we had about 10-15 kids who would do it every day with us. Okay. I can kind of see why this next thing happened, but their reasoning was just stupid. The recess duties told us that we had to stop playing this game, because it was violent. But not only that. They said this. And this is basically their exact words. “This game is violent, and if you keep playing it, one day you’ll start using real knives and then people will get hurt and die. Then one day you’ll all become murderers and look for people to just go kill and you’ll go to jail.” That was their reasoning. Then after that, they watched our friend group really really closely for the rest of 5th and 6th grade. They literally banned every game we played. Knife Party. Cops and Robbers. Infection. Some other game like infection but different with our own rules. Literally everything. So then recess was super boring and we would all just walk around looking depressed and trying to find a new game they wouldn’t ban, or tying to figure out how to do it secretly. Now I hate recess... Once I got to middle school I was glad I didn’t have recess anymore.
I’ll stop there. Thanks for taking time to read this, sorry it’s long.
Grandruminator · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from uncle Jerry is the one that sticks out to me most. You said unique.
upinflamezzz · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'd like to know if others played Rileo. Basically it was a game like catchers, but when you caught someone you had to hold onto them long enough to say "rileo rileo two fives make ten" If you did this you could then escort them to a designated area where people who were caught are placed. They can leave until someone else who is not caught reaches the box and frees everyone.
We also had a game like catchers where if you tagged someone they were it also and you would just continue on until everyone was caught.
shirokira1313 · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day mah nibba
oof-saurus · 1 points · Posted at 03:23:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would sit on the top of the stairs and throw a plastic ball down. Whoever got it to land on the rug wins.
bibliophox · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play ‘bonfire.’ To play, I’d pile everything I was strong enough to move in the middle of my bedroom— all my books, toys, clothes, linens, and then dance around it like a fiend. Pissed my mom off to no end. Good times!
jonasrohde · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game called holleta(hold-and-tag). It was a game we used to play inbetween classes when i was small. Basicly you had to sides - safezones, and between them theres a big field. One unlucky person start in the field while everyone Else is spread between the safezones. The people in the safezones then have to run across the field without getting tagged. The rules for tagging is as follows Taggers in the field 1= normal tag - touching a person and yelling tag 2= both people have to touch the person they want to tag
I dont want to explain All the rules, theres so many. This game is very old, and it is kindoff my schools traditional game. Some of my friends parents remember it from when they where Young at my school. Anyway it was a very violent game and there where frequent injuries.
dunder-throwaway · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a few:
Scorpion - A pool game where one kid sits on a pool noodle, paddles around the pool, and tries to "sting" other swimmers with the end of it. Whoever gets stung has to get on the noodle with them until all kids are on the noodle. Last person to get stung wins/is the next scorpion.
Man Overboard - Another pool game. Everyone gets on a pool raft. Then everyone flails around until they fall off the raft. Then everyone has to get back on the raft. Basically you have to hold competing goals of getting everyone on the raft and also trying to make it difficult to get on the raft. Everyone wins if everyone laughs.
Grass vs. Concrete - We had a big yard and big driveway which helps for this game. Everyone splits up into teams (Grass or Concrete). You are safe in your own territory (Grass or Concrete). If you go into enemy territory, you can be tagged, and then you are on the other team. The game is over when everyone is on one side. Winner being the last one tagged. There is an understanding that you have to go over to the other side to make yourself vulnerable (otherwise the game is an automatic stalemate). It's sort of a taunting thing. Also, it's totally ok to grab someone and pull them to your side if they are close to the line. As long as your feet don't touch their territory, you're good.
Mufasa - This is similar to man overboard. You need a jungle gym with a slide. A whole playground is nice. Start with a classic game of ground-is-lava. Then when you're safe in the jungle gym, someone "falls" down the slide - inches from the lava. You struggle to pull them up. Then when they are almost to the top, you grab their hands, whisper menacingly, "Long live Mufasa!" and pull their hands off the slide, causing them to slip down to the bottom of the slide. This repeats until the game is over. The game is over when someone starts playing a different game.
One of my favorite memories though is of an afternoon that my dad came home from work and told all the kids to come outside. He took us to the garage where we each selected a "bat" of some kind (actual bats, golf clubs, homemade lightsabers), collected all the balls (basketballs, dodgeballs, beachballs), and brought them all out to the front yard. There we split up into teams and tried to knock the balls past the opposing team. Any ball to get past the other team was a point. That was a great afternoon.
meghan1022 · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a small Forest of Bamboo in our back yard. Walking through the opening of that was like stepping into a different world. We would play all your known games like hide and seek, tag, etc. But we always would pretend like we were somewhere else. It was quite magical as a child
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shit I mean there is a lot that I used to play with my brothers. Most of them violent. Here I'll just list them off (Btw these stories are all with my brothers)
me and my brothers would set up a mattress and a bunch of pillows at the bottom of the stairs, then one of us would get in this laundry and basket and the ones at the top would push the basket down the stairs.
We had this footrest that opened up for storage and someone would get in and the other two would stack as many blankets and pillows on top of it and try to trap them in.
We had a trampoline with a net that lasted like a year because we would abuse the net so much. We would throw eachother at the net, dropkick eachother, get into fist fights, one time my brother tried to bring a belt onto the trampoline to whip me and my other brother and the belt buckle ripped a hole in the trampoline.
We had 3 big trees in our backyard where all the branches are really high up, one day i decided to take a rope and swing it up on a branch. I tied this piece of wood to it and we would get on the swing and then push ourselves off of the tree and swing around the tree. On the other side was a fence so we would swing around to the other side and stand on the fence until we jumped off and swung to the other side.
Just fighting, like whenever we were bored. I would walk into my brother's room and start wrestling with him. Sometimes when we were really bored we would try to choke eachother out or fill the sink with water and drown eachother. Or throw chairs, lamps, logs of wood, pretty much anything that you would see in a movie fight scene we would try to hit the other person with. When we got a dog we would try and get the dog to bite whoever you were fighting by giving her treats. The crazy part is that after we would be totally cool and just go back to what we were doing. Like I wouldn't even be mad if my brother just walked in and threw a chair at me or tried to whip me with a belt.
On long car rides we would just punch eachother repeatedly in the arm to see who would pussy out first.
We had this one really narrow hallway in our basement and we would try to get the other person up against the wall on their side and someone else would put their back up against them and their legs on the wall to pin them and see if they could still breathe after a long time like that.
We played this game where one person would put a bunch of blankets on their head and charge at everyone else. That game ended pretty fast after we ran into a couple of walls.
I don't know if you would call this a game but me and my brother's started this thing called "fire club" where when my parents weren't home we would bring a metal garbage can lid inside and start fires with whatever we could.
We would turn off all the light in the basement and set up obstacles and two people would hide while the other one would in with a flashlight. The people hiding would try to jump out and pin the guy with the flashlight and they would start suffocating them with a pillow.
For all these games anyone could say stop at any time and we would stop. It's like the universal rule for all the games.
Lynb3rg · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took the base idea from Venture Bros.... Except we have since added horses.
So... whenever you pass cows (must be on the side you're riding on), you call "COWS!" And then count as many as you can. Those are your standing "cow points". Any horses you pass save your cows in the event you have a cemetery that is called out on you (also on the respective side you are riding on). So say you have 4 cows and 3 horses, 3 horses will sacrifice themselves to save your cows, so you would still have 3 cows and 0 horses after passing a cemetery. All horses at the end of the game (end of the car trip) are added into your cow count. I also love the idea of "immortal cows" when you pass a statue ...this will be added to our rules.
SirJoshua · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a house that was once a bottom / top duplex. My brother and I had the top "house" kitchen / dinning room as our bed room. This resulted in a small space for sleeping and a hella large space for playing. We had an abundance of space for play. We would set up an Americana gladiator's obstacle course with nerf guns. It was the game where you went from barricade to barricade trying to hit the bulls-eye. It was fairly awesome and decently accurate.
Jinkies238 · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super chicken. When I was best friends with my neighbor, each of us would take turns lying on our stomachs on a skateboard with our arms straight out. The goal was to push the other person as hard as we could down a hill. Surprised we didn’t get hurt😂
IdahoElkHunter · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called Blammit. All the boys in our subdivision had toy guns and camo. You had to sneak around the very wooded subdivision and find the other boys without them seeing you. Once you saw another kid, you yelled BLAMMIT [boy's name] and he had to sit and count to 100. Then he could respawn and continue playing.
These games would literally go for 12 or more hours. We were ruthless and very crafty with our hiding and stalking skills. This kid named John was fucking legend at it. He ended up joining the Marines and of course, he made it back home after he went to real war. Because we prepared him very well.
I'm 49 now and I would give my right arm to play Blammit with my buddies again. Todd, Kris (RIP), Fish, Bobby, and John, my hero and defeater of fucking CANCER, this is Danny. Thanks for the memories guys!
FnacyPant · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played real life mine craft hunger games with the foam swords.
stevovon · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school we played what was essentially infection tag, but we called it Rabie Man. Good times:)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:25:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Welllll since you asked... When I was probably 10 and my sister was 6, I came up with a game called, "Houdini." This game consisted of me binding my sister with jump ropes (hands,feet, arms to body, etc), fastening a tie/scarf around her eyes and mouth, covering her like a burrito with blankets and then I would put her in a closet to "escape" like Houdini and just leave her be while I did something else 😂 To this day she remembers this so well hahaha
Also invented my own cooking show with her as my guest taste tester. After it would rain, we would go play outside and I'd mix grass, leaves, berries from bushes, bugs and dirt into puddle on the ground with my handy-dandy stirring twig and she would have to eat it. I eventually, as an adult, attended culinary school for a few years. So, thanks little sis!
I'm not sure if I was a childhood sadist or if my ideas were just very unique and created from ignorance but I now,at 24, feel for my poor sister 😅
Next-UP · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Garage ball- when it was to cold or rainy to play basketball outside we would play in our garage . We had 2 wooden pieces opposite of each other running the entire width of the garage that served as great goals... no need for an accurate jumper but definitely needed to have some great defense and handles to get the edge in such a confined space.... They were just low enough to dunk on too. RIP to a couple of fluorescent overhead lights
Man we had some battles.
sudo_systemctl · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fuck, I just lost the game
bobatsfight · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friend (both prepubescent boys) would play a make believe game called “Princesses” and we would choose abilities that we could do based on Ninja Turtles and Super Mario and any other cartoon that was popular. We would create these epic multi-staged battles with different villains and come up with creative ways to defeat them.
The objective was to save the “Princesses” or April O’Neil or any cute cartoon character so we could make out with them as a reward for saving them.
I swear I’m not an incel. Just a product of pop culture and video games. This is all pretty embarrassing to think of now.
sherlock605 · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find the pickle with my uncle
LoveJimDandy · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn't unique, but it was Hang On, Sega Genesis and it was awesome.
sophisticatednewborn · 1 points · Posted at 03:26:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hours too late, but I just lost the game...
ryantexas30 · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
“The season”. An American Football game for two brothers who can’t find anyone to play against.
You pick a team you want to be and take on their season or create a customized season for that team.
You will be playing as that team playing against their opponents in a hope to play in a bowl game or a playoff or championship.
As an example You would be Ohio State playing their schedule in hopes of a national championship. OR in another season you could be Northwestern playing their schedule in hopes of a sweet bowl game.
The field is usually as long as the strongest thrower can throw
Depending on the difficulty of the opponent you and your teammate get a certain amount of throws to make it to the end zone and the amount of time the quarterback gets to make the throw...End zone equals a win. Running out of throws to get into the end zone equals a loss.
With a good team you might get 3 throws. Bad team 7 throws. Championship 2 throws.
When you catch the ball you are down.
Quarterback gets a certain amount of seconds to throw (maybe 3 with a good team and 5 with a bad team.
The wide receiver can only run the same route once per game.
If one player starts the game as a quarterback he must finish the game as a quarterback.
At the end of the season you total up your wins and decide if you make it to a bowl game, playoff, and championship.
A whole season can be done in 30-45 minutes!
head-of-cabbage · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The “breaking kneecaps” game
MrFrostyTips · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers, cousins and friends all had our own neighbourhood racetrack memorized entirely in our heads. Used to have crazy races and good laughs on that track.
i_said_no_mayonnaise · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin would make scavenger hunts for me. The first clue was directly handed to me and hinted at the location of clue 2. “Look in a place where cold becomes hot.”=microwave/oven.
Hayduke_in_AK · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is is going to be super buried as I'm late to the party. In 5th grade one of my friends invented a game called "sex tag". He was always it and would chase us around. If you were tagged he would dry hump you on the ground. I was the fat slow kid so often I was the humpee. It all ended when the principal caught wind and pulled us all in to explain why it was a bad idea.
I often wonder two things:
1) Did my friends realize at the time they wouldn't have to be humped and were only in it for laughs of me being humped?
2) What the fuck was going on in that kids home?
sleazo83 · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My priest told me to keep it a secret
Kingofslush721 · 1 points · Posted at 03:28:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Israeli candy digging was a favorite at camp, we had an Israeli councilor and apparently he played it back home, the idea was to put two pieces of candy under two piles of flour and two kids would put their arms behind their back and use their face to brush away the flour, whoever did it first got the candy.
HotMessTress · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Myself, two siblings and cousin played “cat hunter” game. We would wander around our neighborhood (and other neighborhoods) hunting for cats to catch. When we would catch a cat we would pick them up and whisper in their ear “you have been caught by the cat hunters, you are now on parole” then put the cat back down. 1 point per cat you caught. 2 points for hard to catch cats. There is no lengths we wouldn’t go to catch a cat, running thru yards, climbing fences or trees. When we saw a cat we had already caught we would tell each other “that ones already on parole”. Looking back people must have thought we were a strange bunch picking up cats and whispering to them then putting them back down.
ODB2 · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I would get in cardboard boxes or plastic laundry hampers and ride them down the stairs.
Sirgit · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja Crusaders. I thought this game was this shiz. Ninja's that transformed into scorpions/tigers/eagles, etc. If you played 2 players, the other player could ride a top you as an eagle.
robotchickenking · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
toxic wastehouse.
a game me and a group of friends made up when we were 9, we had a huge ass dollhouse and had dinosaurs who lived in it, and the goal was to kill as many mutant ladybugs as possible. we had an interesting imagination
SmartRisk · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure it was unique but I had these tiny plastic green soldiers (like the ones on Toy Story) and I'd create two armies hiding on chairs, behind table legs, and so forth ... then I'd have 10-20 rubber bands and I'd start with one army and I'd shoot the rubber bands trying to knock over (kill) the soldiers of the other army ... then I'd go to the other side, collect the rubber bands, and try to shoot the army I had started with... used to play for hours.
FutbolGT · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it Alien Invasion!
It was basically hide and go seek + tag in the dark but we went all out. The play area spanned half of our suburban cul-de-sac (9-10 yards, front and back) and we often had 8-10 kids (or more!) playing. Everyone dressed in dark clothes and camouflage too.
So one person started out as the alien and was "it". Everyone else hid. If the person who was "it" found you and was able to tag you, you became an alien too. So as the game went on, more and more people were "it" and hunting for the remaining kids. But since they had to tag you, sometimes you could get away and re-hide. As multiple people became aliens, they'd often have to work together to tag the older, faster kids by surrounding them and cutting off all paths to escape.
Also, you were aloud to change hiding spots whenever you wanted so people would be sneaking around and trying to relocate into yards they knew the alien had already searched. But it got tricky as things went on because you could lose track of what other kids had been tagged and you had to figure out who you could trust.
Everyone kind of developed their own strategies. Some kids tried to find a really good hiding spot and never move from that location. Other kids were basically on the go constantly and never actually hid. They were just sneaking around the entire play area. Sometimes the group of aliens would work together to find remaining kids. Other times they would fan out to cover more ground at once and to be more likely to spot someone trying to change locations.
Thankfully, all of the various neighbors who lived in the play area were very understanding of us kids running and sneaking through their yards at night. Looking back, sometimes I can't believe they were all encouraging of our game! Even those neighbors who didn't have kids were cool with it.
FabregDrek · 1 points · Posted at 03:30:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A weird hide and seek and you're it combination while we jumped on top of a stone maze on a little playzone the thing wasnt that tall jus 2 or 3 walls over 2 meters.
Looking back we were lucky only one of us falled head first in the spawn of 9 years.
MayerVirono · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad play hide and seek but turns out he is a really good hider
nollie_shuv · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably the #1 game was always: What small target can we agree on as the target and then nail that sucker with a rock? It was playable almost anywhere and we mainly picked inoccious targets.
willywolfa · 1 points · Posted at 03:31:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings turn our bike upside-down and act like it was an ice cream shop.
fanfareoflights · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
in cars, I would press my butt into the seat trying to time car spaces between power lines and fit as many as possible as evenly as possible
The_Woman_in_Blue · 1 points · Posted at 03:32:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my house we had “running around ball tag”. My dad, brother, and I used to play it. There were two balls, and if you were hit by one, you were essentially “it”, except both balls functioned separately iirc, so you could have one “it” person with both balls or two “it” people with one ball each. You didn’t really win, the game usually ended when someone either got hit too hard or we got tired, But the goal was to not be “it”, so as soon as you got hit you had to pick up the ball and try to hit someone else.
This was especially fun because our house was two floors, quite big horizontally, with two stair cases sort of at each end and plenty of rooms with multiple doors. So it was very conducive to continuous chases. And the downstairs rooms with only one door (of which there were several) functioned as safe zones, although any part of your body outside the doorframe was vulnerable. Basically you could stay in the room and be safe, but that was kinda lame and boring so after a while we’d always make a mad dash across or down the hall to another room, or up the stairs.
Also, when we first started playing the game we started with a couple blow up pool toy balls, but because of how abused they got in this game, by the time we last played they were just dense masses of bubble wrap and masking tape with the broken remnants of blow up pool toys at the center lol.
wordsdear · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would hide the house key somewhere in the backyard and lock them out until they found it. We could only mime hints
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[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbors and I would play “Scream.” We basically re-enacted the movie scream and would take turns murdering each other.
meeanne · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Delias catalogue would arrive for my cousin, then we'd go through every item (like the same shirt down in 5 different colors) and pick our favorite (favorite color of each item, then our favorite item from the page, and then our favorite item from the double-page spread.
Twilium · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in Mexico and we used to play a game we called “Changalalai”. Basically you’d have two wooden sticks. One short, one long and a hole on the ground. Two teams. I don’t exactly remember all of the rules since it was about 20 years ago, but you’d place the short stick in the hole and by using different positions, you’d use the long stick to send the short one flying. Then you’d measure how far it went with the long stick. If someone who played can brush up on the rules it would be awesome! Anyway, it was so fun and always had a blast with the kids in the neighborhood.
Boopable_Snootable · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretending to be a robot that has impersonated the real me and trying not to get caught by my parents. I would knock on the walls to change my battery at my back and whisper codes to the wall.
ZukosTeaShop · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gowling. Bowling, but done by putting a golfball into upside down tees
mess_fairy · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Don't touch baby poo colour". It was basically a game of getting across the room without touching the floor. But the carpet was a horrible mustard colour, we had once heard described as baby poo colour.
Catman7712 · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
joigzues · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Blood knuckles
fixieGoon · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lawn darts...but as a contact sport.
f1shslayer · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we called our "unique game" a smoke circle
StereoTypicalSean · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Goccer(Golf Soccer) - 1 Soccer Ball, 2 Holes
Jasumar · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sly 3. I had all the trophys for the game on ps3.
Ferggzilla · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Peg”
It’s like dodgeball on a trampoline. One person is the thrower and is not on the trampoline. The other people get in the trampoline and try to not get “pegged” with the ball. I can’t recall all the specific rules but basically you tried not getting hit or try to catch the ball. Last man standing wins.
Lanamuc · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
RUNESCAPE!
cwhiite · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play “tag with the tennis ball”, often on rollerblades around my one friend’s circular neighborhood. It was pretty fun until you got nailed with the ball and ate shit rollerblading lol.
raider0025 · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Army men war. Take a few handfuls of army men and place them at one end of a hallway and the other kid does the same at the other end. Then you throw a ball from your end to the other. If you hit any they're dead and out. Take turns until all of a teams army men are killed. Played this for hours with friends.
ShoeLace1291 · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my cousins visited, we would play a game with Knex where we would make a gun and "shoot" everyone else in the house. You just take a long piece(barrel) and 2 short pieces(handle and "trigger") and connect them with the 3 piece intersection. Then you just squeeze the trigger towards the handle and the barrel would fly off.
So much fun from such a simple thing. I miss the days of youth.
ckinz16 · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smashing Bashers. My brother and I would setup one straight hotwheel track across the middle of the room. Then we'd choose our team of hotwheel cars and battle. On each end, we'd push the cars as hard as possible into each other. You lost by falling off the track and landing upside down. If both are standing they go again.
Stinky_Donkey_Nuts · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Muffin-ass: Essentially badminton over a long distance with G.I. Joe figures in place of shuttlecocks. You win if you hit the other person and if the G.I. Joe breaks all pieces are in play.
dellatully123 · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wallowed in the mud and acted like I was a crocodile.... Grrrrrrrr!
biowaresphinx · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Handy Over”. You usually played 2v2. One team would stand on one side of the house with a tennis ball, and the other would stand on the opposite side. The team with the ball would yell “handy over!” And launch the ball over the roof.
If the team on the other side caught the ball, they would run (or sneak!) around the house and try and throw the tennis ball at a player on the first team. If they got hit, they’re out, if they make it to the opposite side of the house, they’re safe! If the team missed the original “catch”, they have to yell “handy over” and throw the ball back over the roof.
It was an exhausting game, but so much fun! It only really worked with houses with equal front and back yards, and the roof couldn’t be too high for our noodle arms.
KarmaChamelon928 · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever we went to my grandparents we would set up a race track with some rain gutters that were laying around and put hot wheels down them.
phazeiserotic · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Either me or my brother would be the death log. One would roll around as s log while the other tried to dodge the log.
phazeiserotic · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Also we had a game collaborately made by all of the neighborhood kids called super tag. Where one person would be it and it would take place in a block radius. Lots of hiding in people's yards happened.
Kwall87 · 1 points · Posted at 03:37:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandpa used to play a game with us called 4 quarters. He literally hid 4 quarters and we had to look for them. My sister and I adored that game. The beauty of simplicity!
avivabackwards · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family has huge family reunions every year. All the teenager cousins (like 17-18 of us) always get together at least one of the nights to play “Real Life Mafia” late at night. We first choose God, the doctor, etc. randomly, and then turn off all the lights and everyone lays down on the ground or in beds. God wakes up the “killer” and they tag someone. The rest of the designated people whisper/point to their choices so that God can see/hear, and when God turns on the lights, everyone “wakes up” and gathers around the dead body. We all hold a trial and each person makes their case as to why/why not the accused person is guilty/not guilty. We then hold a vote, and based on the vote the accused is killed/not killed. The game continues for multiple rounds until we find the “killer”. This game literally keeps us up for hours, but some of the younger kids get kind of scared ;).
JamBarr · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego Wars. My brother and I would build castles out of Lego and hide several Lego men in the castle. Then we would build Lego bombs which were a brick of Legos about the size of a golf ball. We would launch several bombs across the room at each other's castle. If your Lego man was knocked over or buried under rubble, they were eliminated. Last player with a Lego man standing won.
FatalFailure01 · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Black and white.
oliviadmills · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Barrel Hill” We would crawl into a giant empty drum meant to hold water and roll down a 200 yard steep hill that was my back yard. For every stump we’d hit that flung us into the air we would get points. There was a creek at the bottom so some of us would wait to make sure we wouldnt get stuck in the water. If we did make it into the creek it was 10 extra points
ZestyGoddess · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bull game. Someone is a bull, someone is a horse, and someone is riding the horse.
The person playing the horse has to be on all fours with the rider on top(holding on for dear life. The bull then rams the person off of the horse as quick as possible. If the rider falls off the horse and the rider win.
it wasn’t really about the whole animal aspect. We just thought it was hilarious to ram my friends younger sister off of each other.
QueenSkunky · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Midnight fight. We would wait for it to get dark, turn off all the lights in the playroom, close the door (and stuff the crack with towels), and then run at head first on all fours like small, drunken rhinos. We would seriously charge with the intention of head butting each other into oblivion, but usually ended with us head butting ourselves into the wall.
BLUESAKI1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whats under uncles robe
magicat65 · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "the game"
Also, I lost the game
jfree22 · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Don’t you touch me!” One person would lay on their back on a couch or bed with their knees to their chest and feet facing out. Then the other person would stand on the ground at their feet. The goal was to try to get past the persons feet and get to their stomach to tickle them all while they are kicking you and yelling “Don’t you touch me!” To this day I can’t imagine the horror my friends mom must have felt when she heard her kid screaming “Don’t you touch me!” The older I get, the funnier this game becomes
FillYourHandsUSOB · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
If you remember the Oddball setting in halo it was basically that, but on longboards. We mapped out a route around the neighborhood affectionately called "the Gauntlet."
Two teams. One object (for us was usually a monkey's fist knot). The team to hold the object for the longest wins.
The objective for the other team was either to knock you off the longboard while you (or a member of your team), were holding the object. Or, somehow get it out of your hand without knocking you off the board. If they succeeding in either of those then the object was turned over to their team. (The game works in an every man for himself format as well).
And that was it. There were basically no holds on what you could do to knock an opponent off the board. Also it probably goes without saying but we were often traveling at moderately high speeds while playing. We were actually teenagers at the time (and all males), so it was a good way to just indulge in good old full contact violence with each other.
Like I said it was kind of like oddball from halo crossed with reverse quidditch crossed with football/MMA. I should clarify that none of us were actual athletes and this was not just a Bro-hazing "toxic masculinity" situation. Nobody was ever seriously injured and more importantly nobody left angry or with injured pride/ego's. Thinking back on it, it was kind of like a right of passage, but one that we all repeatedly participated in with each other every weekend for years. Unsurprisingly it formed an unshakable bond between us.
This game had a spin off called "The purple mattress of death," which was basically modified king of the hill on this old POS mattress my mom had.
Edit: All 5 of us are close friends to this day and recently met up to ride the gauntlet again. It was a quasi-sacred nostalgic experience and I love each of them like actual brothers.
LALawette · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chicken” where we turned off all the lights in the house and someone was the Hen who said “chicken” and the other kids would HAVE TO say “peep.” It was like a blind tag game.
Bjcistok · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hid the sausage
2h2o22h2o · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “hot dog.” We separated into two teams and went to the opposite sides of the yard. Then each player took a stick and impaled a turd out of a dog pile. Then we flung it through the air trying to hit members of the other team. If you did it right, you got shit on everyone else but none on you. Sometimes you’d run out of dog crap, but the other team would miss and you could re-impale their turd which was now on your side.
Good thing we had two big dogs crapping the yard up.
Grapesarentfruit · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a kid I had no one to play football with so I would end up throwing the ball to myself; playing the qb and the receiver
wavyb0ne_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bike dodgeball”
Person who is it stands in the middle of the road with a ball... doesn’t matter what ball sometimes it was a football sometimes it was a soccer ball.
If you’re not it then you’re on your bike pedaling on the sidewalks trying not to get hit. The goal is to bike the length of the street. The first one to bike the length of the street 10 times wins.
The ball even got stuck in my friends front tire sometimes and their momentum sent them over their handles. After screwing our bikes up we retired this game lol
MoosePuncher93 · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My childhood friends and I had a game growing up that we thought for sure would have professional leagues by now.
At least one person per game would get injured so the game eventually earned the name "Massacre."
The way the game worked was that there was a big blow up ball, like the giant rubber ones you could find at any Walmart or Toys "R" Us (r.i.p.) There was two teams of two facing off against each other and each team had a big goal to guard. The court was wherever we could play and worked similiar to Tennis without a net. We would use chalk to draw a line across the middle of the court which was dubbed the "Murder Line." The goal of the game was to hit the ball into the other teams goal without your feet crossing the murder line.
What made the game truly unique was that you couldn't strike the ball with any part of your body. You had to use a "weapon" to hit the ball with and it was your choice and responsibility to choose your weapon. Anything without a blade or anything sharp on it was fair game. Everything from baseball bats to hockey sticks to rakes and even croquet mallets got used.
Each team could position themselves however they wanted but the most common strategy was a forward and a goalie. The forward would often use something like a bat to hit the ball hard and fast while the goalie used something like a rake for length and coverage to block the goal. The courts were small so that ball would come at you like a meteor. The real kicker was that anybody who crossed the murder line on foot was allowed to be hit by the other teams weapons until thwy made it back to their side of the court. Boys became men on the Massacre court.
I wish I could organize a game of it right now.
potatomaster317 · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends managed to play verbal Hearts of Iron 4
Downside_Up_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:40:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cactus sticks. Cousin and I found out we could impale cacti on sticks and then run around chasing each other with them. Nasty cacti with the hair thin needles you couldnt see but could damned sure feel.
After a certain amount of chasing and fun, I accidentally swung my stick in such a way that the cactus slid off and was flung at my cousin. Thus cactus sticks became "oh shit run from the flying cacti this game sucks!"
The real game was playing "find the needles you know are embedded in your palms but can't see" for 3 hours once we got home.
fink31 · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Drop kick wars.
X amount of people get on the trampoline. Last man left on the trampoline wins.
Only way to remove people from the trampoline is to dropkick them.
Ideally, a dropkick is two feet landing on the chest.
Basically picture a bunch of 8 year olds and ‘The Matrix’ physics.
Spoons4292 · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mr.Drooly hands. Hock a loogie in your hands and chase after your friend whilst slobbering . Basically gross Tag.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Screaming into eachother's mouth and there were insane harmonic effects.
We discovered it when we were pissed and actually screaming, but the freakiness of if snapped us right out of it.
IIRC I heard later that eskimos did it way back when. If you don't think this qualifies as a game, I just got one internet point. Winner.
Edit a more legit game game was stomp on your brother's feet. Quite tricky and feinty. Attack vs defense, Speed vs guile. No hands.
Cor3YL0nG · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone remember that Toy Soldier game on the N-64? I think it was Tan and Grey vs Green and Blue. It played out as a third person shooter.
hopefulvoice · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines
One person would hide while we all counted, and then we each split off looking for them. Once you found them, you’d stuff yourself in with them in the hiding place and try to be as quiet as possible, while they inevitably stepped on your toes.
Eventually it would be really hard to control the noise level of like seven kids smushed into a hall closet, and so the last person to find them would open the door and we’d yell Sardines!! and they would be the next to hide.
It’s super hard to play as an adult because of your size, so I feel especially nostalgic about this one.
pauletta1728 · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my best friends made a game up in elementary school and I will never forget it. It's called Cat and Mouse. It was tag kind of game. One person would be the cat and everyone else would be the mice. The objective was to grab the cheese (rocks) from behind the cat who would chase us and whoever she touched turned into a cat. The weird part was we made up a pledge of allegiance for the game..."I pledge allegiance to the cheese, of the United states of cheesemerica, one nation under cheese" you get the rest. We weren't very original Haha but man those were some fun carefree times. 2 of those friends are my maid of honors in my upcoming wedding!
sleepylorry · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kind of boring, but ever since I was little, my brother and I would call out, "Bingo!" Every time we saw a yellow car. You weren't allowed to call out busses, construction vehicles, or taxis, just regular cars. And if we'd say it at the same time, a jinx, jinx again, battle would go on until one of us won. I've spread this habit to my friends, and now they all do it out of habit.
MsAnnThrope · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my neighborhood we would play Sardines, which is like hide and seek except when you found the person you would hide with them. The last person to find everyone was the loser. It was fun because you'd have to find a good place to hide where other people could fit with you. I liked it. Also I had my first kiss while hiding. :)
SunshineTB · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know I'm late to the party but my brothers, their friends, and I had a game called "Googleshnoz". The person who was it, the "Googleshnoz", had to wear a sleeping bag over their body and run around the room to tag someone else who would then become said "Googleshnoz". Those who weren't it had the main objective of beating the absolute shit out of the googleshnoz. I personally remember being around 9 years old and getting dropkicked across a table by my then 14 yr old brother and then being speared by his friend as I got back up. And the thing is, if you were to tag someone while being knocked over, it didn't count as a real tag. It wasn't really until recently that I realized this game was an excuse for us (really mainly them) to be the shit out of each other (me). There's other greats like the controller game if y'all are curious...
piranhadub · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 11 or 12 I lived in this duplex building, we were downstairs and had one upstairs neighbor. She was this nice little middle aged lady who kept to her self. My friend and I would play ding dong ditch where we would knock on her door (or make some “hilarious” noise right outside of said door) and we would run down the steps either back into my apartment or in to the back yard or something. We would do this like 10 times within an hour or two. We thought it was THE funniest thing ever. I can’t believe that lady never told my mom what we were doing, there’s no way she didn’t know it was us.
Another game we played was one where we would both build little forts in my bedroom and take turns throwing objects from around the room at their other’s fort in an attempt to demolish it. This was a game we would always play at night. We were always very loud and laughing and having a good time. One night we had woke my mom up playing the game, she came in my room and shouted “STOP IT WITH THE 1-2-3 BLAMMO” and we died laughing. That game would be forever known as “1-2-3 blammo” after that.
Bandit_622 · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pikmim 2 for GameCube. You had to collect treasure from a planet using plant like minions in order to get out a massive debt. It was oddly highly addictive
youuungman · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played “Lions Share” with my little brother. I would lay down on my bed with my head on the pillow and my little brother would have to get through a barrage of kicks to try to take the pillow. Catch was that he could only approach from the base of the bed so he got kicked in the face, shoulders and chest a lot. Needless to say I never switched turns with him. We played it a couple times before our parents told us to stop. Fun game, good times!
divine_rebel · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Its called the "8 year old me never felt pain because he would gain karma by not agreeing to thr pain when hurts" game. TBH the attitude still helps now
poopatroopah · 1 points · Posted at 03:42:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy Sticks
Compman90 · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stubs the zombie. Instead of killing them you making people into them!
TheAbominableBanana · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
That hat game. You put a hat over your face so you can't see, and then you chase people around the house and who ever you touch will have to put the hat on and chase the others. So basically blindfolded tag.
foursnakes · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
ticks. we would pretend we were slowly killing the body from the inside (with some obvious ignorance on how ticks work). Things like running jumping stabbing the ground, making forts and raising eggs (rocks) to continue our pilgrimage. Then hop to the next body.
Chloshley · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava-Laser Balloon. it was a game where the floor was lava, we had a balloon and i made some little uniforms. We would jump from object to object throwing a balloon and if it touched the circle on your uniform you were out and whoever made it last won. It was pretty fun
manimal510 · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers with my uncle Frank
gamingsimon · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont remember the game, but i know the game was none existing in my country to buy. My childhood friend got it through a competition. Anyway its about crashing cars, basically you tried to blow the other person's car up , either by throwing them off a building, pushing them into a trap, or just running into them at full speed. Some maps were extremely uniquely built and i bever understood why the game never got to sweden.
Sadly my friend later lost the disc and now we sad.
bearbrayton · 1 points · Posted at 03:43:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ninja vs Cowboy: Me and my best friend (a very competitive pair) had a nerf gun and a broken set of ladder ball. One person armed with the gun, the other a long hard price of plastic. The game was simple - ninja has 30 seconds to hide and whoever hit the other first wins. This game came to close after a particularly violent round in which I (the cowboy) decided I should try to find my friend around my backyard fence and got the ever loving shit kicked out of me with a red plastic ladder ball tube. My mother declared the game forbidden and now all we have is memories
Side note: this is the same friend who I accidentally hit with a golf club at full speed and gave him 11 stitches across the head.
tdangere · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game at our beach shack that had roof with a very slight incline, starting at about 7 feet. One person would roll a ball up the roof and then you had to listen for the sound of it rolling in order to catch it before it hit the deck again. The roof was all crooked, but you could kind of tell where it was rolling more or less- the exciting part was in the split second it appeared overhead and you realized you either guessed right or were way off.
Unfortunately the house was rebuilt so the game can’t still be played.. it was the perfect combination of low roof and low angle- wish I could still play!
I love this post, in college our friends used to talk about all the different gym class games we played across the country or in different countries- so amazing how creative people can be!
BURN1NG_1C3 · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Pikmin" my older brother made it up based on the video game and he would wistle and point at things and have my little sister and I pick them up. It was just a trick to get us to clean up his room.
SpencerRH · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin always wanted to play “horse trainer”. I wanted to play dinosaurs. We played “raptor trainer” as a compromise
Oligopygus · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Water meter! My brothers and I ran the whole way to school as we played this game in elementary school. You had to be on a water meter lid on the sidewalk in front of the houses when a car passed from any direction, but you could only use one meter for a single car, and could only move in the direction we were headed, never back. You had to gage the traffic flow. And that one hill with no houses was the worst! It is probably why all of us eventually ended up running varsity track and regularly ran sub-5 minute miles.
GhonaHerpaSyphilAids · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
squatchadventures · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up we all had cb radios in our vehicles. We would play hide and seek with our cars or trucks. Everyone would split up in town and one person would drive around and try to find the people hiding. Everyone still would shoot the shit with each other over the radio and you could tell you were getting close by how well the people would come in. It did however escalate one night. A couple of buddies drove their car on a paved park trail that was basically a golf cart path. It was good old fashioned small town fun.
Booty_Licker69 · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is an odd one so be prepared, when I was little instead of the normal hide and go seek like most other kids (Which we also did but this one I distinctly remember), me and my family had a game called, “who’s there” where essentially me and my brothers would all line up and run towards the door, we would all say “who’s there!!!” And my dad or mom would always say some outrageous creature or animal and if it was something we would be scared of we would run as fast as we could back to the beginning of the hallway leading up to the door. This went on for hours.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in elementary school, there was this sport called "box ball"
There's a 2 x 2 box drawn on the concrete floors and each floor had a ranking (Jack, Queen, King, and then Ace [highest]).
We would use a volleyball to spike into each other boxes trying to get each other out trying to move up in the rankings. If the ball hits the box once and then hits the ground, you're out. If you save it (maintaining the ball off the ground by bouncing it with two hands), you can spike it to another box and it goes on and on until somebody gets out. Once you get out, you move back down to the lowest rank (Jack). We would add modifications such as ISOLATION which only the Ace and King would fight to the death. Fun times :)
darkagent909 · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nager killer I would kill Nager's
Procaster25 · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slits- which is basically team hide & go seek.
ChromeLlama · 1 points · Posted at 03:45:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game we called "EE AWE EE AWE" kinda like the donkey sound. The premise of the game is as follows. Start by riding scooters up and down the sidewalk of our suburban neighborhood. Then when a car turns down the street you yell "EE AWE EE AWE" and dive off your scooter into the grass, laying lifeless until the car passes out of view. This was a game exclusively played at night, and we'd always start to get bugged out when we saw the same car 3 or 4 times. Like who is this fucker to drive past lifeless children in the grass multiple times? Concerned citizen, or raving pedophile with a rabid hankering for little kid ass? You decide.
ShardFish · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I put a mattress in a U shape on my stairs. The goal of one person was to reach the top, while the others had to stop them by throwing pillows.
YoungTurtle · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When i was a kid all my family would go to my grandma's for Thanksgiving. She had a large basement that had 1 tool room below the stairs and another bedroom with a closet off to the side. Then there was a big wall in the middle that divided the basement into two areas and there was a door on either end.
So when we would get all the cousins together we would all go downstairs and play a game that we called "Monster". Basically we would block out all the windows with pillows and turn off all the lights so that it was completely dark. One person would be named the Monster and everyone else had to run or hide from them, if you were caught by them you would then become the monster and have to chase everyone. The best part was you could chose to play it fast and sprint at them full speed or play the slow creepy monster making crazy noises and crawling on the ground making everyone scared (this was usually my go to).
It was really intense because since there were two doors on either side of the wall you could continue chasing everyone in circles, so when someone would get tired they would try to hide and possibly get trapped in an area with no escape and a monster close by. This made for some freaky moments, whether you were waiting behind a door wondering if it was about to be pulled away from you or sitting in the back of a closet trying to muffle your breath so no one hears you. Also its always fun chasing everyone in a circle as the monster only to all of a sudden turn around and go the other way, it usually ends up with everyone screaming and pushing people behind them so they stay "alive".
Awaismshahzad · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walk
realJohnBarron · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Operations
Global Operations
Bricks564 · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Penis inspection day at school.
Spicoli843 · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put a soccer ball in the middle of a trampoline and try to dodge it as you jump around. If you get hit, youre out.
tuffchrischambers · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uhm, in elementary school this one guy and two other girls (along with me, also female), would play this game at recess called Magneto. It had NO correlation to the X-Men series and I honestly don’t know why we called it this. I was ‘married’ to ‘Magneto’ (the guy) in the game and the two girls were our kids and basically we would run around saving them from getting kidnapped...yea i dont know...
PajamaWarriorJoe · 1 points · Posted at 03:47:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
During the winter after it snowed my brother and cousins would play what we called “The Guapi Game”. It was a pretend society in our made up Eastern European country. We spent most of our time mining/searching for hard chunks of icy snow, which we called guapis. They were our currency. When a chunk broke or crumbled, we called it a false guapi, and said it wasn’t worth anything anyway. We also had to face invading Russians using toy guns and helmets from WWII. Good times.
jbeatty1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“School.” *A set of stairs is required. To play, the “students” begin on the first step. The “teacher” holds a hidden object in one hand and each student takes turns guessing which hand. The teacher should switch it around from hand to hand between students. A correct guess moves you up a grade, to the next step, but a wrong guess remediate you back a grade. The winner is the first to “graduate” the top step.
__how__about_this__1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It wasn't as a child really. But a couple of buddies of mine moved into a 4 bedroom house after high school, and it had a 3 car garage. Some one had us store a ping pong table for them for 2 weeks. After they got the ping pong table back, we still had our own paddles we bought but no table. One day we had a couple chairs set up in a line in-between car spot 1 and 2. We started hitting a ball back and forth. Several bong rips later we went to Walmart got some duct tape, some wood, 2 badminton nets, and some nails. A long weekend later or was born.
kussbar · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we just called this game "war." we would get a great big sheet of paper (had one of those 18x24 newsprint pads) and each draw a fortress on either side. Then we would take turns drawing either shields, weapons, or soldiers and try to break the other's fortress. much of the game was spent arguing over what was a fair turn, but the games went surprisingly smoothly.
another drawing game we had was super hero, where we would each take turns creating a hero. first person would draw the head, the next drew the torso, then arms and legs, then picking what their powers were and what the name was. Next you'd do it all over again for their sidekick.
kyungy12 · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I used to play a game on my trampoline called “pineapple upside down cake.” We called it that cause the ball we used was yellow?? Anyways we would have a small ball on the trampoline and we had to jump without it hitting us. If it hit you then you were out. And if you caused it to fall off the trampoline, then you were out AND you had to be the one to retrieve it. It was such a stupid game but we played it ALL the time.
rflight13 · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Farm Ball!!!
My cousin (a doctor, farmer, and former Army vet) invented this game on his farm in rural Wisconsin. A player from the "offensive" team (at bat) hits a foam Nerf football off of a tee. The "defensive" team starts in a designated 10' x 10' square about 40 feet in front of the tee. Once the ball is hit the defensive players can run out of the circle and retrieve the ball and attempt to tag an offensive player "out" by hitting him with the ball. If an offensive player tags a defensive player, the defensive player is frozen there as a "base" as long as any offensive player is touching them. An offensive player must touch one base before they can return to the tee (home plate) and score a point. You can deduce from those rules the various hitting, running, tagging, and scoring strategies. It was an epic game that got far more intense than it should have and resulted in torn ACLs and concussions...
gahockey · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the hockey rink, before practice, my whole team would get all of the nets and extra nets and make a maze. Whoever got through fastest got $1 from each challenger
Spiderus · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kinda late to the okay, but my sisters and I would print out pictures of people we knew (either family, family friends etc) and stick them on the faces of guess who cards. The questions we would ask about some of them would get really out of hand.
Another game we used to play of the same style was a 52 card deck with people we knew. I'm sure you can imagine the games we'd play with that
runthejules89 · 1 points · Posted at 03:48:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Murder in the Dark” - in a bedroom with the lights off, one of us had to put a pillow over our heads, spin while counting to 10, and then find the others hiding in the bedroom while still wearing the pillow.
“Chucho Escondido” - or “Hidden Branch” - the group of kids would break off a long and thin tree branch and designate a base. Whoever was “it” would hide the branch somewhere while the rest waited with their eyes closed at the base. When the “it” kid announced it was hidden, the others would race to find it. Whoever found it got to chase the others back to the base and whack them with the branch.
jotyleon · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn’t have a name for it, but my childhood friend and I would turn all the lights off in a room and throw a handful of those super bouncy balls and just try not to get hit by them. Dumbass ball, I guess you could call it.
desertislanddream · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called "broken leg girl" with my best friend. One of us would pretend we had a broken leg. And the other would have to do things for them... like getting them snacks and toys. We were weird kids.
Randomgirl_913 · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "boys vs girls" on the playground. Basically the boy's team and girl's team would just do stupid stuff to each other (like attack the opposite team with dirt or steal whatever toys they had) and we would occasionally take captors. I left the girl's team because I didn't have a Bratz doll so the other girls were mean. Me and the only other girl on the boy's team then tied up the girl that was mean with a jump rope until we got in trouble from a teacher.
gr3yman01 · 1 points · Posted at 03:49:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I call it fucking people over. You just lost the game.
shainajoy · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Cut the Cake” we would swing on a rope swing across and someone had to run through without getting hit by the person on the swing. Idk we called it cut the cake haha
Saihils · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Serious Sam 2 was super fun.
silasshah97 · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played who’s the MVP! https://www.sly.global/post/giannis-vs-harden-making-the-case-for-mvp
xanonina · 1 points · Posted at 03:50:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sleeping bag wars. We would put sleeping bags over our heads, zipped as you would to sleep in but with the opening at our legs. We would then wrestle, completely sightless, and see who could win by basically not tapping out. So much potential for unnecessary injury.
JAK3CAL · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just to name a few: 1. We would whittle long, whippy sticks (Maybe 4 feet long) and collect crab apples. We would then wage full neighborhood wars, each side in a fort we would build in the woods by sticking the crab apples on the ends of the sticks and “whipping” them like you would cast a fishing rod. Would launch the apples hundreds of feet with real force
Bounceball: same trampoline set up, but now with one of those miniature basketballs. It would bounce around as the guys bounced, and you couldn’t let it hit you. If it hit you, you had to jump off. You could kick the ball soccer style, with the goal of hitting another player with your kick. If you missed, you were out. If you hit the other player, they were out. Introduce more balls to mix it up.
Many, many more invented games along with the classics. It was a special time.
jewelyaa · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baseball but instead of a ball and bat we used a frisbee. "Pitcher" would throw to the "batter" who would have to catch the frisbee then throw it and run the bases.
Tekavolver · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Roll the ball”. A room with equal sized doorways on either side were goals. My brother and I were both goalies, rolling a baseball sized stress ball as fast as we can back & forth as fast as we could. It actually was a lot of fun. This was ages 5-8.
theoriginalmathteeth · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom told me to count the fence posts on random fences so I’d shut up
mattmajesty · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Corners. Positions. Ding!”
A sibling and I would go to opposite corners of the living room and yell “Corners. Positions. Ding!” then run and meet in the middle and wrestle till someone got pinned to the ground. Basically wrestling, but the intro was really what it was all about.
Localbearexpert · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Golf club fencing. It’s exactly what it sounds like. We got hurt sometimes.
LemonLimeFusion27 · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
" Ball of Duty"
Imagine a game of airsoft but inside a house, and using balls made of socks.
Many things were broken but still very fun
nibberdibber · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A small flash game on notdoppler called strike force hero’s
kei9tha · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
During family holiday get togethers we would put my little brother against our same aged cousin in a mma style fight. This is in the 80's so it wasn't so horrible. I don't know if our parents knew but they would pummel each other.
tiredbon · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine is really weird.
We would tie each other up and see how long it took for us to break free while the ones that weren’t tied would fake-cry to motivate us.
yeah.... i don’t know how we managed to get about 15 seven-year-olds to play this at the same time...
i had a weird childhood i guess.
Terebrad · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to be convinced my parents and siblings were plotting my murder, so I was always playing a game of, "how many things in this room could I defend myself with?"
My family was always very loving. It was completely irrational, but oh boy, kept me on my toes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this game called “stop” that we used to play with my friends in elementary school. It is fun to play with a large group of friends. One person throws the ball in the air while shouting another person’s name from the group. That person tries to catch the ball without the ball touching the ground. If she catches the ball in time, she can shout another person’s name and the process repeats itself. Until she catches the ball, everyone else runs away from the person whose name is shouted. If the person can’t catch the ball in time, she is now “it”. As soon as she holds the ball she shouts “stop” and then everyone has to freeze where they are. The person with the ball now has to select a color and shout the name of that color. As soon as the color is determined everybody runs around to hold some object with that color while the person with the ball tries to hit them before they do. If she can hit them in the next round they throw the ball in the air and the game repeats itself.
MuffinToto · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was some type of role play with Lego's. The rules would change often. Even within 5 min of playing. It will change several times before someone gets mad and leaves.
sidecarridecar · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Age of Empires II
Cap-Huff · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Australian Rules” Badminton.
The object was to keep as many items (birdies, footballs, wiffleballs, bats, frisbees, tennis balls, sticks, pinecones, whatever was available) in play as possible (preferably airborne, but at the very least in motion), all while holding a beer in one hand and any kind of racket or hitting device in the other.
We called it Australian Rules because at the time shows like Wide World of Sports seemed to air nothing but marathon coverage of Australian Rules football, the actual rules of which seemed indecipherable to us...
FuknA55 · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Diddy Kong Racing
nosdivad_bocaj · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There’s an ancient Roman game that I learn as a young child’s called “rota”. The game is played by two people with 3 marbles each on a board has 8 dots in the shape of a octagon with lines connecting each dot and a dot in the center. The goal of the game is to get three marbles in a row on the board in either a straight line or in three consecutive outside dots. One player goes first and then the next and then it keeps going like checkers. Very fun game that I would suggest.
chrissenFaif · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my mom used to play “suffocate” with me and my siblings
Thunder0622 · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will probably get buried, but I used to play a game called “rocks”. So basically you just have a blanket covering your entire body and you lay there. Eventually a “storm” will come and everyone just rolls around.. it was actually pretty fun.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt
There was a base, usually a green electric box that residential neighborhoods have. One team would count with their heads down for about 60 seconds while the others would essentially go out and hide.
The intention was to hide with a strategy so that you could tag the base before you were tug out by the other team.
A lot of fun !! We’d play and allow about half the neighborhood fair game and since a lot of us lived there we could hide in back yards, under decks, on porches, etc
This was in PA
thelady75 · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dang, I’m probably too late to the party, but my brother and I had the BEST made up games. We had these 9 paper balls we crinkled up and we would place 3 of them in the middle of the hallway. We would each be holding 3 balls and stand back to back in the middle of the hall. We then counted as we took 10 steps away from each other. After 10 steps, you could either hide in your half of the house or go after the extra balls for more ammo. We then hid throughout the house and would try to sneak around in absolute darkness to hit the other person 3 times with a ball. If you caught one you earned a point back. One time, I had a green shirt on, so I literally hid by lying down on our green couch. Sucker walked right past me. This game was such a treasure to us that we even had a fancy box to store the paper balls in...God I miss my childhood.
LemonLimeFusion27 · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Car Counter
PT Cruiserz were worth 1 point Slug Bugs Were 2 points Sports Cars were 3 points SlugTrucks(not sure what theyre actually called) were 4 points
Darcosuchus · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cousins and I used to make a "plan".
The plan was a concoction of random crap mixed together secretly. We'd have a little competition where two of us would make it in secret and one would judge the best "plan". Can you call it a game? No. Did we pretend it was? Yes. Did we eventually spill a bowl onto the carpet? Of course.
2high4life · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play the song kung fu fighting on repeat and just beat the shit outta each other. It was great
ollee32 · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play “poor”. We’d collect berries from her shrubs and put them in pots from her kitchen. We’d pretend to make food with them and I think live outside. We stopped playing when her mom asked what the pots were for and then told my mom what we were doing and I got really embarrassed when my mom laughed.
I’m a social worker now, so that definitely feels like a game a social worker would play.
lurk_n_smurk6294 · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Rock Game Me and my best friend would stand across the street from each other and throw rocks at each other. Ocassionally would use skate boards to block them. Took a big one to the head one time and almost passed out. Good times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:54:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My little brother and our neighborhood friends devised a game we dubbed "Football Freeze Tag". The person who was "it" would have a Nerf football and close their eyes and count to ten while everybody else went into hiding (the boundaries usually limited to the front and backyard of our friend's house, although we would make exceptions for larger groups. On those rare occasions, usually birthday parties, etc., we might have TWO people with nerf balls, to up the ante). After counting to ten, the person with the ball would then roam the property looking for everyone. If they found you, you'd get the ball thrown at you and if you were hit you were frozen until another player came by to unfreeze you. If you were flushed from hiding and got away, you had to run to the tree in the front yard that was the 'base". This would go on until someone got frozen three times, and then they became It. We could play that game for hours, and sometimes did!
00midget · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I guess you would call it a variant of hide and seek, and may have been played by other children as well.
Me and my sister's grew up way out there in the country. So no one cut their grass. And it got insanely tall (let's say 4 feet, but for three children 3-6 years old, plenty tall enough) and we played a game called doe's den.
It was fairly simple. Two of us had maybe 2 mins to find and make a den to "sleep" or hide in. To make a den, it was as simple as stomp or push down enough grass to lay down in. The only trick was that you could make as many "Dens " as you wanted and could move freely throughout them, and who ever got caught first was the next "hunter" ( who had to look next time. )
You were also allowed to use previously made dens, made by you or anyone else. This was back in the mid 90's and there was nothing else to do but table games and local tv.
But I'll tell you what, I may have loved it more than the floor is lava, becuase its the one true game that we created among us, and was a truly personal experience that only we share.
FinalPixel · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The whip game
Basically, one person has the whip, which was really the string of my jacket that got pulled out, and they try to whip the other kids playing. We played it at school at break on the playground, which wasn't big by the way.
It stung a bit, but not bad. Full adrenaline rush on both sides when we played. Lots of fun blocking the slide as the whipper was coming to the top.
pavelow6 · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the communion wafer with Father ODonald
TheSleepyAmerican · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's called "Old lady." Basically one person *Normally my older sister* would wrap a blanket around her. Myself and my little sister would stand behind her. Basically she would just run into things accidentally and apologize like an old women while my sister and I would run into each other and whatever she "accidentally" ran us into. It was like... Weirdly fun. 99% of the time we are giggling like idiots for no reason.
Another game we had was "Don't get up" Where I would just keep pushing my little sister down, again, her just giggling like mad as was I. It was weird but somehow the funniest thing ever.
HermioneJGranger6 · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don't know if this is really unique, actually, but when some family friends visited from Canada, they taught my siblings and I a game called Murder in the Dark. Basically there's one "detective", one "murderer", and everybody else is just a normal partygoer. You draw pieces of paper out of a hat (or bowl or cup or whatever else you have on hand) to decide these roles, and keep your role secret, unless you're the detective. The detective goes into another room, the lights are turned off, and everyone else begins to mingle. While they mingle, the murderer whispers "you're dead" to someone else. The person who has been killed screams and the detective is called back in and is then allowed to ask each living person 2 yes or no questions in an attempt to determine who the murderer was. My younger cousins still convince me to play it sometimes at family gatherings when there's enough of us together.
hashtagshouldershrug · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Key Golf
During my college summer breaks, I use to work at a camp for kids. It was a five day camp for the kids. The other two days were split up as one day for cleaning/prepping the grounds and buildings for the next group of kids and the other day was a personal day to do laundry, go into town, and just chill. The camp wasn't that large so we could usually get all cleaning and prep work done with a little less then an hour before dinner/supper time. So staff would just wait in the cafeteria until food was served. To pass the time we adjusted tables and chairs to make fairways and greens like a golf course. The eating space was big enough to make five or six holes. The rules were the same as golf but instead of a golf ball we would slide our cabin keys (think shuffleboard) down the makeshift course. It started with two of us but each week other staffers started playing and it got pretty serious. During the week, staff would talk about ways to improve the game; like changing cabin keys to empty altoid tin cans so all "golf balls" were the same, adding cloth napkins as bunkers, and glasses of water as water hazards. By the end of the summer we crowned a champion by seeing who had the lowest score for the entire summer. The winner even got a trophy someone bought at a thrift store.
d-omb · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to play the “name game” on long car rides. You start with a celebrity with A as their first initial (i.e, Ashton Kutcher) then the next person has to name a celebrity with a first name that matches the last initial of the previous celebrity. (In this case I’d say Kurt Cobain) then it keeps going. If someone says a celeb with matching initials for their first and last name it gets reversed. When I got older I’d play with friends and to make it harder we’d name “only athletes” or “people we know from school”.
_LifeFindsAWay_ · 1 points · Posted at 03:55:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would collect poop from the cat and collect them, everyday I would just follow the cat and say “please kitty, please give me more”. Each one was different! ;p
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, cousin and I would play a game we called “sushi man” and basically we would grab a pillow and ask one another if we wanted sushi and when we said no we just ran around beat the shit out of each other with the pillows
mcmrs15 · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game that my you self
jsonicc987 · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fibonacci Grenades.
AngryYoungAndQueer · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would take “vines” off some of the willow trees in my friends backyard and then braid the “vines” into whips and hit each other or “sell” them and the currently was cotton pods we collected...I guess that’s why I like pain now 😶
pixelomo · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
The best game we ever invented (honestly it should be an olympic sport) was "Skyball" - with my friends at school we developed this intense game. In a small square room with a high ceiling, 4 players stand in the corners. Each has a ping pong bat and a bin behind them which is their goal. There's one ball.
You serve by bouncing the ball against the wall, then players attempt to get the ball in each others bin. If the ball hits the floor it's a foul. Can be played 2v2 or every man for himself.
It's very fast-paced, like squash meets ping pong meets hockey. Sadly after a week of amazing tournaments a teacher discovered our sport and shut it down for good :;(
2high4life · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play jellyfish fights with my cousins. Kinda like a snowball fight only you throw dead jellyfish at each other.
Z3R0_GR4V1TY · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game where we had a better trampoline with 1 people inside and 4 outside, we also owned this massive beach ball and it played basically like messed up volleyball three hits each and if it touched the ground on the other side you got a point.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
not really a game, but my dad used to pay me and sister go out front and throw punches until the other bled.the person who threw the winning punch got the money
newfers · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I would play a game where we'd do our best impression of someone getting shot or stabbed or otherwise killed, preferably near a gentle slope of some kind. We'd over-exaggerate our best tv-style death, to the amusement of one another.
We called the game, "Who can die the best?".
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle bought me a little shitty golf set. I was 14 and they were for 6 year olds. It also came with a shit ton of golf wiffle balls. My friend and i would stand in my garage hitting the balls back and forth at each other. We called it POWER GOLF. my garage wasn’t very big.
1millionfireflies · 1 points · Posted at 03:57:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't remember the names, but it was this game were you put in a CD and plug in these controllers {that had different mechanics on them}. Me and my brother both had one but his was a tool kit type thing, and my one was this baking set . So the premise of these games was to use the controllers to make stuff as fast as you could and get tasks done. I used to play with my brothers one all the time and he used mine a bit as well.
teraflopclub · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was nicknamed Fort. Started with no rules, just 2 home bases, and you'd hunt down fellow kids by tackling them and taking them to your fort until you run out of time or kids (and thus win). We'd play strictly at night. The first time we had so many injuries we set rules to instead tag people out, then it became more fun, less anger or panic. We played for years and loved it. This was played in remote ex-pat compounds, no TV, radio (except shortwave), or Internet to speak of.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
nsfw game as a 7th graders.There were two teams.The objective was to grab the opponent team member's balls to eliminate them them.
mcmrs15 · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and young self created a game which, now that I think about it with an adult brain, was highly offensive... "Slobbering Idiots". The game consisted of said cousin and myself running around, babbling and just being moronic to annoy our peers and get the attention of our elders. Worked ( in some way ) every time.
PM_ME_YOUR_PLECTRUMS · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
1 bike, 4+ football balls. Kid in bike tries to go through while the others kick the balls from both sides trying to take him down. Good times.
fourfork · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bid on the baby.
In short, I sold baby dolls to my parents as a child slave auction.
theinrich1 · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brothers and I always ended up playing games that involved pain and suffering.
Pillow tag involved us taking our pillows and putting them on our heads so that the pillowcase held the pillow in front our face. This created a protective barrier around our faces and also obscured our vision. Once the pillows were in place, we ran around the house blind, smashing into things while trying to find and tag each other.
Circle of death was a game we played outside with a bike and any soccer/dodge-balls we could muster up. One person rode a bicycle in a slow continuous circle. The rest of us stood in the center and attempted to throw balls so that they would wedge between the tires and the pedals, causing the rider to stop and fall off. Whoever knocked someone off the bike became the new bike rider.
I'm shocked we didn't break more bones as kids...
smartymarty1234 · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don't know if this is original but me my sister and close family friend so and daughter would play tomorrow and Jerry. There was the three of us who would be Jerry's and hide pieces of paper around and we had to go collect all the cheese before the other guy was older than us could catch us. There were specific home bases and safe zones, powerups like immunity and we had plans for bothering of our houses. It was the best!
kyliejennerinsidejob · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Spiderweb". We basically took all the yarn we could find and spun it between random objects in the room. In the end you could barely move in there, but even rolling it back up again was pretty fun.
Weebabobo · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tag
I had a sad life
wgdavis78 · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
butts up , smear the queer , finger circle game , BB britches
lurkinglikedat · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One summer on a family trip to visit my great uncle, my brother and I made up a game in my uncle's yard. His backyard had a few small apple trees on either end, but was mostly just grass. Basically we put 1 tennis ball in a sock, then another tennis ball in a different sock, and "Battlet" was born. The idea was to wrap your sock around the other guys tree for points. But the middle was a battleground. We would just wail on each other and try to run past. The best was when a sock would wrap around the others and you could just pull it away to disarm them. My big brothers face when i stole his weapon is forever imprinted on my memory.
lurkinglikedat · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As i'm reminiscing, same brother used to put me in the wheelbarrow, pad it with pillows, and run me around the yard trying to get to warp speed. Everytime we hit warp, he would throw me out of the barrow and I'd time travel.
kspill97 · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I threw rocks at each other, until one day someone (me) got hit in the head and decided this game wasn’t for me
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock-hock-wok, we played soccer, but had hockey sticks, and the goals were saw horses xD
techhead57 · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "time machine" or sometimes "back to the future." We would put blankets over our heads and spin around and then be dizzy. I think we tried to pretend that we had gone to a different time. I vaguely remember describing when/where we went.
I had 4 siblings very close in age and we all did this at the same time in the living room. Iirc there were collisions.
nobindingforce · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my brother use to play a game we made up that we called “chib” (‘bitch’ backwards that had nothing to do with the game whatsoever) and the soul purpose was to see who could stub their toe the hardest. it started as a light tap on the wall and we would slowly work our way to full on, Lionel Messi bicycle kicking the wall as hard as we could. needless to say, neither of us really won because me being the younger and not to brag, but smarter of us, i would always make him go first. and he was the type of person to do what ever it takes to win anything if he knew he could. so on a regular basis he would go first and say “you’re on” and proceed to cock his leg back, hold for a solid 2 seconds, and with no hesitation, kick the ever loving shit out of the wall. i would end up dying of laughter every time, and he would end up breaking something... every time.
mind you. we were 8 years apart. i was 6, he was 14...
twotallfordoorways · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On long road trips I would count tings on the side of the road, hub caps, blown tires, memorial crosses, how many times my dad switched lanes and didn't hit the little bumps in the middle. Yeah I was a weird child
PursuitOfMuchness · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not exactly child - teenager with my s/o. We called Jesus Fish (an emblem associated with Christianity for anyone in the world who might not know that) like you would call punch bugs. So if you saw one of those emblems, call out "Jesus Fish" and playfully/lightly "punch" the other person. Jesus Fish were 1 point each. Jesus Fish with legs (call out "Darwin Fish") would get 2 points. Jesus Fish with Star of David inside it got 3 points. It was a fun day when you'd pass a mini van with 2 big Jesus Fish and 5 tiny ones on the rear window; we were smacking each other and saying "Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! Jesus Fish! JESUS FISH!!!" as fast as we could. Then one day I found a Jesus Fish with a Star of David inside and a cross inside of that. We decided to call the game forever in my favor. There's just no topping that. Shame though. It was fun. Sadly, Jesus Fish aren't as common now, but it was so much fun when they were popular.
10447570 · 1 points · Posted at 04:02:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played groundies. Basically in after care we would go onto the big playground and a person was it, they had to close their eyes and tag someone. Everyone else had to climb around the playground. If u wanted to risk it you could hop down and sneak to a new spot but if the person who was it called groundies while you were on the ground that counted as being tagged.
Storm0963 · 1 points · Posted at 04:03:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
we would play a game where my brother and I (who are a year apart) would run away from our youngest sister (who is 5 years younger than I am). We came up with a verbal, written and sign language for it. The game could be played in the backyard, grocery stores, grandma's house, church... practically anywhere.
CamrynDaytona · 1 points · Posted at 04:04:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom read Eragon to me when I was really young. So after that I wanted to be a dragon rider, but the closest I could manage was convincing my best friend that water balloons were dragon eggs. Somehow my mom agreed to go along with this and even let us carry the ‘eggs’ around in the house.
There was also a low hanging branch in a tree outside that we could straddle and pretend to 'ride' until we bounced on it so much that it broke.
PapaIndia · 1 points · Posted at 04:04:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At a scout camp in New Mexico we played Mountain Ball. It's a baseball style game but instead you have three teams, five bases which you run in a crazy order, one out per inning, self pitch and we used an ax handle as the bat. Good times were had all summer long. It was fun to have kids who have played baseball all their lives try to transition to a game with similar rules but different enough to mess up in the heat of the moment. We only had one injury all summer. One kid got hit in the face with the ball and broke his jaw.
174Spud · 1 points · Posted at 04:04:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my 4 siblings and I would spend a week or two during the summer at our Nanas in Long Island we would have pine cone fights. Not you’re typical “game” but still hours and hours of fun.
Prodohtype · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Find daddy’s dick
elll_deee · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game in the leaves every fall: one of us would lie on the ground while the others covered us with leaves. The buried one would lie there while the others held a “funeral.” It was the buried one’s role to rise up out of the leaves at some point and scare the rest of us away. We called it Funeral. I don’t think we’re especially morbid, but for some reason we loved it! (And I think that’s why I love the smell of autumn leaves to this day.)
papijump_granola · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a game that we called Shrek for some reasons (yeah just like the movie). Basically it's kind of like tag but the Shrek/tag had to close his eyes. We played that game in a playground so we couldn't leave the playground and every the Shrek yelled "Shrek" we all had to answer back. Kind of like Marco Polo. We would always end up fighting because one of us was cheating and we stopped playing when I fall down the slide and broke my right forearm... My mom was mad at us when we told her what happened
baldchow · 1 points · Posted at 04:05:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
JJ and Jeff.
attorneyriffic · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not child but high school.
I grew up in a small town. We'd play hide and go seek around town in our vehicles. We'd call each other on our cell phones and give hints and try to find the other person. Good times
Cam0_Frog · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I collected pokemon cards when i was young. Use to have a pretend game of a pokemon adventure. I randomly scattered pokemon cards around the house and they would be considered wild pokemon to fight as we traveled to fight gym leaders. Got one of my friends on board with it and his sister till we had a seperation. Now i will soon play some kind of pokemon DnD game i hope it will be similiar.
eyehellsell · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Guys”
Playing with action figures
SmokinOakland · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brothers would sit with our legs spread out in front of us and toss balls of varying types and sizes at eachother seeing if we could land a nut shot. Somehow I managed to have a child still lol
lichren · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Commando&conquer Red Alert2 I can never forget the 2 lieutenants for US and Soviet Union.
ASAPTISY · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to kick a ball at my stairs outside for hours on end
Artsykate · 1 points · Posted at 04:06:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two brothers and I went through a "land before time" phase. We watched it every opportunity we got, and naturally we pretended to be dinosaurs while tromping around our backyard.
Oldest brother always got dibs on being Littlefoot, middle brother played the role of Spike well, and I, being the youngest and female, had only Cera or Duckie to choose from (Duckie all the way).
Pretending wasn't enough though, we had to BE like them. That meant eating the "tree stars". We inevitably ate the leaves from my mother's lilac bush. Let me tell you, they are truly disgusting, but we kept doing it, daily, because dinosaurs.
cweare44 · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my 3 siblings played game called 'portable bike tag'. A local high school in town has 13 or so portables in a grid formation with asphalt walkways in between them. The area consisted of 3 long asphalt paths with 4 smaller equally spaced out perpendicular paths. We would bring our bikes over there and play this game. One person would be randomly chosen or volunteer to be 'it'. The object of the game would be to bike around and pass someone coming at you from the opposite direction making them 'it'. The portables hide the paths and you might never know someone will be hunting you around a corner until too late. You can never stop completely (as if caught you will become it), but you try and increase your speed to beat the person trying to come down your path or tactically slow down to make them overshoot before they notice you down a side path. Also, playing with 3 others you would sometimes never know who was 'it' until too late, or if you were 'it' try and play off as if you were not.
We spent many days during the summer doing this with lots of laughing and screaming.
SquiddoSquidHead · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not my game but my dad's, one time he was picked to test out this He-Man board game or something with a couple of other kids. Turns out the game was so boring they came up with a different game they called "Hop Hop to The Barber Shop". So the room had a big table and they'd hop around the chairs and whoever got to the middle would be at the barber shop with another kid pretending to be the barber. This turned out to be a much funner game.
MysticAmberMeadow · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Little Big Planet 2 and 3. Honestly they gave so much creative space. I miss having a PlayStation. I have an Xbox 1 S but, it's not the console for me. Wish I could trade it for a PS4.
victorinho703 · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Chopstick Ronin warriors
Roma0122 · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Empire Earth
rockytem · 1 points · Posted at 04:07:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
pepsi man for the psx
rasatti · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older brother and I (I was about 5? He was 7 or 8) would close ourselves in our playroom closet and turn on the projector light so we could see, and then we would stick pencils up eachothers butt. I'm not sure why. We haven't gotten along since I was like 10. I've never told anyone about this before but its been in my mind for years.
zadzagy · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play "woah". We would ride in the back of the station wagon holding onto our ankles. When dad took a turn, we would roll all over the cargo bay, bouncing off the walls and each other. Woah. Aaah, the 70's.
Slothanonymous · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played spider freeze tag. You draw random lines all over in the dirt or on pavement with chalk and the players can only travel along those lines. If you’re tagged, you had to freeze for a few seconds. It was pretty fun as kids.
PervyCacti · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would take turns drawing arrows on pieces of paper and place them around the house, leading to a hidden toy or something. It was basically a treasure hunting game
HaloCavest · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"All" my friend and I would play it at recess in elementary school and it was just us choosing two characters from anything and just making up a story.
SmokinOakland · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basketball in the snow, you aren't allowed to dribble and you can tackle your opponent
HoidIsMyHomeboy · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buck. Buck. How many hands up
Rinnaul · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I actually came up with a very basic miniatures wargame using Green Army Men when we were about 10.
The battlefield was defined by the tiles on the kitchen floor, with each tile being one space. Each figure had a set of stats, depending on which pose the Army Man was in — Armor for how much damage it took to kill it, Damage for how much it did, Range for how many tiles away it could shoot, and Speed for how many tiles it could move each turn. And most of them had special rules.
Like the crawling guy with binoculars was the "Spy", and couldn't be shot from more than 1 tile away. Or the flamethrower guy damaged everything on the tile it attacked. Or the radio guy had a really low attack, but increased the range and speed of everything else on its tile.
I think the win conditions were to either occupy the enemy base (a tile marked with a LEGO wall where all your guys had to start from), which involved getting I think 5 units into it with none of theirs in there, or else to kill the enemy commander (a GI JOE or other action figure who we assigned massive amounts of armor to).
scarlettismymomirl · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Upside down basketball with a tennis sized rubber ball. No holding it, only hitting it up in the air like volleyball. Other players could smack it out of the air if you bounced it too high or didnt keep your body inbetween them and the ball. Points were scored by bouncing the ball off the wall onto a high shelf. Basically it always devolved into my brother and me pushing each other all over the place but it was fun.
bryanking211 · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Puppy baseball. Anytime we were bored at home, my two brothers and I set up a mini baseball field in our room things within the room as bases and establishing a home run line. We used stuffed animals as our players while we controlled their, and using small replica bats and whiffle balls.
We played using the standard rules of baseball but we would slowly move the stuffed animals around the bases
buttermycats · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Trampoline Wrestling. We used to kick the shit out of each other as kids. Good times!
EDIT: Not that unique but it wasn’t really a thing kids in my country used to do.
ChunkBoz82 · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Padiddle". If you spotted a car with one headlight you yelled that and touched the roof of the car. Most points won.
4lackofaName · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my friends and I would play “whiff-dodge.” It was like dodge ball with a whiffle ball but you couldn’t move your feet. So we’d stand like 10 yards apart and try to hit the other person. Hit to the body was worth one point and hitting their foot was worth 3. First to 5 wins. It was really fun to lob the ball high in the air because since you couldn’t move your feet you just had to accept the inevitable!
ConditionOfMan · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Around 1992 or 1993 I was given the X-Men boardgame but I didn't care much for it. The figures that came with it were cool though! My big brother was in to military miniatures so I went to him for help on how to paint miniatures and he gave me some supplies. I had a bunch of fun painting up the figures. I took a 4'x8' plywood sheet that we had in the garage and painted a square grid on it. I made a bunch of terrain like clusters of trees, a bridge made of popsicle sticks, blue craft paper cut into river sections, hills made of that crappy styrofoam that sheds tiny balls everywhere all the time, small structures, etc... My friend from down the street and I spent weeks writing in spiral notebook making up all the rules and how the mutants powers worked in our game. It was a lot of fun but I don't have any of that stuff anymore.
S4ssyGir4ffe · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yes! One of my favorite childhood memories. We tried climbing trees which never worked out, always ended up getting tagged
SocialSuicideInc · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle Ben’s show and tell. Basically, every time my uncle Ben would come over on Sunday, he’d play a game where we would all show each other different things in front of a camera. He always said he liked to take pictures for his higher ups at the church, as they thought it was cute. Usually we would show things like action figures or a new video game on our game boys. Uncle Ben always showed weird stuff though. He would have snakes and sock puppets that he kept in his shorts. It was always fun to slap it cause Uncle Ben would always make a funny noise. The one time though, the snake peed on us a little and it got stuck in my brothers hair. I always tease my little bro about that. Was my favorite game as a kid
ninjassassin117 · 1 points · Posted at 04:09:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would pour about 6 dozen golf balls on the trampoline and then bounce/ roll dodge out of the way of the encroaching balls. If you got hit 3 times you were out till the next round.
rey-the-porg · 1 points · Posted at 04:10:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Wishing random people on reddit on their cake day.
Speaking of which, happy cake day, OP!
flacopaco1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:10:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big machines always fascinated me as a kid. The cranes and bulldozers you see as a kid and how monstrous they were. Well the garbage truck was the only one we saw from home and we would get up to watch it in the morning (my brother and i) because it made all of those rumble sounds. Then my sister and dad would play "garbage truck" where they would pick us upside down and wave us up and down like the garbage truck would with the cans while yelling "garbage truck!!!!"
Amazing the stupid stuff you can do to keep kids entertained. I did this to elemntary school kids as a high school counselor which was me just tossing kids in the snow as they tried to all swarm me.
scruffy-tf · 1 points · Posted at 04:10:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game called "throw and defend" that me, my sisters and my cousins would play.
Two teams of about three had to hide behind makeshift walls (couches, boxes, pillows and upturned mattresses) and throw (soft) balls at each other. Everyone had three lives (except the youngest, who got five).
You could catch balls from the air to save yourself AND regenerate one heart AND revive a dead party member (you had to sit out if you died, but usually only for a minute or two, and you're cheering for your team members to make a catch, so it was still pretty fun).
The walls were designed to eventually fall over as the game went on so you'd have to be careful with taking cover and try to knock your opponent's wall over with the balls.
If a ball landed in the middle, you could run out and grab them, but you weren't allowed to throw any balls unless you were back in your base (which meant you had to be sure your team had all the balls, or be quick/good at catching).
Not all of the balls were the same, so you learned how to throw and dodge them and how to coordinate with your team (three balls are harder to dodge than one).
It was always heaps of fun when they were over and we'd come back to the adults completely red in the face from all the exercise. SO much fun and I'd still recommend it today.
tl;dr: dodge-ball with health, cover, and other dumb stipulations designed to make it more fun/team oriented
Connington17 · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
How things work in busy town.
Motherthirteen · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spice Test, a game where you take turns picking a spice out of the spice cabinet and everyone else has to dip their finger in it and eat it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Deus ex
Latios47 · 1 points · Posted at 04:11:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kneeball.
The game is one versus one, both players play from their knees, each in front of their goal in a room. players are about 7 feet from each other, the goals are similar to the size of hockey goals. The ball being used is a 5 inch semi soft ball – think a dog’s chew toy. You aren’t allowed to pick the ball up but you can smack it or punch it. Typically the goals for us would be a couch, or some other furniture. If it hits the goal then you score a point. It’s a quick reaction game where you’re basically the goalie and the offense at the same time.
vromantic · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I went to a Christian summer camp as a kid and we played a game called smugglers. We would play it at sundown so it was harder to see. The goal was to get from one end of the camp with a Bible verse to the other without getting caught by counselors who would "shoot us" with water guns if we got caught. It was one of those campers vs. counselors games. I have memories of sprinting across the camp to leaving other campers to get caught so I could score more points. Kids would bring special clothes to wear so you couldn't see them as easily. It didn't hit me how morbid this game was until later I realized it's about missionaries smuggling Bibles communist countries and killing them if they got caught.
BattnRobbnUblind · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smell my finger
patpierce_88 · 1 points · Posted at 04:12:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In our living room we had a big carpet runner, and one night we sat with dad with golf balls and a putter to see who could putt closest to the edge before it rolled off. My brother got within half an inch from rolling off and Dad exclaimed “oh bullshit wank!” From that day on, Bullshit Wank had been invented.
TheSmolAngryMeme · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Around 6 or 7 years ago, I lived in a place where I ter et was rare my dude. So me and my brother had to find awkward ways to have fun. We made up a “game” called “kick the fan” or something. It consisted of us kicking a fan back and forward until it tipped over. We would sit on a table and just kick it. Some extra info was the fact that one day we kicked it hard enough for it to go back, hit my brothers nose, and break. The fan wasn’t the only thing that broke. My brothers nose was pretty bad after that.
Sorry bro....
ashleenaab · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend would play live-action club penguin in her front yard, because she wasn’t allowed on the computer. One of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever done. Very fun at the time
lawgirl3278 · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “sock pull”. You crawl around on the floor trying to get each other’s socks off. The rule was you had to stay on hands and knees while doing it. It got rowdy and usually tables would get bumped and my mom would yell.
crazydressagelady · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to hang out with some shitty kids in my shitty hometown that made a game of throwing toads as hard as they could against road signs. It was horrifying.
Also used to use a qwerty keyboard in my head to type things out and had a goal of making both the left hand and right hand letters be even for each sentence (manipulating spaces and punctuation, and sometimes capitalization to achieve that.) Since been tested for OCD, might have it. I still do that when I’m nervous. But in 5th grade I had a wpm count of 90!
Rbfam8191 · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a teenager I would play "why that person is cool" while driving around in the car with my good friend. The game is started by finding a pedisterian and asking your friend "Hey (So and so), do you know why that person is cool? The response may be a yes or no, but an explanation of the pedestrian's coolness must be provided.
Funniest comment wins.
Veecy82 · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad wrote a short column in a newspaper once about parenting, and he mentioned two classics: "Look where else my Dora stickers stick!" and "Jump on the chair until the springs break out!"
beandad727 · 1 points · Posted at 04:15:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knock-Knock-Knock. It was a simple game, but the memory of it gives me the willies. I participated in this game between (roughly) the ages of 2 and 4. So how it would start is this : Mommy would have to be sleeping. Dad would have to be out. I would have to be alone in the office. In the wall between the office closet and the doorway would come three loud knocks. I would waddle over and also knock three times. Sometimes me and the man in the wall would take turns doing this several times, sometimes just once. The game was pretty much over when he seemed to lose interest.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:16:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill the space alien. One person was the astronaut and would defend the bed, the other person would be the alien and assault the bed. I was like 4 or 5, and remembering back on it it was very creepy in a sexual way. I have honestly no idea why, but it got weird.
same-everything · 1 points · Posted at 04:16:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played the “Stinky Jake Schmidt” game. We had a patch of dirt and we built roads and houses and used our toy cars to drive from one house to another. But we all avoided “Stinky Jake Schmidt’s” house. We created them to be the most unpleasant folks!
Best part is my brother married a girl whose dad’s name is....Jake SCHMIDT!
eorainey88 · 1 points · Posted at 04:16:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As kids, we'd play "Wall Ball"...several kids got together and threw a bouncy ball (tennis balls worked great) to a large wall and when it bounced back someone had to catch it...if the kid caught it, they threw it again to the wall, if they touched it and didn't catch it, the kid would have to immediately run to the wall and touch before someone else picked up the ball and hit him/her. Great fun!!
chosenemperor5 · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Panzer General...loved that game
Tiny_Fury413 · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would walk around the house holding hand mirrors showing the reflection of the ceiling and pretend to be walking on the ceiling and create obstacle courses we had to maneuver through.
Also me, my sister, and all of our cousins used to play "popcicle". We would all swim to the dock in the middle of the lake with a popcicle stick and one person would dive as deep as they could and let go of the popcicle stick and when it floated to the top and you saw it you tried to be the first to jump in and catch it.
Another one was an ongoing game we played with all of our friends. It was called "blow darts". If you made eye contact with one of the other players you would pretend to shoot a blow dart at them and wherever you were, if you got hit, then you had to drop to the ground. Another player would have to come help you back up.
keb1965 · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a pretty remote area, so there weren’t many other kids around. I loved baseball. My stucco house featured exterior walls with the bottom three feet or so covered with river rocks in cement.
I would pitch baseballs at the rock wall, and they would bounce back at random angles. I created entire major league games in my mind with imaginary runners and fielders, with outcomes depending on the “hits” generated by the rebounds off the rock wall and my ability to field them.
And that’s part of the reason I’m so weird today, LOL.
Oodahn · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
BB gun fights. Often with field tips.
Camomchain · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster Rain
HashtagChris01 · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm only 17, but I was raised on the older gen consoles. I don't exactly remember what it was called, but I played a home alone game (the cartridge was comprised of the classic aftershave scene) for the Super Nintendo. It's like a faint memory of mine, and I remember being scared of it for some reason.
In addition to that, I played a game on an original Nintendo 64 that I also dont know the name of. It was basically some motorcycles, along with some techno music, racing down what seemed to be a "futuristic" track.
I wish I remembered their names.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:17:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was young my cousins and I always played this game called “ball run”. 1 person on the the second floor by the stairs looking down. 1 person would run from the door and try to dodge the person at the top of the stairs throwing the ball at the person running. 3 lives each and person to have the most at the end wins. Cool and fun game I guess. We had tons of fun
MrSandeman · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called "beer bottom". My neighbor and I would climb as high up as we could and fall straight onto our butts. Whoever did it the highest and the best won. I have no idea how we came up with it or how we came up with the name, but we played that game for a long time. We've since reminisced about how stupid we were
Th3GamingLlama · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russian Roulette.
CharlesDarwinHere · 1 points · Posted at 04:18:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't believe I haven't seen kick the can yet! I figured it was a Midwest classic, best played at night.
iam_joufflu · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yo mama.
Twenty-to-one · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Straight and blunt stone war
FriskiBiz · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey Pa There’s A Goat On The Roof
pamplemouse · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would shoot down flies with rubber bands. We became very good sharpshooters. Could hit one across the room.
LukeWarmTauntaun4 · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to play this game with us when we were really little. She would call the four of us into the kitchen where she’d be sitting at the table. She’d start complaining about not feeling good. She’d then convulse a bit and dramatically lose consciousness and fall to the floor. She’d play dead for a couple of minutes (while we were all freaking out and almost crying). Then she’d suddenly “wake up”, except now she was a black women named Aunt Jemima. Aunt Jemima would gather us up close to her and tell us, “Yo Mammy’s gone children. She’s gone to that big blue heaven in the sky, and she ain’t never coming back. I’m your Mammy now! She’s dead and she ain’t never coming back” Aunt Jemima was warm and friendly, but brutally honest about our Mom being dead and never coming back. Then my mom would convulse and fall back unconscious on to the floor again. Couple of minutes later she would wake back up, “Oh my! What just happened? Are you kids alright?” We’d all be like, “Mom! You totally missed it! You died and went to Heaven! And Aunt Jemima came into your body and told us you were never coming back! Then she died and then you came back! You missed Aunt Jemima Mom! While you were dead, she took care of us!”
WTF Mom. So messed up, but very strangely hilarious.
snatchin · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “Halloweentown” (nothing to do with the movie). We came up with random, spooky creatures like “Unipire” (a unicorn and a vampire). And then we just ran around the yard acting spooky and shit.
deadheadjim · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Four wheeler tag. Where unsupervised 10 year old kids would drive around in the woods and tag each other at high speeds on four wheelers.. crazy how none of us got killed
beaniver · 1 points · Posted at 04:19:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Teddy snot-nose. I had a stuffed bear where the string on his nose unravelled slightly, making it look like snot. My dad would ravel the string up, make him talk “I’m not feeling so well beaniver” and I’d run away as my dad proceed to make him sneeze the string/booger at me.
darth_dangerzone · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play Maul Ball. One person would pick up a piece of litter and everyone would try to tackle and kick the shit out of the the person running with the litter until they physically couldn't hold onto it anymore. There were no winners and the school made us stop playing when one kid got tackled on pavement and split his head open.
Starstuff96 · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Alabama", and i don't want to talk about it.
Jarrvis447 · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Was I the only one that 20 years ago used to play Pepsiman??
Stupid-Lad · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suck suck push
spicewoman · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Robots!" It was kind of a mix of tag, hide-and-go-seek, and... I don't know what. Charades?
Basically, one person is "It." "It" is a fearsome dragon with a vast castle decorated with lots of magic statues, that act like robots when activated. The other players are trying to hide from the dragon by freezing in place like one of the statues. You can move when out of sight of the dragon (we always played around the outside of a house or small building. Handy corners to duck around). If the dragon sees you moving, you run. If they tag you, you're captured, but if you get out of sight, you can try freezing again. The dragon can investigate a suspicious statue by poking it, at which point to player pretends to "activate" by acting like a robot. If the dragon is satisfied after a poke or two, it moves on. If the player breaks character or isn't convincing enough with their robotness to allay suspicion (open to interpretation, we tried to be fair about it :p), they're captured.
Captured players are brought back to the dragon's main lair, and the dragon promptly goes to sleep (closing their eyes), dreaming happy dreams of their future snack. Now it's up to the other players to organize a rescue party. If you can touch the dragon's neck (the key to the cage is on a chain around the dragon's neck, obv) without getting tagged by the dragon, you can run to the cage to release the captured player. The dragon wakes up when the key is taken, trying to catch pretty much anyone they can in the chaos. If the captured player wasn't successfully released, the angry dragon eats them and they're out.
It was pretty much endless. There was a theoretical win condition for the dragon if they managed to catch everyone, but in practice we reset every few captures and switched to a new dragon, because we just liked pretending to be robots and making daring escapes from dragons. And making people pretend to be robots, and catching and eating them. :p
I know I'm super late to the party and prolly no one is going to read this, but it was fun to remember. Thanks OP. :)
trash_san · 1 points · Posted at 04:20:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
flappybird
wyatt_slurp · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fan Dart" My brother and I used to play this game in the summers when he came home from college. We'd get nerf guns and shoot the darts at a cieling fan trying to get the fan to slap our darts away. Whoever got their dart flung the furthest won, and when we got really good at it, we would come up with targets or areas that we had to hit. It was so simple but so fun and very special to me since I only saw him a couple months out of the year.
dshars · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skeleton tag. We had this rubber skeleton that was like a foot big. Whoever had the skeleton would be "it" and if you got tagged you died and left the game. We would play in between two trees and touching one of the trees made you safe. The last person not tagged wins. Then everybody goes in the middle and the person that was it throws the skeleton as high up as they could. Whoever caught it was it next.
Played this game for hours. Had the whole neighborhood playing
daninet · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have built ski lift out of lego. Every week. It had multiple stations and attached cabin.
RaccoonGaming0806 · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fortnite.
floweryellow · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle the gnomes in the muddy potato patch nearby
saperlipoperche · 1 points · Posted at 04:21:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Adibou
kyledukes · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nemesis. Like cops and robbers but zombie style. One person would hide as the nemesis and everyone had to find him them run. I lived in a row home so the rule was you had to be someone on the blocks property, front and back yards only. If he caught you, you were a zombie. I used to hide in all of my grandfather's cars because he had like 5. Someone else climbed like 30 ft in a tree before.
Capital70Q · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my cul-de-sac, we would play “Hide and Go Seek Base Tag.” Basically, one person would be it and everyone else would hide. If you were hiding, you would try to get to the base (the manhole cover in the middle of the cul de sac) and say “1-2-3 not it!” and if you were It, you would try to find someone, then run to the base before them and say “1-2-3 [name of found person]!” If you were the first person out, you’d be It the next round unless the last person in the round got to the base safely and said “1-2-3 Free for All!”
I remember once when we were playing my friend Luan got to the base safely, but never actually said “1-2-3 Luan!” The guy who was It just assumed Luan had declared himself safe when the It Guy was away from base. At the end of the round, the It Guy got the last person out, but then Luan preceded to step on the base and say “1-2-3 Free for All!” Meaning the It Guy had to be It for another round.
In retrospect, it would have been really easy to exploit a lot of our games we played in the cul de sac if you were willing to lie about it, but for some reason, lying was never really a problem. I guess we just never really considered it. Funny how kids internalize things sometimes.
KingLogic22 · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The game where you try to fill up your water bottle with only the sound <bonus points if you manage to clean up the spill before mom finds out>
Garnovski · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight tag. We played when it was dark outside. One person has a flashlight (as powerful as possible), everyone else is empty handed, and they have to catch the flashlight bearer, who avoids being caught by blinding his/her pursuers. Whoever caught the flashlight bearer took his/her place. We perfected some corrida moves after a while, baiting someone by holding the flashlight away from our bodies and snatching it back at the last second. People got hurt running into each others. Good times.
makerof-themountains · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made “Ant Land”. We would make a little village for ants out of sand, leaves and rocks. We’d float them out to islands on the leaves and make them “houses”. Poor ants. We’d do this for hours, I wonder what they thought. I watched “honey I shrunk the kids” recently with my 7 year old and it all came back to me!
Pletonix · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Vacuum cleaner. The old plastic tubing jump ropes. I’d be the “vacuum” my brother would clean the corners of the house. I wasn’t the brightest child, I can see now. 😑
ScotchEva · 1 points · Posted at 04:23:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
when ah was yoonger (ain still dae now) is play haggis hurlin wi th fowk.
27napseveryday · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would play zombie in his basement all the time in like 4th or 5th grade. He had tons of nerf guns that he and his dad would spray paint silver and gold or cover in black electrical tape to look really cool, or he'd attach random bike or machine parts to them. He would come up with super cool stories about zombie apocalypse survivors (it was that age where zombies are the shit) and play multiple characters, and we'd make forts out of the furniture in the basement. It got pretty intense; I got pretty good at making gunfire noises and my friend was really good at zombie screams and looking like he was getting shot. We'd fake loosing limbs or being injured, and sometimes we'd turn out the lights and pretend we were finding clues to a cure and stuff. Other times we'd play russian roulette with the one nerf gun that had a spinning chamber or stick tacks into the nerf bullets and fire them at targets.
Farrah1uuuuu · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
off the wall baseball
MasterTab · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play one we called "Turkey Wars". My little brother and I played it for years, before introducing it to some classmates. Once we built the new house and moved out of the trailer. The trailer you could think of as a map. Pretty much you'd have a group of people over (middle school/High school) Split into two teams. Wrap our individual self in a blanket/sleeping bag whatever you brought. Have a glow stick around your neck (the kind with the little plastic end that can connect and make a loop) also there where some coiled glow sticks at each and of the trailer, these where the respective teams "flags". If you got the glow stick ripped off around your neck you had to go back to your base to put it on. So basically bash/smash/crawl your way though the opposing team to get their flag to your base you get a point. People were sent through walls closets whatever. Many were injured it was great fun! P.S. only played at night, stealth was as good as brute force sometimes. So yeah pitch black other than the glow sticks.
MrAlfredo · 1 points · Posted at 04:24:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my Highschool Theater class we played a game called Zombie on the days we had the auditorium to ourselves.
Everyone would spread out and find places to "play dead" or just sit still basically. One person went around to each of the "dead" players and attempted to get them to react in any way to them, but without touching the other person. Once you reacted whether it was a look on your face or a noise, you were part of the horde.
I won a few times because no one really figured out my humor. But I was pretty good at getting the weak-links first and snowballing the rest of the class if I was patient zero.
floppyphalange33 · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom used to play a game called "Bombs Away" with my brothers and I, where she would stand, with a basket of clean laundry, at the top of the stairs and throw pieces of clothing at me and my brothers at the bottom. We'd start with bigger shirts and move down to socks, which can, if thrown with good form, absolutely nail a child at 15 feet away.
tydugga · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle had this weird game but, he said I wasn't allowed to talk about it...
Switchman9000 · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There’s this game my father taught me years ago. It’s called Switch, and the premise of the game is you take one finger, put it in your mouth; the other one goes up your asshole and when he says “Go!” you switch.
bimpirate · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a youth I made a giant paper football that I brought to church and we would play a large scale version of tabletop football. If you slid the football into the final three floor tiles of the opposing side of the fellowship hall you got a touchdown. Extra points were actually kicked through the kitchen counter opening.
I made schedules lasting almost the entire NFL season culminating in a playoff and Superbowl.
Winner took home a giant golden paper football. I think it lasted for two and a half seasons before my parents left the church because the pastor was having an affair.
Denji100 · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played ball.
ventricles · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was about 5 or 6 I became obsessed with measuring tapes and would go around the house measuring the furniture, rugs, etc. I made my mom follow me and write the measurements in a notebook.
I don’t know why.
audrey_lynn923 · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Round the table pong, it’s just ping pong with the net taken down and the players standing around the sides of the table. The object of the game is to keep the pong ball in play on the table, but no one is allowed to use a ping pong paddle. Objects found in the basement only and no shoes.
jenncath · 1 points · Posted at 04:25:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay hear me out. My sister and cousin and I would play “lost kids.” We would pretend we were on a plane crash and had to survive and this would go on all summer. We were so young, never seen Lost before. After watching it when I got older, it was the same concept. Crazy.
I_Ate_Depay · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hackcar"
My sister and I would take a hackey sack with us into the car whenever our parents brought us somewhere. We had to take turns throwing the hackey sack into one of the storage compartments in the other person's door or inside the recess where the handle is. The smaller the hole, the more points it was worth.
jester161 · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Big snowy - burry someone under pillows then act like your on a hike and walk past a “mountain” then it comes alive and you chase the people Arround till you catch one of you are the big snowy.
b0v1n3r3x · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Devil's Triangle' was a drinking game we came up with in high school. It was a variation on the game 'Quarters.' When we played 'Devil's Triangle,' four people sat at a table. On the table, three small glasses of beer were arranged next to one another to form a triangle. Each of the four participants took turns being the 'shooter.' The shooter attempted to bounce a quarter into one of the glasses. If the quarter landed in one of the glasses, the person at the table sitting nearest that glass had to drink the beer. We do not remember the exact origin of the name, but none of us used the phrase 'Devil's Triangle' in our yearbook to refer to any kind of sexual activity. To us it was just a game with glasses in the shape of a triangle. If the phrase 'Devil's Triangle' had any sexual meaning in the early 1980s, we did not know it.
Squanchyyyyy · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monopoly
Ashe_Man · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "Hide from Cars" as kids. It was a simple game we played after dark. Everyone would stand near the road, or sometimes in the middle of the road, and then as soon as we could see the headlights of a car approaching, we'd run and hide as fast as possible so as not to be seen by the driver. Most of the time we'd jump into bushes or scurry behind trees. There was never any way to know if the driver noticed us unless they honked or stopped the car (almost never happened) so there wasn't a score to keep. It was just fun to play and gave a thrill.
Kyle772 · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in highschool me and my friends who all sat at the same group of tables would scribble on paper and then trade papers and try to turn the scribble into art.
I could probably do that shit for days and never get bored
updown27 · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t Touch The Pole. We stood in a circle holding hands around a pole in the playground. We’d slowly rotate chanting “don’t touch the pole” with a very specific inflection that is engrained in my memory. Anyone who touched the pole was out and the circle got smaller and smaller until there was a final winner.
Hangytangy · 1 points · Posted at 04:26:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who could make the most disgusting combo in the kitchen to gross out my brother. Hilarious and realized quick my brother has no tastebuds
TroutSniffer01 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines! It was like reverse hide’n’seek I suppose. One person would hide while all the others would count and then seek. If you found the person, you hid with them. Then the next person to find you both would hide with you. This would continue on until everyone was hiding together except for one person still left seeking. At this point, the group yells out “Sardines!” (as your all hiding together and packed in like sardines), notifying the remaining seeker they lost. This remaining seeker would then be in for the next round. A top game! Can’t wait to teach it to my nieces!
cletus1000 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flush down the toilet. My sister and I were turds and my aunt, who used to babysit us, was the “flusher”. We’d get flushed into the basement and then experience the amazing journey of feces through the sewage system.
Iamroyalb · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So The Little Mermaid was my favorite movie as a child. I grew up with one younger brother and two younger cousins. We had a "game room" with pretty slick linoleum floors. I don't think this 'game' had any rules really or an objective now that I think about it, BUT we would put pillow cases on our legs and be mermaids and swim/slither around . At some point, 'we got legs' and got to go into the adjacent living room to explore the land.
playgame5 · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played a game with my grandpa called Push Down. The idea was that we'd try to stand up, and he try to push us down, like whack a mole kind of.
It was the sort of game you'd think the kid would outgrow first, but I recall a point when it started to get too physically strenuous for my grandpa, which was kind of a tough realization about aging for me as a kid.
nothing_possible_ok · 1 points · Posted at 04:27:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sly cooper
notevankolde · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The car game
Me and 3 other guys would patrol our neighborhood with unloaded nerf guns and protect everyone from the outsiders. We would pretend to shoot every car, moving truck, mail truck, or whatever that came through our street that wasn't one of our neighbor's cars. We all had codenames, and better yet, distinct hand signals for what kind of car/truck was coming around the corner. Each of our backyards and driveways was a different base and we'd switch bases as the day went on. After watching a Navy seal documentary, we decided that we were gonna dress up in all of our green clothing (our camo outfits) and try not to be seen while we played the game.
Note we used specifically unloaded nerf guns because one time my dumb ass thought it would be fun to actually shoot the cars. I got grounded.
Played from 5-12 years old or something.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
every christmas, my brothers would roll me around in the christmas tree box. i got a nosebleed once. we kept doing it.
crockcrockcock · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would play the “kicking game” on the trampoline. You just jump around and kick each other anywhere but the head lol. The rules were that if you got actually mad you lost and if you ran away you lost. Trailer park things
TheSadisticNerd · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The one with my uncle in the basement springs to mind
sin-fully · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid (actually I recently played it as a 20 year old) my siblings and I used to play a game with our friends called murder in the dark. We used to turn off all the lights in the house and then one person would go and count in the pantry. Everyone else would hide and the seeker would have to find them without any lights. You just had to go with the feel of it. We ended up having to put in a new rule of no scaring the seeker because we broke one of my mothers picture frames and my little sister ended up becoming scared of the dark for a while because we scared her shitless.
Aimz_OG · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gearhead garage!
littlebill1138 · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a creek that ran through our block in the town I grew up in. On one side of the creek, on the upper slope above the creek a path had formed running along with the water. Around it on both sides of the path was Japanese Knotweed, which looks like Bamboo to a ten yr old.
Japanese Knotweed is an invasive species and, well, a weed. So it grew thick. And it was the best place to play Predator with the other kids in the neighborhood. Mostly it was us kids as soldiers with toy guns and sticks as guns in the “bamboo” hunting for the Predator.
Great times playing in the dirt and water.
roughhewnends · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor and I would set off a bunch of smoke bombs outside and call it “the smog of time.” When we walked through the smoke, we would pretend we were in a different time period (usually with dinosaurs) until it cleared or we walked back through.
SavageKunal · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snake Xanezia
arcanemagic · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Button Button Who's Got The Button?
Everyone starts at the bottom steps. One person is holding a button and you take turns guessing who has the button. If you get it right you move up a step. First one to the top wins.
trollingtrollstroll · 1 points · Posted at 04:29:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two brothers and I, used to take a construction grade trash bag and fill it with dirt, rocks, corn husks, basically anything heavy. We'd fill the bag about 1/4 full and tie a knot at the top so you could spin it around over your head and throw it really well. We then would get on our bikes and race to the bag, wherever we decided to place whoever got the bag wouldn't then try to chase the others down and hit them off their bike with the bag by either throwing or hitting. If your threw it, it became a race to the bag again to see who could get the"bag weapon" lol and basically repeat the process. It was the funnest game ever even if it was super dangerous and violent.
coldpotatogal · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Apparently as a very young child, early in my speaking days, I once pointed at some Christmas lights and proclaimed "my lights!" This turned into a car game I would play with my parents where we tried to "claim" the most Christmas lights during however long the car ride lasted. I always won because I never drove and that makes it a lot easier to count lights at the end of the block!
dsch3ll · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At recess in elementary (in the 70’s), we had no play ground equipment, but our school district wasn’t deterred. In their great wisdom, they deposited old used tires all around the playground. So we would race car tires from one end of the playground to the other. And when we got *tired, we would play with the sludge that was always found inside the tire.
Edit: location was Rockdale, TX
_phantomz_ · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Niggersaki
mauvevibes · 1 points · Posted at 04:30:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I used to play a made up game called "Goat"
Basically we would sneak behind the other person, get as close as possible and make goat noises before biting their hair off of their head. We were little shits to each other.
Another one was called "butt stairway race" I think that one explains itself.
LuckySwordfish · 1 points · Posted at 04:31:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirt Clod wars. We would form two teams, collect up a bunch of dirt clods, and throw them at each other. No points, and the game would usually end when someone would get hit with a dirt clod that had a rock in it, resulting in some bleeding...
Tinlizzie2 · 1 points · Posted at 04:31:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spotting letters of the alphabet on license plates- in alphabetical order- and pointing them out. Whoever got to Z first won. Or seeing how many different state's plates we could spot. And my grandmother knitted- when some Schenectady got tangled up, she would give it to me. I could sit for hours just untangling the stuff and rolling it up into a ball for her.
timmytoga · 1 points · Posted at 04:31:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I made bows and arrows out of k’nex and giant strong rubber bands. We built pillow forts on either side of the room and fired the k’nex arrows at each other. The sheer speed at which those fired was DEFINITELY NOT SAFE and it’s a miracle I didn’t lose an eye. I definitely recall hearing them whizz past my ear. My childhood room still has indentations in the wall from the arrows.
iamkingoftheworld · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Were you breastfeeding? This is stupid. See it in my boobs.
StinkySteinke · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who's in your mouth.
FieldForester · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Lots of stupid weird games as a kid, due to having 3 siblings and parents struggling to make ends meet (hey, late 70's/early 80's family planning at its best).
The floor is lava game of course, jumping around on all the furniture and annoying our mom.
'Sandwich' as we called it, where we would grab our pillows from our beds, than have one person lay on the floor and lay their pillow on top of them like a bread slice, then the next person would lay on top of that pillow, put their pillow on top of themselves, and so on, as we tried to get all 4 of us and our pillows to balance into a human tower.
Our back yard wasn't huge, but also wasn't tiny and it had several large silver maples that would drop tons of leaves. We would rake maze paths in the leaves and run around on them-calling out any cheaters that jumped over the leaves instead of sticking to the paths.
A few times in the winter my brother and his friends would build a berm of snow across the road near our driveway, then hide behind the snowbanks from the plows waiting for cars to come along and slow down to drive over the snow berm in the road. As the cars slowed down they would jump up and pelt the hell out of the cars with snowballs. One guy got so pissed he jumped out of his car and chased my brother and his friend into our back yard, but they ducked into a hole in the snow and hid under the deck.
Similarly, a middle school friend and I would climb a spruce tree by her house after school (a good 25 ft up) and then pull cones off and huck them at the later school buses that came by--extra points if you got the cones to go in the windows and smack people...especially if the were the hard sticky cones that hadn't opened up yet.
Probably one of the oddest but funniest stupid kid games we played was called 'Popple-mobile'. My younger sister, who I had to share a room with, loved dolls. I despised dolls (still do). My younger brother was always game to trash her dolls, being a boy. Younger sister had a small kids play stroller, the kind that collapses really easily. She also had one of those annoying stuffed animals (this is the later 80's) called a Popple. My brother and I would strap that stupid Popple into the stroller, then put its 'helmet' on (was my dad's sports/athletic cup...didn't know what it was at the time...so gross now) and then ram that damn stuffed animal in that stroller into the support pole in the middle of our basement like a crash test dummy. Main goal was to get the stroller to collapse on itself and the Popple by hitting the pole with enough force. Ahhh...the fun of being a stupid little kid capable of entertaining yourself!
Probablyidkthough · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor with my brother
Yoel-of-Anor_londo · 1 points · Posted at 04:33:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lava monster Pretty much just try to pull your siblings off a couch or bed
bballbabs163 · 1 points · Posted at 04:33:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
2 games come to mind...
My gramma's house had a laundry chute so either I or my sisters would stand in the basement under the opening of the chute while someone else dumped an entire basket of laundry on them. Not really a game with a winner (guess that makes us losers?! Lol), just stupid stuff we did as kids.
My cousin and I developed a game on a trampoline in the style of baseball. The point was to throw a soccer ball as high in the air for the other to catch it. Both players must maintain a constant bouncing motion (ie can't be stationary when throwing or catching). If you throw and the other successfully catches it, that's an out. If they miss, its a single. If you throw too low (like you can't just spike the ball on the mat), its an out. If you throw and the ball lands on the ground and never hits the surface of the trampoline without interference, that's an out. Yes, we chucked the ball as high as we could throw it. Yes double-bouncing your opponent wasn't against the rules, but was a necessary strategy. Yes, we would severely strain our necks trying to watch the ball go into the sun while trying to maintain a bounce and position yourself for a catch. ... I can't believe neither of us are in wheelchairs! And this was before those protective nets really became popular!
guyFierisPinky · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mine was called “Chew up the interior of mom’s car.” This was before I knew I could bite my finger nails. I would just sit in the back seat of her car and gnaw on the soft side panels while she drove around. She had to replace those entire side panels multiple times. Wish I had photos.
Turtlesrsaved · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snipe hunts in Deep South.
NickTheThick · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm 15 but When i was 9 I dumped out all of my legos to get all of the cool pieces. My sister also got some cool pieces so we traded them around. It evolved into us building "trader posts" and split the big lego pile in half to make a pathway from one trading post to another. We both called out traders Joe, so naturally the game had to be called "Trader Joes." My other suster got involved the next summer after that and the gameinvolved into a lego roleplay game with lego currency and a trading market. I build the best house and tradung post for my Joe
tonybenwhite · 1 points · Posted at 04:34:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’ll be honest, I don’t know how unique it is, but we played kick the can. We’d put white chalk down in a 50 ft circle, and put a coffee canister in the middle. The guard can’t puppydog the inside of the circle, and had to tag people out. If he/she tagged you, you were in jail, if you kicked the can, you were the new guard and everyone broke out of jail, if you tagged everyone as a guard, you won
CamdenF · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would chase each other around the house shooting “Lays Stax” lids at each other by squeezing the bottle. They went about a foot when launched at max power, so it inevitably was whoever could load/dodge better.
mta8 · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle toads !!!!
Inarupoo · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I as a child used to send those little bouncy balls like hell into the floor to bounce it back on the wall and then to me, so I could jump like a goalkeeper to try to catch it before it hits the piece of furniture behind me. My mom hated since she had glass pieces ontop of this furniture... I broke a few until she hid them from the little balls.
avidsdead · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I shared a bedroom and would play a game we called "Avalanche". We had a bunk bed that was kitty cornered and one person would climb down into the gap, while the other would throw a bunch of shit (pillows, bedding, toys etc) on top of them from the top bunk, "burying" them. If they yelled "help" you had to dig them out to save them. I remember it being a lot of fun but also definitely remember almost suffocating once or twice lol
queenchanka · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
this prob reminds everyone of uncle Bob's "special games"
wizbobizme · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would run around school during recess and basically play an RPG. All our classmates were evil villains and we came up with names for all of them. All of them had certain powers. One of my friends would be the narrator(what we now realise would technically be a dungeon master). The rest of us would have powers like one guy being a werewolf and one being a cyborg. We would just run around school pretending to fight the villains and save everyone. Also we did this till like 8th grade. Aah well it was fun.
mdzvezda · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Egg" is played in the water, usually a swimming pool. Player 1 cradles player 2 in their arms. Player 1 thinks of a color. Player 2 must guess this color. If player 2 (the egg?) guesses wrong they are dunked in the water by player 1. This continues until player 2 guesses correctly and player 1 throws player 2 out of their arms. Player 2 (winner?) is now the dunker.
I have also played this "game" as an "adult" ...
widowjanetsnakehole · 1 points · Posted at 04:35:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, cousin and I would play what we called “Lemon Ball” where we would essentially play “keep it up” with a lemon peel left over from the kitchen. So we would basically just bat around a lemon peel.
toastysyndrome · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I lived with my cousins, so we were like 5 people. We played a game called 'ice and water'. We split into teams 2 ice and 3 water. The water team would run and the ice would chase them. Team ice had to touch the body of the water players and yell "freeze". That water player would then turn into ice and then would play against water. It was such a fun game to play especially when 2 water players were freezed and all 4 ran towards 1 water player, goood ol' days
OhSheGlows · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sisters and I would play a game where we called dibs on houses. Idk when it started or who started it. But we’d be driving and “call” houses. I am the oldest so I got dibs on literally any house, even if they called it first. I always shared, but they were mine. And they knew it.
I knew that tactic wouldn’t last many years so I took advantage while I could and did my best to rule with mercy.
XECS78 · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Don't get stabbed at school"
abh17754 · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My youngest brother as a toddler would always want to play “Itch Tigers” any time we would drive in the car. For the longest time we had NO IDEA what Itch Tigers was supposed to be but it basically involved shouting out “One itch tiger! Three itch tiger!” And so on, just taking turns. Whatever, kids do weird things.
Eventually we realized that he was actually meaning to say “hitchhikers” because we used to count how many hitchhikers there were on our way to the cabin every weekend in the summer since before he was born.
LlamaDork · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in first grade, my friends and I were in an after school program. The after school program would give students time to finish their homework with the help of teachers who would stay after school ended. At this after school program, they had this book of school/after program rules. My friends and I would get bored very often after finishing homework, so we would break as many as we could without getting in trouble. This ended up being a very bad idea as I ended up getting suspended. Oops.
Wafflesisabitch · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Animal Alliteration Attack. Came up with it in high school with church camp friends. Take an animal and a verb that start with the same letter and perform the action in a turn based combat formula until someone runs out of creativity. Ie. Bear Bite, Salamander Slap, Tiger Tickles. I still play it in my head pass the time
letslonely · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
pictochat hide-and-seek! a group of like 4 of us would take our nintendo ds systems out in the neighborhood and hide with them and taunt whoever was "it" when they came close enough in range for each others ds systems to connect wirelessly. also gave us something to do when hiding because normal hide and seek has long quiet lulls when you know the good spots
s-exorcism · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game every time we drove through this nowhere community on our way to somewhere else. The community was known for being small, pretty, and full of old people, so we'd take bets on how many people we would see outside while driving through this community. I once had a whole bus get in on ot, and it got wild.
OldManCough · 1 points · Posted at 04:36:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was very young, we used to take the yellow dishwashing gloves and put them on our feet and pretend to be scuba divers. I swear I'm normal now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was a very imaginitive child. I'd stage wars with coloured BB pellets, for example.
The main one that sticks out is on long car trips, on the motorway. The entire trip, normally hours, I would picture this guy running alongside the car, ducking barriers and fences and stuff. If he hit an orange phonebox, he could make a gun, shoot cars, just keep improving until we arrived.
I'd be lying if I said I don't partially do this now.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:37:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Super hugs each time we pick up trash or clothes we get a super hug (tighter hug) from my Dad
SolomonTheSinkMan · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Back in grade school my buddy and I would swipe every pillow, couch cushion, and pillow around his house and make a giant wall at the top of his stairway. One of us would be at the bottom and the other at the top. Then one of us at the top would then push all the pillows down the stairs to try to stop the other from getting to the top. We called it “Avalanche” and it was the best. His mom hated it though lol
unicorn_bicycle · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
my brother and i used to throw ice cubes on the porch as hard as we could to see them explode. for some unknown reason we called this game “smashing grannies”
Dem1204 · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Life
KittyKaddie · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister, her best friend and I would go summer sledding down the big hill in our backyard over summer breaks. Obviously there was no snow since this was during the hottest months of the year. Basically how this worked is we would take a round sled, put a sheet over it, then one person would sit on the sheet on the sled and hang on the sides. The other two would hold the ends of the sheet on either side and run down the hill. Most of the time you would get pulled off the sled and get dragged down the hill inside the sheet, but it was super fun! Also resulted in many grass stained clothes.
Cleocatra_123 · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would accidentally tap my foot in the car and to even it out I would tap the other foot in a specific combination of pressure and time so that they felt the same
seangoy · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hugo's House of Horrors
sorryighosted · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One was a car game and we would go through the alphabet A-Z in order finding things that we would drive by looking for the letter we were “on” on things like car stickers or road signs. Fun way to pass time and get really excited after finally finding the “Q” you’ve been looking for
toidi_diputs · 1 points · Posted at 04:39:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Naked Wrestling"
Wait...
detectivefrogbutt · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm fifth and sixth grade, everyone played "zap". You write zap in big letters on the back of someone else's hand and a time (typically the time school got out). Then on the palm you'd write an action and someone else's name (ask out Jessica, kiss Carl, hold hands with Ben, high five Mary, slap Luke). If they looked at their palm before the time written on the back of the hand, they had to do it.
mandathehun · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My best friend and I would "draw maps" of our bus ride home. But really all we did was hold a pencil to a sheet of paper and let all the bumps in the road and turns guide the pencil. I remember my mom trying to act like she understood
coolcoolc00l · 1 points · Posted at 04:40:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would “draw” something on the back of the other and we’d have to guess what it was. We got 3 attempts before we lost our turn. We always seemed to play it whenever we were on vacation somewhere and we couldn’t fall asleep. It was pretty cute :)
Tguyenle · 1 points · Posted at 04:41:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played horse chess with my grandma. I know ya not unique, but when i ever talk about it, nobody knows what i’m talking about
jmdev94 · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We never had a name for it, but my two brothers and I used to play a game on our trampoline where we'd all jump in sync three times counting out loud, and on the third jump we'd all have to land in a sitting pose. This almost always resulted in one of us getting "double bounced", which sent them flying, arms and legs flailing. We would play this for hours and it never seemed to get old.
NecessaryOdds · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When me my little sister and brother were young and violent we played this specific game. I don’t think it ever had a name to it though. Okay so here it goes..
We had a bunch of broken garden hoe handles and rakes and no cartoons after 10am. What we would do is draw a circle around ourselves and “claim “ that land. Whoever touches the inside of your circle with their own stick won it. If you leave your circle you could attack someone but it left your circle wide open. That was the supposed rules but really we made a bunch of circles in the dirt and beat each other with sticks.
Scorpia03 · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I just lost the game. Dammit.
Lemondear · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Under the bridge" weird game I would play with the other kids at recess.
One person is in a downward dog position, they're the bridge.
Everyone crawls under them going on a circle while chanting "under the bridge! Under the bridge! We all fall down!"
When the chant is over the bridge collapses to the ground. If anyone is trapped under the bridge, they become the bridge next.
If no one is trapped, the current bridge is still the bridge until someone is trapped.
rickygeewiz · 1 points · Posted at 04:42:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was this one game that I wish to Zeus I remembered the title. And basically you were starring in/filming a movie and you have to go through different scenes/levels and occasionally you would finish a scene and get to rewatch (and possibly redo it for the scene’s sake??).
I’ve witnessed newer games kinda like this, but I just can’t remember the name so if anyone knows about this game, you should let me know PLEASE & thank u. :))
ohhididntseeuthere · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother had a game called “stick ball” one of us had a stick the other had a ball. There was a small hill in our yard so The person with the stick would be on top of the hill and the person with the ball would be on the bottom next to a fence throwing the ball at the person with the stick, if the person with the stick missed the ball he gets a strike, three strikes he’s out, if the person with the ball threw it lazily, the person with the stick gets an extra turn. The person with the ball had to catch the ball after the person with the stick hit it, if the person trying to catch the ball fails to catch it and it goes over the fence, the person with the stick gets a point.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Superball. We would just throw balls and do thinks related to sports. Everyone got a $1 rubber ball from Winco and for instance if you wanted to claim the powers of Michael Jordan, you scream SUPERBALL BASKETBALL! and fucking dunk on them. My favorite was Superball Shot Put in which you yeeeeet the whole shit right into their face from as long a distance you can. The farther that you land a hit, the more of a fukin legend you are
grasshopper7167 · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For Christmas my grandparents used to take hundred feet + string and pin it somewhere in the house. We’d go all night not noticing the string leading up to opening presents because they had it tucked against the wall so it’d blend in with the white paint.
Then we’d have to track the string through the house sometimes outside to the garage to find where they hid our presents.
Wonshuan · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The way that "game" is in quotes makes me feel like this is a really shady post.
TheMadBananaDoctor · 1 points · Posted at 04:43:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I used to be in 3rd to 5th Grade, our school had both a state map and a world map on the playground, and basically every day we played this game called “State Tag” where the person who was it would call a state, and everyone would run and stand on it, it was basically tag but the tagger got to choose what the next safe spot would be.
Wesley630 · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jigglyball
BananaJoe_1910 · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Build a Tower Knock It Down"
My parents would build a tower and then sing, "Build a tower knock it down! Knock it down! Knock it down! Knock it down! Build a tower knock it down! My fair [the name of whoever was playing it]!" (To the tune of London Bridges falling down) Then whoever was playing it would proceed to knock it down.
In case you were wondering, yes, this was post-9/11, so it was probably not well thought out by my parents
dedah77 · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “bread” We would take my couch cushions out (shaped like slices of bread) and use them as giant two handed weapons. What ever part of your body you were hit in you would no longer be able to use. Thought I was so inventive with that, never heard of larp at that age
Un1qu3name · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jerry swinger
Kaboccer
And Dance dance revolution
Uncharted09 · 1 points · Posted at 04:44:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I used to play a game called 'stuff by Hilary Duff', we put a trampoline in front of a basketball hoop. Everyone is circled around the trampoline trying to score while one person on the trampoline is denying everyone while yelling "STUFF BY DUFF"
NeedJobAdviceForBA · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played this live action game on the ps1, I have been in search of that game for a couple years now. I can't remember the name of it.
5rings6 · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child but as a teenager me and three friends would go to the racket ball court at the University. These courts were underground and had a wooden door with a small window. When you turn the light off and block the window with a coat or sweatshirt it would be pitch black inside.
We would take a pair of boxing gloves and each get one. Then we would roam around in the dark and swing anytime we felt someone near.
It sounds pretty gnarly but it was surprisingly fun and noone ever got hurt too terribly.
PinkDeer88 · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family and i still play this game to this day. When we were younger and we saw a car we wish we owned or thought was cool we would say “money on that (color and name of car) no pulls!” The rules to the game were if you’d didn’t know or say the name of the car someone could steal it or you just couldn’t have it . And if you didn’t say no pills another family member could say pulls and it was there’s. It didn’t matter that we had no way to keep track of which cars we called usually they were forgotten and kept playing the “game”
civilizedenigma · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Slug" We got into sleeping bags fully zipped inside and crawled like slugs around the house. 4 kids in giant sleeping bags just rolling around. Inevitably someone slugged down the stairs and it turned into riding down the stairs in sleepingbags cacoons. I am amazed we had no injuries however there is still a hole in the wall at the bottom of the staircase.
Cometstarlight · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were bored on long car rides or when our batteries in our Game Boys were dead, my sister told me to imagine my favorite Pokemon running alongside our car. So I'd often imagine Entei (a big four legged volcanic lion looking thing) keeping up with our car by leaps and bounds, jumping over bridges and dodging through trees. It was simple and not extravagant, but still, it's something I think of from time to time when I'm a passenger on long car rides.
BlessedAreWeFreaks · 1 points · Posted at 04:45:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hayfever: me (F) and 3 brothers used to frolic about the country stalking eachother so we could shove dried hay up/down eachothers shirts. Who ever stopped long enough to itch was promptly tackled by the remaining three and hay-harrassed until they give up. Repeat cycle until there is only one standing.
Similar game a bit later (inspired by Mr Schwarzenegger) was aptly titled 'GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!'. No real winner for this one. Mostly just screaming that then hoping when you launch yourself at them they don't move.
Keyboard_Warrior805 · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jacket whip. Whenever we would find a jacket lying around near the playground, we would have to whip another player with the jacket yelling "Jacket Touch" and then the hit player would take the jacket and go for someone else. We also had the "sand touch" variation where it was essentially the same thing, but with sand and direct hits.
jabronibalogna · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my two younger brothers would play “death ball” whenever the spiky chestnut husks started falling in the backyard.
The game consisted of each player armed with a tennis racket and a garbage can lid, and you had to wear shorts and a t-shirt. You could not get closer than 20 feet to any other player, and the aim of the game was to smash the spiky husks at your enemies.
The game ended when someone started crying, or when mom/dad caught wind as to what we were playing.
MathyMama · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Running away”...basically pretending to do that. Me and my brother would pretend-pack all these awesome gadgets and ride our bikes back and forth along 20 feet of sidewalk, pretending to get the hell out of there.
superflyirishman · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My older sister always made me play goalie at "Lawn Jarts"
DaedeM · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guess the card brand. As kids during long journeys we would keep an eye out for cars approaching us from behind and over taking us and the first person to identify the manufacturer would win.
Also playing corners with my little sister in the middle and squishing the daylight out of her.
the_littest_titty · 1 points · Posted at 04:47:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to ride our bikes in a circle around a kid standing with a stick in the middle. His objective was to put aforementioned stick in the spokes of one of the bikes being ridden, if you fell off the bike you become the stick kid.
ThrobbingApathy · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We took a deck of playing cards and played them like Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. (I play the nine in attack mode to defeat your seven! etc.) Also I hogged the video games often, so my little brother would pretend he was in the story as an invisible character.
legendaRyan · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At my elementary school, 4th and 5th graders had a different playground/play area than the younger kids. And it didn't have a lot of 'toys'/ playground equipment. The actual 'playground' was just a sawdusted area with two different types of monkey bar sets (monkey bar rings and a slightly more traditional set of monkey bars except it was shaped like an A-frame). Otherwise there was just a large grass field and a wall for wall-ball closer to the school building.
Touch football at recess had just been banned becuase we were getting too aggressive. So my friends and I suddenly didn't know what to do. Somehow we invented this game:
We had no name for this game and didn't actually keep score. It sort of just became who could last the longest. The ball was just the right size that every now and then it would miss all the bars and fall straight through.
No idea why it was fun, but it was.
Jonesing4Parker · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Gauntlet on the swings. There was a swing set that had 8 swings all in a line. 8 people would swing and then everyone else would try to run in between the swinging people.
B0mbboy · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For me it was Speed Freaks on the PS1 I do not know anyone else who played it however it is a very underrated racing game .
gorilla1012 · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gamguro girls
Tapir_Cowboy · 1 points · Posted at 04:48:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors on SNES.
CatMintDragon · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my favourite games was with my cousins. It consisted of hanging out under a drain under a bridge and scaring anyone who walked over it by sticking our hands through the spaces between the wooden planks.
More then one finger was crushed.
Racoon_5 · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twisted metal was and forever will be my favorite childhood game
LordDrakkon11 · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Where’s the plutonium” Id pick my favorite action figures to interrogate the bad guy action figures and some would get frozen in ice others were taped and melted (old figures I didn’t care for anymore) or buried alive and dug up for more questioning and the main question was where’s the plutonium lol
mike_predo · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm not sure how unique this game is but we used to play on a trampoline in my neighborhood all the time. In the summer we would throw a bunch of ice cubes on the trampoline and jump around. The in equal distribution of child weight resulted in about 100 flying ice cubes that gravitated towards the weakest in the group. I forget what we called this but it hurt.
DanDanDoesItBetter · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to lay on opposite ends of the couch and put the soles of our feet together. We’d ensue a war much like arm wrestling or thumb war and the winner always ended up kicking the loser in the face. It was a great game until the summer his legs got a lot longer than mine.
Chuey7 · 1 points · Posted at 04:49:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I played two really unique games growing up. The first game we called "Statue Maker", and the second game was a hide-and-seek/Marco Polo hybrid.
In "Statue Maker", one cousin was a Statue shop owner, one cousin was a customer, and the rest of us were statues. The goal was to be the statue who was picked. The catch was that each statue had an on/off switch that the shop owner controlled, deciding when the statue could move and when it had to freeze. The most creative statue, or at least the funniest to us, would be chosen. Our personal favorite was our one cousin who started out in a sitting/crouched position, and when turned on would waddle around in the weirdest fashion yelling "I need to go potty"!
The other game we played in the back room of our Grandma's basement. One of us, usually one of the older cousins was the seeker, and one of the older guy cousins was the "security". Basically, it was hide and seek in this smaller room, but the lights were turned off and the door was closed, making the room pitch black. The seeker would enter, and could use any tactic to try and find the hiders, as long as the lights stayed off and the door stayed closed. If he/she found someone, by tagging them, they would yell "SECURITY", and the security player would basically kick the door in and attempt to drag the player out. Each round, the security team would thus gain one member, until eventually one hider was left and was crowned the winner. The best part of this game, however, was once the security team had a few members. It became a game to try and not be dragged out in the hopes that the seeker found someone else while security worked their magic. Eventually, the security team would resort to basically jumping the hider who was found and dragging them out of the room by any means necessary. I miss those days.
TheLionsMan · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would get up early on weekend mornings, before our parents were awake, and pretend we were a shop that people brought their VHS Tapes to be rewound. We would set up a VHS Tape assembly line to rewind all of our tapes. We would pretend we were dealing with angry customers who really needed their tapes rewound fast. Wild Times.
MidnightMermaid97 · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game called "Crazy Carpet" which consisted of placing as many pillows and blankets that I could find side-by-side on the floor. Considering that I'd usually do this after she folded the laundry, I'm grateful that my mom let me play this one. I had so much fun and if I remember correctly, 5-year old me was usually really good at cleaning up afterwards!
themostevilcupcake · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever I was in a car and just staring out the window, I would pretend my line of sight was a sword and move my eyes in these long and graceful swooping patterns to cut down trees and telephone poles as The car passed them. I got some pretty sick combos in.
umbreon_forensics · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to get a deck of cards and chuck them like ninja stars at each other. When we’d run out, we’d yell “Stromboli!” And run around and collect as many as we could just so we could have ammo. WTF.
We also used to build towers and structures out of Disney vhs tape cases. This would help with our decision on what movie to watch in some way.
Also, my sister and I would play a game outside where we pretended we were in a different universe parallel to our own. We had to look through this special glass to be able to see this other universe though. For some reason all I can remember is that there were giant spiders and that our mother was an evil witch.
Lastly, my sister and I would take drinking straws and pretend to swim around the house as deep sea divers (the straws were our breathing Apparatuses) and search for forgotten treasures.
floordit · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pirate ship. It was like fish out of water except we used the play structure instead of water lol. Insteat of saying "marco/polo" we would say "shark bite/ahoy"
pyrosynesthete · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I added random decimals. This was around the first time I learned how decimals worked. I pretended to be in an office, and that my job was to add the prices that I found in old receipts (I got these from my family's grocery receipts). I spent several hours just adding the prices, checking if the sum I got would be equal to the final price on the receipt, then get another receipt. Took me some time because I was just able to add two numbers at a time, and it took me forever to add each pair of numbers. Was a stupid kid.
onbaker · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad and I used to play a game when I was in the tub called “sink or float” and he would drop random items in the water and I’d have to guess whether they’d sink or float!! I thought it was the coolest thing and I’ll always remember it.
felixbaumgartner424 · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had the an extremely fun and reckless variant of wall ball.
There was a huge brick wall in the back of the school. About 1 foot of grass. 3 feet of sidewalk. And then it was a rocky downhill slope that leveled off into a soccer field.
We would play wall ball but due to the rocky slope, the ball would bounce any which way. It was also #full contact.
We used to beat the shit out of each other playing that game.
DarksteelSpork · 1 points · Posted at 04:51:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would hunt each other using Nerf darts and four foot long sections of half inch pvc pipe as blowguns. The only rule was that the "prey" couldn't know you were about to take the shot.
ima-brandybuck · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
3 types of war. Stick war which was battle with staves, we took great pride in our sticks lol, ones that had been sharpened already by beavers were a get. Gun war in which we hid in the mountains taking turns so no one knew where anyone was. To take someone down you had to see them before they saw you and yell bang. Then there was pinecone war. You wouldn’t think it but there were some serious injuries with those real spikes mofos
halebales · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Ice cream ocean". Just imaginary ocean of icecream and sailing on it.
ambienv · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My stepbrother and I used to play "flying squirrels". We would wad one sock up inside of another and throw them at the ceiling fan on high speed. We were banned after one ended up breaking the tv.
stack_babber · 1 points · Posted at 04:52:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon...
neccosandcoke · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hostile Takeover is what we called it. We were farm kids with a lot of land around us and nothing to do.
So you had two teams. Each team had a driver and a navigator as well as their "hostages" (at least 2 people). The teams switched hostages and blindfolded them before putting them in their car. Each team set a timer for about 10 minutes (we would change the times sometimes). During that time, we'd try to get the hostages confused as to where they were in town and then we would drop them off in a random part of town (or, if they were unlucky, a field in the middle of nowhere). After being dropped off, the hostages would call their navigators and try to guide them to their location. First driver to find their hostages wins.
The game stopped when someone dropped their hostages off on private military property and guys with guns found them.
zemperfi99 · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play star wars by battling trees and using the force whenever the wind blew
Joshua21B · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play archery chicken. There was a set of power lines going past the house two people would get on opposite sides of the lines and stand inside a hula hoop placed on the ground. The rules were simple first person to step outside of their hula hoop lost and the arrow you fired had to go over the top of the power line. The only thing about it that wasn’t completely stupid was that at least we used blunt tipped arrows.
Kmart_inc · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and da boiz would play a game called caillou where we had a kayak (one that was hard plastic and you sat on top rather than inside) and flipped it over. 10 kids would try to scramble on top of it until someone accidentally flipped it over. only about 6-7 kids could get on top at a time so the other 3-4 would try to flip it over(if it had not already been flipped) and once they had flipped it they would try to get on as quickly as possible. It was basically just kayak king of the hill now that I think about it but it was so fun. we still occasionally try to play in the summer.
hepatica_radica · 1 points · Posted at 04:53:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "I don't want to go to school". My brother and I would take turns dragging each other across the pool in the shallow end. The goal was to make the "kid going to school" touch the other end of the pool using brute force, then we would switch. We got hurt alot.
I-Wish-to-Explode · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“The Inspector” was a weird game me and my friend played when we were seven or so. We would literally imitate and recreate the scene from Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi in the black suit and hat comes into the bar with his men. We called that guy the inspector, but to this day I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I’m pretty sure we never even had a reason either. I’m still friends with that kid and we have yet to understand why we did that or what it meant.
PatsyClinesDaughter · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay this is gonna sound weird but my parents’ bed is pushed up against the wall with the headboard against the wall. So when my sister and I were younger, (we’re both females and 2 years in age difference), one of us would lay on the bed facing the wall and push to be as close to the headboard and wall as possible, and the other would sit on the one laying down’s feet and I’d push her or she’d push me up and down with our hands holding (somewhat) the wall, and sometimes I’d push her up w my feet hard and she’d go flying lol.
ZephyrStormProject · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Probably not unique, the only game I played that wasnt a video game was combat football. We got it banned from school
99Pancakez · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother used to play a game called Graffiti. On sorta long car rides we used to spot the amount of graffiti we find on walls. We didn't keep score or anything, just to pass the time.
brettbiscuit · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The dark game! Me and my friends would turn off all the lights in one room. We would blast music and then one person would leave the room and count to a number while the others hid in the dark room. Then, once the person is finished counting, they have to go in the pitch black room and try to find the others!!
I broke my head open playing this, but it still is one of my favorite games!!!!
KIRKFOG · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called “Cat Like Movements”
First find a basement. Then turn all the lights out.
Everybody would scramble to their own unique home base and “turn into a cat”.
You would then walk around on your hands and knees around the basement meowing in the darkness. If you ever bumped into another cat your goal was attack the other cat while hissing and meowing. If you gave up on the fight you’d scramble back to your home base and start again.
Postagelamaface · 1 points · Posted at 04:54:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would try to make the most complex sequence of jumps on the trampoline (kind of like the handheld game Simon Says)
evencrazierspacedust · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Baby in the darkness” created when I was about four. We would shut the youngest cousin in a dark room and chant “BABY IN THE DARKNESS” at them until they cried. Pretty shit game, but it had a decent replayability value, as every couple years there was a new little toddler to harass. Looking back, it was basically a cousin hazing ritual.
Sekh- · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our childhood home had shag carpeted stairs to the basement. One of us would curl up into a ball and crouch down on one of the steps. They were the "cactus". The other was the "log". The "log" would go to the top of the stairs and logroll down the steps, smashing into the cactus as they did. I have no idea why we found that fun...
Childmolestingisok · 1 points · Posted at 04:55:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the snake
kevinthejackson · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Underwater jousting"
Basically you'd be in a pool with your friends, and start at opposite sides of the pool facing each other. One of our friends would be the referee in between us, and would count us off. Then, we would have to stay underwater, swim towards each other, and get the other person's foot above the water before they got ours (essentially whoever stayed underwater the longest won).
It was really fun and we made it up at a hotel in Florida where I'm pretty sure the lifeguard hated us cuz we were almost drowning each other lol.
flamel616 · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I made up a sort of hide and seek game based on the Harry Potter video games. On the games, there were sections where you had to sneak around the castle, avoiding teachers who were patrolling the halls. So, we would designate someone to be the teachers, they walked a set route, and the others would sneak around trying to find objects that the teachers hid around the house. If you got spotted, you "lost house points". If you ran out of points, your team lost. Of you find the hidden objects, though, then you won.
theshowgun · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from cars 🚗
Play in the yard at night and if a headlight touches you then you lose.
Twirling
Hold an action figure in your hand and he’s a controller for small pretend heroes. -Index finger —forward: walking/running —backward: punching/kicking -middle finger —forward: jumping/climbing —backward: weapon attack/tools -thumb —forward: driving/flying/superskill movement —backward: super attack/explosive attack
I’m 34 now and still like to twirl. What a great game :nostalgia:
UPSandCollege · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
GunZ
ItzYaBoyTaj · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my half-brother used to see how long we could hold our breaths for until one day we would hold each others head under the water (we had a pool) and try and guess how long the other person could hold their breath for. We would flail around if we were under too long but it stopped when my dad saw me holding my brother down and he came out just as he started flailing and that was the end of that.
PsykoFlounder · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Junk ball. Sit in lawn chairs, 8-12 feet apart, facing eachother. Legs akimbo. The point of the game is to get as high of an arch possible, and tag the other person in the balls with a hackey sack.
TheeGodone · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Signs, during long car rides we would sit in the back seat and whenever we would pass a road sign we would both turn around and compete to who could see it for the longest as it went into the distance. There was never a clear winner.
BlackJacket101 · 1 points · Posted at 04:57:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I am in middle school and I play quarter golf where I roll a quarter with my friends on a path if it goes off the path you stand where it rolled off. If you fail to roll no retry it counts as a roll. Person to get the least amount of rolls wins.
gastlybespokestake · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Santa ghost: so it was me my brother and our 2 cosins one pf us was the santa ghost and had a blanket over our head so we couldn’t see, the rest of us tried to not get tagged, if you were tagged you became the santa ghost then we added balls, people could pelt the santa ghost with them for fun and if the santa ghost hit you with one you were in. There was a song you could sing to taunt the santa ghost it went like this ”the santa ghost whose made of toast went howling out the door, the santa ghost whose made of toast he could not steal no more, fun times
hangman321 · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in India, the most popular game to play among kids was cricket (played with a bat and a ball). My best friend and I developed this game called "Foo-Cri" which was essentially cricket played with the feet instead of the bat. So, it was a mix of football and cricket, and we could play it indoors with a soft ball.
One day, he got a sponge bat, and we decided we could play with it indoors, and so, we decided to call it "Bat-Cri" (because now we played this with a bat).
We played this for years until we realised that "Bat-Cri" is just cricket (bat and a ball)...
Not a fun-game story, but hilarious none the less.
mmm_burritos · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Tornado". My sisters and our friends would lay the water hose in a big circle shape in our front yard of our house. This area inside the circle was referred too as the "water hose area" and was safe zone against "tornados", kindof like a basement would be in an actual tornado. We would then get on our bikes, skates or roller blades and ride around until we heard/saw a car coming down the street. (The rule was you had to ride at least 3 houses to the left and right of our house and across the street. Anything less was not allowed as it was too safe). When you heard or saw a car coming you had to rush back and physically get inside the "water hose area" before the car passed directly in front of it. If you didn't make it back in time that meant you were hit by a tornado and dead. One you were dead 3x you were out. I grew up in Texas.
TheSacredSalmon · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Crashing Cars” me and my siblings would be in the trampoline, with side nets, and all be in different corners/sides. When we yells crashing cars we would run and bounce into the middle and see who survived. There wasn’t really ever a “winner” but nonetheless we found it super amusing running into each other and falling back. There were like 5 of us btw.
SirScarab · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played Midnight Witch. It was basically just hide and seek at midnight with the lights out. I played with my friends in my basement or outside.
Ashady-character · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not super young but around 14-15 me and my friends would go into Walmart and grab a specific dog toy. A lil pig that would oink when squeezed. And one person would have this toy and occasionally squeeze it to act as a tracking device and everyone would have to find him. We got kicked out alot so we would go to multiple Walmarts to play
noiseslikewhales · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bear hug football. Full hug around means you are down. Two hand touch wasn't extreme enough and honestly getting hugs from competitors made the game more lighthearted (although no less competitive).
hedwiggy · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Various productions that we put on for family members and classmates. These were rehearsed and choreographed. I remember one called “The Christmas Show.”
I also had a made-up language with my best friend called “Chooki.” We have been friends for 26 years now and still remember most of it.
ElCocoatl · 1 points · Posted at 04:59:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wanted zelda but got quest64 which is awesome.
Candycanecupcakeice · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My mom and I used to try and keep count of the green traffic lights. That’s all it was, I was really young though so fun I guess
dalralmi · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I played “store”. Where we would lay out ALL of our toys and possessions and the other would pretend to shop with Monopoly money and such and “buy” the toys haggling and all. There wasn’t any real purpose and cleaning up was annoying. We both had to take turns walking into the others “store” and buying things then that thing magically ended up in the others “store”
meadhawg · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
DEATHBOUNCE!!!!!!!
It has to be said with all the exclamation marks and in a deep thrash metal growl.
Basically we would coordinate our bounces as high as we could on the trampoline, both bounce on our backs, and when we came up, use one hand to try and knock each other off the trampoline. It was 2 points if we knocked the other off, and only 1 point if we knocked them down.
We played to 21 points exactly. You couldn't score over 21, so if you were at 20 and you knocked your opponent off, you had to go another round.
You could also try to stutter bounce, or double bounce before the backflop which would give you extra height and or power to make it easy to knock the other down, but if he read it right, he could be ready for it and it would backfire on you.
Lots of strategy, lots of pain, but oddly enough, never a broken bone or "confirmed" concussion.
front_yard_flamingo · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family played the rubber band game. This was my parents and two siblings. It started unexpectedly, usually while one us of us was walking upstairs. My dad suddenly slinging a rubber band from his recliner chair in the living room. We would feel the quick snap on our leg or arm and that was cue the game was on. We all had stashes of rubber bands hidden through out the house.
There were rules: not at the face, don’t hit the guys in the crotch or the women in the chest.
We would chase each other, each for themselves, around the house shooting rubber bands at anyone you could. If you were close enough, you could do a direct snap: rubber band stretched between the thumb and pointer finger then snapping it directly onto the other person. Damn that made you jump!
When you were out of ammo and cornered, you lost.
Writing this out, it sounds a little crazy, but we laughed!
_marje · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Walking on the streets without touching a single shadow... That was fun. Child's imagination.
jaylarkson · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Who can think of the most outlandish sounding truths for 2 truths and a lie was a popular one
awesome-133 · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We'd put a blanket on our face, have my cousin, etc sith their ass on my face... and we had to guess who sat on my face....
Space-My-Balls · 1 points · Posted at 05:01:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“RipStik Rampage”. Basically the neighborhood kids, my brother, and me riding RipStiks around in a driveway running into each other as hard as we could.
PsykoFlounder · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Arson. I lit things on fire. Dumpsters, fields, matresses... It was my favorite game. Forgot to mention in my other response that Junk Ball was played in my late teens and early twenties. I lit things on fire from before I could walk until I got put on medication.
I'm thinking I should probably go back on my medication.
DustinDirt · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anytime we were forced to be in the presence of our parents, like during dinner or during a long car ride, we played games to ease the tension. "Look Around the House" for instance. From out seats at the table we would take turns describing an item while the other tried to guess what it was. In the car, while the music was playing (if it was playing) one of us would keep our face towards the window and would make the other crack up by turning around making the best face we could come up with. I am laughing just thinking about it. We also played the "Great White." Which was basically dumping a bunch of cold ass water over the top of the shower curtain while the other was in the shower. There were way more games than this though..I could go on and on.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twisted Metal, all parts.
lonely667 · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play man-hunt. Basically tag, but out in the dark, and no where was really off limits. We decided to spice things up and give the seeker a leather belt to slap us with when they found us. my friends were terrified when I cornered them at a dead end road with a belt in my hands.
Azyress · 1 points · Posted at 05:02:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to play a game where one person would say A is for ___ then a thing starting with A. Then other friend goes A is for ___ (name the thing the other person named) then B is for ____. Back and forth till you get to Z. Was a fun memory & improv game (since you couldn't name the same things for each letter as before).
Oakdream · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pine tree jumping on my backyard near a tall stone wall we had these tall thin pine trees, they were like 2 or 3 feet away from the wall. So anyway my cousin and me would climb the wall and then jump to the pine tree and hug it for dear life! The tree would bend over and then we would drop from the tree and roll on the ground. We did that over and over. Fun times! Bliss of living in the 80s and your parents thinking an Atari was an idiot’s box.
bad_meme_necromancer · 1 points · Posted at 05:03:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have alot of swords and guns and toys etc..and I use to make really long story lines with literaly make 3 dimensional characters.But to anyone else i was walking around aimlesly talking to myself.
coldsteel13 · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play "Vampire". It was basically infection style tag.
9Hoot · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
For whatever reason, whenever I went on road-trips; or really anywhere in a vehicle, I'd play a little mental lumberjack-type game in my head.
Every time you spotted a telephone pole or street lamp (or really any piece of wood or metal sticking out of the ground that looks cut-down-able) while looking out the window, you'd blink, and by blinking, you sent an imaginary axe flying horizontally at whatever it was, consequently "chopping it down."
It was actually pretty fun and a good way to pass the time while travelling.
clump-o-trees · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother used to collect AOL CDs. Whenever we were walking by one of those giant bins he would sneak a pocket full so we had hundreds of them around for a while.
CDs make great little frisbees. We would play a "game" where one of us would sit across the room with a Halloween mask on (simple face protection after a tooth got chipped) and couldn't move while the other threw CDs at them.
It got way better when we started playing in a dark room with a strobe light facing the person in the chair. The person throwing could see fine and the person in the chair usually couldn't even see the CD before it hit them. The freak out moment when the light went out was hilarious.
This sounds terrible written out. We weren't throwing hard or trying to hurt eachother, it was just enough to cause a little spike of fear, and we always took turns.
satanscomedian · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle would play hide the penis with me
polkadotprincess2317 · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called “don’t wake the bear” one of us three kids would pretend to sleep and the other two would wake them up you then had to race across the basement to the stairs. If both made it “the bear” went back to sleep if you got caught you became the bear haha
chimay611 · 1 points · Posted at 05:04:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play this game called “tornado” where my dad would stand at the top of the stairs and I would at the bottom and we’d spike a balloon at each other and if it hit the steps you lost.
sduffman94 · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spud! Everyone gets a number and stands in a circle with a ball. The person with the ball throws the ball as high in the air as possible shouting a number. Everyone tried to run away except the person who’s number is called. If your number is called you have to catch the ball before it hits the ground. If you catch the ball you have to throw it in the air and shout a different number until the person doesn’t catch the ball. If the ball hits the ground, the person who’s number was shouted screams spud when they pick it up. They get three steps towards someone and have to throw the ball at them. If they catch the ball the thrower gets a letter, if they get hit with the ball and it hits the ground that person gets a letter. You play until you spell out spud and then your out. Last man standing is the winner.
The games usually went on for waaaay to long but it was such a great memory playing this all the time as kids and all you needed was a ball!
TrueBigfoot · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Black bear"
Best played after dark when the street lamps go on. One person starts as the black bear and they hide. Other kids would count and go looking, basic one sided hide and go seek. When somebody found the Black bear that would person yell, "BLACK BEAR!". At that point the game is tag with a home base(street light). If tagged Black bear escorts you to jail, but only one person at a time. Ideally jail will be next to home base so Black bear can capture and defend. All runners have a chance to release the captured by a simple tag. Once everyone is either captured or at home base the round is over. Captured become part of the black bears and you keep going until everyone is a black bear.
libflop · 1 points · Posted at 05:05:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The neighborhood kids, my sister, and I invented “Volnis Ball”. We combined rules of tennis, hand ball, and volleyball ball and played on a court outlined by sandals in one neighbors driveway. We started with a tennis style court with two even halves. You could play doubles or singles. Singles only had one hit to get it back across the line but doubles allowed for three alternating hits. You wanted to get the opponent to miss the ball it hit it out. We played with a kickball because we allowed for the ball to bounce on the ground once for singles and once every alternating hit between doubles partners. We’d play this game barefoot for hours in during summer nights!
Korncakee · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I remember my brother and two of my friends playing this game in our partly finished attic. There was mostly storage up there so it was very cluttered. One person would put a blanket over their head and weild a plastic toy baseball bat while the other hid somewhere in the room. The seeker would wa Der around trying to make the holders laugh and beat them with the baseball bat, if you got hit, you became the seeker
Also my brother and I played "you hit me, I hit you twice as hard" I was younger so it never worked out for me
gingersnap833 · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Come here cars”
We kids would stand on the sidewalk after it rained and wave cars towards us so they would splash us from the gutters full of rain water.
Sefera17 · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy Cake Day!
assassin3435 · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont remember how we called it, but with my bro we would play this game where we sat on the floor then dropped the little couch on top, completely covering us, it was fun
ThereSoDone · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play "Bomb Berries". When we walked with our dad to the post office we would sometimes pass this beat up wooden shed with an old no trespassing sign and a berry bush with little red berries next to it. Our dad told us not to eat them since they weren't edible. So obviously they were poisoned and genetically created. We would bring a handful home and smash them in slides to look under a microscope and do other experiments with. If you ate them you would balloon up and explode and we were trying to shut down the labs and take down the creator and distribution. I was probably 7, CSI Los Vegas was my favorite show back then.
SamWheatxox · 1 points · Posted at 05:06:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a little pond behind our house that froze in the winter. My brother, cousin and I would go back there with our rubber boots to break the ice. We would pretend we were saving the whales and giving them a place to breath. The shitty part of the game would be when we would hit a deep spot and our boot would fill with ice cold pond water but we just go get a new boot and come back LOL
UncleRudolph · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Would built a tent in my grandparents basement with laundry clips, blankets, and a coach or chair to attach them to
skobroko · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
[insert family member’s name]-y monster. My grandmas house had three bedrooms a bathroom and an attic upstairs. We would elect someone to start as the monster and go up and hide with all the lights off. The rest of us kids would hold go up to investigate singing “scooby de dum de dum de dum.....”. The first one to scream became the next monster
jaylarkson · 1 points · Posted at 05:07:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had this kite string on a spinny thing and i would wrap some of the string around one of my stuffed animals and then toss her into the skylight from the 2nd floor and then my brother down below would try and catch her. We called it "Skydiving".
Trex252 · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
MAKE THE BROWN EYE BLUE
imasmith · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was a 5th grader the school paved over our four-square court, but left three circles where the tetherball poles used to be. Add a kickball, and three circle was born.
It was better than four square because the king circle was the furthest away in the triangle arrangement.
Peak achievement was getting a line of 30 + kids waiting to play a game we invented.
pspowell · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would write dits and dahs (morse code) on pieces of paper, wrap a domino with the paper and a rubber band, and throw it over the barn to the other to have a conversation. We were 10 and 8 years old. Our dad was a radioman in the Air Force WW2 and seemed to enjoy providing us with the essentials.
mt2010 · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to play Ticklee - (Tickle Me). We used to be in teams ( dad and I vs mom and my younger brother) . The aim of the game was to playwrestle by tickling the members of the other team and the first person to give up 'lost'. Because it was even numbers, being 1 member down pretty much guaranteed being tickled until you couldnt breathe. We played this for years, almost every night until we got too big and started accidentally hurting each other because we were stronger. Its one of my best childhood memories! It was especially fun when we had guest team members (ie cousins or friends who joined in if they came for sleepovers).
annefranksoven69 · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The pinecone/black walnut game. My cousins and I would get together alot during the summer. Within my farm there is a huge cluster of trees that have black walnuts and pinecones fall to the ground. We'd each go to a separate side of the Grove, and find as much ammo (green "hard" black walnuts, and hard pinecones) and throw them at each other until one of us cried. Good times. I really wish we'd talk more still as adults.
emilbee2 · 1 points · Posted at 05:08:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Foxes and Rabbits"
We would play a version of tag where the fox ("it) would chase the rabbits. The "den", which was just a blanket under the ping pong table, was safe. However, you weren't allowed to be in the den for more than some arbitrary amount of time, and the whole game took place in the basement which had three rooms and a staircase in the middle, creating a loop. It was kind of hard to get up speed running around the loop, but you were only allowed to enter the den by diving at a run. One of the rooms was always dark (for some reason?) and any player was allowed to hide in there, on the many many perfectly-sized-for-children and just-heavy-enough-to-climb shelves. It sounds silly typing it out, but we spent hours and hours playing and loved finding weird hiding spots. Many arguments were had about what constituted a dive into the den and how long rabbits were allowed to stay.
AudioDope562 · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Suicide/Butts up, but instead of having the ball thrown at you you got your ass beat until you could reach the wall.
Krull97 · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game we called "Red Alert". There were usually about 5 of us, 1 person was "it" and would be hiding in the basement in the dark. The rest would line up at the top of the stairs as King/Queen/Jack/etc which was decided from the previous round. So the last one up would be the frost one down next, if you got tagged you were "it". But basically you walk down into the darkness, so you can't see great at first, and try and find the person hiding and yell "Red Alert!!!" and sprint up stairs as soon as you said/heard that.
Played this for a year or two probably, terrifying to go down first haha. I think I broke a toe running up once because I hit it on a part of a wall that stuck out a bit at the top of stairs.
Possible_Theory_Mia · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Devil's dare, a trick game from when I WAS 5-8, BUILD SOLELY TO MAKE MY FEMALE FRIENDS STRIP, ya don't know why but I remember having this sense maturity at that age, don't recommend trying the day now, would get slapped, need liquor and a game you can cheat and and make it look like luck.
FLYFINESSE · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The lion king on Sega genesis
Davemymindisgoing · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game I called "Sideways" where I'd be walking along and then suddenly gravity would start coming from a different wall of the room and you'd have to grab and hold onto whatever you could before you 'fell' (slid) into the wall with all the gravity. Then it would come from a different wall...
peaceluvacting · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I grew up in a beach town, so I went to the beach a lot with my family! My brother and I used to “fight Poseidon,” where we would stand right where the waves break and try to kick/punch them. If we stayed standing, we got a point, but if the wave knocked us over, Poseidon got a point.
While we waited for a wave to come, we would scream at Poseidon and trash talk him in hopes he’d bring out the BIG waves
ListofReddit · 1 points · Posted at 05:09:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor
khunlol · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
i would play invisible rock paper scissors. whoever loses gets ignored by the other person for a day.
jaylarkson · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also piled all the balls onto the trampoline (even the yoga ball) and bounce and try to avoid them while bouncing strategically to get them off (there was no net ao it was fairly easy). That game stopped when I flipped off one time and nearly broke my spine.
mooximoolian · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back then we played this war game with finger guns and all though the only people who got hit were the more larpish dudes, it was still real shit.
Stacy-Muston · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Baby Baby in the Air
adam6360 · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I would play a game called catch the tail, he'd stick his tail in my butt so I could catch it. My dad got really mad whenever we played it.
DrBobBarker · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dratiniball
Too those beanie baby like dratini Pokemon toys and would basically just kick or throw them with the way to screaming by hitting your opponent's wall.
gayniggamemesinc · 1 points · Posted at 05:11:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"tag with my uncle" I dont know why he called it tag the only thing je did was stick his dick in my ass but it was pretty fun to play tag.
Anyone else play tag like this or is it jus me?
TrentZoolander · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor. Only, we just pretended to write up diagnoses.
There was no weird shit involved. Not with this game at least.
Crentistthedentist02 · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Jail Break”. We had this club house where we would all meet at like 9 in the morning. Two people would be “jailers” and the prisoners had to break out of the club house without being smacked in the head by a jailer. Once you got out, you ran around for pretty much the whole day trying not to get smacked. One game lasted about 5 hours. (There were a lot of us) :)
abbeyk226 · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my brother and our next door neighbor went on car trips, we would look for the Semi trucks called JB Hunt, they’re frequent but not too overpopulated and when we saw them we would yell “JB HUNT” and punch someone in the shoulder to get a point. Whoever had the most impacts lost and the one who racked up the most points would win. But you can minus their point if you see another JB Hunt yell it and punch them back.
SalemsNightmare · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would use our hands and pretend they were one of the Power Puff girls but they’d go into battle like super heroes.
JasonKoontz · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bruiseball.”
I obtained a very dense rubber ball from Chuck E. Cheese, about 2 inches in diameter. We would run around the cul-de-sac around throw the ball at each other, attempting to leave bruises. We enjoyed this.
We were 10.
PrettyFlyForAHifi · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Realeaseies. About 15 kids would go to the beach at night. Rules were you could only stay in the bush between the dunes and 2 beach tracks. About a footy field of sandy Aussie bushland. One person was in and they got to have a torch. Then it was basically hide and go seek tag last person found and caught wins. It was the best. We’d be in the bush until 10pm. All cut up and bloody hahahah. The adrenaline though. I was a champ and my trick was to just hide in tall grass laying on the ground. No one expects it cause usually people got in trees. Sometimes people would walk within a meter of me and would find me. Wow thanks for the memories haha
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:12:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My two brothers and I played “turn the lights off in a walk in closet and beat the shit out of each other” often.
BadRoady · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This one was passed down from my parents to me: Slugbug, as the name suggests has two or more players on a road trip search for Volkswagen beetles. The first person who sees one shouts SLUGBUG! And point at the vehical, they then punch the other player(s) in the shoulder. There is no set ending to the game, previous rounds may be rejoined without warning. Beetles with one headlight disabled can be called out by either party following a Slugbug, as a PERDIDDLE!. Perdiddles allow the caller to either punch the other player, or kiss them.
not_grognak · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night Crawlers
sevenlast · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is the most useful post of the day.
Herposhima · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whenever my parents would leave us alone we would gather all the couch cushions, pillows, ect. in a large pile, then proceeded to fill in the basement steps while someone stood at the bottom with the door closed. After being buried you either climbed your way out or tumbled into the basement after opening the door.
Chino__ · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘Chicken’ me and my friends would play chicken at the park near our houses, the goal of the game was to get from one end of the swings to the other, which 2 people on the swings would swing back and forth, if they touched you, your out. Also you shouldn’t pass the boundaries of the swings (the legs on either side)
Never had a name for it, but during a really boring excursion to some bush camping area, me and my friend would say a random word that was on someone’s shirt, pants, sock or shoes, basically anything they had on. Then we had to guess who the person your opponent pick out was. (Has about 100 students who came from upper class families so lots of different kinds of posh clothes)
(First time on reddit, don’t know format. Forgive me senpai)
MrAwesomePants20 · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Welcome to hell my friend
smokinjoe65 · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to masturbate to Golden Girls. Not sure how unique it is.
lathemk · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey Cow!
When you’re driving down a country road each side of the car gets their side, any time you see a cow you yell “HEY COW!” And you get as many points as cows that look at you.
mariah_papaya111 · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We did some offshore sailing and me and my bros would just sit there and yell “SOMETHING FLOATING” when we saw.... you guessed it, something floating.
soupyy_poop · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide n go seek in the dark. As my cousins called it, "dark game"
sleepyseaslug · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else play 'murder in the dark'? We used to play it at sleepovers. All the lights would be turned out and one person was 'the murderer'. The murderer would have to try and tag everyone by running around in the dark trying to find them. Your job was to try and avoid the murderer, but if you got tagged, you'd have to let out a huge blood curdling scream and then fall to the floor and pretend to be dead. Last person left alive is the winner.
tkane52 · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"hide the belt"
So someone starts by hiding a belt in the yard/neighborhood. Once the belt is hidden, that person sits out and then there is a safe base. Everyone goes around looking for the belt until someone finds it, then the goal is to whack the other kids before they get to the safe base.
Pretty simple game, but it definitely gets the adrenaline going. Grandpa taught us some wild shit growing up
Extermin8her · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We blacked out an old diving mask and would play tag in a buddies pool. A lot of fun. Weird silence as you would have to swim away as mask we are would get closer. Friends outside the pool making stoopid comments and laughing made it more fun. Tease the hunter by swimming close and let them feel a wave or hear something...
khumps · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rip-stik wars. By this point we had all gotten very good at keeping balance on our rip-stiks. Everyone rode around (4 or so of us) and the goal was to be the last one on their rip-stik. You were allowed to do anything that didn't involve painful blows(actually punching, going for the head, etc) but you could grab, push, etc) also forcing someone to ride on to the grass was fair game. It was a lot of fun
WisestAlpaca · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game in the car in which if you saw a car in the oncoming lane missing a headlight you’d call out “one light” and that would start the game; then after that it’s points per how many lights you got. Obviously you got double for no headlights, and for motorcycles. But if you guessed wrong it put you back to zero. Apparently my parents told us later it was originally called “one eye” but my sister lost an eye due to cancer so they modified it.
We would play “who survived” we had a PT-cruiser Barbie car that we would pack full of barbies/GI joes/action figures and fling it down a full set of stairs and see who stayed the car. The ones that did got to go again until there was one victor remaining.
R_Dixon · 1 points · Posted at 05:15:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Another hide and go seek in the dark game. We would play in our unfinished basment that was pitch black. My brother and I got a laser tag for christmas one year that came with a gun and 2 sensors each. (one for your back and one for your chest) so if you only wore one sensor on the front, we had enough for 4 kids to have sensors, and one person to have 2 guns, or 2 prople to each have one gun. The gun holders were the seekers, and the kids wearing sensors would hide. we would play with the neighbor kids, and the base of the stars was "homefree". You had to try and get to the stairs in the pitch black without getting shot. So fun. I lived on an acrage that was all forest and we also played this outside in trees with our tree house being homefree. Oh, also, I forgot to mention that if we didn't have batteries for the laser tag, the seeker would throw rubber balls instead, haha
pevsephone · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Did anyone else play Mannequin? This game usually was played in a large space (we did it in the 3 room downstairs area in a friend’s house). It started with one person (the shopper) facing the wall and counting to 30, then turning around to find everyone posing completely in different positions completely still (like a mannequin). We usually dressed up in hats or scarves etc to display as the shopper then walks through the store and checks out different items. You are not allowed to make any noise or move while the person who is ‘it’ is looking at you or you’re out. However, you have to move around the room each time the person looks away from you. The object is to be the last mannequin standing.
The game always got pretty competitive as the amount of mannequins decreased. It usually devolved into everyone including the shopper trying to make each other laugh so they would be out. I remember holding a lounge singer pose - think “paint me like one of your French girls” - and having the shopper sit next to me on the couch, gently stroke my cheek, and say in the creepiest voice, “I think I’m going to take this one home.” I lost that game.
DarthThundercat · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Sockey" We would crush a soda can and use that as a puck. Make goals with anything we could find and beat living fuck out of each other trying to win lmao.
lonelychip · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
climbing doors
1_Bagel · 1 points · Posted at 05:16:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pegger. We had a small playground on campus with a few features that you could climb on. This is how you played:
-One person is the pegger, who has a ball
-The other people are players
-The players have to run from feature to feature every 3 seconds (emphasis on RUN, not climb/jump, as in feet on the ground)
-While people are on the ground, the pegger can throw the ball at those people. If the ball hits that person, they become the new pegger.
-It seems simple, but it was super fun when I was little. Some people would just run back and forth quickly, while others were risk-takers and ran across the whole playground.
Eventually, it was shut down because someone got hit in the head, but I still remember it...
Paul_Lateman · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called baseball me and my father played it when I was a young man, though my son isn’t liking it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game where two people sit on opposite ends and one person stands in the middle. The two people on opposite ends would roll the ball(usually a basketball or soccer ball) to the other person, with the goal to hit the person in the middle. The person in the middle has to avoid the ball without moving side to side(pretty much the ball goes straight) the person who hits middle man, goes in the middle. You keep track of how many balls you avoid for your score.
Another game was called Abu hani (Hani’s dad don’t ask where the name came from). The way this game works is someone sits on a porch/stairs/steps/bench. This person is “Abu hani”, the rest of the players (usually requires at least 5 people) would insult Abu hani and try to get him to chase them. Abu hani can get get up whenever he wants once a person reaches a certain point (usually like 3-4 ft away maybe less) Abu hani them chases them and tries to tag one person before they reach the safe/starting zone. This person becomes Abu hani’s captor and is our for the game. Continue this until all the kids are captured. Last one captured is the new Abu Hani.
xCorvos · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We always played "Rip-Stick Keep Away" there were usually just 4 of us in teams of 2. We used the concrete pad/driveway at our house and everyone would be on ripsticks and we had a football. You always had ~10 seconds to pass the ball to your teammate (no handoffs) without the other team getting it. We played this game for hours and hours sometimes without even realizing that 5 hours had passed since we started. Fun times.
TittlesMcJizzum · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I pretended I was a soldier and would do everything a soldier would do. From showering, to haircut, to boot camp (kid style), to attire and what I ate. I was really strict for a couple years from 7 on up. Makes sense why I joined the Army, haha.
Kalamer56 · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Moon Rainbow.” We’d climb up the magnolia tree in my front yard as high as we could, pull our penises out, twist them up sideways, and then piss. It’d create a wild spiral that would glow in the moonlight, hence the name. It was originally called “Golden Cone,” and the definition of it I wrote still stands on Urban Dictionary.
Sometimes two of us would go at once. We called that a “Double Helix.”
HypeBeastChase · 1 points · Posted at 05:17:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Shoe wars!” I’m late to this thread but my best friend to this day and I invented a game where we would go in my backyard on my swing set and swing as high as we could. Once you were at your highest peak or whenever you felt good enough you would jump off of the swing and where ever you landed at you would leave a shoe, and the next person would try to best the distance. It was such a fun game we played it almost everyday after school
AlgunWey · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sudeki and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
feve10 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have 2.
I had a one of those pop a shot things (but a simple one). And we had to make it from 5 spots in the basement. The problem was we had low ceilings so you had to line- drive it in. The spots were "short" (free throw), "middle" (a inlet behind it), "stairs" shot from the stairs, "Railing" (a little bit behind stairs), "far" huge spot behind it. And occasionally "super far". It lasted us for hours and hours trying to get all 5 before the other person.
I had a HUGE driveway on a hill. And I have a TON of Hot Wheel cars. On summer days my friend and I used to grab 50 cars and do a bracket style tournament to see who went the farthest and then mark which one went the farthest and then do an even BIGGER tournament with the bracket winners. We used to give backstories and everything.
Beefy135 · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is gonna sound cringey as fuck, but...
If you’ve ever watched the Naruto Abridged series by MasakoX and Vegeta3986, they had a running joke about the log used for instant swap jutsus—mainly, that they would shout “Looooooggggg!” whenever it showed up.
My friends and I turned that into a game where one of us would say something like “Guess what?” or “Can I ask you something?” If they respond, you would say “Looooooggg!”
It was kinda like our version of that thing where you make someone look at your hand with the thumb and finger forming a circle.
merdub · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lesbian vagina doctor. Although I’m not sure how unique that is.
bingletons · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't have many friends at primary school. I would take my arms out of the sleeves of my coat, fasten the top button round my neck as if it was a cape, and pretend to fly around the playground as the superhero "The Scarlet Cornfield". No one else really joined in. My super power was annoying people I wasn't friends with.
86cobrastatus · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Would sneak into golf courses late at night and go “ice blocking”.
Meercatnipslip · 1 points · Posted at 05:19:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and the neighborhood kids would play a game called hubcap. We would hide behind parked cars and throw a hubcap behind a passing car and then when he stopped we'd go over and pick it up and yell "you lost your hubcap" and then run off with it. So much fun
Castleson · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Empire Earrh
papa_johnny69 · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Inversion... legit met 1 other person who has played it
ginger-zilla · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Getaway! The Mennonite crew building my family’s new home would tie up my brothers and me like a blacksmith puzzle so we could get out, but it would take a while so they could get some work done without us getting in the way. “Escape,” go bug the guys, rinse, repeat.
schelant15 · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I use to have this game where you'd take a small ball and one person would have to chuck it as high as they could. While the ball was in the air, everyone else had to run. The person who threw it would have to catch or retrieve the ball and when they had it, everyone had to freeze. They would then get three steps before having to throw the ball at someone. If you got hit, you were "it" next round.
pikkuarska · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Treeball", a variation of dodgeball where only one is throwing the ball & others are in a tree. Target is the whole body excluding hands and the head. Extra lives could be acquired if the ones in the tree could catch the ball, throw it far & then run around some set object before the thrower got back fetching the ball. If you got hit, you had to switch places with the thrower.
dangerously_eh · 1 points · Posted at 05:20:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighbor had a huge tree and there would be 3 or 4 of us in the tree and the person on the ground had a tennis ball and would throw the ball up and try and hit one of us. Sounds simple but since the tree was huge there were a bunch of branches so you had to throw it just right to hit someone. And if you were up in the tree you had to quickly maneuver around to avoid being hit. Once you were hit you had to go to the ground and throw the ball. So it was kinda like dodgeball/tag just in a tree. We wouldn’t chuck the ball super hard to hurt each other. I actually found it easier to lightly throw the ball to better my chances of hitting someone.
bullwer · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "hurt nerf" (shit name i know) but we'd take out the sharp bits from thumbtacks and put them on the end of nerf darts and shoot them at eachother. It hurt like hell but was good fun when we were bored.
Indiana_MF_Jones · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and go seek in the dark basement with tiny little flashlights.
nutmegggged · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play a game where I tried not to be standing/walking in front of a driveway as cars went past...
ZebraTorch · 1 points · Posted at 05:21:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"No-passes" was/is a game my mom taught us during our road trips as kids. The objective of the game is to spot license plates that aren't from the current state you're in and say "-insertstatehere- no passes!", That means you get a point. The challenge is if anyone else says "pass" while you're declaring the no-passes, they get the point instead of you. This game stretches and also applies to cemeteries for some odd reason. It was a great way the she kept us looking out of the windows and at the surroundings! We still play it on every road trip. 😁
Jetriment · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the hotdog
Oneshotarcher · 1 points · Posted at 05:22:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We didn't have an official name, so we called it the "Tennis Ball Game". Original, I know. So basically we had three tennis balls between four of us. Three of us threw it on the roof, while th fourth got the advantage of seeing where the balls go. Whoever didn't get a ball got the advantage.
LordRekrus · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Don’t know so much about as a child however my mates and I were at the beach and we invented ‘Sunken Pit Ball’. All you need is a tennis ball and a spade and a beach.
One is the batsman who holds the spade, you have a bowler and the rest are fielders, doesn’t matter how man fielders you have.
The bowler bowls/ throws to the batsman either over or under arm and the batsman hits it and then has to start shoveling sand directly below them building a hole.
The batsman gets out when you get the ball into the hole or touch the batsman.
The winner is the batsman with the most shovels.
NayanChandel · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yo mama
Theschyisfalling · 1 points · Posted at 05:23:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dibble dabble. Our parents would drop us off at the pool while they golfed and so we would take spare golf tees for dibble dabble. One person is It, and they would hide the golf tee somewhere in the pool. Everyone else (about 10 kids usually) would stand on the edge and watch for the tee to start floating up. If you saw the tee, you yelled "Dibble Dabble" and there was a five secind window for anyone to jump in to grab the tee.
The tee would usually get lost in the waves if a bunch if people jumped at once, as I sometimes there was and advantage to waiting a second. First person to get the tee out of the pool wins!
Its a was a small town 'country club" so there were always just a handful of us kids there and we had tge entire pool to ourselves. Great times
SaschSka · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Throw a Stone at my best friends head
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Commander keen, Gta2, leisure suite Larry, Willy beamish.
Cantrapbtwildomybest · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play hand tennis when I was small.
All you need is a tennis ball and some space and you just play tennis with it, except you use the palms of your hand as a racquet.
We used to have a line in the middle, single tap/ double tap rule, you can't "carry" the ball. Sometimes we change it up by forcing the players to use just one hand for the game. If you've got more people you make a team and play 2v2, 3v3, etc....
So hand tennis was a pretty big deal, kids used to dive into concrete to save the ball.
During school we'd have tournaments and knockout rounds during our recess or lunch break, winning streaks and being "MVP" was the coolest thing ever!
Damn school was fun :")
tfsxfabi · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Idk how it was named but there was one like enduro game or smth and you could do races but you could play it as an open world game aswell. .. the main thing was that you were able to build up so much momentum that you could jump extremely high and that was so much fun back in the days
AReverieofEnvisage · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a game where I would have colored pencils or markers and use the colors of the power rangers to fight against pens or regular pencils. So. The pointed end would be their head but at the same time it would also act as their fists. While the bottom or the eraser would act as their legs and feet. So I would twirl them against each other in the air and sometimes they would hit each other multiple times before bouncing away from each other. It was awesome for me.
Other times I would take all my toys and arrange them in the living room carpet protecting a mini basket. I would then try to score a goal while flicking my pogs that I had. I never did like pogs but I heavily enjoyed doing that. I guess I really did like having fun by myself.
gregdbowen · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eating rocks.
bak_g · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Flintstones" We'd walk around the back yard looking for toads, then we'd pick them up and throw them vertically as high as we could and yell "Flintstones!!" when the toads came crashing down, they would sometimes vomit op their insides
slicesofjoy · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Sphincter”. It was like Bump - or Knockout - from the free throw line of a basketball court, except we played it along the baseline. You would underhand the ball into the brick alongside my buddy’s garage door and it had to hit the bricks above the light and go over your head into the hoop. You had to make it before the person behind you did or you were the Sphincter.
We broke his parents’ light often, and I do not know why we called it what we called it.
Dracuify · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a coin game. The idea was to spin a coin by flinging it with your finger and keeping the coin spinning.
If you failed and the coin stopped spinning the opponent had a chance to flick the coin at your knuckles (you had to keep your knuckles on the floor). Missing or hitting would continue the game until one of the players taps out.
Fun times.
lisapizza1993 · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide the rock. When babysitting my cousins and I, my grandma would hide a rock that he glued googly eyes on. It would keep us occupied so he could watch Matlock in peace.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:26:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The penis game
funginum · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Messiah
Was indeed unique at the time and with badass soundtrack.
SirBenG98 · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stair ball. One player climbs to the top of these stairs we had outside (no railings or anything, about 15 to 20 feet off the ground) and we threw balls at them that they could Dodge or catch. If they caught a ball and was able to hit one of the bottom players. If the person on the stairs hit a bottom player they got a point. If a bottom player hit the person on the stairs they get to switch. . . Needless to say we really should have died there
gretiemm · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I see a lot of phosphenes (rings and circles your eyes see sometimes when closed in light) , possibly as a side effect of being colorblind. So does my cousin and we went to the same school so during recess we would run around the field using the phosphenes as targets while "shooting" at them with finger guns.
Definitely a weird af game, but also pretty unique I think.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Overall I was all about pretending these like complex narratives, usually involving great strife and impending doom. My dad is really into history and would tell me a lot about stuff that he’d read, often not age appropriate.
So I would either act out by myself or talk my friends into pretending various moments of strife with me. The Iranian hostage crisis, Mao’s purges, Stalin’s purges, the Soviet revolution, the fall of Saigon, the occupation of Paris, the fall of Barcelona, etc. It was mostly like fleeing and going “Come on! The Germans will be here any minute! We have to go”
Opeace · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to have a ton of random legos. As they started to become more expensive, my parents stopped buying as many for me, so I would go to the stores and take pictures of the front of some of the designs, go home and recreate the designs with my collection.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So there are these trees called cottonwood trees. They are pretty much the worst thing ever. They are soft so you can’t build with them, they don’t burn well for heat they cover everything in sap, they have these seed pods that turn into puffy cotton blowing around everywhere and they are impossible to kill. So as a kid we would have some one try to climb one and see how high they could get while the remaining players cut the tree down with claw hammers. The soft wood comes apart pretty easily so claw hammers gave the climber a bit of an advantage as a hatchet would fell the tree quickly. I guess the point of the game was to fall the from the highest without getting hurt. Bonus points if you could escape to a neighboring tree before yours hit the ground. When you grow up in a speck of a village in rural Alaska anything is a game.
inhoc · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a 3rd floor in our house that was essentially a big wreck room. My sister and I would have beanie baby wars because we had collected so many of them and didn't know what to do with them now that they weren't worth a fortune. Basically we split the room in half, built a fort on each side, then just tried to throw beanie babies at each other. If you hit someone they lost a point, if you used a big one they lost two points. The tricky part came in collecting more ammo once you ran out of beanie babies. You had to run out into no mans land and grab ones in the middle that had already been thrown. We had a rule if you crossed the middle line to collect beanie babies, you couldn't throw at the other side and if they hit you it was double points. It led to lots of Matrix esque moments of dodging enemy fire and scrambling back to your fort with your new found weapons. I was two years older than my sister, into baseball, and a future engineer, so my fortresses were much sturdier and when I'd barrage her fort it would often lead to screaming and a collapsing fort unless I let her use the couch or a table. She was always a good fun sport about it though and often brings it up as a fond memory. We're almost 30 now and if we ever had the opportunity I bet we'd play again.
colorfulsponge · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Office” was a grownup life game my cousins and I played in my grandma’s back yard growing up. We each had an area in the yard that would be our office where we did our designated work. The oldest cousin would be the banker that day and we’d use leaves from an avocado tree as money to buy snacks brought out from the house, office supplies, etc. Another cousin would be the nurse, and every time one of us got a scrape or something she would cut off an aloe leaf to treat it. My favorite part about it was that the only money we’d ever earn was from the “banker” shaking the avocado tree and collecting as many leaves as we could for 30 seconds a day. Also peeing outside lol
VegitoEnigma · 1 points · Posted at 05:28:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to not be able to shut up, so my parents, as we were on the road a lot, made up a game; if there was a yellow car, whoever called out yellow car first won. Eventually through my complaints, pink cars were worth two yellow cars and a purple car was worth three! Whoever wins gets free ice cream.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:29:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school an elite few played "tackle soccer." Basically soccer but we just slide tackled non-stop. The goal wasnt so much to get the ball but rather to see who would cause the most damage to the other players. Also there were no teams, free for all.
RektLad · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
After school me and my friends would get the bus home, being young and edgy and possibly mentally deficient we came up with a game to pass the time: the imaginatively named "left hand side of the bus game". Similar to "kiss bang marry" every time you pass someone on the left of the bus there were three options and being 14 and unreasonably cringy we chose "fuck, kill, or shit on their chest" needless to say I'm disgusted by my past self especially the amount of old ladies whose chests I elected to shit on, but damn if I haven't been cry laughing the whole time remembering this.
Effingcrustaceans · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Every year when my cousins would come for the holiday dinner at my house, we would play Hall Ball. We have a hallway that leads to some stairs. There was a low ceiling and the stairs were about 20 feet from the wall you were hitting from. We used a small toy ball and it was just like baseball rules. We had a pitcher and a hitter. The hitter would hit it with their hand. Certain distances were base runs and if you made it down the stairs without hitting the ground it was a home rub. That was hard to do because there was someone “down field” and if they caught the ball you were out. To this day that was the most fun game I played as a kid. Next would have to be four square and then tetherball 😋
AspergersAndCoffee · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"I don't play", a game that we still play as almost high schoolers. Basically tag but you need to scream "I don't play" when you tag someone. If you say "I don't play", you are tag immunized.
REHayes · 1 points · Posted at 05:30:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lawn dart chicken... This was back in the day when lawn darts had long metal pointed tips. I would play this with my 2 little brothers. 2 people stand across the yard from each other with their legs apart and you take turns throwing the darts across the yard. If you moved your feet you lost. Whoever got their dart closest to between the other persons feet was the winner. I often wonder if our game contributed to the redesign of this childhood toy. They no longer make them with the long metal tips. I also taught my little brothers how to play “bicycle chicken” and “I will shoot my bb gun through your bicycle spokes as you ride by (I promise)”.
grubuloid · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to do stuff like spin around really fast, and then try to run in a straight line, and another thing where one of us would lie on the floor with our feet in the air, and the other would sit on top of that persons feet, and they'd get launched across the room/
ALTO_HUSKY1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
M I would play “poison ball” with my friends. Basically we got a bunch of balls, put the lm on a trampoline, and tried to avoid them. If you got hit by one of the balls you were out
brownsugar88 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock’em. Rolling up one sock and putting it in another one. Then the combatants swing them around like a cosh.
Some favoured long pendulous sockems others short controlled sockems. No bruises and no one can prove anything to mum. What a time to be alive.
whitey7011 · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play a game called “hide my Halloween candy before my grubby ass siblings could find it and eat it” And then a few months later we would play “hide the Easter candy” ... basically same game but it’s a new season. Contestants get bigger, stronger and more cunning with each season that passed.
Blitzkiller · 1 points · Posted at 05:32:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dinocrisis 2 on Play 1.
rci22 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play turned-based battles with all my fat pencil erasers. One of each color was in the party and each one had a different elemental power. I was about 13 and knew it was too little-kiddish for my age, so I tried to keep it a secret.
Meems04 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bottle rocket tag.
Exactly like it sounds...
lj379 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My antisocial personality even came through to my family when I was a kid. I liked to play “postman” where I’d delivery them letters when I wanted to speak to them and they’d have to put their letters back to me in “the mail box” and raise the flag to alert me to collect. If I wanted money I’d include in the note “postage required”
Captain-Who · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Slip, a bunch of kids would split into two teams, one on bikes, the other on foot. The two teams would start at the opposite sides of our small town. A target was made, and the kids on foot would have to make it to the target any way possible without being spotted by a kid on a bike. There was a clear zone around the target where the bikes were not allowed.
kpdeathnote13 · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it "Tom Sawyer". We have 2 groups, the 1st group(the loser team) must line up and lean forward supporting each other. The 2nd group must climb and ride on their selected person, once all the 2nd group are all on the 1st group's back, the 1st group can now move and attempt to make the person on their back fall without using their hands.
If the person on the back falls, it's one point for group 1 but if the person in the 1st group fall its one point for group 2. The group with the most point wins.
Sorry for my bad english.
2kcraft · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stick Wars. Behind my neighborhood there was a huge hole in the woods so we’d get two teams on both sides of the hole and throw sticks from the ground at each other. It was dumb af there was never a winner and it always just ended when someone got hit in the face and or started crying. We did this like every day lol.
ImmaCheese · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Club Penguin... My best childhood game :)
EpsilonChurchAlpha · 1 points · Posted at 05:34:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My life
shaneissalty · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As children we would turn off the lights and play " who's in my mouth"
kayastar357 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Invading Babies"
I would gather up all of the pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, cushions, etc. in the house and bury my brother under this giant mountain of plush stuff and then slowly tunnel through to try and "discover" him without him detecting me first. If he saw light, he'd burst out from under and yell "invading babies!" And I'd lose. If I managed to find a foot or something before he realized it, then I'd yell out the same thing and tackle/dogpile on top of him. Then we'd switch places. He was around 4 or 5 at that time and I was around 9 or 10. Amazingly for all of the unsupervised play time we got as kids we never came up with anything more dangerous!
ostustuki_10 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Naked and afraid with my uncle
FreaknTijmo · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Neverhood. It's a claymation puzzle game. Blew my fukin' mind as a kid.
haens1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play a game by myself when sitting in the back of a car. I never had a name for it, but i would pick a "spot" on the other side of the road, and anytime a car drove past the "spot", lift up my toes, and put them down after they passed, as to kind of outline the moving cars. It was honestly really fun on highways.
DaAnthonian3117 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Boy-Girl-Animal-Food-Country (sometimes).
The purpose of the game was to find a thing with a letter that you picked
ie. the letters G. So you would go
George, Gurdie, Gorilla, Goat and Greenland. You would get 10 for original answers, and 5 points for unoriginal answers. you would keep on going until all letters were answered, and you would add up all your points.
Deathr550eaper22 · 1 points · Posted at 05:36:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my dad played hide and seek but he is still hiding and has been the world champion for 13 years
goreshde · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to jump on a trampoline with a like pumping iron weight on it. When the weight hit my foot it would hurt a lot, the goal was not to get hit by it. I LOVED it, until I got good at it and the game got boring.
sadandmissinghim · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister when we were kids we used to live in a house (it’s still our family home) with a big hibiscus tree in front of it.
We would gather the flowers, and start mushing them (they turn very slimy/slippery..like the same consistency as the liquid for making bubbles) and mix them with water. Some parts of petals or parts of the flowers and leaves we separate and we start selling the “flower juice”with some “petal flavorings” TO EACH OTHER. Like we took turns to buy from each other. We don’t drink them (apparently you can drink hibiscus petals as tea? Haha I never knew before)
Yeah so that’s how we spent a lot of our summers...selling each other flower juices 🤷🏼♀️ Twas fun! The process of making your juice looks great is nice.
JakobGarcia · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played scooter jousting basically you got a fake sword or a long stick and you charge at eachother on scooters and whoever falls or chickens out loses.
K_Ver · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to play a game called "Mr. Pillow". When we were young we had bunk beds, and for some reason there was one of those ergonomic pillows in addition to our normal pillows, but we both hated it. So throughout the day, if the pillow was on your bunk, you'd switch it. When it was bedtime if Mr. Pillow was on your bunk, you were stuck with it.
I loathed that pillow.
Wissotsky · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In kindergarten me and my friend came up with a game "Tetris" where we would just shake and dance around like were having a severe seizure.
Actually a lot of kids played it.
Darmented · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends play a game called "Do it or Get Slapped," and someone will give you a choice of doing a dare or getting slapped. You could only have on chickening out of a dare each day and you couldn't have other dares cancel each other out either, because it became a problem.
Moxxic · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bad soccer. As in badminton and soccer. I am so glad my friend didn't have braces at the time
octoelephant22 · 1 points · Posted at 05:39:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guess the commercials! My sisters and I had a lot of fun playing it.
Also “It’s mine” when flipping through my mom’s Tupperware and Avon catalogues. You know how there are pictures of delicious food in tupperwares? Or cute toys for kids, or clothes, or lip balms? Our small hands are waiting above the pages and as one of us flips it, you have to cover the picture with your hand and say it’s yours.
We would also play with paper dolls and build “houses” for them using legos, boxes, slippers, pillows, etc. The funny thing is we never really get around to playing with the paper dolls. It’s already dinner time before we “finish” the houses trying to one-up each other.
triethan · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I play padiddle. Its when you're in a car with friends (or by yourself cause mama didn't raise a quitter) and you see a car coming at you with a headlight that is on and one that is off. That's when you say padiddle and touch the ceiling of the car. First person to touch the ceiling gets the point. Last person to touch the ceiling takes off an item of clothing.
Later on i decided that there would be some additions to padiddle.
Semis = 20 points.
When you see a car behind you with a headlight out you say eldiddap and touch the floor. First person gets the point, last one takes of an item of clothing.
I will play this shit all the time, when i'm by myself, or with a bunch of people. Whether or not their playing alongside me is inconsequential.
colorfulsponge · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fairies. Cousins and I would make a bunch of fairy houses in my grandma’s front yard using only leaves, sticks, flowers etc. I remember at one point we all seriously believed we were building houses for “real fairies” and were devastated after it rained one night and the houses were gone. Our fairies were homeless and we were heartbroken lol Favorite part was making the bathroom and using acorn shells as the toilet.
JohnnyDrama21 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Why don’t we play night crawlers anymore, Frank?!
AnothrDay1 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I always played "Padiddle".. when a car drove by with one of their headlights off, you would tell "Padiddle".
whatdtheromansdo4us · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Euchre
Taman_Should · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to the thread, but our game was played on a trampoline with a canvas barrier around it so you couldn't fall off. The game was called "dead man" or "dead guy tag." Four or five people sat on the trampoline, everyone around the edge, except for one person in the middle. The person in the middle was the "dead man." The dead man would have to spin around a few times, and wear a blindfold so that they couldn't see. Everyone ran around the edge of the trampoline trying to avoid the dead man, who had to continue lying flat on the trampoline surface since even though they were technically a zombie, they were still "dead." The game began with a chant to raise the "dead man" from the dead, and whoever was playing the dead man would quietly and creepily start to come alive. Whoever got tagged by the dead man became the dead man in the next round.
It's remarkable no one was injured.
CorneaBoss · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived in queens NY. Someone was stabbed in our apartment complex elevator and their body was dragged for quite a distance. We played “follow the blood trail” but never got to the end as it went on for many blocks.
CharlieWhiterun · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pretend to have friends.
Aph_9000 · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not as a child, but when I was in the Air Force for technical training, we all went out for smoke breaks and played "lighter game" where the whole class would stand in a circle and toss lighters back and forth, catching and throwing them with the back of our hands. If you miss, you're out. So now I have a really weird skill where I can catch small objects with the back of my hand?
The other thing we did was throw rocks at each other like savages. Boredom is one hell of a drug.
HAMBURGERdemonsANDme · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Claw was a fun game, it was about pirate who was a cat! I still find the game to be fun!
nocturnalplur · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would sit on those sit and spin things and go around and around like it was a time machine. When it stopped, we got off and wandered around the room in a different time. Sometimes the past, sometimes in the future. Sometimes we would pretend to see dinosaurs and they would chase us until we jumped on the sit and spin, spun it around and around, and went to a different year.
SkipJohnson_FBI · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Police Brutality" usually two of us were cops and the other two "thugs."
meowzapalooza7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whammel- my brother and I would get on all fours on opposite ends of the living room, each guarding a “goal.” I would guard the liquor hutch and my brother would guard the laundry room door. We played with a soft, squishy, small soccer ball. You basically played it like air hockey or soccer with your hands, crawling around and smacking the ball at your goal. Sometimes we’d spar back and forth like table tennis which was fun. You also couldn’t dribble up too far bc our living room wasn’t that big. When you score, you yell WHAMMEL!
Good times.
Tobikens · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Sharkey at my church!! There was this old wooden play set with a bridge and then each side had slides and whatever else. One person was the shark and was under the bridge, the rest of us were on the play set. We’d run across the bridge and whoever was the shark had to tag someone as they ran across (or if you could reach them anywhere else on the playground, like if you’re sitting in the slide and you get tagged). So whoever was tagged became sharkey!
So it’s basically tag but you had to be a lil sneaky and it was on a playground. Super fun though!
bsbrit · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Putt putt and faddy bear? Freddy the Fish
Both on a 1995 PC
lindseyangela · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played “The Sock Game” whenever either of us used the bathroom. Our shared bathroom was next to a long hallway, so whoever was using the toilet would stock up on balled socks, and the other person would run by the open door down the hallway and try to dodge the flying socks. Every once in a while one of our parents would walk by and sigh very loudly when they saw us.
chanderpaul83 · 1 points · Posted at 05:42:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bed Cricket”
My brother and I used to be on in our bedroom and were supposed to study. Our mom used to keep checking in on us and so we had to be quiet. The weather used to be pretty cold and we didn’t want to step on the floor either. So we devised this game where we made a ball out of crumbled paper .... it used to be the size of a ping pong ball .... we taped it over to make it a lil hard. The bat used to be any book that was long and light in weight. The batsman and baller used to be on their respective beds. The batsman would get out if he hit the floor or gave a catch. And if he managed to hit the ball on the other bed or the wall behind it, he would score a 4 or a 6. We spent a few winters playing this game while our mom thought we were studying 🙂
Now I live in a different country, away from my parents and brother, and memories like these are a source of both joy and sadness. I tell my kids about all the games we used to play together and I hope that they too will remember their siblings with the same love and affection that we have for each other🙂
Conjo9786 · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My backyard had a seven foot tall tower with a slide and ladder attached that my dad built for my sisters. Me and one of my sisters used to play this game where the tower was a spaceship that took us to different worlds. My dad had a bunch of screwdrivers and we would stab them into the ground and pretend they were bombs that would blow up the planet. My sister and I caused mass genocide across the Galaxy.
UrbanHyena · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock-a-pults, when I visited a friend he showed me this game which involved using a shovel, putting the mid section on a log, and using your weight to fire it. Two teams hurtling rocks at each other, first ream to cry uncle loses.
UrbanHyena · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rock-a-pults, when I visited a friend he showed me this game which involved using a shovel, putting the mid section on a log, and using your weight to fire it. Two teams hurtling rocks at each other, first team to cry uncle loses.
trashcanigan · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to take turns throttling each other till we passed out . Think we called it "American Dream". We done it for the feeling of Euphoria just before you lost consciousness. It was a very PG version of erotic asphyxiation now that I think of it.. . .
fakeasfuckjake · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I still am a kid but we played trampoline boxing surprisingly fun if you ever get a chance to try it
HEY_HEY_its_NAY_NAY · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Frick” or frisbee stick. We had hiking sticks and a frisbee and created a game. We would run around on the beach (because it was vacation) with our sticks in the air and someone would throw the frisbee and we would chase and catch it with the stick. Whoever caught it got points and if they could throw the frisbee with the stick, double points!
Fun family game we made up with my cousins, aunts, and uncles. Fun times in seaside.
megoyo · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my siblings would play "bus surfing". We'd stand in the middle of the bus and try to stay standing without moving your feet for as long as possible. In retrospect it was probably pretty insufferable for everyone else on the bus, but now I have excellent balance on public transportation, so.
jaxiecat · 1 points · Posted at 05:43:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The Finger Game." I played this with kids in my elementary school all the time. It could be played with multiple people but is typically 1v1. Each person starts with one finger up on each hand. You then take turns hitting eachothers fingers with your finger. The number of fingers you hit them with would get added to their hand. So, the person starting would have one finger up and when they hit the opponent's hand the opponent would add one more finger. Then the opponent would have two fingers up, and could hit the starting player's hand and add two fingers to their hand, and so on. When you get five fingers up on one hand, that hand is out. You could only get someone's hand out with even addition (like 4+1 or 2+3) and if it wasn't even it would carry over. So if someone had four fingers up and got hit with two fingers, that hand would not be out but would end up with one finger up. The first person to get both of their hands out loses. Kind of hard to explain, but it was fun and got kids to technically do math.
NothingCanHurtMe · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego Hide and Go Seek.
We would draw up two square pieces of paper representing the loot and the warrant. The person hiding would be the crook and would have a certain amount of time to hide the loot, the warrant and finally him- or herself.
The person seeking would have to find the loot and the warrant before finding the crook. If the seeker inadvertently found the crook before finding the loot and the warrant they would lose.
urmomisdisappointed · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My neighborhood friends and I created and played a game called “Medusa”. One person was Medusa and you had “jewels” which were pillows. We seriously gathered all the pillows together for this game. Medusa would have a temple (a blanket fort) with her jewels inside. The trick was to grab as many jewels without being tagged or having eye contact with Medusa. If she got you, you froze like a statue. The other “jewel thieves” would be able to unfreeze you by tagging you. It was such a fun and wild game.
d_pikachu · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
WWE home edition with siblings.
rekabnoraa · 1 points · Posted at 05:44:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
wanking into a Littlewoods catalogue
Eee_Coli · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pen & Paper pokemon games. We made up our own region with our own routes, gyms, cities. We also designed some pokemon as well XD. Then one person acted like a DM/narrator and the others played the game. Passed countless hours through this.
ilovemAfoot · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called froggy doggy and it was a cross between leap frog and pretending to be some form of dog/frog crossover
WillG2568 · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Undertale
subjectzerogod · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
#KillerInstinctGOLD
Wheres-My-Supa-Suit · 1 points · Posted at 05:46:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My grandparents have nice pond about 100 yards in-front of their house. My grandpa golfed a lot and use to buy large buckets of old used golf balls and practice by hitting them from their house into the water. When we were young, my cousins, my brother and I use to go get handfuls of golf balls and hit them into the pond with a baseball bat instead of a club. You can hit a golf ball so far with a bat ( I recommend you try it, but be careful) and they soar! Whoever hit the most into the pond won. It was good times. It’s a very simple game, but we were so competitive when we played. We never had a name for it, so lets just call it “DingerGolf”...I wonder how many golf balls are at the bottom of that pond...😂
AnthonysBigWeiner · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Cut off"
It was a friend me and my best friend played on bikes. We weren't allowed to stop and had to make the others put their feet on the ground by cutting them off. Really dangerous ngl but it was so much fun, we developed a meta and everything. Good times
exlovher · 1 points · Posted at 05:47:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dress Up with my uncle
pharmdoll · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sock wars
Gcatjones · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would play “buy that chair”. We would hold hands and spin in a circle real fast, then one of us would let go and fall/land in a position. The one standing would assess the chair for design then sit on the “chair” to see if it was comfy enough to buy it. If the chair was bought you won the game. Still fun to this day
kevbayer · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A card game called King's Court. It was like uber-Uno with a dash of renfaire.
Found another copy at a yard sale a few years ago and my son (now 18) loves playing it with his friends.
gerberner · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “Mainstreet Co-street” and we would basically divide our big L-shaped driveway in half with a chalk line and one person would be the cop while everyone else who was playing were just normal people. Then we would all get on bike, or scooters, or big wheels, or roller blades and play on the Co-Street side of the driveway. Whenever anyone went to the mainstreet side of the driveway the police would have to pull them over and it usually ended in a big police chase/ game of tag
Oddgamereddit · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stubbs but for play station even tho it wasn't for it. Got a CD with mutliple demos and Stubbs stood out the most. Stubbs is a 'play as the zombie' game. Cartoony and funny.
majestic-sheep · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would tie up our school sweatshirts in a specific way so they would resemble maces and hit each other with them.
We also had a series of elaborate games that involved chasing each other around the basketball hoop with one hand on the pole.
Notumbre · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Whole laundry list. I was always outside when I was little.
I have no clue why, but when I was growing up, ‘zombie tag’ (if you get tagged, you and the person who tagged you were both taggers) was called ‘witch tag’ or, if you were totally cool and grown up, ‘b-word tag’ (I swear I’m not making this up)
I was best friends with my neighbors grandson, and we had our own crop of games.
First was ‘Lazzerman’ (that’s how we spelled it). Basically, you needed chalk and a driveway. You had to draw a straight line of chalk across the driveway and had to prove that you could cross the driveway without stepping on a line. Basically, like playing Horse with a basketball, but you’re a spy dodging ‘lazzers’. If you made it, they had to make it, then it was their turn, and they got to draw the line.
We also ‘played’ Code Lyoko (a show on Cartoon Network) and spent more hours than I’d like to admit trying to pry the manhole in front of my house open so we could set up our own sewer-base like the show. Funnily enough, once, a pothole ate through so much of the asphalt that it broke towards the sewer, and my uncle, who was in public works, let us go in and hold flashlights while they worked.
There was a rocky ditch separating the 2 houses, so we always challenged each other to ‘ditch walks’ where you had to walk the length of the ditch with no shoes or socks.
A fun running tally we had was how often his grandma swore when we watched the news.
I don’t know how it got the name, but ‘Tom and Jerry’ was a game we played where whoever could fall off the monkey bars and land on their head and neck more without giving up won. I lost my first tooth this way.
The game I remember most fondly was ‘pregnant joey’ (since his name was Joey) where he and his 200 pound self grabbed my 60 pound body and swung me in circles by the arms and threw me as far as he could. He graded me on how ‘realistically’ I crumpled, and I graded him on how far he threw me.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my neighbor when we were in fourth grade would pick up the empty beer bottles that we would find in the undeveloped part of our neighborhood, empty them if there was any liquid, and one person would throw one bottle up in the air and the other would have to try and hit that bottle with another bottle. The aim was to get both bottles to shatter. It was a lot of fun
TheLogickalOne · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There used to be a computer game called recoil that was basically us controlling a tank. My parents and I tried looking for it again but to no avail. I was 7 back then and I'm 26 now. Anyone else heard of the game?
Tinkerwell79 · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Pit. Whilst driving done the road (1980s), my mom would hit the brakes at random. Us kids in the back of the station wagon, with the metal-backed seats laid down, would slide forward, often slightly violently, but try not to fall into The Pit (the gap between the back and front seats). Definitely would not get away with this now, what with seatbelt laws and other such nonsense (/s).
nastykidjay · 1 points · Posted at 05:50:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Zombie", a game that I came up with one day during recess back in 4th grade.
It was basically freeze tag, but one person would start spreading the "infection" until the whole gang of kids had it. The dude that survived until the end without getting infected won.
That game had the most casualties in the playground, since kids would jump from the slides to catch others, tackle them, or actually bite them. It was fucking fun.
EDIT: Just to add a note:
It's so heartwarming to see that kids still play this game. A few months ago I went back to my old primary school (I don't remember the reason), and there was this group of children playing it.
Acekiller088 · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Time traveler.
Now this is a sort of improv game where everyone has to be invested in the scene and in winning the game
To play you would have 3+ people. 1 would go out if the room while the other two would create characters for themselves and hide a certain object. Then the first person would come in again and would try to gain the others trust and let them tell the first where the object was.
If the first person could find the object within ten minutes of him returning to the room he won.
But here’s the kicker. If the first person messed up and was unable to convince the others to show him the object he could call “reset”. This would start the conversation over again but the clock would still be ticking.
So in the end the others would have to decide who “won”. And it was fun either way. However, I personally preferred letting the first person find it.
JerseyByNature · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and my cousins and I used to set up 2 couches at opposite end of their basement (room was maybe 15x10) to use as cover. We then got every throwable item they had that was at least a little softer than a baseball (basketballs, racquetballs, tennis balls, footballs, etc.) We would then turn off all the lights and fire away at each other. I don't remember clear rules for points. The loser was usually the first team to cry out, "TIME OUT! TIME OUT! TURN ON THE LIGHTS!"
juanpedrobalkenende · 1 points · Posted at 05:51:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing with my uncle in the basement
tboneotter · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a pool table, but young brothers and I didn't [want/like/know how] to play pool. So, we would throw all the balls to one half of the pool table, then the two of us would toss balls with incredible velocity to hit the other balls, bringing them either back or knocking them into the sockets. Any balls that came back across the halfway point were fair game for throwing. The goal was to get as many balls into sockets, not horde balls, and not run out of balls on our half. Fun times.
SaltedBiscuitTV · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ping Pong Pada Wong Bong Bong.
Literally just pong. But with two people and a ball... Sooooo... soccer?
burstappless · 1 points · Posted at 05:54:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lily looking through wasnt a game I played as a child but as a teenager... it was so simple yet elegant..
irunxcforfun · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skateboard drag racing. We'd place one knee on the skateboard and gain speed by kicking with the other foot. First one to the bottom, alive, wins.
Maegnart · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take turns piling all of the couch cushions, blankets, etc that we could find, on top of the other person until it was pitch black underneath it all. Then it was just sort of a waiting game to see how long until the other one panicked. Usually me, since he would sit on top of me, and I would thrash around trying to get an air hole.
I'm now realizing that my mild claustrophobia might have a root in playing this game...
danialaqashaaa · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
dogding my parents’ beating. im asian
VadJag · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont think we ever named it.
At night when we were kids, our bedroom was up the stairs. The bathroom was the opposite side of the house through the living room, kitchen, and down a hallway. One of us hid in the dark house, the rest had to get to the bathroom and/or back without getting caught, while also being quite as we had to pass by our parents bedroom.
Good times
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Put your bike in lowest gear, try to trap others without touching them, if you touch the ground with your foot you're out.
zackuo · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kill the Dill with the Pill
The Pill being any sort of ball, the Dill being the person who had the ball, and Kill meaning tackle the crap out of the person 😂
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
What’s the cloud? we would take road trips all the time and it was super boring and we had nothing to do. so one time i just started this game where you had to spot a cloud and you each say what it looks like and the person who got the most votes won and got a point. here’s how it works For example, say if you see a cloud and you think it looks like a duck. then your brother/sister says “No it’s clearly a baby” then your dad says i think it’s more of a dragon and your mom thinks it’s a face. Everyone unanimously has to agree on what the cloud looks like and it has to be an option that one of the members said and you can’t vote for yourself. so say my duck gets 2 votes, the baby gets one vote and the dragon gets one vote, the duck wins, so i get one point and we do that until we reach our destination.
Loganberrycherry · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nanosaur. I played it on my iMac G3. You were a raptor (or similar dinosaur, I can't recall) and you shot lasers and had a jetpack.
kglens · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played baseball but in between the bases there was a guy with a rope and the objective of that “fielder was to rope you by the feet and keep you from going anywhere since there was only one guy in the outfield to round up the ball. Most times we ended up pissed off at each other and started hucking rocks at each other till one of us got hit in the head and ran home.
mefirstandthegimmes7 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
4th graders vs 5th graders "get the red kickball in the other person's soccer goals, NO RULES! (No out of bounds, hand balls are fine, kicking, tackling, anything goes). Just get..the ball..in the other team's soccer goal.
Zaynnie · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide n seek.
virex4 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smooch or Share !!!!!!!
TomDekkard · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bottle-Ball”. Basically hacky sack but with an empty Powerade bottle.
sigma-octantis · 1 points · Posted at 05:58:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
First: happy cake day!
Second: to answer your question, my siblings mde a game of going “Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!” every tiny we drove in a sort of tunnel, or at least extended enclosed space (usually due to an overhead multi/lane highway(s)) until it passed and they could see the sky again. You has to last until then or else you die.
Five-year-old me caught on. Naturally, this drove our parents nuts.
Deltor2k · 1 points · Posted at 05:59:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Chicken Tag ” When I was in first grade I played this game that was essentially tag but the people being chased were supposed to act like chickens and the ‘it’ person was supposed to act like they had a shotgun and shoot the chickens. Nothing crazy special but an example of kids being overly morbid.
Andrus098 · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft,but i can't play it anymore because pewdiepie killed it
maxjt18 · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Schmear ball. My buddy had a higher end nerf type basketball goal set up on the door of his closet in his room. The kind that came with a small basketball that was made of rubber and the rim was metal, backboard was plastic, etc. On the opposite side of the room was the futon he slept on. One person laid flat on their back on the bed and tried to shoot the ball into the net. The other person rebounded the ball, and promptly threw it as hard as they could at the shooter to “schmear” them. There were no points, no winner, and a decent number of intentional and unintentional nut shots. Junior high was a strange time.
NewtGringo · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Spud. I just remember it had something to do with a tree and covering your eyes, and we played it in my friend's backyard until the fireflies came out and then we played tomb raider.
phol782 · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Bubble-gum run". This was in primary school. Essentially to start the game someone gets nominated to get on the ground whilst everyone else surrounds them. You then proceed to kick the person on the ground (usually lightly) whilst chanting "nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide".
After a minute or so of kicking, the person on the ground screams "BUBBLE-GUM RUN". At this point the person on the ground gets up and chases and tackles someone. Now whoever that person tackles stays on the ground and everyone surrounds that person and proceeds to kick them again chanting the song.
joebertotto · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We called it “wave.” It’s basically hide and go seek/tag but the zone was usually three houses across. One person is “it” and they are trying to get everyone out by looking at them and calling their name while they are still visible. If you get out you have to go to “jail” once your in jail you have to keep an eye out for another player who is it “it” and is not in “jail” to wave to you. Once you see the wave you have to wave back and once this happens your free again. And you can run from jail whenever you want before all the people get found and put in jail.
IceCreamCake307 · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we stayed at my dads, we'd go downstairs to the pool table and play knuckle break. Literally rolled pool balls as fast as we could at each other in an attempt to wound each other. It was fun but one of my pinky fingers still doesn't work properly.
GooglePlex569 · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ricochet. We had to throw a football at a wall and get it to land in someone else's hands. The higher the streak, the more points.
Drinking_thescenery · 1 points · Posted at 06:01:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I did my math homework, I did something called a “chip flip”. Every time I answered a problem , I’d eat a tortilla chip and do a summersault over the back of the living room sofa. My dad thought it was awesome, and would clap every time.
kpmgeek · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Get in the car and try to spot Dad's body on the side of the road anytime he was late coming home from his long commute.
Fun times.
chickadeeelynnn · 1 points · Posted at 06:02:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game on road trips called, "cow, I win". You literally just had to see a cow and say "cow, I win" and could only say it multiple times if the cows we're separated by fences. Road trips through the Midwest for ya!
intothecircle · 1 points · Posted at 06:03:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Seek and Scare! It’s essentially hide and seek in the dark but when the person finds you, you try and scare them. Then whoever scared them the most is who is it next
stevenbrotzel91 · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide from dad
captainph · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Guess the ad"
Every time a commercial shows on TV, my sister and I would guess the name of the product.
First person to guess gets a point, and person to get the most points at the end of the show we were watching wins.
sydthekid20001 · 1 points · Posted at 06:05:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This isn't really unique, but I just thought it was too cute not so share. My sister and I would grab things from our kitchen (cans of food, cereal boxes) then set up a "store" in our kitchen. We would "sell" things to our parents.
We would also be in the living room with our toy cash register, which had a small microphone on it. My sister and I would pretend to be sectarians, and drink hot water, pretending it was coffee
gorilladick420 · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Battle Bikes!! We would find a parking lot and try to knock each other off the bike
Skycraftking · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I had two games. They were footskitball and buntball. Footskitball was basically basketball with a football and buntball was kickball but you only run to the pitchers mound and back to home.
khaleesistits · 1 points · Posted at 06:06:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My childhood home was next to a cow pasture and across from a eucalyptus forest, so a lot of my childhood memories involve wandering the wilderness next to my house. One summer my neighbors and I invented a game we called the spinning game where one person would close their eyes and get spun in circles until they lost their sense of direction. The others would then lead the person into the wilderness and they’d try to guess where they were. This was excellent fun for about a week, until one of the neighbors, we’ll call her E, and I were in the forest playing the spinning game and I led her straight through a wasps nest. I remember looking down and seeing them crawling across her legs and screaming bloody murder about bees as we bolted through the trees. E got stung 10 or 20 times and lost a shoe to the woods that day, and I somehow made it out without a scratch.
Looking back that game could have ended up a lot worse, but then again I wasn’t the one who stepped into a wasps nest in flip flops.
PandaWolfPlayz · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and some friends would go to a stretch of rode where no cars go down, one or two people would throw PVC pipe to try and stop the rest who rode bikes down the rode.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:07:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend had a large back yard with orange trees and mostly the signature Greek dead bushes and grass so it was bright yellow and brown on the ground and lime green on top.
Anyway, we had built this whole world in our minds and basically played out a fantasy movie in real time, full improv. It. Was. So. Much. Fun! We where both about 7 or 8 and in the scenario we played out her back yard was the corrupted land where the evil guys lived and we where just two magic sisters who had been separated at birth and found each other thanks to our dragon tattoos we both had on our wrists. We would fight imaginary wars and train our magic skills with sticks and stones and we may or may no have thought her neighbors shiny yard decorations where the tresure and his dog the monster protecting theme and having broken into his yard to steal some of his rocks.
If you have or know young kids tell theme it would be a fun idea to pretend they have magical powers and their imaginations will build a world around their actions. These are some of my most treasured memories of my friend and I.
daemyn · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cone ball. We would get two teams on each side of a line on a pretty small court. Then we would use sticks or broom handles or whatever to fling roadcones across the line at each other. Usually 2 or 3 cones were in play at a time. Dodgeball rules, if you got hit with a cone you were out, but it you catch it on your stick your whole team gets back in.
Runeowl73 · 1 points · Posted at 06:08:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "Steve Irwin Game". One person would be Steve, and have to climb across the swingset without touching the ground. The other person was an animal and would be allowed to catch Steve if he touched the ground.
There were different levels with different animals - emu, crocodile, blue tongue lizard, and they all had different ways they were allowed to move/catch Steve.
gubbinnubbin74 · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When in the middle of nowhere it was zombie apocalypse. Went out in the woods and pretended zombies were after us, made shelter and weapons with sticks, and occasionally added in super powers. When in the city it was spot the next Florida man
AdmiraI-Snackbar · 1 points · Posted at 06:09:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family plays a road trip game where everyone picks a rare vehicle, like a car pulling a boat or a yellow semi-truck. Every time we pass one you can score a point, but only if you call it out. The round is over when we pass under a certain number of bridges. If you saw a car carrier, you got the same number of points as there were cars on it.
throwwwwwwwwwww90 · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Floppy socks. When you come inside from the snow and your socks are a little wet, pull them down so that you have extra sock at your toes. Then kick that part of the sock at each other while saying "floppy socks!"
Stardustmaster79 · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Killer Ball, 3 of us, one at each end of the hall, one in the middle. We had one of those “Tennis” size bouncy balls and we through it SUPPER hard trying to hit the person in the middle. Only rule was we had to bounced it off the wall.
Murder in the dark, same as above but in a pitch black room.
Cops and robbers on ATC’s. If you got caught we would sit you down tie you up with tie downs and dust you the hell out!
stawberryshortcakes · 1 points · Posted at 06:10:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother, sister, and I used to catch bees in those cheap, plastic bug catchers, put them on the trampoline, and jump until they opened. The goal of the game was to see who could get off the trampoline first. We had a net around our trampoline, which made it even more exhilarating!
Beardth_Degree · 1 points · Posted at 06:11:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dark hide and seek. The house would be completely dark and the only light was city lights or the moon coming through closed blinds. The trick here is that whoever was "it" wore a night vision headset.
This was performed in a 2 story house with 2 staircases and the living room had a step down where the fireplace was base. If you've never used a night vision headset, when you wear it, it's a little different field of view and the depth perception is gone. For those hiding, you could only see a single red power LED of the headset when they we're close enough, and it happens to strike fear in strong men. My fond memory is creating a shoe skid mark on the stairway about 6' up the wall from falling down the stairs away from the red eyed monster.
dasindog78 · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to play "sit outside and pretend my parents aren't fighting".
fogdog666 · 1 points · Posted at 06:12:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soccer tennis was rad af! Duno if it was jst our intermediate or it NZ wide. Either way pretty unique game.
Kalahbear · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mhmy
Bisque_Ware · 1 points · Posted at 06:14:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins had a game called 'Butt Wars' which we would play upstairs at my grandma's house whenever we gathered. The simple idea of the game is basically bumper cars with your butt. You run backwards into each other, and the goal is to knock everyone down. It's actually really fun and I would play it any second.
444izme · 1 points · Posted at 06:15:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jumping on the very back of a pig then it runs wild all over the pen in the muck til you fall off. Then the new game was getting back through the muck without losing your shoes/boots.
VulcanXIV · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Playing in the half constructed houses in my street. One time the workers left this flat-ish square of a cardboard box inside the house that was full of pink sponge. The container was about as tall as me when standing up on its thin side and wide enough to squeeze into and run around inside like a squirrel.
Well a neighbor kid and I decided to do just that. We took turns and it was stupid enough fun for a few seconds distraction. Shortly after, we started feeling the entirety of our limbs ache with the feeling of little thorn-hairs in every pore of our skin. It felt like we just rolled around in a carpet of thorn balls and didn't notice until the little shits had left their little devil hairs imbedded in our skin.
By now some of you will have figured out that the box full of sponge was actually fiberglass insulation.
It was fixed after my dad found me miserable in my room, laying in my bed face down with my legs floating in the air trying not to brush them on anything. After finding out what I did he said to get in the tub and rinse myself in hot AF water so that my pores can open up and wash out the fiberglass. It was kind of funny to go back outside fully cured of my suffering ( although with tender skin from the near scotching water) and see my neighbors sister helping him douse his leg with the garden hose in an almost comedic display. I enlightened him on what to do and he went inside to go do the same. Good times.
Not really.
waterboss21 · 1 points · Posted at 06:17:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was more like junior high than little kids, but we used to play "what if..?". The rules are pretty easy. 1) write 3 "what if.." questions. You can make up anything! Be creative and it can be hilarious!. 2) pass your questions to the person on your left (best to play with at least 4 people). 3) write answers to the questions you were given..
Now is the fun part!! Pick a person to read the 1st question on the piece of paper they were given aloud. Then the person to the left will read the answer to the 1st question they answered. This continues around the circle and through all three questions. So the questions of the person to an individual's right will end up being answered by the person on the left..
Holy cow!! I haven't played this in a long time! Reminds me of when my friends tried to explain it to me at school. Sounds kinda confusing to me now that I tried to type it out. Super fun though, especially after playing a few times and people get creative with questions and answers
AFourEyedGeek · 1 points · Posted at 06:18:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Curbs.
In London, threw ball at the edge / corner of the curb (sidewalk) in the attempt to make it bounce back to your side, the more times you did this, the more you could gloat and upset the player on the opposite side.
soulsnatchin · 1 points · Posted at 06:19:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Buttball- we would take a tennis ball and throw it against the wall, it had to bounce before hitting the wall, if bounced more than once you had to run to the wall and touch the wall before the ball hit the wall again. If you didn't beat the throw you got a letter B then U then T...... Once you spelt BUTT you had to hug the wall facing forward while everyone playing got one throw at your butt.
I can still hear the thump of a tennis ball whizzing by my head smacking a wooden garage door,
pitterpatterson06 · 1 points · Posted at 06:21:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Flashlight tag through the streets of my neighborhood in the dark of the night. My friends and I had certain limits and houses we couldn't pass but if you got shined by the flashlight you were it. Some people would stay hidden for hours. It was fun but terrifying at the same time lol.
TgagHammerstrike · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Stupidball"
It's really just calvinball, the more I think about it.
Janice1148 · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/akxf0w/what_is_the_unique_game_you_play_inside_your_mind/ Dammit.
parkofmonster · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tetris. do you knoe it? make different shapes a line.
carlsberg_CA · 1 points · Posted at 06:23:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Paper Chain Factory" was one of the weird ones. My friend and I had a fascination with manufacturing jobs or something... I really don't know what our inspiration was!
We would set up a Paper Chain Factory with each of us sitting at a desk with a stack of construction paper and a pair of scissors. We'd both cut a bunch of equally-sized strips of differently colored papers, then link them together. Over and over again, for hours on end.
We would even take turns pretending to be the angry boss, throwing out paper strips that weren't the right size or creating more demanding quotas. We started over every time we played, otherwise we probably would've had a mile-long chain. Not sure who our imaginary company had for clients, but apparently paper chains were in high demand.
effitdoitlive · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play Sting-pong growing up. After every ping pong point (or 3, I forget) the loser turns around to get pelted in the back by the winner. We would all have welts all over our backs at the end of the night. Oh, also civil war paintball. Walk a set distance each, turn around, no hopper (musket load), fire one shot, step closer, reload, re-fire until someone gets hit.
HowToExist · 1 points · Posted at 06:24:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In fourth grade we made up a game during recess we called “sacrifice” where we would all push and shove each other at the top of one of the rolly slide type things where it’s basically impossible to come back up and when someone slipped up and started rolling down the slide the rest of us would chant “sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice” over and over until they reached the bottom.
It was a fun game, but the teachers didn’t exactly like the idea of s bunch of kids “sacrificing” each other and they put a stop to it after a week or so. Still, easily the best and most entertaining game of my childhood.
BoWsE_734 · 1 points · Posted at 06:25:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
I don't know if this has been mentioned before or how unique it is. My friends and I when we were kids (sometimes with my friends dad) would play what we called Hide-N-Seek-Go-Tag. The game takes place outside. Before the game starts all participants designate a "Safe Spot" and would do "My mother told me" or "Eenie meenie minie moe" to see who was IT 1st. (If y'all remember that). The safe spot was usually just the front porch of either my two best friends. They lived across the street from eachother just around the corner from me. Then we would all go to the safe spot. The person who was IT would cover/close their eyes and count to whatever we decided the time was. (Usually like 30 mississippi). Then whoever wasn't IT would run around and hide. After counting, the person that was IT would seek everyone out and chase them if they were found. If they made it back to the porch they were safe. First to get tagged was IT. If everyone made it back to the safe spot and didn't get tagged, they were IT again.
DerkDurski · 1 points · Posted at 06:26:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Four come to mind.
1) This one my brother and I still play now when I come back home from college. He has string lights in his room that can be set to strobe. When it’s dark out and you close the door to his room, it’s pretty much pitch black. So we set the lights to strobe really fast, which creates a really weird effect like you’re in a stop motion. Then we just play catch, which is really hard because you don’t see as many “frames”.
2) This one was really stupid that we played in the beginning of Spring. We got a bunch of those long thin poles that the snow plow company would leave in the ground so the person doing the snow plow could see where our lawns began and the road ended. Then two people would ride bikes around the street (it was a private drive so we got very minimal traffic, while a third would throw the poles at the bikers, attempting to get them into the spokes so that when the tire spun around it would come into contact with the bike frame, causing the rider to fall or at the very least come to a very abrupt stop.
3) Another one we did on the private drive, using the low traffic to our advantage. My brother and I both had ripsticks, and so one of us would get on a bike and tow the other on one of the ripsticks via a rope tied around the frame of the bike. We got to the point where while I was on the ripstick, I was able to lay down on my stomach on top of it and we’d speed down the street, and we could do a 180 at the end to turn around and keep going without needing to reset. I felt like Tom Cruise doing some Mission Impossible shit, gliding so close to the ground.
4) We called this one “Assassin”. My family owns some cottages on one of the Great Lakes, and since they’re right next to each other, we have about an acre of land available to us including the public land in between the small neighborhood. One person would be selected as the “assassin” at random. Only they knew they were the assassin. Everyone else was an innocent bystander. The assassin’s goal was, of course, to kill everybody. To “kill” someone, all you had to do was touch them and inform them that you’re the assassin. They then had to lay down on the spot. At any time, you could ask them to move and lead them to wherever you’d like to “hide the body”. The dead people may not move on their own and can only speak to confirm to an innocent that they are indeed dead and not just laying down for the hell of it. In the beginning, the innocents have to play dumb. They can’t act like they know there’s an assassin somewhere. Once a dead body is spotted, they may be on full alert, completely aware that one of them is a killer. Additionally, as soon as at least one body is seen, any living innocent may call out “911”. The innocents collectively only have one 911 call, so this may only happen once per game. 911 meant that any dead innocents came to life as police. The police must try their best to act as if they do not know who the assassin is (in rare cases they actually didn’t) unless living innocents have evidence or an assassination is witnessed. They had to figure out who the assassin was and tag them. A false tagging lead to the police dying. The assassin could also theoretically kill the police, but this never actually happened because in the case of a tagging tie, the assassin lost. Once 911 gets called the assassin needs to try to finish off the remaining innocents before the cops get him. It was a really fun game that was slow and strategic until 911 got called and then it got really hectic. We later found out that “Assassin” is extremely similar to Garry’s Mod’s “Murder”, which is odd because none of us has played the game before we made the original rules. The rules evolved a lot over the summers we played it. It works best with 5-7 players we’ve found, although we’ve never had the numbers to play it with more so maybe it could work with more.
spkantaris · 1 points · Posted at 06:27:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Swinging Axes"
On the playground, at the swing-set, a group of kids would swing and it was their duty to try to hit the person running through them. You ran until you got hit, and if you hit them, you'd take over running.
Chasetherainbow711 · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Clue. But with our house as the game board. It had an upstairs and everything. It got intense! We counted steps and everything (the staircase was a pain!!) we even had props like rope and candle stick. Good freaking times!
hailcharlaria · 1 points · Posted at 06:29:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a lil kid, I did something I later called "Action Drawing". I would draw out scenes and adventures, controlling and voicing different characters. I would end up creating pretty crazy plot arcs: in one, the recurring villianous megacorporation Business Inc.'s leader, Mr. Business, had a child with the goal of having it be used as a vessel for the CEO (Chief Economic Overbeing, essentially their god). The CEO was in reality the manifestation of the force of order, taking on material form to conpletely remove all entropy from the universe, essentially freezing everything, aside from a small pocket dimension he would reside in. Luckily, my hero, also an immortal, snuck into the pocket dimension, and proceeded to just beat him up for several billion years until he finally allowed chaos and entropy back into the universe. Pretty fun part.
Goldmember666 · 1 points · Posted at 06:30:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Thunder Sticks! Ok so the main premise is Tag, but with a twist. Someone is IT, but they can’t pass being It with touching directly - only non-direct flying broken stick bits. The chaser (it) has pick up sticks and chase anyone not “it” while slamming sticks against trees/branches/rocks to ricochet the now broken stick debris to hit the target kid being chased with the broken part. Essentially just a bunch of kids running in circles in a forest smashing sticks against trees and screaming from close encounter stick dodges, or getting nailed in the face with flying broken wooden shards.
frogman1964 · 1 points · Posted at 06:31:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As young boys we would often run around on Summer days without shirts. This would often lead to a game of "whistle or loose it" This was a simple game that one boy would pinch and hold another boy's nipple. Then the pincher would then say "whistle or loose it" The pinchee would then have to whistle, which is difficult when one's nipple is being pinched. To make the game more interesting, (read cruel) if the pinchee attempted to whistle and failed. The pincher would then twist a little and say it again. The game progressed until the pinchee was either able to whistle, or said "I'm a little Princess". If the pinchee was able to whistle, he was now the pincher. I have seen many red/bruised nipples because no boy wanted to be a little princess.
InterVice · 1 points · Posted at 06:32:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A free MMORPG called Ferentus, it was kickass, then sold to other companies, eventually it dissapeared from The web, was great tho.
Smoke_Stack707 · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my grade school teacher’s had this game “Beckon Follow”. It’s kind of like tag. One person is it, everyone else hides. The “it” tries to find everyone and if they see you and call out your name you’ve been tagged and you have to follow the it around in a line. If you’re not caught, you can try to sneak up on the line of people in jail and free them by physically tagging them. So the it is always moving around, everyone else is also moving but trying to be quiet and stay hidden so they don’t get caught. The it can also call out “beckon” to which all of the people who aren’t yet caught have to reply “follow”.
Game was fun because I went to a school out in the country with a lot of fields and hills and space so you had places to hide while you played. Obliviously it wouldn’t work on a small playground.
Romeo_Wolf · 1 points · Posted at 06:34:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
MAN.
Damnit.
boiithrowaway · 1 points · Posted at 06:35:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kick the Can.
Don't know how "unique" it is, but basically it was a specialized version of hide and go seek. Say you had 10 kids playing, like 8 of them would go hide, and 2 would seek. The two seekers would go out and once they saw you, you had to go to the center of the playing area where there was a can. Obviously the 2 seekers won if they could find everyone. The kids who were hiding could release their captured comrads by running in and kicking the can, which would release all the kids who had been spotted and allowed everyone to re hide. The seekers could put you in jail by just calling out your location, but if you were making a run in the open to kick the can then they had to physically tag you. Fun ass game, we played it a lot as kids.
LLMOONJ · 1 points · Posted at 06:41:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Christmas Drive. During Christmas my brother and I would play this game in the car where he or I would get points for simply having Christmas light decorations on our side of the ride. It made any drive during that time fine because we actively searched for them.
tiamatfire · 1 points · Posted at 06:42:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid although I lived in town, my grandparents lived in the bush and we had a camp in the woods as well. We would find an area with a bit of a clearing and make pretend houses by clearing the low hanging branches and underbrush, use sticks to build up shelves, etc. At my grandparents we called it Aster Cottage (in August the little meadow nearby would be full of them), and at the cabin it was a witches den with potions and spells etched into fresh birch bark, and bottles filled with berries and leaves.
In university we played a version of the card game Speed, but with the play area in the centre of the hallway and our decks at the end. So every time you played a card you had to run to the centre of the hallway and back.
Woodsiestjunk · 1 points · Posted at 06:44:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Anyone else make up a game involving you and a friend throwing a ball on the roof of your house as a child?
Preussensgeneralstab · 1 points · Posted at 06:45:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A shitton of bad browser games
cptpeacock · 1 points · Posted at 06:47:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and i never gave it a name and the rules were incredibly fluid, but we used to play catch by putting a tennis ball in a bread bag and throwing it high in the air, then racing to be the first one to catch it. (We would throw the ball using the bread bag as like the handle??)
devrokrae · 1 points · Posted at 06:49:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made up a game called “Baby, Don’t Go Down the Toilet.” At the top of one of those swirly slides in the playground would be two players: the mom and the baby. At the bottom of the slide was the devil (I went to catholic school for elementary). The devil would try to climb up the slide to drag the baby down to hell via the toilet drain, and the mom would try to keep the baby from being dragged down. The baby had to be neutral unless verbally persuaded by the devil or the mom. It was good physical activity and good practice for improvising oral arguments.
SASKATOONIGAN · 1 points · Posted at 06:52:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
A game I made for road trips when I was a small child which if you saw a car that you wanted or was cool you would say “my car” before anyone else did.
Mel_Is_Real · 1 points · Posted at 06:53:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My family on my dad's side (which included my three uncles and all of their sons) would sneak into the neighborhood school playground sometime before dinner but after all the kids left for the day. We would play this twisted game of "booty on the wall" where all the kids would line up on the wall used for Wall Ball and our uncles would throw the ball at the wall. We would have to dodge it and the last one standing was the winner. However, my sister and I were usually excluded because we were the only girls in the family. The last time we played was when my oldest brother was about 16 I believe. The topic of "booty on the wall" comes up quite often whenever we all get together. It's a funny little memory of our childhood.
ADDITIONAL STORY: My sister and I would play the game of "Jello" in the car where we would share with each other the color and/or flavor of Jello we were (rainbow jello was a crowd favorite). We would then flail our bodies along with the movement of the car. We would lean on turns, slump forward on stops and rear back when the car was started again. It was quite a fun little game between us.
eunicebates · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Roly Poly”: my best friend and I would get into fetal position inside a sleeping bag and zip it all the way up. We’d roll around the tent like a rolled up roly poly, one of us trying to bump into the other and the other trying to avoid (like tag). It was really fun for two hyper 8 year olds!
Samsote · 1 points · Posted at 07:03:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Butt ralley" this is a game from the locker room of junior high. People would get the floor super wet, and get their naked body wet. Then they would line up at the one side of the room, start running and throw themselves at the ground sliding across the room at incredible speeds. I think the first to slam into the wall on the other side first won, there were definitely some minor fighting on the track.
cartron3000 · 1 points · Posted at 07:07:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up I shared a room with both my siblings, so we had 2 sets of bunk beds right next to each other. One would lay on the floor in between beds while the other 2 took turns jumping from the bunk beds standing, legs spread, on the top rung of each ladder, gripping the bars on the side to slow their fall less and less each jump while they land feet first right onto the crotch of the person laying on the floor below until they couldn’t take it anymore. We brilliantly called it “Don’t Crunch the Crotch”. We were some stupid fucking kids.
Ragnbogen · 1 points · Posted at 07:08:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my family like to play the Alphabet game where you have to find words that start with each letter of the Alphabet in order from A-Z. License plates didn’t count when we played and the word has to start with the letter, it’s always so much fun and usually a challenge to find all the words/ letters! It also sucked when you saw a word that started with the letter after the one you were currently on but then pass it and find the letter you are currently looking for and realize that you can’t use the word you passed anymore and now can’t find that letter anymore.
Cessnateur · 1 points · Posted at 07:09:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snowball fight involving one snowmobile in a large pasture.
Two kids would be on the snowmobile, and 2-4 others would be on foot.
If you were on the snowmobile, you had the advantage of speed, and being able to do drive-by attacks on the others. Disadvantage: everyone could clearly see and target you at all times.
If you were on foot, you had the advantage of being able to hide (somewhat), and you could effectively come out of nowhere and blast one of the snowmobile riders upside the head without much difficulty.
In the end, the two teams were surprisingly well-matched, despite the huge differences.
mindovermonster · 1 points · Posted at 07:09:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
‘houdini’ was the game where you were tied up and put on a skateboard. Then you would get rolled down the driveway and you’d have to untie yourself before you get to the road. There was that and trying to ninja roll under the garage door without tipping the sensor. Aaahhh childhood
Boyojimbo · 1 points · Posted at 07:11:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Die or Survive.
We used to take an action figure/car, throw it and debate with each other as to whether the character/car occupants would have died or survived based on how they impacted the floor, stairs, other toy cars, etc.
My parents were livid every time we played it in the car.
SplatterBox214 · 1 points · Posted at 07:12:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Lord of the Rings Pillow Fight.
BenjamminFunklin · 1 points · Posted at 07:14:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Hall Ball" . My favorite childhood game required of a hall way of about 15-18 ft, a half dozen or more 10"-12" diameter vinyl balls, 1 exercise ball and 2 players* on either end of the hall on their knees but upright facing each other. I started playing with my best friend when we were in 1st or second grade, as we played into our teenage years, there was more at stake. Hall ball was a bit like whose line is it anyways, everything is made up and the points don't matter. There were many unspoken objectives and was a game of scarce resources. The resources of the game were ammunition and satisfaction from inflicting pain. The main objectives were to hit the other player in either the face or the balls with a fastest fastball you could throw. In a typical game, both players would use a hall ball in either hand as a way of blocking with the left handed hall ball, while reloading and firing shots at the opponents head or family jewels. The game would range in moods from standoff to an all out shootout. Part of the game was the number of hall balls you had on your side. If you had many, it meant your opponent was hitting you more and you would have to move around to pick up scattered hall balls on your side. But it also meant you had more ammunition. Since the game was played on your knees, moving around and diving for balls that were out of reach became a positional chess match. Reaching for a ball meant the player couldn't defend themselves from an incoming attack. For instance lunging for one of the balls that was partially deflated and was a more painful to get hit by could pay off. But just in the moment when that player would make his move he would leave himself vulnerable to a barrage of rapid fire blows, including the most coveted of all hall ball inflicted pain, a direct hit of the exercise ball to the face. The game was over when both players are too tired and sweaty to continue.
*3 player version -- too hard to explain
DJ_Doty · 1 points · Posted at 07:14:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up in a strict religious household resulted in no video games and no internet for way too long, but this never stopped me from having an awesome time. I can clearly remember inadvertently creating my own turn-based RPG out of paper and a vivid imagination. I folded our printer paper several times and cut many symmetrical rectangles out of it. I used crayons to draw me and fake friends as the heroes, and animals and mythical creatures as the villains. I even incorporated different health, attack and movement distance for each of the heroes. Each map was a grid with a bunch of copy/paste villains and I had to defeat them without me and my team losing all our health. Whichever one of my characters killed a villain, got a +1 to a stat of my choice. To keep it fun, I added OP enemies that'd easily defeat my whole team so I would have to replay my same map over and over again, grinding on the same easy enemies next to the hard ones until I could beat the whole map. I grew so attached to these pieces of paper I took them with me on car trips and would set up a new battlefield anywhere and everywhere. Sadly, my game didn't last forever because I added "goblins" and my parents saw this. I did many bizarrely creative things like this as a child to keep myself entertained. Such as not only run a stuffed animal town called Happy Land, but hold political debates between the animals. Civil unrest grew on certain topics and we even had a civil war twice. Half on one side of the room, half on the other. I kept the winner random by making the toys toss Lego from their hand to the other side, if a stuffed animal was hit, they were down. Thankfully, a lot has changed in a decade and we now have WiFi. Sure, I'm 18 now, but I still love life and seek to use my imagination to the fullest. :) Sorry if I rambled off-topic too long. ;)
Girfgin · 1 points · Posted at 07:20:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would place a single powdered donut on the kitchen floor and all climb and sit on the kitchen counters. We’d then all start pointing fingers and questioning “who put the donut in the middle of the floor”. It was like a pointless mystery game, and we called it “who put the donut in the middle of the floor”.
Simpler times, man.
DukesOfTatooine · 1 points · Posted at 07:23:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines, but at night without any lights.
So Sardines is when one person hides while everyone else counts, and then everyone goes looking for the hider. If you find them you squeeze in to wherever they are and hide with them. The last person to find the group was the hider for the next round.
We would play outside at night at big family gatherings in the summer, whole huge groups of cousins running all around the yard in the dark trying to find one particular person and the crowd gradually getting thinner as one by one they found him.
salyssa511 · 1 points · Posted at 07:24:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Taco. We'd roll eachother up in a blanket and see if we could walk across the room without falling.
kindesflaye · 1 points · Posted at 07:25:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Baby Lost Land". In the pool, my sibling and I would pretend to be babies who floated away from their families on the beach one day, and floated to this super advanced island society populated only by lost babies. We'd basically first pretend we were floating away on our pool floats, and then once we drifted to baby lost land, we'd kick off the walls and jet across the pool, or jump in and pretend we were going through all these secret baby security checkpoints or riding secret baby rockets or submarines. We played this from the time we were toddlers until we were 5-6 and had to move onto other pool games.
karikarino1 · 1 points · Posted at 07:27:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We lived near a golf course in Texas so our game involved stealing golf balls without getting caught by he marshal.
It's a two part game called cowboys and Indians The first part is acquiring golf balls on our horses (bikes). It was a team coop situation and the enemy was the marshal. (Golf police) if anyone spotted the golf cart with a red sign, they would scream "marshal" and everyone runs away to not get caught and get In trouble. Then once we had enough golf balls we would assign someone to be head Indian. Still On the course, the head Indian would stand on the top of a hill, yell "indian" and throw golf balls in the air while everyone else ran down the hill.
Surprisingly, no one ever got hurt.
jengel22 · 1 points · Posted at 07:28:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I would play "rock," a game that made no sense. One of us would curl up in a ball on the floor and be said "rock" while louding announcing "look! a rock! sit on it!" Another sibling would come around and sit on the rock. After a few minutes, the person who was the "rock" would suddenly yell PEEEEEEEEEEEE! and emerge back into human form and begin to chase the person who sat on them. The only way to evade capture was to turn yourself into a rock by curling into a ball. You won if you caught the person running away
shithappens88 · 1 points · Posted at 07:30:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In translation it wold be called 'caps'. We would find 5 beer bottle caps, then draw a square and diagonal lines of it on the pavement.
Stack thise 5 caps in the middle of the square and hit it with a ball from agrred distance. Caps are now all over the ground..
One team is guarding the square with a ball and has to hit a memeber of another team like in the dodgeball to get him out of the game, and another team is trying to put every one of those caps in the corners and in the middle of the square
Not sure if I explained that well but it was fun
Racconsarecool · 1 points · Posted at 07:33:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Fighting with my Uncle 😭😭
krislolaboo · 1 points · Posted at 07:34:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Note: written on my phone so excuse the errors...
My siblings and I played ‘American Flag’. Whenever one was spotted we would shout it out and get a point. It was how we passed long car rides. There was a kicker tho, if we yelled it prematurely and it wasn’t an American flag we deducted a point. It was a fantastic, but brutal game especially when it was July 4th or when we passed a car dealership. My kids and I now play this game.
We sung ‘I found a peanut’ a ton and we played the color remembering game (like the Simon electronic game).
Also, being the eldest I was always having to watch my siblings a lot. One thing I loved to do (and something they still laugh about to today) was to draw gross and funny pictures of them and slide it under a close door where they were waiting for the drawing. It was hilarious to hear their laughter at my poorly drawn pictures.
larka1121 · 1 points · Posted at 07:36:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We made up a game called "shark tag". There had to be a playground structure in order to play. It was tag but the person who was it/the shark could not go on "land" (the playground structure). But as the floor of the structure had holes, that meant a shark could poke their finger through the floor to tag someone. I think we also allowed the shark to climb some things so they could be more of a threat.
pushbars · 1 points · Posted at 07:38:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Full throttle, was such a cool game spend hours trying to figure out stuff. Especially the underground secret entrance.
Saint-Ace · 1 points · Posted at 07:40:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
James Bond. My brother and I would tie each other up and try to escape. It escalated. Tied to the garage door. Tied to an ATV. It culminated to me tiring my brother up and putting him in an empty tub. I turned it on and forgot about him.
Derpolicious · 1 points · Posted at 07:43:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Weird bench, ugly bench.. I have no f'ing clue why we called it that but basically one would lay down with their feet up for the other to"sit" on. The other would walk by and had been walking enough to need a rest (convienient). Then, the person that sat would just remain seated pretending not to know that their about to be launched across the room by this weird/ugly bench.
Man that brings back memories.. we were stupid kids.
distantsalem · 1 points · Posted at 07:45:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister used to have two twin beds in her room pushed together. We used to pull them slightly apart, put a blanket across the crack, and then lay in it and slowly sink down to the floor. We would pretend the other was dead and have funerals for each other.
Dommefox1125 · 1 points · Posted at 07:53:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
kick the can
justiceserenity · 1 points · Posted at 07:58:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Late to this but we played what I called "Freddy Krueger". It was like hide and seek in the dark, except only 1 person hid. The group would sing the "1, 2, Freddys coming for you" song, and once they finished, they would wearily go out "looking" for Freddy. When a seeker came close to the hiding place of Freddy, they would jump out, scaring the ever living sh$% out of the seeker, and then a game or tag ensued until Freddy tagged someone. They would be the hider then on.
Sounds silly but was freaky lol
Brok3ninside · 1 points · Posted at 08:04:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This will certainly be buried but i have to put this out into the universe...
We played this game where everyone would close their eyes and face a fence while the person who won the last round would hide a belt. We would the all search for the belt until one of us found it. Everyone would run back to “base” as fast as they could while the person with the belt would try to hit everyone not at base with the belt as hard as they could.
The second game is using a wooden stick about 8” to a foot long to try and stab the other person in the torso. Each person held one end and if an end got your body you were dead. We got this idea from a movie where a dude was stabbed slowly while trying to fight it.
Our child hood was fucked.
Roskgarian · 1 points · Posted at 08:05:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Played a game with my brother we each had a ballon and you had to keep your ballon in the air while trying to smack your opponents ballon to the ground. Who Evers ballon hit the ground first lost.
auro99 · 1 points · Posted at 08:10:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont know the name of the game anymore but it was so much fun. It was a snowboarding game on, i think it was playstation 1 (or 2). I know that i played it alot when i was younger and have great memories of it
accointing · 1 points · Posted at 08:10:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Loneliness" it's fun...not very optional though...1 player only :(
PagingDoctorLove · 1 points · Posted at 08:12:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Your team."
Basically people watching and then assigning the most eccentric, ridiculous people you see to your opponent's team before they could put the person on yours.
Played mostly while in the car or watching cable access TV, so you don't feel guilty for being judgmental.
Tominator42 · 1 points · Posted at 08:19:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I (as well as any friends we had over) would pull ourselves along the outer edge of our pool from the inside as fast as possible and go around in circles. We called it "the pool train." Only problem was that the material jutting out from the edge was basically pulverized limestone. That combined with raisins from staying in too long was a recipe for bloody fingertips.
LestatValentine · 1 points · Posted at 08:19:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eternal Darkness on Gamecube
FalseGiggler · 1 points · Posted at 08:20:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mosh Basketball. No teams, every man for himself. Slam into your buddies as they're making their shots. No such thing as fouls.
pugasauruso · 1 points · Posted at 08:21:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In middle school, me and my friend played the extreme version of Tag, " Zombies". One will be the patient zero and try to infect everybody, the game end when all are infected or the break is over. Being chased aggressively by 20'ish kids was a fun experience :3
sumthingmessy · 1 points · Posted at 08:22:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to have a home run derby type game with a tennis ball and racket. Trying to bomb the ball from the edge of one back yard across the street into the opposite back yard. Whoever caught it was up to bat. If it hit the ground, that’s a point. First to x points wins
IAmCo0l · 1 points · Posted at 08:22:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
halo CE
SmallClitCD · 1 points · Posted at 08:24:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Jerking off to porn and seeing who lasted the longest
DeadHED · 1 points · Posted at 08:27:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My family used to all meet up at my grandfathers cabin during the summers. Me and my 3 cousins (one closer to me in age, probably 10-12 at the time. The other two 15-16) would pull these little spear like seeds off what looked like tall grass and battle each other with them. I just remember them being about 3 inches long, super light , and having a nasty little barb on the end which stung like hell and would kind of stick in your skin when youd throw them at people. So me and my younger cousin would team up and obviously get our asses kicked by my older cousins, being older and more athletic than us as they were. Eventually i hatched a brilliant plan, getting as many as i could so i essentially had a fistfull of them, running at my oldest cousin and throwing them all at once. My aim was a bit off and i didnt mean to hit him in the side of the face. I just remember everyones shock while he sat there looking like a porcupine, while we all helped him remove them. We stopped playing that game after that incident. Good times!
CosmikOwlette · 1 points · Posted at 08:28:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The alphabet game. This is great for interstate driving as well as town driving with little kids. Look for the letter “A” in signs, then “B” and so on...
Don’t announce when you see the letters, because it’ll alert it to the others and they may see it too. First person to see the whole alphabet, in order, wins.
You could also announce the letters if kids are really little and you want to keep them engaged in the game, but I don’t think it’s as much fun.
If there’s a tie, do a tie-breaker round finding the numbers 0-9 or finding a specific word chosen by an unbiased 3rd party.
jakob634 · 1 points · Posted at 08:37:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would grab a plastic bottle, and one would throw it to the other, who would then kick it and we would try to keep it in the air
satansheat · 1 points · Posted at 08:38:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and a friend made up a game. Each person would stand at the other end of a basketball court. Tossing a football from end to end. If you hit back board you got a point. If you made it in the rim it was 5 points. But for the person tossing the football the other player at the other end can catch the balk bouncing off the backboard. If you caught a ball if took a point away from the other person. Footballs bounce randomly most times when hitting the back board. So it was tricky to get those.
bhowbhowie · 1 points · Posted at 08:40:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek but only physical contact will be count as seekand with throwing shoe attacks to whole body. My brother always won.
eisify · 1 points · Posted at 08:42:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My twin sister, friends and I had a game we called "Scribble Scrabble" where we'd take a bunch of markers in one hand and scribble all over a piece of paper. We'd sing the Inspector Gadget theme song and when we finished we'd yell "switch", fling our markers into the middle and grab a fistful of new ones, then scribble all over the page again. First person to cover their paper in marker scribbles was the winner.
Difficult_Tumbleweed · 1 points · Posted at 08:43:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with my uncle
BeauBWan · 1 points · Posted at 08:46:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Happy cake day
Meleeic · 1 points · Posted at 08:52:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So I still do this and never realized how odd it was...
But when I'm driving past a street sign, I tap my tongue to the bottom of my front teeth before, as I'm passing it, and after.
For every sign.
My fiancee pointed it out and although I am conscious of it, I never thought it odd.
ACPLAYER2 · 1 points · Posted at 08:53:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Country erasers. Back when I was young, we used to buy these erasers that were absolute trash, but for that game it was good.
Now the game itself. We would flick and try to roll the eraser around the table until one got on top on another. The person who flicked the eraser on top on the other got to keep both erasers. However, it was definitely funny back when certain friends didn't want to lose their erasers and when they lost the battle, they swooped their hand down and grabbed their erasers out od reach. Definitely one of my childhood games etched onto my mind.
erikaalexis · 1 points · Posted at 08:56:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
King of the Hill. My older, and much larger brother would just throw me and my sister down the big hill in our side yard.
bdjakapsofbdb · 1 points · Posted at 09:01:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Knee basketball
It was basketball but on your knees in the lounge room and with a large exercise ball.
I believe my older brother made up the game to throw the ball at me and not get in trouble.
KrazyCiwi · 1 points · Posted at 09:06:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I can't really say it's unique. But every year, the entire family would go to the beach during the summer (Christmas time for me, as I'm from New Zealand). The place we stayed at had absolutely no light pollution what so ever. So, we sat up all night, counting satellites. I have to say, watching for them all night, it was like you were constantly on some sort of drug, always thinking this star was moving, than shaking your head, only to see that it wasn't. The game was simple: Count the most satellites, and you win. I believe our record number in one night was 19? Might have been higher. It's just amazing to watch these little specs moving across the night sky. At first, seeming like they were just another star. Only to see that they were indeed moving. We managed to get near the entire extended family playing it.
All I know, is that as a kid, staying up all night with your siblings and parents, doing nothing other than being a family, and watching the satellites until dawn. Those were the best times of my life.
metalmolly · 1 points · Posted at 09:09:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Turn the lights out and one person would be in the center of the room under a blanket and the rest of the kids would walk aroundthe perimeter of the room while the under-the-blanket kid tried to trip everyone. We called it “trip the person” and it was an amazing time
OrangeBlueZ · 1 points · Posted at 09:12:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
In elementary school I started a game - A grasshopper catching competition. During recess we would go out in the grass field beyond the playground and try to catch as many as possible before the bell rang. There were several species in varying sizes, rarities, and relative difficulty to catch which made a scoring system into reality.
The goal was obviously to get as high a score as possible. We would all head into the grass and attempt to hand capture any grasshoppers we could. Techniques involved simply chasing them down until we could block their escape with a well placed hand or foot. We would retrieve the insect and show it off to a designated scorer, at which point we would release the bug and continue on. No points were awarded if you mangled/killed the bug.
You had your standard grasshoppers, with white or clear wings. - 1 Point
Katydids, bright green, clear wings, usually did not blend in at all. - 2 Points
Further in the deeper grass you could find 'Red wings' - Black/white mottled grasshoppers with a brilliant red wings they could fly on. They blended in really well with the dirt and would be nearly impossible to find while on the ground, had they not had a very loud and distinct wingbeat noise accompanying the flashy coloration anytime they jumped airborne. Lots of fun and challenging to pursue. - 5 points
And finally, there were the 'Black Wings'. They were locusts. Huge, solid white to yellow in color, and equipped with a set of large black wings. They were relatively easy to locate but incredibly difficult to catch - Once they jumped they tended to fly long and far beyond anywhere we could follow. Also they can bite if you did manage to catch them. Catching one was a feat worthy of fanfare, usually involving everyone gathering to have a look for themselves. A whopping 10 points to the lucky/skilled kid who got their hands on one intact.
That entertained my group of friends for the first through third grade during the normal summer/fall seasons. The fun I had seems evident by how clearly I remember all this some 20+ years later.
tommhans · 1 points · Posted at 09:12:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
flintstones 2 on SNES, that basketball part was fun
some years ago those games sold quite well on ebay, but of course my parents had thrown all my snes games and console
LeojBosman · 1 points · Posted at 09:13:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We were on this circular bench and we would need to push eachother off, thats it
MeepBoopG · 1 points · Posted at 09:20:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Enchanted Arms I played that game as a kid and I absolutely loved its story I cbf explaining the story but it was good now whenever I try looking for the game it’s on Xbox 360 so it’s gonna be a little hard to find but every game store I go to has never heard of it nor has the game in stock or whatever :(
RXZer00 · 1 points · Posted at 09:21:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night ball...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:23:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paper Mario. RPG lite game where there are various worlds and of course Mario does Mario things.
Edifyxxy86 · 1 points · Posted at 09:25:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kerplunk
MrLimeKiwi1 · 1 points · Posted at 09:28:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Swords and sandals,
GLADIATOR
ultimatepupper909 · 1 points · Posted at 09:29:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Anything in the World Heads". It's exactly like Celebrity Heads except, you guessed it- you can pick anything in the world. The more specific the better. My little sister and I would play this for hours in the car, in bed when we were supposed to be asleep, and anywhere in between. It's a lot of fun
Lizaderp · 1 points · Posted at 09:31:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Set things on fire
LuchadoreMask · 1 points · Posted at 09:33:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ghost Boxing. Me and my cousins would place sheets over our heads and box. It fucking hurt like hell.
TooTooRooGR · 1 points · Posted at 09:37:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide from daddy
polkity · 1 points · Posted at 09:42:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In the back of my dad's Land Rover disco 3 we had 2 ps2s hard wired into the car and screens (it was janky af, and probably a fire hazard). Me and my brother used to play a game called: XG III extreme g racing, both of us had a copy and would play it on long journeys (I am British so a long journey would be 4-7 hours) non fucking stop we would sit in the car even if we were at home just playing it, no wonder we are both addicted to games today
Also we played a board game with our gran which was like snakes and ladders but you played as a badger fox frog etc.
KingOfBel · 1 points · Posted at 09:46:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if I can call it a "game" but me and my younger brother used to catch insects and experiment with them. Like put spiders, flies, and ants in a jar and check on them the next day. Or mix chemical products together to see if anything would happen. Grow seeds by using wet cottons, that sort of thing.
Sounds like stuff only nerds would do but we also played a lot of tag with friends outside. Good times.
Doctor_Philly · 1 points · Posted at 09:48:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Find the Marble" with my a-little-bit-too-friendly uncle.
DiscoUlysses · 1 points · Posted at 09:51:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger I'd spend a lot of time with my cousins and one of our favourite activities was to make potions with random herbs and plants we found in the garden. We'd also add food colouring and try to make it as tasty as possible. We'd find old bottles at second hand stores that looked like proper potion bottles and make little lables to put on the front. We'd spend what felt like hours chopping up and grinding ingredients for the perfect magic potion. I also genuinely thought some of them might work.
ThisOldMate · 1 points · Posted at 09:53:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had two games:
“Sorry sir” The game involved two or more participants walking around in random directions in a semi confined space with their chest puffed out until you would randomly bump into each other and say “sorry sir”. Laugh, then repeat.
“Car cricket” On long drives, the colours of the cars that drove past in the opposite direction were worth certain amounts of points, the rarer the colour, the more points they were worth; eg red = 1 point, blue = 2, silver = 3, etc. when a fairly rare colour (eg green) drove past you were out and it was the next persons turn at getting points. Person with the highest score won. Repeat for many hours.
goldfishpaws · 1 points · Posted at 10:07:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Never worked out where the name came from, but my granny used to tell me of her playground game of "Furzina One Gone", some tag variant.
Dewberryuwu · 1 points · Posted at 10:09:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was in Primary we played a game which had a mix of fielding, throwing, dodging and blocking. There would be two teams, one team would line up behind a "goal", and across the field would be a mat. The second team would spread out across the field and roughly one to two meters away from the goal would be a post where the "bowler" from the other team stood.
So let's say the Team standing behind the goal would be Team 1 and the fielding team Team 2.
The first person from Team 1 would stand in the "goal", which is basically two cones put side to side. The bowler from Team 2 would bowl/roll the ball towards the person standing at the goal. The person from Team 1 would then have to make sure the ball wouldn't cross the line, as if it did, they would be out. But you couldn't use your hands. So most of the time they would just kick the ball.
If the ball crosses the goal, you're out. But if you manage to get it away, or it doesn't go through the goal, run for your life to the mat. The mat is your safe place. Team 2 needs to get the ball, and try to hit you with it, such as throwing the ball. Once you get on the mat, you're safe, and you can't get out. But if you get hit by the ball, you're out. You can either stay on the mat or continue running back towards the goal. Entirely up to you. Once you cross the goal or stay on the safe place, the next person comes on and same thing happens.
If you decide to stay on the mat, as soon as the ball is bowled, RUN TO THE GOAL. This is very important as two people cannot stay on the mat.
This happens until three people from Team 1 get out. Then Team 1 and 2 switch around and continue playing.
There are a few ways you can get out.
The points system works like this.
Every time someone makes a full round, (To the mat and back again) the team is awarded three points. Every time someone gets out, you have to note how many people got out.
You can play as many rounds, just be sure to keep on switching around when three people from the "goal" team get out. In the end, tally up all the points and see who wins!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:10:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
XIII Mystery action game with cartoony graphics. The soundtrack is one of the best in any game I've heard.
spfldnet · 1 points · Posted at 10:13:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Doctor with the girls next door.
PrimeCronus · 1 points · Posted at 10:20:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bicycle hide and seek.
Me and my Friends would sometimes play this in the neigbourhood. It was hide and seek but instead of hiding somewhere you would ride around the area and try to make sure the seeker doesn't find you.
My dad didn't understand it at first and thought we were actually going to hide our bikes somewhere.
mdragon13 · 1 points · Posted at 10:22:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
grew up in manhattan. step on a crack, lose a life. jump on a sewer entry cap, gain one back. was fun when I was like 6.
shoegal91 · 1 points · Posted at 10:26:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Twice around the house!
Kind of like tag and hide & seek combine, the ‘it’ person would have to run twice around the house and all the players would have to hide, but they’d have to try and make it back to the porch before ‘it’ finished their second lap of the house! If ‘it’ saw you cos u didn’t hide well enough you were out and whoever was the last to get back to the porch was the new it!
So many fun summer nights spent playing this as a kid!
tonybuizel · 1 points · Posted at 10:28:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game called "Make 10". Pretty sure many people have played this before. So basically where I come from carriages on trains have a 4 digit number and the game is to end up with 10 using maths (add, plus, multiply, divide, factorial, exponent) which was a way to kill ten seconds. You weren't allowed to change the order of numbers, nor put them together to make a two digit number. For instance: 7 4 2 4 would be [(7 x 4)/2] - 4 = 10.
SpottyBoi · 1 points · Posted at 10:29:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I wasn't part of this, but when my older siblings where younger they would make, one of my brothers, and specifically him, to cover his eyes with something then put his hands behind his back and stand still while they hit him with rulers. He wasn't aloud to fight back. It was 1 vs 4.
chickenbots · 1 points · Posted at 10:31:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"The worm" there were three of us growing up. So we would all lay on the couch side by side. The one on the end closest to the couch had to push the one in the middle, this would naturally be pushing the one closest to the edge as well. The one at the edge had to hang on to the one in the middle. Person in the middle was not aloud to do anything. Had to lay there stiff as a board and count to see how long it took for the one at the edge to fall. When you (the one on the edge) fell off the couch you would now take place of the "pusher" Whoever lasted on the couch the longest wins.
"Queens booty" I was the queen and was embarrassed of my flat butt. So my servants had to be my "butt" My dress was just blanket I would hold at my waist. Then my brother and sister would go under the blanket and try their best to follow me as close as they can. I would walk then run really fast or turn sharp corners quickly so they would hit the wall and fall.
"Car wash" whenever dad bought something big we used the big box as a carwash garage. We would make holes on the sides so we can stick water hose and scrubbers in as you passes through on a skateboard.
"Maid" wed fill up socks full of baby powder and beat the shit out of each other.
"SHTZAA!" If you farted and didn't say SHTZAA! Someone could punch you in the ass cheek but they HAVE to say SHARTZA! Or else that hit didn't count and now you can hit them back.
We played house many times especially with our cousins. There was a lot of screaming and abuse going on. But we loved it.
We made up a super cool game once called "one bounce" but I'm not going to share that with you because I dont have the rights.
secret-millionaire · 1 points · Posted at 10:35:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Garden gnomes: knock on a random door and stand in the garden adopting the pose of whatever garden gnome you choose.
softieneedsalife · 1 points · Posted at 10:36:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oooh! I've got a good one!
So my family used to do a lot of road-tripping, so we made a game where we would try and find different state's license plates. We had to find as many different states as possible, so whoever found the most in the end would win. Then we added a points system.
State we were in: 1 point
States bordering the state we were in: 2 points
States not bordering the state we were in: 3 points
Alaska or Hawaii: 4 points
whoever had the most points won
KiraHadokku · 1 points · Posted at 10:37:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made a swimming pool game kinda based off the hippo like animals at the start of Ice Age, we would kinda make a whirlpool an whoever needed up in the middle first was out, if the whirlpool got too weak anyone left would restart it an start from the outside again... Those who were out would then have a water gun to try an put off the remaining people who were trying to swim against the current... Was good fun in the summer... Although reading it now, it sounds rather strange 😂
jasdjensen · 1 points · Posted at 10:42:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a tradition, probably started long before my generation, where we would be riding in a car, and when you passed over railroad tracks or cattle guards, you had to lift your feet. Driver, passengers, everybody.
The idea was if you didn't lift your feet they got chopped off. There were no winners in this game, only people that kept their feet. Now 40 years later I think about playing this with my cousins and grandparents every time I go over one of these on a road.
erikajobob · 1 points · Posted at 10:45:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
It was called “ammo”. Basically 4-5 of us gather as many shoes as possible, turn lights out and hide, them sneak attack pelt each other with shoes. Whoever cried first was the loser.
bobbyg27 · 2 points · Posted at 04:58:04 on March 24, 2019 · (Permalink)
Guessing first “shows” was meant to be shoes but for a second I was wondering why kids would first gather a bunch of sitcom DVDs together and start crying 😜
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 10:45:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
NES Video Games. I liked playing Lode Runner.
paintgoblin · 1 points · Posted at 10:46:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I have a few.
My two younger sisters and I would play as if we were in an RPG video game, like Final Fantasy. My sisters would pretend to be NPCs like shopkeepers, innkeepers, or my party members. I would play the main character. We used rocks as gold pieces and sticks as weapons. I made a "sheath" from a skip rope.
"Horsey" - my sisters would get into our blue plastic Fisher price wagon, and I'd tie a skip rope around my waist and tie myself to the wagon's handle in such a way that my sisters could direct me.
"Food for the poor" - I devised all sorts of games that let me weasel food out of my sisters when I wanted what they had. I'd pretend to be their pet hamster, once I made a Wheel of Fortune style game that I designed so somehow only I could win, but my favourite and the longest lasting was a game where you'd take whatever empty dish you had, hold it out and with your hand and voice shaking, cry "Foooood for the poor?" And whoever was on the receiving end had to share what they had.
"Paintgoblin's cards" - had a deck of Uno cards, didn't know how to play Uno. So I made up a game and named it after myself of course.
"Sit down and be quiet game" - my uncle used to babysit us but I don't think he likes kids that much. He'd pull out cookies and tell us to play the sit down and be quiet game. Whoever was quiet and still long enough won the cookie.
"The Amazing Rollerblader" - someone gave me a pair of rollerblades. My aforementioned uncle had a patch of cement we would ride our bikes in circles on playing "Nascar". But I used to sit my sisters down at one end of the cement, and I would put on a show for them, singing my theme song of "The amazing Rollerblader, the amazing Rollerblader" etc. I'd do sweet jumps over sticks laid out in front of me.
Yeah, I guess I was a creative kid.
im_bulldog_ya_mofos · 1 points · Posted at 10:46:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called flingers, it was a top of a cig packet folded into a flat rectangle and flicked off your middle and index fingers. You start with one on the ground and then you fling yours at it closest player wins, some of these guys were so good they had upwards of 3000. There were even levels of rarity, making some worth more and not to play for keeps with.
MeRachel · 1 points · Posted at 10:46:49 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was younger (I think I was 11 or 12) I used to play a game at recess we names "Round around the school." We shared the building with another school and we weren't allowes to go on their playgrouns which took up the full back half of the school. During the long recess (my school had a 30 minute short recess and a long 45 minute recess, the longer one was supervised by other teachers) we would try to sneak around the school withour being caughed. Good times.
PsyNinja69 · 1 points · Posted at 10:55:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and Seek Tag but with a tennis ball. So whoever gets hit with ball is "it"
Tb0neguy · 1 points · Posted at 11:00:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played Swing Kickball. Just like kickball, except the kicker was on a swing!
jasdjensen · 1 points · Posted at 11:07:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We also had a game that we played with neighbor kids. This was during Saturday morning commercials on TV or afternoon kids tv shows. If an "emergency broadcast system" test came on, we'd run screaming from the house, jump off the porch, and land in the grass writhing in fake pain.
This got to be so much fun sometimes, that we'd do it during any commercials. Netflix kids will never experience this fun.
the-holy-shit · 1 points · Posted at 11:26:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
me and my dad used to play "the bottle game"
get two wine bottles filled with water, one on either end of the garden. each person stands next to their bottle. you'd also have a football. one person would kick the football at the wine bottle. if it fell over, both people had to get to the opposite bottle and back before the water drained from the bottle (another person keeps watch, often my younger sister). never made any sense and often neither of us won, but it was still fun.
also had another game with my dad "the senses game"
it would often be after dinner and we would play with the leftovers that me or my sister didnt eat. one person would close their eyes and you'd ask for different senses to be able to determine what the food was. so it would be like "can i smell it?" and we'd waft a carrot under dad's nose, "can i hear it?" and we'd bang it on the table. and it would finish with him asking "can i taste it?" and finally getting it right
S_MARIO · 1 points · Posted at 11:46:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically , we would draw two lines ,and one of us would have a belt. The objective is to cross to the other line while the dude tries to belt you . Pretty fun
SamFarns · 1 points · Posted at 12:01:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Non-Brits if you haven't heard of Big Narstie, you have to watch this video of his childhood game "Ukabong"! It killed me! https://youtu.be/48firFVloK0
Baam99 · 1 points · Posted at 12:07:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My siblings and I had this game that each person chose either wood, metal, or plastic and you couldn't touch the other things, everyone had a chance to take other people out and everyone had 10 lives the more of your 'element' you touched the more stacks and 'power' you gained also after taking a person out you gained their element
sirkib · 1 points · Posted at 12:18:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I'm a little late to this party but my friends and I would play "sock wars". A small patch of garden was designated and littered with say, 4 rolled-up pairs of socks per person. The objective of the game was to be the last one standing. Fingertip to elbow were your "blades" which you could use to slash or stab one another, or pick up socks and hurl them. If socks or blades hit you anywhere on the body you'd have to lose that limb. So you'd often be hopping on one leg with an arm around your back and usually it degenerates into laughter pretty fast. You'd form snap alliances with friends for their socks to bombard others from afar only to be stabbed in the back. Swordfights could hurt, but usually they ended within seconds. Nobody cheated because losing limbs or dying was just as fun as winning. Good times
ciabs530 · 1 points · Posted at 12:22:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The offensive animal game. You would say something like “Sound like a German cow,” or “Sound like an Australian cat,” and you make that noise. Our dad would something play along with us, and or mom would just be disappointed in all of us.
sykurbjorn · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:45 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a small crossbow that shot these suction cup arrows.
We'd take turns putting a sheet over our heads and then twirl and spin in the driveway while the other tried to shoot you in the eyeballs with the crossbow.
Didn't seem weird at the time.
rough-seas-ahead · 1 points · Posted at 12:27:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alliehayes/games-people-made-up-as-kids-reddit
mobilegamr · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon
Friisb · 1 points · Posted at 12:44:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
LittleBigPlanet 1!!
I had a friend who did not have a playstation himself, because his parents was'nt that wealthy. So instead he came with me home after school and play.
He loved building maps and i loved playing them, so it was fun for both of us, and we could both play what we wanted (of course not at the same time, but then the other one would watch and or do something else).
So most nostalgia!
lanky_planky · 1 points · Posted at 12:48:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played “polockey” played on bikes with borrowed golf clubs and a tennis ball. Kind of like polo meets hockey but with no goalies. It was really fun. Kids with sting ray type bikes had a real advantage (they more maneuverable). One kid in our neighborhood was really good, he could dribble the tennis ball between his wheels as he rode. The games stopped dramatically when our dads noticed that their irons were getting destroyed! Sorry dad.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:51:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Man hunt
Like hide and go seek but if you found them you get to slap them in the face
DontTouchTheNubbin · 1 points · Posted at 13:01:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers
quite_fine · 1 points · Posted at 13:24:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When I was little me, my grandma, my sister and my mom would walk down the road.(We were living at the country side so it was just a highway)
We had a sequence and we waited when cars came.Maybe it was my mom's turn and a BMW was driving down the highway we would say wow mom you have a nice car.(anything with 4 wheels counted)and then it was my grandma's turn and a tractor was driving.It had 4 wheels so it counted!!This was a way we had fun and spent time together.
MedullaOblongouda · 1 points · Posted at 13:36:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
This was 25 years ago, but I grew up on a small farm with horses, goats and chickens. The horses would have these large hippity hop shaped things as toys. So we'd take two of those, fashion a rope between them and then throw them at our split rail fence for points. But they had to wrap all the way around for a point. The top rail was worth 1 point, mid was 2 points and bottom was 3 points.
Little did we know that we had basically invented ladder ball and could have made millions.
CharlieOwesome · 1 points · Posted at 13:36:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Legend of Legaia. We used to rent it out constantly. The battle system was so unique for its time, and still is.
honkytownquiggy · 1 points · Posted at 14:02:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Rexteam...
ilikemaps22 · 1 points · Posted at 14:09:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At school I created a game called luithomy. It was basically Australian Football played with a round ball with elements of Soccer and Rugby thrown in, played on half a footy oval. We managed to get half the cohort to play for about a week.
angelquezada2005 · 1 points · Posted at 14:29:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Soul Caliber II
stfurtfm · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lawn darts
Wazifaonline7 · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:12 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
i played DAVE game first time on my P1 computer , when i was 12 years old
reversedman · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in the day there was a flash game called "Sewer Run" where you'd take a offroad board (idk the name, correct me if I got it wrong) and skate through a sewer. You had power-ups and you can do tricks for extra points.
redshift2 · 1 points · Posted at 15:10:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Airpod tag.
putingilaw811 · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:16 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nothing. I started jerking off when I was a child.
pretendingtodowerk · 1 points · Posted at 15:25:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Moon ball. Its a variation of wall ball which is a game where 3 or more people and a wall and one ball run around like idiots throwing a ball at the wall. U had 3 lives and if u dont touch the wall before someone throws the ball at it then u lose a life. The variation was that we would play in a carpeted room and had to be on our knees. Looots of diving around and other acrobatic stunts just to touch the stupid wall or get to the ball asap.
bplboston17 · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:00 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My favorite is probably VAMPIRE TAG or KICK THE CAN! My neighborhood would play(90s kid ftw amirite?? You never see kids playing outside nowadays) Anyways Vampire Tag is one person is IT and everyone else goes and hides in the designated zone, when the vampire person comes you run for your life! IF they catch you and tag you, you are also IT along with them and you play until everyones been tagged(TURNED INTO a vampire). Best version of TAG imo, although STUCK IN the MUD was great too! Kick the Can i dont really remember the rules i think theres a team of people that guard the can and they can also send people out to tag you and if you get tagged you go to Jail... well if someone runs up and kicks the can than it frees everyone in Jail.. Its hell of alot of fun and nothing better than that sweet sound of "TING" as you kick the can and everyone hears it and goes oh FUCK JAILBREAK!!! Its alot of fun!
AFlyingMongolian · 1 points · Posted at 15:26:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
While driving, I look at the letters on license plates (Nova Scotia, so it goes AAA 111) and make a word using those letters in that order (FCT 014 could be "fact" "faucet" "infectious" but NOT "craft") and whoever can come up with the longest, smartest sounding word wins. It's funny to find one like YTM 966 and no on can get anything but ytterbium.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego minefield, We would randomly lay legos on the floor and try to navigate through them without stepping on anything while wearing a blindfold.
IBullyPyro · 1 points · Posted at 15:33:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a game (not sure if someone else played it) but it went like this one kid would choose a color like this "Grandpa knocks on the door and asks for a ribbon" the other kids would ask what color?. Then the kid would say the color depending on the shoes if one chooses lets say red the kids with the red shoe would have to escape the kid catching him and try to tag the place the kid said the color and the kid being chased would be the one to choose the color. The color could also be rainbow which includes all colors and all kids have to tag the wall,tree etc. I played around 1st to 3rd grade and nobody played after that.
Justinator · 1 points · Posted at 15:34:10 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Monster rain
MrShroom5 · 1 points · Posted at 15:38:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Under water sumeriene with my girlfriend
SLASH3R_99 · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was a game called "firing squad" how it worked was everyome had airsoft or paintball guns except for 1 guy, the guys with guns were hunters that had to find the unarmed guy in a certain time limit. If he was hit, he would have to stand against a wall where everyone would clap the shit out of him with their guns from about 5 meters away.
DUDEDIGGL3R · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Unsure of the uniqueness, but we played Kick the Can. A variant of hide n seek, played outdoors. We had a 2L pop bottle filled a bit with sand so that it stood up. Everyone lined up while the lucky person kicked the can. The person who was "it" had to get the can and bring it back to home base. Every kid caught had to race back to base. If the "it" person touched the can, the caught kid went to jail. If the other kid made it first, they could kick the can and free the other kids from jail. Everyone was tired after the game disbanded.
MegaSupernova888 · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:40 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my neighborhood, I created a game we'd play outside called "Tomb Robber." (Originally "Tomb Raider" until one of my friends pointed out the obvious accidental plagiarism...) It was 1 vs everyone, where one person was the "mummy" and hid an "artifact" (a ball) in a yard. The other players would wait outside the yard, not looking. Once the mummy was ready, they'd shout "enter if you dare!" and the other players would try and find the ball without getting tagged. If you were tagged, you were out permanently. If the mummy got everyone out, they'd win. If the other players got the ball out of the yard, they'd win. The mummy also had to give a riddle that hinted at where the ball was once half of the players were out.
It's a simple concept, but it led to some fun games where the team would have some close calls - people would be screaming where they found the ball, and tossing it to other players once they got it to avoid the mummy. Good times.
Giddyhobgoblin · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The floor is lava. While it might not be unique to some this also was the game that led to my first Ambulance ER visit. Ball of yarn on the floor. Shoved my sister out of the way, landed on it, jumped to next item and ball is stuck to my foot. Babysitter looks and there is a crotche needle through my foot. Wedged in bone but nothing broken. It's a memory at 4years old that is engrained in my memories! Even the Dr coming up to me with blue handled clamps that my G-pa as a plumber uses. He had to have grabbed it from the janitors closet lol.
mazies7766 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In elementary school, my mom put a bunch of pieces of paper in a bowl and wrote a chore and the corresponding amount of money you got for it. Ex. Dust the shelves, get 20c. There were also ‘funny’ ones like do the chicken dance, get 50c. We played it as a ‘fun game’ whenever my friends came over.
Overpunch42 · 1 points · Posted at 15:53:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not that young, but in school we played this basket ball game called lighting. There a huge a line and each one tries to shoot the ball into the basket but if two in a row fail then both players must must and one of them has to score the winner gets to go back at the end of the line again while the other who didn't has wait for the next player to miss the shoot in order to try to get back in line.
alexisfs · 1 points · Posted at 15:55:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Bead Shop”
Every year after Mardi Gras, the neighbor kids and I would set out all of our beads in my driveway and we’d trade beads with each other. We’d each have our own little area with our “shops” and if we wanted something from another shop we’d gather up some beads and go down to try to make a bargain.
Each bead was worth something different.
I think green and gold beads were just worth 1 other green or gold bead.
Purple beads were worth 2 green or gold beads.
Colors like white, pink, blue, etc were worth more but that was up to the “shop owner”.
“Special” beads also cost a lot more. We also traded stuffed animals and those kinds of things.
We were actually brutal about it lol. It was so much fun.
jdv510 · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodge car
akirayokoshima · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I always role played since I didnt have any friends for the majority of my life.
But I did come up with a lot of fan fiction for stories I liked when I was younger. To the point even the adults that were privy to my stories thought they were good.
An example: I fell in love with naruto when it first came out. I would watch it and was fascinated with the out of this world action and superhuman abilities everyone possessed.
So I made my own character and would role play his life.
His name was Don. He came from the village hidden in the stones, but he specialized in metal ninjutsu. When he was a teenager someone from his village tried to kill him because they were afraid of his talent, so he left the village and became a shadow, surviving on whatever he could steal or kill.
Team 7 eventually runs into him during a mission, by this point Don is half mad, from starvation and trying to fight for his life as he fends off the assassins from the stone village.
They get attacked, naruto convinces kakashi to let Don travel with them back to the hidden leaf, to which Kakashi is skeptic, but relents after seeing Don collapse from exhaustion.
Eventually recovering, and his condition was brought to light, Naruto excitedly tells Don that he was being offered temporary but potentially permanent residence as a hidden leaf ninja.
Tsunade visits Don during his hospital stay and tells him the real reason he was being offered such a rare opportunity, given the fact that they were harboring a fugitive, and enemy ninja, it could lead to an all out war if word got out, was because he was dying.
Don smiles which surprises Tsunade and makes her regret him being born. He explains that his metal ninjutsu wasnt perfect. Every time he uses it, some metal works it's way into his blood and has been poisoning him ever since he was Naruto's age. The stone's equivilant of the Anbu always made sure he was never able to truly rest or recover, and the constant pressure of being attacked was driving him closer to his death.
Tsunade Pat's his head, and tells him not to worry, but he should seriously think about Naruto, since it was his idea to bring him with them back to the village.
Don and naruto become good friends, with Naruto incredibly fascinated with Don's level of ninjutsu mastery at such a young age.
Sasuke doesnt like him much, he considers Don to be too much like his brother and constantly talks down to him, even more so than Naruto.
Sakura acknowledges he is a strong asset to the team, but in her typical fangirl ways seems anything Sasuke does as better.
Kakashi quickly picks up on Don's condition, and after being told by Tsunade that he didnt have long to live. She explains that his body was too heavily saturated with iron and that his body was declining at a steady rate. Given how long he had been alone and hunted, it was only a matter of time before he would succumb to his own ninjutsu. Kakashi keeps an eye out on Don as they do some missions, much to Sasuke and Naruto's chagrin, they are little more than errand missions, but fills Don with a sense of belonging, and Kakashi feels a pang of guilt and regret, knowing that this kid would soon eventually die, and there was nothing anyone could do.
At the climax of his life, Don faced the one responsible for his multiple assassination attempte, and after a fierce battle between team 7 and Don, and the Anbu of the hidden stone village, Don half succumbs to his illness and saves team 7 from being captured.
This results in a chain reaction in Don that instantly kills him, both internally, and externally as the hidden stone finally managed to assassinate him.
Kakashi tells Naruto that they couldnt save Don, Naruto cries and Kakashi Pat's his head, as he explains Don's critical condition.
Sasuke quickly looks at Kakashi in disbelief and Kakashi confirmed what Sasuke thought.
"Don was one of the most powerful ninja of this age, probably more so than Itachi. If he had gotten the chance to live a normal life, he could have been truly something great"
Don's speciality was metal ninjutsu, he kept iron and coal in his pockets instead of ninja tools because he would smelt them using chakra.
Out of his techniques his favorites were
"Iron skin jutsu" he would coat his entire body in metal, completely insulating him from damage. (The chakra infused in the metal also protected him from being cooked inside the metal so fire type jutsu couldnt be used effectively)
"Razor wind jutsu" he would make small, needle like metal rods that he would throw, if they impacted something, they would be "released" using wind chakra to created extremely small, but razor sharp projectiles. If he landed one of these on a person, they were guaranteed to die.
"Creation: sword/shuriken/sickle/scythe jutsu" this jutsu would create weapons, I only named the ones he would use the most.
I cant remember the other jutsu he might've used since it's been a long ass time. I wrote this entirely off of memory
I have a ton more role played stories from a lot of different stories, star wars, Harry Potter, bleach, final fantasy, modern warfare,
Even made my own stories and role played those, such as Fire, Ice, Lightning and the pride and joy of my stories, Elements.
lordochaos321 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bike Tag. My friend group created this game in the neighborhood I grew up in. So, we would all be on our bikes and one person had a newspaper still in the bag. We usually got the paper from a neighbor's driveway or something. The name of the game is just tag. One person is it and has the newspaper, you have to chase everyone around and throw the newspaper at them, if you hit them, they're it, if you miss, you have to get off your bike and get the paper back, giving those time to get away.
abvavgdong · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Too many to mention!
At school, elementary, we had this one where you jumped on the monkey bars and had a deathmatch trying to yank the other kid off the bars using only your legs. I think we called it chicken? Many kids got broken bones so it got shut down.
I know this might get some blowback, but this truly was a different time and we were little kids. But, we played a game called "smear the queer". Basically, someone would throw a football and everyone would run to it. Once someone picked the ball up, they were dubbed the queer and you had to go chase them down and viciously tackle them or whatever to get them down. The teachers finally made us change the name or we couldn't play it anymore, so we changed it to "rugby" eh close enough.
Okay last one..Aggie ball. My brother made this game up. It was like kickball meets dodgeball and a bit of baseball. So, instead of four bases like in baseball, you had 2..home plate and what would be 2nd base. The "pitcher" rolled the kickball and once you kicked it you ran for 2nd base. Defense could tag you out, hit you with the ball, or step on the bag to get you out. The purpose was to go there and back to get a point, but if you couldn't go back you had to stay on 2nd and get kicked in. Also, if you were running you could move anywhere on the playing field to avoid getting hit or tagged out. Fun game!
PiperSecrets · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hot monster. Like The Floor Is Lava, but with someone being the hot monster. We loved jumping on furniture, I guess.
jzwanzig · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and I love Chalk Superhero’s. We’d trace each other’s outlines and color in what kind of super hero we wanted to be. Mine always had long blond braids that had electric currents in them so I could shock the bad guys. We’d go play in the playground and whenever a “situation” arose, we’d all run over to our drawings and lay on them to transform into the hero’s.
allinn1one67 · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
hide and seek ..#clap .. its the best game that i played during my childhood. most memorable thing.
MorthaP · 1 points · Posted at 16:12:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I climbed into my cupboard and pretended it was an elevator that would drive me to work.
PaulErdos_ · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my older brother had this blue strechy body bag, and we would put ourselves in the bag and throw ourselves down the stairs. It hurt a lot, but despite this we did it multiple times.
emperorjoel · 1 points · Posted at 16:20:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lego war: we would build starships with legos, each color had meaning, red was engines, blue was heavy armor, yellow was light armor. It was more of a LARP like game... I can tell so many stories of the glories of the Rise and fall of the Red Flame, and the grand civil war, to the rise of the Blue flame, to the grand era of peace.
SP3NGL3R · 1 points · Posted at 16:22:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Runt Ball" my highschool rugby team played this during lunch. 2 teams, open field possession based game, full tackle (we used it as skills training). The only point earned was at the 15 minutes to class bell. And the goal was which ever field line was further away when the bell rang. Get the try and hit the showers for class. It was gruesome, but I think my broken collarbone was the only significant injury before our coaches band us from playing Runt Ball ever again. We did go on to win the BC (Canada) AAA championships that year, as a single A school too. We were really good for Canada, but the All Blacks Juniors still wooped is silly when they were visiting. So only good for Canada I guess.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Roof ball.
It’s like tennis but played on a sloped roof instead of over a net. Points are bad, if you get to 21 points your out. You hit the ball up on the roof and call out someone else’s name who’s playing, then that Person must hit the ball when it rolls back down. The way you get points is by hitting the ball and it either doenst go on the roof(1 pt) you hit the ball over the roof or in the gutter (2pts).
My friend had a really tall steep roof and it was the most fun thing we ever did in our neighboorhood.
LargeSalsa · 1 points · Posted at 16:30:55 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The naked wrestling game with my uncle
Jadenhm · 1 points · Posted at 16:34:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad would turn off all of the lights, and my friends and I would began to shake in our boots. Then we would hear him shout in a very announcer type voice “THUNDERBALL!” As soon as we heard those words we ran and hid in terror. My dad would chase us in the dark and throw those foam dodgeballs at us very hard. You couldn’t hurt someone with them if you tried, but we were still terrified. It felt like we were Ripley hiding from the alien.
_nobodyreally · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Is this food. I learned to play by watching the dog.
spacedogmanicure · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:25 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When my sister and I were kids we had some family friends who were ten years older and would babysit us. With them we would "run through the walls" - we would have to keep our eyes closed (if we opened them during the process we would be transported to another world that we could get stuck in and never see our parents again, extreme but effective).
While our eyes were closed the two older sisters would pick my sister and I up and spin us around and run with us into another room and collapse onto the floor with us. When we opened our eyes they said we had run through the walls. Couldn't get enough of that shit.
SundaeNinja · 1 points · Posted at 16:36:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game called Road Kill (it was basically Chicken, but I didn't know at the time). Lie down in the road and wait for a car. Last person to get up wins.
Googlyman64 · 1 points · Posted at 16:40:14 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
idk if other people have this, but my brothers and I played "Jeep" whenever we were on a long drive somewhere. If you spotted a Jeep Wrangler, you called out "Jeep!" and youd get a point. If you saw a yellow Jeep Wrangler, youd say "Jeep McCaw!" for 2 points. There weren't any rewards for winning or anything though.
notwest94 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Oh God I don't know what we called it, but my sister and I would set up all of our little stuffed animals into like rose like they were little craft fair booths. And we would like to go back and forth making up what the stuffed animal was selling or doing in theur craft fair booth. And one of the stuffed animal would be the like critic and rate the booth and the thing that they were selling.
I don't know why I was so obsessed with craft fairs. I still really like them.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:45:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically,we played a very fast game of catch with a box of tissues.Rules are you don't drop it and must say the brand of the tissues before throwing it to the other person or you're out.
MissMv2 · 1 points · Posted at 16:46:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
(its stupid but here it is) Me and my friends had this game called "Love Jinx" where if someone didnt cross their fingers you would say/ scream "I love you " to them, then they had to go up to a random person and tell them they loved them
BUT : there was also this rule that if the person joined you on the "You" you couldnt talk until they said your name 4 times ( there was also a bunch of additional rules but i dont remember them)
We ended up getting our grade and the grade below us ( 7 and 6th grade) to play
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:48:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made a religion based on chilli nachos that gave superpowers to those of special worth. We would eat some nachos and then pretend to throw fire snakes at each other etc.
Thatguynoah · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You two are going to do big things one day!
chewbubbIegumkickass · 1 points · Posted at 16:49:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
"Wrackles", noun, plural. As in, "Dad, can we PLEASE have a wrackle tonight??" Combination wrestling and tickling. Dad would close his eyes and we 5 kids would have to the count of 10 to scatter and hide before he roared "RATONES!!" ('Ra-TONE-ayz', because he always called us his rats) Then he'd prowl through the house looking for us, speaking loudly in menacing monologues, like, "I wonder if anyone is here in the closet!" whips closet door open. "Hmm, I guess not. What about under the BED!" He usually always knew where we were, but liked to psychologically torture us by getting closer and closer to our hiding place as we trembled in terror/delight until he unearthed us with a devilish sharky grin and dragged us, squealing and struggling, out of our hiding spot. Then he'd wrackle us mercilessly until a sibling came to the rescue with a blanket to throw over dad's head, which made him let go of his victim and wave his arms in the air with an exaggerated helpless "Aughhhhhhhh!" for ~10 seconds while we all scrambled away back into hiding.
The goal was to lure all the kids close enough as we inched forward with rescue blankets to grab a limb and capture all of us one by one; keeping all five captive with a hand around the ankle, leg pinning down a torso, etc while simultaneously wrackling everyone, for 10 seconds or more, without anyone escaping. The best part was how he would taunt us and loudly announce who he had captured, using our special pet names he had for each of us. "I've got Mordecai! I've got Muffin! Now I've got both a Mord-and-a-Muff! Come rescue them Patrootchio, IF YOU DARE!"
100% my favorite childhood memories.
king_of_trash · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:05 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and some of the kids in my neighborhood could never agree on what to play when we were on my trampoline so I always suggested (whatever one kid wanted to do) meets (whatever I wanted to do) and that basically prevented arguments 90% of the time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It may not sound unique by the title, but just keep reading. Hide and seek in the dark.
The catch was it is in a small room. One room only, a bedroom is optimal. Have at least 4 people playing. The seeker stands outside door and everyone finds a spot in the room. The seeker wears a blindfold including the lights off. In order to find someone the seeker has to hold you for 10 seconds. The hider has the ability to do anything in there power to get away including punching.
b-crew96 · 1 points · Posted at 16:55:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would play catch with about a fist sized rock, the catch was you couldn't break eye contact. So I would be staring into the soul of my brother waiting to see if I could catch it with my peripheral vision or get hit with a rock from 20-30 ft away.
johnpetrie00 · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My friends and I played a game called gladiator. Basically my friend had a HUGE swing set that we would climb up on with foam swords and we’d fight until someone fell off the swing. During the winter, when we couldn’t use the swing set, we’d race down a hill on sleds while sword fighting. Eventually, we learned how to stand while sledding and it started to feel like that one part of the battle of mustafar between obi wan and anakin when they’re on the lava river. It eventually got up to like twelve people fighting/racing at a time, and it was fun as FUCK.
ammarie15 · 1 points · Posted at 16:59:59 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was called "Escape Artist". I would beg my dad to tie me up in duct tape and time me to see how long it took to get out. I remember being really excited about it at the time...
Badong_94 · 1 points · Posted at 17:12:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
When we were kids my siblings and cousin played a game called blind man's bluff, we would go into a room that was very dark and one of us would be it, the person that was "it" would be blindfolded, circled around ten times and try to grab one of the other players, so think hide and seek mixed with tag. What made it fun was because the dark room we were playing in was big and had a bunk bed in there allowing us to climb on and quietly sneak by. Of course it's a bit redundant for us to blindfold the person when we were already in the dark, but there were a few night lights which over time allowed us to adjust our vision in the dark, so after "it" grabs a person and holds them for 3 seconds that person is it, we turn on the light adjust our vision to lights so we would have to readjust it to the darkness.
patherix · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
One person would bounce on a trampoline and two people would stand on opposite sides, trying to throw and hit the bouncer with a tennis ball.
The bouncer got a point for each bounce and two for each flip. Once you get hit by the ball, you're out.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:24:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
On the playground in elementary school we would play a game of tag where you were supposed to keep your feet on the cracks in the asphalt. The playground concrete was covered in a web of these cracks so it was pretty easy to do.
Reminds me of "the floor is lava".
stevebobeeve · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We would put a mirror under our nose and walk around the house bumping into things and pretending we were walking on the ceiling
Youngster_Joey14 · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Indoor golf. My brothers and my dad would all have a tennis ball, wiffle ball, bouncy ball etc. and one person would determine where the hole was. It would always be in a different room of the house. Like golf, the goal was to get your ball into the hole in as few strokes as possible. For each stroke, you could throw, roll, or "putt" (basically using your hand to simulate a putter and smacking the ball around the floor). Wherever your ball ended up, you could pick it up and throw from there for your next shot.
Surprisingly I can't remember ever breaking anything, what with throwing the balls all over the house, up/down the stairs, banking off the walls, etc.
UndiagnosedSiren · 1 points · Posted at 17:32:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I played 'G.A.M.E' from ages 6-10 (She was 9-13). We would spell it out whenever we talked about it. It stood for something we thought was clever at the time. I can't remember these days.
We basically sectioned off a 2x2 part of our room and built a little civilization for our toys that just kept growing as our 'story' grew. It was mostly made out of legos, lego people, polly pockets, Christmas ornaments we had stolen off the tree and snipped the ties off to use as figurines (dad got mad at that, we fucking were sneaky and did it multiple years), and a bunch of other small toys we acquired throughout the years.
When we played we would always play together and agree to put it on pause when we were done. When we would resume where we left off, we discussed the last events to make sure we were both on the same page, and remembered correctly before starting to play again.
It was a never ending story and a never ending city. It grew a little bigger than the 2x2 area we started with, but it was in a corner of our room so we couldn't spread farther than our arms could reach to the inner corner. We never destroyed our lego creations either since it was usually to fill an arc in the story, or expand on a cool idea. We had lego toys that stayed assembled for years and we just kept acquiring more until we stopped playing one day.
Thatguynoah · 1 points · Posted at 17:34:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sometimes my mom would drop us off at the park while she had important meetings at a bar nearby, we would spend hours just stapling bread to trees until she came back, sometimes our dad would have to come because my moms meetings were so long that she got sleepy. It’s really the small things that make childhood so wonderful.
m_sporkboy · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played "scorpion". One guy protected a strip of land that was about the middle fifth of the yard between two lines, with an 8ish foot length of rope. His job was to whip people with the rope when they tried to cross his strip to the other side. He'd get points for hitting people, and they'd get points for crossing unwhipped.
Druivesap · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and i used to play a game where you both had to put on a hat (like a beanie) and had to take the other persons hat off.
Gingerpufff · 1 points · Posted at 18:00:22 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I used to call numbers from the phone book reminding them to “Flex Your Power” by turning off unused lights and toasters. 😂
Lolguy2014 · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodgeball except it was free for all and you could go anywhere
grintfan90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:13 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kidnap Katie: the rules are simple, me and my sister would wait for our younger sister Katie to fall asleep, when we knew she was sound asleep we would take an emptied out duvet cover and put her inside. Then drag her around the house bellowing kidnap Katie! She enjoyed it. Mems
SirLordJam · 1 points · Posted at 18:19:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
At primary school, me and my friends would hold onto the metal fence and slowly work our way along pretending to be pulled away by a tornado. We called it (very original) The Tornado Game.
mynameismax123 · 1 points · Posted at 18:21:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Webkinz.
cherokeeArrow7 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My big brother and I basically created an RPG game that we would act out. We would have encounters in which we could use spells and items to defeat enemies and bosses. He even went so far as to write down the spells in a book for me so I would have a tome since I was the spellcaster. It was a really cool experience for me seeing as I was 4-6 years old. Really shows how great of a brother he was
Nurtle_Nugget · 1 points · Posted at 18:45:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
So there’s this game called Paranoia that I played in high school. Basically you have to shoot another player with a nerf gun to get them “IT” Once your it you have to obviously shoot another player. But your allowed to go into houses, cars, pretty much anywhere but at school. Lol you can get shot in the middle of the night. Drive around in cars and shoot people while driving. It’s crazy except once a car flipped over. But lots of fun none the less
starsailor40 · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yeet Yourself Down the (hardwood) Stairs: First To Cry Loses. There were also other classics, such as Attract the Alligators in the Canal, Magnet Chucking, and Get the Lizard To Bite. Fun times.
kitten_huddle · 1 points · Posted at 18:48:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and sister and I would play Baby Bird. We would get literally every pillow and blanket in the house that we could find, and then someone would crouch on the floor while the other two surrounded them completely with the pillows. Then the blankets would go on top of all of that. It would get damn hot in there, lol. Anyway, once the blankets were on, we’d be like, “okay baby bird, time to HATCH!!” and whoever was buried would bust out of all of the pillows and blankets. It sounds dumb but we thought it was SO FUN. We would play it over and over.
Steve10455 · 1 points · Posted at 18:51:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gta 4
Whitish_Black · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Purble Place
Bachness_monster · 1 points · Posted at 18:54:19 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)*
“Tree tag” but it had two variants. One is exactly as it sounds, everybody climbs into a tree and a predetermined person is “it.” That person then tries to climb quickly and tag somebody. No tag backs allowed. Was usually my brothers and some neighborhood kids. Super fun. Second version of was everybody except who’s it climbs up a tree. No higher than 25 feet up is the limit of your climb, and you pick a spot. Once you’ve picked the spot you’re not allowed to move more than one hand and foot off of where you planted them at a time. The person below then tries to peg you with a tennis ball. Get 3 strikes and you switch places. Bounce shots only counted if it bounced once before hitting you. Basically was dodgeball in a tree.
Edit: or rollerblade tag. Was exactly what it sounds like. Had plenty of casualties, and ran into a few cars.
Edit 2: sleeping bag sliding down the stairs, mattress sliding down the stairs (hard stop with the front door), rolling down the driveway in a dryer drum, throwing all the cushions in a pile and diving in (led to stitches), trampoline loaded with balls and trying to dodge them, dodgeball on a trampoline but you use your feet to kick it (led to a broken tooth). This post is making me remember some damn good times
wlnecro · 1 points · Posted at 18:57:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
4 square extreme. It's 4 square but youre not allowed to use your hands or arms. Its easier then it sounds
lord_charquaad · 1 points · Posted at 18:58:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister played a game called Som and Chase. It was basically a way for her to bully me but through a game so I guess that makes it more acceptable. We both had fictional characters that we pretended to be. She was Chase and I was Som (originally Sam but we talked in voices so I sounded more like Som so that stuck.) Her character was rich, thin, and healthy and my character was too obese to fit on planet earth so whenever we drew our characters, mine was just a toe coming out of the sky. My character was really poor, had 18 siblings, and covered himself with "poopy lotion" because that was his favorite scent (Like I said, my sister dictated most of the game I just went along with it.) Our characters would have all sorts of adventures, but really the game was just us drawing pictures about our made up world. My sister ended up becoming a famous illustrator so I guess she benefited from this.
NumnerPeasent · 1 points · Posted at 18:59:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our family played thig game called the "geography game." The rules are: you say the town your in and last letter in that name the next person would have to say a geographical location starting with that letter and so on and so on. Sounds lame, but after while you get some unique town, mountain, rivers, and etc. names and stories out of it.
craig_t_nelson_muntz · 1 points · Posted at 19:04:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yellow Tag! We had a trampoline (with no protective padding because of our dog) and we would use water and dish soap to make it slippery. One person would be "it" and the rest of the participants would stand on one of the yellow warning tags on either side of the trampoline. The contestants would try to jump and slide across the trampoline to get to the other tag while avoiding the "it" whose job it was to tag/wrestle/prevent them from reaching their goal. If you get caught you'd be it. No one died.
ChaosJourney · 1 points · Posted at 19:09:03 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I played this game on the swings called Take Down. One guy would push the other guy on the swing as high and as fast as possible, and whenever ready, the guy who pushed would stand in front of the bottom of the swing and brace for impact. The goal was to get launched as far as possible. No broken bones, kinda painful, a lot of fun
Raikkonenkingofspa · 1 points · Posted at 19:13:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I would play a game with my sister when one of us pretended to be a shark and the other the fishermen. I would get “reeled in” and then whoever was the fisherman would basically act like Steve Irwin. “Crikey, look at the size of this one”. Stupid I know but we thought it was funny
StubbyBoi · 1 points · Posted at 19:17:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Cross Bull Bridge.
Pretty simple game. I would give my sister a piggy back ride and we would try to make it from one end of the room to the other. My little brother was down on his hands and knees and was the “bull” and would try to head-butt me in the shins till I feel over. Painful game, but one of our favorites.
trashbird-s · 1 points · Posted at 19:18:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
No name - played on my cousins trampoline. One person is blindfolded in the middle of the trampoline, and can move in any way that doesn't involve standing ( e.g. crawling, rolling etc ) and has to catch the other people and try and tag them, while the other players run around the trampoline. Tactics included just staying completely still, or rolling around like mad.
Jubbs54 · 1 points · Posted at 19:25:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had this game we called Shadow Man and basically you just use a couple rooms and play tag, but the person who is it has their eyes closed. Anytime they come close to tripping on something or any other potentially dangerous thing then the others have to shout Shadow Man to warn them. It is stupidly simple but way more fun than it sounds I swear. Haha
CosmicWarrior_PCMR · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Wood chip gladiator” we would pick up wood chips and station on the playground and throw them at people swinging, if you hit someone, you would swing and they would join the throwers, tons of fun.
DWagon77 · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my sister would turn our bikes upside down and crank the pedals as fast as we could to make the back wheel turn. The we would drop small rock on the back tire to see how far we could launch them.
SherlockHG221b · 1 points · Posted at 19:38:34 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousins and my siblings and I grew up around each other, one family was always moving out or into my grandparents house. There was a total of about 12 of us grandkids at the time. This is family from my mom's side, my mom has 2 boys and 2 girls, her oldest brother has 4 girls, and oldest sister has 4 boys, (all 12 of us are out of high school, except for 1 and that's my little brother but he's a senior. I have 3 other cousins younger than 11. My mom's older brother has 2 girls with 2 different women, and the youngest sister had 1 girl. They were either babies or not born when we hanging out.) Sorry, got off topic, anyways it was mostly 8 of us their at the time, my 4 girl cousins and my siblings and I. We had tons of games we'd play but the most memorable game was "The Grass Game" (we never really came up with a name for it), the house is on a one way street and we would be outside all the time. There was lots of patches of grass around and cars would come down often but not packed traffic, usually one car every 30 minute or even 10 it really depended, but I don't think I've ever seen 2 cars come down at the same time. Anyways the point of the game was to be touching a patch of grass before the car passed you. We never kept scores and no one won or lost, there was no outs or anything, just people saying "you suck, better luck next time." I think it was a genius idea because there was grass on both sides of the street so we'd never have to run across the street to get to safety, and this meant we stayed on the sidewalks when cars were coming. Idk sorry this dragged.
minerfanatic · 1 points · Posted at 19:45:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Made up a game called Fútbol-Palos. We leaned 5 small sticks against oposite walls and used a tenis ball as a soccer ball to knock them off the wall. Oh the fun my little brother and I had.
Iamp00ping_rn13 · 1 points · Posted at 19:46:28 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Okay im not sure if it's a real game that other people played or what But me and my sister used to play it and any searches I've done to find the name of it were fruitless.
It's a card game. Regular 52 card deck. Two players. Each person is dealt 6 stacks of 4cards face done. And the last 4 cards are placed face up in the middle. The goal is to get 6 four of a kind by swapping cards in your hand for cards in the middle.
So say one of your hands were 3 Jack's and an ace. And the other guy puts down a Jack. You put down the ace and take the jack completing 1 of your 6hands. First one to get six wins. It's really stressful and fun definitely if you know what you're doing. There's so many good strategies. I teach it to people all the time but I can never remember the name. Anyone know what I'm talking about? (I posted this on TOMT a while ago and got nothing)
ikerus0 · 1 points · Posted at 19:47:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We essentially took the game “dead man, dead man” and revamped it to be a bit more violent and off of a tramp.
We played in it a friend’s basement which had a ton of random stuff in and was only partially finished (some rooms were only framed out).
One person had a huge comforter draped over their head (they were the dead man). The goal for the dead man was to catch anyone else (usually there were 4 or 5 of us running around the dead man). If he got a hold of you, he had to call out your name and then you would be it.
You didn’t want to be it, because we would often throw stuff at their head. The dead man would get desperate (because it sucker being the dead man) and would start lunging and diving at any movement they could hear. It was a well known trick to go into a room that was framed out so you could easily make noise and if the dead man dove at you, they would most like dive head first into a 2x4.
Good times, came out with some scars.
ikerus0 · 1 points · Posted at 19:51:54 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Worm wars.
There would be 3-5 of us on a good size trampoline and everyone is standing up right inside of a sleeping bag. You hold onto the sleeping back to make sure it’s only your head sticking out.
There wasn’t much of a goal other than you are trying to leap into the air and using both legs in the sleeping bag, kick someone who is in the middle of their jump (the higher they were the more funny it was).
If you kicked them in the right spot (lower legs) they would often flip around and land on their face, because their arms are inside the sleeping bag, they can’t really catch themselves.
We stopped playing after a few times of accidentally kicking people all the way off the tramp.
fireflare94 · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 4th grade me and my friends played a game called trippy. The rules are self explanatory. Get tripped, your out.
MrsRoseUniverse · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:41 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Paint the tree with mud and a stick. It was my favorite when I first moved into my childhood neighborhood and had no friends.
squishyslipper · 1 points · Posted at 20:04:31 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I would take turns punching each other in the forehead. Whoever fell over first was the loser.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:09:32 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I didn't have a lot of friends growing up so I was stuck being by myself a lot of the time. Having a wild imagination I can't think of one particular time but I know I thought up some pretty damn crazy shit. In fact I was having trouble with my alphebet in kindergarten and because my imagination was so active my mom encouraged me to make up a game to help me learn them and it helped.
PrinceDax · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:06 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Golf, but the tee would be held between a chosen child's teeth. The child given the club could either hit you in the face really fucking hard, or hit the ball. Everyone would get to do this and then another child was chosen to hold the tee. There were no points taken off or rewarded based on your choice, but the child who was hit might remember it when their turn came. It was basically a really painful trust fall.
kingofweights · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Blind Monkey” a game played on a playground. Eyes closed, find your opponents. First one found or first to touch the ground (monkey has to call it) loses and is the blind monkey
Thorn_Hand_Cannon · 1 points · Posted at 20:17:29 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My father, my sisters and I would play "license plate tag," which was basically just punching someone when you saw an out of state licence plate. My father used to deliberately drive by the college near our house (plates that had Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, etc) and affectionately referred to that area as "The Thunderdome."
Surfncompany · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to sit on the floorboard heaters until it got to hot, you would shout “hot hot!
Also as ten year olds we would mix vinegar into our water. Highest ratio drink won if you could keep it down without laughing from the other people
Shockrider1 · 1 points · Posted at 20:23:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Back in 2012, my sister and I would race to the car (from the grocery store or wherever) and whoever got their seatbelt buckled first won a medal in the order they made it. We also forced medals on our parents sometimes, so that every so often they would join in. We actually kept track of the medals too, not gonna lie, I think I ended up winning.
We also learned different swimming strokes that we saw on TV, and would race. That’s actually how I learned the breaststroke
Games like this really are great when you can find a couple super competitive people, which we are. Also raced our bikes sometimes
Erik99878 · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:23 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
i played Mr. President. Generic but fun. One person puts 2 fingers to their ear and we all catch on and do the same until there’s one person left. whoever isn’t doing it is the president and we scream get down and doggy pile him. we do it anywhere and anytime.
thenrthwste · 1 points · Posted at 20:46:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I would play a game called "Ginger War". It was something like a paintball war, but poorly organized and played not with paintballs, but with ginger stalks. We lived in a neighborhood surrounded by forest and pastures, and we would break up into teams and try to invade and gain control of the opposing teams home base. Players were eliminated when they were hit by a ginger stalk thrown by an opposing player and the game was over when the whole team was eliminated or they were forced from their home base.
queeniephox · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grass wars.
This was something we would do at my elementary school and the circumstances had to be right.
We had this huge field and probably like once a month it would get mowed.
Whatever mower they used resulted in small piles of grass all over the field.
Recess bell would ring and we would all descend on the field to discover it was grass war day.
We would then proceed to pelt each other with grass. Nothing fancy.
Every time, more and more kids would participate in the Grass Wars.
Eventually, they turned too violent and Grass Wars were banned.
Then the mounds of grass lay untouched on the field and the veterans of the Grass Wars had to reintegrate into recess society, but we were all changed.
OftenTriggered · 1 points · Posted at 21:07:38 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I used to take an empty milk jug, fill it with water, use duct tape to secure the lid, then basically throw it at each other until it got one of us soaked. I would murder my kids if I saw them doing something like that today.
queeniephox · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
“Lasso tag” — My older cousin went through a phase where he thought he was a cowboy. (He was like 16) During this time he got a lasso and just got... really good at it. One of the ways he would practice was he would get me (5 at the time) and all the neighbor kids in the front yard and tell us to run. He would then start chasing us all around with the lasso catching us each in turn and then hog-tying us. We had a blast!
The only part that wasn’t cool was if you were on the cement or in the street. You’d feel the lasso go around you and fall to your ankles. This is when he’d pull the lasso, the rope would go tight, and you’d go down. A face full of asphalt was not a blast.
physix124 · 1 points · Posted at 21:11:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends played this game we made up. It was called "ninja floor is lava". It was floor is lava but instead, you could go on the floor. The catch? If 2 or more people saw you on the floor than you were out. And you couldn't stay on the same place for more than a minute
falloutwinter · 1 points · Posted at 21:12:08 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My three brothers and our friends would play what we called "Blamball". It's baseball really but we didn't have baseballs so we used basketballs. Everyone could hit the ball, even my youngest brother at age 5.
One time my youngest brother is pitching to me--I'm ten years older--and I just cream the basketball. It's a line drive to him bounces right off his face and flys straight up in the air. He flys back from the impact and is doing that silent cry. Good times.
KoudaMikako · 1 points · Posted at 21:13:56 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Claw!
Aikooller · 1 points · Posted at 21:22:07 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Waterfall, my sister and i would play it on the carpeted stairs, one of us would be at the top, and the other would start sliding down the stairs and whoever was at the top of the stairs had to try to "save" the other one before we slid all the way down the stairs lol.
We also had a game we played with friends where we'd build stairs out of giant plastic waffleblocks and have someone sit up on top, like 5-6 feet up probably. Then the other people would kick a ball at the side of the stair structures till it collapsed. We had a lot of really weird, stupid shit we did looking back.
XennIsNotHere · 1 points · Posted at 21:37:27 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gang up tiggy
hamdandruff · 1 points · Posted at 21:45:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
'Rams'. My brother and I would just run at each other and collide head first. This was invented after our parents took away our heavy wooden swords and shields they got for us at Medieval Times because we wouldn't stop bludgeoning each other.
quesidilla65 · 1 points · Posted at 21:49:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friends would play “Shadow Tag” it’s where you need to tag each other with your shadows
mmacto · 1 points · Posted at 21:52:02 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played kick the can. Basically a 2 part version of hide and seek.
MicahWars · 1 points · Posted at 22:13:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Could you explain more? What do you mean,"2 part version of hide and seek"?
mmacto · 1 points · Posted at 22:26:11 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
You first get an old can and put some rocks in it. Put the can where the “it” person is going to hide their eyes and start the countdown.Your person who’s “it” counts to 100 while the others hide. Then once they find someone they race back to the can full of rocks and kick it. If the it person gets there first, then the hider goes to jail and has to sit out. If the hider gets to can then everyone is sprung from jail. Lots of variations on the game but it can keep a whole neighbourhood of kids occupied for hours.
jzap · 1 points · Posted at 22:40:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
it was also the subject of a "Twilight Zone" episode.
BrainyBlondie · 1 points · Posted at 21:58:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m going to hell for this one. But one night my brother and I found a VHS tape of Passion of the Christ. I don’t remember how I felt watching it but I’m guessing I wasn’t too scarred by it because the next day my brother and I decided to play “Jesus”. Which literally just consisted of him and I taking turns pretend nailing each other to the cross. I do remember playing this game and I’m still weirded out that my little kid self was so casual about such a violent movie.
Dylanguest26 · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called zip
If you saw a vw bug car you yell zip 1 point See a van it’s a zap 5 points
elduderino22 · 1 points · Posted at 22:14:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well I was told it would be a fun game but as it turns out being molested isn’t actually all that fun
ninjatk · 1 points · Posted at 22:21:17 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I made a game just called "The Game" that I played with my brother and cousin. We each had a made up character that had some different traits but their names were similar to our own. I played but also I acted mostly as a DM of sorts. I led them through dungeons and adventures, and even had a basic form of combat for them to use against the creatures I came up with. We walked around outside to simulate the travelling and acted out all of the combat. This is all before I really knew about DnD. The only real experience I think I had with role-playing was Final Fantasy.
I remember in one scenario, they were travelling by boat to get to an island for some reason. They were attacked by monsters on the way, but they were quite weak. Eventually, once I got their guard down, I had a sorceress attack them. They assumed she was weak too, so they were just attacking her with small, weak attacks. But I had her charge up a spell that took a whole turn to complete. The spell competed and the party was transported to Europe during the Second World War. These guys had magic and medieval weapons and all of the sudden they had to fight tanks and machine guns. I even put them in a weird moral dilemma when they realized they were helping the Germans, unknowing of the holocaust.
My brother and cousin were always honest with me about whether or not they liked a scenario or not, and I would try to come up with better scenarios. They always begged me to play the game but I often had to say no because it required a lot of mental energy and creativity, and I didn't always feel up to it. I kept saying no and eventually they stopped asking. I really wish I didn't let it die out when I did.
tl;dr I became a DM in an outside version of DnD before I knew what DnD was. Also I somehow incorporated time travel.
FrillyLlama · 1 points · Posted at 22:41:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
There was a giant ditch, 7ft-triangular shape, and my friends and I would take turns jumping across it. Some one would be in the middle and try to pull the others in while jimping over it. We called it "Zombies" and had a blast.
FrillyLlama · 1 points · Posted at 22:47:43 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would lay on our backs and throw a ball into the cieling fan. The goal was to hop the blades, but it rarely worked. Several things were knocked over, but nothing broken.
GreasySausageTitties · 1 points · Posted at 22:50:36 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Shark” on road trips, where if you aw a semi truck that’s was like red blue or green, then you didn’t say anything and had to duck when you passed it, and whoever didn’t duck died and was out. Another rule was any other color you had to yell “SHARK” and whoever yelled Shark last got punched by everyone else.
Another game that I don’t think is so unique is punch buggy. Whereas you see a Volkeswagon Beetle of any sort you punch whoever you’re with and say “punch buggy no punch backs, safety” and this game is constantly being played.
Halorym · 1 points · Posted at 22:52:21 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kickfence.
Played with a soccer ball and a softball backstop.
Free for all game, players start by choosing turn order.
Player 2 starts by throwing the ball into play.
Starting with player 1, the rules are simple: You must touch the ball on your turn, you can only touch it once, and it has to hit the fence to be the next player's turn and you cannot touch the ball if it's not your turn and soccer rules apply for legal touching of the ball. Any violation and you are out. Round continues until one player remained. No player limit, but the biggest game I played was nine.
At times, the ball would rebound off a pole in the backstop and fly into the field, forcing the next player to chase it and either intercept it, or manage a long range kick. Bear in mind you would have to stop and kick the ball in one touch.
A fun trick was to deliberately hit an opponent with the ball to out them but it was risky, if the ball bounced off of them and didn't hit the fence, you were out.
"Out" players stood behind the backstop and were fully allowed to interfere by kicking the fence to send the ball into the field.
echoes327 · 1 points · Posted at 22:55:09 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Harry the Skeleton. I was about 6 or 7 and my brother 4 or 5 when I made this up. It went like this: one of us had to be Harry the Skeleton and hide somewhere in the house. The other person was themselves. So if my brother was Harry the Skeleton, I had to pretend I was going through the house looking for my brother and as I opened each closet door, looked under a bed, I would say things like I wonder where "brother" went, maybe he's in the tub etc etc and the longer it took to find him I would start getting that nervous glee, because I knew I was running out of the usual hiding spots and any minute...I would find him, but I would have to pretend that it wasn't him, it was Harry the Skeleton!! Oh no! The horror! and I was absolutely terrified and I had to run to the kitchen you always had to run to the kitchen. I don't know why and stand in front of the refrigerator, you were trapped there! And Harry the Skeleton chased you to the refrigerator and would do this terrifying (LOL) skeleton dance and sing this song: I am Harry the Skeleton, I am Harry the Skeleton! Then it would be my turn to hide. We made up other games too, but this was my favorite and I got some good laughs remembering it!
danethedood · 1 points · Posted at 23:01:15 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In my hometown, high school athletes would have a large wooden “C” with an image of the corresponding sport painted on it(⚽️ 🏀 🏈 etc). It would be staked in the ground and displayed in the front yard of their homes. (C=first letter of our hometown’s name) my town was small enough that you didn’t have to walk too far to come across one.
One day, out of boredom(the wellspring from which all great pastimes are derived) my friends and I were in my front yard goofing around. It was summer and we had gotten out a bag of golf clubs and some practice golf ball sized whiffle balls. Now, I feel I should mention that back in the late 90’s the internet and cellphones were still in their infancy and we spent a lot of time outdoors participating in sports. So naturally, scattered around my yard there were all kinds of balls, bats, clubs and whatever else may have accumulated over the course a slow summer afternoon in a tiny Midwest town.
As we took turns taking swings, we waxed poetic and pondered the great questions that have plagued mankind since time immemorial. Which 8th grade girl has the best boobs? Did Eminem and Fred Durst really bang Christina Aguilera? What does a vagina even feel like? Is There a Mambo number 1-4? And what the heck is a “Tubthumping”?! As we hacked and swung away those ever waning and seemingly infinite minutes of youth one of my friends took a wack at a roughly orange sized NERF ball. He sent it sailing ac
heywardhancock · 1 points · Posted at 23:04:51 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sardines. Best played in a dark house with all the lights out.
Whoever is “it” hides. Everyone else tries and finds them in the dark. When you find them you hide with them until everyone finds them or gives up. The first person to find them gets to be “it” next time.
emdezet · 1 points · Posted at 23:07:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
"spider" - we would set up a room with some obstacles and make it pitch black dark. One person has to catch the others before they are able to reach the single light switch.
MeatWoodFlac14 · 1 points · Posted at 23:23:30 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
In our middle school after school program we played this made up game URBAN LEGENDS
It was like basketball knockout but with a boys twist. We would shoot free throws in a line and if someone made a shot the next person who misses had to run to the wall and call out the name of the game. The other players on the missed attempt have to chuck the ball at the wall before the player could call it out. If he didn’t make it in time the player would have to spread eagle and get a basketball thrown at him.
Three strikes your out but let me tell you getting a basketball thrown at your nuts or body as a kid and then getting yelled at by the counselors was so funny. It didn’t stops from lining up again!
wtfishappeninman · 1 points · Posted at 23:53:26 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Marco Polo but in the dark. Was fun at first but the older we all grew, the weirder it got...
Out525xc808 · 1 points · Posted at 00:02:24 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Car Game. Pretty much we would be playing outside and when a car comes by you need to hide before the driver sees you. That’s it.
Kim_Jong_Kys · 1 points · Posted at 00:09:28 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Just fuckin fighting eachother in a tournement with one final champion (i lost)
lord_beef · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:40 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a really large, square trampoline in our backyard as kids with no fence on it. We would play a game called extreme pickle where two kids would be on the ground on either side of the trampoline and would throw a tennis ball as the people on the trampoline ran from one corner to the other. You weren’t allowed to hit anyone standing on “base” in the corners. Received several black eyes from being beamed with a tennis ball. Miss those days.
Coy_Fish114 · 1 points · Posted at 00:24:14 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
when walking home from school, i would pretend that the cars would shoot me as they went past or something. i would pretend that the parts that had grass were like shields so if i was standing in a driveway as a car went by i lose bit if i was standing in a part that had grass i would win. there wasn’t really a penalty but it was fun in my head
EatMeatDnD · 1 points · Posted at 00:35:22 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Move you ashes off the road. We had this long, stretch-around couch that was up against the wall, and we'd just walk or crawl along the back in opposite directions, and when two people neared each other, they would shout, "Move you ashes off the road!" And wrestle the other off. It did end up breaking the couch though...
NicoNicoNok · 1 points · Posted at 00:41:35 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend made a game called slap the butt which was just seeing who can jump on the bed while slapping there butt for the longest
RiverTime101 · 1 points · Posted at 01:04:03 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well...was around 12-13.....the girls would make a chain out of gum wrappers, depending how tall you were.....when she completed it...she would come to you and say lets meet....she had to like you to do this. We had to meet in hiding.....we would kiss and play for awhile....then burn chain....then !!!!!!!!!!!!😁😁😊😊
Piercesky · 1 points · Posted at 01:07:41 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Othello
Angela_M_Y · 1 points · Posted at 02:42:02 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
This is such a beautiful and tragic story. And you are an amazing writer!!! Maybe you can write her biography?
lol5600s · 1 points · Posted at 02:49:59 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
This game was stupid but I would play this with my sister and her friends (I was around 11 and they were like 9) and we made up a game called "butt tag". Basically, it played like normal tag but we had to touch each others butts and we would be safe if we covered like if we sat on a chair or pressed it against the wall. Thinking about it know, I am so happy we never got the idea to play this game outside.
DameOfTheRose · 1 points · Posted at 02:56:30 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
The quiet game, the person who didn’t speak won nothing, it was a game made by the adults to keep us kids quiet
Entropy2007 · 1 points · Posted at 03:27:46 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
We picked the half rotten veggies out of the garden, (weren't allowed to play with the good stuff) and pretended we we're post-apocalypse survivors. We gathered supplies and "food" and hiked all over the valleys surrounding my family farm in the country. We built shelters and fought off zombies.
tylaseashell · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:03 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friend and I would ride horses together and play cowboys and Indians where we would chase each other around on horses, man that was so fun!
bingabanggg · 1 points · Posted at 04:01:55 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
super late- but my siblings and I played a game called Hai-tauntaun. It was essentially hide-and-seek tag on rollerblades, where only the person who was it would hide and be on the skates, and they'd try to catch the other 3 before they made it to the front door from the home base across the house. If the person who was it saw you, they'd scream "HAITAUNTAUN!!" and start rollering towards them at mach speeds.
illusivegopher12 · 1 points · Posted at 14:40:05 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and I would make "samuel adams coins" by smashing samuel adam's bottle caps under a big rock. Our fathers always drank sam adams, so we only ever made sam adams coins.
ClownThot · 1 points · Posted at 15:51:05 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
Huckle buckle bean stalk. My dad would hide something and I'd have to find it. He'd say hot or cold depending on whether or not I was close to it.
Charlotte-1993 · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:28 on March 7, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played a game called 'concrete concrete, cacka cacka' with my siblings. Someone would be 'it' and would follow us round the house. We would say 'concrete concrete' to freeze them and have to get by without touching them. 'Cacka cacka' meant they could move again. We'd let them get really close before freezing them. We stopped playing because apparently cacka means shit and our mum told us off lol. Was a fun game. Someone always cheated by slowly moving when frozen to touch the person getting by.
Johnox · 1 points · Posted at 00:25:35 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
We used to play a game called “would you bang Ke$ha?” You ask the question, show somebody a Ke$ha music video and then see if they’d bang Ke$ha or not. The results were pretty unanimous, Even caused a couple stirs between some girlfriends and their boyfriends.
lipstickstainedsmoke · 1 points · Posted at 01:18:26 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)*
My siblings and cousins and I would always play ABC scratch. Whoever's turn it was had to give another player their hand, where that player would go through the alphabet and scratch the top of their hand. Before each scratch, you had to name something that started with that letter from a category picked before the game started. Each letter was accompanied by a harder scratch in the same spot. If you couldn't handle the pain before Z, you were out. Anyone who got all the way through won. I still have the scars.
doh_imissed · 1 points · Posted at 01:33:26 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had one called 7 dogs or something and we had to throw whatever we could find at each other, I recall one time I was winding up an attack when some kid launches a metal bar at my forehead. I had a thanos coloured lump on my forehead, I don’t remember who it was and if i could get back at them I would
HelpMyHeadIsTooBig · 1 points · Posted at 01:56:06 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
It's not unique, but we'd spend literally hours playing rock paper scissors. It was actually a lot of fun because you'd eventually work out everyone elses strategy, so it turned into much more of a mind game.
Pixiepitsypixie · 1 points · Posted at 02:07:50 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
The "guess what word I just spelt out on the your back" game - my sister and I would play this game when we shared a room growing up and while we were trying to fall asleep at night. We would spell out random words on each others back by using our finger as a pencil and have to guess what word was spelled out - it was both super relaxing and fun while you were trying to unwind from the day. I would always pretend to get the word wrong multiple times in a row so that she would have to re-spell it out and then I got extra relaxation time.
Ps. We shared a room - not a bed lol
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:51:51 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)*
At an after school camp i was at, a camp counselor and my friends made up a game unoriginally named "hunger games". I remember spending a solid week with my friends and the counselor creating rules for this game.
Here are the rules:
Usually about 15 to 35 players are in the game, which only dictates how long the game lasts (about 30 minutes to 2 hours)
Every ball that could be found is put in the middle of the grounds, with a few scattered in various corners and in the playground areas.
Every kid lines up equal distance around the middle area (about 150 to 200 feet, we didn't measure), and when the counselor blows a whistle, the game begins.
Everyone has 3 lives. If you get hit by a ball, you lose a life. Honor system. Die and you wait. No revives.
At around halfway, any dead players are allowed to deal one damage by touching you, but can be stunned for 1 minute by damaging.
Teaming up is allowed, but the bonds are based on nothing so friendly fire and betrayal exist. (and made me realize how much of an asshole I was)
About a quarter of the way through the game, one of 4 special items are thrown by the counselor in random areas with the notice of a whistle. These items included a vest that gave you 3 extra lives (there were also 1 extra life arm bands around the playing area), a kickball that did 3 damage a hit, a pvc pipe that acted as a melee weapon, dealing 1 damage a hit. Finally, there was a hula hoop. the hula hoop make you immortal to all attacks as long as you were actively hula hooping.
When there are only around 5 people left the area you are allowed to go to shrinks, and the counselor I mentioned joined the dead players to speed up the game. (We were 3rd graders and he was a 6 foot tall 180 pound guy).
Whoever was the last person, not team, standing won. Just bragging rights. Extremely fun.
Side note: we also created games where we mixed yugioh or pokemon cards with beyblades, used a tennis court and foam mats to essentially create a war simulation, and used two metal swings to almost kill each other (dont ask)
I have a scar near my left eye solely because of these games. 10/10
Edit: I just remembered the game we played a lot where we went to a nearby warehouse and threw exercise balls at each other in the dark. I have no clue how I never got a concussion (at that point being a 70 pound 4 foot 8 3rd grader) since I hit my head against the concrete ground maybe 10 times a day.
ZziggyClipP · 1 points · Posted at 06:04:03 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
(when I was about 7 with group of friends) you get in bed naked and everyone else tries to pull the duvet off.
JamesPab02 · 1 points · Posted at 10:19:33 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
(Context. I am half French half English) Ok, so. When I was about 5 to 6 years I watched this show called Art Attack. And for some reason I came up with this game that took place in our bedrooms. The game was pretty much a bunch of mini games that me, my sisters, and my dad. (play fighting, imaginary games, jokes and other weird and wonderful games.) the mini games were named after the Art Attack show. I just came up with a French abbreviation for the game.
Gschwinner · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:38 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Fart Gun" My older brother would make machine gun noises chasing our siblings while holding me as the "fart gun." Basically, I was hoisted around by my midsection, head behind his back, butt facing forward. I tried my best to get some farts in too. It was never a long game but damn funny to chase everyone around!
TheSpookmiester · 1 points · Posted at 18:23:16 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
I friend and I had a game called "grenader" in which one of us would stand at the bottom of a rocky hill near my house and the other would throw/ roll rocks of varying sizes down at the other from the top of the hill. The goal was to dodge the rocks for a while, then we'd switch places and continue. I'm still amazed that neither of us ever got seriously injured.
akearney47 · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:26 on March 8, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dirt Bomb fights. Dried dirt clumps into various shaped, golf ball sized, hand grenades.
LifesTooEasy · 1 points · Posted at 11:06:57 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
It was when we were very young so keep that in mind. My family had a chess set but for the Simpsons, and I also had the game monopoly. We would pick monopoly characters and kill eachother with the chess pieces and get money, I always beat my twin. He has still to this day never forgiven me.
CouchKill · 1 points · Posted at 06:00:53 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ball tag
LesClaypoolOnBass24 · 1 points · Posted at 07:00:15 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)*
Slaughter the cow - hide and go seek with a sheet over the kid who's it Bone hittin - we'd throw a dog bone at each other in a tag fashion Fake orange war - built forts in living room and then threw plastic oranges at each other Baseketball - not original but was fun, used chalk to make court like in the movie Invisible Man - a basketball game my dad showed me. Not sure if anyone else played it. All people are on team against the invisible man. Your team gets points for making shots but if you miss you must get rebound and make shot from where you caught it or invisible man got the points. If the ball hits the ground the invisible man gets points. Another thing we would do which wasn't much of a game but we did it alot. When I would have friends sleep over we'd both pick out like ten VHS movies we wanted to watch. Then we'd trade the sets of movies and pick out one until there was just 2 left then decide what go watch.
Meggygoesmeow · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:53 on March 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I would pretend to be baby cheetahs. We were obsessed with nature documentaries and our favourite animal was the cheetah. We'd walk around the house on all fours etc. Pretty silly, but it always makes us laugh when we remind each other of it.
Bennnnnnnnny321 · 1 points · Posted at 01:27:36 on March 11, 2019 · (Permalink)
In 3rd and 4rh grade our school was on top of a big hill and at the bottom was our playground, when reses started we all stood at the top of the hill and the winner from yesterday would yell "Run!" and we would all sprint down the hill (yes there where stairs nobody used) and the first to stand on a vertebra spot (disided by yesterday's winner) on a certen playground structure won, it was crazy people falling down the hill and like 3O kids all trying to climb up one slide. Those where the good days
Drysteru · 1 points · Posted at 15:56:53 on March 11, 2019 · (Permalink)
Shadow ninja fighting. At a friend's place, when it would go dark, we'd turn off a light and go in his trampoline and move in a way that makes it look like our shadows were fighting. We'd also make video game-style sound effects on "hit".
Yes, a huge number of unwanted actual punches were thrown at each other, but still kept playing it
gebebenis · 1 points · Posted at 03:33:46 on March 12, 2019 · (Permalink)
Gay sex
CometFuzzbutt · 1 points · Posted at 11:45:20 on March 12, 2019 · (Permalink)
Grasshopper fights.
You would shove your hands into your socks so that you're grabbing your ankles, then have to knock over everyone else playing.
If your hands came out of your socks or if you fell over you were out
DoorMarkedPirate88 · 1 points · Posted at 23:20:08 on March 12, 2019 · (Permalink)
Game on the pool table we called “Strike”. Using just the cue ball, the 8 ball, and our hands. Any number of players, go speedily one after the other. First person breaks by rolling the cue ball at the 8-ball to get it moving. Then next person hurriedly grabs the cue ball that’s moving around and tries to hit and knock the 8-ball (that is also moving) into one of the pockets. If you do, you give the person after you a “strike” and the round resets. You are also given a strike if the 8-ball stops before you hit it (happens more often than you think what with misses and trying to be too precise). Three strikes and you’re out until there is only one person left. Fast-paced and we’d play for hours.
Otter_Cannon · 1 points · Posted at 22:09:29 on March 13, 2019 · (Permalink)
My dad's old girlfriend told me she and her friends used to play in a tent in someones garden. One kid would go outside the tent and one of the kids inside would press their naked ass against the tent wall. The kid outside would have to guess which kid's butt it was just by looking at it. They were pretty young at the time, so it wasn't as creepy as it sounds.
WhiteyClown · 1 points · Posted at 22:35:45 on March 13, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mostly statigy games idont remmember the names 😢
WhiteyClown · 1 points · Posted at 22:36:01 on March 13, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mostly statigy games idont remmember the names 😢
croEagle · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:21 on March 14, 2019 · (Permalink)
This isnt really game but good story so me and few friends of mine were playing at our street. Some other kids came and started a fight after fight we were planinng to attack them for 3 years guess what
We havent attacked them
croEagle · 1 points · Posted at 17:54:18 on March 14, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my friend would go in garden next to our building and pretend like those plants that stuns are enemies (garden was full of them) so we would grab sticks and slap them it was hell of a fun
jetrocket223 · 1 points · Posted at 04:22:15 on March 15, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im very late, but I would throw a tennis ball on my low patio roof, and catch it once it rolled off. got very intense with more then one person lol
Redditsfinestcancer · 1 points · Posted at 00:34:53 on March 25, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Wonder whats on this disc."
TimidRed · 1 points · Posted at 00:17:16 on March 27, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends and I made up a mini-type of game called Hot Pursuit and Seek. (sorry no clever name) The rules were we cannot announce when it happens, we made the game spontaneous, so you had to keep it to yourself. The game starts once someone tags one another and says "run and out of sight," and now we all had to escape the chaser and hide somewhere to cool down, and the best way to evade was to split up. If you were the main target for the seeker you were basically screwed unless you could outrun them. You had to hide for at least two whole minutes while you were not seen. (If you were seen hiding in less than two minutes the chase continued and you would need to evade again)
Once you were on cooldown for two minutes, you now had to make it back to home or to the meeting field. A great strategy we used was running while the seeker was out of the yard area you were hiding in, but once the seeker was back in that specified area, you had to immediately hide again. (Hiding in this time does not count to your 2 minute timer.) Once you made it back to home base, you had to give a sign that your evasion was successful and you were out of the game and achieved victory. If you were seen traveling again, you were caught and your time is up.
Was hella fun if you were not near the group before the game got started, gave you a major head start.
throwawayanerican · 1 points · Posted at 06:57:48 on March 27, 2019 · (Permalink)
Kickball, but not what you'd think. We had a uprights for a football field in our elementary school playground, and the guys would gather up dozens of balls, and we would kick them back and forth over the uprights for the entire recess period.
KingDark1122 · 1 points · Posted at 14:23:41 on March 27, 2019 · (Permalink)
Barbie and the Magic pegasus Even tho it was a Barbie game but i liked it
burglnar · 1 points · Posted at 23:58:39 on March 27, 2019 · (Permalink)
Growing up on the Hilltop is gnar af.
itsa-me-marioo · 1 points · Posted at 07:32:51 on March 29, 2019 · (Permalink)
Night crawlers
Meile13 · 1 points · Posted at 01:17:43 on April 2, 2019 · (Permalink)
A friend and I played a game called roof ball for a good few years in elementary/middle school. My house had a patio in the back, and a small, lower roof over the grilling area, but that was close to the other, higher parts of the roof. There were also some stairs, the roof turned, etc so it had interesting terrain features. The game was to throw a ball up onto the roof, and the other person had to catch it before it hit the ground. For every time the ball bounced on the ground, the thrower got a point. You switch throwers after a catch, aka when the ball doesn't bounce so the thrower gets no points.
We had a bunch of random rules about what areas were out of bounds etc, and it entertained us for HOURS, and was actually fairly good exercise, as well as training your spatial sense and sense of how angles work.
NavaHector1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:58:25 on April 2, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid, my friends and I would play a game similar to hide-and-seek. The twist though was that there is a can or a bottle at the starting point. Once the seeker finds a hidden person, they both have to run towards the bottle and tap it on the ground three times. If the seeker does this, the hidden person is caught, but if the hidden person does this, they are safe. If a hidden person gets caught, the next hidden person to manage to tap the bottle would choose to yell “I come to your rescue” and who ever was caught is safe. The person with the most people caught in the end wins. It was really exhilarating and fun!
Fizzy107 · 1 points · Posted at 00:04:00 on April 4, 2019 · (Permalink)
My friends would play "Who can keep their hand in the freezing cooler water the longest?"
_Funky_M0nk_ · 1 points · Posted at 08:48:08 on April 4, 2019 · (Permalink)
Uncle Larry's Game
ReducedDaze · 1 points · Posted at 17:51:45 on April 4, 2019 · (Permalink)
my dad and I used to play sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up it's like heads up seven up but you don't get up and the only way to win is to turn 18 and move out. super fun.
FRAGGIN_UR_MOM · 1 points · Posted at 19:37:27 on April 14, 2019 · (Permalink)
Dodge the uncle
dontmindmeffs · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:56 on April 26, 2019 · (Permalink)
We played a game called “Bloody knee” - we would run in circle around someone who would say something like “1st hour gone by, the lamp was still on, second hour gone by(rhymes in my language)... and so on until he said THE LAMP WENT OFF! Then he-being the bloody knee-would catch everyone else while doing some demonic sounds. When he got you, you play dead and wait until the bloody knee caught everyone else. It was fun playing outside in the dark and also inside with the extra effect of actually shutting the lights off... And yeah, the name comes from the most common injury we had.
Kat_Kam · 1 points · Posted at 22:02:56 on April 30, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was sitting on the edge of the sofa and falling on the floor back first. Dunno why I was doing this, but I have suspicious about my back problems >.>"
TellyJart · 1 points · Posted at 00:19:34 on May 19, 2019 · (Permalink)
Eat The random berries growing in the back of the school and whoever doesn't die by poison wins
cameltoe11 · 1 points · Posted at 17:43:57 on May 27, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my brother and my cousins use to play this game we called Hide and Tag (could’ve had a better name). So how the game worked is that we put a mattress in one room and who ever was “it” should stay in the same room as the mattress (always used one of our cousin’s lounge). And there were many entrances and exists for their living room (why we used it). So who ever was “it” is in that room right, he had to count to 10 on the mattress covering his eyes. The ones that was not it had to hide. The guy that’s “it” should basically protect the mattress. I’m realizing I’m explaining this very poorly cause I’m actually high right now. So he has to stand there and make sure that the guys that aren’t “it” should not get to the mattress.
Modes_ · 1 points · Posted at 05:14:28 on July 4, 2019 · (Permalink)
Basically this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nrobneppu.timergame
ebonydarknessdementi · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:39 on July 11, 2019 · (Permalink)
Icy towers
AnOrdinaryChic · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:04 on July 27, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a bucket full of water. We added berries, mud, stones, leaves, etc because we could. We called it bug stew. This sounds ok, but it was probably poisonous to everything. Also because we added dead bugs to it. Had the same stew for about 10 years before my dad emptied it out.
big1fall1 · 1 points · Posted at 04:13:02 on July 29, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister and I shared a room when we were little, so we played this game similar to tag. We’d turn off all the lights in the room and the person who was ‘it’ would snort like a pig and try to find the other. We had a bunk bed, so we had a lot more places to go. I stopped playing that game when I fell head first off the top bunk onto the floor like a rag doll.
JackWhatTheHeck · 1 points · Posted at 05:27:53 on August 10, 2019 · (Permalink)
My cousin and i would get some paper shurikens, push the sofa a bit foward, and one of us would hide behind the sofa and other behind a cardboard wall we had, we'd give 7 shurikens to us and try to hit each other with the shurikens, fun times.
[deleted] · -20 points · Posted at 14:40:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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imsometueventhisUN · 2 points · Posted at 19:50:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I forgot that I was sorted by Controversial. This was what reminded me. Good job, I guess?
RacistAndMysoginist · 5 points · Posted at 15:08:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
No fuckin surprises there
iAmMagicTurtle · 3 points · Posted at 19:35:55 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hey hey hey don’t associate us with him
dikubatto · 2 points · Posted at 15:07:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
He asked "as a child".
Poormidlifechoices · 10 points · Posted at 15:10:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a child OP played hide and seek from uncle Badtouch. Sometimes he was found 😢.
Vincy5678 · 1 points · Posted at 20:06:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Lmao
buckeyenut13 · 1 points · Posted at 18:14:06 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me and my brother made up a game called 'Todd and Robin's. I can't remember anything about it but I remember us having the coolest adventures! Boy, do i miss those days
Samsamams · 1 points · Posted at 18:15:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Mommy loves me if I believe enough
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 15:00:10 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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jdubya425 · 7 points · Posted at 15:31:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Now the premise of the game is to put one in
Heuby · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
For weeks we would reenact the hunger games. Except we used Nerf guns
I-Like-3-14159 · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
We had a game or risk in the house. Only played it a few times the right way but man I used to love playing with those pieces. I had cheap poker chips used for money and just battled small armies against each other for hours. Each color had a different power and cost. Rolling dice to determine if a front line unit attacked, rolled other dice to see if the back lines could do anything to prevent it etc. “ enemy” units dropped money so I could build up the main army with better or more units. Good times
naginarb · 1 points · Posted at 18:02:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Everyone is playing the game. You just don't know it. You lose when you remember you're playing the game.
NewOrleansNinja · 1 points · Posted at 18:41:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I convinced my cousins that a Demon Named "EWE" lived in the S"EWE"R, and to summon him, you had to stand on the manhole cover, with your feet covering the S and the R in "SEWER"... They started believing me, so I would sharpen crayons at school, and put the multi colored shavings in a tissue, and toss them in the air when they were looking down at the sewer, trying to summon E-WE. Good God I had some kind of imagination.
thehardestnipples · 1 points · Posted at 19:26:31 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers
SamNoche · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
As a kid my sister and I played out a lot of stories with our Barbies. We would make sprawling towns for them. There’d be the home, a school, a park, sometimes a community pool, etc. That part was normal but our stories were really weird and dark. Some I remember off the top of my head: -Barbie is now an orphan and has to take care of her younger siblings -Kelly’s parents died and now she lives in an orphanage. But she’s especially hated and shut away in the attic. -Barbie and family are super poor and live cramped in a mobile home. They “ate” a lot of rice and beans. -Mean Kelly tries to hurt and sometimes kill nice Kelly in various new ways. We’d use masking tape to make casts. Nice Kelly was usually disabled or a tomboy. >.< -Kelly is at the beach (the bathtub) when suddenly the water gets super rocky (us splashing). She’d get trapped in the water, bashed around on the rocks, and either be saved at the last minute or die.
I didn’t realize how preoccupied we were with injury and death until I got into my late teens. 🤦🏻♂️
onewheeloneil · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:41 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Not sure if anyone will see this, but a friend and I invented a game called Snipe. One person have a toy pistol and would close their eyes and count to 100. The other person would go and find a place to hide with a toy rifle. The goal was to find the sniper and get close enough to shoot him before he could shoot you. It required trust and honesty, but the sniper wasn't allowed to move, so if you made the noise to "shoot" when you clearly had no shot, all you did was give away your position.
Galahead · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Im kind of envious of everyone here that made up these elaborate games with their siblings; my brother and I would just make up reasons to fight when we were bored
StElm0sFire · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Two words. Tato Tag.
Lloydsauce · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:58 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Snow tag.
We would all go out into a fresh field of snow and make a maze of tracks with our feet and we’d start a game of tag and you had to stay on the tracks while trying to run away.
Loved it.
AustenAllinPowers · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
"Star wars"
You take the glow in the dark stars you stick on the ceiling and "charge them up so they are super bright". Then everyone built a fort and turned off all of the lights. The rules were simple, throw as many as possible and avoid the bright streaks of light...
Looking back this was incredibly dangerous as we never wore eye protection. The stars were actually pretty brutal if you were hit...we always left with bloody cuts on our arms and faces...
Fun times.
xadjack · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:08 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother and I used to play ‘Stair Rollercoaster’ , where we’d lay our duvets down and to end over the (fairly small) stairs in our house, then the ‘rider’ would get in a sleeping bag and ‘ride’ down the stairs. It was well painful and now that I think about it probably dangerous? There was a turn in the stairs halfway down which I guess meant you couldn’t build up too much momentum though...
Chill_Dino_72 · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Well my and my brothers game was yeeting ourselves in the sofa yelling "pizza"
In our minds there was a secret door and if you yelled pizza it should've opened. We stopped after the sofa tipped over and fell
royolo · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:21 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Coinblading We would play beyblades with quarters and if they didn’t collide last one to stop vibrating won, a ton of rules were made if the went onto the ground and were spinning lol
Shrekdad69 · 1 points · Posted at 19:30:22 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brothers and I used to play Jessie James. We would stand about 20 feet from each other and take turns throwing rocks at each other’s backs. Because Jessie James shot everyone in the back. It stopped when I hit my brother in the back of the head and he had to go get stitches
Blacbamboo · 1 points · Posted at 19:40:02 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I’m pretty sure no one has heard of this, but it was a computer game on windows 95 called “Frogger”
UntalentedSpoon96 · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
my uncle and i used to play tickle time: we would take off our clothes, and he would tickle my lower half
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a few.
My best friend and I played a game called the "shin game" where we would take turns kicking each other in the shin.
We had another game called "nature war". This just consisted of two teams throwing anything they could find in nature , like rocks, sticks and acorns, at one another.
My personal favorite
The slave trade game. Basically my group of friends at school played rock paper scissors and loser became a slave to the winner. A slave could try and get his/her freedom once a week by challenging the master. The master could also lose all his slaves to another master if he or she lost a best 3 out of 5 to said master. The only time a master could become a slave is if she or she was challenged and had 0 slaves. There was also a limit on how often masters could challenge people and a whole set of rules. I completely shut the game down when it started becoming too overwhelming and popular. I was afraid of getting suspended. (Biracial btw) . Looking back on it. It was around 2008 or so and even back then people were waaaay less sensitive than they are now.
zombieclone05 · 1 points · Posted at 20:55:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Yogurt. We looked for yellow cars. Me and my friends played it.
robertoapodaca · 1 points · Posted at 20:56:12 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
7 min in heaven
NotTheKingInTheNorth · 1 points · Posted at 23:32:47 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The Witcher 3. Not many people know about it.
[deleted] · -14 points · Posted at 13:36:05 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Stroke the penis with my moms boyfriend
EschersEnigma · 5 points · Posted at 22:06:46 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
So sorry to hear that. I wonder if there's any latent effects to your psyche u/INutInMyDaughtersGut
Lev-- · 5 points · Posted at 15:55:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
oof. Moms boyfriend. Haven't heard that one yet but I feel like thats more accurate than uncle in 2019...
BrodieSzn0 · 0 points · Posted at 18:15:13 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Manhunt
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 12:59:42 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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redfinrooster · -6 points · Posted at 15:36:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Life is like a box of chocolates.
peanuttgewarrior · -11 points · Posted at 13:12:15 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon obviously
karmagod13000 · 2 points · Posted at 14:55:16 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
it was baseball cards for us and then pogs
[deleted] · -21 points · Posted at 15:30:35 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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SpicyBigDaddy8008 · 11 points · Posted at 15:53:07 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok
Gandolan1415 · 3 points · Posted at 17:58:34 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Ok
GaiusIsabellam · 1 points · Posted at 20:18:36 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
r/fightsub
fortniteinfinitedab · 0 points · Posted at 00:56:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pk 🔥
kyle14younge · 0 points · Posted at 15:27:25 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The most addictive game I played was World of Warcraft. Back when I was still playing it, I would get up in the morning, log in and not do anything other than play WoW the entire day. During summer break, I'd even turn my alarm on to 6am, so I had more time to play. It was insane, that game was basically my life for the better part of 3 years that felt like 10.
I kind of miss being able to get so absorbed by a game in that way, but I am also not 18 anymore and don't have the time to spend so much time on one single game.
inlinetriple17 · 0 points · Posted at 19:09:53 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Russian roulette
mazzymiata · 0 points · Posted at 21:22:51 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Backyard basketball 2008
absolriven · 0 points · Posted at 21:27:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was always playing these sort of imaginary RPG-esque games in my head where I was whatever I wanted to be, in some imaginary world, completing quests/tasks/battles and making it up as i go. It was my favorite thing to do.
AManIsBusy · 0 points · Posted at 21:39:23 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I used to try to click my tongue right when I thought the car was at the midpoint between two telephone poles. Ya, living in the country was fun.
ModyEmad · 0 points · Posted at 22:15:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Me, my sister, and 2 cousins, used to play a war game back then. We used rubber bands as slingshots and folded paper as ammunition( we used to spend hours making these until our parents were asleep). The game begins: We split into 2 teams in the living room. Each team having different obstacles they can use to their advantage and we would use the cushions of some couches as shields. We made some rules aswell. If you got hit in the face u get a timeout for 5 minutes, 3 minutes for chest/shoulders, and 1 minute for waist down. It went on for hours and before we knew it it was dawn.
GoHurtMyFeelings · 0 points · Posted at 23:13:43 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Nightcrawlers.
jetoler · 0 points · Posted at 00:36:37 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Underwater hockey.
We'd wear eye goggles (but no snorkel) and we had hockey sticks and a ball at the bottom of our pool, we tried to fight over it, getting it to each side of the pool.
Another game I play sometimes is "Greasy Pig"
Me and a group of like 30 people would go into a swimming pool once a year, have a watermelon covered in vaseline (making it extremely slippery, even underwater) and we'd fight over it, trying to get it onto our team's side.
These games were always fun but greasy pig was brutal and there was always a 100% death rate.
Zedrykr1 · 0 points · Posted at 01:08:44 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Pokemon
rachelmadcowdisease · 0 points · Posted at 01:16:50 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
earn the candy
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:03:47 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I would play this really funny game where we put our pp in eachothers booty.
thefatvegan420 · 0 points · Posted at 02:31:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Smear the queer. The guy with the ball was the queer and you had to tackle him.
Cacupen · 0 points · Posted at 04:08:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Bratz game on ps2 😐
Shure_Lock · 0 points · Posted at 04:20:52 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
The sit still in church game, the wash the dishes game
mrejika74 · 0 points · Posted at 04:20:53 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
My brother play acted as an adventurer And I play acted as his pet cat ...... Please kill me
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 04:48:57 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I know I'm not the only one who played doctor wit they uncle😤😤
Ass_man420 · 0 points · Posted at 04:52:58 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
eat penut butter off dad pp was wpic!
abluvsu · 0 points · Posted at 04:53:24 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tying my naked Barbies up with shoelaces...
dajimmer1988 · 0 points · Posted at 05:21:04 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Tummy sticks
californiaboy93 · 0 points · Posted at 06:01:46 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I dont wanna talk about the kissing game.
YourDadIRL · 0 points · Posted at 06:03:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hankerchief sniffers with my uncle. IDK why but I always woke up sore and with a headache
smoothHead12 · 0 points · Posted at 06:07:48 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sex.
JacobSteed · 0 points · Posted at 06:39:18 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Sword Fights in the Sauna with uncle.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 07:15:42 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I played cricket simulator 2006 for the wii... in 2013
mikexyliu · 0 points · Posted at 07:20:39 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Strip poker
GodZenthar · 0 points · Posted at 07:25:35 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Our gym teacher had this great game we played weekly called penis inpection.
bigbirdpal · 0 points · Posted at 07:26:33 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
Hide and seek with my priest
snehagoogle · 0 points · Posted at 07:39:20 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/GH7EHa93ip8
https://youtu.be/OwD4J2DFVuU
McQt · 0 points · Posted at 21:56:11 on March 9, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle and I used to play penis butt, but he told me to never tell anyone else the rules.
Astro_Worm · -11 points · Posted at 16:37:59 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Minecraft, the game that built my childhood with blocks 😭❤💕
ali94127 · -1 points · Posted at 17:35:39 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I invented a game at a summer camp called Hobo. The name came from the idea that hobos like jumping trains. During lunch we were at a playground with a roundabout. The roundabout would be the “train” and designated people would keep it spinning (we alternated so people didn’t have to only spin). One guy, the “hobo”, would try to jump on to the spinning roundabout and throw someone off. If he succeeded, the guy thrown off would be the new hobo. The rest of us on the train would try to throw the hobo off. The playground had AstroTurf, but the counselors thought it was too unsafe after about the third day.
Minechaser05 · -1 points · Posted at 21:56:56 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My uncle called it "Chocolate Thumb", he had me put one thumb in my ass, then one in my mouth, then when he said "Switch" I would switch my fingers. Loved it.
orcscorper · -1 points · Posted at 22:44:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I had a game I always played with my uncle. It was really fun. He called it "what's in my pants?". We would take turns sticking a random object down our pants, and the other would have to guess what it was by feel. He was a great guy; I wonder why he never got married or had a girlfriend. He never had kids, but he loved playing with kids.
Wait a minute...
Oh. Oh, god. I think I figured out why we played some of those other games. BRB, need to barf and then call a therapist.
hulk9473 · -1 points · Posted at 23:17:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
My sister would act as my mom when I was 4~... WE GOT FREAKY
mrguy2112 · -1 points · Posted at 23:17:37 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
soggy doggy. last to cum on the dog has to eat it.
SmellASmurf · -1 points · Posted at 23:17:52 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
«Hit the damn toilet you mong»
dbull815 · -2 points · Posted at 18:11:57 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
One of my funniest teaching moments was when the girls on the playground decided to play wall ball, excluding the boys. The game had always been played by both. The boys wanted to play, but the girls were firm with not allowing them, so they complained to me, “The girls won’t let us play wall ball! We always let them play with our balls any time they want to!! Not fair!!!” Hey, life’s not fair!
DiechGo · -2 points · Posted at 18:42:03 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
GTA: San Andreas! It was a really complete game by the time with TONS of things to do. It had a compelling story and fun gun mechanics to play with. The "theme" in general was very interesting.
[deleted] · -21 points · Posted at 13:23:38 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
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IHateNull · 17 points · Posted at 13:30:33 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
I don’t think he meant video game. He said “unique game” lol.
SMWHackedHACK · -5 points · Posted at 16:05:14 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
The games he mentioned are unique though...
Stoner-Shaggy · 3 points · Posted at 14:48:20 on March 5, 2019 · (Permalink)
Skyrim isnt even 10 years old yet. Not even close to an old game
SSadisticUnicorn · -4 points · Posted at 00:23:01 on March 6, 2019 · (Permalink)
I was outside and we were having fun without fucking computers and smartphones